6th October - Today's News: Deadly Floods in Southern Italy

In Italy, Calabria flooding claims mother and son with another young child missing


In Japan today it hit 35.5 C - Niigata Pref sees record high temperature for October. That's a national month record, unlike the US local day records. 




And the gathering storm over how hurricanes are measured - the Saffir-Simpson scale is based on windspeed, but often it's the rain and tidal surge that is most devastating to life and property,

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