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Heavy rains impact several South Florida neighborhoods

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) — Excessive rainfall caused flooding and damaged power lines in South Florida.On Tuesday morning, Miami-Dade was hit with a downpour after clouds drifted past the area. Video from North Bay Village showed pools of water already forming on residential streets.Low-lying and poor-drainage neighborhoods are expected to experience minor flooding.Officials said between one and two inches of rain has already fallen. An additional inch is expected to rain over the county.As a result of the heavy rain, the National Weather Services has issued a street flood advisory in Miami Beach, Surfside, North Bay Village North Miami, Harbor Islands, and Bal Harbour until 1 p.m., Tuesday.Experts urge residents to be aware of their surroundings and turn around in their vehicles if they encounter flooded roads as most flood deaths occur in vehicles.

6-year-old boy reunites with Flo Rida 4 years later in Wisconsin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (WSVN) — A show in Wisconsin became a touching reunion between Flo Rida and one of his youngest fans.Carter Schuenemann, 6, held up a sign at the Titletown show that displayed the rapper carrying him when he was just two years old during a concert in Milwaukee.Now four years later, in the middle of the concert, Flo Rida called the little boy up on stage and hoisted him above his shoulders while continuing to perform.The 6-year-old boy didn’t leave empty-handed as the rapper took off his shoe, signed it, and gave it to him. Flo Rida also signed that picture of the two embracing four years earlier.

Firefighters quickly extinguish mobile home fire in Pembroke Park likely caused by storms

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue successfully extinguished a mobile home fire that broke out in Pembroke Park, Tuesday morning. The fire occurred in the La Siesta Mobile Home Park, located on the south side of Hallandale Beach Blvd., just west of I-95.Firefighters arrived just before 9 a.m. to find heavy smoke billowing from the front of the mobile home. Prompt action allowed them to aggressively attack the flames, resulting in the fire being fully extinguished within approximately 20 minutes. Their efforts also prevented the fire from spreading to two neighboring homes, located just a few feet away.https://twitter.com/browardsheriff/status/1666079136815906820?s=20Two adult occupants of the affected mobile home had already evacuated safely before the firefighters arrived. Both individuals were not injured in the incident.According to preliminary investigations, the fire may have been started by powerful storms that swept through the area earlier. Lightning activity was observed in the vi...

Holtz Children’s Hospital at University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Medical Center designated as Level IV NICU

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

The Newborn Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Holtz Children’s Hospital at the University of Miami along with the Women’s Hospital at Jackson Memorial Medical Center were designated as a Level IV NICU by the state of Florida. A Level IV designation is the highest level a NICU can achieve, which means that Holtz Children’s must meet all capabilities of a Level III NICU. They are able to care for infants born earlier than 32 weeks gestation and weighing less than 1,500 grams.Only a total of five pediatric hospitals have been able to achieve this designation in the region.“The ability to care for the most critically ill and vulnerable patients in our neonatal intensive care unit has always been one of our top priorities,” said Joanne Ruggiero, senior vice president and chief executive officer of Holtz Children’s and The Women’s Hospital at Jackson Memorial.Holtz Children’s NICU has had some of the most successful outcomes in the country and it is the largest Level IV NICU in the st...

Miami ranks among cities requiring six-figure salaries to avoid rent-burden, FAU study finds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

A recent report by researchers from Florida Atlantic University, along with two other schools, highlights the escalating challenges faced by renters in several U.S. markets. The study reveals that the average renter in 11 major cities, including Miami, must earn a six-figure annual salary to avoid being classified as rent-burdened.According to the findings, Miami ranks among the cities where renters need to earn at least $100,000 per year to evade the rent-burdened label. Other cities requiring a similar income threshold include San Jose, California; New York; San Francisco; San Diego; Oxnard, California; Boston; Los Angeles; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Honolulu; and Riverside, California.Rent-burdened consumers are those who allocate 30 percent or more of their incomes towards rent, which often leaves them struggling to cover other essential expenses such as food and medication. Severe rent burden is defined as spending 50 percent or more of one’s income on rent.Ken H. Johnson, ...

Western leaders accuse Russia of war crime over dam destruction

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

Damage to Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam, which unleashed massive flooding in the Kherson region, could be a potential war crime, EU and Ukrainian leaders said Tuesday.“The destruction of the Kakhovka dam today put thousands of civilians at risk and causes severe environmental damage,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference from the Bucharest Nine (B9) summit in Slovakia. “This is an outrageous act, which demonstrates — once again — the brutality of Russia’s war against Ukraine.” He added that the damage to the dam demonstrated that the war Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed on Ukraine “is totally unacceptable and a blatant violation of international law.”German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he saw the attack as a “new dimension” of Russia’s war. While he avoided explicitly saying the Kremlin’s forces had destroyed the dam, he said the attack “fits...

PGA Tour announces shock reconciliation with Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

(CNN) — The US-based PGA Tour is set to merge with the Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf, ending a feud that has dogged the men’s professional game for the past year.PGA made the shock announcement on Tuesday, saying a new partnership between LIV and the DP World Tour would “unify the game of golf.”“The parties have signed an agreement that combines PIF’s golf-related commercial businesses and rights (including LIV Golf) with the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA Tour and DP World Tour into a new, collectively owned, for-profit entity,” the statement read.The LIV Golf series, backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), officially launched in June 2022, with participating players subsequently barred from competing in PGA Tour events.The two rival tours have since been involved in a series of legal disputes, with all pending litigation mutually ended under the new agreement. “After two years of disruption and distraction, this is a historic day for the game we ...

No one hurt after car crashes into daycare in Quincy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

A driver crashed into a building housing a daycare in Quincy Tuesday, drawing an emergency response and prompting an evacuation of the building, according to Quincy police. Police said the crash happened Tuesday morning at My Learning Center on Adams Street. While preschool classes were going on at the time, police said no one was near the area where the car hit the building and no one was hurt. The car involved in this crash appeared to have been removed from the scene as of around 9:30 a.m., leaving behind some visible damage to an outside building wall and window. In an update around 9:40 a.m., police said emergency crews were in the process of clearing the scene after the city’s building department found the building was “not compromised.”

Jets cancel next week’s mandatory minicamp in favor of extra rest ahead of Hall of Fame game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

The Jets were scheduled to hold a mandatory minicamp next week but have opted to take an early vacation instead.Jets head coach Robert Saleh told the media on Wednesday morning that Gang Green will skip the three-day session next week. Basically, the Jets will not hold the mandatory minicamp next week because the team (along with the Cleveland Browns) will report to training camp a week earlier than the rest of the league since they will be playing in the annual preseason Hall of Fame game on Aug. 3.“Guys need to get away,” Saleh said. “We’ve been here, they’ve put in a really good offseason, all the guys have since April. So, they’ve been here.“Just to give the guys an extra week of rest. You need a week off and you gotta rev back up and get ready for the season. Having an extra week, taking a week off, there’s a lot of things that can mess up the flow.”It makes sense why the Jets are skipping next week’s session. They wou...

PGA Tour, Europe to merge with Saudis and end LIV Golf feud

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:47 GMT

By DOUG FERGUSON (AP Golf Writer)The PGA Tour ended its expensive fight with Saudi Arabia’s golf venture and now is joining forces with it, making a stunning announcement Tuesday of a merger that creates a commercial operation with the Public Investment Fund and the European tour.As part of the deal, the sides immediately are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf.From the golf side, still to be determined is how players like Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson can rejoin the PGA Tour after defecting last year for signing bonuses reported to be in the $150 million range.From the commercial side, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund joins the PGA Tour board of directors and leads the new venture as chairman, though the PGA Tour will have a majority stake.The announcement comes a year after LIV Golf began. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was at the Canadian Open that week and said pointedly about any player who joined LIV or was thinking about it: “H...