The Deep State Is Also Going After Tulsi, RFK Jr., and Kash Patel

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/06/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is used Radio seven kat RH Houston Live Everywhere
with now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's more of what matters to you. From the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Good morning, It's five am on a Friday. Here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
as we get started today, Trump named Patriot of the Year,
the Deep State, also going after Tulsi, RFK Junior and
Cash Betel and coming up in five oh eight For
people who want to smell like a dive bar details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. I'm

(00:39):
in first. I don't think you need any of this stuff.
You're already their sky mine.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Let's head to the north side. We'll take her right
in little Chilly, Little Wendy. If your high profile, you know,
like a big rig or whatever. Let's take it easy
this morning, especially on those overpasses. I suspect ship channel
bridges are a little adventurous.

Speaker 6 (00:58):
I got one problem.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
On the east text at southbound and all dmail rock
got to reckon the feeder road. It's a light show.
Main lanes you're getting by it. There's no reason for
the reverend acking. But you got some dumb people in
front of you show watch out for them. I'm Skyline
Atcher Generator, Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather Center,
part of the Callding. Cool today with the high temperature
right about fifty seven. Terry's off today. Jeff Marb will
fill in for her. We'll talk to him about the
weekend forecast in about nine minutes. Temperature right now forty
seven at your officials severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's

(01:34):
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (01:35):
Good morning, Jimmy, and good morning everyone. It's five oh
one on KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
We're going to bring our.

Speaker 8 (01:40):
Country back, and it's going to be bigger and better and.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Stronger than ever before.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
Donald Trump, the President elect, last night named Fox's Patriot
of the Year. This came after he doubled down on
supporting Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hesith, who met with GOP
senators for a third straight and Hegseth is just one
of Trump's cabinets picks that is being targeted by the left.

Speaker 9 (02:06):
Left wing media outlets continue to attack Trump Defense Secretary
nominee Pete Hegseth with unfounded accusations of alcohol abuse and
sexual misconduct. Brightbart editor in chief Alex Marlow on his
podcast warns, this is part of a broader effort.

Speaker 10 (02:19):
Once they feel like the media can run this too,
this Kavanaugh playbook and take out take Seth, then you're.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Going next for Tulsea Gabbert.

Speaker 10 (02:27):
If they'll go for Robert Kennedy, they'll find something not
he said, but his brainworms or something, and then all
of a sudden, we're gonna get to deep.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
State cabin again.

Speaker 9 (02:33):
Haig Seth has found to stay in the running and
says Trump told him to keep fighting. Coreyolson, who's radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (02:40):
Meantime, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami met with lawmakers to
talk about cutting the government. Fat Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt
is on board with those plans.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
This is what President Trump wants.

Speaker 11 (02:52):
The American people gave him a mandate to streamline our
federal government and to get away from status quo and
business as usual.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
One area that two are focusing on is federal workers
who still work from home after COVID fireworks at the
last hearing of the task Force investigating the assassination on
Trump in Pennsylvania, Texas Congressman Pat Fallon accused Acting Secret
Service Director Ronald Row of grant standing at a September

(03:22):
eleventh memorial.

Speaker 12 (03:23):
I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going
through the ashes of the Royld Trade Center. I was
there at Fresh Kills.

Speaker 13 (03:31):
I'm not asking you that come in shok to show respect,
not for a secret Service.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
The task Force, by the way, will release its final
report next week. Five h three on KGRH. Still no
arrest in the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
in New York, but cops there know more about the
person they're looking for.

Speaker 14 (03:55):
New video appears to show the alleged killer walking toward
the Hilton Hotel well in Midtown Manhattan, where the United
Healthcare CEO was murdered. In YPD sources tel Fox News
that the suspect wrote a Greyhound bus to New York
City from Atlanta the day before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 7 (04:12):
That is Christina Coleman reporting here at home. A man
wanted for murder is arrested after a three hour long
standoff at a Baytown motel and an inmate who escaped
custody at the Harrison County Processing Center is back in jail.
Eugene Douglas got away from the parking garage while being
escorted by officers. Coming up on five oh five, Texas

(04:35):
Republicans will vote tomorrow selecting a nominee for Speaker of
the House. Incumbent Date Feelin loses yet another backer.

Speaker 15 (04:42):
David Spiller, a member who has been an ally historically
of date feeling, coming out and saying he can't support him.
He doesn't want to see Democrats in charge like Dave
Felon has supported, and he's going to be supporting Feelin's
challenger David Cook.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
Elsewhere in Austin, Texas, Lieutenant Or read by the death
Brandon Waltons with Texas score card. Elsewhere in Austin, Texas,
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announced that the Senate will push
for a full ban of all THHC products.

Speaker 16 (05:09):
This could be an attempt to clear up some of
the gray areas in Texas's THHC laws come up.

Speaker 17 (05:14):
It's not quite legal, but not quite illegal, and today
is showing a clear, unmistakable line in the sand that
says Nope, We're just not going.

Speaker 15 (05:21):
To do it.

Speaker 16 (05:22):
Political consultant Bill Miller told ktr H Patrick might be
able to pass this in the Senate, but the House
is another question.

Speaker 17 (05:28):
He's smart enough to know if you want something done,
he's going to have to work with the House. In
my opinion, the House is not going to buy a
complete ban.

Speaker 16 (05:36):
Miller says Patrick is likely just using this as a
starting point for negotiations and the end result will just
be tighter regulation. Ethan Beginnon News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
It's now five oh six.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
A canro Id teacher is on leave this morning after
banning students from using the restroom at Bartlett Elementary School.

Speaker 18 (05:55):
Some people were crying to death to go to his bestroom.

Speaker 7 (05:59):
That'shall was talking to our TV partner channel to the district.
Told parents that the class affected will have a substitute
until it completes its investigation. Despite a decade long drop
in people identifying as Christian, sales of the Bible are
up compared to this time a year ago.

Speaker 19 (06:17):
It is ultimately the foundation of our American civil law
or moral code. So I think a lot of people,
it seems like, are reaching out to find that anchor
back into their lives. Hopefully will encourage more churches than
pastors to be preaching from that word rather than telling stories.

Speaker 7 (06:32):
Dave Welch with the Texas Pastor Council says, young people
and first time buyers are using the Bible to try
and overcome anxiety and the other issues they face. Five
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Speaker 20 (06:54):
With another says doctor, the same one that there too.
She told us that I had a tumor encapsulate inside
of my eye and that's when everything started.

Speaker 7 (07:05):
Last year's radio thon raised more than a million dollars.
Jimmy will have a lot more information on this throughout
the show, and the Rockets loose to the Warriors last
like Mass Night rather ninety nine to ninety three. I'm
Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Make your season more sir, with the latest news, traffic
and weather.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
News Radio KTRH five.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
All wait to time here in Houston's Morning News. All right,
who wants to smell like a like a dive bar?
What does the dive bar smell like? I assume it
smells like what like stale beer? Maybe a little hint
of peanuts cigarette butts, although maybe not as bunch of
cigarette butts anymore. Meller High Life is releasing their High

(07:58):
Life Dive Bar Fume, a perfume meant to evoke the
sense of beer barstools. What's barstools smell like? I guess
it depends on who sat on it. Beer barstools, greasy food,
and everything else that can be found at your preferred
die bar watering hole. The perfume combines notes of cedar

(08:19):
wood and petuli patuli to evoke a bar counter, tobacco
and leather for a well used barstool, Champka blossom to
mimic a Miller High Life beer, and sea salt for
the basket of fries you look forward to at the
end of the night. I think they did this last year,

(08:42):
didn't they. It's only available through Today selling retail for
sixty bucks online, available in limited qualities. Customers supposed to
be at least twenty one years old to purchase it
what I know you you have to be twenty one
to purchase alcohol, but why do you have to be
twenty one to smell like a die bar? The final
release will be December the sixth at twelve noon, so

(09:03):
that's today twelve noon Eastern time, eleven am Central. So
if you want to try to get online and get some,
today would be the day to do at five to
ten time for traffic and weather together at.

Speaker 6 (09:15):
The smell of knockoff perfumes.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, they do, they They did include that little greasy hair.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
I think this weekend I might be seen.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
And we won't mention the name of any particular communities
on our map, but I think some of you have
seen me out there.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
Keep tunk women, All.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
Right, let's do some east side. Let's let's check out
it in east here. We're coming from Mott Bellevue. No
honky tonk women there. It's all bougie there, Graham Parkway.
Look at that new HB coming in across the river bridge.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
It's new to me.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
Now into downtown from Chevron Phillips. That's an easy rock
and ride in twenty six minutes. Here flip over to
the two twenty five side of the Channel and coming
off the Heartmemb Bridge.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
We're in good shape here one forty six.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Those scooches there kind of smells funny at six and
Hartman's good. You look great both someways from Baytown to
Laporte toll Bridge rocks along.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
Now six to ten both ways.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Terry Smith told me that we would have a Schoenburg
festival this morning with her going, and I'm like, Kerry,
you're not supposed to know what that means. I'm SKYMIKEE
on the Generator Supercenter, dot Com, Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
PROBA r KTRH, Top Tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Jeff mars In for Terry. Today's got the forecast for
the weekend. Starting off kind of cool here, Jeff.

Speaker 21 (10:25):
Definitely cooler than yesterday when we hit a high sixty nine.
Today that'll only hit the mid fifties. We'll start off
with some clouds and then some subtle breakthrough into the
afternoon with a light breeze out of the northeast. Clouds
will fill an overnight and we have an isolated shower
thunderstorm popping up late with a low of forty five,
and then for Saturday, cloud he stole on the cool
side with a few scattered showers and thunderstorms at a
high fifty five, and it will be a wet end

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of the weekend. Off Sunday, a front's going to bring
in some showers and thunderstorms. At least temperatures will get
warmer on Sunday with the high sixty seven. We'll dry
out on Monday with sunshine at hind the mid seventies.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Right down forty six at your official severe weather station
news ready k t RH. This is what it's going
to be like for for a lot of the cabinet
nominees from Donald Trump. You know, kick him when they're up,
kicking when they're down, try to destroy them. You can
tell by the reporter's questions. Jesse Pete hegseth. Once he

(11:16):
made that decision to fight back, and once he got
the support of Donald Trump in fighting back, you can
tell that he's not putting up with any of this stuff.
So he met with senators yesterday, and of course the
reporters were all there, The TV reporters were all there
to ambush him afterwards. Here's how that conversation went. This
is how strong this guy is.

Speaker 22 (11:36):
The release, Well, we support the release of the whistleble
report of the concern.

Speaker 23 (11:39):
It's interesting what the press likes to dub a whistleblower report,
which some others might clarify as a email from a
struntly employee one.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
So, just for the release of on the yourtue of alcohol,
We've had.

Speaker 24 (11:56):
Great conversations about who I am and what I've leave
and frankly, the man I am today because of my
faith in my Lord and save for Jesus Christ and
my incredible wife Jenny right.

Speaker 25 (12:08):
Here, I'm a different man than I was years ago.

Speaker 26 (12:11):
And that's a redemption story that I think a lot
of Americans appreciate, and I know from fellow vets that
I've spent time with.

Speaker 25 (12:18):
They resonate with that as well.

Speaker 26 (12:19):
You fight, you go do tough things in tough places
on the behalf of your country, and sometimes.

Speaker 25 (12:24):
That changes you a little bit.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
And by the grace of God.

Speaker 24 (12:27):
And my Lord and Savor, I had an opportunity to
come on up out of it and do great.

Speaker 27 (12:31):
Things with great veterans organizations that fought for vets, that
fought for reform at the VA and for war fighters,
and at the Fox News Channel to advocate for those
various causes, and I'm proud of what I fought for.

Speaker 26 (12:42):
I'm not going to back down from them one bit.
I will answer all of these senators questions, but this
will not.

Speaker 6 (12:47):
Be a process tried in the media.

Speaker 26 (12:50):
I don't answer to anyone in this group, none of you,
not to that camera at all.

Speaker 25 (12:55):
I answered to President Trump, who.

Speaker 26 (12:57):
Received seventy six million votes half and a mandate for change.

Speaker 25 (13:02):
I answered to the fifty to.

Speaker 26 (13:03):
One hundred senators who are part of this process, and
those in the committee.

Speaker 25 (13:07):
And I answer to my Lord and Savior, and my
wife and my family. I'm proud to be here.

Speaker 26 (13:12):
As long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight,
I'm going to be standing right here in this fight,
fighting to bring our pentagon back to what it needs
to be.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Woo, that's straw. How nervous do you think he made
those reporters when he brought up Jesus Christ, not once,
not twice, but three times. He really you know, I'm
glad you addressed the alcohol thing. I think he pretty
much admitted, Yeah, there's a time when I drank too much.
You know, I severed a little PTSD. Maybe you know
a lot of people came back from war were changed,

(13:42):
but I am a change man from that. That's not
the guy I am today. I thought that was very
well handled. Five twenty time for traffic and weather together.
But we're checking out the drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 6 (13:52):
All right, it's East text Freeway.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
Now, I do have this wreck on the feeder road
at all dmail route, but it's just the feeder, it's
not the main lanes.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
MIC's on the main onesday.

