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CNN
11 hours ago
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- CNN
Shooting at Salt Lake City ‘No Kings' march
Shooting at Salt Lake City 'No Kings' march Officers responded to gunshots at a 'No Kings' march in Salt Lake City, Utah and took three people into custody in relation to the incident. One person was transferred to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Salt Lake City police said the motive for the shooting was under investigation. 00:26 - Source: CNN Vertical Trending Now 16 videos Shooting at Salt Lake City 'No Kings' march Officers responded to gunshots at a 'No Kings' march in Salt Lake City, Utah and took three people into custody in relation to the incident. One person was transferred to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Salt Lake City police said the motive for the shooting was under investigation. 00:26 - Source: CNN Storm chaser captures 'unprecedented' view of monster hailstones falling from sky Storm chaser and research scientist Sean Waugh has documented softball sized (or greater) hailstones in freefall with an ultra-high-tech camera mounted on a retrofitted research vehicle. The goal – to study and better understand what makes gigantic hail form, and how to better detect it and ultimately improve severe weather warnings. Sean speaks with CNN Meteorologist Derek Van Dam while on the road, capturing imagery of this very impactful and expensive natural phenomenon. (edited) 01:47 - Source: CNN Flash flood destroys apartment building An apartment building in West Virginia partially collapsed as flash floods hit the area. The governor's office said at least five people are dead and four people remain missing following the floods. 00:31 - Source: CNN After talking to hundreds of dads, this podcaster shares his two biggest lessons Dr. John Delony speaks to millions of listeners on his popular podcast about mental health, family and relationships. As a therapist, he's used to offering advice to struggling fathers, but we asked him about the biggest lessons he's learned as a dad. 01:32 - Source: CNN Rare deep-sea squid filmed alive for first time Scientists have captured the first-ever footage of the elusive Gonatus antarcticus squid alive in its deep-sea habitat. CNN's Jeremy Roth describes the rare encounter. For more on this story, visit 01:12 - Source: CNN Trump draws boos and cheers at Kennedy Center President Donald Trump drew charged reactions of both admiration and ire at the Kennedy Center's opening night of "Les Misérables." 00:29 - Source: CNN The many adventures of the Stanley Cup Winner's of the NHL's Stanley Cup each get to take the cup for a day and do whatever they want with it. CNN's Coy Wire recounts some of the Cup's wildest days out. 00:43 - Source: CNN BTS members discharged from South Korean military One of the world's biggest boybands could soon be making a comeback with six out of seven members of K-Pop supergroup BTS now discharged from South Korea's mandatory military service. The band plans to reunite at some point later this year. 00:47 - Source: CNN Man throws wood boards at police during high speed chase An individual in the bed of a white truck dumped large wooden boards onto the road during a high-speed chase with law enforcement officers in Montgomery County, Ohio. Later, the truck drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 and caused a six-vehicle collision. No life-threatening injuries were reported after the accident, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. 01:20 - Source: CNN Combs requests mistrial for a second time CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister explains that Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense team requested a mistrial for a second time, which was denied. Combs' team accused the prosecution of presenting false testimony from Bryana Bongolan, a friend of Cassie Ventura's, who testified that Combs dangled her over a balcony. 01:26 - Source: CNN Tennessee sheriff's office airlifts escaped zebra to safety DEK: A zebra, that escaped from its owner in Christiana, Tennessee was captured on Sunday and airlifted to safety by the local sheriff's office. The animal, named Ed, had been reported missing just a day after he was acquired by its owners in Rutherford County. They have since been reunited. 00:35 - Source: CNN Jamie Foxx breaks down during BET Awards acceptance speech Jamie Foxx was overcome with emotion while accepting the Ultimate Icon Award at the BET Awards. He reflected on his 2023 health scare. 00:45 - Source: CNN See what's coming to your iPhone and other Apple devices Apple announced major software updates at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Most of the new features won't reach users' devices for a few months when OS 26 releases this fall. 01:49 - Source: CNN Journalist explains 'huge win' for Blake Lively in Baldoni lawsuit A judge dismissed Justin Baldoni's $400 million defamation lawsuit against Hollywood power couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, a major development in the ongoing civil litigation between former co-stars Lively and Baldoni. Executive editor for Deadline Hollywood Dominic Patten joins CNN's Brianna Keilar to discuss. 00:36 - Source: CNN Blake Lively's lawyer on Taylor Swift's role in legal fight CNN's Jake Tapper speaks with Blake Lively's attorney Michael Gottlieb about how Taylor Swift was brought into the legal fight between Lively and Justin Baldoni. 01:04 - Source: CNN Coco Gauff reacts to winning the French Open Coco Gauff claimed her second career grand slam singles title, defeating world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the French Open women's final. 00:46 - Source: CNN
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Hail in super slow motion could help us better understand extreme weather
