Sky7-HD was over Johnston, Rhode Island, showing a destroyed home missing part of the structure. 

A swimming pool at a nearby home was filled with heavy tables, chairs, an umbrella and patio furniture. Workers were also spotted in bucket trucks working on the downed power lines. 

The tornado in Scituate, Rhode Island took down a large tree, seen here laying across the top of a red building. Another aerial shot from the area shows all the trees surrounding a house snapped in half.

The strong winds also stripped on shingles and damaged many roofs in the area. 

The National Weather Service also confirmed a tornado in Massachusetts, where crews were seen using chainsaws to chop up fallen trees. 

In Mansfield, a house was spared despite several trees fallen in the yard and in the nearby area.

As on Friday evening, no injuries were reported after the multiple reports of tornadoes.

The palm-sized female pandas were born at the Everland Resort theme park southeast of the capital Seoul on July 7, the zoo said in a statement Tuesday.

Video posted to YouTube showed their mother Ai Bao picking up the first cub, weighing 180 grams (6 ounces), with her mouth, then delivering the second cub, weighing 140 grams, an hour later.

The twins’ birth is considered rare – there’s less than a 50% chance of pandas giving birth to twins – and in the wild, they struggle to survive as mothers can often only care for one of their cubs.

Both the mother and her offspring are in good health, the zoo said in a statement, with staff providing postpartum care based on their experience helping the now 9-year-old deliver her first cub, Fu Bao, three years ago.

“I am very happy that twin baby pandas were born for the first time in Korea,” said Kang Cheol-won, a zookeeper responsible for setting up the panda enclosure at the park. “I will continue to take good care of them so that they can become a panda family that will deliver hope and joy to the public.”

The mammals, known for their penchant for bamboo, are native to China and deemed a “national treasure.”

For decades, Beijing has been sent them abroad as ambassadors to show goodwill in what is known as “panda diplomacy.”

The twins’ parents, Ai Bao and father Le Bao, were loaned to South Korea in 2016 and went on to deliver Fu Bao, the first locally born panda in 2020. The new twins are yet to be named.

Jung Dong-hee, director of Everland Zoo, called the birth of the pandas “another important achievement from the cooperation between Korea and China on panda research.”

Giant pandas have one fertile period throughout the year, lasting just one to three days each time, and their preference to live alone in their natural habitats means they rarely mate.

Given the challenge, the zoo said it had analyzed hormonal changes among the pandas to search for the best mating window, and observed the behavioral changes of the mother after she became pregnant.

It is estimated that around 1,800 pandas remain in the wild, mostly in the mountains of Sichuan, western China.

Beijing currently loans its pandas to about 20 countries.

Steven Jackson, 66, died during the attack and the bear was killed by a neighbor who was trying to save his life, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office.

“From multiple witness accounts and preliminary investigation of the scene, Mr. Jackson had been sitting having coffee at a table on his property where he was building a home,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post, adding it was a remote, heavily wooded area.

“It appears that a male black bear attacked Mr. Jackson, taking him unaware, and dragged him approximately 75 feet down an embankment.”

Neighbors heard Jackson screaming and tried to help “through shouts and car horns” but the bear did not release him until a neighbor shot him with his rifle, the sheriff’s office said.

“Unfortunately, by that time Mr. Jackson has succumbed to his horrible injuries,” they added.

“It sounds like this would have been a predatory attack,” said John Trierweiler, public information officer for the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

This kind of attack is “highly uncommon and unusual, with only one other fatal attack known since the mid 1980s,” the sheriff’s office said. Fatal bear attacks in general are exceedingly rare, averaging about one per year in the US, according to the North American Bear Center.

“At first glance there did not appear to be anything on the site that would have precipitated an attack by the bear, such as food, a cooking site or access to water,” they added.

Trierweiler further explained the incident did not seem like a female bear protecting her cubs, but law enforcement officials are still gathering the facts about what occurred.

Black bears are the only bears found in Arizona, according to the US Forest Service, which says they usually avoid people.

“We have had no other reports that would indicate that the public is in danger. Please do not shoot any bear unless there is an immediate threat. It is against the law to shoot any bear unless there is a threat to your safety or the safety of others,” said the sheriff’s office.

Named Vectipelta barretti, it is the first armored dinosaur, or ankylosaur, to have been found on the island in 142 years, according to a statement from London’s Natural History Museum, where several of the researchers who discovered the dinosaur work.

The dinosaur would have lived during the Early Cretaceous period, 145-100.5 million years ago, the museum said.

There are few fossils dating from the period worldwide, which some believe suggests there was a mass extinction at the end of the Jurassic period, which preceded it.

Given the lack of fossil record from the Early Cretaceous period in other parts of the world, the Isle of Wight is vitally important for our understanding of what happened, the museum said.

“This is an important specimen because it sheds light on ankylosaur diversity within the Wessex formation and Early Cretaceous England,” said study lead author Stuart Pond, a researcher at the Natural History Museum.

“For virtually 142 years, all ankylosaur remains from the Isle of Wight have been assigned to Polacanthus foxii, a famous dinosaur from the island, now all of those finds need to be revisited because we’ve described this new species.”

The new species has several differences to Polacanthus foxii, which was previously the only ankylosaur known to have lived on the island, with variations in neck and back vertebrae, as well as the pelvis and the spiked armor.

The team’s analysis showed that Vectipelta barretti is most closely related to Chinese ankylosaurs, suggesting dinosaurs were able to move between Asia and Europe in the Early Cretaceous.

The dinosaur is named after Professor Paul Barrett, who has worked at the museum for 20 years.

“I’m flattered and absolutely delighted to have been recognised in this way, not least as the first paper I ever wrote was also on an armoured dinosaur in the NHM (Natural History Museum) collections,” he said in the statement.

“I’m sure that any physical resemblance is purely accidental,” he added.

The paper is published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, and the team believe more new species will be discovered on the Isle of Wight, an important source of dinosaur fossils, in the future.

In June 2022, scientists identified the remains of a spinosaurid, a predatory dinosaur with two legs and a crocodile-like face, on the island.

It would have measured more than 10 meters (about 33 feet) in length and weighed several tons, making it one of Europe’s biggest land-based hunters.

Fans are used to seeing games stopped for downfalls of rain, heavy snow, injuries or even, as seen in recent days, smoke from wildfires.

But have you ever heard of bees stopping play?

At a cricket festival in Ireland, a game had to be suspended as a swarm of bees descended onto the pitch forcing everyone in the vicinity to hide from the buzzy mob.

Players and umpires were pictured lying on the ground at the Mardyke in Cork, trying to avoid the 20,000 bees making themselves familiar with their new surroundings.

The bees felt so at home that they even started to make a hive near the pavilion, where lots of the spectators were sat watching.

The live stream showing the event declared “bees stop play” as the presence of the bees near the clubhouse meant the game had to be suspended for 112 minutes before it could be restarted.

Mauro Dias, who works for local bee rescue service Buzz of Nature, was then called into action to save the day.

The local beekeeper arrived at the cricket ground and found the queen bee – rescuing the cricket fans, players, and umpires from the swarm.

As a result of the delay, the length of the game between the Northern Knights and the Munster Reds had to be reduced.

The Knights ended up winning the game by seven wickets, overcoming their opponents and the 20,000-strong swarm along the way.

The streaming service has seen a bigger jump in new subscriber sign-ups as a result of the crackdown than it did in the early days of the Covid pandemic. That’s according to data collected by streaming analytics company Antenna, which reported Friday that Netflix had its “four single largest days” of new user sign-ups in the United States in late May in the more than four years that firm has been measuring the service.

Netflix added 100,000 new accounts on both May 26 and May 27, shortly after the crackdown went into effect, Antenna’s data found. In the following days, Netflix has seen a more than 100% increase in sign-ups from the prior 60-day average.

“These exceed the spikes in sign-ups Antenna observed during the initial US Covid-19 lockdowns in March and April 2020,” the firm said in a report. It also noted that “cancels also increased during this period, but not as much as sign-ups.”

Netflix (NFLX) shares popped on the news, rising nearly 2% in early trading Friday. Shares have climbed over 27%, to about $415, over the last month.

For years, Netflix turned a blind eye to password sharing because it was fueling growth. But the streamer suffered heavy subscriber losses last year, and said that password sharing hurt its revenues and therefore limited its ability to invest in new content.

It has previously estimated that more than 100 million households worldwide share an account.

Last month, the service alerted US subscribers that if they share passwords with people outside of their household, they would have to add an extra member to their account for an additional $7.99 monthly fee — or sign up for a new account. It also plans to block users with unauthorized passwords.

The company started to clamp down on password sharing in several countries earlier this year, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain.

Netflix recently reported a net increase of 1.75 million global streaming subscribers in the first quarter, up nearly 5% from the same period in the prior year, but below the more than 3 million Wall Street analysts had expected.

Netflix said in an earnings call last month that it has seen a “cancel reaction in each market when we announce the news” about the paid sharing option, but then it sees “increased acquisition and revenue.”

Known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), the mineral-rich site stretches six million square kilometers from Mexico to Hawaii. About twice the size of India, the CCZ has already been carved up into mining claims for future exploitation, with companies eager to harvest abundant deposits of key battery materials like manganese and cobalt that are located 4,000 to 6,000 metres below the surface.

To better understand what could be at risk once mining begins, a team of biologists led by London’s Natural History Museum sought to survey the region’s biodiversity. Of the 5,578 species they identified, approximately 90 per cent were entirely new to science.

“We share this planet with all this amazing biodiversity, and we have a responsibility to understand it and protect it,” lead author and Natural History Museum deep-sea ecologist Muriel Rabone said in a news release last week. “There are so many wonderful species in the CCZ, and with the possibility of mining looming, it’s doubly important that we know more about these really understudied habitats.”

The team compiled a list of all species found in previous studies of the region, and also embarked on their own research expeditions to survey the ocean floor. Using techniques like remote-controlled vehicles and box core sampling, which is basically a box that scoops up material from the seafloor, they collected over 100,000 records of creatures of the deep from this largely untouched underwater wilderness.

“It’s a big boat, but it feels tiny in the middle of the ocean,” Rabone said of the research cruises. “And it was amazing—in every single box core sample, we would see new species.”

The most common types of animals were arthropods like worms and sponges. Newly discovered species included what’s known as the “gummy squirrel,” a gelatinous-looking sea cucumber with a large tail-like protrusion. Only six species have been seen elsewhere in the ocean.

“Some of the sponges look like classic bath sponges, and some look like vases. They’re just beautiful,” Rabone said. “One of my favorites is the glass sponges. They have these little spines, and under the microscope, they look like tiny chandeliers or little sculptures.”

The peer-reviewed study, which includes images, was published in the journal Current Biology last week.

The UN-affiliated International Seabed Authority, which was created to regulate mining in international waters, begins accepting applications to exploit the CCZ in July. Commercial deep-sea mining, which is still in an exploratory phase, would collect potato-sized deposits known as “polymetallic nodules” that can be found on and just under the region’s seabed.

“There are so many wonderful species in the CCZ, and with the possibility of mining looming, it’s doubly important that we know more about these really understudied habitats,” Rabone said.

While companies and countries like China and the U.S. pursue deep-sea mining, others like France, Chile and Canada have called for moratoriums or bans in their waters over environmental concerns.

Three sand cat kittens were born on May 11 to first-time mother Sahara, 3, and father, Cosmo, 9, according to the North Carolina Zoo.

The weeks-old kittens, who were tiny enough to fit in a person’s palm at birth, are starting to explore their home at the zoo’s Desert Habitat, according to zoo officials.

The public will soon get a chance to weigh in on what their names should be in a poll, the zoo said, adding details would be shared on its social media pages and website.

The kittens mark the North Carolina Zoo’s third animal birth in less than two weeks. A baby male giraffe calf was born on May 20 and a baby male chimpanzee was born the following day.

Cosmo and Sahara were paired through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Sand Cat Species Survival Plan, “which aims to maintain a healthy and genetically diverse population of sand cats to increase their numbers,” the North Carolina Zoo said in the release.

The association’s institutions house over 50 sand cats.

Despite the cute appearance of the felines – who have big eyes and a petite frame – the cats are a ferocious animal that zookeepers warn shouldn’t be kept as a pet, according to the zoo.

Native to deserts in Asia, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, sand cats are the only felines that live in exclusively desert environments, the zoo said.

Sand cats are among the world’s tiniest felines, weighing up to eight pounds and reaching an average length of 20 inches, according to the North Carolina Zoo.

The decks of boats docked at Wahweap Marina on Lake Powell smoldered as black plumes of smoke wafted into the air above the lake and the red rock walls that form its perimeter, video from observers shows.

Robert Wilkes, the owner of Skylite Houseboat Management, said the fire began in the early afternoon and grew for about an hour and a half. Wilkes, a trained firefighter, used a garden hose and worked with park rangers, who he said arrived soon after the boats ignited, to help put out the fire.

“I started pulling boats off the dock trying to create a gap so it didn’t act like a tree line,” he said.

As of Friday evening, the fire had been extinguished and contained, said Lisa Cesaro, a spokesperson with Aramark Destinations, which maintains the marina.

“The cause of the fire is being investigated and information will be released by the National Park Service when available,” Cesaro said.

The Park Service did not immediately respond to requests from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Wilkes said he had not heard of anyone injured. But he said one of his management company’s boats had been destroyed.

Throughout the spring, boaters have returned their vessels to the marina after an abnormally wet winter elevated lake levels that had previously hit historic lows. More than two million visitors go boating on Lake Powell annually, according to the National Park Service.

Park rangers previously responded to houseboat fires several times in recent years, including in 2022, 2015 and 2011.

Security video shows the SUV inside a Subway in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

The driver backs up into the parkin lot, then floors it and ends up back inside the restaurant.

Police say the 75-year-old driver admitted to drinking alcohol just before the incident.

No one was hurt.

Salmonella was detected during a sampling of the 5-pound bag of the product, the company said.

The bags of 2, 5, and 10-pound bleached and unbleached all-purpose flour have a “better if used by” date of March 27, 2024, and March 28, 2024, General Mills said.

“All other types of Gold Medal Flour are not affected by this recall,” the company said in the announcement.

General Mills did not immediately respond to a CNN inquiry about the recall.

Most flour is raw and hasn’t been treated to kill germs that cause food poisoning, according to the CDC. Salmonella bacteria dies when it is cooked or baked, but people can get sick when eating or tasting foods that include raw flour. Raw dough used for crafts and play clay also pose a risk.

Symptoms of a salmonella infection include diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps that can start within hours or days of consuming the bacteria. Most people will recover with treatment but should seek immediate attention from a health care provider if they have severe symptoms, symptoms that don’t improve after a few days or signs of dehydration.

“I’m just simply giving back to those who give to me every single day,” Staton said.

The 27-year-old from Maryland collected garbage for years to afford his undergraduate degree. He says the sanitation company he was working for at the time helped him get back to school, and he was accepted into Harvard Law School.

His success story went viral, and now he’s making a difference for sanitation workers at the university. Staton says it all started when he said hello to a custodian in the hallway.

“She said me? I said yes you, how are you doing? And she said I’m sorry, I’m sorry, students don’t talk to me. Students would rather look at the wall then talk to me,” he said. “I was kind of taken back, and I said, ‘oh I’m sorry, I’m going to talk to you though.'”

Staton began developing relationships with the school support staff and started a nonprofit called The Reciprocity Effect to help give back to them.

“My simple vision was you have a group of people who go above and beyond every day, doing the work that a lot of people just don’t want to do,” Staton said. “It’s just important to reciprocate that, and to make sure that you’re feeding the same people who are feeding you.”

So far, Staton has raised over $70,000 and says he’s not done yet. 

“There’s still work to be done, but I’m just very grateful that I’m able to make the people around me proud.”

Staton is set to graduate next month and plans to be a corporate lawyer in New York. His goal is to one day become a sports agent.

And the widespread use of single-use plastic — the stuff we use once and then throw away — is only made worse by its disposal. Plastics do not break down once they’re thrown into nature. And, alarmingly, only around 9% plastic in the United States is actually recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency — even the stuff you specifically threw into the recycle bin.

