A flash fire in the duct work of the building forced everyone to evacuate and sent three people to the hospital, one in serious condition. Construction workers were among the few people in that building because it is a holiday weekend. Investigators are still trying to figure out the source of a gas explosion that damaged more than 40 buildings in springfield, massachusetts, last night. A wwlp camera captured the moment of the blast. 18 people were injured, mostly emergency workers. They had been called to the scene because of reports of a gas smell. They had evacuated some of the area about an hour before that explosion. Superstorm sandy has now cost new jersey the tab is at 29 billion and the number is expected to rise. Governor Chris Christies office says the final total will only be known after taking into account things like next summers tourist season. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he will ask the federal government for 30 billion to help with his states recovery. Weve got
What you wish for. Get red for serious heart of darkness [ bleep ]. Heart of darkness . Oh, yes. A strange tale about a gazillion air named john mcafee when the Silicon Valley started making millionaires by the dozen and greg faull, a man who earned his money the oldfashioned way with bricks and mortar as a contractor in florida. Two americans from opposite ends of the country, so different, and yet their paths crossed purely by chance here on this little strip of paradise, this baking powder beach in the south American Country of belize. One would lose his life here. The other, some say, lost his mind. Do you think i want everybody going mcafees insane . Hes lost his mind . Do you think i like that . Do you think that helps me . Of course, it was all over the name. The global game of hide and seek with john mcafee has riveted the country. John mcafee says he will not turn himself into police. The story about murder in the tropics and the eccentric millionaire who went into hiding clai
As we pass 80,000 deaths from covid19, several states are going full steam ahead with their plans to reopen and even epicenters like new york state with phase iing in their initia returns to normal ahead of summer. Of course weve had two months to get a handle on the Public Health and Even Economic implications of this pandemic but as weve seen in our state houses and our streets, its the social ramifications of this crisis that reveal themselves daily. With armed protestors almost uniformly white shutting down public businesses without fear and public hearings and legislative places and often without masks. While black and brown citizens have been on the receiving end of enhanced Police Response to this crisis. This week, mayor depla blasio announced residents would no longer be required to wear masks in public unless quote a serious danger was represented, this after his department has come under fire over rational bias and social distancing environment. Photos and videos visualizing
90,000. Of course these states are reopening to a changed america with changed assumptions about our way of life. And that truth is at the heart of the wrath were seeing for many conservatives protesting shutdown orders nationwide, but most evok tifl in michigan where this week the peoples business had to be shut down due to the threatening behavior of these protesters who have chosen as simples of resistance assault weapons and its not the economic destitution that has left more than 36 million americans out of work in just two months. Thats likely because the groups getting hit hardest a black and brown americans, facing either joblessness or lifelessness if they do their jobin addition to the business as usual discrimination and disproportionate policing and, as i and others predicted, President Trump with his play book for the november election now shredded by the economic carnage has reverted to attacks against president obama and pieinthesky promises of vaccine for just in time o
Weekend of holiday golf, the nation remains on pace to reach 100,000 domestic deaths as a result of the covid19 pandemic. Not to mention, the economic carnage of reopen nation is supposed to fix. This pandemic has certainly been transformative, even if all of the ripple effects are yet to be fully realized, but the impact on our electoral system is intangible. The Washington Post reporting saturday nearly 30 states have opted voting rules in response to this pandemic. Laying the foundation for largescale voting by mail in a way never seen before. This, of course, has wrinkled President Trump who is not only attack mailin voting, but also those democratcontrolled states that have expanded all slated to expand the practice ahead of november. This morning, he even took time away from his golfing weekend to tweet, quote. Adding that proponents will, quote, trying to use covid for this scam. Joining me now on the phone is chairmanwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, representative karen