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Here’s your friendly reminder to drive carefully.

The final autopsy report on Paul Walker’s death is in from the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, and there’s some frustratingly tragic news in the report: Paul Walker’s Porsche was traveling at more than 100 MPH when it crashed.

That’s more than twice what was originally thought, as initial reports said that the car was only traveling around 45 MPH at the time of the wreck.

However, the new confirmation of the car’s speed explains the wreck much more clearly. TheLos Angeles Times put it this way:

“The car crashed into a pole and several trees on Hercules Street in Santa Clarita. The force was so strong that after the driver’s side of the vehicle hit a light pole and tree, the car continued spinning until Walker’s passenger side slammed into another tree and burst into flames, according to the report.”

The report also notes that the car was “almost split in half” and that Walker’s body was so badly burned from the fire that he was almost unrecognizable and his organs could not be donated.

The report does confirm that neither Walker nor his friend Roger Rodas had drugs or alcohol in their systems at the time

Paul Walker death: Investigators recover three black boxes from Porsche crash to use for data recovery 

One module should be able to tell the last speed recorded and whether the airbags deployed, while the other two should give information on the throttle and how much gas was going into the engine.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013, 4:26 PM

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Paul Walker died Nov. 30 when his friend and business partner Roger Rodas lost control of the 2005 Porsche Carrera GT in which they were riding near their car shop in Santa Clarita, Calif.

Investigators have recovered all three black boxes from the Porsche in which Paul Walker died – and all three are “viable” despite the car bursting into flames, a law enforcement source told the Daily News.

Investigators with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department are now in talks with Porsche to have engineers meet them in mid-January to plug the boxes into another Porsche Carrera GT model for data recovery, the source said.

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One module should be able to tell the last speed recorded and whether the airbags deployed, the source explained.

The other two should give information on the throttle and how much gas was going into the engine.

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Sheriff deputies work near the wreckage of the Porsche.

The source said investigators are working with Porsche’s lawyers to arrange the assistance and that the automaker is covering all of the costs.

“We’re going to have to discuss how we’ll do this when we meet with them. We will bring the modules to them and work out what we do from there. We would like to keep things under our control. We discussed possibly renting another GT to plug them in,” the source said.

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“I’m not really sure about the level of encryption in this case, but in other cases, we’ve been able to download and get the data in 10 minutes,” the source said.

Walker, 40, died Nov. 30 when his friend and business partner Roger Rodas lost control of the exotic 2005 Porsche Carrera GT in which they were riding near their car shop in Santa Clarita, Calif.

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The Porsche crashed into a light pole and a tree and burst into flames, killing both Paul Walker and Roger Rodas within seconds, authorities said.

The car crashed into a light pole and a tree and burst into flames, killing both men within seconds, authorities said.

The investigation source reiterated Wednesday that high speed appeared to be a contributing factor – though the source declined to give an estimate.

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“If we’re able to get an exact speed off the modules, great. If not, we will release what we’ve come up with based on the skids,” the source said.

“There’s no indication he was spinning at all before the crash. It’s fairly straight where he crashed. There’s no evidence he lost control in the curve at all,” the source said, referring to Rodas.

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A fan places a poster during a Dec. 8 memorial rally and car cruise in Valencia, Calif. to remember Paul Walker and his friend Roger Rodas.

The source said one tire was recovered fairly intact and dated back to 2004.

“It was an old tire, especially in racing years,” the source said.

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Still, the source said it was unlikely the tire had trouble with the raised dots marking the boundaries of the lanes.

“I find it highly unlikely that the car lost traction due to a dot,” the source said. “I don’t see it taking the whole wheel off the ground. These tires were wide.”

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The remote facility is close to the Libyan border 1,300km south-east of Algiers

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• Profile: Mokhtar Belmokhtar
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An Algerian army operation to free hostages at a gas facility in the desert has left a number of Islamist militants and their captives missing.

State TV said four foreign hostages had been killed in the raid. The militants had claimed to be holding 41.

Some hostages were freed, but the number of survivors was unconfirmed and UK officials said they were preparing for news of many British casualties.

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters occupied the facility near In Amenas on Wednesday.

During Thursday’s raid as many as 600 Algerians and four foreign hostages – two from Scotland, one from France and one from Kenya – were freed, state news agency APS reported.

AFP news agency quoted Algerian officials as saying the army had not secured the whole site and the facility was still being searched late on Thursday.

The Irish government confirmed that one of its citizens was free. Five American hostages had survived and left the country, US officials told ABC News.

David Cameron: “We should be prepared for the possibility of further bad news”

Japan said three of its nationals had been freed in the operation, but that 14 remained unaccounted for.

Earlier, the militants reportedly said that at least 34 hostages and 14 kidnappers died, and that seven foreign hostages had survived.

The militants said they had taken hostages in retaliation for French military intervention in neighbouring Mali.

Some workers were reported to have been freed or to have escaped before the raid.

Algerian Communications Minister Mohamed Said Belaid said a “significant number of terrorists” had been killed.

He added: “Unfortunately, we deplore some deaths and some people wounded. We don’t yet have the numbers,” he said.

Grave concern

BBC political editor Nick Robinson says British ministers are still awaiting information from the Algerian government on the number of British dead, adding that up to 20 hostages were still thought to be unaccounted for.

Details of how the raid unfolded were slow to emerge.

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Mokhtar Belmokhtar

• Fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in late 1980s
• Former leading figure in al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb. Left in late 2012 after falling out with leaders
• Now heads the Khaled Abu al-Abbas Brigade and the Signed-in-Blood Battalion
• Known as “The One-Eyed” as he wears an eyepatch over a lost eye
• French intelligence has dubbed him “The Uncatchable”, while locals refer to him as “Mister Marlboro” for his illicit cigarettes operation
• Profile: Mokhtar Belmokhtar

APS reported that the Algerian military, which had been surrounding the gas plant, had targeted two vehicles as they tried to escape from the site with an unknown number of people on board.

Militants told local media that Algerian forces had opened fire from the air.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said he was told by his Algerian counterpart that Algerian authorities had tried and failed to find a solution to the stand-off on Wednesday night. “The Algerian prime minister said they felt they had no choice but to go in,” he said.

Mr Cameron, who cancelled a key speech on Europe scheduled for Friday, made it clear that he would have preferred to have been told in advance, a spokesman said .

The British government had offered Algeria advice on how to deal with the siege situation – whether through negotiations or a military solution – because the Algerian government lacked the expertise to deal with it, our correspondent says.

There was great concern in the UK and other Western nations when the Algerian authorities said the military had been sent in, he adds.

Japan’s government protested against the raid, urging Algeria “put the highest priority on people’s lives”. The US said it was “seeking clarity” on what had happened.

Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said the kidnappers were Algerian and operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) until late last year.

Mr Ould Kablia said they had entered Algeria from Libya, AFP reported.

Two people were killed when militants attacked the gas plant.

The Tigantourine gas facility is about 40km (25 miles) south-west of In Amenas, which is close to the Libyan border and about 1,300km (800 miles) south-east of Algiers.

BP operates the gas field jointly with Algerian state oil company Sonatrach and Norwegian firm Statoil

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The Expendables are back and this time it’s personal…

• Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham
• Directed by: Simon West
• Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
• Release year: 2012
• Studio: Lionsgate

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Synopsis: The Expendables are back and this time it’s personal…

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham

Supporting actors: Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Scott Adkins, Yu Nan, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Directed by: Simon West

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes

Release year: 2012

Studio: Lionsgate

MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout

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• US Theatrical Release Date: August 17, 2012
• MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout
• Production Company: Millennium Films, Nu Image Films
• Filming Locations: China | Plovdiv Airport, Bulgaria | Vitosha, Bulgaria | Bansko, Bulgaria | Bulgaria | Hong Kong, China | Lovech, Bulgaria | New Boyana Film Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Ognyanovo Reservoir, Bulgaria | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | Sofia, Bulgaria | The Devetaki Cave, Bulgaria

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Businessman Wesley Deeds has always done the right thing — including proposing to the woman everyone expects him to marry — but he may finally have to listen to his own heart when his attempts to help a single mother spark an unlikely attraction.

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Tyler Perry

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Tyler Perry

Thandie Newton

Gabrielle Union

Phylicia Rashad

Eddie Cibrian

Rebecca Romijn

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Dramas

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Whitney Houston Dead At 48

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Houston won two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards during her record-breaking career. But by the end of her career, drug use took its toll as her record sales plummeted and her voice became raspy and hoarse.

Whitney was set to appear in this year’s “Sparkle,” a remake of the 1976 hit, which was loosely based on the story of The Supremes. It was her first movie role since 1996′s “The Preacher’s Wife.”

Houston had one child, Bobbi Kristina, with husband Bobby Brown. Houston and Brown were married from 1992-2007.

