Storm Callum to bring 'risk to life' torrential downpours and 70mph winds
10/12/2018, 2:42:28 AM✔ Weather warnings have been put in place ahead of Storm Callum hitting (Image: The Weather Channel) Meanwhile winds of 50 to 60mph are expected widely in warning area, with gusts expected to peak at 70mph in the most exposed parts ✔ It will be much cooler on Sunday with sunny spells and showers, mostly in the north
They Were Still Recovering from Hurricane Florence. Then Michael Came.
10/12/2018, 12:27:59 AMCommunities in the Carolinas already battered by Hurricane Florence faced a new onslaught: Hurricane Michael, downgraded to a tropical storm, but still packing a punch. ✔ Where Florence was a slow, suffocating steamroller, leisurely drowning small towns and midsize cities with days of torrential rain, Michael is a hit-and-run storm, puffing hard and moving quickly ✔ Complaints of Voter Suppression Loom Over Georgia Governor’s Race
UK weather forecast: Storm Callum to SWEEP into UK with 70mph winds causing 'RISK TO LIFE'
10/12/2018, 3:57:42 AMSTORM CALLUM will smash into the UK today bringing winds of up to 70mph and torrential rain, as authorities impose weather warnings and claim there is a “potential risk to life”. ✔ Later in the day as the storm approaches north-west Scotland there’s the risk of 70 miles per hour guests for exposed parts of north west Scotland ✔ The wet weather will continue for much of the country on Friday, though East Anglia and the south east should largely remain dry
Hurricane Michael claims at least six lives and leaves 'unimaginable destruction' as it sweeps through Florida
10/12/2018, 2:21:37 AMThe storm was the most intense to hit the region since record keeping began in 1851 ✔ Hurricane Michael: record breaking storm hits the US 1/16 A damaged store in Panama City, Florida Getty 2/16 Waves crash into houses on the shore at Alligator Point in Franklin County, Florida Reuters 3/16 Haley Nelson of Panama City stands by her father's destroyed trailer home Getty 4/16 A damaged store in downtown Panama City, Florida Getty 5/16 A woman and her children wait in Panama City, Florida AFP/Getty 6/16 A stores windows are shattered by Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Florida Getty 7/16 A damaged apartment building in Panama City, Florida Getty 8/16 A damaged liquor store in Panama City Beach, Florida Reuters 9/16 A helicopter hovers over a damaged neighbourhood EPA 10/16 A man wades through a flooded street in Panama City, Florida EPA 11/16 A boathouse is damaged in the storm EPA 12/16 Charles Swaney of Panama City sits in the office of a damaged motel in Panama City, Florida AFP/Getty 13/16 A market is flooded in St
‘I know someone will help us’: After the storm, pleas for help from a wildlife rehabilitation center in Florida
10/12/2018, 12:56:59 AMPeople race to rescue animals at the St. Francis Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. ✔ By Robert Samuels Robert Samuels National political reporter who focuses on the intersection of politics, policy and people Email Bio Follow October 11 at 8:02 PM QUINCY, Fla ✔ The animals were screeching and rattling their cages
Only US state with a working gallows bans the death penalty
10/12/2018, 2:21:29 AMNorthwestern state has had moratorium since 2014 ✔ Russia's transportation minister says a supervisor at the airport died during the emergency response after a landing airliner careered off the end of the runway, into a riverbed and caught fire ✔ Washington state was the last to offer hanging as a means of capital punishment if an inmate chose that method instead of lethal injection
Idlib residents declare hatred for all sides in Syria's civil war
10/12/2018, 2:21:43 AMIn the battle between Syria's government and opposition groups civilians say they would be 'happy with any solution that stops them again becoming the victims of displacement, destruction and war' ✔ People in Idlib hate all those with power over them, says Ahmad Abu Omar, 33, a history teacher living the province, the last opposition enclave in the west of Syria ✔ The far-right congressman, who waxes nostalgically about the dictatorship, won the vote but not an outright victory
Drone footage shows Hurricane Michael's destruction across Florida
10/12/2018, 2:58:21 AMHorrifying drone footage shows Hurricane Michael's path of destruction across Florida as officials confirm the devastating storm has killed seven people, including an 11-year-old girl, across three states. ✔ An 80-mile stretch of Interstate 10, the main east-west route along the Panhandle, was closed ✔ 'Why people didn't evacuate is something we should be studying,' said Craig Fugate, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a former Florida state emergency management chief
'I survived two tsunamis'
10/12/2018, 12:10:25 AMRahmat Saiful Bahri tells the BBC what it's like to have survived not just one, but two, tsunamis. ✔ Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Indonesia tsunami: The man who survived two disasters Rahmat Saiful Bahri survived the that swept over Indonesia's Aceh province ✔ On 28 September this year, he again found himself at the centre of a disaster - this time
"It's Almost Like A Tornado Hit": This Drone Footage Shows The Devastation Left Behind By Hurricane Michael
