Triple Tigers/RCA RecordsNearly five years since the release of her debut, Cam‘s sophomore album is finally out.
Along the way, the “Burning House” hitmaker got married, had a baby, and changed record labels.
“I think The Otherside is such an apt title,” she reflects, “because in the middle of it, just like life, you’re frustrated it’s just not all happening right now… And the truth is, you can’t see the forest from the trees when you’re in it.”
“But when you get to the other side,” she continues, “you can laugh at the parts that made you cry before. You see the meaning kind of running through all of it. You see yourself becoming more of yourself and learning the things you’re supposed to learn.”
As much as Cam wishes The Otherside had arrived earlier, time proved to be a necessary ingredient.
“If I’d put this record out any sooner, you wouldn’t have had ‘Girl Like Me,’ you wouldn’t have had ‘Classic,’” she explains. “And those are really important notes…”
“I love to think of it as… a soundtrack,” she adds. “You have all the different songs for all the different parts of the story.”
Ultimately, Cam believes there’s something here for everybody.
“It reminds me of when Mary Poppins pours her medicine, it’s different colors for different people,” she tells ABC Audio. “If you sit and listen to this record with your friends, you’re not gonna like the same song…”
“And I think that’s the product of having five years of life experience and me doing my own therapy on a record,” she laughs, “that you get to live in each of those moments at different times, when it is right for you…”
“I’m so grateful that [this healing is] a gift I get to give in 2020.”
iStock/Zbynek PospisilBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News
(WASHINGTON) — With tensions already running high over the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Black man by sheriff’s deputies, protests this weekend in Vancouver, Washington, devolved into reported vandalism of businesses and fights between demonstrators demanding justice and members of right-wing groups that converged in the city.
Kevin Peterson Jr. was shot to death on Thursday evening by Clark County sheriff’s deputies in Hazel Dell, an unincorporated area of Vancouver, prompting consecutive nights of protests that led to at least six arrests early Saturday after authorities said some demonstrators ignored orders to disperse and began hurling rocks at law enforcement officers outside the Clark County Jail in Vancouver.
On Saturday night, members of a right-wing group gathered in Esther Park in Vancouver, prompting police to close the park. Those protesting Peterson’s shooting and counter-demonstrators stood on opposite sides of a downtown Vancouver street arguing as a large police presence attempted to prevent the confrontation from escalating into violence.
On Friday night, video taken by ABC affiliate KATU in Portland, Oregon, showed fights breaking out between protesters and counter-protesters in Vancouver following a vigil for Peterson.
Peterson was shot dead around 6 p.m. Thursday by three Clark County sheriff’s deputies in the parking lot of a bank in Hazel Dell, just north of downtown Vancouver, law enforcement officials said.
An independent investigation of the deadly encounter is being led by the Camas Police Department and the Southwest Washington Independent Investigative Response Team, which is comprised of certified peace officers and non-law enforcement community representatives.
During a brief news conference on Friday, Clark County Sheriff Chuck Atkins said the shooting unfolded as detectives of the Clark/Vancouver Drug Task Force were investigating suspected drug dealing in the parking lot of a motel in Hazel Dell. He said detectives spotted a man sitting alone in a car and as they approached the vehicle, the occupant got out and ran.
“A foot pursuit ensued where deputies from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office were chasing a man with a firearm,” Atkins said. “The information I have is that upon entering the parking lot of a bank, the man reportedly fired his weapon at the deputies. The deputies returned fire and the subject was tragically killed. It is my understanding that the man’s firearm was observed at the scene.”
The man who was killed was later identified by his family as Peterson.
“It’s important to relate that the loss of a young man’s life likely means there is a grieving father, mother and other family. It is right and correct that the community would grieve along with this family,” Atkins said.
He said that the three deputies who opened fire on Peterson have been placed on administrative leave while the results of the investigation are pending, in keeping with standard protocol for officer-involved shootings. The names of the deputies have not been released.
Battle Ground, Washington, Police Chief Mike Fort, the spokesman for the Southwest Washington Independent Investigative Response Team, released a statement saying that during the initial foot chase, Peterson allegedly pointed a gun at the narcotics detectives, causing them to back off as he kept running.
Fort said a short time later, the three Clark County deputies spotted the man and all three fired their handguns. Fort did not say in the statement that Peterson fired at the deputies.
He said a .40-caliber Glock handgun was found near the body of Peterson, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Peterson’s father, Kevin Peterson, told The Oregonian that his son “wasn’t a problem child at all” and said that he was “a good kid.” He said that his son, one of six siblings, played high school basketball and football.
