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Clinging to the iceberg
One of the things always looming is that I have a reputation as a money writer and—this sounds very bullshitty—I've never written for money. By which, I don't mean that I am artistic and pure. What I mean is, money has happened. It's gone along with what I've written—especially in film. And I like to think one of the reasons for that is I've wanted to do what I've done. I have gotten very few compliments that I treasure in my life, but one of them is from Stanley Donen, a wonderful director who is now out of repute…He said, "You're very tough." And I said, "Why?" And he said, "Because you cost a lot, and you have to want to do it." I think that's true, and I treasure that, because I do have to want to do it. I think that's true basically of almost everybody I know in the picture business that's above the water level on the iceberg. We're all clinging to the iceberg, and the water level is rising constantly…
The other compliment which I treasure is from a friend of mine. These are the only two. A friend of mine said to me, "Whatever part of you is a writer you really protect." It seems to me that's essential, because the minute you start getting involved with reviews, or interviews…or hype on movies, or any kind of extracurricular lecturing or answering fan letters or any kind of stuff like that—it has nothing to do with writing. And you can begin to become Peter Bogdanovich and believe your own press clippings, and then it's disaster time. It seems to me that it's essential to maintain a low profile and go about your business as quietly as possible.
—William Goldman, to John Brady in The Craft of the Screenwriter
Posted in Movies, Quote of the Day, Writing
Tagged with John Brady, Peter Bogdanovich, Stanley Donen, The Craft of the Screenwriter, William Goldman
The last quarter mile
Once you commit yourself to moving forward, you can't stop. It goes back to the metaphor of the miler going back to rerun the last quarter mile because he didn't do his best job. You can't do it! To understand the rhythm of writing a hundred pages you have to write it right through. Feel the pages under you the same way a runner feels the gravel under his feet. He can tell how fast that gravel is moving under his feet as he's going a mile, the same way you can tell how fast the pages are, how fast the scenes are moving…You have to feel space. If the run is a mile and the script is a hundred and five, a hundred and ten pages, you have to feel that space is tangible. Understand that space. Feel comfortable in that space. Page twenty, page forty, sixty, seventy-five, eighty. My favorite pages are eighty-five to ninety-five. I love those pages. If I don't feel good from eighty-five to ninety-five, there's something wrong. If I don't feel good after page ninety, ninety to ninety-five, the script was a mistake.
—Paul Schrader, to John Brady in The Craft of the Screenwriter
Tagged with John Brady, Paul Schrader, The Craft of the Screenwriter
In his wonderful interview in John Brady's The Craft of the Screenwriter, Robert Towne—who might best be described as the Christopher McQuarrie of his time—tosses off a statement that is typically dense with insight:
One of the things that people say when they first start writing movies is, "Jeez, I have this idea for a movie. This is the way it opens. It's a really great opening." And of course they don't know where to go from there. That's true not only of people who are just thinking of writing movies, but very often of people who write them. They're anxious for a splashy beginning to hook an audience, but then you end up paying for it with an almost mathematical certainty. If you have a lot of action and excitement at the beginning of a picture, there's going to have to be some explanation, some character development somewhere along the line, and there will be a big sag about twenty minutes after you get into a film with a splashy opening. It's something you learn. I don't know if you'd call it technique. It's made me prefer soft openings for films. It's been my experience that an audience will forgive you almost anything at the beginning of the picture, but almost nothing at the end. If they're not satisfied with the end, nothing that led up to it is going to help.
There's a lot to absorb and remember here, particularly the implication, which I love, that a narrative has a finite amount of energy, and that if you use up too much of it at the start, you end up paying for it later.
For now, though, I'd like to focus on what Towne says about openings. He's right in cautioning screenwriters against trying to start at a high point, which may not even be possible: I've noted elsewhere that few of the great scenes that we remember from movies come at the very beginning, since they require a degree of setup to really pay off. Yet at this very moment, legions of aspiring writers are undoubtedly sweating over a perfect grabber opening for their screenplay. In his interview with Brady, which was published in 1981, Towne blames this on television:
Unlike television, you don't have to keep people from turning the channel to another network when they're in the theater. They've paid three-fifty or five dollars and if the opening ten or fifteen minutes of a film are a little slow, they are still going to sit a few minutes, as long as it eventually catches hold. I believe in soft openings…Why bother to capture [the audience's] interest at the expense of the whole film? They're there. They're not going anywhere.
William Goldman draws a similar contrast between the two forms in Adventures in the Screen Trade, writing a clumsy opening hook for a screenplay—about a girl being chased through the woods by a "disfigured giant"—and explaining why it's bad: "Well, among other things, it's television." He continues:
This paragraph contains all that I know about writing for television. They need a hook. And they need it fast. Because they're panicked you'll switch to ABC. So TV stuff tends to begin with some kind of grabber. But in a movie, and only at the beginning of a movie, we have time. Not a lot, but some.
And while a lot has changed since Towne and Goldman made these statements, including the "three-fifty" that used to be the price of a ticket, the underlying point remains sound. Television calls for a different kind of structure and pacing than a movie, and screenwriters shouldn't confuse the two. Yet I don't think that the average writer who is fretting about the opening of his script is necessarily making that mistake, or thinking in terms of what viewers will see in a theater. I suspect that he or she is worrying about a very different audience—the script reader at an agency or production company. A moviegoer probably won't walk out if the opening doesn't grab them, but the first reader of a screenplay will probably toss it aside if the first few pages don't work. (This isn't just the case with screenwriters, either. Writers of short stories are repeatedly told that they need to hook the reader in the first paragraph, and the result is often a kind of palpable desperation that can actively turn off editors.) One reason, of course, why Towne and Goldman can get away with "soft" openings is that they've been successful enough to be taken seriously, both in person and in print. As Towne says:
There have been some shifts in attitudes toward me. If I'm in a meeting with some people, and if I say, "Look, fellas, I don't think it's gonna work this way," there is a tendency to listen to me more. Before, they tended to dismiss a little more quickly than now.
Which, when you think about it, is exactly the same phenomenon as giving the script the benefit of the doubt—it buys Towne another minute or two to make his point, which is all a screenwriter can ask.
The sad truth is that a script trying to stand out from the slush pile and a filmed narrative have fundamentally different needs. In some cases, they're diametrically opposed. Writers trying to break into the business can easily find themselves caught between the need to hype the movie on the page and their instincts about how the story deserves to be told, and that tension can be fatal. A smart screenwriter will often draw a distinction between the selling version, which is written with an eye to the reader, and the shooting script, which provides the blueprint for the movie, but most aspiring writers don't have that luxury. And if we think of television as a model for dealing with distracted viewers or readers, it's only going to get worse. In a recent essay for Uproxx titled "Does Anyone Still Have Time to Wait For Shows to Get Good?", the legendary critic Alan Sepinwall notes that the abundance of great shows makes it hard to justify waiting for a series to improve, concluding:
We all have a lot going on, in both our TV and non-TV lives, and if you don't leave enough breadcrumbs in the early going, your viewers will just wander off to watch, or do, something else. While outlining this post, I tweeted a few things about the phenomenon, phrasing it as "It Gets Better After Six Episodes"—to which many people replied with incredulous variations on, "Six? If it's not good after two, or even one, I'm out, pal."
