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Surprisingly because of the economy more people of color are finding jobs that work for them. In the past month the employment rates for African Americans has raised 5%. So far the growth rate for POC's continues to grow at a steady incline.

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The escape of a convicted murderer from a Chester County correctional facility last week was not the only incident of its kind in Pennsylvania in the past few months.  There was also a similar incident back in May in the same facility. Two people escaped from a Philadelphia jail through a hole in a recreation yard fence. And in July an inmate escaped from an exercise room in the Warren County jail.

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The escape of a convicted murderer from a Chester County correctional facility in late August is not the only incident of its kind in Pennsylvania in the past few months.

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The first experiment to put oxygen on Mars has come to an end. The experiment first happened 2 years ago after the rover landed on mars. MOXIE produced 12 grams of oxygen a hour at 98% purity, Which is twice as much as what NASA goals were. On August 7th MOXIE operated for the final time.

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The first experiment to create oxygen on another planet has reached a successful end on Mars after demonstrating technology that could help humans live on the red planet.

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Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus can affect not only horses, but any and all mammals (including humans) along with sometimes affecting reptiles, amphibians and birds. EEE is a brain inflamation caused and spread most commonly by a mosquito bite. This virus is very rare but this horse was unlucky and got EEE. The symptoms are; vomiting, fever, headache, seizures, behavioral changes, drowsiness or coma. There have been only eight human cases from 2003-2022. The best way to protect yourself from this virus is insect repellent and prevent standing water outside which is a breeding ground for mosquitos.

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Schuyler Falls horse identified with Eastern Equine Encephalitis

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PLATTSBURGH | A horse in Schuyler Falls has tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE, Triple E) virus.

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Sara nelson and her husband, David were ready for take off. the plane was really hot and the person next to them reached for a barf bag but couldn't get it in time so instead they covered their mouth with their hands and throw up sprayed all over David. dozens of other passengers started reporting feces on lavatory walls and chewing gum on plan seats and even dog poop

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It was supposed to be a quick trip to pick up her kid from summer camp.

Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA International, was buckled up and ready for takeoff from Chicago to Portland, Maine, with her husband, David. The plane was full and hot - too hot, perhaps, for the passenger sitting next to them. As they taxied down the runway, there was an unsuccessful scramble for a barf bag, followed by a clasping of the hands over the mouth, and then disaster.
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"The vomit sprayed directly all over my husband . . . over everything . . . everywhere," Nelson said.

Nelson's misfortune did not make headlines. Neither did the stomach-turning recent experiences shared by a dozen travelers, such as coming across feces spread on lavatory walls to airplane seats covered with fresh chewing gum and puppy poop. There was the traveler stuck sitting next to a passenger in first class who soiled themselves on a flight from Minneapolis to D.C.

Then there are the incidents that do make the news, like the deeply unfortunate Delta flight that had to make a U-turn over the weekend due to a passenger suffering from "diarrhea all the way through the airplane." Or the travelers who were removed from their Air Canada flight after refusing to sit in vomit-soaked seats on Aug. 26.

The rapid-fire dose of gross has us reeling with questions. Namely: what, dear god, is happening? And should we be worried? Are airlines capable of keeping planes clean? Are we doomed for disgusting flights?

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The past, present and future of gross

Unlike the recent Delta flight, Nelson's flight stayed the course. The sick passenger was asked to find a change of clothes in her carry-on bag while the rest of the cabin managed their secondhand queasiness. "Sympathy vomiting" can be a real issue, Nelson says. She recalls an all-nighter from San Francisco to Boston she took before the pandemic on which a passenger vomited 30 minutes before landing, causing a "chain reaction" among roughly 50 people and a "waterfall of puke going into the aisle," she said.

Nelson tells the horrifying story to illuminate her point: The recent spate of bodily disasters on planes isn't new. Gross stuff happens all the time on planes. Scott Keyes, founder of Going.com, brings up a famous example from 1975 when 197 people got food poisoning onboard a Japan Airlines flight from Alaska to Copenhagen that sent 144 people to the hospital.

Delta Air Lines spokesperson Morgan Durrant said in an email that "the vast majority of air travel is safe, uneventful and even, on Delta anyway, enjoyable." In his 19 years in the aviation industry, the recent Atlanta flight was the first he'd heard of something of its kind happening.

But even though it's not new or impacting the majority of flights, Nelson does believe we're seeing more cases of gross. She credits the uptick to more people flying, as travel volume this summer exceeded 2019 levels.

Nelson also believes the pandemic kept more sick people at home, and that sick people may be more inclined to travel these days.

It doesn't help that airlines have struggled with cleanliness with labor shortages and pandemic-cleaning procedures dropping. "Planes are not getting any kind of deep clean in the day unless there is a specific action to pull the plane out of service - and we frankly rarely see that."

United, American, Southwest and Frontier did not respond to requests for details on their cleaning protocols. Allegiant Airlines said in a statement to The Washington Post that aircraft surfaces are cleaned on a daily basis, including seat belts, tray tables, galleys and lavatories.

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What do airlines owe passengers?

Keyes says if you were to get a broken seat, airlines are required to move you, but if your seat is dirty, the rules aren't as clear.

"I don't know of any law or item in the airline's contract of carriage that requires reseating due to disgusting-but-not-unsafe-per-se conditions," Keyes said in an email. "In fact, social media is rife with pictures of planes that have been inadequately cleaned, including vomit residue and other unwelcome sights from a previous flight."

While there may not be a legal requirement for airlines to move you, if there's a seat available "airlines will almost always reseat you away from the soiled area," Keyes said. "And if the mess is so widespread that it's unavoidable for some passengers - and especially if it's illness-inducing - then the pilot may consider it a safety issue and choose to divert."

When the flight is full, as was the case with the vomit-covered seat on Air Canada, flight attendants may not have a place to move you. It's airline discretion what happens next, Keyes says. Most airlines may put passengers on the next flight, but he's not aware of a legal or contractual right to cleanliness the way there is with safety protections.

"In some ways this is an unfortunate side effect of airlines' focus on on-time departures - cutting corners on cleaning," he said.

After the flight, ask for some token of compensation in-person or via the airline's customer service email. Keyes says what you'll get is within the airline's discretion, but more often than not you can expect some flight credit or frequent flier miles. Nelson recommends the same, and also adds that travelers can ask flight attendants to "alert the ground" of the situation so that by the time you land, staff will be there to assist you with the situation on-site.

