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A journalist of television in South Florida (USA) caused a stir on social networks when it broadcast the arrival of the live last Wednesday Hurricane Ian to the state’s west coast by covering his microphone with an a condom to “protect the team,” he said.

Kyla GallerReporter and presenter from NBC2, the chain’s local Fort Myers channel, where Ian landed yesterday, was broadcasting live from an outdoor area and with a condom protecting his device, for which several viewers started messaging him on different platforms.

Galer was covering the arrival of Hurricane Ian from a Fort Myers parking lot, right in the area where the powerful Category 4 hurricane made landfall, when viewers were reportedly “distracted” by his microphone’s transparent rubber cover and immediately continued typing social networks.

“NBC 2 is practicing safe mic reporting during Hurricane Ian,” one viewer tweeted.

On her Instagram and Facebook profiles, the journalist replied: “A lot of people ask what’s in my microphone. It is what you think it is preservatives. Helps protect gear. You can’t get these mics wet. It’s very windy and it’s raining a lot so we have to do what we have to do and that’s put a condom over the mic.”

your colleague Jeff Butera, from the ABC7 network, who also reported on the arrival of the meteorological phenomenon, joined on Twitter, saying: “We are practicing safe hurricane reporting. yes it is a condom There is nothing better for waterproofing a microphone. My Waterman Broadcasting colleague @kylagaler answered a lot of questions haha. Moment of lightness in this nasty storm.”

Galer has in the last few hours reported on preparations for Ian’s arrival in Florida from Fort Myers, Sarasota and Cape Coral, the area where Wednesday’s tornado made landfall after devastating Cuba’s western region.

“This is really serious. If you are under a mandatory evacuation, listen up and do it now! Do not wait! We are in constant reporting to ensure Southwest Florida is safe,” Galer warned Tuesday of the meteorological phenomenon’s arrival.

Mighty Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida’s west coast yesterday with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph and “catastrophic” flooding and storm surges are still expected in parts of this Gulf of Mexico coastline.

Miami Mayor FLED Hurricane Ian to attend two major fundraisers in his honor held 1,200 miles away at posh celebrity favorite clubs while tweeting Floridians to “stay updated and stay safe.”

• As the state of Florida prepared for Hurricane Ian, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was in NYC
• The two major fundraisers were held for Suarez’s Agenda for America PAC
• According to a source who attended the event, the New York Post, Suarez’s first stop was Casa Cipriani, a ritzy private members’ club on Manhattan’s South Street reported
• The mayor’s next stop was chic French restaurant Le Bilboquet on the Upper East Side, the source said
• As the storm hit the Sunshine State, Suarez sent tweets to Floridians to “stay informed and stay safe” while he was in the Big Apple

By Ruth Bashinsky

Published: 1:13 AM BST, 30 September 2022 | Updated at 01:18 BST, 30 September 2022

As the state of Florida prepared for Hurricane Ian, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was in the Big Apple and attended two swanky, big-money fundraisers in his honor.

According to a source attending the event, Suarez’s first stop was at Casa Cipriani, a ritzy private members’ club on Manhattan’s South Street that offers stunning views of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty, the New York Post reported.

The mayor’s next stop was the chic French restaurant Le Bilboquet on the Upper East Side, the source told the news outlet.

While eating good food and mingling with political donors 1,200 miles away, he tweeted to Floridians to “keep informed and stay safe” as storm caused catastrophic flooding, winds up to 150 miles per hour, which devastated people’s homes and businesses.

Both fundraisers were held for Suarez’s Agenda for America PAC, the news outlet said.

As the state of Florida braced itself for Hurricane Ian, one of the worst storms to hit the Sunshine State in more than two decades, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was in the Big Apple attending two swanky fundraisers raising large amounts of money in his honor

Hurricane Ian caused severe flooding with overwhelming storm runoff. Pictured is a resident using a paddleboard to get around in Lake Eola in downtown Orlando

It wasn’t clear when Suarez actually arrived in Manhattan, but he was apparently still in New York City as of Thursday morning, missing the worst of the storm moving toward the Atlantic.

According to a source, the mayor was staying at the five-star Lowes Regency hotel near Central Park, but his political representative declined to reveal Suarez’s agenda, the New York Post reported.

Miami was not in the direct path of Hurricane Ian’s wrath, but the mayor sent out tweets warning residents that “he and city officials were monitoring the impact of the hurricane.”

