Golf legend’s home completely destroyed by Helene: ‘I didn’t think it would be this bad’
Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction across the southern U.S. affected thousands of people, including golf legend John Daly.
Daly said Wednesday he lost his Clearwater, Florida, home in the “devastating” storm.
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“I’m just glad everyone is healthy, that’s the main thing,” he told the PGA Tour’s website. “You live in Florida, you have to understand that’s going to happen, but not like this. I didn’t think it would be this bad.”
He added that nearly a half-dozen other homes belonging to his friends and family were also destroyed in the storm.
“I more think it’s the memories that Mom, Chrissy and Matty over the years have in that house. The memories is what you miss when you lose something like that,” Daly said.
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Daly is set to participate in a PGA Tour Champions event in Jacksonville, Florida.
Helene slammed Florida as a Category 4 in one of the worst hurricanes to hit the region in modern history. The storm moved north into the mainland United States, causing historic flooding in parts of Georgia and North Carolina.
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More than 190 people were killed across six states – Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. The number is expected to rise.
MSNBC host shocked by Trump impeachment witness now backing former president
Gordon Sondland, who served as then-President Trump’s ambassador to the EU and who became a star witness against him in his first impeachment, shocked an MSNBC host by saying Trump won his support once again.
MSNBC host Ari Melber spoke with three former Trump officials, including White House advisor Peter Navarro, White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews, and Sondland about topics such as how working for the Trump administration has impacted their lives or what the most important thing was that they learned about the former president. Sondland in particular was asked whether he stands by a previous disavowal of the president after the events of January 6, 2021.
“No, I don’t stand by it, and I’ll tell you why,” Sondland began. “I’ve now lived four years under the Biden-Harris policies and I have to say that those policies are not only becoming an existential threat to our country’s way of life, but to our allies as well.”
The host loudly interrupted him and began shouting, “I’m going to let you finish, but this is so striking. You said it was a ‘no for me’ after that, after January 6. And here we are right now, And you’re saying it’s a yes for you?”
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“It is a yes, for me. It is an absolute yes for me,” Sondland said. “That is how badly the Biden-Harris team have prosecuted their job.”
Melber continued speaking at a loud volume during the exchange: “But the whole point you seem to be making was that January 6th and that kind of attack on democracy is bigger than any policy-“
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“I am seeing so many attacks on democracy that eclipse January 6th,” Sondland replied, encouraging Melber to ask him what those are. Earlier in the same panel, he had voiced his concerns about a future scenario where “if the Democrats are able to impose their desired program over the next several years, there will be massive voting irregularities.”
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Later, he said that “Policy matters greatly, because policy translates into our way of life and the way our country operates.” While he argued that Trump’s conduct around January 6 was not an exemplary thing, there are bigger concerns facing the American electorate.
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“I want to express is that I’ve now lived for four years under the Biden-Harris administration,” he said. “I live in a bucolic city of Portland, Oregon, which has been destroyed by those policies. Absolutely decimated. Businesses are suffering. My own business is suffering solely for political reasons and it’s all fixable and they don’t want to fix it.”
Investigation of Maui fire discovers origin of deadly 2023 inferno
The deadliest U.S. wildfire that killed at least 102 people on Maui last year “was a reignition” of an earlier morning fire “caused by Hawaiian Electric equipment damaged by high winds,” the 132-year-old utility company confirmed on Wednesday.
Firefighters believed they had extinguished the earlier brushfire sparked by downed power lines, officials confirmed as they presented their findings on the cause.
The Aug. 8, 2023, fire started in the afternoon in the same area as the fire from earlier that morning. Driven by strong, erratic winds, the fire raced through the historic town of Lahaina, destroying thousands of buildings, overcoming people trapped in their cars and forcing some residents to flee into the ocean.
“We want to make abundantly clear to the community that our firefighters went above and beyond their due diligence to be as confident as they could be that the fire was completely extinguished before they left the scene,” Maui County Department of Fire and Public Safety Assistant Chief Jeffrey Giesea said during a press conference.
