Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 23 2024 10:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Falleh. Just as millions of Americans plan to travel for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Mother Nature is on a tear, the AP's Jennifer King. Storm damage has been reported in Texas and Arkansas as severe weather that raked Iowa in the Midwest, headed south. In Temple, Texas, north of Austin, officials issued an emergency declaration, debris blocked roads and thousands of residents lost power. Authorities say the twister that struck Greenfield, Iowa Wednesday was at least an EF 3. Everything was gone. Greenfield resident Kimberly Urgish lost her home. Ten seconds of just pure terror and it felt like it lasted a lifetime. It left four people dead and nearly three dozen injured. The town's 25 bed hospital was among the buildings damaged. The Adams County Sheriff's Office says a fifth person was killed about 25 miles away when her car was blown off the road. I'm Jennifer King. Millions of Americans will be wrestling with this weather as they take off for the holiday weekend. Travel is important to people now, says the triple A's Aixa Diaz. People are really viewing travel as something that brings them a lot of value to their life and they're prioritizing it. So perhaps they're cutting back in other areas, shopping. Maybe they're not shopping for clothes as much. Maybe they're not going out to dinner as much. But they're certainly willing to spend the money on travel. Now to abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. This morning the White House is asking the tech industry and financial institutions to voluntarily shut down that market. At the moment there's little the victims, like children and celebrities, can do to stop it. Fewer Americans applied for unemployment last week, layoffs remain low, and now to the WNBA's first franchise outside the U.S. It'll be Toronto. The expansion team set to begin play in 2026. And just in this morning, the U.S. is ready to announce millions more in military aid for Ukraine. This is AP News. An update now on passengers injured on that Singapore Airlines flight that hit turbulence. A Bangkok hospital has said that the most seriously injured people from a turbulence hit flight, going from London to Singapore, need spinal operations. One person died, and over a dozen people remained in intensive care following the Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence. The plane descended following turbulent weather over the Antaman Sea, arriving in Sydney passenger Beverly Mayors recalled the paddock in the plane. The whole plane was shuttering, and you think it's going to land on land, and the water is going to crack up. She added, "Great pieces were falling off and dropping on the floor, people getting hit in the head." Mayors said she just wants to be near her family now. "7-7's come to pick me up, and I say I have to stay with my other children. I'm just going to hold them close." I'm Karen Chamas, and I'm Rita Foley, AP News.