{"id":665957,"date":"2021-08-20T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=665957"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T18:36:46","slug":"2-dead-17-missing-after-tropical-storm-fred-slams-n-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-dead-17-missing-after-tropical-storm-fred-slams-n-c\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 17 missing after Tropical Storm Fred slams N.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2-dead-17-missing-after-tropical-storm-fred-slams-n-c%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=665957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2496788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2496788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a Tropical Storm Fred in the Caribbean as it passes south of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. (NOAA\/NESDIS\/STAR GOES via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:31 AM PT \u2013 Friday, August 20, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>At least two people have died and 17 others reported missing after Tropical Storm Fred blew through North Carolina. Authorities announced those numbers on Friday after Gov. Roy Cooper (D-N.C.) declared a state of emergency due to the severe flooding.<\/p>\n<p>The tally of missing people dropped from 20 on Thursday after several hundred were rescued from rising waters. Power was also knocked out for thousands of customers, with around 2,000 people still without power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far out here, there have been about 200 water rescues,\u201d Cooper stated. \u201cWe are so grateful for the men and women who are out there in teams, searching for people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The damage in the western part of our state is devastating. We&#8217;re gonna do everything we can to help them build back stronger than ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jfb1YS3GMx\">pic.twitter.com\/Jfb1YS3GMx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Roy Cooper (@NC_Governor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NC_Governor\/status\/1428766205595246595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remnants of Fred have been slated to drop around five inches of rain, with possible tornados across New England on Friday. Flash flood warnings were issued in several states including New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/ga-gov-kemp-gives-businesses-the-option-to-ignore-covid-19-mandates\/\">Ga. Gov. Kemp Gives Businesses The Option To Ignore COVID-19 Mandates<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a Tropical Storm Fred in the Caribbean as it passes south of Puerto Rico and the Dominican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}