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President Trump on Friday slammed what he called a “rigged system” following reports that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting an “exoneration statement” for Hillary Clinton before interviewing her in connection with her private email use as secretary of state.

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President Trump on Friday slammed what he called a "rigged system" following reports that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting an "exoneration statement" for Hillary Clinton before interviewing her in connection with her private email use as secretary of state.

"Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over...and so much more. A rigged system!" Trump tweeted early Friday.

The president was referring to allegations made this week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

In a news release Thursday, the senators said Comey began drafting the exoneration statement in April or May 2016, which was before the FBI interviewed 17 key witnesses, including Clinton herself and other top aides.
COMEY BEGAN DRAFTING 'EXONERATION STATEMENT' BEFORE INTERVIEWING KEY WITNESSES, SENATORS SAY
"Conclusion first, fact-gathering second-that's no way to run an investigation," they wrote in a letter this week to the FBI. "The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy."

Grassley and Graham said they learned about the draft after reviewing transcripts of interviews with top Comey aides.

"According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton," the senators said.

They added, "That was long before FBI agents finished their work. Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts."

Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, was investigated by the FBI for using a private email address and server to handle classified information while serving as secretary of state.

In July 2016, Comey famously called Clinton's email arrangement "extremely careless" though he decided against recommending criminal charges.

The transcripts in question were from interviews conducted by the Office of Special Counsel, which interviewed James Rybicki, Comey's chief of staff, and Trisha Anderson, the principal deputy general counsel of national security and cyberlaw, the senators said.

"It is unclear whether the FBI agents actually investigating the case were aware that Mr. Comey had already decided on the investigation's outcome while their work was ongoing," the senators wrote.

In the Wednesday letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, the two senators said they have requested all records relating to the drafting of the statement.

Comey was fired as FBI director by Trump in May amid tensions over the Russia investigation.
Fox News' Jason Donner contributed to this report.

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Trump slams 'rigged system' over claim Comey 'exonerated' Clinton before probe ended

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President Trump on Friday slammed what he called a "rigged system" following reports that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting an "exoneration statement" for Hillary Clinton before interviewing her in connection with her private email use as secretary of state.

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L'Oreal fires first transgender model because of a facebook post, saying that "All white people are drenched in racism"

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Munroe Bergdorf was out of her new modeling job before the ink on her contract dried.

L'Oreal has parted ways with the transgender model days after she was hired following controversial comments posted to her social media accounts about race relations, according to Daily Mail.

The outlet reported that the 29-year-old shared a lengthy post on Facebook in which she addressed the "racial violence of white people."

The since deleted post stated that "ALL white people" are a part of the problem, adding that they "refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of color."

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"Your entire existence is drenched in racism. From micro-aggression to terrorism, you guys built the blueprint for this s-t," she reportedly wrote.

"Come see me when you realize that racism isn't learned, it's inherited and consciously or unconsciously passed down through privilege. Once white people begin to admit that their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth...then we can talk."

L'Oreal addressed Bergdorf's firing in a tweet, stating that her comments and their values as a company don't line up.

In a separate statement to Daily Mail, the brand said they "support diversity and tolerance towards all people irrespective of their race, background, gender and religion."

Gym trainer fired after he's ID'd in Charlottesville rally photo

"The L'Oreal Paris True Match campaign is a representation of these values and we are proud of the diversity of the Ambassadors who represent this campaign. We believe that the recent comments by Munroe Bergdorf are at odds with those values, and as such we have taken the decision to end the partnership with her. L'Oreal remains committed to celebrating diversity and breaking down barriers in beauty."

Bergdorf responded to the backlash on Facebook, alleging that her words were taken out of context. She said that her statements about white violence were a direct response to the horror that played out in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 11.

Additionally, she claimed that "identifying that the success of the British Empire has been at the expense of people of color, is not something that should offend ANYONE."

"When I stated that 'all white people are racist,' I was addressing the fact that western society as a whole, is a SYSTEM rooted in white supremacy - designed to benefit, prioritize and protect white people before anyone of any other race. Unknowingly, white people are SOCIALIZED to be racist from birth onwards. It is not something genetic. No one is born racist."

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Bergdorf then took aim at L'Oreal, claiming that it was unfair for them to fire her for speaking "on her actual lived experience."

"If you truly want equality and diversity, you need to actively work to dismantle the source of what created this discrimination and division in the first place," she wrote.
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L'Oreal fires transgender model over controversial Facebook post

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Munroe Bergdorf was out of her new modeling job before the ink on her contract dried. L'Oreal has parted ways with the transgender model days after she was hired following controversial comments posted to her social media accounts about race relations, according to Daily Mail.

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Kendrys Morales hits 3 home runs in 1 day.  (wont let me put picture)

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93 year old women donates $22 million to a German zoo.

