Hurricane Matthew sideswiped Florida’s Atlantic coast Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to more than 1 million people but sparing the most heavily populated stretch of shoreline.
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A strengthening Hurricane Matthew steamed toward Florida with winds of 140 mph Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people across the Southeast boarded up their homes and fled inland.
Hurricane Matthew is wet, wild and weird. Meteorologists say its path has been harder to pin down than that of other storms, but Matthew is definitely dangerous and might stick around to bedevil the Southeast coast for a week or so.
The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland on a path that could send it rolling up the densely populated East Coast with heavy rain, high winds and flooding.
Thousands of people in southern Louisiana hunkered down in shelters Monday, forced out of their homes by intense flooding that took many people by surprise.
Officials say they have recovered the body of a woman from inside a flooded vehicle.
Call it the United Sweats of America. A heat wave spreading across the country is leaving few places to hide. Not even the cool of night.
Authorities say a 17-year-old boy has died after being struck by lightning near the summit of Humphreys Peak in northern Arizona.
Death Valley National Park just wrapped up its hottest June in more than a century of recordkeeping, with an average temperature of 101.9 degrees.
— Lighter winds are helping firefighters make gains on a voracious and deadly wildfire in central California that has burned 150 homes and claimed two lives.