Airlines are capping prices on flights out of Florida after people attempting to evacuate before Hurricane Irma hits spoke out against skyrocketing costs. 

Fliers were charged up to $3,000 for domestic flights that typically cost just a fraction of that, the Miami Herald reported.

While airlines are not subject to Florida's price-gouging laws, many people saw the inflated prices as unethical and dangerous as people were trying to evacuate the area. 

On Wednesday, many airlines began capping flight prices after the outrage went viral. 

American Airlines said in a statement to Business Insider that it planned to cap prices at $99 pre-tax on direct flights out of Florida. The cap applies to tickets sold from now until Sunday, September 10, for flights until Wednesday, September 13. The airline said on Twitter this afternoon that it was "not unusual to see higher prices for the last few seats on a flight," and that it is adding extra flights to the area.

Jet Blue has discounted the price of non-stop flights out of Florida to $99 including tax. Connecting flights out of Florida are priced at $159. 

Delta also capped prices, albeit at a higher price, charging a maximum of $399 on flights out of Florida and the impacted islands, Yahoo Finance reported. 

Hurricane Irma is currently a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour. The hurricane has already touched down in parts of the Caribbean, including Barbuda and St. Martin. The National Hurricane Center has described Irma as "potentially catastrophic."

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For many travelers, getting a flight out of an airport in Florida as Hurricane Irma bears down will be practically impossible.

Major airlines are canceling flights prior to the Category 5 storm making landfall by Sunday. There are other ways out of Irma's path, but Amtrak appears to be booked up, although a quick check of Greyhound Bus Lines indicates that tickets out of Miami are still for sale.

If you are lucky enough to nab a flight out the hurricane zone, it's likely to be expensive. Although JetBlue has dropped prices to $99 as an emergency measure to aid the escape efforts in the Florida.

In any case and for future reference, there are a few ways you can at least attempt to escape an impending natural disaster in a hurry by air:

Pay up

At The Points Guy, Nick Ellis runs down the state of affairs for commercial travel for those who currently hope to leave Miami, and it isn't good. Fares have been running upwards of $2,000, one-way. But if you have the dough and want to get out of the danger zone, paying the price is always an option.

Fly to an airline's hub

It can improve your chances of finding a flight if you are willing to fly anywhere. Especially an airline's hub. For American, this would be Dallas, Charlotte, Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles, to name several (TravelMiles101 has a complete list). 

Use your miles

Frequent flyer miles are better than money, in some cases. So even if you can't find a flight by going directly to an airline's website to book — as opposed to aggregation service, such as Expedia — you can see if your miles balance will get you a ticket. Again, as Ellis notes, you will be parting with a lot of miles, potentially.

Find a friend with a plane

This actually happened to me once — not under dire circumstances, however. I was waiting for a commuter flight from a large city to a small one and the plane was delayed (and eventually canceled). A guy who was also waiting pulled out his phone and called around to some friends trying to find somebody who owned or who had access to a small aircraft and would be willing to fly him home. And it worked!

Go private

CNBC reported that Florida private-jet operators were experiencing a big uptick in demand.

"While this is normally a slow time of year, they said calls and bookings are more like a Super Bowl or U.S. Open golf day, with hundreds of wealthy flyers trying to book flights out," Robert Frank wrote.

Frank added that prices are running $5,000 above the usual — $15,000 — and that providers are flying jets into Florida in an effort to meet the demand before it's too late.

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American Airlines is going to great lengths to help as many people as possible escape Hurricane Irma.

The company said Wednesday that it will offer tickets out of Florida for $99 as the hurricane approaches.

"While there are limited seats remaining before the storm hits, we will cap our pre-tax fares at $99 for MainCabin seats on direct, single leg flights out of Florida for tickets sold through Sunday Sept. 10 for travel until Sept. 13," a spokesperson for American Airlines said in a statement to Business Insider. 

The spokesperson said that the airline plans to cancel all flights at its Miami hub, as well as in Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Sarasota, and West Palm Beach on Saturday and Sunday. 

