• 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.

  • 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 EDT

    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 EDT

    ... 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 EDT

    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 ...