{"id":145147,"date":"2025-08-14T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145147\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:14:15","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-morning-briefing-august-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145147\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth Morning Briefing August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Sunshine, heat and humidity return for our Thursday along with the chance of pop up afternoon showers and storms. Highs will be in the 90s but it\u2019ll feel hotter and more like the triple digits. We continue to track a tropical disturbance in the southwest Gulf that has a low end chance of development this weekend.<\/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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Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0H-E-B opens new store in Prosper, making it the 11th in the DFW area<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The H-E-B universe is expanding in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Prosper, which sits just north of Dallas, is getting the grocery store where everything is better on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The newest store will make it the 11th in the DFW area.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Texas House Democrats’ 2-week absence forces Republicans to make a move<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Both chambers will end this special session\u00a0sine die\u00a0Friday, and the governor says he will \u201ccall the Texas Legislature back immediately for Special Session #2\u201d with the \u201cexact same agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Water quality report highlights problems with Texas waterways<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

A\u00a0water quality report from Environment America\u00a0shows that more than half of U.S. beaches may have had unsafe bacteria levels in 2024. For Texas beaches, the percentage of unsafe waters rose to over 90%.<\/p>\n

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A family walks the beach amid the choppy surf adjacent to Pleasure Pier, in background, as the remaining rain bands from Beryl approach Monday, July 8, 2024, in Galveston, Texas. Tropical Storm Beryl was unleashing heavy rains and powerful winds along the Texas coast, knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and flooding streets with fast-rising waters. (AP Photo\/Michael Wyke)<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Floodwaters from glacier near Alaska’s capital city break record levels and prompt evacuations<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Delivery drones are coming to more U.S. neighborhoods after getting off to a slow start<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Why many Americans are rethinking alcohol, according to a new Gallup poll<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas\u00a0
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San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama, right, and teammates celebrate during the second half of a Paris Games 2025 NBA basketball game against the Indiana Pacers in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n

Mavs to host San Antonio Spurs on opening night of NBA season<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The San Antonio Spurs will travel to meet the Dallas Mavericks on Oct. 22 for the first game of the NBA season for both teams. The matchup will not only feature two teams from the Lone Star State, but also it will be the first game between the top two picks in the most recent NBA draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, DFW. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner Sunshine, heat and humidity return…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,9428,1596,7371,7372,27465,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-145147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-morning-briefing","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-mike-dalonzo","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115027304128206176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145147","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=145147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}