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Latest Update: Hurricane Sally Category 2 With 105 MPH Winds; Eye Moving Over Gulf Shores  NorthEscambia.com Families brace for dangerous floods from Hurricane Sally | WNT  ABC News About 40 Jacksonville firefighters sent to Gulf Coast to assist with Hurricane Sally  FirstCoastNews.com WTLV-WJXX

A fire destroyed much of Phoenix, Ore., leaving people to wonder whether the town can rise from the ashes. “There’s nothing to sift through,” one resident said.

Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson dismiss scientists’ determination that climate change is a key culprit in West Coast wildfires.

Sally Now A Category 2 Storm With 105 MPH Winds  NorthEscambia.com Life-threatening storm surge expected as Hurricane Sally targets the Gulf Coast l ABC News  ABC News Hurricane Sally Slowly Creeping Toward Gulf Coast With Potentially Historic and Life-Threatening Flooding  The Weather Channel

Trump fumbles during tough encounter with undecided voters  CNN Trump dismisses voter questions on how he handled coronavirus  CNN Trump now says he ‘up-played’ virus threat after having told Woodward he wanted to ‘play it down’ | TheHill  The Hill The Media Overestimates

Trump fumbles during tough encounter with undecided voters  CNN

Louisville to pay $12 million to Breonna Taylor’s family, reform police practices  CBS News Louisville agrees to pay Breonna Taylor’s family $12 million and enact police reforms in historic settlement  CNN How much does a Black life cost in America today? $12

Donald Trump says not to worry about climate change as the West burns.  Slate Another presidential assault on science as fires and pandemic rage  CNN Conservative Media and Trump Dismiss Climate Change as Cause of Fires  The New York Times Gavin Newsom tried

Smoke from the wildfires in the West was also spotted high in the skies over Washington, D.C. Firefighters continued to battle blazes that were still spreading.

(SEATTLE) — William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist best known as the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94. Gates died peacefully Monday at his beach home in Washington state from Alzheimer’s disease, the family