Typhoon Usagi

Typhoon Usagi hit southern China, the Philippians and southern Twain, on Sunday the 22nd. This typhoon started with huge gusts of wind and rain and then all the wind just kept on getting stronger and the rain got worse. The wind speeds got up to 100 miles per hour. This typhoon damaged almost everything. This typhoon stopped hundreds of flights, thousands of people moved away from their homes, about 226,000 people moved to Guangdong also it knocked out all of the water and power in the Philippians, southern Twain and in southern China. About 7,100 homes were ruined. About 11 people were killed in the Philippians, and in China 25 people were killed. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/22/world/asia/typhoon-usagi/index.html?hpt=hp_t3   

Killing In Santa Ana

Marilyn Edge was found guilty for a double homicide. She killed her two children. 10-year-old Faith and 13-year-old Jaileen he drove her car into an electric box in Costa Mesa, CA. where the children were because she said that they were there when she went to court for the children with her ex husband. He ended up getting custody of both children. They had to be in Marrietta, Georgia  by 12 on Sunday. On Saturday she had put poison in the kids food and then after their meal they went into the pool and they had supposeivlyl drowned in the pool but Marilyn's ex husband, Mark Edge's attorney said that she thought that they had already been dead before they went into the pool, as if she would of put them into the pool. When the police came to her when she tried to run her car into an electrical box, other Santa Ana police went to go check on the kids and they were both found dead. On Tuesday she is supposed to be going to court. Mark is in the hospital because of the emotional distress that he has from the children's death. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/17/us/california-chidren-killed/index.html?hpt=us_c2

Fires in California

In the ending of August there was a huge fire in California. This fire is the third biggest fire ever recorded in California. The fire took place in Yosemite National Park, they called this fire the Rim Fire. A hunter was hunting the Yosemite National Park and they were illegally starting a fire, the fire had gotten out of control, it ended up spreading across 246,350 acres of land. The fire started August 17, 2013 and lasted for 5 days after that. No one had died from this fire but 111 buildings have been burnt down, 6 people have been injured in this fire and about 2,000 homes have been destroyed. The fire fighters in California have about 80% of the fire taken care of and they have put it out.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/09/06/39096/rim-fire-calif-wildfire-now-3rd-largest-in-state-l/

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                                                                        Diana Nyad

                     This was a very important day in history because Diana Nyad made history. She swam from Cuba to Florida. She made history because she swam Cuba to Florida because without being in a shark cage and because she swam 110 miles. She was also 64 years old. She came across the shore line in Key West around 2 p.m. She swam 53 hours, straight. She was the 5th person that tried to swim from shore to shore. She was the only one to finish it. One of the nights that she was swimming her head lights went out one night when she was swimming and Diana said that it was very cold, throughout the that night. Her tongue and lips by the end of the night because of the sun and saltwater. When she was swimming through the water she had to where a mask for some of it because she didn't want to get stung by a jelly fish. Other people had tried that before but one person got stung by a jelly fish too badly and she had to stop swimming because it was so bad. She said that she was so thankful for the boats that went with her through out her whole swim.