• Live map: Track the path of Hurricane Ernesto

    Live map: Track the path of Hurricane Ernesto

    Aug 13, 2024 03:47 PM EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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.

  • News Wrap: Tropical Depression Debby forecast to bring flooding to mid-Atlantic, Northeast

    News Wrap: Tropical Depression Debby forecast to bring flooding to mid-Atlantic, Northeast

    Aug 08, 2024 10:40 PM EST

    In our news wrap Thursday, Tropical Storm Debby returned to shore and weakened to a tropical depression as it's forecast to move up the East Coast, a third person has died from a listeria outbreak linked to Boar's Head deli meats, Israel ordered more mass evacuations in the ...

  • Hurricane forecasters still predict highly active Atlantic season in updated outlook

    Hurricane forecasters still predict highly active Atlantic season in updated outlook

    Aug 08, 2024 06:12 PM EST

    ... runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. The updated outlook includes two tropical storms and two hurricanes that have already formed this year. The latest storm, Hurricane Debby, hit the Gulf Coast of Florida on Monday and was still moving through the Carolinas as a tropical storm on Thursday. When ...

  • August 6, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

    August 6, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Aug 06, 2024 11:22 PM EST

    Tuesday on the News Hour, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz joins the Democratic ticket as Kamala Harris' vice presidential pick. We look at how he could bolster support in the Midwest. Tropical Storm Debby stalls over the Southeast, dumping torrential rains on Georgia and the Carolinas. Plus, 140 stars over 50 ...

  • Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate

    Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate

    Aug 06, 2024 01:14 PM EST

    Planned stops in Savannah, Georgia, and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, were postponed because of Tropical Storm Debby ’s effects. A team of lawyers and political operatives led by former Attorney General Eric Holder pored over documents and conducted interviews with potential selections, and Harris herself met with her three finalists ...

  • Hurricane Debby lashes Florida's coast and brings potential for historic rainfall inland

    Hurricane Debby lashes Florida's coast and brings potential for historic rainfall inland

    Aug 05, 2024 10:40 PM EST

    Hurricane Debby barreled into Florida as a Category 1 storm on Monday. Now a tropical storm, it's slowly moving inland and is expected to affect Georgia and the Carolinas. Debby's gusty winds are packing a punch, with hundreds of thousands of power outages reported, but authorities are most ...

  • Hurricane Debby hits Florida as Category 1 storm, catastrophic flooding possible

    Hurricane Debby hits Florida as Category 1 storm, catastrophic flooding possible

    Aug 05, 2024 01:51 PM EST

    ... of rain in four days if the system stalls over the region. Debby is the fourth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season after Tropical Storm Alberto, Hurricane Beryl and Tropical Storm Chris, all of which formed in June. In the Eastern Pacific, tropical storms Carlotta, Daniel and Emilia ...

  • News Wrap: Dozens killed in Israeli airstrikes on tent camp and schools in Gaza

    News Wrap: Dozens killed in Israeli airstrikes on tent camp and schools in Gaza

    Aug 04, 2024 11:14 PM EST

    ... trained. Until now, Ukraine only had Soviet era war planes to fight Russia.Florida's West Coast is bracing for impact from the latest named storm this hurricane season. Tropical storm Debby is rapidly intensifying thanks to the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is now expected ...