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Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rudabeh Shahbazi Joins Pat Harvey As Co-Anchor Of CBS Los Angeles Newscasts; Sheba Turk Upped To Morning Anchor
KCBS/KCAL, the combined CBS TV stations in Los Angeles, today named Rudabeh Shahbazi co-anchor of their weekday evening newscasts and promoted Sheba Turk to Shahbazi's previous gig as morning anchor on KCAL News Mornings. Starting Monday, April 28, four-time News Emmy winner Shahbazi will join longtime CBS L.A. anchor Pat Harvey for the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. Turk steps into KCAL's eight-hour morning news block the same day. More from Deadline L.A. News Anchor Chauncy Glover's Cause Of Death Revealed 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming 'Twisted Metal' Season 2 Gets Premiere Date; Episodic Images Tease What's To Come For Anthony Mackie's John Doe 'This is an incredibly exciting time for CBS Los Angeles and our viewers,' said Tim Wieland, regional president and general manager of CBS Los Angeles and CBS Colorado. 'Our goal is to continue delivering high-quality local news, and strengthening our lineup with two anchors who are both exceptional storytellers and deeply engaged members of the community accomplishes that.' CBS2, the network's longtime L.A. affiliate, and KCAL, which rebranded in 2023 as KCAL News, are owned by Paramount Global. Chauncy Glover, who had co-anchored KCBS/KCAL evening newscasts with Harvey and fellow anchor Suzie Suh, died in November at 39. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Emily In Paris' Season 5 So Far Everything We Know About Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners': From The Themes To How It Was Shot 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Journalist unearths grandfather's Nazi past, shares all in powerful podcast
The Brief When Suzanne Rico dug into her family past, she discovered her grandfather, Robert Lusser, was a Nazi scientist. Lusser was the father of the Nazi V-1 flying bomb. Now, Rico has a podcast where she shares the story and confronts her family's history. LOS ANGELES - Tracing your roots can lead to a treasure trove of information. For one journalist it also meant a dark discovery. Along with celebrating her grandfather's NASA credentials, Suzanne Rico unearthed his shocking Nazi past. The backstory Sifting through a table covered with books and family albums, articles and old VHS tapes, Rico said "when I was a little kid my mom never told us any about this." Vintage family videos from Germany showed the grandfather she'd never met. An obituary article read "Robert Lusser: aviator, aircraft designer and father." SUGGESTED: World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead What's missing in that obit? "He was one of Hitler's top scientists," she says. Rico reacts "I get sick to my stomach." Rico's grandfather, Robert Lusser, was the father of the Nazi V-1 flying bomb. "He created the world's first cruise missile," said Rico. The V-1 was a weapon used against the allies in World War II. V-1 rockets killed thousands of people in Great Britain. Rico said it was "Germany's last weapon in the Second World War." What we know Rico now has a podcast telling this jarring family story. It's called The Man Who Calculated Death. The inspiration came as a dying wish from her mother more than a decade ago to complete an unfinished memoir. Her mother survived a bombing that killed Rico's grandmother, Lusser's wife. While still grieving the passing of her mother, Rico's journalism skill set kicked in. From 2002 to 2010, Rico was a morning news anchor at KCBS, Channel 2 in Los Angeles. After her era on air there, she spent 10 years digging into the family chapters untold. She called it "the hardest thing I've ever done." With the knowledge that says she also had to process generational guilt. SUGGESTED: WWII soldier's remains found, ending family's 80-year search: 'He's a hero' Her grandfather was not among those charged with war crimes. Lusser, in fact, would end up in America. "Finally in 1948, the Americans found him and brought him over," Rico said. Lusser was recruited for "Operation Paperclip," a secret U.S. intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America. The U.S.' adversary was the Soviet Union, and the race to space was on. Lusser died in 1969. Rico still has questions, particularly, "Was he a Nazi in his heart, or was he just a brilliant airplane designer born in the wrong time and place?" Big picture view Rico also had to face another reality of that time: the Holocaust and the genocide of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Rico's husband is Jewish and they have two children. Rick said that during her research, "all I could think about was my husband and family and my children." Rico has also befriended a Holocaust survivor. She says she apologized for her grandfather's role in the Nazi war machine. The podcast The Man Who Calculated Death is available wherever you find your podcasts. It has just received a national Gracie award. The Source Information in this story is from interviews with Suzanne Rico, and her podcast, The Man Who Calculated Death.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Death's Door BBQ competition is done, but a new national BBQ event is set for Door County
