(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.
Bebe Rexha was hit in the face with a cell phone while performing on stage Sunday, June 18, ABC News confirms.
The singer was struck after a 27-year-old concertgoer tossed the phone at her at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan.
The concertgoer, identified as Nicolas Malvagna, was arrested and charged with assault. He is in custody and is expected to be arraigned later Monday.
After the incident, the concert was cut short and Bebe was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. Fan-captured video shows the phone striking her in the upper left cheek, right below her eye.
NBC has canceled American Auto after two seasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series followed the executives of Detroit-based Payne Motors — led by the company’s first female CEO, played by Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer — as they struggled to adapt to changing times, was averaging 2.3 million total viewers and a 0.3 rating among adults 18-49, according to Nielsen’s Live + 7 data from late April. American Auto also starred Harriet Dyer, Jon Barinholtz, Humphrey Ke, Michael B. Washington, Tye White and X Mayo…
Daytime TV legends Susan Lucci and Maury Povich will be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, according to Variety. Lucci, a mainstay on NBC’s soap opera All My Children, famously spent years before finally winning a Daytime Emmy. Povich recently ended his tabloid talk show after a three-decade run. Before that, he hosted A Current Affair from 1986-1990. Last year’s lifetime achievement award went to Days of Our Lives star John Aniston. This year’s Daytime Emmys, originally set to air on CBS on June 16, has been postponed due to the writers’ strike…
Netflix has released a teaser trailer for its live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s hit animated adventure series Avatar: The Last Airbender, confirming the series will launch in 2024, along with a first look at Gordon Cormier as Aang, Kiawentiio as Katara, Ian Ousley as Sokka and Dallas Liu as Zuko. The series, set in a war-torn world of elemental magic where a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar and bring peace to the world, also stars Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as General Iroh…
Netflix held its “global fan event” TUDUM on June 17 in São Paulo, Brazil, which featured video peeks at new and returning series, premiere date announcements and more.
Bridgerton fans were treated to the first official photos from the show’s upcoming third season, which centers on the love story between Nicola Coughlan‘s Penelope Featherington, who also moonlights as gossip guru Lady Whistledown, and Colin Bridgerton, played by Luke Newton.
On the Stranger Things front, Linda Hamilton has been added to the cast for the show’s fifth and final season, according toEntertainment Tonight. Details of Hamilton’s role have not been revealed.
Jenna Ortega and her Wednesday co-stars also teased some new characters in the show’s second season, including a new member of the Addams family.
“This is true!” Emma Myers, who was joined by castmates Hunter Doohan and Joy Sunday, in a teaser trailer.
“But we don’t know who it is,” Doohan piped in.
Arnold Schwarzenegger will be back for season 2 of his spy adventure series Fubar, in which he and Monica Barbaro play a dad and daughter who learn they’re both secret CIA operatives.
On the heels of Extraction 2‘s season premiere on Friday, June 16, the Chris Hemsworth adventure is getting a third installment. The star of Marvel’s Thor and Avenger films plays black ops mercenary Tyler Rake, who, on the mend from the assignment, takes on another risky task in order to save the family of a famed Georgian gangster.
Finally, Netflix revealed the first trailer for 3 Body Problem, which follows what happens when humanity discovers that we are not alone in the universe. It premieres January 2024.
(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.
Nearly a year after announcing his hiatus, Shawn Mendes made a comeback at Ed Sheeran‘s recent concert.
The Canadian singer surprised fans by joining Sheeran onstage during the Toronto stop for Mathematics Tour for a special duet. Together, they belted out Sheeran’s classic track “Lego House,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
The performance comes almost a year after Mendes canceled his Wonder World Tour in order to prioritize his mental well-being. In August 2022, Mendes took a hiatus from performing due to pandemic-induced exhaustion and expressed his struggles with the demands of touring.
The surprise also comes after the release of the 24-year-old’s new single “What The Hell Are We Dying For” on June 9.
(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.
