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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans haven’t been embarrassing in their past two games as they were the previous two.
Still, the improvement hasn’t equaled a win as the Texans (1-12-1) are mired in a nine-game skid, their longest since dropping the final 14 games of the 2013 season.
Houston lost 30-24 in overtime to Kansas City Sunday, a week after a 27-23 defeat by the Cowboys. Those close losses came after lopsided defeats to Miami and Cleveland with Kyle Allen at quarterback after Davis Mills was benched.
“There are some positives to build on,” coach Lovie Smith said. “That’s what I expect the guys to do. I expect them to show up and fight like that throughout. Eventually, you’ve got to get over the hump.”
On Sunday the Chiefs (11-3) got the ball first in overtime but were forced to punt after Patrick Mahomes was sacked by Blake Cashman on third down. Mills fumbled on a scramble on Houston’s first play, and it was recovered by Kansas City’s Willie Gay on the Texans 26.
Jerick McKinnon then dashed untouched into the end zone on the next play to give Kansas City the win and leave Houston without one since beating the Jaguars Oct. 9.
“It’s tough,” said rookie tight end Teagan Quitoriano, who had a TD reception Sunday. “It feels like no matter how hard we try, the football gods are against us. But we’re just going to keep coming to work and come back next week hungry.”
WHAT’S WORKING
The Texans moved their offense well by using a two-quarterback system of Mills and Jeff Driskel for a second straight week. Mills plays a more traditional role in the system and Driskel runs a wildcat-style offense on his snaps.
Mills had 124 yards passing with two touchdowns against the Chiefs. Driskel had just two throws for 8 yards, but the wrinkle seemed to help keep Kansas City’s defense off-balance.
WHAT NEEDS WORK
Houston has done a lot of things well in the past two weeks, but isn’t content with simply improving and must find a way to finish. Smith said he talks often with his players about being able to make the big play when the game is on the line, and he hopes they’ll be able to do that in these last three games.
“At this level moral victories aren’t really a thing,” Driskel said. “We go into every game, expecting to win, thinking we’re going to win the game ... and we just got to figure out a way to do that.”
STOCK UP
Running back Royce Freeman had 11 carries for 51 yards Sunday in his first game of the season. He was promoted from the practice squad Saturday after rookie Dameon Pierce, who led the team with 939 yards rushing, was placed on injured reserve.
STOCK DOWN
Though Mills and Driskel working together has helped improve Houston’s offense, the turnover by Mills in overtime sealed another loss. He’ll have to take better care of the ball for the Texans to end their skid.
INJURIES
WR Brandin Cooks missed a third straight game with a calf injury but could return Sunday. ... WR Nico Collins was out for a second game with a foot injury Sunday.
KEY NUMBER
502 — Houston allowed the Chiefs to pile up 502 yards Sunday. It’s the second time this season the Texans have allowed more than 500 yards after giving up a season-high 517 in a tie with the Colts in their opener.
NEXT STEPS
The Texans will try to end this dreadful season on a positive note as they return to AFC South play for the remainder of the season. They visit Tennessee on Saturday before hosting Jacksonville on New Year’s Day and ending the season at Indianapolis Jan. 8.
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Christmas is difficult for many people as well as those in our homeless community.
It reminds them of what they have lost: Loss of family or loved one, loss of a home, loss of their holiday traditions, loss of people who truly care about them.
Rescue Mission of Salt Lake brings hope for the Holidays. They provide a home for the homeless as well as offering their love, respect, a recovery program, and a lasting relationship.
The Rescue Mission needs your help! You can sponsor meals or gives items such as winter coats, hats, and gloves.
Their Christmas Banquet is on Friday December 23rd from 11am to 2pm which will give those who attend a delicious Christmas meal, while enjoying live music, gifts for all, free haircuts, plus Santa will be there to bless the children.
To support the Rescue Mission and learn more go to RescueSaltLake.org | https://www.fox13now.com/the-place/giving-hope-for-the-holidays | 2022-12-19T23:29:21 | en | 0.976513 |
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Today, the Florida Lottery says two Jacksonville women claimed a $1 million prize from the 500X THE CASH Scratch-Off game.
Bernadette Albert, 52, and Katherine Vestal, 39, of Jacksonville chose to receive their winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $820,000.00.
Albert purchased her winning ticket from Publix, located at 5858 Atlantic Boulevard in Jacksonville. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.
Vestal purchased her winning ticket from Prime Time Food Store, located at 12020 Fort Caroline Road in Jacksonville. The retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus commission for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket.
The $50 game, 500X THE CASH, features a top prize of $25 million—the largest ever offered on a Florida Scratch-Off game—and the best odds to become an instant millionaire! The game’s overall odds of winning are 1-in-4.50. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/money/women-each-claim-1-million-prize-from-scratch-off/77-76e67016-dc01-4565-9a43-4a14b616bfd9 | 2022-12-19T23:29:23 | en | 0.930894 |
ROME (AP) — A ship operated by a German charity was sailing on Monday toward a northern Italian port with 108 migrants aboard after rescuing them in recent days from two unseaworthy vessels in the central Mediterranean.
The charity Sea-Eye said its ship, Sea-Eye 4, plucked up 68 migrants from a foundering smugglers' vessel last week, then sailed Saturday toward another vessel in distress. The second rescue, of 45 migrants aboard a plastic vessel, was carried out Sunday night in waters within Malta's search-and-rescue area, the charity said in a statement.
Malta didn't aid in the second rescue, and Italy ordered Sea-Eye 4 to head immediately to its northern port of Livorno without taking on additional migrants, the charity said.
But because "were no other rescue vessels in the immediate vicinity, the SEA-EYE 4 remained in operation and continued to search for the people missing,” it added. During the 35 hours it took Sea-Eye 4 to get to the second vessel, it said it was in contact with two merchant ships in the Maltese search-and-rescue zone that agreed to help. Eventually, one of the two merchant ships reached the plastic boat first and aided in the rescue, according to Sea-Eye.
It wasn't clear when Sea-Eye 4 would reach Livorno, the port assigned by Italian authorities for disembarkation.
Of the second rescue, Sea-Eye said, nearly all aboard were traumatized by their ordeal and migrants had burns from fuel spills. It added that “in total, the people were out at sea for six days and had to fear for their lives."
Human smugglers, many of them based in Libya, launch flimsy rubber or plastic dinghies and rickety fishing boats toward Italian shores, typically after charging the migrants thousands of dollars for the dangerous sea passage.
Most of those migrants who make it to Italy are fleeing poverty, not war or persecution, and thus risk having their asylum requests denied by Italian authorities.
Italy's two-month-old government, headed by far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni, has said it wants to discourage charity rescue missions, contending that those operations essentially help facilitate the smugglers' business.
For years, Italy has argued — generally without much success — that because many of the migrants hope to obtain work in northern Europe, other European Union nations should host a large number of the rescued migrants who reach Italian shores.
By assigning ports on the Italian mainland, instead of in Sicily, hundreds of kilometers (miles) closer to the scenes of rescue, Italian authorities essentially force the charity boats to spend more days to reach the mainland docks — and thus have fewer days to spend at sea aiding migrants.
A key partner in Meloni's coalition is the right-wing League, a party headed by anti-migrant leader Matteo Salvini.
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LYON, France (AP) — American businessman John Textor completed his takeover of French soccer club Lyon on Monday.
The sale was initially set for September but was pushed back several times.
Under the deal, Textor’s Eagle Football is acquiring a stake of 77.49% in the club. The agreement with Textor’s Eagle Football Holdings provides for a capital increase of 86 million euros ($90 million).
“After four months of constructive negotiations marked by a common understanding with (president) Jean-Michel Aulas and all our partners, we are proud to reach this exceptional agreement," Textor said.
The American businessman made his fortune in digital media. It’s not the first time Textor has ventured into soccer. He also has stakes in Crystal Palace, Belgian second-division club RWD Molenbeek, and Brazilian team Botafogo.
Lyon’s run of titles from 2001-08 made it the powerhouse of French soccer. But after Bordeaux ended Lyon’s run in 2009, the club’s fortunes dipped.
Lyon finished eighth last season, 25 points behind champion Paris Saint-Germain.
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Santa is at the Festival of the Seas at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium until Saturday, December 24, 2022!
You can meet Santa, Mrs. Claus, and Santa’s workshop helpers, plus enjoy fun holiday crafts and photo ops throughout the Aquarium.
Festival of the Seas is included with Aquarium Admission.
Santa will be visiting the Aquarium at the following intervals:
December 16-23 from 12:00 – 4:00 pm and on December 24 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
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FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. — You now have more options for healthcare in Clay County.
Baptist Medical Center Clay is officially open as of Monday morning. It's located off Village Square Parkway in Fleming Island.
The hospital has are 20 maternity suites and spacious rooms in the neonatal intensive car unit as well as areas for heart, cancer and surgical care.
Hospital President Darin Roark says what makes this 300,000-square foot hospital unique is some rooms, like the maternity suites, hide much of the medical equipment so that the room feels more like a hotel. Roark says mothers got emotional touring the NICU.
"We just felt that it was really important to build a hospital that didn't feel like a hospital because hospitals are very sterile, they're kind of scary places," Roar said. "And post the COVID world, we really wanted to welcome the community back into our facilities."
Roak says four of the hospital's six floors are in use now and they'll expand based on the community's needs. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/new-hospital-opens-in-fleming-island/77-265e2e92-0f91-47fb-9b83-386fd0f3d1a5 | 2022-12-19T23:29:29 | en | 0.97864 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection in the seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and four others charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol began Monday after the judge denied defense attorneys' last-minute bid to delay the trial over action by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
Defense attorneys pushed to postpone jury selection in the high-profile case until after the new year, citing concerns that media coverage of the Jan. 6 panel could taint the jury pool. A defense attorney told the judge it's also impossible to know what evidence related to the Proud Boys might be released by the committee, which urged the Justice Department Monday to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and his allies.
“We don't want to be picking the jury in this highly confusing and combustible environment," attorney Norm Pattis, who is representing Proud Boy organizer Joseph Biggs, told the judge.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said they would push ahead despite the committee's work and told defense attorneys he would remind jurors to avoid media coverage related to Jan. 6.
“The former president is not on trial here today," the judge said before the first group of potential jurors were called into the courtroom.
The judge individually questioned 17 prospective jurors on Monday and disqualified some of them based on concerns about their impartiality, including a man who expressed concerns about his safety if he was picked. Jury selection is scheduled to resume on Tuesday.
Tarrio is perhaps the highest-profile defendant to face jurors yet in the attack that halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s win, left dozens of police officers injured and led to nearly 1,000 arrests. Tarrio, of Miami, and the others — Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and Biggs — are charged with several other crimes in addition to sedition.
They will face jurors just weeks after two leaders of another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, were convicted of seditious conspiracy in a major victory for the Justice Department. If convicted of sedition, the Proud Boys could face up to 20 years in prison. The trial is expected to last at least six weeks.
Jury selection began hours before the Jan. 6 House committee held its final public meeting and recommended criminal charges against Trump and associates who helped him launch a pressure campaign to try to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Defense attorneys for the Proud Boys and other Jan. 6 defendants have said there's no way they can get an unbiased jury in Washington, where the federal court sits less than a mile from the Capitol. But judges have repeatedly denied requests to move the cases out of the nation's capital, saying fair jurors can be found under the right questioning.
The first potential juror questioned Monday said he once worked as an aide in the Supreme Court and has a brother who is a White House lawyer. The judge disqualified him.
The judge also dismissed a woman who was working for Congressional Quarterly on Jan. 6 and had several co-workers who were trapped in the building that day. The woman also said it would be difficult for her to set aside her opinions about the Proud Boys, whom she described as having a “delusional superhero complex.”
Tarrio wasn't in Washington on Jan. 6 because he had been arrested two days earlier on charges that he vandalized a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December 2020. But prosecutors say he was the leader of a conspiracy to stop the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.
Days before the riot, Tarrio posted on social media about “revolution," according to court papers. Citing what they alleged was an encrypted message group created by Tarrio, authorities say members discussed attacking the Capitol. One message said: “Time to stack those bodies in front of Capitol Hill.”
Prosecutors allege that even after his arrest, Tarrio kept command over the Proud Boys who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 and cheered on their actions from afar. As rioters stormed the building, he posted “don't (expletive) leave” on social media, and then later “We did this...”
Nordean, Pezzola, Biggs and Rehl were part of the first wave of rioters to push onto Capitol grounds and charge past police barricades toward the building, according to prosecutors. Pezzola used a riot shield he stole from a Capitol police officer to break a window, allowing the first rioters to enter the building, prosecutors allege.
Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president; Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer; Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia; and Dominic Pezzola was a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York.
Defense attorneys have denied that the Proud Boys leaders planned or led an attack on the Capitol.
Tarrio’s lawyers say he didn’t instruct or encourage anyone to go into the Capitol or engage in violent or destructive behavior. Nordean’s attorney accused the Justice Department of selective prosecution and targeting him based on his political associations and beliefs. Rehl’s lawyer asked the judge to toss the indictment on First Amendment grounds, arguing that the case rested solely on Rehl’s political views and free speech.
Last month's guilty verdicts for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs were the first seditious conspiracy trial convictions in decades. Jurors acquitted three other Oath Keeper defendants of seditious conspiracy, although they were convicted of other crimes. Four others associated with the Oath Keepers are also currently standing trial for seditious conspiracy.
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Richer reported from Boston.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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FROST ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
218 PM PST Mon Dec 19 2022
...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM PST
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures as low as 32 will result in frost formation.
Isolated temperatures in the mid to upper 20s are possible
through the canyons of the Santa Monica Range.
* WHERE...Santa Clarita Valley, Ojai Valley, Central Ventura
County Valleys, Southeastern Ventura County Valleys, Santa
Monica Mountains and Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley.
* WHEN...From midnight tonight to 8 AM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Frost can damage sensitive plants and harm pets if
left unprotected.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
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Following their Christmas Tour with Jim Brickman, Utah father-daughter duo Mat and Savanna Shaw joined 'The Place' to preview their local concerts.
They released their new Christmas album 'Christmas Together' in November debuted at #1 on iTunes Holiday Chart.
The CD includes 8 new Christmas songs and a new original, available on all streaming services.
It includes collaborations with Jim Brickman, Vocal Point, and Claire/Dave Crosby
Seats are still available for their performances at the Eccles Theater both Thursday, December 22 and Friday, December 23.
Buy tickets for or watch from home on the world-wide livestream Friday night on their website.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man is dead following a shooting incident on Jacksonville's Westside Sunday night, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
JSO says at approximately 10:30 p.m., patrol officers responded to the 2500 block of Jammes Road regarding a shooting.
Upon arrival, police say a man in his early 20s was located with at least one fatal gunshot wound.
Police say they are canvassing the area for potential witnesses as well as surveillance video.
Anyone with information is urged to call the JSO non-emergency number at 630-0500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/shooting-on-jacksonvilles-westside/77-dfc2191a-c42c-4fd3-b1c8-3779ad755022 | 2022-12-19T23:29:35 | en | 0.969625 |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and others are suing the city of Albuquerque to stop officials in the state’s largest city from destroying homeless encampments and jailing and fining people who are living on the street.
The lawsuit filed Monday accuses the city of violating the civil rights of what advocates describe as Albuquerque's most vulnerable population.
Lawyers for the ACLU, the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty and a group of homeless plaintiffs contend that Albuquerque has initiated a campaign in which city personnel is hounding and harassing the homeless.
The complaint blames the city's own policies for causing a housing shortage, along with escalating home prices that have put ownership out of reach and have resulted in more pressure on the rental market. They also point to the trend of institutional investors buying single-family homes and renting them at sky-high rates.
“The lack of affordable housing and adequately paid employment in Albuquerque has not only caused precariously housed individuals and families to lose their housing, but it has also presented a barrier for currently unhoused people to exit homelessness," the lawsuit states.
The lawyers also acknowledge that mental illness, disabilities or substance abuse can be contributing factors to some people’s homelessness, but that the city simply doesn't have enough beds or shelters to accommodate the growing population.
Democratic Mayor Tim Keller's office did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the lawsuit.
The ACLU is fighting similar actions in Arizona, where a federal judge last week temporarily halted Phoenix from conducting sweeps of a huge homeless encampment downtown.
In Albuquerque, the mayor's office has struggled to address the complaints of residents about homeless encampments taking over public parks and about aggressive panhandling. The city plans to develop a multimillion-dollar center on Albuquerque's south side where the homeless can seek services but the number of beds will meet only a fraction of the need.
Those without a place to go also have complained that the city's emergency housing shelter in a remote area west of Albuquerque is dangerous, unsanitary and infested with black mold.
According to the lawsuit, the shelter — which is able to house as many as 450 people — lacks working fire hydrants, does not meet fire safety and building codes, and has no means of sanitizing sheets, blankets or bedding to rid them of bed bugs and parasites.
Many of those at the shelter also have mental illness and behavioral health disabilities, and the advocates say mental health therapy is not provided there.
The lawsuit also detailed a homeless community of about 120 people that set up camp in Coronado Park, a city park north of downtown along a busy interstate. City workers began clearing the park of tents and belongings earlier this summer, making for what the plaintiffs described as a chaotic scene.
“Because the city lacks adequate shelter space and because even the available shelter space is not a viable option for some people, the people evicted from Coronado Park had nowhere to go," the lawsuit states. “People have looked for other locations, but the city continues to sweep unhoused people from wherever they land, making it impossible for people to settle anywhere.”
The New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness estimates the number of New Mexicans experiencing homelessness statewide is between 15,000 and 20,000. That includes those staying in shelters or outdoors and those who are temporarily living with others, living in unsafe housing conditions, sleeping in cars or staying in motels.
Maria Martinez Sanchez, legal director at ACLU-NM, said laws that criminalize people experiencing homelessness make it harder for them to find housing and jobs because even misdemeanor convictions can make someone ineligible for subsidized housing.
“Criminalizing homelessness does nothing to address its root causes. In fact, it exacerbates the problem," she said. "We know the solution — affordable housing. The city just needs to find the will and the courage to make it happen.” | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/new-mexico-city-sued-for-hounding-harassing-the-homeless/OKAEIXBJNFBSNMKR3GRHW5VVCA/ | 2022-12-19T23:29:36 | en | 0.965497 |
WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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RIP CURRENT STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
424 PM CST Mon Dec 19 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CST TUESDAY...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents.
For the Coastal Flood Statement, isolated minor coastal
flooding.
* WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island
Counties.
* WHEN...For the High Rip Current Risk, through Tuesday
afternoon. For the Coastal Flood Statement, until 1 AM CST
Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Wave run-up may approach the dunes along narrow
beaches. Beach equipment, such as umbrellas and chairs, could
be moved by waves. Vehicles driving along narrow beaches may
experience higher water levels. Elevated water levels may also
occur across the Laguna Madre and South Bay, and along State
Highway 4 west of Boca Chica State Park. Rip currents can
sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Water level at Brazos Santiago Pass has
been running nearly 1.5 feet above astronomical predictions...or
1.1 to 1.2 ft. MHHW. Webcams from South Padre Island confirm
that isolated minor coastal flooding is occurring. This should
continue until astronomical tide amplitudes decrease sharply
after midnight.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive through flooded roadways.
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and
float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a
direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the
shore and call or wave for help.
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WASHINGTON — The maker of the popular Fortnite video game will pay $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints revolving around children's privacy and its payment methods that tricked players into making unintended purchases, U.S. federal regulators said Monday.
The Federal Trade Commission reached the settlements to resolve two cases against Epic Games Inc., which has parlayed Fortnite's success in the past five years to become a video game powerhouse.
The $520 million covered in the settlement consists of $245 million in customer refunds and a $275 million fine for collecting personal information on Fortnite players under the age of 13 without informing their parents or getting their consent. It’s the biggest penalty ever imposed for breaking an FTC rule.
“Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users, including teenagers and children,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement.
Even before the settlement was announced, Epic said in a statement it had already rolled out a series of changes “to ensure our ecosystem meets the expectations of our players and regulators, which we hope will be a helpful guide for others in our industry." The Cary, North Carolina, company also asserted that it no longer engages in the practices flagged by the FTC.
