Tropical Storm Nate’s winds rapidly weaken over Alabama
Tropical Storm Nate rapidly weakened as it moved over Alabama on Sunday, although the fast-moving former hurricane rattled the doors of Biloxi’s clubs and left gambling floors and highways in the region flooded after making its landfall in Mississippi.
Its maximum sustained winds dropped to 45 miles per hour (70 km per hour) as it moved northeast into Alabama, prompting the National Hurricane Center to end its tropical storm warning for the region east of the Alabama-florida border on Sunday morning. Only a few hours earlier it had been blowing at 70 mph (110 km per hour), but Nate appeared to lack the devastating punch of its recent predecessors, Reuters reported.
The fourth major storm to strike the US in less than two months,
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks while delivering a speech addressing a ceremony held in Al-ain town in North Bekaa region to commemorate two martyred commanders of the resistance movement, Press TV reported.
The ceremony was held after Hezbollah commander, Ali al-hadi al-asheq, and Hezbollah fighter, Mohammad Nasserdine, were killed, along with five other fighters, while fighting the Daesh terrorists in Syria last week.
"It is only the United States, which does not let Daesh be totally annihilated," Nasrallah said in his speech.
The Hezbollah leader added that the US was helping Daesh through its base in Syrian city of Raqqa and also through a base it runs near Syria’s border with Jordan where Daesh terrorists are trained.
"US Air Force does not allow the Syrian Army and resistance groups to advance toward positions occupied by Daesh," he added.
Nasrallah emphasized that Daesh would return to all areas it had lost if the fight against the group stopped, because Daesh was like a malignant cancer, which must be uprooted. Nate killed at least 30 people in Central America before entering the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and bearing down on the US South. It has also shut down most oil and gas production in the Gulf.
Nate follows a succession of big Atlantic hurricanes, Harvey, Irma and Maria, that have devastated areas of the Caribbean and southern US in the last two months.