CBL Malls says all four of their area locations — Mid Rivers Mall, St. Clair Square, South County Center and West County Center — will open at noon Saturday.
CBL Malls said department stores and restaurant hours may vary. They advise shoppers to call before heading out and check the malls’ website for more information.
In addition, Schlafly has announced it’s Cabin Fever event, which was scheduled for Jan. 12, has been postponed until Jan. 19 due to the “overwhelming amount of snow.”
Schlafly said those who cannot make the rescheduled date should contact them at events@schlafly.com and they will be issued a gift card for the amount of the ticket price.
9:15 a.m.
News 4’s Mark Griffin said drivers are experiencing delays on westbound I-44 past 141 because of a stalled semi.
In a tweet, he reported traffic was better than Friday night but there was still a backup in the area.
The emergency management officials said eastbound Interstate 44 is blocked near St. Louis and eastbound travelers coming in fro Oklahoma should seek a southern route at Exit 82.
They advise drivers to expect six to eight hour delays near St. Louis.
6:50 a.m.
During a press conference Saturday morning, MoDOT official Bob Becker said crews made a lot of progress overnight.
In addition, the MoDOT official said they were ahead of the winter storm and did everything they were supposed to do but the snow came down intensely and roads got slick fast, making it impossible for them to keep up.
Becker said they started pre-treating two days beforehand and did a lot of work to ensure their people were ready to go. He said “no matter what you throw at it, that road will get slick at some point.”
Becker said MoDOT officials have been on conference calls statewide and the Governor’s office is aware of what has been going on.
While speaking with the local news stations, Becker said he wouldn’t do anything different with how MoDOT prepared for the winter weather.
Looking ahead to Saturday, Becker advised people to try and stay home to give crews more time to clear the roads. He said if you have to venture out to be careful and give crews plenty of room.
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Around the same time as MoDOT’s press conference, the Illinois State Police Department took to Facebook to urge people to “STAY HOME today!” They are advising people to watch cartoons, enjoy a movie with your family, build a snowman, eat soup and catch up on laundry instead of hitting the roads.
The police department is deeming the day as #StayHomeSaturday and said to give emergency workers room to clear the roads: “The less traffic on the road, the better.”
6 a.m.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said one lane of westbound Interstate 44 in the Antire Road area has reopened to traffic.
Although traffic is slowly starting to move in the area, troopers are still asking drivers to avoid the area while they continue to get the remaining traffic through. They also advise that MoDOT is working to get more lanes cleared.
In Illinois, state police said a crash has blocked the left lane of westbound I-70 at mile post 30. They said the right lane is still open to traffic.
4:30 a.m.
After a night of snow and drivers stuck in traffic, News 4’s Marielle Mohs took to the roadways early Saturday morning and encountered a backup once again on Interstate 44 at Lindbergh.
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MoDOT officials told News 4 many people are stalled on westbound I-44 because semi-trucks have stalled out or broken down in the snow. The truck drivers are waiting on tow trucks. They also said that some truck drivers are going to their cabins to sleep while they wait for help because it is federal law for them to get sleep before driving once again.
MoDOT said wreckers are out trying to tow the broken down tractor trailers and get things moving once again. They also said highway patrol troppers, tow truck drivers and MoDOT workers have been going up to semi-trucks and trying to wake up drivers.
According to MoDOT, their biggest concern during the early morning hours Saturday is eastbound from Gray Summit to Eureka. They said that area is experiencing the same problem there are just more trucks in the area.
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In addition, Reporter Alyssa Toomey traveled about 18 miles from KMOV’s downtown station and counted nearly 50 stranded vehicles.
11:08 p.m.
We’ve already seen a range of 4″ to 8″ across the St. Louis metro with some lower totals south.
More snow accumulation comes through Saturday morning. Lighter snow, but still some accumulation is possible on Saturday afternoon and evening, especially west and northwest of St. Louis where the precipitation will be mostly snow. However, from St. Louis south/southeast we will see a mix, depending on your location it could be sleet, snow and/or rain. Also expect some melting as temperatures warm to 33.
10:30 p.m.
One lane of EB I-44 at Lewis Road near Antire briefly opened around 10:30 Friday. It was then shut down again when another truck jack-knifed. Eastbound lanes have been closed for six hours.
9:45 p.m.
I-64 westbound is closed at the Forest Park exit.
9:20 p.m.
MoDOT says they are going to be doing wellness checks on motorists stranded on closed highways. They said they are most focused on checking on those people trapped in Interstate 44 in St. Louis County and Interstate 64 in Chesterfield, where vehicles have been sitting since around 5:00.
In the wellness checks, a MoDOT spokesperson said they’ll make sure cars have fuel and occupants have water and food.
It is not known when those interstates will reopen.
9:17 p.m.
The Missouri Highway Patrol Troop C, which responds to calls in the St. Louis area, recorded 595 calls for service, 183 crashes, and 269 stranded motorists as of 8:00 p.m. Friday.
9:15 p.m.
Mizzou Athletics says the men’s basketball game scheduled for Saturday at South Carolina has been tentatively rescheduled for Sunday at noon. The university says a final determination will be made Saturday afternoon.
9:00 P.m.
Dierberg stores around the St. Louis area closed at 9:00 p.m. Friday. It is still unknown when the stores will reopen in the morning.
Westbound Interstate 64 is closed at Lindbergh. It is also closed near 141, where MoDOT says they have had trouble all day due to the hill.
Interstate 70 is closed in both directions in North City.
Interstate 44 is closed, in the eastbound direction, from Eureka to 141.
Northbound Interstate 44 in downtown St. Louis is closed at the Eads Bridge. The southbound side is closed at the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Interstate 44 is also closed in Franklin County.
The southbound exit of I-170 to eastbound I-64 is closed.
MoDOT said their crews are having a hard time getting to the accidents because of the traffic.
8:00 p.m.
All metro area Schnucks are closing at 8:00 p.m. and will not re-open until Saturday 6:00 a.m.
7:30 p.m.
Northbound 141 is still closed near Dutch Mill.
The exit to Kingshighway Blvd. from I-64 eastbound is closed.
7:00 p.m.
I-64 westbound is closed right before Woods Mill Road as well as near Clayton Road.
I-64 at 141 eastbound is closed. It is advised to use alternative routes.