The $245 million in customer refunds will go to players who fell victim to so-called “dark patterns" and billing practices. Dark patterns are deceptive online techniques used to nudge users into doing things they didn’t intend to do.
In this case, “Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button," the FTC said.
Players could, for example, be charged while trying to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing a nearby button when simply trying to preview an item, it said.
“These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers," the FTC said.
Epic said it agreed to the FTC settlement because it wants “to be at the forefront of consumer protection and provide the best experience for our players.”
“No developer creates a game with the intention of ending up here,” Epic said.
During the past two years, Epic also has been locked in a high-profile legal battle with Apple in an attempt to dismantle the barriers protecting the iPhone app store, which has emerged as one of the world’s biggest e-commerce hubs during the past 14 years. After Epic introduced a different payment system within its Fortnite app in August 2020, Apple ousted the video from the app store, triggering a lawsuit that went to trial last year.
A federal judge ruled largely in Apple's favor, partly because she embraced the iPhone maker's contention that its exclusive control of the app store helped protect the security and privacy of consumers. The ruling is currently under appeal, with a decision expected at some point next year. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/fortnite-maker-epic-games-settlement/507-ecccbde6-83a9-4012-8e9c-c295d6fc299b | 2022-12-19T23:29:41 | en | 0.96823 |
HONOLULU (AP) — Tiffany Reyes had just gotten back to her seat from the bathroom and was about to buckle her safety belt when Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35 dipped.
In an instant, Reyes found herself on the aisle floor, staring up at caved-in ceiling panels and a cracked bathroom sign that was hanging.
“I asked everyone around me, ’Was that me?” Reyes said in an interview Monday. “They said I had apparently flown into the ceiling and slammed into the ground.”
Reyes, 40, was among 20 people on the flight — passengers and crew — taken to hospitals after turbulence struck their plane flying from Phoenix to Honolulu without warning Sunday.
Eleven people were in serious condition. In all, 36 people received medical treatment for bumps, bruises, cuts and nausea, said Jim Ireland, director of Honolulu Emergency Medical Services.
Reyes was heading home after picking up her daughter Kaylee from college. She initially thought something had hit the plane and that it was crashing. She briefly thought they were going to die because she had never encountered anything so violent on a flight before.
“That’s the most terrifying experience I’ve been through in my whole 40 years of life,” Reyes said.
Reyes wasn’t bleeding. And the adrenaline surging through her dulled the pain that would eventually come. She crawled back into her seat. And her daughter, who was buckled up and escaped injury, “just held me the whole time.”
Others had it much worse, Reyes said. She saw a woman walk off the plane with gashes in her head and blood on her face and clothes.
An ambulance took Reyes to an emergency room where she received X-rays, had her blood taken and various other screenings. After five hours there, she and her family – her daughter, son and husband – went home to decompress.
She had a headache which began to fade Sunday night. But the left side of her body started to ache.
“I can’t even move around in bed,” Reyes said. “So I have to sleep right on my back without even moving.”
The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday it is investigating the incident.
The full flight had nearly 300 people aboard and carried many passengers traveling to Hawaii for the holidays, like Jacie Hayata Ano, who was heading home.
"It was just rocky," she told KHON-TV. "And then, it quickly just escalated to the point where we're shaking so much that we were pretty much like floating off of our chairs."
Hawaiian Airlines Chief Operating Officer Jon Snook said such turbulence is isolated and unusual, noting the airline had not experienced anything like it in recent history. Three flight attendants were among the injured, he said.
Jazmin Bitanga, who was also traveling home for the holidays, said there were two drops in altitude, including one that was so strong it sent her boyfriend’s water bottle into the plane’s ceiling.
"Just all around me, there were people crying," she told Hawaii News Now.
There was some internal damage to the aircraft during the turbulence, Snook said. The fasten-seat belts sign was on at the time, though some of those injured were not wearing them, he said.
The airline was aware of the forecast for thunderstorms and unstable air and weather conditions, but had no warning that the particular patch of air where the turbulence occurred "was in any way dangerous,” Snook said.
He did not know how much altitude the plane lost during the turbulence, saying that would be part of an investigation involving the National Transportation Safety Board. The plane's flight data recorder would provide those details, he said.
The investigation would also address precisely what the passengers and crew were doing at the time, he said.
The Airbus A330-200 began its descent immediately after the turbulence, Snook said. The crew declared an emergency because of the number of injuries on board and air traffic controllers gave the flight priority to land.
The aircraft will undergo a thorough inspection and maintenance, mostly to fix components in the cabin, Snook said.
Snook said he could only speculate whether some passengers hit their heads, but that was likely based on the injuries and the damage to cabin paneling.
“If you don’t have your seat belt on, you stay where you are as the aircraft goes down, and that’s how those injuries occur,” Snook said.
The investigation will examine what other measures were taken, aside from turning on the fasten seat belt sign, to ensure passengers were buckled in, he said.
A high wind warning and flood watch were in effect Monday for Hawaii as a strong front moves across the islands, according to the National Weather Service.
On Monday, severe turbulence hit a United Airlines flight traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Houston. The airline said two passengers and three crew members suffered “minor injuries” and were taken to a hospital shortly after the flight landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. The airline did not describe the nature of the injuries.
A 2021 NTSB report on preventing turbulence-related injuries on scheduled passenger flights said wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of serious injury. It also found that air traffic control procedures for processing pilot weather reports were "time-consuming and nonstandardized." The report said that air carriers often share observations about turbulence with their own personnel, but not throughout the national airspace system.
In 2019, 37 passengers and flight crew members were injured when an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Sydney hit intense turbulence about two hours past Hawaii. The Boeing 777-200 was diverted to Honolulu, where the injured received treatment. Thirty people were taken to hospitals and nine had serious injuries.
Most people associate turbulence with heavy storms. But the most dangerous type is so-called clear-air turbulence. The wind-shear phenomenon can occur in wispy cirrus clouds or even clear air near thunderstorms, as differences in temperature and pressure create powerful currents of fast-moving air.
Planes can sail into clear-air turbulence without warning.
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Finely reported from Norfolk, Virginia. Associated Press researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York and writers Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska and Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas contributed to this report.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 19, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
218 PM PST Mon Dec 19 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM
PST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 10 to
18 inches along the crest and 4 to 8 inches elsewhere.
* WHERE...East Slopes of the Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 4 AM PST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact travel along I-90 west of Ellensburg and
over the Cascades.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1, or
by visiting online at https://tripcheck.com for Oregon or
https://wsdot.com/travel for Washington.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO 10 AM PST
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 8 to 12
inches.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon. In
Washington, Northwest Blue Mountains.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Tuesday to 10 AM PST Wednesday.
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM TUESDAY TO 10 AM
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM WEDNESDAY TO 10 AM
PST FRIDAY...
* WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, snow expected. Total
snow accumulations of 2 to 3 inches. For the Wind Chill
Advisory, very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as
20 below zero.
* WHERE...Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, from 4 PM Tuesday to
10 AM PST Wednesday. For the Wind Chill Advisory, from 10 PM
Wednesday to 10 AM PST Friday.
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute. The cold
wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little
as 30 minutes.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
Use caution while traveling outside. Wear appropriate clothing, a
hat, and gloves.
* WHAT...Very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as 20
below zero.
* WHERE...Portions of central, north central and northeast
Oregon and central and south central Washington.
* WHEN...From 10 PM Wednesday to 10 AM PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed
skin in as little as 30 minutes.
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WASHINGTON — Scientists studying Jupiter's weather for nearly 40 years made some unexpected and slightly mysterious discoveries about how temperatures in the planet's different belts and zones fluctuate.
The researchers tracked temperatures in Jupiter's upper troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where its signature striped clouds form and where the planet's weather occurs.
Astronomers have known since NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 missions of the 1970s that generally, Jupiter's whiter, lighter-colored bands – known as zones – are associated with colder temperatures. Its belts – the darker, brown-red bands – have warmer temperatures.
But without long-term data, scientists couldn't track how temperatures and weather patterns changed over time.
For the new research, published Monday in Nature Astronomy, scientists studied images of the bright infrared glow above warmer regions of Jupiter's atmosphere. Scientists collected images at regular intervals over three of Jupiter's orbits, each of which lasts 12 Earth years.
What they discovered was surprising: Scientists found Jupiter's temperatures rise and fall following definite periods that aren't tied to the seasons – or any other cycle scientists know about. Because Jupiter's axis tilt is only 3 degrees, compared to Earth's 23.5, it has "weak seasons," according to NASA, and the researchers did not expect to find temperatures varying at regular intervals.
Researchers also found a connection between temperature shifts in regions thousands of miles apart. According to NASA, temperatures acted like a mirror image across the equator. As temperatures went up at specific latitudes in the northern hemisphere, they went down at the same latitudes in the southern hemisphere.
“It’s similar to a phenomenon we see on Earth, where weather and climate patterns in one region can have a noticeable influence on weather elsewhere, with the patterns of variability seemingly ‘teleconnected’ across vast distances through the atmosphere," said Glenn Orton, senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and lead author of the study.
“We’ve solved one part of the puzzle now,” said co-author Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester in England.
Orton and his colleagues began this work in 1978, fighting to win observation time at major telescopes around the world, then combining years' worth of observations from different telescopes and instruments and poring through that data to search for patterns.
The study lasted so long, none of the students assisting with research when it was completed had been born when the study began.
Scientists hope the findings help them on their quest to predict the weather on Jupiter, which could contribute to climate modeling for giant planets across our solar system.
“Measuring these temperature changes and periods over time is a step toward ultimately having a full-on Jupiter weather forecast, if we can connect cause and effect in Jupiter’s atmosphere,” Fletcher said. “And the even bigger-picture question is if we can someday extend this to other giant planets to see if similar patterns show up.” | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/nasa-jupiter-weather-patterns/507-adbad656-b723-45ce-a285-7fbc2ba96b3f | 2022-12-19T23:29:47 | en | 0.946459 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors reached a verdict Monday at the Los Angeles rape and sexual assault trial of Harvey Weinstein.
Weinstein and lawyers for both sides are headed to the courtroom, where the verdict will be read.
Jurors got the case Dec. 2 and deliberated for nine days over a span of more than two weeks. After a monthlong trial, they had to make decisions on two rape counts and five other sexual assault counts against the 70-year-old former movie mogul.
The allegations involved four women and dated from 2005 to 2013.
If convicted on all counts, Weinstein could get a sentence of 60 years to life in prison.
Whatever the result, he won't be walking free. He still has more than 20 years left on a New York prison sentence after a rape and sexual assault conviction there.
Prosecutors urged jurors to believe the accounts of the four women, each of whom gave dramatic and emotional testimony about the allegations.
Weinstein's attorneys emphasized the shortage of physical evidence in the case, and asked jurors to set aside the emotional impact of the testimony to focus on the changes several of the women's stories had gone through in their conversations with authorities.
Weinstein pleaded not guilty and denied engaging in any non-consensual sex.
The trial came just after the fifth anniversary of the blockbuster stories about Weinstein that made him a lightning rod for the #MeToo movement.
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WFO PORTLAND Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Portland OR
211 PM PST Mon Dec 19 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT
PST TUESDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 10 to 18
inches, with heaviest amounts above 3000 feet.
* WHERE...South Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...From noon Tuesday to midnight PST Tuesday night.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
For the latest road conditions call 5 1 1, or visit
for Oregon: https://www.tripcheck.com
and for Washington: https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/map
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers. But it is leaving open the prospect of lifting the restrictions by Wednesday.
The order Monday by Chief Justice John Roberts comes as conservative states are pushing to keep limits on asylum seekers that were put in place during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. They are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort before the limits are set to expire.
In the one-page order, Roberts granted a stay pending further order and asked the government to respond by 5 p.m. Tuesday. That is just hours before the restrictions are slated to expire on Wednesday.
The order by Roberts means the high-profile case that has drawn intense scrutiny will go down to the wire.
The immigration restrictions, often referred to as Title 42, were put in place under then-President Donald Trump in March 2020 and have prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. in recent years. But as they’re set to expire, thousands more migrants are packed in shelters on Mexico’s border with the U.S.
Immigration advocates sued to stop the use of Title 42 to limit who can apply for asylum, saying that the policy goes against American and international obligations to people fleeing to the U.S. to escape persecution. And they’ve argued that things like vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus have made the policy outdated.
Conservative-leaning states have argued that lifting of Title 42 will lead to a surge of migrants into their states and take a toll on government services like health care or law enforcement. They also charge that the federal government has no plan to deal with an increase in migrants. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/supreme-court-temporarily-halts-title-42-end/507-d660e688-1a23-4cad-bd01-8659396d9d01 | 2022-12-19T23:29:53 | en | 0.976303 |
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 19, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
231 PM PST Mon Dec 19 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM
PST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 8
inches.
* WHERE...Portions of northwest and west central Washington.
* WHEN...From 7 PM this evening to 7 PM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A transition to rain is possible across
King County late tonight into Tuesday morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
For the latest road conditions in Washington state, call 5 1 1.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO
7 PM PST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to 3
* WHERE...Tacoma and vicinity, including Vaughn, Gig Harbor, Fox
Island, Anderson Island, DuPont, Puyallup, and Spanaway.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A rain or rain to snow mix is possible
during this period.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM
PST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 5 to 18
inches. Heaviest amounts over Snoqualmie and Stevens Pass.
* WHERE...Olympic mountains and valleys, including Hurricane
Ridge, Amanda Park, and Quinault, Cascade mountains and
valleys of Snohomish and King Counties, including Darrington,
Index, Skykomish, Stevens Pass, and Snoqualmie Pass and
Cascade mountains and valleys of Pierce and Lewis Counties,
including the Crystal Mountain Ski Area, Paradise on Mount
Rainier, Ashford, Randle, and Packwood.
* WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 4 AM PST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on very difficult travel.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 PM
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 12
* WHERE...Cascade mountains and valleys of Whatcom and Skagit
Counties, including Maple Falls, the Mount Baker Ski Area,
Newhalem, Lyman, and Concrete.
* WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 4 PM PST Tuesday.
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to 2
* WHERE...Lowlands of Thurston, western Lewis, and far southeast
Mason Counties, including Harstine Island, Olympia, Centralia,
and Toledo and Far southwest Mason County and the interior
lowlands of Grays Harbor County, including Matlock, McCleary,
and Montesano.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A rain or rain to snow mix is likely during
this period.
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WASHINGTON — The maker of the popular Fortnite video game will pay $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints revolving around children's privacy and its payment methods that tricked players into making unintended purchases, U.S. federal regulators said Monday.
The Federal Trade Commission reached the settlements to resolve two cases against Epic Games Inc., which has parlayed Fortnite's success in the past five years to become a video game powerhouse.
The $520 million covered in the settlement consists of $245 million in customer refunds and a $275 million fine for collecting personal information on Fortnite players under the age of 13 without informing their parents or getting their consent. It’s the biggest penalty ever imposed for breaking an FTC rule.
“Epic used privacy-invasive default settings and deceptive interfaces that tricked Fortnite users, including teenagers and children,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement.
Even before the settlement was announced, Epic said in a statement it had already rolled out a series of changes “to ensure our ecosystem meets the expectations of our players and regulators, which we hope will be a helpful guide for others in our industry." The Cary, North Carolina, company also asserted that it no longer engages in the practices flagged by the FTC.
The $245 million in customer refunds will go to players who fell victim to so-called “dark patterns" and billing practices. Dark patterns are deceptive online techniques used to nudge users into doing things they didn’t intend to do.
In this case, “Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button," the FTC said.
Players could, for example, be charged while trying to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing a nearby button when simply trying to preview an item, it said.
“These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers," the FTC said.
Epic said it agreed to the FTC settlement because it wants “to be at the forefront of consumer protection and provide the best experience for our players.”
“No developer creates a game with the intention of ending up here,” Epic said.
During the past two years, Epic also has been locked in a high-profile legal battle with Apple in an attempt to dismantle the barriers protecting the iPhone app store, which has emerged as one of the world’s biggest e-commerce hubs during the past 14 years. After Epic introduced a different payment system within its Fortnite app in August 2020, Apple ousted the video from the app store, triggering a lawsuit that went to trial last year.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dealing a blow to Naval Station Mayport’s vitality, the U.S. Senate approved a 2023 defense budget that includes provisions to retire four littoral combat ships commissioned during the past decade.
The Thursday night vote on the $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act effectively granted half of the decommissioning proposals the Navy recommended in March, when budget officials said eight Freedom-variant LCS based at Mayport and a ninth in San Diego, Calif. should be taken out of service to free up funds for Navy priorities including responses to Chinese naval advances in the Pacific.
A spokesman for Mayport’s LCS Squadron Two said Friday he couldn’t comment about which ships will be decommissioned under the bill, which still needed President Joe Biden’s signature.
A measure drafted over the summer by the U.S. House of Representative Appropriations Committee specifically exempted four Mayport LCS — the USS Wichita, USS Billings, USS Indianapolis and USS St. Louis — and the USS Fort Worth in San Diego from decommissioning.
That provision seemed to leave vulnerable Mayport’s USS Milwaukee, USS Detroit, USS Little Rock and USS Sioux City, all commissioned between 2015 and 2018 but before the exempted vessels.
But the bill approved by the Senate appeared to guarantee simply that no more than four LCS could be retired, remaining silent on which ships should be affected.
Out of 24 ships of all types originally proposed for decommissioning, the budget bill authorized retiring only 12.
The legislation requires the Defense Department to evaluate any LCS being retired or put in storage to see whether those ships can be transferred instead to a country that’s an American ally.
Those placements aren’t a sure thing, however. In June, the website Defense News quoted a House member saying Ukraine had been asked about receiving LCS to replenish its war-battered navy but expressed a preference for getting refitted U.S. Coast Guard patrol boats.
The timeline for decommissioning any Mayport vessel is unclear. In August, the news website of the nonprofit U.S. Naval Institute reported that a Navy administrative message listed proposed decommissioning dates for eight Mayport LCS that placed three at the end of March, three in June and two in September. However two of the vessels, the USS Detroit and USS Little Rock, had been included in 2021 in a different retirement schedule that slated them to shut down by March of this year but was never implemented.
Lt. Anthony Junco, public affairs officer for LCS Squadron Two, said repairs on the Sioux City are ongoing and work had already been completed on the St. Louis.
“Plans for correction of the gear defect remain under consideration for remaining in-service ships of the class,” Junco said by email.
With the combining gear problem resolved, Mayport's LCS contingent had grown this year, with the newly-built USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul commissioned in May and arriving at Mayport two months later.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 19, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
207 PM PST Mon Dec 19 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM
PST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 10
and 18 inches. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph. Periods of
snowfall rates over 1 inch per hour likely.
* WHERE...Holden Village, Stehekin, and Stevens Pass.
* WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 4 AM PST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous conditions
could impact the commute Tuesday morning and evening.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency. The latest road conditions for
the state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO NOON PST
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 5 and
10 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE...Mountain Road, Anatone, Cloverland Road, and Peola.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Tuesday to Noon PST Wednesday.
could impact the Tuesday evening commute.
Periods of moderate to heavy snow will be possible Tuesday evening
and night impacting the Tuesday evening commute.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO 7 AM PST
...WIND CHILL WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT
THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...For the Winter Storm Warning, heavy snow expected. Total
snow accumulations between 4 and 8 inches. For the Wind Chill
Watch, dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low
as 30 below zero.
* WHERE...Pullman, Oakesdale, Potlatch, Plummer, Genesee, Colfax,
Uniontown, Tekoa, Moscow, La Crosse, and Rosalia.
* WHEN...For the Winter Storm Warning, from 4 AM Tuesday to 7 AM PST
Wednesday. For the Wind Chill Watch, from late Tuesday night
through late Thursday night.
* IMPACTS...Wind chill values may fall to extremely dangerous
levels. Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will likely
become slick and hazardous. Travel could be very difficult. The
hazardous conditions could impact the Tuesday evening commute. The
dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin
in as little as 30 minutes.
Periods of moderate to heavy snow Tuesday and Tuesday night
impacting the Tuesday evening commute.
