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“Home is the sailor, home from sea.”
Robert Louis Stevenson penned that line almost 150 years ago — but on Thursday, those words read sweet and new to thousands of sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
After an almost 11-month deployment to the Middle East, the sea-weary aircraft carrier arrived at its homeport at San Diego’s Naval Air Station North to massive crowds of cheering, misty-eyed and flag-waving spouses, children, parents, friends and fellow troops.
The massive ship played a pivotal combat role during the ongoing Iran war — setting a record-long deployment of more than 260 uninterrupted days at sea that included two extensions.
The USS Lincoln arrived in San Diego Bay late Thursday morning under unseasonably warm skies. Scores of sailors and Marines, dressed in service dress uniforms, lined the carrier’s flight deck to the delight of awaiting loved ones.
The deployment’s historic length — coupled with reports of stark conditions during combat — brought wide attention to the USS Lincoln and its crew.
And while the carrier is now far from the Middle East, the scrutiny of its 2025-2026 deployment will continue. Accounts of suicide attempts, food rationing, broken plumbing and mental health emergencies prompted Democratic lawmakers to call for a congressional hearing.
President Donald Trump labeled reports of dire conditions about the USS Lincoln as “a CNN fake report” — and refuted that relatives of the Lincoln sailors had raised concerns about the carrier’s length at sea, saying the deployment was “not nearly long enough,” The Associated Press reported.
And Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in August that conditions aboard the Lincoln were “completely misrepresented.”
But Navy leaders later acknowledged issues aboard a “city at sea” that thousands called home while underway. Meanwhile, experts told The Associated Press that the reported suicide attempts are a low number in a strike group of 6,000 sailors at sea for over 10 months.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., requested the congressional hearing following a Sept. 22 letter from Acting U.S. Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirming that eight suicide attempts were made during the Lincoln group’s combat-heavy deployment.
“Our troops and their families make immense sacrifices every single day, yet the president dismissed them with open disrespect,” wrote Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“That this administration can find endless taxpayer dollars for bombs, ballrooms and billionaires, but cannot take care of our service members, is completely unacceptable.”
Americans, she added, need hearings, accountability, and “a clear plan to protect our service members and prioritize American families.”
Hegseth: A ‘generational mission’ for the USS Lincoln
While the Lincoln sailors had to wait until Thursday to finally step on terra firma, Hegseth flew on a helicopter to the carrier Wednesday to get an early jump on the “welcome homes.”
“I’m here today on behalf of the President of the United States to make sure you understand how deeply grateful we are — and how much we want to showcase and recognize the historic undertaking of this strike group,” said Hegseth.
The secretary announced that Trump was presenting the USS Abraham Carrier Strike Group with the Presidential Unit Citation — the highest collective unit award in the American military.
Hegseth also saluted the Lincoln carrier group’s “back of the baseball card” statistics that included almost 11 months at sea, two extensions in the middle of a combat zone, over 10,000 flights and 23,000 flight hours, 1.5 million pounds of ordnance dropped and 64 Iranian Navy ships sunk.
“You were called upon by your nation for an important and significant and generational mission to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon,” added Hegseth. “Theocratic regimes should never have access to nuclear weapons. President Trump recognizes that — and he called upon the Lincoln from day one to execute on that.”
The Iranians and the United States made a deal to share the ocean, he joked. “The Iranian Navy gets the bottom of the ocean — and the Lincoln gets the top.”
Since the beginning of the Iran war, Hegseth has been frequently critical of the media’s coverage of the conflict. He once again scolded the press during his Wednesday visit to the Lincoln.
“There were a few folks in the media who tried to turn the USS Abraham Lincoln into some sort of a symbol — a symbol of dysfunction or a symbol of low morale or a symbol of a failed mission,” he said.
“And when I look at (the crew), and when I talk to your leadership. … I know it’s the exact opposite, which is actually what the media does so often.”
The families and loved ones of the Lincoln sailors, added Hegseth, have also performed honorably during the long deployment.
“When you greet your families tomorrow, just pass along my gratitude from the president and myself,” he told the troops. “Let them know that their long wait was in service of a righteous and historic mission. Thank them for their patience, for their patriotism, for their love, for their support and for pitching in on the homeland, which is never easy.”
Lincoln’s sailors reflect on nearly a year at sea
As the 1,092-foot-long vessel was navigating towards the U.S. mainland on Wednesday, many Lincoln sailors told the San Diego Union-Tribune that they were not always aware of the broad news coverage at home because Wi-Fi communication on the ship was sometimes limited.
Roman Elliott, a 20-year-old mechanic’s mate, said, with a smile, “I learned to deal with it by playing cards. Lots of cards.
“I am a little nervous about the (homecoming). It’s kind of like things were at the end of boot camp, when you’re finally free,” he added. “I’m looking forward to that.”
Christian Webster, a 22-year-old aviation repair worker, had a different take, telling the San Diego Union-Tribune that he never thought he would see combat when he joined the military.
“This is going to stay with me, knowing that I went through and accomplished what I want to do, and that I have gone far.”
Meanwhile, sailor Steven Rivas learned firsthand the sacrifices that are often asked of American service personnel during times of war. His wife, Brenda, gave birth to their daughter during the historic Lincoln deployment.
But Rivas didn’t find out he was a new dad for more than a week after Baby Evie’s birth because the Lincoln crew was not allowed to use Wi-Fi at the time to send messages.
“I had no way to find out if there were any complications,” Rivas said Wednesday in a San Diego Union-Tribune interview. “It was just a waiting game for me to find out. When I finally did see pictures of (Evie) I, well, I cried. My wife said the birth was a real snap.”
Rivas and his wife are not alone. The babies of scores of Lincoln crew members were reportedly delivered during the carrier group’s deployment.
THE TAKEAWAY
- Three states, including Alabama, Florida and Georgia, have declared states of emergencies ahead of Hurricane Isaias.
- Thousands of residents have been ordered to evacuate across two states.
- Hurricane Isaias is currently a Category 2 storm and continues to strengthen in the Gulf, with forecasts calling for it to approach Category 3 intensity.
- Isaias is expected to approach the coast by Friday, with landfall currently estimated to be 11 p.m. EST between Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.
Hurricane Isaias is continuing to strengthen in the Gulf after becoming the first Atlantic hurricane of the season and expected to make landfall along the northern Gulf Coast later this week as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane.
Isaias is expected to approach the coast by Friday, with landfall currently estimated to be sometime late Friday or early Saturday between Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.
Isaias strengthened from a Category 1 to a Category 2 hurricane on Thursday, with sustained winds of 100 mph as it moves northeast at 12 mph.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp have declared states of emergency ahead of the storm.
In a Thursday press conference, DeSantis urged residents to prepare now, including filling up their gas tanks and stocking up on enough water and nonperishable food to last through a potential power outage.
"If you are in the Panhandle, assume that you are going to lose power," DeSantis said. "Prepare to lose power. That is likely to happen with a storm that is at hurricane status."
Over a dozen Florida and Alabama counties have canceled school through the end of the week, and multiple colleges have closed their campuses.
Meanwhile, evacuation orders have been issued for Dauphin Island in Alabama, as well as Okaloosa and Escambia counties in Florida.
Mandatory evacuation orders have also been issued in Walton County, Florida.
The Alabama beach towns of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach released a joint statement urging voluntary evacuations ahead of Isaias' arrival.
"In anticipation of the expected impacts from Tropical Storm Isaias, the cities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are encouraging all non‑residents, and residents living in low-lying, flood prone areas to voluntarily evacuate," the statement said. "City officials urge all individuals who are not permanent residents to leave the area immediately and relocate to a safer location."
Both Shell and Chevron have instituted shut-in production procedures across five of their offshore oil facilities in the Gulf and removed non-essential workers, respectively.
