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Manila airport closed amid powerful typhoon
Passengers were left stranded Tuesday when Manila's international airport closed due to a powerful typhoon that continued to blow across the Philippines.
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1950s: Wife sits with head in hand
1950s: Wife sits with head in hand. Husband comes out of bedroom holding stockings. Man gestures and yells. Woman stands. Woman grabs stockings from man. Woman spins.
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Unusual hailstorm takes Dubai by surprise
Dubai on Saturday experienced a hail storm, an unusual sight for the desert city which often sees temperatures as high as 50 degrees centigrade in the summer.
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Storm Nicholas Threatens Texas With Up to 18 Inches of Rain
Sep.14 -- Storm Nicholas made landfall in Texas, bringing torrential rainfall that threatens to unleash flooding in Houston and parts of Louisiana still recovering from Hurricane Ida two weeks ago. (Source: KTRK via APTN)
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Storm Surge & Erosion in Outer Banks From Maria
Maria regained strength and became a hurricane again Wednesday, pushing water over both sides of North Carolina's Outer Banks and taking its time to slowly turn away from the U.S. Atlantic coast.
No injuries have been...
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Storm Surge Batters Sea Wall at Palacios, Texas
Hurricane Harvey has settled over southeast Texas, dumping rain and lashing the state's Gulf Coast with damaging winds.
At the seawall in Palacios, Texas, the town may have been spared a disaster as the storm surge...
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Hurricane Gustav dealt a glancing blow to the Mississippi Coast on Monday, flooding hundreds of homes and knocking out power to tens of thousands of residents. There were no immediate reports of storm-related injuries and Gustav's effect was mild compared with Katrina.
HEADLINE: Raw video: Gustav hits Gulfport, Miss.
CAPTION: Hurricane Gustav dealt a glancing blow to the Mississippi Coast on Monday, flooding hundreds of homes and knocking out power to tens of thousands of residents. There were no...
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Catalonia on flood alert after heavy storm
Officials in the Spanish region of Catalonia said Monday they are on flood alert after an intense thunderstorm hit overnight.
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How Can We Prepare For Deadly Floods?
Record U.S. rainfall has caused major flash flooding. How can Americans better prepare for these natural disasters?
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UK: Thousands of people are still without power, after two storms in Scotland and the North-East of England at the weekend.
VOICED: Thousands of people are still without power, after two storms in Scotland and the North-East of England at the weekend.
The storms left around 40,000 homes in Scotland and 7,000 in northern England without power.
Two people...
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Irma in 'Perfect Storm' Conditions, Says Meteorologist
Sep.06 -- Jacob Meisel, chief meteorologist at Bespoke Investment Group, examines the conditions that built Hurricane Irma into the most powerful storm ever to form in the Atlantic Ocean. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
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Roughly 80 percent of New Orleans flooded when the city’s levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago, and among the losses was the city’s Charity Hospital. On Aug. 1, a new medical center is scheduled to open to the tune of $1 billion. (June 17)
Roughly 80 percent of New Orleans flooded when the city’s levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago, and among the losses was the city’s Charity Hospital. But on Aug. 1, a new 2.3 million square foot medical...
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Pence: Irma is Storm of "Epic Proportions"
Vice President Mike Pence says Hurricane Irma is a "storm of historic and epic proportions."
Pence spoke Sunday afternoon while visiting the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington. He says...
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Won't Change Our Targets After 1H Results, Says Zurich CEO
Aug.09 -- Mario Greco, chief executive officer at Zurich Insurance, discusses his company's performance, natural disaster claims, raising premiums, the part of his job that he's most excited about, cost targets, their M&A path and his...
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Pence: Irma is Storm of "Epic Proportions"
Vice President Mike Pence says Hurricane Irma is a "storm of historic and epic proportions."
Pence spoke Sunday afternoon while visiting the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington. He says...
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Pence: Irma is Storm of "Epic Proportions"
US Vice President Mike Pence says Hurricane Irma is a "storm of historic and epic proportions."
Pence spoke Sunday afternoon while visiting the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington.
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N.J. Governor Murphy on Hurricane Florence, Climate Change
Sep.13 -- New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy discusses Hurricane Florence and the impact climate change has had on storms. Murphy speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.
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The Lessons Learned From the 2004 Tsunami
Dec. 23 -- Peeranan Towashiraporn, director of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, discusses the lessons learned from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Claims Sunderbans islands at risk from climate change
Sunderbans Islands
1. Various of Sunderbans Islands and mangrove forests on the banks as seen from a boat
2. Monkey sitting on a tree branch with its cub
3. Wide of a royal Bengal tiger swimming, reaching the bank then running into the...
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Local newspapers'' coverage of hurricane Katrina awarded with Pulitzer
1. Wide shot Columbia University, Journalism School building
2. Wide shot press conference where Pulitzers announced
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sig Gissler, Administrator of Pulitzer Prize Awards:
"A couple of themes that seemed to emerge,...
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Meteorologist warns of hurricane in Germany
Germany must prepare for an incoming hurricane that will cause damage to infrastructure and pose possible threat to life, according to meteorologist Andreas Friedrich of the German Weather Service.
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Families forced to abandon their homes as monsoon rains kill more than 200 in Pakistan and India
Heavy monsoon rains and flash floods have killed 128 people in Pakistan and 108 people in India, officials said on Saturday, as forecasters warned of more rain in the coming days and troops raced to evacuate people from deluged...
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Dutch PM Rutte: Irma of "epic proportions"
The Dutch prime minister on Thursday said Hurricane Irma was a storm of "epic proportions", which caused "huge damage" on the former colony of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean.
Speaking after an emergency meeting of the Dutch...