people have been killed by mudslides and flash floods in southern california. but with many unaccounted for, rescue workers fear dozens may still be trapped, and a desperate search for survivors is under way. many of those now affected are the very same people who had to flee last month from some of the biggest wildfires in the state s history. the latest extreme weather has hit carpinteria, santa barbara and montecito. from there, our correspondent james cook. on california s pacific coast, ordeal by the elements continues. first, they endured the largest fire in the state s history. next came torrential rain, more intense than anyone here can remember. and then, within minutes, destruction, caused by an unstoppable wall of mud and debris. 14 year old lauren cantin survived, but even she doesn t know how. firefighters using rescue dogs heard her screams, and worked for hours to pull her from the wreckage of her home. her family s fate is unknown. everyone here, it seems, has
emergency in france for another three months. governors from nearly half of the fifty states are now saying they don t want syrian refugees to be resettled in their states. states.that includes iowa governor terry branstad.their announcements come after it wawadeterminin at least one of the attackers in paris entered europe with other refugees. this morning, speaker of the house paul ryan commented on the issue. our nation has always been welcoming, but we cannot let t terrorists take advantage of our compassion. this is a moment where it s better to be safe than to be sorry, sorry,president obama previously announced the u-s would accept up to 10-thousand people fleeing fromomyria.. immigration experts say under the regfugee act of 1980, governors cannot legally block them from settling in their communities. moscow now says it has proof that terrorisis took down a passenger jet in egypt last month. intelligience officials were able to find traces of a home-made bomb among th
and the release of the fed minutes of the meeting on april 30. let s go to peter cook with the details. at its late april meeting, the fed offered a pretty upbeat assessment of the u.s. economy. it cut its bond buying program by another $10 billion. also signaling that the economy is not yet strong enough to consider raising interest rates. these minutes further reinforce the notion that the fed is not in a hurry to raise rates because it does not see inflation as a major threat right now. that, becauseoted inflation was expected to remain 2%l below the committee s objective and the and implement rate was still above participants estimates of islam the committeeel, did not, at present, face a trade-off between the them ointment and inflation objectives, and an expansion of aggregate demand would result in further progress. there was a discussion still is spelling out even more details. some thought it would be helpful to the rfi their reasoning underlying the language indi
The humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief was created to help community health centers, serving the country's most vulnerable patients, confront more frequent power outages from extreme weather and fickle grid systems.