Around 7 a.m. ET Thursday, over 50,000 AT&T outages were documented, with the majority occurring in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, as per data from the tracking site Downdetector.
When Elmo, the beloved Muppet, innocently inquired about people's well-being on X (formerly Twitter), thousands of users responded, sharing their grief and distress.
At least two individuals have lost their lives in Beijing, China, as the country grapples with one of the most potent storms in years. Storm Doksuri has triggered widespread flooding and chaos across northern China.