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MLB Tuesday scores, highlights, updates, news: Red Sox's Sale rocked by Blue Jays

We are now into the homestretch of the 2017 regular season. Only six days remain before the baseball world switches into postseason mode, which is when the game changes from a marathon to a sprint. Here is everything you need to know about the day in baseball.

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We are now into the homestretch of the 2017 regular season. Only six days remain before the baseball world switches into postseason mode, which is when the game changes from a marathon to a sprint. Here is everything you need to know about the day in baseball.

Tuesday's scores

Pittsburgh Pirates 10, Orioles 1 (box score)

New York Yankees 6, Rays 1 (box score)

Philadelphia Phillies 4, Nationals 1 (box score)

New York Mets 4, Braves 3 (box score)

Minnesota Twins 8, Cleveland Indians 6 (box score)

Toronto Blue Jays 9, Boston Red Sox 4 (box score)

Milwaukee Brewers 7, Reds 6 (box score)

Houston Astros 13, Texas Rangers 3 (box score)

Los Angeles Angels 9, Chicago White Sox 3 (box score)

St. Louis Cardinals 8, Cubs 7 (box score)

Kansas City Royals 2, Tigers 1 (box score)

Colorado Rockies 6, Marlins 0 (box score)

Arizona Diamondbacks 11, Giants 4 (box score)

Seattle Mariners 6, Oakland Athletics 3 (box score)

Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Padres 2 (box score)

Sale gets rocked by Jays

Chris Sale's chances of reeling in the Cy Young Award over Corey Kluber took another hit on Tuesday night.

That's because Sale lasted only five innings against the Blue Jays, yielding five earned runs on eight hits. Among those eight hits? Four home runs. Sale gave up a pair of dingers to Josh Donaldson, as well as one apiece to Teoscar Hernandez and Kendrys Morales.

Sale has now allowed multiple home runs in three of his five September starts. He has pitched fewer than six innings in each of those starts. Sale entered September having lasted fewer than six innings three times all year.

Yankees clinch home-field in Wild Card Game

Thanks to their victory against the Rays. You can read more here.

McCutchen hits first grand slam

Here's something you probably didn't know: Andrew McCutchen had never hit a grand slam. Nope, not one.

That changed on Tuesday night:

McCutchen entered the night hitting .273/.358/.470 with 26 home runs. He has enjoyed a bounceback effort this year after a miserable 2016. It's fair to wonder if he'll be traded this winter, making Tuesday's granny the only he'll ever hit in a Pirates uniform.

Of course, there'll be plenty of time to think about that after Sunday. For now, McCutchen is a Pirate -- and a Pirate with a grand slam under his belt.

Pujols drives in 100th run

The only thing keeping Albert Pujols from being universally panned by baseball fans is his RBI total. He notched his 100th RBI on the season on Tuesday, giving him 14 such seasons for his career. That put him in some extremely select company:

Pujols entered the night hitting .240/.287/.388. He has been one of, if not the worst player in the majors by most advanced metrics.

Tuesday's clinching scenarios

Already four teams have clinched their division title (Astros, Dodgers, Indians, Nationals) and three others have clinched a postseason spot (Diamondbacks, Red Sox, Yankees). One division title and one postseason spot can be clinched Tuesday. Here is a postseason scenario update and here are Tuesday's clinching scenarios:

Cubs will clinch NL Central title with a win or a Brewers loss.

Twins will clinch wild-card spot with a win and an Angels loss.

Yankees will clinch home-field advantage in Wild Card Game with a win or a Twins loss.

Astros will clinch home-field advantage in the ALDS over the AL East winner with a win and a Red Sox loss.

The best race in baseball right now is the race for the second NL wild-card spot. The Rockies are 1½ games up on the Brewers and 2½ games up on the Cardinals. That spot can't be clinched until Thursday at the earliest.

Harper returns to Nationals

One day later than expected, the Nationals activated Bryce Harper off the 10-day DL, the team announced early Tuesday. He was originally going to be activated Monday, though an illness pushed his return back a day.

Harper was in Tuesday's lineup after having not played since suffering a scary looking knee injury on Aug. 12. (Harper slipped on a wet base in the rain and suffered a bone bruise in his left knee.) He batted second and went 0 for 2, walking once before being lifted for Victor Robles. A quiet game, all told, but that's OK.

The Nationals have not only already clinched the NL East title, they've already clinched the second best record in the NL. They know they'll host the NL Central winner (almost certainly the Cubs) in the NLDS. The team has nothing to play for these final six days of the season, but these six days given Harper a chance to get back up to speed before the postseason. He has about a week to get ready after missing more than six weeks with the injury.

Quick hits

Red Sox OF Mookie Betts is day-to-day with inflammation in his hand. X-rays on Betts' hand revealed no structural damage. He was not in the lineup Tuesday.

Here is our latest look at the and races. It's a two-man race between Corey Kluber and Chris Sale in the AL. In the NL, Max Scherzer appears to have a leg up on Clayton Kershaw and several of his Nationals teammates.

Japanese star Shohei Otani is reportedly interviewing agents, further fueling speculation he will make the jump to MLB this offseason. Otani will be subject to MLB's international hard spending cap should he come over this winter.

The Mets have five managerial candidates in mind next season: hitting coach Kevin Long, Astros bench coach Alex Cora, Dodgers bench coach Bob Geren, A's third base coach Chip Hale, and former White Sox manager Robin Ventura. All five have ties to the Mets.

The Yankees have activated OF Aaron Hicks off the 10-day DL, the team announced. Hicks has missed most of the second half with an oblique injury. He had a huge first half and was an All-Star Game candidate, then got hurt after the break.

