Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Number of women accusing Catholic priest of sexual abuse rises to 23
Number of women accusing Catholic priest of sexual abuse now 23
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Monday, October 9, 2017, 11:11 PM
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian (right) and Robert Hoatson (left) at a news conference held by Road to Recovery, a non-profit charity that assists victims of sexual abuse, outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on Friday Oct. 7, 2016. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Monday, October 9, 2017, 11:11 PM
The number of women alleging they were abused as children by a Catholic priest in Queens has swelled to 23, the Daily News has learned.
The accusers of former Rev. Adam Prochaski, ranging in age from 39 to 57, say the priest abused them in the Holy Cross parish in Maspeth between 1972 and 1994. The women were between 11 to 16 years old when the abuse allegedly took place.
Mitchell Garabedian, their lawyer, said he’s been contacted by women now living in six states, as well as Canada and London. When he first came forward with the allegations, there were 15 accusers.
“Many of them claim he abused them for years in the school, the church, the rectory, and some were abused in his car,” Garabedian said.
Syracuse-area priest raped child, videotaped abuse in 1980s: suit
“The police are investigating this matter. I have forwarded many of my clients’ names to them and I am informed they are interviewing my clients.”
Diocese of Brooklyn spokeswoman Carolyn Erstad said the growing number of accusers is “terrible.”
“Anytime there is news of another survivor, it is devastating to the diocese, the clergy, the faithful,” she said.
Nouriel Roubini's "Good, Bad, & Ugly" Scenarios For The Global Economy
by Tyler Durden
Oct 10, 2017 11:35 AM
Authored by Nouriel Roubini via Project Syndicate,
The International Monetary Fund, which in recent years had characterized global growth as the “new mediocre,” recently upgraded its World Economic Outlook. But is the IMF right to think that the recent growth spurt will continue over the next few years, or is a temporary cyclical upswing about to be subdued by new tail risks?
For the last few years, the global economy has been oscillating between periods of acceleration (when growth is positive and strengthening) and periods of deceleration (when growth is positive but weakening). After over a year of acceleration, is the world headed toward another slowdown, or will the recovery persist?
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The current upswing in growth and equity markets has been going strong since the summer of 2016. Despite a brief hiccup after the Brexit vote, the acceleration endured not just Donald Trump’s election as US president, but also the heightening policy uncertainty and geopolitical chaos that he has generated. In response to this apparent resilience, the International Monetary Fund, which in recent years had characterized global growth as the “new mediocre,” recently upgraded its World Economic Outlook.
Annual Council votes to continue dialogue on unity and reconciliation process
Document referred back to Unity in Mission Oversight Committee
Oct 09, 2017 | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States | Adventist Review Staff/Adventist News Network
Following nearly six hours of discussion and debate, a majority of members of the Executive Committee of the General Conference (GC) of Seventh-day Adventists voted during their Annual Council meeting to send a document entitled Procedures for Reconciliation and Adherence in Church Governance: Phase II, back to the Unity in Mission Oversight Committee for further review.
“The body has spoken,” said Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “It will go back to the committee. By God's grace, we will find a way of bringing something together again.”
The Scope of the Second Document
The document outlines the second phase of a process of reconciliation voted during last year’s Annual Council that sought to initiate standard procedures for maintaining church unity in matters involving non-compliance. Areas addressed include Fundamental Beliefs, voted actions or working policies of the church. Phase I, voted at the 2016 Annual Council, sought to provide a “pastoral” approach involving dialogue and a greater understanding among those involved.
The Phase II document emphasizes the Executive Committee’s commitment to “preserve the governance and organizational structure of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on all levels” in the context of “godly forbearance, Christian charity, and redemptive grace.” Introductory paragraphs also highlight a commitment on the part of the Executive Committee to “the continued forbearance and discussion process” which offers “additional time to find solutions.”
“I believe that the church has been forbearing,” said Wilson during the day’s discussion. “Our purpose is to redeem. But we have to respect what the world church votes.”