Air Canada didn't respond to questions from The Post on whether it refunded two passengers who were kicked off a flight after refusing to sit in soiled seats.

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Should travelers be worried about their health?

In case of biohazards, flight attendants have protocols to follow from OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. There should be biohazard gear on planes to deal with contamination to keep passengers and flight attendants safe.

Kari Debbink, an associate scientist and virologist with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said the risk of contracting a serious illness such as Ebola or HIV from a passenger's bodily fluids is low. However, travelers exposed to infected particles could come down with norovirus, a gastrointestinal disease often associated with cruise ships.

Even if the airline thoroughly sanitizes the site of the incident, norovirus could still be a threat. The highly contagious disease can travel a distance and linger on surfaces for days, infecting unsuspecting passengers.

"If someone does a good job of cleaning up, it could still be on a surface around you. You could touch it, eat a sandwich and not even realize that you were in contact with it," she said.

Debbink said if you become infected, you'll experience symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain within 24 to 48 hours. The virus typically lasts for a day or two.

Household bleach will kill the virus; however, the Transportation Security Administration bans liquid bleach in checked and carry-on luggage. Debbink said passengers can wipe down surfaces with an alcohol-based sanitizer, but warns that pathogens are finicky. "They may work against some pathogens, but they may not work against all of them," she said.

To protect yourself, she recommends wearing a mask and washing your hands and any objects that might have been exposed to the bodily fluids.

Overall, Debbink said passengers do not have to worry too much about falling ill from another passenger's vomit, diarrhea or blood - unless they have a strong gag reflex.

"There's really not that much of an actual disease transmission concern," she said, "but it's gross."

Stacey Rose, associate professor of infectious diseases and internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said particles from profuse vomiting or diarrhea can spread far and wide.

"Particles tend to land places and then you end up touching those surfaces, getting contaminated, and then touching your own mouth or eyes or nose or mucous membranes."

She said a passenger could pick up an infection from a simple act such as pulling out a stick of gum to unpop their ears.

Blood-borne diseases are less of a threat than germs transmitted the fecal-oral route. "A blood-borne pathogen would be unlikely to transmit if it was something where you sat down and saw blood on the seat or on the tray table. Usually blood-borne pathogens are not going to survive for long periods of time on a surface. So as long as someone is wiping it down with alcohol-based or bleach-based cleaning products, I don't see that as posing a huge risk," she said.

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How travelers can protect themselves

For a better chance at getting a clean seat (or getting a flight that's not full, so there are more seats open in case of emergency), Jen Moyse, VP of product for the travel app TripIt, recommends booking early-morning flights, "though even overnight cleaning may not be helpful for vomit," she said in an email.

On the personal responsibility front, Rose reminds passengers to avoid flying if they are feeling unwell. The repercussions could ripple through the entire plane. These recent viral incidents are "a reminder that we have to be mindful of the potential for us to introduce potentially contagious microorganisms into our environment," she said.

Nelson adds that travelers should avoid eating anything risky ahead of flying, to use the restroom before boarding and keep your shoes on throughout your trip, both because it's gross for other passengers and you run the risk of picking up fungus, germs and bacteria that can cause infections or warts.

"Nobody wants to see or smell your feet on a plane," she said. "But first and foremost, we're concerned about your safety."

Lastly, if you are feeling queasy on your travel day, locate a barf bag as soon as you take your seat. While they're supposed to be in every seat-back pocket, sometimes they're missing, or tucked away tighter than you want in an emergency. Don't wait until it's too late to find out.

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Hurricane Lee is growing at a constant rate. reaching category 4 hitting 155 mph in just 24 hours. it climbed so high it reached 165 mph on its overnight climb. not to mention life-threatening rip currents hitting the islands in the northeastern Caribbean.

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Hurricane Lee barreled westward with more than 165 mph winds Friday morning after exploding in intensity on Thursday, doubling its wind speeds in just 24 hours.

Hundreds of miles from land, the Category 5 hurricane is forecast to climb to 180 mph winds Friday, an extremely powerful storm making the most of a warm, open ocean and light winds. Millions watch and wait to see what the dangerous storm will do in the days ahead.

High surf and life-threatening rip currents are expected to arrive along the islands in the northeastern Caribbean by Friday and remain through the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said. Then rough surf, rip currents and hazardous conditions are forecast to arrive along much of the U.S. East Coast by Sunday evening.

The hurricane center's official forecast track and most hurricane models predict Lee will continue to move west-northwestward into early next week and be somewhere northeast of the Turks and Caicos and eastern Bahamas on Tuesday.

Beyond that, it is "way too soon to know what level of impacts, if any, Lee might have along the U.S. East Coast, Atlantic Canada, or Bermuda late next week, particularly since the hurricane is expected to slow down considerably over the southwestern Atlantic," the center's Robbie Berg, a senior hurricane specialist, wrote in the 11 p.m. forecast discussion Thursday.

Lee is forecast to slow down over the weekend as it meets a ridge that blocks its forward progress, Berg said.

Where is Hurricane Lee?

At 5 a.m. Friday, Lee was 630 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, moving west-northwest at 14 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

Satellite images show a classic major hurricane, with a clear visible eye, and its central pressure had dropped to 926 millibars.

Hurricane-force winds extend out as far as 30 miles from the center of the storm and tropical storm-force winds extend out up to 140 miles.

Wave heights near the center of the storm are 45-50 feet.

How high could Lee's winds get?

That's a good question. The official forecast is 180 mph, but in the discussion Thursday night, Berg said the center's new Hurricane Forecast and Analysis System had runs projecting peak intensity of 195-207 mph. "That's getting into rarefied air," he wrote, adding the forecast will be adjusted if necessary.

Only seven other hurricanes in the modern satellite era have reached a peak maximum intensity of 180 mph, said Phil Klotzbach, a researcher and seasonal hurricane outlook author at Colorado State University.

Lee is forecast to maintain winds of at least 150 mph over the weekend, then begin a slow decline, maintaining winds of 130 mph or more through Tuesday.

Hurricane center's forecast track for Lee

The official forecast track cone shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its potential impacts, and the center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.

Flight investigations begin

An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter began flights on Thursday evening, providing crucial information that helped the hurricane center and its models get a better understanding of Lee's intensity. Three other hurricane hunter flights are scheduled Friday.

As long as the storm manages to avoid land and remains in the open ocean, it will be a great opportunity to do research flights, said Andrew Hazelton, an associate scientist with the University of Miami and the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

Why did Lee rapidly intensify?

