Questions have surfaced around the safety of traveling to the Dominican Republic​ and other Caribbean tourist destinations, including Turks and Caicos Islands​.

The line of strong storms will hit the U.S. from the Canadian border to the north down to the Gulf Coast on Friday night.

The National Hurricane Center recently changed the Gulf of Mexico on its storm tracking map to the Gulf of America.

At least eight of the more than 20 known fatalities from the January fires were elderly or disabled, the latest example of how these groups are especially vulnerable during natural disasters.