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Death toll rises to 7 as Florence pours on the rain

9/15/2018, 7:47:26 PM
NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of people living near North Carolina's rising rivers were ordered evacuated Saturday as hurricane-turned-tropical storm Florence practically parked ✔ More than 2 feet of rain had fallen in places, and the drenching went on and on, with forecasters saying there could be an additional 1½ feet by the end of the weekend ✔ Schools canceled, postponed, switched sites or changed kickoff times because of Florence ✔ 14) Tropical Storm Florence is continuing to dump dangerous amounts of rain as it continues its slow slog across the Carolinas



Typhoon Mangkhut's destructive winds and heavy rain claim 14 lives in the Philippines - and now it's threatening China

9/15/2018, 4:32:25 PM
TYPHOON Mangkhut lashed the Philippines with destructive winds and rain that set off landslides and destroyed homes leaving at least 14 people dead. The ferocious typhoon slammed ashore before dawn… ✔ Storm warnings remained in effect in 10 northern provinces, including Cagayan, which could still be lashed by devastating winds, forecasters said ✔ In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan left more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattened villages, swept ships inland and displaced more than 5 million in the central Philippines



Tropical Storm Florence: As 50 feet of water approaches, North Carolina city weighs evacuations

9/15/2018, 4:44:53 PM
Floods from Tropical Storm Florence promise to be worse for Fayetteville than deadly Hurricane Matthew two years ago. ✔ Tropical Storm Florence is continuing to dump dangerous amounts of rain as it continues its slow slog across the Carolinas ✔ Matt Burkhartt/mburkhartt@citizentimes.com Fullscreen This is Oyster Creek Road in Swan Quarter North Carolina ✔ If officials deem the evacuation necessary, they'll send out alerts via texts, emails and phone calls



Man who successfully rode out Florence on his boat says he napped a lot

9/15/2018, 7:56:27 PM
'This wasn't a bad storm,' Masten Cloer mused of Florence, which came ashore as a hurricane on Friday near Wilmington, North Carolina, located roughly 50 miles to the northeast of Cloer and his boat. ✔ He hopes to leave town Tuesday, but if it's still raining at his home, he said he won't be able to work ✔ This system is unloading epic amounts of rainfall: in some places, measured in feet, not inches ✔ on Sept.15, 2018 causing downed trees and power lines and minor flooding in areas ✔ Steve Helber, AP Fullscreen Last SlideNext Slide



"A life and death situation": Typhoon Mangkhut lashes the northern Philippines

9/15/2018, 5:56:44 PM
Mangkhut was punching powerful winds and gusts equivalent to a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane when it hit ✔ Storm warnings remained in effect in 10 northern provinces, including Cagayan, which could still be lashed by devastating winds, forecasters said ✔ In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan left more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattened villages, swept ships inland and displaced more than 5 million in the central Philippines



Super Typhoon Mangkhut: Chinese nuclear plants in EMERGENCY lockdown set for direct hit

9/15/2018, 5:10:58 PM
A FEROCIOUS super typhoon that has killed at least 14 people and wreaked havoc in the Philippines is on course to pass directly over two nuclear power stations in China. ✔ Typhoon Mangkhut at one point hit gusts of 189 mph before it left the Philippines and moved across the South China Sea with reduced wind speeds ✔ They didn't expect it would happen, that's why they didn't evacuate ✔ I bought some vegetables that can be kept for a few days



Florence: Airline cancellations still climbing, now top 3,200

9/15/2018, 7:19:48 PM
Flights remained grounded at most airports along coast of the Carolinas Saturday morning as the remnants of Florence continued to spin over the region. ✔ Nearly all were tied to disruptions in the Carolinas, where Florence was expected to weaken and – eventually – pick up speed and move out of the region by Sunday night ✔ (Photo: National Hurricane Center) IN PICTURES: Embraer's line-up of commercial passenger planes IN PICTURES: Bombardier's line-up of commercial passenger planes



UK weather: Met Office issues warning as Britain braces for ‘powerful’ storm in 48 hours

9/15/2018, 6:10:32 PM
BRITAIN has been warned to “stay tuned” to the weather forecast as Storm Helene threatens to ravage the nation with powerful winds and torrential rain within 48 hours. ✔ In its yellow weather warning, the Met Office said adverse weather conditions could cause public transport disruption, road closures, injuries from large waves and power cuts ✔ Little change in strength is forecast today, but gradual weakening is expected beginning tonight or on Sunday



Hong Kong Braces For Super Typhoon Mangkhut, World’s Strongest Storm This Year

9/15/2018, 7:16:59 PM
Meanwhile, on the opposite side of a warming planet, Hurricane Florence has left at least six dead in the United States. ✔ Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe bar area in Lan Kwai Fong grew quieter on Saturday night ✔ The storm comes as Hurricane Florence drenched the Carolinas in the United States, weakening from a terrifying Category 4 to a Category 1 as it made landfall Friday morning



Weather Channel Reporter Roasted for Struggling During Hurricane While 2 People Easily Walk By

9/15/2018, 4:42:58 PM
A Weather Channel reporter went viral because of a video showing him struggling to maintain his balance while two men easily walked by in the background ✔ This is about as nasty as it’s been, Seidel can be heard saying during the clip ✔ The Weather Channel did not immediately reply to PEOPLE’s request for comment ✔ Those numbers are expected to rise throughout the day ✔ Forecasters are also anticipating landslides near the Appalachians, the National Weather Service reported



Trump has just declared North Carolina a 'major disaster'

9/15/2018, 4:21:01 PM
Officials say Florence is unloading 'epic' amount of rain



UK weather: Could Hurricane Helene join storm Joyce to SMASH Britain next week?

9/15/2018, 4:13:23 PM
BRITAIN is set to be hit by gale force winds and downpours as ex-hurricane Helene approaches, but could Helene join with Joyce on its way to land? ✔ We expect to see winds of 80mph in the worst affected regions, however across eastern Britain it may just be blustery and otherwise warm with some fine weather ✔ There is a chance that power cuts may occur, with the potential to affect other services, such as mobile phone coverage



Hurricane Florence Breaks North Carolina Rainfall Record: Reports

9/15/2018, 6:05:23 PM
The storm has reportedly dropped more than 30 inches, shattering a record set by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. ✔ The slow-moving storm has created dangerous flooding in the Carolinas, and at least five people have died, according to The Charlotte Observer ✔ pic.twitter.com/2ehVAj5NRg NWS Eastern Region (@NWSEastern) September 15, 2018 The storm is expected to continue throughout the weekend, so it’s likely those record-breaking numbers will continue to rise



Then and Now: See Hurricane Florence’s Path of Destruction

9/15/2018, 6:03:00 PM
Florence continued its slow march across the Southeast, dumping more than 2 feet of rain in some places and claiming at least five lives. Compare photos of North Carolina and South Carolina from before the storm and as it hit. ✔ Florence continued its slow march across the Southeast, dumping more than 2 feet of rain in some places and claiming at least five lives ✔ The storm, which made landfall Friday as a hurricane and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, is in the midst of what could be a dayslong deluge in the region



Typhoon Mangkhut path tracker latest — where is the super typhoon now and when will it reach Hong Kong?

9/15/2018, 4:11:33 PM
TYPHOON Mangkhut has made landfall in the Philippines, killing around 14 people as it batters the country with wind speeds of 115mph. But when will the storm reach Hong Kong after raging across the… ✔ TYPHOON Mangkhut has made landfall in the Philippines, killing around 14 people as it batters the country with wind speeds of 115mph ✔ The deadliest storm in the country was Super Typhoon Haiyan, which killed over 7,000 people and affected millions in 2013



Alarm grows inside FEMA as administrator Brock Long fights for his job

9/15/2018, 7:00:32 PM
The agency is without a deputy director and the third in command has little hands-on disaster management experience, Long’s allies say. ✔ Kaniewski was confirmed by the Senate unanimously in September 2017 for the role of FEMA’s deputy administrator for preparedness ✔ His title has since changed to deputy administrator for resilience ✔ Philip Rucker and Mark Berman contributed to this report



NASA launches giant laser into space to monitor Earth's ice cover from 300miles above the planet

9/15/2018, 6:14:44 PM
NASA has launched a giant laser into space to monitor earth’s ice cover from 300 miles above the planet’s surface. A satellite has been designed to precisely measures changes in the planet’s ice sh… ✔ 2 A satellite has been designed to precisely measures changes in the planet’s ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and vegetation NASA Earth Science Division director Michael Freilich said the mission in will advance knowledge of how the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica contribute to sea level rise