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The origin and cause report was done in collaboration with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Honolulu Field Office, Seattle Field Division and its National Response Team, County of Maui officials said on their Facebook page.
While wind was the most likely cause of the fire’s rekindling, the ATF’s report said investigators could not rule out another possibility: that the operator of a bulldozer, trying to help firefighters contain the blaze, could have unwittingly pushed smoldering debris to the gully’s edge, only to have it erupt in flames hours later.
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“The close proximity of the freshly cut firebreak to the western edge of the gully does not afford investigators the ability to rule out the possibility that while cutting the firebreak, the operator unknowingly moved still burning vegetation or smoldering debris into the gully,” the report said.
The owner of the company that provided the bulldozer told ATF investigators less than two weeks after the fire that he had shown up because a friend who lived nearby asked for help. The owner did not respond to several requests for a follow-up interview, the report said. Neither the owner nor members of his crew were identified in the report.
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Video from inside the bulldozer showed it piling loose soil and burned vegetation at the edge of the gully, the report said.
Bulldozers driven by volunteers and contractors are frequently used to protect towns and farms from wildfires across the western U.S., the Associated Press reports, though some groups have questioned their effectiveness in extreme weather conditions.
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“We deeply regret that our operations contributed to the fire that ignited in the morning,” Hawaiian Electric’s statement reads. “We have looked closely at our protocols and actions that day and have made many changes in our operations and resilience strategies to ensure we fulfill our commitment to keep the public safe, especially in extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and severe.”
Read the full origin and cause report of the fire here.
Nervous swing state Democrats reportedly suffering ‘PTSD’ and ‘paranoia’ over election
Some Michigan Democrats are worried about a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s loss in the state as election day nears and Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump remain neck-and-neck in the polls, according to reports.
“Smart Democrats have a healthy sense of paranoia,” Michigan Democratic strategist Adrian Hemond told the Associated Press (AP). “If polling is as far off as it was in 2016, we’re cooked.”
A new poll released by the New York Times and Siena College found Harris had 48% support in Michigan and Trump had 47%. Clinton narrowly lost Michigan to Trump in 2016 despite consistently leading in polls, making her the first Democrat to lose the state since Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Hemond noted that in 2016, some polls did not show how much support Trump had in Michigan.
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“Anyone who’s from Michigan knows that, if you believe the polling, like, I got a bridge I’m going to sell you somewhere,” Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and a candidate for Senate, told the AP.
“Democrats’ financial resources absolutely dwarf anything that the Republicans have,” former GOP Michigan Gov. John Engler told the outlet. “But Trump is making stops in locations that have never had presidential visits before, and those are impactful with margins this close.”
Slotkin reportedly said during a recent virtual fundraiser that Harris was “underwater” in Michigan, although it’s typical for candidates to stoke fears of losing among their base to drive up fundraising.
“I’m not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan,” Slotkin said, according to Axios. “We have her underwater in our polling.”
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“What did we see? Money coming in like crazy. Everybody was excited. There was such a bump,” said Lori Goldman, a Democratic activist and founder of Fems for Dems, a voter outreach group in the state. “And now, you know, it’s neck and neck.”
“It is PTSD,” Goldman added.
Patrick Schuh, another Democratic Michigan strategist, said voters his group has spoken to want to “hear more about what Harris stands for as a candidate.”
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The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Charlamagne Tha God praises Trump ad slamming VP Harris on controversial issue
Radio show host Charlamagne Tha God on Monday applauded GOP presidential nominee former President Trump’s political ad that highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for taxpayer-funded surgeries for trans prisoners and illegal immigrants.
“That ad [Trump] was running during the football games this weekend claiming the vice president supports funding gender transition surgeries for all prison inmates and migrants in the U.S.” Charlamagne Tha God said on Monday during the radio show he co-hosts called “The Breakfast Club.”
“That was nuts,” he added.
