Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/03/24

Episode Transcript

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This is HUES Radio seven forty ktRH Houston Live Everywhere, with the exclusive
audio home of NBC's coverage of thetwenty twenty four Paris Olympics. Now the
latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you.
From the John Morris Services Studios.It is five am as we get

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started this morning here on Houston's MorningNews. Good morning, I'm Jimmy Barrett
along with Sheriff Ryer on your topstories this half hour. Trump sentencing has
been pushed back to September. SouthTexas is now in Beryl's Cone of uncertainty
and coming up at five o' eight. Other than maybe the obvious, what
can you do with Basolene? Turnsout quite a few things. Details in
the minutes ahead here on Houston's MorningNews. First eat at Baseball, that's

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true. That's number two. I'lladd to that list in a few minutes.
Here's guy Mike. It is theNorth Sam both ways. I don't
see the smushery we've been having eachmorning. I know we're supposed to have
roadwork around Imperial Valley. Tell methey didn't finish that early. Hopefully they
did. Westbound, I don't seethe spackle at Aldean Westfield either I do
have a squish on the Southwest Freeway. Here we go pavement repair. This

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time. We are going inbound andit's right before the West Loops. Six
ten. We're going to talk aboutthe big crack and bowmon at five ten
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com TrafficCenter from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty
four hour Weather Center party KLAUDI thismorning, mostly clady this afternoon. Twenty
percent chance of seeing a storm orshower today with the I temperature right about

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ninety six. We'll get Terry Smithwith the latest on the track of Beryl
and the forecast for the holiday weekend. When we talked to her in about
eight minutes. Right now, it'seighty one at your official severe weather station,
news Radio seven forty k TRH.It is time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Fryar and good morning.Everyone is Sound five two on news
Radio seven forty KTRH and our topstory this hour, Judge Warshan has a

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very serious problem on his hands.Yeah, that's Will Sharp, the attorney
for Donald Trump. The obvious sentencingin the Manhattan business fraud verdict has now
been pushed back until September eighteenth bythe judge and the DA there it was
supposed to be next Thursday, andSharp believes as Supreme Court decision to give

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presidential immunity for official acts could leadto the Manhattan conviction actually being tossed.
There were items introduced in evidence inthe trial that he supervised that I believe
are clearly covered by the Supreme Court'simmunity decision that effectively corrupts that entire trial.
Yep Sharf on Fox Trump reportedly delayingthe an announcement of his running mate

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in the election. In this hububof Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance last week,
focus on Biden's future in the race. What he told donors yesterday,
we will expand upon in at fivepoint thirty and the bottom of the hour.
Thanks to a memo from the TexasSecretary of State, now our elections
will become more secure in this stateand our ballots kept secret. Some counties

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will now be using sequentially numbered ballots. What this director from the Secretary of
State says is that ballots need tobe numbered, but they need to be
done so in a way that's completelydisconnected from the voter book. Brendon Walton's
with the Texas Scorecard says this isan important step towards more secure elections.
Another layer of security so that votescan be audited. That's the goal,

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but in a way that doesn't tiethe ballot to any specific voter. Walton
says that pre printed, sequentially numberedballots should be extended to all voting locations
in Texas. Ethan Buchanan News Radioseven forty KGRH It is now five oh
four. Hurricane Barrel is still acatfgory four storm. Maximum sustained wins right

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now one hundred and forty five milesper hour. It will blow into Jamaica
sometime today, expected to enter theGulf on Friday. What does Barrel look
like when it gets there? Astronger storm will probably follow something closer to
the north or fringe of the conehere, whereas a weaker storm would be
more apt to follow the southern fringeof That's Matt Lanza with Space City Weather

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and the Eyewall site. Beryl's deathtoll at seven. Three people killed in
Grenada, three in northern Venezuela,one in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Terry Smith of the Weather Channel willbe joining Houston's Morning News in just a
few minutes with more. President Bidenused Beryl in order to attack Republicans over

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climate change. They still deny climatechange even exist. They must be living
them a hole somewhere. The presidentof the DC Emergency Operations Center yesterday,
Biden's Inflation Reduction Act has done nothingfor the American people, but has been
really good green new money deals forsolar executives. These executives for First Solar

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who were involved in supplying Democrats andJoe Biden himself with the generous campaign contributions
and financial assistance in the twenty twentycycle. So that's been a big windfall.
Yeah, that was great for theindividuals, and the companies themselves are
receiving ten billion dollars in tax creditsto compete unevenly with real market people.

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Meantime, a radical left Texas Democrat, Congressman Greg Kassar making efforts for the
FEDS to take over our independent Texaspower grid. He's called for Texas to
hook to the West, but wehave no reason to. They're island grids
all over the world and they workfine. Just because our grid isn't interconnected.
That doesn't have anything to do withthe functioning of the grid. Energy

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expert Robert Bryce says, our gridcan work with the right changes, and
one of those is moving away fromthe green power push. It's the height
of foolishness or the depth of idiocy. I'm not sure which to make our
most important network dependent on the weather. We need weather resilience systems, not
weather dependent ones. He says.We need more gas fire generation, especially
as the population grows. Andre Pardthere radio seven forty KTRH five six.

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Gasoline prices moving upward on this holidayperiod National average three point fifty, Texas
average three oh nine. Here inHouston three oh three. We're digging deeper
into our walls for barbecue tomorrow.Two. Food inflation running about four percent
year over year. That's on topof the preceding years. You know,
Joe Biden became president. Since thathappened, the price of beef has gone

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up twenty percent. That hidden aspectof inflation that we're not talking about enough
is the cost of gasoline and diesel. David Holt with the Consumer Energy Alliance
again, he says, yeah,once again, its energy costs that drives
food inflation in the last three anda half years, Chicken increasing twenty five
percent, bread up twenty eight percent, and the total price for food has

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gone up four consecutive years now.American Farm Bureau Federation somehow says the average
cookout tomorrow for a group of tenwill cost seventy one dollars and twenty two
cents. What are you feeding people? Crackers and hot dogs? I mean,
really, a five percent increase fromlast year. How do you feed
ten people seven bucks apiece? Ihave no idea. You're not feeding the

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Burger's right, You're not feeding themeat at that price, hot dogs,
packages of hot dogs, a pieceone hot dog. I don't want to
go to that barb one package ofchips, I mean soda. Standing for
her patriotism and her right to freespeech, a woman in Stafford was given
a citation from her apartment complex becauseof her July fourth decorations resembling the American

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flag. You know, is buntingin a banner on her balcony. If
you want to find me for everysingle day, do it, because I'm
not going to take down the flag. I'm sorry, I'm just not Diane
Zuniga with our TV partner channel too. Well, guess what it is?
The administrative state here her complex saysthe least agreements specifically state that residents are

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only allowed to have patio furniture andplants on their balconies. I go out
and get a bunch of red,white and blue plants, flowers. There
you go. I make them looklike a flag. Sure, there you
go. HVD working two murders sincelast night. A woman found shot to
death inside her Westchase apartment, aman found stabbed to death in his apartment
in Southwest Houston, and the Astrosboy, it was that a comeback in

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the fifth inning, but it wasn'tenough. They lost to the Blue Jason
Toronto seven to six. The seriescontinuing tonight pregame five on Sports Talk seven
ninety first pitch after six pm.Kt RH joins the game in progress at
seven right after the Michael Berry Show. I'm Sherwy Ryar on News Radio seven
forty k t RH. You'll knowmore if you listen. More and more

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going on. I want to bemore informed, no more. Four in
twenty twenty four with US Radio sevenforty KTRH. All the different uses that
you can use for vasoline or petroleumjelly. Do you have a assume you
probably when you were growing up,your family had a jar of basoline somewhere
in the house. Absolutely right,everybody see how many jars I have now.

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Ours was in the main when Iwas growing up. I mean,
ours was in the main medicine camp, you know, medicine chest. And
it was the same jar throughout myentire adolescence. We never got through that
one jar of basoline, so Iguess we didn't use it a lot.
I think the only time I remembermy mother holding it out is like when
you burned yourself. Remember one fourthof July, we burned ourselves on sparkleous

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and she got off the basoline andshe put it on her fingers. That's
that's the only time I ever reallyremember the basoline being used. And then
I saw this story. We alwayssaid kids getting burned around the barbecue pit
and a fire pit. Yeah.I mean if if today's kids smoking me,
you know, that would be adifferent If if today's kids knew some

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of the things that our parents didwith us, they would just be shocked.
We had a neighbor once who decidedhe was going to start his charcoal
grill by putting gasoline on the charcoaland threw a match on it, and
they caught the gasoline can on fire. Luckily nothing happened with that. You
can't your stupidity, well, youknow what, they just they didn't think

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about that stuff back then. Theyweren't worried about safety all the way we
were worried about safety now. Anyway, back to the vasoline. But according
to the vaciline website, you know, there's one hundred and one different things
you can use vasiline for one hundredand one things. I only thought of
it like for burns, but they'vegot a whole bunch of them here.
It's a protectant. It's a lubricant. Annoying, squeaky door, Yeah,

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put a little vasoline on it.It's a petroleum product. I know,
hello, I know. And what'swhat's really cool about it is it was
it was just kind of discovered byaccident, you know, And it was
it was when they when they firstdiscovered it, it was kind of like,
well, this is annoying. Thisstuff is all over our our equipment.
Here. We got to get ridof this stuff. And then they
found out how to purify it andand use it for a whole bunch of

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different things. Off. I'll getinto the list before the hours over,
because it's it's amazing some of thethings you can cares for a time five
eleven time for traffic and weather together. To fix my scissors? Are they?
Are they like how they get stuck? Yew? I can't open them
with one hand. Yeah, putit on my scissors basiline. There you
go. We're gonna we're gonna figureout how to use the We're gonna give
rid of that whole jar basoline thismorning. Are we getting a new ad
for vascaline? Are we? Arewe pushing them? Not that I'm aware

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of. I don't like here fora vacaline No, no, no,
no, I got enough of thatgoing on. Let's go to the north
Loop six ten westbound Sheppard. Uh, here we go one two, three
lanes block? This is a wreck. Oh two vehicles here? Why are
they blocking all that laneage? That'sbothering me? All right, watch out
as you're coming over from the squeezeat forty five. Let's don't do that.
Let's go into town on the KatieFreeway and go outbound, and let's

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stay off that north loop. Theymay take extra laneage. Hopefully everybody's okay.
Here, it's looking kind of iffy. Terry your hazardous, so be
sure and jump on the south loopsix ten. All of you carrying hazardous
cargoes and uh again, you couldjust take it in the town side looks
good. Twenty one minutes, Katieside looks good. Oh, let's talk
about your big crack in Beaumont.This is I Tim. It's technically the

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westbound lanes, but it's going downsouthbound before it makes that curve. This
way. It's Washington Avenue and theydid open two lanes here so you could
get by, but they're doing thatwork. Just watch out. It's this
big area of smushery. It's comingback this way from Beaumont. Hey,
Colton Triangle. What's going on?Give me a call seven one three two
one two tips Skymike O the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com traffic center from our KTRH

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Tom tax spenders twenty four hour weatherCenter. Time to check in with Terry
Smith for the holiday weekend. Vasilinewill not cure what's going on with Beryl,
and I can help, but noticethat the cone of uncertainty. Yes,
keeps moving its way a little bitnorth. Yesterday Brownsville was barely in
it today works this way up toCorpus CHRISTI. Yeah, that's the far
northern extreme of the cone of uncertaintyright now. And keep in mind we're

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talking what five days out from now, and there's a big factor in what
this hurricane does when it crosses theYukatan. When it's out over the Caribbean,
we're pretty confident what's going to happen. But once it makes its way
into the Yukatan, how much itweakends, how much that circulation is disrupted,

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and then where does it wind upin the Bay of Campeachy. Those
are all big questions that will factorin. And that's why I want you
to pay attention. There's no needto be alarmed at this point. We
should be prepared anyhow. It's hurricaneseason, but there is a lot of
uncertainty what's going to happen beyond Saturday, Saturday and a Sunday and Monday.

