DEBATE: Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
said school safety "is going to be an emergency item" during the next legislative session in January 2023.
@BetoORourke
asks "If it’s an emergency, why not call [a special session] now?
#TXGovDebate
#BREAKING
:
President
@JoeBiden
's administration is providing generators to Texas and preparing to move diesel in to the state for generators at communications facilities, hospitals, and water.
FEMA is also supplying Texas with water and blankets at their request.
#txwx
#BREAKING
: Passengers stuck in long lines for immigration at
@DFWAirport
tell us there are no offers of hand sanitizer, gloves, or masks from U.S. Customs / Immigration. Travelers say they’ve had no screenings of temp yet and no one following
#coronavirus
protocols.
#BREAKING
: New angle of the mid-air collision obtained by
@WFAA
shows B-17 and other aircraft flying formations at
#WingsOverDallas
at 1:21p today, when it was hit by a P-63 and fell to the ground over the airfield at Dallas Executive Airport (RBD).
SCOOP: Tarrant County
@Judge_Whitley
, the Republican leader of Texas' largest GOP county, said he will back Democrat Mike
@CollierForTexas
instead of the Republican incumbent
@DanPatrick
.
Whitley explained why in a new episode of
@Yallitics
.
EPISODE:
Six seconds is as long as it lasted at the church shooting this morning. For as many people there who were armed — one clearly had recurrent training, knew what to do and fired the fatal shot immediately ending the threat. That’s heroism.
NEW:
@dallasdemocrats
and
@DallasGOP
issue joint statement calling on the public to "take a deep breath and stay patient and calm while election officials count all votes."
We need that spirit of birpartisanship while the system works.
UPDATE: The shooter is one of the deceased this morning, according to MedStar — at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement. Video shows an armed church member took the shooter down with a single shot.
NOW: Members of Congress given gas masks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Congressman Colin Allred, D-Dallas, in the upper left with stars on his face mask.
SHE MIGHT BE DEMOCRATS best chance at winning statewide office but polls show half of Texas voters do not know attorney general nominee
@RochelleMGarza
. She sat down with Inside Texas Politics.
Incumbent
@KenPaxtonTX
did not return our messages requesting an interview.
#BREAKING
: The suspect in the
#AustinBombings
has been killed after FBI, Austin police tracked him down and engaged him in Round Rock within the last hour, according to state law enforcement officials. A device detonated --which they expected when they pursued him. Then shots.
NEW: Before and after images of home near Dallas North Tollway and Royal Lane in North Dallas — that was badly damaged during the tornado tonight.
#wfaaweather
LIGHTNING strike on Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas during this afternoon’s thunderstorm, captured from WFAA’s camera on its broadcast tower.
#txwx
#wfaaweather
#lightningstrike
A DOZEN+ GOP OFFFICIALS IN Texas have met with Democratic Lt. Gov. nominee Mike
@CollierForTexas
, he reveals.
"I'm not aware of this ever happening before. I don't think it's happening around the country but it's happening here," Collier said.
#txlege
#BREAKING
:
@ERCOT_ISO
, the power grid operator in Texas, says about half of the wind turbine capacity (25,000-megawatts) in West Texas is not generating b/c of winter weather.
"As of this morning about half of the wind capacity was iced out," said Dan Woodfin, ERCOT.
#txwx
TONIGHT AT 7:00p…
@GregAbbott_TX
and
@BetoORourke
meet in the first and only Texas gubernatorial debate of 2022.
It’s happening at U.T. Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg.
Gov. Abbott would not agree to an audience.
The campus theater will be empty.
#txlege
#txgovdebate
"THE NUMBER ONE DRIVER OF
#inflation
in Texas is
@GregAbbott_TX
," said
@BetoORourke
on Inside Texas Politics - when asked whether he's concerned that inflation will drag down Democratic turnout in November.
#txlege
NEW VIDEO from an eyewitness at the apartment complex on the east side of the Dallas skyline badly damaged by a falling crane in this afternoon’s severe thunderstorm. (Warning about the language.)
#BREAKING
: Shooting inside of West Freeway Church of Christ in Fort Worth. Video shows a man enters the sanctuary with a rifle and fired three shots. Injuries unknown. Church security (armed members) subdued him.
#BREAKING
: Former President (and Dallas resident) George W. Bush releases statement on protests — saying it is not time for leaders to lecture but to listen after unrest related to the death of
#GeorgeFloyd
.
CANDIDATE SPEECHES over at this site for the
#IowaCaucus
in West Des Moines. Voters jotted their candidate on sheet of paper before they were all collected in a brown grocery bag.
VIDEO: Several thousand
@BernieSanders
supporters crowded into the Mesquite, Tex. rodeo arena on Valentine’s night to see the Democratic presidential frontrunner.
*Live report — WFAA @ 10p*
VACCINATED: The first of 5,850
#CovidVaccine
doses at
@MethodistDallas
went to Teresa Mata, 51, who cleans rooms in the ER. She's a mother of four and wants to protect her family. More than 100 COVID-19 vaccines will be given here today.
