 | By DREW BROACH | Deputy metro editor |
STORM CLOUDS: We’re nearing the peak of hurricane season, Sept. 10, and weather forecasters are warily eyeing a tropical disturbance in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The good news is that they are reducing its chances of developing into a named storm. Still, it’s never too early to stock up on non-perishable food, check your emergency equipment, rethink whether and when to evacuate, consider evacuation routes, plan for your pets and trim your trees. If you're new to this drill, check out our beginners guide. (New or not, sign up for our free Hurricane Center newsletter.)
SHOT FOR SHOT: The line stretched down the block, around the corner and halfway down another block Tuesday for New Orleans' first shot-for-shot monkeypox vaccine event, a COVID-style pop-up aiming to get a large number of at-risk people inoculated as quickly as possible as the number of monkeypox infections grows in the United States. (Subscribe to our free health and health care newsletter, The Checkup, emailed weekly.)
GRAPHIC VIDEO: Her family called it an unspeakable tragedy, how a disturbed New Orleans woman slit the necks of her two young children, showed one of them dying and the other badly wounded in a video call to their father then went live on social media, smeared in their blood and crying, "I'm done; my children is dead! I'm done, I'm done!”
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