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Barry’s flood
threat lingers as storm slowly sweeps
inland
Delilah
Campbell, 4, clears out driftwood
and other debris in preparation of
Tropical Storm Barry near New
Orleans, La., Thursday, July 11,
2019. The area is normally a
driveway at her family's home that
is one of the few on land called
batture on the outside of the
Mississippi River levee at the
border of Orleans and Jefferson
Parishes. The family removes the
debris to prevent hearing clanging
against the foundation pilings of
the raised home. (AP Photo/Matthew
Hinton)
Tropical Depression
Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland
through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing
New Orleans from a direct hit but stoking
fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes, and
prolonged power outages.
Though the system
was downgraded to a tropical depression
Sunday afternoon and its winds were steadily
weakening since it made landfall Saturday in
Louisiana, Barry’s rain bands created a
flooding and tornado threat stretching from
central Louisiana to eastern Mississippi and
beyond. Several Louisiana parishes were
under flash-flood warnings Sunday night.
Far from the
storm’s center, tornado warnings were issued
Sunday morning in both states, though no
serious damage or injuries were reported.
On Sunday evening,
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said he was
“extremely grateful” that Barry had not
caused the disastrous floods that had
earlier been forecast.
“This was a storm
that obviously could have played out very,
very differently,” he said. “We’re thankful
that the worst-case scenario did not
happen.”
President Donald
Trump asked people across the region to keep
their guard up, saying on Twitter Sunday: “A
big risk of major flooding in large parts of
Louisiana and all across the Gulf Coast.
Please be very careful!”
Forecasters warned
of a continued threat of heavy rains into
Monday as the center of the storm trudged
inland. The U.S. National Hurricane Center
said Sunday parts of south-central Louisiana
could still have rainfall totals of up to 12
inches (30 centimeters), with isolated
pockets of 15 inches (38 centimeters).
“This rainfall is
expected to lead to dangerous,
life-threatening flooding,” forecasters
wrote in an advisory Sunday.
In Mississippi,
forecasters said 8 inches (20 centimeters)
of rain had fallen in parts of Jasper and
Jones counties, with several more inches
possible. With torrential rain pounding the
state’s Interstate 59 corridor, only the
headlights of oncoming cars were visible on
the highway, and water flowed like a creek
in the median.
Barry’s center
continued to move through northern Louisiana
into Arkansas. The system, which had briefly
become a Category 1 hurricane, had its
maximum winds fall to 35 mph (56 kph).
New Orleans Mayor
LaToya Cantrell said Sunday the city was
“beyond lucky” that rainfall there fell well
short of early predictions of a deluge that
could overwhelm the city’s pumping systems.
“We were spared,”
she said at a news conference, while noting
the city was ready to help nearby parishes
hit harder.
In a sign that the
city was returning to normal, flights were
resuming Sunday at its airport. Restaurants
reopened, and people were retrieving their
cars from medians and other high ground.
About 60,000
customers in Louisiana, 3,300 customers in
Mississippi and another 1,200 customers in
Arkansas were without power Sunday evening,
according to poweroutage.us.
Carrie Cuchens, who
lost power at her home southeast of
Lafayette, said crews were out working to
remove trees that fell on power lines.
Forecasters say the area, where several
parishes were under a flash flood warning,
could see 2 inches (5 centimeters) of
additional rain on Sunday. Though some yards
had pooling water, Cuchens didn’t think her
or her neighbors’ homes would flood.
“There’s certainly
water, certainly a lot of water, and as it
continues to rain there’s always that
concern,” she said.
Another worry is
that large trees could topple because of the
saturated ground.
“If this rain sits
on top of us, the ground of course now is
already saturated,” she said. “The roots are
so saturated that if any wind, or any kind
of shift happens, they’re easier to come up
out of the ground. It’s not snapping limbs –
it’s the whole entire tree. We have
100-year-old trees back here.”
To the southeast in
Morgan City, Lois and Steve Bergeron spent
Sunday cleaning up their lawn, which was
littered with debris from trees. They were
grateful the damage wasn’t worse.
“At least it didn’t
hit our house,” she said.
And in Mandeville,
north of New Orleans along Lake
Pontchartrain, Michael Forbes was also
picking up limbs and other debris at his
home as a drizzle fell. Water got under his
house, which is on stilts, but there was no
damage and the power never went off.
“I’ll take this any
day over something like Katrina,” he said
Sunday. “This will clear out, we’ll clean up
and we’ll go on.”
Date/time:
August 4th, 8:00am to August 9th, 5:00pm
R. Kelly
reportedly
paid
thousands
for the
return
of sex
tapes
missing
from his
collection
In
this
Wednesday,
March
6,
2019
booking
photo
released
by
the
Cook
County
Sheriff’s
Office
is
R.
Kelly.
A
Cook
County
Sheriff's
Office
official
says
singer
Kelly
won't
be
released
from
jail
until
he
pays
$161,000
in
back
child
support
he
owes.
Sheriff's
office
spokeswoman
Sophia
Ansari
says
Kelly
was
taken
into
custody
Wednesday
during
a
hearing
over
the
child
support
and
that
his
next
hearing
is
scheduled
for
next
Wednesday,
March
13.
