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Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.”

LOS ANGELES: On Tuesday, the monks met with their insurance agent.

Like thousands of other residents of Southern California, the seven Benedictine Anglican monks who lived at Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House, on a breathtaking ridge 1,250 feet, or 380 meters, above the Pacific in Montecito, were coming to terms with what they had lost in the fires that have swept across Southern California since Thursday.

John Mayer in his song “Waiting On the World To Change” expresses frustration about the current situation and hope for something better. He begins by saying: