FFWLOX

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for…
Southern Santa Barbara County in southwestern California…
West Central Ventura County in southwestern California…

* Until 900 AM PST.

* At 402 AM PST, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
heavy rain falling across the warned area. Between 1.5 and 5.5
inches of rain have fallen. Rain rates up to 1.00 inch per hour
have been reported. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.

HAZARD…Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.

SOURCE…Radar and automated gauges.

IMPACT…Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include…
Santa Barbara, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, Montecito, Point Conception,
Carpinteria, Solvang, Isla Vista, El Capitan State Beach, Refugio
State Beach, Highway 101 through Gaviota State Park, Summerland,
Rincon Point, La Conchita, Goleta, Buellton, Lake Cachuma, Highway
154 over San Marcos Pass, Santa Barbara Airport and Hope Ranch.
Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.

Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.

In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are
potentially dangerous in heavy rain. Do not attempt to cross flooded
roads. Find an alternate route.

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By Dakin Andone, CNN

(CNN) — When tragedy strikes a community – whether it’s a natural disaster, a large-scale accident or a horrific act of violence – all kinds of people might mobilize in response, such as law enforcement and investigators, relief workers and members of the news media.

Now, they’re often joined by another person: a Michigan man with a 10-foot cross that he trucks across the country, aiming to bring comfort to devastated communities facing their darkest moments.

“I go wherever people’s hearts are hurting the most,” Dan Beazley told CNN in late September, as he rolled the cross around Grand Blanc, Michigan, in the wake of an attack on a congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“The cross is a message of hope, of healing in their hearts,” he said of the people he meets. “And when they see it, it radiates a light over the entire dark situation, to just begin to lift up peoples’ hearts and help them heal.”

This year alone, Beazley, a real estate broker by trade, said he has visited:

• New Orleans after the terror attack on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day
• Washington, DC, after the collision in January of a commercial airliner and a military helicopter
• Florida State University after a school shooting in April
• Kerr County, Texas, after flash flooding swept through the Hill Country, devastating a girl’s camp in July
• New York after the July shooting at the NFL’s headquarters inside a Midtown skyscraper
• Minneapolis after the August shooting at Annunciation Catholic School
• Arizona for the memorial for conservative political activist Charlie Kirk after his assassination in September
• Providence, Rhode Island, following this month’s shooting at Brown University

And that list is far from exhaustive. Since starting his ministry in 2021, Beazley said he has made 73 trips to 33 states, hauling his cross to places as near as Detroit – about a half-hour from his Michigan home – and as far-flung as Maui, Hawaii.

Beazley decides when and where to go based on a feeling he said he gets that emanates throughout his body, bringing him near to tears.

“When that happens, I know that I need to go,” he said. “I know that it’s impossible for me not to go. There would be nothing that would stop me from going.”

‘God, what do you want?’

By his telling, Beazley was not always so vocal or even dedicated to his faith. Once Catholic, Beazley said he often thought Christians “were crazy.”

But things started to change about seven years ago, when his wife dragged him “kicking and screaming” to a nondenominational church near their home in Northville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

He remembers he was at church one Good Friday – when the Christian faith marks the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the precursor to Easter – when he was “radically touched by God.”

“I just started to cry, and my body was shaking,” he told CNN. “God was shaking me and waking me up.”

At the time, he still didn’t have a strong grasp of hi

Por Adán Cancryn, CNN

Cuando el Departamento de Justicia publicó el viernes un primer lote de archivos de Jeffrey Epstein que incluía fotografías del expresidente Bill Clinton, los funcionarios de la Casa Blanca se apresuraron a amplificar la importancia de los nuevos documentos.

Pero días después, en medio de un segundo hallazgo que contiene varias referencias al presidente Donald Trump, la Casa Blanca está impulsando una visión diferente: no creas todo lo que ves.

El martes, funcionarios de Trump restaron importancia a la reciente divulgación de más de 30.000 archivos relacionados con Epstein, desestimando la importancia de los materiales y sugiriendo que algunos de los que mencionaban a Trump no estaban verificados o incluso eran pura invención.

Mientras el resto de Washington examinaba minuciosamente los registros que mostraban que Trump voló repetidamente en el avión de Epstein, asesores de la Casa Blanca intentaron destacar otros asuntos que el presidente está más interesado en abordar.

El cambio de mensaje —el último de un esfuerzo en gran medida infructuoso del Gobierno para tomar el control de la historia— ha generado frustración en la órbita de Trump y en partes de la Casa Blanca, donde algunos vieron la respuesta confusa de los últimos días como solo el último tropiezo en un año de errores relacionados con Epstein y desconcertantes fallos de comunicación.

“Ha sido confuso y agravante”, declaró Matthew Barlett, estratega republicano y exfuncionario designado por Trump en su primer mandato, sobre los mensajes contradictorios de la administración. “Ha perpetuado este ciclo de noticias, sigue causando un enorme dolor de cabeza a la Casa Blanca y a la administración, y no veo ninguna solución a corto plazo”.

Los nuevos registros reavivaron el debate sobre la exhaustividad de las revelaciones del Departamento de Justicia y el grado en que la administración ha cumplido con la ley que exige su divulgación.

El Departamento de Justicia pareció intentar adelantarse a cualquier revelación desfavorable para Trump, haciendo un llamado al escepticismo al analizar los nuevos materiales, al menos en lo que respecta a las afirmaciones sobre el presidente.

