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Flooding, damaging winds along East Coast as record heat moves into Texas Friday
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major storm system moved through the eastern half of the U.S. Thursday into Friday, bringing flooding rain and damaging winds.In just hours Thursday, mo...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
NYC faces dangerous task of keeping MTA running during coronavirus crisis
Starflamedia/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and MARYALICE PARKS, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Sick and dying employees, tight quarters, dirty handrails, filthy floors and the reality that many residents experiencin...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
How the fall semester could play out at US colleges
sshepard/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Delaying the start of the semester. Alternating blocks of students in lecture halls. One course for weeks at a time.Those are some of the scen...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
'Mass evictions' on the horizon as US confronts coronavirus housing crisis: Advocates
tap10/iStockBy DEENA ZARU, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The first of the month is daunting for many low and middle-income Americans who will be struggling to pay their rent for the second time since the coro...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
As the dead pile up, funeral homes feel the crush of coronavirus pandemic
sshepard/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At Towers Funeral Home in Long Island, New York, grim signs of the coronavirus pandemic are all around.In a room previously used as one of the chap...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
Maryland hiding testing kits, purchased from South Korea, from US government: Hogan
ABC NewsBy BENJAMIN SIU, ABC News(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- Maryland authorities were so concerned about the federal government seizing a shipment of COVID-19 tests destined for the state that they made spec...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
'I can't live on this ship forever' say US crew members still stuck on cruise ships
photosvit/iStockBy GIO BENITEZ, MINA KAJI and AMANDA MAILE, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The passengers have gone, but the crews remain.Melinda Mann, 25, of Georgia has been stuck on a Holland America cruise...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
Coronavirus live updates: 'Heroic' Colorado paramedic who came to help NYC dies from virus
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy WILLIAM MANSELL and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 233,000 people worldwide.Over 3.2 million people across the globe have b...
ABC Audio May 01, 2020
Missouri man charged with setting fire to an Islamic center
Cape Girardeau Fire DepartmentBy ALEXANDER MALLIN and CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News(CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.) -- A fire that caused structural damage at a mosque in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, hours after the ...
ABC Audio Apr 30, 2020
Michigan judge sides with governor in lawsuit over coronavirus shelter-in-place order
Kuzma/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(DETROIT) -- A Michigan judge sided with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday in a lawsuit filed against her shelter-in-place order and denied the plaintiffs an injunct...
ABC Audio Apr 30, 2020