Important Takeaways:
- A chemical gas leak from a rail tanker near Cincinnati prompted fears of an explosion and evacuation orders for people within at least a half-mile radius of the incident.
- Roughly 210 households in Whitewater Township, about 22 miles west-northwest of Cincinnati in an area near the city airport and the Kentucky state line, were under evacuation orders, officials said Tuesday night.
- Colorless, odorless gas spewing from the tanker at State Route 128 and U.S. Route 50 was reported to first responders shortly after 1 p.m.
- Authorities determined the chemical is styrene, he said. It’s used in the production of plastic, rubber, fiberglass and other structural materials.
- The threat for the community is that the rail car tank has been heating up and will explode if it continues, Siefke said. Firefighters were dousing the container with water in an attempt to reverse its temperature rise, he said.
- “This will be a long, long event,” Siefke said.
- It wasn’t yet clear who owns the rail car or its cargo, officials said Tuesday night.
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- 5 reactions to passage of Ohio Issue 1 enshrining abortion right into state constitution
- Ohio voters approved a ballot measure that will amend the constitution to make abortion a constitutional right…
- With 99% of the vote reporting, 56.6% of Ohio voters supported Issue 1, while 43.4% rejected it. The text of Issue 1 declares that “Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on (1) contraception; (2) fertility treatment; (3) continuing one’s own pregnancy; (4) miscarriage care; and (5) abortion.”
- Ohio has become the fourth state to approve a constitutional right to abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court determined in the June 2022 Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization ruling that the U.S. Constitution does not contain a right to abortion. California, Michigan and Vermont voted in favor of similar ballot measures last year.
- Ohio also differs from the other states because it passed pro-life protections into law, although the six-week abortion ban approved by the state government was put on hold by the courts at the time of the referendum. The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America estimates that the six-week abortion ban, which is now overruled by Issue 1, would prevent an estimated 14,910 abortions from taking place on an annual basis.
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Important Takeaways:
- Soil removal from Ohio train derailment site is nearly done, but cleanup isn’t over
- [CNN reported 38 train cars derailed in East Palestine]
- [Five of those derailed train cars were carrying 115,580 gallons of vinyl chloride, according to the report]
- The removal of contaminated soil from the eastern Ohio site of February’s fiery Norfolk Southern derailment is expected to be completed sometime this weekend, although the larger cleanup effort isn’t over.
- Since the Feb. 3 derailment, the railroad has removed more than 167,000 tons of contaminated soil and more than 39 million gallons of tainted water from the site where hazardous materials spilled and were released from tank cars.
- “Norfolk Southern is committed to remaining in East Palestine for the long haul,” Shaw said.
- Regular testing of the air and water will still take place too. Officials have said those tests consistently showed it’s safe although many residents remain uneasy.
- Norfolk Southern said earlier this week that the costs associated with the derailment have grown to nearly $1 billion, a figure that will keep climbing as more legal settlements and fines are agreed to and the cleanup carries on. That total includes more than $96 million the railroad has pledged to residents and the community to help them recover.
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Important Takeaways:
- Early voting began on Thursday in the Ohio election — a poll which could decide whether or not the supposed “right” to abortion is codified into the state constitution.
- Ohioans have the opportunity through election day on November 7 to vote on Issue 1, which would “establish in the Constitution of the State of Ohio an individual right to one’s own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion.”
- The language of the amendment, which was changed significantly by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) and now includes the term “unborn child,” would also:
- Create legal protections for any person or entity that assists a person with receiving reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion;
- Prohibit the State from directly or indirectly burdening, penalizing, or prohibiting abortion before an unborn child is determined to be viable, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means;
- Grants a pregnant woman’s treating physician the authority to determine, on a case-by-case basis, whether an unborn child is viable;
- Only allow the State to prohibit an abortion after an unborn child is determined by a pregnant woman’s treating physician to be viable and only id the physician does not consider the abortion necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health; and
- Always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability, if, in the treating physician’s determination, the abortion is necessary to protect the pregnant woman’s life or health.
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- Mystery as nearly FIFTY schoolchildren go missing in Cleveland in September alone while over ONE THOUSAND have vanished so far this year in ‘alarming’ trend that’s left Ohio cops baffled
- Police say the number of runaways and missing kids is unusually high this year
- Last year, 1,600 kids were reported missing in the state of 11million
- In this month alone, 45 children have been reported missing in the Cleveland area.
