Here is the news and weather briefing for Macon County.
GENERAL OUTLOOK
A cold front arrives from the northwest today with rain chances increasing throughout the weekend. Dry, but seasonable weather returns for the early part of next week. Cooler temperatures and possible rain chances return for the middle of next week.
A map of the currently active fires follows the three day forecast in the Hazards section.
• Collett Ridge Fire - 4,769 acres and 5% contained (Cherokee and Clay Counties)
• Mill Mountain Fire - 570 acres 0% contained (Oconee County)
• East Fork Fire - 310 acres and 80% contained (Jackson County)
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Burn ban issued for 14 counties in Western North Carolina due to hazardous forest fire conditions Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A chance of showers before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain between 1pm and 3pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain between 9pm and 11pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. North northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Veterans Day
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 7am. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 57. Calm wind becoming east southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 50 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. East wind 3 to 5 mph. Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain after 1pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 60. West wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of rain. Patchy fog before 4am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 44. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Veterans Day
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. East southeast wind around 6 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. East wind 5 to 7 mph.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A chance of showers, mainly before noon, then a slight chance of rain after 1pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of rain before 5am. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Light north wind.
Veterans Day
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. Light and variable wind. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. East southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 11am. Patchy fog between 7am and 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Light and variable wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the morning. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. West northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Veterans Day
A 20 percent chance of rain after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Light north northeast wind.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Light east southeast wind.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.
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Hazards
There are multiple hazardous conditions that have the potential to impact Macon County residents. There is an Air Quality Alert for smoke from nearby wildires and a burn ban is now in effect due to dry conditions and low humidity. Anyone who was in Macon County seven years ago during the 2016 wildfires knows what can happen if people ignore the burn ban. [LINK TO BURN BAN INFO]
Air Quality Alert Message
Relayed by National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
1219 AM EST Fri Nov 10 2023
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT...
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality in Raleigh NC has issued a Code Red Air Quality Action Day for Fine Particulates for elevations below 4000 feet in Macon County, until midnight EST tonight.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality in Raleigh NC has issued a Code Red Air Quality Action Day for Fine Particulates for elevations below 4000 feet in Macon County, until midnight EST tonight.
An Air Quality Action Day means that Fine Particulates concentrations within the region may approach or exceed unhealthy standards. For additional information, please visit the North Carolina Division of Air Quality Web site at https://airquality.climate.ncsu.edu/.
Record Weather Events for November 10th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1975
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands in 1960
Greatest Rainfall 2.55 inches in Highlands in 1996
Greatest Snowfall 4.0 inches in Highlands in 1968
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of November Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 11-04-2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on 11-29-1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on 11-28-1922
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Hilda)
Record Weather Events for November 10th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 86°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1924
Lowest Temperature 7°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1995
Greatest Rainfall 4.28 inches in Marion, Mcdowell County in 1962
Greatest Snowfall 4.0 inches in Asheville, Buncombe County in 1968
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of November Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 89°F in High Point, Guilford County on 11-04-1974
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County on 11-15-1969
Greatest Rainfall 9.70 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 11-19-2003
Greatest Snowfall 13.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 11-01-2014
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Macon Calendar
MidDay Music, Saturdays 11a to 1pm at The Frog
573 E Main St., Franklin, NC ; frog28734@gmail.com; littletennessee.org
November 11th--BARRY ROMA—Classic love songs by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Johnny Mathis & more. You’ll love hearing Barry and his beautiful, baritone voice. You’ll swear you’re back on that date, back decades ago!
November 18th—Robby Greenburg’s Halfback Showcase—Several very talented musicians that have made their mark across the nation and finally have settled into the beautiful mountains of Western NC.