I-44 eastbound is closed before Antire Road in Eureka.
I-70 eastbound is closed at Jennings Station.
6:50 p.m.
All lanes of eastbound I-44 are closed near Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis
6:30 p.m.
MoDOT says northbound I-55 at Potomac and eastbound I-70 Goodfellow are both closed due to accidents. I-44 in downtown is also closed.
St. Louis Lambert Airport announced 53 arriving flights and 39 departing flights were cancelled as of 6:00 p.m.
5:30 p.m.
How bad is the traffic in the Fenton area? While News 4 crews were en route to an overturned plow truck, we met a local resident who decided to walk home, after two hours of sitting in traffic. Watch his story here.
5:25 p.m.
The University of Missouri announced the scheduled men’s basketball game against South Carolina was postponed due to travel issues. The game, originally scheduled for noon Saturday, will be rescheduled.
4:45 p.m.
Three accidents have Interstate 44 closed in three different locations.
Eastbound I-44 is closed in Valley Park, near 141, and just east of Eureka.
Westbound I-44 is closed near Pacific.
4:40 p.m.
An accident involving a Metro bus has closed the exit ramp from westbound I-64 onto northbound 141.
Highway 21 at Wells Road in South County has seen multiple accident, and looks more like a parking lot, according to this video sent in by a KMOV viewer
3:30 p.m.
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Lambert officials confirm at least 70 flight cancellations. Several carriers are cancelling all flights between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
3:24 p.m.
Interstate 64/Highway 40 is closed at Maryville Centre in West County due to crashes and snow-covered roads.
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3:10 p.m.
Interstate 44 is closed in multiple places in far west St. Louis County as cars have trouble navigated the roads.
News 4 crews saw many accidents near Eureka.
2:40 p.m.
Drivers on Highway 40 in West St. Louis County are having trouble navigating a hill in the eastbound lanes of the interstate between Timberlake Manor and Highway 141. KMOV crews near the area say some cars are stuck and cannot make it up a snow-packed hill, resulting in a serious traffic jam.
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Drivers on Clarkson Road in Ellisville are having similar problems. The road goes over a large hill, and reports are coming in of cars attempting to drive over it spinning out and unable to make any progress on the road, leading to traffic backups and accidents.
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2:08 p.m.
A St. Louis County Highway truck overturned in Fenton. It took down a power pole right on Hawkins Rd. Driver was not injured.
2:00 p.m.
Accidents are being reported across the St. Louis area as snow is beginning to cover area roads and interstates.
As of 2:00pm, Interstate 55 northbound was closed at Highway M in Jefferson County and a separate crash had lanes of Interstate 44 closed near Six Flags.
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1:00 p.m.
The 4Warn StormTeam has increased their projection for total snowfall amount in the St. Louis area.
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Expect a prolonged period of snow through Saturday night. We are currently forecasting a large swath of 8″ to 12″, that includes much of the metro. We’ll still see significant amounts of snow south, but sleet and rain will mix in and help to lower snowfall totals there.
12:50 p.m.
Airlines at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) have cancelled 39 arrivals and 30 departures for Friday, January 11, 2019 in advance of Winter Storm Gia.
STL is expecting the winter weather to begin around 1:00 pm and continue through Saturday. The airport will remain fully operational and have crews on staff at all times to maintain airfield conditions and safety.
11:55 a.m.
MoDOT is advising motorists not to head out on the roads unless it is necessary.
In a news release, the company said drivers should limit travel if possible because as much as 10 inches of snow could fall in the St. Louis area and in parts of central and northeast Missouri.
11:00 a.m.
The Illinois State Police Department has issued a winter weather travel advisory.
The department said motorists should plan ahead and take necessary safety precautions. If conditions become too hazardous, drivers are urged to exit the road and get to a safe location.
If a driver crashes during extreme weather conditions, the police department encourages motorists to exchange insurance and driver information. The department said motorists can file crash reports within 10 days to the Illinois State Police Department.
10:00 a.m.
MoDOT is advising anyone who can leave work or school early on Friday to do so, saying they have “high confidence” today’s snow will impact the evening commute.
During a press conference Friday morning, MoDOT officials advised drivers to get off the roads early so crews could work to clear the roads. They said there will be over 200 trucks working on the roads.
According to MoDOT, crews will be focused on the main routes first so it could take longer to get to minor roadways.
MoDOT said the main thing drivers need to remember is to slow down and give themselves plenty of time and room.
10:00 a.m.
Airlines at St. Louis Lambert International Airport have cancelled 25 arrivals and 20 departures for Friday, January 11,. Southwest Airlines & United Airlines have issued travel waivers for passengers flying to or from STL. Check the status of your flight with your airline before heading to the airport.
9:30 a.m.
Several school districts and universities are closing early Friday, in order to get students home before roads begin to deteriorate.
The timing of the snow’s arrival in the metro area is becoming clear. The metro area should start seeing snowflakes around noon.
Precipitation will start off as a rain/sleet/snow mix west and southwest of St. Louis Friday morning and move into the metro around lunch time. Start times look a tad earlier, around 12-2 PM in St. Louis and earlier to the southwest.
We will see a pro-longed period of snow through Saturday night. We are currently forecasting a large swath of 5″ to 9″ snow. Isolated spots, including parts of the Metro area, may see totals higher than 9″. The bulk of that snow accumulation comes Friday afternoon through Saturday morning.
Julián Gil aseguró este jueves que se sintió decepcionado el Día del Padre por no tener noticias de su hijo Matías esa jornada en la que sí pudo comunicarse con sus otros dos hijos, Julián y Nicolle. El actor lamentó que la madre del niño, la actriz Marjorie de Sousa, no hubiera tenido ese gesto afectuoso hacia él.
“Honestamente me hubiera gustado saber algo de Matías, yo sé que tiene sus necesidades pero yo, como padre, también tengo las mías y sí me hubiera gustado una foto, no sé, un mensaje, porque soy su padre independientemente de todo lo que está pasando, llámalo batalla o juicio como se le quiera llamar a todo esto, creo que es la relación de un niño con el padre y creo que es lo más importante que debe existir ahora, sin duda es una relación que se me está negando”, manifestó Julián.
