A hurricane will make its closest pass to Southern California in 25 years, adding to California’s weather woes – CNN
A hurricane will make its closest pass to Southern California in 25 years, adding to California’s weather woes – CNN

By Derek Van Dam and Judson Jones, CNN

Updated 5:28 AM ET, Thu September 8, 2022

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Saskatchewan stabbings – live: Second suspect dead after days on run following mass attack killing 10 – The Independent
Saskatchewan stabbings – live: Second suspect dead after days on run following mass attack killing 10 – The Independent

10 dead and 18 injured in mass stabbings across Saskatchewan, Canada

The second suspect in the stabbing spree that killed 10 and wounded 18 people across rural Canada over the weekend has died from self-inflicted wounds after his truck was run off the road by police.

An official told the Associated Press that Myles Sanderson, 30, died after being captured around 3.30pm CST on Wednesday near the town of Rosthern, Saskatchewan.

Earlier Royal Canadian Mounted Police released the names of the 10 people who were killed during the Saskatchewan stabbings on Sunday as the manhunt for Myles Sanderson enters its fourth day.

The individuals who died ranged in age from 23 to 78 and they include: Thomas Burns, Carol Burns, Gregory Burns, Lydia Gloria Burns, Bonnie Burns, Earl Burns, Lana Head, Christian Head, and Robert Sanderson of the James Smith Cree Nation and Wesley Petterson of Weldon.

One day earlier, Damien Sanderson, 31, the second suspect and brother of Myles, was found dead from wounds that did not appear to be self-inflicted, police said.

His body was recovered in a heavily grassed area of the James Smith Cree Nation near a house that police were examining.

Both men were named by police in connection with the violence that left 10 people dead and another 18 wounded in a stabbing spree across 13 locations throughout the province of Saskatchewan, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

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Saskatchewan stabbings suspect made ‘goodbye’ trip to loved ones after deadly attacks, report says

ICYMI: Saskatchewan stabbings suspect Myles Sanderson reportedly made a final “goodbye” trip to visit friends and family in Regina after carrying out one of the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history.

The intel that the force had originally received about Myles Sanderson still being in Regina seems to have stemmed from an initial sighting on Sunday that placed him in the front seat of a black Nissan Rogue on Arcola Avenue, a main thoroughfare that cuts through the city’s east end.

That call came in at 11.40am, approximately six hours after the first 911 calls were placed at James Smith Cree Nation, which is more than a three-hour drive away from where he was reportedly later seen on Sunday.

A new report from The Daily Beast could shed more light on that sighting, with unnamed sources close to the manhunt saying they believe the 30-year-old suspect had driven into Regina to make a round of goodbyes to family and friends and “to see [those Regina connections] for the last time”.

Keep reading the full report below with The Independent:

Saskatchewan stabbings suspect made ‘goodbye’ trip after deadly attacks: report

Myles Sanderson was reportedly last seen in the front seat of a black Nissan Rogue on a Regina street at 11.40am on Sunday, more than six hours after the first 911 call was placed

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Youngest victim killed in Saskatchewan stabbings was 23

Thomas Burns, a 23-year-old man from James Smith Cree Nation, was the youngest person to die in the “abhorrent” stabbing attacks that unfolded on Sunday in northern Saskatchewan.

ICYMI: The RCMP in Saskatchewan released the identities of all the individuals who were killed in the brutal attacks, which included the 23-year-old.

Thomas Burns, a 23-year-old man from James Smith Cree Nation, was the youngest person killed in the 4 September 2022 attack that left 11 people dead, including one of the suspects

Local news reports had said earlier that authorities had confirmed that the youngest victim to die in the attacks had been born in 1999. An 11-year-old boy, whose mother and brother were killed on Sunday, was also stabbed and injured but was released from hospital on Monday with stitches.

Read the full report on all of the victims killed with The Independent below:

‘Random’ victims of Saskatchewan stabbings named by police

‘No one in this town is ever going to sleep again,’ niece of 77-year-old victim says

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‘We don’t want this to be glorified’: Family members speak out during press conference

ICYMI: The half-brother of one of the victims said during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon that he would like to address his relative’s death, Bonnie “Goodvoice” Burns.

“A lot of people out there wondering what happened. Well honestly we don’t know,” said the relative, who asked not to be identified by his name during the press conference.

He was joined on a panel by Bonnie’s husband, Brian Burns, and his three surviving sons in the audience.

“I was at the scene on Sunday,” he said, noting that they would discuss some of those details in the presser and that some of those details “will be a little harsh to here, we’re gonna speak the truth.”

“She’s not a victim, she’s a hero,” he said.

“That’s what we want people to remember … how she made people laugh, at kids birthdays, at weddings, at celebrations,” said the relative.

Watch the live conference here.

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Alberta’s opposition leader commemorates Canadian veteran killed in stabbing attacks

ICYMI: Rachel Notley, the opposition leader of Alberta’s New Democratic Party, commemorated the victims killed during a series of brutal stabbing attacks in northern Saskatchewan on Sunday, giving a special tribute to the Canadian Armed Forced veteran, Earl Burns, who was one of the murdered.

“I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family of veteran Earl Burns and so many others in Saskatchewan grieving the loss of loved ones to this senseless violence. You are all in our hearts in this incredibly difficult time,” wrote the provincial politician on Twitter on Tuesday night.

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‘They actually died protecting their family’: Relative describes victims of Saskatchewan stabbing as ‘heroes’

ICYMI: The “matriarch” of the Burns family, Bonnie Goodvoice Burns, and her son, Gregory “Jonesy” Burns, died as “heroes” on Sunday after a series of stabbing attacks in northern Saskatchewan on Sunday left 10 people dead.

“They actually died protecting their family,” said the brother of the 48-year-old mother and the uncle of the 28-year-old man, who he said he found side-by-side in the driveway of their family home on James Smith Cree Nation on Sunday.

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Names, photos released of the victims killed during the stabbing attack

ICYMI: On Wednesday morning, Saskatchewan RCMP released the names of all the victims killed in the brazen Sunday morning attacks, noting that they represented a mix of those chosen at random and some specifically targeted.

The individuals who died ranged in age from 23 to 78 and they include: Thomas Burns, Carol Burns, Gregory Burns, Lydia Gloria Burns, Bonnie Burns, Earl Burns, Lana Head, Christian Head, and Robert Sanderson of the James Smith Cree Nation, and Wesley Petterson of Weldon.

Read more about each of the people who died on Sunday and their stories here with The Independent:

‘Random’ victims of Saskatchewan stabbings named by police

‘No one in this town is ever going to sleep again,’ niece of 78-year-old victim says

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GoFundMe organised for mother, son killed in Saskatchewan stabbing attacks

ICYMI: Mark Arcand, the brother of Bonnie “Goodvoice” Burns, 48, said during a press conference on Wednesday that a GoFundMe was being created for his sister and his nephew, Gregory “Jonesy” Burns, 28, after the mother and son were both killed on Sunday during an abhorrent stabbing attack in northern Saskatchewan.

“In the early morning hours on September 4, 2022, Bonnie Burns and her 28 year old son, Gregory, had their lives taken in a senseless act of violence at their home on the James Smith Cree Nation,” organiser Shelley Arcand wrote.

“Nothing anyone can do will bring Bonnie and Gregory back but we would like to lessen the financial burden on the surviving family members as they try to move forward. Any funds raised will go towards Brian and their boys for specialized counselling and ongoing support as they navigate this tragic situation,” it added.

The online fundraiser has a goal of $50,000 and within just a couple hours of being live it had already raised more than $5,000.

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Second Saskatchewan suspect dead from self-inflected wounds after 10 killed in one of Canada’s worst attacks

Myles Sanderson, a suspect in the weekend stabbing spree that killed 10 and wounded 19 people across a First Nations community in rural Canada, died from self-inflicted inflected wounds after being arrested on Wednesday, according to officials. An unnamed Canadian official told The Associated Press that Sanderson died after police rammed his car off the road.

The suspect was taken away live in an ambulance before later succumbing to his injuries, Global News reports, citing multiple unnamed law enforcement sources.

Second Saskatchewan stabbing suspect dead from self-inflicted wounds after 10 killed

Both suspects in stabbing spree now accounted for

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‘We’re hurtin. We’re broken but we’re not defeated’: Family members share memories of victim killed in attack

ICYMI: The relative of Bonnie Burns discussed how “the most important thing for Bonnie was family,” noting how his sister had recently celebrating milestones, such as being sober for 15 years of her life. “Those are the things we want to remember.”

“She was a member who made a difference in people’s lives,” he said remembering her home that was filled with love and care. “And the children always came first.”

Gregory, known in his family as “Jonesy”, was a great kid, his uncle remembered.

“He worked in the community, he built houses, he did whatever he could to help his mom and dad and take care of his three brothers. And those are the things we want people to recognise and remember.”

“That mountain is the devastation of what happened to our family member and what its gonna take to heal from senseless acts as this that happened to our community our family our province and our country,” said the relative.

Family members of Bonnie ‘Goodvoice’ Burns hold a press conference to discuss the memories of Burns, who died on Sunday during the stabbing attacks, and her son, 28-year-old Gregory Burns

“When I think about what the future looks like my sister my family members they’d want us to move on to heal but to never forget. To carry love in your heart. Carry compassion, to be united, to think of other people.”

“We’ve shed a lot of tears in the last couple days. But at the end of the day, we loved our sister, Brian’s wife, Chuck’s daughter, our niece our nephew … and they loved us too. That’s what we want people to remember.

“We’re hurtin. We’re broken, but we’re not defeated.”

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Second suspect dead from self-inflicted wounds after police stop

Myles Sanderson died from self-inflicted wounds after police in Canada ran his car off the road on Wednesday afternoon, an unnamed official confirmed to the Associated Press.

“An official familiar with the matter said officers rammed Sanderson’s vehicle off the road. The official said the fugitive’s injuries were self-inflicted, but he didn’t have further details on when the injuries were inflicted or when he died. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as the person was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.” the AP reported.

Source Article from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-mass-stabbing-saskatchewan-myles-sanderson-b2162382.html

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Why finding a special master for the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents won’t be simple – CNN
Why finding a special master for the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents won’t be simple – CNN

(CNN)A federal judge’s move to bring in a special master to review materials seized from former President Donald Trump’s home has opened up an extraordinarily murky, sensitive and high-stakes task of finding an attorney to serve in that role and defining what exactly he or she will do.

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Saskatchewan mass stabbing suspect underwent ‘medical distress’ and died after his arrest, police say – CNN
Saskatchewan mass stabbing suspect underwent ‘medical distress’ and died after his arrest, police say – CNN

By Amir Vera, Eric Levenson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN

Updated 12:19 AM ET, Thu September 8, 2022

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Top Las Vegas Official Arrested In Stabbing Death Of Investigative Reporter – Deadline
Top Las Vegas Official Arrested In Stabbing Death Of Investigative Reporter – Deadline

A top Las Vegas-area public official was arrested tonight in connection with the fatal stabbing of a well-known investigative journalist on Friday night, according to multiple news reports.

Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles was taken into custody at his home this evening by a SWAT team as part of the investigation into the killing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German. The arrest came after police spent hours searching Telles’ home, where they confiscated a vehicle that resembled the SUV tied to the stabbing suspect: a red or maroon GMC Yukon Denali.

Telles himself was observed this afternoon at his home. He was later taken into custody after a standoff with police with what ABC News described as “non-life-threatening self-inflicted stab wounds.”

Earlier this year, German reported on strife in the Public Administrator’s office that included “complaints of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles’ “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate staffer,” according to AP. That reporting was reportedly in part responsible for Telles’ primary election defeat in June.

The Public Administrator’s office deals with the property of people who die without a will or family contacts.

German, 69, had continued to report on the matter and filed public record records requests for emails and text messages between Telles and Assistant Public Administrator Rita Reid, estate coordinator Roberta Lee-Kennett and consultant Michael Murphy. Lee-Kennett had been previously identified as the subordinate allegedly to have engaged in an affair with Telles.

German was found on Saturday morning outside his area home. Police surmised he was stabbed in an altercation the previous day. The coroner determined German died of “multiple sharp force injuries” and the case was ruled a homicide.

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California heat wave: No rolling blackouts but thousands without power – USA TODAY
California heat wave: No rolling blackouts but thousands without power – USA TODAY

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In Bannon Case, Manhattan D.A. Takes On Another Pardoned Trump Ally – The New York Times
In Bannon Case, Manhattan D.A. Takes On Another Pardoned Trump Ally – The New York Times

Mr. Trump pardoned Mr. Bannon in January 2021 before he was set to go to trial on the federal charges. Mr. Kolfage and Mr. Badolato pleaded guilty in April to wire fraud conspiracy in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Mr. Kolfage also pleaded guilty to tax-related charges.

Mr. Shea went to trial in May. Although Mr. Bannon was not on trial, his presence loomed large over the proceedings: Evidence showed him in contact with the others as they discussed media coverage of the campaign and plotted to steer funds to Mr. Kolfage, who initially had said he was not taking any compensation for his role in the wall project.

In a December 2018 text message to Mr. Bannon, Mr. Badolato wrote that the claim Mr. Kolfage, who had lost both legs and part of his right arm while serving in Iraq, “will not be paid a dime” would be “the most talked about media narrative ever.”

“But,” he added, “we gotta find an end around to get him stuff.”

In January 2019, after a Buzzfeed News article raised questions about Mr. Kolfage and We Build the Wall, Mr. Badolato suggested language for a news release asserting that Mr. Kolfage was not taking a salary, Mr. Bannon responded: “COAR can pay him,” an apparent reference to Citizens of the American Republic, a nonprofit organization Mr. Bannon set up in 2017.

Financial records cited by prosecutors showed that $380,000 was sent from the wall group to Citizens of the American Republic, which in turn sent money to Mr. Kolfage and to Mr. Bannon.

After Mr. Trump pardoned Mr. Bannon, in January 2021, the Manhattan district attorney’s office, then headed by Mr. Vance, began its own investigation.

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Finding special master in Trump classified documents case no easy task, legal experts say – Reuters.com
Finding special master in Trump classified documents case no easy task, legal experts say – Reuters.com

WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) – A federal judge has given the U.S. Justice Department and Donald Trump’s lawyers until Friday to come up with a list of potential candidates to serve as a special master to review records the FBI seized from the former president’s Florida estate.

But finding people who have the necessary experience and security clearances to handle the highly classified documents — and the willingness to enter the political brushfire surrounding the probe — will be no small task, legal experts said.

“If we’re talking about highly classified material, there’s only a relatively small number of individuals who would satisfy the requirements of the job,” said attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who served as a special master for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund.

“It would have to be somebody willing to take on the hurricane. It’s not purely a security issue. It’s become a political issue,” he said.

One illustration of the challenge: the nonprofit law firm National Security Counselors last week provided the court with a list of four potential candidates with expertise on executive privilege. All four have since made public comments that either suggest they don’t want the job or that could be used to argue against them by lawyers for the Justice Department or Trump.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday ruled that a special master should review the records seized from Trump’s Palm Beach home to weed out anything that should be kept from prosecutors, either due to attorney-client privilege or executive privilege – a legal doctrine that shields some White House communications from disclosure.

The U.S. Supreme Court last year side-stepped the question of how far a former president’s privilege claims can go in rejecting Trump’s bid to keep White House records from the Jan. 6 select committee.

However, the U.S. National Archives, after conferring with the Justice Department, told Trump’s lawyers earlier this year that he cannot assert privilege against the executive branch to shield the records from the FBI.

SPECIAL MASTER

A special master is an independent outside expert who is sometimes tapped to review records seized by the government in sensitive cases where some of the material might be privileged.

Whoever is picked will likely need to have a top-level security clearance because more than 100 of the 11,000-plus documents are marked as top secret, secret or confidential.

A special master has never before been called on to determine whether records are covered by executive privilege, particularly in the unique circumstance of a former president asserting the right over the prerogative of the current president, Joe Biden.

“Appointing a special master I think may be harder than people think,” said John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser who previously also served at the Justice Department. “How many people with TS/SCI clearance are out there? And how many of them are experts on executive privilege?”

SOME OPT OUT

None of the four potential candidates identified by National Security Counselors in a court filing last week have openly embraced the idea.

One of them, Mark Rozell, the dean of the public policy school at George Mason University, has asked for his name to be removed from the list, telling Reuters: “Flattered that someone thinks I’m qualified, but I prefer analyzing from the outside of events.”

A second, former Justice Department attorney Jonathan Shaub, has not said whether he would take the job, but criticized Cannon’s order in an interview with Reuters on Monday, saying it was “filled with inaccuracies about the law” and that the judge seemed to be “bending over backwards to help Trump.”

Northwestern University law professor Heidi Kitrosser, the third, told Reuters that she believes she is unlikely to be selected, after some conservative media outlets and Trump supporters on social media pointed to her prior political comments.

The fourth person, Mitchel Sollenberger of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, said he does not have a security clearance.

A Justice Department spokesman on Monday said the government is reviewing Cannon’s order without commenting on next steps. Attorneys for Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

Most prior cases involving special masters related to practicing attorneys who had a duty to keep their clients’ records confidential.

A special master was appointed, for instance, after the FBI searched the homes and offices of former Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen.

Some legal experts said the best bet is to look for recently retired judges from Washington, D.C., or Florida who have handled national security cases and could easily get their clearance restored.

Robert Costello, an attorney for Giuliani, said that after the FBI seized items from his client’s home and office, the government and the defense team were able to quickly agree on a special master candidate: retired judge Barbara Jones.

“They will try to whittle it down to one,” he said, noting that they will look for someone who can be “neutral and fair.”

If they can’t agree, he said, the judge can pick someone herself.

“The judge would be wise to make sure that it’s a consensus candidate,” said Feinberg. “She may end up appointing somebody over the objection of one side or the other, but at least she’s made an effort to determine and calibrate the degree of opposition.”

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When wildfires are too fast to escape – Los Angeles Times
When wildfires are too fast to escape – Los Angeles Times
HEMET, Calif. — 

The sound of exploding propane tanks filled Avery Canyon on Monday afternoon as flames from the Fairview fire gnawed at a grassy ridge near Jeremy Fields’ ranch home.

A sheriff’s deputy called out with a loudspeaker, urging Fields and his family to evacuate. He and his wife, Gladys Nicomedez, gathered what they could — insurance papers, some clothes, their son’s inhalers and medication — before gunning it down Gibbel Road, the only way into and out of their hillside neighborhood.

The family was among the last to leave the canyon. They would learn later that the fast-moving fire had overcome their neighbors, killing them both.

“If we wouldn’t have left the second we left, we would have been blocked in,” Fields recalled.

The fire tore through 2,000 acres around Hemet on Monday and continued to grow Tuesday .

The fire was one of two deadly blazes in California during the broiling hot Labor Day weekend, with the Mill fire in Siskiyou County also claiming two lives and bringing the year’s wildfire death toll to nine, including four killed in Northern California’s McKinney fire and one in Petaluma’s Roblar fire earlier this summer. Officials said the sobering number underscores how the state’s climate change-fueled blazes are outpacing emergency alert systems and posing new threats to residents.

“What we’ve seen almost over the last 10 years now is a huge change in the ways fires have been burning throughout California,” said Jon Heggie, a battalion chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “They burn with such increased speed and velocity and intensity that it gives residents very little time sometimes to escape fires, just because the fuels are so receptive and burn so much hotter and so much faster.”

