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- Letter: Canada’s Decision to Abandon Weather Radio Is Ill-Advised
On Aug. 7, 2020 this EF-3 tornado touched down near the town of Scarth, Manitoba, resulting in 2 deaths. Credit: Jordan Carruthers/Getty Images In this letter to the editor, the author respond to the story “Canada to Shut Down Its VHF Weather Radio Service.” Radio World welcomes letters to the editor on this or any story. Email radioworld@futurenet.com. As a meteorologist in the heart of the U.S. “tornado alley”, it is disheartening to see a radio-based alerting system deemed unnecessary because cell phones and internet are naively trusted to replace it. This cost-saving decision is destined to bring grief to Canadian families. Weather radios can alert for more than just weather. Raging wildfires, wind and floods destroy cell phone towers, fiber optic cables, phone lines and electricity wires. Yet, via weather radio, a radio frequency broadcast can be sent into homes, schools and businesses year round to announce evacuations, shelter-in-place and weather warnings. Public alert-certified weather radios have battery backup, so they will run several days even when power is completely out. Will your cell phone or internet be operating in that power outage? It’s a vital question because there are numerous examples of such tragedies. Nashville tornado On March 3, 2020, an EF-4 tornado touched down at 1:48 a.m. and tore through Cookeville, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville. The two cell towers that served the area had been knocked off the air by thunderstorm winds an hour earlier. Anyone who went to bed thinking their cell phone would alert them had no idea their cell service was cut off. Weather radio broadcasts, on the other hand, awakened residents eleven minutes before the tornado arrived, saving many lives. Nineteen people died in this well-warned tornado. Texas floods In the Texas Hill Country flash flood of July 4, 2025, children in a riverside camp and adults overnighting in an RV park were swept to their deaths when the Guadalupe River rose. A strongly worded flash flood warning was sent out via weather radio almost two hours before the river breached its banks, but no one in the camps was using a weather radio. As in Cookeville, they were relying solely on their cell phones, which failed to adequately alert them. The Heaven’s 27 Foundation, named for the 27 girl campers who drowned, persuaded the passing of a state law in Texas that now requires weather radios in all camps and RV parks.… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Karoline Leavitt Slams Dems for Voting Against Declaring Iran a State Sponsor of...
During a Friday appearance on Fox News, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the 53 House Democrats who voted not to reaffirm Iran as “the largest state sponsor of terrorism,” calling them “debilitated in their derangement.” Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) introduced the resolution on Thursday. It argued that Iran “remains the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism and provides substantial financial and military support to groups including Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis,” adding that the country “poses a direct and persistent threat to the United States.” The resolution passed by a 372-53 vote, with all negative votes cast by Democrats. Fox’s John Roberts asked Leavitt about the vote on Friday, pointing out that “when a similar vote was taken three years ago, the vote was 420 to 1.” “This is not just a long-standing bipartisan policy of the United States, but nearly every single country on the planet — especially Western countries — have agreed with this basic premise,” said Leavitt. “Now, in 2026, you have Democrats on Capitol Hill who have been so debilitated by their derangement and their hatred for the man in the Oval Office right now that they cannot even condemn the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. Why? Because they are trying desperately to try to undermine President [Donald] Trump’s essential action that he took to protect the United States of America,” she went on. She concluded by emphasizing that “countries around the world, the NATO Secretary General, even our partners in the Gulf” have commended Trump for his actions, adding that these 53 Democrats “have lost their minds.” Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA) explained her negative vote via Facebook on Thursday, writing that the resolution is “designed to justify the President’s actions in Iran” and that “Republicans in Congress are not only surrendering their constitutional duties – they are also playing politics with a resolution reaffirming Iran as a leading state sponsor of terrorism,” which is “already U.S. policy.” Watch the clip above via Fox News.The post Karoline Leavitt Slams Dems for Voting Against Declaring Iran a State Sponsor of Terror: ‘Debilitated in Their Derangement’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Karoline Leavitt Downplays Reports Putin Is Helping Iran Target US Troops: ‘Do...Fox News anchor John Roberts pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday about reports that Russia is feeding Iran intelligence to target U.S. troops in the Middle East Roberts opened the interview by saying that Fox News had confirmed an earlier Washington Post exclusive that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence information to help the regime target U.S. forces. He then asked Leavitt if President Donald Trump had spoken to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin about it. In response, Leavitt said that she would leave the question to Trump himself to answer, and “we don’t comment on intelligence reports that are leaked to the press.” But she went on: “Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter because President Trump and the United States military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime. We are now on Day 6 of Operation Epic Fury. The United States military has impressively established dominance and air superiority over the skies of Iran.” Read the conversation below: JOHN ROBERTS: All right, now it’s time for our own private White House briefing with the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt. Karoline, thanks for being with us this Friday afternoon, appreciate your time. KAROLINE LEAVITT: Thanks for having me. ROBERTS: I wanted to start you off this afternoon because we have confirmed reports from U.S. officials that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to help it target U.S. assets in the region. I’m sure this is something that does not please the president whatsoever. Has he spoken to Putin about it? LEAVITT: Well, look, I’ll leave that to the president to answer himself. But what I will tell you, John, we don’t comment on intelligence reports that are leaked to the press. Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter because President Trump and the United States military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime. We are now on Day 6 of Operation Epic Fury. The United States military has impressively established dominance and air superiority over the skies of Iran. We have sunk and destroyed more than 30 of their Navy ships. And of course, the goals of this operation have been laid out and very clear. Completely annihilate Iran’s Navy, which again we are well on our way to doing. Their Navy has now been deemed combat ineffective. Secondly, take out their ballistic missile weaponry arsenal… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Mamdani Responds to Report His Wife Liked Posts Celebrating Oct 7th Terror Attac...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) was asked on Friday to respond to a new report that his wife, Rama Duwaji, liked social media posts that “unambiguously celebrated” Hamas’s devastating October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, which left some 1,200 people dead — mostly civilians. New York Daily News City Hall reporter Josie Stratman asked Mamdani to respond to the report from Jewish Insider during a Friday presser. Stratman reported on social media, “Asked about his wife liking a pro-Oct 7 post, Mayor Mamdani replies essentially that his wife doesn’t speak for him.” Stratman then quoted Mamdani’s exact reply, “My wife is the love of my life, and she’s also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall.” Asked about his wife liking a pro-Oct 7 post, Mayor Mamdani replies essentially that his wife doesn’t speak for him. “My wife is the love of my life, and she's also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my City Hall,” he says. https://t.co/ZcYXHSqeEj pic.twitter.com/bK9V3nybXs — Josie Stratman (@JosieStratman) March 6, 2026 Jewish Insider’s Will Bredderman scooped the news that Duwaji had liked several posts celebrating October 7th. Bredderman described one of the posts Duwaji liked from her personal Instagram account: The Instagram post shows stills from participants’ livestreamed footage of the attack: first of a bulldozer that terrorists used to breach the barrier separating Israel from Gaza, the second of attackers riding on a captured IDF vehicle. Printed on the former are the words “Breaking the walls of apartheid and military occupation,” and on the latter “Resisting apartheid since 1948,” and on both the slogan “Systemic change for collective liberation.” The Jewish Insider report noted that it was unclear when Duwaji liked the posts and that her office refused to comment on the report. Mamdani’s spokesman wouldn’t address his wife’s online behavior but said in a statement to Jewish Insider, “Mayor Mamdani has been clear and consistent: Hamas is a terrorist organization, October 7th was a horrific war crime, and he has condemned that violence unequivocally.”The post Mamdani Responds to Report His Wife Liked Posts Celebrating Oct 7th Terror Attack first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Karoline Leavitt Tells Fox Trump Is ‘Very Excited’ About New DHS Head After ...Karoline Leavitt told Fox News’ Sandra Smith and John Roberts on Friday that President Donald Trump is very excited about Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) taking the reins from Secretary Kristi Noem at the Department of Homeland Security. During an appearance on America Reports, Smith asked Leavitt if she could provide “any further insight on that decision, and the shakeup that we are seeing, and what you expect the confirmation process to look like for Mullin?” “Sure, yeah, I know the president was very excited about Senator Markwayne Mullin moving into this role and being officially part of President Trump’s team in the Cabinet,” replied Leavitt, who continued: The White House will be working with the Senate to confirm him as quickly as possible. And we thank Secretary Noem for her efforts over the past year. She will be moving into a new role at the State Department to oversee the new Shield of Americas. These are Western Hemisphere, Latin American countries who are coming together, both militarily and diplomatically, to end the cartel trafficking, human trafficking, and drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere through Latin American countries, and ultimately to the United States of America. So this is a very important effort. And in fact, President Trump will be heading to Doral, Florida tomorrow to speak with 17 heads of states from the Latin American countries to talk about this new historic organization that the Trump administration has led the way on and has put together. Watch above via Fox News.The post Karoline Leavitt Tells Fox Trump Is ‘Very Excited’ About New DHS Head After Noem Ouster first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- esRadio Deploys DHD Audio Consoles
One of the DHD RX2 audio production consoles at esRadio’s studios in Madrid. From the Radio World “Who’s Buying What” page: FM and online broadcaster esRadio in Spain is using two DHD RX2 audio production consoles at its studio headquarters in Madrid. The broadcaster is part of the Libertad Digital media group. “esRadio offers a robust news service plus in-depth coverage of cultural and economic topics as well as general entertainment,” according to DHD. “It is today the fourth-largest commercial general-interest radio network in Spain. The RX2 consoles and associated equipment were supplied and commissioned by Agrupación de Servicios y Productos de Audio (ASPA).” The installed configuration consists of two consoles, each with 18 physical faders. Each console comprises three fader modules and one control module; its capacity is doubled by a layering function that allows control over more channels without taking up additional space. Other features include 10.1-inch touchscreens integrated into each section that allow channel setup and centralized control. esRadio installed a DHD 52-7523 core matrix for routing broadcast signals and communication between consoles. For daily management of its broadcasts, it uses XFrame Radio automation software developed by ASPA. Users and sellers can submit announcements for “Who’s Buying What” by email to radioworld@futurenet.com. The post esRadio Deploys DHD Audio Consoles appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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