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TEPCO plans tests to see how much melted uranium fuel has cooled in damaged reactors

11/11/2018, 7:16:33 AM
The owner of the Fukushima nuclear plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami nearly eight years ago, says it plans to conduct tests early next year to see how much melted uranium fuel has cooled in the damaged reactors. The tests planned for January to March will stop water cooling… ✔ Then TEPCO will resume full pumping, but in March the company will stop all cooling for a seven-hour period to test analytical models which have shown that the reactors will not overheat, he said ✔ The contaminated material is pumped out and treated before being stored in tanks that are quickly filling up


Father sings to his three-year-old daughter as wildfire rages

11/11/2018, 7:12:39 AM
Remarkable cell phone video shows a Northern California man calmly drive out of the raging wildfire while keeping his three-year-old daughter calm on a jam-packed highway. ✔ As the bumper-to-bumper traffic jam dissipates, the dad says: ‘Look, we’re past it ✔ An additional 35 people have been reported missing and three firefighters have been injured ✔ It was not immediately clear if any of the missing were among those found dead


California wildfire death toll soars as charred bodies found in devastated town

11/11/2018, 7:16:22 AM
The latest victims were found in and around Paradise and in Malibu, say officials ✔ The flames descended on Paradise so fast that many people were forced to abandon their vehicles and run for their lives down the sole road through the mountain town ✔ Read More Top news stories from Mirror Online Ex-soldier's murder conviction quashed UK's biggest family adds one more Family's double cancer blow Meghan Markle's PA 'quits suddenly'


Twitter Pelts Trump With Photos Of Obama In The Rain After He Ditches Cemetery Visit

11/11/2018, 5:12:39 AM
President dodges trip to honor U.S. war dead in France due to weather. Critics show how another leader behaved. ✔ Jim Young / ReutersBarack Obama wipes the rain off his face as he meets Pentagon staff and family members of the victims of the September 11 attacks in a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of the tragedy at the Pentagon in 2009 ✔ pic.twitter.com/309elqRiXw Zach Dendas (@Zdendas1) November 10, 2018 @realDonaldTrump Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass It's about learning to dance in the rain


Midterm election outcome: checks, balances, turmoil

11/11/2018, 6:38:46 AM
undefined ✔ But while the Democrats needed to reach 218 seats to recapture the House, they won 222 ✔ In 1994, President Bill Clinton lost 54 House seats and nine Senate seats in the historic Republican wave election ✔ He is the author of Divided Dynamism: The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea China


Silent search for Brazil mudslide survivors

11/11/2018, 7:56:44 AM
Rescuers are working quietly so they can hear any sounds from survivors of the deadly landslip. ✔ AFP/Getty Sniffer dogs helped find most of the 11 people rescued Lighting towers were assembled so that the search could continue through Saturday night and into Sunday morning ✔ AFP/Getty Volunteers joined rescuers in silence so that any survivors could be heard


Before and after photos capture Camp Fire aftermath in Paradise

11/11/2018, 4:52:18 AM
Abandoned, charred vehicles cluttered the main streets of the town in the Sierra Nevada foothills on Friday, evidence of the panicked evacuation that took place the day before. ✔ 'These firefighters were in the rescue mode all day yesterday.'  The fire quadrupled in size overnight and spanned 110 square miles by Friday morning ✔ SWIR imagery can penetrate smoke and detect fires The map above shows the three major fires currently alight in California, two in the south and one in the north, as of Saturday


California wildfires: Death toll rises to 25 as blazes continue

11/11/2018, 7:31:52 AM
Death toll surges after 14 more bodies are found in decimated town of Paradise, as thousands flee three separate fires. ✔ Nurse Cassie Lerossignol hugs as coworker as the Feather River Hospital burns while the Camp Fire rages through Paradise [AP Photo/Noah Berger] California Fire safety officer Jack Piccinini warned firefighters on Saturday to watch out for emotional fatigue


US airstrikes fail to weaken al-Shabaab's grip on Somalia

11/11/2018, 5:26:57 AM
Islamic extremist group is adapting to increasingly lethal air campaign, research shows ✔ Hussein Sheikh Ali, the executive director of the Hiraal Institute and a former national security adviser, said: Al-Shabab are definitely not getting stronger but the government is not getting stronger either ✔ The US has increased its military presence in Somalia since early 2017 to about 500 personnel after Trump approved expanded military operations


Trump issues more 'presidential' tweets on California wildfires

11/11/2018, 4:52:19 AM
'Our hearts are with those fighting the fires, the 52,000 who have evacuated, and the families of the 11 who have died. The destruction is catastrophic. God Bless them all,' Trump tweeted. ✔ Fifteen hours after blasting local officials and threatening to cut of federal funds, President Donald Trump has adopted a more statesmanlike tone on the disaster wildfires in California ✔ 'Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests


Jamal Khashoggi murder fails to stop Britain selling arms to the Saudis

11/11/2018, 7:24:54 AM
As a Foreign Office minister spoke out on the killing, trade officials were in the kingdom promoting closer military links ✔ Only 24 hours earlier, Alistair Burt, the Foreign Office minister for the Middle East, had suggested that the Khashoggi murder could affect Britain’s military relationship with the Saudis and support for the war in Yemen ✔ A spokeswoman for the trade department said: We will not pursue trade to the exclusion of human rights – they can and should be complementary


Evacuation orders lifted in these areas of Ventura County

11/11/2018, 4:43:47 AM
Evacuation orders lifted in these areas of Ventura County ✔ #CAfire pic.twitter.com/Wy0u7dJ0al Ben Noll (@BenNollWeather) November 9, 2018 Hot spots and a large plume of smoke from the #CampFire in Northern California are even visible from space! To make this #GOESEast animation, fire temperature imagery was made partially transparent and placed over the geocolor image


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