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Typhoon Haiyan is being considered one of the biggest ever, with registered wind speed of 235mph, putting it well into the category 5 classification. The storm slammed into the Philippines and preliminary reports are putting the death toll in the tens of thousands, with over 10,000 in one city alone.
Below are some of the pictures showing the after effects of the Typhoon.
HOUSTON (KTRK) — Two people were killed and more than a dozen were injured when gunfire rang out at a house party in the Cypress area of northwest Harris County last night, and officials say two suspects remain at large.
It happened on Enchanted Creek near FM 529 sometime between 11pm and midnight
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says 18 people were shot. Two of those people — a man and a woman, officials tell us — are dead. One was killed at the scene and the other died after being transported to Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital.
In all, 22 people were injured. That leaves six people who were not confirmed as shot. They may have been hurt while trying to escape, authorities said
We’re told two of the 22 victims are in critical condition, and the conditions of the others vary. A total of four people were taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital and three people treated at Ben Taub. Eight to nine people were taken to Methodist West Hospital.
According to HCSO, close to 100 people were inside the home when the shooting happened. As the gunfire erupted, they fled the home in a panicked rush to escape.
He’s on the front lines — of making dough.
Chelsea resident Robert Samuel has made a business off lazy New Yorkers, hanging tight for those desperate for Cronuts or the latest Apple iPhone but unwilling to wait.
“People want these things like it’s the end of the world,” Samuel, 38, told The Post. “When I show up to their offices with a sleeping bag in one hand and the Cronuts in another, they know they’re getting their money’s worth.”
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Samuel rakes in up to $300 a week by lingering in the outrageous line outside Soho’s Dominique Ansel Bakery. For $60 on weekdays, he picks up two of the croissant-donut hybrids and delivers them to clients. That’s $240 for eight Cronuts — which cost $5 apiece.
He’s usually first in line when he arrives at 5 a.m., and soon has buddies who fall in line. Because there’s a two-pastry-per-person limit, he hires friends to idle in lawn chairs for larger orders.
Samuel launched his company — called SOLD Inc., or Same Ole Line Dudes — last fall after losing his job. A former AT&T salesman, Samuel posted a Craigslist ad offering to wait for the iPhone 5 for $100.
That’s when he realized line-sitting could be a part-time job. Out-of-towners have hired him to wait for “Saturday Night Live” tickets from midnight to 7 a.m. and to hold their places for concerts.
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A man jailed for murder for 34 years has had his conviction quashed after it was revealed that one of the main witnesses was lying.
Kash Delano Register broke down and cried on Thursday after a Los Angeles judge threw out his conviction for shooting dead elderly Jack Sasson in April 1979.
The conviction was overturned after Sharon Anderson, sister of one of the main witnesses, Brenda Anderson, told a court that the testimony used to send Register to jail was a lie.
Nineteen-years-old Brenda was a neighbor of 78-year-old Sasson, who was shot five times.
She told police that after hearing shots, she looked out of a window and saw an African-American fleeing the scene.
She identified the gunman as Register. The two had been at High School together.
Her testimony was the main pillar of he prosecution case.
No murder weapon was ever discovered, no fingerprints found at the scene matched Register’s and police and prosecutors were accused of suppressing evidence.
Register’s girlfriend also testified that he was with her at the time of the shooting, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Register, now 53-years-old, was sentenced to 27 years to life and had always pleaded his innocence, something which he believes kept him in jail, where he was inmate No. C11693.
“It appears that the only reason that I have been consistently denied parole is because I have maintained my innocence,” court papers revealed he once told the parole board.
In 2011, another of Brenda Anderson’s sister, Sheila Vanderkam discovered via the Internet that Register was still incarcerated.
She then got in contact with Register’s attorney to tell him her sister Brenda had been lying all those years ago. Vanderkam had even worked at the same LAPD station where detectives investigated the case. But her pleas to one detective went unheeded.