What you might not realize is this isn’t just a pollution problem. It’s a climate problem. And by the time we start talking about recycling, the damage is already done.

The process of making plastic is so energy intensive that if the plastics industry were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, according to a 2021 report from Beyond Plastics.

Plastics are the “new coal,” said Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator and now president of Beyond Plastics. Generating energy from coal — the most polluting fossil fuel — is already being phased out. But Enck said it’s likely that plastics may be sticking for a while longer, unless consumers significant cut their plastic use.

“It’s a climate killer,” Enck told CNN. “We’re finally seeing an increase in renewable energy and energy efficiency. And the fossil fuel industry knew that they were losing market share on transportation and electricity generation, so plastic production is the plan B for the fossil fuel industry.”

From its production to its end-of-life, plastic belches greenhouse gas emissions at every stage of its life cycle. Here’s why experts say the convenience of plastic comes at a terrible cost for the climate, and what you can do to help reduce its impact.

Quantifying the impact

The plastic industry is responsible for at least 232 million tons of planet-warming emissions each year, according to the Beyond Plastics report.

That’s the same amount as the average emissions released by 116 coal-fired power plants in 2020, according to the report’s authors. It’s also the same annual emissions as around 50 million cars, according to the EPA. And more plastic-making facilities continue to come online.

“Remember that when you’re making plastic, there’s the greenhouse gas emissions, but these facilities also emit massive amounts of air toxins and particulates,” Enck added. “It’s really a health threat.”

Refineries and production facilities also tend to set up shop in marginalized communities of color, Enck said.

“If you look at where more than 90% of the climate pollution is released by the plastic industry, it’s in 18 communities in the whole country, and they’re all low-income communities and the residents are more likely to be people of color,” Enck said, outlining other findings in the report. “Plastic production is an environmental justice issue.”

And plastic recycling doesn’t work, Enck said, because most of what we think we’re recycling just ends up in the landfill. It also doesn’t address the planet-warming emissions that comes from making it in the first place.

Jacqueline Savitz, chief policy officer for Oceana in North America, said people should think of the plastic crisis as an overflowing bathtub.

“When the bathtub is overflowing, you don’t want to just run for the mop; first, you want to turn off the faucet,” Savitz said. “Recycling is the mop. You’re not going to get very far, if the faucet is still on. So what we have to do is reduce the amount of plastics that we’re producing at the source, and that’s turning off the faucet.”

What you can do about it

Recycling alone will not solve this massive problem, Enck said, but we should still do it — bearing in mind what can and cannot be recycled.

The number system on the bottom of plastic items are not a guarantee they will be recycled. Only things marked 1 and 2 — and on rare occasion, 5 — are sure bets, depending on what your municipality can handle.

This is why it’s so important to focus on reducing plastic use in the first place, Enck said, and our individual changes can add up.

“It’s just not going to solve the problem unless we change the law,” Enck said. “But with individual actions, what I urge people to do is look at their own home or their worksite — what is your heaviest use of plastic?”

You won’t know what you can change until you take stock. Make note of all of the plastics in your home. Most of the single-use stuff you’ll find around the kitchen and the bathroom. Then, armed with a list of where you use single-use plastic the most, you can start to make replacements.

Here are some examples:

Say no to bottled water — Get a couple of canteens and cut a major source of plastic out of your life.

Reusable grocery bags — You can easily go a step further by not using the plastic produce bags the store provides for your apples and broccoli. If you’re uncomfortable putting produce directly in the cart, have a special bag to carry it in until you get to the checkout. There’s no rule that says you have to wrap your fruits and veggies at the store.

Choose paper (or no) packaging over plastic — If you’re looking at two versions of the same product and one is packaged in paper or cardboard and the other is in plastic, then the choice is obvious. And look for plastic-free options like bar shampoo.

Buy in bulk to reduce plastic waste — Nuts, rice and beans are all things that come in plastic bags, but they don’t need to. Bring your own reusable containers to fill with your favorite bulk foods. (Just make sure to zero-out the scale before you start filling them, so you don’t pay for the weight of your container.)

Refuse plastic cutlery — Take your own utensils to restaurants that typically provide plastics. Or, if you’re ordering takeout, tell the restaurant they don’t need to add it to your bag.

And Enck’s group has more suggestions for how to cut your personal plastic use.

Think bigger

Ultimately, the world needs large-scale change to address the climate impact of the fossil fuel and plastics industries, Savitz said. Oceana, for example, is working with local volunteers from cities and counties around the country to help pass new laws to reduce single-use plastics, in hopes of sparking change at the national level.

“We think that if we could start to reduce single-use plastics at the local level with local ordinances, that can start to become more of the norm,” she said. “Then we can start taking it to higher levels of government, even getting to the point of getting national policies that will drive reductions in plastic use.”

Ultimately, Savitz said consumers need to continue urging major corporations to provide plastic-free solutions and help support refill and reuse programs to encourage society to shy away from plastic use and stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

“Our country is burning and flooding and hurricanes are coming earlier and earlier,” she told CNN. “I really think it’s shocking that one of the things that’s really leading to that is plastics, and it’s hurting us in other ways, too. So if we could find a way to reduce our production of plastics as a country and as a global society, we’d be taking a bite out of climate change.”

Wilson, who starred as Dwight Schrute on the hit series, observed his seatmate watching the show, completely unaware that it was Wilson, in a face mask and wearing headphones, in the next seat over.

Wilson shared a video of the funny incident, writing, “When the person sitting next to you has no idea who you are.”

The actor, who most recently appeared in “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” will soon embark on a publicity tour for his new book, “Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.” The book covers humanity’s “need for profound healing and a unifying understanding of the world that the great spiritual traditions provide,” according to the official synopsis.

In the video, the podcasters are seen with their backs turned as a truck slams into the window right behind them.

The vehicle nearly grazed them both, but they were not injured.

Officials have not said what caused the driver to crash into the building.

Tracy Hansen says she had no idea what hit her at first and was shocked, frightened, and in a daze.

“I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something, ” Hansen said. “I had put my hands to my head, and I’m like, I’m bleeding.”

Once she sat up, she saw the moose and began to piece together what had happened.

“Knowing the moose had been somewhere behind me, and now, here is this moose in front of me, I was like, is that the moose?” Hansen said.

A family who stopped to help caught the whole thing on camera.

“My husband was able to pull her over the snow bank, so we can put her in the truck with her dog and kind of get her out of the way, said witness Kate Timmons.

Hansen and Timmons recently met up for the first time since the incident, recounting a night that could have ended a lot worse.

“It happened so fast. It was like, a matter of getting her out of the situation, getting her help, making sure, my big thing was she didn’t have head trauma –there wasn’t a bleed or something” Timmons said.

Hansen and her dog have since returned to the same path.

“We’ll be back on our normal walks, the moose won’t stop that,” Hansen said.

Hansen said she is still recovering from bruising and has three staples in her head.

The incident happened off the coast of Exuma. Passengers who were on a board tour gasped and screamed as the god leapt into the water, appearing to fight the shark.

The dog then managed to get away, victoriously climbing ashore as if this wasn’t its first rodeo.

Exuma Water Sports says the pup lives on the private island.

It’s unclear if the dog was defending its home or looking to play with the shark.

Either way, the dog escaped unharmed, and hopefully the shark did too.

On Wednesday, police in Astoria, Oregon, received a report that a man had left a dead fish on the porch of the house used in the “The Goonies,” police said in a news release. The 1985 comedy adventure was based on a story by Steven Spielberg.

CNN affiliate KGW reported that surveillance video at the house showed the man laying the fish on the porch and making a cell phone video of it before walking away. Police searched two days for the man, identified as 35-year-old Jericho Labonte.

On Friday morning, the Coast Guard received a mayday broadcast from a man piloting a boat at the mouth of the Columbia River, the agency said in a series of tweets.

Coast Guard video showed two helicopters arriving to find the boat being tossed by waves, the Coast Guard said on Twitter.

“The surf made rescue by boat dangerous, so the aircrew decided to lower the rescue swimmer and have the owner enter the water for rescue,” the tweet said.

