The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been chosen and is set to make a grand entrance in New York City; also, Typhoon Kong-rey is the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale Wednesday as it approaches Taiwan. Landfall will bring significant structural damage, mudslides and flooding. Kong-rey is known as Leon in the Philippines.

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