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UPDATE: Bicyclist dies after collision with tractor trailer
It happened just before 5:30 Wednesday night at the intersection of Broadway and Mead Road.
UPDATE (5/26) – Macon-Bibb Coroner Leon Jones tells 41NBC the bicyclist involved in the accident, now identified as 62-year-old Melvin Butler, died from his injuries around 9 p.m. Wednesday.
ORIGINAL STORY (5/25):
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A bicyclist is in critical condition at the hospital after an incident Wednesday night involving a tractor trailer.
It happened at the intersection of Broadway and Mead Road just before 5:30, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release.
The release says a tractor trailer, driven by a 36-year-old Lizella man, was making a right turn off Mead Road onto Broadway when a bicycle, operated by a 62-year-old man, collided with the trailer’s rear tires.
The 62-year-old man was taken to Atrium Health Navicent.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s office if you have additional information.
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EUR/USD is hitting its highest since around a month ago. Other majors are up against the dollar also.
USD weakness began from very early Europe on Thursday and its continued here today. While 'risk' FX is higher US equity index futures are, so far, not tracking a lot higher on the session.
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Conference aims to educate public on environmental health, climate change
Dogwood Alliance and Science for Georgia came together Thursday to host the first Environmental Health and Climate Protection conference.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Dogwood Alliance and Science for Georgia came together Thursday to host the first Environmental Health and Climate Protection conference.
The organizations want to share ideas that will make an impact.
Amy Sharma, PhD, the Executive Director for Science for Georgia, says it was interesting to hear diverse perspectives on environmental issues and climate change.
“I’ve already had two speakers email me asking for the contact information of the other speakers,” she said. “We all need to get together. The more we share our ideas across disciplines and across different perspectives, the better and more pragmatic our solutions will be.”
Vicki Weeks, the Georgia State Coordinator for the Dogwood Alliance, says they wanted to bring academics and community leaders together to learn alternative perspectives.
“We wanted to make sure this information was being shared so that alternative information was being included into thinking and how that goes into policy,” she said.
Treva Gear, the Founder of Concerned Citizens of Cook County, spoke about environmental health issues facing Georgia’s rural communities and also shared how her organization in Adel is currently fighting against two wood pellet plants.
She says communities with low socioeconomic status and a high predominance of people of color are usually the targets for these plants.
She says organizing is key.
“Find other like-minded people in your community,” she said. “Make sure you inform your community. Partner with other organizations who will champion your issue and help fight with you, and maintain visibility.”
Gear says people need to get rid of the idea of “not in my backyard,” because environmental concerns can extend much further.
“We can’t put pollution in a vacuum,” she said. “You can’t isolate it. It affects everybody. You need to care about your neighbor across town that has that industry in their backdoor, because it could be you next.”
Science for Georgia says it hopes to host the conference on a yearly basis.
Dogwood Alliance plans to post the Zoom video and professionally edited videos on its website.
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Macon Bacon’s president leads charge in inclusivity
Over half of the Bacon's full-time staff is female.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Bacon have nine full-time staff members, and over half of the employees are female. So for the Bacon, hiring the first-ever female coach in Coastal Plain League history fits right into the team’s inclusive narrative.
“Whether they’re male or female, it doesn’t matter. You’re always looking for the best person for the job, and that’s the way we have always done that here,” said Bacon president Brandon Raphael. “More than half of our full-time staff are females. In the baseball world, it doesn’t always look like that in front offices. So we’re very proud of that.”
The Macon Bacon have hired Kianna Jones, a redshirt sophomore on UNC-Chapel Hill’s softball team, to be the bench coach for the 2022 season. Jones will coach the bases while also handling baseball analytics. For Jones, this moment is more significant than her coaching career. It’s a way to show the next generation of females that anything is possible.
“I want to inspire the next generation of young females,” said Jones. “This is a perfect opportunity for me because I never got to see women in baseball really as a kid, so I think being that inspiration for the next generation is probably my biggest goal.”
Decisions like hiring the first-ever female coach in Coastal Plain League history start with inclusive and open-minded individuals like team president Brandon Raphael.
“The idea of it is, is do it the right way. And do it with integrity, character and high class. I think that’s what it is,” said Raphael. “It’s looking at the positions you have available and what you’re looking for and finding the right person for the job. And so no matter who it is, male-female, any type of race, ethnicity, it doesn’t matter. The idea is that we’re trying to put our best team on the field in the front office side so the team over there can put their best side on the field. ”
The addition of female coaches and staff to professional teams is a decent start. But for Jones, she has an even bigger goal in mind for females in the industry.
“I’d really love to see is a female commissioner. I think that would be super cool. I think we have a long way to go before that happens,” said Jones. “But I think that what we’re seeing right now, it’s great. And you want to continue to see that in baseball and all sports. I know NBA is still working towards that. NHL is working towards that. The NFL, like all that kind of stuff, it’s great, and I think that needs to continue to be acknowledged as women in sports. And obviously, it’s difficult, but I think it’s totally worth it, and I think that a lot of sports are starting to catch on.”
Catch Coach Jones and the Bacon on opening night tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Luther Williams Field against the Florence Flamingos.
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Rant and Rave: May 26th – Outfield Problems for the Braves
Is it time for the Braves to make some trades to get their outfield back into the swing of things?
Is it time for the Braves to make some trades to get their outfield back into the swing of things? Bill Shanks and Tucker Sargent talk about, and discuss their favorite baseball movies. That and more this week.
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At least four people were killed and two others were injured Thursday night after a house exploded in a borough near Philadelphia, officials said.
Two other people were unaccounted for following the home explosion, Pottstown borough manager Justin Keller said during a news conference.
First-responders were called to the house just after 8 p.m., and multiple agencies were investigating the scene about 40 miles north of Philadelphia.
Keller declined to answer questions regarding the ages of the victims at this time. It's also unclear what caused the explosion.
Local agencies, Pennsylvania State Police and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officials were on the scene of the explosion late Thursday investigating the cause, said Keller.
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NEW YORK (AP) — More than 1,250 Thai workers who sewed bras for brands Victoria’s Secret, Lane Bryant and Torrid — and who were laid off last year without their legally required severance — have received 281 million baht ($8.3 million) in compensation, according to worker rights groups Solidarity Center and the Worker Rights Consortium.
The compensation will be financed by Victoria’s Secret via a loan arrangement with the workers’ former employer, and comes after a 13-month effort. The workers are represented by the Triumph International Union, which is affiliated with the Confederation of Industrial Labour of Thailand.
Private equity firm Sycamore Partners, which owns the Lane Bryant and Torrid brands, did not contribute, according to the groups. Sycamore couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
The Solidarity Center said it was the largest settlement related to wage theft at a garment factory.
After the Brilliant Alliance factory shuttered in March 2021, the Thai government ordered its owner, Hong Kong-based Clover Group, to pay severance within 30 days, according to the worker rights groups. Clover refused, telling the factory’s workers it had no money, and they should agree to wait 10 years to be paid in full.
The union then launched a campaign demanding their severance pay. The Worker Rights Consortium and the Solidarity Center worked with Victoria’s Secret and Sycamore, pressing that the workers should be paid. After months of efforts, including campaigning by Clean Clothes Campaign, and other nonprofit worker advocacy organizations, Clover agreed to pay the workers and Victoria’s Secret committed to finance the payments, via a loan to Clover.
Last week, all workers received their severance, in addition to more than $1 million in interest, per Thai law.
Victoria’s Secret said in a statement Thursday that it is “unwavering in its commitment to doing the right thing” for the workers whose livelihoods were impacted by the closure of the Brilliant Alliance Thailand factory.
“While the workers impacted by the closure were not our employees and our merchandise was not produced in the factory at the time of the closure, we were committed to ensuring the factory owners satisfied their obligation to their workers,” Victoria’s Secret said.
David Welsh, Thailand country director of the Solidarity Center, called the settlement a “huge victory” for the garment workers.
“Low-wage garment workers left destitute by injustice meted out by global supply chains is nothing new,” he said. ”What’s new is they did not accept their fate — and won.”
Welsh said he hopes the settlement will become a model for the type of domestic, governmental, international and brand involvement to resolve future cases where garment workers are left in similarly desperate straits.
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Monroe County deputies searching for missing Gwinnett County man
Deputies are searching for Edward Knight.
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office needs your help finding a missing Gwinnett County man.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies found an abandoned vehicle on Highway 341 near Billy Harris Road. The vehicle was last occupied by Edward Knight who was reported missing from Gwinnett County.
Deputies say Knight has several medical problems, including dementia. He was last seen wearing a green, long sleeve, button down shirt, with black or blue sweatpants and blue tennis shoes.
If you have seen him, gave him a ride or know where he may be, contact the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office at 487-994-7010 or call 911.
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President Biden nominates Perry Police Chief for U.S. Marshal
Chief Lynn has served as Perry Police Chief since 2013.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – President Biden has nominated Perry Police Chief Stephen Lynn to serve as a U.S. Marshal for the Middle District of Georgia.
Lynn is one of nine individuals announced in President Biden’s third round of U.S. Marshal nominees.
Lynn has served as Perry Police Chief since 2013. Before that he served as an investigator for the Houston Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, from 2007 to 2013. Lynn also served in the Warner Robins Police Department from 1981 to 2007. During that time Lynn held several leadership positions, including Commander of the Criminal Investigation Division and Strategic Services.
Lynn received his MPA from Georgia College and State University in 1996. And he received his B.S. from Georgia College in 1984.
According to a White House news release, nominees were chosen for their devotion to enforcing the law, their professionalism, their experience and credentials in their field, and their dedication to pursuing equal justice for all.
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Teen charged in Perry shooting and robbery attempt
The shooting happened around 6:30 Thursday night outside a home on Gaines Drive.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A teen is facing charges in connection to a robbery and shooting in Perry. According to Captain Heath Dykes with the Perry Police Department, the shooting happened around 6:30 Thursday night, during an altercation outside of a home on Gaines Drive.
Captain Dykes says during that fight a teen shot 21-year-old Daniel Laney. When officers arrived on scene, three people fled in a white Honda. Houston County Sheriff’s deputies later spotted the car, and it fled to a backyard in the Haven Way neighborhood.
Officers arrested a 16-year-old male and charged him with aggravated assault.
The driver, 18-year-old Jordyan Keith, was cited for reckless driving.
The shooting victim was taken to Atrium Health Navicent in Macon with non-life-threatening injuries.
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1 hospitalized, 1 arrested after shooting near Macon gas station
It happened around 7:30 Friday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – One person is in the hospital and another is in the Bibb County Jail following a shooting near a gas station Friday night.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says it happened around 7:30 near Qwik Trip, located at 1924 Forsyth Street.
Deputies say they responded to a shots fired call near the store. A unidentified “male individual” was struck in the hand by a bullet and taken to the hospital.
He’s listed in stable condition.
Deputies and investigators also located a man, identified as 20-year-old Tylon Reshaun Evans, who was “reported to be involved” in the shooting incident. Evans was taken into custody and is being held without bond at the Bibb County Jail. He’s charged with aggravated assault.
The shooting remains under investigation.
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Heating up this weekend
We have been dealing with a few lingering showers this evening, but as the cold front pushes south, dry weather returns across the area.
Sunshine and low humidity return for Saturday, with highs in the mid 80s.
It will be a beautiful day to be outdoors.
By Sunday we will start heating up into the upper 80s and low 90s across Middle Georgia.
By the afternoon we could see a few isolated showers, initiated by the sea breeze.
These shouldn’t be too widespread, but you might want to keep an eye on the skies.
We return to the normal summertime pattern as we head into next week with showers possible each day and highs in the 90s.
Humidity will be increasing through the week, so not only will it be hot, but it will be muggy.
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Macon Bacon win home opener over the Florence Flamingos
Macon Bacon start the season 2-0.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Bacon began their season with a 4-2 victory over the Lexington County Blowfish, and today, the Bacon continued their hot start as they hosted the Florence Flamingos for opening night.
The Bacon scored first in the bottom of the third inning as a throw to third base turned into an error, and the Bacon runner scored easily.
However, in the top of the fourth, the Flamingos scored one run to tie the game, but not for long, as the Bacon scored another run in the bottom of the fifth.
The Flamingos once again tied the game in the top of the sixth on an RBI single.
The Bacon scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth. And then, in the bottom of the seventh, the Bacon extend their lead, scoring two on a single.
The Flamingos give the Bacon a scare scoring two runs in the top of the eighth, but the Bacon come out victorious 5-4.
The Bacon start the season 2-0 and are back in action tomorrow on the road at the Savannah Bananas.
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Macon man arrested on multiple gun, drug charges following search warrant
A man is in custody on multiple gun and drug charges following a search warrant at a home on Friday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man is in custody on multiple gun and drug charges following a search warrant at a home on Friday.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says 38-year-old Cornelius Abram Jr was taken into custody in the 2000 block of Companion Drive following a search.
Deputies say members of the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force were serving a probation warrant on Abram when they noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming form inside the home.
That’s when Task Force members contacted the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit and Gang Investigators. A search warrant was then issued and conducted.
The sheriff’s office says it seized a handgun, about 12 ounces of methamphetamine, about three and a half pounds of marijuana, 32 grams of oxycodone, 26 grams of crack cocaine and about $1,800 in cash.
Abrams is being held without bond on the following charges:
- Probation Violation – felony
- Possession of Schedule I or Schedule II Controlled Substance with the Intent to Distribute
- Receipt Possession or Transfer of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon of Felony First Offender
- Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of or Attempt to Commit Certain Felonies
- Purchase, Possession, Manufacture, Distribution or Sale of Marijuana
- Two Counts of Trafficking in Cocaine, Illegal Drugs, Marijuana or Methamphetamine
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CHICAGO, Ill. — Temperatures barely climbed into the 90s and only for a couple of days. But the discovery of the bodies of three women inside a Chicago senior housing facility this month left the city looking for answers to questions that were supposed to be addressed after a longer and hotter heat wave killed more than 700 people nearly three decades ago.
Now, the city — and the country — is facing the reality that because of climate change, deadly heat waves can strike just about anywhere, don't only fall in the height of summer and need not last long.
“Hotter and more dangerous heat waves are coming earlier, in May ... and the other thing is we are getting older and more people are living alone," said Eric Klinenberg, a New York University sociologist, who wrote “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.” about the 1995 heat wave. “It's a formula for disaster.”
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office has yet to determine the causes of death for the three women whose bodies were found in the James Sneider Apartments on May 14. But the victims' families have already filed or plan to file wrongful death lawsuits against the companies that own and manage the buildings.
The City Council member whose ward includes the neighborhood where the building is located said she experienced stifling temperatures in the complex when she visited, including in one unit where heat sensors hit 102 degrees.
“These are senior residents, residents with health conditions (and) they should not be in these conditions,” Alderman Maria Hadden said in a Facebook video shot outside the apartments.
Part of the problem, experts say, is that communities nationwide are still learning how deadly heat can be. It took the sight of refrigerated trucks being filled with dead bodies after Chicago's 1995 heat wave to drive home the message that the city was woefully unprepared for a silent and invisible disaster that took more than twice as many lives as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
That realization led to a system in which city workers call the elderly and frail and turn city buildings into 24-hour cooling centers when temperatures become oppressive.
What happened this month is a reminder that the safeguards in place to make sure people don't freeze to death because they have not paid their heating bills often do not exist to prevent people from overheating in their homes.
“We have nothing for air conditioning,” Hadden said.
One expert isn't surprised.
“We recognize people need heating in cold weather and set up programs, financial assistance, to enable that but we don’t do that for cooling,” said Gregory Wellenius, a Boston University professor of environmental health who has studied heat-related deaths. “But subsidies for cooling are really controversial (because) for many people cooling is seen as a luxury item.”
In Chicago, Hadden said the building's management company believed it was not allowed to turn off the heat and turn on the air conditioning until June 1, because of the city's heat ordinance. But while she said the ordinance has no such requirement, the explanation may at least be a signal that the ordinance should be amended to better protect vulnerable people from heat.
Wellenius said statistics show that while well over 80% of homes in cities such as Dallas and Phoenix have air conditioning, the percentage is far lower in cities like Boston and New York.
And in the Pacific Northwest, the percentage is even lower, something that came into stark relief in Oregon, Washington and western Canada last June, when temperatures climbed as high as 118 degrees Fahrenheit, killing 600 people or more.
There is encouraging news.
“More people have air conditioning and we are more aware of the health risks of heat waves,” Klinenberg said.
Still, there is evidence that people don't appreciate or even know just how dangerous the heat can be.
In a study published in 2020, Wellenius and other researchers estimated that nationwide about 5,600 deaths a year could be attributed to high heat — eight times more than the 700 heat-related deaths that the study found were officially reported each year.
Wellenius said the reasons for what he called a “gross miscalculation” begin with the fact that official statistics only count death certificates that list heat as the sole cause of death. In some cases, heat is not listed as a cause even though it may have led to death in people with other conditions.
