Rain chances arise Tuesday morning as a large firehouse of moisture moves down the coastline of California. Sprinkles will start the morning before the bulk of the moisture moves in during the evening. This is a major storm and will bring large impacts throughout the Central Coast, the biggest concern being prolonged periods of heavy rainfall. Areas of highest concern will be the the South Santa Barbara Coastline. The National Weather Service has deemed this area "High Risk" and it is urged that the public prepare now. Find your local sandbag fill-up station and stay home. Some of the heaviest rainfall will occur Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

It will be a messy and dangerous commute in some areas Wednesday morning. This is a dangerous timeframe for travel, and its highly advised to stay hime when possible. Peak rainfall rates indicate 1.5inches of rainfall an hour near the Santa Barbara coastline. This will cause flooding and overflowing creeks and rivers. Wednesday night will be relatively light rain before another round of heavy showers move in.

The next pulse of heavy rain arrives Thursday. There is a major risk of flooding, downed trees and power lines. Santa might need a boat! We begin to see heavy sheets of rain transition to spotty thunderstorms as the wake of the atmospheric river moves down through LA and San Diego into Friday. These thunderstorms could still produce heavy downpours and lightning, use caution and plan some indoor activities. We will stay with a cold and soggy pattern through the new year. More information to come on the next smaller storm.

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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN

(CNN) — An initial reading of third-quarter gross domestic product showed the US economy expanded at an inflation-adjusted annualized rate of 4.3%, a far faster pace than the 3.8% recorded in the second quarter, according to Commerce Department data released Tuesday. That’s the fastest growth rate in two years.

An acceleration in consumer spending, up 3.5% from 2.5% in the second quarter, and exports, up 8.8% from -1.8% in the second quarter, were the main contributors to the third-quarter GDP reading.

Though very backward-looking, given the release was delayed due to the government shutdown, the report likely means the Federal Reserve has less need to cut rates to support the economy when it reconvenes next month.

Stock futures were little changed after the data release. Dow futures were down 40 points. S&P 500 futures fell 0.06% and Nasdaq 100 futures ticked down by 0.08%.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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Por Gonzalo Jiménez, CNN en Español

Nada más divisivo que el capítulo final de una serie televisiva, porque es muy difícil complacer a todos los fans. Lo vimos con “Game of Thrones”, “Lost”, “The Sopranos” y “Seinfeld”, que aún suscitan debates entre los aficionados. Ese es el reto de los fans de “Stranger Things”, cuyos tres penúltimos episodios se estrenan este jueves y su capítulo final se emitirá este 31 de diciembre.

Netflix informó que el episodio final de “Stranger Things” tiene una duración de 2 horas y 5 minutos, lo que equivale a un largometraje, y podrá verse este 31 de diciembre en más de 500 salas de cine de Estados Unidos y Canadá a las 8:00 p.m. hora de Miami, en simultáneo con su estreno en Netflix. En ST5Finale.com pueden consultarse en qué ciudades habrá funciones y cómo reservar un asiento.

Los primeros cuatro episodios de la temporada 5 ya allanaron el camino para los acontecimientos que darán cierre a la popular serie de Netflix. En este llamado “Volumen 1” de “Stranger Things” se mostró que Will Byers posee poderes similares a los de Eleven, que Max y Holly están atrapadas en un limbo y que Vecna construyó un muro dentro del “Upside Down” para llevar allí a los niños que ha raptado y que requiere para dominar nuestra realidad.

Dados esos acontecimientos, hemos reunido algunos de los misterios apremiantes que los fans de “Stranger Things” esperamos resolver en los episodios finales de la serie.

En el cuarto episodio de la temporada 5, Vecna sostiene a Will (Noah Schnapp) en sus garras y revela que, para remodelar el mundo a su voluntad, necesita 12 niños, a los que considera los “recipientes perfectos” porque son fáciles de moldear y controlar. Y añade que fue Will, a quien raptó en la primera temporada de la serie, el que le mostró cuán útil podía ser para acelerar su plan. Ahora, ¿por qué deben ser 12? ¿Qué significa que puedan usarse como “recipientes” y qué pretende hacer con ellos una vez que sean “reformados”? ¿Están estos niños prisioneros dentro del muro que Vecna erigió en el “Upside Down”?

En el llamado “Volumen 1” (los primeros cuatro episodios de la temporada 5) se da a conocer que los militares, bajo el mando de la Dra. Kay (Linda Hamilton) han estado realizando experimentos en el “Upside Down” con Kali (Linnea Berthelsen), quien fue sometida, al igual que Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), a estudios de control mental en el Laboratorio de Hawkins. También se dio a conocer que la Dra. Kay necesita desesperadamente a Eleven para estos experimentos.

¿Cuál es el propósito de estos experimentos? ¿Para qué necesitan a personas con poderes mentales? ¿Quieren vencer a Vecna o controlarlo para luego usar su poder en contra de países enemigos? El hecho de que hayan rescatado para la temporada final al personaje de Kali, visto en un único episodio de la temporada 2, suscita la pregunta: ¿desempeñará un papel crucial en el episodio final?

Los creadores de “Stranger Things”, los hermanos Matt y Ross Duffer, dijeron en Variety que el episodio final de la serie explicará finalmente lo que es el “Upside Down”, esa realidad alternativa del pueblo de Hawkins, donde se desarrolla la serie. En foros de Read more

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

(CNN) — Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from decades to centuries. The thought-provoking findings offer new ways of understanding the past.

