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<ul class="summary-list"><li>An IT outage is causing global chaos, with reports that 911 services are down across several US states.</li><li>The Alaska State Troopers confirmed that 911 services are down due to a "nationwide" outage. </li></ul>Emergency lines have gone down in several US states <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-disruptions-airline-bank-london-stock-exchange-microsoft-outage-2024-7">after a massive IT outage</a> sparked chaos across the globe.Major airlines, banks, and retailers are <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-it-outage-companies-operations-airlines-affected-microsoft-crowdstrike-2024-7">experiencing widespread disruptions</a> after Microsoft reported problems with its online services, linked to an issue at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.The Alaska State Troopers service <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.facebook.com/AlaskaStateTroopersOfficial/posts/pfbid022K5MYDVWd8fKxJqbYVCm9sKz1UTCd2SB4T9z5s7tRA3ZP5cPupbg4TU6Ev4bxi5Ul?locale=en_GB">confirmed in a post on Facebook</a> that 911 and non-emergency call services were down across the state due to the "nationwide" outage, with emergency services in New Hampshire and Ohio posting similar messages."Due to a nationwide technology-related outage, many 911 and non-emergency call centers are not working correctly across the State of Alaska," the police force wrote in a Facebook post.It is unclear how widespread the outage is. Emergency services in other states also took to social media to warn of issues with 911 services.The Office of Emergency Management for the city of Nashua, New Hampshire, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.facebook.com/NashuaOEM/posts/pfbid02CP8ZLrB7hrNjPrhixpuddgaGnEmEuD5w919asZbBMoxXEow11AXgeGLJpC9T5mUsl?locale=en_GB">posted on Facebook</a> that "statewide 911 is down," while an X account for the Middletown Division of Police in Ohio wrote that they were <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/MPDOhio/status/1814185068153147489">experiencing a phone outage</a> "that includes 911."A spokesperson for the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates 911 communications, said the agency was aware of reports of 911 outages."The FCC is aware of reports of a systems outage that is causing disruptions in service, including 9-1-1. We're closely working with other federal agencies to provide assistance and determine the extent of these service disruptions," they said.Business Insider did not receive a response to a request for comment from the Alaska State Troopers, the New Hampshire Office of Emergency Management, and the Ohio State Police, which were sent outside of working hours.Details are still emerging about the scale of the global IT outage. The disruption has already impacted airlines, banks, and grocery stores worldwide.American Airlines, Delta Airlines, and United Airlines are among the airlines that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-disruptions-airline-bank-london-stock-exchange-microsoft-outage-2024-7">have issued ground stops</a> for their aircraft due to communication issues.Budget airline Frontier Airlines wrote on X on Thursday that its services were being impacted by a "major Microsoft technical outage."Early Friday, it said that the ground stop had been lifted, its systems were "gradually normalizing," and it was in the process of resuming flight operations.

Emergency services say 911 lines are down in several states as a mass IT outage causes havoc

