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On this Labor Day, Democrats have been on the campaign trail working to secure the vote of union workers in battleground states. After starting the day with a rally in Detroit, Vice President Kamala Harris joined President Biden in Pittsburgh to speak to U.S. steelworkers. CBS News campaign reporter Aaron Navarro has more.
RIGHT NOW. ALL ACROSS OUR STATE AND HERE IN THE TRIAD. PEOPLE ARE STUCK IN LINE AT THE DMV. HOW YOU CAN MAKE GETTING AN APPOINTMENT A LITTLE EASIER. PLUS, MOSQUITO BORNE VIRUSES ON THE RISE UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST. WHAT TO DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND HOW LOCAL HEALTH LEADERS TRACK THESE ILLNESSES. OH, LORD, ITS JUST SOMETHING YOU CANT EVEN EXPLAIN. ITS JUST SCARY. BEARS ARE ON THE MOVE FROM THE WOODS TO THE FRONT PORCHES AND TRASH CANS. HOW TO MAKE SURE A BEAR DOESNT MAKE ITSELF RIGHT AT HOME AT YOUR HOME. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. IF YOU HAD TROUBLE RENEWING YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE RECENTLY, YOURE NOT ALONE. SLOWDOWNS ACROSS THE STATE AND IN THE PIEDMONT TRIAD SPECIFICALLY, ARE PUSHING BACK APPOINTMENTS AND WAIT TIMES FOR WALK INS ARE UP. WXII 12 SARAH SOWERS HAS MORE ON WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MAKE THE PROCESS A. LITTLE BIT EASIER WITH APPOINTMENTS FOR IN-PERSON LICENSE RENEWAL BOOKED OUT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER, SOME RESIDENTS ARE FRUSTRATED BY THE ENTIRE DMV PROCESS. SUMMER AND BACK TO SCHOOL IS THE BUSIEST TIME OF YEAR FOR RENEWING LICENSES, SAYS MARTY HOMAN WITH THE NORTH CAROLINA DMV. HE SAYS OFFICES ARE INUNDATED WITH NEW NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENTS BOOKING APPOINTMENTS AND NO ADDITIONAL STAFF POSITIONS IN PLACE TO SUPPORT THE INCREASED NEED. ITS KIND OF A NUMBERS GAME. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY PEOPLE THAT THAT WE CAN GET IN A DAY TAKING CARE OF WITH THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE. OUR STAFF IS WORKING AS HARD AS THEY CAN, TRYING TO PROCESS AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY CAN. HOMAN SAYS THERE ARE A FEW TIPS TO KEEP IN MIND IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO VISIT THE DMV. DONT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO START THE RENEWAL PROCESS, HOMAN SAYS. TO BRING WATER, SNACKS AND ANTICIPATE A WAIT. IF YOU DONT HAVE AN APPOINTMENT, BE PREPARED FOR RAIN AND HEAT. HAVE ALL NECESSARY MATERIALS WITH YOU. SCAN THE PROVIDED QR CODE TO GET IN THE VIRTUAL QUEUE AND WAIT IN YOUR CAR INSTEAD. IF YOU NEED AN ACCOMMODATION OR A PLACE TO SIT, LET SOMEONE WHO WORKS AT THE DMV KNOW. HOMAN SAYS THERE ARE OPTIONS TO RENEW YOUR LICENSE ONLINE, BUT IF YOU OPT TO GO IN PERSON, HE SUGGESTS MAKING AN APPOINTMENT. REPORTING IN DAVIE COUNTY, SARAH SOWERS, WXII 12 NEWS SARAH THANK YOU. AND IF YOURE LOOKING FOR WAIT TIMES AND APPOINTMENT AVAILABILITY AT LOCAL DMVS, YOU CAN HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE WXII 12.COM, WHERE WE HAVE ALL THE LINKS YOU NEED. YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT OUR BELEWS LAKE SKYCAM AFTER A WET, GLOOMY MORNING. A NICE LABOR DAY AFTERNOON AROUND THE PIEDMONT. WE SEE SOME BOATS ON THE WATER THERE AND WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME POSSIBLY COOLER TEMPS. RIGHT, DAVE? YEAH, AND A FAR CRY FROM WHAT WE HAD YESTERDAY ACROSS THE REGION. WE HAD HUMID CONDITIONS AND SOME HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THE REGION YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. WEVE DRIED OUT SOME AND THATS NICE. AFTER WE HAD A FEW CLOUDS, LITTLE FOG, LITTLE SPRINKLE EARLY THIS MORNING. BUT NOW TEMPERATURES NOT BAD. AND TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW 80S, EVEN SOME MID 80S LIKE IN WINSTON-SALEM AND LEXINGTON WHERE ITS 85 RIGHT NOW, 84 REIDSVILLE BACK OUT IN THE FOOTHILLS INTO THE LOW 80S, 82 IN MOUNT AIRY. AND NOTICE OUR WINDS OUT OF THE EAST AT THE NORTHEAST AT THIS HOUR. SO THATS PROMOTING A LITTLE BIT MORE IN THE WAY OF SOME DRIER WEATHER, AS A COLD FRONT HAS NOW MOVED THROUGH THE REGION AND DRIED US OUT SOME AT 76 UP AT ALLEGHANY COUNTY AND A COMFORTABLE 75 IN BOONE AT THIS HOUR. SATELLITE AND RADAR. PRETTY QUIET. TRY TO GET A FEW SPRINKLES AND SHOWERS GOING UP OVER SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA A LITTLE EARLIER, BUT THEYRE JUST NOT HOLDING