Winter storm brings snow to Wyoming and Colorado
Overnight, first responders struggled to respond to dozens of cars stranded on interstates and around Denver’s airport. One family was rescued after being stranded on the road for nine hours.
Overnight, first responders struggled to respond to dozens of cars stranded on interstates and around Denver’s airport. One family was rescued after being stranded on the road for nine hours.
President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan will help train Americans for newer, greener industries, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "Republicans and Democrats agree -- agree upon the importance of not leaving communities behind where the market has moved in a different direction, like in coal," Granhom told "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. Joe Biden approaches his first 100 days in office, he's faced with addressing long-term challenges facing the country and working with a divided Congress.
Since Friday, there have been at least 350 reports of severe weather across the southern U.S. This includes five reported tornadoes -- one in Louisiana, two in Mississippi, one in Florida and one in Georgia. In Louisiana, a confirmed EF-3 tornado with winds up to 140 mph touched down near Palmetto.
Honeybees can find their way back to their queen using a sophisticated form of the telephone game. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder used artificial intelligence and computer vision to trace both the position and travel direction of worker bees as they found their way home. The best way to understand what the researchers found is to think of the famous St. Crispin's Day speech ("We band of brothers") Henry V makes to his troops at Agincourt in Shakespeare's play.
Despite locking down in March 2020 and enacting strict social-distancing measures, Toronto is seeing hospitals and intensive care units near capacity as the city battles its worse COVID-19 wave yet. "Sick Kids, our main children's hospital, has had to open up ICU beds for adults," said Toronto physician Dr. Kayla Wolofsky. This third surge is likely due to new virus variants, pandemic fatigue, community spread as schools and stores reopen, as well as a comparatively slower vaccine rollout because of a lack of manufacturing capacity.
A man with a firearm has barricaded himself into a Honolulu hotel room following reports of multiple shots being fired as police negotiators have arrived on the scene in an ongoing situation. Honolulu Police Department Captain Brian Lynch said that a 911 call came in at approximately 5:40 p.m. Saturday reporting that multiple shots had been fired at the Kahala Hotel & Resort, according to ABC News’ Honolulu affiliate KITV.
Authorities and volunteers are searching for a missing Louisiana State University student whose car was found abandoned on a Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge earlier this week. Kori Gauthier, a freshman at LSU, was last seen Tuesday, her family said. Search efforts have been underway in the days since her car was found, including local authorities, the United Cajun Navy and volunteers.
A man was arrested for allegedly threatening to stab an Asian undercover police officer in the face at Penn Station in New York City. On Friday, Juvian Rodriguez, 35, approached a New York Police Department officer who was undercover as they were both on an escalator near 7th Avenue and 32nd Street entering the station, and started shouting anti-Asian statements, police said. Rodriguez allegedly told the officer to "go back to China before you end up in the graveyard," according to local ABC station WABC.
Two deputies are injured and a suspect is dead following a shooting outside a sheriff's office in South Salt Lake, Utah, authorities said. The shooting occurred around 10:30 a.m. local time Saturday, on the north side of the property's parking lot near a bus stop, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said during a press briefing. Two deputies on the campus security team were shot and are currently hospitalized, she said.
The Pentagon police officer charged with murder for allegedly killing two people in Maryland this week also pulled a shotgun on a homeless woman in his apartment lobby last year, police said. David Hall Dixon, a Pentagon Force Protection Agency officer, was charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of Dominique Williams, 32, and James Lionel Johnson, 38, in Takoma Park, police said Friday. Footage from May 2020 obtained by ABC affiliate WJLA appears to show Dixon using a gun to confront a homeless woman who entered the lobby of his apartment building.
"There's been three explosive events that occurred during the day," University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center director, Dr. Erouscilla Joseph, said in an audio statement on the center's Facebook page. "Overnight, we have had more or less an almost continued period of the venting of many ash up into the atmosphere," Richard Robertson, the UWI Seismic Research Center's lead scientist monitoring the volcano, said Saturday during a national radio address. There have been reports of some people's homes being damaged by the weight of the ash, the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves said, but he also said those reports have yet to be confirmed.
