{"id":142426,"date":"2025-08-13T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:00:19","slug":"san-antonio-morning-briefing-aug-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142426\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Morning Briefing Aug. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, San Antonio. Here&#8217;s what you need to know today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n<p>Tracking a few showers and storms around North Texas this morning. Warm and humid conditions are in place and will help lead to isolated\/scattered showers and storms across the I-35 corridor as we get toward the heating of the day. We are tracking a tropical disturbance in the southwest Gulf with a low chance of development by the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755090014_419_Briefing_SA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/weather\/interactive-radar.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/san-antonio\/weather\/interactive-radar.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/dallas-fort-worth\/weather.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews1.com\/snpluslive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spectrum_News_Plus_PromoCard_4-11-2023.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nIntroducing Spectrum News+<br \/>Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/san-antonio\/public-safety\/2025\/08\/12\/uvalde-county-leaders-release-video--records-from-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Desperate parents pleaded with officers to act during Uvalde school shooting, video shows<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Desperate\u00a0parents begged\u00a0law enforcement officers to storm an elementary school in\u00a0Uvalde, Texas,\u00a0in the frantic minutes after a gunman opened fire in one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history, police body camera video released Tuesday shows.<\/p>\n<p>The heartbreaking videos show the\u00a0agonizingly slow law enforcement\u00a0response along with confusion and delays.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/politics\/2025\/08\/11\/bill-aims-to-allow-lawsuits-against-abortion-pill-shipments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Senate considers bill letting lawsuits target out-of-state abortion pill shipments into Texas<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Bryan Hughes,\u00a0R-Mineola, filed the bill to allow private citizens to file lawsuits against abortion manufacturers and target shield laws in other states that protect manufacturers and doctors who prescribe the pills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pills, such as mifepristone and misoprostol, can be safely prescribed to women\u00a0for inserting an intrauterine device, managing a miscarriage and other medical treatments,\u00a0which Hughes says his bill accounts for.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2025\/08\/11\/overdose-awareness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Advocates worry drug overdoses will rise due to federal cuts<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fewer Texans are overdosing on drugs, but experts worry that trend may turn back due to major federal cuts.\u00a0The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a nearly\u00a027% decrease\u00a0in American overdose deaths from 2023 to 2024. Advocates say more resources and access to naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, play a major role.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/overdose_memorial_tx_0811_crop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"The Texas Harm Reduction Alliance has this Overdose Memorial in its drop-in center where loved ones leave messages for people who have lost their lives from an overdose. (Spectrum News 1\/Geraldine Torrellas-Pi\u00f1ero)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Harm Reduction Alliance has this Overdose Memorial in its drop-in center where loved ones leave messages for people who have lost their lives from an overdose. (Spectrum News 1\/Geraldine Torrellas-Pi\u00f1ero)<\/p>\n<p>Around The Nation<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/bls-nominee-ej-antoni-jobs-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee calls for suspending monthly jobs reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ex-Kentucky clerk asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/cdc-shooting-180-shots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man fired 180 shots, breaking 150 windows, in CDC attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep in the Heart of Texas\u00a0<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pecan_Street_Festival_ATX.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"People gathered at the Pecan Street Festival. (Pecan Street Festival web)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People gathered at the Pecan Street Festival. (Pecan Street Festival web)<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/pecan-street-festival-will-again-be-held-at-west-austin-mall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pecan Street Festival will again be held at West Austin mall<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Pecan Street Festival, now in its 50th year, will again be held at the Hill Country Galleria mall in Bee Cave.\u00a0Redevelopment continues\u00a0at its usual venue, the Sixth Street entertainment district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, San Antonio. Here&#8217;s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner Tracking a few showers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,9428,7450,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-142426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-morning-briefing","10":"tag-kelsey-leffingwell","11":"tag-san-antonio","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115021586354261778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}