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MLB Tuesday scores, highlights, updates, news: Red Sox's Sale rocked by Blue Jays

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We are now into the homestretch of the 2017 regular season. Only six days remain before the baseball world switches into postseason mode, which is when the game changes from a marathon to a sprint. Here is everything you need to know about the day in baseball.

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The Dallas Cowboys player and the owner of the cowboys kneel and link arms before the national anthem. Kneeling during the anthem was started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 preseason, who said he was protesting against the treatment of blacks in the United States.

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones linked arms and kneeled with the team's players ahead of the national anthem this evening.

On Sunday, NFL players, teams and owners across the league participated in a peaceful protest by kneeling, locking arms or skipping the playing of the national anthem all together in response to President Donald Trump's criticism of players who "disrespect" the U.S.

The Cowboys, who are in Arizona to face off against the Cardinals, stood and joined arms while the national anthem was sung, as did the Cardinals.

A photo tweeted by the Cowboys' Twitter account showed Jones kneeling alongside the players before the anthem's singing, with the caption "#FootballIsFamily."

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"American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks performed the anthem with Proverb 31:8-9 written on her hand: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy."

Trump ignited a firestorm of controversy this weekend after he called for kneeling players to be fired while speaking on Friday evening in Alabama.

"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say: 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now,'" Trump said.

Kneeling during the anthem was started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 preseason, who said he was protesting against the treatment of blacks in the United States. Kaepernick is black.

The president on Monday continued hammering his argument that kneeling during the national anthem is unpatriotic.

"It is about respect for our country, flag and national anthem," he tweeted. "NFL must respect this!"

ABC News' M.L. Nestel contributed to this report.

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Dallas Cowboys, including owner Jerry Jones, link arms, kneel ahead of anthem

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones linked arms and kneeled with the team's players ahead of the national anthem this evening. On Sunday, NFL players, teams and owners across the league participated in a peaceful protest by kneeling, locking arms or skipping the playing of the national anthem all together in response to President Donald Trump's criticism of players who "disrespect" the U.S.

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Three black detectives in the NYPD were denied a promotion because of their race. The track records have found solid investigated work from the 3 men but are giving the white men with lower rankings and less experience a promotion. They believe they were passed over because they are black and most of the officers in the division are white, as are all high ranking officers.

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Three black detectives in the New York Police Department's intelligence division filed a federal lawsuit against the department on Monday, saying they were denied promotions because of their race and that lesser-qualified white officers were promoted instead.

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State to Pay $550,000 to Convicted Murderer Who Lost Leg in Prison

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A convicted murderer serving a life sentence just reached a settlement with the State of Georgia, after he had his leg amputated, the result of allegedly poor medical treatment. Michael Tarver had brought a case against Dr. Chiquita Fye, medical director of the Macon State Prison, claiming that the doctor had failed to properly monitor and treat his injury, leading to the loss of his limb.

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A Colorado family is warning other parents about the dangers of Buckyballs after a 2-year-old girl swallowed 28 of the small magnets that sent her to the hospital.

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A Colorado family is warning other parents about the dangers of Buckyballs after a 2-year-old girl swallowed 28 of the small magnets that sent her to the hospital.

Ella McBrien swallowed the small high-powered magnets when her father, Kyle McBrien, stepped away to use the bathroom. Her parents told FOX31 Denver on Sunday the girl likes to put things in her mouth.

"It was terrifying," girl's mother, Elizabeth McBrien, said. "I was losing it, he luckily kept it together."
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The X-rays showed the magnets linked together to form a circle in the girl's bowel. The magnets pinched a piece of the organ, forming a whole. The inital procedure to remove the BB-sized spheres failed, leading doctors to use a specialized endoscopy to remove them.

"They were pinching the bowel and causing the early formation of a hole within the bowel by the time we got in there," Dr. Robert Kramer, who was working on the 2-year-old's case, told the news station. "That can have very significant implications. In the worst cases there has been deaths associated with these."

They successfully removed the magnetic balls and the toddler was moving around normally within a few hours after the procedure, according to FOX31.
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Buckyballs have previously injured and sickened children. The items were initially recalled in 2013 after several cases of children swallowing them were reported. Courts reversed the U.S. Consumer and Product Safety Commision's order in 2016.

"We are starting to see more of these high power magnet ingestions now that they are back on the market," Kramer said.

Kyle McBrien said he's telling his daughter's health scare to warn other parents about the dangerous items.

"It sounds as benign as humanly possible -- magnets, you don't think anything of it. I think just to understand exactly what the true risk is," McBrien said.

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Colorado toddler swallows 28 Buckyball magnets, parents say

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A Colorado family is warning other parents about the dangers of Buckyballs after a 2-year-old girl swallowed 28 of the small magnets that sent her to the hospital. Ella McBrien swallowed the small high-powered magnets when her father, Kyle McBrien, stepped away to use the bathroom.

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In “Abandoned Wrecks,” Chris McNab captures vehicles of all kinds in their final resting places.

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Conversational videos shared by parents show the East High Cheer coach pushing the girls into a split position during a camp in June.

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Principal, athletic director out after investigation into forced splits

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Attorneys determined that school officials didn't do enough to protect cheerleaders from physical and emotional harm, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said

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President Donald Trump sounded very satisfied with his recent remarks on patriotism and the NFL in a dinner with conservative group leaders at the White House Monday night, according to a person who attended the event.

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"It's really caught on. It's really caught on," Trump said of his NFL comments to attendees at the dinner, according to someone who attended. "I said what millions of Americans were thinking."

"You could really tell he was satisfied," this person in the room said about the President's comments.

Trump was referencing his crusade over the weekend in which he harshly criticized players who kneel during the national anthem. Many players who have done so have said they are protesting police brutality.

Two distinct issues are driving the national debate: Believing players should stand during National Anthem and the question of whether it's appropriate for a president to make an issue of it.

