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TRUMP DROPS HAMMER ON CALIFORNIA – GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES 'END OF THE LINE

Trump refused to help, so California's new governor is canceling the big liberal dream.

Liberals in California were just hit with a monster budget shortfall.

After winning office, Governor Newsom proposed an insane $144.2-billion spending plan to

fund his ridiculous left-wing schemes.

But last month, the state was $2.602 billion short of the $9.233-billion budget projection.

Why?

Because people are fleeing California over its high tax rates.

The leftist government has run California into the ground, and now they're having

to admit defeat on one of their most prized liberal dreams to get rid of the cars that

are apparently "destroying our planet" – the high-speed rail.

President Trump would not allow the federal government to fund the exorbitant project.

From Cal Matters: One of those hurdles comes from the Trump

administration itself, which decided last February to hold off on approving a $647 million

grant that would have helped electrify a stretch of track slated for future high-speed train

traffic.

And now the final nail is in the coffin.

From Fox News: California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on

Tuesday he is pulling the plug on the state's massive high-speed rail project from Los Angeles

to San Francisco that was more than a decade behind schedule and billions in the red.

"Let's be real," Newsom said in his first State of the State address.

"The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long.

There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency."

It's refreshing Newsom admitted that the bullet train was nothing more than yet another

liberal scam.

The train has already cost California taxpayers billions, and has been under construction

since 2008.

And now neither the politicians who advocated for it nor the people who voted for it have

anything to show for their efforts.

Higher land acquisition costs, the need for safety barriers, and increasing demands from

stakeholders have added billions to the project and pushed the completion date to 2033.

At this point, cutting and running is really the only option the Democrats have left.

It's also what they're best at.

For all the Left's talk about using the government to improve society, this bullet

train has only enriched a select few and left many others destitute, just like all Democrat

plans do.

Republican and San Diego Councilman Mark Kersey stated last year that all the billions wasted

on this train, "could have been invested in our current infrastructure needs, such

as water storage, flood control, highways and bridges."

But California is like the millennial of states.

They have many grand ideas, but no ability to implement them.

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Xavier Becerra On National Emergency: Donald Trump Is 'Not Above The Law' | MTP Daily | MSNBC - Duration: 6:49.

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California attorney general calls Trump's national emergency 'reckless' - Duration: 4:32.

JUDY WOODRUFF: As we heard, President Trump's declaration of a national emergency is provoking

considerable scrutiny.

Even within his own party, opinion is split, and much of the talk now is about the court

battles to come.

Amna Nawaz starts there.

AMNA NAWAZ: There are expected to be a number of legal challenges to the declaration, including

from the state of California.

The man who led that suit, Xavier Becerra, the attorney general of California and a former

member of House Democratic leadership.

Mr. Attorney General, thank you, and welcome back to the "NewsHour."

When you gave a press conference earlier, you said that you were going to be challenging

the declaration in some way after you reviewed the text, that you have sister states filing

with you.

So, now that you have read the text, what do you plan to do, when will you do it, and

who's with you?

XAVIER BECERRA (D), California Attorney General: We are still reviewing, but we are prepared

to move.

We do believe the president's actions are not only reckless, but unlawful.

And so we will move.

And we will have other states that are going to be joining with us that have been working

with us throughout this whole process.

We will be ready to go because it's important to make sure that when Americans in whatever

state send their tax dollars to the federal government that they know they are going to

be used for the right purposes and the purpose Congress said, not because some president

says all of a sudden he's unhappy and he wants to declare a national emergency.

AMNA NAWAZ: So, I know you're still reviewing the text, but based on what the president

has laid out, what do you think the legal basis for that challenge will be?

XAVIER BECERRA: The president tried and filed failed to get more money out of Congress.

As he said in his press conference, he is not happy.

And he says it's a great thing do to declare a national emergency.

And he also admitted that this is not something he needs to do.

Those are not the words of a president who is about to declare a national emergency.

Think 9/11 with President Bush.

Think President Jim Carter with the Iran hostage crisis.

In those cases, the presidents were not happy about what they are doing.

And neither president, of course, would have said, this is something I don't need to do.

President Trump just simply doesn't understand that he's limited, like any other American,

in how he tries to comply with the law.

He is not above the law.

And so in this particular case, under the Constitution, separation of powers, he doesn't

have the authority to redirect dollars that Congress has allocated to the various states.

AMNA NAWAZ: The president's supporters will say, look, some of what he said today is absolutely

true.

There have been increasing numbers of family units taxing our system in unprecedented ways.

There's this enormous immigration backlog.

There's a crisis to some degree.

And in the absence of Congress doing something about it, this is the president taking drastic

measures to do something.

What do you say to that?

XAVIER BECERRA: We certainly have challenges on the border.

And many of these challenges are manufactured by the president himself, when he treats individuals

who are trying to apply for asylum against the law, when he tries to use force on peaceful

individuals who are cross the U.S. border.

And so there's no doubt that there's a challenge, but it's not a national emergency.

For him to try to then rob money that's been allocated for good purposes throughout the

country is to deny taxpayers of their constitutional rights to make sure that there's a clear separation

of powers between an executive and a legislative branch, which is the branch that has the power

to direct dollars.

AMNA NAWAZ: Mr. Attorney General, very briefly, before I let you go, we should point out,

in the past, you have supported legally executive authority, executive actions taken by presidents,

for example, the DACA program created by executive order under President Obama.

And you filed a number of lawsuits against this administration.

So a lot of people will ask, is your objection to this legal or is it political?

XAVIER BECERRA: Remember that President Obama acted -- executive action based on his authority

as president.

He didn't change laws.

He didn't try to dismiss laws.

He was simply trying to work within the framework of our immigration laws in dealing with DACA

and the DAPA program.