With hundreds of shows instantly at our disposal—as opposed to the handful of channels that existed when Towne and Goldman were speaking—we've effectively been put into the position of a studio reader with a stack of scripts. If we don't like what we see, we can move on. The result has been the emotionally punishing nature of so much peak television, which isn't about storytelling so much as heading off distraction. And if it sometimes seems that many writers can't do anything else, it's because it's all they were ever taught to do.
Tagged with Adventures in the Screen Trade, Alan Sepinwall, John Brady, Robert Towne, The Craft of the Screenwriter, Uproxx, William Goldman
Hollywood in Limbo
In his essay on the fourth canto of Dante's Inferno, which describes the circle of Limbo populated by the souls of virtuous pagans, Jorge Luis Borges discusses the notion of the uncanny, which has proven elusively hard to define:
Toward the beginning of the nineteenth century, or the end of the eighteenth, certain adjectives of Saxon or Scottish origin (eerie, uncanny, weird) came into circulation in the English language, serving to define those places or things that vaguely inspire horror…In German, they are perfectly translated by the word unheimlich; in Spanish, the best word may be siniestro.
I was reminded of this passage while reading, of all things, Benjamin Wallace's recent article in Vanity Fair on the decline of National Lampoon. It's a great piece, and it captures the sense of uncanniness that I've always associated with a certain part of Hollywood. Writing of the former Lampoon head Dan Laikin, Wallace says:
Poor choice of partners proved a recurring problem. Unable to get traction with the Hollywood establishment, Laikin appeared ready to work with just about anyone. "There were those of us who'd been in the business a long time," [development executive Randi] Siegel says, "who told him not to do business with certain people. Dan had a tendency to trust people that were probably not the best people to trust. I think he wanted to see the good in it and change things." He didn't necessarily have much choice. If you're not playing in Hollywood's big leagues, you're playing in its minors, which teem with marginal characters…"Everyone Danny hung out with was sketchy," says someone who did business with Laikin. Laikin, for his part, blames the milieu: "I'm telling you, I don't surround myself with these people. I don't search them out. They're all over this town."
Years ago, I attended a talk by David Mamet in which he said something that I've never forgotten. Everybody gets a break in Hollywood after twenty-five years, but some get it at the beginning and others at the end, and the important thing is to be the one who stays after everyone else has gone home. Wallace's article perfectly encapsulates that quality, which I've always found fascinating, perhaps because I've never had to live with it. It results in a stratum of players in the movie and television industry who haven't quite broken through, but also haven't reached the point where they drop out entirely. They end up, in short, in a kind of limbo, which Borges vividly describes in the same essay:
There is is something of the oppressive wax museum about this still enclosure: Caesar, armed and idle; Lavinia, eternally seated next to her father…A much later passage of the Purgatorio adds that the shades of the poets, who are barred from writing, since they are in the Inferno, seek to distract their eternity with literary discussions.
You could say that the inhabitants of Hollywood's fourth circle of hell, who are barred from actually making movies, seek to distract their eternity by talking about the movies that they wish they could make. It's easy to mock them, but there's also something weirdly ennobling about their sheer persistence. They're survivors in a profession where few of us would have lasted, if we even had the courage to go out there in the first place, and at a time when such people seem more likely to end up at something like the Fyre Festival, it's nice to see that they still exist in Hollywood.
So what is it about the movie industry that draws and retains such personalities? One of its most emblematic figures is Robert Towne, who, despite his Oscar for Chinatown and his reputation as the dean of American screenwriters, has spent his entire career looking like a man on the verge of his big break. If Hollywood is Limbo, Towne is its Caesar, "armed and idle," and he's been there for five decades. Not surprisingly, he has a lot of insight into the nature of that hell. In his interview with John Brady in The Craft of the Screenwriter, Towne says:
You are often involved with a producer who is more interested in making money on the making of the movie than he is on the releasing of the movie. There is a lot of money to be made on the production of a movie, not just in salary, but all sorts of ways that are just not altogether honest. So he's going to make his money on the making, which is really reprehensible.
"Movies are so difficult that you should really make movies that you feel you absolutely have to make," Towne continues—and the fact that this happens so rarely implies that the studio ecosystem is set up for something totally different. Towne adds:
It's easier for a director and an actor to be mediocre and get away with it than it is for a writer. Even a writer who happens to be mediocre has to work pretty hard to get through a script, whereas a cameraman will say to the director, "Where do you think you want to put the camera? You want it here? All right, I'm going to put it here." In other words, a director can be carried along by the production if he's mediocre, to some extent; and that's true of an actor, too.
Towne tosses off these observations without dwelling on them, knowing that there's plenty more where they came from, but if you put them together, you end up with a pretty good explanation of why Hollywood is the way it is. It's built to profit from the making of movies, rather than from the movies themselves, which is only logical: if it depended on success at the box office, everybody would be out of a job. The industry also has structures in place that allow people to skate by for years without any particular skills, if they manage to stick to the margins. (In any field where past success is no guarantee of future performance, it's the tall poppies that get their heads chopped off.) Under such conditions, survival isn't a matter of talent, but of something much less definable. A brand like National Lampoon, which has been leveled by time but retains some of its old allure, draws such people like a bright light draws fish in the abyss, and it provides a place where they can be studied. The fact that Kato Kaelin makes an appearance in these circles shouldn't be surprising—he's the patron saint of those who hang on for decades for no particular reason. And it's hard not to relate to the hope that sustains them:
"What everyone always does at the company is feel like something big is about to happen, and I want to be here for it," [creative director] Marty Dundics says. "We're one hit movie away from, or one big thing away from, being back on top. It's always this underdog you're rooting for. And you don't want to miss it. That big thing that's about to happen. That was always the mood."
Extend that mood across a quarter of a century, and you have Hollywood, which also struggles against the realization that Borges perceives in Limbo: "The certainty that tomorrow will be like today, which was like yesterday, which was like every day."
Posted in Movies, Writing
Tagged with Benjamin Wallace, Dante Alighieri, David Mamet, John Brady, National Lampoon, Robert Towne, The Craft of the Screenwriter, Vanity Fair
Movies are like wars. The guy who becomes an expert is the guy who doesn't get killed.
