SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – An AT&T service outage is affecting the ability to make 9-1-1 calls throughout in the city of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County.

There is currently no estimated time for repair according to the city. Residents can still text 9-1-1 if needed, but are advised not to test 9-1-1.

In the case of an emergency please contact your local law enforcement agency:

• Lompoc → 805-736-2341
• Santa Maria → 805-928-3781
• Santa Barbara → 805-882-8200
• UCSB → 805-893-3446 Vandenberg
• SFB → 805-606-3911
• Unincorporated / Sheriff → 805-683-2724

If you are in need of emergency assistance, call Santa Barbara PD non-emergency: 805-882-8900 or call Fire Communications: 805-347-3911.

Local law enforcement phone numbers:
Lompoc → 805-736-2341
Santa Maria → 805-928-3781
Santa Barbara → 805-882-8200
UCSB → 805-893-3446
Vandenberg SFB → 805-606-3911
Unincorporated / Sheriff → 805-683-2724 https://t.co/W4UBZGSynt

— SB Sheriff's Office (@sbsheriff) January 6, 2026

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Por Danya Gainor y Rebekah Riess, CNN

El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés) acusó a la cadena hotelera internacional Hilton de lanzar una “campaña coordinada” para negar servicio a los agentes cancelando sus reservas de habitaciones en Minneapolis mientras la institución se prepara para intensificar la aplicación de medidas migratorias allí.

Las capturas de pantalla que el DHS publicó en X este lunes por la tarde parecen mostrar correos electrónicos de una dirección de Hilton que indica que los agentes de inmigración no pueden quedarse en la propiedad Hampton Inn Lakeville, ubicada en un suburbio al sur de Minneapolis.

“Tras investigar más a fondo en línea, hemos encontrado información sobre inmigración relacionada con su nombre y cancelaremos su próxima reserva. Pronto recibirá un correo electrónico de cancelación de Hilton en su bandeja de entrada”, dice un correo electrónico. El DHS omitió los nombres en las capturas de pantalla.

“Hemos notado una afluencia de reservas del Gobierno realizadas hoy para el DHS, y no permitimos que ningún agente del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) se aloje en nuestra propiedad. Si trabaja para el DHS o inmigración, avísenos, ya que tendremos que cancelar su reserva”, dice otro correo electrónico.

El Lakeville Hilton es de propiedad, y con operación independiente, de Everpeak Hospitality, que dijo en un comunicado en su sitio web que el incidente “fue incompatible con nuestra política de ser un lugar acogedor para todos” y que están “en contacto con los huéspedes afectados para garantizar que sean alojados”.

La secretaria adjunta del DHS, Tricia McLaughlin, rechazó esa declaración y escribió el lunes por la noche que el DHS y el ICE no habían tenido noticias de Everpeak Hospitality.

“Hemos estado en contacto directo con el hotel y se han disculpado por las acciones de su equipo, que no se ajustaron a sus políticas”, declaró Hilton en una declaración inicial a CNN el lunes. “Han tomado medidas inmediatas para resolver este asunto y se están comunicando con los huéspedes afectados para garantizar su alojamiento. La postura de Hilton es clara: nuestras propiedades están abiertas a todos y no toleramos ningún tipo de discriminación”.

Sin embargo, este martes el Hilton emitió una nueva declaración, en la que decía que tenía más preocupaciones sobre que la propiedad Lakeview Hilton “no cumplía con nuestros estándares” y, por lo tanto, Hilton estaba tomando “medidas inmediatas” para eliminar el hotel de su sistema.

El comunicado de la cadena hotelera hizo referencia a un video publicado por el influencer conservador Nick Sortor, en el que aparentemente Sortor habla con un empleado de la recepción del Lakeville Hilton alrededor de las 22:50 del lunes. En el vi

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By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN

(CNN) — The Justice Department on Monday said it has released 12,285 documents – less than 1% – of its Jeffrey Epstein-related files, with more than 2 million documents still being reviewed.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told a federal judge in a Monday court filing that “substantial work remains to be done.”