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So around here there's not a lotof uncertainty what's going to happen. We
got heat, humidity, and summerrain. A thirty percent chance of those
showers and storms today only a twentypercent. You'll chance you'll get wet Thursday
and Friday, better chance of rainingover the weekend. Expect temperatures in the
mid to upper nineties, but theheat in decks is going to be a
big factor today tomorrow, with heatof disease close to one ten the next

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two days right down to eighty oneat your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty k TRH. It'sHouston's Morning News, brought to you by
New South Windows Solutions. Now backto Jimmy and Scherah with the info you
need to take on the day.All right, Well, the uh,
the left leaning media, well,the left media, they're all pretty much

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left, with a couple of notableexceptions. I'm still having a meltdown over
the Supreme Court presidential immunity decision.We'll share some of that with you coming
up next. First up, we'vegot traffic and whether it's back for the
left it is. It's a horribleweek for the left parks. They're walking
around with these faces. You wouldthink America won a war or something.
Even NASCAR doesn't want to make leftturns anymore. All Right, we're looking

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at now North Loop Man. Ihope everybody's okay. Here, I've got
these lights all over the place.I got this laneage. This is the
north Loop westbound Shepherd. I've gotthree lanes at least there's probably a fourth
one and I'm not seeing it,but it's blocked westbound. You can get
by, but it's ugly. Don'tdo the North Loop six' ten.
If you're coming over from the eastside to the west side, go on
the Katie Freeway. Of course,if your hazard is just take the South

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Loop. I'm skylike it'sure Generator Supercenterdot Com traffic Center from our KTRH top
tax defenders twenty four hour Weather Center. Partly cloudi this morning, mostly cloudy
this afternoon. Twenty percent chance ofa shower storm for the high temperature of
ninety six tomorrow on Friday, Partlycloudy, hot, humid ninety eight.
Saturday and Sunday. We have athirty to forty percent chance of a scattered
afternoon thunderstorm HIGs both days in themid of the upper nineties. Right now,

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the temperature is eighty one at yourofficials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven
forty KTRH. Time to check outsome of our top stories here in this
Wednesday morning. Here's Sharon Morning.Everyone is now five twenty two on news
radio seven forty KTRH. Some twentyfive congressional Democrats reportedly now about to call
for Joe Biden to drop out ofthe twenty twenty four race. More questions

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about a shadow campaign to California GovernorGavin News He's visiting the White House today,
Will Joe even be there? TheFDA approves the new Alzheimer's drug Eli
Lilly's Kissunla, which is said toslow progression of the disease. Latest news
anytime KTRH dot com. Our nextupdate will be at the bottom of the

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hour h two. It's US Radioseven k t RH on FM Houston's News,
Weather, Traffic and Talk at ninetynine one h t two. All
right. Reaction continues to come infrom the media itself, and of course
especially for the media itself. Whatwas it? Rachel Manow said, death

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squads? She was talking about deathsquads, an urgeo. It's really gotten
quite ridiculous. Greg Gutfeildt having somefun with all this. This is a
death squad ruling. This is aruling that says that as long as you
can construe it as an official orquasi official act. You can do absolutely

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anything, absolutely anything, and neverbe held accountable, not only while you
are president, but forever. They'vedeclared the president and former presidents to be
kings, but they've also declared themselvesthe hand of the king. Because people
are exploring options to live in othercountries if they think they could be targeted
for prosecution by Donald Trump. Becausetargeting you, or targeting me, or

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targeting Andrew would be an official act. Based on today's decision and Democratic Congress
of Menzoi Lofgrand she went raised someeyebrows with the FEDS for what she said
about the Supreme Court watch. Theoretically, President Biden, acting within the scope
of his official duties, could dispatchthe military to take out the conservative justices

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on the Court, and he'd beimmune thanks. So, these flights of
dystopian fantasy reveal two problems. It'sa drug to escape reality. Life sucks
for you right now, but takingmore of this fantasy pill might make you
think it's going away, but itactually makes things worse. And as a

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filter to predict what happens in life, it doesn't work. Apocalyptic prisms never
pan out and what that does Itterms the voting base in your viewers into
very cynical people. They learn notto trust you, they learn not to
believe believe you. Meanwhile, whatdo they call us faux news? Right?

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Who was right on all of thisstuff? Right? Maybe? I
know Democrats and liberals watch the Five? They hate watch it, they love
watch it. Who knows who wastelling you the truth for so long?
And who was lying to you?Who is gaslighting you them? Come on
over the water's warm, Come onover the water's warm. I think there

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are some Democrats that have moved overthose shared not a lot of them,
not many of them, but afew. Well they've managed while we have
to deal with every little chess movethey make, you know, because it's
all just is all planned, allprogrammed. I don't relieve they're doing any
reacting at all. I think thisis all set up. We're not talking

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about what is wrong with this countryand what this administration and what these Democrats
have done to us. Yeah,somehow, And we're also not talking focuses
off the issues again because issues areso boring. Yes, right, well,
we already have to go to thegrocery store. I didn't talk about
inflation anymore, at least for now. You see your life savings disappear.
Five twenty six is our time herein Houston's Morning News, speaking of your

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life saving says, take a lookat your money this morning. Here's Courtney
Donahoe and we hope to keep it. Good morning, Jimmy. Well.
For the first time in its history, the S and P five hundred closed
above fifty five hundred to hit anotherrecord. Stocks have empowered by solid company
earnings, the frenzy all around,artificial intelligence, and the expectations that interest
rates will drop. The Dow gameone hundred and sixty two points now this

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morning. SMP Future is holding steadyhead of the July fourth holiday. Markets
are closed tomorrow. By the way, we'll return for a Friday session.
That's when the government is at withthe June jobs report. Oil production growth
forecasts in the premium basin are shrinkingdue to industry consolidation. That's according to
a report from industry consultant Risetad Energy. The deceleration and growth is a sharp

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contrast to the surprising pop of twentytwenty three, and home affordability in the
US has sunk to the lowest points. Since two thousand and seven, according
to property data company ADAM, thecost of a typical home eight of thirty
five percent of wages. Expenses,along with soaring mortgage rates, have outpaced
incomes. Coordinates on a Hope Bloombergbusiness on News Radio seven forty ktrh own

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Houston's News. Why there, We'retraffic plus Breaking News twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty ktrhtil everywhere, boyd irp more of
what's happening now from the John MorrisServices Studios. Five thirty is our time
here in Houston's Morning News. I'mJimmy Barrett, along with Sheriff Ryer Monger
top stories this f hour, reportersfinally ask about Alzheimer's and dementia. There's

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a group of congressional Democrats ready totell Biden he's got to go. And
coming up at five thirty eight,the Bluebell flavor that won the discontinued Flavor
contest. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
let's check out that morning ride.Here's sky Mike. All right,
they're blocking all lanes now on sixto ten North. That Shepherd is this

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just to get the ninjas some roomthere. Sometimes they do that. It's
not always, you know, areally bad thing if they block all the
lanes. Sometimes it's just for thesafety of the tow trucks and the responders
here. But they're putting everybody onthe feeder. This is North Gloop westbound
at Shepherd. Some people going offin the grass. I'm not mad.
It's a big pack up now fromforty five from the squeeze, take Ey

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ten. That's easy. If yourhazard, just take the South Loop instead.
I'm skylike at your Generator Supercenter dotCom Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator
Supercenter twenty four. Our weather centerpartly Claudi this morning, mostly Claudia this
afternoon. Twenty percent chance of ashower storm with the I temperature right about
ninety six barrel is now in thecone of uncertainty for South Texas. So

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we'll have more on that story whenwe talked to Terry Smith at the Weather
Channel in about eight minutes. Rightnow, temperature is eighty one. At
your official severe weather station, NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. It is time
out for the news. Here's Sherifffryer Man. Good morning, everyone is
now five point thirty two on newsradio seven forty k t RH our top
story this hour? Are you beingstream with the American people? Does President

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Biden, at eighty one years old, have Paulzheimer's any form of dementia?
Mainstream reporters finally asking capability questions aboutBiden and the President's handlers don't have any
answers. Hik's yourn answer for you, are you ready for it? It's
a note and I hope you're askingthe other guy the same exact question.

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OH spokesperson Kareeine Jean Pierre tried toturn it around on Donald Trump does he
have Alzheimer's and was forced to admitthat Biden had a bad night at the
debate last week. President told donorsat a Virginia campaign event last night that
he nearly fell asleep during the debate. He was so bored, blamed his
trip to Europe for his performance.But remember he was actually secluded at Camp

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David for ten days before the debate, allegedly preparing for it. Reuter's reports
that a group of twenty five HouseDemocrats though preparing to call for Biden to
drop out. Even former Speaker NancyPelosi has her concerns sort of. I
think it's a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this

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a condition? Pelosi on MSNBC.Lifelong politician Texas Congressman Lloyd Doggett the first
elected Democrat to call for Biden towithdraw from the campaign. In a statement,
dogg has said the President had quotefailed during the debate to defend his
quote many accomplishments Donald Trump, hisbig week continues. Meantime, sentencing in

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the Manhattan accounting trial has been pushedback from next week July eleventh, until
September eighteenth, after the US SupremeCourt ruling on presidential immunity. We'll have
more on this at six am.It is now five thirty four. High
Court refused to take up the caseof government collusion with big tech, however,
over censorship, and where do wego from here on that? Sure?

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Attorney Jonathan Shaw wrote for The Federalistit's time for Congress to step up.
Just because the courts have decided notto reach the issue doesn't mean that
Congress shouldn't. And that's basically whatI wrote in the editorial. If the
Feds want to control big tech,they need to do so in public.
If they're going to do it,they need to do it out in the
open. Everything should be written down, so you can't have any secret conversation,

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and those writings should be published.He adds there is no downside to
any of it being public. JeffBiggs News Radio seven forty k t or
H. The Supreme Court also overturnedthe ban on bump stocks last month,
but Texas Senator to John Corny andsays, well, he's going to work
with Democrats in the Senate to banthem again. It's over, get over

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it. But the fact that hewould consider doing that does not surprise me
in the slightest. What's the dealthere? David Ahmaud with Open Carey Texas
doesn't think this newly proposed bill willhave enough support to actually become law.
It's now five point thirty five.Hurricane Beryl now category four strength. It's
lessened a bit. We'll hit Jamaicatoday. System responsible though for already at

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least seven deaths, will enter theGulf of Mexico this weekend. South Texas
now in the cone of uncertainty ofeffects from the storm. We don't know
where the system, which is projectedto continue to weaken will go. Beryl
is the earliest Cat five storm onrecord, and as I say, now
down to four. We knew goinginto the hurricane season that the conditions across

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the Atlantic basin were extremely ripe fora significant season, significant in season.
Brian Hurt with the Texas Tech HurricaneResearch Team. Now, whether Beryl comes
our way, forecasters say there willbe dangerous rip currents on the beaches this
weekend. Beryl already impacting tourism too, Several cruise ships adjusting their routes to

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avoid the storm. One of them, Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Season,
left Galveston just this past Sunday.It's now five point thirty six. Despite
the uncertainty with Beryl, millions ofTexans will be taking to the roads for
the fourth of July holiday. TripleA projects a record seventy one million Americans
will travel at least fifty miles thisIndependence Day, including about five point six

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million Texans. The vast majority oftravelers will be going by automobile, About
four point eight million Texans taking roadtrips. About five hundred and fifty five
thousand will fly somewhere and then abouttwo hundred and forty two thousand will take
another mode of transportation, Triple ATexas As Doug Shoop says. These numbers
are higher than pre pandemic levels.The average gas price in Houston is just

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over three dollars per gallon, aboutthirteen cents less than a year ago.
Corey Yielson, he's radio seven fortyktrh and here at home. Be careful
how you drive, Houston. HarrisCounty law enforcement teaming up of DPS for
a July fourth drunk driving initiative.Let's make sure that this weekend through this
from now going all the way throughthe weekend, that we have no DWI

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fatality crashes, no DWI crashes altogether. Interim HPD Chief Larry Saderwhite says,
you're more likely to get caught fora DWI this year than in previous years,
they say. The lawyer for HarrisCounty Criminal Court Judge Kelly Johnson,
meantime, blaming a medical episode forher arrest on DWI charges last month.

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Jeudge Johnson is now does now andalways has been a big believer in the
judicial process, and she's going tolet that play itself out. And that's
the only statement we're going to maketoday. That's her attorney, Chris Tritticoton,
appeared in court yesterday. We'll beback in court on August sixth.
According to reports, she was pulledover for erratic driving earlier this year too,

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but was let go that time witha warning five point thirty seven in
our time. The Stros lost toToronto seven six, still three games behind
Seattle and the Al West. Pregametonight five pm on Sports Talk seven ninety
first pitch six o seven, andk t RH joins the game in progress
at seven pm. I'm Sheriff Friaron News Radio seven forty k t RH.