Here, President Trump is not simply trying to work within the framework of our existing

laws.

He's talking trying to undermine them and cancel them in order for him to be able to

take money from other purposes that have been allocated by Congress.

And so it's a clear violation, not just of laws and the appropriations done by Congress.

It's a violation of the separation of powers under the Constitution.

AMNA NAWAZ: Mr. Attorney General Xavier Becerra of the state of California, thanks very much

for your time.

XAVIER BECERRA: Thank you.

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Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times - Duration: 1:42.

Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he is endorsing California Sen. Kamala Harris for president during a Friday television appearance on MSNBC.

Im very enthusiastic about Kamala Harris, Newsom said in an interview with Chris Hayes, host of All In. Ill be endorsing her candidacy for president. Ive known her for decades I think the American people could not do better.

Though not surprising given the long political relationship between the two former San Francisco politicians, Newsoms support could play a pivotal role in Harris prospects in an increasingly crowded Democratic field of presidential candidates. California lawmakers decided in 2017 to move the states primary to early March in an effort to make a bigger impact in the presidential sweepstakes.

Newsom said he got to know Harris well when he served as mayor of San Francisco at the same time Harris was the district attorney of the liberal Bay Area city.

His announcement follows endorsements of Harris from labor activist Dolores Huerta, co founder of the United Farm Workers, and Rep. Barbara Lee D Oakland .

Since announcing her candidacy in January, Harris has propelled herself to the front of the pack of Democratic candidates lining up to challenge Republican President Trump in 2020. Harris spent Friday campaigning in South Carolina, a pivotal early presidential primary state, starting her two day swing at a town hall in Charleston.

Harris and Newsom are longtime friends and political allies. They were both mentored by former San Francisco Mayor and state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and served in City Hall at the same time. They have also inhabited the same social circles and vacationed together.

Despite that, the two politicians were considered potential rivals after one of Californias U.S. Senate seats was vacated by the retiring Barbara Boxer in 2015. In the end, Harris jumped into the race to replace Boxer, and Newsom announced that he would run for California governor in 2018.

Times staff writer Seema Mehta contributed to this report.

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Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times - Duration: 1:44.

Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he is endorsing California Sen. Kamala Harris for president during a Friday television appearance on MSNBC.

Im very enthusiastic about Kamala Harris, Newsom said in an interview with Chris Hayes, host of All In. Ill be endorsing her candidacy for president. Ive known her for decades I think the American people could not do better.

Though not surprising given the long political relationship between the two former San Francisco politicians, Newsoms support could play a pivotal role in Harris prospects in an increasingly crowded Democratic field of presidential candidates. California lawmakers decided in 2017 to move the states primary to early March in an effort to make a bigger impact in the presidential sweepstakes.

Newsom said he got to know Harris well when he served as mayor of San Francisco at the same time Harris was the district attorney of the liberal Bay Area city.

His announcement follows endorsements of Harris from labor activist Dolores Huerta, co founder of the United Farm Workers, and Rep. Barbara Lee D Oakland .

Since announcing her candidacy in January, Harris has propelled herself to the front of the pack of Democratic candidates lining up to challenge Republican President Trump in 2020. Harris spent Friday campaigning in South Carolina, a pivotal early presidential primary state, starting her two day swing at a town hall in Charleston.

Harris and Newsom are longtime friends and political allies. They were both mentored by former San Francisco Mayor and state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and served in City Hall at the same time. They have also inhabited the same social circles and vacationed together.

Despite that, the two politicians were considered potential rivals after one of Californias U.S. Senate seats was vacated by the retiring Barbara Boxer in 2015. In the end, Harris jumped into the race to replace Boxer, and Newsom announced that he would run for California governor in 2018.

Times staff writer Seema Mehta contributed to this report.

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More snow in California than Boston? Bonkers winter continues with approaching storm Los Angeles T - Duration: 4:15.

More snow in California than Boston? Bonkers winter continues with approaching storm Los Angeles T

California is known as a land of sunshine. But, for the extreme weather that has accompanied the Wests colder months, California might as well be called the snowy state.

A series of winter storms has brought record breaking rainfall and dropped snow levels dramatically across the state, causing fresh powder to fall in areas that rarely see any. First, snow fell along the coast in Northern Californias Humboldt County on Sunday. Then, Redding at an elevation of roughly 500 feet received more powder over a 12 hour period than Boston, Mass., has seen this entire winter.

I believe the scientific term for this statistic is bonkers, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability, wrote on Twitter this week.

This is what we woke up to..Ive been living here in Shasta lake/Redding for 10 yrs never have i seen snow like this...WILD!

Forecasters said between 10 and 13 inches of snow fell on Redding this week, and the region could see more depending on how far the weekends next chilly winter storm drops snow levels.

Currently, snow levels across much of the Sierra Nevada are hovering between 2,000 and 3,000 feet and will probably remain there through much of the weekend, said Hannah Chandler Cooley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

Forecasters said there is a chance that snow levels could fall below 700 feet by Sunday night in the northern Sierra. However, the storm will be on its way out by then, so Chandler Cooley said, Itll be hit or miss with how much snow these communities get.

Much of the northern section of the state has already been under siege by snow following that hit in early February and even after

Sierra at Tahoe had received 2.8 feet of snow in 24 hours by Friday morning, pushing the resorts total over the past week to 6.4 feet. Dodge Ridge in Tuolumne County saw 1.8 feet in the same time span, and 14.5 feet over the past two weeks, according to the weather service.

Snow piled high in the Sierra might look alluring for skiers and snowboarders hoping for a good shred session, but . The weather service has issued winter storm and avalanche warnings over much of the Sierra cautioning travelers of dangerous conditions.

The ski resort in Running Springs was closed Friday because California 18, the highway that leads to the area, was blocked off after a rock slide, Caltrans reported. Mt. Baldy also was closed due to road damage. In Mono County, home to and, the weather service has issued a winter storm warning through noon Sunday.

A 70 mile stretch of Interstate 80 over the Sierra Nevada that was closed Thursday night due to white out conditions remained blocked off Friday. Officials said its not clear when the road will reopen.

Dangerous travel conditions will continue across the today through early Sunday morning. An additional 3 to 6 feet of snow are expected through this period. The Winter Storm Warning has been extended to include all of Saturday.

The next storm is also expected to gradually lower snow levels in Southern California, in addition to delivering scattered showers. Communities at elevations of 5,000 feet will probably see a fresh dusting of powder by Saturday afternoon and those as low as 1,500 feet may get some snow by Sunday night, said Keily Delerme, a meteorologist with the weather service meteorologist in Oxnard.

Theres a colder air mass thats expected to move across the area and thats whats going to bring temperatures below normal and drop snow levels, she said.

More snow means more picturesque views of the San Gabriel Mountains behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline next week.

Aside from the recreational splendor of fresh snow, the deluge also adds to an already wet winter that has replenished reservoirs and created a healthy snowpack in the Sierra Nevada a major source of Californias water supply. The snowpack on Thursday measured 141 percent of average for that date and 107 percent of average for what would typically be recorded at its peak on April 1, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

This is welcome news for the states water supply, which is replenished when the snow melts during warmer months. However, water experts warn that conservation is still necessary, even during wet winters.

Climate change has created a situation in California that the only thing thats constant is that our weather is so variable we can hardly judge it, said Chris Orrock, a Department of Water Resources spokesman. Its not if, its when well get another drought. We need to be prepared for that next round.

Rain in Southern California does much less to boost water supplies. But this week saw some record rain totals.

The storm Thursday dropped more than 10 inches of rain on Palomar Mountain, more than 6 inches in Julian and close to 3.5 inches in .

The system produced one of the wettest winter days in decades, breaking daily rainfall records in seven communities, including Palomar. The mountain received 10.10 inches, snapping the record of 9.58 inches, set Feb. 14, 1991. got 4.05 inches, nearly 2 inches higher than a record set in 1995.

A weather balloon released from Miramar Marine Corps Air Station at 4 a.m. Thursday showed the highest level of precipitable water in the atmosphere, for winter, since 1948, said Matt Moreland, meteorologist in charge of the office in Rancho Bernardo.

Downtown Los Angeles saw 2.12 inches of rain in the 24 hour period that ended at midnight Friday. The area has seen 15.5 inches of rain this water year, which began Oct. 1, surpassing the average for the entire year of 14.93 inches. This represents the region getting 173 percent of average precipitation for this time of year. Typically, the downtown area sees less than 9 inches in that time frame.

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Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times - Duration: 5:22.

Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California . Its Thursday, Feb. 14, and heres whats happening across California:

TOP STORIES

It was billed as the most ambitious public works project since the transcontinental railroad opened up the West. But bite by bite, huge cost overruns, mismanagement, political concessions and delays ate away at the sleek and soaring vision of a bullet train linking San Francisco to San Diego. A project meant to drive home Californias role as the technological vanguard of the nation was looking more and more like a pepped up Amtrak route through the Central Valley. During his first State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was scaling back the dollar 77 billion project. While his wording was open to interpretation, it signaled to many a death knell not necessarily of the project itself, but to that original dream.

Plus: After Newsom announced plans to scale back the high speed rail project, President Trump demanded that California return billions of dollars to the federal government. In a tweet Wednesday, Trump said the state had been forced to cancel the project and referred to it as a green disaster. Newsom fired back in his own tweet, decrying what he called fake news.

A closer look at the sheriffs numbers

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says the jails he now supervises are a dangerous mess: Inmates increasingly are assaulting one another, staff members are suffering more attacks and use of force has gone way up. He also says that his immediate predecessor, Jim McDonnell, covered up data on the jail violence in order to hide the problem from the public. But many of the numbers Villanueva is using to make his case are known to be unreliable.

Cracking down on Huawei

The White House is preparing a sweeping executive order that could bar Chinese companies from selling equipment for use in future U.S. telecommunications networks, claiming Beijing could exploit the technology to carry out cyber intrusions and espionage. The main target of the draft order, expected to be released in days, is Huawei, the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer. The order would not affect U.S. consumer electronics companies whose products incorporate components from China.

L.A. STORIES

Wet weather: A storm that forecasters say is the strongest this winter created havoc in Northern California, then descended on Southern California.

Plus: Atmospheric rivers are pounding the state. What are they exactly?

The tide turns: Three of West Hollywoods five City Council members have called for Mayor John Duran to resign amid allegations that he sexually harassed fellow members of the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles.

USC update: As federal regulators continue investigating USCs handling of a campus gynecologist accused of sexual abuse, the university is pressing forward with a dollar 215 million class action settlement with former patients.

A good Valentines Day read: Fall in love with the work of Yesika Salgado, a Salvadoran poet in Silver Lake.

IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER

Headed to the clink: Drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman twice escaped from prison in Mexico. With his conviction on drug trafficking and murder charges in U.S. federal court this week, he is likely headed to a much more secure facility: the so called Alcatraz of the Rockies.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Rough stuff: Michael Avenatti agreed to relinquish financial control of his longtime law firm hours after a former partner filed papers accusing him of hiding millions of dollars from the court that oversaw its bankruptcy.

A wild wall: Can Democrats prevent Trump from using his executive power to build a wall?

Gross: All that trash on Bay Area highways? Caltrans is under threat of fines if its not cleaned up.

CRIME AND COURTS

Big news: Los Angeles County supervisors this week narrowly approved tearing down the dungeon like Mens Central Jail downtown and building at least one mental health treatment facility in its place.

Manhunt ends: A man who was placed on the FBIs Ten Most Wanted list when he skipped bail after his arrest in connection with a series of sexual assaults in the Los Angeles area was shot and killed by federal agents in North Carolina, authorities said Wednesday.

Wild: Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged in Las Vegas with multiple counts of narcotics trafficking six months after police discovered heroin and meth in the Broadcom co founders massive suite at the Encore hotel.

Arrested: A 20 year old North Carolina man who federal authorities say is part of a hacker collective was arrested Tuesday and charged with threatening Southern California schools and Los Angeles International Airport.

Trouble in Fresno: Is Granite Park still cursed? The Fresno district attorney is reviewing an audit tied to a local developer and newly elected Rep. TJ Cox.

THE ENVIRONMENT

A helping hand: Gov. Newsom signed a pair of bills into law to immediately provide dollar 131.3 million in funding to expand access to clean drinking water, improve emergency preparedness and support wildfire ravaged communities.

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

RIP: Opportunity, the intrepid NASA rover that spent 15 years on Mars climbing in and out of craters to gather evidence of the planets watery past has been brought down by tiny particles of dust.

Laker trouble: Luke Waltons job is said to be safe, even as the Lakers keep losing games.

Be like Mike: LeBron James wants to own an NBA team.

Not just for the office pool: New Jersey has become the first state in the United States that will take legal Oscars bets.

Plus: How Hollywoods diversity push is also changing the makeup industry.

Troubling story: Musician Ryan Adams dangled success. Though the musician denies wrongdoing, women say they paid a price.

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles area: rainy, 63, Thursday; rainy, 57, Friday. San Diego: rainy, 63, Thursday; cloudy, 61, Friday. San Francisco area: showers, 56, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday. San Jose: showers, 60, Friday; showers, 52, Friday. Sacramento: thunderstorms, 55, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday.

AND FINALLY

Todays California memory comes from Dorothy Daily:

Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the first, if not the first, freeways. My mother drove our 1936 Dodge from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles to do our annual school shopping. I dont think we passed more than two dozen cars. Of course it was wartime 1942 1944 and gas and tires were rationed. After shopping at the May Co. we had lunch at Cliftons cafeteria. My favorite was the orange sherbet.

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Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times - Duration: 1:39.

Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he is endorsing California Sen. Kamala Harris for president during a Friday television appearance on MSNBC.

Im very enthusiastic about Kamala Harris, Newsom said in an interview with Chris Hayes, host of All In. Ill be endorsing her candidacy for president. Ive known her for decades I think the American people could not do better.

Though not surprising given the long political relationship between the two former San Francisco politicians, Newsoms support could play a pivotal role in Harris prospects in an increasingly crowded Democratic field of presidential candidates. California lawmakers decided in 2017 to move the states primary to early March in an effort to make a bigger impact in the presidential sweepstakes.

Newsom said he got to know Harris well when he served as mayor of San Francisco at the same time Harris was the district attorney of the liberal Bay Area city.

His announcement follows endorsements of Harris from labor activist Dolores Huerta, co founder of the United Farm Workers, and Rep. Barbara Lee D Oakland .

Since announcing her candidacy in January, Harris has propelled herself to the front of the pack of Democratic candidates lining up to challenge Republican President Trump in 2020. Harris spent Friday campaigning in South Carolina, a pivotal early presidential primary state, starting her two day swing at a town hall in Charleston.

Harris and Newsom are longtime friends and political allies. They were both mentored by former San Francisco Mayor and state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and served in City Hall at the same time. They have also inhabited the same social circles and vacationed together.

Despite that, the two politicians were considered potential rivals after one of Californias U.S. Senate seats was vacated by the retiring Barbara Boxer in 2015. In the end, Harris jumped into the race to replace Boxer, and Newsom announced that he would run for California governor in 2018.

Times staff writer Seema Mehta contributed to this report.

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More snow in California than Boston? Bonkers winter continues with approaching storm Los Angeles T - Duration: 4:17.

More snow in California than Boston? Bonkers winter continues with approaching storm Los Angeles T

California is known as a land of sunshine. But, for the extreme weather that has accompanied the Wests colder months, California might as well be called the snowy state.

A series of winter storms has brought record breaking rainfall and dropped snow levels dramatically across the state, causing fresh powder to fall in areas that rarely see any. First, snow fell along the coast in Northern Californias Humboldt County on Sunday. Then, Redding at an elevation of roughly 500 feet received more powder over a 12 hour period than Boston, Mass., has seen this entire winter.

I believe the scientific term for this statistic is bonkers, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability, wrote on Twitter this week.

This is what we woke up to..Ive been living here in Shasta lake/Redding for 10 yrs never have i seen snow like this...WILD!

Forecasters said between 10 and 13 inches of snow fell on Redding this week, and the region could see more depending on how far the weekends next chilly winter storm drops snow levels.

Currently, snow levels across much of the Sierra Nevada are hovering between 2,000 and 3,000 feet and will probably remain there through much of the weekend, said Hannah Chandler Cooley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

Forecasters said there is a chance that snow levels could fall below 700 feet by Sunday night in the northern Sierra. However, the storm will be on its way out by then, so Chandler Cooley said, Itll be hit or miss with how much snow these communities get.

Much of the northern section of the state has already been under siege by snow following that hit in early February and even after

Sierra at Tahoe had received 2.8 feet of snow in 24 hours by Friday morning, pushing the resorts total over the past week to 6.4 feet. Dodge Ridge in Tuolumne County saw 1.8 feet in the same time span, and 14.5 feet over the past two weeks, according to the weather service.

