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Los Angeles Times (US) · the top story · first seen · 18:31 Sat in Los Angeles

Triple threat: Tropical Storm Rachel, Kelvin wave, high tides combined to batter SoCal coast

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The record

Outlet
Los Angeles Times (US) (latimes)
Position
The top story
First seen
2026-10-11 01:31 UTC · 18:31 Sat in Los Angeles
Last seen
2026-10-11 03:12 UTC · 20:12 Sat in Los Angeles · 11 polls · on the page for 1 h 40 min · as of now, not part of the record
Story URL
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-10/tropical-storm-rachel-kelvin-wave-high-tides-combined-to-batter-socal-coast
SHA-256
cf4f7d87e94a17bc1638930bca47276fd8b7cd9f5d4b85e35a160b084363f3b4

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The front page

Los Angeles Times (US)’s front page, as this site’s machine pictured it from the page kept 2026-10-11 01:31 UTC · 18:31 Sat in Los Angeles, with this headline (the top story) outlined in red

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cf4f7d87e94a17bc1638930bca47276fd8b7cd9f5d4b85e35a160b084363f3b4

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-cf4f7d87e94a.json prints cf4f7d87e94a17bc1638930bca47276fd8b7cd9f5d4b85e35a160b084363f3b4. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-cf4f7d87e94a.json and headline-cf4f7d87e94a.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-cf4f7d87e94a.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
  3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.
  4. If someone shows you this front page as it was, hash it: sha256sum prints a4719a794cdc413ca1eef39bfed8af109921f44f584499f285a8912df6e4569f for the page this site kept 2026-10-11 01:31 UTC. The hash is a line of manifest #1256, and the manifest's receipt proves the manifest existed by Bitcoin block 970857: with both saved, ots verify manifest-1256.txt.ots.
  5. If someone shows you this site’s picture of that page (the Wayback Machine’s copy of this record page may hold it), hash it: sha256sum prints 3a69f66581a92a1d06c260fb24c299600dde39d69de3462c5ec5c0593f307440. That hash is a line of manifest #1257, beside the hash of the page it pictures, and the manifest’s receipt proves when it existed.