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Top Stories: Severe Weather Ahead; Going Marbles For Engineering

National Weather Service

The top local stories this morning from KERA News: We’re in for several rounds of storms throughout the day, with a little breathing room. We’ll be following the day’s developments here.

Other stories this morning:

  • The Dallas Zoo has filed a motion against an animal rights group who wants to prevent the zoo from importing elephants from Swaziland.
  • Texas saw record turnout numbers in last week’s presidential primaries, but it still lagged behind other states who’ve held primaries so far.
  • What can marbles teach girls about engineering? Bill Zeeble found out.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.