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The storm sits east of the Leeward Islands and is forecast to move northwest into the Atlantic Ocean.

As of Friday morning, a hurricane watch was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla; St. Martin; and St. Barthelemy -- islands that were all just battered by Hurricane Irma.

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Hurricane Jose strengthens to a Category 4

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The storm sits east of the Leeward Islands and is forecast to move northwest into the Atlantic Ocean. As of Friday morning, a hurricane watch was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla; St. Martin; and St. Barthelemy -- islands that were all just battered by Hurricane Irma.

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The storm sits east of the Leeward Islands and is forecast to move northwest into the Atlantic Ocean.

As of Friday morning, a hurricane watch was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla; St. Martin; and St. Barthelemy -- islands that were all just battered by Hurricane Irma.

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The storm sits east of the Leeward Islands and is forecast to move northwest into the Atlantic Ocean. As of Friday morning, a hurricane watch was in effect for Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla; St. Martin; and St. Barthelemy -- islands that were all just battered by Hurricane Irma.

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300 miles is the diameter of those tropical storm force winds, which is about twice as wide as Florida's peninsula.

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The square mileage of Irma's tropical storm force winds. That's larger than the area of Florida, which is 65,000 square miles.

The diameter of those tropical storm force winds, which is about twice as wide as Florida's peninsula.

The top strength of Irma's maximum sustained winds (though it has since dropped). 1992's Hurricane Andrew, the most destructive hurricane to hit Florida, had maximum winds of 175 mph. Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned that Irma was "bigger, faster and stronger" than Andrew, which hit as a Category 5.

More than 40 million people are located inside the 5-day forecast cone.

More than 20 million people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina will be subject to wind gusts over 75 mph.

The number of people evacuated from the Bahamas. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said it is the largest evacuation in the history of the country.

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The square mileage of Irma's tropical storm force winds. That's larger than the area of Florida, which is 65,000 square miles. The diameter of those tropical storm force winds, which is about twice as wide as Florida's peninsula. The top strength of Irma's maximum sustained winds (though it has since dropped).

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A normal American family turned out to be Russian spies. The mother pretended to be a financial planned and the father was a stay at home dad, raising his 2 daughters. The truth of their names emerged during a 2010 raid by the FBI.

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The couple, known as Richard and Cynthia Murphy, had appeared to be part of a typical American family, living in a beige, two-story colonial-style home with their two young daughters at 31 Marquette Road.

Cynthia's business card said she worked as a financial planner at an accounting company in nearby Manhattan. Richard told neighbors he was a stay-at-home dad raising Lisa, age nine, and her 11-year-old sister, Kate.

The shocking truth emerged when the FBI raided the house in 2010: Richard and Cynthia's real names were Vladimir and Lydia Guryev.

"You could have told me they were Martians from space and I would have been less surprised," said Elizabeth Lapin, a poetry professor who still lives down the street from the home now known as "the spy house."

The Guryevs had been gathering information since the 1990s for Russia's SVR, which the FBI describes as the modern equivalent of the KGB. The KGB, if you remember, was the widely feared national security agency of the now-defunct Soviet Union, tasked during the Cold War with running a domestic secret police force and operating a network of spies throughout the world.

On June 27, 2010, the FBI arrested the Guryevs along with eight other alleged Russian spies in Manhattan, Yonkers, Boston and northern Virginia. The announcement triggered headlines reminiscent of the Cold War, and even inspired the creation of FX's 1980s-era spy drama "The Americans."

But while the deep-cover Russian spies on "The Americans" "do all sorts of reckless, wild things," said neighbor Virginia Bailey, that wasn't the impression she got from the Guryevs.

"By all accounts," Bailey told CNN, "these neighbors were neither reckless nor wild."

This is what it was really like to live next door to a Russian spy, according to various Montclair residents who spoke to CNN.

Hiding in plain sight

Looking back, neighbors say the Guryevs' "spy house" was a perfect place to hide in plain sight. Manhattan was just 30 minutes away by shuttle bus. And the house property backed up against a 21-acre wildlife preserve where meetings with agents and exchanges of information could easily be hidden from prying eyes.

The family wasn't overly social -- but they weren't exactly hiding either. Neighbors say they sometimes attended summer neighborhood block parties.

Before the raid, Bailey and her daughter, Jessie Gugig, remember seeing their neighbor "Cynthia" walking her dog many mornings down Marquette Road. Although they never stopped to have a conversation, Bailey remembered her as being "very attractive and very well put together. She always dressed very nicely."

Some neighbors said the couple spoke with accents, but Lapin said she never heard one.

"The girls built a lemonade stand one summer," Lapin said. "That was such an American thing."

Lapin said she had a "premonition" that "something strange" was going on long before the raid. A few months before, she noticed unusual, prolonged construction under the neighborhood streets. The Friday before the raid, she said a police car had been parked in front of her house.

But espionage? It never occurred to her, Lapin said.

How they got caught

The FBI and CIA first learned about the collection of deep-cover SVR spies in the United States in the early 2000s. They were living as so-called "illegals," meaning they had no diplomatic protection.

US authorities secretly surveilled all the spies for years, bugging the Guryevs' house and even secretly searching it when they weren't around. The FBI told CNN's original series "Declassifed" that the Guryevs tried so hard to blend into American society that they didn't even speak Russian inside their own home.

Eventually, the United States cracked a secret code the spies used to communicate with Moscow, allowing the FBI to learn more about the Guryevs' comings and goings. In 2009, the FBI shot video of a meeting between Vladimir and a Russian government official. Authorities decided it was time to arrest the spy ring.

Jessie Gugig remembers being a 15-year-old experiencing the shock of watching FBI vans stop at the Guryevs' home, just a stone's throw from her own residence.

"Eventually another car pulled up and guys in suits with earpieces showed up with some papers that must have been a warrant," Gugig, now a 22-year-old law student, recalled. Agents suddenly poured into the home, turning on the lights and searching it from top to bottom.

"The house got lit up like it was Christmas," she said.

For at least a week after the raid, the press seemed to be everywhere throughout the neighborhood, said Gugig's mother Bailey. "I mean hordes of them," she said. "It was just a carnival."

Lapin gathered up enough courage to approach the house after the arrest and peer into the window. Inside she saw several items on a table - including Lisa's textbook on Chinese grammar, stacks of coins and a copy of a 1953 post-World War-II memoir, "Woman in Berlin."

On the wall next to a piano was a "beautiful painting" of a young girl, which Lapin believes was a self-portrait by Kate.

The Guryevs' two girls, Bailey said, were taken away to stay with a family friend.

What happened to the kids?

Two weeks after the FBI arrests, Moscow and Washington made a deal.