Speaker 10 (14:01):
Eilke coming out of bubble and to downtown is actually
nice and smooth.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
You all have a great day, all right, thank you brother,
And you'd be safe ubering around here if you're going
on the North Freeway Rock and long Woodlands twenty two
minutes Harding twelve road show all the way down Patrick
from West Park with the quote of the day yesterday.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
I'm hanging onto this.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Get moving on the lane seven one three two one
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Speaker 3 (14:28):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center.
For today, we are looking at partly cloudy, cool conditions,
high temperature somewhere around fifty five to fifty seven, so
it's gonna be pretty cool all day today, clotty and
cold tomorrow. Couple of showers fifty three. Sunday off and
on showers fifty percent chance with the high temperature about
sixty five. Current temperature is forty six. At your officials

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Check out some of our top Friday morning stories. Here's
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Speaker 7 (15:00):
NBC reports that the incoming Trump team will deport illegal
aliens even if their home countries refuse them. The Biden
administration concenes a Texas lawsuit that was filed against blocking
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Speaker 6 (15:34):
Never sounded so good.

Speaker 15 (15:37):
All right.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Last day yesterday of testimony at the Trump assassination attempt
hearings in front of Congress, and it was explosive, this
might be I'm leading with my aces here this morning.
This might be this might be one of the most
explosive cuts I've played in a long long time. What
it is is the acting United States Secret Service Director

(15:59):
Robert Rowe getting into a shining match with Texas Congressman
Pat Fallon. So a little set up on that and
then you'll hear these two go off against each other.
And what set the whole thing off.

Speaker 28 (16:13):
Pat Fallon said, Ronald Rowe got in this picture at
ground zero on nine to eleven out of vanity. Fallon says,
Roe wants to become the full time Secret Service director.
So he stood close to President Biden, Vice President Harris,
and President Electrump.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
Congressman.

Speaker 12 (16:28):
What you're not seeing is the sack of the detail
off out of the pictures view. And that is the
day where we remember the more than three thousand people
that have died on nine to eleven. I actually responded
to ground zero. I was there going through the ashes
of the Royal Trade Center. I was there at fresh Kiels.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
I'm not asking you that, and the respect for he
died on not know that you're trying to be not
invoke nine.

Speaker 12 (17:01):
To eleven for political purposes.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
I'm not. I'm invoking this, sir, out of that moment
to ask him least me and don't worry Holy me.

Speaker 13 (17:13):
Elected member of Commerce, and I'm asking you a serious question,
and you are I am a public servant who has served.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
This nation, and you won't time questions.

Speaker 12 (17:21):
On our day, on our countries, darkness.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Mister will come to mine, will.

Speaker 13 (17:26):
Come to or asking you serious questions for the American people,
and they're very simple, they're not true questions.

Speaker 6 (17:31):
Were you the special agent in charge that I wasn't?

Speaker 13 (17:33):
I was there representing service, mister, not perfect protective operation.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
You expired because you want to be visible, because you
aren't listening for this.

Speaker 12 (17:44):
For a fallen member of this agency.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
President out of line.

Speaker 13 (17:48):
Libressman, vice president out of his life because you are
putting you put those agents out of positions.

Speaker 21 (17:54):
Radio mister balls did sir and you were out of line?

Speaker 6 (18:00):
Chairman, mister chairman take mister chairman. Wo yes, sir, yes right,
we're back order. Now, we're back in order. Now are
thank you? Are we back in order now?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
I've seen a few shouting matches in Congress, I've never
seen anything quite at that level. I mean, that was,
I mean just amazing. Basically what you have here is
you have a sitting member of Congress who's accusing Robert Road,
the acting US Sacred Service Director, of posing for a
photo op at nine to eleven because he's trying to
jockey around and get in good favors so he can

(18:34):
keep his position as the Director of Sacred Service. And
evidently Congressman Pat Fallon ain't having none of that. Five
twenty six. Time to take a look at your money,
Jeff Ellinger, are you in this morning again?

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Yes?

Speaker 29 (18:48):
I am, Jimmy. Good morning, and happy Friday. It's an
employment report.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Friday.

Speaker 29 (18:53):
Stocks pulled back ahead of this key labor department data
coming out this morning. Major averages closed at record highs
on when they had modest losses yesterday. The latest thinking
among economists is that about two hundred and twenty thousand
workers were added to pay rolls in November. Sales of
beauty products and intimate apparel were strong at start of
the holiday shopping season. All to Beauty and Victorious Secret

(19:16):
both posted better than expected quarterly results. After the markets
closed yesterday, futures pointing a little lower right now. I'm
Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 30 (19:30):
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This is News Radio seven forty KTRH five Everywhere with
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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

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By thirty is our time here in Houston's Pony News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this are Hurtcott
worried about a winter deep freeze, Let the oil and
gas revival begin? And coming up at five thirty eight,
the twenty five pantone Color of the Year details and
the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Morning News. First, we're

(20:07):
checking out that morning drive with Skymike.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
All right, Visors, Arlene asked me yesterday, who are the visors?
Visors are the.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
People that have to come in from the west sides.
Either're flipping down their advisors. Let's do some Katie Freeway,
Katie Mills, mall, we look good.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Let's go back further Brookshire. Look at you go.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Looks like we're chill axing now from the Brasis River
into Grand Parkway. Grand Parkway ins looking good so far.
Twenty six minutes to the President's heads. If you're doing
the Southwest Freeway. You're having a stress free morning. From
the Brass River again, past the fountains, over the hills
into the downtown Canyon and we're looking like twenty four minutes.
Rest of your freeways rock except the East ex All

(20:44):
Dean Mail. There's a wreck at the feeder inbound, not
affecting mainlanes. Skymike and the Classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
From our katrh Generators Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center party,
Claude cool with the height today about fifty seven. Jeff
Mars at the weather Channel, filling in for Terry. We'll
talk to him again about the weekend forecast in about
eight minutes. Temperature right now forty six at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH signed out

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for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 7 (21:13):
Thank you, Jimmy five thirty two on KTRH top story
with the weather finally getting cold or caught. Meteorologist Chris
Coleman warned this week that Texas could see a deep
freeze this winter, but weather rising the grid after the
freeze three years ago the way Texas did could prevent
mass outages again.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
What we would see now compared to winderstorm URI is
the ability to have rotating outages rather than very long
outages for days at a time.

Speaker 7 (21:46):
The energy attorney Michael Jewele says even those rolling blackouts
are unlikely thanks to this winterization and ahead of heavy
rain expected this weekend, Governor Greg Abbott activates the state's
emergency response resources for potential flash flooding in parts of
East and southeast Texas five.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
Point thirty three.

Speaker 7 (22:04):
The American oil and gas industry is eagerly awaiting the
start of the second Donald Trump administration.

Speaker 31 (22:11):
Trump's energy policies are coming back in and the Biden
administration is heading out the door.

Speaker 32 (22:16):
The American people, I think that what they have to
be most thankful for this Thanksgiving is that this administration
is on the way out.

Speaker 31 (22:23):
Heritage Foundation economist E. J. And Toni says, a lot
of red tape is about to be cut.

Speaker 32 (22:27):
If you can get rid of that excess taxation and regulation,
you actually could increase production relatively quickly because a lot
of the infrastructure is already there, it's just not being used.

Speaker 31 (22:38):
Trump hopes to increase oil production in the US in
order to bring down energy costs. Chart Lewis News Radio
seven forty khrh and oil prices dropped to undred sixty
eight dollars a barrel this morning. Is Opec plus delayed
increasing their output until April and the extended production cuts
into twenty twenty six. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami met

(22:59):
with senators in Washington yesterday, laying out their version of
trimming the fat from the federal government.

Speaker 33 (23:06):
We have to in Congress. We have to get rid
of the waste. We've had a two percent increase in
our population in five years and over a fifty percent
increase in spending.

Speaker 34 (23:15):
That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
Florida Senator Rick Scott with KT reach as Sean Hennity
also on Capitol Hill yesterday, and battle Defense Secretary nominee
Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 26 (23:25):
I'm proud to be here, and as long as Donald
Trump wants me in this fight, I'm going to be
standing right here in this fight, fighting to bring our
Pentagon back to.

Speaker 25 (23:33):
What it needs to be.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
You'll hear from the President elect. By the way, at
six o'clock.

Speaker 7 (23:38):
Trump added to his border security team yesterday, naming former
Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott to lead CBP and this
comes amid an uptick of humans smuggling at the Texas border.

Speaker 35 (23:50):
It's a smuggler's paradise with a new sense of urgency
for migrants to cross before the Trump administration begins to
crack down and cartels our capitalized with higher prices. Texas
DPS apprehending eighteen migrants in this vehicle who paid smugglers
far more than the going rate of three to eight
thousand dollars ahead.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
That is Fox's Griff Jenkins Inagle Pass. It's now five
point thirty five. Well, this should not surprise you at all.
New polling done after the election finds that most Americans
believe the media is biased.

Speaker 36 (24:23):
According to a new Pew Research survey, it's nearly three
quarters of the public.

Speaker 37 (24:29):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's a pretty large number.
It's not entirely surprising to me.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
That's Curtis how with the Media Research Center.

Speaker 37 (24:38):
When you see numbers as staggering as this about three
quarters of Americans thinking you're biased, you might want to
look at yourself in the mirror.

Speaker 36 (24:47):
Sadly, he says, the mainstream media is doubling down on
their liberal bias.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty K, t or H
and Jeff Looking at Your Money. Bitcoin is back below
ninety eight thousand dollars this morning, after hitting a record
high of one hundred three thousand this week. Money and
business expert Derek Kinney says Donald Trump's reelection led to
the surge as new waves of deregulation are expected, but

(25:14):
there's a hitch.

Speaker 38 (25:15):
What Trump has done for crypto will this have the
same positive effect when tariffs kick in on various products.
There are some analysts that are very nervous about the
impact that teriffs might have.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
He says bitcoin is a good investment because it's removed
from the dollar. Markets are flatten overnight trading ahead of
the November jobs report coming out at seven point thirty.
The economy added just twelve thousand jobs in October. New
research shows that twenty percent of Gen Z workers plan
to leave healthcare within the next three years. Some label

(25:48):
that generation as lazy, but the results of the twenty
twenty four health Care Employment Trends report shows that the
biggest reason given for leaving was an unhealthy work environment.

Speaker 39 (26:00):
I think a call to action for the healthcare industry,
for hospitals and medical companies to look at the way
that they are treating their most valuable asset, treating their people.

Speaker 7 (26:11):
Forbes is Chris we Westfield warns that we could see
a shortage of healthcare workers that was worse than the
one we had during COVID. It's now five point thirty seven.
Today is the final day to join KTRH and our
other iHeart radio stations in Houston and this year's Saint
Jude Children's Hospital Radio soon.

Speaker 40 (26:29):
Last week in the NFL was the Cleats for a Cause.
His Cleats for a Cause was the Saint Jude Mission,
and he spoke of the bullet He talked all about
the importance of getting ahead of diseases.

Speaker 7 (26:43):
That's Iheart's Mark Sherman. Jimmy will have more on how
you can become a partner in hope throughout the morning.
The radiothon today starts at six and in college football,
UT plays Georgia and the SEC Championship game Tomorrow. Coverage
starts at two o'clock on Sports Talk seven ninety and
I'm Cliffs on Houston's news weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
You like free stuff. We all like free stuff.

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Guess what our iHeartRadio app is free and free never
sounded so good.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Oh five their time? Why is he playing a song
about poop? Well, because Pantone has come out with their
twenty twenty five color of the Year, and that's what
it looks like to me. They don't call it poop brown,
but it looks like poop brown. It's Mocha moose.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Now.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
I guess Pantone comes out with these shades of colors
because they think this is the next big hot color
that you're gonna want to paint your house or whatever.
I can't. I don't know about you. I'm not really
into really dark colors. This is a very dark brown,
which would not be a kind of color I would
want to probably pink, maybe more than an accent ball
or something. Last year, I think last year's was a

(27:56):
neon green, and they're also sort of a watermelon. Pink
has been big, but now they're going in the other direction.
Here's here's by the way, here's how Pantone describes their
their color. Mocha Mouse is a serene, lightly pigmented color.
It's a mellow brown infused with a sensorial and comforting warmth,

(28:20):
and it looks like poop. Five time for traffic and
mothers about being a hispanic. What's that ever?

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Paint things like poop? We use all colors, just put
them all together.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
I don't care. And very bright colors. Used a lot
of colors. And we like shiny stuff too. Yeah, that's too.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
I got shiny stuff on the East Text now inbound
at all the email route southbound in the feeder road.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
I hope everybody's okay.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
There sure are a lot of responders in this, but
they didn't walk the whole thing. That's a good sign.
They also didn't respond on the mainlines. That's another good sign.
I'm seeing some revernecking too. I don't know why this
is East text. So if you're coming down from the yeah, wait,
just watch out for other stations. Listeners two eighty eight
southbound at Airport. I question that heavy truck stall. It
just pops up on their screen all the time.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
I wouldn't worry about it. Northbound. Oh look, Stephen, if
i's been looking happy this morning.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
We're in good shape northbound all the way from Angleton
up into downtown the canyon so far.

Speaker 6 (29:18):
This is northbound.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Skymike on the Classic Buick GMC Traffic Center from R
ktr H Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center
Jeff mar In for terry today, very very early winter
like temperatures when we don't get out of the fifties,
that feels more like January.

Speaker 21 (29:33):
Yeah, we'll stay in the fifties for a high tomorrow,
then a lot warmer heading into Sunday and Monday.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
In the meantime, Know you're right, it is going to
be cool.

Speaker 21 (29:40):
If you're about to head out, We'll start off with
some clouds, then some said will break through to the afternoon.
The high today only around fifty six, and then tonight
at increase in cloud cover with a slight chance for
a shower thunderstorm overnight as the load drops down to
forty five. Tomorrow, clouds and also scattered showers and thunderstorms.
So cool the heighth your fifty five warmer weather on Sunday,
but still wet a showers and thunderstorms pushed through a
long and in the high hit sixty seven. That a

(30:02):
trier Monday to start the week with sunshine and high
in the mid seventies. Jump at your right now forty
five at your official severe weather station News Radio seven
forty k TRH by forty eight is our time here
in Houston's Morning News. Well, hopefully the first cut that
they doge Group Banks is going to be a big one.
I think the question becomes, though, how how confident are

(30:24):
we that we will actually see some serious cuts going
on that they will actually end up making cuts. Will
they be able to do things without Congressional approval, because
you know Congress will probably fight them at least part
of the way. Here's Senator Ran Paul after yesterday's meeting

(30:47):
with the Vek and Elon feeling optimistic.

Speaker 41 (30:50):
And where Vivek and Elon Musk bring power is by
drawing attention to this.

Speaker 6 (30:56):
I think they'll also be able to do.

Speaker 41 (30:57):
Things by executive action within the administration, like no longer
hiring people, having a hiring freeze, having people work in person.
I know that sounds really harsh, but making people.

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Show up for their jobs.

Speaker 41 (31:10):
All those things can be done by executive action. Repealing
regulations can be done by executive action. Repealing regulations can
come by rewriting regulations and having US vote to repeal
the new regulations as well. There's all kinds of good
things that can happen on the spending front. There's a
way that the executive branch can do something called recision.

(31:31):
So if we send a billion dollars over there to
build a ship, and the government builds it for eight
hundred million, they have two hundred million left over, they
can do It's called recision.

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Send it back to Congress.

Speaker 41 (31:41):
It gets a simple vote, a simple majority, a privileged vote,
And if all the Republicans will stick together, we can
cut hundreds of billions of dollars of spending. Can we
get to two trillion? That may be optimistic, but I'm
all forgetting there because that actually equals the deficit. Our
deficit each year is to trill.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
You what though, that that surmises that there are savings
to be found, and that that government agencies don't spend
every punty they get. I hope that's the case. I
hope that you know, they're actually building an eight hundred
million dollars ship instead of you know, budgeting one billion
having I hope they have two hundred million dollars left
over that they can, you know, give back five poin
fifty time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
It's two lifestyles of the rich and famous. Why not
sky Mike, all.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Right, we're gonna go to Dow Freeport where all the
rich people work. And uh, well, you have to work
at Dow to afford the tollings on two eighty eight.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
And we look good now if you're going down to
work three thirty two.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
No issues here to eighty eight, and there's business to
eighty eight too, if you just like to take them backway,
but main lanes two eighty eight. There's Steven at Foston.
That's why he's still standing there. He can't afford the tollings.
But North Founty's very happy. We're looking twenty two minutes
from mamble Up. I love hearing from Brazoria County High
seven three two one two tips.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
Tell me how you're doing in Brasoria County this morning.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
I always like to hear about Highway six Alvin all
the way up to sugar Land. We look good so
far from what I can see Go Freeway, the eternal
road construction from Bayou Vista.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
Up to the bottom of Dickinson. We look good, though.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
We're twenty one minutes from clearly ken Well check ship
Channel bridges at six in the classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center
for today, partly cloudy, cool, looks like about fifty six,
cloudy cold, a couple of showers fifty five for tomorrow
and then Sunday off and on showers, fifty percent chance
high temperature warming up a little bit to about sixty seven.
Temperature currently is forty five. At your officials Severe Weather
Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Check out some of

(33:40):
our top trending stories this morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.
We're brought to you by DNM autolyasing President alike. Donald
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You're reliable forecast Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.
It's the giving season and we're trying to give as
much as we can to Saint Jude Trildan's Research Hospital.
Five point fifty two is our time here on Houston's
Morning News. Our next guest, former patient. I actually talked
to her on my afternoon show on KPRC yesterday, So

(34:32):
this is gonna be deja vous all over again for you, Diana.
Good morning, he welcome back. I'm trying to think if
there's anything I didn't ask you yesterday. No, I don't
think there is. But by we learned yesterday that this
beautiful young woman just graduate from college. She's a communications major,
so she's gunning for my job here in a couple
of years. And I told her that's fine, if you

(34:53):
wait two or three years, I'll let you have my job,
or you at least can go for my job. But
one of the things that kind of struck me about
what you say said yesterday as we went through the
timeline of your leukemia diagnosis and staying in Sat. June
Children's Research Hospital, what really struck me about that is
just how positive you still are about the experience. Now, granted,

(35:16):
everything worked out well and you're cured and and that's
a beautiful thing. But I got the impression during the
whole treatment process that you were always very positive.

Speaker 6 (35:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 42 (35:26):
I think that's one of the things that helped me.
I was able to stay positive. I may have a
little bit of a dark humor now, but and liger
and scheme. I was always positive to the point where
if I was in making jokes or making silly comments

(35:46):
to my doctors, they would be like, are you okay?

Speaker 38 (35:50):
Do you want to lay down?

Speaker 42 (35:51):
Do you want do you want to liberal Nacha Medicine
like are you okay?

Speaker 3 (35:56):
I get the impression that the staff is St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital pretty much the same way. They kind
of force you into that positivity, don't they.

Speaker 42 (36:04):
They do they really do.

Speaker 43 (36:06):
Between doctors, nurses, which you know would be your first yes,
they tried to keep you positive. But then there's the
stuff cafeteria, there's your child life specialists, your social workers,
your teacher, which you know, every single person, even just

(36:32):
the gift shop people take every single person there is.
Their goal is to help you stay better and to
help you keep a positive attitude.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Yeah, and that's gonna be hard. I don't know how
they do it, to be quite honest with you, It's
got to be a very hard thing because you see
a lot of sick kids, and you know that always
makes you sad, but they just remain positive all the time.
I noted too that one of the things that we
talked about yesterdays, you came to Saint Jude, Honduras when
you were a young teen. So you came here not
knowing the language, not not knowing the city of Memphis,

(37:07):
not knowing, not really knowing anybody other than your parents
they came along. How how did they help me with
that transition?

Speaker 42 (37:14):
Well, it was my parents as my older sister, So
they definitely were a major aspect in me saying positive.
And you know, they helped me and I I didn't
even know, because they helped me in every single aspect
on saying positive, keeping staying in contact with my friends

(37:39):
back at home, education.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
If you were educated while you were here, all those things.

Speaker 42 (37:46):
Yeah, all of that, they they were making sure that
I had that. And you know, my family was always
there supporting me. And I mean my parents quit their jobs.
My sister was in college, so she had to drop out.
And because they told us a few years and so

(38:07):
we came here. My dad sound was able to find
a job over here, and that was a blessing. But
in the time that we were kind of a limbo,
they were able to, you know, be here and support me.
I would not have been able to stay as strong
as I did without my family with me, and that
wouldn't have been possible at all without saying Jude.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
And of course, the most important thing of all this is,
you know, when you go through a treatment like you did,
you know, over four years worth of chemotherapy and the
bone marrow transplant, all the things that go along with that,
the expenses involved, you don't have to pay. You never
had to pay for any of those things, and they
would who knows how how expensive that would have been
hundreds of thousands of dollars at a traditional hospital.

Speaker 6 (38:47):
Millions, Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 42 (38:48):
Millions, Diana, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
We're so happy you're doing so well, and thank you
again for joining us this morning. Again, if you would
like to donate, we're gonna open up the phone lines
here in about three minutes. By the way, our Saint
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Speaker 6 (39:30):
Six a m. Is our time.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
You're in Houston's morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our
top stories. This f our Trump named Patriot of the
Year the Deep States. Also going after Tulsi and RFK
Junior in Cash Betel and coming up at six oh
eight Day two of our Saint Jude Radiothon sponsored by
Gallery Furniture and did a teacher ever take a bathroom
pass away from you? Details in the minutes ahead. You're

(39:54):
in Houston's Bording News. First think yes, guy Mike, I'm
thinking I've I think he or she probably did.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
All right, So Tammy from TV just texted me.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
She's like, guy, Mike, what is going on on the east?
Text all the email right Cauch. You know she talks
like that there's this is not a wreck.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
There's something doing in that building right there. Jump in.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
Joe's working with those two dinosaur farts across the street.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
Let that birthday thing die. Something's up in that building
and I'm not sure what.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
Maybe you could see it. Send me a picture. I'm
easy to find on social media. The bottom line is
they've shut down part of the feeder here main lanes.
They're slowing down because it's kind of interesting, so just
watch out for other people hitting their brakes after the
belt Way southbound Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com
traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
From our KTRH top tax devenders twenty four hour weather center.
Partly clouding, cool today with the high temperature right about
fifty six. We're gonna warm up by Sunday with some
showers returning by the end of the weekend. We'll get
all the furtnite details. We talked to Jeff mar In
for Terry at the Weather Channel. In eight minutes right
down forty five at your official severe weather station, News

(40:57):
Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Saunders, Thank.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
You, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (41:02):
Good morning everybody, six zero two on ktr H. We're
sponsored by all Star Construction. Our top story.

Speaker 8 (41:08):
It's going to be better than ever before. It's going
to be more successful than ever before.

Speaker 7 (41:16):
Donald Trump at the Patriot Awards last night, named Fox's
Patriot of the Year. In fact, he also went on
to social media to support Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth was on Capitol Hill yesterday for a third straight day,
as the main street media continues to pick apart his
personal life. Wright Bart's Alex Marlow says Hexseth is a

(41:38):
litmus trust for Trump.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
If Hegseeth does not make it, it's not.

Speaker 10 (41:42):
The end of the world. There are other people who
could do this job. But it's really important once Trump
makes up his mind that he gets to Bbly wants.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
That's the principle.

Speaker 10 (41:50):
That's what America voted for, and we cannot be in
a spotward caving to the establishment media.

Speaker 7 (41:54):
He warns that rhinos and the deep State are also
targeting Tulsea Gabbert, Cash Patel, and RFK June Year, Elon
Musk and Vivek Ramaswami brought Doge to the Capitol yesterday,
and Texas Senator John Cornyn liked what he heard.

Speaker 44 (42:09):
They're going to raise the visibility of a lot of
these things that, frankly have needed to be dealt with
for a long time, but we just haven't had the
energy behind or the visibility of these issues.

Speaker 7 (42:21):
Musk says he could cut two trillion dollars from the
federal budget. Also on the Hill, a blow up during
the House hearing on the Trump assassination attempt in July,
Texas Congressman Pat Fallon accused the Acting Secret Service Director
Ronald Row of grand standing and am memorial last September eleventh, he.

Speaker 11 (42:41):
Owes us, he os President Trump, He owes America a
huge mea kolpa. He should not be arguing with us
because the only thing that we want our answers to
that failure.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
Texas Congressman well Wesley Hunt's reaction with KTRH is sean hennity.
The task force releases its final report next week, coming
up on six oh four. In New York City, continue
to hunt for the man who shot and killed United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but they're learning more more about
the killer.

Speaker 45 (43:09):
Fox News Digital obtaining surveillance video from Adeli near the
scene of the murder, capturing the suspected gunman walking towards
the Midtown Hilton less than an hour before the targeted shooting.
The police sources now revealing the suspect arrived in the city
more than a week ago on a Greyhound bus from
Atlanta before checking into a hostel and using a fake ID,

(43:29):
paying in cash, police sources saying he shared a room
there with at least two other men.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
Fox's Chanty Painter. There more violent crime here at home.
A man shot and killed yesterday in a suspected road
rage incident in Southeast Houston, and another example of bond
reform fail, Jesse Leo, with multiple convictions, got a pr
bond after a drug arrest. Last Friday, he allegedly stabbed
his wife and her friend to death in Santa Sentos

(43:57):
in rather Instacento City.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
Coming up on six h.

Speaker 7 (44:00):
Five, well on the eve of the House Republican caucus
to select a nominee for Speaker, Dade Feelin has lost
a couple of more allies.

Speaker 36 (44:10):
As Brandon Walton's with Texas scorecard tells k TRH State
reps David Spiller and Trent Ashby are the latest who
are not feeling feeling.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
They're tired of the drama.

Speaker 15 (44:23):
They've seen what happened to a lot of their colleagues
and the primaries. They don't like it and they want
to change and with.

Speaker 36 (44:29):
The new losses, feeling might be cooked.

Speaker 15 (44:32):
Right now, Dave Dylan doesn't have the votes to be
the Republican nominee for Speaker of the House.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
However, David Cook is close.

Speaker 36 (44:40):
The final vote for a speaker will take place on
January fourteenth. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k t E, Thank.

Speaker 6 (44:48):
You, Jeff.

Speaker 7 (44:48):
Elsewhere in Austin, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says he'll push
for a complete ban on THCHC products in the state,
but can he actually get it.

Speaker 17 (44:57):
I think this is just going to lead to tightening
regulations in a very specific way to prohibit certain things
that are going on that maybe are outside the bounce
of the law.

Speaker 7 (45:07):
Political strategist Bill Miller told KTRH that while Patrick could
get it through the Senate, a full man probably wouldn't
make it through the House. It's now six oh six
this morning. A Conroe ISD teacher is on leave after
preventing students from using the bathroom at Bartlett Elementary School.
In an email to parents, the district says that the

(45:28):
kids will have a substitute teacher until an investigation is completed.
This is something Jimmy hit on earlier this week. Bible sales,
they are up compared to this time last year. More
young people and first time readers are going to the
Bible for answers.

Speaker 19 (45:44):
People know that it's a timeless source of truth, that
the sources of comfort, encouragement, and hope and inspiration for
generations now.

Speaker 31 (45:52):
President of the Texas Pastor Council, Dave Welch says reading
the Bible is a great way to try and ease
your fears and anxiety.

Speaker 19 (45:58):
The Bible is the inspired in the arranton infallible word
that is breathed by God himself to give to us
to live by.

Speaker 31 (46:06):
Well, suggest starting off with reading the Gospels. Matthew, Mark
Luke and John Jared Lewis News Radio seven forty KHR eight.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
It's now six oh seven.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
Today is the last day of this year's Radiothon for
Saint Jude Children's Hospital, where of course joining Sunday ninety
nine point one in our other iHeart Houston stations for
the second straight year.

Speaker 38 (46:25):
You know, being forty though, it.

Speaker 20 (46:28):
Was definitely interesting to go to something like that because
you know, you don't really grab the concept of cancer
and your life been on the line the way it is.

Speaker 7 (46:36):
That was a manual who talked to Jimmy yesterday. He
was diagnosed with cancer at the age of four. And
Jimmy's about to give you all the information you need
to be a partner in hope and help us out.
And finally the Rockets lose to Golden State ninety nine
to ninety three. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather
and traffic station news Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 6 (46:57):
I take the Beltway sometimes and I also take the
West Park.

Speaker 46 (47:00):
Toll Road KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the ten
said eighty or so time. We'll get to just save
your thing in just second. But this, this story out
of conra Id, has to me fascinated. It made me
want to ask the question because I see what happened here.
Evidently some time after lunch the other day. This is

(47:21):
this is a first grade classroom. Somebody somehow lost the
bathroom pass. Evidently at this school maybe when I know,
when I was in elementary school, they used to have
what we used to have, a key that was attached
to like a wooden block thing, and that was the
bathroom pass and the teacher if you had to go
to the teacher would hand that to you. You would go,
and then you'd bring that back to the teacher when

(47:42):
when you were done going. And first graders, how old
are first graders? Like what seven? About seven years old?
So they're not exactly known for, you know, long lasting
bladder control. So evidently somehow that bathroom pass got lost.
And in an effort to treat kids about responsibility, heaven
forbid we should do that, teach anybody about responsibility at

(48:03):
a young age. The teacher said, well, you lost the past,
so nobody gets to go to the bathroom the rest
of the day. And that didn't work out so well
because several students soiled themselves. I think you can figure
that one out for yourself. And evidently there was a

(48:24):
lot of whining and crying and I really gotta go
kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
And you know, imagine as a parent, you know what's
gonna happen, especially with parents today. You your child comes
home and they've soiled themselves and you go, what.

Speaker 6 (48:41):
The hell good?

Speaker 11 (48:43):
You wouldn't let me.

Speaker 6 (48:44):
Go to the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
That's all it takes. Give me the superintendent. They're on
the phone to the superintendent of public schools. Now, I'm
all about teaching responsibility, but you can't really take a
bathroom break away from a seven year old and not
expect there to be problems. On one hand, I salute
the teacher for trying to teach some responsibility. On the

(49:07):
other hand, I'm thinking you're not really using your head here.
This is not common sense. You got to know that
the young kids are going to have to go and
if something like this happens, you're going to be the
one that's going to be suspended. Nobody is going to
back you up. Everybody's going to back up the kids.
The parents will not back you up as a teacher,
and the school system will not back you up as

(49:27):
a teacher either. Six eleven Time for traffic and weather together.
First graders, Yeah, do so cute? Do you ever lose
a bathroom passim?

Speaker 6 (49:36):
I've lost a lot of privileges in school. I've written
a few of my day.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
By the way, if you have little ones and you
let's say you win something and you come up here
to iHeartRadio, ask for me. I'll give you a tour
if especially if you got little ones. I got a
lot I left over Halloween candy here. All right, Tammy's
now flying over that thing on the east text. I'm said,
you got to go check that out. So there she
is over you east text Aldan mail route. There's something
happening in that building and nobody will say anything.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
But they blocked part of the feeder road and oh
look they're gonna I think they're gonna block.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
The whole feeder here southbound, No big whoop on the
mainlan is a bit of a scooch. Now I've got
seven one three two one two tips the tip line
come with this.

Speaker 19 (50:15):
Going to begin six ten eastbound robby Ford Woodridge.

Speaker 47 (50:19):
Two left lanes, two car rag one car is kind
of sideway, so it might be a while.

Speaker 19 (50:24):
There is no extra lights on site.

Speaker 6 (50:28):
Oh god, one word away from verbis what's the word? People?

Speaker 5 (50:31):
Seven one three two one two tips. All right, I'll
let the rest of the media know we got a
wreck at golf Gate. We're in the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
From rock atrh Tom Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
We have Jeff mar In for Terry today and the
forecast is gonna be a little up and down as
far as the temperatures.

Speaker 21 (50:47):
Yeah, sure is on the cool side today and again
starting off the weekend tomorrow in the fifties, and then
we'll hit the upper sixties Sunday and then climb into
the mid seventies by Monday. So once we get past
this cool stretcher will feel a lot better into Sunday
and Monday. In the meantime, really clouds falling by some
afternoon sun today in a high of fifty six, then
clouds spread int tonight. There may be an isolated shower
thunderstorm late with a low forty five. You're gonna be

(51:07):
out on Saturday math to dodge a few scattered showers
and thunderstorms where the high in the mid fifties, warmer
with right increasing Sunday in a high sixty seven, then
sudd will break through the clouds. Monday is the high
climbs into the mid seventies.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Temp at your right now forty four here at your
official severe weather station News Radio seven forty KTRH six
nineteen now here in Houston's morning news. This is day two,
final day of the Saint Jude Radiothon, and this is
when the bush comes shoved when we really need your
help here and as luck would have it. The phone line,

(51:38):
the hotline number. I gave you the one eight hundred
toll free number. It's down evidently, so don't. That's okay.
There's always a backup plan. How can you become a
monthly donor by pledging just nineteen dollars a month to
help kids at Saint Jude fight cancer.

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It's real simple.

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You put your get found a credit card, you get
the new this Shirt Saves Lives t shirt, you get
a Saint Jude's sweatshirt, and you can text to make
a donation. That's that's the backup plan. Just text the
word kids to six two six two six two. That's
kids to six two six two six two and click
the link from Saint Jude to donate kids to six

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two six two six two six twenty down time for
traffic and weather together, we're checking out that drive once again.

Speaker 6 (52:22):
Here's the skuy mine all.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Right, south Loop six ' ten east bound, south Loop
east bound at golf Gate, right at Woodridge.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
Me and Christina Cruz's listeners are the first to know. Hi,
I'll be right with you.

Speaker 17 (52:33):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
South Loop six ' ten, that's eastbound Woodridge. It's a
wreck two left lanes blocked. Uh, we're gonna hit some
backups now after two eighty eight going that way west, Sam,
let's do Mike, Mike, no ya, dude?

Speaker 19 (52:44):
Northbound just before the h GEN exit ramps.

Speaker 37 (52:48):
There's a salt looks like a garbage trucks blocking those ramps.

Speaker 18 (52:53):
Lots of merging peoples.

Speaker 17 (52:54):
That's gonna really mess up anybody wanting to.

Speaker 18 (52:56):
Get off on idea.

Speaker 6 (52:57):
All right, our business stinks, but it's picking up. Look
out southbound right after Walmart.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Supreme Court considering gender treatment for minors. More than that
story coming up in the moment. First, our KTRH top
tax Defenders. Twenty four hour Weather Center forecast party clotting
cool about fifty six today, cloudy and cold with a
couple of showers fifty five Tomorrow Sunday off and on
showers fifty percent chance with a I sixty seven Right now,
temperature forty five. At your official severe weather station, News

(53:27):
Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some of our
top stories on this Friday. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (53:33):
We're brought to you by Texas Mutual Insurance.

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The manhunt continues for the person that shot and killed
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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Speaker 6 (53:58):
Living clearly reliable at traffic band weather. Next on the ten.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
The Supremes meeting in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court, of
course six twenty two hour time here on Houston's Morning News,
they are considering they are considering a Tennessee law that
basically bans gender treatment for miners. The question is how
are they going to rule on this issue, and of
course everybody has an opinion. The NPR story says the
Supreme Court seems ready to uphold band on gender affirming

(54:29):
care for miners. Wall Street Journal says some justices appear
ready to allow ban on transgender care. One is a mystery.
Fox News says Supreme Court appears divided over state bans
on gender transition treatment. So we might as well speculate
along with the rest of the media. Jonathan Turley is
a constitutional law professor in Virginia, and a very good one.

(54:54):
Here he is talking about what he sees the Supreme
Court doing based on the reaction hearing about in the
court room.

Speaker 48 (55:02):
There were moments in this argument that were quite sporty.
I mean, you had Justice Alito asking the Solicitor General
whether she wanted to take back part of her filing
with the Court because she stated, there's overwhelming evidence that
this treatment is necessary and safe and does not have
these problems in the vast majority of cases. And Alito said,

(55:25):
right after you gave that to us, this cast report
came out, which joined other European reports saying the opposite,
that there are serious questions about the facy of the treatment,
about the effects on these children. And he said, you
want to change your statement of that. Of course she declined.
But there was a lot of uncomfortable moments, and not

(55:46):
surprisingly given the subject matter, including when this Solicitor General
was asked, where do you draw the line on things
like sports?

Speaker 34 (55:54):
When we get to those questions, is.

Speaker 48 (55:55):
There a constitutional right here that it will extend far
beyond the question of treatment, and the Biden administration said, well,
you know what, you can work on that. Essentially, they
sort of shrugged and didn't give a very clear answer,
and that I think really undermined them a great deal
because these justices were very concerned about the implications. And

(56:17):
keep in mind, these conservative justices have shown great sensitivities
they did today they said.

Speaker 34 (56:22):
Look, they're arguments at both sides of.

Speaker 48 (56:24):
This issue, and they showed a greater deal of respect
to both sides.

Speaker 34 (56:29):
But they said, isn't that the point?

Speaker 48 (56:31):
I mean that there's this good faith disagreement between parents
between states. Shouldn't we leave this to the political process
and to the states to resolve?

Speaker 34 (56:43):
And that view.

Speaker 48 (56:44):
Seems to have a majority of the Court. If you
look around the nine members during your oral argument, that
can change. Most of us were looking most carefully at
Justices Gorsicic and Barrett. Gorsich was strikingly Barrett asked questions
on both sides. But keep in mind, in twenty twenty,

(57:06):
just in Chief Justice Roberts joined Gorsich, who wrote an
opinion that supported transgender protections in workplace discrimination. But Roberts
today made it very clear that this seems like something
that should not be left up to the court.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Sounds to me in the basically, I think what he's
saying is is that it sounds like this decision could
go pretty much the same way as the Supreme Court
did on what ultimately impacted Roe v.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
Wait.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
In other words, leave it to the states. Leave it
to each state to decide for itself. If Tennessee wants
to bend the gender of firbing care, they can. If
California wants to have it, they can. We'll see six
twenty six. Time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Bellinger is here and Jimmy.

