Hurricane Isaias intensifies; expected to hit Florida and Alabama & other top stories

What the coverage shows

Both BBC News and ABC News lead on Hurricane Isaias intensifying and on the prospect of damaging weather in the US, with BBC adding that it is the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and that landfall is expected in the coming days. ABC frames the storm as one item in a broader roundup of top stories and, unlike BBC, specifies heavy storms and flash flooding starting Friday. BBC alone mentions evacuations by Shell, BP and Chevron.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 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.