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https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/more-blood-pressure-heart-failure-medications-added-to-fda-recall/71-583289221
Aug. 12, 2018
More companies have been added to an FDA recall of blood pressure medicine containing a possible carcinogen.
An impurity called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) was found in the drugs. NDMA is classified as a probable human carcinogen based on lab tests.
See the following link for the expanded list:
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/UCM615703.pdf


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/counter-protesters-far-outnumber-white-nationalists-arriving-washington-n900016
Aug. 12, 2018
The hundreds of counter-protesters who congregated in Lafayette Park on Sunday, just steps away from the White House, dwarfed the fewer than 20 people who showed up for the second Unite the Right rally, a gathering aimed to bring together multiple white nationalist organizations. In total thousands took to the streets to protest the group's presence and purpose.


https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-201807
The July 2018 contiguous U.S. temperature was 75.5°F, 1.9°F above the 20th century average. This tied with 1998 as the 11th warmest July on record. Much-above-average temperatures stretched across the West, Northeast and parts of the South. California had its hottest July and hottest month on record at 79.7°F, surpassing the previous record set in 1931.
For the year-to-date, the national temperature was 53.1°F, 1.9°F above average, also the 11th warmest on record. Of note, the last three month-period, May through July, ranked as the warmest such period on record with a national temperature of 70.9°F, 3.4°F above average. This surpassed the previous record of 70.6°F in 1934.
The historic warmth during the month transformed the normally cool ocean temperatures off the San Diego coast to ostensibly bath water in early August. The water temperature at Scripps Pier has broken its previous record high mark set in July 1931 three times. On Wednesday, a temperature of 79.2 degrees was registered.


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/12/more-than-100-large-wildfires-in-us-as-new-blazes-erupt.html
Aug. 12, 2018
Six large new wildfires erupted in the United States, pushing the number of major active blazes nationwide to over 100, with more expected to break out sparked by lightning strikes on bone-dry terrain, authorities said on Saturday.
More than 30,000 personnel, including firefighters from across the United States and nearly 140 from Australia and New Zealand, were battling the blazes that have consumed more than 1.6 million acres (648,000 hectares), according to the National Interagency Coordination Center.
"We are expecting that there will be more fire-starts today," Jeremy Grams, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma, said in an interview on Saturday.
The fires have scorched states from Washington to New Mexico, with California among the hardest hit.
The 190,873-acre (77,243-hectare) Carr Fire has destroyed nearly 1,100 homes.
About 100 miles (160 km) southwest of the Carr Fire, about 3,500 firefighters are battling the Mendocino Complex Fire, which has burned 328,226 acres (132,828 hectares) as of Saturday and was the largest fire on record in California.