Updates on Hurricane Milton

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 10/08/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, five am is our time here on Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Fryar Monger.
Top stories as we get started this morning, a massive
protest on the October seventh attack anniversary. Milton is a
cat for and still headed towards Tampa and coming up
at five o eight they're going to try to entice
you with even bigger jack punts. Details in the minutes ahead.

(00:39):
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we'll check out that
Morning Drive for the first time. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
All right, let's let's start out on the North Freeway
I forty five up toward Conrad, the Sanja Center River,
the West Fork right, let's call it Crichton Road. Outbound,
not inbound. All of your main lanes are shut down.
I'm seeing lights all over the place and emergency responders
on part arsy blocked here.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
But it's outbound. All lanes are closed.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Nothing good's happening, and I know we'll know more at
five ten. Also, we've reopened that ramp on the north
loops six ' ten at the east text. We had
that crazy wreck yesterday where the tanker thing fell off.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
I'm Skymike and the.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
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Speaker 3 (01:21):
Sunshine with a high today right about eighty eight. You'll
notice it's a little cooler this morning when you get
up in about at least it feels less human. We'll
get the forecast details with Terry Smith at the Weather
Channel latest on Milton when we talked to her in
nine minutes right now in seventy one at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k t RH,
it's time down for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer and.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Good morning everyone. Is now five o two on news
radio seven forty k t RH. Our top story this hour.

Speaker 7 (01:48):
Anti Semitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society.
It has no place in the United States.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
President Donald Trump in Florida yesterday speaking on the first
anniversary of the October seventh terror attacks on Israel. Kamala
Harris's husband, second gentleman dug him Off took a different tone.

Speaker 8 (02:07):
May we see the day when the war and bloodshed cease.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
Just hours later, at a pro Hamas protest in New York,
it was actually a mob there beating up a pro
Israel's supporter. At least six anti Israel rioters were arrested.
It's five two coming up in five O three, election day,

(02:37):
exactly four weeks away. JD Vance's debate departments last week
has a race what polsters claimed was a four point
lead for Kamala Harris. Yahoo now calls the race a
dead heat. I get ready for a repeat of twenty twenty.
It's starting to look more and more like we're gonna
be waiting days once again, even weeks to get the

(02:57):
counting done in this election.

Speaker 9 (03:00):
So how long should you expect to wait on November fifth?

Speaker 10 (03:03):
Certainly conceivable. It could take a couple of days, and
it's not outside the rem of possibility. It could take
a few weeks, but hopefully not.

Speaker 9 (03:10):
Former Texas GOP chairman Steve Monastery told KTRH the election
being incredibly close could also slow things down more.

Speaker 10 (03:17):
Anytime you have a razor thin margin, no matter what
technology you use, it can prolong the result. If it's
by a wide margin, it won't.

Speaker 9 (03:26):
Monastery says that the timeline will probably look different for
each of the swing states, and whoever loses will raise challenges.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
A victory for Texas abortion law at the US Supreme
Court Justice has decided they will not hear the Biden
Harris attempt to impose federal mandate over Texas law, which
by the way, already provides medical care for abortion emergencies.
Continued existence of the High Court, though, is on the
ballot this November. If Democrats get control of Congress in

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the White House, they want to pack the court and
institute term limits on justices, basically subjugating the court to
political control. Former federal prosecutor Andrew church Caskey tells Fox
term limits they would require a constitutional amendment.

Speaker 11 (04:15):
However, the Constitution demand the Supreme Court justices have a
term for life, So that's an initial hurdle to this idea.
But it shows the extreme policies and ideas coming from
the Biden Harris camp in trying to essentially undo laws
they don't like.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah. In fact, Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Windon has already
introduced to Bill and Congress to add six more justices
to the US Supreme Court. Five oh five is our time.
Hurricane Milton has weakened somewhat to a one hundred and
fifty five mile an hour category for hurricane It was
a Cat five Briefly landfall expected along the west coast

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of Florida near Tampa sometime tomorrow, with a trajectory across
the entire peninsula into the Atlantic.

Speaker 12 (05:03):
The Hurricane Center tells us this will be an unprecedented
historic impact to the Tampa Bay region.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
Polk County, Florida Emergency Management Director Paul Womble there Kamala
Harris is turning this storm into a political issue, calling
Florida Governor Ron Dessanta is selfish for not taking her
phone calls regarding federal response efforts and the governor's reaction.

Speaker 13 (05:29):
She has no role in this. In fact, she's been
Vice president for three and a half years. I've dealt
with a number of storms under this administration. She has
never contributed anything to any of these.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Efforts political grand standing. There Dessanta has told kg R
A Joshan Hannity that Harris was quote delusional. More than
one hundred and fifteen thousand people in North Carolina still
don't have power, some don't have water or food, nearly
two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit them. The death toll
remains two hundred and thirty two for now. White House

(06:02):
response and priorities were called out yesterday by Fox reporter
Peter Doocey at the White House.

Speaker 14 (06:10):
The administration has money to send to Lebanon without Congress
coming back. The Congress does have to come back to
accrew money to send to people in North Carolina to
have that right.

Speaker 6 (06:23):
Well, spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre didn't like the question. She
called it misinformation, and she stormed out of the briefing.
She just refused to answer. Doucy also mentioned Lebanon. You
heard with the Middle East on fire, the CIA now
looking for new informants spies for them in Iran, China
and North Korea and Shara.

Speaker 15 (06:44):
They have actually posted one ads online and even on
the dark Web.

Speaker 16 (06:50):
It's macks of desperation to me, honestly.

Speaker 15 (06:53):
That is Max Dribbler, a former senior intelligence officer, who
says this almost sounds like a movie, but it's real.

Speaker 17 (07:01):
Not just looking for Joe to work at a ramnfactory
and looking for special skills.

Speaker 16 (07:07):
You know, it's some does mimic a movie.

Speaker 15 (07:09):
Apparently the CIA has plenty of informants in Russia, but
not with our other adversaries. Chuff Biggs, News Radio seven
forty kt H.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
Back to our money. How strongly does the Biden Hears
administration want all of us to drive evs? Taxpayer funded
subsidies to the Greenies will be topping two billion dollars
this year.

Speaker 18 (07:32):
FOURD is losing one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars
per ev that they sell. And how are they going
to make that up? They're making it up by raising
the cost of gasoline vehicles.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
There you go. Carson Clayton with the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
He adds Americans don't want to be forced into electric cars.
It's five oh seven Houston Rockets loss or preseason opener
one twenty two, one thirteen in Utah. Last night they
played the thunder in Oklahoma City tomorrow. I'm sureber Rye
on news Radio seven k TRH.

Speaker 19 (08:03):
Come Ala, fight, Fight, Fight.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
This is where you get.

Speaker 19 (08:07):
The very latest the presidential election.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
On news radio seven kt rh spiball waits our time.
Here in Houston's warning news, you can gamble your lottery winnings.
Way doesn't sound real smart. Mega Millions Share is making
changes starting in April.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
Okay, and they're gonna somehow keep the billionaires from winning it.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Here's no, no, nope, here's here's here's what they say
they're doing and why they're doing it, and then I'll
tell you why I think they're doing it. First of all,
they say that, oh, there's gonna be a price change.
You know that two dollars ticket five, they're taking it
to five dollars. The last time they made a change

(08:52):
was twenty seventeen when they went from one buck to
two bucks. So now it's gonna be five dollars starting
in April to buy a Mega Million's ticket. But your
odds are going to increase, yes, but from one out
of three hundred million to one out of two hundred
and sixty million, So your odds are still, you know,
roughly worse than getting hit by lightning. But the real

(09:16):
reason why they're doing all this is because they can
see what's happened with the powerball jackpots getting into the
billion dollar range. That is now what it takes to
get people's attention. People don't want to be millionaires anymore.
They want to be billionaires. I want to win a
billion dollars. Millions is not enough. I need billions. So
they're going to have higher jackpots. It'll start with a

(09:38):
higher number, it'll multiply at a faster rate. They'll get
to a billion dollars quicker. That's why they're doing it
all odds or not. They've got us.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
Hold your fire until you know you might if you
chance that miracle.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well maybe maybe they just anticipate a Harris administration, in
which case it's going to take a billion dollars in
order to be able to feel like you're a lottery winner.
You know, five hundred million won't do anymore.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
Well, nobody wins, nobody pays taxes.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's true, that's true. That's the good news.

Speaker 6 (10:08):
Don't forget half of it goes back to the government.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Oh right, right from the get go five to ten,
Time for traffic and weather, Get off, Get off for
forty five? Yeah, which way.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
The outbound before conro everybody, here's the deal. We've got
a truck situation. I'm gonna I'm gonna let Andy from
Conroe tell you about it on the I'll talk to
you about it on the tip line first, and let's
do some reroutes. This is right around the Sanjacenta River Andy.

Speaker 14 (10:32):
Good morning.

Speaker 20 (10:33):
The freeway is closed northbound a river plantation.

Speaker 21 (10:36):
There's a truck fire on the theater.

Speaker 20 (10:39):
They got to.

Speaker 12 (10:40):
Close down because of the smoke coming across the freeway.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
All right.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Also, I've got word that this truck was actually going southbound,
so something happened. He got all the way across, and uh,
whatever's going on. There's nothing good at the Sanjacenta River
Bridge going northbound up to Conroe. And we've got so
little for alternate too. Forty nine to thirteen fourteen. I'm
sorry thirteen fourteen people. That's going to make things crazy,

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but it's all we've got for now. I mean, if
you could do things via the East Text Freeway sixty
nine to get out.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Of there or to forty nine.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Don't forget about the forgotten freeway that's outbound. They have
cleared up most of our problem on the north Loop
six ' ten. At the East Text we had that
crazy wreck where the tank thing fell off the truck yesterday.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Did some pavement.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
They're still working on the ramp that goes northbound, let's
say from downtown over to north Line. You can get
down the middle of it, just you know, watch those
barrels there. The North Loop itself is now reopened. So
tough start to the morning.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well that's done, a good start from our KTRH top
tax Defenders twenty four hour with a center. Terry Smith
is here ready to talk about Milton.

Speaker 21 (11:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
A category four hurricane. Is that what we're expecting come landfall?
Or could it grow back to a five? What do
you think?

Speaker 22 (11:53):
Dearing At this point, it most likely will hold on
to a categor four, possibly five.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
It's gonna hover right around there.

Speaker 22 (12:04):
It's at one fifty five right now, which is the
top end of the category four. So all it needs
to do is just strengthen a little bit more and
it'll be a five. But it's it's gonna hover around
where it is right now, likely for the next twenty
four to thirty six hours, and then it makes landfall,
likely as a category four hurricane in the Tampa area

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around that area, so mass evacuations are underway. And they've
taken down the tolls and they've implemented left shoulder usage
for traffic to proceed with those evacuations. It looks like
the worst of it'll start to pick up tomorrow, but
tomorrow night and Thursday could be when the West coast

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gets it, and then it's going to move across the
Peninsula as a hurricane into the Atlantic, so most of
central Florida it's going to experience hurricane can editions as
Milton makes its way across Florida late Wednesday and too Thursday.

Speaker 6 (13:06):
Our weather, it's.

Speaker 22 (13:07):
So peaceful, and it's a little less humid, that's the
nice thing. Temperatures today just slightly cooler, in the upper
eighties to low nineties. What you'll notice with the low
humidity is at night we get a chance to cool down.
So tonight upper fifties to upper sixties, so just about
everybody's in the sixties, and there'll be some places in
the fifties.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
We stay sunny and.

Speaker 22 (13:27):
Dry and warm through Saturday. Highs in the afternoon upper
eighties to low nineties through Saturday.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Temperature right now seventy one at your official severe weather station,
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Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy and Sherah with the
info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
I think there's almost universal agreement that FEMA has not
done a very good job in North Carolina or Georgia.
Will they do any better of a job in Tampa,
because on Friday, we're going to be talking about probably
ten to twelve feet of storm surge. Think about that.
You know, I was kind of comparing last night. I'm
sitting in my living room and you know, they're talking

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about the storm surge going up to twelve feet, and
I'm going, Okay, I've got nine foot ceilings. I'm imagining
the water three feet above those ceilings. That's a pretty
scary proposition. So anyway, more on this story come up
by oh Biden. President Biden yesterday got asked about, you know,
about the storm response. Why do you hear what he said? Basically,

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he said, they have everything they need. Yep, those folks
in North Carolina, they're happy. They've got everything they need.
Reaction from the folks in North Carolina to that they've
been coming up first traffic and weather together, We're checking
out the drive again, your skuy Mike, already a big problem.
I'm forty five.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Seriously, Jimmy, it's northbound. They've shut it down south to Conroad.
This is northbound at the San Jacino River Bridge Crichton Road,
if you know where, that is complete closure. All lanes, mainlanes,
feet are everything. And of course with the river there,
there's not a lot of options what this is going
to do. By the way, this wreck, nothing good's happening there.
It had a big truck caught fire. The word I

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have was that you went across the southbound crashed and
burned in the northbound feeder roads.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
So here we are what this is going to do.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Those of you who live around Lake Conroe, Montgomery, You're
going to see all kinds of re routes through your woods.
Add those of you who live back roads, Porter cut
and shoot and all that the east part of the
Loop three thirty six. That's going to make things crazy
for you people trying to reroute that way. And I
expect more traffic, especially if I send you there. The
East Texas is going to be a lot heavier today

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on the outbound northbound side.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
So we've got a lot to do this morning.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
We're right back with some more details at the five
thirty Skymike and the classic few at GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
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Speaker 6 (16:03):
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Speaker 3 (17:03):
So we start this segment with the President being asked.
You'll hear a little noise in the background, you know,
this chopper noise in the background, being asked about whether
or not the storm response versus going what storm? That
feels you full of confidence? And then we go to
Sarah Carter last night was talking to residents in North
Carolina about the FEMA response.