Monday, October 09, 2017
New California law allows jail time for using wrong gender pronoun, sponsor denies that would happen
Oct 09, 2017
Eddie Torr
Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on October 4, 2017 that would punish health care workers with fine, and potential jail time, if they decline to use a senior transgender patient’s “preferred name or pronouns.” The bill was sponsored by California State Sen. Scott Wiener. (AP )
California health care workers who “willfully and repeatedly” decline to use a senior transgender patient’s “preferred name or pronouns” could face punishments ranging from a fine to jail time under a newly signed law.
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the legislation last week.
The sponsor, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, has argued adamantly that nobody is going to be criminally prosecuted for using the wrong pronoun.
“It’s just more scare tactics by people who oppose all LGBT civil rights and protections,” he said in a statement last month.
But the language seemingly allows for the possibility, however remote.
The bill itself is aimed at protecting transgender and other LGBT individuals in hospitals, retirement homes and assisted living facilities. The bill would ensure those facilities accommodate transgender people and their needs, including letting them decide which gender-specific bathroom they prefer to use.
“It shall be unlawful for a long-term care facility or facility staff to take any of the following actions wholly or partially on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status,” the bill reads.
Among the unlawful actions are “willfully and repeatedly” failing to use a transgender person’s “preferred name or pronouns” after he or she is “clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns.”
The law states that if provisions are violated, the violator could be punished by a fine “not to exceed one thousand dollars” or “by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year,” or both.
Wiener’s office noted that violations for residential care facilities under existing law rarely resulted in criminal charges, especially for minor violations. Criminal penalties are meant more for violations that expose a patient to risk of death or serious harm, his office said.
Wiener’s office noted that the law “does not create any new criminal provisions,” but rather creates “new rights within an existing structure.”
One opponent of the law, the California Family Council’s Greg Burt, slammed the measure when the bill was in its early stages.
“How can you believe in free speech, but think the government can compel people to use certain pronouns when talking to others?” he said to the California Assembly Judiciary Committee in August, according to CBN News.
Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.
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Mattis to Army: ‘Stand ready’ if North Korea diplomacy fails
By: Aaron Mehta 6 hours ago
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Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis speaks during the opening ceremony of the AUSA annual meeting at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on Monday. (Mike Morones)
America’s relationship with North Korea remains a diplomatic one, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Monday, but he urged members of the military to be prepared in case the situation breaks down.
Mattis also used his keynote speech at the annual AUSA conference in Washington, D.C., to thank allies who have stood with the U.S. through the ages.
“It is right now a diplomatically, economic-sanctions-buttressed effort to try and turn North Korea off of this path,” Mattis told the audience. “What does the future hold? Neither you nor I can say.”
Tensions with North Korea have ratcheted up since the start of the year, following a series of missile launches that culminated in a nuclear test on Sept. 3. Those tensions have been matched with rhetoric from President Donald Trump, who regularly issues provocative tweets and has taken to calling North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un “rocket man.”
There is a belief among experts that North Korea will attempt some kind of launch or detonation late Monday, timed around a local holiday. As of publication, weather reports show non-ideal conditions for a launch, which may delay whatever show of force is being considered from Pyongyang.
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Foreign Affairs Mag Advances Domestic Terrorism To Remove Alternative Media
by Tyler Durden
Oct 8, 2017 10:21 AM
Submitted by Mike Miles, journalist, writer and book author
Foreign Affairs Magazine Advances Domestic Terrorism To Remove Alternative Media
Is Foreign Affairs magazine advancing “domestic terrorism” because it could help remove alternative media, and even jail editors and writers or worse. The recent article is entitled “Should We Treat Domestic Terrorists the Way We Treat ISIS? What Works—and What Doesn't.” It begins as follows:
The mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday night has again raised fears about terrorism. There’s much we don’t yet know. The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed the attack, but the FBI claims that there is no international terrorism link. The attacker, Stephen Paddock, was 64 years old and white, fitting a stereotype of a right-wing terrorist more than a jihadist one. And he may just be a crazy nut. But regardless of Paddock’s particular pathology, the situation highlights how the United States treats similar forms of violence differently depending on the nature of the perpetrator.
