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Las Vegas -- The flooding in the northwest valley isn't just causing washed out roads; it's also causing some other problems. One neighborhood is reporting a strange foam actually "gurgling foam" from storm drains.
The foam is near Ackerman and El Capitan. Residents say they noticed this foam around 7:30 Monday morning and it won't stop growing. The foam has reached a size of 40 feet wide and 4 feet high.
Residents say the Las Vegas Water District has looked at the foam, but has not released any details about its cause beyond saying it is due to flood water near a storm drain.
Las Vegas Public Works has been contacted, and they are trying to determine what is causing the foam to increase in size.
A Humane Society officials said it's unclear whether the cat is feral or domesticated and what breed it is.
Ambling down the block a couple of weeks ago with his 1-year-old daughter perched on his shoulders, Antwaun Asberry sensed something was behind him.
He turned around and spotted a tall creature that appeared to be a cat, only a lot bigger.
"His tail is longer than my arm," Asberry, a 6-foot-5 Detroiter with a lanky build, said of the cat. "I was like, what the (expletive) ... I don't know what it is. I just want it gone."
So do other residents in the northeast Detroit neighborhood, who said they're unnerved by this supersize cat roaming the streets in recent weeks. They've tried calling Detroit police and Animal Control, but have gotten no response. On Friday, the Michigan Humane Society said it will investigate the case and try to find the cat.
"We're going to put some effort into this," said Nancy Gunnigle, a director with the Humane Society. Cats this size, she said, are "not easy to catch."
The area around Joann Street south of 8 Mile doesn't have roaming dogs - an issue publicized in news media reports this past week.
It's the cat that has bothered residents.
© Detroit Free PressThis photo taken by a resident shows the big cat has been roaming a Detroit neighborhood
Ambling down the block a couple of weeks ago with his 1-year-old daughter perched on his shoulders, Antwaun Asberry sensed something was behind him.
He turned around and spotted a tall creature that appeared to be a cat, only a lot bigger.
"His tail is longer than my arm," Asberry, a 6-foot-5 Detroiter with a lanky build, said of the cat. "I was like, what the (expletive) ... I don't know what it is. I just want it gone."
So do other residents in the northeast Detroit neighborhood, who said they're unnerved by this supersize cat roaming the streets in recent weeks. They've tried calling Detroit police and Animal Control, but have gotten no response. On Friday, the Michigan Humane Society said it will investigate the case and try to find the cat.
"We're going to put some effort into this," said Nancy Gunnigle, a director with the Humane Society. Cats this size, she said, are "not easy to catch."
The area around Joann Street south of 8 Mile doesn't have roaming dogs - an issue publicized in news media reports this past week.
It's the cat that has bothered residents.
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Some 70 miles away, dolphins are turning up dead along the Jersey shore and other coastal communities and, at this point, the cause still remains largely unknown. More than 200 dolphins have washed ashore since June and many have ended up on UPenn's New Bolton Center research tables where veterinarians look to find an answer.
The UPenn lab was specifically called upon for this task due to close ties with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center (MMSC) in Brigantine, NJ, which handled many of the deceased creatures that turned up on nearby shorelines.
The Center, located in Kennett Square, PA, sits in the southeastern part of the state near the Delaware line. The board-certified veterinary specialists have performed detailed necropsies on each of the dolphins brought into the lab to hunt out and identify potential abnormalities. Hours upon hours are then spent examining tissues under microscopes and researchers conduct tests with antibodies, hoping to uncover the cause of death in these intelligent marine mammals.
After painstakingly long processes, some evidence has turned up.
"One of the saddest things to see on these creatures is some have horrible pneumonias and ulcers so you know that they are suffering. And the shark bites are kind of sobering to look at," Dr. Perry Habecker, chief of large-animal pathology at the New Bolton Center, told USA Today's Kristi Funderburk.
Marjorie Castro, head of the zoo, said one of the zoo's five gorillas threw a stone measuring about 2 inches in diameter Saturday and the rock struck a 38-year-old woman in the forehead, Swedish news agency TT reported Monday.