After all ten of those arrested pleaded guilty to being Russian agents, the United States agreed to transfer them to Russian custody. In exchange, Moscow agreed to release "four individuals" who were "incarcerated in Russia for alleged contact with Western intelligence agencies," the Justice Department said.

Kate and Lisa -- who were born in the United States -- eventually accompanied their parents back to Russia. US Attorney General Eric Holder told CBS' "Face the Nation" in 2010 that the Guryevs' kids and all other children of the Russian agents were "repatriated."

"That whole aspect was very sad," said Bailey. "To all of a sudden have their lives completely and utterly changed. The children didn't know Russia ... They have to leave their friends abruptly and suddenly. ... Everything would have just been so radically different."

Former FBI operative Eric O'Neill, who helped catch FBI double agent Robert Hanssen, said in 2010 that it's unusual for spies serving overseas to have children, because they could suffer from divided loyalties.

"When you're a parent, you're supposed to take care of your kids. You are supposed to put them first in your life. And a spy can't do that," O'Neill said.

Are other spies still living among us?

At the time, having Russian spies in the neighborhood felt like a weird throwback to the Cold War, neighbors said.

But now that people on Marquette Road are hearing more about heightened tensions between Russia and the United States, they say the idea of Russian spies living among Americans doesn't seem so surprising. Some of them are following the current US government investigations into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion with members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

In fact, Russian spies are ramping up their intelligence-gathering efforts inside the United States, current and former US intelligence officials told CNN this month.

Former Soviet KGB spymaster Oleg Kalugin told CNN he "would not be surprised" to learn that Russia is still running illegal deep-cover spies in the United States. But he suspects these programs would be less active now than in 2010. Kalugin, who says he never ran illegal deep-cover programs, criticized them as wasteful and inefficient.

"It's risky and lonely and a really difficult job," he said.

One of the key pieces of evidence uncovered by the FBI in the 2010 case was a message Russian spymasters sent the Guryevs shortly before their arrest.

"You were sent to USA for long-term service trip," the message said. "Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. -- all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policymaking circles and send intels to C."

"C" is thought to refer to "The Center," an espionage information clearinghouse in Russia.

What's next for the 'spy house'

Built in 1950, the beige, two-story house is a typical middle class home for the area. It measures a bit more than 1,800 square feet and the county valued it this year at $425,700, according to Essex County tax records.

So much time has passed that "it's hard to believe it happened," said Bailey.

"Nature is kind of taking the house back," Gugig said. "Ivy is starting to eat into the house. The garden is completely overgrown."

"The house just sits there and it's empty," she added. "It's just a constant reminder."

Lapin -- who has lived near the house for 11 years -- said the neighborhood was friendlier before the raid. "I liked the neighborhood -- until this event happened," she said.

But the old vibe has slowly been coming back, she said. Several of her neighbors have left since the raid -- replaced by new residents who don't associate the house with the spies.

A local realtor said the home has recently been sold.

Perhaps a new family will move in soon, which will help Montclair close the book and move on from its connection to international espionage.

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The couple, known as Richard and Cynthia Murphy, had appeared to be part of a typical American family, living in a beige, two-story colonial-style home with their two young daughters at 31 Marquette Road. Cynthia's business card said she worked as a financial planner at an accounting company in nearby Manhattan.

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25 years ago there was a hurricane called Hurricane Andrews and it hit south Miami. It was listed as a category 5 hurricane.

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Imagine if Armageddon struck modern-day America, where once-busy roads are filled with silence, and destruction is visible as far as the eye can see.

Entire trailer parks are flattened. Facades of hotels have been completely ripped off. Rows of concrete telephone poles have fallen to the ground like dominoes. Looters begin taking to the streets to cause further chaos.

The day is August 24, 1992, and Hurricane Andrew, the last Category 5 hurricane to strike the U.S., had just wreaked havoc on the South Miami area early that morning.

The storm came to be known as "The Big One," according to the HistoryMiami Museum's website. While nearby areas remained relatively unscathed -- including the cities that were originally slated to fall under the monster storm's path -- South Miami neighborhoods experienced utter devastation that left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in Miami-Dade County.

The track of the storm

Earlier this year, National Hurricane Center meteorologist Daniel Brown created a report for the Florida Governor's Hurricane Conference detailing the track of Hurricane Andrew.

Friday, Aug. 14, 1992: Ten days before making landfall in Florida, Hurricane Andrew began as a tropical wave, which models detected off the coast of Africa.

Sunday, Aug. 16, 1992: The National Hurricane Center issues its first advisory detailing a tropical depression with 35 mph maximum sustained winds at 11 p.m. The storm has not yet been named.

Monday, Aug. 17, 1992: At 11 a.m., the depression becomes Tropical Storm Andrew, the first of that year's hurricane season. Maximum sustained winds are listed at 40 mph, with "some gradual strengthening possible" through the evening, the NHC alert reads.

By 11 p.m., winds continued to strengthen to nearly 50 mph as it heads west.

Thursday, Aug. 20, 1992: Tropical Storm Andrew weakens after interacting with an upper-level low in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Bahamas.

Friday, Aug. 21, 1992: Tropical Storm Andrew strengthens.

Saturday, Aug. 22, 1992: Two days before making landfall, Andrew becomes the first hurricane of the 1992 season after rapidly strengthening overnight. At 5 a.m., the center of the storm is located about 800 miles east of Miami.

At 5 p.m., the National Weather Center issues hurricane warnings for portions of the Bahamas and a hurricane watch for portions of Florida. The Bahamas government also issued a hurricane warning, which included the northwest islands of Andros, Eleuthera, Grand Bahama and Great Abaco.

Sunday, Aug. 23, 1992: At 8 a.m., the first hurricane warnings are issued for southeast Florida after Andrew becomes a major hurricane. The hurricane warning is in effect from Vero Beach to the Florida Keys, while a tropical storm warning is in effect north of Vero Beach to Titusville, Florida. A hurricane watch is in effect for the west coast of Florida, including the greater Tampa area.

At 2 p.m., Andrew reaches peak intensity with sustained winds of 175 mph as it makes landfall on the Eluthera and Berry islands in the Bahamas. The storm then heads toward South Florida.

Monday, Aug. 24, 1992: Just before 5 a.m., Hurricane Andrew -- now a category 5 storm -- makes landfall in southern Miami-Dade County near Elliot Key. At 5 a.m., the storm is 10 miles east of Homestead and 25 miles south of downtown Miami.

Wind gusts reached up to 177 mph in some areas before the instruments failed. Storm surge of 9 to 13 feet is possible in areas near Biscayne Bay.

The NHC says the storm will move across South Florida and exit in the Gulf of Mexico.