“Algunos de estos documentos contienen afirmaciones falsas y sensacionalistas contra el presidente Trump, presentadas al FBI justo antes de las elecciones de 2020”, declaró el Departamento de Justicia, y añadió que “si tuvieran un mínimo de credibilidad, sin duda ya se habrían utilizado como arma contra el presidente Trump”.

Un funcionario de la Casa Blanca se negó a hacer comentarios más allá del comunicado del Departamento de Justicia.

En cuanto a Trump, el locuaz presidente pasó la mitad del día en el campo de golf antes de regresar discretamente a Mar-a-Lago. Para las 2:00 p.m., hora de Miami, los funcionarios habían declarado un límite, lo que significaba que no se vería ni se sabría de Trump durante el resto del día.

El silencio casi total del mundo de Trump representó un marcado contraste en comparación con apenas unos días atrás, cuando asesores y aliados se apresuraron a hacer circular las numerosas fotos de Clinton en los archivos de Epstein como parte de un intento de ejercer nueva presión sobre los demócratas.

Y subrayó la lucha continua de la Casa Blanca para gestionar una saga que ha frustrado a Trump y a sus principales asesores y lo ha herido políticamente, incluso cuando su base MAGA sigue profundamente involucrada en el caso Epstein y la controversia no muestra señales de desaparecer.

“Esto es horrible. Trump me llamó traidora por luchar contra él para que se publicaran los archivos de Epstein y por apoyar a las mujeres que fueron violadas, encarceladas en cubículos y traficadas con hombres”, pu

Por Svitlana Vlasova y Caitlin Danaher, CNN

Dos policías y una tercera persona murieron la madrugada del miércoles por una bomba en Moscú, cerca del lugar donde hace dos días ocurrió un atentado con vehículo con explosivos que mató a un alto general ruso.

Dos agentes se acercaron a una persona sospechosa que detonó un dispositivo explosivo cerca de un coche policial, informó el comité de investigación de Rusia en un comunicado el miércoles.

“Los investigadores y expertos forenses del Comité de Investigación de Moscú continúan examinando la escena del incidente”, manifestó Svetlana Petrenko, representante del comité de investigación, en el comunicado.

La policía también está estudiando las imágenes de CCTV y entrevistando a testigos en un intento de descubrir al autor, agregó el comunicado.

La explosión mortal se produce apenas unos días después de que un general ruso muriera a causa de un coche bomba en una calle vecina de la capital rusa.

El teniente general Fanil Sarvarov, que dirigía el departamento de entrenamiento operativo de las fuerzas armadas, murió después de que un artefacto explosivo instalado debajo del chasis de un automóvil explotara el lunes por la mañana, según los investigadores.

Funcionarios rusos sugirieron que Ucrania podría estar detrás del aparente asesinato del alto oficial militar.

“Los investigadores examinan diversos motivos del asesinato. Una de las teorías es que el crimen fue organizado por los servicios especiales ucranianos”, declaró el comité de investigación el lunes.

Ucrania no ha asumido la responsabilidad del ataque contra Sarvarov, pero varios rusos destacados han muerto en Moscú en ataques atribuidos a los servicios de seguridad ucranianos desde la invasión rusa a gran escala al país europeo en 2022.

El comité de investigación no hizo comentarios sobre si los dos incidentes están relacionados.

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By Tricia Escobedo, Andrew Torgan, CNN

Three inmates, all accused of violent crimes, are back in custody after escaping from an Atlanta-area jail. It’s still unclear exactly how they got out, but police say their recorded jailhouse phone calls reveal how they plotted their escape.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ Epstein files

The latest release of Epstein files featured more mentions of President Donald Trump than last week’s drop, and raised additional questions about the Department of Justice’s handling of the documents. Another revelation is that prosecutors sought to investigate and potentially charge more people. A series of apparent FBI emails from 2019 cite “10 co-conspirators.” To date, only Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend, have been charged. Here are more takeaways from the latest release.

2⃣ National Guard

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents, a major loss for the administration. The decision, which came over dissents from conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, appeared almost certain to jeopardize deployments of the National Guard in other cities as well.

3⃣ Nursing home explosion

Two people are dead and others are missing after an explosion and fire tore through a nursing home outside Philadelphia, spurring first responders, bystanders and staff to rush the elderly residents to safety, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, but the preliminary belief of officials is that it was a gas leak, Shapiro said. A local utility company was on site responding to reports of a gas odor in the facility when the explosion occurred, the company said in a statement.

4⃣ Student loans

The Trump administration will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default starting in January, the Education Department told CNN on Tuesday. The move comes months after the administration restarted collecting federal student loans in default, which happens after 270 days without payment. The process, known as administrative wage garnishment, allows the agency to order non-federal employers to withhold a portion of an employee’s income to pay off the loans. In April, the department said that more than 5 million borrowers were in default and nearly 4 million more were delinquent, which means they hadn’t made a payment in more than 90 days.

5⃣ Weight loss drugs

The FDA this week approved a daily pill version of the weight loss drug Wegovy — creating a new option for how patients can take medicines in a class of drugs that has revolutionized obesity treatment. The drug, which maker Novo Nordisk calls simply the Wegovy pill, uses the same active ingredient that’s in the original version, along with its sister drug for diabetes, Ozempic. Both Wegovy and Ozempic, which mimic the hormone GLP-1, are given as weekly injections, as are rival drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro from Eli Lilly. About 1 in 8 adults in the US say they’re currently taking one of the medicines, according to data from health