(MIAMI) — For the third year in a row, the City of Miami Beach has imposed a state of emergency and an overnight curfew for South Beach starting 11:59 p.m. Sunday after multiple fatal shootings occurred during spring break festivities this weekend.
The decision comes after two people were fatally shot between Friday and Sunday morning in the area, according to the Miami Beach Police Department.
Police responded to emergency calls on Friday night, discovering two men who were shot near 7 Street and Ocean Drive, officials said.
Both men were sent to Jackson Memorial Hospital, with one victim succumbing to his injuries at the hospital, police said. The other victim is in critical condition.
According to Miami Beach Police, one person has been detained and three guns were found at the scene.
Police responded to a shooting Sunday morning, where they discovered a wounded man near the 1000 block of Ocean Drive.
The unidentified man was sent to an area hospital, where he later died from his injuries, Miami Beach Police said on Twitter.
Law enforcement officials are investigating both incidents.
According to Miami Beach city officials, the curfew will be effective until Monday morning at 6 a.m. local time.
City officials said businesses in the area must close early enough to allow customers time to avoid a curfew violation.
Further curfew limits are expected to go into effect from Thursday, March 23, through Monday, March 27, according to Miami Beach officials.
Last year, Miami Beach issued a curfew after multiple people were hurt after a string of violent incidents in the area.
(NEW YORK) — The Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump over a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels will hear from an additional witness on Monday, attorney and longtime Trump ally Bob Costello, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Costello at one point represented Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer and attorney, who is a key witness for the district attorney’s office since Cohen wrote the $130,000 check to Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
Prosecutors in New York are looking into whether Trump falsified business records in connection with that money, which was allegedly to keep Daniels from talking about a long-denied affair, sources familiar with the matter previously told ABC News.
The district attorney’s office informed Trump earlier this month of his right to testify before a grand jury in the probe, a possible signal that prosecutors are moving toward a charging decision.
In New York, potential targets of investigations are, by law, given the chance to appear before the grand jury hearing evidence.
Trump has “no plans” to participate in the grand jury investigation, his attorney Joe Tacopina told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s Good Morning America last week.
However, the Trump legal team did petition to have Costello testify before the grand jury, sources said Sunday.
Cohen, whom Trump has turned on and dismissed as a “fraudster,” said Sunday he was asked to make himself available Monday as a rebuttal witness.
Reached by ABC News, Costello declined to comment. A spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also declined to comment. News of Costello’s pending appearance was first reported by The New York Times.
Trump has acknowledged paying Daniels, which Tacopina described as akin to an extortion payment, but Trump has said he did nothing wrong and cast the district attorney’s work as biased.
On social media on Saturday, he claimed he would be arrested on Tuesday and called for protests to “TAKE OUR NATION BACK.”
A spokesperson subsequently walked some of that back and said there had been no notification that Bragg “has decided to take his Witch-Hunt to the next level.”
In an email to staff, reviewed by ABC News, Bragg wrote that “we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.”
Trump’s social media post was denounced as “reckless” by Democrats including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, appearing on ABC’s This Week,”said, “No one is above the law.”
In a separate sit-down for This Week, former Vice President Mike Pence said of Trump’s potential arrest: “It just feels like a politically charged prosecution.”
James Toliver Craig, 45, a dentist in Aurora, Colorado, is seen in an undated booking photo released by the Aurora Police Department. — Aurora Police Department
(AURORA, Colo.) — A Colorado dentist has been arrested in connection with the “complex and calculated” poisoning death of his wife, local police said on Sunday.
The Aurora Police Department said James Toliver Craig, 45, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder early Sunday morning.
Craig and his wife, who was suffering from “severe headaches and dizziness,” arrived at a local hospital at about 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday night, officials said.
She was placed on a ventilator after her “condition deteriorated rapidly,” police said in a statement, adding, “She was declared medically brain dead a short time later.”
An investigation into her “sudden” death showed she’d been poisoned, said Mark Hildebrand, a division chief with the department.
“It was quickly discovered this was in fact a heinous, complex and calculated murder,” Hildebrand said in a statement.
(NEW YORK) — Another atmospheric river is expected to hit California this week, bringing rain and snow to a large portion of the state as spring begins.
Much of California saw rain on Sunday, with an additional two to four inches expected on Tuesday and Wednesday. The heaviest precipitation will likely fall in southern California.
