Trump Continues To Shake Things Up With His Cabinet Picks

Bob Frantz takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 11/27/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:20):
At the Border, and President Trump continues to shake things
up with his cabinet picks. Good morning, I'm Bob fransin
for Jimmy Barrett. This is your five o'clock report on
news Radio seven forty k t r H. Cliff Saunders
has our news after we do traffic and weather together
here sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Oh so far.

Speaker 6 (00:35):
Here we go Thanksgiving Eve, and we're looking around on
the north side at side forty five North Freeway, little warm,
twenty three minutes from Sawdust down into downtown. Good good
start here. We don't have our record Shepherd yet. And
the Gold Freeway, we don't have our record park Place yet.
We're twenty two minutes from clear Lake. I've been to downtown.
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

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All right, thanks very much. Cloudy skuys early today and
then a little more clear. This afternoon high of.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Eighty three pushing up toward a record maybe overcast Tonight's
s light chance of a Ranch our low of fifty
seven for Thanksgiving Tomorrow, it's going to cool off considerably.
We'll let the Weather Channel take care of that for us.
Coming up at five to ten with the details right
now sixty three at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
And now it's time for the morning news. Hey there,
Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 7 (01:25):
Good morning, Bob, and good morning everybody. Coming up on
five h two on KTRH, our top story this morning.

Speaker 8 (01:32):
Let me be clear, there is going to be a
mass deportation game on time to get this done.

Speaker 7 (01:37):
Game on incoming borders are Tom Homan and Eagle Pass yesterday,
hosted by Governor Greg Gabbott.

Speaker 9 (01:43):
The soon as January the twenty occurs, there is going
to be a change in a way that the United
States of America protects our border and protects the sovereignty
of the United States of America.

Speaker 7 (01:55):
The state is offering the incoming administration more than just
the fourteen hundred eight Ranch and Star Country as detention centers.
We'll have much more on that coming up at five
point thirty. Now, despite the show of force, half of
Texas Republicans still don't think the state spends enough on
border security. They want lawmakers to fix.

Speaker 10 (02:15):
That and specifically, what is the Texas GOP plan for spending.

Speaker 11 (02:20):
You can guarantee that it's going to be at the
top of the priority list for all the legislators and
particularly the state leadership or Republicans.

Speaker 10 (02:27):
That's reporter Brad Johnson with the Texan. With Texas currently
spending over four billion a year on border security.

Speaker 11 (02:36):
Something is going to be done on the border. Just
a question of what that is and how much money
we're putting towards it.

Speaker 10 (02:41):
They can either keep the spending as is or if
Trump takes over, use that money elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty kt H. Thanks Jeff.

Speaker 7 (02:51):
Mexico in the meantime is threatening retaliatory tariffs if the
President elect follows through on his Day one promise to
hold them, Canada and China accountable for the border disaster.
Trump made a flurry of administration picks last night, including
doctor j Botacharia to run the National Institutes of Health.

Speaker 12 (03:12):
What you're seeing happen right now with Donald Trump's cabinet
picks and his appointments are exactly the mandate the American
people delivered on November fifth, that's why the approval of
everything is so high.

Speaker 7 (03:23):
Rnc CO chair Lara Trump there now Botacharia, like HHS
Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior, has called for reforming
the NIH, especially after COVID coming up on five to four.
Today is said to be another busy day at the airport.
So far, there have been minimal delays both into and

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out of Bush and hobby holiday travels so far unaffected
by the Charlotte Airport workers strike. We'll have more on
this coming up at the bottom of the hour. Outrage
in Galveston County this morning is the family of a
child rape victim once answers after the bad guy was
wrongfully released from jail.

Speaker 13 (04:02):
How are you're gonna tell me you lost a whole person.
We're talked about a real man. You're gonna let somebody go.

Speaker 7 (04:13):
That woman with our TV partner channel too. Now Marshall
Settlemeyer is back in custody. Officials said his release was
the result of human error here in the city. HPD
says charges have been brought in some of the two
hundred and sixty four thousand cases that were suspended because
of that lack of personnel code, but the root cause

(04:35):
of the problem, HPD's lack of manpower still hasn't been addressed.

Speaker 14 (04:40):
What we're hoping to do is get one hundred more
officers a year over the next five years. That will help,
but it still will not sure the issue. We need
probably twenty five hundred ulcers.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
Doug Griffith with the Officers Union told KTRH that HPD
has been affected by a couple of things, including retirements
and other law enforcement agencies were rooting and offering more money.
It's now five oh five. The state school board last
week approved of adding Bible references to the curriculum. Now
they're making a move on inappropriate library books.

Speaker 15 (05:13):
They want more input on if a book is sexually
explicit or not.

Speaker 16 (05:16):
There's a lot of inappropriate stuff going on, especially for
certain families, and so this is just one more thing
highlighting what's wrong with this school system.

Speaker 15 (05:24):
Jean Burke of College Prep Genius says there's already a
law against those books, but this goes a step further,
and really it just shows the common sense is back.

Speaker 16 (05:32):
I feel like that with the administration coming up, that
there's going to be more oversight on what's going on.

Speaker 15 (05:40):
She says this is a good trend and a way
to break up the liberal agenda forced into the system.
Andre Perard, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Thanks Andre, And what Austin is doing is just one
of many reasons conservatives are thankful at this holiday. Matt
Kittle with the Federalists has several other reasons.

Speaker 17 (05:58):
No longer have to look at four more years of
men pretending to be women in key executive branch positions,
and we just dodged four very long years of cringey
word salads.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
That said, we did have a Kamala Harris stuting last
night a video released by the Democrat Party.

Speaker 18 (06:17):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power from you.

Speaker 7 (06:23):
That video is getting panned on social media this morning,
many saying Harris looked off five oh six now on
KTRH and looking at your money, Consumer confidence ticked up
to the highest level we've seen in the year, just
weeks after Donald Trump's reelection, But one out of four
people with health insurance are struggling with metal costs these days.

Speaker 19 (06:46):
The CEO of healthcare finance specialist David Belott says increasing
out of pocket expenditures and deductibles help insurance companies make
money for their shareholders. And while some are calling for
expansion of Medicaid in Texas, in the that too serves
insurance company investors.

Speaker 20 (07:03):
Expansion of Medicaid doesn't really do a whole lot, as
we've seen in the other states that have expanded Medicaid
for the patients themselves, but it does a lot of Really,
it does a lot of good for the insurance companies
and their shareholders.

Speaker 19 (07:14):
A lot points out that even on Medicaid it's hard
to get some doctor appointments and some medical care. Michael
Shanelone News Radio seven forty KTRA.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
And finally, the Rockets beat Minnesota one seventeen to one eleven.
They visit the Sixers tonight pregame at five on Sports
Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather
in Traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News Team,
Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
And a good morning to you once again.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Bob Franz sitting in for Jimmy on this Wednesday, pre Thanksgiving,
So happy Early Thanksgiving. We'll probably say that a few
dozen times today just to get you ready for the holiday.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
I'm sure you are already ready.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Hopefully you can afford to the Thanksgiving dinner because we
are still working and living under Bidenomics, still living under Kamalinomics,
com oliflation, bidenflation, call it what you want to call it,
but good luck with that. Hopefully you won't have illegal
aliens sitting next to you at your dinner.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
Tom Holman is doing his level best to make that happen.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
He of course, was in Texas yesterday, it was at
Eagle Pass and was talking about all of the needs
that we have in order to protect and preserve not
only your family and your communities, but people all across
this country.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
And he is getting cooperation.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
It would appear at least in some law on some
level from both sides of the aisle, including Henry Quaar,
who said on News Nation last night that yeah, he
really feels like he can work with Tom Homan.

Speaker 21 (08:47):
I reached out to him, told him that I wanted
to sit down with them, and he said absolutely, and
we're going to sit down. And he said, next time
I'm in DC, which is make tweet, I'll see if
I can sit down, because there's a lot of things.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
You know, I've been doing this for many years, you know.

Speaker 21 (09:02):
Sometimes that the current administration has not listened to me.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
So he said he's got common ground with Tom Homan,
which is really important. And of course Homan himself says,
we are ready for the challenge, no matter who gets
in the way and what gets in the way, including
those city leaders who insist on their sanctuary city policy,
and that it would stand up to federal law.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
Tom Oman says not so much.

Speaker 8 (09:26):
Well, first of all, what's cruel about it? We have
a massive illeu immigration flow on the board, historic flows
that overwhe on the border, trol sex trafficking, up six
two hundred and fifty thousand dead Americans from Fatanhol. We
got the record number known inspected terrorists and people on
terraces washing that's crossing a border. We got children dying
on the border every day. We got women being sexual

(09:48):
assaulted by the cartels every day. Someone's going to die
on the border tonight. Women are being raped on the
boarder tonight. So what's cruel about securing that border?

Speaker 5 (09:58):
Saving lives? First of all?

Speaker 8 (09:59):
But I'll give the same morning. I'm give him the
rest of the sanctuary city mayors and the governors. You
can not help us, that's fine, you should get the
hell out of the way.

Speaker 22 (10:07):
That we're going to do the job.

Speaker 8 (10:09):
President Trump has said public safety threats and national security
threats will be the priority right out of the gate.
And I can't believe there's any elected official that doesn't
want public safety threats out of their communities.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
They're number one.

Speaker 8 (10:19):
Responsibilities for protecting the communities. So if they're not going
to do it, we'll do a form. But you can stay,
you can, you cannot help, but don't impede us, and
do not knowingly harbor and consume a neighborhood amily from
ice because that is a felony.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
That is a felony.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
And Tom Homan wants everyone to know he will indeed
bring those charges as borders are.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
That is exactly what he'll do.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
He'll work in hand in hand with the new Attorney
General once Pam Bondy gets UH gets confirmed, and they
will indeed go after sanctuary city leaders, mayors and so
on and so forth for harboring fugitive illegal aliens. So
this is getting really really interesting, and more and more
Americans are getting very very excited about the prospect actual
law and order returning to the country.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
All right, let's get moving this morning.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
It is last day work for almost everybody, and let's
help you get there, skymake on the morning drive.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well, so far we're in good shape as we check out. Oh,
i've got something on two eighty eight. You never know
what to eighty eight. It's so big, it's got its
own government and it has people that work there. Twenty four.
That is some kind of road debris in the right lane.
Who knows what. Watch out for other people swerving. I'll
see if I can get a zoom in on that.
At six twenty just for fun, for some reason, they've

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got my shot here of the Southwest Freeway and the
beach Nut Bob, I give you a link on your
Facebook messenger so you could play the home game with me.
It's on a Transtar camera five to one nine on
their website. And we've got this lovely shot of the
thundering towers there. We are used to be a lot
of stuff going on there northbound the Arena theater and
we're good to go Sugarland at twenty one minutes. I'm Skymichael,

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a generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
All right, thank you very much, good sir.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
And what about the forecast for Turkey Day tomorrow, and
what about potential record setting temperatures today. Jeff Maher at
the Weather Channel has it for us. A Jeff, Yeah,
you're right about that, Bob.

Speaker 23 (12:06):
The current record today eighty four that was set in
nineteen eighty nine. We're going to get awfully close to
that later today with a partly to mostly cloudy sky
and gusty wins out of the southwest. The eventual high
you're eighty three degrees. Then a cold flub moves in
tonight and that's going to result in breezy conditions, some clouds,
but potentially a few isolated showers late with the low
fifty nine, temperatures will not rise much at all Thanksgiving
as gusty wins out of the north, drawing some colder

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era high sixty one under a cloudy sky, the low
tomorrow night in the mid forties, and then clearing Friday
with the high your sixty will be a sunny weekend
as high Saturday and Sunday hit the load to mid sixties.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
All right, there you have it, thank you, Jeff, And
right now we have sixty three degrees to get your
day started at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
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on the day, all right.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Now, seventeen minutes after the hour, Good morning to you,
thanks for being with us.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
Bob France in for Jimmy. Big News this morning.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
Actually announced yesterday, Israel has agreed to a peace deal,
not with Hamas, which of course you know they continue
to fight that to our organization in Gaza, but they
have reached a peace deal with Hesbealah, which of course
is to the north in Lebanon. Under the terms of
the deal, which are apparently the dealer is apparently set

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to go into effect this morning for a local time,
the fighting at the Israel Ebanese border will end, Biden said.
Joe Biden said in outlining the ceasefire in this announcement yesterday,
which he said was designed to be a permanent cessation
of hostilities. Biden also said that the US and its partners,
including France, will make sure that the deal is implemented fully.

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So if you're wondering, what does Biden have to do
with a deal between Israel and Hesbela, and the answer
is legacy. He has nothing to do with it, but
he is trying to take credit for it when it's
very very clear that what Israel has done here was
essentially a nod to President Trump, who is on his way.
In Nick Sorter tweeting about this, Joe Biden has taken

(14:08):
credit for the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hesbellah. Even
the Washington Post says Israel was doing this for President Trump.
Is it just a coincidence that Israel agreed to a
ceasefire right after talks with Trump? Of course it's not.
But Joe Biden's gonna shamelessly take credit anyway.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
What a useless imbecile.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
I'm not going to call him the name imbecile it
may fit, but I will point out that, yes, he
is trying to take credit because he's in the last
six to eight months of his presidency. Even back when
he thought he was still going to be running for reelection,
you know, he was desperate to get a ceasefire agreement
made because it was a campaign promise, and it was
something that he, you know, and his team wanted to

(14:51):
be able to deliver, even if it meant, you know,
negative consequences for the people of Israel. A ceasefire in
Israel or excuse me, between Israel and Hamas because of
the collateral damage in Gaza. All it would have done
was allowed Israel to be destroyed or to face more
horrific attacks like the one they suffered on October seventh

(15:12):
of twenty twenty three.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Everyone knows the deal.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
A ceasefire with Hamas leads to Hamas reconstituting itself and
coming back for another shot at it, and then another
one and then another one, which they have promised. So
Biden was desperate to have something to be able to
part with, which is a peace deal in the Middle East.
He cannot get it with Hamas. So he's taking credit
for something that is happening with Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon,

(15:37):
even though again it was Israel to met with President
Trump or had talks with President Trump. There's no doubt
that this is being done something as some kind of
a gift to President Trump from his new strong partners
in Israel.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
So that's the reality of.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Where we are now, and the good news is, yeah,
the ceasefire should happen with Hezbollah because they're not holding
any hostages the way hamass. That is the difference for
those who don't get it, and that would include current
President Biden. Okay, twenty minutes after five o'clock, let's check
your traffic ND weather once again.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yes, sky, Mike, I you.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
Know what, I'm not mailing it in this morning, and
you shouldn't either. By the way, after work tomorrow, I
drew the short straw Bob, so uh, you know, pop
in and entertain me tomorrow. Our chip line is seven
one three two one two t ip as Jiff from
Conrad who now owns I think seven folks wagons.

Speaker 24 (16:28):
Wow, good morning, say Mike.

Speaker 25 (16:30):
On this pre Thanksgiving day, this is going south on
as clear as a whistle, like a holiday or something.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
All Right, this morning's first banana sticker. Let's go wildcard line.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
I skuy, Mike, you got the jack and the fall
gets be plentiful on the outer side for fair baks
to ninety coming in.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
Bow clear sailing to the West loops six ten. Thank
you so much for that.

