A United Airlines flight from Nigeria to Washington experienced a sudden jolt, dropping 185 feet and injuring six people seriously. United said it was a “technical issue”. U.S. and Nigerian authorities are investigating. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to declare a national energy emergency as soon as he takes office Monday, months after promising voters that he would cut their electric and gasoline prices in half in the first year of his administration. “To achieve this rapid reduction in energy costs, I will declare a national emergency to […]
As a series of massive fires continues to blaze through the Los Angeles area, blanketing neighborhoods with smoke and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, air quality remains unhealthy throughout many parts of the county. Wildfire smoke is a mixture of water vapor, gases, and microscopic particles known as particulate matter. The smallest […]
The US health department on Friday declared a public health emergency for California in response to devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area that have so far killed 10 people and destroyed more than 10,000 structures. As of Friday morning, 153,000 residents are under evacuation orders, and an additional 166,800 are under evacuation warnings, according […]
“With those winds being very calm this morning, I believe we can actually make some progress, turn a corner, and start to build some containment on these fires,” Brent Pascua, a Cal Fire battalion chief, told The Today Show on Thursday. So far the disaster response has been marred by disinformation and controversy. After some […]
On the morning of January 7, the first of Los Angeles’ vast wildfires broke out in a forested area near Topanga State Park on the northwest edge of the city. Conditions allowed the blaze to spread very quickly: 100 mph winds, very low humidity, and a landscape primed to burn after months without rainfall together […]
On Tuesday, Santa Ana winds swept seaward through Southern California, scattering embers and then fanning flames of a growing wildfire. By nighttime, residents received urgent text alerts warning of potential 100 mph gusts—a terrifying escalation that transformed a precarious situation into a full-blown crisis. As the winds howled, more embers took flight, sparking new fires […]
This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Good morning and welcome back to FirstFT. In today’s news: 30,000 evacuated as California declares a state of emergency Trump […]
Gal Gadot is opening up about her experience undergoing emergency surgery for a blood clot in her brain during pregnancy, which then resulted in the birth of her fourth daughter. In a post on social media on Sunday night, the “Wonder Woman” and “Fast and Furious” actor revealed that she was diagnosed with a “massive” […]
A picture released by the NGO Coast 2 Coast Movement shows workers cleaning up Peru’s Las Capullanas beach after an oil spill. Peru has declared an “environmental emergency” after an oil spill that triggered a clean-up operation on a stretch of northern coastline popular with tourists. According to state-owned energy company Petroperu, the cleaning of […]
