EL PASO, Texas — Lawyers representing women released from the El Paso Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility, as well as a lawyer representing women still inside the facility, offered up a look Thursday at what they say conditions are like. Antonio Williams is the lawyer representing the very first woman who tested positive for
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces food pantry said Thursday that it will be adding more safety protocols after one of their volunteers tested positive for coronavirus. The executive director of Casa De Peregrinos, Lorenzo Alba Jr. told ABC-7 that employees, volunteers and vendors will have their temperatures checked before coming in the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State University President John Floros told ABC-7 on Thursday that university administrators are planning on a way to safely bring students and staff back for the upcoming fall semester. University administration is collaborating with staff in each department to develop a plan by the time New Mexico’s stay-at-home
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In an effort to deliver the most comprehensive coronavirus coverage, ABC-7 has started a weekly feature where we ask Dr. Jose Burgos, the director of internal medicine at University Medical Center, the same seven questions each week to track how the pandemic is changing. Here’s the Q&A for Thursday, April
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It makes a lot of sense that Leslie Knope, the fictional person best known for looking out for her friends, would also have all of our backs during the coronavirus pandemic. At least, that’s when it felt like watching “A Parks and Recreation Special,” the one-off half-hour reunion organized to benefit Feeding America. The episode,
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Leah Blomberg and Marco Paolone both called an ambulance when their coronavirus symptoms worsened. Both spent time in intensive care, both were unconscious for days, and both were on a ventilator. They were lucky — they survived a disease which has so far killed more than 230,000 people around the world. But while Blomberg, an
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EL PASO, Texas — The nation’s top expert on infectious diseases believes that El Pasoans are as “vulnerable” as the residents of nursing homes to contracting and spreading the coronavirus, according to Congresswoman Veronica Escobar. Dr. Anthony Fauci said his assessment is based on the underlying health and socio-economic conditions of the Borderland’s population, which
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Boeing won’t be needing a federal bailout after all. The troubled aircraft maker said Thursday that it is raising $25 billion through a bond offering — a massive financial boost that Boeing says will keep it from having to tap into the CARES Act. US lawmakers passed the $2 trillion coronavirus economic rescue package in
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Protesters at the Michigan Capitol on Thursday jammed inside the building where the lawmakers were meeting, demanding an end to the state’s state of emergency. On a cool, rainy day in Lansing, about 400 to 700 people stood on the Capitol grounds, according to Michigan State Police. Some carried signs about the governor’s stay-at-home order,
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We have heard for weeks now that California has been handling the coronavirus right. The Bay Area was among the first places to shut down in the US, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has laid out strict parameters on how reopening will go. (The short of it: There will be no Disneyland for a while.) So
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso restaurant owners who aimed to transform the Union Plaza District downtown with their restaurant Tabla are now transforming the European-style meal sharing concept into something that meets the need of social distancing during the pandemic. It’s now called the Union Plaza Bodega. The owners held a soft launch earlier
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta host a global town hall answering your questions about what the future holds for the fight against Covid-19. Watch the full event below. At least 31 states beginning to partially reopen As states begin to reopen across the United States, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta discuss what
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EL PASO, Texas — Aerosols, they are everywhere and they may be carrying Covid-19. Aerosols and droplets passing from one person to the next are believed to be the reason the novel coronavirus is a global pandemic. “Aerosols are finer, finer airborne particles,” El Paso infectious disease specialist Dr. Antonio Ortega said. “They sat in
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials reported three more deaths Thursday night, bringing the county’s death count to seven over the past two days for a total of 21 fatalities. With deaths increasing by 50% over the past 48 hours, city/county officials issued a new order mandating that everyone wear face masks while out
Continue Reading Supermodel Gigi Hadid confirmed Thursday that she’s pregnant. In welcoming the high-fashion model to “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon began by congratulating Hadid “on expecting a baby.” “Thank you so much,” Hadid said in the prerecorded interview. “Obviously, we wish we could have announced it on our own terms. But we’re very excited and
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EL PASO, Texas — A thick, heavy black smoke plume was visible to residents of west El Paso and Sunland Park on Tuesday evening, prompting calls of concern to local authorities and ABC-7. But El Paso and Sunland Park firefighters said they weren’t working any active fires and said the blaze was burning on the
Continue Reading Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Thursday evening it’s important to give governors “wiggle room” on reopening their states, but cautioned they shouldn’t “wiggle too much.” “The discretion is given to the governors. They know their states, the mayors know their cities, so you want to give
Continue Reading Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Small town girl meets small town boy. Girl writes love letter to another girl for boy. Girl doesn’t tell boy she likes other girl. Boy invents something called taco sausage. Things get complicated. You probably didn’t stop me, and that’s because, as a whole, Netflix’s “The Half of
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It was morning again in America. On April 30th, 1789, George Washington took the oath of office and became the first president of the United States of America. The intersection of Broad and Wall Streets in lower Manhattan were packed with jubilant citizens. They had suffered through the British occupation during the war for independence
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Officials were back at a Brooklyn funeral home Thursday, removing bodies that weren’t properly cared for inside the home, a law enforcement official tells CNN. A day earlier, officials discovered four trucks containing as many as 60 bodies outside the Andrew Cleckley Funeral Home after someone reported fluids dripping from the trucks, according to the
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AUSTIN, Texas — State officials are expanding which out-of-work Texans can receive unemployment even after refusing to return to work during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new guidance released by Gov. Greg Abbott’s office. The relaxed guidelines came on the eve of some businesses and restaurants reopening Friday in the first phase of Abbott’s plan to re-start the
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Sureshbabu Muthupandi, a green card holder who has lived in the United States for more than 24 years, refuses to let his family in south India perform his mother’s final rites without him. Her body has been embalmed for 30 days. But Muthupandi is stuck in the US, unable to fly home. As the coronavirus
Continue Reading Sureshbabu Muthupandi, a green card holder who has lived in the United States for more than 24 years, refuses to let his family in south India perform his mother’s final rites without him. Her body has been embalmed for 30 days. But Muthupandi is stuck in the US, unable to fly home. As the coronavirus
Continue Reading Sureshbabu Muthupandi, a green card holder who has lived in the United States for more than 24 years, refuses to let his family in south India perform his mother’s final rites without him. Her body has been embalmed for 30 days. But Muthupandi is stuck in the US, unable to fly home. As the coronavirus
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More than half of US states will partially reopen by the end of the week, but some are opting to extend their stay-at-home orders in an abundance of caution. “We need to use time to remain vigilant,” said Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday after extending the state’s order through May 15. Over the
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Commanders at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army post on Thursday evening described the number of coronavirus cases there as “very low,” without the ability to provide exact numbers because of a Pentagon prohibition. But military officials cautioned they weren’t “declaring victory” just yet, and senior commander Brig. Gen Matt Eichburg extended
Continue Reading The new coronavirus is likely to keep spreading for at least another 18 months to two years—until 60% to 70% of the population has been infected, a team of longstanding pandemic experts predicted in a report released Thursday. They recommended that the US prepare for a worst-case scenario that includes a second big wave of
Continue Reading There are worse places to wait out a pandemic. Hundreds of tourists are still stuck in the Maldives, Ali Waheed, the country’s tourism minister told CNN’s Richard Quest, more than a month after the novel coronavirus arrived there. Waheed said there was about 500 tourists on the islands, with 100 of them stranded at the
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