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Brittney Griner was back in court today with defense witnesses praising her athletic abilities and her character. The trial resumed a week after the W. N. B. A. Star pled guilty to drug charges earlier this year, Russian authorities found Vape cartridges with cannabis oil in her luggage at an airport. The grinders, lawyers say she packed them by mistake And Russia trials continue even after a guilty plea and the process is expected to continue tomorrow. Grindr faces 10 years in prison, but there may be efforts under way to free her through a prisoner exchange. Now, more than 40 people went missing after severe flooding in Virginia. But despite the damage, there is good news. All 44 people have been found and there was no deaths in the storm. The floodwaters tore homes off their foundations, blocked roads, knocked out power and left residents rushing to find loved ones in areas without phone service. rescue crews worked overnight into the early hours of the morning searching across 30 miles and 400 buildings, Only one injury was reported that it was from a snakebite, not direct flood damage, officials are now working to assess the wreckage and get roads reopened. The Buffalo Supermarket, where 10 people were killed in a racist attack is set to reopen tomorrow. The ceremony's reopening comes two months after an 18 year old gunman opened fire on shoppers and employees allegedly aiming to kill as many black people as possible. The decision to reopen has been controversial. While it's the scene of a devastating hate crime, it's also the only supermarket in the area. Some neighbors had suggested turning the site into a park, but the mayor says the reopening is a step towards healing and a wave of new monkey pox vaccines is set to arrive in the U. S. As the nation grapples with a growing outbreak. Us federal health officials saying they have finished an inspection of an overseas manufacturing plant giving the vaccines the green light. More than one million doses are waiting for shipment in Denmark, demand has been high for the vaccine, especially in new york and California. About 1000 cases have been reported the U. S. But the actual number could be higher since testing is still being set up. If you hit a roadblock while trying to tweet a hot take or a pic of your breakfast this morning, you're not alone. A huge number of users were unable to access the platform for about an hour. Crash tracking site down detector showed more than 54,000 reports of problems with the website and app just after eight a.m. Eastern time. But the outage wasn't just limited to the US twitter users in the U. K. Mexico brazil and Italy are also reporting problems. No word on what caused the brief outage, but things seem to be back up and running for now. Alright and Tiktok is rolling out more options as it tries to make its platform safer for young users. The app introducing tools to let users customize their preferences, letting them see fewer videos about issues that could be problematic if viewed over and over like dieting extreme fitness and sadness. Tiktok says more filtering options will be available over the next few weeks. It comes a few months after a group of state attorneys general launched an investigation into Tiktok's impact on Young Americans. More Americans are getting on board with electric vehicles. A new survey from triple a showing one in four Americans want to get an e. V. with millennials leading the way at 30%,, 77% say a top reason for wanting to make the switch is saving on fuel costs. However, they may not be rushing to their nearest dealership either among people who want to go electric. Many are worried about the rising costs of E. V. S and the fear of not having a charging station nearby. That's right. And prime day is over. So save your money, put your phone down And Amazon is counting big bucks from a massive amount of purchases. The company saying this year's event was its biggest ever with more than 300 million items sold worldwide over the two day sales period. Now that's up from about 250 million last year. Amazon did not say how much money it made but says top selling categories were consumer electronics, home goods and amazon branded devices. Prime members around the world purchased more than 100,000 items per minute on average, seemingly shrugging off skyrocketing skyrocketing inflation, wow, that's a lot. 100,000. That's almost as fast as my wife. That's almost as fast as my wife fast. She shops 100,000 minute and a secret self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh is coming into the light on the back of another painting of his staff, a national museum in Scotland, finding the hidden painting when they were x raying his piece, head of a peasant woman, experts are now trying to find a way to uncover it without damaging the painting. Van Gogh often reuse canvases to save money. So it makes sense why he would have put his work on the back. Experts believe the portrait was covered with cardboard around 1905 when the painting was loaned out to an exhibition in Amsterdam. That's pretty cool. Now there's controversy brewing in the world of cute slash creepy characters. Gremlins Director joe Dante saying that he thinks Grogan also known as Baby Yoda from disease. The Mandalorian is quote completely stolen and just out and out copy from his own films, character Gizmo, the two definitely have some visual similarities, but Baby Yoda's creators say they were inspired by other sources, such as the film E. T. Now Gizmo and grow Gu will soon be battling out on streaming platforms, grow. Gu is staying on Disney Plus and an animated version of Gizmo will appear in a Gremlin series on HBO my God, I see it, I see it, I see it. Yoda is an established character. Yeah, but Baby Yoda, I mean you had to grow up. I know, but Baby Yoda's cute own it.