Thursday, August 1st, 2024

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 08/01/24

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
It is five am. Good morning. This is Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Fryar. Among her top
stories this ep our, Trump gets ambushed by black journalists.
Texas Democrats are added again and coming up in five
to eight. A major California wine producer files chapter eleven says,
you're not drinking enough details in the minutes ahead. You're
in Houston's Morning News. First, we'll check out that Morning

(00:45):
Drive for the first time.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Got a step up.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Do your partsky Mike. We've got to do our part
right over here. Let's go to the Baytown side of
the world. And it's Spurt three point thirty, which used
to be called just Decker at one time until they
made a freeway out of it.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
This is southbound.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
It's all lanes black from Baker to Rolling Brook and
this is southbound.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's not affecting you northbound.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
But if you're trying to get to ex on mobile,
you're trying to get to one forty six.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Actually, for now you can do it. You can get
to Baker Road.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
After a while that'll become a big smash and it's
kind of a lifestyle for a week or two. Skymike
here the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
center for today, partly cloudie with the high temp at
you're right about ninety six. I think Terry's back today.
We'll talk to her about the forecast in about another
nine minutes or so. Right now, seventy eight at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It
is time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer and.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
Good morning everyone. Is now five oh two on news
radio seven forty KTRAH and our top story this hour.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
She saved my life, she says, I said, you saved
my life.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
Wow, in a sense. Donald Trump, he's in Pennsylvania for
the first time since the July thirteenth assassination attempt in Harrisburg,
and he brought on stage and thanked the woman who
created the chart that he often quips quote saved his life.
This was hours after he appeared at the NABJ, the
National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago, where hostile

(02:14):
questioners tried to sandbag him.

Speaker 8 (02:18):
A lot of people did not think it was appropriate
for you to be here today.

Speaker 9 (02:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Trump didn't back down from the appearance.

Speaker 7 (02:25):
However, First of all, I don't think I've ever been
asked a question so in such a horrible manner.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
A first question, you.

Speaker 7 (02:35):
Don't even say hello, how are you?

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Yeah, he's fought right back.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
We're going to have more.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
At five point thirty. Kamala Harris on the campaign trail
two with her second Houston stop in just a week
and telling more lies about Donald Trump.

Speaker 10 (02:52):
He intends to pass a nationwide abortion van to van
access to fundamental health care in every state.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Nope, he's never called for a national abortion ban. In fact,
he's on record as saying the Supreme Court send it
back to the states, leave it there by the way.
Harris has yet to do a news conference since her
coronation ten days ago, unlike Trump, has yet to reveal
anything about her own agenda for America if elected. Harris

(03:22):
could name pennsylgate Mania. The Harris campaign could be naming
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro her running mate next week, but
The Hill reports radicals in the Democrat party are resisting
this move because he supports Israel. It is now five
oh three Texas Democrats once again exploiting a loophole to

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send out unsolicited voter applications get your names on the
voter rolls illegally.

Speaker 11 (03:51):
A Texas Scorecard investigation finds a Democrat political action committee
is sending out voter registration forms at taxpayer expense through
the Secretary of State website. Harris County gopachair Cindy Siegel
says this is part of a broader effort by the left.

Speaker 9 (04:04):
Related to the border.

Speaker 12 (04:06):
It was to bring in people they will vote Democrats,
and additionally to bring in people who will sway the census.
But it's all about Democrats trying to get more votes
anyway that they can do it.

Speaker 11 (04:20):
Texas law restricts apps and tee ballots, but still allows
anyone to send voter registration applications without verifying who's getting them. Oreolson,
Who's Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Legislature promising to close that loophole, but not until January.
More censorship can underway every day by Google, but more
big tech companies, at least their gurus in Silicon Valley,
are supporting Donald Trump.

Speaker 13 (04:46):
Policy now has become more important than figurehead and trunk policy.
It's about low taxes, low regulation, less government, economic growth
and that is really what people are starting to gravitate
toward rather than just all the social policies.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
And tech expert Christian Briggs series is many longtime California
Democrat tech moguls are now switching sides to Donald Trump.
Is five oh five acting HPD chief Larry Satterwhite. He
told Houston City Council that the suspended cases scandal was
a systemic failure.

Speaker 14 (05:18):
The biggest feel again is that there was no follow up.
There was no checking in, There was no looking back
to say what action is going on and is it
the right thing to do and how do we fix it.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
Most of the leadership who actually implemented this lack of
personnel code they already retired from the force. In DC,
House Republicans calling out DHS over the surgeon crime against
Americans from Venezuelan illegal aliens.

Speaker 15 (05:49):
Venezuela under Nicholas Maduro is not sending their best to
the United States.

Speaker 16 (05:54):
They were releasing the convicts, the criminals, the mentally ill
into our southern border.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
That has prompted you.

Speaker 15 (06:00):
US Congressman Troy Nails from Texas to send a third
letter to Secretary Alejandro Majorkis asking for some sort of explanation.

Speaker 16 (06:07):
More Americans are dying as a result of his unwilliness,
and our borders are Kamala Harris from securing our southern
board and keeping the American.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
People, say.

Speaker 15 (06:17):
Nail says he has not received a response from any
of his letters sent to Secretary Majorkis. Jared Lewis News
Radio seven forty KHRH.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Case you were wondering. Texas Governor Greg Abbott still bussing
the illegal aliens to sanctuary cities. The mainstream media and
not saying much about it, but they're also not telling
you what the Biden administration is doing to this country.

Speaker 17 (06:39):
Federal government is now doing what's called lateral flights. They're
flying people from California and landing them and letting them
go in Texas.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Todd Binsman, with a Center for Immigration Study, says it's
hypocritical for the left to blame Republicans for the border
crisis that they actually cost it's five oh six. Sales
of food, cars, other luxury goods too are being hit
by our inflated cost of living.

Speaker 18 (07:07):
Americans are cutting back on the spending thanks to inflation
and that old stimulus money.

Speaker 19 (07:12):
And so consumers are having to watch their budgets a
bit more credit card desk on it, and that causes
consumers to start looking at the world a little differently.

Speaker 18 (07:19):
Economist doctor Ray Perriman says retailers are now having to
find ways to cut costs and get customers back, and
even if prices do come down a bit, don't expect
it to make dramatic impacts.

Speaker 19 (07:29):
Inflation coming down simply means the rate of increase is
coming down, not that you go back to where we
were a couple of years ago.

Speaker 18 (07:35):
He says, some commodities will drop to pre COVID levels,
but many will remain level or rise. On Rape Parard
News Radio seven forty KTRH five.

Speaker 6 (07:43):
O seven, the Astros avoid the suite. They beat the
Pirates five to four. They're once again tied now for
first place in the als. They're hosting Tampa tomorrow night.
I'm sureyff Rar on news radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Verrett and Sheriff Fryar
filed Chapter eleven bankruptcy and he says it's because you're
not drinking enough. I beg to differ. I am doing
my part.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh is this the younger generations?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I well, let's take a look. I think he's putting
the blame on the wrong thing. But let's take a
look at this. Let's analyze what this is, and let's
deep dive.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
Is since Texas has a good wine industry.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm right. The name of the winery is Vintage Wine
Es States fifteenth larger producer in the United States, filing
for Chapter eleven bankruptcy yesterday. The company began in two
thousand and nine when former CEO Pat Roney added two
more vineyards to the Napa Gerard Winery that he'd owned
for years. Okay, so he bought some more, So that

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means he expanded. Yeah, he expanded. He spent capital in
order to expand. He says that Americans are not drinking
as much wine generally speaking, since the end of the
COVID pandemic. During the COVID pandemic, we were getting our
drink on mainly, I guess because we didn't have anything
else to do, so we said at home, having a

(09:11):
few cocktails or a few bottles of wine. But as
you take a look through here, first of all, his
cheapest wine is about fourteen dollars a bottle. His more
upscale wine, which I think he produces more of that
is somewhere in the neighborhood one hundred and forty dollars
a bottle. I would suggest that perhaps the problem here

(09:33):
is the overall economy and inflation. People might not have
as much money to spend on one hundred dollars plus
bottles of wine as they want to be.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
The generational thing could be, you know, on my podcast
I interviewed I speak for Specs, but I also on
my podcast, I did an interview with the Specs family
and they said, it's a generational change. They're not drinking wine.
Younger people don't want to drink sit around and drink
wine like the suburban housewine.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
What do they drinking?

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Whiskeys? Cocktails?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
All right, so we're going back and best.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
Back into that. But they want sweeter you know they
like a pineapple scotch, for instance, they like this flavored stuff. Okay,
they're not really into it. And I just found that interesting.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, I find it interesting.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
Happening all across the country.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Could very well be then, and that if that's the case,
if it's a generational change in what people are buying,
then this probably will not be the first winery that
we see having issues.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
Well, just listen to the country western songs. They don't
talk about sitting around drinking wine.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
No, they don't. Five eleven die for traffic and whether
it's together. Help was that, skuy mine? I'll be happy
to help up up. Like I said, do my part
trying try to help the.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Women who sit around and drink wine.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
You want to be around them?

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Pale busted by Sheriff Fryar Again, thank you? Which way
you want to go? He's north, southwest wherever?

Speaker 20 (10:49):
Carry?

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Which way you want to go? I don't even know
you want to go?

Speaker 21 (10:53):
What?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Go west?

Speaker 20 (10:54):
All right?

Speaker 13 (10:54):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Okay, go and thank you for calling me young. Let's
go to the Katie Freeway.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Looking over at west, Let's go to Katie Mills. Wow,
you are in nice shape this morning. See if you
get up this early this morning. You could get to
the President's heads in an easy twenty six minutes.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Here Southwest Freeway.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
We're rocking along now from the fountains all the way
up into downtown.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
We'll go for the back Richmond Rosenberg. Look at you.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
You look good now. Some of you out there, like
this guy, Mike, I die. We're gonna have no constructed
this weekend. That's coming up with the closer at the
Resids River that was had to be postponed last weekend
because of the weather. But the bad thing is they
do have to do it this weekend. It starts Friday night.
It's gonna be a lifestyle before the Brazis River Bridge.
Technically it'll be from University down to Crab River Road.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
And I think that's on for a couple of months.
They'll shut the whole.

Speaker 5 (11:41):
Thing down, put everybody on the It's gonna get messy.
I won't lie. We'll talk more about that throughout the day.
And the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center. Do you
even know how to fire the megadoppler nine thousand up?

Speaker 4 (11:53):
After all that time off?

Speaker 6 (11:56):
I can do it in my sleep all night.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
That answers your question for rock katrhed Opax Defenders twenty
four hour Whether Center. Terry Smith is back shoes here,
and if you want a glass of wine with Terry,
you're gonna drink it out Doorsbirre throw some ice in there.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
Oh yeah, no joke. And we don't need.

Speaker 22 (12:10):
To fire up the mega Doppler or whatever radar that
sky Mike has because it's sunny, hot and dry today
and tomorrow. Now we may get a little bit of
rain into the weekend, but not enough to ruin anybody's
outdoor plans. So temperatures today load of mid nineties, and
tomorrow we got a little more heat. A lot of
us will be in the mid to upper nineties, and

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starting Saturday and Sunday, about a thirty percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. But our temperatures aren't going to really
change at all. We'll stay in the mid to upper
nineties over the weekend and a slight chance a twenty
percent chance of more rain Monday tupture.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Right now, seventy nine here at your officials, Severe Weather
Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's Houston's morning news,
brought to you by New South Windows Solutions. Now back
to Jimmy and Scherah with the info you need to
take on the day. So you may have heard that
President Trump had an appearance in Chicago yesterday the National
Association of Black Journalists where he was ambushed pretty much

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right from the get go. I hope he knew he
would be, yes, and I'm sure he knew he would
be as well. So give him all the credit in
the world for going into the lions Den and facing
up to it.

Speaker 6 (13:18):
Oh, by the way, it was a setup to s
did Kamala here his ways to come out and spout
more lies about him.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
And she's He was told supposedly that she would be there, Yeah,
but she wasn't. It was just him.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Then they made him wait for like thirty five minutes
because they were having problems with uh huh their screen.
She was going to do it remotely right apparently, and
then they said they couldn't get her. I mean, the
whole thing was crazy.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
The watched it, the moderators from ABC News, so you
know how unfriendly they were going to be right on
the get go. Guest one Harris Falkner from Fox was there,
so that at least there was one friendly face, But
that was about it. It got you could tell right
from the get go what it was going to be like.
And I'll share a little audio with you coming up next.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
First of issues, referees have more credibility.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
I think you're right, sky Mike. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (14:04):
The suckache has begun? Toll Bridge southbound.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
We're looking at an extra three or four minutes. It's
just one little puny lane and the text dot wall
of death we're looking at already. Now that's let me
read that again. Eight minutes okay, eight minutes. I believe
that of a drag on the southbound here Heartminbridge. Look
out pretty you are in the morning. Besides you Sherah Baytown, Tolport,
we look nice.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
And six ' ten the Sydney Sherman Bridge. What's going on? Liondale?
I see you over there.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
This is a budgplant to two twenty five. We're in
nice shape so far, we're zip and launch, So take
the Sherman Bridge. I would get on the Washburn Tunnel
before I got on the toll bridge. It's interesting anyway,
SKYMIKEE on the Generator Supercenter.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Dot Com traffic Center from our KTRH top tax defenders
twenty four hour Weather center for today, party cloudy ninety six,
Tomorrow partley cloudy ninety seven. Saturday looks like partly cloudy
near one hundred Sunday mostly Sunday right about ninety five
temp ature right now currently is nine your official severe
weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to get

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you caught up on some of our top stories this morning.
Here's Shay.

Speaker 6 (15:09):
It's five twenty one on news Radio seven forty k TRH.
Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged. New McLaughlin polling has
Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris by two points forty seven
to forty five percent. Rasmus and daily tracking has him
up by seven Delta Ceo says the crowd strike outage
and resulting Microsoft dead screens costs that airline five hundred

(15:33):
million dollars. Latest News anytime at KGRH dot com. Our
next update will be at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 10 (15:40):
In this selection the Path to the White House.

Speaker 23 (15:44):
Anything can something hit me and will happen at this
perilous moment on News Radio seven KTRH. So it was
Rachel Scott from ABC News who is the moderator. Yesterday
here she is introducing than Trump. Well quite the introduction,
by the way, and they get into it pretty much

(16:04):
right away. Well, they did get into it pretty much
right away. Let's try one more time. Evidently I was
not gentle enough. I've been told that from time to time.
I'm just not gentle enough. Let me try again.

Speaker 8 (16:15):
A lot of people did not think it was appropriate
for you to be here today.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
You have pushed.

Speaker 8 (16:20):
False claims about some of your rivals, from Nicki Haley
to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not
born in the United States.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Which is not true.

Speaker 8 (16:29):
You have told four congresswomen women of color who were
American citizens to go back to where they came from.
You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe
black district attorneys. You've attack black journalists, calling them a loser,
saying the questions that they ask are quote stupid and racist.
You've had dinner with a white supremacists.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
At your marologue resort.

Speaker 8 (16:50):
So my question, sir, now that you are asking black
supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust
you after you have used language like.

Speaker 7 (17:01):
Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been
asked a question so in such a horrible manner.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
A first question, you.

Speaker 7 (17:09):
Don't even say hello, how are you?

Speaker 9 (17:12):
Are you with ABC?

Speaker 7 (17:14):
Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network.
And I think it's disgraceful that I came here in
good spirit. I love the black population of this country.
I've done so much for the black population of this country,
including employment, including Opportunity Zones with Senator Tim Scott of

(17:38):
South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever
for black workers and black entrepreneurs. I think it's a
very rude introduction. I don't know exactly why you would
do something like that. And let me go a step further.
I was invited here, and I was told my opponent,
whether it was Biden or Kamala Old, my opponent was

(18:01):
going to be here. It turned out my opponent isn't here.
You invited me under false pretense, and then you were
half an hour la. Just so we understand, I have
too much respect for you to be late. They couldn't
get their equipment working or something I would. I think
it's a very nasty question. I have answered the question.
I have been the best president for the black population

(18:23):
since Abraham Lincoln. That's my answer, President Johnson, for you
to start off a question and answer period, especially when
you're thirty five minutes late because you couldn't get your
equipment to work in such a hostile manner.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
I think it's a disgrace. Good for him. By the way,
you heard the crowd in the background, right, every.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
Time somebody tried to applaud him. Is sound like they
got squelched, you.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Know a little bit. But the applause was there, it
was there. The reaction, the positive reaction was there. But
you would never get that by reading any of the
mainstream stories today. They make it sound like like the
audience was against him, and I didn't get that at all.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
Well, that's this dog and pony shoves you've been seeing,
you know, all this week and last week. It's just
all about personalities. It has nothing to do with substance
or with what they plan to do, right, except he's
trying to talk about what he planned.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
He trying to talk about the issues. Yeah, and we'll
get into some of those as the morning continues. Five
twenty six. It is time to take a look at
your money. Cody Dona Hall, good morning.

Speaker 6 (19:22):
Well, good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 21 (19:24):
We are kickstarting the month with earnings of focus traders
get reports from Apple.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
And Amazon today.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
How did that?

Speaker 21 (19:29):
SMP futures are up about four tenths of a percent. Yesterday,
the Federal Reserve said officials could cut rates as soon
as September. That gave a bump to the SMP, which
rose one point six percent to close.

Speaker 9 (19:40):
Out the day.

Speaker 21 (19:41):
The Dow gained ninety nine points. However, the tech having
Nasdaq led the way. Shares of chip maker Invidious searched
thirteen percent and added a record three hundred and twenty
nine billion dollars in value on a bullish analyst call.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Shares a Meta.

Speaker 21 (19:54):
Platforms hiring the pre market. Close to three point three
billion users are on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, of seven
percent from a year earlier. Meta has been spending heavily
to build a leading position in artificial intelligence and medical
bills catch almost half of insured folks by surprise. According
to Health Research Foundation Commonwealth Fund, forty five percent of

(20:16):
Americans say they've been built in the past year for
medical care that they thought was covered by their insurance.

Speaker 9 (20:21):
Coordneated on Hop.

Speaker 21 (20:22):
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Speaker 3 (20:37):
Everywhere, poins ir app more of what's happening now from
the John Morris Services Studios. It is a five point
thirty now here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett
long a sheriff ryer Longer top stories. This f are
interest rates not likely to change before September. Tabla in
Houston for a second day and coming up at five
thirty eight, Trump talks about removing the taxes on Social Security.

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Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News.
First the strict out that morning drive again. Sky Mike
is here.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
We almost have a clearboard, of course, it's hard to
keep it clear when we have three point thirty. That
big suckage over there that's going to be road construction.
It is from Baker to Rolling Brickets, all southbound lanes
coming over from I ten to one forty six, and
I give it any minute now, that's going to get
pretty tough.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
On the south loop six ' ten. What's wrong with
that truck?

Speaker 6 (21:25):
Had a possum in my fan Bill.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
That's probably it. He's on the right shoulder. This is
south Loop westbound at Gulf Gate forty five. You're coming
off the bridge. That's where all that merging craziness happens.
So let's watch out for him. We'll get a super
sized ninja there. Shortly, Skymike gets the generator of Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
From our KTRH generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center
Party Cloutie today with the high tempature right about ninety six,
we'll get you the complete forecast look all the way
through the weekend. Terry Smith joins us with that in
about nine minutes. Right now, temperature is seventy nine at
your official severe weather station, news Radio seven four forty
kt RH. It is time now for the news. Here's

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Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
Good morning, is five thirty two on news Radio seven
forty k TRACH. Our top story this hour.

Speaker 25 (22:10):
The economy is moving closer to the point at which
it will be appropriate to reduce our policy.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Rate appropriate sometime in the future. Federal resarch Air Jerome Powell.
For now, interest rates are unchanged still between five point
two five and five point five percent for lenders.

Speaker 26 (22:28):
And Sharah, even though everyone is predicting a rate cut
in September. Economist Joel Griffith says he is not so sure.

Speaker 20 (22:36):
Well, if you compare the thunder Reserve statement with the
statements they made a month ago, it actually appears as
if they are less sure of a great cut next month.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Why is that?

Speaker 26 (22:47):
Because despite the spin, the economy is not getting better.

Speaker 20 (22:52):
We have lower economic growth, losing full time jobs, and
we continue to see inflation well in excess of the
Futterer Reserves target rate of two percent.

Speaker 26 (23:01):
But there is still time for a rate cut, just
in time to help the Dems before the election, Jeff Biggs,
News Radio seven forty katr h.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
And also just in time for the election to get
those votes. White House is going to be emailing two
million people next week telling them that they could possibly
qualify for student debt loan debt relief. Okay, the courts
repeatedly have ruled these ruling party schemes are unconstitutional, so

(23:32):
they're sending out emails instead. Biden administration claims the economy's
rolling consumer sentiment continuing to drop. Former Trump administration economic
advisor Kevin Hassett says he's stunned that Treasury Secretary Janet
Yellen is going along with this.

Speaker 27 (23:49):
I'm very disappointed to Janet.

Speaker 25 (23:51):
I never expected that you would be this person who's
just out there spewing propaganda.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
Yep, we're going to have another temperature check of sorts
on our economy tomorrow the July employment numbers. Don't forget,
these come from the government, and they get tweaked all
the time. Five point thirty three is our time. A
busy day of campaigning for Donald Trump. He actually answered
the invitation to meet reporters to do a Q and
A at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago,

(24:20):
and boy did he trigger the haters. Whoo.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
She was always of Indian heritage and she was only
promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until
a number of years ago when she happened to turn black,
and now she wants to be known as black.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
Trump also confronted the opening interviewer, an ABC person, over
her route attempts to maliciously define him, and there's reaction.

Speaker 17 (24:46):
Trump never backs down from a challenge, and unlike his opponent,
will gladly talk to the press even if it's a
hostile interview.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
That's Fox's Judge Janine Piro. Kamala Harris is refusing to
do any interviews with reporters right now. Trump also rallied
in Pennsylvania for the first time since the July thirteenth
assassination attempt. He was in Harrisburg in an indoor arena.
We'll have more on that at six am. Kamala Harris
came back to Houston, second time in a week. She's

(25:15):
campaigning on nothing more than rhetoric and showbiz.

Speaker 10 (25:19):
It was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Speaking to a gathering of black sorority people. Harris attending
service today for the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. She also,
as I just said, hasn't held a news conference since
being anointed the Democrat nominee for president. Recent Gallipoli shows
young women, though eighteen to twenty nine, are way more

(25:47):
likely to identify as liberal compared to all the other
demographic groups.

Speaker 28 (25:54):
Liberals, many of which are women, they bill in many
respects that they don't know. They're constantly told in the
colleges that they attend, and the people that they spend
time with perhaps are people they listen to on social
media that they don't need bed Yep.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
There you go. Christian Collins with the Texas Youth Summit
says our culture must recapture values here at home. The
Houston City Council delayed that vote on an ordinance to
ban protesters from gathering outside private homes, something that has
happened to Mayor John Whitmire.

Speaker 29 (26:28):
You go to dinner with four friends whose cars are
parked in front of your house, so you get back
home at nine to thirty. You ought to see the
challenge to get to their cars because they surround them.
They're at your front door, so how welcome you over?

Speaker 6 (26:43):
The ordinance has been tabled for two weeks, at least
one council member tabling and expressing concern for the rights
of the protesters. It is now five point thirty six
out of the playbook. New warnings about potential Russian interference
in the election, specifically on social media.

Speaker 30 (27:03):
This is starting to sound like a repeat of the
twenty sixteen election.

Speaker 31 (27:06):
Anybody's out there saying that the Russian government is going
to tip this election toward one candidate or the other.

Speaker 27 (27:12):
I just don't buy that.

Speaker 30 (27:13):
Political strategist Brendan Steinhauser told KTRH he doesn't think Russian
bots online will actually change voters' minds.

Speaker 31 (27:19):
There's really no indication that they've been able to persuade
anyone of anything. Their goal is to create confusion and
so discord, and that's about it.

Speaker 30 (27:28):
Steinheuser says voters just need to be careful about where
they get their news and information from. Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty k trh meantime.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
In real conflict, Iran's Ayatola Ali Hamani has reportedly ordered
a direct attack against Israel retaliation for the assassination of
the Hamas leader Ismael Haneya Warhawks. South Carolina Senator Lindsay
Graham wants Israel to hit Iran where it hurts most.

Speaker 32 (27:56):
I'm not surprised they showed up on the Padre Island
sea shore. If you give them eight or ten more generations,
they may just develop guilts.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
Let me try it again.

Speaker 9 (28:05):
Destroy the oil refineries and they will knock this off.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
I wasn't gentle enough, That was Graham with kg h'
Sean Hannity, the accused mastermind of the nine to eleven
terror attacks, going to avoid the death penalty. Three of
the nine to eleven suspects still held in Guantanamo Military
Base have agreed to plead guilty and they will be
sentenced on Monday. It is five thirty eight. Now, well,

(28:31):
they invaded from Mexico, the population exploded across the state,
and now growing feral hog population is becoming a concern
on the national seashore of South Padre Island. Here's the
sound I hit wrongly.

Speaker 32 (28:45):
I'm not surprised they showed up on the Padre Island seashore.
And if you give them eight or ten more generations,
they may just develop gills and go right into go
from Mexico.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
Spurt Talk seven nineties Dug Pike. He says, the hogs
go anywhere there's food. I'm sure. Refriar News Radio seven
forty KGRH.

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The know, all the information in real time and.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Again the now right now News Radio seven JGRH.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
If you are nowhere near getting your Social Security this
is not a story you probably care that much about,
but maybe you should be, because this is a change
that could not just impact people who are collecting Social Security,
but those who will be collecting social Security in the
next five to ten years. President Trump came out yesterday

(29:39):
and he talked about social security the way he talked
about waiters and waitresses and their tips.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
Tax on tips.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
You should not be taxed on those, he said. And
he said the same thing about social Security for seniors.
For seniors, you should not be taxed on your Social Security. Now,
he didn't get any h income right on your income.
He didn't get any real specifics here. Because there's there's
people who well, let's let's put it this way. There

(30:05):
are people who are just collecting Social Security and that's
their main income. There are people who are still working
but are collecting Social Security.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Paying into Social Security.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
In addition to paying paying any income tax on this
Social Security, they are also you know, paying into the
Social Security program even though they've started collecting in there.
In some cases they're over the age of seventy and
have maxed out their benefits. Should they Should you still
be paying into I mean, we can have that discussion.
Should you still be paying in to Social Security because

(30:34):
you are still working? I mean, if I were the
federal company, I say thank you for generating some income
for us, thank you for continuing to work. You already
paid your Social Security.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
Taxes all those years on your wages.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah, you really shouldn't have to pay any more taxes
on that. That's how far I'd like to see it go.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
I just think it's a trend. He didn't he didn't
go into specifics, but you know, it's kind of like
he called for. He calls for things because he will
do them. Sure, unless he gets all kinds of pushback
from Congress and he can't be done, he'll do it
to the extent that he can. Sure, like the ball
building the wall, right, you know, he got shut down
by the Congress. But you know, Okaya, don't take tax tips,

(31:15):
don't tax social Security income. Well, he's moving towards doing
a way with income tax totally. I really believe this.
I believe that if Donald Trump is elected president, he
will ultimately eliminate the federal income tax.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, that is going to be very, very difficult to do,
especially in four years. Well, it'll be very I mean
you're talking about you know, you're talking about a monumental
shift when.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
He opens up tariffs, when he opens up commerce again
and he brings in more by retaining the tax cut.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Do you think he will talk about replacing him with
something else. Yeah, what a national sales tax?

Speaker 18 (31:51):
Tariffs?

Speaker 6 (31:51):
That's how we paid that. Before we had Social Security,
it was tariffs on foreign goods coming into our country.
We paid for everything. We did an institute, so we
did an institute income text.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
I'd have to I'd have to see the math on that.

Speaker 6 (32:03):
Read this stuff. I mean, i'd have.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
To see the math on that, and whether that's even
feasible anymocas. The federal budget is not what it was
when we used to raise money that way go into it.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
But this is where he wants to go. This is
where he wants to lead. So he's out there saying it.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
There we go, all right, trafficking weather together. Let's check
out the drive again.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
Hey, Mike, dude, all right, this is what We've got
a couple of vehicles. I'll tell you what if we
were going to put stalled vehicles in a little place
like like we were having a chessboard and we were
trying to keep you from getting to work on time.
These are some good spots here. This is the North
Freeway southbound at the Beltway. You really don't want to
stall on that interchange rip. And it's right there, So
watch out. If you're coming down from nineteen sixty you're

(32:45):
trying to catch a plane. I would tell you to
take the Hardy Airport connector, but I'm trying to keep
that as a secret. And also the East Text Freeway
will Clayton Parkway. Love to hear from Uber Mike shortly,
but that's a better route to Bush Airport six ten
north Loop westbound. Let me try to figure out which
way you're going there. You are north Loop westbound, the
direct connector, it connects to iten. That's a bad spot

(33:07):
for a stall. That's going to mess things up. And
also let's go to the Southwest Freeway here, let's do
tip line seven one three two one two T I
p s.

Speaker 33 (33:16):
S forts Guy Mike north bound from Sugarland, right past
the six ten loop. There's a large et wheeler postal
truck accident with the smaller vehicles.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Everybody looks fine, liking sales, but.

Speaker 33 (33:28):
I presume there'll be a backup.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yeah, I see that smash now and the rest of
the media should have that shortly that Southwest Freeway northbound
at the west Loop, Terry. That guy gave me a
great call. He forgot two things. Can you think of?

Speaker 27 (33:40):
What?

Speaker 4 (33:40):
What do you forget to South? Tell me his name
the boot bam right there and all on.

Speaker 9 (33:44):
His shoe side.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
No, no, no, where he's from. Well I loved to know.
But it's a great call. Thank you so much. Yeah,
tell us who you are and represent your community.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
If you will.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Skymike here and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center
from r ktr H Generator super Center twenty four with
the center of this on Terry Smith and the longness
we're doing us.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Bring on the hazes and the hot and the human
Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 22 (34:05):
Mean here it is first day of August, and it's
acting like August. But a little more heat and humidity
is on the way as we head into the weekend,
and sobrine as well.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
So you are going to be feeling it even.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
More so starting tomorrow.

Speaker 22 (34:17):
Today, still plenty warm, but you know, typical August warm
load of mid nineties. Tomorrow, temperatures in the load to
upper nineties, most of us mid to upper nineties. I
wouldn't be surprised if we start talking heat advisories tomorrow
and Saturday as well.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 22 (34:34):
We've got a thirty percent chance of some thunderstorms, but
the temperatures in the mid upper nineties, so it's really
not cooling us off. And Monday are twenty percent chances
of getting wet.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Right now seventy eight at your officials, Severe Weather Station,
News Radio seven forty KRH. What you need to know
for the day ahead. This is Houston's Morning News, brought
to you by New South Windows Solutions. So last night
in Houston City Council, Acting Houston Police Department Chief Larry
Satterway presented City Council with the final report on the

(35:03):
origin and cause of the suspended lack of personnel code
that has caused such an embarrassment to the department. We'll
talk to Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union
about that coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together,
Starting with you, skuy Mike, I'm going to pitch from.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
The stretch here all right, Southwest Freeway clear the postal truck.
Your check is on the way Southwest Freeway inbout the loop.
That's out of the way. You knew about it first
listening to us. I've got north Sam what's going on there? Oh,
it's that stall southbound forty five at the North Sam
We've started that spackle at Alding Westfield already and I'm
bringing hazardous cody with your ship channel Bridge update at

(35:39):
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Speaker 3 (35:46):
Hazy sunshine today with the high ninety five, hazy hont
and humid tomorrow with the high ninety seven right now
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Speaker 6 (36:00):
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(36:21):
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Speaker 3 (36:36):
All the information in real time and again the now
Right now News Radio seven KGRH five fifty three is
our time here in Houston's morning news. Right we have
a forty three page report presented the City Council last
night here to talk about it with us. It was
presented by the way, by Acting Police Chief Larry Satterwhite

(36:56):
on the use of the sl code, the lack of
inability to investigated to a lack of personnel. Doug Griffith
joins us with the Houston Police offers a union to
react to all this. I don't know if you've seen
the report at this point yet, Doug or not, but
can we gather from the report who ultimately was responsible
for doing this? Yes, sir.

Speaker 34 (37:18):
According to the research that the city has done, they
believed that it was a former assistant chief that went
in and developed this code after a just tax report
from twenty fourteen. In the twenty fourteen report, they discuss
that you have to capture the data on how many
cases are unworked because of a lack of manpower. So

(37:40):
the original code was developed as a way to show
that we were short of manpowered in investigative divisions. The
problem is that it morphed into every aspect of investigations,
which it should have never done. It was supposed to
be for property crimes only property crimes, financial crimes, things

(38:01):
in which there was not a person on person crime.
The problem is we had people in place that were,
you know, for whatever reason, let it expand into sex crimes,
family violence, major assaults.

Speaker 27 (38:18):
It should have never happened.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Two murders in there too.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Two murders in there.

Speaker 34 (38:21):
Yeah, well that's that's a little odd because they're not true,
like I went up and shot someone.

Speaker 20 (38:29):
Murders.

Speaker 34 (38:29):
These are odd, like it was a vehicular crimes incident
and it turned into an investigation.

Speaker 27 (38:36):
That led to a murder charge. Okay, so there is
a little bit odd.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
So the intent was really to highlight the fact that
there was a lack of enough personnel in order to
follow up on crime, but it had the unintended effect
of looking like crime numbers were coming down, which the
mayor touted for months and if not years, correct.

Speaker 34 (38:58):
Correct, And that's part of the problem is people have
to understand the community's going to have to understand we
have over two hundred less officers today, with over four
hundred less civilian positions available today then we had ten
years ago.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
So the problem is going to continue.

Speaker 34 (39:18):
We're not going to be able to investigate every crime
that comes across the desk. We've got officers that are
swamped with forty cases a week a week, so there's
no way to properly investigate a lot of those crimes.
So we have to come up with some other way
to start working these, especially the personal person crimes. Understand,

(39:40):
we're still not going to get to a lot of
these property crimes because we have thousands of those cases
every month as well as like the breaking into vehicles,
we have thousands of us every month. There's absolutely no
way we're able to investigate all of those. Well, the
thing that is just the reality of the situation.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Yeah, and the thing that's said about all of this, Doug,
is is that the answer to the problem is, of
course hiring more officers. But that's been an ongoing problem
that doesn't seem to be going away. It's not because
we won't pay police officers. It's just that we don't
have enough people who want to do the job.

Speaker 27 (40:12):
That's it.

Speaker 34 (40:13):
You know, over the last couple of years, you've seen
the decline across this country because it is a noble profession.
But officers are vilified on a regular basis over one
incident that may take place across the country, or.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
The courts let the guy go. You make the arrest,
and the courts let the guy go.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Even more frustrating, Well we have, you know, we have
tons of that.

Speaker 34 (40:34):
We've screamed about that for years now.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
All right, Douge, Well keep fighting the good fight, and
we'll chief checking in with you. Doug Griffith of the
Houston Police Officers Union. It's five fifty seven.

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Speaker 3 (41:06):
Six on one is our time, Houston's Bonning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer, Lounger Top Stores, A
far Trump gets ambushed by black journalists. Texas Democrats are
at it again and coming up at six eight the
new definition of what is old age details in the
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Boning News. First, we're checking
out that morning drive again. Sky Mike's here, Hey, Jimmy Shareff,

(41:28):
put on your hard hats.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
We are going to the hard work in east Side
and I'll I'll just lead off right here seven one
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Speaker 20 (41:37):
Got Mike, Dude, Tollbridge is backing up with the ship.

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Change easy uh suconde level of Kerbert Schuber's backed up
for one hundred years, all.

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seven forty KTRH. It is time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 6 (42:24):
Good morning. Everyone is now six pot two on news
radio seven forty KTRH and our top story this hour.

Speaker 9 (42:31):
I should not be with you today.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
I shouldn't be with you, but I am.

Speaker 6 (42:36):
Donald Trump returning to Pennsylvania for the first time since
the July thirteenth attempted assassination. He was rallying in Harrisburg
in a packed indoor arena of thousands.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
Seniors should not pay taxes on Social Security, and they won't.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
They won't.

Speaker 6 (42:58):
Trump also promised a return to his signature outdoor rallies.
He spoke at the NABJ. He went to be questioned
along with his opponent, but no no one showed. Just
Trump National Association of Black Journalists Summit in Chicago yesterday,
and yes, he was treated very rudely by the journalist

(43:21):
questioning him.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.
I love the black population of this country. I've done
so much for the black population of this country.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
I'm going to have more than this. At six point thirty.
Kamala Harris's campaigned in Houston yesterday took her shots at
Trump before a group of black sorority sisters.

Speaker 10 (43:46):
The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth,
a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
Second time in a week, Harris the Borders Are has
been to Texas without an actually going to the border.
She was greeted so very warmly when she came though
by Rodney Ellis and the Democrats who basically control Harris County.
Real consequences of enabling the invasion of our country meantime
that we suffer. The Biden Harris so called Safe Mobility

(44:17):
Office initiative in May of last year supercharged immigration from
very socialist Latin America, specifically Venezuela, granting refugee status to
twenty one thousand people from seven different countries. It's now
six oh four. A political action committee associated with Beto
o'roorkir has been sending out unsolicited voter registration applications and

(44:43):
using a state website and taxpayer funded postage. Harris County
GOP chair Cindy Siegel warrens it's another example of Democrat electioneering,
which is illegal.

