HURRICANE Matthew has left 1.4million Americans without power as the death toll in Haiti approaches 900.
The storm has now been downgraded to a category one as it moves through South Carolina.
Tides of up to 9ft buffeted the city of Charleston as sea water made it over the sea defences and flooded the historic area with ten inches of water.
(R) blocks a flooded street in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, on October 8, 2016, after Hurricane Matthew passed the area. A weakened Hurricane Matthew churned just off the coast of the US states of Georgia and South Carolina Saturday, threatening deadly floods after leaving more than a million people without power in Florida and claiming five lives. The full scale of the devastation in hurricane-hit rural Haiti became clear as the death toll surged past 400, three days after Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of the country’s south. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMADJEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty ImagesIncredible images showed locals wading through the water that has inundated the port city.
Six Americans were killed during the ferocious storms.
But tiny Haiti bore the brunt of the tragedy as it announced the deaths of almost 900 people on today.
The impoverished country is expecting to see that number rise further still.
