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Felix Getting Stronger, Roaring Toward Bermuda Flossie, Gabrielle Dump Rain On Southwest, Eastern Mexico

Felix, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in two years, intensified Saturday and headed for Bermuda, where forecasters warned it could cause serious damage beginning Sunday night. Felix's top winds grew to 125 mph, and its eye was winding tighter, to a compact 18 miles wide - a sign of further strengthening, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
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Tropical Storm Lashes Hong Kong, Killing 2

Tropical Storm Helen lashed the Hong Kong area with 55 mph winds Saturday, leaving two people dead and dozens injured. Driving wind and rain closed most shops and businesses, including gold and currency exchanges. At the height of the storm, bus and ferry services were suspended, and at least 78 flights were delayed, diverted or canceled at Hong Kong's airport.
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Storm Causes Flash Flooding In Tucson

A storm with wind gusting to 76 mph dumped hail and more than 3 inches of rain on Tucson, causing flash floods that killed at least one person and left 11 motorists stranded in raging waters. The storm that spun off Hurricane Flossie struck during the afternoon rush hour.
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Honeycombs Melt Inside Beehives

Not even bees have been safe from the sweltering temperatures that have been roasting much of Spain this summer. Temperatures of more than 104 degrees since late July have melted the wax honeycombs inside some 4,000 beehives in the provinces of Cordoba and Seville. Thousands of queen bees and bee colonies have been destroyed and losses were estimated at $168,000, said Juani Fernandez, spokeswoman for the Association of Small Farmers, on Friday.
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Tropical Storm Dean Batters Texas Coast

Tropical storm Dean whipped the Texas coast with 45 mph winds and much-needed rain Sunday after picking up some punch just offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. The tropical depression was upgraded to a storm about 5:30 p.m. when its winds topped 39 mph.
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Tropical Storm Forming In Gulf Of Mexico

A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen into a tropical storm over the next two days, forecasters said Saturday. The depression, about 365 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, was moving west at about 7 mph with sustained winds of about 35 mph, the National Weather Service said. The storm was moving so slowly that it might change direction.
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Heat Wave Deaths Rise Past 500 Mark

The death toll from Chicago's heat wave two weeks ago rose to 529 Thursday as the city braced for another weekend of high heat and humidity. Thirty-two bodies counted from hospitals and funeral homes raised the number of deaths, said Dan Collins, an investigator for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
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Storm Spreads Fuel From Wrecked Tanker

Winds and waves widened South Korea's worst oil spill ever along its pristine southern coast Wednesday, suffocating tens of thousands of fish, wiping out residents' livelihoods and threatening tourists and resort operators in nearby islands. About 120 vessels and two helicopters were fighting to contain the slick, caused when the Sea Prince, a Cyprus-registered tanker, began leaking an estimated 700 tons of fuel oil after running aground in a fierce typhoon Sunday.
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Italy’s Heat Wave Takes More Victims

At least five people died of heat-related causes and hundreds were hospitalized as Italy's heat wave showed no sign of loosening its grip Sunday. The mercury climbed above 95 in most Italian cities. On Saturday, Milan registered a day's record of 100.
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Europe In Grip Of Heat Wave, Too

A heat wave stifling much of Europe this week set a record in Paris on Friday and was blamed for the deaths of two hikers and an elderly camper in France. In Spain, where temperatures soared as high as 111 degrees this week, authorities blamed the heat wave for 10 deaths.
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Heat Kills 376 In Chicago; Toll May Hit 500 Elderly Most Vulnerable Because They Often Live Alone, Stay Inside

City authorities Tuesday raised the death toll in Chicago's heat disaster to 376 and said the number of deaths at least partly attributable to five days of 100-degree heat could reach 500. Although the flow of bodies into Cook County Morgue finally slowed to a trickle Tuesday, 120 corpses still await autopsies. With all 222 bays filled, morgue officials over the weekend had to call in refrigeration trucks to handle the overflow of bodies, most of them of elderly people.
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Temperatures Dip A Bit

Temperatures dipped into the 80s and 90s across the eastern half of the nation Monday, bringing welcome relief from the weeklong heat wave blamed for more than 300 deaths in the Midwest and East. In Chicago, 179 people were confirmed dead from heatrelated causes. Many of them were sick and elderly.
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Heat Closes Washington Monument Again

With the air-conditioning system conked out, workers set up fans and reopened the Washington Monument on Friday. But it got too hot again, and the famous obelisk was closed for a second day. Despite the punishing heat, hundreds of tourists trudged into the 555-foot monument Friday. Elevator operator Michael Wilt told one group, "Stay as long as you want, and leave before you start to feel bad."
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Tropical Storm Chantal Gains Strength

Tropical Storm Chantal showed signs Friday of gradual strengthening and a shift to the northwest, but the 40-mph storm remained far from land in the Atlantic. By today "it should get interesting. It will have died away, or it will have strengthened significantly," said National Hurricane Center forecaster Steve Lyons. "It could still go either way."
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Hail Storm Clobbers Area Crops Extensive Damage Turns Boom Year Into Bust For Some Growers

Blasting, razor-sharp ice shards that hailed down Sunday on the Inland Northwest have shredded what could have been a banner year for many farmers. From Whitman County, where officials Wednesday estimated crop and structural damage at $50 million, to Okanogan County, where glassy golf ball-sized stones ripped through more than $15 million in fruit, growers are counting their losses.
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Plains Frying Up Crispy

Charles Heffernan, left, and his brother, Christopher, beat the heat with a garden hose in Battle Creek, Mich. Photo by Associated Press
News >  Spokane

Thunderstorm Downs Power Lines

A thunderstorm Thursday evening ripped through the Inland Northwest, knocking down trees and power lines and causing some isolated power outages. Throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho, firefighters responded to reports of small lightning-strike fires, as well as downed power lines and trees from about 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Susan Nielsen, a Washington Water Power spokeswoman, said the storm caused isolated power outages in Spokane, Kellogg, Sandpoint, Pullman, Moscow and Lewiston.
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