Good morning. Austin鈥檚 facing a chilly and drizzly Tuesday morning. The we'll warm to a high in the low to mid 40s. The rest of the state is not so lucky: the AP reports flights have been suspended at Dallas鈥� Love Field. (Update: the AP reports Love Field is open again.)
Lead story: The fever pitch around Lance Armstrong鈥檚 interview with Oprah Winfrey continues to build. Now after that Armstrong confessed, a reported round of , and a panoply of media trucks descended on Armstrong鈥檚 West Austin home, the talk show titan herself confirms it: in an appearance on CBS This Morning today, Winfrey said to doping in their three-hour long interview.
The folks at FOX News write that Oprah鈥檚 absolution is not, well, absolute: they cite a Reuters report stating Armstrong in the manner' she expected.
The interview has also been expanded into a two-night affair. It begins airing Thursday evening.
Violent stickup in northeast Austin: As KUT News reported yesterday, an Austin police officer was injured during a shootout near a shopping center in northeast Austin.
APD say it started shortly after 3 o鈥檆lock yesterday afternoon at the off I-35. Someone robbed the driver of an armored vehicle and took off. People called 9-1-1 and police chased the suspect to a wooded area near the at Manor and Springdale Roads. That鈥檚 where the shootout happened.
Police say an officer was hit in the knee by a bullet or shrapnel. , Jaime Padron, resulted in Padron鈥檚 death 鈥� the first in nearly 25 years.
Nothing secedes 鈥� : Here鈥檚 some not terribly surprising news: that petition to the White House asking for Texas to secede didn鈥檛 go all that well. In (in place of a far more succinct, one-word, two-letter response others might consider), the White House said that the Founding Fathers who created the Union 鈥渄id not provide a right to walk away from it.鈥� That surprisingly hasn鈥檛 sat well with some of the .
Among the equally likely scenarios the White House has balked at: a request the U.S. immediately begin construction of a Death Star. In a blow to Force fans, POTUS鈥� team , 鈥淭his Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For.鈥� (
