Florida state of emergency expands Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency for 61 counties on Tuesday to help agencies prepare for the storm. The governor also requested a pre-landfall emergency declaration from FEMA. On Tuesday,several counties issued mandatory evacuationsfor their r...
Parts of Florida are under a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Helene heads for the state. Helene formed Tuesday morning and is expected to impact the Sunshine State as a hurricane when it lands on Thursday. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports from Clearwater, Florida.Sept...
"It’s important for Floridians on the East Coast to monitor this storm closely," DeSantis said on Wednesday when he initially declared an emergency for counties that could be in the storm's path. Now all 67 counties in Florida are under a state of emergency. "Every Florida resident shoul...
In Miami, Mayor Francis X. Suarez also released a statement declaring astate of emergencyon June 1. This order enforced that the city manager must take action “to protect the health, safety and welfare of the community.” Given that early June is usually when residents decide to embark...
President-elect Donald Trump told reporters that he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, said the country was “not going to lose” the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey during a freewheeling press conference Monday at his Ma...
Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for all of Florida on Saturday as Tropical Storm Ian gained strength over the Caribbean and was forecast to become a major hurricane soon on a track toward the state. DeSantis had initially issued the emergency order for two dozen counties on ...
According toPOLITICO’s Jordain Carney and Jennifer Scholtes:“Some Republican lawmakers have predicted that the disaster aid will total less than the White House’s request, but not dramatically. There is broad acknowledgment that the emergency funding within the package will not be offset by fundi...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday issuedan executive orderdeclaring a state of emergency for 12 counties in the northern part of the state affected by the storm. Astatementon the Tallahassee government’s website said crews were scrambling to repair 100 broken power poles while half the ...
(P. concolor coryi) and was reclassified as a population of theP. concolor couguarsubspecies in 2017 after agenetic analysis. The Florida panther was one of the first animals listed under theEndangered Species Actwhen the law first passed in 1973, and it is recognized as the stateanimalof ...
His office declared a state of emergency for some of the worst affected areas. A similar one was later declared in parts of Georgia too. State workers rushed to clear debris from Hurricane Helene as evacuation orders are in place for over one million people in Florida's west-co...