EGG HARBOR - The Death's Door BBQ national competition that drew so many barbecue cooks and thousands of fans to Washington Island each August is no more, but a new national barbecue competition is scheduled to come to Egg Harbor this fall. Death's Door BBQ organizers announced Feb. 25 in a post on their Facebook page they had looked into reviving the previously annual Kansas City Barbeque Society-sanctioned event, which was canceled last year after the July 13 death of co-founder, director and driving force Richard "Dick" Jepsen, about five weeks before the 13th edition was set to take place Aug. 23 and 24. About a month after Jepsen's death and after the cancellation of last year's competition, Death's Door BBQ committee members Cathy Meader and Mary Andersen each said for a story in the Advocate they hoped to bring back the event for 2025 but admitted it would be difficult at best without Jepsen's leadership and knowledge of the national barbecue scene. However, in the Facebook post and in comments for that post, Meader and Andersen said the committee began to explore bringing back Death's Door BBQ this year. But the committee subsequently learned the Brighton Barbeque Bash, an annual national competition in Oshkosh also sanctioned by the KCBS, moved its event from its usual July date to Aug. 22 and 23, which would have been the dates for Death's Door BBQ, and is planning to honor Jepsen at its event, as Death's Door would have done. "I think I can safely say we were all ready to try and bring our competition back," Andersen wrote in a comment to the post, "but with the sanctioned event in Oshkosh, the same weekend that we always held ours, we felt it was impossible. It would have been a challenge without our leader, Dick Jepsen, but we were willing to give it our best." Other comments to the post indicate organizers of the Oshkosh competition were under the impression Death's Door BBQ wasn't coming back when they scheduled their event with the new dates. Suggestions were made in the comments to simply find different dates for Death's Door BBQ. But Meader responded, and told the Advocate last August for its story on Jepsen, that the date is important because the competition draws so many visitors to Washington Island. From its beginning in 2012, Death's Door BBQ was held the last or next-to-last weekend of August, one before the Labor Day weekend, because that weekend didn't have much if any competition for tourist attention, falling between the large August festivals in Door County and Labor Day and the major fall festivals on the Peninsula. "Unfortunately there really isn't another weekend where some other event is taking place on the Island," Meader wrote in her Facebook comment. "The weekend before Labor Day was a dead weekend for the Island." Andersen told the Advocate last year Death's Door BBQ was almost definitely the biggest tourist draw for an event on the Island, attracting 2,500 to 3,500 locals and visitors annually for the weekend, along with about three dozen professional BBQ teams and numerous vendors. She also said the event provided a huge boost to local nonprofit organizations that either set up vendor booths and were allowed to keep the proceeds – the Washington Island Lions Club made about $10,000 at the 2023 event, the final one, from beer and wine sales at their booth – or received thousands of dollars in donations from Death's Door proceeds. But while Death's Door BBQ is dead, at least for this year, that doesn't mean there won't be professional barbecue teams grilling it out in competition in Door County. That's because the KCBS website is showing the Rollin Smoke at Rustic Timbers BBQ Bash is scheduled for Sept. 26 and 27 at Rustic Timbers Door County Camping in Egg Harbor. Not much information has been posted yet about this new event, but it is part of the KCBS Master Series of national sanctioned BBQ competitions. And, like Death's Door, it falls on a relatively quiet weekend on the Door County activity calendar, between Sturgeon Bay's Harvest Fest the weekend before and the Fall Fun Fest and Cider Pressing Party on Washington Island and Egg Harbor's own Pumpkin Patch two weekends later. For more on the Egg Harbor barbecue event, call 920-883-8234 or visit This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Egg Harbor to host new national BBQ event with Death's Door's demise
CNN
13-02-2025
- Climate
- CNN
Evacuation warnings issued in Southern California as storm brings threat of mudslides in areas scarred by wildfires