Speaker 29 (57:49):
A lot of Americans have issues with the health insurance industry.
That is something that came to light and social media
responses to this week's murder of United Health CEO Brian
Thompson here in New York City. Consultant Brian Klepper at
Healthcare Performance told Bloomberg there is clearly a sense of
real discontent and distrust of the industry. The Federal Communications

(58:11):
Commission is proposing new rules in response to Chinese led
hacking of American telecom companies.

Speaker 6 (58:17):
The FCC wants.

Speaker 29 (58:18):
To require carriers to do a better job of securing
their networks. This year's political donations by Elon Musk totaled
at least two hundred seventy four million dollars. The world's
richest man became America's biggest political donor in twenty twenty four.
Stock market futures are mixed now, the S and P
and Dow future still pointing lower than ASDAC futures are

(58:39):
up nine points. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business. On News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 30 (58:49):
Houston's News, Why there were Traffic plus Breaking News twenty
four to seventh.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
This is Use Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Five Everywhere with the irm of what's happening now from
the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Six thirty Our Time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour, ur coont worried
about a winter deep freeze. Let the oil and gas
revival begin. More on their Saint Jude Radiothon sponsored by
Gallery Furniture and coming up at six thirty eight For
old People, Little something for old people who still want

(59:23):
a rock details in the minutes ahead. First, we're gonna
check out that drive again Sky Mike is here.

Speaker 6 (59:28):
All right, dude, we got East Tech southbound at Jensen.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
This one's looking kind of heavy duty. It's direct two
left lanes. That's not related to the all dmail route thing,
but this is the main lanes here. Everybody's going around.
I think they're going to take a third lane two.
It's getting ugly from the belt. Toll sticker big shots
do the hardy toll road commoners do. Forty five North
freeways not looking bad now. South looks like they've cleared
Woodridge and West Sam. Look out southbound West Sam in

(59:52):
front of Walmart. The ramps that take you to iten.
You're gonna be a little scooch step. I'll tell you
about that all dmail route building thing at the six.

Speaker 22 (01:00:00):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
It's interesting and it's related.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
I'm skymiking the classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
From our KTRH Generators super Center, twenty four hour weather center.
Partly coty and cool with the high temperature today right
about fifty six. We'll get you the complete forecast when
we talk to Jeff mart the Weather Channel in nine minutes,
still forty five at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (01:00:24):
It's coming up on six point thirty two and our
top story this morning. Meteorologists are warning that Texas could
be in for another deep freeze this winter. The question
is will our grid be able to handle it. Thankfully,
our grid is much more resilient than it was during
Winter Storm Uri.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
There's been so many improvements to how the grid is
being maintained and operated. The generators themselves are much better prepared.

Speaker 16 (01:00:51):
Energy attorney Michael Jewell told KTRH the addition of new
batteries to the grid is also a major step forward.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
For example, if something were to happen, we've got battery
that will just automatically discharge and provide energy and support
for the grid.

Speaker 16 (01:01:04):
Jewell says that even if there are outages, they'll be
rotated so no one customer is without power for too long.
Ethan Beginnon News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
Thanks Ethan.

Speaker 7 (01:01:13):
And Ahead of this weekend's heavy rain, the governor has
activated state resources for potential flash flooding.

Speaker 6 (01:01:20):
Six thirty two.

Speaker 7 (01:01:21):
American oil and Gas hoping to make a major comeback
once Donald Trump gets back into the White House.

Speaker 49 (01:01:27):
Even though production has slightly increased, we've seen well count
go down. In other words, wells are now going dormant
because they're just no longer profitable today again because of
the higher regulatory and higher taxation.

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
Environment economist dj and Toona D'Antoni says, the President elect
will cut a lot of the regulations put in by
the Biden Harris administration. Well futures are trading for under
sixty eight dollars a barrel this morning. Elon Musk and
Vivek Ramaswami, you met with senators on Capitol Hill yesterday
to talk about DOZE and targeting those federal employees still

(01:02:04):
working from home post COVID.

Speaker 6 (01:02:06):
What's really going to happen here is again you're.

Speaker 11 (01:02:09):
Either going to go back to work or you're not
going to work, because we are not going to waste
American taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:02:16):
Incoming Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller coming up on
six point thirty four. Also on Capitol Hill yesterday, Defense
Secretary nominee Pete hegsith he continues to meet with Republican senators.

Speaker 22 (01:02:29):
Pete is there to reform a place that badly needs reform.
That's why President Trump nominated him. I can tell you
what I'm hearing from the soldiers. What I'm hearing from
the troops is a sigh of relief and cheering Pete.

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
On incoming National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. The President elect
added more administrative peaks yesterday, naming former Border Patrol Chief
Rodney Scott to lead Border Patrol. Here at home, Texas's
religious liberty laws being tested in a case before the
state Supreme Court is being brought by members of a

(01:03:04):
Native American church trying to stop the liberal city of
San Antonio from renovating a park.

Speaker 27 (01:03:11):
For former religious ceremonies at a bend in the San
Antonio River.

Speaker 24 (01:03:14):
Members of the Native American Church believe that bend is sacred.

Speaker 7 (01:03:18):
Defense attorney John Grouse cided the state constitution, which prohibits
limiting of religious services. City attorneys claim there are exceptions
coming up. On six thirty five, new research shows that
three quarters of you say the mainstream media is biased.
Curtis Houck with the Media Research Center says this should
be yet another wake up call.

Speaker 37 (01:03:39):
I think Pew numbers are a key measuring stick in
terms of media credibility and I think just when you
think there's going to be a new low, they find
a way to hit a new low.

Speaker 7 (01:03:50):
The survey also found that seven percent seventy four percent
believed that criticism from news organizations prevents political leaders from
doing their job.

Speaker 6 (01:04:01):
Bitcoin hit one hundred thousand.

Speaker 7 (01:04:02):
Dollars mark this week and is now trading at one
hundred ninety eight thousand dollars. It's an all time new high.
But will bitcoin ever become widely utilized.

Speaker 50 (01:04:11):
The boom has come after Trump's election win, which signals
a new era of deregulation.

Speaker 38 (01:04:16):
We've seen that crypto has a place. We've seen wider
adoption institutionally from big companies with crypto.

Speaker 50 (01:04:24):
Money and business expert Derrek Kinney says this may lead
to even more financial options beyond crypto. And while it's
not like gold and physical form, it is in theoretical
form crypto.

Speaker 38 (01:04:34):
You can't feel or touch it, but it's not part
of the US dollar system.

Speaker 50 (01:04:39):
He says, though only by bitcoin with money you can
afford to lose, because you might lose it. Andre Perrard
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:04:46):
However, jobs report comes out in one hour from now.
Remember the economy ated just twelve thousand jobs in October.
A recent survey found that twenty percent of gen Z
healthcare workers plan to leave the industry within the next
three years.

Speaker 51 (01:05:01):
While some have characterized the younger generation as being lazy,
the twenty twenty four Healthcare Employment Trends report shows most
who said they were leaving cite an unhealthy workplace. Culture
is the reason.

Speaker 39 (01:05:12):
When cultures take care of their employees, those employees tend
to be more engaged and they tend to stick around.

Speaker 51 (01:05:21):
Ford's contributor Chris Westfalls says this report should be a
wake up call to the industry to examine how they're
treating their people. The report highlights that healthcare turnover could
be a problem for hospitals and the patients they served
sooner rather than later. Eric Sharpnews Radio seven forty, KRH.

Speaker 7 (01:05:37):
Six thirty seven and KTRH is asking you once again
to join us for this year Saint Jude Children's Hospital radiothon.

Speaker 40 (01:05:44):
I had no idea that there was an opportunity for
Forestations in Houston to host radiothons and happened to be
in a sales meeting where the ask was about sponsorship.
Sales for our boss Eddie Martiniz send you golf Sunday
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partner and hope. Today is the final day of the
radio thought and.

Speaker 7 (01:06:09):
In college football this weekend, ut and Georgia play for
the SEC title at two on Sports Talk seven ninety
and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in traffic
station KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:06:21):
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Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Right now, Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and
the Houston Morning News Team.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Six thirty eight is our time here on the Houston's
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there either, at least not the real bathroom trafficking weather together. Yes, no,
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Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
I mean I kind of need that in the TV
chopper when I'm doing my side hustle. But we have
another solution. I'm actually going to keep my mouth shut
about something here. East text Jensen. Let's see that looks
like a major wreck here one two left lanes blocked.

Speaker 50 (01:10:10):
Here.

Speaker 5 (01:10:10):
Suddenly the east text is getting really schmeckled up south
can we say that Cliff.

Speaker 6 (01:10:15):
Southbound backups from the beltway. Now you're looking at twenty
extra minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Toll sticker, big shots, you know, the drill drew the
Hardy and Stem and the rest of you normal people
do the forty five North Freeway instead.

Speaker 6 (01:10:26):
If you don't have a toll sticker.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
North Freeway's not bad, except for Keith from Spring says
the HOV has installed there. Stay on those main lanes
and you'll stay out of the trouble. Oh, what's all
the mail route you were asking? Southbound? Something is up
in that building. I think the dumpster is smoking. I
think a freeway zombie may have skipped over there and
started firing that dumpster. But they're doing some kind of
fire activity. That's why the feeder roads blocked her. Bottom line,

(01:10:49):
East Text, don't do it, West Sam southbound, Mike Magnolia
with the banana sticker northbound.

Speaker 6 (01:10:55):
That can't be right northbound?

Speaker 5 (01:10:56):
Yep, West Sam, right at the rep to the cad Freeway. Okay,
that's going to get scooched up Southloop clear Woodridge, Katie
Freeway police activity westbound DTC gesture. They've just now cleared
that Katie's not bad. Thirty two minutes now from Katie
Mills into the President's Heads. I'm Skymike in the classic
view at GMC.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour
Weather Center. Filling in for Terry today, we have Jeff
bar need to fill you in on the weekend forecast.
They need to code pretty much well, at least for
today and for tomorrow.

Speaker 21 (01:11:30):
That's right below average temperatures as we headed to the
start of the weekend, and then some changes as warme
air makes in appearance from Sunday to Monday. In the meantime, though,
as you head out early, it is going to be
cold with some clouds initially and then some afternoon sun
will break through only a high fifty sixth though today
the clouds will increase overnight with a slight chance for
a shower thunderstorm popping up with a low dipping into
the mid forties, a high tomorrow near fifty five with

(01:11:51):
the clouds. Also if you scatter showers, some thunderstorms rain
will increase and covers your long affront Sunday with the
high sixty seven, and then sunny warmer on Mondays, the
high climbs into the mid seventies temper.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
You're still forty five at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. Well, I think I hope,
at least at this point that the mission of Saint
Jude Children's Research Hospitals is very apparent to you. I
know it is apparent to me. I just have so
much admiration for the level of work that they do.
And I think the thing that I'm most impressed with

(01:12:21):
that Saint Jude is is just how positive all their
people are. I don't know if I could do what
they do. You're surrounded by young kids all day every
day that are suffering from cancer, and you know that
you're not gonna be able to save one hundred percent
of them, but you are going to save eighty percent
of them, and the loose kids, I'm sure, and I

(01:12:44):
can't even imagine. But here's what I do know. Your
dollars make a difference. That if we can continue to
raise a million plus dollars for Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital,
every year. We will make kids with cancer's lives easier,
sure that those kids will get the treatment and that
the parents will not get a bill. So, if you'd

(01:13:05):
like to make a donation, and I surely hope that
you do. By the way, this is all sponsored by
the folks at Gallery Furniture. You can become a monthly
donor by pledging just nineteen dollars a month to help
kids at Saint Jude fight cancer. Put your gift on
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now at one eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three.
If you prefer, you can also text kids to six

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two six two six two and click the link from
Saint Jude to donate, and again the toll free number
one eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. Traffic
and weather together, let's say go ahead and check in
again with a sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:13:39):
It's sure east text freeway. Guys in southbound at Jens
and this is one two. I'm going to call this
three left lanes now, and that's an ambulance has shown up.

Speaker 6 (01:13:47):
Yeah, it's not okay, we're back from the Beltway.

Speaker 5 (01:13:51):
Twenty two extra minutes down. So if you got the sticker,
let's jump on forty five.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
If you don't.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
If you have the sticker, jump on the hardy And
if you don't, jump on forty five instead. West, look
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From our KTRH generator of super Center twenty four hour
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Speaker 6 (01:15:01):
Fifty nine. Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 46 (01:15:04):
KTRH time saving traffic connect on the ten six fifty
thurious our time here in Houston's morning news. So every
week there's some pretty hilarious congressional testimony, none funnier than
Senator Josh Hawley, who had airline executives, the head of
Delta and United, all the major airlines were there in Washington,

(01:15:25):
DC being forced to testify about their hidden fees and
how they come up with these things. And Senator Hawley
pretty much bottom lined what a horrible experience it is
to fly these days. So you have him, you have
a Senator Richard Blumenthal questioning the fees that these airlines charge,
and then a reaction from the folks on the gut

(01:15:46):
felled panel.