The airline will also cancel scheduled flights arriving in Miami from Europe and South America on Friday.

Hurricane Irma is currently a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour. The hurricane has already touched down in parts of the Caribbean, including Barbuda and St. Martin. The National Hurricane Center described Irma as "potentially catastrophic."

American is not the only airline discounting tickets so that people can escape the storm. 

JetBlue also announced on Wednesday that it is offering non-stop flights out of Florida for $99 including tax. Delta said it would cap its flight out of Florida and affected areas to $399. 

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As Hurricane Irma approaches Florida, residents are preparing for flooding and winds that can topple trees and knock out power lines.

But, many high schoolers have a more immediate concern: the ACT test, which is scheduled for Saturday, September 9. 

Dozens of students tweeted at the ACT's account asking for clarification about what would happen with the test as many evacuated Florida. 

"I need time to prepare for Irma (and, most importantly, the ACT Math Section!!!)!" one student wrote on the ACT subreddit earlier this week. "Also, I'd rather not waste a gallon of gas driving to my test center when the price of gas just went up to $3.25 per gallon when it was $2.59 yesterday!"

The organizers of the ACT test are working to reschedule the test at centers expected to be hit by Irma.  

"We extend our thoughts to those impacted by Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Irma and hope that you are safe," a statement on the ACT test website reads. "We know that you may have a lot of things to worry about right now, and we don’t want the ACT test to be one of them."

"Rest assured that we are working on rescheduling and relocating test centers impacted by the storm," the statement continues. "For those students who are impacted, we will work with you to address your individual situation."

However, some people have already taken matters into their own hands. One mother of a high school senior told Business Insider that she booked last-minute flights to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts and had her daughter register to take the ACT at a test center there based on early reports of Irma's strength.  

The ACT has a full list of sites that are rescheduling the test on its website, including test centers in Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Columbia. You can read the full list here. 

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Car buffs debate everything and usually agree on nothing. But on one matter there is consensus: The Jaguar E-Type is the most beautiful car ever crafted by human hands on Earth.

The elegant, sporty Jag was produced for a surprisingly long time, from 1961 to 1975. Seeing one in the flesh is as showstopping now as it was when Lyndon Johnson was president. No less an authority than Enzo Ferrari pronounced it the best-looking vehicle of all time.

The car ran on petrol, but sensing an opportunity to make the glorious old beauty new again — and promote the arrival of the I-PACE electric vehicle — Jaguar has created an all-electric version of the E-Type and will take the cover off at Jaguar Land Rover's Tech Fest in London on Friday.

The car looks exactly like a 1968 Series 1.5 Jaguar E-Type Roadster because it is a 1968 Series 1.5 Jaguar E-Type Roadster, restored at Jaguar Land Rover Classic Works, with the addition of an electric drivetrain.

Called the E-Type Zero — sorry, JLR, unfortunate name choice there, though we get it — the car "combines the renowned E-type dynamic experience with enhanced performance through electrification," Tim Hannig, director of Jaguar Land Rover Classic, said in a statement.

"This unique combination creates a breathtaking driving sensation," he continued. "Our aim with the E-type Zero is to future-proof classic car ownership. We're looking forward to the reaction of our clients as we investigate bringing this concept to market."

Jaguar said the E-Type Zero's "lithium-ion battery pack has the same dimensions, and similar weight, to the original XK six-cylinder engine used in the E-type," and that if an owner wanted, they could swap out the electric motor for a gas version. Acceleration is snappy: 0-62 mph in 5.5 seconds.

The carmaker didn't provide details about how many E-Type Zeros would be available, but given the rarity of the E-Type and its coveted nature among collectors, it's safe to assume not many.

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Hurricane Irma has brought significant damage to much of the Caribbean as it's barreled towards South Florida. 

One of the islands in the path of the "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane was Necker Island, the British Virgin Island retreat belonging to billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson. 

Earlier this week, Branson announced that he and his team would be riding out the storm in the main house's wine cellar. 

