(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Toronto 3, Philadelphia 2 Houston 10, Colorado 8 Toronto 9, Philadelphia 8 LA Dodgers 6, Seattle 1 Minnesota 7, Milwaukee 1 Cleveland 2, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 8, Texas 7 Oakland 5, Arizona 1 San Francisco 10, LA Angels 5
AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay 10, NY Yankees 5 Chi White Sox 9, Detroit 0 Boston 7, Baltimore 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4 NY Mets at Miami (Postponed) NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Miami 109, Indiana 100 Houston 111, Oklahoma City 98 Milwaukee 111, Orlando 96 LA Lakers 111, Portland 88 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS NY Islanders 4, Washington 0 Dallas 7, Calgary 3 WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Chicago 101 New York 85 Indiana 90, Seattle 84 Las Vegas 99, Connecticut 78
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER New York 1, New York City FC 0 Columbus 3, Chicago 0 Philadelphia 0, New England 0 Orlando City at Miami (Canceled) FC Dallas at Houston (Canceled)
Don Arnold/WireImage (NEW YORK) –Russell Crowe’s Unhinged hits today — the first wide release in the U.S. since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and director Derrick Borte calls it an “adrenaline fueled thrill ride” he’s hoping will offer an escape from the everyday worries we’re all facing right now.
Borte tells ABC Audio his wish for the film is to bring people “back to the theater where we have such a long history of this communal type experience of sharing…what’s on this giant screen together and bringing people together in some way that is a huge part of all of our lives.”
As the first movie to open in the U.S. since the pandemic brought production to a halt in March, Borte is not as concerned about whether Unhinged will bring people into theaters, as he is about the theaters themselves being a safe place for them to gather.
“It brings with it a lot of pressure,” he explains, but really more about, you know, pressure to make sure that the people in charge are doing the right thing to make it a safe environment for people.
“Thankfully I’ve gotten to really see some of the things that they’re doing, from touchless entry and distancing and the lobbies and checkerboards seeding and spraying the theaters down with these disinfectants that they’re using elsewhere on planes and whatnot between screenings and wearing masks and in a theater,” he continues. “So, I mean, my comfort level is I’m gonna be at the theater Friday night.”
Big MachineToday, Tim McGraw‘s first solo album in nearly five years, Here on Earth, arrives. But, save for one phone call, Tim might be practicing law in Louisiana, having never followed his musical dreams.
You see, Tim’s mother Betty missed her own high school graduation after becoming pregnant with Tim, and went on to work multiple jobs to support him and his sisters as a single parent. So it was especially important to her that Tim have an easier life.
“I was in college and I knew how bad she wanted me to go to college,” Tim recalls. “And I was in pre-law and I was gonna go to law school and do all that stuff.”
“And I was a pretty good student coming out of high school,” he reveals, “and I knew how bad she wanted me to do that.”
But even with his interest in justice and politics, Tim couldn’t stifle his onstage aspirations.
So, just as he sings in the top-ten lead single from the new album, Tim “Called Mama.”
“I remember calling her — and getting up the nerve to call her — to tell her that I was gonna quit college and move to Nashville,” Tim says, on the verge of tears. “And it took me a while to do that.”
“And when I told her, she just said, ‘I’m surprised you hadn’t done it already,'” he remembers. “And that was her way of just telling me, ‘Go do it.'”
“So, you know, she’s a big deal to me,” he adds.
These days, it’s Tim who’s giving his stamp of approval to spur others onward. Devin Dawson‘s new single, “I Got a Truck,” was inspired by the story Tim told him about being willing to put his vehicle up for collateral while struggling to make it.
(LOS ANGELES) — Widespread fires continue to burn across California, stretching resources and expanding evacuation orders that have forced thousands to leave their homes.
A historic lightning siege in the state has ignited hundreds of fires since Monday, and as some are contained, others newly emerge or merge. The fires have also come during a record-breaking heat wave in California.
Some of the largest wildfires are in Northern California.
The biggest incident — the so-called SCU Lightning Complex fires — has burned more than 137,400 acres across Santa Clara, Alameda, Stanislaus, Contra Costa and San Joaquin counties since Tuesday. It was only 5% contained by Thursday afternoon, as more than 1,000 personnel battled over 20 fires. So far two firefighters have been injured, officials said.
The LNU Lightning Complex fires in Napa, Sonoma and Solano counties has been the most destructive, with 105 structures destroyed, 70 damaged and 30,500 threatened. It’s also one of the fastest-growing. By Wednesday, it had burned more than 46,000 acres; by Thursday afternoon, that number had ballooned to 131,000 acres, and the fires were still 0% contained. More than 580 personnel were fighting the complex fire, which so far has resulted in four civilian injuries, officials said.
In central California, 48,000 people have been ordered to evacuate due to the CZU August Lightning Complex fires in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. It was 0% contained as of Thursday afternoon, burning some 48,000 acres. Nearly 600 firefighters were assigned to the fires, with three reported injuries. Fifty structures have been destroyed so far, with more than 8,500 threatened.
“Those are just the confirmed structures,” Cal Fire Chief Deputy Director Craig Tolmie said Thursday evening. “We believe it will go to the triple digits, it’s just too early.”
The University of California, Santa Cruz campus was also evacuated Thursday night.
The fire complex has “significant growth” potential due to weather patterns and the fire history, Cal Fire incident Cmdr. Billy See said Thursday at a press briefing.
Smaller fires also continue to burn or pop up throughout California, including several in Monterey County.
Four people have died this week responding to fires in the state. A utility worker clearing roadways for emergency vehicles responding to the LNU Lightning Complex fires was found unconscious in his car on Wednesday and died at a nearby hospital, officials said. A helicopter pilot involved in firefighting was killed in a crash near Coalinga Wednesday morning, officials said.
On Thursday, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to ABC News that an adult man was found dead on a road that had been burned, saying “the person succumbed to the fire.” Cal Fire said Thursday evening another person had died in Napa County, but no specifics were immediately available.
Due to the sheer number of fires, resources, from personnel to vehicles to air tankers, are stretched, authorities said.
“We’re used to lots of resources, and that’s not where we’re at today,” Chief Sean Cavanaugh, a Cal Fire incident commander, said Thursday at an update on the LNU Lightning Complex.
Down in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, the situation is the same.
“We have very little firefighting resources,” See said. “The emergency response capabilities in California have been pushed to their extent.”
One limited resource is people. The LNU Lightning Complex has 587 personnel responding to it. “That’s a very low number,” Division Chief Jeff Chumbley, a Cal Fire public information officer, told ABC News. For comparison, a recent fire in central California with “significantly less acreage” had about 500 personnel on it, he said.
“I’m sure that every fire is experiencing similar circumstances, as far as just shortage of personnel,” he said.
Going into the wildfire season, California was already short on personnel; the Sacramento Bee reported last month that California has had fewer inmate firefighting crews due to quarantine measures and expedited releases amid the coronavirus pandemic.
See said they are bringing in resources from outside the state to help battle the CZU August Lightning Complex, “but that takes time.”
As responders start building containment lines in one incident, that should free up resources for others, Chumbley said.
“I think we’re all just trying to be as patient as we can as we wait for resources,” he said.
In the meantime, evacuation orders have been issued for areas in nearly a dozen counties, and more are expected over the next 48 hours, Cal Fire officials said, as the fires continue to burn mostly uncontained. Santa Cruz County has also asked visitors to leave to make room for evacuees in hotels, which are being used as shelters.
Officials are urging people to comply with the evacuation orders to ease the burden of the responders and prevent injury or death.
“Evacuation areas are dangerous,” Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick said at a press briefing Thursday. “Once an area is evacuated, we do not want you to reenter that area.”
Essick said there were “minor reports” of people needing to be rescued after entering evacuation areas.
“When we have to rescue you from an evacuation area, it creates a secondary burden on police and fire services and adds to the problems,” he said.
Authorities are also concerned that people are pulling over on highways to take photos of the fires, which can hinder evacuations.
For those at home, the state health department is urging people near fire-stricken areas to stay indoors when possible due to poor air quality.
“Smoke doesn’t know borders or boundaries, and regions that are miles away from fires can have poor air quality,” the department’s acting director, Sandra Shewry, said in a statement.
ABC News’ Jenna Harrison and Matt Fuhrman contributed to this report.
(LOS ANGELES) — Police arrested two suspects on Thursday in connection with a hate crime against three transgender women on Los Angeles’ Hollywood Boulevard.
The violent incident was caught on video on Monday, with a man yelling derogatory slurs, allegedly robbing them and attacking one woman with a bottle. Others in the video could be seen looking on, joking about the attack and filming it. The department described the primary suspect as homeless man based in the Hollywood area who police officers said they recognized from previous encounters.
A third suspect has yet to be arrested, police said.
The department posted video of the incident that showed the face of the man, but later removed the video due to its disturbing nature. Instead, officials posted screenshots from the video, highlighting the suspect in the hope of tracking him down.
Sources with knowledge of the investigation told ABC News on Wednesday that the department knew the identity of the suspect and was working to locate him. Social media users on Instagram and Twitter also shared tips on the man’s identity.
The victims said the man first approached them inside a store and offered to buy them some items, but then he refused to pay.
They said the same man later returned and approached one of them.
“He held a crow bar to my face and threatened to kill me unless I stripped my shoes off and gave him my jewelry and all my processions,” Joslyn Allen, one of the three transgender women targeted, wrote in an Instagram post.
“He said if i was trans he would kill me,” Allen wrote. “He then forced me to hold his hand while he looks for my friends to kill them for being trans.”
Police said the suspect led Allen away and they walked together for a short distance before she managed to break free.
Once she escaped, Allen said the suspect stuck her friend, Jaslene Busanet, with a bottle, knocking her to the ground, and then made derogatory remarks about her. The other victims said their purses, cellphones and money were stolen.
“I just collapsed to the floor,” Busanet told Los Angeles ABC station KABC. “There were men saying ‘Oh, she’s dead,’ laughing at me.”
Allen said others gathered around and shouted anti-transgender slurs.
“Meanwhile men and WOMEN screaming that I’m a man and telling him to beat me,” she posted to Instagram. “Please help us find them. PLEASE.”
Northwell Health opens Long Island’s 1st transgender health care center The group said bystanders watched and recorded for more than five minutes as they pleaded for someone to call 911.
The attack comes amid rising concerns from LGBTQ rights advocates, who have accused U.S. law enforcement agencies of being too lax when it comes to crimes involving transgender victims.
At least 26 transgender or gender nonconforming people have been killed in the U.S. so far in 2020, with transgender women of color making up the bulk of those victims, according to data provided by the Human Rights Campaign.
The group reported 25 killings in 2019 and 29 in 2018, the most it had ever recorded in a year.
ABC News’ Robert Zepeda, Matt Gutman and Alex Stone contributed to this report.
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