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Hurricane Laura has grown into a Category 4 and is now the strongest storm ever to threaten the Louisiana-Texas border region of the Gulf Coast. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joins CBSN with the latest on when it's expected to hit and what kind of damage it could do.
Hurricane Laura, now upgraded to a Category 3 storm, is poised to make landfall along the Gulf Coast within 24 hours. Thousands of people are evacuating from the island city of Galveston, Texas, and low-lying areas of Louisiana. Officials warn it could touch down as a Category 3 or even Category 4 storm. WCBS TV chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn shares what to expect.
Laura could slam into land this week as a major storm with ferocious winds and deadly flooding.
CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joins CBSN to discuss the latest on Hurricane Laura, which is expected to strengthen before it makes landfall along the western Gulf Coast later this week.
Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura are expected to make landfall this week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Tropical Storm Marco could be first to make landfall with now-Tropical Storm Laura a couple of days behind, likely as powerful hurricane.
A pair of dangerous storms in the Gulf of Mexico threaten the U.S. mainland. Recently-upgraded Hurricane Marco It is expected to make landfall on Monday. Not far behind is Laura, a tropical storm with the potential to grow to a hurricane. CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli joins CBSN's Lana Zak to talk about the hurricane season.
Hurricane Marco is barreling toward the Gulf Coast with Tropical Storm Laura not far behind. It could be a historic and devastating one-two punch with both making landfall this week, just days apart and miles from each other. Janet Shamlian reports.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Sunday that states of disaster have been declared in 23 counties as two storms — Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura — approach the state. The storm threat comes as the Lone Star State continues to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Watch his press conference here.
23-year-old Elder Fernandes disappeared from the base on Monday, Army officials said.
As the new school year is days away from kicking off in San Antonio, Texas, some frontline school workers are fearful of in-person classes resuming.
In Houston, Texas, a maintenance worker was throwing out the trash in a dumpster, when he discovered a newborn baby in a white trash bag. KHOU's Malini Basu reports.
Mireya Villarreal looks at the precautions one Texas school district is taking to reopen for in-person learning safely.
San Antonio fire chief Russell Johnson said maybe 100 shots were fired into the crowded parking area of Mission Open Air Market.
The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for Texas police officers to refrain from using Tasers on students after a school officer tased a 17-year-old who fell and hit his head, putting him in a coma. The Houston Police Officers' Union says times have changed and officers need to be properly prepared in the event a student uses a deadly weapon. KHOU reporter Kevin Reece reports.
A 16-year-old Texas girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in a skydiving accident last month spoke Thursday morning during a news conference at a Dallas hospital. Makenzie Wethington suffered numerous injuries when her parachute only partially opened while skydiving on January 25th. Her doctor at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation expects her to make a full recovery.
Less than an inch of snow was enough to cause more than 500 accidents in Dallas, and trucks putting down sand and salt struggled to keep roads free from ice. Even Houston and San Antonio saw a dusting of snow and sleet. Anna Werner reports.
A calf known as "Hero" is mobile again after undergoing surgery that helped fit him for prosthetic legs. Staff at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine have cared for Hero since the calf lost two of his hooves last year due to frostbite. KBTX-TV's Clay Falls reports.
In compliance with a court order, a Texas hospital has removed Marlise Munoz from life support. Doctors pronounced Munoz brain-dead, but the hospital initially refused to remove life support because she is pregnant. Anna Werner reports.
In the months following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his wife, the first lady, Jackie Kennedy received nearly 800,000 letters from people around the world expressing their sympathy and their own grief. Anthony Mason reports on the letters release online for the first time.
A Texas family is suing a hospital, which refuses to remove life support from a brain-dead pregnant woman. The hospital says it cannot unplug the machines because state law prohibits life-saving treatment from being denied to pregnant patients. Manuel Bojorquez reports.
Another round of wintry weather is affecting a large portion of the U.S. just as many are setting out for holiday traveling. Many areas from the Texas Panhandle to northern New England are being affected by a dangerous ice storm. Meteorologist Eric Fisher of CBS Boston station WBZ has the latest.
In North Texas, melting ice and snow caused problems for residents and delayed more than 1,300 flights, many of them in Dallas. Norah O'Donnell reports.
When JFK and Jackie Kennedy visited Dallas and Fort Worth in 1963, their hotel suite was decorated with priceless works of art that have now found a home at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. CBS News' Kylie Atwood reports.
In her first television interview about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Luci Baines Johnson remembers the one thing she could think to do after coming home from school November 22, 1963.
