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“Representative Perry has directed us to cooperate with the Justice Department in order to ensure that it gets the information it is entitled to, but to also protect information that it is not entitled to, including communications that are protected under the Speech and Debate Clause of the United States Constitution and communications with counsel,” Irving said.

Evidence points to the DOJ’s interest in Perry as related to the FBI’s effort to reclaim presidential records that may have been improperly stored at Trump’s private estate.

The Justice Department’s inspector general, whose office declined to comment, is taking the lead on the election subversion investigation. FBI agents acting on the inspector general’s behalf in June seized the phone of attorney John Eastman, who is also connected to that effort. A Perry spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The seizure of Perry’s phone was related to the inspector general’s investigation, according to CNN.

Though dozens of GOP lawmakers have been referenced in the Jan. 6 select committee’s investigation as aiding or amplifying Trump’s attempt to cling to power, Perry’s involvement stood apart, making it all the more likely that this was the matter behind his cell phone seizure. Here are the various strands of evidence congressional investigators have revealed about Perry’s role to date.

Elevating Jeffrey Clark

Testimony released through the Senate Judiciary Committee and Jan. 6 select committee’s investigation shows Perry pushed for Jeffrey Clark — who, at the time, was a little-known Justice Department official — to helm the agency in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Trump’s allies saw Clark as more sympathetic to investigations of baseless claims of voter fraud, and Clark was preparing to tee up an official DOJ letter urging states to reconvene their legislatures and consider overturning the certified election results.

Investigators have shown that Perry helped introduce Clark to Trump and his allies. Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue told lawmakers that Perry said in a meeting “something to the effect of ‘I think Jeff Clark is great, and I think he’s the kind of guy who could get in there and do something about this stuff.’ And this was coming on the heels of the president having mentioned Mr. Clark in the afternoon call earlier that day.”

Visitor records released by the select panel showed Perry brought Clark to the White House on Dec. 22, 2020, and helped introduce him to Trump.

And in texts released by the select panel, Perry expressed urgency to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to elevate Clark.

“Mark, just checking in as time continues to count down. 11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration. We gotta get going!” Perry wrote in a Dec. 26, 2020, text, adding later, “Mark, you should call Jeff.”

Trump came within an eyelash of dismissing DOJ’s leadership and installing Clark in the days before Jan. 6, relenting only when senior leaders in the White House and Justice Department threatened to resign en masse.

Encrypted messages with Meadows

In the same Dec. 26, 2020, text exchange, Perry said he’d sent Meadows a message using the encrypted messaging service called Signal and asked: “Did you call Jeff Clark?” It’s unclear if either man retained their Signal chats, though the National Archives has previously acknowledged Meadows may not have “properly” stored all of his records from his phone and email account of him.

The Jan. 6 select panel also received testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aid to Meadows, that she heard that the chief of staff burned papers in his office after meeting in the White House with Perry, though the substance of what was in those papers are unclear.

Planning Trump’s Jan. 6 strategy

Perry also took part in a Dec. 21, 2020, meeting at the White House with lawmakers in the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus, which Perry chairs, during which they discussed strategies to block or delay certification of Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6 They particularly focused on then-Vice President Mike Pence’s role presiding over the counting of electoral votes.

Hutchinson recalled White House lawyers being present and “pushing back on” plans floated by Perry and other Trump allies for Pence to reject Biden’s electors on Jan. 6 — with the goal being to kick the election back to state legislatures to appoint their own pro- Trump voters. White House lawyers didn’t think the plan was “legally sound,” Hutchinson testified.

Taking Trump to the Capitol on Jan. 6

Testimony from Hutchinson also revealed plans for Trump to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6 — and Meadows and Perry discussing that proposal.

“I remember hearing a few different ideas discussed with — between Mark [Meadows] and Scott Perry, Mark and Rudy Giuliani,” Hutchinson told lawmakers. “I don’t know which conversations were elevated to the president. I don’t know what he personally wanted to do when he went up to the Capitol that day.”