Following the storm's hit on the island, a spokesperson for the Virgin Group told Business Insider: "Virgin Limited Edition can confirm that on the 6th September 2017 Necker Island sustained extensive damage as a result of Hurricane Irma. There were no guests on Island at the time and all staff staying on Island have been accounted for as safe and well."

This is not the first time that Branson has had to repair the structures on Necker Island. A major fire in 2011 brought major damage to the main house, which took two years to rebuild. 

Branson bought the 74-acre island in the British Virgin Islands for $180,000 after visiting in 1978. He has called it "the best financial move" he ever made. The island has been a getaway for celebrities, entrepreneurs, and even former President Barack Obama, who visited shortly after he left the White House in January. 

Individual rooms can be rented starting at $4,280 a night, for a week minimum, while the island can be rented as a whole for $78,000 a day.

Take a look around the island as it looked in less stormy times. 

Julie Zeveloff and Sophie-Claire Hoeller contributed reporting to earlier versions of this article.

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74-acre Necker Island is located in the British Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean Sea.

The island features two "private" beaches (though it's a private island, all beaches up to the high-water mark are open to the public, under British Virgin Islands law), two infinity pools, a swim-up bar, a hot tub that fits 30, a personal chef, and around 100 employees.

Many celebrities have vacationed here, from Princess Diana to Mariah Carey, and even Nelson Mandela. Kate Moss had her 40th birthday party on Necker, and Google co-founder Larry Page had his wedding there.

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson stared down Hurricane Irma and survived. Even though the billionaire's private island sustained heavy damage, Branson and his team are safe and sound.

"Virgin Limited Edition can confirm that on the 6th September 2017 Necker Island sustained extensive damage as a result of Hurricane Irma," a Virgin Group representative told Business Insider in an email. "There were no guests on Island at the time and all staff staying on Island have been accounted for as safe and well."

Branson's son, Sam, confirmed in an Instagram post that his father was OK.

Branson on Tuesday had announced that, instead of evacuating, he would stay on Necker Island and ride out the storm.

"On Necker Island we have constructed really strong buildings (with hurricane blinds) that should be able to handle extreme weather pretty well, though with a Category 5 hurricane almost nothing can withstand it," Branson wrote in blog post. "I will be on Necker alongside our team, as I have been on the three times we have had hurricanes over the past 30 years."

In that same post, Branson expressed concern for residents and wildlife in the Caribbean and used the opportunity as a call for greater action on climate change.

According to Branson, those who remained on Necker Island spent the nights before the storm in summer-camp-style bunk beds. The group passed the time by playing dice games like Perudo and observing the wildlife on the island.

On Wednesday, Branson revealed that he planned to take shelter from Irma's fierce 185-mph winds in the wine cellar underneath his property.

"We are expecting to get the full force of the hurricane in around five hours' time, when we will retreat to a concrete wine cellar under the Great House," Branson said. "Knowing our wonderful team as I do, I suspect there will be little wine left in the cellar when we all emerge."

Hurricane Irma has wreaked havoc in the Caribbean. The Category 5 hurricane entered the Caribbean on Tuesday night as it made landfall in the Leeward Islands. Since then, Irma has left a path of destruction in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Martin, and Montserrat.

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Supplements send about 23,000 people to the emergency room every year.

Because of the way the US Food and Drug administration defines them, however, supplements are not regulated as drugs. It is only when a specific supplement is shown to cause significant harm that it is called out as unsafe.

With all of that in mind, S. Bryn Austin, a professor of behavioral sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Business Insider that there are three main categories of dangerous supplements to watch out for: those related to weight loss, muscle building, and sexual performance.

These, she said, are "the most lawless of all the categories and where the most problems turn up."

Last year, researchers analyzed a trove of data from 2004 to 2013 to find out which supplements were sending people to the ER the most. Their findings jibe strongly with Austin's conclusion, as you can see in the chart below.

The problem with many of these pills and powders is that they have been adulterated — often with banned pharmaceutical drugs.

"Some of these companies won't identify ingredients that they purposefully put in the products," said Austin. "Some weight-loss drugs, for example, that have been pulled from the market — we can still find these in the bottle even though they don't put it on the label."

A study of product recalls published in 2013 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that of the 274 supplements recalled by the FDA between 2009 and 2012, all contained banned drugs. And a 2014 report found that more than two-thirds of the supplements purchased six months after being recalled still contained banned drugs.

Steve Mister, the president and CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a Washington, DC-based trade organization representing more than 150 supplement and other companies, told Business Insider that this adulteration harms other supplement companies that make legitimate products.

"There is nothing legal about supplements that contain things that aren’t on the label," said Mister.

Over the same period as the study above, 34 people died as a result of using supplements, according to a 2017 study published in the Journal of Medical Toxicology. Six of the deaths resulted from ephedra, the once popular weight-loss supplement banned by the FDA in 2004, and three people died from homeopathic remedies. One person died after using yohimbe, an herbal supplement used for weight loss and erectile dysfunction. (Certain formulations of it can be prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction.)

"Consumers should expect nothing from [supplements] because we don't have any clear evidence that they're beneficial," said Austin. "And they should be leery that they could be putting themselves at risk."

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• The 20 highest-paid models, including Gisele Bündchen, earned a collective $154 million last year.
• Models in New York earn $48,130 on average, and are sometimes only paid in clothes.
• For some, the costs associated with developing a career results in debt that can take years to pay off.

Don't let models' designer duds fool you.

Over the next few days, hundreds of well-dressed models will descend on Manhattan as New York Fashion Week kicks off Thursday and runs through Wednesday, September 13.

But appearances can be deceiving. While many models have closets filled with expensive clothes — often received as payment for their work— most do not have bank accounts to match.

In New York, models earn $48,130 on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's only a third of the average annual Manhattanite salary of $144,716.

Those who manage to become household names — like Gisele Bündchen, Kendell Jenner, and Gigi Hadid — command much higher rates. The 20 highest-paid models made a collective $154 million last year, according to Forbes. Last year, 36-year-old Bündchen took the top spot, earning $30.5 million. Jenner, who has over 83 million Instagram followers, made $10 million, and Hadid was close behind with $9 million.

For others in the industry, which the Council of Fashion Designers of America has said is "in transition," the financial story is much different.

"Models—many of whom are minors—have low bargaining power and are frequently not paid all of their earned wages, are paid wages late, are paid only after complaining about non-payment, are paid in 'trade' instead of money, or are simply not paid at all," former model and founder and executive director of the Models Alliance, Sara Ziff, told The Daily Beast's Miranda Frum last year.

Kelly Mittendorf, 23, who retired from modeling in 2015 after spending five years in the industry, recently spoke to the New York Times about her experience. Here's Mittendorf:

"I never made good money as a model. I went into debt with every single one of my agencies at one point or another. An agency has for each girl an account, and if they need to have the girl come from Arizona to New York in order to build her portfolio, the agency will front the expenses for her plane ticket, for paying the photographers, for printing the photos, for the physical portfolio itself, for the comp cards that need to be developed, for the retouching, for new clothes to go on castings with, for a model apartment for her to stay in."

While there's no guarantee that a model's career earnings will justify the upfront costs, one way or another she is required to repay the agency. In Mittendorf's case, that amounted to five figures of debt.

"I was lucky to kind of be able to climb out of that," she told the New York Times. "It took years."

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The semi-annual chaos that is New York Fashion Week has begun, and designers and fashionistas are deep in preparation mode. 

Perhaps no one knows the ins and outs of Fashion Week better than Anna Wintour, longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine and artistic director at Conde Nast. Donning her trademark black Chanel sunglasses and perfectly styled bob, Wintour has been a fashion-show fixture for decades. 

With an estimated annual salary of $2 million, Wintour leads the kind of lifestyle any fashionista would envy.  

