EL PASO, Texas — Coronavirus has kept visitors from entering the El Paso Zoo, but on the inside the zoo’s vast diversity of species still need to be cared for. So ABC-7 Sports Reporter Nate Ryan went over to the zoo to learn more about the species zoo home! In the first installment of “The
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EL PASO, Texas — In the second installment of “The Nate-ure Report,” a profile series on the diversity of species at the El Paso Zoo, ABC-7’s Nate Ryan hangs out with the jaguars. Jaguars are the 3rd-largest cat in the world, behind the lion and the tiger, and the largest in North America. The El
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Still looking good weatherwise for the rest of this week. Temps will warm to the upper 70’s with lots of sunshine. Winds will play a factor Thursday and again for the weekend. As it looks now gusts around 35 mph.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday to approve special funeral assistance to help New Yorkers bury family members who have succumbed to coronavirus. Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez, both New York Democrats, made their demands in brief speeches from Corona, Queens, in New York City,
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In the midst of a global pandemic, our heroes are often on the front lines of the battle: doctors, grocery store workers, mail carriers. For more than 100 years, there has been one group of little women on the front lines always finding a way to make a big impact. They’re our Girl Scouts. While
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Plans to hold the Cannes Film Festival are once again being reevaluated amid the global coronavirus pandemic. In March, organizers for the festival announced its postponement, saying hopes were to hold it in late June or the beginning of July. On Tuesday, a statement posted to the official Cannes website said that plan will no
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico state health officials on Tuesday announced 62 additional cases of coronavirus and five more deaths around the state. None of the new cases or deaths reported were in Dona Ana County, which held steady at 50 confirmed cases and just one death. Across all of New Mexico, the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — At 90-years-old, Frances Haussamen has survived the Great Depression, World War II and a century’s worth of both economic prosperity and hardship. The 2020 pandemic has been the most difficult by far, her grandson told ABC-7. “I don’t know how much longer she’s going to be here, but I’m not
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This may be the new normal for quite a while. The US may have to endure social distancing measures — such as stay-at-home orders and school closures — until 2022, researchers projected on Tuesday. That is, unless, a vaccine becomes quickly available. That’s according to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s fire chief said the city has received an Abbott ID rapid testing machine for coronavirus. Fire Chief Mario D’Agostino said the machine can produce positive results in 15 minutes and negative results in 13 minutes. Though the machine is in El Paso, it will take time before the city
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The governor of California, the first state to put a coronavirus stay-at-home order in place, told his 40 million residents that the key to going back to work and play depends on six factors — but it’s still too early to tell how soon that will be. “Science, not politics must be the guide,” Gov.
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General Motors is ready to ship its first round of ventilators for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 starting Tuesday, the company said in a statement. GM started building ventilators in partnership with Ventec Life Systems last month at GM’s plant in Kokomo, Indiana. Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced
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EL PASO, Texas — The Facebook group, “Adopt a High School Senior El Paso” was created as a way to make high school seniors feel important.The concept is simple: Pick a high school senior that is posted within the group and send them a gift to celebrate their accomplishments. Daniel Lozoya, a local photographer, decided
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined a framework for reopening the economy in the Golden State Tuesday, warning in a gentle rebuke to President Donald Trump that the state’s coronavirus protocols would be guided by “science and public health, not politics” and telling residents that they will enter a radically different environment in their daily interactions.
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Over the past month, world leaders have been to the forefront, rallying their nations to battle the spread of coronavirus. But there’s been one notable exception — President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, who has not been seen in public for over 40 days. The last time the 74-year-old leader was seen in person was during
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The volume of available content to stream and the urge to binge-watch is at an all-time high in the age of Covid-19. “Tiger King,” “The Two Popes,” “Uncut Gems,” “Phantom Thread,” “A Quiet Place” and more are on Netflix, and I hear Apple makes TV now. As a child-free laptop owner lucky enough to be
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Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday threw the weight of the Justice Department behind a Mississippi church that is suing to overturn a municipal order that prohibits drive-in church services during the coronavirus pandemic. The department filed court documents in support of the Temple Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, which has filed a lawsuit claiming
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Two new coronavirus deaths were reported Tuesday in Juárez, but Chihuahua state health officials said there were no additional casesThe total number of deaths in Juarez now stands at 16, while the number of cases remains at 47.That means there hasn’t been an increase in the number of infections in two
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HOUSTON (AP) — Elsy was on the phone in an immigration detention center when guards showed up with face masks and forms to sign. The asylum-seeker from El Salvador and others had resorted to tearing their T-shirts into face coverings after a woman in their unit tested positive for COVID-19. But the guards would not
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WASHINGTON, DC — Twenty-seven migrant children in government custody had tested positive for coronavirus as of this week, according to the latest update from the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal agency charged with their care. Six of the 27 have recovered; others are in medical isolation in two Texas facilities and one Illinois facility,
Continue Reading Rita Wilson appeared on “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday to talk about her experience with the coronavirus. “I felt extremely achy, uncomfortable, didn’t want to be touched, and then the fever started,” Wilson told Gayle King, adding that she suffered from “chills like I never had before.” She described her temperature hitting 102 and feeling
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Bishop Gerald Glenn, the pastor of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia, has died, the church announced on Sunday. Glenn had tested positive for coronavirus, according to a video posted by his daughter Mar-Gerie Crawley. Despite warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to avoid mass gatherings and maintain social distancing, Glenn said
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The big news out of the Wisconsin primary, which announced its results on Monday, wasn’t that Joe Biden had beaten Bernie Sanders in the state. (That was a given.) Instead it was that Jill Karofsky had pulled off an upset of conservative state Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly. (Yes, Wisconsin elects its state Supreme Court.)
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The way the president tells it, the American economy is like a light switch that he can simply flip on. He floated a full “beautiful” reopening by Easter Sunday. And when that deadline passed, he teased a “big bang” reopening at his discretion. He (falsely) says he has “total authority” to reopen the economy. Governors
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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, the third highest ranking House Republican, pushed back against a false claim by President Donald Trump that he has “total” authority to decide to lift restrictions governors have imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic. “The federal government does not have absolute power,” Cheney, who serves as a member of House GOP leadership
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Singing the folk song “99 Bottles of Beer” might be how some people are passing the time during the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to Coors Light, Olive Veronesi now has 150 ice-cold beers — and she doesn’t have to pass them around to anybody. The 93-year-old went viral last week after CNN Pittsburgh affiliate KDKA shared
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Singing the folk song “99 Bottles of Beer” might be how some people are passing the time during the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to Coors Light, Olive Veronesi now has 150 ice-cold beers — and she doesn’t have to pass them around to anybody. The 93-year-old went viral last week after CNN Pittsburgh affiliate KDKA shared
Continue Reading Do you keep thinking about movies that speak to our shutdown/lockdown/shelter-in-place/quarantine lives at the moment? Movies can help us make sense of this time. When life seems stranger than fiction, we have films to give us metaphors and representations that speak to our new reality. And given the state of the suspended animation of movie
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Dr. Anthony Fauci is again publicly cautioning against President Donald Trump’s aggressive calls to reopen the US, telling The Associated Press the country is not yet ready to ease up on restrictions aiming to slow the spread of coronavirus because it doesn’t have the capacity to test and trace new cases. “We have to have
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EL Paso, Texas — The Paso del Norte Foundation hosted a video Question & Answer session Tuesday on how the community can help or get help during the Covid-19 crisis. You can watch it in the video player above. Paso del Norte Community Foundation CEO Tracy Yellen; El Pasoan Charles Horak, who founded the El
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