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If the sun lies very near the horizon, look for the "red rainbow." The scattering of sunlight through the atmosphere removes nearly all colors but red in the sunlight and from the rainbow that that same light produces. Here's yet another rainbow oddity: when the bright full moon shines on rain clouds, there's the slim chance of seeing a "moonbow." This pale arc appears colorless in the sky -- but only because human night vision, which operates in low-light situations, is insensitive to color.
A full moon occurs this Saturday night, November 8 -- but let's hope that rain clouds do not gather on that evening. For the second time this calendar year, a total lunar eclipse graces the sky at dusk. As darkness falls (around 5:15 p.m.), it should be possible to spot the pale, reddish gray moon -- fully within Earth's shadow at that time -- slowly rising in the east. The reddish color on the moon's face is the result of sunlight passing through Earth's murky atmosphere and refracting into Earth's shadow. At 5:31 p.m. the moon will start to exit from the shadow. A series of partial-eclipse stages will ensue, resulting in the return of the round "full" moon by 7:04 p.m.
Early November usually brings clear early-evening skies to San Diego, except possibly for areas very near the coast. Inland, toward the mountains and desert, there's an excellent chance of cloud-free viewing. Seize the moment, and enjoy one of nature's predictable spectacles this Saturday night!
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette The Swamp Rabbits regroup at their goal after barely stopping the Komets drive during the first period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette Jason Binkley of the Komets prepares to take a shot during the first period against the Swamp Rabbits at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette The Komets hosted the first of its “Pink the Rink” nights on Friday at Memorial Coliseum in support of the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette Zac Larraza of the Komets taps in a goal against the Swamp Rabbits during the first period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette Michael Houser of the Komets catches a shot during the first period against the Swamp Rabbits at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette The Komets sport pink jersies in support of “Pink the Rink” night at the Coliseum Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette Mason Baptista of the Komets tails closely behind Daniel Echeverri of the Swamp Rabbits during the first period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette Zac Larraza of the Komets and his teammates sport pink jerseys in support of “Pink the Rink” night at the Coliseum Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette Komet fans celebrate after their second goal during the second period against the Swamp Rabbits at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.
Brett Luke \| The Journal Gazette Anthony Cortese prepares to take a shot against the Swamp Rabbits during the second period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.
It’s tough to say if the Komets were that good in the second period or if the Greenville Swamp Rabbits were that bad. Whichever, the middle period decided the 4-1 Fort Wayne victory Friday.
The Komets had the only goals of the period – Shawn Szydlowski and Dennis Kravchenko – and all 21 shots on goal. The closest the Swamp Rabbits came to giving goaltender Michael Houser any work in the period came when Joe Basaraba got the puck 20 feet out, but he whiffed and fell to the ice.
That summed up 2018 so far for the Swamp Rabbits, who are coached by Bishop Dwenger graduate Brian Gratz. His team (20-30-4), which has been ravaged by injuries and call-ups, has lost eight in a row and 15 of its last 17 games.
The Komets (36-13-3), meanwhile, are on a 10-0-1 run and have won 15 of their last 17 games, taking control of first place in the Central Division.
The Komets outshot the Swamp Rabbits 42-15 at Memorial Coliseum, where the teams meet again 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The second period marked the third time in their 66 seasons that the Komets have kept an opponent without a shot on goal. They did it to Peoria in 1990 in the International Hockey League and Quad City in 2006 in the United Hockey League.
Greenville was the first team in the ECHL this season to fail to record a shot in a period, though eight times teams had gotten only one shot.
It was the first time Gratz and the Komets’ Gary Graham, who played high school hockey for North Side and remain close friends, had faced one another as head coaches.
The Komets wore special pink jerseys, which they will wear again Saturday, through their annual “Pink the Rink” partnership with the Vera Bradley Foundation to fight breast cancer. The jerseys are being auctioned off and autographed pucks being sold. They raised $86,000 the previous six years.
While the Komets had their newest player, defenseman Anthony Cortese, who was acquired from the Indy Fuel for forward Logan Nelson on Wednesday, they were without captain Jamie Schaafsma (lower body injury), forward Justin Hodgman (bereavement leave) and defenseman Cody Sol (elbow).
The Swamp Rabbits actually had the bulk of the early scoring chances, the best one was by the Komets’ Trevor Cheek, who was set up for a one-timer by Artur Tyanulin’s pass from behind the net but stopped by goaltender Ty Rimmer 7:50 into the first period.
Cheek atoned, though, at 13:17, at the end of an odd-man rush by eschewing a shot to cut across the slot and send a pass back to Zac Larraza for a shot into an open net and a 1-0 lead. The assist extended Cheek’s point-scoring streak to eight games.
The Swamp Rabbits’ Austin McKay answered 1:28 later by redirecting a shot from the blue-line into the net.
Szydlowski, who came into the night with a two-point lead over Cincinnati’s Justin Danforth for the ECHL’s point-scoring lead with 61, netted a slapshot from the blue line for a 2-1 lead at 4:25 of the second period. Cortese assisted on the goal.
