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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — An official with the company that owns and operates the El Faro says the missing cargo ship with a crew of 33 has two U.S. Coast Guard certified lifeboats that can hold 43 people each. He also says the El Faro has four life rafts which could hold 15-17 people each. Authorities lost contact with the ship southeast of the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Many residents in South Carolina's capital city are without drinking water because of water main breaks from flooding. Earlier, the city of Columbia issued a boil water advisory for all of its 375,000 customers. The powerful rainstorm has dumped more than a foot of rain on Columbia, swamping hundreds of businesses and homes and flooding roads.
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PARIS (AP) — France is urging holdout countries to submit their pledges to curb greenhouse gas pollution ahead of a major U.N. climate conference in Paris. A total of 146 nations accounting for 87 percent of global carbon emissions submitted their pledges by a U.N. deadline last week. The Nov. 30-Dec. 11 conference is aiming for an ambitious deal to slow global warming.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A teenage surfer is recovering in a hospital after being bitten on the left hand by a shark off Florida's coast. The Volusia County Beach Patrol says the 14-year-old boy was with four other surfers off New Smyrna Beach when he was bitten Sunday morning. He suffered "significant lacerations" from what was described as a 4- or 5-foot blacktip shark.
MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Co. says United Auto Workers members have approved a new six-year labor agreement that covers facilities in three states. The master labor contract covers manufacturing employees at factories in Davenport, Ankeny, Dubuque, Ottumwa and Waterloo, Iowa; East Moline, Moline and Milan, Illinois; and Coffeyville, Kansas.
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