Hutchinson similarly told the select committee that Perry had been supportive of floated plans to call on Trump supporters to march on the Capitol.

pardon request

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Perry was one of a handful of GOP lawmakers who discussed the possibility of pardons from Trump, according to Hutchinson. None of them ultimately received pardons.

“Mr. Perry asked for a pardon, too,” Hutchinson told lawmakers, adding that he talked to her directly.

Perry has denied asking for a pardon for himself or other lawmakers, though another lawmaker, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), has acknowledged his own request for a pardon related to his objections to electoral votes and has released an email from him to the White House putting his request in writing.

“The President thought it would be best just to let it play out,” Brooks told reporters in June.

At least three dive teams have joined the search for missing California 16-year-old Kiely Rodni at the Prosser Creek Reservoir near Lake Tahoe.

They arrived at a cordoned-off boat ramp early Wednesday, as the search for Rodni entered its fifth day and following fruitless efforts involving K-9s, land vehicles, aircraft and boats.

The divers were staging in the boat ramp parking lot before planned searches in areas of the reservoir, which is 60 feet deep at its nadir. Crews told Fox News Digital they planned to search underwater near the shore.

A spokesperson for the Placer County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital on Wednesday morning that there had been no developments in the search overnight.

MISSING KIELY RODNI: CALIFORNIA SEARCH TEAMS URGE PARTYGOERS TO SHARE ANY TIPS AFTER TEEN’S POSSIBLE ABDUCTION

In a joint statement, the Placer County and Nevada County sheriffs said they’d assigned 265 personnel to the case. The number of tips received has climbed to more than 300, tripling Tuesday’s total. However, authorities are still trying to find someone who witnessed Rodni leaving the party before she disappeared.

Rodni was last seen around 12:30 am Saturday at a party at the Prosser Family Campground within Tahoe National Forest in Truckee, California. Ella’s phone last pinged around 12:33 am — minutes after she’d last spoken with a friend and one of the lead search organizers, Sami Smith, 18.

MISSING KIELY RODNI: MASSIVE SEARCH AS FRIENDS REVEAL TEEN’S LAST KNOWN FOOTSTEPS IN POSSIBLE ABDUCTION CASE

Authorities say Rodni and her friend were among more than 100 teens and young adults attending a high school graduation party involving multiple area schools. Police said they suspect there were drugs and alcohol present at the gathering, but are pleading with attendees to come forward with any information about possible Rodni sightings, promising not to punish anyone for partying.

“We are not investigating you,” Angela Musallam, spokesperson for the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, told teen attendees Tuesday. “We are partnering with you to obtain any information regarding Kiely.”

CALIFORNIA 16-YEAR-OLD VANISHES IN POSSIBLE ABDUCTION AFTER PARTY; MOTHER PLEADS FOR HER RETURN

On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office shared a surveillance image that showed Rodni’s outfit on the night she went missing.

Authorities are now saying she was last seen wearing a “black spaghetti strap bodysuit” under green Dickies pants, as opposed to a black tank top initially reported. She was also wearing a black grommet belt and black Vans sneakers.

Authorities said late Tuesday that as the fourth day of searching came to a close, they had “not recovered anything they believe belongs to Kiely.”

Rodni’s mother, Lindsey Rodni-Nieman, told Fox News Digital earlier this week that she received a text from her daughter around 12:15 am Saturday saying she was headed home. The family lives about 10 miles away at a lodge south of Truckee.

Smith said she herself left the party at around 12:25 am, believing Rodni intended to spend the night camping there.

“At the point when I left, I thought she was going to stay there,” Smith said. “Everybody was camping. It was late enough that ella she should have stayed. Ella She’s not the type to go and drunk drive or anything.”

Smith said that although they met several new people in two to three hours at the party, she did not think any of them were suspicious and did not notice any older attendees.

Days of aerial searches involving planes and helicopters have uncovered no signs of a crash, Musallam said. Investigators are looking into the disappearance as a possible abduction, but they have stopped short of issuing an Amber Alert, which requires “confirmation” that a juvenile has been taken.

Rodni is described as 5-foot-7 and about 118 pounds. She has blonde hair and hazel eyes. She has a tattoo on her ribs of the number “17.” She has a nose ring and several other piercings.

