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Ian’s path of ruin: Sanibel bridge severed, Gulf Coast cities flooded. Rescues continue

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As Ian continued its destructive trek across Florida, roughly 2 million households across the state awoke on Thursday without electricity as the Gulf Coast began to assess leveled homes, flooded buildings and streets, and damaged or destroyed road and bridges.

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‘Help is on the way’: DeSantis says hundreds have called 911, rescue efforts underway

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday said hundreds of people in Southwest Florida have called authorities for help as Hurricane Ian wreaked havoc, and that the state is trying to confirm whether two people died in the storm.

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Causeway to Sanibel Island severed as Florida wakes up to Ian’s trail of destruction

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As Ian continued its destructive trek across Florida, over a million households across the state awoke on Thursday without electricity as residents and emergency crews along the Gulf Coast began to assess the toppled buildings, flooded streets and crippled infrastructure.

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One veterinarian, and her pets, rode out Ian’s fierce eye in a Fort Myers parking garage

As Hurricane Ian lashed Fort Myers with howling winds and sloshed floodwaters over the banks of the Caloosahatchee River, veterinarian Sharon Powell and her husband retreated to the safest place they could find for themselves and their pets — a downtown parking garage.

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Tropical Storm Ian offshore of Florida, forecast to turn into a hurricane again

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Ian moved off Florida’s east coast and into the Atlantic Thursday morning, where it’s expected to strengthen into a hurricane again as it approaches South Carolina.

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Ian weakens into tropical storm, still battering Florida with wind, rain, storm surge

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Ian is causing “catastrophic flooding” over east-central Florida Thursday morning as it treks closer to the Atlantic, forecasters said. Once it’s in the Atlantic, Ian is forecast to near hurricane strength before approaching South Carolina.

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Looking like their patients — UM, MDC work to get more people of color into medical school

MIAMI -- Dr. Miguel Escanelle has always loved science.

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Miami Marlins walked off by Mets in extras for franchise-record 38th one-run defeat

The Miami Marlins saw a four-run lead disappear late and lost 5-4 in walk-off fashion to the New York Mets in 10 innings Wednesday at Citi Field and set another dubious franchise record.

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Hurricane Ian rapidly weakens to Category 2 storm; Florida still battered by ‘catastrophic’ surge

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian is quickly weakening as it treks up toward Central Florida, downgrading to a Category 2 — marking the beginning of the end for the historic storm that crashed ashore near Punta Gorda with 150 mph winds just hours earlier.

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Depression forms in the Atlantic, and it’s forecast to be Tropical Storm Julia soon

MIAMI — A new tropical depression formed Wednesday morning in the central Atlantic and is forecast to turn into Tropical Storm Julia during the night, forecasters say.

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Hurricane Ian weakens to Category 3, but still hammers Florida with ‘catastrophic’ winds, surge

MIAMI — After days of anxious waiting and preparation, Hurricane Ian weakened to a Category 3 just hours after crashing ashore near Punta Gorda with “catastrophic” winds — marking the beginning of the end for the historic storm.

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Rescue calls pour in as Hurricane Ian batters Florida with ‘catastrophic’ winds and surge

MIAMI — After days of anxious waiting and preparation, Category 4 Hurricane Ian crashed ashore near Punta Gorda on Wednesday afternoon, slamming southwest Florida with “catastrophic” 150 mph winds, driving rain and a dozen feet of storm surge.

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‘Character building’: Lara Trump took her kid out in the hurricane. The internet responds

MIAMI — Lara Trump is in some hot water over a social media post about ... warm water.

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US issues ‘temporary and targeted’ Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday granted a “temporary and targeted” Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico, allowing the island to immediately receive shipments of badly needed fuel as it attempts to recover from the destruction left behind by Hurricane Fiona.

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‘It’s time to hunker down’: DeSantis urges safety as powerful Hurricane Ian arrives

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday morning said it was no longer safe for people to evacuate Floridians’ southwest coast and urged them to “hunker down” as Hurricane Ian prepared to make landfall in the afternoon.

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Hurricane Ian makes landfall in southwest Florida with ‘catastrophic’ winds and surge

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Cayo Costa, an island off the coast of Fort Myers, at 3 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, then came ashore just south of Punta Gorda an hour later.

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US Coast Guard searches for 23 migrants missing near Florida Keys amid Hurricane Ian

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard launched a search Wednesday for 23 people who, among a group of Cuban migrants, attempted to cross the Florida Straits as Hurricane Ian made its way past the Florida Keys.

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Travel in Florida comes to a near halt as Ian makes landfall. Here’s what to know

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian has caused Florida’s bustling travel industry to come to a near standstill.

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Greg Cote: No. 1-ranked Dolphins, fans bask in national attention, ditch 20 years’ irrelevance

MIAMI — In the parity-drenched, prediction-defying NFL, a record 18 games have been decided by three points or fewer in the first three weeks of the season. It seems fitting the last two teams perfect at 3-0 are not the usual suspects but unlikely front-runners in the Miami Dolphins and…

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Cuba after Ian: How the entire electrical grid collapsed, leaving a nation in darkness

Most of Cuba’s 11 million people remained without electricity on Wednesday, after the failure of one of the country’s main power plants Tuesday afternoon brought down the entire electrical grid.

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Hurricane Ian makes landfall in southwest Florida with ‘catastrophic’ winds and surge

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Cayo Costa, an island off the coast of Fort Myers, at 3 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday.

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Hurricane Ian, even before landfall, already causing ‘catastrophic’ damage to Florida

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian, with landfall still hours away, was already “causing catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding” in southwest Florida early Wednesday afternoon, the beginning of what promised to be a damaging path across the peninsula.

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Depression forms in the Atlantic, and it’s forecast to be Tropical Storm Julia soon

MIAMI — A new tropical depression formed in the central Atlantic on Wednesday morning and is forecast to turn into Tropical Storm Julia soon, forecasters say.

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Ian no big deal to some on Florida coast: ‘I walk in faith and not in fear. That’s how I roll’

VENICE, Fla. — The beachfront town of Venice was deserted Wednesday morning as Ian stalked the Gulf coast and 60 mph gusts blowing sheets of rain raked streets strewn with tree branches.

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