Month: August 2019

HOUSTON – Two years after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, the city of Houston received a $130 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday.  FEMA reimbursed the city for its emergency protective measures after Harvey’s landfall. The money will help cover the cost when city officials extracted water, removed building materials, towed city vehicles and cleared mud and silt from several public facilities that were damaged by Harvey’s impact. FEMA also reimbursed Houston for sheltering survivors in…

Monday, August 26, 2019 Top afternoon stories: Houston Independent School District Interim Superintendent Grenita Lathan. New School Year Starts For HISD With State Takeover Risk More than 200,000 students headed back to class Monday in the Houston Independent School District, even as the new school year is filled with uncertainty for the largest district in the state. Parents, teachers and administrators are waiting to find out if the Texas Education Commissioner, Mike Morath, will take…

After many environmental disasters, scientists test the water and soil to look for unsafe chemicals. But with Hurricane Harvey, researchers took an extra step and decided to test people. More than 150 Houstonians participated in a Oregon State University, Baylor College of Medicine and UTHealth study, by wearing high-tech wristbands that can detect over 1,000 chemicals.  Participants wore the wristbands continuously for seven days. Diana Rohlman, a researcher at Oregon State University, said of the…

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