TOGETHER, SO I THINK WELL BE MAINLY DRY THIS EVENING. FEW SHOWERS DOWN TO OUR SOUTH AND EAST ALONG THAT OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS WE GET ON INTO ABOUT 9:00 THIS EVENING. WEVE GOT SOME LATE EVENING LABOR DAY PLANS, MOSTLY DRY IN THE PIEDMONT. MAYBE A STRAY SHOWER IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE FOOTHILLS THIS EVENING. AND TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE LOW 70S AND 60S INTO THE MOUNTAINS TOMORROW. LOOKING GOOD. MID 70S, MOSTLY SUNNY, COMFORTABLE, A LITTLE BREEZY TOMORROW AFTERNOON TOO. SOME DRY, PLEASANT DAYS AHEAD AND THEN WEVE GOT ANOTHER CHANCE FOR RAIN LATER THIS WEEK. WELL TALK ABOUT THAT COMING UP IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. ALL RIGHT DAVE THANK YOU. THE END OF SUMMER MEANS THE END OF POOL DAYS. AND OUTDOOR HIKES FOR A LOT OF FAMILIES. AND SOME PEOPLE MAY BE CELEBRATING THE END OF THEIR YEARLY BATTLE WITH MOSQUITOES. WXII 12 S ERIN BURNETT JOINS US IN STUDIO WITH MORE ON THE RISE OF MOSQUITO BORNE ILLNESSES. LOCAL DOCTORS SAY THERE HAS BEEN A RISE IN THE WEST NILE AND EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES UP AND DOWN THE EAST COAST. THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL SAY WEST NILE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF MOSQUITO BORNE ILLNESSES IN THE U.S., AND THOUGH COMMONLY SEEN IN BIRDS AND HORSES, EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS IS A RARE INFECTION THAT CAN CAUSE INFLAMMATION IN THE BRAIN AND EVEN SEIZURES. EXPERTS SAY. BOTH VIRUSES CAN CAUSE SYMPTOMS LIKE FEVER, HEADACHE, VOMITING, AND DIARRHEA. WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT DOCTOR CHRISTOPHER UHL SAYS WHILE MOSQUITOES HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR WEST NILE, HES NOT TOO CONCERNED. EVERY YEAR WE MONITOR OUR MOSQUITOES TO SEE IF WE GET IT. IT DOESNT SEEM LIKE THERES REALLY ANY MORE ACTIVITY OF WEST NILE THIS YEAR. IN PREVIOUS YEARS, BUT WELL HAVE TO SEE AS WE GET INTO THE EARLY FALL. SO FAR THIS YEAR, THE CDC HAS REPORTED THREE CASES OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND NO CASES OF EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS. THEY SAY THERES CURRENTLY NO VACCINE FOR EITHER VIRUS. AS WE HEAD INTO FALL, THE EXPERTS RECOMMEND USING BUG SPRAY WEARING LONG SLEEVES AND TREATING FOR MOSQUITOES IN YOUR HOME. IN THE STUDIO, IM ERIN BURNETT, WXII 12 NEWS. ERIN. THANK YOU. HERES AN UPDATE TO A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU SUNDAY. A MAN HAS DIED AFTER A SHOOTING IN GREENSBORO. THIS HAPPENED AROUND 615 SUNDAY MORNING. POLICE SAY OFFICERS FOUND 21 YEAR OLD JOSEPH MINOR SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES ON THE GROUND FLOOR PARKING DECK OF THE DOWNTOWN MARRIOTT HOTEL ON NORTH GREEN STREET. MINOR WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL WHERE OFFICERS SAY HE DIED FROM HIS INJURIES. NO DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED ABOUT A POSSIBLE SUSPECT OR MOTIVE IN THE SHOOTING. AND COMMITMENT 2024. NOW WE ARE 63 DAYS AWAY FROM ELECTION DAY. THE LATEST POLLING FROM THE REAL CLEAR POLITICS POLL AVERAGE SHOWS KAMALA HARRIS AND DONALD TRUMP WITHIN A PERCENTAGE POINT OF EACH OTHER. WXII 12 KELLY KENDALL SPOKE WITH VOTERS AND KELLY, HOW DO THEY FEEL ABOUT THIS RACE? I SPOKE WITH VOTERS ON BOTH SIDES AND THEY SHARED A COMMON SENTIMENT WITH LESS THAN 70 DAYS TO GO, THEY WANT TO SEE MORE POLICY AND LESS PERSONALITY. DIFFERENT VOTERS. IM A REPUBLICAN. ILL PROBABLY BE VOTING DEMOCRATIC FOR BOTH ELECTIONS. IM LOOKING AT BOTH CANDIDATES WITH DIFFERENT ISSUES. IMMIGRATION AND WHAT IMMIGRATION IS DOING TO OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. ABORTION RIGHTS. FINANCIALLY, I NEED TO NOT PAY. SO MUCH AT THE GROCERY STORE. WITH THE VICE PRESIDENT AND FORMER PRESIDENT POLLING SO CLOSELY. IT COULD BE UP TO THESE VOTERS TO DECIDE WHO WILL TAKE THE OVAL OFFICE. NORTH CAROLINA IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE, AT LEAST FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, TO ATTRACT ATTENTION FROM BOTH OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS AND THATS SIGNIFICANT. ITS ITS POSSIBLE TO SEE NORTH CAROLINA BEING THE PIVOTAL STATE. DOCTOR JOHN DYNAN, A POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR AT WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, SAYS AT THIS POINT, THE RACE IS A TOSS UP IN THIS, HARRIS TRUMP MATCHUP. YOU CAN SEE A PATH TO VICTORY