The Latest: Florence downgraded to post-tropical cyclone
9/17/2018, 9:26:36 PMWILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Depression Florence (all times local): 5:05 p.m. Forecasters say Florence has transitioned into a post-t ✔ (AP Photo/David Goldman) Rescue personnel paddle through a flooded apartment complex to evacuate residents as flooding continues in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Monday, Sept ✔ 17) Many roads and highways remained closed as rising waters in North Carolina kept drivers from passing through
As the Florence floodwaters rose, he contemplated taking his life. Then rescuers came.
9/17/2018, 9:35:43 PMTropical Storm Florence smashed the small town of Newport, North Carolina, where hundreds of residents were saved from flood. ✔ Drone aerials from Wayne County, North Carolina, more than 60 miles northeast of New Bern, show flooding around homes, on roads and in wooded areas ✔ Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean Fullscreen Abandoned cars in flood water on Andrew Jackson Highway near Hallsboro, N.C., Sunday, Sept
Hope fades in Philippines for dozens trapped in landslides
9/17/2018, 8:19:33 PMA Philippine mayor said it's unlikely any of the dozens of people feared buried in a huge landslide set off by Typhoon Mangkhut will be found alive. ✔ In order to prevent such tragedies in the future, Environmental Secretary Roy Cimatu said the government will deploy soldiers and police to stop illegal mining in six mountainous northern provinces, including Benguet ✔ Our new podcast series from the team behind Phoebe's Fall View episodes
Female security guard seen running tight ship at Wilmington, NC store
9/17/2018, 11:29:21 PMVideo footage has shown a female security guard at a Harris Teeter store in Porters Neck, North Carolina single-handedly taking control of customers as they lined up to buy basic necessities. ✔ ‹ Slide me › Before and after photos show the floodwater level before on September 14 and after Hurricane Florence in New Bern, North Carolina, on September 16, 2018 ‹ Slide me › Within two days floodwater consumed the base of a home in New Bern, North Carolina
Indonesian earthquake sparks massive malaria outbreak
9/17/2018, 11:29:23 PMAn Indonesian tourist island is battling a massive malaria outbreak after a series of earthquakes in July and August that killed nearly 500 people. Woman and children are among the 137 affected. ✔ The incident was being treated as a 'standard outbreak', Marjito said, adding that those testing positive for the disease are treated, counselled and their surroundings sprayed with disinfectant ✔ Many of those infected had been living in tents after the earthquakes and are more vulnerable to the disease
Over 400,000 customers without power in Carolinas after Florence
9/17/2018, 11:47:04 PMMore than 400,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. Southeast, mostly in North Ca... ✔ Members of Coast Guard Shallow-Water Response team escort employees of a North Carolina electric utility to a flooded substation in order to perform maintenance on transformers in Newport, North Carolina, U.S., Sepember 16, 2018 ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
UK weather: When and where Storm Helene will batter Britain with 60mph winds TONIGHT
9/17/2018, 9:02:20 PMSTORM Helene is forecast to ravage Britain with ferocious winds and heavy rain during the next 24 hours, threatening transport disruption and power loss in places. ✔ For Wednesday, in particular, we are expecting low pressure to move north west of the UK, it will be quite wet and quite windy ✔ The timing and development of both these systems remains uncertain, however, so please keep up to date with the warnings and forecasts
Storm Helene tracker MAP: Where is Helene RIGHT NOW?
9/17/2018, 9:43:04 PMSTORM HELENE is forecast to strike the UK and Ireland tonight with gale force winds and heavy rainfall. Where is Helene right now? ✔ Forecasters have warned residents to beware of large branches and trees breaking off, which could severely injure those caught in its path ✔ A shower or two may also reach London, but no significant impacts are expected in the capital or southeastern England ✔ Additional storms may target Britain from Thursday into the weekend bringing additional risks
Only 20% of municipalities in Japan have soil liquefaction hazard map
9/17/2018, 10:23:19 PMOnly about 20 percent of municipalities in Japan have produced local maps showing areas prone to soil liquefaction, a phenomenon which caused extensive building damage in the recent quake disaster in Hokkaido. Liquefaction, in which soil becomes saturated with ground water and loses its solidity in response to a stress… ✔ Liquefaction, in which soil becomes saturated with ground water and loses its solidity in response to a stress such as shaking during an earthquake, caused serious structural damage to well over 100 homes in parts of Sapporo in the magnitude 6.7 quake that hit the northernmost main island on Sept 6 ✔ Coastal areas are known to be prone to the problem, but it occurred in an inland area in Sapporo's Kiyota Ward where damaged homes stood on land reclaimed from a river
Storm Helene path MAPPED: Met Office weather warnings - where will Helene hit?
