Crews around Los Angeles battling new wildfires, Trump threatening to withhold aid – CBS News Watch CBS News Authorities in California are dealing with new wildfires, including the Hughes Fire that has put more than 50,000 people under evacuation orders and warnings in northern Los Angeles. CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has more. Be the … Read more
A 20-acre brush fire was spreading on Thursday morning in a part of Los Angeles that is near Interstate 5, the Getty Museum and the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation order after the blaze broke out late Wednesday night, saying that it was burning … Read more
As the Hughes fire exploded in size on Wednesday, people living around Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County weighed the question of whether to stay or go. The danger felt all the more real because of the deadly Eaton and Palisades fires that have been ravaging other parts of the county. Greg Wolf, 64, … Read more
A California couple is suing JetBlue for $1 million, alleging that a large chunk of ice from one of the airline’s planes crashed through the ceiling right over their bed. According to court documents reviewed by CBS News, Michael Reese and Leah Ferrarini were sleeping in bed on Jan. 1, 2024 when a “large block … Read more
This is the place where an Anita Baker ballad slips through the speakers and the smell of bacon floats in an irresistible fog. Regulars (and who isn’t?) push through the glass door and sink into a red folding chair hankering for their usual order. The salmon croquette and the catfish are favorites, but the grits … Read more
Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris left Washington on Monday the way she entered her role on the same day five years ago: making history. After President Trump’s inauguration, Ms. Harris headed to Joint Base Andrews to take her last official flight home to California, supported by an all-female U.S. Air Force crew — the … Read more
Park rangers at Death Valley National Park in California rescued a man who got stranded in a steep and unstable gully, the National Park Service said Sunday. Two Belgian men were on a hike on Wednesday in Mosaic Canyon when they decided to split up, with one hiker on the main trail and the other … Read more
17m ago Palisades Fire is 59% contained As of Monday morning, the Palisades Fire was 59% contained and had scorched 37 square miles, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. The Eaton Fire was 87% contained and had burned over 14 square miles. By Alex Sundby https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/la-fires-southern-california-high-winds-wildfire-risk/#post-update-09632d7a … Read more
Donna and Bob Williamson call the strange souvenirs pulled from the ashes of their home their Museum of Misery. There is the green wine bottle that melted, its glass neck drooping, that looks like it was pulled from a Salvador Dalí painting. Silver forks that fused into a thick, lumpy utensil, its prongs fanning out … Read more
Xavier Becerra, the man President Biden chose to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, does not want to talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen to “go wild” in reshaping it. Nor does he have any regrets over the pandemic policies that helped seed the rise … Read more