Many commentators have already demanded that we make a case for domestic terrorism including such prominent Youtubers as Philip DeFranco. He runs a website of some six million and offers mildly libertarian commentary. But perhaps he doesn’t understand that he may eventually become a victim of what he wants to invoke. There are many such well-meaning people who quite possibly misunderstand what is happening
How about PropOrNot? This outfit lists around websites “friendly” to Russia and in total includes many of the major alternative websites in the country. Those who run the website say they believe these sites provide propaganda for Russia.
A recent reading of PropOrNot seems to reveal that the site may have reduced some of the finger-pointing. It says that it does not “censor.” However it continues to list websites nonetheless. The Washington Post drew information from PropOrNot long ago when it was trying to paint alternative websites as Russian sympathizers.
Satanist wins transfer of her abortion rights case to the Missouri Supreme Court
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By Max Londberg
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October 08, 2017 8:00 AM
A Missouri woman who is an adherent of the Satanic Temple won a victory in court last week in her quest to show that state abortion law violates her religious beliefs.
The Western District Court of Appeals ruled in her favor Tuesday, writing that her constitutional challenge — rare for its basis in religion — presented “a contested matter of right that involves fair doubt and reasonable room for disagreement.”
The woman, identified as Mary Doe in court documents, argued that her religion does not adhere to the idea that life begins at conception, and, because of that, the prerequisites for an abortion in Missouri are unconstitutionally violating her freedom of religion protected by the First Amendment.
The court ordered a transfer of the woman’s case to the Missouri Supreme Court.
The suit names Gov. Eric Greitens, Attorney General Josh Hawley and others as defendants.
McDonald's Just Started Selling a Burger That Might Signal the End of the World As We Know It
It's come to this.
By Chris Matyszczyk
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Now just imagine that brown stuff is soy-based.
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.
Please lie here on my purple chaise-longue and let's play word association.
When I say "McDonald's," what's the first word that comes into your head?
Beef.
Fries.
Quarter Pounder.
Big Mac.
Unhealthy.
Stop, stop.
I just asked for one word.
Still, my expert analysis tells me that there was one word that never entered your head.
Please let me tell you, then...no, wait, here's a glass of fine Napa Sauvignon Blanc.
Ready?
McDonald's just launched a Vegan Burger.
Breathe. Don't look down yet. (There's a picture of it there, but don't think about that now.)
The new vegan burger is imaginatively called the McVegan.
The patty is soy-based and the rest of it is, well, what you'd expect.
Now I know this is a little bit of a shock for you. An even greater shock, perhaps, than when McDonald's started experimenting with fresh beef in its Quarter Pounders.
OK, I think you're ready for the picture.
Look, if the very concept is too much for you, I'll try and give you some good news.
The McVegan is currently only available in Finland. And McDonald's hasn't given any indication that it's bringing it to the U.S.
I must warn you, however, that some people are excited at the prospect of the McVegan.
They're already yearning for it on Twitter.
Change is life's great inevitable.
You just have to adjust. Or make sure you never go to Seattle, where they're already craving it.
Another glass of Sauvignon Blanc, perhaps?
Published on: Oct 6, 2017
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65th Annual Red Mass 2017
OCTOBER 1, 2017
65th Annual Red Mass Supreme Court Justices attend the annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC.
Papal adviser: We can no longer ‘judge people’ based on moral norms
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Pope Francis meets with Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ.
Pete Baklinski
Fri Oct 6, 2017 - 4:04 pm EST
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 6, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Jesuit priest and papal confidant Father Anthony Spadaro said that Pope Francis holds that the Catholic Church can no longer set down general norms that apply to entire groups of people.
