In a joint news conference Sunday evening, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told local residents an unprecedented wave of winter weather has already begun to descend on the Houston area, and that the time to stay home is now.
METRO suspending services beginning Sunday night amid icy conditions
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The METRO logo is seen on the side of a bus in Houston on April 19, 2018. (KPRC)
HOUSTON – All METRO services will be suspended Sunday starting at 7 p.m. due to the winter storm impacting the Houston region, the agency announced Saturday night.
METRO will work with customers to help them reach their final destinations. Services will remain suspended through Tuesday or until conditions improve. Customers are urged to prepare now for the suspension of service and avoid travel.
METRO HOV/HOT lanes and the METRO RideStore will also be closed.
Fiery Pileup Shuts I-44 in OKC as Winter Storm Uri Makes Travel Hazardous; Knocks Out Power to Tens of Thousands
The Weather Channel 2/15/2021 Ron Brackett
Interstate 44, the Turner Turnpike, was forced to shut down Sunday afternoon in both directions in east Oklahoma City because of a pileup involving multiple vehicles caused by the ice and snow unleashed by Winter Storm Uri.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported that two semitrailer tractors, an SUV and another vehicle were involved and that two of the semis caught fire. Several people were taken to the hospital, a reporter for KOKH tweeted.
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Northbound I-35 was closed at the 225 mile marker because of to a collision.
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Pastor Timothy Sloan interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about the COVID-19 vaccine. The Zoom call aired during a virtual Sunday sermon at the Luke Church in Humble.
When the COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for use in December, Pastor Timothy Sloan was chatting with some of his congregants and the question of whether to get the vaccine came up. Sloan leads a Black megachurch in Humble called The Luke Church, and he knew that some of his 5,000 members would look to him for guidance.
But the answer didn’t come easy for Sloan. Growing up, he’d heard about events like the Tuskegee Study, a well-known example of medical exploitation in the Black community. Beginning in the 1930s, scientists left syphilis untreated in a group of Black men in order to study the disease. The U.S. federal government conducted the experiment without obtaining informed consent.