Tuesday, July 16th, 2024

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/16/24

Episode Transcript

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This is Huge Radio seven forty ktRH Houston five Everywhere with the exclusive audio
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 Morris Services Studios. Good Morning, five am is their time here on

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Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrettalong with Sheriff Fryarmonger. Top stories as
we get started this morning, ATrump appears at the Republican Convention. The
Trump Classified document case it's been thrownout and coming up at five oh eight
Senator Tim Scott. You know hereally needs to start his own church.
Details in the minutes ahead, you'rein Houston's Bonning News. First, where
Jakie got that burning drive once again? Here is Skymine. Well, we

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just cleared something off the North Freeway. That was a feeder road accident around
Cypress Wood. That's out of theway. Whatever the other was on two
ninety, tell me it's none anothercow. They've cleared that again. No,
we look good from Cypress in justeighteen minutes to the West op six
ten, I'm Skymike. Get yourgenerator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from r
KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty fourhour weather center for today, sunshine hot

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I temperature right about ninety five.We'll get Terry Smith in here with a
complete forecast in about nine minutes.Temperature right now is seventy seven at your
official severe weather station. News Radioseven forty k t RH. It's time
now for the news. Here's SheriffFryar and good morning everyone. Is now
five oh one on news radio sevenforty k TRH and our top story this

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hour. Please welcome the next Presidentof the United States, Donald J.
Trump. President Donald Trump, twodays after surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania,
appears to a hero's welcome at theRepublican Convention in Milwaukee, hours after

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selecting Ohio Senator former critic JD.Vance as his running mate. I was
certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in twentysixteen. But President Trump was a great
president, and he changed my mind. I think he changed the minds of
a lot of Americans because again hedelivered that peace and prosperity. The choice
apparently is a hit or if Ihad to pick one word to describe JD.

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It would probably be sagacious. Andby that I mean he's very astute,
he's very thoughtful, he's very rational. I love that word, sagacious.
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy. Trump officiallylocked up the nomination yesterday and says
he's focused on bringing this nation together. Writer Ben Weldon with Just the News

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says he has brought unity to theGOP. You saw several candidates in the
primary try to do something again toTrump. Isn't without Trump. But at
the end of the day, theGOP got to where it is because of
Trump coming in effectively taking over insteamrolling in a slightly unconventional agenda. Yeah,
and that agenda, the MAGA agendahas now officially been adopted and embraced

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by the RNC. We're going tohave live coverage of this all week the
RNC starting at seven pm on KTRHKTRHdot com and the iHeartRadio app. Meantime,
the FBI finally gaining access to thecell phone of the rooftop killer Thomas
Matthew Crooks, that twenty year oldman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump on
Saturday shooting investigating being investigated as domesticterrorism under a course the control of DHS

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and the FBI. Florida Congressman ByronDonald's wants a secret service though to explain
how was that shooter able to geton the roof of a building with a
clear line of fire just hundreds offeet away. We need the names of
which agents were doing the advance work, who spotted, what, what are
the timelines to really get to whathappened here so you can truly make sure

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something like this doesn't occur again.And there has been an outpour bring to
the GoFundMe campaign for the murdered firefighterCorey Comparatory and the other victims of the
assassination attempt. It has now reacheda level of four point seven million dollars.
Didn't take long for Joe Biden,in an interview yesterday, asked by

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NBC's Lester Holt about telling those Democratmega donors to put a bullseye on Trump.
Yeah, what did he incite overthe mistake to use I didn't say
crosshairs, I've bulls. I'm thefocus on him, focus on what he's
doing. But Biden then went onin the interview to accuse Trump of being

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an election denier and a dictator stillmaking calls for democracy despite their talk about
safe elections, Democrats are currently blockingbills in this democracy to ensure that only
citizens vote in November. Democrats don'twant that. Biden has already vowed to

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veto the Republican Save Act refree fairelections do hinge on people, including illegal
immigrants who broke the law. Decidingto be honest for maybe the first time
since entering the country, Brehanna Lymanwith the Federalists says, this means our
elections are basically on the honor system. When you have elections that are insecure,
it raises that among Americans, andeven if one illegal vote is cast

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by non citizens, that is onetoo many. Lyman says, if Democrats
actually support secure elections, they shouldbe supporting the Save Act. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH, Well, there's a big win for Donald Trump
and the Constitution in the mar ALago case. The federal judge overseeing it,
Eileen Cannon, has ruled a ninetypage ruling dismissing the case against Trump

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and his two co defendants, citingconstitutional violations. It was illegal the appointments
clause, the appropriations clause in usinga civilian lawyer, Jack Smith, to
prosecute the case. We'll have moreon it at five point thirty. It's
now five oh six, today's daynine without air conditioning and power for more
than one hundred and twenty nine thousandCenter Point customers. Now the company expects

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all its customers or expects in quotes, to have power back by Friday.
Jimmy got his power yesterday. GovernorGreg Abbott once answers about Centerpoints response to
the storm and says clock'sticking. Ifthey do not get that information to me,
I will be prepared to swiftly issuethe executive order establishing guidelines to ensure

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that there will not be another disastercaused by lack of power in this region.
Houston City Council voted unanimously to extendthe local Disaster Declaration by the way
that was issued last Monday. Manylocal businesses they were already hurting in the
Biden economy. Now the power outagesare making their situations worse. It's just

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so much more difficult. So Ithink we're going to see a bit of
a contraction on the small business side. But it's never going to go away
entirely. Jonathan Horowitz, there withthe Houston Hospitality Alliance, says Beryl could
actually be the cause of struggling businesseshaving to shut down permanently the lack of
power. Attorney Tony Busby's filed aclass action lawsuit on behalf of some local

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restaurants against center Point for gross negligence. Is a movie, he says,
is all about holding center Point accountable. Five oh sevens Our time Federal Reserve
Chair Jerome Palace, as a centralbank won't wait until inflation is lowered to
two percent in order to start cuttinginterest rates, So giving hope the next
FED meeting on July thirtieth, we'velearned of the big business of medicine.

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The Wall Street Journal now reports overfifty billion dollars was pocketed by insurers for
diseases that were not treated. Theyfound the companies added false diagnoses to records
that generated billions. They were doingthis lie scrubbing patients charts, sending their
is to do visits at their housesto collect diagnoses even when no doctor was

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treating the patient for those conditions.Wall Street Journal reporter Christopher Weaver says they
found millions of extra sham diagnoses,and while Medicare has addressed some of the
issues, there's a bigger problem.The question I think is why are insurers
allowed to add diagnoses in this way? Because it can sometimes be sort of
a blank check. He says mostof the fraud was committed by Medicare advantage

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Andore Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH. Former Astros outfielder Taoscar Hernandez wins the
home run derby at the All StarGame in Arlington. He beat Kansas City's
Bobby Witt Junior. I'm Sheriff Ryeron news radio seven forty KRH. The
hottest happening right now. The hottestnews happens right here. Stay alert and

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be prepared. On news radio sevenforty KTRH. We've heard lots since Saturday,
miracle, miraculous, any form ofthat word. And Senator Tim Scott,
who sounds like he should be behindthe pulpit. I don't know if
he ever has been, but hesounds like he should be. He was

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talking miracles last night at the RepublicanNational Convention. Listen, if you didn't
if you didn't believe in miracles beforeSaturday. You better be believing right now,
thank God, Old Lighty, thatwe live in a country that still
believes in the King of Kings andthe Lord of Lords Valva having Omerga and

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our God, our God still saves, he still delivers, and he still
sets free because on Saturday, thedevil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle,
but an American lion god back goton his feet. Oh yeah, yes

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we did. I love it.Here's the antidote to James Cavern over there.
You know his fellow South Carolinian heis, and the A. M.
E. Church is the one thatuh counts ballots. By that way,
you could you could just feel theenergy rising in that room every every

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second he was speaking. It wasreally quite amazing, wells showing the multi
culturalism of the Republican Party. Amen'ssister five eleven. Time for traffic and
brother together. Organ. You're right, you needed a jeesy organ. That's
the only thing missing, Billy PrestonOrgans. Yeah, in the background.

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We're gonna have fellowship right after that, So bring up plate to dinner.
We have the North Side that cleareda wreck off the North Freeway Cypress Wood
that was in the feeder road neverreally caused a big problem. Also to
ninety they it's listed as others policeactivity to ninety westbound nineteen sixty. Hopefully
not more cows today, so youknow you'll be the first to know whatever's

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going on. Actually, we havekind of a clean slate for now.
I don't want to talk too loudon the freeways. Love to know who's
got power out from Kingwood? Sayshis part of Kingwood, and a lot
of it still doesn't have power.And I heard from Robert from Indian Shores,
and boy, that's been a disasterover there. So let me know,
how are you doing this morning?Have you got power? Seven one
three two one two t ips Skymikeand the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic

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Center from r KTRH top tax Defenderstwenty four hour, whether senter Terry Smith
is here. It's going to bea very hot day to day, Terry.
We're talking mid nineties today, yeah, lots of you know, yesterday
we were looking for temperatures in theload of mid nineties and today's kind of
a repeat of yesterday. Don't thinkwe'll see any rain today, but the
rain is on the way and aswe start to get a little more rain.

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Eventually the temperatures will cool a littlebit. At least I got my
fingers crossed. We're going to bekeeping an eye on that cold front.
Friday today, load of mid nineties. Your heat indecks up around one oh
five, but nothing alarming. Tomorrowwe've got a fifty percent chance of showers
and thunderstorm. Same with Thursday,and then a sixty percent chance of thunderstorms
Friday and Saturday. Now we're stillin the load of mid nineties tomorrow and

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Thursday, but slightly cooler by theend of the week. Upper eighties to
loan nineties. Friday and Saturday.Temperature Reich now is seventy seven. At
your official severe weather station, NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. It's Houston's Morning
News, brought to you by NewSouth Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy
and Sherah with the info you needto take on the day. So we

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have a running mate for Donald Trump. His name is jd. Vance.
The Sundator from Ohio, thirty nineyears old, is getting ready to turn
forty. He was only thirty nineyears old. I think I look this
up and I want to say Thiswould make him the second or third youngest
vice president in US history. Richard, I think Richard Nixon was the youngest.
I think you're right. I thinkI think you're right. I think

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he was thirty nine when he whenhe did it. So yeah, I
mean it's it's a tight race.But more about Jays some reaction to JD
Van's getting that nomination coming up injust a moment. First though, let's
do a little traffic and whether together. That starts with the use guy.
I right, we've got so far. They've cleared that police activity on two
ninety that was outbound around nineteen sixty. I've got something on the Southwest Freeway.

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This is minor, but and thisis a big butt. Let's watch
out because sometimes these Southwest Freeway dealsright at the belt. This is a
stall that's on the shoulder. Nowthey moved it over to the left side,
kind of a sticky spot. Thisis outbound, not inbound, and
I don't know if you can seeit well, So watch out as you're
coming past the West Park Curve onthe southbound. A quick tip line seven
three two one two t ips.Dude, good morning, my god,

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cowcome this episode too many thank youwell. Hopefully if we have any cows
today they're alive. You'll be thefirst to know. KTRH listeners. We
got Tobo Red coming up at fivepoint thirty. She always has something good.
The Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Centerfrom r KTRH top tax defenders,
twenty four hour weather center for today'ssunny hot right about ninety five Tomorrow Thursday,

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partly clouding fifty percent chance of ashower storm with itempict You're around ninety
three currently it is seventy eight,or make that seventy seven at your official
severe weather station. News Radio sevenforty k t RH. Get you caught
up in some of our top storieshere on this Tuesday. Here's Sheryl Good
morning. It is five twenty twoon news Radio seven forty k t RH.
Centerpoint says it expects all customers tohave power restored by Friday. Donald

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Trump made a personal appearance at theRNC forty eight hours after surviving an assassination
attempt. This is a blow tothe Democrats. The Teamster Teamsters union says
eight may not endorse anyone in thepresidential race. You know they've been joined
at the hip forever oh yeah,with the Democrats. President of the Union

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actually appeared and spoke at the rn C last night. The theme was
make America wealthy again. By theway of the night. Yeah, latest
news anytime KTRH dot com. Ournext update will be at the bottom of
the hour. Pasadena a living clearlyreliable kt r H traffic and weather.