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A German zoo says a 93-year-old American widow of a Holocaust survivor is leaving it $22 million (18.5 million euros) in her will.

German-born Elizabeth Reichert told the local Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper it was her late husband Arnulf's wish to donate the money to the Cologne zoo.

Reichert and Arnulf were both natives of Cologne, and met during the war while he was in hiding. They moved to Israel after the war and then later to the U.S., settling in New Jersey.

The couple had no children and the newspaper reported Friday that Reichert has already started transferring $6,000 per month to the zoo. The entire sum is to be donated upon her death.

The zoo confirmed the report Friday, but wouldn't provide further details.

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A German zoo says a 93-year-old American widow of a Holocaust survivor is leaving it $22 million (18.5 million euros) in her will. German-born Elizabeth Reichert told the local Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper it was her late husband Arnulf's wish to donate the money to the Cologne zoo. ...

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More fires are expected at Texas chemical plant but also there is a federal investigation happening now

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The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into the fire at the chemical plant owned by Arkema Inc. in Crosby, Texas, after explosions and fires rocked the plant during the early hours of Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

But at 5:30 p.m. ET Thursday, Arkema announced that the fires were out. "At this writing, one of the trailers at the Crosby plant containing organic peroxides caught fire early Thursday morning and burned," the statement read. "Some of the area surrounding the trailer was burned or charred, but any adjacent fires burned themselves out."

The statement continued, "We continue to monitor the temperature in the remaining trailers and there is evidence suggesting that other trailers will soon burn, but there have been no reports of any fires or smoke."

The chemical plant -- which sits about 15 miles east of Houston's city center -- was compromised by the record flooding in the area. While Arkema executive Richard Rennard said in a press conference Thursday morning that the plant was emitting "noxious" smoke, he would not respond to a question as to whether the smoke from the burning substances was toxic.

But later in the day, the EPA said its aerial surveillance aircraft did not detect toxic concentrations of chemicals at the site. "Following this fire, EPA sent aerial surveillance aircraft to test resulting smoke and did ground-level air quality monitoring," read a statement. "EPA's plane instrumentation is capable of measuring 78 different chemicals, including peroxides. Neither testing methods found toxic concentration levels in areas away from the evacuated facility."

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"The smoke and loud 'popping' noises came from one of nine containers on site holding liquid organic peroxides that must remain cold, or the chemicals will become unstable and will start to break down as they warm up," Rennard said.

The plant lost its ability to keep the products refrigerated because of the storm's floodwaters and power loss in the area.

"It's not a chemical release that's happening and I want to be clear about that," Rennard added. "What we have is a fire."

Adrees Latif/Reuters

Although a smaller agency, the CSB conducts investigations in a similar manner to the National Transportation Safety Board.

ABC News' David Kerley and Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.

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Texas chemical plant fire is out, federal investigation launched

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The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into the fire at the chemical plant owned by Arkema Inc. in Crosby, Texas, after explosions and fires rocked the plant during the early hours of Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. But at 5:30 p.m.

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Trump to cut pay raises for government workers

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Trump to cut pay raises for government workers

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President Trump sent a letter to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday announcing his intention to cut pay raises for civilian government workers.

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17 cent spike in gas since hurricane harvey struck Texas.

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Gas prices spiked overnight and are up about 17 cents a gallon since Hurricane Harvey struck Texas.

The national average price for a gallon of regular jumped nearly 7 cents to $2.52 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA. And price spikes are even more severe in some Southern states.

Prices in Texas jumped 10 cents overnight, and are up 21 cents over the last week. North Carolina prices jumped 11 cents overnight and are up 27 cents over the last week. Georgia prices jumped nearly 12 cents overnight and are up about 29 cents for the week.

Stations started running out of gasoline in Dallas following a social media reports that there was a Harvey-inspired shortage, even though one expert said the run on gasoline there was caused by the drivers panicking and topping off. Supplies might have lasted if drivers conserved what they already had in the tank.

Gas futures shot up more than10% Thursday, the last day of trading for contracts that promised September delivery of gasoline. Prices for the October futures early Friday were slightly lower, suggesting traders don't expect the higher prices to last. But there will likely be continued pain at the pump as the many of the refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast struggle to get back online.

Related: Harvey certain to be one of most expensive natural disasters ever

"There's a worry now that most of the Texas refineries could be compromised for weeks rather than days" said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service, which tracks prices for AAA. He said the national average could get as high as $2.75 a gallon in a worst case scenario.

The Trump administration tapped into the emergency Strategic Petroleum Reserve Thursday in response to the major refinery outages on the U.S. Gulf Coast caused by Hurricane Harvey.

Nearly 30% of the nation's refining capacity along the Gulf Coast has been shut or reduced operations due to flood waters associated with the storm. Motiva's massive Port Arthur refinery, the largest in the U.S., shut down on Wednesday due to "increasing local flood conditions," while Valero also closed its Port Arthur refinery on Wednesday.

Related: Harvey shuts down major fuel pipeline supplying East Coast

Earlier in the week ExxonMobil's Baytown Texas refinery, which is the second-largest in the country, was shut down due to roof damage caused by heavy rain.

The refinery shutdowns caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut part of its operation from the Texas Gulf Coast early Thursday because it doesn't have enough product to move through the pipeline. The pipeline is key to moving gasoline, jet fuel and other refined products to points along the East Coast from Florida to New Jersey. While part of the pipeline was still operating, "we don't know how much its carrying," Kloza said. "I'm sure it's less than maximum."

A break in the same pipeline in September 2016 caused gasoline shortages and prices to spike about 20 cents a gallon in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

The question now is how long it takes the closed refineries to get back online. Kloza said it took about six weeks for the system to get back to normal after Katrina.

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 1, 2017: 7:06 AM ET

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Gas prices spike again, now up 17 cents since Harvey

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The national average price for a gallon of regular jumped nearly 7 cents to $2.52 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA. And price spikes are even more severe in some Southern states. Prices in Texas jumped 10 cents overnight, and are up 21 cents over the last week.

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Alligators, toxic waters, mold and risk of electrocution are just a few of the myriad dangers greeting Houston residents returning to their flood-ravaged homes on Friday, as the toll of Hurricane Harvey continues to be felt long after the rains have subsided.

Even as the Lone Star State began to dry out, the stagnant water pooled in streets and drenched into carpets continued to make life perilous.

"There's no need to test it," Houston Health Department spokesperson Porfirio Villarreal told The New York Times. "It's contaminated. There's millions of contaminants."

Simply stepping in the water posed risks.

"We're telling people to avoid the floodwater as much as possible," Villarreal said. "Don't let your children play in it. And if you do touch it, wash it off. Remember, this is going to go on for weeks."

Other officials warned household chemicals stored under sinks and in cabinets would now be mixed in with the several feet of flood waters that flowed into homes, further contaminating the area.

In many areas, streets had begun to dry out but remained clogged with soggy furniture, carpet and wood.

Health experts warned that sewage in the floodwater could make people sick and that mosquito populations could explode in the coming weeks because stagnant water offers abundant breeding grounds.

The residents of Beaumont, near the Texas-Louisiana line, lost their public water supply, and Texas' abundance of private wells supplying drinking water also posed another problem.

Dr. David Persee, Houston's director of Emergency Medical Services, told The New York Times, though officials were monitoring the drinking water, the well owner was ultimately responsible for ensuring the water was safe for drinking.

"In the City of Houston, we have folks that use well water but we strongly recommend against it - and this will sound awful - we don't take responsibility for it," Persse said.

Electrical dangers also loomed.

On Tuesday in Houston, Andrew Pasek died after he stepped into a yard where a landscape light had electrified the flood water, KTRK reported.

"They couldn't even help my son. They couldn't resuscitate him. He was in electrified water," Andrew's mother, Jodell Pasek, said.

Harvey has already claimed at least 39 lives, and rescue workers searching door-to-door knew that figure could still rise.

"We don't think we're going to find any humans, but we're prepared if we do," said District Chief James Pennington of the Houston Fire Department.

After electricity and backup generators failed at a Crosby chemical plant, temperature controls ceased to work and explosions began to spontaneously occur.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Texas environmental regulators called the health risks minimal in Crosby, but urged residents downwind to stay indoors with windows closed to avoid inhaling the smoke.

The Texas environmental agency called the smoke "especially acrid and irritating" and said it could impair breathing and inflame the eyes, nose and throat."

In Anahuac, armed alligator farm employees took to boats to guard their flooding business, ready to stop the 350 alligators inside from making their way out, The Washington Post reported.

Meanwhile, despite food drives and donations, a Port Arthur police sergeant told The Washington Post his city was running out of food and people were continuing to pour into its shelters.

With temperatures likely to climb to the low 90s over the weekend, residents were warned about the dangers of heat exhaustion, especially for people who lost power or must toil outdoors.

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As Texas floodwaters recede, dangers abound

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A nearly 3-mile-wide asteroid makes a close call with earth

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The asteroid, named Florence, is an almost 3-mile-wide rock that passed about 4.4 million miles from Earth (7 million kilometers) early Friday, NASA says.

And while a few million miles sounds like a lot of room, it's actually a pretty close pass when you're talking about the vastness of space. Other asteroids have passed closer to Earth than Florence, but few have been this big.

"Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began," Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said in a statement.