Video shot from a helicopter showed the rescue swimmer approaching the boat when a wave struck the vessel and caused it to capsize. The man was thrown into the water but the rescue swimmer reached the man and the two of them were lifted into a helicopter.

“Talk about arriving in the nick of time!” the Coast Guard tweeted.

The Coast Guard didn’t name the rescued man but posted a photo of him being carried out of the helicopter. He was taken to a hospital in Astoria, treated and discharged.

After images of the water rescue aired, police said they received a call from the Astoria port security chief saying the vessel in the rescue had been stolen earlier in the day.

“At about the same time, we received calls from several citizens identifying the rescued victim as Labonte,” the police news release said.

After a brief search and asking the public for its assistance, Labonte was arrested Friday night at a warming center in Seaside, about 17 miles to the south, according to Astoria police. The exact charges were not immediately known.

CNN is working to determine whether Labonte has an attorney.

Police said he was wanted on charges of theft, endangering another person, unauthorized use of a vehicle and criminal mischief.

Police in Victoria, Canada, had tweeted that Labonte is wanted on warrants for criminal harassment, mischief and fail to comply.

Six-year-old Mason Stonehouse was playing on his dad’s phone before bedtime and spent about $1,000 on Grubhub orders. The food started coming to the Chesterfield Township family’s home near Detroit around 9 pm Saturday night. And it kept coming.

The Stonehouse family’s Ring camera footage shows delivery after delivery coming to the door. Mason’s dad, Keith, was bewildered — until he figured out what happened.

“I said, ‘What is going on? Why are you bringing me food?” his perplexed dad asked a food delivery driver according to an interview with CNN affiliate WDIV-TV. It finally clicked with him that he let his son use his phone earlier that night, telling the TV station that Mason was “going to town” with the Grubhub app.

Mason ordered basically every food that ever existed, including shrimp, salads, shawarma, chicken pita wraps, sandwiches, chili cheese fries and multiple orders of ice cream. So much food was ordered that Keith’s bank sent him a fraud alert declining a $400 order of pizza.

His father tried calling the restaurants to stop the orders once he figured out what had happened, but they told him to contact Grubhub. The leftover food was shared with neighbors and eaten as leftovers.

“While all of the food was being delivered and I figured out what happened, I went to talk to Mason about what he did and this is the only part that makes me laugh,” Keith told MLive.com. “I was trying to explain to him that this wasn’t good and he puts his hand up and stops me and says ‘Dad, did the pepperoni pizzas come yet?’ I had to walk out of the room. I didn’t know if I should get mad or laugh.”

Grubhub said the company reached out to the Stonehouse family about their son’s “unexpected spending spree” and offered them $1,000 worth of Grubhub gift cards.

Mason’s parents said they tried to turn the six-year old’s spending spree into a money management teaching moment. They grabbed his piggy bank and started taking money out — a coin for the pizza, a coin for the shrimp and so on.

“It sunk in when we were actually taking his money to teach him a lesson,” said Kristin Stonehouse, Mason’s mother, who told Mason, “We know this money in your piggy bank means something to you … [and] it’s only a fraction of what was spent.”

Mason’s parents said it will take some time before he gets his phone privileges back.

An officer used rope to catch the animal.

Once the goat was captured, it was turned in to animal control to get the care it needs.

The disoriented animal danced around before ultimately leaving the way it came, leaving a large hole and shards of glass near the door.

Shop owner Melissa Evans says it’s a lot to clean up, but it definitely makes for a great story.

Evans had to shut down the shop for a day to make repairs.

ChaCha Watson says she needed her daughter to take dinner out of the freezer to defrost, but her daughter wasn’t answering the phone, so she got creative by using a video game the two play together.

Watson’s character ended up meeting with her daughter’s character and messaged her saying, “Take the lasagna out the freezer and garlic bread so I can cook it.”

Watson took a screenshot of the message, which later went viral on social media.

The vaccine is very much still in the developmental phase, but experts are already calling it a potential gamechanger. While emergency overdose reverser Narcan treats an overdose after it’s already happened, the vaccine would prevent the overdose from happening altogether.

The vaccine would block the deadly drug from entering the brain, just like a vaccine to prevent illness, by generating anti-fentanyl antibodies that prevent the user from getting high.

Experts like Bertha Madras PHD, a professor of psychobiology at Harvard’s medical school, said it could flip the script on the opioid crisis by preventing relapse in addicts trying to quit.

“There is a rationale for this that is probably very valid, and could save lives,” Madras said.

Madras has done extensive work with drug policy. She doesn’t see the vaccine as a cure-all to end addiction, but does believe the impact on harm reduction could be huge.

“There are many people who don’t know that they’re getting fentanyl,” she said. “And therefore it is a, it serves as a protector.”

However, she fears it would not appeal to addicts intentionally seeking fentanyl for a stronger high.

The drug could also be modified, making the vaccine useless. But after an unprecedented 1000+ overdose deaths in the past year, Madras welcomes any new weapon to fight the epidemic.

“My dream is that nobody, nobody should ever die of a drug overdose,” Madras said. “And this is going to be one of the pieces of equipment that may help turn the curve around.”

Clinical studies in rats showed no adverse side effects to the vaccines, and researchers hope to begin clinical trials in humans in the coming months.

The protostar the image centers around is hidden from view in the neck of a dark, hourglass-shape cloud of gas and dust. The dark line across the middle of the neck is a protoplanetary disc — dense gas and dust that could form a planet in the future — about the size of our solar system. Light from the protostar spreads above and below this disc, according to a news release.

It has a long way to go until it becomes a full-fledged star. L1527, as the protostar and its cloud are known, is only about 100,000 years old — a relatively young celestial bodycompared with our sun, which is about 4.6 billion years old.

The blue and orange clouds in the image outline cavities created as material shoots away from the protostar and collides with the surrounding matter, the release noted.

The nebula’s vibrant colors are only visible in infrared light detected by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, making Webb particularly essential to revealing otherwise hidden aspects of the universe.

The blue areas are where the dust is thinnest. The thicker the layer of dust, the less blue light is able to escape, creating pockets of orange.

“Shocks and turbulence inhibit the formation of new stars, which would otherwise form throughout the cloud. As a result, the protostar dominates the space, taking much of the material for itself,” according to the news release.

The protostar doesn’t yet generate its own energy through nuclear fusion of hydrogen, an essential characteristic of stars. Its shape — a puffy clump of hot gas somewhere between 20% and 40% of the mass of our sun — is also unstable.

The image provides context for what our sun and solar system looked like in their infancy.

Webb, which first began sharing new perspectives on the universe in July, is an international partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

The second one of the year, the eclipse will begin at 3:02 a.m. ET, with the moon initially dimming for the first hour, and end at 8:50 a.m. ET.

At totality, the stage at which the entire moon will be in Earth’s shadow, the moon will turn a dark reddish hue, which is why a total eclipse is also called a blood moon. Sky gazers will be able to see the striking effect beginning at 5:17 a.m. ET, according to NASA.

“They aren’t that common, so it’s always nice to get a hold of them when you can,” said Dr. Alphonse Sterling, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “I think they’re excellent learning devices for people who want to get into astronomy.”

A total lunar eclipse occurs approximately once every 1 ½ years on average, with the next total lunar eclipse not taking place until March 14, 2025 — although partial and penumbral lunar eclipses will continue to occur in the meantime. A penumbral lunar eclipse happens when the moon moves through the outer shadow, or penumbra, of the Earth, so the visual effect is more subtle.

Those viewing the total lunar eclipse will be able to see the curvature of Earth’s shadow as it begins to slowly swallow the moon completely. At least a portion of the phenomenon will be visible throughout eastern Asia, Australia, the Pacific, North America and Central America, according to NASA.

Every first full moon of November is called the beaver moon in honor of the semiaquatic rodents. This is the time of year when beavers begin to take shelter after storing their food for the winter, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The moon will be at its brightest at 6:02 a.m. ET, the almanac notes.

Viewing a lunar eclipse

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth and moon align so that the moon passes into Earth’s shadow. Because of this arrangement, unlike a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse can be enjoyed from anywhere the moon is present during the night. Nearby stars are usually obscured by the moon’s glow, but the moon will be dimmed enough for the duration of the eclipse that they will be revealed, according to Sterling.

