Rainfall totals over the last 48 hours have been quite impressive! Over an inch and a half is reported in Santa Barbara, close to 3 inches in San Luis Obispo, 2 inches near Santa Maria and Ventura. We dry out Wednesday, a few small showers may pop up inland this afternoon but minimal impact is expected. All Flood and Wind Advisories expired at 6am, now were left with High Surf Advisories for the beaches and a Winter Storm Watch for inland mountains through Thursday. The sun will peak out by Wednesday afternoon and bring a small warming trend. Highs rise into the 50s and 60s. Overnight more rain begins.

Storm number 3 of the week arrives Thursday morning. This is our next cold front, but this time, impacts and rain look to be moderate. Compared to the last two storms this system will rank third. We start the morning with widespread moderate rain during breakfast. The moderate rain will transition to light and most storms move out of the area by midday. A rather quick set of spring showers ahead. Use caution when traveling some roadways are at risk for minor flooding and mudslides. Winds will crank up around advisory levels and may still down trees and power lines. Snow levels continue to lower and we may see a dusting in some unusual areas. High Surf will slam the coastline, avoid standing near or on jetties and rocks. The sun will dry the area out after lunch, highs rise into the 50s and 60s.

We begin another drying trend on Friday and dry weather holds into Saturday. The next set of showers begin Sunday afternoon and yet another storm Monday into Tuesday. Both of these systems look to be small, however more data will need to be collected.

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By Hanna Ziady, CNN

London (CNN) — Microsoft says it is on track to invest $50 billion by the end of the decade to help bring artificial intelligence to lower-income countries, as concerns mount over the technology’s potential to deepen inequality.

The announcement was made Wednesday at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, where leading tech executives, government officials and AI researchers are debating how to use AI to solve real-world problems.

Policymakers globally are increasingly worried that the unequal adoption of AI risks widening income and development gaps between rich and poor countries. In December, the United Nations Development Project called for global cooperation on standards and safety to ensure the technology “functions as a shared public good rather than a concentrated advantage.”

At the summit, Microsoft likewise expressed the need for cross-border partnerships to prevent poorer countries from being left behind.

“We need to act with urgency to address the growing AI divide,” Microsoft president Brad Smith and chief responsible AI officer Natasha Crampton said in a joint statement. “Artificial intelligence is diffusing at an impressive speed, but its adoption around the world remains profoundly uneven.”

A recent Microsoft report found that AI usage in the global north, a catch-all term for developed and high-income countries, is roughly twice that of the global south — and growing.

“This disparity impacts not only national and regional economic growth, but whether AI can deliver on its broader promise of expanding opportunity and prosperity around the world,” Smith and Crampton said.

They warned that, just as unequal access to electricity has exacerbated a growing economic gap between the global north and south, without urgent action, the AI divide could perpetuate that disparity in the century ahead.

On the other hand, the technology could be used positively to help poor countries leapfrog older development pathways. “If AI is deployed broadly and used well by a young and growing population, it offers a real prospect for catch-up economic growth for the Global South,” said Smith and Crampton.

“It might even provide the biggest such opportunity of the 21st century,” the pair said.

Microsoft’s $50 billion investment will, among other things, help to build the data centers crucial to providing the computing power needed to run AI models. Extending internet access is another focus.

Only about 36% of Africa’s population had broadband internet access in 2022, according to the World Bank. That compares with some 90% of US households, official figures show.

The AI Impact Summit, hosted by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlights the country’s ambition to position itself as an AI leader in the global south.

High-profile attendees include Sam Altman of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google CEO Sundar Pichai who is due to deliver a keynote address on Friday.

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Por Danya Gainor, Chelsea Bailey y Karina Tsui, CNN

La búsqueda de Nancy Guthrie, desaparecida de 84 años y madre de la presentadora del programa “Today”, Savannah Guthrie, se ha extendido a una tercera y angustiosa semana, con una creciente presión sobre los investigadores y una familia lidiando con la incertidumbre.

Nancy Guthrie fue vista por última vez el 31 de enero, antes de ser aparentemente secuestrada y desaparecer de su aislada casa en Catalina Foothills, Arizona, sin su teléfono ni medicamentos importantes.