He said the same thing happened in the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic when people who died in nursing homes in Europe “were not tested for COVID so they were not counted as COVID deaths.”
In Cook County, which includes Chicago, the medical examiner's office reported two heat-related deaths last year, and seven the year before.
Just how many deaths in the U.S. are heat related today is unclear. Wellenius' study, published in 2020, is the result of research from 1997 to 2006. And Klinenberg said the issue has been complicated by the pandemic because the people at greatest risk of being killed by COVID-19 are also at the greatest risk of being killed by extreme heat.
“It's hard to distinguish excess heat deaths from COVID deaths,” he said.
Still, Hadden knows something must be done to deal with heat that can hit earlier and later in the year than it once did.
“We have to plan for this,” she said.
Klinenberg wonders if cities will follow up on such talk.
“Heat never feels like the most important thing in cities and by the time it feels like the most important thing it is too late to do anything about it," he said.
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Something weird is up with La Nina, the natural but potent weather event linked to more drought and wildfires in the western United States and more Atlantic hurricanes. It’s becoming the nation’s unwanted weather guest and meteorologists said the West’s megadrought won’t go away until La Nina does.
The current double-dip La Nina set a record for strength last month and is forecast to likely be around for a rare but not quite unprecedented third straight winter. And it’s not just this one. Scientists are noticing that in the past 25 years the world seems to be getting more La Ninas than it used to and that is just the opposite of what their best computer model simulations say should be happening with human-caused climate change.
“They (La Ninas) don’t know when to leave,” said Michelle L’Heureux, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast office for La Nina and its more famous flip side, El Nino.
An Associated Press statistical analysis of winter La Ninas show that they used to happen about 28% of the time from 1950 to 1999, but in the past 25 winters, they’ve been brewing nearly half the time. There’s a small chance that this effect could be random, but if the La Nina sticks around this winter, as forecast, that would push the trend over the statistically significant line, which is key in science, said L’Heureux. Her own analysis shows that La Nina-like conditions are occurring more often in the last 40 years. Other new studies are showing similar patterns.
What’s bothering many scientists is that their go-to climate simulation models that tend to get conditions right over the rest of the globe predict more El Ninos, not La Ninas, and that’s causing contention in the climate community about what to believe, according to Columbia University climate scientist Richard Seager and MIT hurricane scientist Kerry Emanuel.
What Seager and other scientists said is happening is that the eastern equatorial Atlantic is not warming as fast as the western equatorial Atlantic or even the rest of the world with climate change. And it’s not the amount of warming that matters but the difference between the west and east. The more the difference, the more likely a La Nina, the less the difference, the more likely an El Nino. Scientists speculate it could be related to another natural cycle, called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or it could be caused by human-caused climate change or both.
“At this point we just don't know,” L'Heureux said. “Scientists are watching and I know, are actively studying. But it’s really important because of regional conditions. We need to get this right.”
La Nina is a natural and cyclical cooling of parts of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide, as opposed to El Nino’s warming. Often leading to more Atlantic hurricanes, less rain and more wildfires in the West and agricultural losses in the middle of the country, studies have shown La Nina is more expensive to the United States than the El Nino. Together El Nino, La Nina and the neutral condition are called ENSO, which stands for El Nino Southern Oscillation, and they have one of the largest natural effects on climate, at times augmenting and other times dampening the big effects of human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas, scientists said.
“They really have a very, very strong” effect, said research scientist Azhar Ehsan, who heads Columbia University’s El Nino/La Nina forecasting. “So a third consecutive La Nina is not at all a welcome thing.”
He said the dangerous heat in India and Pakistan this month and in April is connected to La Nina.
The current La Nina formed in the late summer of 2020 when the Atlantic set a record for the number of named storms. It strengthened in the winter when the West’s drought worsened and in the early summer of 2021 it weakened enough that NOAA said conditions were neutral. But that pause only lasted a few months and by early fall 2021 La Nina was back, making it a double dip.
Normally second years of La Nina tend to be weaker, but in April this La Nina surprised meteorologists by setting a record for intensity in April, which is based on sea surface temperatures, Ehsan said.
“These are very impressive values for April,” L’Heureux said. Still, because La Ninas historically weaken over summer and there are slight signs that this one may be easing a bit, there’s the small but increasing chance that this La Nina could warm just enough to be considered neutral in late summer.
La Nina has its biggest effect in the winter and that’s when it is a problem for the West because it’s the rainy season that is supposed to recharge areas reservoirs. But the West is in a 22-year megadrought, about the same time period of increasing La Nina frequency.
Three factors — ENSO, climate change and randomness — are biggest when it comes to the drought, which is itself a huge trigger for massive wildfires, said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. Without climate change, La Nina and bad luck could have made the drought the worst in 300 years but with climate change it’s the worst in at least 1,200 years, said UCLA climate hydrologist Park Williams.
La Nina “is a pretty important player; it may be the dominant player,” said Swain, who has a blog on Western weather. “It could be responsible for one-third, maybe one-half of the given conditions if it is pronounced enough.”
“It’s much less likely that the Southwest will see at least even a partial recovery from the megadrought during La Nina,” Swain said.
La Nina “amps up your Atlantic storms” but decreases them in the Pacific, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.
It’s all about winds 6 to 7 miles (10 to 12 kilometers) above the water surface. One of the key factors in storm development is whether there is wind shear, which are changes in wind from high to low elevations. Wind shear can decapitate or tip over hurricanes, making them hard to strengthen and at times even stick around. Wind shear can also let dry air into hurricanes that chokes them.
When there’s an El Nino, there’s lots of Atlantic wind shear and it’s hard for hurricanes to get going. But La Nina means little wind shear in the Atlantic, making it easier for storms to intensify and do it quickly, said University of Albany hurricane researcher Kristen Corbosiero.
“That’s a really huge factor,” Corbosiero said.
“Whatever is the cause, the increasing incidence of La Ninas may be behind the increasing hurricanes,” MIT’s Emanuel said.
Some areas like eastern Australia and the arid Sahel region of Africa do better with more rain during La Nina. India and Pakistan, even though they get extra spring heat, also receive more needed rain in La Ninas, Columbia’s Ehsan said.
A 1999 economic study found that drought from La Nina cost the United States agriculture between $2.2 billion to $6.5 billion, which is far more than the $1.5 billion cost of El Nino. A neutral ENSO is best for agriculture.
Columbia’s Seager said even though there may be some chance and some natural cycles behind the changes in La Nina, because there's likely a climate change factor he thinks there will probably be more of them.
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The last week of April was a whirlwind for San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The storied neighborhood debuted the “AAPI Community Heroes Mural,” a mostly black and white depiction of 12 mostly unsung Asian American and Pacific Islander figures on the wall of a bank. Three days later “Neon Was Never Brighter,” the first ever Chinatown contemporary arts festival, took over the streets throughout the night. Traditional lion and dragon dances, a couture fashion show and other public “art activations” were featured in the block party-like event.
Cultural and arts organizations in Chinatowns across North America have worked for decades on bringing greater appreciation and visibility to these communities. But they faced an unprecedented one-two punch when the pandemic caused shutdowns and racist anti-Asian attacks increased — and continue. As painful as those events are, they also indelibly influenced the reemergence of various Chinatowns as close-knit hubs of vibrancy and culture.
Cynthia Choi, co-founder of the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center, is still “blown away” to be one of the heroes painted in the San Francisco mural. But being at the festival was equally touching for her.
“I got really emotional because it’s been so long since I’d seen so many people come out to Chinatown, especially at night. I had heard so many of my friends or family saying, ‘I don’t want to go to Chinatown,” she said. “I knew it was going to be fun and exciting, but I was really moved.”
There has been renewed attention from cities, companies and younger Asian Americans from outside these historic Chinatowns. Wells Fargo partnered with the Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative on the “heroes” mural. Everyone wanted to “really address anti-Asian hate and to uplift Asian American voices,” said Jenny Leung, executive director of the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, which is part of the Collaborative. Youths voted on who to put on the mural.
“Frequently the way that Chinatown looks is imported as a tourist kind of attraction and fantasy for visitors to see,” Leung said. “It’s never really about celebrating the community’s perspective and voice.”
The idea for the “Neon” festival was briefly discussed pre-pandemic. But the events of the last two years lent urgency to it.
“We wanted to kind of push that deadline a little bit earlier in order to be able to address the 20, 30, 40, empty storefronts that are increasingly rising in the community,” said Leung, who characterizes Chinatown as a “museum without walls.”
Josh Chuck, a local filmmaker behind the documentary “Chinatown Rising,” has noticed younger generations dining or participating in events in Chinatowns. A friend who works in tech began last year picking up orders for friends who wanted to support Chinatown restaurants. Soon he was making spreadsheets to track 400 deliveries.
“Honestly, there’s no way I could have imagined something that would galvanize these people that I know. Even myself, like, I feel much more connected and committed,” Chuck said. “It’s a silver lining.”
In New York, the first of five summer night markets start next month in the city’s Chinatown. It will be the biggest event to date for Think!Chinatown. The 5-year-old nonprofit has done numerous projects like artists-in-residency programs and oral histories. But last year after a series of verbal and physical assaults against Asians, they partnered with Neighborhoods Now, a local pandemic relief initiative, on Chinatown Nights.
It was a small-scale gathering of less than 10 artist booths and food trucks in Forsyth Plaza park. Despite a “crazy” two-month prep window, there was a collective feeling of “we just need to be together,” said Yin Kong, Think!Chinatown co-founder and director. And there was a “tectonic shift” with philanthropy focusing on equity.
“It reprioritized these other organizations that traditionally would have funded other things to focus on how to support communities of color in a different way,” Kong said.
The expanded event next month will have 20 booths and sponsorships, and will be scheduled when most Chinatown restaurants are closed so owners can participate.
“The mechanisms that got us there would not have happened without the pandemic,” said Kong, who feels Think!Chinatown is now seen as more “legit” with better funding, full-time staff and the possibility of an office space instead of her dining table.
In Vancouver’s Chinatown, the pandemic only exacerbated ongoing issues of vandalism, graffiti and other crimes. But within the last year, the Canadian city managed to launch cultural projects planned before COVID-19.
Last month, the Chinatown Mural Project showed off a series of pastoral murals painted by a local artist on six roller shutters of a tea shop. In November, the interactive Chinatown Storytelling Centre with relics and recorded oral histories opened.
“We would have done this anyway (regardless of the pandemic),” said Carol Lee, chair of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, which oversees the Centre. “But you know, in some ways, it makes you feel like you have more purpose because it’s more necessary.”
Jordan Eng, president of the Vancouver Chinatown Business Improvement Association, agreed that there’s more collaboration and “a lot more youth interest than there was five, 10 years ago.”
There are fewer than 50 Chinatowns across the U.S. with some more active than others.
Many Chinatowns took shape in the 19th century as Chinese laborers arrived to mine for gold out West or work on the railroad. They lived there because of blatant discrimination or self-preservation. Their housing was single-room-occupancy units, or SROs, with communal kitchens and bathrooms, said Harvey Dong, a lecturer in ethnic studies and Asian American studies at University of California, Berkeley. Many older Chinese Americans and immigrants in Chinatown reside in these units still.
Another constant in Chinatowns: development—from the sales of no longer affordable SROs in San Francisco to a light rail expansion in Seattle to a proposed new jail in New York City. Chinatowns elsewhere have shrunk to a block or disappeared altogether because of gentrification. It’s a tricky juxtaposition for a city to tout Chinatowns to tourists yet offer few resources to its residents.
“So you have these huge festivals to bring in businesses. You have these parades and all this stuff. But definitely, it’s important that the needs of the community, especially the working class and the poor, are addressed,” Dong said.
Meanwhile, excited arts and culture advocates are moving forward to put their own stamp on Chinatown. Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative in San Francisco is designing Edge on the Square, a $26.5 million media and arts center set to open in 2025. In New York, Think!Chinatown plans to lease a space with a kitchen for art exhibitions and cooking classes. The hope is to keep engaging with Asian Americans inside and outside of Chinatown.
“What draws them to Chinatown is that cultural connection,” Kong said. “It’s something you can’t really put your finger on. … But it’s really the soul of Chinatown. And we need to keep protecting it and make sure it can grow.”
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Tang reported from Phoenix and is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ttangAP
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Adrian Alonzo says he got used to Uvalde schools being in lockdown, usually because of issues related to immigration, in this small town close to the southern border. But he realized that Tuesday's alert was different when he got a notice that school buses would not be running that day.
As he went to pick up his son, Aiden, from a school near Robb Elementary, he saw the heavy police presence and panicked.
"I can't explain the joy I had when I saw my son walk out of those doors, and I finally had him. But as a parent, I wanted to squeeze him right there, but I wanted to get him out because I didn't want him to see all that," Alonzo said during an interview outside his Uvalde home.
His son was safe, but he soon learned that his niece, Ellie Garcia, was still unaccounted for.
He called his sister-in-law Jennifer, Ellie's mother, and told her that he would check the nearby SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center, where officials were taking students to reunite with their families.
When he got there, it was already around 4 p.m. and almost empty.
"The school officials tell me that there's no more children here. They've all been picked up.
"'Do you have a list? Do you have a list of the students that were here?'" Alonzo remembered frantically asking.
"That school official, I could see it in her eyes and her eyes became glassy and teary, and she said, 'Sir, they'll make a statement soon.'"
"''But I'm missing my niece. She's not here,'" he recalled pleading.
"'They'll make a statement soon,'" he remembered her replying simply. He knew then that something was terribly wrong.
Alonzo took his son home and later saw on social media that Eva Mireles, Ellie's teacher, was dead.
"In my mind, I tried to stay optimistic, but the reality of it was sinking in at that time," he said. "It wasn't until my wife told me that they were taking DNA swabs from all the parents. ... Why else would they need DNA swabs?"
An hour later, his wife called to tell him that Ellie was among the murdered children at Robb Elementary's shooting massacre.
"By far the worst day of my life. And I'll never forget that day. I can replay those hours so vividly in my mind and it's just etched in my mind," Alonzo said.
Forgiveness - even for the gunman
Ellie Garcia and her uncle Adrian were very close. He, his wife and their son -- Aiden, Ellie's cousin -- picked Ellie up for church most Sundays. Alonzo describes her as a happy kid who loved her family and friends, her dog Rocco, TikTok dances and basketball.
She was excited for her 10th birthday coming up on June 4. She will now never reach those magical double digits. Her family will bury her two days later on June 6.
Ellie's uncle became understandably emotional explaining that cold reality.
"Those days will be here, and I just pray that God gives our family comfort and the strength to make it through that weekend," he said.
Alonzo said that he bonded with his niece over their faith, which is clearly carrying him through this unimaginable tragedy.
He even volunteered that he forgives the gunman who killed his niece, 18 other children, and 2 adults in cold blood.
"I forgive him. As powerful as that, I forgive him," Alonzo said.
When pressed on how he could get to the place where he forgives the shooter only days after the massacre and even before Ellie was buried, he cited Scripture.
"The Bible says in Ephesians 4 that we must forgive one another, just as God has forgiven. And I hold no hatred toward him," Alonzo said.
To be sure, he is very angry.
"I am filled with anger, but I feel no hatred towards him," he said calmly.
He is also angry at any law enforcement officials who may have made errors in waiting so long before going into his niece's classroom.
"She could have been saved. She might have been injured. We don't know if she was alive within those, what was it, 70 minutes, I think. We don't know if she was alive. I can only hope that she felt no pain and I hope it was quick and she did not suffer. Who knows? Maybe she wouldn't have been a survivor. But I feel within those minutes, hour, we would not have 19 children," he said, adding that he also forgives anyone in law enforcement who made any mistakes.
Preventing more mass shootings
Alonzo is a hunter and a gun owner. He says that won't change.
But he does not think assault weapons like the one the shooter bought legally in Texas should be allowed.
"Do I believe that our guns should be taken away from civilians? No, I'm against that, but I am for the ban of AR-15 assault rifles. No civilian should have that kind of rifle, only military and police. Those are weapons of war, and civilians do not need weapons of war," Alonzo said. "Collectively, I think a lot can be done, not only gun laws, but also in social media algorithms, something. Let's say the algorithm had caught those words and a notification would've been sent to authorities, 'Hey, this user is saying he's going to shoot the school.' They would've gotten into that real quick and possibly, maybe, then stopped it."
He hopes politicians can put their differences aside and find solutions, but like most Americans, he is skeptical.
For now, he is focused on his family - helping his son, Ellie's cousin, cope. He is helping Ellie's parents -- his sister-in-law and brother-in-law -- with errands and whatever else they need. And he is speaking out about his beautiful niece.
"We were thankful to have Ellie for the nine years of her life with us. We will never forget her," Alonzo said. "She will always be a part of this family, even in her death."
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are in Uvalde, Texas, trying to offer comfort to a city gripped by grief and anger after a school shooting.
