It’s about noon on Harry Hines Boulevard in Northwest Dallas. A young woman wearing a short dress and sandals is on the phone, pacing back and forth on a busy corner in the 2600 block of Southwell Road. Another woman strolls down Harry Hines in a G-string. She turns around when she spots NBC 5’s camera. Business owners say it is blatant and in your face, even for hardened Harry Hines Boulevard with its long history of prostitution. One shop owner tells NBC 5 that Friday mornings are especially busy. “Johns” have gotten paid and are cruising for company. “I…
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A storm on a Thursday in May is going down in the record books as one of the costliest disasters, if not in Houston, then in recorded history based on preliminary estimates shared with. AccuWeather, an Eyewitness News partner, revealed a price tag of $5 billion to $7 billion for the damage caused when a powerful storm line pushed across the Houston metropolitan area. As of Friday, seven people were killed throughout the city and Harris County. In the day following the Thursday evening storm, crews captured multiple trees toppling on homes, electricity towers no longer standing,…
This weekend, DFW will be taken over by one of the biggest extravaganza’s in western sports. The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) World Finals will kick off at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Two years ago, the top competition in the rodeo world chose DFW as its new home after moving out of Las Vegas. The jam-packed weekend will start with Kid Rock’s Rock N Rodeo at 7:45 p.m. Friday. The event transforms rodeo into a team format, with six teams set to go head-to-head in drag racing style format. Dozens of World Champions will be competing for legendary coaches vying for their share…
Want to be at the 2024 National Baseball Hall of Fame when Texas Rangers great Adrian Beltré is inducted? The Texas Rangers are offering well-heeled fans an opportunity to take part in the festivities in Cooperstown. For $7,000, Beltré fans can be present when the first-ballot HOFer is inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame during induction weekend on July 19-21. The trip includes all transportation, accommodations and admission to events including roundtrip airfare on a charter flight to Syracuse, NY, a two-night stay at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino, a charter bus for the weekend, tickets to…
They’re the youngest group of scientists you’ve likely met, in Lashcoka Thompson’s Pre-K classroom at Plummer Elementary in Cedar Hill. Why am I calling a group of four year old’s scientists? Well, they’re leaving pre-K with some basic knowledge and skills on how to code using a tiny toy bee and frog. “I initially introduced Froggy to the students as a classroom management tool,” said Thompson. “If Froggy doesn’t listen, Froggy’s not going to be able to complete a task I’d like him to do.” Behavior wasn’t such an issue for this group, They wanted to know how and why Froggy followed commands. So,…
You could hear the guitars and violins echo through Building E on the Dallas College Mountain View campus. It meant Mariachi Leones was rehearsing. “You guys ready?” Music Professor and Mariachi Leones Director Manuel Chavez asked. “All right, go ahead and stand up.” For Chavez, the setting is familiar. “I feel a connection because I was in their shoes,” Chavez said. He was among the original Mariachi Leones musicians when he was a student at Dallas College almost 2-decades ago. Now he leads the group. “To bring mariachi back to life,” Chavez explained. “So I brought it in 2018, ’19,…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The National Weather Service – Houston/Galveston confirmed that there were 100 mph straight-line winds in downtown Houston, while 90 mph winds rocked Baytown during Thursday night’s destructive storm. The NWS team also confirmed it was an EF-1 tornado near Cypress with peak winds of 110 mph. The length and width of the path are expected to be shared soon. Additionally, the NWS team also verified that there was another tornado that struck the southwest portion of Waller County, Texas. Based on the storm’s path length and intensity, the ABC13 Weather Team has determined this was a Derecho…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Hundreds of wild animals were taken into the Houston SPCA’s Wildlife Center as the city undergoes storm recovery efforts. On Friday, the Wildlife Center said most of the animals being cared for are baby birds and officials expect the influx to continue over the next few days as Houstonians work to rebuild their homes. AccuWeather, an Eyewitness News partner, said about $5 billion to $7 billion worth of damage was caused when a powerful storm line pushed across the Houston metropolitan area. As of Friday, at least seven people were killed throughout the city and Harris County. Some of nature’s smallest storm victims…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Harris County customers without power fell below 550,000 on Friday evening, more than 24 hours after severe thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds barreled through southeast Texas. As of 10 p.m. Friday, the live outage aggregation site PowerOutage.us showed 520,474 Harris County customers without electricity, a 40,000-customer reduction from three hours prior. While CenterPoint Energy’s customers are part of the total, the storms affected the utility’s operations. The winds that topped 85 mph caused significant damage to the company’s transmission and distribution electric system, including in Bellaire, Cypress, Baytown, Greenspoint, Humble, and Spring Branch. In a statement late Friday, the utility…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Thursday’s thunderstorm sent power poles crashing down across Houston. Still, some people are sounding the alarm about the poles that were only partially displaced. At Webster and Crawford streets in Midtown, residents said they called CenterPoint Energy to report a power pole leaning precariously over the street as cars and trucks continued to pass underneath it. “It’s gonna come down,” Patricia Collins, who manages Urban Tales pet kennel across the street, said. “Maybe another strong gust or someone catching that wire, and it’s gonna come down.” CenterPoint told reporters it’s encouraging people to make them aware of…
