Thursday, September 2 top stories
Hello, it is Thursday, September 2. Here are today’s top stories.
At least 19 people died in New York City, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
News reports say there was intense rain that caused flooding in many areas with tornadoes touching down in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
New York City suspended most of its train service. Hundreds of people needed water rescues.
Eight people in the New York City area died when they became trapped in flooded basements and drowned. Four people in an apartment complex in New Jersey died in the same way, from being trapped in a flooded home. The other deaths were due to motorists being trapped in their cars in floodwaters or from falling trees.
A CNN weather reporter said they expected bad weather from Ida, but they didn’t expect for New York City to be underwater. The reporter said it was not the total amount of rainfall, but the amount of rainfall that came in a small time frame, which overwhelmed many areas’ storm drainage systems.
Pictures and videos on social media showed very scary images of rushing water pouring through subway stations, apartments filled with three feet of water, and highways full of water.
On Wednesday, a high school student named William Miller Jr. died when he was shot at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The school was placed on lockdown with a manhunt for the suspect. Police were able to arrest the suspect, also a high school student, on Wednesday evening. The suspect was not identified.
No other students were injured in the shooting, but one student had a seizure during the incident.
A 24-year-old woman from Illinois named Chloe Mrozak was arrested in Honolulu and charged with falsifying her vaccination documents.
An image of her mugshot and her vaccination card shows that the Moderna vaccine was misspelled as “Maderna” and that she received the shots in Delaware at a location called “NRA.”
WSVN News said it seems like Chloe used a fake vaccination card in an attempt to avoid Hawaii’s mandatory 10-day quarantine.
CBS Chicago explained that Chloe was allowed through the Honolulu airport upon arrival, but her vaccination card was flagged as suspicious. When Hawaiian authorities contacted Delaware officials, they found that there was no vaccination record with Chloe’s name. Authorities attempted to contact Chloe during her vacation, but did not get a response.
She was arrested when she returned to the airport for her flight home. She faces a fine of up to $5,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
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Texas has a new law that allows people to carry a handgun in public. The state previously required handgun carriers to pass a training to get a permit, but that’s no longer required.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed the new law over the summer and it went into effect yesterday.
NPR explained that Texas was already allowed to carry rifles in public without a license. But to carry handguns, people had to get fingerprinted, undergo four to six hours of training, pass a written exam, and pass a shooting proficiency test.
Gun advocates said the previous requirements were an unfair burden on gun owners. Critics say it will make Texas less safe and cause an increase in gun violence and deaths.
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Wednesday night to allow Texas to keep its new ban on abortions after six weeks or when a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The law also allows private citizens to sue anyone involved with helping someone to get an abortion after six weeks with an award of up to $10,000.
There was an emergency appeal from medical abortion providers and advocacy organizations that sought to block the law, but the Supreme Court voted it down.
Fox News pointed out that the 5-4 vote “underscores the impact of the death of the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last year and then-president Donald Trump’s replacement of her with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Had Ginsburg remained on the court there would have been five votes to halt the Texas law.”
The World Health Organization said it is tracking a new Covid-19 variant called “Mu.” It was first detected in Colombia and has spread to 39 countries. WHO said it is concerned that the variant could get around people’s immune systems they developed from vaccines or prior Covid-19 infections. There have already been almost 2,000 cases of the Mu variant detected in the U.S. It’s something to look out for in the next few weeks as the Delta variant continues to drive up Covid-19 infections and deaths in the U.S.
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/09/01/chloe-mrozak-fake-vaccine-card-hawaii/
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ida-aftermath-09-02-21/index.html
https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/woman-traveling-to-hawaii-arrested-for-fake-maderna-vaccination-card/
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033606817/texas-gun-law-permitless-carry-constitutional-carry
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-high-school-shooting-mount-tabor-student-killed/
https://news.yahoo.com/tracking-covid-19-variant-called-042213983.html