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ByAssociatedPress The Associated Press SpeakingwithVOAfrom a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia, mother Ubah Mo- hamed Abdullahi said she felt bad that her son risked his life and that her dream is to live with her children in the United States. ""I cried, felt badly and many people in the refugee camp came to me to give me support," she said. FBI agents say sur - veillance video shows the 15-year-old jumping out of the wheel well of a Hawai- ian Airlines jet on a Maui tarmac Sunday after sur- viving a cross-Pacific flight from San Jose, California. He told authorities he had argued with his father be- fore leaving his house. The5½-hourflightoverthe Pacific would have exposed him to sub-zero tempera - tures and very low tempera- tures,likelyknockinghimout for the duration. He has been hospitalized ever since. The boy's parents are di - vorced, and he lives with his father, Abdilahi Yusuf Abdi, a cab driver in Santa Clara, California. Abdullahi said her ex-hus- band took their three chil- dren to California without her knowledge,andthatshehadn't heard from them since 2006. "I know he was looking for me, and I am requesting the U.S. government to help me reunite with my kids," she told VOA. flight Report:Stowaway'smomsayssonbelievedherdead A15-year-oldboy, seen sitting on a stretcher center, is loaded into an ambulance at Kahului Airport in Kahului, Maui, Hawaii Sunday. THe MAui NewS, CHriS SugidoNo — THe ASSoCiATed PreSS The Associated Press ANAhEiM Authoritieshave interviewed the driver of a California school bus that crashed but still don't know what caused the bus to veer out of its lane, over a curb and into trees and a lamp post, injuring 12 people, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said Friday. The driver gave inves - tigators a brief statement late Thursday, spokesman Florentino Olivera said. He did not know what the driver told authorities. Investigators will also review surveillance videos from two on-board cam - eras, and they plan to in- spect the bus next week. They are also looking into the driver's medical his- tory and will interview witnesses, including one who said they bus may have been going 70 mph, Olivera said. It was too early to de- termine if the driver could be subject to a criminal in- vestigation, he said. There were no skid marks at the scene, and the CHP will try to determine if the brakes were working. Three others with minor injuries were released from the hospital late Thursday and six more were treated at the scene. The most seriously hurt in the Thursday afternoon crash was the driver, who had to be cut from the bus and pulled through the windshield before he was taken by ambulance to Uni - versity of California, Irvine Medical Center, authorities said. Student Jak Pintches, 14, said the bus went off the road during a turn. CHP probes SoCal school bus accident crAsh By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press Yurok tribal tradition holds the California condor as sacred, with ancient sto- ries saying the giant birds fly closest to the sun and are the best messengers to carry prayers. Now, after five years of re - search, the far northern Cal- ifornia-based tribe has re- ceived permission to release captive-bred condors into the Redwood Coast, where the giant bird hasn't soared for more than a century. Yurok officials signed a memorandum of under - standing last month with state and federal agencies and a condor conservation group, allowing for test re - leases as a final assessment of whether the region can support the endangered birds. The first releases could come in the next one to three years, tribal biologist Chris West said. Meetings will be - gin in July to work out proto- cols and select a release site. Seven sites are under con- sideration on Redwood Na- tional and State Parks and private land within about 50 miles of each other, primarily south of the Klamath River. With federal funding in short supply, the tribes will work to develop private funding to cover the esti - mated annual cost of about $400,000, West said. The return of the condor is part of Yurok environmen - tal work, along with efforts to restore salmon numbers and improve forest health. Condor feathers are part of traditional regalia used in ceremonial dances, said tribal microbiologist Ti - ana Williams. With no con- dors flying over tribal lands, there are no new feathers to replace old plumes worn out from use. "When a species like con- dor or eagle gives you ma- terial for your regalia, it is considered their spirit is in that, too. They are singing with you, and praying with you," she said. "We can get feathers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, but it's not the same thing as being able to go out there and col - lect the feathers we need from condors flying over our own skies." For Fish and Wildlife, es - tablishing another popula- tion of condors far from the five existing sites in South- ern and central California, Arizona, and Mexico's Baja California would reduce the risks associated with the gi - ant bird's recovery. Condors once flew the Pa- cific Coast from Mexico to Canada. There are just over 400 California condors in the world now, and only about 230 in the wild, said John McCamman, condor coordi- nator for Fish and Wildlife in Sacramento, Calif. That's up from just 22 birds in 1982, he said. Condors face threats to their recovery, the top dan - ger being ingesting lead shot or bullet fragments in an an- imal carcass, McCamman said. West would like to see a new format for releasing birds, starting with a pair of mature adults, and grad - ually adding younger birds for a total of six. All the birds would be fit- ted with tiny radio trans- mitters on their wings and tails, allowing biologists in the field to track them, and some with GPS satellite trackers, which send a posi - tion to a biologist's desk com- puter. That makes monitor- ing for lead poisoning easier. Using $600,000 in grants from Fish and Wildlife, the tribe has been assessing habitat, taking blood sam - ples from turkey vultures to assess the threat of lead poi- soning and testing dead sea lions that wash up on the beach for DDT. The lead levels in the vul - tures were lower than any- where else in the condor's range, West said. Like eagles, condors in the 1960s and 1970s became un - able to hatch their eggs be- cause DDT made the shells too thin. To provide the great- est genetic diversity possi- ble, birds would come from breeding programs in Ore- gon, Idaho and California, and all the release sites, Mc- Camman said. wildlifE Yurok Tribe to release condors in California Jeff BArNArd — THe ASSoCiATed PreSS Yurok Tribe wildlife biotechnician Tiana williams holds a turkey vulture in 2009in the hills above orick, where it was trapped as part of the tribe's efforts to determine if the Klamath river canyon would be suitable habitat for condors. The Associated Press sAN frANciscO San Francisco's fire chief has rescinded the reprimand of a firefighter whose hel - met-mounted camera cap- tured footage of a fire rig at the Asiana Airlines crash site running over a 16-year-old girl on the tar - mac. In a letter provided to the San Francisco Chronicle by the firefighter's attorney, Chief Joanne Hayes-White said she concluded the de - partment had insufficient evidence to support the rep- rimand. Battalion Chief Mark Johnson was accused of vi- olating a 2009 department general order against un- authorized filming in the workplace when he re- corded the July 6 crash. The chief argued at the time that the footage could open the department up to medical privacy lawsuits if it was used in an unauthor - ized way. The reprimand came af- ter Johnson's footage was published in the Chronicle and elsewhere, confirming victim Ye Meng Yuan was run over by a rig. Footage from another, department- sanctioned camera also showed Ye being struck by as well. The girl was still alive when she was hit by the emergency response vehi - cles, according to the San Mateo County coroner. flight No reprimand for fireman who filmed Asiana crash Red Bluff Arabian Horse Show May2,3&4,2014 FREEadmission Show has been held every year since 1971. 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