The Disney|ABC Television Group will air special programming across all of its TV and radio networks this week in support of its “Day of Giving” initiative to benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey, the company announced Wednesday. The special programming launches tonight [Aug. 30] at 10 p.m. with an ABC News primetime special “City Underwater: Catastrophe […]
Houston’s mayor kept facing questions Tuesday about his decision not to order an evacuation of the notoriously flood-prone city ahead of Harvey’s arrival, even as overflowing reservoirs led several suburbs to move people out. Instead, Mayor Sylvester Turner remained resolute in his advice to residents since the storm made landfall on Friday: hunker down at […]
Kevin Hart challenged his celebrity friends to match his donation to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, and some of those celebs have responded. Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson, one of the stars on Hart’s list, stepped up by donating $25,000 to the cause, matching the comedian’s initial donation before Hart kicked in another $25,000 and called out another […]
Houston-based father and husband Jeremiah Richard went viral in the midst of Hurricane Harvey when he showed up as his best self despite his trial. An ABC News reporter caught up with Richard as he and his son were taken to safety after their house, like so many others, flooded. When asked where he was […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Hurricane Harvey has forced both the Houston Astros and Houston Texans to play home games miles away from the flood-stricken city with players wondering when they will be able to come back. The Astros will play a three-game series against the Texas Rangers at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, this week, […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Floodwaters reached the rooflines of single-story homes Monday and people could be heard pleading for help from inside as Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day after a chaotic weekend of rising water and rescues. The nation’s fourth-largest city was still mostly paralyzed by one of the […]
Willie Moore Jr. talks to people directly impacted by the storms in Houston. Mad Hatta is the morning host from Houston’s 97.9 who has been holed up in the city since the storm began and Bizzle is a gospel rapper whose family got out of Houston before things got too bad. Native Houstonian James Fortune […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation’s fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help. ‘GOING TO SAVE SOME LIVES’ Heroes converging in #Houston#houstonflood #HurricaneHarvey pic.twitter.com/052ObBBrpx — […]
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires barreled across the baking landscape of the western U.S. and Canada, destroying a smattering of homes, forcing thousands to flee and temporarily trapping children and counselors at a California campground. Here’s a look at the wildfires blackening the West. BRITISH COLUMBIA Firefighters were contending with more than 200 wildfires […]
A powerful storm system that moved across the South on Monday killed four people in Alabama and left a trail of damage over several states, officials said. The line of severe thunderstorms spawned several possible tornadoes, and the threat continued into early Tuesday for southern Alabama, southwest Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Four people were […]
DAME MARIE, Haiti (AP) In this most western tip of Haiti, 300 patients with festering wounds lay silently on beds at the main hospital in the seaside village of Dame Marie waiting for medicine a week after Hurricane Matthew hit the remote peninsula. Among the injured was Beauvoir Luckner, a cobbler and farmer who walked […]
What should we be thinking about if we are impacted by a natural disaster? As we watch the remnants of Hurricane Matthew swirl off the Atlantic Coast, I was thinking of those who were impacted by Katrina, and Sandy, and other events that have impacted great numbers of people in our country. Thankfully, Matthew does not […]
