Widespread cell service outages persist days after Hurricane Helene made landfall. Could cell phone providers be doing more?

Victims of Hurricane Helene are cut off from the outside world. Beyond collapsed roads, many areas, especially North Carolina, experienced communications blackouts.

Aid groups are working in multiple states to help those affected by the hurricane and its aftermath. By Jesus Jiménez Hurricane Helene brought widespread damage across the South, leaving more than 100 people dead,

Area governments, businesses, schools and others are collecting donations of water and other items for the people devastated by Hurricane Helene in northeast Tennessee, western North Carolina and Georgia.