FOR BOTH. I THINK THE DEBATE, IF ITS DONE PROPERLY, MIGHT GIVE TRUMP A BUMP. I THINK HES BETTER AT THATTHAN HARRIS IS BY FAR. I WASNT THAT CONFIDENT BEFORE WE MADE THE SWITCH TO KAMALA, BUT I THINK ONCE SHE SWITCHED, IVE BEEN DEFINITELY FEELING THE MOMENTUM PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, DYNAN SAYS. THE NEXT BIG ELECTION EVENT WILL BE THE SEPTEMBER 10TH DEBATE, AND THESE VOTERS ARE READY FOR IT. THEY SAY THEY WANT TO HEAR POLICY, NOT POLITICS. IM LOOKING FOR HIM TO DO AWAY WITH ALL THE HYPE THAT HE IS KNOWN FOR, AND REALLY TELL US THIS IS WHAT IM GOING TO DO AND STICK TO IT AND DO IT, EVEN THOUGH THEY LABELED HER AS BEING A BLACK WOMAN AND I AM A BLACK WOMAN, THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. ITS WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR THIS COUNTRY. DYNAN SAYS VOTER TURNOUT, ENTHUSIASM AND LATE BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS WILL ULTIMATELY DECIDE WHO WINS THIS RACE. BUT HE SAYS BOTH CANDIDATES HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO COURT VOTERS, ESPECIALLY HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA. REPORTING IN WINSTON-SALEM. IM KELLY KENDALL, WXII 12 NEWS. KELLY THANK YOU. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WILL RETURN TO NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK. HIS CAMPAIGN SAYS HE WILL BE IN CHARLOTTE TO SPEAK AT THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICES NATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING. THAT EVENT BEGINS WEDNESDAY. IT RUNS THROUGH SUNDAY. TRUMP IS EXPECTED TO DELIVER HIS SPEECH ON FRIDAY. LOOKING AHEAD, VOTERS CAN START DECIDING WHICH CANDIDATE THEY WANT TO TAKE OFFICE LATER THIS WEEK. FRIDAY IS THE FIRST DAY. ABSENTEE BALLOTS WILL BEGIN MAILING OUT IN-PERSON EARLY. VOTING BEGINS OCTOBER 17TH. IF YOU ARENT REGISTERED TO VOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA YET, YOU CAN DO SO THE SAME DAY YOU EARLY VOTE. IF YOU PLAN TO CAST A BALLOT ON ELECTION DAY, MAKE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE BY. OCTOBER 11TH. ISRAELS LABOR COURT HAS RULED THAT A NATIONWIDE STRIKE THAT BEGAN THIS MORNING IN ISRAEL MUST END. THE COUNTRYS BIGGEST UNION VOWED TO SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY IN A FURIOUS PUSH FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO AGREE TO A CEASE FIRE DEAL AFTER THE DEATHS OF SIX HOSTAGES TAKEN DURING HAMASS OCTOBER SEVENTH TERROR ATTACK. NBCS MATT BRADLEY REPORTS. WELL, THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE DAY THAT BROUGHT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND THE ISRAELI PUBLIC TO ITS KNEES. THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A NATIONWIDE STRIKE LASTING ALL DAY, SHUTTING DOWN THE AIRPORT, SNARLING UP CIVIL SERVICES. INSTEAD, WE GOT, YOU KNOW, SOME COMPLICATIONS. BUT AS YOU CAN HEAR, THERES STILL A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION WORK GOING ON. I CAN SEE THE TRAFFIC IS CIRCULATING AS NORMAL. BEN GURION INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS MORE OR LESS OPERATING AS NORMAL WITH A COUPLE OF COMPLICATIONS, AND EVEN JUST NOW WE HEARD THAT A COURT HAS RULED THAT ALL OF THESE STRIKES MUST END. SO IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THIS WAS MOSTLY SYMBOLIC, BUT THAT IS STILL A VERY FORCEFUL EXPRESSION TO THE GOVERNMENT. ALONGSIDE WHAT WE SAW LAST NIGHT, THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DESCENDING INTO THE STREETS HERE IN TEL AVIV AND IN JERUSALEM AND IN OTHER CITIES LIKE HAIFA, SNARLING UP PUBLIC SQUARES AND TRAFFIC CIRCLES, DEMANDING THAT THE GOVERNMENT COME TO SOME SORT OF DEAL TO RELEASE THOSE REMAINING HOSTAGES IN THE GAZA STRIP. NOW, WHAT SPARKED ALL OF THIS OUTRAGE WAS THE MURDER OF SIX YOUNG PEOPLE, ALL OF THEM 40 AND UNDER IN THE GAZA STRIP, AND THE GRISLY DISCOVERY OF THEIR BODIES BY THE IDF OVER THE WEEKEND. THIS HAS CAUSED SO MUCH ANGER IN THIS COUNTRY, NOT JUST AGAINST HAMAS, BUT ALSO AGAINST PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. FOLKS HERE ARE DEMANDING THAT THE GOVERNMENT COME TO A DEAL, COMPROMISE WITH HAMAS, TO RELEASE THOSE REMAINING HOSTAGES. AND WE HAVENT HEARD EXACTLY WHATS GOING TO BE HAPPENING NEXT WITH THESE NEGOTIATIONS. ITS UNCLEAR WHETHER THIS FORCEFUL EXPRESSION OF RAGE IS GOING TO MAKE ANY POLITICAL CHANGE, BUT WELL KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT IN THE COMING DAYS AND WEEKS. MATT BRADLEY, NBC NEWS TEL AVIV. AND THIS AFTERNOON, PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU PUSHED BACK AGAINST THAT PRESSURE TO REACH A CEASEFIRE DEAL. IN A PUBLIC ADDRESS, HE SAID HE WOULD CONTINUE TO INSIST ON A DEMAND THAT SRAEL CONTIN