It was Florence's closest flyby of Earth since 1890 -- and the closest it will get until after 2500.

But there's no need to get Bruce Willis and his crew involved. Florence doesn't pose any immediate threat, Chodas told CNN in an email interview.

"Certainly not for the next several centuries, and not likely over the next many millennia either," he said. "It's possible this asteroid could threaten our planet in the far distant future, but it's unlikely."

A learning opportunity

Florence -- named to honor of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing -- does offer a great opportunity. Scientists think any asteroid larger than half-mile to a mile (1 to 2 kilometers) in size could have worldwide effects if it hit the planet, so they studied Florence as it zipped by.

Radar images snapped by the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California and the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will help scientists learn more about the asteroid's composition, shape, surface properties and roughness and the presence of boulders, Chodas said. They also may learn whether Florence has a satellite.

Having Florence do a flyby is a lot easier than chasing down an asteroid in space -- though NASA is doing that, too, with its OSIRIS-REx mission. The spacecraft was launched in September 2016 to chase down a potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. It will take a sample of the asteroid and -- in a US space first -- bring the sample back to Earth.

The asteroid that does pose a threat

About once a year, a car-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere and creates a big fireball, NASA says. These don't usually cause damage. But in February 2013, an asteroid streaked through our atmosphere and exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia.

The rock was about 59 feet (18 meters) wide and weighed 11,000 metric tons, according to NASA. It exploded about 14.5 miles (23.3 kilometers) above Chelyabinsk, injuring hundreds of people and shattering glass in buildings.

The asteroid that currently poses the biggest threat to Earth, according to Chodas, is Asteroid 1950 DA. It could "impact in the year 2880," he said. That asteroid is about 1 mile wide (1.3 kilometers), and the chances for an impact with Earth are 1 in 8,000.

So, what is NASA doing about all these dangerous space rocks? They created an office in 2016 that sounds like something out of "Star Wars": the Planetary Defense Coordination Office. It's tasked with helping find dangerous asteroids and comets, and it's leading US government efforts to develop a plan to respond to an actual impact threat.

Early plans are focused on finding threatening space objects and -- one day -- being able to break them apart or deflect them from Earth.

A rock star and space rocks

And NASA scientists aren't the only ones interested in asteroids. Astrophysicist Brian May, better known as the lead guitarist for the rock band Queen, helped create Asteroid Day in 2015 to educate the public about the dangers of asteroids.

May's co-founders include astronaut Rusty Schweickart, film director Grigorij Richters, and Danica Remy, chief operations officer of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to protect Earth from asteroids through early detection. The United Nations has sanctioned the holiday as a global day of education to raise awareness. The next Asteroid Day is Saturday, June 30, 2018.

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The asteroid, named Florence, is an almost 3-mile-wide rock that passed about 4.4 million miles from Earth (7 million kilometers) early Friday, NASA says. And while a few million miles sounds like a lot of room, it's actually a pretty close pass when you're talking about the vastness of space.

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The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has been launched an investigation into the fire at the chemical plant owned by Arkema Inc. in Crosby, Texas, after explosions and fires rocked the plant during the early hours of Thursday.

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The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into the fire at the chemical plant owned by Arkema Inc. in Crosby, Texas, after explosions and fires rocked the plant during the early hours of Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

But at 5:30 p.m. ET Thursday, Arkema announced that the fires were out. "At this writing, one of the trailers at the Crosby plant containing organic peroxides caught fire early Thursday morning and burned," the statement read. "Some of the area surrounding the trailer was burned or charred, but any adjacent fires burned themselves out."

The statement continued, "We continue to monitor the temperature in the remaining trailers and there is evidence suggesting that other trailers will soon burn, but there have been no reports of any fires or smoke."

The chemical plant -- which sits about 15 miles east of Houston's city center -- was compromised by the record flooding in the area. While Arkema executive Richard Rennard said in a press conference Thursday morning that the plant was emitting "noxious" smoke, he would not respond to a question as to whether the smoke from the burning substances was toxic.

But later in the day, the EPA said its aerial surveillance aircraft did not detect toxic concentrations of chemicals at the site. "Following this fire, EPA sent aerial surveillance aircraft to test resulting smoke and did ground-level air quality monitoring," read a statement. "EPA's plane instrumentation is capable of measuring 78 different chemicals, including peroxides. Neither testing methods found toxic concentration levels in areas away from the evacuated facility."

AP

"The smoke and loud 'popping' noises came from one of nine containers on site holding liquid organic peroxides that must remain cold, or the chemicals will become unstable and will start to break down as they warm up," Rennard said.

The plant lost its ability to keep the products refrigerated because of the storm's floodwaters and power loss in the area.

