Ginger Zee tracks the storm, which is now expected to hit Louisiana with winds over 150 mph.
NeNe Leakes gave an unexpected and heartbreaking update about her husband Gregg Leakes' battle with cancer. The news came while the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" alum was at her Atlanta-area lounge, The Linnethia, on Saturday, when she took the mic to address fans who deemed her "rude" for not saying "Happy Birthday" to a patron. "My husband is transitioning to the other side," NeNe Leakes, 53, revealed.
'Bachelor' super fan Lance Bass takes over guest-hosting duties tonight on "Bachelor in Paradise." While he says loves the entire franchise, he recently told ABC Audio that 'Paradise' is his absolute favorite version. "When you have multiple people as an option to fall in love with, it's just way more fun to watch ... as opposed to when you watch 'The Bachelor' and you just have one person vying for 30 people."
Chadwick Boseman lost his private, four-year battle with colon cancer on Aug. 28, 2020. On the one-year anniversary of his unexpected death, celebrities including Lupita Nyong'o, Viola Davis and many others honored the memory of the "Black Panther" star. Nyong'o and Michael B. Jordan, who starred alongside him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, offered up heartfelt memories of the late actor.
President Joe Biden is in the midst of the roughest stretch of his presidency -- with evacuation operations continuing through Tuesday in Afghanistan under the threat of further terrorist attacks -- having failed to convince even members of his own party that he's on the right course. In fact, there's uncommon cross-partisan agreement that withdrawing all U.S. troops by Aug. 31 could be a grave mistake. The percentage of Americans who think U.S. troops should stay until all Americans are out of Afghanistan is 86% among Democrats, 87% among Republicans and 86% among Independents, in the ABC/Ipsos poll conducted after Thursday's suicide attack in Kabul.
On Aug. 26, at around 5:30 p.m. ET, Ghost Company was rushing to save as many people as possible at the Abbey Gate of the Kabul airport before we were required to cease processing evacuees. Alongside many other members of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine, the Army and British paratroopers, the Marines and sailors of Ghost were pulling families out of the canal when a suicide bomber detonated his device from the other side of the water. A mass casualty event is something we prepared and trained for, especially our incredible corpsmen.
If you're searching the internet and wondering what to cook for dinner, the answer just got easier. "Good Morning America" Food is taking the legwork out of dinnertime and helping you find delicious dishes to easily whip up any night of the week. Sara Forte, founder of the Sprouted Kitchen and SK Cooking Club, has worked at a grocery store, two farms and spent the last decade developing recipes for her blog, which has been turned into two cookbooks and a weekly meal planning program.
Tennis star Sloane Stephens is opening up about mental health ahead of the 2021 U.S. Open. Mental health for athletes at the top of their game has been brought to the forefront in 2021, largely due to athletes like Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles opening up on their own struggles. Osaka pulled out of the French Open in May after she announced she would not be speaking to the press at mandatory post-match press conferences due to mental health concerns.
As many parents wait for COVID-19 vaccines to be authorized for children younger than 12, doctors increasingly are alarmed at the rising number of kids who are missing routine vaccinations -- a trend that's had a domino effect from last year, when so many families were confined to their homes. Now, a new analysis finds that to catch up, community health centers may need to increase the number of childhood vaccinations by 265% -- and maintain that pace for at least six months. "The decline in routine pediatric immunizations is very concerning because measles, pertussis and chickenpox still remain threats to child health," said Dr. Josh Sharfstein, a pediatrician and vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., accused President Joe Biden and his administration for using "happy talk" to paint a rosier picture of Afghanistan evacuations as the Aug. 31 U.S. troop withdrawal looms. In an earlier interview with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Raddatz pressed the secretary about the United States' ability to get the remaining U.S. citizens and Afghan allies out of the country once all U.S. troops where out of Afghanistan.
Public health officials are sticking with the recommendation that people get booster shots eight months after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, but that could change based on reviewing the data, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday. "Well, we're still sticking with the eight months," Fauci, the chief medical adviser for the White House, told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz.
With fewer than 4 in 10 Americans approving of President Joe Biden's handling of Afghanistan, there is overwhelming bipartisan support for keeping U.S. troops in the country until all Americans and Afghans who aided the United States during the 20-year war have been evacuated, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. Although President Joe Biden has held firm that all U.S. troops must be out of the country by Tuesday, regardless of whether the evacuation mission at hand is complete, Americans broadly disagree, according to the poll. The poll was conducted using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel and all interviews were completed after the terrorist attack at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport that left at least 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghans dead.
Hours after President Joe Biden issued a dire warning that it was "highly likely" the Kabul airport could see another attack in the 24 to 36 hours leading up to the final U.S. troop withdrawal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored the warning in an interview for ABC's "This Week." The Pentagon confirmed Saturday that the final drawdown of troops had begun, intensifying pressure on the United States to evacuate the remaining Americans looking to leave the country as the terror threat is ratcheted to new heights. Blinken, who met with the president and top commanders at the White House Saturday morning, said the U.S. was doing "everything possible" to get the remaining Americans safely out of the country.
Ida lurked off the coast of southeastern Louisiana late Saturday, forecast to intensify into a devastating Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds, packing massive storm surge and up to 20 inches of rain after it makes landfall Sunday night. The National Hurricane Center issued a warning Saturday that "preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion today" for areas under a hurricane warning, which includes all of southeastern Louisiana.
Thirteen American troops were among the nearly 200 people killed in an attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan on Thursday. President Joe Biden called the U.S. service members killed in the attack "heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous, selfless mission to save the lives of others." "Those warriors who died gave their lives to save thousands of men, women and children, Americans and Afghans alike," Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations, said in a statement.
In recent weeks, we have watched harrowing images of desperate Afghan men, women and children attempt to escape Taliban rule. For 20 years, the United States made promises: If you help us defeat al-Qaida and the Taliban, then we will ensure you and your family are safe from retribution. Now, these men and women who risked their lives to support our fight against terrorism, plus millions of Afghans who have flourished in the increasing freedoms from the last 20 years -- women, journalists, Christians and other Afghans of non-Muslim faiths -- face great risk of violent oppression or death.
When the U.S. Embassy in Kabul closed, the last individuals to secure it were not civilians or even U.S. military, but the quiet and dynamic special agents of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) of the State Department. When, on Thursday, a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport killed U.S. Marines deployed there to help keep residents and travelers safe, these agents were the ones in charge of the emergency response. Diplomatic security efforts began during the First World War.
Ida is barreling through Louisiana after making landfall in the state as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on Sunday afternoon. It was one of the strongest hurricanes on record -- by both wind speed and pressure -- to roar ashore in Louisiana. Ida, now a tropical storm, is hitting on the 16-year anniversary of Katrina, a Category 3 hurricane that ravaged the Gulf Coast.
U.S. intelligence agencies remain "divided on the most likely origins of COVID-19," after President Joe Biden's 90-day push for his intel community to "redouble their efforts" to find a more definitive conclusion regarding the source of the virus. In a declassified summary released late Friday afternoon, the agencies said that two hypotheses for the virus' origin remain possible: either natural exposure to an infected animal, or an accidental lab leak. Four elements of the U.S. intelligence community said with "low confidence" that COVID-19 was initially spread from an animal to a human, while one element assessed with "moderate confidence" that the first human infection was the result of a "laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology," and pointing to the "inherently risky nature of work on Coronaviruses."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a "very small number" of Afghan evacuees have been "flagged for concern" during their vetting and screening at military bases around the world. "It's exactly why CBP conducted careful and thorough vetting," Keri Brady, the assistant director at CBP's National Targeting Center, told law enforcement leaders around the country Friday on a call, a copy of which was obtained by ABC News. CBP has deployed resources to overseas bases where Afghans are being transported to conduct vetting and screening using biometrics, along with counterparts from the FBI.
Sarina Faizy, 23, just graduated from William & Mary with a master's in international law, and she said she'd hoped to celebrate with her family -- instead she's struggling to stay in contact with them. On Aug. 14, the Afghan government collapsed, overrun by the Taliban, after the U.S. military started pulling out, leaving thousands in the country with little protection under the new regime. In February 2020, then-President Donald Trump agreed with the Taliban that the U.S. would pull out by May 1.
