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During a visit to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico on Oct. 3, President Trump delivered aid supplies at Calvary Chapel in Guaynabo. President Trump served notice Thursday that he may pull back federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid a staggering humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Su Teatro opens its season at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 12, with a 23-year-old play that is as disturbingly relevant today as it was when it premiered in 1994. Director Anthony Garcia created La Carpa Aztlan Presents: I Don't Speak English Only in response to English-only legislation and police brutality in the early 1990s, and portrays with savage wit a world where any representation of diversity has been criminalized and forced underground.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are closing the Charlton County mobile Disaster Recovery Center in Folkston this Saturday. Working with county officials, GEMA and FEMA closely monitor visits to DRCs.
Though Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos GimA nez requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency cover the full cost of debris removal from the county, FEMA doesn't cover the cost of replanting lost trees after the storm, and the county will need to fund the full cost of replacing fallen trees. Even before the storm hit, the county's tree canopy was struggling, said Gaby Lopez, Neat Streets manager in the county's parks department.
Federal emergency officials said Monday they are working in Puerto Rico to restore power and other essential services to the devastated island. FEMA officials say they're 'slowly starting to make progress' in Puerto Rico Federal emergency officials said Monday they are working in Puerto Rico to restore power and other essential services to the devastated island.
The Coast Guard Cutter Forward was diverted from a counter drug operation to respond to hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. As part of the Department of Homeland Security team, the Coast Guard is linked directly to FEMA and the overall federal hurricane response.
Nate slogged its way across the U.S. East Coast on Monday, dumping heavy rains and bringing gusty winds to inland states as a tropical depression, a day after Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Nate spared the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks.
Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast before weakening rapidly Sunday, sparing the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks. Nate - the first hurricane to make landfall in Mississippi since Katrina in 2005 - quickly lost strength, with its winds diminishing to a tropical depression as it pushed northward into Alabama and toward Georgia with heavy rain.
Police say they responded to a reported shooting in the early hours of Sunday morning. They found a victim with a gunshot wound at the Monterey Cafe near Sprague and Washington.
Police are investigating a crash that left one person dead and two others injured in the Hillyard neighborhood Sunday morning. Officers say a driver jumped a curb near the Hillyard Subway near the intersection of Garland and Regal around 7:30 a.m. The driver struck three people sitting outside the restaurant.
Red flags fly at Navarre Beach, Florida indicating that people should not swim in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Nate approaches the Gulf Coast, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. This enhanced infrared satellite image made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Nate in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017 at 2:15 p.m. EDT.
We end today's show where we began the week: in Puerto Rico . Doctors say the island's health system remains crippled two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island , leaving more than 90 percent of the island without electricity and half of its residents without drinking water.
We are constantly being fed updates on the situation in Puerto Rico, and the aid being sent there, but not one word about the U.S. Virgin Islands. St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas are all part of the United States.
A Sacramento family pleading for help on behalf of relatives stuck in the more rural parts of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico just received some good news. The couple said that in the two weeks since Hurricane Maria hit they saw no signs of any efforts by relief agencies.
With Tropical Storm Nate forecast to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast over the weekend, New Orleans is bracing for the possibility of hurricane conditions, including flooding as parts of the city's drainage system are not in full working order. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu declared a state of emergency on Thursday, urging residents not to panic, but rather to make preparations.
Nate Champ, with Wolfe House & Building Movers places boards under a home for support while raising a house on Church Street , Lumberton, off its foundation on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.
While President Donald Trump said this week that disaster aid efforts in Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria were "throwing our budget a little of whack," the reality is that the relief numbers are quickly growing overall as the feds help deliver aid to those hit hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, with Tropical Storm Nate now possibly ready to take aim at the Gulf Coast in coming days as well. The White House on Wednesday sent Congress a $29 billion request for extra disaster relief funds, which GOP leaders say will be voted on in the House next week, as the Trump Administration acknowledged the cost is not small change.
Las Cruces officers on hold for Puerto Rico duty LCPD officers waiting for possible deployment to hurricane-devastated island at a later time. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: People wait in line to see a representative of FEMA at the Parque de Nino in Yabucuo in Puerto Rico on Oct. 2, 2017.
A group of members and pastors from Methodist churches in the San Juan area form a human chain to unload supplies at the Utuado church in central Puerto Rico. The "brigade" drove into the area to help meet the needs of people who have not been reached by FEMA or federal aid organizations.