Everyone has a Hurricane Andrew story

Longtime South Florida residents of a certain age tend to divide the timeline of their lives into two categories: pre- and post-Andrew.

"Everyone remembers where they were before the storm, during the storm and after the storm," Jorge Zamanillo, director of the HistoryMiami Museum, told ABC News.

More than 18,000 people belong to a Facebook group called " I Survived Hurricane Andrew," where members share their experiences of how they weathered the storm as well as photos of post-hurricane destruction.

One of the most distinct memories survivors of the storm seem to remember is the deafening sounds of the hurricane-force winds as they howled in and out of homes.

"Each and every [survivor] story is riveting," said Erik Salna, associate director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University, who was working as a meteorologist for WBBH in Fort Meyers at the time. "Each and every story will captivate you."

Here are some incredible tales from survivors of the storm:

Bryan Petersen, 29

Fort Myers resident Bryan Petersen was only 4 years old when Hurricane Andrew struck, but he has a vivid memory of the flooding that destroyed his home near Lakes of the Bay in Miami.

Petersen and his family evacuated further north to escape the storm at a family friend's home. They returned to a "stump of a house," Petersen told ABC News.

"Not a single house was left standing [in my neighborhood]," he said.

The truck his family used for their landscaping business was in the "exact spot" where they left it, but "completely flipped over." The entire roof had been ripped off, and chest-deep water filled the home.

"I can remember being on my dad's shoulders ... and my feet were in the water when he was walking up to the house," Petersen said.

Fish poured out of the kitchen cabinets when opened, he said, and everything -- including the water -- was stained purple.

"It took me forever to figure it out," he said. The family later found a squid in the house and realized that it must have released its ink.

It took at least a year for Petersen's family to rebuild their home in the same spot. They still live there today, he said.

Steve Warner, 66

Steve Warner, a psychologist who recently moved to Cape Canaveral, said his home in Redlands, Florida was "right on the eye wall for the entire length of the hurricane."

"It was quite an experience," Warner told ABC News. "You gain a whole new appreciation for the power of nature."

Warner, 41 at the time, had hunkered down in his home with his wife, Judy, their 7-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son. His parents, two friends and their teenage son came to stay with them as well.

"We were inland," Warner said. "We were 'safe.'"

They were "well-prepared" for the storm, with hurricane panels and shutters already in place, Warner said. As the entire group was huddled in a double-wide bedroom closet -- using a mattress for extra protection -- Warner's mother turned to him to say she forgot her knitting.

Soon after, when Warner exited the closet to retrieve the knitting, he realized they may not make it through the night.

Warner said he watched in "utter disbelief" as the wind peeled off the Dade-county approved door panels he outfitted his home with one by one. The French doors leading to the backyard blew in, and rain began to come into the house horizontally, he said.

"When people say it sounds like a freight train, they're not exaggerating," he said. "The winds come with such force, that it sounds like there is a freight train coming through the house."

Warner then "hurried" back to the bedroom and spent the next two and a half hours -- along with his friends' son - with his back pressed against the door, holding it shut to protect the rest of the group from the terrifying winds. He was in "flight-or-fight" mode and thought they'd be safer that way, he said.

"I look over at my father, who has a cardiac condition, as he's kind of gray," Warner said. "I mean, it's terrifying. You just kind of feel like you may not make it through the night. There's nothing to compare it to."

Warner's son, only 2 at the time, slept through the entire ordeal, he said.

When it was over, the first sounds Warner heard were his neighbors calling out to see if everyone was OK, he said.

"We were very fortunate because my next-door neighbors were in the closet, and the closet collapsed," he said. The neighbors ended up being fine, he said.

Warner said he was so "shocked" at the amount of damage his house endured that he didn't want his wife to come out of the bedroom to see what happened.

"Everything was moved. Everything was destroyed," he said. "The paint came off the walls like sheets of wallpaper. I'd never seen anything like it before. The ceiling fan make a circular hole in the ceiling. The doors were blown off. ... The refrigerator had been pulled out of the kitchen. When you opened the door, we had seaweed in the refrigerator, and I know we hadn't bought any recently."

Even though every single cabinet door in the kitchen had been blown off, "every piece of china and crystal was untouched," Warner said.

The sedan owned by Warner's friends, which had been parked next to his garage, had been lifted, flipped over multiple times, and carried several hundred feet away to the end of their driveway, he said. The car's roof was completely dented in, but somehow it landed upright on its tires, Warner said.

Warner said he credits his home, which had been built with concrete blocks, for saving their lives. It was deemed untenable, so the family rented a home in Coral Gables for 10 months while it was reconstructed.

They sold the home just last year after 35 years of living there.

"We walked away form a category 5 hurricane, pretty much unscathed, physically," he said. "We love the house."

Marcie Lopez, 32

Marcie Lopez and her family weathered the storm in their home in Cutler Ridge when its roof "flew off," she told ABC News.

Lopez, who was 5 years old at the time, said she remembers that the hurricane wasn't supposed to hit her neighborhood directly, but it "shifted last-minute."

The family, which included Lopez's mother, father and 7-year-old brother, went from room to room attempting to hide from the winds, she said.

The howling winds were ripping off shutters and causing interior walls to shake, she said. They were in her parents' room when the roof detached from the structure.

Although she was petrified, Lopez said her father attempted to calm her and her brother by saying, "That's just the spirits helping us. They're moving furniture around, but they're here to help us."

The family lost "almost everything," but no one was hurt.

Lopez, who now lives in Homestead, said she and her family slept in the living room for about four months while their home was reconstructed. They went without electricity for three months.

At night, neighbors would switch on the headlights to their cars so there would be "some sort of light," Lopez recalled. Her mother would also find seashells all over the house, even though they didn't live near the beach, she said.

How local meteorologist Bryan Norcross calmed millions of people during the storm

When Hurricane Andrew's 165 mph winds blew out three of the four broadcasting towers in the greater Miami area, WTVJ-NBC6 meteorologist Bryan Norcross was propelled into local stardom.

"There was that one voice, and that voice was Bryan Norcross," Salna said.

Norcross' voice was on the air for 23 hours straight, Zamanillo said. No other broadcast outlets were open, and Norcross' station had made arrangements with a local radio station to carry a broadcast in case the power went out.

"Everyone was listening to Bryan Norcross," Warner said. "There was no question."

Through the hours-long duration of the storm, people listened to Norcross' ad-libbed advice on how to survive. As people were calling in hysterically crying, describing to Norcross the damage their homes were sustaining as the menacing winds could be heard howling in the background, Norcross had to come up with survival tactics on the spot, Zamanillo said.

Norcross, with his "calm, reassuring voice," told people to get out of danger's way by hunkering down in closets, bathtubs or a tight room with no windows, Zamanillo said. One of his most memorable instructions is when he instructed people to cover themselves with a mattress.

