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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew has risen to at least 108. The country's interior minister announced the figure today as authorities and aid workers work to gauge the extent of the deaths and damage in the impoverished Caribbean nation. Previously, officials said there had been at least 23 deaths from the storm in Haiti. There were also six others killed elsewhere in the region. Hurricane Matthew roared across the tip of Haiti on Tuesday but authorities have struggled to reach people in the most remote areas.
MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are warning that large waves pushed by Hurricane Matthew could threaten lives and property hours before the eye of the Category 4 storm nears the Florida shore. They say levels are already up to a foot higher than normal as far north as Jacksonville. The hurricane center has issued storm surge watches and warnings for life-threatening flooding from Boca Raton in South Florida all the way up the coast north of Charleston, South Carolina.
MIAMI (AP) — Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights as Hurricane Matthew sweeps along the Florida coast. The Fort Lauderdale airport shut down this morning, and further north the Orlando airport expected to do the same by nighttime. By midday, flight-tracking service FlightAware.com reported that nearly 1,500 flights within the U.S. had been scrapped, with the largest numbers at Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Airlines have already canceled nearly 1,300 flights scheduled for tomorrow.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — The FBI says the 20-year-old man who stabbed 10 people last month at a central Minnesota mall may have become radicalized recently, and that the attack likely was premeditated. An agent says Dahir Ahmed Adan took interest recently in Islam, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious. Authorities say he asked several people whether they were Muslim before attacking. FBI Director James Comey said last week it appeared Adan was at least partly inspired by extremist ideology. An off-duty police officer shot and killed the attacker.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby's lawyers say his Pennsylvania sexual assault case followed "a perfect storm" of mistakes and misconduct by a federal judge, an ambitious prosecutor and a celebrity lawyer. They argue in a filing today that Cosby can't properly defend himself against the accusation from a decade ago, when key witnesses have died and evidence has been lost. Cosby is set for trial in June on charges he drugged and molested a Temple University employee in 2004. He calls their encounter consensual.
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