The Bidens have paid their respects at a memorial to 19 students and two teachers slain during the shooting Tuesday at Robb Elementary School. After arriving at the school, the president stopped at a memorial of 21 white crosses — one for each of those killed. The first lady added a bouquet of white flowers to a pile in front of the school sign.
The Bidens also viewed individual altars erected in memory of each student. The first lady touched their photos as the couple moved along the row.
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Bibb County pools opening for summer
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)- Pools are officially open for the summer season on Memorial Day weekend.
The Booker T. Washington Center, the Delores A. Brooks Center, and the South Bibb Community Center will open their pools this weekend.
Though the number of open pools will be limited Robert Walker, Director of Parks and Recreation for Bibb County, says that having pools open makes a difference.
“We see a lot of kids that are looking for extra activities to do that would normally use the swimming pool… it gives them something to do outside of those amenities that we have,” said Walker.
Lifeguards are still needed to fully staff all pools.
Bibb County has raised the minimum wage for their lifeguards from $8 to $14.
The pools also serve as a great way to keep kids out of trouble.
“They’re in a safe environment and we have staff there to make sure those areas are safe so it definitely keeps kids off the streets and in a positive environment,” said Walker.
According to Walker, as lifeguard positions continue to fill the pools will work on a rotating schedule.
Admission for pools is one dollar per person per day.
To apply for a lifeguard job, visit maconbibb.us.
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Bibb County School District celebrates Superintendent Dr. Curtis Jones as he prepares to retire
"I just don't know what life would've been like without having Dr. Jones."
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— The end of a 7-year career is nearing for Bibb County School District Superintendent Dr. Curtis Jones.
It was a bitter-sweet moment as teachers, principals, and other school leaders celebrated him at a retirement ceremony.
In that ceremony on Friday, colleagues expressed what his contributions meant for Bibb County.
To the community, Dr. Jones may have been known as the Bibb County Schools Superintendent, but to school leaders, he’s known as a friend, a mentor, and a leader.
“What he has done for us is just provided structure. He’s given us a good foundation, and he’s helped make us be accountable for the things that we need to do to move our school system forward,” said Tanya Allen, Principal of Burdell-Hunt Magnet School for 15 years. In her position, she’s been under the leadership of several superintendents.
Allen says throughout Dr. Jones’ 7 years as Superintendent, he’s helped shape her into the educator she is today. That’s why Friday’s retirement ceremony meant so much more. “These have been the best years of my professional career. I’ve been able to really be a leader, to get professional learning, to be really focused and intentional on helping students be the best that they can be. I just don’t know what life would’ve been like without having Dr. Jones.”
Throughout the ceremony, educators, state, and county leaders came together to offer kind words and present gifts to Dr. Jones.
School Board Member Daryl Morton says Dr. Jones has done so much for him and everyone in the school district.
“I think it shows how much he has been willing to give of himself to other people. The best leaders sort of break off pieces of who they are and give it to you, and that helps you be a better person.” Morton says Dr. Jones has taught him to be a better board member and most importantly a better listener. “He empowered everybody in the school system to give what they could to make the school system better. He has modeled that every single day and so I will take that with me moving forward.”
Dr. Jones took to the podium to address school leaders in his last message to them.
“You guys are special. You’re now at a transition point where things will change and move to a new administration, but there are some things that won’t change. It’s who you are now, what you’ve learned, and the places where you’ll now go.”
Dr. Jones will retire at the end of June and take on a new role in education with the Georgia School Superintendents Association.
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Georgia State Patrol offers reminders for holiday weekend
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Georgia State Patrol says it is all hands on deck this weekend to ensure drivers are being safe.
AAA is expecting more than 1.2 million Georgians will travel this holiday weekend. 1.1 million of the expected travelers are planning to drive to their destinations.
GSP is reminding drivers to work extra time into their travel plans to account for traffic, always wear a seatbelt, and put the phone down while driving.
“The cell phone cannot touch any part of your body,” said Sergeant Michael Burns, public information officer with GSP. “You can’t lay it on your leg while you’re driving or hold it in your hand. Even if you’re looking at directions. It cannot touch any part of your body. So put the phone down when you’re driving so you’re not distracted.”
AAA is also offering its tow to go service this weekend, it starts tonight at 6 and goes until 6 A.M. Tuesday morning. GSP also says if you don’t have a designated driver this weekend, use a ride sharing app, call a cab or just stay at a friend’s house.
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Levi’s Call issued for Laurens County 2-year old
(41NBC/WMGT)- An Amber Alert has been issued for 2-year-old Jacob Coney.
According to the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office, Tyler Coney, drove to a location in Laurens County, Georgia and took his 2-year-old son from the child’s grandmother.
Authorities believe Tyler forced the grandmother into letting him take the child. Tyler does not have any parental rights to the child and he left driving a 2000 Dodge Durango.
According to a news release from the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office, the Durango is either gray or a tannish brown.
2-year-old Jacob Coney was last seen wearing a white shirt with Nike across the front and navy-colored shorts with a white stripe down the side. Jacob has short black hair.
31-year-old Tyler Coney is 5’07” tall, 157lbs, with black hair, and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a hat, jogging pants, and possibly a striped shirt.
Authorities say they may be in the Warner Robins area.
If you have any information regarding this incident or know the whereabouts of either subject, please contact 911.
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A Levi’s Call (GA’s #AMBERAlert) has been issued for 2 y/o Jacob Coney on behalf of Laurens County Sheriff’s Office.
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Levi’s Call (GA’s #AMBERAlert) issued for 2 y/o Jacob Coney on behalf of Laurens County S.O.
The child is believed to be in a brown/tan Dodge Durango, tag RRP0451 & last seen on Paul Kennedy Rd w/ suspect Tyler Coney.
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“Look again” to avoid leaving children in hot cars
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— As the weather heats up the Georgia Department Of Early Care and Learning is reminding families and caregivers of the dangers of leaving a child in a hot car.
The agency wants people to “look again” before leaving their car because DECAL says it could save a child’s life.
“When you’ve checked your vehicle to make sure everyone has arrived safely and is out of the vehicle. Look again,” said Amy Jacobs, DECAL Commissioner. “Be sure to close and lock the doors. Because cars, trucks, and vans are like playgrounds to children.”
DECAL says last year 23 children died from vehicular heatstroke nationally. None was in Georgia.
Although earlier this month, a man in Snellville, Georgia was charged with second-degree murder after he left his eight-month-old daughter in a hot car outside a police station.
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May Days on the Midway ends Monday
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- The Georgia National Fairgrounds is holding its second annual May Days on the Midway.
The carnival event started in 2021 as a way for vendors and carnivals to bounce back from pandemic-related closures.
It includes rides, snacks, games, and live concerts along the Midway in Perry.
Maggie Lane, Director of Marketing for the Georgia National Fairgrounds, says the festival comes at a perfect time to kick summer off. “It’s a way to get everyone excited about all the fun and activities of what’s to come in the summertime,” said Lane.
May Days wrap up on Memorial Day.
On Memorial Day, any active or retired military can receive free entry into the park with a valid military ID.
Lane also suggests bringing chairs if you would like to enjoy the concerts.
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Warner Robins Independence Day Celebration Concert line-up announced
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT)— The City of Warner Robins is gearing up for it’s annual ‘Independence Day Celebration.’
On Friday, the city announced the headlining acts for the summer event.
They are the Southern Rock band, ‘Atlanta Rhythm Section,’ and soul band ‘Con-Funk-Shun.’
A local pop-rock band, known as ‘Company of Crows’, will also be taking the stage.
Mayor LaRhonda Patrick says there are several genres of music to enjoy this year.
The lead vocalist for ‘Company of Crows’, Darin Curtis says he’s excited to perform this year.
“If you’ve been, it’s never been it’s not your typical lawn concert it’s a big production, big stage, so expect a really great night.”
The Independence Day Celebration is happening on Saturday, July 2nd at McConnell-Talbert Stadium in Warner Robins.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Starbucks has until later this week to file any objections with the National Labor Relations Board after workers at a shop in Birmingham became the first of the company’s locations in Alabama to vote to organize.
Baristas and other employees at a downtown store voted 27-1 to organize in a tally announced Thursday, news outlets reported. Documents show they would be represented by Workers United if the vote stands.
Company officials didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on whether Starbucks would challenge the vote — the latest in a series of wins for labor at Starbucks stores across the nation.
The employees had the backing of Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, who publicly expressed his solidarity with the workers. Employees who supported the union complained about a lack of respect from management.
Alex Buford, a Starbucks employee for three years who transferred to the store six months ago, also cited racial discrimination as a problem.
“There’s a lot of racial issues that we’ve been dealing with, managers purposely cutting our hours, attacking us for no reason,” she told al.com. “A lot of us have complained and the managers, they’re just not hearing us out, or they’re not really listening to us, or they say they’re listening but they’re not really listening.”
A Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, became the first in the United States to unionize late last year. Based in Seattle, the company has more than 34,000 stores worldwide.
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Such an experience seems a million miles away for us mere mortals, but now you could realistically be 'the other half' for a week.
We jumped at the chance to board a chartered cruise around some of the beautiful Dalmatian coast islands on the amazing superyacht Freedom, courtesy of Goolets, one of the leading companies for luxury crewed charter yachts in Croatia.
The company started some 17 years ago, fast carving out a niche as providers of luxury wooden motor sailers known as Gulets, but soon recognised the growing trends for deluxe yachting, especially around Croatia, and so rode this fast-developing crest of a wave, tweaking their name to be arguably the foremost luxury yachting company in the region.
So let's look at what customers can expect during a week on board Freedom. This 50m superyacht received a million-euro revamp during lockdown, and saw its 20 cabins reduced to just 11 to incorporate even more for a maximum of 24 customers. As such, it is a one-of-a-kind boat in the world with regard to its size, make-up, build and level of luxury according to Goolets.
As you wander around the yacht's customer-accessible four decks you are assailed with gleaming stainless steel, bespoke deck and interior furniture and high-end fixtures and fittings at every corner. The opulent and spacious en-suite cabins are to die for with every detail considered and stylishly finished off, with air con, flatscreen TV and Bluetooth ceiling speaker system to connect your phone's music to.
There's a cinema/console games room, sauna, gym, massage area, swimming pool and deck spa pool jacuzzi, with built-in blue night lights and the omnipresent Bluetooth speakers to listen to your favourite Spotify tracks as you relax in the bubbles with a cocktail.
But the jewel in the crown is the crew itself. We were placed in the capable hands of Captain Ivan and his deck-hand crew of three, and our every - and I mean every - need was taken care of by our chief hostess Martina, her assistant Dina and cocktail supremo head barman Zoran, all of whose smiles, flawless efficiency and professionalism were present from start to finish. Housekeeping staff and a masseuse were also on board.
Immaculately ornate table settings were completely justified to herald the amazing international dishes using locally-sourced fresh produce prepared by the talented head and assistant chefs, complimented by some robust red, delicious white and fragrant dessert Croatian wines.
So now to the country itself. We enjoyed a smooth, relaxing flight from Manchester to Split courtesy of Jet2.com airways, and the amazing 360-degree vista of the Dalmatian mountains greeting us as we stepped onto the Tarmac was a fitting beginning to what was an unforgettable experience.
Never having been to Croatia before I found this country to be a hidden gem, possibly the cleanest country I have travelled to. The landscape is peppered with verdant greenery only broken up by gorgeous Roman and Venetian architecture and traditional Croatian cream-walled and red-tiled buildings, all bathed in 30 degree temperatures and surrounded by azure skies and turquoise clear waters, making every stop-off a picturesque paradise.
Freedom was moored in Split harbour so we were first able to take in the rich history of this important walled city, the former palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian which is not just still standing but also being lived in, despite its being built at end of the 3rd century. For me the city has one of the prettiest promenades of bars and restaurants by the harbour I have seen, where Croatians and visitors alike join to make this a buzzing place to visit, especially in the evening.
Our trip then saw us cruise to some beautiful spots and islands, including the island of Brac and its beautiful ever-changing beach the Golden Horn, the town of Jelsa on Hvar, famous for its vineyards and wines, and the highlight for me being the capital city of Hvar, a climb to the fortress on the hill affording some amazing views and photo opportunities. We enjoyed stop-offs in secluded and tranquil bays to enjoy the ship's water toys, including jet skis, SeaBobs, paddleboards, electric hydrofoil and a waterslide. Some of these are extras - but more of that later.
To give you an idea of prices, 100 Croatian Kuna at the time of writing was just over £11 (nine Kuna to the pound), and so a meal at an inexpensive restaurant in Split would be between 50 and 80 Kuna, a three-course meal for two at a mid-range restaurant around 250-300kn, a domestic half-litre (pint) of beer around 18kn and a Coke 15kn in Split bars, but expect to pay a little more on the island stops.
So back to my earlier claim of living like the other half - still not convinced? Well, to charter something similar to Freedom in Italy or France for a week would be in the region of 500 to 600,000 euros (£425k to £510k) which would be too much for many of us, but Goolets can give you the same luxury level on board Freedom around Croatia for a fifth of that price. You heard me right, a FIFTH.
So your group of 24, be it a wedding party, extended family cruise, group of friends, corporate trip, could all chip in for a starting and ballpark charter price (boat, crew, four hours of cruising, linen, wifi) of 100,000 euros (£85k at the time of writing).
So that's roughly £3500 per person, a similar price to going on a regular high-end cruise, for - and let me remind you again - a SUPERYACHT! And this travels to, unlike a regular cruise ship, wherever YOU want, with the people YOU know, and with everything YOU want to do all pre-arranged for you.
This is because also included in the price is a Goolets concierge assistant who will guide you through your bespoke package of food and beverages and every other element of your trip from start to finish so that all you do is turn up, sit back and leave yourself in Goolets' professional hands to enjoy Freedom and Croatia - two unbelievable and unforgettable jewels in the Adriatic.
To see what Goolets can offer you aboard Freedom, and indeed other yacht charters in Croatia and other parts of the world from just 13,500 euros (£11.5k) a week, visit www.goolets.net/yacht-rentals/freedom-croatia
Flights
Leading leisure airline Jet2.com offers friendly low fares, great flight times, and a generous 22kg baggage allowance to Split, Croatia from Manchester Airport. Flights start from £49 one way including taxes. For more information, please visit www.jet2.com or call 0800 408 5599.
Parking and Hotel Stay
With our flight leaving early in the morning we got our holiday off to a great start with a night's stay and parking for the duration at the Clayton Hotel, Manchester Airport, arranged by Holiday Extras, the market leaders in UK airport parking, hotels, lounges, and transfers. Last year customers who pre-booked their parking with Holiday Extras saved an average of £100 each vs the price they'd have paid on the day.
Booking an Airport Hotel with Parking ensures that you can enjoy more holiday without the hassle. Plus, always flexible and easy to amend, with Flextras, if you need to cancel you can - without charge.
One night’s accommodation at the Clayton with seven nights’ secured parking is available from £153. To book, visit HolidayExtras.com or call 0800 316 5678. Price searched on 19 May 2022 for arrival on 23 August 2022.
Escape Lounge
Manchester Airport’s Escape Lounge is available in all three terminals and offers passengers to chance to put their feet up, catch up on last-minute business, or simply enjoy some peace and quiet as they enjoy the complimentary food and drink on offer. The lounge caters to passengers of all ages and offers fast unlimited WiFi, flight information boards, bar service for complimentary alcoholic and soft drinks, along with buffet service for seasonal meals and snacks.
An enhanced and rigorous cleaning regime remains in place to ensure the Escape Lounge offers a Covid-safe environment. Prices start from £23 when booked in advance. For more information or to book, visit: www.manchesterairport.co.uk/at-the-airport/escape-lounges
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BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks rose Monday after Wall Street rebounded from a seven-week string of declines and China eased anti-virus curbs on business activity in Shanghai and Beijing.
Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced. Oil rose more than $1 per barrel to stay above $110.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 index finished Friday up 6.6% for its biggest weekly gain in 18 months after surging inflation declined in April. U.S. markets will be closed Monday for a holiday.
“Markets rallied into the long weekend, providing a positive tone at the start of this week,” said ING economists in a report.
The Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.6% to 3,148.16 after the Chinese government allowed more factories and shops in Beijing and Shanghai to reopen. Shanghai, the country’s commercial capital, announced tax breaks and subsidies to help businesses recover from a two-month shutdown.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo surged 2% to 27,309.35 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong gained 2% to 21,122.91. The Kospi in Seoul advanced 1.2% to 2,669.09.
Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 was 0.9% higher at 7,248.40. New Zealand and Singapore gained while Jakarta retreated.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 2.5% on Friday to 4,158.24, propelled by gains for tech companies.
Investors were relieved after Commerce Department data showed U.S. inflation, which has prompted the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, decelerated to 6.3% over a year earlier in April, its first decline in 17 months.
Markets are worried about whether the Fed can control inflation that is running at a four-decade high without tipping the biggest global economy into recession.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.8% to 33,212.96. The Nasdaq, dominated by tech stocks, gained 3.3% to 12,131.13.
