Deadly tornado touches down in Perryville, Mo

PERRYVILLE - spring storm has triggered a typhoon that hit the central part of the United States. The cyclone is reported to have caused three people lost their lives.

Thursday (2/3/2017) a collection of storm known as supercells that ravaged parts of Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee on Tuesday, February 28 to Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

Forecasters memperikirakan severe thunderstorms can trigger a tornado will hit Kentucky and Tennessee before moving to New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, and Washington DC.

The storm killed two people in Illionois and one in Missouri. Besides the typhoon also caused 10 to 15 people were injured in White County. Spokesman for the Illinois Emergency Response, said Patti Thompson, one of the victims killed in the region caused by a fallen tree caused by cyclone.

Hundreds of people are reported displaced in SMA Bald Knob, Arkansas, after reports emerged hurricane warning. Members of local emergency response, said at least 40 houses in the city of Bald Knob suffered heavily damaged by the typhoon hit.

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Hollywood’s Magic Castle Confirms Death Of Magician Daryl Easton

“The magic community mourns the loss of one of our most beloved and talented performers,” a statement posted on the Magic Castle’s Facebook page says, adding that the Academy of Magic Arts’ “deepest regrets and heart-felt sympathy go out to Daryl’s family.”

Easton, who often performed simply as Daryl the Magician, was performing at the Magic Castle this week, and was found dead on the club’s premises on Friday evening. The Magic Castle statement confirms that the death was ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Easton, an AMA member, was “an award-winning close-up magician with over 40 years of experience in both performing and selling the finest magic in the world,” according to the Magic Castle.

“Daryl performed as a headline act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for seven years fine tuning his already encyclopedic knowledge of magic. Daryl has performed literally thousands of shows for audiences as diverse as the Witch Doctors on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu to the movers and shakers of the political world at the Presidential Ball in Washington, D.C.”

The Magic Castle has been a club for magicians since 1963, with such notable members as Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Johnny Carson, Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Alexander.

Easton was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene, and early media reports said his body was observed with a plastic bag over his head.

The Castle closed Friday night, but re-opened this morning.

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Police: Car plows into parade crowd in New Orleans; 28 hurt

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A suspect is in custody after 28 people were injured Saturday when a vehicle plowed into a crowd watching the Krewe of Endymion parade in the Mid-City section of New Orleans, police said.

Police Chief Michael Harrison said the suspect is being investigated for driving while intoxicated. Harrison was asked twice by the media if terrorism was suspected. While he didn’t say “No” he did say it looks like a case of DWI.

“We suspect that that subject was highly intoxicated,” he said.

Twenty-one people were hospitalized after the crash with five victims in guarded condition. Seven others declined to be hospitalized, city Emergency Services Director, Dr. Jeff Elder said.
The victims range in age from as young as 3 or 4-years-old to adults in their 30s and 40s, said Elder.

Among the injured was one New Orleans police officer. Harrison said the officer, who was on duty, was undergoing tests to determine the extent of her injuries. She was in “good spirits,” he said.

The accident came during one of the busiest nights of Mardi Gras when thousands of people throng the streets of Mid-City to watch the elaborate floats and clamor to catch beads and trinkets tossed from riders. As police and city officials were assessing the accident scene, people were streaming home as plastic bags that used to hold trinkets and discarded beads littered the ground. The area where the accident occurred was cordoned off with police barricades.

One woman at the scene told The New Orleans Advocate (http://bit.ly/2miOHGP) that a silver truck whisked by her just feet away as she was walking through the intersection.

Carrie Kinsella said, “I felt a rush it was so fast.”

Twenty-year-old Kourtney McKinnis told the Advocate that the driver of the truck seemed almost unaware of what he had just done.

“He was just kind of out of it,” she said.

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Who is the 'bravest woman in America' Ida Lewis?

Before women could even vote, Ida Lewis saved 18 people from drowning in the waters off Newport, R.I., became nationally famous and earned the moniker "bravest woman in America."

 

Not bad for a woman doing a man's job during a time most women weren't in the professional workforce.

On Lewis' 175th birthday Saturday, Google honored the late official keeper of the Lime Rock Light Station, located on an island off Newport, with an animated slideshow of her daring rescues. The U.S. Coast Guard also took notice.

The Coast Guard regards Lewis as one of its most famous members, although she served in the agency's predecessor named the U.S. Lighthouse Service. She took over as keeper of the Lime Rock Light Station after her father, who had been the keeper, died in 1872, according to the Ida Lewis Yacht Club. The yacht club now uses the lighthouse as its clubhouse on the same island, which was renamed after Lewis.

Lewis is famous for her many rescues, which put her on the cover of Harper's Weekly in 1869 and in other newspapers and magazines. One of her more famous rescues, the Coast Guard notes, came in 1881, when she rescued two soldiers who fell through the ice. She earned the Gold Lifesaving Medal for the act.

The yacht club claims her notoriety got the attention of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax, who visited her in 1869.

Lewis worked as keeper up until the day she died in 1911 at the age of 69. The Coast Guard said she suffered a stroke while on duty.

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Ex-Labor Secretary Tom Perez elected DNC chairman

Former US Labor Secretary Tom Perez edged Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison by 35 votes Saturday to become the head of the Democratic National Committee.