Los largos días transcurridos desde su desaparición han estado marcados por giros inquietantes: supuestas notas de rescate exigiendo millones de dólares, una investigación intensiva, súplicas emotivas en video de los hijos de Nancy Guthrie pidiendo el regreso de su madre y un video de una persona armada y enmascarada manipulando la cámara del timbre de la casa de Nancy Guthrie en Tucson.

• Análisis de ADN: El ADN encontrado en guantes a tres km de la casa de Nancy Guthrie en Arizona no tiene coincidencias en la base de datos nacional conocida como CODIS, y tampoco coincide con el ADN encontrado en la casa de Guthrie, informó el sheriff del condado de Pima, Chris Nanos.

• La familia no es sospechosa: Los hijos adultos de Nancy Guthrie y sus cónyuges no son sospechosos de su desaparición de su casa el 1 de febrero, asegura el sheriff, calificando de “cruel” cualquier sugerencia en sentido contrario.

• Sin teoría principal: Las autoridades creen que la mujer de 84 años fue sacada de la casa contra su voluntad. Sin embargo, los investigadores aún no tienen una teoría principal sobre el motivo, según una fuente.

Líneas de denuncia: Si tiene información que pueda ayudar a los investigadores y llamar al 1-800-CALL-FBI o al 520-351-4900. También puede enviar información a tips.fbi.gov.

El sheriff del condado de Pima anunció el martes por la tarde que el ADN analizado en guantes encontrados cerca de la casa de Nancy Guthrie no tiene coincidencias en la base de datos nacional conocida como CODIS, y tampoco con el ADN encontrado en la casa de la mujer de 84 años.

El ADN hallado en su propiedad de Tucson aún se está analizando, afirma Nanos, y añade que ningún dato de la investigación coincide con el CODIS.

CODIS es el Sistema de Índice Combinado de ADN (CODIS) administrado por el FBI, una base de datos nacional que contiene más de 19 millones de perfiles de delincuentes, según la agencia.

Los investigadores están considerando otras opciones de genealogía genética para buscar coincidencias con la evidencia de ADN, dijo el sheriff, señalando que CODIS es solo una de las bases de datos disponibles.

Mientras tanto, los investigadores han estado visit

Análisis por Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español

Perú terminó este martes sin presidente de la República. Por la tarde, en una sesión convocada específicamente para discutir este tema, el Congreso aprobó una moción de censura contra José Jerí, con lo cual lo destituyó del cargo y abrió un proceso para elegir este miércoles a quien deberá encabezar el Gobierno hasta que asuma el Ejecutivo la persona que resulte electa en las elecciones de este año.

Jerí se convirtió así en el octavo presidente de Perú en solo 10 años y en el cuarto en ser removido por el Congreso en el mismo período. Antes de él, fueron destituidos Martín Vizcarra en 2020, Pedro Castillo en 2022 y Dina Boluarte en 2025. Tras la remoción de esta última, Jerí asumió la jefatura del Estado en octubre, al ser en ese momento el presidente del Congreso y el siguiente en la línea de sucesión.

Únicamente estuvo cuatro meses en el cargo y su caso, de acuerdo con analistas consultados por CNN, muestra algunos males que hoy afectan a la democracia en el país sudamericano, la inestabilidad que enfrenta y por qué es probable que otros presidentes tengan el mismo destino.

El proceso que concluyó en la destitución de Jerí comenzó hace algunas semanas, cuando medios locales difundieron imágenes suyas de reuniones fuera de la agenda oficial en establecimientos del empresario chino Zhihua Yang. Estos encuentros generaron dudas sobre la posibilidad de que Yang tuviera influencia en decisiones o contratos gubernamentales y dieron pie a que la Fiscalía de Perú abriera una investigación. Mientras tanto, Jerí negó haber cometido algún acto ilícito.

Durante los últimos días, a esto se sumó que la Fiscalía abrió otra indagatoria por posible tráfico de influencias agravado, debido a la contratación de nueve mujeres en el Palacio de Gobierno ya en el mandato de Jerí. CNN contactó a Jerí para pedir comentarios sobre este caso y está en espera de respuesta.

