pablohart/Getty Images (TAMPA, Fla.) — Hospitals, emergency departments and health care facilities across Florida are reopening after they evacuated patients and canceled elective surgeries due to Hurricane Milton. BayCare health care system said some of its ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, laboratories, urgent care facilities and medical group offices areRead More →
Punta Gorda, Florida. Via Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Florida struggles to recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Milton, and the lingering effects from Helene two weeks earlier, the long-term health consequences could be devastating, studies suggest. A recent study published in the journal Nature examining nearlyRead More →
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday joined growing calls from Democrats and even one Republican to bring Congress back to pass certain additional disaster aid funding in the wake of the devastation in southeastern states caused by back-to-back hurricanes. Biden told reporters that the Small BusinessRead More →
ABC News (ST.PETERSBURG, Fla.) — As Hurricane Milton pummeled the St. Petersburg area, with winds strong enough to shred the roof of Tropicana Field, Kristy Austin said it sounded like a “freight train” was coming through her apartment building. “It sounded like the ocean was hitting our windows and theRead More →
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (TAMPA, Fla.) — The fiberglass roof of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, was left in tatters, a 10,000-square-foot sheriff’s facility was demolished and several people were killed at a senior living community in St. Lucie County. That was among the widespread damage emerging Thursday after HurricaneRead More →
Saul Martinez/Getty Images (TAMPA, Fla.) — Cleanup and damage assessments are underway at airports in Florida after Hurricane Milton barreled into the state’s western coast as a Category 3 storm. Multiple airports in the Tampa, Sarasota and Orlando areas closed in the hours and days ahead of landfall, with thousandsRead More →
Kevin Carter/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Turkish Airlines flight diverted to New York on Wednesday morning after one of its pilots died. Flight 204 was traveling from Seattle to Istanbul when it was diverted to John F. Kennedy International Airport for an emergency landing at approximately 6 a.m. afterRead More →
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the federal government’s hurricane response. Speaking on Hurricane Milton at the White House on Thursday afternoon, Biden was asked if he’s spoken to Trump directly. “Are you kidding me?Read More →
Debris in Sarasota, Florida. Via Sean Rayford/Getty (NEW YORK) — Florida authorities began assessing the damage left by Hurricane Milton’s passage across the state early Thursday, as the storm passed into the Atlantic Ocean after a night of high winds, torrential rain and storm surge. Milton made landfall on Florida’sRead More →
Paras Griffin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ABC News legal contributor Brian Buckmire talks about the music mogul’s return to court on charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. Sean “Diddy” Combs accused federal agents and prosecutors of unlawful leaks in a court filing on Wednesday. Combs has been held without bailRead More →
