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■ The storm's death toll in the United States has climbed to more than two dozen. Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina said Tuesday that the state had recorded 14 fatalities. At least six people died in Florida, and the authorities in Georgia and South Carolina reported three deaths in each state.

■ More than 650,000 customers remain without electricity, according to local utilities, with about half of those in North Carolina and Virginia.

■ The flooding after the storm had a special sting in Fair Bluff, N.C., which has tried with grit and heart to remake itself amid economic shifts. Read more from Jess Bidgood and Alan Blinder "

North Carolina: Rivers Still Rising

Mr. McCrory said Tuesday that an enormous swath of North Carolina was in turmoil.

"Certain parts of the state were going through recovery at this point in time," Mr. McCrory said. "Certain parts of the state were still going through ongoing floods. And now we have other parts of the state that are about to deal with some very serious circumstances, especially along two of our major rivers."

Mr. McCrory said that state officials were especially worried about residents in and near Goldsboro, Greenville and Rocky Mount, where flooding was expected throughout the week. And with North Carolina's fatality count rising, often because of vehicles that become submerged, Mr. McCrory pleaded with residents to avoid driving through flooded areas.

"If we say the water's coming and we say do not drive through that water, we mean it," Mr. McCrory said. "Do not go through water. We've had over 10 people killed as a result of that. We are not messing around, and we do not want to put people at risk to save you once you've made that decision."

He continued: "Too many people have died, and we don't want anymore to die. Yet there are going to be conditions during the next 72 hours which will be extremely dangerous."

Three people are missing, the governor said.

Mr. McCrory also said that a state trooper had fatally shot a man in Lumberton on Monday night after "a confrontation." The governor said that state officials were investigating the shooting and that it had occurred in a flooded area that emergency workers were trying to traverse in a Humvee.

"All we know is there was a confrontation and a shooting that has resulted in a man's death in very, very difficult circumstances," the governor said.

More than 2,000 people have been rescued since the flooding began in North Carolina, nearly 100 people by aircrews. Evacuation orders were widespread, and the state authorities moved nearly 800 inmates from a prison near the Neuse River.

The governor said it was "unacceptable" that about 50 or 60 people were resisting demands that they leave a part of Moore County where a dam was at risk of failing.

"Get out," Mr. McCrory said. "Get out now."

The White House said on Monday night that President Obama had signed a federal disaster declaration for 31 counties.

Mr. McCrory said on Tuesday that about 282,000 homes and businesses were without electricity, and parts of Interstate 40 and Interstate 95 remained closed.

Florida: More Time to Register to Vote

A federal judge on Monday extended Florida's voter registration deadline by one day, delivering a quick legal victory to Democrats who argued that the storm had upended plans to draw more people into the political process in one of the nation's most closely contested states.

In a strongly worded ruling, Judge Mark E. Walker of Federal District Court in Tallahassee said residents would be allowed to join the voter rolls until 5 p.m. Wednesday.

"This case pits the fundamental right to vote against administrative convenience," Judge Walker wrote. "Of course, the State of Florida has the ability to set its own deadlines and has an interest in maintaining those deadlines. But it would be nonsensical to prioritize those deadlines over the right to vote, especially given the circumstances here."

Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican and one of the named defendants in the lawsuit, had resisted calls from Democrats to extend the voter registration period, which was scheduled to end on Tuesday. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. - ALAN BLINDER

Floodwaters on the Move

Several rivers in eastern North Carolina broke out of their banks on Monday, after weekend rainfalls of up to 16 inches in places, the National Weather Service reported. Some rivers reached record heights, and in some places, the waters are expected to keep rising for days as the floods move downstream.

The Cape Fear River south of Fayetteville crested on Monday at more than 26 feet above flood stage; farther downstream, near Chinquapin, the river was forecast to rise through Wednesday.

To the northeast, the Neuse River reached more than eight feet above flood stage near Goldsboro on Monday, and it was projected to rise another two feet, peaking on Tuesday near its record. Downstream, near Kinston, the Neuse rose more than seven feet above flood stage and was expected to climb five feet more, not cresting until Saturday.

The Lumber River at Lumberton rose four feet higher than it had ever been measured. The Little River at Manchester broke its previous record by three feet.

Several South Carolina rivers also reached moderate or major flood stage, the Weather Service reported, but conditions there were not as severe. - RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

When Storms Churn, Beaches Suffer

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Police officers on an oceanfront street in Edisto Beach, S.C., on Monday. Hurricane Matthew washed between three and four feet of sand onto the street, town officials said. Credit Bruce Smith/Associated Press

Storm surge and battering waves can devastate beaches and the dunes behind them. When Hurricane Matthew raked the coasts of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, it carved away some beaches - though it left others relatively untouched.

Brevard County, Fla., home to Cocoa Beach, the Kennedy Space Center and other tourist attractions, lost about one million cubic yards of sand from its 72 miles of beaches, said Virginia Barker, the county's natural resources management director. While the number is large, the damage was less than that caused by Hurricane Sandy or the storms that passed through in 2004 and 2005. Matthew "was more of a glancing blow," Ms. Barker said.

It helped that the storm hit at a very low spot in the tide cycle, she said, and that the storm moved quickly. Also, she said, it was especially fortunate that "our beaches were in really good shape before the storm," with beach and dune replenishment programs in place since 2000. "We talk about them being 'sacrificial sands,'" she said, a kind of environmental crumple zone to blunt storm damage.

Farther north, many shorelines were reshaped by the storm. After a helicopter tour, Mr. Scott, the governor, told reporters in Jacksonville that he had seen "an unbelievable amount of beach erosion," but that the state was "blessed" that the hurricane stayed offshore.

Environmental officials in states farther north said their coastal evaluations were still underway. Mary-Kathryn Craft, a spokeswoman for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, said that early reports indicated that "erosion is rather extensive throughout the coast," and that many state beaches "were already experiencing significant sand deficits and chronic erosion."

The state had been working on replenishment projects. Since the storm, the agency has also collaborated with local governments and citizens to post reports through its MyCoast app, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has posted aerial photographs. - JOHN SCHWARTZ

And Now, the Cleanup: Homeowners' Next Steps

The American Red Cross has published a list of safety tips for homeowners returning to property damaged in hurricanes.

During cleanup, taking photographs of damaged or destroyed property before it is discarded provides a record for use in making insurance claims, says Ann Carrns, who writes the Your Money Adviser consumer finance column for The New York Times. Read more "

Scenes From Hurricane Matthew's Capricious Path

In Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, the storm left behind stories of disaster and of disaster narrowly averted. Here are some of them "

The storm's toll in Haiti, which took a direct hit, has been hard to measure. As many as 1,000 people have died, Reuters news agency reported, citing local officials. Along with hundreds of lives, the storm wiped out much of the progress that an isolated city, Jérémie, had been making. Read more from Azam Ahmed "

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Hurricane Matthew's Toll Rises; Flooding Hits North Carolina

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■ The storm's death toll in the United States has climbed to more than two dozen. Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina said Tuesday that the state had recorded 14 fatalities. At least six people died in Florida, and the authorities in Georgia and South Carolina reported three deaths in each state.

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A local resident came across the cannonballs while walking on the beach on Sunday morning, Chief Andrew Gilreath, Director of Public Safety, told CNN.

"You can see the fuse holes in the balls," he said.

Erosion caused by the storm unearthed the ordnance in a non-residential area, Gilreath said, and Charleston County and Air Force explosives teams were called to the scene.

The Charleston County Sheriff's Office said that the US Air Force Explosive Team detonated a number of the ordnance where they were found. A small number were to be taken to a navy base for destruction, the sheriff's office said on Twitter.

Deadly storm

Matthew, the deadly storm that has wreaked havoc from the Caribbean to the Carolinas, has moved away from the East Coast but the storm will continue to take a toll on the southeastern United States.

Forecasters expect Matthew to die out in the Atlantic Ocean within the next 48 hours, meaning it won't have a chance to loop back and hit land again as some had predicted.

The region, which has seen at least 17 deaths across four states and power to over 2 million homes knocked out, will likely continue to feel the storm's devastating impact.

In North Carolina, rising waters have damaged hundreds of buildings, forced thousands into emergency shelters, and left nearly 600,000 customers without electricity headed into Monday.

Officials are now preparing for rivers to top their banks, believing heavy rains -- aided by wind-driven storm surges of up to six feet -- could lead to flooding on a level unseen since Hurricane Floyd hit in 1999.

CNN's Max Blau contributed to this report

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hurricane uncovers civil war era cannon balls - cnn

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A local resident came across the cannonballs while walking on the beach on Sunday morning, Chief Andrew Gilreath, Director of Public Safety, told CNN. "You can see the fuse holes in the balls," he said. Erosion caused by the storm unearthed the ordnance in a non-residential area, Gilreath said, and Charleston County and Air Force explosives teams were called to the scene.