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<\/p>\nHurricane Matthew has killed at least 10 people in the US as it is moving along the country’s south-east coast.<\/p>\n
Three people died in North Carolina, said Governor Pat McCrory, who called Matthew “a very, very serious” storm.<\/p>\n
In Georgia, three people died, including a wheelchair user after two trees fell on his home. Four people were earlier killed in Florida.<\/p>\n
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Matthew has been the most powerful storm to make US landfall in more than a decade.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes, and more than a million left without power.<\/p>\n
The storm also brought heavy flooding to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina.<\/p>\n
Matthew has already caused nearly 900 deaths in Haiti and four in the Dominican Republic as it travelled northwards over the past few days.<\/p>\n
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The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has downgraded Matthew to a Category One hurricane, with maximum sustained winds having decreased to 75mph (120km\/h).<\/p>\n
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley warned people to stay in shelters and not to try to go back home over the weekend.<\/p>\n
“Between downed power lines and trees, and then just unsafe structures – bridges, all of those things.<\/p>\n
Officials said emergency responders have carried out multiple water rescues from cars and homes.<\/p>\n
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The NHC said: “The combination of a dangerous storm surge, the tide, and large and destructive waves will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline.”<\/p>\n
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Nearly 1.6m homes and businesses in the south-east of the US were left without power.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Matthew first made landfall in in the US in South Carolina but its edges had previously battered the coasts of Florida and Georgia.<\/p>\n
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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is the UN’s weather agency, had warned that the hurricane would remain dangerous regardless of whether or not it made landfall in the US.<\/p>\n
Parts of the city of Savannah, Georgia have been submerged in several feet (one foot = 30cm) of water.<\/p>\n