Peterson’s death follows months of protests nationwide over a string of police killings of Black people, including George Floyd, who died on May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer was captured on cellphone video digging his knee into Floyd’s neck as the 46-year-old cried out, “I can’t breathe.”
Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer accused of killing Floyd, has been charged with second and third-degree murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death. He was released from jail on $1 million bond, in early October.
The three other officers who were at the scene of Floyd’s death, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, have been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting manslaughter. They have all also been released from jail as the four former officers await their trial starting next March.
In March, Breonna Taylor was killed by police at her Louisville home. In September, a grand jury indicted one of the officers, Brett Hankison, on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for firing into the apartment directly behind Taylor’s, where three people were inside. Hankison pleaded not guilty. But none of the officers involved in Taylor’s death were charged in connection to her loss of life.
The Hazel Dell community is less than 20 miles from Portland, Oregon, where protests over Floyd’s death have turned violent and led to clashes with right-wing counter-protesters.
On Aug. 29, Aaron “Jay” Danielson, 39, a supporter of a right-wing group was shot to death in Portland allegedly during a confrontation with 48-year-old Michael Reinoehl, who claimed in an interview with Vice News that he was providing security for Black Lives Matter protests in Portland and shot Danielson in self-defense.
On Sept. 3, Reinoehl was shot to death in Lacy, Washington, by a federal fugitive task force attempting to arrest him on a second-degree murder charge stemming from Danielson’s killing.
ABC News’ Ahmad Hemingway contributed to this report.
pinkomelet/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News
(NEW YORK) — New York state is moving away from a travel advisory that required a two-week quarantine for people coming from COVID-19 hotspots and instead will mandate that all travelers test negative for the virus before and after coming to the state, the governor announced Saturday.
“There will be no quarantine list, there will be no metrics,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters. “There will be one rule that applies across the country.”
That rule requires that those coming to New York must test negative for COVID-19 within three days before their arrival, and have proof of the test. Once in New York, they must quarantine for three days and take another test on the fourth day. If they test negative, they can end their quarantine.
Residents of New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania are exempt from this requirement, Cuomo said.
New York residents who travel to another state for 24 hours or fewer must take a COVID-19 test within four days of arrival, the governor said. Any longer and, like non-residents, they must take a test within three days of travel and test negative, quarantine for three days upon return and get tested on the fourth day. If they test negative, “you go about your business,” Cuomo said.
It is unclear when the new requirements go into effect.
Cuomo stressed the need for the new policy as Thanksgiving approaches.
“Just because they’re your family, doesn’t mean they’re safe from COVID,” he said. “And that’s where we’re seeing increases.”
The original travel advisory, which the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced in late June, required that people coming to the region from states with a positive case rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents, or higher than a 10% test positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average, must quarantine for 14 days.
Nine states were on the travel advisory list at the time. On Tuesday, California was the latest state to be added to New York’s travel advisory, for a total of 41 states and territories. Neighboring states Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania had also met the criteria, but a quarantine was not required given the level of travel between the states. Instead, officials discouraged non-essential travel to those states.
Connecticut’s and New Jersey’s travel advisories are still in effect, according to their state websites. As of Tuesday, Connecticut had 42 states and territories on its list, while New Jersey had 41. Anyone traveling from those regions is asked to self-quarantine for two weeks.
The announcement comes as New York is targeting “micro-clusters” that have higher testing positivity rates. On Saturday, the positivity rate in these focus areas was 3.01%, while the statewide positivity rate excluding those areas was 1.3%. The statewide positivity rate is 1.49%.
New York has continued to see outbreaks linked to mass gatherings at houses of worship, weddings, funerals and other events, Cuomo said this week.
Marc Marnie/FilmMagic(LONDON) — Sir Sean Connery, the Academy Award-winning actor famous for playing James Bond, has died. He was 90.
The BBC reported Saturday that Connery died peacefully in his sleep in the Bahamas, having been “unwell for some time,” according to his son, actor Jason Connery.
Jason told the BBC his father “had many of his family who could be in the Bahamas around him” when he passed away overnight.
“We are devastated by the news of the passing of Sir Sean Connery,” Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement on Twitter.
“He was and shall always be remembered as the original James Bond whose indelible entrance into cinema history began when he announced those unforgettable words — ‘The name’s Bond… James Bond’ — he revolutionized the world with his gritty and witty portrayal of the sexy and charismatic secret agent. He is undoubtedly largely responsible for the success of the film series and we shall be forever grateful to him.”
