What should you expect for the upcoming hurricane season?
The annual National Hurricane Conference serves as a national forum for federal, state and local officials to exchange ideas and recommend new policies to improve emergency management.
The annual National Hurricane Conference serves as a national forum for federal, state and local officials to exchange ideas and recommend new policies to improve emergency management.
Hurricane season is months away, but the waters where hurricanes roam haven't received the memo.
Researchers say five storms since 2013 had wind speeds that could categorize them as a Category 6 hurricane or cyclone — and that climate change will only make such intense storms more frequent.
The cone will place more emphasis on expected impacts by showing tropical storm and hurricane watches and warnings
The season ends with 20 named storms, seven went on to become hurricanes and three intensified into major hurricanes.
For a second consecutive hurricane season, Florida took a direct hit from a major storm
The center of Tammy will move near or over portions of the Leeward Islands on Friday night
It should strengthen into Tropical Storm Philippe today, but it currently poses no threats to the United States.
On the forecast track, Ophelia will approach the coast of North Carolina on Friday night
It is forecast to become Tropical Storm Ophelia in the next 24 hours as it moves to the north
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Elsewhere across the Atlantic Ocean, we have Tropical Storm Margot and Tropical Depression 15.
Hurricane Lee is churning northward, whipping up rough seas in the Atlantic as watches and warnings are issued for parts of New England and Canada.
There is now very good agreement on Lee's turn and speed as it continues moving north, just off the East Coast.
Hurricane Lee expected to bring hazardous beach conditions around the western Atlantic through next week
It's still too early to tell where it will head early next week
Hurricane Franklin continues to move away from Bermuda
Recovery efforts, including restoring power and searching damaged properties, began Wednesday after Hurricane Idalia made landfall in a sparsely populated area of the Gulf Coast before crossing parts of North Florida into Georgia.
With the 5 p.m. advisory, Hurricane Idalia was downgraded to a tropical storm.
Storm surge could rise as high as 15 feet in some places
Franklin is expected to pass to the northwest of Bermuda on Wednesday
Idalia to rapidly intensify into an extremely dangerous major hurricane before making landfall on Wednesday
Hurricane Idalia, a powerful Category 2 storm, has rapidly intensified and is threatening a potentially catastrophic collision with Florida's west coast while officials plead with residents to evacuate.
Strong waves crashed ashore at the south end of Duval Street in Key West, jumping the sea wall and leaving lots of standing water. It happened as high tide, mixed with King Tide and the storm pushed water ashore.
Some South Florida parents have sent their kids to school in Central and North Florida. With Hurricane Idalia on the way and classes cancelled some are making tough decisions… to let them stay or bring them home.
A couple facing human trafficking charges in Miami-Dade County after being accused of smuggling two Cuban women into South Florida and forcing them into prostitution.
Officials at Miami International Airport say a man was trying to board a flight with snakes in his pants.
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The Niklaus Children's Hospital and the Starlight Children's Foundation organized the event as a little distraction for kids being treated at the facility.
A couple facing human trafficking charges in Miami-Dade County after being accused of smuggling two Cuban women into South Florida and forcing them into prostitution.
Officials at Miami International Airport say a man was trying to board a flight with snakes in his pants.
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Entering its third year, Miami has been chosen as one of the only six venues to host an F1 Sprint in 2024, meaning there will be an extra race held that Saturday and guaranteeing high-octane action throughout the weekend.
Florida insurance companies made money last year for the first time in seven years.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled Sept. 26 to discuss whether it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a 2021 Florida law that placed restrictions on major social-media companies.
The number of people traveling to Florida during the second quarter of 2023 decreased compared to a year earlier, according to estimates released Wednesday by the state's tourism-marketing agency.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday said Walt Disney Parks and Resorts should drop a federal lawsuit that claims retaliation by the state and accept changes to a special district that long benefited the theme-park giant.
It's Back-To-School and that also means back to the lunch room, as breakfast and lunch are free to all Miami-Dade public school students again this year.
Walt Disney World will host dozens of portraits of service members and veterans from the nation's Painter-in-Chief.
The Biden administration said it's erasing debt for people who attended the for-profit Art Institutes, which shut down in September.
There's also a concern that veteran doctors will leave Florida, as they have in other states that have enacted abortion bans
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz will be challenged by a former U.S. Navy pilot in the upcoming Republican primary.
The proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some other drugs.
Jim DeFede catches up with State Senator Lauren Book to talk about the looming six-week abortion ban while she is making her annual walk across Florida to bring attention to child sexual exploitation.
CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede devotes the bulk of this week's program to Florida's six-week abortion ban, which takes effect in a few days.
Jim DeFede talks to former state senator Jeff Brandes, who runs the Florida Policy Project, which has been exploring solutions that include the role of vouchers and something called "upzoning."
Jim DeFede continues scrutinizing the three-plus decades during which Katherine Fernandez Rundle has led the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office. This week, Jim's guest is South Miami Mayor Javier Fernandez.
Jim DeFede talks to the CEO of Trulieve, the cannabis company that spent $40 million to gather the signatures to get the measure on the ballot.
Recall involves shelled walnuts distributed in 19 states and sold in bulk bins at natural food and co-op stores.
Cat deaths and neurological disease are "widely reported" around farms where the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected, health officials say.
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Razer sold the Zephyr mask as protection against COVID during the pandemic, but products were not tested, feds say.
CBS News Miami's Teri Hornstein went to the experts to find out what was causing us to be so exhausted and what we could do to make it better.
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One consumer reported suffering a dental injury after eating Trader Joe's Chicken, Lentil & Caramelized Onion Pilaf product.
The company will keep its name and headquarters in Pittsburgh, but the United Steelworkers union voiced opposition to the deal.
For customers of SmileDirectClub, they were greeted with a message that they had shut down when logging on to its website.
CBP officials say the individually wrapped pink packages have an estimated resale value of more than $19,000.
Walt Disney World will host dozens of portraits of service members and veterans from the nation's Painter-in-Chief.
Paramount said long-time CEO Bob Bakish will leave the company, which is in discussions to explore a sale or merger.
The vinyl sales alone were monumental, Billboard said, with "the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern era."
Both Mayor Charles Burkett and Chief Henry Doce believe that the officer involved could have been more empathetic to the distressed supermodel.
The character performers at Disneyland in California have said they filed a petition for union recognition.