The U.S. market has been in a slump for the past two months over fears about interest rate hikes that might slow economic activity, and the impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine and a Chinese economic slowdown.
Crude oil prices are up nearly 60% this year due to fears about disruptions in supplies from Russia, the second-biggest global exporter. Wheat prices are up about 50% and corn prices are up 30%.
Disruptions in manufacturing and trade due to China’s shutdown of Shanghai and other industrial cities to fight virus outbreaks also have added to inflation pressures.
More factories, shops and other businesses are allowed to reopen this week in Shanghai and in the Chinese capital, Beijing, after authorities declared outbreaks under control. The Shanghai city government promised rent and tax cuts, faster approvals for construction projects and more subsidies for electric car purchases.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.15 to $116.22 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the price basis for international oils, advanced $1.16 to $116.72 per barrel in London.
The dollar declined to 126.98 yen from Friday’s 127.10 yen. The euro rose to $1.0744 from $1.0733.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that next month’s summit in Madrid will be a “historic” opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Speaking at a gala in Madrid to mark Spain’s 40th year as a NATO member, Stoltenberg said he looked forward to welcoming Sweden and Finland at the summit hosted by Spain’s capital on June 29-30.
“At the Madrid summit, we will chart the way ahead for the next decade,” Stoltenberg said. “We will also be joined by Finland and Sweden, who have just made historic applications to join our alliance. The Madrid summit is an important opportunity to reaffirm our NATO values.”
But the leader of the 30-member alliance didn’t address Turkey’s reluctance to opening the doors to Sweden and Finland. Turkey, which commands the second-largest military in NATO behind the United States, has cited the alleged support by the Nordic countries for Kurdish militants that Turkey considers terrorists as reason to reject their applications. Unanimous support is needed to add new NATO members.
On Sunday, when Stoltenberg held a private session with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to prepare the summit, he expressed his confidence that Turkey can be convinced to drop its rejection of the Scandinavian pair.
“Turkey, an important ally, has expressed its concerns, and we have to do what we always do because our decisions are reached by consensus,” he told Spanish state broadcaster TVE.
Sánchez and Spanish King Felipe VI presided over Monday’s celebration at Madrid’s Royal Theater, which was attended by Stoltenberg and four former NATO secretary-generals and three former Spanish prime ministers.
Next month’s summit will redefine NATO’s strategic priorities for the next decade, which Stoltenberg said include facing Chinese ambitions, the rise of anti-democratic states, climate change and instability in Africa, a top priority for Spain on Europe’s southern flank. But its immediate focus will be on how to continue supporting Ukraine and deter any further aggression by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Spain became the 16th member of NATO on May 30, 1982. Its entrance marked a milestone of Spain’s return in the international political order following the end of Gen. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship with his death in 1975. The country’s adhesion to NATO came just a year after its fledgling democracy survived a failed military coup. Spain would later join the European Union in 1986.
A 1997 NATO summit hosted by Spain featured the invitation to former Soviet-bloc members Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic to join the alliance that they had once stood against.
“Next month Madrid will host another historic summit,” Stoltenberg said. “This time however the context is very different, not a fresh burst of freedom but a cold blast of conflict.”
Spain is aiding Ukraine with humanitarian aid and military equipment. Its military is deployed on NATO missions in Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania and Iraq, in addition to naval operations.
“Today our security is threatened by Putin’s regime and therefore our support for Ukraine is absolute,” prime minister Sánchez said. “Putin has clearly not achieved his goals because we allies have showed that our support is unbreakable.”
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Follow all AP stories relating to the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine.
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PARIS (AP) — The French news broadcaster BFM TV said a 32-year-old French journalist was killed Monday in eastern Ukraine, fatally hit by shell shrapnel while covering a Ukrainian evacuation operation.
BFM TV said its journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was killed as he was “covering a humanitarian operation in an armored vehicle” near Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the Donbas region that is being hotly contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces. He had worked for six years for the French television channel.
"La rédaction de BFMTV et le groupe Altice média ont l'immense douleur de vous annoncer la disparition de l'un des nôtres. Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, journaliste reporter d'images, a été tué ce lundi sur la route de Lyssytchansk dans la région de Severodonetsk, en Ukraine," a post on the network's website states.
To read the article (in French), click here.
Here's the network's tweet about Leclerc-Imhoff:
BFMTV a l'immense douleur d'annoncer la disparition de Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, journaliste reporter d’images, tué en Ukraine https://t.co/7aTxYtYCVV pic.twitter.com/6Yj3yom2C8
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) May 30, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Leclerc-Imhoff on Twitter.
He “was in Ukraine to show the reality of the war. Aboard a humanitarian bus, alongside civilians forced to flee to escape Russian bombs, he was fatally shot,” Macron tweeted.
Macron expressed condolences to his family, relatives and colleagues and spoke of “France’s unconditional support” to “those who carry out the difficult mission of informing in theaters of operations.”
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called the journalist’s death “deeply shocking.”
“France demands that a transparent inquiry be launched as soon as possible to shed full light on the circumstances of this tragedy,” she added.
Earlier Monday, the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, announced Leclerc-Imhoff’s death in a Telegram post, saying that Russian forces fired on an armored vehicle that was traveling to pick up people for evacuation.
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While Trooping the Colour has been a major royal event for over 260 years (taking place annually to mark the monarch’s ‘official’ birthday), this week’s iteration is set to be a particularly momentous one. Taking place on Thursday 2 June, kicking off the Platinum Jubilee bank holiday celebrations, the Duke of Cambridge is set to have a key role in the special tribute to his grandmother.
The Duke of Cambridge follows in the Queen’s footsteps with starring role in Trooping the Colour
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Posts shared by the official Royal Family social media accounts over the weekend offered a peek at final rehearsals for the event, including images of Prince William on horseback in full military regalia. As Colonel of the Irish Guards, the duke took the salute at the Colonel’s Review (the name for the last rehearsal before Trooping the Colour), and will also be riding in the real parade this week.
The royal couple were married for almost 74 years
During Trooping the Colour, the regimental flag (or ‘colour’) is trooped by the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. The Guards are joined by over 1,200 officers and soldiers from the Household Division, 240 horses, and hundreds of army musicians in a grand display on Horse Guards Parade, during which a Royal Gun Salute is fired.
‘Like many families, my parents wanted to keep a record of our precious moments together,’ said the monarch
The Queen is Colonel in Chief of the Guards (while William’s title is Colonel of the Regiment), and rode in the parade herself for many years. Between 1969 and 1986, she chose to ride the same horse every year, Burmese, a black mare that was gifted to her by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
When her beloved horse retired after the 1986 edition, the Queen also withdrew from such an active role in Trooping the Colour, taking part in the parade in a carriage from then on. The monarch’s affection for Burmese has recently been immortalised in the form of a new statue of the Queen riding her favourite horse, which was unveiled at Sandhurst last week.
The sculpture by artist Caroline Wallace depicts the monarch riding her favourite horse, Burmese, during Trooping the Colour
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Man drowns in Ocmulgee River in Wilcox County
The coroner says the man went into the river just below the Statham Shoals Boat Landing.
ABBEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man is dead following a drowning in Wilcox County Sunday evening.
According to Wilcox County Coroner Janice Brown, a 26-year-old man was swimming with friends in the Ocmulgee River, around 7:15pm. Brown says the man climbed a tree, and he either jumped or fell into the river just below the Statham Shoals Boat Landing.
Brown says the man, who is a day laborer from South Africa, never resurfaced from the water.
Brown is working to contact family before releasing the victim’s identity.
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a death that occurred on Greter Street, in an overgrown field, between Broadway and Antioch Heights. The Macon-Bibb 911 Center received the call Saturday around 7:26p.m.
It was reported that 46-year-old Abraham Lincoln Simmons , went missing on Thursday, May 26, 2022. He was last seen by family members as he was headed out to pay a vehicle payment. The family reported Simmons missing on Friday, May 27, 2022.
Saturday evening, a family member was walking down Greter Street and found Simmons. He was found in a clearing, with a single gunshot wound, near an over grown field. The field is located directly across from where a family member resides.
The manner of death is considered undetermined at this time and will require further investigation. According to Deputy Coroner Miley, Simmons will be taken to the G.B.I. Crime Lab, so that an autopsy can be performed.
Anyone with information in reference to this incident is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Around 2pm Saturday at the Dollar General, located at 1444 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Two masked males entered the store, one of them with a gun. The two males demanded money from the cash registers. Once the males received an undisclosed amount of cash, they fled the store on foot, in an unknown direction. No one was injured during this incident.
Both were wearing dark colored hooded sweatshirts, face coverings, and gloves.
This incident is under investigation. Anyone with information in reference to this incident is urged to contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.
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Morning Business Report: Retail thefts up roughly 30 percent since pandemic began
Retail thefts are up in both total number and dollar amount, roughly 30 percent since the pandemic began. This upswing has hurt both big retailers and mom and pop stores.
Walgreens head also said it was absorbing a 52 percent increase in shrink due to lost inventory.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce also sent a letter to congress urging the passage of the inform act, legislation making it harder to resell stolen goods online.
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Scattered storms return for Memorial Day
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Scattered storms will stick around Middle Georgia the rest of the evening.
Tonight
Scattered storms began to fire up for Middle Georgia around 1:00 this afternoon, making their way in from the southeast. These will slowly continue to push northwest until they run out of steam as the sun sets. Clouds that filled in this afternoon and evening should clear for the most part overnight, but some will still be hanging around by tomorrow morning. A couple of showers may persist overnight as well, but most of the rain activity will set with the sun. Overnight winds will come in at around 5 mph from the southeast, calming from 10+ mph during the evening hours. Lows will be in the mid to upper 60s around the region.
Tomorrow
Our skies will be mostly clear to begin the day. We will see scattered cloud fields develop in the afternoon, but there should not be as many as today. Storm chances will also be a good deal lower, only one or two isolated small storms are likely tomorrow afternoon/evening. The wind will not do much to cool highs in the lower 90s as it comes in from the east-southeast around 5 mph. Gusts may reach upwards of 15 mph.
Overnight the afternoon clouds will quickly clear, bringing on clear skies to head into Wednesday morning. Overnight winds will blow from the south-southeast at around 5 mph. Lows will be in the mid to upper 60s.
The Rest of the Week
The pattern of all sun and then mostly sun with scattered clouds and isolated storms in the afternoon will continue through Thursday. The lowest chance for rain at this point looks to be Wednesday June 1st. Highs will remain in the low to mid 90s around the region with some upper 90s being possible come Wednesday or Thursday. Winds will shift towards the northwest come Wednesday and blow from that general direction at speeds below 10 mph the rest of the work week. Overnight lows will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s through that same timeframe.
Over the weekend is where things could get interesting, but there is nothing to be concerned with at this point. The European Model is forecasting for some sort of tropical system to develop in the gulf and move across north Florida come Saturday night. It is then forecasting it to intensify off of the Atlantic coast of GA once it leaves Florida come Sunday afternoon. Given the current forecast if it were to pan out we would see a good bit of cloud cover, some strong breezes, and some light rain. The GFS sees something as well, but it is further south in the Caribbean and should not affect the Peach State.
The other models are seeing a weekend with partly cloudy skies and an increased chance for pop-up thunderstorms in the afternoon as highs drop back into the upper 80s. Lows would stay in the upper 60s, and the wind will remain variable between each day with speeds that stay below 10 mph.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Two dead in block party shooting in Washington County
SANDERSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Two people are dead following a shooting at an ’80’s vs 90’s Freak Nik” block party in Washington County.
According to Sheriff Joel Cochran, deputies responded to a shooting at the Larry Mitchell Ball Park on Suburban Drive around 9:30pm Sunday.
Deputies found 17-year-old William Lowery of Louisville and 30-year-old Christopher Dunn of Wrightsville shot. Both victims were sent to the emergency room and later died from their injuries.
The GBI and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the incident. Anyone with information concerning the shooting incident is urged to call the WCSO at 478-552-0911 or contact the GBI at 478-374-6988.
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NIGERIANS must be quite relieved that following the expiration of the two-week warning strike embarked upon to force the Federal Government to accede to its demands, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), last weekend, directed its members to resume work on Monday this week. ASUP had, on May 16, begun a two-week warning strike following the resolution of its emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on May 11. The decision, it told Nigerians, resulted from the Federal Government’s refusal to fulfill some aspects of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) signed in 2021. The issues in contention include the alleged release of a contentious template for the appointment of principal officers by the Federal Ministry of Education, the non-release of the approved N15bn revitalisation fund for the sector, the release of arrears of CONTISS 15 migration for the lower cadre, the release of the scheme of service and conditions of service, and the continued delay in the appointment of substantive rectors for federal polytechnics in Adamawa, Kwara and Kaduna states.
Apparently jolted by the union’s resolve, the Federal Government began paying the arrears of the new minimum wage in the affected federal polytechnics. In addition, it approved and released regulatory instruments for the accreditation of institutions, management and programmes. Indeed, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Abdullahi Yalwa, the union explained that the government had met four of its demands so far. It explained that the decision to resume work was to give the government time to meet the remaining five demands. Of course, the senior academic union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), is yet to call off the strike it began on February 14, 2022; nor have the other unions currently on strike, namely the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions.
ASUU’s demands include the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for lecturers and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) payment platform. The prolonged strike has caused considerable consternation in the polity and, as a matter of fact, the students of the affected universities have become quite restive, threatening to paralyse activities in the country’s airports and highways. They have in fact been making good their threat across the country. President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Sunday Asefon, recently led university students in Ekiti State to protest the continuous closure of public universities in the state over the industrial action embarked upon by ASUU. If anything, the fact that students are at home when they should be in school is unfortunate. It is also ominous. This is because the crisis will feed insecurity and compound the problems that the country is already battling with. It is a crying shame that the government has created a situation where virtually all unions in the tertiary education system are on strike. It should not allow the situation to degenerate further.
In this connection, it is good to know that discussions are ongoing between the government and the unions. The Federal Government had, on March 7, inaugurated a seven-man committee headed by the Pro-Chancellor of the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Professor Nimi Briggs, to negotiate with the unions. The unions should approach the talks with understanding and a sense of compromise, knowing that they may not actualise all of their demands in one fell swoop. On the other hand, the government, which seems to be bogged down by the ongoing primaries of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), must realise that it has been putting the education sector in jeopardy with its refusal to strike a workable deal with the aggrieved unions. If virtually all the unions in the tertiary education sector are on strike, it is a pointer to the fact that fundamental issues are at stake and the government has not done its job.
We urge the unions and the government to consider the plight of students and their parents who have been worst hit by the ongoing crisis and come to an agreement in time. Already, the students have suffered for too long due to no fault of theirs. It is unconscionable to torment them further.
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I almost scuttled PDP presidential primary —Wike
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has revealed how he almost scuttled the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary as he called on his supporters to remain calm.
According to Channels TV report, the governor disclosed this on Monday at a reception in his honour at the Government House in Port Harcourt following his return from the party’s presidential primary in Abuja.
Wike said he was tempted to obstruct the process when an aspirant who had spoken previously was allowed to return to the podium to pronounce his withdrawal, in contravention of the guidelines of the election.
He said, “I have never seen how people can violate procedures and guidelines. Somebody has spoken, it is at that point he was speaking that he would have said I am withdrawing. You don’t call him back.
“I just said, ‘Look, this our party must not be destroyed.”
He, however, called on his supporters to remain calm, describing his loss at the PDP presidential primary as the will of God.
“It is God’s will, let us not bother ourselves so much,” Wike said, accusing governors of the southern region of betrayal.
“Shame to those who will sell out their own. I have never seen a thing like that.
“No wonder we cannot move on with development. Look at, a region ganged up. Then, your own region cannot gang up.
“You became a tool to be used against the interest of your people and you think you have won. You have lost,” Wike argued.
Wike further noted that though he did not clinch the PDP presidential ticket, he believes, just like his supporters, that his performance has raised the political profile of Rivers State and other minority groups in Nigeria.
“In the political history of this country, you can count on us. We are not pushovers,” the former minister said.
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1 dead, 1 hospitalized following Thomaston Road crash
One person is dead and another is in the hospital in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash Monday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – One person is dead and another is in the hospital in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash Monday.
A Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release says the crash, which was called in at 4:46 p.m., happened in the 7100 block of Thomaston Road.
Deputies say a truck’s tire blew out, and the driver lost control. The truck went off the road, rolled and went down a steep embankment. The driver was taken to Atrium Health Navicent by ambulance.
A passenger was pronounced dead at the scene.
The occupants’ identities haven’t been released pending notification of next of kin.
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41NBC hosting 10th annual Memorial Day Blood Drive on May 31
41NBC is hosting the 10th Annual Memorial Day Blood Drive with the Red Cross on Tuesday, May 31.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — 41NBC is hosting the 10th Annual Memorial Day Blood Drive with the Red Cross on Tuesday, May 31.
