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Charles Burney - WMC Clips (Team 8 - Group 2)

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Ryland Goede (Team 1, Group 1) - My group was absent so I subbed in with group 1

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Ryland Goede (Team 1, Group 1) - My group was absent so I subbed in with group 1

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RmX1gmpPVzYV3Twb8jXJCiRmo8g3lEqc/view?usp=sharing

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I describe our class survey while I work on it.

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Lauren is walking around campus and working outside on her assignment for class, when she decides it would be a great day for an ice cream run with friends (as prompted by the question in her assignment spreadsheet)!

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Kyra is working quietly while inserting data on the excel spreadsheet for class.

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Sara explains what she's working on as she adds questions to the JOUR 3090 class survey Google Sheets.

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Cassidy Hettesheimer JOUR 3090 test video

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Charles is working on his survey to learn more about the dynamic of the class, gathering data on his peer's background. 

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https://youtu.be/IApAApHiP9M

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Gabriel gets some work done in the auditorium when Patrick comes over and asks what he's up to! Gabriel then has to leave since he's in a hurry.

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Team 3 Group 1

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Thousands of people along the southern and western shores of Lake Tahoe were ordered to evacuate on Monday as the Caldor fire intensified amid dry and windy conditions, threatening the popular vacation destination on the California-Nevada border.

The fire had scorched more than 177,000 acres south and west of the lake, and was 14 percent contained as of 11:45 a.m. local time on Monday, according to Cal Fire.

Fire officials estimated that more than 20,000 structures could be threatened by the blaze, the latest to grip California during what has been a particularly unforgiving summer for fire crews in the Western United States.

The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning on Monday for the northern Sierra Nevada and the southern Cascades, meaning that extremely dry conditions and wind gusts of up to 35 miles per hour were likely to cause wildfires to spread in the mountains.

The warning will remain in effect until 11 p.m. on Wednesday for the area, which was cloaked in haze on Monday. Smoke from the fire had deteriorated the air quality to unhealthy levels, the U.S. Forest Service said on Monday on Twitter.

Fire officials warned on Monday that the Caldor fire, which began more than two weeks ago, showed no signs of relenting.

"Fuel conditions remain critical and we still see active crown runs and group torching in the northeastern divisions of the fire," Cal Fire said on its website on Monday.

Many evacuees grappled with bumper-to-bumper traffic after several major roads in the area were closed. Photographs showed cars at a standstill on Highway 50, the main artery along the southeastern shoreline of the lake.

The mandatory evacuation zone extended from Tahoma, Calif., on the western shore of the lake, to the Nevada border and included the busy resort community of South Lake Tahoe, Calif.

The lake, which is known for its sapphire waters and evergreen-surrounded coves, is particularly popular with vacationers from the Bay Area. It is home to several famous ski resorts and casinos, which are just over the border from South Lake Tahoe in Stateline, Nev. Several concerts that had been scheduled for this week at Harveys Lake Tahoe casino were postponed because of the fire threat, including performances by Phish on Tuesday and Wednesday, and by Miranda Lambert on Thursday.

Although wildfires occur throughout the West every year, scientists see the influence of climate change in the extreme heat waves that have contributed to the intensity of fires this summer. Prolonged periods of abnormally high temperatures are a signal of a shifting climate, they say.

As the Caldor fire threatened Lake Tahoe, the Dixie fire, the largest single-origin wildfire in California history, continued to rage in the northern part of the state.

As of Monday, that fire had burned more than 771,000 acres in five counties and was about 48 percent contained, according to Cal Fire.

In a Facebook post on Friday, Cal Fire said that more than 15,200 firefighters were on the front lines of 14 active large wildfires that had burned over 1.68 million acres.

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Evacuations Ordered Near Lake Tahoe as the Caldor Fire Intensifies

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Thousands of people along the southern and western shores of Lake Tahoe were ordered to evacuate on Monday as the Caldor fire intensified amid dry and windy conditions, threatening the popular vacation destination on the California-Nevada border. The fire had scorched more than 177,000 acres south and west of the lake, and was 14 percent contained as of 11:45 a.m.

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Some small towns outside New Orleans were inundated. Trapped residents waited for daylight, when rescue boats could make their way through the floodwaters.

