{"id":228595,"date":"2026-03-31T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228595\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:35:13","slug":"morning-briefing-texas-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228595\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Texas March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

TK<\/p>\n

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Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIntroducing Spectrum News+
Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Student shoots, injures teacher at Hill Country College Preparatory High School<\/a><\/p>\n

The Comal County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed a student shot a teacher at Hill Country College Preparatory High School on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

According to a\u00a0post on Facebook<\/a>, the 15-year-old student died at the scene. The teacher was taken to a San Antonio hospital, and her condition is not known at this time.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Texas cities distancing themselves from C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez<\/a><\/p>\n

Thousands were expected to attend the nation’s largest\u00a0C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez march in San Antonio this past Saturday.<\/p>\n

Instead it was canceled almost a month ago, before the release of a New York Times investigation alleging the late labor leader sexually abused girls and women \u2014 including Dolores Huerta \u2014 who alongside Ch\u00e1vez\u00a0co-founded the United Farmworkers Association. The investigation sent shockwaves through Texas.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0New data shows steady decrease of fatal crashes despite hurdles faced by first responders on the road<\/a><\/p>\n

Spectrum News 1 is digging into the challenges causing traffic back-ups from San Antonio to Houston. And in Dallas-Fort Worth, Spectrum News got a front-row seat with first responders \u2014 seeing firsthand the traffic hurdles they face while responding to emergencies.<\/p>\n

A crash happens in seconds, causing gridlock on Interstate 35 that can stretch for miles. For first responders, every minute stuck navigating blocked lanes puts lives at risk.<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0White House says Iranians talking to U.S. ‘more reasonable’ as Congress weighs in on possibility of troops on the ground<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Some airport bottlenecks ease as TSA says workers got their pay<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Trump says he has ‘no problem’ with Russian oil tanker bringing relief to Cuba despite blockade<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas
\n\"Aquaria<\/p>\n

Aquaria Hydropacks harvest water from humidity in the air. This is an option people are exploring amid growing water concerns. (Spectrum News 1\/Geraldine Torrellas-Pi\u00f1ero)<\/p>\n

Texans turn to new technology as wells run dry<\/a><\/p>\n

Texans are growing concerned about water. Between droughts, a growing population and large industrial projects like data centers, water wells are going dry and dozens of rural homeowners are exploring other ways to get water.<\/p>\n

Access to water is something that can easily be taken for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner TK Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin\u00a0|\u00a0San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2160,138,140,139,30432,27,835],"class_list":["post-228595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-app-top-stories","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-hannah-maguire","tag-texas","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228595","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=228595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}