John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton.
La delantera de Trump en el estado se suma a la evidencia de una menor ventaja para él en el Colegio Electoral. Y una decisión de los encuestadores haría que pasen por alto los cambios en el estado.
The region has been transformed by a number of economic and environmental factors, including its reputation for relatively few major storms.
Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism organization, warned that Hurricane Milton is expected to grow and remain “extremely dangerous.” The travel industry is taking extreme precautions.
Worried about flying wreckage, Governor Ron DeSantis said that the state was trying to clear as much debris from Hurricane Helene as possible before Hurricane Milton strikes.
Earlier surveys have shown higher support, but the state’s Republican governor is working hard to defeat the initiative.
With 13 counties devastated by flooding, the state is trying to make sure that residents can still vote. Candidates have been forced to abandon door-knocking and phone banks.
More than 5.5 million people were urged to leave Florida’s western coast, one of the largest evacuations in state history. Some who have stayed for previous storms decided to go this time.
A one-two punch along Florida’s Gulf Coast is confronting some residents with hard decisions, like whether to pack up for good.
President Biden called Hurricane Milton “a matter of life and death” for Florida residents.
After Hurricane Helene hit, a group of doctors and nurses quickly built a field hospital in Burnsville, N.C., to tend to patients and provide them with medical care.
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Officials said the evacuation was likely the biggest the state has seen since Hurricane Irma in 2017, and warned residents to leave early to avoid heavy traffic.
Trump has successfully trained millions of Americans to think of the truth as an obstacle to winning power.
A big Trump lead in the state paradoxically adds to evidence of a smaller Electoral College edge for him. And a choice by pollsters may be causing them to miss state shifts.
Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.
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La tormenta se intensificó al doble de la velocidad con que crecen estos fenómenos.
The storm rapidly intensified on Monday.
All of the major theme parks said they were closely monitoring Hurricane Milton and would be updating their closure plans as needed.
En Carolina del Norte y otros estados, un torrente de teorías conspirativas y afirmaciones falsas sobre los esfuerzos de asistencia está alarmando y desanimando a funcionarios y trabajadores.
Updates on how the state is preparing for the storm’s arrival.
Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.
Las autoridades instaron a los residentes en la trayectoria prevista del huracán a prestar atención a las órdenes de evacuación mientras el estado moviliza recursos de respuesta.
The ban will resume while the court considers an appeal to a decision that had briefly allowed greater access to abortions in the state.
The Tampa Bay area, long used to relative safety from big storms, faces what could be its first direct hit by a major hurricane in a century.
Officials urged residents in the expected path of the hurricane, now a Category 5, to heed evacuation orders as the state mobilized resources to respond to the storm.
Hurricane Helene has reminded us. Climate change has stacked the deck against all of us.
School closures and traumatic experiences could affect children long after schools reopen. Experts worry that similar scenarios are happening with much more frequency because of climate change.
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The powerful, life-threatening hurricane is expected to make landfall on Wednesday even as residents continue to recover from Hurricane Helene.
Worshipers gathered on Sunday, many for the first time since the storm decimated their communities, “to cry and pray and process.”
In North Carolina and other states, a barrage of conspiracy theories and false claims over efforts to bring relief after Hurricane Helene is alarming and disheartening officials and workers.
More than a week after workers fled flooding outside their factory, much remains unclear, including how many died.
Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested.
The vice president visited Charlotte, N.C., for an update on relief efforts after Hurricane Helene ravaged wide swaths of the Southeast.
The worst fallout from the hurricane is in western North Carolina, but at least five other states are grappling with their own intractable problems.
Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Milton.
See the likely path, evacuation orders and wind arrival times for Milton.
After Helene, it may be time to rethink how to communicate the risks posed by storms, especially extreme rain.
Repairing the roads in the region near the North Carolina-Tennessee border could take months. Some residents worry about the impact on the local economy.
Service has been restored in some areas after Hurricane Helene, but many people are still unable to communicate by phone, which has hampered relief efforts, worried loved ones and complicated daily life.
Downed trees and flooding have left the trail impassable in many of the 14 states on its route.
With tight contests in all seven battleground states, the candidates are pressing for a few thousand votes that could sway the outcome of the entire election.
City officials have refused to provide estimates of when the devastated water system in Asheville, N.C., will be back in operation.
Donald J. Trump answered preselected questions from a pro-military crowd who echoed his false claims and approved of his vow to conduct massive deportations of undocumented immigrants.
