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Sept. 25, 2025, 6:12 PM EDTBy Kate Snow and Abigail BrooksNick Benz-Bushling never imagined that managing his son’s mental health care would turn into a real-life horror story.After years of struggles, 16-year-old Johnathan attempted suicide in February. Benz-Bushling 41, and his wife Misty Benz-Bushling, 39, of Stephensville, Michigan, rushed Johnathan to the emergency room, and then later took him to Forest View Hospital, an inpatient behavioral health facility in Grand Rapids that had room in its pediatric psychiatry unit. When a doctor there said Johnathan needed residential treatment, the Benz-Bushlings immediately found him a bed at Newport Academy in Washington.

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Sept. 25, 2025, 5:12 PM EDTBy Evan BushWhen the Mendocino earthquake ruptured off the California coast in 2024, it shook houses off their foundations, sent a 3-inch tsunami racing toward shore and touched off a fascinating science experiment — in the server room of a local police station, of all places. More than two years before the quake, scientists installed a device called a “distributed acoustic sensing interrogator” at the Arcata Police Station near the coast. The device fires a laser through the fiber optic cables that provide the station with internet service and senses how some of that laser light quivers or bends as it returns to its source.Now, in a study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers announced that they were able to use the data from the fiber optic cable to “image” the Mendocino earthquake — determining the magnitude, location and length of the rupture.The study shows how scientists can essentially turn fiber optic cables into seismometers that return detailed data about earthquakes at the speed of light. Outside scientists said this fast-developing technology could drastically improve earthquake early-warning systems, giving people more time to seek safety, and could be key to predicting catastrophic earthquakes in the future, if that’s possible.“This is the first study that’s imaging an earthquake rupture process from an earthquake that’s this large,” said James Atterholt, a research geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey, and the first author of the new study. “This shows that there’s potential to improve earthquake early warning alerts with telecom fibers.”The study suggests that researchers could piggyback their equipment to already vast networks of telecommunications cables — which are used by Google, Amazon and AT&T, for example — to gather data where seismometers are sparse. Seafloor seismic monitoring is particularly expensive, and this could offer a more affordable option. Emily Brodsky, a professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the research, said “earthquake early warning could be dramatically improved tomorrow” if scientists are able to broker widespread access to existing telecommunication networks.“There’s not a technical hurdle there. That’s what the Atterholt study demonstrates,” Brodsky said in an interview. And in the more distant future, the use of this technology with fiber optic cables could help researchers determine whether some of the most catastrophic earthquakes could be predicted in advance. Scientists have noticed intriguing patterns on underwater subduction zones in recent years before some of the biggest earthquakes, like the 2014 magnitude-8.1 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which touched off the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Both of these massive earthquakes were preceded by what are called “slow-slip” events, which release their energy slowly over weeks or months, but don’t cause perceptible shaking to humans. Scientists aren’t sure what to make of the pattern because there are only a few examples of it, and earthquakes of magnitude-8.0 and above are rare and sparsely documented with in-depth monitoring. If scientists were able to monitor seismic activity on telecommunications networks, they’d have a better chance of documenting these events closely and determining whether there’s clear evidence of a pattern that could predict future catastrophe. “What we want to know is whether faults slip slowly before they slip quickly” and produce a big quake, Brodsky said. “We keep seeing these hints from far away. And what we really need is instruments up close and personal on the fault.” Brodsky said it’s not clear whether these large subduction zone earthquakes are predictable, but the subject is the source of lots of scientific debate, which this new fiber optic technology could help settle. Researchers have been pursuing seismic monitoring through fiber optic cables for about a decade. Brodsky said this research demonstrates that the federal government, the scientific community and telecommunications providers ought to negotiate over access. “There are legitimate concerns. They’re worried about anybody sticking an instrument on an extremely valuable asset for them. They’re worried about damage to the cables or someone listening,” Brodsky said of the telecommunications companies. “However it’s pretty clear it’s also in the public safety interest to have that data, so that is a problem that needs to be solved at the regulatory level.” Atterholt said the fiber optic sensing technology would not supplant traditional seismometers, but would supplement what data already exists and would be less expensive than installing seismometers on the seafloor. Using the cables for seismic monitoring typically does not affect their core purpose of data transmission. Jiaxuan Li, an assistant professor of geophysics and seismology at the University of Houston, who was not involved in this research, said there are still technical hurdles to overcome to use distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology offshore. Right now, the technology can be used for distances up to about 90 miles. Li said similar technology is being used in Iceland to record how magma is moving in volcanoes. “We used DAS to perform early warnings for volcanic eruptions,” Li said. “It is operational now. The Iceland Meteorological Office is using this technology to issue an early warning.” The technology also helped reveal that the Mendocino quake was a rare “supershear” earthquake, when the fault’s fracture is happening faster than its seismic waves are traveling. It’s akin to a “fighter jet exceeding the speed of sound” and producing a sonic boom, Atterholt said. The new research unexpectedly revealed the pattern in Mendocino and could offer new clues to this phenomenon. “We haven’t really nailed down why some earthquakes go supershear and why some don’t,” Atterholt said. “It can alter how hazardous the earthquake is, though we don’t fully understand that relationship either.” Evan BushEvan Bush is a science reporter for NBC News.
