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A New Jersey father had no selection however to throw his toddler son out of a second-story window to first responders beneath when a fireplace broke out of their condominium constructing Monday morning.
Dramatic video of the rescue reveals officers encouraging the person to toss his son to them as the hearth raged.
“Cross the child! Cross the child!” one of many officers yelled.
The primary responders caught the toddler first then helped cushion the dad’s fall as he jumped out of the window himself. Each of them acquired minor accidents, in keeping with the police division.
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The three-alarm hearth broke out on the second and third flooring of the South Ridge Woods House Advanced round 8:15 on Monday morning.
Eight hearth departments responded to the scene and had been capable of get the hearth beneath management earlier than looking out the constructing.
Monmouth Junction Hearth Chief Scott Smith stated about 50 individuals had been displaced by the hearth, however that it may have been worse.
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“We had been confronted with extraordinarily heavy hearth circumstances instantly on arrival, together with experiences of individuals nonetheless inside,” Smith stated Monday.
“Luckily, the entire occupants had been capable of escape the hearth,” he stated. “If this fireplace was earlier within the morning when individuals could have nonetheless been asleep, the result may have simply been tragic.”
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Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri is in the campaign spotlight, after the first member of the group of progressive and diverse House Democrats went down to defeat in a Democratic Party congressional primary.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York was soundly defeated by Westchester County executive George Latimer on Tuesday in a high-profile and divisive Democratic Party primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District.
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Bowman has the dubious honor of becoming the first House member of either party to be defeated by a primary challenger so far in the 2024 election cycle.
And Bowman also became the first member of the Squad to be ousted from Congress.
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U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) speaks to the crowd while he campaigns in the Bronx borough of New York City, on June 22, 2024. REUTERS/Joy Malone(REUTERS/Joy Malone)
The contentious battle between a member of the Squad and his more moderate challenger spotlighted the Democrats’ deep divisions over the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
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Bowman – who has been outspoken about his support for Palestinians amid the war in Gaza and has charged that Israel has committed genocide – was targeted by roughly $14 million in spending by a group affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the deep-pocketed pro-Israel group that supported Latimer.
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That spending – part of an overall $25 million shelled out by all sides in the primary to run ads -helped the race earn a page in the record books as the most expensive congressional primary in the nation’s history.
The spotlight may now shift to Missouri’s First Congressional District, a deep blue seat which includes the city of St. Louis and its northern suburbs.
Rep. Cori Bush faces a tough Democratic primary challenge in Missouri’s August 6 primaries.(Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Communications Workers of America (CWA))
That’s where the second-term Bush is facing a primary challenge from St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, who is being supported by AIPAC.
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The scant polling in the race suggests Bush faces a tough challenge as she seeks renomination in the August 6 primary.
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Ahead of Bowman’s double-digit defeat to Latimer, Bush took to social media on Tuesday afternoon to apparently take aim at AIPAC.
“Let me be clear: #WeDecide our future. Not far-right megadonors who want to meddle in our Democratic elections.” she emphasized.
The big question going forward in the Bush-Bell primary is whether DMFI and United Democracy Project, the AIPAC-affiliated group that shelled out big bucks to help topple Bowman, will also spend big in the Missouri primary to target Bush, who has also been critical of Israel.
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Squad members mostly represent deep blue seats with high concentrations of minority voters.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) greets Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while he campaigns in the Bronx borough of New York City, U.S., June 22, 2024. REUTERS/Joy Malone(REUTERS/Joy Malone)
But while New York’s 16th Congressional District, which Bowman represents, includes parts of the New York City borough of the Bronx, most of it lies in the southern half of suburban Westchester County.
While Bowman went down to defeat, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – a founding member of the Squad – on Tuesday easily won renomination in New York’s 14th Congressional District, which includes portions of the Bronx and Queens.
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BOSTON (WHDH) – A new report says Boston has some of the worst traffic on Earth, ranking fourth in the US and eighth overall in the world.
The findings are part of the INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, released by the transportation analytics firm INRIX.
New York City led the US and the world, with the average driver spending 101 hours in traffic in 2023, according to INRIX.
Boston drivers spent 88 hours in traffic, behind only New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles among US cities.
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The average cost of congestion per driver in Boston reached $1,543. Within the downtown area, drivers’ speeds averaged just 10 miles-per-hour.
Some of Boston’s worst traffic was on I-93.
Though Boston traffic was 14% worse in 2023 than it was in 2022, traffic levels were still down 1% compared to prepandemic figures in 2019, according to INRIX.
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