At the dinner, Trump also lashed at at GOP Sen. John McCain and his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to the source.

Trump described McCain, who said he won't support the latest GOP effort on health care, as a "disgrace" on the issue, the attendee said.

As for Sessions, Trump again said the attorney general should not have recused himself in the Russia investigation.

"You can tell he still has disdain for this guy," the attendee told CNN about Sessions. "The room was a little uncomfortable. He really pounded him."

On tax reform, Trump offered some marketing advice for the attendees at the dinner.

"Just call it tax cuts," Trump said, arguing that's how to explain the issue to everyday Americans.

"It sounds convoluted" when you call it tax reform, the person at the dinner quoted Trump as saying.

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"It's really caught on. It's really caught on," Trump said of his NFL comments to attendees at the dinner, according to someone who attended. "I said what millions of Americans were thinking." "You could really tell he was satisfied," this person in the room said about the President's comments.

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Hurricane Maria whipped Puerto Rico with Irma-level winds, drenched the island with Harvey-level flooding, crippled communications, decimated buildings and damaged a dam that puts downstream residents at risk of catastrophe.

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The Guajataca Dam is "releasing water" after suffering "infrastructure damage" following the Category 5 storm, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN late Sunday.

"Right now, as it stands, a couple of hours after I went through Isabela, part of the dam did break it is releasing water," Rosselló said. "And that dam is partly concrete, partly soil. So as water runs through, erosion starts having its toll on the dam and my concern is at some point it'll break."

An engineer was assessing the site and seeing what steps could be taken to mitigate the risk, Rosselló said.

A flood warning for western Puerto Rico has been extended until 8.15 a.m. ET Monday, according to a tweet late Sunday by the National Weather Service of San Juan.

About 70,000 people in the area of the Guajataca Dam were told to evacuate on Friday, according to the National Guard. With more than 95% of wireless cell sites out of service, authorities had to physically go to thousands of residents to warn them of the potential collapse.

Communications cut

Without power and communications in much of the island, millions of people, including city leaders and first responders, have been cut off from the world since Maria hit Wednesday.

Flying over Puerto Rico Sunday, CNN's Leyla Santiago said residents could be seen along the highways searching for a cellphone signal.

"The island from above is a completely different color" due to the lack of trees, Santiago said, while pools are filled with black water and debris. The storm had ripped the roofs of houses, exposing their interiors to the sky, she said.

At least 10 people have been confirmed killed by the hurricane.

A doctor at Canovanas Medical Center -- one of the few hospitals with a working generator -- said they were running out of fuel to keep it going.

Dr. Norbert Seda told CNN that the center only had 2-3 days left of medical supplies and medicine.

None of the three hospitals CNN visited had running water and all said they had just days of supplies left.

However, the Gov. Rosselló guaranteed that the people of Puerto Rico would have access to enough food and water to survive.

"We have centers that will distribute water and food, we've already started getting shipments. Today, as a matter of fact, we had a million liters of water come in to Puerto Rico. We have half a million servings of food and other resources." Rosselló also said the island has enough fuel for the next 20 days.

He issued a plea to US Congress for a suitable aid package as the US territory recovers from the damage caused by Hurricane Maria. "Congress can act. If they don't act, my fear is that we will see massive migration, it will be depleting the human resource here in Puerto Rico and it will be effecting demographic change in the United States as well."

Authorities flew over the island Saturday, and were stunned by what they saw. Roads are completely washed away and others are blocked by debris, isolating residents.

"It was devastating to see all that kind of debris in all areas, in all towns of the island," Jenniffer González, the island's non-voting representative in Congress told CNN.

"We never expected to have a lot of debris in so many areas. A lot of roads are closed, older ones are just gone," she added.

Roselló met with more than 50 mayors and representatives from across Puerto Rico on Saturday. Some described the conditions in their communities as "apocalyptic" and said there have been incidents of looting in both homes and stores.

Army, more federal aid coming

US President Donald Trump has pledged federal help for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration said 4,000 members of the US Army Reserves have been deployed to the island to help with Hurricane Maria recovery.

"Federal partners are aggressively working to meet and overcome challenges to opening ports and restoring power to bring additional life-saving commodities and personnel into disaster-affected areas," the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.

Several flights and sea vessels with meals, water and generators have been arriving or are headed to Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands affected, the agency said.

Brock Long, the FEMA director, said on Twitter Sunday he would visit Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands on Monday.

Maria marching north

Meantime, the US East Coast bracing for high winds and treacherous surf from Hurricane Maria, days after the storm caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean.

Early Monday the National Hurricane Center said Maria was expected to pass "well east" of the southeast coast during the next day or so.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for north of Surf City, North Carolina, to the Virginia border, as well as North Carolina's Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for Cape Lookout to Duck.

"The combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline," the center warned, while dangerous swells were expected to increase along the Mid-Atlantic coast.

The storm hit Dominica, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the US Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos, a British overseas territory.

CNN's Rafael Romo and Samantha Beech contributed to this report.

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The Guajataca Dam is "releasing water" after suffering "infrastructure damage" following the Category 5 storm, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN late Sunday. "Right now, as it stands, a couple of hours after I went through Isabela, part of the dam did break it is releasing water," Rosselló said.

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wife of former assistant coach pleaded guilty to having sex with sixteen year old boy she will now serve 3 years in prison

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The wife of former high school assistant football coach in Tennessee on Monday pleaded guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old boy who played on her husband's team.

Kelsey McCarter, 27, admitted guilt to all seven counts - including six charges of statutory rape - ahead of her trial.

McCarter decided to plead guilty to receive a lesser sentence, her attorney said. Doug Trant, the attorney, said she otherwise faced 38 years in prison.

