keep an eye on traffic for you all morning long. Well, new from overnight. An elderly man in his 70s robbed at gunpoint and shot near Spring Branch. Can you imagine this? A record driver found him in his car along the Katy Freeway feeder near Westview.
Now, the man told police that someone forced him at gunpoint to go to the ATM at the Walmart off Westview, and that he was shot. After handing over the money, he was taken to the hospital, said to be in critical condition at last check if you have any information on this robbery and shooting, you’re asked to call Crime Stoppers. The number is 713222 tips. And in San Jacinto County, officials are going to pick up the search again this morning for a missing father after he dove into the Trinity River to save two teenagers after their kayak capsized. Sadly, those teens did not survive.
Heather Sullivan is live right now near Lake Livingston. Heather, what’s happening happening out there? Right now? They are waiting basically for the sun to come up.
They are expected to resume the search probably around 7 a.
m. this morning when there’s some light to see, but they’re still looking for the father, who they believe may have drowned jumping into the Trinity River, trying to save his son and his son’s friend in a terrible kayaking accident. And we have some video I want to share with you. As the search resumed yesterday, what we’re hearing from the game warden and from witnesses is that the three were on a kayak and they hit some choppy waters on the Trinity River, and that the kayak capsized. And then Sunday, the search and rescue team was able to retrieve the bodies of a 14 and 15 year old boys.
And we spoke with Julia Poff. She tells us that her son, 14 year old Jake Poff, was one of those victims, that he was just a freshman and a football player, that he aspired to be a cowboy. One day when he grew up, just a, you know, wonderful young man with a great personality, she said. And we are hearing from witnesses that the father, 53 year old Billy Poff, jumped in trying to save them.
So they’re hoping to find what happened to him.
They, presuming that he may have drown on the river. And we spoke, as I mentioned, with Julia Poff. Here’s what she had to say about her family. I’ve been out here since about 7:00 this morning, waiting for them to bring in the bodies so all my kids can have closure. We have five kids together, and so we were waiting on dad to come home.
And so we can, you know, lay them to rest. And she says that she learned that the boys were not wearing life vests. She says that her husband was an auto mechanic, that they were married for 28 years.
She says that they were going through a divorce, but they have five children together. So really just an enormous tragedy for this family, for both of the families involved.
And of course, this community will continue to keep you posted when they resume that search today. Heather Sullivan Fox 26 News Camp mystic owners are now being sued by seven families whose children died in the Hill County flooding, the suit claims. Camp leaders ignored weather alerts, failed to implement legally required evacuation plans, and delayed rescue efforts to protect property above people. A Houston based law firm is representing the families in this suit. It is the first legal action filed by families since the tragedy on the 4th of July.
Well, we’re taking a look at the government shutdown now in day 42, and it’s one step closer to being reopened.
A small group of Democrats and one independent voted with Republicans to end the more than six week long stalemate. They signed off on a final approval to the bill last night. Now, it does come without an extension for health care subsidies that Democrats wanted, but Republicans did agree to hold a vote on the issue next month. Now, the bill heads to the House with a vote expected as early as tomorrow.
It would then need to be signed by President Trump, and then steps would be taken to get everything reopened. Now the shutdown will last at least another day or two, as millions of Americans wait to receive federal food assistance. Texas recipients who should have already gotten them this month should have the money on their EBT cards partially, and others should receive payments on time moving forward.
But the amount again they will get is still unclear. Earlier this month, the USDA instructed states to issue 65% of benefits.
But again, there’s been a lot of back and forth. But because there is so much back and forth, people are kind of left in the lurch. So the Houston Food Bank is stepping in, hosting another food distribution event today for people who snap benefits have been interrupted, or federal employees who are not getting paychecks right now. Today’s event is at Bethel’s Heavenly Hands over on Fondren, and you can stop by between eight this morning and one this afternoon. Just a reminder, you do need to pre-register for this one, and we do have a link for you at fox26houston.
com. If you need help with for other reasons, just call 211 to get the closest location to you.
Hey, how about a live look inside Bush Airport here? People waiting to be screened at the security lines. So flight cuts started on Friday.
Friday? They’re ramping up again today. We already have nearly 1200 cancellations across country, and they are expected to continue until the government reopens and possibly for a couple days afterward, because it’s a process to get things back up and running. Thousands of flights have been canceled since this started on Friday because air traffic controllers and TSA agents, a lot of them have had to call out to take on a second job so they can pay the bills.
That adds a stress that we’ve never had to deal with in the past.
So when you walk into an operation and you know your coworkers have taken a second job, they’re up till midnight driving Uber because they can’t pay their bills. Everyone’s questioning if they can pay their mortgage. I have coworkers who cannot pay for child care, so now they have to figure out how they’re going to come into work.
Well, Monday, President Trump posted that all air traffic controllers must get back to work. He called for a $10,000 bonus for those who have stayed on the job, and suggested a DACA pay for those r health advice.
I’m not doctor Mike. We already heard from doctor Mike. All right. Let’s talk about the Veterans Day forecast because well, we have a veteran coming our way right now. There’s officer Mister Dennis.
Officer Dennis thank you sir. Thank you sir. All right. Well here’s a look at the Veterans Day forecast. Here.
We have a cold morning but really a nice day. Now the downtown parade. I mean look, they’re setting up right now. It is cold, but in the city, we’re definitely warmer than it is outside of town in general. Across the area.
8:00. Temperatures in the low to middle 40s and then upper 60s at midday, low 70s by the afternoon. So a nice warm up right now Sugarland is Stafford at 38. Cypress 39 degrees, Humboldt at 38, Baytown 37 and League City 37. I mean it is legitimately cold out there.
High pressure is in control. It’s bringing lots of 20s across parts of the Deep South and even freezing temperatures dropping down into parts of North Florida. 73 today, 58 tonight. So much milder. And then look Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly not hating life behind bars.
New reports say that Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell will ask President Trump to commute her 20 year federal prison sentence, which she is serving, here in Texas. House Democrats wrote a letter to the president saying she is getting special treatment at the minimum security prison in Bryan. Remember she was transferred there in August. No comment yet from Maxwell’s attorney or from the white House. President Trump is asking the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s $5 million judgment against him for sexually abusing and defaming a woman.
In the 1990s, the president’s lawyers called the claims from writer E Jean Carroll a politically motivated hoax with no corroborating evidence.
Carroll says Trump attacked her in the dressing room of a Manhattan store. An appeals court has already upheld the jury’s decision, and President Trump has said he wants to send $2,000 tariff rebate checks to Americans. Okay, so the average American is paying about $2,400 in tariffs. So how much would that cost?
Well, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which is a nonpartisan nonprofit, said sending out those checks would cost $600 billion, about double what the U.S. is expected to generate from the tariffs. The president pitched the idea of the checks on social media, but the Treasury secretary hours.