"Over the years, so many people are thankful that he said that one thing to protect themselves," Salna said.

"He helped them survive the storm," Zamanillo said.

As the anniversary of Hurricane Andrew approached, Norcross provided daily updates of how it developed on his Facebook page.

On June 1, the HistoryMiami debuted the commemorative exhibit "Hurricane Andrew: 25 Years Later." Zamanillo said he believes the most poignant part of the exhibit are the letters people wrote to Norcross, thanking him for helping them ride out the storm.

Admission to the anniversary exhibit will be free for residents of Miami-Dade County on Thursday and will run through Jan. 15. Norcross, who served as a guest curator for the exhibit, will be speaking at the anniversary event.

The aftermath of Andrew

The next day, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 1992, the front pages of local newspapers -- still printed in black and white -- recounted the horror that South Florida faced with headlines such as "Destruction at Dawn" and "Path of terror: Andrew wreaks havoc in S. Florida"

Areas south of Coral Reef Drive to Homestead were completely devastated, Warner recalled. North of Coral Reef Drive to Kendall experienced "a lot of damage" but not to the same extent, he said.

Video footage from the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew portray a bleak scene. Houses are either missing their roofs or reduced to piles of rubble on the ground. Boats have washed ashore. Roads -- littered with an array of downed trees and other debris -- have become impassable. The few trees that were left standing were completely bare of leaves.

When Zamanillo drove to Homestead the next day to check on a relative, it was difficult to navigate his way south. There were no working street lights, no street signs and no landmarks. The farther south he drove, the more it was clear that there was "destruction everywhere," he said.

Salna said he remembers being in the newsroom in Fort Myers, which remained relatively untouched, when a wire from The Associated Press came in with only one line.

"All it said was, 'Homestead Air Force base is gone,'" Salna said. "We said, 'Oh my goodness. What does that mean?' It didn't take long for news crews to get down there, and then we saw what the damage really was."

Salna, who was 32 at the time, compared the aftermath of Andrew to a war zone. It was his first major event as a television meteorologist.

"All of a sudden you're hit with, 'Wow. That's the power of a category 5 hurricane.'"

Millions of residents were without power, some for months, Zamanillo said. Customers in Palmetto Bay, northeast of Homestead, were without power for about two and a half months, Zamanillo said.

The temperatures hovered in the 90s, and without working air conditioners, people took to the streets, pooling food that they cooked with gas barbecue grills, Warner recalled.

Wild animals ran rampant. Monkeys from Monkey Jungle escaped, as did parrots from Parrot Jungle, Zamanillo said.

The newly built exotic bird aviary at the Metro Zoo -- now called Zoo Miami -- was destroyed and later rebuilt, Zamanillo said.

"For years, I would walk around the neighborhood for exercise, and I would see flocks of parrots," Warner said. "I think those were the Hurricane Andrew parrots."

Warner called the experience "primitive."

"On some level it was compelling," he said. "You weren't about making a living. You weren't about getting to work. You were just worried."

As a result of the hurricane, Warner said that, despite his experience as a psychologist, he finally "truly understood the nature of trauma."

"It took years to kind of settle with Hurricane Andrew -- to kind of get over the trauma," he said.

Lopez said that, for some time, every time she heard a hurricane approaching, she would "freak out." She would even get scared during thunderstorms, she said.

Zamanillo said the museum's exhibit has helped survivors who were traumatized by the storm "cope ... to some degree."

"It was a story about a storm that really devastated these areas, and more importantly, how the community really bounced back," he said.

As part of the "Love Can Build Anything Project," school-age children who experienced the hurricane were asked to paint their feelings on door panels. Some of the panels now hang near Salna's office at FIU.

Hurricane Andrew by the numbers

Hurricane Andrew caused $26.5 billion in damage, making it the most expensive and most destructive hurricane on record in American history at the time, according to the NHC.

Now, it is ranked as the fourth-most expensive storm in recorded U.S. history, behind Katrina in 2005, Sandy in 2012 and Ike in 2008, according to the NHC.

Twenty-six deaths were directly associated with Hurricane Andrew -- including 15 in Miami-Dade County -- a relatively low number considering the vast destruction it caused to the landscape, according to the NHC.

The hurricane completely destroyed 63,000 homes and damaged an additional 100,000 homes, Zamanillo said. Ninety-nine percent of mobile homes in Miami-Dade County were destroyed, he added.

About 1.4 million customers lost power -- some for months, Zamanillo said.

Hurricane Andrew can also be blamed for the exodus of people from Miami-Dade County north to Broward County, near Fort Lauderdale, Zamanillo said. Thousands of people decided not to rebuild.

A total of 83,000 people left Miami-Dade County in the aftermath, according to a 1995 Sun Sentinel report based on IRS records. Broward County gained nearly 20,000 of Miami-Dade's former residents, the Sun Sentinel reported.

"Some of our neighbors just didn't come back," Petersen said.

Economically, the southern half of Miami-Dade County was "never the same again," after it lost one of its "true economic motors," the U.S. Air Force base in Homestead, Richard Olson, director of the International Hurricane Research Center at FIU in Miami, told ABC News.

The base employed thousands of people and was only rebuilt to a small fraction of its former size when it was converted into a base for the National Guard, Olson said.

"It was the economic keystone for Homestead, and it went with the hurricane," Olson said of the Air Force base.

The devastation could have been much worse

The area in south Miami-Dade County that was decimated by Hurricane Andrew is mostly rural and suburban, Zamanillo said. Had the storm stayed on course and hit farther north, it would have ripped through major metropolitan areas, including downtown Miami, Zamanillo said.

Warner recalls meteorologists predicting that the storm would strike "about a half degree north" into the Coral Gables area.

Had the storm not taken a "little jog south," it would have hit skyscrapers and other major buildings instead, Zamanillo said.

Hundreds of thousands more people may have been affected had the storm stayed north. In 1992, about 350,000 people were living south of Miami's Kendall Drive, the area that experienced the brunt of the destruction, according to the NHC. In comparison, 1.6 million people were living north of Kendall Drive.

Why people weren't prepared

The 1992 hurricane season was relatively quiet, exemplified by a letter "A" storm being named in late August, Zamanillo said.

Before 1992, the state experienced a decades-long hurricane dry spell, Salna said. Floridians hadn't seen a major storm since the 1960s, and there were a lot of false warnings since then, Zamanillo said.

"People took it for granted, and they didn't have warning," Zamanillo said of the short time people had to prepare.

