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CNBC
09-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Amazon Prime Video's Hopkins: Sports generates large audience, big part of advertising sales package
Mike Hopkins, Head of Amazon Prime Video, and CNBC's Julia Boorstin joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk tariff threats, the advertising business, film and TV offerings and more.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
‘Fight to Unite 10' to showcase local boxing talent
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Youngstown Salem Boxing Club is bringing another 15 bout amateur boxing card to the Valley with Fight to Unite 10. Watch the video above for extended interviews with Joey Kline, Mike Hopkins, Giavoni Farina, Jaimee Reid, Liliana Sykes and Malachi Signore in the video above! 'It feels great, honestly, especially local shows there's a lot of there's just a lot of feelings leading up to it. You get to compete in front of all your fans and your family,' said Kline, a boxer from Newton Falls. The night, in support of child abuse awareness, will feature 15 championship bouts on May 10 at the home of Youngstown Salem Boxing Club at 8590 Hitchcock Road in Youngstown. 'It's really nice to see the people who drive by and beep when I'm running, it's really nice when it all pays off and they get to see my smiling face when we win,' Struthers native Giovani Farnia said. 'But I love the small town support, and it means everything.' While there are some experienced fighters returning to the ring, Youngstown Salem Boxing Club coach Alecia DeFrank says they have a new batch of talent eager for their first bout. 'We have quite a few new athletes that the community has not even seen yet, so I'm excited to see if they're going to listen in the ring and, you know, do what the coaches tell them to do,' DeFrank said. 'But at the end of the day, as long as they come out safe, that's all that matters.' Doors will open at 5 p.m. with the first bout starting at 6 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Weather balloon gaps could impact forecast accuracy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — National Weather Service sites across the country typically launch two weather balloons each day: one in the morning and one in the evening. However, some offices have been short-staffed and have limited or halted weather balloon launches, which could impact the accuracy of the forecast models. Mike Hopkins, the Director of the Surface and Upper Air Division of the National Weather Service, said data collected by the weather balloon is crucial for the computer models meteorologists use to help make forecasts. 'It's important for initializing the weather models, so that they have a good starting place to then calculate out what's going to happen in the future,' Hopkins told News 2. 📧 Have breaking news come to you: → Hopkins said the balloons collect temperature, pressure, wind, and moisture data throughout the troposphere. The troposphere is the lowest level of the atmosphere where all our weather occurs. Hopkins said gaps in the weather balloon launches might impact the models somewhat, but there are more ways to get data in the atmosphere, like from airplanes. 'Having gaps in one part of the country can be a problem, but again, we have multiple ways to get that data, so you can fill in and mitigate the loss of that. What you would probably see is maybe some impacts, sort of downstream of where you are missing that data,' said Hopkins. The Associated Press reported in March that a total of 11 National Weather Service sites had reduced or eliminated their daily weather balloon launches. These gaps in the data could be the cause of some of the inaccuracies seen in the forecast model data. On the morning of Sunday, April 27, the radar was showing a much larger area of rain than what the forecast models were showing. Below are snapshots from the radar and the model data from 5 a.m. Sunday, April 27. Comparing the images above shows that the model data was missing the showers and storms near Memphis and the showers in southeast Missouri. The missing weather balloon data cannot be completely blamed for the model's poor performance, but according to Mike Hopkins, the more data, the better for the forecast models. Don't forget to take the power and reliability of the WKRN Weather Authority with you at all times by downloading the News 2 Storm Tracker app. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
