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Wilbur Ross said to have issued threats at Noaa after the agency contradicted the president’s false claim on Hurricane Dorian
Trump told his supporters at a rally in North Carolina that he might need an extra term as president, then mocked the idea that news headlines tomorrow will announce that he said he wants an extra term.
“We told you he’s a dictator, we told you,” Trump said, impersonating his critics.
Just as a Republican congressional candidate had started to speak, Trump paused the rally for several minutes and repeatedly said “thank you” to a doctor presumably assisting an audience member who was unwell.
Then the president quipped, “I guess Dan’s speech wasn’t so good,” referring to Dan Bishop, a Republican congressional candidate the president had flown to North Carolina to support.
Sarah St George, chairman of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, told the Guardian that the “force and size” of Dorian took everyone by surprise, a situation made worse by the hurricane stalling over the archipelago.
“Grand Bahama is not in good shape at all because 70% of it was under water,” St George said. “On the north side of the island the water was coming up to the second floor of their houses. My assistant Tammy was on the roof of her house for 30 hours hanging on to a coconut tree with her 8-year-old daughter Ariana. Her grandmother lost her grip and slipped off the roof and drowned. There was no way of getting to them. They’ve lost everything.”
In the president’s continuing battle against his own incorrect statement that Alabama was under threat from Hurricane Dorian, which has left at least 23 people dead, he has just now been tweeting what he claims is evidence he knew what he was talking about.
It is not.
Just as I said, Alabama was originally projected to be hit. The Fake News denies it! pic.twitter.com/elJ7ROfm2p
Hurricane Dorian grew into a “catastrophic” category 5 storm on Sunday as winds of more than 180mph pounded the northernmost islands of the Bahamas, the biggest storm to hit the island chain in modern times.
Chant follows Trump’s racist tweets targeting Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen of color
Goaded on by the president, a crowd at a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday night chanted “send her back! send her back!” in reference to Ilhan Omar, a US congresswoman who arrived almost 30 years ago as a child refugee in the United States.
Trump used the 2020 campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, to attack Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – calling them “hate-filled extremists”. The group, which calls itself “the Squad”, has been the focus of racist attacks by the president this week, kickstarted by tweets posted Sunday in which he said the lawmakers, all women of color, should “go back” to other countries.
Several people also wounded at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which has nearly 30,000 students
Suspect has been taken into custody
A suspect opened fire at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding several others before being taken into custody.
Police said one suspect, who some local media reported was a student at the school, was taken into custody following the rampage on the last day of classes for the academic year. Final exams were scheduled for next week.
State politicians see arming teachers as a way to better secure the school even as polls show it remains largely unpopular
North Carolina is planning controversial new laws that aim to ease gun restrictions in schools and allow teachers to carry weapons while on school grounds and even provide a financial incentive for educators to arm themselves.
The proposed laws – one in the state house and one in the state senate – were filed shortly after 2018 ended as the deadliest year for school shootings in the US since a USnaval postgraduate school database began recording data. After last year’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people and spurred the March for Our Lives movement, public interest in creating more effective school security has grown.
Three-year-old Casey Hathaway said a bear helped him survive two nights in the woods but animal experts say it would be a first
The story of a three-year-old boy who said he survived two nights alone in the woods due to the assistance of a friendly bear should not encourage people to seek out their own relationships with bears, a leading ursine expert has warned.
Casey Hathaway from North Carolina hailed ‘a survivor’ by police after becoming lost in sub-zero temperatures
A three-year-old boy who survived two nights alone in the woods in freezing conditions has told police and family he was helped out by a friendly bear that was with him the whole time.
Rescuers responding to reports of a baby crying found Casey Hathaway tangled up in thorny bushes, cold and soaked but safe on Thursday night. He had gone missing on Tuesday in conditions so bad the subsequent search had to be called off.
More than 250 flight cancellations at Washington airports
A winter storm that contributed to at least five deaths in the US midwest pummeled the mid-Atlantic region for a second day on Sunday, bringing with it an icy mix that knocked out power, cancelled flights and contributed to hundreds of car accidents.
Virginia state police said the driver of a military surplus vehicle was killed late on Saturday after he lost control on Interstate 81 due to slick road conditions.
As the North Carolina General Assembly gathered for its October 2 special session on Hurricane Florence relief, the state's rainy-day fund stood at $2.01 billion. There was another $737 million in reserves earmarked for other purposes along with an unreserved credit balance in the General Fund of $1.2 billion.
Dan McCready is a boyish ex-Marine, a solar energy entrepreneur and a favorite candidate of national Democrats hoping to nab a Republican seat in their battle for the House. His company, Double Time Capital, says its mission is to hasten "our country's important transition to clean energy" because of climate change.
Police report 'reveals SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh was questioned in 1985 by cops at Yale about a bloody bar fight after a night out at a UB40 concert' Abusive passenger is thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight after calling an attendant a 'N****' in a vile rant because she was asked to put her table up for takeoff Mutual friend of Kavanaugh and accuser Deborah Ramirez says the judge was 'coordinating with friends to refute her claims BEFORE they were made public' and suggests they were more 'connected' than he has admitted Mark Judge's college girlfriend claims she has repeatedly asked to be interviewed by the FBI to share information challenging Kavanaugh's 'innocent' high school sex life - but they haven't got back to her Welcome to Slab City: Inside the Second World War military base in California that has turned into a home for hundreds of off-the-grid squatters and RV drivers where ... (more)
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It has been more than a week since Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, and flood waters are continuing to wreak havoc across the Carolinas and Virginia. While much of the destruction caused by the powerful storm was unavoidable, some of it was, and government interventions have only served to exacerbate such tragedies.
Hurricane Florence is by no means done with the Carolinas, where some rivers are still rising and thousands of people were told to plan to leave their homes on Monday before rivers reach their crest. About 6,000 to 8,000 people in Georgetown County, South Carolina, were alerted to be prepared to evacuate potential flood zones ahead of a "record event" of up to 10 feet of flooding, which is expected to begin Tuesday near parts of the Pee Dee and Waccamaw rivers, county spokeswoman Jackie Broach-Akers said.
WASHINGTON An aide to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley resigned Friday night after NBC News learned he had been accused of sexual harassment at a previous job, according to media reports. Garrett Ventry served as a communications adviser to Grassley, helping the Senate Judiciary Committee with the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who has himself been accused of sexual assault.
One person is currently prosecuting illegal voting by aliens in the United States. And it's not Mr. In Charge Since Day 1 , nor any of the Obama holdovers that Jeff Sessions has allowed to dominate the Trump Department of Justice.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected on Wednesday to visit North Carolina, which is bearing the brunt of Florence's deadly deluge and where rivers are still rising while thousands of homes and roadways remain submerged. Passersby look at a section of washed-out road damaged by flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, now downgraded to a tropical depression, in Currie, North Carolina, U.S., September 18, 2018.
A man carries a flag to place on his truck as members of a team with the United States Coast Guard preform search and rescue through floodwaters in Lumberton, N.C. Jabin Botsford/Washington Post A man carries a flag to place on his truck as members of a team with the United States Coast Guard preform search and rescue through floodwaters in Lumberton, N.C. Jabin Botsford/Washington Post Even as skies began to clear over North Carolina on Tuesday, concern about environmental damage mounted after days of pounding rain left two dozen hog farms seeping waste, 3.4 million dead chickens and turkeys, widespread mandates to boil drinking water, and workers trying to prevent coal ash waste from leaking out of a landfill.
'I need to spend more time with my husband and our son': Tearful Julie Chen announces she is leaving The Talk 10 days after CBS fired Les Moonves - and hints Carrie Ann Inaba may take her place as fellow co-hosts sob Bravo TV reality show surgeon, 38, and his girlfriend, 32, are charged with drugging and raping two intoxicated women while filming the assaults - and police say there could be up to 1,000 victims Sunny gays: Sesame Street founder who created Bert and Ernie says they are not homosexuals in the wake of show writer revealing he depicted the pair as lovers based on his relationship Mattis says he's going nowhere despite claims Trump is poised to oust him because he is sick of defense chief being called 'the adult in the room' Stormy Daniels calls sex with Trump 'the least impressive I've ever had' and also reveals he had a phone call with Hillary Clinton when she was with him ... (more)