 Participants work in a variety of industries and will gain career-specific skills over the five-week summer session. From the ABC News desk, Barrel has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it brings heavy rains and damaging winds to parts of Texas. That's according to the National Hurricane Center's latest advisory. The storm made landfall earlier this morning in Matagorda, Texas. Barrel is currently about 20 miles west of Houston with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour.