Nancy Prado

Seis personas resultaron heridas en un accidente automovilístico que ocurrió ayer a las 7:30 de la noche en la intersección de la avenida 48 y Dillon Road, cerca de Grapefruit Boulevard, en Indio.Cinco de personas sufrieron heridas leves y fueron trasladadas al hospital en ambulancia, y un niño de 11 años resulto herido de gravedad y se lo llevaron en helicóptero.

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By Eric Levenson, CNN

(CNN) — Savannah Guthrie said she believes her mother may have been abducted for ransom because of her fame, the “Today” show host said in her first interview since her mother’s disappearance nearly two months ago.

Speaking to her NBC colleague and friend Hoda Kotb, Guthrie said her brother first raised the possibility that Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped for ransom.

“I said, ‘What? Why? What?’ It sounds so – how dumb could I be but I just, I didn’t want to believe. I said, ‘Do you think because of me?’” Guthrie said. “He said, ‘I’m sorry sweetie, but yeah maybe.’ But I knew that. I hope not. I mean we still don’t know. Honestly we don’t know anything.

“I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom, and somebody thought, ‘That lady has money, we could make a quick buck.’ I mean that would make sense, but we don’t know, but yeah that’s probably. Which is too much to bear, to think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me.

“I just say, I’m so sorry mommy. I’m so sorry. … If it is me, I’m so sorry,” she said.

The interview comes nearly two months after Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, on January 31 in what police believe to be an abduction.

Video from her doorbell camera showed an armed, masked person tampering with the camera at her home that night, and Guthrie’s blood was found on the front porch, according to authorities. Several purported ransom letters demanded millions of dollars in bitcoin for her return, but the family and police did not receive proof of their legitimacy.

The suspect in the video is described as male, about 5-feet-9-inches to 5-feet-10-inches tall and having an average build. His backpack was identified as a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack.

Guthrie and her family have released emotional videos pleading for their mother’s return and asked the public to provide tips on her whereabouts. The family announced a $1 million reward for information leading to her mother’s recovery.

NBC aired a short clip from Guthrie’s interview with Kotb on Wednesday morning.

“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony. We are in agony,” Guthrie said through tears in the clip. “It is unbearable.”

“I wake up every night in the middle of the night, every night, and in the darkness, I imagine her terror. And it is unthinkable, but those thoughts demand to be thought, and I will not hide my face. But she needs to come home now.”

Kotb described the interview as emotional and said Guthrie spoke about the investigation, her faith and how she’s getting through this period.

“There is a desperation and also a steeliness about Savannah,” Kotb said. “She’s hoping that somebody, whoever this person is, will see something and say something.”

Guthrie, 54, is the centerpiece of the “Today” show, one of the most important franchises at NBCUniversal. The network has not yet announced a return date for Guthrie, but a person close to the show said they anticipate Guthrie coming back to Studio 1A sometime in April.

Guthrie and Kotb co-hosted “Today” from 2018 until Kotb’s departure last year.

Officials say the case is still active, with a 20- to 24-person task force dedicated to the investigation. “We’re not giving up,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told KOLD, the CBS affiliate in Tucson, earlier this week.

The Guthrie family maintains close communication with law enforcement, a friend of Savanna

By August Phillips, CNN

(CNN) — Marla Waldman Conn was on a family vacation, relaxing by a pool in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks, when she got a call from a New York detective. She walked to a private corner, picked up the phone, and heard the words she had been waiting on for decades: “We have a match.” Marla fell to her knees.

That news was in reference to the homicide case of Marla’s mother, Barbara Waldman, who was murdered in her Long Island, New York, home on January 11, 1974. Fifty years later, police had matched crime scene DNA to a man who had lived in Waldman’s Oceanside neighborhood at the same time.

Waldman’s killing languished as a cold case for decades, but her children refused to accept not knowing. They relentlessly pursued answers, and finally found them.

‘We didn’t talk about it’

Marla and her two brothers, Larry and Eric, were just 7, 6 and 5 when their mother died at the age of 31.

It was Eric, the youngest child, who discovered his mother’s body in the family’s house after hopping off the school bus from a day at kindergarten. He says his final memory of his mom is of her lying on the floor upstairs in her rose-covered bathrobe, her hands tied behind her back and a pillowcase stuffed in her mouth. The Nassau County Police homicide squad determined Waldman had been shot in the head.

“I’ve had that image in my head since I found her when I was 5, and I’m going to have it until I die,” Eric said.

Neighbors saw a person walking near the house on the day of the murder, and police produced a sketch of a man in a snorkel coat – a heavy jacket with a fur-trimmed hood. But the sketch wasn’t enough. A suspect couldn’t be identified, and the case went cold, joining the sad ranks of hundreds of thousands of unsolved violent crimes.

