Tag: Hurricanes

Mike Kiernan takes photos of the damage to his home in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday.

Trump tariffs could drive up costs to rebuild after Florence

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · September 22, 2018 2:30 pm

"It's a perfectly legitimate line of inquiry," sad Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

Senate delays leave safety agencies leaderless amid hurricanes, train wrecks

Joe Williams · September 22, 2018 12:44 pm

Brett Kavanaugh and the Truth

TWS Podcast · September 21, 2018 5:54 pm

In this Sept. 19, 2018, photo released by Cape Fear River Watch, an earth mover is used to repair one of several breaches in a ruptured coal ash landfill at the L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C. The landfill under construction at the site meant to hold coal ash in lined terraces ruptured over the weekend from heavy rains from Hurricane Florence, spilling enough material to fill 180 dump trucks. Coal ash contains arsenic, mercury and other toxic metals.

Energy and Environment

Hurricane Florence flooding could spill coal ash into North Carolina’s Cape Fear River

Josh Siegel · September 21, 2018 4:56 pm

Pearl, a Great Pyrenees that was one of the animals rescued from an animal shelter in Carteret County, N.C., looks out from her cage in the Holshouser Building on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Woman does the right thing and protects dogs and cats from Hurricane Florence. Now the county wants to charge her with a crime.

Philip Wegmann · September 21, 2018 3:38 pm

The Brunswick Nuclear Plant in North Carolina is shown.

Energy and Environment

Utility begins restoring power to only nuclear plant to shut down during Hurricane Florence

Josh Siegel · September 20, 2018 7:12 pm

This Monday, Sept. 17, 2018 photo shows rising flood waters in the Pee Dee area in Marion County, S.C. Two female mental health patients detained for medical transport drowned Tuesday, Sept. 18, when a sheriff's department van was swept away in rising floodwaters, according to authorities. Officials said that the transport van was near the Little Pee Dee River, one of the bodies of water that state officials are watching following the heavy rains of Florence.

Beltway Confidential

Trapped in the back of a police van, two women died. Their deaths were avoidable, and fixing it is on South Carolina

Erin Dunne · September 20, 2018 2:26 pm

President Donald Trump gestures to first responders as he visits the Horry County Emergency Management center in the area impacted by Hurricane Florence, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, in Conway, S.C.

More than 120 lawmakers call on Trump to apologize for casting doubt on Puerto Rico death toll

Diana Stancy Correll · September 19, 2018 10:49 pm

President Trump speaks while attending a briefing after arriving at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point to visit areas impacted by Hurricane Florence in Havelock, N.C.

Trump pledges ‘100 percent’ commitment to North Carolina

Robert Donachie · September 19, 2018 3:52 pm

Utility workers repair downed power lines, Friday, July 20, 2018, in Marshalltown, Iowa. Several buildings were damaged Thursday evening by a tornado in the main business district in town including the historic courthouse.

When disaster struck, states repealed onerous regulations

Jonathan Williams · September 19, 2018 3:28 pm

Bob Richling carries Iris Darden, 84, out of her flooded home as her daughter-in-law, Pam Darden, gathers her belongings in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C.

Hurricane Florence death toll rises to 35, evacuees urged not to return: In Photos

Associated Press · September 19, 2018 12:15 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Beltway Confidential

Trump Jr.’s bogus attack on CNN

Becket Adams · September 18, 2018 7:49 pm