• After Ernesto, the power is still off for tens of thousands in Puerto Rico

    After Ernesto, the power is still off for tens of thousands in Puerto Rico

    Aug 20, 2024 06:56 PM EDT

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tens of thousands of customers remained without power across Puerto Rico on Tuesday, a week after Ernesto swiped the U.S. territory as a tropical storm. Authorities pledged to restore electricity to everyone by the weekend. The National Weather Service issued yet another excessive heat ...

  • Over the open Atlantic, Ernesto gains strength as a hurricane

    Over the open Atlantic, Ernesto gains strength as a hurricane

    Aug 19, 2024 01:57 PM EDT

    ... winds increased overnight to near 85 mph (140 kph), with higher gusts, the hurricane center said. It is expected to weaken and become a post-tropical storm by Tuesday, the center said. The storm was centered about 340 miles (550 kilometers) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was expected to ...

  • News Wrap: Israel signals acceptance of key ceasefire points, ahead of talks next week

    News Wrap: Israel signals acceptance of key ceasefire points, ahead of talks next week

    Aug 17, 2024 09:45 PM EDT

    ... issued a new wave of evacuations in the Kursk Region. Ukraine now claims to hold nearly 500 square miles of Russian territory. Ernesto now a tropical storm is slowly moving into open waters after battering Bermuda. It was a category one hurricane when it made landfall on the island early ...

  • Hurricane Ernesto hits Bermuda as a category 1 storm

    Hurricane Ernesto hits Bermuda as a category 1 storm

    Aug 17, 2024 03:26 PM EDT

    ... Caribbean, where it left hundreds of thousands of people without power or water in Puerto Rico after swiping past the U.S. territory as a tropical storm. More than 180,000 out of nearly 1.5 million clients were still without power more than two days after the storm. Another ...

  • News Wrap: Zelenskyy says Ukraine captured Russian town of Sudzha

    News Wrap: Zelenskyy says Ukraine captured Russian town of Sudzha

    Aug 15, 2024 10:45 PM EDT

    ... Category 3 hurricane before passing near or over Bermuda on Saturday with up to 12 inches of rain. Ernesto already battered Puerto Rico as a tropical storm. Today, more than 450,000 people were still without power amid sweltering heat. Former President Donald Trump is asking the judge in his ...

  • Ernesto becomes hurricane after hitting northeast Caribbean and knocking out power in the region

    Ernesto becomes hurricane after hitting northeast Caribbean and knocking out power in the region

    Aug 14, 2024 03:42 PM EDT

    ... Pedro Pierluisi announced late Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden had approved his request to use emergency FEMA funds as a result of the tropical storm. Ernesto is the fifth named storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an above ...

  • News Wrap: Iran rejects calls to refrain from retaliatory strikes on Israel

    News Wrap: Iran rejects calls to refrain from retaliatory strikes on Israel

    Aug 13, 2024 10:50 PM EDT

    ... say that Ukraine's offensive is instead aimed at preventing Russia from carrying out long-range strikes launched from the Kursk region back into Ukraine. Tropical Storm Ernesto lashed the Northeast Caribbean today with heavy rain and wind. It's now expected to head north of Puerto Rico, where officials ...

  • Live map: Track the path of Hurricane Ernesto

    Live map: Track the path of Hurricane Ernesto

    Aug 13, 2024 03:47 PM EDT

    ... 380,000 of 1.4 million customers remained in the dark more than a day after Ernesto swiped past Puerto Rico late Tuesday as a tropical storm before strengthening into a hurricane. A maximum of 735,000 clients were without power on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands also were without water ...

  • Harris and Walz barnstormed five battleground states in a week. Here's what happened

    Harris and Walz barnstormed five battleground states in a week. Here's what happened

    Aug 11, 2024 11:36 PM EDT

    ... running mate. From there it was a march through Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada. Planned stops in Georgia and North Carolina were washed out by Tropical Storm Debby. The tour was a way to help both candidates introduce themselves to voters, especially independent and undecided voters in states where the ...

  • Death toll from Debby rises to 8 as storm crawls up East Coast

    Death toll from Debby rises to 8 as storm crawls up East Coast

    Aug 09, 2024 01:36 PM EDT

    ... tropical depression by late Thursday afternoon, and was a post-tropical cyclone on Friday, the National Hurricane Center said. It made landfall early Monday on the Gulf Coast of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane. Then, Debby made a second landfall early Thursday in South Carolina as a tropical storm.