What to know now:
1. Hermine hits Florida: Hurricane Hermine made landfall overnight in the Big Bend area of Florida, bringing 80 mph winds, rain and rising surf. Reports of power outages were growing as the storm moved onshore near Tallahassee. Hermine, now a tropical storm, was the first hurricane to hit Florida in more than 11 years.
2. Galaxy Note 7 battery problems: Sales of the Galaxy Note 7 were suspended Friday, just two weeks after it hit shelves, on reports that the batteries in some of the smartphones exploded as they were being charged. Samsung has stopped selling the latest in the highly successful line of smartphones in 10 countries including the United States, the Associated Press is reporting. According to Samsung, customers who bought Note 7 phones will be able to swap them for new smartphones no matter when they were purchased.
3. Turner to be released: Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who was sentenced to six months for sexually assaulting a classmate behind a dumpster, will be released from jail Friday, after serving three months of his sentence. The case drew national attention for its lenient sentence. The judge in the case is facing a recall effort.
4. SpaceX explosion: The rocket set to carry a satellite into space for Facebook exploded Thursday during what was called a routine test. The massive explosion at the SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida destroyed the satellite and the rocket, and could be felt miles away, according to witnesses. The blast is the second launch pad accident for SpaceX in a year.
5. Schedule to be turned over: The State Department says it will turn over to The Associated Press all of Hillary Clinton's planning schedules during the time she served as secretary of state. The schedules offer a minute-by-minute look at Clinton's daily routine while she was in charge of the department. The State Department had said it would not release the schedules before the general election on Nov. 8. Clinton was secretary of state between 2009 and 2013.
And one more
Georgetown University announced Thursday that in an attempt to atone for profits made in slave trading, it will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits who started the school. In 1838, 272 men, women and children were sold for $115,000 to pay off debts at the school. The slaves were sent to Louisiana.
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