Not Enough Votes To Declare The Next Texas Speaker Of The House

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/09/24.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven forty kt RH Houston Live
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I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as we get
started this morning. Not enough votes to declare the next

(00:25):
Texas Speaker of the House. Trump says he'll had out
some January sixth pardons and coming up at five to eight.
Weight loss drugs tough to get and in high demand.
Details in the minute. Say head, you're in Houston's morning News.
It's first He's full Without Cliff.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's quiet around here, stem Mike, Eric, your job is
to annoy me today.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
All right, let's get on the north side here. We'll
start with your North Freeway late Conrad, love you, Cliff,
looking good all the way down, Man, I miss hanging
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It is time now for the news and for Cliff Today.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Here's Eric Sharp, Good morning, Jimmy, good morning, Mike, Good
morning everyone. Our top story this hour. Drama in the
Texas speaker race. State Representative Dustin Burroughs says that he
has enough votes to become the state House speaker, but
some of his supporters appear to be backing in other candidates.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I love the House.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
It has given me many, many opportunities and chances to
do great things. And this House has done great, great
things together. And these members I cannot thank enough for
putting their trust, in faith and support in me to
make sure the next session we deliver the results to
all Texans.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Burrows made that announcement late Saturday, but quickly ran into
problems when one of his presume Bakers requested that his
name be removed from the list of his supporters. This
comes as Representative Dave Cook remains the preferred choice of
the Republican Caucus. Both appear to be sure to the
seventy six member majority required to win the speakership. The
House won't vote for the speaker until it reconvenes next month. Well, businesses,

(02:27):
both big and small, have struggled under the Biden economy.
Now Texans are looking forward to an economic boom during
the Trump second term.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Texas energy companies are especially optimistic about the next four years.

Speaker 7 (02:39):
The Trump administration is very clear that it's going to
support a very aggressive domestic energy production plan.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
Glenn Hammer with the Texas Association of Businesses, small businesses
will also benefit here.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
I feel very good about the agricultural sector, the small
business sector, and really, look, we have a business guy
that's returning to the white.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
How Hammer says, Trump's victory essentially guarantees that the twenty
seventeen tax cuts will be extended, and those were a
major hope to small businesses. Ethan Buganan News Radio seven
forty KRH.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
And and to sit down interview with NBC's Meet the press.
President elect Donald Trump says winning the election came down
to multiple things, but two we're big in particular.

Speaker 8 (03:18):
I won on two things, the border and more than immigration.
You know, they'd like to say immigration. I'd break it
down more to the border. But I won on the
border and I went on groceries. It's very simple word, groceries.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Trump also expects Pete Hegseth and Cash Patel will get confirmed,
as he said it's likely that there'll be partons handed
out for the January six ers. President elect Trump is
naming personal attorney Alena Habba's Council to the President. Tabos
represented Trump in some of his major civil cases, along
with serving as a senior advisor on this campaign. The
Syrian government has collapsed after rebels seized control of Damascus.

(03:54):
Russia's Foreign ministry said that President Bashil Alis Saan has
resigned and left the country. Opposition forces declared victory at
a statement read on Syrian state television. The US military
has about nine hundred troops stationed in Syria. The Biden
administration says it's providing nearly a billion dollars in military
support for Ukraine. A Defense Department press release on Saturday

(04:15):
said that the assistance package will provide munitions for rocket
systems and unmanned aerial systems. It comes as a House
speaker Mike Johnson has rejected White House request earlier this
week to pass an additional twenty four billion dollars in
aid for Ukraine by the end of the year. Kay
Terry's News Time five to four on an eighty year

(04:36):
old US military vet that was beaten into a coma
over a parking spot in North Harrison County on Friday
has died. At please say, eighty year old Earl Holland
slipped into that como on Friday died on Saturday night.
A suspect is under arrest for aggravated assault. Those charges
could be upgraded well. Several judges in Harris County are
letting sexual offenders off their probation with early terminations.

Speaker 9 (04:59):
We have found in Harris County there have been judges
that have been awarding even non compliant defendants with early
termination of their probations, sometimes just a few months after
their initial sentencing.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Their border with the Texans News, Holly Hansen says that
they've found at least twelve suspects have their probation cut
short in the past year. Well a school choice set
to be a major item of the agenda for the
upcoming legislative session. There are some conservatives who are speaking
out against it, but.

Speaker 10 (05:29):
Sherry Sylvester with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says school
choice is the best choice.

Speaker 11 (05:37):
Conservatives, what we're looking for here is bring them for
parents to choose the best school for their child.

Speaker 10 (05:44):
But you can't do that if you don't have a
good choice public school.

Speaker 11 (05:49):
Good setting for one kid not the best for another kid.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
So you would have that kind.

Speaker 10 (05:54):
Of option, which she says is making it a win
win here in Texas BIG's News Radio seven forty k TRH,
KTRH News.

Speaker 12 (06:04):
Time Now five six.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
The transgender left ideology continues being pushed onto children by
subpar brainwash teachers. Andrew Wigberg of The American Thinker says
education programs have ruined teachers and create a vicious cycle
of crazy.

Speaker 12 (06:19):
But there's hope with Trump's.

Speaker 13 (06:20):
Return, the tide is turning and that's going to make
a huge difference.

Speaker 14 (06:24):
But it needs to turn fast in the classrooms because
if you tell a five year old that men are
women and women are men, and.

Speaker 13 (06:29):
Everybody can be whatever they want, and you can be
a dragon or a cat. Five year olds believe that.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
She says the best way to fix the problem is
to get rid of education degrees requirements for teachers. Well,
the Longhorns, they're playing in the College Football Playoffs.

Speaker 12 (06:42):
Number five longharnds.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
We won't talk about the weekend SEC loss, but the
Longhorns will be welcoming Number twelve Clemson the first round
of the College Football Playoffs. They begin on December twentieth,
with Notre Dame hosting Indiana. The Rockets took down the
Clippers in La one seventeen to one oh six Sunday night.
Houston will come back home to host the Warriors at
Toyota Center on Wednesday. I'm Aeric Charvon, Houston's news weather

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B informed.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Be on time.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Verrett.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Not a wait our time here in Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
All right, you see all the commercials right for like
wee gov every every what was I watching yesterday?

Speaker 12 (07:26):
Trying?

Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think I was watching the NFL yesterday and there
were five commercials in the break four of the commercials
were car ads for different car companies. I'm thinking to myself,
I mean one right after another, you had a Chevy commercial,
and then you had a Ford commercial, and then you
had I mean back to back to back, three in

(07:49):
a row. And I thought, wow, First of all, is
that really a good deal for the advertiser, you know,
to not have any separation on television from your competit commercial?
What am I paying for? But the one that's stuck
in the middle of all that was the goov commercial.
And if you watch cable at all, it's it's it's
every other commercial. It's a big farmer commercial. And they're

(08:12):
making a ton of money off of these weight loss drugs.
Willgvy being probably number one, well maybe Ocempic is number one.
Ozempica with Goovi are the big ones that are advertising
right now. And because they're advertising, the reason why they
advertise so much is twofold Number one, they want you
to use the drug number one.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Number two.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
They want to create demand for the drug with health
insurance companies so that they will cover the drug, and
more and more of than are doing it. Evidently, Ozempica
with Goovie among large companies with five hundred or more
employees was to forty four percent from forty one percent
last year. As far as whether or not they'll cover
it at least a portion of it, about sixty four

(08:52):
percent of companies with twenty thousand workers are more now covered,
compared to fifty six percent in twenty twenty three. Now
you may wonder, well, if it's so expensive, I mean,
why cover it? They cover it because employers are demanding
they cover it because they want to retain talent. And

(09:13):
you know, health care benefits. Who has the best healthcare
benefits is kind of a big deal for retaining talent.
So that's the reason. So you've got the television ads
creating demand of consumers, consumers telling their bosses they want
this covered, the bosses telling healthcare insurance they want that covered. Uh,
they covered on healthcare insurance and jack up the rates.

(09:35):
Now you know why everything is so expensive and it continues.
I guess Big Pharma had a meaning at Mara Lago
with a President ELEC. Trump and RFK Junior. I don't
know if they knew if RFK Junior was going to
be there or not, but the meaning was to talk about,
you know, Trump not being so tough on them, you know,
big food and big Pharma. With the new Health and

(09:57):
Human Services secretary, they might have gotten big awakening five
ten time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Farmer still doesn't care about short. No, they still have
not made a pill for us. No cure for shorts,
guy mine, what would you call it by I'd love
to see our tip liners what they would say. A
pill for being short would be called to be my endorsement.

Speaker 15 (10:15):
Though.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Let's go to the adviser side of the world. Flip
them on it, Katie Freeway looks good. Pen Oak Road.
Go all the way back to what is that Cane
Island Parkway? BUCkies, you look good there too, Beltway, nothing
skipping up. It looks pretty normal to me. Twenty six
minutes from Grand Parkway into the President's heads. It's the
Southwest Freeway. Boy, if you're going to do the Southwest

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before it skips up around Hillcroft, get on now. Brasis
River rocks all the way in, and of course your
West Park Tollway, big shots, you're going you all the
way in. So far we're in good shape. Freeways are Rocket,
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Speaker 2 (10:53):
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one really really amongst the cool.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Days, Yeah, we certainly do.

Speaker 16 (11:02):
As we start off this week, we'll get close to eighty,
but then a cold front paces us a visit and
as a result, low's will drop down to the thirties
Tomorrow night and into Wednesday morning, and the meet time
will start off this morning with some clowns and also
some areas of fog, the most dense fog found right
along the coast, and then during the afternoon a clearing
train will take place. Winds will pick up out of
the southwest, and the high today all the way after
seventy nine party. Cloudy tonight alone in the mid fifties,

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windy and cooler Tomorrow e'specks sunshine at a high sixty
two is Win's gust out of the north. Clear Tomorrow night,
a low down to thirty nine, and on Wednesday plenty
you have sun is the high hits fifty nine.

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Speaker 1 (11:43):
Now back to Jimmy Barrits had the Houston Morning News
team all the info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
So President like Trump was on Meet the Press on
Sunday discussing his vision for day one. The host of
Meet the what is her? What is her name again,
I'm trying to remember her name anyway, Welker, Kristen Welker.

Speaker 12 (12:05):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
She probably asked him fifteen times. So are you are
you going to go after your enemies?

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Are you going to go after people like she name herself,
of course, but are you going to go after people
like me? She's clearly worried about this. First of all,
he's doing an interview with you. Yeah, you're you're not
exactly Trump friendly, but he's doing an interview with you.
Be nice, ask your questions. He was on NBC's Meet

(12:34):
the Press, as I said, promising sweeping changes, including pardons
for the January sixth writers, tariffs on foreign trade, and
of course, mass deportation. He also said he wants to
extend the tax cuts from his first term and birthright citizenship,
and try to keep the so called dreamers in the
country legally He said he has no plans to impose
federal restrictions on abortion pills or on raising requirements for

(12:56):
Social Security and Medicare. That's what he said. Five funny
dove for traffic and weathered together. We're checking out the
drive once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
All right, we're gonna come up from the south side
in just a moment.

Speaker 11 (13:06):
Here.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
You know, I need a lot of help from you
this morning. I don't have Jennifer from TV jumping. Joe's
having to do that and he's doing your navigation. So
the tip line number is seven one three two one
two tips. Joe's on this West sam thing southbound at
West Timer, there's a wreck. Looks like everybody goes okay,
it's a right lane block. We're pointing at things and
look out. As you're coming down from Memorial southbound northbound,

(13:29):
you'll look good. No problems or issues on the ramps
to the KDI and the KD freeways too, Grand Parkway
all the way in. There's no pill for fat. What
would you call a pill for short?

Speaker 17 (13:38):
Yeah, this is John from Pasadena, and I think we
should call it we.

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Grovy boom, we groovy. Jimmy, I love it all right,
that's a major banana sticker, John for Pasadena. I'm in
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Yeah, Mike Brady isn't working as good as his is
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Speaker 4 (14:20):
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The manhunter for the gunmen who shot and killed the
CEO of a major healthcare company. Now in day five,

(14:43):
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By twenty three at a time here in Houston's morning news.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
So if Eric was just telling you, the man hunts
still underway for whoever it is that shot Brian Thompson,
the CEO of United Healthcare. They found some things like
monopoly money, evidently in that backpack. He left the backpack
and in a very conspicuous spot in Central Park in
New York. They've also got all kinds of pictures of

(15:41):
the guy. I don't know if they have a name.
I'm guessing they might very well have a name, but
the manhunt is underway. They're trying to find this guy.
Here's some reporting on what we've learned or what the
latest information we've learned on this particular manhunt.

Speaker 18 (15:52):
And Mary Ellen, you were an FBI profiler. When you
look at this case, when you look at him, when
you look at those videos and what they've found in
that backpack, they found monopoly money. I mean, what does
this all tell you about this suspect?

Speaker 19 (16:09):
When I look at the suspect and I look at
his behavior from beginning to what we think is when
he left New York City, there's a quality to it
that suggests there's a little bit of practice there and
there's almost a lack of experience, and those two things
are very different. So what I mean by that is
looks like he practiced things. He probably had been to

(16:31):
New York before and knew what the route was, he
knew where the victim was going to be, he knew
what his schedule was going to be, So that would
come with knowledge. But the experience means is he an
experienced assassin, and I would disagree with that. So practice
versus experience, there's.

Speaker 13 (16:48):
Almost that monopoly money.

Speaker 19 (16:50):
There's almost a game like quality to this behavior. So,
for example, the way that he's caught on a number
of video cameras, and I know with the ballistics there
were some interesting behaviors there as well.

Speaker 13 (17:04):
So that may come from the idea that the way he.

Speaker 19 (17:07):
Got practice is how video games TV shows.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
That's a very interesting point.

Speaker 18 (17:13):
But those shellcasings, those shellcasings that said deny, defend depos
can certainly offer some clues perhaps to motive.

Speaker 19 (17:22):
They could, and the motive would be very specific then,
because then it would go to issues relative to the
health and that system and being denied that sort of thing. However,
when you have a game player who's your offender, you
have to be open that that is a ruse to
cause law enforcement to look in a different direction.

Speaker 13 (17:45):
And I'm sure they're aware of that.

Speaker 19 (17:46):
They are great investigators up there, so they're looking at
the possibility it has to do with the medical field,
but they're also considering the possibility maybe this offender wants
us to look in a different direction.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, So on one hand, it's like the guy's playing games, right,
But but what you don't know. Okay, let's let's just
say for the sake of argument, that's what he is.
He's playing games, that this is, this is more about
trying to, you know, get the police to see if

(18:21):
they're smart enough to figure out who he is and
where he is and if he can beat the police.
Even if that is part of the game, that doesn't
tell us why this guy was the target. You know,
why why would you decide to go after the CEO
of United Healthcare unless there was some sort of a background,
whether whether you know, have somebody working at United Healthcare

(18:44):
who's who's telling you what a horrible guy this is
that you know, or you have a relative who's been
denied healthcare by United Healthcare? What's the motivation for going
after this particular guy. That's the part with you know,
I don't think we've quite figured out at this point
not to mess with the fact and quite figured out
where he is. Five twenty six, It is time to
take a look at your money. Jeff Fellinger's here, good morning.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
And Jimmy, good morning to you.

Speaker 20 (19:07):
Stocks closed out a winning week with a mixed session.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
The Dow lost a.

Speaker 20 (19:11):
Little ground in Friday's trading, but modest advances put the
Nasdaq and the S and P five hundred at record
highs ahead of the weekend. More job market indicators on
the way. Today, the Conference Board releases its monthly Employment
Trends INDECKS. Merger talks are reportedly underway between two giant
advertising agencies. The Wall Street Journal says Omnikom is in

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advanced talks to acquire inter Public. If a Neil is done,
it would likely be worth more than thirteen billion dollars.
It would create the biggest advertising firm in the world.
Mawana iiO was the number one movie for a second
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Walt Disney took in another fifty two million dollars. Universal's

(19:53):
Wicked remained in second place, with ticket sales just under
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Five thirty is our time here in Houston's morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Mexico says it will work with Trump on immigration and tariffs,
a Texas school band for all social media, and coming
up at five thirty eight things that could be banned
under r f K Junior details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, Let'shio out that morning

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drive once again. Sky Mike's here, all right.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
We're holding that Wes Sam wreck that's southbound at West Timer.
It's taxing up a right line. Not a big problem
as far as slowdown. So far you can buy just
and you'll see the flashy light, so I don't think
it'll sneak up on anybody. We look good so far
on the rest of the North Sam. I don't even
have the Scooch at Ald in Westfield yet. That's coming
in a few minutes, Skymike in the classic Buick GMC Traffic.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Center from our KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour
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It's time now for the news in for clip today,
here's Eric Sharp.

Speaker 12 (21:36):
Good morning.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
It's five thirty one now on news radio seven forty
k TRHR.