Speaker 53 (01:15:47):
You guys do appreciate that flying on your airlines is
a disaster, don't you? I'm slightly amazed by the general
attitude of all of you here. But flying on your
airlines is horrible. It's terrible experience. Nobody enjoys flying on
your airlines. It's a disaster. You charge people fees that
they know nothing about. You harass them to death. It's terrible.
It's absolutely terrible.

Speaker 54 (01:16:09):
End result of AI powered target pricing is that customers
may soon confront a world where every person is charged
a different price for every product every time they look
at an airline's website.

Speaker 55 (01:16:27):
Basically, the committee is accusing airlines of using data about
you and then charging you higher prices if they think
you'll pay more. The government lawmakers are implying that the
airlines are using algorithms to price tickets differently based on
what people make. When you think about it, isn't that
what the IRS does with taxes? They charge you different

(01:16:48):
tax rates based on how much you make.

Speaker 56 (01:16:50):
That's true, that's a great point.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
That's a great point.

Speaker 56 (01:16:53):
But I got to say, the airline industry is so
fascinating to me because they have a captive audience and
they still don't make money.

Speaker 6 (01:17:00):
Make money by ripping us off.

Speaker 56 (01:17:01):
Bag fees, transfer fees that woman from Idaho, the beauty
salon owners. She would be a good CEO for one
is there. She might make some It really is. It's
really amazing. But wait till you see what's coming down.
I mean they're talking about putting in more seats. There
was an idea of actually charging to use the bathroom.

Speaker 6 (01:17:19):
We imagine if you don't.

Speaker 56 (01:17:20):
Get on the plane with a roll of quarters, you
might be by a luck.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Right, can you imagine charging you to go to the
bathroom on the plane. Anybody could think that's a good idea?
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That demon stars in the talented mister Ripley.

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Don't you just take the past and put it in
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never go in there.

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Seven Am is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Trump named Patriot of the Year the deep State. It's
also going after Tulsi, RFK Junior and Cash Bettel and
coming up at seven o eight. Why is Urkat worried
about a deep freeze? Details in the minute say, hey,
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morning drive once again. Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (01:19:39):
All right, let's keep rerouting on the north side. You
got the wreck on the east text inbound My work
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She's not wrong.

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It's inbound big backups from the Beltwait, now you got
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Man inbound right before to beltweit h merge, black tire,
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Banana sticker and extra points for the burbage. I got
a new wreck Wesbloot northbound, Sam Billaby that's taken up
two center Lanes, Skymike on the Classic b at GMC
Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
From our KTRH Tom Pax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Party clotting and cool today. With the temperature about fifty six,
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Speaker 6 (01:20:31):
It's time now for the news. Here's the Cliff Sanders.
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (01:20:34):
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Speaker 6 (01:20:38):
This morning in our top story, I think.

Speaker 8 (01:20:40):
You have seen more happen in the last two weeks
than you've seen in the last four years, and we're.

Speaker 6 (01:20:47):
Not even there yet.

Speaker 7 (01:20:48):
President elect Donald Trump last night honored by Fox as
it's Patriot of the Year after doubling down on the
support for Pete Hegseth. His Defense Secretary nominee ex Seth
was back on Capitol Hill again yesterday, and he's just
one of the Trump cabinet picks being targeted by the left.

Speaker 9 (01:21:06):
Left wing media outlets continue to attack Trump Defense Secretary
nominee Pete Haig Sith with unfounded accusations of alcohol abuse
and sexual misconduct. Breitbart Editor in chief Alex Marlow on
his podcast warns, this is part of a broader effort.

Speaker 10 (01:21:19):
Once they feel like the media can run this too,
this Kavanaugh playbook and take out take Seth, then you're
going next for Tulsea Gabbert. If they'll go for Robert Kennedy,
they'll find something nutty, he said, but his brainworms or something,
and then all of a sudden, we're gonna get to deep.

Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
State cabinet again.

Speaker 9 (01:21:34):
Haig Seth has found to stay in the running and
says Trump told him to keep fighting. Corey Jolson, who's
radio seven forty KTRH, Thank you, Corey.

Speaker 7 (01:21:41):
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami we're on Capitol Hill as
well to talk about Doze. Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt is
on board with their plans.

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
This is what President Trump wants.

Speaker 11 (01:21:51):
The American people gave him a mandate to streamline our
federal government and to get away from status quo and
build as usual.

Speaker 7 (01:22:01):
One area that Elon and Vivek are focusing on federal
workers continuing to work remotely post COVID fireworks. At the
last hearing of the task Force investigating the Pennsylvania assassination
attempt on the President elect, Texas Congressman Pat Fallon accused
the acting Secret Service Director Ronald Row of grand standing

(01:22:22):
at a September eleventh memorial.

Speaker 12 (01:22:23):
I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going
through the ashes of the Royal Trade Center.

Speaker 6 (01:22:30):
I was there at Fresh Kills.

Speaker 13 (01:22:31):
I'm not asking you that come show show respect, not
for a secret Service set.

Speaker 7 (01:22:40):
By the way, The task force will release its final
report next week seven oh four Now on KTRH, still
no arrest in the murder this week of United Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson, but police know more about the person
they are looking for.

Speaker 14 (01:22:54):
New video appears to show the alleged killer walking toward
the Hilton Hotel in mid Town Manhattan, where the United
Healthcare CEO was murdered in YPD sources tel Fox News
that the suspect wrote a Greyhound bus to New York
City from Atlanta the day before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 7 (01:23:11):
Christina Coleman reporting here at home. A Pasadena woman is
in surgery after being shot in the chest overnight. The
alleged shooter is in custody and a man wanted for
murder is arrested after a three hour standoff at a
Baytown hotel.

Speaker 6 (01:23:27):
Seven h five.

Speaker 7 (01:23:28):
Now, Texas Republicans will vote tomorrow to select a nominee
as Speaker of the House. Incumbent Speaker Date Feelin loses
yet more backers.

Speaker 15 (01:23:37):
David Spiller, a member who has been an ally historically
of Dad Feelin, coming out and saying he can't support him.
He doesn't want to see Democrats in charge like Dave
Felon has supported, and he's going to be supporting Feelin's challenger,
David Cook.

Speaker 7 (01:23:50):
Brandon Waltons with Texas Scorecards says another state Rev. Trn
Ashby is also backing Cook. The GOP caucus takes place
in Austin. Swear In Austin, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
announces that the Senate will push for a full state
ban on THHC products.

Speaker 16 (01:24:07):
This could be an attempt to clear up some of
the gray areas in Texas's THHC laws come up.

Speaker 17 (01:24:13):
It's not quite legal, but not quite illegal, and today
is throwing a clear, unmistakable line in the sand that says, Nope,
we're just not going to do it.

Speaker 16 (01:24:21):
Political consultant Bill Miller told KTRH Patrick might be able
to pass this in the Senate, but the House is
another question.

Speaker 17 (01:24:27):
He's smart enough to know if you want something done,
he's going to have to work with the House. In
my opinion, the House is not going to buy a
complete ban.

Speaker 16 (01:24:35):
Miller says Patrick is likely just using this as a
starting point for negotiations and the end result will just
be tighter regulation. Ethan Buginnon News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (01:24:43):
It's now seven oh six and conro isd teacher is
on leave after banning students from using the bathroom at
Bartlin Down, a military school.

Speaker 18 (01:24:52):
Some people were crying to Deak to go to his besthroom.

Speaker 7 (01:24:56):
That child was talking to our TV partner channel too.
The district says that the kids will have a substitute
teacher until its investigation is completed. Despite a decade's long
drop in people identifying as Christian, sales of the Bible
are upright now compared to this time last year.

Speaker 19 (01:25:14):
It is ultimately the foundation of our American civil law
or moral code. So I think a lot of people,
it seems like, are reaching out to find that anchor
back into their lives hopefully will encourage more churches than
pastors to be preaching from that word rather than telling stories.

Speaker 7 (01:25:28):
That's Dave Welt's with the Texas Pastor Council seven h
seven out. Today is the final day as k TRH
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I know it is.

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Definitely hard on my parents, but for me, it wasn't
I was going to hospital because I was sick. For me,
it was I was around a lot of people who
cared about me and who just wanted to help me
get better.

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That was Emmanuel who spoke to Jimmy yesterday. He was
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All right, let's start with the KBR tote board. We're
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thanks of course to the folks at Sunny and our
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It was amazing what a difference had made starting last
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we're all talking about it yesterday and today. We'll also

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have our golf ounding coming up on Monday to benefit
Saint Jude. So we're not likely to get to a
million dollars between yesterday and today, not clearly. We're two
sixty five five fifty. We have a long ways to go,
but the money hasn't come in from the golf outing yet.
But let's not let that de tourists. We need to
raise money right now and we need your help, and

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we appreciate all of you who have already made a donation.
It's really simple to become a partner and hope to
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nine Our time here on Houston's Morning News. Here's my question,
why is Urkott so worried about a deep freeze? The
reason evidently why they're worried is because and I didn't

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realize this. Do you know that Urkott has their own metarologists,
not that theird metaorologist is any betfor better than anybody else,
you know, when it comes right down to it, I'm
always amazed in how difficult it seems to be to
forecast the weather, especially long term here in the Greater
Houston area. Everything we have seen indicates that we are

(01:28:31):
going to have a warmer, warmer than normal winter. But
what their metaorolgis is saying, and it's a valid point,
is that even when you have a warmer than normal winter,
you can have a very cold couple of days. It
just means the average temperature for the winter is warmer
than normal. Doesn't mean that you won't have days that
are well below normal. He's predicting that we could have

(01:28:54):
an event similar to twenty twenty one.

Speaker 6 (01:28:56):
That's Yuri.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
Remember Yuri when folks some folks were up power three
or four days, But that's twenty twenty one. Supposedly, we've
taken all these steps right in order to prevent the
same problems that we had. So why would we be
afraid of a deep freeze if we've made the necessary fixes.
That's what I'm concerned about. That tells me that maybe

(01:29:19):
we haven't made all the necessary fixes. Maybe they've made
some improvements, but maybe it's not enough time for traffic
and weather together. We're checking out the drive again. Here's
skuy Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:29:28):
All right, Jimmy, we got laneage on the west sam
northbound west Loop west Loop northbound Sam Phillipe, Sam Phillippi.
How do you say it depends on how long you've
lived in Houston. This is gonna be northbound. We're taking
up two center lanes. But it looks like everybody's okay.
That's gonna squish us up going up to uptown from
just past missin It. That's a lot of breaks. Looks

(01:29:48):
like about a ten minute loss here north Loop. We
are getting loopy at the squeeze forty five that's westbound
from the east.

Speaker 6 (01:29:55):
Text, big back up.

Speaker 5 (01:29:56):
I'm seeing us slow down now on the East Freeway
right after waist side sub that's upright there. Give me
the seven to twenty report and I'll get you some
lane to cheer east text we're still working the wreck
at Parker not Jensen Mike, southbound, Big backups from just
after the beltway in Tommy from Splendora, Dude, good morning, Mike.

Speaker 19 (01:30:15):
He got an accident just occurred.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
Six ten west right before and right at exit ten.

Speaker 6 (01:30:22):
I don't know exit numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
That'll lane and second and third lane?

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
Is that wood way?

Speaker 5 (01:30:27):
All right?

Speaker 6 (01:30:27):
Tommy?

Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
You still get a banana sticker and an olive branch
for being from my rival school, but I'm seeing backups. Yeah,
but northbound right after, right before the Katie Freeway exit.

Speaker 6 (01:30:37):
We'll zoom that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
At seven twenty two the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
From our KTRH Tom Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Time to bring on Jeff Maher. He's in for terry today.
No deep freeze this weekend, but it will be a
little chili.

Speaker 21 (01:30:49):
Yeah, this is chili right now if you're about to
head out. We've got temperatures currently in the forties will
eventually hit fifty six with some sun breaking through the
clouds during the afternoon hours. Those clouds will fill in
tonight and there may be an isolated shower thunderstorm late
with a low forty five. For the weekend, some wet weather,
scattered showers and thunderstorms off and on Tomorrow up to
fifty five. It is going to be a warmer Sunday,
but showers and thunderstorm should increase in coverage along a

(01:31:12):
front with a hind your sixty seven. Then a beautiful
start of the week on Monday with sunshine and some warmer.
Temperatures as high as on Monday eventually top out in
the mid seventies right now forty three at your official
severe weather station, news Radio seven forty k t RH.

Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
It is can you believe it's almost two weeks till Christmas?
Can't believe it? But this time of the year is
you know, it brings a lot of warm and fuzzy
thoughts for a lot of folks. And it also maybe
brings out our better side, a more charitable side, or
more generous side. And if you are feeling generous, especially
as relates to sick children, kids with cancer, then I

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You could become a monthly donor by pledging just nineteen
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eight eight fourteen thirty three. Once again, one eight hundred
five eight eight fourteen thirty three. All right, I have
a little traffic and whether together. We're checking in once
again with yous guy Mike all.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
Right there telling me that that's technically a building fire
at East Texas Aldine Mail Route at Safeda Road.