Zamanillo, who was 23 years old when the storm hit, said he distinctly remembers the moment he found out that a storm was imminent. On the morning of Saturday, Aug. 22, 1992, he and his girlfriend -- who is now his wife -- were washing the car outside of their apartment in Little Havana. The next day, less than 24 hours before the storm hit, he was at his parent's house nearby, helping them nail plywood boards over their windows.

"Now, that wouldn't happen," he said, emphasizing that today people would have a four- to five-day window to prepare.

Even if there had been ample warning, before Andrew, the news of a hurricane brewing in the Atlantic was almost a cause for celebration.

"There was a prevailing culture of not taking hurricanes seriously until Andrew," Olson said.

Florida is a transplant state, Olson said. So, in addition to the life-long Floridians who had never been through a storm, millions of residents new to the state had "no idea" what a category 4 or 5 storm could do, Olson said.

Hurricane Andrew revealed the shoddy building practices and poor enforcement of building codes in South Florida

Country Walk -- a planned suburban neighborhood north of Homestead -- was a scene of utter devastation in the wake of the storm due to the shoddy construction practices used to build the homes, Olson said.

Roofs were attached to the homes with staples instead of nails, and homes were built with low-grade plywood, Olson said. The homes in Country Walk were built so poorly that a grand jury investigation looking into the construction practices was launched and there were talks of criminal indictments on the builder, Olson said.

Cheryl Lani Juarez, 62, who was living in Country Walk when Andrew hit, said the second floor of her home didn't stand up to the "three hours of horror."

"You could see the sky from the upstairs loft where the kids' bedrooms were," she told ABC News. "You could see where two pieces of wood were not connected by nails."

The same destruction was true for her neighbors. When she went outside, "it just did not look like our neighborhood anymore," she said. Asphalt shingles that had not been properly attached to roofs littered the street.

"You don't see that kind of stuff when you're looking to buy a house," she said.

The shortcuts in construction resulted from pressure to accommodate the population explosion in Florida in the 1970s and 1980s, Olson said.

"How do you build fast enough to handle that population growth?" Olson asked.

Building codes were not "rigorously enforced" because "that tended to slow down construction and raise costs," he said.

In terms of building codes, "Florida took Andrew as a lesson learned," Bryan Koon, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, told ABC News.

"It changed -- forever -- building codes and especially building code enforcement, which Andrew proved to be inadequate, incompetent or avoidant," Olson said.

At the time, the South Florida Building Code, which included Dade and Broward counties, had been considered one of the best in the country, but those standards were not adequately enforced, the Sun Sentinel reported.

After Andrew, the state worked on building codes and better enforcing them, Koon said. Today, "you'll see that buildings will stand up better against hurricane-force winds," he said.

The building practices in Country Walk were so infamous that Juarez's friend, an architecture professor at FIU, asked if he could bring his students to see the remainder of her home, she said.

Warner's parents had only lived in Country Walk for about two years when their home was "totaled," he said. They were so traumatized by the storm that they "wanted to put it behind them" and sold the damaged structure before moving back to the West Palm Beach area.

How forecasting has improved since Hurricane Andrew

The ability to forecast storms has improved greatly in the past 25 years and gives residents and emergency managers additional -- perhaps invaluable -- time to prepare for a dangerous storm, Brown said.

The first hurricane warning for Andrew was issued a mere 24 hours before it hit, making preparations challenging for those who heeded the warning and almost impossible for those who missed or ignored it. The forecast also showed the storm making landfall several hours later than it actually occurred, Brown said.

"Folks only had one day to really complete all of their preparations," Brown said. "Back then, forecasts were only out three days. Now, the hurricane forecast is out five days."

A flurry of technological advances -- including observational tools, satellites, new tools on tracking aircraft and advancements on numerical modeling -- make it easier for meteorologists to more accurately track the storm.

In 1992, the NHC did not produce any graphical products, Brown said. One of the most recognizable graphics today is the cone model, which shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under hurricane threat, but was not introduced until 2001.

Wind speed probabilities weren't introduced until 2005.

When the NHC's graphical tropical weather outlook was introduced in 2007, it was able to provide a probability of a tropical cyclone formation in the next two days. In 2013, the technology was improved to provide a probability over the next five days.

In 2010, storm watch and warning lead times have since increased to 48 hours and 36 hours, respectively, before the arrival of tropical storm-force winds.

In 2015, a potential storm surge flooding map was introduced, and in 2017, a storm surge watching and warning graphic became operational after the NHC tested it out in the 2016 season. This year, a graphic showing the estimated time of arrival of tropical storm-force winds has debuted as an experimental product.

An NHC graphic shows just how far forecasting has come in terms of accuracy in the last 25 years. The average error in 1992 versus today has been cut in half, Brown said.

Still, there is room for improvement. It is still difficult for the NHC to predict rapid changes in a storm's intensity. When Hurricane Matthew was developing in the Atlantic in October 2016, it went from a tropical storm with 70 mph winds to a category 5 hurricane with 165 mph winds in just 26 hours, the NHC said.

Andrew: a lesson in the importance of hurricane preparedness

After the storm, as aid was slow to arrive to South Florida, then-Dade County Emergency Management Director Kate Hale famously asked, "Where in the hell is the cavalry on this one?"

Preparedness and response procedures at the local, state and federal levels have improved so "tremendously" since 1992 that emergency managers hope that "the impact from such a storm today would be lessened," Koon said.

With improvements in funding and regular hurricane practice exercises, "officials at every level know what their role is," Koon said.

Every year in May, officials hold a state-wide hurricane exercise involving all state and county agencies as well as partners from the federal government, Koon said.

At the onset of a big storm's approach, officials immediately activate the emergency operation center in Tallahassee to start setting up shelters and gather food, water and supplies, Koon said.

The biggest concern for emergency manager is focusing on life safety, which includes making sure people understand what the hazard is and where they can get away from that, Koon said. These warnings include telling people to get away from storm surge and strong winds, he said.

"We can rebuild community, houses, roads, but we can't rebuild lives," Koon said.

The next concern after a big storm is damage assessments, getting people into shelters and restoring power, Koon said.

Since 1992, the state's utility companies have spent billions of dollars to strengthen the power grids' infrastructures so that the "power will stay on for more people during the storm" and to ensure a speedier recovery effort for those who do lose power, Koon said. The plans and processes continue to evolve over time.

Throughout the year, the NHC works closely with emergency managers, who make the evacuation decisions and advise residents what they should do to prepare, Brown said.

Florida is now the country's leader in emergency management and preparedness, Salna said.

Technology: a catalyst for hurricane preparedness

Even informing the public of the onset of a storm has changed drastically since 1992.

News traveled much slower 25 years ago. Without social media, smartphones or the internet, residents had to rely on television and radio for their news, making it easy to miss information. The NHC website hadn't even been developed until the late mid-1990s.