Archaeological exploration of historic sites yielded fresh insights. An analysis of a quarry containing unfinished statues showed how wayfaring Polynesians created the massive stone heads found across Rapa Nui, or Easter Island.

Meanwhile, a new project exploring Pompeii uncovered a stone staircase that could reconstruct what the ancient Roman city’s skyline once looked like before a volcanic eruption in AD 79 entombed it in a thick layer of ash.

A combination of microbotanical analysis and sweeping aerial drone footage has also enabled researchers to arrive at a new hypothesis about who created the mysterious “band of holes” formation, a series of about 5,200 holes dotting the Peruvian Andes.

Some research leads to more questions than answers, such as the inventive ways scholars have tried to determine how celebrated author Jane Austen died by analyzing her own words in the absence of medical documents.

Here are some of the most memorable findings in 2025 that provided answers to long-standing historical mysteries.

A mysterious mummy

A water leak in a crypt containing the “air-dried chaplain” helped reveal the identity of an unusually well-preserved body kept in a remote Austrian village church since the 1700s.

With intact skin and tissue, the mummified body, thought to be an 18th century clergyman, had drawn speculation of healing properties and even rumors of being poisoned.

Renovations to repair the water damage prompted the body’s removal, creating an opportunity to perform CT scans, analysis of bone and tissue samples, and radiocarbon dating. Researchers determined the remains belonged to Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg, an aristocrat who was a monk before becoming the parish vicar at St. Thomas am Blasenstein.

The team not only found that a previously undocumented embalming method was responsible for the cleric’s air-dried state, but also proposed a new hypothesis for his death and solved the mystery of a glass object found inside his remains.

The boat from nowhere

The Hjortspring boat, on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, has long been a vessel of mysterious origin.

Archaeologists first excavated the wooden ship from a bog on the Danish island of Als in the 1920s, more than 2,000 years after it sank. The boat was laden with weapons, suggesting it carried warriors with intent to attack the island.

No clues as to where the boat originated or who it carried existed — until now.

A new analysis of the ship’s materials suggest it traveled much farther than previously thought, meaning the attack likely was premeditated. And a partial human fingerprint found in tar residue could provide a direct link to one of the ship’s crew.

“Fingerprints are very rare for this time period and area,” said lead study author Mikael Fauvelle, an associate professor and researcher in the department of archaeology and ancient history at Lund University in Sweden, adding that “to find one on

By Karla Walsh, CNN

(CNN) — Salt, fat, acid and heat are the essential elements of cooking to Samin Nosrat, who transformed them into her best-selling cookbook and popular Netflix series, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.”

For her latest book, she has added to that list.

Before she mentions even a single recipe in “Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share With People You Love — A Cookbook,” Nosrat shares a spread of her “unexpectedly essential” kitchen gear, which includes one piece she used to dread but now adores: the immersion blender.

Nosrat’s culinary career began at Chez Panisse, where she worked her way up from food runner to cook over two years. Nosrat was often on soup duty at Alice Waters’ acclaimed Berkeley, California, bistro, which was a trailblazer in the farm-to-table movement.

“We’d use the immersion blender as the first step, then we’d have you transfer it into a smaller, normal-sized Vitamix blender, batch by batch, to get the smoothest, satin-iest texture,” Nosrat told CNN. “I had a vendetta against the immersion blender, because if I’m going to have to transfer it into the Vitamix countertop blender to puree it anyway, why bother? It took forever and felt like this huge burden to do this for 10-to-15-gallon pots of soup.”

At home, you’re making much less soup, Nosrat conceded, but those messy, fussy memories were hard for her to erase. For years, every time she saw an immersion blender, she would have a visceral reaction. “I had this dread in my stomach,” she said. “The idea of blending a soup was restaurant-sized dread, even when it was applied to a home-sized meal.”

All of that changed when Nosrat realized she could skip a step. Frustrated after one too many countertop blender mishaps spilling on her clothes or spraying the contents onto the ceiling, Nosrat decided to stick with the stick blender while developing a recipe for butternut squash and green curry soup.

“I’m just at home and not trying to serve this to people in fine dining circumstances, so I figured it might be fine. It was, and that single recipe changed everything,” Nosrat said.

In fact, the immersion blender breakthrough was so impactful that Nosrat decided to pay tribute to that creation with the Curried Carrot and Coconut Soup that stars in her latest cookbook (recipe below).

“Once I realized that creamy soup does just fine with the immersion blender only, it felt like a liberation,” she added.

As soon as the handheld blender was back in her good graces, Nosrat discovered two more stellar uses: for whipping up quick mayos and salad dressings.

“I have grown to love using it for making a small amount of an emulsion,” she said, referring to the process of mixing two liquids that normally don’t like to combine.

Want to try it out? Round up a small mason jar, add an egg, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 1 cup of a neutral-flavored oil, and blitz. In less than a minute, you have mayonnaise.

“If I were doing it by hand, I’d have to invest a ton of time and energy to whisk it,” Nosrat said. “Using a narrow jar and the immersion blender, it comes together quickly and easily since the blade is small and the ingredients are much closer together and more compressed than they would be in a large bowl.”

The same secret comes in clutch for salad dressings such as a Caesar or the creamy oregano dress