Olga Rodriguez

Out-of-control wildfires in Southern California on Tuesday that have kept tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that public health officials were investigating an outbreak of E. coli that had sickened 19 people in seven states.

Baseball history was made in Northern California when the sport's first active professional player to come out as gay pitched a shutout before an enthusiastic crowd that seemed more impressed with his performance than his role as a pioneer.

Authorities cordoned off an area about a half mile from where the stolen truck and empty container were found in the state of Mexico, said Juan Eibenschutz, director general of the National Commission of Nuclear Safety and Safeguards. "Fortunately there are no people where the source of radioactivity is," Eibenschutz said.