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday pushed back against a new wave of pressure to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza after hundreds of thousands of Israeli protested and went on strike and U.S. President Joe Biden said he needed to do more after nearly 11 months of fighting.In his first public address since Sunday’s mass protests showed many Israelis’ furious response to the discovery of six more dead hostages, Netanyahu said he will continue to insist on a demand that has emerged as a major sticking point in talks continued Israeli control of the Philadelphi corridor, a narrow band along Gaza’s border with Egypt where Israel contends Hamas smuggles weapons into Gaza. Egypt and Hamas deny it.Netanyahu called the corridor vital to ensuring Hamas cannot rearm via tunnels. “This is the oxygen of Hamas,” he said.And he added: “No one is more committed to freeing the hostages than me. But no one will preach to me.”Israelis had poured into the streets late Sunday in grief and anger in what appeared to be the largest protest since the start of the war. The families and much of the public blamed Netanyahu, saying the hostages could have been returned alive in a deal with Hamas. A rare general strike was held across the country on Monday.But others support Netanyahu’s drive to continue the campaign in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into Israel and has caused massive death and destruction in the territory. Netanyahu says the assault will force militants to give in to Israeli demands, potentially facilitate rescue operations and ultimately annihilate the group.Key ally the United States is showing impatience. Biden spoke to reporters as he arrived at the White House for a Situation Room meeting with the U.S. mediation team in the negotiations. Asked if Netanyahu was doing enough, Biden responded, “No.”He insisted that negotiators remain “very close” to a deal, adding, “Hope springs eternal.”Hamas has accused Israel of dragging out months of negotiations by issuing new demands, including for lasting Israeli control over the Philadelphi corridor and a second corridor running across Gaza. Hamas has offered to release all hostages in return for an end to the war, the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners, including high-profile militants broadly the terms called for under an outline for deal put forward by Biden in July.Netanyahu has pledged “total victory” over Hamas and blames it for the failure of the negotiations. On Monday, he said he is ready to carry out the first phase of the cease-fire a plan that would include the release of some hostages, a partial pullout of Israeli troops and the release of some prisoners held by Israel. But he rejected Hamas’ key demand of a full withdrawal from Gaza and said he does not see any other party beside Israel capable of securing Gaza’s borders and preventing arms smuggling.Israeli media have reported deep differences between Netanyahu and top security officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who say the time is ripe for a cease-fire.An official confirmed a shouting match between Gallant and Netanyahu at a security cabinet meeting on Thursday, where Netanyahu held a vote in favor of maintaining control over the Philadelphi corridor.Gallant cast the lone vote against the proposal, saying Netanyahu was favoring border arrangements over the lives of hostages. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door meeting. Gallant on Sunday called on the security cabinet to overturn the decision.Khalil al-Hayya, the Hamas official leading the negotiations, told the Qatari network Al Jazeera late Sunday that Netanyahu had deemed keeping the Philadelphi corridor “more important” than winning the hostages’ release.Al-Hayya also said Hamas had offered “great flexibility,” including reducing its demand for 500 Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for each captive Israeli soldier to 50, and from 250 Palestinian prisoners or each Israeli civilian hostage to 30. He accused Israel of introducing new conditions including increasing the number of prisoners who would be deported upon release and banning the release of elderly or ill prisoners serving life sentences.Israel said the six hostages found dead in Gaza were killed by Hamas shortly before Israeli forces arrived in the tunnel where they were held. The Israeli Health Ministry said autopsies determined the hostages were shot at close range and died on Thursday or Friday.Three were reportedly among those who would have been released in the first phase of the cease-fire proposal outlined by Biden in July.Thousands attended the funeral Monday for one of the six, Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. He was one of the best-known hostages, with his parents leading a high-profile campaign for the captives’ release, meeting with Biden and Pope Francis and addressing the Democratic National Convention last month.The general strike, called by Israel’s largest trade union, the Histadrut, ended early after a labor court accepted a petition from the government calling it politically motivated.It was the first such strike since the start of the war, aiming to shut down or disrupt major sectors of the economy, including banking and health care. Some flights at Israel’s main international airport, Ben-Gurion, either departed early or were slightly delayed.”There’s no need to punish the whole state of Israel because of what is happening, overall, it is a victory for Hamas,” said one passenger, Amrani Yigal.But in Jerusalem, resident Avi Lavi said that “I think this is fair, the time has come to stand and to wake up, to do everything for the hostages to come back alive.”Municipalities in Israel’s populated central area, including Tel Aviv, participated. Others, including Jerusalem, did not.Some 250 hostages were taken on Oct. 7. More than 100 were freed during a cease-fire in November in exchange for the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. Eight have been rescued by Israeli forces. Israeli troops mistakenly killed three Israelis who escaped captivity in December.Roughly 100 hostages remain in Gaza, a third of whom are believed to be dead.Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, when they stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7. Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not say how many were militants.The war has displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, often multiple times, and plunged the besieged territory into a humanitarian catastrophe, including new fears of a polio outbreak.Meanwhile, Israel continued its six-day raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. AP reporters saw bulldozers tearing up roads. The Palestinian Red Crescent, whose paramedics are operating in Jenin, said Israeli forces were blocking their ambulances from reaching the wounded.Palestinians in a town outside Jenin held a funeral for a 58-year-old man, Ayman Abed, who was arrested the day before and died in Israeli custody. The Israeli military said he died from a “cardiac event,” but did not provide details. Human rights groups have reported abuses of Palestinians detained by Israel, and the military has confirmed the deaths of at least 36 Palestinians in its detention centers since October.The Israel says it has killed 14 militants in Jenin, arrested 25 militants and dismantled explosives buried under roads. Palestinian health officials say at least 29 people have been killed, including five children.Mohannad Hajj Hussein, a Jenin resident, said electricity and water were cut off. “We are ready to live by candlelight and we will feed our children from our bodies and teach them resistance and steadfastness in this land,” he said. “We will rebuild what the occupation destroyed and we will not kneel.”___Associated Press writers Julia Frankel and Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed.
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Ryan Craddock had seen his share of tragedy during his two decades as a coal miner and firefighter.Then came the toughest heartbreak of all: his own.Related video above: Football player dies of head injury received in practice at West Virginia middle schoolCraddock and his family are mourning the loss of his 13-year-old son, Cohen, who died from brain trauma last month after making a tackle during football practice at his middle school.Cohen’s death, and the death of a 16-year-old Alabama high school player from a brain injury on the same day, have sparked renewed debate about whether the safety risks of youths playing football