Keep pets indoors as much as possible.
Make frequent checks on older family, friends, and neighbors. Ensure
portable heaters are used correctly. Do not use generators or grills
inside.
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO 7 AM PST
* WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, snow expected. Total snow
accumulations between 2 and 4 inches, locally higher for
elevations above 3000 feet. For the Wind Chill Watch, dangerously
cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low as 35 below zero.
* WHERE...Bonners Ferry, Deer Park, Newport, Northport, Priest
River, Orin-Rice Road, Flowery Trail Road, Tiger, Metaline, Athol,
Ione, Chewelah, Springdale-Hunters Road, Metaline Falls,
Schweitzer Mountain Road, Colville, Eastport, Fruitland,
Sandpoint, and Kettle Falls.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, from 4 AM Tuesday to 7 AM
PST Wednesday. For the Wind Chill Watch, from late Tuesday night
levels. Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The
in as little as 10 minutes.
Travel on roadways may become slick.
accumulations between 3 and 6 inches. For the Wind Chill Watch,
dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low as 30
below zero.
* WHERE...Worley, Fairfield, Post Falls, Rockford, Hayden, Coeur
d'Alene, Davenport, Cheney, Spokane Valley, Airway Heights, and
Downtown Spokane.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the Tuesday morning and evening commutes.
The dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed
skin in as little as 30 minutes. Wind chill values may fall to
extremely dangerous levels.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...For the Wind Chill Advisory, very cold wind chills as low
as 15 below zero. For the Wind Chill Watch, dangerously cold wind
chills as low as 30 below zero possible.
* WHERE...Ritzville, Coulee City, Ephrata, Quincy, Creston, Wilbur,
Othello, Harrington, Odessa, Grand Coulee, and Moses Lake.
* WHEN...For the Wind Chill Advisory, until 3 PM PST this afternoon.
For the Wind Chill Watch, from late Tuesday night through late
Thursday night.
* IMPACTS...Exposed skin may become quickly frostbitten or frozen.
Persons are urged to stay indoors until conditions improve. If you
must go outside, dress in layers. Several layers of clothes will
keep you warmer than a single heavy coat. Cover exposed skin to
reduce your risk of frostbite or hypothermia. Gloves, a scarf, and a
hat will keep you from losing your body heat.
Use caution while traveling outside. Wear appropriate clothing, a
hat, and gloves.
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST TUESDAY...
as 20 below zero. For the Wind Chill Watch, dangerously cold wind
* WHERE...Okanogan, Oroville, Omak, Waterville, Mansfield, Brewster,
Bridgeport, Badger Mountain Road, Tonasket, Disautel Pass, and
Nespelem.
* WHEN...For the Wind Chill Advisory, until 4 PM PST Tuesday. For
the Wind Chill Watch, from late Tuesday night through late
* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite
on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes. Wind chill values may
fall to extremely dangerous levels.
* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low
as 35 below zero.
* WHERE...Loup Loup Pass, Sherman Pass, Highway 20 Wauconda Summit,
Republic, Boulder Creek Road, Conconully, Wauconda, Twisp,
Winthrop, Methow, Inchelium, Mazama, and Chesaw Road.
* WHEN...From late Tuesday night through late Thursday night.
* IMPACTS...Wind chill values may fall to extremely dangerous levels.
Wrap pipes with insulation and seal windows to avoid loss of heat
from your home. Keep a slow steady stream of water running from
indoor faucets, and open cabinet doors to allow warm air to
circulate around inside pipes.
10 inches. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph. Periods of snowfall
rates over 1 inch per hour possible.
* WHERE...Leavenworth and Plain.
could impact the Tuesday morning and evening commutes.
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 3 and 8
inches, primarily above 2000 feet.
* WHERE...Lapwai, Clarkston, Alpowa Summit, Pomeroy, Lewiston,
Lewiston Grade, Culdesac, Peck, and Gifford.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Tuesday to 7 AM PST Wednesday.
could impact the Tuesday commutes.
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road
conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by
calling 5 1 1.
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WASHINGTON — Scientists studying Jupiter's weather for nearly 40 years made some unexpected and slightly mysterious discoveries about how temperatures in the planet's different belts and zones fluctuate.
The researchers tracked temperatures in Jupiter's upper troposphere, the layer of the atmosphere where its signature striped clouds form and where the planet's weather occurs.
Astronomers have known since NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 missions of the 1970s that generally, Jupiter's whiter, lighter-colored bands – known as zones – are associated with colder temperatures. Its belts – the darker, brown-red bands – have warmer temperatures.
But without long-term data, scientists couldn't track how temperatures and weather patterns changed over time.
For the new research, published Monday in Nature Astronomy, scientists studied images of the bright infrared glow above warmer regions of Jupiter's atmosphere. Scientists collected images at regular intervals over three of Jupiter's orbits, each of which lasts 12 Earth years.
What they discovered was surprising: Scientists found Jupiter's temperatures rise and fall following definite periods that aren't tied to the seasons – or any other cycle scientists know about. Because Jupiter's axis tilt is only 3 degrees, compared to Earth's 23.5, it has "weak seasons," according to NASA, and the researchers did not expect to find temperatures varying at regular intervals.
Researchers also found a connection between temperature shifts in regions thousands of miles apart. According to NASA, temperatures acted like a mirror image across the equator. As temperatures went up at specific latitudes in the northern hemisphere, they went down at the same latitudes in the southern hemisphere.
“It’s similar to a phenomenon we see on Earth, where weather and climate patterns in one region can have a noticeable influence on weather elsewhere, with the patterns of variability seemingly ‘teleconnected’ across vast distances through the atmosphere," said Glenn Orton, senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and lead author of the study.
“We’ve solved one part of the puzzle now,” said co-author Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester in England.
Orton and his colleagues began this work in 1978, fighting to win observation time at major telescopes around the world, then combining years' worth of observations from different telescopes and instruments and poring through that data to search for patterns.
The study lasted so long, none of the students assisting with research when it was completed had been born when the study began.
Scientists hope the findings help them on their quest to predict the weather on Jupiter, which could contribute to climate modeling for giant planets across our solar system.
“Measuring these temperature changes and periods over time is a step toward ultimately having a full-on Jupiter weather forecast, if we can connect cause and effect in Jupiter’s atmosphere,” Fletcher said. “And the even bigger-picture question is if we can someday extend this to other giant planets to see if similar patterns show up.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/nasa-jupiter-weather-patterns/507-adbad656-b723-45ce-a285-7fbc2ba96b3f | 2022-12-19T23:30:03 | en | 0.946459 |
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President Joe Biden is facing criticism for a story he told during the Delaware Veterans Summit and PACT Act Town Hall on Friday, Dec. 16.
Biden claimed that after becoming vice president, he awarded his uncle Frank Biden a Purple Heart for his military service during World War II at his father’s request. The Purple Heart is an award presented to service members who are wounded or killed in action, and can be awarded posthumously.
Here’s an excerpt of Biden’s comments during the event:
“You know, I — my dad, when I got elected Vice President, he said, ‘Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.’ He was not feeling very well now — not because of the Battle of the Bulge. But he said, ‘And he won the Purple Heart. And he never received it. He never — he never got it. Do you think you could help him get it? We’ll surprise him.’
So we got him the Purple Heart. He had won it in the Battle of the Bulge. And I remember he came over to the house, and I came out, and he said, ‘Present it to him, okay?’ We had the family there.
I said, ‘Uncle Frank, you won this. And I want to…’ He said, ‘I don’t want the damn thing.’ No, I’m serious. He said, ‘I don’t want it.’ I said, ‘What’s the matter, Uncle Frank? You earned it.’ He said, ‘Yeah, but the others died. The others died. I lived. I don’t want it.’”
Some people online have since claimed Biden’s comments are false, since his uncle died well before Biden was elected vice president. Several VERIFY readers also asked the team about the validity of Biden’s story.
THE QUESTION
Did Joe Biden award his uncle a Purple Heart after becoming vice president?
THE SOURCES
- Obituary for Frank H. Biden
- The National Cemetery Administration
- Obituary for Joseph Robinette Biden, Sr.
- Purple Heart recipient lists available online
THE ANSWER
No, Joe Biden did not award his uncle a Purple Heart after becoming vice president. Frank Biden died in 1999, nearly a decade before Biden was elected vice president.
WHAT WE FOUND
Biden made several inaccurate statements during the event on Dec. 16. One of those was that he gave his uncle Frank a Purple Heart in person after becoming vice president. But that’s not possible.
An obituary published by The Tribune in Scranton, Pennsylvania, says Biden’s uncle, Frank H. Biden, died on Nov. 28, 1999. A gravestone shared on Facebook as part of a January 2021 tribute from the National Cemetery Administration, part of the U.S. Department of the Veterans Affairs, also lists the same date of death for Frank H. Biden.
Biden couldn’t have presented the Purple Heart to his uncle Frank after becoming vice president, since he was elected in November 2008 – almost a decade after his uncle’s death.
Frank Biden’s obituary mentions that he was an Army veteran who served in World War II, but it doesn’t include the receipt of a Purple Heart for his service.
Biden also said his dad spoke with him about giving the award to his uncle when he was elected vice president. But that conversation couldn’t have taken place then, either.
Biden’s father, Joseph Biden, Sr., died at 86 years old on Sept. 2, 2002, more than six years before Joe Biden was elected vice president, according to his obituary published by the News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware.
It’s unclear whether Biden’s uncle ever received the Purple Heart. There’s no record online of a Frank Biden receiving the award, though the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor notes that a comprehensive list of recipients doesn’t exist.
The National Cemetery Administration noted in its January 2021 tribute that Frank Biden entered service with the U.S. Army in July 1941 and was discharged in July 1945 at a Virginia hospital. The post does not mention Frank Biden’s receipt of a Purple Heart, nor is it included on his grave marker.
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WFO SPOKANE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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WIND CHILL ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Spokane WA
307 PM PST Mon Dec 19 2022
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM PST TUESDAY...
...WIND CHILL WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TUESDAY NIGHT
THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...For the Wind Chill Advisory, very cold wind chills as low
as 20 below zero. For the Wind Chill Watch, dangerously cold wind
chills as low as 30 below zero possible.
* WHERE...Badger Mountain Road, Brewster, Waterville, Disautel Pass,
Omak, Oroville, Okanogan, Tonasket, Mansfield, Nespelem, and
Bridgeport.
* WHEN...For the Wind Chill Advisory, until 4 PM PST Tuesday. For
the Wind Chill Watch, from late Tuesday night through late
Thursday night.
* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite
on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Persons are urged to stay indoors until conditions improve. If you
must go outside, dress in layers. Several layers of clothes will
keep you warmer than a single heavy coat. Cover exposed skin to
reduce your risk of frostbite or hypothermia. Gloves, a scarf, and a
hat will keep you from losing your body heat.
Use caution while traveling outside. Wear appropriate clothing, a
hat, and gloves.
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low
as 35 below zero.
* WHERE...Harrington, Wilbur, Moses Lake, Grand Coulee, Coulee City,
Odessa, Othello, Ritzville, Quincy, Creston, and Ephrata.
* WHEN...From late Tuesday night through late Thursday night.
Wrap pipes with insulation and seal windows to avoid loss of heat
from your home. Keep a slow steady stream of water running from
indoor faucets, and open cabinet doors to allow warm air to
circulate around inside pipes.
Keep pets indoors as much as possible.
Make frequent checks on older family, friends, and neighbors. Ensure
portable heaters are used correctly. Do not use generators or grills
inside.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO 7 AM
PST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Winter Storm Warning, heavy snow expected. Total
snow accumulations between 4 and 8 inches. For the Wind Chill
Watch, dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low
as 30 below zero.
* WHERE...Potlatch, La Crosse, Pullman, Colfax, Oakesdale, Moscow,
Rosalia, Genesee, Tekoa, Uniontown, and Plummer.
* WHEN...For the Winter Storm Warning, from 4 AM Tuesday to 7 AM PST
Wednesday. For the Wind Chill Watch, from late Tuesday night
through late Thursday night.
* IMPACTS...Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will
likely become slick and hazardous. Travel could be very difficult.
The hazardous conditions could impact the Tuesday evening commute.
The dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed
skin in as little as 30 minutes.
Periods of moderate to heavy snow Tuesday and Tuesday night are
expected, impacting the Tuesday evening commute.
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO 4 AM PST
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, snow expected. Total snow
accumulations between 3 and 10 inches. For the Wind Chill Watch,
dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low as 45
below zero.
* WHERE...Winthrop, Conconully, Loup Loup Pass, Methow, Mazama, and
Twisp.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, from 4 AM Tuesday to 4 AM
PST Wednesday. For the Wind Chill Watch, from late Tuesday night
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous conditions
could impact the Tuesday morning and evening commutes. The
dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin
in as little as 10 minutes.
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road
conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by
calling 5 1 1.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO 7
AM PST WEDNESDAY...
accumulations between 2 and 4 inches, locally higher for
elevations above 3000 feet. For the Wind Chill Watch, dangerously
cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low as 35 below zero.
* WHERE...Metaline, Schweitzer Mountain Road, Sandpoint, Priest
River, Fruitland, Newport, Northport, Orin-Rice Road, Colville,
Eastport, Ione, Deer Park, Metaline Falls, Tiger,
Springdale-Hunters Road, Athol, Kettle Falls, Bonners Ferry,
Chewelah, and Flowery Trail Road.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, from 4 AM Tuesday to 7 AM
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The
hazardous conditions could impact the Tuesday evening commute. The
Travel on roadways may become slick.
accumulations between 3 and 6 inches. For the Wind Chill Watch,
dangerously cold wind chills possible. Wind chills as low as 30
* WHERE...Worley, Rockford, Hayden, Fairfield, Downtown Spokane,
Spokane Valley, Cheney, Post Falls, Coeur d'Alene, Airway Heights,
and Davenport.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
* WHERE...Republic, Inchelium, Sherman Pass, Chesaw Road, Highway 20
Wauconda Summit, Boulder Creek Road, and Wauconda.
* IMPACTS...Wind chill values may fall to extremely dangerous levels.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO
4 AM PST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 6 and
20 inches, with the highest totals in the high elevations. Winds
gusting as high as 35 mph. Periods of snowfall rates over 1 inch
per hour possible.
* WHERE...Stehekin, Leavenworth, Holden Village, Plain, and Stevens
Pass.
* WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 4 AM PST Wednesday.
could impact the commute Tuesday morning and evening.
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency. The latest road conditions for
the state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TUESDAY TO NOON
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 5 and
10 inches. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE...Mountain Road, Peola, Anatone, and Cloverland Road.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Tuesday to Noon PST Wednesday.
could impact the Tuesday evening commute.
Periods of moderate to heavy snow will be possible Tuesday evening
and night impacting the Tuesday evening commute.
* WHERE...Number 2 Canyon, Wenatchee, Number 1 Canyon, Pangborn
Airport, Entiat, Chelan, and Cashmere.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Tuesday to 4 AM PST Wednesday.
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 3 and 8
inches, primarily above 2000 feet.
* WHERE...Peck, Clarkston, Gifford, Pomeroy, Lapwai, Culdesac,
Alpowa Summit, Lewiston Grade, and Lewiston.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Tuesday to 7 AM PST Wednesday.
could impact the Tuesday commutes.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers. But it is leaving open the prospect of lifting the restrictions by Wednesday.
The order Monday by Chief Justice John Roberts comes as conservative states are pushing to keep limits on asylum seekers that were put in place during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. They are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort before the limits are set to expire.
In the one-page order, Roberts granted a stay pending further order and asked the government to respond by 5 p.m. Tuesday. That is just hours before the restrictions are slated to expire on Wednesday.
The order by Roberts means the high-profile case that has drawn intense scrutiny will go down to the wire.
The immigration restrictions, often referred to as Title 42, were put in place under then-President Donald Trump in March 2020 and have prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S. in recent years. But as they’re set to expire, thousands more migrants are packed in shelters on Mexico’s border with the U.S.
Immigration advocates sued to stop the use of Title 42 to limit who can apply for asylum, saying that the policy goes against American and international obligations to people fleeing to the U.S. to escape persecution. And they’ve argued that things like vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus have made the policy outdated.
Conservative-leaning states have argued that lifting of Title 42 will lead to a surge of migrants into their states and take a toll on government services like health care or law enforcement. They also charge that the federal government has no plan to deal with an increase in migrants. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/supreme-court-temporarily-halts-title-42-end/507-d660e688-1a23-4cad-bd01-8659396d9d01 | 2022-12-19T23:30:09 | en | 0.976303 |
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President Joe Biden is facing criticism for a story he told during the Delaware Veterans Summit and PACT Act Town Hall on Friday, Dec. 16.
Biden claimed that after becoming vice president, he awarded his uncle Frank Biden a Purple Heart for his military service during World War II at his father’s request. The Purple Heart is an award presented to service members who are wounded or killed in action, and can be awarded posthumously.
Here’s an excerpt of Biden’s comments during the event:
“You know, I — my dad, when I got elected Vice President, he said, ‘Joey, Uncle Frank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.’ He was not feeling very well now — not because of the Battle of the Bulge. But he said, ‘And he won the Purple Heart. And he never received it. He never — he never got it. Do you think you could help him get it? We’ll surprise him.’
So we got him the Purple Heart. He had won it in the Battle of the Bulge. And I remember he came over to the house, and I came out, and he said, ‘Present it to him, okay?’ We had the family there.
I said, ‘Uncle Frank, you won this. And I want to…’ He said, ‘I don’t want the damn thing.’ No, I’m serious. He said, ‘I don’t want it.’ I said, ‘What’s the matter, Uncle Frank? You earned it.’ He said, ‘Yeah, but the others died. The others died. I lived. I don’t want it.’”
Some people online have since claimed Biden’s comments are false, since his uncle died well before Biden was elected vice president. Several VERIFY readers also asked the team about the validity of Biden’s story.
THE QUESTION
Did Joe Biden award his uncle a Purple Heart after becoming vice president?
THE SOURCES
- Obituary for Frank H. Biden
- The National Cemetery Administration
- Obituary for Joseph Robinette Biden, Sr.
- Purple Heart recipient lists available online
THE ANSWER
No, Joe Biden did not award his uncle a Purple Heart after becoming vice president. Frank Biden died in 1999, nearly a decade before Biden was elected vice president.
WHAT WE FOUND
Biden made several inaccurate statements during the event on Dec. 16. One of those was that he gave his uncle Frank a Purple Heart in person after becoming vice president. But that’s not possible.
An obituary published by The Tribune in Scranton, Pennsylvania, says Biden’s uncle, Frank H. Biden, died on Nov. 28, 1999. A gravestone shared on Facebook as part of a January 2021 tribute from the National Cemetery Administration, part of the U.S. Department of the Veterans Affairs, also lists the same date of death for Frank H. Biden.
Biden couldn’t have presented the Purple Heart to his uncle Frank after becoming vice president, since he was elected in November 2008 – almost a decade after his uncle’s death.
Frank Biden’s obituary mentions that he was an Army veteran who served in World War II, but it doesn’t include the receipt of a Purple Heart for his service.
Biden also said his dad spoke with him about giving the award to his uncle when he was elected vice president. But that conversation couldn’t have taken place then, either.
Biden’s father, Joseph Biden, Sr., died at 86 years old on Sept. 2, 2002, more than six years before Joe Biden was elected vice president, according to his obituary published by the News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware.
It’s unclear whether Biden’s uncle ever received the Purple Heart. There’s no record online of a Frank Biden receiving the award, though the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor notes that a comprehensive list of recipients doesn’t exist.
The National Cemetery Administration noted in its January 2021 tribute that Frank Biden entered service with the U.S. Army in July 1941 and was discharged in July 1945 at a Virginia hospital. The post does not mention Frank Biden’s receipt of a Purple Heart, nor is it included on his grave marker.
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SAN ANTONIO — The push for the San Antonio Spurs to break the all-time NBA attendance record is moving into overdrive!
The Spurs announced that the amount of tickets sold for the team’s Jan. 13 game versus the Warriors return to the Alamodome has surpassed 45,000.
