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I've had with the insults. Let's see him stand in E. coli water reporting for hours like the media does.
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Pres. Trump praises Coast Guard for saving people "by going into winds that the media would not go into...unless it's a really good story."
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Statement from singer/songwriter Don McLean:
"In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week."
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Houston will have a gun buyback on July 30 from 8 a.m. to noon at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, 3826 Wheeler Ave. People who turn in their guns will receive a $50 gift card for every non-functioning gun, $100 for a rifle, $150 for a handgun & $200 for an assault rifle.
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HAPPENING NOW. A dangerous situation near the Astrodome. A man is trapped in his car surrounded by floodwaters on Highway 288 southbound at 610 South Loop.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Today, Texas reports 6,975 more confirmed cases of COVID-19. A new single day record in Texas.
The previous 7 days:
Monday - 4,288
Sunday - 5,357
Saturday - 5,742
Friday - 5,707
Thursday - 5,996.
Wed. - 5,551
Tue. - 5,489
A total of 45,105 cases.
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Jim McIngvale, "Mattress Mack," is taking 10 Catholic nuns from Sisters of Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament to Game 6 of the World Series tonight. He's also taking 15 Gold Star moms, their families and guests.
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NEXT weekend, Houston First and Central Houston, Inc are transforming downtown Houston into a holiday destination called City Lights Downtown Holiday Magic. Eight unique, themed decorated villages. A ceremonial lighting takes place on Nov. 18 at 5:30 on the Avenida.
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Gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke has scheduled a large-scale rally in Houston on Feb. 15th, the one-year anniversary of the Texas freeze power outages.
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JOSE! JOSE! JOSE! JOSE! Fans chant the name of the ALCS MVP as they merrily depart Minute Maid Park.
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A lot of our neighbors in Louisiana won’t be able to sit outside and have a cup of coffee this morning because they’re in their cars on I-10 heading west...leaving their homes. We should keep them in mind this weekend. We’ve been there.
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"When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty
Will I be rich
Here's what she said to me
Que será, será
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que será, será."
Doris Day's signature song.
Rest in Peace.
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H-E-B has committed to replenishing Houston Food Bank’s empty refrigerators following this week’s ammonia leak. H-E-B says it will deliver trailer loads of produce, meat and other products to the Food Bank.
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When you hear "fake news" in the future, I hope you'll recall these tireless, brave journalists who covered a hurricane from hell.
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@RealLyndaCarter
Hawkeye:
Father, I may never see you again, and before you go, there's something
I've been meaning to tell you for a long time. Your shirt's on backwards.
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Lance McCullers, Jr. to the rescue! 100+ animals from the overcrowded Harris County Animal Shelter will embark on a lifesaving transport today. First to Tulsa by bus & then McCullers' Foundation is flying them to no kill shelters in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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Texas State Teachers Association: “We don’t need more committees on school safety.”
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Nine days after Beryl, the traffic lights are still flashing at Chimney Rock and Richmond. And the four-way stop is like Mad Max.
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June 30, 2020
6,533 confirmed COVID-19 patients are currently in Texas hospitals. That's the new single day record in TX.
It's 620 more hospitalizations than yesterday.
More than double the number of hospitalizations 10 days ago.
The statewide positivity rate is 14.02%
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Temperatures in Texas at 6 PM on New Year’s Day:
Amarillo 10°
Lubbock 21°
Abilene 34°
Austin 72°
Houston 80°
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RESCUED! Houston Fire Department rescue team saves man trapped in his truck surrounded by floodwaters on Highway 288.
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@FireChiefofHFD
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The flooding
The hurricane
The virus
The freeze
How do we keep going?
We just do.
It’s who we are.
We must.
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H-E-B Chairman Charles Butt is making a $20 million personal gift to support 20 food banks across the state that are part of the Feeding Texas network. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ranks Texas as the second-most-food-insecure state in the nation.
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20 years ago tonight Selena performed before 66,746 fans at Rodeo Houston...a record that still stands.
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The Houston Zoo is proud to announce the birth of a male Masai giraffe, born on Monday, Sept. 30. First-time mom, Kamili gave birth to the 128 pounds, 6 foot tall calf. The calf is yet to be named.
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Photo credit, Stephanie Adams/Houston Zoo
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Galveston ISD posts, "All students and staff will be required to wear masks at all district facilities and on buses when school begins on August 23. This is a health and safety decision made for the purpose of keeping our children and our staff safe..."
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@jgm41
This dog only,
waited on,
Knowing that when light is gone,
Love remains for shining.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Remember that time in Houston when the
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won the pennant the second time and Jose Altuve hoisted the trophy??!!
