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Sea level rise will flood huge swaths of the country and submerge billions of dollars’ worth of land, according to a new report. The analysis indicates that sea level rise could reduce the value of that private land by more than $108 billion by the end of the century. Risk isn’t evenly distributedClimate Central found that, unsurprisingly, the effects of sea level rise aren’t evenly distributed across the U.S. In Galveston County, Texas, more than 4,200 buildings that are currently above sea level will be at least partially underwater. While sea level rise is one of the major impacts of the climate crisis, it’s not the only one.

☆ N.Y. bishop who was robbed during livestreamed service clashes with woman in latest church broadcast
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Mirna Alsharif | Mirna Alsharif Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Bishop Lamor Whitehead, 44, was preaching at the Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries church in Brooklyn’s Canarsie neighborhood when someone in the congregation started yelling inaudibly off-camera. As a woman approaches him, video appears to show the bishop grabbing her hair by the back of her neck and pushing her off-camera. Police said the woman, identified as 47-year-old Tarsha Howard, was recording the church service. When asked to stop and leave the church, she "began to antagonize the parish Bishop and approached him on stage. Whitehead disputed that in a video posted to Facebook, saying the NYPD arrested him and put him in a holding cell.

A woman stands in a queue to pay her respects to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, following her death, in London, Britain, September 15, 2022. They had come together to mark a moment in history - the passing of Britain's longest reigning monarch. "Sierra Leone, where I come from, was a colony under the British Empire so she means a lot to us." "Part of being British I guess is just having a queen or having Queen Elizabeth II on the throne." Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterEditing by Kate Holton and Alison WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ New Orleans battled mass incarceration. Then came the backlash over violent crime.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-06 | by ( Jamiles Lartey | The Marshall Project | Jamiles Lartey Is A New Orleans-Based Staff Writer For The Marshall Project. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

candidates before him, he appealed to a kind of economy of justice: that spending less time on minor crimes, and on things that shouldn’t be crimes, would give prosecutors more time and resources to tackle violent crime. Reflecting on his first 17 months in office, Williams made sure to mention a slew of recent convictions in nearly the same breath as his efforts toward reform. He recognizes that violent crime is up, and that his office is responsible for addressing it. Williams’ office argued Mitchell had been unfairly denied a chance at parole. The Metropolitan Crime Commission, a nonprofit that publishes weekly city crime data and has been critical of Williams, found that in 2021, 74% of violent felony cases were resolved this way.

☆ Hurricane season forecast: Above average, spare us from another one, Louisiana resident says
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-30 | by ( Jennifer Gray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Callaghan O'Hare for the Washington Post/Getty Images“There is a literal PTSD out there in the community,” explained Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter. “We have some homes that literally have not been touched since Hurricane Laura,” Hunter noted. “Though it has taken far too long, there is over a billion dollars in federal aid that has been allocated for hurricanes Laura and Delta. Lake Charles ‘on edge’Powerful winds blew out windows in the Capitol One Bank Tower during Hurricane Laura in 2020. “Certainly, as we approach hurricane season, locals are just a bit more on edge than they were prior to 2020,” Hunter acknowledged.

☆ A leaked video exemplifies what Black migrants endure in US detention centers
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-26 | by ( John Washington | José Olivares | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

A leaked video obtained by Insider shows guards violently tackling a Black asylum seeker at a Louisiana detention center. Detainees and immigration lawyers say there is a disturbing and overlooked problem of anti-Black racism in immigration detention. In January, Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) called for a "holistic review of the disparate treatment of Black migrants." Across the state, eight new immigration detention centers have been opened in the past three years – all privately run. In just Texas and Louisiana, 11 separate facilities in recent years have shifted from prisons or jails to immigration detention centers.

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“The government is obviously failing us and not protecting us,” said Taylor, who evacuated from St. John before Hurricane Ida hit. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention categorizes St. John and St. James as a community with high levels of Covid-19 transmission. Prior to Ida, at least 16% of residents in St. James Parish and St. John Parish were living below the poverty line, according to Census data. One of their biggest fights was against the Taiwanese plastics manufacturer Formosa, which was set to build a $9.4 billion petrochemical complex in St. James Parish. While the battle to block the multibillion-dollar facility isn’t over, Hurricane Ida added to the community’s problems.

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