Busch and his No. 22 Dodge will be on the inside pole for Sunday’s Daytona 500, trying to become the first driver in NASCAR history to win the Budweiser Shootout, a Gatorade Duel and the 500. “It’s the double-deuce power right now,” Busch said after winning the first race of the Duels on Thursday afternoon. [...]
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The nearly 4,500 people onboard the stranded Carnival cruise ship off the coast of Mexico are settling in today for another full day at sea, as rescuers tow the damaged vessel to San Dieg — a trip that’s expected to take at least until Thursday afternoon. “In coordinating with the cruise line and just discussing [...]
Hurricane Earl is currently a Category 4 system on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, merely one rank below that of Hurricane Katrina. Earl was about 300 miles (485 km) south of Cape Hatteras, N.C. at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday and heading north with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph.The National Hurricane Center predicted that tropical [...]
A weather system headed for southern Texas and northeastern Mexico is expected to become Tropical Storm Bonnie by Thursday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said. Currently, Tropical Depression 2 has maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, the hurricane center said in its 8 a.m. ET update. To attain tropical storm status, it must have sustained [...]
A tropical storm might hit the Texas-Mexico border Thursday afternoon, the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast. Currently, the storm system is a tropical depression. With winds of 35 miles per hour, the depression was located about 160 miles east-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, according to the NHC.