Hurricane watch in Florida after Matthew strikes Haiti as strongest hurricane in 52 years – The Washington Post

Social video shows Hurricane Matthew making landfall along Haiti’s southwestern coast in the morning of Oct. 4. Matthew made landfall as a Category 4 storm. (claritza jimenez/The Washington Post) (This story has been updated) Early Tuesday morning, Hurricane Matthew crashed ashore in Haiti as a powerful Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds. It was the…

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Stormageddon Brings Saigon to Its Knees – Saigoneer

Details Published on Tuesday, 27 September 2016 10:52 Written by Saigoneer. This week is off to a rough start for Saigoneers after yesterday’s torrential downpour brought unprecedented flooding to the southern hub. After a period of increasingly dark skies, the rains began around 5pm, coming down in sheets all over town. According to Tuoi Tre,…

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Train crashes into New Jersey Transit station in Hoboken; dozens believed to be injured | New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Please enable Javascript to watch this video HOBOKEN, N.J. — More than 100 people were injured in a rush-hour train crash at a New Jersey Transit station in Hoboken Thursday morning that apparently caused heavy damage and a partial roof collapse. The commuter rail train smashed into the historic station shortly before 9 a.m., and emergency crews are at the…

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Algorithms are now controlling Facebook’s Trending topics. What does that mean for news? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Mere hours after Facebook announced that its Trending section would become more algorithmically controlled, users noticed that the social network was surfacing a fake news story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Megyn Kelly is trending on Facebook for an article that has no basis in reality. pic.twitter.com/31f4ERnzHI — Kyle Blaine (@kyletblaine) August 29, 2016…

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