🌀 Axios PM: Storm "explosively intensifies"

⚾️ Plus: Big baseball night | Monday, October 07, 2024

Open in app View in browser   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Oct 07, 2024 Hello, Monday! Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 444 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing.     1 big thing: Hurricane Milton takes aim at Tampa   Data: NOAA. Map: Axios Visuals Hurricane Milton — now a Category 5 storm, with winds clocked at 175 mph — is bearing down on Tampa Bay and the rest of Florida's Gulf Coast. State and federal disaster-response agencies are still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene as Milton intensifies "explosively." ⛈️ The big picture: Milton poses a potential worst-case scenario for flooding in highly populated portions of Florida's west coast, Axios' Sommer Brugal and Andrew Freedman write. Tampa has long been considered one of the most vulnerable cities in the U.S. It has escaped with several near misses — including Helene — but Milton could be the first major hurricane in more than a century to hit the region directly. Via X ✈️ The latest: Tampa's airport is closing tomorrow morning. The Orlando airport will close Wednesday morning. Cars backed up for miles and many gas stations ran out of gas as people evacuated the Fort Myers area. Go deeper.     2. 📰 Deadliest conflict for journalists in decades   Data: Committee to Protect Journalists. Chart: Thomas Oide/Axios At least 114 journalists and 14 media workers have been killed since the Israel-Hamas war began last October, making it one of the deadliest conflicts for journalists in the past 30 years, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer reports. 🔎 Zoom in: The vast majority of journalists killed in the conflict were Palestinian, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Fourteen female journalists have been killed in the conflict, including Wafaa Abu Dabaan, a 28-year-old Palestinian who was five months pregnant when an Israeli airstrike killed her and her husband. 🌎 Context: CPJ reports a total of 16 journalists and media workers have been killed in two years of the Russia-Ukraine war. Go deeper.     3. Catch me up   Photo: Steven Senne/AP 🧬 Molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun — shown above taking congratulatory calls today at his home in Newton, Mass. — won the Nobel Prize for physiology for his discovery of microRNA. He shared the award with another researcher, Victor Ambros. STAT explains microRNA. ⚖️ Georgia's Supreme Court reinstated the state's ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, reversing a lower court that had struck it down. Go deeper. 📚 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson named several new members of the city's school board, after the entire board simultaneously quit last week amid an escalating fight between the mayor and the school district's CEO. Go deeper.     4. ⚾️ 1 for the road   Photo: Hunter Martin/Getty Images Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run against the N.Y. Mets in an instant-classic game last night that featured five lead changes and six home runs. The series is now tied 1-1. Keep reading.   📬 Please invite your friends to join PM. Are you a fan of this email format? Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. Advertise with us. Axios, PO Box 101060, Arlington VA 22201   You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from Axios. To stop receiving this newsletter, unsubscribe or manage your email preferences.   Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get Axios in your inbox.   Follow Axios on social media: