• News Wrap: More than half a million lose power as Tropical Storm Nicholas hits Texas

    News Wrap: More than half a million lose power as Tropical Storm Nicholas hits Texas

    Sep 14, 2021 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Tuesday, Tropical Storm Nicholas crawled past Houston, Texas, knocking out power to more than half a million homes and businesses. COVID-19 numbers in the United States are now averaging 170,000 cases per day — their highest levels since early March. Four former Minneapolis police officers involved pleaded not guilty to federal...

  • Tropical Storm Nicholas gets stronger, threatens to hit Texas as hurricane

    Tropical Storm Nicholas gets stronger, threatens to hit Texas as hurricane

    Sep 13, 2021 06:31 PM EDT

    The Houston school district, the state’s largest, announced that classes would be canceled Tuesday because of the incoming storm. The weather threat also closed multiple COVID-19 testing and vaccination sites in the Houston and Corpus Christi areas, and forced the cancellation of a Harry Styles concert scheduled for ...

  • WATCH: New Orleans officials give news briefing on Tropical Storm Ida

    WATCH: New Orleans officials give news briefing on Tropical Storm Ida

    Aug 27, 2021 07:40 PM EDT

    ... of 7 to 11 feet in the area, said Collin Arnold, the city’s director of homeland security and emergency preparedness. “Being east of this storm’s track is not ideal,” Arnold said. “We’re anticipating significant impacts, including tropical storm-force or stronger winds that could cause downed trees ...

  • Tropical Storm Henri makes landfall in Rhode Island

    Tropical Storm Henri makes landfall in Rhode Island

    Aug 22, 2021 08:06 PM EDT

    While the wind was significant in certain areas, experts warned that the storm’s biggest threat likely will come from storm surge and inland flooding, caused by what are expected to be heavy and sustained rains. Some of the highest rain totals were expected inland. Some communities in central New ...

  • 2 dead, 20 missing in North Carolina county flooded by Tropical Storm Fred

    2 dead, 20 missing in North Carolina county flooded by Tropical Storm Fred

    Aug 19, 2021 07:44 PM EDT

    ... remnants of Tropical Storm Fred said Thursday that two people have been found dead and about 20 were unaccounted for. Meanwhile, Fred — now a post-tropical cyclone — was pushing through New York and New England with drenching rains, and Tropical Storm Henri was sending dangerous waves onto East Coast beaches ...

  • Desperation, pressure for aid increase in Haiti after earthquake, tropical storm

    Desperation, pressure for aid increase in Haiti after earthquake, tropical storm

    Aug 18, 2021 11:56 PM EDT

    ... years by ever-stronger cyclical droughts and soil erosion. Support for adapting farming practices to the new climate reality — with less reliable rainfall and more tropical storms — is vital, she said. Etzer Emile, a Haitian economist and professor at Quisqueya University, a private institution in the capital of Port-au ...

  • News Wrap: Tropical Storm Grace batters Haiti after deadly earthquake

    News Wrap: Tropical Storm Grace batters Haiti after deadly earthquake

    Aug 17, 2021 10:40 PM EDT

    Judy Woodruff: The earthquake has left more than 30,000 families displaced from their homes. Tropical Storm Grace is powering up again after crossing Haiti, and forecasters say it will grow into a hurricane as it heads for Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Meanwhile, the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred spawned ...

  • Tropical storm drenching earthquake-stricken Haiti

    Tropical storm drenching earthquake-stricken Haiti

    Aug 17, 2021 01:15 PM EDT

    Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Grace forced a temporary halt Tuesday to the Haitian government's response to the deadly weekend earthquake, feeding the growing anger and frustration among thousands who were left homeless.

  • Tropical Storm Elsa carves destructive path up East Coast

    Tropical Storm Elsa carves destructive path up East Coast

    Jul 08, 2021 01:21 PM EDT

    The storm complicated the search for potential survivors and victims in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium on June 24. Regardless, crews continued the search in the rubble of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, on the state's southeast coast. The storm also temporarily halted demolition Wednesday on ...

  • Tropical Storm Elsa weakens, spares Florida of major damage

    Tropical Storm Elsa weakens, spares Florida of major damage

    Jul 07, 2021 01:32 PM EDT

    ... of North Carolina and Virginia from Duck, North Carolina to Chincoteague, Virginia, and for the Chesapeake Bay south of New Point Comfort. In Georgia, a tropical storm warning was posted along the portion of the coast of Brunswick, with the National Hurricane Center saying tropical storm conditions with sustained winds ...