This places the Spurs within striking distance to break the current record of 62,046 set by the Atlanta Hawks in 1998, and make history during San Antonio’s 50th anniversary season.
To help the city and the Spurs make NBA history, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg announced that all city garages would be free to the public the day of the game. He also announced that all city employees will have a half day off from work to be able to support the Silver and Black that day.
And it gets even better!
The team has released another round of $10 community tickets that are available on a first-come first-serve basis (limit six per person) starting Monday at the Alamodome box office and online at Ticketmaster.com or the Spurs app.
The return to the Alamodome game should be a fun-filled event. Younger Spurs fans who never experienced a dome game will get their chance at experiencing it, and for older Spurs fans, it'll be a trip back in time.
TICKET INFO
Single game tickets for the Spurs-Warriors game at the Alamodome are available for purchase at Spurs.com and on Ticketmaster. Group packages for 10 or more are available by visiting Spurs.com/Groups or calling (210) 444-5959. Visit SpursSuites.com or call (210) 444-5661 for single game suite pricing and availability.
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SAN ANTONIO — The hard freeze is coming to San Antonio on Thursday night. Brrr!
With the cold snap expected, plants may have trouble surviving the chilly temperatures.
The general manager of The Garden Center said sales are increasing on mulch and insulating blankets for plants. He showed us a fabric material, "like a lightweight felt. This will make a ten degree difference on your plants. This is a good product, but old sheets and blankets work well too," said Wayne Harrell.
Harrell advises against using plastic to cover plants.
"Plastic touching plants will actually do more harm than the freeze itself will do. It's okay to cover them with an old sheet or blanket and then put plastic on top of that. You just don't want the plastic touching your plants," said Harrell.
Got tender plants in containers? Consider moving them from the north side to the south side of the house.
"Because that north wind, when it comes bearing down, it really does a number on tender plants," he said.
Some plants handle the cold weather better than others. Tropical plants suffer the most at 40 degrees.
"For hanging tropical plants, you're going to want to put them on the ground, bring them up by the porch, and/or garage," said Harrell.
Watering also helps plants before an arctic blast. Harrell said water and a couple of inches of mulch insulates the root system.
If the plant suffers from frost damage, it may be a while before you know.
"It's interesting some things you won't know if things froze back. Did they completely die? Gosh, you won't know until sometime as late spring."
For more tips on how to prepare your plants for a cold front, visit their website. | https://www.kens5.com/article/weather/protecting-your-plants-arctic-blast-san-antonio-texas/273-9216e695-50c6-48c4-8890-353fc9b0d36e | 2022-12-19T23:30:27 | en | 0.962657 |
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ACEREDO, Spain (AP) — Roofs peeking out of the water have become a common sight every summer at the Lindoso reservoir in northwestern Spain. In especially dry years, parts would appear of the old village of Aceredo, submerged three decades ago when a hydropower dam flooded the valley.
But never before has the skeleton of the village emerged in its entirety in the middle of the usually wet winter season.
With almost no rain for two months and not much expected any time soon, the ruins of Aceredo are dredging up a mix of emotions for locals as they see the rusted carcass of a car, a stone fountain with water still spouting and the old road leading to what used to be the local bar.
“The whole place used to be all vineyards, orange trees. It was all green. It was beautiful," said 72-year-old José Luis Penín, who used to stop at the bar with pals at the end of a day's fishing.
“Look at it now,” said Penín, who lives in the same county, pointing at the cracked, yellow bed of the reservoir. ”It's so sad."
While the arid zones of the Iberian Peninsula have historically experienced periods of drought, experts say climate change has exacerbated the problem. This year, amid record levels of low or no rainfall at all, farmers in both Portugal and Spain, who are growing produce for all of Europe, are worried that their crops for this season will be ruined.
In the last three months of 2021, Spain recorded just 35% of the average rainfall it had seen during the same period from 1981 to 2010. But there has been almost no rain since then.
According to the national weather agency AEMET, in this century, only in 2005 has there been a January with almost no rain. If clouds don't unleash in the next two weeks, emergency subsidies for farmers will be needed, authorities said.
But Rubén del Campo, a spokesman for the weather service, said the below-average rainfall over the last six months is likely to continue for several more weeks, with hopes that spring will bring much-needed relief.
While only 10% of Spain has officially been declared under a “prolonged drought,” there are large areas, particularly in the south, which are facing extreme shortages that could impact the irrigation of crops.
The valley around the Guadalquivir River in Spain’s southwest was declared under prolonged drought in November. It is now the focus of a fierce environmental dispute over water rights near Doñana National Park, a World Heritage wetland site. The government of the Andalusia region wants to grant water rights to farmers on land near the park, but critics say the move will further endanger a major wildlife refuge that is already drying up.
“The past two, three years have been dry, with the tendency toward less and less rain,” said Andrés Góngora, a 46-year-old tomato farmer in southern Almería.
Góngora, who expects the water he uses from a desalinating plant to be rationed, is still better off than other farmers who specialize in wheat and grains for livestock feed.
“The cereal crops for this year have been lost,” Góngora said.
Other areas in central and northeast Spain are also feeling the burn.
The leading association of farmers and livestock breeders in Spain, COAG, warns that half of Spain’s farms are threatened by drought this year. It says if it does not rain heavily in the coming month, rain-fed crops including cereals, olives, nuts and vineyards could lose 60% to 80% of their production.
But the association is also worried about crops that depend on irrigation, with reservoirs under 40% of capacity in most of the south.
Spain’s left-wing government plans to dedicate over 570 million euros ($647 million) from the European Union's pandemic recovery fund to make its irrigation systems more efficient, including incorporating renewable energy systems.
Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Planas said this week the government will take emergency measures if it doesn’t rain in two weeks. Those would likely be limited to economic benefits to palliate the loss of crops and revenues for farmers.
Neighboring Portugal has also seen little rain since last October. By the end of January, 45% of the country was enduring “severe” or “extreme” drought conditions, according to the national weather agency IPMA.
Rainfall from Oct. 1 through January was less than half the annual average for that four-month period, alarming farmers who are short of grass for their livestock.
Unusually, even the north of Portugal is dry and forest fires have broken out there this winter. In the south, crickets are already singing at night and mosquitoes have appeared — traditional signs of summer.
The IPMA doesn’t forecast any relief before the end of the month.
Portugal has witnessed an increase in the frequency of droughts over the past 20-30 years, according to IPMA climatologist Vanda Pires, with lower rainfall and higher temperatures.
“It’s part of the context of climate change,” Pires told The Associated Press.
And the outlook is bleak: Scientists estimate that Portugal will see a drop in average annual rainfall of 20% to 40% by the end of the century.
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Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, Spain, Barry Hatton in Lisbon and Aritz Parra in Madrid contributed to this report.
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Saskatoon 4 Calgary 2
Lethbridge 2 Moose Jaw 1
Portland 9 Spokane 0
Tri-City 4 Kamloops 3
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 6 Brandon 2
Friday's results
Saskatoon 4 Lethbridge 1
Regina 5 Calgary 0
Moose Jaw 3 Prince Albert 1
Swift Current 4 Brandon 3 (OT)
Edmonton 4 Red Deer 0
Vancouver 4 Prince George 1
Kamloops 6 Tri-City 1
Portland 8 Spokane 1
Kelowna 4 Everett 3 (SO)
Seattle 6 Victoria 1
Saturday's results
Prince Albert 3 Lethbridge 2
Moose Jaw 4 Calgary 1
Winnipeg 8 Swift Current 2
Edmonton 5 Medicine Hat 3
Kamloops 5 Everett 4 (SO)
Vancouver 3 Prince George 1
Spokane 3 Portland 2
Seattle 7 Victoria 3
Kelowna 5 Tri-City 4 (OT)
Tuesday's games
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-16914391.php | 2022-02-13T07:51:19 | en | 0.78061 |
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Saskatoon 4 Calgary 2
Lethbridge 2 Moose Jaw 1
Portland 9 Spokane 0
Tri-City 4 Kamloops 3
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 6 Brandon 2
Friday's results
Saskatoon 4 Lethbridge 1
Regina 5 Calgary 0
Moose Jaw 3 Prince Albert 1
Swift Current 4 Brandon 3 (OT)
Edmonton 4 Red Deer 0
Vancouver 4 Prince George 1
Kamloops 6 Tri-City 1
Portland 8 Spokane 1
Kelowna 4 Everett 3 (SO)
Seattle 6 Victoria 1
Saturday's results
Prince Albert 3 Lethbridge 2
Moose Jaw 4 Calgary 1
Winnipeg 8 Swift Current 2
Edmonton 5 Medicine Hat 3
Kamloops 5 Everett 4 (SO)
Vancouver 3 Prince George 1
Spokane 3 Portland 2
Seattle 7 Victoria 3
Kelowna 5 Tri-City 4 (OT)
Tuesday's games
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-16914416.php | 2022-02-13T07:51:25 | en | 0.78061 |
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B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Saskatoon 4 Calgary 2
Lethbridge 2 Moose Jaw 1
Portland 9 Spokane 0
Tri-City 4 Kamloops 3
Vancouver at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 6 Brandon 2
Friday's results
Saskatoon 4 Lethbridge 1
Regina 5 Calgary 0
Moose Jaw 3 Prince Albert 1
Swift Current 4 Brandon 3 (OT)
Edmonton 4 Red Deer 0
Vancouver 4 Prince George 1
Kamloops 6 Tri-City 1
Portland 8 Spokane 1
Kelowna 4 Everett 3 (SO)
Seattle 6 Victoria 1
Saturday's results
Prince Albert 3 Lethbridge 2
Moose Jaw 4 Calgary 1
Winnipeg 8 Swift Current 2
Edmonton 5 Medicine Hat 3
Kamloops 5 Everett 4 (SO)
Vancouver 3 Prince George 1
Spokane 3 Portland 2
Seattle 7 Victoria 3
Kelowna 5 Tri-City 4 (OT)
Tuesday's games
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Moose Jaw at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-16914437.php | 2022-02-13T07:51:31 | en | 0.78061 |
BEIRUT (AP) — From his small music shop on Beirut’s Hamra Street, Michel Eid witnessed the rise and fall of Lebanon through the changing fortunes of this famed boulevard for more than 60 years.
Hamra Street represented everything that was glamorous about Beirut in the 1960s and 1970s, with Lebanon’s top movie houses and theaters, cafes frequented by intellectuals and artists, and ritzy shops. It saw a revival the past decade, with international chain stores and vibrant bars and restaurants.
Now many of its stores are shuttered. Poverty-stricken Lebanese and Syrian refugees beg on its sidewalks. Trash piles up on its corners. Like the rest of Lebanon, the economic crash swept through the street like a destructive storm.
At 88 years old, Eid remembers the bad times, during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war, when Hamra saw militias battling, assassinations at its cafes and, at one point, invading Israeli troops marching down the street. Nothing was as bad as now, Eid says.
“We have hit rock bottom,” he said. Few customers come to his Tosca Music Shop and Electronic Supplies, which sells records and a variety of electronic clocks, calculators and watches.
Lebanon’s economic meltdown was the culmination of the country’s post-war era. The war’s militia leaders became the political leadership and held power since. They ran an economy that at times boomed but was effectively a Ponzi scheme riddled with corruption and mismanagement.
The scheme finally collapsed, starting in October 2019, in what the World Bank calls one of the world’s worst economic and financial crises since the mid-1800s.
The currency’s value evaporated, salaries lost their buying power, dollars in banks became inaccessible, and prices skyrocketed. As much as 82% of the population now lives in poverty, according to the U.N.
A walk through Hamra Street shows the impact.
Many shops have shut down because owners could no longer afford high rents and huge monthly bills for private electricity generators. After nightfall, the shops that are still operating close early. Many streetlights don’t work because of electricity cuts. Once late-night Hamra feels deserted before midnight.
During its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, Hamra Street was the elegant heart of Lebanon’s cosmopolitan pre-war era, Beirut’s Champs Elysees. Arab, European and American tourists flocked to its swanky shops, restaurants and bars.
Hamra had the capital’s finest movie houses. At its Piccadilly Theater, Lebanon’s most beloved singer Fayrouz performed. You might see the international diva Dalida strolling down the avenue before one of her shows. World stars held concerts in Lebanon, including Louis Armstrong and Paul Anka.
Located in the capital’s western neighborhood of Ras Beirut, Hamra was — and still is — a place where Christians and Muslims live side by side. Its cafes were hangouts for artists, intellectuals and political activists, caught up in the leftist, secular, Arab nationalist spirit of the times.
“Hamra Street is an international avenue,” says Mohamad Rayes, who has worked on the street since the early ’70s and owns three clothes and lingerie shops in the area.
He spoke sitting in a café that, in the 1970s, was called the Horse Shoe. He pointed to a corner where two of the greatest Arab singers of the time, Abdel-Halim Hafez and Farid el-Atrash, had a regular seat, along with Nizar Qabbani, an iconic romantic poet from Syria.
The civil war ended that golden era. Fighting wreaked heavy damage on Hamra Street.
After the war, the center of Beirut’s international commerce and shopping moved to a newly renovated downtown. But Hamra Street saw a major facelift in the early 2000s, with new water, sewage and electricity systems.
That fueled a revival the past 15 years. International chains like Starbucks and Nike opened stores. New restaurants flourished, including ones opened by Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war.
The new wave pushed aside many of the area’s pre-war icons. Its famed cafe Modca was replaced by a bank. A McDonald's stands in place of Faisal Restaurant, where Arab leftists once huddled over glasses of arak liquor and dishes of appetizers. The Piccadilly Theater was abandoned.
But the street attracted a new generation of young people of all sects, bringing the progressive spirit of the 2011’s frustrated Arab Spring. Once again, the street rang with bars. One club, Metro Medina, drew young crowds with retro live shows of old Arabic music from the past century.
Hamra remains busy during the day. Thousands come for treatment at its medical centers or to study at the nearby American University of Beirut, one of the Middle East’s top educational institutions.
But “Hamra is not the Hamra of the past,” said Elie Rbeiz.
The 70-year-old Rbeiz has been a hairdresser for the elite in Hamra since 1962. He counted among his regular clients the late Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi, who once flew Rbeiz to London on a private jet for a cut. Rbeiz expanded his business 20 years ago to include men’s clothes.
Now in the economic crisis, his sales have dropped 60%.
Still, Rbeiz believes Hamra will bounce back. He said his shop was blown up during the civil war and he renovated and reopened. “I did not surrender then and will not surrender now. Never.”
Not everyone is so certain.
Eid opened his music store in Hamra in 1958. He’ll close it when he stops working, he said. His two sons live abroad; if they don’t want his 4,500 records, many of which are collectors’ items, he’ll donate them.
Will Hamra Street flourish again? “Never, never. Impossible,” he said.
But he won’t leave.
“Hamra Street is the oxygen that I breathe,” he said. “I grew up on Hamra Street and will end my life here.” | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Lebanon-s-crash-snuffs-out-Beirut-s-fabled-Hamra-16914379.php | 2022-02-13T07:51:37 | en | 0.966876 |
BEIRUT (AP) — From his small music shop on Beirut’s Hamra Street, Michel Eid witnessed the rise and fall of Lebanon through the changing fortunes of this famed boulevard for more than 60 years.
Hamra Street was the center of Beirut’s glamor in the 1960s and 1970s, home to Lebanon’s top movie houses and theaters, cafes frequented by intellectuals and artists, and shops selling top international brands. It saw a revival the past decade, thriving with international chain stores and vibrant bars and restaurants.
Now many of its stores are shuttered. Poverty-stricken Lebanese and Syrian refugees beg on its sidewalks. Trash piles up on its corners. Like the rest of Lebanon, the economic crash swept through the street like a destructive storm.
At 88 years old, Eid remembers the bad times, during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war, when Hamra saw militias battling, assassinations at its cafes and, at one point, invading Israeli troops marching down the street. Nothing was as bad as now, Eid says.
“We have hit rock bottom,” he said. Few customers come to his Tosca Music Shop and Electronic Supplies, which sells records and a variety of electronic clocks, calculators and watches. His business has dropped 75%.
Lebanon’s economic meltdown, which began in October 2019, was the culmination of the country’s post-war era. The war’s militia leaders became the political leadership and have kept a lock on power ever since. They ran an economy that at times boomed but was effectively a Ponzi scheme riddled with corruption and mismanagement.
The scheme finally collapsed in what the World Bank calls one of the world’s worst economic and financial crises since the mid 1800s.
The currency’s value evaporated, salaries lost their buying power, dollars in banks became inaccessible, prices skyrocketed in a country where nearly everything is imported. As much as 82% of the population now lives in poverty, according to the U.N. Unemployment is estimated at 40%.
The crisis was made worse by the coronavirus pandemic and a massive explosion at Beirut’s port that killed 216 people, wounded thousands and destroyed parts of the capital.
While the economic system collapsed, the political one hasn’t. The same leadership, entrenched in power, has done virtually nothing to address the crisis. Refusing basic reforms, they have made no progress in talks with the International Monetary Fund.
A walk through Hamra Street shows the impact.
Many shops have shut down because owners could no longer afford high rents and huge monthly bills for private electricity generators. After nightfall, the shops that are still operating close early. Many streetlights don’t work because of electricity cuts. Hamra, which used to stay lively into the night, feels deserted before midnight — even during the recent holiday season.
In Hamra’s heyday, in the 1960s and 1970s, the street was lit up with colored lights during Christmas and New Year’s, with Santa Clauses up and down the avenue offering candies to passers-by.
This was Lebanon’s cosmopolitan pre-war era — and Hamra Street was its elegant heart, Beirut’s Champs Elysees. Arab, European and American tourists flocked to its swanky shops, restaurants and bars.
Hamra had the capital’s finest movie houses. At its Piccadilly Theater, Lebanon’s most beloved singer Fayrouz performed. You might see the international diva Dalida strolling down the avenue before one of her shows at the Piccadilly. World stars held concerts in Lebanon, including Louis Armstrong and Paul Anka.
Located in the capital’s western neighborhood of Ras Beirut, Hamra was -- and still is — a place where Christians and Muslims live side by side. Its cafes were hangouts for artists, intellectuals and political activists, caught up in the leftist, secular Arab nationalist spirit of the times.
“Hamra Street is an international avenue,” says Mohamad Rayes, who has worked on the street since the early ’70s and owns three clothes and lingerie shops in the area.
He spoke sitting in a café that, in the 1970s, was called the Horse Shoe. He pointed to a corner where two of the greatest Arab singers of the time, Abdel-Halim Hafez and Farid el-Atrash, had a regular seat, along with Nizar Qabbani, an iconic romantic poet from Syria.
“It was dizzying, quite honestly, the number of people on Hamra. It was a vibrant, transient piece of life in the city,” said David Livingston, an American who lived for decades in Lebanon, speaking from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A student in Beirut in the 1970s, he remembered how intimidated he was coming into ritzy Hamra Street to buy a leather belt from one of its shops.
The civil war ended that golden era. In 1982, invading Israeli troops marched through Hamra. After they left, militias seized the area in fighting that wreaked heavy damage. Hamra’s Commodore Hotel became a popular base for foreign journalists covering the war.
After the war, the center of Beirut’s international commerce and shopping moved to a newly renovated downtown. But Hamra Street saw a major facelift in the early 2000s when new water, sewage and electricity systems were installed, and the asphalt was replaced with cobblestones.
That fueled a revival the past 15 years. International chains like Starbucks and Nike opened stores. New restaurants flourished. Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war opened restaurants of their own, along with sweets shops and popular shawarma stands.
The new wave pushed aside many of the Hamra area’s pre-war icons. Its famed cafe Modca was replaced by a bank. A McDonald's stands in place of Faisal Restaurant, where Arab leftists once huddled over cigarettes, glasses of arak liquor and dishes of appetizers. The Piccadilly Theater was abandoned and recently was damaged by a fire.
But the street attracted a new generation of young people of all sects, bringing the progressive spirit of 2011’s frustrated Arab Spring. Once again, the street rang with bars. One club, Metro Medina, drew young crowds with retro live shows of old Arabic music from the past century.
Hamra remains a busy thoroughfare during the day. Thousands come for treatment at its medical centers or to study at the nearby American University of Beirut, one of the Middle East's top educational institutions.
