On Friday morning, Members of HEART Team 1 / Hatzalah Air/International / Hatzalah of Florida, departed Miami to the Bahamas to assist Chabad of Bahamas in search and rescue.
The crew of Hatzolah volunteers had to travel by boat, and brought with them lots of life-saving equipment, as well as food supplies and water.

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke says a mandatory government buyback program for AK-47 and AR-15 rifles is needed because other gun control measures don’t do enough to remove weapons already on the streets.
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An American Airlines mechanic is accused of sabotaging a flight over stalled union contract negotiations.
According to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in federal court, Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani admitted during an interview Thursday that he tampered with a navigation system on the plane so that he could collect overtime work.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he’s no longer considering an independent presidential bid.
Schultz said Friday in a letter posted on his website, “I have concluded that an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can best serve our country at this time.”
Schultz faced intense resistance from Democratic activists who feared an independent run would give President Donald Trump an easier path to reelection.

President Donald Trump doesn’t make mistakes. At least according to him.
Trump’s relentless justifications of his erroneous warnings that Hurricane Dorian was threatening Alabama on Sunday, which created days of ridicule and skepticism, are just the latest example of the president’s lifelong reluctance to admit an error, no matter how innocuous.

Three people were severely burned in a fast moving fire overnight in Lakewood, NJ.
Lakewood Police say that the fire started at approximately 12:50AM, in the High-Point Condominium Complex.

The Transportation Security Administration says the nine busiest days in its history occurred this summer as travelers jammed airports.
TSA acting deputy administrator Patricia Cogswell said Thursday that the agency screened 262 million people and 164 million checked bags from just before Memorial Day until the day after Labor Day.

U.S. employers added a modest 130,000 jobs in August, a sign that hiring has slowed but remains durable amid economic weakness and President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
The job gain was boosted by the temporary hiring of 25,000 government workers for the 2020 Census.
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Recently, a fascinating question was posed to the Sar HaTorah, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, about Israeli citizens that are currently abroad but have one opportunity to return temporarily to Eretz Yisroel.
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Drug chains CVS and Walgreens as well as grocery chain Wegmans Food Market have joined the chorus of retailers requesting that customers refrain from openly carrying firearms in their stores even where state laws allow it.
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