Exclusive | Migrants flooding NYC’s justice system — making up ‘75% of arrests in Midtown’ –
Jefferson Maldenado, a 31-year-old immigrant from Ecuador, has been arrested five times in New York City since arriving in the U.S. earlier this year. His most recent arrest was for allegedly stealing pants and beer from a Target near Herald Square. When asked why he committed the crime, the immigrant thief replied, “I just wanted […]
Hone downgraded to tropical storm after pounding Hawaii’s Big Island with flooding rains
HILO, Hawaii – As the sun rose over the Hawaiian Islands Sunday, the full impact of what was then Hurricane Horn was being felt across the Big Island. Horn battered the Big Island and coastline over the weekend as a Category 1 hurricane, packing flooding rain, damaging winds and dangerous surf, before weakening by Monday […]
Search Continues For Arizona Woman That Was Swept Away By Flash Flooding In Grand Canyon
(Photo by SEBASTIEN DUVAL/AFP via Getty Images) By James Myers, OAN StaffSaturday, August 24, 2024 2:15 p.m. Search and rescue teams from Grand Canyon National Park were searching Friday for an Arizona woman who has been missing since being swept down a creek during a massive flash flood. advertisement The missing woman had been hiking […]
Death of Connecticut man whose body was found in river may be related to destructive flooding that killed 2 others: cops
A Connecticut man whose body was found downstream in a river after his pickup truck became submerged may have been linked to devastating flooding that also killed two other people in the state, police said Friday. According to Fairfield police, the body of Robert MacIsaac, 59, was discovered Thursday afternoon in the Aspetuck River in […]
Elon Musk’s Grok AI is flooding social media fake images of Trump and Harris
Elon Musk’s new, unconstrained generative AI program, Grok, has been flooding social media with some absolutely wild photos and videos of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in some outlandish situations. The most talked-about video to date, created with the help of Grok by AI video artists Dor Brothers, begins with Donald […]
Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils’ cash, ministers warned | Flooding
The cost of preventing major flooding caused by extreme weather and excessive rainfall is deepening the financial crisis for councils in low-lying England, ministers have warned. Communities in the east of the country say they are being forced to cut routine services like garbage collection because of dramatic and unsustainable increases in payments they have […]
Ernesto on track to become hurricane while bringing life-threatening surf, flooding rain to Caribbean islands
Millions of people across the Caribbean are bracing for the force of Tropical Storm Ernesto, the fifth of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which is expected to hit the Caribbean, including the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, bringing heavy rains, large and destructive waves and potentially life-threatening storm surges. The […]
Flash flooding traps drivers on NYC roads after storms dump 4″ of rain on Big Apple
A powerful storm battered New York on Wednesday, dumping up to four inches of rain in just a few hours, causing dangerous flash flooding and leaving drivers trapped in their cars. New York City’s Office of Emergency Management told the Post that “several people” had to be rescued from vehicles trapped by rising waters at […]
Debby bringing 'catastrophic' flooding to Southeast
Forecasters are warning that Tropical Storm Debby could bring “catastrophic flooding” to the Southeast this week after it pounded Florida on Monday. The storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend around 7 a.m. Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of about 80 mph. The storm brought severe flooding and high winds […]
Hurricane Debby to bring heavy rains and catastropic flooding to Florida, Georgia and S. Carolina
The center of Hurricane Debby is expected to reach Florida’s Big Bend coast early Monday, potentially bringing record-breaking rainfall, devastating flooding and life-threatening storm surge as it moves slowly through the upstate and stalls over coastal areas of Georgia and South Carolina. Debby was located about 40 miles west of Cedar Key, Florida, and had […]