Mom charged with leaving her 6-month-old baby in hot car for 5 hours

The infant’s death and that of a child in Arkansas Tuesday who was found unresponsive in a closed vehicle brings the total number of hot car deaths among youngsters to 18 this year. By Marianne Mizera, AccuWeather front page editor Published Aug. 17, 2022 3:38 AM IST | Updated Aug. 17, 2022 5:28 AM IST

A Louisiana mother has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 6-month-old infant who police said was left in a hot SUV for five hours on Sunday. In separate incident that occurred Tuesday, police in Fort Smith, Arkansas, are investigating the death of a young child who was found inside a closed car for an unknown amount of time. A good Samaritan saw the child inside the stifling hot vehicle and smashed in a window to pull the youngster out. The person then rushed the child to the hospital, but he died soon after. Temperatures topped 102 degrees Fahrenheit there on Tuesday, according to AccuWeather data. In the Louisiana case, authorities charged Ivy L. Lee, 22, of Lake Charles, with leaving her baby in a vehicle from 10:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., outside a building where she worked in the city. Temperatures in Lake Charles climbed into the 80s on Sunday, reaching a high of 89 F, according to AccuWeather data. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office said Lee flagged down a sheriff's deputy about 2 miles from work around 3:45 p.m. and told him the baby was not breathing. The deputy and other officers who arrived on the scene began CPR on the child, who was then transported to a local hospital where she later died. The Sheriff’s Office said that the mother had initially given the deputies two different stories about what happened to her daughter, before finally telling them she had left the baby in the car while she worked.

Ivy L. Lee, 22, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of her infant daughter, who she left in her SUV for five hours on Aug. 14, 2022. (Photo/Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office) Lee is being held in Calcasieu Correctional Center on a $1.2 million bond, the Sheriff’s Office said. Data collected by the nonprofit Kids and Car Safety organization shows that more than 1,000 children have died in hot cars since 1990, with most age 3 and younger. At least another 7,300, the group notes, survived but with varying severities of injuries. These latest fatalities bring the total number of child hot car deaths to 18 for the year – all involving children 5 and younger, according to Kids and Car Safety, which tracks figures nationwide. The state of Louisiana ranks No. 5 in the nation with a total of 44 child hot car deaths since 1995, the group said. Experts note that cars become an oven within minutes of being closed. Data has shown that 80% of the temperature increase inside a car occurs in the first 10 minutes, according to Amber Rollins, director of the national non-profit organization KidsandCars.org. “It's important for families to understand that it doesn't have to be 90 degrees outside for a child to suffer from heatstroke inside of a vehicle," Rollins previously told AccuWeather. "We've seen children who have died in hot cars on days where the outside temperature was in the 50s or 60s outside, believe it or not, and that's because a vehicle does act like a greenhouse, so it allows that heat to come in through the windows, traps it inside and it's an oven; it heats up very quickly." Some of the other child hot car deaths reported this year include: • A 3-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a car in Carthage, Missouri, on Friday. The child was taken to a hospital in Joplin before being flown to a critical care hospital in Springfield. She was pronounced dead the next day, police told local media. AccuWeather data showed temps topped 94 degrees for the day. It was unclear how long the girl had been in the hot vehicle and whether the child was inadvertently left in the vehicle or if the child got in on her own. • An infant died on Aug. 9 after being left in a hot car in Washington, D.C. • A toddler died in May after he was left for six hours in a hot vehicle parked outside a daycare center in Memphis, Tennessee. • A 5-year-old boy in June was accidentally left in a car for several hours in the Houston area as the family prepared to celebrate the birthday of his 8-year-old sister. • An 11-month-old boy was left in a hot car in Florida in July.

At least 16 dead following catastrophic flooding in western China

18 people remain missing following late-night flooding and heavy rain that triggered landslides and turned a mountainous region in China into a deadly flash flood. Heavy rainfall produced catastrophic flooding in the western Chinese province of Qinghai, killing 16 people while at least 18 others remain missing, Chinese state media reported on Thursday. The sudden onset of severe downpours late Wednesday evening over a mountainous region in Qinghai triggered landslides, and the raging water diverted rivers that resulted in flash flooding in a populated area late Wednesday night. According to the state broadcaster CCTV, more than 6,000 people in six villages were immediately affected. The flash flooding was described as a "mountain torrent," according to emergency officials, The Associated Press reported. Occurring after a heavy downpour in higher elevations, mountain In a video shared online of the aftermath, partially washed away roads that were covered in debris, uprooted trees and overturned cars could be seen, the AP reported. According to Reuters, a rescue team of 2,000 people and 160 disaster relief vehicles have been sent to the area by the local government. Rescuers, who earlier reported 36 people missing, had found 18 of them by early Thursday afternoon, CCTV said in an online update. Through the rest of the week, temperatures will be in the 70s to low 80s, and more showers and thunderstorms are expected in Datong County, which was the epicenter of the flooding in Qinghai Province.torrents result when water running down turns gullies or streams into raging rivers, often catching people by surprise.

