Good morning, Houston. In the mood for a really, really bad promotional video? It's your lucky day: May we introduce you to "The Metro Report", a quasi-Colbert Report-style production in which a host, Elliot Roberts, "interviews people on the street" about why they love riding public transportation. Which makes us wonder: Where'd Metro find all these people? Oh, right, they're actually actors — and, according to KTRK's Wayne Dolcefino, this bit of self-promotion cost......

Did we say it was going to rain a lot yesterday? Well, depending on where you live, it did: It was just wet and icky inside the Loop, but things got pretty crazy on the west side, we hear. And it may not be over yet: Harris County and southeast Texas remain under a flood watch this morning, and if storms move slowly through the area, isolated areas could get another 6 to 8 inches.......

Yep, it was wet around here today, but things pretty much dried out by the afternoon rush hour The Andrea Yates verdict probably won't have any effect on broadening the state's insanity law, a legal expert told the Chronicle Two teens and representatives of after-school programs spoke out against a proposed 10 p.m. Houston juvenile curfew today during a public hearing at City Hall A Houston man is recovering from a shark bite he suffered......

Ashton Glover, the 16-year-old Sugar Land girl whose body was found in a Fort Bend County field earlier this week, was shot in the head, police say Jordy Tollett, the city's tourism bureau head, is taking an extended leave to seek professional help for some condition; Tollett has been under fire since a KPRC video showed him taking two-hour lunches at local bars In southeast Houston, an HPD officer killed a man in front of......