Month: January 2019

Cuba’s president says a tornado in eastern Havana has killed three people and injured 174 others. The Cuban capital was battered late Sunday and early Monday by powerful winds and heavy rains. A blackout hit many Havana neighborhoods around 9 p.m. Early Monday, President Miguel Diaz-Canel posted photos of himself on Twitter with rescue workers besides what appeared to be a vehicle overturned by the storm. Little further information about the storm appeared in state…

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Tyler Jacoby’s love for hockey started back in 2006, when the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup. “I’ve been a Hurricanes fan my whole life,” said Jacoby. “One day I was watching one of their games and I said ‘Hey, I want to play like them.’” Stay on top of breaking news stories with the ABC11 News App Tyler, 15, who was born with spina bifida, was determined to get on the…

Construction crews have begun more than $2 million in repairs in a southwest Georgia community two years after a deadly tornado outbreak caused heavy damage. WALB-TV reports repair work finally started on roads, sidewalks and a park in the Radium Springs community just outside Albany. The damage was inflicted by tornadoes that devastated the area on Jan. 22, 2017. The tornadoes killed 16 people in southwest Georgia and caused an estimated $2 billion in damage…

Piles of water-logged furniture show that people are still working to recover from flooding in eastern Mississippi. Mayor Cleveland Peebles says the 400-person town of Shubuta has had lots of help since heavy rains fell in December. Peebles tells WTOK-TV that churches have sent volunteers to help people clean out and repair their damaged houses. The local emergency management director, Edie Ivy, says more than 100 homes were affected. The Red Cross has provided aid,…

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The number of people killed after days of torrential rain triggered flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has climbed to 59 with 25 others missing, a disaster official said Friday. Rescuers recovered more bodies as floodwaters and rainfall subsided in several areas, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman. He said 45 people died in floods and 14 others in landslides. Operators at the overwhelmed Bili Bili…

SPRING LAKE, N.C. (WTVD) — Businesses in Cumberland County are continuing to rebuild and recover after Hurricane Florence. Guns Plus is preparing to open after the Spring Lake business took in more than six feet of water during Hurricane Florence. It took the owner Chris Hatley three days to even get inside to see what was left. “Everything had just fallen apart. All of our paperwork had just melted basically so we didn’t know what…

Only you can prevent forest fires, as Smokey Bear says, and now you can help spot them, too — hopefully before they explode into California’s next devastating conflagration, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. An expanding network of cameras feeds video to the AlertWildfire.org site, where fire officials, utilities and ordinary people can keep an eye out for signs of trouble, The Marin Independent Journal reported. Each video feed has a Twitter button allowing viewers to…