"This is one o f the most impressive rapid intensification episodes I've ever seen in the Atlantic," meteorologist Levi Cowan, founder of tropicaltidbits.com wrote on X Thursday. Hurricane Lee went from having no eye in the morning to a Category 5 by the evening. "Absolutely incredible," Cowan said.

Water temperatures in a swath across the Atlantic are much warmer than normal, averaging nearly 85 degrees, the hurricane center said.

"But it's not just the sea surface temperatures," said Mark Bourassa, a meteorology professor at Florida State University. It's that Lee was in a place where nothing else was interfering with it strengthening to the degree the sea surface temperatures would support.

Storms intensify when there's nothing else messing them up, Bourassa said. "Lee is not near land, there's no dry air coming in and there's no higher winds aloft."

How does Lee compare to other hurricanes?

Despite its incredible strengthening from Category 1 to Category 5 status in 24 hours on Thursday, Lee isn't the fastest storm to intensify in the Atlantic. In October 2005, Wilma rocketed from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 24 hours, according to the hurricane center's post-storm report.

Five other Atlantic storms have intensified by 80 mph or more in 24 hours, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, posted on X Thursday night. They include: Wilma (2005), Felix (2007), Ike (2008); Matthew (2016), Maria (2017), Eta (2020).

Klotzbach also shared the list of other hurricanes that have had winds equal to or greater than 180 mph winds. They are: Allen (1980), Gilbert (1988), Mitch (1998), Rita (2005), Wilma (2005), Irma (2017), Dorian (2019).

What the spaghetti model plots show

Model plot illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, and not all are created equal. The hurricane center uses the top four or five highest-performing models to help make its forecasts.

Other storms the center is watching:

Margot - The season's 13th named storm - formed in the Atlantic Thursday. Just 290 miles west-northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, it's forecast to become a hurricane on Sunday, as it moves north in the Atlantic far away from land.
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Jova - In the Pacific, after intensifying this week, Hurricane Jova is forecast to move into cooler water and dissipate by early next week.

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The Chinese government is now pushing back on the use of foreign made technology, especially iPhones. This is effecting Apple because China is their 5th largest market and China also is the biggest producers of Apple products. Apple has made plans to move their production to other countries, such as India or Vietnam.

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China's government has reportedly expanded its ban of iPhones to local government workers and state-owned companies, a day after it emerged central government employees were forbidden from bringing the devices to work.

Several agencies had begun instructing employees not to bring iPhones to work and the ban was expected to be further extended, Bloomberg reported. Nikkei reported at least one state-owned company had told its employees that anyone working with trade secrets could not bring their iPhones, Apple Watches or AirPods into work from next month.

The ban on the use of Apple products is believed to be a sign of Beijing pushing back on its reliance on US tech. China has more than 150,000 state-owned companies, according to state media, employing more than 56 million people in 2021.

China's central government has imposed some restrictions on the use of foreign-made tech in workplaces linked to government since at least 2018, but this week it was reported the rules were expanding to smartphones. Many Chinese employees of affected organisations have a separate phone for work.

On Thursday the Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported that China had widened existing curbs on the use of iPhones by state employees, telling staff at some central government agencies to stop using their Apple mobiles at work. Officials at central government agencies were given the instructions by their superiors in workplace chat groups or meetings.

In response to the news, Apple shares have fallen more than 6% in the past two days. China is one of Apple's biggest markets and generates nearly a fifth of its revenue. Greater China - including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - is Apple's third largest market and accounted for 19% of its $394bn (£316bn) in sales last year.

The Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring said Apple's share losses were "overdone" as he did not believe the curbs would lead to something broader. Woodring predicted the worst-case scenario was a 4% revenue hit for the company.

"China is critical to Apple's success, but Apple is also critical to the Chinese economy," he said.

"While the potential for a broad decoupling between Apple and China in this multipolar world clearly exists, we don't believe recent headlines are necessarily foreshadowing this 'worst case' scenario."

Apple production remains centred in China, with about 90% of its products made in the country. Among others, the Taiwan-founded Apple supplier Foxconn has its megafactories in China, employing more than 1.2 million people. But after political instability and pandemic disruptions, Apple has accelerated plans to move some production elsewhere, including Vietnam and India. IPhone 14 production was moved to India.

The move was the first time Apple had assembled an iPhone model outside China the same year it was released and was widely seen as the big step in moving manufacturing operations from the Chinese state. India is the world's second-largest smartphone market.

Apple has found itself the latest tech industry victim of geopolitical tensions between the US and China.

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Some analysts suggested Beijing's bans on Apple were part of tit-for-tat measures, after Huawei bans by the US and others - including Costa Rica last week - from national 5G networks. The US continues to restrict China's access to vital equipment needed to keep its chip industry competitive.

The US government has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from Chinese telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE because they pose "an unacceptable risk" to US national security. It has also banned the Chinese-owned video app TikTok from government-issued phones and has imposed restrictions on the export of some sophisticated computer chips to China.

Beijing has told operators of important infrastructure in China to stop buying products from the US chipmaker Micron Technology, while ramping up efforts to be more self-sufficient in making semiconductors - known as the "brains of electronic devices".

Apple was contacted for comment.

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Hurricane Lee now a cat 5 double its wind speed in 24 hours peaking at 165 MPH. Friday morning it was heading westward at 155 MPH. The hurricane tracks says it will keep heading westward or northwest over the weekend. It is expected to slow down over the weekend, but is still very dangerous. At 11 A.M. it was 565 miles east of the Leeward Islands.

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Hurricane Lee barreled westward with more than 165 mph winds Friday morning after exploding in intensity on Thursday, doubling its wind speeds in just 24 hours.

Hundreds of miles from land, the Category 5 hurricane is forecast to climb to 180 mph winds Friday, an extremely powerful storm making the most of a warm, open ocean and light winds. Millions watch and wait to see what the dangerous storm will do in the days ahead.

High surf and life-threatening rip currents are expected to arrive along the islands in the northeastern Caribbean by Friday and remain through the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said. Then rough surf, rip currents and hazardous conditions are forecast to arrive along much of the U.S. East Coast by Sunday evening.

The hurricane center's official forecast track and most hurricane models predict Lee will continue to move west-northwestward into early next week and be somewhere northeast of the Turks and Caicos and eastern Bahamas on Tuesday.

