By Alexandra Skores, CNN

(CNN) — Doug Lane had to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life last January.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission and an American Airlines flight landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport collided over the Potomac River, less than a mile from the runway.

Lane’s wife, Christine, and 16-year-old son, Spencer – an award-winning figure skater – were on board the commercial jet.

More than 400 miles away, Lane was with their younger son at home in Rhode Island.

“There’s no playbook that you ever learn about (this),” he said. “I have my wife and son potentially in the Potomac River. Am I supposed to immediately leave and go down there? Am I supposed to stay with my son? Am I supposed to bring him with me?” he thought as he struggled with the decision.

He ultimately decided to leave his son with family, while he and his sister traveled to face the devastation.

The crash – the deadliest US aviation accident in over 20 years – killed 67 people – 64 passengers and crew members on the jet and three soldiers on the helicopter.

A year’s worth of investigative meetings and hearings on Capitol Hill would follow.

Now a federal investigation has nearly concluded, and the National Transportation Safety Board has determined the close helicopter routes and the Army crew’s perception of the wrong plane to be the probable cause of the collision.

In the days following the collision, Lane and the other victims’ families felt tremendous sorrow and loss after suffering the unimaginable. Mixed within those unbearably difficult moments were the instances of kindness and generosity shown by the first responders and personnel on the scene who, families say, treated them and their loved ones with respect and compassion.

CNN sat down with some of the first responders and medical personnel who braved cold, dark waters to search for the 67 people and asked them to reflect on the work they did, all while preserving the dignity of the families.

‘A really thick smell of jet fuel’

DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly Sr. says he remembers that frigid, winter night vividly. He was coming back from dinner at 8:48 p.m., when he heard the radio call from the DC fire team. Less than 10 minutes later, at 8:57 p.m., his crew reported the stench of jet fuel. He said it only took a few minutes to confirm it was an American Airlines regional commercial aircraft that had crashed.

“I knew at that point we were really going to have a big event,” Donnelly said. That night, he had conversations with the DC police chief and DC city administrator, and even spoke to the White House Situation Room several times.

Timothy Ochsenschlager, a diver with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Harbor Patrol Unit, was among the first dive teams to be dispatched. He remembered the loud sounds of helicopters overhead, and multiple search boats along the surface of the dark water.

“There was a really thick smell of jet fuel,” Ochsenschlager said. “The water had kind of a rainbow sheen to it, and it was really calm. There weren’t any waves or anything. I remember, just the entire airport shoreline just looked like it was all red and blue emergency lights, there had to have been 100 ambulances, fire trucks, police cars and everything.”

Helicopters departed later in the evening, and it became, “eerily quiet,” Ochsenschlager said.

“There are no planes landing at the airport, so there was nothing in the sky,” he said. “There were no boats going really fast around us. Everybody who was working there was really calm, just doing their job. When one person would get tired, there was so

Por Eric Bradner, CNN

El alcalde de Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, defendió este miércoles en un foro abierto en CNN las políticas de santuario de la ciudad y reiteró su demanda de que los agentes federales de inmigración abandonen la zona.

Los comentarios de Frey se producen mientras funcionarios estatales, locales y federales buscan formas de reducir las tensiones tras las muertes de Renee Good y Alex Pretti, dos ciudadanos estadounidenses que vivían en Minneapolis.

Frey habló el lunes con el presidente Donald Trump, quien pareció suavizar sus comentarios sobre el alcalde y el gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz.

Sin embargo, el tono de Trump cambió el miércoles, cuando afirmó que el alcalde está “jugando con fuego” al insistir en que la policía local no intervendrá en la aplicación de las leyes federales de inmigración.

Durante el foro, tres legisladores estatales republicanos también manifestaron que la culpa por el caos en Minneapolis es compartida entre la administración Trump y los líderes demócratas estatales y locales.

Y el fiscal general de Minnesota, Keith Ellison, señaló que los funcionarios estatales aún no conocen los nombres de los agentes federales involucrados en la muerte de Pretti.

Tres líderes religiosos indicaron que estaban lidiando con la tarea de liderar una ciudad donde los residentes, en duelo, sienten una profunda ira.

El padre Jim Cassidy, de la Iglesia Comunitaria Católica de Santa Juana de Arco, afirmó que “el desafío es que nosotros, los clérigos, también podemos enfurecernos mucho”.

“Una de las cosas que les pido a las personas es que recuerden su propio poder”, apuntó la Reverenda Elizabeth Macaulay, pastora principal de la Iglesia Metodista Unida de la Avenida Hennepin. “Puede que yo no tenga la energía hoy, pero alguien a mi lado sí la tendrá, y juntos podemos superar esto. Lo creo firmemente. Y es horrible y duele”.

A continuación, seis conclusiones del foro de CNN:

Frey afirmó haber tenido una conversación “productiva” y “colegiada” con Trump el lunes. Sin embargo, el miércoles por la noche no se retractó en absoluto de su exigencia de que los agentes federales de inmigración abandonaran Minneapolis.

“Digo ahora lo mismo que dije entonces”, afirmó.

Frey tenía dos exigencias específicas. Primero, dijo que las autoridades estatales deberían liderar las investigaciones sobre las muertes de Good y Pretti. Indicó que desconfía de un Gobierno federal que “llegó a la conclusión desde el principio” de que esas muertes fueron actos de legítima defensa y que Good y Pretti eran terroristas internos.