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine is open to considering proposals to place a ballistic missile defense system on its territory to ward off the risk of attacks from Russia, a senior Ukrainian defense official said Wednesday. So far no one has offered.
Oleksandr Turchynov, the head of Ukraine's National Security Council, told Ukrinform news agency in an interview that Russia has become an increased threat since annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and increasing its military presence there.
Russian news agencies cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Wednesday that the deployment of a missile defense system in Ukraine would force Russia to adopt countermeasures.
Ukraine has repeatedly raised alarms about what it sees as Russia's aggressive military posture. It says Moscow has actively supplied separatists in east Ukraine with arms and manpower, and that it routinely bolsters offensive capabilities in western Russia.
President Petro Poroshenko's government is concerned that Russia is making concerted efforts to move its nuclear capabilities to Crimea, which was absorbed by Moscow in 2014 following a referendum almost universally rejected by the international community.
"That the annexation of Crimea has significantly increased Russia's military capabilities and changed its balance of military power in the Black Sea and Mediterranean is understood by all our partners," Turchynov said. "But nobody goes beyond issuing statements and expressing deep concern."
"Ten Iskander-M tactical missile systems have already been delivered to the peninsula near the village of Shcholkine and Krasnoperekopsk," Turchynov told Ukrinform.
Russian Defence Ministry officials have also said they will deploy long-range, nuclear-capable Tu-22M3 bombers to Crimea.
Sign up for the Early Bird Brief - a daily roundup of military and defense news stories from around the globe.
Turchynov suggested that the West should consider improving its own security by barring Russian warships from passing through the Bosporus Strait — the narrow stretch that divides Turkey between its European and Asian parts and links the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
NATO's U.S.-led missile defense plans envisage deploying elements of the missile shield around Europe for what it says would be defense against Iran. Moscow sees this as a threat to its nuclear deterrent.
India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far, the world's biggest-ever blackout.
The massive failure — a day after a similar, but smaller power failure — has raised serious concerns about India's outdated infrastructure and the government's inability to meet its huge appetite for energy as the country aspires to become a regional economic superpower.
The new power failure affected 620 million people across 20 of India's 28 states — about double the population of the United States. The blackout was unusual in its reach, stretching from the border with Myanmar in the northeast to the Pakistani border about 3,000 kilometers (1,870 miles) away. Its impact, however, was softened by Indians' familiarity with frequent blackouts and the widespread use of backup generators for major businesses and key facilities such as hospitals and airports.
S.K. Jain, 54, said he was on his way to file his income tax return when the Metro closed and now would almost certainly miss the deadline.
Tuesday's blackout eclipsed yesterday's in India, which covered territory including 370 million people. The third largest blackout affected 100 million people in Indonesia in 2005, according to reports by The Associated Press.
Every Tuesday in February, Currywurst will serve free sausages -- but only for 20 minutes and 12 seconds (2012, get it?) beginning at 7 p.m.
You get your choice of bockwurst, Hungarian or chicken thueringer with either sautéed onions or sauerkraut and currywurst or housemade mustard. One Sausage per customer.
From 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface, a weather satellite run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captured high-resolution imagery of Hurricane Florence's menacing eye.
In the footage, whipping winds, clouds and thunderstorms swirl around a bowl-shaped area of calm.
"Wow, looks totally angry," wrote Carole Dorsey in the comments of a NOAA tweet sharing the clip.
"Mother Nature is both beautiful and terrifying," chimed in Erin Madden.
A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured a NASA view of the eye of Hurricane Florence at 7:50 a.m. EDT on September 12, 2018, shown in this video still taken as Florence churned across the Atlantic in a west-northwesterly direction with winds of 130 miles an hour. - Powerful Hurricane Florence headed toward the US East Coast Tuesday, prompting authorities to order more than a million people to evacuate the path of the extremely dangerous storm forecasters said could soon intensify. Residents scrambled to flee as the menacing Category 4 storm packing winds of 140 miles (220 kilometers) per hour moved closer."This is one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years," President Donald Trump warned on Twitter. "Please be prepared, be careful and be SAFE!"
The imagery was taken by NOAA's GOES-15 satellite at 7 a.m. on Tuesday when the storm was moving 17 mph west-northwest with winds up to 60 mph extending from its center.
Gaining strength and expanding in size, the storm was headed toward the East Coast as "an extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane by Tuesday afternoon.
The National Hurricane Center projects the monstrous storm will deliver catastrophic flooding and lashing winds to the eastern parts of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina when it reaches landfall Thursday and into Friday.
The amount of rainfall and destruction depends on the storm's exact path and whether it lingers or moves on and dissipates.
More than 1.5 million people have been ordered to evacuate coastal areas ahead of the storm.
THIS is the chilling moment masked thugs carrying an AXE prowl a residential street in the dead of night testing door handles.
The footage – captured on one resident’s CCTV – shows the two men prowling down the quiet road in the early hours as homeowners slept.
