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Georgia's agriculture industry is assessing damage done by Irma, but leaders said pecan and cotton crops were the most vulnerable as the storm passed through because they’re nearing harvest.

Both were hit hard.

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Fifty percent of Georgia's pecan crop might be lost, according to state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black.

"If we lose half this pecan crop, fruitcakes will be more expensive at Christmastime, one would think,” Black said.

Describing Hurricane Irma as a "catastrophic event" after viewing its destruction from the air, Gov. Nathan Deal promised Thursday that the state will pay local governments' share for cleaning up storm debris along the Georgia coast.

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Deal got a firsthand look at the damage inflicted in Glynn County, where hundreds of homes flooded on St. Simons Island as Irma crossed southwest Georgia on Monday as a weakened tropical storm more than 100 miles inland.

President Donald Trump has an unlikely defender of his approach to immigration law: former President Jimmy Carter.

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Speaking to Georgia college students, the 39th president expressed optimism Wednesday that Trump might break a legislative logjam with his controversial six-month deadline for Congress to address the immigration status of 800,000-plus U.S. residents who were brought to the country illegally as children.