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    Crews Return to Kill Oil Well as Tropical Storm Bonnie Fizzles

    Jul 24, 2010 07:58 PM EDT

    ... Center forecaster, said Saturday that the storm could dissipate completely before making landfall, according to Reuters. The Miami-based center had earlier lifted all coastal tropical storm warnings associated with Bonnie. Jane Lubchenco, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator, told reporters that the weakening storm produced waves of three ...

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    Tropical Storm Bonnie Threatens to Disrupt Efforts to Halt, Clean Up Oil

    Jul 22, 2010 04:00 AM EDT

    The threat of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico is presenting another challenge to BP's efforts to kill the leaking oil well and clean up the oil that has already leaked. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Gulf state senators, Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Bill Nelson of Florida, over the offshore drilling moratorium debate.

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    News Wrap: UN reports average year overall for tropical storms

    Nov 13, 2013 11:11 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Wednesday, the UN Weather Agency reported there have been 86 tropical storms worldwide, three short of the annual average since 1981. Also, according to Speaker John Boehner, the House will not act on the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate in June.

  • News Wrap: IRS says average tax refund just under $3,500 this year

    News Wrap: IRS says average tax refund just under $3,500 this year

    Apr 15, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... since President Trump returned to the White House. Officials on a group of U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean are assessing damage from Tropical Storm Sinlaku, which battered the region with fierce winds and rains. Eyewitness footage shows the aftermath of what was the year's most powerful tropical ...

  • Monster typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is bearing down on group of remote U.S. islands

    Monster typhoon in the Pacific Ocean is bearing down on group of remote U.S. islands

    Apr 13, 2026 08:21 PM EDT

    A super typhoon is taking aim at several remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean, lashing Guam with heavy rain and tropical storm-force wind gusts hours before its arrival. Super Typhoon Sinlaku is on track to barrel over the Northern Mariana Islands late Tuesday local time with widespread ...

  • The Southwest smashing heat records in March 'is what climate change looks like'

    The Southwest smashing heat records in March 'is what climate change looks like'

    Mar 20, 2026 04:12 PM EDT

    ... And the deadly Typhoon Haiyan hitting the Philippines in 2013 shocked the world. Superstorm Sandy, which in 2012 flooded New York City and neighbors, had tropical storm-force winds that covered an area nearly one-fifth the area of the contiguous United States. It spawned 12-foot seas over 1 ...

  • News Wrap: Trump says he will cancel Biden's executive actions signed with autopen

    News Wrap: Trump says he will cancel Biden's executive actions signed with autopen

    Nov 28, 2025 11:40 PM EDT

    ... Elsewhere in Asia, floods have ravaged several nations, so far claiming well over 300 lives. Torrential rains battered Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand after a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait. A separate cyclone hit Sri Lanka more than 1,000 miles to the west. In Southern Thailand's ...

  • News Wrap: Cornell reaches $60M deal with Trump administration to restore funding

    News Wrap: Cornell reaches $60M deal with Trump administration to restore funding

    Nov 07, 2025 11:45 PM EDT

    ... areas and gives up its weapons. In Vietnam, Typhoon Kalmaegi left at least five people dead and thousands of homes damaged before weakening into a tropical storm. Ngo Thanh Diep, Storm Victim (through interpreter): This storm was a very strong one. I have lived here all my life, and I ...

  • Hurricane Melissa leaves dozens dead, causes widespread damage in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba

    Hurricane Melissa leaves dozens dead, causes widespread damage in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba

    Oct 29, 2025 04:21 PM EDT

    ... southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday. Authorities in the Bahamas were evacuating dozens of people from the archipelago’s southeast corner ahead of Melissa’s arrival.“The storm is growing in size,” Brennan said, noting that tropical storm force winds now extend almost 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the center. Melissa’s ...

  • 3 things to know about Hurricane Melissa

    3 things to know about Hurricane Melissa

    Oct 28, 2025 08:24 PM EDT

    ... the Turks and Caicos on Tuesday and Wednesday. Additional rainfall is expected in southern Hispaniola through Wednesday. Rapid strengthening linked to climate change Melissa reached tropical storm status last Tuesday and then became a hurricane on Saturday. Melissa then rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane early Monday morning. Climate ...