Beyond that, it is "way too soon to know what level of impacts, if any, Lee might have along the U.S. East Coast, Atlantic Canada, or Bermuda late next week, particularly since the hurricane is expected to slow down considerably over the southwestern Atlantic," the center's Robbie Berg, a senior hurricane specialist, wrote in the 11 p.m. forecast discussion Thursday.

Lee is forecast to slow down over the weekend as it meets a ridge that blocks its forward progress, Berg said.

Where is Hurricane Lee?

At 5 a.m. Friday, Lee was 630 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, moving west-northwest at 14 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

Satellite images show a classic major hurricane, with a clear visible eye, and its central pressure had dropped to 926 millibars.

Hurricane-force winds extend out as far as 30 miles from the center of the storm and tropical storm-force winds extend out up to 140 miles.

Wave heights near the center of the storm are 45-50 feet.

How high could Lee's winds get?

That's a good question. The official forecast is 180 mph, but in the discussion Thursday night, Berg said the center's new Hurricane Forecast and Analysis System had runs projecting peak intensity of 195-207 mph. "That's getting into rarefied air," he wrote, adding the forecast will be adjusted if necessary.

Only seven other hurricanes in the modern satellite era have reached a peak maximum intensity of 180 mph, said Phil Klotzbach, a researcher and seasonal hurricane outlook author at Colorado State University.

Lee is forecast to maintain winds of at least 150 mph over the weekend, then begin a slow decline, maintaining winds of 130 mph or more through Tuesday.

Hurricane center's forecast track for Lee

The official forecast track cone shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its potential impacts, and the center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.

Flight investigations begin

An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter began flights on Thursday evening, providing crucial information that helped the hurricane center and its models get a better understanding of Lee's intensity. Three other hurricane hunter flights are scheduled Friday.

As long as the storm manages to avoid land and remains in the open ocean, it will be a great opportunity to do research flights, said Andrew Hazelton, an associate scientist with the University of Miami and the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

Why did Lee rapidly intensify?

"This is one o f the most impressive rapid intensification episodes I've ever seen in the Atlantic," meteorologist Levi Cowan, founder of tropicaltidbits.com wrote on X Thursday. Hurricane Lee went from having no eye in the morning to a Category 5 by the evening. "Absolutely incredible," Cowan said.

Water temperatures in a swath across the Atlantic are much warmer than normal, averaging nearly 85 degrees, the hurricane center said.

"But it's not just the sea surface temperatures," said Mark Bourassa, a meteorology professor at Florida State University. It's that Lee was in a place where nothing else was interfering with it strengthening to the degree the sea surface temperatures would support.

Storms intensify when there's nothing else messing them up, Bourassa said. "Lee is not near land, there's no dry air coming in and there's no higher winds aloft."

How does Lee compare to other hurricanes?

Despite its incredible strengthening from Category 1 to Category 5 status in 24 hours on Thursday, Lee isn't the fastest storm to intensify in the Atlantic. In October 2005, Wilma rocketed from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 24 hours, according to the hurricane center's post-storm report.

Five other Atlantic storms have intensified by 80 mph or more in 24 hours, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, posted on X Thursday night. They include: Wilma (2005), Felix (2007), Ike (2008); Matthew (2016), Maria (2017), Eta (2020).

Klotzbach also shared the list of other hurricanes that have had winds equal to or greater than 180 mph winds. They are: Allen (1980), Gilbert (1988), Mitch (1998), Rita (2005), Wilma (2005), Irma (2017), Dorian (2019).

What the spaghetti model plots show

Model plot illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, and not all are created equal. The hurricane center uses the top four or five highest-performing models to help make its forecasts.

Other storms the center is watching:

Margot - The season's 13th named storm - formed in the Atlantic Thursday. Just 290 miles west-northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, it's forecast to become a hurricane on Sunday, as it moves north in the Atlantic far away from land.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hurricane Lee boasts massive wind speed; when (and where) will it hit?
Jova - In the Pacific, after intensifying this week, Hurricane Jova is forecast to move into cooler water and dissipate by early next week.

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A hurricane has formed in the Pacific ocean called hurricane Lee. It is currently a category five hurricane and is heading toward Florida.

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Hurricane Lee barreled westward with more than 165 mph winds Friday morning after exploding in intensity on Thursday, doubling its wind speeds in just 24 hours.

Hundreds of miles from land, the Category 5 hurricane is forecast to climb to 180 mph winds Friday, an extremely powerful storm making the most of a warm, open ocean and light winds. Millions watch and wait to see what the dangerous storm will do in the days ahead.

High surf and life-threatening rip currents are expected to arrive along the islands in the northeastern Caribbean by Friday and remain through the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said. Then rough surf, rip currents and hazardous conditions are forecast to arrive along much of the U.S. East Coast by Sunday evening.

The hurricane center's official forecast track and most hurricane models predict Lee will continue to move west-northwestward into early next week and be somewhere northeast of the Turks and Caicos and eastern Bahamas on Tuesday.

Beyond that, it is "way too soon to know what level of impacts, if any, Lee might have along the U.S. East Coast, Atlantic Canada, or Bermuda late next week, particularly since the hurricane is expected to slow down considerably over the southwestern Atlantic," the center's Robbie Berg, a senior hurricane specialist, wrote in the 11 p.m. forecast discussion Thursday.

Lee is forecast to slow down over the weekend as it meets a ridge that blocks its forward progress, Berg said.

Where is Hurricane Lee?

At 5 a.m. Friday, Lee was 630 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, moving west-northwest at 14 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

Satellite images show a classic major hurricane, with a clear visible eye, and its central pressure had dropped to 926 millibars.

Hurricane-force winds extend out as far as 30 miles from the center of the storm and tropical storm-force winds extend out up to 140 miles.

Wave heights near the center of the storm are 45-50 feet.

How high could Lee's winds get?

That's a good question. The official forecast is 180 mph, but in the discussion Thursday night, Berg said the center's new Hurricane Forecast and Analysis System had runs projecting peak intensity of 195-207 mph. "That's getting into rarefied air," he wrote, adding the forecast will be adjusted if necessary.

Only seven other hurricanes in the modern satellite era have reached a peak maximum intensity of 180 mph, said Phil Klotzbach, a researcher and seasonal hurricane outlook author at Colorado State University.

Lee is forecast to maintain winds of at least 150 mph over the weekend, then begin a slow decline, maintaining winds of 130 mph or more through Tuesday.

