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Rural California hospital overwhelmed by Covid
When AFP visited St Mary hospital in this desert town of 70,000 people this week, palliative care supervisor Kari McGuire said her team were seeing...
A new stay-at-home advisory came into effect in Chicago, America's third-biggest city, on Monday.
The blazes have burned nearly five million acres (two million hectares) across the US West, torching an area roughly the size of the state of New Jersey, with fears the death toll may rise.
With hot and dry conditions, California has suffered a particularly busy fire season this year, with more than 1.6 million acres destroyed so far, including in three of the biggest blazes in the state's history.
The conflagrations, which broke out over the last week, have blackened an area larger than the U.S. state of Rhode Island and destroyed more than 500 homes and other structures. In addition to the fatalities, 43 firefighters and civilians have been hurt.
Officials for the California Independent System Operator estimated that peak electricity consumption on Monday would likely exceed available supply statewide by as much as 4,400 megawatts.
Churches as well as gyms, shopping malls, hair salons and non-essential offices must also shut indoor operations in half of the Golden State's worst-hit and most densely populated counties, including Los Angeles.
California, Texas and Arizona have emerged as new US epicentres of the pandemic, reporting record increases in COVID-19 cases.
Musk has discussed opening a second US factory outside California in the past. In a tweet in February, he solicited comments on potentially opening a factory in Texas.
It would be the first known juvenile death from the COVID-19 illness in the United States.
The adult patient was among US nationals evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the disease, who were under mandatory quarantine for 14 days at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, near San Diego, the CDC said in a statement.
The lawsuit draws on internal correspondence and other evidence, asserting the company did little to prevent sales to underage customers. It also claims that Juul used a 'flawed' age-verification process for online sales.
Police were called to the scene after at least one person opened fire into a crowd of about 35 people gathered outside the house in Fresno, around 320 kilometres north of Los Angeles.
A suspect described as a male Asian in black clothing was still at large, the Santa Clarita Valley sheriff said on Twitter.
Authorities said 7,000 homes were under mandatory evacuation orders affecting some 30,000 residents.
Thousands of firefighters were racing against the clock to gain control of two major fires -- the Kincade Fire in northern California and the Getty Fire, west of Los Angeles.
The wrestler and actor has vowed to make the donation to help the heroes as they battle the fire in the Golden State.
The so-called Kincade Fire, north of San Francisco, has spread to 30,000 acres and was only 10% contained by Sunday evening, state fire authorities said.
Fire crews in helicopters, small boats and a Coast Guard cutter battled the fierce pre-dawn fire on the 23-metre Conception, which had been on a diving excursion around Santa Cruz Island, just west of Santa Barbara in southern California.