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Daily news roundup for Monday, January 11, 2016

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Here’s what’s happening in the Bay Area, as curated by KALW News:

No winning Powerball tickets sold; jackpot hits $1.3 billion// Los Angeles Times 

"The Powerball lottery jackpot has risen to more than $1.38 billion, the largest amount in U.S. history. Lottery fever has gripped the country as people scramble to buy tickets before the next drawing Wednesday. 

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Sean Penn and "El Chapo" // New York Times

"Sean Penn met with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as “El Chapo,” in a jungle hide-out in October, according to an article the actor wrote for Rolling Stone magazine that was published Saturday night.

"Here is what you need to know about the secret mountaintop meeting between the actor and head of the Sinaloa cartel who had been on the run since his July escape from prison."

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Bart train shooting: heroic passengers desperately tried to save victim // Inside Bay Area

"When an unidentified young man was shot on a BART train in West Oakland and fell to the ground bleeding, a number of passengers came together to care for the victim and other traumatized BART riders.

"It was partly being a hero, but you can also call it people driven to action," one witness said. Despite their efforts, the man died."

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California drought how will we know when it's over? //Mercury News  

"Now that 2016 has gotten off to a wet start, with a series of El Niño storms drenching California in recent days, the question is turning up with increasing frequency at dinner parties and coffee shops: "How will we know when the drought is over?" 

"The answer, water experts say, is more complicated than you'd think."

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Community college students create device to help boy bend his arms// Contra Costa Times

"A new biomedical engineering program at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills teaches students to develop products for children with disabilities.

"The students built “exo-arms” to help a 4-year-old San Jose boy with a condition that prevents him from contracting his arms with his own muscles. "

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Oakland archivist revives 1917 feminist film // East Bay Express

"James Mockoski, a film archivist for Francis Ford Coppola's company American Zoetrope, has a found a 99-year-old feminist film that was thought to be lost.

"He’s partnering with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival to raise $60,000 to restore and premiere Mothers of Men at the annual festival in June."

 

 

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