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I live in Spring, I livein Katie, your reliable forecast next
on the ten on seven forty ktRH about Bluebell having a contest to bring
back one of their discontinued flavors.We never really got into the details of
what the flavors were under consideration.I don't think, oh, yeah,
we did o w okay. Itold you my favorite, the one that

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was red velvet, and you weretalking about the turtle nougat whatever. Neither
one of us won. Shoot,but they did it. I didn't realize
they they did it. In atournament style, which is kind of interesting.
If strawberry cheese cake versus blueberry cheesecake, this is to start. Grooms
Cake versus red velvet cake, hotfudge brownie versus raspberry fudge brownie, cherry

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amoretto cardgool versus gingerbread, house mochaMadness versus Tira massou, Creole cream cheese
versus key lime pie, cookie cakeversus lemon bliss, and then triple caramel
versus triple chocolate. Oh, andthey eliminated their way down until they got
to the final two. The finaltwo or the final four should say grooms

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Cake versus hot fudge brownie, andTea Masou versus cookie cake. And then
the two fan favorites were grooms Cakeand cookie Cake, and the winner grooms
Cake. I don't think I everhad grooms Cake? Was it chocolate chocolate
cake? I'm glad you asked.Chocolate cake pieces and chocolate coated strawberry hearts

(29:52):
surrounded by swirls of strawberry sauce andchocolate icing. Well, actually that sounds
pretty good, it does, doesn'tIt'll be in the stores sometime before July
is over. There they're not inThisssar saying exactly when. But they're resuming
at least for a limited time productionof this and it'll be in the stores
in a matter of days, probablyfive forty. Time for traffic and weather

(30:15):
together, huh. As we checkout the drive again, sky Mike,
here they make a bitch of pumpkinsspice in there anywhere. Yeah, it
was one that was retired, buthe didn't make it to the tournament.
Didn't even make it to the tournament, Mike fun all right, all right,
I talked about it with you lastweek. Oh well, you didn't
hear me that. I must havebeen you know what, I must have
been zoning out, boy, Isure have this problem on the North Loop

(30:36):
here that that's where I've been thelast minute or so. I'm talking to
my close friend, jumping Joe Barnett. You know, he's an actual firefighter,
and he's working with the two dinosaurfarts across the street that keep playing
the same classic rock songs of anumber. This is North Loop six'
ten Shepherd westbound. And he'd saidthere wasn't anything crazy about the fire response.
Here. I'm trying to figure outwhat if we're going to get an

(30:57):
investigation. But it's a complete shutdown. Uh, there are a lot
of people stuck behind that, sodon't join those guys. If you're going
north loop, shephard that backup startsalmost to the squeeze at forty five,
So obviously let's take im through there, Terry, since your hazardous, obviously
you want to take the south loopsix' ten and let's check a tip

(31:18):
line quickly seven one two t ipsHey, morning sun Like he's text outbound
at order something big is moving outfound they got two left lanes. Yes,
it's an escort. Be aware there'sgonna be a minor slowdown on the
outbound side. Yeah, my exwife might be moving again sometimes her house
roles. I'm in the Generator Supercenterdot com traffic Center banana sticker for young

(31:42):
Albert from Kingwood by the way fromr Katie r H. Generator super Center,
twenty four hour whether Center. Timeto check in with Terry Smith.
We've got the long holiday weekend comingup, but at the very very very
very end, we might have someweather impact from a little storm called Beryl.
Yeah, pig storm barrel right,Yeah, yeah, so Beryl's still
a major hurricane one hundred and fortyfive mile an hour wins. It's going

(32:07):
to be making its way across Jamaicatoday, headed toward the Yucatan Peninsula by
Friday, and then into the Gulfof Mexico early Saturday. And right now
the forecast has barrel weakening and thenstrengthening and then headed toward northern Mexico southern

(32:27):
Texas. There's a lot of uncertainty, as we've mentioned before, toward the
end of that forecast period once itgets into the Gulf, because there's a
lot of questions about how strong itwill be, how defined will that circulation
be, and how strong the highpressure that's bit over us will be.
That stupid high pressure system that's beensitting over us is beginning to move eastward

(32:51):
and that's what's allowing for it totake a little more of a northerly turn.
So we're going to be watching it. Stay up to date, enjoy
your weekend. We will see anincrease in our chances of rain toward the
end of the weekend around Sunday andMonday. Only a thirty percent chance of
rain today, twenty percent chance ofgetting wet tomorrow and Friday. It's the
heat and humidity, folks, that'sthe big deal. Heat and disease between

(33:14):
one oh five to one ten atleast today and tomorrow. Right now,
it's eighty one at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty k
TRH. What you need to knowfor the day ahead. This is Houston's
Morning News, brought to you byNew South Windows Solutions. So I saw
an interesting little piece about American manufacturing. What would be necessary to bring back

(33:36):
American manufacturing? We have this,We've had this discussion before. Other than
the obvious things, to make itcheaper to manufacture things in the United States,
you know, to remove regulatory barsto producing things in the United States,
to encourage companies to produce here insteadof shipping jobs to Mexico, for
example. But there's something else thatwould also be necessary if we really want

(33:59):
to get that mantle back, Andthat's coming up next. First though,
five point fifty traffic and weather together, So we check out the drive once
again. Here's sky Mike. Goodnews on the North Loop. Jimmy.
This is they're letting people buy onthe shoulder. This is going to be
westbound, and I have a goodfeeling that even though we get some people
transported. We may be okay heresix' ten north at Shepherd westbound.

(34:20):
It's been shut down, by theway. If you're stuck in that,
hit me on social media and I'llwrite your boss some excuse. We've got
the Feeder road a little clogged up. Take the south Loop, take to
Katie, take the north Belt.We'll check that out at the six o'clock
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com trafficCenter. Thanks Mamar katrh Generator Supercenter twenty
four hour weather Center. For today, we're looking at party cloudy sky for

(34:44):
the morning hours, more clouds thansun for the afternoon. There's a twenty
percent chance of seeing a pop upshower. Storm ninety six for the high
today, Tomorrow and Friday part ofthe cloudie hot and human ninety eight both
days. Right now, temperature iseighty one at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Timeto get you caught up on some
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(35:30):
Latest News anytime ktrh dot com.Our next update is at the top of
the hour. There are plenty ofindustries that we could be getting into if
maybe we could leap frog the competition. Could we do that? Here's a
couple of people in the manufacturing businesstheir advice on what we need to do.
Kevin Zinger, a Divergent co founderand CEO of Diversion three D,

(35:53):
and Austin Bishop, Atomic Industries cofounder, and their thoughts of what we
can should do. The only wayto do it is to leapfrog the technology
that's being used in China. Goingback, say fifteen years ago, I
developed a friendship toward the end ofhis life with Andy Grove, the legendary

(36:14):
leader of Intel. He made itclear that our offshoring of manufacturing was a
strategic mistake. When you separate howyou produce something from its design, you
lose a whole skill set, andobviously you lose many jobs. Over the

(36:36):
past twenty years, capital has goneinto building China's industrial base and making it
the most modern in the world.We're not going to catch up with their
state of industrial manufacturing. We needto fully digitize our manufacturing and leapfrog it.
And my company exists because we've actuallycreated that technology and now have commercialized

(37:01):
it in automotive and are moving toaerospace and defense. So the short answer
is we can't catch up with whatthey're doing. We need to leap frog
it. Decline is a choice.The story of D industrialization in the US
has really been a story of alack of vision and leadership. And you
know, the working class, asyou guys have mentioned and just the previous

(37:24):
person you're speaking with, it's reallythe working class is left being the bag
holder. And so we're building acoalition to regain sovereignty over where and how
we make everything. And you know'dbe happy to talk about that. I
mean, we threw a summit whereover two days we had seven hundred people
with thousands of people on the waitlist and representing over a trillion dollars of

(37:44):
AUM investible capital. And these aresenior people across you know, D O
D government, current informer admin.You know private markets, public markets,
and most importantly to Kevin's point,you know tech tech founders and also old
industry as well. And so Ithink we really have struck a chord here,
bringing all these people together in oneplace, and especially doing it in

(38:05):
Detroit when we could have easily doneit on the coast somewhere. Huh.
Okay. You don't manufacture anything withoutenergy. That's a fact, period,
That's a fact. You got tohave the workers. You've got to have
the energy, that's a fact.You have to have trained You have to
have a trained, trained workforce,and you have to you have to have
the will and the willingness to makethe investment in the infrastructure necessary in order
to be able to pull it off. I'm not just getting out of the

(38:27):
way. Well, that's why Istarted with regulations. Get rid of get
rid of these owners regulations. Fancytalk about bringing together all the all these
people. It's nothing more than bureaucraciesand administrators, right, Yeah, the
bureaucracy is part of the problem there. It all goes down to the bottom
line. And if you don't havecheap energy in order to produce, you're
not going to have cheap product onthe other side. And if you don't
have that, that's why you farmit out to somebody else. And if

(38:51):
you don't have a willing financial backerwho doesn't want to back your business because
maybe they just don't agree with whatit is you and if you refuse to
take the raw materials that you wereblessedly given in your country, well then
here you go, all right.Five fifty six. This is Used Radio
seven forty kt RH Houston Live Everywhere, with the exclusive audio home of NVC's

(39:15):
coverage of the twenty twenty four ParisOlympics. Now the latest news, weather
and traffic, It's more of whatmatters to you from the John Morris Services
Studios. Six am is our timehere on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy
Barret, along with Sheriff Fryar amongher top stories this f hour. Trump's
sentencing has been pushed back to September. South Texas is now in the cone

(39:37):
of uncertainty for Beryl and coming upwith six to eight A panel of footies
rank the best potato chips. Detailsin the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
Morning News. First, we're checkingout that morning drive here is Skymike all
right? Your tip line is sevenone three two one two tips. Brian
from Montgomery. Dude, Hey,guy, Mike, I will sit in
the sick ten for about forty fiveminutes going nowhere. They just opened up

(40:01):
the left shoulder to get back.There are ninjas there and if a gig
car accident, looking pretty bad,extra points for burbage there. Brian from
Montgomery. Yeah, that's westbound north. Look at Shepherd jumping. Joe's telling
me there might have been an entrapment. Just judging by the response there westbound.
Don't do it. Get on thesouth loop. Get on the KD

(40:22):
instead, Skymichael. The Generator Supercenterdot Com traffic Center from our KTRH top
tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center. We have Terry Smith standing by with
the forecasts. We'll get to herin about nine minutes. But for today,
just another party. Cloudy, hot, humid, twenty percent chance with
storm kind of day current empt'ready wantedyour official severe weather station News Radio seven

(40:42):
forty KTRH. It is time nowfor the news. Here's Sheriff Fryar and
good morning everyone. Let me pullit up here. I got so busy
looking at what it costs to havea barbecue. I forgot to pull up
my newscasts. Folks, here wego. It is now six oh one
on News radio seven forty KTRH.Our top story this hour the Manhattan sentencing
potential jailing of Donald Trump. It'sbeen pushed back now to September eighteenth.

(41:07):
The Democrat activist da and judge inManhattan now reacting to the Supreme Court ruling
on presidential immunity. The Trump legalteam asking the judge, Juan Mershan to
throw out the conviction because prosecutors useprivileged conversations in order to convict. For
instance, the White House aid HopeHicks and her testimony against President Trump.

(41:30):
He has historically ruled against the President. The expectation is that he will do
so again and that this will delayit. But sentencing is still going to
come in in September. That isthe Fox Legal analyst Jonathan Turley. Trump
campaign raised three hundred and thirty onemillion dollars during the second quarter of this
year. Under all this lawfair comparedto Joe Biden's two hundred and sixty four

(41:53):
million. Will Biden stay in therace. We're going to be talking about
that at six point thirty here athome. After the bid the former Texas
GOP chairman was leaked during the primaryvote. Some counties in this state now
switching to pre printed, sequentially numberedballots. Currently, you've got about another

(42:13):
half of Texas counties that use machinesthat already are not tied to the electronic
pull book. And what this doesis it expands it now to the other
half of the Texas. Essentially.That's Brandon Walton's with Texas scorecard. He
says he thinks the entire state shouldmake this kind of switch. It's now
six to oh three. Hurricane BerylWell slam Jamaica today, currently a Cat

(42:34):
for storm, maximum sustained winds ofone hundred and forty five miles an hour.
It's forecast to enter the Gulf ofMexico late on Fridays. South Texas
is now in the cone. Ithink there's a lot ab out there,
a lot of motion out there,that there's this big jump when this is
coming to Texas. Well, whenyou actually look at it, it's not
that we've trended up the coast alittle bit towards northeast Mexico. The yes,

(42:59):
South Texas potentially is going to havesome impacts here. Some Harris County
meteorologist Jeff Lidner on the Weather Insightspodcasts the storm already has killed seven people,
though Terry Smith at the Weather Channeljoining Houston's Morning News in just a
few minutes. President Biden used Berylto push his radical climate agenda on all

(43:22):
of us, and of course takingshots at Republicans. They deny climate change
even exists. Every single Congression Republicanvoted against the investments which created these jobs
and qumbat climate change. I quitefrankly think it's not only outrageous, is
really stupid. Every single Republican votedagainst the Green New Deal. The President

(43:44):
at the DC Emergency Operations Center yesterday. Yeah, the Green New Deal has
put a lot of green in thepockets of solar executives, in particular Shira.
As Nick Pope pointed out at theDaily Caller groups flows First Solar are
now taking in a windfall. FirstSolar has emerged as one of the big

(44:06):
winners here. By some estimates,they stand to reap about ten billion dollars
in these tax credits over the nextten years or so. Serious money.
That's billion with a b all thewhile the company's stock price has done very
well. It's actually about double sothat's been big windfall to some of the
company's big investors, several of whichare friends of the Democratic Party, and

(44:28):
he says that will all change ifTrump wins in November. Jeff Biggs News
Radio seven k t H. Yeah, if you track their stock, a
lot of their executives sold the stockthat they were given to and Getty came
incredibly rich. Texas Democrat Congressman GregKassar meantime, he wants to California Kate
are basically cannibalize Texas, plugging thisstate into the Western power grid. He

(44:52):
wants our independence. Stolen energy expertRobert Brice says, our grid can work
with a right and movements, butwind and solar energy are not the solution.
From people moving to Texas, fromindustrial load in the Permian Basin in
West Texas. All of these thingstogether are resulting in more electric demand in

(45:13):
Texas, and we need systems thatare going to be resistant to the weather,
not dependent on the weather. Yeah, solar and wind dependent on the
weather. He says, we needto focus more on gas fired power to
keep up it is six oh six. Gasoline prices rising as we hit July
fourth, three fifty one nationally,Texas average three ten, Houston three oh

(45:35):
four, and the cookout tomorrow isgoing to be a lot more expensive than
it was last year. Food inflationis running at about four percent higher than
the last year. Price of everythingis going up, eggs, milk,
you know, meat for that barbecue, charcoal for the barbecue. David Holt
with the Consumer Energy Alliance. Asmuch of this inflation is being driven by
energy costs, one of the dominatingthings on grocery price is delivery charge,

(46:00):
you know, and that's beith Oldtruck. Since Joe Biden took Goffers,
beef is up twenty percent, chickenis up twenty five percent, bred is
up a wopping twenty eight percent.The total price has written for the fourth
straight year. Cliff Saunders News Radioseven forty k TRH It's now six oh
seven. The city recorded in anotherthree homicides last night, including a man

(46:21):
found stabbed to death in his apartmentin Southwest Houston. A woman shot to
death inside her Westchase apartment, possiblyby a man who forced his way inside.
Astra is lost to Toronto seven tosix pregame this afternoon at five,
and Sports Talk seven ninety first pitchafter six pm, and then KTRH will
join the game in progress at seven. I'm Sheber Fryar on Houston's news,

(46:45):
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music, sports podcasts, and talkfree never Sound. It's so good good.
This isn't every holiday pretty much.It's sort of a basic in life
though, when you really get rightdown to it. Well, yeah,

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but I haven't figured out how tosurvive without eating. And until I do
that, you know it. Butmen focus a lot on food. We
do, we do. That's theway to our heart. Basic way to
our heart is still through our stomach. I get it, no doubt about
it. So here I saw astory about best potato chips. Oh okay,
I've I definitely have an opinion aboutpotato chips, so I've may better

(47:27):
take a look at this one.They got a panel of chip officionados.
A woman by the name of EmilyFedner, a chef at Petit busta joint
in Hungry House, Rihanna kiln Killingfood editor, Food and Wine, Jimmy
Lynn I recipe developer and blogger,Shelby Todd, blogger and foodie, and
Ivy Manning, author of ten cookbooksand a food editor and chef to say,

(47:52):
they decided that the best overall potatochip is kettle potato chips. Oh
yeah, I love kettle too becausethey're super crunchy. Well, and they're
thicker, Yeah they are. Theyget to be crunchier because they're thicker,
among other things. The only problemI have with potato chips in general is
they're just too salty. It's andit's really hard to find a low salt

(48:17):
option and and and not that Idon't like salt, I do, but
just the old, the older Iget, the more salty they seem to
me. Oh. The question is, is a potato have much flavor if
it doesn't have salt, fried butter, salt or fat on it? I
think much. How much do youreally like the taste of a potatoes?

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I love potatoes, I do.I love potato too in every form,
in every form it's bland. Iguess you doctor it up. You know
what the key there? When yousaid was frying. That to me,
that's the key. A good potatochip is always fried. I've never fried,
That's right. I've never had abig potato chip that I thought was
worth anything, you know, worthany of my time or my stomach space.

(49:00):
Another story here, Trader this thisoverall winners in different categories. Trader
Joe's owed to the classic potato chipvoted best in that category. I've never
had Trader Joe's potato chips. Lay'sSweet Southern Heat Barbecue chip got best barbecue
chip. You like barbecue potato chips? No, I don't either. Deep
Wherever Snacks New York Spicy Dill Picklewon best dill pickle potato chip. I

(49:23):
love vinegar and salt potato chips.Okay, so that's kind of where that
one comes from. I like thatdeal. Is spud Love Sea salt and
vinegar thick cut potato chips one inthe best salt in vinegar category. Have
you ever done those? You evertried spud Love? No, I don't
know if it's available locally. Wehave to take on my local yeap,

(49:44):
all right. And then Kettle Brandgot the best one for best Kettle Brand
Potato chip. Was kettle. CanI go back to this American Farm Bureau
thing? Sure, we haven't hada lot of time, a little bit,
just seventy one cents to feed tenpeople one dollars, sorry, feed
ten people? People say, andis it five percent more than was last

(50:05):
year and twenty percent more than itwas five years ago? Give me a
break, they say, what they'refeeding them for seventy one bucks? Yeah,
I looked that up. That's whyI got lost a minute ago.
Two pounds of Hamburger meat for tenpeople. No way, A bag of
potato chips, two pints of strawberries, half a gallon of ice cream,
and a pound of cheese. Youcan't. That was one menu. The

(50:28):
other one was two pounds of chickenbreast with potato salad, and they both
came out about seventy one bucks.You seventy one fifty three. You can't
feed that many people on that gotan email from one of our listeners.
They had ten people over this pastSunday, four hundred bucks for steaks,
corn, Brussels sprouts, and afew more sides. Four hundred bucks,

(50:49):
not counting the beggaries. That's right, Well, the steaks would have got
them their steak is expensive, allright, traffic and weather together what it
costs to feed meat. I don'tthink anyo's going to afford. That'skuy Mike
oh Man, I can talk aboutthat. Yeah no, and we'll throw
in the tequila. Let's get onthe north Loop, guys. I still
want to make sure everybody's okay hereon the westbound. This is what we're

(51:10):
doing North Loop at Shepherd. Thiswreck pretty rough stuff here jumping Joe's been
watching, you know, he's afireman. He's been watching this for me.
Westbound. Also, I'm on withChristina Cruz, my work wife,
and my radio dad, Bill Ingramfrom the Christian station. We're all keeping
an eye out, listening to ourlisteners and seeing what they're telling us.
But we think that might have beenan entrapment. This is north Loop six

(51:30):
ten westbound Shepherd. They're letting youbuy on the shoulder here, and we've
got the backups from forty five.Just don't get in there. I think
they're going to block it off atthe loop anyway, so we have to
worry about that. It ten isthe way to go terry or hazards,
of course, jump on the southLoop here's hazardous Cody from the north side
morning skylight. It is free fromBelwa two nine to the interconbentl Airport.

(51:53):
Just a slight pitch at party tollload. All right, I'm starting to
see an eastbound smash. Now thatwork again. An Imperial Valley forty five
north is actually decent. We're twentythree minutes from the Woodlands. Get to
Dave to Jimmie, sure you,Terry and everybody else will through there you
go, Terry, Well, he'sactually guitar. Dave say it when they

(52:15):
get guitar the Generator Supercenter dot ComTraffic Center. Can you say it like
that guitar. Yeah, we cando it from our KTRH top tax Defenders
twenty four hour Weather Center. TerrySmith is here Beryl working an eye on
Beryl. By the way, Ihate to get all weather geeky on you
here. Oh golly, don't do. But I'm kind of the Fishihano of

(52:36):
the European model when it comes topredicting these storms. I don't know how
you feel about that, but I'vealways kind of found them to be the
most accurate. So any idea whatthe European model is saying about where Beryl's
gonna end up in the Gulf.So let me look at that specifically,
because I've been looking at more ofthe blends of the models and the European.

(52:58):
So what's interesting is the European wasone of the better performing models for
a while, but the American model, the GFS, has had some updates
done to it. It's become quiteimpressive at times. So they both have
their kind of biases, and sothat's what makes you know, watching the
models very interesting for us geeky weatherpeople. But I'll take a look a

(53:22):
closer look at the European for youhere in a second. Let's see back
closer to home. Things are fairlyquiet until the weekend. That's when our
rain chances go up. But theheat and humidity are going to be the
big concerns because our temperatures are inthe nineties, the heat and decks each
day between one oh five to oneten thirty percent chance of rain today,
twenty percent chance of rain tomorrow,and Friday, the weekend we have a

(53:44):
forty percent chance of rain. Partof the reason we're seeing an increase in
the rain at least toward the endof the weekend is because we will see
it increase in the humidity off theGulf of Mexico, sponsored in part by
Barrel a little more strong on shoreflow tumble drydowns eighty Here at your official
severe weather station, News Radio sevenforty KTRH use traffic and weather. You're

(54:06):
starting your day right with Houston's MorningNews, brought to you by new South
Windows Solutions. So what role,if any, should government big government have
in big tech. We'll talk aboutthat coming up in just a moment.
First, though, we've got trafficand weather together, so we check out
the prize. Yes we do so, Okay, let me pitch from the
stretch here, Jimmy Barrett. We'vegot North Loop six' ten. Nothing

(54:29):
good's happening here. I don't likethe way this looks. They've shut the
whole thing down. I think we'reabout to get a police investigation. This
is North Loop westbound at Shepherd.They've shut it down from the Loop from
forty five and you can't go thatway anyway. So do the Katie Freeway
instead, do the South Loop.I'm Skymike. This is your Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center rob r KTRHTop Tax Defenders twenty four our weather

(54:52):
center for today, We're looking atMexic clouds and sign otherwise partly cloudy today,
more clouds than sun for the afternoonand twenty percent chance for a pop
up shower storm on a hive ninetysix tomorrow and Friday, both part of
the cloudy hot humid about ninety eightboth days. Chap at You're right now
is eighty at your official severe weatherstation. News Radio seven forty k TRH.

(55:13):
We're checking out some of our toptrending stories here on this Wednesday morning.
Here's Share six twenty two now onnews radio seven forty k TRHR.
Headlines are sponsored by Morrow Mechanical.President Biden's handlers finally asked some questions about
the commander in chief and his capabilities. The Washington Post reports former President Barack
Obama expressing concerns behind closed doors aboutBiden's chances of winning re election. Research

(55:39):
done by SIFT shows that forty twopercent of gen zers say they are willing
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dot com. Our next update willbe at the bottom of the hour.
This election, I can do this. Mistakes of this race couldn't be hired

(55:59):
this storm is it an has tohave? Community is changing by the minute.
What came out today use radio sevenforty KTRH. Well, Supreme Court
spent a little time going over themerits of free speech on the internet and
with big tech. And we knowthat the United States government, among others,

(56:19):
has had some influence on what youcan and cannot read or hear or
talk about it online. They justhave. The Federals had an interesting piece.
If the government wants to control bigtech, it must do so in
writing, and those writings must bepublished for everybody to see. In other
words, if you want to goahead and censor people, then you better
admit that that's what you're doing sothe American people understand that that's what's happening.

(56:43):
Jonathan Shaw joins US partner at DylanLaw Group. That seems only fair,
don't you think? I sure?Do? You know? Ideally the
government wouldn't be doing this, butif they are going to be saying,
what we can't help social media,then we ought to know that they're doing

(57:05):
it. What is the deal here? Because you know states we're trying to
bring and the Court keeps passing thingsoff is not having standing. Every time
you turn around, what is thisin legal terms? Are they just trying
to say narrowly focused on constitutional issues? And if this isn't a constitutional issue,

(57:25):
the government controlling speech, I don'tknow what is. Well. I
don't think they're saying it's not aconstitutional issue there there it's a it's a
highly technical procedural issue. I thinkthree members of the court felt they should
have reached the merits of the issueand said that this was not this was

(57:46):
not appropriate to the government be doing. Six members of the court on very
technical procedural ground said we're not goingto hear this lawsuit. We're just not
going to intervene. It's not appropriatefor the courts. I think it's unfortunate
that that's what they chose to do, but that's the way it is.
And so the remedy is through Congress. Congress needs to act. The remedy

(58:08):
is not in the court system,is what you're saying. So if the
remedy is in Congress, what sortof an act should Congress pass and how
specific does it need to be inorder to make sure that we aren't centering
Americans. Sure, so, inan ideal world, Congress would simply say
that that the federal government should notbe doing this. But that's just not

(58:31):
that's just not in the cards.I believe Senator Paul introduced legislation to that
effect, or tried to about ayear ago, and it went nowhere for
a variety of reasons. So whatI've suggested is something that's a little bit
different. Basically, if they're goingto be doing it, they shouldn't be

(58:53):
doing it in secret. Essentially,no more quiet conversations, no more phone
calls where they put pressure on socialmedia companies the sensor information that they don't
like. Instead, any such communicationshave to be in writing, and then
they have to be published so thepublic can see exactly what is going on.

(59:15):
If the government doesn't want us,doesn't doesn't think it's appropriate for social
media to include posts on things like, you know, the Lavely hypothesis,
which we now know is considered themost likely cause of COVID, then the
government should be upfront about that,and then we can then people know that

(59:37):
that that their conversations on this topicare being stifled. Well, if they
do that, then that potentially takescare of the government problem. But what
about the social media companies themselves whodo their own censorship. Well, you
know they have a you know,if they have a First Amendment right to
put on their websites what they wantto put on their websites. And if

(59:58):
they and if because they are tworestrictive in what they put on, then
they're going to lose out in themarket because people want to hear on Bridles
conversations and they'll go to somebody whooffers that, Okay, fair enough,
all right, sah thanks for yourinsight, appreciate it. That is Jonathan
Shaw. He's a partner a DylanLaw Group. It is six twenty seven.
It is time to take a lookat your money. Fortny Donahoe is

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here. Well, good morning,Jimmy. Turning to Wall Street Action,
SMB futures are holding near their recordclothes ahead of the July fourth holiday.
The New York Stock Exchange and theNASTAC will wrap up at noon your time
today Tomorrow. The markets are closed. Trading will resume as normal on Friday.
Eli Lilly has one approval from theFDA for a new drug that slows
the progression of Alzheimer's. The Lilymedication is the second one approved to treat

(01:00:43):
the disease. Lily started clinical trialsmore than three years ago. The drug
will cost thirty two thousand dollars inits first year of treatment. Ice Cubes
three on three Basketball League, theBig Three has sold its third team.
Sources tell us the new Houston basedteam is being acquired by a pair of
Entner executives in a deal worth aboutten million dollars. The Big Three owned

(01:01:04):
all of its teams when it formedin twenty seventeen. It since put all
twelve squads on sale, and she'steaming up with Hidden Valley Ranch on a
new cracker. The Ranch flavored Cheddarsnack is in grocery stores right now for
a limited time. I'm Courty' doneHope Bloomberg Business on News Radio se forty
KTRH. There are no Houston's NewsWeather. We're Traffic plus Preaking News twenty

(01:01:28):
four to seven. This is NewsRadio seven forty KTRH five Everywhere Boyd the
IRPP. More of what's happening nowfrom the John Morris Services Studios. It's
six point thirty here on Houston's MorningNews. I'm Jimmy Barren, a long
with Sheriff Ryer Monger top stories thishave are reporters finally asking about Alzheimer's and
dementia. At the White House,there's a group of congressional Democrats that are

(01:01:52):
ready to tell Biden he's got togo. And coming up at six thirty
eight, speaking of Biden, headmits he might have almost fallen asleep during
the debate, while RFK Junior isaccused of eating a dog. Details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston'sPorning News. First, let's check out
that morning drive again. Here's skyMike. All right, I'm gonna say
at one time North Loop is fatal. It's westbound at Sheppard, so they're

(01:02:14):
going to block all lanes. Nowwe have a police investigation. This will
last the rest of our morning drive. You can't go there anyway. They've
shut it off at forty five.It's westbound Shepherd, the Beltway, Katie
South Loop per alternate's your North Sam'sstarting to smash up both ways between forty
five and sixty nine. That's roadworkHighway six, signal problems at west Road.
It's making things crazy. Skymike andthe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center

(01:02:37):
from our KTRH Generator super Center intwenty four hour Weather Center party, cloudy
this morning, mostly claudy this afternoon, twenty percent chance of a shower storm
with the high temperature right about ninetysix. Terry Smith keeping an eye on
Barrel's track as well. It's shifteda little further to the north since yesterday,
so we are definitely in the coneof uncertainty. Not Houston, but
South Texas is. We'll keep yourpost on all this temperture right now eighty

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one. He wanted your official severeweather station News Radio seven forty k TRH.
It is time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryer. It is
six thirty two on news Radio sevenforty k TRH. Our top story this
hour, turning up the heat onthe White House. Reporters finally at long
last, asking some questions about PresidentJoe Biden and his physical and cognitive fitness.

(01:03:24):
Is he disabled? No? No, and let me finish with your
colleague, please, And I know, but shouting out, come on?
Do you know better? President blaminghis international travel in June for his four
debate, He also admitted to beingso tired that he almost fell asleep on
stage. What he didn't say wasthat after he came back from Europe.

(01:03:45):
He spent ten days preparing for thedebate, with naps every day. Ten
days is enough to get over jetlag. Also, this Hunter Biden convicted
felon now sitting in on meetings withhis father in the West Wing. Well,
he's got privileged, doesn't he.Here's how the White House is spending
that Hunter came back with him andwalked with him into that meeting, that

(01:04:10):
prep that speech prep, and youknow, and he ended up spending time
with his dad and his family thatnight. Spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre more clean
up on Ale Biden, though.The President giving an interview to ABC's George
Stephanopolis later this week. It willbe airing on Friday. Yes, it
will be taped. And George Stephanopolis, you know, legendary for covering Hillary

(01:04:33):
Clinton and Bill Clinton. A groupof twenty five House Democrats reportedly preparing to
call for Biden to drop out ofthe presidential rakes that had happened. Biden
enablers like James Clyburn say, well, the party better turned Vice President Kamala
Harris on the ticket, not CaliforniaGovernor Gavin Newsom. This spot is shid

(01:04:54):
not in any way do anything towork around miss Harris. We said,
do everything we can to bolster her, whether it's the second place or at
the top of the ticket. Yeah, Cliburn on MSNBC. Now, Newsom
will be at the White House todayin what they're calling a show of support

(01:05:15):
for Biden. Oh, Kamala Harrisand Newsom is a VP. Is that
what they're planning? Donald Trump sittingback watching all of this meltdown. Meantime,
his sentencing in the Manhattan Sham convictionhas been postponed. It was going
to take place next week. Nowthey've had to delay it till September eighteenth.
It's because of the US Supreme Courtruling on presidential immunity six thirty four

(01:05:40):
is our time. The US SupremeCourt refused to tackle government collusion with big
tech on censorship. Jonathan Shaw witha Dylan Law group, says Congress can
at least make sure that there's transparencyon this collusion. Well, I would
prefer legislation that forbids it at aminimum. What I'd like to see is
legislation, and it says, well, if government's going to do it,

(01:06:00):
they have to do it out inthe open. That is, they can't
do it secretly. Yeah, hesays, write it, post it,
let people know. High Court ruledthat the ATF bumpstot band was unconstitutional.
Now, Texas Senator John Cornyn wantsto work with Democrats on passing one in
Congress. This is a debate thathas already been settled thanks to the Supreme

(01:06:25):
Court. We actually have a fewpeople on the Supreme Court that recognize what
the Constitution actually says, and theydon't substitute what they just wish it,
said David Amaud with Open Kerrey,Texas told KTRH. This is just an
attempt to sidestep the Constitution. Thebiggest problem that they have is very simply
this. They just don't like whatthe Constitution says, and so they try

(01:06:46):
to wiggle out of having to respectit. Maud did say he doesn't think
this bill has enough support to makeit all the way through Congress. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH it'ssix point thirty six. Now let's talk
about Hurricane Beryl, category four strengthimpacting Jamaica today. It's going to enter
the Gulf of Mexico this weekend.Parts of South Texas in the latest cone

(01:07:08):
of uncertainty from the National Hurricane Center. The forecast has remained pretty consistent from
National Hurricane Center in bringing the systeminto the Golf Mexico over the weekend late
Friday Friday night, and then thecurrent forecast has landfalls south of Brownsville late
in the weekend. Browns will getsome rain. Joshua Lichter with a National

(01:07:30):
Hurricane Center says, all this canchange, though system has already killed seven
people, responsible for seven deaths.We'll have more with Terry Smith at the
Weather Channel in just a few minutes. With Beryl out there, there's going
to be plenty of company on theroads. Nonetheless, this weekend, a
record number of Americans traveling away fromhome for Independence Day week TRIPAA Texas Doug

(01:07:53):
Shop says July fourth, trips arebecoming much more extravagant too. People are
booking early for their vacations. They'realso booking bucket list once in a lifetime
vacations. They're spending more money forthese bucket list trips, and we're also
seeing more solo travelers, people takingvacations on their own. Yeah, seventy

(01:08:14):
one million Americas getting away this year, including about five point six million Texans
and those are record highs. Bothexpect more of a police presence on our
roads too. If you observed somein pair driving, call nine one one
and we'll go out. We're goingto head that direction. We're going to
have extra patrols out. If yousee someone that you think is going to
make a bad decision, you know, engage with us and we can help

(01:08:34):
that way as well. Chief TommyDiaz with the Terris County Sheriff's Office working
with HPD and other agencies this weekend, all in conjunction, by the way,
with the state. The DPS.Astro's loose to the Blue Jays in
Toronto seven to six. The seriescontinuing tonight pregame at five and Sports Talk
seven to ninety first pitch after sixpm, and then kg r H will

(01:08:58):
be joining the game in progress atseven right after the Michael Berry Show.
I'm shere with Friar on news Radioseven forty k t RH. Ey,
it's gonna be a hot summer,this war, protest election, The hottest
happenings happen right here. Use Radioseven forty k t RH. Would you

(01:09:23):
just would you just live? Canyou sleep? Standing up? I mean,
horses do. But I don't knowabout the people. Has risk belt
into the podium. I mean,I don't know. That would have been
very interesting. I'm not sure whyhe would even admit to something like that.
Why would you admit that you almostfell asleep during the debate? I

(01:09:45):
mean, good lord, you know, it's great, everybody's talking about it.
Fine is we are in a presidentialcampaign. But really, folks,
we still have illegal aliens swarming intothis country, and we still have assive
crime, all the things that wewere talking about just a short couple of
weeks ago. Now, when wasthe last time you saw anything on national

(01:10:09):
TV? Well, you never sawanything on National TV on that stuff on
certain networks. You did on Fox, you did with and on newsbacks.
But that's about its murders and capitalmurders of children, little girls. Yeah,
that's about it. That's about it. Yeah, they'll get back to
that, you think when the story, Yeah, when the story, when
the story runs out. Yeah,the anthey of their their the tension spans

(01:10:30):
fairly short. They're in chaos rightnow. They can't decide what to do.
Those Democrats, they don't know whatto do, No kidding. Here's
Evidently one of the things they've decidedto do. They're they're pulling a mitt
Romney on RFK Junior to see thisstory that last year. Evidently Robert Kennedy
Junior texted a photographed to a friend. In the photo he was posing alongside

(01:10:51):
an unidentified woman where the barbecue remainsof what looked like a dog. So
they're spreading this around that Kennedy,who was traveling days at the time,
was eating a dog. Kuy likethey did. The mit Romney had his
you know, dog carrier tied tothe top of the vehicle. He's eating
a dog. Photo taken in twentyten. Evidently, at least according to

(01:11:15):
RK. Junior, that's not adog, it's a goat. He was
in Patagonia and he was eating barbecuedgoat, not a dog. Six forty
time for traffic and weather together.We're checking out the drive again. Sky
Mike's here, Oh, just intime, all right, North Loop six
tenths completely shut down. That's apolice investigation. This is not going to
be an option for you throughout themorning drive and some folks are still stuck

(01:11:36):
up in the squeeze. Now fortyfive they did let everybody through that was
stuck on the other side of fortyfive. And now this is causing the
North Freeway to squish up pretty heavilyall the way from actually north your slope
from Little York southbound, but it'smaking it worse. That adds twelve.
That's a twelve minute drag southbound tryingto get into downtown on the north Loop.