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The Trump campaign aired an advertisement over the weekend attacking Harris’ past support for government-funded transgender surgeries for prison inmates and migrants held in detention facilities.
The narrator in the campaign ad began by saying, “Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners.”
“Surgery for prisoners. Every transgender inmate in the prison system will have access,” Harris said in the ad. The ad shows Harris making those comments during an interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE).
The New York Post reported her comments during the NCTE interview were made during the 2020 election cycle as the vice president was doubling down on her position on supporting transgender prisoners.
“It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Even the liberal media was shocked Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens,” the narrator in the ad said.
“Kamala’s for they/them. President Trump is for you,” the narrator in the ad said.
The ad concluded with a CNBC headline reading, “Trump: Lower taxes, bigger paychecks for workers.”
Reacting to the Trump campaign’s attack ad, Charlamagne Tha God said that “that ad was impactful” and “effective.”
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“I don’t know if it was the backdrop of football, but when you hear the narrator say Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners. That one line …” he said. “I was like, ‘Hell no. I don’t want my taxpayer dollars going to that.'”
He suggested Harris counter with her own ads during football games.
The vice president’s position was recently resurfaced by CNN, which reported on the presidential candidates’ responses in a questionnaire.
When asked by the ACLU if “as President will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention — will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care?,” Harris responded in the affirmative.
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“I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained. Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment,” she wrote in the questionnaire.
The Harris campaign has said in the past the ACLU questionnaire is “not what she is proposing or running on.”
Many of Harris’ past positions have been put in the spotlight since she ascended to the top of the ticket after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race.
Metal detectors stumble across 1,000-year-old Viking ‘wallet’ full of treasure
British historians recently announced the remarkable discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking “wallet,” thanks to two curious metal detectorists.
Manx National Heritage, an organization based on the Isle of Man, announced the discovery in a Sept. 30 press release. In a statement, the organization explained that the coins were actually uncovered in May.
Two metal detectorists, John Crowe and David O’Hare, found the treasure hoard while searching private land on the island. The findings consist of 36 silver coins minted between 1000 and 1065, when Vikings were known to inhabit the Isle of Man.
“The majority [of the coins] were minted during the reign of Edward the Confessor (AD 1042-1066) with the English kings Aethelred II (AD 978-1016) and Canute (AD 1016-1035) also represented,” the press release noted.
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Canute, also known as Cnut, was a Viking ruler who united the kingdoms of England and Denmark.
“There are various English mints represented, including York, London, Lincoln, Cambridge, Hastings, Ipswich and Exeter,” the statement added. “The Irish coins date from the middle of decades of AD 1000 and were all minted in Dublin. They feature the profile of King Sihtric Silkbeard who served as Norse King of Dublin from AD 989 to 1036.”
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Dr. Kristin Bornholdt Collins, a researcher, noted the discovery could be likened to a wallet due to the variety of currencies.
“The new hoard might be compared to a wallet containing all kinds of credit cards, notes and coins, perhaps of different nationalities, such as when you prepare to travel overseas, and shows the variety of currencies available to an Irish Sea trader or inhabitants of Man in this period,” she explained.
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“Combined, the hoards provide a rare chance to study the contents side by side, right down to the detail of the dies used to strike the coins,” the expert added. “Having this much closely dated comparative material from separate finds is highly unusual.”
Historians believe the hoard was abandoned around 1070. Experts say the treasure sheds light on the trade history of the time.
“The geographical range of mints represented in this hoard illustrates a vibrant and mobile economy, with traders and cash moving through Ireland and England, via the Isle of Man, for an extended period throughout the Viking era,” Manx National Heritage said in its release.
Allison Fox, a curator for Manx National Heritage, said the discovery provides information about the history of the island, which is known to harbor priceless Viking artifacts.
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“This is a wonderful find which helps further our understanding of the complex Viking Age economy in the Isle of Man, where more Viking Age silver has been discovered per square kilometre than in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales,” she noted.