6101350 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://floridanewstimes.com/tropical-cyclone-fred-hits-florida-with-heavy-rain-and-howling-winds-florida/325009/Tropical Cyclone Fred Florida On Monday afternoon, we landed at Panhandle in the northern part of the state with heavy rain, wet slaps and strong winds of 65mph. Andrew Hagen, a ocean forecaster at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) based in Miami, said a strong storm at 3:15 pm, about 25 miles west of Appalachola, in Port St.2021-08-17T01:05+0200floridanewstimes-33c806b4285e6270c89bc2ae9998f34820210817010500https://www.miragenews.com/save-children-fears-for-children-in-haiti-as-614551/The earthquake razed thousands of buildings to the ground in western Haiti and demolished one of the main bridges leading into the hardest hit area. The aid organization is conducting a needs assessment in the worst-affected areas of Les Cayes and Grand-Anse to prioritize its emergency response.2021-08-17T01:03+0200miragenews-3b80b3535545539042f18e29f060c29720210817010300https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tropical-storm-fred-bring-heavy-rain-florida-while-tropical-depression-n1276890Tropical Storm Fred made landfall in Florida Monday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and a dangerous storm surge to the coast of Florida's Panhandle as Tropical Depression Grace and newly formed Tropical Depression 8 prompted storm watches in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Bermuda.2021-08-17T00:38+0200nbcnews-65481dcf6ed944f6e44fe343b469d83120210817003800https://www.cbs46.com/tropical-storm-fred-makes-landfall-in-the-florida-panhandle/article_fd586189-bb68-5cc9-8aff-e62024b46c52.html?block_id=994631Fred is expected to bring dangerous storm surge, river flooding and possible tornadoes along the US coast, but the storm itself will begin to quickly weaken after landfall, according to the NHC. Fred is one of three Atlantic storms currently being monitored by the NHC.2021-08-17T00:31+0200cbs46-7a2cb90e2cae571bd707e834570af18420210817003100