The night belonged to taylor swift at the Billboard Music awards. She won eight awards including one for top artist. The evening capped off by a hard to see and hard to hear performance by kanye west. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 18th. From abc news this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with that Severe Weather stretching some 1200 miles across the middle of the countries. As storms here dumping torrential rains and spawning dozens of tornadoes, this morning flash flooding is still a major concern. Lets start our coverage with rob marciano. Violent storms bringing rain and rescues. This man and this woman are in this home that is totally surrounded by water. Including this one in Johnson County texas. Unfolding on live tv. First responders using a drone to send a rescue line to a stranded couple. Then paddling toward them in a rescue raft. Homeowner bill talking to dallas station wffa. Theyre trying to figure out how to get the boat over
Awards. She won eight awards including one for top artist. The evening capped off by a hard to see and hard to hear performance by kanye west. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 18th. From abc news this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with that Severe Weather stretching some 1200 miles across the middle of the countries. As storms here dumping torrential rains and spawning dozens of tornadoes, this morning flash flooding is still a major concern. Lets start our coverage with rob marciano. Violent storms bringing rain and rescues. This man and this woman are in this home that is totally surrounded by water. Including this one in Johnson County texas. Unfolding on live tv. First responders using a drone to send a rescue line to a stranded couple. Then paddling toward them in a rescue raft. Homeowner bill talking to dallas station wffa. Theyre trying to figure out how to get the boat over here. Reporter the sound of debris waking them up. That c
But one dire forecast leaked today from a federal agency is drawing particular scrutiny at the highest levels. The white house today pushing back hard on a interagency report from fema that shows in the next month the number of coronavirus deaths could rise to 3,000 per day in the number of infections could rise to 200,000 per day from the current 25,000. In a statement, the white house saying this is not a white house document, nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task force or god through interagency vetting. This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or the data that the task force has analyzed. Fox news is told that dr. Deborah birx has seen the report in disagrees with the projections. Two important model showed the forecast getting worse. The centers for Disease Control now predicting a total of 100,000 deaths in the next few weeks. The institute for Health Metrics and evaluation now forecasting nearly 135,000 deaths, almost double the previ
The deal later today. Jillian the train derailment, the first victims identified, was the driver distracted . What we just learned. Rob outrage over ivanka trump, parents pulling their kids out of school after an unplanned visit from the first daughter, your comments pouring it on this one. Fox and friends first continues right now. Heather dancing in studio. Rob Senate Republicans after the vote overnight, where they got the song from. Dancing. Jillian you are watching fox and friends first. Rob the Senate Passing tax reform along party lines, republicans hours from a major win for their party. The tax cuts and jobs act is passed. Rob the first tax code in 31 years. Jillian donald trump tweeting the United States Senate Passed the biggest in history taxcut and reform bill, individual mandate obamacare repealed. Griff jenkins in washington dc, not quite ready for the president s desk but close. Reporter one more stop in the house, make no mistake, this was his story, the Senate Passing
Brightline’s ridership between Orlando and South Florida hit a milestone in January as it continues to provide increased revenue for the intercity passenger train service — something that should help fund new stations and a route to Tampa eventually.