What remains of Hurricane Matthew is now a tropical depression moving out into the Atlantic Ocean. Matthew moved slowly northward from Haiti and Cuba to Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, at peak, reaching sustained winds of 160 mph. One week after the powerful storm first made landfall in southwestern Haiti, some communities still have not received any assistance, as authorities there reported at least 900 deaths due to the hurricane. Another 33 people in the United States lost their lives as Matthew crashed ashore. Haiti now faces a humanitarian crisis with hundreds of thousands of residents in need of aid, housing, and medical attention, as a growing cholera outbreak threatens to make the situation even worse.
The Wreckage Left Behind by Hurricane Matthew
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A woman is carried across the river La Digue in Petit Goave where the bridge collapsed during the rains of the Hurricane Matthew, southwest of Port-au-Prince, on October 5, 2016. #
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David Laffita, 26, cleans the entrance of his home, illuminated by an gas lamp constructed by Laffita using a piece of cloth, a bottle and gas, after the passing of Hurricane Matthew, in Baracoa, Cuba, on October 6, 2016. #
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Wana stands in front of the remains of her house where she and her husband became trapped during Hurricane Matthew, in Mon Ville, a rural zone of Les Cayes, in the southwest of Haiti, on October 9, 2016. #
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People line up for food and clothes being distributed at a shelter in Port-Salut, southwest of Port-au-Prince, on October 9, 2016, days after the passage of Hurricane Matthew through Haiti. #
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Storm surge and waves break over the sea wall onto a flooded section of East Battery Street at the southern-most tip of the city as Hurricane Matthew arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, on October 7, 2016. #
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An official vehicle navigates debris as it passes along Highway A1A after it was partial washed away by Hurricane Matthew, on October 7, 2016, in Flagler Beach, Florida, #
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A woman who identified herself as Valerie walks along flooded President Street after leaving her homeless camp after Hurricane Matthew caused flooding on October 8, 2016, in Savannah, Georgia, #
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Ten-year old Jack Terry (left), and his six-year old sister Bailey, check out a huge tree that uprooted in Forsyth Square following Hurricane Matthew after the storm passed through in Savannah, Georgia, on October 9, 2016. #
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South Carolina Department of Natural Resources officer Gregg Lowery rescues a cat from floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew while patrolling for evacuees in Nichols, South Carolina, on October 10, 2016. #
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Boats sit washed up on shore as Chris Hinds checks on his own boat among the twisted docks at Palmetto Bay Marina damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Hilton Head, South Carolina, on October 9, 2016. #
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