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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is used Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:09):
Now the latest news, weather and traffa.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
Morris Services studios.

Speaker 5 (00:17):
Well, good morning, five am. Is her time here in
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barred along with Sheriff Ryer
Monger top stories. As we get started this morning, copycat
Kamala Now says she wants to eliminate taxes on tips.
The Trump campaign says they've been hacked in coming up
at five o'h eight drones at the border, but they're
not ours details in the minutes, say head, you're in
Houston's Morning News. First, we're gonna check out that Morning

(00:39):
Drive for the first time. Sky Mike's here East Freeway.
You know, it's never too early for some share of sound.

Speaker 6 (00:45):
Had a possum in my fan right there.

Speaker 7 (00:47):
It in westbound Federal Road. It's a big old truck.
He's on the side right in front of the twenty
four hour Fitness to watch out as you're coming over
from Jacinto City trying to make your way out to
the Beltway inbound World right twenty two minutes from this
Andacino River into downtown. The flip side of itendvisors, you
look good, Katie pinoak all the way to the President's
We'll check your ship channel bridges at the five to

(01:08):
ten break in.

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Center Partley, cloudie stray, shower, storm possibility, slight chance. Well,
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k t RH. It is time now for the news.

(01:33):
Here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 8 (01:34):
Morning.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
Everyone is now five oh one on news radio seven
forty KTRH and our top story this hour copycat Kamala.

Speaker 9 (01:42):
We are going to not charge taxes on tips people
making tips.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
That was Donald Trump and Nevada June ninth, announcing his
singular idea. But this is Kamala Harris just two days ago.

Speaker 10 (02:00):
Taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
Yeah, she was talking before union members there in Las
Vegas on true social Trump wrote quote, she has no
ideas she can only steal from me. Also, this of
Biden Harris administration since February of last year, has actively
gone after tips, tax income. So how did Democrats explain
this flip.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's okay to clarify positions, It's okay to change your
mind as you as you learn new.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
Things, Illinois Democrat Congressman Eric Sorenson of MSNBC. It is
five o three. The Trump campaign says its internal communications
were hacked by foreign service sources that are hostile to
the United States. The campaign placing the blame on Iran.

(02:52):
Iranian proxy has been of firing thirty rockets into Israel
early this morning. No one was hurt. Meantime, Israeli officials
reports expect a large scale attack from Iran within days.
Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullens says Iran would not be
doing this if it respected the Biden Harris administration.

Speaker 11 (03:12):
We have to be prepared to respond, and respond by me.
If you give me a black eye, I'm going to
break your nose and black both your eyes. If you
break my arm, I'm going to break both your legs.
And if you shoot me in a chest, I'm going
to end your life.

Speaker 6 (03:25):
Mullins on Fox. Meantime, Harris continues to try to tell
Israel how it should be fighting its war against terrorists.
Hamas specifically telling reporters there's been far too many civilian
casualties in the war on the terrorist group. For years,
Democrats have had a lock on the Jewish vote, but

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will that continue as the Democrat anti Semitism becomes more obvious.

Speaker 12 (03:53):
It's gotten so bad that they're barely able to cover
it up.

Speaker 13 (03:56):
This decision to pass over Josh Shapiro is one of
the most overtly anti Semitic acts by the Democratic Party,
so it's going to be undeniable.

Speaker 12 (04:04):
Political analyst Jake Novak told KTRH Jewish support for Democrats
might finally start to dwindle as a result of this.

Speaker 14 (04:11):
I think there are going to be some states where
the Jewish vote has never been won by the Republicans
in this century or even the last century, where that's
going to happen.

Speaker 12 (04:20):
Novak says even smaller numbers of Jewish voters breaking away
from Democrats and key areas could have major impacts on
the election. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
It's now five oh four State Fair of Texas is
coming for our guns, announcing a ban on carrying firearms,
even legally those with license to carry, Even for those
this is a total reversal of what has been forever policy.
As crime rises, more and more Americans are purchasing firearms,
with over one million being sold for the sixtieth sixtieth

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month in a row.

Speaker 15 (04:56):
More people understand that it is critically important safety into
their own hands because when every second counts, the police
are often minutes away.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
That's Chris McNutt of Texas Gun Rights. He says, people
see how safe America has become. That's being sarcastic there
under the Biden administration. They worry it might get worse
if Kamala Harris wins election. It's now five oh five.
Several districts, including Conrad, Kadi, and Klein start class this week,

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with cell phone policies being a big topic of discussion.

Speaker 16 (05:30):
Shara As Aaron Anderson notes for the Texas Scorecard.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Parents are split what's the.

Speaker 17 (05:36):
Right amount of restriction, from none at all to complete
and total banning.

Speaker 16 (05:41):
Most parents agree there should be rules, but many don't
want a total ban in case of an emergency.

Speaker 17 (05:47):
Every Texas School District right now is free to make
their own policies, and they all have some sort of
rules in place. It's whether or not they're going to
strengthen those rules.

Speaker 16 (05:58):
Both Houston ISD and Katie ID have banned cell phones
during instructional time, but they can be used at lunch
Chuff Biggs News Radio seven forty KATI or h meantime.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
School choice. The Texas House Public Education Committee meeting today
to discuss an expected school choice bill to be filed
in the legislative session next year January. Remember it was
the Dade Feelin led House that killed school choice in
the last special session. He's still in charge, so what
can you expect? Five h six is our time looking

(06:34):
at our money. The decline in commercial real estate since
the pandemic has left many buildings now valued it less
than half of what they were financed for.

Speaker 10 (06:43):
Now.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
Real estate economist Ted C. Jones says, unlike the mortgage
meltdown of two thousand and eight, at least the big
banks don't hold most of these bad loans.

Speaker 18 (06:53):
Some regional banks have a massive amount of commercial real
estate loans compared to their equity. Those are the ones
that are risk so I think what's going to happen
in this coming twelve to twenty four months. We're going
to see some regional banks fail, but not many.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
More than one trillion dollars in commercial real estate loans
are set to come due in the next two years,
more evidence of a softening job market, though major companies
planning more layoffs this year.

Speaker 19 (07:19):
From Tesla to Google to Amazon and Microsoft. Large corporations
are making more cuts to their workforce after significant layoffs
last year.

Speaker 20 (07:27):
This is one of the natural things that happens in
an economy, especially when it's propped up for so long
under the boom cycle, you get the bus cycle thereafter.

Speaker 19 (07:34):
Unfortunately, Vance Ginn, president of gin Economic Consulting, says the
economy is slipping in more ways than one.

Speaker 20 (07:40):
Employers are trying to find new ways to come up
with how to continue to do business to keep workers
on board.

Speaker 19 (07:46):
A Resume Builder survey from last December found that nearly
half of companies would be laying off workers this year.
Jared Lewis News Radio seven forty kjrh.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Astros finish off a sweep of the Red Sox a
beat one yesterday ten to two, remaining tied for first
with the Mariners now and they visit Tampa Bay to
night pregame at five A. Sports Talk seven ninety first pitch,
five fifty KTRH joins the game in progress. It's seven.
I'm Shereber Fryer on news radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
The lazy days of summer not around here.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
A lot can happen.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Jeepop this some crazy on news Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Only the drones are not being flown by border patrol
or any entity of the United States government. The drones
are being flown by Mexican drug cartels against each other
two miles south of the border with the United States.
They're dropping bombs from drones on each other. So how

(08:53):
much longer before they start dropping bombs on us on
this side of the border. I guess it's it's it's
a drug down there, That's what that's all about. Rival gangs,
rival cartel gangs are using drones to literally drop bombs
on each other, and maybe at some point they'll actually
use those bombs as well to destroy evidence if they

(09:14):
need to maybe get rid of some of these people
they're trafficking if they run into problems. The Mexican government,
of course, isn't doing anything about it. The United States
government isn't doing anything about it, and we are not
near as I can tell, flying much of anything on
our side to try to make sure that they're not

(09:35):
flying their drones on our side of the border. Report
is that we've had over one thousand drones they've shown
up on this side of the border and really haven't
done anything about it. So Kamala Harris now claims that
she's going to do something about the border. Let's start
with this five to ten die for traffic and weather. Together,
we check out the drive once again. Sky Mike's here,
all right, we got.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Six trouble here.

Speaker 7 (09:55):
I've got complete It was a complete closure six south
of Chase Park Drive.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Where is that?

Speaker 7 (10:02):
That's south of six forty six League City and goes
all the way down to five eighteen. That had been
some kind of PASMAT deal. They're trying to pick up
whatever this is here. Southbound looks like northbound we're getting by.
They're starting to open up some laneage, so that that's
from the overnight. In fact, I believe that popped up
around seven forty five last night. So give it a

(10:23):
little time. I'm gonna go ahead and get you to reroute. Though,
let's let's stick to the Lowry Expressway and jump on
forty five Gold Freeway.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Looks pretty good for now.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
From Budge's all the way up, we're wide open on
forty one. On forty five itself, Hello Biden and to
twenty five. You're coming in from Deer Park off the
Hartman Bridge. We're in good shape here into one forty
six to six ' ten.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
An easy nineteen minute.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
Stroll Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center
from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour with
the Senator Terry Smith joins us for more of the same,
exactly all the same.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
It is more of the same.

Speaker 21 (11:00):
Yes, the heat and humid age is not going to
go away, obviously, and.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
We do have a little bit of rain.

Speaker 21 (11:06):
That'll be the big surprise every day is where does
the rain show up. We've got a thirty percent chance
of showers and thunderstorms today and tomorrow and Wednesday, mainly
in the afternoon. Temperatures in the mid to upper nineties
every day. But here's the thing. The heat index is
still going to be a factor, especially for the afternoon hours.
So there's a heat advisory today noon until seven heat

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and disease. You know what it feels like if you're
hanging around outside for any longer than fifteen minutes one
o seven to one eleven today.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Debita right now seventy eight Here at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k t RNGE.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy and Sherah with the
info you need to take on the day, five nineteen is.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Their time here on the Houston's Morning News. This story,
this is this is the worst of its kind that
I've heard so far during the presidential campaign. There will
be many, many more of them. If you've seen this
share where the Trump campaign is claiming that virtually nobody
showed up for a campaign appearance for Kamala Harris at
Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan. And the reason why he

(12:15):
was sure was AI generated is because you could see,
you know, the bright the fuselage has has a reflection,
and you could see the crowd from the reflection in
the fuselage, and there's a handful of people there, but
the picture shows like it's packed with thousands of people glory.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
You know, if you try to if you try to
make the picture bigger is from a distance, and if
you try to make it bigger, you see that it's
not really people, it's it's weird.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
So I think there's gonna be a lot of this
going on. And of course, of course, you know, the
media is more than happy to help the Harris campaign
by claiming that the Trump the Trump thing is false.
That trying to show other pictures with big crowds, but
any of these could be AI generated, who knows. Five
twenty now here on Houston's warning. I mean it's right there.
You see the reflection. There's nothing, it's all. It's all

(13:04):
over the internet. The original picture.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
Yeah, they try to photoshop it, make look like the
Beatles are getting off the plane. Let's do some one
forty six, y'all, they've opened up some laneage.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'm still gonna tell you to steer clear of it, though.

Speaker 7 (13:16):
Let's let's do one forty six League City I'm sorry,
six forty six League City Parkway one of those instead.
Don't do one forty six between League City and Texas City.
They had this big hazmat spielm and they've shut it
down all the way to five eighteen. Now we've got
some laneage open, but let's let's just keep avoiding that
for now because it's going to be a smash for

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a little while until they get this completely out of
the way. It's bad enough that I would do Old
Highway through Galveston Road over our shoulder.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Golf Freeway looks good.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
I'm so some of your onlines are showing a closure
that's not there in front of Bucki's.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
We've been following this.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
I don't know why that keeps showing up on your onlines,
but we're good to go, Texas City into downtown. We'll
check your advisors at the five thirty news break and
the generators dot Com traffic Center TULSEI.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Gabbard is on the Terrist watch List Domestic Terrorsts watch
List thanks to our government. More than that story coming
up at the moment. First, our KTRH top tax Defenders.
Twenty four hour Weather Center forecast partly cloudie, straight shower
storm possible ninety six for today. Similar forecast for tomorrow
and for Wednesday as well. Temperature currently is seventy eight

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at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. We're checking out some of our top trending
stories on this Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Here's Sha and good morning.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
Everyone's five twenty one Now on news radio seven forty KTRH.
Kamala Harris promising amnesty for illegal aliens if she gets elected.
Hamas rejects hostage negotiations with Israel after CNN blamed Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netsan Yahoo for being not serious about it.
Thames Houston attorney Mike de Garren dies after years of

(14:54):
heart issues. He was seventy nine. Latest News anytime at
KTRH dot com. Our next update is at the bottom
of the hour.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Hi, let's talk radio all the time. The world doesn't
wait for you to clock out.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
You usually have it on all day.

