Fleur Breteau is in the Gironde, where Bordeaux wines grow. The old manor house in the street village of Plassac is now a community meeting place, clubs use the high rooms, workshops take place and children learn how to mend bicycle tires.

Severe weather can harm both quantity and quality of a crop. Some products could become more expensive. Some growers will be able to salvage what they can and survive until next year, but others who are already struggling financially may choose to sell their land and leave farming for good. Florida agriculture industry leaders are hoping for additional federal aid.

The temperature inside the tank filled with a toxic chemical at risk of exploding has risen to 90 degrees, up from 77 degrees a day earlier. The main hope to avoid an explosion is to keep spraying water on the tank, keeping temperatures cooler. The primary solution to resolve the crisis would have been to pump a neutralizing agent into the problem tank, quenching it and making it no longer explosive, but the valve is clogged up.

40,000 people were evacuated from their homes due to the chemical incident at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove. Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency over the industrial accident. The company manufactures landing gears, jet engines and other materials for commercial and military aircraft.

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GKN Aerospace is a major supplier of jet engines, landing gear and aircraft components for commercial and military planes. In January 2025, the company paid $910,000 to the South Coast Air Quality Management District over permit violations, missing emissions records and nitrogen oxide issues connected to its Garden Grove plant. The revelations resurfaced as emergency crews raced against time to contain a failing storage tank holding roughly 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate, a highly toxic and flammable chemical used in plastics manufacturing. Evacuation orders were expanded throughout six Orange County cities. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as the evacuation perimeter swelled to nearly 10 square miles.

Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in response to the looming threat of chemical disaster in Orange county. Governor's office of emergency services and other state agencies will provide additional support to Orange county responders. Governor’s office is also making state-owned properties available to shelter the 40,000 people ordered to evacuate from the area. On Thursday, a storage tank holding methyl methacrylate began off-gassing and threatened to fail at a facility in the town of Garden Grove owned by GKN Aerospace. The tank holds 6,000-7,000 gallons of the chemical.

A damaged chemical tank in Southern California is at risk of leaking or exploding. 50,000 Garden Grove residents were ordered to evacuate. Some residents filed a class-action lawsuit on Saturday against the company that operates the facility where the tank is located. The company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.