“With solar eclipses, you have to be at the right place, but for lunar eclipses, it’s not nearly as sensitive to location,” Sterling said.

“The whole half of the earth that is in night during the period when the moon falls into the shadow can see it. So basically, it’s available to half the world.”

The same phenomenon that colors the sky blue and sunsets red is what causes the moon to turn its rusty red during a lunar eclipse, according to NASA. During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s atmosphere disperses sunlight, allowing red, orange and yellow light to pass through, and scattering away the blue light that is typically seen with the moon.

In the eastern United States and Canada, the moon will set before the eclipse is over, so it’s best to look toward the western horizon to see its entirety. Viewing a solar eclipse requires eye protection, but you can safely enjoy a lunar eclipse without any gear — though your view can be enhanced with binoculars.

“This is a really nice thing about lunar eclipses, in particular. You really need nothing except your eyes. The moon is a bright object, so you don’t need a particularly dark place to view the event,” Sterling said. “And the shadings, the beautiful red color that you see during the eclipse, you can see anywhere, even in the middle of a city.”

Remaining events in 2022

After the beaver blood moon, this year has one more full moon event, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The cold moon takes place on December 7.

As for meteor showers, right now, you can view the South Taurids in the night sky. Catch the peak of these upcoming meteor shower events later this year, according to EarthSky’s 2022 meteor shower guide:

• North Taurids: November 12

• Leonids: November 17-18

• Geminids: December 13-14

• Ursids: December 22-23

The researchers found that people who are most attractive to mosquitoes produce a lot of certain chemicals on their skin that are tied to smell. And bad news for mosquito magnets: The bloodsuckers stay loyal to their favorites over time.

“If you have high levels of this stuff on your skin, you’re going to be the one at the picnic getting all the bites,” said study author Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University in New York.

There’s a lot of folklore about who gets bitten more but many claims aren’t backed up with strong evidence, said Vosshall.

To put mosquito magnetism to the test, the researchers designed an experiment pitting people’s scents against each other, explained study author Maria Elena De Obaldia. Their findings were published Tuesday in the journal Cell.

They asked 64 volunteers from the university and nearby to wear nylon stockings around their forearms to pick up their skin smells. The stockings were put in separate traps at the end of a long tube, then dozens of mosquitos were released.

“They would basically swarm to the most attractive subjects,” De Obaldia said. “It became very obvious right away.”

Scientists held a round-robin tournament and ended up with a striking gap: The biggest mosquito magnet was around 100 times more attractive to the mosquitoes than the last place finisher.

The experiment used the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads diseases like yellow fever, Zika and dengue. Vosshall said she’d expect similar results from other kinds, but would need more research to confirm.

By testing the same people over multiple years, the study showed that these big differences stick around, said Matt DeGennaro, a neurogeneticist at Florida International University who was not involved with the research.

“Mosquito magnets seem to remain mosquito magnets,” DeGennaro said.

Out of the favorites, the researchers found a common factor: Mosquito magnets had high levels of certain acids on their skin. These “greasy molecules” are part of the skin’s natural moisturizing layer, and people produce them in different amounts, Vosshall said. The healthy bacteria that live on the skin eat up these acids and produce part of our skin’s odor profile, she said.

You can’t get rid of these acids without damaging your skin health too, said Vosshall, who is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and serves as its chief scientific officer. The institute also supports The Associated Press’ Health and Science Department.

But the research could help find new methods to repel mosquitoes, said Jeff Riffell, a neurobiologist at the University of Washington who was not involved with the study. There may be ways to tinker with skin bacteria and change humans’ tantalizing smells, he said.

Still, figuring out ways to fight off mosquitoes isn’t easy, Riffell said, since the critters have evolved to be “lean, mean biting machines.”

The study proved this point: Researchers also did the experiment with mosquitoes whose genes were edited to damage their sense of smell. The bugs still flocked to the same mosquito magnets.

“Mosquitoes are resilient,” Vosshall said. “They have many backup plans to be able to find us and bite us.”

The “Seal Xing” sign was installed in the office park near Shoe Pond, where Shoebert the seal appeared last month.

Rescuers worked for days to get Shoebert out of the pond, until he waddled out of the pond and “turned himself in” at the nearby police station under the cover of night.

“The seal crossing was a great way, a tongue-in-cheek subtle way to reinforce the story,” Jim Trudeau, designer of the seal Xing sign, said. “And who knows, maybe Shoebert does come back for a visit and we want to make sure he’s safe as he works his way through the parking area.”

Once rescuers were able to get ahold of Shoebert, the seal was taken to Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut. He was then released just last week off the coast of Rhode Island with a tracking device.

As 7NEWS previously reported, officials at the aquarium noticed Shoebert’s travels heading back toward the North Shore, and said he may be following the trails of past seal travelers all the way up to Maine or Canada.

Should he stay in the North Shore, the city of Beverly will be ready for his return.

The space agency attempted the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.

“This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington.

The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand miles (kilometers). It took days of telescope observations from Chile and South Africa to determine how much the impact altered the path of the 525-foot (160-meter) asteroid around its companion, a much bigger space rock.

Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its parent asteroid. Scientists had hoped to shave off 10 minutes but Nelson said the impact shortened the asteroid’s orbit by about 32 minutes.

Neither asteroid posed a threat to Earth — and still don’t as they continue their journey around the sun. That’s why scientists picked the pair for the world’s first attempt to alter the position of a celestial body.

”We’ve been imagining this for years and to have it finally be real is really quite a thrill,” said NASA program scientist Tom Statler.

Launched last year, the vending machine-size Dart — short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test — was destroyed when it slammed into the asteroid 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) away at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph).

Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland built the spacecraft and managed the $325 million mission.

“This is a very exciting and promising result for planetary defense,” said the lab’s Nancy Chabot.

On Sunday, October 9, just before 5 p.m. ET, a full moon will reach its peak illumination, the US Naval Observatory’s Astronomical Applications Department said. But the moon will still be below the horizon — you’ll need to wait until sunset to fully relish the hunter’s moon and its ghostly glow.

Why the hunter’s moon? Every full moon comes with a long list of nicknames typically tied to the months of year during which it occurs, according to EarthSky. The hunter’s moon and its September predecessor, the harvest moon, however, are named for the seasons.

September’s full moon was closest to this year’s autumnal equinox, which fell on September 22, and thus became 2022’s harvest moon, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. The full moon after the harvest moon becomes the hunter’s moon by default.

(Native American tribes have different names for the full moons, such as the Arapaho tribe’s “falling leaves moon” for this month’s full moon, and the Passamaquoddy tribe’s “frost fish moon” for the full moon occurring in December.)

The hunter’s moon has historically signaled to farmers that it was time to prepare for the chilly winter ahead, as the full moon’s light provided easy visibility for hunting the animals that would fuel them through the cold months, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

“Animals are beginning to fatten up ahead of winter, and since the farmers had recently cleaned out their fields under the harvest moon, hunters could easily see the deer and other animals that had come out to root through the remaining scraps,” the Almanac said.

While these early farmers looked to their illuminated fields during the full moon for a successful hunt, you might be encouraged to look up. (And if you feel inclined, you can always do some meal prep.)

You’ll first be able to observe the hunter’s moon in the sky on Saturday, October 8. And as the sun sinks below the horizon on Sunday night when it’s at its peak, the moon will look bigger and more orange than usual — a result of the ‘moon illusion’ phenomenon, a trick that your brain plays on the eyes.

When the moon is low in the sky, it is viewed in relation to things like chimneys and trees so that our eyes can make sense of its size and shape, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. “Your brain compares the size of the Moon to the trees, buildings, or other reference points, and suddenly, the Moon looks massive!”

Remaining events in 2022

The hunter’s moon won’t be the weekend’s only reason to keep your eyes on the skies — the Draconid meteor shower will be best visible at around 7 p.m. ET on October 8. The meteor shower occurs “when Earth collides with bits of debris shed by periodic comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner,” NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute said. “The comet orbits the sun once every 6.6 years, leaving tendrils of dust in its wake,” NASA explained, which are visible to the naked eye.

