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The former British spy who put together an unverified dossier of explosive allegations about President Trump during last year's campaign has been ordered to give a deposition in a multi-million-dollar libel case brought against a media outlet that published the document.

Former MI-6 British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele is fighting the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro, of the Southern District of Florida that he must answer questions in the suit against Buzzfeed. A lawyer directly involved in the case said the issue will likely be argued before the British courts where a similar libel case is being heard.

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Steele's London-based company, Orbis Business Intelligence, authored the 35-page dossier while working for American-based Fusion GPS and its founder Glenn Simpson. The document, which was crafted as opposition research for unknown political rivals of Trump, contained salacious charges involving Trump and Russian prostitutes, but none of the claims have been corroborated and most media outlets steered clear of the dossier.

In January, Buzzfeed set off an international firestorm when it chose to publish the entire dossier, which also included seamy allegations involving Russian technology guru Aleksej Gubarev and his companies, XBT Holdings and Webzilla.

The dossier claimed XBT and Webzilla used "botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct 'altering operations' against the Democtratic Party leadership."

"That dispute will move to London, where we expect Mr. Steele will continue to try to avoid being deposed."
- Evan Fray-Witzer, attorney for Russian tech tycoon

Gubarev's Boston-based attorney, Evan Fray-Witzer, told Fox News he asked the Florida judge to help ensure Steele answer questions.

"We asked the Court in Florida to issue a 'Request for International Judicial Assistance,'" Fray-Witzer said. The request would have the Florida court ask its British counterpart compel Steele submit to a sworn deposition that would be taken in London and videotaped to be played to the jury at trial.

Steele's lawyers unsuccessfully asked Ungaro to reject the request.

"That dispute will move to London, where we expect Mr. Steele will continue to try to avoid being deposed," Fray-Witzer said.

While the libel suit does not directly involve Trump, a jury trial could prove explosive as the dossier and Buzzfeed's vetting process would undergo a thorough examination

"We are absolutely looking forward to a jury trial," Fray-Witzer said. "Buzzfeed published the dossier - and the comments about our clients - without having made any effort whatsoever to determine if the things said about our clients were true. They don't even claim otherwise."

The dossier was repeatedly shopped around on both sides of the Atlantic and to various media outlets during the heated 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. The charges it contained were damning to Trump both personally and in terms of purporting to show how Russia sought to help him with hacking, leaks and fake news stories.

"We know from what Steele has said in the British lawsuit that - at Fusion's instruction - he briefed reporters at The New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, the New Yorker, CNN and Mother Jones about the dossier," Fray-Witzer said. "To their credit, not a one of them actually published the dossier. Only Buzzfeed did that and we think that says something about where Buzzfeed's priorities were. This was about "clicks," not about responsible reporting."

Nicola Cain, one of Steele's British attorneys, declined comment, stating that she has "no instructions to speak about their client to the press."

Steele reportedly met with the FBI on Aug. 22. The dossier was part of the evidence the FBI used to obtain a FISA warrant to monitor communications of Carter Page, a peripheral adviser in the Trump campaign. Former FBI Director James Comey considered the dossier so important that he insisted it be included in January's final Intelligence Community Report on Russian meddling in the election and reportedly offered Steele $50,000 to corroborate the dossier---something the bureau denies paying.

Meanwhile, Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who, as founder of Fusion, hired Steele to create the dossier, was behind closed doors in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, he spent 10 hours with Congressional investigators assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who has been perturbed with the level of cooperation his Senate Judiciary Committee has received from Simpson and his attorney.

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"Fusion's initial production of documents consisted of solely of headlines from publicly available news reports and more than 7,500 pages of blank paper," Grassley spokesman Taylor Foy said. "Fusion eventually provided a copy of the same unverified dossier that's been publicly available since January, and a privilege log that raises more questions than it answers."

Fox reported this week that Fusion GPS gave the committee 40,000 documents.

The records were finally provided by Simpson and his legal team after Grassley sent several letters raising questions about the dossier, moved a Judiciary Committee hearing to accommodate Simpson's schedule, and withdrew a subpoena in return for a pledge of cooperation.

"I'd note that only after the subpoena did Simpson indicated any willingness to cooperate voluntarily, yet the documents produced by his legal team have not been responsive to the committee's questions," Foy said.

Simpson's attorney, Joshua Levy, did not respond to Fox's emails asking how 7,500 blank pages complied with the senate committee's request, and why he apparently told Politico, when the senate committee issued a subpoena July 21, his client was unavailable and travelling overseas when Fox News found Simpson at an Aspen security conference.

Fray-Witzer was surprised at these tactics.

"I honestly can't imagine why Fusion GPS would think that stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee was a good idea," Fray-Witzer said. "The only thing that would be a worse idea would be if they tried something similar in the Buzzfeed lawsuit. We have an incredibly smart judge who doesn't suffer fools gladly. I don't think Fusion would enjoy trying to explain that kind of a response to Judge Ungaro."

According to court filings, Buzzfeed's legal team expects responses by Aug. 25 to "subpoenas served for depositions and production of documents from several third party witnesses, including several government agencies and their former officials. These include the FBI, Department of Justice, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and CIA, as well as Comey, and Obama intelligence bosses James Clapper and John Brennan. Each federal agency declined to comment on the case, citing "ongoing litigation."
Fox News' Catherine Herridge contributed to this report
Pamela K. Browne is Senior Executive Producer at the FOX News Channel (FNC) and is Director of Long-Form Series and Specials. Her journalism has been recognized with several awards. Browne first joined FOX in 1997 to launch the news magazine "Fox Files" and later, "War Stories."

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British spy behind Trump dossier ordered to give deposition in Buzzfeed suit

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The former British spy who put together an unverified dossier of dirt on President Trump during last year's campaign has been ordered to give a deposition in a multi-million-dollar libel case brought against a media outlet that published the document.

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On a Tuesday evening Brianna Siegel was waiting tables as usual when she was serving this one couple off of a $20 bill they left her an envelope that said open when you get home so she did when she got home it was a check for $1,200

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This server's sunny disposition earned her something to smile about.
A MCDONALD'S KIOSK SOLD THIS PERSON AN EMPTY BAG
Brianna Siegel served a couple on Tuesday evening when they came to where she was waitressing at Bar Louie in Woodbridge. After the meal was over, the two paid their $20 bill and handed Siegel an envelope with instructions to not open it until she got home.

Siegel, who has been a waitress for a long time, told News 12 New Jersey, that it's not always easy waiting tables, but she's happy to do it.

"I've been in the food industry all my life...it's my favorite thing to do," she said.

Well, her favorite thing to do is giving back to her in a major way when she saw what the couple had left her.

Upon opening the envelope, Siegel nearly fell on her knees she told the new outlet. Inside was a check made out to her for $1,200. The couple also included a note citing bible verses that ended with a sweet sentiment: "Whenever it gets hard, know God got you."

Brent Ruhkamp, the restaurant's general manager, is happy it was upbeat Siegel who received the amazingly generous gift.

"She's always willing to come in," he told News 12. "Always willing to help out. She's a great worker for us."
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Siegel says she deposited the check and plans to use the money toward nursing school and a new car.

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Couple leaves waitress a $1,200 tip on a $20 bill

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This server's sunny disposition earned her something to smile about. A MCDONALD'S KIOSK SOLD THIS PERSON AN EMPTY BAG Brianna Siegel served a couple on Tuesday evening when they came to where she was waitressing at Bar Louie in Woodbridge.

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A sailor was found in a flooded compartment of a ship. He was an electronic technician. They're are more sailor then him missing. There is eight other that are missing.

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Navy recovers, identifies second sailor missing after USS McCain collision

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Navy divers recovered the body of a second sailor late on Thursday.

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Samantha Bennington, Chester Bennington's ex-wife called his funeral " disgusting on so many levels". Samantha was most disgusted that she couldn't speak at his funeral.

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Chester Bennington's ex-wife, Samantha Bennington, criticized the handling of the late Linkin Park singer's funeral in a livid Facebook note posted Wednesday. "I'm so disgusted on so many levels!" Samantha wrote. "There were many friends & family that should have been there but when you turn a funeral into reducing someone's life into only 12 years that's what you get!"

Samantha claimed that the private service distilled Bennington's life down to his time as a rock star, forgoing the other facets of his life, especially his family. She claimed that she was not given the chance to speak at the funeral and implied that there was only one photo of her and Bennington's son Draven. Furthermore, Samantha alleged that various family members were left off the program as well, while she also took a shot at the program itself saying it looked "like a cheap happy hour menu."

Samantha also ostensibly accused Bennington's widow, Talinda - referred to as "T" - of neglecting to invite her to the "after bowling celebration" and also of never treating Draven "equally." "We haven't had the opportunity to honor his dad properly for his lifetime, & the lack of respect & honesty is just disgusting!" she wrote. "We do not have a place to go or even any of his ashes!"

Samantha also claimed that because Draven has not wanted to return to the house where Bennington died by suicide, there are now false rumors circulating that she is keeping her son from his other siblings. Addressing Talinda, Samantha wrote, "You want my son to have some of [Bennington's] things, then give him something you feel is meaningful, do not force him to go into that house... He would rather not have a jacket from his dad than have you force him to go into that home."

On several occasions, Samantha warned that "the truth" would come out, though did not offer any specifics. And while no one else was mentioned in the post by name or referred to except Talinda, Samantha claimed, "I'm not speaking to just one person."

"I hope you like capitalizing on his death," she said near the end of the note. "Karma is real. I send you back all your energy to you a thousand time folds! Look in the mirror, I hope you like what you see. Business is business but I see Zero Love."

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Chester Bennington's Ex-Wife 'Disgusted' With Linkin Park Singer's Funeral

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Chester Bennington's ex-wife, Samantha Bennington, criticized the handling of the late Linkin Park singer's funeral in a livid Facebook note posted Wednesday. "I'm so disgusted on so many levels!" Samantha wrote. "There were many friends & family that should have been there but when you turn a funeral into reducing someone's life into only 12 years that's what you get!"

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The powerball winner from Massachusetts has already quit her job. She says she's just gonna sit back and relax.

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A Massachusetts woman revealed herself Thursday as the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot winner - and said the first thing she did was call it a career.

"I called them and told them I will not be coming back," Mavis Wanczyk, 53, who has worked at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., for the past 32 years, said at a press conference Thursday.
See: Single winning Powerball ticket sold in Massachusetts scores $758.7 million jackpot
Wanczyk, a mother of two children, a 31-year-old daughter and a 26-year-old son, said "the first thing I want to do is sit back and relax."

"I'm going to go hide in my bed," she said.

Wanczyk purchased the winning ticket on Wednesday afternoon from the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee, Mass., where she lives.
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She recognized Wednesday night that she'd won.

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Powerball winner has already quit her job

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A Massachusetts woman revealed herself Thursday as the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot winner - and said the first thing she did was call it a career. "I called them and told them I will not be coming back," Mavis Wanczyk, 53, who has worked at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., for the past 32 years, said at a press conference Thursday.

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Some old couple gets like 3.4 mil for being falsely accused of ritualistic sexual abuse.

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The Washington Post 7 hrs ago Avi Selk

Long before the age of the Internet and the fleeting spasms of mass hysteria that came with it (Remember Jade Helm? Pizzagate?), and going back to the late 20th century, when irrational fears moved slower and lasted longer, there was Satan.

The "satanic panic," some call it now. It began some time in the 1980s, when newscasters and fundamentalist Christian cartoons warned of the evils of the role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons," and stretched into the 1990s, when police and psychiatrists saw thousands of unfounded accusations of ritualistic sex abuse and children were seized from British parents accused of devil worship.

One case still stands out.

"This country hasn't seen anything like it since the Salem witch trials," Texas Monthly wrote in 1994, in a profile of Austin day-care operators Dan and Fran Keller, who had been thrown in prison two years earlier.
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The Kellers had been convicted of sexual assault in 1992. Children from their day-care center accused them - variously - of serving blood-laced Kool Aid; wearing white robes; cutting the heart out of a baby; flying children to Mexico to be raped by soldiers; using Satan's arm as a paintbrush; burying children alive with animals; throwing them in a swimming pool with sharks; shooting them; and resurrecting them after they had been shot.

They were hardly the only people to be accused by children during the panic. Many were exonerated long ago - like the 20 people wrongly convicted in the infamous Kern County sex abuse cases. Some now blame the phenomenon on "a quack cadre of psychotherapists who were convinced that they could dig up buried memories through hypnosis," as Radley Balko wrote in a column for The Washington Post.

But the Kellers suffered for decades.

They served nearly 22 years in prison before a court released them in 2013,after years of work by journalists and lawyers to expose what proved to be a baseless case against them.

And only now - when Fran Keller is 67 and Dan is 75 - has the couple been fully exonerated. Their 1992 case was finally dismissed in June after a district attorney declared them innocent.

This week, the Austin American-Statesman reported, they were awarded $3.4 million from a state fund - a belated attempt to refund a quarter-century that they lost to the delusions of other people.

"We can start living," Fran Keller told the newspaper after learning of the award Tuesday. "No more nightmares."

Nightmares

"Terror at the day care," blared the Vancouver Sun in 1992, in prose typical of early coverage of the Kellers. "It didn't look like a haunted house. But the kids knew better."

Fran's Day Care Center actually looked entirely charming, as described by Texas Monthly in one of the few measured stories from that era.

Opened in 1989, it had cages of rabbits and a pony named Dancer, a playground and swimming pool, tucked into a leafy Austin neighborhood " as tidy and pastoral as a cottage in a fairy tale," Texas Monthly wrote.

The couple lived at the same house - Fran in her 40s and Dan in his 50s - and cared for about 15 children each day, including some who had histories of emotional problems and abuse.

One day in 1991, Fran recalled in an interview with KXAN, only two children were dropped off. Then police knocked on the door and sat with her in the kitchen.

"They told me Dan was accused of hurting a child," she said. "And I knew that couldn't be true."