Hurricane center's forecast track for Lee

The official forecast track cone shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its potential impacts, and the center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.

Flight investigations begin

An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter began flights on Thursday evening, providing crucial information that helped the hurricane center and its models get a better understanding of Lee's intensity. Three other hurricane hunter flights are scheduled Friday.

As long as the storm manages to avoid land and remains in the open ocean, it will be a great opportunity to do research flights, said Andrew Hazelton, an associate scientist with the University of Miami and the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

Why did Lee rapidly intensify?

"This is one o f the most impressive rapid intensification episodes I've ever seen in the Atlantic," meteorologist Levi Cowan, founder of tropicaltidbits.com wrote on X Thursday. Hurricane Lee went from having no eye in the morning to a Category 5 by the evening. "Absolutely incredible," Cowan said.

Water temperatures in a swath across the Atlantic are much warmer than normal, averaging nearly 85 degrees, the hurricane center said.

"But it's not just the sea surface temperatures," said Mark Bourassa, a meteorology professor at Florida State University. It's that Lee was in a place where nothing else was interfering with it strengthening to the degree the sea surface temperatures would support.

Storms intensify when there's nothing else messing them up, Bourassa said. "Lee is not near land, there's no dry air coming in and there's no higher winds aloft."

How does Lee compare to other hurricanes?

Despite its incredible strengthening from Category 1 to Category 5 status in 24 hours on Thursday, Lee isn't the fastest storm to intensify in the Atlantic. In October 2005, Wilma rocketed from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 24 hours, according to the hurricane center's post-storm report.

Five other Atlantic storms have intensified by 80 mph or more in 24 hours, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, posted on X Thursday night. They include: Wilma (2005), Felix (2007), Ike (2008); Matthew (2016), Maria (2017), Eta (2020).

Klotzbach also shared the list of other hurricanes that have had winds equal to or greater than 180 mph winds. They are: Allen (1980), Gilbert (1988), Mitch (1998), Rita (2005), Wilma (2005), Irma (2017), Dorian (2019).

What the spaghetti model plots show

Model plot illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, and not all are created equal. The hurricane center uses the top four or five highest-performing models to help make its forecasts.

Other storms the center is watching:

Margot - The season's 13th named storm - formed in the Atlantic Thursday. Just 290 miles west-northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, it's forecast to become a hurricane on Sunday, as it moves north in the Atlantic far away from land.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hurricane Lee boasts massive wind speed; when (and where) will it hit?
Jova - In the Pacific, after intensifying this week, Hurricane Jova is forecast to move into cooler water and dissipate by early next week.

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few months ago Ben Shelton appeared on a podcast called All on the Table, a brown bag session he held with Christopher Eubanks and Francis Tiafoe. For an hour, the three Americans chewed the fat about life on tour between big bites of steak. But the conversation doesn't really get interesting until Eubanks and Tiafoe, the seasoned professionals, ask Shelton what his ultimate goal is now that he's spent a year on the men's tour.

"I wanna be that dude in the draw that there's not one player who wants to see me," Shelton said.

"Who wants to see you right now?" Eubanks said. "Carlos Alcaraz does not want to see your name next to his."

"Bro," Shelton smirked, "I'm talkin' scared of me. Like, genuine, Roger [Federer] in his prime. ... I wanna be one of those guys where you're scared of the type of animal they are."

Coming into the US Open he was the underdog of unknown quantity, a 20-year-old former NCAA singles champion at the University of Florida who upset fifth-ranked Casper Ruud at last year's Cincinnati Masters and buzzed through to the last eight of this year's Australian Open - his second ever grand slam. Now into the semi-finals of the US Open, Shelton faces extraordinarily long odds of toppling Novak Djokovic. But if there's reason to believe the mighty Serb could fall, it isn't just because Shelton has announced himself in this tournament as a future force to be reckoned with; it's because he's got that sense of entitlement all the greats had, too.

Ben Shelton conducts an on-court interview with ESPN's Brad Gilbert after defeating Frances Tiafoe on Tuesday night in the US Open quarter-finals. Photograph: Elsa/Getty Images

Tennis is in his bones. His mother (who is white) was a highly ranked junior, his sister is a Gator now and his uncle is Todd Witsken, an Australian Open quarterfinalist. His father, Bryan, is a former French Open mixed doubles runner-up who holds the distinction of being the only coach to win men's and women's NCAA titles. So it figures that Ben ran screaming from the tennis court and picked up football in middle school.

It only took his parents biding their time and a few too many collisions on the gridiron for Ben to see tennis' more genteel virtues. A sudden growth spurt around age 12 surely made for a more enjoyable learning experience. At 6ft4in and 195lbs now, Shelton follows in the mold of big bashing Americans like Eubanks, John Isner and Jack Sock; but Shelton not only packs a bigger wallop, he leads with his left hand. His serve alone tests the sound barrier. Twice in his fourth-round triumph over 14th-seeded compatriot Tommy Paul, Shelton clocked 149mph on the speed gun, and his 76 total aces are the most in the tournament by far.

So much of Shelton's game at this point is raw - the power, the athleticism, the ambition. In his four-set win over Tiafoe on Tuesday night, the first major quarter-final between two Black American men, Shelton smacked 14 aces against 11 double faults - two of which came late in the third-set tiebreaker. "I mean, he hit some really good shots," Tiafoe said afterward, "running forehands, some great shots on the run, came up with some good stuff. ... I had a look there, at 7-6, he hit an unbelievable return from way back.

Where Shelton struggles most is with consistency. Until this US Open run, he had only won consecutive matches once since his quarter-final run in Melbourne. Having to play on clay courts during the tour's spring swing forced Shelton to clean up his game. "He learned a little bit more patience, a little bit more about how to play defense," Bryan Shelton said. "He learned, like, his offense has to be really good on that type of surface in order to execute against the best players in the world."

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The more Shelton grows up on center court, the harder it is to ignore his immature strokes. In his on-court interview after the fourth-round win over Paul, Shelton gushed about feeling the love from the American crowd "playing against foreigners". He didn't have a passport until a year ago.

Before shaking Tiafoe's hand at net following their quarter-final, Shelton celebrated by pantomiming himself taking a phone call and hanging up the receiver - a gesture meant to communicate to his box that he's dialed in. But spectators slammed him for getting too cocky. ("Novak please take this kid out," tweeted one disgruntled observer.) Shelton hams it up even harder with mixed doubles partner Taylor Townsend. "I hope there's a lot of young people in the crowd that develop a passion for tennis when they watch me play," he said after the Paul win.

