It's Thursday, July 13th.
I'm Jessica Coombs with
your Ken's 5 News Now.
Four people are arrested after running
from officers on the West Side.
This started just after 4:00 ths
morning when police saw a car
that had been reported stolen.
They started following it with
help from a helicopter when they
stopped near SW 27th Street.
Police say two adults and
two kids tried to run away,
but a fallen tree branch stopped
them long enough for police
to catch up and arrest them.
No word right now on charges
for any of those four people.
A woman accused of killing a man
Arkansas is arrested here in Bear County.
So US Marshals had been searchig
for Karisha Grisby since June 1.
That's when Little Rock police say she
was involved in the deadly shoog
of a man near a Ronald McDonald House.
The victim had been staying
there with his family.
Grisby was taken into custody ts
week in Bear County and was set
to be extradited back to Arkanss
on a capital murder charge.
A 16 year old boy was also arred
in connection to the murder.
UTSA football player Joshua
Cephas was arrested charged for
driving while intoxicated.
We're told that crime
happened seven months ago.
He's since bonded out of jail in December.
The football player allegedly had a blood
alcohol level twice the legal l.
That's when he rolled his vehicle several
times near the school's main ca.
Following the crash,
Cephas was suspended from the tm
activities and didn't play UTS A's bowl game.
He has a court date set for next month.
Ken's 5 got exclusive up close
access to the barrier of buoys n
the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.
They're all a part of Governor g
Abbott's $5 billion border security plan.
Our team rode along with Texas D PS:,
to a restricted area of the river where
the floating wall is now going .
D PS:.
Says this stretch of buoys will
go around 1000 feet down river.
That's the equivalent of at
least three football fields.
They say it could curb migrant
crossings in the area and they e
it could prevent drownings barr.
So it's a barrier to keep people out.
It makes it more challenging for anybody
try to scale it or to go under .
But not everyone is on board.
An eagle pass kayaking Outfitters suing
the state and the governor sayig
the barrier threatens his busins
and the ecosystem of the river.
Congressman Joaquin Castro also voicing
concerns calling the buoys drowning devices.
Ukraine is not a NATO nation,
but President Biden says its
status in the alliance won't aft
their support to the country.
Speaking at the NATO summit in Lithuania,
the president assured Ukrainian President
Vladimir Zalenski the military d
financial aid will continue as t
defends itself in the war against Russia.
He also hinted at an Israel type
of security agreement, that is,
that would arm Ukraine if a peae
deal with Russia is reached.
NATO has not provided a timelinr
when Ukraine could become a mem.
Fulltime workers are needed at
the rocket lock and terrace.
If you need a job, listen up.
The $500 million sports performe
space and entertainment Plaza dispers
have on the northwest side is hiring.
The company operating the spaces
holding a job fair at the Drury Inn off
of I-10 W That'll be from 4:00 to 8:00 PM.
So for people interested in working at
the Victory Capital Performance Center,
they're looking for line cooks,
catering, a sales event coordin,
prep cooks, bartenders,
bar backs and a lot of other positions.
The center is slated to be completely
built later this summer.
Some people look ahead to right,
Paul,
especially as we're dealing with
this hot weather.
Yeah,
it definitely is.
It is going to be hot again tod,
of course, high temperature 105.
We do have an excessive
heat warning until 9:00.
O'clock, lots of sunshine.
If you're going out this evenin,
it is going to be very warm as .
All right. Thank you, Paul.
Thank you so much.
That's our Ken's live news now.
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