Meteorologist Topper Shutt predicts the paths a storm could take if it develops into Tropical Storm Hermine.
The system (red x) is forecast to move to the northwest toward the U.S. over the next several days. The red shaded area is the potential path of the system.(Photo: National Hurricane Center)
A tropical wave that"s spinning in the Caribbean is forecast to strengthen and couldhitboth Florida and the sodden Gulf Coast over the next few days, possibly as a hurricane,meteorologists say.
The system has a 60% chance of developing into a tropical depression or named storm within the next two days, according to the National Hurricane Center. If it gets a name, it would be Hermine (Her-MEEN), the 8th named storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season.
After a potential hit as a hurricane in Florida, the system could then get pushed into the Gulf of Mexico, with the potential for a second landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast next week, possibly as a strong hurricane, weather.com meteorologist Jon Erdman reported.
"A track somewhere through Florida or the Florida Straits and into the Gulf appears to be the most likely outcome," according to the Weather Underground.
That"s dreadful news for portions of Louisiana still reeling from catastrophic flooding last week that killed 13 people and left thousands of homes underwater.
With the moist, saturated soil in Louisiana, the area "could quickly experience flooding again," according to National Weather Service meteorologist Timothy Destri of the New Orleans office. The worst case would be if the storm hits to the west of the region, which would bring the heaviest rain into Louisiana, he said.
As of late Wednesday afternoon, several rivers in Louisiana remain in flood stage, the Lower Mississippi Valley River Forecast Center said.
The system, which waslocated about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami late Wednesday afternoon, is forecast to take a general west to west-northwest path near the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Thursday.
If it hits Florida as a hurricane, it would be the first hurricane to strike the Florida Peninsula since Wilma in October 2005," according to AccuWeather hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski.
Regardless of whether ornot the system becomes a tropical storm or hurricane, gusty winds, heavy rains, and possible flash floods and mudslides should occur over the islands of the northeastern Caribbean Sea and the Bahamas, the hurricane center warned.
"All people living and having interests in and around the Bahamas, Cuba and Florida should closely monitor the movement of this evolving tropical system through this weekend," Kottlowski added.
Big Sean Who? Glee"s Naya Rivera Marries Ryan Dorsey - The Breakfast Club [Full]
When she announced her memoir last year, Rivera promised on Twitter, "So many juicy stories about my life. Glee, guys, growing up & much more."
Now, with her book due out soon, the "Glee" actress is making good on that promise.
"I"ve done a lot of living," she told People ahead of the book"s release. "I"m a 79-year-old trapped in a 29-year-old"s body."
Rivera revealed to the magazine that before she and Ryan Dorsey married in 2014 and welcomed son Josey the following year, the couple had an unplanned pregnancy.
The 29-year-old star said she discovered that she was pregnant in late 2010, weeks after breaking up with Dorsey to focus on her career.
But Rivera chose not to tell Dorsey about the unplanned pregnancy and had an abortion instead, she told People.
The actress says she terminated the pregnancy on one of her days off from filming "Glee."
"It was very scary to open up about everything," Rivera told the magazine about sharing her abortion in her upcoming memoir "Sorry Not Sorry."
"It"s not something a lot of people talk about, but I think they should. I know some people might read it and say, "What the h**l?" But I hope someone out there gets something out of it," she said.
After the news about her abortion went public, Rivera defended her actions on Twitter.
Also in the book, Rivera opened up about her early struggles with anorexia.
"I was so young and it just seemed to be the norm. Everyone was going through similar stuff," she told People. "I had no way of knowing if I was going through it worse. I was juggling my feelings and it makes me sad that there are girls still going through that 15 years after I went through it."
Aly Raisman, Colton Underwood: Next Great Love Story?
Raisman won a gold medal and two silvers at the Rio de Janeiro Games. After receiving the video from Underwood, the 22-year-old tweeted out her acceptance.
The story, along with the video, quickly made the rounds throughout Raiders headquarters.
"I was like, "Hey man, you put yourself out on a limb there,"" Raiders quarterback Derek Carr said. "I"m just happy for him that she said yes. That"s a lonely feeling being out there on a limb. He"s really a good guy. I hope it works out for him."
Underwood and Raisman have spoken since the video and Raisman, along with some of her teammates, will be in nearby San Jose next month as part of a champions tour.
