Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a solution for Puerto Rico's post-Hurricane Maria power problem: solar electricity."The Tesla team has [built solar grids] for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too," Musk tweeted Thursday. "Such a decision would be in the hands of the PR govt, PUC, any commercial stakeholders and, most importantly, the […]

ABC News(LAS VEGAS) -- New aerial photos show what was left behind at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival as gunfire sent country fans scrambling for their lives on Sunday.The venue's grounds, where country music fans were enjoying the final night of the three-day festival, remains littered with trash and belongings days after the massacre.The photos were taken from ABC affiliate KTNV-TV's chopper.Suspected gunman Stephen Paddock fired into the crowd […]

Guido Amrein/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A newly formed tropical storm in the southwestern Caribbean is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane that could affect the U.S. Gulf Coast.The system, formerly a tropical depression, strengthened into a tropical storm near the coast of Nicaragua Thursday morning. Tropical Storm Nate was moving across northeastern Nicaragua, churning 50 miles northwest of Puerto Cabezas, as of 2 p.m. ET, according to the National Hurricane Center.The […]

manfredxy/iStock/Thinkstock(BOULDER, Colo.) -- On their radar, National Weather Service meteorologists in Boulder could see it coming.They just weren’t sure what “it” was. The mysterious red and purple blobs began appearing on radar screens, stretching at least 100 miles across the Denver area.“The radar started to light up right after sunrise and that whole mass just started to move over Denver, all flying in the same direction, kind of floating with […]

3drenderings/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a woman accused of dressing up as a clown and killing another woman nearly three decades ago, then marrying her widower.Here is what we know about the case.A mysterious killingOn May 26, 1990, Marlene Warren was at her home in Wellington, Florida, with her 22-year-old son, Joseph Ahrens, and several of his friends, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Secret Service has denied being in possession of any records of the visitors who may have had access to President Donald Trump during his winter visits to his Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida.The agency responded to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Wednesday demanding it release the full logs of visitors who accessed the resort, saying "there is no system for keeping track of presidential […]

ABCNews.com(LAS VEGAS) -- A fundraiser started by local officials has raised more than $9.2 million for the victims of Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas.The Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak and Sheriff Joe Lombardo set up a page on crowdfunding website GoFundMe to raise money in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The page says that funds raised "will be used to provide […]