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Gina Holland evacuates her home with her dog Cici in Pensacola on Friday.

Hurricane Isaias is just hours from landfall on Gulf Coast, where conditions are deteriorating quickly

CNN, WEAR, WALA, CSU, CIRA & NOAA, WEBCAMS DE MEXICO, WBRC, THE FLORIDA CHANNEL, CSU/CIRA & NOAA By Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman, CNN Meteorologists Conditions are deteriorating quickly along the Gulf Coast with Hurricane Isaias, a ferocious Category 3 storm, only hours from making landfall. Thousands of residents are without power and the storm surge

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Mike Ditka Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Hall of Fame football player and coach Mike Ditka. Personal Birth date: October 18, 1939 Death date: October 9, 2026 Birth place: Carnegie, Pennsylvania Birth name: Michael Keller Dyczko Jr. Father: Michael Ditka Sr., steel mill worker and railroad union organizer Mother: Charlotte

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CNN’s crew captured current beach conditions in Gulf Shores

Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 2 with evacuations underway in the Gulf states

CNN, ACCUWEATHER, MDFR FL-TF1, CIRA, NOAA, WSVN, WJHG By Dakota Smith, Eduardo Cuevas, Elise Hammond (CNN) – Hurricane hunters found 100 mph winds within Hurricane Isaias, making the storm a Category 2, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 4 p.m. CT update on Thursday. The agency noted “additional strengthening is expected” through early Friday. The

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CNN’s crew captured current beach conditions in Gulf Shores

Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 2 with evacuations underway in the Gulf states

By Dakota Smith, Eduardo Cuevas, Elise Hammond (CNN) – Hurricane hunters found 100 mph winds within Hurricane Isaias, making the storm a Category 2, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 4 p.m. CT update on Thursday. The agency noted “additional strengthening is expected” through early Friday. The official forecast calls for Isaias to peak with

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A US Army report on a deadly midair collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is now public

Army investigation into deadly midair collision made public after months of pressure from victims’ families

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — A US Army report on a deadly midair collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is now public, after months of pressure from the families of the passengers killed when the aircraft collided. The 50-page document

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Steve Ballmer Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft. Personal Birth date: March 24, 1956 Birth place: Detroit, Michigan Birth name: Steven Anthony Ballmer Father: Fred Ballmer, manager for Ford Motor Co. Mother: Bea (Dworkin) Ballmer Marriage: Connie Snyder (1990-present) Children: Three sons Education: Harvard

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Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada speaks at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution on August 13 in Nashville

The lethal injection drug used in Christa Pike’s botched execution was just used in Texas. A look at the two cases

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Two scheduled executions a week apart have highlighted the ongoing debate over the practice of lethal injection in the US, with both using the same drug but yielding dramatically different outcomes. Texas on Wednesday executed 46-year-old Jamaal Howard, a man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk more than

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Zohran Mamdani

On the 3rd anniversary of October 7 attacks, Mamdani draws ire as he accuses Israel of genocide and war crimes

By Katherine Koretski, CNN New York (CNN) — New York’s mayor marked the third anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel on Wednesday with a statement that has sparked backlash among some Jewish leaders. In his statement, Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledged the “horrific war crimes of October 7” while also accusing Israel of committing

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