"It's not a chemical release that's happening and I want to be clear about that," Rennard added. "What we have is a fire."

Adrees Latif/Reuters

Although a smaller agency, the CSB conducts investigations in a similar manner to the National Transportation Safety Board.

ABC News' David Kerley and Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.

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Texas chemical plant fire is out, federal investigation launched

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The US travel ban to North Korea has been put into place, and US citizens are no longer allowed to visit the country. Trump says he is going to rain "fire and fury" on North Korea since their recent threats, and has since claimed the US is "locked and loaded."

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The world's smartest water bottle could save your life if your stuck in the woods and if you have no water.

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You got lost hiking in the woods and you finished all the water you carried in with you. Now that you've found the trail again, you're hot and thirsty and worried about dehydration. There's a stream up ahead. Is the water safe to drink?

You're pounding the pavement in an unfamiliar city on a very hot day. Can you trust the public water fountain? Come to think of it, can you trust the one in your office building?

Now there's a water bottle that will answer those questions - and even purify the water, if necessary. And if it sounds ludicrous to shell out more than $200 for such a thing, ask yourself this: How much are you willing to pay for peace of mind?

"Water is life, but water pollution has become a nationwide problem," says Eric Li, the founder and CEO of Ecomo, maker of the world's first "smart" water bottle.

In an interview, Li, who also has a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, referred to a Harvard University study conducted last year that found unsafe levels of toxic chemicals in drinking water in 33 states, including California, New Jersey, Florida and New York. Among those chemicals were PFASs (polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances), which have been linked to hormonal problems, obesity and cancer.

That's why Li invented the Ecomo (short for "eco-monitor") Bottle.

The stainless steel bottle tests water for contaminants and, if it's not up to snuff, removes them quickly to make it safe to drink.

Unlike one of its competitors, CamelBak's All Clear ($99), which uses UV technology to purify unsafe water in 60 seconds, Ecomo uses a complex filtration system that does the job in less than five seconds. It took Li and his team two years to create, but for the consumer it's as simple as fill, shake, twist and drink - unless the water is already fine for drinking, in which case you can eliminate "twist."

Users can fill the bottle at practically any source: tap, pond, even toilet - and then activate its testing mechanism by shaking it. The bottle's filtration system, composed of carbon and ion exchange fibers and a nanofiber membrane, analyzes four things: the TOC (total organic carbon) level, the TDS (total dissolved solids) level, turbidity or cloudiness and water temperature. If the water is good to drink, a green light and the word "Good" appear on the bottle's LED monitor. If it's contaminated, as indicated by a yellow or red light and the word "Fair" or "Bad," a twist of the bottle's base will reduce bacteria, pesticides, petroleum products and heavy metals by up to 99.9 percent.

The bottle weighs 13 ounces and has double-layer insulation designed to keep water hot for 12 hours or cold for 24 hours. It holds 20 ounces of water - and only water. Filling it with another liquid can damage the bottle's analyzer. The first bottles aren't expected to ship until late this year, but Ecomo has already caught the attention of Tech Insider, Gear Junkie and Fast Company, which called it "an invention for our increasingly poisonous world."

Ecomo Bottle is currently available for pre-ordering on the crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, where it's discounted to $139. Ecomo has raised nearly $600,000 - more than nine times its goal since the campaign launched in October - and it's on IndieGoGo's Must-Have Products for Your Office list.

Eventually, Li says, the goal is to get the bottle into stores, where the retail price will be $220. It could be the most expensive water bottle on the market, but it will also be the only one of its kind.

Chloe Li, Ecomo's vice president of marketing (no relation to Eric), describes Ecomo's core customers as people in their 30s to mid-40s who care about their health and are aware of the latest trends in technology. They're people who don't mind recharging batteries - the Ecomo Bottle's battery lasts up to a week and takes an hour to recharge - and buying replacement filters for $10 every two to three months.

The Ecomo has an app that notifies users when it's time to buy a new filter and a Bluetooth wristband that measures environmental conditions like the temperature, records users' daily activities to calculate their hydration needs and then keeps track of their water intake throughout the day.

"Unlike many other hydration trackers, it will not be a rough estimate based on a predefined average daily consumption of an average person," said Chloe Li. "So it's much more accurate."

Ecomo also aims to collect data on water quality throughout the U.S., and eventually the world, through crowdsourcing.

"We want a place where everybody can receive data on their water quality at any time," said Eric Li. "When a user takes a measurement and presses the bottle's 'send' button, the water quality data collected will be sent to the Ecomo website and used toward a real-time water quality map."

