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An 80-year-old man died Sunday in the Grand Canyon after his boat flipped and dropped him into rapids along the Colorado River, park officials said. His death marked the fifth fatality recorded in the Arizona national park in less than one month. 

Rangers received word from a tourist group traversing the river that an elderly man had fallen in because his boat turned over at a section of the waterway called Fossil Rapid, according to the National Park Service. The agency said members of the group reached out to the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center at around 3:40 p.m. Sunday afternoon by way of a satellite phone call. At the time, they said attempts to perform CPR on the man were underway. Neither the people in that tour group, nor park rangers who traveled by helicopter to the scene, were able to revive the man, whose identity hasn’t been shared with the public. 

The National Park Service said Tuesday that it was investigating the circumstances around his death in coordination with the Coconino County Medical Examiner. CBS News contacted a spokesperson for Grand Canyon National Park for more information or comment but did not receive an immediate response.

Sunday’s incident came on the heels of four other fatalities that have occurred in the Grand Canyon since July 31, and on the same day another tourist was found dead in the Colorado River.

The body of 33-year-old Chenoa Nickerson, of Gilbert, Arizona, was located Sunday by a group of visitors on a commercial river trip, according to park officials. She had been reported missing several days earlier after being swept away in a flash flood that hit Havasu Canyon, almost 20 miles from where she was found.

Earlier in August, officials said another woman was found dead about 150 feet below a section of the Grand Canyon rim called Twin Overlooks. She was identified as 20-year-old Leticia Castillo, of Albuquerque. Officials said when they located the body that she had likely been missing for three days.  

Not long before Castillo was believed to have entered the Grand Canyon, park officials said that rangers had discovered the body of a BASE jumper who apparently fell to his death after intending to leap from a spot along the South Rim of the park called Yavapai Point — which towers roughly 4,600 feet above the ground-level river that cuts through the canyon. His body was found beside a deployed parachute roughly 500 feet below the rim. The man’s identity wasn’t revealed. Officials said they’d opened a probe into his death and reiterated that BASE jumping, a particularly extreme take on typical parachuting that can be deadly, is illegal in the Grand Canyon.  

One visitor died at the tail-end of July after accidentally falling off the edge of the canyon near Pipe Creek Overlook, according to the national park. That person was identified as Abel Joseph Mejia, a 20-year-old from North Carolina, whose body was found 400 feet below the rim. Officials said people should remain at least six feet away from the edge of the Grand Canyon rim when visiting the park.

At least 13 people have died at Grand Canyon National Park so far this year.



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Tupperware files for bankruptcy amid slumping sales

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Tupperware and some of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the once-iconic food container maker said in a statement late Tuesday.

The company has suffered from dwindling sales following a surprise surge during the COVID-19 pandemic, when legions of people stuck at home tried their hands at cooking, which increased demand for Tupperware’s colorful plastic containers with flexible airtight seals.

A post-pandemic rise in costs of raw materials and shipping, along with higher wages, also hurt Tupperware’s bottom line.

Last year, it warned of “substantial doubt” about its ability to keep operating in light of its poor financial position.

“Over the last several years, the Company’s financial position has been severely impacted by the challenging macroeconomic environment,” president and CEO Laurie Ann Goldman said in a statement announcing the bankruptcy filing.

“As a result, we explored numerous strategic options and determined this is the best path forward,” Goldman said.

The company said it would seek court approval for a sale process for the business to protect its brand and “further advance Tupperware’s transformation into a digital-first, technology-led company.”

The Orlando, Florida-based firm said it would also seek approval to continue operating during the bankruptcy proceedings and would continue to pay its employees and suppliers.

“We plan to continue serving our valued customers with the high-quality products they love and trust throughout this process,” Goldman said.

The firm’s shares were trading at $0.5099 Monday, well down from $2.55 in December last year.

Tupperware said it had implemented a strategic plan to modernize its operations and drive efficiencies to ignite growth following the appointment of a new management team last year.

“The Company has made significant progress and intends to continue this important transformation work.”

In its filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Tupperware listed assets of between $500 million and $1 billion and liabilities of between $1 billion and $10 billion.

The filing also said it had between 50,000 and 100,000 creditors.

Tupperware lost popularity with consumers in recent years and an initiative to gain distribution through big-box chain Target failed to reverse its fortunes.

The company’s roots date to 1946, when chemist Earl Tupper “had a spark of inspiration while creating molds at a plastics factory shortly after the Great Depression,” according to Tupperware’s website.

“If he could design an airtight seal for plastic storage containers, like those on a paint can, he could help war-weary families save money on costly food waste.”

Over time, Tupper’s containers became popular that many people referred to any plastic food container as Tupperware. And people even threw “Tupperware parties” in their homes to sell the containers to friends and neighbors.



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Former President Donald Trump held a town hall in Michigan while Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia Tuesday. Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, blamed Democrats’ “rhetoric” for a second apparent assassination attempt in Florida. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe has the latest.

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