New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday that the city, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, only has enough medical supplies to last through the week. “We have enough supplies to get to a week from today with the exception of ventilators. We’re going
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LOS ANGELES. California — Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World resort in Florida will remain closed until further notice as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread in the United States, the company said. Disney earlier this month announced the closure of Disneyland and Walt Disney World — the only two of Disney’s eleven parks
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Click here for updates on this story HAYWOOD COUNTY, NC (WLOS ) — Fear over the spread of COVID-19 has lead to a face mask shortage across the country, and here in the mountains. One Haywood County shop is stepping in to help with that shortage. Superior Finish workers are making masks for first responders,
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Some federal health experts advising President Donald Trump on the Covid-19 response have submitted recommendations to the White House coronavirus task force — guidelines that seek to reopen “some schools and businesses” in cities where infection rates are low, a senior federal health official directly involved in creating the guidelines told CNN. The guidelines are
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS ) — Asheville’s most high-profile urban art landmark gets another face-lift. First it was “Good Vibes,” then “Stay Weird.” Now, it’s “Stay Home.” Muralist Ian Wilkinson and Ishmael collaborated to make the change, by anonymous request. Wilkinson says the message was meant to be a
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A department store known for designer brands is shifting gears and producing medical masks to help healthcare workers battling the coronavirus. Nordstrom, an American luxury retailer based in Seattle, is sewing more than 100,000 masks that will be sanitized before being distributed to healthcare workers across the country. “Everyone across the globe is feeling the
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Major League Baseball is teaming up with a sports apparel retailer to help with a national shortage of personal protective equipment for health care workers. MLB and Fanatics are shifting production from jerseys to masks and gowns for those on the front lines of the fight against coronavirus. The shortage is causing health care workers
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A Rhode Island police officer just reminded the world that while the coronavirus pandemic can claim lives, shut down cities, and change life as we know it, it can’t take away kindness. The Warwick Police Department received a call on Friday night from a community service organization alerting authorities that an 87-year-old woman had no
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Yes, South Korea is tiny. The entire country, plus its northern neighbor, could fit inside Michigan. But within that small country, something revolutionary was born that has taken the world by storm — Korean pop, aka K-pop. Last year, a BTS concert at London’s Wembley stadium — which can hold 90,000 people — sold out
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ELKHORN, NE (WOWT) — Lexie Gilbert started an online petition asking the NSAA to find a way to let spring athletes compete. She’s a senior at Elkhorn High School. Between her freshman and sophomore years, she won six gold medals in Class B at the state track meet.
Continue Reading Steve Kaminski was whisked into an ambulance near his home on New York’s Upper East Side last week. He never saw his family again. Kaminski died days later of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Because of fears of contagion, no visitors, including his family, were allowed to see him at Mt. Sinai
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ELKHORN, NE (WOWT) — Lexie Gilbert started an online petition asking the NSAA to find a way to let spring athletes compete. She’s a senior at Elkhorn High School. Between her freshman and sophomore years, she won six gold medals in Class B at the state track meet.
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying “his denial at the beginning was deadly” and that as he “fiddles, people are dying.” “We should be taking every precaution. What the President, his denial at the beginning was deadly,” Pelosi said in an exclusive interview with CNN’s
Continue Reading Faced with an unprecedented crisis, economists and investors are racing to understand the depth of the coronavirus recession and its aftershocks. The problem is, the datasets they’d typically rely on are practically useless. Take the monthly US jobs report, which is due out for March this Friday. In normal times, it provides crucial information: How
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WASHINGTON, DC — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of infectious diseases for the National Institutes of Health, on Sunday projected the possibility of ‘millions’ of U.S. coronavirus cases and up to 200,000 deaths. Fauci offered his prognosis as the Trump Administration extended federal social distancing guidelines until April 30 as cases continue to rise in
Continue ReadingEl Paso, Texas– Some clouds that rolled through overnight will continue to stick around this morning, but sunshine increases across the region as the clouds leave to the east. Temperatures will warm back up, and top out very near seasonal averages for late March. We’ll see occasional breezes. Tracking breezy conditions tomorrow with more sunshine.
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I turned 61 last week, and am now, along with millions of others across the globe, within the higher risk group for Covid-19. Before this turn of events, ours had been the generation that had, along with billions of others younger and slightly older than me, avoided a major global crisis. Unlike our parents and
Continue Reading Pollsters around the country are facing an increasingly difficult challenge in gauging public opinion in the time of coronavirus as call centers must be abandoned and the world changes quicker than most polls can be conducted. The coronavirus pandemic, which has escalated dramatically in the last month, has upended most of American life and the
Continue Reading Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have returned to the United States after going into self-quarantine in Australia. “We’re home now, and like the rest of America, we carry on sheltering place and social distancing,” Hanks tweeted Saturday. The couple tested positive for the novel coronavirus earlier this month while in Australia, where Hanks had been
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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have returned to the United States after going into self-quarantine in Australia. “We’re home now, and like the rest of America, we carry on sheltering place and social distancing,” Hanks tweeted Saturday. The couple tested positive for the novel coronavirus earlier this month while in Australia, where Hanks had been
Continue Reading A North Carolina county is taking extreme measures to prevent coronavirus from spreading in its community. Dare County, a popular summer vacation area in the state’s Outer Banks, has established checkpoints around the county to stop visitors and non-resident property owners from entering. “These restrictions may be inconvenient, disappointing and have financial impacts, however, they
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With football on hold across the world, Juventus‘ first-team squad and coach Maurizio Sarri have agreed to give up four months’ wages to help the club manage the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Juventus say the agreement — equal to the monthly payments for March, April, May and June — will save the club
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Footballers from around the world are joining together to help fight the spread of the coronavirus, with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo each reportedly giving €1 million ($1.1 million) to the cause. Clinic Barcelona confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a donation from the Argentine, which will go towards both treating infected patients and
Continue Reading Poll of the week: A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that President Donald Trump’s approval rating among all adults in 48%, while his disapproval rating is 46%. Trump scores a very similar 49% approval rating and 47% disapproval rating with registered voters. What’s the point: There’s no doubt now that Trump is experiencing a
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New York City police lost its first detective to Covid-19, marking the third NYPD death to the disease that has afflicted the department. Detective Cedric Dixon, a 23-year veteran, worked in the 32nd Precinct in Harlem, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “May we never forget the sacrifice of those workers who put themselves in harm’s
Continue Reading New York City police lost its first detective to Covid-19, marking the third NYPD death to the disease that has afflicted the department. Detective Cedric Dixon, a 23-year veteran, worked in the 32nd Precinct in Harlem, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “May we never forget the sacrifice of those workers who put themselves in harm’s
Continue Reading As cabin fever and anxiety set in across America, a team of New Jersey police officers tried to restore a sense of calm through a town-favorite comfort food: pizza. With a lot of cheese, pepperoni and goodwill, three police associations in Toms River, New Jersey, joined forces to purchase 300 pizzas for their community, which
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Across the United States, prized chickens are laying life-saving eggs at secret farms. Few people know where the chickens are kept — their locations are undisclosed as a matter of national security. Each day, hundreds of thousands of their eggs are trucked to facilities, where they are protected by guards and multimillion-dollar, government-funded security systems.
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