At a Glance A dozen nursing home residents died in one Florida nursing home after Hurricane Irma. The deaths prompted a new law that requires facilities to have an emergency air conditioning plan. With hurricane season bearing down, a majority of nursing homes are not prepared. A month before the official start of hurricane season, hundreds of nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Florida are lacking generators required by a state law enacted after a dozen nursing home residents...

At a Glance The Air Force needs $1.2 billion in funding this year to rebuild and repair storm-ravaged Tyndall and Offutt. The funding is currently stalled in Congress. Projects at other bases have been delayed to help pay for the disaster damage. Repairs to hurricane-ravaged Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida and flooded Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska are in limbo as the Air Force waits for Congress to approve disaster relief funds. John Henderson, assistant secretary of the...

Styrofoam cups are among the items banned under Maine's new law. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) At a Glance The law goes into effect Jan. 1.Other states are considering a similar ban. Americans throw away an estimated 25 billion styrofoam cups each year. Maine became the first U.S. state to ban plastic foam containers, commonly referred to as Styrofoam, with a bill signed into law Tuesday. The new law prohibits businesses such as convenience stores, grocery stores and restaurants from selling or...

At a Glance A failed mission in 2009 and one in 2011 resulted in $700 million in losses.An aluminum manufacturer falsified test results for 19 years, NASA and the Justice Department found.The bad aluminum caused a key part of the rocket to fail and doomed the missions. NASA revealed this week that two missions failed because of bad aluminum from a company that falsified test results for 19 years. Faulty materials provided by aluminum manufacturer Sapa Profiles Inc. (SPI) of...

At a Glance The Xiahe mandible was found in a Chinese cave in 1980.It's the first Denisovan fossil identified outside of Siberia.It may help explain how modern Tibetans have adapted to harsh, high-altitude climates. A fossilized jawbone picked up 40 years ago in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau is the first evidence of an ancient human relative called the Denisovans found outside of Siberia, Russia. And, it may help explain how modern Tibetans have, according to a study published...

At a Glance Nearly three dozen tornadoes were reported in northern Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri. and Louisiana.At least three people were killed in Oklahoma and one died in Missouri.Buildings were damaged and trees were downed from the suspected tornadoes. Storms pounding Central Arkansas knocked down trees, ripped off roofs and flipped tractor-trailers on Thursday, the third day in a rash of storms that has killed at least four people, spawned nearly three dozen suspected tornadoes and triggered flash flooding in...

At a Glance The unidentified man slipped and fell from a 300-foot cliff at the caldera.He landed on a ledge some 70 feet below.Although he survived, the man sustained critical injuries. A man said to be in his 30s has survived a 70-foot fall into a caldera at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. According to a press release from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the reportedly crossed a metal barrier at the Steaming Bluff overlook around 6:30 p.m. local time Monday, lost his...

This file image made from video and provided by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. shows "Jeopardy!" contestant James Holzhauer on an episode that aired on April 17, 2019. (Jeopardy Productions, Inc. via AP) At a Glance James Holzhauer is on a record-setting pace on the game show 'Jeopardy!'One game in his win streak included some answers about weather.Holzhauer only provided the correct question to one answer in this category.There have been a number of interesting weather answers in the game show's history....

At a Glance At least seven people are dead as a result of storms and flooding since Monday. The Mississippi River ticked above levels reached in 1993 in Davenport, Iowa, the highest level there in 157 years.The city's downtown area remained under water Friday, days after a temporary levee gave way.Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency Thursday for Wayne CountyAt least 3,000 homes have been damaged in Wayne County from flooding. Deadly flooding from heavy rains and...

A German woman walking on a beach in Porto on the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica was swept to her death Sunday, May 5, 2019, authorities said. (Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP/Getty Images) At a Glance Rescue operations were launched, but they were unsuccessful. Southeastern France has been battered by winds gusting up to 80 mph. Efforts to rescue a woman swept off a beach in Corsica on Sunday by strong, wind-driven waves were unsuccessful, French authorities said. The French maritime authority said...

At a Glance A plane skidded into the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, Friday night.Minor injuries were reported but no fatalities.The cause is unknown but thunderstorms were in the area at the time of the crash.Three pets in the cargo hold didn't make it. A Florida man who was aboard a chartered 737 that slid off a runway into the St. Johns River in Jacksonville on Friday night said passengers were warned the plane might not be fit for...

At a Glance Tropical Cyclone Fani slammed into northeast India Friday, uprooting trees, downing power lines and sweeping away thatched homes.At least 39 are dead in India and Bangladesh as a result of the powerful storm.Thousands of disaster personnel have been deployed to help residents in Odisha state. More than 1.2 million residents had been evacuated in low-lying areas of northeastern India ahead of the storm.About 1.6 million people were evacuated in Bangladesh. At least 39 people have died and...