After their mother’s death, the Waldman children tried their best to live normal lives. Their father, local dentist Dr. Gerry Waldman, remarried six months later, and the young children accepted his new wife as their stepmom.

“It was tough growing up. We didn’t talk about it,” Eric said. “The pictures came off the walls — one, two, three of my mom in the house, so there was nothing of her.”

But as they got older, the children began thinking more and more about their mother and what happened to her.

“I think we disassociated and basically kept the secret and pretended,” Marla said. “Until I got pregnant, and that’s when I really started questioning my dad: ‘Dad, this isn’t right, I want to know about my mom.’”

‘I’m not letting this go’

There was also family division and gossip surrounding their father, playing into that secrecy. Some neighbors and relatives speculated he might have been involved in his wife’s killing, and his quick move into a second marriage didn’t “look good,” Eric said. But in 2004, as DNA matching techniques evolved, police say he provided detectives a swab with his genetic material. It was then, his children said, that their father was ruled out as a suspect. He died a couple of years later, never knowing who was responsible for his wife’s death.

Marla said she became “a little bit obsessed” over her mother’s case after that. She began watching true crime shows and calling the Nassau County Police Department every year to check in on the case, which she says officers told her could not be reopened without new evidence.

In what she thought might be a big break, Marla recalls her family members “blowing up my phone” in December 2022 when serial killer Richard Cottingham admitted to killing five Long Island women in the late 1960s and early 1970s — the same timeframe and location as her mother’s murder. She and her brother reached out to detectives and the district attorney. It was enough to get their mother’s

By Alexandra Banner, CNN

Next month, if all goes according to plan, four Artemis II astronauts will set off on a 10-day journey around the moon aboard a rocket and spacecraft that have never carried humans before. It’s a high-stakes endeavor, with much of the precision unfolding on the ground, where NASA’s mission control will guide every moment to keep the crew on track.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ Travel chaos

Airports across the country are bracing for another surge of weekend travelers as the partial government shutdown drags on, pushing TSA wait times to record highs. TSA workers have been quitting or calling out in droves after going six weeks without pay. With no deal yet to fund the Department of Homeland Security — and lawmakers set to leave for a two-week recess on Friday — the outlook is increasingly uncertain. Unless a deal is reached soon, many overwhelmed airports will head into one of the busiest travel weekends of the year with massive spring break crowds and only a fraction of their security screening capabilities.

2⃣ Landmark verdict

Meta and YouTube were found liable on Wednesday in a landmark case over social media addiction. A California jury concluded that the companies designed their platforms to foster compulsive use, knew the risks, failed to warn users and caused substantial harm to a young woman’s mental health. The companies were ordered to pay $6 million in damages — a relatively small sum for the tech giants, but one that analysts say could serve as a blueprint for hundreds of similar lawsuits. If losses mount in those cases, total damages could climb into the billions, CNN tech reporter Clare Duffy says.

3⃣ Robot at the White House

First Lady Melania Trump brought an AI-powered robot to the White House on Wednesday — and said there could be more of them soon. “Thank you, first lady Melania Trump, for inviting me,” the robot said, introducing itself as “Figure 3” at Trump’s summit on AI education and child safety. The unexpected guest drew a stunned silence from attendees, with many snapping photos. The robot then moved through the room on its two “feet,” greeting guests in 11 languages with flawless pronunciation. Wednesday’s robotic appearance underscored the rapid pace of AI development, which Trump sought to highlight as she emphasized the need to protect and educate children in a fast-changing technological landscape.

4⃣ Kharg island

As tensions rise across the Middle East, Iran has been laying traps on Kharg Island, preparing for a potential US attempt to seize the key oil hub, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence. The Trump administration is weighing whether to use troops to take the island in the northeastern Persian Gulf — which handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports — as leverage to force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, CNN has reported. But officials and military experts warn that such an operation would carry major risks, including significant US casualties, given the island’s layered defenses. Separately, Israel says it killed a key Iranian Navy commander involved in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

5⃣ Climate

A record warm March has

Dense fog and clouds are bound to the coastline Thursday morning. Slow clearing occurs after lunch and temperatures rise into the 60s and low 70s near Santa Barbara County. Clouds return after the sun starts to set. San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria will begin the morning with a few clouds but without the dense marine layer shield, temperatures will rise into the 80s. Winds remain breezy at times and calm marine waters are in the forecast.

Rinse and repeat weather into Friday. Visibility will be a problem for most in the early mornings. Slow clearing patterns persist in Santa Barbara and Ventura while mostly sunny skies prevail north of Gaviota. Temperatures rise a few degrees and it'll be a fantastic start to the weekend!

A cloudy but warm weekend is ahead as temperatures hold in the 70s and low 80s despite the cloud coverage. Minimal weather pattern shifts until spring showers arrive Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. More information and timing to come.

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