Mes: septiembre 2019

Updated 2:00 p.m. EST (CBS/AP) NEW DELHI – The power grid across northern India failed Monday, leaving 370 million people sweating in the heat in one of the worst blackouts in a decade, highlighting the country’s inability to feed a growing hunger for energy. Hundreds of trains were halted, and hospitals and airports were forced to use backup generators to perform basic functions. New Delhi’s prestigious Metro, which has 1.8 million daily riders, was among rail services that went down when the country’s northern grid crashed about 2:30 a.m. because it could no longer keep up with the huge demand for power in the hot summer, officials in the state of Uttar Pradesh said. But, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said he was not sure exactly what caused the collapse and had formed a committee to investigate it. Residents woke from sleep when their fans and air conditioners stopped, came out of their homes in New Delhi’s sweltering heat as the entire city turned dark. Temperatures at that time were in the mid-90 degrees F with 89 percent humidity. “This will obviously get worse,” said Subhash Chawla, a 65-year-old retiree who took the Metro once power was restored. “Unless the Metro has a separate power supply, it will be chaos in the future.” The affected areas include the nation’s breadbasket in Punjab, the war-wracked region of Kashmir, the burgeoning...

(CBS) — A second “Grease” star has passed away. Actress Annette Charles, who played Cha Cha DiGregorio and 토토 메이저 famously danced with John Travolta in the iconic film, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, according to reports. She was 63. Charles had been battling cancer, her mother tells Access Hollywood, and died from complications related to the disease. As Cha Cha, the self-declared”best dancer at St. Bernadette’s,” Charles played the girlfriend of the Scorpions gang leader and memorably stole the spotlight dancing with Travolta during the school dance competition scene. Charles also appeared in “Magnum, P.I.”, “Latino” and “The Incredible Hulk” TV series.  She later became a speech professor at California State University Northridge, in Northridge, Calif. Her passing comes two months after the death of co-star Jeff Conaway, who played Kenickie in the film. Conaway died inlate May after being hospitalized in a coma that stemmed from his struggle with drugs and alcohol. He was...

(CBS/AP) LONDON – Updated 2:05 p.m. EDT Friends and family said goodbye to Amy Winehouse on Tuesday with prayers, tears, laughter and song at a funeral ceremony in London. The singer’s father, mother and brother and close friends, along with band members and celebrities – including musician/producer Mark Ronson and media personality Kelly Osbourne, her hair piled beehive-high in an echo of the singer’s signature style – were among several hundred mourners attending the service at Edgwarebury Cemetery in north London. Pictures: Amy Winehouse’s funeralPictures: Amy Winehouse, 1983-2011Pictures: Stars mourn Amy WinehousePictures: The death of Amy Winehouse Fans and photographers thronged the lane outside, but the funeral was for several hundred friends and family only. The Jewish service was led by a rabbi and included prayers in English and Hebrew and reminiscences from Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse. The cab driver and jazz singer, who helped foster his daughter’s love of music, ended his eulogy with the words “Goodnight, my angel, sleep tight. Mummy and Daddy love you ever so much.” It ended with a rendition of Carole King’s “So Far Away,” one of Winehouse’s favorite songs. “Mitch was funny, he told some great stories from childhood about how headstrong she was, and clearly the family and friends recognized the stories and laughed along,” said family spokesman Chris Goodman. “He stressed so many times she was happier now than she...

(CBS/AP) MANILA, Philippines – Philippine disaster officials were shifting Friday from rescue work to a massive clean-up of the capital following nonstop rains that left tons of muck and debris from floods littering the city. The torrential monsoon rains that began Sunday left at least 60 people dead in the worst flooding in Manila since 2009. More than half of the sprawling metropolis of 12 million was submerged at the peak of the floods, and schools and offices closed for days. About 2.4 million people in Manila and nearby provinces have been affected, forcing more than 360,000 to seek shelter in government-run evacuation centers, the Office of Civil Defense reported Friday. The sun was out for a second day Friday, and residents were hard at work fixing disheveled homes and stores in flood-hit communities that resembled a wasteland covered with mounds of mud-caked garbage. “It’s really an eyesore when we saw it from the helicopter,” said civil defense chief Benito Ramos. “There will be no more rescue. It’s now ‘Operation Cleanup.”‘ He said soldiers will be mobilized to help local authorities collect the debris that have clogged streets and waterways. Some of the displaced in still-crowded evacuation centers have begun to trickle back to their communities, where floodwaters have subsided, Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said. Reservists will be assigned to help repack relief supplies for people still in...