"You had your radio or television," as well as the brick Motorola cell phones, Zamanillo said.

In 1992, without graphics from the NHC, a meteorologist had to rely on a paper map to show viewers where the storm may hit, Koon said. Today, residents "can get information instantaneously over their cell phone," Koon said.

Decision-makers are now able "to give information to people about the storm in real time," Koon said.

Since 2011, the NHC has been using its social media accounts to keep residents informed on the potential threats that come their way.

"The improvements in forecasting and really overall in the warning and communication process has really helped to get the public prepared," Brown said.

Why Andrew was different from other hurricanes

Andrew was a relatively small hurricane considering how much damage it caused, Zamanillo said.

It wasn't a "Katrina-sized storm," he said. It was rather "tight" and "compact."

"The outer bands didn't stretch out and cause as much damage as it could have," he said.

The path of destruction was "very narrow," Salna said.

Areas like Broward County to the north and Naples to the west were "almost like, 'What hurricane?'" Salna said.

The storm also wasn't a very "wet" storm, Zamanillo said, which is atypical for hurricanes, which usually pose a large water threat.

In the case of Andrew, the dangerous winds were the culprit for most of the destruction, Zamanillo said.

"There's kind of a false lesson about Andrew," Olson said. "As a result of being through Andrew, people forgot that most hurricanes are about water, not wind."

That notion was corrected after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, Olson said.

"Only now are we seeing a correction that hurricanes are about storm surge and flooding," Olson said.

It's important that people who are threatened by an oncoming hurricane "hide from the wind and run from the water," Brown said.

ABC News' Emilie Richardson and Jeff Swartz contributed to this report.

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A former IT staffer for House Democrats who's been in Pakistan for months has struck a deal with federal prosecutors, agreeing to return to the U.S. and face charges.

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A former IT staffer for House Democrats who's been in Pakistan for months has struck a deal with federal prosecutors, agreeing to return to the U.S. and face charges.

Hina Alvi, who along with her husband Imran Awan worked for House Democrats and now faces bank fraud and conspiracy charges, had left with her children for her native Pakistan while under federal investigation.

Both defendants reportedly worked at one time for Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y. Awan separately worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., until he was arrested in July at Dulles airport in Virginia trying to board a plane to Pakistan, where his wife already was.

But court documents show Alvi has agreed to return to the U.S. and face an arraignment as early as Oct. 6, when her husband is scheduled to appear in court for a status hearing.

Documents filed in federal court Wednesday outline the terms of her return.

"Counsel represented that defendant Alvi will turn in her passport(s) when she returns to the United States, and that she will not seek to book any international travel following her appearance in the United States," the documents said.

Imran Awan, who remains in the U.S., entered a not guilty plea last week.

That was after a grand jury returned an indictment last month in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging the couple with a total of four charges.

Awan and other IT aides for House Democrats have been on investigators' radar for months over concerns of possible double-billing, alleged equipment theft, and access to sensitive computer systems. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February, but Schultz had kept him on until his arrest in July.

The indictment itself addresses separate allegations that Awan and his wife engaged in a conspiracy to obtain home equity lines of credit from the Congressional Federal Credit Union by giving false information about two properties - and then sending the proceeds to individuals in Pakistan.

After Awan was arrested at Dulles airport in Virginia, attorney Christopher Gowen told Fox News that federal authorities have no evidence of misconduct by Awan relating to his IT duties.

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A former IT staffer for House Democrats who's been in Pakistan for months has struck a deal with federal prosecutors, agreeing to return to the U.S. and face charges. Hina Alvi, who along with her husband Imran Awan worked for House Democrats and now faces bank fraud and conspiracy charges, had left with her children for her native Pakistan while under federal investigation.

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North Korea may very well be able to kill millions of Americans without firing on U.S. soil. We are at risk of being hit an onslaught of EMP attacks, a threat that experts say is very real and would come with catastrophic consequences. How could North Korea do this? A Hydrogen bomb detonated at high altitude would create an electro-magnetic pulse would knock out key infrastructure - namely prominent parts of the U.S electrical grid.

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North Korea may very well have the ability to kill millions of Americans, without directly firing on U.S. soil. For the first time, the pariah country's state news agency warned it could hit the U.S. with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) onslaught, a threat that experts contend is both very real and comes with catastrophic consequences.

"The biggest danger would be shorting out of the power grid, especially on the East Coast. Imagine a situation where large sections of the U.S. had no power. Imagine New York or Washington D.C. with no power for just a week. The implications would be hard to fathom," Harry Kazianis, Director of Defense Studies at the Center for the National Interest, told Fox News. "The casualty rates would be off the charts."

According to Kazianis, an EMP delivered by a nuclear weapon would not just fry power grids but also carry the destructive power of an atomic device.

"That in it of itself is going to kill thousands if not millions depending on the size of it and where it is dropped. Also, nuclear weapons carry radioactive fallout that would be spread thousands of miles through the atmosphere and oceans," he continued. "We would be adding to such a casualty count sadly for decades thanks to cancer cases that would arise many years later."

So how could North Korea pull off an EMP attack? A hydrogen bomb detonated at a high altitude would create an electromagnetic pulse that would knock out key infrastructure - namely prominent parts of the U.S. electrical grid.

The higher the bomb's detonation, the wider the range of destruction. An altitude of just under 250 miles - around the orbit of the International Space Station - would annihilate electronics in majority of the mainland, including parts of neighboring Canada and Mexico, analysts have said. North Korea exhibited its capacity to reach such altitudes in satellite launches in both 2012 and 2016.
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An EMP attack, experts warn, doesn't require definitive guidance systems as the area affected is so widespread.

"An EMP is similar to a lightning strike in some respects, but it acts over a wide area - hundreds of miles," explained John Gilbert, retired Air Force colonel and senior science fellow with the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation in Washington, D.C. "There would be widespread and probably long-lasting power outages and wire-line telecommunications systems such as telephone and TV/internet cable would suffer serious damage. Individual items such as cars and trucks could also be damaged or disabled and damage could occur to electronic devices in homes and businesses."

An attack could cut power to health care facilities and cripple municipal facilities and utilities.

"North Korea consistently exceeds our estimates of what we think they can do, so prudence might indicate we take them at their word," noted Lieutenant General Wallace Gregson (USMC, Ret.), the former assistant defense secretary, now Senior Director of China and the Pacific at the Center for the National Interest. "The aim is to shut down our electrical grid and all the distribution networks - water, waste, financial, traffic management, air control, radio, computer, others - we depend upon."

Scientists first discovered the EMP fallout of a hydrogen bomb during a test in 1962, in which lights were burned out in Honolulu - some 1,000 miles from the test location.

