As Frances Nears, Fla. Urges Evacuations
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MIAMI - Nearly a half-million people were ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Frances swirled toward Florida on Wednesday just weeks after Charley's devastating visit, threatening to deliver the most powerful one-two punch to hit a state in at least a century.    Those planning to ride out the storm snapped up canned food, water and generators, while military helicopters and planes were flown out of the area and Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center said it would close on Thursday...
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Hurricane Frances is now over Florida&#39;s eastern coast. The National Hurricane Centre says conditions are expected to get worse as the dangerous Category 3 storm moves to shore, possibly late Saturday.
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Hurricane Frances barreled towards the Bahamas islands with 225 kph winds today, a growing threat that put millions of people on alert along Florida&#39;s heavily populated east coast.
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Authorities urged over a million people  from New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly  Hurricane Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track  that could bring it onto the U.S. coast by Wednesday night.
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Anticipating major flooding, federal emergency officials stockpiled water pumps and thousands of sandbags Friday to move into Florida ahead of Hurricane Frances.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Thousands of residents desperate to return home after fleeing Hurricane Frances ignored Florida's plea to stay put Tuesday, jamming highways, delaying emergency workers and causing tempers to flare in the sticky heat...
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STUART, Fla. - Hurricane Frances lost some steam and hesitated off the Florida coast Friday, prolonging the anxiety among the millions evacuated and raising fears of a slow, ruinous drenching over the Labor Day weekend...
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Some 2.5 million people were urged to  leave their homes and Florida residents jammed the roads on  Thursday as Hurricane Frances roared toward the crowded  southeast U.S. coast with enough sheer size and force to cause  major devastation.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - Hurricane Frances crawled toward the Florida coast Saturday, bringing a potential for 20 inches of rain and heavy flooding and prompting tens of thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate during the Labor Day weekend...
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MIAMI - A menacing Hurricane Frances, packing 140 mph wind, crept closer Wednesday to the southeastern United States, and forecasters said Florida - still cleaning up after Charley - was at risk for another hurricane strike as soon as Friday.    As Frances closed on the Bahamas, it was expected to fluctuate in intensity and could become a Category 5 storm with winds of 156 mph or higher, said Jamie Rhome, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami...
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With Hurricane Frances barreling toward Florida, anxious Florida delegates examined weather reports and some began packing their bags for home.
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Authorities urged millions of people from  New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane  Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could  bring it onto the U.S. coast by Wednesday night.
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Hurricane Frances took dead aim at Florida yesterday, sending millions scrambling for shelter for the second time in three weeks, as the storm was poised to roar ashore tomorrow.
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Tourists and residents were told Thursday to evacuate the Florida Keys because the powerful Hurricane Ivan could hit the island chain by Sunday.
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Residents and tourists in cars, trucks and campers clogged highways Thursday in the biggest evacuation ever ordered in Florida, fleeing inland as mighty Hurricane Frances threatened the state with its second battering in three weeks.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - Fleeing what could be the most powerful storm to strike Florida in more than a decade, residents and tourists jammed highways and shelters Friday as Hurricane Frances churned toward the Atlantic coast, where the state's second pummeling in three weeks could begin as soon as Saturday...
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Hurricane Frances barreled toward the Turks and Caicos and Bahamas islands with 140 mph winds on Wednesday, posing a growing threat that also put millions of people on alert along Florida&#39;s heavily populated east coast.