But first, Li has to oversee the distribution of the Ecomo Bottle and his other product, Ecomo Fount, which is scheduled to be released in September. Mounted on a kitchen faucet, Ecomo Fount will test for and filter the same four things as Ecomo Bottle, and it will come with a free app, Ecomo Lab, that will chart results by the month to show users the history of their water quality. The data will be synched to the cloud and uploaded to a water quality map so users can see the scores of the water around them.

If you're human - and chances are very good that you are - then your body is roughly 60 percent water. How nice to know it's clean.

Katie Jackson is a travel writer. When she's not working, she's chasing after a Leonberger named Zeus.

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Hungary asks Eu to help pay for anti-migrant border fence.

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Hungary's prime minister is asking the European Union to pay for half of the cost of anti-migrant fences it built on its southern borders, some 440 million euros ($523 million).

In a letter dated Thursday to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the fences erected in 2015 protect not just Hungary "but entire Europe against the flood of illegal migrants."

Orban said Europe needed to show solidarity with Hungary's border protection efforts, not just with Greece and Italy, the countries which have received the brunt of the migration influx.

EU leaders have criticized Hungary for failing to show solidarity because it refuses to take in any asylum-seekers sought to be relocated from Greece and Italy until their asylum requests are decided.

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Hungary's prime minister is asking the European Union to pay for half of the cost of anti-migrant fences it built on its southern borders, some 440 million euros ($523 million). In a letter dated Thursday to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the...

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A baby got lead poisoning by wearing and chewing on a bracelet with beads.

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An infant girl in Connecticut developed lead poisoning after wearing - and chewing on - a bracelet made with lead beads, according to a new report of the child's case.

Doctors discovered that the 9-month-old had abnormally high blood lead levels during a routine checkup. Her blood lead level was 41 micrograms per deciliter (ug/dL); anything over 5 ug/dL is considered abnormal, according to the report, published today (Aug. 31) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Health investigators visited the infant's home, and found two windows with peeling lead-based paint. However, the infant wouldn't have been able to reach these areas, according to the report. In addition, the girl's three siblings, who were between ages 3 and 5, had blood lead levels of less than 3 ug/dL, suggesting that the peeling paint wasn't the source of the lead poisoning.
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Instead, investigators focused on a handmade bracelet the parents had given the infant. The bracelet was a "homeopathic magnetic hematite healing bracelet" that the parents purchased from an artisan at a local fair. The parents had given the infant the bracelet for "teething-related discomfort," the report said. Sometimes the infant chewed on the bracelet, the report added. (Despite a lack of scientific evidence, some people purport that magnets have healing properties if placed close to the body.)

When investigators tested the beads on the bracelet, they found that some of the beads had extremely high levels of lead: 17,000 parts per million (ppm). The amount of lead that's considered safe for children's products is 90 ppm or 100 ppm, depending on the type of product, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

In general, the most common way children get lead poisoning is by ingesting something that contains lead. In 2003 and 2006, for example, there were several cases of severe lead poisoning and death linked to lead-containing jewelry and charms marketed to children, the report said. After these instances, the CPSC set limits on the amount of lead allowed in products marketed to kids, and each year, there are recalls of children's jewelry that exceed those limits. However, the limits do not apply to products that aren't intended for use by children, the report noted.
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Investigators were unable to track down the manufacturer of the beads or the bracelet maker, according to the report.

There's no safe amount of lead exposure for children, according to the CDC, and the toxic heavy metal can affect nearly every part of the body. In many cases, lead exposure can occur with no obvious symptoms. Symptoms of severe lead poisoning can include confusion, seizures, coma and death.

This is not the first time that homeopathic teething products have been found to put children at risk. In October 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation into homeopathic teething products that were linked to reports of seizures in infants and children. The products in that instance weren't being investigated for lead levels, however; instead, the FDA was concerned that the products contained purportedly " natural" substances that weren't regulated by the agency.

Homeopathy is an alternative medicine practice based on the idea that "like cures like." In homeopathy, extremely minute concentrations of toxic substances are used in the idea that they could cure the symptoms that they would cause at higher doses.

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Baby's lead poisoning caused by 'homeopathic magnetic' bracelet

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An infant girl in Connecticut developed lead poisoning after wearing - and chewing on - a bracelet made with lead beads, according to a new report of the child's case. Doctors discovered that the 9-month-old had abnormally high blood lead levels during a routine checkup.

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North Korea has made new threats against Guam that could kill many.

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North Korea makes new threats against Guam

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Hudson Institute Fellow Rebecca Heinrichs analyzes the threat

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Powerful Hurricane Irma could be next weather disaster

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Powerful Hurricane Irma could be next weather disaster - CNN

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On the heels of Hurricane Harvey, a rapidly intensifiying Hurricane Irma treks westward in the Atlantic, posing a major threat to the Caribbean and US next week.

