What To Expect From Tomorrows Debate

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 09/09/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is huge Radio seven KATI RH Houston Live Everywhere
with Art now, the latest news, weather and trapping.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Good morning, five am is our time here in Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer. Among
our top stories this morning, something tropical is coming, but
the track is still uncertain. What to expect from the
debate tomorrow night, and coming up at five o eight
my first movie in almost five years. Details in the
minutes ahead here in Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
First, can I guess?

Speaker 5 (00:40):
You can guess?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Guy, Mike, you can only say it twice? Yeah, don't
don't need don't say the name. We might be in trouble.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Good morning A All right, let's go to the northwest.

Speaker 6 (00:48):
Side two forty nine Tomball Parkway. Inbound outbound, it's outbound only.
We're all over the place. We got multiple laneage, we've
got both shoulders, we're not really bowling a split.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
It's almost all lane.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
But the fact that they've got one getting by this
is outbound, not inbound.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
The fact that they have one getting by is a
good sign.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
Let's see, can you do cutting road instead and go
to nineteen sixty. We'll assume this at five p ten
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center.
Mostly sunny skies today with the hot temper. You're right
about eighty nine. It's Wednesday, when things could get a
little dicey around here. We'll check the forecast when we
talk to Jeff Eno with the Weather Channel. We'll do
that in nine minutes. If it you're right now sixty
nine at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty kt RH. It's timed out for the news. Here's

(01:38):
Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 7 (01:39):
Thank good morning everyone.

Speaker 8 (01:41):
It is now five oh two on news Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
Our top story this morning.

Speaker 8 (01:46):
We are keeping our eyes on the Gulf potential Tropical
cyclone six still called. Expect you to become friends Seine,
a Cat one hurricane off the Texas coast today. Landfall
projected on Wednesday, but where well, that's still a question mark.

Speaker 9 (02:03):
If that center forms a little bit further over here
on the west, you know you can see this come
up more towards the Mattagorda Bay area. If the center
order form further to the east, you could see landfall
somewhere over in south central Louisiana.

Speaker 8 (02:16):
Yeah, Jeff Lidner, Harris County Meteorologists, he'll be joining us
at five point fifty in this hour. The system currently
has maximum sustained winds of fifty miles per hour. Governor
Greg Abbott already ordering the Texas Division of Emergency Management
to make additional resources available anywhere in the state. And
this could, of course be the first test for Center

(02:36):
Point since Hurricane Beryl. The company says it has five
thousand workers on standby, has installed more than eleven hundred
fiberglass transmission polls now replacing those old wooden ones they
can withstand stronger wins. There's also the new Center Point
outage tracker up and running, they say. Also topping our news,

(02:56):
it's that one on one showdown between Donald Trump and
Kamala Harris fin League going down tomorrow night when they debate.
RNC committeeman doctor Robin Armstrong says the key for Trump
will be staying on message.

Speaker 10 (03:10):
I'm certain that they're telling Trump that listen, you have
to be very focused. There's so many things that we
can criticize Kamala Harris on but you have to be
focused on the things that the American people care about.

Speaker 8 (03:23):
Doctor Armstrong also says Trump can easily get under Harris's
skin and throw her off her game. He has a
way of doing it. Trump on the campaign trail this weekend,
rallying with thousands in the battleground state of Wisconsin.

Speaker 11 (03:37):
First, I will end forever the weaponization of government and
the abuse of law enforcement against political opponents.

Speaker 8 (03:44):
President also spoke in the swing state of North Carolina.
He picked up the endorsement of the three hundred and
thirty thousand membership of the National Fraternal Order of Police
Kamala Harris so while she was kept in hiding by
her handlers what the Democrats called debate camp. Our live
coverage tomorrow starts at seven pm here on KTRHKTRH dot

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com and the free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
It's now five oh four.

Speaker 8 (04:11):
Congress returning from its August recess today, only thirteen more
working days before the end of this fiscal year for
the federal government, and another partial government shutdown looms September thirtieth.
If they fail in this thirteen days to pass another
continuing resolution on funding, one that always goes the way

(04:34):
of the Democrats. It flew under the radar, but Texas
Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez predicts the GOP is going to
lose control of the House in November.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
The GOP has a slight edge still, but it only
goes so far.

Speaker 12 (04:48):
The only way we lose the House and the Senate
if we get complacent and not do what we're supposed
to do.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Former Texas GOP chair Steve Monisteri says there's a good
chance the GOP s weeps in November and Democrats spending
on attack ads won't move the needle much.

Speaker 10 (05:04):
There's just so many of them.

Speaker 12 (05:06):
I just have to think at the point where after
a couple of people stop paying attention. It's a factor,
but it's not necessarily a determinative factor.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
He says. The focus needs to be on the effort
to win instead of percentage points on the right Parade
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Speaker 8 (05:22):
So don't know what Gonzales based that prediction upon. It
is five oh five. Stock futures are up this morning
across the board after yet another bad day on Friday.
The tech heavy Nasdaq drop more than two and a
half percent after that disappointing August jobs report last Thursday.
The illegal invasion has proven to destroy the American job

(05:44):
market too. Huge numbers of jobs are going to illegal
aliens rather than to American born citizens.

Speaker 13 (05:52):
The illegal immigrants are heavily, not exclusively, but heavily concentrated
in the less skilled or less educated labor market. They're
heavily concentrated in his construction label or nanny's maids and
bus boys.

Speaker 8 (06:05):
Stephen Camarado with a Center for Immigration Studies, says it
also results in slow wage growth for those who are
already making low wages. The massive influx of foreign speaking
students tho in our school districts, and it's all these
languages from all across the world. New numbers show that
fifty thousand Texas public school students now are withdrawing to

(06:26):
homeschool each year.

Speaker 14 (06:29):
Shara education expert Jeene Brook says she is not surprised.

Speaker 15 (06:33):
It's probably way more than that. We are getting inundated
with so many new homeschoolers people have never done before,
and not just starting the m kindergarten and just pulling
them out left and right.

Speaker 14 (06:43):
And she doesn't think that trend is going to slow
even if Texas passes school choice.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
The public school system, it is not failing. It is
wildly successful at what they're doing.

Speaker 15 (06:55):
They are failing our kids, but they are right on
target with their agenda.

Speaker 14 (06:58):
Harris County, by the way, ranks number one in the
state with the highest number of withdrawals from public school
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 8 (07:09):
It's now five oh seven. We had a lot of
crime cross Houston this weekend. A robbery victim fought back
though shooting and killing his attacker in northwest Terrace County
after a struggle for the gun. Two people wounded in
an apparent road battle in southeast Houston Saturday night, both
now in stable condition. Violent crime getting worse than Austin
after defunding the police in twenty twenty, the Democrat led

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city averaging more than a murder one.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Murder per week.

Speaker 8 (07:36):
Now, who could believe that Texans win the season opener
twenty nine to twenty seven of the Colts and the Astros.
They lost to Arizona twelve to six. Their lead in
the AO West now down to four and a half games.
They host Oakland Tomorrow night. I'm shepber Fryar A news
radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Parent and Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Since COVID ended, I haven't gone because there wasn't anything
I wanted to see. Finally I got curious enough. I
was kind of wondering, what's it like at the movies
these days? Were people still going to the movies? So
we decided this is the opening weekend this weekend for Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, Yeah,
I have some fond memories of that movie when it

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originally came out, and I thought, well, I would be
very interested to see how they followed up on the original.
So we went yesterday. We went to a place called Synopolis.
It's a it's a eat in style, you know, dinner, dinner,
and a movie all the same place.

Speaker 7 (08:36):
Why am I not surprised by gimme the eater?

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Well, yeah, what went around dinner time? So for you know,
trying to be efficient with the deuse of my time,
and I thought, well, I'm trying to remember the last
time we went. How much it costs. It certainly has
gone up since then. I think when you combine the
movie tickets with and we just we split a pepperoni
a small pepperoni pizza and had popcorn and a drink.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
Well that's a great nutrition for you.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well I didn't go there for healthy eating, and it
came to over forty bucks. That's just for the food,
and then you throw the movie tickets in on top
of that. That's done their twenty four bucks. So that
was a sixty four dollars experience for two people. And
I thought, wow, I didn't see a lot of families there,
you know, even though I would think that if there's

(09:27):
been a movie that would draw some family interest, that
would be it. But there weren't a lot there. And
this is opening weekend, so I think people. I really
feel like people had kind of gotten out of the
habit of going to see movies and it would probably
take some sort of a big blockbuster to turn that around.
I don't know that, you know, the Beetlejuice sequel would
qualify as a blockbuster movie, but it is. I did

(09:48):
find it interesting because Tim Burton. I would like to
know what Tim Burton was like as a child. The
guy who wrote and directed the site, he must have
been insane. His parents must have been worried that he
was mentally ill, because this guy comes up with some
amazingly insane stuff and he thought, I'll give him credit though,
he found a way to make a living doing it.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Yeah, he true.

Speaker 8 (10:08):
Did you know they made money off just doing the
previews they did, like a focus group or something. Yeah,
last week we had it in the news, and the
fact that they made millions of dollars just running it
with no advertising, So no surprise that it made box office.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, and look at all the partnerships that they did
for there with the crowd. Jimmy, I guess the product.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
Number one at the box office over the weekend.

Speaker 16 (10:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
The product partnerships are amazing too. All the insurance people
and all these different products that are also advertising for them,
including progressive insurance, which I found kind of interesting. Did
you hear their dropping out of Texas?

Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Guess who has a lot of progressive insurance with his homeowners? Well,
I guess if you have a current policy, you're okay
at least for now. But they an't going to write
any more new policies in Texas, at least for a while.
They don't like the weather forecast. I guess five eleven
Nightlet's get the traffic and let us go.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
Tim Burton grew up on a farm somewhere, and he
was probably all by himself. I like the weirdest kid
raised by sasquatch. Maybe guy, I understand all that, all right,
tip line. First of all, let me throw that out there.
We're at seven one three two one two. Thank you,
t ips.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
I get that noise.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Sometime we can't figure out how to get rid of
that two twenty five westbound sorry westbound at Preston Road debris.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
What is it? I know this, I'm kind of crapping
the road.

Speaker 17 (11:29):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
If you could see it closer, maybe you could tipline me.
It doesn't look to be slowing things down. What I
need you to do is watch out for other stations.
Listeners say, and they swerve out and then they cause
an actual wreck and.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
People really get hurt.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
All right, let's go to two forty nine Tomball Parkway.
That's an outbound wreck before nineteen sixty. Curtis from Raper Dude.

Speaker 18 (11:48):
He one just past the two forty nine.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
It looks like a semi tractor trailer overturned.

Speaker 18 (11:56):
They've got any.

Speaker 6 (11:58):
Boom, half the road block putting you off right back
on you nice verbage. Curtis from Rayford with us first
banana stick or extra points for verbage, and yeah, keep
the tip lines calling let me know what you got. Also,
what do you think the storm's gonna do? I know
New Orleans is already talking about letting you park on
the neutral ground. Those of you that are yet know
what I'm talking about. So I'm in the Generator Supercenter

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dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
From r KTRH top tax Defender's twenty four hour weather Center.
Jeff Eno is on duty today. If the Weather Channel,
we're keeping an eye on what is going to likely
become fran scene. How close to Texas is that storm
going to come, Jeff?

Speaker 19 (12:33):
As for now, it looks like the cone is going
to be a little offshore. It is going to strengthen,
and we are going to see the opportunity for some
heavy rain and then also some strong winds of course
with this storm. But as it does strengthen to hurricane
strength here in the next couple of days, again it

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does look like it will be a little more offshore,
and it looks like potential landfall is going to be
west of New Orleans right into the south central portion
of Louisiana. Today, pretty tranquil, We've got sunshine, We've got
upper eighties. Tonight, partly cloudy, maybe a stray shower, thunderstorm.
Low near seventy five now four. Tomorrow, as this storm

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does go a little farther north, we are going to
see the afternoon showers and thunderstorms become likely. For Tuesday,
mostly cloudy, we'll get up to the mid eighties, more
showers than possible storms Tuesday night, and then by Wednesday,
tropical storm conditions will be a possibility and the threats
for heavy rain and also some strong winds. You're right
now sixty eight here at your official severe weather station.

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News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
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Speaker 3 (13:47):
Five twenty one is their time here in Houston's Morning News.
August job numbers came out last week. They were disappointing
but not surprising, one hundred and forty two thousand jobs.
But don't take that to the bank because that number
will probably he revised downward, just as the previous month's
numbers continue to get revised downward. More analysis on that
in just a moment. First, though, traffic and weather together,

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So we check out the drive once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
All right.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
Two forty nine outbound is completely shut down. That's a
wreck with an eighteen wheeler. This is all lanes, but
it's outbound. Not much of a backup here. Forty five
is in option do it Highway ninety. Let's go to
the tip line.

Speaker 20 (14:23):
Good morning, sky Mike.

Speaker 18 (14:24):
It's Nicky from Dayton.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Nicky from Dayton headed.

