Texas Oil Optimistic About The Trump Years

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 11/14/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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what matters to you from the John Morris Services studios.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, good morning, five am is our time here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
as we get started this morning, Trump has nominated Matt
Gates for dirty General Texas Oil, optimistic about the Trump years,
and coming up with five oh eight For those of
you who are looking for a little more solitude details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(00:39):
let's check in the sky, Mike, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Gonna say for those of you about to rock all right,
so let's get busy on the freeways here.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
We still have this Fred Hartman deal.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
This is let me look, there's what used to be
the DuPont plant. So we are looking north found we're
missing two right lanes here coming up from the Laporte
side to the Baytown side. So I'm gonna paved at work.
I'm starting to get a little suspicious. Why are they
fixing northbound? About a one or two minute scoot shift
that pardon me, I wouldn't change courses if I were

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you skylike on the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
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Center for today and tomorrow, both sunny and mild with
a high temperature right on seventy five both days. We'll
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be dealing with a hurricane here in a few more days.
We'll have more on that too when we talk to
Terry Smith at the Weather Channel. Temperature right now is
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seven forty k t RH Eightio. Is time now for
the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Thank you, Jimmy our top story at five o two.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Are you not entertained?

Speaker 6 (01:44):
I mean, this is the most entertaining transition I've ever seen.
CNN Scott Jennings there reacting to the selection of Florida
Congressman Matt Gates as Donald Trump's Attorney General.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Matt Gates is very bright. I think he's qualified.

Speaker 7 (01:58):
He'll have a hearing, and he'll have some tough questions
to answer.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
Gates resigned his seat from Congress ahead of a House
Ethics Committee meeting. His seat is expected to be filled
by January. Three other Trump picks Yesterday, Tulsea Gabbard named
Director of National Intelligence. Florida's Marco Rubio was officially picked
as Secretary of State. Now the man in charge of
getting Trump's picks confirmed in the Senate is new Majority

(02:22):
Leader John Thoon of South Dakota.

Speaker 7 (02:24):
It's a new day in the United States Senate, and
it's a new day in America. The American people have
loudly rejected the failed policies of the Biden Harris Schumer agenda.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Thuon defeated Texas As John Cornyn and Florida's Rick Scott.
Mike Johnson retains his House speakership after yesterday's vote.

Speaker 8 (02:43):
I believe it will be the most consequential Congress of
the modern era, most consequential administration in the modern era, because, frankly,
we have to fix almost every area of bo A policy.

Speaker 6 (02:52):
Fox and NBC finally called the House race for the
GOP from the Capitol to the Oval Office. The President
met with Joe Biden at the White House yesterday.

Speaker 9 (03:02):
I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth. It'll
be as smooth as it can get. And I very
much appreciate that.

Speaker 10 (03:10):
Jed.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
Here are Biden telling Trump at one point, welcome back
after years of being hurt by Biden's regulations. Texas oil
producers are cautiously optimistic about the second Trump administration.

Speaker 11 (03:24):
While more cheap oil would be great, drilling too much
could cause problems.

Speaker 12 (03:28):
It's going to be good until it's not, which means
that until he puts out so much oil that price
to go to twenty thirty bucks a barrel and all
of a sudden, everybody loses their jobs.

Speaker 11 (03:37):
Young CEO of King Operating Corporation, told KTRH is crucial
that we balance supply and demand.

Speaker 12 (03:42):
What I'd like to see Trump do is just take
it easy in the industry and not to open up
the floodgates because the infrastructure is not there.

Speaker 11 (03:51):
Jung says that he is hopeful Trump will lift Biden's
ban on exporting liquid natural gas out of Texas. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
It's five oh four or Lawmakers continue to file bills
ahead of the January legislative session in Austin. Jonathan Signs
with Texas Values tells KTRH we could see the return
of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick's bathroom bill from twenty seventeen.

Speaker 13 (04:14):
It shouldn't be any surprise that we would see the
Texas legislature take up these important issues, and the bill
has already been filed by Mays Milton. Let's restore common
sense and let's protect privacy and safety for our girls.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Utah and Florida already have similar laws.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Meantime, Senator Phil King filed legislation to refund Ustonians for
those unused center point generators we told you about after
Hurricane Beryl. The US and Mexico I've agreed to an
amendment to a nineteen forty four water treaty, but will
it help South Texas deal with its drought.

Speaker 14 (04:48):
The new option lets them meet their water release quota,
but it's a smoke screen.

Speaker 15 (04:52):
There's nothing that requires Mexico to honor that. The only
way we're going to get their attention is under the
next administration call that will hit them in their pocket books.

Speaker 14 (05:02):
State Senator Charles Perry says the track record shows they
won't hold up their end, and it's because the US
has been soft on enforcement.

Speaker 15 (05:09):
They have resources that they could have released to com
mitigate it. The lack of brainfall on outside of the
border's hat. They just choose not to do it.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
He says.

Speaker 14 (05:18):
They only came to the table because they know Trump
will be tougher. Andre Perard and there's radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
It's five oh five on KTRH. The October inflation numbers
warm prices win zp point two percent. They're up two
point six percent year over year, while core inflation annually
is up three point three percent. Trump's new Department of
Government Efficiency could be the key to finally getting those
numbers under control.

Speaker 16 (05:45):
That will look at the discretionary and mandatory side of spending,
and we will find first of all waste abuse and fraud,
and then look for areas that we're just spending excessively
and we think there's a neighborhood of a trillion dollars there.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Pennsylvania Congressman Dan Muser on Fox Business Trouble. On the
real estate market, experts say Austin is now ground zero
for a property market crash. Realter Cliff Freeman says demand
in the market is outweighing supply in the lone star state.

Speaker 17 (06:14):
There is so much pent up demand across the country
right now now that we have certainty, and now that
people know or at least can make some educated guess
about where things might be headed, then they can now
make those decisions about selling.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
He remains optimistic that the market will be good for
both buyers and sellers starting next year. Coming up on
five oh seven, your Thanksgiving, well, the Turkey Day's going
to gobble up more of your cash this time around.
A new lending Tree survey finds the average cost to
host Thanksgiving dinner is up nineteen percent this year.

Speaker 18 (06:49):
If you just want to do what you did last
year for Thanksgiving, it's going to cost you a whole
lot more than the average sin is about four hundred
and thirty dollars. That's a lot, especially when you talk
about how many people are living on tight budget.

Speaker 19 (07:04):
Lending Tree analyst Matt Schultz says many folks are cutting
side dishes, inviting fewer guests, or dropping plans to host altogether.
And all six and ten say inflation is impacting their
Thanksgiving plans. Corey Olsen News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Corey and the Rockets beat the Clippers one eleven to
one oh three. They'll play the Clippers again tomorrow in
the NBA's in season Tournament. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news,
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Speaker 20 (07:31):
Informed for today's world, for tomorrow's America, and connected to Houston.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
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Speaker 2 (07:43):
All right, for those who wants some alone time, some
solitude sometime by yourself, your own little place where you
can get away from your spouse and your kids and
all that kind of stuff. Are you aware that Costco
now sells a solitude shed? You know what this reminds me.
I'm for those of you who are a little bit older,

(08:05):
you may know that way way back in the day,
I mean we're talking like early nineteen hundreds, Sears in
the Sears catalog, you could pick out a house and
they would send you all the things to build that house,
and you'd build their Craftsmen houses. That's where the name
Craftsmen came from. Sears. My whole house. Now, Costco you

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can buy a solitude shed for about two four hundred
and fifty four bucks. So what do you get for
twenty four hundred bucks in the solitude shed? It's like
a normal storage shed, except they took it up a notch.
It includes installation, shipping, a finished interior with dry wall
and insulation, a full electrical and lighting package, and everything

(08:53):
else you can customize online, including the signing, color and
the flooring, and then you put out in your backyard
and you stay in it when you're looking to be alone.
I guess the sheds range in size by ten by
twelve or of to sixteen by sixteen. Of course you
have to be a member Costco in order to order
this thing kind of makes Is this making a comeback?
Is late like the Seeker's House where you can order

(09:15):
the things to build your own little house. Is that
making a comeback? Maybe? I don't know. Solitude shed I
think they what they calling them she sheds for a while,
you know, these little little outbuildings for for women to
do yoga and to get away from the kids, that
kind of thing. Well, now they're just they're opening it
up for everybody and calling it a solitude shed for
those who want to be alone. Five to ten time

(09:37):
for traffic and weather together. As we check out the
drive with sky Mike, there's a.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Lot of solitude going on into the Ghetto House.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
All right, we're looking at that speaking of parties for
one yeah, Lord Freeway I forty five.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
You know what, Let's go over by my house and
check out the Harding Connector. Here we look good, Harding
Toll Road, spring into the North Loop sixty ten, rock.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
And long nineteen minutes. They don't come at the heart.
Aready buying for nothing?

Speaker 3 (10:01):
U Nord Freeway, Rayford sawdust rocking along twenty two minutes.
Let's go back further Conroe. There we are, Conrad. You
look gorgeous. I wish I was like Ghetto Dave going
up and fishing on late Conro this morning.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
East Text New Cane. You're all bougie.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Now it's an easy thirty one minute drive in rest
you for freeways rocking along?

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Help me.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
You know we're always the first to know what's going on.
And we're right back here in twenty minutes, twenty minutes,
ten minutes, seven one three two one two t I
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the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
You ever eat out by yourself? Mike here?

Speaker 20 (10:34):
Oh I love to, I love to just really chill.
You sit in the booth all by yourself.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well, you know, usually I get in a nice conversation
with the white person.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, dude, you realize that the other people in the
restaurant are going, Wow, look at that guy. He's all
by himself. Isn't that sad? But from our katrh top
tax Defenders twenty four hour web sentages, I guess it does.
Nobody nobody will nag you about what you're ordering off
the menu when you're by yourself a server and no
one gets jealous. That's nice. Okay about here's a Terry

(11:04):
Smith with an update on the forecast. A super moon
sure is pretty this morning.

Speaker 21 (11:08):
Yes, it is a beautiful morning with the clear skies
and somewhat cooler temperatures this morning. But we're going to
enjoy a mild day today and tomorrow and then start
warming up into the weekend. A load of mid seventies
for highs today and an excellent view of the moon
overnight tonight as well.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Mid forties to mid fifties tonight.

Speaker 21 (11:30):
It's going to be a little bit cool tomorrow, load
to mid seventies for highs and then starting to warm
up Saturday and Sunday. No rain right now, temperature is
near eighty and then we have a seventy percent chance
of rain. Another cold front on the way Monday.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
All right, when we talk again, let's find out about
what's going to become Sarah, because I'm stand Florida might
be having to deal with that here not too far.

Speaker 21 (11:51):
Yeah, that's going to be another interesting situation, kind of
similar to Raphael.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
But yeah, let's talk about that.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Next right now. Fifty six at your officials, the Bee
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Speaker 20 (12:05):
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Speaker 2 (12:11):
I don't have a song for this one, because I
don't think there's this song out there available for you know. Doze?
Is that how we're pronouncing it? Doze or dash doze doze?
The Department of Government Efficiency that'll be headed up by
Elon Musk and thevek Rama Swamming, which their goal is

(12:31):
to trim two trillion dollars from the federal budget and
to do it by July the fourth of next year,
and then for them to just go away.

Speaker 22 (12:47):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I mean, just the idea of that is pretty amazing,
don't you think? Here's what Elon Musk was saying on
the campaign trail about Doge and some reaction to this
whole idea that we might get control over the government bureaucracy.
Your money is being wasted and the Department of Government divisions.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
He is going to fix them.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
We're going to get the government off your back and
out of your pocketbook.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Musk and Vivek just perfect.

Speaker 23 (13:18):
And I think must might be running for president. I'm
gonna put it out there.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Where was he born?

Speaker 23 (13:26):
Oh, we can hello, Jesse ah Man. I'm predicting he's
not running for president. But so I looked at some
of the things we're spending money on. Twenty thousand dollars
for a drag show in Ecuador, one hundred thousand dollars
to study if sunfish become more aggressive when given gin
or tequila. One hundred thousand dollars to study of quail

(13:46):
are more promiscuous if given cocaine.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
You don't need to study.

Speaker 23 (13:50):
They are two hundred thousand dollars to make monkeys transgender.
So that just you take that off the table right there,
and then we get ripped off for half a t
brillion dollars judge each year for fraud we're defrauded for
a half a trillion dollars.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
They just steal it and.

Speaker 23 (14:08):
No one cares, no one does anything about it. We've
had now four years in a row of a seven
trillion dollar budget. Now before the pandemic, it was like
three or four trillionaire, which has doubled it, and then
we kept it going even after the pandemic's over. So
you got to slash that.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
You got to get rid of all.

