Abbott Talks About Venezuelan Gangs

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 09/17/24.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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It is five am. As we get started this morning
here in Houston's Morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett along with
Sheriff Ryer Monger top stories this half hour. That would
be Assassin's at the golf course for twelve hours. Proof
that Google is manipulating its search engine for Harris and
coming up at five oh eight, she's once again the
richest woman in the world. Details in the minutes ahead.

(00:38):
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, it's not my ex
wife's and she certainly didn't get it from you. I
think your guy mine.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
All right, let's sick both ins of ien. Now weizer's
Your side of the world's looking pretty good now, Katie
pennocquade into the President's heads.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
We're just rolling along most posted speed. Some of you above.
Twenty six minutes here hard hats you look great.

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Twenty two minutes from the Sanjacenta River Bridge into downtown.
I don't even have that little skip up around the
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Speaker 5 (01:29):
Good morning everyone.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
It is now five oh one on news Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Our top story this hour.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
The FBI and Secret Service officially investigating now this second
attempted shooting of Donald Trump as an assassination attempt, and
that keeps it in their federal jurisdiction. Interim Secret Service
Director Ronald Rowe wentto the scene, says the would be
shooter did not get off any shots, and he credits
the quick actions of his team during what he called

(01:56):
an unscheduled event in order to guard Trump.

Speaker 7 (02:02):
And the President wasn't even really supposed to go there.
It was not on his official schedule, and so we
put together a security plan and that security plan worked.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Yeah, So how did Ralp know to be there? The
FBI says Ryan Raut was at the scene for twelve hours,
staged his shooting position, and it's all proved by his
cell phone records. At this time, he's only been charged, though,
with two felony federal firearm charges. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers

(02:31):
asked how could this happen again? Florida Congressman Michael Waltz
tells Fox the left's extreme rhetoric against Trump is clearly
playing a role.

Speaker 8 (02:42):
It shouldn't surprise anybody that people are taking that literally
and trying to kill him.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
This has gone to stop.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
Well.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
Trump blamed the Biden hears rhetoric for this attempt and
actually laid out the actual sound bites in a full
list yesterday. He said the shoot saw this sort of
thing and acted upon it. House Speaker Mike Johnson says
they're demanding enhanced Secret Service protection now for Trump in
this current environment. Biden spoke out against political violence Monday

(03:13):
yesterday at an event for historically black colleges, and Biden
said then that we should solve our differences at the
ballot box, not with a gun. Just last week, he
called Trump a threat to democracy. Teamster's president Sean O'Brien
did not immediately give Kamala Harris his endorsement, by the way,
on Monday when he met with her in DC. O'Brien

(03:36):
spoke at the Republican National Convention back in July and
did not exactly endorse Trump, but he was allowed to speak.
He was snubbed by the DNC when he tried to
speak at their convention last month. In case you had
any doubts that big tech is interfering with this election,
a new bombshell report from O'Keeffe Media Group uncovered that

(03:57):
Google is manipulating a search engine to favor Kamala Harris Shara.

Speaker 9 (04:03):
It was thanks to undercover video with a Google employee.

Speaker 10 (04:08):
They're reorienting the search engine such Stackamas you know favor Facebook,
I feel like is promoting content that is favorable towards her.

Speaker 9 (04:18):
And politics aside. The Google strategist says the main reason
is money.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
He was a very good growth of rest company.

Speaker 11 (04:26):
If they have a belief that one side will allow them.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
To make I think it's all about like the share
thought price.

Speaker 9 (04:34):
The right headlines, get the right clicks, and the revenue
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven k t r.

Speaker 6 (04:42):
H Paulsters tell us this election is going to be
one of the closest in American history, so landslide victory
may not be in the cards for former President Trump.

Speaker 12 (04:52):
President Trump will probably win the electoral College to regain
the presidency, but Kamala might very well lead and a
popular vote, so a landslide victory is not necessary.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
Political analysts led to Vidik said that if Donald Trump
wins without carrying the popular vote, then Democrats will likely contest.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
The results of the election.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
TikTok and his parent company Byte Dance making their case
Monday in a court hearing that could determine the fate
of that hugely popular video sharing app It's Global you Know.
A law passed by Congress earlier this year calls for
that China based Byte Dance to sell the social media
app by January nineteenth or have it banned here in
the US, White House and opponents of TikTok say their

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actions aren't meant to actually eliminate the app, but to
break the Byte Dance relationship with communist China, and now
a stark warning is going out to companies that are
actually in China and operating there.

Speaker 13 (05:53):
A new law in China requires any multinational company with
at least three hundred employees there to have a designated
employee director presenting the Chinese government. Author in China, expert
Jonathan D. T Ward tells Fox it's long past time
for American businesses to get out of China.

Speaker 14 (06:07):
What I've told my corporate clients over all the years
is when you're in China, you're not really selling your product,
You're selling your intellectual property. They steal everything. Every chief
security officer I know in the Fortune five hundred has
told me this repeatedly.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Forwards and CEOs need to understand.

Speaker 14 (06:19):
You want to be looking for the exit now so
that you don't lose a limb.

Speaker 13 (06:22):
The share of the House Select Committee on China warns
this is a massive spying risk and that there's no
such thing as a private company there. Corey Jelson News
Radio seven forty KTRH five oh.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Six is our time.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
A ruptured liquid natural gas pipeline still fueling that massive fire,
and Laporte just off Spencer Highway reported now though that
it was an SUV that drove into that line, igniting
the explosion. For people who have been reported injured so far.
One firefighter is suffering some minor injuries. A few hundred
people are without power in that immediate area. The fire

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expected to burn out all that fuel still in the line.
Sometimes cash no longer king. Apparently, consumers under the age
of fifty five used cash for just twelve percent of
their payments and money spent last year. As according to
the FED, which is pushing us toward a digital, no
cash society.

Speaker 15 (07:16):
We keep saying signs cash lists only. We're finding that
more and more it's difficult for people who do not
have credit cards, do not have smartphones, to be able
to purchase necessary items.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
As farmer Washington State Senator gene Cole Wells, she told
Fox Business digital money controlled by the FED should spark
some fears of personal privacy as well as our freedom
to purchase and trade independently of government. As in China,
Boeing announcing sweeping cuts as it deals with factory workers
strike there. The company says that includes a hiring freeze,

(07:53):
a pause on non essential travel, and reduction of suppliers spending.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
It's five oh eight. Strozfelt.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
The Padres of San Diego three won the two teams
playing again tonight Live coverage here on KTRH at seven
thirty pm. I'm shereber Fryar on news radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I live in the Heights.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
I live in Spring Kingwood.

Speaker 16 (08:14):
Next on the ten Your Faster Commute on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Oh, I don't know it's gotten the Waltz pretty far.
Five oh eight is our time here in Houston's morning news.
And yeah, I had something to do with Daddy walmart
eras Alice Walton has reclaimed her title as the richest
woman in the world. She lost it momentarily to Francois
Bettencourt Meyers, the heirs of the French cosmetic company Lareal,

(08:41):
but she's now number one once again. What is she worth?
One wonders. As of September the fourth, she's worth eighty
nine point one billion dollars. That's with the b By
the way, her brothers also are worth in the billions.
In fact, they're richer than she is. Howbody Blue Specials
could you have to create this kind of immense wealth?

(09:05):
Just amazing? How much are they worth? Oh? Jim and Rob.
Jim is worth ninety five point nine billion and Rob
is worth ninety four billion, ninety four, ninety five and
eighty nine point one.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
She's a cousin, miss Walton of mine. My five times
great grandmother was Walton.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I would be making a connection there for fake time.
Is she on your Christmas card list? Because she needs
to get on it right away If she's not already,
fortunately Mark was, then come on, she's seventy four. She's
seventy four years old. You're running out of time, Sheriff
iar to make the connection.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
Well, I think there's probably a lot of cousins she
doesn't share this way.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
She's so wealthy.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, here's the list of the richest Mendez right now,
by the way, Eli Musk number one, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg,
Bernard Arnault and Family, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Larry Page,
Bill Gates. Sergi Brynn. Who's Sergi Brynn? Have you ever
heard that name before? You know what? I want to
be Sergi Bryn.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
I know is Mowett, Yeah, h Louis tom Right.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I don't know who Sergi Brynn is. That's that's why
I want to be. I want to be Sergi Brynn.
He's He's worth billions and billions of dollars and nobody
knows who he is. Does sound Russian, doesn't it? And
Steve Balmer came out at number ten five ten time
for traffic. I didn't see your name on the list, guy, Mike.
She's single. By the way, Miss wilmart Is, she yeah, okay,
I know, I ask, oh, I don't know. Yeah, I'll

(10:34):
work on my sontown a little bit. Can you spell
prenup h. They'll get too excited. It'd be my luck,
you know, I get Anna, Nicole Smith. Let's go where
are we going? Let's go to the south side here,
we'll check out two eighty eight. As we come up.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
From Lake Jackson. If you work at dal Freeport, you
are loaded. Your southbound drive no problem here northbound.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
As we passed Steven f woof, he looks happy this morning.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Up from iowall call any twenty two two minutes and
you know, northbound into the canyon.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
We're in good shape here forty five North Freeway.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
You know what's interesting some people call it two double
oh four.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Like I think.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Hippie Day from Texas City calls the road to double
oh four, and then James from Texas City, who used
to weigh three hundred pounds. Calls it two thousand and four.
That's interesting, but we look good from two double or
two thousand and four Tomato, tomato up the golf Freeway
all the way into downtown and Terry. There will be
a partial lunar eclipse tonight visible for North and South

(11:29):
America except for Alaska, Europe, most of Africa, Western Nation,
parts of Antarctica eight point seven percent of the moon.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Do I sound sciencey? I'm in the classical elite GMC
traffic center. No, but you're real read, real good there
from our from our katrh top tax defenders twenty four
our weather center, Terry is here. How partial is this
partial eclipse? Very partial?

Speaker 17 (11:48):
I'm guessing it's pretty partial down.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
But here's the cool thing. It's a super moon tonight.

Speaker 17 (11:54):
Oh so we'll seem bigger, yes, exactly, So maybe it'll
seem like ten percent instead of eight percent. But yeah,
I was even noticing this morning when I was coming
into work in the moon was setting, it looks bigger
this morning. So you might notice that this morning on
your morning drive. You might notice it later on tonight
when the moon is rising. That looks a little bit

(12:17):
bigger super moon tonight, a little bit of a partial eclipse,
so you might notice some of it's missing. Mainly, what
you're going to notice is that we are dry and
it feels like it's summertime. Except for the fact that
it's dry, it's not massively humid. That's the nice difference
this week LOADVID nineties Today, Tomorrow, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
I have no rain in the forecast through Saturday.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Right now seventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KRH. It's Houston's Morning News, brought
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Jimmy and Scherah with the info you need to take
on the day, Bive eighteen. It is our time here
on Houston's Morning News News Radio seven RH. So let

(13:02):
me ask a question or anybody else think that what
happened at the golf course was an inside job?

Speaker 6 (13:07):
A lot of people rest of the question, how how
did he know it was a last minute thing?

Speaker 3 (13:13):
It's yeah, it has to be an inside job. There's
no other way to explain it. The questions are being asked.
It was more of a like sort of a last
minute decision for him. To even play golf that day.
He don't really, he just he doesn't normally play that
time of the day, esquially in the summery he plays
in the morning. Yeah, okay, So they knew where he
was going to be, what time he was going to

(13:34):
be there, generally speaking, and the guy was at the
golf course, outside the golf course for like twelve hours
casing out.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Do you think you're going to get any answers?

Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, I don't.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
By designating this officially as an attempted assassination, now they've
got total control of the investigation.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
But by by knowing this, I can, I can. I
can take the suspect list and I can whittle it
down just a little bit because of the time timeline
involved here for him to know, for this guy Ruth
or Routh, wherever the hell he pronounces his name, to
know at least twelve hours in advance, it has to
be somebody either in the Trumpians inside circle or somebody

(14:12):
within the secret service detail. It's got to be. I mean,
those about the only.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Choices happenstance remarked by a caddie at the club. I mean,
I doubt that, but you don't know, right, you know
it has to be looked into, right. You know, the
Florida governor says that he's going to do a separate
state investigation. But how will that play out now that
the feds have taken total control. I mean, it's a
doj The same people who haven't given us answers about

(14:38):
July thirteenth, true, now they got September fifteenth to add
to the list.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Right, we have to keep asking, though, we all have
to keep asking five twenty time for traffic and whether
together we're checking out the drive once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
All right, put your hard hats on, Jimmy and Cheron,
let's roll down to two twenty five.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Here, jumpin Joe.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
One of my best friends in the business is working
for those two dinosaurs f across the street that are
doing the same old songs over and over, and he's
got me this shot of two twenty five roadwork. Very nice.
They were picking that up on the inbound. You had
a bit of a scooch. Stay the course that is
going away shortly while we're over here.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Check this out.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Those of you that play the home game, if you
go to the Transtar site, go to camera seven one five,
and you can follow that big gas rupture pipeline fire thing.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's on camera seven one five. That sucker is glowing.
But we're good. We're looking good on your freeways.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
One area of concern for me this morning is will
Clayton Parkway on just eastar just west of I sixty nine,
just west of the east text. That's roadwork. They're going
to do that for one more day. And I sure
would like look at that seven one three two one
two tips. I can't see it directly Skymichael the Generator
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Speaker 3 (15:48):
Do you see those roofs by the the houses by
that pipeline smoking? Holy wow, just smoking. That's how hot
that thing is. Fire department was amazing yesterday. Unreal from
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top stories on this Tuesday morning. Here's share It's five.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Twenty two now on news radio seven forty KTRHR headlines
are sponsored by Texas Mutual Insurance. The man accused in
Sunday's attempted assassination of Donald Trump did not fire any shots,
and so far is only accused of two federal firearm felonies,
well charged with I should say two federal firearm felonies.
Boeing announcing sweeping cuts to conserve cash as it deals

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with a factory worker's strike, a hiring freeze, a pause
on non essential travel, and a reduction in spending with suppliers.
Just days after getting its hearing and software product approved,
Apple now has the thumbs up on a sleep appnea
detection that will debut on Apple Watches Series nine ten.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
And the Ultra two models. Well better than having to
go to a sleep cladic.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
I guess might be interesting. Was it new wake up
when you can't breathe?

Speaker 6 (17:10):
No, it records it so you can find out the
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Speaker 1 (17:26):
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Speaker 3 (17:39):
News Radio seven forty kg RH. All right, uh, did
you hear that Jamie diamond is using the S word
to describe the economy. What's coming with the economy? The
S word not inflation, sag flation, stagflation.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
Man, we even use the word stag anymore, not in the.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Way we used to you going stag. No, We're we're
not going stag here. Let's hope we're not going stag
Snagglation is such a good thing for those of you
who are not old enough to remember when we actually
had stagflation in this country.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
That's one of those things. It calls for the big ugly.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh yeah, for sure. Stagflation is where you have inflation continuing,
but you have lower employment, so you have kind of,
you know, the worst of all worlds. Jamie Diamonds saying
that that is a real possibility that we could be
looking at stagflation. So is federated A. Herme's chief equity
market strategist Phil Orlando.

Speaker 18 (18:34):
We are in the quarter point camp and we can
certainly understand the point that Greg Yepp and Nick Timrose
with the Journal have been making, you know, go big
or go home, start with fifty. We think we're looking
at three quarter point cuts, one this week, one November seventh,
one December eighteenth, that'll take the funds right down by

(18:56):
seventy five basis points, and then additional quarter point cuts
each of the next four quarters over the course the
next year. So we think the Fed is going to
be steady in terms of interest rate reductions, but we
think the data and the political environment suggest a quarter
point cut rather than a half point cut.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
This coming Wednesday.

Speaker 18 (19:19):
I think, Jamie spot On, you look at some of
the inflation data. I'm going to reference three metrics here
that most people are looking at retail inflation, the consumer
price index, which has come down sharply from nine point
one percent to two and a half percent over the
last two years.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
That's terrific.

Speaker 18 (19:37):
But you look at wholesale inflation, the producer price index
that's actually gone up from one point eight percent last
December that's now sitting at two point four percent. Then
you look at the personal consumption Expenditure Index, which is
the Fed's preferred measure of inflation that's been stuck at
two point six percent over the last three months, and

(19:57):
the Federal Reserve in their June SEP there's summary of
economic projections. They're forecasting that that number is going to
go from two six to two point eight percent by
the end.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Of this year, going up.

Speaker 18 (20:10):
Now, we're going to get an update in the Fed's
SEP on Wednesday. But the point is that two of
the three inflation metrics that we're looking at right now
are moving in the wrong direction. And then when you
look at the labor market, we've triggered the so called
sum rule each of the last two months July and August,
which suggests that the economy is decelerating. So I think

(20:32):
Jamie's right, there's concerned about slowing economic growth. But inflation
here has been sticky, and at least with two of
the metrics moving in the wrong direction, there you.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
Go, that's sounds so nice.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
It's been a little sticky and it's moving in the
wrong direction.

Speaker 5 (20:48):
Instead of talking about the devastation of the thing.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Inflation is sticking to my wallet is where it's sticking.
That's which our government broad is exactly created by our
own selves five seven, It is time to take a
look at your money. Quoti Donajos here, Good morning.

Speaker 19 (21:03):
Good morning. We're all waiting. As you just mentioned. The
Federal Reserve taking off the two day meeting today, and
markets are expecting the Central Bank to lower interest rates.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
For the first time in four years.

Speaker 19 (21:13):
We'll see what they do tomorrow, but stocks are looking
at a higher open. Dow features right now at one
hundred and twenty points. Well, yesterday stock started the week
with the mixed session. The Dow rose two hundred and
twenty eight points. However, the tech having NASDAK dropped half
a percent. Boeing sees a drawn out and expensive strike
by its workers. As a result, it's rolling out a
number of cost cutting measures, including a hiring freeze and

(21:35):
temporary furloughs. Boeing and its machinist union are scheduled to
resume talks today. And Red Lobster has emerged from bankruptcy.
The restaurant chain is under new ownership led by Fortress
Investment Group. Red Lobster has closed some poorly performing locations,
but is leaving Chapter eleven with roughly five hundred and
forty five restaurants. The chain filed for bankruptcy in May
after struggling with declining sales.

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Five thirty one, is there time Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer Mongertop Stores is at
our Abbott talks about Venezuelan gangs, new ways China is
spying on US companies and coming up. At five thirty eight,
The new code variant is called XC. Details of the
minutes ahead Yard Houston's Morning News. First, strick out that

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morning drive again. Sky Mike's here, all right, We've got
your tip line rolling seven one.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Three, two one two tips. Here's Daryl at Bush Guy.

Speaker 21 (22:48):
I just came through that little constructionary off of sixty nine.

Speaker 12 (22:52):
Will Clayton clear right now.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
But that's a big TSA. But when you're coming off
with sixty nine, we're on that tight curve.

Speaker 21 (23:00):
It's gonna bottleneck instantly.

Speaker 22 (23:02):
Let't be long, They'll be way back up.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
That's roadwork.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
I believe we have one more day of that bush Daryl,
our first banana sticker of the morning.

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(23:33):
Fryer and.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Good morning everyone.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
It is Sound five thirty two on news Radio seven
forty k TRH. Our top story, this is our Venezuelan
gangs here placed on notice in Texas. Governor Greg Abbott,
in a news conference in Houston yesterday, officially declared the
Venezuelan Gang Trend de Aragua TDA a foreign terrorist organization.

Speaker 23 (23:54):
To defend our state from the growing threat of TDA,
We're not going to allow them to use Texas as
a base of operations to terrorize our.

Speaker 6 (24:03):
Citizens, and he appointed a task force in Texas to
deal exactly with that. Since Biden here has took office,
Texas has arrested more than three thousand illegal aliens from Venezuela,
two hundred of them proven wanted criminals. That task force
will identify and capture known gang members who dare to

(24:25):
show up in Texas. Federal officials confirming Monday they are
investigating this second attempted shooting of Donald Trumps September fifteenth
as an assassination attempt.

Speaker 24 (24:36):
We view this as as extremely serious and are determined
to provide answers as to what led.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Up to the events which took place.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
FBI Miami Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Veldri, the vEDS
now controlling the immediate investigation. US Attorney's Office said secret
Service found an SKS Soviet era rifle, it wasn't an
AK fourteen besides something similar, backpacks rigged with kevlar tiles
to be used as a shield, and a video camera
where the suspect staked himself out for some twelve hours

(25:10):
that was verified by cell phone data. Big questions not
answered by the FBI, but they were asked how did
David Wesley Rout know Trump would be golfing? It was
an unscheduled event, kind of scrambled together, and how did
he determine his location to have a clear shot in
order to lie in wait? President Biden did say that

(25:31):
the Secret Service needs more help. What kind as the media?
Biden said, more personnel. Trump campaign released a complete list
of quotes, by the way from Democrat officials, including Biden,
demonizing him as an existential threat to our democracy. At
least one Democrat, Adam kissingerg Is yesterday blamed Republicans and
Donald Trump for inciting the violence against him in now

(25:54):
two assassination attempts in just two months. It's all because
of j six. You know, the suspect, Ralph fifty eight
years old. He has a quickly being scrubbed social media profile,
including massive support for the war in Ukraine. But what
has become clear is that social media is harming mental

(26:15):
health of young Americans and now some are considering age
restrictions for online platforms.

Speaker 25 (26:22):
Is legislation against social media the key to solving the
mental health crisis.

Speaker 12 (26:27):
No legislation is not going to fix that. There are
tools and utilities out there to create a state social
media for kit and I think that's the better approach.

Speaker 25 (26:35):
Tech expert Dave Batt with Predictiview told KTRH the real
solution is for parents to become more involved.

Speaker 12 (26:41):
Keep an open line of communication with your kid. What's
your experience online and how does that make you feel?
Just asking that simple question thins up the line of communication.

Speaker 25 (26:49):
That says, chances are even if a bill creating an
age limit for social media was passed, it likely would
get bogged down in the courts. Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
It's now five thirty six.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
China has found another way to infiltrate our American companies
and their intellectual property, and new Chinese law mandates that
one of their government employee directors must be on hand
for any multinational firm that has at least three hundred
employees operating in that communist nation. Author in China expert

(27:20):
Jonathan dt Ward tells Fox US companies should be getting
out of China before they quote lose a limb.

Speaker 14 (27:28):
I think the party is ending for American corporates in China.
I mean they've been there for a long time. They've
built supply chains there that I think are fundamentally at
risk because of geopolitics, and also the profitability of these
corporations is relatively limited.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Yeah, he says, American companies in China aren't there really
selling any of their products. It's their intellectual property that
China is commanding. Texas continuing to grow, but our state's
water supply apparently can't keep up.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
It's decreasing.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
Actually, that agriculture commissioners so much, said Miller says it
is time to sound the alarm.

Speaker 26 (28:03):
He is, I think people take water for granted, and
we just go turn on the faucet now to come
so we never have a problem. But we're out of water.
Our state's still growing rapidly. We still have about one
thousy fifty new Texans every day. We've maxed out, he says.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
There are solutions, but we better act now. Thirty six
percent of Texas currently under drought conditions. By the way,
five thirty seven's our time. Texas Land Commissioner don Buckingham
once again blasting that offshore wind energy proposal.

Speaker 27 (28:33):
She says nothing's been done to quell concerns since sending
a letter to Biden.

Speaker 28 (28:37):
Been estimated that it could be a negative impact of
eight hundred billion dollars a year to the Houston Ship
Channel as well as it happens to be right where
every bird migrates through to the Caribbean.

Speaker 27 (28:46):
That's Don Buckingham, who says that they're ignoring the environmental
impacts as well. Beyond that the costs of it could
soar into the billions.

Speaker 3 (28:54):
We feel like it is all negative, no positive.

Speaker 28 (28:56):
It is much more expensive to build windmills out in
the ocean than it is on dry land.

