 The Republican National Convention will be held next week. The Biden campaign says the former president will push for a nationwide ban. Damage assessments in parts of South Texas where Hurricane Beryl made landfall early today, killing at least two people when trees fell on homes. Beryl has left a mess along a stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast and in inland urban areas such as Houston, where Mayor John Whitmire is telling residents to stay put, even if that means staying in shelters for now.