The summer months usually see a drop in donations, and donations are especially critical since the blood supply has not fully recovered from the pandemic.
Hospitals also tend to see an increase in trauma cases in the summer months.
According to the Red Cross of Georgia, only 3% of the U.S. population gives blood, so every donation counts.
“There are patients in the hospital who may be suffering from an accident,” Regional Communication Manager for Red Cross of Georgia Jerrica Williams said. “They may be experiencing a difficult pregnancy, sickle cell disease, cancer patients. The need for blood does not end.”
If you can’t donate blood, you can visit the Red Cross website to find information on how to volunteer.
The times for the 41NBC Blood Drive are as follows:
- 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
- Sardis-Heard Funerals & Cremation Center, 6125 Houston Rd., Macon
- Hart’s Mortuary, 307 Pecan Ln., Gray
- Central Georgia Technical College | Health Sciences Building, Room H107, 54 Hwy 22 W, Milledgeville
- Stubbs Park,130 Park Place, Dublin
- 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Pruitt Health Hospice, 6060 Lakeside Commons Dr., Macon
You can use the Blood Donor App or visit the Red Cross website for more information or to make an appointment. You can also call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Be sure to use sponsor code 41NBC.
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Bibb deputies investigating Monday night hit-and-run, pedestrian in critical condition
A pedestrian is in critical condition at the hospital after being struck by a vehicle Monday night.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A pedestrian is in critical condition at the hospital after being struck by a vehicle Monday night.
It happened near the intersection of Pio Nono Avenue and Carroll Street, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release, which says the incident was called in to the Macon-Bibb 911 Center at 9:17.
Deputies responded and found a female victim.
“There is no information available at this time in reference to the vehicle that struck the female,” the release said. “Additional information will be released as soon as it becomes available.”
The victim, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Atrium Health Navicent by ambulance.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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Doctors offer tips for protecting yourself from the sun
According to Dr. Paul Dale, getting just three sunburns in your lifetime significantly raises your risk of getting skin cancer.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Summer might not start for a few more weeks, but it already feels like summer here in Middle Georgia.
As the Beatles song says, “Here Comes the Sun!”
Dr. Paul Dale, the Medical Director for the Peyton Anderson Cancer Center, says you need to think of protecting yourself from the sun before you walk out the door.
“Most people, by the time they get outside, they haven’t put on the sun tan lotion,” he said. “They set everything up and they put it on, so they’ve been out there for 30 minutes, so think before you go outside. Put on at least a 30 SPF.”
Dr. David Kent, a dermatologist at Skincare Physicians of Georgia, says just putting on sunscreen once isn’t enough. You should be reapplying every two hours at least.
“Unless you’re getting in and out of the water, then the recommendation is every hour,” Dr. Kent said. “The amount of sunscreen you should put on to cover your whole body is one ounce, so that’s literally what it takes to fill a shot glass.”
Many people were taking advantage of the beautiful weather at Sandy Beach Park for Memorial Day, including Andrea Ashley and her family.
“We came down here with the family to enjoy the sun, some food, catch some waves maybe, and probably get on the jet ski,” she said.
Her family picked out a spot under the pavilion so they could take breaks from the sun.
“Well we brought food, and we wanted to enjoy the sun but not be too hot,” she said.
Dr. Kent says a sunburn is actually an injury that manifests in inflammation of the skin. If someone feels sick after getting a sunburn, there are ways to treat it, but he says most importantly, don’t go out in the sun again until it’s healed.
“You can actually take a nonsteroidal like Motrin or Advil, and that can be good,” he said. “And of course cool compresses and low strength topical steroids, aloe.”
Dr. Dale says people with fair skin aren’t the only ones who can get sunburn and that it’s a myth that people with darker skin can’t experience a sunburn.
“Even people with darker skin should be considerate of the sun and putting on sunscreen,” he said. “Just because you have dark skin doesn’t mean you can’t get burnt.”
According to Dr. Dale, getting just three sunburns in your lifetime significantly raises your risk of getting skin cancer, so be sure to apply sunscreen as much as possible this summer and throughout the year.
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Driver injured in rollover crash at Taco Bell in Macon
The single-vehicle crash happened at the Taco Bell on Bloomfield Road.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A driver is in critical condition following a fiery, rollover crash in Macon.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, a 911 call came in around 5:00 Monday evening about a single-vehicle crash at the Taco Bell on Bloomfield Road.
A BSO news release says, a vehicle overturned and collided with the outside patio area of Taco Bell. The vehicle then caught fire with the driver trapped inside the vehicle. Deputies say the driver was removed and transported to the Atrium Health Navicent by ambulance.
The driver will go to the Augusta Burn Center to be treated for burns.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Traffic Investigators are investigating what led up to the crash and working to identify the driver.
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Dublin VA honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day
The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center honored fallen soldiers during a Memorial Day service Monday.
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center honored fallen soldiers during a Memorial Day service Monday.
Gus Allbritton, a veteran who served two years in the military and received three Purple Hearts for his bravery in the Vietnam War, was among those in attendance.
Allbritton has been volunteering at the Dublin VA for more than 30 years. He said he helps veterans get the help they need.
“A lot of veterans don’t think that the VA can help them, but the VA can help them, and it’s other veterans like myself that can encourage and come in and take a chance,” he said.
The director of the Carl Vinson VA says it’s important to remember the sacrifices that were made.
“I would just encourage folks that while you’re enjoying your family and barbecues and things of that sort, that you take a moment to remember why we have these freedoms,” Dublin VA Director Manuel Davila said.
If you would like to volunteer at the Carl Vinson VA, visit www.va.gov.
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Memorial Day ceremony held at Historic Linwood Cemetery
Communities across Georgia are remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
MACON, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — Communities across Georgia are remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
In Macon, a Memorial Day ceremony was held in the Historic Linwood Cemetery to remember those who died while serving our country.
Historic Linwood is an area where several Macon soldiers are buried.
During the ceremony, a wreath was laid and Taps was played.
We spoke with a Macon resident who grew up surrounded by military family members.
“A lot of people are thinking about barbecues,” Alesia Mays said. “Just think about the heart of the country and the meaning of freedom. This is what freedom is about, so that we can be safe. There are many others overseas, they’re serving, and so many others who have given their ultimate sacrifice.”
Mays says it’s important to remember the men and women who fought for our freedom every day.
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Rutland grad takes first steps since 8th grade to receive diploma
"I just got so happy, because I'm just happy to be standing on my feet again," Donnie Person said.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Graduating from high school is a milestone, but for one graduate, walking the stage was a milestone on its own.
Walking the stage marks the end of four years filled with laughter, joy and homework, but for Donnie Person, it meant so much more.
“It felt unbelievable,” he said. “Because I just felt everybody’s emotions, and I could tell everybody was so happy for me. I just got so happy, because I’m just happy to be standing on my feet again.”
Donnie never walked the halls at Rutland High School. He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and stopped walking in the eighth grade.
It’s an obstacle that’s only pushed him to work harder to accomplish his dreams.
“To be here with all my friends and family and have all the teachers I met in the past to still be here and cheer me on, it just felt great, because they’re like my back bone,” he said.
The task of walking across the stage was not easy for Donnie. According to Rutland Principal Wendy Pooler, everyone came together to help Donnie achieve his goal.
It was a moment Pooler says showed Donnie’s perseverance.
“To see him walk across the stage, to see the smile, to look over and see his mom, that’s what graduation is supposed to be about,” she said. “It’s supposed to be about students achieving their goals.”
This was just one goal Donnie says he set for himself.
His next goal is to open his own therapy business to help other kids who are just like him.
“To the future patients at my hospital, I want them to know that they can also follow their dreams and walk across the stage just like me,” he said.
With a diploma in hand, Donnie says he’s excited to see where life will take him next.
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Warner Robins holds Memorial Day service, moment of silence
Mayor LaRhonda Patrick and the City of Warner Robins held a moment of silence and a service honoring fallen veterans Monday.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Mayor LaRhonda Patrick and the City of Warner Robins held a moment of silence and a service honoring fallen veterans Monday.
The event was held at Warner Robins City Hall.
This is the first time Mayor Patrick has been a part of a memorial day service since taking office, and she says that growing up in a military family gave her an insight into the sacrifices veterans make.
“Being able to honor those who did serve and who are serving, who paid the ultimate sacrifice for us to have the freedoms we have every day is the least I could do in my position,” Mayor Patrick said.
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A journalist attached to The Nation newspapers, Mr. Toba Adedeji and two other kindergarten school children were, on Tuesday, shot by armed police officers from the Osun State Police command.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will meet Tuesday with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell as soaring inflation takes a bite out of Americans’ pocketbooks.
The meeting will be the first since Biden renominated Powell to lead the central bank and comes weeks after his confirmation for a second term by the Senate.
The White House said the pair would discuss the state of the U.S. and global economy and especially inflation, described as Biden’s “top economic priority.” The goal, the White House said, is a “transition from an historic economic recovery to stable, steady growth that works for working families.”
Inflation in the U.S. hit a 40-year high earlier this year, amid supply chain constraints caused by the global economy’s recovery from the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But the economy saw a welcome bit of data Friday, as the Commerce Department said inflation rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now.
The inflation figure was below the four-decade high of 6.6% set in March. While high inflation is still causing hardships for millions of households, any slowing of price increases, if sustained, would provide some modest relief.
Powell has pledged to keep ratcheting up the Fed’s key short-term interest rate to cool the economy until inflation is “coming down in a clear and convincing way.” Those rate hikes have spurred fears that the Fed, in its drive to slow borrowing and spending, may push the economy into a recession. That concern has caused sharp drops in stock prices in the past two months, though markets rallied last week.
Powell has signaled that the Fed will likely raise its benchmark rate by a half-point in both June and July — twice the size of the usual rate increase.
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Though the Baltimore Orioles are in last place in the American League East, their recent play suggests they are getting better as they return home to face the Seattle Mariners in the opener of a three-game series on Tuesday.
The Orioles, who finished last in the division in four of the past five seasons, just concluded a stretch in which they went 6-5 against the Tampa Bay Rays, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox — all playoff teams last year.
Baltimore pounded the host Red Sox 10-0 on Monday, its third victory in the five-game series. Before arriving in Boston, the Orioles took two of three against the visiting Rays and then dropped two of three in New York.
On Monday, Ryan Mountcastle went 4-for-5 with a home run, a double and four runs, Trey Mancini finished 3-for-4 with a triple, two runs and an RBI and Tyler Wells allowed just two hits over six scoreless innings. Ramon Urias homered and drove in three runs, and Anthony Santander homered and knocked in four runs.
“This was one of our better — if not our best — offensive games of the year and maybe we could have scored more runs,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “We hit numerous balls hard and took really good at-bats throughout the order. I am really happy with our overall performance tonight.”
Meanwhile, Seattle, which was expected to contend this year after posting its best record since 2003 last year, sits in fourth place in the American League West. The Mariners have won just nine of their past 31 as they enter a nine-game road trip.
Hyde said he would wait until Tuesday morning to name a starting pitcher for the series opener considering Baltimore has played 24 games in the past 23 days, going 11-13.
Seattle go with rookie right-hander George Kirby (0-1, 4.50 ERA), who is coming off allowing four runs on eight hits in five innings during a no-decision against the Oakland A’s on May 24. He had nine strikeouts and no walks.
The Mariners arrive in Baltimore after going 3-3 during a homestand against the A’s and Houston Astros. Prior to that, they went 3-7 on a lengthy road trip that saw them get swept in a four-game series by the Red Sox.
“Really happy with the way we bounced back after a rough start to this homestand, playing the way we did,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “If we continue to do that, we’ll be fine going forward and certainly as we head out to this road trip.”
The Mariners are coming off a 2-1 loss to the Astros in the finale of their three-game series on Sunday.
Seattle, which had outscored Houston 12-1 in the first two games, had the bases loaded with one out in the ninth, but Luis Torrens grounded into a game-ending double play.
“It’s one of those games where (it’s) going to come down to: Can you create some chaos and traffic out there and then get a big hit?” Servais said. “We certainly created a lot of chaos, just didn’t finish it off by getting the big hit.
“Guys executed and just didn’t finish it off.”
–Field Level Media
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The unofficial start of summer over the Memorial Day weekend offers a troubling glimpse of what lies ahead for travelers during the peak vacation season.
U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights from Thursday through Monday, or about 2% of their schedules, according to tracking service FlightAware.
Delta Air Lines, usually among the top performers, had the worst record among major carriers with more than 800 canceled flights over the five-day span.
"This was a chance for airlines to show that last summer's delays would not be repeated this summer, and yet, it was not to be," said Helane Becker, an analyst for banking firm Cowen, who blamed the disruptions on bad weather, air traffic control delays, airline crew members calling in sick, and long security lines at some airports.
"We expect a busy summer, and are concerned about the industry's ability to handle the demand," Becker said.
The good news was that cancellations were down sharply on Tuesday. FlightAware reported only about 60 by early afternoon on the East Coast.
Various forecasts of high numbers of travelers over the weekend proved to be accurate. The Transportation Security Administration reported screening more than 11 million people at airport checkpoints from Thursday through Monday.
That was down 9% from the same days in 2019, but an increase of almost 25% over last year. Crowds of just under 2.4 million on both Thursday and Friday nearly matched the pandemic high set on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.
Delta, when asked to comment Tuesday about its weekend troubles, pointed to a statement it issued last week. The Atlanta airline said it was being challenged by several factors including rising COVID-19 cases among workers, and it trimmed its July and August schedules in an effort to improve reliability.
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One man died in a shooting early Monday on Ina Clare Drive in Opelousas.
Kendol Payne, 31, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 1 a.m. shooting, police say.
Officers were called to the 1200 block of Ina Clare and found Payne suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in an apartment.
Investigators are currently interviewing persons who may have information related to the homicide. The investigation is ongoing and no other information is available at this time, police say.
Opelousas Police ask anyone with any information related to this homicide to contact the Opelousas Police Department at 337-948-2500, crimetips@opelousaspd.com or through Crime Stoppers (337-948-TIPS, www.stlandrycrimestoppers.com [stlandrycrimestoppers.com] or by using the P3 mobile App.) Tipsters can remain anonymous. Tipsters can receive up to a $1000.00 cash reward.
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Israel has signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates, its first big trade accord with an Arab state and a move aimed at boosting trade between the two Middle Eastern nations.
The pact was signed in Dubai by Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Orna Barbivai and her counterpart, UAE Minister of Economy Abdulla bin Touq al-Marri, on Tuesday after months of negotiations.
“Done,” Israel’s Ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek said on Twitter, replying to another tweet he posted earlier saying “the UAE and Israel will sign FTA in the next hour”.
President of the UAE-Israel Business Council Dorian Barak said the trade agreement defined tax rates, imports and intellectual property, which would encourage more Israeli companies to set up offices in the UAE, particularly in Dubai.
The Council predicts there will be almost 1,000 Israeli companies working in or through the UAE by the end of the year, doing business with South Asia, the Far East and the Middle East.
“The domestic market doesn’t represent the entirety of the opportunity. The opportunity is really set up in Dubai, as many companies have, in order to target the broader region,” Barak said.
Ahead of the signing, Israel’s economy ministry had said the accord would remove tariffs on 96% of goods, including food, agriculture, cosmetics, medical equipment and medicine.
The UAE predicts that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, as the accord is known, would boost bilateral trade to more than $10bn a year within five years.
“Our agreement will accelerate growth, create jobs and lead to a new era of peace, stability, and prosperity across the region,” the Emirati trade minister, Thani al-Zeyoudi, said on Twitter.
“Together we will remove barriers and promote comprehensive trade and new technologies, which will form a solid foundation for our common path, will contribute to the well-being of citizens and make it easier to do business,” Barbivai said on Monday.
The agreement has been signed amid escalating violence in occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
The UAE foreign ministry on Monday condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Sunday by “extremist settlers under the protection of Israeli forces”.
Later on Sunday, ultra-nationalist Israelis marched through Palestinian areas of the Old City and attacked Palestinians while chanting racist anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian songs.
The foreign ministry, in the written statement, also asked: “Israeli authorities to take responsibility for reducing escalation and ending all attacks and practices that lead to the continuation of tensions while underscoring the need to exercise maximum restraint to avoid further instability”.
On the same day the statement was issued, invited media were told they could no longer attend the signing. No reason was given for the sudden change.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam and is known in Judaism as the Temple Mount. One of the outer walls of the Temple Mount, the Western Wall, is the holiest site in Judaism.
Israel’s Barbivai told Israeli radio on Tuesday she had heard “nothing out of the ordinary” about the Al-Aqsa Mosque violence so far during her visit to the UAE.
For the UAE, the deal with Israel is its second bilateral free trade agreement after signing a similar accord with India in February. It is in bilateral trade talks with several other countries, including Indonesia and South Korea.
The UAE has been aggressively pursuing these deals in a bid to strengthen its economy and status as a major business hub following the hit it took from the coronavirus pandemic.
Israel and the UAE established ties in September 2020 in a deal brokered by the United States that broke with decades of Arab policy that had called for a Palestinian state before ties with Israel.
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Israel signs first Arab free trade agreement with UAE
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16-year-old shot while attempting to rob restaurant
American Faves and Mo employee also shot
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an attempted commercial armed robbery that took place at around 10:15 p.m., Monday night, at the American Faves and Mo, located at 2420 PioNono Avenue.
It was reported that a masked male wearing dark clothing, entered the store with a gun. He jumped over the counter and demanded money from the cash register. The store’s manager, who was also armed with a handgun, saw what was taking place and ran towards the robber. He confronted the masked male and got into a physical altercation with the male robber. Another store employee came to the manager’s aid while the physical confrontation was taking place. During the altercation, the male robber was shot in the leg and the second store employee was shot in the shoulder.
Both the male robber and the store employee were taken to the Atrium Health Navicent by ambulance and both are listed to be in stable condition.
The male robber was identified as a 16-year-old juvenile.
The incident remains under investigation and charges are pending.
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Beekeepers and You
(41NBC/WMGT) — It’s the middle of spring time and insects are out in full force, one such creepy crawly are those fuzzy little black and yellow friends we know as bees. Where there are flowers, these buzzy bumbles are hurrying from one flower to the next in their never ending quest to make honey. Though it might sound odd to some, there is an entire group of people dedicated to taking care of bees– the beekeeper.
Steven Eagle is the sole owner and operator of Eagle Apiaries out of Dublin. Before Eagle was a Beekeeper he was working in an unsatisfying job for 8 years until he recalled a part time job beekeeping he had done as a teenager. Now with over 340 beehives under his watch, Eagle has been apart of this business going on 7 years now and has no plans of stopping any time soon. Part of the reason Eagle considers bees to be so important is their impact on our world and he also emphasizes that if you want to help local bee populations you’ll want to help your local beekeepers first. If you wanted to help out local bees, Eagle recommends that leaving out clean water out would help bees immensely as they need the water to keep the hives cool and that if you do, make sure you put the water in a shallow dish or put marbles in the container you are filling so that the bees don’t drown. As part of his job, Eagle offers his bees to local areas to help pollinate as well as selling honey and beeswax products, but he isn’t the only apiary to do so.
Over on Ingleside Avenue in Macon is a local market called Village Market Place that sells Georgia-made products including Honey and other bee made goods from a Macon based Apiary called Shamrock Apiaries. Village Market Place been doing business with Shamrock Apiaries since the store first opened 6 years ago and have had a good relationship with them.
Brendan Rowley is the owner of Village Market Place and not only sells the honey that Shamrock Apiaries offers, but also fresh honey comb, honey straws and candles. Rowley says that they go through a good amount of honey and he also says that the flavor of the honey is a little different each time it comes in. When we asked his opinion on bees and beekeepers, Rowley stated that bees are immensely important for helping things grow and that the honey they make is important in our own diets.
You can check out Eagle Apiaries on their website at https://www.eagleapiaries.com/ as well as their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/eagleapiaries if you want to stay up to date on their bees as well as buy their products.
You can also check out Village Market Place over at their store on 2381 Ingleside Avenue in Macon to help support them and their continued business with local growers or visit their website at https://www.villagemarketplacemacon.com/
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Fort Valley murder suspect arrested
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man wanted in Fort Valley for a fatal shooting on Edward Street is now in custody.
26 year old Tyler Keondre Jones was arrested today by members of the United State Marshal Office and the Fort Valley Police Department for Muder, Aggravated Assault and Possession of Firearm during the commission of a crime. Jones is being held at the Peach County Law Enforcement Center.
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Morning Business Report: Nearly 7,000 flights canceled due to weather and staffing issues
Memorial Day holiday travel season brought a lot of frustration for travelers at the airport as many airlines delayed or canceled flight. Nearly 7,000 flights were canceled due to weather, staffing issues, or air traffic actions.
National average for regular gasoline rose to a fresh record of $4.62 a gallon on Monday. That’s up by a penny from Sunday and 44 cents more expensive than a month ago.
Cruise lines are canceling sailings, onboard restaurants, and allowing fewer guests onboard amid hiring difficulties.
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Registration open for free Bibb Sheriff’s Office P.A.L. Basketball Skills Camp
You can register at the Bibb County Sheriff's Outreach Section Office at 774 Hazel Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Registration is now open for the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office’s free P.A.L. (Police Athletic League) Basketball Skills Camp.
You can register your child at the Bibb County Sheriff’s Outreach Section Office at 774 Hazel Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
The camp is for kids ages 9 to 17.
Camp dates and locations are as follows:
- Girls: June 13-17 at Rosa Jackson Rec Center, 1211 Maynard Street, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Boys: June 20-24 at Rosa Jackson Rec Center, 1211 Maynard Street, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Camp capacity is 30 children, and acceptance to the camp is on a first come, first served basis. No registration will be done at camp sites.
The deadline to register is Monday, June 6 at 4 p.m.
For more information, contact the Bibb County Sheriff’s Outreach Section at (478) 219-2406.
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Telfair County Deputy arrested after GBI investigation
MCRAE-HELENA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A Telfair County Deputy has been arrested after committing several crimes, including tampering with evidence.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Telfair County Sheriff’s Office requested that the GBI investigate some potential misconduct of 35 year-old Deputy John Degolyer on May 20th. The investigation revealed that Degolyer had tampered with evidence during his duties, as well as the fact that he was paying for sexual acts– though it’s not currently believed that those acts were done while on duty.
Anyone with information concerning this investigation is urged to call the GBI Eastman field office at 478-374-6988. Tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS(8477), online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.
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UPDATE: Monday night hit-and-run leaves pedestrian dead
A pedestrian is dead after being struck by a vehicle Monday night.
UPDATE (5/31): Macon-Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones tells 41NBC the pedestrian struck by a vehicle Monday has died. According to Jones, Audrey Mack was the victim, and she was pronounced dead at 9:57 p.m. from multiple blunt force trauma at Atrium Health Navicent. The BCSO says Mack was 52 years old.
ORIGINAL STORY:
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A pedestrian is in critical condition at the hospital after being struck by a vehicle Monday night.
It happened near the intersection of Pio Nono Avenue and Carroll Street, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release, which says the incident was called in to the Macon-Bibb 911 Center at 9:17.
Deputies responded and found a female victim.
“There is no information available at this time in reference to the vehicle that struck the female,” the release said. “Additional information will be released as soon as it becomes available.”
The victim, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Atrium Health Navicent by ambulance.
Call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-CRIME if you have any information.
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A chance to showcase what the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office (OTCSO) does on a daily basis will be on full display with an excellent opportunity for the public to see what it takes to patrol one of the largest counties in west-central Minnesota.
The doors are being opened to the operations center in the city of Ottertail on June 4 from 12-2 p.m. for an open house event that promises to be interesting.
The sheriff’s office says there will be representation from various divisions within the sheriff’s office along with demonstrations, displays and exhibits to include local fire/rescue departments and Lake Region Electric.
According to the OTCSO website, the state of the art facility in Ottertail was purpose-built to provide an opportunity for citizens to utilize the services of the OTCSO without traveling to Fergus Falls.
It is located on a 10-acre site.
Water patrol, the investigations division and narcotics investigations, are located in the Ottertail location. In addition, a training center, intoxilyzer, holding area, interview rooms and evidence processing take place at the facility.
Training is a huge component of the operations center as well. Law enforcement from neighboring counties also utilize facilities for various training or exercises.
Refreshments will be served at the open house event. Hotdogs and beverages will be provided by the Ottertail Chamber of Commerce and the City of Ottertail.
The operations center is located at at 469 East Main Street in Ottertail.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) —
U.S. consumer confidence edged lower in May as Americans’ view of their present and future prospects dimmed in the midst of persistent inflation.
The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 106.4 in May — still a strong reading — from 108.6 in April.
The business research group’s present situation index, which measures consumers’ assessment of current business and labor conditions, also fell in May to 149.6 from 152.9 in April.
The expectations index, based on consumers’ six-month outlook for income, business and labor market conditions, also declined in May, to 77.5 from 79 in April. It was above 80 in February and remains a weak spot in the survey.
President Joe Biden will meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday as soaring inflation continues to carve up Americans’ earnings.
The meeting Tuesday will be the first since Biden renominated Powell to lead the central bank and weeks after the Senate confirmed a second term. The White House said the pair would discuss the state of the U.S. and global economy and especially four-decade high inflation, described as Biden’s “top economic priority.”
The Federal Reserve raised its main borrowing rate by a half point in early May, the main mechanism for combatting inflation. Multiple rate hikes, with the possibility of more half-point increases, are expected this year.
Inflation soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with rising costs for just about everything negating Americans’ pay raises.
The Labor Department reported earlier in May that consumer prices jumped 8.3% last month from a year ago. That was below the 8.5% year-over-year surge in March, which was the highest since 1981. On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.3% from March to April, the smallest rise in eight months.
U.S. producer prices soared 11% in April from a year earlier, a hefty gain that indicates high inflation will remain a burden for consumers and businesses in the months ahead.
Consumers were again slightly less optimistic about the labor market, even as U.S. employers have added at least 400,000 jobs for 12 straight months, pushing the unemployment rate down to 3.6%. That’s the lowest rate since the pandemic erupted two years ago and just above the half-century low of 3.5% that was reached two years ago.
Purchasing intentions for big-ticket items — cars, homes and major appliances — all cooled slightly, the Conference Board said. Rising costs remain the top concern for consumers, as their inflation expectations were mostly unchanged from April’s elevated levels.
“Looking ahead, expect surging prices and additional interest rate hikes to pose continued downside risks to consumer spending this year,” said Lynn Franco, the Conference Board’s senior director of economic indicators.
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Carl Vinson VA Medical Center rolling out new check-in app
The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center is making check-in for appointments faster.
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center is making check-in for appointments faster.
A new app allows veterans to check-in the day of an appointment and even do a pre-check-in process up to seven days in advance.
The process starts by scanning a QR code provided by the VA which will then prompt the person to fill out personal information.
If veterans are not comfortable using their phones, they can still use kiosks on-site.
Seandell Mills, the Administrative Officer with the VA, says the app is available for residents in Perry and Milledgeville and will soon be rolled out to the Dublin area.
“One of the things that I definitely want the veterans to know is don’t be afraid to ask questions,” she said. “We are still there. We have the clinical staff that are willing to help. We have the admin staff that are willing to help, and everything that we are doing is to benefit the veteran.”
The VA says it will work closely with veterans to fix any issues they experience with the app.
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Cox Communications, Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful partner for cleanup in south Macon
Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful partnered with Cox Communications to spearhead a cleanup from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Cox Communications and Macon-Bibb officials are helping clean up south Macon.
Keep Macon-Bibb Beautiful partnered with Cox Communications to spearhead a cleanup from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Volunteers from all levels of Cox Communications came out to help clean up the Lynmore Estates community and the area near Bruce Elementary School.
District Two Commissioner Paul Bronson says cleaning can be contagious.
You just have to take that first step.
“It goes back to the theory of cleaning up around your own front door step,” he said. “We encourage all communities, citizens, just start at your front door and work your way out. You’ll be surprised how that flame will turn in to a passionate fire to keep Macon clean.”
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Milledgeville woman dies after being struck by vehicle in Putnam County, man arrested
It happened around 7:15 Tuesday night, according to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills.
EATONTON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Milledgeville woman is dead after the bicycle she was riding Tuesday night was struck by a vehicle.
That’s according to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, who says the incident happened around 7:15.
56-year-old Teresa Rose was riding a bicycle south on Godfrey Road when she was struck by a 2006 Chevrolet van driven by 32-year-old Josafat Gonzalez-Villagrana of Hull.
Witnesses told deputies Gonzalez-Villagrana was turning west onto Glades Road and struck Rose’s bicycle.
Gonzalez-Villagrana was taken into custody on charges of misdemeanor homicide by vehicle, failure to give right of way and failure to give a turn signal. He’s being held in the Putnam County Jail.
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MTA offers ‘Teen Summer Bus Pass’ starting June 1
All you need to sign up your child for the bus pass is their proof of age and school enrollment. You can complete the application on the second floor of the Terminal Station in Suite 200.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Macon-Bibb Transit Authority’s ‘Teen Summer Bus Pass’ is back again this year!
Starting Wednesday, June 1, Macon-Bibb County teens ages 13 to 18 will be able to buy a $25 bus pass that will get them unlimited rides all over the county for the next two months.
It includes the newly extended route that goes to the Rescue Mission on Zebulon Road.
MTA Public Information Officer Jami Gaudet says this is a great way to give teens a way to get around the county this summer.
“They can go to library and do research or read for pleasure or learn about job opportunities,” she said. “They can go to a museum, they can visit a friend, they can go to a movie. The possibilities are endless what they can do with it, so we’re trying to make good use of their time, and we’re trying to be good citizens for the community.”
All you need to sign up your child for the bus pass is their proof of age and school enrollment. You can complete the application on the second floor of the Terminal Station in Suite 200.
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Residents upset after Centerville announces splash pad hour changes
Centerville is making changes to its splash pad operating hours, and that's left some residents upset.
CENTERVILLE, Georgia(41NBC/WMGT) — Centerville is making changes to its splash pad operating hours, and that’s left some residents upset.
The city posted on Facebook this week that it would cut back the splash pad’s hours of operation, pushing the opening time from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. each day. The splash pad will close daily at 6 p.m.
Several parents voiced their concerns in the comments. We met up with a parent Tuesday.
“Parents who want to go ahead and beat the sun or beat the super hot heat, I think it doesn’t work,” resident Teri Cray said. “I think it’s best that we do it earlier just because it helps with convenience.”
The city cited much larger crowds than last year as its reason for changing hours. The splash which was built in 2020 at Centerville Park and officially opened last year.
The city says more people has led to a dirty filter from grass and dirt, leaving the pump unable to filter clean water back out.
Cray says the problem should have been addressed before opening day.
“Certainly not waiting until summer to start evaluating things like the sand and it getting dirty,” Cray said. “This is not the time. We want water.”
Tess Chambers, the Special Events Marketing Coordinator for Centerville, says the grass and dirt is from children running back and forth from the splash pad to the playground.
Chambers says the city is addressing the issue.
“We’re just going to have to really sit down and make some plans and decide,” she said. “The possibility of concreting the area where the grass is, there are several different options that we’re trying to work on.”
Chambers asks for the community to be patient as the issue is being fixed. She also wants to remind the community that the change in hours is only temporary.
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Senator Warnock, other state leaders meet with farmers to discuss mental health
"The price of a cotton picker is over $1 million now, but cotton is relatively the same price as it's been for the last 40 or 50 years," President of the Georgia Agribusiness Council Will Bentley said. "When you do that math, there's no way for a small producer to really survive."
MUSELLA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Farming isn’t as simple as it used to be.
Will Bentley, President of the Georgia Agribusiness Council, says there’s lots of stress involved in the occupation these days. One example he gave was the price of cotton versus how much it costs to harvest it.
“The price of a cotton picker is over $1 million now, but cotton is relatively the same price as it’s been for the last 40 or 50 years,” he said. “When you do that math, there’s no way for a small producer to really survive.”
Bentley was one of the many Georgia farmers who met with Senator Raphael Warnock, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Dr. Jewel Bronaugh and State Representative Robert Dickey Tuesday for a round table discussion on farm stress and mental health. He’s hoping leaders will find concrete solutions for the problems farmers face.
“Hopefully they’ll take that back to Washington, and there will be some kind of common sense approach,” he said. “A lot of times, D.C. will throw money at things, but we need more than just money to be thrown at a problem. We need some long-term solutions.”
Senator Warnock says natural disasters and the pandemic have exacerbated the stresses of farming. He says one story stood out to him Tuesday.
“I was struck by one woman who said her son came home from the University of Georgia for the summer, and he was saying, ‘This is too hard.’ I want that family to pass on their farm to the next generation,” he said.
Bentley says farmers have been aware of the stresses they face for many years now and he hopes some of the things discussed during the round table will make their way to mental health policies.
“We’re glad to see that folks in Washington are paying attention,” he said. “We’ve discussed it for a long time. Hopefully they’ll try to find some solutions, beecause mental health is something we take serious.”
Senator Warnock says mental health is as important as physical health. He says he’s working on getting more mental health resources to rural communities.
“We were able to get $10 million in additional support for a network to support our farmers and our ranchers,” he said. “As I go back to D.C., I’ll be focusing on bringing more people the resources they need.”
Senator Warnock says in addition to the physical resources, he’s focusing on bringing telehealth to rural farming communities.
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Traditional Vietnamese restaurant in Macon offers futuristic twist
A local Vietnamese restaurant is wowing customers with a robot waiter.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A local Vietnamese restaurant is wowing customers with a robot waiter.
Dua Fish Tank, which started in Atlanta, recently expanded to Macon.
