The firestorm that's engulfed parts of Southern California has fire crews keeping an eye on "unprecedented" wind gusts as they work to fight the flames on what officials have described as "steep, inaccessible areas."

Telescopes all over the world and in space were busy on Aug. 17, when scientists made the first-ever observations of both light and gravitational waves from a single cosmic event.

All residents of Calistoga and Geyserville were ordered to leave their homes as firefighters braced for a tough fight overnight on numerous fronts of the fires.

Luke 21:25 - '...there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves.

Matthew 24:7 - 'For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.'

Hurricane Irma poses the most significant threat to Florida in memory — and "this is the kind of storm that you read about in the history books," said Bryan Norcross, senior hurricane specialist at The Weather Channel.

The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history is battering the Caribbean islands... Irma - a category five storm with winds of 185 mph ... possibly hitting Florida over the weekend.

"When confronted with a need, Jesus took action. He told us to be like the Good Samaritan and 'Go and do likewise. Will you?"

The hurricane dumped more than 20 inches of rain in the Houston area, causing "life-threatening catastrophic flooding" in southeastern Texas, The National Hurricane Center reported. Up to 40 inches of rain is expected in some parts.

Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast late Friday, making landfall at Port Aransas and bringing a "life-threatening storm surge," that could make it the most powerful storm to hit the Lone Star State in more than a decade.

The Category 4 hurricane is bringing 130 mph winds. It could cause a costal surge that could reach 6 to 12 feet.

A 2,000-foot-long asteroid, almost twice the size of the Rose Bowl, will zip safely past Earth on Wednesday at a distance of about 1.1 million miles, about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon.

At least 188,000 people were asked to evacuate their homes in Northern California after authorities warned an emergency spillway in the country’s tallest dam was in danger of failing Sunday and unleashing uncontrolled flood waters on towns below.