She will now serve three years in prison but could qualify for release after serving 30 percent of the sentence.

"She made a mistake," Trant said after the hearing, according to The Knoxville News-Sentinel. "She'll move past it. She's young, and as you saw, her family is here in support of her. Her husband is strongly supportive of her."

"She's very sorry about what happened, she's sorry she put her family through this," he said.

McCarter faced charges for having sex with the 16-year-old high school student multiple times throughout 2015. the News-Sentinel reported that the acts took place at her home and while she was driving him to his mother's house.

Justin McCarter, the woman's husband, invited the boy and his brother to live in their house and mentor them following their behavioral problems, said the abused boy's mother.

Prosecutors said the woman also sent topless clip of herself to the student.

The husband resigned from his position as an assistant football coach last year.
The Associated Press Contributed to this report.

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Wife of ex HS football coach pleads guilty to sex with player

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The wife of former high school assistant football coach in Tennessee on Monday pleaded guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old boy who played on her husband's team. Kelsey McCarter, 27, admitted guilt to all seven counts - including six charges of statutory rape - ahead of her trial.

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Beasley, A man in Ohio put up a fake job on Craigslist. Three people were lured,  Ralph Geiger, 56, David Pauley, 51, and Timothy Kern, 47. Beasley was convicted partnering with a teenage boy (16). A jury convicted him in 2011. He was sentenced to the death penalty. But he is trying to get that taken off.

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The evidence against an Ohio man accused of killing three down-and-out men lured by fake Craigslist job offers wasn't strong enough to convict him, according to attorneys fighting the defendant's death sentence.

No physical evidence links death row inmate Richard Beasley to the killings, his attorneys argued in a court filing with the Ohio Supreme Court.

It also doesn't make sense that someone would go to great lengths to target the poor individuals whom Beasley was charged with killing, the attorneys said.

The "result of these labors would be to rob homeless, destitute individuals with little or no property or money," according to Beasley's public defenders.

Prosecutors say Beasley's motives were so callous and depraved they befuddle the average citizen.

"There is no question that common sense among reasonable persons may have a hard time grasping the sheer depravity of such conduct, but the degree of such depravity certainly does not call into question the veracity of the evidence," the state argued in its own filing.

The state Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday for and against Beasley's death sentence. A ruling isn't expected for months.

Beasley, 58, a self-styled street preacher, was convicted of partnering with a teenage boy in 2011 to lure victims with promises of jobs on a southeastern Ohio farm. The job offers were posted on Craigslist.

A jury convicted Beasley in 2013 and a judge sentenced him to death. Co-defendant Brogan Rafferty, who was 16 at the time of the killings and not eligible for the death penalty, was convicted and sentenced to life without parole.

Beasley also says extensive pretrial publicity prevented him from getting a fair trial in Summit County.

State prosecutors say the publicity barely made an impact on the jury pool.

One victim was killed near Akron, and the others were shot at the farm in Noble County about 100 miles (161 kilometers) southeast of Columbus.

The slain men were Ralph Geiger, 56, of Akron; David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Virginia; and Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon.

All were down-and-out men looking for a fresh start in life, prosecutors repeatedly said during Beasley's trial.

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Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.

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In Corona California, about 1000 residents had to evacuate on Monday evening due to a 2,000 acre wildfire that had already destroyed one structure. A least 300 homes were evacuated with between 1000 and 1200 residents were affected. More than 300 fire personnel from multiple agencies were dispatched to get rid of the fast growing fire via ground and air but the wind was making it worse. They are still figuring out how the fire even started.

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At least 1,000 California residents were forced to evacuate on Monday evening due to a 2,000-acre wildfire that had already destroyed one structure, officials said.

California fire officials issued a mandatory evacuation for some residents in Corona, Calif., located about 45 minutes southeast of Los Angeles, as the wildfire threatened to burn multiple homes, according to fire officials.

The wildfire, dubbed the Canyon Fire by authorities, ignited on just after 1 p.m. on Monday. It was 5 percent contained as of early Tuesday morning, according to fire officials, who said the cause of the fire was unknown.

An estimated 300 homes in west Corona were under a mandatory evacuation, with between 1,000 and 1,200 residents affected, Anaheim Fire & Rescue officials said.

More than 300 fire personnel from multiple agencies were dispatched to fight the fast-growing fire via air and ground, but the battle was complicated by severe winds, fire officials said.

The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

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North korea is arguing that they have the right to shoot down U.S Millitary fighter planes if they are not within their ranges. They claim it is a "visible act of war".

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North Korea threatened on Monday to shoot down American warplanes even if they were not in the country's airspace and declared that President Trump's menacing comments suggesting he would eradicate North Korea and its leaders were "a declaration of war."

The warning, made by Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho of North Korea in New York after a week of United Nations General Assembly meetings, escalated the invective-laced exchanges with Mr. Trump and appeared to further preclude the possibility of a diplomatic exit from the biggest foreign crisis the administration has faced.

Administration officials denied that the United States had declared war on the isolated, nuclear-armed country of 25 million people and did not immediately comment on the threat to shoot down American planes.
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But Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Mr. Trump's national security adviser, said he saw no prospect of talks with North Korea that would allow its "de facto nuclear capability." North Korea's top leader, Kim Jong-un, has already ruled out giving up nuclear weapons.

"The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country," Mr. Ri told reporters at a news conference outside his hotel as he was about to return home.

"Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country," he said.

North Korea last shot down an American warplane in 1969, during the Nixon administration, killing all 31 crew members of a spy plane that was flying off its coast.

Today, North Korea's ability to make good on its threat is limited. Its air force is outdated, undertrained and frequently short of fuel. But the threat reinforced a fear that Pyongyang and Washington are hurtling toward a possible armed conflict, even an unintended one.

