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
11(WBAP/KLIF) DALLAS— The Dallas County Health Department reports the weekly infection rate in Dallas County is now its highest since the Coronavirus pandemic began with nearly 1,400 new cases per day. For the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, 1,100 new COVID-19 cases per day we reported comprising Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Dallas County judge Clay Jenkins says…… MORE
Beaumont (WBAP/KLIF) – DPS troopers chased a car Saturday at high speed along I-10 in Beaumont during which it was involved in at least two wrecks. It finally wound up, disabled, in a downtown parking lot. Troopers swarmed it, and pulled out the driver. Then they found the body of a Houston woman stuffed into…… MORE
Dallas (AP) – Texas health officials report more than 3,900 new cases of COVID-19, as the disease caused by the novel coronavirus continues to put pressure on hospital systems around the state. State health authorities reported more than 8,500 Texans hospitalized with COVID-19 Saturday, roughly in line with the Friday count. The Texas Department of…… MORE
