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Florida Authorities Warn Of Shark Dangers Along Gulf Coast Beaches After 3 People Are Attacked
Authorities are employing boats to monitor the ocean and warn swimmers about sharks along Florida’s Gulf Coast this weekend after a lady and two teenage girls were injured in separate shark attacks on Friday.
The assaults off beaches in the Florida Panhandle prompted authorities to temporarily restrict numerous beaches to swimmers on Friday. Beaches reopened Saturday, with signs warning of severe danger.
“All I can say is that these incidents are very rare,” said Demian Chapman, scientist and head of the Center for Shark Research at the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida.
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Florida Authorities Warn Of Shark Dangers Along Gulf Coast Beaches After 3 People Are Attacked
“It’s even more rare to have two events in one day involving three people,” he told The Associated Press on Saturday. “That’s astronomically low odds of that happening.”
According to a South Walton Fire District update released Saturday, the sheriff’s office, fire department, and state wildlife agency were collaborating to patrol the lake with boats and the shore with vehicles in Walton County. Both of Friday’s attacks occurred in Walton County.
The fire department advised on social media, “Please swim carefully today, respect the Gulf, stay hydrated, and keep an eye out for your loved ones.”
On Saturday, red and purple flags were hoisted to warn swimmers of the dangers.
“Purple flags indicate the presence of dangerous marine life, and single red flags indicate high hazard conditions,” the Bay County Sheriff’s Office stated in a social media post on Saturday.
According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, small fish are migrating in schools near the beach at this time of year, which could have contributed to the attacks.
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office reported that the first incident occurred on Friday afternoon when a shark near WaterSound Beach bit a woman. She had significant injuries to her stomach and arm, and part of her arm had to be amputated, according to South Walton Fire Chief Ryan Crawford at a news briefing. She was rushed to a trauma center.
Less than two hours later, firefighters were sent to another beach about four miles (6.4 kilometers) east of the original assault “following multiple reports of a teenager injured by a shark,” according to the sheriff’s office.
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Florida Authorities Warn Of Shark Dangers Along Gulf Coast Beaches After 3 People Are Attacked
The South Walton Fire District reported that two teenage girls were attacked while in waist-deep water with a group of friends.
“When lifeguards and deputies arrived on scene, they found one of the females had significant injuries to the upper leg and one hand,” firefighters stated in an update. She was rushed to a trauma center. According to police, the second kid sustained minor damage to one of her feet.
Mountain Brook City Manager Sam Gaston informed Al.com that the two teenagers are from Mountain Brook, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb.
It’s unclear whether Friday’s attacks were carried out by one shark or two, but according to Chapman, there are more sharks in the Gulf of Mexico than in previous years.
“There’s definitely been a recovery of sharks in the Gulf after many years of overfishing,” he stated. “They’re sort of out there again after being depleted quite a bit.”
According to Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson, the attacks took place in the middle of the afternoon, which was also unusual. He stated that sheriff’s authorities frequently urge people to be wary of sharks early in the morning and twilight, when they are most likely to feed.
On Saturday, Walton County sheriff’s deputies patrolling the waters in a boat sighted a 14-foot hammerhead shark near Santa Rosa Beach, which they described as not unusual. Sheriff’s authorities said they have no idea what type of shark attacked the swimmers on Friday.
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Florida Authorities Warn Of Shark Dangers Along Gulf Coast Beaches After 3 People Are Attacked
“We want to reiterate that sharks are always present in the Gulf,” the sheriff’s office stated in a Saturday social media post. “Swimmers and beachgoers should be cautious when swimming and stay aware of their surroundings.”
Also on Friday, a lady was critically hurt in an alleged shark attack near the Hawaiian island of Oahu, according to officials.
Shark attacks are rare, according to experts. Last year, there were 69 unprovoked bites globally, 10 of which were fatal, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File. This was more than the current average of six deaths per year.
SOURCE – (AP)
NBC is bringing a version of legendary sportscaster Al Michaels back to the Olympics this summer, but with an unexpected twist: his voice will be powered by artificial intelligence.
On Wednesday, NBC said that it will utilize AI software to reproduce Michaels’ voice to offer daily Summer Games summaries to users of its Peacock streaming platform. This marks a significant milestone in the application of AI by a major media firm.
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NBC To Use AI Version Of Announcer Al Michaels’ Voice For Olympics Recaps
The employment of an artificial intelligence voice for the Olympics comes at a time when technology has advanced dramatically, particularly in its ability to generate images, sounds, and text. This has sparked concerns in creative industries, such as journalism, regarding how artificial intelligence may—or should—be utilized.
A new tool, “Your Daily Olympic Recap on Peacock,” will allow subscribers to create 10-minute highlights packages incorporating event updates, athlete back stories, and other related content based on their preferences.