Mr. Ri's reference to the declaration of war appeared to refer to Mr. Trump's assertion in a Twitter message over the weekend that the North Korean leadership may not "be around much longer " if it continues its threats.

Mr. Ri said that the question of "who would be around much longer will be answered" by North Korea.

It is possible that North Korea's foreign minister wanted to make clear that it, too, could threaten pre-emptive military action, just as the United States has repeatedly suggested in recent months.

But Mr. Trump's tweet over the weekend appeared to go further, suggesting that mere threats, rather than a military attack, could drive him to wipe out the country. Whether that was one of his characteristic outbursts or a strategic effort to intimidate North Korea was not clear - even to some of his advisers.

"If the goal is to intimidate the North Koreans, it needs to be understood that they are really hard to intimidate," said Evans J. R. Revere, a Korea expert who is a former deputy assistant secretary of state.

"They're not used to an American president saying these things," Mr. Revere said. "They're also masters at responding when their leader is attacked."

The escalation of threats came two days after American warplanes flew close to the North's coast, going farther north of the Demilitarized Zone - the dividing line between North and South - than any other American air mission since the turn of the century. The Air Force advertised the exercise, which involved only American aircraft, as a direct response to North Korea's accelerated missile launches and a nuclear test two weeks ago.

Mr. Ri, who is well connected to the country's top leadership, also said last week that the North was considering conducting an atmospheric nuclear test in response to Mr. Trump's threats, which would be the first by any nation in 37 years.

It is unclear whether the North is capable of such a test, which is far more complicated and dangerous than the underground testing it has done six times in the past 11 years. But a senior Trump administration official said over the weekend that the Pentagon and intelligence agencies were taking the threat seriously and devising possible responses - including pre-emptive military strikes - for the White House.

And Col. Robert Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters on Monday that if North Korea did not stop its provocative actions, "we will make sure that we provide options to the president to deal with North Korea."

The 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, so hostilities have merely been in abeyance. Since then the North has often said that the United States was bringing the two countries "to the brink of war."

But Mr. Ri's remark about downing American aircraft was new, and raised the possibility of a clash, even if a North Korean attack failed. He also said that "all options will be on the operations table of the supreme leadership" of North Korea.

Political analysts said the Trump administration should consider Mr. Ri's comments more than just verbal volleys.

"I think they're dangerously close to some kind of a conflict with North Korea," said Jae H. Ku, the director of the U.S. Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.

"This is something I feared," he said. "When we go down this road, our escalation could lead to accidental shootouts, and it may not be so accidental."

The increasing acrimony also alarmed China, North Korea's biggest trading partner, which strongly opposes the North's missile and nuclear tests but has repeatedly urged de-escalation. "We want things to calm down," China's United Nations ambassador, Liu Jieyi, was quoted by Reuters as saying on Monday.

North Korea had already deemed Mr. Trump's threat at the United Nations - to "totally destroy" North Korea if the United States were forced to defend itself or its allies - a declaration of war.

Mr. Kim, in an unusual direct response, said last week that Mr. Trump's insults to him and his country in his United Nations General Assembly speech amounted to the "most ferocious declaration of a war in history," which warranted "the highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history."

If North Korea were to shoot down a United States military aircraft, it would not be the first time since the 1950-53 Korean War. In April 1969, the North shot down an unarmed United States Lockheed EC-121 spy plane on a North Korean intelligence-gathering mission over the Sea of Japan. The 31 resulting deaths amounted to one of the biggest single losses of American military lives during the Cold War.

North Korean state radio said at the time that the aircraft had penetrated "deep into the airspace" of the country. The Defense Department said the plane was 50 nautical miles off the North Korean coast.

Hours after Mr. Ri spoke on Monday, General McMaster told a conference organized by the Institute for the Study of War in Washington that the administration had no set preconditions for talks with North Korea. But he said any new negotiations must be held "under conditions that are different from previous talks," which he said were drawn out and yielded little progress.

General McMaster said the administration does not want to negotiate in a way that "locks in the status quo as the new normal."

Asked about a maritime blockade as a military option, General McMaster said it would likely provoke retaliation by North Korea. He also said many people seem to think - incorrectly - that there is an easy military option.

"What we're not assuming is that anything we do will go without some kind of response to the situation," he said.

General McMaster would not comment on the North Korean threat to shoot down American warplanes.

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North Korea threatened on Monday to shoot down American warplanes even if they were not in the country's airspace and declared that President Trump's menacing comments suggesting he would eradicate North Korea and its leaders were "a declaration of war."

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Palestinian gunman kills three Israelis in West Bank, Three Israelis were shot by a Palestinian man at the entrance of a Jewish settlement. The gunman was a father of four who had an Israeli permit to work in Jewish settlements along the boundary of the West Bank. He shot two security guards and a border policeman and seriously wounded another person, before being shot by security.

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Three Israelis have been shot and killed by a Palestinian gunman at the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, police say.

The gunman was also shot and died later but has not yet been identified, a police spokesman said.

The gunman had "arrived at the rear gate of Har Adar along with Palestinian labourers entering the settlement" before opening fire on Israeli police guards, police said.

Another Israeli was injured.

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Three Israelis have been shot and killed by a Palestinian gunman at the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, police say. The gunman was also shot and died later but has not yet been identified, a police spokesman said.

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Eleven show and service dogs were taken in a stolen RV. The RV was spotted by the Lacey police on Saturday morning. The RV was found 35 miles away from were it was stolen. The dogs were eventually given back to the owners.

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Eleven show and service dogs and the stolen RV they were in have been recovered and returned to their owners in Washington.

The 22-foot Winnebago was spotted by Lacey police on Saturday morning about 35 miles from where it was stolen from a sporting goods store parking lot in Federal Way on Friday, after media reported on the missing truck.

