Mom, 1-year-old son killed by carbon monoxide
A family in New Jersey, trapped over the weekend in the massive East Coast snowstorm, was trying to dig its way out when the chill became too much to handle. The mother and her children - ages 1 and 3 - huddled in the car with the engine running to keep warm. The kids’ father tried to clear the snow outside.
Authorities said no one seemed to realize that the tailpipe was clogged with snow, pushing deadly carbon monoxide gas into the car. When the father went to check on them, police said, he could not wake them up.
Police said the 3-year-old girl was rushed to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J. Passaic Mayor Alex Blanco later told NorthJersey.com that the little girl was “fighting for her life.”
The mother, identified by neighbors as 23-year-old Sashalynn Rosa, and her 1-year-old son, Messiah, died, authorities told NorthJersey.com. Three-year-old Saniyah was listed in critical condition.
Explorer dies after solo attempt across Antarctica
A British explorer attempting the first unassisted solo crossing of Antarctica has died 71 days after setting out and possibly within a week of his goal, his wife said Monday.
Henry Worsley, 55, had been suffering from increasing exhaustion and dehydration during the voyage, posting updates by satellite phone.
Worsley was airlifted off the ice on Friday - after covering more than 900 miles of the 1,100-mile trek - and died at a medical facility in Punta Arenas, Chile, his wife Joanna said.
Worsley had expected his journey to take between 75 and 80 days - which would have been the first without assistance from sled dogs or other support such as airdrops.
Shkreli gets snow day as Congress delays hearing
Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli will have more time to battle a congressional subpoena after lawmakers postponed a hearing on U.S. drug prices because of a major snowstorm over the weekend.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will now hold the hearing, which was originally scheduled for Tuesday, on Feb. 4, according to a letter from Shkreli’s lawyers sent Monday to a judge in Brooklyn. MJ Henshaw, a spokeswoman for Committee Chairman and Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz, didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking to confirm the date.
Shkreli, the former chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals, is facing federal fraud charges unrelated to Turing and has said that he plans to plead his Fifth Amendment rights if called before Congress to talk about drug pricing.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and Turing have been under investigation by the committee for price hikes on older drugs. Soon after it acquired two heart drugs, Valeant tripled the price of one, called Nitropress, and raised the other, Isuprel, by 525 percent. Under Shkreli, closely held Turing bought a decades-old anti-parasitic treatment and increased its price to $750 a pill from $13.50.
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