The crew on Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht didn’t hear a call for assistance from a nearby ship that had run out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, a spokesperson for the Meta CEO told CBS News. By the time Zuckerberg’s yacht received the call, the ship in need of help had already received assistance from…
Spokane, Washington — More than 40 large wildfires are burning in the West, fueled by severe drought, as over 100 blazes scorch parts of western Canada. The Bug Fire near Reno, Nevada, has burned more than 15,000 acres, getting dangerously close to homes and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate over the weekend. In Utah,…
A woman and a five-month-old baby died after a vessel overturned in New York Harbor on Saturday night, according to police. The NYPD said it was called to an overturned vessel near Liberty Island at 22:55 on Saturday. The authority deployed a harbor unit, as well as a scuba and aviation team to the scene,…
Authorities in northwestern Colombia said they rescued a newborn hippopotamus found alone by fishermen on the banks of a river and showing signs of malnutrition. Colombia has around 200 so-called “cocaine hippos” living in the wild, according to the Environment Ministry, all of which descended from a colony brought to South America by slain cocaine kingpin…
A 10-year-old boy who was saved from a rip current off the coast of Santa Cruz, California, last month said he thought he was going to die before a 16-year-old lifeguard rescued him. “I’m super thankful for him saving my life,” Nathaniel Rai said about the teen lifeguard, Ryder Williams. Nathaniel told “CBS Mornings” that…
Last month, a 16-year-old lifeguard rescued 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai, who was struggling in a rip current off Santa Cruz, California. Rai and his father spoke to “CBS Mornings” about how the terrifying situation unfolded and their gratitude for the teen lifeguard who stepped in to help. Source link
The death toll has grown to at least 34 people in southwestern Japan after a powerful earthquake on Tuesday, according to the prefectural government of Kumamoto, on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, where the quake struck. The disaster destroyed homes, triggered an explosion at a mall and caused a factory chimney to collapse. Two days…
Kumamoto, Japan — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit a day earlier in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, also…
83-year-old rescued near Grand Canyon after missing for 2 days – CBS News Watch CBS News An 83-year-old Utah man was found safe, two days after he went missing on what was supposed to be a brief hike in Grand Canyon National Park. Source link
An 83-year-old man who failed to return from a hike inside the Grand Canyon National Park was safely rescued after an all-night search, Arizona officials said on social media Saturday. The man, identified by the National Park Service as Gerald Guinn, of Utah, was hiking with another person at 12:30 p.m. on July 21, the Kane…
