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A girl struggles against winds during Hurricane Norbert in Puerto San Carlos, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. Hurricane Norbert slammed into Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula with torrential rains and screaming winds, forcing scores of people to flee flooded homes. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Norbert weakens to tropical depression over Mexico

AP - Sun Oct 12, 6:13 PM ET

PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico - Norbert dissipated into a tropical depression over the northern mountains of mainland Mexico on Sunday, after ripping off roofs, flooding streets, and forcing thousands to seek shelter in Baja California.

  • NOAA satellite image show Tropical Storm Marco (lower left) as it approaches the eastern coast of Mexico on October 8. The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Norbert has become a major hurricane with winds near 115 miles (185 kilometers) per hour, as it churns towards Mexico's tourist destination of Baja, California.(AFP/NOAA/Ho)
    Forecasters: Tropical Storm Nana forms in Atlantic AP - Sun Oct 12, 5:16 PM ET

    MIAMI - Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Tropical Storm Nana has formed in the eastern Atlantic, but predict it will weaken to a tropical depression by Monday.

  • Hurricane Norbert storms Mexico's Baja peninsula Reuters - Sat Oct 11, 11:50 PM ET

    LA PAZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Norbert smacked Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Saturday, blowing roofs off buildings, knocking down trees and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate flood-prone areas.

  • As storm nears, west Texas braces for more floods AP - Fri Oct 10, 6:54 PM ET

    EL PASO, Texas - Officials planned to activate an emergency operations center in west Texas, where the remnants of Hurricane Norbert are expected to bring rain to already saturated areas, an official said Friday.

  • Spanish police seal off a road. A British woman and her 14-year-old daughter have drowned in a flash flood in eastern Spain which has been lashed by torrential rains, officials said.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)
    British mother, teenage daughter drown in Spanish floods AFP - Fri Oct 10, 9:27 AM ET

    MADRID (AFP) - A British woman and her 14-year-old daughter have drowned in a flash flood in eastern Spain which has been lashed by torrential rains, officials said on Friday.

  • A man checks out an ArmaLite rifle at the National Rifle Association of America's (NRA) annual meeting at the Kentucky Exposition Center in May 2008 in Louisville, Kentucky. The National Rifle Association (NRA), the powerful US gun lobby, has reached an agreement with federal and local authorities on reuniting gunowners with weapons lost or confiscated during Hurricane Katrina, officials said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)
    Gun lobby reaches deal on return of weapons to Katrina victims AFP - Thu Oct 9, 5:09 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The National Rifle Association (NRA), the powerful US gun lobby, has reached an agreement with federal and local authorities on reuniting gunowners with weapons lost or confiscated during Hurricane Katrina, officials said Thursday.

  • Debris from Hurricane Ike sits along the levee protecting the Sterling Chemicals plant Sept. 18, 2008 in Texas City, Texas. Texas City -- home to seven massive facilities run by industry giants like the Dow Chemical Co., BP and Valero -- is surrounded by a ring levee system that includes earthen levees without erosion-control concrete, long stretches of floodwalls similar to those that failed during Katrina and a mishmash of levee heights.(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
    Hurricane Ike produces 76,000 damage claims so far AP - Thu Oct 9, 6:41 AM ET

    AUSTIN, Texas - More than 76,000 damage claims from Hurricane Ike have been filed with the Texas-backed windstorm insurance association, which expects to pay billions of dollars to policy holders for losses.

  • This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Norbert taken at 3:30 a.m. EDT Saturday Oct. 11, 2008. As of 5 a.m. EDT, the hurricane's center was located about 90 miles (145km) south of Cabo San Lazaro. Officials from the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Norbert became better organized and has re-strengthened to a Category 3 hurricane early Saturday with winds of 115 mph (185 kph). The center says Norbert could even strengthen a little more before making landfall along the southwestern coast of Baja California later Saturday morning. (AP Photo/NOAA)
    Norbert becomes Category 4 hurricane in Pacific AP - Wed Oct 8, 4:45 PM ET

    MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Norbert has strengthened to a powerful, Category 4 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast.

  • One of the first of a handful of homes in Brad Pitt's Make It Right rebuilding project is shown in the background in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The Make It Right program calls for 150 homes to be built where levees broke after Hurricane Katrina, letting loose floodwaters that pushed homes off their foundations. The steps in the foreground belonged to a home that was destroyed by Katrina. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
    NRA to settle suit over Katrina gun seizures AP - Wed Oct 8, 3:53 PM ET

    NEW ORLEANS - City officials have agreed to return hundreds of firearms that police officers confiscated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, part of a deal to resolve a lawsuit filed by gun lobbying groups.

