10210 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110826/ap_on_re_us/ireneAP - Hurricane Irene's main thrust was still a day away from North Carolina but heightened waves began hitting the state's Outer Banks early Friday as the storm continued trudging toward the East Coast.Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:37:00 +0200news-yahoo-6b5987e6b6a4daf18a2b7b5ebca2ffa320110826133700http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15337276/nightmare-scenario-hurricane-menaces-east-coastHurricane Irene's main thrust was still a day away from North Carolina but heightened waves began hitting the state's Outer Banks early Friday as the storm continued trudging toward the East Coast.Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:36:00 +0200newschannel5-16c924cc97478552e9e10abf9b2f25ba20110826133600http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/08/26/2512336/irene-slightly-weaker-warning.htmlNAGS HEAD, N.C. -- Farmer Wilson Daughtry shrugged off an evacuation order and raced to harvest all the corn and squash he could hours before the initial waves churned up by Hurricane Irene started bumping the outer islands of North Carolina. Far away in Maine, lobsterman Greg Griffin reported his....Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:02:00 +0200antiguanews-7b752357ca6fbf72cbefa65db42a9bcf20110826130200http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/08/25/hurricane.bahamas/index.html?eref=rss_latestThe Bahamas worked to return to normal Thursday evening after the worst of Hurricane Irene hammered the Caribbean island chain.Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:43:00 +0200cnn-a07c6241b5e6b68728c4f605ee14ff6d20110826004300