Snow piled high in the Sierra might look alluring for skiers and snowboarders hoping for a good shred session, but . The weather service has issued winter storm and avalanche warnings over much of the Sierra cautioning travelers of dangerous conditions.

The ski resort in Running Springs was closed Friday because California 18, the highway that leads to the area, was blocked off after a rock slide, Caltrans reported. Mt. Baldy also was closed due to road damage. In Mono County, home to and, the weather service has issued a winter storm warning through noon Sunday.

A 70 mile stretch of Interstate 80 over the Sierra Nevada that was closed Thursday night due to white out conditions remained blocked off Friday. Officials said its not clear when the road will reopen.

Dangerous travel conditions will continue across the today through early Sunday morning. An additional 3 to 6 feet of snow are expected through this period. The Winter Storm Warning has been extended to include all of Saturday.

The next storm is also expected to gradually lower snow levels in Southern California, in addition to delivering scattered showers. Communities at elevations of 5,000 feet will probably see a fresh dusting of powder by Saturday afternoon and those as low as 1,500 feet may get some snow by Sunday night, said Keily Delerme, a meteorologist with the weather service meteorologist in Oxnard.

Theres a colder air mass thats expected to move across the area and thats whats going to bring temperatures below normal and drop snow levels, she said.

More snow means more picturesque views of the San Gabriel Mountains behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline next week.

Aside from the recreational splendor of fresh snow, the deluge also adds to an already wet winter that has replenished reservoirs and created a healthy snowpack in the Sierra Nevada a major source of Californias water supply. The snowpack on Thursday measured 141 percent of average for that date and 107 percent of average for what would typically be recorded at its peak on April 1, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

This is welcome news for the states water supply, which is replenished when the snow melts during warmer months. However, water experts warn that conservation is still necessary, even during wet winters.

Climate change has created a situation in California that the only thing thats constant is that our weather is so variable we can hardly judge it, said Chris Orrock, a Department of Water Resources spokesman. Its not if, its when well get another drought. We need to be prepared for that next round.

Rain in Southern California does much less to boost water supplies. But this week saw some record rain totals.

The storm Thursday dropped more than 10 inches of rain on Palomar Mountain, more than 6 inches in Julian and close to 3.5 inches in .

The system produced one of the wettest winter days in decades, breaking daily rainfall records in seven communities, including Palomar. The mountain received 10.10 inches, snapping the record of 9.58 inches, set Feb. 14, 1991. got 4.05 inches, nearly 2 inches higher than a record set in 1995.

A weather balloon released from Miramar Marine Corps Air Station at 4 a.m. Thursday showed the highest level of precipitable water in the atmosphere, for winter, since 1948, said Matt Moreland, meteorologist in charge of the office in Rancho Bernardo.

Downtown Los Angeles saw 2.12 inches of rain in the 24 hour period that ended at midnight Friday. The area has seen 15.5 inches of rain this water year, which began Oct. 1, surpassing the average for the entire year of 14.93 inches. This represents the region getting 173 percent of average precipitation for this time of year. Typically, the downtown area sees less than 9 inches in that time frame.

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Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times - Duration: 5:25.

Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California . Its Thursday, Feb. 14, and heres whats happening across California:

TOP STORIES

It was billed as the most ambitious public works project since the transcontinental railroad opened up the West. But bite by bite, huge cost overruns, mismanagement, political concessions and delays ate away at the sleek and soaring vision of a bullet train linking San Francisco to San Diego. A project meant to drive home Californias role as the technological vanguard of the nation was looking more and more like a pepped up Amtrak route through the Central Valley. During his first State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was scaling back the dollar 77 billion project. While his wording was open to interpretation, it signaled to many a death knell not necessarily of the project itself, but to that original dream.

Plus: After Newsom announced plans to scale back the high speed rail project, President Trump demanded that California return billions of dollars to the federal government. In a tweet Wednesday, Trump said the state had been forced to cancel the project and referred to it as a green disaster. Newsom fired back in his own tweet, decrying what he called fake news.

A closer look at the sheriffs numbers

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says the jails he now supervises are a dangerous mess: Inmates increasingly are assaulting one another, staff members are suffering more attacks and use of force has gone way up. He also says that his immediate predecessor, Jim McDonnell, covered up data on the jail violence in order to hide the problem from the public. But many of the numbers Villanueva is using to make his case are known to be unreliable.

Cracking down on Huawei

The White House is preparing a sweeping executive order that could bar Chinese companies from selling equipment for use in future U.S. telecommunications networks, claiming Beijing could exploit the technology to carry out cyber intrusions and espionage. The main target of the draft order, expected to be released in days, is Huawei, the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer. The order would not affect U.S. consumer electronics companies whose products incorporate components from China.

L.A. STORIES

Wet weather: A storm that forecasters say is the strongest this winter created havoc in Northern California, then descended on Southern California.

Plus: Atmospheric rivers are pounding the state. What are they exactly?

The tide turns: Three of West Hollywoods five City Council members have called for Mayor John Duran to resign amid allegations that he sexually harassed fellow members of the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles.

USC update: As federal regulators continue investigating USCs handling of a campus gynecologist accused of sexual abuse, the university is pressing forward with a dollar 215 million class action settlement with former patients.

A good Valentines Day read: Fall in love with the work of Yesika Salgado, a Salvadoran poet in Silver Lake.

IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER

Headed to the clink: Drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman twice escaped from prison in Mexico. With his conviction on drug trafficking and murder charges in U.S. federal court this week, he is likely headed to a much more secure facility: the so called Alcatraz of the Rockies.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Rough stuff: Michael Avenatti agreed to relinquish financial control of his longtime law firm hours after a former partner filed papers accusing him of hiding millions of dollars from the court that oversaw its bankruptcy.

