The third edition of the charity event, which benefits the metal legends’ All Within My Hands Foundation, will take place December 16 in Los Angeles.
“It has been a few years since we connected in person for this unique event, so we want to get on your calendar now!” Metallica says. “We’re excited to share all the amazing things the Foundation has accomplished and we are inspired to look toward the future. Of course, we’ll cap it all off with a full night of live music!”
Helping Hands first launched in 2018. The second concert took place in late 2020 and streamed online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both shows featured rare acoustic Metallica sets.
More details about Helping Hands 2022 will be announced shortly. Stay tuned to Metallica.com for all info.
Five Finger Death Punch‘s streak of consecutive top-10 albums on the Billboard 200 is still intact.
The group’s latest effort, AfterLife, debuts this week at #10 on the chart with about 29,000 equivalent album units, 22,000 of which were traditional album sales. All of FFDP’s previous seven albums have reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200, dating back to their 2009 sophomore effort, War Is the Answer.
In fact, the only Death Punch album to not hit the Billboard 200 top 10 is their 2007 debut, The Way of the Fist.
AfterLife, the ninth Five Finger Death Punch album, was released August 19. It includes the singles “AfterLife” and “Times Like These.”
Five Finger Death Punch is currently touring in support of AfterLife, headlining a bill including Megadeth, The Hu and Fire from the Gods. They’ll team up with country star Brantley Gilbert for another live run in November.
Your photo of Chris Martin could end up gracing the walls of a Coldplay fan’s house.
The “Fix You” outfit is looking for a “great live close-up photo” of Martin taken by fans from the crowd during the band’s Music of the Spheres world tour. The best one will be chosen to become a new poster.
Those interested in submitting can email their photo to photos@coldplay.com.
Coldplay has been touring throughout the year in support of Music of the Spheres, which dropped last October. The U.S. leg took place in May and June.
The global outing is set to continue September 10 at Brazil’s Rock in Rio festival.
Last year, Elton John scored a global hit with Dua Lipa with“Cold Heart” — a mashup of four of his old songs. Now, he’s poised to have another one with “Hold Me Closer,” a mashup of three of his old songs featuring Britney Spears. And Elton promises that the hits will keep on coming.
“I want to do one every year for a fun, happy summer record,” Elton tells The Guardian newspaper. He certainly has enough old songs to do it, and there are enough young artists who’d probably jump at the chance.
“I’m Uncle Elton,” says the Rocket Man, who loves to advise young musicians who may be struggling with the pressures of fame. In Britney’s case, Elton says of her journey to escape her 13-year conservatorship, “You forget she was the biggest star in the whole world at that time. And to see what happened to her makes me so angry. What happened to her shouldn’t have happened to anybody.”
Now that the song is on its way to being a hit, Elton says, “I’m just crossing my fingers that this will restore her confidence in herself to get back into the studio, make more records, and realize that she is bloody good.”
According to the song’s producer, Andrew Watt, Britney was plenty confident when she came to his L.A. studio to record her vocals. “She was so prepared…she’s so good at knowing when she got the right take. She took complete control,” he raves, noting, “She’s an expert in music to make you dance…she’s so pro.”
Britney’s attorney, Mathew Rosengart, who extracted her from her conservatorship, tells ABC News in a statement, “No one should be surprised that her first [post-conservatorship] foray is a smash success…Britney is a brilliant artist and iconic woman.”
(DETROIT) — Using research and statistics, experts examine America’s history with guns, the real-life impacts of gun violence and what can be done going forward to mitigate the problem.
A 19-year-old man with no apparent criminal history was arrested for allegedly killing three people and wounding a fourth in a series of random, unprovoked shootings in Detroit on Sunday, police said during a news conference Monday.
The suspect, whose name has not been released, was arrested roughly 12 hours after allegedly committing the last shooting when someone close to him recognized him in a surveillance photo police officials released during a search for him and contacted authorities, officials said.
“Yesterday, I made a plea to family and friends of the shooter to turn him in. It didn’t seem likely that he could be taken into custody without incident,” Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said during Monday’s news conference. “But, in fact, somebody close to him did respond. It was that community input that allowed the police officers to take this individual into custody without any further violence.”
Police Chief James White said investigators are probing the suspect’s movements prior to his arrests to determine if he targeted anyone else.
“I will tell you that it’s a 19-year-old and we don’t see any criminal history at this time, and we have some indication that there is mental illness,” White said.
The random shootings all occurred on the west side of Detroit in the span of 2 hours and 25 minutes Sunday morning.
The sole survivor of the rampage, an 80-year-old man, described being shot while out walking his dog.
An all-hands-on-deck search involving multiple law enforcement agencies — including the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Department of Homeland Security — took place Sunday afternoon after police determined the same gun was used in all four shootings, authorities said. While ATF did not respond physically to the scene, ABC News was told the agency is assisting with an urgent trace on the weapons and working on analyzing the shell casings.
White said a 9mm handgun was recovered from a residence where the assailant was arrested. He said ballistic tests done immediately on the firearm confirmed suspicions from shell casings collected at each crime scene that it was used in all of the shootings.