Speaker 27 (29:02):
She says they will block transmission lines to try and
hamper the project. Andrea Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (29:10):
Nine Destros had their four game winning streak broken in
San Diego last night. I lost the Padres three one.
They play again tonight. Live coverage begins at seven thirty.
First pitch here at eight forty on KTRH. I'm supper
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It's five thirty eight down nothing nothing ecstatic about getting COVID.
I mean it's after all, it's the flu. Yeah, you
can headache and tired, and you don't feel maybe have

(30:03):
a fever, you don't feel good for a few days.
You know, remember that the flu. Remember the flu, y'all,
remember the flow, you know, whatever.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
You try to bring that up. People say, yeah, but
people died. I said, yeah, people die.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Every year. They do, all right, scientist, However, I can't
pass up the opportunity to to go ahead. And you know,
see how they want to get us scared over this one.
Here's the headline, new XEC COVID variants spreading in the US,
Doctors warn Scientists have warned a new variant of COVID,
known as XEC, is spreading across Europe and the United States.
Reports of people catching the new variant have emerged in

(30:38):
the United Kingdom and other European nations such as Denmark
and Germany. Now, doctors in the US are reporting a
small number of cases.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
A small number they're reporting.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
And predicting it and predicting it appears ready to spread.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
That's sort of what disease does alow.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
It's said to be the next challenge for doctors, nurses
in healthcare, sit.

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In the pharmaceutical industry.

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Speaker 5 (31:05):
Yeah, we got sorry extreme.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
When you say xec it sounds like execute to me.
Maybe you come up with ecstasy with execute our personality.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
They say it may take weeks, maybe a couple of
months before it really takes hold and starts to cause
a wave. Beware of the wave that is coming, kind
of like to be.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Called a curve. Remember we had to shut down the curve.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Ye now we're now we're now we got to ride
the wave. No, So anyway, there you go. Symptoms, like
I said, don't sound any different than any of the
other covid. It's just a new mutation and viruses mutate.
It is what they do. And this this is going
to be with this forever, just like the flu is.
It's just going to take on various different forms and

(31:56):
they'll give it different themes so they can create more
vaccines and try to, you know, drain your wall a
little bit more.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
But it's all got manufactured on.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
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and went to Clovin on the Richmond stret.

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Spring Sky make right by the Saint Joseph Tower.

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There is a car on the right hands splashers on.

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Andrew from Spring Rock on.

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Speaker 29 (32:47):
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Boom extra points for burbage. Andrew from Spring and I.

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In which way east West Ghetto, Dave talk to me.

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I'm right if you're here at the West on it
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Speaker 17 (33:15):
To that kind of right, what's the weather going to
do what it did yesterday? Yes, it is not going
to change much at all, so you know what to
do for the rest of the week. That's the way
it's shaping up. Dry right now through Sunday, maybe some
ray next week. We'll keep our fingers crossed. Not starting
out too bad this morning. So that full moon that

(33:37):
is setting currently probably is looking pretty good.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
It's a super moon.

Speaker 17 (33:41):
So put on your moon shades and put on your
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Five fifty three is our time here in Houston's boring
news day. BAT joined US tech expert at predict View
Australia is going to be imposing some new age limits.
I guess on social media, Dave, what are the age limits?
Do you know? And how do they intend to try
to enforce this?

Speaker 29 (36:39):
Well, first of all, good luck with enforcing it. But
the age limits that are already in place here in
terms of social media is still time consents. At what
age can children get on to social media with their
parents consent is thirteen? The new age limits with that

(37:00):
severely all.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Right, so are we talking like bumping it up to eighteen?

Speaker 29 (37:08):
Let's start with our surge in general, doctor Vivicmurth Murphy,
the Surgeon General for the United States, and looking to
put a warning label on social media that would affect
everyone from eighteen and under.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Okay, but again, you know how effective is something like
a warning label? There's I can tell this surgeon General
wants to put a warning label on everything, including being
a parent.

Speaker 29 (37:36):
It's not really effective, and legislation is really not going
to be the right way of regulating social media or
creating what we all want, say for social media for kids.
There's a study out right now that's showing the thirty
three percent of kids between the ages of seven and
twelve years old are using their devices at night when
it's bedtime without parents even knowing it.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
All right, Well, you know, I hate to throw the
book at parents here, but if parents don't know about it,
it's because they're not paying attention, wouldn't you say.

Speaker 29 (38:10):
A bit? But also, kids are smart, and it's not
so much parents saying don't use your phone at night
in bed. There's a lot of peer pressure going on.
Well back to school. Kids are trying to keep up
with their friends, and part of the peer pressure is
not being involved in the conversation. And that's what's causing

(38:31):
kids to, you know, try and find ways around parents
advice or parents' rules.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
It kind of feels like the genie is out of
the bottle on this one, doesn't it. You know, as
long as your child has access to social media, and
there's a variety of different ways they can get it,
not even just being having access to a cell phone
once they get on social media. Trying to police that
for both social media and for parents, it's becoming more
and more difficult.

Speaker 29 (38:59):
To do it is. And then coming back to where
we started the conversation, is the legislation going to fix it?
Probably not well. When parents are really doing their fast
parents didn't roll up with this kind of social media platform.
They didn't experience this for themselves, so it's hard to
put them in a position to say, figure this out,

(39:20):
even when they have good rules at home and a
good relationship with their kids. The best way to address
this going forward it is going to be fighting fire
with fire.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
And what do you mean by fighting fire with fire?

Speaker 12 (39:32):
Well, they social media starts with technology, and there are
a number of technologies out there that parents can use
and children can utilize with their social media accounts that
show them or tell them, or make them aware when
they're scrolling, is putting them in an awkward position or

(39:54):
the content they're using is not just inappropriate but causing
them to stress and harm.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Well, I'd have to think too that maybe part of
the solution here is within the public schools of down
to lie kids. We've many schools have allowed kids to
have access to their cell phones during the day, and
we need to put an end to that. Dave Bat,
thank you for your time. Appreciate it from a predict view.
That's tech expert Dave Bet. It's five fifty six.

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From the John Morris Services Studios. Six am is our time,
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer,
Bunger Top Stores. This that far that would be assassin
was at the golf course for twelve hours, proof that
Google is manipulating a search engine for Harris and coming
up at six o' eight, Trump's would be second assassin.
The neighbors say the family was weird. Details in the

(40:56):
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Warning News. First, let's check
out that morning drive here sky Mike, bad boys, what
you gonna do? All right?

Speaker 4 (41:03):
End of a police chase under the Kdie Freeway Highway six.
Stay away from that intersection and you'll be a lot happier.
The main lanes are movement fine. They can't even see it,
but it's a light show down there. South Sam Meaghan
from Kima waitapp.

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Right after the fourth ben eight there is a farm
truck on its side.

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It's timed off for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
It is six oh two on news Radio seven forty
KTRH is new sponsored by all Star Construction and top
story this Sar Donald Trump was the target of an assassination,
say the Fed. Federal agencies of the Biden Harris Homeland
security regime now leading the investigation. The Trump haters are
now zero to two in just two months. South Carolina

(42:16):
Senator Lindsay Graham reacting on Fox News.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
How the hell could this happen twice?

Speaker 19 (42:22):
So when I heard the acting director say everything worth fine.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
No, man, you need to be fired. You need to go.

Speaker 6 (42:31):
The fifty eight year old Ryan Wesley Rout was arrested
has been charged with possessing a firearm by a convicted
felon and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number
of federal felonies. He faces twenty years in prison if
convicted on those charges. The FBI did confirm additionally that
Rout was investigated and cleared by federal agents acting on

(42:56):
a tip to the FBI back in twenty nine. Oh
here we go again. President Biden says no place for
political violence in America after that weekend attempted assassination. Speaking
at the National HBCU Historically Black Colleges Conference in Philadelphia,
Biden said, our differences need to be solved at the

(43:18):
ballot box and not by a gun. It is now
six ' oh three no endorsement for Kamala yet by
the Teamsters. President Sean O'Brien. Harris met with him yesterday
in DC. O'Brien spoke at the Republican Convention Remember in
July as a declared Democrat that was told thanks, but
no thanks when he offered to speak in front of
the Democrats of the DNC. In August, a new undercover

(43:42):
report from O'Keefe Media Group confirms that Google is manipulating
its search engine to help Kamala Harris.

Speaker 30 (43:50):
That Google is quote reorienting the search engine se Kamala
is more favored. Hello, you aprove all of the research
that the Emercy has been putting out showings that this
was not by accident, this was intentional.

Speaker 6 (44:05):
Josephasquez with the Media Research Center There Now, the Google
rep who was caught on video, said that the main
motive for all this is money, but Google also believes
Harris will support them. They're under trial right now if
she's elected. Most voters in a new poll say Taylor's
Swift's endorsement of Harris has had no impact on how

(44:26):
they'll vote. Six percent of respondents said, well, yeah, they're
more likely to vote for Harris after getting that Swifty nod.
Thirteen percent said less likely to vote for her, though
eighty one percent in that ABC News IPSOS polls said
SuperStar's endorsement really has no influence on them. Looks like
it's going to be another title election this November, at

(44:48):
least according to the pollsters. Some are saying, yeah, it
needs to be a landslide in order for Trump to win, though.

Speaker 25 (44:56):
So what do the results need to look like for
Trump to get back in the White House.

Speaker 12 (45:00):
It's more likely than not that he will prevail in
the electoral college but come behind her in the popular vote.

Speaker 25 (45:07):
Political analyst led to Vidiac says that a landslide victory
is likely the only way to stop Democrats from contesting
the results.

Speaker 12 (45:14):
In twenty sixteen, when he defeated Hillary Clinton and he
won the electoral college but she won the popular vote,
they do not view that victory as legitimate.

Speaker 25 (45:23):
D Vidick says, at this point, the chance is that
either candidate has a blowout victory or near zero. Ethan
Buchannan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
TikTok and his parent company by Dance faced a pretty
skeptical three judge panel yesterday as there attempting to get
that court to overturn a new American law that mandates
that TikTok be sold by January nineteenth or be banned
here in the United States. Attorneys for the government argue
that TikTok is the code for it, the platform is

(45:54):
written in China, data is being gathered extremely valuable to
a foreign adversary. TikTok and Byteedancer claiming look, this law
is unconstitutional and violates free speech rights. It's now six
oh six. Some Americans have already given up using cash
at all. It's the convenience of their credit cards and

(46:16):
mobile payment. Doesn't mean it's time, though, to do away
with cash altogether.

Speaker 15 (46:22):
A lot of people do not have access they do,
they're unbanked or maybe under banked, and they can't do it.
So what happens, especially if they're in a food desert.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
Former Washington State Senator Jane joel Well cole Wells on
Fox Business. According to the Federal Reserve, consumers under the
age of fifty five are using cash for just twelve
percent of their payments. They did that last year. Be
careful about the government controlling your access to money. A

(46:53):
ruptured liquid natural gas pipeline, that one they are in Laport,
just off Spencer Highway, is still on fire this morning.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
It exploded yesterday.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
TV partner Channel two's Robert Arnold says, Energy Transfer, which
runs the line, has had ruptures before.

Speaker 32 (47:12):
You've had eight incidents this year for about one point
four million in property damage. You want to talk about
property damage, I've talked about damage to the equipment, the
infrastructure that surrounds these pipelines. Not necessarily private property. Now,
not all of those eight incidents were the company's fault.
A matter of fact, one of the more recent incidents
involved a car veering off the road and hitting some
of the equipment.

Speaker 6 (47:33):
More importantly, it's Deer Park police who say it was
an SUV that went through the guard gate, hit the
pipeline on Monday and that's what ignited the explosion. They
are now trying to identify the driver. Four people were
injured that we know, two hospitalized too, treated for heat
related illnesses. Two Near and Bye neighborhoods had to be evacuated.

