US East Coast braces as Florence forecast to intensify into major hurricane
As of noon Tuesday, the storm was about 1,230 miles southeast of the Cape Fear region, according to the National Weather Service. Residents in certain areas of both states have been ordered to evacuate their homes. The United States was hit with a series of high-powered hurricanes past year, including Hurricane Maria, which killed about 3,000 people in Puerto Rico, and Hurricane Harvey , which killed 68 and caused an estimated $1.25 billion in damage from catastrophic flooding in Houston. (more...)
Florence Forecast to Hit East Coast Hard
Florence has maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour and is expected to continue growing as it heads toward the US East Coast. Maps of the storm's trajectory showed it most likely to hit the North Carolina shore near the SC border, making it the most powerful storm to threaten the USA mainland this year and the first of its magnitude in 29 years to strike the Carolinas. (more...)
TROPICS: Florence expected to produce damaging winds in Carolinas
The Miami-based center said in its 5 a.m. ET advisory that Florence was about 625 miles southeast of Bermuda, moving west northwest at 9 mph. A hurricane hunter plane found Florence strengthening quickly, reaching top winds of 85 miles per hour (140 kph) Sunday evening after crossing the 74 miles per hour threshold from tropical storm to a hurricane earlier in the day. (more...)
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In North Carolina, emergency officials in Dare County issued mandatory evacuations Monday for residents and visitors of Hatteras Island, on the southern end of the Outer Banks. "Ive been doing this since 1983", Roberts said as he completed an order for another 18-wheeler full of supplies. The island state is still recovering from Hurricane Lane, which brought flooding rains to many areas last month. (more...)
More rain expected this weekend
Some areas could receive up to four inches of rain. "No one is going to get out of this without seeing some flooding". (State College) - The National Weather Service in State College has once again issued a flood watch for the midstate and many other regions of Pennsylvania from this evening through Monday night . (more...)
'Extremely Dangerous' Florence On Track to Hit East Coast As Major Hurricane
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) says Florence has the makings of an "extremely dangerous" meteorological event, the BBC reports. Steve Pfaff, a warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Wilmington office, warned impacts could include storm surge and wind damage, although the storm's path remains uncertain at this time. (more...)
Hurricane Olivia heads toward Hawaii as Norman slows
The storm was the second-wettest tropical system to affect the United States and the wettest tropical system on record in Hawaii, surpassing Hurricane Hiki in 1950. Two hurricanes are churning in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, the National Weather Service said Friday. Interests are reminded to continue to monitor the latest forecasts over the coming days, as forecast changes to the track and intensity of Olivia will be likely this far out in the forecast. (more...)
Hurricane Florence takes aim at US Southeast
The hurricane center said it was still too early to predict its exact path. Bermuda and the US East Coast are beginning to see the first impacts of Florence . Dave Loewenthal, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Wilmington office, said the storm's track is still uncertain. Tropical Storm Isaac is churning towards the Windward Islands amid a forecast that it could become a hurricane before the end of the day. (more...)
Tropical Storm Florence threatens US eastern seaboard
Florence, which is located 810 miles west of Bermuda , is moving at 5-mph west. The Center reports that Florence will be a risky hurricane near the United States' southeastern coast by late next week as the risk of "direct impacts continues to increase". (more...)
Hurricane Florence LATEST: HUGE hurricane to hit US East Coast NEXT WEEK
Wherever the storm goes, beach-goers could see some impacts as early as this weekend. Just where the storm will head is still uncertain, but computer models used by the center's specialists to forecast track indicated a US landfall looked increasingly likely. (more...)
Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh likely as Senate concludes hearing
Democrats are charging that Kavanaugh lied about whether - while working for the Bush administration in 2003 - he handled the "vetting process" for another judge, appeals court Judge William Pryor. Brett Kavanaugh , President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick, on September 7 appeared on track for Senate confirmation after a four-day hearing in which he avoided any major stumbles even as Democrats tried furiously to derail his nomination. (more...)
'Carnivore' shark has a stomach for greens
Indeed, up to 60% of the bonnethead shark's diet is seagrass found in coastal waters around the Americas, with the rest made up of bony fish, crabs, snails, and shrimp, reports the Guardian . The study which was titled " Seagrass digestion by a notorious 'carnivore, '" was distributed in August in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B . (more...)
Emails indicate Trump nominee Kavanaugh questioned abortion ruling
Booker focused on a document he said described Kavanaugh's views as a White House aide under former President George W. Bush on the use of "racial profiling" in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States that the senator said had been blocked from public release by committee Republicans. (more...)
Macron reshuffles his cabinet
Francois de Rugy, president of the National Assembly , parliament's lower house, takes over at the ecology ministry. Macron was already seeking a replacement for environment minister Nicolas Hulot , whose shock resignation last week caught France's political establishment off guard. (more...)
Japan to test mini 'space elevator'
Two microsatellites , developed by Shizuoka University Faculty of Engineering, will be used. Two small cubesats measuring about 10 cm wide will be connected by a 10 metre-long steel cable. Space elevator dreams are real A space elevator is still a far cry from the ultimate beam-me-up goals of the project, which builds on a long history of "space elevator" dreams. (more...)
Russia says space station leak could be deliberate sabotage
It has since been patched up with an "airtight" sealant. The hole is believed to have been caused by either someone either in space or back on Earth, the Russian space agency claimed. "There are traces of a drill sliding along the surface". The spacecraft rocketed into orbit on June 6 , carrying cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor to the space station. (more...)
Kavanaugh hearing: Cory Booker's dramatic release of confidential documents
If confirmed as the Supreme Court's ninth justice, he is likely to tilt an already conservative high court even more reliably to the right. Indeed, yesterday, Senator John Kennedy asked about this conference call between Democratic senators and the protest to disrupt the hearings, and Dick Durbin , the Democrat from IL, he jumped in and said, "Yep, we had a conference call", and he didn't dispute that it was a coordinated effort. (more...)
Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Defends Judicial Independence
Trump, could face a subpoena in the case, and the top Democrat on the committee, Sen. Guttenberg attempted to shake Kavanaugh's hand during a break in Tuesday's hearing, but Kavanaugh appeared to decline to do so . Addressing some of those concerns, Kavanaugh said that "the first thing that makes a good judge is independence, not being swayed by political or public pressure", He cited historic court cases including Brown v. (more...)
Bodies Of Almost 90 Elephants Found Dead In Botswana
Botswana has the world's largest elephant population but according to Dr Mike Chase from Elephants Without Borders , the incident could have a devastating effect on its tourism industry. He continued: "This requires urgent and immediate action by the Botswana government". University of Cape Town Criminology researcher Annette Hübschle said that even in Botswana , "the darling of the conservation world", communities - especially rural ones - "are likely to support poachers and ... (more...)
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's lips sealed on White House subpoenas, pardons
President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh , a federal appeals court judge, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the second day of his confirmation hearings . Republicans said Tuesday that their staff had enough time to review the documents, but Sen. Democrats raised objections from the moment Iowa Sen. (more...)
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