Death toll from Debby rises to 8 after second landfall

The death toll from storm Debby has risen to eight following its second landfall in the mid-Atlantic region on Thursday.

Debby first made landfall on Florida early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane. The storm then made its second landfall early Thursday in South Carolina after it was downgraded to a tropical storm. As of Friday morning, the storm is moving through the Northeast, hitting Albany, N.Y., and Pittsburgh.

The storm has caused flash flooding across the Eastern Seaboard with the National Weather Service reporting Friday that 3 feet of fast-moving water was flooding the Charleston, S.C., area.

Several areas near Washington, D.C. — including Arlington, Va., Annapolis, Md., and Baltimore — have reported flooding, and people were told to take shelter in parts of D.C., including Capitol Hill, for a tornado warning.

In Fayetteville, N.C., a dam broke Thursday morning, but no one was injured.

At least eight people have died in incidents related to Debby’s downpour: 78-year-old Hilda Windsor Jones, of Brown Summit, N.C., is the latest victim of the storm to be identified, as of Friday morning. She was home alone when a tree fell on her mobile home, splitting it in half.

Authorities on Tuesday identified six people who were killed by the storm while it was still in the South, including two children. One child, a 13-year-old, was killed when a tree fell on his mobile home in Levy County, Fla.

Up to 6 more inches of rain could impact the Carolinas, parts of Maryland, upstate New York and Vermont through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

The Associated Press contributed.