A wild wall: Can Democrats prevent Trump from using his executive power to build a wall?

Gross: All that trash on Bay Area highways? Caltrans is under threat of fines if its not cleaned up.

CRIME AND COURTS

Big news: Los Angeles County supervisors this week narrowly approved tearing down the dungeon like Mens Central Jail downtown and building at least one mental health treatment facility in its place.

Manhunt ends: A man who was placed on the FBIs Ten Most Wanted list when he skipped bail after his arrest in connection with a series of sexual assaults in the Los Angeles area was shot and killed by federal agents in North Carolina, authorities said Wednesday.

Wild: Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged in Las Vegas with multiple counts of narcotics trafficking six months after police discovered heroin and meth in the Broadcom co founders massive suite at the Encore hotel.

Arrested: A 20 year old North Carolina man who federal authorities say is part of a hacker collective was arrested Tuesday and charged with threatening Southern California schools and Los Angeles International Airport.

Trouble in Fresno: Is Granite Park still cursed? The Fresno district attorney is reviewing an audit tied to a local developer and newly elected Rep. TJ Cox.

THE ENVIRONMENT

A helping hand: Gov. Newsom signed a pair of bills into law to immediately provide dollar 131.3 million in funding to expand access to clean drinking water, improve emergency preparedness and support wildfire ravaged communities.

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

RIP: Opportunity, the intrepid NASA rover that spent 15 years on Mars climbing in and out of craters to gather evidence of the planets watery past has been brought down by tiny particles of dust.

Laker trouble: Luke Waltons job is said to be safe, even as the Lakers keep losing games.

Be like Mike: LeBron James wants to own an NBA team.

Not just for the office pool: New Jersey has become the first state in the United States that will take legal Oscars bets.

Plus: How Hollywoods diversity push is also changing the makeup industry.

Troubling story: Musician Ryan Adams dangled success. Though the musician denies wrongdoing, women say they paid a price.

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles area: rainy, 63, Thursday; rainy, 57, Friday. San Diego: rainy, 63, Thursday; cloudy, 61, Friday. San Francisco area: showers, 56, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday. San Jose: showers, 60, Friday; showers, 52, Friday. Sacramento: thunderstorms, 55, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday.

AND FINALLY

Todays California memory comes from Dorothy Daily:

Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the first, if not the first, freeways. My mother drove our 1936 Dodge from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles to do our annual school shopping. I dont think we passed more than two dozen cars. Of course it was wartime 1942 1944 and gas and tires were rationed. After shopping at the May Co. we had lunch at Cliftons cafeteria. My favorite was the orange sherbet.

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Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times - Duration: 5:24.

Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California . Its Thursday, Feb. 14, and heres whats happening across California:

TOP STORIES

It was billed as the most ambitious public works project since the transcontinental railroad opened up the West. But bite by bite, huge cost overruns, mismanagement, political concessions and delays ate away at the sleek and soaring vision of a bullet train linking San Francisco to San Diego. A project meant to drive home Californias role as the technological vanguard of the nation was looking more and more like a pepped up Amtrak route through the Central Valley. During his first State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was scaling back the dollar 77 billion project. While his wording was open to interpretation, it signaled to many a death knell not necessarily of the project itself, but to that original dream.

Plus: After Newsom announced plans to scale back the high speed rail project, President Trump demanded that California return billions of dollars to the federal government. In a tweet Wednesday, Trump said the state had been forced to cancel the project and referred to it as a green disaster. Newsom fired back in his own tweet, decrying what he called fake news.

A closer look at the sheriffs numbers

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says the jails he now supervises are a dangerous mess: Inmates increasingly are assaulting one another, staff members are suffering more attacks and use of force has gone way up. He also says that his immediate predecessor, Jim McDonnell, covered up data on the jail violence in order to hide the problem from the public. But many of the numbers Villanueva is using to make his case are known to be unreliable.

Cracking down on Huawei

The White House is preparing a sweeping executive order that could bar Chinese companies from selling equipment for use in future U.S. telecommunications networks, claiming Beijing could exploit the technology to carry out cyber intrusions and espionage. The main target of the draft order, expected to be released in days, is Huawei, the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer. The order would not affect U.S. consumer electronics companies whose products incorporate components from China.

L.A. STORIES

Wet weather: A storm that forecasters say is the strongest this winter created havoc in Northern California, then descended on Southern California.

Plus: Atmospheric rivers are pounding the state. What are they exactly?

The tide turns: Three of West Hollywoods five City Council members have called for Mayor John Duran to resign amid allegations that he sexually harassed fellow members of the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles.

USC update: As federal regulators continue investigating USCs handling of a campus gynecologist accused of sexual abuse, the university is pressing forward with a dollar 215 million class action settlement with former patients.

A good Valentines Day read: Fall in love with the work of Yesika Salgado, a Salvadoran poet in Silver Lake.

IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER

Headed to the clink: Drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman twice escaped from prison in Mexico. With his conviction on drug trafficking and murder charges in U.S. federal court this week, he is likely headed to a much more secure facility: the so called Alcatraz of the Rockies.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Rough stuff: Michael Avenatti agreed to relinquish financial control of his longtime law firm hours after a former partner filed papers accusing him of hiding millions of dollars from the court that oversaw its bankruptcy.

A wild wall: Can Democrats prevent Trump from using his executive power to build a wall?

Gross: All that trash on Bay Area highways? Caltrans is under threat of fines if its not cleaned up.

CRIME AND COURTS

Big news: Los Angeles County supervisors this week narrowly approved tearing down the dungeon like Mens Central Jail downtown and building at least one mental health treatment facility in its place.

Manhunt ends: A man who was placed on the FBIs Ten Most Wanted list when he skipped bail after his arrest in connection with a series of sexual assaults in the Los Angeles area was shot and killed by federal agents in North Carolina, authorities said Wednesday.