Speaker 6 (16:57):
I think FOG's going to be the thing this morning,
so you let me on the tip line Skymichael A
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Speaker 5 (17:04):
All right, thank you very much, Mike.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
And your forecast today is going to be a warm one,
pushing up toward a record eighty four. Not sure if
we'll get there or not, but we'll see cloudy Sky's
early clearer later tonight. Overcast, slight chance of arrange shower
low around fifty seven. Thanksgiving Tomorrow, low sixties around sixty
two to sixty three. Black Friday about the same, and
then mid sixties over the weekend and into Monday. First
significant rain doesn't arrive until Tuesday. Right now, we're looking

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at sixty three at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH, and we'll check the headlines now
with Cliff Saunders.

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Speaker 5 (18:14):
Okay, so twenty two minutes after the hour. Now good
morning to you.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
So another day, another dropped case against President Trump. As
the transition continues to take shape, and he continues to
name cabinet members and administration officials that the leftist going
nuts over, including Jay Batticharia. We'll talk about him in
charge of the National Institute of Health. But as the
transition continues, the transition out of law fair continues as well.

(18:40):
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday granted a request
from Special Council Jacksmith to drop President elect Trump's Florida
documents case. This, of course, after he also requested to
drop the January sixth case that had been filed against
him in Washington, d c. The judge in that case,
Judge Chuck Case, did indeed agree to drop it, and

(19:02):
here we go again.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
This one is now over as well.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
This ends the battle to charge him over retaining records
with classified markings after leaving office. The order fulfills a
request from Jack Smith to end an appeal in the
case as it relates to Trump. Through the UH the
case continues for his two defendants, Valet Walt Nada and
mar Lago property manager Carlos de Olivieria. The move comes

(19:27):
after Jack Smith moved to dismiss without president, as mentioned
the election interference case the J six case. In both cases,
noting Trump's inauguration and a DOJ policy that bars the
prosecution of sitting presidents makes it impossible for.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Him to continue.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
It goes unmentioned, though in you know such an excerpt
here of this story, that there were plenty of concerns
with the classified documents case. On its face, it isn't
just that they can't prosecute a sitting president and therefore
they're dropping it the case because of that. There was
no case there to begin with. There were plenty of

(20:04):
problems and concerns. Close to two years after mar Lago
was raided, in August of twenty twenty two, it was
revealed that the FBI was authorized to use deadly force
deadly force against at that time seventy six year old
man and his wife and his young son at Marlago.

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The other legal cases involving Trump are also failing, as
I noted yesterday, and hopefully you've been keeping score. You
almost need a scorecard with everything they tried to do
to this guy. Judge wan Ershan last Friday moved to
delay sentencing indefinitely in the hush money case. And then further,
the Georgia Court of Appeals last week canceled the disqualification
hearing for Fulton County DA Fannie Willis in the case

(20:50):
against Trump over the twenty twenty election. Oral arguments were
supposed to take place next month.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
They will not.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
So it's all falling apart every attempt that they made.
And you know, yeah, the Supreme Court's ruling about what president,
what kind of immunity presidents have for official acts, That
is a big deal. And yes, you cannot prosecute a
sitting president. He's about to be the sitting president. Yes,
that's a big deal. But it's also very very clear

(21:16):
none of these four cases would have been brought against
Donald Trump if he had just faded off into the sunset,
if he just walked away after they stole the election
in twenty twenty, which will continue to be my belief.
It's not that of the radio station, but my belief
it was an absolute theft fraud was perpetrated on the
American people. If he had just walked away, then not
one of these charges would have been brought. But he

(21:38):
announced almost immediately after that was over that he was
coming back again in twenty twenty four, and they were
hell bent on stopping him, which is why we sit
where we are now with all of this nonsense over
the course, and how many hundreds of millions of dollars
have been wasteding these ridiculous prosecutions that were never going
to go anywhere. That's just the reality of where it is.

(21:59):
All right, five, let's see what's happening now as we
head into Thanksgiving in the market, So Bloomberg Business Report here,
Stan Schwartzman, Good morning.

Speaker 26 (22:06):
Bomb oil prices roses Opec plus will once again delay
a production restart. The move countered at an easy of
geopolitical risk after Israel and has Billow agreed to a
seize fire opek Plus. He's holding online meetings this weekend.
Market consensus is that there'll be a surplus of oil
on the market in twenty twenty five due to weak demand.
Mexico hinting it could retaliate if the US impostes a

(22:27):
twenty five percent tarif on its goods, as President Elect
Trump has vowed to do. President Claudia Scheinbam says Mexico
could impose levies of their own. In response. Shaimam says
cooperation between the two countries was a better way to
curb the flow of illegal drugs and migrants rather than
threats of tariffs. Let's look at the futures right now.
They're all down. The down is down one tenth to
one percent. SMP's down two tenths of a percent. Nazac

(22:50):
right now faring the worst. That's down about a third
of one percent. The price of aill currently hovering around
sixty nine dollars per barrel. This report is sponsored by
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Speaker 4 (23:23):
Today is said to be one of the busiest travel
days of the year, and Texas offers President Trump more
Land to help with mass deportations. Good morning, I Bob
friends in for Jimmy Barrett. Cliff Sanders has the details
on those stories, and we're coming right up. But first
we're going to do your traffic and your weather.

Speaker 6 (23:38):
Hey, Sky, Mike, let's check your belts and loops and
we're going around the north Loop six ten. We're not
even looky at the squeeze at forty five yet we're
looking good so far. Wayside over to two ninety, in
good shape here West Sloop six ten down to uptown,
piece of cake up to uptown from bel Air wide
open to west tim or rest of your freeways rock.
I'm Skymike and the classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
All right, thank you, Mike, and cloudy Sky's early today,
a little more clear this afternoon, very very warm, high
of about eighty three fifteen sixteen degrees over the average
at this time of the year and could push up
on the record of eighty four set back in nineteen
eighty nine, says Jeff mar Overcast tonight, very slight chance
of rangehower low of fifty seven. What about Turkey Day tomorrow,

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We'll give you the tails on that coming up at
five point forty. Right now, we have sixty three degrees
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k t RH. And now we'll get the morning news.
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
Thank you, Bob. Good morning everybody, five thirty one on
KTRH our top story.

Speaker 28 (24:37):
This is I think projected to be the busiest time
travel that we've had in twice. Sometime we'll be busy
from three third in the morning. It's always we call
them about ten in tip.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
That Hobby airport baggage worker talking with our TV partner
channel too. Now, if you waited until today to travel
for Thanksgiving, be prepared for the crowds. TSA's ten busiest
days in history have all been in this calendar year.
So far, we've been checking with flight aware dot Com.
Things have been smooth in and out of Bush and Hobby.

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Also topping the news, Mexico and Canada are not happy
with President elect Donald Trump's plan to put tariffs on
their products if they don't secure the border.

Speaker 29 (25:18):
Mexico's new president, Claudia Shinbaum threatening to raise tariffs on
American goods in response to President elect Trump's vow to
raise tariffs on Mexican goods unless the country does more
to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Mexico and Canada
say they're open to dialog with the President elect.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
That is Fox as Brian Yannis reporting at the border itself.
Tom Homan, who will be in charge of Trump's mass
deportation plan, was an eagle pass yesterday meeting with border
patrol agents. You'll hear his tough talk at six o'clock.
The state is planning to offer the incoming administration more
land to help the mass deportation efforts.

Speaker 30 (25:57):
My office has identified several of our properties and is
standing by ready to make this happen on day one
as the Trump presidency.

Speaker 7 (26:05):
Land Commissioner Don Buckingham already offered the Trump team a
fourteen hundred acre ranch in Star County and announced a
plan to build these facilities honoring Joscelyn Nungerray, the Houston
twelve year old murdered this summer. Two illegal aliens are
charged in the case five point thirty three on KTRH.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Wouldn't it be amazing?

Speaker 31 (26:26):
If everyone who comes in doesn't answer it and really
messes with whatever data that they're looking for.

Speaker 7 (26:32):
That is a local doctor with Texas Children's Hospital encouraging
patients not to fill out the legally required citizenship question
on hospital intake forms.

Speaker 32 (26:42):
He's just one of many leftists who are testing the
boundaries of Texas's new law.

Speaker 33 (26:46):
What we're talking about here is the mutiny by some
medical professionals in outside groups to encourage open defiance of
the law.

Speaker 32 (26:55):
Attorney Rob Hennick told KTRH. Governor Abbott has made it
clear that hospitals that do this will lose their Medicaid
funding taken away.

Speaker 33 (27:01):
Medicaid funds is very pentitive. Probably most of the revenue
for these hospitals and doctors is coming from being a
Medicaid provider.

Speaker 32 (27:09):
Texas Children's Hospital says they fully support the citizenship question
and are in full compliance with the rule. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty ktright.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
It's now five point thirty four in the Middle East,
the ceasefire holding so far between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Speaker 34 (27:25):
Now that we have a ceasfire and Lebanon in place,
and eros Iran is the third We hope that fro
Mass will reach a conclusion that time is not on
its side and will ultimately agree to do a hostage
if that is our focus right now.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
That's Michael Herzog, the Israeli ambassador to the US. President
Ele Trump has promised to quote make Iran broke again.
Oil futures are up this morning. There just over sixty
nine dollars a barrel, stabilizing after the announcement of the ceasefire.
JP Morgan predicts prices to fall to below sixty dollars
by twenty twenty six, but the CEO of King Operating

(28:03):
in Texas, Jay Young, says the costs of drilling for
oil have been stabilizing.

Speaker 35 (28:08):
We're exporting a lot more oil now, which is better.
We're also seeing demand go up with that new AI
and we're going to see more exporting with LNG for
the natural gas. That's a good thing, but.

Speaker 7 (28:21):
He does Warran that Trump tariffs could cause the price
of pipes, metals, and other related materials to rise five
point thirty five. Houston based Connaico Phillips finalizes its purchase
of Marathon Oil this week, a good thing, according to
industry analyst Phil Flynn.

Speaker 31 (28:39):
I think it's going to allow them to take advantage
of the refining side, and then on the retail end.
I don't think there's going to be major changes, since
I think these companies are going to be very profitable
to take advantage of the coming energy boom.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
Flynn, adding that he does not expect many more layoffs
on top of the five hundred that were already announced.
And then there's the state's crypto industry. Utility regulators in
case you bissed it this week, are putting new rules
into place to require miners to register.

Speaker 36 (29:09):
While crypto itself may still be a mystery, University of
Houston energy fellow ed Hers says the amount of electricity
these mining centers can use is very well known.

Speaker 37 (29:18):
For several years now, they've been pulling at least as
much power and now more than the city of Austin
on any given day.

Speaker 36 (29:26):
When these mining facilities register, they must provide the PUC
and URKAT with their anticipated peak load for the next
five years, and they must renew annually. For ads that
while these facilities do power down during extreme heat or
freeze events in Texas, they can then sell their power
back to the grid and make millions. Eric Sharp, News
Radio seven forty ktra.

Speaker 7 (29:46):
It's coming up on five point thirty seven. Democrats crying
about the election have been leaving Twitter, moving to the
platform Blue Sky, claiming it's more open than X. The
problem is that's not true.

Speaker 38 (30:00):
Let's look at some of the posts that you can
find on Blue Sky. So you can't say twenty twenty
election was not the most free and fair. You can't
say COVID vaccine was ineffective. You cannot say that there
are only.

Speaker 7 (30:08):
Two genders, Conservative commentator Steven Crowder. Blue Sky founded by
Jack Dorsey, he founded Twitter, and the platform looks a
lot like Twitter, right down to the blue background, except
it uses a butterfly as a logo instead of a bird. Finally,
according to reports, Astros free agent Alex Bregman is being
courted by a pair of surprise teams, the Phillies and

(30:31):
Tigers Detroit, managed by former Astro skipper aj Hinch. I'm
Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station News
Radio seven forty kgrh.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
More with Jimmy Verrett and the Houston Morning News Team.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
This is Houston's Morning News. You know, the hilarious part
about Blue Sky. I actually went on it and created
an account there. Two days o Monday, my friend and
radio producer of mine went ahead and do it. I
didn't even know about Blue Sky, Honestly, I was Monday
years old when I found out about Blue Scott. I

(31:06):
didn't realize it had been there for a while. I
didn't realize what the intention was. I guess this thing
was almost immediately after Elon bought Twitter and changed it
to x and proclaimed it to be a free speech zone,
a place where people of all political stripes and shapes
and sizes can speak, which is what a novel approach

(31:26):
that is in a free country.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Right.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
The left immediately when they found out that free speech
was going to be welcome there, they said, we got
to get the hell out here, and we've got to
find our you know, either find another platform where free
speech is not welcome, where we can censor the living
daylights out of every conservative thought or thinker that comes
through here, or we have to make one of our own,

(31:49):
and Lord behold, they looked around.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
They said, we got Facebook.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
That's for old heads and gen z and the millennials,
the leftist millennials, say that wasn't going to work for them.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
They didn't like that Instagram.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
They can probably goalm Onto a little bit more, but
they said it's still not what Twitter was. We need
to recreate Twitter. What Cliff just said is exactly right.
They mimic almost everything about it, except that it is
really really poor quality. When I joined it just to
kind of troll a little bit and throw a few
right wing comments out there to see what happened, instantaneous attacks,

(32:21):
and I'm sure censorship to follow. I've only been on
it literally once, so I haven't followed up to see
exactly how much how many buttons I would have to
push to get to get censored, suppressed, band whatever from
that platform. But you know, I look around it and
it's they They tried to mimic Twitter, except that it
is really slow. The response time is very very slow,

(32:42):
and Cliff is right, I mean, even down to the
little blue bird. Instead of a bird, it's a butterfly.
But they said, we need to recreate Twitter, our place
where we can echo chamber our left wing thoughts and
not have any conservatives coming in here and bringing you know,
all of their facts and stuff into our our sandbox.
So that's exactly what they did. I will recommend it

(33:05):
is kind of fun. If you just are looking to laugh,
don't let your blood pressure get up. If you're a
conservative minded individual, you you you will either laugh at
this or you'll be like outraged by what you see there.
Spoiler alert. It's what you saw on Twitter, you know,
three years ago, same exact stuff, radical left wing comment

(33:25):
commentary and ideas and lies about Trump and lies about
conservatives without any pushback whatsoever.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
You can either laugh at it and it is very funny,
or let your let your blood pressure rise to the point.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
Where you stroke out.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
But it is a very interesting thing if you get
an account and follow some of these nut jobs for
what they are. Sorry but not sorry. That's kind of
what they are, all right. It is five point forty.
Let's do trafficking whether together once again. Guy Mike, you
know what, I'm thankful for, vibe. I'm thankful that we're
all gonna hear China again.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
So when you call the tip line, n yeah, yeah,
I think.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Yours is better.

Speaker 6 (34:00):
Give me a call when you do the tip line
this morning, and whatever the backup is given to me
is China. So inbound, we're looking at North Freeway. So far,
we're in good shape. Woodlands down twenty three minutes here,
two ninety those of you who had a grand march
at your wedding, great shape so far. At Graham Parkway
into the West Loops. So far we're in good shape.
And it tend Katie Freeway all the way from Katie

(34:23):
Mills Mall into the President's Heats. I'm Skymike at your
Classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
All right, thank you very much, Mike and Jeff Maher.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
I don't know if he's going to be able to
work China into the forecast here, but they'll tell you
what's happening in Houston.