Speaker 23 (17:25):
What did the stage of.

Speaker 19 (17:26):
The storm zone?

Speaker 24 (17:26):
You need MChE President both, what are the station of
the storm zone?

Speaker 25 (17:30):
What do they need after what you call today?

Speaker 19 (17:34):
Oh on the storm zone?

Speaker 26 (17:35):
Yes, sir, I'm learning what storm resolving wrong?

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, they said, and everything they need.

Speaker 20 (17:42):
We're very happy. Off the board.

Speaker 27 (17:44):
Did did you get in touch with FEMA right away?
Where is there any government officials that you've seen over
over these days since since Hurricane Helene devastated your home,
has anybody been here to help you because this is
a big question. Sewn just played a clip of President
Biden saying that you all are getting everything you need.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
What is FEMA?

Speaker 28 (18:07):
Right?

Speaker 3 (18:07):
I mean it's literally what is FEMA?

Speaker 29 (18:09):
So my daughter whose house got completely wiped out, she
has no flood insurance, meets with a FEMA person, applies
for everything she gets, doesn't get the seven hundred and
fifty that Kamala says that she's supposed to get, gets
approved of three hundred dollars for personal items.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
What is that going to do? That's literally what she got.

Speaker 29 (18:25):
Her entire first floor is wiped out, we hault, all
everything off is gone.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
So what is FEMA?

Speaker 27 (18:30):
And being a mayor so they didn't even give her
the full seven to fifty.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Didn't give her something fifty denied.

Speaker 29 (18:35):
The seventh gave her three hundred, three hundred dollars that
won't cover what's the refrigerator.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
There are areas we're still looking.

Speaker 30 (18:40):
We have urban search and rescue and cadaver dogs and
teams from Pennsylvania, New York.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
City Police and fire.

Speaker 30 (18:47):
The outpouring of individual agencies and people just coming down
and helping us. It's been wonderful citizens helping citizens, neighbors
helping neighbors is how we've gotten by. The initial response
was very slow, and I understand no one could prepare
for this.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
But on the fourth day.

Speaker 27 (19:03):
Your National Guard natural regard, so you understand what response
should be.

Speaker 16 (19:08):
Right?

Speaker 19 (19:08):
Was it what it should be?

Speaker 31 (19:09):
Well?

Speaker 30 (19:10):
The motto of North Carolina National Guard is give us
twenty four hours, will give you an army.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
I was.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
I retired from the Guard.

Speaker 30 (19:15):
As an empy first sard and did four disaster missions
to retired police chief.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
It was very slow.

Speaker 30 (19:19):
I finally contacted State Senator Warren Daniel, who has been
assisting our area. We're overlapping legislative districts.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
You get help.

Speaker 30 (19:28):
He finally contacted the National Guard, but he asked me,
what do you need? We originally had a handful of
soldiers in vanner Elk and I said, we need more
than a handful. We need military, police, doctors, nurses, medics
or purification technicians, general sold What about SEMA, FEMA and
engineers and heavy equipment. What we're doing in their instead?
And some finally did roll in. But we're just getting

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volunteers coming in with equipment and helping people.

Speaker 27 (19:52):
So but what President Biden said is that the case.

Speaker 30 (19:55):
I'm not certainly not going to call the President United
States a liar, but I've seen no evidence that it's
fun the way he's given a glowing reclings recommendation of Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
The mayor at that point said, I will, I'll call Mallaire. No,
we don't have everything we need. Five twenty seven. It
is time to take a look at your money. Courtney Donaho,
good morning.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Well, good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 32 (20:15):
We're looking at a slightly higher open on Wall Street.
Dow features are up sixty points at this hour. Coming
up later this week, inflation data is do out on Thursday.
This will give investors a better idea in the Federalserve's
next steps. Meantime, earning season kicks off this Friday with
quarterly financial results from some of America's largest banks, including
JP Morgan. Yesterday, is selloff in some of the world's

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largest tech companies dragged down stocks. The Dow drop three
hundred and ninety nine points to finish up the session.
Hurricane Milton barreling toward Florida, bearing down on a region
still struggling to recover from Helene. According to Anky Research,
Milton could cost as much as eighty billion dollars in
damages and losses. Landfall expected tomorrow, and Taylor Swift has
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Signed thirty our time. Here in Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer Monger. Top stories as
have are the average Harris County homeowner is getting a
thirty percent or Hatscott nice should say a thirty percent
tax in Greece over the last two years. The port
strike settlement it's temporary. In coming up at five thirty eight,
Elon Musk will pay you to sign his free speech petition.

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Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're taking out our morning drive with sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
All right, we've closed down both feeder road and the
main lanes on your in car navigation here. This is
I forty five northbound between River Plantation and Crichton Road.
It basically covers the Sandra Center River Bridge going up
into Conroad.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
It's outbound, not inbound. All lanes closed.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
If you live in anywhere Montgomery County East or the
Lake Conra area, expect your back roads to get really
crazy this morning, because I think this will be here
a while. I think there's going to be a lot
of rerouting, and realistically there's not many ways around it
other than the East Texan two forty nine.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
I'm Skymike. This is your classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour weathers under
plenty of sunshine today with the I temperature about eighty eight.
We'll get you the complete forecast with Terry Smith at
the Weather Channel. Check on Milton's progress towards Florida. We'll
be talked to her in about eight minutes. Temperature right
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Radio seven forty k TRH, it's time Now for the news.

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Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Good morning. Everyone is now five thirty two on news
radio seven forty KTRH. This new sponsored by all Star Construction.
Now our top story are the local Democrats taking our money.
Harris County Commissioner's Court passed an eight percent property tax
hike last month, on top of the last two years
during which the Democrat majority raised rates by nearly thirty percent.

Speaker 33 (23:14):
Rice's Bill King is raising the alarm, warning that Euson
and Harris County, because of these high tax rates, could
turn into another Democrat led city.

Speaker 31 (23:23):
This was the path to short start it down. They
kept raising taxes, they wouldn't cut expenses, crime got out.

Speaker 19 (23:28):
Of control, and the population plummeted.

Speaker 31 (23:31):
The population of Detroit in nineteen fifty was almost two
million people today at six hundred thousand.

Speaker 33 (23:36):
Not only is Harris County raising taxes, but the city
of Houston is talking about it too.

Speaker 19 (23:41):
Cliff Saunders News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
And Commissioner's Court will be meeting again this morning. Democrats
claiming victory after the port strike was paused into January,
but it's a signed. The left's foundation is cracking. RNC
Committee Woman debut Georgiadis as unions are seeing the Dems
don't really care about American war workers or the economy.

Speaker 34 (24:03):
They can see the Democrats don't stand up for them,
and they see Donald Trump does. You're trying to keep
the economy strong, keep America workers strong.

Speaker 20 (24:11):
Leadership of the unions have.

Speaker 34 (24:12):
Been rattled by this shift among their membership, who no
longer think the Democrat Party is their ally in politics.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
She says that pause also being used as a crutch
to buy some more time for Kamala. It is now
five point thirty three.

Speaker 28 (24:28):
Please prepare quickly and get out of the city. Tampa.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
Mayor Jane Castor, she's a Democrat. Hurricane Milton now Category
four with one hundred and fifty five mile per hour winds.
It briefly went to a Cat five overnight, now making
a bee line for the Florida Peninsula. Expected to weaken
further but still be a major hurricane, making landfall near
Tampa tomorrow. Now Milton strikes as the Biden Harris regime

(24:58):
is still not caught up to the devastation of the
entire southeast from Hurricane Helene. Louisiana, Republican Senator John Kennedy
criticizing VP Harris for not allocating more aid to recovery efforts.

Speaker 24 (25:13):
The Vice President puts out this tweet that she wants
to send one hundred and fifty seven million dollars to Lebanon.
Lebanon is run by Hesbolah.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
We're at war with.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
Hesboulah, Kennedy on Fox. More than one hundred and fifteen
thousand people in North Carolina still with no power. It's
been two weeks since Helene hit. Texas Governor Greg Abbott
directing lone Star resources to Florida ahead of the storm
there now Abbot also sending aid to the state of
Tennessee to help with recovery from Helene. States with Republican governors,

(25:48):
you might note who do accept for, ask for and
accept our help. The people of North Carolina still in
a fight to survive from the Hurricane Helene catastrophe. FEMA
still under fire for its mismanagement.

Speaker 23 (26:06):
Unfortunately, what you've had is somebody asleep at the wheel.
Nobody knows who's in charge, and I think it has
delayed the provision of necessary resources to the people of
North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
They're angry.

Speaker 6 (26:18):
The governor of North Carolina is a Democrat, Ohio Senator
of VP candidate jd Vance, calling it out, says it's
the result of FEMA resources being used primarily to take
care of illegal aliens. It's now five thirty five. Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton he sent a letter again requesting
the federal government provide data on the illegally registered voters

(26:41):
in Texas. Paxton wants the list of names registered without
a Texas driver's license or valid ID as required in
Texas law. Texas has more than eighteen million names on
the voter rolls, an increase of almost nine percent from
twenty twenty. Political scientists Mark Jones says it doesn't mean

(27:02):
that Texas is any closer though to turning blue.

Speaker 20 (27:05):
Texas's population is growing, therefore its number of registered voters
is growing. Those registered voters, though, are more Latino and
less white. Thought the Republicans are doing better among Latinos
than they were four years ago.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
Harris County has more registered voters than any other county
in Texas. Jones does predict wins for both Donald Trump
and US Senator Ted Cruz here in November, but Cruz
says the Democrats are throwing everything they have at him,
specifically two hundred million dollars.

Speaker 35 (27:35):
They are coming after me with everything they have. Bernie
Sanders and AOC were in Texas this week. AOC said,
if we flipped Texas, we transformed the country for a generation.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Cruse with kJ Rachis Sean Hannity last night. Now, the
polling group five thirty eight dot com has Cruz leading
Colin allread here by just three points forty seven to
forty four percent. It's now five thirty seven. The jury
in the sentencing phase, a former HPD officer Gerald Goins,
resumes deliberations today. Legal analyst Joe Venus says he doesn't

(28:07):
think that Goins will be waiting long for the decision.

Speaker 25 (28:12):
I think they'll come back quickly one because their guilty
verdict was quick too, because they heard everything from the
defense last week. Today all they heard was from the state,
and they also had that extra four or five days
to make up their mind.

Speaker 19 (28:25):
So I think they're pretty much there.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Goins convicted of murder in the deadly twenty nineteen Harding
Street raid and faces life in prison. Turney for the
fort beIN County Judge KP. George filing a motion to
quash last my last month's indictment against him now handed
down to him. George facing a misdemeanor charge of misrepresenting
the identity of a candidate. That's the official charge. During

(28:49):
his twenty twenty two re election campaign, George publicly claimed
he was the target of quote racist and xenophobic attacks,
and those were proved to be fake, allegedly engineered by
his former chief of staff terraal Patel, who was arrested
in June. I'm sherebff Fryar on news radio seven forty
k trh.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
More with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar. This is Houston's
morning News. Elon Musk is putting some money where his
mouth is. He's got a pack. He's America Packed, offering
forty seven dollars to every registered voter who refers another
to sign a petition supporting the first and second amendments.

(29:31):
The initiative, launched by Musk America Pack, seeks to gather
one million signatures from voters in key swing states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin,
and North Carolina. Deadline to participate is October twenty first,
Elon says, it's easy money. What he's doing is perfectly legal,

(29:52):
by the way, perfectly legal. There's nothing illegal at all
about what it is that he's doing. And again he's
asking you a sign of the supporting the First and
Second Amendment. Of course, he would like you to know
that there's one candidate who supports the First and Second
Amendment while the other one does not. And he's trying
to bring this attention in these states where hopefully he
can find people who don't realize just how much is

(30:16):
up for grabs in this election. And by signing the petition,
we'll realize and turn out to vote. In order to
participate and get the money, all you have to be
is a registered voter in those states. Five forty time
for traffic and weather. Together, we're checking out the drive again,
Sky Mike, big issues for so early in the morning, Mate,
And I'll.

Speaker 21 (30:35):
Tell you what.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
We're having a real discussion off channel.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
Honestly, we're talking to our basic competition here and Jump
and Joe's working with those two dinosaur parts across the street.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
He's saying, send everybody down thirteen fourteen.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
The problem is forty five north south of Conrad north
found Sandjacino River Bridge.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
That's a big truck accident.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
He's crashed and burning the feeder there, and they've shut
down both the feeder and the main lanths. Nothing goods
happening there, and I think this is going to be
there a long time.

Speaker 21 (31:03):
You know.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
Joe's like, well, why don't you send them up thirteen
fourteen because he talks like that. I'm that's gonna be
an insane asylum if you do that.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Realistically, there aren't many bridges that go across the west
fork of the Santra Center River, so Cleveland or Tombole
Montgomery probably your only real re routes if you're trying
to get out of town. I would probably just stop
and have a nice breakfast for now. Let some of
this stuff get sorted out. It's all lanes outbound Conrode.
Also our other big problem north Loop six ' ten.

(31:32):
That was a closure, that crazy thing with the tank
that fell off the truck six ' ten north at
the east tax ramps. They still have part of that
ramp under construction, but they're letting you go right down
the middle.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
This is northbound leaving downtown that.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Goes up toward I forty five the gallery furniture exit here,
so watch out. This is eastbound. All of your main
lanes are open. The ramp is partially open. It's just
going to take a little longer.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
I'm SKYLIKEE and the Generator Supercenter dot.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Com Traffic Center, Bromo rh Generator super Center, twenty four
hour Weather Center. Terry Smith joins us to talk about
our forecast is pretty simple. Is the folks in Florida.
They have a difficult forecast here for the next forty
eight hours or so.

Speaker 22 (32:10):
Yes, exactly, And of course we're talking about Hurricane Milton,
which is a Category four hurricane going through likely going
through a eyewall replacement cycle at the moment, and may
strengthen a little bit. It's going to wobble between a
category four category five.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
Here's the bottom line.

Speaker 22 (32:31):
If it's one hundred and fifty five mile an hour
sustained winds or one hundred and sixty mile an hour
sustained winds, it's not going to have that big of
a change of the impacts once it hits Florida later
tomorrow Tomorrow night and makes its way out into the
Atlantic by Thursday. So it's going to go right through
the Central part of Florida, and the main concern well,

(32:52):
already they're having issues with flooding and this is not
related to Milton.

Speaker 6 (32:57):
There's a stalled front that's been bringing them the heavy rain.
Similar set up.

Speaker 22 (33:01):
To Helene and what happened up in the Carolinas with
that stalled front and the heavy rain that preceded the
rain from Helene. This is heavy rain that's preceding the
heavy rain from Milton. So flooding is an issue. Storm
surge likely to be record levels, especially areas that are
extraordinarily shallow like Tampa Bay. And then of course the winds,

(33:21):
and this isn't just a West coast storm. This is
a central Florida storm. It's going to affect the east
coast of Florida as well. Melbourne is in the path.
Cape Canaveral's in the path. Daytona Beach is in the
path on the east side of the storm. So we're
watching it carefully to see what happens. And thankfully, our
weather is not a problem. It's a little warm, but

(33:43):
we have less humidity and that's something to celebrate. I'm
excited about less humidity. Upper eight east to low nineties
today through the rest of the week.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Good three point two million people in the Tampa Forida area,
though that certainly makes it tougher right now.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Just Tampa, I mean floridsa peninsula, san so is the entirety.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Of the Orlando ye right on through to the east side.
Temperature right down seventy and your official severe weather station,
this radio seven forty k trh. What you need to
know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
It is five point fifty now here on Houston's Morning News.
Maybe one of the more interesting things to come out
of the White House press conference yesterday was when Peter
Doucey started questioning Cringeean Pierre about FEMA money and Kamala
Harris pledging one hundred and fifty seven million dollars to
Lebanon while not pledging money for hurricane relief, and does

(34:39):
FEMA have money or not? There's there's there's also story
going around that they're sitting on about seven billion dollars.
They've got money, they just choose not to spend it
on this things like storm.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
Pretty ear mark for all those non governmental entities that
bring in an illegal aliens and work with the cartels
these isn't that interesting.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Beyond beyond discussing anyway, More on this coming up next
five to fifty time for traffic and weather together. Skymike's
got problems.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yeah, east text outbound issues. It's an accident at Little York.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Let's call that. Yeah, let's call it Little York. And
it's outbound again. Here a lot of banana stickers. Roger
RC Trucking, Holly Porter Nicole from Dickinson Holly, I wish
you gave me a little bitter sound quality because I'd
really like to run you. But this is outbound Little
York and it's looking like multiple lanes here.

Speaker 5 (35:28):
One of the vehicles is reportedly turned over. We're gonna
zoom it.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Get some exact laneage at the six o'clock report. Also,
you have the North Freeway I forty five south of Conroe.
This is northbound over the Sandracenter River. All lanes are closed.
Nothing good's happening there. Big truck fire and okay, I'll
give up. I give up thirteen fourteen. If you want
to do it, do it. It's just not going to
be pretty. If that's that's really your only viable alternate

(35:51):
Skymike of the Generator Supercenter dot com.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Traffic Center from O KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour
weather Center. Sunny. Let's give it today high temperature ninety
sunny and warm for tomorrow and Thursday around ninety both
of those days as well. Temperature currently seventy at your
official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty KTRH. We're
checking out some of our top stories here on this
Tuesday morning.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Here's Shay five fifty two now on news Radio seven
forty k t ERH. Hurricane Milton category four one hundred
and fifty five mile per hour winds projection to make
landfall tomorrow west coast Peninsula of Florida near Tampa. Donald Trump,
on the anniversary of the October seventh terrorist attack on Israel,

(36:33):
denounces anti Semitism that's playing out in this country now,
saying it has no place in America. The White House
announces sanctions against the Hamas funding network, calling that so
called charity a sham. Latest news anytime at KTERIRH dot com.
Our next update will be at the top of the hour.

Speaker 19 (36:55):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown, Southwest.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Next on the ten time saving traffic on ktr H.
All right, sort of the viral moment for yesterday's White
House press conference. It was Peter Doocey, you managed to
ask a question, you got green. Jean Pierre so upset
that she just ended the press conference. She gave a
passing answer and then left the room. Let's take a

(37:18):
listen to that.

Speaker 14 (37:19):
President Biden is fond of saying, show your budget and
I will tell you what you value. If he's got
money for people in Lebanon right now without commerce having
to come back, what does it say about his values?

Speaker 19 (37:31):
There's not enough money right now for North Carolina. That's
not misinformation.

Speaker 36 (37:37):
Wait, no, that is your whole your whole premise of
the question is misinformation, sir?

Speaker 19 (37:42):
What you don't Yes, yes, it's misinformation.

Speaker 28 (37:46):
I just mentioned, I just mentioned.

Speaker 36 (37:48):
I just mentioned to you that we provided more than
two hundred million dollars to folks who are impacted in
the area.

Speaker 19 (37:53):
The president's letter is not misinformation.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Would you agree?

Speaker 6 (37:56):
No, the way you're asking me the question is misinformation.

Speaker 36 (37:59):
There's money that we are allocating to the impacted areas,
and there's money there to.

Speaker 19 (38:05):
Help people who truly need it.

Speaker 36 (38:07):
There are survivors who need the funding, who need the funding,
and it's there information.

Speaker 19 (38:12):
That's what this president wants, and that's what the Vice
president wants.

Speaker 37 (38:14):
Thanks everybody, Well again, it's more lies from the White
House to cover up their priorities. One hundred and twenty
billion dollars to Ukraine and no money from Americans that
are suffering. And all you have to do is ask
people in my district that just got impacted by Hurricane Helen,
who are about to be impacted by Hurricane Milton. And
people in North Carolina, Georgia, Hey, is FEMA and the
federal government been here for you?

Speaker 19 (38:36):
And the answer is no.

Speaker 37 (38:38):
So we will be much stronger under a President Trump.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
That is represent Greg Stuby from Florida. And Milton is
bearing down on Florida. So what's the real story here,
Secretary of MAJORCUS, you said you have no more money
for hurricane relief. Do you have money for the victims
of Milton or don't you?

Speaker 6 (38:57):
You know, Secretary of MAJORCA is pretty interesting. In charge
of the Secret Service, he's in charge of the border ultimately,
and he's in charge of this. Okay, what has he
done well and why? And why did Schumer protect him
from impeachment.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
I was gonna say, we already impeached.

Speaker 6 (39:17):
Him, tried to get him out of office.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
We already impeached the House and beached him for for
the border. I mean, you had it all up.

Speaker 6 (39:25):
And immediately quashed it.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Of course, of course, it's just it's it's amazing. Who
knew that HHS, that that that secretary was that powerful.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
He's Homeland Security DHS. Yeah, well, you're right, Sarah is
AHHS right.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
But you know, I guess maybe we'll pay more attention
next time there's somebody who's nominated for, you know, the
Apartment of Homeland Security. Considering all the things.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Second Airborne, the Rabid Response Team. They've got plenty of aircraft,
they got plenty of helicopters. Where were they? What all
that took was a phone call?

Speaker 3 (40:00):
U The phone call never came. It's five point fifty six.

Speaker 19 (40:06):
This is Huge Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 21 (40:10):
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Speaker 19 (40:13):
Now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
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Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
It is six am now here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Fryar. Among our top stories,
this fur Milton, a Cat four now still headed to Tampa,
a massive protest on the October seventh attack anniversary, and
coming up at six oh eight, seniors being priced out
of their condos by rising Homeowners' Association fees. Details in

(40:43):
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're
checking out that Morning Drive again with Skymike.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
All right backwards.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
You're gonna get crazy around Cut and Shoot and also
of East Montgomery County as well as the Lake Conro area.
People trying to reround around that forty five problem. It's
completely shut down. Nothing good's happening there at the Sanja
Cento river Bridge. This is outbound just south of Conroe.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Inbound.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
You're actually okay. East Text two forty nine might be
your only real viable alternates. Also got a problem you
knew at first. iHeartRadio listeners outbound East Text at Little York.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
Let's double check that laneage.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
I've got a cam from Houston Transtar and Alex Tarkington.

Speaker 8 (41:20):
Heayy Mike, you got two left lanes and the right lane.

Speaker 12 (41:23):
The only thing getting through is two center lanes.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
One cars up on the wall and the left.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
I'm told he's upside down too, so this isn't good.
Hearty toll roads, an easy skip around Skymike and the
Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Brob A r KTRH, top tax Defenders, twenty four hour
weather Centers sunny. Let's hear it today. With the temperature
right about ninety we'll get the complete forecast with Terry
Smith that the Weather Channel will do that in nine minutes.
Right now, it is seventy at your official severe weathers station,
news Radio seven forty k t RH. It's time now
for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
Six oh one on news Radio seven forty k t RH.
This news sponsored by All Star Construction. Now our top
story this hour. Hurricane Milton now a one hundred and
fifty five mile per hour storm Category four targeting the
west coast of Florida is actually the entire peninsula there
central Florida. Landfall expected near Tampa sometime tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
The most important thing at this point is to save lives,
and we can do that by moving to a safe
place and shelter if you are ordered to evacuate.

Speaker 6 (42:29):
That's Saint Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch Kamala Harris making this
oncoming disaster all about her, however, claiming Florida Governor Ron J.
Santas won't take her phone calls and calling him selfish.

Speaker 38 (42:42):
Desatus responded for Kamala Harris to try to say that
my sole focus on the people of Florida is somehow selfish,
is delusional.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
He also told Katie Riha Shan Hannity, it's the first
time in four years that Harris has bothered to call
him before a storm. At other words, the call was
a political stunt. Death toll from Hurricane Helene meantime remains
for now at two hundred and thirty two, still expected
to rise. However, when finally help gets into those areas,

(43:16):
more than one hundred and fifteen thousand people across North
Carolina still don't have power. The Biden Harris administration doesn't
like being called out over its lack of response to Helene,
specifically sending one hundred and fifty seven billion dollars to
Lebanon while giving Helene victims a paltry seven hundred and

(43:36):
fifty bucks a piece.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Exactly what I just asked about, and you said it
was no information today.

Speaker 36 (43:43):
What you're asking me is why Congress needs to come
back and do their job.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
White House spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre there, she had a meltdown.
She left the briefing after that question from Fox's Peter Doocy.
It is now six 'h three. That was New York
City police clashing with anti Israel protesters in the city

(44:09):
last night on the anniversary of October seventh, the terror attacks.
There were at least six arrests. They came after Donald
Trump called out these radicals for their anti Semitism.

Speaker 7 (44:21):
We never thought we'd see it, and we certainly never
thought we'd see it in this country. And a lot
of that has to do with the leadership of this country.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
Trump hosting a remembrance of October seventh in Florida. Kamala
Harris claims to support Israel, also says she would hold
Iran accountable for the funding of the terrorist Hamas and Hesbelah.

