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Today’s high tales

Southern California is waking up this morning from the primary tropical storm to hit the area in 9 many years, which brought heavy rainfall but not the fatalities officers had feared. Hilary, now a post-tropical cyclone, left some roads underwater and compelled Los Angeles public colleges — the nation’s second-largest district — to shut on Monday.

Motorists go away their automobile caught on a flooded highway in Palm Springs, Calif., throughout Tropical Storm Hilary on Sunday.

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Motorists go away their automobile caught on a flooded highway in Palm Springs, Calif., throughout Tropical Storm Hilary on Sunday.

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• The storm broke each day rainfall data from downtown LA to Palm Springs, with mountain and desert communities seeing the most flash flooding. 
• Erin Stone with LAist tells Up First that emergency responders evacuated dozens of individuals, together with from a cellular dwelling park within the Coachella Valley and a homeless encampment alongside the San Diego River. But folks largely heeded warnings to remain dwelling, and there have been no widespread threats to life.
• Sunday additionally noticed a 5.1-magnitude earthquake about 80 miles northwest of LA, sparking panic a couple of #hurriquake. Stone says it wasn’t associated to the storm, “just a good old-fashioned coincidence.”

Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo beat the percentages to win Guatemala’s presidential election, a victory many hope will cease the nation’s democratic backslide. Arévalo, a former educational, diplomat and the son of Guatemala’s first democratically elected president, leads with more than 20 percentage votes.

• NPR’s Eyder Peralta says Arévalo was “the unlikeliest candidate to win,” as a result of he had no cash — “he didn’t even have billboards” — and he was “running an anti-corruption campaign in a country where the ruling class had launched a hunt for people fighting corruption.” 
• Thousands of Guatemalans celebrated within the streets on Sunday night time, with one telling Peralta that “democracy has been defended.”  
• Arévalo’s rival has vowed to problem the ends in courtroom, and Guatemala’s Justice Department has threatened to deliver fees in opposition to him (which Peralta says are broadly considered as politically motivated). 

Tennessee lawmakers are holding a special session this week to speak about public security, led partly by Rep. Justin Pearson — one of many three Democrats expelled (and reelected) earlier this yr for main a gun management protest on the House ground. Tennessee would not have penalties for unsafe gun storage or require permits to hold ages 18 and up.

• The GOP-led state legislature is unlikely to go any significant gun reforms, says Blaise Gainey of WPLN News in Nashville. It’s expected to focus on matters like psychological well being, juvenile sentencing and background checks.

Picture present

Naomi and Zenoah in Grieta Court. 2019. Manenberg, South Africa.

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Naomi and Zenoah in Grieta Court. 2019. Manenberg, South Africa.

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Mainstream media representations of the Manenberg neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa are likely to concentrate on the violence and bloodshed of its gang wars: Residents are thrice as prone to be murdered than these wherever else within the nation. Photojournalist Sarah Stacke has spent over a decade visiting — and rising shut — with households who dwell there. Her ongoing sequence “Love from Manenberg” documents the joys and challenges of their on a regular basis lives, in addition to what she calls the “texture, unity and comfort” of the place they name dwelling.

Living higher

Poor indoor air high quality can contribute to well being issues.

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Poor indoor air high quality can contribute to well being issues.

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Living Better is a special series about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.

When out of doors air high quality is unhealthy, consultants say to remain inside. But the air inside may be filled with dangerous issues like mould from excessive humidity, gasses from stoves or area heaters and vapors from cleansing provides. Poor indoor air high quality can result in issues like irritation of the eyes and throat, complications, dizziness, bronchial asthma assaults and even different respiratory and cognitive dangers. Here’s how to improve it:

• Open home windows typically to let recent air in — however examine the native air high quality index first.
• Remove the supply. Leave your dry cleansing exterior to air out solvent, pull out carpets that may include mites and think about a substitute for cooking with gasoline.
• Get an indoor air air purifier. The CDC recommends one with a high-efficiency particulate air, or HEPA, filter. 

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Red Netflix envelopes sit in a bin of mail on the U.S. Post Office type middle March 30, 2010 in San Francisco, California. The firm is ending its DVD mailing service with a promotion.

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Red Netflix envelopes sit in a bin of mail on the U.S. Post Office type middle March 30, 2010 in San Francisco, California. The firm is ending its DVD mailing service with a promotion.

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1. Netflix is celebrating the upcoming finish of its DVD supply service by sending subscribers its additional discs. But there is a catch: It still wants them back. 
2. Lolita, the oldest orca held in captivity, died on Friday — lower than 5 months after the Miami Seaquarium introduced plans to release her back into the ocean. 
3. New Jersey was the primary state to make local weather change schooling necessary in Okay-12 public colleges. A yr in, NPR spoke with students and teachers about the way it’s going. 

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.