Houston police Chief Art Acevedo says authorities have rescued 2,000 people from flooding in the city.
Acevedo says the city has 185 critical rescue requests still pending as of Monday morning. He says the goal is to rescue those people by the end of the day.
The comments came at a news conference where officials provided updates on Harvey, which is still pouring rain on the Houston area.
Harvey came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, as a Category 4 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. The slow-moving storm has caused catastrophic flooding in Texas.
In his prime-time address to the nation at a military base near Washington, US President Donald Trump said his new approach was aimed at preventing Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for Islamist militants bent on attacking the United States. His address primarily focused on the South-Asian region and their combined battle with terror. He also highlighted the US’s relations with India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this respect.
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This incident caught on CCTV cameras will make your heart skip a beat. A little girl in Bengaluru was run over by a car but miraculously survived the accident without any serious injuries. People near by come to rescue the baby after the accident but are relieved to see the girl safe.
21-year-old Prachi Sukhwani lost her vision partially at an age of nine but that didn’t stop her from heading towards her goal. She aced the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016, with a score of 98.55 percentile and accomplished her dream by making it to IIM Ahmedabad.
Two people died Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide at a Texas community college, prompting an active-shooter alert that instructed students and employees to barricade themselves in rooms. It was the second deadly attack on a Texas campus this week. Irving police spokesman James McLellan said that no one else was hurt in the shooting at North Lake College, a two-year public school in suburban Dallas. The college said classes will not resume until Friday. The shooting came two days after one person was killed and three others injured in a stabbing attack at the University of Texas in Austin. Police said the suspect in that attack was suffering from mental health troubles and at one point had been involuntarily committed for treatment.
An Ohio family that hosted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for dinner says he made it clear he wasn't planning to run for president in 2020. Zuckerberg dined at the Moore family home in Newton Falls on 28 April during his mission to visit all 50 states. A member of the family, Daniel Moore, said, "He’s legitimately doing this to make connections with communities, get to know people in communities that are different from the communities that he’s in, he’s not doing this as a publicity stunt, and he’s not doing this to set up a run for political office. "
India and Turkey said on Monday that no reason or rationale can validate terrorism. In a joint press conference held by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, both the world leaders pitched for strong action against those who provide shelter and support to such forces. PM Modi and visiting President Erdogan held comprehensive discussions and took stock of full range of bilateral relations, including political and economic.
A terrifying video has emerged from Shenzhen, China of a coach accident which injured at least 11 people. The dramatic clip, which was captured by an onboard camera shows two people flying right out of the coach when it crashed into the central reservation. The vehicle then flips over on the motorway. The coach smashed into three cars and caused two others to collide, according to local media. One person was seriously injured but the others escaped with only minor injuries, according to local media.
CRPF commandant Chetan Cheetah, who was shot nine times during an encounter with terrorists in Kashmir, has made a miraculous recovery and was discharged from the AIIMS on Wednesday. Cheetah was first wheeled in on 14 February at the trauma centre of the premier medical institute after being airlifted from Srinagar. Doctors attending to him said he has shown a steely resolve to respond to their intensive medical care that went on for close to about two months. Professor of Trauma Surgery at the AIIMS Subodh Kumar, while announcing his recovery in an interaction with journalists, said it was "nothing short of a miracle".