The company stated that the highlights could be packaged in approximately 7 million distinct ways, based on 5,000 hours of live coverage in Paris, thereby making AI (artificial intelligence, not the guy) a far more efficient way to give individualized summaries.
“When I was approached about this, I was skeptical but obviously curious,” Michaels stated in a press statement. “Then I saw a demonstration of what they had in mind. I replied, ‘I’m in.'”
An NBC representative told CNN that Michaels is being rewarded for his participation.
A veteran broadcaster, Michaels is now the play-by-play sportscaster for Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime. He is well noted for his work on earlier Olympic Games broadcasts for NBC and ABC and for announcing the Miracle on Ice Game at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
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NBC To Use AI Version Of Announcer Al Michaels’ Voice For Olympics Recaps
NBC stated that the AI system was trained using previous NBC broadcast audio from Michaels.
The business stated that a team of NBC Sports editors will evaluate all of the content, including audio and footage, to ensure that it is factually correct and that names are pronounced correctly.
Beginning July 27, the highlights tool will be available on Peacock in web browsers and iOS and iPad apps.
SOURCE – CNN
Jamie Foxx has yet to publicly divulge the reason for his hospitalization last year, although he did share further facts during a videotaped encounter.
The Oscar-winning actor was hospitalized in April 2023 due to a health problem while filming the Netflix film “Back in Action” in Atlanta.
In a TikTok video posted this week, Foxx informs an unidentified group of people that he has a “bad headache” on April 11, 2023. He remembers asking his friend for an Advil, and then “I was gone for 20 days.”
Jamie Foxx Shares New Details About Health Crisis That Left Him ‘Gone For 20 Days’
“I don’t remember anything,” he claimed in a video shot on June 29 in Phoenix.
Foxx went on to say in the video that he was told his sister and daughter took him to the doctor, who him a cortisone shot. Another doctor told him something was “going on up there,” as Foxx pointed to his head.
“I won’t say it on camera,” he remarked throughout the video.
The singer is known to be discreet about his personal life, and he disappeared from the spotlight at the time due to what his daughter Corinne Foxx described as a “medical complication” on social media.
In July 2023, the “Ray” star revealed that he chose not to reveal more information because he did not want the public “to see me like that.”
“I want you to see me laughing, having fun, partying, cracking jokes, or performing in a movie or television show. I didn’t want you to see me with tubes coming out of me and wondering if I was going to make it,” he said in a video posted on Instagram at the time, adding that he felt like he had gone “to hell and back.”
Foxx provided another health update on his verified social media accounts in August 2023.
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Jamie Foxx Shares New Details About Health Crisis That Left Him ‘Gone For 20 Days’
“You are looking at a thankful man…” “I’m finally starting to feel like myself,” he wrote at the time. “The journey has been unexpectedly dark…” “But I can see the light.”
He added that he was “thankful to everyone who reached out and sent well wishes and prayers.”
According to IMDB, “Back in Action” is now in post-production.
SOURCE – CNN
NEW YORK — Hunter Biden filed a complaint accusing Fox News of illegally distributing sexual photographs of him as part of a streaming series.
The president’s son filed the complaint on Sunday in state court in Manhattan over photos from “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” which will premiere on Fox Nation in 2022. According to the lawsuit, the series included a “mock trial” of Hunter Biden on crimes he has not faced, as well as photos of Biden naked and engaging in sex acts.
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Hunter Biden Sues Fox News Over Explicit Images Featured In A Streaming Series
The lawsuit argues that the distribution of intimate photographs without his consent violated New York’s so-called revenge porn legislation.
“Fox published and disseminated these Intimate Images to its vast audience of millions as part of an entertainment program in order to humiliate, harass, annoy and alarm Mr. Biden and to tarnish his reputation,” the lawsuit states.
In an emailed statement, a Fox News representative termed it an “entirely politically motivated lawsuit” that was “devoid of merit.” According to the statement, Biden’s attorneys filed a letter demanding its removal from streaming sites in April 2024.
“The program was removed within days of the letter, out of prudence, because Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been investigated several times and is now a convicted felon. According to the emailed statement, Fox News has faithfully covered Mr. Biden’s newsworthy events by the First Amendment, and we look forward to defending our rights in court.
Hunter Biden was convicted last month of three felony charges stemming from the purchase of a revolver in 2018. Prosecutors claimed the president’s son lied on a mandated gun-buy form by claiming he was not unlawfully using or addicted to narcotics.
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Hunter Biden Sues Fox News Over Explicit Images Featured In A Streaming Series
According to the lawsuit, the series’ simulated trial included bribery claims and inappropriate financial relationships with foreign governments, which Hunter Biden has not faced.
The lawsuit says Fox did not completely remove promotional materials and that the program is still available on some third-party streaming sites.
SOURCE – (AP)
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