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US: Atmospheric River – Mudslides Cause Significant Damage In Los Angeles 2

A powerful atmospheric river storm continued to hit California on Monday, February 5, causing widespread damage. The storm caused destructive mudslides, knocked down trees and power lines. A mandatory evacuation order was issued as several homes were damaged in a debris flow in Los Angeles. This video shows the aftermath of the mudslide in Baldwin Hills.

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US: Atmospheric River – Mudslides Cause Significant Damage In Los Angeles 3

A powerful atmospheric river storm continued to hit California on Monday, February 5, causing widespread damage. The storm caused destructive mudslides, knocked down trees and power lines. A mandatory evacuation order was issued as several homes were damaged in a debris flow in Los Angeles. This video shows the aftermath of the mudslide in Baldwin Hills.

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U.N. disarmament representative speaks in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Angela Kane, U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, refers to strong discontent among nonnuclear-armed countries about the lack of progress in disarmament talks involving nuclear powers during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014.

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8 more countries join Arms Trade Treaty

NEW YORK, United States - Australian Ambassador to the United Nations Gary Quinlan (L) presents a ratification instrument for the Arms Trade Treaty to a U.N. official in the presence of U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane (R) during a ceremony at U.N. headquarters in New York on June 3, 2014. Australia was one of eight more countries to join the treaty.

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Japan joins U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

NEW YORK, United States - Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa (L), permanent representative of Japan to the United Nations, presents the instrument of ratification for the Arms Trade Treaty in the presence of U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane (R) at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 9, 2014. Japan became the 32nd country to join the international treaty.

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Antinuclear activists call for banning nukes at U.N.

NEW YORK, the United States - Hiroshi Takakusaki (L), a representative of the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), presents a petition signed by heads of municipal governments in Japan calling for a complete ban on nuclear arsenals to Enrique Roman-Moray, who chairs the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 2, 2014, with Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, looking on.

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Angela Kane (L), the United Nations' High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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U.N. disarmament head

NEW YORK, United States - Angela Kane, the head of the United Nations' office for disarmament affairs, is interviewed by Kyodo News on April 16, 2014, at her office in New York. Kane said she would consider it a provocation if North Korea carries out a fourth nuclear test, especially ahead of a preparatory committee meeting for the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty review conference that begins April 28.

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U.N. official on disarmament Kane

NAGASAKI, Japan - Angela Kane, the United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs, speaks during an interview in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2012. She called on the international community to fulfill its moral responsibility in eliminating nuclear weapons, noting the inhumanity of their use.

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Global disarmament forum

NAGASAKI, Japan - Angela Kane, the United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs, delivers a keynote address at the Global Forum on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education in Nagasaki on Aug. 10, 2012. Kane said educating young people is key to realizing a world without nuclear weapons.

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Japan's ex-envoy to U.N. appointed undersec'y general

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 5, 2010, shows U.N. Security Council President Yukio Takasu speaking to reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on April 25, 2012, announced the appointment of Takasu, former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, as new undersecretary general for management to succeed Angela Kane.

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Nuclear disarmament forum in Hiroshima

Angela Kane (L), former U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, and Prefectural University of Kumamoto Chancellor Takashi Shiraishi bow in front of the Cenotaph for A-bomb Victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 11, 2022, the second day of the two-day inaugural session of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons.

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Nuclear disarmament forum in Hiroshima

Angela Kane (L), former U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, and Prefectural University of Kumamoto Chancellor Takashi Shiraishi offer a flower wreath at the Cenotaph for A-bomb Victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 11, 2022, the second day of the two-day inaugural session of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons.

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Nuclear disarmament forum in Hiroshima

Angela Kane (L), former U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, and Prefectural University of Kumamoto Chancellor Takashi Shiraishi offer a flower wreath at the Cenotaph for A-bomb Victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Dec. 11, 2022, the second day of the two-day inaugural session of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons.

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U.N. disarmament chief speaks ahead of NPT review confab

U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane says in an interview with Kyodo News in New York on April 23, 2015, that nonnuclear arms states "must be given the impression that there actually is a way to bring down the numbers" of nuclear weapons and that these arms "are not here forever." She spoke ahead of a U.N. conference to review the operation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty from April 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rally for nuke-free world takes place prior to NPT review conference

Taous Feroukhi (2nd from R), ambassador of Algeria who will chair a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Angela Kane (2nd from L), top U.N. official of disarmament affairs, receive a petition of more than seven million signatures from Japan and other countries seeking negotiations for the elimination of the world's nuclear arsenals submitted by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (far L) in New York on April 26, 2015, the day before the start of the conference that will continue through May 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima governor meets U.N. disarmament chief in N.Y.

Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki (2nd from L) confers with U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane (2nd from R) in New York on April 28, 2015. Yuzaki sought Kane's cooperation to incorporate in the U.N. NPT Review Conference's final document a plea for world leaders to visit the two Japanese atomic-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's ex-envoy to U.N. appointed undersec'y general

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 5, 2010, shows U.N. Security Council President Yukio Takasu speaking to reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on April 25, 2012, announced the appointment of Takasu, former Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, as new undersecretary general for management to succeed Angela Kane. (Kyodo)

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U.N. disarmament representative speaks in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Angela Kane, U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, refers to strong discontent among nonnuclear-armed countries about the lack of progress in disarmament talks involving nuclear powers during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2014. (Kyodo)