Tropical Storm Elsa, which formed Thursday morning over the Atlantic Ocean, is moving quickly toward the Caribbean, and South Florida is potentially in its path, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Though it is too soon to determine what, if any, impacts could occur in Florida next week, officials encouraged residents to monitor the storm and make preparations. 

This incudes crews at the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, where frequent bouts of lightning and thunderstorms already have forced the suspension of rescue efforts. Showers and thunderstorms remain in the forecast for the next several days in Surfside, the National Weather Service said. 

Elsa is forecast to drift west-northwest over open waters of the Caribbean Sea from Saturday through Monday,

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tapped Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney to join the select committee.Rep. Bennie Johnson (D-Miss.) will chair the select committee.

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday her appointees to a select committee aimed at investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt on the U.S. Capitol, including Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

The House voted Wednesday to establish the committee to study the Capitol siege. It will be comprised of 13 members, eight appointed by Democrats and five with consultation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the chamber’s top Republican.

The members of the committee are as follows:

Rep. Bennie ThompsonRep. Zoe LofgrenRep. Adam SchiffRep. Pete AguilarRep. Liz

Bill Cosby is now a free man. A debate about his guilt or innocence rages across America. Was Wednesday’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling fair and impartial justice?

Please allow Cosby to answer for himself.

“When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?” attorney Dolores M. Troiani asked Cosby on Sept. 29, 2005.

“Yes,” Cosby answered during the sworn civil deposition.

Cosby, 83, was convicted in 2018 on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia estate in 2004. But dozens of women have accused Cosby of drugging and raping them

Cleanup efforts began Wednesday on the widespread damage at Zion National Park in Utah after flash floods.

Photographs from park officials showed roads flooded with mud and debris, with pieces of asphalt broken in some places and boulders lying in the roadway. Videos posted on social media by visitors showed water rapidly rushing through the park and roadways. 

Park officials urged visitors to “exercise caution,” warningtravelers to stay away from the area if they didn’t need to get through.

“Visitors should expect traffic delays, debris on roads, and potential closures of trails and parking areas as clean-up continues and damage is being assessed,” park officials said in a statement. 

The popular Watchman Trail near the

Brothers Prince Harry and Prince William reunited Thursday for the unveiling of a Princess Diana statue.The statue, commissioned in 2017, was unveiled on what would have been the late Diana’s 60th birthday.Kensington Palace’s Sunken Garden was a favorite of Diana’s, where Harry and Meghan shared their engagement.

Prince Harry and Prince William reunited publicly Thursday for the unveiling of Princess Diana’s new statue on what would have been their late mother‘s 60th birthday.

William, 39, and Harry, 36, entered the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace side by side, smiling, before greeting guests separately. Together, they revealed the bronze statue of Diana from under a green tarp and stood an arms’

A woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him at a New York City hotel in an incident captured on video was indicted on hate crimes charges Wednesday.

Miya Ponsetto, 22, pleaded not guilty to four charges brought by a grand jury, including unlawful imprisonment as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child, during a virtual arraignment.

In December, Ponsetto confronted  14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. at the Arlo Hotel in a now-viral video recorded and shared by his father, jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold.

Video shows Ponsetto yelling at the teenager and lunging at him as he denies stealing her phone. Ponsetto’s phone was found soon after

A top U.S. official suggested people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine likely are protected against the delta variant. 

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy told CNBC data shows the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot – a “cousin” of the J&J vaccine – is highly effective against the variant first identified in India and currently surging across the nation.  

“While we are still awaiting direct studies of Johnson & Johnson and the delta variant, we have reasons to be hopeful, because the J&J vaccine has proven to be quite effective against preventing hospitalizations and deaths, with all the variants that we’ve seen to date,” Murthy said Wednesday. 

Murthy’s comments come as other companies such as Moderna announced that their vaccine is effective

Meghan McCain is stepping away from her daytime television spot on ABC’s “The View.” 

The TV personality revealed she would be leaving the show after almost four years on Thursday’s episode. The 36-year-old daughter of the late Arizona senator John McCain and Cindy McCain, joined the show as a conservative voice in 2017.

“I am just going to rip the Band-Aid off. I’m here to tell all of you, my wonderful co-hosts and the viewers at home that this is going to be my last season here at ‘The View,’ ” McCain said.

She added she would continue to co-host until the end of July. McCain said the coronavirus pandemic “dramatically” changed the way she wants to