Crash sends car into building's 2nd floor
The phrase "crashing into a building" took on a new meaning Sunday when a car in Southern California hit a center divider, went airborne and plowed into the second floor of a dentist's office.
Capt. Stephen Horner, a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Authority, said officials received a call about a crash in Santa Ana, Calif., about 5:30 a.m. The car was traveling at high speed when it hit the concrete median. Horner said the driver was not driving parallel to the divider; instead it was coming from a side street and slammed into the median, much like a T-bone crash.
The impact sent the car into the air and into the small office building. Horner said a small fire was immediately extinguished.
Two people were in the car. One managed to get out, while the other one was trapped inside for more than an hour as authorities used a heavy piece of equipment to stabilize the vehicle, Horner said. Both were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
Horner said he does not have any more information on the occupants, but Santa Ana police said the driver admitted to having used narcotics.
20th mudslide victim found; 4 missing
MONTECITO, Calif. -- Parishioners prayed on Sunday for those killed and for families still searching for missing relatives in a Southern California community ravaged by mudslides, and authorities announced another body had been found, increasing the death toll to 20.
The body of 30-year-old Pinit Sutthithepa was discovered Saturday afternoon. His 2-year-old daughter, Lydia, remained missing. His 6-year-old son, Peerawat, nicknamed Pasta, and his 79-year-old father-in-law, Richard Loring Taylor, also were killed in the mudslides.
The list of those still missing in the mudslides has shrunk to four.
The storm sent flash floods cascading through mountain slopes that were burned bare by a huge wildfire in December. Workers used backhoes, jackhammers and chain saws to clear away masses of mud, boulders and toppled trees.
Crews have made it a priority to clear out debris basins and creek canals before another rainstorm.
Alarm safeguards lacking, Hawaii told
Hawaii's emergency authorities lacked reasonable safeguards to prevent Saturday's false alert warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement Sunday that an investigation into the incident is well underway with federal and state officials.
"It appears that the government of Hawaii did not have reasonable safeguards or process controls in place to prevent the transmission of a false alert," Pai said. In determining steps to prevent a rerun "we also must ensure that corrections are issued immediately in the event that a false alert does go out."
Hawaiian residents, already anxious about months of nuclear saber-rattling between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, were sent into a panic on Saturday by the false missile alert. The alert was sent when an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency "pushed the wrong button," according to Gov. David Ige.
Army info leaker confirms Senate bid
NORTH BETHESDA, Md. -- Chelsea Manning on Sunday confirmed via Twitter that she is a candidate for U.S. Senate.
Three days after making her intention known to federal election officials, Manning tweeted "yup, we're running for senate" with an attached campaign video indicating her intention to run in the 2018 Maryland Democratic primary. She sent a subsequent tweet seeking donations to her campaign.
"We don't need more or better leaders," Manning says in the 71-second video. "We need someone willing to fight."
Known as Bradley Manning at the time of her 2010 arrest, the former Army intelligence analyst was convicted of leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
A Section on 01/15/2018