Martha Mendoza, The Associated Press

A late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California was blamed for at least two deaths.

The critical shortage of medical supplies across the U.S., including testing swabs, protective masks, surgical gowns and hand sanitizer, can be tied to a sudden drop in imports, mostly from China.

Friends and relatives of the missing are growing increasingly desperate and say the list is incomplete.

Authorities moved to set up a rapid DNA-analysis system and bring in cadaver dogs, mobile morgues and more search teams in an effort to find and identify victims of the deadliest wildfire in California history.

Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestle SA's supply chains.