README.md

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title: DisasterTracker AI 🌍
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sdk: streamlit
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🌍 DisasterTracker AI

DisasterTracker AI is a fullstack open-source RAG app that helps you stay updated on recent natural disasters around the world. It combines the power of local embeddings, open-source language models, real-time news, and live weather data.

🔍 Features

• ✅ Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with flan-t5-base
• ✅ Local vector store using ChromaDB and SentenceTransformers
• ✅ Live RSS feeds for global natural disaster news
• ✅ Real-time weather forecasts from Open-Meteo API
• ✅ Streamlit UI optimized for Hugging Face Spaces (no API keys required)
• ✅ Runs entirely on CPU — 100% open source and deployable for free

🚀 How It Works

1. News is scraped from RSS feeds (NYT, Reuters, Al Jazeera).
2. Articles are embedded using all-MiniLM-L6-v2 and stored in ChromaDB.
3. When you ask a question, the system:
   • Finds relevant articles (RAG)
   • Generates an answer using flan-t5-base
   • Fetches live weather for mentioned locations

🛠️ Setup Instructions

1. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt