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UPDATE: Charish Lilly Perriwinkle Body Found: Donald James Smith Arrested In 8-Year-Old Girl's Abduction

Update: Charish Lilly Perriwinkle Body Found: Donald James Smith Arrested In 8-Year-Old Girl's Abduction....

ACTIVE AMBER Alert : Charish Perriwinkle - Jacksonville, FL 06/22/2013 05:24:38 EDT

Ambert Alert !!!!

Name:Charish Perriwinkle

Eye Color: Hazel 

Hair Color: Brown

Age: 8 Year(s) old

Ethnicity: White

Weight: 60 lbs

Gender:Female

Height: 4 feet and 3 inches

Suspect: Donald Smith

Name: Donald Smith

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Gray

Age: 56 Year(s) old

Ethnicity: White

Weight: 190 lbs

Gender: Male

Height: 5 feet and 10 inches

Vehicle: 1998 White DODGE 1500

Color: White

Year: 1998

Make:DODGE

License State: FL

Model: 1500

License Plate # BCBK32

Description: The vehicle has a two inch dark colored pinstripe down its sides, two large windows on the driver's side, one large window and double doors on the passenger side and double doors on the back.

If You Have Seen or Have Any Information Contact 911

Miami Heat Fans Celebrate at Bayside Marketplace Downtown Miami - Miami Heat v Spurs

Miami Heat fans hit the streets in Downtown Miami and  Bayside Marketplace as the Miami Heat scored the final points to win the 2013 NBA Championship with a score of 88-95...Watch the crowd in the following video as they celebrate their team "The Miami Heat"

Miami Heat Win 2013 NBA Finals - NBA Champions - Game Highlights !!!!

The Miami HEAT defeated the San Antonio Spurs, 88-95, in Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night. The Miami HEAT are the 2013 NBA Champions. LeBron James led all scorers with 37 points, 12 rebounds and four assists. Dwyane Wade finished with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Shane Battier had 18 points and four rebounds on the night.

Here are the highlights of game 7 .....

70 House Republicans to push back against immigration bill

Trooper to Be Terminated Over Roadside Cavity Search [W/ VIDEO]

Search starts at 30:10

 

Harris-Perry claims victory, brags about Obama’s defiant ‘swaggah’

The past few weeks haven’t been kind to President Obama or his administration, but you wouldn’t know that by listening to MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. Not only is she convinced that the Democrats will win seats in the House in 2014, she also thinks that Republicans focusing on “so-called scandals” will actually help Obama.

See the full article click here !

Turkey's riot icon: Woman in red dress

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports from Turkey on what is known about the woman in this powerful photo from the riots.

Roy Costner IV, a former public school student from South Carolina, stunned the audience !

Roy Costner IV, a former public school student from South Carolina, stunned the audience at his high school graduation last weekend when he ripped up his previously-approved valedictorian speech, going on, instead, to speak about God — and then deliver the Lord’s prayer. 

 The act, which drew loud applause, was taken in opposition to the School District of Pickens County’s decision to axe prayers from graduation events, Christian News reports. Officials said that they had recently received complaints from atheist activists and church-state separatists, leading to the removal of invocations from all school events. But that didn’t stop Costner. 

 The Liberty High School ceremony is already making its way into national headlines, as the valedictorian’s actions and the subsequent cheers this past Saturday were caught on video. As he spoke, Costner went from merely mentioning “the Lord” to jumping right into the well-known prayer. “Those that we look up to, they have helped carve and mold us into the young adults that we are today. I’m so glad that both of my parents led me to the Lord at a young age,” he said. “And I think most of you will understand when I say –” And that’s when he commenced the popular invocation. “Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name,” Costner continued. “Thy Kingdom come…” Throughout the entirety of the prayer, cheers and clapping raged.

 The school district, which, as stated, was already facing scrutiny over graduation prayers earlier this year, has no plans to punish the former student for his actions (after all, he’s no longer under their authority, so what retribution could he receive?). Watch video footage of the prayer, below (to see Costner rip up the speech, which is not included in the following footage, watch the WYFF-TV news report):

 

Several feared trapped in Philly building collapse

(CNN) -- As many as 10 people are believed to be trapped in the rubble of a building that collapsed Wednesday morning in Philadelphia, city Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers said, according to CNN affiliate WPVI.

The building collapsed at the corner of 22nd and Market streets in Philadelphia's Center City area, WPVI reported. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been told it was an accident at a demolition site, and it has investigators on the way, representative Leni Fortson said.

A witness, Jordan McLaughlin, told CNN affiliate KYW, that a building "collapsed the wrong way and landed on a thrift shop" that had people inside. McLaughlin said he and others rushed to help people out of the rubble. He said he helped two people out, and saw up to five others escape within the first 10 minutes.

The fire department was called to the site at 10:43 a.m., Capt. Jeffrey Thompson told CNN. Thompson said it wasn't immediately clear whether it was an apartment building or an adjacent building scheduled for demolition.

Video from WPVI showed two people helping a third person, apparently hurt, away from the rubble. It also showed emergency personnel walking on and around rubble on an exposed area of a ground floor.

Baby Miami Heat Birdman

Heat fan Xiomy Gonzalez started making the rounds with a photo of her nephew tatted up (with fake tattoos obviously) to resemble Chris “Birdman” Anderson of the Miami Heat. Numerous media outlets took notice and has started a little viral movement on the photo. So we though we’d repost for her.

THEY ARE LIARS....THEN AND NOW OBAMA VIDEOS PROVE IT

Lies, Lies and More Lies !!!

Those who closely follow current events may often find themselves hearing a politician making a claim, but swearing they heard them say the exact opposite a month, a year, or even a decade ago.

That’s because, many times, they did.

Tropical Development Increasing, Heading to Florida Coast This Week

A disorganized low pressure center in the Southeast Gulf of Mexico will continue moving northward, eventually impacting the weather across the Southeastern United States with flooding being the major issue.

Current progs are all over the place with the system, however the weakness in the upper levels seems like I want to take this northward with a central impact point between the Tampa Bay area and Pensacola at the time.  This is the best I can do without getting a strong surface low developing to track it better.

Regardless of track, this will bring gusty winds and flooding to much of Florida toward the mid/end part of this week.  Trends are being monitored here at TheWeatherSpace.com.  If the system tracks where I am taking it, it will eventually affect parts of Georgia as well.

Disclaimer: Remember, all products are custom forecasts and are not issued by the National Weather Service unless otherwise noted. Tornado, Blizzard, Hurricane products issued by this website begin with the word 'TWS" in it. You will not see our products on the media either but that does not mean you need to bypass them. These are real forecasts and real threats.

KARL ROVE TEARS INTO ARIANA HUFFINGTON AND DAVID PLOUFFE OVER IRS SCANDAL IN CONTENTIOUS SEGMENT

Watch the debate unfold, below (starts at the 5:00 mark):

On ABC News’ “This Week,” famed political consultant Karl Rove clashed with Ariana Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, and former White House adviser David Plouffe, over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservatives.

The debate heated up when Huffington charged that the 501(c)(4) groups that were targeted were too political in nature. And after she invoked Crossroads GPS, an organization Rove helped launch, the former Bush administration official challenged her assertions.

“I’m sure if we looked at Crossroads GPS, it’s all about politics,” Huffington said, spawning an instantaneous reaction from the political consultant.

“Please. [Crossroads'] leadership knew right from the get-go that they were going to be looked at, closely. So the laws and rules that the IRS has promulgated for decades were followed very closely by GPS for exactly that,” he said, noting that these groups anticipated increased scrutiny.

While Huffington said that she has the same views about liberal 501(c)(4) groups, Rove shot back that her claim is the first time he has heard someone on the left speak out against groups that align with left-of-center ideological perspective.

And this wasn’t the only clash that took place. Rove and Plouffe also faced-off. The former fought back against claims from the latter that the IRS targeting wasn’t political in nature. Here’s how ABC News recaps a portion of the dialogue:

“There’s been no suggestion— the Inspector General said there was no politics involved in this,” Plouffe said this morning on “This Week.” “This was not an effort driven by the White House. It would be the dumbest political effort of all time.”

Rove, who co-founded the GOP affiliated outside spending group “American Crossroads,” argued that IRS workers in offices across the country may have taken direction, inadvertently, from top Democrats.

“I think people sitting in Cincinnati, Laguna Niguel, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. listen to people like Senator Max Baucus, Senator Chuck Schumer, President Obama,” Rove said. “When President Obama goes out in 2010 and calls these groups ‘a threat to democracy’ he’s blowing a dog whistle.”

STUDENT HILARIOUSLY REDEEMS HIMSELF AFTER FAILING WITH THE CYMBALS DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

One might think that not much could go wrong for the band member charged with playing the cymbals. But for an Illinois junior high student playing the clashing instrument during a school’s concert, something did go wrong, and he reacted in the only way he felt appropriate for the time.

The Eisenhower Junior High student at the school’s “Red and White” concert last month accidentally dropped one cymbal midway through the National Anthem.

The video of the opening song for the band’s concert doesn’t show what exactly happens to the errant cymbal when it fell to the floor (did it roll away?), but for some reason the boy doesn’t pick it back up.

He instead faces the flag and holds a salute for the rest of the song, as some of his fellow band members try to suppress laughter.

Watch the clip and see if his reaction isn’t endearing — or hilarious — enough to redeem his dropping of the cymbal:

89-YEAR-OLD DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FRANK LAUTENBERG DIES

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and the last World War II veteran remaining in the Senate, has died at age 89.

His office said Lautenberg died shortly after 4 a.m. EDT on Monday at a New York hospital after suffering complications from viral pneumonia.

Lautenberg, who had been called out of retirement for a second tour of duty in Congress, announced in February that he would not seek a sixth term. The Democrat had health problems in recent years and had missed several Senate votes in the first months of the year. He had the flu and missed the Senate’s Jan. 1 (2013) vote to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of rising taxes and falling government spending, then missed several votes two months later because of leg pain.

A chest cold kept him from attending a May 29, 2013 tribute in New York honoring him for his contributions to the Jewish community and Israel.

He had been diagnosed in February 2010 with B-cell lymphoma of the stomach and underwent chemotherapy treatments until he was declared in June 2010 to be free of cancer. He worked between the treatments. The diagnosis came just days after the death of West Virginia’s Robert Byrd made Lautenberg the oldest member of the Senate.

Republican Gov. Chris Christie would appoint a successor to Lautenberg.

Lautenberg was a staunch gun control advocate and frequent critic of the tobacco industry, and he fought for greater government spending on transportation and the environment. He wrote the laws banning smoking on domestic airline flights and setting the national minimum drinking age of 21.

Along with Lautenberg’s legislative accomplishments, he had a string of electoral coups, including an upset over someone he called “the most popular candidate in the country” in his first race for Senate, and a victory in a strange, abbreviated, back-from-retirement campaign 20 years later.

He initially retired in 2000 after 18 years in the Senate, saying he did not have the drive to raise money for a fourth campaign. He served on the boards of three companies, two graduate schools and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

But New Jersey Democrats recruited Lautenberg out of retirement in September 2002 as an 11th-hour replacement for Robert Torricelli, Lautenberg’s longtime rival, who had abandoned his re-election bid just five weeks before Election Day.

Republicans went to court to prevent what they called the Democratic Party’s ballot “switcheroo.” When that failed, they attacked Lautenberg as a political relic ill-suited for dangerous times.

But Lautenberg surged to an easy win over Republican Douglas Forrester and returned to the Senate in 2003 at age 78, resuming his role as a leading liberal, and he made it clear that his return to office was no mere cameo.

When Democrats regained a Senate majority in 2007, he returned to the powerful Appropriations Committee, on which he had served for 15 years.

At age 84, he beat back a Democratic primary challenge in 2008 and went on to another easy win in the November general election. It made him the first New Jersey person ever elected to five Senate terms.

“People don’t give a darn about my age,” Lautenberg said. “They know I’m vigorous. They know I’ve got plenty of energy.”

Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over.

You need to forward this one to everyone. These pictures tell it all! 
Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over.

The Crusades of the Middle Ages were Christians vs. Muslims. The crusade has reignited but our political correctness prohibits us from properly identifying it as a religious battle. If you do not properly identify who your enemy is, you will lose the battle. 

These are pictures not shown on American TV or in American Newspapers, but were forwarded by a Canadian who thought all Americans ought to know!

 

 

Birth of a Tornado by Storm Chaser Tim Samaras

Storm Chasers Tim Samaras, His Son, and Carl Young Killed In Oklahoma Tornado on Friday

Many of you will know Tim Samaras from Discovery Channel’s ‘Storm Chasers’, but news is coming into TheWeatherSpace.com that he, his son, and chaser Carl Young were among the people killed in Friday’s El Reno EF3 Tornado.

Respected storm chasers have confirmed it.  Samaras has not posted on his Facebook or Twitter Account since then leading even more suspicion that the news is true.  Even further, Samaras and myself exchange e-mails after every chase event to see how things went and if a story can be written.  I’ve yet to hear from him and I always get something back after a chase, even late at night.

Samaras was known for his company Twistex.  Twistex designed probes that would measure a tornado’s environment.  However one thing about these probes is one has to get out and put it directly in the path of the tornado and then get out of there before it picks you up as well.  This was very similar to the 1996 hit blockbuster ‘Twister’, in-which the ‘Dorothy’ probes were taken off trucks and put in the tornado’s path.

Friday’s tornado was a dangerous tornado because it suddenly turned north toward the group of chasers, unexpectedly.  This happens when the tornadic storm cycles, it pulls the tornado north into the core.  The tornado of Greensburg 2007 was another example of one that made sharp turns as it occluded into the supercell.

Those of you who might say he deserved it and be mean about it … and yes there are people like that out there.  Samaras would stop to see if any storm chaser was okay.  He would stop a chase if a chaser needed help with starting their car or even hurt.  He wasn’t just out there for kicks like 98% of chasers today are.  He was a friend to everyone in the chaser community and everyone out of it, like myself.

One thing I want to add is I am shocked simply because he put safety first and I would swear Timmer would have gone before him. The tornado took a hard north turn and this likely made a no way out situation for the team, the same turn that took out the weather channel’s team. This turn was sharp and unpredictable …

Among the ones who passed was Paul Samaras (Tim’s Son), and Carl Young, another storm chaser.

I remember that morning seeing the potential for dangerous tornadoes.  I reminded people on TheWeatherSpace.com Facebook to take my forecast seriously.  Violent tornadoes were expected and I issued the Enhanced Tornado Watch 005.  It was the first watch issued before the media even got a hold of it, issued 2-3 hours before anyone else would have known one existed.  That is the power of TWS Tornado Watch products.

This article written yesterday shows an image of the spotter network. You can see everyone inside the tornado's outer wall or in the core - 

Storm chasers were in the center of the watch box.  Read this article on that because it is too much to put in this one.

RIP Tim, Paul, and Carl …

*** Deadly EF3 El Reno Tornado Path on 5/31/2013 ***

It was this sharp turn that took the lives of three storm chasers and almost killed The Weather Channel’s crew on Friday. Within the pink outlined area is the likely zone that took everyone by surprise.

The tornado was going east and then it made a sharp north turn. During occluding tornado situations this is always a danger. The teams were not aware nor prepared for this sudden sharp northeast turn and they couldn’t escape it.

Trump Will Run as a Republican

He’s gonna go down as the worst president in the history of this country

Allen West Talks Possible Obama Impeachment

Former Florida Congressman Allen West (R) said he “absolutely” agrees that all options — including impeachment — should be up for consideration for President Barack Obama.

Severe weather hits Midwest again !

A storm chasers view....

David Stottlemyre was inside an oil field repair shop in El Reno, Oklahoma, when he saw a tornado "looking at us dead in the eye." 

The lifelong Oklahoman said he and two coworkers stayed inside as the building took a direct hit -- the roof collapsed and the structure blew apart. Though the three survived unscathed, "We're all pretty shook up," the oil field mechanic told CNN. "Surreal -- really no other way to explain it."

Friday evening's twisters killed at least nine people and injured scores more in Oklahoma, the office of the city's medical examiner said. The dead included two children and seven adults. Five victims had not been identified.

Canadian County Undersheriff Chris West said at least seven of the deaths occurred while the victims were inside vehicles.

The storms came less than two weeks after a monstrous tornado made rubble of the town of Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City.

"There's just no rest," said city spokeswoman Kristy Yager.
In all, 17 tornadoes were reported in the Midwest. The number was expected to change when officials conduct storm surveys, said Kurt Van Speybroeck, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Mother Nature has been kind to Florida's coastline lately

Strong waves crash around coastal houses in Key West, Florida, as Hurricane Ike passes to the south in this September 9, 2008 file photo. 

Mother Nature has been kind to Florida's coastline lately with a record run of seven years without a hurricane making landfall, allowing property insurers time to re-stock their depleted coffers.

As a result, when the new six-month hurricane season gets underway on Saturday, state insurance officials say the industry is ready to withstand a major storm. "We are better positioned today than I have seen in 10 years," Kevin McCarty, who heads the state's Office of Insurance Regulation, told Reuters.

Still, industry experts question whether Florida's state-controlled insurance system is able to cope in the long term.

"It's very fortunate for Florida that is has been able to build up its reserves, but the fact of the matter is that Florida is living on borrowed time," said Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute.