But “Hamra is not the Hamra of the past,” said Elie Rbeiz.
The 70-year-old Rbeiz has been a hairdresser for the elite in Hamra since 1962. He counted among his regular clients the late Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi, who once flew Rbeiz to London on a private jet for a cut. Rbeiz expanded his business 20 years ago to include men’s clothes.
Now in the economic crisis, his sales have plunged.
Still, Rbeiz believes Hamra will bounce back. He said his shop was blown up during the civil war and he renovated and reopened. “I did not surrender then and will not surrender now. Never.”
Not everyone is so certain.
“I feel the pain every day because there is more suffering and more poverty,” said Naim Saleh.
Saleh is a Hamra Street fixture, selling newspapers, magazines and books at his sidewalk kiosk for the past 52 years.
Now his business is ruined. Foreign magazines are a luxury few can afford. He sells a book or two a month, compared to 50 a day in the past. Saleh watched a young beggar chasing Iraqi tourists nearby. “Look how many beggars there are in the streets. It’s like a curse.”
Eid opened his music store in Hamra in 1958. He’ll close it when he stops working, he said. His two sons live abroad; if they don’t want his 4,500 records, many of which are collectors’ items, he’ll donate them to the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music.
Will Hamra Street flourish again? “Never, never. Impossible,” he said. The Gulf tourists who once fueled its commerce won’t come back, they’ll turn to Europe.
But he won’t leave.
“Hamra Street is the oxygen that I breathe,” he said. “I grew up on Hamra Street and will end my life here.” | https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Once-Lebanon-s-center-of-glamor-Hamra-Street-16914371.php | 2022-02-13T07:51:44 | en | 0.968516 |
BEIJING (AP) — Slalom gold medalist Petra Vlhova is leaving the Beijing Olympics early due to an inflamed left ankle tendon and will miss the Alpine combined event in which she would have been a challenger to Mikaela Shiffrin, the favorite in the race.
“Having reached her goal of gold in the slalom and considering this small physical problem, we are putting the priority on her next goals and we don’t want to risk making things worse by aiming for a medal in the combined,” Mauro Pini, Vlhova’s coach, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
By winning the slalom four days ago, Vlhova became Slovakia’s first Olympic medalist in Alpine skiing.
Pini added that Vlhova also wants to make sure she has time “to go home and share this medal with those closest to her.”
Vlhova had already sat out the super-G and the opening downhill training session.
The Alpine combined is scheduled for Thursday. Vlhova finished second behind Shiffrin in the combined at last season's world championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
Last season, Vlhova became the first Slovakian to win the overall World Cup title. She trails Shiffrin by just 17 points in the overall standings this season, with a few more weeks of racing remaining after the Olympics.
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VICTORIA - The Victoria Royals' run of misery extended when they got crushed by the Seattle Thunderbirds 7-3 Saturday night in the Western Hockey League.
The loss was Victoria's (12-28-5) 16th straight. The team hasn't won a game since Dec. 30.
Conner Roulette assisted on three of Seattle's (27-11-5) goals and added one of his own in a game that appeared to be over before the third period, carrying a 5-1 lead heading into the final third.
Henrik Rybinski scored twice for Seattle, while Lucas Ciona, Chase Lacombe, Lukas Svejkovsky and Matthew Rempe had the other goals.
Victoria's Bailey Peach scored his 26th goal of the season, good for a tie for 10th in the league. Kalem Parker and Tarun Fizer also scored.
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BLADES 6 PATS 2
SASKATOON, Sask. — Egor Sidorov's hat trick helped the Blades (25-16-2) cruise past their cross-province rival Pats (17-22-2). WHL points leader Kyle Crnkovic added to his lead with a goal and an assist to bring his total to 69 on the assist. Regina used both Spencer Welke and Kelton Pyne in net for them, but neither proved to be very effective.
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WARRIORS 4 HITMEN 1
MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Brayden Yager potted a hat trick for the Warriors (26-17-4) in their victory over the Hitmen (18-18-7) Saturday. Riley Fiddler-Schultz opened scoring in the game giving Calgary a 1-0 lead early in the first period. Afterwards, however, Moose Jaw racked off four straight unanswered, including three in the second period alone, and then a short-handed marker from Yager in the third.
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BLAZERS 5 SILVERTIPS 4 (SO)
EVERETT, Wash. — Fraser Minten scored the lone goal in the shootout as the Blazers (33-12-1) edged the Silvertips (33-7-6) A matchup between the Western Conference's top two teams, it appeared as if Kamloops would hand Everett its first regulation loss in 10 games, but top Silvertips goal-scorer Jackson Berezowski ended up tying the game with close to a minute left to play in the third period.
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RAIDERS 3 HURRICANES 2
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Led by a pair of assists from Sloan Stanick, the Raiders (17-25-2) hung on to beat the Hurricanes (18-21-3). Tikhon Chaika was strong for Prince Albert in net, stopping 44 of 46 Lethbridge shots. The victory was just the Raiders' third in their last 10 games.
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ICE 8 BRONCOS 2
WINNIPEG, Man. — Connor McClennon and Chase Wheatcroft scored two goals each as part of an Ice (31-6-3) contingent of six different skaters who found the back of the Broncos' (17-24-5) net in the crushing victory. McClennon's two goals Saturday gave him 33 on the season, just one back of WHL leader Ben King of Red Deer.
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OIL KINGS 5 TIGERS 3
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — The Oil Kings (34-11-3) simply overwhelmed the Tigers (9-29-4) on their way to their fourth win in a row. Edmonton out-shot Medicine Hat 35-16 in a contest between the Eastern Conference-leading Oil Kings and the league-worst Tigers.
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ROCKETS 5 AMERICANS 4 (OT)
KELOWNA, B.C. — Pavel Novak capped off his hat trick with a game-winning goal a minute into overtime to give the Rockets (26-11-1-3) the win. Americans (13-26-5-0) centre Samuel Huo scored a pair of goals in defeat, including a short-handed one early in the third period.
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GIANTS 3 COUGARS 1
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — The Cougars' (18-25-2-1) slide continues. Prince George fell to the Giants (8-23-2-0) Saturday to lose its fifth game in a row. Payton Mount scored a shorthanded goal for Vancouver late in the second period that proved to be the game winner.
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CHIEFS 3 WINTERHAWKS 2
SPOKANE, Wash. — Cooper Michaluk stopped 36 of the 38 shots he faced to help the Chiefs (13-27-3-1) hang on against the Winterhawks (29-12-3-2), snapping their 11-game win streak. Portland scored midway through the third period to come within one, but couldn't beat Michaluk afterwards.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Max Abmas scored 19 points as Oral Roberts narrowly beat Kansas City 91-86 on Saturday night.
Francis Lacis added 18 points, Elijah Lufile scored 17 and Issac McBride had 16 for the Golden Eagles (17-8, 11-3 Summit League). Lufile also had 15 rebounds and three blocks.
Evan Gilyard II had 29 points and six assists for the Roos (16-10, 9-5), whose four-game win streak was snapped. Marvin Nesbitt Jr. added 17 points and 13 rebounds.
Oral Roberts also defeated Kansas City 84-72 on Jan. 15.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Israel Adesanya defeated Robert Whittaker by unanimous decision to retain his title and maintain control of the middleweight division at UFC 271 on Saturday night.
Adesanya (23-1) won his 11th straight middleweight fight in the UFC and remained undefeated. The judges scored it 48-47, 48-47, 49-46 in favor of Adesanya, who has won all four of his title defenses — three by unanimous decision and one by knockout.
The fight, which was a rematch of Adesanya’s title win over Whittaker (23-6) by second-round knockout at UFC 243 in 2019, was even throughout, with Whittaker taking the champion down several times. But, Adesanya also landed punches to Whittaker’s face and kicks to his ribs.
After Adesanya controlled most of the first round, Whittaker rebounded in the second to take the champion down against the cage midway through the round and land a couple punches to the face. But, Adesanya was able to get out of Whittaker’s hold and land a couple punches.
Following a fairly even third round, Whittaker took down Adesanya 1 1/2 minutes into the fourth round and got on the champion’s back to try to lock in a choke, but Adesanya again broke free of the hold.
In the final round, Whittaker tried twice to take Adesanya down, but the champion got up both times. The two locked up several times against the cage, with Adesanya able to break from of Whittaker’s grasp each time and landing punches to Whittaker's face.
The next contender for the UFC middleweight title might be Jared Cannonier (15-5), who knocked out Derek Brunson (23-8) in the second round of their fight earlier in the night.
After being taken down three times in the first round, Cannonier, the third-ranked middleweight, fought back in the second round, elbowing the fourth-ranked Brunson and dazing him before taking him down to the mat and knocking Brunson out with punches to the head, forcing the referee to end it.
Cannonier said in the post-fight interview in the Octagon he wanted the next shot at the middleweight champion, demanding UFC president Dana White, who was cage side, give him the opportunity.
In the co-main event, Tai Tuivasa (14-3) knocked out Houston native and third-ranked heavyweight Derrick Lewis (26-7) in the second round. Tuivasa, who has won five straight fights by knockout, recovered from a first round in which he was taken to the mat twice.
Tuivasa came out in the second round landing punches on Lewis and backing him up to the cage before landing a right elbow to the left side of his face, knocking out Lewis, who fell face-first onto the mat.
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Robby Beasley III had a season-high 24 points as Montana topped Portland State 85-76 on Saturday night.
Beasley made 6 of 8 3-pointers. Josh Bannan added 22 points and eight rebounds for Montana (17-9, 10-5 Big Sky Conference). Brandon Whitney had 14 points and six rebounds Lonnell Martin Jr. added 12 points and seven rebounds.
Michael Carter III had 13 points for the Vikings (8-15, 6-9). Damion Squire added and Khalid Thomas had 11 point apiece. Thomas also had three blocks.
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HONOLULU (AP) — Noel Coleman had 24 points as Hawaii topped Cal State Fullerton 72-55 on Saturday night.
Bernardo Da Silva had 12 points for Hawaii (12-8, 8-3 Big West Conference). Junior Madut added 10 points and 10 rebounds. Jerome Desrosiers had eight rebounds.
Tory San Antonio had six rebounds for the Titans (14-8, 8-3).
E.J. Anosike, the Titans' leading scorer heading into the contest at 17 points per game, scored four points on 2-of-10 shooting.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 26 points and Deandre Ayton had 17 points and 10 rebounds as the Phoenix Suns won their fifth straight game, beating the Orlando Magic 132-105 Saturday night.
Chris Paul recorded his 30th double-double of the season with 10 points and 15 assists, and the Suns had nine players score in double figures. Phoenix has won 16 of 17 games and owns the NBA’s best record at 46-10.
The Magic were led by rookie guard Jalen Suggs, who scored 20 points, two shy of his career-high, and had a season-high 10 assists. Cole Anthony scored 17 points, and Chuma Okeke had 15 points off the bench.
The Suns had a season-high 40 assists and just seven turnovers.
“That’s an unreal ratio,” coach Monty Williams said. “But the ability, the will to turn down a decent shot or a good shot for a great shot, that’s who we are. That’s our DNA. That’s who we have to be if we want to do something really, really special, which we believe we can.”
Williams said the Suns’ unselfishness is directly influenced by how Paul plays.
“It’s probably the foundation of it all,” he said. ... “One thing that connects a team is passing the ball and I think our guys understand that.”
Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said the Suns set an example for his team on how to play the game.
“You talk about what they’ve done and how they do it and the chemistry which they have and we talk about our guys being able to play in that same fashion,” he said.
Said Booker: “It’s just the way we play.”
The Suns ended the first quarter on an 8-0 run to take a 36-26 lead and extended the lead to 21 points on the way to a 67-53 advantage at the half.
Paul, who leads the NBA in assists per game at 10.6, had 10 in the first half; Orlando had 12.
The Magic cut the lead to 69-61 early in the third quarter. The Suns responded with a 12-2 run, sparked by eight points from Booker and a 3-pointer from Paul.
TIP-INS
Suns: Phoenix had 21 assists on its 28 first-quarter field goals. … The Suns scored 40 points in the paint in the first half. … Monty Williams challenged a foul call on JaVale McGee early in the fourth quarter, but the call was upheld.
Magic: Suggs limped off the court with 7:14 in the third quarter and rode an exercise bike while talking to an Orlando trainer. He returned to the game at the start of the fourth quarter. … Wendell Carter had
14 points and 11 rebounds, his 23rd double-double of the season.
DEBUTS
Phoenix forward Torrey Craig, acquired from the Indiana Pacers on Thursday, played 23 minutes, finishing with 14 points, three rebounds and four assists. Craig played 32 games for the Suns last season before signing with Indiana in the offseason. The Suns’ other trade-deadline acquisition, guard Aaron Holiday, scored 10 points in nine minutes.
“Watching those two guys fit right into the program is pretty cool,” Williams said.
UP NEXT
Magic: Visit Denver on Monday.
Suns: Host Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday.
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CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Kyler Filewich came off the bench to tally 12 points and lead Southern Illinois to a 69-62 win over Evansville on Saturday night.
Dalton Banks had 11 points for Southern Illinois (13-13, 6-8 Missouri Valley Conference). Lance Jones added 10 points and six rebounds. Steven Verplancken Jr. also had 10 points.
Blaise Beauchamp had 19 points for the Purple Aces (6-18, 2-11). Evan Kuhlman added 18 points. Shamar Givance had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
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BEIJING (AP) — Across two pandemic Olympics set in Asian countries, Asian American women fronting the Games have encountered a whiplashing duality — prized on the global stage for their medal-winning talent, buffeted by the escalating crisis of racist abuse at home.
The world’s most elite and international sporting event, which pits athletes and countries against each other, underscores along the way the crude reality that many Asian women face: of only being seen when they have something to offer.
“It's like Asian American women can’t win,” says Jeff Yang, an author and cultural critic. “Asian American female athletes, like most Asian American women in many other spaces, are seen as worthy when they can deliver … and then disposed of otherwise.”
The issue is playing out at the Beijing Winter Games, the third straight Olympics set in Asia and the second held during the unrelenting global coronavirus crisis — and playing out, too, during a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Here, U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim and China’s freestyle skier Eileen Gu are the latest additions to the list of American women of Asian descent who have been “It Girls” of the Winter Games, joining icons like American figure skaters Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan.
When Kim and Gu earned their gold medals in Beijing, it was the perfect bow on professional narratives that have been covered incessantly leading up to the actual event. Their star power and talent made them two of the de facto spokeswomen for the Olympics.
Meanwhile, other Asian American women like figure skaters Karen Chen and Alysa Liu of the U.S. team and Zhu Yi of the China team have also been promoted by their national teams and scrutinized — sometimes harshly — by Olympic fans.
Commentators have mocked Yi for falling in the team event, as if she deserved the mistake after giving up her U.S. citizenship to compete for her ancestral homeland. Others are angry that she “stole” the Olympic spot from an actual China-born athlete.
Even the winners struggle to feel fully embraced in America.
Kim, who won the halfpipe at the Beijing and Pyeongchang Olympics, has revealed she was tormented online daily. She says she was consumed by fear that her parents could be killed whenever she heard news about another brutal assault on an Asian person.
There have been more than 10,000 reported anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults – between March 2020 and September 2021, according to Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that gathers data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic.
“The experience of hate is withering, and it takes a huge mental health toll,” says Cynthia Choi, the coalition’s co-founder. “When we think about the Olympics, it’s really incredibly powerful to have taken place in Asia three times in a row. That context is very significant, and to have Asian Americans and Asians representing the United States in these games is more than symbolic.”
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country have endured racist verbal, physical and sometimes deadly attacks for two years now, fueled by the pandemic.
Some perpetrators have based their hate on the fact that the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China. Adding to the mix: former President Donald Trump, who regularly talked about COVID-19 in racial terms.
Gu, the daredevil freestyle skier who placed first in the big air competition, said she’d never been as scared as when a man directed a tirade about the coronavirus’ Chinese origins against her and her immigrant grandmother at a San Francisco pharmacy.
The San Francisco native, fashion model and social media figure has also been criticized with anti-China rhetoric for switching from the U.S. team to the China team. Conservative Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Will Cain even dedicated a segment to berating Gu, saying she was “ungrateful" and is “betraying her country.”
Those racially charged denunciations have been called out on social media for being hypocritical. Phil Yu, who runs the popular Angry Asian Man blog, tweeted succinctly: "Oh sure, it’s always 'go back to your country' but not 'go back to your country and win a gold medal.’"
The dichotomy of the Asian American woman's existence is not limited to Winter Olympians, though. In October, Hmong American gymnast Sunisa Lee said she was pepper sprayed by someone shouting racist slurs while driving by in a car. At the time, she was standing outside with a group of Asian American friends in Los Angeles while filming the “Dancing with the Stars" TV show.
Lesser-profile Olympians from the Tokyo Games like golfer Danielle Kang and karateka Sukura Kokumai spoke about their experiences with anti-Asian hate last summer.
Kang said she’s fought racism all her life and urged for a broader social studies curriculum that could better capture today’s multicultural America.
“I’ve been told to go back to China. I don’t know why they think China is the only Asian country,” said the Korean American athlete. “I also have heard, ‘Do you eat dogs for dinner?’ It’s nothing new to me. However, the violence was very upsetting. But the violence also has been around. I’ve gotten into fist fights. I’ve grown up like this.”
Kokumai, who is Japanese American, was angry to discover that the same man who had harassed her in April with racist slurs also assaulted an elderly Asian American couple.
Equally painful: colleagues' silence when the incident was reported. She said Japan's coach called her about it before members of her U.S. team did.
“It was really hurtful that it took so long for my side of the federation to address it,” Kokumai said last summer.
In July, when Lee became the surprise breakout star of the Tokyo Olympics by winning gold in the all-around event and bronze on uneven bars, Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, said she felt conflicted about seeing Lee on a pedestal given the way Hmongs have been marginalized.
“I’m really wrestling with this idea that we’re all ‘American’ only when it comes to us being excellent and winning medals for the country,” Choimorrow said. “Asian American women are hyper-visible in ways that dehumanize us and completely invisible in the ways that humanize us.”
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MIAMI (AP) — Bam Adebayo had 19 points and 14 rebounds, and the Miami Heat held off a furious rally from Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets for a 115-111 victory Saturday night.
Irving scored 20 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter to help the Nets rally from a 21-point, third-quarter deficit before dropping their 11th straight game.
Cam Thomas’ 3-pointer with 37 seconds left cut Miami’s lead to 110-109. Down 113-111, the Nets had possession and an opportunity to tie or take the lead. But Kyle Lowry stole Thomas’ pass, dribbled downcourt and found P.J. Tucker, who got fouled and converted his shots to secure Miami’s fifth consecutive win.
“I think that was what it was going to take, some random deflection,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said of Lowry’s defensive play. “It didn’t go necessarily how we wanted it to in the fourth quarter. Particularly when we had the 20-point lead, we allowed them some life with some of our inefficient offense.”
Duncan Robinson finished with 17 points and hit 6-of-10 3-pointers, Jimmy Butler and Tyler Herro each scored 13 and Lowry had 13 points and six assists for the Eastern Conference-leading Heat.
Thomas had 22 points and Kessler Edwards finished with 13 for the Nets, who have lost their last two in the slide by single digits. Their previous five losses were by double figures.
“There were some moments where it could have gotten away,” Brooklyn coach Steve Nash said. “We found a way to scrap and claw. They rose to the occasion and took the challenge.”
Irving shot 6 of 9 from the field, including 2 of 3 from beyond the arc, in the fourth quarter.
“It’s being myself, making some shots,” Irving said of his late scoring spree. “There were some easy opportunities I had in those first three quarters but in that fourth I saw the lane open up a little bit more and I was just being very decisive.”
The Heat stretched a six-point lead at halftime with a 16-3 spurt to start the third period. Eight points from Adebayo and Robinson’s two 3-pointers keyed the run. Dewayne Dedmon split two free throws with 1:53 remaining in the quarter, giving Miami its largest lead at 89-68.
“We had a good start to the third quarter but then let off a little bit,” Robinson said. “We have to be better than that. But still, to win games down the stretch, having those closing possessions and stops were big.”
