(DALLAS) — Hanna has weakened to a tropical storm as it continues to move inland this morning though it is still bringing tropical storm force winds, rain and storm surge to southern Texas.
The center of Hanna should be passing into Mexico right around this morning, however, Texans will still be contending with the wind and rain into this afternoon.
Rain will continue to move onshore as the center of Hanna moves slowly to the west-southwest.
Impacts are still ongoing with a Tropical Storm Warning in effect as well as Flash Flood watches stretching from just south of Houston to Brownsville.
Even while the center is in Mexico, rain showers will be ongoing. Shower activity becomes more sporadic in the afternoon and evening hours and the winds will begin to calm down as well.
Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Warnings and Hurricane Warnings are up for the Hawaiian Islands as Hurricane Douglas makes its approach.
Hurricane Douglas is a Category 1 storm with sustained winds at 90 mph. It is currently 240 miles east of Kahului, Hawaii, and is moving west-northwest at 16 mph.
Douglas will be impacting the Hawaiian Islands today and tomorrow with wind, rain and rough surf. There is also a threat for flash flooding and landslides due to heavy rain forecasted.
Douglas is forecast to weaken to a tropical storm overnight tonight into early Monday morning as it passes close to Kauai.
Douglas will also likely be making a close pass, not a direct hit, so no official “landfall” is expected though impacts will still be felt in the Hawaiian Islands.
Another broad area of low pressure is beginning to get its act together off the coast of Africa this morning as it moves westward. The National Hurricane Center gives it a 90% chance of development in the next 5 days.
Meanwhile, another Heat Wave is forecast for the Northeast this week.
Temperatures will be in the 90s through the middle of the week which should mean another official “Heat Wave” — three consecutive days at or above 90 degrees — is in the forecast for New York City and Philadelphia.
John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images(PARIS) — Academy Award-winning actress Olivia de Havilland, who was the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind, has passed away at the age of 104.
Her publicist confirms to ABC News that de Havilland died peacefully from natural causes on July 26 at her home in Paris, France.
De Havilland was best known for playing the role of Melanie “Mellie” Hamilton in 1939’s Gone with the Wind — a role that her younger sister Joan Fontaine had reportedly turned down and had suggested go to de Havilland instead.
De Havilland won two Oscars, for 1946’s To Each His Own and 1949’s The Heiress, making her and her sister Fontaine the only siblings to have won lead acting Academy Awards. The reported rivalry between the sisters, born 15 months apart, was considered something of Hollywood legend.
Olivia Mary de Havilland was born July 1, 1916, in Tokyo to British parents. Her parents, Lilian Augusta, a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney, divorced when de Havilland was three, and she moved with her mother and sister to Los Angeles.
Both sisters expressed an interest in acting but de Havilland broke into the business first, after she was spotted in a community production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She later appeared in the Warner Bros. film version of the play and was signed to a seven-year contract with the studio.
In 1944, she famously challenged the rules of the studio system by becoming a free agent. She left her studio and demanded control over the roles she took on-screen. Today, the De Havilland Law, which prevents exclusive contracts from lasting longer than seven years, grants actors their working independence.
De Havilland made her final appearance on camera in the 1988 TV movie The Woman He Loved, before stepping away from the spotlight and enjoying a quiet retirement in France.
(NEW YORK) – Major league ballplayers have gotten into full swing with the 2020 season officially underway. Even though the pandemic shut down spring training, professional pitchers were still throwing a lot in preparation for a shortened season amid the pandemic.
High school pitchers were also prepping for what was supposed to be their spring leagues. Under normal circumstances, players at the high school level would be in the midst of a long year of throwing dating back to fall ball. They pitch through winter workouts, their spring seasons, and what would have been summer ball.
Pitchers’ arms in particular are tired after throwing fastballs with full force and curve balls using a twisting arm motion to get the ball to break and spin. Pitchers can throw over 100 times a day on game days, while also lightly tossing on off days. Then, there are the elite pitchers, who also participate in club leagues and showcase tournaments hoping to make it to the college level.
It is a lot of throwing. Over the past two decades, doctors have seen an uptick in Tommy John surgeries among youth pitchers, which are performed after an athlete tears the ulnar collateral ligament in the elbow.
With so many operations, sports doctors have said Tommy John surgery has become an epidemic among high school pitchers. A 2015 study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found athletes between the ages of 15 to 19 accounted for 56.8% of all Tommy John procedures.
