Bugatti announced on Monday that one of its cars, a modified $3 million Chiron, was clocked at over 300 mph on a test track in Germany. That’s the magic number that Bugatti and two other car companies have been chasing in the quest to build the world’s fastest production car. But the claim is controversial: Some car enthusiasts say that if Bugatti’s modified car isn’t sold to the public as-is, they may not have won the “race to 300.” Source
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Saturday Sessions: J.S. Ondara performs “Saying Goodbye”
As a teenager in Kenya, J.S. Ondara fell in love with American folk music, memorizing parts of Bob Dylan’s catalog. By 20, he’d gotten a green card, moved to Dylan’s native state of Minnesota, and launched a music career, soon opening for artists like Lindsey Buckingham and Neil Young. Earlier this year Ondara released his debut album, “Tales of America.” A deluxe version comes out later this month. J.S. Ondara joins “CBS This Morning Saturday” to make his national television debut. Source
Saturday Sessions: J.S. Ondara performs “Torch Song”
As a teenager in Kenya, J.S. Ondara fell in love with American folk music, memorizing parts of Bob Dylan’s catalog. By 20, he’d gotten a green card, moved to Dylan’s native state of Minnesota, and launched a music career, soon opening for artists like Lindsey Buckingham and Neil Young. Earlier this year Ondara released his debut album, “Tales of America.” A deluxe version comes out later this month. J.S. Ondara joins “CBS This Morning Saturday” to make his national television debut. Source
Saturday Sessions: J.S. Ondara performs “Lebanon”
As a teenager in Kenya, J.S. Ondara fell in love with American folk music, memorizing parts of Bob Dylan’s catalog. By 20, he’d gotten a green card, moved to Dylan’s native state of Minnesota, and launched a music career, soon opening for artists like Lindsey Buckingham and Neil Young. Earlier this year Ondara released his debut album, “Tales of America.” A deluxe version comes out later this month. J.S. Ondara joins “CBS This Morning Saturday” to make his national television debut. Source
Iran using advanced centrifuges, violating nuclear deal
Iran has begun using arrays of advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium in violation of its 2015 nuclear deal Source
Using DNA to track down the Loch Ness monster
New clues are emerging this morning on just what, if anything, is living in Scotland’s notorious Loch Ness. Speculation about the Loch Ness monster – nickname “Nessie” – has raged for year. But last year, professor Neil Gemmell decided to take a new approach and study the DNA of the loch. After months of research, Gemmell delivered his conclusions to the waiting media this week. Michelle Miller reports. Source
Austria plants 300 trees in a football stadium
In Austria, a real football stadium has gone back to nature. Three hundred trees have been planted on the pitch in the town of Klagenfurt to highlight the fragility of our natural world. The creator, Klaus Littmann, was inspired by looking at a 1972 dystopian painting that depicts a stadium crowd gazing on a woodland scene. Michelle Miller reports. Source
Crew members from California boat fire claim smoke alarms never went off
As federal investigators work to determine the cause of the deadly boat fire off southern California last week, the community of Santa Barbara came together to remember the victims. Efforts are underway to raise the wreckage from the sea floor and figure out what happened. In interviews with the National Transportation Safety Board, surviving crew members claimed smoke alarms on the boat, Conception, never went off. Kris Van Cleave reports. Source
Odessa high schools calm football rivalry in wake of mass shooting
The two main high schools in Odessa, Texas, have a long-running rivalry. In the football-crazed state, the conflict between Permian and Odessa High has achieved legendary status, chronicled in the book, film and TV series “Friday Night Lights.” The teams usually bring their community together by clashing on the field — but this year, after their hometown suffered a mass shooting that left seven people dead, the two teams are putting the rivalry aside. Mireya Villarreal reports. Source
Trump’s feud with weather officials over Alabama tweet ramps up
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a statement Friday to say the information they gave the president over the weekend did in fact include Alabama in their Hurricane Dorian projections. The statement also disavowed a Sunday tweet sent out by the Birmingham branch of the National Weather Service that said Alabama would not be impacted by the storm. The president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization fired back, calling NOAA’s statement “utterly disgusting and disingenuous.” Weija Jiang reports. Source