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'My heart is broken': Mom recounts losing daughter in crash that killed 13 near US-Mexico border KABC Share: HOLTVILLE, Calif. (KABC) -- It was a desperate attempt to save the lives of her children, but with heartache in her eyes and voice, Verlyn Cardona faces her tragic reality. Her daughter Yesenia Magali Melendrez Cardona is gone. The mother and daughter were among 24 passengers in an SUV federal investigators say were smuggled into the U.S. Tuesday. Half of them, and the driver, lost their lives when a tractor trailer broadsided the Ford Expedition in Imperial County, California Highway...

Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved when an SUV packed with 25 people slammed into a tractor-trailer in a remote Imperial County desert, killing the driver and 12 passengers near the Mexican border.

Extra body bags, refrigeration trucks: Valley agencies are preparing for the rising COVID-19 death toll KFSN Share: FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The state has activated the Mass Fatality Program for the first time. With 142 Californians killed by the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, Governor Gavin Newsom is ordering 5,000 additional body bags. It's a grim reminder of the rising death toll from COVID-19. At the Fresno County Coroner's Office, empty body bags are lined up and a refrigeration truck sits empty - for now. "This is our line of work. We have to always have to keep our supplies up. We d...

Image zoom Medical staff moves the body of a COVID patient to a refrigerated morgue outside of a Brooklyn hospital | Credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty California has officially activated its "mass fatality" program as the state continues to grapple with record-breaking COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations. On Tuesday, one day after the first COVID-19 vaccines began to be administered across the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in a news conference that California is taking fu...