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The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to Jacksonville on Tuesday to begin investigating the loss of the cargo ship El Faro.

The US Coast Guard said on Monday that it assumes the cargo ship El Faro, which went missing last week with 33 people on board, sank in bad weather associated with Hurricane Joaquin.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a shipping container has been located in the waters of the sprawling search area, but authorities don’t yet know whether it is from the El Faro cargo ship that is missing with 33 people on board.

Another rescue mission was successful: On Thursday night, the Coast Guard helicopter lifted 12 sailors from their sinking 212-foot cargo ship besieged by Joaquin and listing 51 miles northwest of Haiti, the guard said.

U.S. Coast Guard pilots searched for a third day for the cargo ship El Faro and its 33 mostly American crew members after it went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin as it passed over the Bahamas on Thursday. The company that owns the ship said a container that appears to...

Three people died on Friday and Saturday in traffic incidents in South Carolina, and a vehicle passenger died in North Carolina on Thursday when a tree fell on Interstate 95, officials said.

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, October 4, 2015.at 9:45 AM EDT shows slowly weakening Hurricane Joaquin southwest of Bermuda, moving in a north-northeast direction.

Rough surf will pound the beaches. It is not a place to be. “We also are anxious about downed power lines and the associated power loss that ensues”.

Forecasters in Miami say Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm, is centered about 500 miles (805 kilometers) southwest of Bermuda and has top sustained winds of 150 mph (240 kph).

Even so, the EIA reports that heavy rain, strong winds and possible flooding could threaten electric infrastructure throughout the mid-Atlantic states. The US Hurricane Center upgraded Joaquin to a Category 4 at 2 p.m. on Thursday, calling the storm “extremely risky”.

Joaquin (wa-KEEN) has sped up a bit as it moves away from the Bahamas, and remains a Category 3 hurricane.

Along with Hurricane Joaquin, the National Hurricane Center is watching two disturbances in the central Atlantic and near the Cape Verde Islands. When it did, the ship’s officers were monitoring what was then Tropical Storm Joaquin, according to Tim Nolan, president of TOTE...

To help analysts assess potential storm effects, the US Energy Information Administration maintains an energy disruptions map that displays energy infrastructure and real-time storm information.