Owned by Vietnamese immigrants, the restaurant features traditional Vietnamese cuisine.
“We want people to come in here and know they’re eating real Vietnamese food,” General Manager Ethan Harpe said. “People from Vietnamese culture, they’re like ‘This tastes just like home.'”
The restaurant started using a robot waiter as a way to fight labor shortages.
Through spatial recognition technology, the robots are able to maneuver through the floor without spills.
“Dua has fantastic food, but to also add in the robot, it’s just add a whole new experience,” customer Olivia Walter said. “It’s kind of fun just seeing it roll around like it’s a person.”
The restaurant is located across from the Beverly Knight Olsen Children’s Hospital and is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 12 to 7 p.m. on Sunday.
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Woman killed, man injured in crash
The truck went off of the road, rolled over, and went down a steep embankment.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deadly crash that happened Monday afternoon on Thomaston Road.
Deputies say a truck blew a tire and the driver, 46-year-old DeWayne Gibson, lost control. The truck went off of the road, rolled over, and went down a steep embankment.
Gibson was taken to the Atrium Health Navicent, and is currently listed to be in critical, but stable condition.
The passenger, 25-year-old Summer Bennett, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
This accident is still under investigation.
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St. Landry Crime Stoppers is asking for help in solving a homicide in the City of Opelousas.
On May 30, 2022, officers with the Opelousas Police Department were dispatched to 1217 Ina Clare Dr. for a shooting complaint. Upon arrival, officers discovered 31-year-old Kendol Payne shot multiple times and had died as a result of his injuries.
The detectives discovered evidence at the scene that indicated that the suspects stood near a rear bedroom window and fired multiple rounds thru the window. The suspects were then seen running from the scene.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,500 cash for the arrest in this case.
To leave a tip use the QR code at the bottom of the photo, or by using any mobile device by dialing **TIPS, or by using the P3 app.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A swift jump in Treasury yields rattled Wall Street on Wednesday, pulling stocks broadly lower at the start of another month in what’s been a turbulent year for the market.
The S&P 500 ended 0.7% lower after an early morning gain quickly gave way to choppy trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.5% and the Nasdaq fell 0.7%.
Stocks began their slide immediately after the release of several reports on the U.S. economy, including one showing manufacturing growth was stronger last month than expected. That bolstered investors’ expectations for the Federal Reserve to continue raising interest rates aggressively to slow the economy in hopes of reining in inflation.
“Investors are worried about the Fed meeting coming up, and because inflation is expected to remain stubbornly elevated the Fed probably won’t get away with front-end loading the rate tightening cycle and then pausing in the fall,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA.
The S&P 500 fell 30.92 points to 4,101.23. The Dow gave up 176.89 points to 32,813.23, after losing an early gain of 282 points. The Nasdaq composite slid 86.93 points to 11,994.46. It also ended in the red after giving up an early 1.3% gain.
Smaller company stocks also lost ground. The Russell 2000 index dropped 9.22 points, or 0.5%, to 1,854.82.
Daily market swings have become routine on Wall Street amid worries that too-aggressive rate hikes by the Fed may force the economy into a recession. Even if it can avoid choking off the economy, higher rates put downward pressure on stocks and other investments regardless. High inflation is meanwhile eating into corporate profits, while the war in Ukraine and business-slowing, anti-COVID-19 restrictions in China have also weighed on markets.
The Fed has signaled it may continue raising its key short-term interest rate by double the usual amount at upcoming meetings in June and July. Speculation built last week that the Fed may consider a pause at its September meeting, which helped stocks to rise. But such hopes diminished after Wednesday’s manufacturing report from the Institute for Supply Management.
It showed U.S. manufacturing growth accelerated last month, contrary to economists’ expectations for a slowdown. A separate report said that the number of job openings across the economy ticked a bit lower in April but remains much higher, at 11.4 million, than the number of unemployed people.
Following the reports, traders are now betting on a 60% probability that the Fed will raise its benchmark short-term rate to a range of 2.25% to 2.50% at its September meeting. A week ago, the majority of bets was on a lower level, at a range of 2% to 2.25%, according to CME Group.
The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to follow expectations for Fed moves, jumped with those expectations. It rose to 2.66%, up from 2.56% just before the manufacturing report’s release.
Wednesday also marks the start of the Fed’s program to pare back some of the trillions of dollars of Treasurys and other bonds that it amassed through the pandemic. Such a move should put upward pressure on longer-term rates.
The 10-year Treasury yield rose to 2.92% from 2.84% just before the report’s release.
Airlines and stocks of other travel-related companies were some of Wednesday’s biggest losers on Wall Street amid worries that inflation is slicing away their earnings.
Delta Air Lines, for example, said it expects to see fuel costs of $3.60 to $3.70 per gallon this quarter, up from its prior forecast of up to $3.35. Even outside of fuel, Delta said expenses could soar up to 22% above 2019 levels on a per-seat basis. That’s up from an earlier forecast of 17%,
Delta’s stock fell 5.2% even though it also said revenue trends are strengthening. With passengers paying higher fares, Delta said it may get a key revenue measure fully back to 2019 levels.
Norwegian Cruise Line and United Airlines each lost 4.5%.
On the winning side were energy stocks, which rose with the price of crude oil. ConocoPhillips gained 3%, and Exxon Mobil rose 1.9% as a barrel of benchmark U.S. crude rose 0.5% to settle at $115.26. Brent crude, the international standard, added 0.6% to $116.29.
The biggest gain in the S&P 500 came from Salesforce.com, which reported stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected and raised its forecast for the year. Its stock rose 9.9%.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — China, the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide that causes global warming, has seen a notable dip in its emissions over the past three quarters — but it’s not clear how long the drop will continue.
A new analysis of China’s economic data shows that carbon emissions dropped 1.4% in the first three months of the year, compared to the prior year, making it the third consecutive quarter to show a drop — and the longest sustained dip in a decade.
The downward trend began last year and accelerated over the winter. The decline continued but was milder this spring.
It’s not clear whether China’s emissions will continue to fall this year. Over the past decade, five shorter dips were followed by rebounding emissions.
China’s recent emissions decline was driven by decreased output in cement, steel and power industries, as well as COVID lockdown measures, according to an analysis by Lauri Myllyvirta, a Finland-based climate and energy analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
“Steel and cement are China’s second and third largest emitting sectors, and the demand for both sectors is largely driven by construction activity,” but policy changes on real estate lending and debt have at least temporarily depressed the construction sector, Myllyvirta wrote in an analysis for Carbon Brief.
Whether China meets its long-term goal to become carbon neutral by 2060 depends in large part on what happens in its power sector.
And that depends upon how quickly the world’s second largest economy can move away from coal.
China’s leaders have recently doubled-down on plans to promote coal-fired power, calling for coal production capacity to increase by 300 million tons this year, or 7% over last year.
Li Shuo, a senior global policy adviser for Greenpeace, told the Associated Press in April that economic concerns, including those related to China’s zero-COVID policy, meant that China’s leaders were prioritizing energy security over moving away from fossil fuels, at least in the short-term.
“This mentality of ensuring energy security has become dominant, trumping carbon neutrality,” he said.
China is currently the world’s largest carbon emitter, although other countries, such as the United States, have contributed a greater share of historic emissions.
China’s carbon emissions increased by 750 megatonnes over the two-year period between 2019 and 2021, driving the global rebound in carbon emissions after the first phase of pandemic, according to the nonprofit Paris-based International Energy Agency.
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At least four people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said in a news conference Wednesday evening.
The gunman is also dead, police said. Authorities believe the shooter's gunshot wound was self-inflicted, Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said in the news conference.
Dispatchers received a call about an active shooter at the Natalie Medical Building, a physicians' office building on the St. Francis Hospital campus, at roughly 4:52 p.m. local time, Dalgleish said.
Officers responded to the scene at roughly 4:56 p.m. and made contact with victims and the suspect roughly five minutes later, Dalgleish said. The officers who arrived could hear shots inside the building, which directed them to the second floor, according to the deputy chief.
"The scene is fairly limited to one section of that floor, on the second floor," Dalgleish said. At least part of the scene was in an orthopedic office on that floor, according to Dalgleish.
No officers were injured, he added.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses that were in the building, Dalgleish said. One witness was found locked in a closet, he said.
Police said they are "getting close" to identifying the suspect, who Dalgleish said had one rifle and one handgun with him. "It appears both weapons, at one point or another, were fired," the deputy chief said.
Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum expressed "profound gratitude" for the first responders who "did not hesitate today to respond to this act of violence."
"The men and women of the Tulsa Police Department did not hesitate," the mayor said.
LIVE UPDATES: Tulsa hospital campus shooting
A 'catastrophic' scene
Earlier Wednesday, Richard Meulenberg, with police, said authorities were continuing to evacuate "multiple floors" of the building, which included "hundreds of rooms and hundreds of people."
"We're treating this as a catastrophic scene right now," Meulenberg said.
There has been a reunification site set up for family members and friends at Memorial High School west of LaFortune Park, police added.
"There is nothing more this community could do for us than to pray for the families and the loved ones and the victims of this senseless act," Cliff Robertson, the Saint Francis Health System CEO, said in the news conference.
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the shooting, a White House official said. The White House is closely monitoring the situation and has reached out to state and local officials to offer support.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also assisting on scene, the ATF Dallas Field Division said on Twitter.
"What happened today in Tulsa is a senseless act of violence and hatred," Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt wrote on Twitter. "I am grateful for the quick and brave actions of the Tulsa Police Department and other first responders who did their best to contain a terrible situation."
'I just knew that it was a shooting'
Debra Proctor was in another building on the hospital campus for a doctor's appointment when she heard police sirens ringing out.
When she stepped outside, first responders were lined up everywhere, she told CNN. Proctor, who has been a registered nurse for more than four decades, said it was a "shocking" scene.
"Police were everywhere in the parking lot, up and down the surrounding blocks," Proctor said. "They were still arriving when I was leaving."
Kalen Davis, a lifelong Tulsa resident, was waiting in traffic around 5 p.m. local time when she saw multiple police cars responding to the scene.
In a video she shared with CNN, authorities can be seen running toward a building with their guns drawn. Two officers are seen taking long guns out of their trunks as more emergency vehicles race to the scene.
"I just knew that it was a shooting situation because I saw police running with rifles," Davis, 45, told CNN. "That's when I got emotional."
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At least four people were killed Wednesday in a shooting on a hospital campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said in a news conference Wednesday evening.
The gunman is also dead, police said. Authorities believe the shooter's gunshot wound was self-inflicted, Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish said in the news conference.
Dispatchers received a call about an active shooter at the Natalie Medical Building, a physicians' office building on the St. Francis Hospital campus, at roughly 4:52 p.m. local time, Dalgleish said.
Officers responded to the scene at roughly 4:56 p.m. and made contact with victims and the suspect roughly five minutes later, Dalgleish said. The officers who arrived could hear shots inside the building, which directed them to the second floor, according to the deputy chief.
"The scene is fairly limited to one section of that floor, on the second floor," Dalgleish said. No officers were injured, he added.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses that were in the building, Dalgleish said.
Police said they are "getting close" to identifying the suspect, who Dalgleish said had one rifle and one handgun with him.
A 'catastrophic' scene
Earlier Wednesday, Richard Meulenberg, with police, said authorities were continuing to evacuate "multiple floors" of the building, which included "hundreds of rooms and hundreds of people."
"We're treating this as a catastrophic scene right now," Meulenberg said.
There has been a reunification site set up for family members and friends at Memorial High School west of LaFortune Park, police added.
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the shooting, a White House official said. The White House is closely monitoring the situation and has reached out to state and local officials to offer support.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also assisting on scene, the ATF Dallas Field Division said on Twitter.
'I just knew that it was a shooting'
Debra Proctor was in another building on the hospital campus for a doctor's appointment when she heard police sirens ringing out.
When she stepped outside, first responders were lined up everywhere, she told CNN. Proctor, who has been a registered nurse for more than four decades, said it was a "shocking" scene.
"Police were everywhere in the parking lot, up and down the surrounding blocks," Proctor said. "They were still arriving when I was leaving."
Kalen Davis, a lifelong Tulsa resident, was waiting in traffic around 5 p.m. local time when she saw multiple police cars responding to the scene.
In a video she shared with CNN, authorities can be seen running toward a building with their guns drawn. Two officers are seen taking long guns out of their trunks as more emergency vehicles race to the scene.
"I just knew that it was a shooting situation because I saw police running with rifles," Davis, 45, told CNN. "That's when I got emotional."
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BS Report: June 1st – Contenders or Pretenders?
The Braves are 10 games back from the division lead, is it time to give up?
The Braves are 10 games back from the division lead, is it time to give up? Bill Shanks discusses the good news and the bad news, and whether this season will end with a let down for fans.
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Camp Good Grief back in person and seeing more children struggling with the loss of a loved one
Hospice Care Options Foundation in Milledgeville is once again hosting its 'Camp Good Grief.' The camp, which has been virtual since the pandemic, welcomed students back on Wednesday.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Hospice Care Options Foundation in Milledgeville is once again hosting its ‘Camp Good Grief.’
The camp, which has been virtual since the pandemic, welcomed students back on Wednesday.
Organizers say experiencing the loss of a loved one is tough for everyone, especially when the person grieving is a child.
“When they come to camp, they find they’re not the only ones that have that problem,” coordinator Brenda H. Knight said. “It seems like we have a lot of deaths this year. I guess that’s due to Covid-19.”
Knight says the purpose of the camp is to help bring children 5 to 16 years of age together to talk about their experiences with grief.
Organizers say grief can come in several ways, including bullying, divorce, foster care, parents in jail or losing a pet.
Children who attend the camp go through several unique activities, including writing a message in a bottle to their loved ones, talking with each other and being outside with others.
Tammie Malone, a camp volunteer, shares the impact the camp has had on her son.
“It really helped my son deal with his grief from losing a brother,” Malone said. “He was 10 when it happened, and he came to camp for several years.”
McKinley Norris lost her grandfather at just 8 years old. As a teenager, she continues to volunteer each year. She says the camp is a great way for children to cope.
“This is really helpful,” Norris said. “It’s a great opportunity. It shows fun ways. It’s not all just sad. It’s a good experience.”
A balloon release will happen at the end of the three-day camp as well as a campfire.
The camp is also being hosted in Warner Robins and Macon. Registration is still open to attend those. You can click here to register.
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First potential case of Monkeypox in Georgia discovered
(41NBC/WMGT) — The first potential case of Monkeypox in Georgia has been reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Georgia Department of Public Health announced a possible case Wednesday, saying that the case involves a male resident of metro Atlanta who had recently traveled to Canada.
The CDC is performing tests to confirm the case, and the DPH is conducting contact tracing while the man isolates at home.
Monkeypox has been most seen in those with recent travel history to central or west African countries, as well as parts of Europe where it’s been reported. Other cases in the United states have also been spotted in California, with 3 cases, Colorado with 2, New York with 4, Florida with 3, and a few others with 1 or 2 cases each.
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Houston County Schools feeding students over the summer
The Houston County School District is providing meals to kids 18 and under this summer.
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Houston County School District is providing meals to kids 18 and under this summer.
The school district is providing breakfast and lunch for students, combining a mixture of popular foods, like burgers and barbecue sandwiches, with healthy fruits and vegetables.
The director of school nutrition says the school district will serve around 300,000 breakfasts and lunches over the next two months.
“As part of the school system, we want to support kids as best we can, whether it’s during the school year or during the summer,” Meredith Potter said. “So that’s why we operate this program to ensure that our kids return to school ready to learn.”
Meals will will be passed out at Northside High, Perry High and Warner Robins Middle School. Meals will also be provided at six van route locations.
To find out more, visit www.hcbe.net.
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ICYMI: Stories you may have missed today on 41NBC News Top stories from June 1, 2022 June 1, 2022 Clayton Poulnott, Senator Jon Ossoff working to expand Veterans healthcare Camp Good Grief back in person and seeing more children struggling with the loss of a loved one Houston County Schools feeding students over the summer For other stories you may have missed, click here. FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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Landscaping crews working to spruce up three I-75 interchanges
Paulk Landscaping is working with Macon-Bibb Parks and Beautification and the Georgia Department of Transportation on the project.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Crews are working to spruce up three interchanges off Interstate-75 in Macon.
Paulk Landscaping is working with Macon-Bibb Parks and Beautification and the Georgia Department of Transportation on the project.
The work at the Bass Road exit is already complete. Landscaping work will also take place on the Eisenhower Parkway and Pio Nono Avenue interchanges.
The project should take about five weeks, and matches the improvements made on the I-475 interchange in the Eisenhower Business Improvement District.
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Morning Business Report: Biden deciding on canceling $10,000 in student loan debt
Book Your Cargo, a provider of shipping goods from ports to stores, predicts that port disruptions and delays are likely to get worse as the year goes on.
Nationally, home prices were 20.6% higher than they were in March 2021.
60 percent of student loan borrowers made no payments during pandemic freeze. Biden plans on canceling at least $10,000 in debt for borrowers earning less than $150,000 or $300,000 for married couples.
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Mourners say goodbye to Uvalde teacher and her husband
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Mourners gathered Wednesday at a Catholic church to say goodbye to Robb Elementary School teacher Irma Garcia and her husband, Joe.
Irma died in the shooting at the Uvalde, Texas, grade school and Joe died two days later from a heart attack after visiting his wife’s memorial.
Nineteen children and two teachers were killed May 24 when the 18-year-old gunman burst into their classroom and started shooting. The litany of visitations, funerals and burials for his victims began Monday and will continue into mid-June. At Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Wednesday, twin black hearses carrying the coffins of the Garcias arrived in a procession led by police and civilian motorcycle riders.
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Scorching heat returns to Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – High temperatures will be in the mid and upper 90s today and tomorrow around Middle Georgia.
This Evening
Cloud cover will remain rather sparse as we go through the evening hours. We could see a couple of spotty storms around the region, but almost all of Middle Georgia will stay dry. Winds will remain rather calm as they come in from the south-southwest at 4-6 mph.
Overnight lows will drop into the upper 60s and lower 70s. A few clouds may hang around overnight, but for the most part it will be a clear night with a sliver of a waxing crescent moon.
Tomorrow
It will be a scorcher of a day as our highs soar into the mid to upper 90s around the region. There will be plenty of sun with some scattered cloud fields forming in the afternoon. A couple of spotty showers will be possible in the late afternoon and evening hours. Winds will luckily be a bit stronger from the west-northwest at 5-10 mph, but that still will not do a lot to offer relief from the sweltering heat.
During the overnight hours partly cloudy skies will hang around. Rain chances will elevate a bit ahead of a weak cold front making its way in from the northwest, however most of Middle Georgia will stay dry. Overnight lows will be in the upper 60s with northwesterly winds coming in at 5-10 mph.
The Weekend
We will see more clouds fill in on Friday afternoon as the weak cold front pushes through Georgia. There will be some scattered storms with it, but at this time severe weather looks to be unlikely and the rain is not guaranteed for everyone in the region. Highs will still be hot as they reach the low to mid 90s around the region. Wind will continue to come in from the northwest at 5-10 mph. Overnight we will see that wind shift more towards the northeast as cloud cover clears out ahead of Saturday. A couple of storms will be possible early. Lows overnight will be in the mid to upper 60s.
Saturday will see plenty of sun however expect some pleasant northeast breezes throughout the afternoon. The speed will likely hover around 7-12 mph with gusts upwards of 20 mph. These winds will be due to the likely re-organization of the remains of Hurricane Agatha from the Pacific. It is expected to re-organize and could take on a new name if it reaches tropical storm strength in the Gulf. No direct contact is expected with Georgia, and these breezes would be once the storm has already moved to the eastern side of Florida. Rain chances on Saturday are expected to remain low. Highs will be in the upper 80s and lower 90s with lows in the low to mid 60s.
Sunday will see the 90s return across Middle Georgia for highs in the afternoon along with the return of afternoon cloud fields and pop-up storms. The wind will also begin to shift back towards the south. Lows will be in the mid to upper 60s.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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Senator Jon Ossoff working to expand Veterans healthcare
“This is about coming together as American people. To ensure that those who made tremendous sacrifices in defense of our country."
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Senator Jon Ossoff is working to make sure veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and were exposed to toxic chemicals or burn pits, have the healthcare they need. He says there’s a bipartisan push in the Senate to pass the legislation.
“This is about coming together as American people. To ensure that those who made tremendous sacrifices in defense of our country, those who put it all on the line in Iraq and Afghanistan; who were exposed to toxic waste, and toxins, and burn pits, get the lifelong expanded access to care through the V.A. that they need, have earned, and deserve,” said Senator Ossoff.
He along with Congressman Sanford Bishop hosted a roundtable discussion Wednesday.
Macon resident, Stanley Stewart, says having national leaders come to discuss local issues is needed. Stewart says he was pleased to hear about Senator Ossoff’s push for expanding veterans healthcare.
“Our veterans served us well and we’re just coming off Memorial Day of course,” he said. “We want to make sure we honor and celebrate their legacy by making sure they have adequate healthcare.”
Mayor Pro Tem Seth Clark, also attended the discussion and says he appreciates having elected representatives take more than an hour to listen to residents.
“That is a unique set of skills, circumstances, and care that we should be very delighted that we have in our representation in Congress right now.”
He says the legislation will likely help veterans living in Middle Georgia.
“I stand with Senator Ossoff as he urges his colleagues to take it up for a vote next week. I think that that is the appropriate measure and the bill seems to be in the right posture. It’s time,” he said.
Senator Ossoff says he’s pushing for a vote on the legislation next week.
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TECH BYTE: Cellphones and Mental Health
(41NBC/WMGT) — Does your screen time impact your mental health? Is digital technology good or bad for your wellbeing? Google is working with the University of Oregon to find out. They’re teaming up on a four-week-long study.
It’s being led by psychology professor Dr. Nicholas Allen, who is the school’s director of the Center for Digital Mental Health. Dr. Allen says just because there’s seemingly limitless access to content, doesn’t mean this digital tech is entirely harmful. It has both benefits and risks. He says this quality research is needed to see which patterns are helpful, and which ones aren’t. And who’s more likely to struggle. This can help the tech industry make better products that benefit users more, instead of hurting them. Why not study the impact of technology with technology? Makes sense, right?
Researchers will look at how phone use measures against sleep patterns and exercise. They’ll use Google’s Health Studies app to look over their findings. The app can pull participant information straight from their smartphones. That’s why Health Studies was designed – to let people contribute important health research with leading institutions by using their phones. Users can also add relevant Fitbit data, including step count and physical activity.
If you’re interested in participating in the study, you need to have an Android phone. You can sign up using that Health Studies app. You can get it on Google Play.
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Tractor trailers hauling car parts, chemicals, crash and catch fire on I-16
(41NBC/WMGT) — The Georgia State Patrol is investigating a crash involving 2 tractor trailers that resulted in one driver being brought to the hospital, and another refusing treatment on scene.
According to the GSP, Patrol Post 20 Dublin was requested to investigate a 2 vehicle crash on I-16 near marker 51. The incident around 3:44 a.m. Wednesday, when a tractor trailer hauling car parts travelling west on I-16 got cut off by another tractor trailer, and lost control. This led to the tractor trailer hauling car parts to overturn across both lanes.
A second tractor trailer hauling chemicals approached the scene of the first crash, and , without seeing the first overturned trailer, struck it– resulting in both tractor trailers catching on fire.
One driver refused treatment on scene while the other was taken to a local hospital for medical treatment.
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UPDATE: Jury sides with Depp on lawsuit, Heard on counterclaim
UPDATE: A jury has ruled in favor of Johnny Depp in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, vindicating his stance that Heard fabricated claims that she was abused by Heard before and during their brief marriage. The jury also found in favor of Heard, who said she was defamed by Depp’s lawyer when he called her abuse allegations a hoax. Jury members found Depp should be awarded $15 million in damages, while Heard should receive $2 million. Depp sued Heard for libel in Virginia over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers said he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.
UPDATE: A jury has ruled in favor of Johnny Depp in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. The ruling vindicates his stance that Heard fabricated claims that she was abused by Depp before and during their brief marriage. The verdict could help the star rehabilitate his image after a televised trial that turned into a spectacle of a vicious marriage. Depp sued Heard for libel in Virginia court over a 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — The jury says it has reached a verdict in Johnny Depp’s $50 million libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, who testified that Depp physically and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions.
The jury also has reached a verdict regarding a $100 million counterclaim Heard filed against Depp. Heard said she was defamed when Depp’s lawyer called her abuse allegations a hoax.
The verdicts are expected to be read inside the Virginia court at 3 p.m. To reach a verdict, the seven-person civil jury has to come to a unanimous decision.
Depp accused Heard of libeling him with a 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
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MIDDLETOWN, Del.- The Delaware State Fire Marshal is investigating a fire in Middletown that heavily damaged a home.
The fire was reported shortly before 6:00 pm on Willow Court in the Villagebrook Trailer Park. All occupants were able to escape.
Deputy State Fire Marshals were called to the scene to investigate. The fire originated in an exterior gazebo and burned into the occupied home. Discarded cigarettes cased the fire. Two adults and one child were displaced.
The American Red Cross is providing emergency assistance.
Fire damage is estimated at $150,000.
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Over 80 universities flocked to Mercer University for their annual prospect football camp
Approximately 350 college coaches attended the camp.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Mercer University hosted its annual prospect football camp at Five Star Stadium, with over 80 universities in attendance.
Approximately 350 college coaches were on the field scouting the talent and hoping to find players that could positively impact their programs in the future.
Participants were ninth-graders through college seniors, allowing even college students a last-chance opportunity to make a collegiate football team.
The camp is an excellent way for student-athletes to gain exposure to football programs around the country, regardless of their skill level and experience.
“If you’re a fast kid, but you don’t have a lot of film yet, you come out here, and you run a good 40, you turn some heads, and now people want to find out more about you,” said Mercer football head coach Drew Cronic. “They want to continue to evaluate you. So if you get some people to notice you out here, you’re a big, good-looking kid, you run around good, you make some plays, and then maybe somebody goes back and really watches your film. And so you never know. It just helps kids.”
Five Star Stadium will be busy on Friday with a new group of high school football players participating in the second and final prospect camp while looking to earn a free college education.
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DETROIT (AP) — Ford will add 6,200 factory jobs in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio as it prepares to build more electric vehicles and roll out two redesigned combustion-engine models.
The company says it will invest $3.7 billion in the three states between now and 2026. It also will convert about 3,000 temporary workers to full-time status with pay raises and benefits.
A factory in Avon Lake, Ohio, near Cleveland, will be expanded so it can build an unidentified new electric commercial vehicle, with 1,800 new jobs. Ninety more jobs will be added in Lima and Sharonville, Ohio.
A plant in Claycomo, Missouri, near Kansas City, that makes big electric and combustion-engine Transit vans will get a third shift of 1,100 workers to handle increased demand.
In Michigan, Ford Motor Co. plans to add 2,000 jobs at three assembly plants, and another 1,200 at other facilities.
A factory in the Detroit suburb of Wayne that now builds the Ranger small pickup will see investment and jobs to make a new Ranger. A plant in Flat Rock south of Detroit will build a new version of the Mustang muscle car that it now builds. And Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn also will see investment and jobs so it can build more F-150 Lightning electric pickups to meet unexpectedly high demand. The company also will add 600 jobs at a new parts packaging facility to be built in Monroe, Michigan, and another 600 at several component plants in the state.
It’s part of Ford’s plan to be able to make 2 million electric vehicles per year globally by 2026.
Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, the company’s division that makes internal combustion vehicles, said the EV investments are needed in part because Ford underestimated demand for EVs.
As soon as Ford opened reservations for the electric F-150, it began planning to expand the Dearborn plant that makes them, he said. “The reservations were so much higher than the (production) capacity that we had put in,” Galhotra said. “This is the first time in my career that we were expanding the plant before the plant was built.”
Ford stopped taking reservations for the F-150 Lightning at 200,000, and it’s now converting reservations to orders. About two-thirds of those contacted so far are converting, but the company said it didn’t have an exact number. In addition, the Mach-E and E-Transit vans are sold out for the year, Galhotra said.
Ford wouldn’t give details of the commercial EV to be built at the Ohio Assembly Plant by mid-decade. The factory has been on the edge of closure for much of its life but has managed to survive even when building older vehicles.
“I think this tremendous investment, both in dollar terms and jobs, and the type of product we’re putting there, shows that the Ohio Assembly plant and that community have a very bright future,” Galhotra said.
Ohio is offering about $200 million in incentives for the Ford investment, while Michigan is contributing about $150 million. Although there will be a small capital investment to add the third shift in Missouri, there are no incentives for this project.
Ford said it already has begun switching the temporary workers to full-time, and it’s starting to hire the new workers for the plants.
The announcement came a year ahead of when contract talks start with the United Auto Workers union. New product and job announcements normally are part of the negotiations.
Ford also pledged to spend $1 billion over the next five years to improve the work experience at its factories. The company is working with the UAW to determine the needs, which could include better lighting in parking lots for safety and healthier foods in the factories.
Ford’s decision to build three battery plants and one new assembly plant in Kentucky and Tennessee last year raised questions about the company’s manufacturing commitment to its home state and region.
Michigan politicians worked hard to lure General Motors EV assembly and battery plants in January after losing the Ford plants to the southern states.
UAW officials praised Thursday’s Ford announcements in a company statement. “Ford stepped up to the plate by adding these jobs,” President Ray Curry said.
It’s likely that Ford will build a fourth North American battery factory in the Great Lakes region in a joint venture with SK Innovation of Korea, but Galhotra said he’s not ready to make an announcement yet.
At the pace Ford is moving with EV production, more production will be needed, Galhotra said, pointing to the Michigan site where the electric F-150 is being built and the commercial EV to be built in Ohio. “We’ll have more announcements to come,” he said.
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Fewer Americans apply for unemployment benefits last week
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week and the number of Americans collecting unemployment remain at historically low levels.
Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 11,000 to 200,000 for the week ending May 28, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications generally track the number of layoffs. The four-week average for claims, which evens out some of the weekly volatility, dipped by 500 from the previous week to 206,500.
The total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits for the week ending May 21 fell from the previous week, to 1,309,000, the fewest since Dec. 27, 1969.
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Kentucky football signee Quentel Jones charged with battery in connection to man’s death
His arrest follows the arrest Tuesday of 26-year-old Tyler Jones. Tyler Jones is charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of crime.
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – University of Kentucky football signee Quentel Jones is charged with battery in connection to the death of 37-year-old Brandon Goodwin last month.
He’s being held in the Peach County Law Enforcement Center, according to a post Thursday on the Fort Valley Police Department’s Facebook page.
The 19-year-old Jones, a star defensive lineman in Peach County’s class of 2022, signed with Kentucky in December. 247Sports.com rates him as a 3-star prospect.
His arrest follows the arrest Tuesday of 26-year-old Tyler Jones. Tyler Jones is charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of crime.
Goodwin was found shot to death in the 1100 block of Edward Street on May 14.
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Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases
Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, more racially equitable decisions.
The move comes weeks after an Associated Press review of a separate algorithmic tool in Pennsylvania that originally inspired Oregon officials to use the technology, and was found to have initially flagged a disproportionate number of Black children for “mandatory” neglect investigations.
Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said he had long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state’s child welfare system and reached out to the department again following the AP story.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee kicks off with pomp
LONDON (AP) — Four days of celebrations honoring Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne have kicked off with formal celebrations for the queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
First came the Trooping the Color ceremony, with military horses and flags. Then the queen joined members of her family Thursday on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as 70 planes flew overhead.
The 96-year-old Elizabeth is Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the first to serve for seven decades.
During a four-day holiday weekend, thousands of street parties are planned around the country. Thousands of people, some of whom camped overnight, lined the parade route — many of them sporting Union Jack flags, party hats or plastic tiaras. One woman arrived her daughter, saying she had come “to make memories.”
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Trump election probe grand jury to hear from Raffensperger
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s top elections official was expected to appear Thursday before a special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in the state.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was summoned to the Fulton County courthouse where the special grand jury has been meeting, according to a subpoena obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. Other subpoenas seek documents and testimony from five other people in his office.
Raffensperger arrived at the courthouse in downtown Atlanta Thursday morning. When a reporter asked how the day would go, Raffensperger replied “hopefully short” as he walked up the steps.
Trump directed his ire at his fellow Republican after Raffensperger refused to bend to pressure to overturn the votes that gave Democrat Joe Biden a narrow presidential election victory in Georgia. Raffensperger defeated a Trump-endorsed challenger in last month’s Republican primary.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said her investigation includes looking into a January 2021 phone call in which Trump pushed Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed for him to win Georgia. Trump has said his call with Raffensperger was “perfect” and that he did nothing wrong.
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Unknown powder sends employee to hospital, prompts evacuations at Dublin warehouse
Fire crews responded to a 911 call about a hazardous material at the Best Buy Distribution Center
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – An unknown powder substance led to evacuations at the Best Buy Distribution Center in Dublin, Thursday morning.
Dublin Fire Chief Matthew Cutler says fire crews responded to a 911 call about a hazardous material in the distribution center warehouse around 9:15am.
Cutler says when firefighters arrived on scene, employees were evacuating the building. According to Cutler, about 20 employees complained of eyes, nose and throat irritations. Employees started to gain some relief in the fresh air, but Cutler says one employee was transported to Fairview Park Hospital.
Chief Cutler says the unknown powder substance was located in a truck delivering goods to the warehouse. Employees did not directly touch the substance, but the substance did affect employees as the substance was disturbed.
The Laurens County Haz-Mat Unit was called to help investigate and decontaminate the area.
Around noon, the Dublin Police Department cleared the scene.
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