This week, the atmospheric river event will also bring an extra two to four feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
More snow is expected to fall in San Bernardino County in areas like Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead, bringing a risk of floods.
By Tuesday afternoon, parts of the West Coast are expected to see a break in the rain. San Diego and southern California will continue to see rain and snow throughout the day, as will the Sierra Mountains.
The heavy rain and snow are expected to continue in southern California and along the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday. Rain will also be along the entire coast through the Bay Area.
Heavy rain is expected to fall in central Arizona on Tuesday, where a flood risk also exists.
Heavy snow will move through the Rockies and give southwestern Colorado four to six feet of snow, helping the Colorado River Basin feed Lake Mead, which supplies water to cities such as Las Vegas.
More than 73 million people are under freeze alerts for Sunday night into Monday morning, as freeze warnings are in place for multiple states in the South, with agriculture in at least a dozen states from Texas to Virginia feeling the impact after a record-warm start to the year has kick-started the growing season.
Freezing temperatures may lead to reduced yields for the coming season.
Atlanta and Birmingham hit 30 degrees Sunday morning, with Jackson, Mississippi, reaching 20 degrees a day before the official start of spring.
More than a foot of lake effect snow fell in Wisconsin and Michigan, with more snow falling from Ohio to New York.
Sydney Benes with head of security Nate Sanders at Sullivan’s Pub. Sanders said Benes is looking to press charges against the two men who pushed her chair down the stairs and damaged it. — Julia Zukowski
(ERIE, Pa.) — Sydney Benes, a Mercyhurst University student whose unattended wheelchair was pushed down stairs in a viral video, hopes her story can be used for change and she can be an advocate for others in her situation.
The incident occurred March 11 at Sullivan’s Pub in Erie, Pennsylvania. A video posted to Twitter shows fellow student Carson Briere pushing Benes’ wheelchair down the stairs at the eatery and walking away.
Benes, a double amputee who lost her legs in a car accident in 2021, uses the chair while learning to use her prosthetics.
“All that was going through my head was ‘man I hope this was an accident, I hope that this wasn’t on purpose,” Benes told ABC News.
Nate Sanders, head of security at Sullivan’s Pub, said he was helping Benes go into the bathroom downstairs when he heard a loud noise.
“We heard something that sounded like somebody falling down the steps. We went out and checked, didn’t see any sign of anybody falling, but when it was time to bring her back up the stairs, we found her chair at the bottom of the steps,” he told ABC News.
Once they checked the footage, Sanders said they identified who it was, forced the boys to apologize to Benes, and escorted them out of the establishment.
“I grabbed him on the shoulders and said, ‘I’ve got video of you tossing a wheelchair down the steps like it’s time to go,” he said.
Sanders said the two student-athletes are now banned from the bar.
While there has been a GoFundMe created for Benes, she said she didn’t intend to keep all of the money raised to replace the broken wheelchair even though the goal was exceeded. Instead, she wants to donate the money to other causes and hopes this is an opportunity for change and fair treatment of people who are disabled.
“I can use it to show people what we go through, what we have to deal with, and how we wish to be treated,” she said. “We are treated like things, like second-class citizens; we’re not treated with respect.”
Mercyhurst University said Carson Briere and two other student-athletes were placed on an interim suspension from their athletic teams, per school policy, pending the outcome of the investigation. Briere has issued an apology.
“I am deeply sorry for my behavior on Saturday. There is no excuse for my actions, and I will do whatever I can to make up for this serious lack of judgment,” he said.
Briere’s father, interim Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Briere, also issued a statement of apology on his son’s behalf.
“I was shocked to see Carson’s actions in the video that was shared on social media. They are inexcusable and run completely counter to our family’s values of treating people with respect. Carson is very sorry and accepts full responsibility for his behavior,” he said.
ABC News reached out to the Erie Police Department for comment on the investigation and has not heard back.
(MOSCOW) — As Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Monday afternoon in Moscow, he was greeted at Vnukovo airport by a Russian military band, but not Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I am very glad, at the invitation of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, to come back to the land of our close neighbor … I am sure my visit will be fruitful,” Xi said, according to Russia’s TASS News Agency, which is run by the state.
Xi’s visit with Kremlin officials amounts to China’s most visible show of support for its neighbor since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. The Chinese president’s visit comes days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing him of war crimes in Ukraine.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. ABC News’ Joe Simonetti contributed to this story.
(WASHINGTON) — On the nation’s largest Native American reservation – spanning 16 million-acres across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah – one in three households lacks running water, according to the Navajo Nation.
At the Supreme Court on Monday, the tribe will face off with the federal government and a group of states over what it calls a “broken promise” to bolster the reservation’s water supply.
The dispute involves the vital but increasingly strained Colorado River, a resource long the subject of litigation between states and carefully apportioned under a labyrinth of agreements to meet the needs of nearly 40 million Americans across the West.
The tribe argues that the 1868 treaty establishing the reservation “promised both land and water sufficient for the Navajos to return to a permanent home in their ancestral territory.”
It wants the Interior Department to assess the reservation’s water needs and develop a plan to meet them, which experts say would most likely involve diverting more water from the Colorado River.
“The Nation is still waiting for the water it needs,” the tribe writes in court papers, asking the justices to greenlight a “breach-of-trust claim” in federal court.
The government disputes that it ever explicitly agreed to provide water and says that even if water rights were implied by the treaty, there is no enforceable obligation.
“No substantive source of law expressly establishes the particular duty that the Navajo Nation asserts,” the government said in a court filing.
A federal district court sided with the government, denying the Navajo Nation’s claim, saying it had failed to identify a “specific, applicable, trust-creating statute or regulation that the government violated.”
A federal appeals court reversed, reasoning that the reservation could not exist without adequate water and therefore an obligation to supply it was implied.
The states – Arizona, Colorado and Nevada – argue the Navajo Nation should never have been able to bring the claim in the first place, since the Supreme Court has asserted exclusive jurisdiction over disputes involving the Colorado River in a series of decisions and decrees over decades.
They also argue that allowing the tribe to claim expanded water rights over the Colorado would upset pre-existing agreements and ultimately mean less water available to those communities that have come to rely on it.
A coalition of western water associations and consumer groups calls the case “critically important,” warning the Supreme Court about its potential to upend “stability and predictability” of the process to determine water rights.
Allowing the tribe to bring a claim, the groups say, “threatens to undermine the certainty of water rights not only in the Colorado River Basin, but also throughout other water-scarce regions of the United States more broadly.”
The tribe says the U.S. government’s 170-year-old promise should come first.
“The United States made a bargained-for treaty promise. The courts should enforce it,” the Navajo Nation told the court.
A 28-week ultrasound of the baby’s head shows normal brain structures that should have formed and then separated in the midline are not there. — Courtesy Kylie Overdorf
(NEW YORK) — Kylie Beaton was looking forward to having her second child later this year. Now, she’s faced with carrying an unviable pregnancy to its end due to Texas’ highly restrictive abortion ban.
According to a report from her doctor, Beaton’s baby has a rare, severe condition impacting the development of its brain, but she is unable to access abortion care in her home state.
“To have a woman go through so much torture along the way that’s going to stay with them forever,” Beaton told ABC News. “Whatever the case may be, you have to look at things from a different perspective.”
Texas has several abortion bans in place that prohibit nearly all abortions, except when a mother’s life is at risk or there is a risk of serious bodily harm. The state has civil and criminal penalties for performing banned abortions.
Beaton, who has a 4-year-old daughter with her husband, Seth, said the couple had been actively trying to get pregnant when they conceived the unviable pregnancy. Seth had been hospitalized with COVID pneumonia in June 2021. When he was finally released six months later, the couple started trying to have a baby right away, Beaton said. Beaton has polycystic ovary syndrome, which can make it harder for women to get pregnant, so it was all the more joyful when she learned their efforts were successful.
“I was really excited when we found that it was a boy, but that was short-lived,” Seth Beaton told ABC News. “Right now, I’m just terrified for my wife. She’s the strongest person I know and she’s just helpless right now. And it’s not fair for her and other women. And we have a daughter, I couldn’t imagine my daughter ever having to go through this.”
At her 20-week ultrasound appointment, Beaton said her physician discovered the fetus had a rare, severe anomaly — called alobar holoprosencephaly — in which the fetus’s brain does not develop into two hemispheres as it normally would, and the major structures of the brain remain fused in the middle.
The brain splitting into two hemispheres is a “critical stage in the development” and can impact the development of the nose, mouth and throat, Dr. Katie McHugh, an Indiana OB-GYN and abortion provider, told ABC News. The condition results in a very painful life and death for the fetus, McHugh said.
“Often times we will offer, if not recommend, pregnancy termination,” McHugh said.
The anomaly occurs in about 1 in 250 fetuses, but in just 1 in 16,000 live births, according to the Cleveland Clinic. In her seven years practicing as a maternal fetal medicine specialist, Dr. Carrie Rouse, an OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine specialist at Indiana University Health, said she has only come across five cases. Beaton’s 28-week ultrasound shows the severity of her baby’s anomaly.
“The inside appears very empty,” said Rouse, who is not treating Beaton, but looked at her ultrasound. “The normal brain structures that we would see, that should have formed and then separated in the midline, are not there where they normally would be. This is a very concerning ultrasound.”
Beaton said her physicians told her the baby could survive out of the womb for a couple of weeks, at most, in the event that the pregnancy ends in a live birth. Rouse agreed with this assessment, pointing to what she said is a lack of development of normal brain tissue and empty fluid filling the head.
“This anomaly is typically lethal for most infants within days to weeks,” Rouse said. “Outliers are only able to survive with significant amount of invasive procedures and interventions.”
Babies with this condition never reach developmental milestones, meaning they won’t have any intentional interactions like smiling, and often can’t see, have severe seizures and hormonal abnormalities, according to Rouse. Very few outliers are able to survive up to a year and the level of intervention needed for babies with this condition to survive is extremely high; they often need mechanical ventilation or a life support machine, multiple medications and repeated lab draws, Rouse said.
“They live to a year with basically heroic measures,” Rouse said.
Beaton said her physician referred her to a specialist a week after her diagnosis. However, she said the specialist confirmed that due to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and Texas’ “trigger” law effectively outlawing nearly all abortions, the physicians’ hands were tied. She said the specialist told her he could not do anything to end the pregnancy unless Beaton developed a severe health issue or if the fetus dies in the womb.
Anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life has routinely argued that fetuses should be “honored and protected in law no matter how long or short their lives may be,” according to a statement earlier this month.
Representatives for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton and state Sen. Bryan Hughes, who authored one of the state’s abortion bans, did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment about Beaton’s situation.
Beaton said she wanted to have a vaginal delivery, feeling like a scar from a cesarean section would be a constant reminder of what she had lost. A C-section also means that the couple would be advised to wait 12 to 18 months before trying to get pregnant again, the typical time physicians recommend women wait so their uterus can recover from surgery, according to the Center for Advanced Reproductive Medicine and Fertility.
“With this condition, in particular, because the head, the fetal head, develops at a different rate, often because of fluid collections, most of the time vaginal delivery is not an option. And so cesarean delivery is required,” McHugh said. “And this is going to be major abdominal surgery, with risks associated with it — for a baby that has maybe no chance of a normal life or potentially of survival at all, depending on the severity.”
Unable to get care in Texas, Beaton said she booked an appointment to get an abortion at a clinic in New Mexico in February.
But, she said when she went in for an ultrasound days before her appointment, she was told her baby’s head had grown too big and she could no longer get the procedure. The facility’s cutoff for abortions is 23 weeks and six days she said and the fetus’s head was already measuring at what it typically would at over 23 weeks of pregnancy.
“From there, we were pretty let down,” Kylie Beaton said.
She said she was referred to a clinic in Colorado that provides later-term abortion care, but that facility told them it would cost between $10,000 to $15,000 for the procedure, which was financially out of question, Beaton said. The New Mexico clinic would have provided the same procedure for $3,500, Kylie Beaton said. Neither estimate includes the cost of travel and accommodation.
Since then, the fetus’s head has continually increased in size, filling with fluid, she said. At her appointment on Monday, when she was 28 weeks pregnant, the fetus’s head size was measuring at what it typically would be at 39 weeks, a full-term pregnancy, the ultrasound showed.
“On that ultrasound, the head is measuring significantly larger than it should be. It’s measuring about 10 weeks further along than she actually is, which is very concerning,” Rouse, the Indiana Health System OB-GYN, said.
Rouse said Beaton’s C-section could be more complicated and risky as her pregnancy continues.
“You worry about ongoing growth of the fetal head of causing more complications at the time of delivery, like hemorrhage, needing a blood transfusion, needing to use a larger incision on her abdomen in order to to remove the infant, needing to use a larger and different incision on the uterus in order to remove the infant,” Rouse said. “There’s a risk of possibly uterine rupture just because of the stretch on the uterus. All of these things would make me pretty worried.”