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50 years ago today, AstroWorld opened in Houston. The amusement park's creator, Judge Roy Hofheinz, unlocked the gates himself. Admission for adults, $4.50. Kids, $3.50. Parking, 50 cents. This is an AstroWorld postcard.
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This is unlike anything I’ve seen before. In an attempt to capture a suspect barricaded in northeast Harris County home, law enforcement is using a tactical vehicle to break out the windows & walls. They have deployed a robot dog, a lighted drone inside the house & gas.
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@AlisaSATX
👍It's our field crews that were brave. They stand in sewer water. They stand next to toxic chemical plants. To keep the public informed.
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Virginia governor, "You came here today to hurt people, and you did hurt people. My message is clear. We are stronger than you."
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JUST IN from the White House:
On Thursday, August 1, Vice President Kamala Harris will be back in Houston, TX. to attend the Celebration of Life Service for Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. It is her third visit to Texas in the last month.
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Texas Children’s Hospital announces it will require all members of its workforce to be vaccinated against COVID-19. TCH says, "It is our responsibility to take a stand and protect those who place their trust in us, many of whom are not yet eligible to receive the vaccine."
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At what point does this stormy weather stop in Houston?? It just blew up a transformer across the street knocking out the traffic lights again at Westheimer and Chimney Rock. It also keeps the power crews from doing their work. Wait for it.
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CenterPoint Energy workers will depart Houston tomorrow to begin power line repairs in Louisiana. Entergy Texas is sending power repair crews to Louisiana, too. For anyone who’s been through a hurricane, there’s no better sight than the power truck driving down your street.
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Chevron Corporation today announced the relocation of the company’s headquarters from San Ramon, California, to Houston, Texas, and senior leadership changes. The company expects all corporate functions to migrate to Houston over the next five years.
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Egg-citing news. A routine survey at Galveston Island State Park today by the Sea Aggie Sea Turtle Patrol turned up a Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle nest containing 107 eggs in the dunes. This was the first nest found at the park since 2012.
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Credit: Texas Parks and Wildlife
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It just as easily could have been us. We must do everything we can to help our fellow Americans in Louisiana.
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Allison was only a tropical storm.
And Beryl was only a Category 1.
Assume nothing.
Always be prepared.
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Confirmed: Kanye West will attend the 11a.m. Sunday service on Nov. 17
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13 is an unlucky number. AstroWorld closed 13 years ago today on October 30, 2005.
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Once upon a time in a Houston far, far away...the Astrodome, the Astrohall &
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About 1 in 5 school districts in Texas are severely underfunded, according to a new study by Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Houston-area districts among the severely underfunded include Houston, Aldine, Alief, Pasadena, Spring Branch and Spring.
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Harris County Public Health has confirmed that a mosquito sample in Houston has tested positive for West Nile virus. The positive sample was collected in zip code 77019. That's an area that runs along the south side of Buffalo Bayou from downtown to River Oaks.
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Almost got wiped out this morning at a Houston intersection. Had a green light without question. I even counted a beat. But a vehicle came barreling through the red light in crossing traffic. Just got lucky that time. Never be in a hurry at Houston intersections.
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"I’m sure all the folks planning to attend this event are shocked and sickened by these events as well. After all, we are all Americans.
I share the sorrow for this terrible, cruel loss with the rest of the nation."
Sincerely,
Don McLean
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From the pool at Transtar
County Judge Lina Hidalgo: "Mr. President your support means the world to us," she said.
Biden: “Hell of an operation here. It’s probably the best one in the country…You’re saving peoples’ lives. As my mother would say, you’re doing God’s work.”
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If Case Keenum never played another down, he won the game that mattered to H-Town today.
It took a Houston Cougar to help defeat our former pro team wearing our jerseys of the past.
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KHOU Air 11 images of the damage Hurricane Beryl did to the University of Houston… ironically to the Gerald Hines College of Architecture.
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Having followed the Astros through all the bad years, and the good but not good enough years, it’s really something to see Houston become a consistent winner…and the city become a baseball town.
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Houston Health Authority Dr. David Persse says about 120 nurses just arrived in the greater Houston area and have been deployed to hospitals across a 25-county region. He says some nurses came from New York and the New England area. “This is Americans helping Americans.”
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121 years ago today thousands of Galveston residents woke up, not realizing this day would be their last. Within 24 hours, a 15.7 foot storm surge & 130 mph winds would destroy a third of the city.
6,000 to 8,000 people died out of a population of 37,000. The 1900 storm.
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Statement from Houston Methodist: "As the first health care institution to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, today’s FDA approval (of the Pfizer vaccine) is significant and reinforces what we already knew - that vaccines are safe and effective."
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Attention Meyerland and Bellaire and other neighborhoods up and down Brays Bayou in SW Houston. This is what the bayou looked like at 11 AM on Monday. The view is from the 610 West Loop northbound looking west.
