Tropical storm Elsa, now the earliest 5th named Atlantic storm, is heading towards the Florida west coast. CNN Meteorologist Allison Chinchar details the forecast and impacts over the coming days.
Continue ReadingCNN’s Don Lemon and Dana Bash discuss the grand finale of the New York City July 4th fireworks display during CNN’s “Fourth in America Special.”
Continue ReadingPresident Biden bristled at a series of questions about Afghanistan when he wanted to stay on his “message of the day,” says Jennifer Epstein, one of the reporters who asked about the Afghan drawdown. David Sanger says Biden’s central problem is that he has two different messages — one for Americans and another for Afghans.
Continue ReadingDr. Jonathan Reiner discusses the progress the US has made combating Covid-19 and what work still needs to be done.
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN Fireworks still ringing in your ears? We’ll keep it short today so everyone can get back to their long holiday weekends. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has accepted assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address the spread of COVID-19. Formation of the surge teams will begin this week. The CDC and their associated foundation offered to recruit and hire surge teams consisting of public health professionals
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By Nectar Gan and Jessie Yeung, CNN Editor’s note: CNN has launched the Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. As China celebrated the success of its first spacewalk outside the new Tiangong space station on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on former Mizzou star Karissa Schweizer in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Schweizer will represent the United States in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the Olympics in Tokyo later this summer. You can watch the full conversation with the six-time national champion in the
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By Alaa Elassar and Claudia Dominguez, CNN Police are looking for the person who shot and killed golf professional Gene Siller at a country club north of Atlanta on Saturday. Cobb County police responded to a report of a person shot around 2:20 p.m. and found Siller on the green of the 10th hole of
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Canada and US cities in the Northwest have reported their hottest temperatures on record, and more than 52 million people are under a heat warning or advisory from coast to coast. CNN’s Jason Carroll reports.
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Columbia residents flocked to Flatbranch Park downtown as the city’s Fire in The Sky celebration kicked off on Sunday.
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By David Shortell and Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN A cache of internal Champlain Towers South documents obtained by CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront sheds new light on the urgent conversations about the required construction on the building in the months leading up to its collapse. In a series of presentations delivered in the fall and winter of
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By Claudia Dominguez and Alaa Elassar, CNN Communities surrounding Arizona’s Tiger Fire have been ordered to evacuate as firefighters continue to battle the blaze. The Tiger Fire, which started on June 30 after a lightning strike in the Castle Creek Wilderness, has so far burned 9,800 acres, the Prescott National Forest said on its website.
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By Susannah Cullinane, CNN A Texas hospital said it experienced a summertime “baby boom” in the lead-up to July 4, delivering 100 babies in two stretches totaling 91 hours. “While Andrews Women’s Hospital is known as a high-volume delivery hospital, the influx in births was considered rare and exceptional,” Baylor Scott and White said in
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Defending world champion Joey Chestnut broke his own world record on July 4th, devouring 76 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes during Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. CNN’s Polo Sandoval reports.
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The state now has a seven day positivity rate of 9.9% on Sunday. The increase in positivity comes along with an additional 864 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 527,495. The state also added 312 probable cases of the virus to the dashboard Sunday. In total, 95,131 probable cases of COVID-19 were
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By David McKenzie, CNN After succeeding in a last-ditch legal effort to delay his arrest for contempt of court, former South African President Jacob Zuma likened his treatment to apartheid-era detention without trial. “Things like detention without trial should never again see the light of day in South Africa. The struggle for a free South
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MA: Massachusetts State Police end standoff with a group called “The Rise of the Moors” by arresting 11 armed men
Continue Reading By Ganesh Setty and Alaa Elassar, CNN The 11 men who were arrested in Wakefield, Massachusetts, after an overnight standoff with Massachusetts State Police (MSP) have been charged with at least six offenses. The suspects “refer to themselves as a militia” and said they adhere to Moorish Sovereign Ideology, the MSP and Middlesex District Attorney’s
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Beachgoers in Ocean City, Maryland captured video of the town’s 4th of July fireworks gone rogue. The display exploded prematurely after the “unintentional discharge.”
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