Frog Quarters is normally open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
Carolina drought and wild fires [Ep. 470] | Carolina Weather Group
Collette Ridge Fire Helicopter 1 | R. Trevis Hicks
• NC Auditor Beth Wood to resign following new charge over use of state-owned vehicles [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• SBI finishes probe into Cherokee SWAT shooting, case now under special prosecutor review [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC_]
• Severe drought conditions impact 31 counties in North Carolina [Macon Media]
• WNC fires update: Collett Ridge spreads to 6.8 square miles, DuPont close to contained [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• WCU prof awarded prestigious Fullbright fellowship [Smoky Mountain News]
• Protestors gather downtown; Asheville and Buncombe governments close facilities [BPR]
---NATIONAL---
Why is Joe Manchin retiring from the Senate? | CBS News
Former top Maryland prosecutor found guilty in perjury case | NBC News
• Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin Won’t Run for Re-Election in West Virginia [Wall Street Journal]
• Powell says Fed is ‘not confident’ it has done enough to bring inflation down [CNBC]
• JPMorgan's $290 million settlement with Epstein accusers approved by US judge [Reuters]
• IRS announces new income tax brackets for 2024 [NBC News]
• Steve Bannon challenges contempt of Congress conviction before skeptical DC Circuit [Courthouse News Service]
Washington Today (11-9-23): Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says he is not running for reelection in 2024 | C-SPAN
Global National: Nov. 9, 2023 | Thousands in Gaza flee south as essential supplies dwindle
ABC World News Tonight Full Broadcast - Nov. 9, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Nov. 9 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (November 9, 2023)
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On This Day
November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 51 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.
1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
1599 – Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund and the related peasant revolt known as the Cudgel War.
1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
1674 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1939 – Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1946 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.
1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1970 – Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
1971 – A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.
1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.
1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
1985 – A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.
1989 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
1989 – Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
2002 – Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
2019 – President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.
2020 – Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, November 10, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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Burn ban issued for 14 counties in Western North Carolina due to hazardous forest fire conditions Local Weather
General Forecast Through Sunday Night
Franklin Area
Today
A chance of showers before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain between 1pm and 3pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 9am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 65. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A slight chance of rain between 9pm and 11pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. North northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Veterans Day
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after 7am. Patchy fog before 11am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 57. Calm wind becoming east southeast around 5 mph in the afternoon. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 50 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. East wind 3 to 5 mph. Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.
`Highlands Plateau
Today
A chance of showers before 1pm, then a slight chance of rain after 1pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 60. West wind 5 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of rain. Patchy fog before 4am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 44. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Veterans Day
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. East southeast wind around 6 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. East wind 5 to 7 mph.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 37.
Otto and South Central Macon County
Today
A chance of showers, mainly before noon, then a slight chance of rain after 1pm. Patchy fog between 8am and 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 66. Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
A 20 percent chance of rain before 5am. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 46. Light north wind.
Veterans Day
A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 2pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. Light and variable wind. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. East southeast wind 3 to 5 mph.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 54.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.
Nantahala Area
Today
A 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 11am. Patchy fog between 7am and 10am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Light and variable wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the morning. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight
Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. West northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Veterans Day
A 20 percent chance of rain after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 55. Light north northeast wind.
Saturday Night
A 40 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Light east southeast wind.
Sunday
A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38.
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Hazards
There are multiple hazardous conditions that have the potential to impact Macon County residents. There is an Air Quality Alert for smoke from nearby wildires and a burn ban is now in effect due to dry conditions and low humidity. Anyone who was in Macon County seven years ago during the 2016 wildfires knows what can happen if people ignore the burn ban. [LINK TO BURN BAN INFO]
Air Quality Alert Message
Relayed by National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
1219 AM EST Fri Nov 10 2023
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT...
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality in Raleigh NC has issued a Code Red Air Quality Action Day for Fine Particulates for elevations below 4000 feet in Macon County, until midnight EST tonight.
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality in Raleigh NC has issued a Code Red Air Quality Action Day for Fine Particulates for elevations below 4000 feet in Macon County, until midnight EST tonight.
An Air Quality Action Day means that Fine Particulates concentrations within the region may approach or exceed unhealthy standards. For additional information, please visit the North Carolina Division of Air Quality Web site at https://airquality.climate.ncsu.edu/.
Record Weather Events for November 10th
Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2021)
Highest Temperature 78°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station in 1975
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands in 1960
Greatest Rainfall 2.55 inches in Highlands in 1996
Greatest Snowfall 4.0 inches in Highlands in 1968
Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of November Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 83°F at the Coweeta Experimental Station on 11-04-2003
Lowest Temperature -3°F in Highlands on 11-25-1950
Greatest Rainfall 4.69 inches in Highlands on 11-29-1914
Greatest Snowfall 6.0 inches in Highlands on 11-28-1922
(the excessive rainfall was due to the remnants of Hurricane Hilda)
Record Weather Events for November 10th in North Carolina
Highest Temperature 86°F in Chapel Hill, Orange County in 1924
Lowest Temperature 7°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 1995
Greatest Rainfall 4.28 inches in Marion, Mcdowell County in 1962
Greatest Snowfall 4.0 inches in Asheville, Buncombe County in 1968
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of November Data available from 1872
Highest Temperature 89°F in High Point, Guilford County on 11-04-1974
Lowest Temperature -12°F in Grandfather Mountain, Avery County on 11-15-1969
Greatest Rainfall 9.70 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 11-19-2003
Greatest Snowfall 13.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 11-01-2014
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Macon Calendar
MidDay Music, Saturdays 11a to 1pm at The Frog
573 E Main St., Franklin, NC ; frog28734@gmail.com; littletennessee.org
November 11th--BARRY ROMA—Classic love songs by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Johnny Mathis & more. You’ll love hearing Barry and his beautiful, baritone voice. You’ll swear you’re back on that date, back decades ago!
November 18th—Robby Greenburg’s Halfback Showcase—Several very talented musicians that have made their mark across the nation and finally have settled into the beautiful mountains of Western NC.
Frog Quarters is normally open 9a to 2p, Wednesdays thru Saturdays—beside the River Bridge. We are the Non-Profit supporting the Greenway with monies from sales from our Coffee & Gift Shop, Memberships and Donations. As always, thank you for your support!
News Briefing
---STATE AND LOCAL---
Carolina drought and wild fires [Ep. 470] | Carolina Weather Group
Collette Ridge Fire Helicopter 1 | R. Trevis Hicks
• NC Auditor Beth Wood to resign following new charge over use of state-owned vehicles [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• SBI finishes probe into Cherokee SWAT shooting, case now under special prosecutor review [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC_]
• Severe drought conditions impact 31 counties in North Carolina [Macon Media]
• WNC fires update: Collett Ridge spreads to 6.8 square miles, DuPont close to contained [Asheville Citizen-Times]
• WCU prof awarded prestigious Fullbright fellowship [Smoky Mountain News]
• Protestors gather downtown; Asheville and Buncombe governments close facilities [BPR]
---NATIONAL---
Why is Joe Manchin retiring from the Senate? | CBS News
Former top Maryland prosecutor found guilty in perjury case | NBC News
• Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin Won’t Run for Re-Election in West Virginia [Wall Street Journal]
• Powell says Fed is ‘not confident’ it has done enough to bring inflation down [CNBC]
• JPMorgan's $290 million settlement with Epstein accusers approved by US judge [Reuters]
• IRS announces new income tax brackets for 2024 [NBC News]
• Steve Bannon challenges contempt of Congress conviction before skeptical DC Circuit [Courthouse News Service]
Washington Today (11-9-23): Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says he is not running for reelection in 2024 | C-SPAN
Global National: Nov. 9, 2023 | Thousands in Gaza flee south as essential supplies dwindle
ABC World News Tonight Full Broadcast - Nov. 9, 2023
Nightly News Full Broadcast - Nov. 9 | NBC News
PBS NewsHour full episode, (November 9, 2023)
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On This Day
November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 51 days remain until the end of the year.
Historical Events
(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)
474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced by Li (now called "Xu Zhigao"), who becomes the first ruler of Southern Tang.
1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking the throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Władysław III of Poland (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Władysław III of Varna) are defeated by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Władysław is killed.
1599 – Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen noblemen who opposed Duke Charles are decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the War against Sigismund and the related peasant revolt known as the Cudgel War.
1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
1674 – Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette.
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1939 – Finnish author F. E. Sillanpää is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1946 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Peruvian Andes mountains kills at least 1,400 people.
1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1970 – Luna 17: uncrewed space mission launched by the Soviet Union.
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
1971 – A Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount crashes into the Indian Ocean near Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, killing all 69 people on board.
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.
1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.
1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
1985 – A Dassault Falcon 50 and a Piper PA-28 Cherokee collide in mid-air over Fairview, New Jersey, killing six people and injuring eight.
1989 – Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
1989 – Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
2002 – Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November.
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush, who announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor.
2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
2019 – President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.
2020 – Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a ceasefire agreement, ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, and prompting protests in Armenia.
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Published at 5:00am on Friday, November 10, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins
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