INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts say they have closed their practice facility after “several individuals” tested positive for COVID-19. The Colts wrote on Twitter that the team will work remotely. The team says “we were informed that several individuals within our organization have tested positive for COVID-19. The team is currently in the process
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The director of the El Paso Department of Public Health declared the coronavirus situation was “out of control” in a briefing with the media on Friday. (You can watch the entire briefing in the video player above.) The comment from Angela Mora came after her agency announced a record 838
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LONDON (AP) — The British government says trade talks with the European Union are effectively over and the country must prepare for a no-deal break with the bloc, despite EU leaders declaring that negotiations will continue next week. The EU said at a summit in Brussels that it is willing to keep talking, but British
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LONDON (AP) — The British government says trade talks with the European Union are effectively over and the country must prepare for a no-deal break with the bloc, despite EU leaders declaring that negotiations will continue next week. The EU said at a summit in Brussels that it is willing to keep talking, but British
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EL PASO, Texas — As part of the revised city restrictions to combat the coronavirus, Mayor Dee Margo has mandated that El Paso sporting events will not allowed to have fans. However, that excludes the two teams that are expected to draw the most fans in the city this weekend: UTEP and El Paso Locomotive
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO VOTE IN EL PASO EL PASO, Texas — I documented my voting experience at the Bowling Family YMCA in Northeast El Paso. It’s one of nearly three dozen early voting locations in El Paso County. At 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a long, socially-distanced line of people snaked out the
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SAN DIEGO, California — Before Carlos Correa headed to the plate in the ninth inning of Game 5 of the AL Championship Series, he told Dusty Baker, “Walkoff.” The 71-year-old manager replied, “Go ahead, man,” and then said a quick prayer to his father and brother. If the Houston Astros had been forced to go
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Election day is less than three weeks away and early voting is already underway. Thousands of El Paso voters have already cast ballots at polling sites this week. Both the El Paso County Republican and Democratic parties are still recruiting workers to help manage the surge on the ground. “You’re
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(Editor’s note: You can watch the ABC News town hall with Joe Biden in its entirety in the video player above.) PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Democrat Joe Biden and President Donald Trump squared off, in a way, Thursday evening, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling televised town halls. Biden on ABC and Trump on NBC
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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 October 15:
Continue ReadingTemps were noticeably cooler today courtesy of a cold front that blew through. We were 12 degrees cooler today than yesterday hitting 83 for the high. There will be a bit more of a chill tomorrow morning as you step out the door. Temps will stay in the mid and upper 70’s tomorrow and then
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WASHINGTON, DC — If you live in the U.S. and haven’t completed the 2020 census, time is running out. The Census Bureau says it’s ending the count late Thursday night/early Friday morning. The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the move earlier this week when it ruled that Census officials could halt the count while a legal
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EL PASO, Texas — The social media platform Twitter was experiencing a massive nationwide outage Thursday afternoon. The website DownDetector, which tracks internet service crashes, shows an ongoing huge spike in reported problems across the U.S. with Twitter as of 4 p.m. MT. Many users going to the platform to send a tweet saw a message
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday cited “dangerous and unprecedented rates” of Covid-19 spread in her state as it set a new infections record for the second-straight day. On Thursday, there were 672 new confirmed cases statewide, up from Wednesday’s then-record 577 single-day tally. Of the added cases, 89 were
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Delaware — A third person tied to Joe Biden’s campaign has tested positive for the coronavirus. The news comes as Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, paused her in-person campaigning after finding out two others, one of her staffers and a crew member on her flight to Arizona last week, tested positive for the virus. Both
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NEW YORK (AP) — C-SPAN has suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely after he admitted to lying about having his Twitter account hacked. A week ago, when Scully was questioned about a message he had sent to former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci seeking advice, Scully claimed that someone had gotten into his account and
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will appoint El Paso native Rebeca Huddle as the next justice of the Texas Supreme Court. The governor made the announcement Thursday afternoon from Stephen F. Austin High School in El Paso, where Huddle was a graduate and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The sobering musical “Jagged Little Pill,” which plumbs Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album to tell a story of an American family spiraling out of control, earned a leading 15 Tony Award nominations Thursday, as the Broadway community took the first steps to celebrate a pandemic-shortened season that upended the theater world.
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso officials are imposing new restrictions on restaurants and some businesses as new daily cases of the coronavirus soared to an all-time high of 717, along with 20 delayed positives, for a tally of 737 on Thursday. It is an “unprecedented amount of new cases,” observed Mayor Dee Margo at
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California has tested negative for the coronavirus. It comes the same day she canceled travel for several days after two people involved with the Democratic presidential campaign tested positive. The campaign says both Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, tested negative for the virus Thursday. Harris, Joe
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WASHINGTON, DC — Dr. Anthony Fauci is criticizing a declaration by a group of scientists that supports the concept of “herd immunity,” which the White House is using to bolster a push to reopen schools and businesses. Fauci says backing herd immunity — the idea that a disease will stop spreading once nearly everybody has
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A backdoor cold front will bring cooler temperatures to the borderland providing some relief from the record high temperatures. The cold front will drop temperatures to the 80s this afternoon with the second push of cool air allowing temperatures to dip into the 70s on Friday. The winds will increase around 35 mph, Thursday. The
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WASHINGTON, DC — Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination cleared a key hurdle Thursday as Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past Democrats’ objections in the drive to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick before the Nov. 3 election. The panel set Oct. 22 for its vote to recommend Barrett’s nomination to the full Senate for a final
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Traffic investigators with the El Paso Police Department were at the scene of a serious, two-car crash on the east side early Thursday morning. An emergency dispatcher told ABC-7 that one person was seriously injured in the collision. It happened just after 4 a.m. at the 12000 block of Paseo
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Will Gadd has witnessed at close hand the destruction being wrought by the climate crisis. The ice climber has spent his life completing one daring expedition after another in some of the coldest places on earth. But increasingly he sees his “office” melting away and changing beyond recognition. Earlier in 2020, Gadd climbed Mount Kilimanjaro’s
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LOS ANGELES, California — El Paso’s very own Khalid walked away with five prizes, including top R&B Artist, Wednesday night at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. After his big win, Khalid encouraged everyone to vote in the 2020 election in November, saying “your voice matters now more than ever.” Walking into the awards show with 16
Continue Reading TUCSON, Arizona — U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered more than 458,000 people in fiscal year 2020, marking a sharp decline from 2019 but not straying far from previous years despite the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement posture. The number of encounters — meaning people illegally crossing the border or presenting at a port
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State University’s athletics department is looking for a big win off the field by getting into the wine business. The department has partnered with the Lescombes Family Vineyards, becoming one of less than 10 collegiate-licensed wines in the country. It is available at all Lescombes locations, with additional,
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EL PASO, Texas — As election day draws nearer and early voting has already started in Texas and several other states, the FBI said it is working to prevent voter fraud. Millions of people have already voted by mail or in person, and the mail-in ballots have led to President Trump questioning the integrity of
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EL PASO, Texas — As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations climb to all-time highs in El Paso, local funeral homes are preparing for an increase in the use for their services. Sunset Funeral Homes and Perches Funeral Homes each told ABC-7 they have added extra mortuary refrigerators at some of their locations. Within the last two
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