#BREAKING
:
STOLEN MONKEYS:
The
@DallasZoo
says someone has now stolen two our emperor tamarin monkeys.
@DallasPD
has opened an investigation.
Just this month, a clouded leopard somehow escaped and a vulture died of mysterious circumstances.
#BREAKING
: All summer camps and day and overnight camps can reopen on May 31, said
@GovAbbott
.
Professional sports like pro golf, football, baseball and basektball can also return at the end of the month.
#BREAKING
:
Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
told WFAA that the supply of natural gas is becoming an issue.
Natural gas is "frozen in the pipeline and frozen in the rig," Abbott said.
Could we have natural gas outages?
That gas heats home, fuels power plants.
#txwx
#BREAKING
: Mass shooting happened at a Homecoming party at Texas A&M Commerce overnight. At least two fatalities. More than a dozen injured. A .227 caliber rifle is believed to be used. Motive unknown. Commerce, Texas is in Hunt County — an hour east of Dallas.
#BREAKING
: Security guard contracted to Denver's
@9News
to be charged with 2nd Degree Murder in shooting death of demonstrator
#LeeKeltner
. If convicted, this carries a mandatory prison sentence of between 16 and 48 years.
#BREAKING
: In announcing a "shelter-in-place" order for Dallas County,
@JudgeClayJ
Jenkins shows two graphs that helped him make the decision. "It makes me sick we're at this point," he said.
DEFAMATION LAWSUIT:
@BetoORourke
says he was just sued by Dallas-based
@EnergyTransfer
CEO Kelcy Warren… bc O’Rourke has said that Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
gave “free license” for natural gas companies like ETP to charge what they wanted during the deadly February 2021 freeze.
How does the biggest energy producing state in the country not have enough energy to keep its residents warm,
@texasdemocrats
are asking.
They're not alone.
Frozen equipment knocked out power generation at gas, coal and nuclear plants. Lawmakers want answers, as well.
"MY GRANDMOTHER SAVED nickels and pennies together to buy a poll tax... to try and be a participant in democracy," says
@senfronia4Texas
on why it's worth it for her to break quorum and go to Washington, D.C.
#txlege
#BREAKING
:
27 dead, 24 injured after church shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs - east of San Antonio. Gunman killed after brief chase, reports
@CNN
.
THURSDAY: Ivanka Trump
@IvankaTrump
and Google CEO
@sundarpichai
to host a roundtable in Dallas on Thursday -- on training workers for the changing economy.
#BREAKING
:
@JudgeClayJ
: "This is going to spread across this state. A month from now, nobody is going to be saying thank God I was able to go to work for an extra two weeks. They'll be saying I wish my community would have acted sooner."
#coronavirus
#FlattenTheCurve
Witness tells
@KENS5
that about half the congregation was killed during the 11:00a service today at First Baptist Church in
#SutherlandSprings
- east of San Antonio.
#BREAKING
: Texas Dept. Of Public Safety says it appears the back door of
#RobbElementary
was unlocked and there was NOT a school officer that confronted the
#Uvalde
shooter when he initially entered the school.
#BREAKING
:
Texas Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
:
If businesses want to limit capacity or enact their own protocols, they can. "At this time, businesses don't need the state telling them how to operate."
#COVID19
#coronavirus
FOLLOW-UP
In the
#TXGovDebate
tonight, Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
said NYC mayor never reached out about bussing migrants north.
NYC Tweets emails showing contact was made.
.
@GregAbbott_TX
, not only did our office call you about this, but we followed up via email.
Always keep the receipts, folks!
#TXGovDebate
(Redacted the names because the inquiries should be directed at
@GovAbbott
and not staffers.)
Time for a followup,
@utrgv
!
For the first time in weeks, Austin will wake up with a sense of relief this morning - the serial bomber is dead, killing himself after FBI, police closed in this morning in Round Rock, Texas.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, My Pillow pitchman Mike Lindell, and musician Ted Nugent are at the Trump rally in Waco.
Nugent asked for and got a moment of silence for people charged and convicted for the January 6 insurrection.
PASTORS PREPARE TO SUE TEXAS over its abortion law -
#SB8
- arguing it violates their religious freedom.
Rev. Rachel Baughman from Dallas'
@OLUMC
is one of four pastors who sent a pre-suit letter to Texas AG
@KenPaxtonTX
. Baughman explained it on Inside Texas Politics.
#txlege
#BREAKING
:
#BothamJean
’s mother blasts
@DallasPD
after
#AmberGuyger
’s sentence: “That ten years in prison is for reflection and for her to change her life. But there is much more to be done by the city of Dallas. The corruption we saw must stop.”
.
@BetoORourke
arrives in Dallas at one of his final campaign rallies before polls close tonight. He goes on to Houston and later to El Paso.
Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
does not have any public appearances today before his watch party in McAllen.
#BREAKING
:
@ERCOT_ISO
says most of the electric generating plants that went off-line last night were natural gas, coal or nuclear facilities that shut down.
Combined, that took more than 30,000 megawatts from the grid -- leading to the rotating outages.