Her SUV is also missing — a silver 2013 Honda CRV with California license plate 8YUR127. It has a small ram-head sticker on the back window, under the rear wiper blade.

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Anyone with information is asked to call the Placer County Sheriff’s Office’s dedicated tip line at 530-581-6320. Callers can remain anonymous.

The family is offering a $50,000 reward for Kiely’s return.

The killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque had already shaken the city’s small Muslim community, prompting businesses to close and residents to temporarily move away amid fears of a deadly spate of Islamophobic hate crimes.

Then came Tuesday’s news: The suspect, police say, is a 51-year-old man named Muhammad Syed, who is Muslim himself and whose motive may have been related to “interpersonal conflict.”

“You would expect that learning that a suspect is found and has been detained, it would feel like a breath of relief,” said Leena Aggad, the 23-year-old vice president of the University of New Mexico’s Muslim Student Association.

Instead, she said, news of the arrest felt “like another chain was placed on my heart.”

The suspect is well-known in the Muslim community

Syed is well-known to the Muslim community in Albuquerque, multiple people told NPR. He regularly came to the same mosque that the victims had attended.

“For months, this guy was praying next to other members of the community as if everything was normal,” Aggad said. “It shocks you.”

Syed has been charged in two of the four deaths, and police say he is the primary suspect in the other two killings. He was arrested during a traffic stop more than 100 miles from Albuquerque, authorities said Tuesday.

In a conversation with officers, Syed denied connection to the shootings. According to the criminal complaint, a gun recovered from his home matched bullet casings found at the crime scenes.

Police are working to determine a motive for the killings

Some reports have suggested the possibility that Syed, a Sunni Muslim, had targeted his victims over anger that his daughter had married a Shia Muslim. Authorities said Tuesday they are still working to determine the motive. (“Detectives discovered evidence that shows the offender knew the victims to some extent and an interpersonal conflict may have led to the shootings,” a police statement said.)

The suspect had lived in New Mexico for several years after immigrating from Afghanistan.

The crimes date to last November, when Mohammad Zaher Ahmadi, the 62-year-old Afghan-born owner of a halal market, was found shot to death near his store.

Then, over the past several weeks, three more men were killed: Naeem Hussain, a 25-year-old truck driver and refugee services worker who had recently acquired his US citizenship; Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, a 27-year-old planning director for the nearby city of Española; and Aftab Hussein, a 41-year-old café employee — “all really wonderful young men who enjoyed a very good reputation within their inner circles,” said Ahmad Assed, president of the Islamic Center of New Mexico, in an interview with NPR.

All three were South Asians, and all three attended the same mosque. Their community was so small that Naeem Hussain, the most recent victim, had attended the funerals of the other two.

Muhammad Imtiaz Hussain, whose brother Muhammad Afzaal was killed on Aug. 1, told NPR he did not believe the reports that the suspect had targeted the victims over anger about his daughter marrying a Shiite.

“My brother is single,” he said, and the siblings had been raised as Sunnis. They were born in Pakistan and had immigrated individually to New Mexico, where his brother of him came to study at the University of New Mexico, he said.

At school, his younger brother was elected president of the university’s Graduate and Professional Student Association, and he proudly told his older brother about the election: “‘I’m an immigrant. I’m Muslim. I’m dark-skinned. English isn’t my first language. And yet, look, people are appreciative. There’s no discrimination,'” Hussain recalled.

For some, the killings renew worries about how Muslims are perceived

The three recent killings at such a rapid pace, with the latest death last Friday, had rattled the community of several thousand Muslims who live in the Albuquerque area.

Before the news of the arrest, Assed said, the fear had disrupted daily life. People stayed home from work and prayer services out of fear of becoming a target. Some had temporarily moved out of the state altogether, I added.

“It’s a very scary situation, because their tranquility and peace have been taken away. You’re always looking around, behind your shoulder, to see if someone is following you,” said Abdur’Rauf Campos-Marquetti, a local imam.

Aggad, who wears a hijab, said she was “very scared” to leave her house. “For me, walking outside with a scarf, I am a walking symbol of Islam. It’s very obvious that I’m a Muslim,” she said.

Now, residents say, the fear has dissipated, but tension remains. At a community vigil held Tuesday night, some residents expressed concern about the perceptions of Muslims in America — that when one Muslim commits a crime, non-Muslims may view the entire faith as violent or extreme.

“It took me back to September 11th, a time where I just wanted to hide under a rock,” said Samia Assed, who helped organize the Tuesday night event. “It was just so unexpected.”

Additional reporting by NPR’s Leila Fadel, KUNM’s Alice Fordham and KUNM’s Megan Kamerick.

Air travelers just endured another weekend of widespread flight delays and cancellations. Airlines canceled more than 5,100 flights that had been scheduled from Thursday, Aug. 4 through Monday, Aug. 8, and close to 30% of the flights that did take off were delayed.

It’s something that’s become all too common this summer, as airports have been busier than at any time since the pandemic began, but airlines struggle to meet the surge in air travel demand.

The airlines blame the chronic delays and cancellations, in part, on a shortage of staff, and especially of pilots, which gets magnified in times of bad weather or other operational problems.

The pilot shortage is also forcing airlines, especially regional carriers, to reduce the number of flights they offer, particularly to smaller cities.

United Airlines has ended service to 25 destinations since the pandemic began. American and Delta have dropped dozens of cities from their flight schedules, too.

Places like Twin Falls, Idaho; Mason City, Iowa; and Elko, Nev., are down to one flight a day. United’s single daily flight to Mason City also stops in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and is that small city’s only flight each day, too.

Even Chicago’s O’Hare, one of the world’s busiest airports, has nearly 25% fewer departures each day than it did in 2019, because of the sharp drop in the number of regional airline flights to smaller cities, according to the aviation data analytics firm OAG.

The Regional Airline Association says its member airlines, including SkyWest, Republic, Envoy, Endeavor, and Mesa, which fly regional routes on behalf of the big legacy carriers such as American Eagle, Delta Shuttle and United Express, are not cutting service to these smaller airports because they want to, but because they don’t have enough pilots to staff the flights.

So to address the shortage, some in the industry and in Congress are calling for some big changes. Among them are raising the mandatory pilot retirement age from 65 to 67, and reducing the number of flight hours required before a pilot can be certified.

“We have a crisis when it comes to airline travel,” Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina said recently at his home state’s Greenville-Spartanburg airport. “We have a pilot shortage and those who say we don’t, well, they’re just full of it.”

“We’re suffering because of this,” Graham added. “Airlines have to make decisions, so when you have fewer pilots, you gotta pick what routes to fly, and regional airports like Greenville and throughout other smaller communities suffer the most.”

With too few pilots to staff flights, airlines have had to park hundreds of airplanes.

“There are approximately 500 fewer regional aircraft operating today than at the end of 2019,” says Drew Lemos of the Regional Airlines Association. “This represents a loss of a quarter of the regional fleet. Five-hundred parked aircraft equates to a deficiency of approximately 5,000 pilots.”

Calls for raising the minimum retirement age

So to keep the industry from losing even more pilots, Graham is sponsoring legislation that would raise the mandatory airline pilot retirement age from 65 to 67, as long as they continue to meet the FAA’s stringent medical qualifications to fly commercial aircraft.

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that US airlines will need to hire about 14,500 pilots each year over the next decade, but new pilot training and licensing is not keeping up with that demand.

And Graham and the RAA say in the next two years, 5,000 pilots will be forced out of the industry as they reach that mandatory retirement age, and 14,000 pilots will age out of the cockpit by 2026.

“Pilots will be aged out, not because they’re unsafe, just simply because they reach 65,” Graham said. “My legislation would allow pilots to continue to fly if they meet the qualifications. We’re not dumbing down anything.”

“This legislation is critical to help address the pilot shortage and prevent air service loss in communities across the country,” Lemos added.

But the unions representing airline pilots disagree.

