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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.

In advance of the deluge, “we have cones and barricades out in locations across the city that can be rapidly deployed if needed”, Mahoney said.

One body has been sighted in the debris area, but the search continues for survivors.

A weakening Hurricane Joaquin moved past Bermuda and farther out into the Atlantic on Monday after toppling trees and knocking out power to thousands in the wealthy financial haven and tourist destination. The U.S. Coast Guard said the craft sunk after losing power and...

The U.S. Coast Guard confirms one person is dead and that their remains were found in a survival suit.

As it blew through the Bahamas on Thursday, Hurricane Joaquin leaped in intensity to a Category 4 storm, making many afraid that the new hurricane could lead to a repeat of 2012’s superstorm Sandy. Recent hurricane hunter missions found surface winds of 100 miles per hour...

Rain initially moved into the Carolinas late last week and intensified heading into the weekend with a few of the heaviest and most widespread rain falling on Saturday.

Reports indicated there were about 2 feet of water on the two-lane road.

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Hurricane Joaquin over Bahamas on October. 1.

Don’t drive through any flooded roads – “turn around, don’t drown”.

Rather than learn from that mistake – and rest assured, it was a mistake – Wolf has now doubled down and vetoed the stopgap budget recently passed by the Legislature.

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.

En route from Florida to Puerto Rico, the 735-foot (224-meter) cargo ship was reported to be caught in the storm near Crooked Island, which is part of the Bahamas.

The depression is centered about 1,205 miles (1,935 kilometers) east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and is moving north at 5 mph (7 kph).

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.