4 to Know for Tuesday, Oct. 7

Need to catch up on the news? Here are four stories to start with. Hundreds of Texas National Guard troops are being deployed to other states at the request of President Trump. The man accused in the 2021 kidnapping and fatal stabbing of 4-year-old Cash Gernon pleaded guilty just before the start of his capital murder trial. Ten people died in separate violent incidents across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex over the weekend. And there was a second deadly shooting on a DART train in less than a week.