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Boeing Starliner crew speaks from space Boeing Starliner crew speaks out on space stay into 2025 05:29 After days of uncertainty, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Sunday that SpaceX had been cleared to press ahead with the planned Monday launch of the European Space Agency’s $398 million Hera asteroid probe, stormy weather permitting. With forecasters calling for an 85% chance of thick clouds and showers that would trigger a delay, Hera’s launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is targeted for 10:52 a.m. EDT Monday. The forecast is 75% “no-go” if launch is delayed to Tuesday. “The last hurdle is the weather. So, please, please, I need you to do something about it!” Hera project manager Ian Carnelli joked with reporters Sunday. “It’s the only thing I really cannot control. … It looks like we have some opening around the time of launch, but it’s really impossible to say at the moment.” An artist’s impression of the European Space Agency’s Hera probe (left) and two small sub-satellites that will orbit the asteroid Didymos and its small

Video obtained by KTLA shows a violent mob attack at a 7-Eleven store in Orange County Sunday that left a store clerk with a bloody nose, authorities confirmed to KTLA. The violence unfolded at around 1:30 a.m. at a 7-Eleven store located at 550 South Knott Avenue in Anaheim, police said. In the footage, a mob of mostly masked males are seen pulling the door of the convenience store open as a clerk, armed with something that appears to be like a broomstick, attempts to keep the group out.   While the clerk was trying to keep the door closed, video shows him get hit in the stomach and doubled over before taking an uppercut from a male in a gray hoodie.   When the clerk, seemingly stunned from the blows, steps back, the mob moves forward but quickly retreats when the clerk raises his makeshift weapon and charges them.   The male in the gray hoodie immediately returns to the door, forces his way inside, appearing to threaten the clerk with more violence when the mob swarms the store behind him and begins ransacking it.  

Authorities announced Sunday that an inmate at the Cois M. Byrd Detention Center died in custody Friday night. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office reported deputies first found the inmate, identified as 40-year-old Johnnie Curtis Stevens of Norco, unresponsive outside of a housing unit cell. Despite administering life-saving measures, paramedics ultimately pronounced Stevens dead. Investigators say there were no signs of foul play. The sheriff’s office says the investigation is ongoing, and no further information is available. Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact Investigator Franklin Enochs at 951-922-7152.

Firefighters from the Riverside County Fire Department were battling a brush fire in Cabazon Sunday. The four-acre fire was reported around 3:10 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of Pipeline Road and Apache Trail, where firefighters found the vegetation burning in light, flashy fuels. The forward rate of spread was stopped by 3:55 p.m., according to the fire department. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. No injuries or evacuations were reported.

Ryley Fick and Jason Yang successfully defended their women’s and men’s titles at Sunday’s 40th annual Long Beach Marathon with all races starting a half-hour earlier than originally planned because of a forecast of temperatures in the 90s. Fick, the 2023 Big West Conference’s Women’s Track Athlete of the Year and holder of four individual school records at Cal State Long Beach, won in a personal best time of two hours, 54 minutes, 42 seconds, faster than she expected. “I was honestly doubtful about my fitness compared to last year,” said Fick, who won in 2:58:30 last year in her first marathon, five months after graduating from Cal State Long Beach. “But I knew I needed to come out here and give it a try.” The 24-year-old Fick said she started conservatively, then looked at her watch around Mile 10 and realized, “I’m going faster than I expected. So I thought, “OK, I’ll keep it right there.” By Mile 13 or 14, Fick said she began experiencing stomach pain and aching feet. “After last year, I knew the marathon was going to be painful,” the

