ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- There is a rare Hurricane Warning for parts of Hawaii Monday morning as Hurricane Douglas passes dangerously close to the state, bringing gusty winds, flooding rain and life threatening surf. Right now, Douglas is about 50 miles northeast of Lihue, Hawaii, and about 100 miles northwest of Honolulu. Douglas has winds Monday morning of 90 mph making it a high end Category […]
iStock/narvikkBy: JON HAWORTH and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 646,000 people worldwide.Over 16 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing […]
Hillsborugh County Sheriff's Office By JON HAWORTH, ABC News(TAMPA BAY, Fla.) -- A man has been arrested after reportedly walking into a hotel room and attempting to kidnap a child right from their mother.The incident occurred at approximately 9:41 a.m. on July 26 when the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from the panicked mother informing them that a man had just entered the Tampa Bay, Florida hotel […]
iStock/narvikkBy: JON HAWORTH, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 644,500 people worldwide.Over 16 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported […]
ABC News By: BRITTANY BORER, ABC News (DALLAS) -- Hanna has weakened to a tropical storm as it continues to move inland this morning though it is still bringing tropical storm force winds, rain and storm surge to southern Texas.The center of Hanna should be passing into Mexico right around this morning, however, Texans will still be contending with the wind and rain into this afternoon.Rain will continue to move […]
iStock/Favor_of_GodBy: ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- When the influenza pandemic struck America in 1918, most cities responded with measures that included closing schools.Yet three cities -- New York, Chicago and New Haven, Connecticut -- vowed to remain open.The schools had extensive public health programs in place and argued that keeping students in school was "an opportunity to implement the public health strategies of school medical inspection and intensified […]
iStock/ Bubbers13By: CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Like something out of a science fiction film, three nations on Earth are heading to Mars this month -- commencing a new, deep space race to explore the Red Planet.Earlier this month, the United Arab Emirates launched its first-ever deep space mission, sending an orbiter to Mars from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center. China followed earlier this week with its ambitious Mars […]
iStock/PeopleImagesBy: LUCHINA FISHER, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Olivia de Havilland, the last living star from the epic film Gone with the Wind and the oldest living actor to have received an Academy Award, has died.The two-time Academy Award winner died "peacefully from natural causes on July 26 at her residence in Paris, France," her publicist, Lisa Goldberg told Good Morning America.She was 104 years old.De Havilland was best known […]
ABC NewsBY: REED MCDONOUGH, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Hanna has formed in the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph around the eye wall. Hanna is strengthening and the National Hurricane Center says it is expected to make landfall in southern Texas on Saturday evening. Conditions along the southwestern Gulf coast, in particular southern Texas, are expected to deteriorate through Saturday. […]
