The Indiana State Health Department has confirmed a person infected with Measles visited the Super Bowl Village sometime last week, possibly on Friday. An estimated 250,000 people had been at the location throughout the day. The person never visited any indoor Super Bowl event, though it still remains unclear if that person attended the Super Bowl Celebration.
Two additional cases have since been confirmed in Indiana. Indiana State health officials are asking everyone, especially those who were at the Super Bowl Village on Friday, to check your family’s medical records and make sure everyone’s immunizations are up to date.
BREAKING: In case you have not heard - The US is in possession of Bin Laden's body, the reports say. President Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly. Al-Qaeda also announced their spring offensive will launch today.
He was allegedly killed about a week ago, it was a ground operation and he was killed by a bomb or missile in a mansion inside of Islamabad, Pakistan.
The United States is in possession of the body, and DNA tests CONFIRM it is him.
Governments around the world are announcing a heightened security posture sue to his announced death and it is know that Al-Qaeda has announced in the past that they are in possession of a nuclear bomb hidden inside of Europe and that if Bin-Laden is ever killed or captured they will detonate it.
In the midst of a record heat wave, which has caused the deaths of approximately 700 people per day, and droughts causing a food crisis, Russia is battling a series of wildfires which have decimated entire villages and communities. Though initial reports have denied that any military bases were in danger, the latest news is that at least one large base was destroyed, along with several aircraft and equipment at the base.
The fires have also threatened a number of nuclear facilities and research centers which are closed to foreigners and can only be accessed by special permits. Though officials are saying that the fires are now under control and the facilities are no longer in danger, unconfirmed and unofficial reports are that facilities that housed nuclear weapons, and possibly chemical and biological weapons have already been destroyed and radiation levels around Moscow are on the rise.
Officially, even though the facilities have been destroyed they are saying all nuclear materials and weapons were removed from the supply depot. Also, Russian official s are telling everyone to leave Moscow if they can due to increased risk of carbon monoxide and other pollutants. One official, Onishchenko, is telling people "Those who can should take a break from work or away on vacation." Tens of thousands have left the city, including many high ranking Russian state officials.
Reports in Moscow of embassy closings are making headlines including a travel warning issued by the United States Department of State citing “hazardous air quality.” Local businesses have been hit hard since many employees are fleeing the city and JP Morgan Chase & Alfa Bank, Russia’s biggest private lender, canceled daily research reports as many of their workers have fled or opted to stay home. Some 104,000 people left the city just yesterday alone.
The fire is likely to continue to burn for several months in some areas where peat bogs caught fire and can smolder for long periods until heavy rains return to the region. Villagers in some of these areas are complaining that they had to battle the fires themselves without help or fire trucks and outrage is growing where entire villages once considered a paradise have been completely burnt to the ground.
According to unconfirmed reports Iran has purchased 4 S-300 (NATO designation, SA-10 Grumble) surface to air missile platforms, possibly in an effort to prevent a U.S. or Israeli air strike.
Though currently denying the allegations, Belarus is said to have supplied two of missile platforms and the other two come from an another as yet unknown source.
The report could be a ploy by the Iranians to delay or avoid an air strike, but if they do have the missile systems an air strike will be more difficult. Those difficulties aside the U.S. is still said to have a viable attack plan for Iran.
Though Belarus is denying the sale, Janes Defence Weekly reported as far back as January 2008 that they were in negotiations to purchase the S-300's from them.
Are you prepared to deal with communications disruptions, power outages and other effects from solar storms? If you haven't yet considered the possibility that your business could be disrupted by such an event, read on.
Four large Coronal Mass Ejection's or CME's occurred on the 1st of August (see August 1, 2010 CME) causing an intense light show when they arrived here on August 2nd. NOAA forecasters are expecting the second cloud to arrive either tonight or tomorrow on August 5th.
While the Sun has been quiet for some time now, two of the four CME's that I am aware of, are being called Solar Tsunami's by the media, were Earth facing and classified as a C-3 and a C-2 in the solar flare classification scale.
Why is this an important event? Because scientists are concerned that the electrical impulses may damage certain parts of our infrastructure such as the power grids, telephone lines and several satellites may also be damaged by the event.
Truthfully, these current CMS's shouldn't do anything more than provide a spectacular light show, but disruptions can still occur. The one to watch will be the predicted soalr storm of 2013 if it happenes. We will provide updates to this event as it unfolds if anything important surrounding it occurs.
The estimated time of arrival of the event is list as follows:
My name is Keith Erwood, and disasters are my life. Well, not just disasters really, but to help people like you, owners, executives and managers of businesses prepare for disasters and emergencies.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 6:58AM