“For a condition for which we expect the baby to pass away soon after birth, that baby is going to pass away because of the alobar holoprosencephaly, whether they are born at 39 weeks or earlier,” Rouse added.
Beaton said her physicians in Texas contacted other doctors in the state, hoping they had heard of an alternative regarding the state’s laws that would permit them to induce her labor since the baby’s head was at full term. Ultimately, Beaton said, doctors determined the size of the baby’s head was not a good enough reason to induce labor because her health is still not at risk.
“And if the state were to find out, they would most likely press charges,” Kylie Beaton said.
Texas’ anti-abortion law makes it a second-degree felony for any attempt by a medical professional to perform, induce or attempt an abortion, and a first-degree felony if the abortion is carried out.
“My specialist and my OB both had said I had to go essentially full term to at least 37 weeks unless something happens to either the baby or I, then they could induce,” Kylie Beaton said.
The couple said the law has left them feeling helpless and frustrated over not being able to make a humane decision for their baby.
“I mean, for them to say, ‘Well, you need to wait until you’re in a health crisis, a health issue to where your life’s in jeopardy, then that’s when we can take it.’ Well, then why do we have doctors?” Kylie Beaton said.
“Why are we taking medications for things like high blood pressure? Why don’t you wait until you have a heart attack? Or until you have, you know, the signs that you’re having a stroke to be on medication? All those things? It’s kind of the same way, if you look at it from our perspective,” she added.
Before this pregnancy, Beaton said she never would have considered getting an abortion. Now, she believes abortions should be allowed in cases like hers and for women with other health conditions to get the care they need.
“I’m personally not for it being a way of birth control. I do believe that there are certain instances where I deem that it is necessary,” she said. “Never in a million years would I expect or believe that we will be going through what we’re going through now.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING
INTERLEAGUE
Washington 2, Detroit 1
Atlanta 5, Minnesota 0
Baltimore 8, Pittsburgh 0
Miami 5, Houston 4
Boston 9, Philadelphia 5
Colorado 7, Kansas City 0
Cleveland 3, Colorado 1
San Francisco 9, LA Angels 6
Oakland 6, LA Dodgers 3
Arizona 13, Kansas City 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tampa Bay 1, Toronto 0
Baltimore 5, NY. Yankees 3
Texas 2, Seattle 1
Chi White Sox 6, Seattle 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 8, NY Mets 7
Final Milwaukee 4, Cincinnati 3
Chi Cubs 5, San Diego 2
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Denver 108, Brooklyn 102
Oklahoma City 124, Phoenix 120
San Antonio 126, Atlanta 118
Miami 112, Detroit 100
New Orleans 117, Houston 107
Milwaukee 118, Toronto 111
LA Clippers 117, Portland 102
Final LA Lakers 111, Orlando 105
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Boston 7, Buffalo 0
Minnesota 5, Washington 3
Vegas 7, Columbus 2
NY Rangers 7, Nashville 0
St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 0
New Jersey 5, Tampa Bay 2
Vancouver 2, Anaheim 1
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Michigan St. 69, Marquette 60
Gonzaga 84, TCU 81
UConn 70, Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 55
Creighton 85, Baylor 76
Xavier 84, Pittsburgh 73
Kansas St. 75, Kentucky 69
Miami 85, Indiana 69
FAU 78, Fairleigh Dickinson 70
Linkin Park‘s “Lost” has found itself at the top of another Billboard chart.
The track is now the #1 single on the Alternative Airplay ranking, a week after reaching the summit on the Mainstream Rock Airplay tally. It also leads Mainstream Rock for the second consecutive frame.
“Lost” is the first Linkin Park tune to reach the top spot on Alternative Airplay since “Burn It Down” in 2012 and is the group’s 12th overall #1 on the chart. The “Numb” outfit now ties Green Day for the second-most #1 hits on Alternative Airplay, trailing only Red Hot Chili Peppers, who have 15.
Originally written and recorded during the sessions for LP’s 2003 sophomore album, Meteora, “Lost” is being released now ahead of the upcoming 20th anniversary Meteora reissue, due out April 7. It features lead vocals by the late Chester Bennington, making it the first #1 on Alternative Airplay to posthumously feature a singer since Nirvana‘s “You Know You’re Right,” which led the chart in 2002, eight years after Kurt Cobain‘s death.