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On Thursday, the Senate voted again — for the seventh time — on that plan and a Democratic alternative. No senators budged.Instead, Democratic leaders, emboldened and energized, are taking every opportunity to highlight their central demand: extend the expiring Obamacare subsidies to avoid health insurance premium hikes or coverage losses for millions of Americans next year. Insurers are already sending out notices of upcoming rate hikes in the mail, and bringing costs back down will get messy if Congress waits until the end of the year to act.We’d like to hear from you about how you’re experiencing the government shutdown, whether you’re a federal employee who can’t work right now or someone who is feeling the effects of shuttered services in your everyday life. Please contact us at tips@nbcuni.com or reach out to us here.The health care subsidies are used by scores of working-class voters, including Trump supporters. Enrollment in Obamacare is about 24 million, and an estimated 92% of those insured benefit from the enhanced tax credit, which was first passed in the 2021 Covid-19 relief bill.A KFF national poll showed that 57% of “MAGA supporters” favor extending the subsidies, while 43% are opposed. Overall, 78% of U.S. adults said they favor extending the funding, while 22% say it should expire.But Republican leaders, facing a divided conference with many members who want to end the subsidies, are refusing to make any promises on the issue. Instead, they say, Democrats must vote to reopen the government, and then the two parties can discuss the subsidies.The pivot to health care has frustrated House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.“They’re trying to make this about health care. It’s not. It’s about keeping Congress operating so we can get to health care. We always were going to. They’re lying to you,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday. “The health care issues were always going to be something discussed and deliberated and contemplated and debated in October and November.”Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has referred to them as “Covid subsidies” that were designed to expire for a reason, and insisted on imposing new restrictions on the funding in order to have any chance of preventing a full sunset.Democrats are refusing to settle for assurances of a debate or a future vote. They say they want an extension attached to government funding legislation in order to win their votes. They have offered their own government funding bill, which includes attached Obamacare funding and repeals President Donald Trump’s recent Medicaid cuts and changes.Republicans, meanwhile, have seized on a quote published in Punchbowl in which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said, “Every day gets better for us.”Thune had a poster made of the quote and brought it to the floor on Thursday. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., made his own poster of Schumer’s face with the quote.“He said, ‘Every day gets better for us.’ Who is us?” Barrasso asked on the floor. “Not better for the American people. Who does he mean by us? Not the military who’s not getting paid. Not the Border Patrol who’s not getting paid. Not the traffic controllers who aren’t getting paid.”On the Senate floor Thursday, Schumer attempted to clarify his remarks, arguing that with each passing day of the shutdown, Democrats’ “case to fix health care and end the shutdown gets better and better, stronger and stronger.”This is now the eighth-longest government shutdown in history, according to an NBC News analysis. If the government is still closed at the end of Friday, it will become the seventh-longest shutdown.#embed-20251002-shutdown-milestones iframe {width: 1px;min-width: 100%}Federal workers, including members of the military, are working without pay and will begin to miss paychecks in the coming days if the government remains shuttered. The direct deposit deadline is Friday, while physical checks are scheduled to go out on Oct. 15; those payments will not occur during a shutdown.With Johnson keeping the House out of session for a third consecutive week, tensions are running high among the few lawmakers running around the Capitol. On Wednesday, Johnson and fellow Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York sparred with Arizona Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly over Johnson’s delay in seating Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz.Later, Lawler, a Republican representing a swing district, confronted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., after his news conference over Democrats’ refusal to back the GOP funding bill or a one-year extension of Obamacare subsidies. The debate devolved into a shouting match about Trump’s “big bill,” health care cuts and Lawler’s chances for re-election.Johnson and Senate Democrats argue about government shutdown and health care03:20There are some signs that House Republicans are beginning to grow restless and feeling pressure from constituents back home.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a onetime Trump loyalist who has recently broken with the president, has faulted Johnson and her party for having no plan to address the expiring health care subsidies.And Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., who, like Lawler, faces a tough re-election fight in next year’s midterms, is one of a handful of Republicans who have called on Johnson to reconvene the House. She represents a military-heavy district in Virginia Beach and is demanding a vote on her legislation, the Pay Our Troops Act.“I’m urging the Speaker and our House leadership to immediately pass my bill to ensure our servicemembers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck while supporting their families, receive the pay they’ve earned,” Kiggans wrote on X. “Military pay should not be held hostage due to Washington’s dysfunction!”Responding Thursday, Johnson said that House Republicans already passed a bill on Sept. 19 to fund the entire government, which includes paying the troops, through Nov. 21.“We put that bill on the floor, and the Republicans voted to pay the troops, TSA agents, border patrol, air traffic and everybody else,” Johnson told reporters. “The Democrats voted no.”Asked about his confrontation with the Democratic senators a day earlier, Johnson acknowledged that “emotions are high” between the parties.“And so is it better for them, probably, to be physically separated right now? Yeah, probably is, frankly,” the speaker said. “I wish that weren’t the case, but we do have to turn the volume down. The best way to turn the volume down is to turn the lights back on and get the government open for the people.”Sahil KapurSahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.Scott WongScott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News. Kyle Stewart and Frank Thorp V contributed.
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