Month: March 2020

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least nine people have died after multiple tornadoes touched down early Tuesday in central Tennessee, including one that ripped across downtown Nashville and caused about 40 buildings to collapse around the city, police said. Authorities pleaded with people to stay indoors, at least until daybreak could reveal the dangers of a landscape littered with blown-down walls and roofs, snapped power lines and huge broken trees. Some schools already closed for Super…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least six people have died after multiple tornadoes touched down early Tuesday in central Tennessee, including one that ripped across downtown Nashville and caused about 40 buildings to collapse around the city, police said. Authorities pleaded with people to stay indoors, at least until daybreak could reveal the dangers of a landscape littered with blown-down walls and roofs, snapped power lines and huge broken trees. Some schools already closed for Super…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least five people have died after multiple tornadoes touched down early Tuesday in central Tennessee, including one that caused damage near downtown Nashville. The tornado near downtown reportedly stayed on the ground into Hermitage, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of the city. Police officers and fire crews were responding to about 40 building collapses around the city, Metro Nashville police said. John C. Tune Airport, Nashville International’s sister airport in…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least two people have died after multiple tornadoes touched down early Tuesday in central Tennessee, including one that caused damage near downtown Nashville. The tornado near downtown reportedly stayed on the ground into Hermitage, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of the city. Police officers and fire crews were responding to about 40 building collapses around the city, Metro Nashville police said. John C. Tune Airport, Nashville International’s sister airport in…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least two tornadoes touched down early Tuesday in central Tennessee, including one that caused damage near downtown Nashville. The tornado near downtown reportedly stayed on the ground into Hermitage, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of the city. Police officers and fire crews were responding to about 40 building collapses around the city, Metro Nashville police said. John C. Tune Airport, Nashville International’s sister airport in West Nashville, “sustained significant damage…

By Sloane Heffernan, WRAL anchor/reporter Raleigh, N.C. — Four of the six people in the U.S. whose deaths have been attributed to coronavirus lived in a nursing home in Washington state. Lauren Zingraff, executive director of Friends of Residents in Long Term Care, a Raleigh-based nonprofit, said residents in nursing facilities are at greater risk for the virus and others like the flu. “It’s a nightmare,” Zingraff said. “One person can be sick, and then…