Experts have long warned of the plausibility of an EMP attack from the likes of North Korea or Iran. A special task force appointed by Congress and known as the EMP Commission cautioned in 2008 that the largely digitized U.S. could be left black for up to a year as a result of an EMP disruption. They say that even the sensors and monitors that function to re-start electronics after a power outage would be wiped out.
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Yet apparently little was done to address the potential crisis.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported last year that the federal government had failed to implement an array of recommendations they had made eight years earlier to prevent calamitous outages triggered by an EMP incursion, noting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Energy (DOE) had not "established a coordinated approach to identifying and implementing key risk management activities to address EMP risks" and that securing the grid was far from the top priority.
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Richard Schoeberl, a terrorism analyst and former unit chief at the CIA's National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), asserted that while North Korea's own proclamations of having the capability to strike the U.S. with an EMP attack may be well be over-exaggerated, it is a threat that requires serious mitigations.

"The United States can provide better protection of the nation's infrastructure," he told Fox News. "The threat of EMP is completely plausible."

"Most of our East Coast grid has a lot of older equipment that could be vulnerable. We should work quickly to make the necessary upgrades to ensure North Korea can't catch us by surprise," Kazianis added. "We are highly vulnerable to such an attack. Considering that if North Koreans are able to pack enough destructive power into such a nuclear device they could fry countless electrical grids and equipment. If they use a big enough device the damage could be beyond belief."

The State Department and Department of Energy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Hollie McKay has been a FoxNews.com staff reporter since 2007. She has reported extensively from the Middle East on the rise and fall of terrorist groups such as ISIS in Iraq. Follow her on twitter at @holliesmckay

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Memphis Grizzlies coach speaks out on Confederate monument removal. He says that the statues should be put in a museums and not melted down.

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The head coach of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies is calling for Confederate statues in the city to be removed from public spaces and instead placed in museums.

David Fizdale spoke out in a recent interview about his views on the city's two Confederate statues - of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early member of the Ku Klux Klan - saying the statues should be preserved in some way.

"I'm not even saying tear them up and melt them down," Fizdale told NBA.com. "Put them in their proper context in history. Their proper context is in a civil rights museum, where you could put them in context and talk about how awful they were. I just feel our citizens should not have to see that involuntarily."

The coach's comments are the latest in a months-long battle to remove the two statues, erected in 1904 and 1965, from Memphis. A petition launched in June to remove the monuments attracted over 4,600 signatures.

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All 12 members of the Memphis City Council agreed Tuesday if the Tennessee Historical Commission refuses to remove the monuments, the city will take them down anyway. A final vote on the ordinance is set for Oct. 3.

Fizdale compared the controversial monuments, which some people believe represent heritage and not racial division, to Nazi statues and symbols that have been banned from public display in Germany.

"When it's left up to the state and the state puts it in the hands of a committee who thinks they're preserving history without the thought of humanity, just thinking about their common man and what they've experienced...are there statues of Hitler all throughout Germany?," Fizdale said. "No. You're not going to do that to your citizens."

Fizdale said the city's white population needed to become more engaged in the process.

"Because until this becomes absolutely unacceptable to you, it'll continue," Fizdale told NBA.com. "We need everybody to get involved right now. I know my wife and I, we'll definitely be right there in the trenches, on the front line, spreading peace and love and trying to build real communities with people from all walks of life that are facing the exact same problems."

Although activists who want the Confederate symbols removed have praised the council's vote, some have criticized the city's mayor for protecting the monuments.

"Our stance is for the protection of life and people and allowing them to enjoy the park safely," Memphis Police Department Deputy Director Ryall told the Commercial Appeal, adding the city spent an extra $25,000 to cover the costs of keeping the peace during rallies near the monuments.

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Alarmed residents made multiple calls to 911 on Wednesday after seeing the animal, said Capt. Joey Smith of Henry County police. For hours, people wondered how the female tiger came to roam through several locations near Interstate 75 and Jodeco Road in the metro Atlanta county.

Police eventually shot the tiger dead after she attacked a dog.

Feld Entertainment, which had been contracted to move the tiger, said it does not know how Suzy got out while she was being transported from Tampa, Florida, to Memphis, Tennessee.

A truck carrying the 6-year-old Suzy had made a stop in Georgia overnight, officials said.

She was last seen by her caretakers on Tuesday night, said Feld Entertainment spokesman Stephen Payne.

The company realized the tiger was missing when the truck arrived in Tennessee, and it contacted law enforcement, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said. Feld Entertainment is a live show company that operated the closed Ringling Bros. circus.

The animal's owner had planned to fly the cat to Germany to be part of another circus, Payne said.

One of those who called 911 was Brittney Speck. She woke up to police activity outside her house and high beams coming through her windows as authorities searched for the tiger. When she poked her head out her front door, she was instructed by police to go back inside, so she did.

Speck said her dog, who was in her backyard, was barking hysterically.

"I've never heard her bark like that before," Speck said.

From her backyard, Speck said she could see the tiger in her neighbor's backyard, roaming around a minivan. Once she saw where it was, Speck said she called 911 to give authorities the tiger's location.

At the moment she hung up with 911, the tiger jumped the fence into Speck's yard and went toward her dog.

"I fell to the ground crying because my husband was screaming because the tiger had jumped on top of my dog," she said. Speck said her dog managed to get away from the tiger and was running around as police closed in.

"By the time (the tiger) had jumped on my dog, the officer had started firing rounds."

"When the tiger became aggressive toward pets in the area, it was deemed necessary for public safety to put it down, and it was done quickly and humanely," Department of Natural Resources spokesman Mark McKinnon said.

Speck's dog, a dachshund named Journey, suffered a few scratches but is going to be OK, she said.

The tiger was cremated, said Gerri Yoder, director of the Henry County Animal Care and Control Department.

"It's a very sad day. This tiger was raised by its owner since it was a cub. Clearly, this was a tragic accident," Payne said.

State officials have contacted the tiger's owner. Feld Entertainment said it was cooperating with authorities. The Department of Natural Resources said the investigation is ongoing.

CNN's Stephanie Gallman and Phil Gast contributed to this report.

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7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats.

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More than 40 million people are located inside the 5-day forecast cone.

More than 20 million people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina will be subject to wind gusts over 75 mph.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that military action is not his "first choice" to address North Korea

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"We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens," Trump said when asked if he was still considering military action. "Certainly that's not a first choice, but we'll see what happens."

Trump said that he believed he and Xi are on the same page following what he described as a "very, very frank and very strong phone call."

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In health care, on the other hand, the economic impact could be significant, depriving patients of help they depend on and driving up costs for families and taxpayers.

Surveys of DACA beneficiaries reveal that roughly one-fifth of them work in the health care and educational sector, suggesting a potential loss of tens of thousands of workers from in-demand job categories like home health aide and nursing assistant.

