Hurricane Matthew: Haiti death toll reaches 842 as deadly storm heads towards Georgia
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Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Centre, pleaded with residents of Georgia and South Carolina to evacuate as the storm approached from the South.
The United States said it would send a Navy ship to aid Haiti, with 300 Marines to add to the 250 personnel and nine helicopters already ordered to deploy to the country.
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Hurricane Matthew killed more than 800 people and left tens of thousands homeless in its rampage through Haiti earlier this week before it lashed Florida on Friday with howling winds and rolled northward up the US Atlantic coast.
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The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, surged to at least 842 on Friday as information trickled in from remote areas previously cut off by the storm, according to a Reuters tally of death tolls given by officials.
[/FONT][FONT="]Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Centre, pleaded with residents of Georgia and South Carolina to evacuate as the storm approached from the South.
The United States said it would send a Navy ship to aid Haiti, with 300 Marines to add to the 250 personnel and nine helicopters already ordered to deploy to the country.
"Don't be part of the history of this hurricane that might include a long list of fatalities in the US due to water," he said.
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