DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- As temperatures are expected to drop below freezing tonight the City of Dallas, local homeless shelters and churches are making sure thousands of unsheltered homeless have a warm place to sleep. “In Dallas, on any given night, there’s 10,000 homeless people when we only have 2,300 shelter beds so the vast majority have…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A continued rise in covid-19 hospitalizations could bring more COVID-19 restrictions to North Texas. Per Governor Abbott’s executive order, bars must close and other businesses reduce capacity to 50% if the the COVID-19 hospitalization rate in a particular trauma service area stays above 15% for seven days. Dallas County Medical Director Phil…… MORE
Plano, TX (WBAP/KLIF) _ It’s not clear where its new corporate headquarters will be located, but J.C. Penney has left its massive space in Plano as part of its bankruptcy filing. Officials filed notice on Friday that it rejected its lease and abandoned the building. The Dallas Morning News reports that most of Penney’s corporate…… MORE
Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Reunion Tower has released its schedule of holiday events for December, which culminates with the New Year’s Eve fireworks show. Reunion Tower and Hunt Realty Investments, Inc. are collaborating to bring a Texas-sized New Year’s Eve event to Dallas for the fifth year in a row. The only 360-degree, panoramic fireworks spectacular…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — The FAA confirms that COVID-19 vaccine shipments are headed to the U.S. from Belgium. United Airlines charter flights are carrying the Pfizer vaccine from Brussels, Belgium, to Chicago O’hare airport. The mass shipments can only be held at storage facilities pending FDA approval, which is expected by mid-December. then the vaccine can be…… MORE
The nation’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday that the U.S. may see “surge upon a surge” of the coronavirus in the weeks after Thanksgiving, and he does not expect current recommendations around social distancing to be relaxed before Christmas. Meanwhile, in a major reversal, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio said the nation’s largest…… MORE
(AP) Moderna Inc. says it will ask U.S. and European regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine as new study results confirm the shots offer strong protection. Multiple vaccine candidates must succeed for the world to stamp out the coronavirus pandemic. Moderna is just behind Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech in seeking…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Dallas County’s weekly infection rate has reached its highest level since the pandemic began. County health officials are reporting nearly 1,400 new cases per day. That could get worse as Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins is anticipating an increase in Coronavirus cases once testing sites re-open Monday. Most testing sites have been closed for…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — Over 8,600 Texans were hospitalized with COVID-19, Sunday, while health officials report more than 6,000 additional Coronavirus cases and 48 deaths. However, the hospital bed situation in Texas has improved. Hospital bed capacity in Dallas county dropped to its lowest level since mid September, at 68%. That’s down from 75% on November 6th.…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — A man who refused to drop a knife as he approached officers in West Texas is dead. San Angelo police shot the man as a last resort. 38 year-old Adam Lee Mendez got into an altercation with police and refused to drop a knife. Officers used less lethal devices to stop the man, but…… MORE
