Director of The Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice
Houston Public Media reporter Matt Harab also joins Ernie with headlines from Houston and beyond, including:
Texas Senator John Cornyn tweeted this afternoon: "Today we grieve for this brave officer and his family, whose life was needlessly lost because of Wednesday's violent and preventable attack on the capital."
Dr. Pedro Piedra at Baylor College of Medicine said that having a more contagious strand in the county is nothing new. In fact, over the summer when hospital capacity was tight, a more contagious variant was spreading then as well, according to Piedra. It just wasn't widely reported.