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Lead National Correspondent for @CBSMornings , @CBSNews . Boo to a Boo. Uncle. Brother. Louisianan. Cajun. Paddington’s dad. Retweets ain’t opinions.
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“Toy Man” Jeffrey Olsen is a humble humanitarian who has helped 59,960 people over the last 30+ years. He’s brightened the lives of kids, military veterans and families. Show him some love in the comments.
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New Tonight: Disturbing video from
@WBFO
in Buffalo, NY shows an elderly man walk up to police in riot gear. An officer shoves the man...he falls backwards, hits his head...starts bleeding immediately...motionless.
Why did this happen
@BPDAlerts
?
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This is Antonio Basco.
His wife of 22 years, Margie, was murdered in El Paso.
Mr. Basco says he has no other family so he’s inviting anyone, who wants to come, to attend his wife’s services in El Paso:
Friday, August 16th
Perches Funeral Home Northeast 4946 Hondo Pass
5-9pm
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Wow. Puerto Rico.
You don’t get this perspective from the ground.
They are Loud.
Determined.
United.
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BREAKING: George Floyd died due to asphyxia from neck & back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain, according to an independent autopsy done by 2 pathologists' who ruled manner of death: homicide.
Minneapolis officials have said Floyd didn't die from asphyxia.
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Ralph Yarl, age 16, knocked on the wrong door in Missouri and was shot.
He went to the door at the wrong home to pick up his younger twin brother and that’s when he was shot, according to police.
CBS affiliate KCTV reports: “The correct address Yarl was attempting to go to…
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BREAKING: All four officers charged in the death of George Floyd are now in custody.
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BREAKING: "This is a historical day for Chile," says the govt official who tweeted this video. Nearly 1 million protesters are in the streets of Santagio, Chile, now. Internet service is slowing down, as people use social media to make sure the world knows.
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This made my morning.
This is Jude. He’s 3.
His dad, Mike, a friend of mine, is always posting the most adorable family videos.
This one made my heart smile. Enjoy.
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BREAKING: The CEO of
@Hertz
wrote a letter to Puerto Rico‘s representative in Congress stating that Hertz has rewritten its policy to make it abundantly clear that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory - not a foreign country - & because of that Puerto Rico driver’s licenses are not…
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A devastatingly effective, fair and fact based interview by an Irish journalist with Russian’s ambassador to Ireland. “Why should our government entertain your presence here when you’re acting as an apologist for slaughter.”
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BREAKING: Michigan judge just denied a request from the Trump campaign to halt vote counting in Michigan.
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BREAKING: What may be millions of water bottles. meant for victims of Hurricane Maria, have been sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, since last year, according to
@FEMA
, which confirmed the news to me, late tonight, after pictures, posted today on social media, went viral.
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Fired. Michael Henkel, 61, of Philadelphia, who was a family court supervisor, was fired after this video surfaced showing him ripping black lives matter signs off public fencing. Someone said: “Black lives matter". He responded, “Not to me, they don't"
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Puerto Rico remains in bankruptcy
Bodies are backlogged at the morgue
911 calls take 1 to 3 minutes to be answered
There’s water rationing due to a drought
Healthcare is dilapidated; equipment is old
&
@potus
wants to divert unspent disaster money from PR for the wall
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Remember what President Trump told Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes.
She asked him why he continues to attack the press.
His answer:
'You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.'"
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BREAKING: A Louisiana judge just ruled Vincent Simmons did not get a fair trial when he was convicted of attempted aggravated rape in 1977. Judge ordered new trial. District Attorney just said he will NOT retry Simmons. Vincent Simmons is a free man after serving 44yrs at Angola.
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I joined Costco today to buy one item. Just. One. Item.
I didn’t even make it past the first display on the other side of the welcome door. Toothpaste. The kind I like. $25 for five packs.
I left with $500 worth of items.
They sell gas. The line was so long it looked like what…
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.
@potus
says PR leaders "want everything done for them"; here's what we've seen: people helping people while waiting for govt help to arrive
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After hearing the White House say critical supplies are going to commercial distributors who are then selling them to the states which are begging for help, I called
@ltgrusselhonore
who commanded federal troops after Hurricane Katrina to get his reaction. Watch this:
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“I would like a pardon from the President of the United States.”
Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan is the 2nd D.C. riot participant to ask for one. She flew on a private jet to D.C. to “stop the steal.” FBI arrested her today. She says: I feel persecuted.
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Good News: 17 month old Anderson Davis is now at home. She’s the baby who was shot in the Odessa mass shooting, hit with shrapnel & left with a hole in her lip & tongue. She underwent surgery before going home. Her mother shared these pictures with CBS News.
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The Governor of Puerto Rico has resigned. The people of Puerto Rico have been heard.
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JLo rocking the Puerto Rican flag at the world's most watched TV event of the year.
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Maddening.
3,000 shipping containers packed with food water & medicene have been sitting at the port in Puerto Rico since Saturday
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BREAKING: Mayor of St. Paul Minnesota says he was wrong this morning when he said “Every single person” arrested last night in St. Paul was from out of town. He blames inaccurate information given to him during a police briefing.
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This is so important for everyone to understand. This explains why Governors say: I'm not getting the supplies I need - yet
@POTUS
says we are sending tons of supplies: It's going from the federal govt to commercial distributors who then deliver to the highest bidder: states!
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I can’t forget this picture.
David met Heather swing dancing.
The day she he told him she had cancer, he proposed.
They married in the Hosptial.
She died 18 hours later.
“Heather longed to live to see her wedding day”
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About 44% of the population in Puerto Rico is without drinking water, according to the Department of Defense.
It's 90 degrees today.
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This is Joe Garcia. Today, journalists recorded him placing flowers at a cross that had his wife’s name on it. His wife, Irma, was a teacher who was killed in the Uvalde, Texas massacre. Not long after placing flowers, Joe died of a heart attack.
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Living with Tourette Syndrome has been humiliating. But that was as a child. As an adult it rarely happens.
Today it did. On a flight.
The woman seated beside me was having a conniption fit as my nose tic (short exhales out of my nostrils) happened. She didn’t realize her…
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BREAKING NOW: I just confirmed, the 2 officers seen shoving the elderly man in this video have been suspended IMMEDIATELY, according to the Buffalo police commissioner.
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“I don’t want thoughts.
I don’t want prayers.
I want gun control.”
Her son didn’t come home.
He died in California’s mass shooting.
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BREAKING: “I thought I was following my president. I thought I was following what we were called to do. He asked us to fly there. So I was doing was he asked us to do.”
That’s TX realtor Jenna Ryan who was arrested today by FBI after being at the D.C. riot
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Wow. Bad Bunny (
@sanbenito
) wore a skirt on the
@FallonTonight
with a sweater that read "they killed Alexa, not a man with a skirt"
Alexa was transgender woman in Puerto Rico ridiculed & killed, on her birthday, by murderers who videotaped the crime & posted it on social media.
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Barbara Bush
June 1, 1990
Wellesley College Commencement
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent.”
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Arkansas cop seen kneeing, face punching then grabbing hair of person & smashing person’s head into cement
From
@MitchellMcCoy
: Arkansas State Police launch investigation into this incident, captured on camera, outside a convenience store in Crawford Co.
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The Louisiana legislatures anti LGBTQ legislation is driving a highly specialized pediatric doctor, in New Orleans, to leave the state with his family.
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“Thank you, but f*ck you for being there”
Watch every second of this DC metro officers interview with CNN.
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I’ve asked city officials why the officers took this action, whether leadership believes it was justified, and how the man is doing. Stay tuned.
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A 20-year-old & a 12-year-old went to a Sonic in Texas.
The 20 year-old started urinating in the parking lot.
A sonic employee (man pictured below) confronted the urinating young man.
The 12 year old got out a car with an assault rifle and shot dead the sonic employee.…
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ARRESTED: Christine Priola, a school therapist who stormed the Capitol & got to
@VP
’s chair. She quit her job the day after the riot saying: I will be switching paths to expose the global evil of human trafficking & pedophilia, including in our govt & children’s services agencies
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Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican.
Born there. Raised there. Etc.
The exploitation notion deals with outsiders moving to P.R. to take advantage of tax perks, not Puerto Ricans who are from there. Am I wrong?
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Puerto Ricans aren't talking about politics, the NFL or people who feel the need to kneel; they're desperate for water, power, fuel & food
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BREAKING: Buffalo’s police commissioner orders immediate Internal Affairs investigation into this incident: 2 officers shoving an elderly man, who walked up to them, to the ground.
@news4buffalo
reports the man suffered a laceration & possible concussion
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BREAKING: the man who verbally & physically attacked 3 young adults who were putting up Black Lives Matter signs on the Capital Creacent trail in near Washington D.C has been arrested. He’s Anthony Brennan III, 60, of Kensington, MD. He’s charged w/ 3 counts of 2nd degree assault
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Puerto Rico has had the following earthquakes within the last 2 hours:
6.0
5.6
5.0
4.2
4.5
4.3
All of these quakes were centered off of the southern coast of PR.
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The crowd seems to be growing in front of the Puerto Rico Governors mansions. Every day. Every night. This has been going on for nearly 2 weeks. 99% of it has been peaceful.