—Robert Towne, in The Craft of the Screenwriter by John Brady
Tagged with John Brady, Robert Towne, The Craft of the Screenwriter
Ernest Lehman on conveying exposition
One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know—as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. A scene, to me, has to have some element of conflict in it or some cross-purpose. It doesn't have to be a quarrel, but there should be some kind of tension. The most obvious are scenes involving opposing viewpoints. If it's a two-character scene and both characters have the same goal, usually to make the scene work the goal of one has to be either slightly different or more powerful than the goal of the other. If two people are in total agreement about everything, usually there's no scene. To answer your question, conflict is an excellent device for conveying exposition. Humor is another way of getting it across.
—Ernest Lehman, interviewed by John Brady in The Craft of the Screenwriter
Tagged with Ernest Lehman, John Brady, The Craft of the Screenwriter
Paul Schrader on writing dialogue
Occasionally you hear something, some conversation, that you steal. But very rarely. The way I write dialogue is, I have an idea of how long the dialogue should be—a page, two pages, three pages—how much the scene will support, and how many points I have to make in that dialogue, either expository points or character development points. Then I just start working it out, the conversation—using what seems natural to get from one point to another. If you gave me a situation with certain points that would have to be made in a scene, I would sit here and give you the dialogue. Within five, ten minutes you would have the dialogue. All paced out. Dialogue is the easiest thing in the world.
—Paul Schrader, in John Brady's The Craft of the Screenwriter


The command center. Considered the hub of the home, it's the perfect little space to organize schedules, look up recipes, sort mail, and pay bills. While a good idea, it can frequently become disorganized and cluttered. Some of the things I like about the space. This command center is great to have. It functions as a business/printing space for most of the students in the home and is the place we typically come to when paying the bills. Everything else about this space could use some help. It's lacking personality, feels overly cramped, and is a mismatch of styles, tastes, and decor.
Continuing with notes of blues, corals, mustard, and white, the command center will be updated and find cohesion with the rest of the updates. As you'll notice, these plum walls just won't go away. Hopefully I'll be able to repaint them, bringing fresh life and brightness to the space.
In any office space, my goal is to have deliberate simplicity, where form and function meet. Hoping to keep the desk space clear, we'll be going vertical for additional storage and organization.
Reframe dry erase board, calendar, and bulletin board to feel cohesive. Hang in a gallery style.
What are some of your office essentials?


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please someone help for me.
how to call on select row function for jqgrid in jquery.
i want to add,edit,delete records using gridview in mvc .I want to use dropdown list ,radio button inside grid.
Also I want to use dropdownlist to fetch data from database in cshtml page.
You can't use gridview in asp.net MVC, which is a server control avail in ASP.Net WebForm applications.
In MVC, you can go with the "webgrid" as the previous poster said.
[RESOLVED]Create a gridview like structure in MVC 5 Razor.
the controls are html so m blind at this point , where shall i start ? Morover i need to edit and delete rows also.
Any tutorials on how to handle these kind of situations ?
Probably you can have a look at WebGrid.
work, as it will see you in good stead for the future. You don't want to be one of those developers that has to constantly come here to ask people to do their work for them.
[RESOLVED]what is equivalent of RowDataBound event of Web Form gridviews in MVC grids ?
then i can change them in different ways (colors, visibility, formatting etc) depending on the business logic.
color into "RED" if gridview Rownumber is greater then 10? Where should we consider all these logics in MVC?
And the problem is …? To save use File.WriteAllBytes.
Create.cshtml, attention on "@using (Html.BeginForm(…………………..))"
Creat an "Images" folder in Solution explorer.
in a folder of that selected value.
for example selected value :basketball.
[RESOLVED]How to bind dynamically the Columnnames,Column values,and Data in jqgrid?
//setTimeout is for webkit only to give time for DOM changes and then redraw!!!
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Instead of posting the entire code, please point out the code you are having problem.
# Jqgrid with dynamic colNames?
I want to design a concept similar like nested gridview.But i dont want table inside a table. Is there any way to do it.pls help.
You can use a listview which allow you to control the rendered html. You might use divs instead.
You can show/hide div also insted of table.
can you give me a example for this.
website structures to div-based structures, you could refer to it.
What sort of data are you displaying in your grid/nested data?
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How to open a pop up window when pressing F1 from a particular textbox?
Capturing function key (F1-F12) keypress events can be tricky as most of them are already mapped to existing functions within their respective browsers (I believe that F1 is traditonally a "help" key).
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The foot or more of snow Tuesday has brought about another concern from Wisconsin Public Service.
"..Given all the winter weather that we've seen recently is to check their natural gas meters and appliance vents and to make sure they're free of any accumulation of ice or snow. A build up on a natural gas meter can cause damage to the piping that's connected to the meter. That could cause a gas leak. Build up of ice or snow on an appliance vent could clog or block the vent which could trap carbon monoxide indoors...."
Cullen says go check the meters and lines and carefully move the snow away with a broom or your hands.
He says WPS crews began restoring power Monday and were still in the field on Wednesday..
"...Since 11 o'clock Monday night our crews have restored power to more than 11,000 customers who have been impacted by that heavy snow that moved through our service area..."
"...Our crews have encountered down power lines and tree limbs that have fallen on power lines as they have worked as safely and as quickly as possible to restore service to our customers. That's what we've seen since the went out late Monday night..."
Cullen says stay back at least 25 feet if you see a downed power line. If you have an outage, Cullen says to report the problem to Wisconsin Public Service right away.
The hours and long, the work is hard, but Wisconsin utility crews, including some from north central Wisconsin, have been thanked generously by residents in Puerto Rico.
Nearly three weeks after their arrival in Puerto Rico, more than 60 field employees from Wisconsin Public Service (WPS) and We Energies continue to work diligently to restore power in in areas that remain damaged by Hurricane Maria.
"Sheldon" and "Rosalee" have come home and you have a chance to see their digs up close and personal. Peregrine falcons have returned to the Weston Power Plant near Wausau to nest and raise their young.
The falcons enjoy nesting on high places, in the wild on a high cliff. But the tall power generation towers provide a suitable place for the rare falcons to live and breed.


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Thanks everybody for your input! Creating a single bridged Network seems indeed the most efficient solution. Need to look into that further. Like xNeshty, I've linked Range Extender (300N Hawkin) to one router (ASUS RT-N56U) to get a stronger signal upstairs. how to drive in the snow without snow tires Most WiFi is far faster than most ISPs, so a repeater makes the WiFi slower, it doesn't necessarily make the internet slower. But it also depends on what you want to do in the internet.
It's not easy living without WiFi, especially when you're traveling, so when your phone is in range of a steady wireless connection, you probably want to stick with it.