“It’s a bad idea and it doesn’t solve the problem,” says Capt. Dennis Tajer, a 737 pilot for American Airlines and spokesperson for the Allied Pilots Association.

He contends the air travel problems this summer are not simply because of a shortage of pilots.

“There’s a shortage of plans,” says Tajer, adding that airline “management did not plan for this recovery” in air travel.

Tajer suggests that to the extent there is a shortage of pilots, the airlines brought that upon themselves. He points out that even though the airlines received $50 billion in taxpayer funding to keep employees on the payroll during the pandemic, many of them gave pilots generous early retirement packages, including partial pay, benefits and other enticements.

“To save money, they incentivized pilots to retire early and they never started training the pilots that would fill those seats,” Tajer said.

The other major union representing airline pilots, the Air Lines Pilots Association, echoes those comments, while contending that there is no pilot shortage. The union says in a news release that the proposed legislation is a “misguided attempt to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”

“This legislation is yet another attempt to distract the conversation from the real issue, which is that some US airlines have clearly failed to plan for the industry’s comeback that we are experiencing today,” Capt. Joe DePete, ALPA’s president, said in the news release. He added that raising the retirement age “would only increase costs for airlines as well as introduce unnecessary risks to passengers and crew alike.”

Because the international mandatory retirement age for pilots is also 65, if the age was raised in the United States, pilots 65 or older would no longer be allowed to fly overseas. Those routes are usually flown on widebody jets, such as Boeing’s 777 and 787, so those veteran pilots would have to be retrained on smaller narrow body planes to keep flying.

That is one of the reasons some of the bigger, legacy airlines oppose raising the retirement age. They and others also bring up safety concerns, citing research showing that cognitive abilities decline as people age.

When asked recently about increasing the mandatory retirement age, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said he doesn’t think it’s a solution, telling CNBC that “at United, of our age 64 pilots, 36% of them are unavailable to fly on a given day for sick, short-term or long-term medical reasons.

“We’re already at 36% at that age, so extending the age… I don’t think is going to be the answer,” Kirby added.

And Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg echoed such concerns recently on Fox News Sunday.

“Look, these retirement ages are there for a reason and the reason is safety. I’m not going to be on board with anything that could compromise safety,” Buttigieg said. “The answer is not to keep the baby boomer generation in the cockpit indefinitely. The answer is to make sure that we have as many and as good pilots ready to take their place; to have a stronger pipeline.”

Many aviation experts don’t doubt that some airline pilots would be able to continue flying safely after turning 65, but they say, at best, it’s only a short-term fix.

“This is not a solution to the pilot-supply issue,” says Elizabeth Bjerke, a pilot, aviation professor and associate dean at the University of North Dakota. “This would be maybe a short term, extra bubble of pilots, but it’s not going to fix the long-term issue of needing more pilots. We really need to focus on inspiring, exciting and supporting the next generation of aviation professionals.”

Also looking to lower mandatory training hours

Another proposal aimed at quickly increasing the number of airline pilots is to reduce the 1,500 hours of flight time required for airline pilot certification.

There are exceptions to the FAA’s 1,500-hour rule. Pilots with military training can be certified with 750 hours of flight time because that is considered optimal training; those earning a 4-year college aviation degree can earn an Air Transport Pilot certification with 1,000 hours; and those with 2-year degrees can be licensed with 1,250 hours.

Regional carrier Republic Airways has petitioned the FAA for an exemption to allow graduates of it’s flight school to obtain a first officer’s ATP certificate with 750 hours of flight time, the same level as pilots trained in the military.

Some experts argue that it’s not the amount of time in the air that matters, but the quality of the training, and training in a commercial jet simulator will actually be more valuable to an aspiring airline pilot than flying a few hours in a small airplane a couple times a week or on weekends.

But Bjerke and others point out that the United States has enjoyed an unprecedented period of commercial airline safety since the 1,500-hour rule and other safety regulations went into effect a decade ago.

And she notes that one of the best ways to gain flight hours and valuable experience is working as a flight instructor after completing a flight school program. Most aspiring commercial airline pilots earn their flight hours by getting certified to be and working as flight instructors, so luring them to the airlines prematurely could actually exacerbate the pilot shortage.

