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http://youtu.be/8LhU4ZNmpUU Dozens of people were rescued in St Petersburg, Florida, on Wednesday, August 30, after Hurricane Idalia barreled through the region. Footage posted by city officials shows rescue crews in a flooded neighborhood of the city on Wednesday afternoon. By early Wednesday evening, Pinellas County advised residents to “exercise caution when returning home and avoid any roads that remain flooded or have other debris” as recovery efforts continued. #florida #hurricaneidalia #rescue #flood The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Fo...

http://youtu.be/BCHZ_mk1wOo Strong winds lifted a vehicle off the ground in Goose Creek, South Carolina, on August 30, as local news reported that the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed a tornado had touched down in the area that day. Video recorded by Mason Stewart shows a vehicle being flipped into the air by a strong gust of wind, before crashing down onto another. Local news said that NWS officials confirmed a small, brief tornado touched down in Goose Creek on Wednesday. Goose Creek Police Chief LJ Roscoe told local news that “two people were transported to an area hospital with minor injuries.” The NWS issued a tornado watch for the area until Wednesday evening. Idalia weakened into a tropical storm on Wednesday evening, after moving into Georgia, the National Hurricane C...

http://youtu.be/1wtnkcZ7W54 A “sighting” of the Loch Ness Monster has resulted in photos being called the “most exciting ever” by those on the hunt for the fabled creature. The photos — which show a “serpent”-like animal with its body on the surface of the loch — were actually taken in 2018, but photographer Chie Kelly, 51, kept them to herself in fear of public ridicule. However, now that there’s a large ongoing search for the famed water beast — the largest Loch Ness hunt in 50 years — Kelly, a translator, was convinced to put the photos out into the world. She and her husband, Scott, were having lunch at the Dores Inn on the banks of the loch in Inverness, Scotland, on Aug. 13, 2018 when she started to take photos. “I was just taking pictures with my Canon camera of Scott and our d...

http://youtu.be/ZZy2TTSDqCs A 37-year-old Virginia mother was charged with indecency this week after police caught her naked with a missing 15-year-old boy — whose twin brother she is also accused of abusing. Ashleigh Watts was initially nabbed when cops came to her Chesapeake, Va., home in July looking for the teen and she asked them to wait outside while she put on a bra and let her dogs out. “Officers advised several minutes later that Watts returned to the door with her two dogs still in the residence, allowing them to enter,” court records obtained by Law & Crime state. “As officers removed the mattress in an upstairs bedroom, they were able to see a white male juvenile hiding in a small space that was only wearing boxer briefs. “When asked by officers if he was [the runaway ...

http://youtu.be/22ilmpcGdKs Newly released video eerily shows Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin bragging about surviving assassination attempts — further fueling conspiracies that the Russian warlord may still be alive. The footage was released on a Telegram channel linked to Prigozhin’s mercenary group on Wednesday — a week after he is understood to have died in a fiery plane crash. “For those who are discussing whether I’m alive or not, how I’m doing — right now it’s the weekend, second half of August 2023, I’m in Africa,” Prigozhin, 62, says in the clip released by the Wagner-linked Grey Zone Telegram channel. “So for people who like to discuss my liquidation or my private life, how much I earn or whatever else — everything’s OK,” he adds with a dismissive wave of his hand. Read ...

http://youtu.be/_yIISH52678 CNN’s newly appointed chairman Mark Thompson warned staffers at the ratings-challenged cable news outlet that the broadcast news industry was “approaching peak disruption” — as the rank and file moaned that “morale is in the sh-tter’ due to the turnover at the top. Thompson, the former New York Times and BBC boss who will take over CNN on Oct. 9, fired off a memo to the network’s 4,000-strong workforce on Wednesday in which he described the challenges facing the network. “We face pressure from every direction — structural, political, cultural, you name it,” he wrote in the memo, the contents of which were reported by the Financial Times. “Where others see threat, I see opportunity.” Thompson’s main challenge will be to boost the network’s sagging ratings, w...

http://youtu.be/RJks3m7XIB8 Survivors of the blaze which killed more than 70 people in Johannesburg on Thursday (August 31) described how they escaped the smoke filled apartment block. One man from Malawi, Omar Arafat, said he had lost his sister in the fire and told how his small niece was thrown from the building and caught by people outside. It is not clear if the child survived. Another man said the fire escape was closed and many died from the effects of smoke filling the building, which was occupied by homeless people, many thought to be migrants. The blaze killed at least 73 people and injured 43, the municipal government said, in one of South Africa's worst such tragedies in living memory. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/south-africas-building-fire-leaves-52-dead-au...

http://youtu.be/7YvzUzSXBbY Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro snapped at a protester and tried to snatch their “Trump lost” poster Wednesday after a federal judge rejected his bid to forestall a contempt of Congress trial. Navarro, 74, will face two counts starting Sept. 5 over his refusal to fulfill a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Wednesday that Navarro had failed to meet the burden of proof needed to demonstrate that executive privilege had been invoked to shield him from congressional subpoenas, allowing the trial to move forward. Executive privilege gives the president the right to keep certain communications confidential. Navarro claimed that Trump had invoked executive privilege an...

http://youtu.be/3gB99r3QVUU What do you do when in the eye of the hurricane? Go for a dip, of course. A Florida resident sparked waves of concern across the panhandle when she was filmed swimming through a flooded street during Hurricane Idalia. A video of her doing laps amid disaster has amassed over 1.3 million views on TikTok as viewers wondered if the activity was safe or even sanitary. “This was truly ‘the perfect storm,'” Lexi DeLeon, 23, told Jam Press of her mid-deluge dip, which occurred at 4:45 a.m. on Anna Maria Island in Manatee County. This came right before the Category 3 storm battered the panhandle, knocking out power lines, ripping roofs off houses and inundating entire neighborhoods with water. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/woman-swims-through-idalia-flo...

http://youtu.be/dzIyphyVnhw An 5-foot-tall murderer escaped from a Pennsylvania prison Thursday, just one week after getting a life sentence for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death, authorities said. The area within a six-mile radius of the Chester County Prison, outside Philadelphia, was put on high alert, as residents were warned that Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was on the loose and a serious danger to the public. “Danelo Cavalcante is considered an extremely dangerous man. We are asking for the public’s help in locating him,” Chester County DA Deb Ryan said in a statement. “Law enforcement is doing everything now to locate him.” It wasn’t immediately clear how he escaped. The Brazilian, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, was sentenced to life in prison without parole last week over the...

http://youtu.be/txnk9VEU6vM The average American employee hasn’t received a raise at their current job in the last three years. That’s according to a recent OnePoll survey of 2,000 American adults ahead of Labor Day. Although Labor Day’s core mission is to celebrate workers’ contributions to America, 46% out of the 1,859 employees polled said they feel “somewhat recognized” at work, while 8% said they don’t feel recognized at all. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/average-american-employee-hasnt-had-a-raise-in-3-years-poll/ #raise #employee #salary The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsp...

http://youtu.be/HfwJ9TwicXk Talk about a vacation this woman will never forget. A Maryland woman went viral on TikTok after revealing she was ghosted by a man who flew her out to Miami but initially she had “no idea why.” The woman named Chandler, 30, said the man packed up his stuff while she was asleep in a hotel room they shared and left for good, the Daily Mail reported. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/maryland-woman-says-man-ghosts-her-by-sneaking-out-hotel-room-after-flying-her-to-miami-for-just-their-second-date/ #ghosts #date #miami The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Ca...

http://youtu.be/z6BuNfoJYqA An irate American Airlines passenger allegedly got himself kicked off a flight after repeatedly complaining about a fellow traveler stashing too many bags in “his” overhead bin space, viral footage shows. The man, dressed in a yellow t-shirt with his hair in a top knot, was caught on camera repeatedly ranting that “there’s no space” after another passenger supposedly stored luggage above him and then took their seat. “This guy put his luggage up here, now we don’t have any space,” the enraged passenger could be heard saying in the video, which was posted on Reddit on Wednesday. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/man-fuming-about-overhead-bin-space-kicked-off-plane-after-threatening-flight-attendant-dont-point-at-me/ #overheadbin #kickedoffflight #b...

http://youtu.be/V8jLz2HzCJk A lioness grabbed a nature photographer’s GoPro camera and shot a wild selfie video while on the prowl in Kenya. The plucky party animal is shown sniffing the stick-mounted camera — which was set up in the hopes she would snatch it — before bolting off with it in her mouth at the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Footage features an up-close shot of the ferocious feline’s sharp teeth along with a quirky angle of her nose as she dashes through the bush-dotted landscape. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/lioness-grabs-gopro-camera-and-shoots-wild-selfie-video-in-kenya/ #lion #gopro #kenya The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscrib...

http://youtu.be/7STR_WkzxFQ A federal judge on Friday sentenced a member of the far-right Proud Boys who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed bid by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory, to 10 years in prison. Dominic Pezzola did not play a leadership role in the group and was the only defendant of five to be acquitted of seditious conspiracy. He was convicted of other felonies, including obstructing an official proceeding and assaulting police. “You personally played a significant role in the events that day,” U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said. “It was a national disgrace, what happened.” Kelly noted that Pezzola was a new member of the group and had been acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but als...

http://youtu.be/GD8g6RvvafE President Biden defended his GOP rival Mitch McConnell after the Senate leader once again froze up while answering questions from reporters — insisting that the bizarre episode is “part of his recovery” from a recent concussion. The president said McConnell’s “response” was not unusual when recovering from such an injury, and denied having any concerns about the 81-year-old’s ability to effectively lead the Senate. “I spoke to Mitch. He’s a friend and I spoke to him today,” Biden said when asked about McConnell’s health at a news conference on FEMA’s response to Hurricane Idalia. “And, you know, he was his old self on the telephone. “And one of the leading women on my staff, her husband’s a neurosurgeon as well,” he noted. “It’s not at all unusual to have th...

http://youtu.be/CN37uGcU9bI A team of hunters put those gator grabbers to shame after hauling a more than 900-pound “dinosaur” gator from a Florida lake, as seen in jaw-dropping videos and photos making waves online. “I had fear like I never felt before,” Kevin Grotz, an outdoorsman who runs the outfit Florida Gator Hunting, told Orlando station WESH 2 of corralling the huge beast. Weighing a whopping 920 pounds and measuring 13.3 feet long, the gatorzilla was the second largest specimen ever harvested in the state — with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds. The lifelong Floridian said he’d never “experienced anything like this” in his 20 years as a charter boat captain. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/hunters-bag-920-pound-dinosaur-alligator-i-thought-i-was-going-to-die/ #f...

http://youtu.be/SmvV7EG5tk0 Jimmy Buffett, the legendary musician and songwriter, died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones on Friday. He was 76 years old. Buffett, whose hits include “It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere” and “Trip Around the Sun,” earned his stripes as one of the most captivating names in music with a career that spanned 60 years. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/02/jimmy-buffett-legendary-margaritaville-singer-dead-at-76/ #jimmybuffett #musicians #celebritydeaths2023 The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post...

http://youtu.be/QITwqVn4h9E A brazen “porch pirate” took matters into his own hands — right from those of a stunned FedEx worker. Doorbell footage obtained by WRIC captured a man approaching a delivery driver as she walked toward a home in Chesterfield, Virginia, holding a package containing an iPad. At the last second, the bold bandit snatches the package right out of her hands and bolts off to his car — a white BMW, no less. The homeowner, Jessica Saenz, was working at home at the time of the shocking Thursday heist. “I was in a meeting and then the FedEx lady started knocking on my door like, really hard,” Saenz told the news outlet. “I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’” The worker then delivered the bad news about the Apple device. When Saenz checked the surveillance video, she saw the...

http://youtu.be/-S6yL4DcXpQ Stomach-churning video captured passengers aboard a flight to the Spanish island of Mallorca screaming as the plane rocked violently during a storm — with the woman who shot it saying she feels “born again” for surviving it. Estela Orts, 25, who stars as Captain Scarlet in the “Pirates Adventure Show” in Magaluf, was flying back to the island from Alicante, Spain, on Sunday when she captured the wild footage above the Balearics in the Mediterranean. “It was the first time in my life that it has ever crossed my mind to think ‘this is it,’” Orts said in an Instagram Story, according to a translation posted by Newsweek. “The plane started to fall. People and children screaming, being sick. I couldn’t help crying. I don’t know how long that moment lasted but it...

http://youtu.be/HhC_O7kmB1U Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a suspicious plane crash after his short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin, was buried in a private ceremony Tuesday, said his reps and Russian media. Remains identified by Moscow as those of the rogue warlord were buried next to his father in the Porokhovskoye cemetery in his hometown of St. Petersburg, according to his press service and Russian outlets. The quiet service for the 62-year-old was not attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is rumored to have been behind Wednesday’s apparent explosion that took down the private plane said to be carrying the rebel, six of his associates and three crew members. The Kremlin has denied responsibility for the aviation disaster, and Putin last week o...

http://youtu.be/9KVzHDO2dfY A routine elevator ride in China nearly turned deadly after a malfunctioning lift suddenly plummeted like a drop tower amusement park ride, injuring three passengers, as seen in a dramatic CCTV clip. “Everything was spinning. We were all thrown in the air before crashing onto the floor,” Li, one of the riders, told Newsflare while recounting the terrifying plunge. The heart-stopping incident occurred on Saturday, Aug. 26, while he and two other passengers boarded the lift in the city of Changsha in Hunan Province. Li, who lived on the 25th floor, recalled how the elevator “stopped while descending.” “It got stuck and wouldn’t budge,” explained the petrified passenger, who added that the lift started swaying upon reaching the fourth floor. Read more at http...