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Wintour is originally from the UK and moved to New York in her 20s. After stints at Harper's & Queen, Harper's Bazaar, and Viva, Wintour took the helm at Vogue in 1988. At the time, the storied fashion magazine had lost some market share to rival Elle, and its focus had shifted slightly to include lifestyle coverage.

Under Wintour, Vogue reestablished itself as the dominant American fashion magazine.

Wintour has now attended more than 3,000 fashion shows on behalf of Vogue. She has an annual clothing budget that's rumored to be as much as $200,000.

Source: T Magazine

President Donald Trump has more reasons than one to keep a careful eye on Florida.

The president has a handful of real-estate holdings along the state's coast. This weekend, Trump hotels and clubs could be battered by Hurricane Irma, already one of the most powerful storms on record.

The link between climate change and this year's catastrophic hurricane activity is uncertain, but scientists say the rising temperature of ocean water makes storms stronger. Climate change is also responsible for sea-level rise, which could cause powerful storm surges and flooding that one day devastates some of Trump's real-estate holdings in the US.

In January, areport from theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency hinted at the possibility of an "extreme" sea-level rise scenario that would put some American landmarks, towns, and cities underwater within the century. That scenario is considered unlikely, but possible.

Research group Climate Central took the projections laid out in NOAA's report and created a plug-in for Google Earth that shows how catastrophic the damage would be if the flooding happened today. You can install it (directions here) and see anywhere in the US.

Here's what nine hotels and clubs owned by Trump might look like in the year 2100.

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In a worst case scenario, flooding caused by polar melting and ice-sheet collapses could cause a sea level rise of 10 to 12 feet by 2100, NOAA reported in January.

Trump built the Taj Mahal casino for $1.2 billion in 1990. It overlooks the beaches of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and has been described by Trump as the "eighth wonder of the world."

In 2017, Trump sold the hotel for 4 cents on the dollar.

Source: Los Angeles Times

To maintain order in the classroom — and to keep their jobs — there are some things teachers just can't tell their students, even if they want to.

But some of these things, while perhaps controversial, could end up being a service to young people, if only someone would just tell them.

So we asked teachers everywhere to weigh in on the one thing they'd love to tell their students but can't, and more than 50 teachers shared their insights.

We've (anonymously) included some of the most constructive thoughts here:

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'Really, all this stuff you learn is probably not that important'

"What is important is the life skills you learn while completing the tasks in class.

"You learn how to argue effectively and communicate with different types of people. You learn how to listen to others and respond respectfully. You learn so much that you don't even realize because it seems disguised by homework and essays. But really, you are learning to be independent adults more than you know."

'Don't waste this opportunity'

"Please just know that I love teaching and I sincerely want to help you. But I can't help you if you don't put in the effort. I chose this job because I'm passionate and hardworking and I know my s---, and I will help you get to where you need to be. But you need to meet me halfway.

"It's so frustrating because education opens so many doors, and people around the world would kill to have this educational opportunity. Malala was shot in the freaking head for it. And you're just throwing it all away, and that makes me want to tear my hair out."

'You are not your test scores'

"All the standardized testing we do is so insignificant to who you will become."

Lazy Bear is not your average restaurant. You sit where you're told, eat what's put in front of you, and make polite conversation with strangers throughout the meal.

And for a seat at San Francisco's most exclusive supper club, you leave nearly $300 on the table.

Founded in 2009, Lazy Bear started out as an underground supper club in the home of chef-owner David Barzelay. The lawyer-by-training invited his friends to feast, but the guest list quickly snowballed as word spread of his unique dining experiences. Six years later, Barzelay opened a brick-and-mortar shop off Mission Street and has packed the house for two nightly seatings ever since.

Getting in isn't easy. Each month, Lazy Bear posts a tweet revealing the date and time tickets for dinner the following month go on sale. Tickets for weekends often sell out within a day.

We spoke with Barzelay to learn how Lazy Bear became a coveted dining experience.

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You might say Lazy Bear Supper Club is a restaurant that could only exist in San Francisco.

