Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry high pressure continues over our region through the weekend. Expect a widespread freeze tonight with diminishing wind and clear skies. Dry conditions continue and temperatures warm again from Friday through the weekend.
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Today, November 1, 2023 at approximately 2:26pm, FPD responded with Franklin Fire - Rescue and Macon County EMS to United Community Bank for a medical call. Two bank employees began having ill symptoms after handling the same cash deposit which is believed to have had an unknown substance on the currency. The employees were treated at the scene, and are fine. The bank was evacuated, and an investigation was started to find the source of the unknown substance that caused the temporary sickness. The investigation led to a secondary location at a residence in Franklin. Law Enforcement Officers reported a strong chemical odor as they approached the home to investigate.
Both locations were thoroughly checked by FFR, and a North Carolina Department of Public Safety Regional Response Team (HazMat Team). The findings were inconclusive. FPD and FFR was assisted by the Macon County - NC Sheriff's Office and the FBI.
We have no reason to believe there are any other safety concerns at this bank, or other banking institutions in the area.
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Local Weather
General Forecast Through Saturday Night
Franklin Area
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 50s. Calm winds.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the southeast.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around freezing. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid-to-upper 40s. Light and variable winds.
Tonight
Clear, with lows in the upper 20s. Winds out of the southeast.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds increasing to come out of the northwest around 5 mph before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 60.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
Sunny, with highs in the mid 50s. Light winds out of the south.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around 30. Winds out of the southeast around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph becoming calm before midnight.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs near 70.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
Nantahala Area
Today
Sunny, with highs near 50. Calm winds.
Tonight
Clear, with lows around 30. Calm winds.
Friday
Sunny, with highs in the upper 50s. Calm winds in the morning increasing to come out of the southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night
Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s. Light winds out of the southeast.
Saturday
Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s.
Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with lows around 40.
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Hazards and Tropical Weather
Hazardous weather is not expected today. Since yesterday's hard freeze ended the growing season, there will be no more freeze watcheds or warnings issued until next spring.
News Briefing ---STATE AND LOCAL--- • Mission Health under scrutiny: Community voices concerns, physicians send mixed messages [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• Cash deposit at Franklin bank caused temporary sickness, substance undetermined [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• NC judges give Cooper partial victory over legislative Republicans in separation of powers court case [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• State's highest court considers future of Vance Monument [BPR]
• Police shooting case could test limits of sovereign immunity [Smoky Mountain News]
• Buncombe County issues burn ban amid windy and dry conditions [Asheville Citizen-Times]
---NATIONAL---
News Wrap: Donald Trump Jr. testifies in civil case against family's real estate business | CNN
FOMC Press Conference, November 1, 2023 | Federal Reserve
• Fed Extends Pause on Rate Hikes but Keeps Door Open to Moving Higher [WSJ (video/audio)] [WSJ (text archive)]
• Fed holds rates steady, upgrades assessment of economic growth [Smoky Mountain News]
• GOP senators push back but can’t get past Tuberville on military blockade [Politico]
• Justices weigh rules for when public officials can block critics on social media [SCOTUSblog]
• Bobby Knight, Basketball Coach Known for Trophies and Tantrums, Dies at 83 [New York Times]
• Prize of Texas: Rangers capture franchise’s first World Series title [Washington Post]
International News Headlines
• Democracy 'in trouble' across the world: report [DW News]
• Japan begins third release of water from Fukushima plant [France 24]
• Day of the Dead: 'It's an offering to remember my mum' [BBC News]
• Germany’s president apologises for killings in Tanzania under colonial rule [Al Jazeera]
• Uganda denounces Washington's exclusion from trade agreement [Africa News]
• China cements party control over finance, clamping down on risk but making investors sweat [South China Morning Post]
Washington Today (11-1-23): Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged for 2nd meeting in a row | C-SPAN
Global National: Nov. 1, 2023 | Desperation grows in Gaza as Rafah crossing temporarily opens
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Nov. 1, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Nov. `1 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (November 1, 2023)
---COVID--- • Health misinformation and lack of confidence in vaccines continue to grow, years after the Covid-19 pandemic, survey shows [CNN]
• The long-term health outcomes, pathophysiological mechanisms and multidisciplinary management of long COVID [nature: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy]
• Jailed former Malaysian PM Najib in hospital with COVID-19 [Reuters 9via Yahoo News)]
• TWiV 1056: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]
• TWiV 1057: CMV-based HIV vaccine with Klaus Früh [Microbe TV]
Science and Technology • The Sky This Week from October 27 to November 3: See the dark side of space [Astronomy Magazine]
• This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 27 – November 5 [Sky and Telescope Magazine]
Biden's AI Executive Order | TWiT TV
• X won’t pay creators for tweets that get fact checked with community notes [engadget]
• Strange blobs in Earth’s mantle are relics of a massive collision [nature]
• Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study [New Atlas]
• Brain health in over 50s deteriorated more rapidly during the pandemic [Eureka Alert! 9American Association for the Advancement of Science)]
• YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet [404 Media]
• High mobile phone use may impact sperm count, study says [CNN]
---SCIENCE VIDEOS--- The Level1 Show November 1 2023: Blood for the Blood Cooler | Level1 Techs
Will Bungie Bounce Back? - DTNS 4637 | Daily Tech News Show
Ancient Earth: Humans | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
You Don't Understand The Fermi Paradox | Fraser Cain
The Coming Psychological Black Death | WhatIfAltHist
This Week in Linux #239 : Plasma 6, Raspberry Pi 5, Ubuntu Summit 2023, /e/OS, Lutris & more Linux news | Michael Tunnell
Coder 542 and 543: Coder Double Stream | Jupiter Broadcasting
Special Section: The Hamas-Israel War of 2023
• Iran Updates (Refocused on the Israel-Hamas War), November 1, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
🔴 (discretion) Israeli Ground Assault Continues, Sevastopol Cruises | Combat Footage Show
• IDF continues Gaza ground operation, Israel mourns fallen soldiers [Jerusalem Post]
• Israel-Hamas war liveblog: 195 killed, 120 missing in strikes on Gaza’s Jabalia [Al Jazeera]
• Gaza says Israel’s strikes on refugee camp kill more than 195 people [Al Arabiya News]
• Israel Gaza: Joe Biden calls for 'pause' in conflict [BBC News]
• What you need to know: The Qassam Brigades [DW News]
• Timofey Bordachev: The global majority is shocked by the hypocrisy of the West in the Israel-Palestine conflict [Russia Today]
ukraine • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 617 [Al Jazeera]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 1, 2023 [Institute for the Understanding of War]
• Ukraine updates: Putin will succeed if we halt aid, US says [DW News]
• Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief reveals his strategy to defeat Russia [Euromaidan]
• Moldovan president accuses Russia of voter manipulation [TVP World]
• (video) How Russia Is Restructuring Wagner Group’s Africa Operations [Wall Street Journal]
• Ukraine reports most extensive Russian shelling of its settlements so far this year [France 24]
• McConnell goes all out as Ukraine fight fractures GOP [Politico]
Pro-Russian News Sources
• ‘Ukraine is losing’ – Russian defense minister [Russia Today]
• The West wants to pull Putin's leg again [Pravda]
• Kiev lacks both courage, wisdom to settle conflict with Russia — diplomat [TASS]
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On This Day
November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 59 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.[3]
1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1882 – The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.
1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1912 – Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
1936 – The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1951 – Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.
1956 – Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
1956 – Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1982 – Channel 4 starts broadcasting.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1986 – Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1988 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.
1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
1997 – Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
1999 – Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
2000 – Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
2008 – Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.
2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
2022 – A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.
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Published at 5:00am on Thursday, November 02, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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