A body was discovered at the bottom of a cliff in San Pedro on Saturday, the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed.

Reports of a person at the bottom of the cliffs near Point Fermin came into LAFD at 12:38 p.m., according to authorities. Land, air and sea units each responded to the area, where a deceased person was found.

Crews later recovered the body. No identifying information was immediately given for the person.

There’s no word on how the person ended up at the bottom of the cliff, or if foul play was suspected.

The scene remained under investigation as of Saturday afternoon.

It was evident that Sam Rubin loved his job as entertainment anchor at KTLA, but out of the many roles he assumed over the years, none was more important to him than being a father and husband. 

Rubin brought his home family and his work family together often, giving many a chance to witness him and his four children grow on TV for decades. 

His four kids – Rory, Perry, Darcy and Colby – made many appearances on KTLA over the years, being interviewed and occasionally showcasing their journalistic skills by conducting interviews or offering entertainment analysis themselves. 

A proud father, he was never shy about recognizing his children’s accomplishments and milestones on the air, whether it be birthdays, graduations or Eagle Scout Ceremonies. 

Rubin’s unique ability to effortlessly combine his private and public lives is what made countless Angelenos invite him into their homes every morning for over 30 years. 

Nearly everyone who came into contact with Rubin – viewers, colleagues and celebrities alike – shared the same sentiment about him: Talking to him was never an interview, but always a conversation. 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. this weekend and potentially disrupt power and communications.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, hours sooner than anticipated. The effects were due to last through the weekend and possibly into next week.

NOAA alerted operators of power plants and spacecraft in orbit to take precautions, as well as the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“For most people here on planet Earth, they won’t have to do anything,” said Rob Steenburgh, a scientist with NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

The storm could produce northern lights as far south in the U.S. as Alabama and Northern California, according to NOAA. But it was hard to predict and experts stressed it would not be the dramatic curtains of color normally associated with the northern lights, but more like splashes of greenish hues.

“That’s really the gift from space weather — the aurora,” said Steenburgh. He and his colleagues said the best aurora views may come from phone cameras, which are better at capturing light than the naked eye.

Snap a picture of the sky and “there might be actually a nice little treat there for you,” said Mike Bettwy, operations chief for the prediction center.

The most intense solar storm in recorded history, in 1859, prompted auroras in central America and possibly even Hawaii. “We are not anticipating that” but it could come close, said NOAA space weather forecaster Shawn Dahl.

This storm poses a risk for high-voltage transmission lines for power grids, not the electrical lines ordinarily found in people’s homes, Dahl told reporters. Satellites also could be affected, which in turn could disrupt navigation and communication services here on Earth.

An extreme geomagnetic storm in 2003, for example, took out power in Sweden and damaged power transformers in South Africa.

Even when the storm is over, signals between GPS satellites and ground receivers could be scrambled or lost, according to NOAA. But there are so many navigation satellites that any outages should not last long, Steenburgh noted.

The sun has produced strong solar flares since Wednesday, resulting in at least seven outbursts of plasma. Each eruption — known as a coronal mass ejection — can contain billions of tons of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona.

The flares seem to be associated with a sunspot that’s 16 times the diameter of Earth, according to NOAA. It’s all part of the solar activity that’s ramping up as the sun approaches the peak of its 11-year cycle.

NASA said the storm posed no serious threat to the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The biggest concern is the increased radiation levels, and the crew could move to a better shielded part of the station if necessary, according to Steenburgh.

Increased radiation also could threaten some of NASA’s science satellites. Extremely sensitive instruments will be turned off, if necessary, to avoid damage, said Antti Pulkkinen, director of the space agency’s heliophysics science division.

Several sun-focused spacecraft are monitoring all the action.

“This is exactly the kinds of things we want to observe,” Pulkkinen said.

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