Former league MVP Kevin Durant recently began workouts in hopes of returning to the Nets lineup. Durant has been sidelined since his spraining left knee in a game against New Orleans Jan. 15.
Seth Curry and Andre Drummond, acquired by the Nets with Ben Simmons in the trade for James Harden, had not been cleared to play.
TIP-INS
Nets: Thomas has scored 20 points or more in four of his last five games. He is averaging 23.2 during the stretch. ... C/F LaMarcus Aldridge (left ankle sprain) missed his seventh straight.
Heat: Miami is 19-6 vs. East at home and 23-12 overall. .... The winning streak coincides with Lowry’s return. He missed nine games because of personal reasons. ... F Caleb Martin (left Achilles soreness) sat out.
HOME AT LAST
The recently completed six-game road slate has positioned the Heat toward a favorable home stretch to conclude the regular season. Beginning with Saturday’s game against Brooklyn, Miami will play 17 of its final 26 at home. And the longest road trip remaining is a three-game set at Boston, Chicago and Toronto March 30-April 3.
UP NEXT
Nets: Host Sacramento on Monday.
Heat: Host Dallas on Tuesday. | https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/Heat-hold-off-Irving-s-charge-hand-Nets-11th-16914178.php | 2022-02-13T07:52:46 | en | 0.98004 |
BEIJING (AP) — There are no rear-view mirrors on a bobsled, which is fitting when considering Francesco Friedrich’s approach to the sport.
He doesn’t look back. Only forward.
That’s why the greatest men’s bobsledder in the world right now — and probably ever — has no desire to talk about his legacy or what he’s already accomplished to this point. His mind is always on the next thing, the next race, the next challenge. And right now, that means the Beijing Olympics, where the start of the men’s bobsled competition comes Monday with the first two runs of the two-man event.
“He’s a special guy,” U.S. bobsledder Carlo Valdes said. “He’s going to go down as the best, most successful, pilot in history. He’s been doing this for a long time and there’s a reason why he wins so many medals, world championships, gold and gold in the Olympics in 2018. It’s cool to be able to compete against him. It’s also annoying: He wins all the time and we’re like ‘Hey, we get it.’”
Valdes, good-naturedly, approaches Friedrich most every race week with a message: “It’s not going to be your week,” Valdes tells him.
And that prediction is usually very wrong.
It’s not correct to say that Friedrich always wins. It’s pretty close, though. Going back to the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, Friedrich has competed in 71 major international races — meaning Olympics, World Cups and world championships.
He’s won 58 of those, or an absurd 82%.
He’s medaled in 67 of those, an even more absurd 94%. His worst finishes in the last four years: two fourth-places, one fifth-place and one 12th-place. That’s it.
“That’s what we do,” Friedrich said. “That’s our job.”
He dominates his sport like very few others have. He beats just about everyone every single week. It would seem to be a recipe for resentment among his competitors.
It isn’t.
Friedrich’s name is everywhere in bobsledding — the record books, Olympic history, European history, and even U.S. sleds. Yes, really. When the American men’s team was fundraising before this season began, anyone who donated at least $500 was going to get rewarded by having their name added to the side of one of the team’s bobsleds.
Friedrich gave $500. True to their word, the Americans put his name on the sled.
“He’s one of my idols in the sport,” U.S. pilot and first-time Olympian Hunter Church said. “I remember when he won his first world championship medal and he got asked about his next goal, and he said, ‘this is a great victory but it doesn’t matter until I am the best bobsled driver of all-time.’ It was his mission to be one of the greatest. To strive for consistent greatness, or be better than you were the day before, it’s what he’s done and it’s what will keep me going.”
Bobsled is one of those super-secretive sports. It’s an unwritten rule: Don’t ask pilots about the technology that goes into their sleds, don’t ask about technique, don’t ask about setups. Some teams get upset if they see anyone from another nation even daring to look at one of their sleds.
Friedrich goes the other direction. He doesn’t share all his secrets, but enough. The $500 gift to the U.S. program was far from the first time he’s donated money to other teams; he also got his name on Benjamin Maier’s sled for Austria this season after sponsoring that program, too.
“Francesco thought it would be funny if his name was on my sled,” Maier said.
Thing is, Friedrich doesn’t really think it’s funny. He gives money because he can, because it’s the right thing to do — and because he feels a responsibility to grow the sport, even if that means helping rivals.
“The day that there’s a limited amount of sleds on the World Cup tour is the day the sport dies,” Valdes said. “You can see that he’s just trying to do his part to keep it going.”
Here’s perhaps the best example of that: The four-man sled that Friedrich used to win gold in Pyeongchang is here at the Beijing Games — now painted in Canada colors.
He sold it to them.
“He definitely wouldn’t have sold the sled if he didn’t have something better, right?” said Canadian pilot Justin Kripps, who tied Friedrich for the two-man gold at the Pyeongchang Games. “It’s a very expensive item to have sitting in your garage unused, so I can see why he sold it.”
Kripps and Friedrich are close friends. Kripps is one of the very best in the world at what he does, a true medal contender. And even he has no doubt about who the favorite is in Beijing.
“He wins everything, right? So, obviously, people would consider him the one to beat,” Kripps said. “I think they also considered him the one to beat going into 2018, and he’s even more dominant now.”
Friedrich wants no part of that thinking.
He’s modest, almost to a fault. He talks about how much he enjoys working on his sled, building relationships with his teammates, supporting others. He’ll talk about almost anything.
Anything, that is, except his own success. Maybe someday. Not yet. There’s more to win.
“That doesn’t matter in this moment,” Friedrich said. “We have to prepare in the moment for this. When that is over, we can talk about it. I have a job and I do what I can do. That’s what is fun to me and that’s my motivation. Every day, I have fun.”
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PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Rienk Mast had 15 points and seven rebounds as Bradley beat Drake 68-59 on Saturday night.
Mikey Howell had 14 points for Bradley (15-11, 9-5 Missouri Valley Conference), which earned its fifth straight home victory. Terry Roberts added 11 points. V
Tucker DeVries had 20 points and seven rebounds for the Bulldogs (17-9, 8-5). Roman Penn added 11 points.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Adam Ruzicka had a goal and an assist, and the Calgary Flames beat the New York Islanders 5-2 on Saturday night for their sixth straight win.
Andrew Mangiapane, Elias Lindholm, Erik Gudbranson and Christopher Tanev also scored, and Johnny Gaudreau had two assists for the Flames, who have opened a seven-game homstand with three wins. Jacob Markstrom, making his 12th consecutive strart, finished with 19 saves to improve to 20-10-5 on the season.
Calgary climbed within one point of Vegas for first place in the Pacific Division. The Flames hold three games in hand on the Golden Knights.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau had a goal and an assist, and Noah Dobson also scored for the Islanders. Ilya Sorokin, getting a surprise start after Semyon Varlamov was placed into the NHL's COVID-19 protocols during warm-ups, had 24 saves.
Calgary struck first at 9:58 when defenseman Rasmus Andersson carried the puck in deep and around the net before centering a pass to Ruzicka, and the rookie center one-timed it into the top corner.
The Islanders tied it up with 2:53 left on a power play when Dobson’s point shot deflected off Blake Coleman’s stick and eluded Markstrom.
The Flames regained the lead 61 seconds later on a setup from Gaudreau, who crossed the Islanders’ blue line, curled back to buy himself some time and space and fed Tanev coming late in the slot, and he fired a 40-foot wrist shot inside the goal post.
Gaudreau extended his points streak to six games (four assists and seven points.
Calgary briefly built up a two-goal lead late in the second period when Ruzicka neatly set up Mangiapane’s redirection in front with 4 1/2 minutes remaining. It was Mangiapane’s team-leading 24th.
But just over a minute later, the Islanders got back to within one when Pageau got free in the slot and one-timed Zach Parise’s pass behind Markstrom.
The Flames got some insurance eight minutes into the third when Gudbranson scored his second of the season on a set-up from Milan Lucic. Calgary put the game away at 15:13 on Lindholm’s one-timer, which extended his goal streak to four and point-streak to six (4-3-7).
Notes: With six points tonight – one from each player -- Calgary’s defense has combined for 23 points in the last four games. ... The Islanders emergency back-up was Calgary native Colin Cooper, 27, who formerly played for Mount Royal University. He stayed in the dressing room though and did not sit on the bench. ... New York forward Kyle Palmieri was a healthy scratch for a second consecutive game after returning to the team from a one-game paternity absence.
UP NEXT
Islanders: At Buffalo on Tuesday night to finish a four-game trip.
Flames: Host Columbus on Tuesday night in the fourth of a seven-game homestand.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Hunter Schofield posted 18 points and nine rebounds as Dixie State narrowly beat Grand Canyon 61-60 on Saturday night.
Schofield converted a three-point play with 17 seconds remaining to cap the scoring. Holland Woods missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer.
Dancell Leter had 15 points for Dixie State (12-13, 5-7 Western Athletic Conference).
Woods had 11 points and six rebounds for the Antelopes (17-6, 7-4). Gabe McGlothan added 11 points. Taeshon Cherry had 10 points.
Jovan Blacksher Jr., the Antelopes' leading scorer heading into the contest at 17 points per game, had only four points (2 of 13).
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BEIJING (AP) — Three years after Adrian Diaz popped the question to Madison Hubbell on a high cliff overlooking the romantic port city of Barcelona, the two Olympic ice dancers are looking forward to finally planning their dream wedding.
First, though, they'll have to spend Valentine's Day in the most awkward way imaginable: competing against each other.
Hubbell and her longtime partner, Zachary Donohue, are in third place and aiming for a medal when the American duo concludes competition Monday with the free dance. Diaz and his partner, Olivia Smart, are farther down the standings as they try to improve on their rhythm dance with a memorable final performance for Spain.
“It has never been a very close fight,” Diaz said almost sheepishly.
Indeed, Hubbell and Donohue are among the elites of the ice dance world, a pair that was once an off-ice couple but was so good on it that they stayed partners — and best friends — even when the relationship ended. Along the way, they've captured a pair of silver medals at the world championships and were fourth at the Pyeongchang Games.
Diaz and Smart have never finished in the top 10 at the world championships.
So yes, the two pairs are competing against each other in the literal sense. But in the practical sense, there isn't much competition at all. And that takes all of the stress out of what could be a tricky, delicate situation, allowing Hubbell and Diaz to be each other's biggest fan on the rare occasions that they actually get a chance to sit in the stands.
Like during the team event last week, when Hubbell helped the U.S. win the silver medal — which could be elevated to gold once the Russian doping scandal reaches its conclusion. Spain did not have a team competing in the event.
“It was especially special for me to have my fiance in the stands,” Hubbell said, “because usually we're focused on our event so much that we don't get to see each other in person. So I'm really happy to have him able to be there.”
There are quite a few real-life couples at the Winter Olympics, and they count themselves fortunate: The closed-loop system put in place to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks included a ban on foreign visitors, so those who arrived in Beijing with their significant other as a coach, teammate or, yes, even a rival, will get to spend Valentine's Day together.
Diaz even said he had a gift for Hubbell, though he wouldn't spoil the surprise Saturday night.
Montana-born ice dancer Tim Koleto also planned ahead, bringing a gift for his wife, Misato Komatsubara. After all, boxes of chocolates are hard to come by in the Olympic bubble and a candlelight dinner pretty much impossible.
There happens to be a florist in the Olympic Village, though. Saving grace for those without the same forethought.
“We're very lucky to be able to spend our time here together,” said Kotelo, who along with Komatsubara helped Japan win a team bronze medal, and whose love story belongs on the desk of someone from the Hallmark Channel.
Koleto began his career as a singles skater before switching to dance in 2013 and teaming with Yura Kim to represent South Korea. When that partnership ended the following year, he began skating with Thea Rabe and represented Norway for a while. And when that pairing ended in 2016, Koleto seriously thought about walking away from the sport.
Around the same time, Komatsubara's partnership with Andrea Fabbri representing Italy was coming to an end. So on a lark, Koleto flew to Milan — the site of the next Winter Olympics — and met Komatsubara for a tryout. The connection was instantaneous, and they not only became ice dance partners but within a year were getting married.
He became a Japanese citizen in 2020, legally adopting the Komatsubara surname out of respect for his wife.
“We talk about it often that it was fate that we found each other the way we did,” Koleto said. “Both of us were a little bit disillusioned with this sport and maybe ready to walk away before we found each other, because starting again with a new partner is a long and difficult process. And you get to know each other so deeply and so intimately, even when you’re not together for three hours. So it’s a long process to start that again. So I’m so happy that we found each other.”
Most ice dance partnerships are not real-life couples, even though a necessary part of a winning program is showing off precisely that kind of chemistry. For them it's an act, just like a dramatic performance on stage or screen.
Yet sometimes those partnerships turn into more. That was the case for American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates. The reigning national champs have been dancing together for more than a decade, and are at their third Olympics together, but they didn't begin seriously dating until several years after beginning the partnership.
They were fourth after the rhythm dance Saturday night and now will celebrate Valentine's Day together Monday, trying to move onto the podium and earn another medal at the Beijing Games.
“We're just going to let our training come through,” she said. “We're just going to let our skating shine.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Kendall Coyne Schofield hasn’t entirely quit her day job while captaining the United States women’s hockey team at the Beijing Olympics.
In her second year as a Chicago Blackhawks player development coach, Coyne Schofield is pulling double duty at the Games by checking in on Chicago goalie prospect Drew Commesso, who happens to be playing for the U.S. men’s team.
“My focus, obviously, is first and foremost with this team,” Coyne Schofield said, referring to the defending women’s Olympic champions, who play Finland in the semifinals on Monday. “But I will definitely be watching, cheering from afar and reporting back to some of our folks back in Chicago.”
To be clear, she said, the Blackhawks aren’t requiring her to do anything but focus on playing during her time in Beijing. And yet, Coyne Schofield feels obligated to do her part for the franchise she grew up rooting for, and that made her the team’s first female coach.
Coyne Schofield texted Blackhawks interim general manager Kyle Davidson to say she would be watching the team's prospects at the Olympics.
"He’s like: 'No, don’t worry about it. We got it,‘” she said. “I have their full support. But if I have the opportunity to see them play, I obviously look forward to that.”
There couldn’t have been anything bad with her first report back after Commesso — the youngest goaltender to play for the U.S. at the Olympics — stopped 29 shots in a tournament-opening 8-0 win over China on Thursday. The 19-year-old is in his sophomore season at Boston University after being selected by Chicago in the second round, 46th overall, of the 2020 draft.
“She’s been really awesome to me,” Commesso said.
“I’m a big fan of hers,” he added. “I’ve been watching her play in this tournament, and hopefully we’ll stay in touch. And hopefully, I can get a signed stick or something from her because she’s a legend in women’s hockey.”
It helps, too, that Commesso’s professional connection to the three-time Olympian allows him to get advice on how to prepare for his first Winter Games experience.
“That aspect of it is pretty cool, because she knows what it’s like to play on a stage like this,” he said. “She’s been a great tool for me. And I’m going to continue to use her for help and reach out when I need it.”
Commesso missed out on his opportunity to represent the U.S. at the world junior championships, which were abruptly canceled over COVID-19 concerns shortly after they began two months ago. And yet, if not for the omicron surge, which led to the NHL’s decision to not participate in the Olympics, Commesso wouldn’t have had the chance to play for the U.S.
He left BU with a 12-8-3 record this season to play for a youth-laden U.S. men’s team that's off to a 2-0 start. The Americans play Germany on Sunday night, with a chance to clinch the top seed and advance to the quarterfinal round.
Coyne Schofield has three goals and two assists in five games for the U.S. women. She scored an empty-netter and set up Hilary Knight’s tying goal in the second period of a 4-1 quarterfinal win over the Czech Republic on Friday.
Aside from playing and scouting, Coyne Schofield is also active in the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association’s campaign to establish a economically sustainable women’s league in North America.
“It’ll slow down at some point in life, right?” she said of all the jobs she’s juggling. “To be part of the change that we’re seeing in women’s hockey and women’s sports is extremely important to me. And if I can be a part of that change, it’s a role and an honor that I want to fulfill every day that I can.”
The job with the Blackhawks does provide her a glimpse at a career whenever she is finished playing.
“I’m enjoying where I’m at right now,” said Coyne Schofield, who turns 30 in May. “I’m just so thankful for the support I’ve received from the Blackhawks to continue to play while being a full-time employee, especially this year because I haven’t been able to give as much focus to them as I did last year.”
The least she could do was provide Commesso a few tips.
“Before he got here, he’s asking some packing questions as most Olympians have,” Coyne Schofield said. “And it’s basically just bring your underwear because you get so many clothes here.”
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CA San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA Zone Forecast for Saturday, February 12, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Interior Central California
National Weather Service San Joaquin Valley - Hanford CA
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for tonight, Sunday, Sunday night, and Monday.
CAZ300-131200-
West Side Mountains north of 198-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 50 to 56. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to 57. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 71 to
76. Light winds in the morning becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 42 to 47. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 59 to 64.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 46.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 67.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 40 to 46.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 66 to 73.
Lows 43 to 49.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Luis Reservoir 50 76 51 73 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ301-131200-
Los Banos - Dos Palos-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear, haze. Lows 44 to 51. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 82. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 45 to 53. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 73 to
78. Light winds in the morning becoming northwest up to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 41 to 46. West winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 66.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 43.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 68.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 42.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 67 to 74.
Lows 38 to 44.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Los Banos 46 76 47 74 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ302-131200-
Merced - Madera - Mendota-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear, haze. Lows 41 to 46. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 43 to 48. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 73 to 78. Light winds in the
morning becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 40 to 45. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 62 to
67.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to
40. Highs 63 to 72.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 74.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 41.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 42 78 43 74 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 42 78 44 74 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 43 78 44 74 / 0 0 0 0
Madera 44 78 45 75 / 0 0 0 0
Firebaugh 42 80 45 77 / 0 0 0 0
Mendota 43 80 45 77 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ303-131200-
Planada - Le Grand - Snelling-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear, haze. Lows 43 to 49. Northeast winds up to
10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 44 to 49. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 71 to 76. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 39 to 44. Light winds in the
evening becoming northwest around 10 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 60 to
65.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 40.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 40.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 66 to 71. Lows
37 to 42.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 67 to 72.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Planada 44 78 44 73 / 0 0 0 0
Le Grand 44 78 45 74 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ304-131200-
Coalinga - Avenal-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze in the evening. Lows 49 to 54. Light
winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds in the morning
becoming east up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 54. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 74 to 79. Light winds in the
morning becoming northeast up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 41 to 46. Northwest
winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cooler. Highs 60 to 65.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 43.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 44.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 67 to 72. Lows
41 to 46.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Coalinga 52 79 51 77 / 0 0 0 0
Avenal 52 79 52 77 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ305-131200-
West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze in the evening. Lows 43 to 51. Light
winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 83. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 51. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light winds in the
morning becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 46. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, cooler. Highs 61 to 66.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 41.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 68.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 41.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 68 to 73. Lows
37 to 43.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 44.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huron 47 80 47 78 / 0 0 0 0
Five Points 44 81 45 77 / 0 0 0 0
NAS Lemoore 44 79 44 77 / 0 0 0 0
Kettleman City 47 79 47 77 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ306-131200-
Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear, haze. Lows 41 to 46. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 82. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 46. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 74 to 79. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 40 to 45. Northwest winds
around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs 60 to 65.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to
38. Highs 62 to 67.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 68 to 73. Lows
35 to 40.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 74.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 41.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Selma 45 79 43 75 / 0 0 0 0
Kingsburg 45 78 43 75 / 0 0 0 0
Sanger 45 78 43 75 / 0 0 0 0
Kerman 43 79 44 76 / 0 0 0 0
Caruthers 43 79 43 76 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ307-131200-
Fresno-Clovis-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 44 to 49. Light
winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 43 to 48. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 73 to 78. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 40 to 45. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs 59 to 64.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 39.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 67.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 41.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 67 to 72. Lows
37 to 42.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Clovis 47 78 45 75 / 0 0 0 0
Fresno 47 79 45 75 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ308-131200-
West Side Mountains South of 198-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 53. South winds up to 10 mph in the
evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. East winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 50 to 55. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds in the
morning becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 40 to 45. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Cooler. Highs 58 to 63.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 42.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 43.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 67 to 73.
