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Thousands evacuate as '500-year flood' destroys 2 dams in Michigan
djperry/iStockBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News(MIDLAND, Mich.) -- The governor of Michigan declared a state of emergency Tuesday night after rapidly rising waters crashed through two dams and forced tho...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
Racism declared a public health crisis in Ohio's most populated county
Davel5957/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Officials in Ohio have declared racism a public health crisis in the state's most populated county.Commissioners in Franklin County passed a...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
Navajo Nation: Where COVID-19 claims whole families
ABC NewsBy MATT GUTMAN and LISSETTE RODRIGUEZ, ABC News(GALLUP, N.M.) -- It felt like haunted ground. The only sounds left at the traditional Najavo hut were the notes of the wind chimes and the whine...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
World sees highest one-day increase since coronavirus outbreak began
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 328,000 people worldwide.Over 4.9 million people across the g...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
Catastrophic flooding for parts of Midwest, new storm to bring snow to the West
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In just 48 hours, parts of Mid-Michigan got hit with more than 8 inches of rain forcing local rivers to record levels, bursting dams and producing catastr...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
For the Army's newest medical officers, coronavirus reaffirms desire to serve
Rebecca VanHornBy ELIZABETH MCLAUGHLIN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than 125 people are set to become the U.S. Army's newest medical professionals during the service's first virtual nationwide commissi...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
San Francisco opens socially distanced homeless tent encampments
heyengel/iStockBy CAMMERON PARRISH, ABC News(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Homeless encampments are on the rise in San Francisco, especially now, with the novel coronavirus pandemic increasing unemployment and th...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
Parents worry about school, childcare options when they have to go back to work
Mladen Sladojevic/iStockBy KAREN TRAVERS, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It is the burning question for working parents -- how and when will their kids get back to school?"There's just not enough hours in the ...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
Moms form 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Wine' group to deliver joy during quarantine
Courtesy Tracy MurleyBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Doorsteps across a suburb in Detroit are covered in gift baskets randomly delivered by a group that calls itself the Sisterhood of the Tr...
ABC Audio May 20, 2020
Ultraviolet light to zap coronavirus on New York City subways, buses
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Hailing it as a tested killer of the novel coronavirus, New York City transit officials announced on Tuesday that the...
ABC Audio May 19, 2020