Speaker 23 (34:36):
Hey Jeff, Yeah, Hey Bob. It is going to be
on the warm side today out of a cold front.
Behind that front, it is going to be about ten
degrees below average as we make our way into Thanksgiving tomorrow,
So big swing as far as the temperature is out
ahead of a front. Today's gusty wins out of the southwest,
otherwise partly to mostly cloudy.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
A hide.

Speaker 23 (34:53):
You're eighty three this afternoon, the current records eighty four,
and then tonight breezy with a slight chance for a shower,
Lady is low settle on the her fifties, where we
will not see much of a rise tomorrow. As far
as those temperatures, cloudy, wendy and cooler A hive sixty
one down to the mid forties tomorrow night at are
a cloudy's guy? That'd sunshine for Friday, Saturday and Sunday
with high temperatures in the load to mid sixties.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
All right, thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Right now sixty three at your official severe weather station
is Radio seven forty k t RH.

Speaker 5 (35:19):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
All right, we continue now Bob France sitting in for
Jimmy Barrett. Good Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve to you. So Kamala's back,
she finally makes her well. Was it a long awaited return?
I don't know if anybody was waiting for. I think
a lot of people were as glad she was gone.
We didn't have to hear her cackle or hear her
nonsense word salads anymore. But she's back after a three

(35:50):
week vacation. What are we calling it?

Speaker 5 (35:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Maybe the walk of shame you know that she went
into hiding for the better part of the last three weeks,
went out to Hawaii, spent a lot of time out there,
and just had not been heard from since the horrific
loss that she suffered on November fifth. But she's back
now and it's a return. It's not her return, rather
that is you know that has tongues wagging. It's the

(36:17):
way she presented in a cringe worthy ten minute call
with supporters on video, and we're talking about serious cringe worthy.
She sounded kind of equal parts at various times drunk
or or high, or disconnected from reality in some way
or another. It's really really hard to explain, but she

(36:38):
is being roundly mocked online by people on both sides
of the isle, including Democrat donors. Here she is bragging
about wasting one point four billion dollars in her campaign,
a lost time.

Speaker 18 (36:52):
It was personal for you, and you gave all that
you could to support our campaign.

Speaker 39 (36:59):
Because of your our efforts, get this, we raised.

Speaker 18 (37:02):
And historic one point four billion dollars almost one and
a half billion dollars from grassroots supporters alone, the most
in presidential campaign history.

Speaker 40 (37:13):
Nearly eight million.

Speaker 39 (37:14):
Dollars contributed an average donation of about fifty six dollars
to fuel our people powered campaign and understand that the
work that we did included the work that so many
of you.

Speaker 18 (37:30):
Here did, which is to talk to first time voters.
Many of you are first time voters.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Kamala Harris is proud of the fact that she spent
one and a half billion dollars in just about four months.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
It's it sounds almost impossible.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
In fact, it is almost impossible to spend that kind
of money and perform that poorly. She's bragging about raising
up one point a billion dollars. You couldn't win an
election with one point four billion dollars it raised in
four months. You had to be just catastrophic in the
kind of campaign you ran. Well, come to find out

(38:11):
that's exactly what it was. It was a catastrophe, which
is why donors like John Morgan are saying she's done forever.
Forget about twenty twenty eight, forget about running for any
other office. She's done forever. When you waste that kind
of money, We're never coming back to you with more.
I'll plead that audio here in just a moment, but
it's five point fifty. Let's do trafficking weather once again,

(38:32):
and see where sky Mike has taking us.

Speaker 6 (38:34):
We'll go to two eighty eight North Found. Let's take
a drive up from Vassouria County. Look, Stephen and f
Bostin's out there. He's standing proudly as we look up
from Angleton.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Nothing doing.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
You have that roadwork and road Sharon text dot wall
of depth on both sides.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
And I think this is kind of a lifestyle. It's
going to be with us for a while.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
Iowa colony into town twenty three minutes, so we're in
good shape here tipline seven three two one two tips.

Speaker 41 (38:58):
Heay, sky Mike to drive man, China was sailing this morning.

Speaker 24 (39:03):
Have a Thanksgiving everybody, Bob.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
I totally forgot there is a China, Texas. In fact,
I just sent you a link here. China is just
this side of Beaumont, little bittytown on Highway ninety. So
his drives looking good. And I guess what they grow there?
They grow rice. It's out in Rice country seven within
three two one two tips.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
I'm not mailing it in.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
You don't either, Skymike and they, Oh you know what,
Let's check ship channel bridges at six o'clock Skymike in
the classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (39:28):
I did not know there was a China Texas. That's
very very cool. Good job. Jeff Morrills forecast.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Jeff Moore Maers forecast is looking for what about eighty
three today? Could be one that would be rather one
off of the record, could set a new record if
we get to eighty five, uh sometime today. That record
was set back in nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
I'm sorry eighty nine.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
I'm getting my eighties mixed up here with temperatures in years,
but it was eighty four degrees in nineteen eighty nine.
If it did eighty five, it'll be a new record,
So that could happen. It'll pull off considerably tonight, low
fifty seven Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, partly cloudy, in sixty two
black Friday, about the same than mid sixties, through the
weekend and into Monday. Right now sixty three at your

(40:12):
official severe weather station is Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
We'll check the headlines now with Cliff.

Speaker 7 (40:17):
That's okay, I get confused. In the eighties two Bob,
you and I are of the same age. Headline sponsored
Bymorrow Mechanical, The incoming borders are talks tough. In his
visit to Texas, the President elect once New York State
Attorney General Letitia James to drop the civil fraud case
for the quote greater good of the country and new

(40:37):
BUCkies and the Panhandle is opening up two months ahead
of schedule in December in Amarillo. At the latest news
anytime at KTRH dot com. Calm our next update is
at six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
I live in clear Lake, Humble, reliable KTRH traffic and weather.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
So back to Kamala bragging about raising one and a
half billion dollars for her campaign and then performing so horribly,
losing every single one of the seven battleground states, losing
you know, three hundred and twelve electoral votes for Donald Trump,
losing the popular vote, losing all of the resources and advantages,
losing scores of Hispanic voters and Black voters. She's bragging

(41:20):
about one and a half billion dollars being spent on
this thing.

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Well, I guess who's not bragging about it.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
One of the guys who helped make that happen, Mega
donor John Morgan was on Cuomo with On the News
Nation with Chris Cuomo on Monday, and he said, yeah, congrats,
you raised one point five billion dollars and you got destroyed.
If you can't manage that, you can't manage anything, and
you're done.

Speaker 41 (41:45):
And I'm telling you, man, there's a lot of whispering.
There's a lot of names about who got paid this,
who got paid that, and a lot of people got
rich on the back of donors trying to stop Trump.
And I think this just qualifies her forever forever. If
you can't run a campaign, you can't run America.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
That's a fair point. It is absolutely accurate.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
If you can't run a campaign with a one point
five billion dollar boatload of money and you get destroyed
the way you did, you're done. You mismanaged your funds,
you mismanaged everything. It got killed by Donald Trump, and
you are done and disqualified forever. Now what's interesting is
the campaign advisors who are trying really really hard to

(42:32):
put a positive spin on everything they claim that. You know,
Kamala Harris was given a bad hand, She was treated
poorly by interviewers.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
Listen to.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
One of her campaign handlers her and trying to find
her name here, my apologies.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
Her name is Jen O'Malley Dylon.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
This is Gen O'Malley Dillon, one of Kamala Harris's campaign advisors,
talking about how unfairly questions that she faced for then.

Speaker 42 (42:59):
On that we would do an interview. And to Stephanie's point,
the questions were small and processing and about like they
were not informing a voter who was trying to listen
to learn more or to understand.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
And I'm not you could say.

Speaker 42 (43:18):
That that, you know, the whole system was focused on
us incorrectly. I'm just saying, like, again of the things
we need to explore as we move forward as a
campaign and as a country that does a disservice to voters.
And you know, I think back and think we should
have signaled more of our strategy early on about podcasts
and who we were trying to reach, and but we
had a limited amount of time to reach the people

(43:39):
whore trying to reach and we were trying.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
To dump that place. Did not realize there was going
to be a BS word there. Marco, you got me covered,
thanks sir.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
So what O'Malley there said was that the you know,
the idea that we didn't want to do interviews was
was not true.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
It was absolutely true.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
And the questions that were asked her of her were softballs,
softballs by CNN, soft balls by MSNBC, softballs by by
the View, and sunny Houston, what would you do differently
than Joe Biden? And she's claiming these were processing questions
and they didn't really, you know, do us any do
us any favors?

Speaker 5 (44:13):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (44:15):
Excuse me, worst candidate in the history of presidential campaigning,
worst candidate ever, the worst managed campaign.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
And yes, you.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Wasted the GDP of more than the GDP of about
one hundred and fifty countries around the world in four months.
You blew that kind of money. Yes, disqualifying forever. All right,
it's five fifty six. This is Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
This is Used Radio seven kt RH Houston Rive everywhere.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
With now the latest news, weather, and it's more of
what matters to you from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
A show of force and unity at the border, Tom
Homan visits Eagle Pass and President Trump continues to shake
things up with his cabinet picks. Good morning, Bob, friends,
and for Jimmy Brett, this is your six o'clock report
on News Radio seven forty k tr H.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
Cliff Sanders brings you the news after we check that
traffic in weather. Here' sott Minke.

Speaker 6 (45:15):
All right, Bob, friends, we've got roadwork on the North Sam.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
It's been with us a while. This North Sam.

Speaker 6 (45:21):
Westbound at audein Westville, we're missing two left lanes, and
then eastbound at Imperial Valley we're missing one left lane.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
It's not just a short term.

Speaker 6 (45:28):
Project, it's a complete lifestyle tipline seven three two one
two tips.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
It's Mike from Magnolia.

Speaker 24 (45:36):
From ninety nine to the West Belt is wide open, boom.
And my wife Deanna is excited for tomorrow because it's
one time a year she gets the user fight China.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
That's a double banana sticker there, Mike from Magnolia. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot com Chat traffic center.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
All right, thank you, Mike.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
And cloudy sky's early today, more clear this afternoon high
about eighty three, maybe record tonight over overcast and low
fifty seven for Thanksgiving tomorrow, partley cloudy in sixty two.
More details on the weather through the weekend coming up
with Jeff Maher at the Weather Channel. That'll be at
six ' ten right now, still sixty three at your
official severe weather station. He's radio seven forty KTRH. And

(46:18):
now what do you say we get the news.

Speaker 7 (46:19):
Here's clip and I'll say I'll do it. How about that, Bob?
Thank you very much. Five vot two on KTRHR top story.

Speaker 8 (46:25):
Don't test us. We've got enough crime in this country.
Go alien crime. It's time to end it and stop it.
President Trump's committed to it. He's committed to having this
mass deportation.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
Operation incoming borders.

Speaker 7 (46:36):
Our Tom Homean and Eagle pass yesterday with Governor Greg
Abbott and border patrol agents promising the mass deportations that
will begin when the new Trump team takes over in
late January. Of course, many Democrats are complaining about what's coming,
but there are others that orange.

Speaker 21 (46:54):
I was communic kay with Tom, and we talked about
getting together sometime when I head back to DC.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
In the next week or so.

Speaker 21 (47:02):
So so he reach out to you, and I think
we can find a lot of common ground.

Speaker 7 (47:06):
That is Texas Democrat Congressman Henry Quaar talking to the Hill.
According to new polling, half of Texas Republicans want more
money to be spent on border security. So how much
should the state pay with Trump taking over, if.

Speaker 11 (47:21):
The state legislature decides that it doesn't need to continue
these operations, Let's see's a quite a bit of money
for things like property tax release. There's a lot of
questions that that would raise, But I may also decide
that it's necessary.

Speaker 7 (47:34):
And Brad Johnson with the Texan News says that right
now the state currently spends four billion dollars on border security.
The President elect promising day one tariffs on Mexico, trying
to pressure them into closing down their northern border. That
country is now threatening retaliatory tariffs. Trump making more administrative

(47:56):
picks last night, selecting Stanford's j Botacharia to run the
National Institutes of Health.

Speaker 43 (48:01):
He's created somewhat of a coalition government.

Speaker 12 (48:03):
But if people that have great ideas that people are
excited to vote for, that we're seen as political outsiders.

Speaker 7 (48:09):
Florida congresswoman and Napoline A.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Luna.

Speaker 7 (48:11):
Trump is also bringing doctor Kevin Hassett back to lead
the National Economic Council. It's coming up on six to
so four, and so far, so good. At Bush and
Hobby airports this morning, as millions travel across the country
this day before Thanksgiving. We'll have more on this at
six point thirty and how weather could impact your trip
home this weekend. Meantime, in Galveson County, the family of

(48:35):
a child rape victim wants to know exactly how the
bad guy was accidentally released from jail.

Speaker 31 (48:42):
I mean, this man knows where we live, you know,
so it's like it was a very unsafe feeling.

Speaker 7 (48:48):
That girl's father talking to our TV partner, Channel Too.
Marshall Settlemeyer was re arrested. Officials blaming human error for
what happened, and after months of reviewing two hundred and
sixty four thousand cases that were suspended because of a
lack of personnel, HPD says one hundred and seventy five
felony charges have been filed.

Speaker 32 (49:10):
There has been progress, but don't expect to see charges
brought in every case.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
You have to.

Speaker 14 (49:14):
Understand a lot of the cases that were out there
were cases that were never going to be able to
be worked anyway. There were no viable leads.

Speaker 32 (49:22):
Doug Griffith, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, told
KRH HPD now has policies to prevent this from happening.

Speaker 14 (49:28):
Again, our department has changed the way in which they
triarche cases. Workable leads we're going to put to the front,
get those charged out of the way, and then the
others will follow.

Speaker 32 (49:38):
Griffiths did warn that the root cause of this problem,
which is understaffing, has yet to be solved. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KRH It's six ZHO five now
on KTRH. The State Board of Education is pushing for
more say in what makes books sexually explicit or not
for school libraries in Burke of college prep geniuses, there's
already a law against these books, but adds that more

(50:01):
safe fails are okay when it comes to the liberal loopholes.

Speaker 16 (50:05):
It's not like they're saying, if you want your kids
to read these books, they can't. But what they're saying
is if a child is under the jurisdiction of the
education system, then they shouldn't be able to just get
them without any kind of parental consent.

Speaker 7 (50:20):
The board making this move after adding Bible references to
the curriculum last week. Who says politics and Thanksgiving don't mix.
There's actually a lot to be grateful for politically this year.

Speaker 44 (50:33):
While most Americans are just thankful the election and election
ads are over. The Federalist writer Matt Kittle says there
are other reasons for conservatives to give thanks, starting with
a return to competent government.

Speaker 17 (50:43):
The American voter really look at what they've experienced over
the last four years, and a stolid majority said, I
think we'll go back to the other guy that we
had four years before.

Speaker 44 (50:54):
And perhaps the biggest reason for thanks, no more kamala
word salads. So as we sit down to dinner tomorrow.

Speaker 17 (51:00):
We can all say a prayer of gratitude that America
will truly be unburdened by.

Speaker 44 (51:05):
What has been Corey Jolson News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
Or maybe not Corey, as Harris popped up on social
media last night, thanks to a Democrat release, you have.

Speaker 18 (51:17):
The same power that you did before November fifth, and
you have the same purpose that you did.

Speaker 7 (51:25):
Many online users mocking the video, as Bob talked about
a little bit earlier in the show, saying that something
looked wrong with the vice president six seven on KTRH.
Consumer confidence is ticking up. In fact, it's at its
highest level in a year. The numbers coming out three
weeks after Donald Trump's election victory, but new research shows

(51:47):
that one out of four adults struggles with healthcare costs.
David Blot with Healthcare Financed Specialists, as it's the result
of insurance companies transferring the risks they take back to
customers with.

Speaker 20 (52:00):
The high cost of premiums in healthcare and the high
deductibles that are at the sense and the high.

Speaker 22 (52:05):
Co insurance that's there.

Speaker 20 (52:07):
Where is there a transfer of risk if we're essentially
cash patients, A.

Speaker 7 (52:11):
Lot says, increasing deductibles and out of pocket costs are
examples of this. Six oh seven, the Rockets beat the
t Wolves one seventeen to one eleven. Last night. They
played Philadelphia tonight. Pregame at five on Sports Talk seven
ninety I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic
station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
Stay in Dutch on your drive in with Jimmy Barrett
and the Houston Morning News team.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
So I'm taking a look at a story here, and
thank you, Cliff. It is eight minutes after seven o'clock,
Bob Friends hitting for Jimmy Barrett, taking a look at
a story here. You talk about dialing up the crazy
and really, really, you know, emphasizing it.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
There's no other way to describe this.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Joy Reid on the MSNBC, I think before probably roughly
fourteen viewers, I think is what they have left. There's
a legitimate chance, by the way, that Elon Musk is
going to buy MSNBC and try to turn it into
an actual news organization, the way he bought Twitter and
turned it into a free speech zone. Joy Read, somebody
needs to tell her that the election is over, because

(53:22):
she's still trying to convince people to not vote for
Donald Trump. That's the only way I can say this
when she dials up the crazy to the level she
did here with this guest claiming that Donald Trump wants
to deploy the military to shoot American citizens, all in
an effort to end multiculturalism. Like I said, I wish
it wasn't this crazy, but it is, and we should.

Speaker 45 (53:44):
Be talking about deploying the US military.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
Remember Mark Esper.

Speaker 45 (53:49):
Who was Donald Trump Secretary Defense for a while, told him, no,
you cannot shoot American citizens. You can't have the military
shoot American citizens. He's going to replace people in the
Department of Venta, the people who will say you can
and that you can deploy the military against protesters, that
you can arrest journalists for reporting things that Donald Trump
doesn't like.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
That sort of thing, right, That is exactly right.

Speaker 46 (54:11):
One of the things that Russovo did after he sort
of left the administration in this sort of interignant period
that he's had and has been referenced with that one
hundred eighty day agenda, is that they have been at
building out the legal documentation where they considerly be the
legal documentation to justify internally the deployment of the military.
I know, it sounds hysterical. How can we possibly this
sounds so outrageous?

Speaker 4 (54:32):
No, this is it sounds just that bleep crazy is
when it sounds. Let's just call it what it is.
Why would he want to deploy the military to shoot citizens?

Speaker 5 (54:41):
Let's hear the rest of them.

Speaker 46 (54:42):
I wanted to note that one of the through lines
here is why they want to sort of you know,
it's not just revenge against their political opponents. That obviously
gets a lot of fear. But the part that over
stands out to me is that the rationale for why
they need to do all these things is to end
multiculturalism in America.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
That's so in just a complete racist, genocidal type of situation.
Trump is going to deploy the military to shoot citizens
and to arrest journalists in an effort to end multiculturalism
in America. You know, it didn't work. That type of

(55:21):
extreme rhetoric and fear mongering didn't work before November fifth.
Why do they think it's going to work three weeks
after November fifth? But they're saying this out loud on television,
and like I said, all fourteen people watching it are
probably having their heads explode right now. All right, seven ten,
six ' ten, beg your pardon. Let's check the traffic
and weather once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
All right, let's grab your ship channel bridges here, let's
go to the heart Membridge.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
Put on your hard hat, Bob.

Speaker 6 (55:46):
Friends and Cliff, we've got let's see from Missouri Street
Heart Membriadge looks good. This is the Maytown side. And
looking over what did that plant? It used to be DuPont?
What is it now? On the Laporte side? We look
good that way. Let's flip over here, switch this button,
and that is a top of the East Beltway bridge.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
We're in good shape both ways.

Speaker 6 (56:05):
Two lanes of fun and six ten the Ship Channel
Bridge over the the Sherman Bridge.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
Over right by Lion Delle.

Speaker 6 (56:12):
Let's see what we've got here, Bud plant to two
twenty five. Rocket along. Now let's go northwest, Bryce Magnolia.

Speaker 23 (56:18):
Dude, Hey guy, Mike's coming out of the Forgotten Freeway.

Speaker 47 (56:21):
It is open.

Speaker 24 (56:22):
But as you come in and you hit.

Speaker 48 (56:24):
The Feltway, this fog is coming in a little bit,
and I think it looks like it's coming in from.

Speaker 24 (56:28):
China, China.

Speaker 6 (56:29):
All right, zeven went three two one, two tips and
we're looking good around the northwest side two ninety. If
you had a Grand March easy ride at your easy
ride from Graham Parkway to the west swoop six ten,
I'm skylike at your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
All right, thank you very much.

Speaker 20 (56:45):
Mike.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Jeff Morris at the Weather Channel with our forecast for
Thanksgiving Day and a little bit beyond.

Speaker 5 (56:50):
Heyjuff, Yeah, good morning, Bob.

Speaker 23 (56:52):
We do have some verreas of fog as we start
off this morning, visibility low and some spots including sugar
Land right now, where we've got visibility down close to
mile If you're going to be heading out into the afternoon, hows.
That's when winds will increase out of the southwest. Some
of those gus near twenty to twenty five miles per
hour under a partly to multi cloudy sky. Very warm
today head of a front with the high of eighty three.
That cold front may produce a few isolated hours later

(57:13):
tonight in the low fifty nine behind the front. On Thanksgiving, cloudy,
windy and cooler with the high sixty one. We should
drop into the mid forties tomorrow night under the cloudy sky.
Then for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, sunshine each afternoon with
highs and the low to mid sixties.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
All right, Jeff, thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
Right now, we're still at sixty three at your official
severe weather stations, Radio seven forty k trh.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
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Speaker 4 (57:43):
Okay, nineteen minutes past six o'clock, we're going to check
them with sky Mike. Just to sit a little bit
early here so we can clear the decks a little
bit for our guests. We're going to be talking with
Doug Griffith, President of the Houston Police Officers Union about
that two hundred and sixty four thousand, is that what
it is? Suspended case? This is coming to a close
that review with one hundred and seventy five new felony
chargers being fied. We'll get to the details on that

(58:05):
after we check it with Skyy Mike Carell.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
Let's go to Tommy from Splendora off the tip line. Dude, Hey,
good morning.

Speaker 47 (58:10):
My beautiful downtown Splendora. Wait ninety Sarks. Right before you
get into Crosby, there's a three park crash right over
the bridge right before the river.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
That sounds eastbound.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
I'm gonna double check that and let me let the
rest of the media know. Golf Freeway Matt, Texas City.

Speaker 47 (58:28):
Hey guy, Mike, driving up the Golf Freeway to downtown
has been smooth.

Speaker 24 (58:32):
Baling a Black Friday tip to.

Speaker 47 (58:34):
Everybody, be careful when you're ordering your stuff online.

Speaker 20 (58:37):
Make sure it's not being shipped from China.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
Mike from Magnolia too, and Matt from Texas City. Banana
stickers all around. We've got your Generator Supercenter dot Com
traffic center all.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
Right, thank you very much. And uh, let's have a
look at the forecast. It's going to be warned today
unseasonably so. Round eighty three is what Jeff Morris calling
for here. If it gets eighty four ties record of
city five, it breaks the record which is said back
in nineteen eighty nine. Overcast tonight, low of fifty seven
Thanksgiving Tomorrow sixty two, partly cloudy, black Friday about the same,
then load of mid sixties over the weekend and into Monday.

(59:11):
Significant rain doesn't get here until around Tuesday. And right
now we have sixty three degrees at your official severe
weather station is Radio seven forty KTRH. Let's check those
headlines now with Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (59:22):
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Speaker 4 (59:59):
All right, we do continue now, Bob frans in for
Jimmy Barrett. We want to bring Doug Griffith under the program,
President of the Houston Police Officers Union.

Speaker 5 (01:00:06):
It's been quite the scandal.

Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
Two hundred and sixty four thousand Houston cases were suspended
over lack of personnel. That review is coming to a close.
So far, one hundred and seventy five felony charges have
been brought as a result of all of this. Doug,
thanks for the time this morning. Give me your reaction
to where we stand now. They hope to get this
thing done by the start of the year in twenty

(01:00:29):
twenty five.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
But what do you make of the numbers?

Speaker 14 (01:00:33):
The numbers are kind of well expected when you start
looking around at the cases that were closed by lack
of manpower, that was actually probably a legitimate reason to
clear the case back when the cases were designated that way.
This was all started to show that we were lacking
in staffing, and it is still a problem today that

(01:00:56):
we lack staffing.

Speaker 22 (01:00:57):
Everybody knows that. But the cases that we had the.

Speaker 14 (01:01:01):
Problem with there were several that were miscoded and it
wasn't caught.

Speaker 22 (01:01:08):
That's where you come up with the charges that were
filed later on.

Speaker 14 (01:01:12):
This should never happen with a case that's a person
to person case or rape or robbery, an assault, anything
like that.

Speaker 22 (01:01:19):
And what it happened was this case kind of morphed
into that where several cases slipping the cracks.

Speaker 14 (01:01:26):
It should never have happened. We have safeguards in place
now to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Speaker 22 (01:01:31):
And out of the two hundred.

Speaker 14 (01:01:32):
And sixty four thousand cases you're going to see, most
of those were cases that were never going to be
able to be worked anyway. There were no leads, there
was no information, and that's where we're going to You're
still going through half cases like that come through, it
just won't be coded the same.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Tell me about those safeguards, Doug, because I think that's
extremely important here, the idea that this would not happen again,
even though you continue to be very very understaffed.

Speaker 14 (01:01:58):
Yes, sir, well, the way it works now that we
have each division has a I guess like a gatekeeper
that looks at these cases and they have to if
there's workable leads in those cases, they're going to go
to an investigator for a review and then follow up.
Where there's some cases you're not going to have any information.

(01:02:21):
Let's say plants were stolen off through ports and there's
nobody knows where they come from. That's a low level
crime and they're probably not going to have anybody investigate that.
Just being honest with people, and that's been my word
from day one.

Speaker 22 (01:02:36):
Let's be honest with the public.

Speaker 14 (01:02:38):
There's things that we are not going to be able
to investigate because we don't have the resources to do so.
But any crime that is a violent offense or a
person personal crime must be investigated all the way to
its end.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
What do you suggest or what are you aware of
in terms of getting more recent sources? And it's one
thing to say the resources are available and these things
are going to slip through the cracks, or are things that
are low level that we're not going to be able
to investigate.

Speaker 5 (01:03:07):
I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Every every crime or report of a crime needs to
be investigated or at least checked into, and you can't
do it with the resources you have.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
How do you get more, Well, it's all.

Speaker 14 (01:03:17):
About recruiting your retention. We're going to have to pay
our guys more. You start looking around at the We're
one of the lowest in the state when it comes
to pay. So you've got aufers that will go through
our academy and then leave and go to a smaller
agency or even another big agency because they pay more.
We had an academy class just graduate. I know of

(01:03:39):
at least two that have already left. I mean it's
been less than three weeks. They're gone, one with forsher
PD and another one DPS, and we have more to
see that as a viable option. They will go through
our police Academy, get the knowledge, and then they'll go
to a smaller agency.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
Well that's just that's a terrible thing to think about
because how do you how do you how do you
retain them? Exactly right, recruiting and retention, The key is
keeping people there and keeping them happy and making sure
they're making enough money to justify the risk that they're
putting themselves into in high crime situations, really really difficult circumstances.
Doug Griffith, president of the Houston Police Officers Union, with
the information for us on this developing but kind of

(01:04:18):
wrapping story. Doug, Thanks very much of the time, and
happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 22 (01:04:22):
Sir, Thank you, sir, y'alla here you got it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
More than seventy one thousand, eight hundred reviewed cases were
listed as suspended, thirteen thousand were inactivated, thirteen thousand, eight
hundred were closed, and just seven thy nine hundred were cleared.
Officials in the department set a suspended case is different
from a case coded sl. This is what you're talking
about with the coding suspended lack of personnel, because they

(01:04:46):
include those where patrol made an arrest along with those
with no workable beliefs. About one hundred and seventy five
fell any charges, two hundred and sixty four thousand cases
suspended over lack of personnel just unacceptable according to anybody
and everybody close to this. All right, let's move on
and check our money now. It's six twenty six Bloomberg
Business Report. Good morning to Dan Schwartzman.

Speaker 5 (01:05:08):
Good evening.

Speaker 26 (01:05:08):
Bobo and HP reported quarterly earnings that missed analyst estimates,
suggesting the personal computer market recovery has stalled. Dell's PC
business saw decline of one percent. HP saw an increase
of two percent, though that was lower than estimated. Overall,
the PC market has seen a historic decline in recent years.
According to the IDC, global smartphone sales saw an increase

(01:05:28):
in shipments of six point two percent this year now. Apple,
though missed out on the big market rebound, iPhone sales
only increased by four tenths of eight percent due to
Android based phones gaining ground in China. Apple though, is
still by far the profit leader, the average price of
phones being about one thousand dollars. Android rivals come in
at just under three hundred dollars. Let's look in the
futures right now that DAW is slightly the positive but

(01:05:50):
essentially flat, nasdacs down three tens to one percent. SMP
is also down right now on tenth of one percent.
The price of bowl currently hovering around sixty nine dollars
a barrel. This report is sponsored by Total One and More.
I'm Dan Schwartzman Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 27 (01:06:09):
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Said to be one of the busiest travel days of
the year, and Texas offers Trump Moreland to help with
mass deportations.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Good morning, Pop Frands and for Jimmy.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Barrettliff's Saunders has the details on those stories and more
coming right up.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
But first we'll do traffic and weather together here, sky Mike.

Speaker 6 (01:06:42):
All right, Crosby Freeway outbound San Jacino River Bridge at
the wreck. I tried to get some air support, but
Tammy can't fly. They're down for weather in the choppers,
So you are my eyes out there. That's Highway ninety
outbound San Jacino River Bridge. It's right before the water
as you're going over toward Crosby, and I would have
imagine that inbound westbound we'll see some rubbernecking. Also, let

(01:07:04):
me know what the exact lineage is. Seven one three
two one two. Tips Tommy from Splendora with the banana
sticker and the olive Brent, since he's from Splendora, I'm
Skymike on the Classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
All right, thank you, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
Cloudy today in the morning, a little clear in the afternoon,
and the sun will shine through to the point of
eighty three degrees today, very very unseasonably warm, overcast tonight,
dropping back down to more normal temperatures low fifty seven
and normal for Thanksgiving too. I'll let Jeff Maer give
you the specifics that's coming up at six forty. Right now,
I am counting sixty three degrees at your official severe

(01:07:38):
weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH. Now the
morning news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (01:07:43):
Thank you very much, Bob. Good morning everyone, six point
thirty one on KTRH. Our top story. Today, like yesterday,
is expected to be one of the busiest travel days
all year. In fact, TSA says it's ten busiest days
all time, all took place here alone.

Speaker 43 (01:08:00):
When you get on the flight, you know that every
day of the screen that we took that job very
seriously because our family members, our loved ones, and our
neighbors are also.

Speaker 7 (01:08:11):
Flying that TSA official with our TV partner Channel two.

Speaker 40 (01:08:14):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:08:15):
Despite a Charlotte Airport workers strike, things have run smoothly
so far, but a winter storm tomorrow could impact your
trip home this weekend. Also topping the news, Mexico, they
are not happy with President elect Donald Trump's tariff promises,
but Canada's Justin Trudeau is taking a more conciliatory tone.

Speaker 33 (01:08:37):
You talked to it some of the challenges that we
can work on together.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
It was a good call.

Speaker 44 (01:08:42):
This is a relationship that we know takes a certain
amount of working on, and.

Speaker 22 (01:08:45):
That's what we'll do.

Speaker 7 (01:08:46):
Trump has promised those tariffs on day one if those
countries don't help secure our border. Ideagle Pass incoming borders
our Tom Homan told those on the front lines that
mass deportations will indeed be again in January. We'll have
more on what he said. At seven o'clock. Meantime, General
Land Office Commissioner Don Buckingham announces a plan to help

(01:09:09):
the president elect carry out mass deportations, and they're named
in honor of Joscelyn Nungeray.

Speaker 30 (01:09:15):
We are going to do everything in our power to
ensure no other parent has to feel the pain that
Alexis and Jack len are feeling right now.

Speaker 7 (01:09:23):
Buckingham offering the Trump team other properties besides that Star
County ranch to be used as detention centers are Houston
doctor goes viral for posting a video to TikTok encouraging
patients to ignore the required citizenship question on hospital intake forms.

Speaker 33 (01:09:41):
Since this has only gone into effects since November. First,
we need to give these hospitals and medical providers the
opportunity to show good faith compliance. If they don't, then
the States should consider for their action.

Speaker 7 (01:09:52):
Attorney Rob Hennikee tells KATRHD cutting off medicaid funds would
be a great punishment for non compliance, and that's something
Governor Greg Gabbott has already promised to do. It's now
six thirty four. There's concern in Europe about the extent
of the partnership warwise between Russia and North Korea.

Speaker 49 (01:10:12):
We see what North kree is doing for Russia and
Ukraine right now with the troops, but we also are
looking attentively at what Russia is and maybe doing for
North Korea, including potentially boosting its missile and nuclear capacity.

Speaker 7 (01:10:26):
US Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln in Italy yesterday the
G seven promising to continue its support of Ukraine. In
the Middle East, the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hesba
Lah in Lebanon is holding so far.

Speaker 29 (01:10:41):
If Hesblah or anyone else breaks the deal and pose
a direct threat to Israel, and Israel retains the right
to self.

Speaker 7 (01:10:48):
Defense President Joe Biden at the White House yesterday. In
part because of that ceasefire announcement, oil futures are stabilizing,
rising this morning to just about sixty nine dollars now.
The call from the President elect to drill baby, drill
means something different to Texas oil companies than it means

(01:11:08):
to just you and me.

Speaker 19 (01:11:10):
The hope of those companies is not so much that
already drilled oil wells get more oil. It's that places
where drilling has been off limits can be opened up.
And as King Operating CEO Jay Young says, there's also
the need to reduce paperwork that's continually getting in the
way of oil and pipeline progress. Just modernizing a well
in Colorado, for instance, can take months and even years.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
That's all we were going to do.

Speaker 35 (01:11:34):
It's like fifteen months we wanted to get a permit
to drill well, walked across the street. Within a week
we had a permit to drill well in Texas.

Speaker 19 (01:11:42):
So it's time other states and even the Feds become
more like Texas to drill baby. Michael Shinelhone News Radio
seven forty KTRA Thanks Michael.

Speaker 7 (01:11:51):
Last week, Houston based Connaco, Phillips completed its acquisition of
Marathon Oil. So what are the impacts of this marcher?
We ask industry.

Speaker 10 (01:12:01):
Expert and Fox News contributor Phil Flynn to.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
Be honest with you.

Speaker 31 (01:12:06):
When you look at Conical Phillips and you look at Marathon,
there's a lot of synergies that are already built in.
Really is the best for both companies?

Speaker 5 (01:12:14):
And what about more possible layoffs?

Speaker 31 (01:12:16):
Really is going to be some of the back office
and legal jobs and marketing, That's where we may see
some job lotses. But I think the production side, the
refining side, they're going to need all hands on deck.

Speaker 10 (01:12:27):
He expects a big boom with Trump back in office.

Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty kt H.

Speaker 7 (01:12:35):
And then there's the state energy regulators now looking to
increase power demands because of the growing number of crypto
mining centers here. I'll have to register with the state
uh Energy. Ed Energy fellow ed Hers says these facilities
can pull as much power per day as the city
of Austin.

Speaker 37 (01:12:54):
That's well over two and a half gig lots of
power and for example, on the peak day, the demand
figures are more than eighty giga lots.

Speaker 7 (01:13:03):
By the way, these mining centers have yet to provide
or they have to provide Texas, PUC and Urkott with
power estimates for the next five years. It's six thirty seven.
You may have seen the liberal crying over the election
results and abandoning Twitter or X for what they claim
is a more open platform in Blue Sky, that of course,

(01:13:23):
was founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and looks
a lot like Twitter.

Speaker 5 (01:13:28):
Used to look the site.

Speaker 38 (01:13:30):
To give you an idea of the top ten users
AOC New York Times, the Onion, Mark Hamill, You have
a Mark Cuban, Washington Post, George.

Speaker 7 (01:13:40):
De Kay commentator Stephen Crowder.

Speaker 35 (01:13:43):
There.

Speaker 7 (01:13:43):
Blue Sky, by the way, has about twenty million users
as of a month ago. Elon's X had six hundred
eleven million users. Finally, in college basketball, number six, euh
loses to ninth ranked Alabama eighty five to eighty And
I'm Cliff Saunders. Houston's news weather in traffic station is
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Houston's morning news continues with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
All right, Bob brands in for Jimmy. Happy Thanksgiving Eve
to you. It is thirty eight minutes past the hour,
and boy, the National Institute of Health has a new leader.
How about this. The Left isn't going to like it
at all because doctor J. Battacharia was one of the
leading critics of the COVID protocols during the twenty twenty
pandemic and into twenty twenty one as well. He was

(01:14:33):
one of the leading critics. He was telling truth. He
was talking about safety and effectiveness being the tagline of
the administration and of the pharmaceutical companies as being completely false.
The taglines safe and effective, safe and effective, safe and effective,
they said.

Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
It over and over and over and over again. Not true.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
They were not effective, They did not prevent transmission, they
did not prevent people from getting sick, and they were
not safe. As people are finding out four years on,
all kinds of long term health effects are happening. And
so Jay Batacharia the new director of the National Institutes
of Health. He will work in cooperation with RFK Junior
to direct the nation's medical research and to make important

(01:15:15):
discoveries that will improve health and save lives. According to
President of Trump's statement, Badacaria is a professor at Stanford's
School of Medicine. And focuses on health policy related to
infectious diseases COVID nineteen in health economics, it seems like
a home run selection here, but the left doesn't want
anybody who questions anything that was ever done during the

(01:15:38):
COVID era to be in charge now, even though the
same organization THENIH, the National Institutes of Health had no
idea what was going on? How don't we know because
they said so. Investigative journalist James O'Keefe, who of course
founded and used to be a part of Project Veritas,
now doing O'Keefe Media Group, has posted another undercover video

(01:16:04):
with NIH chief data chief Raja Cholan Raja Cholan, and
in the conversation, O'Keefe asks, or o'keeff's journalist rather asks
what do you think about the NIH now that you
are not working there? And Cholan said, I probably shouldn't
be saying this out loud. The audio is a little

(01:16:25):
hard to hear. It's resem reading it to you. They
might have funded Wuhan, the lab in Wuhan, China, to
like make COVID, and Pfizer and Maderna are just getting
a bunch of money from it from all these vaccine mandates.
The journalist said, Raja Cholan is with the National Institute
of I'm sorry, this is O'Keefe narrating a little tough
to follow. Raja Cholin is with the National Institute of Health.

(01:16:47):
Then Scholin continues saying, for other vaccines like measles or whatever,
you have to go through several rounds of approval, but
these were accelerated through the approvals. The journalist says, do
you think that the mRNA vaccine safe? Do you think
it's like really affected people with myo carditis and stuff?
And Cholin says, I think we're all going to learn
when it's too late. He also went on to say, well,

(01:17:10):
we're gonna get traffic here, But he also went on
to say that the six foot rule and other protocols
that were put in place were completely made up out
of whole cloth. They had no science behind them at all. Well,
the NIH is changing thanks to j Baticharia and thanks
to Donald J.

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
Trump.

Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
All right, more on that coming up, but first let's
get that traffic and weather and now sorry the sky
my no, we're good.

Speaker 6 (01:17:29):
We're kind of light today, Bob Fritz. But boy, when
we get a problem, it's probably a doozy. This is
first of all Highway ninety out bound to Wreck and
Tommy from Splendor calling that in. I don't have the
exact langage, but whatever comes up out there, usually it
gets pretty nasty getting across the river. This is eastbound westbound. Well,

(01:17:50):
it looks like we're good. CJ from Liberty is not
having any trouble getting in.

Speaker 48 (01:17:53):
Mike, dude, I guess you can't take your vacation days.

Speaker 25 (01:17:56):
Did you got to pay for traffic?

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
Thanks for that.

Speaker 6 (01:18:00):
Yeah, I'll be working. I'm not mailing it in, so
you don't mail it in either. North loops six '
to ten westbound at the squeeze. We're getting loopy at
forty five just too the little lanes and here comes
that east text elevator. Does not look like a holiday
downtown on the east text. A lot of breaks southbound
at it ten will go to your ship channel bridges.
Let's also check your southwest at the six fifty break.

(01:18:20):
Skymike on a classic Buick GMC traffic center.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
All right, thank you, Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
And Jeff Maher at the Weather Channel has our Turkey
Day forecast. Forestay, Jeff, Yeah, hey Bob.

Speaker 23 (01:18:30):
But a little bit of fouve to get pasted to
start us off today, and then during the afternoon partly
to mostly cloudy and windy and very warm by November
standards eighty three the high their current records eighty four,
so we'll get close to that. And then ahead of
the cold front tonight breezy with an occasional shower developing
as the overnight low falls into the upper fifties, and
temperatures will not rise much Tomorrow behind that fraud cloudy, windy,
and cooler through Thanksgiving with a high sixty one. We

(01:18:50):
should dip into the mid forties under clouds tomorrow night,
and then sunshine not only on Friday but also during
the weekend for Saturday and Sunday. High temperatures each afternoon
should hit the load to mid sixties.

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
All right, thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (01:19:01):
And right now we have sixty three degrees at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
You are commute, you are forecast your news. It's Houston's
morning News, brought to you buying new Southway to those solutions,
all right, it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
Is indeed it is now seven forty nine. Bop Frands
sitting in for Jimmy Verrett on this pre Thanksgiving Wednesday.
Appreciate you being with us this morning. A lot of
stuff still to talk about. We'll get a timeline contest
coming up. And I want to give you an update
on a couple of stories with respect to the tariffs.
President Trump said he's going to slap massive terrafs twenty
five percent right off the top to anything coming into

(01:19:39):
the country from Mexico, Canada, and China, and those nations
are responding. We'll tell you all about it here. But
let's get you move in traffic and weather together.

Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
Here is Skymike, Hey, let's take a look at your
southwest side quickly or southwest Freeway, that makes sense, Mike,
coming up now from Richmond Rosenberg across the Brass River.
I'm hearing a little about fog, so you let me know.
Let me know what you can or can't see out there.
Always good to know. So far, twenty one minutes from
the Sugarland Fountains northbound. I've been to the canyon downtown

(01:20:09):
for coming in from the West Park toll sticker, big shots,
you look good. Katie Freeway rocking along from pen Oak
Road into the President's heads and we've gotten now twenty
six minutes from Grand Parkway into downtown to ninety. If
you had a grand March at your wedding, you're rocking
along Grand Parkway all the way to the West Loop.

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
No problem so far.

Speaker 6 (01:20:28):
I'm Skymike in the classic Buick GMC traffic center.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
All right, thank you, Mike. Ken Jeff's forecast.

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
Excuse me, it looks like it might be a record
center today could be reaching as high as eighty four
to eighty five degrees. Eighty five would be a new record.
Eighty four would tie the one set in nineteen eighty nine, which.

Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
Is just kind of interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Then it's going to drop down to normal temperatures tonight,
fifty seven for overnight low Thanksgiving Day, Tomorrow sixty two,
partly cloudy, black, Friday about the same, and then mid
sixties over the weekend and into Monday. We won't see
anything to significant rain until around Tuesday. Right now, we
have sixty three degrees at your official severe weather station

(01:21:08):
is Radio seven forty KTRH. Let's check the headlines now,
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:21:13):
Good morning, Bob.

Speaker 7 (01:21:14):
We are brought to you by Texas Mutual Insurance, the
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on ble ISD trustees formerly terminate Superintendent Elizabeth Fagan. She
plans to appeal, and the USDA is reviewing a complaint
against the center in South Carolina after forty three monkeys

(01:21:35):
escaped from that facility earlier this month. At the latest
news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update is
at seven o'clock.

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
I live in Katie, I live in Ito.

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
Your reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:21:52):
Something must have shocked those monkeys, all right, So let's
let me give you the lay to loadown on this
before we do our timeline.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Here's the deal.

Speaker 4 (01:22:01):
President Trump announced, as you know, on Monday, a twenty
five percent tariff on China, on Mexico, and on Canada,
all in an attempt to strengthen and secure our border,
saying until the nations, particularly those with our borders, share
that share our borders, Mexico and Canada. If you're not
going to do your part on your side to stop
the relentless flow of fentanyl and traffickers and humans across

(01:22:24):
the border into our country, well you're going to pay
a price. Anything you make you want to sell here
twenty five percent tariff off the top well. Canadian Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly called President Trump Monday night, just
hours after that announcement began for help, saying please don't
do this. Shortly after Trump's post, Trudeau contacted Trump and
the two leaders spoke by phone, according to Bloomberg News.