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The pope admits when he was 42 that he visted a pyschoanyalyst weekly for sessions.The pyschoanyalyst was a female and was ewish he visted her weekly to "clarify some things"

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Pope: Seeking clarity, I saw psychoanalyst weekly years ago

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Pope Francis says that when he was 42 he had sessions weekly with a psychoanalyst who was female and Jewish to "clarify some things."It wasn't specified what the future pontiff wanted to explore.

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New tech protects homes from invisible radon threat. Radon is a colorless and odorless radioactive gas found in soil.

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You don't have to smoke to get lung cancer. If you're unlucky and don't take precautions, all you have to do is breathe the air in your home.

Radon - a colorless and odorless radioactive gas found in soil - causes more than 21,000 deaths from lung cancer every year in the U.S. - more than carbon monoxide and house fires combined. Released from rock, soil and water, the uranium-derived gas can reach dangerous levels in even the best-built homes.

"All houses tend to draw soil gas out of the ground to replace air that escapes out of the top whenever the house is warmer than the outside, which is almost every night year-round," says Bill Brodhead, president of WPB Enterprises, a radon mitigation company in Pennsylvania.
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"The soil gas naturally contains radon, and often in very high concentrations. When radon decays, it changes to solid particles that cling to dust, water molecules or directly to your lung tissue."

These particles decay and send off alpha particles that damage the lung tissue and increase the risk of getting lung cancer, which is the leading cancer killer in the U.S. and has one of the lowest five-year survival rates of all cancers.

But you don't have to put up with high levels of radon in your home. Radon detectors have been around for years, but they're basically charcoal canisters that last for only a few days and have to be sent to a lab for analysis. Since radon levels fluctuate daily, these tests aren't always reliable.
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But now a Norway-based company, Airthings, has created the Airthings Wave that uses digital sensors and smart home technology to measure radon levels over a long period of time.

"[Charcoal] is the traditional way," Airthings CEO Øyvind Birkenes told Fox News. "We are going electronically, which enables you to monitor 24/7 over long periods of time - many, many years. And that's important, because radon gas fluctuates significantly over time. Over a day, it's amazing how much it changes."

The Wave, a small, easy-to-install white disc that looks like a smoke detector, has an indicator light that can turn green (nothing to worry about), yellow (warning) or red (danger). Users can also check their radon levels or receive warning notifications through an app that records short- and long-term data. If the sensor detects dangerous levels of radon for longer than 48 hours, it notifies the user and recommends what to do next. The sensor also gives audio alerts.
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If high levels of radon are detected, experts recommend getting in touch immediately with a contractor who can implement a radon reduction system that will reduce radon levels by up to 99 percent. It will set you back around $800-$1,200 - or more if the home has crawl spaces, no gravel under the slab or a completely finished lower level.

"Each state radon or radiation department should have a list of qualified contractors," Brodhead said. "It is usually best to have a local qualified contractor do the work to get better service."

Brodhead recommends hiring a contractor who visits your home before submitting an estimate. He also advises getting more than one estimate and checking with references.

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New tech protects homes from invisible radon threat

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You don't have to smoke to get lung cancer. If you're unlucky and don't take precautions, all you have to do is breathe the air in your home. Radon - a colorless and odorless radioactive gas found in soil - causes more than 21,000 deaths from lung cancer every year in the U.S.

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huge evacuation planned in Frankfort after British ww2 bomb is found more than 60,000 people are evacuated from the center of Frankfort

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The bomb was found during work Tuesday on a construction site on Wismarer Street close to the Goethe University Frankfurt compound, according to a statement by Frankfurt police.

Police said the size of the bomb made extensive evacuation measures necessary.

The device is a British bomb, specifically a 1.4-ton HC 4000 air mine, the statement said, and is under guard by police. There is no danger to the public, police said, but they will be evacuating the area as a precaution while they defuse the bomb.

The evacuation will take place at 8 a.m. local time on Sunday, authorities said.

The operation to defuse the bomb is expected to begin at midday and to take approximately four hours.

World War II may have ended over 70 years ago, but its legacy still lingers in cities across Germany.

In May, more than 50,000 people were asked to leave Hanover after a bomb was discovered during pre-construction work on a site in the Vahrenwald district.

On Christmas Day 2016, another 50,000 were evacuated from Augsburg in south Germany after a 1.8-ton bomb was found beneath an underground parking garage.

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Huge evacuation planned in Frankfurt after British WWII bomb found

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The bomb was found during work Tuesday on a construction site on Wismarer Street close to the Goethe University Frankfurt compound, according to a statement by Frankfurt police. Police said the size of the bomb made extensive evacuation measures necessary.

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US economy adds fewer jobs in August than expected

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The U.S. economy added 156,000 net new jobs in August, missing expectations for 180,000 jobs. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.4% from 4.3%, while the labor force participation rate stayed flat at 62.9% during the month. Average hourly earnings meanwhile increased by 3 cents, or 0.1%.

