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Special Weather Statement issued December 24 at 4:45AM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA

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At 444 AM PST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm
capable of producing a waterspout that if develops would move over
land near Highway 101 through Gaviota State Park, or 8 miles east of
Point Conception, moving northeast at 35 mph.

HAZARD…Waterspouts and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Waterspouts can easily overturn boats and create locally
hazardous waters. Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs
and blow around unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include…
Highway 101 through Gaviota State Park.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

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Esta cárcel de Perú alberga a solo cuatro reclusos y todos son expresidentes. Así conviven ellos a diario

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Por Jimena De La Quintana y Sol Amaya, CNN en Español

En el centro histórico de Lima, la capital de Perú se alza una imponente edificación que fue la casa del fundador de Lima, Francisco Pizarro y la de virreyes y, a lo largo de los últimos 500 años, sufrió grandes cambios. Es el Palacio de Gobierno, sede del Ejecutivo y centro de poder. A apenas 20 kilómetros, una construcción menos atractiva, angulosa, amurallada, se extiende por unos 800 metros cuadrados. Es la cárcel de Barbadillo. ¿Qué tienen en común ambas instalaciones? Cuatro nombres que en su momento ostentaron la presidencia y ahora conviven en el menos célebre espacio: la prisión.

Se trata de los expresidentes Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), Ollanta Humala (2006-2011), Martín Vizcarra (2018-2020) y Pedro Castillo (2021-2022). Todos ellos son protagonistas de una historia que podría parecerse más a la ficción que a la realidad. Y es que no hay otro país en el mundo en el que permanezcan detenidos, a la vez, cuatro exmandatarios en un mismo lugar.

Los cuatro expresidentes han sido sentenciados en primera instancia. Toledo y Ollanta Humala, por casos relacionados a aportes ilegales de la empresa Odebrecht; Vizcarra por actos de corrupción cometidos cuando era gobernador de la región Moquegua, y Pedro Castillo, por el delito de conspiración para una rebelión, tras el fallido golpe de Estado de 2022. Fueron condenados a penas que van de los 11 a los 20 años de prisión. Todos defienden su inocencia.

Un dato que torna la situación incluso más surrealista: estos cuatro expresidentes son los únicos reos alojados en Barbadillo, mientras el resto del sistema penitenciario de Perú enfrenta una situación de hacinamiento. Según cifras oficiales, son más de 103.000 los presos que existen actualmente en las casi 70 cárceles que tiene el país, pese a que la capacidad es tan solo para 41.000 reclusos.

Desde sus inicios, Barbadillo fue la “cárcel de los presidentes”, como hoy se la conoce, y el primer recluso fue Alberto Fujimori. Cuando el expresidente fue extraditado de Chile en 2007, para ser juzgado y posteriormente sentenciado en Perú por crímenes cometidos durante su Gobierno, la gran duda era: ¿qué prisión estaría en condiciones de alojar a un personaje de impacto político?

Fue un “tema histórico”, le cuenta a CNN, José Luis Pérez Guadalupe, exjefe del Instituto Nacional Penitenciario (INPE), institución encargada de administrar el sistema carcelario en Perú. “No sabían qué hacer, dónde ponerlo, no había la posibilidad de garantizar la integridad de Fujimori dentro de un penal ordinario”, dice Pérez Guadalupe, que fue la máxima autoridad de esta institución entre los años 2011 y 2015.

Así, al interior de la Dirección de Operaciones Especiales de la policía peruana (DIROES) se decidió construir un espacio especial. “Se adecuó un ambiente, prefabricado, y se le puso allí”, dice Pérez Guadalupe, también exministro de Interior. Tiempo después, Fujimori pasó a otro lugar, dentro del mismo local de la DIROES, un edificio que es finalmente lo que hoy constituye la cárcel de Barbadillo.

Durante la gestión de José Luis Pérez Guadalupe, que inició años después de la llegada de Fujimori, el exmandatario era, todavía, el único preso en el lugar. “Había más o menos 17 empleados del INPE asignados a ese penal y el único interno era Fujimori”, por eso “en su momento dijimos que era el preso más caro del Perú”, dice refiriéndose a la cantidad de empleados que había por un recluso. En aquella época el expresidente, quien murió en septiembre 2024 fuera de prisión y tras recibir un indulto, “tenía la libertad de pasearse por todas las instalaciones”, dice el ex jefe del INPE.

El segundo inquilino de Barbadillo llegó muchos años después, en 2017: fue Ollanta Humala. Luego llegaría Pedro Castillo, en 2022, Alejandro Toledo, en 2023 y finalmente Martín Vizcarra, en 2025.

El exjefe del INPE cuenta que, en la

Baker beware: How I was fooled by an AI-generated recipe

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By Brenda Goodman, CNN

(CNN) — It started with the cutest little desserts: chocolate acorns with nut-covered caps that popped up in my search for Thanksgiving cookies on Pinterest, a site I visit for inspiration and some step-by-step instructions. There were also chocolate-dipped strawberries that you could turn into little turkeys using pretzel sticks, with marshmallow pieces for the drumsticks, but the acorns looked easier.

“Who wouldn’t love these things?” I thought.

The recipe said you could whip up a batch in 45 minutes. I splurged and bought my favorite Lindt chocolate bars to make them.

