Residents in parts of the so-called Sun Belt of the United States, which includes all southern US states from California to Florida, should take extra precautions as high temperatures are expected to increase this week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Weather Prediction Center said on Tuesday

Some 1.2 million power outages persist in the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, which brought floods and other carnage to the US east coast after a weekend strike on the southeastern state of Louisiana, the US Energy Department said on Thursday

More than 50 percent of gas stations in New Orleans and Baton Rouge of the US state of Louisiana are out of gas due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Ida, data published by the petroleum analyst company GasBuddy on Wednesday showed