On Wednesday, he tweeted, “In the last 24 hours the @CityofMiami has received 2.8 inches of rain and is expected to hit up to 6 inches today and tomorrow. We have to reckon with heavy rain. At the moment we are under a tornado and flood warning until tomorrow.

He continued: “Please stay informed and stay safe.”

His Instagram featured devastating images of fallen trees and areas of Miami turning into a river.

Although Mayor Eric Adams was not among the participants in the fundraiser, many other high rollers did gather and hand out big bucks.

Debris litters an RV park in Fort Myers, Florida on September 29, 2022, a day after Hurricane Ian made landfall

A man walks near park benches near Lake Eola in a flooded downtown area after Hurricane Ian in Orlando, Florida

At Casa Cipriani, donations suggested between $2,500 and $10,000, according to a flyer for the event obtained by the New York Post.

Sources said about 40 people attended the event, which brought together “real estate people, developers — lots of different people supporting him,” but there were no elected officials, a source said.

That event was hosted by Casa owners Michael and Joe Cayre and Anthony Carone – the brother of Frank Carone – Mayor Eric Adams’ chief of staff – who is reportedly scheduled to leave by the end of the year, sources said.

Suarez has been Miami’s mayor since 2017 and is one of the best Republicans standing in the 2024 and 2028 presidential race, a report said.

In January, Suarez’s camp began running digital ads on Facebook with GOP news targeting “bidenflation”, crime and immigration, mostly hitting area code states.

Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, presents the UK Budget in the House of Commons in London on Friday 23 September 2022. JESSICA TAYLOR / AFP

The humiliation of the British authorities is complete. After five days of financial panic sparked by a poorly received UK budget, an initial statement from the Bank of England (BoE) fell flat and a call for order from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) heavy artillery had to be brought in. On Wednesday, September 28th, the UK central bank announced that it was intervening in financial markets by buying UK bonds “as much as needed”. “Had the market disruptions continued or worsened, financial stability would have been seriously threatened,” she said in a statement.

The intervention had the desired effect. The bond market eased, the interest rate for ten-year government bonds fell from 4.6% to 4%. Sterling has stabilized and is now $1.07 after falling to an all-time low ($1.035) on Monday 26th September.

Major tax cuts

The fire was set by Kwasi Kwarteng, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he presented the UK budget on Friday 23 September. He announced the biggest tax cuts in fifty years, up to 1.5% of gross domestic product. There is also a freeze on gas and electricity bills for households and companies. “As a result, the government deficit will increase to 7% in 2023,” calculates the rating agency Scope Ratings. However, Mr Kwarteng had no word on how he would fund this, postponing a full presentation of the cost of his plan and economic forecast until November 23.

Despite ongoing tensions around the pound sterling, British Prime Minister Liz Truss defended her decisions on Thursday 29 September: “We had to act decisively to help people this winter and next. (…) That means making difficult and controversial decisions, but as Prime Minister I am ready to do that. »

Also read: London announces measures to revive its growth: energy bill freeze, tax cuts, deregulation…

“That budget was rubbish,” claims Mathieu Savary, strategy specialist at BCA Research, an investment advisory firm. Tax cuts amid inflation would only push prices up worse, he said. “It’s been six years since the UK has had dumplings since Brexit,” Mr Savary continues. Today the markets don’t trust the UK, they consider it less credible than before. »

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US President Joe Biden called US Congressman Jackie Walorski, who died in August, during a speech at the White House.

At the White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health, Biden asked about Jackie Walorski, a US congresswoman who died in an accident in August. Biden asked the audience: “Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?” reports “Spiegel.”

Biden’s spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, justified the incident by saying that Biden named the deceased deputy because he thought of her. He wanted to praise the “amazing work” of Walorski.

Biden was “shocked and saddened” in a statement about the 58-year-old’s death at the time. She was respected for her work by members of both parties.

Clinic is named after Walorski

In addition, the family of former deputies was present at Biden’s invitation. A clinic for veterans will also be named after Walorski by law. Biden will sign this soon. “Of course she was on his mind because of that,” says Jean-Pierre. Whether it’s an embarrassing slip of the tongue or whether Biden owed the family an apology, the spokeswoman said: “My response certainly won’t change.”

