Posted: 5:01 PM The heavy rain continues in parts of the eastern United States, where the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida have been leaving streets flooded.

Posted: 11:53 AM Dozens are missing in El Salvador, where floods and landslides have left at least 124 people dead.

Posted: 4:37 AM The National Weather Service has confirmed it was a tornado that tore through a coastal area of Lincoln City in northwestern Oregon damaging about a dozen homes.

Updated: 9:00 AM Tropical Storm Ida has reached shore, but it's already spread most of its heavy rain along the Gulf Coast.

Posted: 6:44 PM Gov. Bobby Jindal has declared a state of emergency in Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Ida.

Updated: 9:31 AM Parts of Western and North Central Nebraska reach record high temperatures on Friday.

Posted: 9:10 AM More than 200,000 people's homes have been flooded in Mexico's Tabasco state after days of torrential ran.

Posted: 9:07 AM Countries most vulnerable to climate change expressed anger today at developed nations who are rethinking the timetable for concluding a binding global treaty.

Updated: 8:38 AM Mary Knapp, State Climatologist for Kansas, says a blizzard that dropped 30 inches of snow on Pratt County, Kansas in March set a record for the most snow in a 24-hour period in the state's history.

Posted: 9:51 AM A tropical depression has formed in the southwestern Caribbean, prompting storm warnings for the coast of Nicaragua and two Colombian islands.

Posted: 12:14 PM A top European delegate says African countries are continuing to boycott meetings at U.N. climate negotiations after talks with the European Union failed to persuade them to return.

Posted: 12:07 PM The Army Corps of Engineers has broken ground on one of the last major pieces of the improved levee system it is building for the New Orleans area.

Posted: 9:05 AM All Republicans except one are boycotting the start of committee debate on a bill to curb greenhouse gases in a protest that the bill's economic costs have not been fully examined.

Posted: 8:07 AM German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making the case for a global deal on climate change to a skeptical audience: members of the U.S. Congress.

Updated: 8:28 AM October 2009 was one of the coldest Octobers on record across the area, as well as ranking among the wetter and snowier Octobers.

Updated: 3:51 PM All of I-80 in Nebraska is open, as well as much of I-80 in Wyoming and I-76 in Colorado from the Nebraska border to Denver.

Updated: 2:45 PM A foot of wet snow has knocked out power to about 1,100 customers of a south-central Nebraska utility district.

Updated: 10:58 AM Gusty winds could still make travel difficult on the Colorado's far Eastern Plains, and snowfall has ended but highway traffic remains at a standstill across southeast Wyoming.

Posted: 10:35 AM Snowfall has ended but highway traffic remains at a standstill across southeast Wyoming.

Updated: 10:36 AM One man is dead and a landmark church steeple toppled onto a car in Louisiana after a line of thunderstorms spawned several tornadoes there and in neighboring Arkansas.

Updated: 7:31 AM Landowner rights, state and federal policies, and siting considerations will be among the topics explored at an upcoming wind power conference.

Updated: 10:42 PM Interstate 80 between North Platte and the Wyoming state line is closed because of snow and ice tonight. Both east and westbound traffic is closed.

Updated: 6:11 AM Parts of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado are covered in 3 feet of snow as an autumn snowstorm slowly makes its way into Nebraska and Kansas.

Posted: 7:34 AM Light snow continues to fall over much of Nebraska's Panhandle, further hampering travelers already blocked by highway closures.

Updated: 10:41 AM Scotts Bluff County officials say at least three inches of snow has already fallen from a major snowstorm that has socked in airports and hampered travelers in Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska.