(NEW YORK) — After leading the Kansas City Chiefs to their second Super Bowl win in four years, Patrick Mahomes enjoyed a candid celebratory moment with his wife and daughter on the confetti-covered field.
The Super Bowl MVP quarterback and his wife Brittany Mahomes both kissed the cheek of their soon-to-be 2-year-old daughter Sterling Skye in the first of five photos from the festivities Brittany Mahomes posted on Instagram.
Alongside a carousel of photos of Patrick Mahomes holding and hugging his daughter, his wife wrote, “Super Bowl CHAMPS” and a red heart emoji.
Their family was only missing its newest addition, Patrick “Bronze” Lavon Mahomes III, who was born last November.
Mahomes added to his already storied legacy Sunday night, becoming the 13th quarterback in NFL history to win more than one Super Bowl; his first came in 2020 with a 31-20 win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV.
The 27-year-old played through an aggravated right high ankle sprain and still managed to go 21 of 27 for 182 yards and three touchdowns.
“I had to learn to be a better leader,” Mahomes said Sunday night after the win. “I had to learn how to stay on guys, how not to let the little stuff slide. I had to teach guys the culture we have here, that I learned from Alex Smith and Derrick Johnson.”
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid hailed Mahomes as the reason the team and players rallied in the second half to pull out a comeback win.
“He wants to be the greatest player ever,” Reid said Sunday night. “And he does it humbly. He does the work. And then when it’s time for the players around him to raise their game, he helps them do that.”
Weeks after Lucasfilm dropped the movie’s official trailer comes a Super Bowl spot for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
The snippet gave a few more peeks of the movie, which hits theaters June 30, including a reveal of Mads Mikkelson‘s villain, Voller.
“Have we met?” he asks Harrison Ford‘s Jones in the film’s present-day storyline, set in 1969.
“My memory’s a little fuzzy,” Indy says, before we see a younger Jones punching the baddie years ago. “You still a Nazi?” older Indy asks.
A title card reads “A legend will face his destiny” as a returning John Rhys-Davies as Sallah cheers his old friend: “Give ’em hell, Indiana Jones!”
Some elements of the Super Bowl spot have been seen before, like Jones’ horseback chase through a parade, and a death-defying car chase that has Indy diving into a moving tuk tuk in what appears to be India, but one sequence is new. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who plays Indy’s goddaughter, Helena Shaw, clings to life to the open bomb bay door of a stricken German aircraft.
Jones asks her, “What are you doing here?”
“Rescuing you!” Shaw replies.
“Hang on!” Indy says, before strapping on a parachute and grabbing her, as they both plummet to the ground.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny debuts June 30 from Lucasfilm, a subsidiary of Disney, parent company of ABC News.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band brought their tour to Dallas this weekend, but it was short a few people. Three members of the E Street Band had to sit out the show: Steven Van Zandt and Soozie Tyrell due to COVID and Springsteen’s wife, Patti Scialfa, for an undisclosed reason.
“We got a few members missing tonight,” The Boss told the crowd, according to Rolling Stone. “Stevie Van Zandt – COVID, Soozie Tyrell – COVID, Patti Scialfa … But goddammit, we’re gonna give Dallas the best show they’ve ever seen.”
Van Zandt later took to social media to confirm his COVID diagnosis, telling fans, “Thank you all for your best wishes and positive vibes. I’ve got a very mild case and hope to be back for Houston or Austin at the latest.”
But being down three members didn’t stop Springsteen from rocking the American Airlines Center. He played a 27-song set that featured a tour debut of “Detroit Medley,” along with such classics as “The Promise Land,” “Thunder Road,” “Born to Run,” “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out” and more.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s next show is happening Tuesday in Houston, Texas.
(UVALDE, Texas) — Thirty minutes into the deadly siege on her classroom in south Texas, a 10-year-old student did something extraordinary: she picked up a phone.
“Uvalde County 911,” was how the call started.
“There’s a school shooting at Robb Elementary School,” said the hushed voice of a little girl.
“Can you tell me your name?” the dispatcher asked.
“Khloie,” she whispered.
From deep inside the siege that would end in the deaths of 19 children and two of their teachers, fourth-grader Khloie Torres — terrified that the gunman might hear her — kept law enforcement apprised of what was happening during a series of phone calls. Her repeated pleas for help spanned 46 minutes as officers collected in the hallway outside classroom 112 but did not attempt to end the attack.
“Please hurry, there’s a lot of dead bodies,” Khloie said. “Please, I’m going to die.”
The audio of Khloie’s interactions with a police operator obtained and reviewed by ABC News are part of thousands of pieces of digital and documentary evidence collected by investigators.
Khloie’s parents are aware that ABC News plans to broadcast portions of her 911 calls and wants them to be heard publicly. Her father, Ruben Torres, said the calls prove that law enforcement should have acted sooner to confront the gunman and end the massacre, the second-worst school shooting in American history.
“I was very proud of her during that call,” Torres said. “And when I heard her voice, you know, shedding the tears already happened for me … and I was like, 46 [expletive] minutes, and you guys did nothing.”
Investigators are now seeking to determine whether some of the cascading errors in the law enforcement response amount to criminal culpability, officials told ABC News in a series of interviews. As part of their probe, investigators are scrutinizing officers’ decision to treat the incident as a barricaded subject as opposed to an active shooter.
“The consequences of police inaction at the scene, that is really the whole point of the investigation, and that would be a part of what’s presented to the grand jury” when that time comes, said Scott Durfee, a Uvalde County special assistant district attorney working on the case.
Critics say the information 10-year-old Khloie conveyed to a 911 operator should have given officers the knowledge they needed to confront the shooter and end the siege sooner. Twelve minutes after her initial 911 call, Khloie remained on the line with the police operator: “Please help, please my teacher is about to die,” she said. “Please hurry. Send an ambulance right away.”
“That should have immediately signaled a different course of action,” said Eva Guzman, a former state supreme court judge who served on a special committee of the Texas legislature that investigated the Robb shooting.
But questions remain about whether dispatchers were able to convey Khloie’s information to the officers making decisions on the scene in the building. Radios and cellular systems were too weak inside the school, crippling the lines of communication.
“The idea that someone so young would know to get on a cell phone and call 911, but maintain that line, [an] open line, and report information that was helpful — it would’ve been very helpful, put it that way,” said Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety that is running the criminal investigation.
It is not clear whether Khloie’s information made its way to Pete Arredondo, then-chief of the Uvalde school district police force and the officer making many of the key decisions that day. (Arredondo has denied that he was the on-scene commander and defended his actions.)
“That information should’ve been taken in by the call taker, should’ve been immediately relayed to the incident commander, who should have used that information to understand that this was still an active shooter event,” said John Cohen, an ABC News contributor, veteran law enforcement official, and an expert in active-shooter response.
Evidence collected by investigators suggests that the city’s top police officer on site, Lt. Mariano Pargas, was aware from Khloie’s calls that children remained trapped alive inside the classroom.
“The calls you got in from the — from one of the students,” Pargas asked a dispatcher. “What did they say?”
“OK, Khloie’s going to be — it’s Khloie,” the dispatcher replies. “She’s in Room 112, Mariano, 112.”
“So how many are still alive?” Pargas asked.
“Eight to nine are still alive,” the dispatcher said. “She’s not too sure how many are actually [deceased] or possibly injured. We’re trying–“
“OK, OK, thanks,” Pargas said.
Pargas would later tell investigators that he couldn’t recall those details.
Over the course of her 46-minute dialogue with a 911 operator, Khloie stayed calm, at one point telling the 911 operator: “I know how to handle these situations. My dad taught me when I was a little girl.”
Her father, a former Marine, said he worked hard to make sure Khloie and her siblings knew how to handle life-and-death emergencies in an age of mass-casualty attacks and exploding gun violence. Ruben Torres said he was so proud that Khloie, that day at Robb, had the presence of mind to wipe blood on herself to make it look like she was shot.
“We had spoken about things like this happening around our nation, give them scenarios, what would they do — things of that nature,” he explained. “I find it amazing that my 10-year-old at that time thought about that.”
Khloie continued offering crucial information that critics say should have prompted police action: “Send help for my teachers,” she told the dispatcher. “They are still alive but they’re shot.”
She also served as a conduit for other survivors in the classroom, conveying the police operator’s orders to those nearby.
“They are inside the building you just need to stay quiet OK,” the dispatcher said.
On the other line, Khloie is heard whispering: “They are inside the building; we just need to stay quiet.”
Finally, 46 minutes after Khloie Torres placed her first 911 call, officers from a U.S. Border Patrol tactical unit entered the classroom, shot the gunman, and ended the rampage.
Khloie and nine other classmates from room 112 survived. Now, nine months later, Khloie is in counseling but has not yet returned to school. Her father said her road to recovery has been a struggle.
“She does have survivor’s guilt,” Ruben Torres said. “I hate to say it, but she really don’t care anymore about doing the little things that she used to do, you know? She just wants to be stuck at home.”
Peter Gabriel was born in Surry, England. The musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and activist gained fame as the original lead singer of the rock band Genesis and appeared on the band’s first six albums.
He left the group in 1975 and went on to have a hugely successful solo career, releasing his self-titled debut that year, which featured the future classic “Solsbury Hill.” His fifth studio album, 1986’s So, became his bestselling album, moving over 5 million copies in the U.S. It featured the number one song “Sledgehammer,” as well as songs like “Big Time” and “Don’t Give Up” with Kate Bush.
Gabriel is the winner of six Grammy Awards, as well as 13 MTV Video Music Awards, nine of which went to the video for the “Sledgehammer.” He’s also a two-time member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2010 as a member of Genesis and in 2014 as a solo artist.
Gabriel is expected to release his first new album in 20 years, i/o, sometime in 2023. He’s already released two new singles from the record, “Panopticom” and “The Court (Dark-Side remix).”
(NEW YORK) — Super Bowl 57 was a dream come true for Kansas City Chiefs star linebacker Nick Bolton, who said he envisioned himself in the end zone just days prior.
That dream came true during the second quarter, when Bolton came up with one of the biggest plays of the night to change the momentum in Kansas City’s favor.
The second-year lineman scooped up a fumble by Jalen Hurts, then ran 36 yards for a defensive touchdown to tie the game at 14-14.
“I dreamed about it and it came to fruition when that play happened. It’s kind of surreal,” Bolton told ABC News’ Good Morning America hours after the Chiefs’ 38-35 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles at State Farm Stadium in Arizona. “I came to the sidelines and I couldn’t enjoy the moment because I felt like I was living through a dream again. It was a great play for our team, we needed it and we found a way to win.”
Bolton, who led the team in tackles, said the post-win feeling was “still surreal” and has been soaking it in with his teammates and family.
“I haven’t gone to sleep. We’re up and happy to be here,” he said.
Down 24-14 at the half, Bolton said the team refocused in the locker room.
“We understood we just got to keep being us, but do it better in terms of penalties or getting off the field on third down and longs,” he explained. “We had to find a way in the second half to keep coming back in the box on third down and long and keep the ball to the outside and just run the tackle out in space.”
The 22-year-old said it was “huge” to have his mom there for his first NFL championship, “especially because I didn’t have the opportunity to have her at the game when I played my state championship in Texas in high school. She had to be at home and she didn’t want to travel because of her health issues. Having her come to a game of this magnitude, and happening the way it did, it’s a dream come true.”
He joked, adding, “She’ll probably end up getting that [ring] and holding onto that one for awhile for me.”
As for what’s next, Bolton said the team will get back to Kansas City for the victory parade Wednesday.
(NEW YORK) — Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Nick Allegretti had an “unbelievable” Sunday and it wasn’t just because the Chiefs emerged victorious over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.
Nick’s wife, Christina Allegretti, gave birth to the couple’s twins early Sunday morning, according to a locker room interview clip shared by a Chiefs Digest writer.
Allegretti told Chiefs Digest that Feb. 12 would be a memorable one for him.
“It’s the best day of my life no matter what – 3:30, 4 a.m. – I became a dad, father of two daughters. Unbelievable. And now, I’ve got a ring for both of them. Incredible, cannot believe it,” the 26-year-old said.
Allegretti joined the Chiefs in 2019 and won his first Super Bowl ring when the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 during Super Bowl LIV in 2020. The Chiefs’ 38-35 win against the Eagles gives Allegretti his second Super Bowl ring, hence the two coveted rings for each of his newborn twin girls.
Allegretti wasn’t the only Chiefs player on baby watch over the weekend. Teammate Mecole Hardman Jr. also tweeted on Sunday that his girlfriend, Chariah Gordon, had gone into labor.
“OMG HER WATER BROKE,” the wide receiver wrote, adding three eye emojis.
On Monday morning, the 24-year-old tweeted again, writing, “He’s HERE !!!!!!”
Neil Young is finally returning to the stage. Rolling Stonereports the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who hasn’t performed live since September 2019, is set to headline the Light Up the Blues charity show, put on by his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate Stephen Stills and his wife, Kristen.
“We’ll be there to ‘Light up the Blues’ with Stephen, Kristen and the family,” Young tells the mag in a statement, “doing or [sic] first show in four years with old friends for our autistic people around the world.”
The concert, taking place April 22 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, will also feature performances by Stills, along with his sons Chris and Oliver, plus Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real and special guests.
This is the sixth year of the Light Up the Blues charity show, which raises money for Autism Speaks, which is “dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the life span, for the needs of individuals with autism and their families.”
Tickets for the concert go on sale February 17 at 10 a.m. local time.
(NEW YORK) — That old laptop, cellphone and TV remote may have a newfound purpose: powering the next generation of electric vehicles.
Luxury brand Audi recently partnered with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling startup, to collect rechargeable batteries found in everyday consumer devices — phones, hearing aides, electric toothbrushes and video game controllers. At least 10 Audi dealerships in the U.S. have so far opted into the burgeoning program, with more expected to join in the coming months.
Devices dropped off at dealerships are shipped to Redwood’s Nevada facilities for the sorting, recycling and remanufacturing of cobalt and lithium — two minerals required for EV battery production.
Audi is the first automaker to partner with Redwood to “support the collection of household lithium-ion batteries alongside larger EV battery recycling efforts,” according to a spokesperson.
Five percent of vehicles sold in the U.S. last year were EVs, a percentage that will rapidly increase as less expensive models arrive on the market and Americans become more familiar with charging. Growing interest in EVs has accelerated the push for valuable minerals like cobalt, nickel and lithium that are extracted from overseas mines at heavy environmental and humanitarian costs.
Recycling of consumer batteries can reduce the forced extraction of precious minerals and create a domestic supply that meets the government’s and automakers’ EV goals, according to Alexis Georgeson, Redwood’s vice president of government relations and communications.
“The U.S. is one of the largest consumers of lithium-ion devices,” she told ABC News. “Consumers are itching to get rid of these devices. There’s a tremendous opportunity for recycling.”
According to Redwood’s data, Americans throw out 150 million phones each year and less than 5% of devices containing lithium-ion are recycled. Historically, consumers had to pay to ship their used devices to recycling centers, resulting in the “abysmal” recycling rate, Georgeson said. (Redwood offers free shipping but does not reimburse consumers for the cost of the device.)
Redwood says its “technology can recover, on average, more than 95% of materials like nickel, cobalt, copper, aluminum, lithium and graphite in a lithium-ion battery. These materials can then go directly back into the supply chain to make batteries for new electric vehicles and energy storage products.” The company announced on Thursday that it had secured a $2 billion Department of Energy loan to expand its campus and scale domestic battery cell production in the U.S.
Redwood also recycles “end-of-life” battery packs from automakers like Toyota, Ford, Volvo, Volkswagen and Audi. Lithium, nickel and cobalt are extracted and remanufactured into cathode — a core component of an EV battery. Tesla battery supplier Panasonic has partnered with Redwood for remanufactured anode foil — which Redwood makes from scrap taken from Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada.
“There is increased demand for automakers to get recycled content into their vehicles,” said Georgeson. “The new EV tax credit is contingent on automakers having domestically sourced their metals — whether that’s mined domestically or recycled domestically. The devices collected could end up back in a new Audi.”
