Environmental News For The Week Ending 16January 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Summary:
New US Covid infections for the week ending January 16th were 8.5% below those of the week ending January 9th, so it appears that the incidence of new cases mat have peaked and is turning down, at least for the time being. One caveat to that, though, is that we don t know how many of the prior week s cases were from reports that had been delayed over the holidays. For a check on that, we can compare new cases from the week ending January 16th to those from the week ending December 19th, two weeks which sh
even though it s after 5:00 in the morning want fox 5 s laura evans begins morning. fox 5 s laura evans begins our coverage on this historic day. crowds have been chanting egypt is free for hours now dancing in the street and shooting off fireworks. it is truly an astonishing end to a peaceful revolution. what began as a protest 18 days ago became a historic celebration today. tens of thousands in cairo s main square cheering the resignation of now former egyptian president hosni mubarak. his decision to step down announced on state tv by vice president omar suleiman. president hosni mubarak has decided to leave his position as president of the republic. the news comes one day after mubarak transferred most of his power to the vice president which did not satisfy the protesters. today mubarak complied transferring power instead to the military council. egyptians around the world joined the chorus of cheers from their homeland. in beirut they set off fireworks singing
the frost or freeze. overnight clear skies. cold. a freeze north and west. a frost district south and east. lows 28-38. winds light northeasterly at about 5-10. we will come back. we will talk about your wakeup weather and your detailed election forecast. anita. all right. and speaking of which tonight if the polls hold true republicans are set to take over the house of representatives while democrats are trying to hang on to the senate. but locally the issues are just as intense and divisive. one of the biggest and most confusing, ambulance fees in montgomery county. this issue is not only pitting firefighters against each other it s also culminated in a lawsuit alleging voter intimidation. brittany morehouse explains. reporter: paying for the sirens doesn t come cheap in the county budget isn t looking pretty. two bottom line regions county leaders point to when asking voters to say yes to question a. short of money, there is none left. this is a revenue stream.
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