Speaker 23 (14:24):
These departments, and you got to make sure some of
these people. If you move, say the Department of Education
to I.

Speaker 24 (14:30):
Don't know, Omaha, maybe people don't want to relocate to Omaha.
Maybe that may prompt them to look for jobs elsewhere,
and that could help us out a lot because we're
thirty six trillion dollars in debt.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I would prefer we just get rid of the Department
of Education. But but you know, I get what he's saying,
and that has been proposed by plenty of people. If
you've got departments out of Washington, DC and spread them
around the country, then you can kind of break the
back of these buraucats. I think there's something to that.
Five twenty time try and weather together cut. But yeah,

(15:03):
I wouldn't mind cutting that budgets guy, Mike.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, let's take a look at your North Freeway inbound
at cross Timbers. I have an accident blocking two right lanes.
Use caution in the area. Backup is now west troop. Sorry,
what's wrong with me southbound? That's an extra twelve minutes
this way? Big shots jump on the hardy commoners. Your
East Texas looking dandy at the moment. We still have
the heart Membridge. I wish I knew what they were
fixing northbound two right lanes from the laport side, and

(15:27):
my workwife, Christina Cruz, gave me some pavement repair. What
there still is this is two twenty five hard hats
right past Richie. You could get by it, just it's
kind of a scooch coming over from Red Bluff. I'm
Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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If NPR doesn't work, got you send that audition taped
to the golf channel. That's probably working for barkatrh top
tax defenders. Twenty four hour weather channel for today sonny
mild seventy five. Same thing tomorrow Saturday, partly clotty. I
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Speaker 6 (16:10):
Thank you, Jimmy. We are sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. A
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Texas Governor Greg Gabbott wants to freeze tuition at state
colleges and universities for another two years, and researchers at
Texas A and M say they've developed a nasal spray
that could delay the prequestion of Alzheimer's disease by years.

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Speaker 25 (16:38):
Under construction too eighty eight sixty ten accidents.

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Speaker 2 (16:46):
Five twenty three is time here in Houston's Sporting You
can go go down sit in the asterroom. Now there's
not much deceae. There hasn't been much decea for a
long long time. Listen, I get it. It's the eighth
wonder of the world. I get it. People want to
save it, which is why it sits there, unused and untapped,

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and why we have yet another plan now on how
we can develop the astrodom. Now, this plan has a
price tag of you ready, billion dollars one billion, which
would be a combination we're told of public and private money. Okay,
how much Harris County taxpayers? How much public money should

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go into this and what would they use it for.
KPRC to our television partner, did a little report on
the press conference yesterday by the Astrodome Conservatory. Here's a
little bit about what they had to say about what
to expect if this plan actually comes to fruition.

Speaker 26 (17:44):
I think there are always challenges with public finances, but
I think this is the best proposal that has ever
been thought of for redeveloping the astrodom because it brings
in money from other sources. It doesn't all come from
the county, so it really is the most affordable way
to redevelop the astronom.

Speaker 27 (18:05):
The plan proposes four hundred and fifty thousand square feet
of income generating space beneath the dome, featuring an event arena,
plus new spots for dining, shopping offices, and hotels. One
of the highlights is a boulevard inspired by New York
City's Highline that will connect the Dome to nearby facilities.

(18:26):
The design also plans to preserve the Dome's historic charm,
blending Houston's rich history with sustainable, modern amenities. Brian Lavassar
says the conservancy aims to rely on a mix of
private investment and public private partners.

Speaker 28 (18:42):
The billion dollars is reflective of a very compelling design.
And also, yes, numbers are scary, right, This is an investment,
not a contribution, right.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
This isn't just cost base.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
This is investment based.

Speaker 28 (18:55):
And so when you think about in the arena and
commercial real estate and all the different tools that can
be leverage for this great historic structure start to be
very compelling as an investment opportunity for both the public
and private sectors.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I guess the question I would have is how many
more restaurants retail in concert venues do we need here
in Houston? Do we do we not have enough of
that already? Would that be enough? Would there be enough activity?
Another hotel? I don't know, Do we need another hotel.

(19:29):
Would that be enough to make it profitable? I mean,
this is a one billion dollar investment. You just spend
it one would you would like to think that if
you're going to spend a billion dollars, you would spend
it on something that was unique or unusual, that was
offering things to do that you couldn't find anywhere else.

(19:52):
I haven't. You know, maybe I need to get into
this plan a little bit more, look at it a
little bit more. But we'll do that. By the way,
Charles Blaine from Urban Reform will join us at six
twenty two and we'll talk to him about and see
what he thinks of this plant. Five twenty six. Right now,
it is time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Bellinger's in this morning and.

Speaker 29 (20:08):
Jimmy good morning. Stocks were mixed at the end of
the midweek session, small gains for the doll and the
S and P five hundred, a modest loss for the Nasdaq.
Futures are pointing a little bit higher at this early hour.
Cisco Systems is coming off a strong quarter, but the
network equipment maker's outlook for the year disappointed investors, and
Cisco shares fell in after hours Trading, Walt Disney, william Sonoma,

(20:31):
and Advance Auto Parts will release quarterly results today. Advanced
micro Devices slashing its payroll. The chip maker is eliminating
about one thousand jobs. Exxon Mobil plans to fire nearly
four hundred people who worked for Pioneer Natural Resources, which
Exon bought earlier this year. And there's a new report
from the International Energy Agency that says the world will

(20:54):
have an oversupply of oil next year. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven KTRH.

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It is five thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour that
one billion dollar plan for the Houston Astrodome, more Trump
cabinet bicks, and coming up at five thirty eight, Joe
Rugan releases the demands that kept Kamala off his show.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that drive again with sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
All right, let's take it right to our chip line
seven one three two one two tips the original Andrew
from Spring I have too Hey, I Mike outbound from downtown.

Speaker 17 (21:51):
There is a massive accident.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Everybody's on the scene in his cousin quite their happy dash.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Extra points for burbets with youricker also Hartmembridge northbound. We're
still knocking out too right lanes. I'm Scottwike in the
classic buw at GMC Traffic.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center.
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the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
It is coming up on five point thirty two on
KTRH and our top story we.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Cannot lose our iconic Astrodome.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
The Astrodome Conservancy plans to turn the eighth Wonder of
the World into a billion dollar global entertainment destination. The
group hoping for a combination of private and public monies.
The Conservancy said they're polling shows that eighty percent want
to see the dome repurpose, So now the question is
whether or not the plan will ever become reality. The

(23:00):
last plan to repurpose the dome fizzled out five years ago.

Speaker 30 (23:04):
Nobody wants to see the Dome torn down, especially folks
who grew up going to Astrow's.

Speaker 22 (23:09):
Games and its heyday.

Speaker 30 (23:10):
Yet at the same time, nobody wants to pay the
habit restored.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Former Harris County GOP chair Jared Woodfeld says that the
optimal time to have done something with the building passed
a long time ago, coming up on five point thirty three.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
What he says to stands.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
White House Press Secretary Karine John Pierre there asked by
reporters if President Joe Biden offered President elect Donald Trump
an apology for his rhetoric on the campaign trail that
you met at the White House yesterday.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Now.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Trump also made more cabinet picks, may include former Democrat
Congresswoman Tulsea Gabbard, who will be as director of National Intelligence.

Speaker 31 (23:48):
I was grateful and honored to accept President Trump's offer
to serve our country and support his objective to defend
the safety, security, and freedom of the American people as
the Director.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Of National Intelligence, Gabbard on Fox.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Florida Congressman Matt Gates is Trump's choice for Attorney General.
Reaction to that and what Gates did to shock Congress
coming up at six o'clock. The New York Post is
reporting that Robert F. Kennedy Junior is pushing to lead
the Department of Health and Human Services. He's supposed to
just be advising the President and congressional Republicans after their

(24:21):
leadership team in place. South Dakota's John Toon is the
majority leader, defeating Rick Scott of Florida and Texas's John Cornyn.
Mike Johnson will remain the speaker five point thirty four. Now,
Trump's borders are Tom Homan is hitting the ground running
and sending a message to sanctuary cities in the US.

Speaker 32 (24:39):
Sans fury cities are Saint sturyes for criminals. Bottom line,
So if they don't want to help, then get the
hell all the way.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
Meantime, some thirty one million dollars in meth was seized
by border patrol concealed within a shipment of peppers at
the far International Bridge this past weekend. As the President
Eleke prepares to secure our border, Canada now bracing for
a surge of illegals themselves.

Speaker 33 (25:03):
A surge of illegals from here in America.

Speaker 34 (25:06):
Canada's bracing for a large number of people who are
here unlawfully, who are concerned that they're going to get
caught up in the Trump administration's deportation program.

Speaker 33 (25:16):
That is, former immigration judge Andrew Arthur, You're really.

Speaker 34 (25:20):
Going to see the Canadians attempts to seal off the
borders of the country and send migrants who are attempting
eder Canada legally back to this country.

Speaker 33 (25:28):
And we'll see about another round between Trump and the
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k T e H.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
Thank you, Jeff Moore. Crime across Houston, an armed bystander
shoots out a suspect during a deputy constable pursuit yesterday.
This all started with a traffic stop after a crash.
The bad guy tried running away. That's when the bystanders
started shooting the bad guy stole a tow truck before
he was finally arrested. The City of Houston late veteran

(26:00):
firefighter Marcello Garcia to rest yesterday.

Speaker 35 (26:03):
It is a very sad day for the Snags, a
very sad day, but you know a day that's that.
It reminds us how the city comes together during the.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
Wars of times.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
HFD chief Thomas Munos Garcia killed in a warehouse fire
on the East Side last week. Woman has been charged
with arson in the case. Coming up now on five
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in retirement based on these standard rules, you might be
losing out. The old four percent rule, well, that was
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Most people aren't living that long too.

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They want to happ into this wealth of knowledge that
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try to get a better view of really how long
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Speaker 6 (26:57):
USA Today's Medora Lee says that we're hires can now
get a custom plan that can help better balance between
health span and lifespan to our suburbs now where the
city of Magnolia in Montgomery County is seeing more tourism
and more problems, so they're thinking about regulations on short
term rentals like airbnb.

Speaker 22 (27:18):
People come in from out of town that they party,
they make watch of noise, they're uplate, music's going on, whatnot,
and that's disturbing to the neighbor.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
Montgomery County Judge Mark Quo telling KTRH that the city
has the ability to put their own ordinances in place
to protect residents five point thirty seven. Another example of
how parents, instead of parenting, would rather be friends with
their kids. They're literally partying with them at college.

Speaker 37 (27:44):
It's important to find that balance having fun but also
teaching about what is right.

Speaker 38 (27:49):
Parents should always be setting an example, but it is
also true that going off to college is usually a
time when children are really stepping into that independence and
the parents need to let them do so.

Speaker 37 (28:00):
Relationship trainer Julie Nice says instilling good morals and values
should start before the kids get to college and the
parents are joining them.

Speaker 38 (28:07):
Whatever bond you've got with your kids needs to have
been forwarded long before you get to the college party.

Speaker 37 (28:13):
Jared Lewis, News Radio seven forty KHR eight. Thank you, Jared.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
And in college basketball, uh bounces back from Lair lost
to Auburn beating Louisiana last night ninety one to forty five.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 20 (28:30):
What happened, why it happened, the information you need to
start the day.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Now back to Houston's morning news, my forty daggs our
time here in Houston's bing news. Y'all have heard about
Kamala Harris not going on the Joe Rogan experience on
his podcast right because he had or she had a
list of demands that Joe Rugan couldn't meet. The ones
that everybody's heard about are that she would only do

(28:57):
one hour and it's a three hour podcas guest. And
you know Donald Trump is happy to do three hours
and did three hours despite the fact that he had
multiple campaign appearance he was juggling at the time. Also,
Trump came to him in Austin, which was the demand
of the Comala campaign, was that Joe Rogan come to

(29:17):
her wherever she was, and then she'd only do an hour.
But the other thing that hasn't been reported very much
is evidently she had several topics that she refused to
discuss that she would answer any questions on, and the
one that seemed to have her the most worried, interestingly enough,
was marijuana. Now she had posted on x that quote,

(29:42):
I will legalize recreacial marijuana, break down unjust legal barriers,
and create opportunities for all Americans to succeed in this
new industry. But she didn't want to get questioned about
her times as a prosecutor when she sent over fifteen
hundred people to jail for marijuana, because I guess she
thought that the people in support of recreational marijuana at

(30:05):
this point in time outweigh the people who believe we
should be arresting and putting people in jail for recreational marijuana.
That was a straw evidentally, that broke the camel's back.
That and for some reason, the far left campaign workers.
Her husband was worried that the far left campaign workers
would would not be happy with her going on Joe Rogan,
why you're worried about the campaign workers? Maybe that's your problem.

