As we were arriving to the Astroworld Festival at NRG Park right at 2:00, a stampede burst through the gates. Hundreds of people destroyed the VIP security entrance, bypassing the checkpoint. People were trampled. Some were detained.
(Excuse any language you may hear)
"They lied to our faces every single day."
This press conference has been hard to watch. Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen's family has such raw emotion after the heartbreaking developments over the last 24 hours.
#whereisvanessaguillen
ONLY IN HOUSTON are you going to have the local mattress salesman, rappers and a jeweler who makes grills riding on the same float and the crowd going wild!
Just when you THINK you’ve seen it all, someone walks past you down the Galveston beach dressed like Michael Myers in Halloween ahead of Tropical Storm Nicholas 🤦🏼♀️
I needed to see this!
@houstonpolice
has been working 12 hour shifts amid protests. This morning, a group dropped off donuts, coffee and water to officers outside the department. Then we saw officers share with a homeless man. Let's spread kindness today.
The FBI just walked out of the HISD Hattie Mae White Building carrying three boxes and a Mac computer monitor and loaded it into a car. They are headed back in.
It’s hard to describe the feeling in downtown Houston right now. Windows have blown out of many of the tall buildings. Streets are closed off. Police are concerned the wind is about to pick back up and blow out more.
This is 4-year-old Arianna. She was front and center at the marches and rallies in her Uncle George Floyd’s case.
On Saturday around 3 a.m., her father tells me she was asleep in her bed when someone fired several shots at their apartment. Arianna was hit in her torso.
An extremely long line of people outside of HEB in Lake Jackson this morning stocking up on water. They’ve been told NOT to use their water for anything other than flushing the toilet because of a potential brain eating amoeba.
🚨BREAKING: Houston police is looking for this man they say killed Shawtyeria Waites. According to investigators, they’ve found evidence that Jordan Potts killed her inside his apartment and later her body was moved in the trunk of his vehicle.
Four-year-old Arianna is still in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound. She was hit January 1 before 3 a.m. when someone shot up her family's apartment home. We spoke to her father about what happened.
Arianna is George Floyd's niece.
This sure doesn't look like the 610 East Loop! The entire City of Houston, minus Kingwood, has been told to boil their water for the next 24 hours. A massive water line that services 50% of Houston residents broke.
Treston Blount, Ezra's father, says he had his 9-year old on his shoulders during Travis Scott's performance at Astroworld a week ago today. Treston says he passed out and said he came to in a different part of the festival without knowledge of how he got there or where Ezra was.
Post Beryl water in the Gulf off Galveston Island is so brown right now it looks like coffee. Water is rough. We only saw one group sitting in it. People are out and about now along Seawall Blvd, although I didn’t notice any businesses open.
First, it was the armadillo. Now, it’s a flying roach. Could the critters please leave me alone!? (And OF COURSE this interaction was caught on camera. Why would it not be?)
Another haul of boxes loaded into a car by FBI and IRS agents outside the HISD Hattie Mae White Building. The FBI agents went back inside. IRS agents left.
As family, friends and members of the public gather to remember Migos’ rapper Takeoff at his memorial service in Atlanta, the Prince Family set up a memorial at the scene where he was killed. Hundreds of roses are outside 810 Billiards and Bowling. They also released doves.
More windows blew out of the Bank of America building in Downtown Houston during today’s storm. HPD has Milam Street closed from Capitol to Rusk. I’m told the Penzoil Building (right across the street) also lost windows.
Don’t y’all agree that a Barbie girl like myself needs this Barbie car!? I spotted it on the road today and was instantly obsessed 💗💗
Thanks to the owners who didn’t act like I was crazy for snapping pictures of their car.
"I'm outraged too," George Floyd’s brother, Terrence, said. "Sometimes I get angry. I want to go crazy. My brother wasn't about that. You'll hear a lot of people saying, 'He was a gentle giant.'"
Traffic in Houston is so funny, because why? No construction. No crash. Just dead stopped. I have a crazy idea… we all get in the correct lane for where we are trying to be in a timely fashion and then just go…. I think it may work.
Today marks my two year work-aversary at
@abc13houston
. The last two years have flown by, but it’s also felt like I’ve been reporting here 22 years. I attribute that to the wonderful Houstonians embracing me and making me feel that way. I look forward to many more years here.
Members of George Floyd's family in Houston breathed a sigh of relief as the guilty verdict was read against Derek Chauvin in the courtroom in Minneapolis.
Arianna had to be rushed to the hospital. She has a punctured lung and liver and three broken ribs. Her father says she’s on the mend but is still in the hospital.
The shooter has not been arrested.
Happy birthday, Mycah! I’m thankful to have
@MycahABC13
as a coworker. She legit makes me smile every day! Help me make her smile with a birthday message!
I’ve been off the last few weeks exploring Europe and all of its beauty, but I’m back in the H as of late last night. I’ll see you on
@abc13houston
this evening.
We just passed over the Lake Charles bridge and the damage from Hurricane Laura is increasing the further we get. I-10 is passable but there is debris in some areas.