(01:22:47):
According to a source, they talked border security and it
was a constructive call. Trudeau pointed out that the issues
that the Canadian border are minuscule compared to the US
Mexico border, which is probably true. But Trudeau agreed to
work with Trump on border security after those tariff threats
or policies were announced by President Trump. Now, Ontario Premier

(01:23:08):
Doug Ford said that a twenty five percent tariff would
be devastating to workers and jobs in both Canada and
in the US the federal government. This is a tweet
from Premier doug Ford Ontario Premier Doug Ford saying the
federal government needs to take the situation at our border seriously.
We need a team Canada approach and response, and we

(01:23:31):
need it now. Prime Minister Trudeau must call an urgent
meeting with all premiers and reported by AJ Huber. Mexican
President Claudia Shinbaum just announced that she is stopping the
migrant caravans from arriving at the US southern border after
President Trump's tariff threat. Nothing can stop what's coming. Only

(01:23:54):
DJT Donald J. Trump can change the world, even before
his inauguration. I have the vision that there will be
an agreement with the US.

Speaker 5 (01:24:04):
Now. That is remarkable.

Speaker 4 (01:24:06):
How quickly, you know, other world leaders fall in line
when threatened with strong actions by people like Donald Trump.
And that's exactly what happened here. He threatens Terris on
Mexico and Justin Trudeau is on the phone. What can
we do to make you happy? What can we do
to make things right? He threatens Terarrifs on Mexico and
the Mexican president. We're gonna stop that migrant caravan from

(01:24:29):
even getting to your border, and we're going to stop
them from building up in Central America and coming up
in two hours.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
It is just remarkable, remarkable.

Speaker 4 (01:24:38):
President Trump is getting results before even being inaugurated, just
by the threats. This is why the American people did
what they did on November fifth. It's so we told
you what happen when weakness is projected from the Oval Office,
from the White House in the United States of America,
the rest of the world responds with their strength. They're emboldened.

(01:24:58):
When strength is projected from the Oval Office in the
United States of America. The rest of the world reacts accordingly,
and they tuck their tails, and they essentially bow to
the majesty of the United States as the leader, leader,
the world leader in virtually all of these areas. I
shouldn't say majesty. We're not an empire, we're not a monarchy.

(01:25:19):
But you understand the point. The power that is wielded
by the president, when it is wielded with strength, commands
respect and consideration of what we need to have happened
from the rest of the world. So President Trump is
winning just with the first terror tariff announcement. All right,
six fifty five, you know what that means. Time for
the timeline contest, brought to you by Velocity Business Products.

(01:25:42):
Here's a number for you to know. Seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. You go ahead,
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push send unless you want a shot at a pair
of tickets to see justin Timberlake on his Forget Tomorrow
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you know the year in which the following things happened.

Speaker 11 (01:26:05):
Irish and Ryan at Tenda, Guyana and to the People's Temple, it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:09):
Was November and in Jonestown, Guyana a massacre.

Speaker 20 (01:26:12):
Members were being held again to their will, but after
the time the reddits wounded.

Speaker 50 (01:26:18):
The animated feature Watershipped Down opened in movie theaters done
right on Broadway. The musical Raisin opened Yeah some month
on television, Daffy Duck made his Saturday Morning debut.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Oh you know you got a ran new in the
top ten foreigner with double vision? What year was it?

Speaker 4 (01:26:42):
If you've got the answer, hit us up at seven
one three, two one two fifty eight seventy four. You
could win those justin Timberlake tickets. Good luck, all right,
we found a winner. Ricky and Brenham knew the year
we wanted to hear was nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 5 (01:26:54):
Good job.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
Ricky is used Radio seven kt RH Houston.

Speaker 24 (01:27:03):
Live everywhere with ANUE Now.

Speaker 5 (01:27:06):
The latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
A show of force and a show of unity at
the border with Tom Homan visiting Eagle Pass, and Trump
continues to shake things up with his cabinet picks.

Speaker 5 (01:27:22):
Good morning, I'm Bob frans in for Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
This is your seven o'clock report now on news radio
seven forty k t R H. Cliff Sanders has the news.
But first we'll check our traffica in whether skymikes you
get it right?

Speaker 5 (01:27:33):
Guess what off by one year always I'm not supposed
to hit the thing. Let's go, Kirk, Tomball these on
two forty nine.

Speaker 24 (01:27:40):
Mike, I've forgotten free Way southbound right about Perry Road.

Speaker 47 (01:27:45):
Got a single car accident.

Speaker 48 (01:27:46):
Looks like you hit the median, So truck ninjas are
not on the seeing.

Speaker 6 (01:27:50):
You boom extra points for verbage with your banana stick
or Kirk from Tomball southbound. I'll let the rest of
the media know about it, and I tend I'll make
that dot ninety East Highway ninety Crosby Freeway right before
the Sanjacento River.

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
That accident looking pretty ugly.

Speaker 6 (01:28:04):
Joke from Crosby says it's two left lines eastbound Skymike
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
All right, thank you Mike and your forecast calling for
cloudy skies this morning, clear this afternoon, hive around eighty three,
pushing up toward a record overcast tonight down to about
fifty seven Thanksgiving Day tomorrow looking kind of cool. And
I'll let you let Jeff Mara at the Weather Channel
say how cool that's coming up? At seven ten right
now we have sixty three degrees at your official severe

(01:28:31):
weather station. News Radio seven forty k t RH. Now
the morning news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (01:28:36):
Thank you very much, Bob, Good morning everybody. Coming up
on seven zero two our top story.

Speaker 8 (01:28:41):
Let me be clear, there is going to be a
mass deportation game on time to get this done game
on incoming Borders.

Speaker 7 (01:28:48):
Our Tom Homan and Eagle Pass yesterday, hosted by Governor
Greg Gavitt.

Speaker 9 (01:28:52):
The senters January the twenty occurs, there is going to
be a change in a way that the United States
of America protects border and protects the sovereignty of the
United States of America.

Speaker 7 (01:29:03):
The state is offering the incoming administration more land than
just the fourteen hundred acre ranch in Stark County to
use as a detention center. Despite the show force, half
of Texas Republicans don't think the state spends enough on
border security. They want lawmakers to fix that.

Speaker 10 (01:29:22):
And specifically, what is the Texas GOP plan for spending.

Speaker 11 (01:29:27):
You can guarantee that it's going to be at the
top of the priority list for all the legislators in
particularly the state leadership or Republicans.

Speaker 10 (01:29:34):
That's reporter Brad Johnson with the Texan. With Texas currently
spending over four billion a year on border security.

Speaker 11 (01:29:42):
Something is going to be done on the border. Just
a question of what that is and how much money
we're putting towards it.

Speaker 10 (01:29:48):
They can either keep the spending as is or if
Trump takes over, use that money elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty k T eight. Thank you, Jeff. Mexico.

Speaker 7 (01:29:59):
He is threaten ding retaliatory tariffs if the President elect
follows through on his promise to hold him accountable with
tariffs on day one. Trump also made a flurry of
picks for the administration last night, including doctor j. Bodacharia
to run the National Institutes of Health.

Speaker 12 (01:30:17):
What you're seeing happen right now with Donald Trump's cabinet
picks and his appointments are exactly the mandate the American
people delivered on November fifth. That's why the approval of
everything is so high.

Speaker 7 (01:30:27):
Lara Trump there in Baticheria, like HHS Secretary nominee R. F. K. Junior,
is called for reforming the NIH, especially after COVID seven
oh four. Now on KTRH, it's going to be another
busy day at the airports today. So far, no delays
really into an out of bush and hobby to speak
of holiday travels so far unaffected nationwide by the airport

(01:30:51):
workers striking Charlotte. More coming up at seven point thirty.
Outrage in Galveston County this morning. The family of a
child rape victim just eight years old once answers after
the bad guy was wrongfully released from county jail.

Speaker 13 (01:31:07):
How are you gonna tell me you lost a whole person.
We talked about a real man. You're gonna let somebody go.

Speaker 7 (01:31:17):
That's the girl's mother With our TV partner Channel two,
Marshall Settlemyer is back in custody today. Officials said his
release was the result of quote human error here in
Houston HPD says charges have been brought in some of
the two hundred and sixty four thousand cases that were
suspended over the lack of staffing code, but the root

(01:31:38):
cause of the problem, the lack of manpower, has yet
to be addressed.

Speaker 14 (01:31:43):
What we're hoping to do is get one hundred more
offers a year over the next five years.

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
That will help, but it still will not.

Speaker 22 (01:31:49):
Sure the issue.

Speaker 14 (01:31:50):
We need probably twenty five hundred ulcers.

Speaker 7 (01:31:53):
Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union says that
the department has been affected by retirements. In another factor,
other agencies recruiting offering cops more money. Seven oh five. Now,
the state school board approved of adding Bible references to
the curriculum last week. Now they're making a move on
inappropriate library books.

Speaker 15 (01:32:14):
They want more input on if a book is sexually
explicit or not.

Speaker 16 (01:32:17):
There's a lot of inappropriate stuff going on, especially for
certain families, and so this is just one more thing
highlighting what's wrong with this school system.

Speaker 15 (01:32:26):
Jean Burke of College Prep Genius says there's already a
law against those books, but this goes a step further,
and really it just shows the common sense is back.

Speaker 7 (01:32:34):
I feel like that.

Speaker 16 (01:32:35):
With the administration coming up, that there's going to be
more oversight on what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:32:41):
She says.

Speaker 15 (01:32:42):
This is a good trend and a way to break
up the liberal agenda forced into the system. Andre Perard
News Radio seven forty.

Speaker 7 (01:32:49):
And Andre, you can add that to the list of
many reasons why conservatives can be thankful this Thanksgiving. Matt
Kittle with The Federalist has several others.

Speaker 17 (01:32:58):
No longer have to look at four more years of
men pretending to be women in key executive branch positions,
and we just dodged four very long years of cringey
word salads.

Speaker 7 (01:33:11):
Oh but we did have one more word salad from
Kamala last night thanks to a video released by the
Democrat Party.

Speaker 18 (01:33:18):
I just have to remind you, don't you ever let
anybody take your power from you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:33:24):
The video getting mocked on social media, many saying Harris
looked off seven oh six on KTRHN looking at your money.
Consumer confidence is up to its highest level in a year,
just weeks after Donald Trump's election. That said, one out
of every four people with health insurance is struggling with
medical costs.

Speaker 19 (01:33:44):
The CEO of healthcare finance specialist David Belott says increasing
out of pocket expenditures and deductibles help insurance companies make
money for their shareholders, and while some are calling for
expansion of Medicaid in Texas, in the end, that too,
sirs insurance company investors.

Speaker 20 (01:34:02):
Expansion of Medicaid doesn't really do a whole lot, as
we've seen in the other states that have expanded Medicaid
for the patients themselves, but it does a lot of Really,
it does a lot of.

Speaker 37 (01:34:10):
Good for the insurance companies and their shareholders.

Speaker 19 (01:34:13):
A lot points out that even on Medicaid it's hard
to get some doctor appointments and some medical care. Michael
Shanelone News Radio seven forty KTRA.

Speaker 7 (01:34:21):
Thanks Michael, and the Rockets beat Minnesota one seventeen to
one eleven. They visit the Sixers. Tonight pregame is at
five on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on
Houston's News, weather in Traffic station News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
The tools you need to take on the day news
in the morning, weather and traffick. This is Houston's Morning
News with Jimmy Varrett.

Speaker 4 (01:34:45):
All Right, Bob frantz in for Jimmy, thanks so much
for joining us seven minutes after the hour and yeah,
Turkey Day eve record eighty million Americans are going to
travel fifty miles or more over Thanksgiving weekend, the majority
of them by car. Millions expected to fly, including a
record breaking three million on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (01:35:05):
A loan.

Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
And that's just the travel stuff. We'll get top Scott
make here at a minute on more travel stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:35:10):
But what about the grub?

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
Over eighty percent of Americans will eat turkey, requiring an
estimated forty six million birds to supply that feast. A
recent survey suggests mashed potatoes, bread, bread, rolls, and pie
will be standard. Fair macaroni and cheese consumption is highly
regionalized a holiday. Would you believe they map this out literally,
maps of the country on where different foods are preferred

(01:35:37):
a little bit more than others. A holiday meal for
ten will cost an average of about fifty eight dollars,
they say, down five percent from last year and the
lowest inflation adjusted cost in the thirty nine years of
the Farmer's survey. Still, most Americans, just like the overarching
economy question before the election, they're not seeing what the
overarching economy is showing in their shopping carts and on

(01:36:01):
their receipts. Still extraordinarily high at the grocery store for
all of these different products. And the American consumer, the
American family is they have a lot to be thankful,
thankful for, certainly, particularly if you are concerned about the
safety and security of the country. We did a lot
on November fifth to earn that, and we can be

(01:36:21):
thankful for those results. But there are still a lot
of real challenges coming into Thanksgiving Day tomorrow and again
especially affording that food. Hopefully relief is on the way.
President Trump making some very very strong moves even in
the transition period before he even takes office. As we
talked about previously, before the top of the hour or yeah,

(01:36:43):
before the top of the hour, President Trump getting results
by making policy decisions and announcements ahead of time. We'll
talk more about that as we go. All right, seven
to ten. Now, let's do traffic and weather once again.
Keep us on the moves, guy, Mike, how about I'm just.

Speaker 6 (01:36:55):
Let the rest of the media know about two forty
nine Tomball Parkway inbound Perry Road. It's by Cyprus Wood.
If you don't know southbound. That's a one vehicle accident
into the media. I'm not holding my breath. Oh nope,
I was gonna hold my breath for a camera shot,
but I don't think we have one southbound. Just watch
out coming down from Magnolia Kirk from Tomball the banana
sticker and extra points for verbiage. Uber MIC's around Bush Airport?

Speaker 5 (01:37:18):
Dude, Hey, what's up, sky Mike?

Speaker 24 (01:37:20):
Update on the airport? People get an out, in and
out real smooth. I would like to call it the
column before the storm.

Speaker 6 (01:37:26):
The calm before the shoe drops in the woods. All right,
nice timeline laugh. Lancerm Magnolia is two forty nine, dude.

Speaker 24 (01:37:34):
Lanser Magnolia. I know you're on the Forgotten Freeway and
fridging ride along at traffic court speed. Have a happy.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
Thanksgiving all right? I got Katie Freeway jumping.

Speaker 6 (01:37:43):
Joe just sent me this camera shot Katie Freeway Eldridge Parkway.

Speaker 5 (01:37:47):
Looks like everybody's okay. It's wreck in the right lane.

Speaker 6 (01:37:49):
This is inbound Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com
Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:37:54):
Hey, sky Mike, what kind of a pole do you
have with Dan Schwartzman. Did you hear him say China
in his last Bloomberg before you know what?

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
It was in there?

Speaker 6 (01:38:01):
And I guess he just you know, it just linked in,
you know, like it started with Mike from Magnolia. And
that's been the magic word all morning.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
Let it up. I know, and your your callers have
been doing a phenomenal job. Thank you that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:13):
And I was just shocked by Bloomberg getting a Dan
Schwartzman getting in China totally unrelated. That was fantastic. Jeff Marrow,
I wonder if you'll get it into the into the
forecast here from the Weather Channel.

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
Hey Jeff, Yeah, Hey China, Texas. A little fog right now,
sixty two degrees.

