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‘The Fall Guy’ Raises The Roof At SXSW World Premiere And Ryan Gosling Didn’t Even Need To Sing – Deadline

  1. ‘The Fall Guy’ Raises The Roof At SXSW World Premiere And Ryan Gosling Didn’t Even Need To Sing Deadline
  2. ‘The Fall Guy’ Review: Ryan Gosling Is a Lover and a (Stunt) Fighter in Surprisingly Romantic Reboot of ’80s Action Show Variety
  3. Ryan Gosling’s The Fall Guy is a Funny, Romantic Delight Vulture
  4. Emily Blunt flashes toned abs in argyle crop top as she joins Ryan Gosling and Hannah Waddingham at The Fall G Daily Mail
  5. Ryan Gosling and ‘The Fall Guy’ Director David Leitch Premiere Their “Love Letter” to Stunts at SXSW Hollywood Reporter

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Video shows tornado tearing through North Carolina and destroying the roof of a Pfizer plant – Daily Mail

  1. Video shows tornado tearing through North Carolina and destroying the roof of a Pfizer plant Daily Mail
  2. Tornado damage to North Carolina Pfizer plant unlikely to cause significant drug supply impacts, FDA says Fox Business
  3. Tornado damage to Pfizer plant won’t worsen drug shortage: FDA NewsNation Now
  4. NC tornado insurance | Couple let insurance lapse, month later an EF-3 tornado destroys their year old home in Nash County WTVD-TV
  5. WATCH: Pfizer CEO gives update on operations after tornado damages North Carolina plant PBS NewsHour
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Family of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ star Chaim Topol claim actor worked with Mossad – Fox News

  1. Family of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ star Chaim Topol claim actor worked with Mossad Fox News
  2. ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ star Chaim Topol was a secret Mossad agent, family claims The Seattle Times
  3. As it’s revealed musical star Chaim Topol was an Israeli spy, we reveal the other celebs who came in from t… The US Sun
  4. ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ star Chaim Topol lived double life as Mossad agent, family says following his death Fox News
  5. Well, okay: Fiddler On The Roof legend Topol secretly moonlighted as a spy The A.V. Club
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Florida Rep. Greg Steube hospitalized after falling off roof: report

Florida Rep. Greg Steube was transported to a hospital Wednesday afternoon after he fell off a roof.

“Congressman Steube was involved in an accident on his property late this afternoon and has sustained several injuries. We will provide additional updates when possible. Please pray for the Congressman and his family,” Steube’s team said in a statement on Twitter.

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According to Florida Politics, which cited local sources, the Republican congressman fell from the roof of his home on Wednesday and was rushed to a local Sarasota, Florida hospital. 

The 44-year-old Representative serves Florida’s 17th congressional district, which contains the outer suburbs of Sarasota and Fort Myers through the Everglades. Steube has been a congressman since 2019 and previously served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives, as well as two years in the Florida Senate until 2018.

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Southeast US has hit the roof of CDC’s respiratory illness level scale

The US continues to see a dramatic and early surge in respiratory illnesses, which is hitting young children particularly hard and setting records for the decade.

The Southeast region is the most affected by the surge, which is driven by cases of flu, RSV (respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus), and other seasonal respiratory viruses. Seven southern states—Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia—have reached the highest level of respiratory-illness activity on the scale from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The states are colored a deep purple on the national map, representing the highest of sub-level of “Very High” activity.

Overall, 25 states are experiencing “High” or “Very High” levels of respiratory illness activity, while six have reached the moderate category.

Outpatient cases and hospitalizations are climbing and have not (yet) surpassed the peaks of all past seasons. However, the levels they’ve reached at this point in the flu season—week 44 of the year—are higher than levels seen at this point in every year since 2010, the CDC notes. The agency estimates that, so far this season, there have been at least 2.8 million illnesses, 23,000 hospitalizations, and 1,300 deaths from flu. This week, the agency tallied three pediatric flu deaths, bringing the season’s total to five.

Enlarge / Outpatient Respiratory Illness Visits.

Influenza-like illnesses (ILI) are driving more children to seek outpatient care, compared with all other age groups—15.4 percent of outpatient visits by children ages 0 to 4 years were for ILI, and 10 percent were for ILI among people aged 5 to 24 years.

Enlarge / Outpatient Respiratory Illness Visits by Age Group.

The cumulative hospitalization rate per 100,000 people for week 44 is the highest it’s been since 2010, at 5 per 100,000. For reference, all seasons between 2010 and 2021 had hospitalization rates for week 44 ranging from just 0.1 to 0.7. Broken out by age, the highest rates for this year’s week 44 were among adults aged 65 or older (10.7 per 100,000), followed by children aged 0 to 4 years (9.3 per 100,000), then adults aged 50-64 (4.9), children aged 5-17 years (5.0), and adults aged 18-49 years (2.6).

Enlarge / Hospitalization Surveillance.

In the CDC’s surveillance of the circulating flu strains, the season seems to be driven by an H3N2 strain of influenza virus, which is well-matched for the season’s flu shot. However, the uptake of flu shots is behind where it normally is for the season, even though circulation is ahead of normal patterns, the CDC noted.

“Flu vaccine uptake has lagged compared to prior seasons,” CDC Director Rochelle Walenksy tweeted from her verified CDC account Friday. “It is time to get your flu vaccine as well as your updated COVID19 vaccine if you have not yet done so.”



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A 17-year-old swam out of her flooded home with her dog and waited for hours on a roof to be rescued

Chloe, who lives with her grandfather in Whitesburg, Kentucky, was alone, with no one but her trusted companion, Sandy, the dog she’s had since she was a toddler.

“There was water as far as I could see,” she told CNN in a message. “I had a full-blown panic attack.”

But she was determined to make it out safely, and take her dog with her.

Chloe’s grandparents were at a home just a few feet away, separated from their granddaughter by the rushing waters. They yelled over to her, urging Chloe to stay inside until help arrived. But with little cell service and a 911 center which, likely overwhelmed, was unresponsive to her calls, Chloe said she realized she needed to get out to survive.

“My next thought was that we needed to swim out to my uncle’s house,” where the rest of her family was taking shelter, she said. “I put Sandy in the water momentarily to see if she could swim. But she couldn’t, so I scooped her up and went back inside, wading through the waist deep water to try to locate something that she could float to put her on.”

After experimenting with other pieces of furniture, Chloe placed her dog inside a plastic drawer from her closet to keep her dry — and then placed the drawer on a sofa cushion to keep her afloat.

“I finally had a plan that I believed … might work,” she said. “I knew the dangers of trying to swim in deep and moving water, but I felt I had no choice.”

She swam in the cold waters, pushing Sandy’s cushion in front of her, until she reached the slim roof of a nearby storage building; the only part of the structure not yet submerged.

There, the two sat for more than five hours before Chloe’s cousin rescued the teen and her dog with the help of a kayak. Nearby, Chloe’s family, sheltering in the second floor of her uncle’s home, watched over and talked to her as she waited for help.

When the teen returned to her grandmother’s home, she broke down, “from the relief of knowing Sandy and I survived the flood,” she said.

“My heart goes out to all the other people who lost and suffered so much more than I did in this horrific devastation,” Chloe added.

In a Facebook post after the rescue, Terry Adams, the teen’s father, called his daughter a “hero.”

“We lost everything today,” he wrote. “Everything except what matters most.”

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South Africa parliament fire: Roof collapses, significant damage throughout complex

Images from the scene showed flames shooting out of the top of one building, sending plumes of thick black smoke into the sky above parliament and into neighboring streets.

Dozens of firefighters were at the scene battling the blaze, which broke out on Sunday morning and was still not under control by early afternoon. No injuries or fatalities have been reported.

“The entire parliamentary complex is severely damaged, waterlogged and smoke damaged,” JP Smith, a Cape Town mayoral committee member responsible for safety and security, told a news conference in front of parliament.

“The roof above the old assembly hall is completely gone and the offices adjacent to it and the gym are destroyed,” Smith said. “The National Assembly chamber behind me, which you can see, is gutted, the structural ceiling has collapsed and the fire staff had to be momentarily withdrawn.”

South Africa’s Parliament said the fire had been contained in the old wing of the complex, but it was still burning in the new wing, where the chamber of the National Assembly — the lower house of parliament — is located.

The fire started in the office area of the complex before spreading to the National Assembly chambers. Firefighters got to the scene after 6 a.m. and had some difficulties gaining access due to the building’s security features, Smith said.

Smith also said the fire alarm system appeared not to have functioned properly, because firefighters were on the scene before the system sounded the alarm.

“The electricity at the complex did not trip when the fire started. That created a very dangerous situation and the entire block’s electricity had to be disconnected. The fire detection equipment took quite a while to activate, and so the fire was active for a while,” he added.

