By Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura and Blake Essig, CNN Japanese rescue workers continued to search for survivors Tuesday, three days after a devastating “tsunami” of mud swept through a coastal city, killing at least four people and leaving two dozen others missing. Torrential rains triggered the powerful mudslide in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, about 90 kilometers
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By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu and Tim Lister, CNN Located an hour north of Kabul, Bagram was for nearly 20 years the hub of America’s war in Afghanistan. Now it is eerily quiet. The last US combat troops have left and the Afghan government is trying to work out how to use the sprawling complex
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Questions are being raised about the Bay Area Millennium Tower’s structural integrity amid the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South more than 3,000 miles away in Surfside, Florida. CNN’s Dan Simon reports.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Members of the Fulton community with the help of the Fulton Police Department organized a firework festival on Sunday in Carver Park. Hundreds of people gathered at the park for a basketball tournament, rap battles, a car show, food and drinks and to end it all, a firework show. The festival was
Continue Reading By Dan Simon, Julia Jones and Ray Sanchez, CNN San Francisco’s lavish Millennium Tower, with soaring panoramic views and world-class amenities, opened to great fanfare in 2009. A dozen years later, it’s still promoted “Your city within the city,” a 58-story monolith with more than 400 multimillion-dollar units in San Francisco’s tallest residential building. “It
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia council will meet Tuesday to discuss the construction of the Fourth Street and Broadway pedestrian crossing project in Downtown Columbia. This project design includes a new crosswalk connecting the northeast corner to the southeast corner of the Fourth Street and Broadway Intersection. Columbia resident, Kin Brown, said she
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Spokesmen for two Boone County rural fire districts said the Fourth of July weekend was relatively quiet, with few calls for injuries or other fireworks-related issues.
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The number of injury crashes and deaths on Missouri roads this holiday season is trending lower than predicted, according to crash numbers available from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Search and rescue crews have recovered another victim from the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South building, bringing the death toll to 28, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a Monday evening news conference. That means 117 people are still unaccounted for, she said. Earlier
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MISSION, Kansas (AP) — The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients jumped by nearly 27% over the Fourth of July weekend in a hard-hit area of Missouri where immunization rates are low, leading to a temporary ventilator shortfall and a public call for help from respiratory therapists. The Delta variant, first identified in India, is spreading
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Check back for updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Missouri.
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By Sheena McKenzie, CNN A humanitarian ship that rescued over 400 migrants at sea in recent weeks has been seized by Italian authorities, in a move that French medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned would endanger the lives of migrants in the Mediterranean. In a press release Sunday, the organization called for the “swift
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Last year’s hurricane season was record-breaking and destructive as a whole. The Atlantic Ocean alone saw 30 named storms, 14 of which developed into hurricanes. This set the record for the most storms on record, surpassing the old record from 2005 of 28 named storms. Overall, we saw the second highest number of hurricanes last season. With
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City. Personal Birth date: May 28, 1944 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Rudolph William Louis Giuliani Father: Harold Giuliani, tavern owner Mother: Helen (D’Avanzo) Giuliani, secretary Marriages: Judith Nathan (May 24, 2003-2019, divorced); Donna Hanover
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1921 Death date: December 8, 2016 Birth place: Cambridge, Ohio Birth name: John Herschel Glenn Jr. Father: John Glenn Sr., a plumber Mother: Clara (Sproat)
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By Emma Tucker, Omar Jimenez and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN At least 233 people were killed and 618 people were injured by gun violence in more than 500 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend, a 26% drop from last year’s holiday weekend, according to the latest data compiled by the Gun Violence
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By Emmet Lyons, CNN Georgia has launched an investigation into violence against LGBTQ campaigners and journalists, after protesters on Monday stormed offices ahead of a planned pride march in the country’s capital Tbilisi. LGBTQ campaigners canceled the “March for Dignity” Pride event after violent protesters stormed and ransacked their offices before the march had begun.
Continue ReadingMONDAY: We’ll pick up a few clouds into the afternoon, but we’re sailing smoothly into another week otherwise. Temperatures will top out near 90 with a good dose of sunshine. TONIGHT: Mostly clear skies will stick around overnight as lows fall into the upper 60’s. EXTENDED: Another quiet day tomorrow with highs back in the low 90’s underneath
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN At least 26 students and a teacher have been rescued after armed men raided a private secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State early Monday and kidnapped scores of people, said police. Officials from the school in Kaduna’s Chikun district told Agence France-Presse news agency that no fewer than 140 students
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By Ralph Ellis, Pamela Kirkland, Gregory Lemos and David Close, CNN Gene Siller, the Georgia country club golf pro shot to death on the course where he worked, always tried to help people, friends said Monday. “Gene was a man of compassion. He loved everybody,” said Rand Eberhard, a pastor who lives in a neighborhood
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