Speaker 19 (44:43):
Which foreign country do you consider to be our greatestablishary.
I think there's an obvious one in mind, which is Iran.

Speaker 6 (44:53):
That was Harris on sixty minutes. But don't forget she
boycotted the speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Jim
and Nettan Yahoo, and she helped make Iran rich with
hundreds of billions of dollars, which is what allowed them
to attack Israel. Under Trump, Iran was broke. What sounds
like a spy movie plot, the CIA has started a

(45:15):
new online recruiting campaign hoping to land spies from other countries.
Informants Max Dribbler is a retired senior intelligence officer.

Speaker 17 (45:27):
I do think it speaks to a bit of desperation
and it comes on the heels of you know, CIA
recruiting LGBTQ. Plus maybe they're so desperate that they're open
to recruiting foreign nationals.

Speaker 16 (45:39):
To do this job.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
Yeah, the CIA is trying to recruit spies from Iran, China,
and North Korea. Six oh five is our time. The
Trump advance ticket was got a bounce after the VP
debate last week, as are Republicans, who now have a
two point lead over Democrats on the generic ballot to

(46:00):
retain control of the House. That's according to Resmussen. Polsters
tell us though the presidential race is a tight in
every swing state and now those primarily Democrat governed states
say expect the counting to take longer again.

Speaker 10 (46:17):
I certainly hope that this is not like George Bush
versus al Gore, But in that particular case it ended
up taking weeks and weeks and going to the court.

Speaker 6 (46:26):
Yeah, that's the former Texas GOP chairman Steve Munistery told Kjerry.
So the only way to keep the results from being
drawn out is for one candidate to have an overwhelming
sweeping victory swamp the vote. As Donald Trump says, it
is now six oh six, the Texas abortion law stands
us Supreme Court will not hear the Biden Harris law

(46:48):
fair attempt to impose federal mandates on top of the
medical exceptions already given here in the Texas law. That
is basically an abortion ban except medical exceptions. Jim's aren't
waiting for November to reveal their plans, however, to pack
the Supreme Court because they keep getting rulings they don't like.

Speaker 39 (47:10):
Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden Is introduced a bill but
would add six justices to the Supreme Court and impose
new conduct restrictions on justices. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Tcherkawski
tells Fox Democrats should be careful what they wish for.

Speaker 11 (47:24):
Imagine if they were to pass that right now, then
the Trump administration could if he gets reelected and now
have a super duper majority on the Court.

Speaker 19 (47:32):
So it really can spiral into silliness. I think this
is just a plug for votes.

Speaker 39 (47:36):
President Biden and Vice President Harris are proposing term limits
for Supreme Court justices, which would require a constitutional amendment.
Corey Yelson New's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
Six O seven now average price for a new car
last month over forty four thousand dollars, nearly ten thousand
more than it was in twenty nineteen. Wall Street Journal
reports car sales are still below pre pandemic levels, as
the Biden Harris admitted station struggles to get people to
buy electric cars to force us to Carson Clayton, with

(48:06):
a Texas Public Policy Foundation says it's government subsidies for evs.
It will be topping two billion dollars this year.

Speaker 18 (48:14):
It's coming out a time when really interest in electric
vehicles are dropping, and all it does really is socialize
those costs to taxpayers, electric ratepayers and owners and buyers
of gasolene vehicles.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
Subsidies taxpayer dollars. Don't forget big issues for evs, Still
nobody wants to buy them. Houston Racus lost their preseason
opener to the Utah Jazz last night. It was one
twenty two, one thirteen. They'll play the Thunder in Oklahoma
City tomorrow. I'm sheby Fryar a news radio seven forty
KGRH what.

Speaker 19 (48:45):
Happens in October.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Couldn't decide who's President's in November. Use radio seven forty KTRH.
Homer's Associations.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
I mean, it's different depending on you if you're in
a condo or if you're a single family home week
we have a homeowners association where we are, and I'm
sure there's somebody named Nancy in the neighborhood who's walking
around with a clipboard looking for violations, you know, so
you can get your little little enugh from You need
to cut.

Speaker 6 (49:12):
Your grass, you got too many weeds in.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Your flower bed, that kind of stuff. But this is serious.
What's going on in Florida right now, and not just Florida,
all around the country is a lot of senior citizens
go to condo life when they don't want to have
to do the outdoor maintenance. Anymore. You know, it's just easier.
You've got somebody else to cut the grass and to
take care of all that stuff for you, and in

(49:35):
return for whatever they give you in the way of amenities,
you pay a fee. Well, condo fees, especially in states
like Florida, have gone through the roof and they're pricing
seniors out of their own homes. For example, in Miami
Dade County, the average association fee homeowners association fee in
twenty nineteen condo feed five sixty seven a month, which

(49:57):
is pretty steep if you asked me, that is gone
to an average of nine hundred dollars a month in
twenty twenty four. That's almost doubled. In Tampa, the median
monthly HOA fee increased to six hundred and fourteen dollars
in twenty twenty four. That's a seventeen point two percent
increase from the previous year. If some of this is
being driven by new laws passed in Washington, d C.

(50:20):
Through the form of special assessments in order to get
up to code, or if you have storm damage, the
storm damage that's not covered by the insurance company for
the condo association, they have to do a special assessment
to the owners and the cost of the insurance. Yeah,
and the cost of the insurance has gone up too,
So there you go. You got all those things working
against people. So condos, for example, in Jacksonville, Florida, are

(50:44):
selling for eight percent less than they were a year
ago because of the very fact that people are having
a hard time affording them. Therefore they're selling them, and
people are going in and saying how much of the
association fees? I don't think so. Six ' ten. Time
for traffic and weather together. Check out they're driving in here.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Mike, all right, I've got a tip line number coming
up for you shortly if you've never called before, and
a quick.

Speaker 5 (51:05):
Request in Jimmy, it's not stairway to Heaven.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
We've got forty five north closed over the Sandracino River
the West Fork. I am near Conroe right outbound. That's
all lanes blocked here. A lot of discussion. Is there
any guind of alternate?

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Not much.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
You could take two forty two to thirteen fourteen. I
hate to do that to the people in Porter. Another
shot I've got here is fourteen eighty eight toward Magnolia.

Speaker 5 (51:29):
You could go down, honey, Egypt Road.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
If you're driving down something called Fish Creek Thoroughfare, you
know you're going to the woods.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
But that's that's a way around it.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
I mean, realistically, Tomball, Cleveland are your best ways around that?
This problem is going to be there while it's all
lanes closed shut down forty five northbound south of Conroe.

Speaker 5 (51:48):
I got Larry Sugarland dude.

Speaker 29 (51:50):
Good morning, sky Mike north found on sixty nine before
Chimney Rock.

Speaker 14 (51:55):
We got six lanes of stop it.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Oh that's right, there's a wreck there that's just now cleared.
We're still packed up from Hellcroft. Katie's looking good. Looks
like a great alternate there twenty eight minutes from Graham
Parkway Andrew most City dude.

Speaker 21 (52:08):
Basically on the forty five north that is down one way?

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Do you mean the east text because we had that
deal with the tanker yesterday.

Speaker 5 (52:17):
They did have to pair that down. But all your
ramps are reopen.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Quick request here guys, if y'all can work on ditching
the speaker phones because I'm having trouble hearing a lot
of you seven one three two one two tips. I'm
skylike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic center.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour with
this center, time to check in with Terry Smith. You know,
as we look at category four Hurricane Milton bearing down
in Florida, I'm thinking, you know, there's nothing good about
any of that. But the storm surge in particular is
problematic for a place like Tampa, Florida. If you're talking
about twelve foot storm surge, you're talking about a lot
of stuff underwater, aren't you You sure are?

Speaker 22 (52:54):
I mean, if you think that the average first floor
of most homes is somewhere between ten to twelve feet,
you're talking at least the first floor being completely inundated.
And here's the thing that you have to think about,
and this is part of the reason that storm search

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is hard to understand, is because we don't ever experience it, fortunately,
But what you essentially have is a rush of water
that moves into your first floor and continues to push
against the house, and then you have waves on top
of that. So it does impact the foundation or the
stead fatness of the house or the building or wherever

(53:36):
it works on that it loosens it up, it compromises
the structure. So even if you're like on the second
floor and you're dry. It doesn't mean that first floor
is going to hang around very long.

Speaker 6 (53:49):
And I was just looking.

Speaker 22 (53:50):
We've been looking at some of the records, and this
is the thing that's frankly alarming. The storm searche that
is predicted. This range of ten to fifteen feet is
record levels. It's higher than Helene was in areas like
Clearwater Beach, where their previous record was six point six

(54:13):
feet of water, so we're talking almost double that. So
I'm glad to see there's so many people who are evacuating.
I know personally firsthand there are people who are thinking
about staying, and I just hope those people have good
insurance policies.

Speaker 6 (54:32):
You know, I have to wonder. Forty trillion gallons of
rain got dumped with Helene, and this storm is picking
up moisture as its coming. It's not just the winds
in the surge. It's got a lot of rain in
it well. And it's a very similar situation to Helene
in that.

Speaker 22 (54:50):
For several days prior to the arrival of the hurricane,
Florida has been experiencing almost widespread daily rain and having rain.
So there's been you know, they have already laid the
foundation for a very soggy peninsula before you get the

(55:11):
tropical rains, which could amount to easily four to twelve
inches of rain across the peninsula on top of what's
already fallen the last several days.

Speaker 6 (55:22):
So there are multiple problems at play.

Speaker 22 (55:26):
Almost and I hate to downplay the winds, but the
winds are actually, to me personally, the least concerning. The
winds are going to knock down the trees and the
power lines. That's not as life threatening as the flooding
and the surge the trees and power while the power
lines can be repaired eventually, But the flooding and the surge,

(55:47):
the damage that does.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Yeah, that's a nice around here. A better story.

Speaker 6 (55:50):
Yes, completely dry all week long.

Speaker 22 (55:53):
It is warm, but less humid our temperatures in the
upper eighties for the most part, but there'll be some
places in the low nineties this week.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Except but you're right now by the way seventy one
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Speaker 2 (56:10):
You're starting your day right with Houston's morning news, brought
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Speaker 3 (56:19):
So what are the chances the morning after the November
fifth election that we're going to know the results? Slim?
Let me, let me get slim and none and Slim
just left town. We're gonna talk to Steve Mon's story
about this. Here's the angle I want to talk to
him a little bit about, because you know, the longer

(56:40):
you delay results, the more the conspiracy theories kick in,
the more the election has been stolen, claims kick in
for fraud and that too. Yeah, all of those things.
So that this strikes me is that an election where
the morning after, regardless of who the winner is or
the leader is at that time, there will be questions
about those results. We'll talk to him next. First, we've

(57:02):
got traffic and weather together here from the stretch. Go ahead, skoy, Mike.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
We've got forty five North completely shut down going into
Conro outbound truck fire, all lines.

Speaker 5 (57:11):
Nothing good's happening there.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Southwest Freeway clear, the west Loop six ten usual Southwest SECONDE.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
I got Cliff from Warton on two eighty eight E. Guy,
might dude, it's Dick called.

Speaker 14 (57:20):
A North found at the Beltway eighth op Ramp four
car pile of Lepley.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
All right, I'm going to get you some alternates at
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Speaker 3 (57:30):
From our kt RH top tax defenders twenty four hour
weather center today, Tomorrow and Thursday, sunshine each day with
the HeiG temp of Youu're in near ninety right now,
the temperature is seventy make that seventy one at your
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We're checking out some of our top stories this morning.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
Here's sharep Good morning, everyone is sell six twenty three
on news Radio seven forty k TRH. Our headlines are
a sponsored by Moral Mechanical Hurricane Milton bearing down on
Florida as a strong cat for system with one one
hundred and fifty five mile per hour wins now. The
mayor of the capital of the Mexican state of Guerrero,
Alejandro Across, was assassinated less than a week after being

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sworn into office.

Speaker 24 (58:11):
That area.

Speaker 6 (58:11):
A cartel stronghold, Tesla will unveil its Robotaxi on Thursday
in California. Latest News anytime kturah dot com. Our next
update is at the bottom of the.

Speaker 19 (58:23):
Hour from the Sugarland area, Javier Port area.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
You're reliable forecast. Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH,
Steve mos Terry joins as former Texas GOP chairman and Steve,
you know, the longer you have to wait for the results,
the more you start to internally question the results that
you're getting. So what do you think is going to
happen the morning after the election?

Speaker 10 (58:47):
Well, if any race is any state has a race
that's close, you have to remember that overseas and military
ballots are counted after the election day so long as
their postmark before the election day, and each state has
different rules at about that. But in Texas, for example,

(59:07):
overseas and military ballots are counted up.

Speaker 19 (59:10):
To six days.