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good morning, america. breaking news, the parents of accused school shooter ethan crumbley arrested after an hours-long manhunt >> we have, in fact, taken them into custody without incident. >> where they were found and who else could face charges as we learn chilling details about the hours leading up to the massacre that left four students dead. could it have been prevented? spreading fast, the omicron variant now confirmed in at least 12 states as officials stress the biggest threat is still delta and worries about a winter surge. abc news exclusive, the santa fe district attorney responding to alec baldwin's bombshell sit-down interview with george stephanopoulos about the fatal shooting on the set of the movie "rust." >> i've been told by people who are in the know that it's highly
unlikely i would be charged with anything criminally. >> what the d.a. is saying this morning about this claim from the movie's star and producer. rising tensions as russia steps up its troops on the ukrainian border sparking fears of a full-scale invasion. how president biden says he plans to make it very difficult for putin. the latest this morning. doorstep robberies. the thieves following people home robbing them at gunpoint. more than 150 incidents reported around los angeles. the advice on staying safe. and pint-size picasso. the 10-year-old talent taking the art world by storm. >> "the observer." how did you come up with the name "the observer"? >> he has a lot of eyes. >> the look at this prodigy's impressive paintings. and good morning, america. great to have you with us on a saturday. eva is on maternity leave but
once again we are thrilled to have linsey davis and stephanie ramos back at the desk this mornng. good morning to you both. >> glad to be here. good morning. >> yeah, it's great to be here. you are outnumbered this morning. >> that is the usual case around my house. very much used to that, but we're very excited to have you both here, and we have a busy morning as well. a lot of news to get to including the breaking news involving the manhunt overnight for the parents of the michigan school shooting suspect. >> the oakland county sheriff's office says james and jennifer crumbley were captured overnight. the couple did not turn themselves in on friday as expected. they now face involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the mass shooting at oxford high school. also overnight, a touching memorial held for the shooting victims. governor gretchen whitmer speaking at the tribute, which included songs sung by students and a ringing of the bells. abc's trevor ault is in pontiac with the details we're learning about the morning of the shooting and the charges facing ethan crumbley's parents. good morning, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, stephanie. the attorneys for james and jennifer crumbley insisted from
yesterday afternoon until late into the evening that the couple had no fled, that they were on their way back here to turn themselves in but law enforcement never bought that and overnight authorities say they found this couple distressed and hiding inside a commercial building about an hour away near detroit as their son was here locked up potentially facing life in prison. breaking overnight the fugitive parents of accused school shooter ethan crumbley captured and appearing in court. >> how do you plead as to count one? >> not guilty. >> reporter: the couple on the run for hours after being charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with that deadly rampage in michigan that left four students dead. >> we have, in fact, taken into custody without incident james and jennifer crumbley, the fugitives involved in the oxford incident. >> reporter: authorities say the couple skipped their arraignment friday afternoon sparking a manhunt. the oakland county sheriff's office saying a business owner called 911 late last night after spotting the couple's car in a
detroit parking lot and jennifer crumbley nearby. >> i want you to put in two perimeters around, tight one around that vehicle and expand it further out. we got other resources coming your way. >> reporter: police say the couple was found hiding inside a commercial building and that someone had helped them get inside. >> we know who this person is. >> absolutely they could be facing charges. absolutely. >> reporter: as families of the victims mourn, now there's questions over whether there should have been more surveillance on the crumbleys before they disappeared. >> it wasn't on anyone's radar that this was even of a concern. >> reporter: oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald speaking out overnight. >> i don't care who is to blame. you know what i want? i want some peace for this community. these people are in terrible, terrible pain. >> reporter: mcdonald claims james crumbley had his son with him as he bought the handgun used in the shooting on black friday. and on monday a teacher reported the suspect searching ammunition on his phone in class. and jennifer crumbley later texted her son about the
incident, quote, lol, i'm not mad at you. you have to learn not to get caught. the next day the morning of the shooting, prosecutors say another teacher reported a picture drawn by the teen that included a gun, a bullet and a person appearing shot and disturbing phrases like, "blood everywhere" and "the thoughts won't stop, help me." police say the parents came to the school and were required to get their son counseling within 48 hours, but they resisted taking their son home, and authorities say hours later, he committed a massacre. >> the notion that a parent could read those words and also know that their son had access to a deadly weapon that they gave him is unconscionable, and i think it's criminal. >> reporter: prosecutors say that gun was kept unlocked in the parents' bedroom drawer. though michigan does not require parents to lock up a weapon with a minor in the home, legal experts say the decision to bring these charges against the parents is unprecedented.
>> we have not seen a parent charged so far in any of the school shootings that have occurred to date, so this is, indeed, a groundbreaking change in what we normally see. >> reporter: and in the midst of all these wild revelations in the past 24 hours, we don't want to lose sight of the fact that four students' lives were lost here, hana st. juliana, madisyn baldwin, justin shilling and tate myre. in fact, today the university of michigan football team is going to be honor myre, a football player himself. they're going to be wearing these patches on their jersey, with his initials and his number, 42, along with four blue hearts for these four young lives lost. whit. >> our thoughts are with those families. all right, trevor, thank you. we do move now to the concerns over omicron. the new covid-19 variant has been detected in at least 12 states now after first being reported in the u.s. just three days ago. but delta continues to be the main concern with cases on the rise in nearly 60,000
coronavirus patients currently in the hospital. abc's elwyn lopez is at cdc headquarters in atlanta with the latest. elwyn, good morning. >> reporter: hey, whit, good morning. that new variant continues to pop up across the u.s. just days after the first confirmed case here was detected in california but public health officials reiterating, it's a cause for concern, not panic. this morning, as the reach of omicron grows in the u.s., early data now suggesting it could be spreading twice as fast as the delta variant at least in south africa. louisiana, missouri, utah, new jersey and pennsylvania now among the states with confirmed infections. >> we are working closely with state and local public health authorities to investigate suspect cases in other states. >> reporter: in nebraska, six cases linked to someone who recently returned from nigeria. >> there are many cases likely exposed to the first case through close household contact. >> reporter: and while there is
concern over what this highly mutated variant might bring, health officials stress that the biggest threat right now is delta. >> i know that the news is focused on omicron, but we should remember that 99.9% of cases in the country right now are from the delta variant. delta continues to drive cases across the country, especially in those who are unvaccinated. >> reporter: still the race to learn more about the new strain is underway. >> there's every reason to believe that if you get vaccinated and boosted, that you would have at least some degree of cross-protection very likely against severe disease, even against the omicron variant. >> reporter: and across the country a steady flow of people coming into clinics like this one for that extra dose of protection. >> i thought when i put the booster in, it would save your life.
