Wes Davis
The SpaceX Starship launch livestream has started.
You can catch the livestream on SpaceX’s website, its X account, or the X TV app.
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Wes Davis
SpaceX is preparing Starship for launch.
The company now expects its fifth Starship flight test to lift off at 8:25AM ET from its launch site in South Texas. SpaceX has a 30-minute window that started at 8AM ET, so it’s cutting it a little close.
Elizabeth Lopatto
Justine Calma
Richard Lawler
Meteorologists are getting misinformation-fueled death threats.
Rolling Stone reports that just like FEMA, meteorologists are dealing with more pushback than they’re used to — one is quoted saying “ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream.”
CBS Morning meteorologist Katie Nickolaou also tweeted one example of what she’s seeing (below).
Umar Shakir
Justine Calma
Hurricane Milton knocked out power for millions of people.
Power outages affect more than 3.3 million customers in Florida, out of the 11.5 million customers tracked by poweroutage.us (which collects data from utilities). Milton made landfall as an “extremely dangerous category 3 hurricane” Wednesday night.
Correction: It is 11.5 million customers, not 11.5.
Florida Power Outages Map
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Justine Calma
Hurricane Milton hits tonight, and it’s past the point of evacuation. Creators are still there.
We might not hear from them for a while if Milton knocks out power and communicates like Hurricane Helene did. “Life-threatening” hurricane-force winds and flash floods are on the way, the National Hurricane Center warns.
Justine Calma
Congratulations Grazer!
You are still the queen of fat bears. Bear 128 ‘Grazer’ won the March Madness-style popularity contest for Katmai National Park’s famous brown bears.
Jess Weatherbed
