Friday, July 26th, 2024

Bob Frantz & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/26/24

Episode Transcript

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This is Huge Radio seven kt RHHouston Drive everywhere with the exclusive audio home
of NBC's coveration of the twenty twentyfour Paris Olympics. Now the latest news,
weather, and traffic. It's moreof what matters to you from the
John Morris Services Studios. The WhiteHouse won't stop gas lighting the American public

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about who's running the country. AndKamala Harris comes to Texas and threatens gun
howners. Good morning, I'm BobFrans and for Jimmy barrethis is your five
o'clock report on News Radio seven fortyk T a h. Share a fire
with the news after we check thetraffic. To start today, here's Skott
Mike. Another day, another disaster. James from Texas City just tipped me
off. Yeah, we've had twoor four inches of rain in Texas City

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itself. I've got a blockage ofthe Golf Freeway right in front of Bucky,
so that'll be north of the EmmettLowry Expressway, and it looks like
all lanes are flows are flooded overnorthbound. Are we getting by Let's take
a look at that at the fiveten and also figure out what this problem
is on your KDI Freeway traffic sceptbeen the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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All right, thanks very much,Mike. We've got a flash flood
warning in effect for portions of HarrisonChambers Counties until seven forty five this morning
as a result of the ongoing rains, overcast and rain showers today. Locally
heavy rains possible, obviously leading tothat warning. Hi eighty four tonight,
thunderstorms developing overnight with a low ofseventy four. We'll tell you what the

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weekend looks like and when it mightdry out. Coming up at five ten
with Jeff Maarre at the Weather Channel. Right now, we have seventy five
degrees at your official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH and now
the morning news here shaah, goodmorning. Everyone is now five h two
on news radio seven forty KTRH andour top story this hour. Are you
getting sinse? Yeah? Based oneverything that's been going on this sum of

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America's enemies might be looking at what'shappening and think there's nobody in charge.
There is very much someone in chargeof president as the President. White House
spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre gas lighting usagain America at all of America. Yesterday's
briefing going out of her way tocall Vice President Kamala Harris a critical partner

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to Joe Biden. The briefing didnothing to answer the big question, and
shar that is who is running thecountry. Joe Biden is not fit to
be leading the country, and it'spretty clear that he's not been running the
country for quite a while. Ithink that there is a circle around him
that are making decisions. I thinkmost of them are progressive. That is,
political analyst and former assistant Secretary ofState under W. Robert Charles.

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They are all about power concentration.They obviously don't care about democracy is,
but they also don't care about itas it relates to their own party.
So we're going to usher out thepeople we don't like and usher in the
ones we do. And it doesn'tmatter, he says. The people deserve
to know who is running the country. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty,
KA, Tireh and more of theDemocrat cover up Gov Tracker. That's a

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group that ranked Kamala Harris as themost radical leftist senator back in twenty nineteen,
deleted that web page within the lasttwo weeks. Oh VP was here
in Houston to speak of the leftistTeachers' Union conference yesterday, making it clear
that she's coming after our guns.We want to ban assault weapons and they

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want to ban book Harris got theendorsement of the Obamas, by the way,
and a video that was released overnightsee this is all Hollywood, folks,
borders are. Was here in aborder state, but didn't bother to
visit the border. The Vice rosof the United States laughed off even physically
going to the border and has refusedto meet with border patrol. That's Texas

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Congressman Chip Roy. He says,Harris is I met with either the current
or the former heads of the BorderPatrol. Has only been to the border
once in three years. This wasthree years ago, and she, of
course was entertained at a very muchscrubbed and secured sector. Abortion appears to
be the only issue that Harris canactually run on. Jonathan Signs of Texas

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Value says her extreme views will notbe playing well and that there are bigger
issues for all Americans. She's moreinterested in targeting law abiding citizens than are
actually making sure that we keep thecriminals behind bars, locking up people who
pray in front of abortion clinics.He says, her failures too as the
borders are, is going to beturning lots of voters against her. Five

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oh five is our time, DonaldTrump campaign and yet another Blue state over
this weekend rallying with JD Vance inSaint Cloud, Minnesota, tomorrow afternoon.
The group behind the so called Projecttwenty twenty five, conservative proposals for reversing
the death spiral of America, havesome ideas for the US military. Part

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of Project twenty twenty five's plan includesexpanding the military and banning transgender service members.
We have transgender individuals, element ofcombat and a women in the draft.
Pretty soon everything is about promoting peopleof color versus qualifications and the credential
and skills. Sean Timmins is amanaging partner at Totally Rinky in Houston.
He says the Democrats crying over therest of Project twenty twenty five isn't necessary

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much. A five won't get through, won't become law, So there's no
reason for the panic. There's noreason for the hyperpol there's no reason for
the complete, utter, lunatic levelmeltdown. The plan also mentions reinstating service
members who refused the COVID vaccine.Jared Lewis News Radio seven forty KRH.
The left of mainstream media claim thatProject twenty twenty five is the Drump agenda.

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The former president continues to deny thathere on Fox and Friends. I
know nothing about Project twenty five.I haven't seen the document. I don't
intend to really see the document.And it's a group of people that got
together that wrote some kind of adream document for them, but it has
absolutely nothing to do with me.Trump four months has specifically posted his Agenda

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forty seven, and it was adoptedas a platform of the Republican Party.
Separate and Apart from twenty twenty five. Our news Time five oh six.
Houston Mayor John Whitmyer responding to theclaims by former HPD chief Troy Finner that
his retirement was a force cover upof the suspended cases scandal. I'm not
going to get in a public debatewith Troy Finner. I don't think it's

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appropriate. I think what he cameout and alleged he knows is wrong.
Whitmyer told her TV partner Channel twothat the HPD report on the scandal should
be completed next week. Meantime,Channel two reporting the two members of HPD
leadership involved with investigations of the suspendedcases now being investigated themselves. Allegations still

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unclear. Five over seven is ourtime. Death told from Hurricane Beryl earlier
this month has risen to at leastthirty six some fifteen deaths attributed to that
mass power outages as well as extremeheat. Center Point, under continued pressure
even lawsuits for its response to thestorm, now apologizes and we will have
that at five point thirty. Secondquarter GDP grew by two point eight percent

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year over year in the second quarter. Biden administration is taking a victory lap
over it. Heritage economists Stephen Mooresays, well, they shouldn't. Government
spending ran well ahead of consumer spending, and there's a big problem there.
We want to see the government contracting, after all, it's losing two trillion
dollars a year. Moore was onFox Business. According to new numbers from

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Charles Schwab, Americans believe they needone point eight million dollars in savings in
order to retire and expect their nestegg to last twenty three three years after
they retire at the age of sixtyfive. I'm sure we're friar a news
radio seven forty KTRH. This isHouston's Morning News with Jimmy parent and Sheriff

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Fryar. Okay, it is fiveor nine going to be a weather day
today. As you just heard,that's the second activation of the emergency alert
system. We had the flash floodwarning earlier. We'll give you the details
with Jeff here at a moment,Jeff mar that is, but flash flood
warning four portions of Harrison Chambers Countyuntil seven forty five, and you just

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heard it to Galveston, Central Galvestonuntil seven am. So we'll do our
best to keep you posted on that. By the way, Good Friday morning.
I'm Bob frans In for Jimmy Barrett. If you just turned the radio
on this morning, we'll get youthrough your Friday. A lot of news
and information coming your way. Infact, let's get some of it on
the roads to get you started.Yes, sorry, Scott, Mike on
that morning drive. Hey mind,Hey Bob, we're off to a really
rough start. This is the moston Friday like Friday northbound Golf Freeway right

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at Holland that's where BUCkies is.We just have a left lane getting that's
a high water both ways obviously,and between em Att Lowry Expressway and Dickinson
around Deeps Road around five seventeen,you can expect some major slowdowns now if
you jump on out. If you'regetting on now and you're going. Highway
three is an alternate for now inabout twenty minutes or twenty five minutes,

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when everybody else gets the memo,Highway three is going to be pretty nasty
too. One forty six might bea good way to get around that.
If you can get one forty sixand even take Lake City Parkway won't be
that long. It'll be worth skippingthat. But at least everyone has slowed
down before this, so it shouldit shouldn't sneak up on anybody. Also,
Galveston, I'm getting word that alot of your streets in Galveston are

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have high water or flooding. Sowant to be able to give yourself an
early start if you're trying to drivedown trying to drive down the Sea Wall
Boulevard, or even trying to geta forty five causeway. So far,
no problems here. One forty sixin Baytown. Also, we've got some
floods and spots flooded waters and highwaters and spots here ten looks good deer
Part two twenty five, All good. Nineteen minutes from one forty six to

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the east loop six to ten andwe'll check your south side to idiot,
really want to hear from Brazoria Countyseven one three two one two tips.
This is your Generator Supercenter dot Comtraffic Center. All right, thank you
very much, Mike Core. Thatwas a lot to start the day.
I can only imagine how it's goingto get from there. Same thing.
With the weather, we got alot and a lot more as coming.
Jump Mohre at the Weather Channel.Hi, Jeff, Yeah, good morning.

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The grounds already saturated from our recentheavy range. We've got more coming
up today with heavy downpours and alreadyflash flood warnings on going across portions of
Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria Countieswhere radar is estimated we've already had about
two to three inches of range.Some of these slow moving thunderstorms will produce
rainfall rates of one to two inchesper hour, and that's going to cause
a lot of street flowing, souse caution as you head out, and

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temperature stayle low average with all theheavy rain today near eighty one for a
high more rain off and on tonightwith the low seventy four. We'll keep
on dealing with this shower with thunderstormactivity through the weekend as high as hit
the load to mid eighties with moreheavy rain than Finally a chance to dry
out towards the middle portion of nextweek, and also some hotter weather coming
our way as we head towards Tuesdayand Wednesday. All right, there you
have it, Thank you, Jeff. Seventy five degrees right now at your

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official severe weather station. News Radioseven forty KTRH. It's Houston's morning News,
brought to you by New South WindowsSolutions. Now back to Jimmy and
Shara with the info you need totake on the day. Oh my goodness,
gracious, what a busy morning wehave. It is eighteen minutes after
five o'clock. All of that reallyreally hot air that blew through the area

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yesterday is not another tropical storm orhurricane. That was just Kamala Harris coming
into Houston, attacking gun owners andattacking parents who don't want their kids to
see pornography. Let's say that again, attacking parents and some teachers who don't

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want pornography in schools. That's nothow she phrased it, of course,
but that's the reality of it.You just heard this in the newscast this
Year of Our Lord twenty two,twenty four, and on these last two
issues, on these at last twois just just think about it. So

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we want to ban assault weapons andthey want to ban books. Aside from
the message, can we just allagree on one thing without question? She
has the most extraordinarily annoying voice andspeaking cadence in the history of presidential candidates.
That needs to be declared. Itis going to be painful for the

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next three months to listen to this. God forbid, It's something that we
have to endure for four years.But to the message side, assault weapons,
define them, dare you doesn't exist. There is no actual agreed upon
definition of an assault weapon. Anyweapon can be used to assault someone.
Define assault weapons. And if you'regoing to say rifles, ooh, big

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bad, big bad scary ones.Right, And as far as books,
the only thing that is going on, and we're going to talk about Randy
Wine Garden and the American Federation ofTeachers, which a lot of this was
directed at, and as a resultof the only thing that actual parents care
about. It's not banning books.It's about age appropriate content in books in

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libraries. It has been this wayforever. This isn't new age appropriate content.
That's why your magazine racks in everyschool library will have a sports illustrated
in a National geographic, but nota penthouse or a hustler. You shouldn't
have the same type of things inthe book sections either. That's not book
banning, but the gas lighting isreal. All right, five twenty nine,

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let's get going again, traffic andweather together. Scott Michael all right,
all through Dickinson reports of high waterthrough the streets here. That's going
to cover most of the area betweenforty five and one forty six and south
of League City Parkway. If you'resouth of that spot, expect your expect
your streets to be in some spotsimpassable. Texas City. We've just now
gotten where we can get up theGold Freeway. There's one left lane northbound

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getting by. I don't see abig pack up for now. I wouldn't
do it. I would jump onthree. As much as I hate Highway
three with all those lights, onesix is a good way around. Let's
get a nice early start all aroundBaytown. You were pretty slammed with rain
two. I've got reports of highwater and spots. Expect ponding wherever you
are in the Houston area, especiallyin that left lane right where the right

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before the walls. Expect some ponding. We've got it on Grand Parkway,
I know, south of By tenand just north of Mont Bellevue one forty
six. Same story here, it'sa light problem. Looks like around one
forty six and Massey Tompkins Road.You can see a back up here.
And let's go to the north side. I've got Woody from Kingwood and there's
a tree blocking boat lanes the leftbound hide with the police officer blocking traffic

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in di Verding. Dude, whatelse can we have? This is Kingwood
Drive, right, I'm gonna doublecheck that, but I'm getting that at
Kingwood Drive. We'll see if wecan get across. And anybody else see
that. Let me know seven onethree, two one two tips and we'll
take a look at Razoria County atthe five thirty and the generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center. All right,thank you very much. Weather is going
to be a bear today. Flashblood warnings are in effect for Harris portions

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of Harris County, Chambers County,and I think I heard him say Brazoria,
Jeff did until about seven forty five, Galveston County until seven am because
of all of these heavy rain showersHigh eighty one today, more thunderstorms developing
over night, seventy four storms Saturday, High eighty two, and then the
rain continues Sunday morning before starting toease up a little bit and then heading
into the load nineties as the rainfinally subsides at the start of the next