(Cook
County
Sheriff’s
Office
via
AP)
Following R.
Kelly’s arrest
on federal
charges of
sex
trafficking
comes word
that he paid
thousands of
dollars to
recover
videotapes
of himself
having sex
with teenage
girls.
Kelly was
arrested in
Chicago and
is expected
to remain in
custody
until
Tuesday.
As
previously
reported by TheGrio,
the
embattled
singer is
facing two
separate
federal
grand jury
indictments
in Illinois
and New
York. The
U.S.
attorney
spokesman Joseph
Fitzpatrick has told
the Associated
Pressthat
the 13-count
indictment
includes
charges of
child
pornography,
enticement
of a minor
and
obstruction
of justice.
Kelly is
accused of
recruiting
young women
for sex and
allegedly
convinced
folks on his
team to
conceal his
sexual
encounters
with teens.
He
reportedly
spent
hundreds of
thousands of
dollars
buying back
several
missing
explicit
videotapes
of his
alleged
victims.
Prosecutors
say Kelly
videotaped
himself
having sex
with at
least four
girls under
the age of
18 beginning
in 1998.
Years later,
when the R&B
hitmaker
discovered
some of the
tapes were
missing from
his
“collection,”
he began
paying
“hundreds of
thousands of
dollars” to
several
people to
recover
them, the
indictment
says.
Kelly then
directed
those same
people to
take
polygraph
tests to
confirm that
they had
returned all
copies of
the tapes.
The Illinois
indictment
has charged
Kelly with
“one count
of
conspiracy
to receive
child
pornography,
two counts
of receiving
child
pornography,
four counts
of producing
child
pornography,
five counts
of
enticement
of a minor
to engage in
criminal
sexual
activity,
and one
count of
conspiracy
to obstruct
justice,”
reports CNN.
The
New York
indictment
accuses him
of sexual
exploitation
of a child,
kidnapping,
forced labor
and
trafficking
women and
girls from
1999 to the
present.
Date/time: August
2nd, 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Venue: Cynthia
Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Address: 2005 Lake
Robbins Dr, The Woodlands, Texas, 77380
Stop chasing
happiness
“An old man lived in the village. The whole
village was tired of him; he was always gloomy,
he constantly complained and was always in a bad
mood. The longer he lived, the viler he became
and more poisonous were his words. People did
their best to avoid him because his misfortune
was contagious. He created the feeling of
unhappiness in others.
But one day, when he turned eighty, an
incredible thing happened. Instantly everyone
started hearing the rumor: ‘The old man is happy
today, he doesn’t complain about
anything, smiles, and even his face is freshened
up.’
The whole village gathered around the man
and asked him, “What happened to you?”
The old man replied, ‘Nothing special.
Eighty years I’ve been chasing happiness and it
was useless. And then I decided to live without
happiness and just enjoy life. That’s why I’m
happy now.'”
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Russell Westbrook trade launches Rockets back into championship contention
Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook (0) and Houston Rockets' James Harden (13) talk on the court immediately after an NBA basketball game in Houston, Sunday, March 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
Reuniting former MVPs James Harden and Russell Westbrook launches the Houston Rockets right back into championship contention in the NBA. That’s according to sportswriter and regular Houston Matters contributor Jeff Balke.
He says the move still leaves a lot of questions about how the two stars will play together — although they’ve done so before. Harden and Westbrook spent three seasons together from 2009 to 2012 playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
News broke Thursday night that the star point guard was traded to the Rockets from the Thunder in exchange for Chris Paul and several draft picks.
Russell Westbrook and James Harden playing against each other in 2017.
The move is the latest in an offseason featuring numerous big names changing teams. And it’s the latest splashy offseason move by Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, who has a reputation for going after top talent to keep the Rockets competitive in the NBA’s tough Western Conference.
Date/time:
August 23rd, 7:00pm to
11:00pm
Venue:
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion
Address:
2005 Lake Robbins Dr, The
Woodlands, Texas, 77380
Leave the US, Trump
tells liberal
congresswomen of color
Starkly injecting race into
his criticism of liberal
Democrats, President Donald
Trump said Sunday that four
congresswomen of color
should go back to the
“broken and crime infested”
countries they came from,
ignoring the fact that all
of the women are American
citizens and three were born
in the U.S. His attack drew
a searing condemnation from
Democrats who labeled the
remarks racist and
breathtakingly divisive.
Following a familiar script,
Republicans remained largely
silent after Trump’s morning
broadsides against the four
women. But the president’s
nativist tweets caused
Democrats to set aside their
internal rifts to rise up in
a united chorus against the
president.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
said Trump wants to “make
America white again.” Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of
New York, after jousting for
days with Pelosi, said Trump
“can’t conceive of an
America that includes us.”
Trump, who has a long
history of making racist
remarks, was almost
certainly referring to
Ocasio-Cortez and her House
allies in what’s become
known as “the squad.” The
others are Reps. Ilhan Omar
of Minnesota, Ayanna
Pressley of Massachusetts
and Rashida Tlaib of
Michigan. Only Omar, from
Somalia, is foreign-born.
