* WHAT…Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts 40 to 50 mph
expected.

* WHERE…Eastern San Gabriel Mountains, Interstate 5 Corridor,
Northern Ventura County Mountains, Santa Susana Mountains,
Southern Ventura County Mountains, and Western San Gabriel
Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor.

* WHEN…Until 3 PM PDT this afternoon.

* IMPACTS…Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution.

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By Matt Egan, CNN

New York (CNN) — The energy crisis is a financial nightmare for Main Street and a political nightmare for the White House.

Inflation is racing back to life, real wages are shrinking and voters are blaming President Donald Trump for $4.50-a-gallon gas.

Trump now faces a break-the-glass moment to avoid gas prices from blowing past Biden-era records highs.

Yet Trump has already taken emergency steps designed to limit the damage. His administration is draining oil from America’s stockpile at the fastest pace on record. Shipping restrictions have been waived. Some sanctions on Russia and Venezuela have been eased.

While other ideas have been floated, such as suspending the federal gas tax, the reality is Trump really only has one lever left to slash gas prices: Get the Strait of Hormuz reopened — one way or another.

“There’s precious little the administration can do,” said Jan Stuart, global energy strategist at Piper Sandler.

That’s why Stuart expects the energy crisis will get worse this spring and summer, pushing gas to $5 a gallon as soon as this month.

Stuart expects Brent crude futures to average $130 a barrel next quarter, shattering the prior quarterly record, and to remain near $100 next year.

The White House pointed to steps Trump has taken to address turmoil in energy markets, including a 60-day waiver to the Jones Act.

“President Trump has always been clear that these are short-term, temporary disruptions. The President brought oil and gas prices down to multi-year lows at record speed, and as traffic in the Strait of Hormuz normalizes, these energy prices will plummet once again,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said in a statement.

Gas tax holiday would save you shockingly little

Trump recently endorsed pausing the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gas tax.

However, a gas tax holiday that covered the 122-day summer driving season would cost the Highway Trust Fund $11.5 billion in lost revenue without delivering significant relief to consumers, according to an analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan think tank.

Even filling up a 15-gallon gas tank once a week would only save a total of $35 during the pause, the analysis found.

A gas tax holiday would “boost fuel demand at a time of low supply,” according to Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

In other words, it’s exactly the opposite of what’s needed.

No wonder House Republicans in 2022 dismissed a gas tax holiday as a “gimmick.” So did then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008 af

By Eric Levenson, Cindy Von Quednow, CNN

(CNN) — More than three years after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher in class, a former Virginia elementary school official accused of ignoring warnings is set to stand trial on felony child abuse charges Monday.

Ebony Parker was the assistant principal at Richneck Elementary in Newport News in January 2023 when the boy brought a gun to school and shot first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner in the chest and hand. The teacher survived.

The boy had taken the unsecured gun from his mother’s purse and brought it to school in his backpack, officials have said.

Parker was charged in 2024 with eight counts of felony child abuse and disregard for life – one for each bullet in the gun the student used. Prosecutors allege she committed “a willful act or omission in the care of such students, in a manner so gross, wanton and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life,” according to court documents.

She has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Each count is considered a class 6 felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The trial is expected to last about three days.

An attorney for Parker did not respond to a request for comment.

Parker’s criminal trial is one of a number of cases in recent years that have tested the limits of who is responsible when a juvenile carries out a school shooting. Parents in Michigan and Georgia have been convicted of serious charges, but Parker appears to be the first educator to face trial in such circumstances.

In November, a civil jury awarded Zwerner $10 million in a lawsuit alleging Parker failed to act on concerns that the student had brought a gun to school. Parker has filed an appeal.

Notably, Zwerner testified in the trial about the moment of the shooting and its impact on her life. Parker did not testify in her own defense.

While civil and criminal trials are different, the civil case offered a preview of some of the arguments and testimony likely to come up in the criminal case.

The boy’s mother, Deja Taylor, pleaded guilty to a state charge of felony child neglect and was sentenced to two years in prison in 2023, as well as a 21-month sentence on related federal charges. She was released from state custody to community supervision on May 13, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections.

Prosecutors have said the boy, who has “extreme emotional issues,” will not be criminally charged.

The shooting and aftermath

Zwerner was sitting at a table in her classroom on January 6, 2023, when the 6-year-old boy shot her.

In the aftermath, several school officials lost their jobs: Parker resigned two weeks after the shooting, the principal was reassigned and the school board voted out the superintendent.

