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When the missiles are flying in your direction, what is a parent supposed to do?
“What I’m dealing with, especially with my kids, is fear, a lot of fear,” said Gila Yogev-Keren, who lives with her family in Beersheba, Israel, a city within missile range of the Gaza Strip.
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Yogev-Keren says the air raid sirens are constantly going off, and dozens of rockets landed in Beersheba last night.
“You don’t wanna know,” she said when I asked how nerve-wracking this experience is for her family. “We have a sheltered room in our house, so what we’re doing is throughout the day, we run, if something happens we go to the shelter room, but at night, we put mattresses and stuff and try to spend the night there.”
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No. 1 - While Florida has declared a state of emergency amid concerns of gas shortages and price hikes after a cyberattack on a critical U.S. fuel pipeline, a spokesperson for AAA says the state has enough fuel to avoid panic.
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In a news release Wednesday, AAA says the state is not heavily reliant on the Colonial Pipeline. Around 90% of Florida’s gasoline comes through ports, including Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, on cargo ships. In Miami-Dade County, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and other county officials emphasized in a news conference Wednesday that the county does not get its fuel supply from the Colonial Pipeline. The Colonial Pipeline shut down Friday after a ransomware attack by a gang of criminal hackers that calls itself DarkSide. The 5,500-mile pipeline runs from Houston to Linden, New Jersey, and delivers about 45% of the fuel used