Is abc 13 news. Danner we want to get right out to the scene where this possible tornado touched down today. Mona kosar abdi is live right now in appomattox county in evergreen. Mona, what are you seeing tonight . Reporter danner, time in front of what is left of jack bakers home. His family tells me the 89yearold was actually home when the storm hits. He was sitting in that comfortable when high winds ripped the side of his home offripped the side of his home off. Fortunately he is okay and suffered minor scratches and injuries, but his home is completely destroyed. Down here what you are looking at is actually the basement. He wasnt able to get down there in time. And out here, there is what is left of the side of his home. Now his family was nice now let me go inside the home, and there is broken glass everywhere, furniture moved around. So they are shifting through it right now. You can see they are looking through what they can recover. Looking for his bible. And they told me the
We will have a live report from one of the winning locations in the next half hour. Now a developing story. Tragedy strikes Columbia University after an accident in central america. Three columbian students have been killed. Janelle burrell is live with more this morning. Janelle . Reporter three of the female students will not be returning back here to campus when classes resume here next week. The three women were on this medical mission in honduras when they were on their bus, on their way back to the airport to return home and it crashed. The overturned bus, mangled, its windows shattered after falling more than 250 feet down a ravine, crashing with a group of medical volunteers inside. Olivia, a 20yearold sophomore, daniella, a 21year old junior at barnard college, the all Womens College that is old abigail, a Nurse Practitioner, also a student with the general studies program, all killed from the impact. The group had been volunteering for several days with doctors and pharmacist
Thunder lightning rain freezing rain sleet ice. We saw it all, today. It rains and temperature drops. Then we get more rain. Temperatures go down, and well have even more of a skating rink. For pedestrians. Near foster and sheridan, tonight. Each step a delicate dance to avoid a slip and fall. On sidewalks glazed over with ice. I like this weather. But its hard for walking. Slick conditions on the roads. A problem for drivers. Reports of crashes. As precipitation hit the pavement. Freezing on contact. Chicagos streets and sanitation department. And idot deploying hundreds of trucks to salt streets and expressways. Rough, slick dangerous. Make sure car starts up right. Another concern tree limbs and power lines falling under the weight of accumulating ice. Com ed dealing with an increase in outages. Mostly in the north suburbs. double check numbers at 8p chicagoans dealing with a bizarre january day. And, taking it all in caution altered stride. Its pretty dangerous, so be careful out t
Midmay today, but across the country, the competing signals. The governor of ohio already planning to ease some restrictions. In south dakota, a state that never issued a stay at home order, that major outbreak at a Food Processing plant. Hundreds sickened, now the largest cluster in the nation. And tonight, many hospitals across the country, doctors and nurses, still stretched to the limit. The moment one doctor has to step out of the e. R. , she says, it was too much. Also developing tonight, the horrific toll on some of the most vulnerable. New reporting on a terrible discovery. At least 15 found dead in a small morgue at one new jersey nursing home. Police tipped off when more body bags were requested. 68 dead since just january, two nurses among the victims. Tonight, the investigation. The financial toll on American Families growing tonight. The new numbers just in. Now 22 million americans out of a job in the last month. More than 5 million workers filing unemployment claims in j
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