Daniel Kramer/AFP/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said flooding in Houston from Tropical Storm Harvey may be the worst the city has ever seen.“Houston is an area that is prone to flood at least once a year,” Abbott told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on This Week on Sunday. “But this is one of the worst -- if not the worst -- that Houston has suffered.”Harvey, which hit […]
Five women were inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame on Saturday, which was the 97th anniversary of the day women gained the right to vote. Iowa’s first female governor, the first woman from Iowa elected to the U.S. Senate and a woman who’s served on the Des Moines City Council for 24 years […]Powered by WPeMatico
iStock/Thinkstock(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) -- Though Hurricane Harvey weakened to a tropical storm by Saturday afternoon, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned of additional downpours forecast to drench already-flooded communities in the coming hours and days."Our biggest concern is between 20 and 30 more inches of rain in areas ranging from Corpus Christi over to Houston," Abbott said at a press conference Saturday afternoon. "We want to do everything we possibly can […]
lisatop/iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- Although Harvey has weakened to a tropical storm since roaring ashore Friday night, meteorologists say the weather system's slow-moving nature will bring copious amounts of rain to southeast Texas in the coming days, which will lead to rising sea levels and flooding coastlines.Below is a projected timeline of what to expect from Harvey over the next few days, according to forecasts from the National Weather Service and ABC […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ROCKPORT, Texas) -- A small city nestled on the Texas coast has been hit hard by Hurricane Harvey's wrath of torrential rain and high winds, and the potentially life-threatening weather has prevented emergency crews from responding to calls for help, officials said.Rockport Volunteer Fire Department Chief Steve Sims told ABC News around 9 a.m. on Saturday that its teams are out doing assessments of the area of about 10,000 residents. […]
ABC News(HOUSTON) -- Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Gulf Coast of Texas on Friday, making landfall as a Category 4 storm around 10 p.m. local time, and meteorologists are noting a pattern in which the system appears to remain in one area over multiple days.About three hours after making landfall, Harvey was downgraded to a Category 3 storm after winds decreased to 125 mph from maximum sustained winds of 130 […]
A community sendoff was held today for members of a Waterloo-based Iowa Army National Guard helicopter unit that will be mobilized tomorrow. National Guard spokesperson Colonel Greg Hapgood says the soldiers will provide aerial medical evacuations and transportation of patients to combat hospitals. “The unit has 35 members that have been selected for this particular mission, […]Powered by WPeMatico
HBO/Macall B. Polay(LOS ANGELES) -- (SPOILER WARNING) As we head into this weekend's season seven finale of Game of Thrones, we've already lost a few major characters and even a dragon -- but there has yet to be that classic Thrones "Red Wedding"-like stunner. FiveThirtyEight's pop culture expert Walt Hickey helped ABC News sort out the odds as to who could meet their makers Sunday night. On the edgeHickey has The Mountain at 1-to-2 odds to die, with […]
Marvel - 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- Sterling K. Brown is excited about the release of his upcoming film, Black Panther, because to him it offers an opportunity for black representation. “I get to take my kid to go see a black superhero movie and he gets to see an image of himself as the man,” the This Is Us star tells People magazine. "Chadwick Boseman looks like me. He looks like my son." Boseman […]
