Flooding and heavy rainfall compelled evacuations and closed colleges and roads for the second day in a row throughout components of East Texas, together with the Houston space.

S​ome areas obtained between 12 inches and greater than 18 inches of rain.

D​rivers had been urged to remain off roadways.

“Greater than 50% of all flood fatalities are vehicle-related,” the Nationwide Climate Service in Houston stated on social media. “You by no means understand how deep the water is or if the street has been washed away or compromised beneath the water.”

L​ocal officers declared a catastrophe in Harris County, the place town of Houston is positioned.

Greater than a dozen college districts canceled courses Friday, most of them in areas north and east of Houston the place the heaviest rain fell.

H​arris County meteorologist and flood management director Jeff Lindner warned Friday that harmful flooding was shifting downstream on the west fork and east fork of the San Jacinto River.

“Actions to guard life and property should be accomplished instantly,” Linder stated on social media. “The water goes to rise quick alongside these rivers in Harris County this afternoon into Saturday … peaking Saturday.”

The East Fork of the river was at 69 toes Friday morning, which is already 11 toes above flood stage. It was anticipated to crest at about 78 toes Saturday.

Evacuations had been ordered Thursday for individuals dwelling alongside the San Jacinto River in Harris County. The county’s prime elected official, Choose Lina Hidalgo, known as it a “life-threatening state of affairs.”

F​lash flood warnings had been issued for a number of areas to the north and east of the Houston metro and s​everal highways were closed because of flooding across the area.

Residents alongside the Trinity River in San Jacinto County additionally had been ordered to evacuate. Shelters opened within the close by cities of Coldspring and Shepherd. The world is about 40 miles northeast of Houston.

Eighteen river gauges had been forecast to achieve main flood stage in east Texas, together with stretches of the Trinity, Navasota and San Jacinto Rivers and a few will seemingly keep above flood stage into subsequent week.

T​he climate was the newest in a rash of storms to pound the Plains and Midwest.

F​rom Thursday by the weekend, 130 tornadoes had been both confirmed by the Nationwide Climate Service or sighted by storm spotters. No less than 5 individuals had been killed.

S​torms on Tuesday left one particular person lifeless within the rural Kansas city of Westmoreland, about 100 miles northwest of Kansas Metropolis.

M​ore extreme climate is on its option to the area subsequent week. Get the total forecast right here.

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NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Staff on Friday started eradicating a bridge over a Connecticut freeway that was broken in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck — a venture anticipated to maintain each side of Interstate 95 closed by way of the weekend and lengthen a site visitors nightmare on the most important artery linking New England and New York.

Crews took down steel fencing on the span in Norwalk earlier than a big excavator started demolishing the concrete sides of the construction. Heavy gear was introduced in in a single day. Gov. Ned Lamont stated the hope is to reopen the freeway by Monday morning.

Visitors on each side of the freeway was being corralled from three journey lanes into exit-only lanes as drivers had been detoured onto native streets across the crash web site. Livestreams confirmed automobiles and vehicles creeping slowly on the exit ramps. The state Division of Transportation stated the journey time was over an hour for the 16 miles (26 kilometers) from the New York border to Route 7 in Norwalk on I-95 north.

The crash occurred at round 5:30 a.m. Thursday on the southbound facet of the freeway. The tanker truck, carrying about 8,500 gallons (32,000 liters) of gasoline, burst into flames below the Fairfield Avenue bridge after a collision with a tractor trailer and a automobile. Officers stated nobody was critically injured. The reason for the wreck remained below investigation.

“The warmth from the burning gas compromised among the bridge, in order that bridge goes to have to come back down and that demolition goes to start out very first thing tomorrow morning,” Lamont stated at a briefing Thursday in Hartford.

About 160,000 automobiles journey that part of I-95 in each instructions day by day, officers stated.

Norwalk colleges had been closed Friday, and Mayor Harry Rilling urged native employers to contemplate permitting workers to work at home.

Textual content alerts had been despatched to residents of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, and trucking corporations who use the part of I-95 had been notified to search out various routes and technique of journey. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg stated in social media postings that federal freeway officers had been working with Connecticut authorities.

The crash considerably elevated site visitors on different highways and secondary roads. The main alternate route within the space, the Merritt Parkway, can’t be utilized by vehicles as a result of its underpasses are too low.

The accident was paying homage to a lethal one final 12 months in Philadelphia when a tractor-trailer carrying gasoline alongside I-95 misplaced management and caught fireplace, destroying a bit of the freeway.

Thursday’s crash additionally got here simply over a 12 months after an identical wreck on I-95 in Connecticut that additionally pressured the closure of the freeway. In that April 2023 crash, a gas truck caught fireplace after colliding with a stopped automobile on the Gold Star Memorial Bridge between New London and Groton. The gas truck driver was killed. The crash shut down the southbound facet of the bridge for hours, whereas the northbound facet was closed briefly. The driving force of the automobile was lately charged with negligent murder.

The Houston space is dealing with “life-threatening” flood situations, officers warned, as extreme climate pummels elements of Texas.

A flood watch is in impact Thursday in southeastern Texas and Louisiana. Quite a few flash flood warnings are additionally in impact, as as much as 8 inches of rain has already fallen in some elements of southeastern Texas Thursday. Extra rounds of rain are anticipated to proceed via Friday in these areas.

