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Storm halts We Love NYC Homecoming Concert mid-performance

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New York City’s “Homecoming” concert at Central Park was abruptly halted in the middle of Barry Manilow’s performance Saturday evening — as lightning storms tied to approaching Hurricane Henri descended on the Big Apple.

Concertgoers were told at 7:37 p.m. to “proceed to your vehicles and protected areas outside of the event center” as Manilow was singing his 1978 hit “Can’t Smile Without You.”

An announcer could be heard saying that the highly anticipated concert was “canceled.”

Saturday’s “We Love NYC” concert was suddenly canceled due to dangerous weather.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announcing the concert’s cancellation on stage.
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Moments earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed optimism that the show would go on. “We need everyone for a brief period of time to move to some place safe because of thunder and lightning, and then we will bring the concert back,” he said at the mic.

Hurricane Henri, a Category 1 storm, is expected to touch down east of New York City on Sunday.

People leaving the concert after it was abruptly called off.
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Manilow made it through “Copacabana” and “Mandy” before he was cut off.
Disappointed music fans said the show could have gone on.

“It’s very disappointing. I didn’t even get to see the Killers — that’s the main reason why I came.” said Shinice Hemmings. “The concert was going so well and it was so good.”

Others were furious the show hadn’t been called off earlier.

The empty concert stage after it was stopped during Barry Manilow’s performance.
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People leaving Central Park as Hurricane Henri approaches the area.
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“We just got in so we’re triggered. We just got in and they’re like ‘Evacuate,’ Brandee McDermott, 26, Bay Ridge, said. “You’re deploying the national Guard yet you’re having a concert? They see the storm coming and they do nothing about it. They pretend it’s not happening.”

“We literally waited three hours and just got in now,” said Alex Maxwell, 22, of Midtown.

“This might be a metaphor … because we think the pandemic is done and then we get in here and it’s literally a storm and it’s like that’s what’s coming for us with the pandemic,” she said, referencing the Delta variant.

Additional reporting by Kerry J. Byrne



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Fan trying to do a backflip on a stadium balcony falls 50 feet to his death at NYC concert

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Fan in his 40s falls 50ft to his death from balcony while trying to do backflip during concert at Citi Field in NYC

  • A man fell to his death Friday night while trying to do a flip on the fifth-floor balcony at Citi Field during intermission at the Dead & Company concert 
  • The Brooklyn resident in his 40s was pronounced dead at NewYork–Presbyterian Queens Hospital that night 
  • Police say the man was possibly inebriated while attempting the flip 
  • Other concertgoers saw the tragic incident with one saying, ‘I heard people going ‘ahhh’ and see people running. I said ‘bro, someone took a f—ing header’

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A fan fell to his death Friday night while trying to do a flip on the balcony at Citi Field  stadium at a Dead & Company concert in New York.

During intermission at around 9 pm, the man, a Brooklyn resident in his 40s, fell about 30 to 50 feet landing on concrete, police said. First responders said they were called to the scene at 9:05 pm and found the man injured apparently from a fall.

Ambulances took him to NewYork–Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A driver working outside the stadium told The New York Post he saw the man ‘flip’ before he fell and slammed into the ground.

A Brooklyn man in his 40s fell to his death while attempting to flip on the fifth-floor balcony during intermission at the Dead & Company show

The concert was held at Citi Field on Friday night after the Grateful Dead tribute band kicked off a 31-date tour earlier this week

‘He was unresponsive and he hit the ground head first. There was no way he survived,’ said the driver, Dan, who only gave his first name. ‘He was way too drunk. You could smell it.’

‘His brother came downstairs and found out he jumped,’ Dan added. ‘His brother was with him. He was crying.’

A fan in a tie-dye tank top told The Post, ‘I heard people going ‘ahhh’ and see people running. I said ‘bro, someone took a f—ing header.’

Police sources said the man was possibly under the influence when he attempted the fatal flip on the fifth floor.

‘The people are inebriated, the people are intoxicated,’ a security guard, who declined to give his name, told The Post.

Police taped off an area next to the right field entrance after the incident. ‘We see something fall and we heard him hit the ground,’ said Sean Egan, 27, who was one level up.

‘It’s terrible,’ Egan said. ‘I wish I didn’t see it happen … It kinda killed the mood.’

Dead & Company, the Grateful Dead tribute band, which features members of the legendary rock band Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann alongside John Mayer, kicked off a 31-date tour earlier this week.

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Gaza resort bombed for holding mixed-gender concert

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Bianco Resort, one of the Gaza Strip’s most luxurious seaside tourist sites, was attacked last Thursday with an explosive device.
The attack came after the resort was accused by Muslim extremists of holding a mixed-gender concert. No one was hurt, but a wall surrounding the resort was damaged.

 

Palestinian sources accused terrorists belonging to Salafi-Jihadist groups of being behind the attack.

Members of Islamic State (ISIS)-inspired groups in the Gaza Strip accused the resort of holding a music concert for men and women on the beach of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.

Some members of the groups said they had warned the owner against holding the event, but he ignored the warning.

Salafi-Jihadist terrorists have regularly clashed with Hamas members in the Gaza Strip over the past decade. Hamas has also arrested or killed some members of the groups.

On August 5, Issa Miqdad, one of the men affiliated with the groups, wrote on Facebook: “Today we went to Bianco Resort in order to deny the evil before it happens, as this resort will hold a mixed singing party tomorrow on the beach of Beit Lahiya. Therefore, we ask the [Hamas] government to stop this evil before it happens. I call on all preachers and sheikhs to publicly denounce this evil after the owner refused our request not to hold the party.”

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reacted with mixed feelings to the bombing of the resort. Some expressed appreciation for the perpetrators, while others denounced the attack.

The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemned the attack and said it was aimed at intimidating the residents of the Gaza Strip.

“PCHR points out that this resort is a modern and private investment project that opened in the middle of last month and was built on an area of 12 dunams, employing about 120 workers, and it has been very popular since its inauguration,” the center said in a statement. “We stress the importance of supporting such projects, which contribute to supporting domestic tourism, upgrading the Palestinian economy, creating job opportunities for young people and mitigating the effects of the siege [on the Gaza Strip].”

It demanded that legal measures be taken against all those involved in “this criminal act.”

According to PCHR’s investigations, at approximately 11:55 Friday night, unknown persons planted an explosive device next to the northeastern wall of the resort and detonated it. The explosion resulted in the collapse of parts of the wall.

A man came to the resort last Wednesday and demanded that the staff cancel a concert that was scheduled to take place the following evening, said the resort’s owner, Suhail al-Saqqa, who rejected the request. He said he had obtained a permit from the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Interior.

Some suspects have been arrested in connection with the bombing, a source close to Hamas said.

A number of Palestinian factions, including the PLO’s Leninist-Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and the Palestinian People’s Party (formerly the Palestinian Communist Party) condemned the attack on the resort and called on Hamas to find the perpetrators.

The explosion reflected the growing influence of ISIS-inspired groups in the Gaza Strip, the factions said.



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Morgan Wallen surprises Luke Bryan at first concert appearance since racial slur scandal: ‘Only in Nashville’

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Morgan Wallen made his first major concert appearance since he was filmed hurling the N-word back in February.

The country artist, 28, hit the stage at Luke Bryan’s concert in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday night and joined Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard and sang his records “Whiskey Glasses” and “More Than My Hometown” before hanging out on stage while Aldean belted “She’s Country.”

“A really good friend of mine is here backstage tonight,” Aldean told a perplexed Bryan onstage. “I don’t know if you know this.”

“Do I need another tequila shot to get through this?” Bryan quipped.

It was then that the embattled Wallen waltzed down the narrow catwalk and greeted his country companions to a cheering sold-out audience as he handed out shot glasses.

MORGAN WALLEN SAYS PAST RACIAL SLUR WAS ‘IGNORANT,’ WAS INTENDED AS ‘PLAYFUL’ IN FIRST INTERVIEW AFTER SCANDAL

“Only in Nashville,” Aldean said.

Wallen then played “Hometown,” introducing the record as “a song about staying true to yourself,” adding, “that’s been a really hard thing for me to do lately, but here I am.”

The incident in question stemmed from a video taken by a neighbor of Wallen’s on Feb. 2 in which he is heard telling someone to “take care of this… N-word,” as he’s being dropped off at his home.

MORGAN WALLEN BREAKS MONTHS-LONG SILENCE AFTER USING RACIAL SLUR: ‘I’VE REALLY WORKED ON MYSELF’

It subsequently led to Wallen’s record label, Big Loud Records, suspending him and conglomerates like iHeartRadio pulling his music from their stations.