The funeral for Britain's Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, will be held April 17 and limited to 30 guests, Buckingham Palace announced. The Duke of Edinburgh, who died Friday at the age of 99, will be given a ceremonial royal funeral and will not lie in state, palace officials said during a press briefing Saturday. "The plans for the funeral are very much in line with the Duke of Edinburgh's own wishes," a Buckingham Palace spokesman said.
Two Virginia police officers have been sued for allegedly drawing their guns on a uniformed Army officer during a traffic stop and spraying him with a substance. On Dec. 5, 2020, Windsor Police Officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker pulled over U.S. Army Second Lieutenant Caron Nazario, who is Black and Latino, while he was dressed in uniform, according to the lawsuit filed April 2. Nazario was returning home from his duty station at the time, the lawsuit said.
The three-car crash involving former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid that injured two children, including one critically, is being reviewed by the local prosecutor's office. A spokesperson for the office had no additional comment on the case, including any timeline for reviewing it or any charges recommended by police. The collision occurred Feb. 4 on a highway near the Kansas City Chiefs' training complex next to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
There's been a flurry of news about vaccine "passports" of late. New York State created its own digital pass; Florida and Texas attempted to outlaw them; and Baltimore's former health commissioner wrote that we shouldn't be using the word "passport" at all, which she called a divisive phrase that and could trigger backlash against vaccinations. While we typically think of passports as government-issued travel documents, many people are using the same term to refer to digital certificates to prove vaccination status, used to gain entry into events or businesses, such as a QR code on a smartphone that you would show before entering a stadium.
In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the mid-Atlantic region, small holes in the ground were opening up from which billions of bulky, red-eyed, winged insects would emerge, readying for a bacchanal of singing and mating -- and reminding humans of a horror movie. As the summer of 2004 waned, so did the lifespan, just a few weeks long, of those adult cicadas, and the larvae of the next generation dropped back to the earth where they would spend the next 17 years.
The roasted tomato and feta cheese TikTok trend may be in the rearview, but this one-pan pasta inspired by the viral sensation is a delicious adaptation. New York Times Food columnist Melissa Clark joined "Good Morning America" to share her streamlined version of a recipe first made popular by Finnish blogger Jenni Hayrinen.
Jazmine Boykins is a visual artist who goes by the name "blacksneakers." "I've always known I've wanted to be an artist, probably since I was a little kid," said Boykins. NFTs are digital assets that exist on the blockchain, which acts as a decentralized ledger that publicly details every time an NFT has been bought or sold.
Take a walk through Washington, D.C.'s Columbia Heights neighborhood and street vendors are packed side by side selling their array of goods. From the abuelitas selling taquitos to artists hawking cartoon portraits, street vendors were hustling long before the pandemic. "I got to focus more on my art because I told myself, 'OK, there's no job,'" said Cherif Mamadou, a painter from the Ivory Coast who sells personal acrylic paintings on the sidewalk.
Julia Tinetti, 31 and Cassandra Madison, 32, met in 2013 while employed at the Russian Lady Bar in New Haven. At some point, they learned that both had a tattoo of the flag of the Dominican Republic, and were born and adopted from the country. "After that moment, we were so tight," Tinetti told "Good Morning America."
The La Soufriere Volcano, located on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted Friday morning, forcing the evacuation of over 16,000 people from nearby homes. Scientists had been monitoring the volcano’s activity for years and were able to alert the islands that make up the Grenadines island chain on Thursday that a major eruption would occur imminently via the National Emergency Management Organization of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Heavy ashfall and high plumes of smoke created low visibility and reportedly disrupted evacuation efforts in some surrounding communities, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves said in a press conference on Friday.