* WHAT…Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to
elevated surf expected.

* WHERE…San Luis Obispo County Beaches and Santa Barbara
County Central Coast Beaches.

* WHEN…Through Tuesday afternoon, peaking Monday afternoon
through Tuesday morning.

* IMPACTS…There is an increased risk of ocean drowning. Rip
currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can
wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats
nearshore.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Highest surf will be focused across south
facing beaches due to a southerly swell produced by Tropical
Storm Elida. Additional Beach Hazards Statements or High Surf
Advisories will likely be needed through the rest of the week
due to a series of incoming southerly swells.
Remain out of the water due to hazardous swimming conditions, or
stay near occupied lifeguard towers. Rock jetties can be deadly
in such conditions, stay off the rocks.

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order pausing the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín’s Monday ruling puts the deal on hold for two weeks while she considers a broader antitrust legal challenge brought by a coalition of 12 state attorneys general, led by California AG Rob Bonta.

The judge may choose to extend the order for two more weeks. She said she will move quickly to consider the states’ request for a preliminary injunction, which could freeze the merger in place for months and pose a major setback for Paramount.

Martínez-Olguín will hold a hearing on August 3 to consider imposing the injunction. Lawyers for Paramount say they will present evidence refuting the states’ argument that the deal violates antitrust law.

The early August timing is significant because Paramount is on the verge of taking over WBD, including CNN.

If the coalition of state attorneys general had not filed an antitrust lawsuit on July 13, Paramount appeared ready to complete the merger this week.

Regulatory bodies around the world have already supplied the necessary approvals. But the companies knew for months about the likelihood of a lawsuit by Democratic state attorneys general alleging that the merger would harm Hollywood and ultimately hurt consumers.

Executives at Paramount and WBD expected the judge to grant the states’ motion for a temporary restraining order, which is a judicial pause button at the preliminary stage of a legal battle.

Paramount urged Martínez-Olguín to set a speedy timetable for the much more impactful preliminary injunction stage. That’s because the company has been determined to take control of WBD by September 30.

A deal-sweetener known as a “ticking fee” kicks in on October 1, adding 25 cents per WBD share per quarter to the cost of the deal until completion. The so-called “ticking fee” could cost Paramount hundreds of millions of dollars.

Monday’s ruling signals that the legal battle will play out relatively quickly.

Martínez-Olguín wrote that the states presented “compelling evidence” that Paramount–WBD would “possess substantial market share in the wide-release theatrical distribution market.”

Paramount’s lead trial attorney, Daniel Kessler, said in court last week that the defendants “will dispute” the state attorneys general’s “market definitions, arguing that the states are improperly depicting the marketplaces for film distribution and cable channel licensing.

Market definitions are at the heart of the case because the states argue that the combined Paramount–WBD would have too much concentrated power in those markets.

The companies argue that the entertainment industry is rapidly evolving, with intense competition from tech giants and even individual content creators.

But Bonta, the California attorney general, says the streaming marketplace is a separate matter from the film and cable sectors that his lawsuit highlights.

“They’re multimillion-dollar markets, and this merger impacts them in a way that’s illegal,” Bonta told CNN in an interview last week.

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By Andrew Freedman, CNN

(CNN) — Putting your own mask on before assisting others was only supposed to be a safety instruction on an airplane, but it has applied to everyday life in the urban corridor from Washington, DC, to Boston where, for the second time in four years, smoke from wildfires in Canada turned skies an eerie shade of sepia.

The air smelled like smoke, even hundreds of miles downwind from the blazes. Sunsets were transformed into an ethereal red, while the sun was barely visible at noon through the pollution in Boston, New York and Washington. Midwestern cities suffered too: Chicago and Detroit had some of the worst air quality in the entire world. At one point last week, at least 120 million Americans from Minnesota to Massachusetts were under air quality warnings due to the wildfire smoke.

For decades, scientists have been warning us about the calamitous consequences of climate change. These warnings have often come in scientific studies using seemingly far-off years such as 2050 and 2100.

But this summer proves we don’t have to wait until the future for climate change to smack us in the face. From torrid heat waves, to deadly flash floods, to raging wildfires and their associated acrid smoke — the signs are all around us, right now.

The disasters of late are what global warming looks like: One piled on top of another, all occurring at about the same time.

“Climate change is a present threat, and it will become even harder to ignore as the impacts grow,” said Zachary Labe, a climate scientist at Climate Central, a nonprofit research group. “The burning of fossil fuels is already having a clear and significant impact on communities, and we do not have to wait until 2050 or 2100 to see the consequences.”

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Summer used to be a carefree time for vacations and camping in the United States. Now we have a smoke season to accompany a seemingly year-round wildfire season in the American West and parts of Canada. This is occurring as average temperatures climb and forests become more susceptible to ignition from lightning and human actions.

The extreme weather and climate events so far this summer read like an over-the-top disaster movie script, except this is reality.

Parts of Texas are reeling from flash flooding after a deadly, 1,000-year rainfall event — the second in just two years. Such events have a 0.1% chance of occurring in any single year, under normal circumstances. But extreme rainfall is becoming more common as planet-warming pollution pushes temperatures higher because warmer air holds more moisture.

In some parts of Texas

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Una persona está bajo custodia sospechosa de lanzar un artefacto incendiario la mañana de este lunes contra un edificio federal de la ciudad de Nueva York, un incidente que dejó lesiones menores a varias personas, informaron las autoridades.

El incidente ocurrió en el 26 de Federal Plaza, en Manhattan, un edificio que alberga oficinas de agencias del Gobierno como el FBI y el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés), informó el FBI.

Se cree que el artefacto estaba compuesto por fuegos artificiales y un líquido inflamable, según fuentes policiales independientes, que citaron una evaluación preliminar de los investigadores. No está claro si el artefacto impactó el edificio, dijo una fuente policial con conocimiento del incidente, pero un video muestra a agentes del orden saliendo de una densa columna de humo frente al edificio.

Las autoridades no dieron a conocer de inmediato detalles sobre el presunto motivo. El hombre bajo custodia llevaba una pistola de aire comprimido y material contra ICE, según dos fuentes policiales. Una de ellas identificó el material como un cartel contra ICE. También arrastraba un carrito que contenía dos rifles, más fuegos artificiales y otros objetos diversos encontrados en su interior, dijo una fuente policial.

Al menos tres personas sufrieron lesiones menores, según el Departamento de Bomberos de Nueva York. Dos rechazaron recibir atención médica y otra fue trasladada al Hospital NewYork-Presbyterian.

El hombre acusado de lanzar el artefacto también sufrió lesiones menores que no ponen en riesgo su vida, según una fuente con conocimiento de la situación.

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“Lo ocurrido esta mañana frente al 26 de Federal Plaza fue profundamente perturbador”, dijo el alcalde de Nueva York, Zohran Mamdani. “Me alivia que nadie haya resultado gravemente herido y que haya un sospechoso bajo custodia. Mi equipo está en contacto con el Departamento de Policía de Nueva York y apoyaremos la investigación federal”.

La Policía investiga los antecedentes del hombre para determinar si tiene historial delictivo en la ciudad de Nueva York o si ha tenido encuentros con las autoridades relacionados con enfermedades mentales, según una fuente policial.

“Nuestra administración seguirá trabajando para garantizar que todos los neoyorquinos estén seguros en su ciudad y para que quienes representen una amenaza rindan cuentas por sus actos”, dijo el alcalde.

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