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The camp is located west of Kerrville in Kerr County, where six to 10 inches of rain fell from Thursday night into Friday morning.
A KSAT viewer sent an image of campers wading through ankle-deep water in the middle of the night.
There’s no indication that campers and staff are in danger. Those looking for missing people should head to Ingram Elementary School, authorities told KSAT reporter Sarah Acosta and photojournalist Robert Samarron, who are reporting in the Hunt area.
Authorities told KSAT that crews are trying to rescue people along the Guadalupe River.
Camp Mystic is in that area, but it is unclear if a rescue is underway for campers or camp staff.
KCSO confirmed there are several missing people all across the area near Hunt.
Kerr County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Clint Morris told KSAT it is “an extremely active scene, countywide.”
“This may be a once-in-a-lifetime flood” for the county, he said, adding that they’ve responded to multiple calls for high-water rescues. People should avoid traveling west of Ingram near the Guadalupe River.
Residents in the area are urged to shelter in place and not travel. People living near creeks, streams and the Guadalupe River should move to higher ground.
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It’s #BMFFriday, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from episode 5 featuring Meech and Terry laying down the law.
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As previously reported, the fourth season of BMF picks up with Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest T” Flenory continuing to build their empire while navigating the dangerous world they helped create. Inspired by the real-life rise of the Black Mafia Family, the new episodes follow the brothers as they fight to preserve their version of the American Dream. But with mounting pressure from rivals and law enforcement, their once-solid bond begins to fracture. As tensions rise, the fallout from a pivotal trip to Mexico threatens to change their lives—and their legacy—forever.
BMF Episode 5 Exclusive Clip
In an exclusive clip from today’s new episode, we see Meech and Terry surprising Trell at his home. The music producer is shocked to see them (and their crew) at his house. Meech tells him he “had a dream,” and in it, harm comes to him and his family.
Terry threatens Trell with one of his (many) awards, and Meech reminds Terry who’s in charge.
“You can either sign this s***, or you can make my dreams come true,” says Meech.
Episode 5 of BMF is titled “See It, Touch It, Mixtape It,” seee an official episode description below.
Meech and Terry prepare for the Stomping Ground launch party. Meech has a new love interest, and B-Mickie takes a major step in his relationship. Back in Detroit, members of the Flenory family get surprising news. Meech considers new partners in St. Louis.
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Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt was placed on the 15-day injured list because of right forearm soreness on Friday, one day after his start at Toronto was cut short following three innings.
A 29-year-old right-hander, Schmidt was set to have an MRI on Friday. New York also recalled right-hander Scott Effross and left-hander Jayvien Sandridge from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Right-hander Clayton Beeter had been optioned to the RailRiders after replacing Schmidt on Thursday night and taking the loss in the 8-5 defeat as the Yankees were swept in a four-game series and dropped out of the AL East lead.
Schmidt allowed three runs, four hits that included George Springer’s two-run homer and two walks. He said he’s been dealing with soreness in his arm since his June 4 outing against Cleveland.
“Earlier on in the game it felt OK,” Schmidt said. “As the game progressed it sort of tightened up a little bit on me. I felt like the whole night I was kind of guarding it a little bit on the breaking balls, really not ripping them or trying to get a lot behind them.”
Schmidt, who had Tommy John surgery in May 2017, is 4-4 with a 3.32 ERA in 14 starts. He left a June 21 start against Baltimore after throwing a career-high 103 pitches in seven hitless innings, part of a streak of 28.1 scoreless innings.
“Any time you’re getting an MRI on your forearm, or whatever the body part is, you’re not feeling happy about it,” Schmidt said. “I’m praying everything is going to be clean and minor. We’ll see what happens.”
Schmidt joins a number of Yankees’ starters already on the IL. Leo Gil, who made 29 starts with a 115 ERA+ for the Yankees last summer, is yet to debut in 2025 after suffering a lat strain – he is expected to begin a rehab assignment in the minors next week, however. Ryan Yarbrough, who has split the season between the rotation and bullpen, is is out with an oblique strain as of June 20. And ace Gerrit Cole is recovering from Tommy John surgery, performed in March, and will not return until 2026.
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Cruise robotaxis are back on the road… well, kind of. Though General Motors pulled the plug on its self-driving taxi business last year, the automaker has been quietly repurposing a few of the vehicles as it seeks to develop new driver-assistance technologies.
This week, WIRED spotted a GM Bolt electric hatchback on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and later saw a similar vehicle on Interstate 880 near Oakland. In each instance, the car was being driven by a human. But it held equipment on the roof such as lidar sensors that resembled the setup from the Cruise ride-hailing system. The vehicle had “Mint” written on the hood, but didn’t include any visually apparent Cruise branding.
