Don Pessin

Duty News Editor for Reuters Video News in North America. My job is to stay extremely caffeinated, and to 'monitor the situation.'

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חג שמח לכולם! 🇮🇱❤️

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JUST IN: Somaliland to open embassy in Jerusalem, Israel.

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I'm logged into the Truth Social app but having trouble logging on via web browser (laptop). Just me or is it a wider issue? @downdetector ?

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It’s my second time @hilleastburger. The first time there was a pop up so it doesn’t count. The burgers are incredible. Best meal in town. w/@CiancioReporter

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@hecht_noah29945 @baronsbaseball @DMVProspectsBSB @Mr_Schlen @JNaill8 @LedgerPBR @XposureBSB Maybe I'm old school, but I believe in clutch hitting. Knocking in RISP is important! Game-winning RBIs... are what win games. Some players feel that pressure and wilt. But what's also important? Plate discipline and the walks show that too.

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@hecht_noah29945 @baronsbaseball @DMVProspectsBSB @Mr_Schlen @JNaill8 @LedgerPBR @XposureBSB Wow. What a line!! Great day! Keep grinding!

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This is pretty close to my office situation.

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People on X monitoring the war situation all over the world

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@XposureBSB @hecht_noah29945 @baronsbaseball @Xposure_Sports @kcbamaboy13 @DylanYoung_7 @hecht_noah29945 was that a curve? did you hit it square?

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@hecht_noah29945 MONSTER tournament! 1200 OPS is obscene!! Top 5 hitter for the entire tournament? Way to go!!

[Noah Hecht @hecht_noah29945]

Just finished a great tournament with @DMVProspectsBSB in the @PG_VirginiaWV WWBA Chesapeake championship. Hit .444 AVG with 8 hits, 1 HR, 1 3B and a 1.216 OPS.

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From the Brightline Safety and Security Team: Railroad safety is a community wide effort. For everyone’s safety, never drive around crossing gates when they are down.

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About this time I was on the phone with @bengrubermedia “sure. I’ll go first thing in the morning”. W/@kevfog1

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The Hurricane Hunters took this image inside the eye of Hurricane KATRINA 19 years ago today.

At this time, KATRINA was near peak intensity, with winds of 175 mph and a pressure of 902 mb.

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Yes, it was about this time that our hotel on Canal Street decided it would not honor our reservation. W/@kevfog1

[Rob Perillo @robperillo]

On this date 19 years ago, Hurricane Katrina's huge 30 mile wide eye was sporting 175 mph winds...even though Katrina officially made landfall as a Cat 3 with 125 mph winds on the 29th, this huge storm already had written that it was going to bring a tremendous and record-breaking storm surge.

At it's most intense on the 28th, the pressure was down to 902mb/26.64" and was likely producing peak waves over 100 feet in the Gulf of Mexico...the surge along the Mississippi Coast reached a record 27 feet that penetrated inland some 6-12 miles.

With the levee failures in the New Orleans area the storm became the most costliest on record with 200 billion dollars in damage, and tragically, an estimated 1,836 fatalities.

23 days later a more intense Hurricane Rita (180mph/885mb max) struck the Louisiana Coast as a Cat 3 bringing a huge storm surge that covered more than 1500 square miles of coast and up to 30 miles inland.

Hurricane Wilma a month later (183mph/882mb max) went on to become more intense than both Katrina and Rita.

I'll never forget covering that storm and its aftermath...

Let's hope we never see another season like 2005... #lawx #HurricaneKatrina

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I have to admit I was having second thoughts driving into the city with @kevfog1 passing all the gridlock in the outbound lanes.

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19 years ago this morning, the most spine tingling warning I've ever read from a NWS office was released from New Orleans.

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@LAYS wait. Was that song “Want More” by @JCBrooksBand in your commercial just now?

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It's amazing to see it get so organize, then to see how much moisture it carried all the way into New England the Canadian Maritimes.

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This imagery spanning the last 16 days showcases Hurricane Beryl- from its formation as a tropical storm, through the post-tropical severe weather and flooding it brought to eastern North America.

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@NOAA_HurrHunter @fox8news pls double-check that link above. Appears broken on my end. Thank you.

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Not every day you look up and see @MrChuckD standing next to @SecBlinken at the @StateDept . @PublicEnemyFTP #music

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.@SecBlinken delivers remarks and participates in an U.S. Global Music Ambassadors event. https://t.co/X4Hzs1Mjxd https://t.co/PduLXQfYQN

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@michaelh992 Kindly follow so I can DM? Thanks!