Firefighters work the scene of a 20-vehicle pileup near Austin, Texas. (Austin Fire Department) At a Glance Fifty-six people were treated following the crash.Nine of the injured were taken to area hospitals. Heavy fog in the Austin, Texas, area early Tuesday led to a 20-vehicle pileup that injured at least 56 people. Authorities say were taken to area hospitals for treatment, the Austin-Travis County Emergency Management Service reported. The wreck occurred just after midnight New Year's Eve on state Highway...

This photo provided by the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry taken from tv footage shows Emergency Situations employees carry a saved 10-month old baby at the scene of a collapsed section of an apartment building, in Magnitigorsk, a city of 400,000 about 870 miles southeast of Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations photo via AP) At a Glance The baby boy's father called the discovery of his son alive "a New Year's miracle."The baby is in...

A car drives along Interstate 190 early Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, in Rapid City, S.D. (Chris Huber/Rapid City Journal via AP) At a Glance The snow forced officials to close the Rapid City Regional Airport.One person was killed in a crash on Interstate 29.A woman was killed when her vehicle spun into the path of a car. Heavy snowfall and gusty winds hit the Dakotas and Minnesota Monday morning, leading to some travel chaos and at least three deaths. One...

At a Glance Police said 13 units were dispatched in dense fog to try to locate the drowning woman.First responders managed to reach the drowning woman just in time. A drowning Florida woman was rescued Tuesday from a muddy, flooded ravine after a desperate search by first responders in dense fog. Amanda Antonio, 33, found herself fighting for her life after her as she drove near Tampa's Florida State Fairgrounds around 4 a.m. Tuesday, WFTS reported. She told authorities she...

At a Glance The cause of the crash is still under investigation.The bridge was closed to vehicles Tuesday night because of high winds. Bad weather hampered rescue efforts Wednesday in the wake of a Danish train crash that killed six people and injured 16. The wreck occurred around 8 a.m. local time on the Great Belt Bridge (Storebaelt bridge) that links the central islands of Zealand and Funen. While the cause of the crash is still under investigation, it appears...

At a Glance Some parks are beginning to see closures due to public safety issues with lack of maintenance to restrooms and visitor centers.The partial federal government shutdown started on Dec. 22. We're in our second week since the partial federal government shutdown started on Dec. 22 and while most of the 58 national parks and monuments remain short-staffed but open, some parks are beginning to run into public safety issues. With the closure and lack of maintenance to restrooms...

At a Glance Cities from North Carolina to the nation's Corn Belt had a record-wet year in 2018.This included Washington D.C., Baltimore and Pittsburgh.One location picked up over 100 inches of precipitation, with a boost from Florence. Over two dozen cities in the East and Midwest had their wettest year on record in 2018, stretching from North Carolina to South Dakota. (CATEGORY 6 BLOG: Wettest-Year Records for 2018) These cities set their new record-wet year in 2018. Locations with at...

At a Glance Watercraft are blamed for killing 121 manatees in Florida waters last year. The state counted 823 total manatee deaths, 285 more than in 2017.Red tide killed or is suspected of killing 211 manatees. A record 121 manatees were killed in Florida waters by boaters last year, and the overall number of manatee deaths came close to the record, according to state figures. About 15 percent of manatee deaths in 2018 were caused by watercraft, from the Florida...

John King, a water resource engineer with the California Department of Water Resources, Snow Survey Section, inserts a long aluminum snow depth survey pole into the snow for the first DWR snow survey of the 2019 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. (Ken James / California Department of Water Resources) At a Glance The snowpack supplies about 30 percent of California's annual water needs.Water content in the Sierra snowpack is at 67...

At a Glance Four people died in storm-related crashes in Oklahoma. Two people died in earlier crashes linked to the storm in New Mexico.A rare blanket of snow fell on the Arizona and New Mexico desert. Winter Storm Fisher released its grip on the Southwest and Southern Plains late Thursday after causing hundreds of crashes, including a 21-vehicle pileup in Oklahoma and wrecks that killed at least six people in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Road conditions remained difficult Friday morning,...

At a Glance Icy roadways in Washington state caused numerous accidents, which killed one person.I-90 was closed in both directions for hours while crews cleaned up the wrecks.The highway has since reopened. One person was killed as a mixture of snow and rain created icy roadways in Washington state, causing multiple wrecks within a mile span on Interstate 90 Friday morning. On the eastbound side of the interstate, , while the westbound lanes saw six different accidents involving three semi...

At a Glance The storm made landfall Friday on the Malay Peninsula.A fisherman died and another is missing after their boat capsized in rough seas.A Russian tourist was killed in strong surf ahead of the storm.This was the first January Gulf of Thailand tropical cyclone in records since 1951. Tropical Storm Pabuk made a rare landfall in southern Thailand Friday, bringing heavy rain, storm surge flooding and winds to the Malay Peninsula's tourist resorts and coastal villages. The storm made...