EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Office of Emergency Management is operating six cooling centers throughout the city to allow residents in need a safe place to go during this week’s heat wave amid the coronavirus pandemic. Officials said Covid-19 health and safety guidelines would be followed at all the cooling centers, which are all
Continue ReadingThe calm before the storm isn’t really so calm, at least not for anyone with asthma or other severe breathing disorders, new research shows. During the days before a major thunderstorm hits, emergency room visits for seniors who suffer from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rose significantly, according to a research letter published
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police announced the latest in a spate of animal cruelty arrests on Friday. Investigators said 22–year-old Jennifer De La Cruz was arrested for the death of her pet. The carcass of her female German Shepherd was found chained to a metal pole in her backyard at 5721 Tropicana last
Continue ReadingNEW YORK, NY — Tropical Storm Isaias is buffeting New York State and western New England with heavy rain and wind as it moves northeastward toward the Great Lakes, bringing the threat of tornadoes to southern and central New England. In its path up the East Coast, the storm has battered New Jersey, New York,
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Florida began to feel the effects Sunday of a powerful storm inching in the state’s direction, with forecasters warning it could reach hurricane strength by the time it makes expected landfall near the South Carolina-North Carolina border on Tuesday. Tropical storm watches and warnings stretched from Florida to parts of the southern New England
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso reached a scorching 109 degrees Thursday afternoon, blowing past the old record of 103 set in 1980. The new all-time high for the date, officially recorded at the El Paso International Airport, came amid a Heat Advisory that only projected temperatures reaching 105. Anthony, New Mexico also set a
Continue ReadingA magnitude 4.2 earthquake shook Southern California’s San Fernando Valley just before 4:30 a.m. PT on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. The light quake, which felt like a jolt, a pause, and then a bit more rocking, was centered near Pacoima, north of Los Angeles. The earthquake was followed by several aftershocks later
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EL PASO, Texas — Residents in El Paso’s Lower Valley got answers Monday after their neighborhood became an impassable muddy mess over the weekend. “We had a pretty hard rain (Friday) and of course the street is under construction all the neighbors want the new street but the next day it was hard to get
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — Storms hit hard in southern New Mexico Sunday night, dumping between one and two inches of rain, prompting flash flooding in the area. Truth or Consequences, and nearby Williamsburg, woke up Monday to the worst damage in the state. Officials estimated that the flooding caused thousands of dollars in
Continue ReadingCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Hanna weakened to a tropical storm as it continued to move inland Sunday though it was still bringing tropical storm force winds, rain and storm surge to southern Texas. The center of Hanna passed into Mexico Sunday morning, however, Texans would still be contending with the wind and rain into the afternoon. Rain was expected to
Continue ReadingBelow the mountains that overlook Hong Kong’s financial district, drainage engineer Alex Lau is ankle-deep in water flowing into a giant tunnel almost twice the height of a double-decker bus. Part of a ground-breaking, $3.8 billion (30 billion Hong Kong dollar) drainage network, this tunnel runs nearly the length of Hong Kong Island and has
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EL PASO, Texas — Rain-slicked roadways following up to an inch and a half of rain on Friday evening resulted in multiple crashes that snarled traffic across the Borderland. A couple of notable wrecks occurred on Interstate 10 eastbound through El Paso. At I-10 east and McCrae, multiple lanes were closed due to a crash;
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EL PASO, Texas — A 26-year-old El Paso man now jailed on animal cruelty charges, allegedly leaving his dog outside in sweltering temperatures to die, had been awaiting trial on weapons charges stemming from a viral video. The El Paso District Attorney’s Office confirmed that Jonathan Jay Oneal, who was being held Thursday in the
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EL PASO, Texas — A second El Pasoan has been arrested, just hours after the first, on animal cruelty charges after police said he left his dog outside in the heat and sun to die. 24–year-old Miguel Angel Valencia was being held Thursday on $5,000 bond in the downtown jail. Investigators said they recently found
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CANUTILLO, Texas — A severe thunderstorm that moved through the Canutillo area late Tuesday afternoon flooded roads, homes and businesses there. Along with heavy downpours, the National Weather Service said the storm had 60 mile an hour wind gusts and dumped nickle-sized hail. The heavy rain – amounting to about an inch – flooded Doniphan
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the weather heats up, the trash gets smellier. El Paso’s Environmental Services department reports the odor is a consequence of hot temperatures. The weather allows the waste to decompose faster and produce methane gas, according to Engineering Division Manager Nicholas Ybarra. “I would equate it to opening a sewer
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ANTHONY, Texas — Several thousand El Paso Electric customers on both the Texas and New Mexico sides of Anthony were without power for up to two hours on a stormy Monday night. A utility spokesman described it as a storm-related outage at the electrical substation that serves the area. The outage occurred a bit before
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EL PASO, Texas– Monsoon season isn’t just a busy season for our ABC-7 StormTrackers— it’s also a busy season for snake sightings in our area. According to emergency medical authorities in the U.S., snake bites are on the increase across the country as more people head out to local trails during the Covid-19 pandemic. There’s
Continue ReadingThe prolonged heatwave in Siberia from January to June, which pushed overall temperatures 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than normal, would have been “almost impossible” if not for human-caused climate change, a new study has found. Temperatures in Siberia have been above average since the beginning of the year, with the Russian town
Continue ReadingWeeks of torrential rains have caused the worst flooding in China in recent decades, destroying the homes and livelihoods of millions of people as the country struggles to revive an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Since June, devastating floods have impacted 38 million people — more than the entire population of Canada. Some 2.24
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EL PASO, Texas — Around 4,000 El Paso Electric customers found themselves without power at one point late Monday afternoon as an ongoing heatwave – the worst in a quarter century – continued to take its toll on the Borderland. The utility company reported a few main outages, including one involving roughly 1,100 customers impacted
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police officials expressed dismay Monday at the number of recently opened animal cruelty cases that are related to dog owners leaving their animals out in the heat. The police animal cruelty unit has become busy with seven such cases uncovered over the past two weeks. Officials indicated all the
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s been more than a week of daily triple-digit temperatures in the Borderland, and while many are lucky to work inside an air-conditioned building — others aren’t. Despite the extreme heat, many still have a job to do and for HVAC companies, they have air conditioners to repair. “I mean everybody
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EL PASO, Texas — As a sustained heat wave said to be the most extreme in 25 to 30 years continued Monday, El Paso set new high temperature records for the both the day and the year. The National Weather Service said the official temperature taken at the El Paso International Airport reached 110 degrees
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EL PASO, Texas — The near record breaking heat wave has been impacting tens of thousands of people across the Borderland including utility companies like El Paso Water. Some El Paso Water customers said their drinking water has been smelling bad and the utility said the triple-digit heat is to blame. The utility company said during
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EL PASO, Texas — With temperatures heating up in the Borderland, El Pasoans are finding creative ways to beat the heat. One El Paso family decided to bring out their pool to help their granddaughter beat the heat, but Grandpa Ruby decided to go an extra mile to make sure his granddaughter was extra cool
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso soared to a high temperature of 109 degrees for a second-straight day Friday amid the first Excessive Heat Warning in a quarter of a century, with forecasters predicting it would likely be even hotter for Saturday. The 109-degree late afternoon temp at El Paso International Airport was well shy
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso reached a scorching 109 degrees Thursday afternoon, and while it was only one degree shy of the daily record – it did make for the hottest day of the year thus far. Thursday’s high temperature was two degrees warmer than the previous hottest day of 107 that happened on
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EL PASO, Texas — The heat is on! The Borderland will be seeing those triple-digit temperatures throughout the rest of the week, putting some of our communities most vulnerable at risk. With the threat of the coronavirus, many seniors are forced to stay at home and avoid contact with the outside world. But as temperatures
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EL PASO, Texas — The National Weather Service issued a Heat Advisory beginning at noon Wednesday through 6 a.m. Thursday for the El Paso metro area and adjacent Hudspeth County. “Dangerously hot conditions are expected to develop during the afternoon with temperatures approaching 105 degrees,” the weather service warned in the advisory. The NWS also
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