1063730 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://abcnews.go.com/US/tropical-storm-elsa-moves-east-coast-bringing-flash/story?id=78748097More than 50 million Americans were under a flash flood watch on Friday as Elsa, now a post-tropical cyclone, batters the East Coast with heavy rainfall and gusty winds. After making landfall in Florida and pummeling the southeastern United States, Elsa is moving north with the eye of the storm....2021-07-09T22:50+0200ABCnews-6cadfedcfe641a73535963a4de53cca020210709225000https://dailycaller.com/2021/07/09/hurricane-elsa-massachusetts-new-york/Tropical Storm Elsa is passing through the Mid-Atlantic to the East Coast, hitting New Jersey and New York City on Friday, the National Hurricane Center reported. As the storm moves toward the eastern coast, heavy rainfall could cause flash flooding in urban areas, flood watches and warnings are in effect in many locations, reported.2021-07-09T20:57+0200dailycaller-1a9d489ac713cd5169ac2a6a4d3b3b1320210709205700https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/9/storm-elsa-soaks-us-east-coast-heads-towards-boston-canadaFast-moving Tropical Storm Elsa hit the New York City region with torrential rains and high winds as it churned up the East Coast on Friday with a tropical storm warning in effect from Southern New Jersey to Boston. Maximum sustained winds from the storm peaked near 85 kph (50 mph) as it moved....2021-07-09T19:43+0200aljazeera-en-a70015b01940feddce4ae5e1b422049320210709194300https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/videos-show-commuters-wading-through-flooded-subways-new-york-city-n1273458Torrential downpours continued to pound northeast states on Thursday, leading to flash floods and stunning wading through hip-high waters. Viral footage of riders in New York City, struggling to get to their 1 train at the 157th Street Station, had garnered more than 8.5 million views on Twitter by Friday morning.2021-07-09T18:14+0200nbcnews-c1bc533b9b1ccd0c3064e4c8cbda785e20210709181400