Lows 40 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Livingston 42 78 43 74 / 0 0 0 0
Merced 42 78 44 74 / 0 0 0 0
Chowchilla 43 78 44 74 / 0 0 0 0
Madera 44 78 45 75 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ309-131200-
Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze in the evening. Lows 41 to 47. Light
winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 82. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 49. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds in the
morning becoming north up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 38 to 43. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Slight
chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 59 to 64.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 39.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 67.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 39.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 68 to 74.
Lows 35 to 42.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lost Hills 43 80 46 78 / 0 0 0 0
Buttonwillow 43 81 46 79 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ310-131200-
Delano-Wasco-Shafter-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze in the evening. Lows 40 to 46. Light
winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 47. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 74 to 79. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 39 to 44. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Slight
chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 57 to 62.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to
38. Highs 61 to 66.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 67 to 72. Lows
34 to 39.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 41.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alpaugh 41 78 42 76 / 0 0 0 0
Allensworth 41 78 42 76 / 0 0 0 0
Wasco 43 80 45 78 / 0 0 0 0
Delano 44 78 45 76 / 0 0 0 0
McFarland 45 79 46 77 / 0 0 0 0
Shafter 45 80 47 78 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ311-131200-
Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear, haze. Lows 41 to 46. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 41 to 46. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 74 to 79. Light winds in the
morning becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 40 to 45. Northwest winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Slight
chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 58 to 63.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to
40. Highs 62 to 72.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 68 to
73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 40.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs
69 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lemoore 43 79 43 77 / 0 0 0 0
Hanford 42 79 42 76 / 0 0 0 0
Corcoran 42 78 42 75 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ312-131200-
Visalia - Porterville - Reedley-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 43 to 49. Light
winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 48. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 73 to 78. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 39 to 44. Light winds in the evening becoming
northwest up to 10 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 55 to 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 39. Highs
61 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 40.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 66 to 71. Lows
37 to 42.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Reedley 45 78 43 75 / 0 0 0 0
Dinuba 45 78 44 75 / 0 0 0 0
Visalia 43 78 43 75 / 0 0 0 0
Exeter 47 78 47 74 / 0 0 0 0
Tulare 45 78 44 75 / 0 0 0 0
Lindsay 47 78 47 74 / 0 0 0 0
Porterville 48 78 48 74 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ313-131200-
Buena Vista-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 57. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 76 to 81. North winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 57. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 43 to 48. West winds around 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 55 to 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 44. Highs
60 to 65.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 45.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 67 to 73.
Lows 41 to 49.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 74.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Taft 57 77 57 75 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ314-131200-
Bakersfield-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 54. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 82. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 45 to 54. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 74 to 79. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 41 to 46. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 55 to 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42. Highs
61 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 44.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 68 to 73.
Lows 38 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bakersfield 50 80 50 78 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ315-131200-
Southeast San Joaquin Valley-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 53. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light winds in the morning
becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 44 to 54. East winds up to 10 mph in
the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 73 to 78. Light winds in the
morning becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of rain after
midnight. Lows 40 to 46. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 53 to 58.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 35 to 41. Highs
60 to 65.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 42.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 66 to 72.
Lows 38 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Richgrove 47 78 47 75 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ316-131200-
South End San Joaquin Valley-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 55. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 56. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 71 to 78. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 39 to 45. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Slight chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 51 to 58.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42. Highs
59 to 64.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 44.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 66 to 72.
Lows 38 to 48.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 73.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Arvin 49 79 49 76 / 0 0 0 0
Lamont 47 80 47 77 / 0 0 0 0
Mettler 49 78 50 75 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ317-131200-
Mariposa Madera Foothills-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 47 to 53. Northeast
winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 77. East winds up to 10 mph in the
morning becoming light and variable in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 47 to 53. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 69 to
74. Light winds.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Colder. Lows 39 to 44. Light
winds. Gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs 56 to 62.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 41.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 63.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 43.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 63 to 69.
Lows 40 to 46.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 66 to 71.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mariposa 51 72 51 69 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ318-131200-
Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 42 to 52.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 74.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 42 to 52.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 61 to
71.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 31 to 41.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow in the
morning. Highs 48 to 58.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 29 to 39.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 61.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 32 to 42.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 57 to 67. Lows
35 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oakhurst 44 75 40 71 / 0 0 0 0
Bass Lake 41 69 38 66 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ319-131200-
Fresno-Tulare Foothills-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 48 to 54.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 77.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 47 to 53.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 68 to 74.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 39 to 44.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 50 to 58.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 41. Highs
57 to 63.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 44.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 62 to 70.
Lows 41 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 65 to 71.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Millerton Lake 50 75 50 72 / 0 0 0 0
Three Rivers 48 76 47 72 / 0 0 0 0
Springville 48 71 47 67 / 0 0 0 0
Tule River Reservation 56 74 54 71 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ320-131200-
Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 46 to 56.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 72.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 45 to 55.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 60 to 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 33 to 43.
.TUESDAY...Slight chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 42 to 52.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 41. Highs
49 to 59.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 45.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 65.
Lows 38 to 48.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 56 to 66.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Auberry 55 71 52 67 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ321-131200-
South End Sierra Foothills-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 57.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 77.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 57.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 69 to 74.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 40 to 46.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 50 to 55.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 43. Highs
58 to 63.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 45.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 63 to 70.
Lows 41 to 48.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 66 to 71.
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CAZ322-131200-
South End of the Lower Sierra-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 57.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 63 to 73.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 45 to 55.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 60 to 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 35 to 43.
.TUESDAY...Slight chance of snow in the morning. Mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain. Cooler. Highs 40 to 50.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 40. Highs
50 to 58.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 44.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 65.
Lows 38 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 57 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Camp Nelson 43 63 42 62 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ323-131200-
Yosemite NP outside of the valley-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 49 at 5000 feet...29 to 37 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 56 to 66 at 5000 feet...45 to 51 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 49 at 5000 feet...29 to
37 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Windy. Highs
54 to 62 at 5000 feet...42 to 47 at 8000 feet. South winds 25 to
30 mph over higher elevations. Gusts up to 50 mph over higher
elevations.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Colder. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows 27 to
37 at 5000 feet...21 to 27 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow in the morning,
then sunny with a slight chance of snow in the afternoon. Chance
of snow 40 percent. Highs 41 to 49 at 5000 feet...29 to 35 at
8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 27 to 37 at
5000 feet...19 to 27 at 8000 feet. Highs 49 to 56 at 5000 feet...
38 to 44 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 30 to 40 at 5000 feet...22 to
30 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 53 to 61 at
5000 feet...41 to 48 at 8000 feet. Lows 33 to 43 at 5000 feet...
26 to 33 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Tuolumne Meadows 16 51 17 49 / 0 0 0 0
Wawona 40 68 40 64 / 0 0 0 0
Hetch Hetchy 44 69 45 65 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ324-131200-
Yosemite Valley-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 49. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 59 to 67. Northeast winds up to 10 mph in
the morning shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 39 to 49. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 53 to
63. East winds around 10 mph in the morning shifting to the
southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow
after midnight. Colder. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows
28 to 38. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs 40 to 50.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 38. Highs
48 to 56.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 31 to 41.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 52 to 62. Lows
34 to 44.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Yosemite 43 66 44 62 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ325-131200-
San Joaquin River Canyon-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 49. North winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 57 to 67. North winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 39 to 49. North winds up to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 54 to
64. North winds up to 10 mph in the morning shifting to the
southwest around 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain and
snow after midnight. Colder. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows
30 to 40. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow in the morning,
then mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow in the afternoon.
Chance of snow 40 percent. Highs 40 to 50.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 38. Highs
47 to 57.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 32 to 42.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 52 to 62. Lows
35 to 45.
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CAZ326-131200-
Upper San Joaquin River-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 24 to 34.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 41 to 51.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 24 to 34.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Windy. Highs
38 to 48. Over higher elevations, southwest winds 25 to 30 mph in
the afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Colder. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows 16 to 26.
Southwest winds around 25 mph over higher elevations. Gusts up to
40 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
slight chance of snow in the afternoon. Chance of snow
40 percent. Highs 24 to 34.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 13 to 23. Highs
33 to 43.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 17 to 27.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 38 to 48. Lows
21 to 31.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Devils Postpile 27 45 27 43 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ327-131200-
Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 46 to 53 at 5000 feet...27 to 37 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 65 at 5000 feet...49 to 55 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy.
Lows 44 to 53 at 5000 feet...28 to 36 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 58 to
63 at 5000 feet...47 to 53 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Colder. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows 33 to
40 at 5000 feet...20 to 26 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow in the morning, then
slight chance of snow in the afternoon. Colder. Chance of snow
40 percent. Highs 41 to 46 at 5000 feet...32 to 37 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 38 at
5000 feet...17 to 25 at 8000 feet. Highs 48 to 53 at 5000 feet...
41 to 46 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 42 at 5000 feet...22 to
29 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 53 to 58 at 5000 feet...44 to 50 at
8000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 45 at 5000 feet...25 to 32 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 54 to 60 at
5000 feet...46 to 52 at 8000 feet. Lows 40 to 45 at 5000 feet...
26 to 33 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Huntington Lake 34 55 33 52 / 0 0 0 0
Shaver Lake 39 61 37 58 / 0 0 0 0
Lake Wishon 35 58 34 56 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ328-131200-
Kings Canyon NP-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 40 at 5000 feet...27 to 37 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 58 at 5000 feet...45 to 55 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 40 at 5000 feet...26 to
36 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Windy. Highs
around 58 at 5000 feet...44 to 53 at 8000 feet. Over higher
elevations, southwest winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts to around
45 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Breezy, colder. Little or no snow accumulation. Lows
around 31 at 5000 feet...18 to 27 at 8000 feet. Southwest winds
around 25 mph over higher elevations. Gusts up to 40 mph after
midnight. Wind chill readings around 3 below.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Breezy, colder. Highs around 42 at 5000 feet...29 to 37 at
8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 28 at
5000 feet...15 to 25 at 8000 feet. Highs around 51 at 5000 feet...
38 to 47 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 32 at 5000 feet...19 to
29 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 53 to 58 at
5000 feet...42 to 52 at 8000 feet. Lows around 37 at 5000 feet...
24 to 34 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Cedar Grove 37 66 36 64 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ329-131200-
Grant Grove Area-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 44 to 50 at 5000 feet...30 to 40 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 57 to 62 at 5000 feet...49 to 54 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 44 to 49 at 5000 feet...30 to
40 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs 54 to
59 at 5000 feet...47 to 52 at 8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Colder. No snow accumulation. Lows 34 to 39 at
5000 feet...20 to 30 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow.
Colder. Highs 38 to 43 at 5000 feet...30 to 35 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 37 at
5000 feet...18 to 28 at 8000 feet. Highs 47 to 52 at 5000 feet...
40 to 45 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 41 at 5000 feet...22 to
32 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 56 at 5000 feet...43 to 48 at
8000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 44 at 5000 feet...25 to 35 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 52 to 58 at
5000 feet...45 to 51 at 8000 feet. Lows 40 to 45 at 5000 feet...
26 to 36 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grant Grove 45 61 45 60 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ330-131200-
Sequoia NP-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 50 at 5000 feet...28 to 38 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 63 at 5000 feet...45 to 53 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 48 at 5000 feet...27 to 37 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 55 to 60 at 5000 feet...44 to 52 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Breezy, colder. No snow accumulation. Lows 31 to 36 at
5000 feet...18 to 28 at 8000 feet. Over higher elevations, west
winds around 25 mph after midnight. Wind chill readings around
1 below.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Breezy, colder. Highs 37 to 42 at 5000 feet...28 to 34 at
8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 34 at
5000 feet...15 to 25 at 8000 feet. Highs 47 to 52 at 5000 feet...
37 to 43 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 39 at 5000 feet...20 to
30 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 51 to 59 at
5000 feet...40 to 49 at 8000 feet. Lows 35 to 43 at 5000 feet...
23 to 33 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lodgepole 29 56 28 54 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ331-131200-
South End of the Upper Sierra-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 39 to 49 at 5000 feet...28 to 38 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 68 at 5000 feet...48 to 56 at
8000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 47 at 5000 feet...28 to 38 at
8000 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs 57 to 65 at 5000 feet...
48 to 56 at 8000 feet. West winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts to
around 45 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of snow after
midnight. Colder. No snow accumulation. Lows 28 to 37 at
5000 feet...21 to 31 at 8000 feet. Gusts up to 45 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow in the morning,
then chance of snow in the afternoon. Colder. Chance of snow
40 percent. Highs 38 to 46 at 5000 feet...31 to 39 at 8000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 25 to 35 at
5000 feet...17 to 27 at 8000 feet. Highs 47 to 57 at 5000 feet...
40 to 48 at 8000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 28 to 38 at 5000 feet...20 to
30 at 8000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 60 at 5000 feet...42 to 50 at
8000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 31 to 41 at 5000 feet...23 to 33 at
8000 feet.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 53 to 63 at
5000 feet...45 to 53 at 8000 feet. Lows 32 to 42 at 5000 feet...
24 to 34 at 8000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 56 to 64 at 5000 feet...46 to
54 at 8000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Johnsondale 30 67 29 65 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ332-131200-
Kern River Valley-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 51. Northeast winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 70 to 76. Northeast winds up to 10 mph in
the morning shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 51. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs 67 to 73. West winds up to
10 mph in the morning increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 35 to 43. West winds 10 to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 45 to 53.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Warmer. Lows 29 to
37. Highs 56 to 64.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 68.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 43.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 63 to 71. Lows
37 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Alta Sierra 44 61 43 58 / 0 0 0 0
Kernville 44 75 43 72 / 0 0 0 0
Lake Isabella 43 75 44 72 / 0 0 0 0
Weldon 45 74 45 73 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ333-131200-
Piute Walker Basin-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 51.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 60 to 70.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 51.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs 59 to 69. West winds around
25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain after
midnight. Colder. Lows 32 to 42. Gusts up to 40 mph after
midnight.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Cooler. Highs 37 to 47.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Warmer. Lows 27 to
37. Highs 48 to 58.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 31 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 51 to 61.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 43.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 65. Lows
35 to 45.
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CAZ334-131200-
Tehachapi-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 44 to 54.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 72.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 44 to 54.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 61 to 71.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 34 to 42.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow.
Cooler. Highs 39 to 49.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 39. Highs
49 to 59.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 42.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 52 to 62.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 43.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 56 to 66. Lows
38 to 46.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bear Valley Springs 47 68 48 65 / 0 0 0 0
Tehachapi 40 69 42 67 / 0 0 0 0
Twin Oaks 47 71 47 69 / 0 0 0 0
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CAZ335-131200-
Grapevine-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze in the evening. Lows 48 to 53. South winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 65 to 73. Southeast winds up to 10 mph in
the morning shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 48 to 53. West winds up to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 63 to 71. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 37 to 42. West winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 41 to 49.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 38. Highs
50 to 58.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 41.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 65.
Lows 38 to 45.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 59 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Grapevine 49 72 49 70 / 0 0 0 0
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Frazier Mountain Communities-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Haze after midnight. Lows 45 to 55.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 74.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 56.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 62 to 72.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 34 to 44.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Slight
chance of rain. Slight chance of snow in the afternoon. Cooler.
Highs 41 to 51.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 40. Highs
49 to 59.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 43.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 65.
Lows 37 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 58 to 68.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pine Mountain Club 47 66 46 65 / 0 0 0 0
Frazier Park 39 68 40 67 / 0 0 0 0
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1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 46. Light winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 76. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 38 to 48. Light winds.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Breezy. Highs 73 to 78. Southwest winds
up to 10 mph in the morning increasing to 15 to 25 mph with gusts
to around 40 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 48. Southwest winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 55 to 63.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 40. Highs
61 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 68.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 32 to 42.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 65 to 72. Lows
35 to 45.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Inyokern 43 75 45 76 / 0 0 0 0
Ridgecrest 38 75 40 77 / 0 0 0 0
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1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 41 to 49. Northeast winds up to 10 mph in
the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 64 to 74. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 43 to 51. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Windy. Highs 65 to 75. West winds 10 to
15 mph in the morning increasing to 25 to 35 mph with gusts to
around 50 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 46. West winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Slight
chance of snow in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs 45 to 55.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 32 to 38. Highs
53 to 63.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 55 to 65.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 35 to 43.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 59 to 69. Lows
38 to 46.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mojave 41 74 43 75 / 0 0 0 0
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Mojave Desert-
1100 PM PST Sat Feb 12 2022
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 34 to 44. Northeast winds up to 10 mph in
the evening becoming light and variable after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 77. Light winds.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 36 to 46. Light winds in the evening
becoming southwest up to 10 mph after midnight.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs 73 to 79. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 46. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Cooler.
Highs 53 to 59.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 30 to 38. Highs
61 to 66.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 31 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 62 to 67.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 30 to 40.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Highs 65 to 73. Lows
33 to 43.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Randsburg 49 72 50 73 / 0 0 0 0
California City 36 75 38 77 / 0 0 0 0
Edwards AFB 33 74 36 78 / 0 0 0 0
Rosamond 36 75 38 78 / 0 0 0 0
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TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Sunday, February 13, 2022
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
108 AM CST Sun Feb 13 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS
MORNING...
* WHAT...North winds 20 to 25 knots with gusts up to 34 knots
and seas 6 to 9 feet.
* WHERE...Coastal waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship
Channel out 20 NM, Waters from Port Aransas to Matagorda Ship
Channel from 20 to 60 NM, Coastal waters from Baffin Bay to
Port Aransas out 20 NM and Waters from Baffin Bay to Port
Aransas from 20 to 60 NM.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM CST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Strong to very strong winds and/or increased seas
will result in hazardous marine conditions especially for
inexperienced mariners with smaller vessels.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
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There were 35 DNFs in the first run of the men’s giant slalom, but Jamaica’s first-ever alpine skier at an Olympic Games was not among them.
“Fricking hell, that was hard,” declared DJ-turned-skier Benjamin Alexander, who finished the ‘Ice River’ course in 1:37.94, more than 30 seconds behind leader and pre-event favourite Marco Odermatt.
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Alexander, who grew up in Northamptonshire, may have placed bottom of the pile for skiers who completed the first run at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre – his placing in 54th was 15 seconds behind India’s Arif Mohd Khan in 53rd – but the sizeable number of DNFs outlined how difficult the conditions were.
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A heavy blizzard wreaked havoc on Sunday, with the women’s freeski slopestyle postponed, but the men’s giant slalom persisted despite low visibility.
That made for a treacherous run, and unsurprisingly claimed dozens of DNFs, but in finishing the race Alexander - who achieved the minimum qualifying criteria at an event in Liechtenstein - was able to fulfil a “crazy dream”.
“I set out with a crazy plan, which seemed crazy to most but I broke it down and I thought it was totally achievable. What was crazy is trying to execute this plan under the duress of the pandemic,” Alexander told Eurosport in January.
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“It’s the realisation of a crazy dream come true. I'm not that much of an emotional person, but I just have this beautiful feeling inside of me of a plan executed, and a plan that has successfully come to fruition.”
Benjamin Alexander
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Alexander had admitted he did not expect to get “anywhere near” the top skiers, saying even a time within 20 seconds would be a “job well done”.
The gap was ultimately 35 seconds, but his pre-Games mission was “having a good time and showing other Jamaicans, other minorities, other people who didn't start skiing at the age of two, that crazy things can happen and dreams can come true”.
He added: “I've already identified the next generation of Jamaican athletes that will be representing our country in 2026. That's what this story is about.”
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Chris Ingram and Ross Whittock’s FIA European Rally Championship-winning partnership is over.
The youngest ERC champion duo announced their split on Friday after 29 events together, including 17 rounds of the European championship.
Whittock linked up with his fellow Briton Ingram for the final two rounds of the ERC3 Junior Championship in 2017, which Ingram won. More progress and success followed in 2018 before they won the overall ERC title on the final stage of the final round of the 2019 season. They were one event into their WRC2 campaign with Toksport WRT when they confirmed they were partners no more.
