Brendan McDonough was serving as a lookout when the winds shifted, trapping his crew. 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots died.
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19 firefighters died after monsoon winds trapped them inside the Yarnell Hill fire. Kyung Lah reports.
There were three of them, one of them probably a child, and at least one met a gruesome end at the hands of a terrifying predator.
About 67 million years later, a Wyoming rancher led scientists to their remains. Now experts are digging out one of the most complete skeletons yet of a Triceratops, the three-horned, plant-eating dinosaur that was one of the last of the giant reptiles.
"There's only three other skeletons that will match the completeness of one of the specimens we're excavating right now," said paleontologist Peter Larson, president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research.
CNN's Kyung Lah reports from Seoul, South Korea, where they cope almost daily with threats from their hostile neighbors.
"This is a country that has, for more than a decade, heard this threat out of Pyongyang directed to Seoul that we're going to melt you down in a sea of fire. They're used to it," Lah says about the reaction there.
But people do notice a difference in the way North Korea is threatening their safety right now compared to what they experienced when Kim Jong-il was in charge. His son's regime is issuing threats more rapidly, triggering concerns that the South Korean government could overreact, resulting in a clash on the border.
CNN’s Kyung Lah traces the final hours of the hunt for cop-killer Christopher Dorner, and the calls made to 9-1-1.
Hundreds of emaciated and starving sea lion pups are turning up on the beach in southern California. Scientists are trying to rescue them and uncover what's making the babies sick. Kyung Lah reports on the unprecedented crisis for the species.
Surveillance video shows a 21-year-old Canadian tourist acting oddly in an elevator before she died in Los Angeles. What clues does it hold? CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
CNN's Kyung Lah reports on former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner's past and his issues with racism.
Jeffry Life, age 74, uses performance enhancing drugs that are similar to the ones used by athletes like Lance Armstrong. The physical results are easy to see, but he says the rock hard body isn't the only effect. Life claims his mind is sharp and he feels like a man half his age.
"I'm not against aging. I'm against getting old," he tells CNN's Kyung Lah. Life uses testosterone and human growth hormone (HGH) accompanied by a daily fitness regimen and a low-carb diet. The physician considers himself a trailblazer for others who want a better quality of life in old age.
After a family's gruesome murder, members of Nehemiah Griego's church may have prevented another mass killing in New Mexico according to police investigators. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
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