Today's other headlines start in the Pacific Northwest.

Communities are cleaning up after a so-called bomb cyclone unleashed torrents of rain and fierce winds overnight, killing at least two people.

Authorities in the Seattle area responded as trees smashed into cars and toppled power lines.

More than half a million homes and businesses were without electricity as of this morning.

Forecasters say there's a risk of excessive rainfall from Washington State to Northern California through at least Friday.

Climate change is making hurricanes notably stronger. That's according to a new study

published in the journal Environmental Research Climate. Researchers studied 40 Atlantic hurricanes

over a period of six years and found them to be 18 miles per hour stronger than if climate

change had not been a factor. In real-life terms, that's the difference

between a Category 2 hurricane and a Category 3. Warmer oceans were cited as the primary cause.

Today's findings add to other studies that say climate change has made hurricanes

intensify quicker and move more slowly. The Biden administration has given Ukraine a green light

to use American-supplied anti-personnel landmines that's on top of the anti-tank mines it already

provides. It's the second major policy shift and as many days after the U.S. agreed to let Ukraine

strike deeper inside Russia with U.S. missiles.

Anti-personnel landmines are often criticized by human rights groups because they can endanger

citizens long after conflicts end. But defense secretary Lloyd Austin said the American versions

would be safer because they would deactivate over time.

Speaking today in Laos, Secretary Austin explained why they're needed on the battlefield.

Because the Russians have been so unsuccessful in the way that they have been fighting,

they've kind of changed their tactics a bit and they don't lead with their mechanized forces

anymore.

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