Tokyo, Oct 11: An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 hit northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku Wednesday, according to the regional meteorological observatory.

October 12: 3:00 PM - The coldest air of the season will cover much of the East and Midwest Friday into Saturday. Daytime temperatures will be close to 10 degrees below normal from the Ohio Valley into the interior Northeast. Many areas, especially north and west of the major Northeast cities, could see their first frost of the season Friday.

Alaska October 12, Anchorage:  Flooding washes out road to Valdez, Alaska  (AP) -- Floodwaters damaged a 66-mile stretch of highway so severely that the road could be closed as long as a week, blocking Valdez from the rest of Alaska, state officials said Wednesday.

October 12 Tropical Storm Soulik Becomes A Typhoon, Whips Iwo Jima having swung northward toward Japan's Volcano Islands, Soulik reached typhoon intensity Thursday. As of late Thursday morning, EDT, Typhoon Soulik wielded highest sustained winds of 75 mph around a center that was 85 miles to the south-southwest of Iwo Jima,