"She"s actually scheduled to be out here in September so I"m looking forward to attending that show and catching up with her," Underwood said.
She"s been keeping busy with her 10-month-old son, Josey Hollis, and preparing for her Septemberrelease of her first-ever memoir,Sorry Not Sorry.
But on Tuesday, Naya Riveramanaged to find some down time with her husband Ryan Dorsey.
The couple were spotted in West Hollywood while they shopped for furniture at high-end store, Christopher Guy.
Cool cats: Naya Rivera and husband Ryan Dorsey were spotted on Tuesday in West Hollywood out and about furniture shopping
It"s hard to imagine the former Glee actress had a baby as she cut an extremely petite figure.
The brunette beauty dressed trendy casual for the outing as she wore a baseball-style shirt that donned Rolling Stones and their 1967 hit, Let"s Spend This Night Together.
She wore it with skin-tight black leggings, sneakers, and a NFL Oakland Raiders hat.
Naya"s accessories were kept at a minimum with her wedding ring, a pair of studded earrings, square-shaped sunglasses and a long briefcase purse.
Rolling Stones fan: The mom-of-one donned a Rolling Stones baseball-style shirt that featured the 1967 single, Let"s Spend This Night Together, which she paired with black leggings and an Oakland Raiders cap
Good-looking couple: The 33-year-old actor donned a striped tank top, grey fitted jeans, and a cool silver chain around his neck
The 33-year-old actor flaunted his toned muscles in a long striped tank top that he teamed with grey skinny jeans, black-and-white sneakers and sunglasses.
He topped off his coollook with a silver chain around his neck and a blue cap.
Ryan, who celebrated histwo-year wedding anniversary with his wife two weeks ago,appeared to be in a lighthearted mood as he looked at Naya dotingly while trailing behind her steps.
Family of three: Naya and Ryan,who wed in 2014, raise their 10-month-old son, Josey Hollis
The sveltemom-of-one, who appeared inFit Pregnancy"s May cover with her son, admitted she wasn"t always body conscious.
"I completely let myself go when I was pregnant," said Naya,who craved sugary snacks and meat. "Weight wasn"t something I wanted to focus on. I ate anything and everything and had a blast. Afterward, I was, like, "Let"s get back to business.""
She credited her 30-pound loss to breastfeeding, healthy eating, andlow-impact exercise with a personal trainer.
The 29-year-oldactress also described how she and herhusband actor learned as they go saying: "He changed Joseys first diaper in the hospital, which was hilarious, because Josey just kept continually pooping."
Adding that Ryan found a few tricks up his sleeve: "If Josey doesnt want to go to sleep, Ryan will bust out his guitar and play him some songs, and Josey will fall asleep immediately. Its the cutest thing to watch."
MILF: Naya teased a "coming soon" on her Instagram as she posed in a busty, see-through leotard,draped with a fuzzy boa. She captioned the photo on Monday saying: "#milfcrushmonday BTS coming soon..."
Fit mother! The pretty actress appeared on the May cover of Fit Pregnancy, opening up about her "letting go" during her pregnancy and losing the weight after
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The federal government rules that grad students at private universities are allowed to form unions; another drug pricing scandal; Nigeria (might have) (again) killed the head of Boko Haram.