GM spokesperson Chaiti Sen confirms to WIRED that the company is indeed “using a limited number of Cruise Bolt vehicles on select highways in Michigan, Texas and Bay Area for testing with trained drivers to further develop simulation models and advanced driver assistance systems.” She adds, “This is internal testing and does not involve public passengers.”
GM removed the orange-and-white Cruise logo from the cars’ sides after it took full ownership of the unit in February, she says. The recent activity began in Michigan and Texas in February and the San Francisco Bay Area-region in mid-April, Sen says. Cruise had named each vehicle in its fleet, and Sen confirmed that “Mint” has been among the vehicles newly active in the Bay Area.
The testing shows for the first time how GM is beginning to give a second life to a fleet of no less than hundreds of vehicles left over from a costly project that ran aground.
GM initially acquired a majority stake in San Francisco-based Cruise in 2016, and invested more than $8 billion into developing a robotaxi service. The operation was off to a fast start and eyeing a rapid expansion until October 2023, when a Cruise vehicle struck a pedestrian in San Francisco who had just been hit by a human-driven vehicle.
After some attempts to restart the business, GM announced this past December that the experiment would be cancelled altogether. At the time, GM CEO Mary Barra told analysts that running a robotaxi fleet was an expensive distraction from the business of making cars.
But the technology behind Cruise is helping improve the roughly 7-year-old Super Cruise system found in some GM cars. It aims to help drivers stay in and change lanes, or apply the emergency brake without needing to use their hands.
Several automakers are racing to develop cars that offload an increasing amount of driving tasks to computers. GM claims about 60 percent of its 360,000 Super Cruise customers regularly make use of the capability.
In the US, the robotaxi industry has been dominated by Waymo, though Elon Musk’s Tesla and Amazon’s Zoox are among those continuing to try to catch up.
GM’s repurposed Bolts blend into San Francisco-area roads, on which cars with heavy-duty computer gear attached to roof, back, and sides have become commonplace. They include not only companies testing sensors and algorithms, but also map providers collecting data and hobbyists attempting to upgrade their personal rides.
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Divers on Tuesday planted Elkhorn coral fragments, a species critical for protecting shorelines.
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami’s coastline that was devastated by coral bleaching two years ago.
They’re looking for ways to help reefs survive increased ocean temperatures caused by global warming and climate change.
“It’s the end of a very long process,” Andrew Baker, professor of marine biology and ecology at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School and director of the Coral Reef Futures Lab, said Tuesday as divers planted the corals off Miami.
The plan of introducing corals from the Caribbean evolved over the past few years.
“We had this idea that we really needed to try to help Florida’s coral reef by introducing more diversity from around the Caribbean, recognizing that some of the biggest threats to corals, like climate change, are really global phenomena and if you try to have Florida’s reefs save themselves on their own, we could give them some outside help,” Baker said.
Coral breeding has also been done in Hawaii, where in 2021, scientists were working to speed up the coral’s evolutionary clock to breed “super corals” that can better withstand the impacts of global warming.
Why crossbreed with corals from Honduras?
Baker’s group teamed with the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine, bringing in fragments of corals from a warm reef off of Tela, Honduras, which spawned in tanks at the aquarium.
“We were able to cross the spawn from those corals, the sperm and the eggs, to produce babies. One parent from Florida, one parent from Honduras,” Baker said.
They chose the reef off of Tela because the water is about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the water off the coast of Florida.
“And yet the corals in those environments, and especially the Elkhorn corals, are really thriving,” Baker said.
He noted that there are extensive beds that are hundreds of meters long, full of flourishing Elkhorn.
“And yet they survive there despite really warm conditions and also quite nutrient-polluted waters,” Baker said.
The conditions are similar to those Florida will face over the next century, Baker said.
It’s also the first time international crossbreeding of corals has been permitted for planting onto wild reefs.
“So we’re really excited to see how these do,” he said.
The hope is the corals will be more “thermally tolerant,” which Baker and the team will be testing throughout the summer.
What are Elkhorn corals?
Elkhorn corals are some of Florida’s most iconic species and are valuable because they form the crest of the reef, Baker said.
“And the reef is what protects shorelines from storms and flooding. So if you have healthy Elkhorn coral populations, you have a great reef that is acting almost like a speed bump over which waves and storms pass and dissipate their energy before they hit the coast,” he said.
Elkhorn corals are in serious decline, thanks in part to the coral bleaching in 2023 and warming sea temperatures, Baker said.
While coral get their bright colors from the colorful algae that live inside them, prolonged warmth causes the algae to release toxic compounds. The coral ejects them, and a stark white skeleton — referred to as coral bleaching — is left behind, and the weakened coral is at risk of dying.