The driver of the vehicle was taken into custody, according to the Associated Press. A young man with black hair and a red, white and black backpack was caught on surveillance video stealing the RV.

The owners of the RV were on their way to Port Orchard for a dog show when it was stolen. Among the dogs, which were in pens in the back of the vehicle, was a 130-pound Doberman pinscher, along with five fox terriers, three miniature pinschers and a poodle.

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Eleven show and service dogs and the stolen RV they were in have been recovered and returned to their owners in Washington. The 22-foot Winnebago was spotted by Lacey police on Saturday morning about 35 miles from where it was stolen from a sporting goods store parking lot in Federal Way on Friday, after media reported on the missing truck.

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New York Giants star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. hinted Monday that his touchdown celebration where he pretended to urinate in the Philadelphia Eagles end zone was a response to President Trump calling players who kneel for the National Anthem

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New York Giants star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. hinted Monday that his touchdown celebration where he pretended to urinate in the Philadelphia Eagles end zone was a response to President Trump calling players who kneel for the National Anthem "sons of b****es ."

Beckham responded to a tweet that questioned whether the move was in response to the president's remarks on Sunday, saying "If u seen that, I have to tip my hat to u for thinkin outside the box. #URRIGHTONPOINT impressed."

The fourth-year receiver was questioned after Sunday's game on his actions, but did not give a direct answer that it was a response to Trump's comments.

"I was in the end zone. I scored a touchdown," Beckham said, according to NJ.com. "I'm a dog so I acted like a dog. I don't know if the rulebook said you can't hike your leg. (The referee) said I peed on somebody, so I was trying to find the imaginary ghost that I peed on. But I didn't see him."

Beckham scored two touchdowns in the game. On his second touchdown, Beckham raised his fist, which many players have been seen doing during the National Anthem.

The Giants lost the game in the final seconds, 27-24.
Ryan Gaydos is a homepage editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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Odell Beckham Jr. hints that his urination celebration was a shot at Trump

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New York Giants star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. hinted Monday that his touchdown celebration where he pretended to urinate in the Philadelphia Eagles end zone was a response to President Trump calling players who kneel for the National Anthem "sons of b****es ."

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Cops took $60 from a hot dog vendor for operating without a licences. The hot dog vendor made a go fund me campaign and raised over $87,000.

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When Beto Matias headed onto the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, earlier this month with a cart full of hot dogs and fixings, he just hoped to make a little money off hungry college football fans. Instead, his day ended in a now viral confrontation with university police, in which he received a ticket for operating without a license. The officer took $60 from Matias' wallet and said a judge would decide whether he got the money back.

In the two weeks since the Sept. 9 incident, strangers on the internet have helped to turn Matias' loss into an opportunity, donating more than $87,000 to a GoFundMe campaign launched by Martin Flores, the bystander who recorded the incident.

The fundraiser page originally said that the money would be used to cover Matias' legal fees and personal losses and that additional funds would go to support any other vendors "robbed of their hard earned living through citations and removal of their carts."

But while other unlicensed vendors were detained on Sept. 9, authorities have acknowledged that only Matias got a ticket. The GoFundMe campaign was later modified to say the money raised would go to help Matias buy a "fully permitted" food truck.

On Saturday, Flores presented Matias with a check for $87,921 at an event outside the UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research. The check was purely symbolic ― the fundraising campaign is still accepting donations, Flores told HuffPost on Monday ― but the show of support for Matias and other street vendors has been very real.

"What was important on Saturday was to show the public the support that was there," said Flores, a Berkeley alumnus who works in the Los Angeles County Superior Court system. "The community came together not knowing this man, and the majority of these donations were humble donations of five, ten dollars. It's almost like they bought an online hot dog that they're never going to eat just to show solidarity."

Berkeley students, members of the local community and other supporters attended the event. Matias and his family grilled hot dogs, said Flores.

"I'm happy that I have the help of the people," Matias told The Daily Californian, in Spanish. "I'm so grateful for the community."

More than 5,500 donors have already contributed to the fundraiser. The campaign is still well short of bringing in the $150,000 needed to buying that fully equipped food truck. GoFundMe assesses a 7.9 percent service charge on its campaigns, and Flores said he anticipates Matias will have to set aside around 30 percent of the final donation total for taxes.

"I'm hoping that we can continue to garner support where we can make this a reality, and we can all be a part of this food truck," said Flores. "It may have to be that he settles for a trailer, something more affordable. It may be that he has to settle for a used truck."

In the meantime, Flores wants to shine a light on what he says is a broader issue of unnecessarily harsh restrictions serving to criminalize street vendors.

"We've learned that street vendors like hot dog vendors, for example, they would never meet the regulations as they exist now," he said. "So there's gotta be a way to make it a win-win that still respects what's mandated ― and the right reasons why they're mandated ― but at the same time, that finds a way to make this realistic for them."

University officials have so far defended the incident as a routine law enforcement action, carried out in the interest of public safety.

"We have instructed our officers to monitor illegal vending outside our event venues. This action has been motivated at least in part by issues of public health, the interests of local small businesses, and even human trafficking," UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Scott Biddy said in a statement earlier this month. "In a case such as this, it is typical to collect any suspected illegal funds and enter them into evidence."
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

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When Beto Matias headed onto the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, earlier this month with a cart full of hot dogs and fixings, he just hoped to make a little money off hungry college football fans. Instead, his day ended in a now viral confrontation with university police, in which he received a ticket for operating without a license.

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Gillette Stadium, the Patriots stadium somehow ran out of water, so they for some reason they started charging the fans $4.50 for cups of tap water after the bottled water runs out.

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New England Patriots fans on Sunday reportedly complained that the stadium charged them $4.50 for cups of tap water after bottled water at the venue was sold out.