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a catastrophe declaration as extreme climate and flooding threatened the state.

“As flooding situations and extreme climate proceed in a number of areas throughout Texas, I expanded the catastrophe declaration so as to add 59 counties to make sure Texans and their communities obtain the help and assist they should keep protected,” the governor mentioned in a press release. “For Texans in at-risk areas, you will need to stay weather-aware, observe the steering of state and native officers, and keep away from touring in harmful flood situations. The State of Texas continues working with emergency administration and native officers to deploy any extra sources wanted to supply ongoing assist and defend our fellow Texans.”

Officers in Harris County additionally issued a catastrophe declaration Thursday and known as for necessary evacuations for residents residing closest to the banks of the East Fork of the San Jacinto River attributable to ongoing flooding and heavy rainfall north of the realm.

“We would like you out of this space,” Harris County Choose Lina Hidalgo mentioned throughout a press briefing on Thursday. “It is a life-threatening state of affairs.”

The river is predicted to rise to 77 ft above sea stage by Friday. The water stage will probably be a number of ft beneath the place it was throughout Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Hidalgo mentioned. Sometimes the river is 45 to 50 ft above sea stage, she mentioned.

These unable to depart will possible be trapped of their properties for 2 to a few days, she warned.

“Excessive” river flooding is predicted to influence central and east Texas river basins via subsequent week, with “historic” releases by lake and reservoir operators amid the heavy rainfall exacerbating flooding situations, the governor’s workplace mentioned.

Flooding has brought about closures alongside highways within the area. Abbott’s workplace mentioned state responders aided with “a number of” high-water rescues in central and southeast Texas in a single day whereas urging residents to observe forecasts and observe steering from native emergency officers.

Residents are additionally being impacted by energy outages amid the extreme climate. Greater than 20,000 Houston-area prospects had been with out energy Thursday night, in response to CenterPoint Vitality’s outage tracker.

Based mostly on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel of the identical title however translated into the twenty first century, “A Man in Full” focuses on the Southern-fried Croker (Daniels), who lives lavishly like each different rich enterprise tycoon, actual or fictional: He flies round in personal jets, has a a lot youthful spouse (Sarah Jones), and, most significantly, bleeds cash just like the financial institution is not coming to get him. On the heels of his ostentatious sixtieth party, the place his closest aristocratic enterprise pals collect to observe none apart from Shania Twain (a wild cameo) carry out a few of her best hits, the financial institution comes a-knocking, wanting their mortgage a reimbursement—$800 million price, in reality. 

Shortly after the festivities, Croker meets with Planners Financial institution; his opponent, Harry Zale (a fierce Invoice Camp), squeezes him out, telling him he is bankrupt and should begin paying again what he owes. Inside that boardroom is his outdated prodigy-turned-loan-officer Raymond Peepgrass (an engrossing Tom Pelphrey)—an actual title no person determined to replace for some cause––who has it out for Croker. As his troubles compound, Croker scrambles to search out traders for his monolithic enterprise. 

Croker’s woes play out amidst a mayoral election season, through which his former enterprise colleague runs in opposition to Wes Jordan (William Jackson Harper), a younger Black mayor vying for his second time period. Proper when Croker wants his company lawyer Roger White (Aml Ameen) at his facet, he as a substitute duties him to assist his secretary, Jill Hensley (Chanté Adams), with a racially-charged trial involving her peacekeeping husband Conrad (Jon Michael Hill), convicted of assaulting a violent police officer over a parking violation that lands him in at a hostile correctional facility. 

I went into “A Man in Full” considering it could fill the “Succession”-level void I have been craving for since its conclusion. Alas, it is nowhere near that. Thematically, it performs like a Georgia-set “Home of Playing cards” meets “The Chi,” as Kelley’s roundabout dissection of the working- and upper-class disparity inside Atlanta is not something notably novel or attention-grabbing. Kelley fills the proceedings with a number of comical moments that had been, per my analysis, tailored from Wolfe’s textual content—like Croker attempting to point out an investor horse breeding on his plantation. However these cheekier moments by no means cohesively tie into the distressing depiction of the American judicial system and the Black male expertise that continues to be far too near actuality. 

LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station after forgetting to deliver ID to vote within the U.Ok.’s native elections.

British media reported Friday that Johnson — who launched the requirement for voters to supply ID with a photograph when he was in workplace — was informed by polling station employees in South Oxfordshire Thursday that he wouldn’t have the ability to vote with out proving his identification.

Sky Information reported that Johnson, who served as Conservative prime minister from 2019 to 2022, was later capable of solid his poll and that he voted Conservative.

Johnson launched the Elections Act requiring picture ID in 2022, and the brand new regulation was first carried out final yr in native elections. However Thursday was the primary time massive numbers of voters throughout England and Wales have needed to current ID, akin to a passport or driving license, to vote.

The Electoral Fee stated the overwhelming majority of individuals had been capable of meet the brand new necessities, though it famous that some individuals who would have wished to vote might have determined to not strive as a result of they didn’t have acceptable ID.

It additionally stated there was proof that some individuals, akin to disabled individuals and the unemployed, discovered it tougher to point out voter ID.