Morning Roundup: Etc. and so forth edition

Good morning, Houston. Blah blah blah, et cetera. (Yeah, you can tell it's Friday again.)

>> BP: Managers to blame for 2005 blast: An internal BP report on the deadly 2005 explosion at its Texas City refinery recommends that four top managers be fired for bad judgment and failing to do their jobs. The report — completed in February but kept confidential until it was released under court order Thursday — named Pat Gower, Mike Hoffman, Don Parus and Willie Willis, saying the four "failed to perform their management accountabilities in significant ways." Brent Coon, an attorney representing many workers injured in the explosion, said the report backs up the idea that upper-level management, not workers, were at fault: "BP knew about it and chose not to do anything," Coon told the AP. "We hope the entire industry learns from this."

>> Struck by lightning: A Bellaire woman saved herself and her dogs Thursday evening after her house was struck by lightning. She was reportedly working on the computer in her home on Aspen Street when she heard "a loud lightning strike followed by a roar of thunder that deafened her for a few minutes," Bellaire Fire Chief Darryl Anderson told the Chronicle. The fire alarm went off and the woman saw smoke coming from the air vents, so she ran from the house with two of her dogs — but she was still searching for a missing cat last night. The three-story home had heavy fire damage on the top floor and smoke and water damage on the lower two floors, and Anderson said it's no longer habitable.

>> Tracking Lisa Nowak: The AP takes a look at the company responsible for keeping tabs on former astronaut Lisa Nowak, the woman accused of trying to kidnap a romantic rival after a frantic cross-country drive earlier this year — and when we say keeping tabs, we really mean it. "It looks like she's going home. This is her neighborhood. She's traveling down this road," Randy Olshen, the president of SecureAlert, said, indicating his computer screen. "She's back in her neighborhood right now. She's at home." The device that tips SecureAlert off to Nowak's whereabouts is the TrackerPAL, an ankle bracelet that contains mini cellular and GPS technology to allow not only 24-hour tracking, but also two- and three-way communication. And in case you're wondering, SecureAlert staff doesn't have to watch computers all the time: The TrackerPAL alerts them if offenders go where they shouldn't.

>> This weekend's weather: Expect a mostly cloudy morning, with the sun coming out this afternoon and sticking around through the weekend. And we're getting closer to summer all the time, by the way: Look for afternoon highs in the upper 80s all weekend, with overnight lows around 70.

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