Disaster planning and response

Houston faces heat risk, endangering thousands without power after storms

U.S.
Amanda Smith

HOUSTON (AP) — As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left ...

Severe storms battering the Midwest bring tornadoes

U.S.
Amanda Smith

DETROIT (AP) — Severe storms barreled through the Midwest early Wednesday, a day after two reported tornadoes struck one Michigan city and ...

Texas floods: 1 child dies after being swept away in floodwaters

U.S.
Amanda Smith

HOUSTON (AP) — Storms in Texas brought additional rain Sunday to the already saturated Houston area where hundreds of people have been ...

Severe weather: Houston braces for flooding to worsen

U.S.
Amanda Smith

HOUSTON (AP) — High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more ...

A woman in her 90s is rescued alive 5 days after Japan’s deadly earthquake

World
David Turner

A woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major quake ...

Japan plane crash: Five crewmembers dead, hundreds evacuated safely

World
David Turner

TOKYO (AP) — A large passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on ...

Mount Marapi volcano: More bodies found after surprise eruption

World
David Turner

BATU PALANO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia’s Mount Marapi volcano found more bodies among the climbers caught ...

Rescuers dig to reach 40 workers trapped in collapsed road tunnel in north India

World
David Turner

Rescuers are digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide in northern ...