AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Harvey’s devastation is testing two Texas leaders whose personal styles are as divergent as their politics. Houston Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner is a former longtime state lawmaker who made a career of impassioned defenses of liberal legislation that had no hope of passing the GOP-controlled Legislature. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott sets […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive flooding Harvey has caused in Texas and Louisiana comes as Congress weighs renewing a federal flood insurance program that continually pays out more than it takes in through premiums, potentially leaving taxpayers on the hook for $24.6 billion and counting. The National Flood Insurance Program expires Sept. 30. Congress is […]
Senator Royce West from Texas clears the rumors of the September 1, 2017, deadline for filing for flood insurance. The rumor is true, the senator explains that, “It’s a pre-trial, pre-suit notice. The only real difference in the procedure that will be used under the new law as opposed to the old law is that there is an […]
Good Morning Everybody! I wanna send my love out to all of our listeners in Houston and Beaumont and Bridge City and Orange and Port Arthur and so many towns and cities hit with a catastrophic amount of rain over these past few days. We know. We see you. We care. Last year the city […]
08/31/17- Kym has an emergency kit just in case of a disaster. She’s got a pair of Spanx, a wig, and lipstick! She told her son if she’s ever unconscious to put a wig and some lipstick on before he calls 911. Everyone has their own version of an emergency kit so no judging! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com […]
DALLAS (AP) — Two explosions were reported early Thursday at a Houston-area chemical plant that lost power amid flooding from Harvey. A statement from the Arkema Inc. company said the Harris County Emergency Operations Center reported two explosions and black smoke coming from the plant at about 2 a.m. In a tweet, the Harris County […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In the midst of documenting the flooding in Texas, several news reporters have set aside their roles as observers to help people in danger. They’ve lifted people into boats, connected families through social media, flagged down rescuers and, in one case, coaxed people out of a flooding apartment house while on […]
DALLAS (AP) — Authorities found a shivering 3-year-old clinging to the body of her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal in Southeast Texas after the woman tried to carry her child to safety from Harvey’s floods. Beaumont police on Wednesday identified the mother as 41-year-old Colette Sulcer and said her daughter was being treated for […]
The Disney|ABC Television Group will air special programming across all of its TV and radio networks this week in support of its “Day of Giving” initiative to benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey, the company announced Wednesday. The special programming launches tonight [Aug. 30] at 10 p.m. with an ABC News primetime special “City Underwater: Catastrophe […]
Discussing President Trump’s visit to Corpus Christie, Texas, where he met with emergency responders battling the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey, MSNBC’s Joy Reid notes that he appears to see the devastation solely as an opportunity to show his strength. “He sees everything in terms of ratings and crowd size,” she explained to Trevor Noah […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Harvey’s floodwaters are beginning to drop across much of the Houston area, emergency officials said Wednesday, offering a glimmer of hope to the hurricane’s victims. But as the crisis eases, the storm could begin to give up its dead. “The water levels are going down. And that’s for the first time in […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Josh Rahman and the Rice football team were about 8,500 miles from their Houston campus, in a time zone 15 hours ahead, when they started to hear about a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. At first, they didn’t think much about the system that would become Hurricane Harvey. […]
