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Matt Gaetz, Rick Scott win primaries in Florida – CBS News Watch CBS News Rep. Matt Gaetz, who led the effort to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, beat his primary challenger Aaron Dimmock in Florida Tuesday. Sen. Rick Scott, a former Florida governor, also won his primary. CBS News’ Nikole Killion reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Eye Opener: The Obamas make case for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump at DNC night two – CBS News Watch CBS News The crowd roars on night two of the Democratic National Convention as both Barack and Michelle Obama take the stage to make case for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump. Also, a heatwave brings record-breaking temperatures to parts of the south. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A portion of Pacific Coast Highway is closed in Malibu Wednesday morning as law enforcement deals with a suspect barricaded inside a vehicle. The highway was closed between Heathercliff Road and Busch Drive, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department posted on X, formerly Twitter, just after 5 a.m. The Sheriff’s Department said that the suspect was wanted in connected with an assault with a deadly weapon call. Cars are detoured of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Aug. 21, 2024. (KTLA) No further details about the call or the barricade situation were provided. Motorists were asked to avoid the area until further notice. Check back for updates on this developing story.

Two men are dead and two suspects are on the loose after gunfire erupted at a smoke shop in the Vermont Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles overnight. Officers responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call in the 8600 block of South Figueroa Street shortly before 10 p.m. Two victims, a 39-year-old man and a man in his 20s, were found inside the smoke shop with multiple gunshot wounds, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed. Police investigate a deadly shooting at a smoke shop in Los Angeles on Aug. 21, 2024. (RMG News) Both victims, whose identities have not been released, were pronounced dead at the scene. It was unclear if they were customers or employees of the store. Investigators learned that two male suspects, believed to be in their 20s, walked into the Figueroa Mini-Market smoke shop and fired multiple rounds at the victims. The gunmen fled in a vehicle and remain on the loose, police said. No description of the suspects or their vehicle has been released.

A Black female arson investigator is suing the city of Los Angeles for discrimination, retaliation and a “hostile work environment,” and she says the Los Angeles Fire Department did nothing to stop her harassment. Afara Lalaind, who filed her civil complaint Thursday at Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown L.A., also alleges her reputation “has been ruined” and her chance for advancement is gone. She’s seeking damages of more than $25,000, including for loss of earnings and employee benefits and the anxiety and anguish she says she has suffered. Calls and emails to Lalaind’s lawyer and to the Los Angeles city attorney’s office were not immediately returned. Lalaind, a 39-year-old Bay Area native, is a Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigator and one of the first two female board members for the Los Angeles County Stentorians , an association of African Americans in the fire service. Lalaind served as a firefighter-paramedic for six years with the LAFD before requesting to be transferred to Fire Station No. 57 in South Los Angeles in early 2022, according to the lawsuit. She was the only female firefighter at the

It’s no surprise that Southern Californians are seeing their monthly electricity bills surge this summer. As increasing rates have met with increasing temperatures, there have been anecdotal reports that, for some consumers, bills have skyrocketed, even by hundreds of dollars. And Californians are looking for answers. Why costs are rising There are several factors that influence electricity prices across the United States, including the cost to build, finance, maintain and operate power plants and the electric grid, as well as weather conditions and state regulations, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In California, the driving force behind rate hikes is utilities recovering the cost of wildfire mitigation, transmission and distribution upgrades and rooftop solar incentives, according to a recent quarterly report by the California Public Utilities Commission’s Public Advocates Office. Over the last 10 years, rates at California’s three big utility companies have risen as much as 110%, according to the report. Layered on top of those climbing rates is an increase in energy use by customers amid excessive heat. And that’s the primary reason behind larger bills, said Gabriela Ornelas, spokesperson for Southern

Communities across California, from Los Angeles to the San Joaquin Valley, have fought for more than a decade to stop oil companies from drilling in their neighborhoods and spewing health-damaging pollution into the air. The passage of a landmark state law in 2022 to ban new drilling within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, child care centers and hospitals and establish new health protections for existing wells seemed to be the victory they sought. They never imagined it might take nearly another decade for it to take full effect. Yet that’s exactly what Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has proposed in the closing days of this year’s legislative session. The law was already delayed a year and a half when the oil industry filed a referendum against the law and then withdrew it from the November ballot . Now the administration wants to extend various oil industry compliance deadlines in the law. As written, the law gives operators of wells near homes and schools until the end of this year to submit leak detection and response plans to state regulators, and until the end of 2026 to