Flood damage in Qinghai province in northwestern China on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (Reuters) In a video shared online of the aftermath, partially washed away roads that were covered in debris, uprooted trees and overturned cars could be seen, the AP reported. According to Reuters, a rescue team of 2,000 people and 160 disaster relief vehicles have been sent to the area by the local government. Rescuers, who earlier reported 36 people missing, had found 18 of them by early Thursday afternoon, CCTV said in an online update. Through the rest of the week, temperatures will be in the 70s to low 80s, and more showers and thunderstorms are expected in Datong County, which was the epicenter of the flooding in Qinghai Province. This has been the summer of extremes for China, which has been grappling with historic floods, heat waves and droughts across the country. In late June, as rivers overflowed, a historic flood brought devastation to the provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi across central and southern China, which displaced tens of thousands of people.

Residents walk with umbrellas near a puddle during a rainy day in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Currently, the worst heat wave in six decades is roasting a large swath of central China, sending temperatures 15 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. This comes just a month after Shanghai, the most populated city in China, endured a dangerous heat wave, which sent temperatures past the century mark. According to the China Meteorological Administration, more than a third of the weather stations across the country have recorded extreme heat this summer, Al Jazeera reported. At least 262 stations reached or surpassed previous records. The Ministry of Finance said on Thursday that they have allocated 420 million yuan ($61.83 million) of emergency funds for local governments to provide food and drought relief as the country continues to grapple with extreme weather, according to Al Jazeera.

How to make a Travel Blog? Create Travel Blog in 30 Minutes

Do you also like to travel, visit new places, learn about new culture and food..all this? If yes, then you too can earn lakhs of rupees a month by converting this passion into your profession. Yes, we are talking about travel blogging. In this post we will tell you how to create a Travel Blog? And how to earn money from this travel blogging? We will tell you everything step by step, for this, definitely read this article completely. In this article today we will mainly learn about these three points: What is Travel Blogging? How to create a Travel Blog? How to make money from travel blog? What is Travel Blogging? Simply put, through your blog, tell people everything that people want to know about new places to visit, new culture, different food culture and traveling. It is called Travel Blogging. If you are giving all this information through video, then you will be called Travel Vlogger, whereas if you are giving all this information by writing a blog on your website, you will be called Travel Blogger.

How to make a travel blog?

If you also want to create your own travel blog, then you will need just these three things: A mobile or laptop, so that you can publish by writing Travel Blogs. A good website, where you can write and post your blog. The third and most important thing is the passion of traveling in you, the passion to write on traveling and the hunger to motivate people for traveling. If you have all these three things then you can become a good travel blogger. Let us now know the whole process of creating Travel Blog one by one. Step-1. Choose Your Domain Name : If you are going to create a travel blog, then the first and most important step is to choose the right domain for your website. We can also call the domain URL or web link of a website. Your blog name and its domain name should be the same. While selecting the domain of a good travel website, keep in mind the following things in particular:- Easy To Remember – The domain name of your website should be such that it can be easily remembered. The simpler and shorter it is, the better. Never use any numbers or special characters in it. Travel Niche to Relevant – Domain Name Niche/Topic of your website i.e. Traveling blogs. Step-2. Buy Domain & Hosting : After selecting the domain, the second step of Travel Blog Kaise Banaye is- Buying Domain and Hosting. Always take hosting from a company whose service and customer support is good. Take the cheapest plan in the beginning, later you can upgrade it according to the traffic. Although there are many hosting services available today, but if you are looking for a good and affordable hosting, then there can be no better option than Bluehost. Bluehost is quite Affordable (₹169/Month), its service is good and Customer Support is also good in case of any problem. Along with this, on taking hosting service from Bluehost, it also gives domain for one year absolutely free. Next we will tell you the complete process of buying Hosting & Domain on Bluehost. Step-3. Setup Your Website : First of all, go to Bluehost's website Bluehost.In in your browser.

