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In our news ends on Tuesday, encouraging news about the COVID-19 pandemic. Johns Hopkins University reports that new infections have been reduced to 43,000 per day nationwide, more than 20% less than in early August. In addition, Texas and Louisiana have ordered more than a share of a million people to evacuate the Gulf Coast in the run-up to Hurricane Laura. The typhoon has already killed dozens more in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Stephanie Sy:
Some encouraging news tonight about the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University reports that new infections have been reduced to 43,000 per day nationwide. This has fallen by more than 20% since the beginning of August.
Meanwhile, Food and Drug Administration commissioner Stephen Hahn apologized today for exaggerating the benefits of plasma containing antibodies to treat new patients.
Texas and Louisiana today ordered more than half a million people to evacuate the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Laura hits. It is possible that you simply landed past night, with sustained winds of 115 miles consistent with the hour and up to thirteen feet of typhoon tidal in the ocean. The typhoon has already killed at least two dozen other people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
In California, an influx of more chimney fighters has contributed to the war opposed to massive chimneys in the San Francisco Bay Area. Better they have also allowed containment lines to extend around parts of 3 groups of giant chimneys.
The conflagrations killed seven people, burned more than 1,200 miles and destroyed more than 1,000 buildings.
Mark Brunton:
Over the next two days, we have noticed significant progress in our exchange of comments on this incident. Time has cooperated with us.
The incident that started in the most sensitive part of the north looks good. The place of the chimney is essentially correct: where it exists, it crawls towards our control lines that we have established or are in the process of establishing. Therefore, we do not have a front main fireplace place.
Stephanie Sy:
Crews are producing about 625 fires in California.
The president of the United Nations Security Council rejected U.S. demands to reinstate all sanctions that oppose Iran. Thirteen of the 15 council member countries opposed the resolution, he said. The resolution provoked a strong reaction from the U.S. ambassador, who accused council members of supporting the terrorists.
Jerry Falwell Jr. demonstrated today that he has resigned as president of Liberty University after a night of conflicting statements. Reports continued that he and his wife had had sex with a younger business partner. Falwell is already on indefinite leave from the evangelical school for posting a spicy photo of himself with another woman.
On Wall Street today, combined economic knowledge sent movements in other directions. The Dow Jones commercial average lost 60 issues to close in 28248. But the Nasdaq went up 86 issues and the S.P. 500 added 12.
And author/journalist Gail Sheehy died in Southampton, New York, from pneumonia headaches. His 17 books include the 1976 bestseller “Passages,” which helped millions of readers deal with quarantine disorders, marital disorders and other crises. He has also written mental profiles of public figures.
Gail Sheehy 83.
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