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Ida bears down on U.S. Gulf Coast

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.

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.

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.

Cindy aims for North-Central Gulf coast

MIAMI, July 5 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Cindy, the third named storm this season, was headed northward toward the north-central Gulf coast Tuesday morning.

Tropical storm brewing in Gulf

MIAMI, July 4 (UPI) -- The National Weather Service issued a tropical storm watch for the Louisiana coast Monday night.

Tropical storm Hanna to hit Gulf Coast

MIAMI, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Hanna, continuing to drift in the northern Gulf of Mexico Friday, was expected to turn north and carry its 45 mph winds ashore Saturday in a warning area between Grand Isle, La., and Apalachicola, Fla. It wasn't expected to reach hurricane

Fay strengthens off Texas coast

MIAMI, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Fay strengthened and edged toward the northern Gulf Coast with 60 mph winds Friday as the National Hurricane Center called a tropical storm warni

Tropical storm Fay threatens Gulf Coast

MIAMI, Sept. 6 (UPI) --

New tropical system threatens Louisiana

MIAMI, Sept. 5 (UPI) --

Bertha drenches northern Gulf Coast

MIAMI, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Bertha drenched the northern Gulf Coast Monday after it was downgraded to a tropical depression and moved inland northeast of New Orleans with 30 mph winds. Forecasters predicted additional rainfall of 5-10 inches over Louisiana, Mississipp
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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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