DALLAS, TX. (NBC) - Former President George W Bush held a moment of silence on Monday honoring victims.

The former president, who was in office during the terrorist attacks, held a moment of silence at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

He then offered brief remarks, praying for those who lost their lives and thanked those who rescued victims.

The presidential center houses artifacts from one of the towers, along with videos and documents.

It’s the first time this moment of remembrance was open to the public.

The former president was eight months into his presidency when the attacks happened, killing nearly 3,000 people.

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A street shooting early Saturday in the border town of Miguel Aleman, Mexico, resulted in several injuries, including U.S. citizens, who were brought across the border to Texas hospitals, Border Report has learned.

The shooting happened around 5:30 a.m. Saturday in the dangerous northern Mexican border state of Tamaulipas.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said seven of the victims were transported in two Mexican ambulances via the port of entry in Roma, Texas, to hospitals in the United States. Victims transported across the border into Texas included U.S. citizens and Mexican nationals, CBP officials said.

According to a report obtained by U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, whose district includes Starr County where the border town of Roma is located, CBP officers were told by victims “that their vehicle was struck by a truck near the Mexican city of Miguel Aleman, after which, they received crossfire from a gun battle by unknown assailants.”

Cuellar said five U.S. citizens were involved, one suffering minor injuries. Four of the other injured Americans suffered:

• Gunshot to the right foot.

• Gunshot to the upper back.

• A severe sprained ankle.

• Lacerations on arms and legs to a U.S. citizen.

A Mexican national suffered a laceration on the hand, Cuellar said.

“We know that the injured individuals, including U.S. citizens and lawful permanent U.S. residents, are getting medical care. I will continue to monitor this situation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” Cuellar said.

Four Americans were sent to Starr County Memorial Hospital; three other victims were transported to McAllen Medical Center.

LAREDO, Tx. (KGNS) - Texas residents who were trying to get their license on Friday morning might have run into some issues after an unexpected glitch at the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Due to an ongoing upgrade of the driver license system, DPS had to cancel driver license appointments at several driver license offices across the state.

Customers affected were offered priority rebooking.

The issue was related to the driver license system upgrade that had started over the Labor Day weekend.

At this time, there have been no reported security problems associated with this situation.

HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — SpaceX can’t launch its Starship spacecraft until it corrects dozens of issues that led to an April explosion at its South Texas launch facility, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday.

The FAA said it has closed its mishap investigation into the failed April 20 test launch, and noted 63 corrective actions that SpaceX must take before it can try to launch again.

“The closure of the mishap investigation does not signal an immediate resumption of Starship launches at Boca Chica,” the agency said.

Since Tuesday, SpaceX’s South Texas facility has been readied for another test launch of the massive Starship spacecraft.

In a tweet Tuedsay, SpaceX said the “Fully stacked Starship (was) on the launch pad at Starbase.”

Starbase is the name the company has given its South Texas launch operations where thousands of employees work testing rocket engines and spacecraft from a launch facility located just blocks from Boca Chica Beach, on the Texas-Mexico border on the Gulf of Mexico.

On Friday after the FAA’s announcement, SpaceX tweeted the importance of resuming testing operations for future space missions.

“Testing development flight hardware in a flight environment is what enables our teams to quickly learn and execute design changes and hardware upgrades to improve the probability of success in the future. We learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems during Starship’s first flight test,” SpaceX wrote on the platform X, formerly Twitter, which is now owned by SpaceX CEO and Founder Elon Musk.

SpaceX has said the April 20 explosion of the spacecraft was done purposely by the company after the test launch misfired.

But the explosion sparked wildfires that burned acres of tidal wetlands on the coast and sent huge chunks of concrete debris flying throughout the area, as well as a fine mist of particles floating through the skies over the Rio Grande Valley.

The FAA’s decision not to allow a launch comes after several environmental groups and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas sued the agency over the failed launch and explosion that sent debris throughout South Texas threatening sensitive wildlife areas.

“SpaceX must implement all corrective actions that impact public safety and apply for and receive a license modification from the FAA that addresses all safety, environmental and other applicable regulatory requirements prior to the next Starship launch,” the FAA said.

The FAA said the mishap investigation contains privileged information and was not released. The agency conducts mishap investigations when there are any of the following during a launch: serious injuries or fatalities; malfunctions of a safety-critical system; failure of safety procedures; high risk of fatality to crew or public; substantial damage to property not associated with launch; unplanned damage to launch property; permanent loss of the space vehicle; hazardous debris outside the launch area and failure to complete a launch or reentry as planned.

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Members of the Eagle Pass Border Vigil Coalition say they are “disappointed” by a federal appeals court decision late Thursday that allows the controversial border buoys put in the Rio Grande by the State of Texas to remain.

“I’m very disappointed with everything having to do with the buoys, and I really want them out of the Rio Grande,” Amerika Garcia-Grewal, of the Coalition, told Border Report on Friday.

A federal judge Wednesday ordered Texas must remove a string of border buoys from the middle of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass. But on Thursday, an appeals court said the string can stay. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report)

Along with the $1 million string of buoys, she says her group also wants other structures that the State of Texas has put in the river in Eagle Pass to be taken away.

“We want the concertina wire to come out of the river. The razor wire is very damaging to the environment. It cuts up animals. More than that it cuts up people – asylum-seekers, who are just wanting a better life. And so we very much want to have the buoys out. We want to have the concertina wire out and want the containers removed from where they are along the Rio Grande,” she said.

The Justice Department has sued Texas to get the 1,000-foot-long string removed from the river. A federal judge in Austin earlier this week ordered it removed by Sept. 15.

But late Thursday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said the marine barrier can remain in the river — at least for now.

Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

After Wednesday’s ruling, Abbott tweeted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter: “This fight ain’t over. It’s only just begun.”

During court testimony, the Justice Department said it would cost the state an estimated $300,000 and several weeks to remove the border buoys and heavy machinery currently in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass across the border from Piedras Negras, Mexico.

Mexican officials have openly spurned the marine barrier.

State officials last month moved it closer to the U.S. shoreline after a report found most of the buoys were on Mexico’s side of the international waterway.

The Biden administration says it violates the Rivers and Harbor Act of 1899.

Abbott says it deters illegal immigration from Mexico.

It is part of the over $5 billion that the state has spent on Operation Lone Star, the state border security initiative launched in 2021.

Garcia-Grewal says funds could be better spent improving education and infrastructure, specifically ensuring all South Texas residents have access to water.

Garcia-Grewal said if all structures are removed, then her coalition wants the shoreline of the river, which has been bulldozed for law enforcement access, to be turned into a river trail for Eagle Pass residents to use and enjoy the waterway.

Her group is planning another vigil to be held Oct. 2 in Eagle Pass at Shelby Park, which is where Texas DPS and Texas National Guard stage operations on the river.