fully vaccinated to continue
wearing their masks in public.
Reporting at Bush airport,
Cathy Hernandez, KPRC, 2 news.
>> Houston’s top cop is
weighing in on the mask mandate
this afternoon saying that
lifting the mask mandate so
soon will only make matters
worse.
>> It’s going to happen.
Isn’t this This is of this is a
property rights and so no mask,
no service means you can’t ever
be in that business and I can
assure you that we’re going to
start seeing her calls for
service and conflict go up
conflict to come in avoided
simply by continuing to follow
the science and be patient
we’re almost to the finish line
and I think this is a step in
the wrong direction.
>> Chief Acevedo went on to say
if a business requires you to
wear a mask and you refuse to
wear one and don’t leave.
That becomes criminal
trespassing and you could
either be arrested or receive a
warning, which means you can’t
go back to that business for a
year. If you ride Houston Metro
you was still be required to
wear a face covering that
includes properties like rail
stations, transit centers and
bus stops the agency’s board of
directors approved a mask
requirement in June of last
year. Just last month a federal
mask mandate was issued for all
forms of public transit.
Taking a live look outside now
at downtown Houston a little
warmer today with a mix of sun
and clouds KPRC 2 meteorologist
Justin Stapleton joining me
now.
>> You know it looks like it
could rain, I don’t know what
we’re expecting in terms of
that you don’t funny you say
that India’s as driving in this
morning, I kept looking back on
cash is there a little darker
than before you. I don’t think
we’re going to get anything
today. It’s just notice that
there’s just an enormous amount
of moisture that’s being pumped
into the into the air to the
atmosphere here and that’s why
the clouds are thickening up as
fast as they are so that said
we are going to start adding
some rain chance a very minor
ones into the forecast over the
next couple of days, but this
is what will generally see for
the next few days as well
temperatures back up quickly
into the 70’s because we will
cool that much at night we’re
going to say breezy as well,
they know the pollens kind of
up getting thrown all about
today that’s going to be an
issue for the next few days
until we get that front moving
through as we get into the
weekend right now you see
everybody out there anywhere
from the low 70’s to the mid
70’s and Ocampo now towards
Katie’s well sitting at about
73 degrees 1420 1716 22 miles
an hour. So you get an idea
there’s some of that breezy
conditions see wind gusts up
towards the big airport around
30 miles an hour. So do expect
it to be a bit of a breezy one
out there, especially on those
bridges and overpasses now.
Most the humidity levels have
been slowly climbing up to back
up into the 50’s and a 60%
range. But notice we do have
some sprinkles back off to the
West out towards San Antonio.
So I think that’s where we’ll
keep a watch on things but the
big storm will be coming
through until we get in towards
the weekend. We’ll talk timing
on that kind of plan out your
weekend otherwise we’ll
continue to see things quite
warm into the 70’s today, India
notice as we get in towards the
evening overnight hours the
clouds thicken up in the
temperatures don’t dip that
much as well we’ll stay fairly
mild over the next couple of
days. We didn’t all those
details here in just minutes,
right Justin, thanks so much
KPRC. 2 is your vaccine central
and now that the Johnson and
Johnson vaccine has arrived in
Houston people are able to
receive the one dose. KPRC
two’s Brittany Jeffers reports
on how many have received so
far.
>> The waitlist portal for the
Johnson and Johnson vaccine
opened up last week, but it is
already closed according to the
Houston Health Department more
than 14,000 people signed up
and 6,000 have already been
vaccinated. Last week the
Houston Health Department
announced that it opened a new
wait list for its initial
allotment of one dose JJ
vaccine. Health Department
received an initial allotment
of 6,000 doses and since then
received another shipment of
6500 the department’s original
vaccine waitlist was for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine
Moderna and Pfizer vaccine
which requires 2 doses.
>> We open up the wait on so
the 14,000 people signed up and
then on Thursday we began
providing shot and so so far
almost 6,000 people have
received their jobs and Johnson
from the Houston Health
Department.
>> When the Health Department
receives the next shipment of
the Johnson and Johnson
COVID-19 vaccine. They say they
will contact people who were on