What began as a single accusation from a 3-year-old girl with known behavioral problems, Texas Monthly wrote, "escalated to monstrous proportions" after authorities closed the day care.

Worried parents sent their children to therapists, where they came back with tales pulled straight from horror movies.

At one point in the investigation, the Statesman wrote, police had a suspect list of " 26 ritual abusers, including many of the Kellers' neighbors and a respected Austin police captain."

As an appeals court judges recounted decades later, one girl claimed that Dan Keller "had come to her house and had cut her dog's vagina with a chain saw until it bled, that she was taken to a cemetery, where, after a person dressed like a policeman threw a person in a hole, Daniel Keller shot the person who had been thrown into the hole and cut up the body with a chain saw while all the children helped."

And parents began to reinterpret day-to-day activities at the day care as sinister omens.

The Kellers had once sent children home with American flags, one parent told the Vancouver Sun. The flag "reminds them, 'Don't tell,' " the parent said.

The panic was already beginning to subside in other parts of the world. A three-year inquiry by the British government in the early 1990s concluded that "there was no foundation to the plethora of satanic child abuse claims," according to the BBC.

"These tales are usually just that - figments of imagination," the New York Times wrote in 1994, citing a study by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect that found not a single substantiated case of cult sex abuse among more than 11,000 reported to psychiatric and police workers.

Nevertheless, the Kellers were convicted after a six-day trial in 1992.

Not of chainsawing a dog's vagina, of course - but of aggravated sexual assault based on the word of children and police, and a single piece of physical evidence: an apparent wound on a girl's vagina.

That, too, would turn out to be wrong - but not before the Kellers stood in a Travis County courthouse and heard their sentences read aloud: 48 years each.

Zombies

"You prayed a lot," Fran Keller told KXAN, remembering when the whole world seemed to believe she and her husband were monsters.

"And you sat there. And you was like a zombie."

She was sent to a women's prison near Marlin, where she became a target because of the allegations that she had abused children. She spent her time dodging boiling water and learning about shanks, she told the station.

Dan served his time near Amarillo, Texas Monthly wrote, where he wrote poems and tried "to figure out what happened to the life he once knew."

They lived like that for years, never seeing each other, fading from the headlines as the 20th century passed away and the satanic panic went with it.

But some remembered.

Then, in 2009, the Austin Chronicle wrote an article called " Believing the Children " - 10,000 words that tore apart what aspects of the Keller's case had not sounded wholly fantastical to begin with.

An emergency room doctor who had testified of wounds on a little girl's vagina had since reconsidered after learning more about female anatomy. He told the Chronicle reporter, "I'll be straight-up honest with you, I could've been wrong."

State troopers had once flown over a cemetery, investigating claims that the Kellers took children there to dig up a grave. Evidence at the trial showed the earth had indeed been disturbed.

But a cemetery worker told the Chronicle that the coffin in that particular grave kept sinking, and the occupant's son regularly came by and threw more dirt on it. Thus the disturbance. Moreover, the Chronicle reported, police had known this but it had not been mentioned in the trial.

The article has many such examples of evidence that didn't hold up to scrutiny.

Austin lawyer Keith Hampton read the Chronicle's story and thought, "Oh, dear God," he later recalled to Texas Monthly.

Thereafter, Hampton began working for free to overturn the Kellers' conviction.

They appealed the case in 2013, according to the Statesman. The doctor's testimony proved crucial. Hampton put him under oath, and he said in no uncertain terms: "I was mistaken."

That November, around Dan Keller's 72nd birthday, both he and his wife walked free on bond while an appeals court considered a permanent reversal.

The couple had not seen each other in more than two decades.

"My heart lit up," Dan Keller told KXAN a few months later.

But officially, they were still sex predators - always looking over their shoulders, accused by many people of horrible things.

"All I can say is I hope one day you change you mind," Fran Keller said.

Witches

The next year, an appeals court unanimously overturned the Kellers' convictions based on false testimony.

"This was a witch hunt from the beginning," one judge wrote, comparing the case to the Salem witch trials of the 17th century, in which 22 women were hanged before Massachusetts reversed the convictions.

But without explaining why, the appeals court declined one of the Kellers' central requests: refusing to declare them innocent in 2015. Several children who originally accused the couple still oppose their release, the Statesman reported.

The Kellers kept pushing for public redemption. They were finally declared "actually innocent" by the Travis County district attorney in June, the newspaper wrote. That made them eligible for a state program that pays wrongfully convicted people $80,000 for each year they spent in prison - a very large cumulative sum, in the Kellers' extraordinary case.

The couple had been getting by on Social Security checks and the help of friends, they told the Statesman.

"It's been really, really rough," Fran Keller said. "You can't get a job as a 'child molester.' "

Nevertheless, they used their freedom to involve themselves in the cases of others they believe to be wrongfully imprisoned.

