More details from the toll that Iota inflicted came to light on Thursday. Enter Biden. In our news wrap Thursday, Hurricane Iota’s death toll has passed 40 across Central America. The destruction caused by the unprecedented 2020 hurricane season in Central America could spur migration to the United States from a region already coping with insecurity and an economic crisis triggered by novel coronavirus lockdowns, aid officials say. TEGUCIGALPA/MEXICO CITY, Nov 19 (Reuters) — Authorities in Central America recovered more bodies on Thursday from landslides triggered by hurricane Iota, which battered the impoverished region this week, the second deadly storm to roar through this month. (Reporting by Gustavo Palencia in Tegucigalpa and Ismael Lopez in Mexico City; Additional reporting by Wilmer Lopez in Puerto Cabezas, Sofia Menchu in Guatemala City and Nelson Renteria in San Salvador; Writing by Laura Gottesdiener and David Alire Garcia; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Aurora Ellis, Robert Birsel). It inundated low-lying areas still reeling from the impact two weeks ago of Eta, another major hurricane that killed dozens of people in the region. On Thursday morning, Honduran authorities confirmed that eight members of two families, including four children, were killed when a landslide buried their homes in a village in a mountainous region populated by Lencas Indigenous people near the border with El Salvador. Here’s how to read them, Hurricane Iota: Colombia, Nicaragua experience brunt of Category 5 storm, Hurricane Iota: Colombia, Nicaragua experience brunt of Category 5 storm – Nov 17, 2020, Donald Trump ‘refusing’ to pay Rudy Giuliani legal fees: report, Alleged RCMP mole accused of selling secrets to kingpin money launderer and terror-financier’s network, Far-right groups received large Bitcoin payment ahead of U.S. Capitol riot: report, B.C. At least 26 people are dead in the wake of powerful Hurricane Iota, which is still delivering heavy rain and winds to Central America. While Iota largely dissipated over El Salvador on Wednesday, authorities struggled to cope with the fallout from days of heavy rain. The official death toll from Iota in Nicaragua rose to 16 on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. Storm Iota weakens in Central America, but flooding and death toll rise. Iota considered the strongest hurricane in history to hit Nicaragua, government says. But by Tuesday night, the winds had fallen to 80 kph as Iota weakened to a tropical storm but heavy rainfall continued, the US National Hurricane Centre said. Gustavo Palencia and Ismael Lopez. Hurricane Iota's death toll has risen to more than 40 across Central America, as search teams find more bodies in landslides. On Monday, Iota reached Nicaragua as a category five hurricane, the maximum power, two weeks after Cyclone Eta hit the same area, leaving at least 200 people dead and 2.5 million affected. Hurricane Iota: Over 40 deaths reported as Honduran leader pleads for help - National | Globalnews.ca. More than 130 people were killed by Eta as the hurricane triggered flash floods and mudslides in parts of Central America and Mexico. Iota made landfall on Nicaragua’s coast late Monday as a Category-4 hurricane, the strongest on record to have hit the Central American country, and increased in strength to a Category 5 before weakening as it moved inland. 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Central America leaders Demand Climate Aid Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez called an urgent plea for help. Two people died on Providencia island, part of Colombia’s Caribbean archipelago near the coast of Central America, after it was clipped by Iota, President Ivan Duque said on Tuesday evening. Those deaths raised the Honduras toll to 14. John Bel Edwards said in … The hurricane hit almost exactly the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by Hurricane Eta two weeks ago. The strongest storm on record to reach Nicaragua, Iota churned through Central America killing at least nine people. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez issued an urgent plea for international help. The toll of deadly Hurricane Iota continues to rise in Central America. Officials warned that overflowing rivers and saturated soil could lead to more landslides. “One storm after another is a very sad metaphor for the much broader phenomenon” driving migration out of northern Central America, he added. 0. Residents walk along a beach after the passing of Hurricane Iota, in Puerto Cabezas The death toll from Hurricane Iota continues to rise after the storm hammered a part of Central America that was recently battered by Hurricane Eta. Hurricane Iota was the latest Atlantic hurricane to attain Category 5 intensity and only the second Category 5 Atlantic hurricane to occur within the month of November on record—the other being the 1932 Cuba hurricane. By Wilmer Lopez. But by Tuesday night, the winds had fallen to 50 mph (80 kph) as Iota weakened to a tropical storm but heavy rainfall continued, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Iota … Nicaragua, still partly flooded after Hurricane Eta two weeks ago, again bears the brunt of a storm’s impact. The death toll from Hurricane Iota continues to rise after the storm hammered a part of Central America that was recently battered by Hurricane Eta. “One storm after another is a very sad metaphor for the much broader phenomenon,” Bassu said. Some 160,000 Nicaraguans and 74,000 Hondurans have been forced to flee to shelters, where aid workers worry the chaotic conditions could lead fresh outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. The number of reported deaths rose to more than 40 across Central America and Colombia, and the toll is expected to rise as rescue workers reach isolated communities. Hurricane Iota struck the same exact areas the Hurricane 4 Storm Eta had battered weeks ago. READ: Hurricane Iota: Death Toll in Central America Now at 40 as Rescue Operation Continues. Water that had covered houses around the San Pedro Sula airport had begun to subside, however. The death toll from the storm has climbed to at least 19 though there are fears it could rise much higher. Giovanni Bassu, the regional representative for Central America for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) told Reuters he expected to see the compounding hardships driving more migration out of northern Central America in coming months. Numerous villages from northern Colombia to southern Mexico saw record rainfall swell rivers and trigger mudslides. The number of reported deaths rose to more than 40 across Central America and Colombia, and the toll is expected to rise as rescue workers reach isolated communities. Search teams continue to find bodies in landslides triggered by … At least 40 people have been killed to date across the region, Reuters News Agency reported, and the toll is expected to rise as rescue workers reach isolated communities. Comparte. Hurricane Iota leaves mounting death toll and devastation in Central America. Scientists have said that warmer seas caused by climate change are making hurricanes stronger for longer after landfall. TEGUCIGALPA / MEXICO CITY. 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