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Florida State

Jacksonville, FL

After roaring into Florida Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane, Tropical Storm Debby is crawling up the East Coast, bringing with it catastrophic flooding and dumping feet of rain on some parts of the country. Debby has closed ports, damaged homes and businesses, and claimed at least five lives...

Some ports remain closed as Debby moves up East Coast

Tropical Storm Debby, which made landfall on Florida’s Big Bend coast on Monday morning, is expected to bring prolonged downpours and flooding to the area throughout Tuesday. The storm's record-setting rain has killed at least four people in Florida and one in Georgia. Some historic cities are hopeful that their fishing piers will hold up after recent renovations after the past year’s storms.

Tropical Storm Debby slowly moving up the East Coast

Georgia State

Savannah, GA

USA TODAY

Slow-moving Debby means lots of rain will fall in the storm's path this week — trillions of gallons, in fact.

Debby isn't done: 2 feet of rain and a drenched East Coast in forecast

CBS News

Hurricane Debby brought more than powerful winds and storm surge to Florida — packages of cocaine worth more than $1 million also made landfall, officials said, marking the latest in a string of recent discoveries of drugs along Florida shores.Debby, which slammed into the state as a Category 1 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, washed the drugs ashore in the Florida Keys, U.S. Border Patrol acting chief patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II wrote on social media."Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys," Briggs wrote, posting two...

Hurricane Debby blows cocaine worth $1 million onto Florida beach

Palm Beach County, FL

Belle Glade, FL

Nine people died and one person was seriously injured when an overloaded SUV went out of control on a South Florida road, hit a guardrail and went upside down into a canal, authorities said.The 2023 Ford Explorer carrying 10 people was traveling south on Hatton Highway near the farming community of Belle Glade at about 7:30 p.m. Monday when it came to a part of the two-lane road that briefly jogs west before again heading south, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. The NTSB said on Tuesday they opened an investigation into the crash in coordination with the sheriff's...

9 killed, 1 survives when SUV flips into canal in Florida

Dramatic details emerged Tuesday after police said human remains were found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia's second fatal attack in about a month.The latest victim was 40-year-old doctor Dave Hogbin, who fell from a steep bank Saturday into the Annan River south of Cooktown in Queensland state, his family said in a statement. The general practice doctor from Newcastle in New South Wales had been traveling on a camping vacation through Queensland with his wife Jane Hogbin and their three sons aged 2, 5 and 7 years. Cooktown is more than 1,500 miles from...

Tourist eaten by crocodile saved wife's life before he died, she says

Chicago, IL

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Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Los Angeles, CA

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Former child star Dana Hill died at only 32 years old on July 15, 1996. Like many former child stars, Hill had talent, and a promising life and career that ended all too soon. She was born Dana Lynne Goetz on May 6, 1964, in Los Angeles, California, and she passed with a Hollywood name in Burbank, California.

The Tragic Death of Child Star Dana Hill ('National Lampoon's European Vacation'): 3 Decades Later

Peru's reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization.FENAMAD, representing 39 Indigenous communities in the Cusco and Madre de Dios regions, said Monday that it believes illegal logging was taking place on Mashco Piro territory and that one logger was injured in the July 27 attack.A few weeks ago, photos emerged of the uncontacted tribe searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, which some experts say was evidence logging concessions are "dangerously close" to its territory. Survival...

Reclusive tribe attacks loggers with bows and arrows in Peru's Amazon

President Biden has approved an emergency declaration for South Carolina as Tropical Storm Debby, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane Monday, is expected to dump over 30 inches of rain on South Carolina.

Tropical Storm Debby could cause catastrophic flooding in South Carolina

Virginia State

AccuWeather

Debby will dump a tremendous amount of rain that may exceed 2 feet in some locations, triggering life-threatening flooding and immense property damage. Slow-moving Debby is positioning itself to cause catastrophic flooding in the southeastern United States this week. Inches of rain will pour down in hours, and feet of rain will drown some communities over several days. AccuWeather meteorologists warn that life-threatening flooding will expand from coastal to inland locations and from urban areas to small streams and major rivers.

Slow-moving Debby threatens catastrophic flooding to Carolinas, Virginia

Tropical Storm Debby is creeping over land with winds that would never make headlines. But the storm’s slow movement is adding to the devastating impact of its heavy rains, as it inundates already-soaked areas of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. With the storm predicted to meander along the coast,...

Tropical Storm Debby is flooding the Southeast, and it’s barely moving

Lumberton, NC

As Tropical Storm Debby heads north, the heavy rain brings with it the potential for catastrophic flooding in parts of Georgia and North and South Carolina. And the threat of major inland flooding from these storms appears to be growing. Hurricane Matthew sucker punched Lumberton, North Carolina, back in 2016. Nobody in that town, which is 80 miles inland, saw 20 inches of rain coming. The Lumber River crested 11 feet above flood stage and swamped the city.Six-foot-three Fire Chief Jimmy Hunt recalled the water was up to his chest. Back in 2016, he rescued roughly 50 people, most of them...

North Carolina communities, flooded before, brace for Debby

Butte County, CA

Crews are still working to contain the Park Fire, which has been raging for two weeks and has burned more than 400,000 acres. CBS News' Dave Malkoff reports from Butte County, California, and CBS News Bay Area meteorologist Jessica Burch has the latest weather update for the West.

Park Fire still raging two weeks since it began

Authorities killed on Monday a large crocodile thought responsible for Australia's second fatal attack in a month.The latest victim was a 40-year-old man from New South Wales state who had been fishing on Saturday while on vacation with his wife and children, traveling through Queensland state with a trailer, according to police. Government conservation officer Daniel Guymer said the man fell into the Annan River south of Cooktown. His body has not been recovered.Cooktown resident Bart Harrison said the steep bank had collapsed underneath the victim's feet, sending him more than 20 feet into the river which is renowned as...

Crocodile believed responsible for killing man on vacation with family

When President Biden exited the 2024 race, CBS News polling had him trailing former President Donald Trump by five points. However, now that Vice President Harris is the presumed nominee, it's Harris with a one-point edge nationally and a tie across the battleground states. CBS News executive director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto breaks down the latest numbers.

Harris has 1-point edge nationally over Trump, CBS News poll finds

Hawaii State

Sacramento, CA

The Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo filed for bankruptcy protection after customer visits to the family-style dining establishment declined in recent years. Buca di Beppo, which experienced "limited customer demand" during the pandemic, never fully recovered to the same level of revenue and sales after lockdown restrictions were lifted, the restaurant chain said Monday in bankruptcy court documents. The privately owned restaurant's revenue for the first five months of 2024 fell 10% to $74.8 million compared with a year earlier, court documents show. Buca di Beppo is entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy saddled with more than $10 million in debt. About $1.36...

Buca di Beppo goes bankrupt. Here are the restaurants that are closing.

Now a tropical storm that could cause catastrophic flooding in Georgia and South Carolina, Debby made landfall Monday as a Category 1 hurricane in Florida. The storm system is responsible for at least five deaths.

Debby turns deadly after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane

Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Ronkonkoma, NY

Cheryl E Preston

The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

Tropical Storm Debby is dropping record amounts of rain and causing flooding as it moves slowly along the East Coast. The precipitation isn't forecast to let up, as the storm is expected to linger in the Southeast in the coming days. Manuel Bojorquez reports.

Debby bringing record-breaking rain as it moves slowly up East Coast

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