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...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM CDT SUNDAY...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...For the Heat Advisory today, heat index values up to 106.
For the Heat Advisory Sunday, heat index values up to 108 expected.

* WHERE...Portions of central, northern, northwest, southern, and
western Oklahoma.

* WHEN...For the Heat Advisory today, until 7 PM CDT this evening.
For the Heat Advisory Sunday, from noon to 8 PM CDT Sunday.

* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

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Weather Alert

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM CDT SUNDAY...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...For the Heat Advisory today, heat index values up to 106.
For the Heat Advisory Sunday, heat index values up to 108 expected.

* WHERE...Portions of central, northern, northwest, southern, and
western Oklahoma.

* WHEN...For the Heat Advisory today, until 7 PM CDT this evening.
For the Heat Advisory Sunday, from noon to 8 PM CDT Sunday.

* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

&&
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Presidential candidate Cory Booker scheduled to visit OU next week

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Cory Booker

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. The Democratic presidential candidate is scheduled to visit OU next week. 

 via Cory Booker Senate website

The College Democrats of Oklahoma scheduled Democratic presidential candidate and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker to visit OU next week, following Beto O’Rourke’s visit to campus Monday, Aug. 19. 

Tasneem Al-Michael, president of the College Democrats of Oklahoma, said Booker is scheduled to visit next Thursday, Aug. 29. The organization is planning a block party on Campus Corner from 4–8 p.m. However, Al-Michael said the details are still “up in the air.” 

“Hopefully Cory will be either addressing the crowd and getting to know some Normanites from between 5:15 and 6,” Al-Michael said. 

The volume constraints during the O’Rourke rally was behind the decision to host a block party, so that the whole community can meet Booker, Al-Michael said.

Destinee Dickson, the crew recruiter for OU’s Black Emergency Response Team, said BERT met up with O’Rourke on Monday because he wanted to meet the students who organized the Rally to Stop Racism in March. 

Dickson said BERT spoke with O’Rourke about concerns of racism at OU and nationally, and the group plans to meet up with Booker when he comes to OU to discuss the same issues.

“I think we definitely will hop on and try to be able to explain our concerns as people of color as a student organization,” Dickson said. “(We'll discuss) what we are struggling with here at OU, as well as concerns that pertain to all students on the national lens and scale.”

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