It’s going to be a long week for the Rams. And the way things continue to play out, it could be a very long season. The Rams’ 24-19 defeat to the Green Packers on Sunday before 72,842 at SoFi Stadium — many of them Packers fans — dropped their record to 1-4 heading into their off week. Coach Sean McVay and the still-injury-depleted Rams welcome the bye. It will be goodbye to already dim playoff hopes, however, if they don’t pull it together during the next two weeks before they return to play the Las Vegas Raiders on Oct. 20. On Sunday, the Rams could not overcome inexcusable penalties, a lost fumble and an interception to lose their second game in a row. Packers quarterback Jordan Love capitalized on all of the mistakes, turning them into a field goal and two touchdown passes to tight end Tucker Kraft as the visitors improved to 3-2. Last season, the Rams suffered a loss to the Packers that dropped their record to 3-6 heading into the off week. Quarterback Matthew Stafford returned from a thumb injury and led

A four-vehicle crash left a motorcyclist dead on Saturday evening in Gardena, according to police. The Gardena Police Department said officers responded to the crash at the intersection of Western Avenue and 139th Street at 6:09 p.m. Four damaged vehicles were in the intersection, including a bus, and paramedics pronounced the motorcyclist dead at the scene.  Investigators determined the motorcyclist was driving southbound on Western Avenue when they collided with the rear bumper of a bus and consequently crashed into another vehicle. The Hawthorne Police Department and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating this fatal crash.  Police said the drivers’ names are still under investigation. Anyone who witnessed the traffic collision is encouraged to call Hawthorne Police Department Officer Nambo or Gardena Police Department Investigator Zamudio.

A police officer in Santa Monica who shot and killed a man over the weekend after the suspect allegedly stabbed him has been released from the hospital and is recovering, officials announced Sunday.   The violent, unprovoked Oct. 5 attack unfolded at around 5:20 p.m. outside the Santa Monica Police Department, located at 333 Olympic Drive, according to a news release from the department.   The suspect, only identified as a man in his 30’s, approached the officer, who has yet to be named, while he was speaking to another person.   Authorities said the officer asked the man to wait his turn when the suspect suddenly brandished a large knife he’d pulled from his clothing and “slashed and stabbed the officer.”   As he retreated, the officer drew his weapon while the suspect reportedly followed him around the corner, where officer opened fire, fatally wounding the man, officials said.   The suspect was later declared dead at the scene.   A suspect was shot and killed after he allegedly stabbed a Santa Monica officer outside a police station on Oct. 5, 2024. (KTLA) A

Updated on: October 7, 2024 / 7:11 AM EDT / CBS/AP South Florida 11 p.m. Weather Forecast 10/6/2024 South Florida 11 p.m. Weather Forecast 10/6/2024 04:14 Hurricane Milton  was gaining steam as it strengthend into a powerful Category 3 storm Monday, with a path putting it on track to hit Florida’s Gulf Coast mid-week. Forecasters predict Milton will make landfall around the Tampa Bay area on Wednesday, packing 120 mph winds and drenching an area still reeling from Hurricane Helene . As of 6 a.m. Eastern on Monday, Milton was centered about 195 miles west-northwest of Progreso, Mexico, and about 750 miles west-southwest of Tampa. It had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph and was moving eastward through the southern Gulf of Mexico at about 8 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Path of Hurricane Milton A map from the National Hurricane Center shows Milton continuing to strengthen into a major hurricane as it approaches Florida’s west coast. “Milton is forecast to intensify rapidly and become a major hurricane later today,” the hurricane center said early Monday.   The projected path of Hurricane Milton

Christopher Ciccone, an artist and interior decorator who worked closely with his older sister, Madonna, during her rise to global superstardom in the ’80s and ’90s, died Friday. He was 63. The cause of death was cancer. According to a statement from his family, Ciccone died peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones, including his husband, British actor Ray Thacker. On Instagram Sunday, Madonna paid tribute to her brother with a post that celebrated their close bond and acknowledged the sometimes turbulent nature of their relationship. “He was the closest human to me for so long,” wrote the pop star. “It’s hard to describe our bond. But it grew out of an understanding that we were different and society was going to give us a hard time for not following the status quo. We took each other’s hands and we danced through the madness of our childhood.” Ciccone was the fifth child and third son born to Silvio and Madonna Ciccone and was raised in Rochester, Mich., where both his personal and creative identities bloomed to reveal an expansively artistic soul,” according to his family. After