Hurricane Isaias Kills Four in Florida, Leaves 670,000 Without Power

Hurricane Isaias made landfall early Saturday morning, leaving four people dead and roughly 670,000 residents across four southeastern states without electricity as the storm weakened into a post-tropical cyclone, according to local authorities and power tracking services.

Two of the deaths occurred when trees fell onto residential buildings, local media and officials reported. Data from the outage tracker PowerOutage.us showed about 420,000 customers without power in Florida, 190,000 in Alabama, 43,000 in Georgia and 17,000 in Mississippi.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the state had not received any search-and-rescue requests shortly after the storm came ashore, a sign that the damage was limited. The storm was expected to keep losing strength as it tracked northeast, though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that heavy rainfall could bring flooding to North and South Carolina and Georgia.

Isaias is the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which arrived later than usual this year because of conditions linked to the El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, according to the report.

The storm was not the only system being watched. Tropical Storm Rachel was forecast to reach southern California later on Saturday, while Hurricane Simon was expected to strike Mexico's Pacific coast on Sunday.