Speaker 10 (59:11):
But if there's a holiday, and this year there is,
military ballots that are coming in Texas can be counted
up to one week after the election day, and regular
mail in ballots can be counted up until the next
day until five pm, So all the votes won't even

(59:31):
be in theoretically for a week. So if you have
a close election, one like we had Michigan with the
ten thousand, I think it wasn't sixteen eleven thousand in
Georgia last time. It could certainly be a week, and
then you have situations like Bush versus Gore that want
weeks in weeks.

Speaker 6 (59:52):
Yeah, and I was reading about this. We call them
military ballots, and we all want our military to be
able to vote. But that's just a small percentage of
what the foreigners abroad that living in foreign countries abroad Americans,
and some of them have never even lived in America,
but they have American citizenship and they are able. And
the Democrats are doing a program now, they're trying to

(01:00:13):
get nine million of these votes.

Speaker 10 (01:00:17):
Well, and the Republican Party in the past, but I'm
not sure they have a program now. But when I
was on the RNC, there was actually Republicans abroad and
it was a regular group that met and organized, and
you know, we very it was legal, but we try
to harvest all those votes. And I would presume that

(01:00:38):
the Democrats are doing the same. So if for anybody
that worries about mail in ballots, I'm one that always
worries about mail in ballots in a close election, those
ballots could be the difference if you have a razor
thin margin, and if you look at the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin right now, and even North Carolina. Those are

(01:01:02):
all races that look like they're on the razor's edge.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
Yeah they are. It's gonna be interesting, to say the least. Steve.
Thank you, Steve nis Teri, former Texas GOP chairman. Six
twenty six. It is time to take a look at
your money. Hortney Donaho is here.

Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
Well, good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 32 (01:01:15):
Stocks are marginally higher after yesterday's losses. S and B
futures are up three tenths of a percent. DOUT futures
up about sixty points. Coming up later this week. Inflation
data do out on Thursday, and this will give investors
a better idea on the federal reserves next steps. Pepsi
has been struggling with higher prices across the economy, causing
consumers to switch to cheaper store brand options the drinks

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since Snack's trying trimming its growth outlook for the year,
the company expects inflation to moderate but consumers to remain valued.

Speaker 6 (01:01:44):
Conscious.

Speaker 32 (01:01:46):
Small businesses are growing more uncertain In the days leading
up to the presidential election, The National Federation of Independent
Business Uncertainty Index hit a record high last month. As
owners await the outcome in a few weeks and shoppers
are stuffing their home holmes with stuffed toys. Sales are
soaring for brands such as Jellycat. According to research firm Sircana,

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stuff toy sales vaulted to two point two billion dollars
in the first half of the year. Corney's on Hope
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More of what's happening now from the Sean Morris Services Studio.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Six thirty one. Our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett,
along with Sheriff Ryer. Among our top stores this f are.
The average Harris County homeowner has gotten a thirty percent
tax increase over the last two years. The port strike settlement,
it's remember it's temporary and coming up at six thirty eight,
Michigan's Attorney General charges four with double voting. Details in

(01:02:55):
the minutes ahead here in Houston's Morning News. First, we're
checking out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Clear East Tax at Jensen outbound. That was or before
Little York, whichever you prefer. That was an overturn. It's
all out of the way. Stay the course on the
East Tax outbound Nord Freeway before Conro completely shut down.
It's the truck wreck right after the San Jacenta River outbound,
not inbound. Chris from Conrod, we've been discussing Reroutesi.

Speaker 13 (01:03:18):
Mike thirteen fourteen headed northbound right at crighton at the stoplight,
solid wall of trapping.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
I didn't want to send people there. Maybe fourteen eighty
eight to Hony, Egypt.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
That's that's the best I can do right now, Skymike
on the Classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center. Sunny,
less humid today with the high temperature right about ninety
pretty similar forecast going on for the rest of the
work week. Check in with Terry Smith once again and
get you update in eight minutes. Right now, temperature is
seventy one at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's

(01:03:56):
Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (01:03:57):
Good Morning is six thirty two on news radio and
forty KTRH in our top story this hour. If you
crunch numbers, Harris County Democrats have managed to raise our
property taxes by about thirty percent over the last two years.
And you combine that with the city of Houston now
raising taxes. Possibly, political analysts Bill King things, we're this

(01:04:18):
city of Houston could become another Detroit.

Speaker 31 (01:04:22):
That's the kind of decline you'll see if we don't
start creating a value proposition for living in the county
and the city. And right now we're clearly not doing that.

Speaker 6 (01:04:31):
Yeah, the motor city, because of its high taxes and
its crime, saw its population drop from two million people
in nineteen fifty to six hundred thousand today. Well after
being backed by Democrats, the port strike seems to have
come to a temporary end quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Biden claimed victory. But there's deep dynamics at play.

Speaker 34 (01:04:53):
The Democrat Party has become pro globalists. They support globalism
more than they support the American economy. American worker and
unions are starting to perceive this.

Speaker 40 (01:05:03):
W George Otis of America Can We Talk says they're
seeing how little the Democrats help the economy. They're also
noticing the Republican logic.

Speaker 34 (01:05:11):
So it's a bigger sense I think of Donald Trump
and the Republican Party are now on the side of
the American people, the American worker.

Speaker 40 (01:05:18):
Many unions this cycle of not endorsed a candidate, including
the team Stirs. Andre Perard, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
It's now six thirty four.

Speaker 28 (01:05:28):
You hide from the wind and run from the water.

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
Tapa Mayor, Jane Castor there. Hurricane Milton, category four, one
hundred and fifty five mile per our winds has a
Florida Peninsula in its site. Now the system expected to
weaken a little bit more, but it will still be
a major hurricane when it hits the central Peninsula tomorrow.
Texas Governor Greg Abbett sending resources from Texas to Florida

(01:05:55):
ahead of this storm, on top of the eight already
in Tennessee assisting in the recovery effort. It's there from
Helene Milton striking, of course, as a federal FEMA response
remains lacking to those Helene victims, specifically in North Carolina.
Is bringing the haye to Kamala Harris.

Speaker 41 (01:06:13):
Vice President Kamala Harris pledged to send more than one
hundred and fifty million dollars of additional assistance to Lebanon,
an hour before she pledged one hundred million dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:06:23):
In aid to North Carolina.

Speaker 41 (01:06:25):
This as North Carolina residents are pleading for more assistants
from the government to help them recover from Hurricane Helene.
The FEMA administrator confirming to Fox News that the agency
does not have enough funds to last beyond immediate needs.

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
Brookes Sengmann, reporting, there, So, what does that call from
your familiar senator in Congress? The one from Louisiana.

Speaker 24 (01:06:52):
Helene was a monster storm. We saw it coming. The
federal government had time to prepare. It wasn't prepared. We
don't have nearly enough soldiers and military helicopters rescuing people.

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
Yep, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy. The death toll officially remains
at two hundred and thirty two, expected though to go
up in the coming days. They're still recovering bodies. It
is now six thirty six. Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas,
he sends another letter asking for information on the illegally
registered voters in Texas. He wants the list of names

(01:07:29):
who were registered without a Texas driver's license or valid ID.
With twenty seven days to go to election day, Texas
has already surpassed eighteen million registered voters, and the left
believes this is going to reshape the election.

Speaker 15 (01:07:46):
Shara Mark Jones, Professor of political science at RICE, does
not agree.

Speaker 20 (01:07:52):
We get these stories about every two to four years.
The reality is the Texas population is boomy.

Speaker 15 (01:07:58):
Growing even faster than Florida, but not changing blue.

Speaker 20 (01:08:03):
The reality is, I think we're looking at another election
where Donald Trump wins by somewhere between five and seven
points and Ted Cruz fire round two to four points.

Speaker 15 (01:08:13):
Republicans have not lost a statewide race in thirty years.

Speaker 5 (01:08:18):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty kt H.

Speaker 6 (01:08:21):
Six point thirty six. Now, the jury in the sentencing
phase of the former HPD officer Gerald Gons resumes deliberations today.
He was convicted of murder for the deadly twenty nineteen
Harding Street raid and is facing life in prison. The
attorney for the Fort Ben County Judge KP. George, he
wants last month's indictment thrown out. George has a misdemeanor

(01:08:44):
charge against him of misrepresenting the identity of a candidate
his own identity. During his twenty twenty two re election campaign,
he had publicly claimed he was the target of racist
and xenophobic attacks that were actually emanating perhaps from him,

(01:09:04):
but certainly allegedly engineered by his former chief of staff
to Raal Btateel Bettel was arrested in June. It is
six thirty seven.

Speaker 36 (01:09:14):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
The Texans could be without their star wide receiver Nico
Collins for next week's game against the Patriots, and may
also not have running back Joe Mixon available.

Speaker 40 (01:09:25):
Will still evaluate that week the week we don't know
as of right now, I can't give you that answer,
but we'll see how Joe improves over the week.

Speaker 6 (01:09:33):
Head coach Tamiko Ryans Texans four and one after beating
Buffalo on Sunday. I'm sure A Friar on News Radio
seven to forty ktright.

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Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
This is the summertime Michigan song and story as it
turns out I thought i'd share because I have a
theory on this, and maybe I'm showing just how cynical
I've become by sharing this. But the Attorney General of
the Michigan Attorney General, her name is Dana Nessel, prosecuting
four people, charging them with a felony for voting twice,

(01:10:16):
once with a mail in ballot and once in person.
This happened in Saint Clair Shores, Michigan, which is a
upscale suburb of Detroit, more Republican than Democrat. So I
have some suspicions she's a staunch Democrat, Dana Nessel is.
So here's what she had to say about the charges.

Speaker 28 (01:10:38):
In phrase twenty four in.

Speaker 43 (01:10:39):
The August primary election in Michigan for Saint Clair Shor's
residents voted twice. So he's a crime, and my office
is prosecuting the four voters and three municipal election employees
for crimes related to double voting.

Speaker 28 (01:10:59):
One person, one vote.

Speaker 43 (01:11:01):
It's a simple but highly important American value we've all
known since we were children. When people violate this principle,
they violate state law and undermine the most basic tenets
of our American democracy. But four individuals in Saint Clair
Shores did just that. They voted twice, once by absentee

(01:11:22):
ballot and once again on election day at their local
polling places. Here in Michigan, we have significant barriers in
place to keep this from happening. But on August sixth,
twenty twenty four, those vital protections failed because three election
workers violated the law by ignoring systemic warnings and knowingly

(01:11:44):
willfully allowing double voting to occur.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
By the way, the mayor Saint Clair Shores themselves said
he didn't want them charged because he thought it was
purely accidental. I don't know if that's the case or not.
But here's what I do know, or what I suspect.
I know that the reason why the people were prosecuted
so that the Attorney General of Michikin, who is very progressive,
could come across as running a fair election. See oh see,

(01:12:10):
chiefs prosecuted people who tried to vote twice. We don't
have to worry about what happens in November. So that
makes a great smoke screen for that. I also suspect
that these are people voting in the Republican primary. Nowhere
in any of the stores have found. Do they identify
which primary August sixth primary these voters were voting, and
were they voting in the Democrat primary? Were they voting

(01:12:31):
in the Republican primary? That's not identified. So if you
prosecuted a couple of Republicans for cheating and then you,
you know, come across as being willing to prosecute, then
that kind of takes suspicions away. If you come out
in November, say yep, everything was on the up and
up and everything was fine. Nothing to see here, That's

(01:12:51):
what I suspect. Time for traffic and whether together, let's
get the latest on the drive. Here'sky Mike. I got
a lot of.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
People to thank this morning. Jimmy, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
We were the first to know about the east text
problem that cleared Parker Road, stay the course, forget it. Also,
well we had the details in the laneage on the
forty five north problem that's south of Conrod it's going
out right before Conrods and just center river Bridge. Total closure.
This is a truck fire wreck and nothing good's happening.
The whole thing, mainlanes, feeder, guts, feathers and all. It's

(01:13:21):
all closed. So people are saying, well, why don't you
jump off for the thirteen fourteen thirteen fourteen? Thank you,
Chris from Conrod, thirteen fourteen's pretty disastrous right now. One
little secret hack might be fourteen eighty eight go the
other way, go west to fourteen eighty eight, Hony Egypt Road.
You're still going through the woods, and realistically, I mean
Cleveland and Tombar are your best alternates.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
There just aren't a lot of ways to get across
the river.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
There.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
We've got Nick from Cyprus two ninety dude.

Speaker 20 (01:13:47):
Hey, got Mike the inbound.

Speaker 27 (01:13:50):
Right at the Guesser exit, there was a three car
wreck that just.

Speaker 5 (01:13:56):
I see that myself. Nice nice job. It's a Bana
took her for you.

Speaker 19 (01:14:00):
Nick.

Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
In bound.

Speaker 4 (01:14:01):
It's all breaks from Eldridge Parkway. I bet they take
some more langage there. Jason from Alvin's coming up to
eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Got mine JJ North Sound.

Speaker 26 (01:14:10):
The bel A pile up was at the bell I'll
meet at you knowa.

Speaker 21 (01:14:15):
The four cars they booed them all off to.