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Just Released: mugshots of 2 Buffalo, NY cop who shoved a 75yo man to the ground at a protest this week.
They’re charged with 2nd degree assault, with a felony because of the mans age.
The man is in critical condition.
The cops are: Aaron Torglaski, 39, & Robert McCabe, 32.
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Nothing fake about what we've seen, what we've reported and what we've exposed; we've seen Puerto Ricans as patient, resilient Americans
Despite the Fake News Media in conjunction with the Dems, an amazing job is being done in Puerto Rico. Great people!
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I know there's a lot going on in the world but what's going on in Puerto Rico, with the earthquakes, is very important, and deserve everyone's attention.
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"It's inhumane" what's happening at the airport in San Juan, a nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas told me - they need food, water and fans.
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“No comment” is all that was said by the attorney representing the City of Wetumpka, Alabama after the city quietly told a judge they didn’t want to further pursue charges against two women who were feeding cats, but only after the city arrested charged prosecuted & punished…
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He was a nurse in NYC.
A son.
brother.
dancer.
partner.
& severe asthmatic as a child.
#covid19
left him on a ventilator.
Kious Kelly died at 48 years old.
His last words to his sister: "can't talk because I choke & can't breathe. I love you. Going back to sleep."
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Unbelievable. The President of the United States quips back at a nurse from New Orleans who said PPE has been sporadic. She didn’t say it in a negative tone. She didn’t direct it at the president or the govt. She told her truth & he had to snap back.
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Because the chief says the deceased didn’t mention “terrorism”, & was a “very challenged young man” doesn’t mean he’s not a terrorist. He terrorized an American city for weeks. That’s not opinion. It’s fact. Let’s identify him as what he is: a terrorist, by all know facts, so far
Breaking: Austin police chief says having listened to the serial bomber's recording, he doesn't mention terrorism or hate, "but instead, it is the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life that led him to this point."
#khou11
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Dr. Phil says we don't shut down the country for automobile deaths or or cigarette deaths or swimming pool deaths so why do it for coronavirus he asks.
1 of the above is contagious.
The 3 others are not.
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27,000 pounds of supplies landed at the airport in Aguadilla today thanks to
@SpiritAirlines
which then departed with 200 evacuees
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His wife was murdered.
He thought he’d bury her alone.
Strangers refused to let it happen. Look at the line of love.
#AntonioBasco
#MargieReckard
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Our Maria.
She beat cancer many times...was devoutly Catholic, courageous, loyal & a CBS News journalist for 30+ yrs.
Recently she underwent surgery to again remove cancer & survived.
She died after
#COVID19
infected her.
She adored her family.
Loved her job.
We adored her.
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Alabama’s Republican Governor
@kayiveyforgov
has had enough with unvaccinated people in her state:
“It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”
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BREAKING: Chicago man caught harassing woman because she was wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rico flag on it has been charged with two counts of felony hate crime.
Story coming.
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I have to say: Puerto Ricans are the most creative protesters I’ve ever covered.
Under the water
In the water
Yoga.
What’s next?
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NEWS: Federal authorities have charged 2 police officers from the Rocky Mount Virginia Police Department, according to the dept, which says the officers have been charged with misdemeanors stemming from their presence at the Capitol attack. The officers are on leave from the dept
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The funeral home has shared the wishes of Mr. Basco on its Facebook page.
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Louisiana has a population of roughly 4.6 million people
2,970,167 are registered to vote
Unofficial returns indicated statewide turnout of registered voters in the Governor’s race, last night, was 35.8%
Republican Jeff Landry won the Governor’s race with 547,828 votes
If…
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I've been saying: Puerto Rico isn't getting enough top story coverage in the news - regarding what's happening on the island with 3.4 million U.S. citizens - but wearing the flag during the Super Bowl half time show is definitely 1 way to get people talking
Now, follow the issues
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Chilling:
@DCPoliceDept
officer Michael Fanone said on CNN that rioters went for his gun, saying “Kill him with his own gun”.
He told CNN, “It was all about self preservation...I “appealed to their humanity...I just remember yelling out I have kids”
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“Thank you to my parents I’m a badass with a diploma” is what Jennifer Rocha wrote on her graduation cap. The
@ucsandiego
student took her graduation pics in a farm field to honor her parents. Since high school she worked alongside them planting strawberries.
📷:Branden Rodriguez
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If you evacuate take your pets or ask someone to take them for you. Glad the bunch was rescued.
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Firework in Puerto Rico tonight as people in Santurce celebrated New Year's Eve.
People decided to cancel January after a month of anxiety due to earthquakes that have been felt almost daily, & continue.
People want to start over.
So, HNY!
