India, Feb. 17 -- President Donald Trump has declared an emergency in Kentucky and ordered Federal assistance to supplement Commonwealth and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, and landslides over the weekend.
Kentucky was the worst-affected by the torrential downpours that drenched the south-eastern U.S., where all but one of nine deaths occurred.
One person died in Georgia.
Governor Andy Beshear expressed fear that the death toll could rise.
More than half a million households across Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina were in blackout, poweroutage.us said on Sunday.
The President has authorized t...