EL PASO, Texas– Sunday brought above average temperatures Sunday afternoon. Overnight lows will dip down to the 30s with calm winds. Monday will begin our warming trend with afternoon highs reaching the lower to mid 70s. Our next storm system will approach the borderland Thursday bringing moisture, winds and cooler temperatures. Download the ABC-7 StormTrack
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NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Reports says a military coup is taking place in Myanmar and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained under house arrest. All communications to Naypyitaw appeared to have been cut, and Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party could not be reached. Myanmar lawmakers were to gather Monday for
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OSLO, Norway — The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. A member of the Norwegian Parliament made the nomination this weekend, praising Black Lives Matter for bringing a new awareness of racial justice. Proponents say it is a similar situation to when the Nobel Peace Prize went to
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Sunday reported 530 new known Covid-19 cases and 18 deaths. The latest numbers increased the state’s pandemic totals to 174,064 cases and 3,283 known deaths. A woman in her 70s who had been hospitalized was the only Doña Ana County death reported Sunday. The county with the
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(CNN) — Luis Tapia finalmente obtendría una licencia de conducir. Marilú Saldaña visitaría a su mamá en México antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Karina Ruiz De Diaz se registraría para votar, algo que ha ayudado a hacer a miles de personas, pero que nunca tuvo la oportunidad de hacerlo ella misma. Se encuentran entre
Continue Reading Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other top government figures have been detained, a spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy told CNN on Monday. “State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and some other senior figures are being detained in Nay Pyi Taw,” spokesman Myo Nyunt said. The move comes after days
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Stock futures dropped Sunday after a week that saw volatile markets due to the recent GameStop situation. Dow futures were down 252 points, or 0.8%. S&P 500 futures were down 1%, while Nasdaq futures were down 1.2%. US stocks finished a turbulent week sharply lower on Friday. The Dow and the S&P 500 recorded their
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El Paso, Texas — The City of El Paso has received a grant totaling more than $4.5 million, with that money specifically going to a program to invest in aquifer storage and recharge. The Hueco Bolson Aquifer is the principal aquifer for the El Paso area and Ciudad Juarez. An underground freshwater supply that stretches
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Ten Republican senators on Sunday announced plans to unveil a roughly $600 billion Covid-19 relief package, a counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan meant to force relief talks with the White House back to the middle. The lawmakers, including Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah and
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EL PASO, Texas — The race and ethnicity of almost 90% of the people inoculated in El Paso County is unknown to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the state agency tasked with distributing the Covid-19 vaccine. The lack of clear data makes it impossible to determine whether the lifesaving vaccine is being distributed to
Continue Reading A skier died after being buried by an avalanche Saturday in the backcountry of Summit County, Utah. Kurt Damschroder, 57, of Park City, Utah, was killed after he was caught in the avalanche, Summit County Sheriff Justin Martinez said in a tweet Sunday. Damschroder was one of two skiers who triggered the avalanche in an
Continue Reading Police in Waterbury, Connecticut, arrested and charged a local man for the murder of a 16-year-old girl whose 2004 death had long been unsolved. Willie F. Robinson, 52, of Matteson Street in Waterbury, was arrested Friday and charged with the murder of Jessica Keyworth, Waterbury Police said in a statement. He is being held on
Continue Reading GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday announced a new “movement” to push back on the Republican Party’s embrace of former President Donald Trump and retire the “poisonous conspiracies and lies” that defined his administration. In a six-minute campaign-style video posted to the new “Country First” website, which is funded by Kinzinger’s Future First Leadership Political
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico has reached 158,074 confirmed deaths from Covid-19 to end January, which now makes it the country with the world’s third-highest pandemic fatality total. However, Mexico has an extremely low rate of testing, and estimates of excess deaths suggest the real toll to date is well over 195,000. As of Sunday,
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Nearly 7,000 Mexicans were formally reported as disappeared in 2020, though that was a 22% decrease from a year earlier, the country’s top human rights official says. Assistant Secretary for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said the number of clandestine graves found dropped by third last year and the number of bodies
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As President Joe Biden was ticking through a litany of grievances with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday, it wasn’t only his tone that made for a departure from his predecessor. Even his location marked a major difference: Instead of speaking with foreign leaders this week from his third-floor private residence, as President Donald Trump often
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CHICAGO, Illinois — After days of frigid temperatures, the Northeast braced for a whopper of a storm that could dump well over a foot of snow in many areas, create blizzard-like conditions and cause travel problems for the next few days. The storm system blanketed parts of the Midwest with the most snow some places
Continue Reading Joshua Embry took over as public health director in Grayson County, Kentucky just weeks before US officials announced the first case of coronavirus in the country. In the past 12 months, Embry and his staff have worked tirelessly to protect their community and promote measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Yet their service has
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Two Republican senators said Sunday they’ll remain fair jurors and listen to the evidence presented during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial set to begin February 9. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a moderate Republican, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” that he believed Trump’s comments leading up to the Capitol attack
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EL PASO, Texas — After months of health mandates limiting El Pasoans from congregating, now live music is playing in some restaurants. Koteiba Azzam, a businessman who owns Gasoline Ray’s Dive Bar on Crossroads Drive, believes the city is ready and he is glad to bring back band performances for his patrons. “After this 10
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Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA ) — A Mardi Gras mega-store. Toomey’s never disappoints. All the way from Milbrook, Alabama. Members representing American Legion Post 133 — gearing up for a parade next weekend — drove 2 1/2 hours to stock up on must-have trinkets. “It’s not too bad… We
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“Saturday Night Live” returned for its first show of 2021, and had one question on its mind: “What still works?” That’s how the NBC variety show opened its program on Saturday night, with cast member Kate McKinnon hosting a show that asked what still works in America. The first category was “government.” McKinnon brought out
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB ) — After COVID-19 reached his staff, a Hartford gym owner stepped up his fight against the virus at his business. Buying an air purifier for the space. Former UConn Football player Andre Dixon says in the last three weeks, his gym Dixon Sports Performance,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JEFF DAVIS COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL ) — A fire on Saturday night destroyed the building that houses the 9-1-1 emergency services for a Georgia county. According to a Facebook post from the Jeff Davis County administrator, all the county ambulances as well as their 9-1-1 center is down.
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EL PASO, Texas- For 16-year-old Savannah Grajeda, her personal outfits of the day can now be yours and it’s all thanks to Instagram and a new outfit of the day app named Teleport. “So with Instagram I’ve always liked the different looks and just showing who you really are on Instagram,” said Savannah Grajedga. To
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The European Union says vaccine maker AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses to the 27-nation bloc during the first quarter. The new target of 40 million doses by the end of March is still only half what the company had originally aimed for, triggering a spat between AstraZeneca and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV ) — While high school athletes await a return to their courts and fields of play, swimmers in Oregon are now looking towards the spring to jump back in the pool. There may not be any pools open to competing in right now to swim,
Continue Reading John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, said Sunday that the current goals under the Paris climate agreement are not enough to achieve the mission to limit the Earth’s temperature. “The goals thus far have been inadequate … The goal of achieving a 1.5˚(C) limitation on the rise of Earth’s temperature is absolutely the appropriate
Continue Reading A team of World Health Organization investigators in China researching the origins of the coronavirus tell CNN they now have months of Chinese influenza data which might contain vital clues as to the early spread of the virus. On Sunday, the team visited the wet market thought to be central to the disease’s spread: The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV ) — With COVID-19 data looking optimistic across the state, schools across Tennessee can now open their doors for fans, cheerleaders, and the band to attend games. “Temporary restrictions on Winter sports event at K-12 schools are rolled back and there are no further restriction on
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