Speaker 6 (01:32:45):
Thing.

Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
Don't worry about that southbound. We cleared the wreck at Parker.
Worry about that we're backed up from the cemetery there,
and jump on I forty five to the north Freeway instead.
West sam northbound. There's something to that wreck in the
ramp to the Katie Freeway. This is coming up from
the Briar Forest toll plaza. You're trying to take that
ramp to go downtown. You're gonna have a little issue there. Also,
west Loop northbound at San Felipe, San Philippi.

Speaker 6 (01:33:07):
That's a wreck in two center lines.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
Everybody's okay, they're just pointing at things northbound back up
from Visnette Keith from Spring Dude.

Speaker 6 (01:33:14):
Gote Mike, Hey, what's that on?

Speaker 17 (01:33:15):
I have forty five north between Tidrow in Parker forty
five We have a stall vehicle.

Speaker 6 (01:33:21):
Yeah, I see that southbound and west Loop six.

Speaker 18 (01:33:24):
Hey, good morning sky Mike. Going to towards the Galleria
to the exit before Woodway and Memorial. There's a new
wreck involving three cards. No flashing lights to trucks, ninjas
or anyone else on the scene yet, two.

Speaker 6 (01:33:38):
Extra points for burbage. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:40):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
They'll be voting for Texas House Speaker coming up tomorrow
what happens with Dade Feeland will have more than that
story coming up in just a moment. First, our KATRH
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today party cloudy cool, fifty six, cloudy cool again tomorrow
with a couple of showers fifty five Sunday off and
on showers, fifty percent chance of rain with a high

(01:34:03):
warming up the sixty seven temperature right now forty three
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Check out some of our top stories on this Friday.
Here's Cliff, Thank.

Speaker 56 (01:34:15):
You, Jimmy.

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Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Well, well, Dad Feelin, after tomorrow still be Master of
the House or will it be somebody else? Brandon Waltons
joins a senior editor at Texas Scorecard. I saw where
another feeling ally defected is backing Cook for speak. Are
there more defects or defectors coming at this point?

Speaker 6 (01:35:03):
What do you think?

Speaker 15 (01:35:05):
I mean? This story is one that's changing by the minute,
especially last night. Dade Feelin, of course the current Speaker
of the House. Tomorrow, the House Republican Caucus is going
to be meeting and selecting a Republican nominee. Think of
it kind of like the primary right, they're going to
be selecting the Republican candidate for speaker before the actual

(01:35:25):
vote that takes place in January date. Feeling does not
have the votes, and it appears talking to some members
that he's telling them that he's going to drop out
potentially today, And the question is does he put somebody
else in who will kind of continue his legacy of

(01:35:46):
appointing Democrat chairs. Right now, it looks like that's potentially
a state Representative, Dustin Burrows from Lubbock, who's trying to
work a deal with Democrats in order to become elected
with Democrats support a minority of Republicans, but so far
those numbers aren't there in the voters tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:36:05):
Okay, So if Dade Feelin doesn't have the votes, I
guess my question would be because it seemed to me
that with him, but it was always about maintaining his power.
If he can't maintain his power if Speaker of the House,
then why does he care about who the next Speaker is?

Speaker 15 (01:36:22):
Well, you know, if he's not Speaker of the House,
he goes back to being a regular member, which means
that he wants somebody who's going to put him into
I would guess a powerful chairmanship position, who would keep
him around in leadership, and so he's got an interest there.
He's being challenged by state Representative David Cook from Mansfield
up in DFW, and who is somebody who has said

(01:36:45):
that he's not going to put Democrats in charge. He's
going to prioritize Republican conservative legislation. And right now that's
essentially the fight that's.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
Happened Ken David Cook. If David Cook does become the nominee,
if you will, for House Speaker, can he guard her
enough votes in January? Because Dave Feeland obviously maintain his
power by having virtually all the Democrats support him. Are
there enough Republicans if the Republicans can coalesce with each

(01:37:16):
other in order to get David Cook elected without any
Democrat help?

Speaker 20 (01:37:20):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
Absolutely.

Speaker 15 (01:37:21):
I mean Republicans on a majority in the House. Actually
that majority has grown in these last elections, so they
hold eighty eight of one hundred and fifty seats. Republicans
stick together and votes with the Republican nominee, there'd be
no problem.

Speaker 6 (01:37:36):
That's the problem though, right Republicans sticking together.

Speaker 15 (01:37:40):
Yes, absolutely, But when you do look at the numbers
I mean especially, I mean you need, you know, upwards
are nearly twenty Republicans to join with Democrats in order
to elect a you know, sort of a liberal or
moderate speaker. Right now, those numbers aren't there for that,

(01:38:01):
you know, coalition of twenty and I think with this
little time left, it's tough for them to build that
coalition right now.

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
All right, Brandon, if you had, if you were betting men,
who would you bet on to get the Republican nomination tomorrow?

Speaker 15 (01:38:15):
I think my guess would be David Cook. We'll come
out with it. But certainly anything can happen, and nothing
was surprising.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
True enough, all right, Brandon, thank you appreciated. Brandon Walton,
Senior editor at Texas Scorecard. It's seven twenty six. It
is time to take a look at your money. Jeff
Bellinger is here, and.

Speaker 29 (01:38:33):
Jimmy McDonald's wants everyone to know it's food is safe
and E coal I scare is over. McDonald's US president
joe Erlinger Old Bloomberg News some customers who pulled back
after an E. Coli outbreak was disclosed in late October
have not yet come back.

Speaker 6 (01:38:48):
He said.

Speaker 29 (01:38:48):
The fast food giant is testing different ways to reach
out to them. The November jobs report just minutes away,
and the stock market futures are slightly lower right across
the board. We'll see if things change once we get
the numbers. I'm Jeff Bedinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio
seven forty k t rh.

Speaker 6 (01:39:08):
A, Houston's News.

Speaker 30 (01:39:10):
Why there were traffic, plus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty kt RH five Everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
For more of what's happening now from the John Morris
Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
Seven thirty is our time. You're in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Heardcott worried about a winter deep freeze. Let the oil
and gas revival begin? And coming up at seven thirty eight,
what a Burger and BUCkies spreading to even more states
outside of Texas. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive again.

(01:39:47):
Here's guy Mine Queer the.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
East Texas Freeway southbound. That was a record, Parker, pretty
serious stuff for a little bit. I've got backups, thank you.
I'll get right to you. This is going to be
southbound southbound Parker and backups now from the sim Matery
twelve extra minutes this way west Sam northbound.

Speaker 6 (01:40:03):
That's a wreck and the.

Speaker 5 (01:40:04):
Interchange with the Katie Freeway west Loop six ' ten
Lance from Magnolia stuck in that mess on the southbound
wood Way.

Speaker 38 (01:40:10):
Hey Scott Mike, I don't know who that girl was.

Speaker 6 (01:40:13):
I don't even remember what the wreck was, but she
sounded sweeter than the contime.

Speaker 25 (01:40:17):
Maybe she's a beach collish.

Speaker 5 (01:40:19):
She didn't give her name, but she broke up our
Schulenberg Fest northbound. We also have a wreck at Sam
Phillippy big backups from misson at Skymike and the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
When we described women as food, come Martin from r
KTRH Generator super Center. Twenty four hour weather center for
today hardly cloudie cool, only fifty six for the high temperature.
We'll get you a mari in here from the weather
Channel gets you an updated on the forecast in eight minutes.
Temperature right now forty three and your official severe weather
station News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now

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for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 7 (01:40:52):
It's seven thirty two good morning everybody. Our top story
on KTRH, well, the weather is finally turning cold and
her COT media ronogist Chris Coleman warned this week Texas
might see a deep freeze this winter, but weather rising
the grid after twenty twenty one the way Texas did
will prevent mass outages again.

Speaker 4 (01:41:12):
What we would see now compared to winderstorm URI is
the ability to have rotating outages rather than very long
outages for days at a time.

Speaker 7 (01:41:23):
Energy attorney Michael Jewel tells KTRH that even those rolling
blackouts are unlikely thanks to winnorization. Ahead of heavy rate
expected this weekend, the governor has activated the emergency response
resources for potential flash flooding. It's now seven point thirty two.
The American oil and gas industry is eagerly awaiting the
start of Trump two point zero.

Speaker 31 (01:41:45):
Trump's energy policies are coming back in and the Biden
administration is heading out the door.

Speaker 32 (01:41:50):
The American people, I think that what they have to
be most thankful for this Thanksgiving is that this administration
is on the way out.

Speaker 31 (01:41:57):
Heritage Foundation economist E. J. And Toni says he love
lot of red tape is about to be cut.

Speaker 32 (01:42:01):
If you can get rid of that excess taxation and regulation,
you actually could increase production relatively quickly because a lot
of the infrastructure is already there, it's just not being used.

Speaker 31 (01:42:12):
Trump hopes to increase oil production in the US in
order to bring down energy costs. Jared Lewis, News Radio
seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (01:42:19):
Thank you very much, Jared. Oil prices dropped to under
sixty eight dollars a barrel as OPEC plus delays increasing
their output in April and extens production cuts into twenty
twenty six. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami met with senators
in Washington yesterday, laying out their version of trimming the
fat from the federal budget.

Speaker 34 (01:42:40):
We have to in Congress.

Speaker 6 (01:42:42):
We have to get rid of the waste.

Speaker 33 (01:42:43):
We've had a two percent increase in our population in
five years and over a fifty percent increase in spending.

Speaker 34 (01:42:48):
That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 7 (01:42:50):
Florida Senator Rick Scott with krh's Sean Hannity, also on
Capitol Hill yesterday, in battled Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 25 (01:42:58):
I'm proud to be here long as Donald Trump wants me.
In this fight.

Speaker 26 (01:43:02):
I'm going to be standing right here in this fight,
fighting to bring our Pentagon back to.

Speaker 6 (01:43:06):
What it needs to be.

Speaker 7 (01:43:07):
President Elect Trump went on social media to back hexxeth.
The President elect also added to his border security team yesterday,
naming a former Border Patrol Sector Chief, Rodney Scott, to
lead CBP. And this comes as there's an uptick of
human smuggling at the border.

Speaker 35 (01:43:24):
It's a smuggler's paradise with a new sense of urgency
for migrants to cross before the Trump administration begins to
crack down, and cartels are capitalizing with higher prices. Texas
DPS apprehending eighteen migrants in this vehicle who paid smugglers
far more than the going rate of three to eight
thousand dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:43:43):
Ahead Griff Jenkins an eagle pass. It's now seven thirty five.
While this surprise is no one, new palling after the
election finds that most Americans think the mainstream media is biased.

Speaker 36 (01:43:56):
According to a new Pew Research survey, it's it's nearly
three quarters of the public.

Speaker 37 (01:44:02):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's a pretty large number.
It's not entirely surprising to me.

Speaker 6 (01:44:08):
That's Curtis. How with the media Research Center.

Speaker 37 (01:44:11):
When you see numbers as staggering as this about three
quarters of Americans thinking you're biased, you might want to
look at yourself in the mirror.

Speaker 36 (01:44:20):
Sadly, he says, the mainstream media is doubling down on
their liberal bias. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty KTR.

Speaker 7 (01:44:29):
And Looking at Your Money. Bitcoin hit a record high
one hundred three thousand dollars this week. Money and business
expert Derek Kenney says Trump's reelection led to this. New
waves of deregulation are expected, but there's a hitch.

Speaker 38 (01:44:43):
What Trump has done for crypto, will this have the
same positive effect when tariffs kick in on various products.
There are some analysts that are very nervous about the
impact that tariffs might have.

Speaker 7 (01:44:55):
He says bitcoin is a good investment because it's removed
from the dollar. We just got the latest jobs numbers
in from November. Payrolls increased two hundred and twenty seven
thousand last month. That was higher than expected. The unemployment
rate also ticked up last month to four point two percent.
New research shows that twenty percent of gen Z workers

(01:45:17):
plan to leave the healthcare industry within the next three years. Now,
while if some have labeled the younger generation lazy. The
results of the twenty twenty four Healthcare Employment Trends Report
shows that the biggest reason given for leaving was an
unhealthy workplace environment.

Speaker 39 (01:45:33):
This is I think a call to action for the
healthcare industry, for hospitals and medical companies to look at
the way that they are treating their most valuable asset,
treating their people.

Speaker 7 (01:45:45):
Forbes's Chris Westfield coming up on seven thirty seven KTRH
Sunny ninety nine point one and our other iHeart stations
here in Houston are asking you to join us for
the final day of the Gallery Furniture Saint Jude Children's
Hospital Radio thong.

Speaker 6 (01:45:59):
It's things that go beyond just the radiothon.

Speaker 40 (01:46:01):
It's its awareness campaigns that Saint Jude has that are
parts across each month of the year. There's a big
push for a Saint Jude awareness during Thanksgiving Week.