9/17/2018, 10:37:58 PMSTORM Helene is whipping the southwest coast of the UK and Ireland as the Met Office warns parts of the country to prepare for “strong winds” up to 60mph high - here are the latest Met Office weather warnings. ✔ The strongest winds then transferring across the Midlands and parts of northern England during Tuesday morning and into the afternoon ✔ The timing and development of both these systems remains uncertain, however, so please keep up to date with the warnings and forecasts
See the Most Devastating Photos in the Aftermath of Hurricane Florence
9/17/2018, 8:09:02 PMFloodwaters are still rising in the Carolinas in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence ✔ Bob Richling carries Iris Darden, 84, out of her flooded home as her daughter-in-law, Pam Darden, gathers her belongings in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, North Carolina ✔ David Goldman/AP/REX/Shutterstock Joanna Faulkner carries her daughter Kayla, 3, out of a high water vehicle after being evacuated by the police when her neighborhood began to flood in Fayetteville, North Carolina
Opinion | We fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Why couldn’t President Trump?
9/17/2018, 8:54:54 PMThe lack of leadership after the disaster had deadly consequences. ✔ By José Andrés and Richard Wolffe September 17 at 3:50 PM José Andrés is the founder of World Central Kitchen and the co-author, with Richard Wolffe, of We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time ✔ But it has no capacity to prepare food and relies instead on a network of volunteers, most of them retirees, organized by the Southern Baptist Convention
Body of boy is found after being swept away in Florence floodwaters
9/17/2018, 11:29:18 PMRescuers tragically found the body of one-year-old Kaiden Lee-Welch on Monday after he was swept from his mother's arms in raging Florence floodwaters in North Carolina a day earlier. ✔ Firefighters frantically tried to lift the tree so they could escape, but were unable to do so ✔ 16, 2018 Marcus Dipaola helps five-year-old Ember Kelly off a rescue boat carrying her sisters and mother from rising flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, in Leland, North Carolina Cars try to navigate a flooded road leading to Interstate 40 in Castle Hayne, NC, after damage from Hurricane Florence cut off access to Wilmington Thousands have been cut off by rising floodwaters as storm Florence battered North Carolina, bringing the death toll to 17
In Carolinas, a question as the rivers rise: Stay or go?
9/17/2018, 8:28:26 PMFAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The river seethed a quarter-mile away, bulging from its banks, so the patrol cars circled the neighborhood three times. "Get out now," a vo ✔ Down the road, in the tiny town of Linden, Mayor Marie Butler woke up Sunday morning and asked her son to drive her to look at the Little River ✔ 17) The death toll from Hurricane Florence and its remnants has risen to 17 as officials say a 3-month-old died in North Carolina when a tree landed on a mobile home
Hurricane tracker LIVE map: Latest satellite images of storms in the ocean right now
9/17/2018, 11:09:29 PMTHE 2018 Hurricane Season is an ongoing event that takes place from June 1 to November 30. Here are the latest satellite images of storms in the ocean right now. ✔ Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria last year put an end to a 12-year long period with no major hurricane landfalls in the US ✔ And according to the report, the likelihood of a near-normal season is at 30 percent ✔ The next storm in the Atlantic Basin will be named Kirk, followed by Leslie
Boy, 1, dies in Hurricane Florence floods after losing grip of his mum
9/17/2018, 9:06:48 PMRESCUE workers have recovered the body of a one-year-old boy who was swept into rushing floodwaters on Sunday after his mother got stuck in floods from Hurricane Florence. The death of Kaiden Lee-W… ✔ The tree had divided us, said father Olen Gill, who talked to The Gaston Gazette when he returned to the destroyed home with his wife after her release from the hospital ✔ I'm in the kitchen and she's in the living room on the couch ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368
How To Help People Affected By Hurricane Florence
9/17/2018, 8:43:32 PMAnd what to avoid as you seek out ways to assist. ✔ Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesBob Richling carries Iris Darden as water from the Little River starts to seep into her home on Monday in Spring Lake, North Carolina ✔ Some shelters feared they might soon reach capacity and be forced to start euthanizing animals abandoned in the disaster
