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Flooding possible in Texas, Louisiana as thunderstorms spread across US South: Forecast
Numerous thunderstorms are expected in the Mississippi Valley and Texas on Saturday as a storm system moves in from the Gulf of Mexico and brings the threat of possible tornadoes, forecasters said.
Storms will continue for parts of the Mississippi Valley into Tennessee and Kentucky through Saturday morning before arriving at central and eastern Texas in the afternoon, the National Weather Service reported. Eastern Texas through most of Louisiana and into southern and central Mississippi are at most risk of flooding, as the areas have recently faced high precipitation, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Isaac Longley.
“The main risk with any storms that develop are going to be damaging winds, as well as the potential for some large hail,” Longley told USA TODAY on Friday. “An isolated tornado or two cannot be completely ruled out.”
In Texas, the areas expected to see the most severe weather will be along the state’s I-10 Corridor, including cities like Abilene, San Antonio and Austin late Saturday, Longley said. The weather will clear up by Sunday as the system shifts eastward into Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley.
Longley said the Tennessee Valley will see some heavy downpours Saturday night that clear come Sunday morning. However, the greatest risk for flooding will occur Sunday night when the next system arrives.
“That’s when this system really starts ramping up and getting its act together, pulling a lot of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico,” he said.
Meanwhile, a storm system will bring heavy snow across the southern High Plains, parts of the TexasPanhandle going into northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado, according to the weather service. The service said 4-8 inches of snow are expected.
Here is the weather forecast for Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024.
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Trump takes credit for Toyota moving some truck production from Mexico to Texas: ‘That’s what tariffs do’
Toyota is planning a $3.6 billion expansion of its Texas truck assembly plant. President Donald Trump took credit for the investment.
On Monday, the automaker announced the multibillion-dollar investment to add a second vehicle assembly line at its San Antonio manufacturing campus to support production of the Tacoma pickup. Toyota said the expansion project would shift some of the midsize truck’s production from its Mexico plants to San Antonio over roughly 4 years. Toyota will still build some Tacoma models and the Corolla in Mexico.
While Toyota did not attribute the expansion to tariffs in its announcement and the company is not fully exiting production in Mexico, Trump said the fresh investment was a sign that his tariffs were working.
“It came over the wires that Toyota is moving out of Mexico into the United States, and building one of the biggest truck and car plants ever built,” Trump said on Tuesday during a visit to Ankara, Turkey. “It’s amazing. That’s what tariffs do, properly used.”
Toyota said the investment will create 2,000 jobs and add 2.5 million square feet to the site, doubling the company’s Texas footprint by 2030.
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On Monday, Ted Ogawa, president and CEO of Toyota Motor North America, said the investment reflected the company’s “confidence in the region’s workforce, innovation, and long-term growth potential.”
The move gives Trump a high-profile example of a well-recognized company creating manufacturing jobs. His administration has argued that tariffs incentivize companies — particularly automakers — to reshore manufacturing in America and reduce reliance on foreign production.
Toyota’s announcement also comes amid major uncertainty for automakers with plants in North America. The USMCA — the trilateral free trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico struck during Trump’s first term — is under review after the US declined to renew the treaty in its current form on July 1. The Trump administration is reportedly pushing to change the agreement so 50% of all automotive parts and manufacturing would happen in the US.
Toyota also nodded to that trade uncertainty in its release, saying it remained committed to operations in all three countries while encouraging “a quick resolution to USMCA” to keep North America globally competitive.
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Supreme Court won’t block Texas from enforcing a law requiring age verification for app downloads
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to block Texas from enforcing a state law that requires apps stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors seeking to download apps or make in-app purchases on mobile phones.
Justice Samuel Alito, in a pair of one-sentence orders, denied petitions by plaintiffs who claim that the Texas App Store Accountability Act violates users’ constitutional rights to free speech.
Last month, a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law can take effect. The panel suspended a district court’s ruling last December that the law is unconstitutional.
The plaintiffs suing to block the law include the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a defendant in both cases.
Plaintiffs’ lawyers argued that the law impermissibly seeks to limit access to content protected by the First Amendment, including news and educational material.
“Equity and the public interest support relief because protecting First Amendment rights — and parents’ rights to supervise their children as they see fit, not as the government tells them they should — is always in the public interest,” wrote attorneys for Students Engaged in Advancing Texas.
Attorneys from Paxton’s office argued that the law protects children from “dangerous modern products.”
“A child with access to an app store and a mobile device (such as a tablet or smartphone) can potentially download any number of software applications, potentially agreeing to invasions of the child’s privacy and sale of the child’s data and be exposed to any conceivable content without parental consent or even parental knowledge,” they wrote.
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Texas Rescuers Save Woman From Sewage-Filled Ravine
A passerby’s curiosity may have saved a life behind a Dallas high school. Police say that around 5:25pm on June 28, a young man followed faint cries coming from a wooded area and discovered a young woman stuck in a steep ravine, mired in mud and sewage after being trapped for days, Fox News reports. Dallas police and fire crews mounted a joint rescue in 104-degree heat, trekking about a quarter-mile over rough ground to reach her. They hauled her out and rushed her to a hospital, where she was treated for severe dehydration, extended sun exposure, and other injuries.
Police did not release the woman’s identity or say how she ended up in the ravine, WFAA reports. In a Facebook post Monday, the Dallas Police Department credited the “collaborative effort” of officers, firefighters, and paramedics whose quick work “saved a young woman who was in desperate need of help.” “The well-being of the Dallas community is not something that’s handled by a single agency,” the department said.”It takes a collaborative effort from multiple teams and organizations working side-by-side to ensure every person’s safety.”
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