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12-08-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Linsey Davis of 'ABC News' reveals she has uterine fibroids, will get hysterectomy
"ABC News" anchor Linsey Davis is revealing for the first time her yearslong struggle with uterine fibroids. The "World News Tonight" weekend anchor explained during a "ABC News Live Prime" conversation with singer Tamar Braxton and model and actress Cynthia Bailey on Monday, Aug. 12, that she has powered through painful and severe fatigue behind the scenes due to fibroids. Davis hopes to help women by revealing her fibroid battle. "I feel like if there is an 80% instance in anyone's health, it should be a priority," she said. She also said a hysterectomy was the right path forward for her. "I guess I just want to be final. You just want to be finished," Davis said. "It causes me enough angst and grief, and planning my day differently, accordingly, that I really feel like I'm ready to be finished with this journey." What are fibroids? Uterine fibroids are a type of noncancerous tumor that grows in and on the uterus, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The common diagnosis can also result in back pain, frequent urination or pain during sex. Small fibroids rarely need treatment, while large fibroids can be treated with medication or surgery. Fibroids are more common and more severe in Black people, and up to 90% of Black people with a uterus have fibroids by age 50, according to the Mayo Clinic. Black women are also two to three times more likely to have frequent fibroids or experience complications, according to Michigan Medicine. A hysterectomy is an effective treatment for fibroids and is the only cure for uterine fibroids, but it typically prevents future pregnancies as it completely removes the uterus, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Davis, 47, has one son, Ayden, 11. Who is Linsey Davis? What to know about ABC anchor moderating Harris-Trump debate Davis said she also experienced intense bloating due to her uterine fibroids. She said during coverage of the Oscars in March, people online began to speculate she was pregnant. Both Braxton and Bailey said they also experienced severe bloating. Lupita Nyong'o joins fight to fund fibroids research: 'I no longer want to remain silent' "I stayed on the celebrity baby bump alert. Like I was always giving '(I'm) pregnant with imaginary children' because of my fibroids," Bailey said. "And I was shutting down on rumors, I was like, 'I'm not pregnant, I have fibroids.'"
12-07-2025
- Climate
Texas flooding live updates: Death toll at 129 as search continues for the missing
Kerr County was hit the hardest, with at least 103 deaths. 1:14 At least 129 people are dead from the devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country. Kerr County was hit the hardest, with at least 103 deaths, including 36 children. President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration for the county and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is on the ground there. Search and rescue operations are ongoing. Key Headlines 6 minutes ago 129 dead in Texas 4:24 PM EDT Trump defends response, dismisses concerns about alerts 4:23 PM EDT Melania Trump to grieving parents: 'We are grieving with you' 4:07 PM EDT Trump speaks on devastation, ongoing search and recovery efforts 3:21 PM EDT Trump meets with first responders Here's how the news is developing. 29 Updates Jul 08, 2025, 12:21 AM EDT Country musician Pat Green's brother and family missing after Texas flood Country musician Pat Green said his family "suffered a heartbreaking and deeply personal loss" during the flooding in Central Texas. His wife, Kori Green, shared on social media that Pat Green's brother John, his wife, Julia, and their two children remain missing after the Kerrville flood over the weekend. "We are heartbroken and anxiously waiting for all of them to be found," she wrote. -ABC News' Olivia Osteen and Peter Charalambous Jul 07, 2025, 9:42 PM EDT Texas Sen. Ted Cruz calls flooding aftermath 'most horrible thing I've ever seen' Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called the flooding aftermath at Texas' Camp Mystic -- where at least 27 campers and counselors died amid flooding -- "the most horrible thing I've ever seen." "The water rose 7 and 8 feet … the cabins are cleaned out, all of the furniture has been pulled out by the current," he told Lindsey David on ABC News Live Prime after touring the campground. "It's heartbreaking." Cruz said his daughters have gone to summer camps in Kerr County, in Texas' Hill Country, for 10 years and said just last week, his wife had picked up their youngest daughter from camp. For now, the focus remains on search and rescue, Cruz said, but in the coming weeks and months, he said he hopes to take a look at the timeline of exactly what happened and when warnings went out to see if something could have been done better. "There's no doubt, any one of us, if we had a time machine and we could step in it right now, we would run to those girls' cabins and pull them out of the cabins before the floodwaters rose," he said. "And so it's worth asking, what could have been done differently?" "You know, look, people love to play politics. I was overseas on a family vacation when this happened. I was almost immediately on the phone," Cruz said, adding, "And then I booked a flight and came back." Cruz said he left Sunday morning and arrived in Texas on Sunday night. Jul 07, 2025, 5:56 PM EDT Over 100 dead in Texas Over 100 people have died from flooding in Texas. The vast majority of the fatalities -- 84 -- were in Kerr County. Deaths have also been confirmed in Travis, Williamson, Burnet, Tom Green and Kendall counties. There have been over 850 high-water rescues, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said. Flash flood warnings issued night before, NWS had 'surge staffing' Questions have swirled around if there was enough warning and enough staffing for the early Friday morning floods in the wake of the Trump administration's job cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But NOAA confirmed that the National Weather Service's Austin/San Antonio office had five meteorologists working the severe weather event as part of its "surge staffing" protocol. It is normally staffed with two. NOAA also said the NWS had forecast briefings Thursday morning, issued a flood watch Thursday afternoon and then issued flash flood warnings on Thursday night and early Friday. This gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," NOAA said in a statement. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday, "Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning." Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday, "Some people [are] engaging in partisan games and trying to blame their political opponents for a natural disaster." "I think most normal Americans know that's ridiculous and I think this is not a time for partisan finger pointing and attacks," he said. 'I think it is reasonable, over time, to engage in a retrospective and say, at every level, what could have been done better, because all of us would want to prevent this horrific loss of life," he said. Chuck Schumer, the Senate's top Democrat, is calling for an investigation into whether cuts made to NWS had any correlation to the level of devastation. -ABC News' Lalee Ibssa