(47:55):
They expect that line it's been shut off. I expected
to burn out its contents sometime today. A man from
Pakistan living in Houston in court Monday, pleading not guilty
to charges that he is behind a plot to assassinate
American politicians, including Donald Trump. Astro's lost to the Padres
in San Diego three to one last night. Game two

(48:17):
in that series tonight, with live coverage starting at seven
thirty pm here on ktr H. I'm Sheriff Fryer on
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 16 (48:27):
Info at this speed of Houston right now. Houston's morning
news continues with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
True, he said, so nine is our time here in
Houston's moorn News. Well, weird is the word they actually
used to describe Ryan Routh and his family. One of
his one of his former neighbors in North Carolina, Guildford County,
North Carolina, came forward to say that, yeah, they were,
they were a little they're a little strange. There. At

(48:57):
one point were quite a few guns in the house.
But he's a convict felon, I guess, so he wasn't
supposed to be in possession of any firearms. Here's the
weird part. She claims that they had a horse, actual live,
full blown horse in the house, not your normal house pets.

(49:18):
Certainly to have a horse the kind of hard to
potty drain, Yeah, a horse in the house. We also
have found that evidently he has recitations and for things
like multiple bad checks, fell in the firearm possession, possession
of a stolen vehicle, multiple counts of possession of a

(49:38):
weapon of mass destruction back in two thousand and two,
specifically a binary explosive with a ten inch detonation cord
in a blasting cap. You have to be pretty busy
to have one hundred counts of anything.

Speaker 6 (49:52):
He tried to recruit people to fight Ukraine for Ukraine,
wrote emails or notes or something. Just Zelenski painted half
of his head blue in honor of Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Yeah, yeah, he's a strange cat. He's a strange cat.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
Not all of that illegal, but no.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
No, no, but but again, it only makes you wonder
even more. You can see, you know, especially in the
current political climate, how somebody like that could be radicalized
to want to go out and kill somebody like President Trump.
What you don't know is how something like that would
have the wherewithal to attempt to do it. And that's
that's the part we really want to know about it

(50:27):
at this point. Not about the horse living in the house,
but how did this guy know that Trump was going
to be in the golf course when it was kind
of a last second decision, especially when he was there
for twelve hours stalking the golf court.

Speaker 6 (50:38):
Because he's a good guy and it's perfectly reasonable to
hate Trump. He confirmed his dad hates Trump because everybody does.
Of course, that was from the sun. He's thirty somethings.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Well, again, the whole family might be a little on
the strange side. Six eleven time for traffic and whether
it together lot of butper tickers on his car? I bet,
I bet you're right. What kind of car you're supposed
to somebody like that drives kind up? Well, I don't
want to say that.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Just a little beady car, you know, probably calling a
you know, had bumper stickers from head to toe.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
And listen to public radio. We've got a problem on
Spencer Highway.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
That's a complete closure now between Luella and Underwood both ways.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
So it has to do with that gas thing we
had yesterday.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
So that's Spencer Highway completely shut down yesterday.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
I was telling everybody avoid the area.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
I think you're good to go now Fairmount Parkway East
passing the boulevard.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
I'll get you around that. I don't know how long
they're going to do that. We got police activity.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Let's say, Gordon Pearland, do the kdie Gordon Pearland.

Speaker 26 (51:35):
Morning Scott Mike went past us into the police chase
that stopped at the underpass of Highway six and it
ten feet ter westbound, heavy heavy police presence.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
It's quite a light show under there. If you stay
on the main lanes. You'll get around that. South Sam.
We still have that box truck that'll be there for
a while. South Sam eastbound at Hillcroft. That's two right
lanes blocked. Oh they're blocking three right lanes now. This
is eastbound coming over from I sixty nine. Megan from
Chema with the banana sticker, and she's all that stands

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between us and a complete Schulenberg festival.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
This morning, Lord Sam, Jimbo, Porter Heights and.

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Top with the vote in two years, sky by fifty
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Speaker 4 (52:18):
Oh, well said good verbiage. Banana stickers all around. We
do have that roadwork at Aldane Westfield. Watch out for
other stations. Listeners to left lines. I'm in the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour with
the Senator. Terry Smith is here and we've got clear
sailing all the way through the weekend. No rain in sight.

Speaker 12 (52:36):
Huh.

Speaker 17 (52:37):
Not a drop of rain, well at least not around
the metro area. Closer to the coach you might get
a stray thundershower to pop up with the afternoon sea breeze.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
But if if we got.

Speaker 17 (52:50):
Ten listeners that have some rain here the next couple
of days, it'll be a large catch, so to speak.
I see high pressure as being our primary weather influence
into early next week, sunny and dry, and temperatures on
the warmer side normally. Right about now, we're near ninety degrees.
We're starting to cool off just a little bit. Wow,

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we're in the load of mid nineties most locations today.
A few upper nineties this afternoon, but most of us
low to mid nineties, and that stays the case through Saturday.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Jeffes, you're still seventy four at your official severe weather station,
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Speaker 3 (53:36):
The I think the real implication of Kamala Harris being
the Democrat nominee versus Joe Biden is it is taken
potentially taking landslide off the table. With Biden, he could
have very well been a landslide, and with a landslide,
it's pretty dog gone tough to be able to cheat
enough in order to win. But if it's a close race,
especially in those seven battleground states. It's a lot easier

(53:58):
to cheat. We'll talk to political consult Ladavidic about that
coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather, they're getta
more envelopes it is. We check out the drive here
sky my Way.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Southwest northbound Chimney Rock look Out. That's a wreck center
lane where smudstep now from West Park got a box
tuck overturned on the Where are you south sam eastbound
at He'll crop Meegan from Chema quick tip line.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Then we'll get to our time.

Speaker 31 (54:21):
Our guest today, Mike Ben inbound at East texxat Parker exit.

Speaker 22 (54:26):
There are two vehicles on.

Speaker 31 (54:28):
The left hand sign with the added lights. It's starting
to back them up, and old held truck digit there
that take them away, well said.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center from.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
R KTRH top tax Defenders. Twenty four hour Weather Center
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caught up in some of our top stories this morning,

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Your Share six.

Speaker 6 (55:00):
Twenty two now on news radio seven forty k trhd's Headlines,
sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. The Donald Trump campaign released a
list in quotes of twelve influencers who called for violence
against him, and included quotes from Biden and Harris Too,
who called him an existential threat to democracy. Oh Ohio

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Governor Mike DeWine, he says he's a Republican, says the
bomb threats being called into that Haitian migrant overrun community
of Springfield, Ohio, they're not credible. They're originating from overseas,
Divine says the Wine says that thirty three hoax threats
have been called in. Some residents as far as way

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as the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex say they felt it.
An earthquake magnitude five point one struck near Ackerley. It's
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Speaker 3 (56:09):
Six twenty three. Now, if you're in Houston's borning news, Yeah,
landslide would be one way to bring Kamala Harris down.
But can you come up with a landslide? Is it
the only way that Trump can win? Glada Vidick joins
US as a political consultant. When the race is close,
especially in battleground states, it's a lot easier to cheat,
isn't it. Lad. It's always easier.

Speaker 12 (56:28):
To cheat if the race is close, and it's advisable
to make the race as wide as possible to avoid
that cheating. But what we've seen historically is when you
have two candidates who are so solently entrenched with both
bases of the party, it's going to be a close,
nip and tuck race except for those few battleground states

(56:50):
and those lingering independents.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
If Joe Biden was still in the race, would we
be talking about a landslide at this point? Do you think?
I think?

Speaker 12 (56:59):
I think it's far more likely that we'd be talking
about a party solid victory looming for President Trump if
not a landslide. I think President Biden had his poll
numbers and the fundamentals of his polling were slipping gradually.

Speaker 22 (57:17):
Had taken a deep dive after that debate. But if
that debate had not been so bad for him, if
he was still in the race, I think it would
still be on the decline in President Trump would be
really starting to gain ground in some of those key
states and looking towards potentially a landslide.

Speaker 12 (57:33):
It could very well have happened.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Absolutely, What, if anything, do you think this second assassination
ATTEP does or doesn't do for Donald Trump? I think it.

Speaker 12 (57:42):
Really crystallizes the argument that he and his supporters and
people who are working to defend democracy have been making
this whole time, that the violent rhetoric of the left,
the hateful anger that is inciting some of the more
deranged and unhinged members of that political ideology to really

(58:05):
start to act out on their violent fantasies, is not
only dangerous to America, but destructive of our democracy and
then potentially could upend constitutional protections that we've enjoyed for
almost two hundred fifty years. The crazies that are out
there and disrupting and causing chaos are exactly the type
of people who put fear into average Americans and wondering

(58:29):
whether or not we're being surrounded by people who potentially
go off any moment, and you need people who are
going to defend a constitution to keep us safe and
that as a strong leadership.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
Are you concerned, though, at all, that there are some
people out there, maybe some independent voters, who are taking
a look at this and saying, this is the way
If Donald Trump gets elected, it's going to be like
this for the next four years, people taking potshots at him.
It won't get anything accomplished, and they're thinking that they
just don't want to put up with all that.

Speaker 12 (58:56):
I think that that certainly could be a possibility. And
if you have an end pennant voter who's thinking along
those lines, they probably already made up their mind one
way or another. I think it's far more likely you're
going to see the pendant voters thinking what is wrong
with our country that we can't have a political and
discussion about ideas without resorting to violence, And they're going

(59:17):
to see who it is who brought this on. And
President Trump and his team made very clear that the
violent rhetoric being pushed out by the left, including Biden
and Harrison and a strong army of influencers that they
localized across the nation are really pushing this violent rhetoric
to target President Trump and other Republicans.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
And I hope you're right, Thanks lid Appreciating political consultant Vladavidiak.
It is six twenty seven. It is time to take
a look at your money. Gordy Donaho is here.

Speaker 19 (59:45):
Well, hey there, Jimmy attention is on the Federal Reserve,
which starts at Studay meeting today. We could see the
first rate cut in more than four years when the
gathering wraps up tomorrow. Dale futures they are up seventy
five points. Turning to the energy market's away a little
changed at seventy dollars in barrel oil, though has lost
about fifteen percent this quarter on China's economic slowdown and
signs of plentiful supply, and Tupperware is said to be

(01:00:07):
preparing to file for bankruptcy.

Speaker 5 (01:00:09):
As soon as this week.

Speaker 19 (01:00:11):
The home goods brand has tried to revive its business
for years. The company has been swimming in more than
seven hundred million.

Speaker 5 (01:00:17):
Dollars of debt.

Speaker 19 (01:00:18):
Tupperware declined to comment, and Walgreen says most of its
stores will be closed to Thanksgiving. However, three hundred pharmacies
will remain open for emergencies. Im Courtney's on a Hope
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Six thirty our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Bairrett.
A long with Sheriff Ryer Bungertop stories as have are
Abba talks about Venezuelan gangs, New ways China is spying
on US companies and coming up at six thirty eight,
this shipbuilder files bankruptcy after one hundred and sixty three
years details and the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Morning News. First,

(01:01:11):
let's check out that morning drive with Sky Mike.

Speaker 29 (01:01:13):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
If Roger from Magnolia is on the tip line, the
stuff is getting real good.

Speaker 21 (01:01:17):
Morynscot Mike. The interchange to eastbound east and westbound Beltwait
ag there is either a reck or a stall up
on the flyover. I get it tow truck injes are
on scene, but it's goes in.

Speaker 12 (01:01:29):
The major backup.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
All right, extra points for burbage there. That's I forty
five North Freeway right at the Beltway. Got an overturned
truck on the south Salmont Hillcroft eastbound. Big backups, get
off that loop, get off the belt and Southwest Freeway
Chimney Rock. That's a three car wreck northbound. I'm Skymike
in the classic elite GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
From our KTRH generator super center. Twenty four hour weather center.
Mix of Sunday clouds today, but the hig temperature right
about ninety four. We'll get the complete forecast. Looks like
a stayed drive through the weekend. We'll talk to Terry
Smith about that in eight minutes now, temperature seventy four
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
It's time out for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
Everyone is six thirty two on news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
Our top story this hour.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
Governor Greg Abbott in Houston yesterday signing a proclamation to
declare TDA gang members from Venezuela, you know that train
de Aragua as a terrorist organization.

Speaker 23 (01:02:29):
I am officially declaring TDA a foreign terrorist organization. We
will bring the full weight of the government against the TDA.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
Yeah, he wants to stop him.