El actor mantiene un pleito con Marjorie por la manutención del pequeño que nació hace casi cinco meses, poco antes de que el romance entre sus padres acabara de forma abrupta poco tiempo después de que él le pidiera matrimonio.
Patty aprovechó hacer foto de la gente que visitaba a Matías y dejaba entrever problemas entre Julián y Marjorie: “Desde Argentina vino Ricardo a conocer al príncipe Matías, familia Gil presente siempre! Unidos en el amor, momentos felices, momentos tristes, de emoción, de alegría, de salud, de enfermedad, de dudas, y sin importar que… siempre unidos porque el amor es la mejor fuerza es la mejor razón y es la única verdad, la misma verdad que aclara todo en el momento indicado. Lejos, y a pesar de todo, te amamos Matías”.
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Cabe destacar que el pequeño Matías tiene una cuenta de Instagram manejada por Marjorie, que hasta el momento tienen 182,000 seguidores y en la que antes de los problemas servía como bitácora del pequeño, de todo lo que ha vivido antes de opinar lo que pasa a alrededor.
Esta semana Julián estuvo en México en un viaje relámpago para asistir a una audición para la novela ‘Los sebastianes’ y habló con la prensa que lo esperaba antes de embarcarse al avión en la Ciudad de México para regresar a EEUU.
Julián además confirmó que Marjorie y él no tienen contacto alguno: “Después del último contacto no ha existido nada. La última vez que me escribió fue cuando se puso malito, así que si no me escriben es que está bien. La comunicación está totalmente cortada, quebrantada totalmente, pero eso no tiene nada que ver con mandar un mensaje el días del padre”.
El actor no comentó si él había tratado de hablar con Marjorie para conocer el estado de su hijo, que sufre de episodios de reflujos que han llegado a requerir asistencia de servicios médicos de urgencia. Julián renunció también a sus visitas semanales con Matías por cuestiones de agenda y pidió al juez que se programara su siguiente encuentro con el menor en agosto.
Julián indicó que, a pesar de todo, no se arrepiente de su relación con Marjorie, a la que “siempre” va “a querer”: “Es la madre de mi hijo y es una persona a la que quise muchísimo”.
Por ahora y con base en la corte mexicana, el pasado martes 20 de junio hubo otra audiencia del caso Marjorie de Sousa y Julián Gil, que parece seguir lejos de acabar en un acuerdo consensuado entre las partes.
El abogado de Julián insiste en que las exigencias de Marjorie son demasiado elevadas, mientras que por parte de la actriz se asegura que solamente se pide un 20 por ciento de los ingresos del actor para cubrir los gastos de Matías.
Inside, at sessions presided over by Pope Francis himself, the world’s top bishops, clad in their black cassocks and purple sashes, listened every day to the brutal testimony of abuse survivors — many of whom spoke about the indifference and complicity of church leaders like them. A Nigerian nun excoriated them for their hypocritical silence and lack of transparency.
In a bid to improve relations with the news media, the organizers invited a veteran Vatican reporter from Mexico to address the gathering.
“If you do not decide in a radical way to be on the side of the children, mothers, families, civil society, you are right to be afraid of us,” said the reporter, Valentina Alazraki. And if they remain in denial, she said, honest reporters “will be your worst enemies.”
However frustrated many of the faithful were by the meeting, high-ranking church officials said it had achieved a positive outcome.
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said on Saturday that he was “very pleased,” even if specific action still needed to be determined.
At first, Cardinal DiNardo said, some countries did not want to admit that they had the same problems as the United States, Cardinal DiNardo said. But in the end, he said, he was impressed with the consensus that developed.
“This went far better than I think some of us had hoped,” he said. “Now you have the bishops all saying it’s ubiquitous.”
“Yes,” Miles replied, according to a screenshot, “it’s based on evidence of actual fraud in PA, AZ, Michigan, and other states and violations of election laws and the Constitution. You will see in the next few weeks.”
“We ask the Russian side to stop the shelling, return to the cease-fire and allow us to create humanitarian columns so that children, women and the elderly can leave,” she said. She also asked Russia to allow humanitarian aid such as food and critical medication like insulin to reach these cities.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday asserted once again that Moscow, despite ample evidence to the contrary, wasn’t targeting Ukraine’s civilian population and said that Kyiv was deliberately obstructing the evacuation to keep civilians hostage, according to Tass news agency. He added that Kyiv hasn’t yet indicated when Ukrainian representatives would meet the Russian delegation for the third round of cease-fire talks.
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Underlining the severity of the emergency, at least 1.25 million civilians have left Ukraine since Russia invaded 10 days ago, according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, sparking what the agency called the largest humanitarian crisis Europe has seen since World War II. The majority have fled west to the European Union. Poland, which borders western Ukraine, had received 787,300 since Feb. 24, including more than 100,000 on Friday, Polish border guards said.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which U.S. officials had forecast would lead to the capture of capital Kyiv within three days, has run into fierce Ukrainian resistance that caused large Russian losses in troops and equipment. Ukraine’s General Staff said Saturday it was holding the line on most fronts and was beginning a counteroffensive. To make up for these setbacks, Russia has increasingly resorted to indiscriminate bombing and shelling of civilian areas, particularly in Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol.
Russia’s army “has shown its true nature of a terrorist and coward, which is able to attack only the civilian population,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said.
In Kherson, the only Ukrainian regional capital occupied by Russia during the conflict, large protests against occupation forces erupted Saturday on the city’s central square. The regional government building was draped in a huge Ukrainian flag, and flag-waving protesters chanted “shame” at Russian troops, some of whom opened fire in the air, trying to disperse the rally.
At some point, according to footage from the city broadcast on Ukrainian TV, a man climbed atop a Russian armored vehicle, triumphantly waving Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow banner as the vehicle tried to move through the city’s streets.
Kherson is a largely Russian-speaking city. One of the reasons that Russian President Vladimir Putin cited as his justification for the war on Ukraine was the alleged discrimination of Ukraine’s Russian speakers. Most of the Russian shelling that destroyed residential blocks has targeted civilians in the country’s Russian-speaking areas. ́
Ukrainian and Russian delegations would meet for the third round of cease-fire talks only if there is progress in implementing the humanitarian corridors and other agreements reached in prior sessions, a Ukrainian negotiator said. He didn’t expect a quick cease-fire, saying that Mr. Putin believes he is winning—a posture that he said wouldn’t change until the West bans the imports of Russian oil and gas. “We have no illusions here, we are sitting across the table from people who want to exterminate us,” the negotiator said.
Mariupol is a major industrial city and port on the Azov sea, home to some 400,000 people. Volnovakha is a much smaller town to the north. Both belong to Ukraine’s Donetsk region, which Russia no longer acknowledges as part of Ukraine after recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, a statelet Moscow created in one-third of that region in 2014.
The body of a teenager, fatally wounded by shelling, at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, this week.
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A building damaged by shelling this week in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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“Our main task has always been to protect our people. At a time when our hometown is under merciless fire by the occupiers, there is no choice but to allow its residents to leave Mariupol in safety,” the city’s mayor, Vadim Boychenko, said in a message to his constituents Saturday. He also thanked the city’s defenders for repelling nine days of Russian attacks.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s decision on Friday not to interfere in Russia’s air operations over Ukraine was a sign of weakness and division in the Western alliance that had “hypnotized itself” with fear of Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised address. He spoke after NATO Secretary-General
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ruled out involving the alliance in combat operations in Ukraine because such a move could spark a full-scale war between NATO’s members and Russia, which possesses a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons.
“All the people who die from this day forward will also die because of you,” Mr. Zelensky said, adding that NATO’s refusal to act had given Moscow a “green light” to bomb Ukrainian cities and villages.
Ukrainian forces patrolling this week in Odessa, Ukraine’s biggest port.
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A Ukrainian serviceman taking a break while patrolling on the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday.
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Russia continued pounding residential areas in Kharkiv, Sumy and other Ukrainian cities on Saturday. A Russian shell hit railway cars in the town of Irpin west of Kyiv, making it impossible to evacuate local civilians by rail, local officials said. Heavy battles continued in the area.
One of the Ukrainian cease-fire negotiators, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, said at a news conference Friday in Lviv that Russia was seeking a diplomatic solution because it badly miscalculated the mood of the Ukrainian people. Moscow went to war thinking that only some 20% of Ukrainians are hostile to Russia, and the remaining 80% will welcome their Russian brothers with flowers, he said. In reality, he added, some 98% of Ukrainians are determined to fight the invasion.
In a sign of how Ukrainians are uniting against the Russian invaders, more than 66,000 Ukrainian men living abroad returned to the country to pick up arms since the war began, Mr. Reznikov, the defense minister, said.
Despite setbacks in the north, Russian forces made significant advances in southern Ukraine, fanning from the Crimean Peninsula to take Kherson, as well as the city of Enerhodar that houses Europe’s largest nuclear power station, and the Azov sea coastal cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol. Heavy combat continued overnight on the outskirts of Mykolayiv, a Black Sea city that is on the path to Odessa, Ukraine’s biggest port. Russian officials say their military operation is proceeding as planned and achieving the desired results.
Russia drew widespread condemnation after its forces caused a fire at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Enerhodar before taking control of the area, according to local authorities and international observers. That sparked fears that Moscow’s increasingly indiscriminate war could cause a global environmental disaster. Another nuclear power plant is located near Mykolayiv.
Mr. Podolyak said Kyiv had offered Russia to mutually agree not to conduct combat operations in zones within 30 kilometers of nuclear reactors. Russia didn’t accept that proposal, he said.
Kyiv residents building fortifications on Friday in the capital.
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People waiting to board a train to the Polish border on Friday in Lviv, Ukraine.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in an interview with three European newspapers, called for the establishment of a system to ensure the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear-power plants and monitor radiation levels, adding that the Russian attack on the plant put the entire continent at risk.
The fire, extinguished Friday morning, erupted at the Zaporizhzhia power plant’s training facility, Ukraine’s emergency service said. None of the plant’s six reactors were affected and no radiation leaked, officials said. Both sides said Russian troops at the complex weren’t interfering with the plant’s Ukrainian staff.
The skirmish fanned fears of a repeat of the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, which sent a vast plume of radioactive steam encircling the world and rendered the region surrounding the plant uninhabitable. Russian forces seized the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, which sits near the Belarus border, on the first day of the war and have since then been holding the staff hostage, preventing shift rotations, Ukrainian authorities said.
The U.S. is rushing shipments of Javelin antitank and Stinger antiaircraft missiles to Ukraine via neighboring countries, including via an airfield in southeastern Poland, according to Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. McCaul is visiting Rzeszow, Poland, with seven other lawmakers in a delegation led by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D., N.Y.), the committee’s chairman.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was also visiting Rzeszow on Saturday, a week ago announced that the U.S. would provide up to $350 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, including “lethal defensive assistance” to help Kyiv resist Russian armored and airborne forces.
NATO countries are trying to replenish Ukraine’s stock of weapons in advance of what some officials fear is an effort by Moscow to overrun all of Ukraine and seal its borders.
“Eventually Russia is going to take over the whole country,” Mr. McCaul said, citing one possible scenario for the war.
A senior U.S. defense official said Friday that since Feb. 26, the U.S. had delivered to Ukraine $240 million in weaponry taken from U.S. military stocks.
The administration is asking Congress to provide additional military support to Ukraine. The U.S. has been working closely with Britain, Canada, Lithuania and Poland to coordinate security assistance to Ukraine, the defense official added. All told, 14 countries are providing such security assistance to Ukraine.
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that Democratic voters may be “racist and sexist” because the front-runners for the 2020 Democratic nomination are white men.
“What is the problem with the Democratic primary electorate, are they racist and sexist?” Conway told reporters on the White House driveway. “Do they not want all these women who are running, all these people of color? Because apparently you’ve got the two old white straight men career politicians in the lead.”
Conway, Trump’s final 2016 campaign manager, spoke a day after former Vice President Joe Biden entered the Democratic field as the front-runner, trailed in second place by socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The sharp-tongued Trump surrogate blasted both Biden and Sanders, while saying they are “not necessarily” Trump’s biggest political threats.
“I know [Biden] said that, ‘I asked President Obama not to endorse me, I am too busy getting the endorsement of the firefighters’ … Do any of you believe that? You let him get away with his first lie. Why did you do that?”
Conway suggested asking Biden why some Americans do not have health insurance “nine years after Obama-Biden-care passed.”
“I think Bernie Sanders doesn’t care what his party thinks, is connecting directly with people, and is raising money in small amounts, and goes out and has very specific points of view, which is why he’s got a following,” Conway added. “He’s a lot like Donald Trump, except for good ideas, and ideas that are mainstream, and ideas that are part of a democracy and not socialism.”
Incredible GoPro footage takes you inside the gunfire-heavy raid that ended drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s six months on the run.
The video, obtained from Mexican authorities, looks as if it’s from an action movie. The camera follows the armed men as they storm the house, unleash grenades and bullets, and search room to room.
The Friday raid was called “Operation Black Swan,” according to the Mexican show “Primero Noticias.” Authorities decided to launch the raid Thursday after they got a tip about where Guzman was sleeping, the show reported.
Seventeen elite unit Mexican Marines launched their assault on the house in the city of Los Mochis at 4:40 a.m., “Primero Noticias” said.
They were met by about one dozen well-armed guards inside who were prepared for a fight, the show said.
The Marines moved from room to room, clearing the house. Upstairs they found two men in one room and found two women on the floor of a bathroom. All were captured, “Primero Noticias” said.
After 15 minutes, the Marines controlled the entire house, according to “Primero Noticias.”
In the end, five guards were killed and two men and two women were detained. One of the women was the same cook Guzman had with him when he was detained a couple years ago, according to “Primero Noticias.”
Eventually the marines determined that the only bedroom on the first floor was Guzman’s and they began pounding on the walls and moving furniture, finding hidden doors, the show said.
His room had a king-sized bed, bags from fashionable clothing stores, bread and cookie wrappers, and medicine including injectable testosterone, syringes, antibiotics and cough syrups, the show said. The two-story house had four bedrooms and five bathrooms. There were flat-screen TVs and Internet connection throughout the house, according to “Primero Noticias.”
The Marines eventually found a hidden passageway behind a mirror, with a handle hidden in the light fixture. The handle opened a secret door, leading down into the escape tunnel, the show explained.
The escape tunnel was fully lit and led to an access door for the city sewage system, “Primero Noticias” said, adding that Guzman had at least a 20-minute head start on the Marines.
The address where Guzman was captured had been monitored for a month, Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez has said. According to Gomez, Guzman and his lieutenant escaped through that drainage system.
“Primero Noticias” said it obtained surveillance footage showing Guzman and his lieutenant emerging from the manhole cover, where they then stole two cars to flee, the show said.
Guzman was finally caught when he and the lieutenant were stopped on a highway by Mexican Federal Police, the show said.
Authorities took them to a motel to wait for reinforcement. The men were then taken to Los Mochis airport and transfered to Mexico City.
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Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting helicopter, at a federal hangar in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016.
Guzman is now back in prison as his lawyers fight his extradition to the U.S.
The drug kingpin escaped from the Altiplano prison near Mexico City on July 11, launching an active manhunt. When guards realized that he was missing from his cell, they found a ventilated tunnel and exit had been constructed in the bathtub inside Guzman’s cell. The tunnel extended for about a mile underground and featured an adapted motorcycle on rails that officials believe was used to transport the tools used to create the tunnel, Monte Alejandro Rubido, the head of the Mexican national security commission, said in July.
Guzman had been sent there after he was arrested in February 2014. He spent more than 10 years on the run after escaping from a different prison in 2001. It’s unclear exactly how he had escaped, but he did receive help from prison guards who were prosecuted and convicted.
Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was once described by the U.S. Treasury as “the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.” The Sinaloa cartel allegedly uses elaborate tunnels for drug trafficking and has been estimated to be responsible for 25 percent of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. through Mexico.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slams the Biden administration for working with tech companies to unconstitutionally censor COVID content
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Sunday accused the Biden administration of being “in bed with Big Tech,” making the argument that comments made by White House press secretary Jen Psaki last week have only strengthened former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit accusing Facebook and Twitter of censorship.
“I kind of wonder if Jen Psaki is on the payroll of Donald Trump because her press conference strengthened President Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech,” Cruz said in an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “It makes clear that everything we thought about the Biden administration – about their willingness to trample on free speech, to trample on the Constitution, to use government power to silence you, everything we feared they might do, they are doing and worse. And I think that President Trump’s lawsuit got much, much stronger this week.”
As coronavirus cases are on the rise and vaccination rates have slowed in the U.S., the White House launched an effort to crack down on misinformation, starting with a warning from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy that bogus information about coronavirus is an “urgent threat” to public health.
The surgeon general’s office issued a new report titled, “Confronting Health Misinformation,” that makes recommendations for social media platforms to “impose clear consequences for accounts that repeatedly violate platform policies.”
Psaki doubled down on the administration’s relationship with Facebook on Friday and said it is “making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives,” and even added that if a user is banned from one platform “for providing misinformation” that user should be banned from all others.
“We don’t take anything down. We don’t block anything, Facebook, and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform,” Psaki said in defense of the relationship and reported this week that 12 people are to blame for 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms.
Speaking with host Maria Bartiromo, Cruz posed a hypothetical situation, suggesting that what Biden is doing now to pressure Facebook to act would strike a more serious chord if, for example, the White House directed a private paramilitary organization to seize Americans’ guns – then signed a law granting that paramilitary group freedom from any civil liability for its actions.
Cruz explained that First Amendment protection apply to government censorship, but comments from the White House illustrate how private companies with a monopoly could also stamp out free speech.
“The Supreme Court has long recognized a line of cases when government uses a private company as a tool, as an arm to implement a government policy – in this instance, when government explicitly asks a private monopoly ‘censor the following speech we disagree with,’ that that private company can be treated as a state actor,” Cruz said.
President Joe Biden accused the tech companies of “killing people” by allowing misinformation to remain on their platforms, comments which drew a quick rebuke from Facebook.
“The White House is looking for scapegoats for missing their vaccine goals,” a Facebook spokesperson told NBC’s Dylan Byers.
Appearing on Fox News before his speech at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, Cruz further accused both the Democratic Party and Big Tech of being “in bed” with the Chinese Communist Party.