Born Thomas Sean Connery in 1930 in Scotland, the eventual big-screen star quit school at an early age and later joined the Royal Navy. After being released from service due to stomach issues, Connery became a weightlifter, according to Biography.com.
He later placed third in the Mr. Universe Competition in the mid-1950s, which kick-started his acting career.
Connery enjoyed a decade of some success, including several TV series roles and the TV movie version of Macbeth, as well as a starring role in the 1959 Disney fantasy adventure Darby O’Gill and the Little People. But Connery’s career-defining break came when he was cast in 1962’s Dr. No as James Bond, becoming the first actor to bring agent 007 to the big screen.
“It was more fun in the earlier ones,” Connery told later told ABC’s Barbara Walters, admitting the Bond films would be his key to success in Hollywood. But Connery also said “the demand was enormous for publicity and exposure.”
From Dr. No, Connery went on to make From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball andYou Only Live Twice before walking away from the franchise. He was replaced by George Lazenby for 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, but returned for 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever. He then left again, and Roger Moore took over the role, though Connery would return as Bond one more time, for 1983’s aptly titled Never Say Never Again.
Outside the Bond franchise, Connery appeared in the critically-acclaimed movies Marnie, The Man Who Would Be King and Robin and Marian, among others. But it was his co-starring role in director Brian De Palma’s 1987 crime drama The Untouchables, opposite Kevin Costner, that earned Connery his first and only Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor.
After The Untouchables, Connery went on to star in the box office hits Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October and First Knight.
Connery’s last film was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003, an experience said to be so unpleasant, it convinced him it was time to retire from the big screen.
In 2008, after much speculation that Connery might reprise his role as Indiana Jones’ father in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, he posted on his website: “If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film. … But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun.”
Off screen, Connery was knighted in 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II.
“It’s one of the proudest days of my life,” Connery said after receiving the honor, Connery said at the time. “It means a great deal for it to happen in Scotland.”
Connery was married twice in his life, first to actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1973, then to Micheline Roquebrune from 1975 until his death. Connery is survived by his son Jason, who was born in 1963.
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is defending his decision to not give the grand jury on the case surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor the option to consider murder charges.
“It was not our judgment that there should be other charges that the grand jury should be advised of,” Cameron told ABC affiliate WBKO in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Thursday.
“The grand jury can, you know, as an independent body, bring up other questions or other issues,” Cameron said.
“I fully take responsibility for the recommendation that we made,” he said. “Based on the facts, that was the appropriate recommendation to make.”
Six months after Taylor was killed in March by police at her Louisville home, Cameron convened a grand jury to investigate possible charges against the officers.
In September a grand jury indicted one officer, Brett Hankison, on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment for firing into the apartment directly behind Taylor’s, where three people were inside. Hankison pleaded not guilty.
Hankison was fired and the other officers were placed on administrative duty.
But none of the officers involved in Taylor’s death were charged in connection to her loss of life, which ignited months of protests in Louisville and across the U.S.
Taylor, 26, was fatally shot in the early hours of March 13, when Louisville police tried to execute a search warrant as part of an investigation into a suspected drug operation allegedly linked to Taylor’s ex-boyfriend.
Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, said he thought intruders were breaking in, so he fired one shot from his licensed gun.
One officer was struck in the leg. Police opened fire and Taylor was struck multiple times.
Cameron told WBKO that the officers who opened fire were “justified” because they “returned fire after having been fired upon.”
“It is a sad case,” he said. “But my responsibility and job as the prosecutor is to make sure that the facts are presented to the grand jury, we made the recommendation as it relates to wanton endangerment to this other officer.”
Cameron told WBKO, “Not everybody is going to be happy with your decision. And I have to to live with that. But we did the right thing in this process.”
Attorneys for Hankison and Walker as well as Taylor’s family advocated for the release of the grand jury transcript and evidence connected to the case. Walker’s civil lawyers filed a successful motion this month to have the evidence collected by Louisville police department’s Professional Integrity Unit released to the public.
Last week a judge ruled in favor of an anonymous grand juror in the case, allowing the juror to come forward and speak publicly about the court proceedings. Cameron had argued against grand jurors speaking out, saying it could set a dangerous precedent for courtroom privacy. But after the judge’s decision, Cameron said he would not appeal.
Federal officials are also investigating possible civil rights violations.
Triple Tigers/RCA RecordsNearly five years since the release of her debut, Cam‘s sophomore album is finally out.
