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 – More than 120 people died of warmth stroke within the greater Tokyo area in July because the country's average temperature hit record highs and warmth warnings were in effect for a lot of the month, Japanese authorities said Tuesday.

According to the Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, the 123 dead were mostly elderly people. All but two were found dead in enclosed spaces, and most had not used their air conditioners, though they were installed.

Japanese health authorities and weather forecasters have repeatedly advised people to remain indoors, drink loads of fluids to avoid dehydration, and use air-con, as older people often imagine that air-con shouldn’t be good for his or her health and are likely to avoid it.

According to the coroner, this was the best variety of deaths from heat stroke in Tokyo's 23 metropolitan wards in July because the 2018 heat wave, when 127 deaths were recorded.

According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, greater than 37,000 people across Japan were treated in hospitals for warmth stroke from July 1 to twenty-eight.

The average temperature in July was 2.16 degrees Celsius (3.89 degrees Fahrenheit) above the typical for the past 30 years, making it the most popular July because the Japan Meteorological Agency began keeping weather records in 1898.

Heat stroke warnings were in effect across much of Tokyo and western Japan on Tuesday. Temperatures in downtown Tokyo rose to around 34 degrees Celsius, and plenty of people carried umbrellas or hand fans.

“I feel like the heat wave is getting longer every year,” says Hidehiro Takano from Kyoto. “I leave the air conditioner on all the time, even when I'm sleeping. I try not to go outside.”

Maxime Picavet, a French tourist, showed off a conveyable fan he bought in Tokyo. “It works very, very well,” he said. “In these temperatures, it's indispensable.”

The weather service predicted warmer temperatures of 35 °C (95 °F) or more for August.

“Please pay attention to temperature forecasts and heat stroke warnings and take appropriate precautions to prevent heat stroke,” it said in a press release.

INDIANAPOLIS — Lydia Jacoby looked up, stunned. Only 27 hundredths of a second separated her from Emma Weber's runner-up in the ladies's 100-meter breaststroke final, but two continents could have separated them.

Experienced swimmers often describe the U.S. Olympic qualifying competitions because the hardest swimming competition on the planet—tougher than the Olympics themselves. In some events, the third-fastest American could be the third-best swimmer on the planet. But only the highest two make Team USA.

With this razor-thin lead, there’s so much at stake; it’s a matter of victory or defeat, of all or nothing.

And Jacoby ended up empty-handed, just three years after surprising herself and the world by winning the gold medal in Tokyo in the identical event. On Tuesday morning, she announced that she had withdrawn from the 200-meter breaststroke, meaning her competition was over. The 20-year-old is not going to be heading to Paris.

“I'm feeling weirdly good,” Jacoby said Tuesday. “I don't think I've fully gotten it yet. I definitely cried a little last night, but I'm feeling pretty good today. I'm sure I'll have a lot of time to process my feelings over the next few weeks, and I'll … try to plan some fun things to look forward to this summer.”

Two-time gold medalist Lilly King, who won gold in Rio de Janeiro, took first place on Monday night with a time of 1:05.43. Weber's second place was a shock, one in every of the true surprises of the competition to date. After King congratulated Weber, she swam over to Jacoby for a hug.

“It breaks my heart for her,” King said. “But then again, what a performance by Emma Weber – and that's just how this competition works. It can make or break your career in a minute. It's the toughest competition in the world. In my opinion, it's much tougher than the Olympics.”

“I hope she gets over it and I keep my fingers crossed for her.”

In recent months, Jacoby has spoken in regards to the severe depression she experienced after winning the gold medal in Tokyo. She felt like everyone wanted a chunk of her and he or she couldn't say no. She couldn't tell which individuals round her were genuinely concerned about her well-being and which just desired to be related to a gold medalist. There were days and weeks when she didn't need to get off the bed at home in Alaska.

“I felt like my identity was limited to the sport,” Jacoby said Tuesday. “The most important thing for me lately is (remembering) that being a swimmer is something I do. It's not something I am. I have so many interests and passions. I have great friends and great family outside of the sport. Remembering those things is a big thing for me.”

“A lot of people outside of the sport see this and think that's it. It's important for people to realise, yes, this is something I do and I'm very committed to it. Of course I put a lot of emotion into it and it's pretty devastating. But in the end, it's not going to change my life.”

Jacoby said she seriously considered quitting swimming after Tokyo and even considered competing at times last yr. She is glad she stuck with the game and swam here despite the disappointing result.

Jacoby said she was unhappy along with her performance here at Lucas Oil Stadium. Her time of 1:06.37 was greater than a full second slower than her Olympic qualifying time within the 2021 heats. She had trained well and is upset that her performance on Monday didn’t match what she put into the competition. Jacoby said she focused all her training on the 100-meter breaststroke and had planned to cancel the 200 meters anyway.

“I don't think my swimming performance was a good representation of my abilities, and that's the most frustrating part for me,” Jacoby said.

She said she desires to take a break from swimming “to better shape my life outside of swimming and then approach the sport in a healthy way.” She doesn't think she's completely done with the game, nor does she think the game is finished along with her.

But that's long-term. For now, Jacoby isn't sure she'll watch the event on TV next month. She's unsure she will be able to handle sitting at home on the incorrect continent while her friends and former teammates wear red, white and blue.

“I feel like I haven't really processed the fact that I'm not going to swim there,” Jacoby said. “I'm honestly not sure if I want to watch my race. I haven't really thought about it yet. But the people who made the team – I've been crying all last week, tears of joy for all my friends who made the team… so I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone do great things in Paris.”

“It will definitely be hard not being there, but I wish them all the very best.”