Just this week, Republican Governor Rick Scott signed a new property insurance law designed to reduce the state's exposure to hurricane losses by gradually steering homeowners towards private insurers. The new law also slashes the value of homes that the state-run Citizens Property Insurance can cover, down from $2 million to $700,000.

Because of its size and geographical position, with 1,200 miles of coastline on a peninsula sticking out into the warm waters where the Caribbean meets the Atlantic, Florida is a uniquely risky insurance market. Most of its insured residential and commercial property - 79 per cent - lies in coastal areas vulnerable to both wind damage and flooding.

Coastal property is valued at just under $3 trillion, according to a report due to be released next week by AIR Worldwide, a global leader in catastrophe risk modeling. Florida accounts for almost 30 percent of the nation's entire $10 trillion coastal exposure, AIR found.

Only New York has as much exposure, with $3 trillion in coastal property, and that compares to $239 billion in South Carolina and $107 billion in Georgia.

Florida is peculiar in other ways too. Unlike most other states where private companies dominate the market, Florida's insurance system is tightly controlled by the state, and requires all companies to pay into a state-run Hurricane Catastrophe Fund which acts as a safety net. Louisiana has a similar system for its state property insurer, also called Citizens, and California has its own safety net for earthquakes.

Florida's private insurance industry was ravaged in 1992 by Hurricane Andrew, which caused $26 billion in damages in Miami-Dade county. The state was badly hit again when a series of storms hit south Florida in 2004 and 2005.

Designed as a state-run insurer of last resort, Citizens has been left holding more than 1.3 million policies, making it the state's largest property insurer, with about 21 percent of the entire residential market. Due to the lack of recent storms, Citizens has managed to build up a cash surplus of about $6.6 billion, plus another $1.8 billion in reinsurance.

Citizens has tried to manage its exposure by issuing catastrophe bonds, which allow insurance companies to transfer risk to private investors. Buyers of so-called cat bonds receive enhanced returns in exchange for the risk that their principal could be wiped out in the event of disasters of a certain kind or size.

By the end of this year cat bonds will provide well over $10 billion in coverage to the south-east and Florida, according to John Seo, co-founder at cat bond investor Fermat Capital Management.

Still, critics say the state's consumer-wary politicians have allowed Citizens to charge below-market rates, leaving the insurer under-funded. They note that its total insured exposure has more than doubled since 2005, and it faces a potential $21 billion payout in the event of a once in a 100 years storm.

"With the risk transfer we have really narrowed the gap. We haven't closed the gap but we have narrowed the gap significantly," Sharon Binnun, Citizens' chief financial officer, told Reuters.

VULNERABLE TO A ONE-TWO PUNCH

Property insurance typically does not cover hurricane-related flood damage, which has to be insured separately. Private insurers don't cover many coastal homes in Florida which are insured instead by the federal flood insurance program.

The state's 'Cat Fund', created to back up private insurers after Andrew, has also managed to build a large surplus, amassing almost $12 billion to pay potential claims in the event of a major storm, according to its director, Jack Nicholson.

Although he denied it was under-funded, Nicholson said the fund was vulnerable to volatility in the municipal bond market, which it relies on to meet a $17 billion obligation mandated by the state.

A.M. Best, the main credit ratings agency for the insurance industry, said Friday it recognized the Cat Fund's position had improved of late.

The recent run of weather luck may have saved the state from bankruptcy, said Hartwig of the Insurance Information Institute, noting that if a major storm had hit Florida in the midst of the recession, the state would likely have been turned away by the bond market.

Nicholson worries that unless the Cat Fund increases its cash reserve, one big storm could leave it empty, exposing insurers to the next big storm.

If it has to borrow money to meet claims, the Fund is required to place an "assessment" on almost all insurance policies in the state, from homes to cars, no matter if they live in inland areas not prone to hurricanes. Such assessments are decried by some as a tax that provides "welfare" for wealthy beachfront homeowners. Policy holders are still paying off an assessment from the last hurricane, Wilma in 2005.

The bill signed by Governor Scott on Wednesday aims to steer homeowners away from Citizens and cap the value of homes that can be insured by the state-run company. The legislature rejected a tougher bill that would have accelerated that process by charging new Citizens enrollees much higher premiums.

"Citizens has gotten way too big...There was no way in a significant hurricane that Citizens was going to be able to pay," Scott told emergency officials in Miami on Thursday.