You can also catch the peak of these upcoming meteor shower events later this year, according to EarthSky’s 2022 meteor shower guide:

• Orionids: October 20-21

• South Taurids: November 5

• North Taurids: November 12

• Leonids: November 17-18

• Geminids: December 13-14

• Ursids: December 22-23

There are two more full moons are on the calendar for 2022, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac:

• November 8: Beaver moon

• December 7: Cold moon

And there will be two more eclipses — one solar, one lunar — occurring this year.

A partial solar eclipse on October 25 will be visible to people in parts of Greenland, Iceland, most of Europe, northeast Africa, and western and central Asia.

A total lunar eclipse on November 8 can be seen across Asia, Australia, the Pacific, South America and North America between 3:02 and 8:56 a.m. ET. But for people in eastern North America, the moon will be setting during that time.

It is important to wear proper eclipse glasses to view solar eclipses safely as the sun’s light can damage the eyes.

But if you’re a casual observer, it may be that few things are more confusing than hearing some of the jargon used by mission control.

Celebrities and spectators from around the globe will gather at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see the new Space Launch System rocket and uncrewed Orion spacecraft embark on their journey toward the moon.

And for those who can’t make it in person, live feeds will be available on a number of platforms and watch parties have cropped up across the country. That’s a lot of people trying to distinguish LH2 from LO2 and figure out what in the world L Minus is.

For everyone who’s not a NASA scientist or amateur astrophysicist, here are some of the terms you might hear during the historic launch — and what they mean.

Liftoff lingo

NASA is aiming to launch Artemis I between 8:33 a.m. and 10:33 a.m. ET Monday — with backup windows on September 2 and September 5 in case of bad weather or any delays. If the launch is a “go,” that means things are on track. If it’s a “no go,” the launch may be postponed.

As mission teams go through the countdown, they’ll be using phrases and shorthand that may be unfamiliar. Expect to hear “SLS” to indicate the rocket, rather than Space Launch System, and “nominal” to mean that things are normal or going as planned.

When the rocket is being loaded with cryogenic (supercold) liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to fuel liftoff, the shorthand is “LO2” for oxygen and “LH2” for hydrogen.

There’s a good chance the Artemis launch team will mention “ICPS,” which refers to the interim cryogenic propulsion stage. This upper segment of the rocket will give Orion the propulsion it needs in space after the two solid-fuel rocket boosters and core stage, or backbone, of the rocket separate from the spacecraft.

The core stage of the rocket includes engines, propellant tanks and avionics, or aviation electronic systems.

During the countdown, teams will refer to “L Minus” and “T Minus” times.

“L Minus” is used to indicate the time until liftoff in hours and minutes, while “T Minus” corresponds with the events included in the launch countdown.

If the launch team announces a “hold,” it’s a natural pause in the countdown intended to allow for tasks or waiting for a specific launch window that doesn’t disrupt the schedule. During a hold, expect the countdown clock and T Minus time to stop, while the L Minus time will continue.

Postlaunch shorthand

After the launch, the team may refer to the solid rocket boosters as “SRB” and the launch abort system as “LAS.” Two of the launch abort system’s three engines can be used to return the Orion crew module safely to Earth in the event of a malfunction or systems failure during launch. The third engine is used to jettison the launch abort system, which occurs shortly after launch if all goes well.

Several “burns,” which take place when the propulsion system fires up, likely will get a mention post-liftoff.

READ MORE: Artemis I by the numbers

The “perigee raise maneuver” will occur about 12 minutes after launch. That’s when the ICPS experiences a burn to raise Orion’s altitude so it doesn’t reenter Earth’s atmosphere.

Shortly afterward is the “trans-lunar injection burn,” when the ICPS boosts Orion’s speed from 17,500 miles per hour (28,163 kilometers per hour) to 22,600 miles per hour (36,371 kilometers per hour) to escape the pull of Earth’s gravity and set off for the moon. After this burn, the ICPS will separate from Orion.

Around 4:30 p.m. Monday, Orion will make its first “outbound trajectory correction burn” using the European Service Module, which provides the spacecraft with power, propulsion and thermal control. This maneuver will put Orion on a path to the moon.

During its journey, Artemis I will venture farther beyond the moon than any spacecraft intended to carry humans. It is expected to spend 42 days in space, entering a distant retrograde orbit around the moon before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on October 10.

Check out our mission timeline for everything you need to know about the launch countdown and what happens during the six-week mission. It’s just the beginning of the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon and eventually land crewed missions on Mars.

“Due to increased demand, at this time we are limiting purchases of Plan B contraceptive pills to three per customer,” Alicja Wojczyk, senior manager of external communications for Rite Aid told CNN in an email.

Though CVS has “ample supply” of Plan B and Aftera — two types of emergency contraception — the company is limiting purchases to three per customer “to ensure equitable access and consistent supply on store shelves,” Matt Blanchette, senior manager of retail communications at CVS Pharmacy told CNN in an email.

Emergency contraception reduces the chance of pregnancy after unprotected sex, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Common situations when it is used include after forgetting to take several birth control pills or when a condom breaks or falls off.

The purchasing limits for emergency contraception come after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday. Several states immediately moved to effectively prohibit abortions.

“Using (emergency contraception) does not cause an abortion. An abortion ends an existing pregnancy. EC prevents pregnancy from occurring. EC must be used soon after unprotected sexual intercourse to be effective. It does not work if pregnancy has already occurred,” ACOG said.

Pills, such as Plan B and Aftera, are one type of emergency contraception. Some can be bought over the counter and others require a prescription.

Copper intrauterine devices, or IUDs, can also be used as emergency contraception if inserted within about five days of intercourse.

The wide-ranging interview with Harris — the nation’s first female vice president — will focus heavily on the high court’s ruling on Friday, in which five conservative justices held that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion after nearly 50 years of precedent.

Standing as one of the court’s most consequential decisions in decades, it sent shock waves through the nation, drawing high praise from conservatives and fierce condemnation from Democrats, who vowed revenge at the ballot box this November.

Harris slammed the ruling last week, saying it presented “a health care crisis,” and joined Democrats in calling for action at the polls.

“You have the power to elect leaders who will defend and protect your rights. And as the president said earlier today, with your vote, you can act, and you have the final word. So this is not over,” she said.

The interview also comes as the Biden administration juggles a host of other pressing issues both at home and abroad. President Joe Biden is in Europe for the G7 summit, where leaders are discussing, among other things, rising costs that are driven in part by the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year.

The administration has also been confronting the invasion in various ways in recent days, with several announcements of additional US security aid to Ukraine underscoring Biden’s commitment to supporting the country as Russia makes some key advances there.

At home, both Harris and Biden have been overseeing a nation reeling from a spate of mass shootings in recent months while also working to tighten gun safety laws. Last week, the President signed into law the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades, marking a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious policy issues in Washington.

The administration has also been contending with growing warning signs of a recession.

Production at the plant had restarted less than two weeks ago following a months-long closure that helped drive a nationwide formula shortage.

“Severe thunderstorms and heavy rains came through southwestern Michigan on Monday evening, resulting in high winds, hail, power outages and flood damage throughout the area,” Abbott said in a statement Wednesday night. “These torrential storms produced significant rainfall in a short period of time — overwhelming the city’s stormwater system in Sturgis, Mich., and resulting in flooding in parts of the city, including areas of our plant.

“As a result, Abbott has stopped production of its EleCare specialty formula that was underway to assess damage caused by the storm and clean and re-sanitize the plant. We have informed FDA and will conduct comprehensive testing in conjunction with the independent third party to ensure the plant is safe to resume production. This will likely delay production and distribution of new product for a few weeks.”

Abbott said that once the plant is re-sanitized and production resumes, it will restart EleCare production, followed by specialty and metabolic formulas, and it will “work to restart Similac production at the plant as soon as possible.”

In tweets Wednesday night, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said, “We know Abbott is working quickly to assess the damage and will be reporting its progress to us in the days ahead. Once the company establishes a plan, FDA will be back in the facility working to ensure that they can restart producing safe and quality formula products quickly.”