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The storm’s death toll has climbed past 225, but many people remain unaccounted for and searching for them is complicated. Their families are desperate for answers.
The ruling was the latest instance of legal whiplash for the over 27 million borrowers who could qualify, and yet another blow to the president’s pledge to provide mass student debt relief.
The Georgia city is a picturesque tourist destination. It’s also the No. 2 ocean cargo hub on the East Coast, and the dock strike’s quick end was a relief.
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After years of documenting the effects of climate change in his home state of North Carolina, a photographer found himself in the path of a hurricane.
The hurricane damaged an estimated 80 percent of the buildings in the River Arts District of Asheville, N.C., and upended the lives of artists who had recast the city as a cultural force.
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Airbnb and Vrbo have activated emergency cancellation policies in the western part of the state and other areas of the Southeast affected by the deadly hurricane.
The ruling by a judge in Georgia could be just a temporary reprieve for the plan, which still faces legal challenges in another state.
The S.S. United States, one of the fastest ships to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean, may be sunk off the coast and turned into a habitat to marine life as the world’s largest artificial reef.
Florida’s governor plans to sign an executive order giving election officials in 13 counties greater flexibility in administering early and absentee voting.
Language and other barriers are hobbling the flow of assistance to hard-hit communities where affordable housing drew growing numbers of Hispanic migrants.
Former President Donald J. Trump praised Elon Musk for bringing service to hard-hit areas. The Biden administration noted that the government was already on the case.
The National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C., sweep together data from around the world to help track Earth’s warming.
War in the Middle East, a strike by port workers and a devastating hurricane injected uncertainty into the U.S. economy.
Elizabeth Barker, a first-time homeowner, returns to her house in Swannanoa after Hurricane Helene devastated the town.
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Most of the deaths from Hurricane Helene occurred far from Florida, where the storm first made landfall. Experts say alerts and evacuation orders need to target inland residents too.
Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.
In the wake of a tragic 2021 building collapse, lawmakers are requiring condos to fund restoration projects. The bills are crippling homeowners.
Ambas partes siguen sin llegar a un acuerdo satisfactorio en el tema del aumento salarial y el uso de equipo automatizado que, según los empleados sindicalizados, podría poner en riesgo sus trabajos.
Six days after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina was getting help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and others. But officials still faced obstacles reaching some areas.
The vice president said federal money would play a major role in storm recovery efforts as she met with local officials in Augusta, Ga., and helped hand out food and snacks.
Modern technology has been slow to return to mountain towns after Helene. Whiteboards and gatherings are helping residents find missing people and much-needed supplies.
With no way for cars to get into Bat Cave, N.C., food and water have been dropped off by helicopters or carried over the river on foot or by a raft.
The homeland security secretary said FEMA, which is dealing with the destruction from Hurricane Helene, would need more money to respond to another major storm.
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As storms intensify, so do the legal clashes with insurers, aid agencies and others over compensation, rebuilding and even scams.
Officials are still uncovering the extent of the devastation in western North Carolina, which President Biden took in from the air. The storm killed at least 183 people in six states.
The exodus of the young means high-risk towns could enter a population death spiral.
A preliminary hearing in the case against a former sheriff yielded details about his interactions with the slain judge before he was killed.
At one facility, the body of an inmate, possibly strangled in his cell, was so decomposed that the coroner concluded he had been dead for two days without being discovered.
Brandon Davis returned to his business in Asheville, N.C. for the first time since Hurricane Helene devastated the area several days ago.
The worst damage from Hurricane Helene came in areas that were expected to be relatively immune to the effects of climate change.
The union representing thousands of striking dockworkers is pushing for bigger wage increases than port operators have offered, and a ban on automation.
Damage went beyond downed power lines. Hundreds of substations went out after the storm. Getting them back online is difficult.
Los huracanes suelen debilitarse en tierra. Pero si el suelo ya está húmedo por lluvias anteriores, los ciclones pueden recibir un impulso adicional.
Blocked roads and bad cellphone service in remote mountain towns have made it hard to find people who are still unaccounted for after the storm.
Georgia, one of the most important battleground states in the country, finds itself back in the news after Democrats sued the Georgia State Election Board on Monday.
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Las mujeres, que ayudan a montar los actos de campaña del expresidente, pertenecen a una iglesia radical que tiene décadas causando polémica por el trato agresivo que da a quienes considera pecadores.
While the region hit hardest is largely rural, it holds a healthy share of the state’s nearly 7.7 million registered voters.