When you’re ordered to evacuate, you need to go as quickly as possible. Here are the essentials experts say to pack.

The frequency of the danger also appears to be accelerating: Eleven of the state’s 20 deadliest fires have occurred since 2000, according to Cal Fire. Of those, seven have occurred since 2017.

That’s partly because it’s getting harder to reach residents — or even warn them — as fires move faster than ever because extreme heat and drought are priming the landscape to burn. Most of the fatalities this year happened within the first hours of the fires.

Heggie said people in rural communities are particularly at risk — not only because they are surrounded by combustible wildlands but also because cellphone service can be spotty and emergency messages might not reach them.

“They really have to be mindful of their situational awareness and understanding that if a fire were to start, their reaction time is not very much because of … the way vegetation is in California,” he said.

The Fairview fire, for example, sparked Monday afternoon amid 111-degree heat and seared through 2,000 acres in its first six hours in what officials described as a “critical rate of spread.” Incident commander Josh Janssen said the two people who were killed were attempting to flee the Avery Canyon area when they were trapped by flames.

“The challenge was what we’ve been talking about for years — the unseasonably dry fuel conditions,” Janssen told reporters Tuesday morning. He said the fire was also “in alignment” with wind and topography in the area, which helped it spread quickly.

“That, coupled with the drought-stricken fuels, their dry nature in that canyon, and the alignment is what allowed that fire to rapidly expand and overcome some of the citizens,” he said.

A similar scene played out at the Mill fire, which became the second deadly fire in Siskiyou County this summer, after the McKinney fire in late July. The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said the two people who were killed by the Mill fire — a 73-year-old woman and 66-year-old woman — were found in separate locations, but provided few additional details.

The fire tore through 2,000 acres around Hemet on Monday and continued to grow Tuesday .

Mill fire public information officer Aaron Johnson said climate factors played a significant role as the blaze grew about 4,000 acres in its first 12 hours after igniting Friday afternoon. It fed on buildings, homes and vegetation in the community of Lincoln Heights in Weed.

“We were kind of in a red flag warning this weekend — so high temperatures, low humidity — which made the fuels very receptive to any potential start,” Johnson said. He added that vegetation in the area is “basically in the 97th percentile for dryness.”

“So critically dry fuels, combined with the weather, the wind and the temperature and the humidity being what it was, helped the fire spread,” he said.

But the speed of the fires is only one part of the challenge, according to Shane Reichardt, a spokesman for the Riverside County Emergency Management Department. Reichardt said technology can sometimes make it harder — not easier — to reach residents in emergency situations as more and more people ditch landlines and rely on opt-in cellphone systems for crucial information.

“Technology is an amazing thing, but it definitely creates some challenges that there aren’t easy answers for,” he said.

Whereas landline phones are automatically registered with the county’s emergency alert system, Alert RivCo, cellphone providers are not required to provide the agency with lists of their customers and addresses, Reichardt said — meaning people have to voluntarily enroll. What’s more, whereas older landlines may work during power outages, many digitally powered home phones do not.

Reichardt said the agency does have the ability to ping cellphones near specified cell towers during an emergency, but that doesn’t mean it will reach everyone who needs the information, such as parents working in a different area while their kids are at home near a fire.

“One of the biggest problems is that a lot of people don’t know that it’s not automatically included,” he said of the county system. “People were used to having landline phones, and so they never had to do anything before. And then you have a younger generation where when they see a wireless emergency alert, they assume they’re already getting everything they need to get.”

People who purchase prepaid phones without contracts or plans are also difficult to reach, as are people visiting the area or just passing through who are not registered with the county alert system, he said.

The Mill fire in Siskiyou County destroys the historically Black neighborhood of Lincoln Heights in Weed, officials said.

Brandi Swan, a spokeswoman with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, said 3,467 homes near the Fairview fire were placed under evacuation orders on the first day. She estimated that a little more than 12,100 residents lived in those areas. The department deployed more than 100 deputies to go door to door and play public announcement messages from their vehicles, she said.

But even then, some people opted not to leave and instead wanted to shelter in place.

“You would think more people would take it seriously because it’s so fast-moving, and that’s why we try and do such a large evacuation area because the shift in winds, the weather is unpredictable, and fire moves fast,” Swan said.

Reichardt said the county is trying to encourage all residents to enroll in Alert RivCo through email blasts and social media, but it doesn’t have much funding for big advertising campaigns or physical mailers.

When asked how many residents have enrolled, he didn’t have a precise number but said “it’s probably in the area of 20%.”

Recurring drought and rising temperatures have already begun to alter the landscape of California and the American Southwest, researchers warn.

With more than 97% of the state under severe, extreme or exceptional drought, even the best technology is having difficulty keeping up with California’s fires. The West’s extreme dryness now ranks as the driest 22-year period in at least 1,200 years. The heat doesn’t help, and can make it harder for first responders to do their jobs while simultaneously increasing the risk of conflagrations.

