(NEW YORK) — A tropical depression in the Atlantic could strengthen to a hurricane by the end of the week and pass the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Here’s what to expect:
The system is expected to strengthen to Tropical Storm Bret later on Monday and is forecast to become the first hurricane of the season by Thursday morning.
By Thursday night into early Friday morning, Bret is forecast to move just north of St. Lucia.
The National Hurricane Center predicts Bret will pass just south of Puerto Rico on Saturday as a Category 1 hurricane.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a near-normal hurricane season this year.
(NEW YORK) — One person has been killed and 18 others injured from severe storms, including a reported tornado, in Jasper County, Mississippi, officials said.
Twenty to 30 homes were “majorly affected or destroyed,” Hudson Jenkins, director of Jasper County Emergency Management, told ABC News.
The reported twister in Jasper County was one of 17 tornadoes reported over the weekend across Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Oregon and Colorado.
More severe weather is expected Monday from New Orleans to Columbus, Georgia, to Tallahassee and Jacksonville, Florida. Damaging winds will be the biggest threat, but a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out
Meanwhile, record-high temperatures are baking the South.
Over the weekend, a record high of 111 degrees was hit in Del Rio, Texas, while New Iberia, Louisiana, tied its record high of 97 degrees.
On Monday, the heat index — what the temperature feels like with humidity — is forecast to reach 107 degrees in New Orleans, 113 degrees in Houston and a scorching 117 degrees in Austin, Texas.
This dangerous heat will continue through Wednesday.
Click here for tips on how to stay safe in the heat.
ABC News’ Victoria Arancio contributed to this report.
(KELLOGG, Idaho) — A suspect has been arrested after four people were shot to death inside a home in northern Idaho on Sunday night, authorities said.
The incident occurred some 36 miles east of Coeur d’Alene in the small mountain town of Kellogg, a former mining community located in Silver Valley, which straddles the Idaho Panhandle. The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office said it dispatched units, along with the Kellogg Police Department, to a residence there after receiving a 911 call about a deadly shooting at approximately 7:30 p.m. PT.
Upon arrival, law enforcement officers found four people dead from gunshot wounds inside the home and subsequently detained a 31-year-old man believed to be connected with the quadruple homicide. The Idaho State Police said it sent detectives to the scene on West Brown Avenue to investigate following a request from the Kellogg Police Department.
The probe remains ongoing, with the Kellogg Police Department and the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office as the primary investigators.
Authorities believe that everyone connected with the incident is accounted for and there is no additional threat to the community, according to the Idaho State Police.
Additional information was not immediately available. The names of the victims and the suspect have not yet been released.
(ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla.) — A Florida deputy and a resident are both “lucky to be alive” after they were sucked into a drainage pipe by flood water during a torrential downpour, according to Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons.
Escambia County Deputy William Hollingsworth was on patrol Friday when he spotted a motorist who was stranded after getting caught in rising water, the sheriff said.
“At one point, Deputy Hollingsworth exited his patrol car to approach a citizen who was trapped in these rising waters,” the sheriff said. “As he approached, Deputy Hollingsworth witnessed the citizen go underwater and rushed to his aid without regard for his own safety.”
The motorist and Hollingsworth were “sucked into a drainage pipe” and traveled nearly 100 feet underwater for approximately 30 seconds under Highway 98, which is a four-lane roadway, before emerging on the other side of the road, Simmons said.
In the video, Hollingsworth can be seen and heard catching his breath, assisting the motorist and expressing shock about what just happened to them both.
“Can you […] believe what happened to us,” Hollingsworth said, using an expletive for emphasis, the video shows.
Later in the video, the motorist exclaims “I almost died” as he tries to catch his breath.
The deputy and the resident were seen on the body camera footage seemingly unharmed in the wake of the incident.
“Thank you, man, for being there when I [came]out,” the motorist told Hollingsworth, video shows. “When I came out you were right behind me.”
The deputy’s action “is an example of the exceptional courage displayed by the men and women of law enforcement every day,” the sheriff said.
Escambia County is in the Florida Panhandle, which has been impacted by severe weather.
Parts of the South have been slammed with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in recent days.
A tornado struck Pensacola, Florida, killing one person after a tree fell on their home on Friday, according to Escambia County Fire Rescue.
Unrelenting rounds of severe thunderstorms continued to hammer parts of the South this weekend, with forecasts showing thunderstorms likely to touch down from Arkansas to the Florida Panhandle from Sunday afternoon through the evening.
The severe weather threat will linger across parts of the northern Gulf Coast region on Monday, focusing from the Mississippi coast and eastward across the Florida Panhandle, including cities such as Mobile, Alabama, and Tallahassee, Florida.
ABC News’ Julia Jacobo and Daniel Peck contributed to this report.
Uvalde survivors Miah Cerrillo and Khloie Torres show off their Kid Hero Awards at the Texas Public Safety Conference in Galveston, Texas, April 5, 2023. — Stephanie Mendez/ABC News
(GRAPEVINE, Texas) — Three former Robb Elementary School students are receiving a national award Monday for their actions during the deadly mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
The 9-1-1 Youth Hero Award is being given to Miah Cerrillo, Khloie Torres and Amerie Jo Garza at the 2023 National Emergency Number Association (NENA) conference in Grapevine, Texas.
Garza, who did not survive the mass shooting, is receiving the award posthumously for attempting to dial 911 before she was shot. Cerrillo and Torres survived by pretending to be dead and calling 911 after an 18-year-old gunman killed their two teachers and several classmates.
The award is being presented by the non-profit organization 9-1-1 For Kids and is sponsored by the tech company NICE.
The 9-1-1 Youth Hero Award will be presented to the survivors and Garza’s family by Tim Brown, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Raiders wide receiver. Brown is also the international chairman of 9-1-1 For Kids.
“To bring these kids on stage and to give them an award and to pat them on the back and tell them that what they did was honorable, what they did was courageous, it goes a long way,” Brown told ABC News.
Charles Cullen, incoming president for NENA, said he worked in law enforcement for 28 years and managed 911 centers, but never encountered a story like that of the three Robb students.
“This particular incident is heartbreaking, and what those kids went through, and the courage that they showed in unfathomable circumstances, and the fact that they were able to call 911 with this killer in the room and get through at 10 or 11-years-old is amazing to me, and we do want to recognize them,” Cullen told ABC News.
Brown said he is honored to present the award to the girls and Garza’s family and believes all three girls are heroes.
“I was in the league back when The Gulf War started and we made a pact in our locker room, that we weren’t going to call ourselves soldiers and warriors and those kinds of terms anymore because now that meant something totally different,” Brown said. “And I think when you look at what these young ladies have done, I don’t think any athlete or any regular person could ever think of themselves as a hero after what these kids have gone through … If you want to call anybody a hero going forward, you should start with these young ladies.”
(SAN FRANCISCO) — The occupants of two vehicles exchanged gunfire as they raced through the streets of San Francisco on Sunday, leaving people injured by gunshots and flying glass along a mile-long path near the Embarcadero, police said.
Six people were injured during the “car-to-car” shooting, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said.
The injured included two people who were hit by gunfire, one of whom sustained life-threatening injuries, police said. A 10-year-old was also hit by a vehicle as she walked a bike across a street and three other people were injured by flying glass, police said.
“It appears that this was an isolated incident,” Scott said during a press conference. “And these individuals were targeting each other. We don’t believe this was random at all.”
The shooting began just before 7 p.m. near the intersection of Beach and Stockton streets, Scott said. The intersection is about a block south of Pier 39, a popular tourist destination along the city’s Embarcadero.
The vehicles — a black SUV and white sedan — then chased each other for about a mile, racing down the Embarcadero as the occupants exchanged gunfire, police said.
“And the cars basically drove very recklessly and chased each other while engaged in gunfire — in exchange of gunfire — until that incident concluded right behind me at Howard and the Embarcadero,” Scott said.
Officers arrived within four minutes and nobody has yet been taken into custody, Scott said. He said he expects there will be “a lot” of video of the incident, including cellphone footage.
ABC News’ Flor Tolentino and Amanda Morris contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Three women were injured late Sunday afternoon in a series of subway slashing incidents, New York Police Department officials said, as they released photos of a suspect.
At about 4:14 p.m., police received reports of a slashing that took place at the 86th Street-Lexington Avenue subway station, police said. A 19-year-old woman exited a southbound 4 train and was walking up the platform stairs when a male suspect slashed her right leg, the NYPD said in a press release.
The suspect then is alleged to have attacked a 48-year-old woman at the same station, slashing her on her right leg as she stood on the subway platform, police said.
The suspect fled on a downtown 4 train, and both victims were transported and treated at a local hospital for their injuries, police said.
A second incident was reported just minutes later, at about 4:32 p.m., when a 28-year-old woman who was sitting on a southbound 4 train heading toward the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station was slashed in her left leg, police said.
The suspect again fled the scene, police said. The victim was transported to a local hospital for her injuries, which police described as a “severe laceration.”
Police said they are looking for a male with short black hair and brown eyes. The about 5-foot-8-inch man is about 220 lbs, police said.
The suspect, according to police, was last seen wearing a white shirt, blue pants, black sneakers, and a black baseball cap.
(MIFFLINTOWN, Pa.) — A state police trooper was killed and another was critically injured during two violent encounters with the same armed suspect in central Pennsylvania, the first unfolding in the parking lot of a state police barracks, authorities said.
The suspect, Brandon Stine of Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot during a gunfight with officer Jacques Rougeau Jr., a 29-year-old state police trooper, who was killed, according to the Pennsylvania State Police.
State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens described the exchange of gunfire between the officer and suspect as being like in “a warzone,” according to ABC affiliate station WHTM-TV in Harrisburg.
