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A man who threatened to jump off an overpass near downtown San Antonio was fatally shot by officers instead after he allegedly pulled a knife on them Tuesday morning.

All lanes of Loop 1604 and Schuwirth Road will remain closed through Tuesday morning after a crash involving an SUV and VIA bus hospitalized five people, according to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

On Thursday, San Antonio residents have a chance to upgrade their wardrobes at a police auction.

The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 kids were detained there and caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

Rep. Veronica Escobar said 30 children were at the facility near El Paso as of Monday. Her office was briefed on the situation by an official with Customs and Border Protection.

Attorneys who visited the station in Clint, Texas last week said older children were trying to take care of infants and toddlers, The Associated Press first reported Thursday. Some had been detained for three weeks, and 15 children were sick with the flu.

It's unclear where all the children have been moved. But Escobar said some were sent to another facility in El Paso.

MISSION, Texas (AP) — Four people, including three children, found dead in South Texas near the border with Mexico likely died of dehydration and heat exposure after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S., authorities said Monday.

A law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press the four were overcome by the heat and foul play is not suspected. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person isn't authorized to speak publicly about the bodies found Sunday.

Hidalgo County sheriff's Sgt. Frank Medrano said earlier that the bodies of a woman in her early 20s, a toddler and two infants were found in or near Anzalduas Park, which borders the river in the city of Mission.

Authorities believe they may have been dead for days before being discovered. The FBI is leading the investigation into the deaths because the park is on federal land.

"It's an incredibly heart-breaking situation," the agency said in a statement Monday.

The names of the four have not been released and authorities are working to determine their country of origin.

Medrano said the area is commonly used by migrants entering the country illegally.

"It's a well-known route because it's so close to the border," he said.

Constable Larry Gallardo told The Monitor newspaper in McAllen that the terrain can be difficult to traverse.

"There's a lot of brush," he said. "It's like ranchland, there's no difference."

The Rio Grande Valley sector of the Border Patrol, which includes the area where the four bodies were found Sunday, has experienced an unprecedented number of apprehensions involving people entering the country illegally.

Over a seven-month period ending in April, Border Patrol agents had apprehended more than 164,000 people, a number surpassing the total...

The red-orange hues that have radiated from the Torch of Friendship in the center of downtown for 17 years are now temporarily gray as the structure undergoes an "anniversary facelift."

Severe weather left more than 12,000 CPS Energy customers without power on Monday afternoon in San Antonio.

"At half a trillion dollars - $500 billion - that makes the cartel business and the drug traffic just in Mexico alone coming across to the United States bigger than Walmart, to put it in perspective. So this is larger than our largest companies." - Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., at a hearing of the Senate international narcotics control caucus , June 11, 2019

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Mexico's violent drug cartels operate in the shadows, so it's difficult to assess how much money they make. They're not filing tax returns or getting audited.

But that hasn't stopped governments and researchers from trying to pin down the number. These estimates are all reverse-engineered, derived from other figures such as street values and drug-consumption rates, or the amount of U.S. dollars repatriated from Mexico to the United States.

The results are all over the map, ranging from $6 billion to $29 billion in estimates released since 2006. But none of them pegs Mexican drug traffickers' revenue at "half a trillion dollars," as Perdue claimed.

The underground economy for drugs is huge. The United Nations estimated in a 2011 report that worldwide proceeds from drug trafficking and other transnational organized crime were equivalent to 1.5 percent of global GDP, or $870 billion in 2009.

At a drug caucus hearing June 11, senators heard testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and several experts. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the caucus co-chair, began her remarks by noting: "The illicit drug trade is a business, valued at anywhere between $426 [billion] and $652 billion. Its reach is global. Its distribution is growing. Its leadership is criminal."

Those numbers come from a 2017 study by Global Financial Integrity, a Washington think tank studying illicit flows of money. The report estimated $426 billion to $652 billion in the retail value of...

Angelica Garcia, 35, was shot as she drove from a club early Sunday morning.

Police are urging any witnesses to the June 23, 2018 slaying to come forward.