Speaker 40 (01:14:16):
Left hand shoulder del but it is backed up.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
We'll pass the card.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
Yeah, I'm seeing it now.

Speaker 4 (01:14:21):
As far as Hughes Ranch rode inbound Southwest Freeway still
crammed up. Got a new wreck at the West Park.
I got more for you coming up ten minutes. The
Generator Supercenter dot Com.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour
whether Center. Terry Smith is here. What looks like hurricane
season is going out like a lion in Florida and
going out like a lamb around here so far. Figures crossed.

Speaker 6 (01:14:43):
Don't don't don't put that out into the universe.

Speaker 22 (01:14:47):
Yes, this is the fourth hurricane to strike the Gulf
Coast so far this year, and two of those have
been in Florida. Milton a category four, almost a category five.
I've hurricane will oscillate right around that level, likely short
up until landfall in Florida on the West coast late

(01:15:09):
tomorrow and tomorrow night into Thursday. For us, our weather's
all nice and quiet, sunshine and warm temperatures but low humidity,
so it's a little more comfortable outside. Uper eighties to
low nineties today through the rest of the week, but
temperatures at night tonight will be in the sixties. Very pleasant.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Deepture right now seventy one at your official severe weather station.
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(01:15:47):
de Santis in Florida having to deal with the accusation
of ducking phone calls from Biden and Harris regarding Hurricane
Milton Moore in that story coming up first, we've got
traffic and weather together. Mike, you're up forty.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Five north freeways completely shut down this side of Conrod
trying to get up northbound. You could probably jump over
to four eighty eight SI probably, but you can do it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:09):
I may take a while.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
Fourteen eighty at Honey Egypt Road could reroute you back
to one oh five. You've got Northwest Freeway two nine
eight up, that's right before the Beltway, and Nick from
Cyprus INBOUNDY found this wreck here. I've got backups all
the way from Eldridge Parkway. I'm Skymike on the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center
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Current temperature seventy one if your official severe weather station.
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Six fifty three are time here in Houston's morning news.
All right, governorn desantists taking questions yesterday with Milton bearing
down on Florida, and of course he got asked about
the politics involved in Biden and Harris and phone calls.
Here's how you handled all that.

Speaker 19 (01:18:29):
You turned down the calls from both Biden and Harris.
Are you saying you're not aware of that? And if so,
how are you not aware of that?

Speaker 13 (01:18:36):
So Biden called me a couple of days ago with
Helene when I was on the helicopter.

Speaker 19 (01:18:41):
I didn't have any issues. They had helped us for
what we've done.

Speaker 13 (01:18:44):
I'm not aware that he's tried to call since then,
certainly hasn't called my phone, so I don't know quite
where they're getting that information.

Speaker 19 (01:18:51):
At the same time, we got the approvals that we need.

Speaker 13 (01:18:53):
If there's something else that we need, you know, I'll
hop on the phone very quickly, whether that's the female
administrator or the president, and we will press the case
to be able to get approvals for what we need
in Florida.

Speaker 19 (01:19:04):
But we have gotten approvals for everything that we've asked for.
Tars Harris, I didn't know that she had called, so
I'm not sure who they called.

Speaker 13 (01:19:15):
They didn't call me, And their characterization of it was
something that they did wasn't anything that anybody in my
office did in terms of saying that it was political, given.

Speaker 40 (01:19:25):
The stories, Tom since, I just want to ask you
about about politics right now, in terms of shouldn't shouldn't.

Speaker 13 (01:19:32):
I want to answer questions about this is not a
time for politics, No excuse me, Gary, You and your
publication will twist anything that's done to try to make
a political agenda.

Speaker 19 (01:19:43):
That's what you do.

Speaker 13 (01:19:44):
That's how you get your clicks. I understand that. I
understand that's the business model. Well but but I don't
want to talk about politics because well but I have
a feeling that however you do, you guys will.

Speaker 19 (01:19:56):
Find a way to frame it. That's just your shtick.

Speaker 20 (01:19:58):
I get it.

Speaker 13 (01:19:58):
That's fine, but I don't want to participate in it.
We have had to respond to a Category four hurricane.
We've had to prepare and now respond to something that
may hit as a major hurricane. Maybe Category four may
even be bigger than that. We hope that it does.
But that should be the focus. And I think some
of these questions are trying to create some type of

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political angle where there's just none there and he.

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Ain't going there. Good for him, all right, Time for
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Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
It is seven am now here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer. Among our top
stories this half hour, a massive protest for the October
seventh attack anniversary. We have a Category four hurricane Milton
still headed towards Tapa and coming up. At seven o eight.
They showed a movie with nked people to everyone regardless

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of age. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
Morning News. First, let's check out that morning drive. Here's
sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
All right, you've got two ninety inbound.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
This accident looks like everybody's okay at the Beltway, but
that's a pretty big pack up now from Highway six.

Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
Loosen about seventeen minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:22:43):
Here, you've got two eighty eight northbound just past the Beltway.
This wreck is packing us up from Hughes Ranch Road.
Scott from Berkshire is on Graham Parkway.

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Mike type for clotail take time.

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Accident Ninja's Market TVH post partner with the cavity.

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No extra points for verbiage there and North Freeway forty
five south of Conro's completely shut down outbound. Nothing good's
happening there. We're still trying to find reroutes. Skymichael, the
Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center,
Sunning and less humid today with the high temperature right
about ninety We'll get you the complete forecast. We'll be
talking to Terry Smith that the Weather Channel. We'll do
that in eight minutes. Right now, it is seventy one
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time out for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 6 (01:23:31):
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The people of Israel who have endured a long year
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Speaker 6 (01:23:48):
As Donald Trump in Florida yesterday, speaking on the first
anniversary of the October seven terror attacks on Israel, he
held a special commemoration there. Though to a pro Hamas
protest in New York, Yeah Ma beat up a pro

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Israel supporter. At least six anti Israel rioters were arrested. However,
it is now seven oh two, election day four weeks
away exactly now. Jd Vance's debate performance last week, erasing
what polsters had claimed was a four point lead for
Kamala Harris in the race for the White House. Yahoo
now calls that race a dead heat. But are you

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ready for a repeat of twenty twenty? It's starting to
look more and more like we're gonna be waiting days,
even weeks to get election results.

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So how long should you expect to wait? On November fifth?

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Certainly conceivable. It could take a couple of days, and
it's not outside the realm of possibility. It could take
a few weeks, but hopefully not.

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Former Texas GOP chairman Steve Monastery told Kato h the
election being incredibly close could also slow things down more.

Speaker 10 (01:24:58):
Anytime you have a raised thin margin, no matter what
technology you use, it can prolong the result. If it's
by a wide margin.

Speaker 19 (01:25:07):
It won't.

Speaker 9 (01:25:08):
Monastery says that the timeline will probably look different for
each of the swing states, and whoever loses will raise challenges.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:25:17):
It's now seven oh three a victory for Texas abortion
law at the US Supreme Court. Justices refuse to hear
the Biden Harris attempt to impose federal mandates over Texas law,
which does already provide medical care for a abortion emergencies.
But the continued existence of the High Court is on

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the ballot this November. If Democrats get control of Congress
and the White House, they plan to pack the court
and institute term limits on justices. Basically, they'd be subjugating
the court to political control. Former Federal Prosecutor Though Andrew
Tcherkaski tells Fox term limits do require a constitutional amendment.

Speaker 11 (01:26:00):
Constitution demand the Supreme Court justices have a term for life.
So that's an initial hurdle to this idea, but it
shows the extreme policies and ideas coming from the Biden
Harris camp in trying to essentially undo laws they don't
like what constitution.

Speaker 6 (01:26:15):
Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden has already introduced a bill
to add six more justices to the Supreme Court. It's
now seven five. Hurricane Milton, weakened over night somewhat, is
now a Category four one hundred and fifty five mile
per hour wind landfall expected on the west coast of

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Florida near Tampa sometime tomorrow, with the trajectory all across
the state into the Atlantic.

Speaker 12 (01:26:43):
The Hurricane Center tells us this will be an unprecedented
historic impact to the Tampa Bay region.

Speaker 6 (01:26:50):
Polk County, Florida Emergency Management Director there Paul Womble Kamala
Harris wants it to be a political issue. She's campaigning
on it. She called Florida Governor Ron Dea Santis selfish
for refusing to take her calls recording regarding federal response efforts.
But the government, the governor reacted.

Speaker 13 (01:27:13):
While all of a sudden, is she trying to parachute
in and inject herself when she's never shown any interest
in the past. We know it's because of her campaign.
I have zero time to entertain these political games.

Speaker 6 (01:27:26):
DeSantis on Fox and Friends this morning. By the way,
he already confirmed that he has been granted every kind
of emergency modification he needs by Biden for this storm.
More than one hundred and fifteen thousand people in North
Carolina still don't have power two weeks after Hurricane Helene hit.
Film the Death told they're two hundred and thirty two

(01:27:49):
for now. The White House, Responso and priorities were called
out yesterday by Fox reporter Peter Doocy.

Speaker 14 (01:27:56):
The administration has money to send to Lebanon without commerce
coming back.

Speaker 19 (01:28:02):
The Commresce does have.

Speaker 14 (01:28:03):
To come back to accru money to send to people
in North.

Speaker 6 (01:28:06):
Carolina to I have that right, yes, spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre.
She called that question misinformation and then stormed out of
the briefing. Doucie mentioned Lebanon, the Middle East on fire,
the CIA, did you know now looking for new spies
to help them in Iran, China and North Korea and Shara.

Speaker 15 (01:28:26):
They have actually posted one ads online and even on
the dark Web.

Speaker 16 (01:28:32):
It smacks of desperation to me, honestly.

Speaker 15 (01:28:34):
That is Max Dribbler, a former senior intelligence officer, who says,
this almost sounds like a movie, but it's real.

Speaker 17 (01:28:42):
You're not just looking for Joe too worked at a
ramenfactory and looking for special skills, you know, at some
dose mimic of movie.

Speaker 15 (01:28:51):
Apparently the CIA has plenty of informants in Russia, but
not with our other adversaries.

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty.

Speaker 6 (01:29:01):
Seven oh sevens are time. The Houston Rock has lost
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Last night they played the Thunder in Oklahoma City tomorrow.
I'm shereby Fryar on news radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 19 (01:29:16):
I live in Conrad. I live in Deer Park.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Next on the ten, You're a reliable forecast on seven
forty KTRH. Well, it's the story about Contess Airlines, which
flies between Australia and a lot of places in the world,
including Tokyo. How long a flight do you think it
is between Sydney and Tokyo.

Speaker 6 (01:29:38):
It's long, I've forgotten. I want to say twelve hours.
Maybe you're saying the jets are faster now.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
Yeah, yeah, but still it's a long time on board
the plane.

Speaker 6 (01:29:49):
It's a big distance, yes it is.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Well, something went well this. I tease this by saying
a bunch of people was subjected to knucket people of
all eight well, the whole Yeah, here's what happened. Evidently
they were having a problem with the planes in flight
entertainment system. And if you've been on a plane with
an in flight entertainment system, you know that basically you

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get to pick TV shows and movies and different things
that do you want to watch for your little individual screen.
Well that wasn't working, and they had a handful of
movies that the crew could pick from to show to
so at least there'd be something going on because it's
a long flight. And you're trying to keep people distracted
a little bit. So they went around they asked the passengers,

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hear the movies that we can pick from which one
would you vote for? And evidently, by a majority vote,
they decided. I don't know why the majority picked this,
but they picked a movie called Daddy O Daddyo. It
was made in twenty twenty four, starring Dakota Johnson and
Sean Penn. Straight to video kind of movie, I guess.
And so they put the movie on and they started

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playing the movie. Didn't think a whole lot of it
until they find out, well, first of all, it was
are and you had a lot of families on board.
But you know, I guess nobody was worried about that
R rating until all of a sudden we started having
things like graphic language and nudity and sex scenes, which
finally did it in quantus As apologized for the crew

(01:31:17):
making the decision to show that particular movie. What do
you think the first time they got to an F
bomb or or you know, somebody that is nearly naked,
that they would have done something about it. Then why
did they just let the let the film keep on going.
I think that's where they made their mistake. Seven to
ten time for traffic and whether together Saturday Night Fever

(01:31:38):
before I was supposed to How old were you? We
just saw that movie excoma like.

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
The twelve or thirteen, and you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
Know, those of you that have warm fuzzy memories about disco,
don't show your kids that movie. Just let's just say,
all right, let's get on your North Freeway. I have
forty five North Freeway south of Conra. I'm going to
get to the reroute shortly. You need to know it's
completely shut down. Just at the Sandja Center a bridge outbound.
Nothing good is happening there. That was truck fire North
Freeway going this way, sky Mike just.

Speaker 26 (01:32:06):
Before the beltway right lane four car kerfuffle pile up
one Ninja on site.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
So the right lane is blocked.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
Yeah, I've got back up from Ayirtex Roger from Magnolia
North Freeway.

