345860 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 https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2018/sep/14/trump-claims-hurricane-maria-death-toll-rose-like-magic/479150/WASHINGTON (AP) As Tropical Storm Florence inundated the Carolinas on Friday, President Donald Trump circled back to his claim that the official death toll from a devastating storm a year earlier in Puerto Rico was inflated and said the number of dead seemed to rise from double digits to 3,000 "like magic.Sun, 16 Sep 2018 04:53:00 +0200timesfreepress-7a3b86bf4c16763c0bb3184c49a1f4ed20180916045300https://www.newsweek.com/drone-pilots-will-assist-disaster-relief-and-recovery-efforts-during-and-1122760Drone pilots are preparing for recovery relief after Hurricane Florence has passed. Florence has ravaged the Carolinas and is moving through Virginia. A small army of drone pilots have been watching the forecasts and are staging in areas where they will be useful as a part of the disaster response.Sun, 16 Sep 2018 04:26:00 +0200newsweek-45c0e79092308fac773b8630a6b0a68420180916042600https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/slideshow/The-best-images-from-Hurricane-Ike-24353.phpDondi Fields, 50, holds on to her dog Sandy Beach after she, the dog and her husband, David Fields, were rescued by officials as they tried to evacuate from their Surfside Beach home with Hurricane Ike approaching. Photo: Julio Cortez, Chronicle Surfside Beach Police Department officials spent the....Sun, 16 Sep 2018 02:44:00 +0200houstonchronicle-356f866a3d25da98af761850c8258abc20180916024400http://www.kxxv.com/story/39093622/death-toll-continues-to-rise-in-southeastern-nc-due-to-hurricane-florenceHAMPSTEAD, NC (WECT) - More >> The death toll in North Carolina from Hurricane Florence continues to rise after three people were killed Saturday afternoon. WITN is reporting the Duplin County Sheriff said two people were killed outside Kenansville and the third happened in Kornegay.Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:12:00 +0200kxxv-f3cd946389f9ee5d60c5783b2696f13120180916001200