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On today’s Hello Houston, Dr. Tina Petersen, executive director of Harris County Flood Control District<\/a>, joins us to help break down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s draft for the updated Harris County floodplain maps<\/a>, the first countywide update since 2007.<\/p>\n Then, Lisa Descant<\/a>, CEO of the non-profit Communities In Schools of Houston<\/a>, tells us more about their work across the Greater Houston area and their report for the 2024-2025 school year.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n In the second hour of the show, we hear the latest edition of Frank’s Friends of Frank series in which he talks with broadcaster Brent Goff<\/a>, the Chief News Anchor at DW News in Berlin, Germany, who discusses his news career and shares his thoughts on how Europeans currently view Americans.<\/p>\n Plus, acclaimed playwright James Anthony Tyler<\/a> tells us about his work and his role as head of the Playwriting & Dramaturgy program at the University of Houston.<\/p>\n And, as always, Ernie, Celeste, and Frank discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including Stephen Colbert criticizing CBS for allegedly blocking an interview with James Talarico<\/a>, and NAACP Houston president Bishop James Dixon II<\/a> tells us about a community prayer vigil he’s officiating tonight to honor the Reverend Jesse Jackson.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, Dr. Tina Petersen, executive director of Harris County Flood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,68821,24667,163,67146,3576,8304,405,2625,2245,4103,56,58,57,68822,64783,2135,68288,68823,66,223,68824,33870,21110],"class_list":{"0":"post-170251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-arts-culture","9":"tag-brent-goff","10":"tag-communities-in-schools-of-houston","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-flood-maps","13":"tag-flooding","14":"tag-friends-of-frank","15":"tag-harris-county","16":"tag-harris-county-flood-control-district","17":"tag-hello-houston","18":"tag-hello-houston-podcast","19":"tag-houston","20":"tag-houston-headlines","21":"tag-houston-news","22":"tag-james-anthony-tyler","23":"tag-james-dixon-ii","24":"tag-james-talarico","25":"tag-jesse-jackson","26":"tag-lisa-descant","27":"tag-local","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-playwright","30":"tag-stephen-colbert","31":"tag-tina-petersen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}