Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
NOW: @louisvillemayor, @AttorneyCrump and other attorneys host a press conference to announce that the city will pay a settlement to the #BreonnaTaylor family.
“My administration isn’t not waiting to move ahead with reforms,” Fischer says. pic.twitter.com/QOYgk3QUSY— Dalton Godbey (@DaltonTVNews) September 15, 2020
During a press conference on Tuesday, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced that Breonna Taylor’s family will receive a $12 million settlement. In addition, significant police reforms will be implemented in the city. Breonna Taylor died in March after police officers executed a no-knock warrant at her apartment and shot her eight times.
A 245-page report from Congress shows sweeping failures by Boeing engineers, corporate deception and significant errors in government oversight that led to the two fatal crashes of the 737 Max https://t.co/SZIrxctc3i
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) September 16, 2020
A US congressional report released on Wednesday blames a series of failures by both Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration for two fatal crashes involving 737 Max jets. The report blamed a “horrific culmination” of failed government oversight, design flaws and a lack of action on the 2018 and 2019 crashes that killed 346 people.
#Sally is the first hurricane to make landfall in Alabama since Ivan in 2004 and the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the mainland U.S. so far this year. Follow live updates on the storm: https://t.co/L45RN6s75k pic.twitter.com/RY8X5lvgqC
— AccuWeather (@breakingweather) September 16, 2020
Hurricane Sally made landfall as a Category 2 near Gulf Shores, Alabama, at around 5:45 am ET. Prolonged heavy rainfall and severe flash flooding are expected with the National Hurricane Center warning that the flooding will be "catastrophic" and "life-threatening."
The U.S. Trade Representative's office said today it's poised to drop tariffs on Canadian aluminum imports — just hours before Canada was set to unveil counter-measures in retaliation. https://t.co/laKdPKxw2g
— Power & Politics (@PnPCBC) September 15, 2020
On Tuesday, the US Trade Representative's office dropped a 10% levy on Canadian aluminum after Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng threatened to impose retaliatory sanctions against US goods.
5. Wildfire smoke from the US reaches eastern Canada
A great reminder that the world is all connected. Even though Ottawa is over 4,600 kms away, we are seeing the effects. #CaliforniaWildfires #smokyskies #Ottnews #Onwx #ottweather @weathernetwork pic.twitter.com/IRwSI1MiiO
— Ottawa Weather Guy (@Ottawa_Proud) September 15, 2020
Hazy skies are no longer only impacting Western Canada. Smoke from the devastating wildfires in the western US is reaching all the way to Atlantic Canada, creating poor air quality conditions in several provinces.
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