Dr. Jeffrey Dugas is an orthopedic surgeon with the Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopedic Center in Alabama. He told ABC’s Todd Ant on the “Perspective” podcast that about 20% of all procedures he performs are of the “Tommy John-type,” and all of that throwing takes its toll on young arms:
“I would say it’s still an epidemic. The problem that we see, though, is that it’s going younger. Over the last decade I do think that the curve has flattened a little bit in terms of just the raw number of cases that we see. I definitely do not think it has gone backwards. I do think it is still climbing… The vast majority of UCL injuries occur in high school athletes. That’s also the most at-risk population because they are still skeletally immature. In a study that we did recently on the UCL repair, the average age was 18, and that means that ranged from 12 to 30.”
Dr. Christopher Ahmad, the attending orthopedic surgeon at the New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center and team physician for the New York Yankees, says now that high school kids have access to professional pitching coaches and facilities, they are more at-risk: “Essentially, they’re training with young bodies, just like professionals who would have already built up the foundation of being prepared for the intensity of training at their professional level. A 14-year-old is doing strength and conditioning. They’re putting so much stress on their body and they’re competing at higher levels where every time they play, they sense that they have to win. That’s created an atmosphere of increased injury because of this pressure to compete and perform earlier in your life than you normally would have been, say, 30 years ago.”
Like Dr. Dugas, Dr. Ahmad says the athletes who are undergoing Tommy John surgery continue to skew young.
Dr. Frank Jobe performed the first ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction on Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tommy John in 1974. The revolutionary surgical operation was a resounding success that allowed John to pitch at the Major League level for many years afterwards.
Tommy John spoke to ABC Radio about his injury and the subsequent surgery:
“I threw the fateful pitch July 17th, 1974. Something was very, very, very wrong. Dr. Jobe examined me. He said, ‘Let’s let it rest for six, seven weeks, and then if we’re lucky, it’ll heal. Then, you start back slowly and you know, and you’ll be able to pitch the rest of the season.’ Well, I did that and I couldn’t.”
High school varsity coach John Sheppard at Morristown Beard in New Jersey has been working with young pitchers for over 25 years, and he believes curveballs may be putting some extra stress on amateur arms. His brother, Rob Shepherd, runs a successful baseball program as head coach at Seton Hall University. He believes young arms should be monitored closely before reaching the college level:
“I think the responsibility is on the coach to make sure that they’re utilizing the players correctly. If you ask a player if he’s OK, he’s going to tell you he’s OK. So, I think the key is with the parents as well as a coach.”
The long layoff for so many amateur baseball players due to the coronavirus pandemic could negatively affect these young arms when it comes time to play again. Dr. Dugas has some recommendations for youth players hoping to get back on the mound next spring or summer:
“It’s all about not throwing fatigued. Pitch count is very important, but you’ll see a kid the first day throw 100 pitches, having just come off of a period of time off. That’s not OK. That interval throwing program, that strengthening program, that time to get the body ready is really important.”
Dr. Ahmad advises pitchers to get proper rest, stick to a reasonable pitch count, and never play with elbow pain:
“The ligament is like a wire hanger and if you bend it enough times, it will finally break… The way we try to manage this is we try to develop a culture now around our young kids where it’s not okay to throw if you’re having elbow pain. You should have a relationship with your parents and your coaches that allows you to express that your elbow doesn’t feel good and have the ability to rest and recover before you put too many bends in that wire hanger, which will mean that it’ll break later on in life.”
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — Three members of an armed militia were shot at a protest calling for justice for Breonna Taylor in Louisville on Saturday afternoon.
The three people, all members of the NFAC, suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department.
“Today, shortly before 1:00 pm, three people were struck by gunfire as the result of a discharge of someone’s gun who was participating in the NFAC demonstration at Baxter Park,” Louisville Metro’s interim Chief of Police Robert Schroeder said in a statement. “Louisville Division of Fire and LMEMS arrived a short time later and transported all three victims to the University of Louisville Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. All involved are members of the NFAC and there are no outstanding suspects.”
The police said the investigation into the shooting was ongoing.
“This is a tragic situation that could have been much worse,” Schroeder added. “I encourage anyone choosing to exercise their Second Amendment rights to do so responsibly.”
Louisville police released surveillance footage of the shooting that showed dozens of members of the NFAC milling around in the park when the apparently accidental discharge takes place and a few people drop to the ground injured.
The NFAC, which is short for “Not F——- Around Coalition,” was marching in full military fatigues and carrying semi-automatic weapons in order to call attention to the fatal police shooting of Taylor in March.
