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The massive sinkhole outside Nicolas Cage's Malibu home has gone from a nasty driveway problem to a full-blown emergency ... with the city now ordering evacuations along his street.

The City of Malibu declared a local emergency Tuesday evening after the sinkhole near Sea Level Drive continued to expand to the point where it's now cutting off safe access for residents and emergency crews.

And this thing is huge -- according to the city's emergency proclamation, the crater is roughly 25 to 30 feet deep and 30 by 60 feet wide.

Nicolas Cage has a giant problem outside his Malibu home ... the ground has literally opened up right next to his property.

A massive sinkhole tore through the roadway and part of the driveway at Cage's place, leaving behind a deep crater full of busted concrete, exposed dirt, and mangled pavement.

The collapse gets dangerously close to the garage ... with chunks of the driveway cracked, tilted, and hanging over the edge.

Diplo says he orchestrated another great escape from Burning Man ... this time claiming he and some pals had to walk 15 miles through the desert to get back to civilization.

The DJ shared his trek on social media on Friday ... braving the heat through the muddy desert.

Diplo notes the whole situation is "f***ed up" ... before posting another video in which he says he and his buddies hiked "15 miles through Indian land" to meet up with a buddy who would take them to Reno. Burning Man is located a little more than 100 miles from the city.

A woman and two children escaped Nepal's deadly flash floods by mere seconds ... with heart-stopping video showing a wall of muddy debris roaring right behind them.

The footage, shot Wednesday in a settlement along the upper Trishuli River, shows the trio scrambling off a road and up a steep slope as the disaster unfolds.

The woman and kids -- who appear to be wearing school uniforms -- stumble and hit the ground during the frantic escape ... but quickly get back on their feet.

08/31/2026 9:39 AM PST -- Two people are confirmed dead. The search for the remaining missing people continues.

A powerful flash flood tore through the Grand Canyon ... leaving roughly 15 people unaccounted for and forcing dozens of others to evacuate.

The National Park Service says the major flooding struck Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area Saturday after a series of storms moved through the region.

As of Sunday, Park officials initially estimated as many as 20 people could be missing, but that number has since been revised to approximately 15 as authorities work to account for everyone who may have been in the area.

At least 62 people have been evacuated, with additional evacuations planned from Cottonwood Campground and Phantom Ranch. No injuries have been reported at this time.

A woman went scorched Earth on a lady who was walking her German Shepherd on the asphalt during SoCal's heatwave, bare paws and all ... it got toasty and it's all on video.

We're told the situation went down Wednesday outside a TJ Maxx in San Dimas, CA -- where temperatures reached over 100 degrees. Witnesses say, around 2 p.m., a blonde woman got into a heated confrontation with a younger brunette after spotting her walking her dog across the scorching hot parking lot.

We're told the blonde warned the woman her dog needed booties to protect his paws from the record-breaking heat.

A gargantuan wall of water enveloped a heavily trafficked area of Nepal ... killing at least 31 people ... as hundreds of others are missing in villages, and there are now fears the death toll could skyrocket.

Video of the devastation wrought on the Nepal-China border is simply eye-popping. As you can see, people are running for their lives as a tidal wave comes crashing down on them.

The tsunami-like wave was triggered by an earthquake that caused a large landslide to block a river. As a result, villages were overcome by all the water, resulting in 31 deaths, with many more casualties expected.

At least six people have died after severe storms and major flooding battered Indiana ... and President Donald Trump has approved an emergency declaration to help the state respond.

The federal declaration, approved on Saturday, makes assistance available to support Indiana's response to severe storms, damaging winds, tornadoes and flooding that began August 11. The aid is expected to help with emergency operations, including evacuations, rescues and critical supplies.

The federal response comes after Indiana Gov. Mike Braun issued a statewide emergency as communities across the state dealt with widespread destruction. Northwest Indiana was hit by powerful winds, while central parts of the state were slammed with torrential rainfall and significant flooding.

Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake Tuesday, creating a path of destruction that trapped multiple people inside a mall.

The visuals from the aftermath of the magnitude 7.1 quake are terrifying ... buildings are on fire, bridges are collapsed, trains cars are derailed and laying on their sides, and a shopping center exploded.

The tremor hit Kumamoto on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu, shortly before 4:30 PM local time ... leveling the second floor at the Aeon Mall shopping center and trapping people inside.

The massive earthquake that rocked Mexico and Guatemala was so powerful it started landslides ... and videos show some of the scary aftermath.

One clip making the rounds on social media shows a truck driving down a hill as a wave of dirt, rocks, dust and debris swallow up the road.

It's a close call ... and the truck narrowly avoids getting swallowed up.

Another video captures a chandelier as it sways from the ceiling in someone's home. The person filming watches in amazement as the dangling lamp shakes and shakes and shakes.

Folks in West Hollywood better bust out their rain boots ... no, it's not raining in the middle of the summer ... the streets are flooded after a massive water main break ... and the video is insane.

Footage shows massive flooding and raging waters ... with the deluge slamming into parked cars with serious force.

Sunset Boulevard -- a major road in the city -- is experiencing some of the worst flooding ... so if you think the normal traffic in L.A. is bad, it's gonna be a whole lot worse today.

Camp Mystic -- the Texas camp where more than 2 dozen people died last year -- plans to reopen next year ... and it's still holding on to some deposits from parents who seemingly have no problem trusting the camp with their girls ... according to a new filing connected to its bankruptcy case.

Here's the deal ... Camp Mystic's proposed chief restructuring officer, Karen Nicolaou -- the authorized rep for the camp in the bankruptcy proceedings -- filed a document asking a judge to allow Camp Mystic officials authority to use existing cash management systems in order to facilitate an orderly transition in the early bankruptcy proceedings.

In the docs, Nicolaou notes that Camp Mystic currently holds "over $1 million in camper deposits and prepaid tuition" ... which she says some camper families have agreed to allow the camp to hold on to for a "hoped-for 2027 season" because the camp isn't open this year.

That's a bit shocking ... considering 28 people, including 25 young campers, died last year amid serious flooding in the area.

Whoopi Goldberg is catching heat for missing "The View" ... literally, 'cause an active volcano has her stranded in Sicily.

Joy Behar was holding down the fort Monday and immediately started roasting her missing co-hosts... joking they're "dropping like flies" before explaining Ana Navarro was stuck in Miami because of weather, Sara Haines was dealing with storm damage ... and Whoopi was pulling "the old volcano excuse."

Watch the video ... Whoopi sent in a dispatch from Sicily explaining Mount Etna erupted and threw a major wrench into her trip home ... closing airports and leaving her scrambling to get back to the United States.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce aren't exempt from Mayor Zohran Mamdani's 78-degree suggestion ... though they'll have to "Shake It Off" anyway ... because MSG has an unconventional temperature system.

Here's the deal ... a city official tells TMZ the mayor's recommendation of setting the AC at 78 was a suggestion for all five boroughs of New York -- including Manhattan, where MSG sits.

In other words, MSG isn't exempt from the mayor's suggestion made on social media to all New Yorkers this morning ... though, again, it's just a suggestion -- not an edict from above.

Two massive earthquakes rocked Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least 164 people and injuring nearly 1,000 others while buildings shook, and the power went out across the country.

Videos circulating online captured all the chaos caused by the quakes -- one of which was considered the worst in over a century in Venezuela.

The first quake struck with a magnitude of 7.2, and then about a minute later, a more powerful 7.5-magnitude quake hit the South American country, according to U.S. monitoring agencies. The epicenter of the quakes was near the city of San Felipe, which has a population of about 220,000 and is roughly 127 miles west of the capital of Caracas.