A Rockdale County environmental official suddenly collapsed and died following his public testimony regarding the toxic chemical plume from the BioLab facility in Conyers. Kenny Johnson, the Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor, spoke during a meeting at the Coverdell Legislative Office Building. He later collapsed near the state Capitol. Johnson, 62, was rushed to the hospital, where he passed away. Georgia environmental official collapses and dies near state capitol after testifying about toxic BioLab fire https://t.co/GRUHMxYSOT pic.twitter.com/2BPVuwj3mD — New York Post (@nypost) October 9, 2024 11 Alive reports: According to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, Johnson died at Grady Memorial Hospital. The ME said that due to the circumstances of the incident, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has agreed to accept the case. A cause of death is still pending, as an autopsy needs to be completed. According to his LinkedIn, Johnson has been the Georgia State Representative of Rockdale Soil and Water Conservation—District Supervisor since January 2019. It also mentioned that he graduated from Jackson State University with a Bachelor of Applied Science, Quality Control and Safety Technologies/Technicians. JUST IN – Georgia environmental official Johnson reportedly collapses and dies after giving testimony about toxic BioLab fire pic.twitter.com/47tX9RLZlN — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 9, 2024 “Kenny Johnson, a Georgia environmental official, tragically collapsed and died shortly after testifying about the BioLab chemical fire near Atlanta. The 62-year-old had just addressed a public meeting on the toxic blaze, which spread dangerous chlorine gas and forced 17,000 people to evacuate. Moments before collapsing, Johnson, an outspoken advocate for environmental safety, had complained of shortness of breath,” Shadow of Ezra wrote. “He was rushed to the hospital but did not survive. Now, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into his sudden death. Johnson had been actively pushing for BioLab’s closure, warning of its environmental dangers. He died shortly after speaking at this meeting,” the post added. WATCH: Kenny Johnson, a Georgia environmental official, tragically collapsed and died shortly after testifying about the BioLab chemical fire near Atlanta. The 62-year-old had just addressed a public meeting on the toxic blaze, which spread dangerous chlorine gas and forced 17,000… pic.twitter.com/pjlKg9dMLl — Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) October 9, 2024 From the New York Post: State Rep. Viola Davis, a nurse by profession, administered CPR while waiting for EMS to arrive. “Kenny dedicated years as the Soil and Water Conservation District representative and as an environmental justice advocate,” Davis said. “His unwavering commitment to environmental justice and his testimony on the effects of the Biolab chemical fire on the community remain etched in our memories.” Johnson was one of a growing number of local Georgia officials and lawmakers calling for BioLab to shut its doors after the fire forced 17,000 to evacuate the area and around 90,000 more to shelter in place as the toxic plume spread. “I knew that this was going to happen,” Johnson told reporters Monday. “We have an environmental disaster.” The blaze erupted on Sept. 29 — just days after Hurricane Helene decimated the community — when a malfunctioning fire sprinkler head sprayed water on volatile chemicals, sparking a chain reaction that ended in a sky-high eruption of multicolored toxic smoke visible from 30 miles away, officials said. The chlorine gas wrought havoc in the area throughout the week as crews battled the fire, forcing thousands to hide in their homes or leave the area completely. As of Wednesday, those within two miles of BioLab were still under shelter-in-place orders from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. based on air monitoring data, according to the company and local officials. “Rockdale County Emergency Management Agency lifts shelter in place except for the two-mile radius around Biolab. This recommendation is based on data over the last five consecutive days. Readings have not indicated exceedances of chemicals in the air that would require sheltering in place for areas outside of the two-mile radius. This two-mile radius includes a half-mile buffer zone,” Rockdale County stated in a press release Monday. “Rockdale County residents and businesses within a 2-mile radius of Biolab should continue to shelter in place from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am until further notice. This recommendation reduces the number of those affected by the shelter-in-place and alleviates the associated obstacles. Air monitoring will continue across the county, including areas around schools, nursing homes, and other sensitive areas. General monitoring will continue throughout the county,” it added. Watch full meeting below:

