As wet season approaches, mudslide threat looms once again over Montecito and other communities - Los Angeles Times
10/25/2018, 10:08:33 AMThough it's been almost a year since mudslides killed at least 21 people in Montecito, The Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management warned residents Monday that the threat of disaster still exists. ✔ The foothills that turned into rivers of mud and rock during a January storm remain brown, with only small patches of dried vegetation ✔ And as we get into the second year it becomes a little less risky ✔ Tamara Riley, 57, who was blocked from her home off Toro Canyon Road for a month after the slide, said she wasn’t sure whether she and her husband would evacuate if it was suggested
Can L.A. County stormwater tax clear the two-thirds bar for passage? - Los Angeles Times
10/25/2018, 10:08:31 AMIn the last days before the Nov. 6 election, supporters of Measure W are reaching out to voters to educate them about a down-ballot issue that has gotten little attention amid higher-profile state and congressional races. ✔ Julia Ying stood on the beach near Santa Monica Pier, holding up a photograph of a storm drain ✔ After the recent rainstorm, Heal the Bay pushed out videos with the hashtag #YesOnW on social media ✔ A spokesman for the commission confirmed receipt of the complaint but declined to comment
Megyn Kelly expected to leave Today Show following blackface comments
10/25/2018, 10:25:36 AMThose who work on the show are 'not happy with Megyn right now' ✔ Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing AFP/Getty 50/50 5 September 2018 US Capitol Police arrest a protestor as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his US Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court
Typhoon Yutu satellite images: TERRIFYING pictures show strength of MONSTER Super Typhoon
10/25/2018, 11:43:41 AMTYPHOON Yutu barrelled through the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands and left thousands of people without power and water - and these terrifying images show just how strong the monster storm is. ✔ Packing maximum sustained winds of 180mph the residents of the Northern Mariana Islands called it the worst storm they have ever experienced ✔ But despite the weakening, the typhoon poses a massive threat to the Philippines and Taiwan and will most likely remain an incredibly strong typhoon when it reaches mainland
Super Typhoon Yutu leaves "a lot of damage and destruction" in U.S. Northern Mariana Islands
10/25/2018, 9:06:26 AM"It's like a small war just passed through," congressional rep from Mariana islands says after strongest storm to hit any part of U.S. this year ✔ At its peak, the wind was constant and the sound horrifying, he wrote ✔ Down at the restaurant it sounded like a Hollywood soundtrack with the intense rain and howling wind ✔ Hawaii and others should study the Marianas to understand how to design and build communication grids that can withstand a storm
US volcano warning: 18 pose ‘very high’ threat level in shock USGS report
10/25/2018, 10:56:34 AMTHE United States is under “very high” threat from 18 volcanoes according to a comprehensive new assessment carried out by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). ✔ The US has seen 120 eruptions and 52 episodes of notable volcanic unrest at 44 US volcanoes since 1980, the USGS said ✔ The eruptive activity at Kilauea continued for three months, but appears to have abated, and its alert level has been downgraded by Watch to Advisory ✔ Such an explosion would dwarf the 1980 Mount St Helens event, which released 0.29 cubic miles
A six-year-old photo of a bleeding officer is being used to stoke fears around a migrant caravan
10/25/2018, 10:25:18 AMDisinformation is fuelling fear and hatred towards Central Americans ahead of November's congressional elections ✔ - US President Donald Trump said Friday, October 19, 2018, that he found credible Saudi Arabia's assertion that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi died as a result of a fight AFP/Getty 6/50 19 October 2018 A Palestinian youth runs past a rolling burning tire during clashes with Israeli forces following a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayers, in the centre of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron AFP/Getty 7/50 18 October 2018 Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the United States, leave Guatemala City
'Trump has called for unity after the bombs sent to CNN, Obama and Hillary – but his words ring hollow'
10/25/2018, 10:25:25 AMAmerica has changed since the reality TV star entered the White House. His rhetoric is violent and deliberate, and he has often spoken of the media in terms not worthy of a democratically elected leader ✔ Rise for Climate protests took places across the world to demand action Leo Sabangan/350.org (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) 48/50 7 September 2018 Displaced Syrians take part in a protest against the regime and its ally Russia at a camp for displaced people in Kafr Lusin near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in Syria's northern Idlib province AFP/Getty 49/50 6 September 2018 An aerial view of houses damaged by a landslide in Atsuma town, Hokkaido prefecture, after an earthquake hit the northern Japanese island
Stephanie Davis shocks Hollyoaks viewers with steamy sex scene in car's backseat
10/25/2018, 8:30:53 AMDon't worry, it is part of her role explosive return to Hollyoaks not some kinky roadside antics ✔ Sinead's back Why did she leave Hollyoaks ✔ Get in touch with us at webtv@trinitymirror.com or call us direct 0207 29 33033 Read More Showbiz and TV editor's picks Ant McPartlin divorce 'latest' Harvey Weinstein's actual casting couch The GC 'drops a dress size' Kerry Katona 'splits' from Ryan
Typhoon Yutu ‘All but Destroyed’ U.S. Island
10/25/2018, 8:31:19 AMOne of the most powerful storms of the year—packing sustained winds up to 180 miles an hour—roared through U.S. territories in the western Pacific, smashing homes and flattening power lines. ✔ Emergency officials in the Northern Mariana Islands said Yutu’s power, which rivaled September’s deadly Typhoon Mangkhut in the Philippines, saw the islands hit with a double blow known as a concentric eyewall, when a secondary band of winds forms in particularly powerful storms
Hesse election polls 2018: When do polls open? What time do polls close?
10/25/2018, 9:30:55 AMTHE Hesse state election 2018 is only days away and recent polls have shown a potentially disastrous result for Angel Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union. When do polls open and what time do polls close? ✔ This Sunday’s vote could potentially turn into a crisis for the governing coalition as the support for both the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) is plunging ✔ At the same time, 15 laws about the amendment of the Hessian state constitution will be voted on via referendum ✔ Before that, the polling institutes will publish forecasts and extrapolations of the election results from 6pm
'A Gift To Foreign Spies': Trump Roasted Over Unsecured iPhone Report
10/25/2018, 11:00:48 AM"Seriously he should just make every single call on speakerphone on live TV." ✔ President Donald Trump was roasted on Twitter after The New York Times reported Wednesday that he continues to use an unsecured personal iPhone, despite repeated warnings it is being tapped by the Russian and Chinese security services ✔ https://t.co/i9rDWpZ2Mc John Dean (@JohnWDean) October 25, 2018 LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! Say why are we locking up Hillary again
Tohoku Electric to decommission aging reactor at Miyagi plant
10/25/2018, 8:15:06 AMTohoku Electric Power Co. plans to scrap a 35-year-old nuclear reactor at its Onagawa plant in Miyag ✔ Tohoku Electric Power Co. plans to scrap a 35-year-old nuclear reactor at its Onagawa plant in Miyagi Prefecture instead of taking the expensive and time-consuming option of trying to prolong its operating life ✔ In addition, the No. 1 reactor represented a challenge for Tohoku Electric in terms of improving safety measures
Megyn Kelly's NBC show reportedly in jeopardy after she defends the use of blackface
10/25/2018, 11:45:52 AMKelly faced criticism in the past for her controversial comments on Jesus and Santa Claus as a Fox News host in 2013 ✔ NBC News reported chairman Andy Lack also condemned her comments, saying, There is no place on our air or in this workplace for them ✔ Sources tell the Hollywood Reporter, including the cast of House of Cards, several guests have already cancelled appearances on her show next week
Three Campaign Ads That Are Putting Climate Change on the Agenda
10/25/2018, 10:01:23 AMAcross the country, there’s been a small explosion of campaign ads about global warming. ✔ Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our email newsletter ✔ That’s mostly because it’s a deeply polarizing issue ✔ Case in point: this League of Conservation Voters ad assailing Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, as radically opposed to fighting climate change
A tree grows in Brooklyn - Los Angeles Times
10/25/2018, 11:36:24 AMTracking the New Yorkers who hunt the Asian long-horned beetle, an invasive, wood-boring pest that first appeared in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 1996 and looms as an existential threat to the state’s timber industries. ✔ Ramkarran Singh checks a window in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, searching for signs of the invasive Asian long-horned beetle ✔ (Sonja Sharp / For The Times) Singh is something of a closer, the man the cleanup crew leans on to work their tough cases ✔ But being an eradicator means you’re basically working yourself out of a job
China, Japan seek warmer ties against backdrop of U.S. trade friction
10/25/2018, 9:01:31 AMJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Beijing on Thursday for his first formal bilateral summit with Chinese leaders in seven years as the Asian rivals seek to build on a thaw in ties against a backdrop of trade friction with the United States. Near Beijing's Tiananmen Square, flags of… ✔ Japan also hopes for progress toward implementing a 2008 agreement on jointly developing gas fields in disputed waters, and wants China to ease import limits on produce from areas affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster ✔ But at the end of the day, if strategic targets are different, we won't be able to establish a stable relationship
Trump Leaving the INF Treaty Will Bind China Yet More Closely to Russia
10/25/2018, 11:33:57 AMThe United States has indicated on October 20, that it will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, with President Donald Trump saying Saturday that Russia has been “violating it for many years,” and “we’re not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we’re not allowed to.” ✔ The United States has indicated on October 20, that it will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, with President Donald Trump saying Saturday that Russia has been violating it for many years, and we’re not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons and we’re not allowed to ✔ These weapons would have the potential to act as the cornerstone of an alternative U.S. military strategy for the Western Pacifi c increasingly advocated by defense experts in Washington
9 of the world's best private ski resorts
10/25/2018, 11:23:50 AMImagine a ski vacation with no lift lines and pristine powder all day long. You can do that at nine of the world's best private ski resorts. ✔ Members are then deeded a site on which to build a cabin, although they may prefer to stay in the six-bedroom lodge or one of four club cabins ✔ For those bitten by the bug, there is bunkhouse accommodation offering dinner, bed and breakfast ✔ Temple Basin , State Highway 73, Arthur's Pass National Park; +64 3 377 7788
Ex-minister says May will be gone soon despite staving off Tory mutiny
10/25/2018, 8:23:50 AMThe PM managed to quell restive Conservative MPs by delivering an emotional plea for support at what had been billed as a 'show trial' meeting last night. ✔ Mrs May gave a 'passionate and emotional' speech to the MPs before answering more than a dozen questions ✔ 'She lives to fight another day I am quite sure, and possibly the next election ✔ 'Pushing the Prime Minister overboard in the final stages of negotiations does not really match that.'
Pipe Bombs, Stock Market, Megyn Kelly: Your Thursday Briefing
10/25/2018, 10:01:22 AMHere’s what you need to know to start your day. ✔ Noteworthy • Catastrophic typhoon hits a U.S. commonwealth A huge storm called Yutu, which had the strength of a Category 5 hurricane, slammed the Northern Mariana Islands, northeast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, destroying more than 100 homes ✔ Check out our full range of free newsletters here
After the Sante Fe school shooting: What's it like now for this Texas town
10/25/2018, 10:21:09 AMFive months after a school shooting, the town of Santa Fe is still searching for healing. ✔ She has not been able to sort through Kim’s belongings, which were stored in boxes by a moving company that specializes in clients in the throes of grief ✔ They pried open locked doors to gain an escape route and ran like hell for help ✔ But the teenage shooter Van Ness calls a broken boy
Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science
10/25/2018, 10:44:14 AMHe spent decades deconstructing the ways that scientists claim their authority. Can his ideas help them regain that authority today? ✔ Bruno Latour at his home in Paris.CreditCreditChristopher Anderson/Magnum, for The New York Times By Ava Kofman Oct. 25, 2018 In the summer of 1996, during an international anthropology conference in southeastern Brazil, Bruno Latour, France’s most famous and misunderstood philosopher, was approached by an anxious-looking developmental psychologist ✔ This was the message that the melting ice sheets were sending him
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