Texas Standard For May 18, 2018
A shooter situation at a school in Galveston County. Santa Fe High School goes on lockdown, we’ll have the latest from our reporting partners. And: What could be an important moment in U.S.-Mexico relations: a televised debate in the contest for the presidency of Mexico. The front runner? One way to think of him is as a Trump of the left. Also: A wildfire in the Panhandle spawns a rare phenomenon that creates more fires from above. The story behind an unusual pyrocumulus cloud formation. Plus: They called him the Tex-Mex Elvis, now Freddy Fender’s daughter is fighting to preserve her father’s legacy. Those stories and more today on the Texas Standard:

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