Video footage from a woman’s phone shows the moments after a small plane crashed in a residential neighborhood, destroying multiple homes
A newlywed couple had just finished remodeling their Southern California home when it was engulfed in flames after a plane crashed into their San Diego neighborhood and killed at least two people, according to a local report.
The couple, identified as Courtney and Cody, bought the home in June, according to KGTV, and spent the following months remodeling before losing all of their possessions after a two-engine Cessna C340 nose-dived into the ground and crashed through the house.
“They just finished remodel yesterday,” Breana King, the sister of one of the newlyweds, told the station. “It could have been different, we’re just really lucky.”
Emergency crews work a the scene of a small plane crash, Monday in Santee, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Both Courtney and Cody were at work at the time of the fatal crash, and their dog was in the care of a family member, the station reported.
The Cessna 340 smashed into a UPS van and then hit houses just after noon Monday in Santee, a suburb of 50,000 people.
Dr. Sugata Das, who worked for the Yuma Regional Medical Center, was identified as one of the victims in the Santee crash, KYMA reported, citing the facility. A second victim was identified as a UPS driver who was inside the van at the time of the crash. Two others were rushed to nearby hospitals with undisclosed injuries.
At least two people were killed and two others were injured when the plane crashed into a suburban Southern California neighborhood, setting two homes ablaze, authorities said. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
While Courtney and Cody’s home was empty, neighbors rushed to rescue an elderly couple believed to be in their 70s from a burning home next door. The elderly woman was pulled out through a window, while her husband was rescued from the backyard, resident Michael Keely said.
The plane, which was reportedly owned by Das, had departed from Yuma, Ariz., and was scheduled to land at Montgomery-Gibb Executive Airport in San Diego.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are handling the investigation.
Fox News’ Bradford Betz and Louis Casiano along with The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Abortion rights supporters argued that the consequences of overturning Roe would be severe and long lasting for women and children.
Diana Greene Foster, the author of the Turnaway Study, which followed about 1,000 women from across the United States over a five-year period — those who had abortions and those who were not able to get them — noted that the women who had to continue their pregnancies often had life-threatening complications and bad health for years. Five years out, women denied an abortion were four times as likely to live below the federal poverty line, and three times as likely to be unemployed. Ninety percent of those women chose to raise the child, she said, and are more likely to stay in contact with an abusive partner.
“People are making careful decisions when they decide to have an abortion,” said Dr. Foster, who is also a professor of obstetrics at the University of California, San Francisco. “They say that they can’t afford a child, and we see they become poorer. They say they need to take care of their existing kids, and their existing children fare worse.”
While the speakers at the rally were optimistic that the court would choose to overturn Roe by this summer, many marchers said they would continue attending future rallies to press for a complete ban across the country.
Doug Winne, 69, and Ruth Winne, 65, had driven two hours from Lancaster, Pa., to this year’s rally. They have attended the March for Life regularly for about 35 years, and Mr. Winne said he was encouraged by the number of younger people in attendance.
Gazing at the crowd around him, Mr. Winne said he was hopeful that younger people would continue to fight to end abortion. “We’re clearly on the older end,” Mr. Winne said. “That’s an encouragement that this isn’t just something that we, as people in their 60s, are concerned about.”
(CNN)If the polls are to be believed, former Georgia Sen. David Perdue is headed toward a crushing primary defeat Tuesday in his challenge to GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – New details have been revealed regarding why the President of Florida International University stepped down from his role last week.
In a new statement, Mark Rosenberg admitted to an emotional entanglement with someone as part of the reason for his sudden resignation.
“Regrettably, these issues spilled over to my work and I caused discomfort for a valued colleague. I unintentionally created emotional (not physical) entanglement. I have apologized. I apologize to you. I take full responsibility and regret my actions.”
The 72-year-old had been FIU’s president since 2009 and is credited for boosting the university’s enrollment and graduation rates over the past decade.
Rosenberg claims that mental health issues are at play, writing:
“While we have spent years drawing attention to the impact of mental health challenges, I can give personal testimony to the reality of this menace, I encourage your empathy and action with those who around you who may need additional help and support.”
Kenneth Jessell, the school’s CFO and Senior VP of Finance and Administration is now the interim president.
Also on Sunday, the chair of FIU’s Board of Trustees appeared to acknowledge the seriousness of the incident with a letter to the FIU community that said, in part:
“We are deeply saddened and disappointed by the events requiring his resignation. FIU has strong personnel and workplace conduct policies, takes all workplace conduct seriously, and remains committed to enforcing its policies thoroughly and swiftly.”
Their mother, Tinessa Hogan, was arrested around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday on two counts of first-degree murder. She refused to appear in court Wednesday morning, but the judge proceeded without her and ordered that she be held without bond.
