Weather

AP - Tropical Storm Hanna was accelerating early Friday as it made its way toward the United States' southeast coast.

AFP - A powerful hurricane and two tropical storms threatened Friday to deliver more destruction in the northeastern Caribbean and the United States as the death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Hanna rose to 136.

AP - The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians and drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago.

AP - Victims of Hurricane Gustav who can't return to their homes over the next month because of storm damage or power outages can have their hotel costs covered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, officials said Thursday.

AP - Haiti's government says the death toll from Tropical Storm Hanna has more than doubled to 137, with most of the deaths coming in the flooded port city of Gonaives.

Reuters - Powerful Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the United States on Thursday while Tropical Storm Hanna's death toll from floods in Haiti grew to 136.

AFP - Desperate people queued for ice and food in the sweltering, still powerless suburbs of New Orleans on Thursday as life returned slowly to a swath of the US Gulf Coast deserted three days ago as Hurricane Gustav bore down.

SPACE.com - NASA's space shuttle Atlantis moved out to its Florida launch pad Thursday to prepare for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope next month after weather concerns related to Tropical Storm Hanna eased at the seaside spaceport.

AP - Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine.