Texas:
Two girls, about age 14 and 7, are missing, they 'might be' with a suspect of interest.  There mom has been found dead.  Round Rock area, near Austin.

A boy found in the closet of a house that was suspect for meth production, became acquainted with vermin he says.  Developments since about the 20th of December 2017.  Houston area.

New York:
Just days after a devastating fire took place in the Bronx that claimed the lives of what some reports say were a dozen persons, this morning, about 5:30am, a 7-alarm fire emerged from a furniture store, in the Bronx

A Scarsdale, NY family mourns the loss after members were victim of a smaller sized plane crash in or near Costa Rica over the weekend

No condescending on our southern neighbors whatsoever, however, let it be clear that there have been 2 major incidents in about as many days, as the Finance Director of the southern California city, Imperial Beach, was assaulted with fatality result in Mexico.  The guidance and advisories for certain prudency in the area has to be amplified.  
-Does the time of year have anything to do with it?, might be among the areas that are being assessed in developing the kinds of advisories called for.

Los Angeles, California:
Late last night, Monday, a fire affected the life of a man in his early seventies, reportedly age 74, another fire in a senior living building within the past month thereabout, reference other areas in the US.  The fire, South Normandie, evidently was not readily apparent from outside the building, however was intense contender at the unit that it affected.

Now that the devastating wiildfires have started to wind down, there is another challenge, which is the threat of mudslides in their place.

Transitioning into politics, California did get Presidential declaration of disaster zone, respective the wildfires.

Many of the same names, new ripples

Recent news reports have been emerging giving summary takes on Trump views on funding that went to Iran during the Obama Administration.
There is the rushed opinion of what was said, then there is the reality of what was said.  AOL put out an article that discussed money going into 'Iran's pockets', which may be a chronological fact, not necessarily a condescending statement that is indicative that there was 'funding of terror'; let us be careful; sometimes the rush job to summarize a story can get sloppy and inaccurate.
A very, very brief chronology of major events in the Iraq and Iran region the past 50 years, might help crytstallize that facts in history, and is what is, is distinguished from an opinion transformed into facts:

• Iraq and Iran was at war about 40 years ago, early to mid 1980s roughly; an irony to the Muslim World, as ordinarily, the saying applies, if two Muslims are fighting one of them is not a believer
  
• Ayatollah Khomeini took power; the 'Shia regime' was 'feared' 'by the West' insofar the potentiality of events of violence erupting
  
• Saddam Hussein was in power and his positioning with the US toward the end, of him being in power, became one generally perceived as in opposition
  
• Iraq invaded Kuwait
  
• Iraq War, commencing late 1980s, continuing on through through the early 1990s; still today, US forces in the region to some degree
  
• Perceptions of which country, Iran or Iraq, was more of an aggressor, might have been affected by the abovesaid wars
  
• The dynamics of foreign policy relations between the USA and Iraq, or USA and Iran, might have likewise been affected
  
• Iran known more for nuclear issues recently
  
• Iraq was known more for outright military action
  

In other news, Senator Orrin Hatch is reported to be retiring, which may provide a less resistive path to Mitt Romney taking the vacant seat