Nigeria floods kill 100 people across 10 states
9/17/2018, 8:56:33 PMA national disaster has been declared in four states after devastating floods hit different parts of Nigeria. ✔ There has been no reported impact on crude oil production ✔ Kogi and Niger are states in the centre of the country whereas the other two are in southern regions ✔ Nigeria's rainy season, which typically runs from March to September, brings with it inevitable flooding
No Way In, No Way Out Of North Carolina City
9/18/2018, 12:00:16 AMLife for Wilmington’s 118,000 people is in a holding pattern, with virtually no power, no gasoline, and no streetlights or traffic signals ✔ Hourlong lines await those trying to get in the handful of open grocery stores, which are selling the few items left from before the storm ✔ When power came on at Rose Ice & Coal Co., which makes ice, a line immediately formed around the block Monday afternoon ✔ Appeared in the September 18, 2018, print edition
More than 10,000 US service members sprang into action after Florence hit — these military photos show them in the thick of it
9/17/2018, 10:05:39 PMThe Department of Defense has deployed more than 13,000 US service members to areas affected by Hurricane Florence to assist with emergency relief efforts. Check out these photos of the military in action. ✔ As Hurricane Florence, now weakened to a tropical depression, continues to wreak havoc along the East Coast, where it has claimed at least two dozen lives, more than 10,000 US service members are providing emergency assistance to those in need ✔ Nick Carey from the 102nd Rescue squadron, New York Air National Guard, scans for people in need of rescue over Kinston, North Carolina, Sept
Flood waters leave workers stranded at North Carolina nuclear plant
9/17/2018, 9:58:13 PMBrunswick nuclear plant in North Carolina declared a state of emergency after flood waters cut off the plant and left 300 workers cut off from the outside world. ✔ Hurricane Florence pounded North Carolina on Friday, bringing historic amounts of rainfall, destroying buildings, and uprooting trees ✔ Staff inside received a shipment of food by helicopter on Monday morning, and more is expected by Monday afternoon ✔ The plant dates from the 1970s and was designed at a time when engineers underestimated the vulnerability of nuclear plants to natural disasters
James Van Der Beek Says N.C. City Where He Filmed Dawson's Creek Is 'Now Underwater' Due to Hurricane Florence
9/17/2018, 9:39:01 PMThe city of Wilmington, North Carolina, is where James Van Der Beek filmed the beloved series Dawson's Creek from 1998-2003 ✔ Anybody who watched #DawsonsCreek will recognize this location ✔ A daily curfew is in effect for the city of Wilmington as officials clear roads and restore services for residents ✔ Just hours earlier, a 3-month-old was killed when a tree fell on the family’s home, according to WLS
Grenfell call operator describes moment she heard baby's cries in call with woman trapped on 23rd floor... and knew they had no chance of escape
9/17/2018, 9:43:55 PMA CALL operator today described the moment she heard the cries of a baby as she spoke to a woman trapped inside a burning Grenfell Tower. Aisha Jabin told the inquiry into last year’s disaste… ✔ Eventually condition deteriorated and she told the operator: I can't do this any more.. ✔ Hundreds were made homeless and dozens killed on June 14, as flames quickly and fiercely took over the building full of sleeping families after a fire broke out in a flat kitchen
'We did it!' – behind the decks at Paul Oakenfold's Stonehenge rave
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Hurricane Florence leaves a trail of tragedy and lessons
9/17/2018, 11:57:27 PMFrom the federal flood insurance program to local pig farms to people who won't evacuate — it all seems like a plot against common sense: Our view ✔ Stay-putters put first responders at risk It’s as predictable as death and taxes ✔ Stubborn stay-putters should know their choice is profoundly selfish ✔ They choose not just for themselves, but also for loved ones who might never see them again and, more important, for those who will risk life and limb to rescue them
UK 'needs darkest hour' in Brexit talks before giving ground
9/17/2018, 9:20:38 PMEU diplomats say Britain will look into no-deal abyss, then shift position ✔ The Irish cabinet is expected to discuss contingency planning for border controls between Britain and Ireland in the event of there being no deal, at a meeting on Tuesday ✔ The source added: We don’t quite see the [point in] the red line in having their own trade agreements that is different to what we have in place
