HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Nearly four months after Minneapolis police killed Houston native George Floyd, hundreds of thousands have protested for social justice change in America. Thousands marched in Houston in June, demanding reform and calling on lawmakers to go to work on the issues. Lawmakers introduced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in Congress, a bill that passed the House …

KEMAH, Texas (KTRK) — Communities along Galveston Bay became flood zones before Tropical Storm Beta’s anticipated landfall well south of the area. On Monday morning, bayside towns like Seabrook and Kemah took on flooded roadways due to the storm surge. By late morning, Kemah’s piers served as splash zones as one of our Eyewitness News crews captured winds of up …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Southeast Texas counties closer to the Gulf Coast are bracing for Tropical Storm Beta, which is expected to pose flooding dangers in parts of the region. Harris County faces the threat of localized flooding, but given the forecast, there isn’t an exact area where the worst of it will happen. Still, County Judge Lina Hidalgo told residents, …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Keep an eye on high water locations on Houston area roads and other trouble spots for drivers, as Tropical Storm Beta brings flooding rains. Houston police shut down Highway 288 to traffic in both directions between Loop 610 the I-45/Hwy 59 interchange. I-45 has been closed in both directions at Main due to high water. It’s …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Texas is one step closer to seeing high-speed rail become a reality. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration has given clearance to Texas Central to move forward on plans to build a high-speed rail line connecting Houston to Dallas in 90 minutes. The latest approval from the government establishes a regulatory framework for safety …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston doctor who was diagnosed with COVID-19 this summer has died, according to her family. Dr. Adeline Fagan, 28, was starting her second year of residency in Houston as an OB/GYN when she got sick in July. According to a GoFundMe page created by her family, Fagan was mostly at the hospital delivering babies, but was …

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man in Galveston decided he wanted to get out of harm’s way ahead of Tropical Storm Beta and chose to make a last-minute escape through the Bolivar Peninsula on Sunday afternoon. The roads, however, were not easy to maneuver and it didn’t take him long to realize it was a mistake. “So we tried to …

ByteDance-owned short-video app TikTok said on Tuesday it removed over 104 million videos from its platform globally in the first half of the year for violating guidelines or terms of service. “Of those videos, we found and removed 96.4% of videos before a user reported them, and 90.3% were removed before they received any views,” TikTok said in a transparency report. …

So far in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed thousands of lives across Africa. The continent’s polio teams – the extensive network of healthcare workers, laboratory experts, data managers and community volunteers – were some of the first on the ground to support the response and help contain national outbreaks. This is not the first time the polio programme has …