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#natural-disaster

SAFE Executive Director Damian Kevitt speaking at this morning's safe streets rally - photo via SAFE
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An increasing number of cities are adding drone flights to their law enforcement tool kit.Public access to appropriately redacted video footage from those flights can provide oversight of police surveillance and help ensure cities are living up to their privacy promises.Every second of every drone video should not be categorically exempt from public records laws as an investigatory record.

South Brooklyn Health, formerly known as Coney Island Hospital, is preparing for the opening of their new building named after former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in early May 2023.Svetlana Lipyanskaya, CEO of South Brooklyn Health, says the health center began the long project of making upgrades after suffering severe damage during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

If the cause was a plane crash or a natural disaster, the needless deaths of 500 people might be declared a national emergency.Not so with the NHS crisis.At least 511 people died in England last year after ambulances in some cases took up to 15 hours to reach them.More than half of paramedics have seen a patient die due to a delay involving an ambulance, or another part of the care system.

After the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria last month ( February 6), an estimated 14 million people have been affected.As of March 6, there have been more than 54,200 confirmed fatalities, and a vast number of people across both countries have been left with their homes destroyed and a need for medical care.

A retail assistant has spoken of the devastation faced by her husband when he travelled to his hometown in Turkey to rescue his parents and sister from the rubble, and found they had died as a result of the 7.8 earthquake.Rachel Kuccuk's chef husband Ergin, 47, travelled to Elbistan from Tralee, County Kerry, on Tuesday morning in a bid to find and rescue his sister Hanim and parents Ali and Done Kuccuk.

First, Syria's civil war drove Hind Qayduha from her home in the city of Aleppo.Then, conflict and joblessness forced her family to flee two more times.Two years ago, she came to southern Turkey, thinking she had finally found safety and stability.But when a powerful earthquake struck a week ago, it destroyed their apartment in the hard-hit Turkish city of Antakya and the family was displaced again.

Artificial intelligence is making its way into every aspect of the 21st century, and one field AI is making significant waves in is weather prediction.Weather forecasting is very reliant on computer technology to perform accurately.Artificial intelligence technology and machine learning innovations can make weather prediction even more precise.

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It took a major disaster and the prolonged displacement of hundreds of farmworkers, but the small Monterey County community of Pajaro is finally getting the help and attention of federal, state and local lawmakers its residents have sought for decades.On Tuesday, California lawmakers sent a letter to Michael Connor, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, urging him to speed construction on a levee that failed earlier this month, flooding the small town, and to provide immediate emergency relief funds to shore up the damaged infrastructure.

SolisImages/iStock Finally.You put your signature on the closing paperwork.You're happy with your loan ... well, as happy as you can be, considering the magnitude of the debt you just accepted.Stress dreams have mostly subsided, barring the occasional vision of some movers dropping your grandmother's curio cabinet, shattering this priceless antique while they run off with your money.

This post was written by intern Devin Sullivan.Should it be a federal crime to encourage an undocumented immigrant to remain in the country?In a friend of the court brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court, we argue that such a prohibition is facially unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds that it would sweep up and prohibit constitutionally protected speech.Our brief was filed in United States v. Hansen, a challenge to the Encouragement Provision in 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), which makes it a federal crime to "encourage or induce" an undocumented immigrant to "reside" in the United States, if one knows that such "coming to, entry, or residence" in the U.S. will be in violation of the law.

Friday, February 10, 2023 by Jo Clifton
In response to complaints from the public about Austin Energy's response to the extreme ice storm that knocked out electric power for at least 173,000 AE customers, City Council Member Mackenzie Kelly asked her colleagues Thursday to approve a resolution directing City Auditor Corrie Stokes to perform an extensive audit.

"It had basically just been free flowing from a clogged drain in the backyard," Shen says."Luckily, nothing majorly structurally was damaged other than a lot of printing paper and some outlets and extension cords in our radio studio."He estimates between Unity and the station, they suffered around $500-$1,000 worth of damage.

If you've experienced more headaches than usual lately, blame Washington, DC's whipsaw weather: changes in barometric pressure may have contributed to your agony.And while it's pointless to get mad about, you know, the air, knowing when pressure changes are afoot can help headache sufferers plan ahead and possibly avoid other triggers.

As aftershocks rumbled and crews worked across Humboldt County on Wednesday afternoon to restore water and power knocked out by the powerful earthquake that struck earlier this week, Kevin Mcniece rushed to his former home, hoping to beat a code enforcement team so he could grab some of his possessions before access was blocked.

Mars has a lot of craters.Now it has two new ones - gouged by rocks that slammed into the planet late last year.Mars will be fine.This is not a natural disaster.Nor an omen that Earth is newly imperiled by asteroids.The solar system is full of debris.Mars has a feeble atmosphere, and when a meteoroid comes flying in from space, it's unlikely to burn up before smacking into the surface.

Mars has a lot of craters.Now it has two new ones - gouged by rocks that slammed into the planet late last year.Mars will be fine.This is not a natural disaster.Nor an omen that Earth is newly imperiled by asteroids.The solar system is full of debris.Mars has a feeble atmosphere, and when a meteoroid comes flying in from space, it's unlikely to burn up before smacking into the surface.

One of the warehouses where stockpiled medicine, and medical supplies, are kept.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Responses Surges in COVID-19, the flu and other respiratory illnesses are forcing the U.S. government to do something it normally reserves for emergencies: release hoards of stockpiled Tamiflu to states in dire need of more flu medicine.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Burr Ridge businessman to nearly five years in federal prison for swindling $2.6 million from hospitals seeking coveted protective gear in the traumatic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and blowing much of it on credit cards and luxury cars.The 57-month term handed to Dennis Haggerty marked the stiffest punishment so far in Chicago's federal court in a fraud case arising from the pandemic.

"I don't lie awake at night worrying about the bad legislation they are going to pass.Because I don't think they're going to pass it," said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.).Awaiting the outcome of just one true toss-up race, Republicans will have a majority of either four or five - giving McCarthy the sparest of margins of any other Congress at the start of its term .