Speaker 16 (15:07):
At work, so check in office day up to date.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
With used radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
But he is watching Tulsi gabbertt it's the United States
government now down. Tulci Gabert, at least until recently, was
a Democrat. But she's a Democrat that turned on the
Bide administration fairly early. So is this a part of
political retaliation or is there a reason for Tulsi Gabbert
to be placed on the government's Why It's Sky's domestic

(15:35):
terrorism watch list. She was on with Laura Ingram Friday
night talking about the situation. Here she is, we.

Speaker 22 (15:41):
Look at why they are doing this. It has a
chilling effect. It sends a warning both to me and
to anyone else who even thinks about daring to criticize
our own government, which is a guaranteed protected right under
the First Amendment. Yeah, that we will be subject to
a violation of our fourth Amen meant right to privacy

(16:02):
through this kind of surveillance.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
And that's that's the biggest.

Speaker 22 (16:05):
Stress that's been caused by this entire situation. Laura is
now forever I will I will always be looking over
my shoulder wondering if and how our government, in any
of these different agencies is surveilling me, watching me. Are
they reading again in my phone calls?

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (16:22):
I was going to say, yes, yes, and yes, That's
what I would guess, at least now. In a letter
from whistleblower attorney Tristam Levitt, he writes that the special
mission coverage in Miss Gabber's case reportedly involves two explosive
detection canine teams, one transportation security analysts and explosives, one
plane closed tsa supervisor, and three federal air marshals on

(16:45):
every flight miss Gabbard boards. I mean, I'm not laughing
told you because it's I mean, this is literally like
the Soviet Union, China today, North Korea, any totalitarian regime.
But Donald Trump's a totalitarian, right, He's the dictator in waiting.

Speaker 22 (17:05):
Okay, Yeah, this is just and this is what we
know about, and we know about it because of these
brave whistleblowers from the Air Marshal Service who are coming forward.
What I'm questioning is, what are the things that are
happening in our government that I don't know about? How
long have they been surveilling me? This is just the
recent occurrence. I would not be surprised to know that

(17:26):
there are other government agencies who are also being weaponized
against political opponents, those who dare to challenge this regime,
the Biden Harris administration.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
I'm not sure. I wasn't exactly keeping count, but I'm
pretty sure they rattled off seven or eight different individuals
who surveil Tulci Gabbett every time she's going to board
a plane. I've got three bombs sniffing dogs in agency.
You've got two air marshals that go on board the
flight with her. What in the world that is more?

(17:59):
That is more protection than Donald Trump got. It is rally.
They have more people surveiling Taulcy Gabbard than they had
protecting the former president of the United States in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Is rally.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
What do they call that? The safe Skies.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Or the quality Scott Hyatt, Scot's Wyatt Scott.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Riatt Sky's program. And she's on the list. Yeah, because
because she decided that the Democrat Party left her.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
Uh huh remember, Yeah, Well there's your retaliation right there.
Five twenty six, It is time to take a look
at your money. Happy Monday, Courney Donah home, Welcome morning.

Speaker 24 (18:29):
Jimmy, Happy Monday. A bit of relief this morning. After
a wild week on Wall Street last week, stocks a
rising modestly. SMP future is up to tens of percent.
On Friday, the Dow rose fifty one points. Last week's
volatility fueled by concerns federers are waited just too long
to cut interest rates. Traders are now waking up to
a week packed with data that will shed some light

(18:50):
on the health of the economy. The key event is
Wednesday's report on consumer prices. Walmart and Home Depot also
will give their quarterly financial updates this week, checking on
energy oil hire at seventy seven dollars a barrel. Traders
are continuing to monitor Iron's response to last month's assassination
of a hamas leader Krude has tracked a rebound in
stocks and sinking to a seven month blow early last week,

(19:12):
and the post pandemic travel boom shifting back to normal.
And let's say travelers are becoming more price conscious center
increasingly willing to hold out for.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
That better deal.

Speaker 24 (19:22):
Plus, the average trip lenth is down fourteen percent in
the past year. That's according to Embark Beyond. I'm courting
Donahoe Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 5 (19:50):
Good morning again, five thirty is our time here in
Houston's morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer
Monger Top Stories this half hour. Mayor Whitmeyer wants to
recruit younger officers. Does Kamala have a new border policy?
And coming up at five thirty eight, what the farmers
Alvanac says about our upcoming winter weather details in the
minutes sayhead, you're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking

(20:11):
out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 7 (20:13):
All right, advisers, let's check out your Katie Freeway Katie
mills in rocks this morning. Twenty eight minutes so for
I don't even have that use little scunchere when you
make the curve around the President's here West Park Tollway,
nothing but green all the way, Grand Parkway, Southwest Freeway,
Southwest Freeways. Walking along twenty six minutes from the Brass River,
we have two lanes still closed. I still want you

(20:34):
to reroute those southbound one forty six south of six
forty six.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Let's go in and reroute to I forty five.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
Social media friends, jump on with me and guess what
chemical it is. It's nothing that blows up normally. We'll
be back up with you at five forty. Let you
know what it is, and also we'll see if we
knew where some of the reroutes are at five forty
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Speaker 5 (20:56):
I'm r KTRH Generator super Center. Twenty four hour weathers
on her partly cloudy. Today's stray shower. Storm possibility about
thirty percent, says Terry with the I tempictual ride about
ninety six. We'll get her in here with the complete
forecast for the work week, but we talked to her
in about nine minutes. Right now, it's seventy eight at
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.
It's time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Good morning, everyone is five thirty one on news Radio
seven forty k TRH. Our top story this hour, more
violent crime in Houston. A man found shot to death
in front of his pregnant wife in southeast Houston Saturday morning.
He was confronting vandals who had egged his car the
day before.

Speaker 25 (21:35):
One of the neighbors saw a black vehicle rolling through
here very slowly, so they called our victim advised him
that there.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Was a truck out here to beware.

Speaker 25 (21:42):
So he went out of the house to look around
and confront whatever was going on.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
He came out by himself.

Speaker 25 (21:46):
After that, the family and the neighbors, everybody heard gunshots.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
No one is in custody in Leake City police cap
recapture and escaped inmate Desmond Taylor. He escaped custody while
receiving medical treatment at UTMBC lakes Now. Taylor was arrested
on an assault originally family violence charge. You have to
be twenty one years old to be a gun carrying
Houston Police officer and Houston Mayor John Whitmyer wants some

(22:12):
help from the legislature to lower that age in order
to hire more officers to make up for years long shortages.

Speaker 26 (22:19):
Until we get back to the officers be there to
serve the public again and not be vilified or micromanaged
by a camera, then I think we'll start seeing more
and more people come back to law enforcement as a profession.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union, he says
HPD is about two thousand officers short right now. It's
five point thirty three. We told you last week. The
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered all hospitals in Texas
to start collecting and reporting their healthcare cost for illegal
aliens because Texans are spending millions a year to house,

(22:53):
to school, and provide healthcare for illegal aliens. Klala HARRISO
wants to keep the border wide open.

Speaker 10 (23:00):
We know our immigration system is broken, and we know
what it takes to fix it, comprehensive reform that includes yes,
strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
Harris in Arizona this weekend. Now we're waiting for her
to do a formal news conference or interview. She goes
out and gives the same speech off a teleprompter everywhere
she goes. But Democrats seem fine with her stage act.

Speaker 27 (23:30):
There's gonna be plenty of time for a variety of
types of news conferences like that, But the introducing herself
and her vice presidential candidate, I think of the way to.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Go right now.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
And marilynd Congressman Glenn Ivory told Bloomberg that Harris is
quote continuing to dominate the media. Donald Trump's running made
Ohio center JD. Vance is hitting back on the left's
meltdown over the comment he made years ago about the
childless cat ladies. And he is doing interviews. By the way,
He's not afraid.

Speaker 8 (24:04):
I respect the American people enough to sit down, Frank,
I appreciate that Paula Harris has been the nominee for
three weeks. She hasn't sat down for Really, if we
are asking, you've got me for fifteen minutes or however
long you have me, we should be talking about public
policies that matter.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Vance told CNN that what he said in twenty twenty
one was quote sarcasm. It was a sarcastic remark. He's
in Texas, by the way, right now for a second
day of fundraising today. He'll be in Houston after making
an appearance in San Antonio this morning. It is now
five thirty five. Several districts begin the school year today,
a lot of them, including Katie Klein Pasadena ISD's and

(24:42):
the really big one, hisd's starting today, though hundreds of
its students still are being assigned new bus stops. The
battle for school choice in Texas will begin again in
the legislature in January. Meantime, micro schools are popping up
in other states, the evolution apparently of homeschooling.

Speaker 28 (25:02):
It's when multiple families decide to combine and educate their kids.
Thanks to school choice.

Speaker 29 (25:07):
Families who still wanted to take advantage of the school
choice were able to pool their education saving funds that
they receive.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
And create something new.

Speaker 28 (25:16):
Roy Maynard of the Texas Public Policy Foundation says this
ends the argument against rural access and families in Texas
will do this too if school choice passes here.

Speaker 29 (25:24):
One size doesn't fit all. When they're given the opportunities
to create something that really suited for their children, they
do it.

Speaker 28 (25:31):
He says it should pass in Texas this year, but
it's not a sure thing yet. Andre Perard News Radio
seven forty KTRH STOW.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Five thirty six. Disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street
is rolling on. Big money investors pretty happy these days
while the average American is having to live paycheck to paycheck.

Speaker 30 (25:49):
They're spending at a rate of growth of this year
over last year for July and August so far about
three percent. That is half the rate it was last
year at this time, and so the consumers slowed down.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
Back of America CEO Brian moynihan on CBS's face the nation,
what money we are spending, It's not really ours, We're
putting it on plastic. Credit card balances hit a new
record in the second quarter this year one point one
four trillion dollars on our credit cards bank rates. Ted
Rossman says he expects it though, to continue.

Speaker 31 (26:22):
Even though rates are probably going to start falling next month,
It's not going to be terribly meaningful for the credit
card market. These rates are high and they're going to
stay high. If the average dips from twenty point seven
to twenty point two, people are hardly going to notice that.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
And here's the reason why you can't trust polls. A
new Financial Time survey conducted by the University of Michigan
Jimmy purports that forty two percent of Americans have faith
in Kamala Harris to handle the economy. Hasn't she been
part of the administration that drove us into this uh
huh uh huh. Guess what fort believe in Kamala compared

(27:00):
to forty one percent who believe in Donald Trump?

Speaker 2 (27:03):
You r I believe buy that?

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Would know who paid for this poll? Financial Times, leftist
newspaper out of Britain. Five point thirty seven is our time.
Big weekend for the astros in Boston.

Speaker 32 (27:15):
Hey Bragman crushes what data left field?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
And you can test that?

Speaker 32 (27:19):
What goodbye? A three run home run for Alex Bregman.
Albarez crushes this what deep to center field. It sends
back Raphaela at the wall looking up sayleto.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
And as you heard in Sports Talk seven ninety that
the Stros swept the Red Sox tended to visit the
Rays Tonight coverage at five and Sports Talk seven ninety
kt r H will join the game in progress at seven. Now,
Stros and Seattle still tied for first in the American
League West. I'm Sherbraff Fryer and News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
I live in.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Spring, I live in Katie.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Your reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
And you all read the Farmer's Almanac. I read it
with interest. It's like, you know what. To me, reading
the Farmer's Almanac seems like it's a little bit like
reading your horoscope in the newspaper.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
It's pretty generic stuff, and you take it all with
a grain of salt. You're reading it because you're hoping
it's going to tell you what you want to hear,
especially about the weather. That's my impression anyway, Although to
be fair to the Farmer's alfanac if I were to
take a look at their forecast, their generic forecast for

(28:34):
the winter and compare it to what we actually get
I'm or what is predicted by meteorologists and the so
called weather experts. My guess is they probably have a
fairly decent batting average, probably just about as good as
the people who do it for a living. So with
that in mind, and because I get a kick out
of it, I'm going to go ahead and tell you

(28:54):
what the new Farmers Alpinac coming out now says about
winter here in Texas. It says Texas the southern plains
that includes western Kansas, Oklahoma, and portions of Nebraska and
New Mexico and up across the southeast and Atlantic coast
should experience a warmish winter with above average temperatures. The
Southwest will see average winter temperatures, while the Pacific Northwest

(29:15):
will see unseasonably chilly temperatures. Lots of snow predicted by
the way for the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and the Midwest.
So overall, mild, near to slightly blown, normal precipitation, warmer,
and a little bit drier what we normally would expect.
I guess we'll weed and see if they turned out
to be right. Five forty time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I hate winter.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
I sorry, Terry, I don't mind. I hate sometimes I
hate summer worse than winter, though I could do hot
all day. Well, I'm from Houston, It's in my blood. Terry, standby.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
I'm gonna need some science from you shortly before we
go to that one forty six thing. We've got a
chemical spill. We've got two lanes open south of six
forty six.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'm gonna get back and tell you about the chemical
and also give.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
You some re routes. But first, let's go quickly around
the Horn. You've got forty five North Freeway. Good job,
Woodlands twenty three minutes in two ninety those of you
who had a grand march at your wedding, you're looking good.
Grand Parkway were twenty six minutes into the west Loop
six ' ten. You've got your eastext coming down from
the Sticks it rocks Porter thirty two minutes down your

(30:18):
Southwest Freeway twenty one minutes now from let's call it
the Brasses River up to eighty eight. Steven Av's looking
proud this morning. From Highway six we're wide open up
into downtown Terry.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Do you know what sodium fluoride is for and what
it does?