After the video of Wallen’s incident hit the internet in February, he told Fox News in a statement, “I’m embarrassed and sorry.”

“I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back,” he continued. “There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.”

Fan funded billboards supporting singer Morgan Wallen are seen on Broadway on June 08, 2021 in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Speaking in a pre-taped interview on “Good Morning America” that aired shortly after, host Michael Strahan asked Wallen how he feels about people who may think his interview is just another “performance.”

“I understand that I’m not ever going to make everyone happy. I can only come tell my truth and that’s all I know to do,” Wallen said.

Wallen admitted he had been “partying all weekend” with some “longtime friends.”

MORGAN WALLEN DROPPED BY TALENT AGENCY AMID RACIAL SLUR DRAMA

He went on to say he and his friends “say dumb stuff together” and it isn’t a slur he uses frequently.

“No, I don’t think it just happened. I was around some of my friends and we just, we say dumb stuff together. In our minds it’s playful. It sounds ignorant but that’s really where it came from, and it’s wrong,” Wallen added. “We were all clearly drunk and I was asking his girlfriend to take care of him because he was drunk and he was leaving. I didn’t mean it in any derogatory manner at all.”

Morgan Wallen was been barred from attending the Billboard Music Awards despite earning six nominations.  (AP Photo/Sanford Myers, File)

Strahan pressed Wallen why he would feel it was an “appropriate” word to ever use, to which the country crooner admitted he was “just ignorant about it.”

“I don’t think I ever sat down and thought, ‘Hey, is this right or wrong?’” he said.

Wallen was widely condemned by several country artists, including Maren Morris and Mickey Guyton, after the video surfaced. Asked by Strahan if he believes there is a race problem in country music, he replied, “I mean, it would seem that way, yeah. I haven’t really sat and thought about that.”

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In April, the musician took to social media to issue a handwritten apology to fans and revealed he would be taking a break from performing this summer.

“I have felt a lot of love lately from so many people I haven’t gotten to know yet,” Wallen began, while thanking his fans who stood beside him. “I know my corner hasn’t been the most popular one to stand in recently, but many of you did anyway.”

Wallen maintained that he had “made some mistakes” in 2020 and called it a “tough year,” likely pointing to his public intoxication arrest in May and disorderly conduct charges in September.

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The country star was also scratched as a performer on “Saturday Night Live” after he was spotted partying at a bar without practicing social distancing just days before his scheduled performance.

He went on to write that he always “strives to be better” and that his time away from the spotlight not only helped him identify the ways he wants to improve but also “reminded me that I am still very proud of who I am and the man I am becoming.”



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Dusty Hill dead – ZZ Top plays first concert since bassist’s death as ‘Dusty wanted band to continue’

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DUCK DYNASTY STAR REMEMBERS DUSTY HILL

Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson told Fox News on Thursday about how Dusty Hill’s passing has led him to recount the past.

Thinking about their last encounter, Robertson said: “Our beards bowed down when we got in their presence because they had been running that look way longer than we had, that’s for sure.

“When I was with them a couple of years ago, they were heading off to Europe to play for like two months or something, it was crazy.

“And I was thinking at the time, not a lot of people have their 70th birthday and then take off to Europe to keep working and keep doing what they love to do.

“And it’s just a tribute to him and their lives, their passion and what they had. They had something good and they kept it together, kept the look, kept everything.”



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ZZ Top performs first concert without Dusty Hill following his sudden death at 72 years old

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ZZ Top performed for the first time live since the death of longtime band member Dusty Hill.

The band, with the addition of Elwood Francis, played a show Friday night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

“We’re gonna have a good time in here tonight,” Billy Gibbons reportedly told the crowd at the show, according to UltimateClassicRock.com. “Got a new guy up here, as you know. Dusty gave me the directive. My friend, your pal, Elwood Francis is gonna hold it down behind me.”

“How about that Elwood? Tearing up that bottom there for Dusty,” Gibbons said later during the show, according to the outlet.

DUSTY HILL, ZZ TOP BASSIST, DEAD AT 72

Dusty Hill, Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons – posed, group shot, backstage at Monsters Of Rock, Hot Rod shaped guitars, novelty guitars.
(Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns via Getty Images)

ZZ Top announced the sudden death of Hill on Wednesday.

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“We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” the band said in a statement to Fox News. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top.'”

“We will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C,'” the statement continued. “You will be missed greatly, amigo.”

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No cause of death for Hill was given. The guitarist had been dealing with a health concern related to a hip issue recently, the band had previously revealed, adding that they were awaiting “a speedy recovery” and hoping to “have him back pronto.”

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Zydeco musician Chris Ardoin shot in the back while on stage at Louisiana concert

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COLFAX, Louisiana — A musician known for his hip-hop-infused zydeco sound throughout southeast Texas and Louisiana was hospitalized late Friday after he was shot while performing, family members. said.

Chris Ardoin was on-stage at an event in central Louisiana when approximately 20 gunshots rang out from the crowd, according to Grant Parish Sheriff Steven McCain.

Ardoin and a 14-year-old child were struck and were both hospitalized. There was no word on the child’s condition, but authorities told KALB-TV their injuries were “moderate.”

“Yes, unfortunately tonight he did get shot in the back on his right side while on stage,” Ardoin’s wife, Kerri, said in a Facebook post. “Doctors said thankfully he’s a built guy. The bullet didn’t penetrate his lung and stopped near his ribs.”

Investigators did not believe either victim was a target, McCain said.

The gunfire caused a panic among the crowd of concert-goers, according to the sheriff’s office.

“There were thousands of people at the event and many of them immediately began trying to leave,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.

His group was the headliner act for the Zydeco Bike Fest, a two-day event outside Colfax, a town of around 1,500 people north of Alexandria in central Louisiana. It’s approximately 200 miles northeast of Houston.

Ardoin and his band, Nustep Zydeko, are frequent performers in the Houston area and had most recently played here this past week.

“Pray for my Boss Chris Ardoin,” guitarist Jeston Andrews posted along with a video of Friday night’s performance. “We Need All Prayers,”

Deputies caught two armed men as they tried to flee the festival area, but it wasn’t clear if they were the shooters. Both faced assault charges.



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ZZ Top Play First Concert Since Bassist Dusty Hill’s Death

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ZZ Top played their first concert since the death of bassist Dusty Hill on Friday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

While guitarist Billy Gibbons didn’t speak at length about his late bandmate, he acknowledged the bassist a few times during the show, as well as Hill’s desire for the band to continue on without him.

“We’re gonna have a good time in here tonight,” Gibbons told the audience following the opener “Got Me Under Pressure.” “Got a new guy up here, as you know. Dusty gave me the directive. My friend, your pal, Elwood Francis is gonna hold it down behind me.”

Later in the show, Gibbons noted (via UCR), “How about that Elwood, tearing up that bottom there for Dusty.” Gibbons also joked that Francis was in the midst of growing a beard to fit his new role.

Francis had served as Hill’s substitute in recent weeks after Hill left the ZZ Top in order to deal with a hip issue. On July 28th, the band announced that Hill died in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas at the age of 72. No cause of death was been revealed.

ZZ Top were scheduled to perform July 28th, but opted to postpone that gig “to get our wits together,” Gibbons told Variety in an interview after Hill’s death.

“I think everybody was relieved that we had a little bit of time to regroup and think things through. But at the same time, everybody was ready, standing on point. And they said, ‘Come on. You heard Dusty’s directive as he was bowing out to go off the deck. He turned and pointed and he said, ‘Come on. The show must go on.’”

Gibbons continued, “So here we are. [Friday] night, we’ll kind of pick up sticks and carry it on. I may grab his stage hat and throw it over his microphone, and I’ll sing one for the Dust.”



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Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Debuts Unrecognizable New Look At Chicago Concert (Video)

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Front-row fan-filmed video footage of LIMP BIZKIT‘s July 29 concert at Metro in Chicago, Illinois can be seen below.

LIMP BIZKIT‘s Fred Durst debuted his new look at the Chicago show, with the frontman now sporting wavy salt-and-pepper locks accompanied by a horseshoe-style mustache.

Just hours before last night’s concert, the 50-year-old, who was best known for wearing baggy clothes and an iconic red backwards cap during the height of the band’s fame, posted a picture of his new look on Instagram, writing in a caption “Thinking about you 70,” alongside an emoji of a flying saucer. His Instagram profile bio has also been updated to read: “You’re confused? Classic.”

During a recent appearance on “Drinks With Johnny”, the Internet TV show hosted by AVENGED SEVENFOLD bassist Johnny Christ, Wes Borland discussed the status of LIMP BIZKIT‘s long-awaited new album which at one point had the working title “Stampede Of The Disco Elephants”. He said: “We’ve probably, in the last 10 years, been in the studio to try and complete the record, I wanna say, seven times, to different studios. And we’ve been working on stuff, working on stuff, working on stuff. And Fred has been consistently kind of unsatisfied with where vision is, I guess. So we’ve released singles — like we did ‘Ready To Go’, and we did another single called ‘Endless Slaughter’ that we put out… We probably have 35 songs recorded instrumentally, and he’s done vocals on them and then thrown the vocals away — done vocals and then [gone], ‘Fuck this,’ [and] thrown it away. So I think he’s finally at the point now where he’s gonna pick a set of these songs that he’s finally cool with and finish ’em and we’re gonna finish the record. So, fingers crossed.”

Asked about a possible timeline for the completion of the new LIMP BIZKIT LP, the guitarist said: “I’m not in charge of Fred‘s vocals… I’m way done with my parts on the record. I’m sure I’ll go back in and play a little bit more after. But it’s fucking Fred Durst. He went from being a darling to everybody’s most hated person in the world. We broke up as a band. He’s tried to find his footing, I think, on a bunch of these songs. He’s so talented, and I love him so much as a brother, but if he’s not ready to do it, he’s not ready to do it… My whole thing is I force things, but I’m happy to make mistakes and get embarrassed and go, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t have done that.’ But I just like to put stuff out. But he’s a perfectionist, so we’ll see when he’s ready to do it. I doubt it’ll be called ‘Stampede Of The Disco Elephants’ at that point. I will definitely say that the riffs and the music, it’s the best stuff I’ve ever done as a musician, I think. I’m so pleased with the direction the music went, and I love what we did as a band. And I’ve heard a bunch of his, sort of, demoed vocals over the stuff, and they’re great. So I have no doubt that he’s gonna come and bring it and it’s gonna be a great record.”

Since the arrival of “Gold Cobra” 10 years ago, LIMP BIZKIT issued four singles and promised to release a full-length collection of new material.

LIMP BIZKIT and Lil Wayne‘s collaborative single, “Ready To Go”, was made available in July 2013. The track was released via Cash Money, Lil Wayne‘s longtime record company.

LIMP BIZKIT in 2011 parted ways with Interscope, the label that released all of the band’s records thus far through its subsidiaries Flip, Geffen and Suretone Records.

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Concert ‘a nexus point’ in downtown San Rafael shooting that left 2 dead, 4 injured

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A burst of gunfire in downtown San Rafael on Friday night left two dead and four injured, police are reporting.

The San Rafael Police Department says it began receiving multiple 911 calls about shots fired near Third Street at Lootens Place around 10:40 p.m. Police say witnesses reported seeing multiple vehicles speeding away from that location.

A police officer intercepted a black Dodge Charger that eventually stopped near the top of Wolfe Grade. Inside the car were four people, including two men with gunshot wounds: a 25-year-old Fairfield resident whose injuries were life-threatening and 25-year-old Pittsburg resident whose injuries were not.

Back at a parking structure on Lootens Place, police found a 62-year-old San Rafael man with non-fatal gunshot wounds.

Police also found two victims at the scene of a vehicle collision in central Marin. A 24-year-old Stockton man was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 29-year-old Stockton man was transported to a hospital with nonfatal injuries.

Police learned of the second fatal victim after a car dropped the 27-year-old Fairfield man in front of the emergency department at a hospital. Police say the car’s occupants called for help and then drove away. The victim died at the hospital.

Police say they believe many of the victims had come to San Rafael to attend a rap concert at a downtown bar. By Saturday morning, the first floor under the parking garage resembled a crime scene, with bullet holes gouged in load-bearing cement pillars and shattered storefront glass.

Lt. Dan Fink, a spokesperson for the San Rafael Police Department, said the victims that police interviewed said they were either at the concert or on their way to it. Police were not yet ready to identify the venue and had no arrests or updates to report.

“It was a nexus point,” he told The Chronicle.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Raheem Hosseini is a San Francisco Chronicle editor. Email: raheem.hosseini@sfchronicle.com; Twitter: @raheemfh



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