Hurricane Irma is expected to strengthen to a Category 4 storm on Monday The storm is still too far out for accurate prediction of where it will go. By midweek, it will be approaching the Lesser Antilles, likely to the northern edge, putting Antigua and Barbuda…
The FDA has recalled 465,000 radio frequency-enabled implantable pacemakers due to the risk they could be hacked and their settings changed. The fix? A firmware update.
This fast draw video provides an explanation of storm surge. Storm surge is what officials use when determining who to evacuate.
After Houston musician Aric Harding returned home to salvage his children’s favorite stuffed animals, he was moved to play the piano in the living room of his flooded Friendswood home. He has shared several updates on the flooding after Hurricane Harvey brought over 40 inches of rainfall to his neighborhood. « I really think God is going to do something completely new here. I am excited to see the new beauty in the suffering, ” Harding said.
Police body camera footage from July 26 shows the arrest of Utah University Hospital nurse after she explained to Det. Jeff Payne that he could not take blood from an unconscious patient. Nurse Alex Wubbels said the hospital could only allow police to take blood from a patient in cases where they are under arrest, have given consent, or when a warrant is issued. The patient was involved in a collision with a car fleeing police, the Salt Lake Tribune said, but was not suspected of wrongdoing. The driver of the fleeing car was killed.
Georgia’s Cobb County police department is investigating one of its officers over a controversial comments caught on a dashcam video from July 2016. In the video the officer tells a woman afraid to follow his orders, “we only kill black people.”
Police body camera footage from July 26 shows the arrest of Utah University Hospital nurse after she explained to Det. Jeff Payne that he could not take blood from an unconscious patient. Nurse Alex Wubbels said the hospital could only allow police to take blood from a patient in cases where they are under arrest, have given consent, or when a warrant is issued. The patient was involved in a collision with a car fleeing police, the Salt Lake Tribune said, but was not suspected of wrongdoing. The driver of the fleeing car was killed.
Last week, when the moon temporarily passed in front of the sun over the U. S., NASA caught a glimpse of the eclipse from unique vantage points all over space from their various facilities. Check out some of the fascinating video they caught during the Great American Eclipse.
Trishena Humphrey recalls evacuating New Orleans in 2005 for hurricane Katrina. More than a decade later, Humphrey is at a Macon shelter seeking refuge from hurricane Matthew.
Those displaced by hurricane-turned Tropical Storm Harvey now have more options for shelter. NRG Park Convention Center, the complex around NRG stadium, and the Toyota Center were opened early Wednesday. Televangelist Joel Osteen also opened his Houston megachurch following social media criticism for not doing so earlier.
T-cells are one of immune system’s key soldiers, targeting infected or abnormal cells but cancer can block those defenses. Now scientists are genetically modifying patients own cells to make them smarter and tougher at seeking out and destroying cancer. One version is called CAR-T cell therapy, T-cells customized to zero in on a patients specific kind of cancer.
Two deputies were hit by a truck while responding to a crash in Pasco County, Florida, on Tuesday, August 29,2017. The officers are assisting two crash victims in distress, when all of a sudden, a truck at a nearby intersection slams into another vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. The truck is sent spinning out of control right into the first accident. A woman is knocked to the ground, too. One of the injured officers continues to help the other victims. WARNING: Some graphic language at beginning.
Houston businessman Jim McIngvale opened his mattress store to flood victims, giving hundreds of men, women, children and pets a place to rest.
At least one possible tornado touched down in Louisiana as Tropical Storm Harvey started impacting the state on Tuesday, August 29. The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed tornadic activity in the area, according to a news report.
Video posted on Twitter shows a Kent, Washington, man, who police suspect is a serial carjacker, with his pants down being dragged alongside a car—hanging onto the door handle—after he tried to steal a car with someone at the wheel, police say.
Deputies from Chambers County Sheriff’s Office rescued animals stranded at a flooded shelter in Hankamer, Texas, on Monday, August 28. Appeals to save the animals at Tall Tails Animal Rescue went viral on social media with photos of dogs standing in floodwater inside their cages. “Sheriff Brian C. Hawthorne reports that all the animals have been rescued from the Tall Tails kennel in Hankamer, Texas, ” said Chambers County Sheriff’s Office in a statement shared via Facebook. “The animals, along with the owner of the kennel, Kevin Miller, were successfully rescued via air boat.”
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office shared footage of the rescue of a deer that had become trapped in a pond at a local country club on Sunday, August 27. The Wildlife Inc Education and Rehabilitation Center were called by Sarasota County deputies to help out after two deer were reported stranded in a pond at Laurel Oak Country Club. “Unfortunately, one didn’ t survive but the other was trying his hardest to stay afloat, ” the sheriff’s office noted in text accompanying the video.