Wild: Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged in Las Vegas with multiple counts of narcotics trafficking six months after police discovered heroin and meth in the Broadcom co founders massive suite at the Encore hotel.

Arrested: A 20 year old North Carolina man who federal authorities say is part of a hacker collective was arrested Tuesday and charged with threatening Southern California schools and Los Angeles International Airport.

Trouble in Fresno: Is Granite Park still cursed? The Fresno district attorney is reviewing an audit tied to a local developer and newly elected Rep. TJ Cox.

THE ENVIRONMENT

A helping hand: Gov. Newsom signed a pair of bills into law to immediately provide dollar 131.3 million in funding to expand access to clean drinking water, improve emergency preparedness and support wildfire ravaged communities.

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

RIP: Opportunity, the intrepid NASA rover that spent 15 years on Mars climbing in and out of craters to gather evidence of the planets watery past has been brought down by tiny particles of dust.

Laker trouble: Luke Waltons job is said to be safe, even as the Lakers keep losing games.

Be like Mike: LeBron James wants to own an NBA team.

Not just for the office pool: New Jersey has become the first state in the United States that will take legal Oscars bets.

Plus: How Hollywoods diversity push is also changing the makeup industry.

Troubling story: Musician Ryan Adams dangled success. Though the musician denies wrongdoing, women say they paid a price.

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles area: rainy, 63, Thursday; rainy, 57, Friday. San Diego: rainy, 63, Thursday; cloudy, 61, Friday. San Francisco area: showers, 56, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday. San Jose: showers, 60, Friday; showers, 52, Friday. Sacramento: thunderstorms, 55, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday.

AND FINALLY

Todays California memory comes from Dorothy Daily:

Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the first, if not the first, freeways. My mother drove our 1936 Dodge from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles to do our annual school shopping. I dont think we passed more than two dozen cars. Of course it was wartime 1942 1944 and gas and tires were rationed. After shopping at the May Co. we had lunch at Cliftons cafeteria. My favorite was the orange sherbet.

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Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times - Duration: 1:44.

Sen. Kamala Harris gets California Gov. Gavin Newsoms endorsement for president Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he is endorsing California Sen. Kamala Harris for president during a Friday television appearance on MSNBC.

Im very enthusiastic about Kamala Harris, Newsom said in an interview with Chris Hayes, host of All In. Ill be endorsing her candidacy for president. Ive known her for decades I think the American people could not do better.

Though not surprising given the long political relationship between the two former San Francisco politicians, Newsoms support could play a pivotal role in Harris prospects in an increasingly crowded Democratic field of presidential candidates. California lawmakers decided in 2017 to move the states primary to early March in an effort to make a bigger impact in the presidential sweepstakes.

Newsom said he got to know Harris well when he served as mayor of San Francisco at the same time Harris was the district attorney of the liberal Bay Area city.

His announcement follows endorsements of Harris from labor activist Dolores Huerta, co founder of the United Farm Workers, and Rep. Barbara Lee D Oakland .

Since announcing her candidacy in January, Harris has propelled herself to the front of the pack of Democratic candidates lining up to challenge Republican President Trump in 2020. Harris spent Friday campaigning in South Carolina, a pivotal early presidential primary state, starting her two day swing at a town hall in Charleston.

Harris and Newsom are longtime friends and political allies. They were both mentored by former San Francisco Mayor and state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and served in City Hall at the same time. They have also inhabited the same social circles and vacationed together.

Despite that, the two politicians were considered potential rivals after one of Californias U.S. Senate seats was vacated by the retiring Barbara Boxer in 2015. In the end, Harris jumped into the race to replace Boxer, and Newsom announced that he would run for California governor in 2018.

Times staff writer Seema Mehta contributed to this report.

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6 California Officers Sh0t At Willie McCoy As He Woke In His Locked Car At Taco Bell National News - Duration: 2:59.

6 California Officers Sh0t At Willie McCoy As He Woke In His Locked Car At Taco Bell National News

Published Yesterday

Six police officers in Vallejo, California, opened fired on a local 20 year old rapper who was caught sleeping in his car at a Taco Bell.

According to , the six officers shot multiple rounds at the driver, who was identified by his family as Willie McCoy, also known as Willie Bo. All of the rounds were fired in a matter of seconds.

It seems like an execution, David Harrison, McCoys cousin and manager, told NBC News Wednesday. It looks like my baby cousin was executed by a firing squad.

In the past, the Vallejo Police Department has been accused of using excessive force and has been at the center of several civil rights complaints.

The shooting occurred on Saturday when employees called police to report a driver slumped over in his car at the drive thru. Two patrol cars arrived at the scene around 10:30 p.m.

When the officers examined the car, they reportedly saw a handgun in the drivers lap and immediately called for backup.

The two officers decided to hold their position and did not attempt to wake the driver, police said in a statement.

Although the officers discussed attempting to remove the gun from the driver, they realized the doors were locked and the car was in drive. Eventually, another patrol car arrived on the scene and was positioned in front of McCoys car to prevent forward or erratic movement, police said.

When another car arrived to block the rear of McCoys vehicle, he woke up.

Police claim McCoy was given several commands to put his hands up, but he allegedly did not comply and quickly moved his hands down to the gun.

The officers claim they began fearing for their safety and fired their weapons, police said. Police then unlocked the car by reaching through a broken window and attempted CPR on McCoy.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Now Harrison and the rest of the family are demanding an investigation take place to find out why the six officers all had to fire.

It doesnt take six officers to pump bullets through a car thats not going anywhere, Harrison said.

A preliminary investigation found a fully loaded .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun with an extended magazine, which had been reported stolen out of Oregon, authorities said.