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Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy hit back on Tuesday after Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — now pulling double duty as a senior advisor to President Joe Biden — referred to his question about hurricane aid as “misinformation.” The official Fox News X account shared video of Doocy briefly explaining what had happened — and why he believed his question was a legitimate one. WATCH: .@pdoocy brought receipts to hit back against the White House’s “misinformation” claims against him. pic.twitter.com/hM4Q5SldHj — Fox News (@FoxNews) October 9, 2024 “Peter Doocy here outside the West Wing, where this week, one of my questions about foreign aid versus hurricane relief was called ‘misinformation,'” Doocy began, and then shared a clip of the exchange. “President Biden is fond of saying, ‘Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value.’ If he’s got money for people in Lebanon right now without Congress having to come back, what does it say about his values [if] there’s not enough money right now for people in North Carolina who need it?” Doocy asked. “His values?” Jean-Pierre asked. “That’s not misinformation,” Doocy said. “No, it is,” Jean-Pierre objected. “Your whole premise of the question is misinformation, sir!” “Excuse me?” Doocy shot back. “What part?” The camera cut back to Doocy, who held up a piece of paper: “I’ve got the information right here. The vice president is posting on social media about $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon. President Biden is posting about how the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program is going to run out of funding if Congress does not come back.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “To a lot of people watching these briefings, a taxpayer dollar is a taxpayer dollar is a taxpayer dollar,” Doocy continued, noting that the average American isn’t going to care that the money going to Lebanon — or to fund the resettlement of illegal migrants, for that matter — was previously designated as such if Americans are suffering and the government does not appear to be moving heaven and earth to help them first.

Former President Donald Trump called for an investigation into CBS News’ “60 Minutes” after the news program was caught deceptively editing an answer that Vice President Kamala Harris gave regarding relations between the U.S. and Israel. “I’ve never seen this before, but the producers of 60 Minutes sliced and diced (‘cut and pasted’) Lyin’ Kamala’s answers to questions, which were virtually incoherent, over and over again,” Trump posted on Truth Social. Trump said that he believes “60 Minutes” did so as part of an illegal effort to boost Harris in the race, adding that it also could be a campaign finance violation. “This is a stain on the reputation of 60 Minutes that is not recoverable – It will always remain with this once storied brand,” he said. “I have never heard of such a thing being done in ‘News.’ It is the very definition of FAKE NEWS! The public is owed a MAJOR AND IMMEDIATE APOLOGY! This is an open and shut case, and must be investigated, starting today!” Trump’s post comes after the show released two contradictory responses from Harris in response to remarks made by host Bill Whitaker. The moment happened when Whitaker was discussing with Harris the United States’ financial support for Israel in its war against genocidal Islamic terrorists in the region. “But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” Whitaker said to Harris. In a promotional clip that was posted by CBS News on Sunday, Harris responded to that statement from Whitaker by saying: “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.” WATCH (relevant portion starts at 1:36): Monday, on a 60 Minutes election special, Bill Whitaker asks Vice President Kamala Harris if the U.S. lacks influence over American ally Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://t.co/TG3WOCA23A pic.twitter.com/IH6MXMjuCP — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 6, 2024 However, when the full interview was published by the network on Monday night, that statement from Harris was nowhere to be found. Those words were not included anywhere in the television broadcast nor did they appear in the interview when it was posted on YouTube, the interview’s transcript, or the show’s “Overtime” segment. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Instead, on television and in the interview posted online, Whitaker’s identical statement that “it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” is followed by Harris saying: “We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.” WATCH (relevant portion begins at 1:19): With just 29 days until Election Day, Bill Whitaker sits down with Vice President Kamala Harris. One year after Hamas’ terror attack on Israel, Whitaker starts by asking Harris what the U.S. can do to prevent an all-out regional war in the Middle East. https://t.co/NsOjzQIL5O pic.twitter.com/dRruqbEaqg — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 8, 2024 Related: Trump Demands CBS Release Full Kamala ‘60 Minutes’ Interview After Footage Deceptively Altered