Overall, Shelton comes off like a kid foil in John Ritter comedy, leaving a trail of mayhem in his wake and flashing a goofy smile all the while. That he could justifiably be described as a brat, though, is the real growth.

Historically, that title has been reserved for the rich white kids who grew up at the country club - the ones who've long been able to get away with bucking convention. And yet it's Shelton - a Black son of the South managed by Federer's TEAM8 entertainment firm, the youngest American US Open finalist in 31 years - who has emerged as a super brat for the social media age, endorsed by the 1980s-era original himself. "This guy has got more upside than any other American I believe," John McEnroe, told Eurosport earlier this year. "[He's going to be the real deal." Really, the notable thing they don't appear to have in common at the moment is ego.

That much is obvious in the brown bag podcast. Throughout, Shelton is more like a gawky little brother to Eubanks and Tiafoe. They tease about his appetite, ("His nickname's The Mountain," Tiafoe tells their waitress, "so you gotta feed him"), push back against his attempt to describe himself as a "mini version" of Tiafoe and all agree that Coco Gauff - their sis - should be in this mix, too ("She would be like, 'Oh, I can tell you about all of y'all,'" Eubanks jokes). That three Black tennis players could even have a moment like this shouldn't soon be taken for granted. Surely, Arthur Ashe was smiling down.

There's an element of fate to Shelton and Djokovic meeting for the first time here in Queens. It wasn't so long ago that the Serb was the twentysomething player on the rise. One moment, he's staring up at Federer; the next, lasering eyes-closed, match-point staving winners that would leave the Swiss smarting for years after Djokovic claimed the first of his three US Open titles in 2011.

All of which is to say: Friday's semi-final is only a statement game for Shelton, one where he can finally leave no doubt about what he's been saying all along - that he's the real problem child in tennis. "I've got full belief in myself that I can win grand slams, that I can be No 1 in the world," Shelton said, finishing the thought. "And I'm not afraid to put in work. Whatever it takes to get there."

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Hurricane Lee is now a cat 5, and it´s wind speeds doubled in less than a day. While the peak intensity of that period was brief, it is still managing to keep getting closer and may cause shoreline damage along the east coast because of the waves it´s created. It is not currently on a direct track to Florida or the Carolina´s but is heading up north to the leeward islands.

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Hurricane Lee barreled westward with more than 165 mph winds Friday morning after exploding in intensity on Thursday, doubling its wind speeds in just 24 hours.

Hundreds of miles from land, the Category 5 hurricane is forecast to climb to 180 mph winds Friday, an extremely powerful storm making the most of a warm, open ocean and light winds. Millions watch and wait to see what the dangerous storm will do in the days ahead.

High surf and life-threatening rip currents are expected to arrive along the islands in the northeastern Caribbean by Friday and remain through the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said. Then rough surf, rip currents and hazardous conditions are forecast to arrive along much of the U.S. East Coast by Sunday evening.

The hurricane center's official forecast track and most hurricane models predict Lee will continue to move west-northwestward into early next week and be somewhere northeast of the Turks and Caicos and eastern Bahamas on Tuesday.

Beyond that, it is "way too soon to know what level of impacts, if any, Lee might have along the U.S. East Coast, Atlantic Canada, or Bermuda late next week, particularly since the hurricane is expected to slow down considerably over the southwestern Atlantic," the center's Robbie Berg, a senior hurricane specialist, wrote in the 11 p.m. forecast discussion Thursday.

Lee is forecast to slow down over the weekend as it meets a ridge that blocks its forward progress, Berg said.

Where is Hurricane Lee?

At 5 a.m. Friday, Lee was 630 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, moving west-northwest at 14 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.

Satellite images show a classic major hurricane, with a clear visible eye, and its central pressure had dropped to 926 millibars.

Hurricane-force winds extend out as far as 30 miles from the center of the storm and tropical storm-force winds extend out up to 140 miles.

Wave heights near the center of the storm are 45-50 feet.

How high could Lee's winds get?

That's a good question. The official forecast is 180 mph, but in the discussion Thursday night, Berg said the center's new Hurricane Forecast and Analysis System had runs projecting peak intensity of 195-207 mph. "That's getting into rarefied air," he wrote, adding the forecast will be adjusted if necessary.

Only seven other hurricanes in the modern satellite era have reached a peak maximum intensity of 180 mph, said Phil Klotzbach, a researcher and seasonal hurricane outlook author at Colorado State University.

Lee is forecast to maintain winds of at least 150 mph over the weekend, then begin a slow decline, maintaining winds of 130 mph or more through Tuesday.

Hurricane center's forecast track for Lee

The official forecast track cone shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its potential impacts, and the center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.

Flight investigations begin

An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter began flights on Thursday evening, providing crucial information that helped the hurricane center and its models get a better understanding of Lee's intensity. Three other hurricane hunter flights are scheduled Friday.

As long as the storm manages to avoid land and remains in the open ocean, it will be a great opportunity to do research flights, said Andrew Hazelton, an associate scientist with the University of Miami and the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

Why did Lee rapidly intensify?

"This is one o f the most impressive rapid intensification episodes I've ever seen in the Atlantic," meteorologist Levi Cowan, founder of tropicaltidbits.com wrote on X Thursday. Hurricane Lee went from having no eye in the morning to a Category 5 by the evening. "Absolutely incredible," Cowan said.

Water temperatures in a swath across the Atlantic are much warmer than normal, averaging nearly 85 degrees, the hurricane center said.

"But it's not just the sea surface temperatures," said Mark Bourassa, a meteorology professor at Florida State University. It's that Lee was in a place where nothing else was interfering with it strengthening to the degree the sea surface temperatures would support.

Storms intensify when there's nothing else messing them up, Bourassa said. "Lee is not near land, there's no dry air coming in and there's no higher winds aloft."

How does Lee compare to other hurricanes?

Despite its incredible strengthening from Category 1 to Category 5 status in 24 hours on Thursday, Lee isn't the fastest storm to intensify in the Atlantic. In October 2005, Wilma rocketed from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in 24 hours, according to the hurricane center's post-storm report.

Five other Atlantic storms have intensified by 80 mph or more in 24 hours, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, posted on X Thursday night. They include: Wilma (2005), Felix (2007), Ike (2008); Matthew (2016), Maria (2017), Eta (2020).

Klotzbach also shared the list of other hurricanes that have had winds equal to or greater than 180 mph winds. They are: Allen (1980), Gilbert (1988), Mitch (1998), Rita (2005), Wilma (2005), Irma (2017), Dorian (2019).

What the spaghetti model plots show

Model plot illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, and not all are created equal. The hurricane center uses the top four or five highest-performing models to help make its forecasts.

Other storms the center is watching:

Margot - The season's 13th named storm - formed in the Atlantic Thursday. Just 290 miles west-northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, it's forecast to become a hurricane on Sunday, as it moves north in the Atlantic far away from land.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hurricane Lee boasts massive wind speed; when (and where) will it hit?
Jova - In the Pacific, after intensifying this week, Hurricane Jova is forecast to move into cooler water and dissipate by early next week.

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Ukraine's Counter-Offensive is slowly but surely successfully moving deeper and deeper into Russian Territory, Ukraine plans to grow deeper into Russian soil inch by inch.

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Ukraine's counteroffensive has been underway for months, but the country's hopes of a rapid and decisive breakthrough have long faded.

Kyiv launched the campaign aiming to recapture Russian-seized territory, especially in the south. But while there is a renewed sense of optimism, gains have been marginal and won at great cost. As Ukrainian forces probe for vulnerabilities in Russian defences, Moscow too is seeking to make gains, and has been trying to advance toward the city of Kupiansk, a city it seized early on in the war before losing it a year ago.

While it is impossible to get an exact, real-time picture of the situation on the ground, CNN has been taking a look at the key battles of the latest phase of the war.

The conflict so far

While Ukraine has struggled in its counteroffensive, it is important to remember the war is nowhere near where Russia's President Vladimir Putin wanted it to be either.

When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it hoped to sweep across the country and topple the government in a matter of days. Those goals floundered due to a combination of Russian hubris and stronger than expected Ukrainian resistance. After seeing Putin quickly withdraw his forces from around Kyiv and elsewhere in northern Ukraine, the rest of the year saw significant victories for Ukraine in the Kharkiv region to the east and the Kherson region to the south.

This year has been different, with troops from both sides bogged down in a slow-moving conflict with no clear end in sight. The current fighting is focused on Ukraine's south and east, with Ukrainian forces struggling to break through defensive lines Russia had months to prepare. Success means capturing a village rather than an entire city.

The southern front

In the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, modest Ukrainian gains in rural areas have been hampered by Russian defenses. Moscow's troops have fortified the land with minefields, anti-tank ditches, traps and trenches.

The area is a major target for Ukraine - pushing deep into the territory along two main lines of counterattack would bring the chance of breaking Russia's land-bridge between annexed Crimea and eastern Donetsk, under Moscow's control since 2014.

Ukrainian troops in late August secured the village of Robotyne, a step that brings them closer to being able to use artillery against the strategic hub of Tokmak. But there is a long way to go.

Data as of Sept. 6, 2023 at 3 p.m. ET

Ukraine has been able to retake some ground near the frontline town of Velyka Novosilka. In June, in the second week of the counteroffensive it liberated a handful of villages: Neskuchne, Blahodatne and Makarivka. More recently, it recaptured a couple more, Staromaiorske and Urozhaine, but progress has been hard. Russian forces have launched a number of counterattacks.

Velyka Novosilka bears the scars of a year and a half of shelling. Struggling to combat Russian air strikes on the town, Kyiv has called on its Western backers to provide F-16 fighter jets and other air support.

The town of Orikhiv has found itself caught in the firing line. While remaining under Ukrainian control, it is being pummeled by Russian air strikes with half-ton bombs landing frequently - sometimes 20 in as many minutes.

Located 60 kilometers southeast of Zaporizhzhia, Orikhiv has been wedged between Kyiv's troops pushing south and Russian forces attempting to hold their position.

Russian defensive fortifications and trenches in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, March 4, 2023 Maxar Technologies

Kupiansk

Ukraine has been trying to hold Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region. The city fell in the early days of the conflict, then was liberated last September as part of a lightning Ukrainian offensive, but now Russia is trying to capture it a second time.

In August, Ukraine ordered the evacuation of the city and the surrounding area, the largest such evacuation in months and a sign of the severity of the situation, although many civilians are choosing to stay put.

For Ukrainian troops, Kupiansk is strategically significant to prevent Russia from gaining access to the nearby Oskil River - where it is much easier to cross than further south.

The eastern front

For now, the eastern city of Bakhmut is under Russian control following a grinding, nine-month battle, while Ukraine continues to hold some areas in the southwestern outskirts of the city.

An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, June 22, 2023. Libkos/AP

Ukraine says the battle is not over, however, and continues to contest the city. In doing so, they are forcing Russia to bring in more troops to the area, pulling them away from other fronts.

Much of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have been held by Russian-backed separatists for more than nine years. They are two of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow declared it had annexed last September, in violation of international law.

The town of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast, which remains under Ukrainian control, has found itself on the frontline of the heavy fighting. The town has been largely destroyed and most of its population has fled.

The months to come

The clock is ticking for Ukraine, with the fall bringing worsening weather and even more challenging fighting conditions.

For political as well as strategic reasons, pressure is mounting on Ukraine to achieve a breakthrough. Kyiv will want as strong a hand as possible should peace negotiations ever happen or if the so-far solid support it enjoys among the West start to fray.

While Russia has been pushed back since launching its invasion, it still has some advantages. The Russian army is significantly bigger than Ukraine's, and with Putin isolated by the conflict he does not have to worry that a long, grinding conflict will lose him allies. Russia may be able to cope with attritional fighting better than Ukraine.

Whatever the outcome of the counteroffensive, it could be pivotal for how the war ends.

Sources: The Institute for the Study of War with AEI's Critical Threats Project, Brady Africk, OpenStreetMap.

Notes: "Russian presence" means the Institute for the Study of War has received reliable and independently verifiable information to demonstrate Russian control or advances in those areas, or where Russian forces have operated in or launched attacks, but they do not control them. "Claimed Russian control" areas are where sources have said control or counteroffensives are occurring, but ISW cannot corroborate nor demonstrate them to be false.

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Famous country singer, Jimmy Buffett recently died on September 2nd and at the time the reasons were not released. But on Friday last week it was released that he died due to a rare form of skin cancer called Merkel Cell Cancer.

