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Helene hit the US on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane - the most powerful on record to strike Florida's Big Bend - before tearing through neighbouring states and downgrading to a tropical storm.

For instance, an appeal by a nursing facility could result in downgrading the level of a citation.

Yet that too might be difficult, given the country’s debt levels and the recent downgrading of its rating by international credit rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch.

On Wednesday, an amended indictment was filed downgrading the charge to involuntary manslaughter against two sheriff’s deputies, Brandon Rodgers and Kaiyell Sanders, and hospital employee Wavie Jones, according to online court records.

"This is not about downgrading people or deporting them for racist reasons. It is about preserving Germany as the land of the Germans," he said.