Speaker 12 (21:42):
Top story this hour.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Bentonel not the only drug that's flowing across the Mexican
border into Texas. Customs agents last week sees the stash
of testosterone and steroids. They see the unusually large load
was being smuggled by a woman who was driving a
truck into the border town of Laredo. Atabolic steroids fall
under the Controlled Substance ect. Homeland Security agents arrested the
driver and have launched a criminal investigation. Emigration reporter Todd

(22:06):
Bestman meanwhile, just return from Mexico where he spoke with
a high ranking official about Trump and the Mexico president.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
And then Bensman told us what's really going on.

Speaker 15 (22:17):
Well, what's really going on is that the Mexican government
is pushing back.

Speaker 10 (22:22):
He says, they don't want the terriffs and they don't
want immigrants from other countries.

Speaker 15 (22:28):
There may be some sparks for trade tariffs, and they
probably will lose any kind of trade to war with
the United States. They don't want to take extra continentals.
That's it, Ay Donald. They'll take Mexicans. They don't want
to take anybody else.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Which is why they are trying to strike a deal
with Trump.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven k T.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Other reports are coming out of southern Mexico that migrants
are heading back to their home countries before Trump returns
to office, but some are still trying to use cartel
smugglers to sneak into the US.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
They are trying to avoid all detection.

Speaker 22 (23:02):
They're trying to avoid not being finger printed, not having
the picture taking, not identified by any means.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
As Former Homeland Security agent Victor Ovuli, he told ktr
H that he's worried that these illegals sneaking in last
minute could be criminals or worse. Texas looking to prevent
Democrat resistance to the Trump border enforcement plan.

Speaker 23 (23:22):
Fort Worth State Repnate shats Line has filed a bill
that would require all Texas counties to comply with federal
immigration law. Former federal immigration judge Mark Metcalf says the
state would be on solid legal ground.

Speaker 24 (23:34):
There is no area in federal law which the federal
government is more supreme than in the area of immigration.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
In this case, what the.

Speaker 24 (23:41):
Legislature is being asked to here as hell local jurisdiction
will faithfully execute immigration law within Texas.

Speaker 23 (23:49):
Under the bill, any county that fails to cooperate with
ICE could be sued by the Texas Attorney General and
have state funds withheld. Corey Jolson, who's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Representative Justin Burrows says he's got enough votes to become
the state House speaker, but some of his supporters appear
to be backing another candidate. Burrows made the announcement late Saturday,
but quickly ran into problems when one of his presumed
backers requested his name be removed from the list of
his supporters and his name he wanted his name removed

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from the list. This, of course, comes as Representative David
Cook remains the preferred choice of their Republican caucus. Both
appear to be short of the seventy six member majority
required to win the speakership. While the former commander of
US Central Command says the US troops stationed in Syria
are likely in less danger after the fall of President
Bashira A l Assad's regime. Retired Marine Corps General Frank

(24:42):
McKenzie telling ABC's This Week that while there may be
less threats to US troops, the presidence of those troops
is still important to the fight against terrorist groups in
the region.

Speaker 12 (24:52):
K t H News signed out five thirty four.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
State lawmakers are likely to consider banning miners from having
social media accounts when they meet for the legislative session
next month.

Speaker 25 (25:03):
It gives them what's called the dopamine stimulation hit to
the success of dopamine to successive gaming and social media
leads to addiction. In many cases, even physically, it shrinks
their frontal cortex, which decreases the ability to say no.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
As president of college Prep Genius Gene Birch, he agrees
with the ban and says that cell phones in general
could also have a strong effect of the brain of
young people and wouldn't mind seeing them ban in schools
as well. College enrollment down five percent among eighteen year
olds is fall semester. That's according to the National Student
Clearinghouse Research Center. The declient is hire in both public

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and private four year colleges, and of course you're going
to hear a lot of over the next few weeks
about how car safety inspections will no longer be required
in Texas. But right here in Harris County, Texas, DPS
Trooper Richard Standeffer says that you're going to need a
different kind of inspection.

Speaker 12 (25:54):
That is correct.

Speaker 26 (25:55):
People are going to read that and they're going to say, well,
no vehicle has to be inspected, and that's not miss
certainly truth. You'll still have to pay to have it
inspected due to the emissions.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Emissions tests will be required in seventeen collies, including Harris, Fort, Ben, Galveston, Montgomery,
and Brazoria, all because of the population and clean air mandate.
Mikey U, owner of Midtown Auto, says, it's a real headline.

