With Hurricane Matthew ready to slam the US in the next day or two, time is running out to get ready. "I cannot emphasize enough that everyone in our state must prepare now for a direct hit," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday.
Officials in Broward County are asking some 150,000 residents who live in low-lying areas, mobile homes or along the coastline to evacuate before Hurricane Matthew approaches South Florida.
Hurricane Matthew, the strongest Caribbean storm in almost a decade, barreled into the Bahamas today, with the coastal U.S. lying in its path. The Category 3 hurricane will next slam the Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of up to 115 mph.
Air travelers were keeping a wary eye on Hurricane Matthew as forecasts continued to show it tracking toward the U.S. East Coast later this week. Underscoring the ominous forecast, several big U.S. airlines have extended their Matthew-related change-fee waivers to cover U.S. airports.
Authorities along the Georgia coast ratcheted up preparations for Hurricane Matthew, a dangerous Category 3 storm described by Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brian Monahan as the strongest storm in the Atlantic in about 10 years.
Thousands of Americans were headed for higher ground Wednesday as deadly Hurricane Matthew crawled across the Caribbean and toward the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.
U.S. traffic fatalities rose by an estimated 10.4 percent in the first half of this year, federal officials said Wednesday, and continued an upward trend that started in late 2014 as the economic recovery accelerated.
Heavy plumes of smoke rolled into the sky above a local plumbing business on Tuesday morning during a massive fire that took the life of the shop’s elderly owner.
Families need space to haul their kids, friends and stuff. To get that space, they usually choose an SUV or minivan. Either way, safety is very important to those families. Two 2017 minivans and one SUV have just won top safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Empty shelves and long gas-station lines were reported across the Southeast as coastal communities prepared Wednesday to flee deadly Hurricane Matthew.
Two New Jersey houses have been destroyed in an explosion that occurred after neighbors reported the smell of gas and firefighters arrived to investigate. It’s not yet clear if anyone was injured in the Tuesday morning blast in Paterson.
A hurricane watch was issued Tuesday for parts of Florida’s Atlantic Coast as Hurricane Matthew slowly roared through the Caribbean, pounding tiny Haiti with heavy rain and powerful winds and tides.