También expresó su deseo de que la operación federal que ha visto a miles de agentes de inmigración invadir las Ciudades Gemelas -Minneapolis–Saint Paul- en las últimas semanas concluya rápidamente.

Frey declaró ante el público que lo había dicho en una reunión con el zar fronterizo de Trump, Tom Homan, a quien el presidente envió a Minnesota esta semana para supervisar las iniciativas de la administración en un intento por aliviar las tensiones tras la muerte de Pretti.

Frey dijo que una reunión entre Homan y funcionarios estatales y locales no acabó con un compromiso de terminar el esfuerzo federal “en un plazo determinado”.

“Pero”, dijo, “hubo un consenso general en el sentido de que la situación actual debe cambiar”.

Señaló que espera que se reduzca el número de agentes en Minnesota y que terminen los enfrentamientos violentos entre funcionarios federales y observadores locales.

“Pero lo creeré cuando lo vea”, apuntó Frey.

El miércoles, Trump atacó a Frey en las redes sociales, diciendo que estaba “jugando con fuego” después de que el alcalde demócrata en su tercer mandato dijera el martes que Minneapolis no cambiaría sus políticas de santuario y no ayu

Luis Medina

MECCA, Calif. (KUNA) – Ocho personas fueron trasladadas al hospital tras un choque frontal ocurrido en Mecca el miércoles por la tarde.

El choque se reportó poco después de las 3:30 p. m. en la avenida 66 y la calle Buchanan.

Los detalles sobre el choque son limitados. CAL FIRE confirmó que los pacientes están siendo atendidos y trasladados en ambulancias aéreas y terrestres a hospitales de la zona para recibir tratamiento y evaluación adicionales.

La avenida 66 estuvo cerrada brevemente, pero reabrió a las 5 p. m.

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Juan Montesló

Cathedral City, Calif. (KUNA) – Debido a la crisis migratoria que azota al valle de Coachella, muchos residentes han sido afectados de diversas maneras, en esta ocasión son los comerciantes ambulantes quienes mencionan sentirse desprotegidos, puesto que sus ventas han disminuido considerablemente.

Para algunos la mejor defensa para evitar una detención es resguardarse en su domicilio, lo que ha propiciado que la señora Antonia Tenorio, comerciante ambulante dedicada a la venta de paletas y postres de nieve, enfrente una etapa de recesión económica.

“Las redadas migratorias nos han afectado mucho, bastante, ya la gente no sale, no  encontramos gente ya en la calle, es difícil para nosotros, caminamos a veces  dos bloques y no hay gente”, expresó Tenorio, quien gracias a ese oficio ha mantenido a su familia durante los últimos 20 años.

“Hay personas que salen de sus casas y nos dicen, ¿no ha mirado algo? ¿no ha visto a alguien? Le digo, no, hasta ahorita no, pero pues debo de tener cuidado, pero a  pesar de todo, uno debe de tener la sonrisa en la boca para que los niños salgan y se  acerquen a nosotros”, expuso Antonia.

Son muchas las personas que resienten las bajas ventas en sus negocios, algunos han optado por cambiar de oficio, mientras que otros buscan cambiar sus estrategias de venta 

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By Aleena Fayaz, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping deployment of National Guard troops to several major cities across the United States cost taxpayers approximately $496 million from June through December last year, according to an estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.

The CBO, which aims to provide objective, nonpartisan information to Congress, estimates that if last year’s deployments were to continue through this year, it could cost taxpayers $93 million per month — which would amount to more than $1.1 billion in 2026.

In a letter to Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon on Wednesday, the CBO said it arrived at those figures based on direct and indirect costs “to activate, deploy and compensate National Guard personnel” including “the operational, logistical, and sustainment costs of maintaining those deployments.”

Merkley, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, asked the CBO in October to analyze the cost of the Trump administration’s troop deployments to several cities.

“The American people deserve to know how many hundreds of millions of their hard-earned dollars have been and are being wasted on Trump’s reckless and haphazard deployment of National Guard troops to Portland and cities across the country,” Merkley said in a statement Wednesday. “Trump is weaponizing taxpayer funds to illegally tighten his authoritarian grip on our communities. It must end.”

The CBO estimate covers National Guard and active-duty Marine Corps deployments to Los Angeles; Washington, DC; Memphis; Portland; and Chicago. It does not include the deployment to New Orleans.

Using data from the Defense Department’s 2025 budget, the CBO estimates that National Guard members are compensated approximately $95,000 per person per year because they receive the same rate as those in the military’s active component.

CNN reached out to the Pentagon for comment.

Asked about the CBO estimates, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, “Thanks to the Trump Administration’s highly successful efforts to drive down violent crime, cities like Memphis and D.C. are much safer for residents and visitors – with crime dropping across all major categories. The media should talk to individuals who are able to go about their daily lives without fear of being assaulted, carjacked, or robbed thanks to the Trump Administration.”

The Trump administration last year escalated its efforts to deploy guard members and federal law enforcement officers in several Democratic-led cities, as part of what it has called a crackdown to address crime and restore order. Trump has described the deployments as a potential “training ground” for the military.

The situation was complicated at the end of the year after the US Supreme Court rejected a reque