For critics, the incident was a godsend to cast doubt on the 79-year-old’s mental abilities. Biden has been noticed a few times for his slips of the tongue and mistakes.

The trial of Villa Ignatia’s founder was delayed after one of the plaintiffs pleaded guilty to trying to get $50,000 from Dr. Ildebert Huard and his wife, otherwise she would report sexual assault to the police.

• Also read: Gestures of a sexual nature: beginning of the trial against the founder of Villa Ignatia

• Also read: An alleged victim of Dr. IIdebert Huard testifies

Ildebert Huard, who is accused of sexually assaulting seven women visiting his Lac-St-Charles therapy home, is denying all allegations against him and is awaiting a decision while lawyers are in court. Now one of the complainants, who testified that the doctor touched her crotch while driving her car, has just admitted to a criminal offense against the 93-year-old accused.

$50,000

Ten days ago, the 33-year-old pleaded guilty to the charge of “demanding consideration in return for the obligation to commit a criminal offence”. In August 2019, several months before charges were filed against the Doctor, the plaintiff went to Villa Ignatia and demanded $50,000 from Dr. Huard’s wife, otherwise she would report the ninety-year-old to the police or speak to the media.

A year later, the management of the therapy center finally filed a complaint. The doctor’s alleged victim testified in court about the alleged sexual assaults during Huard’s trial in November 2021.

Perjury?

During the cross-examination of this applicant, Dr. Huard, Me Susan Corriveau, the complainant to this blackmail attempt. “It is wrong, I never asked Mrs. Bertholot for money,” the complainant denied on oath twice rather than once.

Now, on September 20, when the 33-year-old pleaded guilty to police charges of monetizing her complaint, she admitted under oath to the contrary. “She admits she flatly denied it, not once but twice in front of you,” Me Corriveau explained after hearing the woman’s guilty plea again.

“It’s very unusual,” agreed Huard Trial Judge Mario Tremblay. The defendant’s lawyer wishes to emphasize the low credibility of this alleged victim, but the Crown, in turn, submitted video of the same applicant filming Dr. Huard lays hands on her while driving.

Judge Tremblay wishes to consider the possibility of a rehearing of the complainant on the facts before the pleas in the case begin.

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‘It’s not going to be that bad’: The CEO urged employees to ‘bring their pets and children into the office and work through Hurricane Ian because they wanted to ‘keep delivering and have a good quarter end’.

• A CEO in Clearwater, Fla., reportedly encouraged employees to travel for work
• She “wanted to have a great quarter-end,” she reportedly said of Zoom
• Hurricane Ian would likely be a “nothing burger,” she reportedly said Monday
• Biden declared a “major disaster” and the Florida governor warned of fatalities

By Tom Brown For Web

Published: 6:00pm BST, 29 Sep 2022 | Updated at 6:02 PM BST, 29 September 2022

A CEO of a Florida-based company affected by Hurricane Ian asked her employees to bring their pets and children to work and invited them to stay the night as she wanted to “have a good end to the quarter.” .

Employees at PostcardMania, a marketing firm headquartered in Clearwater, were encouraged to attend a Zoom call where CEO and founder Joy Gendusa made a few comments.

But those who expected to be sent home early in the face of the hurricane that devastated the state were disappointed.

Instead, employees were invited to come to the office, where others “started blowing up these air mattresses” when the hurricane hit.

Shortly after, a post from the company’s Instagram surfaced, in which the company announced it would be closing its offices on Wednesday and Thursday, but not before comments were flooded from social media criticizing the CEO’s call.

Joy Gendusa, founder and CEO of PostcardMania, encouraged employees at her Florida-based company to come and work in the office with their children and pets because she wished for “a good end to the quarter.” Pictured: Gendusa poses with her dog and company mascot Lulu in her Clearwater office

“It’s really not going to be that scary,” said Gendusa, who said she doesn’t want to stop production as she wants to “have a great end of the quarter.”

Gendusa has lived in the area for 33 years and “the media keeps making it worse than ever,” she reportedly said.

Every time they plan a disaster, she reportedly said, it’s “always a nothing burger.”

She appears to have claimed that the office building would protect her from the hurricane, calling it “probably the safest place in Florida.”

“My house was built in 1925 and is still standing,” the manager is said to have explained and assured her employees that the storm would probably pass.

Gendusa called Monday, but the transcript only recently came to light after employees at the marketing firm allegedly leaked the comments to journalist Jonah Furman, who posted them on Twitter.

On Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned of deaths after footage showed entire homes being destroyed by strong winds and residents fleeing to safety.

Biden declared a “major disaster” in Florida early Thursday morning. The restructuring bill is expected to cost billions.

Images show near-darkness in the eye of the storm, a Category 4 hurricane

“There is no business worth sacrificing for,” one of PostcardMania’s employees told the Washington Post. “I wouldn’t give my life [or my belongings] for every company.’

Nearly two million homes and businesses across the state were without power this morning.

Hurricane Ian churned ashore on Florida’s mainland after killing residents in Cuba, with slightly eased winds topping 145 miles per hour.

The storm’s peak wind speeds bring it just short of a Category 5 designation on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the maximum classification.

DeSantis said Ian created life-threatening storm surges — waves of wind-driven seawater pouring in along the coast — of up to 12 feet in some spots.

Meteorologists also warned of violent thunderstorms and possible tornadoes.

The firm later said on Instagram that it would convert its building into a hurricane shelter while its remote employees handed over communications.

PostcardMania did not respond to Web’s request for comment prior to publication.

The boat is partially submerged in a marina after Hurricane Ian hit Florida on September 29

Joy Gendusa, Founder and CEO of PostcardMania, full transcript

‘Hello folks! Can you hear me? Say hello to Dani! are dangers. Here’s the deal, I guess a hurricane is coming. I’ve lived in this area for 33 years now and the media always makes it a lot worse than ever. Of course we have to reckon with a disaster and hope for a nothing burger. So if it’s super windy and you’re uncomfortable driving across the causeway we’ll figure out how to get you to work from home, but personally I’m not scared of that thing.

“If you’re new in town and you’re like, ‘Oh no! It’s a hurricane!” It won’t be that bad, I promise. But there are evacuation areas. Even Zach’s apartment is an evacuation apartment and he’s a giant hill from the water. Nothing’s gonna happen over there. I live a block away [sic] out of the water but high on a buff.

“My house was built in 1925 and is still standing. So here’s the thing, when you’re about to leave your home and you’re being told to leave your home and you feel like you should and don’t have a place to go, PCM is probably the safest place to go in Florida.

“Anyway, bring your pets, bring your kids, bring everyone to PCM, and Jason can start blowing up those air mattresses if we have to – been there, did that – it’s going in.” be okay. Of course making you feel safe and comfortable is of paramount importance but honestly I want to keep delivering and have a good end to the quarter and if it doesn’t come to nothing I don’t want it to be, ‘Great everyone stopped producing because of the media and maybe that it was going to be awful”.

“So let’s see. I think it might get bad on Wednesday afternoon. Until then, it won’t be close. Let’s just keep an eye on it and we’ll keep you posted. We look at the models every 5 minutes to see what’s going on but I think it’s going to be a nothing burger as always. I keep my fingers crossed because I want that.

“Anyway, if you’re scared of the hurricane, raise your hand. It really won’t be that scary, but if you’re scared, I understand. I also understand why you don’t raise your hand, because I just said it won’t be. Honestly if you don’t want to drive over the causeway because of the wind I understand but I don’t think it will be a big deal

“So have a wonderful rest of your day, have a wonderful rest of your staff meeting. I’ll exit this zoom and then click the link so I can watch the staff briefing. Bye people! Dedicate me! Oh you’re kind enough to give up, those of you who did! Loving You! Goodbye!’

Climate change is fueled by the release of greenhouse gas emissions, and these emissions come from every sector of the world economy: electricity, manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, industrial processes. Overall, greenhouse gas emissions have generally been increasing for decades. Activists often advocate consuming less and consuming less as a possible solution to climate change — degrowth, as it’s often called.

That idea is unworldly, according to Bill Gates, who founded Breakthrough Energy, a climate technology and innovation investment fund, in 2015 and published How to Avoid a Climate Disaster in 2021.

“I don’t think it’s realistic to say that people will completely change their lifestyle because of climate concerns,” Gates told Akshat Rathi in an episode of the Bloomberg podcast Zero, which aired Thursday. The interview was recorded in August before the Anti-Inflation Act was passed.

“You can have a cultural revolution where you try to overthrow everything, you can create a North Korean-style situation where the state is in control. Aside from the immense central authority that needs to get people to simply obey, I think the problem of collective action is just not solvable,” Gates said.

