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While the tropical storm of Florence is scouring the southeast of the United States, a small army of drones is ready to help quickly absorb and even repair the damage.

The Norwegian police take into account that the missing cyber expert Arjen Kamphuis had an accident. Therefore, the Dutch will also be searched for a railway under the surface of the water.

The number of deaths from hurricane Florence in the states of North and South Carolina in the United States has risen to five. There may be more, local media reports. Florence has meanwhile been watered down to a tropical storm.

Hurricane Florence leaves a trail of vandalism in the United States. Because of the storm, trees are blown away and streets run under water. In the city of New Bern, according to CNN, at least two hundred people were saved who had been in trouble because of high water.

The diminished, but still dangerous, whirlwind Florence goes ashore in the American state of North Carolina. The severe weather associated with the hurricane has caused flooding and other nuisance for some time. In more than 300,000 households in North Carolina the power has already failed, reported local media.

Certainly 88,000 households in the American state of North Carolina are without power because of Hurricane Florence. The hurricane has not yet landed, which probably happens Friday morning.

North and South Korea open Friday a liaison office between the two countries in the North Korean border village of Kaesong. The opening is attended by fifty people from the north and fifty people from the south.

While the whole of America holds his heart for Friday, the video images of the damage that hurricane Florence is already causing in the US speak volumes. North Carolina is plagued by flooding.

In three American cities dozens of houses are on fire. There have also been multiple explosions.

The police of North Rhine-Westphalia have started with the deployment of many troops to clear the 'brown coal forest' at Hambach, between Kerkrade and Cologne. Environmentalists have occupied the site for years to prevent the RWE energy group from ruining the landscape for the sake of open mining. Special units took the first activists from the tree huts on Thursday and broke off structures that had been tolerated all along.

A gigantic iceberg, larger than North Holland and South Holland together, has become detached from the South Pole. The record was torn loose last year, but still hit against the remaining ice on the South Pole. The wind and sea currents have now driven the mass away. That happened at the beginning of this month.

The American emergency response service FEMA has asked the EU for satellite images of hurricane Florence. That request has been granted. Current images that the European Copernicus system has made of the American East Coast are made available by the European Coordination Center for Disaster Relief, so that Washington can map out the situation better.

Hurricane Florence has further weakened on the way to the American coast. It is now a storm in the second category, reports the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami. Nevertheless, heavy rainfall and possible flooding are still taken into account.

The National Hurricane Center has scaled heavy hurricane Florence to category 3 on Wednesday. However, the danger that is particularly threatening for the coastal areas in South and North Carolina remains unchanged. Houses with huge waves and enormous amounts of rain are expected.

Hong Kong braces itself for the supertyphon Mangkhut, which probably lands in the area on Sunday. It could be the heaviest tropical storm ever to hit the metropolis, comparable to a category 5 hurricane on the Atlantic. The typhoon, which is still gaining momentum, is expected to cause a lot of trouble in the north of the Philippines and Taiwan on the way to the Chinese mainland with wind speeds of 240 kilometers per hour.

For Americans living on the east coast, the countdown has started. Another day and a half and then Florence comes ashore. A very heavy hurricane, meteorologists warn. ' He could even become the heaviest category '', says Johnny Willemse of Weeronline.

Not the wind, but extreme rainfall is the biggest danger of hurricane Florence, warn US authorities. Because the hurricane does not move quickly over land, extreme rain can fall. In some places in North Carolina the National Hurricane Center expects up to 60 centimeters of precipitation.

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More than one and a half million people on the American East Coast have been ordered to leave due to the arrival of Hurricane Florence. The super storm is the toughest to threaten the area in three decades. Florence is currently a hurricane of the fourth category with wind speeds of up to 210 kilometers per hour.

On the east coast of the United States more than one million people have been advised to leave because of the approaching hurricane Florence. The powerful hurricane is expected to land onshore in North and South Carolina on Thursday. The emergency state has now been declared there, as well as in Virginia and Maryland.

The American president Donald Trump has received a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in which he proposes a new meeting between the two. And the White House wants it to continue, said spokeswoman Sarah Sanders Monday. We are already looking at a suitable date.

The Greek authorities are threatening to close the large reception center for migrants in Lesvos. The governor of the North Aegean states that inspectors have found frightening conditions. If the problems are not resolved within thirty days, the camp must close.

Armed men have stormed the headquarters of the Libyan state oil company NOC. 'The death toll so far is two killed NOC employees and two attackers,' said a spokesman for the Rada militia. That surrounded the building in capital Tripoli.

Hurricane Florence is rapidly growing into a large and 'extremely dangerous'; Hurricane. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami has announced this. The hurricane would reach the mainland of the United States on Thursday. If that happens, there are very likely flooding. Florence now has wind speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour.

The tropical storm of Florence has sunk so fast in the Atlantic on Sunday that there is now a hurricane with wind speeds of 120 kilometers per hour. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami expects Florence to develop into a whirling storm of category 3 or higher over the next 24 hours.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told an envoy from the Chinese President Xi Jinping that he will abide by the agreement with the United States on nuclear-freeing the country. That has been announced by Chinese state television.

With a major military parade, North Korea celebrated Sunday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as the country is officially called, is seventy years old.

Kim Jong-un wants to visit Russia. President Valentina Matvjenko of the Russian House of Lords said this after a meeting with the North Korean leader.

This week Kim Jong-un resurfaced for the first time in 14 days. Just in time to prepare his people for the military parade and the mass spectacle Arirang. The biggest show in the world where about a hundred thousand North Koreans give a whirling acrobatic performance in which a message will be formed with colorful placards.

Firefighters fail to take control of a large forest fire in northern California. The fires in the Shasta-Trinity Forest have become 'aggressive violent' with flames over 90 meters high according to local media on Thursday evening. The fires block 80 kilometers of the major Interstate 5 motorway running through California from north to south.