Looking to update the court on their progress, they told Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York that the 12,285 documents the department has already released contain roughly 125,575 pages.

“There are more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” they added.

It comes after Congress passed a law in November – with near-unanimous support – giving the Justice Department a December 19, 2025, deadline to release all of its files about Epstein, the convicted sex offender who was accused of abusing dozens of underage girls. Epstein died by suicide in 2019.

The files are made up of papers, videos, photographs and audio files that live within the FBI’s main electronic case management system and largely originate from the FBI’s two major investigations into Epstein, in Florida and New York, spanning decades. A July 2025 FBI memo said that the department had uncovered “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence” during a review of the investigative materials.

“This work has required and will continue to require substantial Department resources,” the Justice Department wrote to the judge in the Monday court filing.

“We noted in our prior letter the hundreds of attorneys dedicated to the review at the time of that letter. Currently, and anticipated for the next few weeks ahead, in the range of over 400 lawyers across the Department will dedicate all or a substantial portion of their workday to the Department’s efforts to comply with the Act.”

Trump appointees at the Justice Department have said they’re acting in good faith to release as much material as fast as possible, while also going through the painstaking work of reviewing every file to make sure victims’ identifies are shielded, as required by the law.

In a letter to Congress released on December 19, Blanche said the department was working “diligently” to meet the deadline but that the “volume of materials” meant it “must publicly produce responsive documents on a rolling basis.”

The Justice Department announced in late December that there were more than a million more newly discovered documents potentially related to Epstein – and that they would take “weeks” to review and release them.

And as CNN previously reported, the Justice Department’s leadership also asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the the holidays to help redact the documents.

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By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Jennifer Hansler, CNN

(CNN) — Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Monday that then Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were injured after hitting their heads as they were fleeing US forces trying to arrest them, sources familiar with the briefing told CNN.

Maduro and Flores ran and attempted to hide behind a heavy steel door inside their compound, but the door frame was low and they hit their heads as they tried to escape, the officials said, according to the sources. Delta Force operators apprehended them and gave them first aid after they were extracted from the compound, the sources said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, Attorney General Pam Bondi and CIA Director John Ratcliffe briefed top lawmakers for more than two hours on Monday evening.

Maduro and his wife appeared in court on Monday with visible injuries, and Flores’ attorney told the judge that she “sustained significant injuries” during her abduction. “Additionally, there’s belief that she may have a fracture or a severe bruising on her ribs.” Her attorney requested an X-ray and full physical evaluation to ensure her health moving forward.

Flores swayed and dipped her head at times during the hearing and Maduro struggled to sit down and stand up at points, according to reporters in court. Courtroom sketches of Flores showed her with bandages on her head.

The administration officials who briefed lawmakers on Monday described Flores’ head injury as minor, sources told CNN.

CNN has asked Maduro and Flores’ lawyers for comment on the latest details about their injuries.

Some Delta Force operators themselves sustained injuries during the operation as a result of a large firefight that erupted with a Cuban quick reaction force that was stationed nearby Maduro’s compound, the administration officials said. The troops were hit with bullets and shrapnel but their injuries are not life threatening, and they are expected to fully recover, the officials reiterated.

There were nearly 200 US personnel on the ground in Caracas during the operation, Hegseth said on Monday at a shipyard in Newport News, Virginia.

The briefers did not have a good estimate of how many Venezuelans or Cubans were killed during the operation, but Cuba’s government said on Monday that 32 of its military and police officers were killed. Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday that the number was likely higher than that, describing what unfolded as a “raging gunfire battle.”

“The overwhelming share of casualties and fatalities that were inflicted were against the Cuban guard that had exerted control over the people of Venezuela,” Miller said.

The officials insisted during the briefing that Maduro’s capture was not a regime change operation, since the Venezuelan government remains largely intact and is now led by his deputy Delcy Rodriguez, sources familiar with the briefing said. Rubio said the administration views her as more pragmatic than Maduro and as someone the US can work with, while the opposition leader Maria Corina Machad