Lauderhill police did not immediately say what evidence they gathered that the mother was involved in the girls’ deaths.
Lt. Mike Bigwood identified the two girls who were found dead in a Lauderhill canal as sisters 9-year-old Destiny and 7-year-old Daysha. (Copyright 2020 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.)
According to authorities, Destiny’s body was discovered first on the afternoon of June 22 near the intersection of Northwest 21st Street and 56th Avenue.
Daysha’s body was recovered from the same canal later that evening about a half-mile away.
A woman who lives nearby told Local 10 News that Destiny had marks on her body.
“The way how the little girl looked yesterday with all the scratches on her and … her fists bawled up,” Shakima Birch said. “It just made me cry and I’m like, ‘Was she trying to grab onto something?’ or ‘Was she fighting for her life?’”
Despite the arrest, police say the investigation remains active and they are asking that anyone with information about Tinessa Hogan or her daughters to call the Lauderhill Police Department at 954-497-4700 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden announced new sanctions Thursday targeting a top Cuban military official and a unit of the government’s repressive state security apparatus, which he said was responsible for the brutal crackdown on historic protests across the island this month.
Biden’s decision marks a shift from his promises during the campaign, when he vowed to restore the Obama-era thaw in U.S.-Cuba policy. Administration officials and Cuba experts say the unprecedented protests in Cuba have prompted a change in Biden’s strategy and rhetoric on Cuba.
“This is just the beginning – the United States will continue to sanction individuals responsible for oppression of the Cuban people,” Biden said in a statement Thursday.
In Thursday’s action, the White House used a federal human rights law to sanction Alvaro Lopez Miera, minister of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces, and a special brigade in the government’s intelligence ministry.
Critics of Cuba’s communist government applauded the announcement, although it’s not clear if the penalties will carry much of a punch. It’s unlikely that Miera holds any assets in the United States that could be frozen under Thursday’s move. And the Trump administration had already blacklisted Cuba’s Interior Ministry.
Ryan C. Berg, a senior fellow in the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the designations “signal the important role that Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior plays in the state’s violent repression of the Cuban people.”
But, he said, they will have little practical effect.
“The sanctions architecture built around Cuba makes these designations entirely redundant,” he said. “The sanctions are purely symbolic and meant to give the impression that the Biden administration is responding rapidly to the Cuban protests when these actions really are not doing much.”
Biden said his advisers were working on other steps, including avenues to restore internet access to Cubans after the government blocked sites used to organize the July 11 demonstrations.
“As we hold the Cuban regime accountable, our support for the Cuban people is unwavering, and we are making sure Cuban Americans are a vital partner in our efforts to provide relief to suffering people on the Island,” Biden said Thursday.
Thousands of Cubans took to the streets July 11 to protest food and medicine shortages, power outages and spiraling prices, prompting the largest protests seen on the communist island in three decades.
The protesters faced arrest and violence as a result.
Sen. Bob Menendez, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the Biden administration’s decision sent a clear message to the Cuban government. “The U.S. stands with the people of Cuba and there will be consequences for those with blood on their hands,” the New Jersey Democrat wrote on Twitter.
Fernand Amandi, a political consultant and Cuban-American Democrat based in Florida, also applauded the sanctions and Biden’s promise for additional steps.
“These will be very well-received, not just amongst Cuban exiles around the world but the international community who bore witness to the abuses inflicted upon the population in Cuba that was simply asking for freedom and for liberty,” Amandi said.
“These moves have real teeth and change the game on how to punish the regime going forward,” he said. They will exert pressure on the Cuban government, Amandi said, “while at the same time emboldening and empowering the protesters on the island.”
State Department spokesman Ned Price said he could not divulge whether any targeted individuals or entities had assets in the U.S.
When pressed on the practical effect, Price said there was “an important messaging element” to the sanctions. “It’s an important signal of our determination to hold accountable those responsible for this (crackdown),” he told reporters at a briefing Thursday.
He emphasized that other changes to the U.S. Cuba policy were under consideration, including easing limits on remittances that Cuban Americans can send to their family members. Price said the Biden administration will do that only if it can ensure none of the money will end up in Cuban government coffers.
During the campaign, Biden vowed to reverse the Trump administration’s hard-line policy toward Cuba. As vice president, Biden championed the Obama administration’s historic thaw in U.S.-Cuban relations and vowed to reinstate the Obama administration’s softer approach by easing sanctions, travel restrictions and caps on remittances.
But the protests seems to have changed the Biden administration’s calculus.
“We’ve made clear over the last week that addressing this moment was a priority for the administration,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday.