Spadaro, editor of the Italian magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, made the comment today at a conference at Boston College where liberal Cardinals met with dissident theologians to discuss strategies for implementing Pope Francis’ controversial teachings on marriage and family in dioceses across the United States.
The Jesuit priest told attendees that Amoris Laetitia, the Pope's 2016 teaching on marriage and family, recognizes that people living in "irregular" family situations, such as the divorced and remarried living in adultery, "can be living in God's grace, can love and can also grow in a life of grace."
Pete Baklinski
Fri Oct 6, 2017 - 4:04 pm EST
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 6, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Jesuit priest and papal confidant Father Anthony Spadaro said that Pope Francis holds that the Catholic Church can no longer set down general norms that apply to entire groups of people.
Spadaro, editor of the Italian magazine La Civiltà Cattolica, made the comment today at a conference at Boston College where liberal Cardinals met with dissident theologians to discuss strategies for implementing Pope Francis’ controversial teachings on marriage and family in dioceses across the United States.
The Jesuit priest told attendees that Amoris Laetitia, the Pope's 2016 teaching on marriage and family, recognizes that people living in "irregular" family situations, such as the divorced and remarried living in adultery, "can be living in God's grace, can love and can also grow in a life of grace."
Saturday, October 07, 2017
Polish Catholics pray at borders 'to save country'
07 October 2017 - 17H40
© AFP | Thousands of Polish Catholics held hands along the country's borders
KODE? (POLAND) (AFP) - Thousands of Polish Catholics formed human chains on the country's borders Saturday, begging God "to save Poland and the world" in an event many viewed as a spiritual weapon against the "Islamisation" of Europe.
Reciting "Rosary to the Borders", they called to be protected from the dangers facing them. The episcopate insisted that it was a purely religious initiative.
The goal was to have as many prayer points as possible along Poland's 3,511-kilometre (2,200-mile) border with Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia and the Baltic Sea.
Fishing boats joined the event on the sea, while kayaks and sailboats formed chains on Polish rivers, local media said.
During a mass, broadcast live by the ultra-Catholic Radio Maryja, Krakow archbishop Marek Jedraszewski called on believers to pray "for the other European nations to make them understand it is necessary to return to Christian roots so that Europe would remain Europe."
Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, head of the Polish Episcopal Conference, told the commercial radio station RMF FM that "the key objective of this manifestation is to pray for peace."
The date was not chosen at random. October 7 is when Catholics celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, marking the 1571 victory of Christianity over the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Lepanto.
A victory attributed to the recital of the rosary "that saved Europe from Islamisation", the Solo Dios Basta foundation, organising the event, said on its website.
Many Poles see Islam as a threat. The conservative government, which enjoys the backing of a sizeable portion of the population, refuses to welcome migrants to Poland, which has very few Muslims of its own.
Nationalist Catholic activist Marcin Dybowski told AFP before the event that "a religious war between Christianity and Islam is once again underway in Europe, just like in the past."
"Poland is in danger. We need to shield our families, our homes, our country from all kinds of threats, including the de-Christianisation of our society, which the EU's liberals want to impose on us," he said.
Twenty-two border dioceses have taken part in the event, with their faithful congregating in some 200 churches for a lecture and mass before travelling to the border to say the rosary.
The prayers were also said at the chapels of several international airports. Polish parishes abroad said they would join the event too.
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Anti-nuke movement awarded Nobel Prize
Credit: AP/MARTIAL TREZZINI
Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons attends a news conference Friday in Geneva. “We do not have to accept” the risk of nuclear war, she said in an interview.
Anti-nuke movement awarded Nobel Prize: BRUSSELS -- An international group dedicated to eliminating nuclear weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a recognition of efforts to avoid nuclear conflict at a time of heightened atomic menace.
