Tropical storm flooding kills 57 in Vietnam

Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing at least 57 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said Tuesday.

Northeast learning from '08 ice storm

Thanks to lessons from an ice storm that left hundreds of thousands without power last December, Northeast residents, utilities and emergency managers say they're better prepared.

$1 billion New Orleans barrier is rising

Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1 billion effort to keep the next storm at bay.

Video: Watch 3-day national forecast

Three-day forecast for the entire US, updated each morning and afternoon. (Other)

Missouri, Illinois flooding: Casino, roads closed

Officials at the National Weather Service are perplexed about the unusual fall flooding that is causing rivers to spill over their banks in parts of Missouri and Illinois.

Snowcap vanishing from Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro's white  peak is rapidly melting, researchers report.  Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers say.

4th typhoon leaves 20 dead in Philippines

A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.