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Next on the ten. Hang onSloopy? Is that what the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame is? Yes, in Cleveland. Yeah, that's what
I thought, But so it wouldsin. I mean, who has an
official rock song? Not too many, A lot of Texas does. I'll
have to look that up. HangOn Sloopy was done by the McCoys,
and the McCoys were from Dayton,Ohio. That would help explain some of

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that. I guess that's part ofit. Since the announcement of jd Vance's
the Pick yesterday, I've been tryingto find something wrong with him, and
I've only found one fatal flaw,at least not a fatal flaw. No,
it's not a fatal flaw. ButI know what Texas think. Are
some I consider true maga people havea lot of misgivings because here we go

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with the Yale thing again. Ohsee the Yale thing. No, my
flaw is Ohio state more annular?Yes, what's the word I'm either min
Yeah, mine is a more regionalyou're basing Mine's a more regional the thing,
but I'm willing to put that aside. I mean, how many Yale
lawyers do we have to have?And I mean there's a lot of misgiving

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about that. You know what,though, I think that's more than encountered
shareff By just the background of theguy. You know, he raised by
his grandmother. Mom was a drugaddict. Dad was on in the picture.
She's been ten years sober now.Yeah, she was married five times
as dad deserted the family when hewas six. I mean, we're talking

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about a real, true made inAmerica's story. You know, it totally
is totally the American dream story.It's sort of like, you know,
people forget this, but George Bushw was born in Ohio. His family
lived in Ohio, and it wasOhio moneyed interests in HW forty one to
Texas to become an oil man,and that was beginning. W went to

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Yale. So it's almost like JD. Vance is the flip side of this
coin. You know, there wasthe privileged elite class that the Bushes were,
yes, and then there's JD Vance. But they've got what they have
in common is Ohio and Yale.There you go, that's interesting to me.
All right, let's get another opinionhere. What do we think of

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this decision? Here is Senator JohnKennedy. JD's a great guy. He's
very smart. He's very well educated. As I was telling Neil earlier,
if I had to pick one wordto describe JD, it would problem be
sagacious. And by that I meanhe's very astute. He's very thoughtful,

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he's very rational. He doesn't getexcited, he doesn't foam at the mouth.
He carefully thinks about his positions andcan defend them, and he's willing
to test his assumptions against arguments ofhis critics. I wasn't especially surprised because

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of all the people mentioned for VicePresident, I think JD is probably the
person closest to President Trump in termsof his points of view. They agree
on just about everything. So I'mvery happy for JD and I'm happy for
the country. I'm Senator. Howwould he take Kamala Harris to protect his

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family very well, sy I lookforward to watching that debate. I think
the vice president, the current vicepresident, will have a difficult time and
a debate with Vance well tomorrow Rushes, and I think JD. Vans can

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win that debate with half his braintied behind his back. I don't think
he has to worry about how thatdebate's going to turn out. He he
did. He was doing long interviewsyesterday, and the man is so articulate
it's just unbelievable. Yeah, yes, said total word stream. He can
do. Born in Pennsylvania, grewup in Ohio. You know, those
are two battleground states, especially Pennsylvania. So that's point. Yeah, that's
right, whole for the part ofthe country. He's the best bet for

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it. You're right, you are, Sheriff Fryar five twenty seven. Time
to take a look at your money. Good morning Courtney down home, Well,
good morning, Jimmy. Lots ofmomentum behind the Trump trade. Investors
have been ramping up bets Republicans.We'll return to the White House. Yesterday,
stocks ended the date in the green. The Dow hit an all time
high, rising two hundred and elevenpoints. Well, it is a busy
day. I head on Wall Streetthis morning. S and P futures are

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little changed, as same goes forDow futures. The government's report on June
retail sales is before the opening.Bell Bank of America among the companies that
we'll be posting quarterly results today.And Amazon's tenth annual Prime Day sale has
begun. According to Adobe estimate,shoppers are expected to spend fourteen billion dollars
online with Amazon and other retailers duringthe two day sale, of almost eleven

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percent from last year's event. I'mCourtney Donahoe Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven
forty at KTRH. You are ownHouston's news Weather. We're traffic plus breaking
news twenty four to seven. Thisis News Radio seven forty KTRH five everywhere
within the IRP. More of what'shappening now from the Johan Morris Services Studios.

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Five thirty is our time here inHouston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Barrett,
along with Sheriff Ryer Monger top storiesthis half hour. About one hundred
and twenty nine thousand still without power. The governors issued an ultimatum Dicenter Point
jd Vance is Trump's running mate,and at five thirty eight, Biden wants
to cap your rant details in theminutes ahead. You're in Houston's morning News.

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First, let's check out that morningdrive once again. Here is sky
Mike. All right, we've gotSouthwest Freeway. There's a one minor deal.
That's an accident right at the Beltwaysouthbound. This is outbound, not
inbound. They've moved out to theright shoulder. How did they do that?
It was left while ago. Ijust watch out as you're coming down
from businet. Something popped up aroundGreens Now north sam westbound at Greens Crossing.
This is a stall. That's abad spot. Left line. Plus,

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we have that roadwark heading over towardImperial Valley gets kind of ugly.
The other way at Alding Westville.We're missing two lanes there. I'm Skywiker
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Centerfrom our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four
hour Weather Center. Sunny and hottoday with the hoigh temperature right about ninety
five. We'll get the rest ofthe forecast from Terry Smith of the Weather
Channel when we talked to her inabout nine minutes right down seventy seven.

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You're at your official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty k TRH.
It is time now for the news. Here's Sherriff Rar and good morning.
Everyone is down. Five thirty twoon news radio seven forty KTRH our top
story this hour. Texas Governor GregAbbott now putting Center Point under the microscope.
With one hundred and twenty nine thousandcustomers still without power, potable water

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refrigeration. This morning, the Governorsaid a strict deadline of July thirty first.
Will Center Point meet the Governor's deadline. So what I can tell you
right now is we're committed to doeverything that we can, but our focus
is a restoration. Center Point executiveBrad to Tungjen. He says they expect
to have the power back for everyoneby Friday, but that's not quick enough

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for an humble woman who's been sleepingin her car for the last week just
to be able to keep a watchon her house with all the power out.
It's awful. I have no ethaof when this will end. I
just want it to be over.That's Christina Bourgeois with our TV partner Channel
Too. Houston Mayor John Whitmyer extendedthe city's local disaster declaration until July seventh

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of twenty twenty five. Time Sexuery, you please call up out him number
one. This item is an ordnestauthorizing the Mayor of Houston to extend or
continue a proclamation of a local stateof disaster for the City of Houston beyond
the seven day period. The extensionpassed unanimously. Customers are slowly getting their

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lights and their AC's back, andso internet cable two. But the blowback
against Center Point is just getting started. Yeah. Sure. Following his trip
to Asia, it didn't take longfor Governor Greg Abbott to get up the
speed. Allegations have been made thatwhile Texans have been baking in deadly heat

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without power, Center Point was pinny, pinching and cutting corners and ways that
slowed the recovery process. Lieutenant GovernorDan Patrick agreed and says that Center Point
will be held accountable. I knoweveryone at Center Point who's in an air
conditioned office is watching a freight train'scoming. You better be prepared. Abbitt

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says he will give Center Point untilthe end of the month to respond to
the issues. Jeff Biggs News rightin the other seven forty katih It's now
five thirty four. The Republican NationalConvention kicked off in a big way with
Donald Trump naming Ohio Senator JD.Vance as his running mate. So what
gave Vance the edge over the restof the field. He's a guy that

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can go to the rust Belt,to the places like Wisconsin and Michigan and
Pennsylvania and articulate decase. He's livedan incredible American dream story. And when
more people figure that out, Ithink they'll see that I was probably really,
really correct in my choice, DonaldTrump Junior on Fox Now. Trump
officially locked up the party's nomination yesterday. Trump made a surprise entry to the

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convention last night, his first publicappearance since surviving an assassination attempt in Butler,
Pennsylvania. The Devil came to Pennsylvaniaholding a rifle, but an American
lion got back up on history.So Tim Scott there, We're gonna have

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more from the convention beginning at oursix am newscast and coverage from Milwaukee every
night at seven pm on KTRH dotcom, as well as the iHeartRadio app.
Tonight's theme is make America safe again. You know, it took less
than forty eight hours for the WhiteHouse to go from talking about turning down

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the temperature, the political temperature,to going back on attack against Donald Trump.
It is okay to speak to someone'srecord, to speak to someone's character
character. Okay, that's White Housespokesperson Karine Jean Pierre. They're going to
weigh in on Donald Trump's character.But the constitution wins. Federal Judge Eileen

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Cannon throughout the Mara a Lago documentscase yesterday, Judge Cannon found that the
ag Merrick Garland simply didn't have theauthority to appoint a federal officer with the
kind of prosecutorial power wielded by SpecialCounsel Jack Smith. So he's out of
there now. In the document's case, former President Trump was indicted on charges

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that he willfully retained sensitive national securitydocuments at his estate at mar Lago down
in Florida. That's Kevin Cork reporting. The judge found that it was unconstitutional
the way that he was appointed JackSmith the prosecutor, a judge of civilian
judge, and also the way hewas being paid. It didn't follow the

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law. After the recent elections inEurope Conservative Party that has controlled the UK
for fourteen years. The Tories basicallybeen ousted from power because of immigration,
so they lost a lot of votesnot only to the center left Labor Party,
but to a brand new party thatwas further right to the Conservatives.

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The message, I think is ifyou talk the anti migration game, you
have to play it too. JonathanSavage with Fox News Radio told kg RH
that in France, the right wingparty there was also defeated, but because
they were viewed as being too radical. But in both countries the left only
took power in a coalition, withthose conservative centrists aligning with them in order

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to save their hold on power.That's how parliamentary systems work. Five point
thirty seven is our time. MajorLeague Baseball All Star Game is tonight in
Arlington. Your Don Alvarez. TheStrows will be batting fifth and be the
designated hitter for the American League.I'm Sheriff Fryer and News Radio seven forty
k t RH digging a pond,Daniel dean Land clearing in dirt work two

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eight, one, three, fivesix dirt More with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff
Fryar. This is Houston's Morning News. See we can buy some more votes
here with this idea, like forgivingstudent loans. President Biden is going to
announce a new five percent Well he'sgot to get through Congress. He can't

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do it by executive order, buthe's going to announce a new plan to
cap rental increases at five percent.You can't jack up the rent more than
five percent on an annual basis.He's evidently going to making the proposal during
a campaign stop in Nevada, whichhas very high housing costs. Right now,

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it would only apply, well,it would actually apply to about half
the rental market out there. Inother words, this is designed to go
after corporations that own fifty or moreunits. They would be included in this.
If you just happen to be alandlord yourself and running out a home,
you would not be included in it. But it would include all the
corporate rentals out there. And itlooks like it would not only involve quote

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unquote apartments, but also homes.So if your corporation that owns more than
fifty homes that you rent out,you would be part of this cap as
well. As I said, itwould have to go through Congress. I
don't think Congress is going to passthat, but by the same token,
I'm sure the BIBE would like tobe able to point the figures, say,
see the Republicans in Congress are whyyour rent's going to increase now,

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since COVID rents on average have increasetwenty nine percent, which is unfortunately relatively
in line with the increases we've seenand everything else. Right, We've seen
even higher increases in some areas,so it's not like it's out of line
based on inflation. But rather thanchange the policies that are causing the inflation

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to begin with, he's trying todo price capping before the election to keep
the prices down five forty Time fortraffic and weather together. As we check
out the drive once again, here'ssky Mike. Let's go down to the
Pierce Elevator. I've got Mark fromSpring turned that thing off there. I
sound like the snufflelepagus Mark from Spring. That's much there is someone's part broadside

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and their part run off to theside. Makes sense. I'm forty five
Pierce Elevated. That's going to besouthbound. If Mark from Springs that Way.
I'm guessing and I'll zoom in onthat at the five point fifty that
that is going to be right aroundAllen Parkway. We've got Doug from Mott
Bellby. What's up right morning,star Mark Islands. Still the power by

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my mom fout this morning? Stillno power sore, You're still on the
ground on the parlor. All right, Robert Indian Shores, Dude, good
morning, sky lane. Still driveover power lines and get all my neighborhood.
They'll power at good Job Center pointtoll bridge. Tollboat reads over the
toll bridge. Hey, hey,skuy Mike, I have power and I'm
on a private road on the SanJack River East. I know where you're

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at. And the secrets of goingover that one lane is to go through
there at four thirty in the morning. That's all we have till September.
One lane southbound northbounds good East.What's up a Friday morning and Alabama power
was on across the east gates aboutSaturday afternoon. Sim Bam boy has got
us up and running. All right, all right, I'm at the Generator
super Center dot Calm Traffic Center,Florida State in the house here in the

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root for Bama because the Albama trucksgot their power back. Thank you.
That's all it takes to switch loyalties. I guess from my KTRH Generator super
cent Er twenty four hour weather center, Terry Smith is here. Power is
coming back slowly but surely. Igot mine back at one thirty yesterday afternoon.
Thank goodness, amen to that,as my brain was about melded.

