San Jose police: We will never stop building bridges with our community. We had a special guest riding along with us this evening, he stopped by and visited the Santee and Melbourne neighborhoods tonight. Keep an eye out for him 🎅🏼👮🏼👮🏾‍♂️🎄

Total Solar Eclipse Monday. The Moon’s fast-moving shadow makes landfall in Chile, just south of Santiago, then crosses Argentina. The press often calls these things “rare” but they occur somewhere on Earth every 2 or 3 years. As common as the Olympics, which nobody calls rare.

Reports of a traffic collision one the vehicles ran into a fire hydrant In LA.

NEW ORLEANS, LA – The city that’s known as The Big Easy is currently facing some big problems after the mass exodus of more than 100 law enforcement officers. Now, city officials are scrambling to make up for the drastic loss in officers with a citizen task force. Previously, Law Enforcement Today provided exclusive reporting on the high rate of officers leaving the New Orleans Police Department. An anonymous officer with the department divulged that local officials have attempted to ignore policing issues, causing scores of officers to leave the NOPD: “They want to minimize everything and, kind of, push it under the table and wish that it never resurfaces. The last I heard, we got about a little over 100 officers leaving.” Later, the LET informant stated that the department’s recruitment efforts cannot keep up with the departure of officers. (Read more.)

Amazing airborne view of rolling clouds around mt. Fuji, Japan

Riots broke at an iPhone factory in India, run by Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Wistron Corp. reportedly over unpaid wages, although the company had commissioned employment agencies to pay the workers. A riot at a plant resulted in estimated losses of US$60.28 million.