“Big Tech is in bed with the Chinese communists,” Cruz said. “Among the biggest funders of the Democratic Party are the giant corporations. And many of the giant corporations, the Fortune 50 and the Fortune 500, are in bed with the Chinese communists.”
His examples included Biden nominating Linda Thomas-Greenfield as his United Nations ambassador despite her making a speech at a Chinese-funded Confucius Institute event, the State Department reversing its policy to ban Taiwanese flags on U.S. government property to appease the Chinese government and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejecting a Green New Deal amendment that would have banned the purchase of electric cars from the region in China where the Uyghurs are being held in concentration camps.
Fox News’ Emma Colton, Marisa Schultz and Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.
The final missing victim in the Surfside condo collapse has been identified, bringing the death toll to 98, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Monday. The announcement comes days after authorities ended their search for bodies at the site and more than a month after the deadly collapse.
“Nothing we can say or do will bring back these 98 angels who left behind grieving families, beloved friends, loved ones across this community and across the world,” Levine Cava said at a press conference. “But we have done everything possible to bring closure to the families.”
While all of the victims who were reported missing have been identified, Levine Cava said the Miami-Dade Police Department is still searching the evidentiary pile “to ensure that all identifiable human remains are recovered.” In total, 242 people were accounted for, she said.
The 98th victim was identified by her family as 54-year-old Estelle Hedaya. Her brother, Ikey Hedaya, told CBS Miami that her remains will be flown to the family’s home in Midwood, Brooklyn, for a Jewish funeral followed by Shiva. Ikey said he had provided DNA samples and had visited the collapse site twice before his sister’s body was identified.
This June 1, 2021, photo provided by Liz Segel shows Estelle Hedaya at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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“She always mentioned God anytime she was struggling with anything,” he told The Associated Press. “She had reached a different level spiritually, which allowed her to excel in all other areas.”
Levine Cava’s announcement marks the end of a weekslong mission to find and identify the victims of the devastating incident, which took place in the early hours of June 24. Rescuers moved millions of pounds of the debris before declaring their search had ended on Friday.
The site of the collapse is now mostly flat. Most of the debris has been moved to a new area, where police are continuing to search through it for victims’ personal items, Levine Cava said.
Levine Cava said she has visited the area where searchers are now reviewing the debris, and described it as “very moving.”
“They are working hours upon hours in the sun, in the rain, and when they find something, it’s a treasure,” she said. “They are doing this with tremendous care and real hope that they can bring things to the family members.”
A las tres de la mañana de este miércoles, fuerzas de seguridad del estado Aragua, Cicpc, Sebin, Policía de Aragua, Guardia Nacional, el Ejercito y todas las delegaciones de Caracas tomaron diversos sectores de San Vicente, reporta hoy la prensa local.
Aproximadamente más de dos mil funcionarios, realizaron el operativo en la calles 1ero de Mayo, Capitán San Franés, y la calle principal del sector 1 de San Vicente, cayendo abatidos tres sujetos que presuntamente serian cobradores de vacunas, entre ellos “Carlitos Breker” que durante la requisa encontraron armas de fuego y drogas.
Otros antisociales abatidos pertenecerían a la banda de los pranes “Johan Petrica”, “Larry Changa” y “El niño Guerrero”, dedicada al cobro de vacunas a habitantes de Aragua y extorsión a los comerciantes.
The Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks to remain in place last month, but it agreed to hear oral arguments on the law today.
The law, banning abortions often before a woman knows she is pregnant is in stark contrast to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability, which can occur at around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
In agreeing to hear the case under such an expedited time frame, the court said that it would focus specifically on the unusual way in which the Texas legislature crafted the law. It also said it will review whether the US Justice Department can challenge the law in court.
Texas officials are barred from enforcing it. Instead, private citizens — from anywhere in the country — can bring a civil suit against anyone who assists a pregnant person seeking an abortion in violation of the law.
In court papers, lawyers for the clinics have detailed the impact of the law on women in Texas.
In sworn declarations, abortion providers said the law has had a chilling effect because staff are “plagued by fear and instability” and “remain seriously concerned that even providing abortions in compliance with S.B. 8 will draw lawsuits from anti-abortion vigilantes or others seeking financial gain” under the law’s enforcement provision, which offers at least $10,000 in damages.
Providers in neighboring states said under oath that they have been overwhelmed with patients traveling from Texas seeking abortions. When Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas temporarily blocked the law earlier this month, he said that from the moment it went into effect, “women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution.”
The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, however, stayed Pitman’s ruling, allowing the law to go back into effect.
The US Senate has voted to withdraw US military aid for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen and to blame the kingdom’s crown prince for the murder of a journalist.
The historic vote is the first time any chamber of US Congress has agreed to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.
Some of President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans defied him to pass the measure with Democrats by 56-41.
But the resolution is seen as largely symbolic and unlikely to become law.
The non-binding “war powers resolution” calls upon President Trump to remove all American forces engaging in hostilities in Yemen, except for those combating Islamist extremists.
The Senate then unanimously passed a resolution blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in October, and insisting that the kingdom hold accountable those responsible.
The US chose to cease refuelling Saudi war planes last month, and Thursday’s resolution – if it were ultimately passed into law – would prohibit that practice from resuming.
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President Trump has consistently defended US business and military ties with Saudi Arabia
What did senators say?
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who co-sponsored the measure with Republican Mike Lee of Utah, hailed the vote.
“Today we tell the despotic government of Saudi Arabia that we will not be part of their military adventures,” he said.
He described the outcome as a signal to “the world that the United States of America will not continue to be part of the worst humanitarian disaster on the face of the earth”.
Republican Senator Bob Corker told MSNBC: “If he was before a jury, the crown prince, he would be convicted in my opinion in 30 minutes.”
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Status quo no longer acceptable
Analysis by Barbara Plett, BBC State Department Correspondent
The two resolutions send a strong message that for a majority of senators, the status quo with Saudi Arabia is no longer acceptable.
They value the strategic relationship but are deeply uneasy about the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. They’ve viewed his foreign interventions with growing concern, especially the human cost of the war in Yemen.
But it was the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi that tipped the scales: it dramatically increased support for the resolution to withdraw US military support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, something that failed to pass earlier in the year. Many senators saw the Khashoggi killing as the blatantly egregious act of an ally that felt immune from rebuke.