Evacuees consoled each other after leaving Jean Lafitte, La. The authorities had rescued more than 70 people in Jean Lafitte and surrounding communities. Credit... Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. - Jordan Roque pulled his Chevy pickup truck onto the last stretch of highway outside of town that was not inundated by water on Monday, hauling an airboat. Hurricane Ida had turned the road into a makeshift boat launch, and Mr. Roque was on a mission to find his relatives.

His aunt and uncle, Diane and Buddy Nolan, had ridden out the fierce Category 4 storm at home in the hardy fishing village of Jean Lafitte. No one had heard from the Nolans since Sunday morning, and now the village, along with much of the southeastern Louisiana bayou area, was underwater.

The authorities had rescued more than 70 people in Jean Lafitte and the surrounding communities, said Cynthia Lee Sheng, the Jefferson Parish president, after eight feet of water overtopped levees, sending several hundred people into attics and onto roofs. At least one person, an older woman, died in her home, Ms. Lee Sheng said. The parish had received more than 200 calls for rescue since Sunday.

Across the path of Ida's destruction, the weathered and storm-weary people of the northern Gulf Coast waded out of flooded communities on Monday and surveyed the damage left by one of the most fearsome hurricanes to strike the region since Katrina 16 years ago. New Orleans and its hardened storm infrastructure appeared to have held up, though the city had no electricity. But with parts of Louisiana still unreachable, the full extent of the wreckage remained unclear.

"It's never been as bad as it is this time," said Jesse Touro, 62, who was rescued from Jean Lafitte after riding out storms in town for the past 12 years. He sounded exhausted as he rode a parish bus to find some sort of shelter. "None of them like this one," he repeated.

Several small towns in the southern half of the parish, outside the giant storm protection system encircling New Orleans and some of its suburbs, were inundated. Dozens of residents watched as floodwaters advanced, waiting for rescues that did not start until daybreak.

New Orleans itself had been bruised but not beaten. Tree limbs and debris clogged the streets from the Bywater neighborhood to Uptown. In the French Quarter, the streets seemed to have been washed almost clean. A few New Orleanians had begun venturing out to walk their dogs, ride bikes and assess the state of things early on Monday. Though the city looked sturdy and dry on the outside, many of the problems were unfolding indoors, where the lights could be out for days.

In Houma, a small city about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, Craig Adams, 53, had planned to spend Saturday night in his beige trailer, but his daughter begged him at 9 p.m., as the storm's arrival was imminent, to seek shelter somewhere sturdier. On Monday, he was thankful she had. The two-bedroom trailer was wrecked, with only the air-conditioner intact among piles of mangled furniture, kitchen supplies and personal belongings.

"Every little thing that I owned and had, it's gone," Mr. Adams said. "I'm going to have to start all over again. You always see other people going through this on the news. You never think it's going to be you - until it is."

Grand Isle, a narrow beachy islet of stilt-raised homes facing the Gulf of Mexico, near where Ida came ashore, could not be reached by road, which was underwater, or by air, because there was nowhere for a helicopter to land, said Sheriff Joseph P. Lopinto III of Jefferson Parish.

He sent the chopper anyway to see if it could spot his 10 deputies who remained in a bunker on the isle during the storm. There were reports that its roof had blown off. But the deputies gave the helicopter crew a thumbs up on Monday, Sheriff Lopinto said in an interview with WWL radio. He told The New York Times he might have his team drop radios by helicopter so deputies on the isle could communicate.

Ms. Lee Sheng estimated that about 40 people had chosen not to evacuate Grand Isle.

In Jean Lafitte, a village of about 2,000 people, about 400 residents initially refused the mandatory evacuation order, according to the sheriff. But he expected fewer actually stayed once they saw Ida's strength.

"We did rescue missions all today," Sheriff Lopinto said. "But the water has stabilized. It's not coming anymore. In fact, it's receding."

Some of those who stayed behind still had no plans to leave. Cody Lauricella, a 30-year-old native of bayou country, sailed the 19-foot fishing trawler he usually uses to catch trout and flounder back and forth to Jean Lafitte throughout the day to help people get out. He went all the way to lower Lafitte, he said, but found few takers for a boat ride.

"There are a lot of people that are still there and OK, sitting on the porch, waving at us," Sheriff Lopinto said. "It's part of living in this community. They understand that."

Mr. Roque felt certain his aunt and uncle, whom he lovingly described as "hippies," would be all right. "They have good knowledge of what they're doing," he said. Their house, like others in the village, was elevated, and their neighbor had a boat.

But he worried anyway.