The pair are seen trying the door handles on a number of cars and houses on two streets in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, at 2.30am earlier this month.
Neil Mooney, who installed CCTV cameras after concerns over crime in his area, captured the terrifying footage.
As the thugs approach Neil’s house where he was asleep with his wife and three children one of the men enters his front path and can be seen holding an axe in his hand.
They also ripped one of the CCTV cameras he has installed from the wall in an unsuccessful bid to destroy any footage.
Since Neil, 47, shared his videos on line they have received 35,000 views.
The men can also been seen shining a mobile phone light into parked cars along the street.
Lancashire police are now examining the footage.
Neil said he was amazed his video had been shared more than 1,000 times in one day.
Neil said: "I don't think they were targeting anyone specific, just walking the streets trying door handles hoping to find and unlocked one.
“They weren't trying every door so maybe avoiding certain ones for some reason possibly those alarmed.
“We have an alarm that's always set when out or in bed but the bell box is on the side so maybe they hadn't seen it.
“I don't think there has been a spate of burglaries according to the Police but I know of at least one on our street.
"I'm sure they will have tried my door handle. I had a CCTV camera at a low height at the door that they stole. Probably just for the sake of it as the camera will be no good to anyone with the wires ripped out of it. They tried next doors and a couple of others."
The videos have sparked concern in the quiet neighbourhood.
Pizza parlors and coffee shops may not be the first things you think of when it comes to North Korea, but big changes are taking place inside the secretive nation.
Under Kim Jong Un, the country's totalitarian regime is overseeing a quiet consumer revolution. Long used to the state controlling how they eat, dress and travel, North Koreans have recently been getting more of a taste of Western-style capitalism.
"People have access to more consumer goods and business opportunities than at any point in the past," said Curtis Melvin, a senior fellow with the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Melvin, who studies North Korea's economy, says privately run pizza parlors, coffee shops, bars and gas stations have mushroomed in Pyongyang, the country's capital.
President Trump is pushing for increasingly tough international sanctions aimed at squeezing the life out of the North Korean economy. The sanctions are part of Trump's efforts to pressure Kim into backing down on the regime's rapidly developing nuclear weapons program.
But on the ground in North Korea, the government is allowing more entrepreneurial activity and even encouraging competition between small private firms.
"In North Korea, now you can found your own company," said Andray Abrahamian, an Asia-Pacific research fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "A shop, a makeup company -- you can run it as your own, and keep most of the profit."
Visitors to the country have reported commuters on pricey electric bikes. North Koreans also have a choice in which taxi company they use, and which brand of toothpaste they buy.
That might not sound like a big deal to Western consumers used to an ever increasing choice of goods and services. But it's a huge change for North Korea, one of the world's poorest countries and a place where the state has historically controlled most aspects of citizens' lives.
Related: North Korea's economy: What's left to sanction?
Experts say that reflects how much the country's economy has changed under the rule of Western-educated Kim Jong Un, who took over as North Korea's leader after the death of his father Kim Jong Il six years ago.
"He is more accepting of market activities" compared to Kim Jong Il, said Kim Byung-yeon, an economics professor at Seoul National University who studies the North Korean economy.
The changes seem to have coincided with an economic uptick.
The regime doesn't publish any data, but an estimate from South Korea's central bank puts the North's economic growth at 3.9% in 2016, its fastest pace since the turn of the millennium.
That healthy figure comes despite more than a decade of international sanctions.
"The economy is in a much better shape than 20, 10 and even five years ago," said Rudiger Frank, an economics professor at the University of Vienna who specializes in North Korea.
The flurry of entrepreneurship is believed to be providing a boost to the coffers of Kim's regime.
Most of those running these new shops and restaurants are likely to be privileged North Koreans with close ties to the government who are required to kick up a portion of profits to the regime.
"The government and the party are probably making more money than ever" because of them, Melvin said.
But there's a lot of uncertainty about whether the rise in private business activity will continue.
So far, it appears to be concentrated in Pyongyang, a showcase city for the regime that gets the lion's share of resources. Much of the rest of the country remains decades behind in wealth and technology.
And none of the market-friendly changes have been put into law, which means traders are still subject to the regime's whims.
For example, a botched currency reform by the government in 2009 stripped many North Koreans of their personal savings.
Experts also think North Korea is unlikely to follow the path of other centrally planned economies that have embraced capitalism, such as Russia and China.
Frank points to the example of Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, who was booted from power shortly after implementing wide-scale reforms.
"Kim is thus very cautious," he said.
The intensifying sanctions, meanwhile, could throttle the amount of money and goods coming into the country.
They have targeted North Korea's major exports like coal, iron ore and seafood, nearly all of which were being sold across the border into China.
"They are very effective in stifling the market economy," Frank said of the sanctions.

If the sun lies very near the horizon, look for the "red rainbow." The scattering of sunlight through the atmosphere removes nearly all colors but red in the sunlight and from the rainbow that that same light produces. Here's yet another rainbow oddity: when the bright full moon shines on rain clouds, there's the slim chance of seeing a "moonbow." This pale arc appears colorless in the sky -- but only because human night vision, which operates in low-light situations, is insensitive to color.

A full moon occurs this Saturday night, November 8 -- but let's hope that rain clouds do not gather on that evening. For the second time this calendar year, a total lunar eclipse graces the sky at dusk. As darkness falls (around 5:15 p.m.), it should be possible to spot the pale, reddish gray moon -- fully within Earth's shadow at that time -- slowly rising in the east. The reddish color on the moon's face is the result of sunlight passing through Earth's murky atmosphere and refracting into Earth's shadow. At 5:31 p.m. the moon will start to exit from the shadow. A series of partial-eclipse stages will ensue, resulting in the return of the round "full" moon by 7:04 p.m.

Early November usually brings clear early-evening skies to San Diego, except possibly for areas very near the coast. Inland, toward the mountains and desert, there's an excellent chance of cloud-free viewing. Seize the moment, and enjoy one of nature's predictable spectacles this Saturday night!

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette The Swamp Rabbits regroup at their goal after barely stopping the Komets drive during the first period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette Jason Binkley of the Komets prepares to take a shot during the first period against the Swamp Rabbits at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette The Komets hosted the first of its “Pink the Rink” nights on Friday at Memorial Coliseum in support of the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette Zac Larraza of the Komets taps in a goal against the Swamp Rabbits during the first period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette Michael Houser of the Komets catches a shot during the first period against the Swamp Rabbits at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette The Komets sport pink jersies in support of “Pink the Rink” night at the Coliseum Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette Mason Baptista of the Komets tails closely behind Daniel Echeverri of the Swamp Rabbits during the first period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette Zac Larraza of the Komets and his teammates sport pink jerseys in support of “Pink the Rink” night at the Coliseum Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette Komet fans celebrate after their second goal during the second period against the Swamp Rabbits at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.