After leaving the hospital, Zw

By Eric Levenson, Cindy Von Quednow, CNN

(CNN) — More than three years after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher in class, a former Virginia elementary school official accused of ignoring warnings is set to stand trial on felony child abuse charges Monday.

Ebony Parker was the assistant principal at Richneck Elementary in Newport News in January 2023 when the boy brought a gun to school and shot first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner in the chest and hand. The teacher survived.

The boy had taken the unsecured gun from his mother’s purse and brought it to school in his backpack, officials have said.

Parker was charged in 2024 with eight counts of felony child abuse and disregard for life – one for each bullet in the gun the student used. Prosecutors allege she committed “a willful act or omission in the care of such students, in a manner so gross, wanton and culpable as to show a reckless disregard for human life,” according to court documents.

She has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Each count is considered a class 6 felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The trial is expected to last about three days.

An attorney for Parker did not respond to a request for comment.

Parker’s criminal trial is one of a number of cases in recent years that have tested the limits of who is responsible when a juvenile carries out a school shooting. Parents in Michigan and Georgia have been convicted of serious charges, but Parker appears to be the first educator to face trial in such circumstances.

In November, a civil jury awarded Zwerner $10 million in a lawsuit alleging Parker failed to act on concerns that the student had brought a gun to school. Parker has filed an appeal.

Notably, Zwerner testified in the trial about the moment of the shooting and its impact on her life. Parker did not testify in her own defense.

While civil and criminal trials are different, the civil case offered a preview of some of the arguments and testimony likely to come up in the criminal case.

The boy’s mother, Deja Taylor, pleaded guilty to a state charge of felony child neglect and was sentenced to two years in prison in 2023, as well as a 21-month sentence on related federal charges. She was released from state custody to community supervision on May 13, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections.

Prosecutors have said the boy, who has “extreme emotional issues,” will not be criminally charged.

The shooting and aftermath

Zwerner was sitting at a table in her classroom on January 6, 2023, when the 6-year-old boy shot her.

In the aftermath, several school officials lost their jobs: Parker resigned two weeks after the shooting, the principal was reassigned and the school board voted out the superintendent.

After leaving the hospital, Zw

By Nicki Brown, Kara Scannell, CNN

(CNN) — Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old accused of killing a healthcare company executive, will appear Monday in court where a judge will decide whether the alleged murder weapon and other key evidence can be allowed into his state murder case.

Mangione’s attorneys argue police illegally searched his backpack when he was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in December 2024, days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot on a busy Manhattan sidewalk.

Police recovered several items from Mangione’s bag that authorities say tie him to the killing, including a 3D-printed gun, a loaded magazine and writings detailing frustrations with the healthcare industry.

Mangione’s defense attorneys are pushing for those items, and the backpack’s other contents, to be barred from the state’s case since they allege it was searched illegally without a warrant. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office have denied the defense claims and insisted the searches were legal and proper.

If New York State Judge Gregory Carro rules in favor of Mangione, prosecutors may not be allowed to show jurors key pieces of evidence, including the alleged murder weapon and the so-called “manifesto.”

The defense team is also moving to suppress any statements Mangione made to law enforcement before his December 19, 2024, extradition to New York, arguing police did not properly read his Miranda warnings – which advise a person of their rights to remain silent and consult an attorney – before they began questioning him.

Carro’s anticipated ruling comes months after a nine-day suppression hearing that included hours of footage from police body-worn cameras showing how the arrest unfolded and testimony from multiple law enforcement officers about the searches.

The case has generated a national debate and put a spotlight on public sentiment about the American healthcare system. Mangione has seen an outpouring of support on social media and at the courthouse, even as officials – including then-Attorney General Pam Bondi – have roundly condemned the killing as a “cold-blooded assassination.”

The Ivy League graduate faces second-degree murder and eight other charges in the state’s case, which is scheduled to go to trial in September. He is also facing federal charges related to Thompson’s killing, in addition to state charges in Pennsylvania stemming from his arrest. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Mangione’s defense attempted to get much of the same evidence thrown out of the federal prosecution, but the judge overseeing that case denied their motion earlier this year.

“[T]he entire contents of the Backpack fall squarely within several exceptions to the warrant requirement,” US District Court Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her January order.

Although Garnett sided with federal prosecutors on the backpack evidence, Mangione’s defense team has won other legal victories, including getting the top charges in his New Yo