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But there's still a lot of folkswithout powetary, so whatever you can do
on the tempts would be appreciated.But it's July. We know it's July,
and we just can't escape it.But at least it's July in check.
I'm just gonna take small victories here. And the fact that we're in
the load of mid nineties like weusually are, that's okay. And the
humidity actually is a little bit lowerthis morning, interestingly enough, so a
dry day, a few clouds,load of mid nineties. Tomorrow we start

(31:49):
to get the rain. Eventually we'llsee some cooler weather along with the rain.
But tomorrow and Thursday of fifty percentchants of thunderstorms. Temperatures will stay
in the load of mid night,so you're going to feel the heat humidity.
The next two days, Friday andSaturday, a sixty percent chance of
those thunderstorms. I do expect thetemperatures to ease up a little bit.

(32:10):
It's a weak front, but it'sgoing to help knock the temperatures into the
upper eighties to low nineties Friday andSaturday. JEMPS, You're seventy seven here
at your official severe weather station,News Radio seven forty k TRH. What
you need to know for the dayahead. This is Houston's morning News,
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Houston's boring news. There are actuallya couple of highlights from the Republican National
Convention. I really enjoyed yesterday.One of them was an interview that Fox
did with Donald Trump Junior, wherethey asked him to describe the first conversation
he had with his father after hisfather had been shot, and it was
it was very interesting, to saythe least. We'll share it with you

(32:52):
coming up, at least a portionof it coming up next. First,
though, we've got traffic and whethertogether is we check it again to sky
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(34:00):
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happening? Everything in your world?Here and abroad News Radio seven forty KTRH.
How many of us thought growing upthat our old lad was a bad
ass? Five poin fifty three isour time here in Houston's morning News.
There's a little bit of that conversationon Fox with Donald Trump Junior, his
first conversation with his father after hisfather had been shot. I literally I

(34:45):
called him and him and I havean interesting relationship. My first words at
the first words out of my mouthwhere You're the biggest badass I've ever seen.
And I actually mean that credit Isort of just said it. Everyone
these days is a tough guy onthe internet or on a keyboard, But
when you've actually been shot and youcan get up defiant, you know,
fist in the air, telling peopleto stay in the game, to fight.

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That's exactly the kind of leadership whatwe did. That's that's actually a
man that's been tested. Everyone thinksthey're going to be the tough guy,
most aren'ts he is. And Icould not have been more impressed with him
in that moment, and I've beenimpressed with him for a long time.
This was an incredibly close call inthe former First Lady Malania and Trump,
I mean put it so eloquently inher letter that it was. It was
so close. Her whole life couldhave changed. Your life could have changed.

(35:27):
What did you feel on that momentwhen you found out what had happened,
when just the first pieces of informationwere coming up. Yeah, it
was. It was very tough becauseit took me about ninety minutes to actually
get anything right. They'd lock everythingdown. He's in the hospital and there's
no cell phones, I assume becauseof you know, potential ied type stuff
when they don't know what's going on. So I was sort of I got
a call my father's been shot,and that's the only information you have.
And it took about ninety minutes toeven find out that he's alive and well,

(35:47):
so that was a that was arough time. And then you know,
I spoke to him and I saidwhat I said was sort of even
in that moment, he was stillhaving some levity and you just you know,
back in the game, and itwas incredible. It was actually a
couple hours later, when you sitdown, you start reading it, you
start seeing the videos, you startthat's when it was like just the adrenaline
dump hits and it's a it wasdifferent. It was a it was it

(36:08):
was a life changing experience. There'sa lot of scrutiny about the Secret Service.
There's going to be oversight hearings onCapitol Hill. What do you think
happened? Do you think something wentwrong with he vulnerable? Listen? You
know, I know a lot ofthose guys, and some of them are
incredible patriots. I had a SecretService detail for four years, but I
also know having had it, havingbeen in it, having been both my

(36:30):
father as a president as a candidate, you know, in my own details,
someone to get out on an openroof within one hundred and thirty yards,
you know, I'm not going tobe the guy to be conspiratorial but
something went rough. Yeah, andby saying I'm not going to be the
guy who's going to be conspiratorial,you know exactly what's on his mind.
You know, I think anything allthis talk about unergy, I think there

(36:52):
is unity, but it's warrior unity. That Donald Trump he's going to come.
He's not a Kumbaia Tappy union ishe kind of guy. It's going
to be a warrior unity. Andthat's what this party was showing, at
least to that conventionless exactly. Younotice we had a couple of big time
CEOs who kind of stepped up andare endorsing Trump now or at the very

(37:13):
least are are saying positive things aboutDonald Trump. Even if even Jeff Bezos
was saying positive things about Trump withoutendorsing him. It's kind of the unity
part of it, I think hasthere's not going to be any unity,
but Democrats not the way we've knownpolitics in the past. There's a reshaping
going on here. It really is. It really is. And you know

(37:35):
what was strange to share when hewhen he came out on the floor,
other than the ban shir he lookeddifferent. I mean, he's demeanor was
different. Well, he was tearyeyed a couple of times. Yeah,
I mean he looked very It lookedlike he looked like he'd been softened.
And I don't mean to say thathe's not a tough guy anymore. I'm
just saying that it looked like Ithink this has had a profound experience on

(37:59):
him. I think he's your deaththat kind of Yeah. I think he's
rethinking his approach on a lot ofthings as a result of this. Well,
and I need to rethink myself becauseI've been corrected. George W.
Bush was born in Connecticut. Hewas It was his grandfather, Prescott Bush,
who was the native Ohioan. Gotyou okay? And Barbara Bush's family

(38:20):
had long, long past in Ohiotoo. Okay, there you go.
Five p fifty six Our Time,Houston's Warning News. This is Hused Radio
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(38:44):
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along with Sheriff Fryer Monger Top storiesthis hour, Trump appears at the Republican
Convention. The Trump classifying document case. It's been thrown out and coming up
at six o' eight. Was thisone of the worst anthem performances ever?

(39:06):
Details in the minutes ahead. You'rein Houston's Morning News. First, we're
check at that point five mattis Roseanne, it's closed sky Michael, Okay,
not to here. It's coming upnext. All right, we've got South
Sam. They're showing me something here. I want Christina Cruz back. My
fill in guy has given me acamera shot of old Galveston rode at the
Beltway and this is looks like acamper on the right side here doesn't look

(39:29):
like he's in the main lane.But let's be super careful. Going from
Pearlam to Pasadena north side forty five, it's Dale for Magnolia found on the
ahov Lank. You fade the dolls, you spend your money, but your
metro pubs as you're doing about fortymile per hour. As you approach,
it looks like called Vega. Youcould be worse. You could be on
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r KTRH top tax Defenders, twentyfour hour Weather Center, mostly sunny to
part of the cloudie hot ninety fivefor the high temperature. We'll get the
latest on the forecast when we talkto Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in
about nine minutes. Right now seventyseven at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Itis time now for the news. Here's

(40:13):
Sheriff Fryer Morning. Everyone is downsix pot two on news Radio seven forty
KTRH our top story this hour.Two days after he was nearly murdered by
an assassin's bullet, Donald Trump madea surprise appearance at the Republican Convention in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I saw somebodycrying. I saw a lot of people
who are emotional. I saw oneman who was holding up his phone facetiming

(40:36):
a loved one so that they couldwatch in real time the president walking in
Fox's Aisha Hansei. There came afterTrump made Ohio Senator JD. Vance is
running mate. Vance reformed never Trumper. I bought into the media's lies and
distortions. I bought into this ideaof that somehow he was going to be

(40:57):
so different, a terrible threat todemocracy. It was a joke. Vance
with Kage right. Is Sean Hannitynow the former Fox host Tucker Carlson among
the many who were thrilled this selection. He was right there with the Trumps
last night. Every bad person I'veever met in a lifetime in Washington was
aligned against Jedi Vance. Trump officiallylocked up the nomination yesterday as well.

(41:23):
Assassination attempt to side. The rnc'sembrace of Trump's platform signals a major shift
in the GOP Sharra. As writerBen Weldon notes for Just the News,
things are completely different than they wereeight years ago. The main thing to
look at with the Republican Party's platformis that a lot of the things that

(41:44):
Trump brought to the table in twentysixteen that really rankled conservative and traditional establishment
feathers have actually made it into theplatform. Now. Basically, it's more
Mega and less rhinos. Trump's speakingfor the Republican Party, and the Republican
Party is aligned with Trump a fargreater degree than would have been the case
in say, prior elections with Bushor with Rony It's Trump, RNC Unity,

(42:07):
and It's Trump's Party. Jeff BiggsNews Radio seven kt ORH, and
our live coverage of the RNC continuestonight the theme make America Safe Again.
We'll have that live seven pm hereon KTRH online and on the iHeartRadio app

(42:27):
app. The FBI investigating the attemptedassassination is a case of domestic terrorism.
Florida Congressman Byron Donald says, theSecret Service has a lot to answer for.
It's not going to be good enoughjust to accept responsibility and we'll do
better meantime. The go fundme startedfor the families of the victims, the

(42:50):
dead firefighter as well as the woundedin saturday shooting, has raised close to
five million dollars. Now President JoeBiden put on the spot about comments made
about Donald Trump before Saturday's shooting,as you called your opponent an existential threat.
On a call a week ago,you said it's time to put Trump
in the bullseye. There's some disputeabout the context, but I think you

(43:14):
appreciate the crosshairs. That's how we'llfocus on Biden on NBC last night,
Well, they claim those Democrats tosupport secure elections, but they're the ones
who keep voting against measures like theSave Act that would only allow American citizens
to vote. But they're not forthat. It doesn't make sense because either

(43:38):
they support the fact that non citizensshouldn't be able to register to vote,
which they claim they do. Soif you feel that way, why would
you be opposed to the only pieceof legislation that has been put forward that
would actually enforce that. Brianna Lymanwith the Federalists told KGUR agent til we
actually put strong enforcement mechanisms into ourelection laws, actually running on our election

(44:00):
on the honor system. The FloridaFederal Judge Eileen Cannon has dismissed the mar
A Lago Document's case against Trump andhis co defendants on the grounds of constitutional
violations of both the appointments and theappropriation clauses. They used Jack Smith,
a civilian lawyer, to prosecute thecase. He was never confirmed, The

(44:24):
office was never created, and therewas never a budget allotted to it by
Congress. It is now six ohsix more than one hundred and twenty nine
thousand Center Point customers in their ninthday without air conditioning, power, potable
water, refrigeration, Centerpoint expects everyone'spower, however, to be restored by

(44:45):
Friday. Governor Greg Abbott putting thepressure on Center Point in the aftermath of
the storm. Center Point has completelydropped the ball with regard to getting power
back on. Now. I laidout a series of directives to Centerpoint that
they you must get done by Julythirty first. Suffice to say, the
clock is ticking for Centerpoint to stepup and get the job done. Yeah.

(45:08):
Abbitt says if Centerpoint does not respond, he will leave you an executive
order to force changes in their operations. Small business owners across the city already
dealing countless threats to their survival economically, and Beryl may take them under.
Beryl brought a whole new set ofproblems for small businesses. Really, it's

(45:29):
the loss of power and loss ofincome keeping customers away. There can be
lost inventory which cannot be replaced.Jonathan Horowitz with the Houston Hospitality Alliance says
this could lead to fewer mom andpop businesses around town. The days of
the true mom and pops kind ofbootstrapping just to get open and stay open
is probably not going to work intothe future. Horowitz says he does think

(45:52):
there will always be people who wantto open small businesses. It will just
be harder from here on out EthanBuchanan, News Radio seven forty KRH six
O seven now former Astros outfielder TaoscarHernandez won the home run derby at the
All Star Game in Arlington. ThatAll Star Game itself is tonight. I'm
Sheriff Friar on news radio seven fortyKTRH. I live in Conrad, I

(46:17):
live in deer Park. Next onthe ten, your reliable forecast on seven
forty KTRH. National sporting event issupposed to sound like that's Whitney Houston.
Of course, right, she nailedit. Of course she pre recorded it.
But that's okay, that's okay.She nailed it last night. It

(46:37):
was not quite that way. IngridAndrews, who I understand as the country
singer I'm not really familiar with her, performed the national anthem at the home
run derby at the All Star Gamelast night. And let's take a little
listen for ourselves. She starts offokay, but it kind of falls apart
from there. Okay, you seeby the dawnsly line, what's so proudly

(47:10):
well by the trial, light lastclean Woods, broad Shape, sound right,
su through the pairs, fine forthe but we watch We're so Yall

(47:37):
Street gets Friday mons Bers. It'sworseom there. Let's just put it that
way. The comments that online commentsare, oh boy, what just what

(47:59):
I heard in the newsroom this morning. The online comments were along this line,
when your mom lies to you andsays you're a great singer. First,
Trump's ear now ours she forgot autotune isn't on? Fergie seeing this

(48:21):
now means she's free to leave herhouse again. Welcome back to society,
girl, Fergie from the Black EyedPeas. That a really horrendous rendition and
maybe my favorite one. Wow,Roseannes lost a ton of weight. That's
pretty good. Six' ten timefor traffic. It's worse than Roseanne was

(48:42):
trying to sound horrible. She was, she was doing it. That girl's
name Ingrid Andress, Ingrid Andrews aname that you'll live in. I know
you like Ingrid. I do likeIngrid's. You know, it just sounds
like all modern music to me.East Text, what's up? I'm in
kingwid Texas and we do not havepower. We are the trees of the
down are just unbelievably disastrous. Oh, I feel so horrible. You know,

(49:07):
Old Al from Kingwood says he's inthe same boat. No trees up
there. Don't forget to tell meyour name by the way Party Toll Road.
You know, I think I actuallyJeff and the Walgreens truck. Your
work is right around the corner frommy ghetto house. Dude, good morning,
got Mike. I have power inspring Taxas only six seven days Saint
time. It's just gone to makedirn on the road wide open and clear.

(49:31):
Right. Another banana sticker for yourtruck, Tracy from Cyprus. Dude,
Barney scot Mike from Spring Ciphers totwo nineties, down to the Sam
Houston and then onto Itceens and EnergyCorridor. Watch the Whitney Houston noo ingrid
interests boom. I think that's agood thing. Thank you. More banana
stickers around Nord Sam. I've gotanother wreck at forty five. I'll zoom

(49:52):
and get you some landers at sixtwenty, Terry you want to sing,
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Comtraffic Center. Something tells me if you
just really wanted to belt it out, go ahead, belt out what the
national anthem? That'd be awesome.You think, do you want to audition
for the next All Star Game?Anything? Today is I'd probably do a
better job than last night game intothat, all right? From R Katie

(50:15):
rh Top Tax Defenders twenty four.Our weather center, Terry is here.
Forecast is still hot and humid.It's July, yeah, and uh,
we've got rain on the way,but not today. Today's going to be
a dry day with temperatures load ofmid nineties and our heat and decks running
close to one oh five. That'stypical July. Nothing alarming. Here comes

(50:37):
the rain. It's a weak frontthat's on the way, so it brings
us some rain. It does knockthe temperatures down a little bit by the
end of the week. Fifty percentchance of showers and storms. Tomorrow and
Thursday, still in the load ofmid nineties both days, but Friday and
Saturday is sixty percent chance of thosethunderstorms. We're going to be watching out
for some heavy rain because that front'sgoing to be hanging around and the temperature's

(50:59):
up eatas to low nineties for theend of the week. Jump to right
now, still seventy seven here atyour officials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven
forty k trh use traffic and weather. You're starting your day right with Houston's
Morning News, brought to you byNew South Windows Solutions. Coming up on
six twenty. Here on Houston's MorningNews. So jd Vance from Ohio.

(51:21):
So, the Senator from Ohio hasbeen selected by President Trump as his running
mate. Some of you have expresseda few concerns this morning because jd Vance
at one point in time was ananti Trumper. Certainly during the twenty sixteen
election he was. So do wetrust that he is firmly on board.
Now we'll talk to Jesse Jane DuffGunnery, sergent and veterans for Trump,

(51:43):
executive director for the Trump campaign.Next. First, though, we've got
traffic and weather together, and thatstarts with you. Skuy Mine Grant Parkway.
Nobody wants to wreck at twenty nineto twenty look out westbound. I'll
get you some laneages. At thesix thirty. We've got North sam You've
got a wreck that just cleared thatwas eastbound. At forty five. We
got the roadwork all Dean Westfield andalso a wreck on the South Salm.
It's not causing a big backup justyet. It Colin Watch out westbound Skymichael

(52:07):
the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic Centerfrom r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty
four hour Weather Center mostly Sunday toparty clotting Hot ninety five for today and
then for tomorrow and Thursday, bothpartly clouding fifty percent shower storm chants with
I temperature right about ninety three rightnow seventy seven at your official severe weather
station, news Radio seven forty KTRH. Let's get you caught up on some

(52:30):
of our top stories on this Tuesdaymorning. Here SHERYFF six twenty one now
on news Radio seven forty KTRH.Friday, when Centerpoint expects to have everyone's
air conditioning back on, they saysurprise, Donald Trump appearing on the floor
of the GOP convention last night.Trump met with independent candidate RFK Junior yesterday.

(52:50):
A lot of talk about it thatKennedy says, No, the meeting
was not to discuss a potential endorsementof Trump, So what was it all
about? The latest news anytime kturahdot com. Our next update will be
at the bottom of the hour.The once at are under construction two eighty
eight six' ten accidents send alternatenext on the ten one seven KTRH.

(53:15):
I have no victorol not at leastnot as much victoriald as they have for
me being from that school up north. Anyway, Anyhow, after all,
who's the national champion? Anyway?Moving on, Jdvans from Ohio has been
selected by Donald Trump to be hisrunning mate. Joining us to talk about
Jesse Jane Duff, Gunnery sargent andVeterans for Trump, executive director for the

(53:37):
Trump Campaign, Jesse, Welcome tothe show. I don't know if you
heard in my pre intro to youthe concerned A few of our listeners at
least have that JD. Vans atone point was an anti Trumper, so
he knows. He sounds like he'sbeen convinced that Trump is the right guy.
But do we know for sure thathe's, you know, going along

(53:57):
with the Trump program at this point? Oh, I'm not concerned one bit.
JD. Vance has been one ofthe best advocates for Donald Trump,
and not only that, for anylistener out there, I doubt that they
were able to ever raise the millionsupon millions of dollars that jd Vance has
raised for Donald Trump. But thatmoney that he went out to California and
went to Silicon Valley and spoke withthose senior executives out there who were often

(54:20):
Democrat donors, and was able toput these millions on the table for Donald
Trump. I don't know that whatelse would prove your worst to be able
to do that. He's a techguy, not only that, he's an
authentic man. I don't expect peopleto be yes men. I expect people
to be able to have principles andbring things to the table that can help

(54:42):
this administration. You know, wehad a lot of people that got on
with the administration before that had notbeen critics of Donald Trump until they got
into the position of what they had, such as General Kelly, who was
a United States Marine general. Butwhenever we get these four star generals,
often they become on the politicians thatmany of us cannot recognize who served on

(55:04):
active duty because we are more orless people that look after our marines.
We looked after our men and women, and when we become detached and get
into that Pentagon and start having tokiss a commander in chiefs ree Iran to
get a promotion a lot of thedynamic changes within our core principles, and
Jade Vance has never forgotten his coreprinciples. He is a blue collar guy,

(55:28):
not anymore, but at one pointin his life his family was in
poverty drug addiction. He was impactedby many of the things that the Obama
administration and previous Democratic administrations have allowed, such as those open borders and the
sentinel drug abuse that has killed somany Americans. Three hundred Americans a day
are dying from drug overdoses. Letme say that again, three hundred Americans

(55:54):
a day, okay, and thelargest population impacted by that are white males
and white females that are very youngbetween ages of twenty and about forty five.
Drug addiction alcoholism has really created anenvironment for the forgotten man and forgotten
woman to truly be forgotten. Ifwe had aircraft going down every single day

(56:16):
with three hundred people on board,you know, those borders would have been
sealed. They would look at thatand seal those borders. Say way,
we know, time out. Wedon't need a campaign speech that I've got
to ask you this JD. Van'smarine that wasn't I'm sorry that wasn't a
campaign speech. How many United StatesMarine and I advocate, but I also

(56:37):
advocate with Evans Marine Corps, YaleLaw School JD. Vans right up there
in what we used to call theRuss belt, that is really the blue
wall. JD. Van's the practicalityof winning this election and breaking that blue
wall very very strong and must havefigured in to Donald Trump's decision. I

(57:01):
don't know what was the question.The question was did this figure into Donald
Trump's decision? Is this about when? Of course it did? Of course,
of course it figured into him.That's what I was starting to explain.
Okay, well, and the reasonwhy we know we don't like to
interrupt our guests, but we havea living amount of time and we want
to be able to ask a coupleof questions. But we're out of time.
Down, but thank you, appreciateyou joining us here this morning.

(57:23):
That is Jesse Jane Duff. Itis six twenty six. Time to take
a look at your money. Here'sCourtney Donahope, Welcome morning, Jimmy.
Looking at today's market action S andB futures rising slightly, Dow future's little
change. We have a busy dayahead here retail sales data for June is
out this morning. Well yesterday,the Dow hitt an all time high.
Recent economic reports are reinforcing that's afederal reserve will cut interest rates soon.

