{"id":143149,"date":"2025-08-13T19:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143149\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:26:38","slug":"san-antonio-morning-briefing-aug-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143149\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Morning Briefing Aug. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, San Antonio. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Seasonable heat and humidity again for this time of year. Highs will be in the upper 90s and triple digits, however North Texas will be slightly \u201ccooler\u201d and in the mid 90s. We\u2019ll have a low end chance of showers and storms to march inland today and tomorrow during the afternoon hours. Storms that do develop should stay sub-severe with brief rainfall being the greatest threat. Storms will be widely scattered.<\/p>\n

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Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIntroducing Spectrum News+
Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0UTSA researchers dedicate efforts to enhancing de-escalation strategies in emergency scenarios<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are trialing new de-escalation training meant to help people with developmental disabilities like autism.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Trump’s new congressional map in Texas still stymied as Gavin Newsom urges president to give up<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Texas Republicans were unable again Monday to approve new congressional districts to meet President Donald Trump’s demands as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats urged Republicans to stand down and avoid a\u00a0partisan brawl\u00a0spanning multiple statehouses.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Five years after shedding Confederate moniker, a West Texas high school may be Lee High again<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

A new configuration of the\u00a0Midland Independent School District school board is set to consider reverting the school\u2019s name to Midland Lee, affixing the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to the school once more. A vote may come as early as Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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A painting of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is displayed at West Point Museum, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo\/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Trump says he will place Washington, DC’s police under federal control, deploy National Guard<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Judge denies request to unseal transcripts from grand jury that indicted Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Tropical Storm Erin forms in the Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas\u00a0
\n\"Kerrville<\/p>\n

Kerrville mechanic Adrian Wollney prays with a recovery worker in Hunt, Texas. (Spectrum News 1\/Bryan Boes)<\/p>\n

Kerrville mechanic fixes cars of flood volunteers, victims for free<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Whether he\u2019s underneath a truck or hovering over the engine of an SUV, it\u2019s in Adrian Wollney\u2019s nature to find the problem.\u00a0After the early morning floods of July 4 in Kerr County, the problem found him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, San Antonio. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner Seasonable heat and humidity…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,9428,14242,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-143149","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-katharine-finnerty","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\/115023104188735894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143149","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=143149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}