Public Works and Infrastructure minister Patricia de Lille told a news conference outside parliament that there were no reports of injuries.

“This is a very sad day for our democracy because parliament is the home of our democracy and parliament is also a strategic key point,” de Lille said.

Smith said Sunday’s blaze was more serious than another fire that broke out at parliament in March 2021. In the March incident, the fire broke out at the Old Assembly and no one was injured.

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Hong Kong fire traps 150 people on roof of 39-storey building

HONG KONG, Dec 15 (Reuters) – About 150 people were trapped on the roof of Hong Kong’s World Trade Centre on Wednesday after a fire broke out in the building located in the bustling Causeway Bay commercial and shopping district, police said.

Police told Reuters 13 people were taken to hospital, one of them semi-conscious. City authorities said firefighters were battling the blaze with two high-powered hoses, using ladders and breathing apparatus in the effort to rescue those trapped.

Shoppers and office workers streamed out of the building

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as smoke billowed from it. Police halted traffic on some major roads next to the 39-floor World Trade Centre, which is home to restaurants, offices and shops.

About 100 people moved from a restaurant to the top 39th floor when the fire broke out and smoke filled the dining area, broadcaster RTHK quoted police as saying.

Media said the fire broke out in a utility room on a lower level of the shopping mall at noon before spreading to bamboo scaffolding surrounding the block.

The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.

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Reporting by Sonia Cheema, Edmond Ng and Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Clarence Fernandez

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Injuries reported after southern Illinois Amazon warehouse roof collapses in severe weather – KIRO 7 News Seattle

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Injuries were reported after a roof collapsed at an Amazon warehouse in southern Illinois on Friday night as severe weather hit parts of the midwest.

The collapse was reportedly caused by either straight-line winds or a tornado moving through the area, according to KMOV TV.

The Associated Press reported that a large tornado was reported in the Edwardsville area at about the time the building was damaged. The National Weather Service office near St. Louis issued reports of “radar-confirmed tornadoes” in the Edwardsville area.

First responders were called to the warehouse after reports of people trapped inside.

One official told KTVI-TV that up to 100 people were believed to be in the building, working the night shift, at the time of the collapse.

A woman said she was on the phone with a family member as the building collapsed and is now waiting to see if he’s OK.

Over a few hours, there have been multiple helicopters landing outside of the warehouse and a number of buses rolling in to help evacuate people who were not injured at the site.

The state’s governor tweeted that he was aware of what happened at the warehouse and said, “My prayers are with the people of Edwardsville tonight, and I’ve reached out to the mayor to provide any needed state resources.”

Amazon is assessing the damage at its facility and said in a statement: “The safety and well-being of our employees and partners is our top priority right now. We’re assessing the situation and will share additional information when it’s available.”

Storms in Illinois, Arkansas were among several places in the Midwest that reported tornadoes spotted or on the ground.



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PS5, Xbox Series X, and GPU street prices are still through the roof

Sony, Microsoft, Nvidia and AMD say they’re doing everything in their power to put a console or graphics card in your hands. But judging by eBay resale prices, their best won’t be nearly good enough this holiday season. One year after the next generation of gaming was supposed to arrive (narrator: it did not) people are still forking out hundreds of dollars over MSRP for a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, and and they’re often still paying double what a new PC graphics card was originally supposed to cost.

Remember March 2020, when I told you how the two graphics cards in the photo above were worth a combined $2,570 on the open market? That was a shocking leap compared to the $1,660 total they could fetch in December 2020, already well above their $1,078 MSRP. But eight months later, that same photo now contains $2,605 worth of GPUs on the secondhand market. They haven’t dipped one bit.

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, too, are fetching higher prices this week than they did in March 2020 — if you take the scalper route, you can expect to pay over $800 on average for what should have been a $500 game console.

Those are the key findings from our latest dive into eBay sales data, but here’s the whole set for you to scan yourself. It includes the latest street prices for every console and graphics card released this generation, after filtering out a number of fakes, bundles, freak outliers (one AMD RX 6800 allegedly sold for $8,260) and other eBay listings that muddied the data.