Speaker 21 (30:33):
Well, Sodium chloride is salt and it's used for melting ice.

Speaker 23 (30:39):
You know.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
They said it goes in pesticides and also florida'sure water too,
So I know, I know it doesn't blow up typically,
but I still wouldn't smoke around there if I were you.
It's south of this is going to be south of
six forty six. I'm still wanting people to reroute. They've
got two lanes open. There's just a lot of who
are there? Let's do forty five instead. Get back to

(30:59):
you at five fifty with the north side and the
classic elite GMC traffic.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
Center from our KTRH Generator super center in twenty four
hour web center. Terry is with us, as you can tell.
I don't know what do you think our winter is
going to be Terry right now? We're just worried about
getting through this hot summer.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Right Yeah.

Speaker 23 (31:13):
You know, I.

Speaker 21 (31:16):
Tend to focus more on the short term rather than
the long term, because who knows. I know I'm going
to be dealing with the short term today, but who
knows where I'll be three months from now?

Speaker 6 (31:26):
Right, maybe I'll move up north.

Speaker 21 (31:28):
And escape the heat. And it is hot, and it
stays hot. Now we do have a little bit of rain.
That's the one change in our weather. We've had an
increase in the humidity, so some afternoon thunderstorms are possible
the next several days. A thirty percent chance of those
afternoon thunderstorms. Today, Tomorrow and Wednesday. Temperatures in the mid
to upper nineties, But because the humidity is high, the

(31:52):
heat index is a bit of an issue today and
it likely will be for the next several days. Between
one oh seven to one eleven in the afternoon.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Jepp at're right now seventy eight here at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Just about the five fifty is our time here in
Houston's Point News. So is the woke the woke era?
Is it in retreat? Are we are we ready? Are
we going back? Now? People had enough of being woke?
I can guarantee you the left has not had enough
of being woke. But company CEOs have been retreating lately,

(32:34):
we'll stay that way. Charles Gasparino wrote a book about
it called Go Woke, Go Broke. We'll hear from him
coming up next first though, at five fifty. Time for
traffic and weather together as we check out the drive
once again with Skymike.

Speaker 7 (32:46):
Yeah, let me pitch from the stretch to give Charles
Gasparino more time. We've got tollbridge seconds starting up now,
about ten minutes this way north Sam.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
The Imperial Valley roadwork.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
Isn't really scooching us up yet, but the Aldan Westfield
stuff is.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's westbound. We're losing the left lane.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
We still have the spill on one forty six south
of six forty six, there's two lanes open. I'd still
like you to reroute to forty five and we'll zoom
it at the five at the six o'clock break in
the classic Elite GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center
for today part of the Clottie Stray shower storm as
possible looks like about ninety seven and then Tomorrow Wednesday
mostly sunny, slight shower or storm chants about ninety eight
both days. Jimp it to right now seventy eight at
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.
We're checking out some of our top stories in this Monday.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
Here's Sharon five fifty one now on news radio seven
forty KTRH. Donald Trump's policies are so good that Kamala
Harris is now trying to steal them. At least in
her speeches. She's promising there's gonna be changes. Despite being
sued by the state blocked by a cord the Democrat
Harris County commissioners have voted to revive their basic income program,

(33:58):
the one they call Uplift Harris. Yeah, you know, spending
our tax dollars on basic income for the people. They
stilet court said you can't do it. Capping World defies
a California order to take down its giant American flag
from its store in San Joaquin County. Latest News anytime
KTRH dot com. Our next update will be at the

(34:20):
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Speaker 1 (34:22):
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Speaker 5 (34:31):
Here on Houston's morting news. All Right, the guy's name
is Charles Gasparino. He wrote a book called Go Woke,
Go Broke. It's mainly about company CEOs who got in
on the whole woke thing or.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
Their DEI directors, yes, and their boards.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
I mean companies have bored you know what de I
really stands for, right, didn't earn it?

Speaker 6 (34:54):
Well, the latest one is Harley Davidson though. Yeah, I
mean the Sturgis was just out.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Age, just a woke fest.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
Yeah, they're well, no, because Harley Davison's gone woke and
so all those bikers are going, I'm riding my Indian
from now on.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
I got you.

Speaker 6 (35:09):
Yeah, I mean it was a big deal.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
So there were no Harley Davidson's and Sturges huh, very few,
well from.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
There, but I mean that's when the word broke about Harley.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
Yeah, well there you go. All right, Well here's Charles Gas.
We're gonna talking about how bad it's gotten and telling
a story too about how it got that way.

Speaker 33 (35:24):
Like all bad ideas, it starts at the UN and Davos,
and it really that's an intriguing I would stay back
in the mid nineteen nineties, you started seeing it at
confabs and Davos, people talking about being having stakeholder capitalism
instead of serving the shareholders. And then if you're going
to trace it, then it gets sort of embedded in
the system with the notion of ESG Environment and Social

(35:46):
government investing.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
And then you know, ESG becomes a big money maker
for some big Wall.

Speaker 33 (35:52):
Street firms because guess what the asset managers excuse me,
the big pension funds, the blue state pension funds are
filled with socialists, so they demanded ESG investing.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Then all of a sudden, you.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Have wokeness on stars.

Speaker 33 (36:03):
And then after George Floyd it went nuts and it
became a cultural phenomenon.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Just so you know, this book is not I tried to.

Speaker 33 (36:09):
Make this book funny because is you're gonna you're gonna
read this and get mad, you know, like what what
the hell is this? But you're also going to laugh
because watching big CEOs go woke is one of the
damnest funniest things in the world. I mean, watching like
you know, give Ywise, give you an example. Well, I'll
tell you what example. Jamie Diamond, who I actually like,

(36:30):
got when Nutty woke after George Floydy, you know, started
these funds for you know, for underprivileged communities, like if
George Floyd got a uh, you know, got a low
interest loan that would have helped you know that situation,
all this virtue signaling, and then he visited a branch,
a bank branch in mel Chisko journ this time, and
took a knee.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
You know, it was photographed taking a knee.

Speaker 33 (36:50):
We all thought it was for Black Lives Matter, right,
so we asked them and they were like, yeah, I
think what you're want no problem.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
You know, because Black Lives Ryan was on the upswing.

Speaker 33 (36:57):
So when I want to check my facts of this book,
I called JP Organ and I said, you know, we're
going to talk about this knee thing.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
They was like, no, no, no, don't.

Speaker 33 (37:03):
Don't everybody thinks that's about Black lives that matter. I said, yeah,
well you basically said it at the time. No, that
was Jamie taking her knee to fit in the picture.
He just wanted to fit in the picture. But this
is a wide screen pitch. I was like, it took
you four years and the and basically Black Lives Matter
being uncovered as you know, financially suspect radical organization for
you to say that, and you know it's that, it's

(37:25):
you know Budweiser Disney.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
But is woke definitely in retreat.

Speaker 33 (37:29):
Okay, the last chapter is Woke is Broken, So it
is in retreat.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Now how far in retreat?

Speaker 33 (37:36):
You literally got a presidential candidate who I want to
thank because she said this, that said how great woke is.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Remember she was I looked to Kamala Harris. I'm going
to sign a book for her. You know that.

Speaker 33 (37:46):
Oh goodness, she is putting the idiocy of wokeness on
the map in the presidential campaign and she helps me
sell books.

Speaker 5 (37:54):
So she he's hoping that people see just how insipid
she is with her will, and the rest of us
will wake up the ones who are to wake yet.
I think I think it's a very difficult thing to kill,
and like most things, it kind of retreats when they
feel the pressure. But that doesn't change their minds about

(38:14):
what it is they want to do. So it'll be back.
Just have to keep an eye out for it.

Speaker 6 (38:19):
Well, let's just keep the conversation going on that unless
just overlook the fact that Donald Trump, they tried to
kill Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I don't think we're overlooking that.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
I A lot of people are, don't hear it. Talked
about in the media too much.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
Well, well you never heard about it talk very much
in the mainstream, nor will you. It's all raw raw kamala. Yeah,
well yeah, lovevest is on right now, that's for sure.
Five fifty six.

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Speaker 5 (38:59):
Six thing Emisard time. Now here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barret along with Sheriff Ryer Monger Top Stores.
This half are copy kat column now says she wants
to eliminate taxes on tips. The Trump camp says that
they've been hacked and coming up at six o' eight.
When you gotta go, you gotta go, even if you're
the Secret Service. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in

(39:19):
Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out the morning Drive.
Here is skymine, all.

Speaker 7 (39:23):
Right, Jimmy, one forty six southbound. We've got two lanes open.
The onlines are showing it completely shut down. It's not
you can get by. I'd still prefer that you jump
on six forty six or League City Parkway and take
forty five instead. I never know when they're going to
close this stuff. It's an overturn tanker from last night
sodium floor ride. It's supposed to not be flammable. I
still wouldn't smoke around there. Nord Sam westbound Aldi and Westfield.

(39:46):
We're missing a lane in eastbound Imperial Valley. We're missing
the left lane. We're starting to scunsh up both ways.
I'm SKYMIKEE and the classically GMC Traffic Center from r
KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center, part
of the Klaudie Today Straight shower or storem Possibility at
about thirty percent this afternoon with I temperature right about
ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
We'll get to the complete forecast. When we talked to
Terry Smith that the Weather Channel will do that in
nine minutes. Right now, still seventy eight at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It is
time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Frank.

Speaker 6 (40:18):
Good morning. Everyone's six oh one now on news radio
seven forty KTRH. This news sponsored by all Star Construction.
Top story. This there the copycat Kamala.

Speaker 22 (40:29):
Are you going to make that an official line item
in your economic plans.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
You have no tax on tip.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
No text on tips.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Very simple.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
Yeah. That was Donald Trump on Fix on Fox Business
last month, last Saturday. Now, Kamala Harris stole Trump's idea,
at least her speechwriter did as she read those remarks
in Arizona, adding to a promise to raise the minimum wage. Oh,
this was in Nevada.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
It is said that imitation is the best form of flattery.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
The question now is will she actually follow through. Fox's
Maria Bartiromo on True Social Trump said everything about Kamala
is fake. Kamala isn't telling you about the irs since
February of last year, going after increasing the taxes on
tips and the monitoring of them. This is how the

(41:21):
Democrats are explaining this new epiphany. Everyone should be evolving, evolving,
Illinois Democrat Congressman Eric Sorenson on MSNBC. Harris is also
calling for strong border security after all her years of failures,
as the Biden borders are it is now six oh two.

(41:43):
Trump campaign says it was hacked by foreign sources hostile
to the US. Specifically, they say Iran Hesbela fired thirty
rokis into Israel early this morning, no one was heard
as for Iran's other proxy, Hamas.

Speaker 34 (41:58):
Despite the fact that there are negotiations that are supposed
to take place on Thursday. Hamas says it might not
be going back to the negotiation table and instead is
calling for a plan drawn up based on previous talks.
All of this comes after there was this Israeli strike
on a school in Gaza that the IDF says was
being used as a Hamas command center, and that local

(42:20):
officials say at least eighty people are dead. The IDF, however,
says that it killed ninety members of Hamas in that attack.

Speaker 6 (42:28):
Alex Hogan reporting there now Israeli officials reportedly expect quote
a large scale attack from Iran within days. Harris says
that Israel has a responsibility, however, to limit civilian casualties
in Gaza in its war against the terrorists there.

Speaker 10 (42:46):
We need to get the hostages it out. We need
a hostage deal, and we need a.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Ceasefire, Harris in Arizona and anti Semitism is growing in
the Democrat Party and many are wondering if Jewish voters
will finally switch and not vote Democrat in November.

Speaker 14 (43:04):
If you've had forty to thirty or forty five point
edges in a particular demographic in the vote, and suddenly
it shrinks down to ten or five percent, which is
what I think we're going to see in this election.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Then that's a huge shift.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
That's political analyst Jake Novak. He told KTRH Republicans could
win the Jewish vote outright for the first time ever
in some states. It's now six oh four State Fair
of Texas announcing it will ban firearms this year carrying
even for those with a license to carry. And even
though this is now a free to carry state, it

(43:39):
comes after a shooting last year at the fair that
injured three people. It was a criminal who did that.
With your safety at risk because of violent crime, more
than a million gun background checks have been performed for
sixty straight months now in this country as we try
to protect ourselves.

Speaker 12 (43:57):
Ironically, this is the result of Biden Harry policies.

Speaker 15 (44:00):
Many Americans do not feel safe under the Briden Harris administration.
They understand that the left wing government they've prioritized defunding
the police, setting criminals free.

Speaker 12 (44:09):
Chris McNutt with Texas Gunwright says it is also a
sign that voters are worried about a possible Harris Wall's administration.

Speaker 15 (44:15):
With under ninety days left until the next presidential election.
People do not believe the Harris Walls administration won't be
any different. They've all but promised that it'll be worse.

Speaker 12 (44:24):
McNutt says people are understanding that in today's day and age,
you have to be responsible for your own safety. Ethan Buchanan,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (44:32):
It's so six oh five. Back to school week continuing
for several districts, many implementing new rules for cell phones,
and many parents pretty split on what those rules should be.

Speaker 17 (44:44):
Nobody argues that it's a problem with kids spending too
much time on their phones, But the question is how
and how much to restrict students' access to their cell
phones during the school day.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Yeah, that's Aaron Anderson with Texas Scorecards. She says aged
district actually can determine its own rules, but there are
state legislators now looking to ban cell phones in all
Texas classrooms. Texas House Public Education Committee will meet today
to discuss school choice. It's expected to come up again
next year. Remember though, that it was House speaker the

(45:18):
Rhino Dade Feelin who killed it with the Democrats back
in twenty twenty three. It's now six oh six declining
property values. You do have some banks left holding the
bag again.

Speaker 35 (45:33):
With companies downsizing office space or moving out of big
cities altogether, commercial real estate has cratered in the past
few years, and the bill is about to come do.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
What we have this year is.

Speaker 18 (45:43):
About nine hundred and seventy nine million of commercial state
loans are going to be refived. They have to come
to this year one point six trillion the next two years,
and many of these have declining value so much that
the owner has no equity left.

Speaker 35 (45:56):
Real estate economist Ted C. Jones says the good news
is most of these commercial low are held by smaller
regional banks, so he doesn't expect major bank failures like
what happened in two thousand and eight. Coreyolson News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Job market weak, weakening and more layoffs are expected this
year both here and globally.

Speaker 20 (46:16):
We've seen a lot of businesses start to let go
of workers.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
That's part of a slowing economy.

Speaker 20 (46:21):
Also to try to increase productivity, and really what you
see is a lot of businesses have higher costs for
inflation everything else. At the same time, consumers are cutting back,
so there's less demand for their products.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
Economists fan skin there. It's six oh seven the strosby
Boston finishing off a weekend sweep. It was ten to two.
They're in Tapa tonight pregame at five and Sports Talk
seven ninety and KTRH will join it. All in progress
at seven.

Speaker 17 (46:46):
Now.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
The Astros and Mariners once again first place tie in
the American League West. I'm Sherby fryar A News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Listen to news Radio seven forty KTRH on the free
iHeartRadio app. It's all your news, music, sports, podcasts, and
talk free. Never sounded so good. John, six oh eight
is our time here on Houston's morning News. I saw
this story and now this can't be true, get it? Yes,
anything is possible when it comes to the United States

(47:18):
Secret Service who broke into a Massachusetts salon owner's building
to use the bathroom. Wow, somebody really had to go. No,
that wasn't the case at all. I mean not that
it didn't get used. It did, but it's not because
it was an emergency situation. Secret Service rolls up on

(47:42):
the salon, They come to the door and they start
duct taping the security cameras. Then they picked the lock, yes,
breaking and entering, pick the lock without the owner's parission
to go in, and they went in used her building

(48:03):
without any notification, tour for over an hour and a
half with a parade of people going into the building,
in and out of the building, presumably to use the bathroom.
And then when they left, they didn't lock the door
or take the duct tape off the security cameras. They
left it the way.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
It was unbelievable. Is that unbelievable, Sheriff Riar?

Speaker 6 (48:30):
Can you believe that syear agains of your federal government?

Speaker 5 (48:34):
That is your Secret Service at work these days? This
line owner, Alicia Powers, finally got an apology from the
Boston office of the Secret Service after they kind of
forced into doing it. She said, they had a bunch
of people in and out here doing a couple of
bomb sweeps before this fundraiser. She said, I understand they're
trying to do their job.

Speaker 6 (48:52):
I mean I closed the business.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
Well, she normally she would be She closed the business
because of all the commotion going on with you know,
with the fundraiser secret service.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
They had already come in. Okay, I'll just lock it up.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Yep, exactly right. Only it didn't stay locked for law.

Speaker 6 (49:06):
It's not like they were unlocking it and make sure
that there was no assassin inside.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
No, they weren't looking for They may have been dropping bombs,
but they weren't looking for any Six ten is our time,
time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yes, guy, Mike, the police need to use the bathroom.

Speaker 7 (49:20):
They're welcome to pop in the ghetto house, just just
you know, give me a shout, you come in.

Speaker 5 (49:23):
Have have some knock on the door. Don't fit turn
on the sirens, just knock on the door. Yeah, I
miss your bathroom. Please come on in there.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
You know.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
We'll go to the bathroom, have a snack. Let's go
to the northwest side. Terry stand by and need some science. Shortly,
I've got West sam northbound at Philippine. That's a minor wreck,
but it's blocking the right lane. We're not scoots up
just yet. I just want you to be careful. They
may take a second right lane northbound. It's a little
slow from two nine to you loose about a minute
if that and again watch out for an extra lane

(49:52):
block if they may do that north Sam the roadwork
all Dean Westfield, you know about it. Westbound eastbound Imperial
Valley if you could do the Hearty connector don't tell anybody,
but that's a good way around it. If you're trying
to catch a plane, let's take will Clayton Parkway. Uber Mike,
I need you to pop in. I haven't had any
tip line so far. Seven one three two one two tips.
Double check and make sure that's working. Hard Hats, I

(50:14):
need you too, because I want you to check on
Spur three thirty. I show it open now at Rolling Brook.
I don't see anything. Double check my work for me.
Seven one three two one two tips. Toll bridge suckage,
twelve extra minutes down Golf Freeway.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Let's pick a quick peek.

Speaker 7 (50:29):
You look nice from Texas City all the way up here.
I don't even have a skunsch at grigs Hit and Terry.
I thought scientists had trouble seeing not hearing you. I
said sodium fluoride, not sodium chloride, which is salt, you know,
like you put on your margarita.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Sodium fluoride is used.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
That's what the spill is at one forty six south
of six forty six, we're missing two lanes. Sodium floride
get this at Florida floridates water, but it's also used
in pesticide.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Yeah, how does that work?

Speaker 7 (50:58):
You get cube bugs with it? Or make your teeth
sparkling white perfectly? Okay for us humans, it's normal. I'm
in the childer bugs, I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic center, Terry you got this.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
Yeah, explain all this from our ktrah stop tax defenders
twenty four, our weather center, Terry Smith. This year, maybe
we should just stick to the weather here that we
can scientifically explain.

Speaker 21 (51:20):
Right, and we'll just report that that area where the
sodium fluoride spill is, it's a bug free zone.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
That'll be the upside to a spill on the highway.

Speaker 21 (51:30):
Okay, So heat and humidity, no big surprise, A little
bit of rain and a heat advisory today from noon
until seven, we've got a thirty percent chance of a
thunderstorm to cool you off, not just today, but tomorrow
and Wednesday in the afternoon mid to upper nineties each afternoon.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Even toward the end.

Speaker 21 (51:49):
Of the week, we still have that twenty percent chance
of some rain, so a little bit of rain and
a whole lot of heat.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
Debitcha right now, still seventy eight at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTR eight.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Use traffic and weather.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
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Speaker 5 (52:08):
Wells, we all know Centerpoint has certainly had their fair
share of issues here, and one of the big issues
they have right now is just convincing the Governor's office
and I guess convincing the rest of us that they've
got their act together and that this Greater Houston Resiliency
Initiative forty different things they say they're starting to do
immediately to improve the resiliency and reduce the risk of

(52:30):
outages from the next major storm. I mean, how many
of them are already taking place? What kind of difference
do they think it we'll make. We'll talk to Brad Ttungen,
he's vice president of regulatory policy at Center Point about
that next first though, traffic and weather together. As we
check out the drive once again, here's guy Mike going
fast one forty six. We're getting to you Magnova two

(52:52):
forty nine. That's a wreck.

Speaker 7 (52:53):
I'll zum it at six point thirty has met one
forty six south of six forty six has still got closures.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Scott Wallace, feel.

Speaker 36 (53:01):
Fast, Hey, good morning's caad Mike. They are diverting people
to Highway three the down they are diverting Eviody.

Speaker 7 (53:08):
All right, let's go to the golf freeway instead. Uber
Mike has airport suckage at six point thirty and the
classic Elite six GMC traffic center.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour Weather Center,
Partla Coti Today straight shower of storm possibility about thirty
percent with a high ninety seven mostly Sunday, another thirty
percent shower. Storm chantsfer Tomorrow and Wednesday, both days, I
both days right about ninety eight seventy nine. Now at
your official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty k TRH.

(53:37):
Time to get caught up on some of our top
stories here on this Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Here's sher six.

Speaker 6 (53:41):
Twenty two now on news Radio seven forty KTRH. Democrats
go all in on the basement strategy of hiding Harris
from talking, cackling, and nothing but the same speech off
a teleprompter over and over again. San Francisco, DA finally
charges twenty six anti Israel protesters for block walking the
Golden gate Bridge during a riot back in April. Michelle

(54:03):
Pfeiffer joining the Yellowstone Universe. She's going to start in
a spin off titled The Madison Latest News Anytime at
kgorh dot com. Our next update will be at the
bottom of the hours.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
The hottest happening right now.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
The hottest news happens right here.

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Stay alert and be prepared.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
On news Radio seven forty JTRH.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Brad Ta Tungent joins us. He's vice president of regulatory
policy at Center Point. They've got a forty point initiative
that's underway. How much of how much of the work
has already started, Brad as far as trying to make
the grid more Brasilian, Yeah, thank you, good morning.

Speaker 36 (54:42):
So far, We're we're looking at three major initiatives to
kind of describe our resiliency initiatives. The first one is
the tree trimming, the vegetation management, where the greatest impact
onto our system during a hurricane barrel and we've committed
to doing an additional two thousand miles of vegetation management.

(55:05):
We're just under six hundred miles completed so far. To
make our system more resilient, we're installing these manufactured fiberglass
poles that are not only stronger than what you see
with wood, but have the flexibility to help survive the
high impact winds. We're just over three hundred of those

(55:26):
poles that have been installed as part of our commitment.
And third and finally, we have automated devices that we
call trip savers. This saves the trip of a field
technician to go out inspect the line, re energize it
when a fuse goes out or during a storm. So
we're actually our goal was to have three hundred of

(55:48):
those installed. We just got over three hundred in already.

Speaker 6 (55:52):
Are you looking over your plans the way I understand it.
A lot of the people who came in from out
of state these contracts. This was a yes in terms
of how you would marshal the troops and how you
would deploy them during that hurricane. Are you revising and
going back and looking at that system too, Well, We're.

Speaker 36 (56:11):
Always looking at ways to improve, and I think when
we look at the amount of work, as you said,
it's a lot to try to get the resources out deployed,
get them out working and efficiently. I think we've had
some proven methods of being able to do that. I
think when you look at the over a million customers

(56:33):
restored within forty eight hours, that we were able to
do that with the planning necessary.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
I think the big.

Speaker 36 (56:39):
Issue that we saw where we have the greatest improvement
was on the communication side.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
Well, we had the hurricane that just went through Florida.
Everybody had their power back basically within seventy two hours there,
So obviously it can be done. I think the criticism
and the concern is why wasn't this done before? Why
did it take such a cataclysmic event for this to
be happening now when that type of maintenance should have
been happening all along.

Speaker 36 (57:05):
So every storm is unique and different. And what we
saw here, and you want to look specifically at the reach.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
That we had, we had higher.

Speaker 36 (57:13):
Winds, wind speeds that even exceeded Hurricane Ike. We were
on the dirty side, and it was an observation of
the winter that we had that were that, you know,
the cold winters that we had, we had a drought
and an extensive rains and that caused trees to be
completely uprooted and fall outside that are outside of our

(57:35):
easements onto our lines, causing that damage.

Speaker 6 (57:38):
How much power do you have to go into private property?
Is it only easements that you can control? And how
much of the burden is falling on private property owners
to or do you not have enough broadside of easement
in order to take care of this?

Speaker 36 (57:55):
So the with the easements that we have, it's typically
about five feet that's behind customers backyards and then it's
about twenty feet above in the air, so we have
anywhere from ten to fifteen feet to trim around our
power lines. You almost think of it as like a
field goal. Is the way that the Eastman is defined.

Speaker 5 (58:17):
So you've got the new website. Of of course it hasn't
really been tested yet because we haven't hand a major
storm up until now. But let me avoid blank, ask you, Brad,
if we were to have another Category one hurricane, a
similar event happened, let's say three weeks from now, would
the results be any different than they were with barrel
as far as how quickly you'd be able to resore power?

Speaker 36 (58:36):
Absolutely, And the reason being is because this is a
cloud based application. What we had before is we had
an outage tracker that had worked. It had worked in
Hurricane Nicholas. It had worked on our system all the
way up until the direct show, until it had sailed.
Then it had failed because of the excessive traffic that
had seen from data mining, data scrapers, all the people

(59:00):
intacting it trying to get the information the overflow. And
now that we have a brand new application that is
cloud based, we no longer will have that issue.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
All right, Thanks for joining us, Brad, appreciate it. Brad
to Dungeon, Vice President of Regulatory Policy at Centerboard. It
is six twenty eight. It's time to take a look
at your money. Here's Corney Donahope, Good.

Speaker 17 (59:19):
Morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 24 (59:19):
Some relief this monthy from all the volatility that ripped
through the markets last week. Stock future slightly higher, SMP
futures rising three tens of a percent, with traders getting
ready for a busy week that will shine a light
on the economy. I'm Courtney's on a hop Bloomberg Business
on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
Six thirty is our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy
Barrelong with Sheriff Ryer. Among our top stores. Is our
mayor Whitmeyer wants to recruit younger police officers? Does Kamala
have a new border policy? And coming up at six
thirty eight, why Texas Middle School has banned all black clothing.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(01:00:15):
we're checking out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike,
I gotta wreck one at two forty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
We'll have to zoom that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:21):
At six forty you've got one forty six closures Again.
South of six forty six they keep closing it off completely.
Let's skip over League City Parkway to forty five Airport, Mike,
I've got uber Mike.

Speaker 29 (01:00:33):
Hey, my dude, Yeah, I heard you, LAA going to
the airport.

Speaker 16 (01:00:37):
Begod to go.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Remember guys going to see drop off that arrival.

Speaker 37 (01:00:41):
Give yourself in time and heady.

Speaker 7 (01:00:43):
I'm in the classic Elite GMC Traffic Center from r
KTRH Generators super Center twenty four hour Weather Center for today,
We're looking at partly cloudy sky, stray shower, storm possibilities
about thirty percent with I temperature right about ninety seven.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
We'll get you the complete forecast with Terry Smith at
the Weather Channel when we talked to her in minutes
right now seventy nine at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It is time now for
the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (01:01:10):
It's now six point thirty one on news radio seven
forty k TRHR. Top story this hour Houston's violent crime problem.
It isn't debating. A man shot and killed on Saturday
morning in front of his pregnant wife while he was
contronting people egging his vehicle in the League City and
inmate back in custody after escaping during medical treatment. Desmond

(01:01:30):
Taylor had been arrested on assault family violence charges. Houston
is still short thousands of police officers, and the mayor
wants the state legislature to help with a possible solution.

Speaker 19 (01:01:42):
Houston Mayor John Whittmeyer is hoping to see state lawmakers
change certain gun laws that could end up helping the
city's police department.

Speaker 26 (01:01:48):
You have to be twenty one to on gun. You
have to be twenty one to be a police officer.
So I think his goal is to maybe get a
younger poll of applicants.

Speaker 19 (01:01:57):
President of the Houston Police Officers Union Doug Griffith, he says,
HPD is in need of younger recruits.

Speaker 26 (01:02:02):
We have to be out with the public and get
to understand that we don't have enough manpower to do
all the things that we need to do as a department.

Speaker 19 (01:02:09):
Less officers and more people moving to the area isn't
necessarily the best recipe. Jared Lewis News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
It's now six thirty two Breibart reporting the two thousand
Chinese nationals were arrested at the southern border in July,
the total for the year not at more than thirty
five thousand. Kamala Harris isn't just promising amnesty if she's
elected president. She's lying about what Donald Trump's border plans are.

Speaker 10 (01:02:35):
Donald Trump does not want to fix this problem.

Speaker 6 (01:02:38):
Be clear about that.

Speaker 10 (01:02:39):
He has no interest or desire to actually fix the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
He talks a big game.

Speaker 10 (01:02:47):
About border security, but he does not walk.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
The walk, except they did when he was President Harris
in Arizona now admitting, oh yeah, now she's talking like
she's going to be tough on the border. Mainstream media
keeps telling lies too about Harris's role in the crisis
that we're all having to live through.

Speaker 8 (01:03:07):
We have a wide open southern border because our borders.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Are actually set.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
A lot of open border policies based shows on the
bordersone oh, that was what the media called her.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
She assumed the title.

Speaker 8 (01:03:19):
She had control over a lot of our border policy.

Speaker 6 (01:03:22):
JD. Vance, that's Trump's running mate, setting the record straight.
Heeded it right to their face on ABC Vance continuing fundraising.
He's in Texas today, appearing first in San Antonio this morning.
He was in Laredo yesterday. He'll be in Houston tonight.
President Joe Biden finally telling the truth about why he
quit the race, admitting that he was forced out by

(01:03:44):
his fellow Democrats.

Speaker 9 (01:03:46):
What happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues and
the House of Senate thought that I was going to
hurt him in the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:55):
Racist He specifically mentioned Pelosi by name. Biden on cebe
Yes this weekend, We're waiting on Harris to do a
one on one interview with anyone in the media. She
promised one by the end of this month. House Democrats
claim that she doesn't really have to answer questions.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
I think she's also continuing to dominate the media.

Speaker 6 (01:04:15):
She dominates all the coverage. Maryland Congressman Glenn Ivy on Bloomberg.
It's six point thirty four more Houston area children going
back to school this week, including those in Katie Kleine
Pasadena HISD two, the biggest district, starts today, but hundreds
of students are still being assigned new bus stops as
of this morning. Next step in home schooling is micro schools.

(01:04:38):
Apparently some rural families are combining to educate their kids.
That's on the rise in Florida and other states that
actually have school choice. More states are getting on board
now too. Roy Minard of the Texas Public Policy Foundation
says their family's pooling school choice money in order to
create better opportunities for their children.

Speaker 29 (01:04:59):
I talk to parents who said, you know, I'd love
to homeschool, but I work full time. I can't do
it that way.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Do they find other options?

Speaker 29 (01:05:06):
I do think that it's something that will pop up
in Texas. You know when eventually that passes here.

Speaker 6 (01:05:12):
Yeah, he says it's not a sure thing though. Yeah,
we still have a Rhino speaker and a lot of
Rhinos who work with Democrats in the Texas House. It
is now six thirty six Wall Street. E Lee's okay
with Kamalonomics. Main Street. America is living paycheck to paycheck, though,
and spending able to spend less on fewer things because

(01:05:35):
of prices.

Speaker 30 (01:05:36):
They're employed, they're earning money, but if you look at
they've really slowed down. So the Fed is in a
position they have to be careful that they don't slow
down too much.

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
Bank of America CEO Brian and moynihan, who's on cbs' space,
the nation, we're spending our way into the record books.
Actually as individuals. America's credit card debt hit a record
one point one for trillion dollars in the second quarter
of this year. And you can blame Biden Harris for this.

Speaker 31 (01:06:04):
There's been a big rise the past few years. Balances
are up forty eight percent since the beginning of twenty
twenty one. We saw a big drop early in the pandemic.
We also saw a big drop during the Great Recession.
Other than that, though credit card balances march upward.

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
Yeah, that's bank rates. Ted Rossman. He believes the Federal
Reserve will likely cut interest rates next month, but that
doesn't help anybody who's already deep in debt. Credit card
debt is just unbelievable. What you have to pay in
interest rates has nothing to do with mortgage rates. Six
thirty seven. Now and the Astros. They put a beating

(01:06:39):
on the red Sox in Boston this weekend.

Speaker 32 (01:06:43):
Here's a one zero and that is rocketed day till
I failed and you can't test that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
What goodbye?

Speaker 32 (01:06:51):
Out of the boxters seats two run shots for Jereby
Paedia and a ted nothing lead for the Astros.

Speaker 6 (01:06:58):
As you heard on Sports Talk seven, Stros did go
on to win ten to two, finishing a sweep. They
are in Tampa tonight pregame at five on seven ninety
and kg Rich will join the game in progress at seven.
Stros and Seattle start this day tied for first in
the AO West. I'm Sherby Fryer and news Radio seven
forty k t r H.

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k t RH Passo won't be back in black, they will.

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
I guess you can wear a black T shirt, but
you wouldn't be able to wear a black T shirt
and black pants and black shoes and black socks all
at the same time, because you would be dressed all
in black. And so what's the problem. It's it's not
my look. It's very monochrome, they say, is.

Speaker 6 (01:07:58):
To help the children because it's depressing.

Speaker 5 (01:08:01):
Well, they say, yes, it's more it's associated with depression
and mental health.

Speaker 6 (01:08:05):
Issues associated with Antifa.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
And or criminality, rather than with happy and healthy kids
ready to learn. So we just we just feel like
it's going to cause trouble.

Speaker 6 (01:08:16):
Are always associated with secret service too.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Yeah notice that men and black exactly right? Yeah, okay,
not allowed. According to the principal of the school, changes
were necessary to eliminate a look that is taken over
on campus with students wearing black tops with black bottoms,
which has become more associated with depression, mental health issues,
and criminality. As they said, what they are not allowing

(01:08:41):
for kids to wear clothing is black from top to bottom.
So you want to wear a pair of black pants.
I guess you can. You want to wear a black
T shirt, you can, you just can't wear them together
with each other. You can wear black shorts to go
to your phiz ed class, and you can wear a
black dress on dress day, but you just can't wear

(01:09:01):
all black because you might be crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
Only crazy people want to wear all black.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
Middle school, well, a case can be made that just
about every student at the age of fifteen is crazy.
I have I do not know a normal fifteen year old.
None of us were normal at fifteen. The hormones are
completely in charge. Nothing normal about a fifteen year old
boy girl. I don't care what school they go to.

(01:09:31):
Take forty time for traffic and weather together. Sorry, I
was busy writing my manifesto. Okay, Sky is normal? Is
that what you are wearing all black today? I should
have known Sky.

Speaker 7 (01:09:41):
Mike Ah, let's look out here. We got problems, guys.
We're gonna get to one forty six the closures. I'll
just tell you now, I'm gonna cut to the chase.
If you're doing one forty six the Texas City, let's
reroute to six forty six justin from Conro on the
other side of the world.

Speaker 5 (01:09:56):
Guy might go on south left on one approaching two
forty nine and still traffic, ambulance and fireds trucks drown.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Seene oh Man got a banana sticker for you. Also.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
Fourteen eighty eight is all scooched up with people trying
to reroute here.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Let's go closer. In sixty nine downtown it's don key, dude, donkey.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
North found full forty five on the entrance trap there's
a stalled eighteen wheeler.

Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
All right, ninja's en route here, tollbridge, it's hazardous.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
Cody from Burke.

Speaker 37 (01:10:28):
Got much the north sound side boom boom. The south
mound side is suckage and according to Alex Stones, not
only does sodia floride white your cheeth, kill bug, but
it also makes Rubskay.

Speaker 7 (01:10:42):
I am not touching that one forty six south of
six forty six, we've got closures. They keep redoing the
lanes here southbound. Let's skip over the League City Parkway
in forty five. That is a lost load of sodium
floride terry not chloride, and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Gonna be there. They tell me this is overturned treck.

Speaker 7 (01:11:00):
Spillage is going to be there till about a little
after daylight. Here Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot com
traffics and.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Hey must work, no bugs in my teeth.

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour weather Center,
Terry Smith is here and she's got a forecast that well,
it's a bit redundant, it is.

Speaker 21 (01:11:19):
There's very little change overall. You know, the big excitement
will be where does the rain pop up each day?
But we do have that possibility of some rain each day.
A thirty percent chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon,
Tomorrow and Wednesday, a twenty percent chance of more rain
toward the end of the week. Temperature stay in the
mid upper nineties, so it's a hot humid stretch heat

(01:11:41):
advisory today because the heat and disease between one o
seven to one eleven. We'll probably see the heat advisory
show up again tomorrow and Wednesday, and who knows, we'll
see how.

Speaker 6 (01:11:51):
The rest of the week shows up.

Speaker 5 (01:11:53):
Deepitchare ride now seventy nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. You are kimmute, you
are forecast your news. It's Houston's Morning News, brought to
you buying new south way to those solutions. It is
six fifty now here in Houston's morning News. So Kamala
Harris yet to get a press conference. But you can

(01:12:15):
talk to jd Vance or you can talk to Donald
Trump anywhere. They'll be happy to walk up to a microphone, anywhere,
including the airport. Jd Vance was at the airport, got
asked a question or two about his opponent, his direct opponent,
vice presidential opponent Tim Walls, and his military service. More
on that coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together.
As we check up the drive once again, here's sky Mite.

Speaker 7 (01:12:35):
It's two ninety inbound. Let's call that Mangam Tacoma. It's
right there, thirty fourth. It's everything but just a left
shoulder getting by. And we are too ninted up from
Fairbanks North Houston Southwest Freeway, Rob Katie.

Speaker 36 (01:12:47):
Florra, Scott Mike.

Speaker 15 (01:12:48):
Just before the split where you go off into downtown.

Speaker 29 (01:12:52):
There's a stalled vehicle up maybe center lane, and it's
back and up.

Speaker 7 (01:12:57):
Yeah, there is from Greenway Plaza, Amy Lake Jackson's on
two tight.

Speaker 22 (01:13:00):
Good morning's guy.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
My northbound is backed up.

Speaker 26 (01:13:03):
Between Shadow Creek Parkway and five eighteen text dot signs
say that there's a wreck at belt Wag eight, but
I'm not up to it yet.

Speaker 7 (01:13:10):
I'm looking at a left line. We'll zoom that at
seven o'clock. But it's getting messy from Shadow Creek. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:13:18):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center.
Part of the cloudy sky stray shower storm possible today
with ive ninety seven. Tomorrow and Wednesday mostly sunny, thirty
percent chance of a shower of storm in the afternoon
ninety eight both days. Right now, it is seventy nine
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. We're checking out some of our top stories

(01:13:39):
on this Monday morning.

Speaker 6 (01:13:40):
Here's sher six fifty one now on news Radio seven
forty KTRH. Kamala Harris's new strategy apparently to say she's
going to copy the policies of Donald Trump. Will she
a system in the Eastern Atlantic expected to develop into
Ernesto this week? As it of now, it appears to
be a fish storm as we say. A former Chicago

(01:14:03):
school food service director will serve nine years in jail.
For winging it. Vera Liddell pleaded guilty to stealing one
point five million dollars worth of chicken wings.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
That's a lot of chicken wings.

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
Well, she's kind of the mid market black marketer.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
Do you think Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:14:20):
Latest news anytime at ktorh dot com. Our next update
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I live in clear Lake, Humble reliable KTRH traffic and weather.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
JD.

Speaker 5 (01:14:35):
Vance did a tour overseas, spent four years in the military.
His opponent spent a lot of years in the military,
but never saw a battle. He quit right before he
had an opportunity to go and serve in that way.
Question came up on the campaign trail. Here's JD.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Vans.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
Oh, by the way, they've also scrubbed the military record
that was on the Harris website for Tim Walls. Here
is Jdvan's talking about all that. What really bothers me
about Tim Waltz.

Speaker 8 (01:15:05):
It's not even the positions that he's taken, though certainly
he has been.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
A far left radical. We know what really bothers me
about Tim.

Speaker 8 (01:15:11):
Waltz as a marine who served his country in uniform
when the United States Marine Corps. When the United States
of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve
my country, I did it. I did what they asked
me to do it, and I did it honorably, and
I'm very proud of that service. When Tim Waltz was
asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know
what he did. He dropped out of the army and
allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that

(01:15:31):
he's been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the
people that he served with. I think it's shameful to
prepare your unit to go to Iraq, to make a
promise that you're going to follow through, and then to
drop out right before you actually.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Have to go.

Speaker 8 (01:15:45):
I also think it's dishonest something Again, if you guys
ever get an opportunity to ask Tim Waltz or Kamala
Harris some questions, he made this interesting comment that the
Kamala Harris campaign put out there, and I bet they
were regretting they put it out there now because he
said that we he was making a point about gun control.
He said, we shouldn't allow weapons that I used in

(01:16:05):
war to be on America's streets.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Well, I wondered Tim Waltz, when were you ever in war?

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
When?

Speaker 8 (01:16:12):
What was this weapon that you carried into war? Given
that you abandoned your unit right before they went to
Iraq and he has.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Not spent a day in a combat zone.

Speaker 8 (01:16:19):
What bothers me about Tim Waltz is the stolen valor garbage.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Do not pretend to be something that you're not.

Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
And if you want to criticize me for getting an
Ivy League education, I'm proud of the fact that my
mamma supported me, that I was able to make something
of myself. I'd be ashamed if I was him and
I lied about my military service like he did.

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Speaker 5 (01:18:10):
I'm Jimmy Barrett, along with Sheriff Fryar among our top
stories this half hour copy. Kat Kamala now says she
wants to eliminate taxes on tips. The Trump campaign says
they've been hacked. In coming up at seven to eight,
no more guns at the State Fair of Texas. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're taking a morning drive out again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
We're all two nine ed up. There's a wreck inbound
around Tacoma. This is everything but just a left shoulder
getting by. Now they're putting you off, some of you
off on the rap. We are two nineyed up from
Guestner clear the Southwest Freeway. You had two recks, one
at Finder and that's out of the way, the one
at Montrose in the canyon. The other canyon is causing
backups all the way from the south Loop six '
ten and sid from Sweeney's on two eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
A mike northbound just inside of the belt.

Speaker 36 (01:18:57):
Wait two l Wayne's closed.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
With a wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Got a fire frog block.

Speaker 7 (01:19:01):
For two way all right north found that's a big
skunch and Roy from Tarkington's telling me we have a
secondary accident northbound behind it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
I'm Skymike in the classic elite.

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GMC traffic Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty
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Storm possibility about thirty percent with the high temperture right
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Speaker 6 (01:19:31):
Good morning. Everyone is now seven oh one on news
radio seven forty KTRH. Is this Who's sponsored by Oopstein
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Speaker 10 (01:19:40):
Eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.

Speaker 6 (01:19:46):
Yeah, that got a big roar the mainstream media cheering
and Kamala Harris. She stole that key part of Donald
Trump's economic plan. It was Kamala on Saturday. This is
Trump back in June.

Speaker 9 (01:20:00):
We are going to not charge taxes on tips people
making tips.

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:20:07):
Trump posted a truth social that Harris has no ideas,
she can only steal from me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
Quote.

Speaker 6 (01:20:13):
Trump campaign also doesn't believe that Harris will actually follow
through on it.

Speaker 30 (01:20:20):
With Kamala Harris as always, if she wanted to, she
would She's already been in the administration.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
They are already in the Oval office. If they actually
wanted to do.

Speaker 30 (01:20:27):
Something like no tax on tips, they would have already
done it.

Speaker 6 (01:20:30):
Yeah, that was spokesperson Caroline Sunshine on Fox this morning.
By the way, since February of last year, this administration
Biden Harris, they've actively ratcheted up. They've gone after tips,
tax income. It is now seven o two. Trump campaign
says its internal communications were hacked by foreign sources hostile

(01:20:51):
to the United States. The campaign, blaming Iran hesblad did
fire thirty rockets into Israel early this morning. No one
was heart meantime. Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen says Iran
and its proxies would not be doing this if the
Biden Harris administration weren't so weak.

Speaker 11 (01:21:09):
We have to be prepared to respond, and respond by me.
If you give me a black eye, I'm going to
break your nose and black both your eyes. If you
break my arm, I'm going to break both your legs.
And if you shoot me in a chest, I'm going
to end your life.

Speaker 6 (01:21:22):
Mullins on Fox. Israeli officials reportedly expect a quote large
scale attack from Iran within days. For years, Democrats have
had a lock on the Jewish vote. Will that continue
as anti Semitism from Democrats becomes more obvious.

Speaker 12 (01:21:39):
It's gotten so bad that they're barely able to cover
it up.

Speaker 13 (01:21:42):
This decision to pass over Josh Shapiro is one of
the most overtly anti Semitic acts by the Democratic Party,
so it's going to be undeniable.

Speaker 12 (01:21:51):
Political analyst Jake Novak told KTRH Jewish support for Democrats
might finally start to dwindle as a result of this.

Speaker 14 (01:21:58):
I think there are going to be some states where
the Jewish vote has never been won by the Republicans
in this century or even the last century, where that's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
Going to happen.

Speaker 12 (01:22:06):
Novak says even smaller numbers of Jewish voters breaking away
from Democrats and key areas could have major impacts on
the election. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven to forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:22:16):
It's now seven oh four state Fair of Texas gone leftist,
announcing a ban on firearms this year even for anyone
with a license to carry. Crime rising. More and more
Americans are trying to protect themselves having to and they're
purchasing firearms, with over one million being sold for the
sixtieth month in a row.

Speaker 15 (01:22:38):
More people understand that it is critically important to take
safety into their own hands because when every second counts,
the police are often minutes away.

Speaker 6 (01:22:47):
Chris mc with Texas Gun Rice, He says, people see
how much they're at risk in today's America under the
Biden administration, and they think it's going to get worse
if Kamala Harris wins election. It's now seven five. Several
districts including KNRO Katie Klein isds starting classes week cell
phone policies. This is a big topic of discussion in

(01:23:09):
your kids' school Shara.

Speaker 16 (01:23:11):
As Aaron Anderson notes for the Texas Scorecard, parents are
split what's.

Speaker 17 (01:23:17):
The right amount of restriction, from none at all to
complete and total banning.

Speaker 16 (01:23:22):
Most parents agree there should be rules, but many don't
want a total ban in case of an emergency.

Speaker 17 (01:23:29):
Every Texas school district right now is free to make
their own policies and they all have some sort of
rules in place. It's whether or not they're going to
strengthen those rules.

Speaker 16 (01:23:39):
Both Houston ISD and Katie ISD have banned cell phones
during instructional time but they can be used at lunch.
Jeff Bigs News Radio seven forty kt or.

Speaker 6 (01:23:51):
H it's now seven oh six looking at our money,
the decline in commercial real estate since the pandemic. They
got a lot of buildings, commercial buildings valued now at
less than half of what they were. A finance for
real estate economist Ted C. Jones says, unlike the mortgage
meltdown of two thousand and eight, some of the at
least some big banks don't hold most of these bad loans.

Speaker 18 (01:24:16):
Some regional banks have a massive amount of commercial real
estate loans compared to their equity. Those are the ones
that are risk So I think what's going to happen
in this coming twelve to twenty four months.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
We're going to see some regional banks.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
Fail, but not many.

Speaker 6 (01:24:31):
Yeah, more than a trillion dollars worth of commercial real
estate loans are set for refinancing in the next two years,
and that's going to be ugly. More evidence of a
softening job market too. Major companies planning more layoffs this year.

Speaker 19 (01:24:46):
From Tesla to Google to Amazon and Microsoft, large corporations
are making more cuts to their workforce after significant layoffs
last year.

Speaker 20 (01:24:53):
This is one of the natural things that happens in
an economy, especially when it's propped up for so long
under the boom cycle, you get the bus cycle thereafter.

Speaker 19 (01:25:00):
Unfortunately, Van Skinn, president of Gen Economic Consulting, says the
economy is slipping in more ways than one.

Speaker 20 (01:25:06):
Employers are trying to find new ways to come up
with how to continue to do business to cheap workers
on board.

Speaker 19 (01:25:12):
A Resume Builder survey from last December found that nearly
half of companies would be laying off workers this year.
Jared Lewis news Radio seven forty KTRH seven oh seven.

Speaker 6 (01:25:21):
Now, the Astros finished off their sweep of the Red Sox,
winning yesterday's game ten to two. They remain tied for
first with the Mariners. Now and visit Tampa Bay tonight.
Pregame at five and Sports Talk seven ninety the first
Pitch five fifty kg r H will join the game
in progress at seven. I'm sure with Friar on news
radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 38 (01:25:41):
Come Ala, Fight, Fight, Fight, This is where you get
the very latest the presidential election on news radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:25:52):
Our state Fair has been around since eighteen eighty six.
The State Fair of Texas and for the first time
since it started in eighteen eighty six, you will not
be able to carry a firearm at the State Fair
of Texas at all. At all. I mean you never
could unless you were a license to carry person. But

(01:26:12):
now no firearms whatsoever allowed in. It's a knee jerk
I believe it's a knee jerk reaction to last year's shooting. Yeah,
they heard the State Fair. The guy who did the
shooting didn't have a license to carry, of course not Yeah,
and anybody else who wants to tick a gun to
the State Fair of Texas or any other venue protection,
Yeah that doesn't have a license, they won't care if

(01:26:34):
there's a ban or not a ban. I guess it
just allows them to be more vigorous in searching people
to make sure that they don't have a weapon. Although
my guess is is that you know, big crowds like
anything else, one could get in if it did happen,
because after all, the person who didn't have a license
to carry managed to get that gun in.

Speaker 6 (01:26:51):
Well, you know, they did pass a law constitutional carry.
You don't have to have an LTC, right, that's true.
In order to get an LTC, you have to be
twenty one years old. It's very complicated because of course
the House passed this, so it was the Democrats and
Dade Feeling who got this bill passed. It's all complicated.

Speaker 5 (01:27:11):
Chris mcdot, who's president of Texas Gun Rights, said, this
is yet another feel good measure that does nothing to
enhance safety. The data consistently shows that gun free zones
are dangerous, with ninety four percent of mass shootings occurring
in these areas seven ten time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
Yes, it's a kid in school.

Speaker 7 (01:27:31):
All the Rednecks had a gun rack in Tarkington and
no one ever got shot at my school, and everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
Had a knife in their back pocket. No one ever
got stabbed.

Speaker 5 (01:27:39):
Quite interesting, isn't it yet? So you're saying it's not
the gun or the knife. Yes, it's the person.

Speaker 7 (01:27:43):
You might get beat up sometimes, you know, as I
would know, but no one ever got shot or stacked.

Speaker 6 (01:27:47):
Yeah, and the LTC is about handguns, though we weren't
allowed to take handguns into classrooms. So there's that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
All right. Well, we're getting all two ninety up. Now
this is the deal.

Speaker 7 (01:27:57):
I've got this shot and I'm looking the other way
now from Mangum. Let's call this wreck thirty fourth. It
doesn't matter. It's right in that little scooch zone.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
This just a shoulder now on the right side and
the left side. So we're bowling a split.

Speaker 7 (01:28:09):
That is solid suckage from the beltway and a thirty
five minute drag here. If you could do two forty
nine to west Mount, if you could do the katie, Katie,
actually looks good this morning. For now toll bridge starting
to skunsh up southbound, fourteen extra minutes. Here, we've got
the double whammy on two eighty eight northbound. That's a
wreck inside the belt got two lanes knocked out here

(01:28:30):
and a quick tip line.

Speaker 37 (01:28:31):
Hey, Mike, just roller and tarking threety eight south bound
or five to eighteen three middle lanes blocked.

Speaker 7 (01:28:38):
All right, Another banana sticker on the prairie one forty
six south of six forty six onlines are showing this
completely closed.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
A little bit of a blind spot for me.

Speaker 7 (01:28:47):
That is a hazmat spill overnight a tanker truck with
a load of sodium fluoride southbound.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
It doesn't blow up, but let's.

Speaker 7 (01:28:54):
Go ahead and re route to six forty six or
League City Parkway and DO forty five southwest for every
way clear the wreck in the canyon south northbound, we're
still packed. From six to ten, I'm skywike and the
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (01:29:07):
From our KTRH top tax avenders twenty four hour with
the centat Terry Smith is here elseie cloud the sky
Terry And that's not been unusual lately, No, it hasn't.

Speaker 21 (01:29:15):
High pressure has been quite strong and it's kind of
capping these clouds from developing. But later on this afternoon,
I think the heating of the day, the sea breeze
may help to bring us a little bit of rain,
a thirty percent chance of a shower thunderstorm later today
and tomorrow and Wednesday as well. It's not going to
hold the temperatures down mid to upper nineties each day,

(01:29:37):
and the heat in the seas running between one oh
seven to one eleven. So we have a heat advisory
today until seven o'clock tonight. I think we'll see those
heat advisories again a good bit of the week because
there's really no big change in this overall hot, dry stretch,
basically dry stretch of weather.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
Right now seventy nine at your officials, Severe Weather Station,
News Radio seven forty ktra It's Houston's.

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Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Seven twenties their time here in Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 26 (01:30:12):
JD.

Speaker 5 (01:30:13):
Vans is going to be at a fundraiser today both
in San Antonio and in Houston. We'll talk about that
with reporter at the Texas Scorecard, Aaron Anderson. In just
a moment. First, let's check out the drives. Mike is
keeping an eye on that for you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:25):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
It's in all directions.

Speaker 7 (01:30:26):
It's just a complete Monday morning here. First of all,
two forty nine. I'm going to get to the places
I can't see, and I need your help. I'll throw
tip line down one forty nine southbound. I can't see
that wreck at two forty nine, but I know the
delays are awful. Also, I can't see six forty six
directly one forty six south of going to Texas City.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
We've got some pretty heavy closures here.

Speaker 7 (01:30:48):
I need an update on laneage, but I'm trying to
reroute people over to League City Parkway that it's been
an overturned tanker and has met situation to eighty eight
northbound at the belt direct Southwest Freeway in the Canyon
clear that and also southwest No. Two ninety there we
go inbound at six ' ten. That wreck has you
backed up all the way back from Highway six skylike

(01:31:10):
in the elite GMC traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Center from r KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour
weather center for today looking at partly cloudie and the
sunny skies with a thirty percent chance of an afternoon
thundershower or thunderstorm. That's pretty much same forecast today, Tomorrow
and Wednesday, up around ninety eight degrees all three days.
Carent temperature is seventy nine at your officials severe weather station.

(01:31:35):
News Radio seven forty k TRH. We're checking out some
of our top stories here on this Mounday morning. Here's CHERYFF.

Speaker 17 (01:31:40):
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:31:41):
Everyone is Sall seven twenty one on news Radio seven
forty KTRH. Kamala Harris talking out of both sides of
her mouth, talking border security now and promising amnesty oh,
raising tensions in the Middle East. In that equation, the
Biden Harris Administration now sending the the USS Abraham Lincoln

(01:32:01):
Carrier Strike Group and the USS Georgia Guided Missile Submarine
to that region. The Paarland Police Department says one of
his K nine officers, Ronnie, has been found safe after
the dog went missing for hours yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Where did he go?

Speaker 6 (01:32:18):
I don't know. They had drones up in the air
looking for him. The latest news anytime at KTORH dot com.
Our next update will be at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 10 (01:32:28):
I will probably put my record against him.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
She's absolutely terrible your decision.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Twenty twenty four.

Speaker 4 (01:32:34):
Headquarters is Youth Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
Joining us is Aaron Anderson. She's a reporter at the
Texas Scorecard. So what do we expect from Jadie Vance's
appearance today? When is he supposed to be there? Where
is he appearing?

Speaker 17 (01:32:50):
That's a great question. And I do not know where
he's going to be and when it's anybody's guess what
he's going to be talking about. But the he was
on all the Sunday shows, that gets a little preview
of what his what his topics are going to be.
But the great news is that he is out and

(01:33:13):
about and talking with people.

Speaker 6 (01:33:14):
Yeah, yeah, he actually went to the border. He actually
went to the border in Laredo.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
He was actually talking to reporters too, which is something
out right.

Speaker 17 (01:33:23):
Yeah, So we're seeing voters are getting a chance to
see a lot of events and what his what his
positions are, and a very i would say, much more unscripted,
shall we say, we of his his his views.

Speaker 2 (01:33:44):
Let me let me ask you about the country.

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
Let me ask you about cell phones, because that's becoming
such a big, big issue, Katie, I s D decided
that they were going to ban cell phones. I don't
know if they've been hearing it from parents. I'm guessing
they probably have with school starting up this week, but
it's been a big issue in school systems. Very very
few school systems have been willing to band cell phones.

(01:34:06):
Why do you think that is just because they don't
want to listen to the parents.

Speaker 17 (01:34:11):
Well, they're certainly starting to be a change on that.
There's pretty much agreement now. A big distraction in classrooms
and have been very disruptive to learning, and the question
has been is the best way to address it? And
there's really a big divide amongst parents what that should be,

(01:34:34):
Whether they should be banned completely during the school day,
have some system to have them off just during class time,
or to let the kids have their access to them,
because there's a lot of parents, i'd say that are
not happy with these stronger cell phone policies in the
schools because they want their kids to be able to

(01:34:55):
have access to them, whether it's during an emergency or
if or are Shenanigan's going on inside the classroom and.

Speaker 6 (01:35:04):
Be able to record it, to be able to record it.

Speaker 17 (01:35:06):
Right right, sadly, sadly. And you know, school districts have
brought this on themselves by having so many, you know,
so many troubles going on inside the classrooms. There's this
lack of trust with some of the parents. But summers
when school districts usually update their policies for the coming year,
and so there have been a lot of discussions and

(01:35:27):
a lot of districts over the summer whether to put
in these stronger limits on the students. And uh, the
parents aren't all happy about it. Some of the teachers
are happy about it because they feel like that their
administration is not backing them when they're trying to uh

(01:35:49):
tell the kids when it's tigned to put the phone away.
It's all well, and get to say, you listen to
the teacher when they say put it away, do it.
But if that doesn't happen, what's the teacher to do.
They're spending a lot of their time sort of policing
the cell phone usage, and it's again, it's very distracting.
It's taking away from, you know, from learning time. And

(01:36:10):
the districts that have done it already, there's a few
that have done it in the past couple of years.
Their feedback is that it's been very helpful as far
as fewer distractions and disruptions and more learning. But there's
still a lot of skepticism from many parents, and so
the districts, you know, when they start to put these
policies out, they do get a lot of pushbacks. So, well,

(01:36:33):
we'll see what happens in the coming school year, how
who imposes what rules, and how it works out.

Speaker 5 (01:36:39):
Parents are always, especially moms, are always the most concerned
about reaching their child if there's an emergency. But unfortunately,
the other end of that is if the child has
a cell phone, there's a lot of false stories and
rumors that get spread that way, and then the end
up with hundreds of parents outside of the school and
if you had an actual incident going on, that's the
last thing you want. There's more people on the line
of fire.

Speaker 6 (01:36:58):
Well, school boards are a many government and you know
parents need to make it their business to make sure
that they know what the school boards are allowing.

Speaker 5 (01:37:05):
Yeah, Aaron, thanks for joinings, appreciate it. With the Texas scorecard,
that's Aaron Anderson, it's seven twenty seven. It is time
to take a look at your money. Here's Courtney Dona Hope.

Speaker 24 (01:37:13):
Oh well, good morning to me. It was a tumultuous
week on Wall Street last week and this morning it's
much quieter. Stocks arising modestly, Dow futures up about eighty
five points. Traders are on inflation watch this week, with
Wednesday's report on consumer prices coming into focus on Friday.
The S and P five hundred end of the week
last week little changed, even after last Monday's steep selloff,

(01:37:34):
The Dow rose fifty one points to wrap.

Speaker 6 (01:37:36):
Up the session.

Speaker 24 (01:37:37):
Meantime, Opek has trimmed its forecast for a global oil
demand this year. Oil is at seventy seven dollars a barrel,
and a labor strike that would halt cargo handling operations
at ports from Houston to Boston is looking increasingly likely.
Terminal operators and the International Longshoreman's Association still pretty far
apart in talks. I'm courting Donahoe Bloomberg Business on news
radio set.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
K H You are no Houston's News.

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Why there were traffic plus preaking news twenty four to seven.
This is news Radio seven forty KTRH five Everywhere with
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Speaker 5 (01:38:17):
Seven thirty is at a time Houston's boring News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. A long with Sheriff Ryer. Among our top
stories this half hour, mayor what Meyer wants to recruit
younger police officers? Does Kamala have a new border policy?
And coming up at seven thirty eight, can any politician
bring down prices? Details? In the minutes ahead, you're in
Houston's boning News. First, let's check out that morning drive again.

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Sky Mike's here one.

Speaker 7 (01:38:40):
Forty six heading down to Texas City south of six
forty six. I'm calling that a closure. Let's do League
City Parkway. We are two nine eight up on the inbound.
We just cleared a wreck right before the loop six
' ten Cody on the northwest.

Speaker 4 (01:38:53):
Good morning Sky and Mike, you take Instead Highway as
alternative to West eighteenth.

Speaker 36 (01:38:58):
Take West eighteenth.

Speaker 4 (01:38:59):
Two the loop for sixteen.

Speaker 36 (01:39:01):
Get back Onne, just did it real, fat boom.

Speaker 7 (01:39:04):
Put this on your head and one forty nine coming
out of Magnolia at two forty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
That wreck is awful. It's also messing up fourteen eighty eight.

Speaker 7 (01:39:11):
We'll zoom it at seven forty and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty
four hour weather center for today Hartley, cloudy sky, straight shower,
storm possible about thirty percent chance, but I temperture right
about ninety seven ninety eight.

Speaker 5 (01:39:26):
We'll get the rest of the forecast for the work
week with Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in about
eight minutes. Right now, it is seventy nine at your
official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty KTRH. It
is time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 6 (01:39:40):
Seven thirty two now on news Radio seven forty k TRH.
Our top story this hour. We had a violent weekend
again in Houston. Man shot to death in front of
his pregnant wife in southeast Houston Saturday morning, confronting vandals
who had egged his car.

Speaker 25 (01:39:56):
One of the neighbors saw black vehicle rolling through here
very slowly, so they called our victim advised him that
there was.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
A truck out here to be where.

Speaker 25 (01:40:03):
So he went out of the house to look around
and confront whatever was going on.

Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
He came out by himself.

Speaker 25 (01:40:07):
After that, the family and the neighbors, everybody heard gunshots.

Speaker 6 (01:40:11):
No one is in custody in League City Police recapture
escaped inmate Desmond Taylor. He had escaped custody receiving medical
treatment yesterday. He was arrested originally for assault family violence.
You have to be twenty one years old to be
a handgun carrying ltcaholder, and you also have to be

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twenty one to be a Houston police officer. Well, Houston
Mayor John Whitmyer wants legislative help now to lower that
age and hire more officers to make up for a
year's long shortage.

Speaker 26 (01:40:44):
Until we get back to the officers be there to
serve the public again and not be vilified or micromanaged
by a camera. Then I think we'll start seeing more
and more people come back to law enforcement as a profession.

Speaker 6 (01:40:57):
Doug Griffith with the Houston Police officers and he says,
HPD about two thousand officers short right now, it's seven
thirty three. We told you last week. Texas Governor Greg
Abbott is ordering all hospitals in Texas to collect and
report the healthcare they have to provide to illegal aliens.
Texas do spend millions a year locally and statewide to house,

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to school, and yes, to provide healthcare under Medicaid for
illegal aliens. And Kamala Harris, well, she wants to just
open it up totally.

Speaker 10 (01:41:32):
We know our immigration system is broken, and we know
what it takes to fix it, comprehensive reform that includes yes,
strong border security, and an earned pathway to citizenship.

Speaker 6 (01:41:46):
Yeah, meaning amnesty. Harris and Arizona. This weekend, we're still
waiting for her to do a formal news conference or
even an interview with a friendly interviewer. But Democrats seem
fine with her.

Speaker 27 (01:41:57):
Stay Jack, There's gonna be a play time for a
variety of types of news conferences like that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
But the introducing herself.

Speaker 27 (01:42:05):
And her vice presidential candidate.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
I think of the way to go right now.

Speaker 6 (01:42:11):
Yeah, Marilynd Congressman Glenn Ivy there who told Bloomberg that
Harris is quote, continuing to dominate the media. Donald Trump's
running made Ohio Senator JD. Vance hitting back on the
left's meltdown over those remarks he made years ago about
childless cat ladies, and he is, by the way, doing interviews.

Speaker 8 (01:42:33):
I respect the American people enough to sit down, Frank.
I appreciate that Paula Harris has been the nominee for
three weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
She hasn't sat down for real.

Speaker 8 (01:42:40):
Leader, we are asking you've got me for fifteen minutes
or however long you have me. We should be talking
about public policies that matter.

Speaker 6 (01:42:47):
He he kind of schooled see it in on that one.
Van's in Texas. He's doing fundraisers. He was in Laredo yesterday.
He'll be in Houston after making an appearance in San Antonio.
Today is now seven thirty five. Several disticcts begin the
new school year today, including Katie Klein and Pasadena ISDS.
The Big School District HISD is starting today with hunters

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of students still being assigned new bus stops even this morning.
Battle for school choice in Texas is going to continue
in the legislature in January. Meantime, in other states, micro
schools are popping up now is sort of an evolution
of homeschooling.

Speaker 28 (01:43:29):
It's when multiple families decide to combine and educate their kids.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
Thanks to school choice, families who.

Speaker 29 (01:43:34):
Still wanted to take advantage of the school choice were
able to pool their education saving funds they receive and
create something new.

Speaker 28 (01:43:42):
Roy Maynard of the Texas Public Policy Foundation says this
ends the argument against rural access and families in Texas
will do this too if school choice passes here.

Speaker 29 (01:43:51):
One size doesn't fit all. When they're given the opportunities
to create something that really suited for their children.

Speaker 36 (01:43:57):
They do it.

Speaker 28 (01:43:58):
He says it should pass in Texas. They but it's
not a sure thing yet. Andrei Perard News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:44:05):
Seven thirty six now looking at our money to disconnect
between Wall Street and main street big money investors. They're
pretty happy these days. While the average American is living
paycheck to paycheck.

Speaker 30 (01:44:16):
They're spending at a rate of growth of this year
over last year. For July and August so far, about
three percent. That is half the rate it was last
year at this time, and so the consumers slowed down.

Speaker 6 (01:44:27):
Had to Back of America CEO Brian moynihan. He was
on CBS to space the nation. The money we do
spend is credit. We're going on plastic. Credit card balances
hit a new record in the second quarter of this
year at one point one four trillion dollars in plastic money.
Bank rates Ted Rossman says, expect that trend to continue.

Speaker 31 (01:44:51):
Even though rates are probably going to start falling next month,
it's not going to be terribly meaningful for the credit
card market. These rates are high and they're going to
stay high. If the average dips from twenty point seven
to twenty point two, people are hardly going to notice that.

Speaker 6 (01:45:06):
Yep, the banks and Wall Street making their money. The
Federal Reserve is signaled it could cut interest rates next month.
July's inflation report will be coming out on Wednesday. It's
now seven thirty seven. It was a big weekend for
the Astros in Boston.

Speaker 32 (01:45:23):
Yeah, Bragman crushes what deep to left field and you
can test that what goodbye? A three run home run
for Alex Bregman Alvarez crushes this what deep to center field.
It sends back Raphaela at the wall looking up.

Speaker 6 (01:45:37):
See you letter, Yeah you heard it. On Sportstock seven
ninety Alex Bregman, you're done. Alvarez with back to back
homers Stro sweeped the Red Sox ten to two. Visiting
the race. Tonight coverage at five and SportsTalk seven ninety
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prior on news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
Need some drainage work. Daniel dean Land clearing and dirt
work two eight, one, three, five six.

Speaker 4 (01:46:02):
Dirt Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Verrett and Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 5 (01:46:10):
I still can't believe how much I'm spending on toilet paper.
It just it breaks my heart. Spend thirty dollars on
you know how many rolls the toilet paper in my
getting for thirty bucks? Not very much anyway? Can any
politician bring down prices? Here is first Truest Advisor Chief
economist Brian Westbury. He doesn't think any of them can,

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and he'll explain why. At least I thought he would. Huh.
He doesn't want to talk to me. One more time.
Guess it, don't I guess it's not working. Oh he is, No, No,
what's going on? Oh you're having you're having some issue.
Oh that's why. Okay, okay, turn on the extra microphone

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in here.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
We'll go ahead and and.

Speaker 7 (01:46:59):
There does that on. Yeah, okay, I can't hear it. Thanks,
all right, I'm just gonna talk and do the best
I can. Two ninety We cleared the wreck inbound at
the west lip sixth ten. That's out of the way.
We're totally two ninety up from Highway six. They have
cleared the wreck at two forty nine. Nothing good's happening there.
Montgomery County's on the scene. Big wreck, big backups. It's
also scooching up fourteen eighty eight. You got one forty

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six southbound south of six forty six. That's an overturned
tanker from last night, a little leftover sodium floor ride southbound,
so they're having to pick all that stuff up. It
won't blow up, but let's get over to six forty
six and do the Golf freeway instead. You've got Southwest
Freeway northbound in the canyon.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
Little trouble there. We cleared that wreck We're still packed
up from the loop.

Speaker 7 (01:47:41):
Here and the toll bridge sixteen minute wait southbound.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
That's all I got to say about.

Speaker 6 (01:47:46):
Oh, white lines are going to be very bright.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
I'm losing, I know, and the bugs will be dead too.

Speaker 7 (01:47:51):
I'm Skymike and Theegenerator Supercenter dot Com traffic setunds.

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
Like a win win from our KTRH Generator super Center
twenty four hour whether Center. Terry Smith is here. Lots
of sunshine today, Terry.

Speaker 21 (01:48:01):
Oh, yeah, lots of sunshine and lots of sunshine really much.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Of the week.

Speaker 21 (01:48:05):
But we do have a little bit of afternoon thunderstorm
activity today. In the next couple of days, we'll take it. It's
been a while since we've had some rain. Thirty percent
chance of those thunderstorms developing where you are later today
and tomorrow and Wednesday afternoon as well. Temperatures will be
in the mid upper nineties, very similar to what we
had yesterday. Heat and decease, though they're a little higher

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because of the increase in the humidity. So we do
have a heat advisory today until eight o'clock tonight, and
I would not be surprised to see that heat advisory
show up again.

Speaker 6 (01:48:37):
A couple more days this week.

Speaker 5 (01:48:40):
Oh, temperature right now, by the way, still seventy nine
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Speaker 5 (01:48:56):
All right, So the mayor has an idea that the
problem is this is what he's saying is he's saying,
the reason why we can't recruit enough police officers is
we don't have enough in the pool. Therefore, we need
to lower the age to what, you know, how how
old do you have to be to be a Houston
police officer?

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
Now? Twenty one?

Speaker 5 (01:49:17):
Right, I would assume, yeah, I think so, okay, that's
the rule. Well, gun laws aside, even if we were
to lower the h to eighteen, do we have a
whole bunch of eighteen to twenty year olds that are
eager to become police officers?

Speaker 6 (01:49:30):
Well, you have to be twenty one to carry have
an LTC, to carry a gun right, a handgun right
in public in Texas thanks to the legislature, that's at all.
But you don't have to have an LTC in order
to have a hand to have a rifle. Sure you
can carry. I mean you don't have people. Our law
is so crazy in this state. Best absolutely messed it up.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:49:53):
Well, anyway, we'll talk about all this with Doug Griffith,
president of the Houston Police Officers Union, in just a moment. First,
we've got traffic and whether to together. That starts with you,
sky Mike.

Speaker 7 (01:50:01):
One forty nine, big record two forty nine. Let's avoid that.
Even though it's fourteen eighty eight. It's not pretty either.
I've got one forty six that overturned tanker. The lost
load has match there. Now one of your re routes
six forty six has a wreck at Tuscan Lakes. I'm
told that's a school bus, but it looks like the
kids are okay.

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
Hey, Glenn Santa fe O.

Speaker 36 (01:50:21):
My dude, children appear to be okay, all.

Speaker 7 (01:50:23):
Right, outstanding, and they don't feel tarty. This morning, I'm
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From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center
for today, party HOTI the mostly sunny stray shower storm
about thirty percent chance this afternoon with high temperature about
ninety seven and then mainly sunny sky is tomorrow on
Wednesday another thirty percent shower storm chance with a high
right about ninety eight for both Tomorrow and Wednesday. Right now,
it's eighty at your officials severe weather station. News Radio

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KTRH Mayor John Whitbyer wants to arm police recruits at
a younger age. That would require, I guess a change
in state law. But even if we were to do that,
does it really solve the problem of not having enough
people interested in becoming police officers. Doug Griffith joins, us,

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President of the Houston Police Officers Union. I hate to
say it, but it sounds a little desperate, Doug. What
do you think.

Speaker 26 (01:52:04):
Well, well, sir, unfortunately, we're having trouble recruiting everywhere and
we're going to have to come up. We're gonna start
thinking out of the box to try to recruit folks
to come and do this profession. You know, years ago
everyone thought this is a calling. Me included. I loved it.
You know, I never wanted to go home from this job. Today,

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we have trouble keeping people that are actually officers on
the job. They're leaving for the private sector at an
increasing rate, and it's very, very difficult to recruit in
today's climate. After years of what I would like to say,
neglect or abuse of our law enforcement officers, now nobody

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sees as a noble profession anymore. They just see it
is another job we have to get back.

Speaker 6 (01:52:54):
Yeah, tell me a little bit. It's very confusing. What
is policy? What is state law? What is city going governmant?
You have to be twenty one currently in order to
join the police, you have to have an LTC in
order to carry a handgun, meaning you've got to be
twenty one. I mean, how has the legislature messed everything
up and just confused people and what is what in

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the state of tex Oh.

Speaker 26 (01:53:18):
Yes, then, well, years ago it was you could carry
at eighteen. You could be a law enforcement officer and
get on the department at eighteen years old. The state
law changed probably close to forty years ago, and now
you have to be twenty one. So actually you can
go into the academy at twenty and a half. Now,

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we could either change the law and make it where
they can be ulcers that young, which is not necessarily.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
What I would agree with.

Speaker 26 (01:53:47):
I think the better plan is start recruiting people to
come in at nineteen and twenty. But you have been
doing things around the station. You can hire them to
do reports at the front desk and they're learning a skill,
preparing them for the police academy. There's all kinds of
jobs that we have within our department. There are civilian
should be civilian positions, and if they come there as

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a civilian knowing that they're going to move up to
a law responser later I think it's a big benefit.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
Well, you know, we recruit for the US military at
the age of eighteen. I don't see any reason why
we couldn't do that for the police. The question would become, though,
what sort of incentives do you think would be necessary
in order to get young people interested in doing that?
Because we clearly do not pay our police officers enough money.
There's no education benefits to becoming a police officer. Do

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we need to take more of a military style approach,
perhaps to the police department.

Speaker 26 (01:54:43):
There's been all kinds of things benned about across the nation. Actually,
you know, a mandatory public service things like that. I'm
not necessarily in agreement with that, just because I want
people that actually want to be here, people that want
to do this job. Again, forever, I thought this was
a calling and I still do. Uh, we just have

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to get the love of the profession back, and we
have to have a way to motivate these young people
to want to be involved.

Speaker 6 (01:55:13):
Okay, sounds like you need to go on the speaking
to I.

Speaker 5 (01:55:16):
Think, yeah, I hate to tell you, Doug, but we
may have to send you out there to recruit yourself
a little bit more. But thank you appreciate it. Doug Griffith,
president of the Houston Police Officers Union, Hey, listen, I
have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning. Bring
early five am. I'll see at the staffroom four on
the M nine fifty k PRC