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NBC 5 Weather Experts: Air Quality Alert & Heat for your Wednesday

Our hot weather pattern will continue this week right through the weekend. High temperatures will range from the upper 90s to the low 100s. The hottest weather could be this weekend with highs of 100 to 104. An Air Quality Alert is in effect for today for the DFW area. People with respiratory issues should limit their time outside. Today is also an Ozone …

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Biden to call for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — a move meant to ease financial pressures at the pump that also reveals the political toxicity of high gas prices in an election year. The Democratic president will also call on states to suspend their own gas taxes or provide …

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1,000 dead, 1,500 injured in Afghan quake, news report says

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more, according to a state-run news agency. Officials warned that the already grim toll would likely rise. Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6.1 temblor near the Pakistani border, but quakes of that strength can cause severe …

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Officers arrived with rifles, ballistic shield at Uvalde school 19 minutes after gunman

Police officers were in the hallway and armed with rifles and at least one ballistic shield within 19 minutes of a gunman’s arrival at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, according to a new report from the Austin American-Statesman. The details raise more questions and criticism about law enforcement’s response to the massacre and whether a quicker response could have saved lives. Authorities reconstructed …

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Records show Uvalde police were equipped to storm shooter

The officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary wanted to get inside classrooms 111 and 112 — immediately. One officer’s daughter was inside. Another officer had gotten a call from his wife, a teacher, who told him she was bleeding to death. Two closed doors and a wall stood between them and an 18-year-old with an AR-15 who had opened fire on …

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A hot week ahead

Our hot weather pattern will continue this week right through the weekend. High temperatures will range from the upper 90s to the low 100s. The hottest weather could be this weekend with highs of 100 to 104. Summer arrives at 4:14 Tuesday morning as the direct rays of the sun pass over the Tropic of Cancer. An air quality alert …

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3 dead after boat overturns in Lake Lavon

Three men died after a boat overturned Saturday in Lake Lavon, authorities said. The Collin County Sheriff’s Department said a strong storm caused the boat to overturn about 8:45 p.m. near Brockdale Park. Four men were aboard the boat, and one was able to hold on to a tree and call for help, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. …

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Wife of WNBA’s Brittney Griner tells AP scheduled call never happened

WASHINGTON — WNBA star Brittney Griner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the American embassy in Russia on the couple’s fourth anniversary Saturday, but they never connected since the phone line at the embassy was not staffed, Cherelle Griner said Monday. The couple has not spoken by phone in the four months since Griner’s arrest in …

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