People wait in line to enter a convenience store in Callaway, Florida after Hurricane Michael hit the area. Photo: ReutersThe US death toll from Hurricane Michael has risen to 16, as rescue crews search hardest-hit communities in the Florida panhandle rendered nearly inaccessible by storm damage. Three additional deaths were reported in Marianna, in Jackson County, Florida, Sheriff Lou Roberts told a news conference on Friday (local time). "I think you're going to see it climb," Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said of the death count. "We still haven't gotten into some of the hardest-hit areas."

Source: Otago Daily Times October 12, 2018 23:15 UTC