Speaker 18 (14:28):
In from the sixth to the hard work in east
side ninety over the Tendacental Bridge SUTs down to one lane,
so traffic is backing up pretty heavy.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
I see that backup inbound. All right, let's zoom that
at five point thirty. I hope that's the Nicky from Dayton.
I really know, Skymike and a generator Supercenter dot Com
traffic center.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
The way she's probably come.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Ye complemented that this different one from mar Katirih Top
tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather center mostly sunny eighty
nine for today Parth. They cloudy in the morning, increasing
clients for the afternoon. I'll shower chance tomorrow afternoon. Seven Wednesday, Well,
that kind of depends on how close that tropical store
for hurricane gets to us. So we'll leave that one
open high right around eighty four though for the day
on Wednesday. Temperature right now sixty eight at your official

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severe weather station, news Radio seven forty KTRH. I'm going
to check out some of our top stories. Here's Shera.

Speaker 8 (15:18):
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Speaker 7 (15:23):
But is her name? Friend scene sky Mike.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
Potential tropical cyclone six that's what it would become a
catwe Hurricane Francine expected.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Later this week.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
A sixteen year old boy has drowned at a city
pool on Saturday. He hopped the fence. The pool's been
closed for the season after Labor Day. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice number
one at the box office along with Jimmy, making about
one hundred and ten million dollars last weekend.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Sixty bucks.

Speaker 8 (15:52):
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next update will be bottom of the hour.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
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Speaker 5 (16:11):
Never sounded so good.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I don't think they added any coal mine jobs during
the month of August or many other jobs. Most of
the jobs they hadn't were part time jobs. They were
full time jobs, so they had a lower than expected number.
The jobs that were full time had many of them
were government related. We've seen that trend a lot lately,
and many of the ones that the rest of us

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are getting were part time jobs.

Speaker 8 (16:37):
And then they had a separate report at more than
a million jobs that supposedly were new jobs were new
jobs too, foreign born rather than native born Americans.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Beautiful. Yeah, that's the perfect storm right there. Here's more
analysis from EJ and TONI.

Speaker 21 (16:55):
I think aneemik is the only word you can use
to describe the support. Not only did we see another
round of huge downward revisions. That means that basically half
of the job growth in this report were jobs we
literally thought we already had. But on top of that,
look at July's number. It's now under ninety thousand in
terms of jobs added after those revisions, So things are

(17:16):
definitely slowing down and much slower than you could possibly
consider to be a healthy labor market. Those folks touting
the manufacturing numbers aren't even including another one hundred thousand
jobs which still have to be subtracted. We already got
that info out of the annual benchmark revision, so we
know that downward revision is coming. It just hasn't actually
been put into the numbers yet. So manufacturing is clearly down.

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That sector is clearly in recession itself. Whether you look
at the purchasing manager indexes or you look at the
surveys from the different regional federal Reserve banks, that sector
has been declining literally for two years now. In terms
of the broader economy, though, I think there's a very
strong likelihood we're eventually going to backdate a recession to
write around this time all.

Speaker 22 (18:00):
Of the net jobs were part time jobs EJA.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
What does that mean for the consumer?

Speaker 21 (18:07):
Well, Brian, unfortunately, it means the consumer is going to
continue to be extremely strapped going forward because they are
losing their full time jobs and having to replace them
with at least one, but typically more than one, part
time jobs. And sadly, this last month is not simply
an isolated incident. It's part of a broader, longer trend
where we have been losing these full time jobs over

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a million in the last year and replacing them entirely
with part time ones.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
So again, it's not a good sign.

Speaker 21 (18:34):
And by the way, it's also a very common practice
for businesses to do this, to shift away from full
time employment and towards part time employment as we head
into a recession.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
And if you end up adding a part time job
just trying to keep up with inflation, you're going to
have to make about twelve thousand dollars a year to
break even with where you were before. You know, all
this inflation got going five twenty six.

Speaker 7 (18:56):
You gives me paying taxes on that edit income.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
This is a good point. I get all that five
twenty six. Time to take a look at your money.
Here's Joan Donagher, well Jimmy.

Speaker 23 (19:05):
Apple will be unveiling more than just the iPhone sixteen
at its product launch later today. For the first time
in almost two years, Apple will reveal major changes to
the Apple Watch and EarPods, AirPods, earbuds. A lack of
upgrades for those products is wait on sales of wearables.
Analysts expect to bounce back in that category in coming months.
Boeing has a deal with its largest union that should

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help it avoid a costly strike while it's still working
to get back on course after its quality and safety issues.
The deal came after marathon talks over the weekend. It
includes a twenty five percent payhike over four years, with
an eleven percent bump now if workers accept the deal.
Crude futures are clawing back some of their losses. They're
up thirty five cents to sixty eight ZHO too a barrel,

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even after big banks have signaled they think demand is
softening on.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
Wall Street a bit of a recovery.

Speaker 23 (19:55):
S and P futures are up forty Nasdaq futures one
hundred and seventy. You's up two hundred and fifty seven points.
I'm Joan Donager, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty
k t RH.

Speaker 24 (20:10):
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Speaker 25 (20:14):
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Speaker 2 (20:18):
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Speaker 3 (20:24):
Five thirty is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett long at sheriff Ryar Lounger top stories
this half hour. A tropical stormer hurricane is coming, but
just how close to us will it be? Kamala Harris
does a scripted interview with Univision and coming up at
five thirty eight. She checked in, but she never checked
out details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Warning News. First,

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we're gonna check out that morning drive. Here's guy Mike all.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
Right Highway ninety coming in from Crosby. Nikki from Dayton
called in a closure inbound over the Sanjacenter River Bridge.
It sure looks like pavement repaired to me two twenty
five at the oh Way.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
There's no debris. It's a glitch in the system.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
And Todd from Spring from a Spring clin is on
two forty nine.

Speaker 10 (21:06):
Well this guy, Mike, Luckily I'm southbound northbound is still completely.

Speaker 26 (21:10):
Shut down all length.

Speaker 27 (21:11):
Looks like they're in the process of towing off the
damage tractor trailer.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
All right, that's outbound, not inbound. I'm in the classic
Elite GMC traffic.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather
Center mostly Sunday today with a high temperature of eighty
nine called before the storm. I guess we'll check in
with Jeff Eno at the Weather Channel get the latest
on what is going to become Francine and the track
of that storm. When we talked to him in about
nine minutes Jeff Lindner, by the way, we're talking him
about that as well. At five point fifty two right now,

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temperature is take a look forward you here real quick
sixty eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty ktrh. Time down for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 8 (21:51):
Good morning everyone, is now five thirty one on news
radio seven forty ktrh and our top story this hour.
The system in the golf of Mexico still called tropical
iclone six likely will become tropical storm Francine today currently
maximum sustained winds of fifty miles an hour. In the
last update for the National Weather Service, this was around
four am, they were predicting landfall now projected in Louisiana

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as a hurricane by Wednesday. Now Centerpoint has five thousand
workers on standby here and a few outage track and
a new outage tracker that's online up and running. Also
says it's replaced more than eleven hundred old wood transmission
polls with more durable and flexible fiberglass all in the
aftermath of the massive failures during Hurricane Barrel in July.

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With our Eyes on the Gulf. Two of the storms
that hit Texas, here's our memory in the top ten
of the costliest ever anywhere in the US.

Speaker 28 (22:50):
Harvey the most costly at over one hundred and fifty
eight billion dollars. Combined with Ike, the two major storms
to hit the state brought about two hundred billion dollars
in financial loss.

Speaker 17 (23:00):
To be expected because of inflation and the rising cost
of everything.

Speaker 28 (23:04):
Galveston County Judge Mark Henry knows a thing or two
about hurricanes along the Texas coast.

Speaker 17 (23:09):
It's just understandable and it's going to continue in forever.
As far as I can tell that hurricanes will just
become more expensive because they're destroying things that just costs
more than they used to.

Speaker 28 (23:18):
Jar Lewis News Radio seven forty teach our h and
Judge Henry joins Houston's Morning News at seven point fifty
Today seven point fifty talk about that storm in the
Gulf right now and on this anniversary of the great
Storm in Galveston nineteen hundred.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
It is now five point thirty three.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
The debate between Donald Trump Kamala Harris just a little
over thirty six hours away. Trump campaigning in the swing
states of Wisconsin and North Carolina.

Speaker 29 (23:47):
He'll go in game time ready, just as he does
for every interview, every rally that he does.

Speaker 8 (23:55):
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Fox Kamala Harris made
no campaign stops this weekend. Did do a taped interview
with Univision, which didn't go too well.

Speaker 30 (24:07):
It's time to move forward and to chart a new
way forward, and we need to turn the page.

Speaker 8 (24:13):
Yeah, which you heard that clutter. That was Harris literally
turning the page in her script. That's what you were
listening to. We'll have that debate live on kt ORHE
tomorrow night. Coverage will be on air, online at KTURH
dot com, and on the free iHeartRadio app. It begins
at seven pm. That's when we pick it up. More

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proof of election fraud the Department of Justice admitting that
one illegal alien anyway from Guatemala stole an American citizen's
ID in order to vote in multiple elections in Alabama,
criminal voting in the twenty sixteen and twenty twenty elections.
Biden Harris DOJ says that Russia's trying to interfere in

(24:57):
this election again Texas Congress, and Mike A. Call says, yeah,
it could get even worse.

Speaker 31 (25:02):
Well, Russia has been trying to do this many years,
So is China, so has run. It's intensified and I
think I didn't blame anybody for it. I blamed Russia
for putting disinformation in the United States that does get
picked up by people unwinningly.

Speaker 8 (25:17):
In many cases, mccollin CBS has faced the nation. It's
now five thirty five in state news after that failed
impeachment attack on Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Texas Senate
now conducting an audit very quietly to find out how
much the Rhino Dade Feeling Democrat debacle cost over there
in the House.

Speaker 22 (25:38):
How Speaker Dade Feeling doesn't want that information to come out.

Speaker 27 (25:41):
Speaker Feeling is directly responsible for hiding the audit, slow
playing the audit, and keeping it hidden from Texas taxpayers.

Speaker 22 (25:50):
Former State Senator Don Huffin says this is part of
Feeling's effort to hold onto the speakership.

Speaker 27 (25:55):
When the audit comes out, he's going to be embarrassed
and he's going to be politically damaged, and he's not
going to let it out unless he has to.

Speaker 22 (26:03):
Huffine says that Feeling will likely drag this process out
as long as he possibly can. Ethan Buchinnan News Radio
seven forty KTRH, Well.

Speaker 7 (26:11):
Guess what they told us.

Speaker 8 (26:13):
It was going to be paid for it privately, But
the federal government has given the long talked about Texas
Size Speed Rail project a grant of nearly sixty four
million dollars.

Speaker 7 (26:23):
Guess what.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
Charles Blaine of Urban Reform says, that won't be nearly enough.

Speaker 20 (26:28):
The project has just ballooned in costs. They haven't even
know lifted one shovel or put one shovel in the
ground yet. So I expect it to get even more
expensive as time goes on, and ultimately it's going to
be taxpayers in some form or fashion that are going
to be on the hook for this.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
Yeah, another government project. The original estimated cost for Texas
Central High Speed Rail Project ten billion dollars Blaine says
now it could be forty billion, and counting oil futures
this morning about sixty eight bucks a barrow. We're still
waiting on that. Biden hearries regime pledge, though, to replenish
the strategic reserves when prices hit seventy administration, as you remember,

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began depleting the reserves, not for emergency use, but to
lower gasoline prices before the midterms two years ago. They
did it to play the markets. War expanding in the
Middle East, Israel hitting targets inside Syria, allegedly killing fourteen.

Speaker 32 (27:23):
Two Regional intelligence sources of told Reuters the target was
a major military research center for chemical warfare. It's believed
a team of Iranian experts were there, involved in producing weapons.
Israel doesn't normally comment on reports of strikes inside Syria
and hasn't done so this time.

Speaker 7 (27:41):
Jonathan Savage reporting there. It is now five thirty seven.

Speaker 22 (27:44):
C J.

Speaker 8 (27:45):
Stroud threw a pair of touchdowns Joe Mixon ran for
another that Texas beat Indianapolis in the NFL season opener
twenty nine to twenty seven.

Speaker 18 (27:53):
I think everybody played well on offense.

Speaker 9 (27:55):
You know, we got to stop shoot ourselves at ourselves
in the foot and we'll keep rolling out.

Speaker 25 (27:58):
I think this office is just getting started.

Speaker 8 (28:02):
Texas hosts the Bears next Sunday night in the home
opener at Energy Stadium, University of Texas. Longhorns move up
to number two in the AP Top twenty five after
beating Michigan thirty one twelve.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Ouch.

Speaker 8 (28:13):
I know, I thought about you, the host g Sad Antonio.
This coming weekend, Astros lose to the Diamondbacks. I thought
I was going to get some chocolate covered cherries out
of this. The Astros lose to the Diamondbacks twelve to six,
Seattle one, So the lead in the Al West now
down to four and a half games. Stros off tonight,
they'll play. They'll host Oakland tomorrow. I'm sure Ryer and

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Next on the ten.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
This is kind of a.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Sad and at the same time scary story of Arizona
sixty year old Wells Fargo corporate office worker Denise Prudhom
sixty years of age, clocked in for work as she
always did, at seven am on Friday morning, August the sixteenth.
She never clocked out. Sometime between Friday and Tuesday, when

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they finally discovered her body, she had died at the office.
They don't think it was a murder or anything like that.
She just passed away at her desk. But during that
time period Friday, sometime between seven am Friday and whatever
time it was they found her on Tuesday, nobody looked

(29:43):
for her, nobody reported her missing. Nobody on Monday went
into her office and discovered her. She basically was alone
there for four days. Said something else about maybe society
in general, that's really kind of sad and a little

(30:04):
bit scary, especially for people who for whatever reason live alone,
aren't married, don't have kids, or don't have a relationship
with their kids, don't know their neighbors, don't really socialize
or know their co workers very well, don't really interact
with their coworkers anymore. They really are alone. How long

(30:30):
would it be before you were discovered missing, before somebody thought,
you know, I haven't heard from him in a while.
What do you think is going on? I don't see
anybody at the house. The car still parked in the driveway.
It's been there for like two days. He's supposed to
be a work or do people not notice that? Stuff anymore?

(30:52):
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? It really makes you wonder?
Could that happen to any of us? Five forty time
for traffic and whether together.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
We'll know when you're missing, Sky, trust me, we will
know when you go missing, and you will go missing someday,
but we will know that.

Speaker 8 (31:05):
Would we need to report in from the elevators that
we know he's in the building exactly.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Just so I'm here on I was on time. All right,
Let's go to forty five North. Justin. Justin is from Conrod.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Dude, got Mike in the town. Airlines moving really slow.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
All right, that's your North Freeway.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
We've got a wreck at Conra to Conro at cross
Timbers Monday morning. That is going to be a spin out.
This guy's turned the wrong way. I think the tow
trucks will ninja this pretty quickly. But you've got brakes
now at Sheppard. I could not have a better guy
to tell me about Highway ninety. Here's downtown Dwayne.

Speaker 34 (31:40):
Pace guy Mike I don't want to tell Nikki thanks
to that heads up on that corn lane over the
river at Haighwian ninety.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
I saw it as I went by on Old Highway.

Speaker 12 (31:50):
Ninety and getting back on New ninety from Sheldon Road.

Speaker 35 (31:54):
But anyway, thanks Nikki.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
That makes perfect sense to me because we still have
Old ninety, so it's awfully bumpy and there's always some
big truck there. But you know, it's good to have
alternates coming in. We've got pavement repair. That's one lane
at the San Ja Cento river Bridge. We still have
our eighteen wheeler problem two forty nine the Forgotten Freeway.
We normally don't have any problems. That's an overturn eighteen wheeler.
They're clearing it. But this is all lanes blocked outbound inbound.

(32:20):
Don't worry, You're just fine. I'm skymiking the classic Elite
GMC traffic.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Center from our KTRH Generator's super Center twenty four hour
Weather Center. Jeff Eno is in for Terry today at
the weather Channel. I guess this is the calm before
the big storm.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Huh. That is definitely the case.

Speaker 19 (32:34):
Just kind of hit refresh here to check and make
sure we have not upgraded to a tropical storm yet,
so still a PTC a potential tropical cyclone, but it
is inevitable we will go to a tropical storm and
then eventually the prediction is for this storm to strengthen
the hurricane strength. Looks like right now this track should

(32:55):
take it just offshore. But in the next couple of
days we are going to see Wednesday maybe tropical storm
conditions of the possibility with high winds and also heavy rain.
But until then we've got sunshine to day up for eighties. Tonight,
maybe just a stray shower thunderstorm overnight low seventy five.
We'll pick up those rain opportunities. So for Tuesday, by

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the afternoon, showers and thunderstorms become likely about a sixty
percent chance. Rain will continue into Tuesday night, Tuesday's high
in the mid eighties, and again for Wednesday, tropical storm
conditions will be possible. Right now sixty eight at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
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Five fifties our time and if you've been tuned in
any time. This morning, you've heard us talk about the
potential for Francene, whether it be a tropical storm or
more likely a Category one hurricane. Right now the track
looks like it's going to be further east. But we're
still we'll still within the cone of opportunity, at least
as of this morning. I mean, we're the run on
the edge of it. So on who you talk to

(34:01):
that's it. Well, let's talk to Jeff Linder about that.
We'll do that next week. It's a guy that's our
go to guy Furse though. At five point fifteen, let's
take a look at your drive. Here's sky Mike. I'll
pitch from the stretch.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
All right, the rest of the media now knows there's
a wreck on the North Freeway inbound at Airline. It's
taken one, two, three, four lanes here backup from Sheppard.
That is an overturned eighteen wheeler on two forty nine
and it's outbound, not inbound right for four nineteen sixty
Maybe there for a while, judge him by. The response
looks like everybody's okay. Skymike and the classic Elite GMC

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Speaker 3 (34:31):
From r KTRH generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather
Center for today, Lots of sunshine with the high temperature
of eighty nine tomorrow, Party Claude in the morning, increasing
clouds with afternoon showers eighty seven tomorrow and then Wednesday.
Of whatever impact that what will be fran Sine will
have on us, we'll feel that on Wednesday. Temperature right
now is sixty eight at your official severe weather station.

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Speaker 5 (35:46):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
As Jeff Lindner joins us. Jeff is with the Harris
County Flood Control District. He's their meteorologist and he's kind
of our go to guy choice when it comes to
predicting what's going to happen with a big storm anywhere
near us. Boing, Jeff, what are you hearing about Francine?
What's the latest on that?

Speaker 26 (36:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (36:05):
I think the message this morning is cautiously optimistic here
for the Upper Texas coast. Like j'all mentioned, we've seen
some of this shifting to the east with the forecast track.
It still doesn't mean we're completely out of the woods.
It doesn't mean we won't have some impacts around here
on Wednesday, some gusty winds, maybe some rain near the
coast and some elevated tides. But you know, looking a

(36:27):
little bit better here for the Upper Texas Coast. Unfortunately
worse for our friends over in Louisiana.

Speaker 8 (36:33):
So not really even just folks to the immediate east
of US, Beaumont, that area that we always keep our
eye on to. You're saying more direct.

Speaker 9 (36:44):
Yeah, probably a more direct impact over towards Lake Charles
and even further east than that, maybe the Vermilion Bay area, Lafayette,
that portion of the south central portion of the Louisiana
coast as or we'll probably have the direct impact of
the storm. Again, this is kind of going to brush
so long the upper Texas coast, and so we will
still have impacts here on Wednesday, especially down Galveston, Texas City,

(37:08):
Missouria County, Chambers County, Bolivar High Island. Those areas will
still have some dusty winds forty fifty percent chance of
tropical storm force winds along our coastal areas on Wednesday,
and some squalls and rain. Metro area will probably get
off pretty decently here up in the end of the
metro area. I don't think we'll have a lot of
rain and maybe fifteen twenty twenty five on our winds.

(37:29):
So again, this is kind of gonna brush us by
off the coast and then make landfall over in Louisiana.

Speaker 8 (37:34):
Looking at it on radar is really sloppy. It hasn't
tightened up at all on any is it for sure?
You think it's going to become like a cat one.

Speaker 9 (37:43):
Yeah, it's It is pretty sloppy up there this morning,
a very elongated area of low pressure. You know, the
forecast walls are pretty in good agreement that as this
moves off to the north and then eventually turning to
the northeast, that center will tighten up. You know, it's
very warm waters over the northern and northwestern Gulf, light wind, sheer, moisture.
It doesn't take a lot of time for these for

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these systems, as we've seen in the past, to get
their act together. And this is kind of another one,
maybe a little bit similar to some of the other
ones we've seen in the past, Barrel and some of
the other ones that kind of as it comes up
to the coast, it strengthens and may continue to strengthen
into landsfall. So uh, you know, the preparation window today
and tomorrow southwest south central Louisiana, that's that's all the

(38:25):
time you're going to have before this comes up and
really along our coast. Today and tomorrow is the time
to at least have supplies ready, be prepared.

Speaker 16 (38:34):
There could be some.

Speaker 9 (38:35):
Isolated power outages down on Galveston and over on Bolliver,
but at this point we're not expecting any widespread power
outages like what we saw with Beryl.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Thanks got really quiet after Beryl. Why did things get
so quiet? And why are they heating back up again?

Speaker 9 (38:50):
Yeah, we had a quiet period there in the Atlantic
really for the month of August. Really unusual considering generally
how favorable things look for developments. We'll have to take
a look at why exactly that happened. And now we
are starting to see the activity picked up a little
bit again.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
But uh, I think some of the forecasts.

Speaker 9 (39:06):
For you know, twenty named storms are probably not going
to happen this year, but we could still see, you know,
over the next couple of weeks, several storms developed in
the Atlantic base and the good news for Texas, we're
starting to get fronts down here now and those kind
of protect us a little bit from tropical systems. We're
not totally out of the woods even after this system
moves through, but looking better in the Western Gulf the

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later we get to the season.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
All right, Jeff, always good to hear from you. Thank
you appreciate it. Harris County Flood Control Districts. Jeff Linder,
it's five fifty six. This is Huge Radio seven kat
rh Houston.

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I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer Fong your top
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minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're gonna
check out that morning drive. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
Two forty nine eighteen wheeler outbound, not inbound. Nothing good's
happening there North Freeway. iHeart listeners the first to know
about that inbound wreck at Airline four. Big lanes here southbound,
we're backed up from West Road Tipline Highway ninety gay
Mike Nicky was.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
Correct going over the river.

Speaker 9 (40:34):
They just picked up road and work.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
We got about a fifteen to twenty minutes wait.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
Boom, bananas, tickers all around. I'm in the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center.

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From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Mostly Sunday today with the high temperature of eighty nine.
But that's that's not gonna be what the weather's gonna
be like come Wednesday. We'll get all the details when
we talk to Jeff Eno at the Weather Channel in
about nine minutes. Temperature right now is still sixty eight
of your officials Severe weather station. News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 8 (41:07):
It's six oh two on news radio seven forty k TRH.
This news sponsored by Choice Home and Commercial. Top story
this hour. Expecting that system in the Gulf of Mexico
to be named Francine today currently maximum sustained wins fifty
miles an hour.

Speaker 7 (41:21):
As for where it's going, I'm the.

Speaker 26 (41:23):
Current forecast tracks six. Expected the move, you know, just
offshore the Texas cos and approach the Upper Texas Louisiana
coastline on Wednesday.

Speaker 8 (41:32):
Yeah, Larry Kelly, there with the National Hurricane Center early
this morning. He says it's not totally set in stone,
and of course still waiting for the storm to officially form.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the state Division of
Emergency Management to make additional resources available for the entire state.
Is certainly for this portion of It could be the

(41:53):
first test for Centerpoint here since Hurricane Barrel. The company
putting five thousand workers on standby installing more than eleven
hundred fiberglass transmission polls also topping our news were a
day away from the one on one debate showdown between
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
So what can we expect?

Speaker 36 (42:11):
A very bland Harris. According to RNC committee man doctor
Robin Armstrong.

Speaker 10 (42:16):
She'll be well rehearsed to have handed answers because she'll
practice a lot, because she has to.

Speaker 36 (42:21):
We know that she'll try to get under Trump's skin.
But Armstrong says Trump can flip the script.

Speaker 10 (42:26):
He will pose questions that are not being asked by
the debate moderators, and I think by doing that it'll
throw her off.

Speaker 36 (42:34):
Our live coverage starts at seven o'clock tomorrow night on air, online,
and on the iHeartRadio app Cliff saun Jersney's Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 8 (42:42):
Well, the President Trump is campaigning as how he's preparing.
He went through a couple of swing states over the weekend,
including North Carolina. He earned the endorsement there of the
National for Eternal Order of Police three hundred thirty thousand
members strong.

Speaker 25 (43:01):
This is a big endorsement for me.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
This is like three hundred and seventy three thousand and
seventy seven.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Boy, that's a lot of protection.

Speaker 7 (43:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (43:11):
Trump also went to Wisconsin, about five thousand supporters at
that rally.

Speaker 18 (43:15):
There.

Speaker 8 (43:16):
Harris kept under wraps by her handlers. She's in debate camp. Supposedly.
We're going to hear the one on one showdown tomorrow
night right here live on KTRH, KTRH dot com, the
iHeartRadio app, beginning at seven pm. It's six o four now,
only thirteen working days for Congress before the end of

(43:36):
the federal fiscal year. They're returning from August reesas today.
If they failed to get another continuing resolution on funding,
well that's a partial government shutdown that would happen on
September thirty. The GoPay let me slow down the GOP

(43:56):
may lose the House, according to predictions from a single
Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez. What's he basing it on?
Former Texas GOP chair Steve Munistery disagrees. He says the
only way they lose is by people becoming complacent, and
the DEM's efforts at spending really won't hurt much either.

Speaker 12 (44:16):
He believes there's a point at which the marginal return
of spending money starts going down. There's a point at
which the commercials are so saturated. Does it really make
a difference if they run ten and you run eight?

Speaker 8 (44:30):
Yeah, he says, forget about the spending. The GOP needs
to focus efforts on winning instead, and that means making
sure that the count is good. Our time now, six
oh five. Stock futures they're up this morning. After that,
another losing session on Friday, Tech heavy NASTAC dropped more
than two and a half percent on Friday. It was

(44:50):
the August jobs report that set the market spinning. Continues
to struggle though this job market, with a large number
of jobs not being filled by actual American citizens.

Speaker 22 (45:04):
Around seventy eight percent of jobs are going to foreign
born workers and.

Speaker 13 (45:08):
Of that, probably about sixty five percent was illegal.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
So it is true that a.

Speaker 13 (45:13):
Majority of the job growth we can measure looks to
be going to illegal immigrants.

Speaker 22 (45:18):
Stephen Camarata with the Center for Immigration Study says this
is causing low end wages to stay low.

Speaker 13 (45:23):
What you're doing is you're lowering wages for people who
already don't make that much money. These are people, say,
who only have a high school education and no additional schooling.

Speaker 22 (45:33):
Camarada says this is a result of policies that undermine
or outright ignore our immigration laws. Ethan Buchanan News radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 8 (45:41):
Got another low point for Harris County public schools, a
county number one in this state in students leaving public
schools for homeschooling.

Speaker 15 (45:51):
Even BC before COVID, there was an increase of homeschooling.
Probably was going faster than any other school system because
I think parents are finally found out that dick kids
aren't learning.

Speaker 8 (46:03):
Education expert Jeene Burke there fifty thousand public school students
are leaving each year in Texas, and she says has
something to change even with school choice six oh seven
is our time got to tell you quickly about crime
in this city. A man shot and killed overnight in
southwest Houston. Two shooters on the run. A potential robbery

(46:24):
victim has shot and killed his attacker in the northwest
Terrace County. This happens Saturday afternoon. After a struggle for
the gun and crime in Austin, we're learning is still
up as that Democrat city continues to deal with well.
They decided to defund the police. Astros lost to Arizona
twelve to six. They host Oakland tomorrow night at six pm.

(46:45):
Sports Talk seven to ninety either leading the AO West
is now down to four and a half games. I'm
Sherby Fryer on news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
Keeping you women know all the information in real time
and in good.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Now right now News Radio seven JTRH.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
But actually like seaweed, so when I see stories like this,
I said to pass along seaweed to fall of health benefits.
Just twenty six grams of Norris seaweed has one point
five grams of protein, ninety two miligrams of potassium, eighteen
milligrams of calcium, fifteen miligrams of phosphorus, and ten milligrams
of vitamin C, according to the US Department of Agriculture,

(47:26):
also contains iron, magnesium, zinc, copper, rival flamin, vitamin B, six,
fol eight, vitamin A, vitamin E, and a single serving
of seaweed offers a fifth of the recommended intake of
vitamin K that you need in any given day. There's
a lot to come from.

Speaker 7 (47:41):
Well, it comes from the sea.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
It does come from the same There's only one thing
wrong with it, and that is whatever contaminants they may
pick up from the sea itself.

Speaker 7 (47:51):
Well, that's true. The fish tootuna heavy metals.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
That the heavy metals. By the way, another healthy benefit
provided by seaweed is it can be helpful and healthy
weight management. Many varieties are very low in fat, and
seaweed has a high fiber content. Order some sushi or order.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
Some miso soup with seaweed, inn't it?

Speaker 5 (48:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (48:13):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
I love love both of those things. By the way,
I gotta tell you this. I was at a I
was at an Asian restaurant when we were on vacation.
We were having dinner and Elizabeth this this will shock you.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Share.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Elizabeth likes to ear hustle. She likes to she has very,
very good sense of hearing. She's very good at reading lips,
and she speaks sign language. So it's impossible to have
a private conversation anywhere near the woman. Just so you know,
just so you know, be careful what you say. So
she's ear hustling because a woman is making a little
bit of a commotion behind us. She's complaining about the

(48:52):
sushi she ordered. Would you care to hear what the
complaint was? You ready for this one? The sushi was
too uncooked, it was too rare.

Speaker 8 (49:04):
Uh, it's too used to CALIFORNIAE rolls.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
She yeah, if you eat it's that's what sushi is.
It's raw fish and other things that are uncooked.

Speaker 7 (49:15):
Yeah, straight raisashimi.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Yeah, huh yeah. Never, that's the first for me. I've
never heard anybody send back to sushi because it was
too rare. Six ' ten Time for traffic and whether
or together sushi? Well done?

Speaker 5 (49:29):
Yeah? Can I get that well done?

Speaker 16 (49:31):
Blake?

Speaker 20 (49:31):
I mean the.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Manager all right? This two forty nine.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
Sometimes, you know, sometimes like with hurricanes, Jeff, you know,
you know, I see a traffic item and I think, oh,
it's going to Mexico, and you know, movement comes straight
here and just causes havoc. This two forty nine thing,
it's not causing a big backup, but I'm just saying
nothing good's happening there. It's an eighteen wheeler before nineteen sixty.
It is outbound. If you have to go outbound, and
forty five is not an option, you could slip over

(49:57):
off Green's take cutting back up past nineteen sixty.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
You can get around that.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Let's see if we've got time for forty five North Freeway,
No Downtown Pierce Elevated.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Meg from Chema.

Speaker 8 (50:08):
Farm Steike, Hey, love for Alan Parkway.

Speaker 7 (50:11):
Everybody's mashing on their breaks for no reasons.

Speaker 6 (50:15):
Sometimes it's just pure ignorance here justin Crosby, Dude.

Speaker 28 (50:18):
Guy Mike, what up?

Speaker 14 (50:21):
It is a sea of traffic light.

Speaker 6 (50:23):
Oh, welcome to the party. You know he even missed
out on Nikki from Dayton. Yeah, we had some roadwork
over the over the Sandra Center River Bridge. I would
like somebody to update me on twenty one hundred. I
know we did total shutdowns there and also tip line
one more thanks.

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Guy, Mike.

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Get Fred from Norman g Wait moons tailing all the
way down forty five.

Speaker 35 (50:43):
To the heartytoebhast boom, Hey Jimmy, how about them Wolverine.

Speaker 6 (50:46):
Ah, sorry, he got past security there Rob wait to
rob it in. Thank you, Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
I'm telling you, he got past security. That's okay, it's
all right.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
We gotta take we gotta take a looking on that
from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Time to check in with Jeffy, you know, keeping an
eye off for what will become friends scene.

Speaker 19 (51:07):
That is the case, and already seeing a lot of
the heavy rain right at the southern tip of the
state towards South Padre Island, and trying to look at
some of the webcams in that area. And obviously right
now it's a little tough because it is a little dark,
but once the sun comes up, it'll be interesting to see.
Right now on radar, very colorful picture into that part

(51:29):
of the state where this is the northern edge of
this storm. We are going to see this progress to
the north, and we are awaiting the next update from
the National Hurricane Center, should be in less than an hour.
But right now we've got sunshine today and upper eighties tonight.
Might see that stray shower thunderstorm will fall back to
around seventy five. We'll start to see the rain pick

(51:51):
up as we move towards the afternoon. For Tuesday, about
a sixty percent chance and mostly cloudy skies and a
high in the mid eighties. Those showers and is possible
storms will continue into Tuesday night, and then Wednesday is
when we will see the possible tropical storm conditions. So
again we are awaiting the next update from the Hurricane Center.
Right now sixty seven at your officials Severe Weather Station

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Immigration Studies, about the Friday job report.

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Speaker 3 (53:03):
Traffic Center from our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four
hour weather center. Mostly Sunday today with a high eighty
nine part of the KLAUDI for the morning, increasing clouds,
afternoon showers tomorrow, eighty seven Wednesday. We're still waiting to
see what Wednesday's going to bring. It depends on how
close the tropical system, what will become Francine, how close
they gets to the Texas coastline, and whether or not
that will directly impact our weather here in Houston. Teputure

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right now is sixty eight at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Get you caught up on
some of our top Monday morning stories. Here's shera, Good
morning everyone.

Speaker 8 (53:37):
It is now six twenty one on news Radio seven
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Our next update will be at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 24 (54:16):
Pasadena Living clearly reliable kt RH traffic and weather next
on the ten.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
The jobs numbers for August were disappointing, to say the least,
and who knows, they may very well get revised downward,
because that's what happens with government. They overestimate even when
they even when they overexpect a number, they still seem
to overestimate the number that actually comes out and they
end up revising it later, maybe hoping you won't notice.

(54:46):
Stephen Camarado notices he's at the Center for Immigration Studies
because one of the things that's coming out of the
jobs report is just how many of these jobs that
were filled went to foreign born workers. Stephen, Welcome to
News radio seven forty KTRH. What do you glean from
those jobs members.

Speaker 13 (55:01):
Yeah, well, we've been tracking this for quite some time,
and to remind your listeners, this is called the household Survey.
The technical name is the Current Population Survey, and it
does identify people who were not born in the United
States and they are not American citizens and so forth.
And for months now, really for the past year, all
of the job growth seems to have been going to
the foreign born, or mostly all of it. And it's

(55:23):
also the case if you look at the last two years,
it's around eighty percent has gone to the foreign born.
So we do we have created a lot of jobs,
but it doesn't seem that US born Americans are the
ones getting them.

Speaker 8 (55:37):
You know, everything is so heightened because of the election, obviously,
but if you're a person, all these numbers don't mean anything.
If you're the person who can't get a job.

Speaker 13 (55:48):
Right now in America, the big problem is not the
unemployment rate.

Speaker 16 (55:53):
Let me just say this.

Speaker 13 (55:54):
The unemployment is only people who've looked for a job
in the last four weeks. What we've had persisted in
a long, long term deterioration is the share of people
who are actually in the labor force. So it used
to be the case years ago that if we looked
at men of working age that like say the ones
without a college degree, it used to be that like

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twelve percent at any one time are out of the
labor force.

Speaker 16 (56:19):
That means they're not looking for a job and they're
not working.

Speaker 13 (56:22):
And now it's more like twenty six percent, and that's
the numbers for Texas. So what that tells us is
there are a lot of people on the economic sidelines.
They're not looking and they're not working, and they're not
even looking. And that's what we've seen in this explosion
in and what's so bad about that is that it's
linked to all kinds of social problems, from crime to

(56:44):
drug use to being socially isolated. And so our jobs
creation machine in America and in Texas seem to be
benefiting mostly new arrivals. And so we think that about
maybe sixty six five percent of that growth in jobs
among the.

Speaker 16 (57:03):
Immigrants is among illegal immigrants in the.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Data, although it would be interesting to know then how
many of the illegal immigrants who are here are not
looking for work but are receiving benefits, because that's a
bit that's a big brain on the taxpayer as well.

Speaker 13 (57:17):
Right, So of all the immigrants, of all the recently
arrived immigrants, it looks like about forty six to fifty
percent are working.

Speaker 16 (57:23):
So the other fifty percent.

Speaker 13 (57:25):
On and that's because partly because they're you know, people
taking care of kids, or they're too old to work,
or they're too young to work, where they're disabled, or
what any number of other reasons. And so one of
the things that happens, though, is with illegal immigration is
they have US born children, and then those children are
merely eligible for all social programs. And we do see

(57:47):
a lot of evidence in the government data of illegal
immigrants with US born children benefiting from everything from public
housing to free school lunch to you.

Speaker 16 (57:57):
Know, food stamps. So there is a lot of that
in the data. But a lot of those people also
work too.

Speaker 13 (58:02):
So people sometimes think that welfare and work are completely separate,
but they're not.

Speaker 26 (58:07):
Now.

Speaker 13 (58:07):
It is true that there are a bunch of new
arrivals now in these cities that are costing the cities
a lot of money to provide things like housing and
basic food, But most illegal immigrants who are of working
age do work after they've been here for a while,
but they can also get benefits.

Speaker 16 (58:25):
That's the other thing that I think a lot of
people forget.

Speaker 8 (58:28):
Basically, it's a trend that is not sustainable for us
as a country.

Speaker 16 (58:33):
Right, Well, this is important.

Speaker 13 (58:35):
Usually the way a country improves its economy is to
upskill its labor force.

Speaker 16 (58:39):
You know, people become more skilled, more educated, and.

Speaker 13 (58:43):
Some illegal immigrants are skilled, but overall, the available evidence
we have is illegal immigrants are overwhelmingly and unskilled population.
So one of the things that the illegal immigration does
to a state like Texas is reduced the overall education
level of your workforce, and that does have negative implications
both for productivity in the long run and instead of

(59:04):
training people in substituting capital for labor, you're relying on
a lot.

Speaker 16 (59:07):
Of unskilled labor.

Speaker 13 (59:09):
And at the same time, it does create tremendous demand
on social services and low income people. That is, those
with modest levels of education don't pay that much in
taxes either.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Man, it also tells us the quality of the jobs,
right If a lot of those jobs are being filled
by unskilled people, that tells us what the quality of
those jobs are. Steven Camarado, Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
Director of Research Center for Immigration Studies, Steven Camarado, six
twenty seven. Now time to take a look at your
money and let's seecre's Oh. Joan Doniger's in this morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 23 (59:41):
A year after the pandemic freeze on repaying student loans ended,
millions are falling behind on their student loan payments. The
Government Accountability Office says more than a quarter of the total,
about ten million borrowers, we're behind as of the end
of January, and soon that we'll start hurting their credit scores.
It's not right now because the Biden administration ordered a

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Six thirty our time. Here in Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer. Among our top stories
of this half hour, a tropical stormer hurricane is coming,
but just how close to Houston will it be? Kabala
Harris does a scripted interview with Univision, and coming up
at six thirty eight, that Georgia school shooter's father as
and charged details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's

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Morning News. First, we're to check out that morning drive again.
Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
We're the North Freeway inbounded airline. That's still a lot
of breaks from West Road Golf Gate.

Speaker 29 (01:01:11):
This is Holly and Porter six ten loose right north
of forty five Golf Freeway backed up all the way
almost half forty five.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Golf and I've got more tiplight, Hey, Mike gets Mary.

Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
Uh Is sixteen east right over forty five.

Speaker 30 (01:01:27):
It comes to a standstill and looks.

Speaker 26 (01:01:28):
Like there's some lights up ahead at the two twenty
five or something going on a ship channel.

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
Yeah, that's right under six y ten.

Speaker 6 (01:01:35):
This is eastbound and we are solidly packed up from
golf Gate. It's erect multiple lanes Skymike in the classic
elite GMC Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Center from our KTRH generators super Center, twenty four hour
weather Center. Mostly Sunday today with the high temperature of
eighty nine, but the weather's going to deteriorate starting on Wednesday.
Just how much well that remains to be seen? Benzona?
How close what is going to become a tropical storm
or hurricane named Franccene. How close Franccene gets. We'll keep
an eye on that and keep you updated throughout the day.

(01:02:03):
Right now, top ature sixty eight at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRHS. Time Now for
the news. Here's Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 7 (01:02:11):
Good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
Everyone's six point thirty two on news Radio seven forty
k TRH and our top story this hour. System in
the Gulf of Mexico likely to be named Transcene today
as it gathers strength right now, maximum sustained winds at
fifty miles an hour could make landfall. Wednesday is when
it's expected a Category one hurricane and landfall right now
predicted closer to Louisiana, maybe even straight on Texas. Not

(01:02:36):
totally out of the cone, though, we could get rain
and wind out of this, especially along the coast.

Speaker 9 (01:02:42):
The message this morning is cautiously opstimistic here for the
upper Texas coast. We've seen some of this shifting to
the east with the forecast track.

Speaker 8 (01:02:50):
Harris County meteorologist Jeff Lidner, he was on with us
on Houston's Morning News in the first hour. Centerpoint has
put five thousand workers on standby. Nonetheless, as since the debacle,
Hurricane Barrel has installed eleven hundred fiberglass transmission polls where
the old wooden ones were really vulnerable, and its outage
map is fixed. It says up and running in real time.

(01:03:12):
It was Hurricanes Harvey and Ike more recently, among the
most expensive storms in American history at the in the
top ten actually at a combined two hundred billion dollar loss.

Speaker 17 (01:03:26):
An equal storm from nineteen thirty to twenty twenty four
is just going to be far more expensive. So you
think about everything from you know, electronics in your home, vehicles.
You know, we lose a lot of vehicles during the hurricane.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
Yeah, Galveson County Judge Mark Henry says, rising costages about
everything makes future hurricanes just like the current ones, more costly.
He's going to be joining us at seven point fifty
to talk about our current threat in the Gulf. The
most deadly storm in history, the Galveston Great Storm of
nineteen hundred, occurred on this date. It is now six
thirty four. Debate between Trump and Kamala Harris tomorrow night,

(01:04:02):
and campaign advisor for Trump Cory Lewandowski says Harris should
be prepared to answer for her many many failures.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
She can run from the Biden administration and the failures
that she's been part of, but she can't hide.

Speaker 8 (01:04:16):
Lewandowski was on Fox. Harris stayed in hiding most of
the weekend. She did do a taped interview with Univision.

Speaker 30 (01:04:23):
Boldman Fact, which is a very highly respected financial advisor
and leader, had said that my plan will increase the
gross national product.

Speaker 26 (01:04:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
Goldman Sachs donated more than one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars to the Harris campaign. Coverage of Tomorrow Night's debate
starts at seven pm right here on KTRH KTIH dot
Com and the iHeartRadio app six point thirty five is
our time the failed impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Texans want to know how much money was wasted on

(01:04:56):
that debacle that was led by House Speaker Dade Feelin,
you know, Rhino. He is now slow walking the audit.
Doesn't want that word to get out.

Speaker 34 (01:05:06):
He knows he's going to be politically damaged when this
audit is revealed, so he has no incentive to bring
this to the public or to reveal what went on.

Speaker 7 (01:05:18):
But we will.

Speaker 8 (01:05:19):
Former State Senator Don Huffines, he told kgrh is all
part of Feeling's ever to hold on to the speakership
in partnership with the Democrats, you know, but Huffeines doesn't
believe this is going to work. Long talked about Texas
high speed rail, you know, the one that was going
to be privately funded, the one between Houston and Dallas. Well,
the Feds are now involved and it has nearly sixty

(01:05:42):
four million dollar federal money pledged to it. Will it
make any difference?

Speaker 14 (01:05:48):
And Sharon, more importantly, will the high speed rail ever
happen realistically?

Speaker 20 (01:05:54):
For the cost that it's going to incur the cost
of each ticket that they're going to have to charge
to even break even or make money. I don't know
that this is going to be a better bet than
hopping on a Southwest flight from Houston a Dallas.

Speaker 14 (01:06:05):
That is Charles Blaine, who provided the update for Texas Scorecard,
and that sixty four million is nowhere nearly enough.

Speaker 20 (01:06:13):
They're going to have to seek more federal funding, and
they'll probably look to the state for some funding as well.
So we'll see if they get that. But that's going
to be the next hurdle on the project.

Speaker 14 (01:06:21):
A project, if completed, that is still at least ten
to twenty years away. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty kt.

Speaker 8 (01:06:30):
ORH Congress has been on recess, but there is a
new House report on the botch withdrawal from Afghanistan that
says that the Biden Harris administration failed to adequately respond
to threats of terrorism.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Nothing since the policy I gone.

Speaker 27 (01:06:47):
It was saying this despicable failure of American foreign policy.

Speaker 8 (01:06:51):
That's Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Bershitt. Now thirteen US service
members died in the ices bombing at Abby Gate. As
they may that botched withdrawal. One of the words of
the report Jimmy, was that they cared more about the
optics of getting out on that date than about the
security of the Americans and the people there who were

(01:07:14):
trying to get out.

Speaker 7 (01:07:16):
Six point thirty seven is our time.

Speaker 8 (01:07:17):
The Texans beat Indianapolis in the twenty twenty four season
opener twenty nine to twenty seven. It was two touchdown
passes for second year quarterback c J.

Speaker 7 (01:07:25):
Stroud.

Speaker 8 (01:07:27):
CJ.

Speaker 25 (01:07:28):
Mean made a lot of good plays for us.

Speaker 9 (01:07:31):
It was pressedent a lot, but he still moved around
and made place, escaped the pocket of the plays on
the move for really exciting plays to see.

Speaker 8 (01:07:40):
Coach Tamiko Ryans Joe Mixon ran for more than one
hundred and fifty yards in a touchdown. Texans hosts Chicago
next Saturday Sunday night in the home opener Sunday Night,
ut Long Horns. Well, they crushed Michigan thirty one to twelve.
They move up to number two in the AP Top
twenty five. Did I know they are number three in

(01:08:01):
the Coach's poll Now. They play Texas San Antonio UTSA
next week.

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
In Austin Stro's lost.

Speaker 8 (01:08:09):
To Arizona twelve to six, so they're leading the Al
West down to four and a half games now. The
host of Oakland tomorrow night, I'm Surebrah Fryar on News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
We had another school shooting, this time in Georgia where
the mom, if share has already told you, This morning
the momb called. I'm not sure if it's thirty minutes,
an hour, hour and a half or whatever it was,
but she did call the school to warn them that
they needed to find her son. I don't know that
she specifically said anything about him having a gun or
any other things that would tip them off as to

(01:08:58):
how serious the situation was, but the imediately began looking
for him. Unfortunately, they didn't find him until after the
shooting had already begun. The father's been charged now in
this case because he knowingly provided his son.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
In jail without bond.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Uh huh, with the weapon that he ended up using
in this particular case. But again, he's one of those
things where everybody's going well, the mom did a good job,
she called the school, yep. But here's the other part
of it. The mom was talking to her sister like
a month or so before all this happened about all
the problems that they were having. This kid was not

(01:09:34):
getting any near as I can tell, any mental health help.
He wasn't going to see a psychiatrist, he would, you know.
The parents, even though the mom seemed to know better
than the father that the kid was having a problem,
they really didn't do anything about it until the last second.
And this happens over and over and over again. The
question becomes, at what point are we going to be

(01:09:56):
willing to say we have to make changes in how
we view ourselves and view our family and everybody else
and to realize that we have somebody who's in deep,
deep trouble.

Speaker 8 (01:10:07):
Well, the FBI visited talk to him and the father
the year before, in May of last year, identified him.
So once again the FBI identifies and didn't do.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Anyth about it, doesn't follow up right didn't do anything
about it, so let's not nor did the father. I mean,
at that point, if I've got a visit from the
FBI about this kind of stuff, I'm making sure that
you know, I'm doing something to make sure they could
get some help.

Speaker 8 (01:10:32):
Yeah, and you know they suppress any information about They
said that, well, no, no motive.

Speaker 7 (01:10:36):
But there's all kinds of stuff out there on the internet.

Speaker 8 (01:10:39):
How much of it is true, but you know, it
looks like there is a little bit of the whole
transgender business.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
They were just like the national thing bullying. They will
not they will not release information. Still, they've been trying
to get information of the manifesto that the Nashville shooter did, except.

Speaker 7 (01:10:58):
That they did get their hands on the manifest Joe.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
And there's all sorts of things in there that.

Speaker 8 (01:11:02):
The actual manifestos out there online now you can you
can read it.

Speaker 7 (01:11:06):
Thank you some decent reporters.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Exactly right oken on six forty one. Now time for
traffic and weather together. Man, what's up, sky Mike?

Speaker 6 (01:11:13):
We got big shot trouble here. No North Grham Parkway
before the golf ball. This is a wreck and it's
not looking good. Tracy from spring Fire and has Matt
Mark from Cyprus. Thanks so much for your help. This
looks like all lanes blocked here twenty nine to twenty.
I'm trying to put that in your in car navigation
now technology backed up all the way from Gosling Road.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
It's not good on the north side here.

Speaker 6 (01:11:34):
You've got two forty nine outbound eighteen wheeler. Everybody's okay
before nineteen sixty outbound, not inbound. All lanes are blocked here.
We cleared the North Freeway airline wreck. That's all breaks
from the Beltway. Beltway's getting ugly. I'll have to zoom
that at six fifty and don't I'm gonna get Danny
from Rocherin at.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
Six fifty two.

Speaker 6 (01:11:52):
He's got a two eighty eight update south Loop eastbound
at two twenty five. Nothing good's going on there. That's
a big wreck backed up from Gulf Gate. This is
all least found Skymike and the classic Elite GMC Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Center from r KTRH Generator super Center. Twenty four hour
weather's under Jethino is in for Terry today. Anything new
from the Hurricane Center on what's going to become Francine.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
Not quite yet.

Speaker 19 (01:12:14):
Still awaiting that next up date tire should by the
time we speak again, I think we should have a
new one and maybe some new information here. As of
right now, we're still looking at a PTC potential tropical cyclone,
and other than that, we are looking at sunshine today
and upper eighties. Maybe that's stray shower thunderstorm tonight overnight

(01:12:35):
low seventy five, otherwise partley cloudy. Starting to see the
rain come in though for Tuesday, as we move towards
the afternoon, afternoon showers and thunderstorms become likely. We'll get
up into the mid eighties. The rain continues into Tuesday night,
and then for Wednesday it looks like, especially for areas
along the coast, tropical storm conditions will be possible. And
again the waiting that for that next latest cone run

(01:13:00):
so we can see exactly where the track of this
storm is predicted to go over the next couple of days.
But we are hopefully getting some more information here at
the top of the hour right now sixty seven at
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Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Again, in case you didn't hear us a little bit
earlier this morning, Progressive Insurance is the last insurance company
to say that they are not going to issue any
more new homeowner policies here in Texas. That means and
they write a lot of policies. So we're talking about
insurance rates, they're probably going to really start to tick up.
He thought they were bad before. There's more and more
insurance drop out of risky areas, the insurance rate will

(01:13:47):
go up. We'll have a little report on this coming
up next. First, though, traffic and whether together, and that
starts with you skuy Mike, right, Southloop.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
Six ' ten eastbound.

Speaker 6 (01:13:55):
I'm looking at this on camera six four five at
two twenty five Southloop.

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That's erect tolines. It's messing you.

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Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
On KPRC two, our television partner devin'clock did a report
on Progressive Insurance no longer writing new homeowner policies here
in Texas.

Speaker 37 (01:15:55):
Will this move seems to benefit the insurance join the
realtor I spoke to, to have a major impact on
the local home buyers market.

Speaker 38 (01:16:04):
Homeowners insurance is, I mean, one of the most important
things because if anything happens, you want to make sure
that your home is insurance.

Speaker 37 (01:16:10):
Kathy Travino, the immediate pass chair for the Houston Association
of Realtors, also emphasized that homeowners insurance is mandatory for
buyers who take out a mortgage.

Speaker 38 (01:16:20):
What I understand is Progressive was one of the top
ten largest real estate companies in Texas.

Speaker 37 (01:16:26):
Now Progressive no longer offers the option for new policies
for home insurance and Texas.

Speaker 38 (01:16:31):
Unfortunately, we're starting to seeing more and more, you know,
stronger natural disasters, and so you're seeing unfortunately, you know,
providers pull out.

Speaker 37 (01:16:40):
In a report file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
or SEC. Progressive CEO Trisha Griffith's letter to shareholders reads, quote,
reducing the impact from weather related volatility is strategically important,
and shifting our geographic mix continues to be a top priority.
It goes on to say, we continue to focus on
growing in states where weather it's is relatively lower, while

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maintaining or reducing our market share in higher volatile states
that are more susceptible to catastrophic weather events and have
higher exposure to hale end quote, tornadoes.

Speaker 38 (01:17:11):
We're seeing wildfires, hurricanes, you know, hail. All of these
things have a large factor inter insurance companies, and because
we're seeing more and more of it, they're paying a
lot more out so it's really putting a pench on
home fires.

Speaker 37 (01:17:26):
We do want to mention that it does not appear
that this move will affect homeowners who already have policies
with Progressive, but Travino says she's already seen insurance renewal
rates increase across the board somewhere to the tune of
between ten and twenty three percent. It's a trend that
she expects to continue to ramp up in our area.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
All right, more and more expensive, less and less competition.
If Progressive does decide to pull out, in other words,
not issue renewals on policies that policyholders have right now,
there'll be the s I can ensure that drop me
just in the last year or so.

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
So what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
What happens if we get to the point share where
insurers are just afraid to come to any state like
Texas or Florida that has hurricanes. If nobody will come,
we're going to have to have all state run insurance.
How much is that going to cost? Because you know,
certainly the policy I have from you know, from Texas

(01:18:27):
from for hail damage is expensive. It's one of the
most expensive policies I have. So it's not cheap for
getting it from the state, that's for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:18:34):
You know, I don't know, because when you think about it,
look at California with all the wildfires they have, and
look at all the damage that they have and earthquake
damage all that.

Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
How is that handled?

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:18:45):
Okay, National insurance what they're just going to start buying
land instead.

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
Of I mean, after all, that's what insurances.

Speaker 8 (01:18:55):
They're going to get out of the insurance business altogether.
I mean, are we going to see just another change?

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
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Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
All right, let's hope everybody's okay.

Speaker 6 (01:21:12):
This is an overturned box truck Tomball Grand Parkway northbound westbound.
Toll stickers, you are packed up thirty two extra minutes
from Gosling Road. Let's find a different route here. I'll
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' ten eastbound at two twenty five. We have now
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Center from our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
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We'll do that in eight minutes. Temperature right now is
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Speaker 7 (01:22:05):
Good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:22:06):
It's seven oh two on news radio seven forty KTRH.
Is news sponsored by Oopsteam cleaning top story this hour
while we're watching the Gulf where a potential tropical cyclone
six expected to become Francine, a storm and then a
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and more like it's Louisiana.

Speaker 26 (01:22:31):
We don't have a well defined center yet, so there's
higher than normal un thirty with the track of the system.
So you want to get locked in on the track
or anything right now? I mean right now a lot
of the convections on the western side.

Speaker 7 (01:22:41):
Optimism is what we have our area.

Speaker 8 (01:22:43):
We'll see some rain this system currently with maximums sustained
winds as I said, fifty miles an hour. Governor Greg
Abbott has ordered the Texas Division of Emergency Management to
make additional resources available. But we're looking at storm surge,
wind and rain along our coastal areas for the most part.

(01:23:04):
First test for centerpoint. Perhaps since Hurricane Beryl. The company
now has five thousand workers on standby. Topping the news,
the one on one showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala
Harris finally goes down tomorrow night. They will debate. RNC
committeeman doctor Robin Armstrong says the key for Trump is
to stay on message.

Speaker 10 (01:23:23):
I'm certain that they're telling Trump that, listen, you have
to be very focused. There's so many things that we
can criticize Kamala Harris on, but you have to be
focused on the thing that the American people care about.

Speaker 8 (01:23:36):
Doctor Armstrong also says Trump it will easily be able
to get under Harris's skin and throw her off her game.
We know the strategy Trump intends to deploy tomorrow night,
or at least we're told.

Speaker 29 (01:23:48):
For every new solution that Kamala Harris will propose on
that debate stage tomorrow.

Speaker 24 (01:23:52):
Night, President Trump will ask her the question of why
don't you.

Speaker 25 (01:23:55):
Go do it right now?

Speaker 8 (01:23:57):
Campaign spokesperson Caroline Levitt on Fox and Friends Now. The
President campaigned in Wisconsin and North Carolina this past weekend.
Kamala Harris, for the most part, was kept in hiding
by her handlers with the Democrats call debate camp. She
did make a foray out to a spices shop in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 7 (01:24:17):
It was all set up.

Speaker 8 (01:24:20):
Our live coverage tomorrow starts at seven pm of the
debate here on KTRH, KTRH dot com and the free
iHeartRadio app. It's now seven oh five. Congress returns from
August recess today, only thirteen working days before the end
of the federal fiscal year, and that means a potential
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Democrats if they failed to get another continuing resolution through Congress.
It flew under the radar. Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez
boldly predicting that the GOP is going to lose control
of the House in November.

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
What he has a slud edge still, but it only
goes so far.

Speaker 12 (01:25:02):
The only way we lose the House and the Senate
if we get complacent and not do what we're supposed
to do.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
Former Texas GOP chair Steve Ministeri says there's a good
chance the GOP sweeps in November, and Democrats spending on
attack ads won't move the needle much.

Speaker 10 (01:25:18):
There's just so many of them.

Speaker 12 (01:25:20):
I just have to think at the point where after
a couple of people stop paying attention. It's a factor,
but it's not necessarily a determinive factor.

Speaker 5 (01:25:28):
He says. The focus needs to be on the effort
to win instead of percentage points. Onorey Parard News Radio
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Speaker 8 (01:25:36):
Seven oh six is our time. Stock futures up across
the board this morning, after it was another dismal day
last Friday, Tech heavy Nasdaq driving more than two and
a half percent. It's all about the jobs report and
the illegal invasion has proven to destroy the American job
market right now, new numbers coming out of huge numbers
of jobs going to non native foreign born aliens rather

(01:26:01):
than American citizens, legal and illegal.

Speaker 13 (01:26:05):
The illegal immigrants are heavily, not exclusively, but heavily concentrated
in the less skilled or less educated labor market. They're
heavily concentrated in his construction labor or Nanni's maids and
bus boys.

Speaker 8 (01:26:19):
Okay, that is Stephen Camarado with a Center for Immigration Studies.
He says it results in slow wage growth for anyone
who's already making a low wage. Seven oh seven is
our time. More crime across Houston this week, and a
robbery victim fought back though shooting and killing his attacker
in northwest Harris County. This happened in Saturday afternoon after

(01:26:41):
a struggle for the gun. Two people wounded in apparent
rode battle of some sort in Southeast Houston Saturday night.
Both are in stable condition. Violent crime getting worse than
Austin after defunding the police in twenty twenty, that Democrat
led city now averaging more than one murder a week
in that college town.

Speaker 11 (01:27:00):
They we're just going to say that the staffing crisis
has measurably worsened on an annual basis ever since defound
the police in twenty twenty. We are hoping to start
to turn the corner there the next few weeks. We're
pretty close to a new four year police labor contract city.

Speaker 8 (01:27:15):
Matt mkoveac was save Austin. Now he says the city's
losing four times as many officers every year than it's
actually gaining. Texans win the season opener twenty nine to
twenty seven over the Colts, with CJ. Stroud throwing two
hundred and thirty four yards two touchdowns. Running Back Joe
Mixon ran for one hundred and fifty nine yards and
to score. Stros lost to the Diamondbacks twelve to six.

(01:27:37):
Seattle won the lead in the AO West for the
Stros now four and a half games. They're off tonight
host Oakland tomorrow. I'm shereber Ryer on news radio seven
forty KTRH.

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I'm trying to remember the last time I ever watched
the Tonight Show. You can catch reruns, I know, but
I'm going to guess the last time. Well, it was
it was a long time before I started mornings. You know,
when you have the burning routine we do. That is
not unless you have a night where you're having insomnia,

(01:28:21):
not normally up at that hour. But I didn't realize
until I saw this story that all of the competitors
of the Night Show had already cut their shows back
to four days a week. They're all airing reruns on
Friday night.

Speaker 8 (01:28:34):
You mean the current Tonight Show? To me, the Tonight
Show was only Johnny Carson.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
I know, I know, and I have a tendency to
think about the same way, But you know, he's been doing.
Jimmy Fallon has been doing it for ten years, of course,
and then you had Jay Leno in between.

Speaker 7 (01:28:48):
Right, I've been working here for twelve.

Speaker 5 (01:28:50):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
So there you have it, there you go. Care to
guess how much Jimmy Fallon makes, by the way, doing
the Tonight Show on a yearly.

Speaker 7 (01:28:57):
Basis fifteen million?

Speaker 5 (01:28:58):
Close sixteen sixteen million.

Speaker 7 (01:29:01):
I used to be in TV.

Speaker 8 (01:29:02):
I understand these numbers, Okay, even inflated with bad ratings.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Guess what? And that's part of the problem. These numbers
no longer work for networks like NBC and CBS because
people are watching network television the way they used to
way back in the day when the Tonight Show, you know,
commanded you know, amazing amounts of advertising dollars during the
Johnny Carson Those those days are long gone. They're still
paying big bucks for the hosts, but they're trying to

(01:29:29):
cut their cost everywhere else. So now the Tonight Show
becomes the last one to go to four days a
week with a rerun on Friday's. I don't know how
much How much money can you understand? Television production costs?
How much money can you save doing that? Unless Jimmy
Fallon has to take a pay cut.

Speaker 7 (01:29:44):
It's all about the eyeballs to the screen.

Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (01:29:47):
I guess it's the advertising.

Speaker 5 (01:29:50):
Yeah, in advertising now what it costs.

Speaker 7 (01:29:52):
To produce it's advertising.

Speaker 8 (01:29:54):
Well yeah, and what's the competition at that hour of
the night.

Speaker 7 (01:30:01):
I mean, what's on Fox.

Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
That's gonna be that?

Speaker 7 (01:30:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
I'm trying to really, I'm trying to think how lake
Greg Gutfeld is on, what his hours are now, because
they changed his hours and put him on a little
bit earlier. But I think it's gut failed pretty much.

Speaker 7 (01:30:15):
You don't have to watch. I mean you can always
go online. You can well and stream.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
It, and that's that seems to be the main thing streaming,
which isn't making the money either.

Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
Look, there's a whole generation, maybe two, who don't have
these kind of traditions.

Speaker 3 (01:30:29):
No, you're right, it's a losing battle. I think I
think so too. That's why I'm surprised that these shows
even exist anymore. Seven eleven Time for Traffic and Whether Together. Yes,
Gay Mine is Johnny Carson. Was he a Democrat or
a Republican?

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
He never knew.

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
We never knew, and he never shoved it down our throat.

Speaker 5 (01:30:46):
That's whine.

Speaker 6 (01:30:47):
Let's go to Graham Parkway westbound. They're calling it Boudreau Road,
and I'm going to say it's a little closer to
twenty nine to twenty tomato tomato. All right, that's an
overturned box truck. Thank you so much, spring Fire for
your help. This is all lanes blocked here, and let
me get a new time stamp. It's only showing ten
minute delay from No that's a two forty nine. That's
a nineteen minute delay from kirkandall. I think it's worse

(01:31:09):
than that. This stamp can't be right either way. Let's
avoid Graham Parkway. This is westbound southwoop six ten eastbound.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
Clear it. The wreck is gone.

Speaker 6 (01:31:17):
We have a forty six minute pack up coming over
from two eighty eight on the eastbound lanes. That's the southloop.
If you're trying to pass Gulf Gate, let's see we've
got toll bridge suckage twelve extra minutes down north. Sam's
getting nasty Aldean Westfield left lane. Watch out for other
stations listeners that aren't paying attention when you hit that
little squeeze down and then eastbound at Imperial Valley.

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
Danny from Roch Sharon. He's on two eighty eight.

Speaker 35 (01:31:40):
LaRence Mine dud HV toll Road coming up.

Speaker 9 (01:31:44):
Have a stalt bar where you got the Ninja's bear
and a police officer at I'll meet at you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:49):
Know, boom good Verbage northbound.

Speaker 6 (01:31:51):
You know, if he can afford those toll lanes, he
should just call his butler to help northbound. I've got
backups from the Belt Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot
Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
From our KTRH top tax devenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Jeffino is in for Terry today. This is the calm
before the storm, although we really don't know how much
of a storm we're going to get on Wednesday, do we.

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
No, Not quite yet.

Speaker 19 (01:32:12):
I'm still kind of monitoring the National Hurricane Center chat
and paying attention to the latest updates. And I'm looking
at the magic number right now, fifty mile per hour
sustain wins. So it is just a matter of time
before this storm does become a tropical system and a
tropical storm. It's already a tropical system, but right now

(01:32:33):
the tracks still a little offshore, there are already tropical
storm watches and also tropical storm warnings in place, of
course in the open waters. So we're just going to
have to kind of see how this plays out. Today,
very tranquil sunshine and upper eighties. Tonight, party clouding, maybe
a stray shower, thunderstorm, low near seventy five. Tuesday, we

(01:32:53):
are going to start to see some rain the afternoon.
Showers and thunderstorms become likely as we get up into
the mid eighties. As a matter of fact, the rain
may move in towards late morning, and then we'll see
more rain Tuesday night and then Wednesday. Still looking at
the possibility for the tropical storm conditions showers and thunderstorms,
and also of course some heavy and strong winds with

(01:33:14):
the rain on Wednesday. Right now sixty seven at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

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Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
So, the big debate is tomorrow night between Kamala Harris
and Donald Trumpet is much anticipated. How how does doctor
Robin Armstrong with the RNC Texas, How does he think
things are going to go.

Speaker 5 (01:33:41):
What does he expect will happen. We'll talk to him
about that next.

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
First, though, let's do a little traffic and weather together
as we check out the drive once again to Skyline where.

Speaker 6 (01:33:50):
South loop that extent at two twenty five Eastpound. There's
a massive spackle though from two eighty eight going eastbound.
I've got Graham Parkway ERECA twenty nine to twenty Robert
from um that's gonna be Robert from New Caney.

Speaker 18 (01:34:03):
Lawrench dot Mike the accident on ninety nine fifty minute
delay from Berganele.

Speaker 6 (01:34:08):
I knew it was worse than the digital's big Littlela's
going westbound. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather center.
Mostly Sunday Today looks like eighty nine for the hire
right about that partley cloudy for the morning, increasing clouds
with afternoon showers tomorrow eighty seven, more showers tomorrow night,
and then Wednesday. I guess it just depends on how
close that proplical system gets to the Texas coastline. We
know we'll be raining down round Galveston. What will be

(01:34:35):
like around here. We'll keep you posted right now sixty
seven at your official severe weather station, news Radio seven
forty k TRH.

Speaker 5 (01:34:43):
Let's get you caught up on some of our top stories.

Speaker 8 (01:34:45):
Here's sher seven twenty two now on news radio seven
forty KTRH. The National Hurricane Center expects to give the
system in the Gulf of Mexico the name of friends.
Scene today an escape prisoner from the Huntsville unit back
in custody Hey suis villere Well arrested in cal Allen
outside Corpus Christi after escaping yesterday. Police in Brooklyn, New

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Speaker 24 (01:35:19):
At our under construction to eighty eight six ' ten.

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Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
Doctor Robin Armstrong joints us RNC, Texas. I would give
you the obvious question of what do you expect to
see tomorrow night, But I think what we all expect
to see or are wondering what we're going to see,
is whether or not Kamala Harris will actually come clean
on some of her policies, right, I don't believe.

Speaker 35 (01:35:45):
I think she can't come clean on her policy She's
gonna have to lie, she's gonna have to skate, she's
gonna have to confuse people. She's going to tell them
things that that that.

Speaker 25 (01:35:55):
That we already know are not true.

Speaker 35 (01:35:58):
The problem with her and all dimmicrat candid to do this,
Barack Obama did it, Hilly Clinton did it, because they
have to hide what they truly believe. The only difference
is Kamala Harris is on tape. She's been tape saying
these things multiple times, and so it's not as easy
for her to get away with it. And Donald Trump's
going to have to hold.

Speaker 10 (01:36:15):
Her accountable because the media will not.

Speaker 35 (01:36:17):
And so that's what this debate is going to be about,
showing and telling the American public what she truly believes
because so many people are going to be watching. And
I believe that he's going to be able to affect him,
expose her. He just has to exposure on the things
that are important to the American people. He does that,
and I think he'll be a runaway victor in this debate.

Speaker 8 (01:36:37):
Yeah, but you know how much is she going to
try to set him off his game? And it'll be
teed up for her by the moderators there of his
ideas are suddenly, oh no, that was our idea. We've
been planning this for months, like recently. He just the
last week announced a sovereign wealth Alliance, a sovereign wealth
for America, and next thing, you know, Bloomberg saying, oh no, no,

(01:36:59):
the administration has been thinking about this forever.

Speaker 10 (01:37:04):
Do is.

Speaker 35 (01:37:06):
Yeah, she's going to try to get under his skin,
for sure, and so and I think that she's going
to try to make him angry, because that's her entire goal,
to make President Trumps seem unfit for office, which we
we know he's already been there, so we know he
did a great job when he was there.

Speaker 5 (01:37:21):
But I think that's her goal, and she's going to try.

Speaker 35 (01:37:23):
To get under the skins to call him name. She's
going to talk about the arrest, she's going to talk
about her being a prosecutor and prosecuting him and such.
She's going to make comments like that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
But I think he's going to be prepared for that.

Speaker 35 (01:37:34):
He knows he's going to hear that, and just like
in the in the debate with Bite, I think he's
going to be ready.

Speaker 26 (01:37:40):
To just.

Speaker 35 (01:37:42):
Expose her for who she is and not really you know,
be sidetracked from those issues. She's going to do everything
she can to get him off. He's ready for it,
I believe, And so I think I think he has
to be ready or or it's going to be a catastrophe.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
The rule, you know the rules after Armstrong, you know
again you're gonna have no pre written notes, beauted microphone.
Seems to me that those two things definitely are to
Donald Trump's advantage. If if he cannot interrupt her, he
won't be tempted to try to interrupt her. And you
take that off the table. And if she can't have
pre written notes, what how much how much of that
that BS can she memorize?

Speaker 5 (01:38:21):
Well, she's gonna have to.

Speaker 35 (01:38:22):
She's gonna have to memorize it. She's gonna have to
know what she's gonna have to know because she has
to memorize a lot of things because none of these
are her positions. I mean, it's not how she truly believes.
And so it's going to make it difficult for her
having a mutant might certainly helps him because I think
it's going to help him to you know, he's not
going to be able to interrupt her as readily as

(01:38:42):
he as he probably normally would. But but I think
that I think he's gonna do well. I think the
debates teed up for him. I think he's going to
do well. I think it's going to be well prepared.

Speaker 10 (01:38:52):
You know.

Speaker 35 (01:38:53):
I think the momentum is swinging in his direction. Some
of the polls show him leading now, and so I
think he's going to have a real positive attitude and
I think is going to just expose her for who
she is. And that's what this debate is all about.
To know, well, the fine brand, I'm doing their job,
so he has to do it well.

Speaker 8 (01:39:06):
The fine print also allows the moderators to go ahead
and set the truth, set it straight. So basically he's
debating against the moderators too.

Speaker 35 (01:39:15):
Again, Yeah, it'll it'll be Trump against the three folks
who are there, but that's always the case, you know. Unfortunately,
it's never going to be fair for the Republican candidate.
But he goes in knowing that, and I think that
he'll be fine, just because the candidates he's debating, actually
cannot tell the truth, and the moderators are not going

(01:39:35):
to be telling the truth. They're going to be constantly
attacking him. But he goes in knowing that he'll be prepared,
and I think things are going to go well. I'm excited,
all right, sir, Good to talk to you as always.
Thank you for your time. Doctor Robin Armstrong joining us.
It's seven twenty seven. Time to take a look at
your money. Courtney is off again today. Joan Donnagher's in
for her, well, Jimmy.

Speaker 23 (01:39:54):
Crude oil futures are bouncing off last week's lows, actually
a fifteen month low, but not for the best of
real ands. Investors are tracking that storm that could strengthen
into a hurricane and threaten the Gulf coast. It could
become a hurricane by midweek. Crude futures right now are
up seventy nine cents to sixty eight forty six a barrel.
People will do anything for their pets, but will they

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dress like them? Target plans to find out. It's offering
a collection of clothing, hats, even charms. They involve matching
accessories for people in their pets. Target says you can
create a matching necklace and collars. So your pet will
you and your pet will never clash On Wall Street
S and P futures are up twenty nine, Nasdaq futures
up one hundred and twelve, Dow futures up two hundred

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More of what's happening now from the John More Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:41:01):
Seven thirty our time. Here in Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer mong your top stories
this half hour. It's going to become a hurricane and
it's gonna come close. But just how close to Houston
will it be? Conalla Harris does a scripted interview with
Univision and coming up at seven thirty eight, more fresh
food recalls. This time it's melons and eggs. Details in

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the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First to
check out that morning drive once again, here's Skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
All right south b loop six ' ten off the
tip line, Guy.

Speaker 18 (01:41:30):
Mike, All lanes blocked just after Long Drive.

Speaker 6 (01:41:34):
That's full blown hoop block from Scott Street going that
way eastbound. You've got two forty nine all lanes blocked
out bound nineteen sixty.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
It's a truck wreck.

Speaker 6 (01:41:42):
Graham Parkway northwestbound at twenty nine to twenty all lanes block.
Box trucks overturned and they've just cleared six ' ten southeastbound,
but it's still awful. I'm Skymike in the classic elite
GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
From r ktr H Generators Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
We're looking at mostly sunny skies today with high tip,
but you're right about eighty nine. Whatever we're going to
get from that tropical system is going to be probably
tomorrow night and Wednesday. We'll get the latest on that
from Jeffino at the Weather Channel in eight minutes right
now sixty seven at your official severe weather station, News

(01:42:15):
Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time out for the news.
Here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 7 (01:42:20):
Good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:42:21):
Everyone is Sound seven thirty two on news Radio seven
forty KTRH and our top story this hour.

Speaker 7 (01:42:26):
That system.

Speaker 8 (01:42:27):
Tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico is still called
Tropical cyclone six will likely become tropical storm at Francine
named today. Currently maximum sustained winds fifty miles an hour.
The last update for the National Weather Service is projecting
that it will make landfall in Louisiana as a hurricane

(01:42:48):
on Wednesday.

Speaker 9 (01:42:50):
A more direct impact over towards Lake Charles and even
further east than that, maybe the Vermilion Bay area a Lafayette.
That portion of the south central portion of the Louisiana
is where we'll probably have the direct impact.

Speaker 8 (01:43:02):
Harris County meteorologist Jeff Lidner on Houston's morning News Center
point when nonetheless put five thousand workers on standby over
the weekend. A new outage tracker is online now and
also has replaced more than eleven hundred old wooden transmission
polls with the more durable and flexible fiberglass all in
the aftermath of failures in Hurricane Barrel in July. Two

(01:43:26):
of the storms that hit Texas, we are reminded, are
in the top ten of the costliest ever in the
United States.

Speaker 28 (01:43:33):
Harvey the most costly at over one hundred and fifty
eight billion dollars. Combined with Ike, the two major storms
to hit the state brought about two hundred billion dollars
in financial loss.

Speaker 17 (01:43:43):
That's to be expected because of inflation and the rising
cost of everything.

Speaker 28 (01:43:47):
Gallaston County Judge Mark Henry knows a thing or two
about hurricanes along the Texas coast.

Speaker 17 (01:43:52):
It's just understandable and it's going to continue in forever.
As far as I can tell that hurricanes will just
become more expensive because they're the things that just cost
more than they used to.

Speaker 28 (01:44:02):
Jar Lewis News Radio seven forty teach your.

Speaker 8 (01:44:04):
H a reminder that on September eighth and nineteen hundred,
the most costly in terms of death, six thousand people
died in the Great Storm in Galveston. Now, Judge Henry
will be joining Houston Morning News in just a few
minutes seven fifty to talk about the storm in the Gulf.
Right now, it is seven thirty four. Debate between Donald
Trump and Kamala Harris just a little over thirty six

(01:44:26):
hours away. Trump has been campaigning in the swing states
of Wisconsin and North Carolina as he prepares.

Speaker 29 (01:44:33):
The biggest way that he does that is by traveling
around the country and actually talking to voters. He takes
questions from the press on a regular basis. So I
think every day is a debate prep for Donald Trump.

Speaker 8 (01:44:45):
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckaby Son Sanders on Fox Now. Kamala
Harris made no official campaign stops over the weekend. She
did do a taped interview with Univision. It didn't go
so well.

Speaker 30 (01:44:58):
It's time to move forward and to chart a new
way forward, and we need to turn the page.

Speaker 8 (01:45:05):
Yeah, she actually did turn the page. That noise you
heard was her turning the page on her script just then.
She also stopped in a spice shop in Pittsburgh and
tried to pass herself off as whatever, a real person.
I have the debate live at kt ORH tomorrow night
coverage on air, online at KTIRH dot com, and on

(01:45:25):
the free iHeartRadio app beginning at seven pm. More proof
of election fraud, however, the Department of Justice finally admitting
an illegal alien from Guatemala stole an American citizens ID
and voted in multiple elections in Alabama twenty sixteen and
twenty twenty. It's been going on seven point thirty five.

(01:45:48):
State News after the failed impeachment of the Attorney General
Ken Paxton, the Texas Senate now is conducting an audit
to find out how much money that Rhino Dad feel
In Democrat debacle cost.

Speaker 7 (01:46:02):
You know, that's how it was led. It was brought
in the house.

Speaker 22 (01:46:07):
House Speaker Dave Feelin doesn't want that information to come out.

Speaker 27 (01:46:10):
Speaker Feeling is directly responsible for hiding the audit, slow
playing the audit, and keeping it hidden from Texas taxpayers.

Speaker 22 (01:46:19):
Former State Senator Don Huffin says this is part of
Feeling's effort to hold onto the speakership.

Speaker 27 (01:46:24):
When the audit comes out, he's going to be embarrassed,
and he's going to be politically damaged, and he's.

Speaker 5 (01:46:30):
Not going to let it out unless he has to.

Speaker 22 (01:46:32):
Huffine says that Felin will likely drag this process out
as long as he possibly can. Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KRH seven thirty six is our time.

Speaker 8 (01:46:40):
You know, the federal government just right recently has given
the Texas High Speed Rail Project a grant of sixty
four million dollars. Remember it was going to be privately funded, No,
not under this administration. Charles Blaine of Urban reformed, though,
says sixty four million.

Speaker 7 (01:46:59):
That may not be nearly enough.

Speaker 20 (01:47:01):
The project has just ballooned in costs. They haven't even
lifted one shovel or put one shovel in the ground yet,
So I expect it to get even more expensive as
time goes on. And ultimately it's going to be taxpayers
in some form or fashion that are going to be
on the hook for this.

Speaker 8 (01:47:15):
Yeah, the original cost total cost was ten billion dollars
ten billion. Blaine now says it could be forty billion.
You think sixty four million from the fees is going
to even cover it. No oil futures this morning about
sixty eight bucks a barrel. We're waiting on the Biden
Harris regime plague, however, to replenish the strategic reserves when

(01:47:37):
oil would hit seventy they haven't done it. We were
expanded in the Middle East over the weekend with his
Israel hitting targets inside Syria allegedly killing fourteen, and there's
been a block of stop to a roadblock to the
peace talks or the ceasefire agreement, with a mass making

(01:47:58):
a new demand. It's now seven thirty seven astros lost
to Arizona, twelve to six are hosting Oakland tomorrow night
six pm, and we will have it for you then,
I'm Sureby Fryar in News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
Michael Berry only endorses Texas Renters dot com for property management.

Speaker 5 (01:48:19):
Needs the very latest on your way to work.

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 8 (01:48:28):
Scrambled eggs for brains, well done. Sport Talks at seven
to ninety will have the Astros game tomorrow night because
we will be covering the debate, right yeah, scrambled Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
All right, back to the eggs. What is with all
the food recalls? Is it just me or just this
seemed like a particularly bad year for food recalls. Got
two more to add to the list. Eggs. Look not
affecting Texas, thank goodness, mainly affecting the Midwest. Wisconsin is
the origin of those eggs? And uh, what was.

Speaker 5 (01:49:02):
The other one? The other one was melons?

Speaker 8 (01:49:04):
Yes, watermelon? You told me no? No, oh Ca, that's
always a problem.

Speaker 5 (01:49:10):
Why is that? I have my suspicions, but I want
to hear it from you.

Speaker 8 (01:49:14):
Well, it's when you cut through the skin. If you
haven't really washed the skin. Well, I don't think. I
don't think the salmonilla is endemic inside cantalope.

Speaker 7 (01:49:24):
I hope not.

Speaker 8 (01:49:26):
But typically people who get salmonilla and gastric distress after
eating it's because when you take a knife through the skin,
if it's not properly washed and so prepackage, you're better
off getting the whole.

Speaker 3 (01:49:41):
How is it getting it in the field though, where
it's growing. That's that's what That's what I've always wondered about.
What what E Coli? Yeah, salmonella? It gets in the
field because of the water.

Speaker 8 (01:49:52):
Okay, they would like to tell you run off from animals,
animal manure, right, don't.

Speaker 7 (01:50:01):
You can't control it. And you know.

Speaker 8 (01:50:04):
It's where it's processed too. It's where and how it's processed.

Speaker 5 (01:50:08):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
And maybe does have anything to do with the people
who are picking actually picking the fruit and maybe relieving
themselves at the site where they're picking the fruit. It
might have something to do with it too. Yeah, just
a combination of all those things.

Speaker 8 (01:50:19):
But anyway, think how many hands handle it? Yeah, sure,
you pick it up from the store shelf.

Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
That's true, very very true. All right, some produce manager here.

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
Would you like to chime in, schema, why are there's
so many salvonol the problems.

Speaker 6 (01:50:33):
That's actually been a thing for years and years on
cantalopes and any kind of melons because where they pick them,
you know, think about it, the porta potties.

Speaker 4 (01:50:39):
They don't always have like good hand washing facilities, hot water,
et cetera.

Speaker 25 (01:50:43):
Up there.

Speaker 5 (01:50:44):
Yeah, okay, boom, Let's get.

Speaker 6 (01:50:46):
To the Grand Parkway north over by the golf ball.
That's a pretty serious wreck box trucks overturned.

Speaker 4 (01:50:51):
This is west yeah, westbound.

Speaker 6 (01:50:54):
I backed up all the way from Cosling Road and
Brian from New Caney. I got the wrong name while
ago Brian, New Caney, Thank you fifty minute delay. I
knew my digitals were off West Belt correspondent.

Speaker 4 (01:51:05):
Here's Kyle from Princewood.

Speaker 7 (01:51:06):
One of got Mike northbound.

Speaker 27 (01:51:08):
You gotta disabled vehicle.

Speaker 16 (01:51:10):
Police blocking a far right lane.

Speaker 4 (01:51:13):
Get those ninjas out there, Buddy Well said. I got
Jimbo from Tombaugh, got.

Speaker 18 (01:51:17):
Mike forgotten freeway southbound. Now we are shutting down at
Jones Lolorretto. Just see like probably have a dasherie on that.
Let's go over a scene where a north bound.

Speaker 6 (01:51:29):
All right, Well said there, yep, that's rubber necking. David
from North Houston's on our tip.

Speaker 9 (01:51:34):
Line forty five south be Dwayne Parker and Shipwell, we
got two stall.

Speaker 4 (01:51:38):
Vehicles back back, best up all the way to west Roads.

Speaker 6 (01:51:42):
I got solid wood banana stickers all around, made in America.
I'm Skymike in the Classic Elite TMC Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
Center from our kt r H Generator super Center, twenty
four hour Weather Center. We have jeffin O in for Terry. Today.
We have a tropical system out there hasn't been named yet,
but probably will before the day is over today, don't
you think?

Speaker 19 (01:51:59):
I think that will definitely be the case. I have
a feeling that the next full update from the Hurricane
Center will be at ten, and at that point I
think we will have a named storm. It looks like
by about early morning Wednesday, this system will start to
speed up a bit. It's going to be trans or

(01:52:20):
making the transformation to a hurricane, stronger winds and that
sort of thing, of course. And then also it looks
like right now that cone is still holding the path
of the storm, looks like making landfall sometime later on
Wednesday along the central Louisiana coast and then just moving
almost northeast from there, we're going to start seeing some

(01:52:43):
rain come into play for tomorrow and then tropical storm
conditions possible by Wednesday. Today, none of the above sunshine
and upper eighties, straight shower, thunderstorm possible tonight, little around
seventy five afternoon showers and storms coming in for Tuesday,
possibly by late morning, and a high in the mid eighties.
Rain continues into Tuesday night, and then more rain Wednesday.

(01:53:04):
And if you get a chance to look at that
South Padre Island webcam, it's putting on a show right
now with a lot of rain and wind in that
part of the state by now sixty seven at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:53:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
While we're all keeping an eye in that the latest
tropical system which is going to become Frans Sine, No
one more than Galveston County Judge Mark Henry, because it
seems like all it is done in Galveston County this
summer's rain, day after day afterday. In fact, there's a
rumor out there they may be building an arc. I'm
not sure if that's true. I've asking more on that
story coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather togethers
we check out the drive once again.

Speaker 6 (01:53:46):
Here's Gamine Grand Parkway westbound at twenty nine to twenty
that wrecks causing a huge backup coming over from forty five.
Let's take a back road if you have to take
huff Smith kirkandall do what you gotta do to forty
nine outbound. That's an eighteen wheeler every time he's ok.
At nineteen sixty inbound. Seconds from Luetta on the southbound
and north sam eastbound before Imperial Valley, you've got roadwork.

Speaker 7 (01:54:08):
And at Apossum in this all.

Speaker 6 (01:54:10):
Vehicle eastbound, big backups westbound Aldine Westfield.

Speaker 4 (01:54:13):
I'm skymik in the classically GMC Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:54:15):
Center from our KTRH Generators Supercenter twenty four hour weather center.
For today, we're looking at mostly sunny skies once this morning,
clouds burn off a little bit. Eighty nine today, partly
coty in the morning, increasing clouds with afternoon showers tomorrow.
Eighty seven, jumping to right now sixty seven at your
officials severe weather station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Check

(01:54:37):
out some of our top stories here on this Monday morning.

Speaker 8 (01:54:39):
Here's SHAREFF seven fifty one on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
Potential tropical cyclone six that's what is still called has
sustained winds maximum now at fifty miles an hour. Expect
you to become fran scene tropical storm and then ultimately hurricane.
Another high profile defection from the Democrat Party is the
legal scholar Alan dur I sure Woods. He's joined us

(01:55:01):
many times here. He now calls himself an independent. He
didn't exactly switch parties. NBC has cut the Tonight Show
from five to four nights a week, now airing reruns
on Fridays. Latest News anytime KTORH dot com. Our next
update will be at the top of the hour eight.

Speaker 5 (01:55:20):
Am fifty nine. Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the ten Galveston County
Judge Mark Henry, you joined me. Is it true that
you're going to build an arc down there if it
gets if you get any more rain in Galbison County.

Speaker 5 (01:55:36):
I don't think we're quite to that.

Speaker 17 (01:55:38):
One yet, but I would not take it off the
table either.

Speaker 5 (01:55:41):
You've got a lot of rain, that's for sure.

Speaker 8 (01:55:43):
So what have you done in terms of preparation. I
know we always you're always Johnny on the spot because
you have to be there. But are you watching carefully?
Are you putting people in standby? Are you kind of
breathing a sigh of relief because it looks like it's
going to go eastward?

Speaker 17 (01:56:01):
No, we don't breathe a sigh of relief until November.
So we have increased our our activity at emergency management
to level two, which means we bring in people who
we can have a call upon to help us. But
this until this thing is completely out of the area,
we assume that's coming here and that's how we're going
to prepare. So we are, you know, in the National
Weather Services, you guys know, as a tenant of ours,

(01:56:23):
we go get regular updates. I got one about twenty
minutes ago. So everything that you said a moment ago
is absolutely spot on. They expected to become a tropical
storm today and a hurricane by Wednesday. While the track
has moved slightly to the east, there's nothing that says
it can't move back to the west, So we're just
going to make an assumption that it's going to impact
Galveston County and be prepared.

Speaker 5 (01:56:42):
For that well.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
And even if it does move to the east, you're
still going to get quite a bit of rain from this,
aren't you.

Speaker 17 (01:56:47):
Certainly and Wins, you know the air quote. Good news
is we're on the clean side at that point, but
still Bolivar Peninsula, which is part of Galveston County, is
right in the cone of uncertainty. So we we will
just have to stay prepared and be ready for any winds.

Speaker 8 (01:57:01):
Certainly rain, maybe some rain, but Wins storm surge, how
does that affect you?

Speaker 7 (01:57:06):
Even if you're on the clean side of the storm.

Speaker 17 (01:57:09):
It's still a potential thread because we have high ties,
as you know, a couple times a day. So when
you have a high tide coupled with storm surge, then
you get water over the road. Again, going back to Bolivar,
that happens without a tropical system, so we have to
be prepared for that. We have Road and Bridge Cruise
who'll be ready to clean and then tex Dot Cruise
will assist us as well, making sure that if eighty

(01:57:30):
seven gets watered over, it we can get it cleaned
and passable again within just a matter of hours.

Speaker 3 (01:57:34):
Center Point has been kind of notifying its customers that, hey,
we're right, we know something's coming, We're going to be
prepared for it this time. Are you feeling confident that
if electricity is lost in Galveston County quite a bit
of electricity is lost, then you'll get it back fairly quickly.

Speaker 17 (01:57:50):
Well, Bolivar's Energy. They're not center Points, and then the
mainland is half center Point, half Texas, New Mexico, So
I think the greater impact would be an Energy. And
last during Beryl, entergy was great. They once the wires
got taken off the roads where they could work safely,
they got power restored within about forty eight hours. So
we're confident with Energy's performance after Hurricane Beryl that they

(01:58:13):
can get Bolliber back up and running if that happens.

Speaker 8 (01:58:15):
You haven't had much time in order to deal with
beach erosion and everything else that's happened from all the
weather you've had. How do you stand on that and
what do you see moving forward?

Speaker 17 (01:58:26):
The beach reenursehment projects are state and federal projects. So
while we are the local partner we don't drive that train,
so we will have to deal with that once the
season's over. But you know, we're still cleaning up from
Beryl and how we get Francine to deal with, so
we'll have to put that on the back burner until
probably November December.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Hi, judge, thanks for joining us. Best of luck with
this storm. Galveston County. Judge, Mark Henry, You'll have a
great day. We'll see tomorrow morning, bright and early five am.
I'll see the Saffron four on the AM nine fifty
k PRC.