Typhoon Fung‑wong approaches Taiwan

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Typhoon Fung‑wong approaches Taiwan after devastation in the Philippines

Image source: www.cwa.gov.tw/

This typhoon has already caused heavy flooding, landslides and at least 18 deaths in the northwestern Philippines. 

Taiwan has issued a land‐warning, evacuated over 3,000 people, and is preparing for significant rain and potential disruption on its east coast. 

Expect weather impacts in the Taiwan / East Asia region in the coming hours — if you have travel or logistics plans, this may be relevant.

The Central Weather Administration (CWA) issued a land warning on 11 Nov for Fung-wong, meaning the typhoon’s outer wind/rain circulation is expected to affect Taiwan within about 18 hours. 

The warning initially covers southern Taiwan — namely Kaohsiung, Pingtung County and the Hengchun Peninsula — and is expected to expand north/eastwards (to Tainan, Taitung etc) as the storm approaches. 

Fung-wong has been downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm as it nears Taiwan, but despite weakening, it remains a serious threat. 

More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from high-risk areas in Taiwan ahead of the storm. 

Schools and offices in some regions (e.g., Hualien, Yilan) have been closed in preparation. 

The storm is forecast to make landfall (or pass very close) on Taiwan’s southwestern coast near Kaohsiung during Wednesday afternoon/evening, then moving off through the eastern side (Taitung/Hualien) early Thursday. 

Forecast rainfall is heavy, especially when combined with the seasonal northeasterly wind flow — central, southern and eastern Taiwan face elevated risk of heavy rain, landslides and flooding. 

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Team USA opens Women's World Cup campaign 2019 Updated

The Women's World Cup 2019 has arrived, with 24 countries battling it out over a month to be crowned the winners. It's the eighth edition of the competition, most recently won by the US in Canada 2015 - their third success. The U.S. has won three of the eight World Cup tournaments and enters this year’s ranked first, while Thailand is ranked 34th. With a wide array of talent, the U.S. is expected to win the match, though the two teams haven’t played each other since 2016. In that friendlies matchup, the U.S. coasted to a 9-0 victory. The U.S. women are headed to France and one thing is clear: Repeating as World Cup champions will not be easy. Trysta Krick breaks down what you need to know ahead of the 2019 Women's World Cup.

 STANDINGS

McCain challenge, sheriff's latest bid top Arizona primary 2016

Primary challenges to two of the state's longest-serving Republicans are drawing attention as Arizona voters head to the polls Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at Phoenix Firehouse 30 after receiving an endorsement from the Professional Firefighters of Arizona, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016, in Phoenix. McCain is seeking the republican nomination in Arizona's primary election on Tuesday. Matt York AP Photo


PHOENIX 

Primary challenges to two of the state's longest-serving Republicans are drawing attention as Arizona voters head to the polls Tuesday.

Sen. John McCain is facing a tough battle with a former state senator who is vowing to retire the five-term Republican a day after his 80th birthday. And six-term Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is pitted against a trio of challengers in his primary.

McCain has been campaigning hard in recent weeks and made one last stop Monday at a Phoenix fire station before meeting with campaign workers to urge them to make a final push to victory. The 2008 GOP presidential nominee faces former state Sen. Kelli Ward, who lags in the polls but has mounted an aggressive primary challenge.

Kim Martinetti, a real estate broker, said she voted for someone other than McCain for the first time.

She thinks McCain acts more like a Democrat and wants to grant amnesty.

"I don't believe in what Trump says about sending them all home — all the illegal immigrants — but I don't think an open border is the answer," Martinetti said. "McCain believes in that."

McCain has been dogged with questions about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has made comments that drew the senator's ire, and even questioned McCain's status as a war hero because he was a prisoner of war. McCain has nonetheless stood by Trump.

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MTV Video Music Awards 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — MTV says it will consider airing its Video Music Awards live across the country in future years, a reflection of how the annual celebration of pop culture is increasingly being experienced online instead of on television.

A buzz deficiency is one factor, but another is the rapid change in how MTV's young audience consumes content.

The network said Tuesday that there were 149 million streams of VMA content online Sunday and Monday, a combination of live streaming through MTV's website and aggressive packaging of video clips on venues like Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the like. The majority of streams (86 million) came Monday, after people heard or read about the show and wanted to check out clips, MTV said.

The comparable number of streams for 2015 was 30.7 million, MTV said.

MTV traditionally airs the show live at 9 p.m. on the east coast, and at the same hour via tape delay in other time zones. That follows the common television rule of placing content at a time when advertisers will pay more for commercials.

The MTV VMAs honor the best in the music video and have often been called  the "Super Bowl for youth."

North Dakota State and Charleston Southern formally brought back college football 2016

It was boring, then it was weird and, all in all, it was lots of fun. When the dust settled, the Bison had started the defense of their fifth consecutive FCS national title with a 24-17 win in overtime.

Game in Australia on Friday (Eastern time, anyway). But the 2016 season's stateside debut was Saturday, in the form of defending FCS champion North Dakota State hosting Charleston Southern at the Fargodome.

Let's review all the ways in which the Bison and Buccaneers put on a quintessentially college football show!

1. The offense was, at first, terrible. Sometimes, a 0-0 first quarter is soothing. This was that. Nobody scored in the first quarter, and there were only a few good bursts of offense. This was maybe the best one:

But that was fine. It was a reminder that the quality of play in this sport is, uh, not always great. That's cool, especially now, because it affirms that college football has returned to us.

2. But then some stuff happened! This game featured a total of 20 first-half points (10 per side), and it felt like a Big Ten game in a dome with a little triple-option flavor from Charleston Southern. But the quality of play picked up in the second half, mainly thanks to NDSU, which got a game-winning 25-yard touchdown run from King Frazier on the first play of overtime and this 47-yard touchdown throw from new quarterback Easton Stick to receiver RJ Urzendowski.

3. College kickers made an appearance. Both teams missed field goals before the first points were scored, and they missed the uprights by a combined 50 feet or so.

4. A cool college punter made an appearance. CSU's Truett Burns dropped this 54-yard beauty in the shadow of NDSU's goal posts for an easy downing. Just put Charleston Southern in the Big Ten, already.

5. The game was in a dome. And a dome called the Fargodome, no less. That's excellent.

6. That finish! A quick rundown: Charleston Southern trailed 17-10 with a shade more than three minutes to play. But the Bison converted a fourth-and-10 with a sideline route, despite not throwing the ball with any competency all night. They tied the game with a 6-yard scoring run with 179 seconds remaining. NDSU took the ball and marched into field goal range, then marched out of field goal range with a dumb penalty.

The Bison correctly decided to try to convert a fourth-and-5 from the Southern 35-yard line, rather than boot a 53-yard field goal with one of the aforementioned college kickers. But that didn't turn out brilliantly, because Stick threw an interception to star cornerback Troy McGowens, who sprinted back to NDSU's 40-yard line.

This eventually gave Southern an out-of-nowhere chance to win it with a 51-yard buzzer-beater, but Jacob Smoak's game-winning bid sailed wide left. That set up a smooth overtime triumph for the Bison, but they had to wait to learn that their final defensive stop would hold up when a pass interference flag turned out to be against the Southern offense. On a night like this one, of course they did.

This had everything college football's supposed to have.

Bad offense! Good offense! Bad kickers! Good punters! A quirky field! A walk-off offensive pass interference signal!

College football was already back, but now it's back, and not a moment too soon.

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