Ocasio-Cortez swiftly
denounced his remarks .
“Mr. President, the country
I ‘come from,’ & the country
we all swear to, is the
United States,” she tweeted,
adding that “You rely on a
frightened America for your
plunder.” Omar also
addressed herself directly
to Trump in a tweet,
writing: “You are stoking
white nationalism (because)
you are angry that people
like us are serving in
Congress and fighting
against your hate-filled
agenda.”
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New
York, chairman of the House
Democratic Caucus, summed up
the Democratic response:
“Racial arsonist strikes
again. Shut. Your. Reckless.
Mouth.”
With his tweet, Trump
inserted himself further
into a rift between Pelosi
and Ocasio-Cortez, just two
days after he offered an
unsolicited defense of the
Democratic speaker. Pelosi
has been seeking to minimize
Ocasio-Cortez’s influence in
the House Democratic caucus
in recent days, prompting
Ocasio-Cortez to accuse
Pelosi of trying to
marginalize women of color.
“She is not a racist,” Trump
said of Pelosi on Friday.
On
Sunday, Trump’s tone took a
turn.
“So
interesting to see
‘Progressive’ Democrat
Congresswomen, who
originally came from
countries whose governments
are a complete and total
catastrophe, the worst, most
corrupt and inept anywhere
in the world (if they even
have a functioning
government at all), now
loudly and viciously telling
the people of the United
States, the greatest and
most powerful Nation on
earth, how our government is
to be run,” he tweeted.
“Why don’t they go back and
help fix the totally broken
and crime infested places
from which they came. Then
come back and show us how it
is done.”
He
added: “These places need
your help badly, you can’t
leave fast enough. I’m sure
that Nancy Pelosi would be
very happy to quickly work
out free travel
arrangements!”
The
attacks may have been meant
to widen the divides within
the Democrat caucus, which
has been riven by internal
debate over how far left to
go in countering Trump and
over whether to proceed with
impeachment proceedings
against the president.
Instead, the president’s
tweets, which evoked the
trope of telling black
people to go back to Africa,
brought Democrats together.
“Let’s be clear about what
this vile comment is: A
racist and xenophobic attack
on Democratic
congresswomen,” tweeted Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, a
Democratic presidential
candidate.
Another 2020 contender,
former Texas Rep. Beto
O’Rourke, tweeted at the
president: “This is racist.
These congresswomen are
every bit as American as you
— and represent our values
better than you ever will.”
Few
Republicans weighed in on
the president’s comments.
Congressional leaders,
including Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, did
not respond to requests for
comment, nor did Sen. Tim.
Scott of South Carolina, the
only Republican black
senator.
Mark Morgan, the acting
commissioner of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, in a
previously scheduled
appearance on “Face the
Nation” on CBS, said only:
“You’re going to have to ask
the president what he means
by those specific tweets.”
Shortly after the tweets,
and a later presidential
post defending the harsh
scenes at a border detention
facility where hundreds of
migrant men are being held
in sweltering, foul-smelling
conditions, Trump left the
White House to go golfing at
his Virginia club.
Trump appeared unbowed
Sunday night when he
returned to Twitter to say
it was “so sad” to see
Democrats sticking up for
the women. “If the Democrat
Party wants to continue to
condone such disgraceful
behavior,” he tweeted, “then
we look even more forward to
seeing you at the ballot box
in 2020!”
It
was far from the first time
that Trump has been accused
of holding racist views.
In
his campaign kickoff in June
2015, Trump deemed many
Mexican immigrants
“rapists.” In 2017, he said
there good people on “both
sides” of the clash in
Charlottesville, Virginia,
between white supremacists
and anti-racist
demonstrators that left one
counter-protester dead. Last
year, during a private White
House meeting on
immigration, Trump wondered
why the United States was
admitting so many immigrants
from “shithole countries”
like African nations.
Repeatedly, Trump has
painted arriving immigrants
as an “infestation” and he
has been slow in condemning
acts of violence committed
by white supremacists. And
he launched his political
career with false claims
that President Barack Obama
was not born in the United
States.
Despite his history of
racist remarks, Trump has
paid little penalty in his
own party.
Though a broad array of
Republicans did speak out
against his reaction to
Charlottesville, they have
largely held their tongues
otherwise, whether it be on
matter of race or any other
Trump provocation. Fearful
of his Twitter account and
sweeping popularity among
Republican voters, GOP
lawmakers have largely tried
to ignore the provocative
statements.
Sen. Kamala Harris, a
Democratic presidential
hopeful from California,
tweeted, “Let’s call the
president’s racist attack
exactly what it is:
un-American.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who is of
Puerto Rican descent, was
born in the Bronx, New York,
and raised in suburban
Westchester County.
Pressley, the first black
woman elected to the House
from Massachusetts, was born
in Cincinnati.
Omar, the first Somali
native elected to Congress
and one of its first Muslim
women, was born in Somalia
but spent much of her
childhood in a Kenyan
refugee camp as civil war
tore apart her home country.
She immigrated to the United
States at age 12, teaching
herself English by watching
American TV and eventually
settling with her family in
Minneapolis.