#txwx
UPDATE: The heroic church member who shot down a gunman Sunday at West Freeway Church of Christ is running for county commissioner in Hood County, reports
@BudKennedy
. Jack Wilson runs a firearms training facility in Granbury, Texas.
.
@BetoORourke
leading a march of several thousand people along a hwy by the US / Mexico border in El Paso. Theyre protesting
@realDonaldTrump
plan to extend a border wall, and marching to the president’s rally about a mile away.
FINAL PUSH: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Ronny Jackson, Kari Lake and others at brewery in Fort Dodge, IA urging Trump supporters to go vote tonight in the
#IowaCaucus
.
#BREAKING
: 2 dead, 14 injured in shooting at non-sanctioned Texas A&M Commerce homecoming party. 750 people from Dallas, FW, Arlington, Cedar Hill, Commerce were here. Suspect at large. Believed to have used a semi-automatic rifle. Happened at The Party Venue - w. of Greenville.
@aaronstew12
You’re right. The law does not require that unfortunately. But that church is fortunate to have had that one armed individual there. He kept his cool and knew how to react in an ultra fast, high pressure situation... and took out the shooter with a single shot. Incredible.
The final log book entry - what mechanics wrote about the last
@AmericanAir
MD-80 before it left ORD for the desert in Roswell, NM this afternoon.
#Super80SendOff
In Texas, it is easier to get into medical school than veterinary school.
@TexasTech
is on the verge of doing something that hasn't happened here in 100 years.
WFAA @ 10p
Flight attendants aren’t there to serve you drinks. They’re there to save lives. Salute to this 34-year-old woman trying to stop passengers from getting their luggage before evacuating the burning aircraft. She threw people off the jet by their collar.
DEBATE:
@gromerjeffers
to Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
: "You've been in office for seven years. Do you bear any responsibility for crime being up?"
Abbott was asked twice and did not answer, saying bail policies are a problem.
#TXGovDebate
NEW DAD:
Dallas County
@JudgeClayJ
is a new father. His wife gave birth to healthy twins this morning. Jenkins will greet President
@JoeBiden
at
@DFWAirport
and return to the hospital.
PROPERTY TAX REFUNDS?
Large Texas companies get millions back in property taxes from school districts but homeowners pay more every year.
On this week’s
@Yallitics
,
@BetoORourke
cites an example of business not paying its fair share.
#txlege
LISTEN:
#BREAKING
: Dallas County Elections Admin asking a court to let her recount
#SuperTuesday
results after votes from 44 precincts (on thumb drives) were not originally included in results. She found the thumb drives after the count. Uncertain which precincts and how many votes.
NEW: Another Texas Republican, former lieutenant governor and state senator Bill Ratliff, father of former state rep.
@BennettRatliff
, says he will support Democrat Mike
@CollierForTexas
over incumbent Republican
@DanPatrick
.
#txlege
Corrects Tweet saying Bennett was endorsing.
NEW: The first 200 of 3,000 migrant children are headed to Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison convention center tomorrow. The HHS lease there is only 75 days. Rapid reunification with their families is the goal. Staff to children ration is 8:10. Red Cross is helping.
#BorderCrisis
The FAA says
@SouthwestAir
experiencing widespread cancellations across its network aren’t bc of any air traffic control “issues.”
@newsweek
reports the SWA cancellations are from its employees protesting the federally required vaccine mandate for govt contractors.
No FAA air traffic staffing shortages have been reported since Friday.
Flight delays & cancellations occurred for a few hours Friday PM due to widespread severe weather, military training, & limited staffing in one area of the Jacksonville en route center.
(1/2)
#BREAKING
: During the live news conference in
#Uvalde
,
@BetoORourke
, the Democratic nominee for governor, confronts
@GregAbbott_TX
and other leaders over what Republican leaders have done legislatively. Others on stage cursed at O'Rourke. Abbott said nothing.
Gov. Greg Abbott.
Beto O'Rourke.
This is likely the closest Texas will get to a second gubernatorial debate.
@GregAbbott_TX
+
@BetoORourke
take our questions on Sunday's Inside Texas Politics.
WFAA @ 9a on Sunday.
#BREAKING
:
Two nurses have been shot at Dallas’ Methodist Hospital in North Oak Cliff.
Call came in at 11:13a.
One nurse is in critical condition; one in stable.
Suspect in custody, via
@rlopezwfaa
.
$2,500,000.
President
@JoeBiden
raised $2.5M at his first of two fundraisers in Dallas tonight, according to an insider. It was a sold out event. Biden is expected to raise about the same amount at his second one shortly.
@wfaa
'WHY ARE THREATS EVEN NECESSARY?"
@DallasSchools
Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde asks if school vouchers are a good idea, why is Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
threatening GOP lawmakers not to vote against it. The special legislative session is October 9.
STORY:
In Dallas tonight,
@NikkiHaley
talking term limits in DC and mental competency tests for any leader over 75.
“Congress is the most privileged nursing home in the country,” she said.
#BREAKING
UPDATE:
After an hour of rotating outages, the state’s electric supply appears to have caught up with demand.
3,000MW+ are in reserves now.
Waiting to see if
@ERCOT_ISO
ends its rotating outages.
#txwx