Barzelay, a law school graduate with no formal culinary training, developed his culinary IQ out of his dorm kitchen. He enjoyed combining familiar flavors in explosive dishes.

In 2009, he decided to turn his in-home dinner parties into an underground supper club that was open to the public. Guests sat around a communal folding table in a space he rented.

Barzelay said he never had any intention of growing the club into a business. But within two years, he was working full-time on Lazy Bear and started looking for an "above ground" space.

Lazy Bear reopened in an industrial space with high ceilings and no walls between the kitchen and the dining room. Guests eat at two long American elm tables for two nightly seatings.

Barzelay liked the intimacy of the supper club and wasn't sure if it would work at scale.

"When we opened with this communal model, we told everyone — and I think we at least half-believed it — that we were only going to do it that way for a little while," Barzelay said. "We honestly thought there was a pretty good chance that we couldn't fill it for very long. All the people on the waitlist would filter through, and we would go to a normal a la carte model." 

Time-management expert and author Laura Vanderkam has a podcast about work/life balance.

On one episode, Vanderkam and her cohost, physician Sarah Hart-Unger, talk about the "mental load" of parenting — i.e., all the psychological energy it takes to remember to sign Davie up for swimming lessons and drive Janie to the dentist.

Vanderkam and Hart-Unger set out to solve two problems. One, how can you make the mental load more reasonable and even enjoyable? And two, if you're a co-parent, how can you split the responsibilities relatively evenly?

Their solution is simple but elegant, and it applies just as easily to couples with and without kids. There are two steps:

1. Each person writes down all the family responsibilities they're currently taking care of.

2. Each person shares which of those responsibilities they enjoy, and which they don't.

In the process, you might discover that you're shouldering a considerably smaller responsibility of family responsibilities than you thought.

Vanderkam shared a simple but telling example: She would never even think of putting air in the kids' bicycle tires. But somehow, they always have air — her husband makes sure of it.

An oft-cited study found that each partner in a couple tends to overestimate how much they contribute to the housework, and to the relationship in general. You may be less of a housework hero than you think — which is important to realize, especially if you're starting to resent your partner for being a bum (or vice versa).

Now to that second step: Figure out which responsibilities you enjoy. Maybe you're scrubbing the shower every weekend because otherwise it'll get gross, but honestly, you hate doing it. Is it possible to hire a housekeeper?

"If there are things uncovered that both of you hate doing, then that may be a signal that neither of you need to do it, or maybe that's something that can be outsourced," Hart-Unger said.

Or, maybe your partner wouldn't mind putting in some elbow grease, and you could "trade" her another chore. It's kind of romantic.

The bottom line here is that passivity rarely gets you anywhere. That is, muttering under your breath that this dog should really be Kelly's responsibility, or assuming that you're doomed to a lifetime of de-rusting the bathtub is not all that productive.

Have an honest conversation about this stuff with your partner — it'll free up some mental space and bring you two closer.

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Fast food is a guilty pleasure many Americans find impossible to avoid. But Amy's Drive Thru is a first-of-its-kind restaurant serving up organic, local, vegetarian, and non-GMO fare — and it's ready to take over the US.

Amy's Drive Thru is aiming to become America's first vegetarian national fast-food chain, competing with giants like McDonald's and KFC, Fast Company reported.

Two years after the company opened its first location in Rohnert Park, California, business is booming. According to Fast Company, six new Northern California locations are currently in the works. 

Amy's has been an established food brand for over 27 years, stocking sections of Whole Foods and other grocery stores.

"Over the years we felt we've been part of changing frozen food," Operations Director Paul Schiefer told Tech Insider in 2016. "And we had customers and partners saying, 'Hey I wonder if you can do the same thing for fast food.'"

Last year, we decided to visit Amy's Drive Thru's pioneer restaurant, located just an hour drive north of San Francisco, to see for ourselves how the meatless fare stacks up to established fast-food eateries.

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When you think of Amy's, you probably think of frozen lunches or organic soup. The company's products are sold in chain grocery stores nationwide.