- In Georgia and North Carolina, which have similar populations, the number was less than 700
- Police say they are concerned the youths are being trafficked or becoming involved in gang activity
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Important Takeaways:
- The huge voter turnout against a special ballot measure in Ohio that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights is setting off alarm bells among Republican strategists who say abortion will be problem for their party in 2024.
- A Republican-backed measure to make it tougher to amend the state constitution to protect abortion was soundly defeated — 57 percent to 43 percent — after more than 3 million Ohioans voted, including 700,000 who voted early.
- Democratic strategists say the huge voter turnout in Tuesday’s election is an early sign that Democratic and independent voters will be highly energized by abortion in 2024.
- “We saw mobilization of voters that hadn’t even voted in 2022. In the early vote alone, there were 30,000 voters who voted in [Tuesday’s] election that hadn’t voted in 2022 and they were largely women and African American women”
- The issue could also come up as a ballot initiative in Arizona, where activists are circulating a proposal to establish a fundamental right to abortion that the state may not deny
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Mathew 24:12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
Important Takeaways:
- WHERE ARE THEY? Chilling mystery as nearly 30 kids go missing from city in two weeks and cops say they’ve never seen anything like it
- In the span of two weeks, nearly 30 children have vanished in Cleveland, sparking huge concern from a local police chief who said he hasn’t seen anything like this in his 33-year career.
- Majoy also serves as the board president of Cleveland Missing, an Ohio nonprofit that offers direct support for friends and families that are searching for a missing loved one.
- He called the number of missing children, whose ages range from 12 to 17, unprecedented when speaking to reporters.
- “For some reason, in 2023, we’ve seen a lot more than we normally see, which is troubling in part because we don’t know what’s going on with some of these kids, whether they’re being trafficked or whether they’re involved in gang activity or drugs.”
- All of these disappearances fall into the larger problem of crime in the greater Cleveland area, said Majoy.
- He added that many teenagers will seek out gangs when they’re desperate for protection.
- This often leads to initiation crimes such as carjacking and robberies or even selling their bodies and drug use, resulting in them becoming addicts, he said.
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Multiple Earthquakes Strike Eastern U.S. in Recent Days, Missouri to New Jersey, New York to Ohio Rattled
- It’s been seismically active in the eastern half of the United States in recent days, with two earthquakes hitting New York, one in Ohio, one in Arkansas, and two in Tennessee.
- Even Canada got into the action, with an earthquake hitting in Ontario province north and west over the border from New York state’s latest quake.
- A large population has been rattled by these quakes, with hundreds of reports coming into USGS from people feeling shaking in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
- Hundreds of people used the USGS website and their “Did you feel it?” web reporting tool to report shaking they felt the early morning earthquake that struck the Hastings-on-Hudson area of New York, just outside of New York City and across the Hudson River from New Jersey.
- According to USGS, a magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck outside of Toledo in northwestern Ohio at 8:17 pm. The Friday evening earthquake generated dozens of reports to USGS’s website and the “Did you feel it?” reporting tool they feature on it. Shaking was felt throughout the Toledo area as well as Perrysburg and Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Revelations 18:23:’For the merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.’
Important Takeaways:
- Barge loaded with toxic methanol partially submerged in Ohio River after 10 vessels break free from tug
- Ten barges, including one loaded with some 1,400 metric tons of methanol, broke free from a tug Tuesday and drifted on the Ohio River.
- Methanol is a toxic alcohol that is used industrially as a solvent, pesticide and alternative fuel source, according to the CDC.
- The rest of the barges were carrying soy bean oil and corn, WLKY-TV reported.
- Three barges settled next to part of the McAlpine Dam near the Ohio Falls hydroelectric station, operated by LG&E and KU Energy. One appeared to be crumpled up against a pillar at a spill gate
- Louisville Water officials told WLKY that the incident occurred downriver from water intake, and that there is no impact to water quality and water is safe.
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Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- Storm strikes California; flooding fears stretch from Oklahoma to Ohio: Weather forecast
- The recent storms were responsible for at least five deaths in the Bay Area.
- An Amtrak commuter train with 55 passengers struck a tree that had been downed and derailed near Port Costa, California. Nobody was injured in the incident.
- Meanwhile, some residents of north-central Arizona were told to prepare to evacuate over rising water levels in the area.
- States under the flood watch on Thursday include:
- Arkansas
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Missouri
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Rainfall of up to 5 inches is possible in some places.
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