Brett Luke | The Journal Gazette Anthony Cortese prepares to take a shot against the Swamp Rabbits during the second period at Memorial Coliseum on Friday night.

It’s tough to say if the Komets were that good in the second period or if the Greenville Swamp Rabbits were that bad. Whichever, the middle period decided the 4-1 Fort Wayne victory Friday.

The Komets had the only goals of the period – Shawn Szydlowski and Dennis Kravchenko – and all 21 shots on goal. The closest the Swamp Rabbits came to giving goaltender Michael Houser any work in the period came when Joe Basaraba got the puck 20 feet out, but he whiffed and fell to the ice.

That summed up 2018 so far for the Swamp Rabbits, who are coached by Bishop Dwenger graduate Brian Gratz. His team (20-30-4), which has been ravaged by injuries and call-ups, has lost eight in a row and 15 of its last 17 games.

The Komets (36-13-3), meanwhile, are on a 10-0-1 run and have won 15 of their last 17 games, taking control of first place in the Central Division.

The Komets outshot the Swamp Rabbits 42-15 at Memorial Coliseum, where the teams meet again 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The second period marked the third time in their 66 seasons that the Komets have kept an opponent without a shot on goal. They did it to Peoria in 1990 in the International Hockey League and Quad City in 2006 in the United Hockey League.

Greenville was the first team in the ECHL this season to fail to record a shot in a period, though eight times teams had gotten only one shot.

It was the first time Gratz and the Komets’ Gary Graham, who played high school hockey for North Side and remain close friends, had faced one another as head coaches.

The Komets wore special pink jerseys, which they will wear again Saturday, through their annual “Pink the Rink” partnership with the Vera Bradley Foundation to fight breast cancer. The jerseys are being auctioned off and autographed pucks being sold. They raised $86,000 the previous six years.

While the Komets had their newest player, defenseman Anthony Cortese, who was acquired from the Indy Fuel for forward Logan Nelson on Wednesday, they were without captain Jamie Schaafsma (lower body injury), forward Justin Hodgman (bereavement leave) and defenseman Cody Sol (elbow).

The Swamp Rabbits actually had the bulk of the early scoring chances, the best one was by the Komets’ Trevor Cheek, who was set up for a one-timer by Artur Tyanulin’s pass from behind the net but stopped by goaltender Ty Rimmer 7:50 into the first period.

Cheek atoned, though, at 13:17, at the end of an odd-man rush by eschewing a shot to cut across the slot and send a pass back to Zac Larraza for a shot into an open net and a 1-0 lead. The assist extended Cheek’s point-scoring streak to eight games.

The Swamp Rabbits’ Austin McKay answered 1:28 later by redirecting a shot from the blue-line into the net.

Szydlowski, who came into the night with a two-point lead over Cincinnati’s Justin Danforth for the ECHL’s point-scoring lead with 61, netted a slapshot from the blue line for a 2-1 lead at 4:25 of the second period. Cortese assisted on the goal.

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine is open to considering proposals to place a ballistic missile defense system on its territory to ward off the risk of attacks from Russia, a senior Ukrainian defense official said Wednesday. So far no one has offered.

Oleksandr Turchynov, the head of Ukraine's National Security Council, told Ukrinform news agency in an interview that Russia has become an increased threat since annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and increasing its military presence there.

Russian news agencies cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Wednesday that the deployment of a missile defense system in Ukraine would force Russia to adopt countermeasures.

Ukraine has repeatedly raised alarms about what it sees as Russia's aggressive military posture. It says Moscow has actively supplied separatists in east Ukraine with arms and manpower, and that it routinely bolsters offensive capabilities in western Russia.

President Petro Poroshenko's government is concerned that Russia is making concerted efforts to move its nuclear capabilities to Crimea, which was absorbed by Moscow in 2014 following a referendum almost universally rejected by the international community.

"That the annexation of Crimea has significantly increased Russia's military capabilities and changed its balance of military power in the Black Sea and Mediterranean is understood by all our partners," Turchynov said. "But nobody goes beyond issuing statements and expressing deep concern."

"Ten Iskander-M tactical missile systems have already been delivered to the peninsula near the village of Shcholkine and Krasnoperekopsk," Turchynov told Ukrinform.