Speaker 23 (01:38:28):
We're going to miss there, but you know, warm the
force today out ahead of a cold front.

Speaker 5 (01:38:33):
We may get close to a record. The current record
is eighty four.

Speaker 23 (01:38:36):
We could top out at eighty three this afternoon with
a partly to mostly cloudy skies of gusty wins. A
cold front brings in a few isolated showers tonight, the
load down to fifty nine, and then it will be
breezy and cooler behind the front end of Thanksgiving with
clouds wins out of the north at high sixty one
into the mid forties Tomorrow night at are a cloudy
sky at sunshine for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as highest
at the load of mid sixties.

Speaker 4 (01:38:56):
All right, thank you, well done, Thank you, Jeff sixty
three degrees. Right now, it's your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty ktr H.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barretts and the Houston
Morning News team.

Speaker 5 (01:39:11):
All the info you need to take on the day,
and we do continue. Bob France in for Jimmy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:16):
It's eighteen minutes past the hour coming up, and a
couple after we do trafficking weather. We're going to talk
about what to be thankful for in Thanksgiving. But this
is going to be just a little bit different. It's
not your typical Thanksgiving list. We're going to be talking
about what to be thankful for in the world of
politics and especially in the aftermath of the November fifth route.
What kinds of things will we enjoy in twenty twenty

(01:39:39):
five and twenty twenty six, and quite frankly, for the
next four years. Matt Killer wrote a great piece, one
of the funniest things that I've read, but funny but not.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
Like laugh out loud funny, but real.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
It's the kind of thing that just we're gonna put
a smile on your face, because when you think about
everything that we have in store for us, we do
have a lot to be thankful for in advance of
them actually happening. So Matt Kill wrote this piece for
the Federalists. We'll talk to him right after we check
in with Skymike trafficking weather together.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
He Mike, Hey, a little bit early for you here,
but let's go ahead and fire up now.

Speaker 6 (01:40:10):
I'm happy to jump in, and you know, I'm thankful
for Toe Trek Ninjas. They took a Katie Freeway Eldridge
wreck out of the way. Hfd HPD Rock and Long
doing their stuff this morning too.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
Very well.

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
Katie Freeway Taylor Street. That's a big old stall truck.
That's a bad spot too. That's right before you make
the curve to hit the President's head. So let's watch
out here for now. They're calling it a shoulder. I
expect the super sized Ninja to take up a right lane.

Speaker 5 (01:40:35):
This is inbound on the.

Speaker 6 (01:40:36):
Katie Freeway Crosby Freeway. Did I mention that we were
the first news outlet or media outlet to have that
wreck on ninety Crosby Freeway. That's outbound right before the
San Jacino River Bridge. We'll take up two left lanes.
Look at that backup from Sheldon Road eastbound. Let's take
it instead. I'm Skymike in the Generator Supercenter dot Com
Traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
All right, thank you very much, sky Mike, I take
it back. Of these are laugh out loud. You'll find
out a minute.

Speaker 11 (01:41:02):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:41:03):
Your forecast, Jeff says we're going to get some warm
temperatures today around eighty three eighty forty five, maybe setting
a record. Back to normal temperatures tonight overnight low fifty seven,
Tomorrow sixty two. Partly cloudy for year, Thanksgiving Day celebration,
Black Friday shopping Day, mid sixties over the weekend as well.
You don't get any significant rain until Tuesday. About a

(01:41:25):
sixty five percent chance on Tuesday. Right now, sixty three degrees,
partly cloudy at your official severe weather station's radio seven
forty kt RH.

Speaker 5 (01:41:34):
And now some headlines from Cliff.

Speaker 7 (01:41:35):
Thank you, Bob. We're sponsored by Morrow Mechanical, Texas is
offering more land to the incoming Trump administration for mass deportations.
A repeat fender tied to two road rad shootings, including
the deadly one earlier this month near a Leaf is denied.
Bond and Turkey prices, in case you didn't realize it,
are up twenty three percent since October of twenty twenty.

(01:41:58):
Thanks Joe the News anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at seven.

Speaker 5 (01:42:03):
Thirty from the sugar Land area, Pavierport area.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty
KTRH number three.

Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
Now, only Minnesota will have to suffer with the absurd
narrative that tampon Tim Walls is a real man. That
is just one of the twelve things we have to
be thankful for this Thanksgiving, as dictated by Matt Kittle
at The Federalist. Matt, thanks for the time this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:42:28):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
Absolutely, I'm just fine, happy Thanksgiving to you and.

Speaker 5 (01:42:32):
To you as well. This is really really great stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
I've been chuckling at this, but so many of these things,
I mean, honestly, we laugh at them, but it's a reality.
I don't think people realize how much stress we were
under over the course of the last four years dealing
with all of the things that are now going away
thanks to what happened on November fifth.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
I agree. I think we're able to laugh now, but
we might have been crying otherwise, because very thankful post
election season. For instance, that competence indeed is back in
fashion after four years of bogus borders, oars, DEI hires

(01:43:12):
and mashed potatoes cognition commander in chief for instance, and
the American people decided.

Speaker 5 (01:43:22):
They were done with all of that. Yeah, no question.

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
And you know, Matt, I love that you made competence
number one the first thing, because it is literally the
oppotitt competence opposite. Competence is synonymous with merit, of course,
and ability and earned things, and of course that's the
opposite of DEI. And I think, don't you think even
though most of us watched this past election, Matt Hill

(01:43:47):
with the Federalist hearing that economy, you know, or actually
technically inflation, inflation, immigration, and crime are the top issues,
but I feel like the people voted against all of
the other things that maybe don't make those lists, like
the EI, Like, uh, you know, uh, a lack of
competence in this elections made by the previous administration.

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
All of these things.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
It was, in other words, it was a repudiation of leftists, leftism,
and wokeism in addition to the actual named election issues.

Speaker 5 (01:44:19):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
I think there were a lot of things this election. Obviously,
it's the old James Carvill it's the economy stupid that
was number one. And you folks know better than anybody.
You know, the border in Baesian was huge. But yeah,
I mean you don't get there without an absolute lack
of competence in government. And Americans were not feeling safe.

(01:44:43):
They were not feeling prosperitist, you know, they weren't. They
were just feeling like you know, they they were under
attack for so long and they wanted to change.

Speaker 4 (01:44:54):
Yeah, well it's not even a feeling, it was reality.
They were, you know, in any ways, by a weaponized government,
weaponized Department of Justice. I mean there, you know. And
then of course our way of life. You know, you
will get rid of your gasoline powered engines, you will
get rid of your gas stoves. You will you you know,
you will fall in line and uh, you know'll get
it with the ev mandate and so on and so forth.
So it was an attack, but we are thankful all

(01:45:15):
those things are gone. Now, let's look at a few
more of these. I love number four. Tell us about
number four.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Well, we are looking at four years free of men
pretending to be women and key executive branch positions, and uh,
you know we we can't say the same for Congress
right now, but we're fairly confident high end luggage is
safe from suffering by government employees and airport carousels.

Speaker 4 (01:45:46):
So you don't think Donald Trump, will we hire Sam
Briton Brinton, is what you say.

Speaker 5 (01:45:49):
I don't see him coming back.

Speaker 45 (01:45:51):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
Yeah, Richard Levine, I think is done for a while too.
Let's you know, and I will tell you this, I
have seen enough. I don't look at I don't watch
Taylor Swift nor Beyonce on stage ever anywhere. I don't
watch Oprah or Michelle in any places that they show up.
So the fact that they are all going away won't
impact me much. But I saw more of them in

(01:46:12):
the last four months than I have in the last
you know, fourteen years.

Speaker 5 (01:46:15):
Probably they're gone.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
To yeah, at least they're gone from the big political
push that we've seen. They'll be there to make money
for sure, but yeah, they'll slip away to their multimillion
dollar estates and free market blessings.

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
Of course, let's talk about number number seven as well,
because you know it, Cringey doesn't even begin to describe
what it's like.

Speaker 5 (01:46:42):
Listening to her.

Speaker 4 (01:46:42):
In fact, she's back now from her three week of
three weeks of hiding in embarrassment, and she was right
right back to tossing word salads again yesterday in a
video to her supporters.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
Tell us about seven.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
She just can't help it. But yes, we dodged for
years of Cringey word salads and constant cackling. I think
we've had more than enough of that. And you know
the myriad examples of the Kamala Harris word salads. You
can only imagine what that would be on the national

(01:47:15):
and international stage for four years as president of the
United States.

Speaker 5 (01:47:21):
I can't, I can't. I can't even wrap my brain
around how painful.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
I mean, just for four months of campaigning, I was
ready to just blow my ear drums. I cannot even
think about that for four solid years. We're talking to
Matt Kittle, who wrote a great piece of the twelve
things we should be most thankful for this Thanksgivings, I'm
going to link you to all my social media's as well,
strictly speaking on Twitter, slash x, Facebook, Instagram a true

(01:47:45):
social as well, but check it out at the Federalist
dot com Matt Kittle, really great stuff. Thank you so
much for very happy Thanksgiving to you, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
Happy Thanksgiving to you, and we are now unburdened by
what has been.

Speaker 5 (01:47:57):
That's the best one. That's number twelve.

Speaker 4 (01:47:59):
We are, indeed, or at least on January twentieth, we
shall be thank you, Matt.

Speaker 5 (01:48:04):
All right, seven twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (01:48:05):
Now, let's get caught up here on a Bloomberg business
report and see what Dan Schwarzman has for us today.

Speaker 5 (01:48:10):
Hey Dan, Good morning, Bob.

Speaker 26 (01:48:12):
Coffee futures continue their meteoric rally, raising prices at the
highest levels in more than four decades. Arabica beans, which
are the variety favored for specialty bruised, climbed by more
than three percent, which put most active futures at the
highest since nineteen seventy seven. Overall, the price of Arabica
beans is jump by almost seventy percent just this year's
looking at the futures downs up a tenth to one percent,
the S and P's essentially flat, Nassas down a tenth

(01:48:34):
to one percent. Priceville currently hovering around sixty nine dollars
and a quarter of barrel. This report is sponsored by
Total Wine and More. I'm Dan Schwarzen Bloomberg Business on
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 27 (01:48:49):
Are No Houston's News, Why there were traffic plus breaking
news twenty four to seven. This is News Radio seven
forty KTRH five Everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
With the more of what's happening now from the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:49:06):
Today is set to be one of the busiest travel
days of the year, and Texas is offering President Trump
Moreland to help with those mass deportations. Good morning, I'm
Bob Frans and for Jimmy Barrett Cliff sunders As. The
details on those stories and more coming up. But first
we'll hit the traffic on the weather once again. Here
as Chona, Mike, We're China.

Speaker 6 (01:49:24):
Let's go southbound on your East tex Freeway, coming down
by the airport. Bob France, right next to will Clayton Parkway,
we call it Willie. See that's a wreck. Let's get
you some laneage. Give me the seven forty report. We're
already backed up from nineteen sixty, so let's reroute to
the hardy big shots.

Speaker 5 (01:49:40):
Two forty nine.

Speaker 6 (01:49:41):
I reported that at Perry Road it's actually closer to Louetta.

Speaker 5 (01:49:44):
That's a one vehicle accident southbound.

Speaker 6 (01:49:47):
See this big squish up now from Spring Cyprus, normally
the Forgotten Freeway. I don't have to talk about you much.
We've got some west sam something's skipping up. We'll go
to Tyrone also at the seven forty in the classic
Buick GMC traffic center.

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
Okay, thank you, Mike and Jeff Morris forecast calling four
maybe record high temperature today eighty four is the mark,
could hit eighty four or five.

Speaker 5 (01:50:11):
He's calling for around eighty three.

Speaker 4 (01:50:13):
So we'll see overcast tonight, slight chance of range shower,
not much low of fifty seven for Thanksgiving tomorrow. Back
to normal temperatures in the low sixties, and I'll let
Jeff give it the details coming up at seven forty.
Right now, we are counting sixty three degrees at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH and
now the morning news. Here's cliffs howners.

Speaker 7 (01:50:32):
Thank you very much, Bob. Good morning everybody, seven thirty
two on KTRH our top story.

Speaker 28 (01:50:38):
I think projected to be the busiest time travel that
we've had in fight some time. We'll be busy from
three third in the Morning's all the ways we'd clothe
about ten in.

Speaker 7 (01:50:46):
TIF That hobby airport official talking to our TV partner
channel too. If you waited until today to travel for Thanksgiving,
get ready for the crowds. Tsay's ten busiest days in
history have all been in twenty twenty four. So far,
things have been smooth, with less than two dozen delays
between the two airports so far. Also topping the news,

(01:51:09):
Mexico and Canada not happy with Donald Trump's plan to
place tariffs on their products if they don't help secure
our border.

Speaker 29 (01:51:17):
Mexico's new president, Claudia Shinbaum threatening to raise tariffs on
American goods in response to President elect Trump's vow to
raise tariffs on Mexican goods unless the country does more
to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Mexico and Canada
say they're open to dialogue with the President elect.

Speaker 7 (01:51:37):
That is, Fox's Brian Gainis at the border yesterday Tom Hoeman,
in charge of the mass deportation plan, was an eagle
pass to meet with border patrol agents. We'll have more
on that at eight o'clock. The state is planning to
offer the incoming administration more land when it comes to
that mass deportation effort.

Speaker 30 (01:51:55):
My office has identified several of our properties and is
standing by ready to make this happen on day one
as the Trump presidency.

Speaker 7 (01:52:04):
Land Commissioner doctor Don Buckingham already offered the Trump team
a fourteen hundred acre ranch in Star County as a
detention center. The plan to build these facilities will honor
Joscelyn Nungery, the Houston twelve year old murdered this summer.
Two illegals are charged in her killing. Seven point thirty three.
Now on KTRH, wouldn't it be amazing if everyone who

(01:52:26):
comes in doesn't answer it and really messes with whatever
data that they're looking for. That is a local doctor
at Texas Children's Hospital encouraging patients on TikTok not to
fill out the legally required citizenship question on hospital intake forms.

Speaker 32 (01:52:42):
He's just one of many leftists who are testing the
boundaries of Texas's new law.

Speaker 33 (01:52:46):
What we're talking about here is the mutiny by some
medical professionals in outside groups to encourage open defiance of
the law.

Speaker 32 (01:52:55):
Attorney Rob Henneke told KTRH Governor Abbott has made it
clear that hospitals that do this will lose their Medicaid funding.

Speaker 33 (01:53:01):
Taken away Medicaid funds is very pentitive. Probably most of
the revenue for these hospitals and doctors is coming from
being a Medicaid provider.

Speaker 32 (01:53:09):
Texas Children's Hospital says they fully support the citizenship question
and are in full compliance with the rule. Ethan Buchanan,
News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (01:53:17):
Thank you, Ethan. Now to the latest from the Middle East.
So far, the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbillah has been holding.

Speaker 34 (01:53:25):
Now that we have a ceasfire and eleven on in
place and erazins Iran is the third, we hope that
MAAS will reach a conclusion that time is not on
its side and will ultimately agree to do a hostage
if that is our focus right now.

