Wilmington stranded, flooding spreads as Florence turns northeast, bringing more rain
9/17/2018, 5:04:33 PMOfficials plan to airlift food and water to the city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes swamped by swollen rivers from Florence. ✔ Related: When a Category None hurricane is worse than a Category 5 » President Trump said federal emergency workers, first responders and law enforcement officials were working really hard ✔ Streets were flooded and Police Chief Keith Thomas warned people not to drive, but the local food and gas store had customers
With rivers rising, flooding from Florence to swamp Carolinas for days – or even weeks
9/17/2018, 5:03:55 PMAlthough the torrential rain may be ending in the Carolinas, the slow-motion disaster of river flooding will continue to wreak havoc, potentially for weeks. ✔ Homes in New Bern, North Carolina, were surrounded by water, debris was strewn across neighborhoods and several boats were lying out of the water, including one that was tossed into bushes and another that was lying on its side ✔ The storm will easily beome the USA's costliest hurricane of the year, so far: AccuWeather estimates that Florence will cause $30-60 billion in economic impact and damage
Philippines mayor doubts there are survivors in massive landslide triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut
9/17/2018, 6:36:59 PMA Philippine mayor said Monday that it's unlikely any of the dozens of people feared buried in a huge landslide set off by Typhoon Mangkhut will be found alive, though rescuers are still digging through the massive mound of mud and debris covering a chapel where they had taken shelter. ✔ Mangkhut is confirmed to have killed 65 people in the Philippines ✔ When she screamed after hearing the news about her husband, their 4-year-old son sensed what had happened and cried too, she said ✔ The Hong Kong Observatory said Mangkhut was the most powerful storm to hit the city since 1979, packing winds of 121 mph
Storm Florence's drenching rains kill 23 in the Carolinas
9/17/2018, 5:36:37 PMDeeper flooding loomed in the hours and days ahead from rivers in the Carolinas ... ✔ North Carolina officials reported 1,200 road closures, including a stretch of Interstate 95, a major transportation artery running the length of the U.S. East Coast ✔ About 509,000 homes and businesses were without electricity on Monday in North and South Carolina and surrounding states ✔ Slideshow (25 Images) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Boy, one, found dead in Hurricane Florence floodwater after losing grip of mum
9/17/2018, 4:02:26 PMThe death toll from the extreme weather - which has been downgraded to a tropical depression - has risen to 18 with flood water cutting off a city of more than 100,00 people ✔ A one-year-old boy has become the latest victim of Hurricane Florence in the United States, taking the death toll to 18 ✔ The authorities in Hoke County, west of Fayetteville, told residents late Sunday to flee due to the possible breach of the dam, reports the New York Times
Florence aftermath: Rivers are rising in the Carolinas, cresting at record levels
9/17/2018, 6:20:19 PMFive dozen river locations were in flood stage Monday morning, 18 of which were in major flooding, which is typically characterized by catastrophic property inundation and evacuations. ✔ A comparison photo from the Person St Bridge from yesterday to today ✔ Geological Survey) Several locations in the Carolinas had crested at records or were expected to over the next week, according to stream data from the U.S. Geological Survey ✔ The Capital Weather Gang’s Jason Samenow contributed to this report
The rivers keep rising, but some in flood zones won't leave
9/17/2018, 5:02:57 PMFAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The river seethed a quarter-mile away, bulging from its banks, so the patrol cars circled the neighborhood three times. "Get out now," a vo ✔ If I have to, he said, I'll ride the horses out of here ✔ So would you be offended if I just dropped you off and came back to stay here ✔ 17) The death toll from Hurricane Florence and its remnants has risen to 17 as officials say a 3-month-old died in North Carolina when a tree landed on a mobile home
Hurricane Florence NWS update: More flooding to DRENCH Carolina 'WORST is yet to COME'
9/17/2018, 6:58:49 PMDEADLY storm Florence continues to devastate the Carolinas as floodwater keeps rising from the previous monstrous hurricane as officials warn "the worst is yet to come". ✔ Florence cut off the coastal city of Wilmington, damaging tens of thousands of homes and threatening worse flooding as rivers fill to bursting point ✔ The previous Category 4 hurricane has dumped nearly three feet of rain in North Carolina since Thursday ✔ The devastating flooding could last well this week and into the weekend, with rivers remaining in major flood
UK weather forecast storm warning: Storm Ali to lash Britain with 60mph winds
9/17/2018, 7:50:32 PMSTORM Helene may have a sting in its tail in the shape of a weather system, dubbed Storm Ali, bringing more driving rain and high winds of up to 60mph, the Met Office has warned. ✔ It will be combined with heavy rains, so it will be a tricky start to the day, causing travel disruption, trees possibly falling and general disruption ✔ He said: There are no warnings in place for southern England ✔ Ali is the first name on the list, which currently stretches to 21 names ending in Wyn
UK weather: Met Office issues 'danger to life' warning for SECOND storm after Helene havoc
