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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Oct 8, 2019
October 8, 2019
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Have you ever heard of the "Fire Challenge"? Like the ice water challenge or car-surfing challenge, it's a dangerous teen social media challenge in which flammable liquids are applied to someone's body and then set on fire; the result posted on social media. The first known example reportedly was posted back in 2012; last week 12-year-old JASON CLEARY suffered second-degree burns when he was set on fire at a friend's house in Dearborn Heights, MI.
You may have seen "Jeopardy!" host ALEX TREBEK's recent interview in which he said his skills "have started to diminish." As you probably know, Alex, who's now 79-years-old, is battling pancreatic cancers, and had another round of chemotherapy in September despite news he was in remission several months ago. He told CTV last week "I will keep doing ("Jeopardy") as long as my skills do not diminish, and they have started to diminish," noting that he's begun slurring his words and his tongue "doesn't work as well as it used to."
His contract runs until 2020 and he's hosted the show for 36 seasons --nearly eight-thousand episodes. But now, apparently, the end is in sight.Good news for the CW, whose "Batwoman" show premiered on Sunday with 1.8 million total viewers. That's up 20 percent from "Supergirl's" season opener last year in the same time slot.
Another fast-food highlight for Halloween: Krispy Kreme has announced its brand-new Monster Batch collection of brightly colored Halloween doughnuts. They are
--Slimon, a Slime Monster Doughnut which is one of their regular glazed doughnut but filled with lemon slime, then dipped in spooky green icing along with a green Kreme dollop and covered in "slime."
--Hypno-Henry, a doughnut filled with cake batter, then dipped in yellow icing and orange sanding sugar with a swirl of icing. And
--Mumford – one of their original glazed doughnuts "wrapped" in purple icing.
You can buy them up until Halloween and some locations will also give you a free doughnut if you come in wearing a costume on Halloween. -
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