GPU, PS5, Xbox street prices: November 2021

Item List price Street price (Nov ’21) Street price (Mar ’21) Street price (Dec ’20) Current value
Item List price Street price (Nov ’21) Street price (Mar ’21) Street price (Dec ’20) Current value
PS5 (disc) $499 $870 $833 $1,024 1.74x
PS5 (digital) $399 $806 $754 $990 2.02x
Xbox Series X $499 $856 $805 $835 1.72x
Xbox Series S $299 $346 $432 $471 1.16x
Nvidia RTX 3090 $1,499 $2,947 $2,985 $2,076 1.97x
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti $1,199 $1,941 N/A N/A 1.62x
Nvidia RTX 3080 $699 $1,773 $2,160 $1,227 2.54x
Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti $599 $1,208 N/A N/A 2.02x
Nvidia RTX 3070 $499 $1,210 $1,239 $819 2.42x
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti $399 $979 $1,226 $675 2.45x
Nvidia RTX 3060 $329 $749 $828 N/A 2.28x
AMD RX 6900 XT $999 $1,577 $1,841 Did not check 1.58x
AMD RX 6800 XT $649 $1,341 $1,555 $1,232 2.07x
AMD RX 6800 $579 $1,395 $1,331 $841 2.41x
AMD RX 6700 XT $479 $955 $1,169 N/A 1.99x
AMD RX 6600 XT $379 $683 N/A N/A 1.8x
AMD RX 6600 $329 $592 N/A N/A 1.8x

A “current value” of 1.74x means the PS5 is currently worth 1.74 times its MSRP, on average.

As you can see from the chart, a PS5 is no longer worth $1,000 like it was back in December 2020, but the discless PS5 Digital Edition can still fetch twice its asking price on eBay, and even the Xbox Series X appears to be slightly more desirable than before. The one bright spot is the less expensive Xbox Series S, which has finally come down to a mere $50 or so over its original list price of $300.

There are a few surprising findings on the GPU side of things, like how the RTX 3070 is currently fetching more than the 3070 Ti, despite being a little less powerful for games. (Perhaps people prefer the 3070’s reduced power consumption, smaller frame, and — in some cases — lack of cryptocurrency mining nerfs.) It’s also remarkable how much less the 3060 Ti fetches now, despite being fairly close to a 3070 in performance and well regarded for both gaming and mining from what I’ve heard.

Then again, the 3060 Ti Founders Edition is in greater demand than ever — the $400 card is now pulling down $1,447 on average, though I didn’t break it out in the chart. It’s one of the best picks out there for smaller cases, so I’m not wholly surprised.

Raw street prices don’t tell the whole story, though. Like in March, I also compiled a chart of how many consoles and components changed hands on eBay this past week, and it’s intriguing: Less than half as many Sony PS5s are moving, but now almost twice as many Nvidia graphics cards.

How many PS5s, Xboxes, GPUs changed hands in a week?

Item Mar 2021 Dec 2020
Item Mar 2021 Dec 2020
PS5 (disc) 1,898 3,651
PS5 (digital) 422 1,633
Xbox Series X 518 1,518
Xbox Series S 199 960
Nvidia RTX 3090 428 372
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti 465 N/A
Nvidia RTX 3080 556 384
Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti 341 N/A
Nvidia RTX 3070 673 505
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 750 141
Nvidia RTX 3060 639 782
AMD RX 6900 XT 63 106
AMD RX 6800 XT 91 107
AMD RX 6800 28 83
AMD RX 6700 XT 165 98
AMD RX 6600 XT 204 N/A
AMD RX 6600 112 N/A

Lower secondhand sales numbers for consoles don’t necessarily mean weaker supply — in fact, it could easily mean the opposite. Perhaps more people are getting satisfaction outside of eBay, never needing a scalper, because the likes of Sony and Microsoft are letting more people buy those consoles at retail instead. But on the GPU side of things, we can also still see how precious few AMD graphics cards are changing hands compared to Nvidia, with the original excellent Radeon RX 6800 barely a blip.

Unfortunately, there’s no end in sight for the great GPU shortage, so you shouldn’t expect prices to settle down anytime soon. Both Nvidia and AMD expect it to linger for most of 2022, and Intel suggested last month that it likely won’t be resolved until 2023. The chip shortage is a complicated problem, and it takes time to spin up additional factories to satisfy demand.

Over the past year, using a very particular set of skills I have acquired over a long career as a dealhunter, I managed to snap up a $499 PS5 and a $399 Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founder’s Edition at MSRP. They’re worth roughly $2,317 today, not that I plan to sell. Here’s hoping next check-in, those prices will have gone way down.

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