The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. August 24, 2018 Hawaii: Flooding and Landslides Reported as Hurricane Lane Strikes ------------------------------------------------------------------ In Hawaii, there are reports of landslides and heavy flooding as Hurricane Lane grazes the archipelago as a Category 3 storm. More than two feet of rain has fallen in some parts of the Big Island, as the storm tracks slowly toward smaller, more densely populated islands to the north. .