With Prayers and Blessings, North American Church Moves to New Headquarters
The new headquarters of the North American Division in Columbia, Maryland. [Photo: North American Division]
Marcos Paseggi
Senior Correspondent, Adventist Review
October 2, 2017
Farewell luncheon, consecration service marked by gratitude, laughter, and tears.
By: Marcos Paseggi, Adventist Review
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North-America (NAD) officially moved its offices from the building it shared with the General Conference (GC) of the world church in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, to new headquarters located 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) north in Columbia, Maryland, on September 18. The move capped years of joint planning with world church leaders and months of building renovations and logistical considerations.
An August 29 farewell luncheon hosted by the GC Prayer Ministries team and a consecration worship service and reception organized by the GC leadership team on September 20 were marked by moments of gratitude, laughter, and tears. GC and NAD church leaders emphasized that the main reason for the move is to help the region focus even more intensely on mission.
“The move is to focus on mission, to advance mission in the NAD,” said world church president Ted N. C. Wilson in a special message delivered at the consecration service. “We thank [the NAD] for being part of the great world family of Seventh-day Adventists.”
One of the Youngest
For decades, as “divisions” or church regions were formed around the world to serve the local membership better, the Adventist Church in North America remained an almost indistinct part of the world church headquarters.
“The North American Division, unlike other divisions, has almost always been administered directly by the General Conference. In fact, for many years the two have been virtually indistinguishable,” explained Ministry magazine editor J. R. Spangler back in an April 1984 feature discussing the NAD’s new status at the time.
After some recommendations in the late 70’s, delegates to the 1980 General Conference Session in Dallas, Texas, United States voted to establish the North-American Division as a separate division of the world church, like the ones already in place in other parts of the world. For the first time in the late 80’s to early 90’s for instance, department directors were appointed to serve the needs and meet the specific challenges of the church membership in North-America. The NAD and the GC, however, kept sharing the same building.
“Those who have worked in the NAD realized decades ago that the time would come when the NAD would need more room to do their planning and to execute their plans,” said world church treasurer Juan Prestol Puesán in remarks to both GC and NAD employees at the consecration service. “We are glad this moment has come. [But] as you leave this place, remember this is your house too.”
Close Connections
Church leaders reminded attendees that the network of close connections between the world church and the church in North-America has been historically strong.
“Words do not adequately express the interconnections between the GC and the NAD,” said NAD president Dan Jackson in a live phone message during the farewell luncheon. Jackson, who was attending a board meeting in California and could not attend the luncheon in person, said he had words of thanks for the historical support of the world church to the NAD. “We have been greatly blessed along the years…For all the prayer support, the verbal support, the actual support the NAD has been given through the years, we praise God and we say, ‘Thank you.’”
As part of the transition, GC and NAD employees were also invited to leave farewell messages on a wall leading to the NAD offices section of the world church headquarters. Many messages poignantly emphasized how meaningful the relationship between the two organizations have been. Others had sincere words of appreciation for the time shared in the building. “We love you, and we will miss the fellowship,” wrote an employee. “Lots of good times! Lots of good memories!” wrote another.
General Conference officers present gifts to the NAD officers and their spouses at the recent consecration worship service. [Photo: Pieter Damsteegt]
The beauty that clothes the earth is (a) token of God’s Love
God saw that a Sabbath was essential for man, even in Paradise. He needed to lay aside his own interests and pursuits for one day of the seven, that he might more fully contemplate the works of God and meditate upon His power and goodness. He needed a Sabbath to remind him more vividly of God and to awaken gratitude because all that he enjoyed and possessed came from the beneficent hand of the Creator.
God designs that the Sabbath shall direct the minds of men to the contemplation of His created works. Nature speaks to their senses, declaring that there is a living God, the Creator, the Supreme Ruler of all. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.” Psalm 19:1, 2. The beauty that clothes the earth is token of God’s love. We may behold it in the everlasting hills, in the lofty trees, in the opening buds and the delicate flowers. All speak to us of God. The Sabbath, ever pointing to Him who made them all, bids men open the great book of nature and trace therein the wisdom, the power, and the love of the Creator.
Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 48.
Tropical Storm Nate Strengthens to Hurricane as It Approaches U.S.
Oct 7 2017, 7:49 am ET
by Phil Helsel
Some 18 million Gulf Coast residents were under threat as Hurricane Nate powered toward the mainland early Saturday, bringing with it rain and storm surges to parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida.
The hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, was "moving rapidly over the central Gulf of Mexico," the National Hurricane Center said at 5 a.m. ET Saturday. It was about 345 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, and was moving north-northwest at 22 mph, the hurricane center said.
Nate, which is blamed for deaths in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, could make landfall in the United States Saturday evening or Saturday night, the hurricane center said.
"Nate is at our doorstep, or will be soon," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said at a press conference Friday. A hurricane warning has been issued for the city, which is under a state of emergency.
18 million Gulf Coast residents brace for Hurricane Nate
New Orleans could see between 3 to 6 inches of rain in all, Landrieu said, but he said wind and storm surge posed the greatest risk.
Hurricane warnings were also in place for Lake Pontchartrain and a stretch of coast from Grand Isle, Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border.
Storm surge warnings were issued for the coastline between Morgan City, Louisiana and the Okaloosa-Walton county border in Florida, as well as for the northern and western shores of Lake Pontchartrain.
Coastal and southeastern Mississippi is predicted to see storm surges of up to 9 feet above ground level, as well as power outages and hurricane force winds, said Roy Lucksinger, principle meteorologist at the Weather Channel.
There is also a risk of isolated tornadoes in the area as the hurricane makes landfall, Lucksinger said.
States of emergency were declared in Alabama and Louisiana. "Alabamians, you must prepare and remain vigilant — this is serious business," Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said at a news conference Friday. She said the effects will begin to be felt as early as Saturday afternoon.
"By Saturday noon, you should be in your safe place," Ivey said.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Venetian Isles, Lake Catherine and Irish Bayou sections of New Orleans. Landrieu urged people to stay off the roads starting Saturday evening through Sunday. He said residents should stock up on supplies.
Eleven deaths have been reported in Nicaragua, 10 deaths were reported in Costa Rica, and one person was reported killed in Honduras, officials said.
Heavy machinery is used to remove mud from a highway that connects with the south of the country and collapsed by Storm Nate in Casa Mata, Costa Rica on Friday. Juan Carlos Ulate / Reuters
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New Orleans could see between 3 to 6 inches of rain in all, Landrieu said, but he said wind and storm surge posed the greatest risk.
Hurricane warnings were also in place for Lake Pontchartrain and a stretch of coast from Grand Isle, Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border.
Storm surge warnings were issued for the coastline between Morgan City, Louisiana and the Okaloosa-Walton county border in Florida, as well as for the northern and western shores of Lake Pontchartrain.
Coastal and southeastern Mississippi is predicted to see storm surges of up to 9 feet above ground level, as well as power outages and hurricane force winds, said Roy Lucksinger, principle meteorologist at the Weather Channel.
There is also a risk of isolated tornadoes in the area as the hurricane makes landfall, Lucksinger said.
States of emergency were declared in Alabama and Louisiana. "Alabamians, you must prepare and remain vigilant — this is serious business," Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said at a news conference Friday. She said the effects will begin to be felt as early as Saturday afternoon.
"By Saturday noon, you should be in your safe place," Ivey said.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Venetian Isles, Lake Catherine and Irish Bayou sections of New Orleans. Landrieu urged people to stay off the roads starting Saturday evening through Sunday. He said residents should stock up on supplies.
Eleven deaths have been reported in Nicaragua, 10 deaths were reported in Costa Rica, and one person was reported killed in Honduras, officials said.
Heavy machinery is used to remove mud from a highway that connects with the south of the country and collapsed by Storm Nate in Casa Mata, Costa Rica on Friday. Juan Carlos Ulate / Reuters
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