Speaker 27 (26:20):
So people think that that fee goes away, they'll have
a rude awakening when it comes to their buying their
new registration sticker.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
The emission's fees will be set at eighteen dollars and
fifty cent says for the seven to fifty safety fee,
the state's adding that to your registration. Kat Reh News
Time five thirty six. Last week, NASA delayed the Artemis
Moon mission to twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven.
Eric Berger says that he wasn't surprised. You shouldn't be.

Speaker 28 (26:46):
Either, Well, you know, to anyone who's really been paying
attention the dates that NASA had put up at the
beginning of this year, we're unrealistic to begin with.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Berger says he's confident that NASA can get us back
to the Moon by the end of the decade. Along Horns,
they are playing in the college football playoffs Number five
Long Horns will be taking home field advantage, welcoming in
number twelve Clemson the first round of college football playoffs.
He will begin December twentieth with Notre Dame hosting Indiana. Meanwhile,
the Rockets took down the Clippers in La one seventeen

(27:18):
one oh six last night. He used to come back
home to host the Warriors at Toyota Center on Wednesday.
I'm Eric Sharp on Houston's news, weather and traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Four.

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There's a lot going on.

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Us Radio seven forty KTRH No, he's not going to
ban sugar.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Come on, be serious. Five thirty seven is our time
here on Houston's Boying News. Artcate Junior is not gonna
ban sugar. He's not gonna ban trans fats. At least
I will think he's gonna ban transpts. I mean, after all,
what's gonna keep Mogobe in business keeping get rid of
all that stuff. Here's the list of some of the
things that they think would might likely be at least

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targeted for banning if RFK Junior becomes Health and Human
Services Secretary. Red dye number forty, or a Laura red,
as it's called, is a synthetic coloring agent found in
numerous candies, snacks, and beverages. While widely used in the
United States, the additive has been linked to serious health concerns.

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The European Union requires warning labels on products containing this dye.
They've been talking about this dye for a long long time.
Yellow dyes, Yellow number five and yellow number six popular
food coloring with significant health concerns. So far, we're just
talking about dyes. I guess titanium dioxide. It's a common
whitening agent used in candies, baked goods and other processed foods.

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They found it unsafe in Europe, so maybe they'll find
it unsafe here. Hard to say what else it might
be on the list of things here, let's see bromum
brominated vegetable oil. Brominaated vegetable is a controversially ingredient used
in sodas and sports strings to stabilize ingredients and prevent separation.

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Research has rates concerns about its effects on thyroid function
and potential toxicity. Potassium bromite the baking additive danger, we're told,
is a baking additive use to strengthen doe and improved texture.
Despite its functional benefits, it has been classified as a
fossil carcinogen due to links with kidney cancer and other

(29:38):
health issues. Fruit loops, Oh hey god, now we're getting
into real food. Fruit loops exemplifies the artificial additive debate,
owing its bright colors to synthetic dyes, including red dye
number forty. So there's a lot of dyes in fruit loops.
They would have to come up with a different way
to color. They have come up with a different way
to color them. In Canada, the US real vegetables in

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order to be able of colored, which course makes it
more expensive. Mountain Dew.

Speaker 12 (30:07):
Man.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
When I was sixteen seventeen years old, I survived on
Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew has a complex case of artificial additives,
containing both synthetic dyes and brominated vegetable oil. So it's
got all that kind of good stuff in there. So
Mount Dew might be one of them. And I'm sure
the few more that we'll get to before the hour
is over and done with five forty time for traffic

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and weathers together. We have some brominated vegetable oil.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
I'm hungry. I'll tell you what little Mountain do sounds
good right about now? Does this sky mondo plasmic reticulated
hydrogenated oil. Yeah, pour that over your fruit loops and
it also cleans up your battery. If you're having a problem.
West Sam southbound, we've got oh, clear that accident. Now
let's see pull that off the screen. They've reopened the
right lane. Yeah, we're back to normal, So clear the board.

(30:52):
Reset the jackpot on the West Sam North Sam. Here
we go at all deemed westfield. This is going to
be westbound road work. It's a lifestyle a little bit
there for a while. Two left lanes are block going
that way and then eastbound. Now they've thrown in some
extra pavement repair right off of that ramp from forty five.
That's gonna cause a squish. Those of you coming over
from two forty nine trying to hit the airport, those

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will be coming down from forty five. That's going to
mess you up. Should you go to all deem bender,
maybe bust to Yuie. I'm staying the course for right now.
Hardy's looking good. East text rocks twenty two from Humble
into downtown and coming up the golf Freeway. Check you
right up here from Lamark, We're in good shape so far.
Twenty one minutes from clear Lake up. We've got our

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tip line at seven one three two one two t
ips dude.

Speaker 29 (31:38):
On the fifth day of Christmas, guy my get to
me boy.

Speaker 28 (31:43):
No traffic on forty five.

Speaker 29 (31:45):
So four jelly donuts, three cups of coffee, boom, two
toe ninjas and one cowboys lost on Monday night.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Boom. Right there, that's a major banana stear What are
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Right from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
weather center Jeff mar In for terry. Today, we get
a return of early fall for one day.

Speaker 16 (32:12):
Yeah, we do today well into the seventies, and then
a cold front moves through and that's going to impact
to our temperature is into Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll get
down to the thirties for low's tomorrow night and early
on Wednesday morning, but that will not be the case today's.
You head out some clouds and fog initially, then sun
will break through into the afternoon. You combine that sun
with gusty winds out of the southwest. The end result
of high all the way up to seventy nine degrees party,
cloudy tonight with a low in the mid fifties, and

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then behind the cold front, tomorrow's sunny, breezy and cooler.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Behind you're sixty two.

Speaker 16 (32:38):
We should dip into the upper thirties with a clear
sky tomorrow night and on Wednesday, plenty of sun with
a high here fifty.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Nine right down sixty one at your official severe weather station,
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Five forty nine is a time here in Houston's Morning News.
I was mentioning a little earlier some of the items
that might be on the chopping block, if you will,
if RFK Junior becomes a secretary, all the things that
have their artificial dies and them here's some of more
of those processed overly processed. Next, cheesey crackers made the list,
loaded up with yellow dye number six. A lot of candies,

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like Skittles rely on a lot of those colorful dyes
in order to be able to get the colors that
they have there. And the list goes on and on
and on. Soda. A lot of sodas have the bromded
vegetable oil we were talking about. So there are quite
a few things that would probably the formula might have
to change if they're gonna stay on the shelf. Five
pin fifty times four Traffic and weather together. First, we've

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got Sky Mike here. What do you got for me?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Mike, Well, my listeners are the first to know what's
going on on the roads. Two forty nine Jeff Magnolia.

Speaker 15 (33:48):
Tay Sky, Mike, there is a car that has just
started on the fire in the turn lane two forty
nine onto the north felt west down.

Speaker 29 (33:57):
Nobody there, nothing.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
All right, let's be super careful as we're coming down
from Greens Road. Let me let jump in Joe, he's
doing TV and the rest of the media know what's
going on. That's two forty nine southbound at the belt.
We cleared the west SAM at west tim or southbound
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Speaker 2 (34:17):
All right, we don't have a clear winter yet. For
the Texas Speaker of the House, we'll have more than
that story coming up here in just a moment. First, though,
let's take a look at our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty
four hour Weather Center forecast for today. Looks like it's
going to end up with plenty of sunshine by the
afternoon morning. Cloud's high eighty today, then tomorrow mostly cloudy, windy,
and cooler, with the high temperature about sixty temperature currently

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sixty at your officials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven
forty k TRH. We're checking out some of our top
stories on a Monday morning. Here's Eric Shark.

Speaker 12 (34:48):
Good morning.

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Next on the tenth, five fifty two so their time
here in Houston's Morning News. Who will the NEXTUS next
Texas House Speaker be? And we don't really know. We
know it won't be Daton Feeland that much, we do know,
but will it be Cook or Burrows? Over the weekend,
Representative Burrows made the glaim that he has enough votes

(36:03):
to become the next Texas Speaker of the House. Join
us to talk about Texas State Representative elect former Ken
Paxton defensive journey Mitch Little Mitch, welcome back to the show.
Do you is there a clear winner here in your
mind or is this up in the air. Absolutely not,
There's not a clear winner yet. If you look at
what happens Saturday, Wow, what an introduction to the Texas

(36:25):
House for me. So I'm in this meeting with all
these people who are supposed to be my colleagues, eighty
eight Republicans.

