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VIDEO: Debby's damage remains as the storm moves out of the US
At least nine people have died related to Debby, which was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Friday.
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Debby moving into northeast US this weekend, with heavy rain, flooding and possible tornadoes
Debby’s final chapter involves moving north and northeast from the Carolinas at a faster clip with soaking rains, flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes into the weekend.
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Debby makes second landfall in South Carolina, heavy rain expected up the East Coast
Tropical Storm Debby has made a second landfall in South Carolina on its way up the East Coast, where residents as far north as Vermont could get several inches of rain this weekend.
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Top US health official acknowledges more federal money for utility help is needed for extreme heat
The US government’s top health official is acknowledging that a federal program that helps low-income people with utility bills needs to focus more on cooling and not overwhelmingly on wintertime heating.
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Tropical Storm Debby swirls over Atlantic, expected to again douse the Carolinas before moving north
Tropical Storm Debby is taking a breather over the western Atlantic ocean but it will douse the coastal Carolinas again before it slowly marches north.
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Slow-moving Tropical Storm Debby bringing torrential rains and flooding to southeastern US
Tropical Storm Debby has brought prolonged downpours to the southeastern United States and could hover over the Atlantic Ocean for the next few days, then boomerang back onto the mainland.
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Hurricane Debby to bring heavy rains and flooding to Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
Hurricane Debby has made landfall Monday in northern Florida as a Category 1 storm.
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Hurricane Debby to bring heavy rains and flooding to Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
Debby has become a Category 1 hurricane as it keeps strengthening over the Gulf of Mexico, it sits about 70 miles south-southeast of Tallahassee as of early Monday. It was about 45 miles northwest of Cedar Key.
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Forecasters expect depression to become Tropical Storm Debby as it nears Florida's Gulf Coast
Forecasters say Hurricane Carlotta has formed over the Pacific Ocean and continues to strengthen as it moves away from Mexico.
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Monday was hottest day ever recorded on Earth, European climate agency says
The European climate service Copernicus said Monday broke the previous day’s record of the world’s hottest day ever.
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How employers are taking steps to safeguard workers from extreme heat
As areas across the U.S. continue to experience extreme heat, employers have taken steps to protect workers from high temperatures.
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European climate agency: Last Sunday was the second-hottest day on Earth
On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the second-hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday.
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Data shows hurricanes and earthquakes grab headlines but inland counties top disaster list
When it comes to climate, extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to America’s hurricane or earthquake prone coasts and say that’s where the danger is. But that’s not where highest concentration of federally declared disasters are. Try Kentucky or Vermont. An atlas of 713 federally declared disasters and aid to communities — not individuals — created...
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Some Houstonians are sleeping in cars and selling valuables to survive power outages after Hurricane Beryl
As days of sweltering heat persists, Houstonians have directed their frustration over the lack of electricity toward local utility company CenterPoint Energy, which is under increased scrutiny for a perceived slow response after Hurricane Beryl landed on the Gulf Coast of Texas earlier this week.
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Pressure mounts on Houston power company to quickly restore service as city sweats after Beryl
Houston’s primary utility company has come under mounting pressure over its response to Hurricane Beryl.
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Las Vegas eyes record of 5th consecutive day over 115 degrees as heat wave continues to scorch US
Used to shrugging off the heat, Las Vegas residents are now eyeing the thermometer. The desert city is on track Wednesday to set a record for the fifth consecutive day over 115 degrees amid a lingering hot spell that will continue scorching much of the U.S. into the weekend.
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Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National Park, even though the desolate region known as one of the Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous and deadly heat wave.
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Beryl downgraded to tropical storm, kills 2 in southern Texas
Beryl was downgraded to a tropical storm late Monday morning, but not before it caused power outages, damage to homes and buildings, and two deaths in Harris County. NBC 5 teams have the latest on the deadly storm.
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Amid extreme heat, US infrastructure and transportation systems buckle under pressure
As millions of Americans face sweltering heat conditions, many have also been left stranded by disruptions in the nation’s transportation systems that buckled under extreme temperatures.
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Affects of Hurricane Beryl felt across the Texas coast
NBC 5’s Alicia Barrera in Angleton, Larry Collins in Huntsville, and Jay Gray in Port Lavaca update the conditions as Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the Texas coast as a Category 1 Hurricane Monday morning.