For the second time this year, Southern Californians are evacuating their homes as heavy rain threatens new destruction in areas still recovering from last month's devastating wildfires. Across the region, residents are preparing for what could be its strongest storm in over a year. Coastal areas and valleys may see up to 3 inches of rain through Friday, according to the National Weather Service, with mountainous areas facing up to 6 inches. Los Angeles County could see the worst of their rainfall between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday but the heaviest rainfall could start as early as the late morning. Evacuation warnings have been issued for communities near fire-scarred areas, where the risk of flooding and landslides is greatest – a flash flood watch is in effect for such areas in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Ventura counties through Thursday night. Officials have been racing this week to shore up places at risk. Preparations in Los Angeles County include cleaning debris basins, installing concrete barriers and placing sandbags in fire zones to protect storm drains and filter debris. Search-and-rescue teams, deputies and helicopters are on standby to respond if needed. 'I never dreamt in my whole life I would see such utter complete devastation,' John Carr, a Pacific Palisades resident told CNN affiliate KCBS/KCAL, standing outside his home, where sandbags line the driveway. Like many of his neighbors, Carr has done what he can — clearing debris from gutters and fortifying his property. Still, with fire-scorched hillsides stripped of vegetation, the danger of mudslides and debris flows loom large. 'A lot of the houses without vegetation around them, burned off, could slide down the hill very easily,' he said. The National Weather Service cites a high risk for urban flooding of roads and parking lots during the storm, which is also expected to impact the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Flood watches stretch across most of the state and include Sacramento and San Francisco until Friday night. Significant mountain snowfall is anticipated across the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Farther north, residents in Portland as well as eastern Oregon and southern Idaho face winter storm warnings through Friday. Officials in California are working to protect vulnerable areas from the storm's potential impact. The California Conservation Corps has deployed erosion control measures, such as sock wattles, to trap ash and debris before they contaminate waterways. 'For weeks, we've been worried about the possibility of having rain on a fire-impacted area,' Col. Eric Swenson of the Army Corps of Engineers told CNN. The threat is particularly acute in communities like Altadena and the Palisades, where homes sit precariously on steep slopes. 'The biggest concern when you have rain on a fire-impacted area is that the soil can become unstable,' Swenson said. 'If you get enough water fast enough, you can cause a separation which causes the slide.' Operations may be suspended if conditions become unsafe. 'If the rain is so bad that we can't see (or) operate safely, and it endangers our crews, then we're not going to work,' Swenson said. In the event of a mudslide, California's rapid-response system — coordinated by state and local agencies — will be activated to protect affected areas. The devastation from recent wildfires has been particularly severe, with entire neighborhoods reduced to ash. 'What makes this fire even worse is just the scope and scale of it,' Swenson said. 'The sheer number of homes that were lost, plus the homes left standing within this field of debris, raises concerns for those residents who either have to or want to reoccupy their homes.' Robert Fenton, the FEMA Region 9 administrator, told CNN the challenges of debris removal in fire-damaged areas as a storm looms. 'We actually use wet methods to keep down the dust, so we're constantly wetting it down,' Fenton said. 'The last time we've really seen this at somewhat of this scale is 2017, fires in Santa Rosa. This is at a much greater scale with much more destruction to properties,' Fenton said. California's wildfire insurance system is also buckling under mounting pressure. The state Insurance Department announced Tuesday that California's program providing insurance to high-risk property owners needs an additional $1 billion to cover claims from January's wildfires, according to the Associated Press. The Eaton and Palisades Fires, which destroyed nearly 17,000 structures, are expected to cost the plan $4 billion. Meanwhile, private insurers like Allstate have scaled back coverage in California, citing wildfire risks. The rain on the West Coast comes as parts of the eastern US are digging out from back-to-back winter storms this week that also brought severe weather to the Southeast Wednesday. At least four confirmed tornadoes impacted Mississippi and Alabama. Survey teams will be sent to determine if other tornadoes touched down in the region. About 20 homes and half a dozen businesses were damaged in Columbia, Mississippi, when winds whipped up a possible tornado Wednesday night, the mayor told CNN affiliate WDAM. 'We're very fortunate, actually,' Mayor Justin McKenzie said. 'It didn't appear to be a big tornado. We could see it from City Hall and downtown. We're just blessed we didn't have any injuries or anything.' Several roads were temporarily closed and crews worked to quickly restore electricity, McKenzie told WDAM. 'Everything that's been damaged can be rebuilt,' McKenzie said. 'I just can't commend all the guys that responded enough. They did a phenomenal job.' In Virginia, where the storm delivered ice and more than a foot of snow Wednesday, more than 300 vehicle crashes were reported, state police said. Nearly 200,000 customers in the state were still without power early Thursday, according to More than 200 crashes also occurred in neighboring Maryland, according to state police. One person was killed Wednesday morning in a rollover crash on an exit ramp in Callaway County, Missouri, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, as wintry weather swept across parts of the Midwest. The victim was a young child and was pronounced deceased at the scene, the city of Holts Summit said in a statement. All winter weather alerts have expired for the central US, and the bulk of the winter weather alerts are expiring for the Great Lakes as the winter storm moves into the interior of the Northeast. Widespread additional snowfall of 2 to 4 inches is expected with isolated parts of New England potentially seeing over 5 inches.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
KCBS under investigation for alleged broadcast of ICE agent locations in San Jose
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco-based radio station is under scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission for allegedly broadcasting the live locations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. What we know FCC Chairman Brendan Carr lodged the investigation against KCBS after the station reportedly exposed the whereabouts of ICE agents in East San Jose and identified the unmarked vehicles they were using while conducting deportations. He referred to a broadcast from KCBS that aired on Jan. 26. "This is really concerning, so what happened was you had ICE agents undercover doing operations in East San Jose, part of the town known for violent gang activity, and you had this radio station broadcasting the live location, identifying the unmarked vehicles that they were in," Carr said in an interview with "FOX & Friends." Audacy, the parent company of KCBS, declined to comment on the investigation. Carr said the broadcast ensued against the backdrop of Democratic leaders calling for those who oppose Trump's agenda to take their fights "to the streets." "We have sent a letter of inquiry, a formal investigation into that matter, and they have days left to respond to that inquiry and explain how this could possibly be consistent with their public interest obligations," Carr said, The FCC is probing whether KCBS acted in violation of its FCC license agreement, which requires it to operate in the public interest. What they're saying However, as lawyer David Loy of the First Amendment Coalition points out, KCBS has the First Amendment right to report on matters of public interest, including immigration and ICE activity. "That specifically includes law enforcement operations occurring in a public place. The First Amendment protects the right to report the news. And part of the news is what the government is doing to enforce the law at any level local, state or federal, civil, criminal, and immigration," he explained. He underlined that the government does not have the authority to dictate how the press or news agencies report information. Why you should care The FCC's investigation into KCBS's report raises questions about the relationship between media agencies and the Trump administration moving forward. "Just the fact of the investigation itself is a chilling effect on freedom of the press. The FCC does have a certain power to regulate broadcast media, but that power should never be used simply to crack down on the media because the government does not like what a story says," said Loy. He called it an explicit attack on freedom of the press. Loy said that regardless of the outcome of the FCC investigation, the message is troubling. "The threat of penalties is itself a deterrent and a chilling effect and a direct attack on freedom of the press," he said. "The government cannot be and should not be in the business of attacking the press through legal investigations or prosecutions simply because the government does not like what the press has to say." ICE agents were spotted on two consecutive days, Jan. 26 and 27, and according to the community defense group Rapid Response Network, at least one person was detained during those operations. Federal officials have not confirmed if any, or how many, people were detained. The Source Fox & Friends, David Loy of the First Amendment Coalition, and previous reporting.