Mysterious holes found on ocean floor have scientists ‘stumped’

These linear, peculiar-looking openings in the sand could be human made. But a more plausible explanation might be that they’re tracks left behind by an undiscovered species lurking in the deep sea. The depths of the Earth's oceans contain many secrets that often take researchers years of investigation to solve. A new mystery in the Atlantic Ocean is almost literally taking them down the rabbit hole. On July 23, along the seafloor off the coast of Portugal beneath the island chain of the Azores, scientists working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found a dozen sets of small holes in the sand at a depth of nearly 2 miles, with no clues of how they got there. Two weeks later and 300 miles away, they found even more mysterious holes, exactly the same as the first.

A close look at the sets of holes along the floors of the Atlantic Ocean. The origins of the holes are unclear. (NOAA Ocean Exploration) From May to September 2022, NOAA is carrying out an expedition called Voyage to the Ridge 2022 in this relatively unexplored region of the Atlantic. NOAA scientists set off from Newport, Rhode Island, to Newfoundland, Canada, on the first leg of the trip and then left Norfolk, Virginia, for the Azores. They will finish up by traversing the Atlantic in the other direction, to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Their research vessel, called the Okeanos Explorer, is investigating the coral and sponge colonies on volcanic ridges. Finding the holes was more of a happy accident. This isn't the first time scientists encountered these strange-looking patterns. NOAA spokesperson Emily Crum told The New York Times that in 2004, right in the vicinity of this initial discovery, researchers recorded the first sighting of the holes. “The origin of the holes has scientists stumped,” NOAA's Ocean Exploration project tweeted. “The holes look human made, but the little piles of sediment around them suggest they were excavated by … something.” “There is something important going on there and we don’t know what it is,” NOAA deep-sea biologist Michael Vecchione told the Times. “This highlights the fact that there are still mysteries out there.” Hypotheses regarding the origins of the holes range from human-made causes to the tracks of an undiscovered species of animal or a gas vent blowing bubbles up through the sand. Vecchione co-authored a paper in 2022 discussing the gaps in current knowledge of the holes and what could be causing them. According to the paper, the holes appear to have been either excavated from the top or pierced up from underneath, meaning whatever created them could have been digging the holes or burrowed under the sediment and potentially used the holes as a breathing apparatus -- like a snorkel. There's no definitive evidence to say for sure, though, and it will take more time and investigations to find the truth.

NOAA scientists use this underwater drone, called Deep Discoverer, to examine features of the seafloor up to 19,000 feet below the ocean's surface. (NOAA Ocean Exploration) Vecchione, who was present for this latest run-in with the mysterious holes, said he was happy to see them again after nearly two decades but also expressed disappointment that there are still no answers. The Okeanos Explorer is currently docked in the Azores until Aug. 6, when the vessel will set out for its third Voyage to the Ridge expedition.

Webb space telescope glimpses most distant star known to exist

Named after a "Lord of the Rings" character, the star is 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth and was first discovered using the Hubble's gravitational lensing ability.

The Earendel star, as glimpsed by the James Webb Space Telescope, is the most distant star ever seen, 12.9 billion light-years from Earth. (Photo courtesy of NASA, ESA/Cosmic Spring JWST) Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The most distant star known to exist in the universe has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. It comes just months after scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope announced the star's existence. Earendel, named after a Lord of The Rings character, was discovered using the Hubble's gravitational lensing ability. The star is 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth, the most distant object ever recorded, according to NASA. Gravitational lensing extends the range of telescopes by detecting objects through bent light from objects that are behind black holes. When the bent light passes by the black holes the light behaves as though it were passing through the telescope lens. An image of the star, seen through the James Webb telescope, was released Tuesday by a group of astronomers at Cosmic Spring JWST. The Webb is the most powerful telescope ever launched into space and uses infrared technology to view objects farther away from Earth than previously possible. "JWST was designed to study the first stars. Until recently, we assumed that meant populations of stars within the first galaxies," astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland wrote in a paper in May. "But in the past three years, three individual strongly lensed stars have been discovered." The astronomers said this "offers new hope of directly observing individual stars at cosmological distances." The JWST was designed to see the very first galaxies formed in the first hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. Earendel, known as WHL0137-LS, is in the constellation Cetus. It is not visible to the naked eye.

Water gushes down in waterfall in front of shocked park visitors

Torrents of mountain water gushed down a waterfall in front of shocked park visitors following heavy rain in the Davao de Oro province in the Philippines on July 22.

Flamingos return to nest in the Galapagos Islands for first time in 20 years

Around 8,000 families in Louisiana are still in temporary housing situations after the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida in 2021.