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Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels and climate change.

The prime minister said five people were killed on Abaco Island. The Category 3 storm sustains 125 mph winds with "life-threatening" storm surge levels expected on Florida's east coast by late Monday.

Hundreds of people died as Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center says the hurricane conditions will affect eastern Florida through Friday.

The Category 2 hurricane is just off the coast, and its heavy winds and rains are hammering the Southeast. "If you don't need to be out," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says, "don't go out."

The Tsunami advisory was lifted late this morning.

Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the Indigenous groups that fought to create it.

As many federal workers are approaching a payday with no pay, they're asking relatives for loans and Congress for relief. Meanwhile, the Coast Guard in Boston is getting help from a food pantry.

A fishing town on Oregon's South Coast attempts to rise above toxic algae and a volatile ocean economy.

Officials are conducting a "coast-to-coast" investigation into the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., the FBI head said. The suspect had worked with the CIA in Afghanistan.

Scientists credit the crab and oyster industries with noticing a change in oxygen levels in coastal Pacific waters.