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Mostly deserted, much of downtown Charleston, S.C. is boarded up and closed on Thursday in advance of Hurricane Florence. Hurricane Florence's leading edge battered the Carolina coast Thursday, bending trees and shooting frothy sea water over streets on the Outer Banks, as the hulking storm closed in with 105 mph winds for a drenching siege that could last all weekend.
As Hurricane Florence bore down on the U.S. on Thursday, President Donald Trump angrily churned up the devastating storm of a year earlier, disputing the official death count from Hurricane Maria and falsely accusing Democrats of inflating the Puerto Rican toll to make him "look as bad as possible." Public health experts have estimated that nearly 3,000 perished because of the effects of Maria.
People fill containers with water funneled with pipes from a mountain stream in Utuado, Puerto Rico, nearly one month after Hurricane Maria struck on October 19, 2017. Shortages of food and water in areas with only 21.6 percent of grid electricity and 71.58 percent of running water restored.
The latest track from the National Hurricane Center shows Florence has slightly weakened as a Category 3 hurricane, but it's still packing a punch as it makes its way to the Carolinas. According to NHC's 8 p.m. update, Florence is moving northwest at about 16 mph with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph.
It's desperation time for Scott Wagner. The York County Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania is trailing badly in the race against incumbent Democrat Tom Wolf.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency reportedly told CBS News correspondent David Begnaud that it provided the water to the central government in response to Hurricane Maria in 2017, but it is unclear what kept the water from being distributed. Many of the deaths in the aftermath of Maria were attributed to power outages, and limited access to heath care and clean drinking water.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - About 45 families who relocated to Central Florida after Hurricane Maria ravaged the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico could become homeless Friday.
With a powerful hurricane bearing down on the Southeast coast, President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned attention back to the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago, deeming it "incredibly successful" even though a recent federal report found that nearly 3,000 people died. The administration's efforts in Puerto Rico received widespread criticism.
With Hurricane Florence poised to slam into the Carolinas in the next two days, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration had done an A-plus job in responding to hurricanes that ravaged Texas and Florida in 2017, as he again defended how the feds dealt with extensive damage to the U.S. island of Puerto Rico. "I think, in a certain way, the best job we did was Puerto Rico, but nobody would understand that," the President said, blaming bad infrastructure on the island for the slow recovery in power and water.
With a powerful hurricane bearing down on the southeast coast, President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned attention back to the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago, deeming it "incredibly successful" even though a recent federal report found that nearly 3,000 people died. The administration's efforts in Puerto Rico received widespread criticism.
Thanks to Marin County's chief librarian the only public library in San Juan, Puerto Rico will be getting a new roof. Sara Jones, director of Marin County Library Services, has raised $5,000, most of it on Facebook, to pay for the work.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's political challengers are adopting a new tactic - showing up at her rallies in Massachusetts. On Saturday morning Warren is planning a town hall in Boston's South End neighborhood.
Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico last September and prompted a mass exodus of more than 100,000 residents to the mainland United States. The Category 4 storm destroyed much of the island's infrastructure, which was already decaying and crumbling amidst a financial crisis and a bankrupt territorial government.
Puerto Rico 's beleaguered forensic sciences department moved two corpses from stop-gap refrigerator trailers in the early hours of Tuesday, after there were complaints about a foul odor and before federal inspectors arrived. The grisly episode sheds new light on the challenges at the morgue, which has become a symbol of dysfunction in the bankrupt commonwealth .
In a long-awaited report on FEMA's response to 2017's hurricanes, the agency said it had underestimated how devastating a FEMA said its plans "did not anticipate the massive requirements to deliver electricity, telecommunications, and fuel sector utilities with air and sea movement" on Puerto Rico. Additionally, FEMA did not anticipate the "need to move critical pharmaceutical supplies off Puerto Rico to meet national demands."
Hundreds of Puerto Rican hurricane evacuee families living in hotels across the U.S. can stay there for at least three more weeks, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Timothy Hillman in Massachusetts granted an extension of a restraining order temporarily blocking the evictions of the evacuees displaced by Hurricane Maria last September.
Nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees living in hotels across the U.S. are awaiting a federal judge's decision on their next home. U.S. District Judge Timothy Hillman in Massachusetts heard plaintiff representatives and government attorneys Monday at a phone hearing.
A court hearing is set for Monday after a federal judge issued an order temporarily blocking the eviction of hundreds of Puerto Ricans who fled the hurricane-ravaged island last year and have since been staying in hotels and motels across the nation. The last benefits of a federal aid program for Hurricane Maria evacuees from the island were to run out on Sunday morning, cutting off housing assistance for the group residing in U.S. mainland motels.
One day after a judge approved a temporary halt to evictions for Puerto Ricans living in Massachusetts and other states in the wake of Hurricane Maria, families faced confusion and frustration Sunday as they struggled to figure out their next move. Many hurricane evacuees were unaware that a federal judge in Springfield late Saturday night had granted a temporary injunction to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency from ending its transitional assistance housing program for evacuees until midnight Tuesday.