Revived Hurricane Ian slams coastal South Carolina, ripping apart piers and filling neighbourhoods with calf-high water in the US state, after causing catastrophic damage in Florida.
Hours after weakening to a tropical storm while crossing Florida peninsula, Ian regains hurricane strength after emerging over the Atlantic Ocean.
Shots were fired at Columbiana Centre mall in South Carolina with police saying the shooting was not believed to be "random."
Hundreds of thousands of people were without power in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida due to the storm, which was also making air travel extremely difficult in some regions.
Wearing a bullet-proof jacket marked "security," West gave a rambling speech in which he claimed he had wanted his wife, Kim Kardashian, to get an abortion and that renowned American abolitionist Harriet Tubman "never actually freed the slaves."
The event was a pledging conference for the vaccines alliance GAVI, which says the funds will be used to vaccinate about 300 million children in dozens of countries against diseases like malaria, pneumonia and HPV.
Bertha could unleash heavy rainfall and produce life-threatening flash flooding as it makes landfall along South Carolina coast, National Hurricane Center says.
The country is headed for a period when desperation, paranoia, and racism, allied with a climate of fear and uncertainty, could start a chain reaction that leads to not just economic collapse, but a violent and indefinite period of social collapse.
While the Covid-19 illness is killing thousands of Americans daily, stay-at-home orders and business closures have thrown more than 26 million people out of work, a level of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Airplane manufacturing giant Boeing announced on Monday it would suspend 787 production at South Carolina plant amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A resounding victory in South Carolina has thrust Joe Biden back into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but that could all change in two days when voters go to the polls in 14 "Super Tuesday" states.
The win gives Biden a burst of momentum as the Democratic race to find a challenger to Republican President Donald Trump broadens quickly.
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