Saturday 7 October 2017
Monday 2 October 2017
At Least 50 Dead, 200+ Injured in Las Vegas Strip Shooting #prayersforvegas
'Beyond horrific': Shooting on Las Vegas Strip kills at least 50, wounds hundreds - World - CBC News
At Least 50 Dead, 200+ Injured in Shooting Las Vegas Strip #prayersforvegas
At Least 50 Dead, 200+ Injured in Shooting Las Vegas Strip #prayersforvegas
Nevada sheriff says the death toll has climbed to 50 in the attack on a Las Vegas concert Sunday, making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says more than 200 people were wounded at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Strip.
Authorities have identified the suspected gunman as Las Vegas resident Stephen Paddock.
Lombardo says officers confronted Paddock on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino across the street from the concert. Paddock is dead.
Authorities say they have located 62-year-old Marilou Danley, who was wanted as a person of interest in this incident.
The dead gunman is also believed to have checked in as a hotel guest.
Saturday 9 September 2017
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -- hammered...
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Latest Breaking News Daily: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN: Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -- hammered...
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Irma blamed for three deaths in Caribbean - CNN
Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic -- hammered Puerto Rico on Wednesday night after smashing a string of small northern Caribbean islands where at least three people were killed.
CNN's Leyla Santiago, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, said there were 900,000 customers without power as strong winds lashed the island. Officials told her there were several rescues because of flooding but there were no immediate reports of injuries in the US territory of about 3.4 million people.
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN he thinks the island was being hit hard even though the eye of the storm stayed off shore.
"From the center of operations that we have over here in San Juan, there is pretty significant damage already done," he said, citing wind gusts of more than 100 mph.
The outer bands of the storm continued to whip heavy rain upon the island late Wednesday.
Tourist Steban Guajardo told CNN that water in the parking lot of a building he was at in the seaside neighborhood of Condado just kept rising.
eninsula.
-- Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. "(A) storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes -- we cannot rebuild your family," he said.
Hurricane Irma - storm tracker
CNN storm tracker - CNN.com
Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Hurricane Irma, Irma's, magnitude, never seen before, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, US Virgin Islands
Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Hurricane Irma, Irma's, magnitude, never seen before, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, US Virgin Islands
Irma's magnitude never seen before
Late Tuesday, Hurricane Irma was churning toward the northeastern Caribbean at 185 miles an hour. The forecast had it hitting around Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla by late Tuesday or early Wednesday, before impacting the British and US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico later that afternoon.
The storm's path is uncertain but Florida was also bracing for Irma's impact, possibly this weekend.
"The magnitude of this storm ... has never been seen before in Puerto Rico," Rosselló said, WAPA reported. "Although we hope that this hurricane will not greatly impact Puerto Rico, we are bracing for what could be a very catastrophic event."
Puerto Rico braces for Hurricane Irma
Puerto Rico braces for Hurricane Irma - CNN
San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)People rushed to stores in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, emptying shelves of food and water as worry set in ahead of Hurricane Irma's expected impact Wednesday on the US territory.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard in preparation.
Those living on the commonwealth braced for the hurricane's potentially devastating winds and deluge, fearing if the Category 5 storm knocks out power from the bankrupt island's weakened electrical system, it may take weeks or months before power is restored.
Irma could be the strongest hurricane to ever hit the island, forecasters say. Some wonder whether Puerto Rico can rebuild.
"This is not a hurricane, this is a beast," a clerk in San Juan told CNN.
Another woman told CNN affiliate WAPA the power "is something absolutely necessary, especially due to Puerto Rico's weather. We need to have the A/C or a fan on all night."
Last month, the director of Puerto Rico's power utility, Ricardo Ramos RodrÃguez, said several factors have made the island's electric system "vulnerable and fragile," WAPA reported.
One of those is the shortage of employees. Many workers recently retired or left their jobs for better prospects on the US mainland, Ramos RodrÃguez said.
Friday 14 July 2017
Trump Tower Russia meeting: At least eight people in the room
Washington (CNN)The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included at least eight people.
The revelation of additional participants comes as The Associated Press first reported Friday that a Russian-American lobbyist named Rinat Akhmetshin said he also attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. CNN has reached out to Akhmetshin for comment.
