Monday, September 25 top stories
Here are Monday, September 25 top stories.
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1.1 Hurricane Ian tracks toward Florida
Hurricane Ian, which is located south of Cuba, became a hurricane this morning. It currently has sustained wind speeds of 80 mph and is expected to intensify into a Category 2 or 3 storm by tonight.
Forecast paths say Ian could hit western Cuba on Tuesday morning before moving up to Florida’s west coast with the potential to make landfall in the Tampa area between Wednesday and Thursday as a very dangerous Category 4 hurricane.
Schools in the Tampa area and other areas in southwest Florida are closing down for the week. Many Florida officials are urging residents to start preparing now for a big storm and power blackouts. 7,000 National Guard soldiers have been activated to assist with the storm response.
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2.1 Texas girl allegedly shot father, herself in murder pact
Police in the Fort Worth, Texas area said a 12-year-old girl — who made a pact with another girl to kill their families and pets — shot her father in the torso and fled the home before shooting herself in the head.
Both the girl and her father were taken to hospitals. It is not known their condition.
NBC News explained that the “friend” of the 12-year-old, the one who went into a murder pact with her, planned to murder her father but did not go through with it. That girl lives over 200 miles away in Lufkin. She was charged with criminal conspiracy.
Police said the girls planned to run away together to Georgia after carrying out the murders.
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3.1 Colorado suspect left in police SUV hit by train
Police officers in Fort Lupton, Colorado pulled over a 20-year-old woman suspected of road rage with a firearm, handcuffed her, and put her in a police SUV that was parked right in the middle of train tracks.
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Body camera video showed that as officers searched through the woman’s pick-up truck for a firearm, a train appeared from the distance and then proceeded to ram into the police SUV, shoving it off into a field.
The suspect, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, was seriously injured and lost consciousness. She woke up at a hospital and she is expected to survive. She has broken teeth, a broken arm, and nine broken ribs.
Her attorney said when she was handcuffed in the SUV, she saw the train coming, was screaming, and tried to get out of the SUV, but couldn’t do anything.
The police officer who parked the SUV is now on administrative leave pending an investigation.
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Marathon champion breaks his own world record
On Sunday, the world’s fastest marathon runner, Eliud Kipchoge — a Kenyan — broke his own men’s marathon world record by 30 seconds during a race in Berlin.
Kipchoge is 37 years old. He said after the race that his legs and body still feel young, and his mind also feels fresh and young.
Fiona causes severe damage to Canada’s Atlantic coast
On Friday, Hurricane Fiona weakened to a post-tropical cyclone before it made landfall on the southern coast of Newfoundland, but the storm was powerful enough to cause huge waves and hurricane-strength winds. Multiple homes and structures were washed into the sea.
The city of Channel-Port Aux Basques was one of the hardest-hit areas. The body of a 73-year-old woman was found in the water. Authorities said she was in a home that was struck by a wave that tore away a portion of the basement. Another woman was rescued after she was thrown into the ocean after her home collapsed.
There was also damage to Canada’s provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Russia school shooting
Today in the western Russian city of Izhevsk, a gunman who wore clothing with Nazi symbols on it carried out a mass shooting at a school, killing 11 children and four adults — two security guards and two teachers.
The gunman committed suicide after the massacre. Russian officials said the gunman was an alumnus of the school.
CNN said this is at least the third school shooting in Russia or territory controlled by the country in the past two years.
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hurricane-ian-update-today-09-26-22/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/24/us/colorado-police-car-train-bodycam-footage/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/63025365
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/25/1124986817/eliud-kipchoge-world-record-berlin-marathon
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/24/weather/hurricane-fiona-canada-saturday/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/europe/izhevsk-school-shooting-russia-intl/index.html