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    • A California lawyer said guards in a San Diego jail forget about him—and that he was trapped for hours inside a locked waiting room.

      Erubey Lopez, the attorney, told NBC's San Diego affiliate that he was visiting a client at the downtown jail last week, arriving at 8:20 p.m. local time.

      “I know it takes a while to get the people, so I’m patient,” Lopez said. “I don’t have my cellphone with me because the policy is you can’t use a cellphone inside.”

      After a half an hour, however, Lopez became concerned and tried to alert guards using an intercom.

      "At that time, I'm really mad, and I'm thinking, ‘How can they forget about me?’" Lopez said. "So, I start hitting the door really loud to get someone to let me out."

      The lawyer spent more than four hours inside the locked waiting room before a guard heard him and unlocked the door.

      “[What] if I was unhealthy … had a heart attack? What if I had diabetes and had a sugar issue?” Lopez said. “If they hadn’t heard me with the screaming and banging ... there was no other way they were going to hear me.”

      “It was an unfortunate incident on our part,” Sheriff’s Cmdr. John Ingrassia told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

      It's not the first time law enforcement officials in San Diego have forgotten about someone.

      Last spring, a 24-year-old University of California engineering student was locked in a holding cell for more than four days by local Drug Enforcement Administration agents and forgotten about.

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      An advertising agency has created what it's calling the world's first billboard that converts air into drinking water.

      The billboard—a collaboration between agency Mayo DraftFCB and Peru's University of Engineering and Technology—was placed in Peru's rain-starved desert capital, Lima.

      Lima gets less than an inch of rain per year on average, but since the city's humidity hovers around 98 percent, generators attached to the structure are able to capture atmospheric moisture, filter it and produce potable water.

      The harvested water is then stored in 20-liter tanks and can be retrieved from taps at the base of the billboard.

      "Agua aqui," a neon display near the base reads.

      According to the university, the billboard produced 9,450 liters of drinking water in three months—enough to sustain hundreds of Peruvian families per month.

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    • The Odyssey heads out on one of its voyages. (Discovery Channel)In July 2012, the crew of the deep-sea recovery team Odyssey Marine Expedition (OME) unearthed a record-setting 48 tons of silver from a sunken World War II-era British naval vessel, the SS Gairsoppa.

      A camera crew was along for the ride, documenting the trip three miles below the surface. This Sunday, Discovery Channel viewers will have the chance to ride along with the crew of the OME to see firsthand what a deep-sea treasure hunt looks like during the broadcast of “Silver Rush.”

      OME’s Senior Project Manager Andrew Craig and CEO Mark Gordon spoke with Yahoo News about the voyage and what viewers can expect.

      “The big thing with this expedition is we went looking for a wreck in such deep water. The Gairsoppa was sunk in water nearly a mile deeper than the Titanic,” Craig said. “We knew the silver payload was on the manifest, but as far as where we could find it when we got there, we really didn’t know when we started this sort of adventure.”

      “The challenge we had was how to surgically

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