***The story will be updated throughout the day***Tropical Storm Beta on Sunday was making a slow crawl to the shores of Texas and Louisiana, casting worries about heavy rain, flooding and storm surge across the Gulf Coast.[TRENDING: Universal parks hit capacity Saturday | Letter containing ricin addressed to White House seized by authorities | FSU head coach Mike Norvell tests positive for coronavirus]Beta was one of three named storms whirling in the Atlantic basin during an exceptionally busy hurricane season.
If the system makes landfall in Texas — which forecasters predict it will sometime Monday — it would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S.