“The detective placed his finger over his mouth (like a shush sound) and just stared at me,” she said in her court statement. “He made it very clear to me, without actually saying anything, that I was to stay out of it.”
Prosecutors will make a final decision next month to release or retry Register.
h/t Daily News
Officer Jeremy Henwood of the San Diego Police Department was also a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve who had just returned from a one year deployment in Afghanistan — he had also served two tours in Iraq. Coming home proved to be more dangerous than his service in war zones.
In August of 2011 he was shot and killed as he sat in his patrol car at a traffic light. The shooter, 23 year-old Dejon Marquee White, pulled up along side his car and shot him in the head with a shotgun. There was no provocation, he simply wanted to die and had decided to commit ‘suicide by cop.’ He got his wish, a short time later police tracked him down and he was killed in a shootout.
What was not known at the time of Officer Henwood’s death was that only minutes before he had stopped at a McDonald’s nearby to get something to eat and while he was there he had performed a random act of kindness for a young boy who he had never met before.
While standing at the counter in that McDonald’s he was approached by 13 year-old Davian Tinsley who asked if he could get a dime to buy some cookies. Officer Henwood took out his wallet and bought the cookies for him, asking him what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Davian says that he told him that he wanted to be an NBA star to which Henwood replied, “Well you’ve got to work hard for that.”
Three minutes later Henwood was dead.
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House Republicans have handed out an internal GOP playbook on how to best score political points against Obamacare, the White House and Democrats in general.
The memo obtained by CQ Roll Call, titled “House Republican Playbook: Because of Obamacare … I Lost My Insurance,” is a manual for House Republicans on how to highlight the recent issues with the health care law and how to best “communicate in your district about the disastrous Obamacare rollout.”
Of particular interest to Republicans is the president’s oft-repeated line that “if you like you health insurance, you can keep it.”
In the “Broken Promises” section, Republicans point to two promises the president used to sell the Affordable Care Act: “1) If you like what you have, you can keep it. Period. And 2) Health care costs will go down for all Americans, and ‘save a typical family an average of $2,500…’ Each of these promises has now been broken,” the playbook says.
“Millions of Americans will lose the plan they have and like: Despite President Obama’s promise that you can keep the plan you have and like, we now know at least 7 million Americans will lose their employer provided insurance as a result of Obamacare,” the memo said in its Talking Points section
An NFL having survivor had some harsh words for Richie Incognito. “I’m not afraid to say that he was an immature, unrealistic scumbag. When it came down to it, he had no personality, he was a locker-room cancer, and he just wanted to fight everybody all the time. It was bizarre beyond belief.”
Those are the words of Cam Cleeland who, as an NFL player some 15 years ago, went through a rookie hazing on the first day of training camp.
“Guys were just rabid,” Cleeland told the Los Angeles Times. “And you had a couple guys in the front that would stand in a three-point stance, and you would fire off the line like he was going to knock you over.
“You tried to make it through, and they literally just beat the ever-loving crap out of you as you tried to get through. Everything you can imagine, from kicking, punching, scrapping.”
Cleeland’s case is back on the radar this week as the ugly Jonathan Martin-Richie Incognito situation boils up in Miami. Martin, now in his second season, left the Dolphins last week after allegedly being the victim of repeated, cruel bullying.
Incognito was suspended following the revelation of a voicemail in which he hurled racial slurs at Martin. On Thursday night, Martin’s lawyer, David Cornwell, released a scathing statement in which he said Martin was the victim of a “malicious physical attack,” but did not specify which teammate was involved.
Cleeland’s hazing ended tragically. Andre Royal, a free-agent linebacker, had been collecting pennies all day from teammates and put them in a sock that he would swing wildly at Cleeland. Royal’s blow shattered Cleeland’s eye socket and nearly cost him his eye. He still deals with partial vision.
“I was full of adrenaline at that time,” Cleeland told the paper. “You’re in that fight-or-flight mode, survival mode. You’ve got to get through. So I made it through, and next thing you know my nose is bleeding all over.”
