410GDACS EMM News Feed 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 18 08 2020 USA - Iowa estimates that derecho damage to homes, farms will be close to $4 billion The nearly $4 billion hit to Iowa from last week's ferocious derecho is expected to grow as residents continue to assess the destruction to homes, farms, businesses, livestock and crops, experts say. About $3.8 billion of the damage outlined in Gov. Kim Reynold's disaster declaration request to President Donald Trump is to agriculture: a combined 6.1 million acres of corn and soybeans that were mowed down by winds exceeding 100 mph.https://agroinsurance.com/en/usa-iowa-estimates-that-derecho-damage-to-homes-farms-will-be-close-to-4-billion/The nearly $4 billion hit to Iowa from last week’s ferocious derecho is expected to grow as residents continue to assess the destruction to homes, farms, businesses, livestock and crops, experts say. About $3.8 billion of the damage outlined in Gov. Kim Reynold’s disaster declaration request to....Wed, 19 Aug 2020 04:15:00 +0200agroinsurance-en-031459117100bfc898b15566d294b89f20200819041500Isaias leaves at least 5 dead as it rips through East Coast on its way to Canadahttps://www.wishtv.com/weather/isaias-leaves-at-least-5-dead-as-it-rips-through-east-coast-on-its-way-to-canada/(CNN) — Tropical Storm Isaias killed at least five people as it whipped up the East Coast on Tuesday, including a man who was sitting in a van in the New York borough of Queens when the vehicle was hit by a falling tree. Mario Siles, 60, was found inside a 2014 Dodge van “with trauma about the head....Wed, 05 Aug 2020 03:48:00 +0200wishtv-406ce4db0d254f79bbb25375abeb8feb20200805034800Isaias makes landfall and threatens tornadoes, ferocious winds and flooding up the East Coasthttps://www.wfsb.com/news/isaias-makes-landfall-and-threatens-tornadoes-ferocious-winds-and-flooding-up-the-east-coast/article_ec9a50c9-0a05-5481-9990-89dae61b1de2.html(CNN) - Isaias slammed into the East Coast overnight, causing rapid flooding, water rescues and the threat of New York's strongest winds since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Isaias hurled sustained winds of 85 mph and became a Category 1 hurricane before reaching land around 11:10 p.m.Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:50:00 +0200wfsb-b56539c47fe4ad7b12dbe9b54e78d36620200804155000Heavy Rain to Cause Life Threatening Flooding Across the Lower Missouri Valleyhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/heavy-rain-to-cause-life-threatening-flooding-across-the-lower-missouri-valley_3444550.htmlthreat. Some rivers in the area are high or near flood stage, and the ground is already saturated in many places, making the situation especially concerning. The system will move from Oklahoma through Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee over the next several days, dumping torrential rains along the way.Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:50:00 +0200theepochtimes-f98f47ffac88f0b8504e812e14a74f6f20200730215000