(01:11:57):
Actually the East Freeway from Lockwood,I've got breaks. It's a it's
a route. The best re routefor now, whether you're hazardous or not,
is a six to ten south KatieFreeway. I got Brad from Belleville.
Hey, good morning Mike, Aman from Celia all the way into
Parks and man, there are alot of people on the road this morning,
jobs and truckers and some cowboys andhippies. Morning Jimmy, Good morning

(01:12:21):
Shira. All right, and we'vegot Nord Sam starting to squish up both
ways again. Forty five to theeast. Text, you've got roadwork at
Aldin Westfield westbound eastbound Imperial Valley.This is your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic
center from our katrh Generator Supercenter.Twenty four hour whether center. Time to
check in with Terry Smith keeping aneye on Beryl. Thank you for sending

(01:12:41):
me the European and the in theUS. They look pretty similar as far
as the track of the storm rightnow. They're not that different from each
other. No, And that's whatwhen we're looking at models, what we're
looking at are what are what's themajority of the opinions, so to speak,
where's that mid range, Not somuch the outliers, but what's everybody

(01:13:03):
kind of focused on. And soit really is northeastern Mexico and southern Texas
by Monday right now, but that'sgoing to change. So we want you
to continue to stay in formed throughoutthe holiday weekend so you're not caught off
guard. Our weather is not goingto change that much through Friday. We
hardly have any rain. The heatand humidity continues. Thirty percent chance of

(01:13:26):
a thunderstorm today, twenty percent chancetomorrow and Friday. We do have heat
advisories in the afternoon because the temperaturesin the nineties, heat dacts between one
oh five to one ten. Youjust need to hydrate, stay cool,
do what you can to uh,you know, get a break now and
then all right, take a chillpill right now. Eighty one at your
official severe weather station, news Radioseven forty k TRH. You are commute,

(01:13:49):
you are forecast your news. It'sHouston's Morning News, brought to you
buying new Southway, those solutions.So the hot rumor is that the CHOI
for VP for Trump is down totwo people. So a little speculation about
who those two people are and whyhe might pick one of those two is
coming up next first though, ordoing traffic and weather together. As we

(01:14:12):
check out the drive once again courtesyof sky Mike Hey, North Loop six
to ten at Shepherd's completely shut down. They've actually shut it down at forty
five due to this accident and it'sgonna be a police investigation for hours.
Nord Freeway, this is causing alot of reroutes, So your North Freeway's
a little thicker this morning, LittleYork. Eighteen extra minutes down North Belt.
I've got the roadwork westbound at AldieWestfield, eastbound at Imperial Valley,

(01:14:34):
and you've got tollbridge suconds starting now. Eight extra minute southbound Golf Freeway airports
the back door to eighty eight.You're crammed up from the Belt in Southwest
Freeway it's a drag from Hillcroft.I'm gonna check Bush Airport traffic at seven
ten in the Generator Supercenter. DotCom Traffic Center from r ktr H Generator
Supercenter. Twenty four hour weather centerof party cloudie this morning, a few

(01:14:57):
more clots this afternoon. Twenty percentchance for a shower. Store of the
high ninety six Tomorrow and Friday,party clouding, hot humid ninety eight Saturday
and Sunday. We do have somescattered storm chances. High temperature about ninety
five ninety six both days. Rightnow, temperature is eighty one at your
officials severe weather station. News Radioseven forty k TRAH. Time to check
out some of our tough stories.Here's SHAA six point fifty two on news

(01:15:20):
Radio seven forty k t RH.Donald Trump's week continues as Supreme Court immunity
ruling now forcing a postponement of JudgeWan Mrshaan sentencing in the Manhattan Bookkeeping Convictions
push back until September fifteenth. Nofurther lifting of the gag order that we
can find, However, Democrat politicaloppression of opponents remains alive and well.

(01:15:43):
The state of New York now justbarred Rudy Giuliani taking away his license to
practice law over representing Trump and makingwhat New York says were quote false claims
about the twenty twenty election. Ticketmasterconfirms it had a data breach, won't
say how many customers in North Americawere affected. Latest news anytime at kgorh

(01:16:03):
dot com. Our next update willbe at the top of the hour.
Life It's stop and go vote.Just go t chiep up with our steady
flow of updates to continue onward linewith News Radio seven for JTRH. Couple
of panels on Cutloads Show, AlexMarlow think, Chris Bedford on the potential

(01:16:24):
Trump VP choices. Who do theythink that two are? Yeah, young
Kin's got a compelling narrative. Hedefinitely could put Virginia in play. And
I think he's someone that the moremoderate wing, the establishment wing and the
Republican Party could get excited about,and that could make it so that they
might be more inclined to vote fora President Trump reluctantly if they're on the
fence. But you know, Ido think that from what I've heard,

(01:16:46):
he's not towards the top of thelist. The two names I'm hearing so
much are Bergham and JD. Vance, And I think Vance offers a pretty
historic opportunity. And I've told thePresident this to have someone who is part
of the America First movement on theticket. So I don't know if Youngin
has enough time to move up,but he certainly has his fans, all
right, Chris Bedford, Joe Biden'sgoing to run against the Supreme Court.

(01:17:10):
Good good idea, bad idea.It doesn't seem like this is a very
good idea right now. I mean, the Democratic Party's pitch to the American
voter in twenty twenty was that theywere the party of normalcy and of values
and of standards, and they weregoing to bring us back to an age
of civility. So if you're anAmerican voter who just tuned in, maybe
for the first time on Thursday,and you saw the President of the States

(01:17:30):
drooling on stage and not really beingable to control his facial expressions, and
then you turn around and you seeJoe Biden, you see Alexandri Kazio Cortez
talking about impeaching the Supreme Court justices, that's really a hard pitch to make
when someone's looking up from their workdesks, that you are now the person
who represents normalcy, that you're thereturn to civility. It seems to put

(01:17:51):
holes. It's good with the Democraticbase and some of the activists, but
it pokes holes with a lot ofthe independence and those people who somehow still
remain unconvinced running against the Supreme Court. Well, wouldn't be the first time
we tried that. H six fiftyfive time for the timeline on a pair
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the infrol you need. This Julyit was July and on TV this show
road things have done so differently TheDavid Frost Show finished it's television run very
close rank. At the Democratic NationalConvention, George McGovern names his running mate

(01:18:38):
to e Shortly after Tom Eagleton gotthe bid. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
comedian George Carlin gets arrested four hundredthousand words in the English language for profanity.
There are seven of them. Youcan't say on television and on the
record. Charts Number one tell meBill Withers would lean on me. But
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Enjoyed the show, and thank youfor listening to Houston's Morning News.
This is Used Radio seven forty ktRH Houston Ive Everywhere with the exclusive audio

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home of NBC's coverage of the twentytwenty four Paris Olympics. Now the latest
news, weather and traffic. It'smore of what matters to you from the
John Moore Services Studios. It isseven am now here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff FryarBunger Top stories this f hour.
Trump sensing has been pushed back toSeptember, South Texas now in Beryl's cone

(01:19:48):
of uncertainty and coming up with sevento eight property cold spots, and some
of them are here in Texas.Details in the minute to hit. You're
in Houston's Morning News. First,we're a check. Got that morning drive.
Here's sky Mike. All right,stand by for a re route on
the North Loop. It's going tobe closed westbound all morning from forty five.
You can go up. You're gonnaneed a bulletproof vest, but jump

(01:20:09):
on Tidwell or Parker or Little orgo up forty five outbound. There's no
traffic that way. Do Little Parkeror Tidwell and get back down by Cheppard.
Skymike going to Generator Supercenter, dotCom Traffic Center from r KTRH top
tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather centerfor today partly cotty skies. Thirty percent
chance of a storm or shower thisafternoon with the temperature right about ninety six.

(01:20:32):
Terry Smith was laced on Beryl Barrel'strack and the weekend holiday weekend forecast
when we talk to her in abouteight minutes right now eighty one at your
officials Severe Weather Station News Radio sevenforty KTRH. It's time now for the
news. Here's Sheriff Ryer. Goodmorning. It's seven o two on news
radio seven forty KTRH is who sponsoredby Choice Home and Commercial. Our top

(01:20:55):
story this hour. Sentencing in theManhattan business fraud verdict has been pushed back
into September eighteenth. It was supposedto be next Thursday. Trump attorney Will
Sharp believes the Supreme Court decision onpresidential immunity could lead to the Manhattan conviction
being tossed. We won a massivevictory at the US Supreme Court, and
now you're starting to see the domino'stopple in all of these other cases against

(01:21:17):
President Trump. Lots of luck there. That was Sharf on Fox. Other
legal experts say, no, there'sno way Juan Mshan is going to blow
this chance to put Donald Trump injail. Talking heads wants you to believe
that Trump is delaying the announcement ofhis running mate while savoring the fallout and
the DNC chaos from Joe Biden's disastrousdebate performance and whether he will be replaced.

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That's what everyone's talking about today.What happens to Joe. A memo
from the Texas Secretary of State,hoping to secure the privacy of our vote
here in Texas at the polls,some counties will now be using sequentially numbered
ballots. What's this, director fromthe Secretary of State says is that ballots
need to be numbered, but theyneed to be done so in a way

(01:22:04):
that's completely disconnected from the voter book. Brendon Walton's with the Texas Scorecard,
says this is an important step towardsmore secure elections. Got another layer of
security so that votes can be audited, that's the goal, but in a
way that doesn't tie the ballot toany specific voter. Walton says that pre
printed, sequentially numbered ballots should beextended to all voting locations in Texas.

(01:22:29):
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KGRHseven oh three. Now, Hurricane Barrel
remains a Category four storm maximum sustainedwith one hundred and forty five miles an
hour. It's going to blow intoJamaica sometime today. Expect to gender the
Gulf on Friday. When you lookat all of the models put together,
all the global models, you cansee that we get some general consensus on

(01:22:50):
a track toward northern Mexico. Hereby the time we get to later in
the weekend on Sunday, there's stilluncertainty. Folks in Texas should continue to
watch this closely South Texas as wesay, the cone of in the cone,
some of it uncertainty moving further norththis morning. Matt lanzowis Space City
Weather and the Eyewall site. Beryl'sdeath toll seven three people killed in Grenada,

(01:23:15):
three in northern Venezuela, one inSaint Vincent and the Grenadines. Now
Terry Smith of the Weather Channel willbe joining us in just a few minutes
with more. President Biden, ofcourse, using Beryl and its approach to
attack Republicans about climate change. Everyonewho will denies the impacts of climate change
is condemning the American people of thedangerous future and either is really really dumb

(01:23:39):
or has some other motive of that. How can you deny his climate change?
For God's sake? President yesterday atDC Emergency Operations Center trying to give
himself cover for the Green New Deal, which they labeled the Inflation Reduction Act.
Well, it's done nothing to reduceinflation. Really been good green stuff,
new money deal for solar executives,these executives for First Solar who were

(01:24:03):
involved in supplying Democrats and Shoeboden himselfwith generous campaign contributions and financial assistance in
the twenty twenty cycle. So that'sbeen a big windfall, Yeah, windfall
solar companies with the government, theDemocrats now receiving ten billion in tax credits
for helping with the campaign. Meantime, a radical left Texas Democrat Greg Kassar

(01:24:30):
is making efforts for the FEDS totake over our independent Texas power grid.
He's called for Texas to hook tothe West, but we have no reason
to. They're island grids all overthe world and they were fine. Just
because our grid isn't interconnected. Thatdoesn't have anything to do with the functioning
of the grid. Energy expert RobertBryce says our grid can work with the

(01:24:50):
right changes, and one of thoseis moving away from the green power push.
It's the height of foolishness or thedepth of idiocy. I'm not sure
which to make. Our most importantnetwork in it on the weather. We
need weather resilience systems, not weatherdependent ones. He says. We need
more gas fire generation, especially asthe population grows. Andre Perard News Radio
seven forty KTRH seven oh six.Now gasoline prices moving up national average three

(01:25:15):
point fifty one, Texas three tenaverage in Houston three oh four. And
we're digging deeper into our wallets forbarbecue or whatever you're having for your picnics.
Food inflation running at about four percent, maybe five year over years since
Joe Biden became president. By theway, the price of beef alone is
up twenty percent. That hidden aspectof inflation that we're not talking about enough

(01:25:39):
is the cost of gasoline and diesel. David Holt with a Consumer Energy Alliance.
Energy costs to produce food and todeliver it to your store our driving
massive food inflation. Now. Apatriotic woman in Stafford, first generation American
standing, she was given a citationfrom her apartment complex. We're displaying Fourth

(01:26:03):
of July decorations resembling the American flagon her balcony. Holiday we're supposed to
be celebrating our nation. Diane Zunigowith our TV partner, Channel two.
Our complex says the lease agreement specificallystate residents can only have patio furniture and
plants on their balcony. HPD workingthree murders over a six hour time span

(01:26:27):
overnight. A woman shot to deathinside her Westchase apartment, a man stabbed
to death in his apartment in SouthwestHouston. Another man shot and killed in
an apparent drive by in West Houston. Seven oh seven is our time.
The Stros lost to Toronto seven tosix. Pregame tonight set for five pm,
and Sports Talk seven to ninety firstpitch six oh seven and KTRH will

(01:26:48):
be joining that Astros game in progressat seven pm. I'm Sherb Fryar on
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It'sgoing to be a hot summer. Thanks
for use on fire this war testictrial. The hottest happenings happen right here
Use Radio seven KTRH and the otherwisehot market. These are places where it's

(01:27:12):
taking longer for homes to sell,where there are frequent price drops, and
where you can evidently still get abargain or a relative bargain compared to other
parts of the country. The coldspots fifteen of the top twenty cold spots
are either in Florida, Louisiana,or Texas, and they all have something

(01:27:35):
in common. They're all Gulf coast, and with Barrel out there, you
can begin to see why maybe that'spart of the problem. A lot of
it has to involve it. We'vetalked about this many times, insurance costs
and how much insurance costs are goingthrough the roof, especially in those three
states. The number one cold spotis Lake Charles, Louisiana, and we

(01:27:58):
all know what's happened with Lake Charles. They got to hit a couple of
years ago. We had hit twice, really really bad. I mean,
they had a lot of rebuilding theyhad to do. You can get a
four bedroom home with great views andproperty, you know, over twenty five
hundred three thousand square feet for likethree hundred and forty six thousand dollars in
Lake Charles, and that's you know, that's unusually low compared to other parts

(01:28:24):
of the country, other other onesmaking the top list. I don't see
any Texas cities that made anywhere inthe towards the top. They're all towards
the bottom. And they're all againGulf Coast areas, the Galveston area,
you know, Freeport and down inthose areas that are prone to to hurricanes
and weather and high insurance cost PanamaCity, Florida made the list put to
Gorda, Florida. Naples, Floridaall made the list of places are cold

(01:28:47):
spots right now when it comes toreal estate. So there are bargains if
you can figure out how you canfinance it. Really pretty, it is
pretty, Yeah, it is pretty. Seven to ten time, poor traffic
and whether they don't never give upon anything. Way it has. Yeah,
the Cripple Creek is there, youknow, on Cripple Creek. She
sends me, if I spring leak, all right, let's do some North

(01:29:08):
Loop six ten. Sorry, nordLoop six ten. The hits just keep
coming. We've shut down the NorthLoop westbound. Nothing good's happening there.
My reroute for you is take fortyfive outbound North Freeway outbound, put on
your bulletproof vest and go either TidwellParker or Little York and he hop over
to Shephard and you can get aroundthat business there. Otherwise I tend East

(01:29:30):
freeways all spackled up. Now fromthe bud Plant. That's a solid cram
up, and it's twenty extra minutesthis way southwhoop is not bad considering all
the rerouting. I've got some breaksfrom MLK. It takes you about five
or six extra minutes to get overto n r G nord sam AWFL westbound.
It's roadwork. Call the Westfield eastboundImperial Valley. Let's check on the

(01:29:50):
Bush Airport with uber Mike Warrik down, like, dude, it's been a
mess all week to use the hotelthe Marriott. Take a tram. Best
way to get you your terminals.Boom, banana sticker, Mike, make
sure you come back with all fourfingers and three CODs. You know,
you do one little interesting ad andeverybody thinks you're a super free here.

