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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 4 days 12 hours 6 minutes ago
HAVANA -- Gustav swelled into a fearsome Category 4 hurricane with winds of 145 mph (235 kph) on Saturday as Cuba raced to evacuate more than 240,000 people and Americans to the north clogged highways fleeing New Orleans. Gustav already has killed 78 people in...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 11 weeks 4 days 23 hours 2 minutes ago
The eye of hurricane Ike has powered onto land in Galveston, Texas, and the storm is punishing the shoreline with 110 mph winds.
The National Hurricane Center says the eye landed at 3:10 a.m. EDT in the coastal community southeast of Houston.
Along the coast, storm gusts are...(more)
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submitted by Ari 20 weeks 1 day 13 hours 34 minutes ago
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger credited an unmanned NASA aircraft Monday with helping save the Sierra foothills town of Paradise from a wildfire last week, calling the plane "one of the most exciting new weapons in our firefighting arsenal."
Schwarzenegger was at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View,...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 3 days 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Fishermen along Maine's rugged coast moved boats to shelter from a rare burst of tropical weather Sunday as weakening Hurricane Kyle spun past toward Canada. A hurricane watch for Maine was dropped and there were no immediate plans for evacuations.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 9 weeks 2 days 15 hours 6 minutes ago
The National Hurricane Center says Laura has formed over the north central Atlantic as the 11th named storm of the season.
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Hours after battering the Cayman Islands, Hurricane Paloma, now a Category 3, made landfall in southern Cuba Saturday evening. The storm hit as a Category 4 in Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba. A hurricane warning is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Ciego de Avila,...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 7 hours 6 minutes ago
Tropical Storm Hanna knocked out power to the southern Bahamas on Wednesday and officials from Nassau to South Carolina warned residents to prepare for possible evacuations as it moves north and grows into a hurricane.
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submitted by Ari 21 weeks 4 days 9 hours 40 minutes ago
Nearly 2,000 fire fighters are making a stand today on Highway 1, near famous inns and spas, as they continue to fight the out-of-control Basin Complex wildfire in Big Sur, an area thick with smoke and ash, but bereft of tourists on this holiday weekend.
And in...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 12 weeks 5 days 6 minutes ago
Global warming can't be blamed for the trifecta -- headed toward the Southeast U.S. -- meteorologists say. It's just 'peak season in an active hurricane cycle.' Despite the prospect of three major tropical storms heading toward the Southeastern United States, meteorologists say that the conga-line assault...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 4 days 20 hours 6 minutes ago
Hurricane Gustav transformed into a Category 3 storm with 115 mph winds early Saturday as it blew down power lines in the Cayman Islands and roared toward western Cuba.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 1 day 3 hours 6 minutes ago
Hundreds of thousands of evacuees waiting Tuesday to return home to southern Louisiana may find power out and food in short supply ...
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 13 weeks 6 days 18 hours 6 minutes ago
Tropical Storm Gustav was close to hurricane strength again Thursday -- and very close to Jamaica -- after rapidly intensifying and taking a southern turn overnight.
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