(30:29):
You need to spend your time trying to reach your constituency,
to reach the voters, and she didn't do that probably
cost her big time. Right five forty time for traffic
and weather together. Sky Mike's here. We're north Freeway.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
That was outbound, not inbound at cross Timbers, and they
have ninjaed this wreck. It took up several lanes here. Wow,
look at you getting back to full speed. It's outbound,
not inbound southbound. You're actually we haven't had our wreck
at Shepherd yet, but we're getting thick between the Belt
and the Loop. You've got Southwest Freeway. Let's take a
look here you've got it's a little bit of a
skip up trying to get onto that ramp to the gallery.

(31:03):
But Southwest freeways like you for now, so do it
stay the course to nine. If you had a grand
march at your wedding, you're awfully happy coming in from Cyprus.
Nothing doing to twenty five pavement repair just past red Bluff.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
I promise they're going to pick that up shortly. Wild Card. No,
this is Mike Magnolia, dude.

Speaker 22 (31:19):
Heyst Mike's got the deer, sir, and they're crossing the
road and so several times in front of me this morning,
and they have one thing on their mind and it's
not looking both ways.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, I'm glad the deer are having a little fun now,
so so watch out. Yeah, I've got that, especially the
back roads. I know there's a lot of that around
the northwest side. And if you're coming down from the
Styx and heart Mean Bridge, we still have two lanes
missing northbound. That's some roadwork, heavy backups. We'll talk to
you about it in ten minutes. And the generator of
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Center from r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
Weather Center, Terry Smith is here. There's a tropical disturbance
that is going to become Sarah. Supposedly he's going to
become a hurricane, and suppose hes going to head towards Florida.
What else can you dull?

Speaker 21 (32:03):
Well, you're right, there's a tropical depression right now that
is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm and it'll
be called Sarah.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Right now.

Speaker 21 (32:15):
What we know is that it's moving westward and so
it's going to have an impact on areas like Honduras
and staying down in the Caribbean here for the next
several days, so it's not a concern for us in
the United States whatsoever through actually early next week, by
Tuesday morning, it's still over land.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
It's going to be a weak storm tropical storm.

Speaker 21 (32:41):
The big question mark, obviously is what happens once it
makes its way northward into the Gulf of Mexico and
just how strong and how organized it is and what
the weather conditions are going to be and will that
allow it to strengthen and organize further, And that, frankly
is a big question mark. But indications are it could

(33:01):
become a tropical storm and it could have some impact
midweek next week in the Gulf of Mexico and areas
from Louisiana and Florida. Really need to watch this closely,
but there's a lot of unknowns between now and Wednesday
and Thursday of next week.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Okay, roun here. If you want to know what it's
like to live in San Diego, you're right go outside.

Speaker 21 (33:25):
Yes, we've got what a gorgeous stretch of weather here
today at tomorrow, sunny, low humidity, comfortable temperatures, lot have
mid seventies, a little bit warmer over the weekend, closer
to eighty and then some rain by Monday.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
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Drill, baby, drill, that's going to be happening starting in January. Right.
Have you noticed by the way gas prices they've been
relatively cheap. I think I filled up yesterday for like
two thirty six a gallon. I'm thinking, Wow, What's what's
driving the price down. We'll check that out and also
see what the oil industry is thinking as far as
the Trump administration and what that may mean for how

(34:16):
they go about doing business. Jay Young, the sego of
King Operating Corporation, will join us next. First, we've got
traffic and weather together.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Can I say, bitchin on the radio truth you just did,
Skuy Mike Hart Membridge bitch in line.

Speaker 22 (34:27):
I'm like to know who the incredible genius was.

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They desire to road work during rush hours and then
it's back up halfway to Galveston, playing one mile now.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
All right, I'm feeling your pain there, brother, and I'm
glad you could call me and bent that is northbound
Heart Metbridge.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
We're missing two right lines. I don't think they have
a choice.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
We'll zoom at all at six o'clock in the classic
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Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, he's right though, they need to do that stuff
at night. From r ktr H Generator super Center, twenty
four hour weather Center. For today, we're looking at sunshine,
mild conditions seventy four, same four cast for tomorrow for
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severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to

(35:11):
get you caught up on some of our top stories.
Here's Cliff, Thank.

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Matt Gates resigns from Congress after being selected as Donald
Trump's Attorney General. HPD arrest a man in connection with
a series of sexual assaults, but a second suspect maybe
out there and the triggered left. On the day after
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Speaker 2 (35:51):
HI fifty three. Now Here in Houston's boring News, Jay
Young joins us the CEO of King Operating Company up
in North Texas. Jay, how you been, buddy? Very good? Jimmy,
are you doing doing well? Are you happy about the
election results?

Speaker 39 (36:06):
I've still got mixed emotions about it. You know, it's
a crazy thing because you know, obviously Trump's a drill baby,
drill guy, and he's he's pro oil, which you know,
anybody the only gas of this would love that. What
I'm not I'm not too thrilled about is, you know,

(36:28):
is that with drill baby drill, it's going to bring
prices down. And if you're a producer, and if you're
drilling for oil and gas today at seventy dollars a
barrel or eighty dollars a barrel, then you know, if
to get the returns that we need to put ourselves
at risk. And if all prices go way down, you know,

(36:50):
we're going to be stuck with with with producing a
product at a higher price. And you know, our returns
are going to be at fifty dollars, which is not
you know, in our in our internal rate of return.
So category then we're not going to want to drill
as much.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
So you're worry is that there will be a glood
of oil on the market and it will drive the
price down too low for you to make a profit.

Speaker 39 (37:13):
Right exactly, And that's not going to be good for
I mean, I understand what's going on in jobs and
everything else, which is awesome, that's great. The United States
needs more jobs. The old industry needs to go back
to work one hundred percent. But but with with the
prices going down, there will be layoffs.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
And I talked to a lot of different people, and.

Speaker 39 (37:34):
You know, and I was, you know, my social media
channels and going back and.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Forth with a lot of people.

Speaker 39 (37:39):
I was asking them, hey, are you voting this year
for your with your heart or your pocketbook? You know,
you know, because you're in the old industry. What happened
last time when when prices went down, and and they said, well,
I got laid off, you know.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
I You know, though one guy said, you would think, Jay,
I mean, let's take a look at fracking. For example,
if the others I had won, they were probably going
to ban fracking. I mean, think how many jobs would
have been lost as a result of that.

Speaker 39 (38:06):
Yeah, well that's true, but old prices would have gone up,
which they did under Biden. So therefore, you know, it
was good. It was good for the old industry. A
lot of people went back to work, you know, the
fracking part of it. In different parts of the country. Yes,
I mean, if you want to get in the old business,
don't move to Colorado, California, you know, Wyoming and places

(38:31):
like that. That's not a good place. But if you're
if you're in Texas, which you know obviously, we are
good place here. Let me we were, we were doing great.
Everybody's everybody's everybody's happy, everybody's going to work.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Let me ask you about what's going on with the
price of gas right now. I filled up yesterday for
two thirty six a gallon, and I watched the gasoline price,
you know, just kind of drop and drop and drop
week by week by week. Clearly we have a bigger
supply than we have demand right now.

Speaker 39 (38:58):
Why is that, Well, we are producing a lot of
oil and gas in the United States. There are when
prices of you as you've seen, you know, we're higher.
You know, they were eighty dollars ninety dollars a barrel
for a long time under Biden. Everybody's going to work,
everybody's franking. We're producing more oil in the United States

(39:18):
right now than we were during when when Trump was
in you know, we're at thirteen point four thirteen point
five million barrels. Trump was up to thirteen million barrels
oil before before COVID, and all of a sudden, you know,
COVID happened, a lot of the money went out of
the markets, so therefore people quit drilling as much. But
then it's coming back now and we are producing more oil.

(39:40):
So the more oil you have.

Speaker 40 (39:42):
On the markets, that's the only reason why price goes
up and down is because of supply. Demn right, I mean,
you know, if there's more supply on the market, we've
talked about that before, sure, you know. So therefore, right
now we're seeing a lot of oil in the markets.
And as you have oil and they're it's being we
are exporting a lot of oil now because of our refineries,

(40:04):
which is another story in itself. But but ideally, you know,
oil and gas companies need to see higher prices, and
especially for companies that frack, because it costs so much money.
It costs ten twelve million dollars to go drill. Well,
you know, we put ourselves out there for that either
ye you know, with our production or or revenues, or

(40:26):
we borrow money. And if we borrow money at you know,
ten twelve million bucks and the price goes way down,
we'll see it. We'll see, you know, not not good
for the oil gas county. Well got drill, I got you.
We'll see what happens with all this. Thanks for coming
on the show. Good to hear from you, as always,
Jay Jay Young, CEO King Operating Corporation. It's five fifty seven.

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Speaker 2 (41:04):
Six am is our time here in Houston's morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Trump nominates Matt Gates for Attorney General. Texas Oil. Most
of them are optimistic about the Trump years and coming
up at six o eight. Want to leave the country
for the Trump years. You can do it on a
cruise ship. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's

(41:24):
Morning News first, we're checking out that morning drive again.
Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
All right, we cleared the North Freeway record cross chimbers
that was outbound, not inbound. Don't worry southbound. We haven't
had our Shepherd wreck yet. Hertmembridge major suckins. Northbound, We've
got two right lanes backed up from the Laporte side
to the baytown side. Baytown side, You're just fine and
Tipline Kelly lamark I.

Speaker 22 (41:46):
Mike Sport Top North just after Alan Parkway.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Got a lot of break, just had an accident and
drop trans Transstar found that it's one, two, three lanes
blocked right at Iten. That's forty five north at Iten Downtown.
Skymike on the Classic few at GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
From our KTRH Top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Sunny a mile today with the high temperature right about
seventy four. We'll get Terry Smith in here with the
complete forecast in nine minutes. Temperature right now is still
fifty six, said your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's clip Saunders.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (42:21):
We are sponsored by Plants for All Seasons. At six
h two our top story this hour, Donald Trump the president.
The luck continues to fill key slots in the cabinet,
and he made a surprising pick for Attorney General Florida
Congressman At Gates.

Speaker 41 (42:36):
I would describe it as he got it tier level
trolling to just trigger a full on China syndrome to
own the lives in perpetuity.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman's reaction there, Gates resigned a seat
from the House. It's expected to be filled by January third.
More positions have been announced for the Trump team. Florida's
Marco Rubio will be the Secretary of State, while Tulca Gabbard,
the ex Democrat, was named Director of National Intelligence. Those

(43:07):
picks need to be confirmed by the Senate. As Republicans
choose South Dakota's John thun as leader to replace Mitch McConnell.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
John Thune got the nod let's go. Uh, We're not
gonna have a lot of time to waste. I think
he'll do a good job. But again, President Trump and JD.
Vance are going to be running the Senate.

Speaker 6 (43:24):
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville Thoon beat Texas as John Cornyn
in Florida's Rick Scott. Mike Johnson will continue to serve
as House Speaker for the next two years.

Speaker 8 (43:33):
The theme that you'll hear over and over from all
of our members across the conference is that we are
unified and energized and ready to go.

Speaker 6 (43:40):
But he has lost three seats in the House to
the new Trump administration. The rhetoric from the campaign is gone.
President Joe Biden, welcome the President elect back to the
White House.

Speaker 9 (43:52):
Politics is tough, and it's many cases not a very
nice world. But it is a nice world today and
I appreciate very.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Much Trump's saying the transition would be smooth now. One
benefit of the second Trump administration is the ramping up
of American oil production, but there's also a concern about
the balance of supply and demand.

Speaker 12 (44:12):
We don't need forty dollars a barrow, we don't need
one hundred dollars a Barrow. We need consistency in the
United States unless it goes crazy. I think that's exactly
where we're going to be, that sixty to eighty dollars range,
which is good for the industry.

Speaker 6 (44:24):
Jay Young with King Operating, says he's hopeful that Trump
will make it easier to export our oil and natural
gas to the global market and that'll be a huge
win for the industry. Six oh four now on KTRH
from DC to Austin is bills continued to be found
for the twenty twenty five legislative session.

Speaker 33 (44:42):
And summer wondering is it time to bring Dan Patrick's
trans bathroom bill back.

Speaker 13 (44:48):
There's already a bill that's been filed by Center Maz
Middleton that tackles this issue, and look with Trump and
the White House.

Speaker 33 (44:54):
That's Jonathan Signs, president of the Texas Values who notes local.

Speaker 13 (45:00):
Cool districts, local cities, and unis valleies like Odessa, saying
this needs to be put into laws. We're going to
make it absolutely clear.

