The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff s Office is warning county residents about an ongoing phone scam in which someone claiming to be from the Sheriff s Office has contacted individuals to
sheriff of lee county florida announced two men from the ft. myers area are missing after hurricane ian. the sheriff reduced the death toll from 59 to 53 deaths. thousands of people are lining up waiting for hours to get fema assistance. some people have lost everything they own. randy k is in florida where she spoke with some people desperate for help. what did you find out from the human distribution center today? reporter: we found long lines, about a 4 1/2 hour wait to read register. they are processing about 1000 people a day. fema tells me more than 70 people here have registered for disaster assistance. these people have lost everything. they are relying on fema to figure out how to get help and rebuild their lives. we met one couple in their 60s, they barely survived the storm. the water was five feet high in their neighborhood.
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Last week, I wrote this story about how the 25-year-old “disappearance” of Kristin Smart a 19-year-old student who disappeared from the campus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the early morning hours of May 25, 1996 was solved in large measure by a podcast called “Your Own Backyard,” which detailed the events of the night of her disappearance, and the decades of poor law enforcement efforts to charge fellow student Paul Flores in connection with her presumed murder. Flores was the last person to see her alive and told a series of fantastical stories about his actions that night and the following day.