(57:46):
Oil over this morning at eighty dollarsa barrel. The dollar has been rising
after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and that is a headwind for commodities.
Freeport ellen g is planning a phaserestart of its natural gas Export Force
facility after Hurricane Barrel damaged part ofthe plant. The company says it's completing
repairs in the equipment that chills gasinto liquid form. The facility is one

(58:07):
of the largest in the United States, and Macy's tumbled yesterday after it ended
discussions with two investors to buy outthe department store chain. Shares tumble close
to twelve percent. Macy says itwill execute a turnaround plan on its own
Courtney's on a Hope Bloomberg Business onNews Radio seven forty KTRH. You are

(58:29):
Old Houston's News, Weather, We'retraffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRHfive Everywhere with the IRP. More
of what's happening now from the JohnMorris Services Studios. Six thirty is our
time here in Houston's Morning News.I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer Bonger
Top Stores. This half hour,about one hundred and twenty nine thousand still

(58:52):
without power. The governor has issuedan ultimatum to Center Point. Jd Vance
is Trump's choice for running mate,and six thirty eight, last night's benediction
at the Republican Convention became classic Trumpdetails in the minutes ahead, you're in
Houston's Warning News. First, we'rechecking out that one you drive again.
Here's Sky Mike. All right,KT alright, So listeners were the first
to know about this problem. CaseyConrod, talk to me, Dave,

(59:14):
Sky Mike. I'm on nine tonine westbound before Goffling. Traffic is pretty
much stopped. I can't see why, but just give you guys the heads
up. You know, we hadthat at the six twenty break, and
I've asked for laneach and a Houstontrans Star just found it. It's two
lanes. This is westbound. Yeah, that could get ugly too, So
I watch out on the north sayon the North Grand Parkway, Hobby talk

(59:35):
to me. Got Mike south Samwestbound at College has been moved off to
the tall roads. All right,clear the board, reset the jackpot.
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dotCom Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator super
Center, twenty four hour weather Centermostly Sunday to Partley Cloudie hot today with
the hot temperature right about ninety five. We'll get to the complete forecast.
When we talked to Terry Smith atthe Weather Channel in about eight minutes,

(59:59):
still seventy seven at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
It is time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer Morning Everyone's six
thirty two on news Radio seven fortyKTRRACH and our top story this hour.
We will focus on everything that canto restore the powers. We get that
information, we'll share it. ButI want to convey that our system did

(01:00:21):
not fail. Center Point VP breadto Tungeent says their system didn't fail and
doubled down on the center Point responseto Hurricane Barrel. He was on with
our TV partner Channel two one hundredtwenty nine thousand customers still without electricity this
morning, eight days after Hurricane Barrelan extension of the disaster declaration though by

(01:00:43):
Houston Mayor John Whitmyer at Pass CityCouncil unanimously yesterday. It allows the city
to respond to the storm until Julyseventh of next year, twenty twenty five.
Centerpoint finishes getting the lights back on. After they get that done,
Texas Governor Abbitt says they will haveuntil the end of this month, July
thirty first, to answer for thequote reason for failure. Those allegations must

(01:01:10):
be investigated. We must know wasCenter Point protecting Texans or was it protecting
his own pocketbook. Abbott Is directedthe Public Utilities Commission to investigate Center Point
video of a confrontation between the BayouVista City police chief and an alderman trying
to feed people who don't have airconditioning and refrigeration. While that's now going

(01:01:32):
viral, you need to move awayfrom me. You are a disgrace in
my eyes. Jito ditto brother.You know what, as a marine,
you should have been better prepared torich up in my skit and see what
happened. As a marine, youshould have been better on there. Alderman
Danny Ramban had permission to feed peopleat a community center on Saturday, but

(01:01:54):
Mayor Paula Eschlman, after approving it, told Ramman that he couldn't do it
again on Sunday, and Rambin wentagainst the mayor because she never explained why
she pulled her permission. It's nowsix thirty four. Gasoline prices around Houston
up twenty cents over the last month, but this morning three fourteen a gallon

(01:02:15):
oil is falling about eighty one bucksa barrel now over new concerns about a
failing economy in China and the demandfor oil. The less radical green policies,
though, are now running into thelaw of unintended consequences. It turns
out that anti oil policies often encouragemore oil production. Peter Jacobson with the

(01:02:37):
Foundation for Economic Education says oil producersparticipate in what's called the green paradox.
If those people think five ten yearsfrom now oil use is going to be
banns and they know that their resourceis going to become necessvaluable, so that
encourages them to try to pull asmuch out of the ground right now as
possible and sell it as quickly aspossible so they're not left sitting on this

(01:02:58):
valueless resource makes this to other policiesof the left that often don't take into
account the dynamics of human behavior orreaction. Cory Jolson New's Radio seven forty
KTRH. It is now six thirtyfive. Donald Trump finalized his ticket.
He selected Ohio Senator j d Vanceas his VP pick. It's certainly an
a dish just picked by President Trump. It's a move to double down on

(01:03:21):
trump Ism as a philosophy. Conservativecommentator Ben Shapiro on Fox delegates in Milwaukee
officially nominated Trump. He's carrying theirbanner yesterday. He surprised the audience.
They are on the floor on thefirst night of the RNC, appearing on
the actual convention floor two days aftera twenty year old Pennsylvania man nearly assassinated

(01:03:45):
him. They've done everything possible totry and get him and kill him,
and they literally tried to kill himthis week, and despite that, he's
undeterred. Eric Trump's reaction, Wetold you last hour that the Teamsters may
not endorse anyone in November for thefirst time in their history. The union's
president, Sean O'Brien addressed the RepublicanConvention. We all can agree whether people

(01:04:15):
like him or they don't like him, in light of what happened to him
on Saturday, he has proven tobe one tough sob that covers it.
I'm mean, there was no backdown, kind of like that marine we
just had on Okay, we getit, we get it. Our live
coverage from Milwaukee tonight begins at sevenon KTRHKTIRH dot com and the iHeartRadio app.

(01:04:42):
It is now six thirty six.The Director of the Secret Service now
admitting that, yes, the buckstops with her, She's responsible for the
security failure on Saturday. This isan event that should have never happened.
Who is most responsible for this happening? What I would say is that the
Secret Service is responsible for the protectionof the former president. So the buck

(01:05:02):
stops with you, the buck stopswith me. Uh huh. Kim Cheadle,
she was on with ABC News.She's going to be testifying for the
House Oversight Committee next Monday. AFlorida federal judge rules that the appointment of
the Special Council Jack Smith was illegalthat violated the Constitution. The mar A

(01:05:23):
Lagoda Document's case has been dismissed.By Judge Eileen Cannon. He had no
business in plain English doing what hedid, which means the January sixth case
should be dismissed. The Boxes hoaxcase was dismissed appropriately, Attorney Elena Habba
reacting, it isn't over. TheDOJ has authorized Smith to go ahead and

(01:05:46):
appeal the decision that would go tothe Eleventh Circuit Court and then maybe ultimately
back to the Supreme Court. You'redone. Alvarez on the astro is going
to bat fifth and be the designatedhitter for the American League Game tonight for
the American le tonight in the MajorAll Star Game Baseball tonight in Arlington at
seven pm. I'm Sure With Friaron News Radio seven forty KGRH, Michael

(01:06:12):
Berry only endorses texasrenchers dot com forproperty management needs, world events, national
headlines. Houston's Morning News with JimmyParrett and Sheriff Fryar, delivered by the
Reverend James Renke from Kenosha, Wisconsin'sMessiah Lutheran Church. But before before he
got into the body of the prayer, he had a few things to say

(01:06:35):
to the president and proved out thatyou may not be rich little but he's
a pretty good impressionist. It's agreat pleasure to be here, great pleasure
to see President Donald Trump safe.And if I may, before the benediction,

(01:07:00):
give you this promise. You're gonnabe so blessed. You're gonna be
tired of being blessed. So Iguarantee it. The hand gestures made it.
Oh, I get it. You'regonna be so blessed, exactly,
hugely bless Everybody does Trump, now, don't they everybody? Some do it

(01:07:26):
really really well, but some do. It's some dope, but that's okay,
it's okay. I appreciate the effort. Six forty times HI for traffic
and weather together. Your station's traffictotal disasters, Trump's number. Well,
no, but but the sentiment isaccurate. It's going. Let's go to
the north side. And of course, Katie are Rache and iHeartRadio listeners the
first to know about that gay GrandParkway problem that was westbound. I'm still

(01:07:50):
there past twenty nine to twenty bigbackups from Gosling. I'm getting calls saying
it's it's pretty stopped now on thewestbound here, so let's get off that
Grand Parkway. Chris from Hockley.Dude boys, gun Mike, we're blessed
or not have to lose power,but wait out on the website. Easy
blowing trying to go down the fiftynine South. All right, banana chicker
for you, Cynthia, she's fromsomewhere nice. Hey, sky Mike,

(01:08:14):
I'm in the right area. Nopower up in nine houses on a localized
problem, they tell me through anautomated boy. Yeah, they will not
get to me until Friday or Saturday. Horrible. Anyway, we're hot in
Houston. I love. I amso sorry. You know I have the
ghetto house actually sleeps six, butthere's just one bathroom, Skymike and the

(01:08:36):
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center chair. You have power? Do you and
mister scientists need to stay with me. Nobody wants to share a bathroom with
you, Skymike. Country boys,me and mister scientists can go behind the
shed. You killed the deal withthe one bat the internet back that was
important to me from our k ATRHGenerator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center,

(01:08:58):
Terry Smith is here and the forecastis hot and sticky, but that's
to be expected. Yes, well, let's say this with no rain today,
Centerpoint's probably going to make excellent progressand hopefully restore power to everybody who
can hear our voices today. Soa few clouds, load of mid nineties
today, Here comes the rain.It's with us through the weekend. Fifty

(01:09:18):
percent chance of showers and storms tomorrowand Thursday. Sixty percent chance that you'll
get wet Friday and Saturday. Loadof mid nineties through Thursday, and then
it's just a little bit cooler.It's more muggy though, So I don't
know that it's going to feel thatmuch better, but hey, i'll take
cooler temperatures upper eighties to low ninetiesFriday and Saturday right down seventy six.

(01:09:41):
Here to your officials, some ofyour weather station news radio seven forty k
t R range for commute, youare forecast your news. It's Houston's Morning
News brought to you, buying yousouth way to those solutions just about six
fifty our time here in Houston's PointNews. So Governor Abit yesterday basically said,
hey, Center Point, if youcan't take care of the Houston metro
area, we're gonna have to reduceyour footprint to an area that you can

(01:10:04):
take care of I'll share some audiowith you coming up next. First though,
let's do traffic and weather together aswe check out the drive once again.
Here is sky Mike. That wasfast. I tend east inbound coming
into downtown. They had a stallsitting on the side. Guest right touch
track n angels, boom, it'sout of there. We're still backed up
from Denver Harbor the Waistside Entrance tollbridge southbound. We're looking at twelve extra

(01:10:25):
minutes this way. That Grand Parkwaything at Young Albert from Kingwood. Hey,
hey, guy, my dude,all Lang dark closed, everything is
shut down. To get off atthe twenty nine twenty exit and then jump
back on right after that. Allright, looks like we have a twenty
five minute delay up there. We'vegot shift channel bridges at the seven o'clock
break. The Generator Supercenter, dotCom Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator super

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Center, twenty four hour Weather Centermostly Sunday to Partley Clotie, kind of
hot, ninety five today, Tomorrowand Thursday. Party Claudie with a fifty
percent chances with shower storm and Ihave ninety three right now, seventy six
at your official severe weather station,News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking
on some of our top stories thismorning. Here sheron Good morning. Everyone

(01:11:09):
is now six fifty one on newsradio seven forty KTRH. Our headlines are
sponsored by Moral Mechanical. Donald Trump'sselects Ohio Senator jd Vance to be as
vice president. We still have onehundred twenty nine thousand plus Centerpoint customers without
power. Democrat Colin all Read outraisedTexas Senator Ted Cruz in the second quarter
of this year, but Cruz stillhas the cash advantage overall of almost two

(01:11:33):
million dollars in his campaign war chest. Latest News anytime KTRH dot com.
Our next update will be at thetop of the hour, keeping you in
the know all the information in realtime and again the now right now,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. So, I have a couple of clips to

(01:11:56):
play for you. First, wehave Governor Greg Abbott putting even more pressure
guest today on Center Point over thejob they've done to restoring power. Center
Point is showing us its repeated failureto provide power. Is they seem to
be just incapable of doing their jobAs a result, we will have to
consider the state will have to considerwhether or not we should be reducing the

(01:12:19):
size of the territorial region to makeit smaller. So maybe they can do
a better job of managing it,if I may, How can you prevent
make sure center Point doesn't pass anyof that cost to customers? So on
the passing of any of that costto customers, the decision about authorizing that
or not authorizing that actually is bythe Puppy Utilities Commission. But they're going

(01:12:44):
to be going through that assessment processin October and so we will be able
to see all the cards on thetable by what Center Point has or has
not done before any ability is givento Center Point to recoup any of their
costs. Is that on the tableto make sure center Point doesn't pass any
additional costs on some customers and consumers. For me, it is well,

(01:13:09):
we'll see Meanwhile, feeling the heata little bit, Center Point, VP
Brad Detungent was speaking to Mario Diazfrom KRPC APRC two get grilled pretty good.
Governor set a strict deadline of Julythirty first. Will Center Point meet
the Governor's deadline? So what Ican tell you right now is we're committed

(01:13:30):
to do everything that we can,but our focus is a restoration point right
now to make sure we get ourcustomers on. But some of the restorations
are temporary fixes, not permanent ones, according to t Tungent, who admits
the company is logging them, butalso made another interesting revelation. We have
those notated and then we do comeback immediately after our storm response and try

(01:13:54):
to address those issues indicated they're notedand try to address those issues. First
off, do we know how manyare noted? And for your stonias out
there to say we don't want totry in the response, we need it
done. Why are you stating tryto fix the issue knowing what's going on
right now, let me clarify whenI say try as a matter of what

(01:14:15):
we're doing during the restoration effort.Now, the Tugent says that this is
the standard process with repairs, addingthat they are committed to ongoing repairs.
So they're going to try to meetthe governor's demands and they're going to try
for permanent fixes because some of thisstuff is being held together with bubblegum and
bailing wire. I guess so thereason you have power now may not be

(01:14:40):
that the problem has been fixed theway it should be fixed, which means
it may be prone to failure again. So we have to deal with We
have to deal with this a wholelot longer before everything is truly totally fixed.
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Bunger. Top stories. This furTrump appears at the Republican Convention. The
Trump classified Documents case has been thrownout, and coming up at seven to

(01:16:32):
eight. They're selling Trump assassination ofthe TEP memorabilia on eBay. Details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston'sMorning News. First, let's check out
that Morning Bribe once again. Hereis skymin. We've had some rough stuff
big shots on the North side.Keith from Conro's on the Grand Parkway North.
Hey, my traffic starting to moveon nine to nine. We dude,

(01:16:53):
but got rear ended it all Nattyon the road. It looks like
we've opened up some laneage westbound stilla twenty five minutes Smash and Keith from
Conrod. Yet another banana sticker iteneast coming into downtown. They cleared that
stall quickly, but we've got thebackups from wayside two eighty eight. We're
starting to drag from McCart Skymichael theGenerator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center from

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r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty fourour weather center mostly Sunday to Bartley Cloudie
Hot ninety five for the high temperaturefor today. We'll get the latest on
the forecast with Terry Smith that theWeather Channel. We will talk to her
in about nine minutes. Right nowseventy six at your official severe weather station,
news Radio seven forty k t RH. It is time now for the
news. Here's Sheriff Ryer. Goodmorning. Everyone is now seven oh one

(01:17:35):
on news radio seven forty KTRH isnew sponsored by Allied Siding and Windows.
Our top story this hour. Pleasewelcome the next President of the United States
Donald J. Trump, entering toI'm proud to be an American President.

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Donald Trump, two days after survivingan assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, had a
hero's welcome at the Republican Convention inMilwaukee, hours after selecting Ohio senator former
critic of Trump JD. Vance ashis running mate. But then he actually
has me put my seven year oldson on the phone. You think about
this, everything that's happened. Theguy just got shot out a couple of

(01:18:20):
days ago, and he takes thetime to talk to my seven year old.
It's a moment I'll never forget.Vance is a sure hit with the
now Trump GOP. Not so muchso with the DIMS. This is a
scary dude. Scary dude because ifyou're hoping that after this and near death

(01:18:41):
experience, we're going to have aKumbaya convention, this is not a Kumbaya
pick. CNN's Van Jones, Trumpofficially locked up the nomination yesterday, says
he's focused on bringing this nation together. Writer Ben Weldon with Just the News
says he has brought unity to theGOP. But you saw several candidates in
the primary try to do something againto Trump. Isn't without Trump. But

(01:19:04):
at the end of the day,the GOP got to where it is because
of Trump coming in effectively taking overin steamrolling in a slightly unconventional agenda,
and now it's the MAGA agenda formallyand finally endorsed embraced by the RNC.
We're going to have live coverage ofthe RNC all week starting seven pm here

(01:19:26):
on air, online, and onour iHeartRadio app. Fox reports that a
law enforcement officers did spot a suspiciousman crying a rangefinder in just outside the
rally venue their perimeter Saturday. Officerreported it to state police, who thought
the man was carrying a pair ofbinoculars to see the rally better. Former

(01:19:48):
presidential candidate that Vek Ramaswami says,a secret service better be open and honest
during the investigation into what happened.I think it's unacceptable level of non transparency
and it's one thing before approaching thisafter the last few years where we have
a perfect record of transparency, butwe're not. Yeah, the FBI has
gained access to the cell phone finallyof the rooftop killer Thomas Matthew Crooks.

(01:20:12):
The twenty year old man who triedto assassinate Donald Trump on Saturday. The
shooting is being investigated as domestic terrorismunder the Department of Homeland Security and the
FBI, which is now inside theDHS. Didn't take long for Joe Biden,
though. In an interview yesterday,I asked about telling Democrat megadowners to

(01:20:33):
put a bullseye on Trump. Hmmm, the mistakes us. I didn't say
crosshairs, I've bulls. I focuson him, focus on what he's doing.
Biden then accused Trump of being anelection denier and a dictator. Did
that with NBC's Lester Holt their talkabout safe elections the Democrats. Nonetheless,

(01:20:56):
they're blocking bills that would ensure thatonly citizens vote. In November, Biden
has already vowed to veto the Republicanssave Act our Refrieme fair elections do hinge
on people, including illegal immigrants whobroke the law. Deciding to be honest
for maybe the first time since enteringthe country, Brehonna Lyman with the Federalists
says this means our elections are basicallyon the honor system. When you have

(01:21:18):
elections that are insecure, it raisesout among Americans, and even if one
illegal vote is cast by non citizens, that is one too many. Lyman
says, if Democrats actually support secureelections, they should be supporting the Save
Act. Ethan Buchanan News Radio sevenforty KTRH a win for America, for
Trump and the Constitution. In themar A Lango case of federal judge overseeing

(01:21:41):
it, Eileen Cannon has dismissed thecase against Trump and his two co defendants,
citing constitutional violations of the Appointments andAppropriations clauses in using a civilian lawyer,
Jack Smith to prosecute the case.We'll have more at seven point thirty.
Our news time now is seven sixis day nine without air conditioning and

(01:22:02):
power for more than one hundred andtwenty nine thousand Center Point customers as account
now, they say they expect allcustomers to have power back by Friday.
Governor Greg Abbott, though once answersabout this overall response and says the clock
is ticking on Center Point. Ifthey do not give that information to me,
I will be prepared to swiftly issuean executive order establishing guidelines to ensure

(01:22:28):
that there will not be another disastercaused by lack of power in this region
well have control of The Houston CityCouncil voted unanimously to extend the local disaster
declaration that was issued last Monday.It now runs for a year for people
to make claims within the city.It runs until July seventh of twenty twenty
five. It's now seven six thata Reserve Chairman, Jerome Poalill says a

(01:22:51):
central bank will not be waiting untilinflation gets down to two percent in order
to cut interest rates. So whenwill it happ in? The next SPED
meeting is on July thirtieth. WallStreet Journal reports, However, the big
business of medicine, that's a bigissue. Fifty billion dollars pocketed by insurers

(01:23:14):
for diseases that were never treated.What's going on? False diagnoses to records
that generated billions in profits for them. They were doing this lie scrubbing patients
charts, sending nurses to do visitsat their houses to collect diagnoses even when
no doctor was treating the patient forthose conditions. Ooh, this is a
Wall Street Journal reporter Christopher Weaver.He says they found millions of extra sham

(01:23:41):
diagnoses as well, in order toget paid for something that didn't exist.
Former Astros outfielder ta Oscar Hernandez.He won the home run derby at the
All Star Game in Arlington. Hebeat out Kansas City's Bobby Witt Junior.
I'm sure we fryar a news radioseven forty k TRHO. It's US Radio
seven h on FM Houston's news,weather, traffic and talk at ninety nine

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one two. I've bought a fewthings on eba over the time. I
don't think I'm in the market forthis, though. Donald Trump assassination attempt
memorabilia hitting eBay is a Butler Rallyparking pass went up for sale. It's
a parking pass from the rally inButler, Pennsylvania, where the president was

(01:24:28):
shot. It's sold on eBay.It's a green special guest parking pass and
a flyer that was left on thewindshield of the vehicle packaged it together.
It sold for three hundred and eightyfive bucks with thirty one different bids on
Monday afternoon. No other items fromthe rally have yet to be posted on

(01:24:50):
eBay, but there are other waysthat people are trying to cash in on
the assassination attempt. They're selling tradingcards, shirts, photos in other Trump's
likenesses, ranging from five bucks forcards, twenty bucks for shirts, and
fifty dollars for photos. Doesn't matter. I guess what the incident is.
There's always up somebody out there tryingto make a buck. Huh. Well,

(01:25:13):
think about it if you had apiece of paper or a ticket whatever
they gave out at the Ford Theater, which organ was assassinated, right,
think about the historical whatever, it'sgonna be worth a lot of mice something.
The shoes from the Wizard of Ozeback in May worth much. Well,
here's nothing I get it of it. Yeah, you know, it's
kind of seated. It Isma commin May collect Trump Card's relic card,

(01:25:35):
which contained a piece of the suithe wore when he had his mugshot taken
in Atlanta at that Georgia jail,sold for six seventy seven dollars. This
past February, people shelled out thousandsfor limited edition Trump gold sneakers. So
anything but the Trump name sells,there's no doubt about it. And certainly
this is a big event, atthat very historical event. As you said,

(01:25:57):
well, you know the now theConic photograph was taken by a press
photographer. Sure, so what isthe copy? What is what is the
intellectual property? Right now? Youwould think that's his? Can that can
that end up on well the paper? Can that end up on a T
shirt? I mean, I don'tknow. It's really interesting. I wouldn't

(01:26:20):
think without some ulteris. Yeah,you have to wonder about all of that.
You do seven eleven auction his bananaCoomas said, banana stickers his ear
bandage. Yes, that probably wouldgo for big money on ebase. Imine
what that would get? Yeah,banana stickers are always free. We are
looking at the north side here.Keith from Conrad says, we're moving again.

(01:26:40):
I see we've got some laneage openhere. This is Graham park Way
westbound twenty nine to twenty. Thereis a thirty five minute delay trying to
go over to Tomball this way.And I'm told if you jump off at
twenty nine to twenty you could jumpon afterwards and get back on. So
there is a skip around for thisnorth loop six' ten. Let's explain
this back up here, that's westboundirving. To know it's a stall center
lane. We always have trouble rightthere before the squeeze and we're backed up

(01:27:03):
from hersh heading that way, youlose about nine extra minutes. We had
the stall that was just there fora while on the East Freeway inbound right
before sixty nine. We're still backedup from Leathra and getting by the Saint
Arnold plant an extra three or fourminutes toll bridge, twelve minute drag this
way do six ten golf freeways justthick from Airport Southloop? Why are we
backed up eastbound? I thought wehad an extra lane here. I think

(01:27:26):
we may have a stall. We'llhave to zoom that at seven twenty and
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Centerfrom our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four
hour wether. Senator Terry Smith ishere, not to the cloud in the
sky at the momentary. So lotsof sunshine coming today, Yeah, lots
of sunshine and our typical summer heattoday. No rain. We've had some
dryer air move in, so nicedrid day. Load of mid nineties today.

(01:27:48):
Here comes the rain though starting tomorrowinto the weekend. Fifty percent chance
of showers and storms today and tomorrowload of mid nineties both days. Sixty
percent chance of those thunderstorms Friday andSaturday operatings to low nineties. I suspect
we'll see more rain into Sunday andMonday as well. Deeble, you're right
now seventy six at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(01:28:13):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought toyou by New South Windows Solutions.
Now back to Jimmy and Sherah withthe info you need to take on the
day. Well, I would haveto say that the center Point response to
Hurricane Beryl has been a disaster inevery sense of the term. A disaster
for us as consumers, a disasterfor them as a company, especially as
it relates to the public relations thatthey have with the City of Houston.

(01:28:38):
At this point, Alexandra Mieler willjoin US Metro board member to talk about
it next. First, though,we've got traffic and weather together as we
check out the drive once again.Here's sky my hike Grant Parkway. We've
got some lineage open just past twentynine to twenty. This is a big
thirty minute westbound delay East Belt.Let's go, let's you know what,
Let's go to Debbie at the seventhirty break. I'll hit the Katie Freeway

(01:29:00):
quickly. Graham Parkway. I've gotsome breaks now coming into Barker sipisul loose
about four minutes this way West Parkslow at fourteen sixty four. It's the
generator of Supercenter dot Com Traffic centerfrom r KTRH top tax defenders, twenty
four hour weather center mostly Sunday toPartley cloudy and hot today ninety five,
Tomorrow and Thursday party cloudy fifty percentshower storm chants both days with that temperature
about ninety three right now seventy sixat your official severe weather station, News

(01:29:26):
Radio seven forty KTRH. It istime now to get you up to date
on some of our top stories.Here's Shauff. Good morning. Everyone is
now seven twenty one on news Radioseven forty KTRH. It's day nine dawning
for one hundred and twenty nine thousandCenter Point customers still without electricity. Tonight's
theme the RNC is make America SafeAgain. After yesterday's dismissal of the mar

(01:29:51):
A Lago documents case, Donald Trumpcalled for all of the witch hunt law
fair lawsuits against him to be missed. Latest news anytime at KTURAH dot com.
Our next update will be at thebottom of the hour. I live
a Katie. Your best ways areround Houston next on the ten on seven

(01:30:13):
KT right for people who live downaround Jamaica Beach, Surfside, Treasure Island,
those areas down there that were particularlyhard hit by this particular storm.
And of course it's been a realPR debacle for the people at center point.
The governor is in sense, thelieutenant governors and sense. So you've
got state government that's you know,over your shoulder, demanding answers. You've

(01:30:35):
got citizens who are demanding answers.Not a good situation if you're trying to
keep good PR going. Alexandra Mielerjoins US Metro board member, what do
you make of all this, Alexandra? Do you think do you think that
they completely blew this this storm?Well, first, thanks for having me
on a pleasure to get to speakwith you all, and I think it's,

(01:30:59):
you know, nothing short of acatastrophic failure. So remarkable efforts by
those on the ground right now,whether alignment, first responders trying to repair.
But the big question which goes tothe top level leadership. Mattress Mac
likes to say to the suits ishow did a storm of this scale have
such a catastrophic impact? Yeah,get back, Yeah, I have to

(01:31:24):
ask you as a board member,Metro board member, the rail line couldn't
run without power. So I meanyou you rake in a lot of money
sales tax revenues, and you've gota huge budget over there on the board.
So what is being done in orderto pressure or to find out what

(01:31:45):
in the world went wrong for asfar as downtown Uston's concern in our outlying
areas where we have rail lines nowyeah, well right now, I know
internally looking at plans on how dowe increase generator backup power, we still
had kind of core infrastructure that wasn'tup and running. So trying to keep

(01:32:06):
our Metro police who are out thereworking in the storms, making sure they've
got good calm and support is obviouslya big priority. And sort of i'd
say similar to what you're seeing withthe fire station not having backup generators that
in the last kind of ten yearsCity of Houston doesn't really matter what level

(01:32:28):
you look at. There hasn't beeninvestment in maintenance. So the idea of
first responders don't have backup generators withthe amount of storms we have. It's
obviously a clear failure and it's justa trend that kind of precipitates through.
So new flood control projects aren't beingmaintained. Commissioner Ramsay is always hitting on
that point aptly. So and weget power outages here, you know,

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due buy vegetation I think is goingto come out obviously, don't know for
sure, but it certainly doesn't appearthat Center was doing an adequate job maintaining
those lines. And then there arecome you know it range with that massive
flooding which we had here because youknow, the drainage funds have been robbed
for social programs, you know,Alexandria, you know you bring up the

(01:33:15):
vegetation maintenance. I think that isa big issue obviously, because we have
especially older parts of the city.You know, virtually everything's above us.
Talk about Kingwood deliverable for us.I mean, they really are a mess.
Yeah, And I saw a graph, and you know, I'm not
going to hold any money to theexact figures because I don't recall exactly what
what the figures were, but theymade a comparison on what Center Point spends

(01:33:36):
per customer on maintenance when it comesto you know, trees and other vegetation,
and they were one of the lowestcompanies as far as how much they
spend per person. So I'm assumingthat part of this investigation into Centerpoint is
going to be try to determine whyit is that they are and we're all

(01:33:57):
slaves to the bottom line, butwhy it is they aren't having more money
to maintain their system. Yeah,and obviously, you know, a lot
of dust to settle, But thelittle bit that I've been around government,
the first thing I want to lookto is what kind of maintenance were you
doing? So they keep saying,you know, hey, don't believe your
lying eyes, how great we're doing. But oh sure, no, absolutely

(01:34:18):
applaud all of the linemen, gratefulthey're here for how fast the restoring power,
But no one's addressing how did wehave such a catastrophic failure to make
it this bad? For what didnot seem to be a storm that should
have this level of damage. Andthe point to me would be one,
you either didn't do the plan thatyou saw in terms of the preventative maintenance,

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or two, where was the alarmbeing raised that you didn't have budget
to adequately kind of trim the trees, replace rotted poles. These aren't things
that are massive CAPEX projects, andI don't remember any of that, but
yet we've seen all sorts of youknow, donations for Here's how great our
plan is for ESG. You know, we're going to be even more energy
efficient, which is all well andgood, but not at the expense of

(01:35:03):
replacing rotted poles trimming. Joy right, welcome you to the basics first,
and if you want to keep usas customers, what are you going to
do going forward to make sure thatwe don't have this in the future.
Yeah, Alexandra, thank you forjoining us. Good to talk to you
from metro board. That is AlexandraMeeler at seven twenty seven. Time to
take a look at your money,Courtney Donaho's here. Good morning, Jimmy.
SMB futures moving higher this morning.Death futures up sixty points. Traders

(01:35:27):
are betting the Federal Reserve will begincutting rates in September. We get a
report on retail sales for June injust a few moments from now. So
many in Houston, as you weretalking about being forced to swelter in the
summer, heat without air conditioning.According to Poweroutage dot US, there are
still close to one hundred and fortythree thousand customers without electricity in Texas.

(01:35:47):
The Olympics kicking off in ten days, and airlines are feeling a pinch with
tourists not traveling to France delta estimatesand we'll take one hundred million dollars in
losses with travelers opting to skip friendsduring the Olympics. Air France reported a
revenue loss of close to two hundredmillion dollars in July and August, which
it attributes to the game. SoI'm courting Donahoe Bloomberg Business on News Radio

(01:36:09):
seven forty k t RH, Houston'sNews Whether We're Traffic plus Preaking News twenty
four to seven. This is NewsRadio seven forty kt RH Child Everywhere with
iheard more of what's happening now fromthe John Morris Services Studios. It is

(01:36:30):
seven thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett Long with Sheriff Ryer.
Among our top stories this half hour, about one hundred and twenty nine
thousand giver take without power. Thegovernor has issued an ultimatum to Center point.
JD. Vans has been named Trump'srunning mate, and seven thirty eight
Biden gets asked about his Trump bullseyecomment details in the minutes ahead. You're

(01:36:51):
in Houston's morning news. First,let's get you up today on the drive.
Skymike has the latest on that clearGrand Parkway North. That was an
accident at twenty nine. It'll takea while for this big scooch to get
out of your way. Now,thirty minutes extra westbound. Let's take a
different route if you can. Nineteensixty now, let's don't do that.
Maybe twenty nine twenty instead, GolfFreeway. We're packed up now. The

(01:37:13):
back door is Edgebrook. You're lookingat twelve extra minutes up into downtown.
I'm Skymike. This is your GeneratorSupercenter dot com Traffic Center from r KTRH
Generator super Center, twenty four hourweather Center mostly Sunday to part the Claudie
today in hot with the high temperatureright about ninety five. We'll get the
latest on the forecast when we talkto Terry Smith at the Weather Channel.
In about nine minutes. It's seventyseven at your officials Severe Weather Station News

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Radio seven forty K TRH hideous time. Now for the news. Here's Sheriff
Fryer. Morning everyone. It isnow seven thirty two on news radio seven
forty KTRH our tops. Through thishour, one hundred and twenty nine thousand
customers still without puddable water or refrigeration. AC this morning, officials not answering

(01:37:56):
a key question. Our customer isgoing to be paid for all of these
repairs, to be honest, ourfocus as they get the lights back on.
Centerpoint executive bred To tung Gin saysthey expect to have the power back
by everyone for everyone by Friday.Not quick enough for an humble woman who's
been sleeping in her car for thelast week just to be able to keep

(01:38:16):
watch on her house with her powerout. Are customer is going to be
paying for all of these repairs.To be honest, our focus as they
get the lights back on. Sorry, she basically was not happy with her
lack of power. Her name wasChristina Bourgeois. Our TV partner Channel two.
Here's the Mayor, John Whitmyer extendingthe city's local disaster declaration until July

(01:38:41):
seventh of next year, twenty twentyfive. That extension passed unanimously in city
council. It allows people to makeclaims within the city about their power issues.
Customers are slowly getting back their lightsin ac and so their internet and
cable two. But the blowback againCenter Point is just getting started. Yeah.

(01:39:02):
Sure. Following his trip to Asia, it didn't take long for Governor
Greg Abbott to get up the speed. Allegations have been made that while Texas
have been baking in deadly heat withoutpower, center Point was pinny, pinching
and cutting corners and ways that slowedthe recovery process. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
agreed and says that Center Point willbe held accountable. I know everyone at

(01:39:27):
Center Point who's in an air conditionedoffice is watching a freight train's coming.
You better be prepared. Abbott sayshe will give Center Point until the end
of the month to respond to theissues. Juff Biggs News reading the seven
forty kt H it's now seven thirtythree. Republican National Convention kicked off in
a big way, Donald Trump makingan appearance and also naming his vice president,

(01:39:55):
Ohio Senator JD. Vance. Iwatched JD go into sort of let's
call it enemy territory from a mediaperspective, go on the most liberal TV
shows and prosecute the case for myfather and against the Democrat lunacy that we've
seen. He does that better thanalmost any of our people can do.

(01:40:15):
Yeah, Donald Trump Junior on Fox. That surprise entry into the convention last
night by Donald Trump was overwhelmingly emotionalfor the people gathered there. His first
public appearance since surviving the assassination attempt. The devil came to Pennsylvania holding a
rifle, but an American lion gotback up on his feet. South Carolina

(01:40:46):
Senator Tim Scott tonight, we willhave Day two beginning at seven pm on
KTRH, KTRH dot com and theiHeartRadio app. Took less than forty eight
hours for the left from going fromtalking about turning down the temperature to actually
making it all about themselves. I'mincredibly scared. I'm scared for journalists.

(01:41:11):
I'm scared for people who have publicplatforms. Afraid for the journalist. After
Donald Trump was almost assassinated, MSNBC'sJen Saki well, the constitution won Federal
Judge Eileen Cannon throughout the mar ALago documents case. Yesterday, Judge Cannon
found that the ag Merrick Garland simplydidn't have the authority to appoint a federal

(01:41:35):
officer with the kind of prosecutorial powerwielded by Special Counsel Jack Smith. So
he's out of there now. Inthe document's case, whener President Trump was
indicted on charges that he willfully retainedsensitive national security documents at his estate at
mar A Lago down in Florida,that is Kevin Cork reporting recent elections in

(01:41:56):
Europe. The Conservative Tory Party inBritain that controlled the UK for fourteen years
got ousted from power, largely becausethey did nothing about being overrun on immigration.
So they lost a lot of votes, not only to the center left
of Labor Party, but to abrand new party that was further right to

(01:42:17):
the Conservatives. The message, Ithink is if you talk the anti migration
game, you have to play ittoo. Jonathan Savage with Fox News Radio
Now. In France, almost thesame thing happened. The right wing party
there made a major play in thefirst round of elections, and then the
group that was defeated that was inpower, Macron, sided with the left,

(01:42:40):
and therefore they took control of theparty. So what you're having is
not just a right left split.You're having the middle that is being rejected,
siding with the left in order tokeep themselves in power. As the
populist parties in all those European countriesare making strides, but they wasn't enough
to take control. It is nowseven thirty seven Major League Baseball All Star

(01:43:04):
Game. It is tonight in Arlington, Texas, and your Don Alvarez of
the Astros will be batting fifth aswell as be the designated hitter for the
American League. I'm SHERBERH. Fryeron news radio seven forty k t r
H. Michael Berry only endorses TexasRenters dot com for property management. Needs

(01:43:25):
info at this speed of Houston,Houston right now. Houston's Morning News continues
with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryer.In the interview with NBC's Lester Holt,
Joe Biden got asked about his Trumpwith the bulls eye comment that he had
made and tried to walk that oneback. How successfull he was at it.

(01:43:45):
Here is here's Lester Holt asking himabout the bulls eye and Donald Trump
and so reaction to the other endfrom Jesse Waters on the five. Let's
talk about the conversation this has started, and it's really about language, what
we say out loud in the concertquints of those you called your opponent an
existential threat. On a call aweek ago, you said it's time to
put Trump in the bullseye. There'ssome dispute about the context, but I

(01:44:10):
think you appreciate what I did saycrosshairs. I'm talking focus on it.
Look, the truth of the matterwas, well, I guess I was
talking about it as the time wasthere's very little focus on Trump. You
have the service bullseye. It wasa mistake to use ID. I didn't
say crosshairs. I've been bullseye mean, focus on them. That's all the

(01:44:30):
Democrats have. They have this demonizationstrategy that animates their base. It gets
them fired up, they get itratings from it, they make money fundraising
from it. So if you takethat, that's basically the cornerstone of the
Democrats turnout operation, which is Trump'sa threat. And without the Democrats being
against Trump, they don't even knowwhat they're for. So we'll see if

(01:44:54):
they're able to table that. Idoubt it. I think they just need
to go into a quarner and sitdown and think about what they been staying
now. We don't know if Crookswas watching Morning Joe all day and watching
Politico report the bullseye comment. Wedon't know if he had help. We
don't know if he's one of thesekooks like the Reagan assassin that was trying
to impress Jody Foster. We don'tknow, But we do know the stories

(01:45:15):
that they've been telling about this manhave been toxic and the language has been
way too hot. It's the samething the CIA does with foreign governments that
they want to overthrow. They controversializethe leader, they deeplatform, they drum
up stupid investigations, and then theywhip up this hurricane of hostility which makes
the public so crazy they think they'rein imminent danger. If the leader stays

(01:45:38):
around. It's damaging. It shouldnever be done inside this country. How
many times has the left called himAdolf Hitler made the comparison to Hitler.
When you are demonizing somebody that way, there's gonna be somebody out there share
that thinks that's a great that'd bea great thing to take out. I'll
be a hero if I take outHitler. Well, well, nobody more

(01:46:00):
prominently than Joe Scarborough on his morningshow. And they pulled him yesterday.
They did pull him. They didnot air yesterday. Yes, you know,
but it's kind of hard when youstill have Jensaki and you got all
these people, I mean, andthey're right back at it and they will
be. Yeah, they're never goingto stop, you know. They tried
to turn their victory although to jdVance now they're going to make him be

(01:46:25):
the target. Will whoever the choicetaking it to them and actually schooled them
on air. Yeah, the guydoesn't back down, No, he doesn't.
Seven forty time for traffic in weathertogether, we're checking out that drive
again. Here's Skymine. Hey,Visor's let's check you out now. West
Park Tollway. We're crammed up now, this is kind of looking like a
normal day now South Park or Cyprus. Lose about eight minutes trying to get

(01:46:46):
into Eldridge Parkway, but we're notbumping into each other. Katie Freeway looks
pretty good. From Grant Parkway.We're starting to spackle up now that goes
into Eldridge Parkway. Also, that'sweird. It matches. It's an extra
nine minutes on the inbound Southwest freeway'sjust thick from ninety pretty much all the
way up to the west Loop.Gets really heavy around Chimney Rock. Of
course, we cleared Graham Parkway North. That's out of the way westbound twenty

(01:47:10):
nine to twenty those backups and thengive them about twenty more minutes east Belt
Jenny hard Work and east going forwardto Exity Business nineties old ninety right,
there is a stallar left hand andcard are not in attention and within and
sipping around it. I just avoidedan accident. I thank you, dodged
a bullet there andrew it. FromSpring north side Mike Hoop is thank you.

(01:47:34):
Forty five southbound. It's definitely notnot fund Oh good burbage. More
banana stickers and yeah, that's gonnatake up one two left lines here southbound
backup from Grand Parkway Skymike and theGenerator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from r
Katie rh Generator super Center twenty fourhour whether Center. Terry Smith is here.
She's got a hot forecast for today. Some cooler temperatures are coming,

(01:47:55):
but as glass is gonna be humid, that's not gonna help bunch, is
it. No, It's like,yeah, you pick your poison right.
So it is a dry day today. We do have a little less humidity
and that's part of the reason whyit is going to be dry. Temperatures
will be July load of mid nineties. We're load of mid nineties Tomorrow and
Thursday as well. But we've gotsome rain of fifty percent chance of those

(01:48:16):
thunderstorms both days. More rain,a better chance of getting wet Friday and
Saturday, and we're going to bewatching out for some heavy rain because it's
going to be several days here ofwet weather. Sixty percent chance of those
thunderstorms Friday and Saturday and highs upereighties to load nineties. I'm expecting that
we'll continue to get rain into Sundayand even Monday next week. Temperature right

(01:48:38):
now is seventy seven at your officialsevere weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. What you need toknow for the day ahead. This is
Houston's Morning News, brought to youby New South Windows Solutions. So it's
interesting since the assassination chaft on PresidentTrump, we've had a number of big
time CEOs, including Eli must thathave come forward with endorsements, and in

(01:49:02):
the case of Elon Musk, he'spledging forty five million dollars a month to
the campaign Trump super Pac. Wow, that's impressive. Specifically basically to do
what the Zuckerbucks did mm hm,you know, to get out the vote,
to get the balloce to you know, assist in that endeavor. Well,

(01:49:24):
thank god, We're going to fightback the way we need to.
It's the whole thing about fighting backlike we need to. Yeah. Kevin
O'Leary, by the way, fromShark Tank fame on some of these business
endorsements. Trump is picking up comingup next first though, Traffick and weather
together and that starts with the useguy, Mike. We're still scunched up
on Grand Parkway North. That bigwreck was twenty nine to twenty that was
on the westbound side. That's outof the way. Now we're looking at

(01:49:45):
an extra ten to twelve minutes headingover toward Tomball. Bigger problem just popped
up on the North Freeway southbound atCypruswood. Thank you Andrew from Spring.
That is taking up two lanes here. That's a backup now after the Woodlands,
eighteen extra minutes here west Sam lookOut in northbound bel air. That's
a stall in the right lane.Skymiael the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic
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Time to check out some of ourtop stories on this Tuesday morning.
Dear Sherff, good morning. Everyoneis down seven fifty one on news Radio
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official JD Vance joining Donald Trump asis running mate Ohio's jdvans more than one
hundred and twenty nine thousand Centerpoint customerswithout power. This morning, New yuke
of polling showing that Donald Trump isleading Joe Biden in Arizona, Georgia,
Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada,Pennsylvania, and now Wisconsin. Ooh boy,

(01:51:01):
where that is really a battleground.Stated they can flip Wisconsin. It's
done. Latest news anytime katieurah dotcom. Our next update is at the
top of the hour. I livein clear Lake, Humble, reliable Katie
r H Traffic and weather. Nexton the ten. Yeah, Kevin Larry

(01:51:21):
talks about energy too. He's puttinga lot of money into energy because they
are betting on a Trump administration.You know, Drill, baby, Drill.
So here's Kevin o'lurry from Shark TankFame talking about these CEO endorsements and
the return of energy. Well,there's two sets of endorsements, as you've
just detailed. One is Deplore talkingabout how assassination attempts are just an American

(01:51:46):
in every way, and that's whatmany CEOs and business leaders did, and
of course I understand that. Butthis time around, in terms of business
leaders actually endorsing a candidate, particularlyTrump was very, very controversial in his
last mandate. I think people arestarting to anticipate policy decisions, and we're

(01:52:08):
going to start to get that withthe speech. But the reason you would
get a CEO endorsing Trump is probablythat the environment for business will be better.
That's what they're anticipating. In ourown business, ourselves, we are
making a huge bet on energy.We're going to wait till August seventh to
make to be assured that the Democraticticket remains as planned. And I'm not

(01:52:33):
saying that this is good or bad. I'm just saying if Trump gets in,
and particularly if Bergham is the nodfor VP, that is going to
change the game in America for theenergy sector, one of the eleven sectors
that's been really pushed back in termsof its potential around lg xports, around
increasing capacity, around and where allthat would change, particularly if it was

(01:52:57):
Bergham, who everybody knows is extremelygood in executional skills and energy, and
so I would want to be doublingdown on that sector. We've gotten an
extra thirty percent, But if ifwe see that Biden and Kamala Harris remain
on the ticket, We're going totriple down on energy at midnight August seventh.
Hmm. Okay, Well, Bergram, as you know, did not

(01:53:19):
get the VP nod, but theremight be a secretary position open for him.
Look, you have seen the peoplewho are out there fighting. Trump
has done that. He has unifiedthe party. So you're going to have
some people who maybe were never Trumpers. You're going to have that. But
the point is the Republican Party isTrump's party now, right, So they

(01:53:41):
booed Mitch McConnell yesterday. That doesn'tsurprise me. I know, it doesn't
surprise me anymore. What about that? Yeah? Oh yeah, the Senate
leader of the Republican Party. Theold Garden, the old Guard, the
old Guard is going down. Yeahthey are. They lost this one,
that's for sure. And I don'tthink they're coming back after this, which
is part of what JD. We'llsee how JD Vance turns it out to

(01:54:03):
be. But he's the next generationof potential. Let's just say it's going
to be a unity of warriors.If I ever had a question, this
is not kumbaya unity. That's notwhat Donald Trump is. It is warriors,
and we're seeing it already today.Yeah, I think we are.
But I think Bergram would be agreat Energy Secretary choice. I can see

(01:54:24):
him getting that position. I wouldlike to see Harriet Hageman be the Energy
secretary. I would like to seeher be Interior secretary. Interior secretary,
all right, how about Homeland Security? Think Greg Abbos got a shot at
that. I don't know that hewants it. Do you think that's a
possibility. He's been very strong onthe border. No, okay, I

(01:54:46):
don't see him for that. Okay, all right, very interesting. I
will tell day two of the RepublicanNational Convention. We will carry it for
you tonight here on kt jd vanceBe. The borders are though, well,
he's a marine, the marine,all right, speculation, always fun
to speculate. Hey, y'all,have a great day. We'll see you
tomorrow morning bright, nearly five am. I'll see this afternoon four on AM

(01:55:08):
nine fifty KPRC.