WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden says he will visit Helene-impacted areas this week as long as it does not disrupt rescue and recovery operations.
Republican Rep. French Hill shut down Fox News host Maria Bartiromo’s false on-air claim that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is “out of money” to handle crises in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and with the looming threat of Hurricane Milton.During Hill’s Tuesday appearance on Fox Business, Bartiromo slammed President Joe Biden, saying that FEMA “running out of money” was “the biggest failure of this administration.”“How is it possible that FEMA is out of money?” Bartiromo ask
Hurricane Milton could bring 12-foot wave surges to coastal communities already reeling from Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Milton is set to bring wind speeds of up to 155mph with a local mayor urging residents to get out of the evacuation zones or die.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Tuesday that false accusations around lawmakers not properly responding to Hurricane Helene’s devastation in the southeastern U.S. are “demoralizing.” “This is demoralizing to all of the people who are working so hard,” Cooper said in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday morning. “Those first responders who went…
“We’ll be back in session immediately after the election,” the House speaker said of waiting until November for Congress to vote on emergency funding.
A "catastrophic" Hurricane Milton was closing in on the storm-battered state of Florida on Wednesday as US officials pleaded with residents to flee or risk dying."Milton remains a catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane," said the NHC, forecasting the storm to make landfall on the Florida Gulf coast late Wednesday night.
The aftermath of Hurricane Helene has sparked a flood of misinformation online, with federal, state and local leaders sounding the alarm that it is complicating an already difficult recovery process in the South. The false claims began shortly after Helene hit Florida, Georgia and North Carolina late last month, leaving widespread destruction and a long…
Survivors of deadly Hurricane Helene along the Florida coast were ordered to evacuate again on Monday as authorities warned another major storm was building into a Category 3 and would cause "devastating damage".Major hurricanes -- categories 3 and above -- carry minimum wind speeds of 111 miles (178 kilometers) an hour, according to the NHC, which warns "devastating damage will occur" to even well-built homes, while "electricity and water will be unavailable for several days to weeks after the
Former President Donald Trump has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.
Lawmakers and first responders say the conspiracies and lies are distracting from the work they're doing to save lies
Storm surges often pose great danger when hurricanes such as Milton hit – here’s what you need to know
Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to double down on her Hurricane Helene conspiracy theory over the weekend, following up a baseless claim that “they” can control the weather with an assertion that such a scheme might involve lasers. The Georgia congresswoman, who has a history of blaming deadly disasters on laser-based plots, posted to X a clip from a 2013 CBS News broadcast about experimental efforts to precipitate rain and lightning using lasers. “CBS, 9 years ago, talked about lasers controlli
Carl Schreck spent his career studying tropical storms thousands of miles away from home.Schreck, a scholar at the Institute for Climate Studies at North Carolina State University, and his colleagues had been studying Helene's formation in the Caribbean for days -- until it pummeled Asheville on September 26-27.
Rescuers found another body on Monday in their search for survivors of devastating floods and landslides that swept across Bosnia three days ago, taking the death toll to at least 20. In the central Bosnia canton, another area hit by the flooding, three people were found dead and none reported missing, a cantonal civil protection officer told Reuters. The rescuers, some of whom arrived from Croatia and Slovenia with search dogs, on Monday recovered the body of a man from a lake in the village of Buturovic Polje near the town of Konjic, and evacuated two people to safety by helicopter.
Misinformation spread by Trump, his supporters and others about the hurricane has shrouded recovery efforts
Mayor Andy Morgan and Mayoress Karen Holdsworth has been evacuated from Sanibel Island in Florida following the development of Hurricane Milton in the United States.
Three crew members were killed when a medical helicopter heading to pick up a patient hit a wire and crashed in Kentucky, authorities said. The crash was reported Monday evening in Owenton near state Highway 22, Kentucky State Police said in a news release. Troopers determined that an Air Evac Lifeteam flight crashed, killing the three personnel aboard.
Many cities and towns across North Carolina remain cut off from help and supplies after the hurricane.
Dolly Parton is doing her best to lend support to flood- and storm-ravaged areas in the aftermath of Helene.
Jack Carpenter, 36, received the devastating diagnosis
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