hurricane matthew 2016

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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.

A girl walks out of her house destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in the outskirts of Port Salut, Haiti, Oct. 7.

Haitian people cross the river La Digue in Petit Goave where the bridge collapsed during the rains from southwest of Port-au-Prince, Oct. 6.

A woman cooks in the kitchen of her house destroyed by Hurricane Matthew on the outskirts of Port Salut, Haiti, Oct. 7. 

People walk on a street next to destroyed houses after Hurricane Matthew hit Jeremie, Haiti, Oct. 6. 

Residents at a shelter in the school Liliane Mars Dumarsais Estime fight for food during a delivery after Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Oct. 7.

Girls hold hands as they help each other wade through a flooded street after the passing of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Oct. 6. 

A group of people carry a coffin and try to cross the river La Digue, after the colapse of the only bridge that connects to the south after the passing of hurricane Matthew in the country, in Petit Goave, Haiti, Oct. 5.

Residents work clearing a house in Les Cayes, Haiti, Oct. 5. 

A woman cleans the area where her house stood but was destroyed in hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, in western Haiti, on October 7, 2016. 

A woman is carried across the river La Digue in Petit Goave southwest of Port-au-Prince, on October 5, 2016. 

Destroyed houses in Corail, Haiti, on October 6, 2016.  

A cross marks a grave on a hillside above damaged homes in Les Anglais, Haiti, on October 10, 2016. 

A chair hangs in a tree amidst nearby homes destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, in a seaside fishing neighborhood of Port Salut, Haiti, on October 9, 2016. 

A boy removes mud and water from his house in Les Cayes, Haiti, on October 6, 2016.

A young man stands near the cathedral damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti, on October 7, 2016. 

A UN helicopter lands next to aid sent by the United States for the people affected by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti, on October 10, 2016.

A man stands next to a destroyed house in Les Cayes, Haiti on October 10.

Houses destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Coteaux, Haiti, October 10.

People look at the collapsed roof of a house where a child died in the neighborhood of La Puya, in Santo Domingo on Oct. 4.

A couple embrace in the remains of their home that was destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Oct. 5. 

Firefighters help a woman recover her clothes from her house destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Oct. 6. 

A woman cries amid the rubble of her home, destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Oct. 5.

Water cascades from the upper floors of a home partially destroyed by the Hurricane in Baracoa, Cuba, on October 5, 2016. 

A woman walks on Oct. 5 along a coastal road between Guantanamo and Baracoa which was left covered in rocks after the passage of Hurricane Matthew through the eastern tip of Cuba on Tuesday afternoon. 

Cubans recover from hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Oct. 5.

A steeple hangs from a church after the passing of Hurricane Matthew in Nassau, Bahamas, on October 7, 2016.

Billy Conley lifts a piece of plywood to place over a window of a business in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Oct. 5, as Hurricane Matthew approaches Florida.

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.

A boat is partially submerged in the Halifax River as Hurricane Matthew moves through Daytona Beach, Florida, on October 7, 2016. 

An official vehicle navigates debris as it passes along Highway A1A after it was partially washed away by Hurricane Matthew, on October 7, 2016, in Flagler Beach, Florida, 

Josephine and Kira Emberton walk through debris along wash-out highway after Hurricane Matthew passed by the area, Oct. 7, in Flagler Beach, Fla.

An airplane lies upside down at the Ormond Beach Municipal Airport in Ormond Beach, Florida, on October 9, 2016.

Nick Lomasney walks through heavy wind and a flooded street as Hurricane Matthew passes through the area on October 7, 2016 in St Augustine, Florida. 

A woman walks along flooded President Street on October 8, 2016, in Savannah, Georgia.

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.

A trailer is destroyed from a fallen tree in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew at Hilton Head, South Carolina, on October 8, 2016. 

A Natural Resources officer Gregg Lowery rescues a cat from floodwaters in Nichols, South Carolina, on October 10, 2016. 

Boats sit washed up on shore as Chris Hinds checks on his own boat among the twisted docks at Palmetto Bay Marina in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

A group of people are seen walking through flood waters after Hurricane Matthew in Lumberton, North Carolina, on October 10, 2016. 

An aerial view shows a neighborhood that was flooded after Hurricane Matthew in Lumberton, North Carolina, on October 10, 2016. 

A resident surveys the scene of a washed out road after Hurricane Matthew struck the state, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on October 10, 2016.

A building is inundated with floodwaters on October 10, 2016 in Lumberton, North Carolina.

An aerial view shows flood waters after Hurricane Matthew in Lumberton, North Carolina, on October 10, 2016.