TONIGHT: Increasing clouds with lows in the lower 20s. Gusty winds bring wind chills into the teens overnight. TOMORROW: Partly sunny, warmer and breezy with highs in the mid-upper 40s. EXTENDED: Winds will shift to the south-southwest overnight as high pressure settles in to our south, allowing temperatures to warm up by daybreak to the
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Organizations on Thursday hosted an event in downtown Columbia to provide a one-stop-shop for services for the homeless.
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, Kevin Liptak and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The discovery of classified documents at former Vice President Mike Pence’s home immediately raised questions at the Justice Department about whether yet another special counsel investigation was in the offing. For now, the department’s course isn’t clear, people briefed on internal deliberations say. The Pence documents
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Rents are climbing across the US, and those high costs are among the many compelling reasons to try to buy a home. But with mortgage rates double what they were a year ago — and home inventory at a historic low — both options can be a magnet for stress. For
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Ray Sanchez, CNN Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty of murder by a federal jury for using a rented truck to fatally strike eight people on a New York City bike path on Halloween Day in 2017. Jurors deliberated about six hours over two days in the case involving the deadliest
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was recently accused of pulling a gun on an employee at a Downtown bar had more charges filed for an alleged incident that occurred last year. Jonathan Dowell, 23, has been charged with first-degree burglary, armed-criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon stemming from an incident on
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Over the holidays, while most media executives were perhaps looking to get a reprieve from work, Jonah Peretti was online, fully immersed in experimenting with artificial intelligence. The BuzzFeed co-founder and chief executive, who has always raced to test out the latest technologies, was familiar with AI and predictions of how
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TODAY: Sunshine returns for yet another day in what has been a pretty stagnant pattern. Wind direction will generally remain out of the east at speeds of about 5 to 10 mph. Yesterday’s high was near 80 degrees for many, and with a similar setup, expect similar temperatures. In more detail, temperatures at the lowest
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business ChatGPT is smart enough to pass prestigious graduate-level exams — though not with particularly high marks. The powerful new AI chatbot tool recently passed law exams in four courses at the University of Minnesota and another exam at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, according to professors at
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business ChatGPT is smart enough to pass prestigious graduate-level exams — though not with particularly high marks. The powerful new AI chatbot tool recently passed law exams in four courses at the University of Minnesota and another exam at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, according to professors at
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business ChatGPT is smart enough to pass prestigious graduate-level exams — though not with particularly high marks. The powerful new AI chatbot tool recently passed law exams in four courses at the University of Minnesota and another exam at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, according to professors at
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth asteroid, called 2023 BU, zipped over the southern tip of South America at 7:27 p.m. ET Thursday about 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. This distance was well
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN If airlines are to avoid repeats of recent service problems, they’ll need to have a lot more back-up in place, according to United CEO Scott Kirby. “You can’t run an airline like it’s 2019, and the reason is because the system is just stressed to the max,” Kirby told CNN’s Christine
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores. The solid inner core is situated about 3,200 miles below the Earth’s crust and is separated from
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, CNN Nearly three weeks after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, resulted in a violent arrest and subsequent death of a driver, police are expected to release footage of the incident to the public. Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was hospitalized after the arrest on January 7 and died three days
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN There aren’t many teen wolves in “Teen Wolf: The Movie,” but there is a pack of them in “Wolf Pack,” the series premiering the same day, from the same producer and on the same streaming service that is definitely not a spinoff of “Teen Wolf,” but rather adapted from a
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Davies and Amy Woodyatt, CNN American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin is having quite the 2023 — and it could get even better before the end of January. Earlier this week, the two-time Olympic gold medalist secured her 83rd World Cup win to break compatriot Lindsey Vonn’s record for the most wins in women’s
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TODAY: It’s cold this morning, with temperatures starting in the teens and 20s. Thanks to early clouds, and a stout breeze from the northwest, temperatures will struggle to warm out of the 20s today. Our forecast high is 30 degrees for Columbia, with some cooler to the north, and warmer to the south. More sunshine
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN A week that has been chock-full of economic data will be capped off Friday morning with the first US jobs report of 2023. Economists estimate that 185,000 positions were likely added in January, according to Refinitiv. That would be a considerable drop from the 504,000 jobs added in January 2022 and
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Ukraine has urged the West to get military hardware into the hands of its troops as quickly as possible, as Russia fired missiles toward Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities just hours after Germany and the US announced their plans to provide modern tanks to the country. Russia launched 55 missiles at
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