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work week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Right now seventy five at your official
severe weather station. He's Radio sevenforty ktr AGENT headlines now from Share you
are correct about Brazoria County. Thatwas before we took air this morning,
and now we've added Galveston, Chambersand Harris Counties to that list. It's
now five twenty three on news Radioseven forty KTRH. After weeks of defending

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themselves, the Centerpoint executives now apologizingfor their response to Hurricane Beryl the list
of potential running mates for Kamala Harris, with the Obama Attorney General Eric Holder
doing the vetting, reportedly now downto six people, including the Transportation Secretary
Pete Buddha. Judge, the coachof the Canadian women's soccer team, was

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kicked out of the Olympics allegedly forusing a drone to spy on an opponent.
Latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update will be at
the bottom of the hour for onceon our under construction two eighty eight six
' ten accidents send alternate next onthe ten line seven KTRH. Interesting that

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you just had that drone portion ofthe story here because it can lead us
into this breaking on the issue ofthe investigation into the assassination of President Trump's
Secret Service, according to Senator JoshHawley, by way of a whistle blower,
found out that secret service turned downlocal drone repeatedly ahead of the July

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thirteenth rally at which President Trump wasshot and as well as Corey Comparatory killed
and two others seriously wounded. Accordingto one whistle blower, said Senator Holly
of Missouri, the night before therally, US Secret Service repeatedly denied offers
from local law enforcement partners to utilizedrone technology to secure the rally. Hawlly,

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a member the Homeland Security and GovernmentalAffairs Committee, wrote in a letter
to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandra Majorcus thatquote, this means the technology was both
available to USSS and able to bedeployed to secure the site, and Secret
Service said no. And this iswhy, as I have continued to say
all week long and will continue toountil there is one. There must be

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a complete and independent, let mesay that part again, independent investigation into
all of this, because that kid, I'm sorry, did not act alone.
His three overseas bank accounts indicate hedid not act alone, this twenty
year old nobody from Pennsylvania. Thefact that they denied drone coverage, which
would of course obviously seen him andshown him on the roof, he wouldn't

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have gotten lost, didn't know wherehe was shooting from. All of these
things are just adding up to anabsolute disaster. And it was. It
is not conspiratorial, or if itis, again, conspire is the word
of conspiracy, and to conspire meansto plan. And if you don't think
this was planned out. Then Idon't know what to tell you, but
the reality is here. It hasto be an independent investigation. You cannot

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trust the DOJ. You cannot trustHomeland Security. You cannot trust the FBI
to do this in the investigation becausewe don't know. You can't trust the
Congress either, No, you can't. That's why Indy sadly that you can't.
You can't trust the Congress because ofthe people who are there covering it
up. Well, we found thatout on the J six Committee that we
did, Yes, we did,and so they call it bipartisan, but

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it's not, of course it's not. Well, the j sixth Committee never
was. Of course, it hadnine members, seven of them Democrats and
two of them Republicans, who areDemocrats to Trump hating Republicans the only people.
And when they tried to put actualRepublicans on the panel or on that
committee, like Jim Jordan and JimBanks, Nancy Pelosi denied them and wouldn't
let them be on the panel.That's why Republicans said, fine, we're

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out, we're out. Just godo your thing. Grassly his released bodycam
video from the immediate aftermath of theshooter being shot down and you hear on
the tape apparently reference to two otherpeople who were detained, right, and
this is this is we haven't evenscratched the surface to find out what really

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happened on that day. That's whythe independent investigation is necessary. Okay,
five twenty six, let's do trafficor I'm sorry, back you far,
and let's do a Bloomberg business report. See what's happening as we head into
the weekend in the markets. Here'sCourtney donaholl. Yes, good morning,
Bob. This morning stocks are lookingat a higher open ahead of a key
report on inflation. The data isexpected to show a slow down in pricing
pressures. Many of US shoppers havebeen waiting for that. Dell futures right

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now up two hundred points, willa drop in tech shares drag down the
S and P five hundred In thefinal few minutes of trading yesterday, However,
the deal finished the day up eightyone points. A report showed the
economy is holding up under the weightof higher interest rates. Off price home
goods retailer Big Lots is said tobe reaching out to prospective investors, providing
a new loan as losses pile upthe discount chain with locations all around.

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Houston has recently renewed its focus onextreme bargains after an emphasis on furniture backfired,
and just a few years ago,one might expect a large home with
a lush lawn for a million bucks, but not anymore. According to Zillo,
the typical starter home has a sevenfigure price tag and more than two
hundred cities around the country. Sevenof those cities are in Texas. I'm

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courting Done Hope Bloomberg Business on NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. You are Old
Houston's news whether we're traffic plus BreakingUS twenty four seventh. This is US
Radio seven forty KTRH five Everywhere withthe IRP. More of what's happening now
from the John Morris Services Studios.Center Point finally apologizes for its response to

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Beryl and Biden and Harris continue totell Israel how to fight terrorists. Good
morning. I'm Bob Branston for JimmyBarrett. Sheriff Fryar has the details on
those stories. More coming up.First, Traffic and weather together both are
a mess here, Yes, sir, we are getting hit hard all over
town. Of course, the bigstory. Even the main lanes are starting
to clog up. Now you've gotthis forty five deal. I forty five

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at Holland that's the golf freeway,just a left lane getting by. We've
got high water. How's your rideup Brazoria County? Or got right?
I was pushing water in Digginson,but from Alvin to Klute smooth Hill.
Okay, sounds like you're covering twoeighty eight. Also, Kingwood, give
me that tree, hek Mike,there's a double lane enclosure on Kingwood Drive

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westbound, a King blocking boat lanesand the police officer for birting track.
All right, that's going to beKing's Forest. If you didn't catch that,
North Park's about to get messy ina few minutes. I'm Skymike at
your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center. Okay. Flash flood warnings are in
effect for a few places, GalvestonCounty until seven am and portions of Brazoria

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and Harrison Chambers until around seven fortyfive. We'll update that with Jeff Maher
coming up in a few minutes.Overcast and rain still coming today, high
eighty one thunderstorms overnight as well,low of seventy four. Rains are going
to continue through the weekend before finallydrying out and warming up next week again,
Jeff, I'll tell you what's happeningin just a few right now seventy

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five at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty ktr H.
Another morning news with Sheriff Fire.Good morning everyone. It is now five
point thirty two on news Radio sevenforty KTRH. Our top story this hour.
More emergency weather for our Southeast Texasarea. We're anticipating Lisa it additional
two to four inches broadly most ofthe region. It is possibly you can

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get some higher amounts. And BradleyBocap with the National Weather Service there are
some areas in our listening area havealready gotten eight inches of rain. More
coming. A flood warning in effectfor Chambers in Harris County until seven forty
five. Of flash flood warning nowin effect in Galveston until seven am.
Some parts of Dickinson have already seensix to eight inches of rain in a

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three hour period. Also topping ournews, I want to apologize to our
customers for the frustration we cost.We will do better. I take personal
accountability. Center Point does a onepoint eighty as the Chief Financial Officer,
Jason Wells, apologizes publicly for theirresponse to Hurricane Beryl. It was during

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a hearing yesterday of the Public UtilityCommission two weeks ago. This is what
we were told here on KTRH.We're proud of our preparation. We're proud
of our response. Yeah, DarrenKerr of Center Point, he was with
us on Houston's Morning News. Thebarrel death toll is now up to thirty
six in Texas, at least fifteenattributed to the power outages and the heat.

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Harris County's response to the storm,specifically debris cleanup, has also come
under fire. There's still debris everywhere, and it's going to take months to
clean up. This storm affected everyneighborhood in Harris County, so the debris
field that we have out there isincredible. Precinct three Commissioner Tom Ramsey,

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who was on the ground that veryafternoon already trying to clean up, didn't
see so much from the other commissioners. Meantime, County Judge Lena Hidalgo told
state officials on multiple occasions before andduring the storm when they offered help.
She said, she didn't need it, and then complained that she didn't have
enough resources to deal with the aftermathof the storm. Five point thirty four

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is our time, and Washington israrely Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo met with President Joe
Biden Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday.They're putting pressure on the Israelis. They
are to go ahead and do aceasefire with Amas. We cannot look away
in the face of these tragedies.We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to

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the suffering. And I will notbe silent. Yeah, Harris was talking
about the Palestinians who were suffering.Later on in her comments, she did
add that, well, Israel needsto be secure. Natanya, who will
be meeting with President Donald Trump atmar A Lago today moving out of DC

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over to Florida. Trump yesterday toldFox and Friends, Israel needs to clean
out these terrorists. Quote get thisdone fast. That the world is not
taking lightly to it. It isfive point thirty five. Left spin attacking
Trump's running made J. D.Vans for saying that quote childless cat ladies
have no direct stake in the country. They ignore something else. He said

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a lot of people are unable tohave kids for very complicated and important reasons.
There I know, you know goodfriends of mine who struggled to find
the right girl, find the rightguy. There are people, of course,
for biological reasons, medical reasons,they can't have children. Vance and
Trump campaign together in Minnesota tomorrow.Trump leads Kamala Harris and for swing states

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Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania. According to the latest polling from Emerson
College, they look good for Trump, but some are worried that Republicans are
going to get over confident heading intoNovember. In Milwaukee, there was an
air of celebration, and my viewis now is not the time to celebrate.
Celebrate After election day, Texas SenatorTed Cruz on his podcast this week,

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it's five point thirty six. Well, we got a border zar who
doesn't do anything, So Texas isand two leaders of Mexico senor Loa cartel
were arrested in Texas yesterday, oneof them Joaquin Guzman. He's the son
of the imprisoned drug overlord El Chopo. Six Democrats, including Henry Quaar of

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Texas, voted with Republicans to condemnHarris for her failure as borders are you
never bothered even to talk to me, talk to any Texas state official,
even though we were ground zero forthis crisis. Texas Governor Greg Abbott on
Fox Harris traveled to a border townonly once in the past three and a
half years. And by the way, she was in a border state yesterday

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here in Houston, but was onlyhere to the cheers of the far left
National Teachers' Union Conference. Harris ispromising to come after our guns. Did
you know that we're going to havemore on that at six am? It's
five point thirty seven. Now,why did this is strange? Why did
you report ranked Texas as one ofthe worst states for retirees. The bank

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Rate Analysis ranks all fifty states onfive categories for retirees and has Texas only
forty second. Bank cread analyst AlexGayly says there were some positives. Texas
is a warmer state which can attractretirees, and it ranked well in terms
of cost of living. A bigperk going to Texas for retirement is there's
no state income tax, social Securitybenefits, and other types of retirement income

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or tax free. But Texas hassome of the highest sales and property taxes
and home insurance costs in the country, and the state rated lower for crime
than many other states. Delaware wasnumber one on the list. Alaska was
last. Ryelson News Radio seven fortyKTRH Astra was hosting the Dodgers for a
weekend series starting tonight. Pregame atsix on Sports Talk seven to ninety,

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game time seventy ten. You'll hearit on seven ninety and here on KTRH.
Stros, by the way, leadsSeattle by one game. Now in
the al West standings, I'm sherebyfRyer and News Radio seven forty KTRH.
I usually take iten West, butlately that's been a nightmare KTRH times saving
traffic. Next on the ten Okayfive thirty eight, Ri you said something

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in the newscast about the fact thatthe Feds won't do anything, so Texas
is doing it as far as theborder, and I'm glad to hear that.
And here's another thing Texas is doing. Governor Abbott headline here in the
Examiner Washington Style, going to sendtwenty five thousand migrants up to Chicago ahead
of the d n C to leteverybody there know what it's like in Texas.