And they were dismayed when the administration stood staunchly by the prince without censure, even though the CIA concluded he probably ordered the killing. Senators want to see the administration shape the alliance as the senior partner, and enforce red lines.
Senior Republican Senator Bob Corker noted recently that much of the bipartisan activism in the Senate has been fuelled by a perception that there’s no balance between values and interests in the administration’s policies.
Can this legislation become law?
President Trump has vowed to veto the measure, and it is unlikely right now to pass the House of Representatives, which on Wednesday blocked a vote on the matter.
But Senator Sanders said he expects the resolution to succeed once Democrats formally take over control of the House in January following their mid-term elections victory.
The Trump administration had argued the bill would undercut US support for the Saudi-led coalition against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
White House officials have emphasised US economic ties to the kingdom. Mr Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has continued to cultivate ties with the prince, according to the US media.
Earlier on Thursday, the warring sides met in Sweden where they agreed to hold a ceasefire in the port city of Hudaydah, a key entry point for aid and food imports.
After the deal was reached, negotiators for both parties shook hands to applause, though they later expressed scepticism.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he hoped this would be the starting point to bring nearly four years of civil strife to a close.
Since hostilities began in 2014, thousands of civilians have been killed, and around 14 million people have been pushed to the brink of starvation, according to the UN.
Saudi Arabia buys the bulk of its weapons from the US, Britain and France.
INFOnews hace un breve repaso en cuatro noticias que son la síntesis de lo que sucedió durante el día. Hechos que tuvieron repercusión y que dejaron sus huellas en el mundo de las noticias.
La fiscal Fein no revelará qué día y hora citará a declarar al ex espía Stiuso
La fiscal que sigue el caso de la muerte de Nisman no revelará a qué día y a qué hora citará a declarar al ex espía Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso. Así lo confirmaron en exclusiva a INFOnews fuentes allegadas a la fiscalía Nº45.
Pese a que desde el Gobierno ya se le levantó el secreto de Estado al ex agente de la SIDE, como confirmó ayer el secretario de Inteligencia Oscar Parrilli, Viviana Fein decidió no revelar cuándo prestará testimonio Stiuso. Desde la fiscalía aseguraron a este portal que “la fiscal resguardará esa información”.
El juez Casanello citó a indagatoria a Lázaro Báez
El empresario Lázaro Báez fue citado a declarar por el juez federal Sebastián Casanello en una causa por presunto lavado de dinero. Báez deberá comparecer ante el magistrado el próximo 13 de marzo.
En la misma causa también están procesados el ex marido de Karina Jelinek, Leonardo Fariña, y el empresario Federico Elaskar. Casanello también citó a declarar al abogado Daniel Pérez Gadín, a Fabián Rossi, esposo de Ileana Calabró, y al escribano Martín Rosta.
Nuevo cruce mediático entre Aníbal Fernández y Elisa Carrió
La diputada nacional, Elisa Carrió, anunció que presentará una denuncia contra la presidenta Cristina Fernández Kirchner, y el Secretario General de la Presidencia, Aníbal Fernández por “encubrimiento” de la muerte de Nisman.
“Hay que tomar en chiste la denuncia. Carrió está sucia como una papa porque es la amiga de (el ex agente Antonio) Stiuso”, respondió Aníbal Fernández.
En tanto, la diputada nacional no tardó en salir a responderle y negar sus supuestos vínculos con el ex jefe de Operaciones de la Secretaría de Inteligencia, Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso. “No lo conozco; no tengo nada que ver con él”, aseguró en declaraciones radiales.
La AFIP clausuró Keops, el boliche top de Villa Carlos Paz
En el marco del Operativo Verano 2015, la AFIP clausuró el boliche Keops, el más importante de Villa Carlos Paz (CBA) luego de comprobar que sus verdaderos dueños utilizaron a testaferros de bajos recursos económicos para evadir el pago de impuestos.
Además el organismo suspendió preventivamente la CUIT de los dueños y los denunció penalmente por ocultamiento de la identidad mediante la utilización de personas físicas o jurídicas interpuestas. La denuncia se presentó en el Juzgado Federal N° 3 a cargo del magistrado Miguel Vaca Narvaja.
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Las diferencias entre Estados Unidos y Cuba en torno a los derechos humanos afloraron rápidamente en la conferencia de prensa.
“Dame la lista ahora mismo de los presos políticos para soltarlos. Menciónala ahora”.
Así respondió el presidente de Cuba, Raúl Castro, a una pregunta que le formuló un periodista durante la conferencia de prensa conjunta que ofreció este lunes en La Habana con el presidente Barack Obama, quien se encuentra realizando una histórica visita a la isla.
Castro, quien no suele hablar con la prensa nacional o internacional, lució visiblemente irritado por la sugerencia del reportero de la cadena CNN Jim Acosta de que en Cuba existen presos políticos.
“Si hay esos presos políticos, antes de que llegue la noche van a estar sueltos”, afirmó el mandatario.
Previamente, el propio Obama había respondido a una pregunta de Acosta, asegurando que él se había reunido en el pasado con cubanos que habían estado sujetos a detenciones arbitrarias.
¿Hay o no presos políticos?
Las declaraciones de Raúl Castro apuntan a uno de los principales temas en disputa entre Cuba y Estados Unidos: las supuestas violaciones de los derechos humanos que se dan en la isla y que denuncian Washington y relevantes organizaciones internacionales.
“Nos oponemos al doble rasero sobre los derechos humanos. Cuba tiene mucho que decir y mostrar en esta materia”, dijo Castro durante su declaración a la prensa, y afirmó que su gobierno defiende los derechos humanos y que “los derechos civiles, políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales son indivisibles, interdependientes y universales”.
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Es algo inédito que Raúl Castro responda preguntas de la prensa en Cuba.
El gobierno cubano insiste en que las personas que organizaciones de derechos humanos consideran presos de conciencia son “espías, terroristas o delincuentes comunes“, y muchas veces los llaman asalariados de Estados Unidos.
Mientras, organizaciones internacionales como Amnistía Internacional (AI) sostienen que el gobierno de La Habana se ampara en términos ambiguos para castigar a los disidentes.
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Integrantes de la organización opositora Damas de Blanco fueron arrestadas el domingo, horas antes de la llegada de Obama.
