DEMOCRATS NEED A MIRACLE

President Joe Biden finally did what he should have before the primaries. He dropped out of the race for the presidency, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. I think Michelle Obama has a better chance against Donald Trump, but Harris deserves this chance. Biden will remain president until his term ends on 20January2025. Republicans reacted that this deficient human should now resign, leaving House Speaker Mike Johnson next in the line of succession. Just maybe this is the beginning of what the Democrats needed, a miracle, to not get blown out by Trump and other Republican candidates on November 5.

Kamala Harris will be the first Black/Asian woman to run at the top of any major ticket. She is 59 years old.

Harris was born in Oakland, California in 1964.
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, came from India as a 19-year old graduate student in 1958, earning a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in nutrition and endocrinology in 1964.
Her father, Donald Harris, is of Afro-Jamaican ancestry who came to the U.S. from British Jamaica in 1961. He got a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1966 and is now a Professor of Economics emeritus at Stanford University.

The family has moved around the U.S., working for various universities. She has a younger sister, Maya, who now also is a lawyer and MSNBC political analyst. Parents divorced when Kamala was 7-years old.
She remained with her mother and had more of a Hindu type upbringing, but became a Baptist.

Graduated from Howard University in 1986 and the University of California's Hastings College of Law in 1989.
She became a very successful prosecutor in San Francisco, with gun control being one of her victories.
She previously was a Senator from California.

Dated Speaker of the California Assembly Willie Brown in the 1990s and also had a relationship with talk show host Montel Williams. Met attorney Doug Emhoff on a blind date. Got married in 2014. They are said to have a net worth of $5.8 million.

Has written two non-fiction books and a children's book. This is her 2019 autobiography.

As this is a Sunday, I'll give equal time to Republican Donald Trump. But I'll focus on Barron Trump, who is now 6 feet 8 inches tall. Will he be going to New York University??? In 30 minutes, here are seventeen bits of info about him. Donald Trump is 6'3". Other sons Jr. is 6'1" and Eric 6'4", while Ivanka is 5'9".

Tropical Storm Gaemi will become a typhoon tomorrow, strengthen into a Category 2 and get awfully close to Taipei on Wednesday. Projected to make landfall over Ningde, China by Friday as a typhoon.

Gaemi is the larger storm above. The smaller on is Tropical Storm Prapiroon, now over Hainan, but could still strengthen before making landfall late tomorrow near the Vietnam/China border. If you're on a cruise, Prapiroon is now up to 60 MPH.

A NEXT COVID SUBVARIANT?

By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases. Very few are aware that a new one, BA.4.6, is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples . However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6. Here is a reference as to what this means. A series of two injections is involved. Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicio...

Part 3: OUR NEXT AROUND THE WORLD ODYSSEY

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics. Thursday was my pandemic day for years. Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments. All these subvariants derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms. One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell. From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant, BA.2.86, also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to lose hair for...

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

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