“It is definitely no coincidence that these fast moving fires are occurring during an intense heatwave,” UCLA climate scientist Park Williams said via email.

Some rare August precipitation in the southern Sierra Nevada and Southern California mountains may have helped somewhat, “but the forecast for intense heat to continue for several more days means there is still time for many more fires to erupt, especially if the tropical storm coming up the Baja coast causes a high frequency of lightning strikes later this week, similar to what tropical storm Fausto did in August 2020,” Williams said.

In 2020, lightning strikes helped fuel what eventually became the worst wildfire season in state history.

Reichardt said such threats are all the more reason for people to have go bags and evacuation plans ready in advance.

“If you see fire in the area, we would much rather people self-evacuate, get out of the neighborhood, and then figure out ‘Do I need to be evacuated?’” he said. “Basically, we don’t want people to wait if they feel unsafe.”

By early Tuesday morning, the Red Cross evacuation shelter at Tahquitz High School housed 43 residents who had fled the Fairview fire, including Fields and Nicomedez. More were expected as authorities issued additional evacuation orders for other hillside neighborhoods.

“It just happened so fast,” Fields said of the fire. “I don’t think anybody could have prepared for that.”

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Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session – CNN
Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session – CNN

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/michigan-gop-poll-worker-training-invs/index.html

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Canada stabbings suspect Myles Sanderson taken into custody, police say – The Washington Post
Canada stabbings suspect Myles Sanderson taken into custody, police say – The Washington Post

Sanderson, 32, and his brother, Damien, 31, were charged with murder in the stabbing attacks on the James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby village of Weldon on Sunday that killed 10 people and wounded 18 in one of Canada’s deadliest mass killings. Damien Sanderson was found dead on the James Smith Cree Nation on Monday with injuries that authorities said did not appear to be self-inflicted.

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Barack and Michelle Obama make first joint return to the White House for unveiling of official portraits – CNN
Barack and Michelle Obama make first joint return to the White House for unveiling of official portraits – CNN

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN

Updated 4:41 PM ET, Wed September 7, 2022

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/obamas-white-house-official-portraits/index.html

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Disturbing details emerge in the death of jogger Eliza Fletcher as the suspect is arraigned on murder charges – NBC News
Disturbing details emerge in the death of jogger Eliza Fletcher as the suspect is arraigned on murder charges – NBC News
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Check here to see if your home will be impacted by California rolling outages – KCRA Sacramento
Check here to see if your home will be impacted by California rolling outages – KCRA Sacramento

California’s state grid operator says rolling blackouts due to a shortfall in electricity supply “could be imminent.”

As Tuesday is expected to be similar to Monday with record-high temperatures, major utility companies braced for possible outages.

Luckily, California was able to narrowly avoid rotating outages. The California Office of Emergency Services sent out an emergency alert to people’s phones shortly before 6 p.m.

There was a noticeable drop in energy demand shortly after that alert.

Cal OES deputy director Brian Ferguson spoke with KCRA 3 reporter Melanie Wingo about the strategy of using the alert. Watch below.

However, the heat wave continues through the week, and another call for energy conservation was made to help reduce the risk of possible rotating outages.

How to check PG&E rotating outages across California

In preparation, PG&E said it notified about 525,277 customers to prepare for rotating outages this evening. The utility released a search map that allows customers to search and see if their home would be impacted. Click here to search by address.

How to search SMUD’s map of rotating outages

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is also preparing for possible outages. Click here to search by address.

Monitor power outages statewide

You can also track outages across California with this map below that uses data from the California Office of Emergency Services. App users, click here.

California is on its 7th straight day of being asked to conserve energy

Cal ISO issues what it calls Flex Alerts as a voluntary call for Californians to reduce energy. These are usually done on hotter days when energy use is expected to increase. On Monday, energy use nearly outpaced actual supply, which prompted an Energy Emergency Alert 2, which is one step away from Cal ISO saying rolling blackouts are imminent.

On Tuesday, another EEA 2 was issued from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., but that alert is expected to be elevated to an EEA 3 at 5:30 p.m. That means rotating outages “could be imminent,” according to Cal ISO.

University of California Berkeley energy professor and California Independent System Operator (ISO) board of governors member Severin Borenstein said a massive spike in demand for power translates to more megawatts of power being used than normal.

“On a normal summer day in California, the system demand is about 30,000 megawatts. On these super peak days, it’s about 50,000 megawatts,” he said.

What you can do to save energy

  • Set the thermostat at 78 degrees or higher, if health permits
  • Avoid using major appliances
  • Turn off unnecessary lights
  • Use fans for cooling
  • Unplug unused items

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Saskatchewan mass stabbing victims range in age from 23 to 78 years old – CNN
Saskatchewan mass stabbing victims range in age from 23 to 78 years old – CNN

By Nouran Salahieh and Eric Levenson, CNN

Updated 4:16 PM ET, Wed September 7, 2022

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Temperatures smash records in US west as brutal heatwave continues – The Guardian US
Temperatures smash records in US west as brutal heatwave continues – The Guardian US

A brutal heatwave enveloping the US west smashed records on Tuesday, as high temperatures brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts.