The 26-year-old EMT was killed in her own home when police executed a “no-knock” warrant searching for a drug trafficker. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, opened fire on police believing that someone was breaking into the house. Taylor was struck by gunfire at least eight times when police returned fire.
For months, protesters have been calling for the three officers who were involved in the shooting to be arrested and charged. The protests gained in intensity following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.
Officer Brett Hankison was fired last month for violating procedure when he shot Taylor.
Louisville police had said they were ready for demonstrations in the city on Saturday and shut down roads as a precaution to allow the NFAC members and others to march.
“LMPD remains committed to peaceful expression of views under the First Amendment. As we have done for several weeks, there will be no need for police intervention as long as there is no threat to public safety,” the police said in a statement Friday. “We will not tolerate the barricading of streets by non-law enforcement, impeding traffic, or attempting to threaten or force people not involved in the protests from their intended destination.”
Counterprotesters, a far-right militia called the Thee Percenters, also appeared at Saturday’s protest. ABC News’ Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report.
ABC/Mitch Haaseth(NEW YORK) — Regis Philbin, the beloved talk show and game show host who held the record for the most-ever hours on U.S. broadcast television, has died, ABC News has confirmed.
In a statement Saturday, his family said, “We are deeply saddened to share that our beloved Regis Philbin passed away last night of natural causes, one month shy of his 89th birthday.”
“His family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him — for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his singular ability to make every day into something worth talking about,” the statement continued. “We thank his fans and admirers for their incredible support over his 60-year career and ask for privacy as we mourn his loss.”
Philbin got his first network TV exposure starting in 1967, as Joey Bishop’s sidekick on The Joey Bishop Show. He continued to host a variety of local TV shows in L.A., and a network show with Mary Hart.
In 1983, Philbin moved to New York City to co-host The Morning Show for WABC-TV with Cynthia Garvey. After Garvey left, Regis was paired with Kathie Lee Johnson — later Gifford — and the ratings were so good that the show was nationally syndicated in 1988 as Live! with Regis & Kathie Lee.
After 15 years, Gifford departed and in 2001, the show was renamed Live! with Regis and Kelly, with Kelly Ripa joining as co-host. In November of 2011, Philbin left the show after 23 years. He was replaced by Michael Strahan, who was then replaced by the current co-host, Ryan Seacrest.
From 1999 to 2002, Philbin also pulled double duty as the original host of the wildly popular game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. In addition to numerous guest-host spots, he also hosted Million Dollar Password, the first season of America’s Got Talent, and the finale of The Apprentice 2 — he and Donald Trump were friends.
Philbin also famously filled in for Dick Clark on December 31, 2004 after Clark suffered a stroke and couldn’t host ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.
“Reege” won Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding talk show host for Live! in 2001 and 2011, and for outstanding game show host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He was honored with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2003 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmy Awards in 2008.
In 2004, Regis officially set the Guinness World Record for Most Hours on Camera on U.S. broadcast TV, with 15,188. In 2009, it was announced that his tally had reached 16,343 hours.
Philbin is survived by his beloved wife, Joy, their daughters JJ and Joanna, and daughter Amy Philbin, whom he shared with his first wife, Catherine. He and Catherine also had a son, Daniel, who died in 2014.
In a statement, Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest said, “We are beyond saddened to learn about the loss of Regis Philbin. He was the ultimate class act, bringing his laughter and joy into our homes everyday on Live for more than 23 years.”
“We were beyond lucky to have him as a mentor in our careers and aspire everyday to fill his shoes on the show,” they added. “We send our deepest love and condolences to his family and hope they can find some comfort in knowing he left the world a better place.”
Michael Strahan added, “I’m absolutely heartbroken. Regis was an incredible man who could light up any room. He always made me feel special no matter if I saw him in the studio or ran into him on the street. Legend and Icon aren’t strong enough words to describe him. He will never be forgotten!! Sending my love and condolences to his family. I am forever grateful to have known him.”
Kathie Lee Gifford tweeted, simply, “REGIS. There will never be another.
President Donald Trump, Regis’ longtime friend, tweeted, “One of the greats in the history of television, Regis Philbin has passed on to even greater airwaves, at 88. He was a fantastic person, and my friend. He kept telling me to run for President. Holds the record for ‘most live television,’ and he did it well.”
“Regis, we love you……..And to Joy, his wonderful wife who he loved so much, my warmest condolences!!!”
ABC News By: BRITTANY BORER, ABC News 