Speaker 12 (44:56):
Democrats push the envelope every way that they can and
as Republicans have to stay one step ahead of them,
because even if you're in a red county, they're coming
for you. You just can't be complacent.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
Yes, as long as you can get those registrations, those names,
then you can get ballasts. She says, Republicans are going
to have to insist that state lawmakers finally clue close
a loophole in our state law that allows us to happen.
But it won't happen until January at the earliest. For decades,
Democrats account on having big tech moguls in their back pockets.

(45:32):
This time around, though, there is a shift underway.

Speaker 26 (45:36):
And Sharra California RNC Committee woman are meet Dylan tells
Katy or H this is a first.

Speaker 35 (45:44):
I've been in Silicon Valley practicing law since two thousand
and this is the first election cycle where I can
say that any appreciable number of tech leaders ultimately supported
a Republican Canada for president.

Speaker 26 (45:54):
A truly seismic shift in Silicon Valley.

Speaker 35 (45:58):
It's a huge shift. Even see one do it, and
now we're seeing dozens of people step forward, and I
couldn't be more happy about that. It's up to us
Republicans to prove that we can take that confidence.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty kt ORH.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
It's now six oh six. We haven't been hearing a
whole lot about it that you might want to know
that Texas still bussing illegal aliens to Democrat run sanctuary cities.

Speaker 30 (46:25):
Now the left is blaming Abbot for the crisis in
these sanctuary cities.

Speaker 17 (46:28):
His bussing program is entirely voluntary. In other words, he's
just providing free bus fare to people that we're going
to go there anyway.

Speaker 30 (46:37):
Todd Bensman with the Center for Immigration Studies says Abbot
isn't the only one sending illegal aliens to these cities.

Speaker 17 (46:43):
The Biden administration is flying people into these cities by
the tens of thousands from foreign countries directly in.

Speaker 30 (46:52):
Bensman says it's hypocritical for Dems to criticize Abbot for
sending buses while Biden sends entire planeloads of illegal aliens.
Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven KTRH six.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
So six is our time. We'll talk about your boomerangs.
The inflation running away means Americans are having to pull
back on spending not just on food, but cars and
even luxury items. Economists. Doctor Ray Perriman says, this leads
to some big decisions for the retailers. What are they
going to be able to sell? Not to mention, what

(47:23):
can you import? What can you manufacture? It's a double
edged sword.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
Some of them will lower process.

Speaker 19 (47:30):
Certainly, their profit builty will go down to some extent
that will lead them to do some cost cutting. If
it gets to a pre severe situation, you'll probably see
quite a few mergers and that sort of thing to
try to be more efficient and cut costs.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
Mergers means some people go out of business, many people
lose their jobs. Prices, he says, well, they may drop,
but they're never going to get back to pre COVID levels. Nope.
More big box retailers no longer allowing us to pay
by check.

Speaker 20 (47:57):
Target actually stopped accepting paper checks in mid July. We've
seen similar moves from the likes of Whole.

Speaker 36 (48:04):
Foods and all the old Navy and Lululemon.

Speaker 6 (48:09):
Bank rates. Ted Rossman there Astros b Pittsburgh five to four,
So we're once again tied for first place in the
American League West with the Mariners. And Astros would be
hosting Tampa Bay tomorrow night. I'm Sherby Fryer on news
radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 27 (48:25):
Hi, let's talk radio all the time.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
The world doesn't wait for.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
You to clock out.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
You usually have it on all day at work.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
So check in office day up to date with used
radio seven forty KTRH. It's funny how you get older.
The definition of old changes, isn't it? It really is.
So I looked this up because I thought I saw
a story that said that people, generally speaking, people think
of over the age of seventy seventy one plus as
being old age. They've shifted that up now to seventy four.

Speaker 6 (48:56):
Why seventy four?

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I have no idea. I think it has well. First
of all, people generally are living longer, and I think
people also are acting younger as they age compared to
previous generations. I would like to think I'll be a
lot cooler seventy year old than my dad was at
seventy and his father was at seventy, et cetera, et cetera.
But I decided to look it up here because I

(49:18):
thought something tells me there's gonna be a wide variety
of answers as to what old age is, and as
it turns out, according to this side, anyway, sixty or
sixty five years of age or older is considered old age.
That is, according to again, it's a floating definition depending

(49:42):
on the National Institute of Health considered that sixty over
the age of at least sixty five is old age.
I don't consider sixty five to be old age at
this point.

Speaker 6 (49:52):
Well, that's when you qualify for Medicare, so inn I
age there you government.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Now government, there you go, a government definition sectuary. But
I also found that they are now subdividing old age
into three different groups. The young old people who are
sixty five to seventy four, the middle old people who
are seventy five to eighty four, and the old old
I mean the really old.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
Yeah, the people who live past one hundred.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
People over the age of eighty five. Yeah, Twellfife's the
real old. That seems about right to me. Six '
ten Time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Did you know the oldest person in America that you
know that we have documented lives right here in Houston.

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Somewhere we'll turn Yeah, just turned one hundred.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
I think she's I believe Independence Heights.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
I think it's crazy to think about how the world
has changed in one hundred and thirteen years.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Can you imagine what her joints must feel like. I mean,
I'm this old and I feel like and probably has
trouble operating a phone too.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
We look pretty All the local TV shows were showing
are a bit lying in.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Bed, live a good life, finding your father and mother.
All right, let's go downtown. I sixty nine East Text,
the elevated. That's a lot of spackle.

Speaker 11 (50:59):
Now.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
I wish old Al from Kingwood would get on the
East Text. Now, while it's a little more navigable, it's
an extra two or three minutes southbound.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
He'll be griping at about an hour from now.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Let's see, let's go to the toll Bridge. Yeah, that's
a big cram up southbound after it. I would jump
on the Sherman Bridge if I were you. Hartman Bridge
looks good both ways from Baytown to Laporte. You've got,
speaking of joints, you've got forty five southbound at the Beltway.
Don't be nervous. Bus southbound at the ramp. I've got
a stall right there in an Interchange. Also a stall

(51:32):
on the north Loop westbound. That's the direct connector if
you're trying to get from the heights to Iten.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
What's the beltway like northbound? All right?

Speaker 5 (51:39):
Westbound that's Aldan Westfield and then an Imperial Valley.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
It's all roadwork.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
From KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour with the center.
Terry Smith is here looking for cooler temperatures, but they're
not going to find them in August, are you no?

Speaker 22 (51:59):
I mean, you know, well, a degree or two is
not going to make a big difference. And that's the
only kind of cooler weather we may get over the weekend.
And that's because we've got some clouds and rain that
may limit how much the temperatures warm up in the afternoon.
So we're sunny, hazy, and dry today and tomorrow load
to mid nineties today, Tomorrow most of us in the

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mid to upper nineties. The humidity becomes more of a
factor as the temperature's heat up.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 22 (52:26):
The heat indecks could reach one hundred and eight or
higher starting tomorrow. Thirty percent chance of those showers and
thunderstorms Saturday and Sunday at a twenty percent chance of
rain Monday. We stay in the mid to upper nineties
from the weekend into early next week.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Debit right now, seventy eight at your officials Severe Weather station,
News Radio seven forty ktrh use traffic and weather. You're
starting your day right with Houston's Morning News, brought to
you by New South Windows Solutions. So the Feds are
expected to leave interest rates alone until it least September.
But once you start getting around September, October, November, then

(53:08):
you're talking election cycle. So how partisan is the Fed?
Will they start lowering interest rates regardless of the economy
just to try to help the Democrats win? Well, Doctor
Joel Griffith about that research Fello at the Heritage Foundation.
In just a couple of minutes, First love, we have
traffic and weather together. That starts with skymke all.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
Right, I've got your east text freeway been from a
task Casita.

Speaker 33 (53:27):
I'm Mike Alden Meyrold A lot of break like up
and go to graphic.

Speaker 5 (53:31):
So far that's just looking like usual fished anchory on
the east text.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
You lose about two or.

Speaker 5 (53:36):
Three but I'll double check that, Kelly Lamark.

Speaker 36 (53:38):
To night, we're sitting at a dead stop at the
Emancipation exits.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
All right, that's northbound Golf Freeway. We'll check out and
see what's going on. I see a solid front door
at sixty nine. We'll get some laneage at six thirty
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Hazy sunshine today about ninety five, hockeybid ninety seven Tomorrow
Saturday party clouding near one hundred. We have a thirty
percent chance of a shower storm. Another chance of a
shower storm with sunshine for most of the day on Sunday,
and I ninety five. Right now, it is still seventy
eight at your official severe weather station. News Radio seven

(54:17):
forty KTRH. Time to check out some of our top
trending stories on this Thursday morning, Bear Share six.

Speaker 6 (54:23):
Twenty one now on news Radio seven forty k t RAH.
The Fed gives its clearest signal yet that it's close
to cutting interest rates. The civil trial connected to the
Santa Fe shooting, the mass shooting there in twenty eighteen.
Opening statements took place yesterday, global economy sinking in the
past four years. Johnny Walker, the world's top Scotch distiller,

(54:45):
saw its first decline in sales numbers since twenty twenty.
Latest News anytime at KGRH dot com. Our next update
is at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
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Speaker 33 (54:59):
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Speaker 3 (55:04):
Never sounded so good. Six twenty three. As I said,
let's talk about with Joel Griffith with the Heritage Foundation.
FED is meeting, of course this week. They're expected to
leave interest rates alone. In fact, I'm hearing maybe they
leave them alone until September. But as we get to September,
we start getting close to the election.

Speaker 20 (55:22):
W Joel, Well, the election is getting closer indeed, and
there's a lot of talk about whether or not that
said will lower interest rates. I really don't believe the
decision will be politically motivated. You know, we've seen these
rates on pause. If anything, honest that the rates should
be higher at this point because the FED has not
completed it so called mission of returning our long term

(55:45):
interest rates. I'm sorry, our long term inflation rate to
just two percent. We're still tracking significantly above that. Year
over year, we're at three percent, and indications are that
those inflation rates could begin to rise again, especially with
governments spending continue to grow and our all time borrowing levels.

(56:07):
We're approaching the COVID levels as far as annual borrowing,
which is going to put further pressure on those rates
of our government is required to borrow more to stay afloat.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
Yeah, they had to borrow more. The government has to
pay these interest rates. But who's the government to have
the interest rates come down? Because they have to pay
these interest rates too. A lot of this borrowing is
going to pay off our interest.

Speaker 20 (56:31):
Absolutely the interest right now in the debt rivals we
spent on our military and it's an excess of twelve
thousand dollars per year per family just on the interest
all loan. So whether or not the said lowers rates
by quarter point or half a point later this year,
that will actually have very little impact on our true

(56:53):
economic growth. And our economic growth over the last several
years especially has been lower than the long term average
that we grew used to, and that's in large part
because our government is draining more resources from the private sector.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Now you mentioned a moment ago Joel that interest rates
actually should be higher because the interest you know, the
interest rate needs to reflect for what's still going on
with inflation. Is that politically motivated?

Speaker 20 (57:18):
Even on this I don't believe it's politically motivated. But
the situation that we are in today was created because
of politics, and speaking namely of what happened during the
last part of President Trump's presidency when we exploded the
federal budget to supposedly counter COVID, we grew far beyond
our means. We spent record levels, and the Fed printed

(57:42):
a lot of money to buy government debt in order
to fund those government operations. And here's the cats here.
When you print all of those dollars, that in and
of itself is inflationary, But money has a multiplier effect
when it's deposited in the bank.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
And went down.

Speaker 20 (57:57):
Every dollar that is created in effect turn into ten
dollars as it's went top by a bank, counted as
a deposit, and then deposited another bank and lent out.
It's it's very problematic. And what the FEAT is trying
to do with these interest rates is contained the problem
that they created, along with the politicians.

Speaker 6 (58:14):
Yeah, started as a trickle though, Let's give you story
about it started as a trickle, but passing things in
the dead of night, continuing to explode the economy and
the printing is what has happened in the last three
and a half years.

Speaker 20 (58:28):
Yes, yes, and now we're trying to contain that problem.
Its rates go down like any other product rate. If
the price of a good goes down, that will stimulate demand.
If the price of money goes down, the interest rate,
it is going to stimulate demand for people to borrow
more and that could lead to inflation getting out of

(58:49):
control once again.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Yeah, exactly like a catch twenty two. All right, Joel,
thank you, appreciated. Research fellow with the Airtach Foundation, Joel Griffith.
It is six twenty six. It is time to take
a look at your money. Here's Courtney Dona Hope.

