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WILMINGTON, North Carolina (AFP) — Heavy rains and high winds batter the empty streets of Wilmington, North Carolina as Hurricane Florence closes in on the Carolina coast. Emergency crews in North Carolina are scrambling to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters. https://youtu.be/TvVASG-4u8c
WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — Emergency crews in North Carolina scrambled Friday to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters unleashed by Hurricane Florence. The drama was unfolding in the riverfront town of New Bern, which was hit by a huge storm surge as the sprawling Category 1 hurricane came close to making landfall. Video footage showed parking lots in New Bern turned into shallow lakes of dirty gray water as […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post newspaper, warned Thursday that President Donald Trump’s attacks on media are dangerous for the country. Bezos, during a question-answer session at a dinner hosted by the Economic Club of Washington, said Trump’s attacks risk eroding protections and social norms important for democracy. “It’s dangerous to demonize the media,” Bezos said. “It’s dangerous to call the media lowlifes. It’s dangerous […]
MYRTLE BEACH, United States (AFP)- With Hurricane Florence downgraded on Thursday from a Category Four to a Category Two storm, and then once again, around fifty people left the evacuation shelter in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. That was a bad idea, said Avair Vereen, a local nurse who had sought safety in the shelter with her seven children. “They say if you stay (home), it’s at your own risk,” she said, noting that emergency services […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US forecasters late Thursday downgraded Hurricane Florence to a Category 1 storm, as its outer edge lashed the Carolinas with strong winds and heavy rain. In its 0300 GMT advisory, the National Hurricane Center said the maximum sustained winds of Florence were 90 miles per hour (150 kilometers per hour), dropping it to the weakest of five categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale. But the storm still carried “very dangerous winds,” the […]
BAKERSFIELD, United States (AFP) — A man who killed five people, including his wife, in California before taking his own life had been in the midst of a contentious divorce, authorities said Thursday. “It appears that the suspect targeted each of his victims,” Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a news conference in Bakersfield, where Wednesday’s deadly rampage took place. He said the shooter, identified as Javier Casarez, 54, was in divorce proceedings and his […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday approved a new arms sale to South Korea worth $2.6 billion, with denuclearization talks stalled between Washington and the North. Six Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft worth $2.1 billion form the bulk of the sale, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement. A second contract covers 64 Patriot missiles and support worth $501 million, the agency said. Congress has 15 days to oppose the […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Mass evacuations from US towns north of Boston were underway Thursday after dozens of fires and suspected gas explosions erupted, police said, leaving at least 10 residents injured, one critically. Massachusetts State Police said they had responded to 70 reports of fires, explosions and the smell of gas in a widespread zone encompassing the east coast towns of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover. “Gas lines are currently being […]
by Sebastien Duval with Leila Macor in Myrtle Beach Agence France Presse WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — The outer edge of Hurricane Florence began buffeting the Carolinas with wind and rain on Thursday as forecasters warned the monster storm would trigger life-threatening flooding as it assaults the US east coast. As Florence churned slowly towards the coasts of North and South Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane, federal and state officials issued final appeals […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A man went on a shooting rampage in California on Wednesday, killing five people including his wife, before taking his own life, a police spokesman told AFP. The shooting in Bakersfield in central California was possibly “a domestic violence incident,” said Lieutenant Mark King of the Kern County sheriff’s office. Police received their first call at 5:19 pm before responding to the first location, a trucking company, where the rampage began. Three people were killed there and the shooter, armed with […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in the southern US state on Wednesday ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence. Deal said he was issuing the emergency declaration for all 159 counties in Georgia “in light of the storm’s forecasted southward track after making landfall.” Florence, a powerful Category 4 hurricane, is expected to make landfall in the Carolinas late Thursday or early Friday but heavy […]
by Sébastien DUVAL / with Leila Macor in Columbia, South Carolina Agence France Presse Hurricane Florence veered slightly to the southwest and weakened a bit on Wednesday but remained a powerful storm on course to deliver a potentially devastating blow to the Carolina coast. Georgia joined four other East Coast states issuing an emergency declaration as the latest forecasts showed Florence dumping torrential rain on the southern state. As Florence churned across the […]