The jobs numbers come on the heels of a report Wednesday from payroll processing firm ADP, which revealed that 237,000 private sector jobs were added in August, handily beating economists' expectations of 183,000 jobs. According to the report, August proved to be the biggest monthly increase for private sector jobs in five months.

National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn will join the FOX Business Network at 10 a.m. ET for a full analysis of the latest data and what it means for U.S. workers and the economy.

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The U.S. economy added 156,000 net new jobs in August, missing expectations for 180,000 jobs. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4.4% from 4.3%, while the labor force participation rate stayed flat at 62.9% during the month. Average hourly earnings meanwhile increased by 3 cents, or 0.1%.

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Scientists find a 3-D dinosaur fossil.

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CALGARY, Alberta - While it's impossible to say how a 112-million-year-old dinosaur died, researchers are turning themselves into sleuths to figure out how this ancient beast transformed into a stunning, 3D fossil that looks like the statue of a sleeping dragon.

Their verdict? It's a mixture of the dinosaur's durability (it had tough, boney armor) and the extraordinary circumstances that not only kept the beast out of the reach of scavengers, but also led to its unique fossilization, said study lead researcher Donald Henderson, curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada.

"It is the best-preserved armored dinosaur in the world," Henderson told Live Science. "The quality of the preservation and the intact configuration make this specimen a Rosetta Stone for the interpretation of armored dinosaurs." [ Photos: This Plant-Eating Dinosaur Had Spikes, Armor and Camouflage]

The spiky dinosaur - a nodosaur, an armored relative of the ankylosaur - was discovered at the Suncor Millennium Mine in Alberta in 2011. Researchers were amazed to see that the fossil wasn't flattened by the millions of years of rock and sediment pressing down on it.

Instead, a combination of factors led to the exceptional 3D fossilization of the newly identified species, known as B. markmitchelli, Henderson said.

It's unclear why the 18-foot-long (5.5 meters) animal perished, but soon after its death, B. markmitchelli was swept out into an ancient, inland seaway that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. Once there, the dinosaur drifted away from any predators on land, such as carnivorous dinosaurs, and from marine scavengers, such as freshwater crocodilians, Henderson said.

As the body decayed, it filled with gas, causing it to bloat and float far out into the seaway, away from damaging shore waves and any nearshore marine scavengers, such as crabs and bristly, carnivorous marine worms, Henderson noted.

Most dead and bloated animals explode sooner rather than later, but B. markmitchelli's thick and armored skin likely withstood the high pressure from pent-up gas that is released as a dead animal's internal organs decompose. This likely delayed the final rupture of the dinosaur's body wall, the researchers said.

"The thick, prickly skin would have deterred open-water marine scavengers, such as sharks and plesiosaurs," Henderson said. "It sank out in deep water, where there was not much in the way of animal life [because it was] too cold and dark, so not much in the way of scavengers."

The 3,000-lb. (1,360 kilograms) nodosaur landed on its back on the seabed with a gigantic thump, leaving an impact crater where the remains sank into deep ooze on the seabed.

"This [ooze] sealed the skin with armor and scale away from what little oxygen there was, so decay was minimal," Henderson said. This lack of decay meant the nodosaur's scales, armor and even the pigment molecules in its skin were preserved.

However, B. markmitchelli would have decayed a little, given that the dinosaur was dead. As the remains decomposed, different compounds, such as putrescine (a foul-smelling, organic chemical that forms when amino acids break down) would have altered the seabed's chemistry, encouraging the rapid deposition of minerals around the carcass to produce an exceptionally thick protective sarcophagus, Henderson said.

"The strength of the sarcophagus prevented the specimen from being squashed flat by the weight of a kilometer of rock that must have been above the specimen for most of the past 112 million years," Henderson said. [ Photos: See the Armored Dinosaur Named for Zuul from 'Ghostbusters']

Henderson and his colleagues figured out these details by observing the geology of the mine. They also inspected the sarcophagus-like structure and the sediments inside and outside the dinosaur's body, Henderson said.

Moreover, based on the mineralogy of the rocks around the nodosaur, "we can state that the specimen came to rest on the seabed in water that was at least 50 meters [164 feet] deep," Henderson said.

The research, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, was presented Friday (Aug. 25) here at the 2017 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting.
Original article on Live Science .

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Sleeping dragon: How this dinosaur got preserved in 3-D

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CALGARY, Alberta - While it's impossible to say how a 112-million-year-old dinosaur died, researchers are turning themselves into sleuths to figure out how this ancient beast transformed into a stunning, 3D fossil that looks like the statue of a sleeping dragon.