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BRENTWOOD, N.Y. – Samantha Garvey and her family had been living in a Long Island shelter for several days when they got word the 17-year-old aspiring marine biologist had made it to the semifinals of the prestigious national Intel science competition.

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Now, with donations coming in and the county finding them rent-subsidized housing, she’ll again be able to do her homework in a home.

“This is just the most amazing thing you could ask for,” the diminutive Garvey said at a news conference Friday, surrounded by her parents, brother, sister and a cadre of politicians and school officials.

“We’re all in tears here,” she said after Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced that the Department of Social Services had located a nearby three-bedroom house where the family could live. “This is what we’ve always wanted.”

Garvey is one of 300 teenagers nationwide named this week as semifinalists in the prestigious Intel science competition; finalists will be announced at the end of January. She spent more than two years researching the effects of the Asian short crab on the mussel population in a Long Island salt marsh.

“What Sam found was that, like after anyone, after being attacked you develop a tough skin of shell,” said her science research teacher, Rebecca Grella. “These mussels were able to increase their thickness and protect themselves against their predator.”

Grella noted the link between Garvey‘s challenges and those of the mollusks she studied.

“I do believe that is an amazing metaphor,” Grella said, “and I do see Sam as a strong mussel.”

The Brentwood High School senior, who has applied to Yale and Brown universities, was evicted along with her family from their home on New Year’s Eve. Her mother, Olga, a nurse’s assistant, was out of work for eight months following a car accident in February, and her father, Leo, could not keep up with the bills alone on his salary as a cab driver.

Housing prices on Long Island are among the highest in the country, even in Brentwood, which has struggled with gang violence in recent years. A three-bedroom home there recently sold for $291,000, according to Lisa Kennedy, a broker with Eric G. Ramsay Associates. A three-bedroom ranch is renting for $1,800 a month, she said.

The Garveys will pay 30 percent of their monthly income to rent the county-owned property, officials said.

Gregory Blass, the county commissioner of Social Services, said the family was already known to officials because they were staying in a shelter, making them eligible to move into the house. He said the county works to place about 30 to 40 homeless families a month from shelters into apartments or homes. He insisted the Garveys received no preferential treatment because of Samantha’s notoriety.

The house is undergoing renovations and should be ready for the Garveys in about 10 days, Bellone said.

Leo Garvey, Samantha’s father, said that after the eviction he took his family to a hotel for a week because he did not want them spending New Year’s in a homeless shelter. But he finally had to contact Suffolk County Social Services for help last week; they were then placed in a shelter.

This week came the accolades for Samantha’s scientific feat, and the offer for the family to live in a home of their own. Her story has gotten coverage nationwide.

Once sponsored by Westinghouse, the Society for Science and the Public has been running the competition since 1942. Over the decades, contest finalists have gone on to some of the greatest achievements in science. Seven have won a Nobel Prize.

Before the eviction, the Garveys had rented a home for six or seven years, Leo Garvey said. Before that, the family had also lived in homeless shelters from time to time; Leo Garvey described himself as a recovering alcoholic.

Samantha said that she had worried for several months before the eviction, knowing that her mother was ailing and money was tight.

“I ordered a senior picture and I said, `I don’t know where to send it. I don’t know what’s going to happen. What if we move, what if we get evicted,’ which we did,” she said. “You’re out in limbo. You’re like, `What’s going to happen to my mail, what’s going to happen to my college applications. Where are they all going to go?’ It’s scary.”

In addition to the county housing, officials said the Marriott Corp. is donating “several thousand dollars” of furniture for the family to use. Others have offered to pay kennel fees for the family pit bull.

“It’s unbelievable; the outpouring of help that we’ve had,” said Leo Garvey. He made reference to a news conference also held Friday in Suffolk County announcing the latest winner of a Mega Millions lottery jackpot. “I feel richer than that $208 million winner.”

NEW YORK-Police shot and killed Dwayne Browne outside of his home in East New York, Brooklyn after he came outside of his house in his pajamas with a gun to check on a possible break-in.

Browne was working installing floors and had attended pharmaceutical school. Browne’s girlfriend says the two were watching a movie together when Browne went outside after noticing a group of men trying to force themselves in the apartment.

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“He looked through the blinds before he went downstairs,” she said. “He said he saw two people running away. It sounded like someone was trying to break in. He went downstairs to check it out. I heard one gunshot.

“He came back upstairs and he was bleeding,” she said. “He looked at me and said, ‘Baby, I’ve been shot.’”

At that point, Juanita said, cops rushed into the apartment and one officer pointed a gun at her head and refused to help Browne.