The American Red Cross' Texas Gulf Coast Region is stepping into help pick up the pieces by sending 20 people to help with disaster relief efforts. Nine of them are from Houston.

American Red Cross volunteers are managing the many shelters created to help those in the path of the hurricane and making sure those displaced have a safe place to sleep and food to eat.

ST. LOUIS For the third time in just over a year, the American Red Cross is rapidly mobilizing volunteers and relief supplies to respond as Helene bears