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By Betsy Webster Click here for updates on this story PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kansas (KCTV) — On Friday night, the mayor of Prairie Village, Kansas, declared a citywide emergency. Tree limbs blocked roads. Power was out in much of the city and surrounding area. Many traffic lights were out. Power outages were widespread. Police and fire
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Swartz Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — After storms rolled through the Kansas City metro and surrounding areas Friday afternoon and early evening, nearly 100,000 customers are still without power according to Evergy. “As of 7 a.m., we have about 100,000 customers without power in our service
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Arsenal has completed the signing of West Ham and England midfielder Declan Rice in the biggest deal of the European summer transfer window so far. It has been widely reported in the British media that Rice moves to Arsenal for a £105 million ($137.45 million) fee, which would make
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Tesla finally built its first Cybertruck, the company tweeted Saturday, two years behind schedule. The electric car company tweeted an image of workers in hard hats surrounding the sleek Cybertruck, which it said was built at its Gigafactory near Austin, Texas. Tesla revealed the prototype for the
Continue ReadingBy Lacey Beasley Click here for updates on this story CITRONELLE, Alabama (WALA) — Citronelle Fire Rescue captured incredible body cam video of big blaze at an apartment complex this week. It happened at Shadow Ridge Apartments. Video depicted a 4-plex apartment engulfed in flames and multiple engines at the scene. A firefighter grabbed a
Continue ReadingBy Aimee Lewis, CNN Markéta Vondroušová had overcome the odds throughout the last fortnight at Wimbledon and the Czech did so again in the women’s final on Saturday, beating favorite Ons Jabeur to become the first unseeded woman in the Open Era to win the famous tournament. The world No. 42, who was playing in
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By Andrew Carey and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Despite an underwhelming first month of Ukraine’s much-anticipated summer push to liberate territory from Russian forces, Kyiv says its Western backers are not pressuring the country for quick results. Since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began in June, the fighting has proved tougher than some anticipated,
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced plans to step down as president of the Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the international human and civil rights organization he founded. Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., formed Operation People United to Save
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — HGTV star Ty Pennington had a bit of a health complication this week, just two days after attending the ritzy “Barbie” premiere. The television personality, 58, posted on his verified Instagram on Friday, including a carousel of photos and beginning his caption with, “From the red carpet, to the
Continue Readingby Ellie Stevens (CNN) — Midsummer is the peak of juicy peach season in the state of Georgia. But, recently, the Peach Cobbler Factory in Atlanta ran out of peaches and was forced to pivot to… apple cobbler. The Peach State lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed
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A First Alert Weather Alert remains in place throughout the weekend as the Coachella Valley experiences excessive heat. You can get our latest forecast here. The dangerous heat, along with unhealthy air quality caused by nearby fires is making it difficult for people to spend time outdoors. Saturday morning, both Palm Springs Swim Center and
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN (CNN) — The name “Barbara Millicent Roberts” may not ring a bell, but say her nickname — Barbie — and people of all ages know her. Created by Mattel in 1959, Barbie doesn’t look a day over 19. And now she is getting new life in “Barbie” the movie, distributed by
Continue ReadingBy Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — An already dangerous weekslong heat wave will only worsen this weekend as a heat dome intensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the Western United States. The heat dome is so formidable the National Weather Service in Phoenix called it “one of the strongest high pressure systems this
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — El primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, llegó “hace poco tiempo” al Centro Médico Sheba este sábado, según su oficina. “Está en buenas condiciones y en evaluación médica”, dijo. No se han dado a conocer detalles sobre la naturaleza de su condición, pero Israel está en medio de una ola de
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Rocks, cliffs, muddy sediment. These natural features may not be that exciting to look at for some of us, but for geologists they bristle with meaning. The story they tell is our planet’s history, chronicling how continents, mountain ranges and oceans formed and glaciers spread and receded. Fossils embedded
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, Cheri Mossburg and Chloe Melas, CNN (CNN) — Oscar winner George Clooney has joined the chorus of artists calling for change as actors hit the picket lines in their first strike against film and television studios since 1980. “This is an inflection point in our industry,” Clooney told CNN in a statement
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Markéta Vondroušová había superado las probabilidades durante la última quincena en Wimbledon y la checa lo hizo nuevamente en la final femenina este sábado, venciendo a la favorita Ons Jabeur para convertirse en la primera mujer no cabeza de serie en la Era Abierta en ganar el famoso torneo. La número
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Last week would have been an ideal week to go on vacation if you’re an economist or, ahem, an economics reporter. That’s because a boatload of new data was released that provided a lot more clarity on the state of the US economy. The new pieces of
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — El caso de Emanuela Orlandi, la hija de 15 años de un empleado del Vaticano que desapareció en Roma hace 40 años, ha dado otro giro cuando su hermano desestimó lo que describió como un intento “vergonzoso” de los fiscales del Vaticano y Roma para culpar a la familia al sugerir
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Pervez Akhtar lucha entre lágrimas al recordar las últimas palabras de su hijo de 14 años. “Todo estará bien”, le dijo Muhammad Abuzar. “Educaré a mis hermanos, haré tu casa. No pasarás hambre. Solo oren por mí”. Akhtar ahora está sentado en su ruinosa casa de una habitación en una aldea
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