Student union gets a whole new meaning
Getty / William Thomas Cain
The National Labor Relations Board ruled on Tuesday that graduate students at private universities have the right to form unions and bargain collectively. [Vox / Libby Nelson]
The decision doesn"t affect grad students at public universities. Those grad students are public employees of their states (and therefore governed by state laws about public sector unions). [WSJ / Melanie Trottman]
This is the third time in 16 years the NLRB has ruled on this question: It ruled in favor of graduate students in 2000 (with board members appointed by Bill Clinton), then against them in 2004 (after board appointments from George W. Bush). [Bloomberg / Josh Eidelson]
At its core, the question is whether graduate students who work for the university (as teaching or research assistants, for example) are students or workers. [NPR / Richard Gonzales]
Tuesday"s NLRB decision observed that they could be both and that, as workers, they were entitled to unionize. [Inside Higher Ed / Scott Jaschik]
The decision, if it holds after the November elections, could cause universities to rethink the way they staff up in recent years, universities have relied on adjunct professors and graduate students to do more and more of the teaching. [Washington Post / Danielle Douglas-Gabriel]
It would also be a reflection as well as a potential spur of the growing "white collarization" of the US labor movement. [LAT / Alana Semuels]
But depending on who"s elected in November, it could easily be reversed again. Who knows? [Vox / Libby Nelson]
Epi-phenomenon
Bay Area News Group / Anda Chu
Since 2007, the price of an EpiPen used to treat anaphylactic shock in allergy victims and people with asthma has quietly risen 400 percent. [Vox / Sarah Kliff]
Allergy sufferers have taken to using syringes for epinephrine injections, rather than using an EpiPen and incurring a $600 cost. [StatNews / Ike Swetlitz]
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is calling for an investigation into the price hike... [Sen. Charles Grassley]
...while other senators are calling for investigations into reports that the executives at Mylan Pharmaceuticals, which makes EpiPens, gave themselves huge raises while hiking the drug"s price. [NBC News / Ben Popken]
Awkwardly, the CEO of Mylan is the daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). [NY Daily News / Christopher Brennan]
That"s the tip of the iceberg. For Gizmodo, Matt Nowak lays out how the federal government (Congress and the FDA alike) helped make EpiPens a $1 billion industry. [Gizmodo / Matt Nowak]
This may remind you of the controversy over the cost of the drug Daraprim, and the vulture capitalist turned pharmaceutical exec Martin Shkreli who jacked up its price. But the problem with that controversy was that Shkreli, while all too happy to play the villain, wasn"t the cause of the problem. [Pacific Standard / Ted Scheinman]
The cause is the system. In America, this is simply how drug pricing is allowed to work. [Vox / Sarah Kliff]
Nigeria hopes the fourth time"s the charm
AFP / Philip Ojisua
The government of Nigeria claims it has mortally wounded Abubakar Shekau, the head of Boko Haram, in what it described as a "most unprecedented and spectacular" air raid. [AP / Michelle Faul]
Take it with a grain of salt. Nigeria has claimed to have killed Shekau on three previous occasions only to have him show up, embarrassingly, in Boko Haram videos. [WSJ / Gbenga Akingbule]
The timing of the raid is also suspect. It came just as Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Nigeria for a counterterrorism-themed visit. [Al Jazeera]
Kerry committed to increase military aid to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram; the US is also considering allowing the country to buy American attack jets. [Reuters UK / Lesley Wroughton]
But Kerry reiterated longstanding US concerns that the Nigerian government is using counterterrorism as an excuse to trample human rights. [NYT / Chris Stein and Dionne Searcey]
He also warned that Nigeria will need to restore citizens" faith in government something gruesomely illustrated Monday, when eight people were burned to death by a mob over religious tensions. [AFP]
Miscellaneous
Donald Trump campaign chair Steve Bannon once wrote a rap musical adapting the Shakespeare play Coriolanus to the 1992 LA riots. [The Daily Beast / Asawin Suebsaeng]
The death toll in the Philippines"s government/vigilante drug crackdown has now reached 1,800. [Reuters / Karen Lema]
Oklahoma man Stanley Majors has been charged with a hate crime in the murder of his neighbor Khalid Jabara. The murder came after years of Majors"s racial slurs and verbal abuse toward the Jabara family. [AP]
When Donald Trump was self-funding his campaign, he charged $35,458 in rent for its office in Trump Tower. When donors started funding it, he raised the rent to $169,758. [Huffington Post / S.V. Date]
Add "the cute Twitter thing where countries have individual citizens take over their accounts for a week" to the list of nice things we can"t have because of racism. [The Telegraph / Mark Molloy]
Verbatim
""That shouldn"t be the first question that you ask me when we ask for a rape kit," Daniel said, his voice rising in anger." [Cosmopolitan / Jillian Keenan]
"It was hard to act like a hero in thong panties, but I didnt have an ounce to spare for briefs." [NYT / Sarah Deming]
"Do you even know how much rich people f*****g loved to eat turtles?" [Eater / Matt Buchanan]
"Research had been unable to prove that homework improves student performance. Rather, I ask you to spend your evening doing things that correlate with student success." [Click2Houston]
"This chick is just tougher than Chinese algebra." [Cher via NYT / Jonathan Martin]
Watch this: The natural label on your food is baloney
Its nothing but a marketing ploy. [YouTube / Liz Scheltens]
Correction: An earlier version of this post misstated Sen. Manchins first name.
