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Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the South and Southeastern parts of the United States on Wednesday. Florida sugar and citrus processors rushed to secure rail cars and equipment that could be crushed, blocked or turned into flying projectiles.
The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history has made its first landfall in the islands of the northeast Caribbean. Future of Kentucky's last abortion clinic is at stake as federal trial opens in lawsuit stemming from the state's attempts to revoke the facility's license.
This Jan. 24, 2017 file photo shows Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. in Capitol Hill, Washington Among the federal agencies looking to help the city bounce back is the Department of Health and Human Services, which is doing everything from to helping run pop-up hospital units to moving patients from the storm's path.
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever more powerful new hurricane bore down on Florida. The 419-3 vote sent the aid package - likely the first of several - to the Senate in hopes of sending the bill to President Donald Trump before dwindling federal disaster reserves run out at the end of this week.
Graphic shows location of federal superfund sites around Houston, including flooded sites; updates with newly observed site; 3c x 4 inches; 146 mm x 101 mm; . Mariko Shimmi, right, helps carry items out of the home of Ken Tani in a neighborhood still flooded from Harvey on Monday, Sept.
Drawing on lessons from history, Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning explores the complex relationship between China, the US and Japan - and how it might evolve peacefully, or tragically A protest outside the Hong Kong Consulate-General of Japan, in 2014, marks the 83rd anniversary of the Japanese occupation in China. Picture: SCMP Demonstrators who regularly gather outside Exchange Square, home of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, aren't protesting against capitalist greed, or the gap between rich and poor.
The Hurricane Harvey death toll has risen to more than 60 people, as cleanup efforts and disaster relief attempts continue to progress in southeast Texas. Many Houston residents who had been in shelters for the past week are beginning to come out to assess the damage and chart their way forward.
A Standard & Poor's index of the five biggest U.S. airlines plunged 7.5 percent in August, wiping out about $10 billion in market value. Shares fell as a price war that started between Analysts see more pain ahead.
The National Hurricane Center said at 0300 GMT that the storm was packing top sustained winds of 140 mph . "Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours," the NHC warned.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have a packed schedule when Congress returns this week. Lawmakers have less than two weeks of legislative days to head off a government shutdown, raise the nation's borrowing limit and provide financial assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Victoria's city and county officials agree: Much more remains to be done after Hurricane Harvey ravaged the city's homes and businesses. On Monday evening, local, state and federal officials met in Victoria's emergency operations center to discuss the city's road to recovery.
FEMA spokeswoman Tiana Suber says if those people's homes are found to be uninhabitable or inaccessible for an extended time, they may qualify for the agency's Transitional Shelter Assistance. Some will qualify for short-term hotel lodging at FEMA expense, while others will be referred to local agencies or voluntary organizations for possible assistance.
Walmart Stores says it has shipped 1,219 truckloads to stores in Texas and Louisiana, including 961 truckloads of water. It is accelerating deliveries of essentials including bread, milk, dairy products and cleaning supplies, and it's making pharmacy services available at several shelters.
Ships enter the Port of Corpus Christi after the Coast Guard reopened the port following Hurricane Harvey in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S. in this August 31, 2017 handout photo. Photo - U.S. Coast Guard/Handout via Reuters Ships enter the Port of Corpus Christi after the Coast Guard reopened the port following Hurricane Harvey in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S. in this August 31, 2017 handout photo.
For more than a week, the world watched as grim images from southeast Texas were broadcast on television and social media -- homes along the coast torn apart by hurricane winds, inland communities flooded by a record-setting tropical storm. The full extent of the devastation remains unclear, and FEMA chief Brock Long says the recovery effort will take years.
The before-and-after imagery slider on Woolpert's website allows local, state and federal officials and the public to navigate and enhance sites in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. To help the millions affected by Hurricane Harvey and subsequent flooding in the state of Texas, Woolpert has collected, processed and delivered high-resolution, before-and-after aerial imagery and made it available to the public today.
Governor Greg Abbott and Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott today greeted President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump as they landed in Houston, Texas to survey the the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. The Governor then joined President Trump visiting Houston communities affected by Harvey, speaking with victims of the storm as they begin the recovery process.
President Donald Trump cupped a boy's face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips.
With funding to relieve the impact of Harvey on Texas rising to the top of the priority list, it has the potential to affect everything from the border wall to the threatened government shutdown. And with so many people in Houston and other communities in Harvey's path needing help, all eyes will be on Congress to see whether it can put aside partisan tendencies and tackle a daunting to-do list.
An upbeat President Donald Trump landed Saturday morning in Houston to get a firsthand look at a flooded and mud-choked metropolis devastated by Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall and storm surge, declaring himself "very happy" with rescue and recovery efforts. Officials in Beaumont, Texas, which lost its drinking water system because of Harvey, struggled Saturday to restore that service, and firefighters kept monitoring a crippled chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, that has twice been the scene of explosions and fires since the storm roared ashore and stalled over Texas more than a week ago.