BP said it was also removing non-essential personnel and securing offshore facilities. ExxonMobil operations are currently normal, but they are monitoring the forecast closely.
Hurricane Isaias Churns In Gulf As Oil Rigs Prepare For Potentially Dangerous Conditions
Hurricane Isaias strengthened from Tropical Storm Isaias late Wednesday night.
In their Wednesday 11 p.m. update, the National Hurricane Center kept Isaias at tropical storm strength. About 30 minutes later, they released a special advisory stating that Isaias had indeed strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane.
What’s The Difference Between A Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm And Hurricane?
Isaias rapidly intensified from a tropical storm into a Category 1 hurricane, with winds increasing by 40 mph in just 6 hours between Wednesday afternoon and late Wednesday night.
Isaias' forecast cone shows it heading directly toward the northern Gulf Coast, with impacts centered over roughly 30 million people in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle.
Tropical weather advisories have expanded inland, across parts of southern Alabama and southwestern Georgia.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to the Bay/Gulf County Line in Florida.
Latest From Fox Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross
A Storm Surge Warning is also in effect from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Suwannee River in Florida's Big Bend region.
"The combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline," the NHC said.
Currently, between 5 and 7 feet of surge is forecast for Mobile Bay and from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to Indian Pass, Florida.
Heavy rain is expected to begin on Friday, with flash flooding, damaging wind gusts, storm surge and even tornadoes possible as the storm comes ashore.
Hurricane Hunters are continuing to conduct regular reconnaissance missions into Hurricane Isaias to collect the latest forecast data.
"The eye of Isaias has become apparent on visible and infrared satellite imagery," the NHC said. "Interestingly, this is the first eye noted on satellite pictures in the Atlantic basin during the 2026 Hurricane Season."
Fox Weather Joins The Hurricane Hunters On Critical Recon Mission Into Tropical Storm Isaias
The storm is expected to continue to strengthen early Friday, with heavy rain reaching parts of the Gulf Coast as early as Friday morning.
"Residents from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle should closely monitor the latest forecast updates and ensure they have their hurricane plan in place," the NHC said.
FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross noted that several dynamic factors still remain at play, which will determine how strong and exactly where Isaias will make landfall, namely the storm's angle of approach and how the winds will impact the storm as it comes ashore.
Timeline: Where Tropical Storm Isaias Is Headed And When It Could Become A Hurricane
Some forecast models show Isaias weakening at landfall, while others show the storm strengthening as strong winds high in the atmosphere interact with it from the north.
Norcross said most of the storm's most impactful weather will most likely be on the right side of the storm's center.
Meanwhile, Noaa's Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has issued a flash flood risk for Friday across portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, as well as southern portions of Tennessee, southwestern North Carolina and western South Carolina.
A Level 3 out of 4 flash flood risk covers Mobile, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle west of Panama City. A Level 2 risk includes Atlanta and Montgomery, Alabama, and eventually shifts inland into Saturday to include the Carolinas and Tennessee Valley.
7 Facts You Should Know About Flash Floods
"Rainfall estimates currently show 6 to 10 inches with localized higher amounts which will lead to flash and urban flooding and eventually river flooding," the FOX Forecast Center said.
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Level 2 out of 5 risk of severe weather for Saturday across southern Alabama and into the Florida Panhandle, with a particular threat of tornadoes as the storm's outer bands come ashore.
Tropical Storm Isaias Churns In Gulf As Oil Rigs Prepare For Potentially Dangerous Conditions
The system is expected to move inland quickly with heavy rain spreading across the Southeast Saturday, triggering a broad Level 2 flash flood risk from some places along the Mississippi River to the Southeast coast.
This story is developing. Check back frequently for updates.
Original article source: Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 2 storm, evacuations expand across Gulf ahead of dangerous landfall
This article originally appeared on Fox Weather at https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/isaias-first-atlantic-hurricane-threatening-gulf-coast
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City among thousands of other aspirational twentysomethings, attempting to break into the hotel industry and build a new life, according to her attorney, Thomas Giuffra.
