Punishing Winds, Rain From Irma Batter Much Of Florida
Hurricane Irma pummeled Florida with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline.
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Hurricane Irma pummeled Florida with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline.
Irma struck as a Category 4 but by mid-afternoon had weakened to a Category 3 with still-fearsome 120 mph winds and heavy rain.
As Florida evacuates, PG&E crews and firefighters from across the Bay Area were headed into the Hurricane Irma storm zone.
Air National Guardsmen from the Bay Area headed to Florida Friday so they will be there to help victims of Hurricane Irma once the massive storm makes landfall this weekend.
Irma weakened slightly Friday but remained a dangerous and deadly hurricane taking direct aim at Florida, threatening to march along the peninsula's spine and deliver a blow the state hasn't seen in more than a decade.
As Hurricane Irma threatens Florida, Roughly 150 pets that were previously up for adoption in Fort Lauderdale have been evacuated to the East Bay.
Georgia's governor Thursday ordered mandatory evacuations including the city of Savannah starting on Saturday from the state's Atlantic coast ahead of Hurricane Irma.
Bay Area firefighters and PG&E crews on Thursday were preparing to head to Florida to provide assistance once Hurricane Irma makes landfall this weekend.
Fearsome Hurricane Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving at least 10 dead and thousands homeless.
Florida residents picked store shelves clean and long lines formed at gas pumps Wednesday as Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 monster with potentially catastrophic winds of 185 mph, steamed toward the Sunshine State.
Hurricane Irma grew into a dangerous Category 5 storm, the most powerful seen in the Atlantic in over a decade.
Texas, Florida and a dozen other states are urging a San Francisco-based federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump's revised travel ban.
An Army veteran who landed at the Fort Lauderdale airport with a gun in his checked luggage opened fire in the baggage claim area Friday, killing five people and wounding eight before throwing his weapon down and lying spread-eagle on the ground, authorities and witnesses said.
Two trains loaded with coal and phosphate rock collided in central Florida early Wednesday, derailing and sending at least 20 train cars tumbling over, authorities said.
With the turbulent White House race scrambled in new directions, Donald Trump is campaigning like it all hinges on one all-too-familiar swing state: Florida.
His campaign struggling a month from Election Day, Donald Trump sharpened his rhetoric Wednesday from calling for Hillary Clinton's defeat to declaring "she has to go to jail" for using a homebrew email server and other charges of corruption while she was secretary of state.
A bald eagle was rescued after getting trapped in the grill of a car in Florida.
Authorities warned that the danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina still under threat of torrential rain and deadly storm surge.
Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward Florida with potentially catastrophic winds of 140 mph Thursday, as 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland.
Several flights into and out of San Francisco have been canceled Thursday due to the impacts of Hurricane Matthew in Florida.
Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and at least a half a million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes Wednesday.
Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti's southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds Tuesday.
A woman from Florida has won the chance to punch embattled pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli in the face.
Authorities say a South Florida man who is a former police officer drew a gun on a driver when he pulled into the man's driveway to play "Pokemon Go."
Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened into a hurricane Thursday and steamed toward Florida's Gulf Coast.
