New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging city residents to heed warnings of evacuation. He said Irene poses a serious threat to the city.
Hurricane season for the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico runs from June 1 through November 30
Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina on Saturday on a path that triggered evacuations in New York and threatened the densely populated East Coast with flooding and power outages.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo told the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to suspend tolls at the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge, the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a statement on his Web site noted.
Forecasters are predicting winds as high as 85 mph for southern Delaware.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has suspended bridge tolls, subway fares and bus tickets in order to encourage the evacuation of New Yorkers who are in area that could be damaged by Hurricane Irene.
The storm comes just a week after an unprecedented magnitude-5.8 earthquake struck central Virginia.
Hurricane Irene's impact on New York City remains to be seen, but it's a certainty that Broadway will be dark this weekend, with all Saturday and Sunday performances canceled.
Hurricane Irene sent East Coast shoppers into stores to stock up on essentials this week, instead of the clothes, notebooks and other supplies that retailers were counting on selling as children get ready to go back to school.
New York is in the eye of Hurricane Irene's path. Here's why America's largest city faces high risk from Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane Irene caused as much as $1.1 billion in insured losses in the Caribbean, catastrophe modeling company AIR Worldwide said on Friday, with more expected to come as the storm heads for the U.S. Northeast.
World stocks rose 1 percent and the dollar fell on Friday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke left the door open for future U.S. economic stimulus.
Here are five things those in Hurricane Irene path can do to pass the time.
Hurricane Irene makes landfall in North Carolina. 2.5 million evacuation orders are issued along the East Coast. President Obama says Irene will be 'costly.'
Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf on Saturday on a path threatening the densely populated U.S. East Coast with flooding and power outages.
Federal officials have warned Hurricane Irene, which is at a category 1 phase currently, could cause flooding, power outages or worse all along the East Coast as far north as Maine, even if it stays offshore.
At least 90,000 residents on North Carolina’s coast are without power, including a hospital in Morehead City.
Hurricane Irene is about to make history, aiming at a rare strike on New York. The city is getting ready for Irene's arrival. Evacuations are underway, and the MTA is nearing noon shutdown.
For the first time, North Shore L.I. residents must leave their homes
As Hurricane Irene sustains its path, making landfall in eastern North Carolina at around 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the storm has weakened from Category 2 to Category 1, according to an update released by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) at 5 a.m. Saturday.
Hurricane Irene is disrupting the lives of some 50 million along the U.S. East Coast. But here are five survival tips worth trying to pass the time and make the best of a bad situation.
Hurricane Irene was downgraded to a Category 1 storm early Saturday but updated forecasts still show Irene is a powerful threat. The hurricane is nearing landfall in North Carolina, and models still show it should hit New York within 24 hours at hurricane strength. New York remains directly in the path of Irene on Saturday, and the storm is forecast to strike late Saturday and early Sunday at hurricane strength. But first, the Category 1 storm is within hours of making landfall in eastern North ...
