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a day ago
- Science
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Falcon 9 rocket launch set for Friday night
Video in the player above shows previous coverage of a launch. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A Falcon 9 rocket launch is scheduled out of the Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday evening. The launch is scheduled for 8:51 p.m., according to officials. The rocket will carry several Starlink satellites into orbit. The launch may be visible as far as 100 statute miles. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Health
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Kern County's 2026 primary candidates: One-on-one interview with CD-22 hopeful Jasmeet Bains
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The 2026 Election is already underway, as candidates throw their names in the ring for local, state and federal offices. Wednesday morning, Assemblywoman Dr. Jasmeet Bains announced her run for California's 22nd Congressional District. 17 Political Reporter Jenny Huh sat down with Bains for a candidate profile. CD-22 is one of the most contentious house races nationwide, each election cycle, without fail. The big question for 2026 — will Bains be the Democratic candidate? 'This is about being a doctor who's taking her oath to the highest level to protect her community,' said Bains of her decision to throw her hat in the ring. The assemblywoman — just re-elected to her second term in California's 35th Assembly District — is now eyeing the title of congresswoman. 17's Jenny Huh: 'Did you feel like 2026 was really your year to run, just given that health care, your expertise is front and center?' Asm. Dr. Jasmeet Bains: 'I never signed up for this to be a career politician. I'm a doctor. Things lined up in a way that this community needs their doctor. When I first got elected and I brought in about $10 million for the fentanyl task force, one of the things we did with it was open up a detox option for people on Medicaid,' Bains recalled. Speculation of Bains' congressional run began with Congress considering President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. On the chopping block — billions in funding to health care programs like Medicaid. And in the hot seat — David Valadao, who ultimately voted with his party in passing the bill. 'The beginning of this year, a lot of people were asking me, are you going to run? Are you going to run? And I waited. I waited to see if he would do the right thing and put the I mean, we all have seen David Valadao do that before,' Bains said. Like, she noted, when he was one of 10 House Republicans that voted to impeach Trump. 'When you vote to impeach Trump? That brought nothing back to the district. That didn't put food on the table. That was politics.' Jara standoff: Police feared county supervisor's husband wanted officers to shoot him Bains went as far as to say when Valadao faced off against 2018 Democratic challenger TJ Cox and lost, she had actually voted for the congressman. Cox, after just a term, was charged with fraud. The 40-year-old Bains is a family doctor at the Delano branch of Adventist Health. During the week, Bains is in session in Sacramento. During the weekend, she's back in the district at her clinic. 'I'm a doctor, and this community saw a doctor that put the people over politics over and over and over again,' Bains said. 'I have bucked my own party.' Most notably, Bains in her first term was the lone Democrat to vote against Gov. Gavin Newsom's bill to prevent price-gouging by oil companies and was temporarily stripped of a committee assignment. Recently, in the two special legislative sessions addressing the state's gas prices, she was the only Democrat to oppose both measures, though the bills eventually passed. 'Kern County has been bullied by both sides. It's been bullied by the Republicans and bullied by the Democrats. We need someone that's going to stand up for the Valley,' Bains said. 'Running for Congress, especially in a race like this. It's not easy. You know how ugly it's going to get. I'm going to get beat up from both sides.' CD-22 has a history of being one of the most expensive, contested congressional races nationwide, with the House majority running right through it. It's described as a moderate district — majority Latino, leans Democrat, yet a Republican has been reelected time and time again. 17's Jenny Huh: 'Do you feel like voter turnout is really the problem or has it, quite frankly, just been weak candidates, weak messaging about your party? Asm. Dr. Jasmeet Bains: 'That's a really good question. And it's both. Yes, we have some of the worst voter turnout in the state here, right here. But at the same time, what is it that gets voters to turn out?' Again, it's health care, Bains underscored. She also pointed out that her people have, historically, shown up when it matters. She cited the labor rights movement founded in Delano and the national impact it carried. It all depends on a 'community believing in someone,' she said. 'Instead of doing more to strengthen health care, we cut it by a trillion dollars?' Bains said. 'I stutter saying that because through my eyes as a doctor, I and every doctor in this community, every health care worker, every nurse, every person that's on the frontlines of health care in this community sees what's about to happen.' She also noted a direct impact of the bill when it comes to her work at the state capitol. 'My biggest dream for this community was my UC, the Kern medical school,' Bains said. 'Well within the Big Beautiful Bill is a tax on endowment funds that Congressman David Valadao voted for.' Bains said as the bill made its way through Congress, it was actually her patients that asked her to do something, amid looming health care cuts. Her work about being a party loyalist because the issue of health care will only get worse, the congresswoman hopeful said. The daughter of immigrants from India, Bains was born in Cleveland but grew up in Delano. She's fluent in English, Spanish, Punjabi. She was the first South Asian woman elected to the California Legislature and first Sikh American in California state office. Bains cannot run for CD-22 and reelection to her AD-35 simultaneously. So, she's taking the risk of being out of office, if she did not advance past the June primary or emerge victorious in November. If that's the case, Bains said, she can be found, 'Right back in that clinic in Delano providing care.' Also in the candidate pool is fellow Democrat Randy Villegas — viewed as the more progressive candidate. Click here for the full interview with Jasmeet Bains. Click here for the full interview with Randy Villegas. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
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Asm. Dr. Jasmeet Bains announces 2026 run for Congress for Rep. David Valadao's seat
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Assemblywoman Dr. Jasmeet Bains (D-Delano) has announced her bid for California's 22nd Congressional District Wednesday morning. Bains will be looking to unseat Republican incumbent Rep. David Valadao of Hanford in the 2026 election. Trump tells Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep House majority In a post on X, Bains emphasizes her career as a family doctor, directly calling out Valadao for voting yes on the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' and 'for the largest cut to health care in history.' Bains joins fellow Democrat Randy Villegas in opposing Valadao. 17 News will have a candidate profile with Bains. Check back for updates. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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5 days ago
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What would you do if you came upon a child, or a dog, locked inside a hot car?
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Try to visualize it: You're walking through the parking lot of a shopping center. You spot a child in a car seat, locked inside a car. What would you do? What should you do? Let's start here: Don't just walk away. The temperature inside a car can rise 20 degrees Fahrenheit within 10 minutes and continue to climb quickly. Leaving the window open a crack does not significantly slow the process. Since 1990, more than 1,100 U.S. children have lost their lives in hot cars, and just since May 2025, 15 children have died this way. That does not include 1-year-old Amillio Gutierrez, who died June 29 after his mother, 20-year-old Maya Hernandez, left him and an older sibling in her car while she was getting a lip filler treatment at a Bakersfield spa. She has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty. We asked Bakersfield shoppers on a 104-degree day this week what they would do if they encountered a child – or a pet – locked in a hot car. Some had already experienced it. Betty Eaves once came upon a wild scene, where a mother exited a store to find paramedics extracting her child from a locked car. 'The parent had come up and was just hysterical,' Eaves said. 'Oh, that's my child, that's my child. I don't know what happened to her but the baby was ok.' Nic Brown had a similar experience with a dog outside a pet store. 'Somebody had a little Chihuahua in their car and we tracked the person down and they ended up getting the dog out,' he said. 'We shouldn't be doing that.' So – what should you do? 'Contact the store management,' said Maria Vasquez. 'See if there's anybody in the store that owns that vehicle. If not, contact the authorities.' 'Definitely call law enforcement right away,' said Rikki Minus, who was bringing her 5-year-old into a grocery store. 'Don't leave the child. But if you can try to get in the car, break the window as soon as possible. Because it's very sad. Too many kids are dying like that.' Not everyone is comfortable smashing a window, however. 'Call 9-1-1, stay with the people, stay with the person near the car,' said Christina Barela, who was shopping with her almost-11-year-old daughter. 'I don't know if I would go as far as to break the window. I think I would wait until somebody had the tools to do that.' And that's OK, said firefighter Sean Rogers, a paramedic with the Bakersfield Fire Department. 'We always advise people to act within their own level of comfort,' he said. 'You could start small and try to (gauge the situation). Are you at a restaurant or a public area? Can you notify anybody? Does this vehicle belong to anybody? 'Do what you have to do in that sense, and then escalate from there. If you're unable to find the owner of the vehicle, the parents, whoever, then you would take the next step. If you feel that someone is truly in danger…if you do not initiate a rescue now, that would be the time to act and act responsibly.' Isn't that risky, breaking someone's window? Not necessarily. Not if you do it right, and confine the damage to the absolute minimum required to achieve the rescue. 'As long as you call 9-1-1 and act responsibly, there are Good Samaritan laws in place to protect you,' Rogers said. This kind of tragedy can happen even to responsible parents who just happen to space out. Some 52% are deemed to have simply made a heartbreaking oversight. What can parents do to remind themselves they have a baby on board? Throw your purse or brief case in the back seat with your child, so you're compelled to look back there before you exit the vehicle. Put a stuffed animal on the front seat as a reminder that you've got a passenger. As for passers-by who encounter locked-in kids in parking lots – when in doubt, act. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
West Australian
11-07-2025
- West Australian
One-year-old dies after being left in hot car while mother was getting lip filler, police say
A California mother charged in the death of her toddler was getting lip filler injections when she left the child in her car amid temperatures that topped 37C, according to allegations in court records obtained Wednesday. Maya Hernandez was charged with involuntary manslaughter and two counts of willful cruelty to a child in the death on June 29 of the one-year-old boy and the hospitalisation of a two-year-old who survived. Hernandez, 20, has pleaded not guilty, NBC affiliate KGET of Bakersfield reported. She is being held in lieu of $US1 million bail. Court records did not list a lawyer who could speak on her behalf. A Bakersfield police report said Hernandez 'admitted that it was irresponsible to leave her kids in the car, and she thought about it when she got out of the car but had no justification as to why she left them'. The children were left in their car for more than two hours while Hernandez got the cosmetic procedure at a spa in Bakersfield, roughly 180km north of Los Angeles, the report says. The outside temperature reached 38C while she was at the appointment, according to the report, which notes that such heat can raise a vehicle's internal temperature to 62C. Hernandez told officers that she left her 2022 Toyota Corolla running with the air conditioning set to 15C, according to the report. She said she gave her kids candy, crackers, milk and a cellphone to watch. She had asked the nurse who was performing the procedure whether if she could bring her children in, according to the report, and was told she could leave them in the waiting room. She did not bring the children inside, and she told police that she was 'concerned about the time', the report says. Hernandez said she was certain the vehicle would stay on because she had previously stayed in the car for extended periods, the report says. But authorities learned from a local Toyota shop that the car automatically shuts off after an hour of inactivity. Hernandez told officers that she did not check on her children between 2 and 4:30pm while she was inside, the report says. She told officers that when she returned to the car, one of the children was foaming at the mouth and shaking, according to the report. She performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and called 911, the report says. When the boy arrived at a local emergency room, he had an internal temperature of 42C and no signs of life, according to the report. He was pronounced dead shortly before 6pm. The older boy had a temperature of 37C and was able to eat food and drink liquids, the report says. A nurse at the hospital told police that children older than twp can better regulate their body temperature because they can sweat. The boy was listed as stable and placed in protective custody, police said in a news release.