Fox News has reached out to former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to give them one more chance to debate days before the election. Fox News Media announced on Wednesday that it has offered the presidential candidates a chance to debate in Pennsylvania on either Thursday, October 24, or Sunday, October 27. The news channel said that Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum would moderate the debate. “This would present an opportunity for each candidate to make his or her closing arguments,” said Fox News Media President & Executive Editor Jay Wallace and Vice President of Politics Jessica Loker. As of Wednesday afternoon, neither candidate had publicly agreed to either of the debate dates proposed by Fox News. Trump will reportedly hold a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27. In their comments, Wallace and Loker pointed to New York Times Opinion Senior Editor David Swerdlick calling for Harris to debate Trump on Fox News. “She’s made strategic appearances on the podcasts ‘Call Her Daddy’ and ‘All the Smoke.’ Her new direct-to-camera ad is strong,” Swerdlick wrote in an opinion piece published on Tuesday. “But she hasn’t made her closing argument yet. And the best way for her to do that is in another debate. To persuade Donald Trump to join her, she should offer to hold that debate on Fox News.” Harris did not agree to debate Trump on Fox News on September 4. The September 4 debate was initially scheduled to take place between Trump and President Joe Biden on ABC until Biden dropped out of the race following his disastrous debate against Trump on June 27. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Two days after Trump and Harris met for the first time on the debate stage, the Republcian nominee said he would not debate Harris again. “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Shortly after the vice presidential debate last week, the Harris campaign said that “the American people deserve to see her and Trump on the debate stage one more time.” Trump again shot down Harris’ attempts to hold another presidential debate, saying, “Lyin’ Kamala just put out a request for another Debate because they lost so badly tonight – Again, it’s like the fighter who lost, gets up and says, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.'” “I beat Biden, I then beat her, and I’m not looking to do it again, too far down the line,” he added. “Votes are already cast – And I’m leading BIG in the Polls. I’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, she’s incapable of it!”

Emmy-winning star James Woods said he’s gotten a “second act” in his life after he started writing songs and working with the late country singer Waylon Jennings’ son, musician/record producer Shooter Jennings, to make an album about his life. In a behind-the-scenes clip shared recently on YouTube, the 77-year-old actor explained how his album “Hear The Thunder Crack” became a reality after crossing paths one night with Shooter who, after hearing Woods’ life experiences, wanted to put the star’s words to music. “And then he asked me the question that literally changed my life,” Woods said of Jennings, which was, “did you ever try writing any lyrics.” Shooter replied, “I just felt like you had so many good stories to tell and it sounded like a fun idea to hear what lyrics would be like.” The “Casino” star said he decided to try it and wrote “Misty Morning” one day. He then figured why not send it to Shooter. Weeks went by and he didn’t hear a thing and was totally embarrassed. However, Jennings did end up finally sending Woods a file of the song and when he heard it, everything changed. “I can’t even express what it feels like to have your words put in music,” Woods said. “He [Shooter] sang it so beautifully.” “When I wrote so many songs at once, I don’t know where it came from,” he added. “But when I got a chance to say something, just say it, without somebody telling me how to say it or what to say, man, the dam broke.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Woods said after being “blacklisted” in Hollywood following his pro-former President Donald Trump-leanings, this has felt like a “second act in my life.” “‘Hear The Thunder Crack: The life of James Woods sung by Shooter Jennings’ is an expansive poetic journey into the mind and life of legendary Hollywood icon James Woods, put to music by multiple Grammy-winning composer/producer/singer Shooter Jennings,” a description on YouTube read. “Over a period of three years Jennings weaved the lyrics and poetry written by Woods into a sweeping musical biography,” it added. “Recorded at Dave’s Room Studios in North Hollywood, CA, with James and the Highway Storm Orchestra as his backing band, Shooter sang and performed the album as the tape rolled. The result is ‘Hear The Thunder Crack,’ an unusual but powerful collaboration between two unlikely friends.” “Forrest Gump” star Gary Sinise also shared the news, writing on X, “In 1989, I was fortunate to snag a part in the made-for-TV film ‘My Name is Bill W’ with James Woods, and we have been good pals ever since. Jimmy was powerful in the film and won an Emmy for that role.” “After a ton of great work in film and TV, he’s now writing songs with Shooter Jennings for their album ‘Hear the Thunder Crack,’” he added, including a link to the YouTube clip. “Hear the Thunder Crack” comes out October 18.