Taylor Swift has pledged $5 million to help relief efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. The 34-year-old recording artist, who was just named the world’s wealthiest female musician with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion, made the large donation to the non-profit organization Feeding America. This was confirmed on the group’s official Instagram page. A message from Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fonteno said, “We’re incredibly grateful to Taylor Swift for her generous $5 million donation to Hurricane Helene and Milton relief efforts. This contribution will help communities rebuild and recover, providing essential food, clean water and supplies to people affected by these devastating storms.” The statement continued, “Together, we can make a real impact in supporting families as they navigate the challenges ahead. Thank you, Taylor, for standing with us in the movement to end hunger and for helping communities in need.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Feeding America (@feedingamerica) The caption thanked Swift “for standing with us and the movement to end hunger and helping communities in need in the wake of #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton.”  “Together, we can make a real impact in supporting families as they navigate the challenges ahead,” the caption concluded. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Swift has donated large amounts to charities and people in need before. In December 2023, she pledged $1 million toward natural disaster relief after damaging storms caused damage in Tennessee. The “Blank Space” singer also gave $100,000 to the family of a 44-year-old woman who was killed at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade last February. Hurricane Milton made landfall over the central west coast of Florida on Wednesday evening, bringing with it powerful winds, torrential rain, and damaging storm surge, as The Daily Wire previously reported. The state had already been hit by Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago, and cleanup efforts were ongoing when the latest storm hit. The National Hurricane Center announced that the storm’s eye made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane near Siesta Key in Sarasota County at 8:30 p.m. ET. Hurricane Helene hit Florida as a “major” Category 4 hurricane late last month. The storm traveled across Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia, contributing to the deaths of at least 227 people. Entire towns were destroyed, and millions lost power, cell phone service, and running water. 

A former CBS News reporter said this week that the network has a history of releasing full transcripts of interviews with top Republicans. The comments come as the network deals with a scandal involving its flagship weekly news program, “60 Minutes,” which deceptively edited remarks Vice President Kamala Harris made during an interview that aired this week. “As Trump campaign calls on @60Minutes to release ‘full, unedited transcript’ of Kamala Harris interview… There is precedent,” journalist Catherine Herridge posted on X. “When I interviewed then President Trump in July 2020 @CBSNews we posted the interview transcript.” She noted that the transcript that the network released was of the full interview, not just of what aired on television. Herridge noted that the left-wing network did the same thing for its 2019 interview with then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. “Full transcript = journalistic transparency,” she added. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Former President Donald Trump and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), have called on the network to release all the footage from the interview. The comments from Trump and Vance come after the show released two contradictory responses from Harris in response to remarks made by host Bill Whitaker. A giant Fake News Scam by CBS & 60 Minutes. Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, make her look better. A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is totally illegal. TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE. Election Interference.… pic.twitter.com/JRxSda3NeC — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2024 The moment happened when Whitaker was discussing with Harris the United States’ financial support for Israel in its war against genocidal Islamic terrorists in the region. “But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” Whitaker said to Harris. In a promotional clip that was posted by CBS News on Sunday, Harris responded to that statement from Whitaker by saying: “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.” However, when the full interview was published by the network on Monday night, that statement from Harris was nowhere to be found. Those words were not included anywhere in the television broadcast, nor did they appear in the interview when it was posted on YouTube, the interview’s transcript, or the show’s “Overtime” segment. Instead, on television and in the interview posted online, Whitaker’s identical statement that “it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening” is followed by Harris saying: “We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”

As you likely know, Hurricane Milton was expected to be one of the most dangerous hurricanes to hit Florida in a while. At first, it started off as a Category 5 hurricane. As a result, millions of folks found themselves preparing for the worst-case scenario. Thankfully, that worst-case scenario was seemingly avoided, with the storm dropping down to a Category 1 sooner than expected. That said, Hurricane Milton proved to be a formidable storm, producing quite a few powerful tornados. Now that the storm has passed, we are getting firsthand accounts of harrowing moments that took place just yesterday. This includes footage from a toll plaza camera. Located near Interstate 75 in the Florida Everglades, it managed to capture one of two tornados that crossed the highway. @accuweather Two large tornadoes crossed Interstate 75 in the Florida Everglades on Wednesday morning, moving north between the towns of Miles City and Andytown. The tornado shown here was east of the first tornado and closer to Andytown. #tornado #florida #milton #hurricane #tornadoes #accuweather ♬ original sound – AccuWeather According to AccuWeather, these tornados were “moving north between the towns of Miles City and Andytown,” noting that the one shown in the above video “was east of the first tornado and closer to Andytown.” Here is another view in the video below. We’re uncertain if this is the same tornado from the video above or the second one that was nearby. Either way, this angle is the definition of mind-blowing. Toll Plaza Camera in Florida Captures the Moment a Massive Hurricane Milton Tornado Crosses a Highway @wxzachary Tornado just crossed I-75 in Florida (10-9-24). #florida #milton #hurricane #tornado #trending #foryou #explore ♬ original sound – Freedom_Lover As usual, this tornado footage is eerily breathtaking. The sheer magnitude of these tornados alone is enough to take anyone’s breath away. It truly is incredible what footage we’re able to share online thanks to cameras like this one — we’re even able to get views of Hurricane Milton from space. Footage like this is also a somber reminder of the destruction Hurricane Milton left in its path. Thankfully, many incredible people are stepping up to help out those in need. Because, when we come together to help others, amazing things can happen. The InspireMore team wishes everyone well in the aftermath of this devastating storm. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Hurricane Milton: See Mind-Blowing Footage Of Tornados Crossing The Highway appeared first on InspireMore.

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News Star Trek: Lower Decks Final Season Trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks Gives Us a Lotta Kims It’s space pothole duty for the crew of the Cerritos By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 10, 2024 Credit: Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Paramount+ The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks is almost upon us. We’ve already gotten a sneak peek of what’s to come with a clip centered on Tendi’s pirating ways, and today, Paramount+ released a trailer that suggests the Lower Deckers are still being, well, Lower Deckers. Here’s the official synopsis for the upcoming episodes: In Season Five of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes”—subspace rifts that are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Junior Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford… If they didn’t also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and scariest of all: their own career aspirations. This upcoming season on Paramount+ is a celebration of this underdog crew who are dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks and into strange new Starfleet roles. The trailer also gives us some fun Easter eggs, including several Ensign Kims in what I assume is a multiverse situation, with the only promoted Kim of the bunch calling his doppelgangers out. “You’re all still ensigns?” he says. “That’s f***ed up!” The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere on Paramount+ with two episodes on Thursday, October 24, with new installments of the ten-episode season dropping every Thursday until the series finale on December 19, 2024. Check out the trailer for that final season below.[end-mark] The post Final Season Trailer for <i>Star Trek: Lower Decks</i> Gives Us a Lotta Kims appeared first on Reactor.