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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. In Northern California, the Nevada County Sheriff's Department says six backcountry skiers have been rescued following an avalanche. The six were rescued late Tuesday night, but crews are still searching for nine others. The sheriff's office says the group was caught in the slide near Castle Peak northwest of Lake Tahoe Tuesday morning. Cap Radio's Greg Meechek has more.
The skiers have been staying at Backcountry Hut since Sunday and were heading back when the avalanche struck. The Sierra Avalanche Center had issued a warning for the area just hours earlier. Lead forecaster Brian Schwartz says dangerous conditions are complicating rescue efforts.
The storm is ongoing. You know, it's still snowing anywhere from two to four inches an hour right now and that avalanche path is reloading with new snow very rapidly.
Truckee-based Blackbird Mountain Guides did not confirm it was one of their tour groups, but it said it was responding to the incident and is in contact with affected clients. For NPR News, I'm Greg Michek.
Now to Georgia, where officials in Fulton County say the FBI misled a judge in order to seize 2020 election ballots last month. NPR's Stephen Fowler has more.
The FBI got a magistrate judge to sign off on the seizure, but lawyers for Fulton County want those ballots back. County officials say federal agents did not tell the truth about what they were looking for, and among other things, didn't actually allege a crime was committed, writing that, quote, the Fourth Amendment demands probable cause, not possible cause. An NPR review of the affidavit found the FBI also omitted key findings from state investigations that found no evidence of fraud and confirmed that Joe Biden won the overwhelmingly Democratic county in 2020. Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
Authorities in Colorado say four people have died in a series of interstate crashes involving more than 30 vehicles, including six semi-trailers. State Patrol Major Brian Lyon says blowing dirt kicked up by strong winds made it nearly impossible to see.
Due to the lack of moisture and stuff that we've had in the area recently, the dirt and everything just transversed all the way across I-25 and created just what I'll call is a dirt or a brownout.
In addition to the four people killed, Lyons says nearly 30 were taken to the hospital with injuries ranging from minor to severe. Strong winds on Tuesday along with warm weather and dry conditions also blamed for fanning wildfires and causing flight delays at Denver's airport. Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance have encountered a setback. The Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI say DNA on a glove found near Guthrie's Arizona home did not match anyone already known to police. The glove was found discarded about two miles from Guthrie's home. It resembled a pair worn by an armed man in a ski mask seen on video footage, apparently trying to disable her doorbell camera. The 84-year-old was reported missing on February 1st.
This is NPR. Members of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island community gathered for a vigil Tuesday night following Monday's shooting at a youth hockey game. Authorities say the person who opened fire killed his former wife and one son, and Pawtucket police say the three others injured were the man's ex-wife's parents and a family friend. The gunman died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Breathing in dirty air is linked with the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. That's the key outcome of a new study that looked at millions of Medicare patients across the U.S. NPR's Alejandra Barunda reports.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in the country. For years, scientists have investigated its causes from genetics to lifestyle to environmental exposures. One growing line of evidence shows that air pollution can be a factor. The new study was published in the journal PLOS Medicine. It found that older Americans had a higher chance of getting diagnosed with Alzheimer's if they had lived in a place with dirty air within the previous five years, especially if the person had also had a stroke.
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