outweigh the benefits that the sport brings to a community.”I don’t think we need to do away with football,” Craddock said. “A lot of people enjoy football, including myself. I just think we need to maybe put more safety measures out there to protect our kids.”Craddock is among those who believe that some concrete actions need to be taken to prevent more deaths.Proposals in individual states to ban tackle football for younger children during a critical period of their brain development have gotten little traction. At the same time, youth participation in tackle football has been declining for years, and efforts to steer young boys into flag football are growing.In 2023, three young football players died of head injuries, and 10 players died of other causes, such as heat stroke, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Robert Cantu, medical director of the organization, which has been tracking football-related deaths for more than 40 years, calls that a “typical” year.”So I would not be particularly alarmed about two deaths in a week,” he said. “But I would be very alarmed if we had two deaths per week for four or five weeks in a row. Because we’ve never had that before.”Cantu also subscribes to another philosophy: “No hits to the head are good,” he says.In the past, Cantu has recommended that for kids under 14, there should be no tackling in football, no heading in soccer and no full-body-checking in hockey.In football practices, at least, most helmet-to-helmet contact can be eliminated by using noncollision methods such as tackling dummies, said Cantu, who is also co-founder of the Boston-based Concussion Legacy Foundation, which supports patients and families struggling with brain-trauma symptoms. He suggests children play flag football until they enter high school.Flag football is already wildly popular among girls and is sanctioned as an Olympic sport for men and women at the 2028 Los Angeles Games. About 500,000 girls ages 6 to 17 played flag football in 2023, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.Whether that popularity transfers to boys remains to be seen. The Concussion Legacy Foundation has a “Flag Football under 14″ initiative and has compiled a list of Pro Football Hall of Famers who waited until high school to play tackle football, including Tom Brady, Jerry Rice, Jim Brown and Walter Payton.”I suggest age 12 would be a good place to start the conversation,” said Dr. Chris Nowinski, the foundation’s CEO and a former WWE wrestler who retired due to a concussion. “But any minimum age requirement that takes into consideration brain health for children would be welcome.”Nowinski said even the NFL has limited full-contact practices during the regular season and recently changed kickoff rules aimed at preventing concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that medical studies have linked to the head trauma of NFL players.”Yet middle and high school football has made neither change,” he said.Efforts to ban tackling in youth football have met strong resistance. A New York lawmaker fought unsuccessfully for 10 years to enact such a rule. In January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would not sign a similar bill if it were to reach his desk.There has been some progress, however. For instance, all 50 states have some form of sports-related concussion laws, mostly requiring athletes to leave a game or practice if a concussion is suspected and be cleared by a medical professional before they can return.An increase in reported concussions from 2005-06 through 2017-18 was likely due to that additional education and awareness, said Christy Collins, president of the Indianapolis-based Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention. The center uses a sampling of high schools nationwide to calculate injury rates involving football practices and games combined.”Athletes (and their parents) may have been more likely to recognize symptoms of concussion and report those symptoms to medical professionals,” Collins said.Loren Montgomery, who has won nine Oklahoma state championships in 14 seasons as the head coach at Bixby High School, believes football is “safer than ever.” He cites efforts to minimize injury risk, such as penalizing helmet-to-helmet contact and certain types of blocks, along with technology, including cognitive tests for concussion assessment and protective soft-shell helmet covers known as Guardian