COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The American Red Cross of Missouri-Arkansas is sending multiple response teams to Louisiana to help residents of the state recovering from Hurricane Ida. The Columbia Red Cross is sending one team of two drivers with a vehicle filled with food and emergency supplies to communities in Louisiana. Two crews will also depart
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia College students start class Monday in-person and the school has put COVID-19 precautions in place. Masks As of Aug. 9 masks are required indoors for all students, staff, and faculty regardless of vaccination status. There are some exceptions to the mask policy, including when people are alone in a work space
Continue Reading
By Angela Dewan, CNN As the climate crisis escalates, the world is banking on carbon-free energy to achieve a future with zero greenhouse gas emissions, or a net-zero future, where we remove just as much greenhouse gas from the atmosphere as we emit. One potential form of clean energy is green hydrogen — which can
Continue Reading
By Amanda Sealy and Hollie Silverman, CNN With nearly 100,000 Americans hospitalized with Covid-19 and infections surging among the unvaccinated population, it’s possible another 100,000 people could die from the virus by December, according to a recent University of Washington model. “What is going on now is both entirely predictable, but entirely preventable,” Dr. Anthony
Continue Reading
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. In an ever-more-internet-connected world, we are getting close-up views of extreme weather in ways that were hard to imagine a generation ago. When Hurricane Ida barreled ashore and ransacked the
Continue Reading
Missouri Task Force 1 arrived at its staging location Sunday morning, ahead of Hurricane Ida’s landfall around 1 p.m.
Continue Reading
ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on PowerMizzou’s Mizzou beat writer Mitchell Forde in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview in the video player below.
Continue Reading
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ever since Mizzou’s super regional run, softball has been coursing through the veins of the Columbia community and, on Sunday, three MU players took it a step further by passing it down to the next generation. Cayla Kessinger, Hatti Moore, and Kendyll Bailey hosted a skills camp which primarily focused on defense
Continue Reading
Tonight: Hurricane Ida made landfall earlier today as a category 4 hurricane. This hurricane continues to travel northeast slowly with a dangerous storm surge expected to subside later tonight. Central Missouri will see scattered showers and storms tonight with an approaching low-pressure system. The overnight low will bottom out at 72 degrees. The main threat
Continue Reading
By Christina Maxouris, CNN Four young siblings who had been hiding alone in an apartment in Afghanistan’s capital reunited with their mother on Monday evening in Albany, New York, marking the end of a frantic, days-long rescue mission to get them to safety. “My children are now safe,” Suneeta told CNN Saturday morning, while her
Continue Reading
By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. On this day of history, with America’s war in Afghanistan officially over, I asked a cross-section of journalists and activists to weigh in on what’s next. Pretend to be an
Continue Reading
By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans Sunday after cutting through the Gulf of Mexico, causing massive disruptions to US oil production before making landfall. More than 95% of the Gulf of Mexico’s oil production facilities have been shut down, regulators said Sunday, indicating the massive storm is having a significant impact
Continue Reading
By Todd Leopold, CNN Ed Asner, who rose to fame as the crusty but lovable newsman Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died Sunday morning, his publicist confirmed to CNN. He was 91. Asner was was surrounded by family in Los Angeles, publicist Charles Sherman said. The news was also shared in a
Continue Reading
By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Candyman” director Nia DaCosta has become the first Black female director to have a film debut in the top spot in the US box office, Universal Pictures announced Tuesday. According to Box Office Mojo, the horror film, a sequel of the 1992 movie, made over $22 million over the weekend. The
Continue Reading
By Amanda Sealy, CNN Mandating Covid-19 vaccines for children to attend school in person is a “good idea” due to a strong benefit-risk ratio, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. “I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea,” Fauci told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” Fauci
Continue Reading
By Jason Hoffman and Chandelis Duster, CNN The US, along with about 100 other countries, said they will hold the Taliban to their promises that they will allow people to leave the country after August 31, according to a joint statement released Sunday. “We are all committed to ensuring that our citizens, nationals and residents,
Continue Reading
By Devan Cole, CNN Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that if American citizens and Afghan allies are left in Afghanistan following the planned withdrawal of US troops there this week that would represent “a moral stain” on the US. “Leaving Americans behind and leaving our Afghan friends behind who’ve worked with us would put
Continue Reading
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Days after taking control of Afghanistan earlier this month, the Taliban used its first press conference to take a swipe at Facebook in response to a question about freedom of speech. “This question should be asked to those people who are claiming to be promoters of freedom of speech, who
Continue Reading
Ongoing rehabilitation work of the Perche Creek Bridges in Boone County is expected to cause lane closures this week.
Continue Reading
By Laura Smith-Spark, Saskya Vandoorne, Oren Liebermann, Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu, CNN Nine members of one family — including six children — were killed in a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, a relative of the dead told a local journalist working with CNN. The US carried
Continue Reading