There’s already a shortage of flight instructors, Bjerke says, so losing the current pipeline of flight instructors to the airlines “would be detrimental to how many students we could bring into our aviation program. So, again, what looks like a short-term fix is going to have long lasting impacts on the pilot supply because we need qualified flight instructors to train that next generation.”

But despite such concerns, as passenger frustrations this summer grow over chronic flight delays and cancellations, Congress may feel compelled to take up the proposals to increase the pilot retirement age and cut the number of hours required for air transport pilot certification.

LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant was one of the most photogenic sports figures in Los Angeles and images of him seen by millions around the world — smiling in victory, grimacing in agony — keep his memory alive.

But some photos of him should never be seen, his widow says, and she’s seeking unspecified millions in compensation for snapshots taken of the NBA star’s corpse that were circulated after he was killed in a helicopter crash with their daughter and seven others in 2020.

Vanessa Bryant’s invasion of privacy trial against the Los Angeles County sheriff’s and fire departments began Wednesday in a US District Court just over a mile from where Kobe Bryant played most of his career with the Lakers. A jury was promptly seated in the case, and opening statements were scheduled to start in the afternoon.

Vanessa Bryant claims deputies did not take the photos for investigative purposes and shared them with firefighters who responded to the crash scene. The lawsuit said a deputy showed the photos to bar patrons and a firefighter showed them to off-duty colleagues.

“Mrs. Bryant feels ill at the thought that sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, and members of the public have gawked at gratuitous images of her deceased husband and child,” according to the lawsuit. “She lives in fear that she or her children de ella will one day confront horrific images of their loved ones online.”

Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and other parents and players were flying to a girls basketball tournament when their chartered helicopter crashed in the Calabasas hills west of Los Angeles in fog. Federal safety officials blamed pilot error for the wreck.

Vanessa Bryant has also sued the helicopter charter company and the deceased pilot’s estate.

The county has argued that Bryant has suffered emotional distress from the deaths, not the photos, which were ordered deleted by Sheriff Alex Villanueva. They said the photos have never been in the media, on the internet or otherwise publicly disseminated and that the lawsuit is speculative about harm she may suffer.

A law prompted by the crash makes it a crime for first responders to take unauthorized photos of deceased people at the scene of an accident or crime.

The county already agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a similar case brought by two families whose relatives died in the Jan. 26, 2020, crash.

Vanessa Bryant did not settle her case, indicating she’s seeking more.

The litigation has at times been ugly.

When the county sought a psychiatric evaluation of Bryant to determine if she suffered emotional distress because of the photos, her lawyer criticized the “scorched-earth discovery tactics” to bully her and other family members of victims to abandon their lawsuits.

The county responded by saying they were sympathetic to Bryant’s losses and dismissed her case as a “money grab.”

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) – Authorities confirm that three people are dead following a house explosion that occurred in Evansville on Wednesday afternoon.

It happened near the 1000 block of Weinbach Avenue.

Officials say the call originally came in just before 1 pm

The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office says three people were killed as a result of the explosion. Officials with the Evansville Fire Department say another person was transported to a nearby hospital, but the severity of the victim’s injuries is unknown at this time.

Officials say more details will be released once the victims’ families are notified.

Evansville Fire Chief Mike Connelly says that a special collapse unit was requested to the scene.

Officials say that most surrounding houses were unoccupied except for pets.

The Evansville Police Department urges people to avoid the area of ​​North Hercules Avenue between Columbia Avenue and Vogel Road. Police say this area is blocked off.

EPD officials also ask people to avoid the area of ​​North Weinbach Avenue from Vogel Road to Morgan Avenue. They say the road is completely shut down.

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In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Chief Connelly said 39 homes were damaged as a result of the explosion, and four homes were destroyed.

The number of displaced persons is unknown at this time.

Chief Connelly says eight fire units are currently on scene, while an Arson investigation is now underway.

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During another briefing later in the afternoon, Chief Connelly said there’s a possibility of additional victims due to the explosion.