"At first everything seemed fine. She was bleeding a little from her forehead, but seemed to be in good health," Castro told the Aftonbladet newspaper. "But she was hit in the head and gorillas have enormous strength, so we called an ambulance. After a while, she felt weak and we had to lie her down."
Castro said the incident marked the first time the zoo's gorillas had thrown anything besides grass at visitors.
However, some zoo visitors said otherwise, including a mother who said a gorilla threw a rock at her 7-year-old son in July.
The Farmers' Almanac is using words like 'piercing cold,' 'bitterly cold' and 'biting cold' to describe the upcoming winter. And if its predictions are right, the first outdoor Super Bowl in years will be a messy 'Storm Bowl.' The 197-year-old publication that hits newsstands Monday predicts a winter storm will hit the Northeast around the time the Super Bowl is played at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It also predicts a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the country and heavy snowfall in the Midwest, Great Lakes and New England.
'We're using a very strong four-letter word to describe this winter, which is C-O-L-D. It's going to be very cold,' said Sandi Duncan, managing editor.
'We're using a very strong four-letter word to describe this winter, which is C-O-L-D. It's going to be very cold,' said Sandi Duncan, managing editor.
Snowy Super Bowl: The NFL title hasn't been decided in a snow storm since 1948, before the Super Bowl
Tropical Storm Fernand made landfall near Veracruz, Mexico, shortly before midnight. It is poised to bring four to eight inches of rain to places like Veracruz and Hidalgo, but the National Hurricane Center says a foot of rain in some isolated areas isn't out of the question. Life-threatening flash floods and mudslides are the biggest concerns with this storm.
Fernand formed Sunday afternoon and is the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
© CNNFernand, the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, threatens Mexico with flooding.
© REUTERS/Max WhittakerFirefighters work to prevent the Rim Fire from jumping Highway 120 near Buck Meadows, California, August 24, 2013.
As of midday, the eastern flank of the so-called Rim Fire had burned to within a mile of Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy reservoir on the Tuolumne River, raising concerns about the possibility of ash and soot contaminating the sprawling artificial lake.
On Saturday, flames had been no closer than 4 miles from the reservoir, which supplies 85 percent of the water consumed by 2.6 million people in San Francisco and several communities in three adjacent counties about 200 miles to the west.
Roughly 300 million gallons of water is carried to the San Francisco Bay area daily through tunnels and an aqueduct, and reservoir samples show water quality has remained healthy since the fire began on August 17, according to a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
"There's no evidence of a change in the water quality, and there's no change in our ability to deliver that water to all of our customers," said the spokeswoman, Suzanne Gautier.
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This Afternoon A 30 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. West northwest wind around 6 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Tonight A 30 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Northwest wind 5 to 11 mph becoming west southwest in the evening. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Sunday A 30 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 34. Light and variable wind becoming south southwest 5 to 10 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Sunday Night A 30 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 25. West southwest wind around 9 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
© BBC NewsSwordfish are normally associated with warmer waters like the Mediterranean sea.
The fish, which measures about 1.2m (4ft) long from the tip of its sword to its tail, was caught in salmon nets close to South Tyneside.
It has now been taken to Latimer's Fishmongers in Whitburn to be filleted.
Owner Rob Latimer believes the fish had been "chasing" mackerel or salmon down the river when it got caught.
"It must have fancied a holiday in Whitburn I think - I can't blame it," Mr Latimer said.
Swordfish are normally associated with warmer waters like the Mediterranean sea.
Chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO), Barry Deas, said: "I have never heard of this before.
"They are definitely a warm water fish, this is very rare."
© The Telegraph, UKThe crater measured about six feet wide and three feet deep.
Motorists on Saturday were alarmed to notice hot, stinking gas spurting from a newly formed crater in the middle of a roundabout close to the perimeter fence of Rome's Fiumicino airport -- less than 900 yards from the end of a runway.
Spectators gathered around the smoking crater, which measured about six feet wide and three feet deep, before firefighters and vulcanologists arrived to seal off the roundabout to prevent inhalation of the gas, suspected to be a cocktail of carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and methane. Tests are now underway.
While initial reports suggested the gas came from rotting organic matter trapped underground, one expert said volcanic activity was more likely.