>> reporter: the world health organization says there have been no reported deaths linked to omicron so far, and here in georgia, contact tracing is now under way after a woman from here traveled to new jersey where she tested positive with that new variant. whit. >> all right, elwyn, thank you. for more now we're joined by dr. john brownstein, chief innovation officer at boston children's hospital. good morning, doctor. it's always great to have you. a new study out of south africa we noted there that omicron is spreading twice as fast as the delta variant. what do you take away from that, and what is it that we still don't know about this variant? >> yeah, well, thanks, whit, for having me. the big question, is omicron more transmissible? and the early evidence is maybe. if you look at a few weeks ago in south africa there were about 200 to 300 cases a day, now there are over 15,000. that might be related to either increased transmissibility, spreading among the susceptible population or potential for immunovasion or reinfection. we just have to wait and see as more data comes in but this is why scientists are really concerned about this new
variant. >> we know that moderna and pfizer are now adjusting their vaccines to deal with omicron in the future saying they could be available in just a few months. what do you say to people, though, who hear that and may think to themselves, maybe i should just wait on getting vaccinated or boosted? >> yeah, i'm getting that question a lot. but, you know, it's important that these manufacturers are working on these new vaccines, they're an important hedge and i think ultimately down the road we'll need these new formulations but we have a surge of delta right now so it's important to get boosted and anecdotally those who have been vaccinated have only had mild illness when it comes to the omicron variant, so ultimately the vaccines we have available to us now are really our best ticket out of this pandemic at the moment. >> now, the biden administration announced new travel restrictions starting on monday. a negative test for all travelers coming into the u.s. within 24 hours, doesn't matter where you're coming from or your vaccination status, but now that the variant is already here, do these restrictions still make sense? >> well, i think, you know, the restrictions to certain parts of this globe probably don't make
sense. we scientists have known that likely omicron was being transmitted in this country for weeks, and that's what we found in the last couple of days, so ultimately specific targeted restrictions don't make sense, but exercising caution with travel overall makes sense, testing before travel, making sure that you're not bringing infection to other places, that makes sense. so new regulations around testing, great, but i don't think it makes sense to be targeting certain countries who are just really good at surveillance. >> dr. brownstein, thank you for your time this morning. we always appreciate it. >> thank you, whit. >> linsey, over to you. >> all right. thanks, whit. now to president biden who now says he will not accept vladimir putin's red line in ukraine as russia increases troops along the border. abc's white house correspondent maryalice parks is at the white house this morning. good morning, maryalice. >> reporter: linsey, good morning. u.s. officials say the situation there on the ukraine/russia border is growing more dramatic, that russia has significantly increased the number of combat
forces there. clearly the fear is that russia could be preparing a full-scale invasion of ukraine. ukrainian officials worry that could happen as soon as next month. i asked president biden yesterday about this, what he plans to do about this. he told me he's been in constant contact with our european allies. >> what i am doing is putting together what i believe to be -- will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for mr. putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do, but that's in play right now. >> reporter: now, white house press secretary jen psaki would not elaborate much on that. she said they are considering economic tools, economic sanctions. when she was asked if any of those initiatives are military in nature, she sidestepped. now, yesterday when president biden was leaving here and headed to camp david, he also said he expects to have a long discussion with putin about
this. we don't have a date set yet for a meeting or a call, but clearly the white house is also preparing for that. stephanie. >> maryalice parks for us at the white house, thank you so much. now to that deadly film shooting. the santa fe district attorney is responding to what alec baldwin said in his exclusive interview with our george stephanopoulos. kaylee hartung has the interview you'll only see right here on abc. >> reporter: this morning, new fallout from george stephanopoulos' exclusive interview with alec baldwin. >> honest to god, if i felt that i was responsible, i might have killed myself if i thought i was responsible, and i don't say that lightly. >> reporter: the santa fe district attorney who could press criminal charges reacting first on abc news. >> you can see that he is devastated by what happened. i think that we could all see that. he was not expecting that to happen, didn't want that to happen. >> reporter: for the first time, the actor describing the moment he shot halyna hutchins. >> i would never point a gun at anybody and pull a trigger at
them, never, never. that was the training i had. you don't point a gun and pull the trigger. >> reporter: baldwin saying he was following hutchins' directions during a rehearsal and never pulled the trigger. >> and i cocked the gun. i go, can you see that? can you see that? can you see that. then i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. i let go of the hammer of the gun, the gun goes off. >> it wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled. >> well, the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. >> so you never pulled the trigger. >> no, no, no. >> reporter: the fbi examining that gun and the ballistics to see if they back up baldwin's story. the d.a. saying it may be early spring before the investigation is turned over to her. >> there's no evidence that this was intentional. this was clearly an accident, but perhaps a criminal accident. just because something is an accident doesn't mean that a criminal act didn't occur. >> alec baldwin told abc news he doesn't believe he will be criminally charged. is he correct to make that statement this early in the
investigation? >> i would not say that. >> reporter: baldwin saying he had no reason to suspect a live round could be in the gun and insisting he is not responsible for hutchins' death. >> your emotions are so clearly so right there on the surface. you felt shock. you felt anger. you felt sadness. >> yeah. >> do you feel guilt? >> no, no. i feel that there is -- i feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and i can't say who that is, but i know it's not me. >> reporter: for "good morning america," kaylee hartung, abc news, los angeles. >> you can watch more with kaylee's interview with the district attorney friday on a special edition of "20/20" and you can see george's entire interview with alec baldwin streaming now on hulu. guys, just an incredible interview to watch. >> powerful conversation for sure. we do want to transition and get a check of the forecast. rob marciano is here. we know that winter officially
has arrived, but snow in hawaii as i'm calling up my in-laws. what is happening? >> it's arrived in the u.s. you haven't seen it in the lower 48 but we're seeing it in hawaii. blizzard warnings there atop the volcanoes. there's the observatory. you can barely see it. we've got blizzard warnings there, mauna loa lookout. up to a foot of snow possible and it's blowing sideways and where it's below the elevation, we're looking at flooding potential here. across the lower 48, this is not good. 6% covered in snow. that is way below average, places like denver, colorado, still haven't seen measurable snowfall this year, that's blowing out their record. they typically get it in october or november. and looking ahead for the next couple of weeks, below average precipitation including denver, above average across parts of the northeast and warmer temperatures as well. that's a check on what's
>> all right, turning now to a fun family rivalry taking center stage this championship football weekend. dr. hodges and ferguson grew up loving the georgia bulldogs. that love became problematic when dr. ferguson's son joined alabama's offensive line. take a look at this. >> and he is gone. touchdown, georgia. >> reporter: this morning keeping your friends close and your enemies closer has a whole new meaning. >> a house divided. >> reporter: doctors terrance ferguson and bernard hodges, co-stars of national
geographic's "critter fixers country vets" has a relationship like no other that started three decades ago sharing the same passion. >> we love sports. >> we're in the south. you know, we are football country. we're in the s.e.c. country, so it's almost like if you're born here, it just magically happens. >> reporter: but this morning that friendship is on the sidelines as the bulldogs face off against the university of alabama. >> we both grew up georgia fans, all the way back to herschel walker, you know, all through the day. but my son is a freshman at the university of alabama offensive line so for me now it's 100% roll tide. >> reporter: all friendships are like a roller coaster, but for these two, the downs are just as fun as the ups. >> it's great fun. >> it is great fun. >> we have two different teams to root for and we heckle each other a little bit. >> he almost got me to say roll. i have said roll. i haven't got quite to it but definitely in support of t.j., he's an amazing kid.
