Bill Karins

Oct 24, 2023 | nbcnews.com | Denise Chow |Bill Karins

Oct. 24, 2023, 7:49 PM UTCA dangerously thick “super fog” that caused a huge vehicle pileup north of New Orleans on Monday was made worse by wildfires burning nearby, according to local officials. Seven people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured in crashes involving at least 158 vehicles in the northbound and southbound lanes along a stretch of Louisiana’s Interstate 55.

Aug 31, 2023 | nbcnews.com | Doha Madani |Maya Brown |Denise Chow |Minyvonne Burke |Nigel Chiwaya |Chantal Da Silva | +22 more

Updates and the latest news on Hurricane Idalia after the storm made landfall in Florida as a major hurricane.

Aug 24, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Denise Chow |Bill Karins

Chicago set a heat index record Thursday after “feels like” temperatures at the airport hit a blistering 120 degrees Fahrenheit, smashing the previous record set in July 1995 during a heat wave that killed more than 500 people in the city. Chicago’s previous heat index record of 118 F, set on July 13, 1995, stood for nearly three decades. Just before 3 p.m. Thursday, however, a heat index of 120 F was recorded at O’Hare International Airport, becoming the city’s highest in recorded history.

Aug 22, 2023 | msn.com | Denise Chow |Kathryn Prociv |Bill Karins

More than 100 million people from the Upper Midwest down to the Gulf Coast are under heat alerts Tuesday, as a brutal heat wave grips a huge swath of the central United States. Heat index values, or the “feels like” temperatures when humidity and air temperatures are combined, are expected to soar well into the triple digits across Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and other parts of the Midwest, as well as further south in Texas and Louisiana.

Aug 16, 2023 | nbcnews.com | Bill Karins

Create your free profile or log in to save this articleAug. 16, 2023, 10:12 PM UTCBy Bill KarinsThe first tropical threat to the U.S. this season isn’t on the East Coast or in the Gulf of Mexico — it’s in Southern California. Tropical Storm Hilary formed Wednesday morning along Mexico’s western coast and is forecast to bring intense rains to Southern California early next week. If it makes landfall, it would become only the fourth storm of at least tropical storm strength to hit the area.