Plant closed for months

The plant had been shut down for months after an FDA inspection that found Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria, which can be deadly to infants, in several areas. Similac, Alimentum and EleCare powdered infant formulas made at the plant were recalled, and the closure exacerbated shortages caused by supply chain disruptions. Families across the United States have struggled for months to find formula for infants and for people with specific nutrition needs.

Califf said last month that the shuttered Michigan plant needed extensive repairs, including replacing the roof and floors.

“You just can’t open a plant with bacteria growing in it,” he said during a Senate committee hearing. “I mean, would you go in a kitchen next door if there was bacteria growing all over the place, and standing water and people tromping through with mud on their feet? Which is essentially what the inspection showed.”

In May, a federal judge signed off on an agreement between the FDA and Abbott that laid out the steps the company needed to take to restart production. The plant reopened June 4.

But on Monday, severe weather moved across the upper Midwest and the Ohio River Valley, including Michigan.

Califf called the latest closure an “unfortunate setback and a reminder that natural weather events can also cause unforeseen supply chain disruptions.”

Working ‘night and day’ on formula supply

Abbott said Wednesday that it has “ample existing supply of EleCare and most of its specialty and metabolic formulas” to meet the need until new products are available. Such products are being released to families through health care professionals.

There have also been moves to increase availability of other types of formula. President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to direct suppliers of formula ingredients to prioritize delivery to formula makers, and the administration launched Operation Fly Formula to import formula from abroad.

Califf said on Twitter on Wednesday that teams are working “night and day” to make formula available. He said Abbott has been exceeding the monthly quantity of formula produced in 2021 even while the Michigan facility was closed, and other producers are making formula at “higher-than-average rates.”

“This means that the total amount of formula available, even before the Sturgis plant is back in production, exceeds the demand for formula prior to the recall,” Califf wrote.

But many grocery store shelves remain bare. About a quarter of infant formula products were still out of stock in the United States last week, according to data from market research firm Information Resources Incorporated, or IRI.

IRI data is often cited by the White House as a measure of the severity of the shortage. The latest data shows that about 24% of infant formula products were out of stock during the week ending June 12, up from about 22% the week before.

Before a nationwide infant formula recall by Abbott in February, about 10% of infant formula products were typically out of stock.

Vaccine advisers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are meeting Wednesday to discuss extending the emergency use authorization of Moderna’s and Pfizer/BioNTech’s shots to those aged six months and older.

It comes a day after the 22 members of the agency’s advisory committee voted unanimously to authorize Moderna’s shot for those aged 6 to 17.

Both companies have reported positive trial results when using their vaccines on younger children. Pfizer found that three child-sized doses appeared to be safe and generated an immune response in trials that’s comparable to the response in older people. Moderna, meanwhile, have reported that two smaller shots appeared to yield a similar immune response as their two-dose vaccine series does in adults 18 to 25.

And the White House is ready for the FDA’s green light. The Biden administration has prepped 10 million doses to be distributed around the country, and expects the first vaccinations to start next week, according to a factsheet shared with CNN this month.

The big question, though, is how quickly parents will take up the opportunity to vaccinate their young kids.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Vaccine Monitor survey, published last month, only 18% of parents of children under 5 said they would vaccinate their child against Covid-19 as soon as a vaccine was available.

Nearly 40% of parents of young children said they would “wait and see” before vaccinating their child, 11% said they would get the vaccine only if required, and 27% said they would “definitely not” vaccinate their child against Covid-19.

Lack of available information about the program is a factor in that hesitancy, according to the survey; a majority of parents of kids under 5 said they don’t have enough information about its safety and efficacy.

But the US wouldn’t be alone in vaccinating toddlers and preschoolers against Covid-19.

Most countries offering the vaccine to children do so from the age of 5, according to Our World in Data. However, some extend their programs to younger kids — and that’s been the case for some time.

China started vaccinating children as young as 3 last year, and some early real-world data several months later found that its Sinovac and CoronaVac shots did provide some protection to youngsters.

Hong Kong approved vaccinations for 3-year-olds in February amid a surge of infections. And Cuba has been inoculating children aged 2 and older for nine months, in a strategy initially aimed at reopening schools during a wave of cases.

Though Covid-19 more severely affects older age groups, there are benefits to vaccinating the youngest children. Kids can get long Covid and are susceptible to the broad and unpredictable range of symptoms that comes with that condition. Hospitalizations of young children with Covid is uncommon but does occur, and transmission can be high in school settings.

“We have waited a long time for this moment,” White House Covid-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said last week.

“If the FDA and CDC recommend these vaccines, this would mark an important moment in the pandemic … kids are better protected, they’re better off, if they’re vaccinated,” he added.

Video sent to 7NEWS showed the bears climbing onto the porch of the home.

The family says they had just sat down for dinner when they noticed the activity going on outside.

The volunteer rescue crew spotted the girl on her float as she screamed out for help.

They lifted the girl into their lifeboat and brought her back to shore to be reunited with her parents.

When Gloucester Sheriff’s Deputy J. Holt arrived at the scene on May 7, he found a boy sitting in the overturned car screaming “mommy” and “she can’t breathe.” His mother was lying under the vehicle with her head pinned by the sunroof, according to the post.

“Seeing the trauma her child was witnessing, Deputy J. Holt went into overdrive,” the Sheriff’s Office wrote.

Holt can be heard saying he couldn’t lift the car, but then he told the boy to exit the vehicle and Holt can be heard straining on the body camera footage.

“Through sheer will and determination due to fearing the female may succumb to her circumstance in front of her panic-stricken child, Deputy J. Holt took quick action and was able to physically lift the vehicle up enough for the driver to maneuver her head out to safety,” the post said.

But this was only Holt’s most recent heroic rescue. In February, he received both regional and local “Top Cop Awards” for saving the lives of two individuals from a burning house in March 2020, the sheriff’s office said.

Emergency crews were called to a home in the Mason Square neighborhood around 11 a.m. April 20 for a baby struggling to breathe. When officers arrived they were led upstairs to where the baby Kiro’s mother Porshe James was performing CPR and noticed he was not moving and turning blue.

“I was just praying because I was like, ‘God help me to stay calm and help my son breathe,” she said. “I was just praying that God would help him.”

After performing CPR for more than three minutes the baby regained consciousness and began to breathe on his own.

The mother and baby were transported to Baystate’s Pediatric Unit for further treatment.

Kiro is said to be doing well now.

James said she is especially grateful to the officers and was able to thank them at the station weeks later.

“It was close to tears for a lot of people and it’s just amazing that the little baby is doing OK now,” Officer Ryan Walsh said.

James said Kiro has always been a fighter. He was born at just 26 weeks old and has been diagnosed with spina bifida.

The difficulty breathing was brought about by reflux that is now being controlled by medication.

The bird could be seen posing in front of a traffic camera on top of a building in the Charlestown neighborhood.

It only stayed for a few minutes before flying away from its perch.

Chicago Fire Department personnel were taking a video of the exterior of the building as firefighters were extinguishing the blaze when a black cat appeared through billowing smoke at a broken window. The fire-fleeing feline briefly tested the side of the building with its front paws, and then jumped.

Onlookers gasped as the cat fell. But it missed a wall as it hurtled downward and instead landed on all four paws atop grass, where it bounced once and immediately ran away.

“It went under my car and hid until she felt better after a couple of minutes and came out and tried to scale the wall to get back in,” said fire department spokesman Larry Langford.

The cat was not injured, Langford said, adding he was trying to track down its owner.

No injuries were reported after the fire, which was confined to one apartment. The cause of the fire hasn’t been reported by officials, nor how much damage resulted.

Photographer Brian Skerry and scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the New England Aquarium witnessed the whales on Feb. 28 in a surface active group, which are known to involve close interactions between groups of the marine animals.

The aerial perspective of these behaviors has rarely, if ever, been captured before, according WHOI and the aquarium.

North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered, with about 360 left on the planet, the organizations said.

Video courtesy of Brian Skerry of National Geographic Magazine and Michael Moore of WHOI.

The bears were spotted numerous times in the city, including by Chicopee State Park, according to police.

