Kids. That could not be who they were after. Top stories that we are following this thursday, july 18th. This girl was shot and killed overnight after answering a front door. Two other kids and an adult are in the hospital right now, we will have a live report coming up. Police in berkeley are investigating the citys second homicide of the year. Here is a live look at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. Erica says that a big warmup will start. We are dealing with a lot of cloud cover. It will be fairly fast clearing and most of us was seized sunshine before lunchtimewill se lunchtime. There was an incident on interstate 580. It was a overturned a semi truck. The good news is that because of a location it is not having an impact on the commute. There are a least two accidents that we are tracking. There is a motorcycle accident on 880 and tennyson road. Across the bay there is an injury accident northbound 101. Both of these crashes are only having minor impacts. We will now go l
A four-term Democratic incumbent in Houston has been ousted in a statehouse primary race that centered on her support for a ban on gender-affirming health care for minors. Democratic challenger Lauren Ashley Simmons defeated incumbent Shawn Thierry in Tuesday's primary by nearly 30 percentage points. Simmons had the support of LGBTQ+ groups in Texas and nationwide. Thierry faced criticism for her support of a bill in the Texas House that banned gender-affirming care for transgender children. Rice University political science professor Mark Jones says Thierry had the support of many Black religious leaders in the African American-majority district. But Jones says that support clearly wasn't enough to overcome Simmons' support from progressives in the district.
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A Texas Democratic lawmaker who broke with her party by supporting a ban on gender-affirming care for minors was ousted in a primary runoff that galvanised LGBTQ+ groups nationwide, who then campaigned for her opponent in the race for the south Houston seat.