  • National Summary: High pressure in the East brings clear skies and warm temperatures for Monday Oct. 13, 2008 while a cold front pushing through the Plains triggers rain and thunder. Behind the front, much cooler temperatures are anticipated. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
    The Nation's Weather AP - Sun Oct 12, 8:03 PM ET

    Heavy snow fell in parts of the West on Sunday, with several counties in mountainous parts of Wyoming reporting as much as 33 inches.

  • Storm spawns tornado in Fla., possibly one in Ala. AP - Wed Oct 8, 3:23 PM ET

    ENTERPRISE, Ala. - Forecasters say a tornado blew out windows and knocked down power lines in the Florida Panhandle, and another suspected twister damaged a civic center in a southeastern Alabama town.

  • A Banque Populaire agency in Paris. Two of France's leading banks, Caisse d'Epargne and Banque Populaire, approved plans for a merger on Wednesday in a bid to protect themselves from the global financial tsunami.(AFP/Eric Piermont)
    French banks to merge in bid to weather storm AFP - Wed Oct 8, 1:38 PM ET

    PARIS (AFP) - Two of France's leading banks, Caisse d'Epargne and Banque Populaire, approved plans for a merger on Wednesday in a bid to protect themselves from the global financial tsunami.

  • Tornado touches down near Fla. park, no one hurt AP - Wed Oct 8, 12:56 PM ET

    PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Forecasters say a tornado has blown out windows and knocked down trees and power lines near a state park in the Florida Panhandle.

  • A Maldivian woman walks past a wall with electoral posters in Male on October 6, 2008. A bitter campaign ahead of historic elections in the Maldives drew to a close Tuesday, with a veteran Asian leader and a prominent dissident each confident of victory.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)
    Maldivians flood polls in first free election AP - Wed Oct 8, 11:51 AM ET

    MALE, Maldives - Thousands of Maldivian islanders braved long lines, pouring rain and glitches in the voting rolls Wednesday to cast ballots in the first democratic presidential election in their tiny nation's history.

  • Relatives wait outside a collapsed building as Chinese soldiers continue their rescue operation in Dujiangyan city following a massive earthquake in China in May 2008. The United Nations has said that more people died from natural disasters in the first six months of 2008 than in the Asian tsunami of 2004 due mainly to the earthquake in China and cyclone in Myanmar.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)
    Disasters kill more in 2008 than in tsunami: UN AFP - Wed Oct 8, 6:57 AM ET

    GENEVA (AFP) - More people died from natural disasters in the first six months of 2008 than in the Asian tsunami of 2004 due mainly to the earthquake in China and cyclone in Myanmar, the United Nations said Wednesday.

  • Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico AFP - Wed Oct 8, 5:57 AM ET

    MIAMI (AFP) - Norbert has become a major hurricane with winds near 115 miles (185 kilometers) per hour, as it churns towards Mexico's tourist destination of Baja, California, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

  • Ike windstorm costs insurers $550M in Ohio damages AP - Tue Oct 7, 7:07 PM ET

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - Winds from Hurricane Ike will cost insurance companies at least $553.1 million to cover property damage and other losses in Ohio, making it the state's most expensive natural disaster in more than three decades, a trade group said Tuesday.

  • A furnace which burns a mixture of biofuel and low sulfur heating oil is shown in Westwood, Massachusetts November 12, 2007. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
    Heating costs to jump 15 percent this winter: government Reuters - Tue Oct 7, 2:42 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. household heating fuel costs will rise 15 percent this winter from last year, the government's top energy forecasting agency said on Tuesday, citing more expensive fuel and the likelihood of much colder weather than last winter.

  • This NOAA satellite image show Tropical Storm Marco (lower-L) as it approaches the eastern coast of Mexico. Marco made landfall in Mexico Tuesday, crashing ashore as the latest in a series of powerful storms to strike the region this hurricane season, US forecasters said.(AFP/NOAA-HO)
    Tropical storm Marco hits Mexico AFP - Tue Oct 7, 12:32 PM ET

    MIAMI (AFP) - Tropical storm Marco made landfall in Mexico Tuesday, crashing ashore as the latest in a series of powerful storms to strike the region this hurricane season, US forecasters said.

  • Weather around the U.S.A. AP - Tue Oct 7, 9:04 AM ET

    Weather around the U.S.A.