Speaker 5 (01:32:18):
Good morning, Scot Mike inbound. There's a little bit schmkel
post like a stall in the right lane just before
the exit. The greens running rank good verbage. So we're
backed up from Aire Tex Casey Cypress.

Speaker 17 (01:32:29):
Guy Mike ninety nine westbound between Rosewood and Meerski.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
There is an accident. It's come down to one lane.

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
Oh lord, yeah, got big shots.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
Watch out going westbound and then also west Sam Lutleyord
toll Plaz. I got a southbound wreck two ninety inbound
at the belt Mango from Willis. We got to go fast,
but I got a re route for that forty five
Conrod thing.

Speaker 45 (01:32:48):
Hey, sky Mike, K two forty two, make a less
on Old Sam Houston. Stay straight on the fourteen eighty
five like the one oh five. Then from there they
can go downtown, or they can get on the three
thirty six and make it to forty five.

Speaker 4 (01:33:02):
I'm hearing bad things about thirteen fourteen, so fourteen eighty
five it's still going to be a nice drive through
the country. I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:33:11):
Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center. Time to bring on Terry Smith. Another sunshiny
day around here. Terry Well, Florida braces for a major hurricane.

Speaker 6 (01:33:21):
That's right, Milton.

Speaker 22 (01:33:22):
One hundred and forty five mile an hour sustained winds
at the moment, according to the National Hurricane Center as
of about twelve minutes ago, but it'll kind of strengthen
a little bit more and stay a major hurricane as
it heads towards Florida. Landfall sometime late Wednesday and a
Thursday right across central Florida, and historic levels of storm surge.

Speaker 6 (01:33:45):
Expected along the west coast of Florida.

Speaker 22 (01:33:48):
Around here, high pressure is our dominant weather feature that's
allowed some dryer air to make its way into Southeast Texas.
You're gonna notice the lower humidity that is always a
nice change of pace. Still on the warp side though,
upper eighties to low nineties this afternoon. Temperatures tonight in
the sixties, sunny and dry no run through Saturday, and

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afternoons in the upper eighties to low nineties through Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
Temperature right now is still seventy one at your official
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Houston's Morning News, brought to you buy new South windows solutions.
Now back to Jimmy and Sherah with the info you need.

Speaker 19 (01:34:26):
To take on the day.

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
Oh yeah, that port strike, you know, the one that
lasted just long enough for millions of people to run
to the grocery store buying paper towels and toilet paper. Yeah,
I think they're a little.

Speaker 6 (01:34:39):
They were limiting how many you could buy at Lows
for instance.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
That's because there's a runner run of the store, run
on the store from people who getting freaky over at
port strike. That didn't impact toilet paper or paper towels.
But anyway, that whole thing ended as quickly as it started.
Have you been wondering why we'll talking about that next?
First though, let's dough traffic and weather together. Check out
the drive once again.

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
Here'scoy Man all right, more big recks East Freeway Mercury
that's inbound, big pack up from Federal Southwest has had
its issues northbound before the loop. We're still backed up
from Fondering. They're both clear. Two ninety inbound at the
belt that wreck you got two a stall in a
wreck Callum and the North Belt on the North Freeway
inbound southbound back up from Ayrtechs. And of course forty

(01:35:21):
five is completely shut down going into Conrad from the
Sanjacino River Bridge seven thirty. I'll have more reroutes for
you and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
Center from r KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center for today, Tomorrow, and Thursday. All three days
sunny and warm, with the temperature right about ninety less
humid though, so it'll it'll feel a little bit cooler
than the one that has lately. Temperature right now is
currently seventy one at your official severe weather station, news
Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to get caught up on

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Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
Almost as quickly as it began, the port strike was over,
well the least delayed until the middle of January. Joining
us to talk about political analyst w George at us
also in the RNC as a committee woman. Welcome back
to the show, Debbie. Do you are you a little
suspicious of the whole strike in general? There's some people
who think that maybe this whole thing was a setup

(01:37:12):
so that the Biden Harris administration could quickly solve it
and look good.

Speaker 34 (01:37:18):
I think a lot of people are thinking that. I
also think they'll probably try to claim that, But there
are a lot of deeper dynamics going on. I mean,
the unions normally support Democrats, and Democrats support unions, but
the very things are changing in this world, and in
particular the union world that used to always support the
Democrat Party isn't doing that so much anymore. Teamsters Teamsters

(01:37:42):
recently voted and members voted sixty to thirty eight that
they prefer Trump over over Harris. So I think the
battle going on right now between the Union and the
and America really is. I think the union people figured
out this is not going to play well if we
strike during an election season, going to hurt people, and
they didn't want to be unstrike. I think the economy

(01:38:04):
is really bad, and they already recognized people the American
people would turn against the unions if they really mess
up our supply chain. So I think they decided it
was a bad time to strike. But I also think
they think Republicans are friendlier to unions than they used
to be friendlier to the American people.

Speaker 6 (01:38:21):
The American workers, not so much the union leadership. You know,
the minute all those stories started getting thrown out there
about the head of the union and his salary and
how he lives and what he drives, all of a
sudden that it took a different narrative, didn't it, Oh
it did?

Speaker 21 (01:38:41):
They lived?

Speaker 34 (01:38:42):
You know, the union leaders with Bentley's and yachts. It's
always offensive. But you know, I'm trying to say why
I have this plays in the politics. Is Donald Trump
has managed, in the time he's been prominent in the
political world to convey a message to American families, American workers,
we either Republicans, we care about the people, we care
about keeping jobs in America.

Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
We care about.

Speaker 34 (01:39:05):
Families being able to put food in the table, and
the Democrats have made a very leftist, globalist turn. The
whole party is more concerned about globalism and less concerned
about America and Americans, and I think that is really
resonating within union membership in this country. I do think
the Democrats will try to claim this is a big
victory for them, but I think the long term dynamic

(01:39:27):
favors unions began to realize it's Republicans who want to
keep their jobs safe and keep the American economy safe.

Speaker 3 (01:39:33):
Well, that became very evident with the Teamsters, as you said,
because they pulled the Teamsters membership and it was over
sixty percent in favor of Donald Trump.

Speaker 34 (01:39:41):
Isn't that just staggering? And you know, they did three
different polls. I think they were trying to figure out
maybe that was an anomaly. But yeah, I think you know,
hard working Americans, whether a union member or not, you
can see what the Democrat Party is doing to America.
They are globalist minded, They're fine with jobs going over
and American workers want the jobs here. They like the

(01:40:03):
message of Donald Trump and today's Republican Party we believe
in the American economy, the American worker keeping jobs here,
and will adjust our policies, our trade deals to make
that happen. That's a great message to working people and
union members, and I think it really is resonating.

Speaker 6 (01:40:20):
Well, it's not just some members, it's a group that's
negotiating the contracts and holding the contracts. Are multinational and
they're globalists, and you know, we're going to get to
revisit it again January fifteenth.

Speaker 19 (01:40:32):
We are.

Speaker 34 (01:40:32):
They put off resolving the automation issue, and they settled wages,
which was a big piece, But in the automation parts.
You know, on the one hand, unions already have a
lot of automation in their ports. They're not physically lifting
these massive crates off of these carriers and physically carrying
them onto the docks.

Speaker 19 (01:40:52):
There already using automation.

Speaker 34 (01:40:54):
But I think there's a concern and I think it's
justified if you could automate so much of what worked
due And again, if you're a union person, you're saying, who,
which party here is going to care that there aren't
jobs in America? Which party is going to help us
get either push more American made products make the automation
products in America, so jobs go there. They want to

(01:41:17):
hear from the parties. I care about the American worker,
and the Democratists are not conveying that anymore. Put me,
the automation issue will come up in January fifteenth.

Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
I think it is all right, Debbie. Thanks for joining
US political analyst Debbie. George Gatis joining us at seven
twenty seventy. This time to take a look at your money.
Here's Courtney Donahoe.

Speaker 28 (01:41:34):
Good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 32 (01:41:35):
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Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
It's seven thirty one. Now you're in Houston's Bording News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Fryer. Among our top
stories this f hour, average Harris County homeowner has had
a thirty percent tax increase over the last two years.
The port strike settlement, it's temporary and coming up at
seven thirty eight. Five things that frugal people never buy.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

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we're checking out that drive again. Here's a very busy
Skymike two.

Speaker 5 (01:42:47):
Ninety inbound at the belt. That's a wrec.

Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
We're backed up from TELGA two eighty eight northbound at
the Belt. That's two left lines in a wreck East
Freeway Mercury that has you with suckage from Normandy. And
if you're on the North Freeway forty five, don't go there, Conrad.

Speaker 5 (01:43:01):
That's a complete shutdown. Nothing good is happening there.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
A through m jump on forty eighteen eighty eight to
Hony Egypt in through Z jump on two forty two
go to Old Houston Road. To fourteen eighty five. We'll
keep rerouting you. This is going to be around a while.
Skymike and the classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
From our KTRH Generator supercenter, twenty four hour weather center
for today, Sonny Bless Human high temperature right about ninety
similar forecast for the rest of the week. We'll check
in with the Weather Channel and Terry Smith and get
you an updated in eight minutes. Temperature right now is
sixty nine at your official severe weather station. News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's

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Sheriff Pryer.

Speaker 6 (01:43:39):
Good morning, everyone, is seven thirty two on news Radio
seven forty KTRH. Our top story, this is our local
democrats taking our money. Harris County Commissioner's Court. Yeah, they
went ahead and passed at eight percent property tax HI
last month. The Democrats who control everything, on top of
the last two years during which again the Democrat majority

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raised rates by nearly thirty percent.

Speaker 33 (01:44:03):
Rice's Bill King is raising the alarm warning that Euson
and Harris County, because of these high tax rates, could
turn into another Democrat led city.

Speaker 31 (01:44:11):
This was the path to short started down. They kept
raising taxes, they wouldn't cut expenses, crime got out.

Speaker 19 (01:44:17):
Of control, and the population plummeted.

Speaker 31 (01:44:19):
The population of Detroit in nineteen fifty was almost two
million people today at six hundred thousand.

Speaker 33 (01:44:25):
Not only is Harris County raising taxes, but the city
of Houston is talking about it too.

Speaker 19 (01:44:29):
Cliff Saunders News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:44:33):
And Commissioner's Court meeting again this morning. Democrats claimed victory
after the port strike was paused into January, sign of
the less foundation cracking. However, according to RNC Committee Woman
Debbie Georgiatis, she says unions are seeing that the Democrats
do not care about the working class American workers or
main street economies.

Speaker 34 (01:44:55):
They can see the Democrats don't stand up for them,
and they see Donald Trump, You're trying to keep the
economy strong, keep America workers strong. Leadership of the unions
have been rattled by this shift among their membership who
no longer think the Democrat Party is their ally and politics.

Speaker 6 (01:45:11):
And she told us this pause is the crutch for Kamala.
It's now seven thirty four.

Speaker 28 (01:45:19):
Please prepare quickly and get out of the city.

Speaker 6 (01:45:25):
Tampa Mayor Jane Costeor Hurricane Milton Category four one hundred
forty mile one hundred forty five mile per hour winds,
making a bee line for the Florida Peninsula, expected to
weaken further but still be a major hurricane, making landfall
near Tampa tomorrow. Milton strikes even as the Biden Harris
regime hasn't caught up to the devastation of the entire

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southeast from Hurricane Helene. Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy criticizes
Harris for not allocating more aid to the recovery efforts
here in America.

Speaker 7 (01:46:01):
North Carolina is a disaster and it was also hit
very hard. But they don't have the people and they're
complaining there's no people around to help.

Speaker 19 (01:46:09):
That was a horrific storm.

Speaker 6 (01:46:12):
Oops. That obviously was not the Louisiana Senator John Kennedy,
he did that. That was Donald Trump with Fox's Laura Ingram.
More than one hundred and fifteen thousand people in North
Carolina don't have powers still, it's been two weeks almost
now since Helene hit. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is directing
Lone Star resources to Florida ahead of the storm. Milton,

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Abbot sending aid to the state of Tennessee too, helping
with the recovery from Hurricane Helene. There states with Republican
governors who ask for and accept our help. People in
North Carolina they're still in a fight just to survive,
to recover from the catastrophe. FEMA under fire still for mismanagement.

Speaker 23 (01:46:57):
Unfortunately, what you've had is somebody asleep of wheel. Nobody
knows who's in charge, and I think it has delayed
the provision of necessary resources to the people of North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
They're angry.

Speaker 6 (01:47:09):
Ohio Senator VP candidate jd Vance there. He says it's
the result of FEMA being used, it's resources being diverted
to care for illegal aliens among us. Seven thirty six
is our time. Our Attorney General Ken Paxson sending a
letter again requesting that the FEDS provide data on the

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illegally registered voters in Texas. He wants the list of
names that were registered without providing Texas driver's license or
a valid ID. Got more than eighteen million names in
our voter roles here, an increase of almost nine percent
over twenty twenty. Political scientists at Rice University Mark Jones

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says it doesn't mean Texas is any closer though, to
turning blue.

Speaker 20 (01:47:54):
Texas's population is growing, therefore its number of registered voters
is growing. Those registered voters, though, are more Latino and
less white. Thought the Republicans are doing better among Latinos
than they were four years ago.

Speaker 6 (01:48:08):
Harris County more registered voters, we don't know whether they're
legal or not than any other county in Texas. Jones
predicts wins for both Donald Trump and US Senator Ted
Cruz here in this state. But Cruse says Democrats have
thrown everything they have Adham specifically what two hundred million
dollars can buy.

Speaker 35 (01:48:28):
They are coming after me with everything they have. Bernie
Sanders and AOC were in Texas this week. AOC said,
if we flipped Texas, we transformed the country for a generation.

Speaker 6 (01:48:39):
The polling group five point thirty eight dot com has
Cruise leading Colin Allread by just three points forty seven
to forty four percent seven point thirty seven. Now, Texans
lost their star wide receiver Nico Collins to a hamstring
injury during Sunday's win over Buffalo. Could be a while
before he returns, and they will be visiting New England

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on Sunday, I'm sure By Fryar on News Radio seven
forty KRH.

Speaker 42 (01:49:06):
Need some erosion control. Daniel Deane land clearing in dirt
work two eight, one, three, five six dirt Info at
this speed of Houston right now. Suston's Morning News continues
with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar.

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
Here's the question to start with this, Sheriff Fryar, let
you get your thoughts. What is the difference between being
cheap and being frugal? Yeah, that's a fun one, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:49:34):
My mother's My mother's way of referring to herself was
I'm Scotch. I said, no, mother, that's a drink. You're Scottish.
I'm Scotch.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
Boy. She really played it.

Speaker 28 (01:49:46):
She was tight.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
She played into that stereotype, didn't she. Oh boy about
the Scotsman being tight, tight with the butt. I think
the difference between personally, the difference between cheap and frugal
is it's just a matter of perspective, right when when
cheap is often seen as a negative, you know, you're
you're a type one.

Speaker 6 (01:50:05):
You won't you're going for the bottom line rather than
the value, right.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
Well, frugal is more of a your wise with your
money sort of phrase. Right, you value your money exactly
to me, that's the difference. Here are five necessities. We're
told that frugal people do not buy number one on
the list of new cell phone. If you are the
kind of person who gets the latest technology when it

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comes out.

Speaker 6 (01:50:29):
If it were.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
I only, I only get new technology when I are
new cell phone, when the other ones, you know, at
the point where it it just has to be replaced,
I'll do it. Then I'll get the latest and greatest
at that point. But I'll wait until that point.

Speaker 6 (01:50:45):
Or they stopped doing updates for you right in order
to force you to buy a new one.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
Yeah. Single use bottled water is something else that frugal
people don't buy. If they're going to buy bottled water,
they'll buy by the you know, by the multi gallon jug,
versus buying it in in single use work lunch. They
don't go out to eat for work. In other words,
if your work and your co workers go out gaba
bye the hamburger stand or the cafeteria or wherever, they don't.

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They bring a brown bag from home. They pack their lunch.
They don't buy their lunch. They don't have an Amazon
Prime membership. They might buy things from Amazon, but they're
not going to spend the money on the Prime on
a Prime in order to get free delivery. And the
last one that made the list was supplements. This is interesting.

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Nearly seventy five percent of American adults take some sort
of a dietary supplement or vitamin or what have you
on a daily basis. A bottle of supplements can cost
anywhere from a few dollars to over one hundred bucks.
If that money is a meaningful investment to your health,
it's not something to cut from your budget. But the
scientific evidence of supplement benefits is unclear. In other words,

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if you see that vitamin is something that is expensive
in your not sure.

Speaker 6 (01:52:00):
For a special concoction brought to you only, and you
have to watch this video and be sure you sign
up right now and you can save even more money
if you buy six you set.

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
Is three or signed for a one year subscription round.

Speaker 6 (01:52:12):
Yeah, I fall for that stuff. It's not frugal at all.

Speaker 3 (01:52:16):
I was gonna say frugal people don't seven forty one
time for traffic and whether.

Speaker 4 (01:52:19):
It's like had divorces to that list it's not good
financial planning to get divorces frugal cs.

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
Frugal people oftentimes are shocked by their divorce settlements, are
they not?

Speaker 4 (01:52:29):
Yeah, I won the last one though. All right, let's go, Sarah.
I need a glass of Scottish. By the way, this
is two ninety. We are two ninetyed up now. It's
an accident. Everybody's okay at the Beltway and we're packed
up all the way from Cypress Rose Hill or Cypress
North Houston on the inbound. So that's about a twenty
five minute spackle in. You know what, jump over to

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two forty nine if you can. I'm going to Reroute
forty five. Hang on, you still have the problem on
it in East Mercury, the East Freeway. That's two right
lines packed up from Normandy two eighty eight. Clear that
wreck at the belt Way, stopping and going now from
McCart northbound forty five north outbound frontage at west Road.
Nothing's good happening there. All the lanes are blocks southbound.

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They cleared the stall at the belt and the inbound
wreck that's there, but we're all spackled up from air techs.

Speaker 5 (01:53:16):
I've got forty five.

Speaker 4 (01:53:17):
North We've had a lot of discussion on how to
get around all that suckage, because whatever's going on at
forty five with the truck, nothing's good. It's going into
Conrod from the Sanjracino River Bridge. The whole thing is
shut down.

Speaker 26 (01:53:29):
Jim from Kingwood, Guy, Mike, Jim from Kingwood to get
around the forty five Miss thirteen fourteen is no longer
a good alternate. It is packed up approximately a mile
and a half.

Speaker 21 (01:53:42):
Two.

Speaker 5 (01:53:42):
I don't want to say I told you so, but
I knew that was not good. Old Houston Road.

Speaker 4 (01:53:47):
Mango from Willis gave me that Old Houston Road to
thirty eighty three goes back to one oh five, and
we'll have more reroutes becuse this will be around a while.
Sky Mike on the Classic Buick GMC Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
Center from r KTRH generator of supercent twenty four hour
weather senter Terry Smith is standing by plenty of sunshine
and our forecast, hearing, oh yeah, nothing.

Speaker 22 (01:54:06):
But sunshine in our forecast. We've had some drier air
make its way into southeast Texas, so that's probably what
you're going to notice today. In the next couple of days,
just a little less humidity and a little bit cooler
in the morning hours quite pleasant actually, but afternoons are
warm still even for this time of year. Usually we're
in the mid eighties, well upper eighties to low nineties today, Tomorrow, Thursday, Friday,

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and Saturday.

Speaker 6 (01:54:28):
But at night your temperatures in the sixties.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
Temperature right now is sixty nine at your official severe
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Fox Is. Will Caine joins us in just a couple
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talk to him about that and a whole lot more. Next. First, though,
traffic and weather together. As we check out the drive again.
Here's sky Mike Wes Sam.

Speaker 4 (01:54:59):
Look out southbound at the Katie Freeway exit.

Speaker 19 (01:55:02):
That's another accident here.

Speaker 3 (01:55:03):
This is on that ramp.

Speaker 5 (01:55:04):
It's crazy two ninety inbound right at the beltway. That wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:55:07):
As you backed up from Cyprus North Houston forty five
north going up into Conro outbound, not inbound totally shut down.
Big ugly truck wreck here, and I've got reroutes on
my social media.

Speaker 5 (01:55:19):
We'll keep them going.

Speaker 4 (01:55:20):
Got another update at eight o'clock in the classic Buick
GMC traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
From our KTRH generator is super Center twenty four hour
weather Center, sunny and less himid today, Tomorrow and Thursday
right about ninety all three days guarding temperature sixty nine
at your official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty
k TRH. We're checking out some of our top training
stories here on this Tuesday. Here's Sha.

Speaker 6 (01:55:44):
It's now seven fifty one on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
Forecasters expect Milton to be a major hurricane when it
makes landfall near Tampa, Florida tomorrow. Luke Colmbs Eric Church
going to be taking part in a Hurricane Helene relief
concert in Charlotte later this month. Comcast revealing a data
breach It could have affected over two hundred and thirty
thousand customers. Latest news anytime KTORH dot com. Our next

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update will be at the top of the hour. I
will probably put my record against him.

Speaker 19 (01:56:13):
She's absolutely terrible.

Speaker 44 (01:56:15):
Your decision twenty twenty four headquarters is Youth Radio seven
forty k t RH Texan Fellow Texan Fox's Will Kine
joins us this morning as a brand new show on
KTRH at nine o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
We'll ask you about that in the second, Will, But
why I get your thoughts here on what's been going
on the kind of the war of the words right
now between FEMA, the director of FEMA, Governor Ron de
Santis in Florida, you know, the Biden Harris administration saying
they he won't accept their phone calls. Get a little
battle royale going on over what's been happening with hurricane

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relief with Helena And I'm sure after tomorrow anyway, what's
happening with hurricane relief with Milton.

Speaker 19 (01:56:55):
Yeah, good morning, Jimmy, Good morning Sarah.

Speaker 46 (01:56:57):
That's gonna be a double punch that I'm Americans that
North Carolinians, Georgians, Floridans, Florindians just don't need when it
comes to these hurricanes. The little battle royale you're talking about,
you know, it's a shame. It is a shame because
Americans need help in these moments.

Speaker 19 (01:57:15):
A year ago, you know, I grew up. It sounds
like I'm about to do a Kamala Harris answer, doesn't it.
I grew up in a middle class family. I grew up.
I grew up in the small town north of Dallas.

Speaker 46 (01:57:28):
But in the summers, I was fortunate enough with my
dad and started doing this in nineteen seventies, started going
to Hawaii and we went to Lehina, Maui, and I
grew up around that community. So you'll remember, I think
most people listening in will that that town eighty percent
of it burned down last summer.

Speaker 19 (01:57:45):
Just it was a really, really sad story.

Speaker 46 (01:57:47):
And I got to see, honestly in the way that
lot of people from Houston probably seen and experienced natural disasters.
I mean, you guys have seen hurricanes down there, and
I got to see firsthand, first of all, the devastating
off of these things. But secondarily, it is beyond inspirational
to see the way Americans treat one another. And I

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truly do think, while it's also human nature, it's uniquely
and profoundly American neighbors jumping into the breach to help
neighbors putting out fires in North Carolina run helicopters.

Speaker 19 (01:58:19):
So what I'm getting at is, you know, I do
agree Jimmy.

Speaker 46 (01:58:22):
It's first of all, we need to be able to
criticize the response of government bureaucracy without being accused of disinformation.

Speaker 19 (01:58:28):
We just need to be able to.

Speaker 46 (01:58:29):
We also have to be responsible enough to tell the
truth about what's happening, both critically and positively. And my
biggest thing when you see this, having been there on
the ground, when you see this stuff, you need to
look at the awesome and inspirational nature of your neighbor,
your fellow American.

Speaker 6 (01:58:47):
Well, we've provided it, We saw it. We did it
firsthand here in Houston for Katrina victims. But we ran
into bureaucracies that we're trying to shut down. You know,
forty thousand volunteers that were already ORG and Eyes through
the Houston Live CEC show and rodeo, and we had
to wait on approval from bureaucracies in order to be
able to step in and give these people help. I mean,

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it was crazy.

Speaker 46 (01:59:10):
It's a great That is such a great point, and
I appreciate you reminded me of that because from a
huge community perspective, I don't know that you could ever
point to anyone more than Houston.

Speaker 19 (01:59:19):
You took in almost an entire town. And look, yeah,
when I say that, it's not me trying to be
you know, come by, y'all, let's all look for the positive.
There is definitely problems. Look, femis slow to react.

Speaker 46 (01:59:31):
Their first instant, in their first instinct is to clamp
down and exert a bureaucratic power. I saw it in Hawai.
We're seeing it in North Carolina. Sadly, we may see
it in Florida soon. So therefore you're going to see them.
They requisition goods, and sometimes it's with good intentions. The
requisitioning of goods is to ensure, oh, not too much
is over here at point A when some of it

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needs to be at point B. But it gets in
the way of getting things done. Often when the first
instinct needs to be you know, there's a congressman from
Florida and Corey Mills.

Speaker 19 (02:00:01):
I mean, just jump into the.

Speaker 46 (02:00:02):
Frame and start swinging your start swinging your fist, and
I mean that metaphorically, of course, and getting stuff done,
getting action done.

Speaker 19 (02:00:09):
And that's not what happens with governments.

Speaker 3 (02:00:11):
No, there's no action with bureaucracies. Hey, well, we're plumb
out of time, but I want to wish you all
the best of luck with the news show. You can
hear it tonight starting at nine o'clock here in news
Radio seven forty k tr H. You got a great
example there which can be We're excited to have you.
Thanks for joining us this morning. That's Foxes Will Cane.
You all have a great day. We'll see tomorrow morning,
bright and early five am. I'll see you this afternoon

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four on Am nine to fifty KPRC.