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A stubborn wildfire burning in the rugged mountains outside Yosemite National Park has placed nearly 5,000 structures under threat Wednesday.

The storm is expected to hit Florida before crossing overland toward the Carolinas. If it becomes a hurricane before reaching land, it will be the first in 11 years to make landfall in Florida.

The answer is no, but what does the abundance of rain mean for the health of plant life? How can gardeners make the most of the wet weather?

With millions of trees in San Diego County and statewide being ravaged by pests and the drought, Gov. Jerry Brown declared an emergency and requested federal assistance in a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Brown says in a declaration issued Friday that the severe drought and extreme weather "have turned much of the state into a tinderbox."

The country warned in June it faces its worst drought in a century. That's raised concerns — and some doubts about the severity of the situation. In the 1990s, 1 million died in a famine.

How will our diets shift as climate change causes sea-level rise and coastal flooding? Photographer Allie Wist attempts to answer that with pictures of an imagined "post-sea-level-rise dinner party."

The historic nationwide drought has resulted in disaster declarations for more than half the counties in America. In the Southwest, parts of New Mexico and the Texas panhandle are in the worst shape.

Biathlon is the only winter sport in which the U.S. has never won an Olympic medal. But hopes are high for Pyeongchang. "I've never seen our team in such high spirits," says biathlete Lowell Bailey.

Eight new blazes raged Wednesday near Gatlinburg, Tenn., where fire has already destroyed more than 150 structures and injured dozens of people. "There were rivers of fire," said a resident who fled.