caps.”Obviously, there is inherent risk in all contact sports, but the values of teamwork, hard work and overcoming adversity far outweigh the risk involved,” Montgomery said. He allowed his son to play football starting in the fourth grade, “and I believe it has made him a more well-rounded young man.”Guardian caps are used from the NFL on down to the youth level. One cap made by Guardian Sports sells on Amazon for $75. But the caps have only a six-month limited warranty from the date of purchase, meaning they could be pricey for a school district to have to replace every season.Guardian Sports also warns on its website that no helmet, helmet pad or practice apparatus prevents or eliminates the risk of concussions or other serious head injuries while playing sports.Still, Craddock has vowed to look into the caps’ use at Madison Middle School in Cohen’s memory.On Wednesday, several days before his son was to be laid to rest, Craddock found the strength to speak with Cohen’s teammates.”I told them that this was a bad accident, to move forward,” he said. “I didn’t want them to have the weight of my son on their shoulders. But I wanted them to play for him. I wanted them to play ‘Cohen strong.'” Riddle reported from Montgomery, Alabama.
When told by the stadium announcer that they were witnessing history, the Paris spectators roared and applauded. Not that the woman making history actually noticed: Sarah Adam was far too occupied merrily slamming her wheelchair into other players, all of them men, and zipping across the court to score try after try.Related video above: Team USA Wheelchair Rugby preps for Paris at Lakeshore FoundationAdam is blazing trails in France’s capital as the first American woman to compete in the most rough-and-tumble of the 22 sports at the Paralympics wheelchair rugby.She was in the starting lineup when Team USA kicked off its campaign on Thursday against familiar foe Canada. Her six tries in 16 busy-as-a-bee minutes on court didn’t just contribute to a 51-48 victory in the group-stage game. Her belief and hope is that she’s opening minds by showing that women can thrive in the mixed-gender, but male-dominated, sport.”There’s a place for us on that court,” she said. “We need to have more females out there and being seen so that people know that this is an option for them.”Other women in wheelchair rugby are barrier-busting, too. Australia has an unprecedented three women on its 12-player team in Paris. Denmark, Germany and Japan also have female players, leaving host nation France, defending champion Britain and Canada as the only teams that don’t.The total of eight women is double the number that made wheelchair rugby teams at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021. But the 88 men in Paris still outnumber the women 11-to-1, so there’s plenty of room and appetite for more progress.”It’s going too slowly,” said Ella Sabljak, who scored one try in her 6 1/2 minutes on court in Australia’s opening game against Britain, which pulled away in the fourth quarter to win 58-55.”We’re definitely paving the way in Australia,” she said. “Other teams definitely need to catch up, understand and recognize that women add value to the game. You know, we’re not burdens. We’re not different. We’re not difficult. We are, like, elite athletes amongst other elite athletes. And so I think people need to change their perspective on what women bring to the table.”Adam was more upbeat.”We’re getting more visibility,” she said. “The first step, that’s what matters.”At the Paralympics, the sport classes athletes according to their physical abilities, with a score of 0.5 for the least able players and increasing by half-point increments to 3.5 for the most able. Together, the four players that teams field at any one time cannot have a combined total score above 8 meaning that the most able players must team up with others less able.But the sport rewards teams that field women allowing them an extra half point for each woman they have on the court. Against Canada, that rule allowed the U.S. team to start with Adam and Josh Wheeler, both classed at 2.5, and defender Jeff Butler, who added 0.5, and still left room for captain Chuck Aoki, classed at 3.0. He went on to become the team’s top scorer, contributing 21 tries.”It levels the playing field,” Adam said of the rule.Sabljak said, “It increases our chances of participating because it’s always been really