It ended at 1 a.m., after about five hours of effort – including an emergency run to the grocery store for a missing ingredient – with parchment-covered baking sheets spread across my kitchen, holding misshapen globs of chocolate-dunked peanut butter sandwich cookies that didn’t come close to resembling acorns. Despite my many attempts at adjusting the temperature of the chocolate and MacGyvering the cookies — I cut them, stacked them and stuck them together with chocolate — they just could not match the acorns in the photo.

I’m usually pretty good at these things (pie crust being a frustrating exception). I’m an experienced baker, and this should have been an easy project, more assembly than baking. I wasn’t going for gourmet; I needed a lot of treats for a church event and was short on time.

I finally had to admit that no matter how many times I reread the recipe and attempted to follow the instructions, it wasn’t going to work. I was stumped.

Then it dawned on me: Could this recipe have been generated by AI? Had I been had?

Even as I had been reading through the instructions, I kept wondering how the blogger got the Nutter Butter cookies — which are flat, with a peanut-like curved shape — to turn into the nice rounded shape of the acorns. The recipe recommends holding the cookies by the pointier end “to create the more natural looking” acorn.

OK, I thought. Maybe I need to just trust the process.

“They’re ridiculously cute, surprisingly simple, and honestly? They’ve become the most photographed dessert at every family gathering I bring them to,” gushed food blogger Anna Kelly, who described herself as a professionally trained pastry chef who runs the website DessertsPro.com. “My sister-in-law now requests them specifically, and I’ve made them at least twelve times since I first stumbled upon the idea three years ago.”

I fell for it. I bought three packages of the regular-size Nutter Butter cookies and searched several stores for the bite-size ones, which were supposed to be for the caps. Then I noticed a problem: The bite-size cookies were much smaller than the ends of the big Nutter Butters. It didn’t seem like they would work to make the overhanging acorn cap.

I still didn’t question the recipe. Instead, I thought I had bought the wrong size cookies. Was there a medium-size Nutter Butter? Oh, the recipe said Kelly sometimes uses Nilla wafers. That made more sense, but it was getting late, and I wasn’t going back to the grocery store.

Thankfully, the chocolate melted like it was supposed to, but it was pretty thin, and I was losing hope that it would coat the cookies thickly enough to look like the acorns in the photo. I tried popping it in the freezer to thicken it.

The website DessertsPro.com says Kelly created it to share her favorite tried-and-true recipes with home cooks. Her “About Us” page promises “clear, simple instructions,” easy-to-find ingredients, “honest tips and tricks” and “recipes that actually work.”

The problem is that neither Kelly nor her creations appears to be real.

‘Bad actors’

I attempted to reach the creators of the site through a “contact us” email as well as through the contact form

Flash Flood Warning issued December 24 at 4:02AM PST until December 24 at 9:00AM PST by NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA

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FFWLOX

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for…
Southern Santa Barbara County in southwestern California…
West Central Ventura County in southwestern California…

* Until 900 AM PST.

* At 402 AM PST, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
heavy rain falling across the warned area. Between 1.5 and 5.5
inches of rain have fallen. Rain rates up to 1.00 inch per hour
have been reported. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.

HAZARD…Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.

SOURCE…Radar and automated gauges.

IMPACT…Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include…
Santa Barbara, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, Montecito, Point Conception,
Carpinteria, Solvang, Isla Vista, El Capitan State Beach, Refugio
State Beach, Highway 101 through Gaviota State Park, Summerland,
Rincon Point, La Conchita, Goleta, Buellton, Lake Cachuma, Highway
154 over San Marcos Pass, Santa Barbara Airport and Hope Ranch.
Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.

Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.

In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.

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When communities are grieving, he comes bearing a 10-foot cross. Here’s his story

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By Dakin Andone, CNN

(CNN) — When tragedy strikes a community – whether it’s a natural disaster, a large-scale accident or a horrific act of violence – all kinds of people might mobilize in response, such as law enforcement and investigators, relief workers and members of the news media.

Now, they’re often joined by another person: a Michigan man with a 10-foot cross that he trucks across the country, aiming to bring comfort to devastated communities facing their darkest moments.

“I go wherever people’s hearts are hurting the most,” Dan Beazley told CNN in late September, as he rolled the cross around Grand Blanc, Michigan, in the wake of an attack on a congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“The cross is a message of hope, of healing in their hearts,” he said of the people he meets. “And when they see it, it radiates a light over the entire dark situation, to just begin to lift up peoples’ hearts and help them heal.”

This year alone, Beazley, a real estate broker by trade, said he has visited:

And that list is far from exhaustive. Since starting his ministry in 2021, Beazley said he has made 73 trips to 33 states, hauling his cross to places as near as Detroit – about a half-hour from his Michigan home – and as far-flung as Maui, Hawaii.

Beazley decides when and where to go based on a feeling he said he gets that emanates throughout his body, bringing him near to tears.

“When that happens, I know that I need to go,” he said. “I know that it’s impossible for me not to go. There would be nothing that would stop me from going.”

‘God, what do you want?’

By his telling, Beazley was not always so vocal or even dedicated to his faith. Once Catholic, Beazley said he often thought Christians “were crazy.”

But things started to change about seven years ago, when his wife dragged him “kicking and screaming” to a nondenominational church near their home in Northville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

He remembers he was at church one Good Friday – when the Christian faith marks the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the precursor to Easter – when he was “radically touched by God.”

“I just started to cry, and my body was shaking,” he told CNN. “God was shaking me and waking me up.”

At the time, he still didn’t have a strong grasp of hi

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