AUSTIN (KXAN) — While hot weather is in the forecast, a recent string of severe weather events has left its mark across parts of Central Texas. A couple of tornadoes, plus hail storms, have ramped up a quiet severe weather season. Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been out in force, studying this weather before, during and in the aftermath. Sean Waugh is one such researcher. Based out of Norman, Oklahoma, the research scientist crosses the Southern Plains in a fully decked-out truck in the hopes of capturing rare footage of a hailstone in flight. 'Hail is a very like, damaging weather phenomenon, but it's also very difficult to study,' Waugh said. According to Waugh, hail damage is more costly than tornado damage each year. Annually, tornadoes cause about $2 billion in damage. Hail causes around $15 billion. 'What are we missing about hail on its way down that we don't see when you're only looking at what's left. How does that look to radar? How fast are they falling?' Waugh said. He's spent this severe weather season in a truck designed to capture footage of these stones. Covered in powerful lights, cameras on board the truck capture video of hail in 4K at over three hundred frames per second. 'We're answering questions we haven't even been able to ask before, let alone actually provide answers to.' The work conducted by the National Severe Storms Laboratory is appropriated by Congress. Waugh said this consistent funding source allows their work to take more risks and try new things that privately owned companies usually can not. On May 2, President Donald Trump provided his recommendations for the 2026 budget. These recommendations included reducing NOAA's budget by more than $1.5 billion. According to the budget proposal, the administration aims to terminate 'a variety of climate-dominated research, data, and grant programs, which are not aligned with Administration policy-ending 'Green New Deal' initiatives.' Additionally, the reductions aim to rescope NOAA's satellite program and eliminate 'unnecessary layers of bureaucracy' while 'promoting innovation.' Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-RequestDownload Waugh declined to comment on the proposed cuts. NOAA told KXAN in a statement when asked about changes at NOAA: 'Per long-standing practice, we don't discuss internal personnel and management matters. NOAA remains dedicated to its mission, providing timely information, research, and resources that serve the American public and ensure our nation's environmental and economic resilience. We continue to provide weather information, forecasts and warnings pursuant to our public safety mission. Thanks for your understanding.' Michael Musher, NOAA Spokesperson On the same day the president's budget was announced, five former leaders of the National Weather Service signed an open letter in response to the cuts. The letter said the proposed budget cuts account for around 30% of NOAA's budget. NWS LEADERSDownload 'This budget would essentially eliminate NOAA's research functions for weather, slash funding for next generation satellite procurement, and severely limit ocean data observations,' according to the statement. These cuts would also impact weather forecasters. 'Even if the National Weather Service remains level funded, given the interconnectedness of all of the parts of NOAA, there will be impacts to weather forecasting as well. We cannot let this happen,' the letter states. The administration has already offered early retirement to NOAA employees. At least two local National Weather Service employees have announced their retirements since the buyout was offered. Meanwhile, severe weather season continues. 'I think we're going to be out on the road a lot, you know, collecting a lot more data over the next couple of weeks. You know, means I need to keep a bag packed,' Waugh said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
NOAA researcher builds device to capture hail size, speed as it falls
NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – During severe weather season, we always see hail in the form it ends up in after it hits the ground. However, one federal weather researcher in Oklahoma is changing that with his own invention he built from scratch. 'There is nothing quite like the sound of being in a vehicle getting pelted with six inch plus diameter hail,' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather research scientist Sean Waugh said. LOCAL NEWS: KFOR's Emily Sutton educates students at 4Warn Storm School Most people try to avoid damage by keeping their vehicle out of hail. 'You feel it, more than you hear it,' he said. 'It's like a soul reverberating type feel. The truck physically vibrates with every stone that hits it.' However, Waugh loves being out in the elements. He built the contraption from scratch that they put on top of one of their weather trucks that is entirely designed to be out in hail. Waugh told KFOR that hail is poorly understood because we only see it after it cracks, breaks completely or melts. So, he put together a lot of wiring, protected by a bullet resistant lens with lights and two cameras inside. Those two cameras detect hail size and speed as it's falling. 'We want to know what real hail looks like,' Waugh said. 'I want to know how fast it's going, that affects the damage that it does to your roof.' The LED lights inside are 30 percent brighter than the sun to capture video in pitch dark. You actually need eclipse glasses to look at it when directly behind it. 'If you see me in the field with this, you should probably not be there because that is not going to be a fun place to be,' Waugh said. To originally test it, he used OU Athletics. Both a baseball and softball pitcher took part in it. 'It was an amazing experience to not only test the camera but to see their motion as well,' Waugh said. OU Athletics made a video showing the camera's tracking their pitches speed and motion. It also tracked the softball pitcher's arm rotation speed when letting go of the ball. 'Her arm is moving at nearly 2200 degrees a second, which is the equivalent of a ceiling fan rotating at full speed,' Waugh said. LOCAL NEWS: 33rd Calf Fry event kicks off in Stillwater All of it, along with what radar sees, is designed to help get better detection, forecasting and warnings, which is something that helps all of us. 'All of this improves our ability to protect life and property, which is why we're out here doing this research,' he said. Waugh said they've been out a lot recently and plan to go out more in the coming weeks as severe weather season ramps up. The truck has been 'operational' for about a year now. All of the information obtained by the cameras go directly to a computer in the back seat. Another interesting fact about it is that everything on the truck is removable. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