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Democrats hope blue states can be the party's redoubt against Trump's second term.</li><li>Democrats will be in the minority in both houses of Congress in January 2025.</li></ul>With Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential election loss, President Joe Biden leaving the White House in January, and Democrats looking ahead to life in a Senate chamber that they'll no longer control, the new year will bring a new reality: the party's power in Washington, DC will be diminished.A newly empowered Donald Trump, meanwhile, is aiming to reshape the federal government to a degree that he failed to achieve in his first term. He's assembling <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-white-house-staff-cabinet-picks-list-2024-11">an array of loyalists</a> to help further his goals on everything from immigration to foreign policy.Early in Trump's first presidency, protests against his administration were common in Washington and other cities. And as Trump's first term progressed, Democrats remained laser-focused on opposing him. The party harnessed that energy to retake the House in 2018, win back the presidency in 2020, and flip the Senate in 2021.But this time, the Democratic Party appears to be coalescing around a revised strategy.Democratic officials and activists are <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/us/politics/democrats-anti-trump-battle-plan.html">hoping blue states</a> can be the center of opposition to the president-elect, The New York Times reported. From abortion rights to paid leave, the party sees its Democratic strongholds as bulwarks against Trump, especially with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-supreme-court-conservatives-election-2024-11">the US Supreme Court</a> dominated by conservative jurists.Democrats are also building up a legal operation to challenge the new administration, according to the Times. The newspaper reported that advocacy groups are rallying hundreds of attorneys to fight Trump's agenda from the start of the president-elect's second term.Skye Perryman, the CEO of Democracy Forward, a nonprofit organization created after Trump's win in 2016, told the Times that challenges to the president-elect will be different in his second term."Resistance this time is a lot more about collective power building," she said. "It's using the law and using litigation."Democrats are also already looking ahead to the 2028 election.While Democrats are <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harris-trump-blue-wall-democrats-suburban-voters-unions-2024-11">still smarting over Harris' loss</a> — and trying to assess how their party can reverse electoral gains that Trump made with working-class voters — many of the party's crop of governors have emerged as potential 2028 contenders.Democrats occupy 23 of the nation's 50 governorships, which will remain unchanged at the beginning of the year. Some of them — like Govs. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom-california-gubernatorial-recall-election-landslide-win-2021-9">Gavin Newsom</a> of California, JB Pritzker of Illinois, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan — have long been considered White House aspirants.For Democrats, the focus on states will give many of these leaders a platform as Trump aims to enact a conservative agenda in a nation that remains politically divided. Harris easily won California and Illinois in the general election, but she lost Michigan — a state that for years had been <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harris-trump-blue-wall-economic-message-unions-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin-2024-10">part of the party's vaunted blue wall</a> — by about 1.4 points.After the election, Newsom called a special session, which will begin on December 2 in Sacramento, to boost the state's legal resources to challenge the incoming administration on issues like abortion, civil rights, climate regulations, and immigration.Pritzker <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/11/07/pritzker-donald-trump-second-term-defend-illinois-remarks">pledged to work</a> with the Trump administration but also called himself a "warrior" for his state."To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom, opportunity, and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior," the governor, now in his second term, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/GovPritzker/status/1854686495975551159">wrote on X</a>. "You come for my people — you come through me."Meanwhile, Whitmer reiterated that she worked with Trump during her first term and would find a way to do so again."We'll figure out how to work with a Trump administration into this last two years of my term," she told reporters after the election.

Democrats are hoping blue states can hold the line in their battle against Trump's second-term agenda

