Rare twister strikes San Francisco area
A small tornado tore through a Sunnyvale neighborhood forty miles southeast of San Francisco, uprooting trees and shattering windows. One woman was injured lightly as power outages affected about 5,500 customers in Sunnyvale and Los Altos. Weather officials noted California tornadoes are rare but documented. the storm also caused wind damage in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara received significant rain.
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Sheila Scheid
California
Silicon Valley
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Meteorolo
Dan Weygand
National Weather Service
Texas
San Luis Obispo
Bay Area
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Blaming El Nino For Weather Across America A Debate
Washington AP reports El Nino is blamed for a range of weather events from California storms to Florida tornadoes. Experts urge caution noting that while El Nino alters climate patterns it does not single out individual storms, though California faced heavy winter storms as part of the broader pattern.
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Washington
America
Michael Glantz
National Center For Atmospheric Research
Boulder
Colo
Pacific Ocean
Glantz
Florida
Torna
John M. Wallace
University of Washington
Colorado
California
Cable giant fights new HDTV signals over format space
ATLANTA AP Tele-Communications Inc. threatens not to carry CBS and NBC high-definition channels unless they switch to a smaller format. CEO John Malone says networks must adopt a less space‑hungry 1080i or risk voluntary carriage. FCC may mandate carriage as negotiations continue.
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Tele-Communications Inc
CBS
NBC
TCI
John Malone
Malone
ABC
Fox
Volun
Bob Okun
Okun
Leo Hindery
House
Billy Tauzin
R-La
Tauzin
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Bill Kennard
Cable
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