Extreme Weather
Resources to fight the fires and support the evacuees are stretched thin, said Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.
Torrents of predawn rainfall early Thursday unleashed the devastating flood on Mokwa in north-central Nigeria.
“This was probably the best investment I made last summer.”
Kentucky authorities said there were also severe injuries when a twister tore across Laurel County late Friday.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
A storm system sweeping over large areas of the U.S. South and Midwest has resulted in at least 16 weather-related deaths, with overnight tornado and flash flood warnings setting up more severe weather.
Day after day of heavy rains have pounded the central U.S., rapidly swelling waterways and prompting a series of flash flood emergencies in from Texas to Ohio.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is expected to lose over 1,000 staffers as part of President Donald Trump's cost-cutting agenda.
At least 37 people were killed as a sprawling storm barreled across the nation’s midsection toward the East Coast.
Another system is moving out of the Rockies and into the Plains in the coming days, according to a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The dynamic storm that began Friday earned an unusual “high risk” designation from weather forecasters.