Russian Defence Ministry officials have also said they will deploy long-range, nuclear-capable Tu-22M3 bombers to Crimea.

Sign up for the Early Bird Brief - a daily roundup of military and defense news stories from around the globe.

Turchynov suggested that the West should consider improving its own security by barring Russian warships from passing through the Bosporus Strait — the narrow stretch that divides Turkey between its European and Asian parts and links the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

NATO's U.S.-led missile defense plans envisage deploying elements of the missile shield around Europe for what it says would be defense against Iran. Moscow sees this as a threat to its nuclear deterrent.

India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far, the world's biggest-ever blackout.

The massive failure — a day after a similar, but smaller power failure — has raised serious concerns about India's outdated infrastructure and the government's inability to meet its huge appetite for energy as the country aspires to become a regional economic superpower.

The new power failure affected 620 million people across 20 of India's 28 states — about double the population of the United States. The blackout was unusual in its reach, stretching from the border with Myanmar in the northeast to the Pakistani border about 3,000 kilometers (1,870 miles) away. Its impact, however, was softened by Indians' familiarity with frequent blackouts and the widespread use of backup generators for major businesses and key facilities such as hospitals and airports.

S.K. Jain, 54, said he was on his way to file his income tax return when the Metro closed and now would almost certainly miss the deadline.

Tuesday's blackout eclipsed yesterday's in India, which covered territory including 370 million people. The third largest blackout affected 100 million people in Indonesia in 2005, according to reports by The Associated Press.

Every Tuesday in February, Currywurst will serve free sausages -- but only for 20 minutes and 12 seconds (2012, get it?) beginning at 7 p.m.

You get your choice of bockwurst, Hungarian or chicken thueringer with either sautéed onions or sauerkraut and currywurst or housemade mustard. One Sausage per customer.

From 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface, a weather satellite run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captured high-resolution imagery of Hurricane Florence's menacing eye.

In the footage, whipping winds, clouds and thunderstorms swirl around a bowl-shaped area of calm.

"Wow, looks totally angry," wrote Carole Dorsey in the comments of a NOAA tweet sharing the clip.

"Mother Nature is both beautiful and terrifying," chimed in Erin Madden.

A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured a NASA view of the eye of Hurricane Florence at 7:50 a.m. EDT on September 12, 2018, shown in this video still taken as Florence churned across the Atlantic in a west-northwesterly direction with winds of 130 miles an hour. - Powerful Hurricane Florence headed toward the US East Coast Tuesday, prompting authorities to order more than a million people to evacuate the path of the extremely dangerous storm forecasters said could soon intensify. Residents scrambled to flee as the menacing Category 4 storm packing winds of 140 miles (220 kilometers) per hour moved closer."This is one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years," President Donald Trump warned on Twitter. "Please be prepared, be careful and be SAFE!"

The imagery was taken by NOAA's GOES-15 satellite at 7 a.m. on Tuesday when the storm was moving 17 mph west-northwest with winds up to 60 mph extending from its center.

Gaining strength and expanding in size, the storm was headed toward the East Coast as "an extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane by Tuesday afternoon.

The National Hurricane Center projects the monstrous storm will deliver catastrophic flooding and lashing winds to the eastern parts of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina when it reaches landfall Thursday and into Friday.

The amount of rainfall and destruction depends on the storm's exact path and whether it lingers or moves on and dissipates.

More than 1.5 million people have been ordered to evacuate coastal areas ahead of the storm.

THIS is the chilling moment masked thugs carrying an AXE prowl a residential street in the dead of night testing door handles.

The footage – captured on one resident’s CCTV – shows the two men prowling down the quiet road in the early hours as homeowners slept.

The pair are seen trying the door handles on a number of cars and houses on two streets in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, at 2.30am earlier this month.

Neil Mooney, who installed CCTV cameras after concerns over crime in his area, captured the terrifying footage.

As the thugs approach Neil’s house where he was asleep with his wife and three children one of the men enters his front path and can be seen holding an axe in his hand.

They also ripped one of the CCTV cameras he has installed from the wall in an unsuccessful bid to destroy any footage.

Since Neil, 47, shared his videos on line they have received 35,000 views.

