Hurricane Eta is making landfall in Nicaragua, but will continue to produce flooding rain that may lead to catastrophic flooding well inland over Central America the next several days. Eta's center is moving ashore about 15 miles south-southwest of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, just before 4 p.m. EST Tuesday. At that time, maximum sustained winds were estimated at 140 mph, a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, according to the National Hurricane Center. Eta was only the fourth...

At a Glance Most of the deaths were from landslides.Isolated communities were cut off by flooding and damaged bridges.The storm came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane. Eta continued to bring devastation to Honduras, Nicaragua and other parts of Central America on Thursday, even after weakening to a tropical depression. More than 50 deaths are being blamed on the storm, including at least 37 people who were killed by landslides in Guatemala, according to the Associated Press. President Alejandro Giammattei...

At a Glance Recent hurricanes damaged some polling places and left others without power.Plans were implemented to use generators at some sites.Power outages were also ongoing from a winter storm in Oklahoma. Officials in several states rushed to bring in generators and restore power to polling locations on Election Day, after recent hurricanes and a winter storm left ongoing and widespread power outages. More than , businesses and other locations - including voting sites - were without power across four...