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Baltimore bridge collapse is indicative of the country's struggling infrastructure.</li><li>Approaches to the bridge's rebuilding could help improve other construction projects.</li></ul>A key feature is missing over the Patapsco River in Baltimore. The water still glistens, and cargo ships still pass by on their way in and out of the port. But the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-lawsuit-baltimore-francis-scott-key-bridge-ship-crash-2024-9">Francis Scott Key Bridge</a>, which had spanned the river since 1977, is no longer there.In March, a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-we-know-dali-francis-scott-crash-collapse-maryland-bridge-2024-3">container ship</a> crashed into one of the bridge's piers. The bridge <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/francis-scott-key-bridge-no-chance-against-large-impact-experts-2024-3">collapsed</a>, killing six people. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/baltimore-bridge-collapse-response-timing-mayday-call-saved-lives-2024-3">Rescue efforts</a> began immediately, and local authorities sprang into action to keep commerce and traffic flowing.Now, six months out, the conversation has shifted from <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wes-moore-interview-baltimore-port-key-bridge-collapse-supply-chains-2024-4">recovery</a> to rebuilding. The Maryland Transportation Authority board <a target="_blank" href="https://mdta.maryland.gov/blog-category/mdta-news-releases/mdta-board-approves-progressive-design-build-contract-francis">approved a $73 million phase-one contract</a> with Kiewit Infrastructure West Co., a firm with a long history of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kiewit.com/markets/transportation/bridges/">bridge projects</a>. The rebuild is expected to begin next year, with the replacement bridge scheduled to open in fall 2028.James Harkness, the chief engineer for the Maryland Transportation Authority, told Business Insider the phase-one contract was one of the biggest milestones to date on the bridge-rebuilding project."We are beginning to meet the new team, get acquainted, and start design concepts in earnest," Harkness said.As the project gets underway, insights are emerging on how to reconstruct the Francis Scott Key Bridge to best future-proof the roadway for supporting local transportation and global supply chains. Baltimore project teams could draw from US bridge projects in the recent past and consider new risks in today's society.<h2 id="fcb7f918-af82-424b-8798-edfb2bc63ccf">Lessons from bridge to bridge</h2>Baltimore and other bridge tragedies over the years have raised alarms on infrastructure nationwide. For decades, "our nation has sunk into <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/baltimore-bridge-fracture-critical-vulnerable-collapse-2024-3">ignoring the status of its bridges</a>," with maintenance falling by the wayside, said Barry LePatner, a construction attorney, the founder of LePatner &amp; Associates, and the author of "Too Big to Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward."In its 2021 Report Card for America's Infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers said that about 46,000 of the country's bridges, or 7.5%, were in <a target="_blank" href="https://infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/bridges-infrastructure/">poor condition</a> and that 42% of bridges were at least 50 years old.The impact of deteriorating infrastructure extends beyond the initial damage from a collapse, reverberating to surrounding communities. In Baltimore, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-fedex-deliveries-baltimore-could-be-impacted-by-bridge-collapse-2024-3">businesses on either side of the bridge took a hit</a> as traffic was redirected to the city's tunnels and other roads.<div type="image" title="Police car blocking off an entrance to the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland." height="2187" width="3281" msid="113607063" hostid="261" sizebytes="590462"></div>"If there's a diner on either side of the bridge that collapsed, those diners don't have any business," LePatner said, adding that local businesses and communities could face millions of dollars in "economic harm," depending on how long repairs and reconstruction took.The Baltimore bridge collapse reminded many in the industry of a 1980 tragedy in Tampa, Florida, where a freighter struck the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/pinellas/2024/03/28/sunshine-skyway-baltimore-bridge-collapse-dolphins-barriers/">Sunshine Skyway Bridge</a>, causing it to collapse. The incident prompted US government officials to publish requirements for new structures in the 1990s, including the addition of fenders to help bridges withstand a ship collision. But older bridges were grandfathered in."There are many changes since the late '60s, early '70s when Key Bridge was permitted and designed, so we're going to be meeting or exceeding all of the current standards for the new bridge," Harkness said.The Federal Highway Administration classified the Baltimore bridge, along with thousands of others in the US, as "fracture-critical." This term describes bridges with nonredundant components or connections, meaning the structures rely on individual parts to support them."That means if one piece breaks, the entire bridge goes down," LePatner said.LePatner pointed to the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge as a standout example, which replaced the Tappan Zee Bridge, north of New York City, in 2018. The Tappan Zee, built in the '50s, was also fracture-critical and at risk of collapsing.While the bridge isn't near a seaport like the Key Bridge, the new Cuomo bridge was "built with all the redundancies," LePatner said, adding: "It's state of the art."<h2 id="45e9f35a-a748-432f-9497-71eec2ed98fd">An era of new risk</h2>Some experts view the original construction of Baltimore's Key Bridge in the '70s as well done for its time. Vessel traffic was less frequent, and cargo ships were smaller and lighter. Standards didn't require bridges to account for the risk of ship collision, said Michael Shields, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore."The risk to major bridges today is very different than it was in the 1970s," Shields said.It wasn't until 2016, when an expansion of the Panama Canal opened, that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-increasing-size-of-container-ships-collapsed-baltimore-bridge-2024-3">megaships</a> started to transit the waterways. The newer ships are about 235 feet longer than the older ones, and they can carry <a target="_blank" href="https://www.aapa-ports.org/files/Panamax%20vs%20Post-Panamax%20comparison%20article.pdf">12,000 shipping containers</a>, making them significantly heavier than older vessels transporting 4,500 containers."Nobody ever envisioned the size of the ships today," said Bill Doyle, the CEO of the Dredging Contractors of America and a former executive director of the Port of Baltimore. "The size and the mass and the weight of that ship — it's taking something down" if it collides with a bridge, he added.The change to ships, along with growth in global trade and e-commerce, has driven an increase in cargo tonnage at many US ports, including the Port of Baltimore.Before the bridge collapse, Baltimore's tonnage hovered around <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://opendata.maryland.gov/Transportation/Maryland-Port-Administration-General-Cargo/2ir4-626w/data_preview">700,000 container tons a month</a>, Maryland's Open Data Portal found. Before the Panama Canal expansion, the figures were closer to 500,000. Shields said his research indicated that the Key Bridge was among "the most heavily trafficked bridges for extremely large ships in the US."<h2 id="20eccb2d-ce52-4ab8-8aa0-f8ac93407689">Building for the future</h2>Experts expect the Baltimore rebuild team to consider the risk of ship collision, the construction of redundancies, and ongoing maintenance.With large, heavy cargo ships going under the bridge, LePatner predicts the eventual Key Bridge may be supported from one end of the ground to the other across the waterway, instead of with piers. That way, in the event of a ship collision, there may be damage but not an entire collapse.Doyle hopes to see a holistic approach that focuses on the bridge's engineering and design, as well as the operations of ships passing beneath it. That includes using tugboats to guide massive ships. Doyle said he suspected if tugboats had helped guide the ship in and out of the Port of Baltimore on the day of the crash, the collision may not have happened.Shields advised doing an assessment of ship-collision risk ahead of the Baltimore rebuild and for future bridge projects. Across the US, "we don't currently have a good enough understanding of the risks to make informed decisions about what protections are appropriate for a given bridge — new or existing," Shields said.As the project gets underway, the lessons learned in conducting risk assessments and designing the bridge could serve as a guide for rebuilding other parts of America's infrastructure."Everyone is watching this project," Harkness said. "It's of national and international interest."

6 months after Baltimore's bridge collapse, lessons are emerging for a rebuild

New Delhi: <keyword id="23094102" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ingka-Centres" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Ingka Centres" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Ingka Centres">Ingka Centres</keyword>, a part of Ingka Group that operates <keyword id="19948265" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="IKEA" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="IKEA" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="IKEA">IKEA</keyword> retail, will invest 607 million euros (about Rs 5,500 crore) to set up its second meeting place in India at <keyword id="19895934" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Noida" source="keywords">Noida</keyword> under the <keyword id="23094103" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lykli" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Lykli" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Lykli">Lykli</keyword> brand, taking its overall <keyword id="19895437" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="investment" source="keywords">investment</keyword> in the country to a 1 billion euros, according to the company's Global Expansion &amp; Development Director Sebastian Hylving. It is betting big on the Indian market and is looking at expanding where IKEA plans to open its outlets in the country, although the opening of its first meeting place in Gurugram -- Lykli Gurugram -- has been pushed to 2026 from the originally planned opening in late 2025. The company on Monday unveiled the second IKEA-anchored meeting place in India at Noida which will offer a blend of retail, dining, hospitality, co-working spaces, entertainment, and cultural experiences tailored to the needs of modern urban residents. "It (Lykli Noida) is at an investment of 607 million euro...that investment is purely for the Noida project, and then we have an investment for GMP (Gurugram meeting place) as well. So I think it's around 1 billion (euro) in total for the two first projects and we don't see that it will stop with these two centres," Hylving told PTI in an interview. Last year the company had announced that it planned to open the first meeting place, Lykli Gurugram -- where it is investing 400 million euros (around Rs 3,500 crore), in late 2025. On the timeline for the opening of Lykli Gurugram, he said, "We had an intention (for late 2025). When you start up a project at an early stage, you set the target but once you get closer to understanding the full process, then you see what is achievable. So, 2026 is what we're talking for the opening of Lykli Gurugram." Elaborating further on the roadmap for Ingka Centres in India, he said, "We are looking for more opportunities, both brownfield and greenfield opportunities...We follow IKEA's expansion..." India is among the top three markets globally for IKEA and it will continue to be. There are big opportunities in India -- a big country with a lot of positive signals in terms of market growth, high education level, good qualified people, demographics is shifting in the right direction, he added. "We are looking at the locations where IKEA is now looking for opportunities. Sometimes it's possible, sometimes it's not. The cities that IKEA are looking at expanding, that is also cities that are on our map. If we can find a way together, then that's our preferred approach forward," Hylving said. On Lykli Noida, he said it will create 9,000 jobs and it will be Ingka Centres' first meeting place in the world with a hotel as part of the mixed-use development. "We're looking at opening in 2028," he said adding Lykli Noida will have around 240 partners, a hotel with 267 keys and two office towers. It is expected to attract more than 25 million visitors, Ingka Centres said. Ingka Centres offers shopping places, office space, food and beverage outlets and social activities collaborating with the local community. It works with over 3,000 brands across its portfolio of 35 meeting places in 13 markets globally. <keyword id="20385220" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="IKEA-India" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="IKEA India" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="IKEA India">IKEA India</keyword> CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer Susanne Pulverer said,"IKEA has a long-term commitment to Delhi NCR to create a positive impact on the local economy through our business. The unveiling of Lykli Noida is a major milestone in our India growth journey." Together with Ingka Centres, IKEA will become a strong contributor to increase the overall home furnishing market and bring a unique retail experience, she added. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the unveiling of Lykli in Noida marks a significant step forward in the development of the state as a hub of modern urban living. "The project not only reflects the growth and development of Noida but also aligns with our vision of creating sustainable, community-focused spaces across the state," he added.

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