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
He says, these gang members have been brought into this
country unvetted, and since twenty twenty one, more than three
thousand illegal aliens from Venezuela alone have been arrested for
crimes here in Texas. Some two hundred are still wanted.
More revelations now about the September fifteenth attempted assassination of
Donald Trump, you know, the second one. GOP Vice presidential

(01:03:01):
nominee jd Vance details his phone call with Trump immediately afterwards,
as he was addressing the Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition
victory dinner in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
He calls me right after.

Speaker 33 (01:03:14):
This is ten minutes after, and he's pissed off that
they won't let him finish his birdie putt right if
they found a guy with an AK forty seven. But
by the way, that is kind of the guy that
you want to be president of the United States, right,
who's phased by nothing, who's telling jokes.

Speaker 6 (01:03:29):
Afterwards, Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw confirmed the weapon
but said it wasn't an AK forty seven, it was
a Soviet style similar rifle. He asked, though, how could
that accuse, dis ass and know in advance of Trump's
impromptu golf game set up twelve hours before within range
of the sixth hole. And the FBI confirms it was

(01:03:50):
a twelve hour setup from Ryan Wesley Row's cell phone data.
The Feds have recovered the rifle of scope, a go
pro camera, and ceramic tile back packs that would be
used as potential shields. They've charged Ralth, a convicted felon,
already with two federal firearms charges. They are now in
control of the investigation. Was it just luck, though, that

(01:04:12):
secret service spotted Ralth and fired on him before he
could get a shot off on the president? President Biden
says a secret service needs more help. His comments a
day after that attempt on Trump's life. When asked what
kind of help he thinks that secret service needs, Biden says,
more personnel. There's a stark warning now going out to

(01:04:34):
US companies who are operating in China. Yes, our adversaries
never sleep.

Speaker 13 (01:04:41):
A new law in China requires any multinational company with
at least three hundred employees there to have a designated
employee director representing the Chinese government. Author in China, expert
Jonathan D. T Ward tells Fox it's long past time
for American businesses to get out of China.

Speaker 14 (01:04:55):
What I've told my corporate clients over all the years
is when you're in China, you're not really selling your product.
You're selling your eellectual property if they steal everything. Every
chief security officer I know in the Fortune five hundred
has told me this repeatedly.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Awards and CEOs need to understand. You want to be.

Speaker 14 (01:05:07):
Looking for the exit now so that you don't lose
a limb.

Speaker 13 (01:05:10):
The share of the House Select Committee on China warns
this is a massive spying risk and that there's no
such thing as a private company there. Corey Yelsen New's
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
Six point thirty five.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
Now we've got more data coming out showing a link
between social media use and mental health situations here in America.
Some really want to see an age limit imposed on
online platforms.

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
How do they do it?

Speaker 12 (01:05:34):
Doctor Vivickworthy, our Surgeon General, has an introduced legislation that
calls for at the very lead warningly able to go
on social media for anyone under eighteen.

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
That's tech expert David Batt with predict View. He told
us that the real solution here is for parents to
be more actively communicating with their children about what they
see online and how it affects them. Don't ask the
government to step in takeover. It's now six thirty six.
We've got a lot of concern about energy here in

(01:06:05):
Texas as we continue to grow. But the ad Commissioner
said Miller says, look, we better be considering how Texas
is running out of water.

Speaker 9 (01:06:14):
And shar That's why Commissioner Miller is on a mission
to get the word out.

Speaker 26 (01:06:19):
I think I'm the only state wide that's actually talking
about this and ringing the alarm bell.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
But the money's there.

Speaker 26 (01:06:23):
We need to quit complaining and be real Texans like
we always do.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
We're resilient. We need to attack the problem to solve it.

Speaker 9 (01:06:29):
He says, Texas is losing a farm a week, but
there are solutions.

Speaker 26 (01:06:35):
We have lots of options. We need to build off
channel storage. We can do rainwater harvesting. We can use
reverse osmosis or de su We can do a better
job as more to a job.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
We just need to use a little cowboy logic.

Speaker 9 (01:06:46):
And better infrastructure here in Houston, where thirty six billion
gallons of water have been lost since last year due
to leaky pipes. Juff Biggs News right the seven forty
K tierh.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
It's now six thirty seven. It may take a while
for that massive pipeline fire to burn itself out. Energy Transfer,
the company that owns the pipeline there near Laporte, shut
down two valves Monday afternoon to cut off the flow
of that liquid natural gas that's fueling the fire. Now,
those two valves twenty miles apart, so all that product

(01:07:21):
in the lines has to burn out before the fire
will go out extinguish itself. Now more importantly, allegedly, according
to Deer Park Police, an suv drove through a fence
and plowed into that pipeline valve, triggering the blast. Question
is accidental or sabotage. It's now six thirty seven. Stros

(01:07:44):
had their four game winning streak broken in San Diego
last night. They lost to the Padres three one. They're
going to play again tonight, though Live coverage begins at
seven point thirty. Pre show first pitch at eight forty,
and you're gonna hear it all here on KTRH up
for a friar on News radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 16 (01:08:03):
Michael Berry only endorses Texas Renters dot com for property management.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
Needs the tools you need to take on the day
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Speaker 16 (01:08:12):
This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
You know, I hate to say it, but I actually
like this song. Do I have to turn in my
man card? Probably the only reason why I played is
we have a shipbuilder who's filed bankruptcy after one hundred
and sixty three years. The shipbuilders Harland and Wolf, best
known for building the Titanic. Now, wouldn't you think that

(01:08:40):
if anything that would put you out of business would
be built a ship that sinks on its maiden voyage
and takes every you know, just about everybody down down
with it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
We have been built in America, I know, But.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
What do you think. Wouldn't you think that that, oh, yeah,
we give up. We can't recover from this. But they
lasted all those years. They were trying to get two
hundred and sixty four million dollars in funding that was denied.
So they've declared bankruptcy. They're scaling back down. I guess
they haven't formally, they haven't given up the ship quite yet.

(01:09:15):
They do have a couple of government contracts they do.
That's what they primarily do these days is build warships
for the British government. So they still have some work
to do. I guess six forty. Time for traffic and
weather together as we check out the drive once again,
here's guy Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
It's getting crazy all around town, even the North Sam.
We've got some subccts here eastbound at the North Plaza.
That is a five car one, two, three, four, five
car pile up here. Everybody's fine, we were just you know,
somebody ran into somebody made a chain reaction.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
A lot of ninjas needed right here.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
Let's go the other way Southloop six ten westbound Old
Galveston Road. That's the right lane blocked with a stall.
Lookout coming over from two twenty five. If you're trying
to reach Golfgate. Got the police activity Highway six under
the KD Freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
That's no big smuch of her on the main lights.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
Katie's just slow around Mason South Sam Hillcroft. That is
an overturned box truck we'll take up everything but a
left lane. Chief from pair lands on.

Speaker 31 (01:10:09):
That Mike car backed up from mild at miles.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
At miles all right, and two eighty eight I got
Jason from Alvin.

Speaker 21 (01:10:17):
Got my trouble in the canyon. I don't know what
the interest is. Put it from one right before Polk Street.
It's all eight wheeler.

Speaker 12 (01:10:24):
Bitch backed it up, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
That's northbound coming up on the on the merged point
with forty five. Let's be super duper careful coming up
and you'll hit some brakes right before the sixty.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
Nine merged northbound.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
I'm Skymike on the Classic Elite GMC Traffic Center from
r KTRH top Tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Terry Smith is standing by. She has the forecast for you. No,
there's not much rain there, so you're gonna have to
turn the sprinklers back on.

Speaker 17 (01:10:48):
I guess, yeah, turn the sprinklers on. It's safe to
watch your car and not worry about getting dirty again.
From uh some rain, there's not a big change in
the overall weather pad. Not only is high pressure keeping
astrides keeping these temperatures warm. For the most part, we're
in the low to mid nineties the rest of this week.
I see a few upper nineties today and maybe a

(01:11:10):
few upper nineties tomorrow and Thursday. And temperatures is right
now this part of September, Jimmy, are usually around ninety.
So we're just running a little warmer than what we
would typically see.

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Tebicha right now seventy four at your official severe weather station,
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Speaker 16 (01:11:28):
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Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
So we have another whistleblower, except this time the whistleblower
is at ABC News and is blowing the whistle on
the big cheating of the debate and had a you know,
a laundry list of the things that ABC supposedly agreed
to ahead of the debate and had it notarized before
the debate so that you would know that this is

(01:11:58):
something they knew before the debate even occur. Heard more
on that story coming up next. First, though, at six fifty,
let's do a little traffic and weather together as we
check out the drive once again with sky Mine six
ten northwestbound.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
We are loopy at the squeeze at forty five. We're
packed up from the east text. You know what this
is also causing the suckage on the Hardy Toll Road
southbound at cross Chimbers the east text southbound at the loop.
We have a multi vehicle accident right there. That's not helping,
even though it's moved to the side. North sam Jersey Village.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Justin dude, Hey, guy Mike.

Speaker 12 (01:12:26):
I'm not sure what's going on on the North Belt eastbound,
but we're stopped at BAML North Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:12:32):
That's that five car smash up at the Veterans Toll Plaza.

Speaker 3 (01:12:35):
That's eastbound.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
Everybody's okay, it'll take a while. JJ Richmond's on the
South Belt.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
I've got that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
Overturned truck eastbound right at Hillcroft.

Speaker 31 (01:12:43):
Eighth, Guy Mike, South Belway eight eastbound back best.

Speaker 26 (01:12:47):
Path Portman Toe Road, Take ninety eight as an alternat No.

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
The most city expressway outstanding and checking the suckage here
that is at least twenty extra minutes that way.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four our Weather Center
mix of Sunday clouds ninety four today mostly Sunday to
party claude load to mid nineties. That's tomorrow through Sunday.
Temperature right now seventy four At your official severe weather station,
news Radio seven forty KTRAH, we're checking out some of
our top Tuesday morning stories. Here's SHAREFF six.

Speaker 6 (01:13:19):
Fifty one now on news Radio seven forty ktrhd's headline
sponsored by D and M Auto leasing. More questions than
answers about that accused Trump attempted assassin now in custody
of the Feds on two felony gun charges. The FBI
did confirm that it questioned and cleared Ryan Westley Ralph
after a tip about his activities back in twenty nineteen.

(01:13:41):
Here we go again, that pipeline fire and Laporte should
burn itself out sometimes. Today, Energy Transfer, the company that
owns the pipeline, says they shut off two valves about
two miles apart, no twenty miles apart, and all the
gas in the line has to burn out. Back to
the office for Amazon workers starting next year, Amazon been

(01:14:02):
increasing the number of days employees required to be in
their office, and now starting in January, you're going to
have to go show up in the office the entire
work week.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Horrors.

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
The latest news anytime at KGERH dot com. Our next
update will be at the top of the hour.

Speaker 20 (01:14:21):
I will probably put my record against him.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
She's absolutely terrible. Your decision twenty twenty four headquarters is
US Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
Seven forty KTRH. All right, well, this is easy to
figure out. This is almost as easy as ABC. And
that is a whistleblower coming forward and saying, yeah, they
made a deal with a Harris camp. Would anybody really
be surprised by that? Of course, not making Kelly on
her podcast yesterday going through some of the things ABC
is accused of.

Speaker 34 (01:14:47):
It is my belief that contemporary news organizations, including ABC News,
no longer adhere to impartiality. He goes on to say
the specific instances of perceived bias are as follows. This
is what he's claiming he knows prior to the debate,
the Harris campaign received particular particular accommodations, including but not
limited to, providing of a podium significantly smaller than that

(01:15:11):
used by Donald Trump. Well, I think we all saw
that that definitely happened. I don't know that that's inappropriate,
she's just five foot two, and assurances regarding split screen
television views that would favorably impac Kamala Harris's appearance relative
to Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:15:24):
That's interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
It was agreed that.

Speaker 34 (01:15:26):
Donald Trump would be subjected to fact checking during the debate,
while Kamala Harris would not face comparable scrutiny.

Speaker 5 (01:15:34):
Now that's.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Totally out of line if that is true.

Speaker 34 (01:15:40):
If there is one word of that that is true,
that they agreed with her team they would be fact
checking Trump and or agreed she wouldn't be facing comparable scrutiny.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
These guys are toast toast.

Speaker 34 (01:15:50):
The debate moderator Lindsay Davis is out there already saying
we planned to fact check Trump. We saw the criticism
against CNN for not fact checking Trump, and that's why
we had all these fact checkers across aba see running
down his claims he'd made at interviews or in rallies. Now,
that would be a normal thing to do as a
debate moderator, but you would do it for both sides.
I don't know whether they did it for Kamala Harris.
I certainly saw that they never once fact checked her.

(01:16:12):
But this guy's saying there was an agreement that Trump
would be subjected to fact checking the during the debate
and Kamala Harris would not.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
Yeah, but again, is this surprising to anybody if this
is true? Didn't you suspect that would be didn't we
all suspect that would be the case before the debate
ever happened.

Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
Well, you're not supposed to believe you're lying.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
I mean, I mean, ABC News could couldn't have any
less credibility with me anyway, This changes nothing for them
because the people who who who watched them, you know,
they don't care. They just want to get rid of Trump.

Speaker 6 (01:16:53):
No, we don't have the ability to fact check everything ourselves. Right,
we're aluded here. You and I just asked questions. But
I just tell people, I say, look, trust your instincts
on this. Absolutely, don't expect me to tell you how
to vote. Just trust your instincts and what you observe.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
Well, and after seeing all the things that we see,
you know, it's I know what my instincts tell me,
and I'm pretty sure I know what you know.

Speaker 5 (01:17:18):
We've gotten pretty good. It's spot and cover ups too.

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This is Used Radio seven forty kt RH.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Houston Live Everywhere with now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
It's more of what matters to you. From the John
Morris Services Studios. Seven am is our time here on
Houston Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barren along with Sheriff Fryer
Monger top source. This fur that would be assassin at
the golf course for twelve hours. Proof that Google is
manipulating its search engine for Harris and coming up at

(01:19:13):
seven oh eight after adjusting for inflation. Wages are down,
details and the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Warning News. First,
we're gonna check out that morning Drive once again. Here
is sky Mike South Sam hell with it. Yeah, that's
eastbound at He'll Croft. That's in a box truck that's
turned over on its side. Looks like everybody's okay, but
they're just letting a left lane by forty three extra

(01:19:35):
minutes going that way from the Southwest Freeway. All nine
of your most city expressways looking good. North Freeway outbound,
two recks.

Speaker 4 (01:19:42):
Outbound Tidwell and then also this is outbound right at Crosschimbers.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Put that together.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
That's munching up your North Freeway and your North Loop.
From LBJ, that've cleared North Sam eastbound, the wreck of
the Veterans Plaza. Everybody's okay, we're smounshed up from two
forty nine. I'm Skymike and the classically GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
From our atrh top tax defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center mix of sumthing clouds with a hike today right
about ninety four, we'll get to the complete forecast through
the rest of the work week and into the weekend
when we talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel
in about nine minutes. Step that you're right now seventy
four at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's

(01:20:20):
Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 6 (01:20:21):
Good morning is seven o two on news radio seven
forty KTRH and our top.

Speaker 5 (01:20:25):
Story this hour.

Speaker 6 (01:20:26):
The FBI and Secret Service are officially the lead investigators
of this second targeting of Donald Trump, and they call
it as assassination attempt. That's what keeps it in their
federal jurisdiction. Interim Secret Service Director Ronald Rose says that
would be assassin did not get off any shots. He
credits quick actions from his team miraculously really during what

(01:20:48):
he called an unscheduled event to guard Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:20:53):
And the President wasn't even really supposed to go there.
It was not on his official schedule, and so we
put together a security plan, and that security plan worked.

Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
So how did Routh even know to be there if
it was unscheduled? The FBI says Ryan Rauth was at
the scene for twelve hours stage his shooting position proved
by his cell phone records. At this time, he's only
been charged with two felony federal firearm charges. On Capitol Hill,
lawmakers ask how could this happen again? Florida Congressman Michael
Waltz tells Fox the left's extreme rhetoric against Trump is

(01:21:27):
clearly playing a role in incitement.

Speaker 8 (01:21:31):
It shouldn't surprise anybody that people are taking that literally
and trying to kill him.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
This has gone to stop.

Speaker 6 (01:21:38):
Yeah, Well, Trump blames the Biden Harris rhetoric on his
attempt for certain He also released quotes of Democrats actually
escalating violent calls to stop him. Just this week, House
Speaker Mike Johnson says House Republicans are now demanding enhanced
Secret Service protection for Trump even though he's not a
sitting president in this current environment. Caj you any doubts

(01:22:02):
about big tech interfering in this election. There's a new
bombshell video and report from O'Keefe media group Uncoverage that
Google is manipulating it's search engine.

Speaker 5 (01:22:12):
Yes, it is to favor Harris Shara.

Speaker 9 (01:22:17):
It was thanks to undercover video with a Google employee.

Speaker 10 (01:22:21):
They're reorienting the search engine such Stackmas you know favorite
Facebook I feel like is promoting you know, content that
is capable towards her.

Speaker 9 (01:22:31):
And politics aside. The Google strategist says the main reason
is money.

Speaker 11 (01:22:37):
He was a very good growth of rest of company
if they have a belief that one side will allow
them to make I think it's.

Speaker 9 (01:22:44):
All about like the share thought price, the right headlines,
get the right clicks, and the revenue.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven.

Speaker 17 (01:22:54):
K t H.

Speaker 6 (01:22:56):
Meantime, the posters keep telling us this election is going
to be one of the closest in a mirror and history,
and if it's true, a landslide victory may not be
in the cards for the former president Donald Trump.

Speaker 12 (01:23:08):
President Trump will probably win the electoral college to regain
the presidency, but Kamala might very well lead in the
popular vote, so a landslide victory is not necessary.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
Yeah, but depending on how the ballots.

Speaker 6 (01:23:23):
Political analysts led to vidioc theories that if Trump does
win without carrying the popular vote, Democrats will probably contest
the results of the election. They just won't call it insurrection.
TikTok and his parent company by Dancer are making their case.
They did yesterday in court hearing to determine the fate
of that video sharing app, hugely popular. Congress passed a

(01:23:47):
law earlier this year calling for the China based Byte
Dance to sell the social media app by January nineteenth
or have it banned in the US.

Speaker 5 (01:23:56):
There is a stark.

Speaker 6 (01:23:57):
Warning, though, going out to all US companies who are
actually physically located and operating in China.

Speaker 13 (01:24:05):
A new law in China requires any multinational company with
at least three hundred employees there to have a designated
employee director representing the Chinese government. Author in China expert
Jonathan D. T Ward tells Fox it's long past time
for American businesses to get out of China.

Speaker 14 (01:24:19):
What I've told my corporate clients over all the years
is when you're in China, you're not really selling your product,
You're selling your intellectual property. They steal everything. Every chief
security officer I know in the Fortune five hundred has
told me this repeatedly. Awards and CEOs need to understand.
You want to be looking for the exit now so
that you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
Lose a limb.

Speaker 13 (01:24:34):
The share of the House Select Committee on China wards
this is a massive spying risk, and that there's no
such thing as a private company there. Coryelson, who's Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:24:44):
Meantime, cash no longer Apparently, King consumers are the age
of fifty five used cash for just twelve percent of
their payments last year. That's according to the FED, which
is pushing us toward a digital no cash society.

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
How does that work?

Speaker 15 (01:25:00):
Can we keep saying signs cash lists only? We're finding
that more and more it's difficult for people who do
not have credit cards do not have smartphones to be
able to purchase necessary items.

Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
Former Washington State Senator Jene Cole Wells she told Fox
Business that digital money controlled by the FED should be
sparking additional fears of our personal privacy and freedom to
purchase and trade independently of government watchdogs and control, as
is done in China. It's seven coming up in seven

(01:25:34):
oh seven. That ruptured liquid natural gas pipeline is still
fueling a massive fire in Laporte, just off Spencer Highway.
Reported that an suv drove into that line, deliberately going
through a gate and then rupturing a transfer point, igniting
the explosion. Four people who have been reported injured. They're
still looking for the driver of that vehicle or trying

(01:25:55):
to identify one firefighter suffered minor injuries.

Speaker 5 (01:25:59):
Few hundred people or without power in the area.

Speaker 6 (01:26:01):
Still the fire expected to burn out with the fuels
still in the line sometime today. Two valves have already
been shut off. The ASTROS fault with Padres in San
Diego three to one. The two teams will play again tonight.
Live coverage here on KTRH begins at seven thirty pm.
I'm sure for Friar on news Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 36 (01:26:22):
Summer Life, traveling Movies, bad weather.

Speaker 4 (01:26:25):
Happens here, Astros, scream Time, Inflation, the Election, News Radio
seven forty Summer Life, KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Oh just a nice happy song to go with a
nice happy story, all right? Is further proof that the
nation's formally sizzling job market has gone cold. Look no
further than what had been one of the hottest part
of the post pandemic hiring frenzy. Pay for newly hired
workers after adjusting for inflation. Average wages for new hires

(01:26:58):
fell one point five percent over the last twelve months,
from twenty three eighty five an hour to twenty three
fifty one. That's the largest decline in over ten years.
By contrast, inflation adjusted earnings for typical workers staying in
their jobs rows two point three percent during the same period. Evidently,
this is how it works when the economy is doing well,

(01:27:19):
when does accelerating pay increases for new hires tend to
outstrip those of existing employees Because there's a limited job
pool of new hires and they want to get the
new irs but logical, but now they don't need them,
so so wages are going down. When the economy slows
it's doing now that flips. They're just trying to hang
on to the people that they have so that they
don't leave to go somewhere else. But they're not really

(01:27:41):
interested in hiring that many new people.

Speaker 11 (01:27:43):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
Yeah, I saw a chart yesterday, redline, blue line, wages
of all employees across America as opposed to rated inflation.
And when Donald Trump took office, all of a sudden,
that line just jumped way up.

Speaker 5 (01:27:58):
Yeah, wages.

Speaker 6 (01:27:58):
Everybody he made more money, everybody had more spending ability,
and it went. It took a precipitous drop when COVID
first hit in the lockdowns, but it was going back
up and was up almost after where it had been before.
And that inflation line just suddenly surpassed it because of
Biden Harris taking charge. I mean, it was just amazing

(01:28:22):
when you look at the graph like that. There's no
deny it was based on government numbers, sure, labor statistics,
wage factors.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
I mean, there's just no doubt that you know, when
inflation has done to all of our real learning power? Yeah,
you know, none of us, none of us, No matter
how much you make, you felt in some way shape
or former people.

Speaker 6 (01:28:38):
Still believe though, though you bring the rate down, you
bring the rate down. No, that's not going to bring
prices down. No, it's not the only thing that I
bring prices down is if we start producing things and
selling it for a for the right price and people
having to buy from us.

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
The only way prices crater go down in a good
way is if there's so much competition in the marketplace
they're forced to bring prices down. But you know we
don't have that right now.

Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
Doesn't see it yet.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
I don't know what. I don't know what you can
do to make them see it. Seven eleven, Time for
traffic and weather together. Hey skoy Micha, what's happening, dude?

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
I got your East Text Freeway right here southbound around
I want to say, Little York. There's been an accident
for a bit, and kjr H listeners were the first
to know about it. But we're so busy with all
the other freeways. The backup now from the cemetery eighteen
extra minutes of East Text East Sam is a good
way to get around this North Sam westbound other stations.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
Listeners keep forgetting that it pairs down.

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
The two lanes closed at Alding Westfield, and so we're
backed up now from JFK, losing twelve minutes going that way.
North Freeway inbound not bad. Roger from mcnolia. You had
that wreck at west Mount, but outbound I've got two
separate accidents. They've just cleared cross Timbers airline right in
front of Fiestas still there, which is also smashing up
the north loop, making it even loopier. At the squeeze

(01:29:56):
at forty five two ninety out in the sticks, I've
got John Jersey Village.

