Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman. As Southern California continues to get hammered by heavy rains, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency. Steve Futterman reports.
The declaration comes after a day of floods, fallen trees, mudslides, traffic jams and power outages.
Chapter 2: What emergency measures are being taken in Southern California due to severe weather?
The move paves the way for the city to deploy adequate resources to deal with the storms. Earlier, California Governor Gavin Newsom also issued a state of emergency. Right now, the forecast does not look good. A new series of powerful storms will hit the area today. Ariel Cohn is with the National Weather Service.
We're going to see the floodwaters be reinforced. Landslides, rockslides and mudslides all being reinforced across the area.
In some mountain areas, more than 10 inches alone fell on Wednesday. The storms are expected to continue into Friday. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
ICE agents on Wednesday shot a man in suburban Baltimore and another person was injured after a traffic stop turned violent. ICE says as they approached the man, the driver of the vehicle attempted to run over that person. Then officers fired their weapons. According to Anne Arundel County, Maryland, police spokesman Justin Mulcahy, the driver was struck by gunfire.
There was an individual in that vehicle that was struck by gunfire. That individual was transported to an area hospital with what is being described as He's been described as being in stable condition. There was another individual outside of that vehicle that sustained minor injuries and also went to an area hospital.
The Department of Homeland Security says the driver of the vehicle was in the United States illegally. A civilian search and rescue group operating in the Mediterranean Sea says more than 100 people could be dead after a smuggler's boat crowded with migrants capsized. NPR's Ruth Sherlock has the latest.
The non-profit search and rescue group Sea Watch posts on X that a crowded wooden boat has disappeared into the Mediterranean Sea. Alarm Phone, the volunteer organisation that runs an emergency hotline for migrants, says some 117 people were on board the boat that went missing after leaving Libyan shores for Europe on December 18th.
On December 21st, Alarm Phone says they were informed that a Tunisian fisherman had found a single survivor. It's the latest tragedy on this dangerous route that people pay smugglers to take in the hope of finding a better life in Europe. The International Organization for Migration says since 2014, over 33,220 migrants have gone missing, presumed dead, on this Mediterranean route.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News.
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