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Several strikes hit the Russian region of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border on Sunday, wounding at least three people, according to local officials, and renewing questions about the security of an area that has been a key supply route for Russian troops in the war.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts. Ukrainian officials did not comment, in keeping with an official policy of near-total silence surrounding explosions in Russian territory.
But they appeared to be part of an uptick in attacks in Belgorod, which shares a border with Kharkiv, the northeastern region of Ukraine that Kyiv’s forces retook last month in a rapid offensive that began weeks of setbacks for Russian forces.
Belgorod has served as an important staging ground for Russia’s invasion, and Moscow continues to train soldiers there. On Saturday, two men opened fire on Russian soldiers at a training camp in the region, killing 11 and wounding 15, before being killed themselves, according to state-run news outlets.
Several attacks in recent days have targeted Russian-held areas far from the front lines, including in the occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, where explosions hit an administrative building on Sunday, and most prominently on Russia’s bridge to occupied Crimea, which was damaged by a blast last weekend. Russia blamed Ukraine for the attacks.
On Sunday, some 16 explosions were heard in the Belgorod region, RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency, reported. At least three people were injured in an artillery strike, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor, said in a statement on Telegram, the social messaging app.
Mr. Gladkov posted photos that showed shattered glass and scattered debris in what appeared to be a residential area. The images could not immediately be verified. Two injured men were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds and one woman was treated on site, Mr. Gladkov said.
A photo posted on the Telegram account of the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region on Friday, showing a power station that he said was hit by Ukrainian shelling.Credit…Vvgladkov/Telegram, via Agence France-Presse-Getty Images
The city of Belgorod, the regional capital, which has a population of 400,000 and lies just 50 miles from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, increasingly finds itself a target in the conflict across the border, undermining President Vladimir V. Putin’s efforts to distance the Russian people from the war. Colleges and businesses have conducted evacuation drills, local officials have evacuated towns and villages that have come under shelling, and thousands of people from Ukraine have crossed the border to flee fighting, especially amid the recent Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Sunday was the fourth successive day that strikes have been reported in the area. On Thursday, a rocket hit an apartment building in Razumnoe, a town southeast of the city of Belgorod, without causing injuries, according to state-run media. The following day, Mr. Gladkov said, a Ukrainian strike hit a power station.
On Saturday, the state-run news agency Tass reported that a fuel depot in Razumnoe was shelled and caught fire. Mr. Gladkov posted a photo to Telegram showing thick black smoke and flames rising over a building.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will be holding another public hearing on Tuesday, this time focusing on the role of extremists that day.
CBS News will broadcast the hearing as a Special Report starting at 1 p.m. ET.
Raskin noted on Sunday that the committee has been so far outlining former President Trump’s pressure campaigns on the vice president, the Justice Department, state lawmakers and local elections officials ahead of Congress’ planned certification of the Electoral College on Jan. 6. Documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, who was embedded with the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, has provided footage from his film to the committee, some of which was shown at the first public hearing on June 9.
“One of the things that people are going to learn is the fundamental importance of a meeting that took place in the White House” on Dec. 18, Raskin said.
A video of former President Donald Trump is played as Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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“And on that day, the group of outside lawyers who’ve been denominated ‘Team Crazy’ by people in and around the White House, came in to try to urge several new courses of action, including the seizure of voting machines around the country,” Raskin said. “And so, some of the people involved in that were Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani was around for part of that discussion, Michael Flynn was around for that. But against this ‘Team Crazy’ were an inside group of lawyers who essentially wanted the president at that point to acknowledge that he had lost the election, and were far more willing to accept the reality of his defeat at that point.”
Raskin said in the middle of the night on Dec. 19, Trump sent a tweet “after a crazy meeting, one that has been described as the craziest meeting in the entire Trump presidency.”
“Donald Trump sent out the tweet that would be heard around the world, the first time in American history when a president of the United States called a protest against his own government, in fact, to try to stop the counting of electoral college votes in a presidential election he had lost,” Raskin said. “Absolutely unprecedented, nothing like that had ever happened before. So people are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effect it had in Trump World and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups, the most dangerous political extremists in the country. “
Last week, Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone testified before the committee for more than eight hours. Raskin said Cipollone gave “valuable” information to the committee.
“We are going to get to use a lot of Mr. Cipollone’s testimony to corroborate other things we have learned along the way,” Raskin said. “He was the White House counsel at the time. He was aware of every major move I think Donald Trump was making to try to overthrow the 2020 election and essentially seize the presidency.”
The House Jan. 6 committee has held seven public hearings in June and July to showcase the evidence they have gathered during the 11-month investigation. The committee has heard hundreds of hours of testimony, including from some of the core members of Trump’s inner circle.
In addition to the information on pressure campaigns, the committee has also unveiled new details on the scheme allegedly proposed by Trump allies to put forward phony electors from several battleground states that President Joe Biden won.
On June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified publicly in a hastily added hearing. Her blockbuster testimony included that Trump was told the crowd at the Ellipse on Jan. 6 had guns and other weapons, and that the former president wanted to join them on the way to the Capitol. She also said she was told that Trump lunged towards a Secret Service agent in a presidential vehicle.
Hutchinson also testified that Meadows told her in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that, “There’s a lot going on Cass, but I don’t know, things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6.”
This weekend, attorneys for Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon, who has been charged by the Justice Department for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify, sent a letter to the committee saying he is willing to testify publicly.
Bannon has cited executive privilege in his refusal to testify, but Trump sent a letter to Bannon’s lawyers waiving executive privilege. Mr. Biden has rejected Trump’s claims of executive privilege, and that has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
US senators have announced an agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill, marking a small but notable breakthrough on gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings.
Nine days after Senate bargainers agreed to a framework proposal – and 29 years after Congress last enacted major firearms curbs – senators Chris Murphy, a Democrat and John Cornyn, a Republican, told reporters on Tuesday that a final accord on the proposal’s details had been reached.
The legislation would toughen background checks for the youngest firearms buyers, require more sellers to conduct background checks and beef up penalties on gun traffickers. It would also disburse money to states and communities aimed at improving school safety and mental health initiatives.
The bill also contains provisions to curb domestic violence, including prohibiting romantic partners convicted of domestic violence and not married to their victim from getting firearms. And it would provide money to the 19 states and the District of Columbia that have “red flag” laws that make it easier to temporarily take firearms from people adjudged dangerous, and to other states that have violence prevention programs.
Lawmakers released the 80-page bill Tuesday evening. The measure is estimated to cost around $15bn, which Murphy said would be fully paid for.
The legislation lacks the far more potent proposals that Joe Biden supports and Democrats have pushed for years without success, such as banning assault-type weapons or raising the minimum age for buying them, prohibiting high-capacity magazines and requiring background checks for virtually all gun sales. Those measures were derailed by Republican opponents in an evenly divided Senate.
But the bill, if enacted, will still represent a modest but telling shift on an issue that has defied compromise since Bill Clinton was president. Congress prohibited assault-type firearms in 1993 in a ban that expired after a decade, lawmakers’ last sweeping legislation addressing gun violence.
Senators have seized on the momentum in the wake of devastating killings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York. Murphy said that after Buffalo and Uvalde: “I saw a level of fear on the faces of the parents and the children that I spoke to that I’ve never seen before.” He said his colleagues also encountered anxiety and fear among voters “not just for the safety of their children, but also a fear about the ability of government to rise to this moment and do something, and do something meaningful.”
The shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has put enormous pressure on lawmakers to act. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP
This bill, Murphy said, was a partisan breakthrough that would “save thousands of lives.” Before entering the Senate, his House district included Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six staff members perished in a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school.
“Some think it goes too far, others think it doesn’t go far enough. And I get it. It’s the nature of compromise,” Cornyn said.
But he added, “I believe that the same people who are telling us to do something are sending us a clear message, to do what we can to keep our children and communities safe. I’m confident this legislation moves us in a positive direction.”
The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, said his chamber would begin debating the measure right away and move to final passage “as quickly as possible”.
And in a positive sign about its fate, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell voiced his support, calling it “a commonsense package of popular steps that will help make these horrifying incidents less likely while fully upholding the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
The National Rifle Association, which has spent decades derailing gun control legislation, said it opposed the measure. “It falls short at every level. It does little to truly address violent crime while opening the door to unnecessary burdens on the exercise of Second Amendment freedom by law-abiding gun owners,” the gun lobby group said.
The measure will need at least 10 Republican votes to reach the 60-vote threshold major bills often need in the 50-50 Senate. Ten Republican senators had joined with 10 Democrats in backing the framework, and Cornyn told reporters that “I think there will be at least” 10 GOP votes for the measure.
What’s uncertain is whether the agreement and its passage would mark the beginning of slow but gradual congressional action to curb gun violence, or the high water mark on the issue. Until Buffalo and Uvalde, a numbing parade of mass slayings – at sites including elementary and high schools, houses of worship, military facilities, bars and the Las Vegas Strip – have yielded only stalemate in Washington.
“Thirty years, murder after murder, suicide after suicide, mass shooting after mass shooting, Congress did nothing,” Murphy said. “This week we have a chance to break this 30-year period of silence with a bill that changes our laws in a way that will save thousands of lives.”
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