The Boston Globe reported that it was unusually hot in Foxborough and officials at Gillette Stadium bought double the amount of water bottles for the game.

The report said that while temperatures hit 86 degrees, fans requested cups of tap water. The concession stands are not equipped with complementary water cups, so workers filled soda cups.

The Patriots acknowledged the issue in a statement to WBZ-TV Sunday night.

"We apologize. That should not have happened," team spokesman Stacey James said. "It is the first time that I have ever heard that complaint here. We are looking into the matter to ensure that it doesn't happen again."

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New England Patriots fans on Sunday reportedly complained that the stadium charged them $4.50 for cups of tap water after bottled water at the venue was sold out. The Boston Globe reported that it was unusually hot in Foxborough and officials at Gillette Stadium bought double the amount of water bottles for the game.

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The unidentified object was flying over Los Angelis has been identifyed. It was a rocket from a nearby air base.

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The mysterious object in the sky above Los Angles on Saturday night has been identified.

Video of the object soon appeared on Twitter. "Did anyone else in #losangeles see this in the sky tonight around 11pm!? @GriffithObserv what was it? Cool, yet scary! #comet #asteroid #ufo," asked Twitter user @reelhopelavelle.
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The object, however, was quickly explained. "Oooh okay! #MysterySolved it was a #rocket from #vandenberg air force base! Neat!," @reelhopelavelle tweeted.

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket took off from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-3 at 10:49:47 p.m. PDT carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. "Designated NROL-42, the mission is in support of national security," explained United Launch Alliance, in a press release.
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Space.com reports that the rocket was carrying a secret spy satellite.

The launch was ULA's sixth in 2017. The company's next launch is scheduled for Oct. 5 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The mission, which is also for the National Reconnaissance Office, is designated NROL-52.
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The mysterious object in the sky above Los Angles on Saturday night has been identified. Video of the object soon appeared on Twitter. "Did anyone else in #losangeles see this in the sky tonight around 11pm!? @GriffithObserv what was it? Cool, yet scary! #comet #asteroid #ufo," asked Twitter user @reelhopelavelle.

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A man in Colorado got his swastika tattoos removed after an unlikely friendship. Tiffany Whittier an African-American parole officer talked to Micheal Kent a former neo-Nazi about taking down his swastika flags and hanging happy faces up. Kent realizes that he doesn't want his kids to see the world in hate. " I don't want my kids to live the life I lived with hate, I want my kids to know me for who I am now, a good farther, a hard worker, and a good provider." Kent said. Tiffany made Micheal see that the way he lives his life can effect how he feels. By putting up the smile faces Tiffany said that when you happy face flag it makes your day more content.

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A Vermont Substitute teacher was caught instructing a class of third graders to salute Hitler. The sub did admit to teaching them the gesture and then instructing them to say "Heil Hitler" .The superintendent and many other administrators are at a loss for words, and can assure it won't happen again.

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A veteran Vermont teacher was axed after she was caught instructing a class of third graders on how to give the Nazi salute.

The substitute teacher had the children perform the stiff-arm gesture as they were walking to the cafeteria Thursday at Georgia Elementary School, accoriding to a report.

"The children were standing with their arm out in front of them and the teacher was modeling the position," District Superintendent Ned Kirsch told parents, according to the Vermont publication Seven Days. "She then raised her arm slightly and said, 'And now we say, Heil Hitler.'"

"I'm at a loss on the whole thing," Kirsch told the paper Friday. "People are shocked. People I've spoken to are at a loss for words."

The teacher admitted saying Heil Hitler and demonstrating the gesture, the paper reported.

Her name wasn't released. She has taught as a substitute teacher at the school for years.

"It's not a pattern," Kirsch told Seven Days. "[I] never had a report about her, nothing. No one can quite understand what happened."

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A veteran Vermont teacher was axed after she was caught instructing a class of third graders on how to give the Nazi salute. The substitute teacher had the children perform the stiff-arm gesture as they were walking to the cafeteria Thursday at Georgia Elementary School, accoriding to a report.

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Hurricane Maria whipped Puerto Rico with Irma level winds, Drenched the islands with Harvey level flooding.

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The Guajataca Dam is "releasing water" after suffering "infrastructure damage" following the Category 5 storm, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN late Sunday.

"Right now, as it stands, a couple of hours after I went through Isabela, part of the dam did break it is releasing water," Rosselló said. "And that dam is partly concrete, partly soil. So as water runs through, erosion starts having its toll on the dam and my concern is at some point it'll break."

An engineer was assessing the site and seeing what steps could be taken to mitigate the risk, Rosselló said.

A flood warning for western Puerto Rico has been extended until 8.15 a.m. ET Monday, according to a tweet late Sunday by the National Weather Service of San Juan.

About 70,000 people in the area of the Guajataca Dam were told to evacuate on Friday, according to the National Guard. With more than 95% of wireless cell sites out of service, authorities had to physically go to thousands of residents to warn them of the potential collapse.

Communications cut

Without power and communications in much of the island, millions of people, including city leaders and first responders, have been cut off from the world since Maria hit Wednesday.

Flying over Puerto Rico Sunday, CNN's Leyla Santiago said residents could be seen along the highways searching for a cellphone signal.

"The island from above is a completely different color" due to the lack of trees, Santiago said, while pools are filled with black water and debris. The storm had ripped the roofs of houses, exposing their interiors to the sky, she said.

At least 10 people have been confirmed killed by the hurricane.

A doctor at Canovanas Medical Center -- one of the few hospitals with a working generator -- said they were running out of fuel to keep it going.

Dr. Norbert Seda told CNN that the center only had 2-3 days left of medical supplies and medicine.

