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Kanye West’s ‘wife’ Bianca Censori looks like Kim Kardashian’s twin in new pics of couple’s date night in LA
KANYE West’s new wife Bianca Censori has appeared looking identical to his ex Kim Kardashian in photos as the couple was spotted leaving a restaurant in Los Angeles.
The rapper and his fashion designer love interest were seen for the first time since his explosive reaction to a photographer over the weekend.
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Kanye, 45, and Bianca, 28, were spotted out enjoying dinner at the popular restaurant Beauty & Essex in Hollywood on Tuesday.
The Yeezy founder wore a head-to-toe black outfit complete with a full-face ski mask.
His new wife sported a sheer long-sleeved black with a belt, fuzzy white heeled boots, and an oversized brown leather bag.
Bianca wore her short platinum hair slicked back and was seen chatting on the phone as the two exited the restaurant.
The fashion designer looked like the spitting image of Kanye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian while on the romantic outing.
The rapper and his “wife” dined for three hours at the establishment before leaving out the back door and hopping in a black car.
KANYE’S ANGER
The dinner date followed the father of four being caught on camera earlier this week grabbing a photographer’s phone and throwing it in a head-turning moment.
The controversial star was on his way to his eldest daughter North’s basketball game when the wild encounter occurred.
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According to TMZ, Kanye has been named a suspect in a battery investigation after getting into it with a photographer.
He saw the woman with her phone out and accused her of following him.
The Chicago native got angry and grabbed her phone before throwing it.
The entire exchange was captured on video.
In the clip, the woman could be heard shouting: “You’re a celebrity!” before things really kicked off.
After tossing the phone, the hitmaker hopped into a nearby SUV, where his new wife Bianca Censori was waiting for him.
Deputies from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department were called to the scene around 4:30 pm local time.
They were given video evidence to aid in their investigation.
Law enforcement sources told the outlet that Kanye is now the suspect in a battery investigation surrounding the incident, which took place near a sports complex where North was playing basketball.
It’s not clear at this time whether the woman is a professional photographer or just a regular person taking videos of Kanye.
A friend close to the Yeezy designer spoke with The U.S. Sun exclusively about the incident, defending Kanye.
They said: “He was followed which is illegal in California- look it up. He was taunted by this woman paparazzi… [a publication] ran a fake story on Ye posting pictures of his kids without any adult present saying it was at his wedding when it was really just him spending time with the kids at church.”
“Kanye was followed by this photographer… he asked her to stop and he felt harassed disrespected, and defenseless…” the pal added.
SILENT KIM
Kanye’s ex, Kim Kardashian, hasn’t spoken out about the incident.
The Hulu star was seen making her way into her daughter’s game and sitting courtside.
She kept it casual, wearing a red and orange jersey with white text on it and black biker shorts.
Kim, 42, was not with her ex-husband when the incident occurred.
Kanye is believed to have tied the knot with Bianca two months after his divorce from Kim was finalized.
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Astronomers identify 1st twin stars doomed to collide in kilonova explosion
Although massive stars usually die with spectacular explosions, a handful fizzle out like dud firecrackers.
Astronomers have identified the remnants of one such dud firecracker in SGR 0755-2933, a neutron star about 11,400 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Puppis. In new research, scientists say that earlier in its lifetime, this star transferred abnormally high amounts of mass to its binary companion — so much so that it was not left with enough material for an explosive death. Instead, it ended in a quiet “ultra-stripped” supernova, a rare cosmic event that leaves a super-dense remnant called a neutron star in its wake.
“This remarkable binary system is essentially a one-in-10-billion system,” André-Nicolas Chené, an astronomer at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab research center and a co-author of the new study, said in a statement.
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The neutron star and its closely orbiting binary companion — a star that the researchers also predict will someday collapse to become a neutron star — mark the first clear example of a star system that will ultimately trigger a kilonova, a cosmic explosion during which two neutron stars merge.
Although a kilonova was first detected in 2017, astronomers then recorded only the aftermath of the event, thanks to observations of light and gravitational waves. The new research is the first time scientists have identified a binary star system that they know will end in a kilonova explosion.
Moreover, astronomers previously thought that only one or two such systems would exist in spiral galaxies like our Milky Way. Researchers of the latest study have now increased that estimate to 10, noting that these observations help them better understand the history, evolution and atypically calm deaths of stars in such systems.
“For quite some time, astronomers speculated about the exact conditions that could eventually lead to a kilonova,” Chené said in the statement. “These new results demonstrate that, in at least some cases, two sibling neutron stars can merge when one of them was created without a classical supernova explosion.”
The sibling star is massive, orbits the primary neutron star every 60 days, and has a name like a license plate: CPD-29 2176. Scientists behind the latest research studied this sibling star to understand the formation of the current star system, as well as what might unfold in its future.
“This is not just a simple binary system”
Clarissa Pavao, an undergraduate student at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona, found the system while scouring data captured by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. In particular, she was plotting the spectra of the sibling star, an analysis of how much light a star emits at particular wavelengths. After cleaning noise from the data, she noticed one simple line in the spectra that suggested the massive star had a highly circular orbit — an unusual feature in binary star systems.
This was a key finding that helped the team conclude that the primary neutron star ended as a dud supernova, the astronomers said.
Usually, when one of the stars in a binary system burns through its hydrogen and nears the end of its main-sequence stage, it begins transferring mass to its companion star. The resulting end-of-life explosion often kicks companion stars out of the systems and into highly elliptical orbits.
But this did not seem to have occurred in the intriguing system. To better understand what might have happened at the end of SGR 0755-2933’s life, astronomers waded through thousands of models that described binary star systems resembling the one they were studying. They only found two that matched.
The team then traced the star’s history and concluded it behaved, for the most part, like any other massive star running out of fuel: Toward the end of its life, the star began transferring mass to its companion and dwindled into a low-mass star with a helium core, as scientists expected. In this process, however, the star lost so much mass that its end-of-life supernova “didn’t even have enough energy to kick the orbit into the more typical elliptical shape seen in similar binaries,” Noel Richardson, an astronomer at Embry-Riddle and lead author of the new study, said in a statement.
The dying star also did not have enough energy to kick its companion out of the system, which is why the two stars continue to have tight orbits, according to the study.
In addition to learning more about kilonova events, the new research will help astronomers better understand the origins of some of the heaviest elements in our universe.
The quiet supernova occurred only a few million years ago, and astronomers expect the CPD-29 2176 system to remain as it is for at least one million years more. Their models show that, much like the primary neutron star, the sibling star too will then become an ultra-stripped supernova and eventually collapse into a neutron star.
Millions of years from now, the team predicts that the two neutron stars will spiral slowly toward each other in a cosmic dance, ultimately colliding in a kilonova explosion. Such explosions are known to be a source of immense quantities of heavy elements like platinum, xenon, uranium and gold “that get hurled into the universe,” Richardson said.
Astronomers have long suspected that heavy metals released during such events hovered in the interstellar medium until they coalesced into asteroids, which then bombarded Earth as it formed and deposited the precious metals we see today. The 2017 kilonova event alone sent at least 100 Earth’s worth of precious heavy metals out there, so it looks like a failed supernova isn’t such a loss to the universe after all.
The research is described in a paper (opens in new tab) published Wednesday (Feb. 1) in the journal Nature.
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NASA scientist explains why Venus is Earth’s ‘evil twin’ (video)
A new NASA video makes the case that Venus is Earth’s “evil twin.”
The nefarious moniker is revealed to be, in a way, an apt description of why astronomers will be investigating Venus this decade. Scientists and engineers from NASA and the European Space Agency are gearing up to send three new missions to the second rock from the sun. They want to know a whole lot more about the nearby planet, which resembles Earth in so many ways, and yet is so strikingly different.
The video touches on a few nightmarish but intriguing aspects of Venus. For one, it’s got a runaway greenhouse effect. The 15-mile-thick (24 kilometers) shroud of atmosphere is made of carbon dioxide and contains sulfuric acid clouds. The planet produces temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Lori Glaze, NASA’s director of planetary science, said in the video that the Venusian surface can reach 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480 degrees Celsius).
“So it is a crazy place, but really interesting,” Glaze said. “And we really want to understand why Venus and Earth turned out so differently.”
Related: Scientists hail ‘the decade of Venus’ with 3 new missions on the way
At least three missions to Venus will fly within the next decade or so. There is NASA’s DAVINCI, short for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging, which includes two major components. First and foremost is a spacecraft that will fly by Venus, capturing data about the planet’s clouds and its terrain, in addition to acting as a telecommunications hub for the mission. Second is a special descent probe, which will drop down through Venus’ thick atmosphere and collect data as it journeys through the perilous environment.
Another mission, called VERITAS, will become the first NASA orbiter to visit Venus since the 1990s. VERITAS is short for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy. The spacecraft will develop a big-picture look at Venus and its history, aiding scientists who want to know more about its volcanoes and to determine whether Venus ever had water. The Italian Space Agency (ASI), the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French Space Agency (CNES) will also contribute to VERITAS.
Then there is the EnVision mission from the European Space Agency (ESA). The NASA-supported mission targets a launch in the early 2030s. When it reaches Venus, EnVision will try to learn why Venus became Earth’s “evil twin,” as the NASA video describes it. Specifically, it will study Venus’ hostile atmosphere and its inner core to see how both planets could form in the same part of the solar system and with the same stuff, yet yield wildly different realities.
Perhaps soon, these missions will let us marvel at Earth’s closest planetary neighbor.
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A Minnesota Twin again, Carlos Correa couldn’t believe Giants, Mets deals fell through
As Carlos Correa slipped a newly designed Minnesota Twins jersey around his shoulders Wednesday, he uttered the words that could have ended his free agent saga a month ago.
“These are clean,” he said of the fresh gear.
Of course, had doctors for the San Francisco Giants or New York Mets said the same about MRI results before finalizing commitments of greater than $300 million last month, Correa would not have been back at Target Field. Instead, a decade-old ankle fracture that gave examining orthopedists pause scuttled agreements of $350 million over 15 years (from the Giants) and $315 million over 12 (from the Mets), sending he and agent Scott Boras on an unprecedented free agent hunt for a nine-figure contract and, most of all, a belief.
That Correa was healthy. That his surgically repaired right ankle would remain intact through the life of a decade-long commitment. And that even if the 28-year-old shortstop eventually encountered health woes, the remaining peak years of his career would be worth any risk on the back end.
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He found that belief in the same place he departed, albeit for $150 million less than the Giants promised. But Correa’s guaranteed six-year, $200 million deal – that can grow to $270 million over 10 years by meeting plate appearance plateaus – is an outcome that belies an unprecedented process.
“The journeys are not always linear,” says Derek Falvey, the Twins’ president of baseball operations who signed Correa to a short-term deal in March 2022, kept in contact with his camp all winter and then, suddenly, provided a comfortable fallback option.
“Sometimes, they are circular.”
Correa’s re-introduction as a Twin shed at least some light on that pilgrimage from San Francisco, to Queens and finally back to the Twin Cities, where the real MVP of this agreement arguably is not Boras or Correa or Falvey, but rather Twins medical director Chris Camp, who’s had access to Correa’s medical file for nearly a year.
When this saga once again reached its final lap on Tuesday, and Correa underwent yet another physical, Camp raised a checkered flag rather than a red one, to the relief of many.
Perhaps the Twins will regret this risk. Or the Giants and Mets will bemoan the loss of a true franchise player. Or maybe it will be as right as an imperfect process can be – that the reduced length and value of the deal will match Correa’s viability and availability through 2028.
“One thing I learned throughout this whole process is, doctors have a difference of opinion,” Correa said at a news conference attended by his wife Daniella, son Kylo, parents, in-laws and siblings – the expected attendees on Dec. 20, when the Giants canceled his San Francisco rollout just hours in advance.
“When the news came, I was shocked. It was definitely an emotional roller coaster.”
The biggest climbs and falls came as Correa was expected to slip on a cream-colored Giants uniform, before doctors raised concerns about the physical. Boras, fearing the worst of a protracted delay induced by medical fears, pivoted quickly to Mets owner Steve Cohen, who entered the fray too late to beat out the Giants, but never met a nine-figure contract he didn’t like.
The deal was done in hours. And undone between Christmas and New Year’s.
How, the shortstop and his agent wondered, could an injury that never befell him during an eight-year major league career sidetrack the deal of a lifetime?
“Very surprising. Especially because in 2022 I did three physicals,” says Correa, counting his physical with the Twins before signing a three-year, $105.3 million deal that he opted out of, an independent physical with orthopedist and Dodgers medical director Neal ElAttrache and his exit physical with Camp in Minnesota.
“My body feels great. Never felt better. Through that whole month when people were speculating, I was running sprints, I was working out, I was taking ground balls, I was hitting. It was more funny to me that people were having speculations when I was doing all this work and feeling great.”
