{"id":160706,"date":"2025-08-20T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160706\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:10:20","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-evening-briefing-aug-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160706\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth Evening Briefing Aug. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, DFW We&#8217;re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n<p>The rain clouds roll back in this evening and amplify Wednesday into Thursday. We will see spotty off and on showers and thunderstorms from North Texas to South Texas as a disturbance pulls through. There is a chance of localized flooding, though we aren\u2019t anticipating flash flooding or severe storms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755681017_331_Briefing_DFW.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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/san-antonio\/weather\/interactive-radar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/dallas-fort-worth\/weather.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumnews1.com\/snpluslive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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>Today&#8217;s Big Stories<\/p>\n<p><b>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/dallas-fort-worth\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/tarrant-county-commissioners-to-vote-on-proposal-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tarrant County Commissioners to decide on proposal that would cut voting sites ahead of November election<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>As we near the November elections, Tarrant County officials are considering whether to cut a significant number of polling locations.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County Commissioners Court is expected to meet Tuesday to approve polling locations and vote on a proposal that would reduce polling places from 349 sites to 214 sites and early voting locations from 51 to 24.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2025\/08\/18\/texas-republicans-set-to-resume-push-for-redraw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats get police escorts to prevent a new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Texas Democrats who ended a walkout Monday found themselves shadowed by law enforcement officers to keep them from repeating the protest that stalled Republican efforts\u00a0to redraw congressional districts\u00a0and fulfill President Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to reshape U.S. House maps.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/politics\/2025\/08\/19\/mexico-says-there-s-no-agreement-with-dea-for-new-border-enforcement-collaboration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico says there&#8217;s no agreement with DEA for new border enforcement collaboration<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hours after the\u00a0U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration\u00a0announced \u201ca major new initiative\u201d for United States and Mexico collaboration targeting gatekeepers who control illicit trafficking routes across the countries\u2019 shared borders, Mexico\u2019s president said Tuesday there was no such agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Notes for Tomorrow<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday, Aug. 20<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes published<\/li>\n<li>Made by Google event to launch Google&#8217;s latest devices, including the Pixel smartphone<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Knox drama series becomes available on Hulu<\/li>\n<li>Academy of Country Music Honors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Case You Missed It<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/arch_manning_ap_(1).jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"Texas quarterback Arch Manning (16) reacts during an NCAA college football practice in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo\/Eric Gay)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Texas quarterback Arch Manning (16) reacts during an NCAA college football practice in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo\/Eric Gay)<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2025\/08\/19\/the-texas-longhorns-are-no--1-behind-prodigy-qb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It&#8217;s Manning&#8217;s season to shine: The Texas Longhorns are No. 1 behind prodigy QB<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Texas starts the season\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranked No. 1<\/a>\u00a0for the first time in program history and a betting favorite to win the national championship.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arch-manning-texas-d2cb969023941e4ab0ec910820e6d1c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arch Manning<\/a>\u00a0takes over at quarterback and is just about everyone&#8217;s early favorite for the Heisman Trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, DFW We&#8217;re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,12762,15151,1596,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-160706","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-evening-briefing","10":"tag-christine-sanchez","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-fort-worth","13":"tag-fortworth","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\/115060318262748024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160706","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=160706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}