None of the three hospitals CNN visited had running water and all said they had just days of supplies left.

However, the Gov. Rosselló guaranteed that the people of Puerto Rico would have access to enough food and water to survive.

"We have centers that will distribute water and food, we've already started getting shipments. Today, as a matter of fact, we had a million liters of water come in to Puerto Rico. We have half a million servings of food and other resources." Rosselló also said the island has enough fuel for the next 20 days.

He issued a plea to US Congress for a suitable aid package as the US territory recovers from the damage caused by Hurricane Maria. "Congress can act. If they don't act, my fear is that we will see massive migration, it will be depleting the human resource here in Puerto Rico and it will be effecting demographic change in the United States as well."

Authorities flew over the island Saturday, and were stunned by what they saw. Roads are completely washed away and others are blocked by debris, isolating residents.

"It was devastating to see all that kind of debris in all areas, in all towns of the island," Jenniffer González, the island's non-voting representative in Congress told CNN.

"We never expected to have a lot of debris in so many areas. A lot of roads are closed, older ones are just gone," she added.

Roselló met with more than 50 mayors and representatives from across Puerto Rico on Saturday. Some described the conditions in their communities as "apocalyptic" and said there have been incidents of looting in both homes and stores.

Army, more federal aid coming

US President Donald Trump has pledged federal help for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration said 4,000 members of the US Army Reserves have been deployed to the island to help with Hurricane Maria recovery.

"Federal partners are aggressively working to meet and overcome challenges to opening ports and restoring power to bring additional life-saving commodities and personnel into disaster-affected areas," the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.

Several flights and sea vessels with meals, water and generators have been arriving or are headed to Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands affected, the agency said.

Brock Long, the FEMA director, said on Twitter Sunday he would visit Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands on Monday.

Maria marching north

Meantime, the US East Coast bracing for high winds and treacherous surf from Hurricane Maria, days after the storm caused widespread devastation in the Caribbean.

Early Monday the National Hurricane Center said Maria was expected to pass "well east" of the southeast coast during the next day or so.

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for north of Surf City, North Carolina, to the Virginia border, as well as North Carolina's Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for Cape Lookout to Duck.

"The combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline," the center warned, while dangerous swells were expected to increase along the Mid-Atlantic coast.

The storm hit Dominica, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the US Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos, a British overseas territory.

CNN's Rafael Romo and Samantha Beech contributed to this report.

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Aaron Judge has broken Mark McGuire's rookie home run record. He has hit 50 home runs in his rookie year breaking the record.

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New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge has tied Mark McGwire's rookie home run record of 49 with a third-inning, two-run shot off Kansas City Royals starter Jake Junis.

Judge still has seven games to become the first rookie in major league history with 50 homers.

The 25-year-old, right-handed hitter's nearly unprecedented power output has been a revelation for the Yankees. While there was never a question of the strength of the 6-foot-7, 282-pound Judge, there were doubts about whether he would be able to make contact often enough to justify a regular spot in the order.

In 2016, Judge made his MLB debut, hitting a home run in his first plate appearance, but he struck out 42 of his 84-at-bats, hitting .179. He has included that batting average in review of his pregame notes throughout 2017.

In the first half of the season, Judge was the talk of baseball, hitting 30 home runs before the break to make the All-Star team. He won the Home Run Derby, and even commissioner Rob Manfred did not think it was out of bounds to speculate about Judge being the next face of the sport.

Judge struggled for weeks, though, to start the second half, but he has turned it around in the past month, which has vaulted his name back into the American League MVP race. He is seemingly a lock to win AL Rookie of the Year.

In spring training, Judge almost wasn't named the starting right fielder. Despite a .931 OPS in exhibition games, the Yankees did not hand Judge the job over Aaron Hicks until the final days of spring training.

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On Sunday, NFL players, teams and owners across the league participated in a peaceful protest by kneeling, locking arms or skipping the playing of the national anthem all together in response to President Donald Trump's criticism of players who "disrespect" the U.S. trump allegedly said "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say: 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now,'"

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones linked arms and kneeled with the team's players ahead of the national anthem this evening.

On Sunday, NFL players, teams and owners across the league participated in a peaceful protest by kneeling, locking arms or skipping the playing of the national anthem all together in response to President Donald Trump's criticism of players who "disrespect" the U.S.

The Cowboys, who are in Arizona to face off against the Cardinals, stood and joined arms while the national anthem was sung, as did the Cardinals.

A photo tweeted by the Cowboys' Twitter account showed Jones kneeling alongside the players before the anthem's singing, with the caption "#FootballIsFamily."

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"American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks performed the anthem with Proverb 31:8-9 written on her hand: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy."

Trump ignited a firestorm of controversy this weekend after he called for kneeling players to be fired while speaking on Friday evening in Alabama.

"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say: 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now,'" Trump said.

Kneeling during the anthem was started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the 2016 preseason, who said he was protesting against the treatment of blacks in the United States. Kaepernick is black.

The president on Monday continued hammering his argument that kneeling during the national anthem is unpatriotic.

"It is about respect for our country, flag and national anthem," he tweeted. "NFL must respect this!"

ABC News' M.L. Nestel contributed to this report.

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones linked arms and kneeled with the team's players ahead of the national anthem this evening. On Sunday, NFL players, teams and owners across the league participated in a peaceful protest by kneeling, locking arms or skipping the playing of the national anthem all together in response to President Donald Trump's criticism of players who "disrespect" the U.S.

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GOP takes stock after another health care failure. By Monday afternoon, it was the worst-kept secret on Capitol Hill: the latest GOP health care bill was headed for failure. One Republican senator, speaking to CNN, repeatedly referred to the bill in the past tense. When it was pointed out to him, he chuckled, pointed to himself and said: "Realist."