"They were being stubborn - everyone told them to leave, but they were like, 'Oh, we're staying,'" Mr. Roque, 23, said. "We just want to make sure."

LaPlace, a town of quiet subdivisions on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River where many evacuees from New Orleans settled after Katrina, saw many of those homes mangled and streets flooded by Ida. On Whitlow Court, a strip of mobile homes, every truck attempting to drive down the street stirred a wake. The water was out. So was the electricity. No one had cellphone service.

David Sanford, who has lived in the neighborhood for eight years, considered himself something of a hurricane veteran, having lived on the Florida coast, in Pensacola, before moving to Louisiana. Even so, Ida terrified him. The storm had his mobile home vibrating - then it popped a skylight over the bathroom, dumping water inside.

"It was just rough," Mr. Sanford, 64, recounted, sitting back on a dry patch at the end of the street on Monday. "This one right here was the worst one I've been in." The wind was howling, he said, and seemed to never stop. "It didn't slack up at all," he said.

Lea Joseph took her children to try to sleep in the trembling car once the power went out; the wind was whipping her house, uprooting trees and peeling roof shingles.

"I felt bad because I should have left with my kids," she said. "I'm scared. My son is crying. He kept asking, 'When is the eye passing, when is the eye passing?'"

Her 13-year-old son, Cesar, showed videos he had shared with friends on Snapchat of the wind and water descending on the family's home. In them, his 11-year-old brother, Juan, kept calling out, "Hold the door, hold the door," terrified of the storm's bluster.

"I was crying," Juan recalled as he stood on the flooded street, the water lapping over his rubber boots.

"Never again," Ms. Joseph said. "Never again."

Richard Fausset reported from Jefferson Parish, La., Rick Rojas from LaPlace, La., and Patricia Mazzei from Miami. Edgar Sandoval contributed reporting from Houma, La.

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Hurricane Veterans Were Stunned by Ida: 'It's Never Been as Bad'

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Some small towns outside New Orleans were inundated. Trapped residents waited for daylight, when rescue boats could make their way through the floodwaters. JEFFERSON PARISH, La. - Jordan Roque pulled his Chevy pickup truck onto the last stretch of highway outside of town that was not inundated by water on Monday, hauling an airboat.

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After a court ruled Friday that school districts can enforce temporary mask mandates to contain the spread of COVID -19, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran announced he has begun withholding money from the Broward and Alachua school districts, which went against the governor's now-invalidated order.

In a news release issued late Monday, Corcoran said he is following through on the orders of the State Board of Education, which directed him to review options for punishing the school districts that defied an emergency rule by the Department of Health prohibiting school districts from mandating that students wear face coverings in school.

Broward and Alachua counties were the first two school districts to impose a mandatory mask requirements for students returning to school and, after aggressive questioning of the district superintendents two weeks ago, the Board of Education ordered Corcoran to pursue penalties.

"The withholding of funds will continue monthly until each school board complies with state law and rule,'' Corcoran wrote on Monday.

But the threat has not worked to deter Broward or Alachua school boards, which argue they are upholding the Florida Constitution and its requirement to provide a safe environment for students. The school boards say they believe their mask requirements, which provide for a medical opt-out for parents who need it, are within the law.

According to the Legislature's Office of Economic and Demographic Research, school board members in Alachua County make $40,000 per year and in Broward County, $46,000.

Nine other districts requiring masks

Since then, nine other school districts in the state's most populous counties, including Miami-Dade and Hillsborough,have ordered students, faculty and staff to temporarily wear face coverings until community spread of the COVID-19 virus abates. Brevard County on Monday became the latest school district to impose mask requirements.

The financial penalty is the latest skirmish in a pitched legal battle between Gov. Ron DeSantis, who says he is standing by the individual rights of parents, and school district leaders who say they are protecting the collective health of school children in the face of the surging delta variant.

A group of parents, who support mask mandates, on Friday prevailed in the first round of their lawsuit against the state, but a final ruling has not been issued. Corcoran took advantage of the window to announce he was withholding school board salaries.

Broward remains defiant

Broward County Public Schools Interim Superintendent Vickie Cartwright said Monday night that the district will not waiver in its decision to continue its mask requirements for students and staff, and that the policy would be reviewed after Labor Day and modified if needed.

"Broward County Public Schools and the Broward County School Board believe we are in compliance," Cartwright said in a statement. She said the district has been reporting to Tallahassee students "who face a consequence for not wearing a mask," which is part of the Department of Education's sanctions.