and i'm like, go, alabama for almost every game except when they play these guys. >> it's going to be a fun day. that is just one of the games with big playoff implications today. david pollack joins us now to break it down from espn "college gameday." good morning, david, from atlanta, georgia. the s.e.c. championship, georgia/alabama. alabama, unusual, they're an underdog. what are the implications of today's game? >> ah, well, for georgia, it appears to be none, which is kind of crazy. i mean, everybody kind of feels like they could lose and still be the number one, two, three or four team in the country, probably not number one if alabama beat them. but for alabama, if they lose they're out. obviously there could be some chaos and maybe change your opinion, but these two teams have met before. you know, listen, it's been close games. they've played for the national championship. they played in the s.e.c. championship. they're always close games. kirby has to find a way to beat nick saban. >> the student trying to be the teacher again. there's a lot of fierce matchups
today, especially here on abc. we've got the big 12 game happening at noon, oklahoma state/baylor. if the pokes win, are they in? what's going to happen today? >> if they win they need help still, and we don't know what the committee will do. oklahoma state and cincinnati, we could be measuring those two teams against each other. who looks good today? in the big 12 championship game, it's a rematch versus baylor. the committee has baylor has a top ten team, so oklahoma state has a chance to prove something the last week of the season, add a big 12 championship to their resume and then see where it goes. it'll be interesting. i think there's more chaos but they're fighting michigan, fighting alabama, fighting cincinnati, fighting notre dame. all those teams are fighting for maybe possibly those last two or three spots. >> the bearcats are 12-0. they're undefeated. they obviously have to win today, but that doesn't guarantee them a spot, does it? >> it doesn't. but the committee obviously has
them in the top four and they've talked about them with a tremendous amount of respect. here's a great thing for cincinnati. one of the teams you're jockeying position for is notre dame, and you went to their place and beat them by double digits. so that's a good thing for cincinnati. and, again, every big game this year cincinnati has faced whether it's smu, ucf, notre dame, they come to play and they play great and won convincingly so they do that again today there is a good chance they'll be in the playoffs. >> it is going to be interesting and it all comes down to what happens today. >> it's going to be fun. >> you guys launch things off at 9:00 a.m. as always on espn, "college gameday." thank you, david. i think we should go to an eight-game playoff. that would solve a lot of these problems. we talk about it every year. >> i was kind of paying attention but is that a christmas tie? >> reindeer. >> it's that time of year. >> getting started early. >> what i learned earlier, that also doubles as st. patrick's day tie. >> perfect. two holidays out of one tie. >> eco-friendly with the wardrobe. >> sounds good. rob, we'll talk to you soon. >> still ahead on "gma," caught on camera, thieves following an unsuspecting victim home then beating and robbing him. these kind of robberies on the
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♪ tonight, tonight, it all begins tonight ♪ welcome back to "gma" on this saturday morning. we are now less than a week away from steven spielberg's much-awaited version of "west side story" hitting theaters next friday, december 10th. mark the calendars. coming up in our "gma" cover story, we hear what it was like behind the scenes from spielberg and the cast. that's coming up in our next hour, but first we're going to have a duet by these two. >> oh, yes. >> no, she -- stephanie actually has a wonderful voice. >> thank you, guys. i just can't help but sing. such a classic. >> mine not meant for public consumption. so only during the commercials. >> no, no, no. >> either way we are excited about that coming up. first, though, let's go ahead and take
a look at some of the other big stories we're following happening right now. civil rights attorney ben crump wants the fbi to investigate the death of jelani day as a hate crime saying he and day's family have lost patience with local authorities. the 25-year-old black illinois state university graduate medical student went missing on august 24th. his body was then found a month later in the illinois river. also right now, the jury is set for the trial of former minnesota police officer kimberly potter. she's charged with manslaughter in the murder of daunte wright. potter claims she drew her handgun by mistake thinking it was her taser during the fatal traffic stop. that was last april. opening statements are expected to begin on wednesday. and after being delayed for days because of orbiting space junk, two astronauts finally left the international space station to carry out a space walk replacing a broken antenna. mission control is now telling the crew the station needs to move into a lower orbit to avoid an old u.s. rocket fragment. lots of space junk lately. >> sounds like a work hazard.
we are back now to that alarming trend of so-called follow home robberies taking place all around los angeles. police are setting up a special task force at this point, and this morning we're also looking at ways that can help keep you safe. abc's alex presha is in los angeles with more. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, linsey. these follow home robberies are bold, some even happening in broad daylight. brazen and violent, watch as this group of three coming back from a late dinner is robbed at gunpoint. this ring doorbell video triggering the los angeles police department's investigation into what it says is the latest in a series of follow home robberies in the area. a camera rolls as two suspects approach their victims wearing law enforcement-style tactical vests. they even had police badges. the attackers forced their way inside the home. three other suspects joined them as they plunder inside. law enforcement learned about
the robbery as this video circulated online. >> it's frightening. it's awful. it's just unfortunate we live in a society that has degenerated to this level. we've got to do something about this. >> reporter: earlier this week this mother cornered and robbed while walking with her infant in her own driveway. police say two men stole a diaper bag and a bottle cooler before jumping into a nearby car and taking off. that mother and child left unharmed. still the hancock park neighborhood where it happened is on edge. >> it's really, really upsetting when somebody follows you right into your driveway. you know what i mean? you're not expecting that. >> that's so crazy because that could be us. >> reporter: the lapd's police chief says since the first of the year, there have been more than 150 of these follow home robberies resulting in at least two deaths. many of these robberies happening in neighborhoods like hollywood, wilshire and west l.a. so far lapd has made 36 arrests. it says it's often tipped off by the suspects themselves, bragging about their loot on social media. >> i think the bigger picture is you're seeing an organized
effort by organized gangs and organized crimes and a network of people with leadership structure and some degree of organization. they're going on and doing these things. >> reporter: experts telling us the key to protecting yourself is often remaining aware of your surroundings. >> if you do think you're being followed while you're driving home, continue driving, feel free to call 911 and say that you believe that you're being followed and have an officer potentially intercept you. >> reporter: also, guys, it's the holidays. a target rich time for robbers. for one, people are buying and storing gifts and then also holiday parties which usually translates into people loosening up. our experts saying that even while celebrating, you have to remain vigilant. guys. >> absolutely, good advice. do not let your guard down. >> all right. >> thanks so much, alex. it's time to check in with rob marciano and it looks like you have some flooding behind you.