At least three dead in Philippines as typhoon heads toward Hong Kong

9/15/2018, 7:16:36 PM
A strong typhoon tore across the northern tip of the Philippines on Saturday, ki... ✔ REUTERS/Erik De Castro Mangkhut had been a category 5 storm for days since wreaking havoc in U.S. Pacific territories of Micronesia before edging toward the Philippines, where it is the 15th and strongest storm this year ✔ Slideshow (14 Images) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



"In the blink of an eye our street was flooded": New Bern residents recount sudden surge

9/15/2018, 4:16:23 PM
More than 360 people were rescued from rising waters in the North Carolina city ✔ The riverfront city of New Bern, North Carolina, experienced some of the worst flooding from now-Tropical Storm Florence, where a massive 10-foot storm surge inundated streets and turned houses into islands, reports CBS News' Kris Van Cleave ✔ Boats and trucks helped hundreds get to dry land, including Sadie Marie Holt, who was rescued Friday



Florence flooding strands town in eastern North Carolina

9/15/2018, 6:09:29 PM
In Beulaville, authorities are frustrated by the response to hazardous conditions. Floodwaters block roads and have swamped homes. ✔ A swift water rescue underway in the town of River Bend, North Carolina, where high waters from Florence is flooding ✔ 241 in Beulaville, North Carolina.(Photo: Sam DeGrave/Citizen Times) BEULAVILLE, N.C ✔ Roy Cooper has noted in multiple updates that most flooding deaths happen in vehicles



At the Hard Rock Hotel in Punta Cana you can feel like a rockstar

9/15/2018, 7:38:35 PM
I AM sipping a potent rum cocktail in a natural turquoise pool, the sun on my back as a palm-fringed beach frames the horizon. The scene is typically Caribbean. But the tune blasting from a mobile … ✔ It is fast-paced, banging reggaeton a tropical hip-hop fusion that is taking Latin America by storm ✔ Welcome to the Dominican Republic, a Spanish-speaking island east of Jamaica that is now the most popular tourist destination in the West Indies ✔ Though a great family hotel, it is equally good for couples ✔ With winter looming, I wish I was planning another trip there now



Tsukiji fish market's tuna auction opens to media for final time before Toyosu move

9/15/2018, 4:05:38 PM
Media were invited to a tuna auction at Tsukiji fish market on Friday, a day before the public gets its last chance to attend the famous Tokyo institution ✔ At the 6 a.m. auction, 253 frozen tuna were up for grabs, with voices of auctioneers and bidders ringing out across the hall ✔ The first 120 visitors were admitted for free, and the market was already at full capacity by 2 a.m. Enthusiastic tourists, many foreign, recorded the action with their smartphones, capturing the end of an era ✔ The relocation of the obsolete facilities was spurred by concerns over sanitation, earthquake resistance and fire safety



Crown Princess Victoria looks elegant in stylish blue pantsuit

9/15/2018, 7:35:14 PM
The heir to the Swedish throne cut an elegant look earlier today, when she opened talks at the Keep Sweden Clean launch event in Stockholm. ✔ Classy and confident: the Crown Princess began the day with an inspirational message to Swedes The Crown Princess met many groups at the event, including one organisation which makes sunglasses out of recycled plastic The Crown Princess was seen trying on these sunglasses which are made out of recycled plastic She said: 'Did you know that 80 per cent of all the waste in the sea comes from land



Navy ships, aircraft returning to Hampton Roads

9/15/2018, 5:38:16 PM
Dozens of U.S. Navy ships and more than 100 aircraft are returning to Hampton Roads after leaving earlier this week as Hurricane Florence approached the East Coast. ✔ (AP) Dozens of U.S. Navy ships and more than 100 aircraft are returning to Hampton Roads after leaving earlier this week as Hurricane Florence approached the East Coast ✔ The Navy said the USS Kearsarge and USS Arlington will remain at sea to provide disaster assistance, if requested ✔ ___ Information from: The Virginian-Pilot, http://pilotonline.com



NASA launches $1 billion ICESat-2 mission to uncover the depth of melting ice sheets