The high school football season begins this week. A look at top storylines and other issues to follow: Can Corona Centennial end the Mater Dei/St. John Bosco domination in Division 1 football? Every season since 2016, either Mater Dei or St. John Bosco has won the Southern Section Division 1 championship. Centennial won the title in 2015 and has the best chance to end the private-school domination. Centennial came within one play of beating St. John Bosco in the Division 1 semifinals last season. As usual, coach Matt Logan fears no one and the Huskies will play Mater Dei on the road to open the season Thursday night. With quarterback Husan Longstreet, a good offensive line and speed at receiver, Centennial will be scoring lots of points this season. Longstreet has been dealing with foot injury for the past month and might not be ready for the opener. Will Mission Viejo have enough depth on the offensive and defensive lines to threaten the elite teams? When it comes to skill-position players, Mission Viejo doesn’t have to take a back seat to anyone. Quarterbacks Luke Fahey

August 21, 2024 / 7:49 AM EDT / AFP Blinken wraps trip to Middle East Bodies of Israeli hostages found as Blinken ends trip to Middle East 04:39 A young Israeli woman who became emblematic of the hostages seized by Hamas on October 7 said Wednesday she thought every night in captivity could be her last. “Every night I was falling asleep and thinking, ‘This may be the last night of my life,'” Noa Argamani said in Japan on a visit with her father. “And until the moment I was (rescued) … I just did not believe that I’m still surviving,” the 26-year-old said as she met with senior diplomats from G7 countries in Tokyo. “And in this moment that I’m still sitting with you, it’s a miracle that I’m here.” Israeli Noa Argamani, who was abducted with others from the Nova music festival during Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel that triggered war, attends a meeting with G7 embassy representatives during a visit to Tokyo on August 21, 2024. Argamani was rescued along with three others in early June after special forces fought

UPDATE: Mayanin Vazquez has been found safe and reunited with her family KTLA learned early Wednesday. No further details about Vazquez’s return were provided.  The family has asked for privacy as they focus on reuniting and moving forward. ORIGINAL STORY: Loved ones are distraught after a 16-year-old girl never came home from school and has not been heard from since. On Aug. 12, Mayanin Vazquez and her siblings began their day by walking to South East High School in South Gate. However, along the way, Vazquez separated from the group and missed her first day of class. The last known image of Vazquez was captured outside a Smart & Final grocery store on the 9800 block of Laurel Street in Watts. The girl was seen walking with a mystery man and his arm was seen wrapped around her shoulders. Family members do not know the man and are struggling to find answers in their search for Vazquez. “I’m torn up,” said Samuel Maldonado, the girl’s father. “I don’t know how I’m standing.” Mayanin Vazquez, 16, is seen in a family photo. Mayanin Vazquez, 16, is

THURSDAY CITY SECTION Nonleague Bell at Angelou, 7 p.m.Belmont at Torres, 4:30 p.m.Chatsworth at Arleta, 3:30 p.m.Crenshaw at Gardena, 7 p.m.Granada Hills at Banning, 7 p.m.Hawkins at Rivera, 7 p.m.Huntington Park at Westchester, 7:30 p.m.Legacy at Lincoln, 7 p.m.Los Angeles at Grant, 7 p.m.Manual Arts at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m.Mendez at Maywood CES, 7 p.m.North Hollywood at Canoga Park, 7 p.m.Palisades at Roosevelt, 7 p.m.San Fernando at Chavez 7 p.m.San Pedro at Kennedy, 7:30 p.m.Santee at Roybal, 7:30 p.m.Sotomayor at Van Nuys, 7 p.m.Sylmar at Marshall, 7 p.m.Taft at Monroe, 7 p.m.University at Fremont, 7:30 p.m.Verdugo Hills at Reseda, 7 p.m.Washington at Panorama, 7:30 p.m.West Adams at Jefferson, 6 p.m. SOUTHERN SECTION Nonleague Azusa vs. Ganesha at Citrus College, 7 p.m.Canyon Springs at Twentynine Palms, 7 p.m.Capistrano Valley Christian at Irvine University, 7 p.m.Citrus Hill at Rubidoux, 7:30 p.m.Citrus Valley at Etiwanda, 7 p.m.Colony at El Modena, 7 p.m.Compton at Compton Centennial, 6 p.m.Corona del Mar vs. Cypress at Western, 7 p.m.Esperanza vs. Fountain Valley at Yorba Linda, 7 p.m.Golden Valley at Antelope Valley, 7 p.m.Granite Hills at Carter, 7:30 p.m.Hemet at Indio, 7 p.m.Heritage at