“I chose Ross to be my co-driver towards the end of 2017, where he helped me clinch the ERC Junior Championship with Opel. Since then we achieved so much together in the ERC and WRC with Toksport, but the time has come to part ways as a crew. I would like to wish Ross the best of luck in the future and thank him and his family for their support."
Whittock said: “The split has marked the end to a successful chapter of my career, with the decision coming to help benefit both of our careers in the sport. I would like to thank Chris for the partnership and the success we had together and I wish him all the best in the future. There will be new opportunities for me and I’m excited to start a new chapter in my career.”
Whittock linked up with his fellow Briton Ingram for the final two rounds of the ERC3 Junior Championship in 2017, which Ingram won. More progress and success followed in 2018 before they won the overall ERC title on the final stage of the final round of the 2019 season. They were one event into their WRC2 campaign with Toksport WRT when they confirmed they were partners no more.
“I chose Ross to be my co-driver towards the end of 2017, where he helped me clinch the ERC Junior Championship with Opel. Since then we achieved so much together in the ERC and WRC with Toksport, but the time has come to part ways as a crew. I would like to wish Ross the best of luck in the future and thank him and his family for their support."
Whittock said: “The split has marked the end to a successful chapter of my career, with the decision coming to help benefit both of our careers in the sport. I would like to thank Chris for the partnership and the success we had together and I wish him all the best in the future. There will be new opportunities for me and I’m excited to start a new chapter in my career.”
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said it will investigate Kamila Valieva’s entourage after a request from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as the Russian figure skater waits to discover whether she can compete in Tuesday’s individual event at Beijing 2022.
Valieva, 15, continued to train on Sunday ahead of the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) hearing, which will determine her fate at the Winter Olympics after she tested positive for a banned substance in December.
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The outcome of that result is expected on Monday, with the Russian Olympic Committee also set to be stripped of the team event gold if Valieva’s suspension is upheld.
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The saga has arguably been the biggest story of these Games so far, and the spotlight has also shone on Valieva’s team.
Her coach Eteri Tutberidze told Russian state television that the athlete was "clean and innocent", but the entourage is set to be investigated by WADA after Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine at the Russian Figure Skating Championships on Christmas Day.
“This is a constantly moving target, and we are continuing to work on this,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams told a news conference on Sunday.
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“We have an entourage commission...we want WADA to investigate the entourage in this case. A whole range of things have been done.
“Our response continues to improve and address entourage issues.”
And according to Reuters: "The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said in a statement to Reuters on Sunday that it would ask its independent Intelligence and Investigations Department to probe the coaches, doctors and other adults surrounding the athlete."
ROC figure skater Kamila Valiyeva talks to coach Eteri Tutberidze , choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz, and coach Sergei Dudakov (L-R)
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Asked if there was mental health support in place for Valieva, Adams added: “Mental health support is always firstly offered by the teams, and a lot of them have that in place.
“We also have a number of measures in place too, a number of safeguarding officers and so on. The support is there, but the primary obligation is for the teams to look after their athlete.
“There are 65 athlete welfare officers working in the village here. Each of the NOCs can ask for chaperones for any of their underage athletes. The information and support is there, but as I say it’s for each team to support their people.”
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While the timeline is relatively clear in terms of the CAS hearing and subsequent result, Adams stressed the process has been quick despite rumbling on for a number of days.
He said: “We want this to be expedited as quickly as possible, we made that very clear. This is why it’s going to CAS this evening, and why we’ll have a result tomorrow.
“In all parts of the world justice does run quite slowly, but this is actually quite quick for CAS and justice in general. We want to see a quick resolution.”
Meanwhile, Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi said it was important to remember the human element of this story.
“The Games are the Games, wherever you go and wherever they take place you are bound to have a number of issues that surface,” Dubi said.
“It’s incredibly important we keep the human side of this story, think about a person of 15 years old being in this situation. We have to treat this situation very carefully, there is a process ongoing, there will be a result and there will be a competition on the 15th.
“Throughout the Games you’re bound to have cases like this one, you’re bound to have bad weather, this is what happens.”
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The driver of a car that 'wouldn't stop' for police on the A30 is in custody after testing positive for drugs at the roadside when the car eventually pulled over.
Devon and Cornwall Police Roads Policing Team shared information on Twitter about the incident in which a car 'wouldn't stop' on the A30.
When the driver eventually pulled over at Cheriton Bishop, a 'cheeky' passenger in the car tried to throw some drugs away, but was noticed by officers.
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After this, the driver of the car then tested positive for drugs. Officers from the roads policing team took the driver into custody and 'dealt with' the passengers at the roadside.
A tweet from Devon and Cornwall's Road Policing Team reads: "Assisted @AllianceArv with a vehicle that wouldn’t stop on A30 Cheriton Bishop.
"When the car was stopped, a cheeky passenger tried to discard some drugs.
"The driver then tested positive for drugs. Driver is in custody and passengers dealt with at the roadside."
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An Exeter guide book believed to be around 90 years old is as fascinating for its adverts as for its text – helping us understand not only a bit more about what life was like at the time, but also the city itself.
It is thought that the eighth edition of Worth’s Exeter Cathedral and City Guide Book, with a cover price of one shilling, was published in 1931 or thereabouts. It describes Exeter as a centre for education, walking, cycling, motoring, sport, photography and fishing. Details of its descriptions of the city can be found here.
But while many readers of contemporary guide books pay little attention to the adverts, the adverts from a different era really catch the eye.
It’s also interesting to consider whether any hint of a building’s past remains today – or even if the building is still there at all.
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One of the first things you notice when looking at the adverts in Worth’s Exeter Guide Book is that most of the phone numbers only have three digits – so much easier to remember than the long numbers of today!
Rougemont Hotel overlooking Northernhay Park now carries Mercure Hotel branding and the park is known as Northernhay Gardens – but the Victorian building itself is easily recognisable.
The advert says the hotel has 100 rooms (today it has 98) and it proudly mentions having an electric lift and central heating.
“High-class board residence” Clevelands at 28 New North Road proudly states it has “hot and cold water to each floor” – something else we obviously take for granted today.
Next time you’re having a drink in Starbucks at 5 High Street, reflect on the fact that this address used to belong to “the oldest firm in the city” which had been established for nearly 200 years.
Havill & Son, “purveyors of choice English meat”, chose to highlight its “Real Exmoor, Southdown & Dartmoor mutton. Pickled Tongues, Sausages, etc.” in its advert.
J. &. G. Ross at 227-228 High Street sold “coats for all climates”, fishing gear and golf footwear.
Lakeland occupies this address today, and if you look closely above the shop sign, you can make out the words hosiers, tailors, outfitters and glovers.
Farr Ltd of 98 Queen Street describes itself in its advert as gentlemen’s outfitters, hosiers and glovers.
Its advert mentions “felt hats, straw hats, caps, golf hose, fancy socks, neckwear” and for the ladies, “exclusive ready-to-wear gowns” and “dainty blouses and jumpers.”
The former home of expert milliner R. Mason, at the junction of High Street and Queen Street, nicknamed “fashion corner”, looks unrecognisable today as Marks & Spencer.
Although today the usual term is greengrocer, the advert for R. Mock & Sons of Martin’s Lane describes itself as a fruiterer, as well as a florist and “the premier fish house of Devon.”
And of course, Worth’s Elizabethan Art Galleries, formerly Mol’s Coffee House, had an advert in its own guide book. The iconic building in Cathedral Yard looks just the same – and will hopefully still be standing in another 90 years and beyond.
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The Pune city police have booked more than 250 BJP workers, including some local leaders, on the charges of unlawful assembly after party leader Kirit Somaiya was felicitated on the premises of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Friday (February 11), days after he was allegedly manhandled by Shiv Sena workers at the same place.
Pune city police commissioner Amitabh Gupta confirmed that the offence had been registered after BJP workers gathered in spite of notices issued to them asking them to refrain from doing so.
Somaiya was allegedly manhandled when he visited the PMC building on February 5 to submit a complaint to commissioner Vikram Kumar, alleging financial irregularities in the setting up of Covid-19 jumbo hospitals in the city.
Prashant Late, BJP office-bearer from Pune, had said in his complaint to the police that Shiv Sena workers allegedly pushed and manhandled Somaiya and him on the stairs of the PMC building. Somaiya fell down and was injured, Late alleged in the complaint.
The police booked around 60-70 Shiv Sena workers in the case, including the party’s Pune city chief Sanjay More, on the charges of rioting, criminal intimidation and causing hurt. Later the police arrested 11 Shiv Sena office-bearers and released them on bail.
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Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor’s romance reportedly began on the sets of Brahmastra, and a new still from the film shows off their chemistry. Ranbir and Alia play each other’s love interest in the Ayan Mukerji directorial. While Ranbir plays Shiva, Alia will be seen as Isha. On Sunday, the makers of the film shared a picture in which the lovebirds just could not take their eyes off each other.
The photo has come a few days after Alia confessed that she already feels ‘married’ to Ranbir in her head. The actor was reacting to Ranbir’s comment that he had made in 2020. In a conversation with film critic Rajeev Masand, Ranbir had said that were it not for the pandemic, he’d have tied the knot with Alia already. He had added that marriage is a box that he’d like to tick sooner rather than later.
Recently, Alia was asked about Ranbir’s comments in a recent chat with NDTV. “In fact, I am married to Ranbir in my head for a long time. Everything happens for a reason.” While Alia and Ranbir have not really opened up on when the two would get married, rumours suggest that the two are set to tie the knot in April this year.
On the work front, Alia is currently busy promoting Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi. This is her first project with the filmmaker. In an interview with indianexpress.com, Alia said she was not sure of being a part of Gangubai Kathiawadi and that she was originally offered some other film, which was shelved.
“I was meant to do another movie with Sanjay Sir, titled Inshallah. When that was shelved, true to his words he came to me with the script of Gangubai Kathiawadi. He said: ‘I promised I would make a film with you. So, I am offering you another film.’ After its narration, I had what can be described as a natural reaction – I was shocked. This was a completely different genre compared to Inshallah, which was a love story. I was probably mentally not prepared for this kind of responsibility. I was unsure whether I would be able to pull it off,” she said, adding that she felt that being in a SLB film “is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
While Gangubai Kathiawadi releases on February 25, Brahmastra heads to the theater later this year.
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Bolts of volcanic lightning were seen in the sky over eastern Sicily in Italy after a powerful eruption of Mount Etna earlier this week. Photographs shared by the Associated Press showed smoke billowing out and lava erupting from the volcano.
The AP reported that static electricity is generated and discharged within the volcanic plume due to the collision of volcanic ash particles.
Such volcanic storms are rare but can happen in particularly violent eruptions or with volcanoes located near the sea, a volcano expert with Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology was cited as saying by phys.org.
Even though ash was spread into the air up to 10 kilometres above sea level, there was no casualty or damage.
Etna witnessed volcanic lightning in 2021 and 2015, volcanologist Boris Behnke told AP. Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in Europe and its eruptions are frequent.
In January this year, the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai in the Pacific Island nation of Tonga erupted after the region witnessed heavy rainfall, thunder and lightning. Satellite images showed the spectacular eruption with a plume of ash, steam and gas rising like a mushroom above the blue Pacific waters. The satellite images</strong> had taken the internet by storm.
Before that, the Semeru volcano on the tallest mountain on Indonesia’s Java island erupted on December 4, 2021, spewing towers of ash and hot clouds. The eruption was accompanied by a thunderstorm and rain, which pushed lava and smouldering debris, and formed thick mud.
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BTS, also known as Bangtan Boys, might be on an extended break from their otherwise busy schedule but there is no dearth of content for ARMY (as the BTS fandom is called). Musician and producer Anshuman Sharma, famous for his “How to make a song like xyz in two minutes” series, has made an apt video that shows Kim Taehyung (whose stage name is V) singing in Hindi.
The 23-second video shows the Korean heartthrob singing a made-up Hindi song that Sharma created after editing several previously recorded footage. Despite the editing, the video looks almost authentic as Teahyung croons the song, “Mai karun tumhe pyaar, koi na roke”, in his deep voice that is supported with pop beats and synthesiser tunes.
If Taehyung from @BTS_twt was a Bollywood singer? 👀💜 pic.twitter.com/tThim4Kt47
— Anshuman Sharma (@anshumonsharma) February 12, 2022
In the video, Teahyung is seen wearing a white Celine shirt and the footage is taken from one of his live sessions from VLive, a Korean streaming app used by celebrities to connect with their fans.
Many of desi Taehung stans seem to immensely enjoy the video and are thanking Sharma for his masterful edit.
On January 28, a similar video featuring Jeon Jungkook, the youngest member of BTS, was posted by Sharma across social media. Now the ARMY is waiting for Bollywood singing videos of the remaining five members: Suga, RM, J-Hope, Jimin, and Jin.
why why WHY WOULD YOU PLAY WITH OUR HEARTS LIKE THIS 😭
— rush⁷ (@namjincrack) February 12, 2022
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Yayy…was waiting for this
Thank you @anshumonsharma https://t.co/1A8YovRzQT— Pal⁷💜✨ (@luvvvvvyourself) February 12, 2022
This man ! Yes this man right here
He is so talented 😭 man damn https://t.co/8f5MFG9op6— Abhi⁷♡🐇 HOBIUARY☀️ (@_jinternity_) February 12, 2022
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Protesters opposed to Covid-19 vaccine mandates and other restrictions withdrew their vehicles from a key U.S.-Canadian border bridge Saturday though access remained blocked while other demonstrations ramped up in cities across Canada, including the capital, where police said they were awaiting more officers before ending what they described as an illegal occupation.
The tense standoff at the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, eased somewhat early in the day when Canadian police persuaded demonstrators to move the trucks they had used to barricade the entrance to the busy international crossing.
But protesters reconvened nearby — with reinforcements — and were still choking off access from the Canadian side late Saturday, snarling traffic and commerce for a sixth day. About 180 remained late Saturday in the sub-freezing cold.
In Ottawa, the ranks of protesters swelled to what police said was 4,000 demonstrators. The city has seen that on past weekends, and loud music played as people milled about downtown where anti-vaccine demonstrators have been encamped since late January.
Early Saturday evening, crews lined concrete traffic barricades between behind a line of police officers that stretched across the main highway leading to the foot of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor. Officers later withdrew behind the barricades which separated them from protesters. Barricades also were placed along some side streets. Police vehicles had been parked at those streets, preventing motor vehicles from entering the highway.
The protests at the bridge, in Ottawa and elsewhere have reverberated outside the country, with similarly inspired convoys in France, New Zealand and the Netherlands, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that truck convoys may be in the works in the United States.
An ex-Cabinet minister in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government took the unusual step of calling out her former federal colleagues as well as the province and city for not putting an end to the protests.
“Amazingly, this isn’t just Ottawa. It’s the nation’s capital,” Catherine McKenna tweeted. “But no one — not the city, the province or the federal government can seem to get their act together to end this illegal occupation. It’s appalling. … Just get your act together. Now.”
Trudeau has so far rejected calls to use the military.
“The Prime Minister stressed that border crossings cannot, and will not, remain closed, and that all options are on the table,” Trudeau’s office said in a statement late Saturday after he met with senior officials.
Trudeau has called the protesters a “fringe” of Canadian society, and both federal and provincial leaders say they can’t order police what to do.
“Safety concerns — arising from aggressive, illegal behavior by many demonstrators — limited police enforcement capabilities,” Ottawa police said in a statement late Saturday.
Ottawa police said a joint command center had now been set up together with the Ontario Provincial Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Police earlier issued a statement calling the protest an unlawful occupation and saying they were waiting for police “reinforcements” before implementing a plan to end the demonstrations.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency last week for the capital, where hundreds of trucks remained in front of the Parliament Buildings and demonstrators have set up portable toilets outside the prime minister’s office where Trudeau’s motorcade usually parks.
Surrounded by dozens of officers in Windsor, a man with “Mandate Freedom” and “Trump 2024” spray-painted on his vehicle left the bridge entrance early in the day as others began dismantling a small, tarp-covered encampment. A trucker honked his horn as he, too, drove off, to cheers and chants of “Freedom!”
But hundreds more arrived to bolster the crowd and settled into a faceoff with police about two blocks away, waving flags and yelling. While there were no visible physical confrontations, the crowd still controlled the road to the bridge, and traffic had not resumed as of the evening.
Windsor police tweeted that no one had been arrested but urged people to stay away from the bridge: “We appreciate the cooperation of the demonstrators at this time and we will continue to focus on resolving the demonstration peacefully. Avoid area!”
Protester Daniel Koss said shortly before police advanced that the demonstration had succeeded in bringing attention to demands to lift COVID-19 mandates and he was happy it remained peaceful.
“It’s a win-win,” Koss said. “The pandemic is rolling down right now, they can remove the mandates, all the mandates, and everyone’s happy. The government does the right thing, and the protesters are all happy.”
The previous day, a judge ordered an end to the blockade of mostly pickup trucks and cars, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency allowing for fines of 100,000 Canadian dollars and up to one year in jail for anyone illegally blocking roads, bridges, walkways and other critical infrastructure.
“The illegal blockades are impacting trade, supply chains & manufacturing. They’re hurting Canadian families, workers & businesses. Glad to see the Windsor Police & its policing partners commenced enforcement at and near the Ambassador Bridge,” Federal Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne tweeted Saturday. “These blockades must stop.”
The Ambassador Bridge is the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, carrying 25% of all trade between the two countries, and auto plants on both sides have been forced to shut down or reduce production this week. The standoff came at a time when the industry is already struggling to maintain production in the face of pandemic-induced shortages of computer chips and other supply-chain disruptions.
In Ottawa, 31-year-old Stephanie Ravensbergen said she turned out to support her aunt and uncle who have parked their semi in the streets since the beginning of the protest. She opposes vaccine and mask requirements, and said it’s important for schoolchildren to be able see their friends’ faces and emotions.
“We want the right to choose,” Ravensbergen said. “We want the right to be able to do what everybody else can do.”
Protesters on Saturday tore down a fence that authorities put up around the capital’s National War Memorial two weeks ago after demonstrators urinated on it. Some later chanted “liberte,” French for “freedom.”
“Completely unacceptable,” Lawrence MacAulay, Canada’s veterans affairs minister, tweeted. “This behavior is disappointing and I’m calling on protesters to respect our monuments.”
On the other side of the country, protesters disrupted operations at another border crossing between Surrey, British Columbia, and Blaine, Washington, but officials said it was not blocked. Two border crossings, in Alberta and in Manitoba, remained shut down as well.
While the protesters are decrying vaccine mandates for truckers and other COVID-19 restrictions, many of Canada’s public health measures, such as mask rules and vaccine passports for getting into restaurants and theaters, are already falling away as the omicron surge levels off.
Pandemic restrictions have been far stricter there than in the U.S., but Canadians have largely supported them. The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States.
Inspired by the Canadian demonstrations, protests against pandemic restrictions were seen in parts of Europe on Saturday.
At least 500 vehicles in several convoys attempted to enter Paris at key arteries but were intercepted by police. Over 200 motorists were ticketed, and elsewhere at least two people were detained amid a seizure of knives, hammers and other objects in a central square.
Police fired tear gas against a handful of people who demonstrated on the Champs Elysees Avenue in defiance of a police order. An Associated Press photographer was hit in the head with a gas canister as police struggled to control the crowd.
In the Netherlands, meanwhile, dozens of trucks and other vehicles ranging from tractors to a car towing a camper arrived in The Hague, blocking an entrance to the historic parliamentary complex. Protesters on foot joined them, carrying a banner emblazoned with “Love & freedom, no dictatorship” in Dutch.
Earlier this week in New Zealand, protesters rolled up to Parliament grounds in a convoy of cars and trucks and set up camp. Police have taken a hands-off approach after initial attempts to remove them resulted in physical confrontations.
Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard on Friday ordered his staff to turn on the lawn’s sprinklers to douse them and to play Barry Manilow tunes and the 1990s hit “Macarena” over loudspeakers to annoy them. Protesters responded by playing their own songs, including Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”
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