Most people won’t change their individual behaviors in a way that makes them less comfortable in favor of a global problem, the billionaire technologist said.

“Anyone who’s saying that we’re going to tell people to stop eating meat or stop having a nice house and we’re just going to change human desires, I think that’s too difficult,” Gates said . “You can argue for that, but I don’t think it’s realistic that it plays an absolutely central role.”

Even if the countries and individuals that have enough wealth in their lives and are able to cut back, that won’t be enough reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to sufficiently mitigate climate change, Gates said. Gates itself pays $9 million a year to offset its own greenhouse gas emissions, he said.

“But just having a few rich countries, a few rich companies and a few rich individuals buying out so they can say they’re not part of the problem, that has nothing to do with solving the problem,” he said gates

There are also a number of other issues vying for attention and money, including the global pandemic, rising healthcare costs, helping poor countries with issues aside from climate change, and also the war in Ukraine.

“People working in the climate space may not realize how many things are competing for the modest amount of increased resources that society has,” Gates said. “And that not so many people are willing to be made worse off because of climate regulations.”

The solution, according to Gates, is to create better technological alternatives where, at the same price or cheaper, it is possible to achieve the same goal in a climate-conscious way. Gates has long spoken about the gap between the cost of how something is done conventionally and how it should be done in a decarbonized way, the “green bounty.” In order to bring about meaningful change in climate change, according to Gates, this green bounty must be slowly reduced and then eliminated in all sectors of the economy.

To achieve this green bounty, Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures investment fund invests money in early-stage startups that are working to create new production routes or new ways of doing things.

During the interview, Gates hinted that Breakthrough Energy Ventures will raise a third fund by next year to continue investing in and accelerating the development of these climate startups. He also pointed out that Breakthrough Energy will also likely raise money to invest in later-stage companies. “Even though the exuberance of investing in tech and climate companies has subsided a bit, I still think we can raise the money,” he told Rathi.

Importantly, the path to decarbonization is not always a straight path away from fossil fuels. The war in Ukraine and Europe’s efforts to reduce its dependency on energy from Russia have shown that there could be temporary setbacks to taking care of people on larger decarbonization targets.

“When people say to me, ‘Hey, we love your climate stuff because we can tell Putin we don’t need him.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, in 10 years. Call him up and tell him you don’t need him,'” Gates said.

By then, the European Union may have to resort to fossil fuels. “Should you reopen coal plants? Probably. That pragmatics is pretty important. Should the Dutch gas field reopen? Maybe yes. It’s a very tough set of trade-offs. Very unexpected,” Gates said. “In the short term, you just have to find a solution, even if that means emissions will go up. The sooner this war ends, the better. But there are many considerations on how to end it.”

In the long term, however, according to Gates, the only viable solution is to find new ways to support people. “I’m looking at what the world needs to do to get to zero and I’m not using climate as a moral crusade,” he said.

The rains follow each other for several days in the countries of Guadeloupe. Basse-Terre retains the favor of this bad weather, but this time the entire archipelago should be profusely watered and hit by the risk of storms.

Guadeloupe The 1st, with Météo France • Posted September 28, 2022 at 5:43 p.m

Guadeloupe is “under the influence of a humid and unstable air mass, carried by a south-east trade wind that favors heavy rains and stormy outbursts”, indicates the Meteo France center in Raizet in the bulletin that puts the archipelago in yellow vigilance for “heavy rain and storm”.

The worsening weather conditions are announced for this Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at midnight. The effects of the disturbance should affect the area until 6 p.m. Friday or even later, the forecasters say.

From the end of the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the showers previously limited to Basse-Terre will affect the entire archipelago and will last longer. However, it is still the relief that experiences the most significant rain activity. The sometimes heavy showers can locally take on a stormy character.

After a rainy start to the morning, a short lull is looming tomorrow, Thursday, but the stormy showers will return in the afternoon, especially in the dead ends.

There is still a risk of rain in the evening and the following night.

On Friday, this rainy and unstable weather will continue for most of the day, with the risk of thunderstorms remaining in the archipelago.

During this episode, expected accumulations of the order of 50 to 80mm in 3 hours or sometimes faster could result in temporary and localized rapid accumulation of rainwater, especially in areas where soils are already saturated with water.

Caution is advised in the Guadeloupe countryside already hit by Storm Fiona.