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shows that this year ordering your gifts on time is more important than ever, and deidre bolton has more on potential shipping delays. deidre, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, whit. and that is right. some shoppers saying they ordered gifts weeks ago, and they are taking just that amount of time to arrive, so from toys to artificial christmas trees to all kinds of gifts, experts are warning of possible shortages and delays on many items so looking at the shipping deadlines. here they are. december 15th, this is the last day for retail ground shipping for the post office, u.p.s. and fedex. now, you can push a few more days if you're willing to pay for priority for usps or for select service from either of the two commercial carriers. by category, here's what we're buying. we are expected to spend the most this holiday on clothing and accessories then gift cards then electronics, but no matter what gifts you're choosing, experts say that the covid-related supply chain
issues and reports of slower shipping means the earlier you shop and send, the better. with that in mind, kristen mcgraff from retailmenot says last minute is sooner than you think. they're wanting to reduce exposure to shipping delays so they're encouraging in-store pickup. some, for example like target is issuing $5 coupons to shoppers as incentive to do curbside or in-store pickup so the idea, you go home with gifts in your bag or your car's trunk. you're happy with the retailer, your experience and your gift gets into the right hands on the right day. back to you guys. >> thanks so much, deidre. >> the takeaway on that last minute is sooner than expected. >> exactly. get on it. >> of course, the buying, the shopping, shipping just adds to the amount of holiday stress that many of us go through this time of year. janai norman recently spoke with an expert to give some advice. >> let's talk about something pretty much all of us feel this time of year, holiday stress. for strategies to deal with the pressure, let's check in with life coach and fitness expert, andrea marcellus. andrea, thank you so much for being with us this morning.
stress can build up so easily and in some cases before we even realize it. and you say that acknowledgement is the first step to tackling that stress. >> yes, and rather than kind of running away from our anxiety, i like to help people kind of lean into it and use it for fuel. and we can just do a few simple things to help reframe our brain and get out of that kind of anxious place and activate our positive brain centers, which will not only make us feel better in the moment but energize us toward positive possibility and accomplishing things. >> you say that curiosity can be a valuable tool. this is so interesting. how is that? >> curiosity is the tool of life. any time we are feeling super stressed, if we just activate that prefrontal cortex, that's the part of our brain that solves problems, so i ask people to keep a short list of things you'd like to know a little bit
more about, and rather than just mindlessly scrolling on your phone, take that time to learn something. it helps you put yourself in a place where you're thinking about what might be rather than what might go wrong. >> this is fascinating. once you have gained that knowledge, you've used that curiosity, you're putting it to use. what do you do with it? >> well, first of all, it just puts you in a frame of mind where anything you go to do, you're now coming at it from a place of positive possibility rather than from negativity. >> and you are a fitness expert, so what are some quick and easy physical actions that we can do to combat stress any time? >> one of the things you can do is just a very quick balance move. any kind of a balance move and then you could just lift your foot and lift it in conjunction with any kind of breathing pattern, so you might inhale up and exhale down on four counts. that takes your prefrontal
cortex, your cerebellum and your hippocampus. those are all your positive brain centers and, guess what, your brain can't multitask. if you're accomplishing that activity it shuts off that for a short while just enough to reframe you. >> andrea, thank you so much for joining us, and happy holidays to you. >> thank you so much. pleasure to be here. >> tips you can use all year round and apparently in the studio. >> i was going to say. everybody is working on their prefrontal cortex right here at "gma." >> we're all balancing. coming up on "good morning america," meet the pint-size picasso that we've been telling you about. he is the talk of the art world. that's coming up. ancing. coming up on "good morning america," meet the pint-size picasso we've been telling you about. he is the talk of the art world. that's coming up. back on "gma" with the story ♪ ♪ make the yule-tide gay. ♪ ♪ ♪ from now on our troubles will be miles away. ♪
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back now on "gma" with the story of a 10-year-old -- he's just 10 years old -- painting prodigy making a splash in the art world. abc's victor oquendo got a chance to meet this very talented young man. >> reporter: it's art week in miami. the annual event drawing some of the most talented artists from around the world and collectors to display their work. among the masterpieces worth millions, the standout artist this year is only 10 years old. >> i wanted to do one on canvas. >> reporter: meet andres valencia from san diego, california. how old were you when you did this? >> maybe i was 9. >> reporter: after watching a film about jean-michel basquiat, he told his parents he can paint like that. >> this is totally self-taught? >> it's self-taught. you know, sometimes i ask him, why, why -- why the cigarette? and he said why not? he said, george condo uses
cigarettes on some of his paintings. >> reporter: during the pandemic his parents bought him large canvases to pass the time during lockdown, and he honed in his skills. he's the youngest artist ever here, and this is actually his first show. "the observer," how did you come up with the name "the observer"? >> he has a lot of eyes. >> reporter: his paintings just like the greats are in demand. every piece sold. >> the paint had to dry to do the shading. >> reporter: part of each sale going to the perry j. cohen foundation which is led by pamela cohen. >> he's really a prodigy. he really is. what's most amazing and what touches me the most is at 10 years old, not only being a great artist, he's also donating a portion of the proceeds of the artwork to the perry j. cohen foundation, so he's a philanthropist also. >> reporter: andres has a message for all painters, young and old. >> to keep trying and to not stop. >> no matter what?
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The technology group Wärtsilä announces that its Aquarius UV Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) has successfully completed all testing procedures required for United States Coastguard (USCG) type approval compliance. The documentation for full USCG type approval is being finalised for submission and awaits only final input from DNV-GL, the USCG approved independent laboratory.
This follows type approval for the Aquarius UV from the International Maritime Organization in 2011, as well as Alternate Management System (AMS) acceptance from the USCG. AMS acceptance provides regulatory compliance for all ships operating in US waters for an interim period of up to five years from the ships specific compliance date, or until full USCG type approval is achieved.
The consistent and exceptional performance results achieved under both the IMO and USCG testing protocols demonstrate the suitability of the system in enabling ship owners and operators to comply with the global Ballast Water Management Convention regulations, which entered into force in September 2017.
The Aquarius UV BWMS is a flexible system utilising a two stage approach involving filtration and medium pressure ultra-violet (UV) disinfection technology. The Wärtsilä Aquarius UV is in full compliance with the IMO D-2 discharge standard.
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Democrats keep control of the Senate with win in Nevada
Democrats were projected to retain control of the Senate on Saturday, clinching a narrow majority as they showed strength in battleground races in a daunting midterm year that handed President Biden a major victory as he looks to his next two years in office.
The final blow to Republican hopes of retaking the chamber came in Nevada, where on Saturday Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) was projected to win reelection, edging past Adam Laxalt (R), a former state attorney general. Cortez Masto's projected win ensures Democrats a 50th seat, with a runoff election still to come in Georgia on Dec. 6. Vice President Harris is empowered to cast tiebreaking votes in the Senate.
Control of the House was still up in the air on Saturday, as vote counting continued days after an election in which Democrats overperformed expectations in many contested areas across the country. Democratic control of the Senate dashes GOP hopes of a full takeover on Capitol Hill.