Para el abogado y analista político peruano Iván Lanegra, la “acumulación de cuestionamientos” contra Jerí se combinó con el contexto de las elecciones en puerta, de manera que los partidos que inicialmente le habían expresado respaldo al final apoyaron la moción de censura. En la sesión de este martes, el asunto se aprobó por 75 votos a favor y 24 en contra.

“Esa combinación de elementos ha ido aumentando el costo de respaldar la continuidad del presidente Jerí y eso ha terminado derivando en esta votación”, dijo Lanegra.

Ahora, en la sesión prevista para este miércoles, el Congreso definirá entre cuatro personas a quien presidirá el Parlamento y, con ello, se convertirá en presidente del país de forma interina. Los candidatos son Segundo Héctor Acuña Peralta, María del Carmen Alva Prieto, Edgard Cornelio Reymundo Mercado y José María Balcázar Zelada, según informó el Legislativo en su cuenta de X.

La destitución de Jerí no solo exhibe la forma en la que el político del Partido Democrático Somos Perú perdió apoyo por los cuestionamientos públicos. Además, de acuerdo con los analistas consultados, muestra una vez

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN

New York (CNN) — Much of the world is reeling from heinous realizations about men following the newly released tranche of Epstein files: that men in elite posts across government, business and academia have run the world corrupt and unchecked; that such men can pull the strings that influence everything from politics to college admissions to supermodel party guest lists.

But the American fashion scene offered a little respite: at an otherwise wan New York Fashion Week, which wrapped on Monday, a cohort of female designers stood out for making clothes that women actually want to wear. Most of these designers are not raking in the revenues of big European brands like Dior or Chanel. But unlike luxury businesses that present the runway as a fantasy to buoy handbag and perfume sales, these women are engaged in a deep relationship with their customers, who are finding pleasure in their beautifully cut tailoring, ravishing brocade coats and workaday, throw-it-on-for-that-million-bucks-feeling dresses.

“They lack that theatricality on the runway,” said Kaelen Haworth, the designer turned retailer behind Canadian boutique Absolutely Fabrics, which carries Ashlyn, Diotima, Colleen Allen and Fforme. “But the payoff is that they actually make it into women’s wardrobes.”

American fashion is often considered the parochial commercial cousin of the grand, artistic European brands. But with many of those houses (Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, Gucci – the list goes on) led creatively by men, American designers see themselves as a meaningful contrast, and their salability as a point of strength.

“I really feel there’s more and more male dominant forces at the biggest brands – there’s only men dressing women. So I wanted to say, Hey, this is sexy,” said Collina Strada designer Hillary Taymour, who showed a number of sultry but funky slip dresses – always the bestseller in her Chinatown store, according to the designer, and the kind of thing you wear so often to go out to dinner or grab a latte in the morning that it stays in a heap on your bedside chair rather than ever making it to a hanger in the closet.

“The customer as the muse is how I think of it, rather than turning her into ‘my woman,’” said Daniella Kallmeyer, a South African-born, New York–based designer, who this season elevated her offering of sharp suiting with pieces intended to stand up to vintage discoveries, like jeweled cocktail trousers, sultry grandma knits and jackets cut from fine Italian milled fabrics. “She is the reason for my being, and her life, her existence, her story is what creates these puzzle pieces for me to fill in,” she said. “I think that is probably distinctly feminine.”

A similar ethos was on display at Ashlyn, where designer Ashlynn Park’s nubby skirt suits and distinctive blouses are so appealingly unusual that a customer might find herself suddenly excited to get dressed for the office.

Whether these are the sensual crotchet gowns of Diotima, by Rachel Scott, or the more transportive whimsies of Tory Burch or Anna Sui, there’s a sense that these designers create without regard for what men might find compelling – not in a Man Repeller way, but rather flexing on your fellow women with a polished but eccentric ensemble, with an enviable secondhand find and a luxe pair of trousers. “I do find all of these designers to be good at creating what I think are incredibly sexy clothes, but there is little weight given to the male gaze,” said Haworth. “These ar