9/15/2018, 5:11:57 PM
NASA has launched a satellite designed to precisely measure changes in Earth's ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice and vegetation. ✔ The mission is a successor to the original Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite that operated from 2003 to 2009 ✔ The first Delta 2 lifted off on February 14, 1989, and since then it has been the launch vehicle for Global Positioning System orbiters, Earth observing and commercial satellites, and interplanetary missions including the twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity



Australia searches for culprit hiding sewing needles in strawberries

9/15/2018, 6:51:17 PM
Multiple brands of strawberries have been recalled after customers found needles in their fruit. ✔ This week, Jamie Michael, head of the Western Australian Strawberry Growers Association, told the Australian broadcaster that the needle incidents have come at peak strawberry-selling season, disrupting the market at a particularly inconvenient time ✔ Read more In Australia, farmers dealing with drought can kill kangaroos that compete with their livestock Aussie newspaper doubles down on Serena cartoon decried as racist, puts it on the front page Mistaken identity places a 30-year-old Texan at the center of Australia’s political crisis



Review | Let’s go to Mars! Sure, right after Hulu’s ‘The First’ jettisons its heavy payload.

9/15/2018, 5:39:08 PM
Sean Penn stars as a grief-stricken commander of a manned mission to the Red Planet in the 2030s. ✔ We’re in the early 2030s, and the trip is a public/private collaboration between NASA and a particularly driven yet personally frosty tech titan named Laz Ingram (Natascha McElhone) ✔ He doesn’t seem ready to pilot a small Cessna, much less a rocket to Mars ✔ The First  (eight episodes) available for streaming Friday on Hulu



Blogger who shared her IVF journey on Instagram dies during emergency C-section

9/15/2018, 7:38:32 PM
A SPANISH blogger who inspired thousands by documenting her IVF journey has died in childbirth. Vanessa Fernandez Arango had amassed a loyal following on Instagram after sharing her and husband Jon… ✔ You will understand that this account will now close ✔ Parents have revealed the debt woes of struggling families forced to shell out FIVE times as much for 'poor quality' branded school uniform ✔ And this dad's sweet video of baby daughter sucking on his nipple has been branded 'disturbing'



Scarlett Moffatt glams up for friend's wedding with GIANT circle hat with gold leaves

9/15/2018, 6:02:31 PM
SCARLETT Moffatt brought big lips and a tonne of gold to the wedding ceremony of her friends. The 28-year-old reality star was a shimmer of beauty as she joined uni friends to watch her mates Jessi… ✔ The hat and those smoky eye, one fan wrote in Scarlett’s Instagram comments box – followed by a heart emoji ✔ Another gushed: Looking so glam Scarlett!! While a further fan commented: You look stunning girl ✔ It's so ludicrous it didn't even warrant a response



MH370’s tragic last message before Boeing 777 vanished on route to Kuala Lumpar

9/15/2018, 6:20:27 PM
MH370’s final message that was sent to the doomed airplane from a frantic air traffic controller before the Malaysia Airlines flight vanished into thin air on route from Kuala Lumpar to Beijing has been revealed for the first time. ✔ The message was sent and resent at 6.39pm, 6.40pm and 6.41pm (Image: GETTY) Official documents detailing an investigation into the missing Boeing 777 showed the tragic last message sent to the aircraft after an unanswered call to Captain Zahaire Ahmad Shah ✔ Another theory is that the plane could have been hacked and reprogrammed to fly to a different location



21 Ingenious Pizza Hacks That’ll Make You Audibly Gasp

9/15/2018, 5:33:56 PM
You're gonna want to try this. ✔ Try a lighter option: Lady Olivia Fyre @LadyOFyre Low-carb hack: put pizza toppings on a giant mushroom (use the mushroom as the crust) ✔ Check out these other great pizza hacks: * 15 Pizza Hacks That Will Change Your Life for the Better * 101 Creative Pizza Hacks You Need To Try Now The best things at three price points The best things at three price points More BuzzFeed Reviews More BuzzFeed Reviews



Why Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem think it would be 'risky' to make too many films together

9/15/2018, 4:50:43 PM
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem talk about how their relationship impacted filming on Asghar Farhadi's "Everybody Knows." ✔ Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem have acted in four films together since they became a couple roughly a decade ago ✔ When she returns, she is with Ben (Steven Yeun), a mysterious and mysteriously rich young man ✔ I don’t know if she would do it again, I would definitely do it again



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