One person was killed after the remnants of Hurricane Florence spawned an apparent tornado that touched down in the Richmond area in Virginia today and caused a building to collapse, authorities said.
A Chesterfield Fire/EMS spokesman said the victim was a man who worked at Old Dominion Flooring.
The spokesman said when fire crews arrived the store's manager told them that all of the store's employees were accounted for, except for one man.
The spokesman said emergency personnel were working to recover the unidentified man's body.
A second person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Dominion Energy reported 6,000 customers were without power due to the storm.
A spokesman for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management said his agency considers the storms part of the remains of Florence, which left flooding rains across much of North Carolina and parts of South Carolina over the weekend.
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