(01:30:11):
I want to talk about the bigcrack of Beaumont, but not in front
of Terry. So we're moving thatto seven twenty. I'm in a Generator
supercenter, dot Com traffic center.I'm guarding your virtue from the KDR rich
to tax defenders, twenty four hourWeather cent. I'm gonna leave that comment
alone. Terry Smith is here.Gee is keeping an eye on Barrel because
Barrel's kind of the big deal.Beryl is a big deal. Still a

(01:30:33):
major hurricane. Latest up, Dankjust came in from the Hurricane Center and
they're saying that Max wins at onehundred and forty five miles per hour.
It's going to graze Jamaica today,and grazing is not good because it's going
to be close enough to produce somehigh storm surge and heavy rain and obviously

(01:30:54):
hurricane force winds Cayman Islands likely tomorrow, headed toward the Yuka tam Peninsula by
Friday and out into the Gulf ofMexico, folks. And that's where it
becomes more of an interest for us, because it may have some impacts,
not just in South Texas. Ifnothing else, an increased chance of rain
for us by the end of theweekend. Thirty percent chance of showers and

(01:31:15):
storms today, twenty percent chance ofgetting wet tomorrow and Friday. So your
outdoor plans are in good shape.The heat and humidity not so much.
Temperatures in the nineties, heat inX one oh five to one ten today,
Tomorrow and Friday. Have fun,but you know, keep it cool
too all weekend long. Right noweighty one at your officials Severe Weather Station
News Radio seven forty k TRH.It's Houston's morning News, brought to you

(01:31:39):
by New South Windows Solutions. Nowback to Jimmy and Sherrah with the info
you need to take on the day. Any all having a cookout for the
fourth of July and buying a bunchof folks over. Have you've gone to
the store yet to buy all thethings you need to have your cookout?
Oo? Get ready for a littlesticker shock is if you are already getting
sticker shock, we'll talk about thatnext traffic and whether together that starts with

(01:32:01):
you sky Mike. All right,we've got six y ten of course westbound
shut down at forty five police investigation. It's going to be like that all
morning, and your best re routeshere, go up the North Freeway to
Tidwell Parker, Little York. Youskip over to Sheppard and get around that.
It's making the North Freeway awfully heavythis morning, all the way back
from Gulf Bank. Plus we justclear an accent outbound at the Belt and

(01:32:23):
more. Six to ten on NoClayton, Splendora. Good morning, Scott
Mike. Westbound at Kirkpatrick. It'sfun to say. There is a wreck
on the left hand side that hasit pretty smashed up in there. Looks
like about two maybe three lanes orflow. I see that backup now,
from LBJA Hospital Beaumont. Let's talkabout your big crack. I ten westbound

(01:32:44):
lanes at Washington Boulevard. Now we'vegot two lanes getting by, but they're
doing the roadwork here over on theside. A normal traffic person would say,
use caution in the area. I'mSkymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com
Traffic Center from r KTRH top taxdefenders. Twenty four hour weathers in partly
cloudy, thirty percent chance for showerstorm ninety six today Tomorrow, On Friday,
twenty percent chance of nicely storm.Otherwise partly cloudy, hot, in

(01:33:06):
humid around ninety eight, around ninetyfive ninety six. On Saturday and Sunday,
the scattered storm chances go up toabout forty percent. Right now,
it is eighty one at your officialsevere weather station, News Radio seven forty
KTRH. Check out some of ourtop stories on this Wednesday morning. He's
Share seven twenty three now on newsRadio seven forty ktrhd's headline sponsored by Morrow

(01:33:29):
Mechanical, South Texas. Now inthe cone of uncertainty for our Category four
Hurricane Beryl, some twenty five congressionalDemocrats. It's being reported are about to
ask Joe Biden to exit the presidentialcampaign. The deadline to submit a claim
on a piece of the thirty fivemillion dollar iPhone seven class action lawsuit.

(01:33:51):
Do you remember that? Is todaylatest news anytime KTERH dot com. Our
next update is at the bottom ofthe hour. Take the day, Donald
common sense, so moving, we'reelection cure. The dominoes fall, political
dominoes falling. On US Radio sevenKGRH, A lot of the cookouts would

(01:34:12):
be happening. David Holt joins thispresident of the Consumer Energy Alliance. They
do an annual report on how muchyour average American family pay four pays for
food and for energy, and obviouslythose prices, especially for food, continued
to rise. David, So it'sgoing to be a little costly, especially
if you're going to cook something reallynice like steaks. You said it,
and hopefully all of us are goingto get out there and get our family

(01:34:32):
and friends together and do a littlebarbecue. But listen, I think I
don't think I'm saying anything that everyonedoesn't already know. Every time we go
to the store every other week,we're paying more for milk and eggs and
bread, And this week we're payinga little bit more for meat and chicken
and pork and all the sides thatwe're going to have for the big barbecue.
But you know, you go backto early twenty twenty one, late

(01:34:56):
twenty twenty, you know, we'repaying twenty twenty five, twenty eight percent
more for our chicken wings and oursteaks. And so for an average family
of four, that's a real,real number if you add up all the
groceries we're buying over the year andall the other services and everything else we
buy. And from CEA's perspective,consumer and Enginelyance's perspective, we really look

(01:35:20):
at energy as the factor and oneof the big key factors in those increased
prices. And if you look atit, you know, diesel truck diesel
fuel delivers everything that goes to thegrocery store. So as we've all seen
since early twenty twenty one, dieselfuel prices are significantly higher, and therefore

(01:35:42):
that that cost is also passed onto the grocery store. Farming costs are
significantly higher from energy, so thosecosts are also passed on. So you
know, from an energy perspective,that's one of the big reasons why we're
paying so much more this year andhave for the last several years. Processing
also, I mean people by potatochips. They get processed, and you've
got to have energy in order toprocess anything. Everything depends on it's everything.

(01:36:06):
It's everything you know at gasoline,diesel, fuel prices, and it
really all goes back to the policies, right, So if our energy policies
are bad and they they increase energycosts, they make energy less affordable,
then those costs get passed around theentire economy. You're right, packaging,
but the processing, the delivery,you know, the the the climate controlled

(01:36:30):
environments for the chickens that are layingthe eggs, all those things add up.
Well, I guess it's gonna betube steak for me until we get
to November. Anyway, Celebrate anyway, it's a great it's a great time
to get family and friends together,all right. David Holt, good to
hear from you, appreciated, Presidentof the Consumer Energy Alliance, David Holt.
Seven. Time to take a lookat your money, Cordey Donahoe's here.

(01:36:51):
Well, good morning, Jimmy SMPfutures little change this morning. Stocks
managed to finish the day at arecord high. Yesterday, the prospect interest
rate cuts and the future of artificialintelligence powering stocks iire oil rising eighty three
dollars barrel trading near a two monthhigh. The American Petroleum Institute reported crude
inventory shrink nine point two million barrelslast week. That's the largest drop in

(01:37:14):
barrel since January. CDK Globel sayssubstantially all car dealerships are back online.
Yesterday. The company said that itexpected all dealers to be live no later
than tomorrow. The company suffered twocyber attacks last month that forced thousands of
autosellers offline, and Americans are readingmore this year. Publishing industry analysts Sircana
says eleven million books were sold inthe first five months of twenty twenty four,

(01:37:39):
almost double the number sold in thesame period last year. Sales have
gotten a big boost from so calledromanticy novels, which features dragons, fairies,
and happily ever after love stories.I'm Courtney Donahoe Boomberg Business on News
Radio seven forty krh are your ownHouston's News. Why We're plus Preaking News

(01:38:00):
twenty four to seven. This isNews Radio seven forty KTRH Trive Everywhere points
more of what's happening now from theSean Morris Services Studios. It is seven
thirty one here in Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer
Bonger top stories this half hour.Reporters at the White House finally asking about

(01:38:20):
Alzheimer's and dementia. There's a groupof Congressional Democrats ready to tell Biden he's
got to go. And coming upat seven thirty eight, Hunter Biden now
sitting in on White House meetings detailsin the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
Morning News. First, let's checkout that morning Drive once again. Here's
sky Mine. Let's cross out theNorth Loop. You have that closure at

(01:38:41):
forty five due to the police investigation. And then at Kirkpatrick the other way.
That's sir rec so let's go straightto iten Nick Cypress is on the
West ham A guy my northbound justpast Buffalo Bio over there was an accident.
It just happened, all right.Look out from the Briar Forrest toll
Plaza. This is your Generator Supercenterdot Com traffic Center from our KTRH Generator

(01:39:03):
Supercenter twenty four hour. What thecenter partly clattie with a thirty percent chance
of a shower storm this afternoon withthe high temperture right about ninety six.
Weekend weather, it looks it looksdeeze all the way till Saturday and Sunday,
when we may have an increased chanceforty percent chances of seeing some pop
up storms. So of course we'rekeeping an eye on Beryl and how that
could potentially impact our weather. We'llcheck out with Terry one more time about

(01:39:25):
that in about eight minutes. Rightnow, it's eighty one at your officials,
Severe Weather Station, News Radio sevenforty ktrh. Time down for the
news. Here's Sheriff Fryer. Goodmorning. Everyone's now seven thirty two on
news radio seven forty ktrh and ourtop story this hour. Are you saying
that the majority of Americans are misguided? Mainstream reporters finally asking capability questions about

(01:39:47):
Joe Biden? Are you being streamwith the American people? Does President Biden
at eighty one years old, havePalzheimer's any form of dementia? Person Kareeine
Jean Pierre tried to turn that allaround on Donald Trump, but was forced
to admit that no. Biden didhave a bad night of the debate last
week. President told donors at aVirginia campaign event last night he nearly fell

(01:40:12):
asleep during the debate, blamed histrip to Europe for his performance. Remember,
he was secluded to Camp David forten days before the debate, allegedly
preparing and taking naps. Lifelong politicianTexas cong Congressman Lloyd Doggett the first elected
Democrat to actually call for Biden towithdraw from the campaign. I hope that

(01:40:35):
he will put country first and decideto step aside. Give us a fair,
open democratic with a small D convention. Yeah, well, he's a
big D dogg it on MSNBC.Meantime, Reuters reports that a group of
twenty five House Democrats are preparing tocall for Biden to drop out of the
race as the Democrats are melting down. Donald Trump's big week continuing. The

(01:41:00):
sentencing in the Manhattan accounting trial hadto be pushed back from July eleventh,
next week until September eighteenth, afterthe US Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
Our news time now seven thirty four. High Court refused to take up
the case of government collision with bigtech over censorship. So where do we
go from here? Sure, AttorneyJonathan Shaw wrote for The Federalist, it's

(01:41:24):
time for Congress to step up.Just because the courts have decided not to
reach the issue doesn't mean that Congressshouldn't. And that's basically what I wrote
in the editorial. If the Fedswant to control big tech, they need
to do so in public. Ifthey're going to do it, they need
to do it in the open.Everything should be written down. You can't
have any secret conversation, and thosewritings should be published. He adds there

(01:41:48):
is no downside to any of itbeing public. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven
forty k t or H. SupremeCourt overturned the ban on bumps last month,
the one put in place by theATF, but Texas Senator John Cornyn
says, well, he will nowwork with Democrats in the Senate to pass

(01:42:09):
a bill to ban them again.It's over, get over it. But
the fact that he would consider doingthat does not surprise me in the slidest
David Ahmaud with Open Carey, Texas, reacting there he doesn't think the bill
would have enough support to actually becomelaw. Seven thirty five is our time.
Hurricane Barrel, now category four willhit Jamaica today, system responsible for

(01:42:32):
at least seven deaths so far.We'll enter the Gulf of Mexico this weekend.
South Texas in the Cone as ofnow, not a Houston concern.
However, the effects my here willbe minimal, mainly just for coastal waters.
Might have some minor coastal flooding.We'll have some swells rough seas for
the mariners. Now, let's justhave periods of showers, some thunderstorms.

