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by Eva Marie Uzcategui with Chris Lefkow in Washington SURFSIDE, United States (AFP) — Rescuers on Tuesday combed through the debris of a deadly condo tower collapse in Florida as Tropical Storm Elsa threatened to complicate the delicate search mission with strong winds and heavy rain. The death toll from the June 24 disaster in Surfside, a town north of Miami Beach, rose to 36 as search teams found four more bodies in the rubble, […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — After battering Cuba with a dangerous storm surge, mudslides and “flooding rains,” Tropical Storm Elsa gained slightly in intensity on Monday as it headed north toward the Florida Keys, the US National Hurricane Center reported. The storm left a trail of destruction through the Caribbean, claiming at least three lives. But Florida appeared to be getting a bit of a break, as forecasters shifted its likely path westward, suggesting not the […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Tropical storm Elsa battered Jamaica and Cuba with winds and rain Sunday after claiming at least three lives while cutting a path of destruction through the Caribbean, authorities said. Flooding, mudslides and destructive gusts were expected as the storm — downgraded from hurricane status but still powerful — crept north toward the United States. “Across portions of southern Haiti and Jamaica, storm total rainfall of 4 to 8 inches (10 to […]