9/17/2018, 4:16:49 PMBRITAIN faces an onslaught of life-threatening winds and torrential rain from a volatile low pressure system set to sweep across the nation in the wake of Storm Helene. ✔ The storm is expected to peter out on Tuesday afternoon, when a yellow weather warning for transport delays, uprooted trees and power cuts will be lifted ✔ The gusty winds will be accompanied in places by heavy, squally showers ✔ Ladbrokes spokesman Alex Apati said: Storm Helene may be on her way but she's doing little to stop this going down as the hottest September on record
Florence recovery 'will take years:' North Carolina Congressman
9/17/2018, 6:05:43 PMWith flooding expected to peak on Wednesday, cleanup and recovery will take a long time, Rep. Holding said. ✔ With flooding expected to peak on Wednesday, Holding expects cleanup and recovery to take a long time ✔ The cleanup will take months and the recovery will take years, he said ✔ I know folks want to see the damage [and] assess the situation but don’t take a risk if you’re in a safe place, you need to stay there right now
Rising waters in North Carolina after Florence | Pictures | Reuters
9/17/2018, 4:15:34 PMOliver Kelly, 1 year old, cries as he is carried off the sheriff's airboat during his rescue from rising flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Leland, North Carolina. REUTERS/Jonathan ✔ REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Close 20 / 40 Debris and items from local houses lie scattered in the parking lot after the pass of Hurricane Florence in New Bern, North Carolina ✔ REUTERS/Jonathan Drake Close 40 / 40 Share this Slideshow View Again View Next Sea of garbage
‘It is FAR MORE serious than we thought’ Scientists warn tsunamis could hit Britain
9/17/2018, 4:22:37 PMTSUNAMIS hit Britain much more regularly than previously thought, according to researchers who warn the risk of a mega-wave “is far more serious than we thought previously.” ✔ We are now using a CT scanning machine at the University of Dundee to look at our samples in detail ✔ There could well be changes on the seabed, changes around the Greenland margin that may well increase the risk of future tsunamis to this part of the world
More wet misery, soggy messes as Florence floodwaters rise
9/17/2018, 5:49:14 PMMany residents of the Carolinas have seen hurricane flooding before, but they say they haven't seen anything like the deluge Florence has dropped over both states since making landfall ✔ Many residents of the Carolinas have seen hurricane flooding before, but they say they haven't seen anything like the deluge Florence has dropped over both states since making landfall late last week ✔ He shrugged when asked if he had been concerned about driving through an area hit by the storm
Russia and Turkey to set up Idlib buffer zone to protect civilians
9/17/2018, 7:01:33 PMPlan lessens risk of humanitarian disaster affecting 3 million people in last major Syrian rebel enclave ✔ The agreement, to be jointly monitored by Turkish and Russian forces, will be seen as a sign of Erdoğan’s influence over Putin, and is a huge advance over a trilateral summit held two weeks ago in Tehran when Erdoğan and Putin clashed in public over the feasibility of a ceasefire
Legendary ‘Gray Man’ ghost of Pawleys Island ‘captured on a live feed during Hurricane Florence', ghost hunters claim
9/17/2018, 6:10:27 PMA LEGENDARY ghost steeped in storm folklore has allegedly been captured on film during Hurricane Florence. If you see the “Gray Man Ghost of Pawleys Island” it is said that your home will be spared… ✔ She persuaded her parents to leave and when the family returned, they saw utter destruction everywhere, but their home had been spared, according to the Paranormal Guide ✔ If you are refusing to leave during this mandatory evacuation, you need to do things like notify your legal next of kin because the loss of life is very, very possible, Mayor Mitch Colvin said
BBC News: 'Very good, what do you want?' Simon McCoy stunned after forecaster's outburst
9/17/2018, 5:33:42 PMBBC NEWS host Simon McCoy was mocked by a BBC Weather forecaster during a hilarious outburst on live TV as the pair discussed incoming Storm Helene set to crash into Britain's shores. ✔ BBC Weather forecaster Darren Bett He added: This Helene was across the other side of the Atlantic and hasn’t made landfall yet ✔ Because we are drawing in this tropical air it feels like summer for some parts of the UK ✔ Storm Helene was forecast to hit the southwest of England on Monday evening before sweeping across the north of the UK
'Maria Generation': Puerto Rican kids face harsh realities
9/17/2018, 5:38:20 PMThey watched their homes get ripped apart and the government struggle to restore water and power. A year later, Puerto Rico's kids still feel hopeless. ✔ Puerto Rico (CNN)Her son cried out for help via text message on the morning of October 17, a month after Hurricane Maria wrecked this Caribbean island ✔ The situation after the hurricane, Isabel said, was a ticking time bomb for him ✔ Little by little and day by day, we promise that there will be some indicators of positive
Over 462,000 customers without power in Carolinas after Florence
9/17/2018, 7:38:52 PMMore than 462,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. Southeast, mostly in North Ca... ✔ Members of Coast Guard Shallow-Water Response team escort employees of a North Carolina electric utility to a flooded substation in order to perform maintenance on transformers in Newport, North Carolina, U.S., Sepember 16, 2018 ✔ Florence, now a tropical depression, continued to dump rain on the Appalachian Mountains on Monday as it moved toward New England, which could result in more flooding in the Carolinas as rivers swell ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Nigeria's disasters agency says 100 people killed in floods across...
9/17/2018, 7:14:47 PMFloods across 10 states of Nigeria have killed 100 people, a spokesman for the c... ✔ ABUJA (Reuters) - Floods across 10 states of Nigeria have killed 100 people, a spokesman for the country’s emergency and disasters agency said on Monday ✔ National disaster means the federal government has taken over search, rescue and rehabilitation of victims in the worst hit states, which are in central and southern parts of the country ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Elk rescued from radioactive water tank in Chernobyl expected to survive
9/17/2018, 5:24:06 PMThe huge animal is expected to survive after its exhausting ordeal between the fifth and sixth reactors ✔ Firefighter spokesperson Sergey Strelchenko said: I think the elk spent around three days trying unsuccessfully to get out of the tank ✔ The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic accident that occurred in 1986 when one of the nuclear reactors exploded during a safety test
Opinion | American women are watching the Kavanaugh controversy very closely
9/17/2018, 5:10:40 PMAs if they weren't angry enough already. ✔ (Greg Gibson/AP) By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer September 17 at 12:39 PM After the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings gave the country a window into workplace sexual harassment and featured a committee composed entirely of white men skeptically questioning the African American woman detailing what she suffered at Thomas’s hands the next election, in 1992, was dubbed The Year of the Woman ✔ Imagine if you’re a woman watching Kavanaugh’s defenders accept, and in some cases argue explicitly, that it’s perfectly normal for a drunken teenage boy to sexually assault a teenage girl because that’s just what men do
Maxine Peake's pride at playing 'extraordinary' Hillsborough mum in ITV drama
9/17/2018, 4:02:28 PMThe four-part drama will tell of Anne's emotional fight with cancer as she tried to find out the truth about her son's death ✔ Mum-of-three Anne, from Formby, Merseyside, died in 2013 at the age of 62 ✔ I am excited as well as a bit scared, but it is the right thing to do ✔ I am looking forward to working alongside talented people who will give everything to ensure we produce a series that does justice to my mum
Pricetag of coastal Virginia’s near-miss from Hurricane Florence could be $75 million
9/17/2018, 7:56:48 PMDecision to evacuate low-lying areas and open state-sponsored shelters carried hefty price; federal government could reimburse most of the total ✔ Because President Trump declared Virginia a disaster area in advance of the storm, and because federal officials agreed with the decision to evacuate, up to 75 percent of Virginia’s liability could be reimbursed by the federal government, Layne said ✔ S. Chris Jones (R-Suffolk), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, thanked Layne for keeping him informed of the potential hit to the budget and acknowledged that authorities were working under tough circumstances to keep the public safe
Analysis | Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong’s storied history
9/17/2018, 4:54:11 PMThere were no deaths in the city, but hundreds of trees and a beloved "pre-neon" site fell victim. ✔ Melissa Cate Christ, a landscape architect and research assistant professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said the Duddell Street Steps were part of the remaining physical evidence of the first settlements in Hong Kong ✔ Read more: How the Philippines learned from disaster Severe typhoon hits Hong Kong, southern China after killing 64 in the Philippines Super Typhoon Mangkhut, 2018′s strongest storm, to slam into Philippines
Analysis | Brock Long’s remarkable defenses of Trump’s Puerto Rico death toll conspiracy theory, annotated
9/17/2018, 6:43:42 PMLong says a president shouldn't be help responsible for post-hurricane deaths from spouse abuse -- and other defenses. ✔ Those studies, the Harvard study was done differently than the George Washington study, or this study or that study, and the numbers are all over the place ✔ He’s been incredibly supportive of me and this staff ✔ They may have looked at funeral benefits to help calculate whatever number
Hurricane Florence Heroes Rescue 6 Trapped Dogs from Rising Waters: 'They Would Have Drowned'
9/17/2018, 4:53:34 PMRescue workers continue to help those in the Carolinas stranded after the devastating damages of Hurricane Florence, including six dogs who were found abandoned in a locked cage in Leland, North Carolina, as flood waters rose ✔ RELATED VIDEO: Hurricane Florence Weakened but Still Expected to Be Devastating as Some Refuse to Evacuate Simmons later told The News & Observer that the kitten’s mother was a wild cat but that the kitten had taken a liking to him because, I feed him, Meanwhile, Simmons’ father stayed behind on his own volition
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