(01:42:54):
Josh Lichter with the National Hurricane Center. Now, whether Beryl comes our way,
for Kesser say, there will beJane rip currents on our beaches this
weekend. Is impacting tourism in away too. Several cruise ships adjusting their
routes to avoid the storm, oneof them Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Season
left Galveston Justice past Sunday. It'snow seven thirty six uncertainty over Barrel,

(01:43:15):
but nonetheless, Texans will be hittingthe road for July fourth Triple A for
Jacks. A record seventy one millionAmericans will travel at least fifty miles this
Independence Day, including about five pointsix million Texans. The vast majority of
travelers will be going by automobile,about four point eight million Texans taking road
trips, About five hundred and fiftyfive thousand will fly somewhere, and then

(01:43:39):
about two hundred and forty two thousandwill take another mode of transportation. Triple
A Texas As Doug Shop says thesenumbers are higher than pre pandemic levels.
The average gas price in Houston isjust over three dollars per gallon, about
thirteen cents less than a year ago. Cory Yelson, who's Radio seven forty
KTIH Houston, Harris County law enforcementteaming up with the state for a July

(01:43:59):
five worth drunk driving initiative. Let'smake sure that this weekend through this from
now going all the way through theweekend, that we have no DWI fatality
crashes, no DWI crashes all together. Enterim HPD Chief Larry Satterwhite says,
you're more likely to get caught fora DWI this year than you were in

(01:44:21):
previous years. Lawyer for Harris CountyCriminal Court Judge Kelly Johnson, blaming a
medical episode for her arrest on DWIcharges last month. Judge Johnson is now
does now and always has been abig believer in the judicial process, and
she's going to let that play itselfout. And that's the only statement we're

(01:44:42):
going to make today. Attorney ChrisTriteco there the Astros losing Toronto seven to
six. Pregame this afternoon at fiveand Sports Talk seven ninety first pitch six
pm. Kt RH will be joiningthis game in progress at seven. The
Stros still remain three games behind theMariners in the American League West. I'm
sure with Friar on News Radio sevenKRH, Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy

(01:45:12):
Verrett and Sheriff Fryar And No,I'm not talking about President Trump. I'm
talking about first son Hunter Biden,who evidently is sitting in now on White
House meetings. Why do you supposethat is Well, we do know that
Jill and Hunter are the two peopleworking very very hard to keep Joe in

(01:45:39):
the race and to keep him inthe White House. So would it be
wrong for me to suspect that heis there as sort of the Oval office
bouncer. In other words, youcome in there and start talking about removing
the old man from office. Hunterwill quickly escort you out of the room
before any further damages done. Oris he a witness there perhaps to attempts

(01:46:03):
to try to oust Joe Biden.Or is he there as his right hand
man? Well, he's covered bypresidential privilege now too, isn't he?
Boy, that would be helpful,wouldn't it. Isn't that helpful? That's
really setting him up? Yeah?Yeah, I'm just wondering what is his
role now at the White House?What is it he's doing in this executive

(01:46:26):
has all the power? Yeah hedoes, Okay, Now, certainly inside
the White House he does. Yeah, looks like and I thought that Hunter
Biden and Joe Biden didn't get alongat all, but it looks like they're
teaming up on this one to tryto protect the old man. Well,
you can take your own assessment ofthat whole thing. Yes you can.
Seven forty Time for traffic and weathertogether as we check out the drive once

(01:46:46):
again, here skynan awfully busy northLoop six ten is completely shut down westbound
at forty five. That's a policeinvestigation, and just strike that off your
list for the rest of the morning. Westbound Kirkpatrick. That accidents not making
things any easier if you're trying togo the other way. Now that's causing
a twenty minute drag from the squeezeat forty five. It's also causing it

(01:47:09):
inbound. Those of you trying toreroute to pack up all the way from
weastside. The south Loop surprisingly islooking pretty good. So that's my best
reroute for you now, unless you'retrying to go west. On the north
side, you could take forty fivenorth up to Parkertonwell or Little York Southwest
Freeway. It's all breaks now fonderingall the way into the Loop six ten

(01:47:30):
twenty extra minutes. Here west samawful northbound, I reck at Memorial Nick
from Cyprus with a banana sticker onhis head, And on north side here's
Linda from Spring just before the Shepherdaccents. It's in the lane that you
would get into get off unto Shepherd, tow truck is there and then involves
two cards. All right, verynice, Lindra. We'll work on that
verbage. But you're female, soyou go right up behind Uber Mike on

(01:47:54):
the leaderboard Skymichael a Generator Supercenter dotCom Traffic Center kat our Age Generator super
Center twenty four. Our weather's enterTerry Smith is on duty and I'm Beryl.
Let's do another barrel update for thelisteners and let us know where Beryl's
at and where's where's beryl head business. We can guess, yeah, so

(01:48:15):
Beryl. As of seven o'clock thismorning, that's the latest update from the
hurricane Center, is just southeast ofJamaica. It's going to be making its
way across and just to the southof Jamaica during the day today one hundred
and forty five mile an hour sustainedwinds. We are seeing some signs that
it may weaken a little bit asit interacts with land. There's some dryer

(01:48:39):
air something made. Jamaica has mountainsthat may help to disrupt the circulation a
little bit. So we're expecting itto perhaps weekend a little bit, but
still have major impacts. So bythis time tomorrow it'll likely be south of
the Caymans, and then by thistime Friday, it will likely be making
its way across the Yucatan into thewellf for Mexico Saturday and Sunday, and

(01:49:00):
that's where it becomes more of aconcern. For us, because it could
potentially have some indirect impacts on ourweather at worst, or more direct impacts
perhaps if the curve of the stormheads further north, which it has been
trending a little bit more northward.I'm here tomorrow on Friday, so I'll
be keeping you posted on that.As far as our weather goes, We're

(01:49:24):
not going to see a lot ofrain through Friday, a twenty to thirty
percent chance of rain. The weekend, there's a forty percent chance of thunderstorms.
Now. Our temperatures are in thenineties, humidity runs high, so
that means the heat index is afactor in the afternoon at least today and
tomorrow, but likely into Friday andmaybe the weekend as well. Jepiter're ride
now is eighty two. Here atyour official severe weather station, News Radio

(01:49:46):
seven forty k TRH. This isHouston's morning News, brought to you by
New South Windows Solutions. Seven fiftyis our time here on Houston's more News.
Senator Ron Johnson's thoughts coming up ona couple things, the delayed sentencing
of the Trump case and of course, the current condition of the current occupant
of the Oval Office. Both ofthose things covered up next. First,

(01:50:09):
though, we've got traffic and weathertogether as we check it again with Skott
Mike, I'll tell you what theloop has been a big deal this morning.
It's both ways too Jimmy westbound,it's complete shutdown at forty five.
I've given you all the reroutes.Go up the North Freeway, take the
cross streets to Sheppard and then Kirkpatrick. That's still sitting there. That's three
lanes here, So that's crazy goingthe other way now, and it's making

(01:50:30):
it look bad both sides. Hardhats, you're crammed up from wayside advisors
from Washington Avenue. South Loop isactually a pretty darn good alternate for now.
Southwest Freeway. It's all breaks fromfondering and I've got a new Golf
freeway problem that is northbound at Woodridge. Oh, it's a stall, all
right, watch out backups from airport. This is your Generator Supercenter dot Com
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center, partly

(01:50:55):
Claudie. About a thirty percent chanceto show restorm today with the high temperature
of ninety six tomorrow on Friday,party cloudy, hot, humid, about
ninety eight with a twenty percent chanceof an isolated storm, and then Saturday
and Sunday forty percent chance of afternoonshower at thunderstorm with high temperatures both days
around ninety five ninety six. Rightnow, temperature is eighty two at your
official severe weather station, news Radioseven forty KTRH. Time to check out

(01:51:19):
some of our top stories. Yourshare It seven fifty two now on news
radio seven forty KGRH. Private payrollsgrew by just one hundred and fifty thousand
in June, So much for yourjob creation. A lot less than expected.
US Supreme Court rejecting a petition froma Texas death row in mat Rodney
Red to have his murder case reviewed. Reports that the openly gender fluid former

(01:51:44):
Biden official remembers Sam Brinton, He'sgoing to undergo mental health treatment in order
to resolve all those theft charges.Remember the luggage thefts at airports and then
putting on the contents. Oh,it's cause he's got mental issues. Designer
dresses. Is that what they're callingclipping the truck? The thievery will be
forgiven if you undergo mental health,treacher. Oh okay, there I guess

(01:52:06):
it's a deal. Latest News anytime, katieourage dot com. Our next update
is at the top of the hour. How bad things are the twenty twenty
four election? What's really happening?Everything in your world? Here and abroad
News Radio seven forty katrh occupanting inthe Oval office looking for his marbles,

(01:52:27):
and I mean Hunter is going tohelp him find them maybe. Meanwhile,
Senator Ron Johnson got asked about thedelayed sentencing in the Trump case and the
Supreme Court whether or not all theseother cases against Trump get, you know,
start to fall apart. Here's whathe had to say about that.
Well, they never should have beenbrought in the first case. I'll start
there in terms of the actual legalismsof whether this would be prevented from moving

(01:52:50):
forward because of the Supreme Court decision. I will say the Supreme Court decision,
to me was obvious. What amazesme is that you had three justices
who didn't read that this is anon partisan issue. I mean, take
President Biden for example. Were henot president, were he just an ordinary
citizen helping people cross the border,giving them sanctuary, and then those same

(01:53:13):
people committing rapes and murders. Hepotentially could be prosecuted as aiding and embedding
those crimes, and so it's anobvious decision that a president, when acting
under in his official pass, hehas to be immune from prosecution or or
we lose all checks and balances,then this nation really becomes of an anna
republic. We've got news coming andSenator The Washington Post reporting Biden's chief of

(01:53:36):
staff Jeff Zeinz, is holding anall hands on deck phone call tomorrow at
twelve thirty. Also, Biden campaignco chair James Clyburn is talking Kamala Harris
is an option. Well, Elizabeth, I think you've been interviewing me long
enough to know even before the twentytwenty election, I was saying that Joe
Biden was unfit for office because ofthe corrupt nature of his family, and

(01:53:59):
then you know, so the sellingof his name and peddling influence, so
he's unfit from there, and thenfor the entire span of his presidency we've
all witnessed, and it's sad towitness. This is not fun to watch
any elderly person, but we've seenhis mental and physical decline and the fact
that all of a sudden, themainstream media is shocked about this, and
then they're being forced to report itbecause he performed so badly in the ninety

(01:54:24):
minute debate. I mean, Iguess I was surprised he didn't do better.
I figured they figure out some kindof cocktail for a City of the
Union dress got them all energized.I thought they'd have an equally energized for
the debate. But again, hisdecline is so significant that they can't hide
it anymore. But they've been hidingit, And I think that's the most
significant thing people have to understand isthe mainstream media, Democrats, Democrat members

(01:54:46):
of Congress, democrats of radical leptisin the media. They've been covering up
for a mentally and physically and quitehonestly integrity impaired president for years. Yeah,
but now they're not in theason.Why they're not is all far of
the plan, at least in myestimations, all part of the plan.
This is this is the whole youknow, that's the only reason the debate

(01:55:08):
was held. When it was held. Time to make a change. He's
president, he's the entire executive branch. But is he really in control?
Well? Has he been in control? Yeah? I don't think he's been
in control for any one of thealmost four years he's been in office.
Yeah, so that's not going tochange. The only thing would change would

(01:55:29):
be whoever, whoever the figurehead ofthe party is. The policies wouldn't change
a lick, not a lick.All right, listen, it's time to
celebrate the fourth of July. Y'allhave a great, long, four day
Fourth of July holiday weekend. Whatam I eating? Uh huh tube steak?
I guess based on that other right, what I can afford. Listen,
y'all have a great time. Yeah, we won't be back until Monday's

(01:55:51):
special Fourth of July programming. Yep, exactly right, And hopefully by Monday
we'll all be talking about how Berylcame nowhere near us. And listen,
you guys, take care. We'llsee you Monday morning, bright and early
at five am.