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After Ida: Three Possible Tropical Systems Churning In Atlantic Basin After Ida: Three Possible Tropical Systems Churning In Atlantic Basin
After Ida: Three Possible Tropical Systems Churning In Atlantic Basin The National Hurricane Center says it's watching three areas of what it calls "potential development" in the Atlantic Basin that could become tropical systems in the coming days. The first is a tropical wave and an upper-level trough producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms over portions of Central America, southeastern Mexico, and the adjacent waters of the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the southern Gulf of Mexico.  A tropical depression is likely to form on Sunday, Sept. 12, or Monday, Sept. 13 while the disturbance moves northwestward and then nort…

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by Joe Lombardi
Weather
Tropical Storm Moving Toward US Could Become Hurricane Tropical Storm Moving Toward US Could Become Hurricane
Tropical Storm Moving Toward US Could Become Hurricane A tropical storm that left dozens dead and more than 100 missing in Central America is moving toward the United States and may become a hurricane within hours. Tropical Storm Eta is located over the Florida Straits just north of central Cuba on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 8. (See image in red above.) It could strengthen into a hurricane before reaching Florida late Sunday night. A hurricane warning has been issued for the Florida Keys and other parts of Southern Florida are under a tropical storm warning. Elsewhere over the Atlantic basin on Sunday afternoon, recent satellite-derived wind data…

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by Joe Lombardi
Politics
President Trump Vows End To Birthright Citizenship, Sparking Democratic Uproar President Trump Vows End To Birthright Citizenship, Sparking Democratic Uproar
President Trump Vows End To Birthright Citizenship, Sparking Democratic Uproar Just when elected officials from both major political parties are calling on President Donald Trump to tone down pre-Midterm Election rhetoric, the Republican vowed to sign an executive order ending the century-old practice of birthright citizenship. Trump's announcement triggered immediate scorn from U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and other leading Democrats, but praise from congressional Republicans. Trump said he plans to terminate the automatic right to citizenship for children born in the U.S. to non-citizens, a move that some legal experts say would be unconstitutional. "It’s in the process. I…

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by Jon Craig
Lifestyle
Westchester Facility With Migrant Kids Working To Find Separated Parents Westchester Facility With Migrant Kids Working To Find Separated Parents
Westchester Facility With Migrant Kids Working To Find Separated Parents Members of Abbott House in Westchester, which is housing migrant children that were separated from their families from the Mexican border amid the recently rescinded Trump administration “zero tolerance” policy, are working to reunite the separated parties in their care. Last week, elected officials in Irvington, led by Mayor Brian Smith, issued a joint statement on Friday on the migrant kids who are being housed at Abbott House off Route 9 (Broadway) in the village in Greenburgh as President Donald Trump continues to vacillate on his administration’s immigration policies. “The Irvington Bo…

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by Zak Failla