Speaker 7 (01:53:40):
That is Michael Herzog, the Israeli ambassador to the US.
President Elect Trump has promised to make Iran broke again.
It's now seven thirty five on KTRH oil futures trading
at just about sixty nine dollars a barrel this morning,
stabilizing after the announcement of the ceasefire yesterday. Pepe Morgan

(01:54:00):
is predicting oil prices to fall to below sixty dollars
a barrel by twenty twenty six. The CEO of King Operating,
Jay Young, says the cost of drilling for oil have
been stabilizing.

Speaker 35 (01:54:12):
We're exporting a lot more oil now, which is better.
We're also seeing demand go up with that new AI
and we're going to see more exporting with LNG for
the natural gas. That's a good thing, but.

Speaker 7 (01:54:25):
He does warn that tariffs would cause the price of pipes, metals,
and other drilling related material to rise. Uston based Conicco
Phillips just finalize its purchase of Marathon Oil, a good
thing according to Fox's Phil Flynn.

Speaker 31 (01:54:40):
I think it's going to allow them to take advantage
of the refining side and then on the retail end.
I don't think there's going to be major changes, since
I think these companies are going to be very profitable
to take advantage of the coming energy boom.

Speaker 7 (01:54:52):
He also says that he doesn't expect many more layoffs
on top of the five hundred that we already knew about.

Speaker 5 (01:54:59):
And then and.

Speaker 7 (01:55:00):
There's the Texas crypto industry, which is growing. Utility regulators
have put new rules into place requiring miners to register.

Speaker 36 (01:55:08):
While crypto itself may still be a mystery, University of
Houston energy fellow ed Hers says, the amount of electricity
these mining centers can use is very well known.

Speaker 37 (01:55:17):
For several years now, they've been pulling at least as
much power and now more than the city of Austin
on any given day.

Speaker 36 (01:55:25):
When these mining facilities register, they must provide the PUC
and Urkhat with their anticipated peak load for the next
five years, and they must renew annually. For ads that
while these facilities do power down during extreme heat or
freeze events in Texas, they can then sell their power
back to the grid and make millions. Eric Sharp News
Radio seven forty KTIRA, Thank.

Speaker 5 (01:55:45):
You, Eric.

Speaker 7 (01:55:46):
It is now seven thirty seven. Democrats have been crying
since the election and leaving Twitter, moving to the platform
Blue Sky, claiming that it's more open than xt But
the problem is that's a lie.

Speaker 38 (01:56:00):
Let's look at some of the posts that you can
find on Blue Sky. So you can't say twenty twenty
election was not the most freemefair. You can't say COVID
vaccine was ineffective. You cannot say that there are only
two genders.

Speaker 7 (01:56:08):
That's commentator Stephen Crowder. Blue Sky, by the way, founded
by Jack Dorsey. He co founded Twitter, and if you
look at it, it looks a lot like old Twitter,
right down to the blue logo, except Blue Sky uses
a butterfly instead of a bird. Finally, according to reports,
Astros free agent third Basement Alex Bregman is being courted

(01:56:30):
by a pair of surprise teams, the Phillies and Tigers Detroit,
managed by former Astros skipper aj Hinch. I'm Cliff Saunders
on Houston's News, Weather in Traffic Station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
World Events, National Headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (01:56:52):
Yeah, I'm just entertaining myself over here. Sorry, it's seven
thirty eight and I'm still reading Matt's list mctittle's list
of the twelve Hilarious Things. I posted it just so
you could find it at my website Strictly speaking, dot org.
Many of the top stories that we have discussed this
morning are at the website I run Strictly Speaking dot org.
That's the name of my regular radio show is Strictly

(01:57:12):
Speaking with Bob Frantz. So happy to be in for
Jimmy on this Wednesday. But if you get a chance
to take a look at the at the website and
you will find a link to Matt Kittle story and
the Federalist Twelve hilarious things to be thankful for in
this post election Thanksgiving. Also stories up there. The audio
of Joy Reid with her guest on MSNBC. We talked

(01:57:32):
about this last hour, claiming that Donald Trump wants the
military to shoot Americans, specifically to end multiculturalism, and not
making it up. It's all there, It's on tape. She
said it on TV along with her guest. It's really
really the level of mental illness I guess in this

(01:57:53):
country is just it's really hard to quantify, speaking of mentally.
Al Kamala Harris's return as well. She looks and sounds
either drunk or dumber or something, not exactly sure what,
but she's back with a ten minute cringe worthy video
along with would be would have been a Vice President?

Speaker 5 (01:58:12):
Tim Walls it's just bizarre.

Speaker 4 (01:58:14):
It's bizarre, and it is getting, as Cliff said, roundly
mocked online because she just does not look and sound normal,
not that she really ever does, but it's a bizarre video.
It's ten minutes of cringiness that you might want to
check out. And then also at strictly speaking dot Org,
Tom Holman, Yeah, I just call it like I see it.

(01:58:34):
The badass borders are the badass borders are threatening to
jail a big city mayor. That's exactly what Tom Holman said.
We have this for you yesterday as well. He is
ready to lock up anybody who gets in the way
of his deportation orders, the mass deportation, the largest President
Trump said deportation in American history is on its way.

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
Up.

Speaker 4 (01:58:57):
Sorry about that. I wanted to give that to you,
but I can't give it to you format. So we'll
take it. We'll take our traffic break here at seven
forty and I'll give you a little bit of that
on the other side.

Speaker 5 (01:59:05):
Sky Mike. That means you are up, good sir. Let's
do it.

Speaker 6 (01:59:08):
East Texas Freeway southbound. If I'm looking from Rankin, that's
gonna be at will Clayton Parkway. So wreck here popped
up a few minutes ago. Three left lanes looks like
everybody's okay. That will not back you up plumb from Porter,
but you do have backups from nineteen sixty clear two
forty nine at Luetta. That wreck has gone and it's
back to being the forgotten freeway. I barely have to
talk about you West Sam off your tip line.

Speaker 25 (01:59:30):
It's Tyrone Sky Mike d headed south West Park is
foggy over here, and the right truck with a flat
so it's two police vehicles with a light song trying
to one people.

Speaker 5 (01:59:43):
Boom, that's a banana stick.

Speaker 25 (01:59:44):
I have a blessed Turkey day, all right, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:59:46):
Tyrone makes us happy, Bob, because we love his crazy laugh.
He's known for that go freeway south Bloop. It's Drake
from Texas City. The tip line seven one three two
one two tips.

Speaker 48 (01:59:57):
Dude, gott Mike just got from Tech City to work
around in RG Kirby just about thirty minutes. This drive
is being greater than fine China.

Speaker 5 (02:00:09):
Drake from Texas City.

Speaker 6 (02:00:10):
Put this on your head and we're looking good around
most of our freeway.

Speaker 5 (02:00:14):
Sap lip six ten. You have an extra lane westbound
out that they finished that roadwork around Scott Street.

Speaker 6 (02:00:19):
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (02:00:23):
By the way, If it didn't sound crazy to me,
that crazy laugh, does that mean I run?

Speaker 5 (02:00:29):
I am also crazy? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:00:31):
I mean if this sounds normal to you, and we
love we love Tyrone, don't get me wrong, but yoh,
I know.

Speaker 5 (02:00:37):
And I love it too, and I love that. But
it didn't seem crazy to me.

Speaker 4 (02:00:39):
It seems like exactly how I feel and how I
want to laugh right now.

Speaker 5 (02:00:43):
So I guess I'm there with you. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:00:45):
Jeff Maher at the Weather Channel with one more look
at the forecast this morning, he Jeff.

Speaker 5 (02:00:49):
Yeah, good morning, Bob.

Speaker 23 (02:00:50):
Bob will lift here the next hour or so, and
then during the afternoon, partly to Moulsey. Cloudy and witty.
Is certainly on the warm side, up to eighty three,
the current record highs eighty four set in nineteen eighty nine.
Easy tonight affront may bring in a few isolated showers overnight,
the low drops to fifty nine, and a windy and
cooler Thanksgiving with clouds and a hind here, sixty one
will fall into the mid forties tomorrow night with some
more clouds, and then a clearing trend Friday with a

(02:01:11):
higher sixty. If you're going to be out about this weekend,
you can look forward to sunshine on Saturday and Sunday.
High temperatures each day should eventually top out in the
low to mid sixties.

Speaker 4 (02:01:20):
All right, thank you very much, Jeff. And right now
we're still at nope. We gained a degree sixty four.
Now at your official severe weather station is Radio seven
forty k t RH.

Speaker 5 (02:01:29):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (02:01:32):
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Speaker 4 (02:01:38):
So we've been dealing with Biden inflation for four years now,
roughly Biden Harris inflation, and things are obviously expected to
be much much better when President Trump takes over and
starts establishing common sense policies for the country. But not
every state is interested in that. For example, California, California's

(02:02:02):
gas prices in twenty twenty five are going to increase
costs for every driver in that state by hundreds of
dollars annually, a significant increase in the retail price of gasoline.
The Californians are going to pay at the pump is
expected for twenty twenty five. The projected increase could drive
California's retail gasoline prices to exceed the national average by

(02:02:25):
as much as sixty two percent sixty two percent higher
than the national average by late twenty twenty five. That
increase will, of course, contribute to inflation and every other
element of the economy.

Speaker 5 (02:02:40):
Obviously, anything you buy has.

Speaker 4 (02:02:41):
To be moved from point at to point B, and
the more it costs to move it from point data
point B, the more it costs what it gets to
point B for you.

Speaker 5 (02:02:49):
It adds to the.

Speaker 4 (02:02:50):
Exceptionally high cost of living in California. Only sixteen percent
of the residence there can afford to buy a home.

Speaker 5 (02:02:56):
Think about that.

Speaker 4 (02:02:57):
It has a disproportionate adverse impact on lower income Californians
as well.

Speaker 5 (02:03:01):
But this is what they've chosen.

Speaker 4 (02:03:03):
On November eighth, so just two weeks ago to almost
three weeks ago, the California Air Resources Board passed a
new special blend mandate for California's low carbon fuel standard.
The new standards require that refiners produce and retail gas
stations sell a new California Special blend. In twenty twenty five.
The CARB contends that the new special blend is necessary

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to achieve carbon and methane emission reduction targets and is
consistent with Governor Gavin Newsom's twenty thirty five mandate to
eliminate the sale of internal combustion car sales and twenty
fifty targets. So my point here, be very very thankful
you're living in Texas. Be very very thankful you're living
anywhere other than California. Seriously, President Trump can do a

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lot of different things to help the economy and help
the American consumer, but he can't help all of them,
especially when states have peat leaders like Gavin Newsom doing
their level best to undo any positive games that could
be made by a new federal administration. All right, eight
fifty one, or excuse me, seven to fifty one, got
that time wrong again, Sky, Mike and BROI, what are

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we doing?

Speaker 5 (02:04:11):
We're doing the eastext.

Speaker 6 (02:04:12):
Now, Bob France southbound at Will Clayton Parkway.

Speaker 5 (02:04:15):
Maybe this is getting a little scootch step. It's three
left lanes black.

Speaker 6 (02:04:18):
With the records, it looks like everybody's okay, But it's
a big backup from nineteen sixty clear Crosby Freeway, Senda
Cento Bridge. The backup's gone clear. Two forty nine, Luetta,
the backup's gone there. Chris from Hockley, Hey, Scot.

Speaker 28 (02:04:30):
Mike, there is a barbitue kit left lane down bound
forty five before park Place exit No.

Speaker 5 (02:04:37):
Just in time for the holidays.

Speaker 6 (02:04:38):
That's Golf Freeway right at the Golf Freeway crack after
the loop on the southbound and Bob France. You have
one job today that is to not get caught in
a high speed chase.

Speaker 5 (02:04:47):
I'm filming for Channel thirteen from the air. I have
to show whatever you do, so behave please.

Speaker 6 (02:04:51):
I'm Skymike in the classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (02:04:54):
I will do my love a best to do my job.
Thank you, my good man. Happy Thanksgiving to you, skuy Mike.

Speaker 4 (02:05:00):
All right, final look at the forecast for me anyway,
and it looks very interesting.

Speaker 5 (02:05:06):
I like records, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:05:07):
I mean, I wasn't even a golf fan until Tiger
Woods start started setting a whole bunch of records. I
like seeing records set. It's really cool. We might see
one today calling for a hive about eighty three. The
record was eighty four set in nineteen eighty nine, a
lot of eighties there, and according to what Jeff is
calling for, we could pass that. And in fact, I
think he made that call. We're going to get pasted

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it and hit eighty five. So obviously that's very unseasonably warm.
Overcast tonight, dropping back down into normal temperatures for this
time of the year, low of fifty seven Thanksgiving tomorrow,
looking at party cloudy in sixty two black Friday, about
the same in the low sixties and then mid sixties
over the weekend and then too Monday, and then you
might see rain. Sixty five percent chance of rain coming

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in not until Tuesday, however, right now, sixty four degrees
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k trhy.

Speaker 5 (02:06:00):
We got one more look at the headlines here.

Speaker 7 (02:06:02):
Huh, yes we do, Bob, and happy Thanksgiving to you,
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Speaker 5 (02:06:37):
Our fifty nine inbound at the loop is always a problem.

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Speaker 4 (02:06:44):
Yeah, So just kind of finishing this thought on how
much we have to be thankful for and what we
did on November fifth to really, you know, to help ourselves.
We can thank ourselves. We can thanks seventy six million
voters who who came out of here and said enough
is enough, of the high cost, of the high crime,
of the high immigration and illegal immigration in particular, and

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so forth. So we have a lot to be thankful for.
And again, be thankful you don't live in California. Going
back to the rest of the story there, According to
the CARB that's the California Air Resources Board, by their
own admission, their new special blend that they are mandating
to try to get people out of internal combustion cars

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in into evs could increase the retail price of gasoline
in that state by forty seven cents a gallon California.
Regulatory and legislative actions could conservatively cost the consumer in
California extra two hundred twenty two to four and forty
nine dollars a year for regular grade fuel more for premium,
and that of course just depends on average driving. To

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compensate for the expected increases in retail gas prices, the
average Californian driving an internal combustion vehicle will have to
earn an additional six hundred to one thousand dollars a
year in pre tax income just to break even twenty
twenty four prices, again depending on the grade of gas
that they prefer. So it's quite an astounding thing. And

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why are they doing this? You know why they're doing
this because they continue the climate alarmism grift. That's what
John Carey was doing. John Kerrey, the former Secretary of
State and now full time climate chicken, little and nutsjob,
was speaking on global warming again at a con print
in which he said, so, I think.

Speaker 40 (02:08:25):
Personally we're on the brink of need abe to declare
a climate emergency, which is what we really have, and
we need to get people to behave as if this
really is a major transitional challenge to the whole planet, everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:08:41):
And there, it is, there, it is. It's what they want.
They want to change your behavior. So let's be thankful
that we rejected that. We rejected him, we rejected his party,
we rejected WOCUSM, we rejected all of these things that
we've been suffering for the last four years. So as
you celebrate tomorrow with your family, put politics aside when
you get to the table. Let's everybody be thankful that
we do, indeed have hope on the horizon. Thanks for

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letting me sit in fortunately over the course of the
last three days. Have a blessed Thanksgiving Day, a wonderful weekend,
and I'll talk to you next time right here on
Houston's Morning News.