male-dominated.””It makes me feel like I am valued,” she added.Andrea Bundon, who studies female participation in Paralympic sports, says wheelchair rugby is using the rule to encourage teams to look for and develop female players, who can then give them an extra edge on the court.”There is value in having the women and men compete together they can appreciate each other’s athleticism and see that women are capable of competing at that level,” Bundon said in written comments to The Associated Press. She works at the University of British Columbia in Canada, specializing in the mechanics and anatomy of human movement.”The position women occupy in this sport is still very precarious,” Bundon said. But with Paralympic sports getting increasing attention, “the fact that these women are going to have the opportunity to showcase their athleticism and talent is good news and should be celebrated even as we demand better!”Exceptionally quick and nimble on two wheels, skills that she hones in hard training, Adam wove rings around burly Canadian men who chased her around the court, ramming their armored chairs into hers when they could.”They’re pretty big,” she said. “I’ve got to be smarter. I’ve got to be strategic and kind of outsmart them because I’m not able to, to throw my weight into it that much. Me against a 200-pound guy, I’m going to lose.””I rely on the agility the agility and the smarts.”Spectator Marleen Sanderse, who participated in the Beijing Paralympics in 2008 as a backup rower for the Netherlands, was impressed.”She’s amazing,” Sanderse said. “It’s so important to have role models in sports, in politics, in everything.”
Cam Ward’s arrival at Miami garnered plenty of fanfare. Conversely, Diego Pavia’s move to Vanderbilt didn’t receive as much attention.Both quarterbacks delivered stellar debut performances with their new teams on the first full Saturday of the college football season.Video above: University of Miamis Cam McCormick will return to the football field for a ninth season In a year in which the majority of power conference teams are starting quarterbacks who have switched schools at least once during their college careers, Ward and Pavia demonstrated how much of a difference a transfer can make at the position.Pavia, who arrived from New Mexico State, led Vanderbilt to a 34-27 overtime upset of Virginia Tech, a 13 -point favorite, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. Pavia went 12 of 16 for 190 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, and rushed for 104 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries. Pavia’s 4-yard run in overtime accounted for the winning margin.Ward was even more impressive.The former Washington State quarterback was 26 of 35 for 385 yards with three touchdowns and an interception as No. 19 Miami rolled to a 41-17 victory at Florida. Ward, who began his college career at Football Championship Subdivision program Incarnate Word, also ran for 33 yards on three carries.Here’s a look at how some other transfer quarterbacks fared Saturday in their debuts with their new teams:UConn’s Nick Evers (formerly at Oklahoma and Wisconsin) was 6 of 17 for 73 yards with an interception in a 50-7 loss to Maryland.No. 2 Ohio State’s Will Howard (Kansas State) went 17 of 28 for 228 yards with three touchdown passes and no interceptions in a 52-6 blowout of Akron.Syracuse’s Kyle McCord (Ohio State) was 27 of 39 for 354 yards with four touchdowns and one interception in a 38-22 triumph over Ohio.Indiana’s Kurtis Rourke (Ohio) went 15 of 24 for 180 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions in a 31-7 triumph over Florida International.Louisville’s Tyler Shough (Oregon and Texas Tech) was 18 of 24 for 232 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions in a 62-0 blowout of Austin Peay.Eastern Michigan’s Cole Snyder (Rutgers and Buffalo) was 17 of 29 for 241 yards with one touchdown pass and no interceptions in a 28-14 victory over UMass. He also rushed for 28 yards and one touchdown on six carries.Cincinnati’s Brendan Sorsby (Indiana) was 22 of 31 for 383 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in a 38-20 victory over Towson. He also ran for two touchdowns.Northwestern’s Mike Wright (Vanderbilt and Mississippi State) was 18 of 30 for 178 yards and rushed for 65 yards and a touchdown on nine carries in a 13-6 victory over Miami (Ohio).
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