But this is its first foray into fast food. Amy's chose to open the flagship in Sonoma County, home to its national headquarters and food packaging plant.

We arrived at Amy's Drive Thru — 58 Golf Course Drive West in Rohnert Park, California — on a dreary winter day. We were struck by the barn-like design that felt modern with the help of a bright turquoise logo.

Whole Foods is slashing prices following its $13.7 billion acquisition by e-commerce giant Amazon.

But can the grocery store ditch its "whole paycheck" reputation to compete with Walmart, the reigning king of American budget shopping?  

In an effort to see how Whole Foods actually measures up against Walmart when it comes to grocery prices, we compared the prices of 31 items sold at a Whole Foods store in Durham, North Carolina, with a nearly identical set of items at a nearby Walmart. 

The Whole Foods basket was $30.02 more expensive than a basket of the same items purchased at Walmart. 

The bills came to $137.89 at Whole Foods and $107.87 at Walmart, after we accounted for the products' varying package sizes and calculated those differences into the final price. In other words, shopping at Whole Foods is almost 30% more expensive than at Walmart. 

A $30.02 difference is a significant gap — but a closer look at the numbers reveals some reasons to believe that Whole Foods and Amazon still have a shot at winning over bargain shoppers. 

Walmart's prices were less than Whole Foods' on almost every item.

However, there were a few areas where Whole Foods triumphed: bananas, peanut butter, and organic butter. Some other organic grocery staples, such as grapes, watermelon, and eggs, came within a few cents of Walmart's price. 

Many of these items had their prices slashed in late August, on the day the Amazon acquisition formally went through. Organic bananas, for example, went from 99 cents a pound to to 69 cents a pound, matching Walmart's price exactly. 

These price cuts have played a crucial role in allowing Whole Foods to come close to competing with Walmart's prices.

While Whole Foods has been trying to win over value-oriented shoppers for more than two years, it took Amazon's acquisition for the retailer to actually slash prices to figures near Walmart's. The fact that Amazon has promised "more to come" bodes well for the retailer's ability to lower prices in the future. 

In a few cases, Walmart's prices are lower because Whole Foods simply doesn't sell non-organic, or "conventional," versions of certain items, including coconut oil and quick oats. 

However, Walmart's prices are significantly lower than Whole Foods when it comes to selling the same name-brand items. Justin's Almond Butter is more than $2 less expensive at Walmart, and Annie's Mac and Cheese is almost half the price. 

Whole Foods has historically stocked a plethora of more expensive gourmet, organic, and all-natural brands, like Cypress Grove cheese priced at $32.99 a pound and $8 Fine & Raw chocolate bars. The grocery chain refuses to sell many of the popular brands, from Oreos to Doritos, that fill Walmart's shelves.

Even when there is overlap and both retailers sell the exact same brand, Walmart has the lower price. 

Whole Foods' post-Amazon acquisition price cuts have had a major impact, especially on produce and some of the retailer's 365 brand items.

However, if your top priority is low prices, Walmart still reigns supreme — by a pretty significant margin. 

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*The Durham Whole Foods only sold organic coconut oil and quick oats, while the Walmart did not sell organic brown sugar. Business Insider compared the lowest-priced options available.  

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Amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman traveled extensively in the US and abroad from 1938 to 1969, capturing beautiful portraits of everyday life. 

His archive has been donated to and maintained by Cushman's alma mater, Indiana University, which has kindly given us permission to publish his gallery of New York City photos taken in 1941 and 1942.

These images give a great glimpse into what everyday life in Chinatown, the Financial District, and Midtown was like over 70 years ago.

Kamelia Angelova contributed reporting to an earlier version of this story.

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The old Fulton Market on Manhattan's Lower East Side wasn't quite so bustling on this Saturday afternoon in 1941.

Photo: Courtesy of Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection / Indiana University Archives

There were still traffic jams on South Street along the East River in 1941.

Photo: Courtesy of Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection / Indiana University Archives

Here, a view of the East River and the majestic Brooklyn Bridge.

