The winds have largely subsided below advisory levels.

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* WHAT…North to northwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40
to 50 mph. Isolated gusts up to 60 mph across the favored wind
locations, such as the Montecito Hills area.

* WHERE…Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast and Santa Ynez
Mountains Eastern Range.

* WHEN…Until 10 AM PST this morning.

* 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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Por Matt Egan, CNN

Un creciente número de líderes empresariales ha visto sus carreras descarriladas tras la reciente publicación de millones de archivos vinculados al delincuente sexual convicto Jeffrey Epstein.

Inicialmente, cuando el Departamento de Justicia de EE.UU. se vio obligado a publicar algunos de los documentos de Epstein a finales de diciembre, las consecuencias para las empresas estadounidenses fueron limitadas.

Ahora, sin embargo, con los nuevos documentos que han revelado las estrechas relaciones de Epstein con los líderes de la industria, las renuncias cobran impulso.

El multimillonario Tom Pritzker se unió el lunes a la lista de líderes empresariales que dejaron sus cargos. El CEO de Hyatt Hotels atribuyó su dimisión a la “pésima decisión” de mantener vínculos con Epstein y Ghislaine Maxwell.

La salida de Pritzker se produce tras la renuncia la semana pasada de Kathy Ruemmler, abogada de Goldman Sachs, quien enfrentó un creciente escrutinio por los mensajes personales que intercambió con Epstein y los regalos que este le había dado.

Estos líderes corporativos no han sido acusados ​​de irregularidades, pero las dudas sobre su juicio y sus relaciones con Epstein fueron suficientes para costarles sus puestos.

Y es probable que haya más revelaciones y renuncias en el futuro, dados los millones de documentos que abarcan muchos años en los archivos publicados.

“Esto no ha terminado. Es solo la punta del iceberg. Veremos a más personas prominentes implicadas”, declaró Bill George, miembro ejecutivo de la Escuela de Negocios de Harvard y exdirector de Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Target y otras empresas.

Las repercusiones en el mundo empresarial de los recientes archivos de Epstein han sido lentas, pero más rápidas que en el gobierno.

Algunos exlíderes empresariales que ahora forman parte del Gobierno de Trump han enfrentado cuestionamientos sobre sus vínculos con Epstein. Por ejemplo, correos electrónicos revelaron que el secretario de Comercio, Howard Lutnick, se comunicó con Epstein más de una década después de que este afirmara haber cortado todo contacto con el delincuente sexual convicto.

Aunque los vínculos de Lutnick con Epstein han irritado a algunos en Wall Street, nada indica que el secretario del Gabinete y amigo personal del presidente Donald Trump vaya a enfrentar repercusiones dentro de la Casa Blanca.

“Los mercados reaccionan más rápido que el mundo político. Pueden actuar con mayor rapidez que esperar al próximo ciclo electoral”, afirmó Nell Minow, presidenta de ValueEdge Advisors, empresa que asesora a inversores institucionales. “No creo que haya una junta directiva de una empresa que cotiza en bolsa en Estados Unidos que no esté investigando los documentos de Epstein para asegurarse de que no se mencione a nadie relacionado con la empresa”.

Minow señaló que existen algunos problemas alternativos que probablemente provoquen salidas inmediatas en el mundo corporativo.

“La primera categoría de esos problemas es si se mintió al respecto —lo llamaremos la regla Lutnick—, es decir, si se dijeron específicamente cosas que resultaron ser mentiras”, explicó Minow.

Lutnick no ha sido acusado de ningún delito relacionado con Epstein.

(Un portavoz del Departamento de Comercio declaró a CNN la semana pasada que poner el foco en Lutnick no es más que un intento fallido de los medios tradicionales por distraer la atención de los logros del Gobierno. El portavoz afirmó que Lutnick y su esposa tuvieron interacciones muy limitadas c

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and will review a new mRNA flu vaccine from Moderna, the pharmaceutical company said Wednesday.

About two weeks ago, the FDA sent Moderna a letter in which it refused to accept the application to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine — a rare move by the federal agency.

The FDA told Moderna that its application didn’t contain an “adequate and well-controlled” trial because the control arm didn’t reflect the “best-available standard of care in the United States at the time of the study,” according to the letter, that Moderna posted online. It didn’t identify any safety or efficacy concerns, the company said.

But Moderna has since met with the FDA and “proposed a revised regulatory approach” with different pathways by age, according to a news release from the company.

Moderna is now “seeking full approval for adults 50 to 64 years of age and accelerated approval for adults 65 and older, along with a post-marketing requirement to conduct an additional study in older adults,” the news release said.

If the FDA approves the vaccine, it could be available for people ages 50 and older for the upcoming 2026-2027 flu season.

Last week, Moderna said that the initial refusal from the FDA was inconsistent with previous feedback from the agency.

“We appreciate the FDA’s engagement in a constructive Type A meeting and its agreement to advance our application for review,” Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said in a statement. “Pending FDA approval, we look forward to making our flu vaccine available later this year so that America’s seniors have access to a new option to protect themselves against flu.”

CNN’s Meg Tirrell and Adam Cancryn contributed to this report.

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By Leying Tang, CNN

During the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the days are cold, dark and short. It’s not an inspiring time to accomplish much of anything, much less those New Year’s resolutions that so motivated you back on December 31.

Early backsliders may have already called it quits. Twenty-eight percent of people who make resolutions have dropped at least some of them by the end of January, and 13% report they have dropped them all, according to a 2024 Pew Research Center survey.

Of course, health-related resolutions, such as exercising more, often top people’s lists of resolutions, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Getting more physical activity is a worthy goal: Science has proved many times over that movement is beneficial to our overall physical health — it improves our mental well-being and contributes to longevity and happiness.

Still, simply being aware of the benefits doesn’t always translate into sticking to a resolution to exercise more, day in and day out.

“Why aren’t people moving their bodies if they know exercise is good for them?” psychologist Diana Hill posed to CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently on his podcast, Chasing Life. “We know it’s good for us physically. … Mortality rates go down, cancer rates go down. But only about a quarter of us are actually doing it.”

When it comes to starting to move, Hill said, many folks are able to come up with plenty of reasons not to — whether it’s the general “I don’t have enough time” excuse or the more specific “I’m on my feet all day.”

“There’s a lot of inner barriers, psychological barriers to moving our bodies,” she said.

Hill’s recent book, coauthored with biomechanist Katy Bowman, is “I Know I Should Exercise, But…: 44 Reasons We Don’t Move and How To Get Over Them.” Hill and Bowman run through all those reasons people use to avoid exercise, work through how the brain is trying to trick you and explain how to overcome that particular trap.

You can listen to the full episode here.

“Motivation is more of a wave than it is a consistent thing,” Hill said. You may sign up for an afternoon exercise class after listening to this podcast in the morning, but by the time the class rolls around, your motivation may have already waned, she added.

How can you keep up your motivation to exercise throughout the dreary days of February and beyond? Hill has these five tips.

Change your relationship with time

One of the top reasons why people say no to exercise is because they feel they don’t have enough time, Hill said.

That excuse, she pointed out, actually has more to do with an individual’s relationship to