Today is Sunday, March ninth, the 68th day of 2025. There are still 297 days a 12 months. Daylight savings period returns on site at 2 a.m.

Today in history:

On March 9, 1945, over 300 US B-29 Bomber's Operation Meetinghouse began through the Second World War, an enormous arson attack against Tokyo. The raid killed an estimated 100,000 civilians, left 1 million homeless and destroyed 16 square kilometers of town.

Also on this date:

In 1796 the longer term emperor of the Frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais.

In 1862, through the US residents' war, the iron warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimac) collided for five hours for five hours for five hours.

In 1916, greater than 400 Mexican Raiders, led by Pancho Villa Columbus, New Mexico, and killed 18 Americans.

In 1959 the Barbie doll was presented on the American International Toy Fair in New York.

In 1964, the Supreme Court of the United States within the New York Times Co. against Sullivan increased the usual for civil servants to prove that they’d been slandered by news organizations of their official property.

In 1997, rapper The Notorious Big (Christopher Wallace) was killed in a good unresolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on the age of 24.

In 2022, a Russian air raid devastated a maternity hospital within the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, killed 4 people and wounded no less than 17.

Today's birthdays:

• Singer Jeffrey Osborne is 77.
• Actor Linda Fiorentino is 67.
• Actor Juliette Binoche is 61.
• Actor Emmanuel Lewis is 54.
• Actor Oscar Isaac is 46.
• Comedian Jordan Klepper (television: “The Daily Show”) is 46.
• Rapper Chingy is 45.
• Actor Matthew Gray Gubler is 45.
• Football player Clint Dempsey is 42.
• The gold medalist Julia Mancuso is 41.
• Actor Brittany Snow is 39.
• Rapper Bow WoW is 38.
• Rapper YG is 35.
• Social media personality Khaby Lame is 25.
• Olympia -Gymnastics Gold medalist Sunisa Lee is 22.

TOKYO – A severe storm battered southern Japan with torrential rain and fierce winds on Thursday, killing at the very least three people because it moved slowly across the archipelago and raising fears that it could cause flooding, landslides and extensive damage.

Tropical Storm Shanshan made landfall on the southern island of Kyushu on Thursday morning as a robust typhoon and regularly weakened afterward. However, it remains to be forecast to bring strong winds, high waves and significant rainfall to most parts of the country, especially Kyushu.

In parts of Miyazaki Prefecture on Kyushu, about 60 centimeters of rain fell, the rivers swelled and there was a threat of flooding. Japan Meteorological Agency This 24-hour total is higher than the typical rainfall for the entire of August, it said.

By late Thursday afternoon, the storm was moving north at 15 km/h and its wind speed had weakened to 108 km/h. It was “no longer a strong typhoon,” the agency said.

As the disaster threat within the Kyushu region subsided later Thursday, Shanshan began to dump heavy rains on the neighboring island of Shikoku.

The storm swept through downtown Miyazaki on Kyushu, flattening trees, overturning cars in parking lots and smashing the windows of some buildings. The prefectural disaster response group said about 50 buildings were damaged.

Public broadcaster NHK showed a swollen river in the favored hot spring town of Yufu in Oita Prefecture, north of Miyazaki, and muddy water splashing against a bridge.

More than 70 people were injured in Kyushu, most of them in Miyazaki and Kagoshima. Some were injured because they were thrown to the bottom by the storm as they made their strategy to emergency shelters, the hearth and disaster management agency said.

According to Kyushu Electric Power Co., about 168,000 households across Kyushu were without power, most of them in Kagoshima Prefecture.

According to prefectural reports, around 20,000 people sought shelter in urban community centers, school gymnasiums and other facilities across Kyushu.

Before the storm's arrival, heavy rains triggered a landslide that buried a house within the central city of Gamagori, killing three residents and injuring two others, the town's disaster management agency said. On the southern island of Amami, which Shanshan passes by, one person was injured when a gust of wind knocked him over while riding a motorbike, the hearth department said.

Weather and government officials fear major damage because the storm slowly moves northeast across the Japanese archipelago over the following few days, threatening further flooding and landslides.

Disaster mitigation minister Yoshifumi Matsumura said Shanshan could cause “unprecedented” winds, high waves, storm surges and heavy rains. At a task force meeting on Wednesday, he urged people, especially the elderly, to not hesitate and seek shelter if there are safety concerns.

Hundreds of domestic flights between cities and islands within the southwest were canceled on Thursday, and high-speed trains and a few local trains were suspended. As the storm moved northeast, similar measures were taken in parts of the predominant island of Honshu, where heavy rain was falling. In the Kyushu region, postal and delivery services were suspended, and supermarkets and other shops are to shut.

