Cyclone season starts with workshop to equip community to prepare
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Over 40 emergency first responders from various government departments, agencies, and media outlets gathered on Tuesday last week for Day 1 of the Tropical Cyclone (TC)

![Meteorologist-In-Charge Elinor Lutu-McMoore delivering her presentation during the annual cyclone season workshop held last week jointly coordinated by the National Weather Service Office Pago Pago and the American Samoa Department of Homeland Security. [photo: Asi A. Fa'asau] Meteorologist-In-Charge Elinor Lutu-McMoore](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_3723.jpg?itok=50nXkcQY)



![Veterans Day is being honored in the territory as a federal holiday on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, and Samoa News will be closed on that day. We join Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata in thanking “our Veterans for having put country before self. May God bless and strengthen you.” Have a safe day. [courtesy graphic] Veterans Day LOGO](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/veterans_day_2025.jpg?itok=wwbr0j2H)

![To ensure safe operations, while working to repair the undersea portion of the BLST fiber-optic cable system to the Manu’a Islands, ASTCA is coordinating with Department of Public Safety (DPS), American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA), Department of Marine & Wildlife Resources (DMWR), Search and Rescue (SAR), Department of Health (DOH), and NOAA. [photo: ASTCA] BLAST crew](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/image_9.png?itok=xv0UBOIW)
