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The Democratic ticket is now set. Kamala Harris is officially the Democratic presidential candidate and her new running mate, Governor Tim Walz are now taking their show on the road with campaign stops in a couple of key Midwestern states. But everywhere they go, they’ll find Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance campaigning ahead of them. CBS NEWS Miami’s Natalie Brand has more details from the White House.
Tropical Storm Debby is taking a breather over the western Atlantic but isn’t done dousing the coastal Carolinas before slowly marching north, the National Hurricane Center says. It still poses a "major flood threat" for parts of the Carolinas.
Debby was still drifting slowly offshore from coastal South Carolina early Wednesday afternoon, lingering in a spot 55 miles east-southeast of Charleston and 90 miles south of Myrtle Beach. A second landfall in South Carolina was forecast to happen by Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
"A faster motion toward the north and north-northeast across the Carolinas and the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region is expected on Thursday and Friday," the hurricane center said in an advisory.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph late Wednesday morning — a jump from the 45 mph winds reported by the hurricane center three hours earlier — but the intensity plateaued as Debby slowed down even more during the early part of the afternoon. It was inching northeastward at 3 miles per hour at 2 p.m. EDT, a drop from 5 mph reported earlier, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Forecasters noted that Debby could strengthen again before it reaches the South Carolina coast. That strengthening was expected to be moderate despite the warm coastal waters that would normally fuel it offshore, because Debby was fairly disorganized, they said.
The storm was expected to weaken on Thursday after moving inland.
Debby could move up the middle of North Carolina, through Virginia and into the Washington area by Saturday, the hurricane center said. As it speeds up on its northeastward path later in the week, forecasters said Debby will likely merge with a frontal zone farther up the coast — that essentially means it will cross an atmospheric boundary into a different air mass — and become an extratropical cyclone as it showers places as far as upstate New York and Vermont with rain.
Tropical cyclone is an umbrella term that encompasses tropical depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes, which differ based on their strength. An extratropical cyclone can be as weak as a tropical depression or as strong as a tropical storm, but unlike tropical cyclones, they are cold at the core and therefore can’t quickly grow into a hurricane.
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