Speaker 33 (45:07):
Also on the agenda for Texas lawmakers property taxes and abortion.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven.

Speaker 6 (45:14):
Forty k T eight and Jeff there have also been
two more bills filed focused on protecting Texas land from
foreign ownership as Chinese interests continue to buy our farmland.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
An agreement on.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
An amendment to the US and Mexico Treaty from nineteen
forty four for water is reached. It requires Mexico to
release reservoir water to aid the usually dry South Texas. However,
State Senator Charles Perry says there's no recourse to enforce,
which means Mexico might not hold up its end of
the bargain.

Speaker 15 (45:45):
It's going to take a presidential phone call along with
the border conversation, probably first week of the next administration,
because if you're going to have a conversation about border,
you should have a conversation about water. It employs the
same enforcement tools that I think the next administration is
going to be more and willing to engage with.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
He says, Mexico has resources to bring relief right now,
but they choose not to six oh five as expected,
inflation remains sticky, with shelter prices up nearly five percent
over last year.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
That's something we're going to have to address long term.
I'm slightly disappointed, but that's why the.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
US has higher inflation than the rest of the world.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
They don't have the house inflation we do.

Speaker 6 (46:24):
Fox Businesses Lewis Navalier prices went up point two percent
last month, the headline number coming in at two point
six percent year over year. That was up from September
as well. Austin is being called ground zero for a
potential housing market crash in twenty twenty five. So what
does the rest of the market in Texas look like.

Speaker 37 (46:45):
It's a classic case of supply versus demand, and right
now the supply isn't quite there.

Speaker 17 (46:50):
We're still far behind on supplying the demand for housing.
Right now in many markets, there are two buyers for
every seller.

Speaker 37 (46:59):
Real estate expert Cliff Freeman says people should be optimistic
about the market beginning next year.

Speaker 17 (47:04):
We're headed for some good times in the real estate
market next year, and I would not be waiting for
home prices to crash.

Speaker 37 (47:12):
Freeman says the demand for homes is up just about everywhere,
not just Texas. Cherit Lewis News Radio seven forty k
chair Eh, you.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Are coming up on six oho seven.

Speaker 6 (47:20):
Your Thanksgiving dinner is going to be a lot more
expensive this year. Lending Tree says the average cost is
up nineteen percent from twenty twenty three. Analyst Matt Schultz
says that being some tough choices.

Speaker 18 (47:33):
Inflation's definitely leading people to change their Thanksgiving plans. Some
of them are changing what they serve, some of them
are using coupons more. Some of them just aren't going
to host because it's too expensive.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
Now the average cost to host Thanksgiving this year is
a whopping four hundred and thirty one dollars. Finally, the
Rockets beat the Clippers last night one eleven to one
oh three. They'll play again tomorrow in the NBA Cup Tournament.
I'm Cliff Saunder on Houston's news, weather and traffic station,
News Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
I live in Conrad, I live in Deer Park.

Speaker 20 (48:07):
Next on the ten You're Reliable Forecast on seven forty
KTRH six eights hard.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Time here on Houston's worn News. There's a cruise line
evidently that has come up with a solution from for
people who are suffering from truck derangement syndrome TDS. For sure,
they are a residential cruise line, which means it's one
of those ships you go on board and you live
on it for extended periods of time and you kind

(48:37):
of cruise the world, and they're suggesting to you, well,
they're offering four different programs. The one year Escape from Reality,
the two year midterm selection, so you get you come
back after the midterm elections. If you're a liberal, you're
of course hoping that, you know, the Democrats will at

(48:57):
least be back in control of the House at that point,
the three year everywhere but Home tour, and the four
year Skip Forward, which will cover you through the entire
Trump administration. Now, I would like to suggest, if this
is supposed to be therapeutic, can I make a suggestion

(49:18):
maybe what they should do. I don't know where the
cruise is stopping, but we played that slow moote to China.
Can we make China one of the stops on this tour?
Let them spend a little time in a communist country.
Can we make Havana one of the other stops? How
about Haiti? How about Haiti's Let's put some nice third

(49:38):
World nations in there that might make you appreciate living
in the United States a little bit more. And there's
a lot of progressives who could who could really be
served well by going on a cruise like that so
they can see how the other people live. Six '
ten time for traffic and weather. Together, we're checking out
that drive once again with Skymike.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
We cleared the north freeway wreck at cross Timbers outbound
Chaer from Conrad. That's back up between Tidwell and partners
to clear up before moving along fairly.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Smoothly, all right. The southbound that's better too.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Forty five downtown Pierce Elevated past the fires will got
a wreck here two lanes.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Mark from Springs got kill.

Speaker 12 (50:15):
Everybody to stop, nudge.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
We're gonna have to talk to other stations. Listeners there
and Hartmanbridge. I'm hearing rough stuff about the drive up
that way. What are they fixing northbound?

Speaker 22 (50:25):
Isn't it fan shot joint?

Speaker 2 (50:28):
All right? Mark from mont Belleview's on top.

Speaker 22 (50:31):
Of that the expansion joints to have come apart, so
they're gonna have to use some.

Speaker 15 (50:36):
Repair on that.

Speaker 22 (50:37):
And finally after two days, but you see some trucks
out there.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Isn't it fan.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
Joint?

Speaker 3 (50:43):
So there you have it. See they're this big and
it takes a long time.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
To roll them. And see Terry doesn't get that.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
I'm Scott the generator Supercenter dot com traffic.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
I'll bet I'll read tell you.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
I'm betting every dollar in my wallet that Terry has
never rolled an expansion joint or for any kind for
that matter.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Don't answer that question. I don't know. I'm not touching it.
I don't know what the statue of limitations are for
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Speaker 4 (51:30):
It feels like fault today or tomorrow.

Speaker 21 (51:32):
And then the humidity creeps back into Southeast Texas as
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Speaker 2 (51:54):
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Speaker 20 (52:00):
You are commute, you are forecast your news. It's Houston's
Morning News, brought to you, buying you south away to
those solutions where we were talking last hour about this
one billion dollar plan for the Astrodome includes a hotel, restaurants, retail,
event space, I guess concert space.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Those types of things didn't strike me as anything that
we don't already have in Houston. And I just I
know we want to save the Astrodome. I get that.
The eighth wonder of the world. I get that. But
is this the plan to get that done? Or will
this plan die a low, a long, tragic death. I
guess the way every other plan has so far. We'll
talk to Charles Blaine about this, he's the president of

(52:41):
Urban Reform. We'll do that next. First, let's new traffic
and weather together, starting with you guy, Mike all right.

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Southwest Freeway look out, got a new wreck northbound at
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Thank you Cheryl for that tip. Inbound, you've got the
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That's gonna get worse before it gets better.

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Down Town pass the Farris will here's the wreck I
forty five. You're Pierce elevated right where it meets I
ten three lanes there. That one's looking rough to Hertmembridge
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a Thursday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
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Speaker 5 (54:05):
I live in Katie.

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Speaker 2 (54:13):
Six twenty one hour time here in Houston's forty news.
She would be nice to see something happen with the Astrodome.
I mean, I understand we want to we want to
save it. It's it was. I mean, well, I guess
in some ways we almost have to save it, don't we.
It's an historical site. At this point, Charles Blaine joins,
US President of Urban Reform. The problem is, Charles, is

(54:33):
that there's been many plans that have been floated on
how to save the astrodome. Is this the one that
might finally do it?

Speaker 42 (54:41):
What do you think, Oh man, Jimmy, I don't know.
You know, there have been a lot of plans, but
there's been no one to pay for it, and a lot
of these plans fall on the back of taxpayers, and
this one's no different. It's a billion dollars and the
Astrodom Conservancy is saying that they think they can secure
about seven hundred and fifty million in private and then

(55:01):
I guess I would assume that the other two point
fifty would have to come from taxpayers.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
So I'm starting to.

Speaker 42 (55:05):
Believe though, that this plan is going to fall in
to the trash been the same way the others have.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Okay, well, let's let's just assume for the sake of
argument that it's a viable plan or it's something that
they will get the financing to do if they were
to get the financing. Is it a plan that could work?
In other words, is there anything that they're talking about
doing with the astrodome that doesn't already exist here in Houston. Well, no,
there there isn't.

Speaker 42 (55:29):
And I think the problem is is just that they're
trying to do you know, a convention center, you know,
state of the art shops, all these things in that
part of town, and we have all of that just
a few miles away downtown and up in the Gallery,
and there are things all over the place. Not to
mention that this sits on the property of Harris County,
and is the property is in a lot of agreements

(55:50):
with the rodeo, both of which the Harris County Sports
Authority and the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo came out and
said they don't agree with the plan. And so even
if it is a great plan and they can secure
the funding, with those two big benefactors of this land
not on board, I don't see how they can even
possibly begin to move forward.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Well that being probably being the case, and I think
you're right about that. What happens to the astrodome? Did
we just continue to let it sit there and go
into further disrepair? What do we do with it?

Speaker 42 (56:19):
You know, right now taxpayers are paying somewhere between one
hundred and two hundred thousand dollars a year to maintain it.
Their estimates say it would cost about one hundred million
dollars to tear it down. I don't know how accurate
that is, but that is what the estimates say, and
they would only be able to do that with permission
from the Texas Historical Commission, And so a lot of
people want them to tear it down. I know there's
nostalgia tied to it, but I don't know if tax

(56:40):
payers should keep sholling out money even though it's only
one hundred to two hundred thousand a year. We are
a county that is broke, So I don't know if
we should keep sholling out money just to keep it standing.
I think it might be time to break that nostalgia
and start to move forward.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Woah, I know the only thing worse Charles did you
could say other than that is you know what, I
think we need to tear down the alimal things that
I saw? What? What? What?

Speaker 4 (57:06):
That a lot I would not cross.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Oh, I would hope not. Here's a crazy question for it,
because I know the idea has been floated about getting
in a National Hockey League franchise here in Houston. I mean,
if if they could pull that off, might the Astrodome
be fairly easily converted into a hockey arena? I think
it could.

Speaker 42 (57:26):
I mean I think you could retro fit it for
something like that, and with a major investment like that,
you would almost be guaranteeing a fan base that would
then turn this into a revenue generating endeavor. And so
I think that probably would be a better idea that
wouldn't be as burdens some on the taxpayers. And so,
like you said, I know there's been talks around town.
Maybe they should start looking at the Astronom as a
possible home for this new hockey team if we were.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
To get it, I guess the question becomes at that point,
you know, what would it cost to make that conversion
and who would pay for it at that point? Right?

Speaker 5 (57:55):
Right?

Speaker 42 (57:55):
And I think one of the big problems is is,
you know what I mentioned before about the rodeo. Throughout
the course of that month at the roadio is there,
they have full authority, full reign over that entire energy
park property. And so really, anybody that's going to be
an investor into something that would turn the astronom into
something else, it's gonna have about thirty days where they
can't have ownership over that building. I mean, they can

(58:17):
have ownership over what happens inside, but the land that
it sits on, they really have no say. And so
that's a bargain to make for someone that you know,
eleven months out of the year you can have full
say over your property, but one month you have nothing
that you can do about it. And so I think
that's a hard sell for some. But you know, I
think the hockey tape team might be the only possible
alternative to make this actually work.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Okay, Charles, always good to talk to you. Thank you.
President of Urban Reform Charles Blaine at six twenty six
it is time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Ellinger's in This Morning and.

Speaker 29 (58:47):
Jimmy Good Morning. Walt Disney's quarterly sales and profit top forecasts,
and the entertainment Giant predicted its ernings will grow for
the next three years. Such long range projections are a
rarity from Disney. Disney is a Dow component, and investors
are reacting. Dow futures are up eighty three points now.
Household debt hit a record high of nearly eighteen trillion

(59:09):
dollars in the third quarter. The New York Fed says mortgages,
auto loans, credit card balances, and student loans all increased.
Total household income rose more than debt. That's the good news. Still,
many young consumers and low wage workers are feeling financial stress.
In Amazon dot Com has a new online storefront. It's
called Hall. It's designed to compete with the discount site Timu.

(59:32):
Shoppers who aren't in a hurry to receive their orders
can get rock bottom prices. A flat four dollars shipping
fee is waived on orders of twenty five dollars or more.
Customers get their deliveries in a week or two. I'm
Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
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Speaker 1 (59:54):
Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is use Radio seven Atrhovel Everywhere with the.

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

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
It is six point thirty now here in Houston's Bony News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f hour,
that one billion dollar plan for the Astrodome, more Trump
cabinet picks, and at six thirty eight, the Republicans just
pick a Rhino for Senate Majority leader. Details in the
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Bony News. First, we're checking
out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike, all right,

(01:00:28):
we're looking at that deal downtown. That's I forty five
the Pierce Elevated. They are blocking all lanes for the moment.
I don't I think everybody's okay what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
They're probably just doing this for the safety of the responders.
But your peers is completely shut down before the b
Someone Bridge northbound southbound lot of Reverendcking and the Hartman
Bridge is still offul northbound. That's road Joint repair, Skymike
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather
center for today and tomorrow, Sonny mild high temperature about
seventy four both days. We'll take a look at the
rest of the forecast all the way through the weekend.
Some cold weather's supposedly coming next week. We'll talk to
Terry Smith about all this in about nine minutes. Temperature
right now is still fifty seven at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It is time

(01:01:17):
now for the news. Here's Cliffs Onders.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
Thank you, Jimmy coming up on six point thirty two
our top story. Yet another effort has been launched to
save the Astro Dome. The Dome Conservancy Group is wanting
to create a four hundred and fifty thousand square foot
renovated space for entertainment and retail use.

Speaker 26 (01:01:34):
Isn't the dome in bad structural condition and about to
fall down?

Speaker 38 (01:01:39):
Not at all.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
The dome was condemned in two thousand and nine. So
what's this going to cost? A billion dollars which the
group helps to race through both private and public investment with.

Speaker 11 (01:01:49):
A price tag like that, Is there any chance this
plan actually goes through?

Speaker 30 (01:01:53):
Are they going to be funded through private funds or
taxpayer dollars? And if it's going to be funded through
taxpayer dollars, I don't think the people that you are
going to support.

Speaker 11 (01:02:01):
Former Harris County GOP chairman Jared Woodfield told KTRH attracting
private investors won't be easy either.

Speaker 30 (01:02:06):
Over the past fifteen twenty years, we've seen multiple proposals
and none of them have been acceptable to the taxpayers
or to private equity.

Speaker 11 (01:02:14):
Would THEE warned that the clock is taking on the
sixty year old structure and if something isn't done soon,
it will have to be demolished. Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KRH and Jimmy just spoke to Charles Blaine
about all this. That will be up on KTRH dot com.
Shortly in Washington, Donald Trump returned to the White House
for a post election sit down with President Joe Biden.

(01:02:35):
As expected, Ukraine came up.

Speaker 19 (01:02:37):
President Biden reinforced his view that the United States standing
with Ukraine on an ongoing basis is in our national
security interest.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsey Gabbert
joins the Trump cabinet as Director of National Intelligence, while
Matt Gates is selected as Attorney General. Florida Congressman just
quit Congress as well. We'll have more on that at
seven o'clock. Congressional Republicans choose their leadership. Mike Johnson will

(01:03:05):
be Speaker for another two years, and South Dakota's John
Thunne is majority leader, defeating Rick Scott and John Cornett
in a secret ballot.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
Six point thirty four.

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
Now on KTRH New Trump Borders, our Tom Homan is
telling sanctuary cities to get ready because mass deportations are
indeed coming.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
We're coming.

Speaker 32 (01:03:25):
If if we have to increase your number of izations
in that city to do neighborhood operations, that's what.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
We'll do Elsewhere.

Speaker 6 (01:03:31):
Thirty one million dollars in meth was seized by border
patrol over the weekend, concealed within a shipment of peppers,
with millions possibly being deported once Trump retakes the office
of President. Andrew Arthur with the Center for Immigration Study
says Canada is expecting a surge of illegals from right
here in the US.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
I think that this is going to be a real issue.

Speaker 34 (01:03:53):
I think that Canada is going to end up having
to deal with an illegal alien population of individuals.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Who's going to be an issue.

Speaker 34 (01:04:01):
It's going to be a diplomatic issue.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
And an issue, he says, between Trump and Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau, who's facing reelection himself. Aliens of a
different kind, extraterrestrial. They were the subject of a Congressional
hearing yesterday.

Speaker 43 (01:04:17):
UAP are real advanced technologies not made by our government
or any other government, are monitoring sensitive military installations around
the globe. Furthermore, the US is in possession of UAP technologies,
as are some of our adversaries.

Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
Former Defense Department official Luis Elizondo testifying for the House
Oversight Committee. It's now six thirty five and our bystander
shoots out a suspect trying to get away from a
Harris County priescinct for Deputy constable and what started as
a traffic stop in footchase, and that after the bad
guy stole a tow truck. Here's a heads up. Look

(01:04:51):
in your mailbox. The Harris County jury wheel has just
been reconstituted, meaning you could be called to serve before
too long.

Speaker 10 (01:04:59):
Not only are we calling jurors for our district and
county courts, but the federal courts are calling Paris County
citizens to serve, and the municipal courts are also calling
with people to serve. So you may get called from
three different jurisdictions.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
County Clerk Maryland Burgess says that there are now over
two million potential jurors in the county that could be
called over the next couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
It's now coming up on six h six.

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
Stock futures are up this morning after a mixed day
on Wall Street yesterday the down s and P five
hundred close up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
The Nashdak was down. You can't take it with you
when you go.

Speaker 6 (01:05:32):
While the traditional way of planning retirement payouts to stretch
your money over thirty years, new models take health and
genetic factors into consideration.

Speaker 15 (01:05:41):
I think your.

Speaker 36 (01:05:42):
Years on ninety five years maybe realistically, the type of
life you've lived, the health measures you've had, your genetics,
you might only live really till eighty seven.

Speaker 6 (01:05:53):
USA Today's Madoraali says that using the old model, if
you don't live to ninety five, you're leaving money on
the tip. Officials in Magnolia are considering regulations on short
term rentals thanks to an uptick and tourism and disturbances.

Speaker 22 (01:06:09):
I'm a big person for property rights, but part of
property rights is not disturbing your neighbors as well, So
you know that short kind of cuts both ways. But
they have the right and the ability to put an
ordinance on that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:21):
Montovery County Judge Mark Kello, they're the city with a
population of twenty eight hundred as a grand total of
two hotels. Six p thirty seven now on KTRH. There's
a growing trend in college parents partying with their kids
enrolled at school.

Speaker 38 (01:06:39):
A parent is not a friend and should never ever
be considered a friend, So if you're partying with your
kids like one of your friends, you're probably on the
wrong track. Secondly, the whole going away to college experience
to solidify the fact that they have become independent.

Speaker 6 (01:06:54):
Relationship trainer Julie Nie says that parents must set a
good example and teach their kids about good more ros
and values instead of tailgating with their kids. College basketball
Last Night, uh Speaks Louisiana ninety one to forty five
on Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, Weather in Traffic station
News Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 20 (01:07:14):
Traffic and Weather when you need it most, every ten
minutes on the tens. This is Houston's Morning News with
Jimmy Barrett Tad the Houston Morning News Team.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
All Right, we have a new Center majority leader by
the name of John Thun. Is he a rhino? American
thinker thinks he's a rhino. Here's what I think. I
think what you've got as a compromise candidate. You had
three people running, right, You had John Cornyn, we know
he's a rhino, big time rhino. You had John Thune,
and then you had Rick Scott, who would have been

(01:07:47):
I'm sure Trump's pick. Rick Scott's the MAGA guy. You know,
he's going to carry out the Trump agenda. John Cornyn
is just as bad as Mitch McConnell. And then you
got John Thune, who's probably somewhere in between. I know
American thinker thinks that he's a rhino and that he

(01:08:08):
was an accolade, if you will, of Mitch McConnell. But
I think he's probably somewhere in between those two. It's
a compromise candidate. Now John Thune is purportedly saying that
he's going to promote the Trump agenda. But we won't

(01:08:28):
really know for sure, will be until we go ahead
and see what they do about certain things. And maybe
our first opportunity to see who's going to be supporting
Trump and who isn't is on these cabinet picks, maybe
most notably Matt Gates. Now, Matt Gates is an interesting
pick as the Attorney General. I don't think he's got

(01:08:50):
a prayer being confirmed, and I kind of have to
I kind of wonder to myself, is Trump just trying
to send a message with mac Gates. I think he
might be just trying to send a message with Matt Gates,
And if Gates cannot get confirmed, he'll go to somebody
like maybe, I don't know, Ken Paxton. Maybe Keim Paxton

(01:09:12):
will still be in play, and maybe compared to Matt Gates,
they'll look at Ken Paxton and say, oh, hell, y'all,
we'll take him. Just don't give us Mac Gates. But
I think it sends a clear message to the Department
of Justice that there is maybe some retribution coming for
the DOJ for the way they've treated Americans, and how
they've treated President Trump in particular. Six forty time for
traffic and weather. Together, we're checking in again with our

(01:09:34):
man Skymike.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Southwest Freeway clear ed low. The wreck has gone inbound.
Now we've got the scunch from Chimney Rock. If you're
trying to merge onto six ' ten, that's always the
usual fund trying to get up to uptown, which makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Downtown.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
I've got this shot of forty five right past the
ferris wheel where it merges with Ien.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
The ninjas are on seen here.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Everybody's okay, they're taking out two right lanes here, stop
but switching that. I give you a link here so
you could play the home game with me and that
would be on camera.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
I lost the camera they took it out, but there
it is. Northbound.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
See right now, you're looking at one two to seven,
and that's the east text.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
They're trying to show me. Oh it's a card fire.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Look at that inbound past the cemetery.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
That is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
I go to get the laneage on it, but I
see it on the right side southbound Lauder Road. Suddenly
the east text you're about the scoot up. Let's do
forty five if you can, if you're not a big shot,
otherwise tall way. Let's go to the tip line. I
got Doug from Conrod.

Speaker 22 (01:10:31):
Dude, good morning timeline. Just between you and me and
the fence post the rant coming off the Hardytoe Road
going eastbound on sixth End, there's about four or five
cars that ran in the back of each other.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
All right, that's right where the Hardybund merges on to
six ten to go over toward waystside, toward the east side.
I'll let the rest of the media know. And I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Center from r KTRH Generator super Center. Twenty four hour
Weather's cuenter Terry Smith is here. We've got some nice
mild weather for the next couple of day day and
I don't know if you want to look this far
down the road, but I'm here and talk next week,
especially later next week. I've seen some really cool temperatures.

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
Well let's take a look at that.

Speaker 21 (01:11:09):
While we revel in our lovely fall weather that we've
got today and tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:11:17):
I'm loving the lower.

Speaker 21 (01:11:18):
Humidity and slightly cooler air that we're seeing the next
two days. So load of mid seventies today and then
tonight temperatures mid forties to mid fifties. It's one of
those nights you might open up the windows, get a
little bit of fresh air. Load of mid seventies. Tomorrow
will warm it up a little bit. Over the weekend,
we're still dry. Plenty of sunshine Saturday and Sunday close

(01:11:41):
to eighty. Then Monday we've got some rain. Tuesdays should
dry out.

Speaker 4 (01:11:47):
Wednesday.

Speaker 21 (01:11:48):
Yeah, looks like temperatures starting about midweek will be in
the sixties. These are afternoon temperatures in the sixties for
a couple of days.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Yeah. So a little dose of some cooler weather.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
All right, feel good? Yeah, Jempsu're right now? Is fifty
seven at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. The latest CPI numbers came out shows
an annual inflation rate of two point six percent. But
as you've known, as we've said so many times, that
is not the story.

Speaker 10 (01:12:16):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Here's here's the real story. Over the last four years,
food at home up twenty two point three percent, shelter
up twenty three point nine percent, food away from home
restaurants up twenty five percent, Electricity up thirty point four percent, guests,
utilities up thirty two point two percent, transportation up forty
two point six percent. Home price is up forty five

(01:12:39):
point one percent, fuel oil up fifty three percent, and
auto insurance up sixty three percent in the last four years.
Here's RBC Chief economist Francis Donald on the latest CPI
numbers and what they mean.

Speaker 25 (01:12:55):
Of course, the fat is looking at year over year
inflation and they've probably seen an enough progress on that
to push them towards more rate cuts, more rate normalization,
as they call it. But mainstream Americans are still looking
at prices that are over twenty percent higher than four
years ago. So depending on which audience they're speaking to,
you've got to recognize there's a very big difference between

(01:13:18):
what measures we should be looking at. And for most Americans,
they are not looking at their cauliflower prices this October
versus last October. They're looking at rent twenty six percent
higher than four years ago, food at home twenty six
percent higher than four years ago. That is the economic reality,
and it's hurting low income Americans much more. They're the
ones who spend larger amounts on things like rent, food,

(01:13:40):
and gasoline, where the pain has been the biggest. Now
we have other measures of rent. We can look at
new tenant prices. We can look at Zillow listings, for example,
and those tell us that in real time shelter prices
are declining. But here's what I wish we really would
have talked about when inflation was high.

Speaker 5 (01:13:56):
First of all, where.

Speaker 25 (01:13:57):
Is the inflation coming from? When it's coming from supply
side shocks as economists say, things like port strikes and terrorists,
that's a very different type of inflation that takes a
very different cure than if you and I are just
spending a lot of money and the Fed's got to make.

Speaker 5 (01:14:11):
Us poor in order to rain us back.

Speaker 25 (01:14:13):
We should have focused on those stories, and we should
have focused on the idea that inflation is one thing,
But what really matters is do you have money to
pay for these increases? So it's wages and inflation together
that make the true inflation story, not just what you're over.
Your CPI is.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Saying, Amen's sister, and speaking of the longshoreman, do you
see they walked out of negotiations. Biden making the claim
that he had had that thing under control. It's not
it's not don't go running out buying toilet paper though.
Six fifty one time for traffic and weather together. It's
just about to go out and buy a bunch of
toilet papers. Don't do that, sky Mike far I'm putting

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this in your in car navigation right now.

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
All right, traffic and weather, here's me East Tex Freeway southbound.
I've got a vehicle fire. I'm going to call this
the right line until we get a better close up.
Going to put the backup from nineteen sixty. Let's put
it from the belt that is southbound. And my workwife,
Christina Cruz also put in that Heart Membridge thing as
an expansion joint. So let's go back East Text Freeway

(01:15:12):
southbound Lee Road. That's a vehicle fire. He's smoking. Everybody
looks to be okay. We're packed now from Greens Road down.
Now let's go back to the heart Membridge northbound. That
is an expansion joints. Whoa dude, far out? It's backed up.

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This is the northbound span from the Laporte side after
Barber's cut.

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It is a wall of breaks.

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If you can flip over to the toll bridge, I
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That is some kind of stall around hirsh or Waco Street.

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See the suckage now from weastside dug from Conro big
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Speaker 6 (01:16:08):
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Six fifty three our time here in Houston's morning news.
All right, the longshoreman, I was mentioning the longshoreman, looks
like if the strike is not off the table, they
have walked out of negotiations. You know, we kind of
had the feeling that went by and said that, you know,
the port strike is over, that this was a temporary thing,
and it sure appears to be that way. So what

(01:17:07):
happens now as far as negotiation go? What what are
the big stumbling blocks? Here's an update for you.

Speaker 44 (01:17:12):
I think this plays into it. I'm just saying I
think inflationary pressure is going to be greater. Workers have
more opportunity to negotiate than they have in a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
We have a labor.

Speaker 44 (01:17:21):
Shortage in this country, baby boomers retiring in droves, So
labor inflation, I think is going to be a big component.
So I think I like having rosy colored sunglasses on too.
You know, I'm an optimistic guy, but I think there's
a lot of pressure on inflation, and I believe a
ten year treasure at four point three almost four point
four percent, that's telling you that we haven't beaten inflation yet.
And I think some of these pro growth policies are

(01:17:42):
going to be great, but I don't think it completely
addresses the deficit right now, and I think labors are
a component of that.

Speaker 45 (01:17:48):
Well, look at this, the ISLA union walking away from
the port negotiation talks.

Speaker 46 (01:17:53):
Guys, your reaction, yeah, I mean, I think this is
We've seen this trend where there is a sentiment that
perhaps the biy An administration wouldn't step in and take
any action to stop a strike. We saw union leaders
really frankly like turn away from Democrats. And I find
this strike to be a really interesting one because it's
focused on automation at ports, where you know that's in
direct conflict with the kind of technologies you need to

(01:18:15):
reduce emissions and the kinds of things that fit with
the Biden agenda. So I'm really curious to see how
this how this shapes out, particularly with President Trump coming
into office.

Speaker 45 (01:18:22):
Is it realistic d n User to say that there
will be no new technology used at any of these ports?

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
No, Maria.

Speaker 16 (01:18:31):
I've had enough time in manufacturing and production and every
time automation and first of all it improves quality, which
improves sales and tends to lower cost. We've always added
employees along the way.

Speaker 45 (01:18:46):
Well, then I have to turn these The unions are
not The unions are not having it. The union workers
are walking away. They say this is their number one issue.
They're walking away from the negotiation. Jonathan, where does this go?

Speaker 47 (01:18:58):
This is surprising because it looked like this was going
down the road of getting resolved. What a month ago
we were talking about this a lot. But I think
this idea that you're planting your flag on not innovating
cannot be a good thing. And it's hard for any
employer or anyone else to embrace that type of thing.
To stay where we are, even though you know they're
If they're committed to keeping the workers, that should be enough.

(01:19:19):
But it's surprising that that's where they're stacking the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Yeah. I don't know how you make a demand that
your business owners cannot embrace technology, any new technology. So
good news is Christmas is almost here. A long shore
and strike would have no impact on that. At ports,
strike would have no impact on that Again, it would
not have an impact on things you normally buy at
the grocery store, certainly not on paper goods. So let's

(01:19:43):
not see a run on that stuff all right. Time
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Seven on one is our time, Houston's Borning News. I'm
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about the Trump years and coming up at seven o'h eight,
Guinea Pig, it's what's for dinner. Details in the minutes ahead,
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morning drive with Skymine.

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Oh this is my fault that the rest of the
media didn't know about the Hardy Toll Road southbound wreck
at the ramp. If you're coming down the Hardy Vine,
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There's a wreck, four vehicle mashup.

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Everybody's okay, and they figured it out twenty minutes later.

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East Tech southbound at Lee Road. I've got a vehicle fire.
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Speaker 4 (01:22:35):
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Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
Are you not entertained?

Speaker 6 (01:22:42):
I mean, this is the most entertaining transition I've ever
seen Scott Jennings on CNN. He's reacting to the selection
of Florida Congressman Matt Gates as Donald Trump's attorney General.
It's resigned from Congress head of a House Ethics committee meeting.
This seat will be filled by January. Third other Trump
picks Yesterday, Tulci Gabbard was named the director of National Intelligence.

(01:23:05):
Florida's Marco Rubio officially picked his secretary of State. Now,
the man in charge of getting these picks confirmed in
the Senate will be new Majority Leader John Thune of
South Dakota.

Speaker 7 (01:23:16):
It's a new day in the United States Senate, and
it's a new day in America. The American people have
loudly rejected the failed policies of the Biden Harris Schumer agenda.

Speaker 6 (01:23:27):
Thun defeated Texas As John Cornyn and Florida's Rick Scott.
Mike Johnson retains his House speakership.

Speaker 8 (01:23:34):
I believe it will be the most consequential Congress of
the modern era, most consequential administration of the modern era, because, frankly,
we have to fix almost every area of Bubic policy.

Speaker 6 (01:23:43):
By the way, Fox, CNN and NBC all finally calling
the House for the GOP from the Capitol to the
Oval Office. The President elect, Donald Trump met with Joe
Biden at the White House yesterday.

Speaker 9 (01:23:56):
I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth and
as smooth as it can get. And I very much
appreciate that you here.

Speaker 6 (01:24:04):
Are after all of the rhetoric on the campaign trail,
Biden told Trump, quote, welcome back, and after years of
being hurt by Biden's regulations, Texas oil producers are cautiously
optimistic about the second Trump White House.

Speaker 11 (01:24:19):
While more cheap oil would be great, drilling too much
could cause problems.

Speaker 12 (01:24:23):
It's going to be good until it's not, which means
that until he puts out so much oil that price
to go to twenty thirty bucks a barrel and all
of a sudden, everybody loses their jobs.

Speaker 11 (01:24:32):
J Young, CEO of King Operating Corporation, told ktrh is
crucial that we balance supply and demand.

Speaker 12 (01:24:38):
What I'd like to see Trump do is just take
it easy in the industry and not open up the
floodgates because the infrastructure is not there.

Speaker 11 (01:24:47):
Young says that he is hopeful Trump will lift Biden's
ban on exporting liquid natural gas out of Texas. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:24:55):
Coming up on seven h five on KTRH. Texas lawmakers
continue to file bill ahead of the legislative session in January.
Jonathan signs with Texas Values, telling KTRH we could see
a return of the bathroom bill promoted by Lieutenant Governor
Dan Patrick in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 13 (01:25:12):
It shouldn't be any surprise that we would see the
Texas legislature take up these important issues, and the bill
has already been filed by Mays Middleton. Let's restore common
sense and let's protect privacy and safety for our girls.

Speaker 6 (01:25:24):
Keep in mind that Utah and Florida already have similar laws.
The US and Mexico agree on an amedment to a
water treaty from way back in nineteen forty four, but
will it help South Texas deal with its drought.

Speaker 14 (01:25:38):
The new option lets them meet their water release quota,
but it's a smoke screen.

Speaker 15 (01:25:42):
There's nothing that requires Mexico to honor that. The only
way we're going to get their attention is under the
next administration, a phone call that will hit them in
their pocket.

Speaker 14 (01:25:52):
Looks State Senator Charles Perry says the track record shows
they won't hold up their end, and it's because the
US has been soft on enforcement.

Speaker 15 (01:26:00):
They have resources that they could have released to have
mitigate it, the lack of brainfall on outside of the
border's hat. They just choose not to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
He says.

Speaker 14 (01:26:08):
They only came to the table because they know Trump
will be tougher on. To a Parard News Radio seven
forty KR.

Speaker 6 (01:26:14):
Coming up on seven h six, inflation, it's still a thing.
Prices went up point two percent last month and are
up two point six percent year over here. Donald Trump's
new Department of Government Efficiency could be the key to
bringing those numbers down.

Speaker 16 (01:26:29):
That will look at the discretionary and mandatory side of spending,
and we will find first of all waste abuse and fraud,
and then look for areas that we're just spending excessively,
and we think there's a neighborhood of a trillion dollars there.

Speaker 6 (01:26:42):
Pennsylvania Congressman Dan User trouble on the real estate market. Well,
experts say Austin is now ground zero for a potential
market crash. Real to Cliff Freeman says demand in the
housing market is outweighing supply.

Speaker 17 (01:26:56):
There is so much pent up demand across the country
right now. Now that we have certainty, and now that
people know or at least can make some educated guess
about where things might be headed, then they can now
and make those decisions about selling.

Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
Freeman is optimistic that the market will be good for
both buyers and sellers next year. Seven h seven on KTRH.
Turkey Day is going to gobble up more of your
hard earned cash this year. A new lending Tree survey
finds the average cost to host Thanksgiving dinner is up
nineteen percent this year.

Speaker 18 (01:27:29):
If you just want to do what you did last
year for Thanksgiving, it's going to cost you a whole
lot more than the average is about four hundred and
thirty dollars. That's a lot, especially when you talk about
how many people are living on tight budgets.

Speaker 19 (01:27:45):
Lending Tree analyst Matt Schultz says many folks are cutting
side dishes, inviting fewer guests, or dropping plans to host altogether.
And all six and ten say inflation is impacting their
Thanksgiving plans. Cory Olsen, who's Radio seven forty k TRH
and the.

Speaker 6 (01:27:58):
Rockets beat the Clippers, last night one eleven to one
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Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
At nine one h T two seven eight is our
time here on Houston's morning News. In New York City.
There are several restaurants now that are devouring a special
Ecuadorian delicacy. I did not know that people from Ecuador
love guinea pigs, not his pets. No, they don't keep

(01:28:36):
the guinea pigs going in that little round cage thing,
that little wheel. They eat them and they say they
are quote very delicious. Not sure about that one. According
to the manager of the restaurant, one of the restaurants
in New York that serves up guinea pig, it dow

(01:28:57):
quote him. Now, it's better than chicken, better than rabbit.
And he says the because they serve it to you whole,
the entire guinea pig. He says, the best part is
the head. They are importing these guinea pigs from South America.
They do it in bulk. They get flown in frozen

(01:29:20):
from a small farm in Ecuador. They have to be
processed at customs, which can be time consuming, so they
are expensive. So how much does one of these guinea
pig dinners cost? US? One hundred and ten bucks? I
think i'll I'll stick with the beef. Although I will
say this, the problem that I guess I'm having with

(01:29:43):
the guinea pig thing is that I had a guinea
pig as a pet. It was the first pet I
ever had. His name was Pete. And I can't imagine
eating pead any more than I can imagine eating my
dog Swiper. Although I do understand there are cultures where
they still would perform to eat dogs. I prefer them
as a loving pet. So I'm having a hard time

(01:30:04):
getting past that. And I will just say this, it's
very difficult. Here's my rule. Very difficult to eat anything
that has a name. So whatever you do, if you
intend to eat it at some point, don't give it
a name. We bought a whole cow once, you know,
to have processed and put in the freezer. I made
the mistake of naming him Biff. I had a hard

(01:30:28):
time eating Biff seven ten time for traffic and weather together.
I used to know my cow's names. Did you have
a hard time eating a cow with a name? No?

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
No, no, Like we would sit around the table with
my grandma.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
What's the strangest thing you've ever eaten? You ever had?
Guinea pig? Boy, that's a tough one. In my case,
I would say iguana. Oh, good lord, no, not very bony.

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
You know what a guinea pig is basically a mini nutria.
And even Cajun's won't eat nutria. Right, They'll eat bugs
out of the mud, they won't eat nutria. Let's go,
let's flip on the hard working east side of town.
Look at that scooch on the East Freeway. I got
towboat red from Rio.

Speaker 37 (01:31:06):
Vista red Anterstate eastbound is backed up to almost Dale down.

Speaker 22 (01:31:14):
I just wanted to say it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
She just want to say Daldale on the radio. Okay, outbound.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
That's twenty extra minutes trying to get across the bridge.
That's outbound, not inbound. Hartman Bridge northbound. It's easy to say,
I got two right lanes back. That's a major scooch
coming up from the Laporte side. Let's do the toll bridge.
Toll Bridge southbound. You've got some breaks going this way.
We've cleared downtown. That was a car carrier trailer. Everybody's okay.
On forty five the Pierce Elevated past the Ferris will stay.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
The course on the Gulf.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
It's just the usual backup from Lockwood North Loop six
to ten off the Hardy Toll Road, the Hardy Toll
Road ramp that takes you eastbound.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
That's out of the way.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
A four car still there, party scooched up from cross
timbers and your east text. That's a vehicle fire. You
knew at first. That is Lee Road southbound will knock
out two right lanes. Big backup greens Point. I'm Scott
Miichael the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
Our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Time to check in with Terry Smith. We've got ourselves
with a couple of perfect days coming up, Terry, Oh, gorgeous.

Speaker 21 (01:32:13):
Fall weather and it's not too bad over the weekend either,
though we'll start to feel a little more humidity in
the air. It looks like we've got plenty of sunshine
and no rain through Sunday. Very comfortable temperatures today thanks
to those northerly winds bringing in the dryer air. Temperatures
today and tomorrow load to mid seventies to Sunday. Saturday

(01:32:35):
and Sunday we'll be closer to eighty and then another
coal front on the way Monday and Tuesday. Looks like
some rain around southeast Texas, and then the dry weather
returns midweek, but along.

Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
With it, looks like it could be a bit.

Speaker 4 (01:32:47):
Cooler, even cooler than today.

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Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
All right, we were talking when was it a couple
of days ago, maybe last week, about how sci FIIR
has finally come up with a policy for their students
about which bathroom you use. And it's the common sense answer,
You use the bathroom that corresponds with your biological sex.
If you have a penis, you go to the boys room.
If you don't, you go to the girls room. Seems

(01:33:24):
pretty simple. We're all we're kind of wondering if Dan
Patrick is going to try to make a comeback with
a bathroom bill he was talking about doing it statewide
that didn't get through last time around. Is now the
right time to present it again. We'll talk to Jonathan Signs,
president of Texas Values about that coming up next. First, though,
traffic and weather together take your time's come I party

(01:33:45):
Tell Road southbound.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
The rest of the media now knows we have that
wreck at the connector. This is the Hardy toll roads
southbound and you're trying to get eastbound over toward the
east text for vehicles. Everybody's okay, you can get by,
but it is the scoots from Crosschambers. Visor's your Katie
free west flow at Friar Road. Look at that east
freeway on the outbound. We're trying to find that stall
around Magnolia that's eastbound Toeboat. Red says it's backed up

(01:34:09):
from Daildal.

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Check out some of our top trending stories. Here's Cliff,
Thank you.

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Jimmy is seven twenty two on KTRH. Tropical depression as
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Seven thirty he living friends with Your forecast is at
the bottom of the hour on seven KTRH. Seven twenty
three is our time here in Houston's Warning News. I'd
be a little fraid to go into the men's room
in Los Angeles, especially to certain places.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
I'm not sure what you might find in there. Jonathan
Science joins US President that Texas Values Sifair has adopted
a policy limiting students to bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex. Well,
dan Patrick, bring his bathroom bill back, what do you think.

Speaker 49 (01:35:43):
Well, look, there's a lot of activity here on this
issue around the state. Two days ago, the City Council
Odessa passed a similar ordinance like the one in Syfair,
making it clear that it's the biological sex on your
birth certificate nearest birth that decides if you go in
the men's room the women's room, and this applies to
showers and locker rooms. Look, we know Riley Gaines not

(01:36:05):
only was she forced to compete against a man in
the women's division in swimming, but that man, that male student,
that college student, went into her locker room and completely
stripped down naked in front of her and other girls.
And so this is a growing concern and women have
had enough. I mean, this is happening in domestic violent shelters,

(01:36:28):
in women's shelters where men women go to escape threats
from men, and you have men who claim that they're
women going into those shelters.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
So it's gone too far.

Speaker 49 (01:36:38):
But look, you've got Carolias d Up in the Dallas
Fort Worth area, klorized d who've passed policies.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
But then you've got some other cities who are.

Speaker 49 (01:36:46):
Trying to pass ones like Houston tried to do, you know,
almost ten years ago, to force businesses to allow men
into the women's restrooms. So you know, there's more activity
on this. So there's no surprise that there's already been
a bill filed by May Middleton making it clear that
we go by biological sex. This is called the Women's
and Children's Privacy and Safety Protection Bill. You know, that

(01:37:09):
way we can have a consistent standard across the state,
because you know, look at used to not be an issue,
was common sense, but now that you've got the you know,
the left wing, extreme liberal trans activists that are trying
to force people to accept these gender ideology issues and
political stances. But also they're trying to create confusion on

(01:37:31):
these issues, so people are worried, oh, I shouldn't say
anything if a man goes into women's restroom because I
might get canceled or someone might you know, follow a
lawsuit against me. This makes everything real clear in state laws,
So no surprise of bill's already been filed in the
legislature realizes it's a growing problem and it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Needs a solution. The timing is interesting. I have to
wonder if that's sort of election related. Y know, you
have all those happening right around the presidential election, and
I think some of these school systems, who probably have
wanted to do this for felt emboldened because they could
see what was going on with the electric how people
felt about all this woke nonsense.

Speaker 49 (01:38:07):
Well, there's no question that the landslide overwhelming victory of
Donald Trump is going to allow a climate where common
sense prevails more and people aren't worried about the ACLU
and other left wing activists that are going to be
emboldened by a Biden Department of Justice, the lawfare that's

(01:38:28):
been going on, because that's what the Department of Justice
the federal level has been doing under Biden and in Obama.
They try to force our school districts to allow the
boys into the girls showers and locker rooms and bathrooms,
and threatened a lot of school districts that they didn't. Thankfully,
federal courts have said the Biden rules on this are
not legal. We're not forcing schools to do this in Texas.

(01:38:50):
And now that you're going to have a change with
the presidency, it will allow school districts to more do
what's best for their local school district. Let common sense prevail,
and hopefully we'll see a lot of these things get resolved.
But you know, you're always going to have the other
side that's going to try to spin the issue. They're
going to try to spread misinformation on this. But I
think people can see this real clear now. And you've

(01:39:13):
got Ted Cruz won a landslide victory, if not a
very strong victory, almost ten point victory in.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
The state of Texas.

Speaker 49 (01:39:21):
And you've got a lot of Democrats that are leaving
the Democratic Party because of issues like this, including the
issues where they use tax dollars on sex change operations
on kids. So a lot of Democrats are saying we're
done with that, We're moving to the Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
All right, Jonathan, thanks as always appreciate, President of the
Texas Values Jonathan Science. It's seven twenty seven. Time to
take a look at your money. Jeff Ellinger is here and.

Speaker 29 (01:39:45):
Jimmy looks like a positive star to head for Wall Street.
S and P futures are up seven points, NASVAC futures
are up fourteen, and the Dow futures are up one
hundred and thirty five points. This hour, I'm Jeff Beldinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
No Houston's News, Why there were traffic, plus Breaking News
twenty four to seven. This is News Radio seven forty
Ktrhive Everywhere with the IRF.

Speaker 20 (01:40:15):
More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
It is seven thirty now here on Houston's Morning News,
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
there's a one billion dollar plan for the Astrodome, more
Trump cabinet picks, and coming up at seven thirty eight,
a lawsuit over original recipe details. In the minutes to head,
You're on Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that

(01:40:40):
drive time with sky Mine.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
I still got the scooch on the East Freeway going outbound.
It looks like they've cleared whatever that stall was in
front of the truck stops at Magnoia. It's still a
big pack up from Sheldon Weisors. You're all crammed up
now from Mason Road. Make that fry and it's breaks
into Eldridge Parkway. It was about eight or nine minutes
this way. Southwest Freeway slow at the Loop, and you've
got Lisa from Splendora.

Speaker 10 (01:41:01):
Goot forty time, Mike, I think your carbacuere cleared. I
was going to get a picture for you.

Speaker 30 (01:41:06):
However, was it there all right?

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
That was the Eastech southbound Lee Road. The car fire
is gone. We're still scooched out from the Beltway. Lisa
from Splendora banana sticker and an all a French since
he's from Splendora. Jimmy, I'm an a Generator Supercenter dot
com traffic car BQ.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
I love it, oh from our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty
four hour weather center for today, sunny and mild with
the high right about seventy four. We'll get you the
complete forecast with Terry at the Weather Channel in about
eight minutes. Temperature right now fifty seven at your official
some Mere weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH. It
is time now for the news. Here's Cliffsonders.

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:41:42):
It is seven thirty two on KTRH and our top story.

Speaker 26 (01:41:45):
We cannot lose our iconic astrodom.

Speaker 6 (01:41:49):
So the Conservancy will turn the eighth Wonder of the
World into a billion dollar global entertainment destination. They're hoping
for a combination of private and public monies. The Conservancy
said their polling shows that eighty percent wanted to see
the dome repurposed. Now, the question is whether or not
this plan will become reality. Remember the last plan to

(01:42:10):
repurpose the dome died five years ago.

Speaker 30 (01:42:13):
Nobody wants to see the Dome torn down, especially folks
who grew up going to ash shows.

Speaker 22 (01:42:18):
Games and its heyday.

Speaker 30 (01:42:20):
Yet at the same time, nobody wants to pay to
have it restored.

Speaker 6 (01:42:23):
Former Harris County GOPHR Jared Woodfield telling KTRH at the
optimal time to have done something with the dome passed
by a long time ago seven thirty three on KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:42:35):
What he says to stands.

Speaker 6 (01:42:37):
That's White House Press Secretary Kareeine Jean Pierre asked by
reporters if President Joe Biden offered President elect Donald Trump
an apology for his rhetoric on the campaign trail.

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
The two at the White House yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:42:49):
Now, Trump also made more cabinet picks, including former Democrat
Tulsea Gabbard as his Director of National Intelligence.

Speaker 31 (01:42:57):
I was grateful and honored to accept President Trump's offer
to serve our country and support his objective to defend
the safety, security, and freedom of the American people as
the director.

Speaker 4 (01:43:07):
Of National Intelligence.

Speaker 6 (01:43:08):
Gabbard with Fox's Jesse Waters. Florida Congressman Matt Gates is
Trump's choice for Attorney General. Reaction to that and what
Gates did following that pick coming up at eight o'clock,
The New York Post is reporting that Robert F. Kennedy
Junior wants to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
You're supposed to just be advising the president and Congressional

(01:43:29):
Republicans have their leadership team in place. South Dakota's John
Thunne is the majority leader, defeating both Rick Scott and
Texas As John Cornyn in a secret ballot. Mike Johnson
retains his speakership in the House and is set to
meet with the President elect today seven thirty four on KTRH,
the new Trump borders are Tom Homan, Well, he's hitting

(01:43:50):
the ground running and sending a message to sanctuary cities.

Speaker 32 (01:43:54):
Sankstory cities are sanc stories for criminals, bottom line, So
if they don't want to help, then get to hell
all the way.

Speaker 6 (01:44:00):
Meantime, some thirty one million dollars in meth has been
seized by border patrol concealed inside a shipment of peppers
at the far International Bridge last weekend. As the President
elect prepares to secure our border, Canada is now bracing
our surge of illegals themselves.

Speaker 33 (01:44:18):
A surge of illegals from here in America.

Speaker 34 (01:44:21):
Canada is bracing for a large number of people who
are here unlawfully, who are concerned that they're going to
get caught up in the Trump administration's deportation program.

Speaker 33 (01:44:31):
That is former immigration judge Andrew Arthur.

Speaker 34 (01:44:34):
You're really going to see the Canadians attempts to seal
off the borders of the country and send migrants who
are attempting otter Canada legally back to this country.

Speaker 33 (01:44:43):
And we'll see about another round between Trump and Canadian
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty kt H.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
Thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 6 (01:44:54):
It's now seven thirty five and our bystander shoots out
a suspect during a Deputy Constable pus dude yesterday. This
all started with a traffic stop. It included a crash.
The bad guy tried running. That's when the witness started shooting.
After stealing a tow truck. The suspect was finally caught.
The City of Houston late veteran firefighter Marcelo Garcia the

(01:45:15):
third to rest yesterday.

Speaker 35 (01:45:17):
It was a very sad day for the city of
us A very sad day, but you know a day
that's that. It reminds us how the city comes together
during the wars of times.

Speaker 6 (01:45:25):
HFD Chief Thomas Munno's Garcia killed in a warehouse fire
last week. A woman has been charged with arson in
the case. Seven thirty six Overnight training on Wall Street
is up, so the doll was looking to be up
at the closing bell. It was a mixed day yesterday
on the street. Now, if you're figuring out how much
to pay yourself for retirement based on the standard rules,

(01:45:47):
you might be losing out. The old four percent rule,
Well that was based on you living until ninety five
years of age. Most people aren't living that long too.

Speaker 36 (01:45:57):
They want to happen to this wealth of knowledge that
we have about your medical history, your family history, and
try to get a better view of really how long
you might live.

Speaker 4 (01:46:07):
USA.

Speaker 6 (01:46:07):
Today's Madora Lee there the city of Magnolia in Montgomery County. Well,
they're seeing more tourism and more issues, so the city
is thinking about regulating short term rentals.

Speaker 22 (01:46:19):
People them in from out of town that they party,
they make watch of noise, they're uplate, music's going on, whatnot,
and that's disturbing to the neighbor.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
Montgomery County Judge Marcillo tells us that the city does
have the ability to put ordinances in place to protect
its residents. Seven point thirty seven. Here's another example of
how parents would rather be friends with their kids as
opposed to parents. They're literally tailgating and partying with their
kids at college.

Speaker 37 (01:46:46):
It's important to find that balance having fun but also
teaching about what is right.

Speaker 38 (01:46:51):
Parents should always be setting an example. But it is
also true that going off to college is usually a
time when children are really stepping into that independence and
the parents need to let them do so.

Speaker 37 (01:47:01):
Relationship trainer Julie Nice says instilling good morals and values
should start before the kids gets college and the parents
are joining them.

Speaker 38 (01:47:09):
Whatever bond you've got with your kids needs to have
been forwarded long before you get to the college party.

Speaker 37 (01:47:15):
Sarah Lewis News Radio seven forty KR eight and in
college basketball last night, UH Beats Louisiana ninety one to
forty five. I'm Cliff Cylinders on Houston's news, weather and
traffic station News Radio seven forty kg RH.

Speaker 9 (01:47:29):
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor.
What happens next, promises, may happens here, promises Kevin Use
Radio seven forty kt RH.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Who's your go to for fried chicken? You like fried chicken?
I love fried chicken, and there's a whole variety. I'm
I'm not super picky on my fried chicken. I'm really
really not. I just like it really crunchy. I like
it like the skin be really really crunchy. That's that's
my only my only rule. I don't necessarily I don't

(01:48:01):
usually get fast food fried chicken. But I saw this
Texas lawsuit involving two pretty well known brands, Kentucky Fried
Chicken and Churches Chicken, and evidently the lawsuit is over
using the term original recipe when branding the fried chicken.

(01:48:21):
Both of them are doing it. Both KFC and Church's
Chicken are using original recipe. Now, my question would be,
is that something you can really trademark original recipe? Shouldn't
any of us who are serving up food that are
using the same recipe that grandma used or great grandma

(01:48:43):
used and been using for the last fifty years or
a hundred years or whatever it is. Shouldn't you just
be able to tell your customers is yeah, that chicken,
that chicken you like twenty years ago, same recipe, the
original recipe, You're still gonna like it. Besides, in the
case of KFC, I don't think do you think of
KFC when you think of original recipe? I think of

(01:49:05):
eleven herbs and spices. Right, that's kind of the that's
kind of the catchphrase that makes me think of KFC. Anyway.
The lawsuit was filed November eighth, US District Court for
the Eastern District of Texas. KFC is accused Church's Texas
Chicken of isolating its trademark rights by using the phrase
in its advertisements and promotions. Church's use of the phrase

(01:49:25):
original recipe in its own advertisements quote is likely to
create confusion in the marketplace and to loot the original
recipe mark, according to the lawsuit, I guess they have
a trademark for original recipe. I'm surprised you can get
one for that. Seven forty time for traffic and whether
to go together favorite side. Oh, I'm gonna say coleslaw.
Oh I'm a red beans and rice pop. Yes, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
If there was no such thing as getting fat, I
would have it for breakfast every single morning.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
But I love all chicken, you know, every now and
again you just have to have it. It's it's soule food.
It does your soul good. It's my cheap meal. Let's
look at your essex, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:50:00):
Lisa from Splendora with both the banana sticker and an
olive ranch pruss, she breaks up our Schulenberg southbound east
text clear the vehicle fire Lee Road. A lot of suckage.
Now from will Clayton Parkway southbound. We've cleared the wreck
off the Hardy Vionnd. Southbound Hardy Toil Road, the ramp
that takes you to six ten. They pull all four
vehicles away. The Hardy is still squished up from cross timbers.

(01:50:21):
It's still the best ride in from the north side
for now six to ten north loop. This is ugly
both ways at the squeeze forty five. We call it
that because it's two lanes westbound backed up from the
east text eastbound it's all thick and choking around from
TC Jester to nine. You had a grand march. We're
backed up from Huffmeister as usual. Southwest Freeway. Let's connect
the dots from the fountains. Oh, Terry, let's check on

(01:50:42):
the golf ball six, golf ball ninety nine, which way eastbound? Yep,
we're slow around twenty nine to twenty. But hey, you
should open the windows in the golf ball and you
and all the scientists can.

Speaker 2 (01:50:53):
Play Dungeons and Dragons outside.

Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
I'm Scottmike and the generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
Uh, just the image she was going for from our
ktche generator of super Center twenty four hour Weather Center. Yeah,
she's a weather nerd, but she's not a nerd nerd.

Speaker 4 (01:51:07):
I'm not a dungeons and dragon kind of person.

Speaker 15 (01:51:11):
Lord.

Speaker 2 (01:51:11):
No, you're a full moon kind of girl. You're a
supermoon kind of girl.

Speaker 21 (01:51:15):
Thank you super Moon. Yeah, and you know, so we're
on our way to the super moon. This is like
pre supermoon. Today. Tomorrow is the supermoon, and it'll be
just slightly less super on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
That's the nice thing.

Speaker 21 (01:51:35):
And we've got perfect weather for enjoying the supermoon or
just being outside because that cooler, dryer air has shown.

Speaker 4 (01:51:42):
Up, and you will notice it as soon as you
step outside. Today.

Speaker 21 (01:51:46):
Gorgeous fall weather today and tomorrow. Temperatures low to mid seventies,
getting a little bit warmer over the weekend, just a
little more humidity, but we're still dry. Saturday and Sunday,
we're close to eighty both days, and then another coal
front on the way. We'll start to get some rain
Monday and probably Tuesday as well. I suspect, and that
another dose of some much colder weather by midweek next week.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
Now we're up to fifty eight at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 20 (01:52:14):
You are commute, you are forecast, You're news. It's Houston's
Morning News, brought to you. Buying new south wind, those solutions.
We've heard from Eli Musk about the Department of Government
Efficiency douge wherever we're going to pronounce it. We're gonna
hear next from the veck Ramaswami about this office and
what they intend to do when they intend to do

(01:52:36):
it by coming up next. First, though, we've got traffic
and weather together, and that starts with you Skyville.

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
The Heartmembridge northbound, two lanes are missed and this has
been crazy all morning. Headed up toward Baytown. Let's go
to the south Belt.

Speaker 39 (01:52:48):
I Mike, all.

Speaker 22 (01:52:49):
Smuggled up over here around Fort Benoeway.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
We're barely moving, all right, cat Brookside Village, Jimni sky Mike.

Speaker 18 (01:52:56):
South beltwestbound between Fort Bentoway and Esther is a parking lot,
all four lane.

Speaker 30 (01:53:02):
It's a mess.

Speaker 18 (01:53:03):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:53:04):
Let me get with these super helpful tollway people.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
I'm sure they'll be like, well, I can't give you
that information, but we'll do our best.

Speaker 3 (01:53:10):
Coming up in ten minutes and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:53:14):
From r KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour weather Center.
Today and Tomorrow sunny and mild, about seventy four both days.
Then Saturday and Sunday party cloudy, a little bit warmer
with the high temperature right around eighty next week, probably
around Wednesday or Thursday. We're talking about hids in the sixties. Yeah,
we'll enjoy that for a change, won't we. Temperature right
now is fifty eight at your official severe weather station,

(01:53:36):
News Radio seven forty k TRH time to check out
some of our top trending stories. Here's cliv.

Speaker 4 (01:53:42):
Thank you, Jimmy.

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Our next update is at eight o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:54:14):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown, Southwest.

Speaker 20 (01:54:16):
Next on the ten time Saving Traffic on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
Yeah, that's the Department of Government Efficiency. They hope to
trim two trillion, that's with a t not billion, two
trillion dollars from the federal budget by getting rid of waste, duplicity,
all sorts of things. I mean, it actually shouldn't be
that hard to do when you get right down to it.

(01:54:43):
We're finally we're gonna have two business people who are
going to look at the federal government like a business
and then make some recommendations. The question becomes will Congress
act on their recommendations. That's the unknown factor. But here
is the think we've heard a lot from Elan. Here's
a fake ramas Bon talking about what their goal is
and when they hope to accomplish it.

Speaker 50 (01:55:04):
By part of what's holding back energy dominance in this
country is that administrative state. Look at the regulations coming
out of the Department of Interior, the slow permitting requirements,
how hard it is to open a new refinery. So
I think that is the root cause of our failure
as a country. Is this unelected fourth branch of government.
And I think they look at elected officials as these

(01:55:24):
cute little puppets that come and go every little while.
Not anymore, there's a new sheriff in town. Donald Trump's
the president. He has mandated us for radical, drastic reform
of this federal bureaucracy. With the learnings of that first term,
and you look Elon, and I mean Elon solving major
problems of physics. I came from the world of biology.
What we're solving here now is not a natural problem.

Speaker 5 (01:55:45):
This is a man made problem.

Speaker 50 (01:55:46):
And when you have a man made problem, you better
darnwell have a man made solution. That's what we're bringing
to the table. We're assembling the brightest minds in the country.
This is the equivalent of a modern Manhattan Project to
take on I think the major problem holding our entry
back it's the federal bureaucracy target that cost save the money,
restore self governance. Well, Sean, I think we did something

(01:56:07):
pretty novel here, if I may say so. If I
just want to say, is this government department of Government Efficiency.

Speaker 5 (01:56:12):
It is built with an end to date.

Speaker 50 (01:56:14):
We want to be done by July fourth, twenty twenty six.
So for the first time in history, creating a department,
creating a new government project that is designed to end.

Speaker 5 (01:56:23):
When its work is complete.

Speaker 50 (01:56:25):
That's on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's
declaration of independence. And that's the gift we want to
give this country on that birthday.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
How cool is that? A birthday gift for the United
States of America. By getting the federal bureaucracy under control,
to pair out the lifelong bureaucrats, to get the government
restored to the people, to spend money on the things
we need to spend money on, and to not waste
it on the things that we do not. I hope

(01:56:55):
to God they can make that happen. I like you,
I'm a skeptic on this because this is the swamp
is a very powerful thing and very difficult to fight.
But let's hope they can do it. That's a short
time span, that's not that long to go, especially in
the world of politics. July twenty twenty six, just in
time for a big anniversary for this country. All right,

(01:57:16):
quick little news you can use here before we go.
GM is recalling four hundred and sixty thousand cars for
rear wheel lock up, affecting models including Chevy, GMC, and Cadillac.
Many of them are trucks. They are all diesels, so
if you have a diesel GM product, you may want
to check that out. And also Chryst. They're recalling over
two hundred thousand Jeep Dodge vehicles over an anti luck

(01:57:38):
brake system issue, mainly the Jeep, Grand, Cherokee, Dodge Durrango
vehicles going back to twenty eighteen. So same thing. You know,
you'll probably get a recall notice, but best to take
care of it sooner versus later. Hey, listen, y'all have
a great day. Thanks for listening. We'll see tomorrow morning
bright nearly at five am. I'll see this afternoon four
on AM nine fifty KPRC