{"id":161154,"date":"2025-08-20T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161154\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:07:18","slug":"morning-briefing-san-antonio-aug-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/161154\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing San Antonio Aug. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Another round of showers and some will arrive this afternoon to evening from North to South-Central Texas. Heavy rainfall and gusty winds will be possible along with the threat of isolated flash flooding. Much of Texas is under a marginal risk for excessive rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday, and the risk of severe weather is low along with widespread flooding. We\u2019ll drop high temperatures a few degrees by the week\u2019s end with drier weather for the 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.\u00a0‘Rebuild Kerrville’ campaign collecting materials, donations to assist with rebuilding after Hill Country floods<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Following the July 4 floods, builders in the Hill Country started the “Rebuild Kerrville” campaign to collect building materials from vendors and donations to help families start rebuilding.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Funding for deadly Hill Country floods could soon come in 2nd special session<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The Hill Country camp community and families of flood victims are urging state leaders to pass laws to improve safety at youth camps across Texas.<\/p>\n

From Senate committee hearings to meeting with Abbott last week, families are pushing for legislative action and increased safety measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Immigration detention camp billed as the largest in U.S. history officially opens at Texas’ Fort Bliss<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s latest immigration detention camp has officially opened at a major military base in El Paso, Texas, with the goal of becoming the largest facility of its kind as the military embraces an increasingly expansive role in\u00a0immigration\u00a0and\u00a0domestic law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat who represents the El Paso area, visited the site Monday for nearly\u00a02\u00bd hours and\u00a0said\u00a0migrants began being detained at the facility as early as Aug. 1 and that it now houses nearly 1,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Migrants wearing face masks and shackles on their hands and feet sit on a military aircraft at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, awaiting their deportation to Guatemala. (AP Photo\/Christian Chavez)<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Education Department ends Federal Work-Study jobs that support voting<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Trump’s Justice Department investigating whether DC police officials falsified crime data<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Trump pushes for a meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin ahead of any trilateral gathering to discuss ending war in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas\u00a0
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Selena Gomez arrives at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello)<\/p>\n

Texas nominees for 22nd annual Premios Juventud awards include Selena Gomez, Grupo Frontera<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Nominees for the 22nd annual Premios Juventud, an entertainment awards show presented by Univision, were revealed on Tuesday, and several entertainers and creators are representing the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, San Antonio. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner Another round of showers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161155,"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-161154","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\/115061250339671185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161154","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=161154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}