Honduras

Guatemalan police and soldiers have broken up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural highway.

Hurricanes Iota and Eta have devastated the same stretch of the Caribbean in two weeks, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and to deal with catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides.

South Florida is no stranger to the devastation of powerful storms, so it comes to no surprise that the community is joining together to help our neighbors in Central America. They’ve been severely impacted by not one — but two catastrophic hurricanes. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports

Hurricane Iota made landfall on Monday night in Nicaragua. Iota is the 30th named storm of the 2020 hurricane season.

Hurricane Iota is expected to wreak havoc in Central America, the same area where Eta hit just weeks ago. NBC 6’s Stephanie Bertini has more on how South Florida is stepping up to help.

Hurricane Iota continues to rapidly strengthen as it approaches Central America and is expected to become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 Hurricane by Monday. Iota was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. Such activity has focused attention on climate change, which scientists say is causing wetter, stronger and more…

Tropical Storm Iota is brewing in the Caribbean Sea and threatening a second major hurricane for Nicaragua and Honduras

Tropical Storm Iota formed Friday in the Caribbean and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches Central America. Iota was located 350 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center’s most recent update. The NHC said Iota could bring dangerous wind, storm surge and rainfall impacts to…

South Florida will still be dodging raindrops to start the weekend, but the wet weather begins to go away in your First Alert Doppler 6000 forecast.

While much of South Florida is still dealing with the massive flooding brought on by Tropical Storm Eta, hundreds-of-thousands of Hondurans are still without a home since Hurricane Eta tore through the country last week.

While much of South Florida is still dealing with the massive flooding brought on by Tropical Storm Eta, hundreds-of-thousands of Hondurans are still without a home since Hurricane Eta tore through the country last week. One South Florida-based non-profit organization is asking for donations in order to send aid to those still dealing with the storm’s aftermath. Coconut Creek’s...

Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north.

More than 200 mostly Honduran migrants rested on a bridge at the Guatemala-Mexico border waiting for the arrival of others and hoping sheer numbers will improve their chances of entering Mexico and continuing their journey north....

Across the river from Tecun Uman, in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo, National Guard troops with riot shields trucked in throughout Friday afternoon...

Border security forces in southern Mexico were preparing Friday for the expected arrival of hundreds of Central Americans traveling through Guatemala and vowed to prevent a repeat of the headline-grabbing “caravans” of past years when massive flows of migrants and asylum seekers overwhelmed agents. National Guard and army troops stood watch as rafts plied the Suchiate River between the two…

Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula and crossed the Guatemala border in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018.

U.S. acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Thursday on a visit to Honduras that the two countries had finalized the steps on implementing an agreement that would send third country asylum seekers from the United States to Honduras.

By now, the young couple thought they’d be in the United States. Somewhere, anywhere, in the United States. They thought they’d have jobs — he’d work construction, maybe she’d be a waitress. They thought they’d be safe. They thought they’d have asylum. Instead, an American judge swiftly denied their asylum requests. The Trump administration, in making asylum an increasingly...

U.S. ambassadors from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti sent urgent cables to the White House in the early days of the Trump administration, pleading with them to abandon plans to send hundreds of thousands of migrants back to their home countries. The cables, made public Thursday, expose the divide between career diplomats and a new administration eager to push through...

Two people are in critical condition after a house exploded in St. Louis Thursday, authorities said....
The cause of the blast has not been determined, but natural gas was cut off to the home, which was leveled by the explosion and caught fire, a spokesman for the St. Louis Fire Department said. Two men were trapped in the wreckage but freed...