Tuesday, October 11 top stories
It is Tuesday, October 11. Here are today’s top stories.
Carbon monoxide leak at daycare
In Allentown, Pennsylvania, there was a carbon monoxide (CO) leak at a daycare that sent 27 people to hospitals. Officials said there were 25 children and eight staff members inside the daycare when the leak happened.
Local news said “every ambulance in the city responded to Happy Smiles Learning Center…” with the initial call for an unconscious child. When firefighters and EMTs went inside, their CO monitors went off. That prompted a full evacuation of the daycare building.
Crews shut off a gas line that was connected to the daycare. It is possible that the leak was caused by problems with the building’s heating unit and a blocked ventilation system.
Officials said there was no CO detector in the building.
Three men rescued from shark infested-waters
On Saturday, three friends went out fishing in the waters of Louisiana but their trip turned into a disaster when their boat started taking on water and sank.
The three men tied two ice chests together and used them as a makeshift raft and had to spend the night stranded in open water while wearing their life vests.
The morning after, one of the men said a shark bit a life vest and he had to punch the shark off and was cut in his hand.
Another man decided to swim for about 5 miles to find help and was able to send out his location to a friend when his phone had only 2% battery left. But that was enough for the friend to alert the U.S. Coast Guard, who sent a helicopter to rescue the three men.
The Coast Guard said when they found the men in the ocean, they saw several sharks circling the men in the water. All three men were pulled up into a helicopter and received medical attention. All three will be okay.
1 2,560-pound pumpkin is new U.S. record
A horticulture teacher in Minnesota won a pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California with a pumpkin that weighed 2,560 pounds. It is a new U.S. record.
The teacher’s name is Travis Gienger. He grew the pumpkin in Minnesota and then brought it on a 35-hour trip to enter the pumpkin contest. He said he had to drive through a snowstorm while hauling the giant pumpkin.
Can you imagine carving out that pumpkin? How many seeds would be in it?
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Tulsi Gabbard leaving Democratic Party
Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman from Hawaii and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, announced she is leaving the Democratic Party. She said in a video that the Democratic Party is “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness…”
Gabbard did not say which party she wants to be affiliated with.
LA City Council president steps down after racist remarks leaked
The president of the L.A. City Council Nury Martinez has stepped down from her position after leaked audio showed her making racist remarks about a White councilmember and his Black child. Martinez also was heard making fun of Indigenous people who moved to Los Angeles from Mexico.
The audio was a conversation between Martinez, two other councilmembers, and the L.A. County Federation of Labor president. They made disparaging comments about the father and child and suggested that the father was using his son as an accessory and called him “little monkey” in Spanish.
The father, Councilmember Mike Bonin, said the comments were vile, abhorrent and disgraceful.
Martinez is still on the L.A. City Council, but is just stepping down from her role as president. She said she would take a leave of absence.
The labor organization president resigned after the audio leak.
Local chapters of the NAACP called for the resignation of all council members involved in the conversation. There were protesters who interrupted a meeting today with chants of “Resign now!”
Axios news said this scandal casts a spotlight on “anti-Black and anti-Indigenous attitudes” among Latino communities.
Ukraine goes through second day of deadly missile attacks
AP News said Russian forces launched another round of missile attacks across cities in Ukraine. Some attacks were conducted by drones carrying bombs. AP said air raid warnings sounded throughout the country. At least 19 people in Ukraine were killed by Russian bombs on Monday.
U.N. officials said the Russian strikes could be considered a war crime.
NATO’s leader said the military alliance would hold exercises next week to test the readiness of its nuclear capabilities. The exercises were already planned in advance, prior to the fresh round of missile attacks.
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The war in Ukraine is now in its eighth month. The G7 group of rich nations hosted an emergency meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy asked for more advanced air defense systems. The G7 vowed to continue to back Ukraine for as long as it takes.
In a possible sign of escalation in the war, Belarus’ leader said he would work with Putin to deploy his forces with Russian soldiers at the border with Ukraine.
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/carbon-monoxide-leak-reported-pennsylvania-day-care-27/story?id=91325872
https://www.cdc.gov/co/faqs.htm
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1579622862130130944
https://abcnews.go.com/US/shipwrecked-boaters-detail-rescue-shark-infested-waters/story?id=91326232
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boaters-fending-off-sharks-rescued-coast-guard-louisiana-coast/
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-nato-kyiv-business-76dba1ecb9c1d3ff04ec4609740c2283
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63217558
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party/index.html
https://www.foxnews.com/media/left-right-celebrate-tulsi-gabbard-leaving-democratic-party
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/us/los-angeles-city-council-racist-remarks-leaked-audio/index.html
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/11/nury-martinez-la-city-council-racism