Speaker 21 (59:02):
Well, good morning, Jimmy. Stocks jumped yesterday, with the SMP
gaining one point six percent text Sword on the day,
rallying the most in February, who was led by a
stunning rebound for Nvidia and other semiconductor stocks. Earnings continue
to pour in today with all eyes on reports due
form Apple and Amazon. SMP futures are up four tenths
of a percent this morning, oil gaining seventy eight dollars

(59:23):
a barrel. Aron was reported to have ordered a retaliatory
strike on Israel for killing a Hamas leader on its soil. Meantime,
demand for gasoline has jumped to the high since twenty
nineteen assigned the summer driving season started off strong. The
oil market closely monitors demand during the summer in the
US for clues about global consumption, and McDonald says it's
five dollars meal deal is driving a notable bump in

(59:45):
foot traffic. The burger giant says more diners have tried
the deal than the company expected, and lower income households
are showing the most interest. The deal includes a m
Chicken or mcdouble, four nugget, small fries, and a drink.
I'm Corney, Donahoe Bloomberg. Business on news radios r H.

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Six thirty is air time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer, Bunger Top Stores.
This f our interest rates not likely to change before September.
Tamala in Houston for a second day and coming up
at six thirty eight. Why we have a supply problem
with orange juice? Details in the minutes ahead here in
Houston's Morning News. First, let's strick out that morning drive again.

(01:00:41):
Here's skuy Mike, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Been from a task to see to the east text.
It's just it's like that sometimes. So we're a little
squished now round all demail route.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
That's normal.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
Then you'll really hit a wall o breaks at equipment.
You lose about two or three down to the big
George Kelly from Lamark showed me a backup on the
Golf Freeway northbound. This is the text definition. Are the
textbook definition of toe treckx ninja in something Because we
had some sort of stall right there at the east.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
Text before we could even see it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
It's gone backed up still northbound from u of H
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center
hazy sunshine today with the high temperature right about ninety five.
We'll get to the complete forecast from Terry Smith at
the Weather Channel in eight minutes. Right now, it's still
seventy eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It is time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (01:01:34):
Good morning. Everyone is six thirty two on News Radio
seven forty KTRH. Our top story this hour. The Federal
Reserve kept interest rates where they are, but signaled a
possible cut next month, just in time for the election. Now,
Joel Griffith with the Heritage Foundation says, actually, the economy
is so bad it won't matter.

Speaker 20 (01:01:54):
I don't believe even if the said we're to lower
the rate that this will be a loose to either
of the can so that'll have any immediate discernible impact
on the economy.

Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
Next FED meeting will be on September seventeenth. Another election
ploy here. The White House is going to tell two
million people next week that they could qualify for student
loan debt relief and do it by email. Courts have
repeatedly ruled against the constitutionality of this administration doing this.

(01:02:25):
It's illegal, but I guess sending the email isn't. White
House keeps claiming the economy is great, consumer sentiment keeps dropping.
Former Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett just shakes his head.
He just kind of understand this disconnect by the powers
that be.

Speaker 25 (01:02:42):
I just don't know, like where these people find the
gumption to go out there and be so partisan, but
also to reveal themselves as not using their brains.

Speaker 6 (01:02:51):
July jobs numbers come out tomorrow from the government, along
with the revised numbers they'll give us for June. It
is now six thirty three. Donald Trump of the campaign trail.
He hit two different venues yesterday, the NABJ conference in Chicago,
the National Association of Black Journalists, where he tried to

(01:03:12):
talk about his track record of helping African American communities.

Speaker 7 (01:03:18):
I've done so much for the black population of this country,
including employment, including opportunity zones.

Speaker 6 (01:03:28):
Not only was he treated rudely by the news people
who were acting as the questioners, he had to deal
with protests outside the venue. Welcome Meantime, at his rally

(01:03:49):
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, had a much different tone. You'll hear
that at seven am Kamala Harris came back to Houston
second time in a week, trying to tie Trump something
he really has no connection too.

Speaker 10 (01:04:04):
You may have seen their agenda. They call it Project
twenty twenty five, right, and it is a nine hundred
page agenda of extremism.

Speaker 6 (01:04:14):
H Trump repeatedly has denied having anything to do with
Project twenty twenty five. It was connected to the Heritage Foundation,
a group of conservatives, what they suggested should be done
to take the country back. By the way, the head
of that project resigned from Heritage yesterday. She come as
no surprise. Young women are way more liberal than young

(01:04:37):
men are.

Speaker 15 (01:04:39):
According to a Gallup survey, forty percent of women ages
eighteen to twenty nine say they're liberal, compared to just
twenty five percent of young men.

Speaker 28 (01:04:47):
They are told often to look down on them, and
so they don't want to be in this sort of
patriarchal structure.

Speaker 15 (01:04:54):
Christian Collins is founder and president of the Texas Youth Summit.
He's in favor of more traditional roles and relationships for
men and women to try and change the youth culture.

Speaker 28 (01:05:03):
Men are supposed to do their jobs as providers and protectors,
and women are are nurturers, and when you have that
type of contract, we've seen a lot of success.

Speaker 15 (01:05:12):
Jared Lewis News Radio seven forty KHRH.

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
Well, that vote on a new ordnanced band protesters from
gathering outside people's homes in the city of Houston more
than two hundred feet inside a zone that has been delayed.
Some members showed bias in favor of the radical protesters.

Speaker 37 (01:05:33):
We have to be careful from an optics perspective to
make it seem like we're targeting one particular community.

Speaker 9 (01:05:39):
I want them to be protected.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
It's their right to protest.

Speaker 37 (01:05:42):
A lot of them that protests at the colleges, unfortunately
were arrested.

Speaker 6 (01:05:47):
Unfortunately arrested council member Letitia Plumber there. They tabled the
issue for two weeks. Six point thirty six is our time.
The Director of National Intelligence says Russia might try using
Elan musk X in order to interfere in November's election.
Oh not, there google not no X going after Alan.

Speaker 31 (01:06:10):
I think that it's definitely a hint at what the
Democrats could do to threaten regulation, to potentially shut down
speech that they disagree with, and to put pressure on
Elon and the company.

Speaker 6 (01:06:21):
You think, political strategist Brindan Steinhauser. He told KGRH Russia
is not capable of changing voters' minds. People should be
careful though, of where you get your information from. Yeah,
we're talking to you leftist who think everything you see
is true. Middle East on Fire reports say Iran Supreme

(01:06:42):
leader has ordered a direct strike now on Israel in
retaliation for the assassination of the Hamas leader Ismael Haneya.
Now Florida Republican Congressman former Green Beret Michael Wallace says, look,
the Biden administration just totally mishandled the entire least situation.

Speaker 11 (01:07:02):
They are the core root of the problem and Biden
Harris refuses to acknowledge it.

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
Waltz on Fox it's six point thirty seven. Now. Astros
avoided a sweep and they beat Pittsburgh five to four.
Last night, the Mariners loss, so the Stros once again
tied for first place in the American League West. They
play the Rays tomorrow night at Minute Made Park. And oh,
by the way, the Texans, they're going to be playing

(01:07:28):
Chicago in the preseason opener tonight. It's the Hall of
Fame game in Canton. Ohio. That kickoff set for seven pm.
I'm sureber Pryor on News radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 10 (01:07:46):
In this selection the Path to the White House.

Speaker 23 (01:07:49):
Anything can something hit me? And will happen at this
perilous moment.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
On news Radio seven k t RH. Were your street
drinker when you were a kid? Sheriff, Honey, are you
still an orange juice?

Speaker 20 (01:08:05):
All?

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Well, of course, Nasa, it was tang.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
I think it was cheaper.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
You know, I never thought tang was that good.

Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
Well, you don't know my mother if you had anything
left over, uh huh, you know, like grape juice. I
love grape juice. She always had. She loved prune juice.
She would mix it all together to make a full cup,
and you'd come breakfast and there'd be this little juice glass.
It looked like water. My mother never threw away food.
And we think this is just a hell of a

(01:08:34):
way to start today.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
For those of you who are too young to have
been raised by Depression era of parents, you have no
idea what.

Speaker 6 (01:08:42):
Kansas if you can imagine that, I mean she we
had left overnight. Oh yeah, we never threw away nothing,
never threw away nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Well, orange juice has gotten pretty pricey. And if you're
thinking it's just good old fashioned inflation, that's not really
what the problem is. There's a disease out there that
I can't even begin to pronounce. It the simple versus
called citrus greening HLB. It started in Florida but has
now spread to parts of Texas and California, and those
are the three big orange producing states in the United States.

(01:09:13):
In June, just a little over a month ago, orange
juice was about four dollars and twenty six cents per
sixteen ounces, compared to two thirty six in June of
twenty twenty, so it's gone out quite a bit. But
citrus production, it's a supply problem. There's not as much
citrus to produce out there because the disease has been
spreading and they're having a very difficult time trying to

(01:09:36):
get control over it. It's caused by a bacteria called
liber Ryebacter, which is most likely originating in Asia and
has since spread throughout the world in many citrus growing areas.
So it's start in Asia is going all across around
the planet. It's been going around the planet for a
long long time, but it's finally worked its way here.

(01:09:56):
So again, if they've known about this disease for probably
one hundred years and they haven't been able to eradicate it,
so that doesn't sound good. And by the way, there's
always a discussion about orange juice and whether or not
it's good for you. Produced orange juice obviously has high
amount of sugar in it, so it's not as good
for you as fresh squeezed orange juice. So I would

(01:10:18):
say this that there's a lot of benefits eating oranges.
It's heart healthy, it also decreases inflammation and also can
help with kidney stones. So there's a lot of health
benefits to drinking it. If you drink the versut it
isn't full of sugar. Six forty one dime for traffic
and weather together.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
Set the effects of alcohol by any chance of course,
Sky Mike, Yes, just ask make sure you have a
screwdriver tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
You'll be much healthier.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
All right, south Man, we're looking at Spur three thirty Baytown.

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
It really doesn't smashed up.

Speaker 5 (01:10:51):
I think everybody on the work inside of town has
got the memo about Spur three thirty. That's a closure
from Baker Road to Rolling Brooke. It's going to be
like that for a week or so. That's southbound north Found.
You're just fine.

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
Toll Bridge.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
We've got a scooch now southbound and extra twelve minutes
this way. While we're on the hard hat side. Rick
from the east side, dude, good.

Speaker 20 (01:11:09):
Morning, got Mike.

Speaker 33 (01:11:10):
We have a ball to battle on Frosby Freeway on
the on ramp coming up on Crosby Freeway from south
Lake Houston Park.

Speaker 5 (01:11:19):
I see that backup, But banana sticker for your hard
hat here, Rick, and I see that back up after
the beltwegh inbound.

Speaker 4 (01:11:24):
Jason from Alvin.

Speaker 36 (01:11:26):
This guy Mike big Hpe Prison's coming through downtown. They
weren't walking anything off. But if it's anything to do
with Kamala's escort two she decks. You know, it looks
like they could be doing that here pull.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
On, Oh outstanding info.

Speaker 27 (01:11:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
That must be what Kelly from Lamark was stuck in northbound.
I see from you, of h you're losing at least
five or six minutes trying to get up to ice
sixty nine explains a lot east solid breaks now from
almost Collingsworth. I will check your two eighty eight side
of the world at the six fifty break the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
From KTRH Generator super Center twenty four our Weather Center.
Time to bring on Terry Smith. How are we looking
through the weekend?

Speaker 22 (01:12:03):
Terry, A hot and humid, which you know is not
out of the norm for August. We don't have a
heat advisory currently. There are heat advisories in Boston, not
in Houston right now, but I suspect we may see
some heat advisories as we head into the weekend. Today
a sunny day, temperatures load to mid nineties, so similar

(01:12:23):
to what we had yesterday. Tomorrow though most of us
are in the mid to upper nineties. And then the
weekend there is some raine thirty percent chance of thunderstorms
Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures though are not going to change
mid upper nineties into the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
It's still seventy eight. You're at your officials, severe weather station,
News radio seven forty k TRH. You are commute, you
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We've got the timeline coming up in just a moment.
And also I need me some Senator John Kennedy, So

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I'm gonna give you some of that coming up next
talking about the investigation into the Secret Service. First, we've
got traffic and weather together. That starts with you Stemite. Yeah,
Senator Cornfuchions.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
I've got Highway ninety and let's see Rick from the
east Side gave me this problem.

Speaker 4 (01:13:11):
It's an on ramp. It's really he thought it was
a star.

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
I think it's an accident at Westlake Houston or South
Lake Houston Parkway, the entrance tramp. I've got another problem
coming in from Crosby reported right before the bridge, right
before the mud park. So if you're inbound, give me
some tip line on that seven one three two one
two tips.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Grandpa Rick from Magnolia.

Speaker 33 (01:13:30):
I'm old and proud of it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
It takes years to get this smart.

Speaker 33 (01:13:34):
Between Pitloe the airline south down.

Speaker 35 (01:13:37):
A forty five, the service road has flooded.

Speaker 33 (01:13:40):
I think it's a busted the water main. It's flowing
down the main lane between from Shepherd to the airline.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
Oh that's crazy. Let me let the rest of the
media know.

Speaker 5 (01:13:49):
This is your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weather center.
He'sy sunshine ninety five today, he'sy hot huband ninety seven tomorrow,
close one hundred on Saturday, with a thirty percent chance
of a shower storm. Right now, we have a temperature
of seventy eight. Did your officials severe weathers station? News
Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time to check out some

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of our top stories on this Thursday. Here's SCHERF six.

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
Point fifty two on News Radio seven forty KTRH. Our
headlines are sponsored by Morrol Mechanical. Donald Trump returned to
rallying in Pennsylvania last night at an indoor arena in Harrisburg,
promising to return though to Butler, the site of the
July thirteenth attempted assassination, said I'll do it soon. He
also said he's going to continue to do outdoor rallies
in order to accommodate the tens of thousands who line

(01:14:38):
up across his country to see him. A Texas rancher
sues DHS over the border disaster and the massive flood
of illegal aliens into and across his own private property,
first selection in Texas history. Held on this date seventeen
thirty one to the Mexican commander of San Antonio de
bet Presidio bablished on Caldays or councilmen to run the

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Next on the ten, how does a twenty year old
punk outsmart the Secret Service?

Speaker 38 (01:15:37):
The factor mains that a twenty year old punk outsmarted
the Secret Service.

Speaker 9 (01:15:46):
Let me say that again that I'm not a bubble racking.

Speaker 38 (01:15:50):
A twenty year old punk outsmarted the Secret Service, and
the American people are entitled to know.

Speaker 9 (01:16:00):
We had a hearing yesterday.

Speaker 38 (01:16:02):
We learned some new things, but it's still under investigation.

Speaker 9 (01:16:07):
The American people deserve answers.

Speaker 38 (01:16:09):
Point three, we got a new head of secret Secret Service.
He tried to be forthcoming yesterday, didn't answer all the
questions because he couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
But I can.

Speaker 38 (01:16:21):
Promise you this, as I promised him, I am going
to chase him like he stole my dog until he
answers the questions for the American people about what happened.
We're not gonna let this go. Look, this was a
goat rodeo. Senator Corning's question very insightful. In every case

(01:16:48):
I'm aware of when a president or former president is
speaking of this group of people like this, you have drones,
you have helicopters in the air so they can survey rooftops.

Speaker 9 (01:16:59):
That wasn't the case.

Speaker 38 (01:17:01):
Number two, we did have government snipers. Why didn't they
see this punk, this twenty year old punk assassin on
the roof a couple one hundred yards away? And if
they did seem why didn't they do something? I mean,
there are so many questions, but the Secret Service they're going.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
To answer it.

Speaker 38 (01:17:23):
Look now, now, some of my colleagues say, well, oh,
they need more money, isn't that Isn't that special?

Speaker 9 (01:17:30):
Isn't that just like government in the real world.

Speaker 38 (01:17:32):
When you screw up, you get fired in government, you
get more money because you.

Speaker 9 (01:17:37):
Must need it.

Speaker 38 (01:17:38):
No, no, no, no, somebody needs to be held accountable here.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Let's hope so well said.

Speaker 6 (01:17:44):
Is always meantime. New video released yesterday from the guy
who got shot. Yes he's the one who shot it
and you can clearly see that guy up on.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
The road plane is day. There's like I said, the
more the more you learn, the more you think it's purposeful.
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Seven AM is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett, a long with Sheriff Fryer. Among our
top stories, this fur Trump gets ambushed by black journalists,
Texas Democrats are added again, and it's seven oh eight.
Does your face change to match your name details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's morning news. First, let's

(01:20:06):
check out that morning drive once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
All right, double whammie Crosby Freeway. We've got that inbound
accident on the entrance ramp from South Lake Houston Parkway inbound,
so you've got breaks after the Beltway before you even
get there. I've got an accident reported before the San
Jacino River Bridge.

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
That's not good. North Freeway.

Speaker 5 (01:20:24):
We've got some water in the road the feeder road
looks like maybe a broken water main around Tidwell. I
have forty five southbound loose about to two or three
minutes on the main lanes. And I've got reports of
something skipping up on two ninety. We better check what
up what that problem is at the seven to ten
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From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four our weather center,
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We'll get you the complete forecast with Terry Smith at
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It's time out for the news. Here's Sheriff RAR.

Speaker 6 (01:21:01):
It is now seven oh two on news radio seven
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The top story this aur Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania
for the first time since the July thirteenth assassination attempt.
He rallied before thousands in Harrisburg and Indoor Arena, promising seniors,
by the way, he does not want them to pay

(01:21:21):
taxes on their Social Security income.

Speaker 20 (01:21:25):
They're going to.

Speaker 7 (01:21:26):
Destroy your Social Security. But I will not cut one
cent from Social Security or Medicare. And I kept my
promise for four years that I will keep it again.

Speaker 6 (01:21:37):
And he wants to promise to bring back his outdoor
rallies too. Hours after, Trump appeared at the nab J
NABJ conference in Chicago, the National Association of Black Journalists.
He was confronted by what you would expect very hostile journalists.

Speaker 8 (01:21:57):
Now that you are asking black supporters to go for you,
why should black voters trust you.

Speaker 6 (01:22:04):
Trump didn't back down, though.

Speaker 7 (01:22:07):
I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.
I love the black population of this country.

Speaker 6 (01:22:15):
And he went on to enumerate what he did while
in office for the black population we'll have more at
seven point thirty. Kamala Harris campaigning to with her second
Houston stop in a week, and boy, she used it
to just tell more lies about Trump.

Speaker 10 (01:22:31):
He intends to pass a nationwide abortion ban to van
access to fundamental health care in every state.

Speaker 6 (01:22:40):
This before a gathering of Black sorority members. Trump was
never has never called for a national abortion ban. And Harris,
you know, she has yet to actually do a news conference.
She didn't show at the NABJ and she's just relishing
her coronation over the past ten days, and she has
yet to reveal her agenda for America if elected. She

(01:23:04):
could be naming or they could be named for her.
The Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as a running mate is
going to be announced in Philadelphia next Tuesday. The Hill
reporting though, that radicals in the Democrat Party are resisting
this because Shapiro supports Israel. It's now seven oh four.
Texas Democrats once again exploiting a loophole, and they are

(01:23:27):
using it to send out unsolicited applications to vote to
the selectview they want to send them to.

Speaker 11 (01:23:37):
A Texas Scorecard investigation finds a Democrat political action Committee
is sending out voter registration forms at taxpayer expense through
the Secretary of State website Harris County gopachare Cindy Siegel
says this is part of a broader effort by the left.

Speaker 9 (01:23:50):
Related to the border.

Speaker 12 (01:23:52):
It was to bring in people they will vote Democrat
and additionally to bring in people who will the census.
But it's all about Democrats trying to get more votes
anyway that.

Speaker 9 (01:24:04):
They can do it.

Speaker 11 (01:24:05):
Texas law restricts absentee ballots, but still allows anyone to
send voter registration applications without verifying who's getting them. Coreolson,
who's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:24:16):
Well, the censorship of Google being exposed in a big way.
And even as that's happening, more big tech companies, at
least the runt people who run them, the moguls in
Silicon Valley, they're turning around and supporting Donald Trump.

Speaker 13 (01:24:30):
Policy now has become more important than figurehead in Trump policy,
it's about low taxes, low regulation, less government, economic growth,
and that is really what people are starting to gravitate
toward rather than just all the social.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
Policy policy, not figurehead. That's interesting. Jimmy tech expert Christian
Briggs says many longtime California Democrat tech moguls, now they're
switching to Trump. It's seven o six. Acting HBD chief
Larry Satterwhite tells Houston City Council the suspended cases scandal
was actually a systemic failure.

Speaker 14 (01:25:04):
The biggest feel again is that there was no follow up.
There was no checking in, There was no looking back
to say what action is going on and is it
the right thing to do?

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
And how do we fix it.

Speaker 6 (01:25:17):
Most of the leadership who actually implemented this lack of
personnel code, they've already retired from the force. In DC,
House Republicans calling out DHS over the surging crime against
Americans by Venezuelan refugees, as the government calls them illegal aliens.

Speaker 15 (01:25:36):
Venezuela under Nicholas Maduro is not sending their best to
the United States.

Speaker 16 (01:25:40):
They were releasing the convicts, the criminals, the mentally ill
into our southern border.

Speaker 15 (01:25:46):
That has prompted US Congressman Troy Nails from Texas to
send a third letter to Secretary Alejandro Majorkis asking for
some sort of explanation.

Speaker 16 (01:25:54):
More Americans are dying as a result of his unwilliness
and our borders Kamala Harris from securing our southern board
and keeping the American people say.

Speaker 15 (01:26:03):
Nail says he has not received a response from any
of his letters sent to Secretary Majorkis. Jared Lewis News
Radio seven forty khrh.

Speaker 6 (01:26:12):
Meantime, Texas Governor Greg Abbott still bussing illegal aliens to
sanctuary cities. Mainstream media doesn't really talk about it much now,
but they're not telling you what the Biden administration and
California specifically are doing.

Speaker 17 (01:26:27):
Federal government is now doing what's called lateral flights. They're
flying people from California and landing them and letting them
go in Texas.

Speaker 6 (01:26:36):
Oh Todd Bensman with the Center for Immigration Study, he says,
is he even beyond hipocritical for the left to be
blaming Republicans for the border crisis they caused? Asked just
seven oh sevens our time. The Astros beat Pittsburgh five
to four, there once again tied for first place in
the American League West with the Mariners home to Tampa Bay.

(01:26:57):
Hosting tomorrow night, I'm Sheber Fryar on News Radio seven.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
Stay in touch on your drive in with Jimmy Verrett
and Sheriff Fryer. This is Houston's Morning News. A previous
research piece found that most of us can guess the
name of a stranger with up to forty percent accuracy.
That's pretty good. But the question became, and that's why

(01:27:23):
they did some research on this. Do parents choose a
baby's name based on the baby's appearance? You look like
a Steve to me. You look like a Sharon to me.
I only know one Shriff, so I don't know if
this theory is going to work out or not. The
other question is does your face change as you age

(01:27:48):
to match your name? In other words, you're called a
certain name your entire life. Does your face evolve to
become the name that you've been named.

Speaker 6 (01:27:57):
To which I reply to you, I'm so glad they
didn't name me flick A.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
Here's here's here's something very important, funny. I was gonna
mention you know this, This would tell me that's this
is true.

Speaker 6 (01:28:13):
You look like a James to me more than a Jimmy. Okay,
I mean I realized Jimmy is more accessible appropriate, But yeah,
you know, when you're tiny and you're a baby, actually
don't know you're going to grow up to be this
big stalwart man, which to me is a James.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
You're a James, okay, of course people usually call me JB.
I wonder if there's can we make any sort of
reference based on somebody calling you by initials versus calling
you a name.

Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
My brother's JS Yeah, yeah, okay, my dad was c I.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
So here's what they did to try to figure out
what was going on with this is they would show
adults cards with a person's face on it and give
them four choices as to what that person's.

Speaker 6 (01:28:57):
Name was, Sally, Susie, whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
And they also gave them cards with children's faces on them,
and the same thing, four choices as to what the
name was. What they found was that it was amazingly
more accurate at figuring out the names of the adults
than they were the names of the children, which led
them to the conclusion, I'm not sure that it makes sense,

(01:29:21):
but led them to a conclusion that your face evolves
over the course of time as you age to look
more like the name that was chosen for you.

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
Anecdotal, not necessarily, cause, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Exactly, but to your point, you know, I really would
like to get a lineup of Bubba's and see what
the common denominators are.

Speaker 6 (01:29:40):
How many Bubba's. I mean, I know that something that
is very common in Texas. Is that common in Detroit?

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
Not really, it's more of a Southern thing. Yeah, it's
more of a Southern thing.

Speaker 6 (01:29:49):
So and you experienced that in Virginia's Carolina's.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Yeah, yeah, but I think most of the Bubba's, I
know that's not their real name, but is.

Speaker 6 (01:29:58):
Really popular here. Yes, especially if you're a namesake, it's
you're a junior. You're not a junior. Generally you're usually Bud.

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
Which is the other thing that'll be interesting to study
about this, which is if you have a nickname it's
different from your god given name, does your face evolve
to match the nickname or does it evolve to match
your god given name? More research is needed. Seven eleven
time for traffic and whether it together?

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
Does it work for me? It changes? And whoever's talking
to me like.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
You don't look like a sky to me?

Speaker 21 (01:30:27):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:30:27):
No, And you know, if it's authority, like you know,
if it's authority, I'm Michael. You know, Michael, you know
we've changed your court day or but if it's somebody
that drinks beer with me.

Speaker 4 (01:30:36):
It's my key, so it just changes.

Speaker 5 (01:30:39):
Sure, let's go to the hard work, and you know what,
let's actually go to the west side first, Bubbas.

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
We'll get to y'all in a minute.

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
Let's do two ninety outbound Michelle from the southwest is
on the Northwest Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
That makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
And there's a saltar.

Speaker 35 (01:30:58):
The second plane.

Speaker 8 (01:30:59):
From the west Palding quite aback.

Speaker 5 (01:31:01):
Then y'all, all right, that's outbound forty third.

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
I see the spackle.

Speaker 5 (01:31:06):
Now, if you're coming from the loop, lookout, you're gonna
hit some brakes. And Michelle southwest first banana sticker ever
north Sam, I got roadwork westbound Alding Westfield. That's a
big smash. Eastbound Imperial Valley. That's a big scooch going
that way. And on the working side toll bridge. Twelve
extra minutes here, double whammy, Crosby Freeway. Clear the reck
at south Lake Euston Parkway. The one at the toll

(01:31:28):
at the Sandra Center river Bridge still there.

Speaker 4 (01:31:30):
Three thirty. It's awful already.

Speaker 5 (01:31:32):
Baker Road southbound of Rolling Brook that's a complete closure.
Let's avoid that and try to take one forty six. Instead,
I'm Skymike the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:31:42):
Can we call Terry Sissy?

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Sissy from our Katrage Top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather Center. Here's Sissy with the forecast for you for today.

Speaker 6 (01:31:53):
I love that.

Speaker 22 (01:31:53):
That's actually what my mom's siblings call her, Sissy. So sunshine,
kind of hazy sunshine and another warm day today, no
rain load to mid nineties today, no rain tomorrow, mid
to upper nineties and then summer rain over the weekend.
Thirty percent chance of those showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures are
not going to change though, folks. We're going to stay

(01:32:14):
in the mid to upper nineties into the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
Right down seventy seven at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's Houston's Morning News,
brought to you by New South Windows Solutions. Now back
to Jimmy and Scherah with the info you need to
take on the day. It is seven twenty now here
in Houston's Morning News. This is the story we've talked
about for a little while now, but let's examine this

(01:32:37):
a little bit further. I kind of have to wonder
how the species will survive because it turns out more
and more young men are conservative and more and more
young women are liberal, and they're not getting along with
each other very well. That doesn't sound like that bodes
well for the planet. More in that story coming up next. First, though,
we have wine. That's here you go, Sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:32:58):
Let's go to the hard work east side again. Guys.
It's two three Thirtyesper three thirty bay Town.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
Most of you already have the memo if you work
at Exam Mobile or you're trying to get to one
forty six. We have the closure from Rolling Brook to Baker.
I think I have that backwards. It's all lanes either way.
That's quite a scooch. Now coming down from Ien to
one forty six, jump on one forty six instead. Hartman
Bridge is a good way around stuff. North sam Aldeen
Westfield westbound. We're missing two left lanes. I had the

(01:33:25):
report of high water north Freeway forty five between Tidwell
and Parker on the Crosby Freeway. Help me out with
that wreck before the Sanjacenter River Bridge inbound. I see
the backup seven three two one two tips. Give me
some laneage, Skymichael, the Generator Supercenter dot Com, Traffic center.

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From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather Center.
He'zy sunshine today it looks like about ninety five. He's
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Temperatures stay warm in the mid upper nineties. Right now
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History happenings right here use Radio seven forty JTRH. Christian
Collins is with his former congressional candidate. We're talking about
men versus women. Young men, especially men under third. The
majority of them are supporting Trump and Republican control of Congress.
Young women strongly favor Democrats. Many of them are not
just Democrats, they're progressives. That's about as far apart from

(01:35:11):
each other as you can get. Christian, what does this
say about the future of the species if men and
women are going in opposite directions?

Speaker 40 (01:35:19):
Well, Jimmy and Scherf, thank you so much for having
me on, and you raised really good questions. And I
think this issue cannot just be understood politically, but also culturally.
Where you have young women who may be drawn to
policies and ideas of gender equality and reproductive right social justice. Men,
on the other hand, they like individualism, traditional roles, and

(01:35:39):
personal responsibility.

Speaker 27 (01:35:41):
And this can be explained by a couple of factors.

Speaker 40 (01:35:43):
One the media that they consume, including podcasts and social media.
Many young women are listening to people like Taylor Swift,
a thirty four year old single woman that sings about
her broken relationships, and some of her songs portray men
in a negative light. Taylor Swift has also publicly advocated
for the Democrat Party since twenty eighteen, as well as
liberal issues. On the flip side, young men are flocking

(01:36:06):
to people like Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate, who have
both been involved in the UFC and mixed martial arts.
They both espouse the importance of health and fitness, traditionally
masculine views nonconformity, wealth and success, and are not politically correct. Politically,
they both are leaning conservative. As a teacher at a
local college and in my work leading the Texas Youths

(01:36:28):
of IT, I have seen firsthand how important the colleges are.

Speaker 27 (01:36:30):
And shaping students' political views.

Speaker 40 (01:36:32):
In recent years, fifty seven percent of college attendees are women,
in forty three percent are men. Women also have a
higher graduation rate and are more likely to pursue advanced degrees.
Being that the colleges are leaning more liberal, This can
also explain why women are learning more liberal.

Speaker 6 (01:36:48):
Yeah, our time's kind of short, so let's be conversational
about this. Is there any movement that you can see
among younger people? Do you have strength in both women
and strength in men in separate roles.

Speaker 40 (01:37:06):
Well, you know, I think God has assigned these women
and God has assigned these men.

Speaker 27 (01:37:12):
To operate and in being who He's called them to be.

Speaker 40 (01:37:17):
And and that's what I encourage at the Texas Youth Center,
that's what I encourage in my work talking to young
people in college campuses. And if they were to embrace
who they were assigned to be, if men were protectors
and providers and women, it doesn't mean that they can't
have careers. I'm just saying that if they operated in
this traditionally you know, feminine roles, and and you'd.

Speaker 27 (01:37:39):
Have more successful marriages.

Speaker 40 (01:37:41):
You'd have more you'd have a higher success rate in
the marriages, and they wouldn't get divorced. And I think
that's what we need in our day and time, is
we need to go back to a society that's that's
that's getting closer back to God.

Speaker 3 (01:37:56):
You know, we used to say opposites attracted. It used
to be very very true. Through when did politics overtake
that particular aspect of the typical male female relationship.

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
Well, there are.

Speaker 40 (01:38:08):
Always cases where you have males, you know, or females
who are together and you have different political views, and
sometimes that works for people, but politically, we can't continue
to be a culture that's becoming so polarized in general,
and where we're getting people that are way further to
the right and further to the left, where people in

(01:38:29):
Texas in the Houston era, for example, have nothing in
common with the people in San Francisco, and just in general,
but when it comes to the roles of men and women,
I think the further apart that we become, uh, we're
going to have a hard time as a society. There
will be less marriages, there will be a population decline,

(01:38:50):
there will be less people to join the workforce, and
we're going to see the only way that we're able
to fill these jobs, unfortunately, is through robotics and other
things that maybe liberals are espousing. They want a leave
i immigrants to come across the border and to take
these jobs, for example.

Speaker 27 (01:39:09):
So we need to.

Speaker 40 (01:39:10):
Get to a place where we're promoting traditional family values
and the more sexually the event that our society has
gotten since the nineteen fifties, that that also doesn't help,
and we've gotten away from these family values.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
Got you okay, thank you for joining us. Today, appreciate it.
Christian Collins, former congressional candidate seven twenty seven. Time to
take a look at your money. Let's check in with
Cortney Donahoe.

Speaker 21 (01:39:35):
Well, good morning, Jimmy. Stocks are on the rise this morning,
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Thanks so much for your help seven one three two
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Speaker 33 (01:40:42):
Hey guy, I exsu is web Hope you're having a
great morning. Just came across the ninety onto iten. It
was not a car wreck. That is tall vehicle in
the bar left lane, big truck, big tires, no movement.

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
Very surprised there's a big truck coming in from Crosby.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
It's just one lane getting by.

Speaker 5 (01:41:01):
That explains that backup you've got now Southwest Freeway starting
to cram up right before the loop, getting onto that
ramp to six ' ten Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot
com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center
for today, hazy sunshine with the high temperature right about
ninety five. We'll get to the latest on the forecast.
Terry Smith is back at the weather channel. We'll talk
to her in eight minutes. Right now, temperature is still
seventy seven at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It is time now for the news

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here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 6 (01:41:33):
It's seven thirty two on news radio seven forty ktras
in our top story this hour, the Federal Reserve decided
to leave interest rates unchanged yesterday, still at an level
of more than five percent, and.

Speaker 26 (01:41:48):
Shara, Even though everyone is predicting a rate cut in September,
economist Joel Griffith says he's not so sure.

Speaker 20 (01:41:55):
Well, if you compare the Sola Reserve statement to it
the statements they made a month ago, it actually appears
as if they are less sure of a great cut
next month.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
Why is that?

Speaker 26 (01:42:06):
Because despite the spin, the economy is not getting better.

Speaker 20 (01:42:11):
We have lower economic growth, losing full time jobs, and
we continue to see inflation well in excess of the
Futter Reserves target rate of two percent.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
But there is still time for a rate cut.

Speaker 26 (01:42:23):
Just in time to help the Dems before the election,
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven ktierh.

Speaker 6 (01:42:30):
And also just in time for the election, the White
House will email two million people next week telling them
that they could qualify for relief from their student loan debt.
Even though the courts have repeatedly ruled that these Democrat
led schemes are unconstitutional. Seven thirty three is our time

(01:42:51):
busy day of campaigning for Donald Trump. He answered the
invitation to do a question and answer at the NABJ,
the National Association of Black Journalists Chicago. He's the only
one who showed up, though, and boy, whatever he said,
it triggered the haters.

Speaker 7 (01:43:07):
She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only
promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until
a number of years ago when she happened to turn black.
And now she wants to be known as black.

Speaker 6 (01:43:19):
So now we have the national debate. Trump also confronted
the opening interviewer over her rude attempt to maliciously define him.
She was a reporter for ABC.

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
They come out of the gate.

Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
The way that she did was unprofessional.

Speaker 9 (01:43:35):
I thought was petty.

Speaker 3 (01:43:36):
I thought it was uncalled for.

Speaker 27 (01:43:38):
And I think that she is much better than that.

Speaker 6 (01:43:41):
Yeah, this is a former ESPN host, former and NABJ
member Sage Steele. Now Trump rallied in Pennsylvania for the
first time since the July thirteenth assassination attempt. He went
to Harrisburg. We're going to hear more on that. At
eight am, Kamala Harris came to Houston the second time
in a week, campaigning on nothing more than rhetoric.

Speaker 10 (01:44:03):
It was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect.

Speaker 6 (01:44:11):
Yeah, she's attending services here for the late Congresswoman Sheila
Jackson Lee. In addition to that stop before a gathering
of black sororities, she hasn't held a news conference though,
since being anointed the Democrat nominee for president. Recent gallipoli
shows young women aged eighteen to twenty nine much more

(01:44:33):
likely to identify as liberal compared to men of the
same age or other demographic groups.

Speaker 28 (01:44:41):
Liberals, many of which are women, they bill in many
respects that they don't need men. They're constantly told in
the colleges that they attend, and the people that they
spend time with perhaps are people they listen to on
social media, that they don't need men.

Speaker 6 (01:44:57):
Christian Collins with the Texas Youth, somebody's as our culture
must recapture itself here at home. The Houston City Council
delayed their vote on that ordinance that would ban protesters
within two hundred feet of gathering outside private homes, something
that has already happened to Mayor John Whitmyer.

Speaker 29 (01:45:17):
You go to dinner with four friends whose cars are
parked in front of your house, so you get back
home at nine to thirty. You ought to see the
challenge to get to their cars because they surround them.

Speaker 27 (01:45:27):
They're at your front door.

Speaker 3 (01:45:28):
So how welcome you over?

Speaker 6 (01:45:31):
Yeah. The ordinance was tabled over two weeks on the
objections of council members who expressed concerns for the rights
of the activists to protest. It is now seven thirty six.
Right out of the playbook new warnings about potential Russian
interference in this election is specifically how Russia will turn

(01:45:52):
our minds on social media.

Speaker 30 (01:45:55):
This is starting to sound like a repeat of the
twenty sixteen election.

Speaker 31 (01:45:58):
Anybody's out there saying that the Rusian government is going
to tip this election toward one candidate or the other.

Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
I just don't buy that.

Speaker 30 (01:46:05):
Political strategist Brendan Steinhauser told KTRH he doesn't think Russian
bots online will actually change voters' minds.

Speaker 31 (01:46:11):
There's really no indication that they've been able to persuade
anyone of anything. Their goal is to create confusion and
so discord, and that's about it.

Speaker 30 (01:46:19):
Steinheuser says, voters just need to be careful about where
they get their news and information from. Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:46:27):
Seven thirty seven. Now, well, they first invaded from Mexico.
Now the population exploding across our state. It's a growing,
feral hauled population suddenly rousing national concerns on the our
national seashore of South Padre Island.

Speaker 32 (01:46:44):
I'm not surprised they showed up on the Padre Island seashore.
And if you give them eight or ten more generations,
they may just develop gills and go right into go
from Mexico.

Speaker 6 (01:46:53):
I don't think so. They're already all over the roads
between here and Alice Field's.

Speaker 3 (01:46:57):
Unbelievable seafood and barbecue sounds good to me.

Speaker 6 (01:47:00):
That was Sports Talks seven nineties. Dug Pike, Texan's open
the preseason tonight against the Bears of the Hall of
Fame game in cat And, Ohio. The kickoff it will
be seven pm. And we know that the Strows are
now once again tied in first place with the Mariners
because they won last night. They host Tampa Ray Bay

(01:47:22):
Rays on tomorrow. I'm sure for Friar News Radio seven
forty KTRH easy I live in sugar Land.

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
Be prepared for wild Houston weather next on the ten
on seven forty KTRH. I've always always kind of wondered, here,
in a world where everybody is supposed to be equal
and treated equally, why don't they just go to the
National Association of Journalist meeting and have everybody of all
racest colors and greeds there. Why do they maintain a

(01:47:54):
separate group? Seems kind of segregated to me for some reason. Anyway, here,
here's how that question answered that. Here's how that Q
and A went between Trump and the moderator from ABC News.

Speaker 8 (01:48:08):
Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill,
have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first
black and Asian American woman to serve as vice president
and be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire.
Is that acceptable language to you? And will you tell
those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?

Speaker 7 (01:48:27):
How do you how do you define DEEI?

Speaker 3 (01:48:29):
Go ahead? How do you define diversity? Equity inclusion? Okay, yeah,
go ahead?

Speaker 9 (01:48:33):
Is that what your definition?

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
Give me?

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
That is that is, give me a definition?

Speaker 13 (01:48:36):
Then?

Speaker 6 (01:48:36):
Would you give me a definition?

Speaker 9 (01:48:37):
Yeah? Give me a definition, SARAHM.

Speaker 8 (01:48:40):
Asking you a question, you have to direct.

Speaker 7 (01:48:41):
Find it, define the define it from me if you
I just defined it.

Speaker 8 (01:48:44):
Sir, Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is
only on the ticket because she is a black woman.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
Well, I can say no.

Speaker 7 (01:48:50):
I think it's maybe a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
So uh.

Speaker 7 (01:48:53):
I've known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much,
and she was always of Indian heritage and she was
only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black
until a number of years ago when she happened to
turn black, and now she wants to be known as black.
So I don't know is she Indian or is she black?

Speaker 8 (01:49:13):
She is always college.

Speaker 7 (01:49:16):
I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she
was Indian all the way and then all of a
sudden she made a turn and she went she became
a black.

Speaker 9 (01:49:26):
Just to be clear, sir, I think.

Speaker 7 (01:49:28):
Somebody should look into that too. When you ask a
continue in a very hostile, nasty tone, it's a direct.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
Question, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:49:34):
Do you believe that.

Speaker 8 (01:49:35):
Vice President Kamala Harris is a DEI higher as somebody
really does out?

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
I mean, I really don't know. Could be could be. Yeah,
it probably is. But here's the thing. I think what
he's trying and unfortunately sometimes President Trump falls short and
explaining himself very well. I think what he's trying to
say is that he questions whether or not Kamala Harris
is guilty of identity politics. In other words, I was
an Indian until it became better for me to be black.

(01:50:02):
She's both, but she plays whatever card she needs to play,
depending upon who her audience is and the issue that
she's talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:50:11):
But if he had said it like that, would it
be getting to play that it's getting and the pushback
that it's getting, which has now opened it up to
a broader national conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:50:21):
Well, and maybe that's a good thing, you know, the.

Speaker 6 (01:50:23):
Things that he says that are level and about what
he's done and what he intends to do, getting away
from all this identity politics gotcha stuff. Right that it
happens from the left, it doesn't get any play.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
And the dozen't because yeah, this is the gotcha stuff.
They're only interested that mainstream is only interested in playing the.

Speaker 6 (01:50:42):
Gotcha They never campaign against the Trump forty seven agenda, right,
they have to call out the twenty twenty five, which
is not part of his campaign.

Speaker 3 (01:50:51):
Because they can't win on the issues, they can't.

Speaker 6 (01:50:53):
Win on the forty seven agenda, and they can't present
one of their.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
Own exactly seven forty one. Time for traffic and whether together.
Hey Mike, Hey, let's go around the horn.

Speaker 5 (01:51:01):
We'll check up first of all, I forty five, your
golf freeway, the usual slow downs after Edgebrook, and I'm
just gonna go ahead and connect that downtown. That's a
twelve minute wait to get into I sixty nine northbound southbound.
We're in good shape. South Loop six tens over our shoulder.
The backups now from MLK trying to get over to
NRG westbound.

Speaker 4 (01:51:20):
If you lose about six minutes that way.

Speaker 5 (01:51:22):
North Loop six tens awfully loopy at the squeeze forty five.
Now you have those two little lanes where it hits
forty five. I've got reports of a wreck in the
backup just before the hardy on the on the westbound
lanes here north Sam roadwork all Dean Westfield westbound, Imperial
Valley eastbound both ways from forty five to I sixty nine.
We're squished up here. Katie Freeway. A lot of slowdowns

(01:51:45):
now Mason Road into Barker, Cyprus, and then once you
get past about Highway six, you're good to go till
you hit around Heights Boulevard.

Speaker 4 (01:51:52):
Southwest Freeway.

Speaker 5 (01:51:53):
Some breaks at the West Park not bad for the
Southwest North Freeway. Slow now right at Greens Road Megan
from Keema right after Briar.

Speaker 41 (01:52:01):
Forrest starts get pushed up and there is city in
the constable, so people are being contestant of the facts
of the officers are sitting out there looking for those speeder.

Speaker 5 (01:52:14):
Oh yeah, there's that little special push to keep people
going to speed limit.

Speaker 4 (01:52:18):
I got a warning ticket Monday.

Speaker 5 (01:52:19):
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (01:52:23):
That doesn't happen very much Terry either.

Speaker 35 (01:52:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
Yeah, they nail me to the wall.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
I think that this officially makes you a slow learner. Search. Yeah,
clearly the message is not getting through on the speed
thing for you. Too young to dressload from our eighth
Generators super Center twenty four our weather Center. Terry Smith
is here and just like the forecast says, we've got
some hazy sunshine to start the day. Yes, lots of
hazy sunshine.

Speaker 22 (01:52:47):
That's a Saharan desert or dust that's hanging around keeping
us sunny and helping to suppress the rain. But the
rain does increase just a little bit over the weekend.
So a dry day today, load to mid nineties, Tomorrow
hazy sunshine mid to upper nineties, and then Saturday and
Sunday there's a thirty percent chance that we'll get some rain.

(01:53:08):
Temperatures though, remain unchanged in the mid to upper nineties.
And a quick mention, we are watching a little disturbance
that's making its way toward Puerto Rico right now and
headed toward Florida eastern side of the Gulf Atlantic side.
We'll see but sometime over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:53:25):
Right now, seventy nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. What you need to know
for the day ahead. This is Houston's Morning News, brought
to you by New South Windows Solutions. So is Kamala
Harris flip clopping on fracking and other energy issues. She
seems to be trying to run to the middleline. Nobly

(01:53:45):
for a second, she actually believes any of those things
that she's saying. But we get some reaction from a
guy who is in the oil refinery business to all
this in just a moment. First though, traffic and weather
togethers we check out the drive once again. The skyline.

Speaker 5 (01:53:58):
All right, looks like we've got step to smash step
on two twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:54:02):
Let's go right to our chip line.

Speaker 15 (01:54:03):
Go Mike.

Speaker 20 (01:54:04):
You over here on the hard working east side out
there and trying to get to one forty six.

Speaker 33 (01:54:08):
We're at a.

Speaker 5 (01:54:09):
Did all right, let me see if I can get
you some lane.

Speaker 4 (01:54:11):
It's here nord side.

Speaker 9 (01:54:12):
What's up his time?

Speaker 6 (01:54:14):
It's Jim from the Woodlands. Oh, just calling to let
you know HISD teachers are back in action today.

Speaker 41 (01:54:21):
So head's up on the road, everybody, we coming in.

Speaker 4 (01:54:24):
Thanks for the memo.

Speaker 5 (01:54:25):
You got your North freeway squish step now from West
Road pretty much to the north southbound.

Speaker 4 (01:54:30):
I'm Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
Com traffic Center from our KTRH Generators super Center, twenty
four hour weather center. Hazy sunshine about ninety five today,
hazy hot humid ninety seven tomorrow for the weekend. Near
one hundred on Saturday, mid nineties on Sunday. Thirty percent
chance for a shower storm on Saturday. Right now seventy
nine at your officials Severe Weather station news Radio seven
forty KTRH. We're checking out some of our top trending stories.

Speaker 6 (01:54:56):
Here's SHAF seven fifty two now on news radio seven
forty ktr First time jobless claims have risen fourteen thousand
to two hundred and forty nine thousand new jobless claim
seekers for just last week. Reports say Russia has agreed
now to free Evan Gerskevich and Paul Wheelan remember him

(01:55:17):
as part of a multi country prisoners swamp Democrat Party
holding his virtual roll call today to officially nominate the
zero vote getter Kamala Harris for president. Latest news anytime
at kgurh dot com. Our next update will be at
the top of the hour.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
I live in Katie, I live in Itdo You're reliable?
Forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH. So
are Democrats beginning to wake up to the reality of
our need for oil and gasoline and other traditional so
called fossil fuels? John Cassimadidas United Refining Refining Company, Excuse me,

(01:55:55):
he's their CEO. He thinks maybe they are starting to
wake up at least a little.

Speaker 42 (01:56:00):
We need fossil fuel energy. It's going to be prevalent
all the way to twenty fifty to twenty sixty and beyond.
We have we have a zinion gallons, a zenion barrels around.
And you know, fossil fuel energy is not made by dinosaurs.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
That's all a fallacy. The planet Earth.

Speaker 42 (01:56:20):
Makes the oil, or makes the crude oil, because it
uses the crude oil to take the plaques that balance
the Earth for liquif to liquefy it. And that's the truth.
It's not fossil fuels. And the truth is wind energy

(01:56:42):
is not going to work. Solar cells is not gonna work.
You're not going to run the United States of America
or on windmills.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
And solar cells. That's obvious. So what are the Democrats
going to recognize that?

Speaker 42 (01:56:55):
Well, they're starting to recognize, organize it and turn around
energypol starting to recognize I understand that SMS small modular reactors,
that's going to be the future of America. And I've
talked about it in the past. It's not going to
happen tomorrow morning. I think the first installation will be

(01:57:15):
maybe in twenty thirty, twenty thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
One, and we may be in that business too, and.

Speaker 42 (01:57:21):
The future of America is a transition from one hundred
percent oil to maybe fifty percent oil over the next
twenty years, over the next thirty years. If you want
to know the truth, that's the truth. Everything else is
garbage or bs. That's what you probably would have liked.

Speaker 6 (01:57:41):
You said, I'm thinking that everything stays the same. Never
in the history of this country has a revolution, an
industrial revolution, not taking us to a new level, something new, exactly.
You just don't abandon what got you there while you're
making the transition.

Speaker 3 (01:57:56):
Especially when you don't have anything reliable to replace it with.
I love the idea about the way the small reactors.
Have heard that idea many times.

Speaker 6 (01:58:02):
Was investing in them. There were several companies that were
doing that, and I lost all my money after the
Fucusciama nuclear reaction melt down in Japan. They all went bankrupt.
But I mean, it's not a new idea. It's been
around for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:58:16):
It has, and it's hopefully making a comeback because.

Speaker 6 (01:58:19):
The overwhelming reaction to the old way of doing things
sure fixes you in place and you don't look ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
Imagine, especially after what's happened with Center Point imagine having
a neighborhood with your own little reactor running the neighborhood,
all your all your lines are underground, and you know
you're perfectly fine after a big storm. You know there's
a lot of a lot of future and innovative ideas
like that, and wind and solar yand not so much,
but that has some promise, I think. Listen, you all

(01:58:46):
have a great day. We'll see tomorrow morning bright nearly
five am. I'll see this afternoon at four nine fifty
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