Its thursday, december 5th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. [ siren ] brnk. The house is moving forward with articles of impeachment. He leaves us no choice because he is trying to corrupt the election once again. A sailor open shooting at a navel yard. Melania trump firing back at a back at someone who mentioned trumps son, barron. It makes you look mean. It makes you look like youre attacking someones family. A volu after a Chemical Plant fire. Elevated levels of butadiene. Joe biden said he would consider Kamala Harris as a running mate. This one day after she dropped out of the race. George zimmerman zieled a 100 million suit against Trayvon Martins parents. The suit says he was defamed. Reporter more people have gotten sick from the e. Coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. There have been more than 100 cases. All that this is not a stunt. It went airborne over a dozen of cars at a florida dealership. Unbelievable. And all that matters hes twofaced. The
Jonathan vigliotti is there. Reporter romaine lettuce from salinas, california is once again being investigated as a possible source of an e. Coli growth break. Eight people have fallen ill, one of them suffering kidney failure. The centers for Disease Control and prevention is still investigating what exactly in Fresh Express sunflower crisp chopped salad kits is the source of the e. Coli, but it does contain romaine lettuce, which was contaminated with e. Coli in a large outbreak earlier this year caused by a different strain. Health policy expert says contaminated water containing animal feces often carries the bacteria. Lettuce is probably more vulnerable to contamination in part because it kind of has a lot of nooks and crannies. As an industry, we know we have to do more. Reporter Christopher Velez is president of a trade Group Representing romaine growers and shippers in salinas. He agrees with the cdc to avoid the Fresh Express product and clean areas where it was stored. As a
Resurrecting a tree species is not for the impatient.It’s been more than two decades since I first encountered efforts in New Hampshire to bring back the American chestnut, a magnificent tree that filled Appalachian forests until a blight wiped it out.
New orchard of chestnut trees begins on Cherokee territory
CLARISSA DONNELLY-DEROVEN, Asheville Citizen Times
May 23, 2021
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Imagine waking up 150 years ago, opening your window and looking out onto the Southern Appalachians. Within view would be any one of the billions of American chestnut trees that once covered the landscape. Places that are now considered coal country were chestnut country.
Today, not so much. The tree is considered functionally extinct, thanks to a fungus imported in on a tree from Japan in the late 1800s. The airborne fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, flings its spores onto the American chestnut until its bark develops sickly looking blisters that soon spread throughout its body, destroying the tree’s ability to grow tall enough to reproduce.