Boras, the super agent who could probably create leverage against a raging bull in a phone booth, suddenly had one of the most vexing negotiations of his career. Correa hired him in January 2022, after Correa’s former agent failed to land him a deal before Major League Baseball’s 99-day lockout commenced.
The highly public nature of the Giants and Mets deals – both leaked despite not being finalized – meant the entire industry knew of the medical red flags. Throughout it all, Falvey and the Twins lurked, knowing their revenue might could not match the Giants and Mets but keeping a healthy relationship open in the event something happened.
In this case, familiarity bred approval. And it’s clear who now holds the title of Boras’s favorite doctor.
“Dr. Chris Camp, throughout this process, has been the most understood orthopedist,” says Boras. “That was paramount in making great decisions and what the organization can do. It gave Derek and I a very sound foundation to work from, and a clarity that other organizations didn’t enjoy – that depth of understanding of who Carlos was and his medical standing.
“We’re not here to fault other doctors. But day-to-day examination is far more important than an MRI. That really allowed the theater for us to put together a fair and equitable process.”
Correa was effusive in praising “the best agent in the game,” and thanked Boras for “probably the hardest job you had to do.”
“I will always appreciate Scott’s work,” says Correa, “because it was a thing of beauty.”
The mutual admiration was emanating throughout the dais, Falvey crediting the “trust, respect and admiration of (Correa’s) representation,” Boras lauding Falvey and assistant Thad Falvey for a mere Correa midseason appreciation phone call, and Correa relishing another bite at Minneapolis’ iconic “Juicy Lucy” hamburger.
Now, to build on his own Twin Cities legacy. Correa hit 22 homers, batted .291 and produced 5.4 WAR, his fourth year between 5 and 7 WAR in six full seasons. Despite the seeming impermanence, with an opt-out looming, Correa emotionally invested in the Twins, earning plaudits for his clubhouse presence and top-shelf baseball IQ on the field.
Now, against all odds, the relationship is solidified, after a December longer than he could have imagined.
“All that matters is what I do from this moment forward for this organization,” says Correa. “I’m really focused on giving my all. Me and my family are going to be very dedicated to this city.
“And that’s going to be for a really long time.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Twins’ Carlos Correa ‘shocked’ that Mets, Giants deals fell through
48-hour storm could leave Twin Cities with 6-10 inches of snow
MINNEAPOLIS — After a quiet start to the New Year, we jump into our third big storm of the past four weeks — with this one spanning more than two days.
The National Weather Service has issued an ice storm warning in several south-central Minnesota counties. Much of Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, is under a winter storm warning.
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Light snow started to fall in the southern metro and down south Monday night, and it will continue overnight, but it won’t advance much farther north until the middle of Tuesday morning.
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Tuesday will be a warmer day, with a high of 32 degrees in the metro. But this will be problematic because it will toy with the phases of precipitation, and create some wet, heavy snow.
The heaviest snowfall will occur Tuesday mid-morning through mid-afternoon. We could see rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour before a lull in the action in the evening. Wind speeds will also be between 10-15 mph, which will cause some blowing snow.
Lighter bands take over Tuesday evening, and it will keep on lightly snowing in the metro through early Thursday, with the day’s high temp dropping into the mid-20s
The metro is expected to get between 6-10 inches of accumulation by Thursday, while areas north and west of the metro could see even more. Parts of southwestern Minnesota could get more than a foot of snow.
Friday’s high temp will only be in the high teens in the metro, but we’ll begin a slow warmup through the weekend, with highs in the upper 20s to start out the work week.
Twin water worlds, Kepler-138c and 138d covered in global ocean
In the not so distant future, after decades of runaway climate change, all of the world’s ice caps melt and the planet is plunged into a vast, global ocean. Our only hope? The Mariner (Kevin Costner), with his slapdash ship, urine distillation machine, and a handy mutation which lets him breathe underwater. It’s tough to make a go of it in Waterworld, no matter who you are.
The truth about our planet isn’t quite so bleak. In reality, even if every glacier and iceberg, every scrap of frozen water on Earth, were liquified, it would only raise global sea levels by about 70 meters. It’s worth noting that the use of the word “only” in this context is pretty loaded. That much sea level rise would be catastrophic in just about every way that matters to us, it just wouldn’t submerge the world. Any survivors would have plenty of land on which they could struggle to survive and rebuild in the aftermath.
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If you want a true water world, you’ll have to look further afield. But we can point you in the right direction. Researchers from the University of Montreal used data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the retired Spitzer telescope to investigate a planetary system around the star Kepler-138. Their findings, which were published in the journal Nature Astronomy, reveal a twin pair of planets carrying more water weight than they have any business having.
Kepler-138 lies about 218 light years from us and it has a smattering of worlds. The first, Kepler-138b, is a small rocky world only about half the radius of Earth. It orbits close in, only 7 million miles from its parent star. That’s compared to Earth’s comfortable 93 million mile distance from the Sun. It’s not the sort of place you’d even get close to let alone sail into the horizon on your catamaran. Its planetary siblings, however, are another story.
Kepler-138c and 138d are each about 1.5 times the size of Earth and astronomers recently determined that roughly half of their volume is made up of water. To be clear, that doesn’t mean they’re half covered in water. It means that half of their entire volume, from core to cover, is water. You might be wondering how astronomers can possibly figure out how much water exists on a pair of worlds 218 light years away. It’s a good question.
Astronomy is, in large part, a practice of taking one piece of information and bumping it up against another to see if you can get a third. You can then take that new information and use it to get a fourth piece of information, and so on. We can’t experiment on these objects in a lab, so we have to work out complex mental puzzles with incomplete information. It’s basically the scientific equivalent of a cosmic Sudoku puzzle.
In this case, astronomers can measure the distance between a planet and its star. Then they measure how much the star wobbles as the planet circles around it. Those two figures can tell you a planet’s approximate mass, but mass doesn’t give you composition. A small dense planet and a large less dense one could have the same mass. We need more information.
Fortunately, both Kepler-138c and 138d transit in front of their star, from our perspective. When they pass in front of the star, we can measure the amount of light reaching our telescopes and compare that to how much light we received when the planets weren’t in the way. The lost light tells us what fraction of the star was blocked by a planet and we can use that to figure out how big they are. Using mass and size, we can work out density, and that gives you clues as to what a planet is made of.
According to their measurements, Kepler-138c and 138d are nearly identical with diameters about 1.51 times that of the Earth and masses 2.3 and 2.1 times that of Earth, respectively. Split evenly, they each have a planetary density of 3.6 grams per cubic centimeter.
Astronomers then compared those densities to known objects in our own solar system. Earth, the densest object in the neighborhood, comes in at 5.5 grams per cubic centimeter. Saturn, meanwhile, is floating carefree with a miniscule 0.69 grams per cubic centimeter. Kepler-138’s twin planets come in right in the middle of that scale, leading scientists to conclude a significant portion is made up of something less dense than rock but denser than hydrogen or helium. Water fits the bill nicely.
Continuing the comparison to local worlds, we’ll inevitably come to Europa, which has a density of 3.0, dangerously close to our distant super-Earths. Europa is also covered with a global ocean, lending support to the idea that Kepler-138c and 138d are water worlds. But it’s more than that.
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If our hypotheses are correct, calling them a water world undersells what’s really going on. The numbers suggest they are covered over with a single endless sea stretching from horizon to horizon in every direction, forever. That ocean descends to depths of 2,000 kilometers, more than 500 times the depth of Earth’s deepest waters. Unlike Europa, scientists don’t expect 138c or 138d to have an ice shell. It’s unlikely they have water ice at all. They orbit 8.4 and 11.8 million miles from their star, respectively, about a tenth the distance as we are from the Sun, give or take a couple million miles. It’s hot and it’s humid, with surface temperatures above the boiling point of water at the surface. Researchers believe that both planets would have thick steamy atmospheres comprised of water vapor. Only deeper down, where the pressure gets intense, would liquid water exist in a super dense state. The Mariner wouldn’t last a second.
Fortunately, while investigating Kepler-138’s water worlds, they discovered a previously unknown fourth planet dubbed — you guessed it! — Kepler-138e. It appears to be in the planet’s habitable zone, where any water it has could remain in a liquid state at ordinary pressures. Unfortunately, 138e doesn’t transit in front of its star from our POV, leaving us to speculate about many of its other qualities. We like to imagine it’s got calm, serene seas and beautiful red dwarf sunsets.
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Missing 5-month-old baby found alive after woman suspected of kidnapping him and his twin arrested in Indianapolis
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Kason Thomass, the 5-month-old baby who was kidnapped with his twin while inside a car that was stolen Monday, was found safe and alive in Indianapolis Thursday, just hours after the suspect was taken into custody, according to a statement from the Columbus Division of Police.
