Tracy Mumford

The Sheriff's Office said they were able to locate them thanks to their emergency beacons.

But high winds, heavy snowfall, and near-zero visibility have made the ongoing search operation incredibly difficult and dangerous.

The conditions are some of the worst there in years, according to scientists at the Central Sierra Snow Lab.

Parts of two major highways are closed, and helicopters can't make it to the site safely.

Warnings for more avalanches are still in effect.

If the remaining skiers are not found alive, this would rank as among the deadliest avalanches in the U.S.

in decades.

And finally, a video has been making the rounds of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop.

The stars punch, swing, and block, surrounded by ruins, a moody sunset behind them.

The 15-second clip has all the bells and whistles of a big Hollywood movie, but it's not a trailer, it's not a promo, it's not even really Pitt and Cruise.

It was churned out by an AI video generation tool, Seedance, which is owned by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok.

The man who posted it, a director from Ireland, said he made it with a two-sentence prompt.

That has supercharged fears in Hollywood about how many jobs could just disappear with the rise of AI videos, especially ones as convincing as this fight scene.

One of the writers behind the Deadpool movies said it sent a cold shiver up his spine.

And the whole thing is likely to loom large over the negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and studios, which have just started again, and will include demands for guardrails on how and if AI can use an actor's likeness.

Still, not everyone was impressed with the clip.

One producer and writer who works on the series Rick and Morty said she's seen a flood of videos like this and thinks people are getting swept up by the circus of it all.

She said she has seen, quote, nothing that has taken my breath away, nothing that is poignant, nothing that is provocative even.

It's all just garbage.

Those are the headlines.