Western states are struggling through one of the hottest and longest September heatwaves on record. Temperatures began soaring last week and the National Weather Service (NWS) warned that dangerous heat could continue through Friday.

California’s state capital of Sacramento on Tuesday hit an all-time high of 116F (46.7C), breaking a 97-year-old record. Six places in the San Francisco Bay Area and central coast set all-time record maximum temperatures, including Santa Rosa, with 115F (46C).

In neighboring Nevada, Reno’s 106F (41C) on Tuesday was its hottest day ever recorded in September and smashed the previous record for the date, 96F (35.5C) in 1944. It came within two degrees of the all-time high for any day or month of 108F (42C), set in July 2002 and equaled in July 2007, according to the National Weather Service.

In Salt Lake City, a city at more than 4,000ft (1,219m) elevation, temperatures were about 20 degrees higher than normal, hitting 105F (40.5C) on Tuesday, the hottest September day recorded going back to 1874.

The grueling heatwave caused California officials to warn on Tuesday that demand for electricity, some of it from people cranking up the air conditioning, might outstrip supply.

The California Independent System Operator (Caiso), which oversees the electrical grid, issued a stage three emergency power alert, one step below ordering utilities to start rotating outages to ease the strain on the system.

But the grid managed to handle record-breaking demand. Caiso said the peak electricity demand on Tuesday hit 52,061 megawatts, far above the previous high of 50,270 megawatts set on 24 July 2006.

While there were no rolling blackouts over large areas, two outages were reported in the San Francisco Bay Area cities of Palo Alto and Alameda, affecting several thousand customers for about an hour.

Some 35,700 people lost electricity in Silicon Valley and southern and inland areas of the San Francisco Bay Area and most of the outages were heat-related, said Jason King of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) said on Tuesday evening. There was no word on when power would be restored.

Firefighters battle the Fairview fire in Hemet, in southern California, on Tuesday. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Meanwhile, the high temperatures fueled wildfires in both northern and southern California. Four deaths were reported over the Labor Day weekend as some 4,400 firefighters battled 14 large fires around the state, with 45 new blazes on Sunday alone, said Anale Burlew, a deputy chief with the California department of forestry and fire protection (Cal Fire).

A wildfire that started Friday in the northern California community of Weed killed two people and one that erupted on Monday and spread rapidly in the Hemet area of southern California also killed two people. Authorities said they were found in the same area and apparently died while trying to flee the flames.

The extreme temperatures are a result of a “heat dome” bearing over the region – a ridge of high atmospheric pressure that acts as a lid, trapping in heat. Although climate crisis doesn’t cause heat domes, scientists expect it to drive more extreme weather.

Scientists say climate change has made the west warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/california-record-temperatures-heatwave-blackouts-sacramento-reno

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Suspect in Memphis teacher’s abduction and death ordered held without bond – CNN
Suspect in Memphis teacher’s abduction and death ordered held without bond – CNN

By Jason Hanna, Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN

Updated 12:53 PM ET, Wed September 7, 2022

Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/us/memphis-teacher-eliza-fletcher-killed-wednesday/index.html

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Fairview Fire grows to 5,000 acres; burn victims tried to flee, were found inside vehicle – KTLA Los Angeles
Fairview Fire grows to 5,000 acres; burn victims tried to flee, were found inside vehicle – KTLA Los Angeles

Fire crews are struggling to contain the deadly Fairview Fire in Hemet which expanded to 5,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, officials said. Containment remains at just 5%.

Overnight video showed a wild scene as the intense flames at one point burst into a fire whirl.

The fire, which officials said has the potential to burn 7,000 acres, started Monday afternoon near Fairview Avenue and Bautista Canyon Road.

Two people who tried to escape the fire on Monday were found dead inside their vehicle, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Brandi Swan said.

“The identifies of those individuals cannot be released at this time because they cannot be positively identified based upon the condition in which they were found,” Swan said during a Wednesday morning news conference.

A third victim, described only as an adult female, was found outside the vehicle with severe burns. She was transported to a hospital and is expected to survive.

Officials believe all three victims were related.

At least seven structures have already been destroyed by the fire but that total is expected to rise.

Mandatory evacuations remained in place for approximately 3,400 homes in the areas south of Stetson Avenue, north of Cactus Valley Road, west of Bautista Canyon and east of State Street.

Click here for an interactive evacuations map

Residents in about 50 homes near the fire have been asked to boil water over concerns that it may be unsafe to drink. Officials planned to retest the water on Wednesday.

An evacuation center was established at Tahquitz High School located at 4425 Titan Trail in Hemet.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Southern California Edison reported circuit activity at about the time the first flames were spotted but it is still unclear if the utility’s equipment played a role in sparking the blaze.