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Obviously, he has been, youknow, the driver of most of
the you know, movement of themigrants who are coming across the border into
Texas into other parts of the country, including into New York and Philadelphia,
Chicago and Denver and all the otherplaces that they're crying. Sanctuary cities that
are crying. They're being told,hey, okay, provide sanctuary for these
people. You wanted to be sanctuarycities, but this is specific. It's

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going to be ahead of the NationalDemocratic National Convention. At a Tuesday City
Council meeting, I didn't know thisuntil today. Officials said they were hyper
prepared for a surge in migrants comingvia bus from Governor Greg Abbot. This
is a Chicago meeting. Abbot ispreviously bus migrants who entered Texas via the
southern border to Blue cities and states. We've looked at estimates of twenty to

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twenty five thousand people arriving Chicago,Deputy Mayor for Immigration Beatrice Ponce de Leon
told Axios. According to city data, the migrant crisis in Chicago peaked this
summer, when two thousand people arrivedin the city from Texas Each week,
over forty five thousand have been bussedto Chicago over the past two years now,
maybe twenty to twenty five at least, that's what they're claiming going to

(30:37):
be coming up from Texas by wayof Abbot sponsored buses. Where are they
going to house them? That's theirproblem and that's the point. Isn't that
funny? I hope it's real.I hope. I mean it's so funny
that I mean, it's just it'sjust this kind of awesome, is what
it is to me. Let themsee. I want every Democrat who's going
to go there to rally for KamalaHarris at their little convention. They're non

(31:00):
democratic nominee. I want everybody tosee what her policy's brought. Let them
go and let them have nowhere tohouse them, and let the homeless people
or excuse me, the migrants whoare being put up there with no places
to stay. Let them harass theconvention and let every single Democrat and every
eye of every media member that's watchingthat thing see what it looks like when

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there's unchecked the legal immigration. She'stheir nominee, she was the borders are
she brought it on. I hopethis is accurate. I hope there's twenty
twenty five thousand people that are justswarming Chicago with nowhere to go. Let
them deal with it. Okay,five to forty, but that's me.
Let's do traffic on weather and seewhat's going on on the ground. Mike,
we still have the big stories.The Golf Freeway. We've got just
one lane getting by northbound from TexasCity up to Dickinson. That is at

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Holland, which as we know,is right in front of Buckees. This
is both ways, obviously, andso if you're trying to get up from
Texas City at Galveston, you mayconsider one forty six if that's a normal
option. League City Parkways that runningwell now with all the rain we got
in Dickinson, Texas City, Lamark, buy you Vista Tiki, Santa Fe
and Galveston. Anything south of LeagueCity Parkway, I would be super early

(32:10):
getting up, and I would expectsome high water spots, especially on your
back streets. One forty six fornow, I'm showing one slow down northbound
before the Lowry Expressway. I thinkthat's more about a light, but looks
like one forty six is okay fornow Highway three if you want it's it's
up. It's high and dry.You just have a lot of lights to
deal with. Let's go to Codyand Cypress. What's up, guy,

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Mike, dude not coming in?There is an outbound that makes sense.
Accident on the Feet Road five twentynine at two nine and the weird party
is coming to nine for parkin CypressBeltwait eight, it is ry. No,
we found a dry spot. Iwonder if we're going to get a
break on Spring and Cypress Creek.Love to hear from those of you on
the northwest corner and see if thosebridges are looking okay. Hoober Mike,

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he's in King what I believe?Yeah, I can't confirm that with the
tree Kingwood. I throw nearer there. Tug cared about an hour. All
right, North Park's looking pretty goodfor the moment. I'm in the Generators
Supercenter, dot Com traffic center,all right, And Jeff Maher is at
the weather channel with all the detailsfor us on this rain Jeff, go
ahead, yeah, Bob. Wealready had some very heavy rainfall close to

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the coast, and as a resultof flash flood warnings continue until six forty
five. Coving Harrison County, northwesternpart of Galveston County, northeastern Brassoria County,
and central Galveston County under a flashflood warning until seven this morning.
Already about two to four inches ofrain has fallen across these areas, producing
a lot of standing waters, sobe careful as you head out. And
we're not done, unfortunately. Ifflood watches in effect through this afternoon,
storms will produce more heavy rain upto eighty one for a high. Periods

(33:43):
of showers and storms tonight with thelow of seventy four, and we'll keep
the chance for rain right on throughthe weekends of it, heavier times with
highs and the load to mid eighties, then a transition to dryer and warmer
weather heading through next week. Allright, Jeff, thank you. Right
now, we're at seventy five degreesat your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. You needto know for the day ahead. This
is Houston's Morning News, brought toyou by New South Windows Solutions. Okay,

(34:08):
it is five forty nine. We'vegot a very very busy morning with
respect to traffic and weather, sowe'll dive right back into that now and
we'll come back intact on any otherThanks Scott, Mike has some problems.
Let's go hard, hats TI.Iown at Ferry Road south only one lane
water covering the other lane. Allright, I'm hearing this about Grand park

(34:31):
Way too, and also some ponding. That's mostly the issues around iten,
So we were hit pretty hard onthe working side over here. Let's go
also, I forty five Golf Freewaynorthbound, just a left lane getting by.
You've got high water that's at HollandRoad. It's right in front of
Buckie's. If you're coming off theLowry Expressway, expect that to get rough.

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And then also Highway three. It'san alternate, but you have all
those lights. One forty six isa good way around, if you know,
if you're kind of new around here. Everything south of Lake Said Parkway,
Dickens and Texas City by U Visita, Tiki Island, Galveston and Texas
City, expect some street flooding allover the place. Let's go to the
other side of town. I wasworried about Spring Creek and Cypress Creek.
Mike Magnolia, Dude's time. SpringCreek and musty roaded, probably two feet

(35:16):
from even touching the bottom of thebridge. Looking good at this time.
Wow, all right, all right, we'll keep an eye out on that.
Looks like mostly at south southeast andeast, and we will update Rizoria
County again. Let's do that.Give me some tip line seven one three
two one two tips Brazoria, giveme some two eighty eight. It's the
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.All right, speaking of Brazoria, flash

(35:38):
flood warning for that county. Flashflood warnings in effect until seven am for
Galveston seven forty five for portions ofHarris and Chamber Chambers County. So uh,
that's all, of course, becauseof the rain and heavy rains that
are come in high of eighty onetoday, thunderstorms, more of those tonight
overnight seventy four for a low tomorrowIAVD two with more storms, the rain

(36:00):
continuing heavily Sunday in the morning beforeit starts to ease up a little bit
high of eighty seven. Then inthe start of the next work week,
temperature is going to rise up intothe low nineties as the rain finally gives
way. And right now seventy fiveat your official severe weather stations Radio seven
forty k tr H. Let's checkyour headlines now with share out and good
morning Everyone is now five fifty oneon news Radio seven forty k TRH.

(36:22):
Our headlines are sponsored by Morow Mechanical. Kamala Harris laying out part of her
radical agenda in a speech here inHouston yesterday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson
is suing the Biden administration for itsrule forcing health entities to give contraceptives to
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You're reliable for camp next on theten on seven forty KTRH. Okay five

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point fifty two. Now, So, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, neither
one of them thought it was importantenough to actually go listen to the joint
address on Wednesday from Benjamin Netnahoo,the Israeli Prime Minister. No, they
had better things to do, butthey did get an audience with him privately
yesterday, and what did they tellhim? They told him how to fight
the war. They told him howto surrender the war. Literally. The

(37:29):
US message to Israel in Biden's ongoingmeeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyaho, this
is from the Times of Israel isthat it's time to bring the hostage release
and cease fire deal over the line. This, according to State Department spokesperson
Matthew Miller, quote, we needto get this deal over the line.
We've been working on it for sometime. It's been a tough negotiation.

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We've made progress, We've got aframework for an agreement done. We now
need to bridge the final differences andget a deal in place so we can
all move forward. End quote.Biden was joined by ridiculously unqualified Secretary of
State Anthony Blincoln, National Security AdvisorJake Sullivan, and others. And to
supporters of Israel, let me justsay, we don't all stand for this

(38:15):
nonsense, because we know the realitythere is never going to be peace between
the Palestinians and the Israelis if Hamasis allowed to exist. Let's just make
that very very clear. Hamas mustbe either forced to fully surrender and to

(38:36):
turn themselves over to the IDF forprosecution and in Israel, or they need
to be completely destroyed as in killed, as in never allowed to do this
again. If there is a ceasefirethat allows Hamas to remain in power in
Gaza, Israel will get hit again. There is not peace. That is
not peace. Peace isn't waiting untilthe next attack. That that that period

(39:01):
of time in between attacks cannot becalled peace. Peace only exists when the
attackers can't attack anymore. And that'snot Benjamin Netanya, who's wording. That
is the wording of Hamas. Hamasleadership has said numerous times there will be
more October seventh. We will neverstop making October seventh plural happen until Israel

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is gone, until that region isdeclared Palestine, and until that's the way
it is reflected on maps. Thatis how they get their their you know,
what they believe to be their territoryback. So the reality is Benjamin
Netnah who came to the United Statesasking for assistance in their own survival.

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It's truly, it's a word thata lot of people overuse. Existential.
No, this truly is an existentialbattle. Israel can either exist or it
can't exist, and it cannot existif Hamas has its way. Benjamin Yao
came to the US saying, heyare number one ally in the world.
Will you support us in our existence? And Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and

(40:06):
Anthony Blincoln and Jake Sullivan and therest of them said no, not really,
we want you to cease fire fornow so that they can reconstitute,
rebuild themselves, and then prepare theirnext October seventh. I'm sorry to be
the bearer of bad news, butthat's the reality of it. And I
hope, I hope Americans understand thatthat that our number one are, our
only democratic ally in the Middle Eastis asking for our support and the current

(40:29):
administration is not giving it. AndI also hope that this is something that
as you hear Kamala Harris sitting therelistening to the anti Israel propaganda from Palestinian
supporters and students and then thanks themfor their courage and their leadership in this,
I hope you remember that when itcomes time on November fifth to decide
who you want to lead this country. Five point fifty six. This is

(40:50):
Houston. This morning news on newsradio seven forty KTRH. This is use
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(41:12):
It's more of what matters to youfrom the John Morris Services Studios.
The White House will not stop gaslighting the American public about who's really running
the country. And Kamala Harris comesto Texas and threatens gun owners. Good
morning, I'm Bob Frans and forJimmy Barrett. This is your six o'clock
report on news radio seven to fortyk TRH. Sheriff Fire has the news,

(41:34):
but we've got trafficking weather. First, here's Mike and we've got your
west Loop six' ten look outnorthbound Evergreen. All these flashing lights just
popped up here. This deal isblocking both shoulders, so it looks like
everybody's okay, but they're trying toget out of the way, trying to
get out of the road. Wouldn'tsurprise me if they block a left lane
in the next few minutes. Thisis west Loop northbound Evergreen. I forty
five Golf Freeway. High water atHolland that's right in front of Buckey's just

(41:58):
the left lane getting by northbound.Everything south of League City Parkway. Expect
high water on the streets. Andlet's go to the Katie Freeway. Dude
page guy, Mike. The rainstarts pretty heavy about Studemont. Traffic closed
down accordingly. Let those folks knowthat are driving with their emergency flashers on.
The rain on the freeway does notconstitute an emergency. I wish they

(42:19):
wouldn't do that. Let's check yourBrazoria County. And also we're going to
Kingwood. I know we've got KingwoodDrive at kings the King's Forest. It's
a tree down. It's the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com traffic Center. All right,
thanks very much. And overcast skieswith a lot of rain coming,
locally heavy rains, possible high ofeighty one, thunderstorms developing, overnight low

(42:39):
of seventy four. We've got flashflood warnings in effect for portions of the
morning, for portions of the area, and we'll tell you all about it
coming up at six' ten withJeff mar at the Weather Channel. Right
now, seventy five degrees at Yourofficial severe weather station is Radio seven forty
KTRH. And now the morning newsfrom Sheriffront sig zo Wan on News Radio
seven forty krh is news sponsored AllStar Construction. Our top story this hour.

(43:02):
There's a tree blocking both lanes inthe westbound side with the police officer
blocking traffic and diverting. Yeah,we've got more stormy weather closing out what's
been already a wet week. Treesare vulnerable to this wet ground, you
know. And we do have floodwarnings in effect this morning in Harrison Chambers
County until seven forty five. Aflash flood warning in effect until seven am

(43:25):
in both Galveston and Brazoria Counties aswe deal with yet another really torrential sort
of commute. Also topping our news, when will the gas lighting ever stop
from these Democrats? President Biden willgo down in history as one of the
nation's greatest presidents, accomplishing more innearly four years than most presidents do in

(43:47):
eight years. White House spokesperson KarineJean Pierre talking about her boss or is
he Joe Biden forced to drop outof the presidential election. Political analyst Robert
Charles, who worked out under Reaganas well as W Bush says, the
American people deserve to know who isrunning the country right now. You have

(44:08):
an utterly incompetent senior leadership. Gocabinet member by cabinet member, look at
Harris. Unfortunately, those leadership ofthe Democratic Party doesn't have much respect for
the intelligence of the average American.Most Americans see this for what it is.
Yeah, what it is has beensince Biden took office. A failure
left covering it all up though,just like they're covering for Kamala Harris.

(44:30):
Same group that labeled her the mostliberal senator five years ago, to the
left of Bernie Sanders, has nowdeleted that web page. Vice President came
to Houston the Borders Are and threatenedto ban assault weapons during a speech at
the Liberal Teachers' Union conference. Nushwhat they call assault weapons. The rnc's

(44:53):
Tommy Piggott wasn't surprised Kamala Harris wasrated the most liberal senator by cup Track.
She has the record to back thatup. She's more interested in targeting
law abiding citizens than actually making surethat we keep criminals behind bars. Yeah,
and as we all slept, theObamas, they released a video well

(45:14):
produced, and they gave their fullendorsement to Harris. She'd rather focus on
the one issue she thinks that shecan actually run on, and that is
abortion. She's been the abortion championfor the administration and it'll be her platform.
She has some of the most extremeabortion views of any elected official currently

(45:36):
and certainly in recent history, andthat's not going to play well. Jonathan
Signs of Texas Value says Kamala isout of touch with what Americans believe,
and she's pushing something voters just don'tcare about. They care about the economy,
they care about the border. She'sthe one that was supposed to be
in touch in monitoring the border.She's not even been to the border,
he says. Voters wont the countryprioritized instead of some liberal agenda. Andre

(45:58):
Perard News Radio six SO four isour time. Donald Trump campaigning with his
running mate j d Vance this weekendin another blue state tomorrow, Minnesota,
rallying in Saint Cloud in the afternoon. Left in meltdown again. Project twenty
twenty five's planned for the US militaryis to rid our military of all the

(46:21):
wokeness. The wolkeness is detrimental tonational story. It really is. It's
about focusing on dei versus combat effectingnessin combat priorities. And what touch Turnson
Thinct is trying to do is youraise some of the social engineering wokeness that's
been prevalent in the military since theObama administration. Shawn Timmins, managing partner
at Tully, Rinkney and Houston,says the country needs a more professional and

(46:44):
prepared military made up of more soldiersand less transgenderism. He's basically saying warriors.
Trump continues to distance himself by theway he was never connected to Project
twenty twenty five. This is agroup of conservatives who have a plan,
his plan, and it's now theRepublican agenda is Agenda forty seven. It's

(47:07):
the Republican platform. Six oh fiveis our time. Houston Mayor John Whitmyer
denying a claim by former HBD chiefTroy Finner that Finner says he was forced
to retire in order to help burythe scandal of the suspended cases that went
back what ten years. Well,I thought it was a little disingenuous the

(47:29):
way he put it out there andacting like he's a scapegoat. When he
threw two of his assistant chiefs underthe bus within a week of making this
alleged discovery that he knew back intwenty twenty one, Doug Griffith with the
Eastern Police Officers Union. He wason with our TV partner Channel two now.
Channel two also has some new reportingssaying that two members of HBD leadership

(47:52):
involved with investigating the scandal itself arenow being investigated themselves. They're not saying
for what. It's not clear yet. Six oh six, the death toll
from Hurricane Beryl has risen to atleast thirty six, and they're attributing fifteen
deaths to the mass power outages inextreme heat. Center Point apologizes for its
response to what's happened, and theyare facing multiple lawsuits. By the way,

(48:16):
we're going to have more on thatat six point thirty. Looking at
our money, the economy grew bytwo point eight percent year over year in
the second quarter, and the Bidenadministration, the Democrats want you to think
the economy is just rolling along,but we can see through the lies.
Two thirds of Americans still rate theeconomy as best, fair and many poor.