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This is what it looks like. Greenpeace USA protesters suspended from the Fred Hartman Bridge in east Harris County. As a result, a portion of the Houston Ship Channel is closed.
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New: The Houston Food Bank says Chevron is gifting them a 53-acre parcel located at Ella Blvd. and SH 249 on which the Food Bank can establish a second warehouse and distribution facility. The land donation is valued at approximately $10 million.
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Happy Birthday to the Tyler Rose! Former University of Texas and Houston Oilers running back Earl Campbell turns 66 today.
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Memorial Hermann Health System says it has made the decision that it will require every member of its workforce to be vaccinated against COVID-19. “This requirement applies to all Memorial Hermann workforce members at all locations.”
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Born in Lagos, Nigeria. Became an American dream. Happy birthday to retired Houston Rocket Hakeem Olajuwon. He's 54.
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Took a long drive on I-45 N today. I’m used to Houston freeways as much as a 713 guy can be, but these days…it’s like Mad Max out there.
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Breaking:
A new COVID-19 vaccine called CORBEVAX which was created and engineered here in Houston at Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine has received emergency use authorization and is being deployed to India.
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Tonight, Feb. 10 - the bridges are glowing RED to honor former University of Houston baseball player and coach, John Altobelli, his wife and daughter who passed away in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash. Their memorial service was today at Angel Stadium in Anaheim.
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H-E-B: "Over the past few weeks, the number of weekly COVID-19 shots our pharmacies have given has more than doubled." To improve wait times, starting Monday, Aug. 16, H-E-B pharmacies will accept walk-ins for COVID-19 vaccinations only from noon – 5 p.m., Mon. thru Fri.
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@ThatEricAlper
"Lieutenant Colonel... Henry Blake's plane... was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun...and...there were no survivors."
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The Harris County Clerk says between 7PM Thursday night and 7AM this morning, 10,250 people voted in Harris County.
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69 years ago today, 8/8/50, with no restaurant experience whatsoever, Harmon Dobson opened the original Whataburger on Ayers Street in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Chris Kraft was the driving force behind Mission Control in Houston. He was known in the control-room as--"Flight" because of his commanding role as Flight Director. Here he is at his console during the Gemini-4 mission in 1965. Rest in Peace. Credit:
@NASA
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El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on President Trump's Wednesday visit. "I want to clarify for the political spin that this is the office of the mayor of El Paso in an official capacity welcoming the office of the president of the United States, which I consider is my formal duty."
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HOUSTON (AP) - Judge orders liquidation of Alex Jones' personal assets to pay Sandy Hook debt and now deciding Infowars' fate.
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Texas Medical Center:
"Yesterday, 9,217 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the Greater Houston Area. This is the highest recorded number of daily new cases since the start of the pandemic."
Last week it was 4,892 new cases a day.
Last month it was 1,069 new cases a day.
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My personal favorite.
Tower, this is Bishop requesting a flyby of the Astrodome.
Houston thanks you,
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At age 89, Texas singer/songwriter Willie Nelson wins the Grammy for Best Country Album for his 72nd solo studio album, “A Beautiful Time.”
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My son and I in our CHAMPIONSHIP shirts in our flood-damaged home! Thanks to my niece & her fiancé. (He lives next to Academy!)
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First thing I saw at the Texans game today. I remember when Dad was angry back in 1983 when they raised the parking price to $3 dollars at the Astrodome.
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55 years ago today, the first major league game ever played on synthetic turf took place between the Dodgers & the Astros in the Astrodome. And so today, March 21, 2021, is officially AstroTurf Day in Dalton, Georgia, home to AstroTurf’s manufacturing facility since 1968.
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Houston has come alive tonight! A carousel of color for Super Bowl 51. So wonderful!
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Houston ISD says Bellaire High School’s Class of 2021 will make history this year with nine valedictorians crossing the stage in June. All nine students have a perfect 5.0 GPA.
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Houston's Hobby airport is packed with private planes of the rich & famous, in town to see
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Hidalgo County, TX. Health Authority Dr. Ivan Melendez tells CBS the COVID-19 problem is so dire in Rio Grande Valley hospitals, people are being resuscitated on stretchers in the hallways. He says, “the doctors and nurses cry every day. (They) cry and they’re angry.”
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Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Peter Hotez says almost all COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the Medical Center are younger people. He says if you're not vaccinated and you've been lucky enough to avoid getting COVID-19 during the pandemic, "Your luck is about to run out."
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Few players mean as much to this city as J.J. Watt. He was more than a Texan. He was a true Houstonian. A man who lifted us up during our darkest hours of Hurricane Harvey. If there isn’t already a statue of him, we better get one.
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