Dramatic new accounts from some of the 103 people who survived a plane crash in Durango, Mexico are giving insight into why it may have gone down. 

Just as the long holiday weekend marked summer's unofficial start in the U.S., Alberto gave the unofficial start of what forecasters recently predicted would be an active hurricane season. 

The only three survivors of a plane crash in Cuba remain in grave condition as investigators try to determine why an aging Boeing 737 carrying 110 people went down and erupted in flames shortly after takeoff in Havana.

Hurricane Matthew has strengthened to a catastrophic Category 4 storm as it barrels toward the heavily populated coast of Florida. 

Florida Governor Rick Scott sounded the alarm on the powerful Hurricane Matthew on Wednesday, saying no matter what path the storm takes now, “the effects will be devastating.“