But that plan has been derailed since she filed a lawsuit against Cornell University and others, alleging she was raped at a frat house in 2024.
Instead, Giuffra said, Doe spent Wednesday taping up paper to obscure the windows of her parents’ home out of fear that a gunman could attack her, and reeling from a swatting episode that he said prompted police to swarm their home Tuesday night with weapons drawn.
Doe is increasingly scared for her own safety, Giuffra said in a phone interview with CNN on Wednesday as he detailed his client’s deteriorating mental state after an escalating series of violent threats.
Officers pointed weapons at Jane Doe’s boyfriend, her brother and her father after receiving a bogus tip that “someone was killing people in the house” on Tuesday evening, he said.
Death threats, doxxing attempts and an outpouring of anger online have also been levied at his client, Giuffra added.
“I don’t think she’s in a good spot now,” Giuffra said. “She’s scared.”
The public fallout from her allegations have rocked one of the country’s leading educational institutions. The university, its campus police force and the Tompkins County District Attorney’s office have each faced scrutiny over how they initially investigated her claims. Anger among students was palpable during a Wednesday sit-in on the Ithaca, New York, campus.
Doe herself has been following media reports and social media posts on her case, Giuffra told CNN as he described a family reeling from a sudden and terrifying ordeal that punctured their sense of safety.
“Before (this week), it was just a lunatic fringe, which you can be dismissive of,” he said. “Now it’s somebody taking real steps to harm you, and that’s pretty frightening.”
Doe’s parents are furious after a fake tip to police, lawyer says
At 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening, a police officer in Doe’s hometown was dispatched to respond to a disturbing call: A man had shot and killed his mother and then turned the gun on his sister.
The information was bogus. But the officer, believing an active-shooter situation was unfolding, rushed to Doe’s home, where he saw a car backing out from the driveway, according to a police report from the incident obtained by CNN.
As he apprehended the two men in the vehicle – later revealed to be Doe’s brother and her boyfriend – another figure emerged from the home’s doorway. “I’m the dad. What’s going on?” he yelled, according to the report. The man told police his daughter is Jane Doe of the Cornell case and that the family was “being threatened by numerous unknown people.”
The swatting incident was an escalation in a series of threats to Doe’s safety that have roiled her family this week. The term “swatting” refers to false tips made to law enforcement agencies with the intention of having armed officers deployed to somebody’s home or place of business.
“Luckily the brother was in his car, (he) put his hands up,” Giuffra told CNN on Wednesday, relaying the events of the night. “(Doe’s) boyfriend got thrown on the ground,” and her father also had “guns put in his face,” according to Giuffra. “If you had a trigger-happy cop, or somebody had done the wrong thing, somebody could have ended up dead,” he said.
Police are now investigating the swatting attempt, and the FBI is also looking into the events, according to Giuffra.
According to Doe’s lawyer and two police reports reviewed by CNN, police arrived moments after Doe received a separate phone call from somebody claiming to share a first name with one of the seven men she named in her civil complaint.
According to her account to officers in the reports, Doe “began panicking” when she received the call, “because (her phone) wouldn’t stop ringing.” She informed officers about that previous call while they were at her house following the swatting tip.
Before the night was over, Giuffra’s wife told him that she, too, had received a threatening phone call. “These people have done so much research into (Doe),” Giuffra said. It is not clear whether the separate threats cited in the police reports were connected.
Giuffra said he was in contact with Doe and her family on Wednesday. Her parents are angry and she is terrified, he said.
The lawyer shared with CNN an audio recording of a call he says was placed to his office on Wednesday afternoon. In the recording, a man identifies himself as “the person who called your client.”
The man also is heard saying: “I’m telling you guys simply, I think you should advise your client to withdraw the case. Otherwise blood will be shed.”
Doxxing attempts also have taken their toll
Tuesday’s swatting attack was an escalation of the potential dangers facing Doe since she filed her lawsuit last month, but it was far from the only threat she’s received, her lawyer said.