(48:40):
Heritage Foundation economists Stephen Moore on FoxBusiness. Americans believe right now that
they're going to need one point eightmillion dollars in savings in order to retire,
as according to Charles Schwab, theyexpect their nest egg to last for
about twenty three years after their retirementif they retired at the age of sixty

(49:01):
five. That's the way they feeltoday. State lawmakers once again taking on
the issue that bans foreign ownership ofproperty and interim hearing this week focused specifically
on Chinese firms. It is becauseof China's position as a road nation that
it is so important that they notcontrol any portion of our food security or

(49:22):
have easy access to conduct surveillance andreconnaissance of our military installations. Christopher Holden,
with the Center for Security Policy,told a State House committee that over
the last decade, Chinese ownership ofUS farmland has skyrocketed to just about two
billion dollars. They're getting pushed backon all of this, though, by
the way, from guess who,the farmers and the Texas Farm Bureau go

(49:45):
figure Astros host the La Dodgers tonightpregame at six on Sports Talk seven to
ninety. First pitched seventy ten onboth seven ninety and here on KTRH.
The Astros are leading the Mariners,though by one game now in the American
League. West Sheriff Riar on newsRadio seven KGRH keeping you in the know,

(50:05):
all the information in real time andagain the now right now News Radio
seven forty JTRH. Okay, eightminutes after six o'clock, Good morning,
thanks for joining us this morning.It is Friday, the twenty sixth morning
of the seventh Month and the ofOur Lord, twenty twenty four of op
France in for Jimmy Barrett. Solooking north of Texas. Some good news
for a change. I missed allof this stuff with assassination attempts and party

(50:30):
messes in politics. Oklahoma is returningto the Bible, specifically for their kids.
You know the story by now,but now they have some specifics.
Oklahoma just this week released guidance toschool districts on how to add the Bible
into lesson plans in all schools,a move that was mandated by the state
last month. The Superintendent of PublicInstruction, Ryan Walters, wrote in the

(50:53):
guidance that teachers should focus on theBible's historical, literary, artistic, and
musical influences. In other words,we're not using it for the religious factor.
You don't have to express a beliefin the faith, but you have
to use the Bible as a historicalguide. The radical leftist mob has tried
to rewrite history in Oklahoma. Hesaid, that is Ryan Walters. It

(51:17):
stops today, and Oklahoma schools willrefocus our kids' education so they know the
value of the Bible in its historicalcontext. The woke radicals will not like
it, they will not believe it. However, they will teach it in
Oklahoma. End quote. I gottatell you, I love the courage,
and I love the brazenness, andI love the final pushback or finally a

(51:40):
pushback against the woke nonsense that is, quite frankly, the exact opposite of
the Bible. It is evil asopposed to good. So the left is
going to go crazy over this.Ryan Walters knows it. The court challenges
are already filed. But this isa terrific development, I think for people
who believe in goodness. So thereyou go. They're doing it right in
Oklahoma. Now let's see what's happening. If we're doing it right on the

(52:01):
roadways I'm gonna guess no, thisis not going to be very smooth.
We're just gonna do it by earhere, guys, because it's one of
those deals. First of all,one Baytown Ferry Road southbound, I got
a call in. That's two leftland. That's two lanes. I'm not
sure if it's left or right.But you're coming down from Massy Tompkins Road.
Watch out here southbound. You couldget by this now. You might

(52:23):
take Massy Tompkins this early in themorning. Golf Freeway, Big Story Holland,
that's just a left lane getting by. All kinds of fuzziness right there.
Northbound, coming up from Texas City. I've mentioned this before, but
all of our community south of LeagueCity, League City Parkway. You know
there's a golf ball there southbound TikiIsland by U Vista, Galveston, Texas

(52:44):
City, Santa Fe and Dickinson andLamark. All of your communities expect high
water on the streets. Got allkinds of street closures. West Park's allway
eastbound at Fondred. That's a stallvehicle. It's a right lane block.
I've got some ponding reported. GrandParkway around on it. That's gonna be
a deal all morning long. Let'ssee if I can get right to my
tip line. It's seven one threetwo one two t I P S.

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Scott New Can you talk to me? Hey, Mike, there is a
black small suv at the two eightyeight fifty nine South Merger coming in broke
down. That's a bad spot there, Sam Iowa colling me. Hey,
s guy, Mike, Lady northboundis all clear to you hit the beltway
then we're just down for here atthe Beltway flyover entrance and starting to flood.

(53:29):
All right. Kingwood, Yeah,she just had a call and it
said on Kingwood driving King's Point.Then you said it was Kingwood Drive and
King's Forest at north Park. Whatis it? I don't think it crosses
North Park. Let's go to thesound, Hi, Kingwood drive westbound at
King's Forest. King would drive westboundkings Forest at your downtree. I believe
we said north Park as your alternateSkymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic

(53:52):
Center. All right, thank youvery much. Jeff Maher at the Weather
Channel has the grizzly details of therain and the flooding potentially. J Yeah,
another day with very heavy rainfall.I've already had that long the coast
where we've got a flash flood warningin effect for the central portion of Galveston
County until seven o'clock this morning.Rainfall estimates of two to four inches already

(54:13):
causing a lot of street flooding,and we are in a flood watch through
the afternoon. These storms that movethrough will produce some more heavy rainfall and
cause some flooding concerns. High ofeighty one today. Another round of showers
and thunderstorms off and on tonight withthe low seventy four, and we'll keep
the weather wet as we have throughthe weekend, with showers and storms for
Saturday and Sunday, highs each dayin the low to mid eighties. Then
it changing the weather pattern fortunately nextweek as we start to dry out heading

(54:34):
from Monday to Tuesday, and aswe do, temperatures will begin to heat
up with some highs into the ninetiesnext week. Okay, Jeff, thank
you, and right now, seventyfour degrees cloudy at your official severe weather
station, News Radio seven to fortyKTRH use traffic and weather. You're starting
your day right with Houston's morning Newsbrought to you by New South Windows Solutions.

(54:54):
OK. Six nineteen pushing up abouteight seconds away from six twenty.
Hit sky Mike here, we're goingto talk abortion and it's impact on this
upcoming election with Jonathan Science coming uphere in just a moment, sky Mike.
How we doing Ian from Bear CreekApe, Guy Mike, Just past
two eighty eight forty five southbound,very very very heavy rain. All right,

(55:15):
we've got downtown. I've got thishere. Let's go Highway three.
Talk to me, what's up comingin from Galveston. Highway three northbound from
Texas City to Anvilmark has hot wateron it. Stay away from Highway three,
all right, two forty nine Bryceeighth, Guy Mike. There's not
a lot of traffic, but there'sa lot of water. You've got ponding.

(55:36):
The rain is coming down. Ijust passed underneath ninety nine and we
are well below posted speed. Gota wreck on the west Loop six'
ten northbound. That's a post oakright around Bracewood. You've got big backups
from Stella Link Gulb Freeway. Justone lane getting buy in front of Buckie's
at Holland. And you also havea tree down Kingwood Drive at King's Forest,

(55:57):
that's westbound all lanes. Skymike gonnagenerate your supercenter dot Com traffic center.
Thank you very much. Good sir. Your forecast is wet one as
you know, overcast now. Rainshowers are coming, locally heavy rains,
possible high of eighty one, thunderstormsdeveloping overnight, bringing more low of seventy
four. More storms on Saturday andSunday, with temperatures in the low to

(56:19):
mid eighties, and then warming upinto the nineties on Monday as the rain
finally starts to subside. These flashflood warnings remain in effect until seven am
for Galveston and until seven forty fivefor Harris and Chambers Counties, and I
think also for Brazoria until seven aswell. Okay, right now, seventy
five degrees, Nope, seventy fourdegrees. It's your official severe weather station

(56:42):
is Radio seven forty KTRH. Let'shit the headlines now with Sharon. Good
morning everyone. Is how six twentytwo on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
Parts of our KTRH listening areas you'vebeen hearing from sky Mike. They've gotten
up to eight inches of rain injust a three hour period overnight. Many
under flood warnings through is morning drivetime, creaks and low lying areas,

(57:04):
as well as the streets themselves.New Yoga polling shows at ninety two percent
of Americans believe Kamala Harris was complicitin covering up the health issues of Joe
Biden, a Babe Ruth Yankees Jerseyso for a record thirteen point three million
dollars at auction yesterday. Latest Newsanytime at kterh dot com. Our next

(57:28):
update will be at the bottom ofthe hour. I live it, Katie.
Your best ways are round Houston nexton the ten on seven forty ktrgent
abortion has been a bit of aloser for a lot of Republicans and a
lot of races ever since the Dobbsdecision essentially overturned Roe versus weight and allowed
the decision to be made by theStates. What kind of a role will

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it play in this upcoming election?Jonathan Science, President of Texas Values,
joining us Jonathan, good Morning,Good morning. It seems like Kamala doesn't
have a whole lot of issue onwhich she can run based on her own
record, but she is going tohit the pro choice message very very hard.
What role will it play? Well, look, I mean you could
describe her position as pro death.I mean that she's been asked about the

(58:14):
abortion issue and protecting the nisent humanlife in the womb, and it's not
clear that she supports any limitation.So abortion on demand for Kamala Harris as
her position, and I'm not evensure that if a baby's born as a
result of the failed abortion that shewould support protecting the baby in that situation.
You know, we have a statelaw on that that says if a

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baby is born alive as the resultsof a failed abortion, that you support
the baby. Of course, youknow, we protect life through all stages
now in the state of Texas,and when Governor Abbitt ran just a year
or two ago against that's all Rourke, that's our Roke tried to make this
a big issue, but he lostby double digits, and so the pro
life issue is very strong in thestate of Texas. May be a little
bit different in other parts of thecountry, but Kamala Harris's views on abortion

(59:00):
are so extreme that the majority ofAmericans and the majority of voters do not
take the same position that she does. But not only that she is a
record when she was Attorney General ofCalifornia of going after pro life pregnancy centers.
These are nonprofit places. We havethree hundred of them in the state
of Texas that help babies, theyhelp mothers, and so she's way out

(59:22):
of step with the American public.I have a question for you. When
she was Attorney general in California andthe undercover videos of Project Veritas showing abortion
clinics there bragging about selling baby parts, didn't she prosecute the journalists rather than
the abortion clinics. Well, look, it's very likely because we know that

(59:45):
that she wants to protect the abortionindustry. She's one of the few candidates
of not the only that ran forpresident, that has spent time with planned
parenthood. We didn't even really seeJoe Biden talk a lot about this issue.
So there's no question that this issomething that she's going to make a
priority. But you know, look, she's way out of steps. She's
very extreme, if not the mostextreme candidate this cycle on the abortion issue,

(01:00:09):
and that's why I think a lotof people consider her pro death.
But look, in the state ofTexas, this is going to be difficult
for her because there's also the borderissue where she's very weak on. You
know, according to reports, alot, if not all Texas Democrats are
endorsing Kamala Harris except for the onesthat have their districts that are along the

(01:00:29):
border, you know, and nowthey're trying to deny that they ever called
her. The borders are I mean, I think she's also the abortions are,
I mean, you know, andso there's a lot of problems that
she's going to have in the stateof Texas, and not only that,
but across the country. And whenyou look at the way that the record
that President Trump has on this issueand JD. Vance, I mean,

(01:00:49):
there's a clear difference. They're nowhereclose to each other. And so if
you are even that, you know, in that percentage that says that,
you know, after three months afterthe first trimester, you know, think
the baby has rights or if thebaby has a heartbeat. She doesn't even
support protecting babies when they feel painin the womb as a result of the
abortion. Kamala Harris doesn't. SoI think the abortion issue is going to

(01:01:10):
be a losing issue for her.I think they're going to try to run
on that. It may play wellin some parts of the country, but
for the most part, this isgonna be a tough issue. And you
know, she's gonna have trouble findingany issue that she can win on in
the state of Texas. Yeah,I think it is going to be a
problem though for pro lifers quite frankly, you know, in the state of
Ohio, which is a very veryred state now just got hammered by the

(01:01:32):
constitutional amendment in Ohio just this pastNovember, one of the most severe abortion
laws in the country now abortion ondemand and through the ninth month. It's
unbelievable because pro lifers are simply gettinghammered by pro choicers. And I agree
with you, by the way,Jonathan signs pro death is a better way
to describe those people who will wantno restrictions whatsoever on abortion, like Kamala