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Myles Sanderson Made Final ‘Goodbye Trip’ After Saskatchewan Stabbing Rampage, Sources Say – The Daily Beast
Myles Sanderson Made Final ‘Goodbye Trip’ After Saskatchewan Stabbing Rampage, Sources Say – The Daily Beast

Multiple sources close to the ongoing manhunt for Myles Sanderson, the second suspect in the stabbing rampage that killed 11 people in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Sunday, say he made a final trip to the city of Regina with the intention of seeing friends and family members there in the hours after the horrific attacks.

According to one of the sources source involved in the investigation into the horrific slayings in James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby town of Weldon, Saskatchewan, Myles Sanderson made a three-hour trip across the wide-open Canadian prairie—in broad daylight, on one of the busiest highway travel days of the year—“to see [those Regina connections] for the last time.”

The sources told The Daily Beast that they suspect Myles has since died by suicide. “If Myles Sanderson was alive and being harbored somewhere by someone, we’d know about it by now,” one of the sources told The Daily Beast.

His sighting in Regina was reported three days ago, at around 11:45 a.m. Sunday, or approximately six hours after the first 911 calls began pouring into local law enforcement dispatchers near James Smith Cree Nation.

The city is approximately 160 miles south of the communities now mourning the victims of the knifing rampage. Sources say Myles Sanderson was spotted in the front seat of a black Nissan Rogue. No further sightings of Sanderson or the vehicle have been reported in the hours and days since.

Whether Myles reached any of his intended stops in Regina remains unclear. The odds that Sanderson is still in or around the city are slim to none, the sources said.

His alleged accomplice and brother, 31-year-old Damien Sanderson, was found dead in a field on Monday while police were investigating a nearby house.

The shocking stabbing rampage left at least 15 others injured. Some of the attacks appeared to have been targeted while others seemed to be random, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said in the hours after the stabbings.

The brothers have since been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in absentia, in addition to charges of attempted murder and breaking and entering.

Earlier reports suggested that Damien Sanderson—whose body was found with “visible injuries” that “are not believed to be self-inflicted,” according to the RCMP—may have been attacked by Myles Sanderson. “It is an investigative avenue that we are following up on, but we can’t say that definitively at this point,” RCMP spokeswoman Rhonda Blackmore said on Monday.

Myles Sanderson reportedly had a lengthy criminal history, including robbery and assault convictions, and had been wanted by police at the time of the attacks for breaching parole.

“Sadly over these past years tragedies like these have become all too commonplace,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday. “We’ll do what we always do in times of difficulty and anguish; we’ll be there for each other, be there for our neighbors, lean on each other, help grieve and help heal.”

Members of the community who spoke with The Daily Beast described feeling “shocked” and “angry” about the attacks, which sent shockwaves throughout Canada.

In an interview with The Daily Beast earlier this week, one 17-year-old resident recounted what he heard had happened to his aunt, who he said was one of the residents injured in the Sunday rampage. “They knocked on her door at night,” he said, “and after my auntie opened the door, she was slashed on the face, and stabbed on the shoulder, and stabbed on the back.”

He told The Daily Beast he knew of at least one friend who he’d been told had been killed in the attack. “It hurts,” he said. “I can’t really do anything about it.”

According to one of the sources who spoke to The Daily Beast, investigators are still looking in the fields of James Smith Cree Nation “to see if they find more [victims].”

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Steve Bannon faces fraud charges in New York over the We Build the Wall charity – NPR
Steve Bannon faces fraud charges in New York over the We Build the Wall charity – NPR

Steve Bannon speaks to the media as his lawyer Matthew Evan Corcoran listens after his trial for contempt of Congress began at the U.S. District Courthouse on July 19 in Washington, D.C.

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Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is preparing to face New York state charges that he defrauded donors to the nonprofit group We Build the Wall to construct a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.

The case is expected to be similar to a previous federal case in which Bannon was indicted but never tried because Trump pardoned Bannon before that could happen.

Bannon and others are accused of skimming money from the donors for personal use on things like travel and and credit card debt.

In the original federal case, there were three co-defendants. Two pleaded guilty, another had a mistrial.

A person familiar with the New York case says Bannon will turn himself in to authorities in New York on Thursday. That will make him a member of a large and growing group of former top Trump associates in trouble with the law.

The New York charges come just months after Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Post Politics Now: Obamas returning to White House for official portrait unveilings – The Washington Post
Post Politics Now: Obamas returning to White House for official portrait unveilings – The Washington Post

The last time it happened, in May 2012, President Barack Obama and his immediate predecessor, George W. Bush, joked around in the East Room and celebrated the unique burdens of office as a kind of bond, one uniting “the only people on Earth who know the feeling,” the Democrat said. Bush joked about the crowd size “at my hanging” and quipped to Obama that he was pleased “that when you are wandering these halls as you wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to gaze at this portrait and ask, what would George do?”

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