Cleeland, who went on to play eight years in the NFL, would cross paths with Incognito on the Rams when the team drafted the offensive lineman in 2005. He does not sound surprised by some of the reports that now surround Incognito.
“I’m not afraid to say that he was an immature, unrealistic scumbag,” Cleeland said. “When it came down to it, he had no personality, he was a locker-room cancer, and he just wanted to fight everybody all the time. It was bizarre beyond belief.”
A city man who accidentally shot part of his face off with a high-powered hunting rifle was in stable condition at a Boston hospital Thursday night, according to his father.
According to police, Dale Poulin, 31, of Ash Street, was visiting friends at 218 College Ave. around 9 p.m. Wednesday and exchanging hunting stories when he went outside and brought in a .270-caliber hunting rifle. At one point, Poulin put the barrel of the rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger, said Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey.
Poulin’s father said that although his son is unable to speak, he can respond to questions by writing on a notepad and told his father Thursday that he had accidentally dropped the rifle. Dale Poulin had been hunting during the day Wednesday before the accident later that night, his father said.
“He is in stable condition and his vital signs are good, although he will need reconstructive surgery for his facial wounds,” Donald Poulin, of Winslow, said by phone from Massachusetts General Hospital.
Note: Last year, 17,362 people nationwide unintentionally injured themselves with a firearm, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Unintentional nonfatal gunshots was 0.1 percent of the more than 29.4 million injuries reported, according to the CDC report.
The most common injury was an unintentional fall, which accounted for about 30 percent of the injuries.
In an exclusive interview on MSNBC last night, President Obama apologized to the American people for the “if you like your insurance you can keep it” claim.
Asked by interviewer Chuck Todd of MSNBC if he believed he owed an apology to the five percent of Americans who are losing their garbage plans because of regulations in ObamaCare that require all insurance companies to provide real insurance to the American people, the president replied;
“I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,” he told NBC News in an exclusive interview at the White House.
“We’ve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this.”
The president stated that he is doing everything he can to fix the rollout problems with healthcare.gov.
“I’ve assigned my team to see what we can do to close some of the holes and gaps in the law, because, you know, my intention is to lift up and make sure the insurance that people buy is effective — that it’s actually going to deliver what they think they’re purchasing.”
U.S. employers added 204,000 jobs in October, an unexpected burst of hiring during a month in which the federal government was partially shut down for 16 days.
The Labor Department says the unemployment rate rose to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent in September, likely because furloughed federal workers were counted as unemployed. The report noted that the shutdown did not affect total jobs.
African-American unemployment rose slightly to 13.1 percent (from 12.9 last month) and black teen joblessness remained the highest of any group at 36 percent.
Employers also added 60,000 more jobs in the previous two months than earlier estimated.
The figures suggest hiring has picked up in the fall. Employers added an average of 202,000 jobs from August through October, up from 146,000 from May through July.
The percentage of Americans working or looking for work fell to a fresh 35-year low. But that figure was likely distorted by the shutdown, too.
Facing a double mastectomy with grace takes courage. Facing one with courage and joy is extraordinary.
But that’s exactly what Deborah Cohan did yesterday right before she went into surgery to have her breasts removed. Cohan, an Ob/Gyn and mom of two, held a dance party with her medical team in the operating room of Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco.
This inspiring 6-minute-long video of the fete, posted on YouTube, shows Cohan busting some serious moves as she wiggles and twerks to Beyonce’s hit “Get Me Bodied.” Cohan requested that friends and family make videos of themselves dancing to Bey too so that she could watch them during her recovery. “I have visions of a healing video montage,” she wrote. “Nothing brings me greater joy than catalyzing others to dance, move, be in their bodies. Are you with me people?”
They were. You can check out videos of Deborah’s fans shaking their booties in solidarity on her CaringBridge page.
Deborah, we wish you a speedy recovery. And can we go clubbing with you when you’re all better?