A look at this week’s top high school football games: THURSDAY Corona Centennial vs. Mater Dei at Santa Ana Stadium, 7 p.m. It’s No. 1 Mater Dei vs. No. 2 Corona Centennial to start the high school football season. Former Long Beach Poly coach Raul Lara takes over the Monarchs program. He’s kept many of last season’s assistant coaches. There’s a new quarterback in Chaparral transfer Dash Beierly. Mater Dei’s strength rests with linebackers Nasir Wyatt and Abduall Sanders Jr. Centennial has the best returning quarterback in Southern California in Husan Longstreet, but he has been slowed by a foot injury, so junior Dominick Catalano could get the call. The big question for the Huskies is the secondary and new running backs. The pick: Mater Dei. FRIDAY Orange Lutheran at Gardena Serra, 7 p.m. These two top-10 teams have veteran quarterbacks, veteran linemen and talented players up and down their lineups. Orange Lutheran quarterback TJ Lateef is finally healthy and will be protected by an elite offensive line. Serra quarterback Jimmy Butler has so many weapons available at receiver that defenses won’t know who to

There’s no such thing as a sure thing in awards season — but HBO’s “Angels in America,” which swept the 56th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 19, 2004, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, sure came close. The miniseries came with every pedigree possible: Tony Kushner writing the script based on his Tony-winning play; director/executive producer Mike Nichols; and stars Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeffrey Wright — all of whom won that evening. “Angels” was the most-watched made-for-cable series in 2003, and it gave dramatic voice to the AIDS epidemic in a way no other TV project had before. An ‘Angelic’ evening And so, “Angels” had an angelic evening at the Emmys, beating the record “Roots” had held since 1977 for the most Emmys given to a miniseries in a single year (11 awards from 21 nominations). It became the first program to sweep every major category in which it was eligible, and became only the second series to that point to win all four main acting miniseries categories. Today, there is no longer simply a miniseries category; over the decades

They can’t afford to keep sending Walker Buehler to the mound. They can’t afford not to either. “Honestly,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “we don’t have another alternative right now.” The Dodgers are in a prison of their own making, their harebrained plan to turn their rotation into a nine-figure medical experiment backfiring to such a degree that it has forced them to depend on a pitcher attempting a comeback of historic proportions. Nathan Eovaldi of the Texas Rangers and Jameson Taillon of the Chicago Cubs are the only starting pitchers known to undergo second Tommy John surgeries and return to their previous performance levels. Buehler’s return from a similar procedure has taken a more conventional form, with the Dodgers’ former No. 1 starter posting a 6.09 earned-run average in 10 starts. His most recent start looked like more of the same, as he pitched four laborious innings in a 6-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners. Against the team with baseball’s lowest batting average and highest strikeout rate, Buehler was charged with three runs and seven hits. He struck out only one batter, rookie infielder

A local cave guide looks up at a giant doline in the roof of Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam. (Hoang Trung / BBCA / BBC studios ) “Planet Earth III” captures the beauty of nature with visually poetic novellas that can take the behind-the-scenes artisans months to procure. In “Extremes,” narrated by David Attenborough, we are swept away to the rarest places in the world to watch snow leopards play in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, a pack of Arctic wolves hunt giant muskox and hibernating snow frogs mate in the French Alps. And blind cave fish living in what is considered the largest cave in the world, Hang Son Doong, in Vietnam. It took the crew two days of trekking through the jungle, carrying provisions and gear, to reach the enormous wonder. Once inside, headlamps were worn and multiple drones aided in lighting the cave to unearth the never-seen-before footage. “We were there for just under eight weeks, and a place like Hang Son Doong lets us know that there’s so much left in the world to discover,” says cinematographer Luke Nelson. More

Updated on: August 21, 2024 / 7:02 AM EDT / CBS/AP 2 Sinaloa cartel leaders arrested in Texas 2 Sinaloa cartel leaders, including son of “El Chapo,” arrested in Texas 02:02 The murders of at least 10 people in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to infighting in the dominant drug smuggling cartel there, confirming fears of repercussions from the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders. Last month, Joaquín Guzmán López , a capo from one faction of the Sinaloa cartel – the Chapitos or “Little Chapos,” the sons of imprisoned cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán – turned himself in to U.S. authorities. However, he allegedly abducted the leader of the rival faction, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada , forcing him on to the same flight to El Paso and turning him in. Mexican authorities are caught in the middle of the coming storm: they weren’t involved in the July 25 capture, but they are unwilling to use the opportunity to crack down on the Sinaloa cartel. The cartel is splintering, and what’s at stake is who will take