The Wire - June 5, 2024

this is the wire for 2200 zillu June 5th 2024 president's routine information cut off as 2100 bottom line UPF front major cellular service outage strikes multiple independent carriers near Miss of cargo ship involves Charleston Bridge beginning with international events in Europe various media Outlets throughout the region report that Ukraine has reportedly began to strike Targets in Russia with American Munitions analyst comment no further details are available on the specifics of American munition use however the gravity of the open admission of such targeting will likely result in Russia enabling similar logistical support for American adversaries in the various other ongoing conflicts around the world on the home front in South Carolina this afternoon the Ravenel Bridge and Charleston was briefly shut down to cross traffic due to a cargo ship reportedly losing control of propulsion in the vicinity of the bridge local authorities revealed in a press conference this afternoon that a container vessel experienced an issue by which the ship's throttle became stuck at nearly maximum speed as a result of the mechanical issue the vessel declared an emergency triggering the shutdown of the bridge after a few minutes the crew was able to regain control of the vessel avoiding a potential Collision two boers and small craft were injured due to the wake of the vessel causing their boats to run ground on break Waters at the entrance of the harbor The Vessel remains at anchor a few miles outside Charleston Harbor as the US Coast Guard investigates the cause of the incident analyst comment due to the obvious apprehension surrounding critical infrastructure around the nation great screw has been placed on incidents like this however the situation appears to have concluded without any negative consequences The Vessel officially has not been named as of the draft of this report but local Witnesses strongly indicate the vessel was the merchant vessel MC Michigan 7 around the United States AT&T Verizon and US Cellular experienced varying outages throughout the country yesterday evening at the peak of the service interruptions around 24 states were reporting issues with cell service on these networks to include first net systems additionally Consumer Cellular whose Services provided by AT&T was also affected by the outage analyst comments for this wire so far the cause of the Nationwide cellular outage is not clear no statement has been released indicating the root cause of the surface interruptions unlike the last major AT&T outage an outage affecting at least three totally separate and independent companies is highly suspect this concludes the wire for 2200 Zulu June 5th 2024