A Tornado Watch has been issued for parts of New Jersey until 10 p.m. for the following locations:
ATLANTIC
BURLINGTON
CAMDEN
CAPE MAY
CUMBERLAND
GLOUCESTER
HUNTERDON
MERCER
MIDDLESEX
MONMOUTH
MORRIS
OCEAN
SALEM
SOMERSET
SUSSEX
WARREN
Source: National Weather Service: “TORNADO WATCH 377 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT”
A student opened fire at middle school and wounded a 14 year old in the neck at around 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia.
It is believed that the shooting was not random and something occurred between the two students. An armed officer who was off-duty was able to get the gun away, and the wounded boy was taken Grady Memorial Hospital and dispatched Thursday night.
Picture: MSNBC.
A crowd of anxious parents gathered in the streets awaiting word of their children after they noticed about the situation. Emergency procedures were followed according to protocol and students were kept at the locked down school for more than two hours before being dismissed.
Gun violence in and around our schools is simply unconscionable and must end,” Reed said. “Too many young people are being harmed, and too many families are suffering from unimaginable and unnecessary grief.”, said Mayor Kasim Reed.
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Millions of people crowded the streets of New York City Thursday to watch the 86th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the biggest event in the city since Superstorm Sandy caused significant damage in the region.
Helium balloons took over the streets of New York, and this is how people shared their views on Twitter:
Santa Claus makes his first appearance of the year at Macy’s magical parade studio. Via Today Show.
‘Elf on a shelf arrives. #macysparade #whyimthankful via @todayshow‘
To infinity… and beyond! #macysparade #buzzlightyear. Via @tuckerbaileyco
Ahoy there, Sailor Mickey! #macysparade. Via @NadiaNeophytou
Spiderman swinging through the sky as we report live from the streets! Via @1010WINSNewYork
Spongebob! Perfect day for a parade. Via @JenMaxfield7
Kung Fu Panda. #NYC #macysparade via @johndeguzman
Kermit arrives at 34th street. #macysparade via @todayshow
Hello Kitty balloon kicks off the #macysparade! Via @peoplemag
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The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returns this Thursday with a set of new balloons and floats, kicking off the holiday season.
The old route used to march down Seventh Ave. in Midtown for years but this year the route has changed for the 86th annual parade, bringing the balloons down to Sixth Ave. to the parade’s end point in front of the famous Macy’s Herald Square location. Macy’s officials believe that Sixth Ave. is the safest route for the World-Famous Macy’s Parade.
Approximately 3.5 million spectators are believed will enjoy the parade, and this will make roads in Midtown and the Upper West Side impassable until early afternoon Thursday.
The balloons started being inflated Thursday. Today Show shows us one of them here:
56 balloons are being inflated starting Wednesday, and that means those shutdowns will being Wednesday early in the morning, police said.
The inflation event is open to the public form 3PM to 10PM on Wednesday and visitors can visit the staging area at West 79th St. and Columbus Circle.
On Thursday, the parade begins at 9AM on West 77th Street and Central Park West, making its way south to Columbus Circle. Once there, the parade will go east along 59th Street to Sixth Ave. where it will continue all the way to West 34th Street before turning west to end in front of the famous Macy’s Store.
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New York is getting another ‘biggest’ with the upcoming Ferris wheel which is to be built on Staten Island. It’s part of a plan to draw tourists to what’s been known as the ‘forgotten borough’.
The wheel to be called ‘New York Wheel’, is to grace a spot overlooking the Statue of Liberty, New York Habor and the downtown New York skyline. It’s a $230 million attraction with 625-foot-tall structure that will be higher than the Singapore Flying and the London Eye. New York Wheel will be an attraction unlike any other, said Michael Bloomberg Thursday.
Construction is set to begin in early 2014 and will be privately financed. The attraction will include an outlet mall and a 200-room hotel and it’s set to open to public by the end of 2015.
Staten Island is the only one borough that is not accessible by subway. To residents in the area, the wheel will bring the borough more respect.
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The Space shuttle Endeavour returned Thursday to California on a wistful journey over the country that paid homage to NASA workers and Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, an astronaut.
A 747 jet carrying the space shuttle will take off again on Friday morning to make an appearance over Sacramento, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles skies stopping at the Los Angeles International Airport where Endeavour will be prepped for a slow ride on a special flatbed trailer through city streets next month and ending as a museum showpiece.
Endeavour’s has been delayed twice during the past days due to stormy weather along the Gulf of Mexico and on Wednesday it departed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where crowds were looking for the space shuttle to appear in the sky.
Space shuttle Endeavour flew 25 times, where its mission was mostly to supply the International Space Station and spent 299 days in space and circled Earth nearly 4,700 times, logging 123 million miles.
Picture Gene Blevins / Reuters
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Tropical Storm Ernesto strengthened in the western Caribbean Sea on Monday and was forecast to become a hurricane and smack into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, U.S. forecasters said.
Ernesto had top sustained winds of 65 miles per hour on Monday afternoon and was expected to cross the 74 mph threshold to become a hurricane by Tuesday morning.
Hurricane warnings were issued for part of the Yucatan’s east coast and the entire coast of Belize. Tropical storm watches and warnings were in effect for other parts of the Yucatan, Honduras and the Bay Islands.
The government of Belize urged residents on vulnerable islands to move inland and those in flood-prone areas to seek shelter.
Ernesto was centered about 135 miles northeast of the Nicaragua-Honduras border and was moving west-northwest.
“On the forecast track, the center will be passing north of the coast of Honduras tonight and Tuesday and be near the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula early Wednesday,” forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said on Monday.
Ernesto’s outer bands brought winds and rain to Jamaica as it passed south of the island on Sunday, but the storm failed to dampen street celebrations there for sprinter Usain Bolt’s victory in the 100 meters track final at the Olympics Games.
Heavy rains also lashed Hispaniola and Puerto Rico on Sunday.
The forecasters expect Ernesto to move into the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico by Thursday, but it was too early to know if it could disrupt oil and gas operations in the gulf.
To the east, Florence, the sixth named storm of the Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season, dissipated into a remnant low pressure area over the open Atlantic on Monday. It was about midway between the coast of Africa and the Leeward Islands and never threatened land.
August and September are usually the most active months of the Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30.
Mariah Carey presented her new single “Triumphant (Get ‘Em)” and talked a bit about her upcoming album in a press conference hosted by IDJ Music Group for Radio and Media people on Thursday, August 2, 2012. Kick off was at 3:00pm ET and lasted for about 45 minutes. Here it is Mariah’s new song ‘Triumphant’
Severe storms moved into the Midwest and Northeast on Thursday, including a possible tornado in Elmira, N.Y., where buildings were damaged and thousands were left without power. There was no immediate word on injuries.
Initial reports indicate a tornado touched down in Elmira, the Storm Prediction Center stated. Other towns across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania and upstate New York also reported downed trees.
“Emergency crews are responding to numerous calls, including reported fires and downed power lines,” the Elmira Star Gazette reported. “Many streets are impassable due to fallen trees and power lines, as well as traffic signals knocked out by power outages.”
A tornado watch was issued through Thursday night for parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
The unsettled weather was also causing airport delays along the East Coast.
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