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Oakland Raiders Are 0-3 So Far Kavanaugh Hearing Makes for Riveting TV Tiger Woods Makes a Comeback Bill Cosby to Serve 3-10 Years in Prison Christine Blasey Ford Testifies Everybody on Plane Survives Crash Landing Kavanaugh Aided By Graham's Fiery Defense Florence: An Unwelcome Visitor Who Refuses to Leave Thomas,...
New Evacuations Ordered Because of Florence Flooding
WILMINGTON, N.C. — A new round of evacuations was ordered in South Carolina as the trillions of gallons of water dumped by Hurricane Florence meanders to the sea, raising river levels and threatening more destruction. With the crisis slowly moving to South Carolina, emergency managers on Friday ordered about 500...
The Longest Week: Carolinas Worn out by Florence
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Florence is still wearing out the Carolinas, where residents have endured an agonizing week of violent winds, torrential rain, widespread flooding, power outages and death. Frustration and sheer exhaustion are building as thousands of people wait to go home seven days after the storm began battering...
Florence Death Toll Climbs to 37. Trump Visits Stricken Area.
WILMINGTON, N.C. — The death toll from Hurricane Florence climbed to at least 37, including two women who drowned when a sheriff's van taking them to a mental health facility was swept away by floodwaters, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with thousands of evacuees not to return home just yet....
Flood Victims Get Food and Water; Rain Spreads to Northeast
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Stranded by Florence's epic floods days after the hurricane hit North Carolina, Wilmington residents lined up by the hundreds Tuesday for free food, water and tarps, while officials managed to open a second route into the surrounded city. The death toll from the storm rose to at...
Florence Flooding Spreads as Storm Heads Northeast
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Emergency workers delivered truckloads of food and water to Wilmington, a city of 120,000 people cut off from the rest of North Carolina by Florence's still-rising floodwaters, as helicopters and boat pulled people from homes swamped by swollen rivers. The deadly storm still had abundant rain and...
AP Explains: How Hurricanes Unleash Lethal Storm Surges
WASHINGTON — Behold the awesome power of water. Already the ocean is swallowing beaches, roads and anything else in the way of Hurricane Florence's monstrous storm surge. Storm surges aren't walls of water, like a tsunami, as commonly thought. Caused by a hurricane's winds pushing relentlessly on the shore, they are more...
Hurricane Florence Tears Buildings Apart in Carolinas
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane Florence lumbered ashore in North Carolina with howling 90 mph winds and terrifying storm surge early Friday, ripping apart buildings and knocking out power to a half-million homes and businesses as it settled in for what could be a long and extraordinarily destructive drenching. More than...
"Monster" Hurricane Florence Aims to Drench Carolinas
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Communities along the Carolina coast buttoned up against the onslaught of Hurricane Florence as forecasters Wednesday warned that the monstrous storm could hesitate just offshore for days — punishing a longer stretch of coastline harder than previously feared — before pushing inland over the weekend. In a...