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News Brief: Isaias Moves Up The Coast, COVID-19 Poll, TikTok Negotiations

8:17am August 04, 2020

Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in North Carolina. NPR and IPSOS release poll findings on the national response to the pandemic. Microsoft is in talks to buy TikTok's U.S. operations.

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Hurricane Isaias made landfall in North Carolina, near the border with South Carolina, Monday night. Pictured is North Myrtle Beach, S.C., as bands of wind and rain hit the coast.

Hurricane Isaias Makes Landfall In North Carolina

11:45pm August 03, 2020

by Alana Wise

The National Hurricane Center says the storm's eye came ashore near Ocean Isle Beach. It's expected to linger in North Carolina, traveling inland before swirling up the Mid-Atlantic coast.

Waves crash along the Juno Beach Pier as Tropical Storm Isaias passes through the area Sunday in Juno Beach, Fla. The storm is now headed toward the Carolinas.

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Tropical Storm Isaias Grazes Florida En Route To The Carolinas

8:42pm August 02, 2020

by Rachel Treisman

Isaias largely spared Florida over the weekend, but is expected to be a "strong tropical storm" when it reaches the coast of eastern South Carolina or southern North Carolina on Monday night.

A brush fire burns amid the Apple Fire in Banning, Calif. on Saturday.

California's Apple Fire Destroys More Than 20,000 Acres

3:30pm August 02, 2020

by Christianna Silva

Officials have ordered evacuations for nearly 8,000 people in southern California, as the state continues to grapple with a rapidly growing number of COVID-19 cases.

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue check out the ocean as waves crash ashore from Tropical Storm Isaias as it passes through the area on August 2, 2020 in Juno Beach, Fla.

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Tropical Storm Isaias Closes In On Florida

1:20pm August 02, 2020

by Huo Jingnan

While the storm has weakened from hurricane status, it had sustained winds on Sunday of 65 mph and is expected to inundate much of the East Coast this week with heavy rains and strong winds.

Storm clouds are seen over Miami as Hurricane Isaias approaches the east coast of Florida on Saturday.

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Tropical Storm Isaias Nears Florida Coast

6:58pm August 01, 2020

by Wynne Davis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged state residents to remain vigilant and heed warnings from local officials and news outlets as Isaias moves closer to the state.

Hurricane Isaias will maintain its hurricane status for several days as it passes along Florida's central Atlantic coast, the National Hurricane Center says. The storm's forecast cone predicts it will hug the southeastern U.S. coastline.

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Florida's Gov. DeSantis Declares Emergency As Hurricane Isaias Closes In

10:57pm July 31, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The hurricane could begin affecting South Florida as early as late Friday night and could increase in strength to a Category 2, DeSantis says. North Carolina and Virginia also declared emergencies.

NASA astronauts (from left) Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley and Chris Cassidy are the U.S. members of the Expedition 63 crew aboard the International Space Station. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to return to Earth on Aug. 2.

Science

Astronauts Set To Return To Earth In First U.S. Splashdown In Decades

5:51pm July 31, 2020

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

The two NASA astronauts who flew on the SpaceX craft to the International Space Station in May are scheduled to return to Earth on Sunday. But there's a hurricane forecast for the splashdown vicinity.

A satellite image from Thursday morning shows Tropical Storm Isaias looming over Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The storm is predicted to drench Florida over the weekend.

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Tropical Storm Isaias Floods Part Of Puerto Rico As It Heads Toward Florida

2:22pm July 30, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The storm is "causing life-threatening flash flooding and high winds over Puerto Rico," the National Weather Service office in San Juan says.

Inmate firefighters battle California's Kincade Fire on Oct. 29, 2019. In late June, officials locked down 12 inmate fire camps after outbreaks of the coronavirus within the state's prison system.

Coronavirus Pandemic Sidelines California's Inmate Firefighters

11:42am July 29, 2020

by Kevin Stark

The inmates who usually help fight wildfires are not on the job this summer because of COVID-19. As the state enters peak fire season, that means its forces are down significantly.

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