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Singer Jimmy Buffett, who died Friday at the age of 76, battled skin cancer for years before his death, according to a statement on his website.

Buffet suffered from Merkel cell cancer, the website said.

Merkel cell cancer is very rare, according to the National Cancer Institute. Risk factors include sun exposure, having a weak immune system and being older than 50. It tends to grow quickly and spread at an early stage to nearby lymph nodes and then to lymph nodes or skin in other parts of the body, including the lungs, brain, bones and other organs.

Buffet continued to perform during his treatment. His last show was a surprise appearance in Rhode Island in early July, according to his website.

Key West, Florida, honored Buffett with a parade Sunday evening, CBS News Miami reports. Buffett was a longtime resident of the island.

In 2022, Buffett rescheduled tour dates because of health issues and a "brief hospitalization." Those tour dates were meant to take place at the end of 2022 and were rescheduled for 2023. In May, he canceled a South Carolina concert after being hospitalized.

"Growing old is not for sissies, I promise you," he said at the time.

Buffett died at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, according to his website. He was surrounded by family and friends at the time.

The "Margaritaville" singer is survived by his wife, Jane Slagsvol, two daughters, Savannah Jane and Sarah Delaney, and son Cameron Marley.

First published on September 3, 2023 / 4:55 PM

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Jimmy Buffett's cause of death revealed to be Merkel cell cancer, a rare form of skin cancer

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The maker of an extremely spicy tortilla chip sold as the One Chip Challenge and popularized as a dare on social media is pulling the product after the family of a Massachusetts teenager blamed the stunt for his death. The cause of Harris Wolobah’s death last Friday hasn’t been determined and an autopsy was still pending as of Thursday, but the 14-year-old’s family blames the challenge. The One Chip Challenge chip sells for about $10 and comes wrapped in a sealed foil pouch that is enclosed in a coffin-shaped cardboard box.

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North Korea launches a nuclear weapon called the "kim kun ok". That is the launch of the submarine No 841. At the launch they celebrated with balloons and confetti.

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North Korea has launched its first "tactical nuclear attack submarine", state media reported, although the South Korean military said the vessel might not be operational.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, presided over the unveiling ceremony on Wednesday, saying the sub was part of a "push forward with the nuclear weaponisation of the navy", according to state news agency KCNA.

Images in state media showed Kim, wearing a light suit and sun hat, speaking to white-uniformed sailors next to the submarine, whose bow was decorated with the North Korean flag.

Kim Jong-un with naval officers at the launch ceremony. Photograph: KCNA/EPA

The launch of submarine number 841 - named the Hero Kim Kun Ok - "heralded the beginning of a new chapter for bolstering up the naval force of the DPRK", the news agency said, referring to the abbreviation of North Korea's formal name.

During the launch ceremony, which involved confetti and balloons, Kim said the submarine is "one of the core underwater offensive means of the naval force of the DPRK".

North Korea will turn its existing submarines into attack vessels equipped with nuclear weapons, Kim said.

On Thursday, KCNA said Kim inspected the submarine as it prepared for a test cruise, and entered it "to acquaint himself with its weapon system and underwater operation capability".

But the South Korean military said Pyongyang's claims could not be taken at face value.

"Our initial assessment is that it does not look to be operational," the country's joint chiefs of staff said.

Kim Jong-un said North Korea's existing subs will be converted to nuclear attack vessels. Photograph: 朝鮮通信社/AP

North Korea has conducted a record number of weapons tests this year, and last month failed in its second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit.

Seoul and Washington have ramped up defence cooperation in response, staging joint military exercises with advanced stealth jets and US strategic assets, and holding naval drills with Japan.

According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a US-based thinktank, North Korea is estimated to have between 64 and 86 submarines, one of the world's largest fleets.

However, experts doubt if all of them are operational given their age, according to NTI.

In 2019, Kim was shown in state media inspecting a previously unreported submarine.

"This is the same - albeit more extensively modified - submarine North Korea showed us way back in July 2019," Joseph Dempsey, a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, wrote on X.

"While North Korea has added a missile compartment and externally emulated more contemporary design features ... [the sub] at its core is an obsolete Romeo class diesel-electric boat, originally designed in the 1950s," he said.

"As a platform it will have some fundamental limitations and vulnerabilities."

The capacities of the new submarine "won't be revolutionary, but will increase the complexity of the nuclear threat posed by North Korea", said US-based analyst Ankit Panda.

"Kim Jong-un early in his tenure indicated that he viewed the Korean People's Navy's role as significant and he's intermittently focused on indicating that publicly."

South Korea condemned the submarine launch, saying the North was "squandering its scarce resources into its futile weapons development while disregarding living difficulties of its people".

"Pyongyang must realise its weapons programmes and threats ... only puts their security at risk in the face of an overwhelming response from the strengthened South Korea-US-Japan joint posture," said Kim In-ae, deputy spokesperson of South Korea's unification ministry.

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Footage released by Oklahoma authorities Friday shows the moments leading up to country singer Zach Bryan's arrest - an incident the singer has since apologized for.

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People are wondering will Mexico's decisions on abortion drive Americans over the border. On Wednesday Mexico made the decision that criminalizing abortions is unconstitutional. Although People will be able to access abortions in federal health facilities the procedure is still illegal throughout most of the country.

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harris died from what his fmaily bevlives was the "one chip challange". Since the death they have asked the maker of the one chip challage to pull them off the shelves. Some 7 eleven have already pulled some off the shelf.

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Company pulls spicy One Chip Challenge from store shelves as Massachusetts investigates teen’s death

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The maker of an extremely spicy tortilla chip sold as the One Chip Challenge and popularized as a dare on social media is pulling the product after the family of a Massachusetts teenager blamed the stunt for his death. The cause of Harris Wolobah’s death last Friday hasn’t been determined and an autopsy was still pending as of Thursday, but the 14-year-old’s family blames the challenge. The One Chip Challenge chip sells for about $10 and comes wrapped in a sealed foil pouch that is enclosed in a coffin-shaped cardboard box.

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There is a cold case of a drug cartel taking and abducting 43 college students and killing all of them.There are new text messages and other evidence coming up after a decade of cold case to help the case out and why it happened.

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Why Did a Drug Gang Kill 43 Students? Text Messages Hold Clues.

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The Mexican police, military officers and others secretly colluded with a cartel that kidnapped 43 students, a case unsolved after nearly a decade. Wiretaps show just how much the authorities helped the cartel behind the mass abduction, and what led to it.