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https://twitter.com/rachelvscott/status/1719401755585257805
Driver Charged With Killing 4 Pepperdine Students Released After Posting $4M Bond
12:50 PM – Tuesday, October 31, 2023
A California baseball player who was charged with the killing of four Pepperdine University students after he allegedly lost control of his BMW on the Pacific Coast Highway, has been set free after posting a $4 million bond.
22-year-old Fraser Bohm posted bond on Friday. He pleaded not guilty to killing Pepperdine seniors Niamh Rolsten, 20, Peyton Stewart, 21, Asha Weir, 21, and Deslyn Williams, 21.
On October 17th Bohm was allegedly darting his red BMW down the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu at about 104 mph when he lost control and crashed into multiple parked vehicles, striking the four sorority sisters who were walking nearby.
22-year-old Bohm was arrested at the scene for gross vehicular manslaughter, but was released from custody just hours later as officers investigated further.
He was rearrested on murder and vehicular manslaughter charges but only spent three days in jail before posting bond.
“The investigation revealed the defendant knew his actions were dangerous to human life and directly acted with conscious disregard for human life,” said L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon.
Bohm’s defense attorney, Michael Kraut, argues he was a victim of road rage and that the crash occurred because Bohm was being chased by another driver.
“We have evidence that the sheriff’s department did not want to take that clearly shows that there was a road rage incident… this person chased him and tried to push him off the side of the road, and when he accelerated to get away from him that’s when the accident occurred,” said Kraut.
Officers said there’s no evidence suggesting road rage played a role in the crash.
Both left the crash site scratch-freed and witnesses even claim he tried to flee the scene but was stopped by onlookers.
The District Attorney’s office said if convicted, Bohm could face multiple life sentences.
The crash site is reportedly known to locals as “Dead Man’s Curve.” Advocates for traffic safety recently held demonstrations calling for the dangerous roadway to undergo improvements, such as installing speed cameras or increasing police presence in the area.
Michael Shane, whose daughter was killed on PCH in 2010, told KTTV not much has changed since his daughter’s death and it’s sad that four students had to die in order for city officials to act on making improvements.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/driver-charged-with-killing-4-pepperdine-students-released-after-posting-4m-bond/
U.S. migrant crisis: 5,000 march toward the border in the BIGGEST caravan of undocumented immigrants in more than a year amid delays at immigration centers in Mexico
UPDATED: 14:43 EDT, 31 October 2023
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About 5,000 migrants are currently traveling by foot in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in hopes of reaching the United States border
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The group departed Monday from the Chiapas city of Tapachula, which borders Guatemala, where they grew tired of waiting for refugee and visa approval
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It's believed to be the largest caravan since 6,000 people left Tapachula for the U.S. border in June 2022
As many as 5,000 migrants are marching from the southern Mexico state of Chiapas in hopes of reaching the northern border region with the United States.
Migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti initiated the trek Monday after they had grown frustrated with the long wait times the Mexican government was taking to process their refugee or exit visa applications at the main immigration processing center in the Chiapas town of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border.
Mexico's National Migration Institute, which is tasked with approving or denying the applications, has been backed up with requests. Migrants normally wait weeks or months to have their status legalized, which allows them to work and move freely in the country.
The march is said to be the largest since June 2022 when 6,000 people, many from Venezuela, took off from Tapachula.
Single adults and family units were seen traveling along the highway under the sun Monday as police served as escorts.
The group stopped traveled close to nine miles, reaching the municipality of Alvaro Obregón, where they camped out overnight, according to Mexican-American activist Irineo Mújica, one of the caravan organizers.
They were back on the road on Tuesday by 5am and planned to advance another 15 miles, according to Univision.
Venezuelan national Daniel González said that he had been on the road for three months and is not planning on returning because of the dire economic situation back home.
Day two of Migrant caravan in Southern México. Today they started walking before 5am. They plan to walk around 15 miles. The road to the US border is still very long, but they said, are determined to get there. @UniNoticias pic.twitter.com/fd6hMDVoww
Oscar Gutiérrez also abandoned Venezuela with his wife and two daughters and hopes the administration of President Joe Biden will allow them to resettle there.
'In Venezuela things are very tough, we can't live with the money we get, it's not enough for us, and that's why we're going to the United States,' he said.
'We're going to keep going,' he said. 'In Tapachula, nobody helps us.'
Honduras native Leonel Olveras said: 'The don't give out papers here. They ask us to wait for months. It's too long.'
Irineo Mújica, who in the past has been at the forefront of mass migrant, called for transit visas that will permit migrants to cross Mexico on their way to the U.S. border.
Some of the migrants in Tapachula had expressed interest to work for the government and help with the recovery efforts in the resort city of Acapulco, which was ravaged last week by Hurricane Otis.
'We are trying to save lives with this kind of actions,' Mújica said. 'They (Mexican authorities) have ignored the problem and left the migrants stranded.'
The latest caravan comes at a time when President Biden is facing intense pressure to shut down the entre of undocumented immigrants at the southwestern United States border.
U.S. Customs Border and Protection recorded 269,735 encounters along the southern border region in September, the most since December 2022 when 252,315 interdictions were registered.
Overall, CBP reported 2,475,669 interdictions in fiscal year 2023 (October 2022 to September 2022), surpassing the previous fiscal year when 2,378,944 encounters were recorded.
'In response to high rates of encounters across the southwest border in September, CBP surged resources and personnel,' CBP acting commissioner Troy A. Miller said in an October 21 statement. 'We are continually engaging with domestic and foreign partners to address historic hemispheric migration, including large migrant groups traveling on freight trains, and to enforce consequences including by preparing for direct repatriations to Venezuela.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12693327/Caravan-5000-migrants-Mexico-United-States-border.html
US power line capacity needs to at least double to handle Biden’s clean energy goals, DOE report
October 31, 2023 3:21pm
An Energy Department study released Monday finds Biden administration to achieve its clean energy goals must at least double the existing regional power line capacity by 2035.
An announcement on the study says existing power line capacity isn’t adequate to carry electricity from an increasing number of wind and solar farms, nor can it handle increased charging demand from electric vehicles.
“Today’s grid cannot adequately support 21st century challenges – including the integration of new clean-energy sources and growing transportation and building electrification – while remaining resilient in the face of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change,” the announcement stated.
The study divides the U.S. grid into 15 different regions. Alaska, California, Florida, Hawaii, New York and Texas are treated as separate regions. Other regions such as the Northwest, which includes Idaho, Oregon, Washington and parts of Montana, are composed of multiple states.
The “National Transmission Needs Study” found that transmission lines that join the regions will need to increase five fold to meet the president’s clean energy goals.
A recent report from the International Energy Agency estimated the world would need to build or refurbish 50 million miles of transmission lines in the next 17 years to meet the goals of the international emissions reduction targets of the Paris Agreement.
Besides the capital costs, which run into the millions of dollars per mile, experts warn that transmission line construction runs up against supply chain issues, land use conflicts and labor shortages, making the goals difficult, if not impossible, to achieve.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/doe-study-us-power-line-capacity-needs-double-or-more-handle-bidens-clean