He promptly called President Trump “the worst president in the history of the United States.”

After a months-long battle many Dems compared to a presidential primary, Perez outlasted Ellison in the second round of voting in Atlanta, securing 235 votes to Ellison’s 200. Perez had fallen one vote shy of the victory threshold in the first round of voting. 

The results were another blow to Mayor de Blasio, who was in Atlanta to back Ellison.

Perez announced he would make Ellison “deputy chairman” of the DNC and embraced him from the podium after the vote.

Ellison wiped away tears, thanked his supporters, and said, “We don’t have the luxury of going out of this room divided.”

When Perez took the stage, he slammed President Trump and called for Democrats to remain engaged.

“They’re going to ask the question . . . where were you in 2017 when we had the worst president in the history of the US?” he said.

“We need every house call, we need to listen to people, we need to get back to basics, and we need to move forward,” he added. 

The former Cabinet member earned the endorsements of several Obama administration alums, including former Vice President Joe Biden and former Attorney General Eric Holder. 

Ellison’s most high-profile backer was Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, but he also picked up support from Sen. Charles Schumer and Mayor de Blasio.

Democrats compared the race to a proxy war that refought the bruising 2016 primary between the left-wing Sanders and the party establishment led by Hillary Clinton.

Ellison enjoyed the support of the party’s upstart liberals, who saw his candidacy as a way to snatch a victory from November’s presidential defeat. Perez, who was on Clinton’s short list for vice president, was backed most strongly by Democratic stalwarts in the Obama and Clinton camps.

But Ellison, who is a Muslim, was damaged by criticism from pro-Israel organizations and slams from major Democratic donors who blasted his past associations with the Nation of Islam.

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Who Is Tom Perez ??

Tom Perez was elected Saturday as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) after a competitive race against Rep. Keith Ellison, becoming the first Latino to lead the party.

Perez, 55, left the Obama administration last month after serving as labor secretary since July 2013. In that job, he helped push for new overtime rules to ensure workers get overtime pay, extended overtime protections for home care workers and extended minimum wage protections.
He also helped establish worker safety rules, and under his leadership the department provided paid sick leave and ensured employment protections for federal contractor employees, according to his biography on the department’s website.

He was elected Saturday in Atlanta, receiving 235 votes and surpassing the 218-vote threshold to win. Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Muslim elected to Congress, received 200 votes. Perez appointed Ellison as deputy chairman immediately after the results were announced.

“We are united as a party,” Perez said after his election, with Ellison standing by his side. “We have so much work ahead of us because across America, people are fearful. People are fearful for our future. Democrats united are the hope for our future.”

Perez is a native of Buffalo, New York, and received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a law degree from Harvard Law School and a master’s of public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

His parents were immigrants from the Dominican Republic. His dad died when Perez was only 12 years old, according to his biography on his campaign website, and he later put himself through college by working on the back of a garbage truck.

He started his career as a civil rights attorney at the Department of Justice and later served as special counselor to Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts. Under Attorney General Janet Reno, Perez served as deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights, and toward the end of the Clinton administration, he was the head of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Before President Obama nominated Perez to his Cabinet, succeeding Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, he returned to the Justice Department in 2009 to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights.

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Remy Ma Releases Diss Track, Ignites Feud With Nicki Minaj

Love & Hip Hop star Remy Ma is taking a break in between filming the hit VH1 reality TV series to focus on her music career, and she’s already setting her sights on her next target. She posted a diss track against fellow hip-hop star Nicki Minaj — and the “Anaconda” singer clapped back!

Remy took to Instagram on Saturday afternoon to post a photo of the cover art for her new song “Shether,” featuring a barbie doll that looked like Nicki Minaj — pink wig and all — with its legs and arms torn off. For the nearly seven-minute-long song, Remy went in on Nicki, taking shot after shot — from accusing Nicki of getting butt shots to making fun of her failed relationship with Philadelphia-based rapper Meek Mill.

Nicki seemingly started the feud with her verse on Gucci Mane’s new song, “Make Love,” which was released yesterday — is what prompted Remy’s response.

But instead of responding to Remy’s new track with another track, Nicki posted a screenshot of an article that stated that “Plata or Plomo” — the follow-up track for Remy’s 2016 hit song “All the Way Up” featuring Fat Joe — only debuted at no. 44 on the charts, which was a disappointment.

“Yikes,” Nicki wrote in the caption, adding a face palm emoji.

Remy opened up about her feud with the "Bang Bang" rapper earlier this month during an interview with NYC-based hip-hop radio station Hot 97. She explained that — at the time — they weren’t feuding because Nicki had not done anything to her so she wouldn’t go after her for no reason. But then she foreshadowed her reaction to Nicki’s “Make Love” verse.

“This is known — check my history — any person I ever had a problem with or felt any type of way about, I would have no problem saying your name,” Remy said. “I don’t want you sitting there wondering if I’m talking about you. I’m going to say your name, your government name, I’m going to talk about your kids, your dog, your grandmother — this is what I’m gonna do. It’s not gonna be a sub, it’s gonna be a direct head shot.”

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