They were standing outside a Texas jail in support of one such man Tuesday, when their lawyer called with the news that they were millionaires.

"They are now compensated and no longer must fear homelessness or lack of health insurance," the lawyer, Hampton, wrote to KXAN. " They are buying a home and can live out their lives in peace and quiet."

The Kellers were expected to pick up a check for $3.4 million this week - though maybe millions isn't so much when stretched across two decades and the darkest fantasies of children.

Fran Keller put it this way to the Statesman:

"It means we will actually be free."
More reading: 'I have been fundamentally condemned to die in prison,' a drug dealer wrote. Obama listened. Radley Balko: There's nothing 'enlightened' about executing the innocent A court feared a sex assault victim wouldn't testify. So she was jailed with her attacker. Radley Balko: We need to fix how we compensate the wrongly convicted

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Falsely accused of satanic horrors, a couple spent 21 years in prison. Now they're owed millions.

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The Washington Post 7 hrs ago Avi Selk Long before the age of the Internet and the fleeting spasms of mass hysteria that came with it (Remember Jade Helm? Pizzagate?), and going back to the late 20th century, when irrational fears moved slower and lasted longer, there was Satan.

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lee jae-yong the billionaire son of the owner of samsung was convicted to 5 years of prison. he was guilty of bribery and other corrupt charges.

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samsung chief tryed to fled the country after getting a 5 year jail scentence for corruption

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Earlier this week an Austrian man was struck by lighting when he was hiking in the sierra Nevada. He was 9,000 feet up in the air when he was struck, leaving him with severe burns and ripped clothes and burnt shoes. The hiker awoke not even remembering the lighting strike.

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An Austrian man hiking 9,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada was on a peak taking a photo when he was struck by a lightning bolt that blasted away his clothes, burned a hole in one of his shoes and left him with severe burns.

Mathias Steinhuber, who was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with his girlfriend and their friend, had an entry wound on his head and an exit wound on his foot.

"It was like in a dream," Steinhuber told The Associated Press in an interview at the University of California, Davis Hospital Burn Center. "I woke up. I had blood everywhere, my clothes were ripped apart. At some distance I heard my girlfriend scream my name. My first conclusion was that I probably fell down the mountain."

Steinhuber said he doesn't remember being struck. While he could see a thunderstorm far in the distance, he said there was no rain or lightning nearby.

Steinhuber had burns throughout his body and was struggling to walk when a helicopter crew rescued him Tuesday from an exposed peak among the rugged mountains near Donner Summit, the California Highway Patrol Valley Air Operations said.

The couple from Innsbruck, Austria was visiting a friend, Carla Elvidge, in Truckee, California, near Lake Tahoe. Elvidge said she, Steinhuber and his girlfriend, Kathrin Klausner, were hiking from Donner Summit to Squaw Valley and that all are avid hikers.

Steinhuber was hiking ahead of his friends and had reached the top of Tinkers Knob, a bare peak with sweeping views of the surrounding mountains and the forests below.

"He was taking a picture and the next thing I know, I see this white flash, like an explosion," Elvidge told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Fairfield, California.

Steinhuber was thrown away and his shoes and all his clothes, including his underwear, were ripped off from his body. The lightning bolt singed his clothes and burned a gaping hole through one of his tennis shoes.

A second lightning bolt struck next to Klausner, who felt the electricity in her body, and the two decided to take shelter and call for help, Elvidge said.

A helicopter landed on Tinker Knob, which is at an elevation of 8,949 feet, and dropped off a paramedic who tended to Steinhuber. He was taken to Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee and then flown to the University of California, Davis Hospital Burn Center, where he was listed in fair condition on Thursday.

Elvidge and Klausner hiked out, uncertain whether Steinhuber would survive or endure debilitating injuries, Klausner said.

Steinhuber and Klausner said they feel extraordinarily lucky that he survived and are grateful for the quick response from rescuers.

"Somebody told me the odds are higher winning the lottery than getting struck by lightning," Steinhuber said. "I would've rather won the lottery."

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Yankees' Gary Sanchez explains why he sucker punched Miguel Cabrera

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Mavis Wanczyk the winner of the new power ball told her boss shes not coming back to work. She won 758 million playing her numbers.

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A truck in Texas had it's rig up. The rig was up and it crashed into a highway sign because it was standing to tall to go under the sign. The whole sign collapsed. People tried to tell him it was up but obviously he didn't see it.

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High school teacher told student that she can't wear leggings because she isn't a size zero or two and she doesn't want anyone over that size to wear leggings because she looks fat.

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People 3 hrs ago Julie Mazziotta

A South Carolina high school principal is under fire for allegedly telling students that they can't wear leggings "unless you are a size 0 or 2."

Heather Taylor of Stratford High School held assemblies with 9th and 10th grade students on Wednesday to inform them of the dress code. Her announcement was caught in an audio recording shared with WCBD.

"I've told you this before, I'm going to tell you this now, unless you are a size zero or two and you wear something like that, even though you're not fat, you look fat," Taylor allegedly says.

Her words caused an outrage in the school community, with parents speaking out on social media and calling Taylor out for body shaming. PEOPLE has reached out to Taylor for comment.

One student, Allison Veazy, told WCBD that she felt targeted by Taylor's message.

"It was really hurtful, cause I felt like my size made me look disgusting towards someone in the clothes that I wear," Veazy says. "I wear leggings outside of school and I wear leggings when I go and hang out with my friends, and to think that someone would think that I look like a stuffed sausage - that was kind of hurtful."

Lacy Thompson-Harper, the mom of an 11th-grade student, posted on Facebook about the incident, and says she spoke with Taylor after the assemblies.

"Body shaming teenage girls is uncalled for, inappropriate and unprofessional. When I spoke with her, she talked around the issue, and made excuse after excuse, effectively calling all of the students liars," Thompson-Harper writes. This has upset many, many more students than just those in the 10th grade. My daughter is in the 11th grade, and is livid. She has been ridiculed by students for her body, and shouldn't be subjected to it from teachers."

Thompson-Harper says that Taylor agreed to apologize to the entire student body, but adds, "Is this enough? I don't know."

"Right now, I'm a very angry parent, with a very angry daughter."

Related slideshow: 11 Ways School Was Different in the 1800s (Provided by Mental Floss)

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High School Principal Tells Students They Can't Wear Leggings 'Unless You Are a Size 0 or 2'

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People 3 hrs ago Julie Mazziotta A South Carolina high school principal is under fire for allegedly telling students that they can't wear leggings "unless you are a size 0 or 2." Heather Taylor of Stratford High School held assemblies with 9th and 10th grade students on Wednesday to inform them of the dress code.

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A baby born prematurely was finally able to go home Tuesday after spending 135 days in the neonatal intensive care unit in Dallas, Texas.

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A baby born prematurely was finally able to go home Tuesday after spending 135 days in the neonatal intensive care unit in Dallas, Texas.

Rachel and Bryan Lewis had been trying to have a baby for years, suffering two miscarriages in 2015 and 2016.

When they discovered they were expecting their daughter Elaine Marie, whom they call Lainey, after undergoing a fertility treatment called intrauterine insemination, they were thrilled.

"Lainey is our rainbow baby," Rachel Lewis told ABC News.

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The new mother said "it was a fairly normal pregnancy," until her water broke on March 31 at only 22 weeks and five days. Rachel Lewis, 25, said she was put on "completely horizontal" bed rest for 10 days before doctors decided to induce labor at 24 weeks. Lainey was born weighing 1 pound, 4 ounces.

"The past five months we've been in fight-or-flight mode," Rachel Lewis recalled of having a premature baby. "We're powering through it ... when you're in that situation, you do what you have to do to get your baby out of the hospital alive with you."

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Since then, Lainey has undergone three surgeries, her first at 5 weeks old to close a hole in her aorta. She's also had surgery to prevent retinal detachment in her eyes and to install a gastrostomy tube, or G-tube, in her stomach to aid with feeding.

"This whole experience has been real hard to wrap my mind around," Rachel Lewis said.

Rachel Lewis and her husband of three years got some good news "a couple weeks ago," she said, when they were told they'd be able to take Lainey home after more than four months in Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas.

"Our team of physicians, nurses and caretakers were honored to care for Lainey in the Medical City Children's Hospital NICU," Bill Lee, CEO of Medical City Children's Hospital, told ABC News in a statement. "Our goal is to return these fragile infants to good health. We are thrilled that Lainey got to go home to her family as a healthy and happy baby."

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The two turned it into a joyous occasion for Lainey, inviting both of their families to their home in Richardson, Texas, on Tuesday.

In fact, their families have been instrumental to the couple by donating money, mowing their lawn, dropping off meals and even planting flowers in their garden "because they knew we couldn't keep up with it," Rachel Lewis said.

The new mom said she and her husband were "giddy" when bringing their now-8-pound baby home.

"We're just really happy. We're elated. That's a good word for it," Rachel Lewis added.

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Baby finally goes home after 135 days in NICU

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A baby born prematurely was finally able to go home Tuesday after spending 135 days in the neonatal intensive care unit in Dallas, Texas. Rachel and Bryan Lewis had been trying to have a baby for years, suffering two miscarriages in 2015 and 2016.

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Hurricane Harvey has updated to a level 2 hurricane ,it will hit Saturday at 1 am. It will reach maximum winds of 105 mph , it is expected to have 10 to 12 inches of rain.

