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Two Florida women — including one who had to be airlifted from Sanibel Island — are commemorating Hurricane Ian with murals remembering the victims and offering hope for the future. Manuel Bojorquez, who reported on the area after the storm hit, has more.

Tropical Storm Ophelia is bringing wet, windy weather to the East Coast. The Carolinas and Virginia will bear the brunt of the storm. Weather Channel meteorologist Kelly Cass has more.

Tropical Storm Ophelia strengthened Friday evening as it approached North Carolina and Virginia. It is expected to bring heavy rains and powerful winds to the Mid-Atlantic Coast this weekend. Meteorologist Alex Wilson from The Weather Channel has the latest forecast.

The storm that’s been brewing off the East Coast is now officially Tropical Storm Ophelia, and it could bring coastal flooding from the Carolinas north to New England. CBS News senior weather and climate producer David Parkinson is tracking the storm.

What could soon be Tropical Storm Ophelia is moving closer to the U.S. East Coast, the National Hurricane Center said, and a tropical storm warning is in effect from Cape Fear, North Carolina, to Fenwick Island, Delaware. CBS News Baltimore’s Janay Reece has an update on how locals there are preparing for the storm. And Lynette Charles, meteorologist for The Weather Channel, has a forecast for where the storms could be most severe.

The National Hurricane Center says a storm off the eastern U.S. will bring tropical storm conditions to the coast of North Carolina.

Since 2016, wildfire smoke in the U.S. has reversed roughly 25% of air quality improvements made from the 2000 Clean Air Act, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. That figure doubles to roughly 50% when looking specifically at the impact on many western states. For more on this, CBS News was joined by Marshall Burke, an associate professor at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability and a co-author of the study.

Homeowners living in areas at risk for natural disasters are seeing higher home insurance premiums — for some, coverage has been dropped completely. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy reports.

“To me, it’s a symbol of hope. We’re taking it to heart to try to bring back the tree, to give some hope to Lahaina,” said Chris Imonti, a landscaper working to restore the tree after Maui’s wildfires.

Farmers in a primary grape-producing area in Valencia, Spain, lost “their entire grape production in the middle of harvest season” after the hailstorm, according to the Association of Farmers of Valencia.

Scientists describe medicanes as a weather phenomenon similar to a hurricane or typhoon that forms over the Mediterranean Sea. Experts warn that because of global warming, medicanes may be intensifying. Kristen Corobosiero, associate professor of atmospheric and environmental science at the University of Albany, joined CBS News to talk about these storms.

The death toll in the devastating Lahaina fire, one of several that broke out in Maui on Aug. 8, has dropped to at least 97 people, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Friday. Maui County officials had been reporting a death toll of 115 for weeks.

The catastrophic flooding in the Libyan city of Derna earlier this week has killed at least 11,000 people, and the death toll is expected to rise. Many residents are returning to Derna, not to resume their lives, but identify the dead. Anna Foster reports from Libya.

Lee made landfall in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia as a post-tropical cyclone, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.