The Flash Briefing is a daily news update every weekday morning from Todd Jeffries. 

• Three children have been confirmed dead at the scene of an apartment fire in southeast Austin 
• Stage 3 water restrictions continue in Pflugerville after there was a break in a thirty inch pipeline that supplies Lake Pflugerville 
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton finds himself with an early lead in the polls in his Senate runoff against incumbent Senator John Cornyn

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