Residents and tourists in the Florida Keys prepared Saturday for Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane and begin battering the island chain as soon as Monday. Meteorologist Bernadette Woods reports.
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Florida Governor Charlie Crist on Tuesday declared a state of emergency as the third tropical weather system in three weeks swept toward Florida.
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Sep 6, 2008 7:35 pm US/Eastern KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) ― Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it roared on an uncertain path that forced millions from the Caribbean to Florida, and Louisiana to Mexico, to nervously wonder where it would eventually strike. Preparations str...
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<p>Residents and tourists alike fled Jamaica as a strengthening tropical storm Gustav lurched toward the island late Thursday after triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 67 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola.</p> <p>At least...
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Ike could dump as much as a foot of rain on Haiti. Karl Penhaul is in Cap-Haitien with the latest. • Ike begins to hit Bahamas island, heads toward Cuba Story Highlights NEW: Louisiana governor declares emergency as 370,000 still don't have electricity Evacuation order prompts 15,000 tourist...
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Sun, 7 Sep 2008 (NECN/ABC) - As weather forecasters continue to predict that powerful Hurricane Ike will cross Cuba and head into the Gulf of Mexico later this week, President Bush declared a state of emergency for Florida. Meantime, many islands in the Carib...
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