Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Wake-Up Call: Quake Rescuers Running Short On Time

Rescuers worked through the night to rescue people clinging to life beneath the rubble eight days after Turkey's worst earthquake in modern history but hopes of finding many more survivors were fading on Tuesday. A boy and a man were rescued in hard-hit Kahramanmaras early on Tuesday, 198 hours after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Feb. 6.  A young girl was pulled from the rubble of a building in Turkey on Monday, a week after devastating earthquakes and aftershocks struck the region. The child, named Miray, who was found in Adıyaman, was carried away by rescue workers on a stretcher, video from the scene showed. Government officials said the girl was four years old, but media reports later said she was six years old.

Elsewhere in Kahramanmaras, rescuers were attempting to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter, all from one family, who appeared to have survived the quake and aftershock that killed more than 37,000 in Turkey and Syria.

  • Death toll 31,643 in Turkey, more than 5,700 in Syria
  • At least eight people reported rescued on Monday
  • Rescue phase 'coming to a close', says U.N. in Syria
  • Syria's Assad agrees to more border crossings for aid

➤TWH SHORT ON BALLOON DETAILS: The United States said on Monday it still did not know the origin or purpose of three aerial objects that its military shot down over the weekend, as Washington and Beijing traded accusations about high-altitude balloons. While American and Canadian officials struggled to explain the presence of the objects, a White House spokesperson stressed that there was no reason to believe that they were anything other than human-made. "There is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. The saga began with a suspected Chinese spy balloon that drifted across the United States and was shot down by the U.S. military off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 4. Since then, U.S. fighter jets have downed three more mysterious objects over North American airspace starting on Friday.



MSU Gunman
➤GUNMAN KILLS 3 EPOPLE AT MSU: A gunman opened fire Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three people and wounding five more, before fatally shooting himself miles away amid an hours long manhunt that forced frightened students to hide in the dark. Police announced the man’s death early Tuesday, four hours after shootings broke out, first at Berkey Hall, an academic building, and then nearby at the MSU Union, a popular hub to eat or study. “This truly has been a nightmare we’re living tonight,” said Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the campus police department. Hundreds of officers had scoured the East Lansing campus, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit, for the suspect, whom police described as a short Black man with red shoes, a jean jacket and ball cap.

Daily Mail Composite 2/14/23

UKRAINE CLAIMS HUGE RUSSIAN LOSES:  It reports many  enemy troops have been killed, wounded and captured in Putin's failed attempts to seize the Donetsk hamlet of Vuhledar. They say that one marine brigade of 5,000 men was almost entirely destroyed, for the third time since the Kremlin launched the full-scale invasion nearly a year ago. The carnage - and loss of at least 130 armored vehicles - led Russian hardliners to call for public show trials to punish incompetent generals responsible for the repeated battlefield massacres of their soldiers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's war has set off a historic exodus of his own people. Initial data shows that at least 500,000, and perhaps nearly 1 million, have left in the year since the invasion began — a tidal wave on scale with emigration following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Now, as then, the departures stand to redefine the country for generations. And the flood may still be in its early stages. The war seems nowhere near finished. Any new conscription effort by the Kremlin will spark new departures, as will worsening economic conditions, which are expected as the conflict drags on.


➤RAIL ACCIDENT RATTLES OHIO: Residents evacuated from an Ohio village where a freight train derailed before huge clouds of toxic gasses were released fear they could still be in danger nearly two weeks later. About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash in East Palestine at about 9pm on Friday, February 3. Houses were evacuated after vinyl chloride was slowly released from five of those cars. Authorities then ignited the gases for a 'controlled release' of the highly flammable, toxic chemicals in a controlled environment, creating a dark plume of smoke. East Palestine resident Melissa Henry said her youngest son's 'eyes turned red as tomato and he was coughing a lot' before the family evacuated to her parents' house outside the evacuation zone. Another resident in North Lima, roughly ten miles from the train derailment, had her six chickens die days after the chemical fire started.

➤PLANE DISASTER AVERTED: A United Airlines flight dove 1,400 feet in under a minute shortly after taking off from Hawaii — and came within just 775 feet of the Pacific Ocean en route to San Francisco. Flight 1722 took off from Kahului Airport in Maui at 2:49 p.m. Dec. 18 during stormy weather and reached an altitude of about 2,200 feet before taking the terrifying plunge, the Air Current reported, citing data from FlightRadar24. No one was injured during the incident, which has not been previously reported. The Boeing 777-200 reached a descent rate of almost 8,600 feet per minute before the crew regained control when the plane was a mere 775 feet above the water, according to the outlet.

➤TEEN GIRLS EXPERIENCING RECORD LEVELS OF SADNESS AND SUICIDE RISK, CDC SAYS: According to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 60% of high school girls in the U.S. reported experiencing persistent sadness or hopelessness in 2021, marking a 60% increase in the past decade. Both boys and girls reported mental health challenges, but girls experienced record-high levels of sexual violence, sadness, and suicide risk. In 2021, 57% of high school girls reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the previous year, compared to 36% in 2011. Additionally, 30% reported seriously considering attempting suicide in 2021, up from 19% in 2011.

✞FORMER CHILD ACTOR AUSTIN MAJORS DIES AT 27: Austin Majors, the former child actor who played Theo Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, was found dead at a homeless facility on Saturday (February 11th). He was 27 years old. While his cause of death is not yet known, the outlet reports that a fentanyl overdose is suspected. Majors’ family confirmed the news on Monday (February 13th) and said in a statement that he was “a loving, artistic, brilliant, and kind human being.”


🎥ACADEMY PRESIDENT SAYS RESPONSE TO OSCARS SLAP WAS ‘INADEQUATE:’ Deadline reports that at the annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon Monday (February 13th), the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Janet Yang, called the Academy’s response to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars “inadequate.” She told nominees, “I’m sure you all remember we experienced an unprecedented event at the Oscars. What happened onstage was fully unacceptable, and the response from our organization was inadequate. We learned from this that the Academy must be fully transparent and accountable in our actions, and particularly in times of crisis you must act swiftly, compassionately and decisively for ourselves and for our industry. You should and can expect no less from us going forward.”




📺SUPER BOWL LVII THIRD-MOST WATCHED WITH 113 MILLION VIEWERS: Sunday's Super Bowl LVII was the third most-watched television show in history, with an estimated 113 million people watching the Kansas City Chiefs rally to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles.  The 2015 game between New England and Seattle on NBC holds the record (114,442,000) followed by Super Bowl 48 in 2014 on Fox between Seattle and Denver (112,191,000).

⚾EXTRA-INNING, EXTRA-RUNNER RULE TO REMAIN: Major League Baseball is making it permanent: In all regular-season extra-inning games, a runner will be placed on second base to begin the 10th inning, and in every subsequent extra inning after that, until a winner is determined, according to a source familiar with the situation. Commissioner Rob Manfred intimated all winter that the rule would return in 2023, and the joint competition committee has now voted unanimously to adopt the rule that has been in place for the past three seasons.

✞WASHINGTON NATIONALS OWNER TED LERNER DIES AT 97: Ted Lerner, the billionaire real estate developer whose family bought the Washington Nationals in 2006, has died, the team announced Monday. He was 97. Lerner died Sunday of complications from pneumonia at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Lerner's group purchased the Nationals from Major League Baseball in 2006 for $450 million after the team was moved to the U.S. capital from Montreal. He was managing principal owner until ceding that role to son in 2018.

⚾DEREK JETER SET TO JOIN FOX SPORTS IN STUDIO THIS MLB SEASON: Fox Sports announced Sunday during its Super Bowl pregame show that Derek Jeter will be part of the network's studio coverage for the coming season. Alex Rodriguez hugged Jeter as he came on stage and presented him with a Fox Sports baseball jersey. Jeter, who was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 2020, also joins fellow Hall of Famer David Ortiz and host Kevin Burkhardt as part of the studio team.

⚾NEW YORK YANKEES LHP NESTOR CORTES TO MISS WBC WITH HAMSTRING INJURY: New York Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes will miss next month's World Baseball Classic because of a strained right hamstring but hasn't ruled out being ready for the start of the regular season. Colorado Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland replaced Cortes on the United States roster.

🏀NBA SCORES:
  • Minnesota Timberwolves 124 Dallas Mavericks 121
  • New Orleans Pelicans 103 Oklahoma City Thunder 100
  • Orlando Magic 100 Chicago Bulls 91
  • New York Knicks 124 Brooklyn Nets 106
  • Denver Nuggets 112 Miami Heat 108
  • Philadelphia 76ers 123Houston Rockets 104
  • Utah Jazz 123 Indiana Pacers 117
  • Cleveland Cavs 117 San Antonio Spurs 109
  • Charlotte Hornet 144 Atlanta Hawks 138
  • Portland Trailblazker 127 Los Angeles Lakers 115
  • Golden State Warriors 135 Washington Wizards 126


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