10/12/2018, 3:35:58 AM"This is the first big wind event of this size we have seen in decades and we believe that we are going to see more." ✔ Videos show a churning white wall of wind and rain bending trees backward, nearly to the ground, and sending pieces of car bumpers and front doors sailing through the air ✔ Mexico Beach incurred gales of 155 mph, with some gusts topping about 175 mph ✔ It was nonstop intensification even when it finally hit land ✔ Usually, they weaken, but this storm was on a mission
Florida’s Panhandle coast devastated by historic Hurricane Michael
10/12/2018, 12:56:56 AMMexico Beach was pummeled by a storm surge and 150 mph winds, an Air Force base suffered ‘catastrophic’ damage, and towns were flattened as the hurricane sped inland. ✔ (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Luz Lazo , Luz Lazo Transportation reporter covering Washington's Metro, buses, Capital Bikeshare and taxis, and the region's road network Email Bio Follow Mark Berman , Mark Berman National news reporter Email Bio Follow Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux National reporter covering breaking news and social movements ✔ Rescuers continued to search for survivors and victims of the storm on Thursday as authorities warned that the death toll could rise ✔ Lazo reported from Springfield, Fla., and Panama City
The people who moved to Chernobyl
10/12/2018, 1:11:09 AMThe Chernobyl nuclear disaster left a ring of ghost villages as residents fled fearing radiation poisoning. But now people are choosing to live in the crumbling houses on the edge of the exclusion zone
Hurricane Michael damage limited by preparation, forecasting
10/12/2018, 12:47:04 AMAs one of the strongest hurricanes ever to make U.S. landfall, Hurricane Michael wrecked extensive damage, but the theme emerging Thursday was that a combination of deft forecasting, quick emergency response, and a fortuitous path prevented the disaster from being much worse. ✔ Meteorologists at the National Weather Service, National Hurricane Center and elsewhere drew kudos for their quick and accurate work in tracking the hurricane ✔ This was a success for modern technology, said Roger A ✔ • The Associated Press contributed to this report
Government slashes grants for new hybrid and electric cars angering motoring groups
10/12/2018, 2:21:31 AM'This move from is a big step backwards,' RAC warns ✔ Rizwan Dharejo 8/10 A shepherd moves his herd as he looks for green pasture near the village of Sirohi in Rajasthan, northern India.The region has been badly affected by heatwaves and drought, making local people nervous about further predicted increases in temperature
That was quick! Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen switches party to Democrats
10/12/2018, 2:34:08 AMUS President Donald Trump's disgraced former lawyer Michael Cohen has re-registered as a Democrat, taking his flip-flopping on his former boss to the logical extreme. Until June, Cohen served as the RNC's deputy finance chair. ✔ Until June, Cohen served as the RNC's deputy finance chair ✔ He waded into the political waters in 2003, running for a New York City Council seat as a Republican ✔ Share it with a friend! Trends: Michael Cohen newsUS Democratic Party newsUS Republican Party newsUS news
Half-hour of horror at 250,000ft as spacemen survive rocket explosion
10/12/2018, 1:12:42 AMAleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague landed 15 miles from the city of Jezkazgan in Kazakhstan, 310 miles from the launch site, and were later pictured smiling during medical checks. ✔ Two astronauts survived a terrifying rocket explosion at 4,700mph with a 'ballistic descent' that plunged them to the ground in a 7G 'ballistic re-entry' ✔ This means the core automatically separated from the faulty booster and turned back to Earth ✔ Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said all manned launches will be suspended pending an investigation into the cause of the failure
'Why not let the DUP run the whole of the British government? At least they're united'
10/12/2018, 2:21:32 AMThe good news is that instead of dull press conferences, the Bank of England will be asked to announce all future changes in interest rates by painting them on a mural in East Belfast with someone on a white horse ✔ The Democratic Unionists know how to be a small party propping up the Conservatives, don’t they ✔ Some people have suggested this will have a devastating effect, but they’ve been accused of vicious scaremongering, and not having a clue what’s going on ✔ And Boris Johnson is so brazen now that you expect him to sneak in behind Theresa May during her answers in Prime Minister’s Questions and drive round the Commons in an industrial digger, releasing swarms of bees
Nicky Morgan says pension tax breaks could be snatched away
10/12/2018, 1:29:57 AMSavers currently pay no tax on income they put into a pension pot while working. Instead, they pay tax when they take the money out in retirement. ✔ He added: ‘It is important that pension tax relief does not simply become the go-to pot of money for broke Chancellors ✔ Lack of saving remains arguably the biggest challenge facing society today.’ A Treasury spokesman said: ‘No consensus for either incremental or more radical reform of pensions tax relief has emerged.’
