Tag: Puerto Rico

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has sounded the alarm about the dangerous Category 5 storm expected to strike this weekend, telling people they need to "leave now." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Florida Gov. Rick Scott: ‘All Floridians should be prepared to evacuate’

Melissa Quinn · September 8, 2017 5:36 pm

President Trump assured people that the federal government stands ready to respond to Hurricane Irma as it bears down on Florida. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Trump: Feds are ready to respond to ‘epic’ Hurricane Irma

Anna Giaritelli · September 8, 2017 12:47 pm

The heavy rains and wind of hurricane Irma cross through the northeastern part of the island in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Hurricane Irma devastates Puerto Rico, 70 percent without electricity

Anna Giaritelli · September 7, 2017 5:15 pm

A decade-long lucky streak of decent weather that helped rescue one of Florida's biggest home insurers from collapse could come to a wet, violent end if predictions about Hurricane Irma prove true. (NASA/NOAA GOES Project via AP)

FEMA Administrator Brock Long: Hurricane Irma will be ‘truly devastating’

Melissa Quinn · September 7, 2017 2:54 pm

People in the Florida Keys leave town on Wednesday. Heavy rain and 185-mph winds lashed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico's northeast coast Wednesday as Hurricane Irma roared through Caribbean islands on its way to a possible hit on South Florida. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)

Trump: Hurricane Irma is ‘raging,’ but FEMA is ‘already in place and ready to help’

Anna Giaritelli · September 7, 2017 12:50 pm

The plane landed in San Juan and moved the departure time up by 25 minutes. The plane took off after only 52 minutes on the ground. (@flightradar24/Twitter)

Delta plane flies into Irma, lands, and then returns to mainland

Diana Stancy Correll · September 6, 2017 10:57 pm

A woman boards up a window in preparation for Hurricane Irma, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Irma roared into the Caribbean with record force early Wednesday, its 185-mph winds shaking homes and flooding buildings on a chain of small islands along a path toward Puerto Rico, Cuba and Hispaniola and a possible direct hit on densely populated South Florida. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Puerto Rico warns of four-month power outages

Pete Kasperowicz · September 6, 2017 7:13 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency is warning Hurricane Irma could result in downed power lines, complicating the ability to pump water through drinking and wastewater systems, especially in Puerto Rico. (NASA via AP)

Energy and Environment

EPA warns Hurricane Irma could bust drinking and wastewater systems

Josh Siegel · September 6, 2017 2:52 pm

As of Tuesday night, the hurricane is a Category 5. (National Hurricane Center)

Ahead of Irma, Trump issues state of emergency for Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

Ariella Phillips · September 6, 2017 12:20 am

Florida Sens. Marco Rubio, a Republican, and Bill Nelson, a Democrat, are urging President Trump to grant a pre-landfall emergency declaration for Florida as the state prepares for Hurricane Irma to make landfall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Florida Sens. Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson request emergency declaration before Hurricane Irma makes landfall

Melissa Quinn · September 5, 2017 9:43 pm

"The failure to act now could have devastating consequences days from now for the residents of and visitors to the state of Florida," Gov. Rick Scott said. (AP photo/Joe Reedy)

Florida Gov. Rick Scott asks Trump for emergency declaration as Florida braces for Hurricane Irma

Melissa Quinn · September 5, 2017 4:53 pm

Energy and Environment

Hurricane Irma elevated to Category 4 storm, threatens to hit Florida

Josh Siegel · September 4, 2017 9:17 pm