Californians turn on one another as coronavirus shuts down the state for a second time

California residents are taking their anger out against each other as a surge of coronavirus cases has forced the state to resume shutdowns. Some residents have become frustrated that not enough people are taking the virus seriously, while others are angered by the state’s response and its impact on small businesses.

For months, residents directed their anger toward Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state health officials for shutting down businesses in an effort to contain the viruses’ spread. Pockets of protests emerged throughout the state as the financial effects began to hit home.

Businesses garnered some relief last month when the state permitted gradual reopenings while restrictions remained in place. However, once people were freed from strict restrictions and from being cooped up at home, they began flouting social distancing rules, refusing to wear masks when attending family dinners and outdoor parties, reports said.

Earlier this month, a surge in the number of cases began, leading to Newsom’s announcement barring all bar openings and suspending indoor activities at all restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, family entertainment centers, zoos, museums, and card rooms. Click here for more on our top story.

Other related developments:
– California pastor rips Newsom’s worship lockdown: ‘Churches are not the problem’
– California barber vows to defy state’s latest coronavirus shutdown: ‘We’re not gonna live in fear’
– Newsom orders closure of indoor activities across California as coronavirus cases increase
– Los Angeles, San Diego schools to resume online classes in fall due to jump in coronavirus cases

Navy launches investigation after fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard is extinguished

After four days of uncontrolled burning before firefighters could bring it under control, the fire that engulfed the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard was contained Thursday, prompting a Navy investigation on the ship while it was in port.

The ship sustained extensive damage, including to its skin, officials said. While firefighters battled the blaze, the 40,000-ton ship listed toward both its port and starboard sides, the Navy said, likely due to the massive quantities of water that poured into the hull.

Following a walkthrough of the ship on Thursday, the Navy announced it would begin the investigation to determine how the fire ignited and whether the ship can even be saved.
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Other related developments:
– Navy says fire has been put out aboard USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego
– 21 injured after explosion and fire breaks out on USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego

Georgia Gov. Kemp sues Atlanta to block mandatory mask rule, blames local leaders wanting to ‘undermine economic growth’

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta to block the city from enforcing a mandate wearing a mask in public and other rules related to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying in a court filing the city’s leadership was illegally circumventing state executive orders with their own edicts.

In a suit filed in state court late Thursday, Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr argued Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has overstepped her authority and must obey Kemp’s executive orders under state law.

Kemp “seeks to have this Court make a declaration that Mayor Bottoms’ executive orders are more restrictive and contradictory to his executive orders, and therefore, Mayor Bottoms’ COVID-related executive orders are suspended,” the lawsuit states. CLICK HERE FOR MORE

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The storm’s top sustained winds decreased slightly to 170mph as its westward movement slowed, crawling along Grand Bahama island early on Monday at 2mph in what forecasters said would be a day-long assault.

Hurricane Dorian, churning over the Atlantic Ocean. Picture: AP

Earlier, Dorian churned over Abaco island with battering winds and surf.

There was little information from the affected islands, but officials expected many residents to be left homeless.

Most people went to shelters as the storm approached, with tourist hotels shutting down and residents boarding up their homes.

“It’s devastating,” said Joy Jibrilu, director-general of the Bahamas’ Ministry of Tourism and Aviation. “There has been huge damage to property and infrastructure. Luckily, no loss of life reported.”

On Sunday, Dorian’s maximum sustained winds reached 185mph, with gusts of up to 220mph, tying the record for the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to come ashore. It equaled the Labour Day hurricane of 1935 before the storms were named.

As of early Monday, the hurricane’s westward movement had slowed somewhat to 5mph.

Forecasters said Dorian was most likely to begin pulling away from the Bahamas early on Tuesday and curve to the north-east parallel to the US Southeast seaboard.

Still, the potent storm was expected to stay close to shore and hammer the coast with dangerous winds and heavy surf, while authorities cautioned that it could still make landfall.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster ordered a mandatory evacuation of the entire coast of the state amid Dorian’s threat. The order, which covers about 830,000 people, goes into effect at noon local time on Monday, when state troopers will begin reversing lanes so they all head inland on major coastal highways.

“We can’t make everybody happy,” Mr. McMaster said. “But we believe we can keep everyone alive.”

Georgia’s governor Brian Kemp also ordered a mandatory evacuation of the state’s Atlantic coast, also starting at noon on Monday.

Authorities in Florida ordered mandatory evacuations in some vulnerable coastal areas.

More than 600 Labour Day flights in the US had been canceled as of Sunday afternoon, many of them in Florida as Dorian barrelled towards the state’s coast.

The only recorded storm that was more powerful was Hurricane Allen in 1980, with 190mph winds. That storm did not make landfall at that strength.

“Catastrophic conditions” were reported in Abaco, with a storm surge of 18-23 feet (5.5-7 meters), and Dorian was expected to cross Grand Bahama later in the day “with all its fury”.

In the northern stretches of the archipelago, hotels closed, residents boarded up homes and officials hired boats to move people to bigger islands.

Video that Ms. Jibrilu and government spokesman Kevin Harris said was sent by Abaco residents showed homes missing parts of their roofs, downed power lines and smashed and overturned cars. One showed floodwaters rushing through the streets of an unidentified town at nearly the height of a car roof.

In some parts of Abaco, “you cannot tell the difference as to the beginning of the street versus where the ocean begins”, said Prime Minister Hubert Minnis.

According to the Nassau Guardian, he called it “probably the saddest and worst day of my life to address the Bahamian people”.

Earlier, Mr. Minnis had warned that anyone who did not evacuate was “in extreme danger and can expect a catastrophic consequence”.

The government opened 14 shelters across the Bahamas. Dozens ignored evacuation orders, officials said.

After the Bahamas, the slow-crawling storm was forecast to turn sharply and skirt toward the US coast, staying just off Florida and Georgia on Tuesday and Wednesday and then buffeting

South Carolina and North Carolina on Thursday.

The National Hurricane Centre issued a hurricane watch for Florida’s East Coast from Deerfield Beach north to the Volusia and Brevard county line. The same area was put under a storm surge watch. Lake Okeechobee was under a tropical storm watch.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis warned the state’s densely populated Atlantic coast: “We’re not out of the woods yet.”

He noted that some forecast models still bring Dorian close to or even onto the Florida peninsula.

“That could produce life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds,” he said. “That cone of uncertainty still includes a lot of areas on the east coast of Florida and even into central and north Florida, so we are staying prepared and remaining vigilant.”

Mandatory evacuation orders for low-lying and flood-prone areas and mobile homes were in effect starting either Sunday or Monday from Palm Beach County north to at least the Daytona Beach area, and some counties to the north issued voluntary evacuation notices.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Dorian is forecast to be 40 to 50 miles off Florida with hurricane-force wind speeds extending about 35 miles to the west.

National Hurricane Centre director Ken Graham urged residents not to bet on safety just because the specific forecast track has the storm just a bit offshore.

Complicating matters is that with every new forecast, “we keep nudging (Dorian’s track) a little bit to the left” which is closer to the Florida coast, he said.

Dorian is a powerful but small storm with hurricane-force winds on Sunday only extending 29 miles to the west, but they are expected to grow a bit. That makes forecasting its path delicate and difficult.

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