Five killed after highway pole rips through bus in California

Five people have been killed and several others have lost limbs after a bus veered off a central California highway and struck a pole that sliced the vehicle nearly in half, authorities said.

Rescuers pulled out "bags of body parts" from the survivors of the crash on State Route 99, where the speeding bus hit the pole of a highway exit sign head-on, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said.