 News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Rich Thomason. Fierce winds, just one of the challenges posed by Hurricane Beryl, now battering parts of the Texas Gulf Coast, bringing flooding rains, life-threatening storm surge as well. The Cat 1 storm swept ashore this morning near Matagorda. It's roughly midway between Galveston and Corpus Christi. The impacts are going to be ongoing for several more hours. We are getting reports of strong winds along the coast.