8961660 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.hjnews.com/nation/haiti-braces-for-grace-florida-for-fred-as-storms-brew/article_ca5de138-885f-5c8a-9dd5-d7acfcbe46cb.htmlCity worker Enrique Pulley prepares to load sandbags at a drive-thru sandbag distribution event for residents ahead of the arrival of rains associated with tropical depression Fred, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, at Grapeland Park in Miami. Forecasters say tropical depression Fred is slowly strengthening and could regain tropical storm status Friday.2021-08-17T00:59+0200hjnews-740ae05e74b5ab5ae07f2c0128e293b920210817005900https://wsvn.com/news/local/haitian-americans-south-florida-nonprofits-sending-food-clothes-to-earthquake-victims-amid-rescue-efforts/COCONUT CREEK, FLA. (WSVN) - South Florida’s Haitian American community and local organizations are looking to provide help for Haiti in the wake of a devastating earthquake. As of Monday evening, the death toll in Saturday morning’s earthquake has risen to 1,419, with more than 6,000 people injured.2021-08-17T00:57+0200wsvn-0713b7ed38fd94382e642fa9221992b420210817005700https://www.nbc12.com/2021/08/16/3-tropical-systems-impacting-us-caribbean-bermuda/(AP) - Tropical Depression Grace drenched earthquake-damaged Haiti on Monday, threatening to dump up to 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain on a landscape where people are huddling in fields and searching for survivors. Tropical Storm Fred grew stronger before hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, and Tropical Storm Henri formed around Bermuda.2021-08-17T00:41+0200nbc12-81f429fffcb78295a3766959b37b9ad020210817004100https://www.newsweek.com/tropical-storm-fred-path-update-florida-landfall-impact-1619694Tropical Storm Fred is expected to dump up to eight inches of rainwater on Florida, with heavy downpours in Georgia, when it makes landfall later today, forecasters warn. According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the storm will surge through the Florida Panhandle, eastern Alabama and Georgia....2021-08-17T00:33+0200newsweek-USA-3c8a51d241a548f649a9b4aae506d9c520210817003300