Speaker 7 (01:46:10):
That's our own Mark Sherman. Thanks to you, we helped
raise a million dollars last year and if you want
to help this year, Jimmy's got that info coming up
in about sixty seconds from now. Finally, in college football,
UT and Georgia in the SEC title game tomorrow. That
game on Sports Talk seven ninety with pre games starting
at two. And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather
in traffic station news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:46:33):
I live in their Park, I live in the Woodlands.

Speaker 46 (01:46:35):
You're reliable forecast Next on the ten on seven.

Speaker 3 (01:46:39):
Forty kt RH. It's seven thirty eight. Now you're in
Houston's morning News. This is we're getting down the nitty
gritty here, folks. This is the last day of our
Saint Jude Radiothon sponsored by the folks at Gallery Furniture,
and hopefully you've had a chance to hear some of
the stories of some of the patients that have been

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helped some of the families that have been helped with
with housing, with food, with transportation, where all they have
to concentrate on is their child and their child's fight
against cancer, and the success stories are really quite amazing.
I think I mentioned this yesterday. Allow me to mention
it again because this shows how your money is going
to such a good place. Is when Saint Jude Children's

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Research Hospital began way back in the day, when Danny
Thomas founded it that the cure rate for childhood cancer
was about twenty percent at Saint Jude.

Speaker 6 (01:47:32):
Now it's eighty percent. That is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:47:36):
All the new technology, all the research that they did
is a research hospital, so they're researching all the time
new treatments for cancer and they're having a tremendous amount
of success. So if you'd like to join the fight
in this and be a help, and I certainly hope
that you would, then you can do one of two things.

Speaker 6 (01:47:50):
You can either call or text.

Speaker 3 (01:47:53):
If you're a text you prefer to do that, you
text the word kids to six two six two six
y two and then that'll give you the link to
Saint Jude to donate. Or if you prefer called one
eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. That's one
eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. One more time,
one eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. All right,

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more water burgers are coming. You know whataburger used to
be such a uniquely Texas thing. Same thing with buckets.
And there's a part, there's a part of me that says, no,
we want to keep this for ourselves.

Speaker 6 (01:48:27):
That's part of what makes Texas special.

Speaker 3 (01:48:29):
And then there's the other part that says, well, at
least if I'm traveling now, you know, I don't have
to give up water Burger.

Speaker 6 (01:48:35):
I can.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
I can go to a whole bunch of different states.
My only worry, and I think the worry that all
of us really have, and we've had it ever since
Whataburger got bought out by Chicago, Illinois firm, is will
they be able to maintain the quality? Will what a
Burger stay Whataburger? At least around here? So far it has,
remember everything I've seen there's it is consistent as the

(01:48:57):
day is long. There are eleven dates that are in
the process of getting Whataburgers, and that includes just about
everybody in the South and the East coast. More than
two dozen locations are planned in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina,
and South Carolina over the next year. Dozens more planned
after that. In fact, they're going to be building fifty

(01:49:18):
water Burgers in Georgia alone. BUCkies similar story south in
the East are getting blanketed by BUCkies. There's one that's
going to be opening up in Arkansas before too much longer.
My friends in Virginia are very excited. They're getting one
about midway between Richmond and Norfolk, so they're going to

(01:49:41):
have a chance to see what that's all about. And
the list goes on and on and on. We just
keep spreading Texas cheer everywhere we go. Time for traffic
and weather together. Sky Mike is here ready to fill
you in.

Speaker 6 (01:49:52):
It's about all the East text we can do this morning,
Jimmy B. We got southbound. It is starting to clear
up a bit. We have the wreck of Parker.

Speaker 5 (01:49:58):
Southbound, you've got break after the graveyard, and then you
have to deal with the North Sam. If you're going
westbound Aldean Westfield, that's roadwork a left lane, and then
eastbound at the Imperial Valley that's the left lane. I'm
not sure what's special about this wreck on the West
Sam West Sam coming up from Briar Forest. But if
you're trying to get on after that ramp right in
front of Walmart, after the ramp from the west Loop

(01:50:20):
six to ten, Mike from Magnolia with the banana sticker,
it's causing a scoots. Now from Buffalo by you the
bridge Southwest Freeway, we're cramped up because of the west
Loop drama.

Speaker 6 (01:50:30):
This is all back up all the way from bel air.

Speaker 5 (01:50:33):
Doug Pike is probably stuck in that and mad at
me twenty two extra minutes of Southwest Freeway. Look at
the west Loop six y ten northbound Braizwood. That is
solid breaks going up to uptown. Wreck at sam Phillipy
doesn't look that major to me, and then southbound wreck
at wood Way. A mystery lady gave me this one
southbound on the west Loop. I'm telling you she's probably tall. Southbound.

(01:50:55):
That's a lot of breaks from Hempstead Highway. We're having
trouble getting laneage on that, so if you can help
me seven three two one two tips Skymike on the
Classic Buick GMC Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator super
Center twenty four our weather center.

Speaker 3 (01:51:09):
We're starting up the day with sunshine, but we're also
storming up to day with some pretty cool temperatures.

Speaker 21 (01:51:13):
Jeff bar Yeah, we certainly are in Temperatures will stay
below average into the start of the weekend, and then
it will be warmer.

Speaker 6 (01:51:18):
Heading from Sunday into the start of next week. On Monday.

Speaker 21 (01:51:21):
In the meantime, no few clouds earlier and then some
sunshine this afternoon fifty six.

Speaker 6 (01:51:25):
The high clouds will spread in tonight.

Speaker 21 (01:51:27):
There will be a slight chance for a shower thunderstorm
late with a low dropping to the mid forties, a
high in your fifty five hundred clouds Tomorrow with scattered
showers and thunderstorms. Rang will increase in coverage into Sunday
with a high climbing to sixty seven.

Speaker 6 (01:51:37):
The dry and warmer on Monday.

Speaker 21 (01:51:39):
To start off the week with a sunny sky at
a high temperature hitting the mid seventies.

Speaker 3 (01:51:43):
Temperature right now forty three at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH seven fifty our time here
in Houston, storn Us. This last chance I have on
our show to once again thank you for those of
you who have participated in raising funds for seeing Jude
Children's Research Hospital. I'll do some more of this afternoon
on our KPRC show between four and five in the afternoon.

(01:52:06):
But we are trying to raise a million dollars. We
raised a million last year, a little over a million.
We'd love to do the same thing again this year.
We have a long ways to go and not a
whole lot of time left to get there. So if
you're just kind of sitting on the wayside here hoping
to jump on the bandwagon. The bandwagons. There it is,
it's right over there. Hop on board. You can become
a monthly donor by pledging just nineteen dollars a month

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to help kids at Saint Jude fight cancer.

Speaker 6 (01:52:31):
Put your gift on a credit card.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
You'll get the new this Shirt Saves Lives t shirt
and a Saint Jude's sweatshirt. All you have to do
is call this number one eight hundred five eight eight
fourteen thirty three. That's one eight hundred five eight eight
fourteen thirty three. Once again, one eight hundred five eight
eight fourteen thirty three. Jim Jordan asks the director of
the US Census why they don't count illegals, or why

(01:52:53):
why they don't ask illegals if they were illegals. More
in that story coming up next. First, though, traffic and
weather together. Check out the drive again. This guy mine
all right, Jack City, shiny wheels.

Speaker 5 (01:53:03):
You are stuck now on it in East endbound a
lot of breaks from Federal into waistside, twenty minute drag
here going down through downtown.

Speaker 6 (01:53:11):
It's all slow on the east Text from.

Speaker 5 (01:53:12):
Quipment down to fan in big time and Westloop sixteen
up to uptown is all breaks from South Post Oak
back to the earlier record, Sam Phillippi.

Speaker 6 (01:53:21):
That's clear down to uptown.

Speaker 5 (01:53:22):
We're backed up from two ninety and this is causing
the suckage on the Southwest Freeway from the Beach Nut.
It's all connected there. Oh, big congratulations. Jimmy Ghetto Dave.
He's a regular, He's been a regular for years. He's
marrying jay Lynn today.

Speaker 47 (01:53:36):
Three times a ch arm.

Speaker 38 (01:53:37):
I'm trying to catch up.

Speaker 6 (01:53:38):
With you, dude. See every time I get married out
to take a couple of days off here. Let's that's
the record I'm not gooding for. I can tell you
that you.

Speaker 5 (01:53:45):
Don't want it, trust me. We're in the classic Buick
GMC traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:53:49):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center,
probably Claudi and cool. Looks like about fifty six today,
fifty five tomorrow with the chance of a shower and
then off and on showers. Fifty to fifty shot at
seeing those on Sunday, with a high warming up to
about sixty seven. Temperature currently is forty three at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH get

(01:54:10):
you caught up on some of our tough stories on
a Friday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:54:14):
We're sponsored by Texas Mutual Insurance.

Speaker 7 (01:54:16):
The economy adds two hundred and twenty seven thousand jobs
in November. The President elect doubles down on supporting Pete Hegseth.
And it's not just any old Friday, Jimmy, It's National
bartender Day. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next stepdate is at eight o'clock.

Speaker 25 (01:54:35):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown, Southwest.

Speaker 46 (01:54:37):
Next on the ten time saving traffic on seven forty
KTRH all the signey must.

Speaker 6 (01:54:44):
Be on the other channel. You know this?

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
Count me in Gary Lewsi, the play voice member. That's
you gotta be an oldster, remember that one. Anyway, That's
what the census does, right. They count everybody, But they
also ask questions. They ask all sorts of questions, but
the question they don't seem to want to ask is
are you a United States citizen? And Jim Jordan is
quite frankly tired of that. He had the head of

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the US Census Bureau in front of his committee yesterday
and he's peppering them with questions about why they don't
ask that question.

Speaker 6 (01:55:15):
Chair recognizes mister Jordan from a Wow, thank you, mister chairman. Director.

Speaker 47 (01:55:21):
Did it take a constitutional amendment for the Census Bureau
to be able to ask Americans whether you rent your
home or own your homes? College said, you can't ask
if they're a citizen, and unless we change the constitution.
I understand the constitution says you gotta count persons, and
that's what you do. But you ask a lot of
other things. You find out a lot of other information.

(01:55:41):
Rent your home, do you own your home? You ask
if they're deaf or if they're blind. In this community
American community service that comes from the Census Bureau, you
ask if they got any mental illness. So you can
do that, but you can't ask sort of the fundamental
question that applies to how we apportion seats for the
United States Congress, whether you're a citizen or not.

Speaker 6 (01:55:57):
You can't do that.

Speaker 57 (01:56:00):
We can do whatever we need to do exactly according
to the whatever.

Speaker 6 (01:56:05):
The We just need to tell you to do that.

Speaker 47 (01:56:07):
But Democrats don't want to do that, dud they he
doesn't want to do We want, we want you to
find out how many citizens.

Speaker 6 (01:56:12):
We want you to find out how.

Speaker 47 (01:56:13):
Many persons are in the country, because that's what the
Constitution says. Then we also we want we passed legislation
on this committee, we want to also ask the question
how many people, how many citizens are there in the country.

Speaker 6 (01:56:25):
Are you opposed to doing that?

Speaker 57 (01:56:28):
I am my I am opposed to not providing Congress
with the information that it needs.

Speaker 47 (01:56:38):
I'm asking if do you think it's a good idea
for Congress. We're the policymakers to put on the survey
on the census, asking that question, are you a citizen
or not?

Speaker 57 (01:56:49):
We will do whatever whatever the man.

Speaker 47 (01:56:51):
I'm asking your opinion. You're the guy who does it.
What do you think you think that'd be good for
us to do.

Speaker 57 (01:56:55):
I think that we would need to take a very
careful look because there is evidence that adding a citizenship
question to the disconnial census would dampen participation.

Speaker 47 (01:57:04):
Any evidence when you ask an American citizen, if we
ask you if you've got a mental illness that that
might discourage participation, did you get any evidence on that?

Speaker 1 (01:57:12):
Uh?

Speaker 57 (01:57:12):
That is part of the American Community Survey, and we
we ask it and we get full great participation in that.

Speaker 47 (01:57:20):
So you can ask people whether they've got a mental problem,
but you can't ask whether a citizen or not.

Speaker 6 (01:57:24):
And that's the mental problem. That's gonna be fine.

Speaker 47 (01:57:26):
They're gonna they're gonna participate.

Speaker 37 (01:57:27):
Uh.

Speaker 57 (01:57:27):
In fact, we ask citizenship in the American Community Survey.

Speaker 6 (01:57:32):
Oh, then why don't you do it in the main one?

Speaker 27 (01:57:34):
Then?

Speaker 57 (01:57:35):
Well, uh, I think we have a responsibility to making
sure we understand the risks and benefits of adding any
question to the disconial census.

Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
Well uh o MG, can we get rid of the
Census Bureau while we're while we're dojan stuff, can we
do something about them? All right, listen, it's Friday, have
a great weekend. Please contribute to Saint jud Jildn's Research
Hospital if you haven't so far. I'll see a Monday
morning bright at early five am and the staff room

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at four an am. Nine fifty k PRC