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Orlando, FL - Officials have announced the death toll in Florida from Hurricane Nicole has reached 5 after the storm hit the state early Thursday morning.
Officials with the Orange County Sheriff's Office confirmed two people were electrocuted by a downed power line in Orlando on Thursday.
The power line fell as Nicole made landfall around 3 a.m Thursday morning, just south of Vero Beach as a Category 1 hurricane.
Two additional people died in a crash on Florida’s Turnpike in Orange County early Thursday morning.
According to the Cocoa Police Department, a fifth man died in central Florida early Thursday after police found him unconscious on his yacht that was docked at Lee Wenner Park in Cocoa.
First responders tried to perform CPR on the man, before bringing him to a local hospital where he later died.
Cocoa police say the cause of death is still under investigation.