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Search for remains continues after wildfire
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    1. Police reform

    The numbers just keep shooting up. The death toll from Northern California’s Camp Fire is now at 63, after the remains of seven people were found. But the real eye-popping stat is the number of people listed as missing. That soared to 631 after investigators added information from callers who reported people missing to the dispatch center the day the fire erupted. There do appear to be duplicates on the list, and some people who evacuated may have unreliable cell phone service due to the fire. Meanwhile, some survivors say they never got emergency alerts on their phones that could have warned them of the fire.

    Flames burn inside a van as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Tens of thousands of people fled a fast-moving wildfire Thursday in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town and destroyed hundreds of structures. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
    Cell phone videos show drivers fleeing fire
    01:41 - Source: CNN

    MONDAY

    Two senior members of one of the most murderous regimes in history had their day of reckoning. Nuon Chea, 92, and Khieu Samphan, 87, were found guilty of genocide by an international tribunal, a landmark verdict that may bring closure to millions of Cambodians. The pair are the senior surviving members of the Khmer Rouge, the tyrannical communist faction that killed more than 1.7 million people – about a fifth of Cambodia’s population – during the 1970s. Both men were sentenced to life in prison.

    Former senior Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea facing court in Phnom Penh in 2011.
    Khmer Rouge officials found guilty of genocide
    00:40 - Source: CNN

    3. Election 2020

    North Korea has tested some kind of weapon, and the world is trying to figure out just what it is. The North’s state media said it was a “newly developed ultramodern” weapon. Whatever it is, it’s a sign North Korea is ready to go back to a more antagonistic relationship with the US if nuclear disarmament talks continue to go poorly. The weapon could have been a piece of long-range artillery like “a multiple rocket launcher,” a South Korean government source told CNN. Meantime, Vice President Mike Pence said the US has dropped a key demand of the North, which will not have to provide a full list of its nuclear and missile sites before President Trump meets early next year with its leader.

    In this undated photo released Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, listens to a military official as he inspects a weapon testing at the Academy of National Defense Science, North Korea. Kim observed the successful test of a "newly developed high-tech tactical" weapon, the nation's state media reported Friday, Nov. 16, 2018,  though it didn't describe what sort of weapon it was. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
    North Korea media: Kim inspects new weapon
    02:02 - Source: CNN

    THURSDAY

    Florida’s putting the machines away and will start recounting ballots by hand in its hotly contested US Senate race. The manual recount is needed because after the machine recount, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson was within the 0.25% margin required for a hand recount in his race against Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Still, it looks like Nelson’s odds of winning look pretty slim. That’s because Scott picked up a few dozen more votes during the first recount. Meanwhile, the governor’s race looks like it may be done. After a machine recount, that race is still outside the margin required for a hand recount, so it’s likely former GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis will be the state’s next chief exec.

    LAUDERHILL, FL - NOVEMBER 11: Elections staff load ballots into machine as recounting is underway at the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office on November 11, 2018 in Lauderhill, Florida. A statewide vote recount is being conducted to determine the races for governor, Senate, and agriculture commissioner. (Photo by Joe Skipper/Getty Images)
    Fact-check: False Florida recount claims
    04:19 - Source: CNN

    5. Nigeria

    Eight people are dead and nearly 300,000 are without power as a wicked winter storm plows through the eastern US. The icy weather contributed to traffic crashes that left eight people dead in several states and stranded drivers for hours on Manhattan’s George Washington Bridge. Today, more snow, sleet and freezing rain hit from the Central Appalachians through the Northeast. Parts of Pennsylvania and New England could see up to a foot of snow.

    People are reflected in the snow covered street in Times Square March 7, 2018  as a  nor'easter hits the east coast causing havoc for commuters and causing cancellations and closings.
The second winter storm in less than a week struck the northeastern United States Wednesday, with more than 2,000 flights canceled as the region braced for heavy snow.
Around 520 flights arriving and departing from John F Kennedy International Airport -- nearly 42 percent of the total scheduled -- were canceled by 12:00 pm (1700 GMT), along with 650 flights from New Jersey's Newark airport and nearly 600 from La Guardia, which operates primarily domestic flights, according to the FlightAware flight tracking site.
 / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY        (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
    How snow differs from freezing rain and sleet
    01:11 - Source: CNN

    THIS JUST IN …

    RIP, Roy

    Before hosting “Hee Haw,” Roy Clark was a music star in his own right, one of the first to land singles on both country and pop charts. He was 85.

    Underpriced no more

    Guess you don’t have to die to rake in the big bucks as a painter. A David Hockney painting sold for $90 million, a record for a living artist.

    david hockney portrait of an artist pool with two figures

    Power plays

    She won $350 million last month playing Powerball. Now, she’s paying it forward with a half-million-dollar donation to a veterans group.

    Banding together

    What did Kanye West and Mark Zuckerberg sing when they jammed together at a karaoke bar? Well, here’s a hint: Think of ’90s boy bands.

    HAPPENING LATER

    From the bench

    After a delay, the judge in the CNN v. President Trump lawsuit now says he’ll announce his ruling this morning in the First Amendment case.

    President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Columbia Regional Airport, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in Columbia, Mo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    Trump argues he can limit journalists' WH access
    03:01 - Source: CNN

    TOTAL RECALL

    Quiz time

    The 2018 Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year is …

    A. Youthquake

    B. Bougie

    C. Toxic

    D. Democracy

    Play “Total Recall: The CNN news quiz” to see if you’re right. And don’t forget, you can also find a version of the quiz on your Amazon devices! Just say, “Alexa, ask CNN for a quiz.”

    TODAY’S NUMBER

    80%

    That’s how much vaping has increased since last year among high school kids. And it’s up 50% among middle schoolers. Now, the FDA wants new regulations on flavored nicotine products that have fueled vaping’s rise.

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    FDA is proposing these new rules on vaping
    01:45 - Source: CNN

    33,000

    IT’S THE WEEKEND, BABY

    Two new Netflix shows come out today. Michael Douglas ages grudgingly in “The Kominsky Method,” while “Narcos: Mexico” moves the drug-war drama to an new locale. In theaters, Potter-mania continues with ”Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” and Viola Davis heads up a group of fierce “Widows.”

    Widows Viola Davis

    AND FINALLY

    Slow down

    You’d think the Slow Mo Guys would run out of stuff to film, but they always prove us wrong. This time, they capture rainbow-colored Jell-O getting sliced by a tennis racket, in super … slow … motion. (Click to view.)