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With the window closing fast for anyone wanting to escape, Irma hurtled toward Florida with 125 mph winds Saturday on a shifting course that took it away from Miami and instead threatened the first direct hit on the Tampa area from a major hurricane in nearly a century. That represented a significant turn in the forecast, which for days had made it look as if the Miami metropolitan area of 6 million people was going to get slammed head-on by the Big One.
The winds and sea are whipped up off of the Rickenbacker Causeway as two people cross the street in Miami as Hurricane Irma approaches on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017.
Georgia is bracing for potentially far-flung impacts from Hurricane Irma, which could swamp the coast with storm surge and topple trees and power lines in Atlanta. The National Hurricane Center placed the entire Georgia coast under a hurricane watch Saturday as residents packed their cars and trickled onto the highways in six counties under a mandatory evacuation.
I started seeing reports about this on social media last night, including a number of complaints from people concerned with civil liberty issues. The story was out of Miami, where final evacuations and preparations were being put in place for Hurricane Irma.
A French artist has erected a giant cut-out of a boy peering over a stretch of border fence near San Diego. 'Water is rushing in': More than a week after Harvey, police find body believed to be that of woman who reportedly pleaded for help in flooded elevator.
A U.S. Army division that included Berlin among its ranks started mustering on Long Island a century ago this weekend during World War I. The New York state Division ... A French artist has erected a giant cut-out of a boy peering over a stretch of border fence near San Diego. A French artist has erected a giant cut-out of a boy peering over a stretch of border fence near San Diego.
Renick's family had desperately spent the last week and a half trying to find out what happened to her after she pleaded for help as water rushed into an e... A French artist has erected a giant cut-out of a boy peering over a stretch of border fence near San Diego. A French artist has erected a giant cut-out of a boy peering over a stretch of border fence near San Diego.
Congress on Friday sent President Donald Trump a massive package of $15.3 billion in disaster aid linked to an increase in the nation's borrowing authority that angered conservative Republicans who hissed and booed senior administration officials dispatched to Capitol Hill to defend it. The House voted 316-90 for the measure that would refill depleted emergency accounts as Florida braces for the impact of Hurricane Irma and Texas picks up the pieces after the devastation of the Harvey storm.
President Trump is taking the side of three Texas churches that are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency over disaster relief funds in the wake of Harvey . The president writes on Twitter, "Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey ."
7, 2017, photo, damage is left after Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda. Hurricane Irma battered the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday as the fearsome Category 5 storm continued a rampage through the Car... .
7, 2017. . People who evacuated from bars check their phones in the street in La Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, after an earthquake shook buildings forcefully and knocked out power in the area, just before midnight on Thursday, Se... A French artist has erected a giant cut-out of a boy peering over a stretch of border fence near San Diego.
President Trump said that Texas churches should receive disaster relief funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the state recovers from the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey .- Donald J. Trump September 9, 2017 "Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey ."
President Donald Trump is taking the side of three Texas churches that are suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency over disaster relief funds. The president writes on Twitter, "Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey ."
The Florida National Guard gets ready for Hurricane Irma, preparing high water vehicles and conducting hoist training with a UH-60 Black Hawk near Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida. The Florida National Guard gets ready for Hurricane Irma, preparing high water vehicles and conducting hoist training with a UH-60 Black Hawk near Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida.
After Hurricane Harvey plowed through east Texas with roof-peeling winds and never-before-seen rain, millions of Americans were left not knowing what to do or where to turn. President Donald J. Trump made two trips to the flattened, flooded region.
Irma weakened slightly Friday but remained a dangerous and deadly hurricane taking direct aim at Florida, threatening to march along the peninsula's spine and deliver a blow the state hasn't seen in more than a decade.
Eight days after addressing Hurricane Harvey in Texas, the General Services Administration on Thursday pivoted to the Irma storm aimed at Florida, relaxing certain contracting rules to encourage speed and local awards. Senior Procurement Executive Jeffrey Koses signed a "memorandum raising thresholds for areas included in the Irma declaration response," a GSA spokeswoman told Government Executive .
Six dead including two children as Mexico's biggest earthquake in a century triggers a tsunami 'which could reach three meters high' and leaves a million without power Miami faces a DIRECT HIT: Hurricane and life-threatening storm surge warnings are issued for the first time for South Florida after eye of Irma shifts on its way towards the US 'Armed' man is shot by police at Miami Airport prompting evacuation of the terminal while travelers rush to evacuate Florida ahead of Hurricane Irma College student films her horror as she wakes up in an abandoned train and has to call 911 after falling asleep on the train following epic day of travel to flee her Florida school before Irma hit 'Hunker down, stay where you are': Irma pummels Turks and Caicos with 175mph winds - as Caribbean islands already torn apart rush against the clock before Category 3 Jose arrives for round two Sea of red: ... (more)