"The health and safety of our students, teachers and staff continue to be our main priorities,'' Cartwright said. "As such, BCPS will continue to mandate masks, knowing the data shows they help minimize the spread of COVID-19 in our schools."

Sarah Leonardi, who represents District 3 on the Broward County School Board, blasted Corcoran's decision and said her responsibility is to uphold the Florida Constitution, and not necessarily obey commands from Tallahassee.

"Perhaps Commissioner Corcoran should re-read the Florida Constitution, because I swore an oath to provide a 'safe, secure and high quality system of free public schools' under Article IX, Section 1, Paragraph (a)," Leonardi said in a text message to the Miami Herald on Monday night, quoting part of the state Constitution.

In a verbal ruling from the bench on Friday, Judge John C. Cooper concluded that the governor and his legal team failed to properly read the Parents' Bill of Rights, which they used as the foundation for their argument that parents, not schools, should decide whether children must wear facial coverings.

The judge said they overlooked a critical paragraph in the law that was signed this year - a provision that allows school districts to make an exception to parental rights when a requirement "is reasonable and necessary to achieve a compelling state interest."

The governor's office immediately denounced the ruling as the work of "incoherent justifications," and said it would appeal the lawsuit to the appellate court where DeSantis predicted Monday he would prevail.

In his statement, Corcoran made no mention of the judge's ruling and instead cited the same law that Cooper said the state had failed to properly apply.

"We're going to fight to protect parents' rights to make health care decisions for their children,'' Corcoran wrote. "They know what is best for their children. What's unacceptable is the politicians who have raised their right hands and pledged, under oath, to uphold the Constitution but are not doing so. Simply said, elected officials cannot pick and choose what laws they want to follow."

Could Corcoran be in contempt of court?

Charles Gallagher, lead attorney for the plaintiffs, called Corcoran's decision to order the penalties in the face of the judge's ruling a breach of legal ethics that could draw a contempt of court charge from the court. Corcoran, a former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is a lawyer and member of the Florida Bar.

"I don't know how he could maintain a straight face that he was allowed to enforce this order,'' Gallagher said. "That was clear and certain from the hearing."

Gallagher said he will also file a motion for contempt against Corcoran if, when the judge enters his ruling, the department does not withdraw the enforcement action.

On Friday, Cooper set in motion a strict timeline to complete the final order. He asked the plaintiffs' lawyers to work all weekend and put into writing his verbal ruling that lasted more than two and a half hours on Friday.

Gallagher said his team worked through the weekend, but their efforts were delayed somewhat because they did not receive the transcript of the three-day hearing from the court reporter until late Sunday. To accommodate the lengthy decision by Cooper, the lawyers prepared a short-form draft ruling and a long-form draft ruling, and will submit both to Cooper and the state's lawyers Monday night.

He said he expects the judge to allow the state's attorneys to respond and, once he signs the order, it will become final.. At that point, the state is expected to appeal the ruling in the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee.

"The second that's entered, I think you'll probably see the state file an appeal within minutes of that,'' Gallagher said, asking the First District Court of Appeal to stay the ruling. Gallagher said the plaintiffs will then file a petition to vacate the stay and a decision on that could be made with or without a hearing.

Also Monday, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights announced investigations into five states - Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah - for violating the rights of children with disabilities by prohibiting universal indoor masking of students in schools.

The department said it did not launch reviews in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, or Arizona "because those states' bans on universal indoor masking are not currently being enforced as a result of court orders or other state actions."

The department, however, said it will continue to monitor Florida and is "prepared to take action" if state leaders refuse to allow universal mask mandates or if the court rulings are overturned. It is unknown whether Corcoran's decision to withhold money from school districts will be deemed an enforcement action.

On Friday, the Miami-Dade County School Board asked the state's Third District Court of Appeal to review an issue that the Leon County case did not touch - the validity of the Aug. 6 Department of Health emergency rule that requires schools to include an opt-out clause in any mask rules they adopt.
Tampa Bay Times staff writer Jeffrey S. Solochek and reporting from the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Despite court decision, state withholds school board members' pay from Broward

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After a court ruled Friday that school districts can enforce temporary mask mandates to contain the spread of COVID -19, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran announced he has begun withholding money from the Broward and Alachua school districts, which went against the governor's now-invalidated order.