Speaker 21 (01:30:01):
Mike the outbound that is completely shut down.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Clue everyone's going all right?

Speaker 4 (01:30:08):
Let me talk to Waller County and see what the
laneage is. It looks to me like it's all lanes
on the outbound south Sand. We still have the overturned
truck and that is going to be which way here
overturn truck.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
Eastbound at Hillcroft. It's not good.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
We've got a back up now, forty four extra minutes
from the Southwest Freeway all ninety the most City Expressway
looking pretty this morning, and Terry is supposed to be
what six forty tonight your time, our time and eight
point seven are lunar eclipse partial.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
Eclipse of the moon over us.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Over the moon, I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
Oh but moonshade. Sorry, there you go from mar Katie
rh Tom tax Defender twenty four are with AU Center.
Terry's here. It's not gonna be much of a show, though,
is it, Terry?

Speaker 17 (01:30:48):
No, it's not much of a show. The part that's
the show is the supermoon aspect of it. This is
super moon number two this year. We had one back
in August, one today, another one in October and November.
So if you this super moon, there are supermoons in
your future. But the partial eclipse is like nine percent,
so it'll be hard to notice. What's not hard to

(01:31:10):
notice is this nice stretch of weather with all the
sunshine and the warm temperatures A little little bit on
the warm side. Lod have mid nineties for most of
us the rest of the week, a few places in
the upper nineties. I don't see any signs of rain
through Sunday, so head outside and enjoy soak up to sunshine.

Speaker 3 (01:31:28):
Temperature right now seventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's Houston's morning news
brought to you by New South Windows Solutions. Now back
to Jimmy and Schera with the info you need to
take on the day. So I Commissioner Sid Miller's sounding
the alarm about water here in the great State of Texas.

(01:31:50):
He says, we're losing about you know, we're losing farms,
but we have we have tons of land. The problem
is we're running out of water between drought and all
the other things going on. He's on the alarm and
he's going to talk to us about what we need
to do about that. Coming up next first though, at
seven twenty, let's do a little traffic and weather together
as we check out the drive once again with Skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:32:12):
North Freeway outbound at Airline. That wreck's still taking up
two leftlines. This is outbound, not inbound. There's some revernacking
right in front of Fiesta to mess up your north
Loop six Tom westbound two at the squeeze South Belt
at Fuquay, we're still walking three right lanes.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
That's an overturned box truck. Let's check the suckage. That
is forty minutes going eastbound.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
Take all ninety the most city Expressway I'm Skymike in
the classic elite GMC.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
Traffic center from our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four
hour weather center for today mix of sun and Cloud's
ninety four Tomorrow through Sunday mostly a Sunday departy clotty
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Temperature seventy three. Now at your officials severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty k TRH. Check out some of

(01:32:56):
our top stories on this Tuesday here shareff It's.

Speaker 6 (01:32:59):
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and these headlines are sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. The man
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fire any shots in so far, is only charged with
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(01:33:21):
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(01:33:41):
Our next news update will be at seven thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
Well, you're enjoying your summer.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
We're keeping you up to date at the top thirty
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Speaker 21 (01:33:50):
Where I did my information fund.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Used radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
So we're running out of water in Texas. Population growth
so much so that we're losing about what did you say,
said Miller about a farm? How often are we losing
a farm here in the great state of Texas? Can
you hear me?

Speaker 26 (01:34:09):
Oh, good morning, Yes, sir, this is Commissioner said.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
Well, yes, sir, I was asking.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
You conducting business? Were very busy.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
The Texas Act Commissioner joins us. Now, you said in
a recent news story that we're losing how up a
Texas farm? How often?

Speaker 26 (01:34:25):
Well, a minimum one per week, and sometimes it's two
to three a week.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
And that's directly tied to the lack of the ability
to have enough water in order to operate.

Speaker 26 (01:34:36):
Well, we've got plenty of land. We're not going to
run out of land anytime soon, but we're out of
water already.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
I mean, that's it.

Speaker 26 (01:34:43):
We have no extra All the surface water is allocated
and real Grand Valley is really really suffering down there.

Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
Yeah, suffering because of lack of rain. That part, drought
is part of it, but that's not all of its development.
It's I think about the Colorado River and how that
used to be allocated to rice farmers. Now so much
of it is going to development. I think about the
Edwards Aquifer that used to get replenished by what little
rainfall there was, But now with all the development there

(01:35:14):
in central Texas and the Hill Country, I don't see
how it can continue either. I mean, what do you
do to replenish that?

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
Well, you're exactly right, Katie.

Speaker 26 (01:35:25):
Pride and there used to have about six hundred thousand
acres of rice. We're down to one hundred thousand acres
because we simply can't get any water out of the
Colorado River the highland lakes up around Austin. You'll develop
us up there. The lake levels are low, so it's
we have done some things down there though. That's one
of the few bright spots in the state. We have
built some off channel storage on the Colorado so in

(01:35:48):
high rainfall events, we capture that water instead.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Of letting it run out in the bay, and we
use it for later use.

Speaker 27 (01:35:55):
For our rice farmers and our rice acreage is coming back.

Speaker 26 (01:35:59):
I don't know little ever get back to where it was.

Speaker 3 (01:36:01):
Though you don't commission. I think the thing that shocks
have been those is how much how much water we're
wasting in our city? Is Houston thirty one point eight
billion gallons of water lost in one year because the
infrastructure is old and we've got leaks popping up out
over the place.

Speaker 26 (01:36:18):
Well, we have a lot of cities and still have
cast iron water lines or galvanized water lines. Houston that
from the time they receive their water till they delivered
their customers lose thirty percent.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
We can't, you know, keep up at that pace.

Speaker 26 (01:36:33):
And the plan for the city of Houston is to
replace two percent of their water infrastructure each year. That's
fifty years. I mean, it's it's it's worn out at
twenty years, twenty five years. That's that's unacceptable. We've got
to do better than that. We have to address our
we have to do a better job of managing our

(01:36:54):
water in this state.

Speaker 6 (01:36:55):
How much control does the state have over municipalities like
Houston in order to make them shape up?

Speaker 26 (01:37:02):
Well, we you know, there's there's a lot of a
lot of programs out there. We have the Texas Water
Development Board. We have six billion dollars there that Houston
could tap into for infrastructure.

Speaker 3 (01:37:15):
You know, I have programs.

Speaker 26 (01:37:17):
I just sent out a half million dollars to ninety
communities across the state for and fifty million dollars to
replace those old dilapidated water lines.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
Federal programs.

Speaker 26 (01:37:26):
There's there's numerous federal programs that we can tap into,
but we're just not doing it. And we've got to
start because we've got to do a better job of
managing our water. We complain about Mexico not paying their
water bill on the nineteen forty four.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
Treaty, but then we waste.

Speaker 26 (01:37:44):
Forty percent of water delivering from the real grand to
the cities, and then they waste another thirty percent. We
can't waste seventy percent of our water and complain about
somebody not paying the water bill.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
So it's not just about spending more money on the problem.
It's about forcing these municipalities to take action.

Speaker 26 (01:38:01):
Well, you know, they've got to do something. I mean,
we can't if you want. You know, we still have
over a thousand utexans every day, and we can we
can't provide these new developments with a source of water.
So we're at a critical stage. I'm kind of the
lonely state wide elected official sounding the alarm out here.

(01:38:22):
But it's getting serious, guys, real serious.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
Well, legislator.

Speaker 6 (01:38:26):
Legislature needs to do something about it too, But meeting
only every two years, you know, it doesn't seem to
be much will political will there to do anything to
really help the stay.

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
Yeah, well, keep sounding the alarm, sir, meybe if you
sounded long and hard enough and get a little back
up in some other folks, we can get something done.
But we appreciate what you're doing. That's Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Sid Miller seven twenty seven. Time to take a look
at your money. Courtney Donaho is here.

Speaker 19 (01:38:49):
Welcome morning, Jimmy. The Federal Reserve sits down today to
decide on interest rates. Tomorrow we could see the first
rate cut in four years when policymakers wrap up their meetings.
Stocks are in the green this morning. Death futures upon
fifteen points a relief for homeowners. Property insurance rates have
dropped for the first time in almost seven years. According
to aon the average rate has fallen close to one

(01:39:09):
percent from a year ago. Last year, lower losses from
catastrophesman insurer's return to profitability, allowing them to now be
more aggressive with their pricing. Tupperware is said to be
preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week.
The home goods brand has tried to revive its business
for years, and Starbucks is looking to hire a brand
leader to help revamp the coffee chain. New CEO Brian

(01:39:31):
Nicol wants to bring back the cozy coffee house vibe
the stores used to have. I'm coording to don A
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It's seven thirty one here in Houston's owning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer Hunger Top story SEUs
half Hour, ABA talks about Venezuelan gangs, new ways China
is spying on US companies and at seven thirty eight
taking an eleven year old on the perp walk. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're gonna check out that morning drive with sky Mine.

Speaker 4 (01:40:20):
All right, South Sam, we still have that overturned box
truck incident. I think they moved it. I think they
ninjaed that for some reason. We're still blocking two right
lanes and seconds. Check here, Oh forty nine minutes, he's
found take all ninety the most city Expressway.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
I got Grand Parkway North Jen from Tomball Kay.

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
Sky Mike, he's found there's a disabled hical in the
left lane when their passard's gone right before the kirkandall textend.

Speaker 4 (01:40:46):
All right, Jim, put this banana sticker on your briefcase.
We're losing about twelve minutes trying to pass the golf
ball going that way, Skymike in the classic Elite GMC.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
The traffic center from our KTRH Generators Supercenter twenty four
hour web center. For today, we're looking at mostly Sunday skies.
Well actually a mix of sun and clouds for the
most part today, So call a partly cloudy with a
hYP Right about ninety four, we'll get you a complete
update on the forecast with Terry Smith of the Weather
Channel in eight minutes right now seventy three at your officials,

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Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time
down for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryer, Good Morning.

Speaker 6 (01:41:22):
Seven thirty two now on news radio seven forty KTRH.
Is News sponsored by Goodwill Industry. Is our top story.
This is our Venezuelan gangs placed unnoticed here in Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott, in a news conference in Houston yesterday,
officially proclaimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Ragua TDA, a
foreign terrorist organization.

Speaker 23 (01:41:43):
To defend our state from the growing threat of TDA,
We're not going to allow them to use Texas as
a base of operations to terrorize our citizens.

Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
Since Biden her has took office, Texas has arrested more
than three thousand illegal alien criminal and two hundred more
are wanted now. The governor says he has created a
new TDA gang strike for us that will they're a team,
several teams. They're going to identify and capture these known
gang members. Federal officials confirming Monday they are investigating this

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second attempted shooting of Donald Trump September fifteenth, as an
assassination attempt.

Speaker 24 (01:42:24):
We view this as as extremely serious and are determined
to provide answers as to what led up to the
events which took place.

Speaker 6 (01:42:33):
FBI Miami Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Veltrie, the vEDS
now controlling the immediate investigation. US Attorney's Office says Secret
Service actually found an SKS Soviet era rifle, backpacks rigged
with kevlar tiles as shields, and a video camera where
the suspects staked out for some twelve hours. That verified

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by the FBI through cell phone data. Big questions not answered, though,
how did David Wesley row no Trump would be golfing
it was an unscheduled event, and how did he determine
that specific location in order to have a clear shot.
Biden did say the Secret Service needs more help, What kind?
Asked the media, and Biden said more personnel. Trump campaign

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released a complete list of quotes from Democrat officials, including Biden,
that demonized Trump as a threat to democracy. At least
one just yesterday, Adam Kissinger blaming Republicans and Donald Trump
for inciting the violence against him because of what Jay
six and that insurrection, as they like to call it.

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The suspect, David Routh, is fifty eight years old. He's
quickly being scrubbed of his social media profile. But it's
become clear that social media is harmful to the mental
health of young Americans, to the point that summer considering
restrictions for online platforms.

Speaker 25 (01:43:56):
Is legislation against social media the key to solving the
mental health crisis.

Speaker 12 (01:44:00):
No legislation is not going to fix that. There are
tools and utilities out there to create a state social
media for kit and I think that's the better approach.

Speaker 25 (01:44:09):
Tech expert Dave Batt with Predictiview told KTRH the real
solution is for parents to become more involved.

Speaker 12 (01:44:14):
Keep an open line of communication with your kid. What's
your experience online and how does that make you feel?
Just asking that simple question things up the line of communication.

Speaker 25 (01:44:23):
That says, chances are even if a bill creating an
age limit for social media was passed, it likely would
get bogged down in the courts. Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:44:32):
As the American government and Congress go after TikTok, we
found that China has another way to infiltrate America. A
new Chinese law there mandates that they have a government
employee director for any multinational company that has at least
three hundred employees operating inside that communist nation. Author and

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China expert Jonathan dt wardtels Fox US companies, you better
get out of China before you lose a limb.

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
That's his quote.

Speaker 14 (01:45:03):
I think the party is ending for American corporates in China.
I mean, they've been there for a long time. They've
built supply chains there that I think are fundamentally at
risk because of geopolitics, and also the profitability of these
corporations is relatively limited.

Speaker 6 (01:45:16):
He says, American companies in China aren't really selling products.
What they're doing is giving up for money their intellectual
property to China. It's now seven thirty six. Just talk
to the AG Commissioner Sid Miller here live on news
radio seven forty ktr agent. He told us the state's

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water supply of Texas it's decreasing to the point that
he's sounding an alarm.

Speaker 26 (01:45:44):
I think people take water for granted and we just
go turn on the faucet and how to come so
we never have a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
But we're out of water. Our state's still growing rapidly.

Speaker 26 (01:45:51):
We still have about one thousy fifteen new Texans every day,
but we've maxed out.

Speaker 5 (01:45:55):
He says.

Speaker 6 (01:45:56):
There are ways to address this, but the time to
act is now, and he's not getting much cooperation from
cities who waste water through bad infrastructure. Seven point thirty
seven is our time. That large natural gas pipeline fire
is still burning over there in Laporte exploded in a
neighborhood yesterday morning. It was shocking.

Speaker 36 (01:46:18):
I heard a boom and then the blinds inside the
house lifted up, and the force from the explosion literally
pushed my chair well sitting there, and it just pushed
my chair back literally two feet.

Speaker 26 (01:46:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:46:29):
Four people were injured, one a firefighter with minor injuries,
two had to be hospitalized, and then one was treated
for a heat related illness.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
But this is a big one the year.

Speaker 6 (01:46:39):
Park police say it was an SUV that ran through
the gates and struck the pipeline, rupturing, triggering the explosion.
They're trying to identify the driver, whose status is unknown.
Stros had their four game winning streak broken in San
Diego last night. They lost to the Padres three one.
The two teams playing again tonight, live coverage again beginning

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at seven point thirty, the first pitch eight forty. We're
going to have it here as well on KTRH. I'm
sure with Riar on news radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 3 (01:47:09):
Leave some erosion control.

Speaker 35 (01:47:11):
Daniel Deane Land clearing in dirt work two eight, one,
three five six dirt.

Speaker 5 (01:47:16):
I live in Deer Park, I live in the Woodlands.

Speaker 16 (01:47:18):
You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:47:24):
This is quite a story here, and if you get
a chance to see the video, the video is worth
watching it. I guarantee your jaw will drop. Eleven year
old middle school student and Lucia County, Florida has been arrested.
He got to do the purp walk. He got the
full treatment. So why were they handcuffing in eleven year old,

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putting him in the squad car, taking him from school
and taking him right straight to jail. Well, he made
a few threats. First of all, he threatened a mass
shooting as his school. That's a felony. And after he
threatened to shoot the school up, they did a little investigation.
They got tipped from other students, and they found a

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video of him showing off his weapons collection to other students.
Obviously didn't attempt to intimidate them. If this stuff is real.
There's guns, there's knives, there's swords, there's machetes. I mean
it looks you know, it looks like it looks like
he went in and broke into the drug cartel and

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stole a bunch of stuff from them. So they came
and they got him, and they videotaped the whole thing.
They put them in handcuffs, put them in the squad car,
take them down to the jail. Then they put them
in leg irons and stick them in the cell. And
you know what, the kid didn't even flinch. Didn't even flinch.

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I mean he's not crying. He's like, okay, he thinks
he's a badass. Of course, what I'd like to know
is what parental unit is responsible for this young person
and why they aren't in handcuffs. Seven forty time for
traffic and weather together. We're checking out the drive once again.
Here's sky mine. All right, let's take a look on
Grand Parkway.

Speaker 12 (01:49:10):
Terry.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
We're passing up the golf ball. You're not very busy
up there are you.

Speaker 4 (01:49:14):
We're looking eastbound now some breaks from two forty nine.
Jim from Tomball with the banana sticker. She found the
stall here right around Kirkandall. You're waiting an extra twenty
minutes that way, Oh clear South Belt, Yay, he'll cross.
That's out of the way. I actually think that box
truck driver is okay. But we're looking at a forty
minute drag from the Southwest Freeway. Take the most City

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Expressway all ninety instead Southwest Freeway. We're breaking now right
around the West Park Curved, a lot of breaks after
Greenway Plaza. We lose about nineteen minutes of our life.
Cool and that way Katie Freeway. It's John Jersey Village.

Speaker 10 (01:49:46):
Dude, sky Mike.

Speaker 29 (01:49:48):
Just before the forty five merchant got pass through, their
vehicle ran into.

Speaker 12 (01:49:52):
The fact of a box truck and buzzing back up.

Speaker 29 (01:49:54):
Just happening.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
It's a bad day for box trucks. Say just now
cleared that.

Speaker 4 (01:49:57):
But the Katie inbound you've got and pack ups from
Heights Boulevard. It really all starts from Graham Parkway into
Eldridge Parkway. Lose to nineteen minutes this way, and we've
got also in the Northwest Freeway two ninety inbounds of
breaks right around Huffmeister. At least we're not bumping into
each other there. Oh, Terry, I got an alert. It's
a supermoon too alert.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
There you go, how'd you do that?

Speaker 4 (01:50:19):
I'm in the classic elite GMC traffic center. She's like
Max Headroom, Jimmy alert. That's Edward flashback. Yeah, from market
and those were good times.

Speaker 5 (01:50:30):
Hell alert.

Speaker 3 (01:50:32):
From our Katirah Generator Supercenter of twenty four our weather center,
Max Terry is here and ready to fill you in
on the forecast.

Speaker 17 (01:50:41):
Well, the forecast doesn't change a lot, So I guess
that's when extra Pieceydy get excited about the super moon tonight.
What about six seventeen is when it starts to come up,
and that's when you're more likely to notice the moon
in its fullness, so to speak. With high pressure being
our primary weather influence, it's sunny, folks, it's dry. Temperatures

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are warm, load of mid nineties today through the rest
of the week. There's a few places that'll see highs
in the upper nineties, but no signs of rain except
maybe a straight shower near the coast.

Speaker 3 (01:51:15):
That is it yep. But you're right now seventy four
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 16 (01:51:25):
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Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
Seven p fifty. Now Here in Houston's Morning News, the
second assassination of Jim Greg Gottfield riffing on his show
last night about that as only he can. We'll share
some audio with you coming up next. First, though, let's
do a little traffic and weather together as we check
up the drive once again to skyline man.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
We need advisors on the Katie Freeway this morning. It's
nice to have the sunshine. We've got breaks now Graham
Parkway all the way to beltweit eight.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
That's pretty solid.

Speaker 4 (01:51:53):
Twenty extra minutes in more breaks right at Washington Avenue.
Uber MIC's on the tip line, dude.

Speaker 30 (01:51:58):
Eh, guy, Mike will clayteen for a decade.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
They're doing construction miss down to Tea Lanes really slow.

Speaker 30 (01:52:05):
I would the jet no no, no, no no no,
take in.

Speaker 21 (01:52:08):
I'm LAHJFK good.

Speaker 3 (01:52:10):
Don't tell them about the Hardy Airport connector.

Speaker 26 (01:52:12):
Jimbo tombaufers Guy Mike through ninety May, half the Grand March.

Speaker 31 (01:52:16):
But we've got the pub crawl.

Speaker 21 (01:52:18):
On the Forgotten Freeway's north point headed south.

Speaker 4 (01:52:20):
It's slow as to.

Speaker 21 (01:52:22):
Go, thirty miles an hour, creeping along and I need.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
To come have a beer with you.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
Oh, we've got ship channel bridges coming up during the
eight o'clock in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:52:32):
I guess it's noon somewhere from our KTRH Generator super Center.
Twenty four hour weathers in a mix of Sunday class
today ninety four for the high mostly Sunday to Bartley,
cloudy right around, you know, ninety two to ninety five
tomorrow all the way through Sunday. Tempature right now still
seventy four at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH. Just check out some of our

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top trending stories on this Tuesday morning. Here's Shay.

Speaker 6 (01:52:57):
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for documents to reveal what role NASA, political appointees and
the White House played in that decision to bring the
Boeing spacecraft home, with the astronauts still aboard the International
Space Station stuck there in space. There's outrage in Dallas

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after a drag queen flashed the audience with artificial breast
and danced sexually on stage in front of children. It
was an LGB TQ plus event hosted by the nonprofit
Texas Latino Pride. OH celebration is going to be a
few weeks early. Happening tonight actually for former President Jimmy
Carter's one hundredth birthday. He's the longest living president former

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president turning one hundred October first. He's been in hospice
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Speaker 3 (01:54:18):
And you know it's hard to find any humor in
the second assassination of jeth against President Donald Trump, but
somehow Greg Gottfeld does here. He is on a show
ripping about all this. Last night.

Speaker 37 (01:54:29):
Failed assassin Ryan Ruth is a registered Democrat, a donor
with a Biden Harris sticker on his truck, and he
went to Ukraine in twenty twenty two and encouraged other
Americans to join him. But so far the mainstream media
has been unable to find a motive. Clearly he must
be a fan of Taylor Swift. So we're back to
the same drill. The questions asked to how it could

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have happened again, where was the protection and what was
the motivation? But we can sum up the entire thing
in one word. Trump apparently with that magic where all
government responsibilities and competence go out the window, as well
as professional obligations. But when you heard the news, were
you really that surprised? I mean, was anybody fired after Butler?

Speaker 1 (01:55:11):
Was there any accountability?

Speaker 37 (01:55:13):
The only person that DEM's eighty sixth after a near
death experience.

Speaker 3 (01:55:17):
Was Joe Biden.

Speaker 37 (01:55:19):
It's clear no one's in charge, and that's the real
reason another rifle could be pointed at Trump, and God
forbid one of these attempts are successful. The legacy media
will have more blood on its hands than Nancy Pelosi's
plastic surgeon.

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
A cool audience.

Speaker 37 (01:55:36):
You probably heard the statement from former President Biden already
by now. Maybe Joe's heard it too, perhaps from the
visiting angel trying to get beach sand out of his ventilator.
But as Joe rides out the clock with one foot
in the sand and the other wearing a toe tag,
Majorkis won't send enough agents to secure a miniature golf

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course where Trump would actually be safer. Good luck getting
a shot off around that damn windmill. But if the
shooting attempt feels like a bad flashback to you, think
of the poor media they barely finished spinning and then
ignoring the last one. Remember how they said Thomas Crooks
had ambiguous political leanings.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
They're saying that now even about this creep. Yeah, and
not very ambiguous. I don't think you know what this
guy is up to. And I fear, and of course
I said this months ago, certainly weeks and weeks and
weeks ago. Is first of all, I feared that this

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would happen, that there would be some sort of an
attempt like this, And now I just fear that they
won't stop trying until they're successful. And I just don't
know how many more runs of good luck we can expect, because,
let's face it, no matter how good the detail is,
if somebody is after you twenty four hours a day,

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seven days a week, at some point in time, the
opportunity probably will present itself. Hope to God I'm wrong,
but I don't know that I am. Y'all have a
great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright nearly five am.
I'll see you the sat from at four on AM
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