One More Thing: Apple computer introduced its much-anticipated smart watch yesterday. It’s attractive, comes in two sizes and does amazing things. Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “It will redefine what people expect from a watch.” At $349 it’s cheap by Apple standards. But like all things Apple, it works only when paired with something else Apple, in this case, an iPhone. The company also introduced two new larger cellphones.

But possibly the biggest news of the day was the announcement of Apple Pay, a credit payment system you can use to pay for anything from clothes to a hamburger with the wave of an iPhone. Apple has lined up the cooperation of the major credit card companies and retailers from Macy’s to McDonald’s. And it works with the Apple watch. Apple has gone from emptying your wallet to being your wallet.

Strategy: President Obama yesterday told Congressional leaders about his plans for fighting ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria. Obama says he has the authority to do what’s necessary, but some leaders say he needs a vote in Congress. Obama intends to tell the country his plans today.

It Never Rains: Hopes for heavy rains in drought-stricken California are fading with a report that the El Nino developing in the Pacific will not be strong enough to relieve the dry state. An El Nino is a warming in the Pacific that brings more rain and snow to the West. The El Nino of 1997-98 created one of the wettest California winters on record. The state may not be so lucky this time.

Kill the Messenger: The wife of former Baltimore Raven Ray Rice blames the media for his firing after making a big issue out of the video in which her husband punches her out. Janay Rice wrote on Instagram, “THIS IS OUR LIFE! What don’t you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you’ve succeeded on so many levels.”

Plaidland: British Prime Minister David Cameron made an impassioned plea in a Scottish newspaper for the wearers of the plaid to stay within the United Kingdom. “We desperately want you to stay; we do not want this family of nations to be ripped apart,” Cameron wrote. But he also said that if Scotland votes for independence, there’s no going back. “If the UK breaks apart, it breaks apart forever.”

Breaking Bad: The father of five missing South Carolina children whose bodies have been found in Alabama is suspected of their murder. The father, Timothy Jones Jr. of Lexington County, S.C., led investigators to the bodies. Jones was arrested Saturday night at a DUI checkpoint in Mississippi. Police said Jones’s car contained methamphetamine manufacturing chemicals, synthetic marijuana, bleach, muriatic acid, blood, and what might have been bodily fluids in the car.

Frozen: One of two British exploration ships that disappeared in the Canadian arctic in 1845 has been found, according to the Canadian government. Sir John Franklin set out with two ships and 129 men to chart the Northwest Passage and they were never seen again. Franklin’s desperate wife sent five rescue ships that even left stashes of food on the ice. Three bodies were found in the 1980s containing high amounts of lead, spawning the theory that the crew had been poisoned by poor soldering of the cans that held their food.

The ship was found on the bottom in the Victoria Strait. Canada hopes the discovery will help solve one of the mysteries of the age of Victorian exploration.

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