“The 5-month-old boy is in good health and being transported to a hospital to be checked out,” police said in a tweet. “We are grateful to the public for their help throughout this investigation, and for the tireless work of our officers and our many partner agencies.”
On Monday night, twins Kason and Kyair were inside a black 2010 Honda Accord that was left running outside a pizzeria on High Street in Columbus while their mother, Wilhelmina Thomass, was picking up a restaurant order while working as a DoorDash driver, CNN previously reported.
When she came out, the car was gone. Kyair was later found abandoned near the Dayton International Airport around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, but Kason remained missing.
Suspect Nalah Jackson was arrested at approximately 2 p.m. Thursday by officers with the Indianapolis Metro Police Department (IMPD) after officials received several tips that she was in the area, said Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant during a news conference.
At the time of Jackson’s arrest, Kason was not found with her, Bryant said.
Later Thursday, Kason was found in the stolen Honda Accord and was wearing the same clothes he was described to be wearing on Monday, police said.
Jackson, 24, was charged with two felony counts of kidnapping.
Since Jackson crossed state lines, she will be facing federal charges, Bryant said.
“It will absolutely be a federal investigation,” she said.
A warrant for Jackson’s arrest was filed through the Franklin County Court, according to an online docket.
An Amber Alert went out for the twins at 1:37 a.m. Tuesday, officials said. Restaurant employees told police that a homeless woman exited the restaurant after the twins’ mother entered the restaurant. The individual was later caught on camera at a gas station where she asked an employee for money.
Officials do not believe there’s a connection between the twins’ family and the suspect.
Columbus Police Deputy Chief Smith Weir said during the Thursday news conference that officers have received “over three dozen tips” since Wednesday from throughout the state.
Late Thursday morning, the department’s hotline received several calls from people in Indiana who believed they spotted Jackson in Indianapolis and officers “implored” the witnesses to call 911. IMPD informed Columbus police around 2 p.m. that they had stopped an individual who they believed to be Jackson and both departments worked together to identify her before taking her into custody, Weir said.
“If you have any information regarding this crime or the whereabouts of this baby, please contact us as soon as possible,” Weir said, adding that three detectives from the Columbus Division of Police are traveling to Indianapolis to coordinate with IMPD and the FBI to further the investigation.
The FBI had offered a $10,000 award for the safe return of Kason, according to Bryant.
On Wednesday, family members and community leaders gathered to pray for the safe return of the child.
During the vigil, the twins’ grandmother, LaFonda Thomass, begged for the return of Kason.
“If you look at him and you see anything, see a precious child who’s longing for his mother,” she said. “We beg you, please, please, please do the right thing and just bring my baby home.”
First Assistant Chief of Police LaShanna Potts said during the vigil, “We are committed to finding baby Kason. We want Nalah to do the right thing. … We know she’s capable of doing it because she did release one baby.”
Barnett and other family members searched for Kason throughout the Dayton area on Tuesday, including at the gas station, she told CNN affiliate WSYX.
“I just miss my babies. I miss them being together and their smile,” she told WSYX.
She said she’s worried about her son’s safety and if he’s being fed.
“Kason, he loves eating and that’s why I’m so so worried. I know he’s flipping out. He eats so fast. He eats in 3-5 minutes,” Barnett said.
High-impact snow event could drop 4-8 inches on Twin Cities
MINNEAPOLIS — Tuesday is a NEXT Weather Alert day due to a high-impact snow event that could affect both the morning and evening commutes in the Twin Cities.
As of 5 a.m., snow was already falling in southwestern and south central Minnesota. The storm was expected to make its way to the metro before the morning commute.
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A winter storm warning is in effect for areas stretching from Mankato through the Twin Cities and into Wisconsin. That band could see anywhere between 4 and 8 inches in total.
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A winter weather advisory is in effect for other parts of central and southern Minnesota, as well as western Wisconsin.
Southeastern Minnesota could see a wintry mix.
The snow was expected to move out of Minnesota after the evening commute.
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The metro had already reached its high temperature in the morning hours, and it’ll only get colder throughout the day. Wednesday will also be chilly, and quite windy.
Temperatures will rebound on Friday and some of the snow will melt, but we’ll have another cold snap over the weekend.
Our next shot at snow comes early next week.