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• Confusion, fear as Haiti camps evacuate for storm Nov 04, 2021 07:04 AM
  
  • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - For nearly 10 months, more than 1 million people in Haiti's earthquake camps have been walking a precarious line: Trying to get out and find good homes without losing their tents and the possessions they still have.
  • Now a potential hurricane threatens to upend that careful balance.
  • The Haitian government has called for the voluntary evacuation of all the quake zone's camps ahead of Friday's expected arrival of Tropical Storm Tomas, telling residents to find somewhere else to go.

  • Indonesian volcano spews hot ash; toll rises to 44 Nov 04, 2021 06:50 AM
    
    • MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia - Towering clouds of hot ash gushed from the mouth of a deadly Indonesian volcano Thursday, hours after its most explosive eruption in a deadly week sent more villagers fleeing and killed three more people.
    • "It looks like we may be entering an even worse stage," said Surono, a state volcanologist, who'd earlier said a week of continual eruptions appeared to be easing pressure behind the magma dome lodged in the Mount Merapi's crater.
    • In 1994, 60 people were killed, while in 1930, more than a dozen villages were torched, leaving up to 1,300 dead.

    • Report: Flight delays in NYC region bad as ever Nov 04, 2021 06:39 AM
      
      • NEW YORK - A new government report criticizes attempts to reduce airport chaos in New York, saying scheduling rules continue to put too many planes in line when weather is the worst, disrupting air travel across the United States.
      • The limits imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration at John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports in 2008 are too generous and are based on good weather conditions, resulting in a glut of flights when the weather turns ugly, according to the report by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General.
      • The result: one-quarter of all airplanes arriving in New York end up delayed or cancelled.

      • Obama drops plan to limit global warming gases Nov 04, 2021 06:39 AM
        
        • WASHINGTON - Environmental groups and industry seem headed for another battle over regulation of greenhouse gases, as President Barack Obama said he will look for ways to control global warming pollution other than Congress placing a ceiling on it.
        • Legislation putting a limit on heat-trapping greenhouse gases and then allowing companies to buy and sell pollution permits under that ceiling narrowly passed the House in 2009 as a centerpiece of Obama's domestic agenda, but it stalled in the Senate.
        • Obama, when asked about the EPA's authority Wednesday, said that while a court order gave the EPA jurisdiction, the agency still wants help from Congress.

        • Death toll from Indonesian volcano climbs to 44 Nov 04, 2021 06:39 AM
          
          • MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia - Disaster officials say the death toll from Indonesia's most volatile volcano has climbed to 44.
          • Eka Saputra, who works at the National Disaster Management Agency, said Thursday that three people died when Mount Merapi unleashed its more powerful eruption Wednesday.
          • MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) - Towering clouds of hot ash gushed from the mouth of Indonesia's deadly volcano Thursday, hours after its most explosive eruption in a deadly week sent screaming women and children fleeing mountainside villages and emergency shelters.

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