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A big rig struck a trestle over the East Loop that is sending it crashing to the ground and crushing the truck. The northbound lanes of the East Loop were shut down at Market Street. The drivers conditions are yet unknown. The traffic was flowing up again late Thursday night.

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BREAKING NEWS East Loop sign crashes to ground after truck strike

Frightening video shows the moment a big rig with its bucket raised struck a trestle over the East Loop, sending it crashing to the ground and crushing the truck.

The northbound lanes of the East Loop are closed at Market Street as authorities work to clean up the aftermath of the crash.

Video obtained by ABC13 shows another motorist attempting to warn the truck driver as the big rig approaches the trestle.

The driver's condition is not yet known.

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Live Broadcast WATCH NOW BREAKING NEWS East Loop sign crashes to ground after truck strike WATCH LIVE BREAKING NEWS East Loop sign crashes to ground after truck strike Frightening video shows the moment a big rig with its bucket raised struck a trestle over the East Loop, sending it crashing to the ground and crushing the truck.

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The national weather service is estimating about 120 mph winds when it goes to the shore. They are still predicting that it will still hit the Texas cost on Friday night. The waves might be up to 20 feet or more.

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Five hours after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas around 10 p.m. as a Category 4 storm, it was downgraded to a Category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph, a decrease from 130 mph when it made landfall.

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And Harvey was downgraded to a Category 3 storm around 1 a.m., after winds decreased to 125 mph.

Harvey also made a second landfall on the northeastern shore of Copano Bay around the time it was downgraded to Category 3.

The storm is the strongest to hit the state in decades, with catastrophic flooding expected. The last Category 4 storm to hit the U.S. was Charley in 2004 in Florida, while the last Category 4 storm to hit Texas was Carla in 1961.

Residents staying in the area frantically stocked up on food, water and gas, while others heading out of the storm's path boarded up windows and doors of their homes and businesses.

Airlines canceled flights, schools were shuttered while concerts and other planned events in Houston and coastal cities were postponed.

The hurricane's effects are expected to linger for days, with heavy rainfall through next week estimated to be as high as 40 inches in some areas.

"This is going to be a storm we talk about, unfortunately, for at least the next seven days," ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee said Friday on " GMA."

Here's what we know about the storm.

What's ahead

Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane over the northern end of San Jose Island between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor at 10 p.m. local time Friday, with sustained winds of about 130 mph and stronger gusts, according to the National Weather Service. At the time, the storm's eye was 30 miles away from the coastal city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

The National Weather Service warned Harvey could bring a potentially devastating storm surge, heavy rainfall and wind hazards to the Lone Star State's coast. A tornado watch is in effect for areas of southeastern Texas and southwest Louisiana.

Life-threatening storm surge waters could reach 9 to 13 feet above ground level. Catastrophic flooding is expected across parts of the area. And rainfall will be heavy, with an estimated 15 to 30 inches of rain falling in many areas and as high as 40 inches in some from today through Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.

Here's a projected timeline for Hurricane Harvey thus far, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service:

Saturday: Harvey roared ashore late Friday evening. The storm's path going forward remains uncertain but it is forecast to meander near or just inland of the middle of the Texas coast through the weekend.

Sunday through Monday: Some forecast models show Harvey expanding across the Gulf Coast as it makes its way over southern Texas.

Tuesday through Wednesday: The hurricane could, according to some models, move northeast and then re-emerge briefly over the Gulf of Mexico before making a second landfall in northeastern Texas or western Louisiana.

Preparation and evacuations

Storm preparation began in earnest on Wednesday and intensified on Thursday. Shoppers lined up to fill their carts with food and water, while lines for gas stretched out of many stations. Some people also got to work boarding up their homes and businesses to protect against the expected 100-plus mile per hour winds. Even the Texas Department of Transportation in Victoria boarded up its windows on Thursday.

As of Friday, governors had declared states of emergencies for 30 counties in Texas and statewide for Louisiana.

Corpus Christi resident Alex Garcia bought bottled water, bread and other basic grocery items in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land because they were likely more available there than back home, where stores were "crazy," he told The Associated Press.

And as Houston resident Bill Pennington prepared his one-story home for another deluge in the flood-prone city, the father told The Associated Press he comforted his nervous 9-year-old son by saying, "We know how to handle it. We'll handle it again."

The Coast Guard said Thursday it was sending shallow-depth vessels to Texas and Louisiana that are capable of responding in flooded urban areas. And with gale force winds predicted to arrive within 24 hours, the Coast Guard on Thursday also ordered a nearly total closure of ports in Houston, Texas City, Galveston, Freeport and Corpus Christi.

By Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard had already completed its first search-and-rescue mission, rescuing 12 people from a 160-foot vessel near Port Mansfield, Texas.

Texas officials announced mandatory evacuations for all seven counties on the coast: Calhoun County, San Patricio County, Refugio County, Brazoria County, Jackson County, Victoria County and Matagorda County. In four of those countries, officials ordered their entire county to evacuate and warned those who chose to stay behind that their rescue could not be guaranteed. Voluntary evacuations were urged for residents in other areas.

While a mandatory evacuation order is not in place for Corpus Christi, Mayor Joe McComb did advise residents to voluntarily evacuate ahead of the storm.

Mayor McComb strongly encourages evacuation, especially the low lying areas of Area A and B as seen in the map below (pink and yellow area). pic.twitter.com/Z5gspafgSn
- CityOfCorpusChristi (@cityofcc) August 24, 2017

Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long urged people in the path of the storm to heed warnings and to take evacuation orders seriously.

"This may be the first major landfall hurricane we've had since 2005," Long said in an interview on "Good Morning America" Friday. "So there's going to be damage."

As of Friday morning, FEMA had amassed more than 96,000 liters of water, 306,000 meals and 4,500 tarps at incident support bases in Seguin and Fort Worth, Texas, as well as in Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, should the states need them.

Storm preparations have extended to New Orleans, where FEMA said it's working to make sure the Louisiana city's pumps are functioning in anticipation of the seven to 10 inches of rainfall expected there. The National Guard is also readying 500,000 sandbags, FEMA said.

More than 120,000 people have lost power in the Corpus Christi area as a result of Hurricane Harvey so far.

How officials are responding

Politicians and officials have taken a proactive approach to the storm.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday night that he had discussed storm preparation with President Donald Trump, as well as with the heads of FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. On Friday, Abbott sent a letter to Trump requesting a presidential disaster declaration in anticipation of Hurricane Harvey.

"Granting this request will provide Texans the additional resources needed to protect themselves, their property and rebuild their lives if necessary after Hurricane Harvey," Abbott said in a statement.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said at the press briefing Friday afternoon that Trump is planning to visit Texas "early next week."

Many state and local officials have urged residents to pay attention to evacuation orders, as it will be too late to leave once the storm hits.

Over the next several days we can expect possibly 10-20 inches n our City w/a probability of flooding in parts of our City. Be prepared. st
- Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner) August 25, 2017

Trump announced on Twitter late Friday that he had approved Abbott's request for a disaster declaration in Texas, formally making federal funds and resources available to assist state recovery efforts.

At the request of the Governor of Texas, I have signed the Disaster Proclamation, which unleashes the full force of government help!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2017

Texas' hurricane history

The storm is already being compared to Hurricane Bret, which hit Texas on Aug. 22, 1999. That storm made landfall in Kenedy County, just south of Corpus Christi, according to the National Weather Service -- a path that was similar to the one forecast for Hurricane Harvey.

Here's a timeline of some of the recent hurricanes to hit Texas and the damage they caused:

Hurricane Bret (Aug. 22, 1999): The Category 3 storm made landfall on a Sunday evening about 60 miles south of Corpus Christi. Luckily, the area is sparsely populated compared to Corpus Christi, and so problems were limited. Central Kenedy County received more than 15 inches of rain over two days, according to the NWS. The storm did about $88 million in damages in 2017 figures. Four Americans died in the storm.

Hurricane Claudette (July 15, 2003): While Claudette came ashore as only a Category 1 storm with maximum winds of 90 miles per hour, it did extensive damage after coming ashore at Port O'Connor, about 100 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, and moving inland across Calhoun County, according to the NWS. Two people were killed.

Hurricane Rita (Sept. 24, 2005): The last Category 3 storm to make landfall in Texas was Rita, though it did so much farther north than Harvey is expected to land. Rita, which hit just three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, made landfall right along the Texas-Louisiana border with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. The town of Center, Texas -- near Nacogdoches -- received 10.48 inches of rain in the storm, but it moved quickly through the area, limiting rainfall accumulation. Still, 59 people from Texas were killed in the storm, according to the NWS, and a number of others died in a bus accident during evacuations.

Hurricane Ike (Sept. 13, 2008): Ike, the last hurricane to make landfall in Texas, hit near Galveston as a Category 2 storm after decimating areas of the Caribbean in the week prior with winds as high as 145 miles per hour. By the time it hit Galveston, winds were at a sustained maximum of 110 miles per hour, according to the NWS. The massive size of Ike resulted in substantial rainfall totals for the area. The highest total was 18.9 inches near Spring Creek, south of Houston, according to the NWS. Some sensors measuring storm surge actually failed due to salt water, according to a NOAA report, but the highest total was 17.5 feet in Chambers County.

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Five hours after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas around 10 p.m. as a Category 4 storm, it was downgraded to a Category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph, a decrease from 130 mph when it made landfall. And Harvey was downgraded to a Category 3 storm around 1 a.m., after...