{"id":377101,"date":"2026-07-17T19:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:03:14","slug":"texas-gov-abbott-uvalde-pd-to-host-joint-news-conference-on-severe-weather-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377101\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Abbott, Uvalde PD to host joint news conference on severe weather response"},"content":{"rendered":"

UVALDE, Texas \u2013 Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Uvalde Police Department are expected to host a joint news conference Friday on the ongoing response to the severe weather. <\/p>\n

KSAT will provide a livestream of the event at 3 p.m. in this article. Delays are possible. If there is not a livestream available, please check back at a later time. <\/p>\n

According to a news release, the news conference will take place at the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center in downtown Uvalde. <\/p>\n

In Uvalde County, more than 10 inches of rain fell Thursday on top of the showers of the last few days, according to the KSAT Weather Authority team.<\/p>\n

The excessive rainfall caused the Farm-to-Market 481 Bridge above the Nueces River to collapse<\/a>, Texas Department of Public Safety footage shows. <\/p>\n

A shelter-in-place was issued for Uvalde County on Thursday, though it has since been lifted. The excessive showers caused all major highways and many streets to close. <\/p>\n

U.S. Highway 90 in Uvalde was closed for all of Thursday and recently reopened at least one lane early Friday. <\/p>\n

Officials say at least one person died from flooding in the Uvalde area.<\/p>\n

More recent weather coverage on KSAT:<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UVALDE, Texas \u2013 Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Uvalde Police Department are expected to host a joint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[392,4034,133255,4375,27,29,28,6305,12700],"class_list":["post-377101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-greg-abbott","tag-hill-country-floods","tag-july-2026-floods","tag-severe-weather","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-uvalde-county","tag-uvalde-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377101","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=377101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}