Chief Connelly also says that search and debris cleanup has been paused until the nearby homes are deemed safe. He says the affected area is approximately a 100-foot radius surrounding the blast.

We will update this story once more information is available.

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New video has emerged of a plane crash-landing on a California freeway Tuesday that miraculously resulted in no injuries.

The new footage appears to come from a camera on the rear of a vehicle that had already driven by the site of the crash. The camera captured footage of the plane as it descends onto the crowded highway and attempts an emergency landing. The plane then makes impact with a truck and skids into a barrier before bursting into flames.

The plane, a single-engine Pipe PA-32, crashed on the 91 Freeway between Lincoln and Main in Corona, a roughly 45-minute drive east of Los Angeles, at 12:30 pm local time. It was attempting to fly to Corona Municipal Airport, but the pilot reported having an unspecified “engine issue” and was forced to attempt the emergency landing.

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The Corona Fire Department said the plane broke apart and caught on fire on impact, while California Highway Patrol said there were no injuries as a result of the crash, including the two occupants of the plane.

Traffic was backed up for thousands on the 91 Freeway as fire crews worked to extinguish the blaze.

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The FAA told Fox News it is investigating the incident.

A California dermatologist has been arrested after her husband secretly recorded her allegedly poisoning him by pouring Drano into his drinks, according to officials and a filing for a restraining order.

Dr. Yue Yu, 45, was arrested Thursday and booked into the Orange County Jail, the Irvine Police Department said in a news release. She was released Friday after posting $30,000 bond.

Her husband of 10 years, who was not identified by police, contacted Irvine authorities Thursday, saying he suspected Yu was poisoning him. An attorney for the husband identified him as Dr. Jack Chen, 53, a radiologist.

In a bid to catch his wife in the act, the husband “placed cameras in the home that surreptitiously recorded evidence in the case,” and shared the footage with police, Lt. Bill Bingham told NBC News.

Police arrived at the couple’s home with a search warrant the same day, interviewed Yu and subsequently arrested her.

Yu, who has not been formally charged in the case, “vehemently and unequivocally denies ever attempting to poison her husband or anyone else,” her attorney, David E. Wohl, said.

According to police, the husband fell ill “over the course of one month” and sustained “significant internal injuries.”

Chen’s attorney said his client filed for a restraining order against Yu on Friday. I have filed for divorce the same day, court records show.

Chen said in the filing for a restraining order that he caught Yu on video on three occasions putting the drain cleaner into his hot lemonade drink.

The alleged poisonings happened July 11, 18 and 25, according to the filing.

In the July 18 incident, Chenly allegedly covered his cup with plastic wrap. When he was gone, Yu took the drain cleaner from under the kitchen sink, removed the cellophane covering, poured the liquid into the lemonade, then replaced the cellophane, the filing said.

Chen said he started noticing a “chemical taste” in his lemonade in March and April. He went to a doctor who diagnosed him with two stomach ulcers, gastritis and inflammation of the esophagus. The health issues prompted him to set up the cameras.

The couple married in 2012 and have two children, ages 7 and 8.

Yu is a dermatologist affiliated with Providence Mission Hospital.

A spokesperson for the hospital said Yu is a dermatologist with Mission Heritage Medical Group, which serves communities in South Orange County, and her office is not located in the hospital.

“This is an active police investigation and Mission Heritage Medical Group is cooperating fully with the Irvine Police Department,” the spokesperson said. “The incident is a domestic matter which occurred in Irvine, and we want to reassure our community that there has been no impact on our patients.”

Wohl, Yu’s attorney, said his client, who goes by her first name Emily, is “a well-respected physician.”

“Her goal has always been to help people and never to harm people. Accordingly, she also strongly denies her husband’s claims of abusing him and their children emotionally and physically, “he added.

“We are very concerned that these false allegations have been made by her husband in an attempt to gain an advantage in his recently filed divorce and custody case against her,” Wohl said.

A spokesperson for the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said they are still reviewing evidence and have not made a filing decision yet. Yu isn’t due in court until Nov. 3, 2022.