“Las leyes que tipificaban los ‘desórdenes públicos’, el ‘desacato’, la ‘falta de respeto’, la ‘peligrosidad’ y la ‘agresión’ se utilizaban para procesar o amenazar con procesar, por motivos políticos a opositores al gobierno”, indicó AI en un reciente informe sobre Cuba.
“Las personas críticas con el gobierno seguían siendo objeto de hostigamiento, ‘actos de repudio’ (manifestaciones encabezadas por simpatizantes del gobierno en las que participaban agentes de los servicios de seguridad del Estado)”, se señalaba.
Otro organismo supervisor de los derechos humanos, Human Rights Watch, denunció que entre enero y octubre de 2015 se produjeron 6.200 detenciones arbitrarias, o sea, arrestos breves fundamentalmente encaminados a impedir que los opositores se reúnan y organicen protestas.
Después de la conferencia de prensa de Obama y Castro de este lunes, Ben Rhodes, asesor de seguridad nacional de la Casa Blanca, dijo que Estados Unidos ha compartido con las autoridades cubanas varias listas de presos políticos en los últimos dos años y medio.
Pero según Rhodes, las autoridades de la isla responden que los prisioneros se encuentran detenidos por otros delitos.
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Elizardo Sánchez compila listas de presos políticos desde 1987 y están avalada por Human Rights Watch.
Elizardo Sánchez, presidente de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional, un organismo cubano de supervisión independiente que funciona desde hace décadas, ha compilado una lista de 89 personas presas actualmente por motivos políticos.
Entre ellas hay 11 de los condenados durante la llamada “Primavera Negra” de 2003, que hoy se encuentran bajo licencia extrapenal, pero sobre quienes pesan largas condenas.
En conversación con BBC Mundo, Sánchez mencionó también siete casos de personas residentes en el extranjero y condenadas a más de 20 años de cárcel sin derecho a libertad condicional por llegar a Cuba armados y con planes subversivos. En ninguno de los casos llevaron a cabo sus planes.
“Quizás este es un momento propicio para que el presidente Obama pida la liberación de los prisioneros”, aseguró Sánchez, quien está invitado este martes a una reunión con Obama.
Denuncian arrestos
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Rodiles, de 44 años, creó un grupo de debate llamado Estado de Sats.
Poco después de la conferencia de prensa, Antonio Rodiles, líder del grupo disidente cubano Estado de Sats, era arrestado en La Habana.
“Mi madre me contó que lo arrestaron violentamente hoy de nuevo alrededor de las 2:45 de la tarde, frente al hotel Copacabana, junto a su compañera Ailer González”, le dijo a BBC Mundo su hermana, Gladys Rodiles-Haney, quien reside en Estados Unidos.
Rodiles había sido arrestado brevemente el domingo luego de participar en una protesta pacífica en la calle y fue liberado en la noche.
“Está en marcha una verdadera oleada de represión política desde hace varios días”, aseguró Sánchez.
“Sólo esta tarde han sido detenidas una veintena de personas”, entre ellas Berta Soler, líder del grupo opositor Damas de Blanco y su esposo, Ángel Moya, quien pasó un tiempo preso.
“Obama debe hacer un mejor trabajo”
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Obama tiene previsto reunirse con disidentes el martes en La Habana. Algunos de los invitados estaban detenidos este martes.
Aunque la reacción de Castro a la pregunta sobre los derechos humanos atrapó la atención general, algunos observadores consideraron que el presidente Obama debió reaccionar más enérgicamente.
“Cuando el presidente de Estados Unidos Barack Obama le hable al pueblo cubano mañana, debe hacer un mejor trabajo para abordar los derechos humanos de lo que hizo en la conferencia de prensa de hoy”, comentó José Manuel Vivanco, director para el hemisferio occidental de la organización Human Rights Watch.
“Es hora de ir más allá de los principios abstractos y los específicos de conversación: las detenciones arbitrarias, los sitios web bloqueados, y las leyes utilizadas para castigar la disidencia”, agregó.
Tras las detenciones del martes, la presencia de algunos opositores en la reunión prevista con Obama el martes está en duda.
DENVER (KDVR) — A strong, record-breaking storm system has impacted most of the western U.S. over the past 48 hours. This same storm system will move into Colorado on Tuesday bringing mountain snow, gusty winds and cooler temperatures.
As of Monday evening, 412 storm reports were issued as a result of this low-pressure system. Most of those reports were for high winds, flooding and heavy rain.
The rainfall totals from this storm have been impressive, especially in Northern California, where several areas picked up more than half a foot of rainfall.
Not only did the rainfall bring flooding concerns to California, but it brought heavy rain on wildfire burn scars that led to mudslides and debris flow.
Below is a look at some of the Sunday and Monday rainfall totals from the Bay Area. Places like Napa and Oakland saw over 4 inches of rainfall. Luckily, rainfall is pushing east of California Monday night.
As the system moves east, it will reach Colorado on Tuesday. The mountains are expected to pick up 2 to 10 inches of snowfall with wind gusts across the state up to 40mph.
Temperatures in Denver will drop to the low 50s behind the cold front on Wednesday.
New York state lawmakers warned Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lawyers on Thursday that the Assembly’s impeachment probe into various accusations against the governor is nearing an end and gave him until Aug. 13 to furnish any final evidence.
The request from attorneys for the Assembly Judiciary Committee came two days after a scathing, detailed report that said Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women.
“The Committee’s investigation is nearing completion and the Assembly will soon consider potential articles of impeachment against your client,” read the warning.
The Judiciary Committee launched its impeachment investigation in March, following initial accusations of sexual harassment made against the governor.
Committee staff members were also charged with investigating other allegations of wrongdoing by Cuomo, including whether his staff tried to hide or alter data on coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes and whether he misused state resources to promote a book he wrote about leadership in 2020.
Cuomo and his staff have denied these allegations.
The impeachment probe was conducted parallel to an investigation led by the state Attorney General’s office.
On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released the findings of her office’s investigation: a bombshell report that found Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women and retaliated against a former employee who complained publicly about his conduct.
The 165-page report landed like a grenade in Albany and Washington, immediately prompting scores of Cuomo’s fellow Democrats in office, up to and including President Joe Biden, to call for his resignation.
A spokesman for the governor did not respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
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