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BREAKING: Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died after falling from the third floor of his hotel in Argentina, according to state police. #liampayne #onedirection #news #abcnews

"This water has to be at least up to my waist — probably even deeper." An ABC News affiliate reporter from WPLG joins @LinseyDavis from Sarasota, Florida. Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday evening, bringing life-threatening storm surge and Category 3 winds. Follow live updates at the link in bio. #milton #florida #sarasota #abcnews

In the wild of Alaska, the race to find a serial killer. The chilling new docuseries – “Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls” – is now streaming, only on @hulu. #WildCrime

The operator of a sanitation company in North Fort Myers, Florida, captured the moment when an alligator popped out of the water and bit at his van’s tire early Thursday morning as he traveled down a flooded street during Hurricane Milton. #hurricanemilton #storm #news #abcnews #florida

A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man clinging to an ice chest in the Gulf of Mexico after his fishing boat became stranded Wednesday night off the coast of Florida as Hurricane Milton barreled toward the state. Searchers located the man about 30 miles off Longboat Key, Florida, on Thursday. The man was taken to Tampa General Hospital for medical treatment, according to the Coast Guard. The fate of his boat was not immediately clear.

Residents of one Northern California neighborhood had a good laugh after Thursday's powerful earthquake struck the region: a robotic vacuum cleaner that apparently got disconnected from its base found roaming the streets. #earthquake #california #roomba

The FBI has issued a warning to iPhone and Android users regarding the security of their communication as text messages between Apple and Android devices are not encrypted and could be intercepted by foreign hackers. The FBI warning comes after the White House said a global cybersecurity attack occurred over the summer in which hackers breached several telecom companies. Officials say the cyber breach is ongoing.

Barack Obama began a campaign blitz for Kamala Harris in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania on Thursday night, slamming her opponent, Donald Trump: "We don't need four more years of arrogance and bumbling and bluster and division."

ELECTION NIGHT: ABC News' Rick Klein has more on the path to 270 electoral votes and the White House. #election2024 #news #abcnews

Mass evacuation orders ahead of Hurricane Milton prompted bumper-to-bumper traffic as the strongest hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in nearly two decades takes aim at Florida. The hurricane's maximum sustained winds were at about 155 mph early Tuesday, classifying the storm as a "powerful" Category 4 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said. Milton is closing in as Floridians are still recovering from the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene. The forecast reflected in this piece originally aired on Good Morning America at 7 am on Tuesday. #news #hurricanemilton #florida

A crowd at a Christmas tree-lighting in Dublin, Ireland counted down to the big moment, multiple times, only to face disappointment as the lights failed to illuminate. #abcnews #christmastree #fail

Security camera footage from a licensed grow house in Northern California shows flowering cannabis plants shaking as a 7.0 earthquake struck Humboldt County on Thursday. #news #earthquake #california #humboldt #abcnews

BREAKING: Milton makes landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane. The state is bracing for devastating storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rain. David Muir reports.

Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. #lasvegas #hotels #implosion

Hurricane hunters from NOAA flew into Hurricane Milton to gather data and help improve meteorologists' forecasts and support future research. Hurricane Milton is taking aim at Florida's west coast. Landfall is expected late Wednesday night. Milton is closing in on the state as Floridians are still recovering from the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene.

After knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in Washington state, killing two people, a powerful storm system is funneling a firehose of rain into Northern California, flooding homes and fields, and swamping roads. ABC News' Matt Gutman reports from Sonoma County, California. #news #abcnews #weather #california

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of Humboldt County in Northern California on Thursday, according to USGS. ABC station @abc7newsbayarea in the San Francisco Bay Area reports people as far away as Santa Cruz felt the quake. #news #breakingnews #earthquake #california

Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life without parole for the gruesome — and highly publicized — 1989 murders of their parents. The L.A. District Attorney now says he is reviewing new evidence in the case. DA George Gascon says his office is reviewing petitions from the infamous brothers, who are seeking release from prison or a new trial based on new information. #news #menendezbrothers

Heavy rain brought flooding to parts of southern Portugal on Thursday, with footage showing rushing waters inundating streets in Albufeira. #portugal #floods

The city of Treasure Island, Florida, looked like a “ghost town,” after evacuation orders were issued ahead of Hurricane Milton, local authorities said. #abcnews #news #hurricane #milton Follow live updates: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/lnH9X1