  • In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, Unified Command responders discuss conditions at a diesel spill site on Goat Island, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Teams have been working throughout the Houston-Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas, areas to identify, assess and remediate pollution sites since the passing of Hurricane Ike. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 1st Class L.F. Chambers)
    AP Investigation: Ike environmental toll apparent AP - Mon Oct 6, 3:35 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

  • Some of the bagged wreckage recovered from the crash site of adventurer Steve Fossett, is lowered by helicopter to a trailer, near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The National Transportation Safety Board recovered the wreckage and will assemble it later to try to find the cause of the crash that killed Fossett. (AP Photo/Spencer Weiner, Pool)
    Fossett plane recovery might not resume this year AP - Sun Oct 5, 10:58 AM ET

    MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - California officials say recovery efforts around the site of adventurer Steve Fossett's downed plane might not resume until summer.

  • A rainy day in Astawali, a western suburb of Algiers City, in 2007. Around 5,000 people have demonstrated in the flood-riven southern Algerian town of Ghardaia to demand urgent aid after flash floods killed 31 residents, witnesses said.(AFP/File/Fayez Nureldine)
    Flooding in Algerian oasis kills 30, damages hundreds of homes AFP - Thu Oct 2, 6:05 PM ET

    ALGIERS (AFP) - Flooding following rare torrential rains on the edge of the Algerian desert have killed at least 30 people and injured 50, while damaging hundreds of homes, officials said Thursday.

  • 29 Algerians die, dozens hurt in flash floods AP - Thu Oct 2, 11:11 AM ET

    ALGIERS, Algeria - Torrential rains in the Algerian Sahara created flash floods that killed 29 people and injured dozens more in a historic oasis region, officials in the North African nation said Thursday.

  • Teddy bear stuffed toys are place on a bed by Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the civil center in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 2005. The US Justice Department has charged 907 people with cheating the federal government out of relief funds or other assistance following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, officials announced Thursday.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)
    Fraudsters prosecuted in Hurricane Katrina's wake AFP - Thu Oct 2, 10:57 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Justice Department has charged 907 people with cheating the federal government out of relief funds or other assistance following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, officials announced Thursday.

  • Fishermen move a fishing boat to higher ground ahead of tropical storm Mekkhala in central city of Danang, Vietnam Monday, Sept. 29, 2008. The storm lammed into central Vietnam Tuesday, knocking down trees, electricity poles and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in high risk areas, officials said. (AP Photo/Vietnam News Agency)
    Vietnam's death toll from storm rises to 8 AP - Thu Oct 2, 3:15 AM ET

    HANOI, Vietnam - The bodies of two children and three fishermen were recovered in central Vietnam, raising the death toll from Tropical Storm Mekkhala to eight with eight others still missing and feared dead, disaster officials said Thursday.

  • This handout image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Ike appearing as a large and powerful storm in the Gulf of Mexico in September 2008. October should be more active than usual in the Atlantic hurricane belt, with three named storms expected to form -- including two hurricanes, one of them major -- forecasters said Wednesday.(AFP/NOAA/File)
    October hurricane-watch should be active: forecasters AFP - Wed Oct 1, 1:40 PM ET

    MIAMI (AFP) - October should be more active than usual in the Atlantic hurricane belt, with three named storms expected to form -- including two hurricanes, one of them major -- forecasters said Wednesday.

  • Palm trees are swayed by outer bands of Hurricane Ike in Pinar del Rio, Cuba September 9, 2008. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)
    Forecaster sees three tropical storms in October Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 10:31 AM ET

    MIAMI (Reuters) - Three tropical storms will form in the Atlantic and Caribbean in October, of which two will strengthen into hurricanes, the noted Colorado State University hurricane research team predicted Wednesday.

  • Laura moves into cold waters of north Atlantic AP - Tue Sep 30, 10:49 PM ET

    MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Laura has begun to weaken as it moves into the energy-sapping cold waters of the north Atlantic.

  • One of the first of a handful of homes in Brad Pitt's Make It Right rebuilding project holds an open house in the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. The Make It Right program calls for 150 homes to be built where levees broke after Hurricane Katrina, letting loose floodwaters that pushed homes off their foundations. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
    Feds to investigate post-Katrina bridge shootings AP - Tue Sep 30, 6:39 PM ET

    NEW ORLEANS - Federal officials will investigate the New Orleans police officers involved in fatal shootings that happened on a city bridge after Hurricane Katrina, authorities said Tuesday.

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