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Article snippet: Most of Florida spent Monday night in sweltering darkness after a diminished but still deadly Irma downed power lines and flooded the last dry corner of the state before wreaking havoc across Georgia and South Carolina. By Tuesday morning, more than 13 million people, or two-thirds of Florida’s population, were without power, according to the State Emergency Response Team, after rains and storm surge flooded Jacksonville, in the state’s northeastern corner. After leaving Florida as a tropical storm, Irma killed three people in Georgia and one in South Carolina, before being downgraded to a tropical depression over Columbus, Ga., Monday night. An aircraft carrier and other Navy ships were headed to the Florida Keys, low-lying islands hit especially hard when Irma, then a Category 4 hurricane, struck on Sunday. “I just hope everyone survived,” Gov. Rick Scott of Florida said on Monday after completing a flyover of the islands. Here’s the latest: • Over the next two days, Irma is expected to push into Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. • At least 42 people have died as a result of the storm, including at least eight in the continental United States, according to The Associated Press. • After Irma was downgraded to a tropical depression, the National Hurricane Center discontinued all storm surge and tropical weather watches and warnings related to the storm. • The full extent of the damage is not yet known, and the authorities have hesitated to estimate the cost of ... Link to the full article to read more