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Isaias slams Gulf Coast as hurricane with powerful winds and dangerous flooding

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GULF BREEZE, Fla. (AP) — Isaias crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane, hammering communities in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with damaging winds, heavy rain, flooding and life-threatening storm surges.

Associated Press

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story around the storm’s impact in the US Southeast, especially power outages and damage in Florida and Alabama. Al Jazeera’s headline is the only one that foregrounds two deaths and 800,000 without power, while Fox News emphasizes that Isaias “barrels into” the region and says “more than 900,000” were without power, with its extract adding Georgia and recovery efforts.

Written by Crossfiled from the 7 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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