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Today’s Big Stories
1. 57 seconds: A look at the quick emergency response to Austin bar shooting
It took first responders 57 seconds to get on the scene during the mass shooting on West 6th Street in Austin, Texas, in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 1. The shooter killed three people and injured over a dozen, but Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said there could have been more lives lost if it were not for the Counter Assault Strike Team.
2. Cornyn, Casar have impromptu debate over government funding outside Austin airport
In a heated exchange outside the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Monday, Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin, sparred over government funding as the GOP lawmaker delivered Whataburger meals to airport workers.
3. Jasmine Crockett security team member killed in standoff with Dallas police
A security team member for U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett died after a fatal standoff with Dallas police, the Democratic congresswoman confirmed Tuesday.
Diamon Mazairre Robinson, whom Crockett and others knew as Mike King, died March 11 after SWAT officers fired tactical rifles.
Notes for Tomorrow
Wednesday, March 18
Interest rate decision
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee expected to hold hearing on nomination of GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin as DHS secretary
NASA astronauts on board ISS conduct spacewalk
SXSW Film & TV Jury Awards announced
Josh D’Amaro becomes Walt Disney Company New CEO
In Case You Missed It
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Why an East Texas rancher donated part of his water rights to the state.
For Bob Sanders and many of his neighbors in Marion County, about 35 miles northeast of Longview, the bayou represents something increasingly fragile in Texas: water that still belongs to the landscape it came from.
That was partly the reason why Sanders took a step few Texans have taken in decades. He donated part of his water rights to the Texas Water Trust, a little-known state program designed to preserve water for environmental and conservation purposes.