When asked whether detectives have determined a motive for the rampage, White said, “Obviously, there is nothing that should motivate you to do something this tragic.”
Commander Michael McGinnis of the Detroit Police Department laid out a timeline of the shootings, saying the first occurred at 4:45 a.m. when a 28-year-old man was approached by the suspect and shot.
McGinnis said the shooting was unprovoked and that the suspect walked away briefly before returning and shooting the victim several more times, killing him.
McGinnis noted that no one called 911 to report the first shooting, a detail both White and Duggan said they found troubling.
“I know from the time I spent with the officers yesterday, they’re going to be haunted for a long time. They very likely could have prevented two and probably three tragedies had they had an immediate notice,” Duggan said.
Detroit does not have a ShotSpotter gunfire detection system like many large cities, which immediately notifies police of the location of gunshots, Duggan and White said.
White added, “What we don’t want to happen is gunshots to become commonplace in our community. We don’t want to become desensitized to someone shooting in our community. There should never be a condition ever that someone uses a gun in our community that’s unaccounted for.”
McGinnis said the second shooting happened 30 minutes after the first shooting. In that episode, a 911 caller reported that a woman in her 40s was lying on a sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds. He said the victim was found three blocks from the first shooting.
The victim, who died at the scene, has yet to be identified, McGinnis said.
McGinnis said that as officers were investigating the second shooting, they responded to the sound of gunshots nearby and found another woman fatally shot. He said the woman had been waiting for a bus when the suspect walked by her, returned and shot her without provocation.
He said the suspect walked away, but returned and shot the woman again.
At 7:10 a.m., an 80-year-old man out walking his dog was confronted by the suspect, who allegedly shot him and his dog in yet another unprovoked attack. The victim suffered a bullet wound to the leg, and neighbors who heard the gunshots likely saved the man’s life by coming to his aid and putting a tourniquet on his leg and getting him to a hospital immediately, McGinnis said.
The names of the victims were not immediately released.
White said the suspect did not rob or attempt to rob any of the victims.
White said technology played a key role in cracking the case, explaining that it allowed investigators to quickly analyze shell casings from each of the crime scenes and determine that the same gun was used in all four shootings.
“If someone uses a weapon in our community, we’re going to use every resource we have to lock you up and we make no apologies about that,” White said. “Enough is enough. This is unacceptable and it needs to stop.”
(LOS ANGELES) — After drone sightings and even reports of a man flying in a jetpack around Los Angeles International Airport, the federal government is rolling out new tech that could better detect objects entering restricted airspace.
The project, called the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Bed Program, is the second of its kind nationwide and will begin testing technology designed to detect, track and identify drones entering the airspace of LAX.
“If a drone was to enter the space as you see with the aircraft taking off and landing, and a pilot having to make a quick decision and divert from that flight path that he or she is on — that could be a huge issue for both the safety of the passengers, the safety of the folks on the ground, it just creates all types of challenges,” Keith Jefferies, the federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration at LAX, told ABC-owned station KABC.
Since 2021, TSA has reported 90 visual sightings of drones and 5,200 technical detections within three miles of the perimeter at LAX. This year alone there have been approximately 38 drones visually detected at the airport – including a drone that was reported within 700 feet of an aircraft just before Super Bowl LVI.
Moreover, several pilots landing at LAX have reported sightings of a man flying at high altitudes around aircraft at the airport. While law enforcement later said the sightings could have been a life-sized balloon, the agency believes the new tech would be able to detect such objects.
The agency noted that the data collected at LAX will help expand the program to other airports as well as raise awareness of the risks of encroaching on restricted airspace.
“One of the main objectives of the TSA UAS Test Bed Program is to continuously assess relevant technologies and keep pace with the ever-evolving capabilities within the UAS community,” TSA’s UAS Capability Manager Jim Bamberger said. “Working together with our federal, state and local partners and the intelligence community, we are leveraging our collective technical capabilities to prevent disruptions within the transportation sector.”
(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Almost 400 teaching positions remain open as students return to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina on Monday.
In addition to the 390 teaching positions that remain unfilled, there are an additional 38 vacancies for bus drivers, according to a spokesperson for the district.
The shortage affects the second-largest school district in the state, with over 140,000 enrolled students from kindergarten to 12th grade, according to the district.
To make up for the shortage, 427 “guest teachers” will step in starting Monday across the district’s 181 campuses, a CMS spokesperson told ABC News.
While all guest teachers need to be licensed, they are not required to have a bachelor’s or master’s degree, CMS officials said.
Guest teachers will make between $150 and $180 per day, depending on their certification level, according to Christine Pejot, director of human resources at the district.
According to Pejot, guest teachers differ from substitute teachers because they are assigned to a specific school and are on a full-time contract with benefits included.
Guest teachers do not need to have teaching certification, Pejot said. Instead, the role requires a licensure that is granted by the state through passing certain tests to become licensed in that area of teaching.
Pejot said COVID-19 relief funds issued to the district are funding the new positions and that funding is available until 2024.
Not one school in particular has been affected by the teacher shortage, Pejot said, as all campuses are experiencing vacancies. However, Pejot said the district is experiencing the most vacancies for special education teachers and teachers in elementary grades K-6.
Pejot told ABC News the changes in available teachers this year has been alarming. While the district was already experiencing a shortage, an additional 77 teachers resigned when they returned to the district in mid-August, Pejot said.
According to Pejot, there are fewer college students pursuing education as a major, and more existing teachers are choosing a different career and leaving the field. The combination of these factors is significant, Pejot said.
It is unclear how long into the school year the district will rely on the guest teachers.
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Flood waters in central Mississippi have peaked and will soon recede, officials said on Monday.
Officials projected on Saturday that water levels would reach 36 feet on Monday, but were measured at a peak of 35.37 as of Monday morning, a spokesperson from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency told ABC News.
Only one home had water actually breach the structure and no injuries or deaths have been reported due to the floods, Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said at a press conference on Monday.
Officials at the Ross R Barnett Reservoir, connected to Pearl River, said they increased the discharge of water from 55,000 cubic feet of water per second to 60,000. This continued for Sunday and Monday morning, ABC News Jackson affiliate WAPT said.
Officials said at Monday’s press conference that they were able to reduce the flows out of the reservoir by another 10,000 cubic feet per second and are working to reduce even more.
Marty Pope, service hydrologist at the National Weather Service, said it will take several days for the water to continue falling downstream. However, Pope predicts the water level will crest at 33 feet on Wednesday and could be as low as 28 feet on Thursday.
Pope said at a press conference Monday that while there will be scattered rains throughout the rest of the week, the lowering levels are a “very positive thing.”
Officials said residents should wait to get clearance in their areas before moving back into their homes. Once they return, residents should report any damage.
Two shelters remain open in the area, one in Jackson and one in Madison. According to officials, one person stayed in each of the shelters on Sunday night.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves issued a State of Emergency for parts of central Mississippi on Saturday, to “allow our state agencies to better assist in our response efforts and carry out their emergency responsibilities.”
According to Reeves, the state has deployed 126,000 sandbags to help residents block water from entering their homes. Reeves also reported that search and rescue teams are on standby and prepared to respond to local authorities’ needs.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency had drones in the air to assess water levels along the Pearl River, Reeves said.
Last week, evacuations drew residents from their homes in the area, including dozens of elderly people evacuated from a senior living facility.
The Pearl River area experienced severe flooding in 2020, when water levels crested at 36.67 feet.
Harry Styles‘ “As It Was” is back to #1 on theBillboard Hot 100 — making history as the first song to hit the top spot five different times. The song’s placement has yo-yoed on the chart since its release — peaking at #1 on April 16, April 30, June 4, July 9 and for this latest ranking.
Miley Cyrus is heading to NBC to be part of Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas, a modern-day movie musical about the magic of Christmas. Miley will guest star in the video, as will Jimmy Fallon, Willie Nelson and more. A release date is forthcoming.
DNCE coveredHilary Duff‘s “Come Clean” and shared the video to TikTok. Joe Jonas also shared to his Instagram that this is his band’s “formal campaign to get the Lizzie McGuire Show back on air.” Hilary approved and wrote back, “Ooo yes. Tell them k.”
Fans think Taylor Swift is shading Kim Kardashian with her forthcoming album, Midnights. Why? The album drops October 21, which is also Kim’s birthday. It should also be noted it’s officially been 13 years since Kanye West stormed the VMAs stage and stole the microphone from Taylor after she won Best Female Video.
BBC released a snippet of the new song Camila Cabello created for Frozen Planet II with Hans Zimmer. The trailer is soundtracked to the new single “Take Me Back Home.” The trailer shows the coldest regions losing their ice and snow — forcing its animal inhabitants to quickly adapt in an effort to survive.
Harry Styles’ “As It Was” is back to #1 on the BillboardHot 100 — making history as the first song to hit the top spot five different times. The song’s placement has yo-yoed on the chart since its release, peaking at #1 on April 16, April 30, June 4, July 9 and for this latest ranking.
DNCEcoveredHilary Duff‘s “Come Clean” and shared the video to TikTok. Joe Jonas also shared to his Instagram that this is his band’s “formal campaign to get the Lizzie McGuire Show back on air.” Hilary approved and wrote back, “Ooo yes. Tell them k.”
Fans think Taylor Swift is shading Kim Kardashian with her forthcoming album Midnights. Why? The album drops October 21, which is also Kim’s birthday. It should also be noted it’s officially been 13 years since Kanye West stormed the VMAs stage and stole the microphone from Taylor after she won Best Female Video.
Speaking of the Kardashians … Rod Stewart‘s daughter Kimberly is reportedly dating Kourtney Kardashian‘s ex-partner Scott Disick. Page Six reports the pair have been snapped hanging out in Los Angeles. Disick is 39 and Kimberly is 43.
BBC released a snippet of the new song Camila Cabello created for Frozen Planet II with Hans Zimmer. The trailer is soundtracked to the new single “Take Me Back Home.” The trailer shows the coldest regions losing their ice and snow, forcing its animal inhabitants to quickly adapt in an effort to survive.
