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• Local musician helping animals impacted by two major hurricanes

  09-09-2017 17:37 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) –Jeff Levine is a musician. He loves creating music, and hanging with the guys. Squeakelberry is just one of those guys. Levine said, “This is my guy, I mean he’s my best friend.”
  Levine suffers from mitochondrial disease, which effects his energy levels. Along with vitamins and proper nutrition he was given a service dog which changed his life in more ways than one. Levine said, “I’m so lucky, every day that I wake up to him, it’s a
  
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• Forecasters say Irma’s prime target is now Tampa, not Miami

  09-09-2017 14:56 via wivb.com
  MIAMI (AP) — With the window closing fast for anyone wanting to escape, Irma hurtled toward Florida with 125 mph winds Saturday on a new projected track that could put the Tampa area – not Miami – in the crosshairs.
  The Tampa area has not taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in nearly a century.
  “You need to leave – not tonight, not in an hour, right now,” Gov. Rick Scott warned residents in the evacuation zones ahead of the storm’s predicted arriva
  
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• After raking Caribbean, dangerous Irma targets Florida

  09-09-2017 14:56 via wivb.com
  ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — After battering Cuba early Saturday and leaving more than 20 dead across the Caribbean, a dangerous Irma is taking aim at south Florida with winds nearing 160 mph (257 kph) as another hurricane follows close behind.
  Irma regained Category 5 status overnight, then dropped back to Category 4 early Saturday as thousands of people in the Caribbean fought desperately to find shelter or escape their storm-blasted islands and more than 6 million people in Florida
  
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• Pedestrian struck at Amherst intersection

  09-09-2017 14:40 via wivb.com
  Amherst, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Williamsville man died after he was struck by a vehicle Friday night.
  Police say 68-year-old Jeffrely Lyons was struck while crossing Maple Road near Hopkins Road just after 11 p.m. Lyons sustained multiple injuries and died at the scene.
  No charges have been filed against the driver. The accident remains under investigation.
   
   
  
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• Pedestrian hit and killed at Amherst intersection

  09-09-2017 14:40 via wivb.com
  AMHERST N.Y. (WIVB) — A Williamsville man died after he was struck by a vehicle Friday night.
  Police say 68-year-old Jeffrely Lyons was struck while crossing Maple Road near Hopkins Road just after 11 p.m. Lyons sustained multiple injuries and died at the scene.
  No charges have been filed against the driver. The accident remains under investigation.
   
   
  
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• Sabres drop game one of Prospect Challenge to Devils in OT

  09-09-2017 05:53 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – It was a packed house at HarborCenter on Friday night as the future of the Sabres took the ice against the prospects from the New Jersey Devils.
  It was a thrilling first period with New Jersey scoring first on a Ryan Kujawinski goal six minutes into the action. Ten minutes later the Sabres found the net, and the equalizer, off the stick of Cliff Pu.
  The star of the night for the Sabres was Colin Blackwell who found the net twice, including a goal that put Buffalo ahe
  
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• WNY native will ride out Irma with her family

  09-09-2017 05:51 via wivb.com
  LAKE MARY, FLORIDA — (WIVB) — A Western New York native will ride out Hurricane Irma in her Florida home, even though she and her family were prepared to evacuate and had been rounding up supplies several days ago.
  Michelle Valiquette Wilson, whose parents live in Silver Creek, says the massive migration of evacuees northward in Florida has left her Central Florida area with clogged roads and very little gasoline. They were concerned about getting stranded on the highway where traffi
  
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• Floridians flee to Buffalo to escape Hurricane Irma

  09-09-2017 05:18 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Many travelers have finally made it to Buffalo Friday night after several flight delays. The last flight out of Fort Lauderdale landed at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport around 7 p.m. and those passengers say they’re lucky to have made it out of Florida.
  Adam Eisenberg was anxious to see his family, who flew in from Fort Lauderdale Friday.
  “My family was running away from hurricane Irma,” said Adam Eisenberg, who just moved to Syracuse for wor
  
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• Hurricane Irma: “Nowhere in the Florida Keys will be safe,” NWS warns

  09-09-2017 04:48 via wivb.com
  (CBS) – The National Weather Service in Key West issued a stark warning Friday that “NOWHERE IN THE FLORIDA KEYS WILL BE SAFE” when Hurricane Irma brings its wrath to the tropical islands.
  “THIS IS AS REAL AS IT GETS,” the agency tweeted Friday. “YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO EVACUATE.”
  The string of islands were nearly empty Friday as the hurricane moved closer. Hurricane and storm surge warnings were in effect and mandatory evacuation orde
  
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• Caribbean island of Barbuda reduced to rubble by Hurricane Irma

  09-09-2017 04:10 via wivb.com
  BARBUDA — The island of Barbuda was once a Caribbean paradise. Now, it is lost. Hurricane Irma has reduced it to rubble. The ruins lie scattered, torn and ripped apart, reports BBC News’ Laura Bicker.
  Having survived the worst storm in living memory, and knowing another is on the way, people are exhausted, hungry — and just desperate to leave.
  Hurricane Irma smashing Caribbean on way to Florida
  “It’s, the whole, everybody, Barbuda, it’s jus
  
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• New York AG — among others — examining massive Equifax hack

  09-09-2017 03:17 via wivb.com
  (CBS) – New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced on Friday that his office is investigating Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agency that was the target of a massive cyber attack in the summer, which has likely exposed personal information of up to 140 million people across the U.S.
  In a press release, Schneiderman said he sent a letter to Equifax on Friday inquiring about the company’s established safeguards before the attack and how it alerted affected customer
  
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• 5.6 million told to evacuate Florida due to Irma

  09-09-2017 01:27 via wivb.com
  (AP) – Florida has asked 5.6 million people to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irma, or more than one quarter of the state’s population, according to state emergency officials.
  Andrew Sussman, the state’s hurricane program manager, said Friday the total includes people throughout the southern half of the state as well as those living in inland Florida in substandard housing who were also told leave due to the dangerous storm that will slam the state this weekend.
  Florida is the nat
  
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• WNY leaders: Bring Amazon HQ here

  09-09-2017 01:05 via wivb.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Amazon is dangling a five billion dollar carrot to cities and states across the country to house its second headquarters in North America.
  And, like dozens of other locations across the country, Western New York is getting in on the action.
  As of Friday, Erie County Legislative Majority Leader Joe Lorigo has suggested Erie County, Mayor Byron Brown is asking residents to submit their own ideas for Buffalo’s proposal, and the Niagara County Legislature said they
  
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• RIT grads create virtual reality app for Bills fans

  09-09-2017 00:05 via wivb.com
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC-TV) – RIT’s MAGIC Center is teaming up with a technology group that works with the Buffalo Bills to give fans a unique look at New Era Field.
  DPM Solutions approached the members of the Magic Center to develop a virtual reality program that allows fans to go to areas of the stadium they might not normally be able to see like the locker room.
  But it’s about so much more than just the facility. It gives fans a perspective they never imagined they would exper
  
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