• News Wrap: Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is facing new criminal charges

    News Wrap: Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is facing new criminal charges

    Aug 11, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

    ... swept through last week. Making matters worse, a new heat wave moved into the Pacific Northwest, which could send temperatures well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Tropical storm "Fred" formed in the Caribbean overnight, and crossed the Dominican Republic hours later. The storm is on track to pass north of Cuba ...

  • News Wrap: A surge in COVID-19 infections is pushing hospitals to the breaking point

    News Wrap: A surge in COVID-19 infections is pushing hospitals to the breaking point

    Aug 10, 2021 10:45 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Tuesday, Hospitals and medical staff are overwhelmed in some parts of the country as COVID infections continue to rise, the Taliban claimed they have captured a seventh provincial capital in Afghanistan, much of the northern Caribbean is hunkered down as Tropical Storm Fred approaches, and Wisconsin ...

  • Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

    Extreme heat waves in a warming world don’t just break records – they shatter them

    Jul 28, 2021 03:50 PM EDT

    ... and condense the vapor as rainfall. The more water is in the air during a strong updraft, the more rain can fall. 7) Hurricanes and tropical storms: These derive their energy from evaporation from the warm sea surface. As oceans warm, larger regions can spawn these storms and provide more ...

  • Pandemic Olympics endured heat, and now a typhoon's en route

    Pandemic Olympics endured heat, and now a typhoon's en route

    Jul 26, 2021 05:48 PM EDT

    Any sort of rain — typhoon, tropical storm, or even light sprinkling — will be a wild swing from the first three days of the Games. Svetlana Gomboeva collapsed from heatstroke on the first day of archery but recovered to win a silver medal. Top-seeded Novak Djokovic and Medvedev, who who ...

  • News Wrap: Vaccinated teachers, students can ditch masks inside schools, CDC says

    News Wrap: Vaccinated teachers, students can ditch masks inside schools, CDC says

    Jul 09, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

    Meanwhile, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration said fully immunized Americans do not currently need a booster shot. That comes after Pfizer announced plans to seek approval for one in the next month. Tropical Storm El -- Elsa, that is, triggered flood warnings across the Northeastern U.S. today ...

  • Elsa soaks NYC and New England as it races up East Coast

    Elsa soaks NYC and New England as it races up East Coast

    Jul 09, 2021 09:46 PM EDT

    ... flooding streets, toppling trees and hindering some rail service. Maximum sustained winds from the storm were 50 mph (85 kph) by late afternoon as the storm moved northeast from Boston toward Maine. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Elsa was no longer considered a tropical storm but still warned ...

  • News Wrap: Biden prepones, defends U.S. pullout from Afghanistan

    News Wrap: Biden prepones, defends U.S. pullout from Afghanistan

    Jul 08, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

    ... reached 64. Another 76 people are still missing. On Wednesday evening, emergency workers held a moment of silence, as they transitioned from rescue to recovery. Tropical Storm Elsa is moving up the U.S. East Coast tonight and regaining some strength. Storm warnings extend into New Jersey and New York ...

  • News Wrap: 'Zero chance' of finding the missing in Surfside alive, officials say

    News Wrap: 'Zero chance' of finding the missing in Surfside alive, officials say

    Jul 07, 2021 10:50 PM EDT

    ... The crews have found no survivors since the first hours after the building collapsed. Florida has been spared major damage or any deaths caused by Tropical Storm Elsa. The storm made landfall today on the state's northern Gulf Coast and moved on to Georgia and the Carolinas. It's ...

  • WATCH: 10 more victims found in rubble of Florida condo; death toll now 46

    WATCH: 10 more victims found in rubble of Florida condo; death toll now 46

    Jul 07, 2021 02:04 PM EDT

    ... eight more deaths were announced — until Wednesday, the most for a single day since the search began. It also came as rain and wind from Tropical Storm Elsa disrupted the effort. “Unfortunately, we are not seeing anything positive,” county fire chief Alan Cominsky said Tuesday night, referring to workers not ...

  • News Wrap: U.S. largely untouched by global ransomware attack linked to Russia

    News Wrap: U.S. largely untouched by global ransomware attack linked to Russia

    Jul 06, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

    ... tragic loss. Judy Woodruff: The search teams paused their work for two hours early today, due to lightning and high winds along the fringe of Tropical Storm Elsa. We will return to this story later in the program. That storm churned past South Florida today, heading for the state's ...