Photo: Courtesy of Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection / Indiana University Archives

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in recorded history, is expected to bear down on South Florida over the weekend. Miami could be the city hit hardest.

The link between climate change and this year's catastrophic hurricane activity is uncertain, but scientists say the rising temperature of ocean water makes storms like Irma stronger.

Miami, a city of 430,000 people, could disappear within the century if the worst climate-change predictions come true.

In July, New York magazine's David Wallace-Wells spoke with dozens of climatologists and researchers for an investigation on the outcomes of climate change if aggressive preventative action isn't taken. The results were not pretty.

"Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving; most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade," Wallace-Wells said.

Located at the mouth of the Miami River on the lower east coast of Florida, Miami's elevation on average is about 6 feet above sea level, according to CityData.com and NASA. South Florida as a whole anticipates a 2-foot increase in the sea level by 2060.

Within the century, a combination of polar melting, carbon emissions, and ice-sheet collapses could cause chronic flooding to wipe out Miami — and as many as 670 coastal communities, including Cambridge, Massachusetts; Oakland, California; St. Petersburg, Florida; and four of the five boroughs of New York City, according to National Geographic.

In January, a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency hinted at the possibility of an "extreme" sea-level-rise scenario that would support these predictions.

The research group Climate Central took the projections laid out in NOAA's report and created a plug-in for Google Earth that shows how catastrophic the damage would be if the flooding happened today. You can install it (directions here) and see anywhere in the US.

Here's what Miami may look like in the year 2100.

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This is what Miami Beach looks like today.

In the year 2100, you might need a rowboat to pass through it.

Climate Central's plug-in for Google Earth shows a sea-level rise of 10 to 12 feet, which would cause the Atlantic Ocean to wash over Miami and the Miami River to overflow.

Former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb reveals why a high-powered flashlight is one of the most important things you can carry. Following is a transcript of the video.

BRANDON WEBB: My friends and family are always asking me how to be better prepared. The biggest thing I think — advice I can give women especially is to carry a high-power flashlight. A thousand lumen flashlight. That small one you buy for $100 on Amazon. You have to spend the money, but a high lumens flashlight that will blind an assailant in the daytime or at night is the best investment you can make because you can take it on the plane you can put in your purse it's a flashlight. Even men, I carry a high Lumens flashlight and I remember walking in a dark alley having a bunch of drunk guys start hassling me and a girl I was with. I just shine that light. Just shine it on the wall next to them and it freaked them out. They thought … it's so bright it's like a police light and so that I use that to defuse so many situations and I love the flashlight because I travel with it all over the world and it's, you know you can take it through airport security. The important thing is to just incorporate everyday carry ... carry items that are going to be useful to you in a natural disaster, in an act of terrorism or worst-case scenarios.

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Target is slashing prices ahead of the holiday season.

In a blog post on Friday, the company announced that it was cutting prices on "thousands of items."

The post did not specify the size of the price cuts. It also did not elaborate on which specific products would be discounted, but said it would range from "cereal and paper towels to baby formula, razors, bath tissue and more."

The post makes it clear the prices are not just temporary reductions. It adds that while promotions and sales will not be going away, Target will now offer "only our best, most compelling sales — when it makes the most sense for our guests."

The retailer also announced plans to make its promotions easier for customers to understand. Target says it eliminated over two-thirds of its sale announcements in ads and in stores "so you can more easily spot the savings."

"We want our guests to feel a sense of satisfaction every time they shop at Target," Mark Tritton, Target's chief merchandising officer, said in prepared remarks. "Part of that is removing the guesswork to ensure they feel confident they're getting a great, low price every day."

Target has faced challenges as customers shop more online and less in big-box stores. The discount retailer told investors earlier this year it would lower prices to better compete with Walmart and Amazon. 

Target has recently boosted its ecommerce business and launched small-format, urban stores to win back customers. It reported a 1.3% rise in comparable sales in its most recent earnings report. 

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