• Astronauts arrive at launch site for 2nd SpaceX crew flight

    Astronauts arrive at launch site for 2nd SpaceX crew flight

    Nov 08, 2020 11:13 PM EDT

    ... Bridenstine said in welcoming the astronauts to Kennedy. The crew of three Americans and one Japanese are scheduled to rocket away Saturday night, provided approaching Tropical Storm Eta doesn’t interfere. It will be a speedy trip to the space station, a six-orbit express lasting under nine hours. The ...

  • News Wrap: U.S. sees over 120,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day

    News Wrap: U.S. sees over 120,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day

    Nov 06, 2020 11:35 PM EDT

    ... Guatemala were underwater from three feet of rain. Officials reported a landslide may have killed more than 100 people in one town. Eta could regain tropical storm status as it heads toward Cuba and Southern Florida. In Austria, the government closed two mosques that were visited by the gunman who ...

  • A weakened Eta moves on to Honduras with drenching rains

    A weakened Eta moves on to Honduras with drenching rains

    Nov 05, 2020 02:18 PM EDT

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Eta is moving over Honduras as a weakened tropical depression but still bringing the heavy rains that have caused deadly landslides while drenching the country's east and the north of neighboring Nicaragua. The storm no longer carried the winds of the Category 4 hurricane that battered ...

  • News Wrap: Coronavirus infections keep climbing across U.S.

    News Wrap: Coronavirus infections keep climbing across U.S.

    Nov 04, 2020 11:20 PM EDT

    ... recorded a nearly 50 percent increase in virus deaths in the last week. Central America has spent a long, dangerous day in the grips of Tropical Storm Eta. It lashed Northern Nicaragua and Honduras after making landfall on Tuesday as a Category 4 hurricane. The weakened storm dumped torrential rain ...

  • One Louisiana island tries to make sense of Hurricane Zeta's toll

    One Louisiana island tries to make sense of Hurricane Zeta's toll

    Oct 31, 2020 12:09 AM EDT

    ... into a front yard in coastal Mississippi. The mayor of Thomasville, Alabama, reported hundreds of downed trees, blocking trees and damaging homes. As a weakening tropical storm, Zeta was blamed for a landslide that blocked a North Carolina road, severing access between mountain counties and forcing motorists to take a ...

  • Attendees at Trump rally in North Carolina test positive

    Attendees at Trump rally in North Carolina test positive

    Oct 29, 2020 08:29 PM EDT

    ... of re-election. Trump's reelection campaign, however, said it’s postponing a Thursday night rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for a few days as Tropical Storm Zeta bears down on the Northeast. The president’s campaign said in a statement that the outdoor rally has been postponed until Monday ...

  • WATCH: Trump holds campaign rally in Tampa, Florida

    WATCH: Trump holds campaign rally in Tampa, Florida

    Oct 29, 2020 02:58 PM EDT

    ... to Election Day.Trump’s reelection campaign also said it’s postponing a Thursday night rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for a few days as Tropical Storm Zeta bears down on the Northeast. The president’s campaign said in a statement that the outdoor rally has been postponed until Monday ...

  • Zeta barrels northeast after battering storm-weary coast

    Zeta barrels northeast after battering storm-weary coast

    Oct 29, 2020 12:53 PM EDT

    ... for the region. Forecasters issued a string of tornado warnings for as far east as the Florida Panhandle. And Atlanta, Georgia, was under a tropical storm warning for the second time ever. Its first warning was in 2017 when Hurricane Irma roared into Florida as a deadly Category 4 storm ...

  • Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in Louisiana

    Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in Louisiana

    Oct 28, 2020 09:56 PM EDT

    ... in the western Florida Panhandle.Hurricane warnings stretched from Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Mississippi state line, including Lake Pontchartrain and metropolitan New Orleans. Tropical storm warnings were issued for a large swath of the South, from Louisiana and Mississippi into Alabama and Georgia, including all of the Atlanta ...

  • Hurricane Zeta approaches Louisiana

    Hurricane Zeta approaches Louisiana

    Oct 28, 2020 03:34 PM EDT

    ... mouth of the Mississippi River. Hurricane warnings stretched from Morgan City, Louisiana to the Alabama/Mississippi state line, including Lake Pontchartrain and metropolitan New Orleans. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the western Florida Panhandle, forcing early-voting sites to close for hours in three counties where Republicans dominate ...