On this day 53 years ago, a powerful tornado tore through Lubbock. Our News Director Sarah Self-Walbrick tells us more. The Texas Newsroom's Sergio Martínez-Beltrán tells us a measure that would raise the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle in the state missed a key deadline in the Texas Legislature.
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