ABC/Christopher Willard(LOS ANGELES) — Claudia Conway, the 16-year-old daughter of Kellyanne Conway, a former senior counselor to former President Donald Trump and Lincoln Project founder and attorney George Conway, is set to audition for a spot on American Idol‘s upcoming season.
The popular TikTok personality appears in a new ad for the ABC singing competition series, shared Monday on American Idol‘s official Twitter page.
“I’m very nervous but very excited,” she says during an audition for a spot in the competition.
Later, she introduces herself to judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie by saying, “I’m Claudia Conway. My parents are high-profile political figures.”
“But will she get a ticket to Hollywood?” a voiceover teases, before, Perry tells her, “We want an American Idol.”
Conway first suggested that she would appear on the show in a TikTok video last fall.
American Idol‘s new season kicks off Sunday 14 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
(NEW YORK) — The winter blast that is occurring across much of the country is going to get worse before it gets better.
On Wednesday, winter weather alerts stretch nearly coast to coast, affecting at least 100 million Americans, due to several major weather concerns.
Arctic Air is locked in place over much of the Midwest and Chicago will see its sixth straight day below freezing, with at least another full week or more of the same weather expected.
The Arctic air has pushed the jet stream pretty far south and is causing several storms expected to move across the country in the coming week.
A major concern is an ice storm that will develop from Texas to mid-Atlantic over the next few days with rounds of freezing rain and snow hitting the region through Friday.
Ice accumulation will cause power outages and dangerous travel for the next few days as well.
As the precipitation becomes all snow in the mid-Atlantic, it will accumulate locally over 6 inches of snow, especially in the higher elevations from Virginia to Pennsylvania with the heaviest and most organized snow for the mid-Atlantic coming on Friday.
There could be, locally, over a half inch of ice — especially in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky — and this could have major impacts on the region through the end of the week.
Additionally, a winter storm will hit Oregon and Washington on Thursday and Friday, including Portland and Tacoma.
Locally, up to 1 to 8 inches of snow is possible, including freezing rain which could have major impacts in those metro areas.
A look ahead at the computer models shows this Arctic blast is going to get much worse this weekend and early next week.
Computer guidance suggests the bitter cold will make a surge into the southern U.S. and expand eastward, especially Sunday and Monday.
This will likely result in widespread record lows in the central U.S., where temperatures at times could be 50 degrees below average.
This will force the jet stream to become quite amplified and still favor storms to track along the southern U.S. and then up the East Coast.
Simply put, the recipe for more impactful weather, mainly in the form of snow and ice will remain across much of the U.S. through the next week.
David McNew/Getty ImagesBy AMANDA MAILE, MINA KAJI and ALEX STONE, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — Federal investigators on Tuesday said the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others, including the pilot, crashed last January when the pilot became disoriented after flying in thick fog.
The pilot did not follow training, violated visual flight rules and was unable to differentiate between up and down, investigators found.
The pilot, Ara Zobayan, was flying under Visual Flight Rules, meaning he needed full visibility. Instead of diverting the Jan. 26, 2020, flight to a nearby airport, Zobayan continued the flight into dense clouds, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said. The investigators said he tried to climb out of the cloud cover but instead turned left and descended, slamming the helicopter into nearby hills.
Bryant and their close family friends were headed to a basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy on the day of the crash.
Zobayan had been employed by Island Express Helicopters since 2011, logging about 8,500 hours of pilot-flying time. He had been flying in the area of the crash for a decade and often flew Kobe Bryant.
Zobayan reportedly told air traffic control they were “climbing” to 4,000 feet, when in reality the aircraft was falling, according to the NTSB.
“The scenario we believe happened is that he is flying along, he realizes he’s getting boxed in with visibility, and he must have made the decision that I’m going to punch up through these clouds and get on top,” NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt said.
Board members said the crash could have been prevented and the pilot “went contrary to his training.”
The Los Angeles Police Department had grounded its own fleet of helicopters the morning of the crash due to poor visibility. One eyewitness described the fog as “like jumping into a pool of milk.”
Zobayan sent a text message the morning of the crash, saying, “Weather looking ok” after expressing concerns the day before that the flight may not take off due to poor conditions. Zobayan frequently piloted flights for Bryant and “likely did not want to disappoint him” the NTSB said. Despite this, the agency said Zobayan was not pressured to conduct the flight by neither Island Express nor his client.
The helicopter involved in the crash was a Sikorsky S-76B owned and operated by Island Express. It was not equipped with a flight-data recorder nor a cockpit voice recorder, both of which were not required.
The agency disclosed that the engines were working at the time of impact and there appeared to be no mechanical issues with the chopper.
There were 184 aircraft crashes from 2010 to 2019 from spatial disorientation — 20 of them were fatal helicopter crashes, the NTSB said.
The crash has led to a slew of lawsuits including one from Vanessa Bryant in February 2020 against the pilot and the company that owned the helicopter for negligence and wrongful deaths. Families of the other victims have sued the helicopter company.
Island Express did not immediately respond to request for comment.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Detroit 122, Brooklyn 111 New Orleans 130, Houston 101 Miami 98, New York 96 Golden State 114, San Antonio 91 Portland 106, Orlando 97 Philadelphia 119, Sacramento 111 Utah 122, Boston 108
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Florida 2, Detroit 1 Edmonton 3, Ottawa 2 Chicago 2, Dallas 1 (OT) Tampa Bay 6, Nashville 1 Calgary 3, Winnipeg 2 Vegas 5, Anaheim 4 San Jose 4, Los Angeles 3 (SO) Philadelphia at Washington (Postponed) St. Louis at Minnesota (Postponed) Arizona at Colorado (Postponed)
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL West Virginia 82, Texas Tech 71 Alabama 81, South Carolina 78 Texas 80, Kansas St. 77 Creighton 63, Georgetown 48 DePaul at Villanova (Postponed) Florida St. at Virginia Tech (Postponed)
Mercury NashvilleLauren Alaina‘s new single, “Getting Over Him,” may be a duet with her pal Jon Pardi, but she wrote it as a reaction to putting her last two boyfriends in the past.
The American Idol runner-up dated and was briefly engaged to high school beau Alex Hopkins, before her relationship with comedian John Crist. After a lot of soul-searching, Lauren admits she relished opening up about her struggles on her latest EP, also titled Getting Over Him.
“It’s one of my favorites,” she says of the song. “I think it’s so fun. It is so unlike anything I’ve ever done.”
“I had this idea because after my two breakups,” she continues, “I had not been single — like really been single — since I was 17 years old. And I was like, ‘I just need a little flirty song about a boy in a bar, I think.'”
Believe it or not, the famously outgoing hitmaker maintains she didn’t have any game when it came to attracting the opposite sex.
“Y’all, the struggle was real for me to learn how to actually flirt,” she insists. “I’m getting better, but I was like, ‘I don’t know how to flirt with intent!'”
“I’m a very, like, flirty, outgoing person,” she admits. “But I’d never, like, flirted with people in hopes that they would be like, ‘Do you want to go on a date?’ You know? So I was, like, really trying to figure that out.”
“Getting Over Him” follows Lauren’s top thirty hit, “Getting Good.” She previously topped the chart with her own “Road Less Traveled” in 2017, and with Kane Brown and “What Ifs” that same year. Last year, she made it to number one again with HARDY and Devin Dawson and “One Beer.”
ABC/Christopher Willard(LOS ANGELES) — Claudia Conway, the 16-year-old daughter of Kellyanne Conway, a former senior counselor to former President Donald Trump and Lincoln Project founder and attorney George Conway, is set to audition for a spot on American Idol‘s upcoming season.