So far acknowledged in attendance: Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and publicist Rob Goldstone, who helped set up the meeting. A source familiar with the circumstances told CNN there were at least two other people in the room as well, a translator and a representative of the Russian family who had asked Goldstone to set up the meeting. The source did not provide the names.
Akhmetshin is a registered lobbyist for Veselnitskaya's organization, which has focused on lobbying Washington to overturn the Magnitsky sanctions, according to lobbying records. The Magnitsky Act allows the US to withhold visas and freeze the assets of Russians thought to have violated human rights. Veselnitskaya founded a group purporting to seek the removal of Moscow's ban on the adoption of Russian children by US citizens, which it put in place in retaliation for the Magnitsky Act. She has also sought to repeal that law.
Earlier this year, Sen. Charles Grassley had written a letter to John Kelly, the secretary of Homeland Security, describing Akhmetshin as "a Russian immigrant to the United States who has been accused of acting as an unregistered agent for Russian interests and apparently has ties to Russian intelligence." Grassley was requesting "all information" on Akhmetshin's immigration history.
Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who has been lobbied by Akhmetshin, told CNN earlier this year that the lobbyist is someone with "an ulterior motive" who is "involved with people who've got an agenda" and has "international connections to different groups in Russia." When asked if he thought Akhmetshin was connected to the Russian security services, Rohrabacher said: "I would certainly not rule that out."
On Friday, Akhmetshin denied to The Washington Post that he was ever an intelligence agent but said he did serve two years in a Soviet military unit that handled counter-intelligence.
"At no time have I ever worked for the Russian government or any of its agencies. I was not an intelligence officer. Never," he told the Post.
Akhmetshin also told the AP the meeting was "not substantive" and he "actually expected more serious" conversation.
"I never thought this would be such a big deal to be honest," the AP quotes Akhmetshin.
The lawyer for Donald Trump Jr. has not responded. The White House has not commented yet either.
NBC was first to report the extra person at the meeting.
On June 9, 2016, Trump Jr., met with Veselnitskaya. He accepted the meeting on the premise that he would be offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
According to tweets published by Trump Jr. earlier this week, Goldstone sent him an email pointing to "a Russian government attorney" as the source of potential information that could damage Clinton.
"This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump," Goldstone, who represents the son of an Azerbaijani-Russian businessman close to Russian government, wrote in the email to Trump Jr.
"If it's what you say I love it," Trump Jr. replied, according to an email he released.
Thursday 29 June 2017
Tim Hortons Will Sell Poutine Doughnuts to Celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday
Tim Horton's is using a Canadian favorite to celebrate the country's 150th birthday. On July 1, also known as Canada Day, Tim Hortons will offer the poutine doughnut — a Honey Dip Donut topped with potato wedges, gravy and cheese curds — at five of its restaurants, USA Today reports. The five restaurants are: Derby, Hamburg and East Aurora in New York, Rochester Hills, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio— all of which are located relatively close to the U.S.-Canada border. their friendly neighbor next door."
The coffee chain will also offer other Canadian-themed treats on July 1, such as the Maple Bacon Iced Capp, which is topped with whipped cream, maple flakes and bacon bits, according to USA Today. Maple Timbits, which are maple flavored bite-sized doughnut holes, will also be available throughout the whole month of July.
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Thursday 9 February 2017
high radiation levels discovered at crippled Fukushima plant
Newly-discovered radiation levels in one of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s reactors are stunningly high, the Japan Times and others have reported. The space is so radioactive that even a robot couldn’t last two hours, let alone a human.
It was on March 11, 2011, that the coastal power plant in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture was hit by a tidal wave, which not only cut off the plant’s electrical power, also took out the generators that provided its backup power. The natural disaster triggered the meltdown of three reactors at the plant.
The new readings come from inside reactor two, where the radiation levels are 530 sieverts per hour, according to Tepco, the Tokyo Electric Power Company. That’s highly radioactive— most radiation is measured in thousandths of a sievert, a unit called a millisievert.
One dental X-ray is just .01 millisievert, according to the Guardian— which also pointed out that 10 sieverts can lead to death.
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