Giuffra estimated that dozens of threats have been made against her since mid-September, when his client filed a 101-page complaint alleging she had been sexually assaulted and raped by several members of the Xi chapter of Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity.
Doe’s civil suit was filed against the university, the fraternity, seven fraternity members and others. It alleges that members of the frat drugged and sexually assaulted her in October 2024 and invited other fraternity members in a group chat to join the assault. The suit also alleges the school failed to protect her and adequately punish the accused students, who all deny wrongdoing.
Giuffra detailed to CNN another threat: a text message, sent to Doe’s phone on Monday, with three emojis depicting guns.
Meanwhile, a handful of online personalities with large followings have led a campaign to uncover the identity of Doe, whose name was redacted in legal documents. One wrote on X to 347,000 followers in late September: “If you happen to know who this Cornell ‘Jane Doe’ is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information.”
He later claimed to have identified her and said he shared that identity online before deleting his post. Such behavior is known as doxxing, or sharing someone’s personal information or identity online without their permission.
It has left Doe frightened and struggling to come to terms with the impact of the lawsuit, which has prompted outrage and scrutiny of how the university and its private police force initially investigated her claims.
On Wednesday, Doe was “taping paper over windows in the house she’s lived at her whole life,” Giuffra said, “so people can’t see into her house to take a shot at her.”
“I don’t get shook up very easily, but this shook me up. I didn’t want to have a body on my hands,” he said.
“The dad is … concerned for his daughter. He can’t believe this has happened out of something where she’s just trying to stand up for herself and be heard,” Giuffra added.
“But the parents are really strong people, and they’re going to protect their daughter.”
Her career dream is ‘lost’
Doe had studied hotel administration at Cornell’s prestigious Nolan School of Hotel Administration, and it had been her “dream” to attend the school, Giuffra said. Her complaint says she traveled across the country and arrived at the school with the same “hopes, expectations and trepidations of other high school graduates.”
But she left the program without graduating after the alleged assault took place two years ago. Doe initially attempted to begin a career in New York City earlier this year, but after filing the lawsuit – “when everything hit the fan” – she instead returned to her family home, where she has been staying with her boyfriend, her lawyer said.
“The dream is lost,” Giuffra told CNN, referring to her hopes of working in the hospitality industry.
Instead, Doe has been hiding out at her parents’ home, where she has been following the intense media coverage of her case.
“It’s kind of hard to switch it off,” Giuffra said. “She comes from a generation of people who are focused on social media.” CNN is not specifying the location of Doe’s family home at her lawyer’s request.
She has been going on walks but otherwise spends much of her time indoors. She remains in contact with some of the friends she made at Cornell, Giuffra said.
“She’s a little paranoid,” Giuffra said of his client. “If she’s out of (the) safety zone of her family, she just doesn’t seem to function well.” A few friends of the family know she has returned home and have been providing support, and Doe’s mother has taken time off from work to help look after her daughter, he said.
Doe is also aware of the many messages of support that she has received from around the world since filing the lawsuit, according to Giuffra.
Cornell, which recently appointed former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates to investigate the school’s handling of sexual assault claims, was the site of a seven-hour sit-in on Wednesday to show “solidarity with Jane Doe,” according to flyers for the event.
During a meeting with Cornell’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on Monday, university President Michael Kotlikoff acknowledged the mounting frustration across campus as more details and questions emerge about Doe’s 2024 allegations.
“We’re all angry. I understand that anger,” Kotlikoff said, according to the independent student newspaper the Cornell Daily Sun. “People want easy answers to this.”
The school’s president previously released a video statement promising further review of the case, saying it highlights “heartbreaking and troubling issues about sexual assault, dehumanization, and aspects of party culture, alcohol, and drug use.”
“The students up there (at Cornell) have been overwhelmingly supportive, and it’s wonderful,” Giuffra said. “They’re trying to effect change, and bringing out to the light something that’s been going on for generations.”
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