France -- Charred vehicles set on fire as part of the New Year’s Eve festivities are piled up in the French city of Strasbourg. Traditionally in France, hundreds of cars and motorcycles are set ablaze to usher in the New Year.

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San Bernardino PD: At the end of a pursuit last night, officers got the car, suspect, and this. Suspect was a convicted felon and gang member.

Czech Republic -- Arrests were made at a New Year's Eve protest against COVID-19 restrictions in Prague, Thursday.

France -- Police shut down a huge party in northwestern France that had been underway since New Year's Eve in defiance of a curfew and coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings.

UK -- Police and anti-lockdown protesters clash in Hyde Park, London, while the United Kingdom reports nearly 58,000 new COVID19 cases and 445 new deaths.

The United States Geological Survey released a video of lava flowing inside of the Halemaumau Crater of the Kilauea Volcano one week after it erupted on Hawaii's Big Island.

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SEATTLE -- Capitol Hill biz owners and neighbors are fed up with black bloc marchers wrecking the city. The owner of Cafe Argento says they’re being targeted for just trying to improve the neighborhood.

JUST IN - Louisville home of Mitch McConnell vandalized with 'WERES MY MONEY', just one day after Speaker Pelosi's home was vandalized with a pig's head, fake blood, and graffiti.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler: My good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical antifa and anarchists. -- is a pretty amazing thing to say. 🥴

Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese spoke about the new year's eve riot in downtown Portland where antifa ransacked and looted businesses, started fires, assaulted responding law enforcement, and tried to break into the Justice Center.

LOS ANGELES - Several new traffic laws have gone into effect in California, including those involving safe space for Caltrans or emergency vehicles and rescuing children from hot cars.

Assembly Bill 2285, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in September, establishes potential fines for motorists who do not slow down and, whenever possible, change lanes when encountering a Caltrans vehicle, tow truck or any emergency vehicle with lights flashing on a highway.

Previously, penalties were only imposed when violators failed to take precautions and make safe space for fire and law enforcement vehicles. The new law clarifies that Caltrans equipment and tow trucks conducting operations on a highway be given the same courtesy.

However, AB 2285 does not specify that motorists must move over if there might be conflicts with other drivers, or if conditions don't allow for it. But they must slow down. Otherwise, CHP officers could write them a $50 ticket.

Also starting with the New Year, AB 2717, signed into law by the governor at the end of September, amends existing law concerning leaving children under the age of 6 unattended in vehicles.

Prior to Jan. 1, state law mandated criminal penalties, including potential felony charges, for leaving children unsupervised. It also exempted good Samaritans from civil and criminal liability if they forcibly enter a vehicle to rescue a stranded animal expiring from extreme heat or cold. However, there haven't been exemptions for breaking into a vehicle to save a child.

AB 2717 changed that, specifically exempting a good Samaritan who rescues an endangered child from a locked vehicle from civil and criminal liability, "if the property damage or trespass occurs while the person is rescuing a child 6 years of age or younger,'' according to the legislation.

A third new law, AB 47, which was signed into law in 2019 and doesn't take effect until July 1, allows the California Department of Motor Vehicles to add a penalty point to a motorist's driving record if he or she receives two tickets in a 36-month span for talking on a mobile phone without a hands-free device.

Texting while driving also applies under the statute.

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