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Hurricane Ida bringing rain, flooding

Nov. 9, 2009
Tropical Storm Ida is bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast, bringing floodwaters to at least one Alabama city and threatening the entire Southeast U.S. with heavy rain.
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Ida headed for overnight landfall

Ida headed for overnight landfall

MIAMI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Ida was closing in on the U.S. Gulf Coast Monday night and forecasters said the storm would probably make landfall during the night.
Hurricane Ida

Hurricane Ida

MIAMI, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ida, a late-season storm that raked Central America, headed into the Gulf of Mexico and toward the U.S. mainland.

Ida: Gulf Coast hurricane warning posted

MIAMI, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ida gained strength as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and a hurricane warning was posted for part of the northern Gulf Coast, forecasters said.

Floods, mudslides kill 91 in El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- At least 91 people have died and thousands were evacuated due to heavy rain, flooding and mudslides in El Salvador, authorities said.

Tropical Storm Ida threatens Yucutan

MIAMI, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Ida remained a tropical storm Saturday morning, but Mexican officials had the Yucatan Peninsula under a hurricane watch in case the storm strengthens.

Ida soaks Nicaragua, nearing Honduras

MIAMI, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Tropical depression Ida was heading north away from Honduras Friday night with forecasters saying the one-time hurricane could rejuvenate itself.

Tropical Storm Ida drenching Nicaragua

MIAMI, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Hurricane Ida made landfall in eastern Nicaragua Thursday with 75 mph winds, but degraded to a near-stationary tropical storm, U.S. forecasters reported.

Tropical Storm Harvey washes Bermuda

MIAMI, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Bermuda awoke Thursday to rain and 60 mph winds as Tropical Storm Harvey brushed the island in its east-northeasterly path.

South Florida gets tropical visit

MIAMI, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Heavy rain drenched southern Florida Thursday as a potential tropical storm lost its strength, the Miami Herald reported.

Tropical storm Iris threatens Hispaniola

MIAMI, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Iris formed with 60 mph winds 155 miles south of Ponce Friday, and the National Hurricane Center in Miami announced hurricane warnings for Haiti
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch