EDM Tuesday Briefing: Portland Floods, FBI Theory on San Bernardino, Air France Flight Diverted

Emergency and disaster management Tuesday Briefing for December 8, 2015: Heavy rains caused flooding in Portland and other areas in the Pacific Northwest, the FBI found that both San Bernardino shooters were long radicalized, and an Air France flight to Paris received an anonymous threat.

1. The [link url=”http://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/2015/12/07/hours-steady-rain-create-chaotic-commute/76925970/” title=”wettest day in Portland history“] caused landslides and floods yesterday. Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 2 pm Monday [link url=”http://www.oregonlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2015/12/monday_shatters_24-hour_rainfa.html” title=”totaled 3.32 inches“], easily besting the record of 2.59 inches for a 24-hour period set in 1977.
2. The National Weather Service issued a [link url=”http://www.king5.com/story/weather/2015/12/07/flood-watch-across-western-washington-storms-move/76914346/” title=”Flood Watch for northwest Oregon and southwest Washington“] through Wednesday afternoon. In Washington, the Cascade and Olympic Mountain Ranges [link url=”http://mynorthwest.com/11/2865706/Days-of-heavy-rain-expected-in-Western-Washington” title=”could get up to a foot of rain“] over the next couple of days, [link url=”http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/1-2-3-punch-of-storms-to-bring-drenching-rain-risk-of-floods-landslides/” title=”bringing the risk of floods and landslides“] to Washington, as well.

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3. FBI investigators said that each of the two suspected shooters in the recent San Bernardino attack [link url=”http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us/fbi-says-san-bernardino-assailants-were-radicalized.html” title=”were long radicalized“]. The FBI is moving away from earlier theories that wife Tashfeen Malik may have led the attack and influenced husband Syed Rizwan Farook, as authorities now believe that both “were radicalized and have been for quite some time.”
4. A San Francisco to Paris Air France flight received an unspecified anonymous threat and was [link url=”http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/08/air-france-plane-diverted-threat/76967364/” title=”diverted to Montreal“]. This incident comes after [link url=”http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/17/world/air-france-flight-diverted/” title=”two Air France flights to Paris had to be diverted last month“] due to bomb threats.

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5. The Supreme Court announced that it [link url=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-wont-review-laws-banning-so-called-assault-weapons/2015/12/07/b562678e-96fb-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html” title=”won’t review laws banning assault weapons“], declining to rule on bans of high-capacity assault weapons that are currently in place in all or part of eight states. Gun rights advocates are challenging these bans, which they say [link url=”http://www.npr.org/2015/12/07/458815934/rejecting-appeal-on-assault-ban-supreme-court-again-stays-out-of-gun-policy” title=”violate the Second Amendment’s guarantee of a right to bear arms“].
6. Prosecutors released another [link url=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ronald-johnson-shooting-video_5665bc58e4b08e945ff01fd8″ title=”dashcam video of a fatal Chicago Police shooting“] yesterday. In October 2014, a Chicago officer shot and killed Ronald Johnson. Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announced that [link url=”http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nation-world/article48521775.html” title=”the officer will not be charged in the shooting“].
7. The [link url=”http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/US-Attorney-General-announces-police-probe-360850681.html” title=”U.S. Attorney General announced a police probe in Chicago“] — a federal civil rights investigation of the police department — in the aftermath of the [link url=”https://amuedge.com/ripple-effects-of-the-release-of-the-laquan-mcdonald-shooting-video/” title=”release of the Laquan McDonald shooting video“]. The shootings of Johnson and McDonald occurred just eight days apart in October 2014.
8. A recent report from Newsday detailed how [link url=”http://www.newsday.com/business/thousands-of-homes-damaged-by-sandy-remain-uninsured-1.11195331″ title=”thousands of homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 remain uninsured“]. According to FEMA, 26,500 households were not insured when Sandy hit.
9. Presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he wants to [link url=”http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-immigration/” title=”ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.“], a statement that caused a flurry of response from politicians across the country.
10. [link url=”http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philadelphia-mosque-idUSKBN0TR0QU20151208#Br2B6jeC9H5tdto6.97″ title=”A pig’s head was reportedly thrown at a Philadelphia mosque“] on Sunday night, an act that Mayor Jim Kenney called an act of bigotry. Recently, President Barack Obama [link url=”http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/07/obama-condemned-islamophobia-republicans-should” title=”condemned Islamophobia in America“], pointing out that that Islamic extremists are a “tiny fraction” of Muslims worldwide.