ArcaMax

BOGOTA, Colombia -- A depression near the Bahamas has strengthened into Tropical Storm Humberto, which is threatening to hit less than two weeks after Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands, the U.S. National Weather Service said late Friday.

"Humberto will likely bring tropical-storm-force winds and heavy rainfall to portions of the ...Read more

NASSAU, Bahamas -- When Hurricane Dorian tore through the Bahamas last week it largely spared the country's capital. But now Nassau is feeling the backlash of the killer storm, as it scrambles to house thousands of evacuees who have been left destitute and homeless.

The government says more than 4,800 people have been evacuated from hard-hit ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- We've reached the statistical peak of the hurricane season, with Tuesday marking the day a tropical cyclone was most likely to be in the Atlantic. And there has been no shortage of activity -- with the presence of Tropical Storm Gabrielle and a few other systems.

The regenerated Tropical Storm Gabrielle was spinning far...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Dorian's landfall in the Outer Banks of North Carolina did more than flood coastal communities -- it reshaped parts of the barrier islands, early damage assessments show.

The National Park Service Incident Management Team said it deployed 68 employees to take stock of the aftermath and found dozens of new inlets carved into ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Two more people in North Carolina have died as a result of Hurricane Dorian, the governor reported Monday, bringing the total death toll to three.

Gov. Roy Cooper said a 54-year-old man clearing a tree in New Hanover County died from injuries suffered in a chainsaw accident on Saturday. Another man in Pamlico County ...Read more

MARSH HARBOUR, The Bahamas -- Hurricane Dorian, the most catastrophic storm to hit the Bahamas, has upended everyday routines.

On Sunday, the St. Francis Catholic Church, an imposing round structure on a hill in Abaco, was still being used as an emergency shelter. All of its occupants were Haitians and Haitian Bahamians.

It was one of the few ...Read more

The Bahamas' minister of health says the government is in no way suppressing Hurricane Dorian's death toll, and are tallying confirmed deaths that have arrived at the morgue.

With people reporting on social media that they have personally counted scores of dead bodies, and others asking why the government isn't telling the truth about the ...Read more

NORTH ELEUTHERA, The Bahamas -- Two tents stood ready across the parking lot. One was filled with T-shirts, shoes, and underwear. The other was empty, awaiting the day's first group of evacuees.

The first of the 14 boats ferrying Hurricane Dorian's victims out of Abaco and its cays was due to arrive around 1 p.m. on Saturday. The neighboring ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Hurricane Dorian has made landfall in Canada, the Canadian Hurricane Center reports.

"The center of Post-Tropical cyclone Dorian made landfall just southwest of Halifax earlier this evening," the Center says in a statement.

"Dorian will continue to track across the Maritimes with destructive winds and heavy rainfall this evening,...Read more

MARSH HARBOUR, Abaco Islands -- Sitting in front of a destroyed primary school doubling as a precarious homeless shelter, Alan Alexandre clutched a small backpack, rocked himself and cried.

Many of his neighbors -- also left destitute by Hurricane Dorian -- were heading to the dock or the airport to try to catch free rides back to Nassau, where...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--More than 24 hours after Hurricane Dorian arrived, Ocracoke -- one of North Carolina's coziest, most serene coastal destinations -- remained partially underwater and reliant on the assistance of emergency response crews.

Government officials and volunteers on Saturday used a ferryboat to transport food, drinking water and fuel ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Emergency crews were bringing food and fresh water to Ocracoke on Saturday, after Hurricane Dorian left the island isolated, without safe drinking water, electricity or ferry service.

Hyde County, which includes Ocracoke, was using a ferry to bring generators, water and enough food for 1,100 people, according to a Facebook ...Read more

As relief efforts ramp up Saturday for the hurricane-ravaged islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, authorities reported that at least 43 people have died in the Bahamas -- though the number is expected to rise with hundreds of people still missing.

Health Minister Duane Sands confirmed the death toll from Hurricane Dorian late Friday.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Friday night suggested that cruise ships provide shelter for Bahamians left homeless by Hurricane Dorian.

"The @USCG, @fema, and all others, along with other countries that have been helping, have been asked to move people in the badly hit sections of the Bahamas to other sections of the Bahamas that were...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has requested "airlift and logistics support" from the Defense Department in its urgent support effort for the Bahamas, McClatchy has learned.

The U.S. Agency for International Development formally made the request of the Pentagon on Friday afternoon after conducting aerial and on-the-ground assessments of...Read more

GRAND BAHAMA, The Bahamas -- With the death toll rising to 30 across the islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, relief efforts continued Friday as a Florida cruise ship arrived with tons of supplies and authorities worked feverishly to find bodies, reach obliterated neighborhoods and treat victims of Hurricane Dorian.

The situation on the ...Read more