The battery is the most expensive part of an electric vehicle, accounting for 30% to 40% of the cost, according to Arun Kumar, a managing director at consulting firm AlixPartners. Raw materials needed for an EV can total $6,719 compared to $2,423 for internal combustion vehicles.
According to a recent AlixPartners survey, 97% of battery electric vehicle (BEV) owners are likely to buy another one.
“Once people buy EVs the loyalty rate is off the charts,” he told ABC News. “There’s no chance these consumers are going back to vehicles with internal combustion engines.”
The U.S. does not want to depend on foreign nations like China to satiate its green ambitions, he argued, adding that it would be “bad” if the U.S. lags in battery capacity and minerals as sales of EVs take off. Recycled materials, however, can only meet 20% of the global demand for cobalt and lithium, Kumar noted.
China owns the largest share of lithium and nickel, according to AlixPartners data, and also controls mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which accounts for three-quarters of the world’s mined cobalt supply.
“We have to find mines locally in North America,” Kumar said. “The whole earth has enough materials to support growth in EVs. The extraction of minerals can be safer — we don’t want to degrade the environment.”
Boosting ownership of EVs and building out the nation’s charging infrastructure have become top priorities for the Biden administration. In August the president signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which incentivizes automakers to buy batteries and materials from domestic suppliers and U.S. allies. Half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. by 2030 will be zero-emissions cars and trucks, according to Biden’s target.
Automakers like Mercedes, Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen and Hyundai are now investing billions of dollars in battery factories in the U.S. The industry is planning to spend an estimated $1.2 trillion through 2030 to develop and build new battery-powered vehicles, according to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation.
Gernot Wagner, a climate economist and professor at Columbia Business School, applauds Redwood for trying to tap into this “large reservoir” of old devices and helping Americans “Marie Kondo” their homes and apartments to better the environment.
“There’s so much demand for these metals right now. Companies are looking anyplace for them,” he told ABC News. “It’s certainly true that many of us have too many old electric devices sitting around that we no longer use and don’t really know what to do with.”
Whether other companies adopt Redwood’s business model will depend on two factors, Wagner pointed out.
“If it pays, there will surely be new entrants. If it doesn’t — or this company is so successful to corner the entire market — there won’t be others,” he said. “Moving from internal combustion engines to EVs is fundamentally a good thing. We’ve got to make EVs work while also minimizing other impacts on the planet. It’s better to recycle than mine from scratch.”
(NEW YORK) — More than 40 million Americans are at risk of experiencing storms this week, as a severe weather outbreak is possible in various parts of the U.S.
The mid-week weather outbreaks could bring damaging winds and tornadoes to people living in the Gulf to the Great Lakes and heavy snow to those in the Pacific Northwest.
Rain and snow will push into Portland, Oregon and Seattle on Monday, as well as New Mexico and Arizona.
By Monday afternoon, snow will reach southwestern Colorado, according to meteorologists.
Rain is expected from Austin, Texas, to Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday morning, with snow scattered throughout the Rockies and Cascades.
Tuesday evening will see rain move farther east, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border along the Mississippi River Valley.
Heavy snow will continue for the Rockies and even the Sierra mountain range in California, especially in northern Sierra, where they haven’t seen as much snow this season as the rest of the state.
This week’s snow will reach more than a foot in parts of the Southwest and Northwest, including parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Montana.
Storms in the South are expected on Wednesday evening, some of which may bring threatening wind and tornadoes to the area, which includes Dallas, Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Little Rock, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee.
Those storms could continue overnight into Thursday as they move east.
By Thursday morning, the possibly severe storms are projected to move from Jackson, Mississippi, to Cincinnati, Ohio. Snow is also expected from Kansas City to Omaha to Milwaukee on Thursday.
A line of storms may stretch to the Great Lakes, passing through Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland on Thursday evening.
Rain showers are expected on Thursday in the northeast from Washington, D.C. to Boston, with snow in Chicago and Green Bay, Wisconsin.
There may be some reprieve for millions of people on Friday, as the severe weather isn’t expected to continue once it reaches the East Coast.