At the same time, projections by the government and advocacy groups show that the economy will need to add hundreds of thousands of workers in these fields over the next five to 10 years simply to keep up with escalating demand, caused primarily by a rapidly aging population.

"It's going to have a real impact on consumers," Paul Osterman, a professor at the Sloan School at MIT and author of a new book on long-term care workers, said of the DACA move.

The DACA program benefits people who entered the country as children and were under age 31 as of June 2012. A 2016 survey by pro-immigration groups and a researcher at the University of California, San Diego, shows that roughly half are still in school, and more than two-thirds have earned less than a bachelor's degree. That would make fields like home health care aide or nursing and health assistants, which don't require a college degree, potentially attractive.

Josue De Luna Navarro, a DACA beneficiary, came to the United States from Mexico when he was 9 years old. He became interested in a career in health care after his father nearly died from complications relating to heart disease.

Now a 21-year-old senior at the University of New Mexico, Mr. Navarro works as a health assistant at a clinic in Albuquerque and plans to apply to medical school after he graduates.

He worries that if DACA is revoked, he will not be able to work at all. "Without that work permit, my career in medicine will be very, very difficult," he said.

Under the Obama-era program, recipients had to apply to renew their status every two years. The Trump administration said on Tuesday that some beneficiaries will be able to renew their status up until Oct. 5. Others could face deportation beginning in March, unless Congress intervenes beforehand.

Experts say the effects of undoing the program could quickly ripple out from DACA beneficiaries to other workers.

"It destabilizes that work force," said Robert Espinoza, vice president for policy at PHI, a group that advocates on behalf of personal care workers. "If you are seeing family members, children, neighbors being deported, threatened, and so on, the ability to be present on the job is undermined."

The health care field's reliance on immigrant labor makes it particularly vulnerable. According to census data Mr. Osterman analyzed, more than one-quarter of home health aides in 2015 were immigrants. The proportion in certain states is far higher, reaching nearly one-half in California and nearly two-thirds in New York.

The undoing of DACA may also herald the undoing of other programs that provide a steady source of immigrant labor in the health care sector. For example, the government can grant people from certain countries that have endured hardship, like natural disasters or civil wars, what it calls temporary protected status.

The overwhelming majority of workers granted that status hail from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, and many have flocked to low-paying health care professions as well.

"We know from surveys that T.P.S. recipients are highly represented in the work force in certain areas," said Tom Jawetz, a vice president of the Center for American Progress, a think tank that favors more liberal immigration policies. "In particular, many - especially Haitians - work in home health care."

The Trump administration has suggested it may not extend the program for Haitians when its most recent extension expires in January, raising questions about whether it will end the program for Hondurans and Salvadorans as well.

As a basic matter of economics, removing tens of thousands of workers from occupations that already suffer from a serious labor shortage - the Labor Department predicts that country will need more than 1.25 million home health aides by 2024, up from about 900,000 in 2014 - generally has one unambiguous effect: driving up costs.

This may be welcome on some level: The department estimates that the typical home health aide made less than $25,000 in 2016, for a job that can be physically and emotionally grueling.

The economic problem is twofold, however. First, the government, through Medicaid, often pays the salaries of home health workers, meaning that escalating wages could blow a hole in the federal budget. (Medicaid, through the decisions of the state and federal governments, effectively caps compensation for home health workers, but the caps could rise more quickly in a world of plunging labor supply.)

Second, an acute shortage of home health workers could force many older and disabled Americans out of their homes and into care facilities, where costs are roughly two-to-three times the cost of home care for a full year. The government typically picks up that tab as well.

Still, it is the personal toll that may be greatest: A patient's quality of life tends to be far higher when they can continue living in their own home.

For patients and families who rely on immigrant workers, "if that person is gone, can't get renewed, it's not a cute thing," Professor Osterman said. "A home health aide is what lets you stay at home."

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In health care, on the other hand, the economic impact could be significant, depriving patients of help they depend on and driving up costs for families and taxpayers. Surveys of DACA beneficiaries reveal that roughly one-fifth of them work in the health care and educational sector, suggesting a potential loss of tens of thousands of workers from in-demand job categories like home health aide and nursing assistant.

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A school in Missouri are disciplining students over racist messages.

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A prestigious Missouri college preparatory school says it will discipline a group of students who exchanged a private series of racist, profane and sexual Snapchat messages that were leaked online to a wider audience.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in Ladue began investigating after a student posted screenshots of the messages on Twitter on Sunday. The private school includes students in pre-kindergarten through high school.

In the messages, at least three different people used an offensive racial slur against African-Americans. Another user asked if anyone knew how to submit an application to the Ku Klux Klan.

The head of the school, Lisa Lyle, wrote in a letter Monday that she was "heart-broken" and "deeply offended" by the messages.

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some carnivals and cruises in Miami are being canceled form the hurricanes and from hurricane Irma as there more coming after the hurricane Irma there still more storms coming that way so until then they won't do anything.

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Hurricane Irma is wreaking havoc on cruise lines.

Carnival , Norwegian and Royal Caribbean have announced cancellations as the hurricane churns through the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico and Florida. And the stocks of all three companies have taken a hit.

Carnival canceled two Bahamas cruises out of Miami and changed itineraries for five others to avoid the hurricane. Norwegian canceled two cruises that would have left Miami for the Bahamas and the Caribbean, and shortened two others.

Royal Caribbean canceled two cruises to the Bahamas and one to Cuba, and it delayed the return of three others until the storm passes.

The stock prices for all three companies fell at least 3% on Tuesday and dipped further on Wednesday.

Related: Hurricane Irma is the last thing Puerto Rico needs

"For guests on the current sailings of Oasis, Harmony and Allure of the Seas, we have decided to delay the return of these ships until the storm has passed," James Van Fleet, chief meteorologist for Royal Caribbean Cruises, said on Twitter on Tuesday night. "Due to the unpredictability of the storm, we plan to keep all of our guests currently sailing on these ships out of harm's way."

All three cruise lines promised full refunds for canceled cruises and partial refunds or credits for shortened cruises, plus additional credits in some cases.

Carnival is dealing with Hurricane Irma just days after announcing a donation of $1 million to help victims of Hurricane Harvey, which ravaged Texas last week. The foundation of Carnival Chairman Micky Arison and his wife, Madeleine, pledged $1 million more.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 6, 2017: 11:18 AM ET

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Carnival , Norwegian and Royal Caribbean have announced cancellations as the hurricane churns through the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico and Florida. And the stocks of all three companies have taken a hit. Carnival canceled two Bahamas cruises out of Miami and changed itineraries for five others to avoid the hurricane.