Lines Form At Shelter As Irma Nears; 75K Total Taking Refuge
With Hurricane Irma taking aim at Florida's southwestern coast, thousands of desperate and frustrated people waited in line for hours Saturday to get inside a shelter.
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With Hurricane Irma taking aim at Florida's southwestern coast, thousands of desperate and frustrated people waited in line for hours Saturday to get inside a shelter.
Many of Irma's victims fled their islands on ferries and fishing boats for fear of Hurricane Jose.
Thousands of Irma victims across the Caribbean fought desperately to find shelter or escape their storm-blasted islands altogether Friday as another hurricane following close behind threatened to add to their misery.
With Hurricane Irma traveling through the Caribbean, airports in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale closed their doors at 8 p.m.
The biggest weather story in decades will continue to be a massive hurricane. Irma which is expected to turn towards South Florida, starting Saturday night and on Sunday.
Local aid is being mobilized to Caribbean Islands in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.
Irma has been upgraded again to a Category 5 storm.
Getting out of South Florida shouldn't be a problem for those teams. Getting back might be another story.
For an entire generation in South Florida, Hurricane Andrew was the monster storm that reshaped a region.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says it's a good time for residents to complete an emergency preparedness checklist.
Police say they are investigating an officer-involved shooting at the Miami airport that shut down a terminal as people looked to leave Florida ahead of Hurricane Irma.
It battered the Caribbean, destroying just about everything in sight, but Hurricane Irma is far from over.
The Big One — a mythic, massive hurricane that would obliterate the southeast coast — has long been the stuff of Florida's nightmares.
Fearsome Hurricane Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving thousands homeless after destroying buildings.
Hurricane Irma has killed at least 10 people as the dangerous Category 5 storm continued its destructive march across the Caribbean early Thursday.
Volunteers from Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore are on the ground in Haiti and the Dominican Republic ahead of Hurricane Irma.
Florida residents picked store shelves clean and long lines formed at gas pumps Wednesday.
People with active warrants in one Florida county might want to think twice about heading to a shelter for Hurricane Irma.
Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency in South Carolina for Hurricane Irma on Wednesday.
The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history has made its first landfall in the islands of the northeast Caribbean.
Hurricane Irma has strengthened into a Category 5 storm as it roared toward the northeast Caribbean on a path toward the U.S.
Officials across the northeastern Caribbean canceled airline flights, shuttered schools and urged people to hunker down indoors as Hurricane Irma barreled toward the region as a powerful Category 4 storm expected to strengthen more before nearing land late Tuesday.
Hurricane Irma strengthens into a Category 4 as it approaches northeast Caribbean.
Irma is now moving off to the west-southwest front at 14 miles per hour, with winds at 115 miles per hour.
The big story this week will be the track and movement of Hurricane Irma, now some 750 miles east of the Windward Islands.
