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kbtx.com | Berkeley Taylor
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Glenn Hegar is a sixth-generation Texan, born and raised in the Lone Star State. His career began in farming before he found success in state politics. Today, he is gearing up to serve as the 6th Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System. Hegar was first featured in From the Ground Up in 2001, where he spoke on the challenges of tending to rice crops on his family’s farm in Hockley, Texas, “After we laser level everything, plow it up, we just go ahead and plant it.
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kbtx.com | Berkeley Taylor |Kayleigh Thomas |Stevie Stephenson
BRAZOS VALLEY, Texas (KBTX) - The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed on Wednesday that three tornadoes hit the Brazos Valley a day earlier. In the mid-morning hours of Tuesday, a line of severe thunderstorms entered the northern reaches of the Brazos Valley. Shortly after its entry, isolated storms within the line began to rotate, resulting in three confirmed tornadoes across Milam, Robertson, and Leon counties.
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kbtx.com | Berkeley Taylor |Stevie Stephenson |Kayleigh Thomas
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - It has rain and poured all across the Brazos Valley through the first six days of May, with over 8.38″ filling the rain gauge at Easterwood Airport. To put that into perspective, the first four months of the yearonly resulted in 6.77″ combined. Though it was much needed rain, too much fell all at once, resulting in widespread flooding across the region. Tuesday’s severe weather only made matters worse, adding multiple inches to already saturated soils.
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kbtx.com | Berkeley Taylor |Stevie Stephenson |Kayleigh Thomas
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - After a weekend of calm, sunny weather to help dry things out, the Brazos Valley is in for a few more days of rain and rumbles through the first full week of May. A First Alert Weather Day has been issued for Tuesday in anticipation of strong storms and flooding. SETUPAn Omega Block has set itself up across the nation. Low pressure systems are swirling around the west and east coast, sandwiching a ridge of high pressure through the central plains.
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kbtx.com | Kayleigh Thomas |Berkeley Taylor
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - We may not have recieved the April showers most of us were in need of, but we certainly tried to make up for the rainfall deficit stepping into May. We closed out April with a First Alert Weather Day, which was quickly followed by two more for the first days of the new month. Unfortunately, these rounds of rain did come with their fair share of bumps and bruises from strong and severe weather.
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Melissa Cantu Trevino
Managing Editor at Alice Echo-News Journal
Melissa Cantu Trevino primarily covers news in the South Texas region, including areas around Karnes City and San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Chris Thomasson
Sports Director at KIII-TV (Corpus Christi, TX)
Chris Thomasson primarily covers news in the Coastal Bend region of Texas, United States, including areas around Corpus Christi.
Alexis Scott
Reporter at KRIS-TV (Corpus Christi, TX)
Alexis Scott primarily covers news in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States and surrounding areas.
Julye Keeble
Staff Writer at Uvalde Leader-News
Julye Keeble primarily covers news in the Texas Hill Country region, including areas around Kerrville and Fredericksburg, Texas, United States.
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Journalist at KLDO-TV (Laredo, TX)
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