Woody Allen breaks cover after wife's bombshell interview
9/17/2018, 10:50:18 PMThe 82-year-old kept to neutral colors in beige pants, an off-white shirt and brown bucket hat but donned his signature thick framed glasses as he left his $26 million townhouse in Manhattan. ✔ Beleaguered director Woody Allen has been spotted out in New York for the first time since his wife's bombshell interview ✔ I know he’d said that I’d meet someone in college, but I’d already decided ✔ 'As a brother and son, I'm angry that New York Magazine would participate in this kind of a hit job, written by a longtime admirer and friend of Woody Allen's,' wrote Ronan
Landowner who shot dead planning official on live TV dies aged 76
9/17/2018, 9:16:53 PMAlbert Dryden, 76, gunned down Harry Collinson in front of journalists over a planning row when his illegally-built bungalow was due to be demolished in Butsfield, County Durham in 1991. ✔ A homeowner who shot dead a council officer on live television has died after being released from prison last October ✔ Derwentside District Council - abolished in County Durham's local government shake-up two years ago - refused to approve the development in a rural area made up of conventional farms
Q&A recap: Germaine Greer, once again, puts her foot in it
9/17/2018, 9:30:25 PMThe controversial feminist, in her 13th appearance on Q&A, raised eyebrows with her comments about rape trauma. ✔ A decade on, Bishop and Carr were not present but were there in spirit ✔ As Jeffcoat responded: I don't know how I feel about the huntsman analogy for rape and the trauma involved there ✔ It's Germaine's way - and love or loathe it, it's surely why she is still in business at that old stand
Big Brother viewers rally round Tomasz as he reveals the horrific homophobic abuse he experienced in the military
9/17/2018, 11:11:22 PMBIG Brother viewers rallied round Tomasz tonight after he revealed the shocking homophobic abuse he experienced while in the army. Fans as well as housemates Brooke and Zoe were reduced to tears wh… ✔ Viewers immediately expressed their heartbreak for Tomasz on Twitter, and praised him for speaking out about such a difficult issue ✔ He’s such a nice guy!!! while another added: No Tomasz, you weren't 'almost' sexually assaulted, you were sexually assaulted ✔ email digishowbiz@the-sun.co.uk or call us direct on 02077824220
Vince Cable to claim Brexit vote was simply an 'erotic spasm'
9/17/2018, 11:59:06 PMSir Vince infuriated Brexiteers last night as it emerged he will use his keynote speech in Brighton to say people feel sorry for Theresa May and that the PM should call for a second referendum, ✔ As orators go, she is in the Vanarama League – fancies herself a pro’ but is really a bit of a toebanger ✔ In order to stop ‘the decay in democracy’ it was necessary, averred this millionaire whose glossy-brochured, look-at-me, anti-Brexit campaigns have been supported by offshore plutocrat Sir Richard Branson, to abjure ‘foreign money’ ✔ Were the obvious answer not ‘yes, a hundred thousand times’, you’d be tempted to ask ‘has she never looked in the mirror?’
KitKat Bar opens in Tokyo, serves new Japanese Umeshu Plum Sake KitKats with cocktail pairings
9/17/2018, 10:06:08 PMEarlier this year, Nestlé Japan announced they would be releasing another sake-based KitKat to their range, this time featuring the flavor of umeshu, traditional Japanese plum liquer. Following the huge success of their previous premium sake KitKat release, created in conjunction with an esteemed brewery from Toyama Prefecture and former Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata, Nestlé… ✔ Earlier this year, Nestlé Japan announced they would be releasing another sake-based KitKat to their range, this time featuring the flavor of umeshu , traditional Japanese plum liquer ✔ Basil is said to pair beautifully with plums, and they’re definitely right nibbling on the basil while nibbling on the plum alcohol-infused KitKat creates a brilliant flavor combination, with the tart notes playing off each other brilliantly
Can you really rely on a GP you only see on an app?
9/17/2018, 11:58:53 PMMatt Hancock, the new Secretary of State for Health, that he wants video consultations with GPs to happen all over England. ✔ NO, we don't yet know if it's safe, says Margaret McCartney, a GP based in Glasgow There's no mincing my words I love my smartphone, from its built-in step counter to browsing Twitter and receiving the latest news in an instant ✔ That's because GPs are paid a set sum usually around £140 a year to look after each patient, with extra money for doing other things such as flu jabs
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