Hurricane Michael Forces Florida Hospitals To Evacuate
10/12/2018, 12:19:12 AMThe two largest hospitals in Panama City sustained heavy damage. ✔ Until we can be certain of stable public power, water and sewage systems, our patients will be safest in one of our sister hospitals ✔ Life Saver 3, a helicopter that provides emergency transport services in Georgia, is reportedly helping evacuate damaged Florida hospitals ✔ Send David Lohr an email or follow him on Facebook and Twitter
Angela Merkel’s Germany immigration policies set for referendum in Bavaria elections
10/12/2018, 1:18:40 AMWhen it comes to regional politics here, no state is more influential than Bavaria, the nation’s economic powerhouse and an unabashed conservative stronghold often described as Germany’s Texas. But the elections Sunday in Bavaria are expected to represent a referendum on center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies over the past few years and on her conservative allies to the south. ✔ BERLIN When it comes to regional politics here, no state is more influential than Bavaria, the nation’s economic powerhouse and an unabashed conservative stronghold often described as Germany’s Texas ✔ That gave Bavaria and the CSU a special role to play as to how to cope with this, he said
Florida Panhandle Reels After Hurricane Michael’s Deadly Strike
10/12/2018, 12:27:58 AMHurricane Michael has passed on to Georgia and the Carolinas, but it has left behind substantial damage in communities like Mexico Beach, where it hit landfall, and Panama City. ✔ Black, the state agriculture commissioner, who said he had seen pictures of cotton that a farmer harvested on Wednesday, before the hurricane tore through Georgia ✔ This morning, you cannot tell where he stopped harvest, and where the rest of it was harvested by the storm, Mr. Black said ✔ Complaints of Voter Suppression Loom Over Georgia Governor’s Race
Brexit deadline spin: Frenzy in UK, secrecy in Brussels
10/12/2018, 1:38:18 AMWhile negotiators search for a deal, the noise in London is far louder than Brussels. ✔ Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator outlined this week in more detail than ever before the kind of goods and regulatory checks Brussels will insist on between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, in case a sufficiently deep and special EU-UK trade relationship fails to emerge post-Brexit
BRIAN VINER on how to mooonwalk your way to an Oscar
10/12/2018, 1:12:44 AMFirst Man, the captivating story of how, in the famous summer of ’69, astronaut Neil Armstrong came to make that ‘one small step’ into the history books, writes BRIAN VINER. ✔ Foy, so wonderful as the Queen in the Netflix series The Crown, is no less fine in the role of consort here ✔ I could have done without the forgettable songs a transparent attempt to do a Frozen but on the whole this isn’t a bad bet for what seems likely, for many of us, to be a wet and windy weekend
Here Is The Definitive Timeline Of Kanye West's Controveries
10/12/2018, 3:22:17 AMTracking how Kanye West went from "I'mma let you finish. . ." to Make America Great Again. ✔ Kanye West Releases Famous Music Video (June 24, 2016) West used his art to continue fanning the flames around his relationship with Swift ✔ His music video for Famous depicts him and his wife nude on a bed next to naked wax figures of Swift, George W ✔ Photo Illustrations by Ben Kothe, Ben King / BuzzFeed News; Getty Images; NBC Universal
How a Trump decision on trade became a setback for democracy in Vietnam
10/12/2018, 1:08:42 AMVietnam had promised more workers’ rights. Without the TPP, it has instead unleashed a crackdown. ✔ Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Tumblr Print Article Comments Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share via Email More Options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Tumblr HANOI It was one of President Trump’s very first acts: to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping 12-nation trade agreement that had been the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s strategic rebalance toward Asia ✔ The couple’s son and daughter-in-law were beaten when they asked police about his whereabouts, she said
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