That's welcome news for Biden, who was staring down the possibility of humbling defeats as the election neared. Now, the Senate, which oversees the confirmation of executive branch personnel and federal judges, will stay in his party's corner. A Senate majority will also give the president and his party more say over legislative debates on domestic and foreign spending and other major issues.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the results a "vindication" for Democrats and their agenda, and said Republicans had turned off voters with extremism and "negativity," including some candidates' false insistence that the 2020 election had been stolen. "America showed that we believed in our democracy," he told reporters in New York, while praising the quality of Democratic incumbents.
Cortez Masto announced she would deliver a victory speech on Sunday.
In Nevada, Cortez Masto's win was part of a perfect record so far by incumbent senators seeking reelection in the midterms, as voters tilted strongly against upending the established order in the chamber. It was part of a strong showing by Democrats in battleground areas where Republicans fell short after emphasizing rising prices and concerns about crime during an era of one-party control in Washington.
Republicans started the election needing to gain one seat to seize control of the Senate. Democrats flipped a seat in Pennsylvania and held on in several other states seen as vulnerable, running heavily as protectors of abortion rights after the end of Roe v. Wade and casting GOP rivals as extremists. One such state was Arizona, where Sen. Mark Kelly (D) was projected to win Friday night over Republican challenger Blake Masters.
In Nevada, Laxalt sought to tie Cortez Masto to Biden while blaming inflation and crime on Democratic policies, pointing to a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill Cortez Masto helped pass during the height of the pandemic.
Republicans predicted their economic message would be especially resonant in a working-class state with some of the highest inflation in the country. But both parties always expected the race to be decided by razor-thin margins, and Cortez Masto claimed a second term in a state the GOP long considered a top pickup opportunity.
Cortez Masto, who is the first Latina elected to the Senate, made abortion access central to her campaign, warning that her opponent could help pass a federal abortion ban even as Nevada had guaranteed access to the procedure by popular vote. She also touted Democrats' efforts to bring down costs, including the price of prescription drugs.
Laxalt has said he would not support a national abortion ban, though he supports a referendum in the state to ban abortion after 13 weeks. During the general election, he spoke little about his role in fanning former president Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, as Democrats attacked him on the issue.
The fight for the Senate was a focal point of the midterm campaign, with huge sums of cash flooding into key states. Inexperienced candidates elevated by Trump eased Democrats' path in some important races, at times stumbling and giving Democrats more room to go on the attack.
In Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) defeated celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, a first-time Republican candidate boosted by the former president. Oz faced scrutiny over his popular TV show, which promoted questionable products; his longtime New Jersey residency; and instances Democrats used to paint him as an out-of-touch candidate, including his reference to raw vegetables as "crudite."
The Arizona race also featured a Trump-backed newcomer in Masters, whom Democrats branded as an extremist. They seized on comments he made about privatizing Social Security and his support for abortion restrictions, including a national 15-week ban.
Democrats held off other challenges, stymieing Republican attempts to advance into Colorado, Washington state and New Hampshire. Republicans nominated more moderate candidates in the first two states but in New Hampshire, the GOP nominee was Don Bolduca far-right contender who embraced much of Trump's platform and had claimed falsely that Trump won the 2020 election.
Republicans kept control of open seats in North Carolina and Ohio and will be sending two new senators to the upper chamber from those states: Rep. Ted Budd and author J.D. Vance, respectively. In Wisconsin, Sen. Ron Johnson (R) narrowly won reelection in a competitive contest.
In Georgia, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) ran just slightly ahead of Republican nominee Herschel Walker, a former football player. But neither candidate met the 50 percent threshold required to avert a runoff. So the two will face off again in a runoff next month Both sides have been gearing up in the purple state.
In Alaska, vote tallying continues under a new ranked-choice system. Republicans Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a target of Trump, and Kelly Tshibaka, a challenger backed by the former president, were in competition in that race.
In total, Democrats were playing defense in the Senate in 14 states this midterm year — all of which were won by Biden in 2020. Republicans were playing defense in 21 states, including two where Biden won. One was Pennsylvania, so far the only flipped seat.
Schumer praised the quality of the Democratic incumbents, and said they won in part because Republicans nominated "flawed" candidates. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the chair of the Senate Democrats' campaign arm, said in a statement that the victories represented a "resounding endorsement of Democrats' Senate majority" and "a rejection of the extremism espoused by the GOP."
The losses have stirred discontent among Republicans in the Senate, and at least six of them have pushed for next week's leadership elections to be delayed in a challenge to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's leadership.
The Senate Leadership Fund, an outside group closely associated with McConnell (R-Ky.), spent more than $230 million this cycle backing Republicans in races across the country. Without directly criticizing Trump, McConnell lamented before the election that "candidate quality" issues made it harder for Republicans to flip the Senate than the House.
Since several Trump-backed Senate candidates have lost, Trump and his allies have attempted to turn the blame around on McConnell, criticizing him for not spending more in Arizona to back Masters and other decisions.
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Q: react navigation full screen modal from windowed component How do you open a full screen modal from a windowed component in react navigation?
The opened modal has always the same size as the windowed component, from which the modal was navigated to.
I created a snack expo to show the problem here: https://snack.expo.io/Bk0N69FwX
This is just a basic example to show the problem, in my actual project the components are nested many times, so I cannot easily set the modal in the top level StackNavigator and navigate to it from a deeply nested component.
import * as React from 'react';
import { Text, View, StyleSheet, Button } from 'react-native';
import { Constants } from 'expo';

import { createStackNavigator } from 'react-navigation';

// modal that should be rendered full screen
class Modal extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={styles.text}>
          This should be a full screen modal
        </Text>
      </View>
    )
  }
}

// windowed component, from which the modal will be navigated to
class NestedComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.nestedContainer}>
        <Text style={styles.text}>
          nested component
        </Text>
        <Button
         onPress={() => this.props.navigation.navigate('modal')}
         title="open modal"
        />
      </View>
    )
  }
}

const ModalStackComponent = () => {
  return (
    <ModalStackNavigator />
  )
}

const ModalStackNavigator = createStackNavigator(
  {
    nestedComponent: {
      screen: NestedComponent,
      navigationOptions: {
      header: null,
    },
  },
    modal: {
      screen: Modal,
    },
  },
  {
    mode: 'modal',
  }
)

export default class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>

        // some stub container to limit screen size for nested component
        <View style={styles.upperComponentContainer}>
          <Text style={styles.text}>
            upper component
          </Text>
        </View>

        <ModalStackComponent />
      </View>
    );
  }
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    alignItems: 'stretch',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    paddingTop: Constants.statusBarHeight,
    backgroundColor: '#ecf0f1',
  },
  upperComponentContainer: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: 'lightgrey',
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  nestedContainer: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  text: {
    textAlign: 'center',
    fontSize: 20,
    color: 'black',
  },
});

A: For your requirement, you can use React native Modals.
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/0.56/modal

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