Worries of flooding had not been top of mind as the mountain-ringed city flourished in recent years as a haven for artists, chefs, brewmasters, entrepreneurs and retirees.
In Valdosta, Ga., Donald Trump made a false claim about President Biden’s responsiveness and demonstrated his long-held instinct to view disaster response through the prism of his personal politics.
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The ruling is unlikely to be the final word on abortion access in the state, with the expectation that the case will ultimately be decided by the Georgia Supreme Court.
Bruce Tipton, 75, was in his trailer home when it was washed away by Tropical Storm Helene’s floodwaters. As his agonized family watched, he slipped into the raging river.
Hurricanes typically weaken over land. But if the ground is already wet from earlier rains, storms can receive an extra jolt that keeps them churning.
The president, who plans to travel to North Carolina this week, said he might need to call Congress in for a special session after it did not include additional disaster relief in its spending bill.
President Biden said he would visit the devastated region on Wednesday. The death toll from the hurricane has risen to more than 110 people across six states.
The plea from the man accused of mounting an assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump came at a hearing that lasted less than five minutes.
The lawsuit claims that the new rule would invite chaos on election night, delaying some reporting and putting the security of ballots at risk.
Tras azotar la costa del golfo de Florida, Helene arrasó el sureste del país y, en particular, el oeste de Carolina del Norte con inundaciones y deslaves. El número total de víctimas mortales ascendió a más de 100.
Scenes of devastation in the western part of the state, where the traces of Hurricane Helene destroyed some communities and stranded others.
As Americans have flocked south and west, more people have been exposed to the risk of hazards like hurricanes, floods, wildfires and dangerous heat.
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The plume filled the sky in Conyers, Ga., and prompted evacuation orders for thousands.
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He wrote songs for hundreds of other artists, including “Me and Bobby McGee” for Janis Joplin and “Sunday Morning Coming Down” for Johnny Cash, before a second act in film.
After the Category 4 hurricane made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast and pummeled the Southeast, some victims’ portraits were coming into focus.
A fire in the plant near Atlanta caused water to interact with a chemical that set off the plume. A shelter-in-place order was extended Monday morning.
Thousands of people struggled to cope without basic necessities as authorities searched for the missing, and the overall death toll from the storm surpassed 100.
A single-engine plane was trying to land when it crashed into a wooded area near the memorial in North Carolina on Saturday, the National Park Service said.
John D. MacDonald was eerily prescient about the risks of human-driven climate disasters in the region.
After hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, Helene tore through the Southeast and particularly ravaged western North Carolina with floods and mudslides. The overall death toll rose to more than 100.
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See the devastating path carved out by Hurricane Helene from Florida’s Gulf Coast to Tennessee.
Though no bodies have been recovered in Unicoi County, authorities say they expect fatalities among about a half-dozen people who remain missing.
The closures, including on two interstates, left motorists scrambling for options.
He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.
Hundreds of roads were blocked across the region, which includes Asheville. Officials warned of more mudslides and damage to come.
Dos astronautas, uno estadounidense y otro ruso, despegarán en un vuelo que traerá de vuelta a casa a los astronautas del Boeing Starliner el próximo año.
With communication lines down in the mountains amid Helene, early reports were unclear about how many landslides had occurred and the extent of damage from the storm.
Specialized viewfinders installed across state parks let visitors with red-green colorblindness see more distinct colors.
Residents of the booming region are confronting a new reality: Even when storms make landfall far away, their impact is being felt.
The authorities were evacuating people downstream from the Nolichucky Dam, warning that a breach could cause deadly flooding.
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In the Buckhead neighborhood, waters from a swollen creek rushed into low-lying apartments.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced a program to distribute the special weather alert radios free as the state braced for the remnants of Hurricane Helene.
El ciclón tocó tierra con vientos de 225 kilómetros por hora y originó mareas de tempestad que batieron récords.
Helene flooded cities across much of the Southeast including Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. The storm also triggered landslides and destroyed homes.
Dekle Beach, southeast of Tallahassee, was hit by fast-rising water and winds of more than 100 miles per hour.
The sale, which requires a judge’s approval, would help compensate foreign companies owed billions of dollars by the government of Venezuela, which owns Citgo.
Even though Hurricane Helene made landfall hundreds of miles to the north, its storm surge inundated roads and gushed into buildings.
From hurricanes to wildfires, a new generation of technologies could help utilities better plan for the risk of extreme weather to their electric grid.
The scandal surrounding Mr. Robinson has incensed party officials and donors, some of whom described longstanding concerns about his campaign.