#2020TAKE2
📷: Eloy Perez
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Puerto Ricans looking out for each other: Alongside the road in Guanica we found local chefs who set up a food kitchen of sorts in corner field & used vegetables from nearby gardens in the earthquake affected zone to make a giant plate of fried rice. People are flocking there.
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The ladies, according to their lawyers, will file suit against the city for violation of their civil rights & malicious prosecution.
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Here’s why what’s happening right now in Puerto Rico matters beyond just the island
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Jim
@Acosta
on CNN just said, "Earlier today the President underwent a physical exam...but Across Washington and much of the world...there is less concern about an update on the President's health, and more about the condition of his soul, tonight"
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Now it appears
@RitchieTorres
, 32, a gay Afro Latino (1/2 Puerto Rican) Democrat will represent the Bronx in Congress, beating front runner Ruben Diaz Sr., 77, an anti gay, pro Trump Democrat who’s Puerto Rican.
Torres succeeds Puerto Rican
@RepJoseSerrano
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I just told my partner: Babe, I joined Costco today.
His response wow you really are middle-aged woman.
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BREAKING: Tanker truck plows into crowd of demonstrators on Minneapolis highway. Protesters scrambled as truck battled toward them.
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BREAKING: The FBI has arrested Jenny Cudd, reports
@CBS7News
. She recorded a video inside the Capitol saying they didn’t vandalize anything, then said they did break down
@SpeakerPelosi
’s door & steal her gavel. Cudd’s a fmr. Midland, TX. mayoral candidate
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Y’all did not tell me Bad Bunny (
@sanbenito
) was going to be on top of an 18 wheeler, ducking traffic lights and tree limbs, as his concert caravan is escorted through New York City (the Bronx) while he performs live. I am here for this. All of it!
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This was the moment thousands of protesters, standing in front of the governors mansion, tonight, heard the governor say he is resigning
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An
@ArlingtonPD
officer in Texas tells a Puerto Rican man his Puerto Rican license isn’t valid in Texas and writes him a ticket for having no valid drivers license
I called the police department and they acknowledged the officer was wrong and they dropped the ticket.
Luis…
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BREAKING: The FEMA official in Puerto Rico, in charge of power restoration after Hurricane Maria, has been arrested by the FBI, as has the fmr. CEO of Cobra Energy (which got $1.8B in contracts) & a 2nd FEMA official...all accused of enriching themselves & defrauding the fed govt
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There was no better way to end the
@CBSEveningNews
than with the story of "Mattress Mack"; it was a gift, for me, to highlight his humanity
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Gayle King stood up from her chair on LIVE TV this morning to give this man, the focus of our story, an ovation.
He deserved every bit her applause.
Robert Carter is a phenomenal, self-made man with a hell of a human story.
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Here’s why
@residente
&
@ricky_martin
want the Governor of Puerto Rico to resign - they led protesters on march to the Governors mansion
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This day was dominated by Samaritans who gathered supplies, left their homes and headed into the earthquake affected zones to hand out what they could. We saw them everywhere along the southwestern coast.
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We went to Whitefish, MT. to find the headquarters of
@WhitefishEnergy
- here’s what we found, along with a man blocked us is in as we left
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Today, in Puerto Rico, 32 days after Maria:
80% of the island is without power
27% is without water
It’s 85 degrees there today.
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It’s true: thousands of water bottles sitting in an empty field in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
After I posted about it earlier today someone drove out there & took this video.
Location: road 693, toward the beach after you pass Krispy Kreme
FEMA is getting back to me with details
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Watch: The moment the giant telescope collapsed, this week, at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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In Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, this morning, Puerto Ricans used yoga as a sign of protest to call for the Governor to resign
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Meet 'Paddington Boricua', the newest member of our family.
He's an Austrailian labradoodle. We brought him home today, & already adore him.
Potty training may get the best of us, but here we go! 💙💙💙
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I think about all the Puerto Ricans who drove from the north, east, & west down to the south & sat in bumper to bumper traffic to deliver aid to earthquake evacuees, & now we hear there was a warehouse of supplies in Ponce.
This is why people don't trust govt. This. Is. Why.
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JUST IN: Puerto Rico’s elections officials have now found 174 boxes of uncounted ballots, 7 days after the election!
It started at 40.
Then 100.
Then 153.
NOW 174. Each box may hundreds of uncounted ballots.
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BREAKING: The Louisiana high school principal who punished a senior because he didn’t like the way she was dancing at a private party, says he’s apologized to the student and her mother and said he will reinstate her as president of the student government and he will help her…
ABSURD & LAUGHABLE: A Louisiana public high school principal allegedly told the student government president that she was kicked out of student government and that he wouldn’t help her with college scholarships because the student was seen on video Twerking at a private party.…
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