{"id":32725,"date":"2025-07-02T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32725\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:55:13","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-morning-briefing-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32725\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth Morning Briefing July 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

The overall weather pattern remains steady this week with hot and humid conditions. Scattered showers and storms may develop in the afternoons for Central and North Texas, particularly in the second half of the day. South and South-Central Texas will continue with waves of showers and storms. As we head into the Fourth of July holiday weekend, a strengthening high-pressure system will settle in, bringing even hotter temperatures and pushing daytime highs into the triple digits.<\/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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Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0North Texas Wildlife Center facing closure from city officials<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The North Texas Wildlife Center in Plano is facing an untimely demise if something isn\u2019t done quick.<\/p>\n

In a heartfelt social media post, the center shared that the City of Plano has given it a 60-day notice to find a new location to operate or the center will be forced to close its doors.<\/p>\n

2. ‘DOGE … might have to go back and eat Elon’: Trump, Musk escalate feud over president’s agenda bill<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the mega tax and spending legislation that sparked the pair\u2019s public falling out last month has dramatically escalated over the last few days as the Senate closed in on getting the bill over the finish line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0San Antonio Zoo welcomes young giraffe with a fitting name<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The San Antonio Zoo just welcomed a 14-month-old male giraffe named Kicheko. He was born at Dallas Zoo on April Fool\u2019s Day last year, so it only makes sense that his name means \u201claughter\u201d in Swahili.<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Judge says HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas\u00a0
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Jake the rizzbot at the Domain in Austin, Texas. (Spectrum News 1\/Kelsey Leffingwell)<\/p>\n

Have you seen Jake? A cowboy hat wearing rizzbot goes viral for approaching curious onlookers in Austin<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you been rizzed in Austin? A new robot in Austin with a sticker that says \u201crizzbot\u201d (rizz is a Gen Z slang term for charisma) has been going viral on social media after it started using Gen Z slang to speak with people on the streets of the Domain and downtown Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, DFW. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner The overall weather pattern remains…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32726,"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-32725","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32725","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=32725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}