“We’ve lost maybe more than 95% of the Elkhorn corals that were on Florida’s reefs at that point,” Baker said.
Some of the corals spawned in the Florida Aquarium’s laboratory arrived there in 2020, said Keri O’Neil, director and senior scientist with the aquarium’s Coral Conservation Program.
She said more fragments from Honduras and Florida will continue to live at the center.
“We hope that every year in the future we can make more and more crosses and continue to figure out which parents produce the best offspring,” O’Neil said.
How do they plant the corals on the reef?
The tiny Elkhorn coral fragments were placed onto small concrete bases along the reef on Tuesday.
“We’ve arranged them in a certain way that we can compare the performance of each of corals,” Baker said.
The team will study how the corals that have a Honduran parent compare to the ones that are entirely from Florida.
“But it’s really the future that we’re looking to and in particular, a warming future and a warming summer, how these corals do and do they have more thermal tolerance than the native Florida population, because that’s really what the goal of the whole project is,” he said.
Baker said it’s the most exciting project he’s worked on during his 20-year stint at the University of Miami.
Hope for the future
If the corals thrive, it could provide a blueprint for working across the Caribbean to share corals.
“This is a project about international collaboration, about the fact that our environment really doesn’t have closed borders, that we can work together to make things better in the world,” said Juli Berwald, co-founder of Tela Coral. “And it shows that when we talk to each other, when we work together, we can really do something that might be life-changing, not just for us but for the corals and the reefs and all the animals that rely on the reefs.”
This story corrects Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion in paragraph 9 and also fixes Tela Coral to Tel Marine in most references.
Frisaro reported from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Graffiti is the least of their problems: Murray Hamilton, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider in “Jaws” (1975).
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July is truly summer hitting its stride, which means a lot of people are about to go on vacation or are already happily lazing on a beach.
For some, summer means a trip to a Disney park, something many look forward to all year long. With kids out of school for the season, it’s a no-brainer to plan a family trip to the resort at this time.
Everyone has their favorite annual Disney events. Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party rank high on guests’ lists when it comes to popularity.
Another favorite attraction is Epcot’s annual events, which include the International Food & Wine Festival, the International Festival of the Arts, and the International Flower & Garden Festival.
The International Food & Wine Festival is an especially beloved events for foodies, who tend to flock there to try new sips and eats as well as capture them to show off on social media.
But if you’re planning on heading out to this year when it kicks off on August 28, you may want to be aware of a few changes Disney is making to the popular event.
A display from Epcot’s Food & Wine festival back in 2021.
A few events at the Food & Wine Festival this year will cost a bit more than they did the year prior, per new reporting from Disney blog AllEars.
The first event is Remy’s Hide & Squeak Scavenger Hunt, which challenges participants to find statuettes of “Ratatouille” star Remy all around the park.
To participate, you’ll need to purchase a scavenger hunt map and stickers at specific park shops like Disney Traders, Creations Shop, or festival markets. It can be returned to those same locations at the end of the day for a special prize, even if participants can’t find all of Remy’s hiding spots.
Joining the event used to cost $9.99, but this year it gets a $2 increase, going up to $11.99.
It’s not the only event to get a price hike at the festival this year. Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit, which is also a scavenger hunt and works exactly like Remy’s Hide & Squeak, is getting the same increase in price, so you can expect to pay $11.99 when it kicks off on September 2 this year.
Disney prices are going up
The Food & Wine Festival scavenger hunts are not the only thing that will see a price hike.
Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party ticket prices have typically ranged between $119-$199 depending on the date you chose to go.
But this year, that range has increased, going from $119-$229. The increase is mostly on the more in-demand dates.
While pricing ranges for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party have not been released yet, it would not be a surprise if the ranges on these tickets also increase this year.
Earlier this year, some noticed that Disney World ticket prices for 2026 had gone up by $10. Booking in 2025 involves a range of $139-$189 per ticket, but that range goes up to $139-$199 starting in January 2026.
Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios tickets will also increase in price. Epcot and Animal Kingdom’s price range also goes up by $10, while Hollywood Studios gets the biggest hike with a $15 increase.
LONDON – Two-time Grand Slam semifinalist Ben Shelton needed all of about a minute and exactly four points — three of which were aces — to wrap up a 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 victory over Rinky Hijikata on Friday in a second-round Wimbledon match suspended the night before because of darkness at 5-4 in the third set.
“Very different playing over two days and coming out for whatever that was — 55 seconds? — today,” the 10th-seeded Shelton said. “I was hoping to maybe hit a few groundstrokes today. I might have to go to the practice courts.”
The American, who reached the final four at the 2023 U.S. Open and this year’s Australian Open, was about to try to serve out the match on Thursday at 9:30 p.m. when action was halted at No. 2 Court, which does not have a roof or artificial lights.
They came back out to the same stadium a little less than 16 hours later and, after a warmup period that was quite a bit longer the resumption of actual play, Shelton began with a 141 mph ace. The 22-year-old left-hander then hit a second serve that resulted in a framed return by Hijikata, followed with an ace at 140 mph and one more at 118 mph to end things quickly.
“You come out here, serving for the match, the nerves are there a little bit. To hit three aces and take the pressure off of myself, I couldn’t have been happier with what I came out here and did,” said Shelton, who will face 105th-ranked Marton Fucsovics of Hungary for a chance to reach the fourth round at the All England Club for the second consecutive year.
Shelton told the crowd: “I’m sorry that you guys didn’t really get to see much tennis.”
Right before things were halted Thursday, Shelton held three match points while leading 5-3 and at love-40 on Hijikata’s serve. But but the 87th-ranked Hijikata grabbed the next five points to extend the contest.
Shelton faced only three break points against Hijikata, saving all of them.
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Every HBCU has a rich history when it comes to its origin story, but there’s something purely unique and wildly extraordinary about the rise of Tuskegee University as founded by astounding educator and civil rights pioneer, Booker T. Washington.
Although the university celebrated its 107th Founder’s Day back in March — the inaugural ceremony occurred in 1917 — TU was in fact founded as an institution 144 years ago today (July 4) on Independence Day 1881.
Tuskegee University has gone through a few name changes since its inception, starting off as an institution specifically for educators in the form of Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers until 1891. Then it became the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute until 1937, followed by the shortened and simple Tuskegee Institute and finally Tuskegee University after achieving its university status in 1985. Washington, who led with the utmost pride, dedication and tenacity up until his premature death at the age of 59 due to high blood pressure, was preceded by equally dedicated principals in the form of Dr. Robert Russa Moton (1915 – 1935), Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson (1935 – 1953), Dr. Luther Hilton Foster Jr. (1953 – 1981), Dr. Benjamin Franklin Payton (1981 – 2010), Interim President Dr. Charlotte P. Morris (August 2010 – October 2010; July 2017 – June 2018), Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon (2010 – 2013), Interim President Dr. Matthew Jenkins (2013 – 2014), Dr. Brian Johnson (2014 – 2017), first female president Dr. Lily D. McNair (2018 – 2021), Dr. Charlotte P. Morris (2021 – 2024) and current president Dr. Mark A. Brown who was appointed exactly one year ago in July 2024.
With such a strong culture of education at TU, it comes as no surprise that so many melanated folk would be vying to attend over the past century-and-a-half. Of those who’ve since graduated, a handful have gone on become stars in their own right while also carrying the Tuskegee pride in their journeys. Would you believe our very own founder, Tom Joyner, is a proud TU alumni?! He even spoke at their 2011 commencement ceremony, speaking words of wisdom to the 500 graduates at the time by stating, “A lot of people are educated, but won’t offer a hand to serve others. They’re worth a lot of money … but not worth anything if they don’t serve.” During his welcoming address for their virtual Homecoming in 2020, he helped drive that same love to inspire future TU alumni in their academics and beyond.
Of course, you can’t forget about the most famous Tuskegee alumni and hometown native, GRAMMY and Oscar-winning R&B icon Lionel Ritchie. Not only did he name his latest album after the love for his city with 2012’s Tuskegee, the 76-year-old Motown legend also introduced a whole recreational facility in front of the gates of TU last year with Hello Park (seen above), named after his classic chart-topping single from the 1983 sophomore album, Can’t Slow Down.
The alumni love doesn’t stop with those two by a long shot. Many famous faces from past to present can claim the school as their institution for higher learning, and below you’ll find 20 that show just how special it is to call yourself a member of this prestigious family.
Keep scrolling to see 20 notable public figures who attended Tuskegee University:
Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915) – Author / Educator / Tuskegee University Founder
Tom Joyner – Radio Icon / Founder, Black America Web
Alice Coachman (1923 – 2014) – American Athlete, high jump / First Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal
David Wilson – President Of Morgan State University
Herbert Carter (1919 – 2012) – Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
Roy Lee Jackson – MLB Baseball Pitcher
Amelia Boynton Robinson (1905 – 2015) – Civil Rights Activist
Lionel Richie – Musician
Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. (1920 – 1978) – United States Air Force Fighter Pilot / First African American four-star general
Thomas McClary – Musician, The Commodores
Chokwe Antar Lumumba – 53rd Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
Bettye Washington Greene (1935 – 1995) – American Chemist / First Black female Ph.D. chemist to work in a professional position at Dow Inc.
Ray Nagin Jr. – 60th Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
Eunice Rivers Laurie (1899–1986) – Pioneering Nurse in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