http://youtu.be/MnI3A_0jqPo A Florida father has been arrested in the choking death of his 2-month-old daughter after investigators concluded that he allegedly stuffed a wet wipe deep down the baby girl’s throat to muffle her crying — and then tried to blame it on her toddler sister. Joseph Napier, 30, of Vero Beach, Florida, was charged Friday with aggravated manslaughter of a child more than two years after the death of his daughter, Iris Noelle Napier. Officials said that Napier was the only person present in the house who could have shoved the napkin so far down the youngster’s throat, minutes after he was allegedly overheard by a relative yelling at the baby, “Why can’t you shut the f— up?!” On May 28, 2021, deputies with the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office rushed to Napier’s...

http://youtu.be/KopgfXdLhY0 The Biden administration on Tuesday (August 29) released its list of 10 prescription medicines that will be subject to the first-ever price negotiations by the U.S. Medicare health program that covers 66 million people, with big-selling blood thinner Eliquis from Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer among them. U.S President Joe Biden said in a statement that once implemented, the prices of negotiated drugs will decrease for up to 9 million seniors who currently pay as much as $6,497 in out-of-pocket costs per year for these prescriptions. Medicines on the list include Merck & Co's diabetes drug Januvia, Eliquis rival Xarelto from Johnson & Johnson, and AbbVie's leukemia treatment Imbruvica. Other drugs on the list include Amgen's rheumatoid arthritis dru...

http://youtu.be/ooEdsgXmgAk Hurricane Idalia was expected to bring “life-threatening storm surge and hurricane conditions” to parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday evening, August 29, and Wednesday, August 30, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The storm’s outer bands arrived in Florida’s southwest on Tuesday, bringing rough surf and strong winds. Florida Gov Ron DeSantis expanded a state of emergency on Monday morning to include a total of 46 counties. The storm has already brought heavy rainfall and flooding across portions of western Cuba, and there was still a danger of landslides in the country, according to the NHC. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/idalia-expected-to-hit-florida-as-major-category-3-hurricane/ #florida #hurricaneidalia #fortmyers The New Yo...

http://youtu.be/N4f34NHm9DI A Tennessee woman fatally shot a “scared” 4-year-old girl — then claimed to cops she was only trying to give the child a “gun safety lesson,” authorities say. The suspect had allegedly hit the tot with a sandal right before for failing to wake the woman up and eating food without permission. Breanna Runions, 25, was charged with murder and aggravated child abuse after allegedly pushing the loaded gun into little Evangaline Gunter’s chest and pulling the trigger at a home in Rockwood on Sunday, WBIR reported. Runions, who was not the child’s mother, initially tried claiming to officers that she’d taken the magazine out of her 9mm handgun in the moments before giving the so-called firearm lesson, according to the arrest affidavit. “Runions related that she th...

http://youtu.be/Nn9_e-9JXrU The Biden administration unveiled another $250 million aid package meant for Ukraine Tuesday as the eastern European nation’s counter-offensive against invading Russian forces grinds on. Materiel set to be dispatched to the war-torn country include AIM-9M missiles for air defense, 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition, munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), more than three million rounds of small arms ammunition, and ambulances, according to the State Department. “Russia started this war and could end it at any time by withdrawing its forces from Ukraine and stopping its brutal attacks,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “Until it does, the United States and our allies and partners will stand united with Ukraine, f...

http://youtu.be/S3csW_unNfk A major highway was flooded in Florida on Wednesday (August 30) as Hurricane Idalia neared the state. Traffic camera images showed the I-275 Interstate flooded northbound as waves washed over the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa. The highway connects Tampa to the nearby city of St Petersburg across the Tampa Bay. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/hurricane-idalia-makes-landfall-in-florida-as-category-4-storm/ #florida #hurricaneidalia #tampa The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Tw...

http://youtu.be/S7TXRKxDgWM Far-left presidential hopeful Cornel West slammed the Democratic Party on Tuesday as being “beyond redemption” due to its inability to meet the “needs of poor people and working people.” The 70-year-old Green Party candidate was asked in an interview with The Hill’s Rising about his longtime colleague Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of President Joe Biden, claiming he is the only candidate who can “preserve American democracy” as Donald Trump runs for a second time. “I think that Brother Bernie’s being consistent,” West replied. “You know, he said that all along and I can understand the argument. “I think it’s a plausible argument,” he explained. “I just don’t think it’s a persuasive one.” “I think that the argument he’s making means that there’s never any pos...