The Shelly Fire, which broke out last week, is the newest wildfire in California, devastating greater than 4,000 acres.

It began on July 3 near Shelly Lake within the Klamath National Forest; the cause is currently under investigation.

The area where evacuations have to be ordered covers nearly 200 square miles. U.S. Forest Service fire officials said Friday that the evacuation orders and warnings affect 4,200 people and that greater than 3,800 homes and 300 industrial buildings are threatened.

The largest community evacuated was Greenview in Scott Valley, 15 miles west of Interstate 5. On Thursday, the order was reduced to a warning for many Greenview residents.

A community meeting in regards to the fire is planned for Friday, July 12, at 7 p.m. at Etna High School and could be attended virtually on the Facebook page. Klamath National Forest or CalFire's Siskiyou Unit.

The map above shows the approximate fire perimeter as a black line and the evacuation zone in red. For current information and details, including warning zone boundaries, see the Genasys Protect emergency card (formerly Zonehaven).

So far this season, seven wildfires in California have burned greater than 10,000 acres of land. The largest of those is Lake, which began in Santa Barbara County on July 5. As of Friday, July 12, 36,707 acres of land had already burned and the fires were 16% contained.

At this time last yr, there had been no wildfires in California larger than 1,600 acres. The 2023 season ended with a below-average 324,917 acres burned. About 75% of that was attributed to a few fires: Smith River Complex (95,107 acres) and SRF Lightning Complex (50,198) within the northwest of the state, and York (93,078) in San Bernardino County.

When a fireplace destroyed a large reasonably priced public housing complex under construction in unincorporated San Mateo County earlier this month, it worn out a decade of labor to offer much-needed housing for a few of the peninsula's most vulnerable residents, shaking a community that had been eagerly awaiting the safety that stable housing provides.

Now local authorities are vowing to rebuild the homes, which were scheduled to open next yr, but a brand new timetable and details about who will cover the prices are still unclear.

“For those who were hoping to move in next year, that has obviously changed,” said Warren Slocum, the San Mateo County district administrator who represents the region, in a telephone interview.

The Middlefield Junction project in North Fair Oaks, a community where median household income is a couple of third lower than its wealthier neighbors in San Mateo County, had been within the works for a decade when flames raged at the location on June 3.

Within hours, 104 housing units burned to the bottom, dashing the hopes of a whole lot of residents who had waited years for reasonably priced housing within the county, where the common home sale price is greater than $2 million.

Construction company James E. Roberts-Obayashi Corp. described the fireplace as “the worst disaster in the company's 92-year history.” The explanation for the fireplace continues to be under investigation, in accordance with the fireplace department.

Middlefield Junction, developed by the nonprofit organization Mercy Housing, aimed to offer 179 reasonably priced housing units, including 20 for the homeless.

North Fair Oaks is a working-class community of about 14,000 residents, lots of them immigrants, and borders the affluent cities of Redwood City, Atherton, and Menlo Park. Middlefield Junction was intended to be the biggest reasonably priced complex in North Fair Oaks.

The $155 million project that Slocum championed had several sources of funding, including loans from the county and the San Mateo County Housing Authority, the American Rescue Plan Act and Measure K, a neighborhood sales tax.

Slocum said after the fireplace that he, the county and the developers were “100% committed to moving forward with the rebuilding for the families who will be living in the public housing.”

But the district, along with the development company and Mercy Housing, continues to be within the strategy of determining the prices of reconstruction and to what extent the insurance will cover them.

The fire got here at a time when San Mateo County is in dire need of housing and homelessness continues to rise. A recent survey found that homelessness has increased 18% over the past two years. State officials say the county might want to construct hundreds of latest housing units in the approaching years, particularly for low-income residents, to maintain up with demand.

Kathleen Daly, chair of the North Fair Oaks Council, was devastated the day of the fireplace. “It was devastating,” she said.

Daly had been desirous about how the project could provide housing for youngsters growing up in North Fair Oaks.

“When these kids go to college and come back, there will be a place to stay,” Daly said. “I had to fight back tears and now, oh my God, it's on fire. It's been tough.”

“The profile of residents who needed housing here is very diverse,” Stivers said. “Unfortunately, it ranges from individuals fleeing domestic violence to teachers, grocery store clerks and bank employees who are currently living in their cars. This fire affects the type of housing that San Mateo County needs most, in an area that really needs it and would benefit from more affordable housing.”

While the longer term opening date for Middlefield Junction is uncertain, Daly is confident that the county and developers will make it occur.

“This is one of the neighborhoods in the county and the Bay Area where the real workers live, the white collar workers, medical assistants, teacher assistants. It's a community of really hard-working people,” Daly said. “I'm pretty sure the county will do whatever it takes to make sure it rebuilds.”