In Mexico, thousands flee from hurricane
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CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico -- Tourists fled hotels and desperately sought flights home, while at least 15,000 residents were ordered to higher ground yesterday as a slightly weakened Hurricane John bore down on the resort of Cabo San Lucas.
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Mexico's Pacific coast is on alert as increasingly dangerous Hurricane John approaches with strong winds and rains.
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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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More than 200 people missing in Central America, with floods and landslides feared after hurricane.
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With a third hurricane bearing down on Florida, thousands spent the weekend uncertain whether, when or where to flee.
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More than 150 prisoners escaped from a state penitentiary in Cancun early Friday after hundreds of inmates overpowered guards with knives and bats. Police quickly recaptured about half the men.
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Tens of thousands of residents fled tsunami-battered coasts in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand after warnings of possible new killer waves yesterday.
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Panicked residents scrambled to flee three storm-ravaged coastal Philippine towns on Sunday while rescuers made last-ditch attempts to find survivors of the powerful storm that left more than 1,100 dead and missing.
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Tens of thousands of people hunkered in storm shelters early on Tuesday as Hurricane Felix, upgraded to an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm as it approached the coast, menaced Central America with violent winds and torrential rains.
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A powerful typhoon sliced through the Philippines Friday, forcing more than 160,000 people to flee their homes to higher ground even as rescuers struggled to find the missing from an earlier storm that killed more than 420 people.
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Authorities urged millions of people from  New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane  Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could  bring it onto the U.S. coast by Wednesday night.
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Thousands of workers were evacuated Monday from oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the waters that cover nearly one-quarter of the country&#39;s fuel supply.
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Residents in western Mexico prepared for a possible sideswipe by Tropical Storm Kiko as forecasters warned the storm could still become a hurricane Sunday.
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Tens of thousands gather in Mexico City for the climax of protests against the presidential poll result.
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LOS CABOS, Mexico  - Powerful Hurricane John   roared toward one of Mexico's most exclusive beach resorts on   Friday, forcing hundreds of foreign tourists to flee ahead of   howling winds, angry seas and lashing rain.
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Tens of thousands of people from a 300-mile swath of the Gulf Coast fled Hurricane Ivan and winds of 140 miles per hour.
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Description: With Hurricane Ivan approaching, oil companies evacuate hundreds of oil workers from drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.