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Man says he ate birds, turtles in 13 months adrift WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It's a story that almost defies belief: A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up sur- viving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands thousands of miles (kilo- meters) away. But that's what a man identifying himself as 37- year-old Jose Salvador Alvarenga told the U.S. ambassador in the Mar- shall Islands and the nation's officials during a 30-minute meeting Mon- day before he was taken to a local hospital for monitoring. Alvarenga washed ashore on the tiny atoll of Ebon in the Pacif- ic Ocean last week before being taken to the capital, Majuro, on Monday. ''It's hard for me to imagine someone surviv- ing 13 months at sea,'' said Ambassador Tom Armbruster in Majuro. ''But it's also hard to imagine how someone might arrive on Ebon out of the blue. Certainly this guy has had an ordeal, and has been at sea for some time.'' Other officials were reacting cautiously to the Spanish-speaking man's story while they try to piece together more infor- mation. If true, the man's ordeal would rank among the greatest tales ever of survival at sea. Cars warning each other of collisions? US to propose new rules WASHINGTON (AP) — Your car might see a deadly crash coming even if you don't, the govern- ment says, indicating it will require automakers to equip new vehicles with technology that lets cars warn each other if they're plunging toward peril. The action, still some years off, has ''game- changing potential'' to cut collisions, deaths and injuries, federal trans- portation officials said at a news conference Mon- day. A radio signal would continually transmit a vehicle's position, head- ing, speed and other infor- mation. Cars and light trucks would receive the same information back from other cars, and a vehicle's computer would alert its driver to an impending collision. Alerts could be a flashing message, an audible warning, or a driver's seat that rumbles. Some sys- tems might even automat- ically brake to avoid an accident if manufacturers choose to include that option. Your car would ''see'' when another car or truck equipped with the same technology was about to run a red light, even if that vehicle was hidden around a corner. Your car would also know when a car several vehicles ahead in a line of traffic had made a sudden stop and alert you even before you saw brake lights The tech- nology works up to about 300 yards. If communities choose to invest in the technolo- gy, roadways and traffic lights could start talking to cars, too, sending warn- ings of traffic congestion or road hazards ahead in time for drivers to take a detour. Al-Qaida shuns militant group CAIRO (AP) — Al- Qaida's central leadership broke with one of its most powerful branch com- manders in an apparent attempt to stem the deadly infighting that has erupted in Syria among the mili- tant Islamic factions try- ing to bring down Presi- dent Bashar Assad. More broadly, the announcement Monday appeared to be a move by al-Qaida leader Ayman al- Zawahri to reassert the terror network's promi- nence in the jihad move- ment across the Middle East amid the mushroom- ing of extremist groups during the upheaval of the past three years. The dispute is between al-Qaida's central leader- ship and a faction known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq, formed the Islamic State last spring to expand his operations into neighboring Syria, defying direct orders by al-Zawahri not to do so. Al-Zawahri named a dif- ferent group, the Nusra Front, as al-Qaida's branch in Syria. Now, the break is like- ly to spark a competition for resources and fighters between the two sides in what has become a civil war within a civil war. The test for al-Zawahri's influence will be whether his decision leads fighters to quit the Islamic State. First of a one- two weather punch sweeps through eastern US P H I L A D E L P H I A (AP) — A winter storm dumped several inches of wet, heavy snow on parts of the eastern United States on Mon- day, snarling commutes and Super Bowl fans' trips home, closing schools and government offices, and cutting power. Fat flakes fell in Philadelphia and New York, creating slushy sidewalks and streets and all but erasing all memory of Sunday's weather in 50s. The storm began moving out of the region Monday afternoon, making way for another system expected to sweep in from the Plains with ice and snow in time for the Tuesday afternoon rush hour. The National Weather Service reported about 8 inches of snow near Frostburg, Md., while parts of southern Ohio and West Virginia got about 10 inches. Totals in the Philadelphia area ranged from 3 to 9 inch- es; New York saw as much as 7 inches by 3 p.m. Government offices, courts and schools closed in parts of Con- necticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia; scattered power outages were reported throughout the region. Speed limits were reduced on many major highways. In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency with travel conditions hazardous. Nonessential government employees were dismissed early. Nielsen says Super Bowl seen by 111.5 million NEW YORK (AP) — For the fourth time in five years, the Super Bowl has set a record for the most- watched television event in U.S. history, drawing 111.5 million viewers even though the Seattle Seahawks' 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos wasn't really competitive. The ratings record is further evidence of how live events are becoming dependable and valuable properties for broadcast television at a time the audience is fragmenting and ratings for regular entertainment shows con- tinue to fall. ''Big-event television is a great way for people to have a communal event, to talk about it socially and to talk about it as a group,'' said Bill Wanger, executive vice president for program- ming and research at Fox Sports. ''You see that in the Super Bowl numbers of the past four or five years. They've just gone up to a different level.'' The game also set stan- dards for the most- streamed sports event online and, with 24.9 mil- lion tweets, the biggest U.S. live TV event on Twitter. The Seattle victory eclipsed the 111.3 million viewers who watched the 2012 Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, according to the Nielsen company. Until last year's game dipped slightly to 108.7 million, the Super Bowl had set ratings records for the previous three years in a row. Heroin confirmed in packets in Hoffman's apartment NEW YORK (AP) — A law enforcement offi- cial says tests have con- firmed there was heroin in at least some of the dozens of plastic packets in a New York City apart- ment where Philip Sey- mour Hoffman was found dead. Officials are work- ing to determine whether the drug was mixed or tainted with anything else. An autopsy was being conducted Monday. Police have been investi- gating Hoffman's death as an apparent overdose. Law enforcement officials said he was found with a needle in his arm. Two officials said Monday that at least four dozen small packets were found in the apartment. The officials said some packages were stamped with the ace of hearts, others with the ace of spades. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk about the evidence found. Death comes to the mall LOS ANGELES (AP) — We eat there, buy our clothes there and some people suspect teenagers may actually live there. So perhaps it was just a matter of time until funer- al homes began moving into the local shopping mall. Over the past two years, Forest Lawn has been quietly putting mov- able kiosks in several of the malls that dot South- ern California's suburbs. The move, by one of the funeral industry's best known operators, expands on a marketing innovation that appears to have begun at the dawn of the decade when a company called Til We Meet Again began opening casket stores around the country. ''We try to reach our audience where they are at and the mall is a great way to do that,'' said Ben Sussman, spokesman for Forest Lawn, whose cemeteries count among their permanent residents such notables as Walt Dis- ney, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson. ''And it's also, per- haps, a way to reach peo- ple who might be a little leery about coming directly into one of our parks,'' Sussman said. Leno says goodbye to 'Tonight' again BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Jay Leno, as affa- bly efficient backstage as he is in front of the cam- era, avoids waxing poetic about his 22-year ''Tonight Show'' run that draws to a close Thursday. Instead, he relies on numbers to tell the story. Leno's tenure is second only to Johnny Carson's 30 years; ''Tonight'' was No. 1 among viewers when he took it over and will be when he hands it off to Jimmy Fallon; he'll have taped more shows than any predecessor, Car- son included, with the final and 4,610th one. His dry assessment also may stem from a case of deja vu. After all, he lived through this before when he surrendered ''Tonight'' in 2009 to Conan O'Brien, only to reclaim it after NBC's messy bobbling of the transition and O'Brien's lackluster rat- ings. But this time it's differ- ent, Leno contends, offer- ing another hard fact: The older generation has to make way for the younger one. Britain's Queen Eliza- beth II can keep 65-year- old Prince Charles cooling his heels. Leno doesn't have the power to do the same with Fallon, 39. The ''Late Night'' host is mov- ing the show from its longtime Burbank home, near Johnny Carson Park and off Bob Hope Drive, to its New York birthplace when he debuts as host on Feb. 17. Gay rights activists arrested in Idaho Senate BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police arrested dozens of gay rights activists Mon- day after a protest that blocked entrances to the Idaho Senate chambers for more than two hours. Idaho State Police said they took 43 people into custody on suspicion of misdemeanor trespassing after demonstrators stood shoulder to shoulder and prevented lawmakers from getting past. Former state Sen. Nicole LeFavour, the Idaho Legislature's first openly gay lawmaker and an organizer of the protest, was among those arrested. Ahead of the demonstration, she had said the group would block the entrances until lawmakers agreed to take up a bill adding anti-dis- crimination protections for gay and transgender people or until protesters were removed by authori- ties. After she was released, LeFavour said she was treated respectfully by law enforcement. ''We have no issue with police,'' she said. ''Our issue is with a Leg- islature that won't stand up and say 'cruelty to gay, lesbian and transgender people is wrong.''' The issue of gay rights has become prominent in Idaho. In a pending federal case, four couples have sued to overturn Idaho's 8-year-old ban on gay marriage. 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