The violence began at 12:45 p.m. Saturday when the gunman opened fire on Pennsylvania state trooper James Wagner in the parking lot of the Lewiston Station state police barracks near Mifflintown, about 45 miles northwest of Harrisburg, according to police. Wagner was taken to the hospital and was listed in critical condition on Sunday, police said.
After allegedly shooting Wagner, Stein fled the scene, setting off an intense search that lasted more than two hours, according to police.
During the search, Stine called 911 several times, Bivens said. State police officers attempted to talk Stine into surrendering but Bivens said the suspect seemed to be “playing a game of cat and mouse.”
Police eventually tracked down Stein and cornered him in Walker Township, about 50 miles northwest of Mifflintown, Bivens said.
Rougeau was among the first officers to arrive at the scene in Walker Township and was hit by a bullet that was fired through his windshield in what authorities said appeared to be an ambush by Stine, according to Bivens. Rougeau managed to return fire, killing Stine, according to police.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris visited Wagner and his family in a hospital.
“I thanked his colleagues for their service and prayed for his recovery,” Shapiro said in a statement released on Twitter.
Shapiro said he and his wife Lori “send our love to the family of the trooper killed.”
Shapiro praised the two state troopers who were shot, saying, “Each one put themselves on the line to protect their fellow troopers — and to protect their fellow Pennsylvanians.”
A motive for the shootings remained under investigation Sunday.
At least 25 U.S. law enforcement officers have now been shot to death in the line of duty this year, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. In 2022, a total of 61 U.S. law enforcement officers were killed by gunfire in the line of duty, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page website.
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(WILLOWBROOK, Ill.) — At least 23 people were injured, one fatally, when gunfire erupted early Sunday at a Juneteenth celebration in suburban Chicago, authorities said.
The shooting unfolded about 12:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a strip mall in Willowbrook, about 23 miles west of Chicago, according to the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office.
The gunfire erupted during a large gathering of several hundred people to commemorate Juneteenth, Battalion Chief Joe Ostrander with the Tri-State Fire Protection District told ABC Chicago station WLS-TV.
Victims were taken to multiple area hospital with gunshot wounds, according to the sheriff’s office. One person was pronounced dead and at least two were in critical condition, Deputy Chief Eric Swanson of the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference.
No arrests have been announced.
A motive for the shooting is under investigation.
Sheriff’s deputies had been monitoring the annual Juneteenth celebration when they responded to a 911 call of a fight breaking out nearby, the sheriff’s department said. While deputies were investigating the report of the fight, they heard gunshots and immediately returned to the Juneteenth celebration, authorities said.
“An unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds from multiple weapons into the crowd,” police said in a statement.
In addition to those shot, several victims were treated at area hospitals for injuries they suffered attempting to flee the area, according to the sheriff’s office.
Detectives were combing through security video and witness cellphone video Sunday afternoon in hopes of identifying suspects, authorities said.
Witnesses described a scene of panic with people scattering in all directions, seeking cover from the barrage of gunfire.
“It was supposed to be like a Juneteenth celebration; we just started hearing shooting, so we dropped down until they stopped. They just kept going. After that, we literally scattered away,” witness Markeshia Avery told WLS-TV.
(ST. LOUIS) — An overnight shooting at a party in a downtown St. Louis office building injured at least 10 people and killed one person, St. Louis police chief Robert Tracy said at a press conference Sunday afternoon.
Eight out of the 11 victims, including the deceased, were minors, according to St. Louis police. Five of the victims were male, while six were female.
The victims are between 15 and 19 years old, according to police.
The deceased victim has been identified as Makao Moore, a 17-year-old boy, according to St. Louis Police Department Sgt. Charles Wall.
A 17-year-old girl was trampled when trying to run from the shooting, resulting in serious spinal cord injuries, Tracy said.
Police recovered multiple firearms and shell casings at the scene, including “AR-style rifle pistols” and a handgun, according to Tracy.
The suspect in custody is a17-year-old male who lives outside of St. Louis, Tracy said.
The shooting took place on the fifth floor of an office building in downtown St. Louis, according to authorities.
The initial investigation suggested the social gathering was organized through social media direct messaging platforms, though law enforcement does not currently know how the attendees got access to the office building.
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones attributed the shooting to Missouri’s “lax” gun laws, including the state legislature’s February decision to continue allowing minors to carry firearms, as well as downtown St. Louis being a late-night gathering place for young people from outside the city.
“Rather than celebrating 10 fathers [and] father figures, families in our very own community are dealing with the unthinkable,” Jones said at the press conference.
“It’s every parent’s worst nightmare, tenfold,” she said of the shooting. “My heart goes out to all of the families in pain today. All those attending will carry with them the scars, physical and mental, from the gun violence that tore into their lives.”
Missouri has some of the weakest gun laws in the country, according to the nonprofit anti-gun violence organization Everytown for Gun Safety.
The state does not require a background check to buy or own a gun, according to Everytown.
Anyone 19 and older can legally conceal and/or open carry a gun in Missouri without a permit, according to the law, and the state also recognizes concealed weapon permits issued by other states.