The men can also been seen shining a mobile phone light into parked cars along the street.

Lancashire police are now examining the footage.

Neil said he was amazed his video had been shared more than 1,000 times in one day.

Neil said: "I don't think they were targeting anyone specific, just walking the streets trying door handles hoping to find and unlocked one.

“They weren't trying every door so maybe avoiding certain ones for some reason possibly those alarmed.

“We have an alarm that's always set when out or in bed but the bell box is on the side so maybe they hadn't seen it.

“I don't think there has been a spate of burglaries according to the Police but I know of at least one on our street.

"I'm sure they will have tried my door handle. I had a CCTV camera at a low height at the door that they stole. Probably just for the sake of it as the camera will be no good to anyone with the wires ripped out of it. They tried next doors and a couple of others."

The videos have sparked concern in the quiet neighbourhood.

Pizza parlors and coffee shops may not be the first things you think of when it comes to North Korea, but big changes are taking place inside the secretive nation.

Under Kim Jong Un, the country's totalitarian regime is overseeing a quiet consumer revolution. Long used to the state controlling how they eat, dress and travel, North Koreans have recently been getting more of a taste of Western-style capitalism.

"People have access to more consumer goods and business opportunities than at any point in the past," said Curtis Melvin, a senior fellow with the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Melvin, who studies North Korea's economy, says privately run pizza parlors, coffee shops, bars and gas stations have mushroomed in Pyongyang, the country's capital.

President Trump is pushing for increasingly tough international sanctions aimed at squeezing the life out of the North Korean economy. The sanctions are part of Trump's efforts to pressure Kim into backing down on the regime's rapidly developing nuclear weapons program.

But on the ground in North Korea, the government is allowing more entrepreneurial activity and even encouraging competition between small private firms.

"In North Korea, now you can found your own company," said Andray Abrahamian, an Asia-Pacific research fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "A shop, a makeup company -- you can run it as your own, and keep most of the profit."

Visitors to the country have reported commuters on pricey electric bikes. North Koreans also have a choice in which taxi company they use, and which brand of toothpaste they buy.

That might not sound like a big deal to Western consumers used to an ever increasing choice of goods and services. But it's a huge change for North Korea, one of the world's poorest countries and a place where the state has historically controlled most aspects of citizens' lives.

Related: North Korea's economy: What's left to sanction?

Experts say that reflects how much the country's economy has changed under the rule of Western-educated Kim Jong Un, who took over as North Korea's leader after the death of his father Kim Jong Il six years ago.

"He is more accepting of market activities" compared to Kim Jong Il, said Kim Byung-yeon, an economics professor at Seoul National University who studies the North Korean economy.

The changes seem to have coincided with an economic uptick.

The regime doesn't publish any data, but an estimate from South Korea's central bank puts the North's economic growth at 3.9% in 2016, its fastest pace since the turn of the millennium.

That healthy figure comes despite more than a decade of international sanctions.

"The economy is in a much better shape than 20, 10 and even five years ago," said Rudiger Frank, an economics professor at the University of Vienna who specializes in North Korea.

The flurry of entrepreneurship is believed to be providing a boost to the coffers of Kim's regime.

Most of those running these new shops and restaurants are likely to be privileged North Koreans with close ties to the government who are required to kick up a portion of profits to the regime.

"The government and the party are probably making more money than ever" because of them, Melvin said.

But there's a lot of uncertainty about whether the rise in private business activity will continue.

So far, it appears to be concentrated in Pyongyang, a showcase city for the regime that gets the lion's share of resources. Much of the rest of the country remains decades behind in wealth and technology.

And none of the market-friendly changes have been put into law, which means traders are still subject to the regime's whims.

For example, a botched currency reform by the government in 2009 stripped many North Koreans of their personal savings.

Experts also think North Korea is unlikely to follow the path of other centrally planned economies that have embraced capitalism, such as Russia and China.

Frank points to the example of Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, who was booted from power shortly after implementing wide-scale reforms.

"Kim is thus very cautious," he said.

The intensifying sanctions, meanwhile, could throttle the amount of money and goods coming into the country.

They have targeted North Korea's major exports like coal, iron ore and seafood, nearly all of which were being sold across the border into China.

"They are very effective in stifling the market economy," Frank said of the sanctions.