ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Since Friday, there have been at least 350 reports of severe weather across the southern U.S. This includes five reported tornadoes — one in Louisiana, two in Mississippi, one in Florida and one in Georgia. In Louisiana, a confirmed EF-3 tornado with winds up to 140 mph touched down near Palmetto. The tornado was on the ground for over eight miles and killed one person while injuring seven others. In Panama City Beach, a waterspout moving ashore did widespread damage to…
Day: April 11, 2021
Search effort underway for missing LSU student whose car was found on Mississippi River bridge
LSU Police DepartmentBY: MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Authorities and volunteers are searching for a missing Louisiana State University student whose car was found abandoned on a Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge earlier this week. Kori Gauthier, an 18-year-old freshman at LSU, was last seen Tuesday, her family said. Officers found her car after midnight Thursday on the eastbound side of the Horace Wilkinson Bridge on Interstate 10 after someone crashed into it, police said. Her car was left unoccupied on the bridge, which is about…
Police negotiators on scene at hotel after reports of a barricaded gunman, gunshots
kali9/iStockBY: JON HAWORTH, ABC NEWS (HONOLULU) — A man with a firearm has barricaded himself in a Honolulu hotel room following reports of multiple shots being fired, officials said. Honolulu Police Department Captain Brian Lynch said that a 911 call came in at approximately 5:40 p.m. Saturday reporting that multiple shots had been fired at the Kahala Hotel & Resort, according to ABC News’ Honolulu affiliate KITV-TV. According to KITV, Lynch said that there were about five shots fired from a guest’s room on the fourth floor of the hotel…