Month: August 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has placed the National Guard on standby in preparation for a rally in Charlottesville on Saturday, where at least 1,000 nationalists are expected to attend.The Unite the Right rally is scheduled to take place Saturday at McIntire Park in Charlottesville, the city said on its website. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a statement that the event could be the "largest white supremacist […]

ABC News(EXETER, N.H.) -- A hospital in Exeter, New Hampshire, was partially evacuated Friday after mysterious complaints of nausea and lightheadedness, officials said.The incident occurred at Exeter Hospital around 11:15 a.m. ET. Nineteen staff members were sickened in the operating room. Fire crews were dispatched, and both the operating room and emergency room areas were evacuated and closed, according to a hospital spokesperson.The rest of the hospital was safe, the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- In the wake of two deadly aviation accidents, the Marine Corps has ordered a 24 hour "operational reset" that will ground all of its aircraft to reinforce safety and training procedures among Marine pilots, air crews and maintenance teams.The pause ordered by General Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, will occur at the discretion of unit commanders over the next two weeks, so as to not […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND) -- A 4-year-old boy who was shot in the head in an apparent road rage incident in Cleveland is "doing great" after undergoing surgery, doctors said Friday.The 4-year-old was shot while driving with his mother and 7-year-old sister late Sunday evening, police said. The mother honked her horn to pass another car blocking the road, that car allegedly followed the mother onto the freeway and fired shots into the […]

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- Hundreds of New York Police Department officers and hospital staff members stood shoulder to shoulder as 30-year-old officer Hart Nguyen left Jamaica Hospital Medical Center on Friday.Nguyen was shot while responding to a call from a mother who said her emotionally disturbed son was acting erratically in their Brooklyn home on Thursday, police said. That man, later identified as 29-year-old Andy Sookdeo, barricaded himself in a room, […]

iStock/Thinkstock(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) -- A large lizard drew quite a few stares in Florida - not for its size, but its location.Oscar Tabares was trying to unclog a toilet at his family’s warehouse last Wednesday. When a plunger couldn’t do the job he called on family to help him remove the toilet.Tabares told ABC affiliate WPLG-TV an iguana was looking back at him in the toilet’s drain pipe, and he […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- When the total solar eclipse becomes visible in the U.S. on Aug. 21, Mariah Williams, who has been blind since birth, will also be able to experience the rare astronomical event. Williams, 22, a recent graduate of College of Charleston in South Carolina, was one of the very first people to use Getting a Feel for Eclipses, a tactile guide that uses different textures to show the […]