(01:01:54):
Harris. But it is going tobe a very very key issue in this
election. Jonathan. Thank you forthe perspective. Appreciate you back. God
bless all right, God bless youtoo. It is six twenty six.
Let's check the markets then, Oh, God bless Courtney dout Hole. Ah
well, good morning, Bob.It has been a volatile week on Wall
Street, but traders are wrapping itup on an upnoe down, futures rising

(01:02:15):
two hundred twenty five points. Wegot an inflation report that's on deck this
morning, and investors will be watchingto see if price pressures are easing.
The head of center Point Energy promisedto improve store preparation and response after Hurricane
Beryl left so many without power fordays. Center Point tells Texas regulators that
they will trim more trees near powerlines, improve its customer communications, and

(01:02:37):
hire a new executive to coordinate emergencyresponse efforts with local agencies. Shares of
Baker Hughes Hiring the pre market.The oil services provider reported quarterly earnings that
top to Wall Street expectations and mortgagerates have ticked up, sticking close to
the lowest level, though since March, according to Freddiemack, the average for
a thirty or fixed loan six pointseventy eight percent. Elevated costs have sidelined

(01:02:59):
a lot of house hunters. I'mCorney, Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News
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Point finally apologizes for its response toBeryl and Biden. Harris continue to tell
Israel how they should fight terrorism.Good morning, Pop Frans and for Jimmy
Barrett Sheriff Fyre has that de taleson those stories coming right up. But
first we're going to do the trafficon the weather and Skymike is on the
job. It's just a closure justleft lane getting by Golf Freeway northbound at
Holland and that's right in front ofBucky's if you don't know, coming up

(01:03:45):
from Texas City. Big backups.Now now I'm hearing bad things about Highway
three between Galveston the Highway six entranceall the way up to the Lowry Expressway,
basically everything south of Leake City Parkway. Expect high waters on the surface
street. Really, Highway three countsas a surface street. One forty six
as your backup is your alternate nowone forty six Baytown Verry Road southbound high

(01:04:08):
water. I've got more high waterreported between Massy Tompkins and I and spots
and Audrey from Cyprus quickly downtown.I ten headed downtown at the forty five
North Dallas on ramp. It isstack. It's back back for a mile.
All right, We're gonna zoom inon that and also East Freeway around
the Bud Plant. I'm hearing badthings there, you know what. Let's

(01:04:30):
put on our hard hats at sixforty and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic
Center. All right, Mike,thank you. Are forecast calling for a
lot more rains still to com todayTomorrow, Sunday, locally heavy rains today
high of eighty one, thunderstorms overnighttonight lois seventy four and again those storms
continue Saturday and Sunday, finally dryingout in the early part of next week.

(01:04:51):
Some flash flood warnings are an effectas well for various counties in the
area. We'll give you more detailson that coming up in the news and
also with Jeffmorrow at the weather channel. Is seventy four degrees at this moment
at your official severe weather station,News Radio seven forty kt TRH and now
that news with Shearon. Good morningeveryone, is six thirty two on news
radio seven to forty ktr H andour top story this hour. The theme

(01:05:13):
of this week sadly flooding rain.You received predit bit of rainfall these last
several days, and with all theforecast is looking, we're still expecting a
few more rounds of storms as wehead toil the weekend. Yeah, Bradley
BOCAP with the National Weather Service,parts of the Houston area have already received
up to eight inches of rain overnightand the ground is saturated. We've got

(01:05:35):
flood warnings in effect for Chambers,Harris and Brazoria Counties until seven forty five
this morning. A flash flood warningalso in effect for Galveston until seven am.
Also topping our news, Center Pointunder pressure hauled in front of the
Texas Public Utilities Commission, apologizing publiclyfor their response to Hurricane Beryl. We

(01:05:58):
know we frustrated our critical facility partnerswith chaotic communication around restoration times, coordination
with when they could expect service.Okay, that's the CFO. Jason Wells
there two weeks after a Center Pointexec was actually here on Houston's Morning News.
We were just trying to get someanswers, saying they were proud of

(01:06:19):
their response Beryl's Texas death tolls standingat thirty six fifty Fifteen of those deaths
are now being attributed to the poweroutages and the heat. Despite Harris County
Judge Lina Hidalgo telling state officials repeatedlyWe're good, don't need your help in
the recovery of Hurricane Beryl. We'vegot to clean up underway and sharra As

(01:06:42):
Precinct three Commissioner Tom Ramsey tells Katerehit's going to take months. This is
probably the most significant debris removal pickupin the history of Harris County. With
Ramsey and the other commissioners handling hisstore a cleanup, it's not like we're
looking for direction. We didn't receiveany during the storm event. I would

(01:07:05):
just put it in a category ofduring the event. The judge's office isn't
really relevant. There are one hundredand fifty five debris zones just in Precinct
three. Jeff Biggs News Radio sevenforty k t H is now six thirty
four. In Washington, Vice PresidentKamala Harris met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

(01:07:27):
nettan Yahoo and then blasted him forthe quote suffering in Gaza. It signals
a step to the left. Ididn't know that you could go further to
the left than Joe Biden. ButKamala Harris never disappoints when it comes going
left. South Carolina Senator Tim ScottHarris, by the way, skipped Wednesday's

(01:07:49):
speech by nettan Yahoo for Congress soshe could go out and campaign instead.
Now Netting Yahoo will be meeting withPresident Donald trumpet Marlow Go today. Mainstream
media really more concerned with net andYahoo than with the anti Israel protesters who
burned American flags, tore them tofaced off the flagpoles, inserted Palestinian flags,

(01:08:15):
and basically to face monuments outside theCapitol this week. I think you
should get a one year jail sentenceif you do anything to desecrate the American
flag. Now people will say,oh, it's unconstitutional. Those are the
stupid people. Well I'm stupid.Then I don't agree with the Donald on
this one. He was on FoxNews yesterday. Ladis Emerson College polling shows

(01:08:38):
Trump leading Harris in four swing statesArizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
It is now six thirty six.Two leaders of Mexico Sina Loa cartel.
They were arrested in Texas by Texasofficials. One of them, Joaquin
Guzman, is the son of thenotorious El Chapo, who has been in

(01:09:00):
and for years as a drug lord. Texas's Henry Quaar was one of six
House Democrats voting with Republicans on aresolution condemning Harris for her failure as borders
are. She did not go toany place that has thousands of crossings and
did not see the chaos that Texasand other states have to deal with every

(01:09:20):
single day. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, we should point out the Quaar,
after making this stand several months ago, was raided by the FBI and is
under investigation now because he didn't dothe Democrat thing. VP in Houston yesterday
promising to come after our guns.That's coming up at seven am. It's

(01:09:44):
now six thirty seven. Inflation impactingeverything that's going on in our country,
and if you're a homeowner, youcan also expect your cost to improve,
in your prayer your house to berising through the first half of next year.
Jim Dutton of the Texas Home ImprovementShow says, look, you can

(01:10:04):
blame the FEDS. If you wantall these new regulations, the HVAC is
a great example. They got newregulations starting January one that are going to
drive the HVAC replacement up thirty fivepercent. Again, yep, Dutton ads
were still aren't back to the kindsof prices we saw before COVID probably never

(01:10:27):
will be. And supply chain issues, labor shortages, and yes, the
policies of this government are what's costingus. Six thirty seven is our time.
The Astros host the Dodgers this weekend. Pregame six on Sports Talk seven
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(01:11:13):
thirty eight. Now Bob Frans infor Jimmy one final morning as Jimmy.
We'll be back on Monday and shareI'm stupid too. I disagree with President
Trump on this one year imprisonment orwhatever penalty he wants for burning the American
flag. It is obviously freedom ofexpression that is explicitly protected in the First
Amendment. However, those who burnedthe flag and then rose the you know,

(01:11:38):
flew the Palestinian flag outside the Capitolin its place, uh, and
then proceeded to vandalize and graffiti Americanmonuments and statues with this pro terrorism messaging,
spit on law enforcement, and chasethem from the site he has attacked
them. Thank you anybody who didany or all of those things. I

(01:11:59):
truly believe that they're citizens. Theyshould be deported. We may not be
able to lock people up, asyou just pointed out, nor should we
based on the Constitution. You know. I think President Trump is wrong on
that American citizens have the right tofree speech. But those who did those
things who are not citizens should absolutelybe deported. Send them back. I
don't care if they're here on studentvisas, work visas, or whatever they

(01:12:19):
are. If they are here,particularly waving Palestinian flags as if they come
from the Middle East and burning Americanflags. Sorry, you have just forfeited
your right to be here. Well, I mean if you take want a
right to be here, if youbring the flag yourself and you burn it,
then you're expressing your contempt for theAmerican government. And that's free speech.
If you take it off of publicproperty and you deface you burn it,

(01:12:42):
that's defacing public property and there arelaws against that. Lock them up
for that, and not just theflag, spray painting the monuments. Yeah,
attacking police officers. Throw them injail, but they weren't. They
were released. I will never understand, and I do know that there's the
war that's going on in Gaza asIsrael continues self defensive exercises, and that's
what this is, self defense toprotect themselves from from Hamas. But outside

(01:13:05):
of that, I'll never understand peoplewho want to come into this country and
they come into this country waving theflag of their home country that they just
fled. They literally come across theborder waving their flags from whatever, you
know, third world hell hold thatthey're escaping. And I'm thinking to myself,
why are you flexing that when youare fleeing that. At the same

(01:13:26):
time, shouldn't you be waving Americanflag saying thank God, I'm here,
I have a chance to stay here. Maybe as opposed to I'm bringing the
culture and the flag that you knowof the country that I was so miserable
in with me that this is thethis is the way, this is the
country I want to support. I'llever understand that, No, this is
not this is not our country.Their attitude is this is not our country.

(01:13:49):
That's what the open borders is allabout. That's the we are not
a sovereign country. We're not asovereign nation. As far as you're six
forty one. Let's get to thetraffic end, whether it's mally chucking the
sky much time. Let's go totwo ninety and I'm actually two ninety might
be one of the better rides inas is two forty nine. There's a
wreck two ninety on the feeder roadat five twenty nine. I know I

(01:14:10):
haven't talked to that much because it'snot affecting the main lanes. Plus you
can see it coming and I've hadbig stuff this morning. West Sam southbound
Bisonette that Rex moved over on theside that's going to be some trouble.
Plus that feeder is a disaster withthe roadwork. I've got Kingwood Drive westbound
at King's Forest. Thank you Woodyfrom Kingwood. That's a tree down.
They're diverting everybody, and North Park'sbeen the best way around it. Highway

(01:14:32):
three hearing bad things from Highway sixup to the Lowry Expressway, Galveston to
Texas City, all through Lamark.Some high water here one between Massy Tompkins
and Ien expect some high water.I see you can the only get by
on one lane at Ferry Road onthe southbound side northbound. I'd like a
good look at that. Let's goto Olt from Kingwood. Dude, Okay,

(01:14:53):
Mike traveling south on sixty nine onthe cross Timber Sect three correction in
the left lane, right east text, look out inbound. Let's go a
little further down the east text.I've got ben a task, casitady,
Mike jimbound at the kN exit.It is a accident. Three cards right
hand side on the octive gram allright outstanding, And I've got let's see

(01:15:15):
that's Holly on the east side highunder high water on it eastbound going towards
six' ten right around the Budweiserplant. Heavy rain there and high water
on the freeway. Also for theperson that said something about people not using
hazard lights, but helps for peopleto see you and for you to see
them. You know what, Holly, I really appreciate that call at seven
one three two one two tips.I'm going to disagree, but you know

(01:15:39):
what, we could disagree and stillbe friends, right, So thank you
and you keep calling in. Yeah, I just put these pants on,
one short leg at a time.Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com
Traffic Center. All right, thankyou very much, Mike. Jeff Mohr
at the Weather Channel has some grizzlydetails and potential flooding for us. He
Jeff. Yeah, A good morningmom. This slow moving little pressure system,
well, can you produce a veryheavy rainfall today? Unfortunately, the

(01:16:01):
flash flood warning and effect for northeasternMissouria County, northwestern Galveston County, and
Harris County has been extended until sevenforty five this morning due to ongoing heavy
rain. Another half inch to aninch of rain will be possible and a
flood watches it effect through this afternoon. These thunderstorms that move through will continue
to produce heavy downpours and temperatures willstay below average, with a high of
eighty one. More rain off andon tonight down to seventy four and periods

(01:16:24):
of heavy rain this week and asshowers and storms continue with highs in the
low to mid eighties, that havetransitioned to drier and warmer weather fortunately next
week. Thank you very much,Jeff. And right now we still have
seventy four degrees at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
You are commute, you are forecastyour news. It's Houston's morning News,
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(01:16:47):
nine. Don't forget. We've gota KTRH timeline contest coming your way in
just a few minutes. We've gota new prize for you too, so
make sure you check in for thatright now. Though we're pushing up on
traffic and sky Mike leads all thetime. We can you give him to
make you help you get through thismess. Thank you, Bob Frantz.
We've got downtown East text elevated,and that is southbound before the elevated.

(01:17:08):
Actually this is a wreck, andit's right before that ramp. All the
merging craziness were backed up from theloop down forty five Audrey and Cyprus gave
me that wreck at the b someoneBridge southbound, so that affects both forty
five. Forty five is not asbad just from North May, but it's
really messing up your Katie Freeway fromabout Yale on the inbound. They should
have that Ninja shortly. Big problemHighway three is I'm hearing bad things from

(01:17:32):
Galveston Road up to Texas City.We're actually from Galveston Highway six. Slowdown,
Mike, we can do this alsoone Baytown between Massy Tompkins and Ien
that's some high water spots. KingwoodDrive is closed westbound at king Forest a
big tree fell down. I've gotGolf Freeway. That's my big one.

(01:17:53):
Here northbound in front of Buckie's atHolland this is just a left lane.
Get bye. Got a good shotof that in Eese text. Now I've
got an new wreck at Liberty southbound, so that's a third problem on your
East Techs inbound. We're going tofocus on the visors at six seven o'clock
in the Generator Supercenter dot com TrafficCenter. All right, Mike, thank
you. The forecast is as ithas been, rain, locally heavy rains,

(01:18:15):
possible high of eighty one today,thunderstorms overnight Tonight, seventy four,
more storms Saturday, eighty two,Sunday, rain continuing mostly in the morning
before starting to ease up eighty seven. Then it'll probably dry out Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, but temperatures willsteam into the low to mid nineties.
Right now, we have seventy fourdegrees at your official severe weather station,

(01:18:36):
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(01:19:21):
We're focused on the assassination attempt,the investigation there, and so on
and so forth. Meanwhile, thereis the matter of you know, legislating
and spending bills. The House isstarting their summer recess early as the Republicans
in control of the House struggle topass their annual spending bills. They failed
to pass all twelve of the mustpass spending bills due to intraparty disagreement,

(01:19:45):
so they canceled votes for the finalweek of July, sending everybody home early.
House leaders announced they would nix nextweek's vote votes in an announcement at
sending lawmakers home after business concluded yesterdayand to find the specifics on this.
The decision comes as the House struggledto pass its remaining appropriations bills, unveiling

(01:20:05):
an ambitious schedule earlier this year thatsought to advance all twelve by the end
of July. This, by theway, Scher and I'm sure you realize,
is the result of continuing resolution aftercontinuing resolution. The Republicans bounced Speaker
Kevin McCarthy out for daring to agreeto continuing resolutions when they couldn't get these
things done before, saying that it'sunacceptable. He at least fought them.

(01:20:29):
He at least fought those before eventuallysurrendering on those. Mike Johnson has agreed
to at least three of them,I believe, since he took over a
speaker, and they've never gotten anythingdone, saying we'll get it done next
time, We'll get it done nexttime. Here we are again, and
they're gonna end up signing another onebecause there's no way they're going to get
these individual, individual spinning resolutions.It's just one right after another. And

(01:20:50):
you know, everybody going into recess, all these recesses coming up in advance
of the election. Yeah, we'rereally being steered badly good the leadership,
I mean leadership, No, Imean we're a ship ship adrift. And
look, even after the election,Congress, the new Congress is not sworn

(01:21:11):
in until January. The new presidentis not sworn in until mid jen you
know, January twentieth, there's sixmonths ahead. We may be close to
the election, but we've got along time for this ship to run aground.
Marjorie Taylor Green said yesterday on TwitterX, we're trying to pass twelve
separate Republican appropriations bills that the Democratcontrolled Senate will never vote for for what

(01:21:36):
when the reality is that we allknow, capitals, is that we will
be forced to vote on a CRby September thirtieth, which is the government
funding deadline. But for some reasonthat's not being discussed even though we all
know it. End quote. Soshe's basically saying surrender. You know we've
got we got one. We don'thave the numbers. We're not going to
get this done. So the Democratsare going to get their way. Just
continue spending as is, another continuingresolution after another. End There's no chance

(01:22:00):
of changing anything, as you say, until next year. And that's only
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The White House won't stop gas lightingthe American public about who's really running the

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country. And Kamala Harris comes toTexas to threaten gun owners. Good morning,
I'm Bob Franson for Jimmy Barrett.This is your seven o'clock report on
News Radio seven forty KTAH. Surea Friar has the news after we check
traffic and weather. Hey Mike,let's clear it downtown at the be Someone
Bridge. It is smackling up nowthe Katie Freeway from about studemont In and

(01:24:45):
go ahead and stay the course.It's not any worse than the rest of
our freeways east ex southbound Lions.It's really affecting that ramp that's going downtown
to ten past Saint Arnold. That'syour wrect. We'll call it two lanes.
And look at this backup here nowfrom the north loop six' ten,
you've got the Golf Freeway down toone lane. This is going to
be Golf Freeway northbound at Holland,which is right next to BUCkies. And

(01:25:06):
this is a pretty big smash here. I'm hearing bad things about Highway three
from Galveston up to Texas City.It's looking like one forty six is pretty
much your best way around all thisstuff. We've got two eighty eight northbound
at Forum. It's a one vehicleaccident. We'll zoom it at the seven
ten and check your Brazoria County againfrom the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

(01:25:26):
All right, overcast, guys,now, rain showers coming, more
of them, heavy rains. Eightyone for a high tonight thunderstorms developing overnight
low of seventy four. More stormson Saturday and rain on Sunday. And
I'll let Jeff Maher tell you thedamage coming up at seven ten. Right
now, we have seventy four degreesat your official severe weather station and some
flash flood warnings as well. Theshare will tell you about your official news

(01:25:48):
severe weather station, News Radio sevenforty KTIH and now here share with me.
Yeah, you got to say that. It is now seven o two
on news radio seven forty KTIH,and our top story this hour is our
weather Baytown Ferry Road going south onlyone lane, water covering the other lanes.

(01:26:11):
Yeah, we've had people calling inall morning. That one to our
KTRH traffic tip line, Thank yousky Mike. A flood warning in effect
for Harris Brazoria Chambers County until sevenforty five. That Galveston flood warning has
now been extended until nine am thismorning, as we're dealing with some areas
that have had over eight inches ofrain and more expected another very wet morning

(01:26:34):
commute. Also topping our news,are you getting sinse Yeah, based on
everything that's been going on, asum of America's enemies might be looking at
what's happening here and think there's nobodyin charge. There is very much someone
in charge of president as the Presidentm White House Spokespresident Kreine Jean Pierre gas
lighting Americans at yesterday's briefing, andshe went out of her way to call

(01:26:58):
Vice President Kamala Harris a critical partnerto Joe Biden. It did nothing to
answer, of course, the bigquestion and share that is who is running
the country. Joe Biden is notfit to be leading the country, and
it's pretty clear that he's not beenrunning the country for quite a while.
I think that there is a circlearound him that are making decisions. I
think most of them are progressive,that is, political analyst and former assistant

(01:27:21):
Secretary of State under W. RobertCharles. They are all about power concentration.
They obviously don't care about democracy is, but they also don't care about
it as it relates to their ownparty. So we're going to usher out
the people we don't like and usherin the ones we do. And it
doesn't matter, he says, thepeople deserve to know who is running the

(01:27:42):
country. Jeff Biggs News Radio sevenforty K TIERH. Joe and the pr
rebranding is well underway. Gov Tracker. That's a group that rank Kamala Harris
is the most radical left senator intwenty nineteen. Is when they did it.
Guess what, They've deleted that webpage and they did it with an
In the last two weeks. VPHarris was in Houston speaking at the leftist

(01:28:05):
Teachers' Union conference yesterday. She madeit clear that she's coming after our guns.
We want to ban assault weapons andthey want to ban books. Harris
got the endorsement of the Obamas.It was a video that was released overnight.
Abortion the main issue, the onlyissue that maybe she can run on.

(01:28:28):
Jonathan Signs of Texas Value says herextreme views will not play well,
not in Texas anyway, and reallyfor all of America there are much bigger
issues. She's more interested in targetinglaw abiding citizens than actually making sure that
we keep the criminals behind bars.He says. Her failures as the borders

(01:28:48):
are is what's going to turn votersagainst her. Seven oh five is our
time Donald Trump campaigning and yet anotherblue state this weekend. He'll be rallying
with JD. Vance in St.Cloud, Minnesota, tomorrow afternoon now the
group behind Project twenty twenty five.These are conservatives proposals for reversing the death

(01:29:09):
spiral of America. They have somedefinite ideas for what Donald Trump as president
could do with the US military.Part of Project twenty twenty five's plan includes
expanding the military and banning transgender servicemembers. We have transgender individuals element of
combat and a woman in the draft. Pretty soon everything is about promoting people
of color versus qualifications and credential andskill. Shan Timmins is a managing partner

(01:29:32):
at Totally Rinky in Houston. Hesays, the Democrats crying over the rest
of Project twenty twenty five isn't necessary. Much won't get through, won't become
law. So there's no reason forthe panic. There's no reason for the
hyperpol There's no reason for the completeutter lunatic level meltdown. The plan also
mentions reinstating service members who refused theCOVID vaccine. Jared Lewis News Radio seven

(01:29:55):
forty KRH it's now seven oh sixdeath toll of Hurricane Bear here earlier this
month has risen to at least thirtysix. Fifteen of those deaths attributed to
the power outages in the extreme heatCenter point under continued pressure even lawsuits.
Now for its response to the stormhas finally apologized. Imagine that publicly.

(01:30:17):
We'll have that at seven point thirty. Looking at our money second quarter GDP,
while it grew by two point eightpercent year over year in the second
quarter in the Biden administration taking avictory lap over it, Heritage Foundation economist
Stephen Moore says, knew they reallyshouldn't. Government spending ran well ahead of
consumer spending, and there's a bigproblem there. We want to see the

(01:30:40):
government contracting, after all, it'slosing two trillion dollars a year. Yeah,
GDP spending government more. Was onFox Business Inflation Our news time Now
seven oh seven. The Astros hoststhe Dodgers for a weekend series starting tonight.
Pregame is six on sports Stalk sevenninety. The game time seen and

(01:31:02):
you're gonna hear that on seven ninetyand here on KTRH, the Astro is
now leading Seattle in first place byone game in the American League West standings.
I'm sure ber fryar on News Radioseven forty KTRH. You like free
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(01:31:24):
and free never sounded so good.All right, So it's been one of
the top stories this morning, sevenminutes after seven o'clock. By the way,
good morning, thanks for being withus on this Friday, the twenty
sixth morning of the seventh month.In the ear of our Lord twenty twenty
four. Bob France in for Jimmy. It's one of the top stories been
again the White House gas lighting usabout who's really been running the country and
for how long has that been goingon? And what price will and should

(01:31:47):
Kamala Harris now almost guaranteed to bethe Democrat nominee now that the Obamas have
added their name to the endorsement list. But what price will she pay for
lying to the American people and coveringup Joe Biden's absolute inability to function to
run this country. Scott Jennings onCNN last night, Well, he laid

(01:32:10):
it all out for the very,very angry and frustrated left wing panels.
Odd to me that just a fewweeks ago, heck, a few days
ago, most Democrats were still lookinginto television cameras and saying that this person
is up to another four years.I mean, he's obviously running on fumes.
They weren't cheap folks, no matterwhat the government told you. In
fact, I still think it's alegitimate scandal how they ever arrived at the

(01:32:33):
decision to run again in the firstplace. I still think his family and
his top staff have a lot ofexplaining to do. Most of this seemed
like a stump speech to me.It seemed like he gave the speech that
he always wanted the campaign to beabout, which was he wants credit for
this record that he thinks is historicand was not getting out of the campaign.

(01:32:55):
I'm still shocked by the way athow easy it is to overthrow the
president. I think of this office. I think we all think of this
office as being impenetrable. He goteighty one million votes in twenty twenty,
and then he got fourteen million more, But at the end of the day,
he was no match for a handfulof party bosses who run the Democratic
Party. So look, I'm happyto give him all the grace that he

(01:33:16):
deserves because he's on his way out. But at the end of the day,
yeah, it really sounds like abunch of people that's coming back a
bunch of people looked into TV camerasover the last days, weeks, and
months and told you a lot ofthings, a lot of things that were
not true about this president. Ihope he is okay for the next few
months, but it was obvious itwas time, not tonight, but a

(01:33:40):
while ago. And the two worstdefenders of looking into the TV cameras and
lying to the American people about hiscondition and who's running the government Karine John
Pierre, the Press secretary and KamalaHarris, the Vice president. She went
crazy when the report from Robert Hurrwas released, pointing out that this man
was too old and too senile andforgetful to be tried on his documents crimes.
So therefore she freaked out over thatsaid, this is not true.

(01:34:03):
I can't even keep up with them, et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera. She should have to answerfor that in this now election cycle that
she has become a part of.I wonder when she'll do a press conference
with real journalists, and I wonderwhen she'll do a real, hard hitting
sit down interview and be forced toanswer those questions. She has lied to
the people right from the start,sevent ten Travigan Weather Sky Mike Willer,

(01:34:24):
Hey, I'll take it right here. I we've cleared the record to b
someone Bridge here. Have got backupsnow from stewdamut the big stories this morning.
You've got the Golf Freeway. We'restill just down to one left lane
getting by northbound Highway Three's got alot of high water between Highway six and
Texas City and that looks like onesix is your best route around that.

(01:34:46):
We've got East Tech southbound at Libertyand let me flip over here. That's
two left lines. This is rightbefore Downtown East Text before itm and we've
knocked out two right lanes. You'llget big backups from the Loop. It's
just heavy and slow on the EastFreeway inbound around the bud Plant. Thank
you Holly for that, and alsoSouthwest Freeway. I've got some kind of
wreck right here reported at Sugar Creek. I see the backups, and I've

(01:35:10):
let the ladies on TV. No. I think Transtor will have a shot
shortly. Let's go to the tipline seven one three two one two t
ips Mike, this is Big rigRandy from Spring inbound at north Point.
We have come to a dance stopand I cannot see over the heel.
All right, let me zoom thatat seven twenty Darren Spring, Good morning

(01:35:30):
sky Mike, northbound by night Expresslane boy in between al Meta, Genoa
and Orum. Somebody already met withdetect shop wall of debt. All right,
I'm looking at camera nine twenty six. He looks like he's okay.
Here Sam from Iowa Colony stuck inthat backup. I'd like to argue for
all those pro flashers that no onecan see your turn signals or brake lights,

(01:35:53):
which makes you a menace to societywhen you're driving fifteen under in the
rain. All right, all right, we see we got a debate going
this morning. Hey, we candisagree and I'll still be friends, but
I personally would prefer if you're gonnago that slow, let's head over to
the right. You know that we'rein the Generators Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.
All right, Hey, hey,Mike, do you have that's a
sound bite of a shareff that youhere. I don't have La la la

(01:36:15):
la la handy right now, Okay, that's the one I was saying.
But and this is a big butwould you like some kamala that was a
caller yesterday from two forty nine.That's got to improve. We'll have to
work well, we'll have to workon the shore one because I got something
better than that, said sure,Jeff Maher at the weather channel and see
what's happening on the weather side ofthings, Hey Jeff, Yeah, Hey

(01:36:35):
Bob. Unfortunately, more heavy rainforesttoday and we will have flash flooding to
continue with as a result. Theflash flood warning now extended until nine this
morning, covering portions of Galvelston,Harris and Brassori counties where we picked up
anywhere from three to five inches ofrain in subspots already. That's going to
result in a lot of standing waterand make your commute difficult. Into the
afternoon, more showers and stores producingheavy downpours. With a high of eighty

(01:36:57):
one. We saw have the chanceto rain off and on tonight with the
low seventy four, and some moreshowers and storms for our weekend with highs
and the low to mid eighties.Finally a change the weather powdern next week
we'll transition to dryer weather and alsosome warmer temperatures heading towards the middle of
the week. Okay, thank you, Jeff. Right now, we still
have seventy four degrees at your officialsevere weather station is Radio seven forty k
TRH East. It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you Biden, New South

(01:37:20):
Windows solutions. Now back to Jimmyand Sharrah with the info you need to
take on the day. So dowe know who's running the country right now?
If Joe Biden is not fit tocampaign, he can't be fit to
run and has he been running it? We'll discuss with Robert Charles, political
analyst coming up here in just amoment. First, let's do trafficking weather
together once again here Scottland. Allright today, somebody update me on Kingwood

(01:37:43):
Drive. That tree I can't seethat, I have no visual, so
tip line me there seven one threetwo one two tips. I'll bet a
country boy from Porter took care thatthe King's Forest is where it is in
westbound. It was all lanes blockedhere to night of a main lane wreck
at Barker, Cyprus. This isa right line. We still have that
East Tex problem. Southbound Liberty iswhere I'm looking the backups right before I

(01:38:04):
ten backups from the loop here You'vegot the Gold Freeway down to one lane.
Floodwaters at Holland. That's in frontof Bucky Southwest Freeway. Got Mike
south Less Freeway northbound Williams Way.It's a big o'd scut. No good
furbage. Cat Brookside Village. She'son the southwest the Winesteime Mike northbound at
Williams Straight. Other site. Theright two or three lanes are totally blocked.

(01:38:29):
First responders on scenes of traffic isgetting by in the left two lanes.
Boom good laneage. Banana sticker foryou, Cat. And we've got
backups now right after Highway six.This is the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic
Center. All right, we've gotrain coming today, heavy rains again.
It's been the same way all weeklong. High of eighty one, thunderstorms
developing over night, seventy four morestorms Saturday, High eighty two. Rain

(01:38:53):
continues Sunday before starting to ease upa little bit late in the day.
High eighty seven probably starting to dryout on Monday. Temperatures will warm into
the low to mid nineties at theearly part of the week. Right now
seventy four it's your official severe weatherstations radio seven forty KTRH and let's look
at the headlines now share good morning. It is now seven twenty two on
news radio seven forty KTRH. Ourheadlines are sponsored by D and M auto

(01:39:15):
Leasing. Some parts of the Houstonarea have already had over eight inches of
rain overnight, and we do haveflood warnings in effect. French officials say
the National Train Service there has beentargeted already by several what they call malicious
acts of arson. They're setting firesprotesters as the Olympics get underway. We

(01:39:36):
had two of major drug arrest involvedwith the Sina Loa cartels and it's a
very curious story. We'll have morein that coming up in just a few
minutes here on Houston's morning news.He living friends with Your forecast is at
the bottom of the hour on sevenforty KTRH. All right, Robert Charles

(01:39:58):
knows a little bit about how andis ronn. He's a former assistant Secretary
of State under George W. Bush. Now political analyst, Robert, Good
morning, Good morning, so goodto have you. We're trying to figure
out who's running the government. Moreover, who has been running the government during
these many months of and maybe evena couple of years of such a rapid
decline of Joe Biden's cognitive and physicalabilities. You know, when things go

(01:40:23):
well, those behind the scenes,no doubt, will claim that they were
responsible. And when they go poorly, which looks like about ninety nine times
in one hundred, they'll all declineto have had anything to do with it,
and it was all Joe Biden's fault. You know. The reality is
there's probably a cobble of people rangingfrom what they called it the next Domestic
Policy Council, to some of hiscabinet members, to probably the presidence of

(01:40:47):
Obama periodically, and a number ofother Democrats that this is this has been
the great fraud of the last threeyears. I think that when Joe Biden
ran in twenty twenty from the basementand barely appeared, actually had almost no
appearances for six or seven months,it was transparent that something wasn't right here,

(01:41:08):
and the something that wasn't right washis capability to do the job.
This is a guy that I usedto talk with regularly back in the era
when I was an Assistant Secretary ofState. I was setting up the police
training in Iraq and Afghanistan, andhe was very interested in metrics. He
was dynamic. I didn't agree witha lot of his policies, but he
was someone who had a presence andconstantly pushed his presence forward. To have

(01:41:31):
retreated as fully as he did rightfrom the beginning is really emblematic. And
now to see you know, Ithink one of the things we're watching here
is as Harris replaces him as theheir apparent in the Democrat Party. It
really is a shining example of whothe Democrat Party has become nationally. You
all are experiencing rain right now.Imagine if every day your leader woke up

(01:41:56):
and said it's dry as a boneout here, and you'd say, no,
it's not. We got rain,and they'd say, no, extra
is a bone. She was appointed. The drugs are, I'm sorry,
the borders are, and so shewent down and said she was going to
stop all the root causes of peoplecoming over the border. Remember she flew
down and made a big appearance.But in the end, what you have
is a denial of hard facts forpolitical expediency. And maybe it's good that

(01:42:18):
you're seeing this right now because thatis indicative of what an administration run by
her and her cobble would look likethey are really obviously willfully incompetent and wilfully
dishonest. And that's the kind ofthing that we used to not want in
anybody we call the leader. Butare we at the behest of now we've

(01:42:42):
got there's not even no, there'snot going to be any running out of
the White House. Is really goingto be run by the agencies. We're
going to have a police state ofthe Justice Department refusing to prosecute real criminals
while they turn on the American people, and we're going to have the drug
cartels having free sway. It's justmaking me sick. Is the FBI that's

(01:43:02):
running the country? Who's running thecountry really well, the truth be told,
we have a very We don't havethe kind of civil service that you
would see in Old World Great Britainor even New World Great Britain. We
do have a you can call ita deep state, you can call it
mid level decision makers with political cappers. But we have a lot of political

(01:43:27):
types that essentially call the shots atthe top and tell the mid level people
what to do. Typically that's runfor national security purposes. Out of the
National Security Council, and I workedin the Reagan White House, the Bush
forty one White House. Typically youhave a strong executive hand from the Domestic
Policy Council and the National Security Council. I don't think in fact, I

(01:43:49):
mean, it's not a comforting fact, but in fact, nothing is going
to change from Biden to Harris,and in that all of these poor decisions
and all of this political running roughshot, just as you described Merrick Garland,
a bitter old man who thinks theauto have been on the Supreme Court,
who decided to give the green lightto prosecuting Donald Trump for political crimes that

(01:44:14):
he decided that he was going tomake up and allowing state prosecutors to do
the same thing. All of thisgreen lighting of both bad policy and bad
politics is not going to go away. This is exactly for the next few
months. It's what we've got untilGod willing that the country is able to
be heard. We don't have avote of no confidence in this country.
It's not a parliamentary system. Wehave instead a presidential election. So we

(01:44:38):
have to suffer our mistakes for fouryears before we get the chance to go
back at it again. Traditionally,you have a Congress which is able with
impeachment and other purposes, other criminalreferrals, to be able to keep the
executive branch in check. We reallydon't have control of the Congress, so
that's another thing that hopefully will change. We typically have branches of government that

(01:45:00):
works to try to re if youwill, restabilize or reballast the boat when
it lists badly. One way,when the Supreme Court has tried to rebalance
this White House and get it backto the Constitution, they have been ignored.
I mean, and by the way, the Democrats in the Congress,
Schumer and Pelosi and a lot ofthe rank and file, have essentially tried

(01:45:24):
to delegitimize the Supreme Court, arguingthat their decisions don't matter anymore, whether
that they ought to be shifted.I think we need to be really on
guard for anti democratic behavior coming up, because this is how this party has
identified itself, and they've just literallyslayed their own dragons. They all the
Democrats, whether you like Biden ornot, they just threw them under the

(01:45:45):
bus. Robert tremendously insightful stuff,good inside baseball knowledge there too. I
could listen to it all day,but unfortunately we are at a time I
want to thank you for the information. We appreciate right, Thank you very
much. Robert Charles, former AssistantSecretary of State under George W. Bush
By of all down for US.This is Houston's Morning News, Houston's News,

(01:46:05):
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(01:46:28):
and she's not apologizing. Good morning, I bought friends and for Jimmy Barrett.
Shar's got the details on those storiesand more coming up at the first
Traffic and Whether together here, Scottmay Man, we're starting to get two
ninety up in spots here. Youhad that record, send it. I
don't like what's happening there in thefeeder, but it's not affecting your main
lane drive and you can see itcoming, so you shouldn't get stuck in
that, So stay on the mainlanes there. Barker, Cyprus, this
is a wreck in a right laneright behind its. Secondary accidents popped up

(01:46:51):
now on the Golf Freeway outbound,not inbound Griggs one two left lanes right
in front of Home Depot. Lookout for backups after wayside at East Techs
southbound. We're calling it Lions.It's right before the merge with ten.
That's a big wreck that's been therea while. Now three lanes pack ups
from the Golf Freeway. You havejust one lane getting by. It's high

(01:47:12):
water at Holland, which is rightin front of Bucky's and a highway three.
Not looking good. Texas City toGalveston one forty six in Baytown between
Massy Tompkins and Ien it's pretty messywith high water spots there. We're going
to zoom your west and southwest atseven forty and the Generator Supercenter dot Com
Traffic Center. All right, thankyou, Mike Ken. Rain's going to
continue today, heavy rains, possiblehigh eighty one, thunderstorms tonight, low

(01:47:35):
of seventy four, and it's goingto continue through the weekend. We'll talk
about when it's going to dry outhere with Jeff Morrow in just a few
minutes at the Weather Channel. We'vegot flash flood warnings is too. I'll
let share it tell you those a'spart of the news seventy fort degrees.
Now it's your official severe weather station, news radio seven forty k t RHJ.
Now here's that news. It isseven thirty two on news radio seven
forty kt al ch our top storythis hour. More emergency weather for our

(01:47:59):
southeast Axcess area this morning. We'reanticipating at we said, additional two to
four inches broadly most of the region. It is possibly can get some higher
amounts. And yeah, that wasearly this morning. Bradley Bocamp with the
National Weather Service. We do haveareas in our listening area that have gotten
up to eight inches and more ofrain. And there's a flood warning that

(01:48:23):
remains in effect right now for Brazoria, Chambers and Harris Counties for just a
few more minutes, seven till sevenforty five am. Now, the flash
flood warning for Galveston that expired wasto expire at seven am, was extended
until nine Some parts of Dickinson haveseen six to eight inches of rain in
just a three hour period. Alsotopping our news, I want to apologize

(01:48:47):
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take personal accountability. Yeah, that'sCenter Point doing a one eighty. The
CFO, the chief financial officer,get that. Jason Wells apologizing publicly for
the response to Hurricane Beryl. Itwas during a hearing yesterday of the PUC
NOW two weeks ago. This iswhat we were told by Center Point here

(01:49:11):
on KGRH. We're proud of ourpreparation, We're proud of our response.
Yeah, Darren Carroll, he wason Houston's Morning News. The barrel death
toll now is up to thirty sixhere in Texas, and they're attributing fifteen
of those to the power outages andthe heat. Harris County response to the
storm, specifically, the debris cleanuphas also been coming under fire. There's

(01:49:34):
still debris everywhere and it's going totake months to clean up. We cannot
look away in the faces of thisstorm affected every neighborhood in Harris County.
So the debris field that we haveout there is incredible. Precinct three Commissioner
Tom Ramsey, Remember it was thecounty judge Lina Hedalgo who told state officials

(01:49:58):
on multiple occasions before any even duringthe storm, that this county didn't need
any help, and then she complained, we don't have enough resources to deal
with it. It is seven thirtyfour in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu met with President Biden and theVice President Kamala Harris, who are putting

(01:50:18):
pressure on the Israelis to do theceasefire now with Hamas. We cannot look
away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb
to the suffering, and I willnot be silent the suffering of the Palestinian
people in Gaza. She was referringto Netan Yahoo meeting with President Donald Trump

(01:50:42):
at mar A Lago today. Trumpyesterday told Fox and Friends, Israel needs
to clean out these terrorists. Quote, get this done fast, because world
opinion is not taking this lightly.It is seven thirty five. The left's
been attacking Trump's running made JD.Vans for saying that child these cat ladies
have no direct state stake in howthis country is run. But Vance also

(01:51:08):
was talking about childless women in anotherway. A lot of people are unable
to have kids for very complicated andimportant reasons. There. I know,
you know good friends of mine whostruggled to find the right girl, find
the right guy. There are people, of course, for biological reasons,
medical reasons, they can't have children. Vance and Trump will be campaigning together

(01:51:29):
in Minnesota tomorrow. Now Trump doeslead Kamala Harris and for swing states Arizona,
Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania,according to the latest polling numbers from
Emerson College is seven thirty six.Well, we've had two leaders of Mexico
Sinaloa cartel arrested in Texas yesterday.At Olpasso one of them, as we

(01:51:50):
reported earlier, the son of theimprisoned drug overlord El Chappo. Will This
son cut a deal with Eves apparentlyliberally turned himself in and brought with him
an annoying El Mayo, who wasthe co founder with El Choppo of the
sina Loa drug cartel. And guesswhat they turned themselves into the fence DHS

(01:52:14):
Secretary of New YORKUS releasing the news. You have to wonder about the timing.
Now is a regime now suddenly makinglook like, oh, they've got
their handle on the border. Whydid they wait so long? Six Democrats,
including Henry Quaera of Texas voted withRepublicans yesterday to condemn Harris for her
failure as borders are. She neverbothered even to talk to me, talk

(01:52:38):
to any Texas state official, eventhough we were ground zero for this crisis.
Yeah, Texas Governor Greg Abbott wason Fox YEP scrubbing the image she
was in this border state yesterday,but she was only in Houston to the
cheers of the far left National Teachers'Union conference, where she promised to come

(01:52:58):
after our gun. It's now seventhirty seven. We've got a big Astros
weekend hosting the LA Dodgers beginning tonighthere in Houston. The pregame will be
at six on Sports Talk seven ninety, first pitch at seven to ten,
both on seven ninety and KTRH.The Astros lead the Mariners right now.
We're in first place, one gameup. We'll leave me hear the Tros

(01:53:21):
part. After you said we gota big as Stros, you were going
somewhere else at the well. Iwas looking at the clock, thinking I'm
running out of time here. Anyway, we are up by one game,
leaders in the American League West.I'm Sheriff RAR on News Radio seven forty
k t RH ad living here alot traging Wealth, your local trusted financial

(01:53:43):
produciary Tradingwealth dot com, the verylatest on your way to work. This
is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrettand Sheriff Fryar. Completely lost my train
of thought now because that's all Iheard you say, we got a you
know with pros. When we insertnew weather information, then something else has
to go. So I'm looking upat this clock thinking, Okay, do

(01:54:05):
I have time to get to thisnext story? You know? And I
wanted to clarify a little bit tooabout what's going on at the border.
You know, we keep seeing newbig drug bust and this has happened all
of a sudden has started happening,and New York has keeps announcing it like,
look we've got we've got control ofthe border. Nothing to see here,
No, not at all. Thetiming of this is just stinks.

(01:54:28):
Hey, Chery, I want tofollow up on the GDVAN story that you
had there too, about the youknow, childless cat ladies and everything else.
And I'm glad you're playing that contextthere that of course the Left will
not do. You asked me earlierthis week about jd Vance because he's a
senator from Ohio, and and Igive you a little bit of feedback on
him, and I got to tellyou, you know, he is pretty
much circling over the target because hehas become a massive, massive target for

(01:54:50):
the left. They did this ridiculousthing about you know, the childless cat
ladies from three years ago, andhe was not talking about obviously, people
within utility issues and so forth.But then the worst part about it is,
you see what the AP did.The Associated Press ran with the ridiculous
completely fake story, fake news hoaxput out by leftists online that there was

(01:55:14):
a portion of JD. Vance's biography, his autobiography of his life growing up
in a family of addiction and allkinds of other problems. He'll billy elegy,
that there was a story in thathe in graphic to tail talked about
and excuse me for the morning,you know, in the morning audience here,
but having sex with a couch,using the cushions of a couch to
to do something. And they're literallyquoting the chapter and the page of the

(01:55:39):
book, and the AP, withoutbothering to check, ran the story and
it circled the internet yes Wednesday andyesterday and it became now a big story.
There's memes out there of sofas andjd Vance and everything else. Well,
the AP fact checkers had to pullthe entire thing down, but not
until after Again, it was essentiallyverified by them, but they pulled it

(01:56:02):
down and said no. Now there'sa big headline saying no, jd Vance
did not have AP fact check.Jadvance did not have sex with a couch.
So you know, there's another there'sanother quote, another line that's going
around in memes across the country oracross the internet. Nowt shaah, that
says you do not hate the mediaenough. I would like to echo that

(01:56:24):
you do not hate the media enough. Look, because this is the kind
of filth that they do. Thatterm is a dog whistle because when I
started doing Facebook Live several years ago, I somebody sent me a note about
couch. I said, I haven'tbought a couch, what are you talking
about? Next thing, I know, there were like sixteen thousand hits and

(01:56:44):
it was all it's like, theycalled all the couch whatevers. I didn't
know what was going on. Itwent viral, it did an AP after
the fact. Now again after thedamage was done, here's the ape's conclusion.
Other users specifically cited pages one seventynine to eighty one is the poort,
the book in which the story allegedlyappears, but at no point in
his memoirs advanced right about performing sexacts on coach. It was just made

(01:57:05):
up out a whole cloth, andit ran like you said, and got
a confirmation, goes viral and thenit comes out of everywhere and half of
its AI response. How many peoplewho, by the way, saw the
viral story are going to see theretraction and the oh this isn't true.
You know, a fraction of thepeople who saw the original story. So
yeah, you don't hate the mediaenough. So basically a lie gets halfway

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around the world before the truth getsa choose on that. So the story
that is exactly correct. Thank you, Mike. Let's tell you the truth,
Bob France, about the golf freewaysouthbound at Griggs. That's two left
lanes block. We're packed up fromhome depots southbound inbound. Of course,
we have that big slowdown due tothe high water at Hughes Road between Holland
and Hughes right in front of Buckey'snorthbound We just have that one left lane

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Highway three. Not much of analternate. Got a lot of high water
south of Texas City. One sixlooks like your way around. Now I've
got something smashing up on one fortysix. Let me zoom that a little
closer with the south of six fortysix northbound. IM gonna have to give
you an up close on that.Amanda from Kingwood, her first call with
us. The tree that is downon two Drive is just at Woodland Hill.

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There's an easy sixty before you turnright to the neighborhood. So up
who Wood was still he's her andthen you should be back from Kingwood Drives.
All right, Amanda from Kingwood,her very first ever banana sticker.
And I'm just getting worded. They'reabout to get that tree up and it
is gone. Let's check on twoninety at the seven fifty break at your
Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center, and Mike before you go, uh

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the uh. You know we're talkingabout lies and you know, being circling
the world and so forth. Thereare a lot of them. Told yesterday
by Vice President Kama la la lala la la la Harris about even we're
just not gonna say it. That'smy big k now y'all. I'm sorry.
I've been trying to queue that upall board as long that happens to

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be my favorite share of SoundBite.I get more requests for possum and my
fan bail. We'll do something this. I was imitating some one near and
dear to me who does that.Whenever. Yes, it is now going
to take on a new life ofits own because of come up flow there.
Sorry, there you go to clickon the trigger favre trigger finger.

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You know what I'm trying to say. All right, thank you guys.
Let's check in with Jep Borrow onemore time at the weather Channel'll see what's
happening with this rain situation. Yeah, flash flooding ongoing across parks of Harris,
Galveston, and Brazoria Counties with theflash flood warning until nine forty five.
The area under a flood watch throughthe afternoon hours is the slow moving
thunderstorms continue to produce a very heavyrainfall. We'll have a lot of standing
water on the roadways. Eighty onethe high more rain off and on tonight

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down to seventy four and a wedeweekend as showers and storms continue to push
through. Highs tomorrow and Sunday,and the loading mid eighties. We get
a chance to dry out next weekendhighs we'll hit the nineties as we head
in a Monday and Tuesday. Allright, thank you very much, Jeff.
And it is seventy five degrees nowit's your official severe weather station is
Radio seven forty k TRH. Whatyou need to know for the day ahead.
This is Houston's Morning, you broughtto you by New South Windows Solutions.

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Okay, seven fifty. Now let'sget right back onto the roads once
again and hope they're not flooded,Scott Mike. Well, I'm gonna have
to disappoint you there. Of course, the Golf Freeway we still have that.
Just that one lane getting by northboundat Holland right in front of BUCkies,
and you could take three is notmuch of an option. I've got
a lot of high water reported overthat site. One for six was the

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thing. But now tankers on theline, I Mike, southbound just before
five seventeen, we're shut down withlet's like a multi vehicle accident northbound getting
by on the feed here, allright, I see a smash both ways.
We've got downtown. We've cleared theeast text wreck that was southbound right
before it. You'll hit some breaksfrom Collingsworth north Loop six' ten.

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This is a minor wreck, butone of the vehicles is one of those
septic trucks. Westbound at Irvington.You've got backups from the Hardy Till Road.
And of course we have our debateon flashers or no flashers right from
Conrod. If you're driving in therain, light on, has it off?
Otherwise you're a minute in the trucklewithday Holly East took something about people
not using hyzard light but help forpeople to see you and for you to

(02:01:09):
see them. You know, youcould disagree with me and we're still friends.
It's the Generator Supercenter, dot Comtraffic Center. Okay, thank you
sky Mike. Overcast rain, moreheavy rain coming this afternoon high of eighty
one. It's thunderstorms overnight low seventyfour. More storms on Saturday, high
eighty two. Rain continues Sunday beforestarting to ease up maybe toward the end

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of the day on Sunday hib abouteighty seven. Then it's going to dry
out starting on Monday. But thetemperatures are going to climb Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday into the low to mid nineties. And right now we do have
seventy five degrees at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty k
t ARAH. One more look atthe headlines with shown It is now seven
p fifty two on news Radio sevenforty k TRHR. Headlines are sponsored by

(02:01:53):
Marl Mechanical. The flash flood warningsfor Harris County and parts of Rasoria and
Galveson Counties have now been extended untilnine five this morning. The Obamas,
Barack, Hussein and Michelle have givena video endorsement of Kamala Harris. The
Bitcoin conference is underway, the firstever in Tennessee. And guess what,

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Donald Trump will be making an appearance. Latest news anytime at KTURH dot com.
Our next update will be at thetop of the hour. I live
in Pasadena Sharptown, Southwest. Nexton the ten time Saving Traffic con seven
forty KTRH. I want to sharethis as we wrap up the conversation today
and the work week. It's beena wild, wild week of news stories

(02:02:36):
here on Houston's Morning News VI VICRamaswame, former presidential candidate, entrepreneur and
one of the rising stars in theconservative movement. I've got an interview scheduled
with him later for today, andhe tweeted this, This is what I'm
going to talk to him about.Take time for our side, he wrote,
to wake up to some hard realitiesfast. One. Stop calling on

(02:02:57):
Biden to step down or be forcedout. This will just give Kamala all
the benefits of running as an incumbentUS president, and she won't be any
better for America in the next fivemonths than Biden will be. Two.
Stop attacking Kamala for locking up toomany people as a prosecutor. It lends
credibility to the otherwise ridiculous claim thatshe's a law in order candidate. Three.
Stop saying that Kamala covered up tohelp Biden while also saying Kamala stage

(02:03:19):
decou to overthrow Biden. It doesn'tmake sense to play both at once,
and if we say things that don'tmake sense, we will lose votes.
Our biggest risk isn't that voters willsuddenly fall in love with Kamala. She
didn't even make it to her ownparties Iowa caucus because voters didn't like her,
despite fake enthusiasm the media tried togenerate around her even back then.

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Our biggest risk is we get distractedand forget to offer our own vision for
the future of the United States.We're going to win this thing by defining
who we are and what we actuallystand for. Merit, free speech,
self governance, in the rule oflaw. A historic landslide for Trump is
still achievable. It's up to usto seize it. Share. Wanted to
share that with you to get yourthoughts. No, well, that he's

(02:04:00):
absolutely right. Look, the RepublicanParty is not the old Republican Party,
and it's in the hands of theyouth. And I like the fact that
they come forth like this and Trumplets him have full head of esteem because
this whole age thing. You know, they thought with Kamala Harris they're going
to be able to turn the agething against Donald Trump. No, he's
surrounded by very smart, savvy peoplewho know how to move through twenty twenty

(02:04:26):
four and beyond. Yeah, andthe age thing was never the issue with
Biden, and nobody talks about that, or at least not often enough.
It's not an age thing, it'shis condition. Thing. I know ninety
year olds who are far sharper andfar more cognitively aware than Joe Biden at
eighty one. That's the reality ofit. It's not a number. Trump's
seventy eight is a different seventy eightthan Joe Biden's was, and certainly the

(02:04:46):
eighty two. So the age thingisn't it. It's a competency, we
know it. But the young ofthe world and the ones just out of
college and the one's still in college, and the ones you are getting to
vote for the first time, andthe independence who can make up their mind,
you know they are going to beswayed spot on spot on share.
It's been a great week. Ireally appreciate that. Well, I appreciate
you. Monday morning, when itlooked like we weren't going to get you

(02:05:11):
because of our issues here are technicalissues, I was a little bit freaked
out. So you well, thankyou. It is always my pleasure to
work with pros. Thank you verymuch. We'll see you next time.