Harrison said Willie Bo was recently in the recording studio and was on tour with his rap group, FBG. Harrison believes that on the night his cousin was killed, he went to Taco Bell to get some food and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Police are conducting a full investigation into the incident.

Written by BET Staff

Photo: NBC News

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Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times - Duration: 5:27.

Essential California The long fall for Californias bullet train Los Angeles Times

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California . Its Thursday, Feb. 14, and heres whats happening across California:

TOP STORIES

It was billed as the most ambitious public works project since the transcontinental railroad opened up the West. But bite by bite, huge cost overruns, mismanagement, political concessions and delays ate away at the sleek and soaring vision of a bullet train linking San Francisco to San Diego. A project meant to drive home Californias role as the technological vanguard of the nation was looking more and more like a pepped up Amtrak route through the Central Valley. During his first State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he was scaling back the dollar 77 billion project. While his wording was open to interpretation, it signaled to many a death knell not necessarily of the project itself, but to that original dream.

Plus: After Newsom announced plans to scale back the high speed rail project, President Trump demanded that California return billions of dollars to the federal government. In a tweet Wednesday, Trump said the state had been forced to cancel the project and referred to it as a green disaster. Newsom fired back in his own tweet, decrying what he called fake news.

A closer look at the sheriffs numbers

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says the jails he now supervises are a dangerous mess: Inmates increasingly are assaulting one another, staff members are suffering more attacks and use of force has gone way up. He also says that his immediate predecessor, Jim McDonnell, covered up data on the jail violence in order to hide the problem from the public. But many of the numbers Villanueva is using to make his case are known to be unreliable.

Cracking down on Huawei

The White House is preparing a sweeping executive order that could bar Chinese companies from selling equipment for use in future U.S. telecommunications networks, claiming Beijing could exploit the technology to carry out cyber intrusions and espionage. The main target of the draft order, expected to be released in days, is Huawei, the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer. The order would not affect U.S. consumer electronics companies whose products incorporate components from China.

L.A. STORIES

Wet weather: A storm that forecasters say is the strongest this winter created havoc in Northern California, then descended on Southern California.

Plus: Atmospheric rivers are pounding the state. What are they exactly?

The tide turns: Three of West Hollywoods five City Council members have called for Mayor John Duran to resign amid allegations that he sexually harassed fellow members of the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles.

USC update: As federal regulators continue investigating USCs handling of a campus gynecologist accused of sexual abuse, the university is pressing forward with a dollar 215 million class action settlement with former patients.

A good Valentines Day read: Fall in love with the work of Yesika Salgado, a Salvadoran poet in Silver Lake.

IMMIGRATION AND THE BORDER

Headed to the clink: Drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman twice escaped from prison in Mexico. With his conviction on drug trafficking and murder charges in U.S. federal court this week, he is likely headed to a much more secure facility: the so called Alcatraz of the Rockies.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Rough stuff: Michael Avenatti agreed to relinquish financial control of his longtime law firm hours after a former partner filed papers accusing him of hiding millions of dollars from the court that oversaw its bankruptcy.

A wild wall: Can Democrats prevent Trump from using his executive power to build a wall?

Gross: All that trash on Bay Area highways? Caltrans is under threat of fines if its not cleaned up.

CRIME AND COURTS

Big news: Los Angeles County supervisors this week narrowly approved tearing down the dungeon like Mens Central Jail downtown and building at least one mental health treatment facility in its place.

Manhunt ends: A man who was placed on the FBIs Ten Most Wanted list when he skipped bail after his arrest in connection with a series of sexual assaults in the Los Angeles area was shot and killed by federal agents in North Carolina, authorities said Wednesday.

Wild: Billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III was charged in Las Vegas with multiple counts of narcotics trafficking six months after police discovered heroin and meth in the Broadcom co founders massive suite at the Encore hotel.

Arrested: A 20 year old North Carolina man who federal authorities say is part of a hacker collective was arrested Tuesday and charged with threatening Southern California schools and Los Angeles International Airport.

Trouble in Fresno: Is Granite Park still cursed? The Fresno district attorney is reviewing an audit tied to a local developer and newly elected Rep. TJ Cox.

THE ENVIRONMENT

A helping hand: Gov. Newsom signed a pair of bills into law to immediately provide dollar 131.3 million in funding to expand access to clean drinking water, improve emergency preparedness and support wildfire ravaged communities.

CALIFORNIA CULTURE

RIP: Opportunity, the intrepid NASA rover that spent 15 years on Mars climbing in and out of craters to gather evidence of the planets watery past has been brought down by tiny particles of dust.

Laker trouble: Luke Waltons job is said to be safe, even as the Lakers keep losing games.

Be like Mike: LeBron James wants to own an NBA team.

Not just for the office pool: New Jersey has become the first state in the United States that will take legal Oscars bets.

Plus: How Hollywoods diversity push is also changing the makeup industry.

Troubling story: Musician Ryan Adams dangled success. Though the musician denies wrongdoing, women say they paid a price.

CALIFORNIA ALMANAC

Los Angeles area: rainy, 63, Thursday; rainy, 57, Friday. San Diego: rainy, 63, Thursday; cloudy, 61, Friday. San Francisco area: showers, 56, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday. San Jose: showers, 60, Friday; showers, 52, Friday. Sacramento: thunderstorms, 55, Thursday; showers, 52, Friday.

AND FINALLY

Todays California memory comes from Dorothy Daily:

Arroyo Seco Parkway, one of the first, if not the first, freeways. My mother drove our 1936 Dodge from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles to do our annual school shopping. I dont think we passed more than two dozen cars. Of course it was wartime 1942 1944 and gas and tires were rationed. After shopping at the May Co. we had lunch at Cliftons cafeteria. My favorite was the orange sherbet.