Video showed the mama bear trying to knock down a pole that had bird feeders attached to it.

Environmental police are reminding the public to remove all food sources, including birdseed, from outdoor areas to keep bears from their yards.

Those who see the bears are asked to call the police and no approach them.

Daniel Torres caught the wild animal on video circling him and blocking his path at Merino Park around 6:30 p.m.

He picked up a stick and began swinging it in the coyote’s direction in hopes of scaring it away but the coyote did not back down and stalked Torres for about 20 minutes.

After the long standoff, the coyote ran into the woods.

“It’s dangerous for people walking, it’s dangerous for people,” Torres said. “It’s no good.”

While watching the video, R.I. Department of Environmental Management Wildlife Biologist Charlie Brown said his first thought was that the wild animal had rabies.

“I’ve never seen a coyote behave like that,” he said. “I think we’ve only ever had two cases that I’m aware of in rabies in coyotes in Rhode Island, since 1994.”

Brown added that Torres did the right thing by standing his ground and confronting the coyote rather than trying to run away.

Wildlife experts say this is the time of year when Rhode Island gets more calls about coyote interactions.

An environmental police officer has inspected the park where Torres encountered the wild animal and will continue to monitor the area for coyotes.

The astronauts from the U.S., Japan and France should reach the International Space Station early Saturday morning, following a 23-hour ride in the same Dragon capsule used by SpaceX’s debut crew last May. They’ll spend six months at the orbiting lab.

It was the first time SpaceX reused a capsule and rocket to launch astronauts for NASA, after years of proving the capability on station supply runs. The rocket was used last November on the company’s second astronaut flight.

Embracing the trend, spacecraft commander Shane Kimbrough and his crew weeks ago wrote their initials in the rocket’s soot, hoping to start a tradition.

“If you have rapid and complete reusability, then that is the gateway to the heavens. That’s what we’re trying to get done, and the support of NASA makes a huge difference,” Musk said after the launch.

Just a week ago, NASA awarded SpaceX a nearly $3 billion contract to provide the lunar lander that will deliver astronauts to the surface of the moon — Musk’s Starship, intended to be fully reusable to attain his ultimate prize of carrying astronauts to Mars and building a city there.

Flying in a recycled capsule Friday provided a bit of deja vu for NASA astronaut Megan McArthur. She launched in the same seat in the same capsule as her husband, Bob Behnken, did during SpaceX’s first crew flight. This time, it was Behnken and their 7-year-old son waving goodbye. McArthur blew kisses and offered virtual hugs.

Also flying SpaceX on Friday: Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide and France’s Thomas Pesquet, the first European to launch in a commercial crew capsule.

It was a stunning scene: The launch plume glowed against the dark sky, reflecting the sunlight at high altitude.

Despite the early hour, spectators lined surrounding roads to watch the Falcon take flight an hour before sunrise. Liftoff was delayed a day to take advantage of better weather along the East Coast in case of a launch abort and emergency splashdown.

“You’re seeing a piece of history happening here,” said Lance Bryan, visiting from Burnsville, Minnesota. “It’s, in this case, good history versus some other things that can happen that have been in our backyard practically.”

Hours after liftoff, SpaceX was notified of a piece of space junk that might come dangerously close to the capsule. So flight controllers ordered the astronauts to put on their spacesuits and lower their visors just in case. There was no danger, and the unidentified debris turned out to be farther than initially thought, passing about 28 miles (45 kilometers) from the vehicle.

“We don’t know what the object was or how big it was, but it did not come close to Dragon,” said NASA spokesman Rob Navias.

A masked Musk met briefly with the astronauts at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before they boarded white gull-winged Teslas from his electric car company. The astronauts’ spouses and children huddled around the cars for one last “love you” before the caravan pulled away and headed to the pad in the predawn darkness.

“From now on, I’ll see you on a screen!” tweeted Pesquet’s partner, Anne Mottet.

Visibly weary, Musk later said he doesn’t sleep the night before a crew launch and this one was no exception.

“It gets a little bit easier, but still pretty intense, I have to say,” said Musk, who started his space company in 2002.

NASA limited the number of launch guests because of COVID-19, but passengers for SpaceX’s first privately purchased flight made the cut. Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, who’s bought a three-day flight, watched the Falcon soar with the three people who will accompany him. Their capsule is still at the space station and due back on Earth with four astronauts next Wednesday. It will be refurbished in time for a September liftoff. Another crew flight for NASA will follow in October.

For Friday’s automated flight, SpaceX replaced some valves and thermal shielding, and installed new parachutes on the capsule, named Endeavour after NASA’s retired space shuttle. Otherwise, the spacecraft is the same vehicle that flew before.

“We’re thrilled to have a crew on board Endeavour once again,” SpaceX Launch Control radioed just before liftoff.

All four astronauts clasped hands as Kimbrough noted it was the first time in more than 20 years that U.S., European and Japanese astronauts had launched together.

The first-stage booster touched down on an ocean platform nine minutes after liftoff.

SpaceX picked up the station slack for NASA after the space agency’s shuttles retired in 2011, starting with supply runs the following year. The big draw was last year’s return of astronaut launches to Florida, after years of relying on Russia for rides.

“It’s awesome to have this regular cadence again,” said Kennedy’s director Robert Cabana, a former shuttle commander.

Boeing, NASA’s other contracted crew transporter, isn’t expected to start launching NASA astronauts until early next year. First, it needs to repeat a test flight of an empty Starliner capsule, possibly in late summer, to make up for its software-plagued debut in December 2019.

Last Friday, SpaceX beat out two other companies, including Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, to land astronauts on the moon for NASA in three or more years. They’ll descend to the lunar surface in Starship, the shiny, bullet-shaped rocketship that Musk is testing in the skies over southeast Texas, near the Mexican border.

Musk said Starship should be ready to carry people in a couple years, although he expects to smash more of them before getting there. The 2024 deadline for putting astronauts on the moon, which was set by the Trump administration, is doable, he added.

“It’s a great time to be here, and we’re very excited,” said the European Space Agency’s Frank De Winne, an astronaut turned manager. The space station eventually will come to an end, he noted, but the partnership will continue amid hopes of “European astronauts one day walking on the surface of the moon.”

Nadezhda Serezhkina was reporting for MIR 24 when the pup snatched the microphone, leading Serezhkina on a chase.

The dog eventually gave the microphone back and Serezhkina went on to interview the dog.

The deputy responded to a reported fire on Princess Dolores Drive when they heard scratching from behind the door, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

The deputy used a baton to break the glass on the front door, allowing for the dog to escape.

The pup was said to be shaken up but not seriously injured.

The homeowners were not home at the time of the fire but were relieved to be reunited with their pet when they arrived on the scene, the sheriff’s office said.

“The men and women of the FCSO believe it is an honor to serve and protect every member of this community, even our four-legged ones,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook.

Colette Louis recorded her daughter, Camille Madeline Louis, saying goodbye to her grandpa, former NFL player Tony Collins on March 14.

The two are seen blowing kisses to each other as Collins tells Camille, “I got it,” which Camille repeats back to him.

After they wave goodbye and say, “See you later,” Camille turns tearfully to her mom and says, “I hope I see him.”

“You’re gonna see him soon, I promise,” Louis tells her daughter. “You don’t have to cry. You’ll see him soon, okay?”

Louis says Collins is her daughter’s “bestie.”

Star Ely posted a video on Facebook of her husband Lucho donning the glasses while taking a walk through Andover.

“I can see blue but not that blue,” he said, looking at an ADT sign. “I never thought there is a blue like that.”

Ely says this was Lucho’s first experience seeing color.

7NEWS viewer Dave Henriquez captured SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soaring through the sky over Newton.

The Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket, which stands 70 meters or 229 feet tall, according to information provided during the broadcast of the launch. It is described by SpaceX as the “first orbital-class rocket capable of reflight.”

Sixty Starlink satellites were deployed about an hour after the rocket was launched.

The semiaquatic reptile was spotted on a course in Key Biscayne, Florida, this week.

The video showed the crocodile walking in the direction of two ducks near a putting green.

The golfers say the crocodile ultimately left the ducks alone and walked into a nearby pond.