#lawx
#HurricaneLaura2020
BREAKING: Gerald Williams, who killed 17-year-old David Castro in a road rage incident as he left an Astros' game with his dad and brother in July of 2021, will spend 30 years in prison.
Vanessa Guillen's sister tweeted out that she is thankful that the remains found near Fort Hood Friday do not belong to her sister. Her family is holding out hope that she is still alive.
#whereisvanessaguillen
Once again, a very strong storm moved through Downtown Houston. This is the same area of downtown that was so badly impacted by the storms less than two weeks ago. All these cars you see parked are seeking shelter from the storm. This is Polk and Smith.
#houwx
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says she's asking Governor Abbott to give her the authority to issue another "stay home" order to flatten the COVID-19 curve.
Happy
#gotexanday
! I might be a Texas girl but a Houston Texas girl so it’s glam western 🤠 Plus I’ve got to break in my pink boots for cook-off tonight!
#rodeohouston
As we were arriving to the Astroworld Festival at NRG Park right at 2:00, a stampede burst through the gates. Hundreds of people destroyed the VIP security entrance, bypassing the checkpoint. People were trampled. Some were detained.
(Excuse any language you may hear)
The storm is moving in to the Houston metro. Visibility is getting lower on the roads and the lightning is picking up. Head home if you can. Please be safe.
#houwx
#txwx
The line to get a free coronavirus test at the Mexican Consulate is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. This only shows parts of it. HUNDREDS of cars are lined up. Plus, people have walked up on foot. They are even stopped on US-59. The line started at 2 a.m.
Noe grabbed my phone from me right before our live hit to snap a picture. I thought it was because I looked crazy, but when I looked at it I saw the beautiful rainbow (and this mix matched clothes and mop hair). It’s going to be a great day, friends 🌈
There are easily 500 people in line at Chavez High School this morning to pick up free food for their children. HISD is out because of the coronavirus but wants to make sure children stay fed.
For the fourth year in a row I had the privilege of emceeing
@NorthlandCougs
Black and Gold Gala. I went to school there from kindergarten to 12th grade. I got to meet so many wonderful people Saturday night.
When our
@abc13houston
camera caught this stampede of hundreds of people breaking through the security checkpoint to get in Astroworld Fest on Friday around 2:00 (PRIOR TO THE TRAGEDY) should it have been canceled then?
BEST NEWS: The 5-year-old at the center of an Amber Alert has been found safe! A citizen noticed the car parked about a half mile from where it was stolen!
KEEP SHARING: Houston police are still looking for the driver of this white Buick sedan. The driver is accused of shooting a 17-year-old who was in the car with his father after an Astros game. Police believe it stemmed from road rage.
The line at Whataburger at the Grand Parkway and 59 in Sugar Land is something serious. But big big shoutout to all of the employees of restaurants and grocery stores working out in the cold rain to make sure people are fed 👏🏻👏🏻
#houwx
#txwx
#txpoweroutage
Police from different agencies and more than a dozen tow trucks have shown up to the vigil for Arlene Alvarez. There are also at least 100 people at the site of the shooting to honor the 9-year-old who is gone way too soon 💔
One week ago today I dipped pizza in ranch for the first time ever. How was I going about my every day life before that discovery? I certainly wasn’t really living.
This weekend I played softball for the first time ever. It was to support the Texas Veterans Athletic Association.
A few takeaways: I should not join the Astros or any sports team for that matter. I’m not the fastest moving person. I did hit the ball though 3 times 🥹 I’m proud
Can everyone who’s on spring break please stay wherever you are forever? There’s little traffic in Houston right now and the rest of us are living our best lives getting places expeditiously. Thank you!! Just a small favor to ask.
🚨URGENT: If your water comes from the Brazosport Water Authority DO NOT use it for anything other than flushing your toilet. A possible brain eating amoeba was found in the water supply.🚨
Willie Dixon is someone everyone describes as “the best” and for good reason. He was so fun to work with, thoughtful, beyond hardworking, hilarious and always smiling or laughing. His sudden passing is completely devastating. We will miss him tremendously.
Great job by the Harris County Sheriff’s Office this morning. They caught two men burglarizing Fiesta Pawn in the Greenspoint area, got them into custody and recovered the stolen merchandise. More on this at 9:00.
"I said 'let me go down there and let me clean up my city,'" Irving said. "What came to my mind was what JFK said - 'Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country.' I'm coming down here to put my little bit in."
WILD NIGHT: Cars doing donuts, crowds and fireworks shut down the intersection of Westheimer and Sage next to the Galleria around 1:30 this morning. Did you catch it?
I've seen many memes posted about being drafted since the situation in Iran. But this is the reality of it. This photo of a mother, father and daughter praying before she boards a plane is what's happening for families. This was taken at a Houston airport.
You never know what questions are coming your way on career day at an elementary school.
The fourth graders at Best Elementary were great this morning!
Wow! About 50 cars law enforcement says are stolen were found in a field in southeast Houston this morning. They have been severely stripped. They all look like this ⬇️⬇️⬇️ or worse. DPS is working to tow all of them now.