Speaker 30 (36:34):
We get through two rounds of voting. The first round
is forty eight votes for David Cook, forty for Dustin Burroughs.
Second round forty seven for David Cook, forty one for
Dustin Burroughs. We're getting ready to have a third round
of voting and Dustin Burrows and his supporters just they
get up and walk out of the room without explaining themselves.

(36:55):
They don't say where they're going, and they just leave
the meeting completely. And so as you get to the
end of the day on Saturday, we're there for you know,
I was there for five hours trying to vote and
get a nominee. And Dustin Burroughs puts on a press
conference saying I've got the votes, the race for the
Texas House is over, and the list his list supposedly

(37:18):
has more Republicans and Democrats on it. But as the
night rolled on, Republicans start saying, hey, I never said
I was with Dustin Burroughs or on his list.

Speaker 12 (37:27):
This is its madness.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Wow, it sounds like madness. It's it's it sounds in
the case of Dustin Burroughs, it sounds like there wouldn't
maybe be that big of a difference between a Dustin
Bureaus and the Dade feeling or am not being fair.

Speaker 12 (37:41):
It's there.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
It's the same regime.

Speaker 30 (37:44):
It's gonna have the same staffers, it's gonna be manned
by the same people. You're gonna probably have the same
committee chairs. You're gonna get the same results. The problem
is as as Republicans started falling off Dustin Burrow's list
on Saturday. As the night went on and it became
obvious that Dustin Burroughs had more Democrats on his list

(38:05):
than Republicans.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
And so in a Republican majority.

Speaker 30 (38:08):
State, where every stateway at office is held by a Republican,
we have a speaker who's ostensibly going to be installed
by a majority of Democrats. This is the old Strauss play,
the old Joe Strauss play, run again by Dustin Burroughs,
and Texans should.

Speaker 12 (38:29):
Not put up with it.

Speaker 30 (38:30):
You should go online and try to find out if
your representative is on Dustin Burrough's list. This can't this
can't happen anymore, all right, So when's the next book
going to take place? He sounds like Dustin Burroughs took
all of his toys and went home. So when is
he coming back? I guess we'll find out on January

(38:52):
fourteenth when he hit the floor. What's gonna happen between
now and January fourteenth is both the race is not over.
Both David Cook and Dustin Burroughs are going to be
working the members of the Texas House trying to find
a path to seventy six. What David Cook started out
doing is what we all should be doing. We should
be moving through the House Republican Caucus and trying to

(39:15):
find a winner. And that was the purpose of the
vote on Saturday, so that every Republican in the House
would support the winner of the House Republican Caucus, who
is now David Cook. The problem is we've got too
many Republicans in the state who are not living.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Up to their word.

Speaker 30 (39:30):
They're not following the caucus bylaws, and they're trying to
cut deals with the Dems so that they can maintain
and grow their own personal power.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Okay, this is going to be interesting, to say the least.
Thanks for checking out with us. Match appreciate it. Texas
State Representative elect former Ken Paxton defense attorney. That's Mitched Little.
It's five fifty six.

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among our top stores. As half hour, not enough votes
to declare the next Texas Speaker of the House Trump
says that he'll pardon the January sixth prisoners, and coming
up at six A eight a fragrance, your enemies cannot resist.
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we're checking out that morning Vibe once again. Here's sky Mike.
All right, two forty nine. Got the vehicle fire KGr
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Speaker 31 (40:41):
My southbound taking the Beltley eight exits, gotta crash card one.

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Before the Beltley a addiction. Two cars on the feed
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Clayton not JFK. That's right southbound. Banana stickers all around.
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From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
Center morning clouds, afternoon sun with the teiperature right about
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Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the
news and for Cliff Today. Here's Eric Sharp. Good morning.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
It's six ahuat on news Radio seven forty k TRH.
This is brought to you by All Star Construction. Our
top story this hour. Drama in the Texas speaker race,
State Representative Justin Burroughs says he's got enough votes to
become the state House speaker, with some of his supporters
appear to be backing in other candidates.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
These members I cannot thank enough for putting their trust,
in faith and support in me to make sure that
next session we deliver the results to all Texans.

Speaker 12 (41:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
He made that to announcement late Saturday, but quickly ran
into problems when one of his presume bankers requested his
name to be removed from the list of his supporters.
This comes as Representative David Cook remains the preferred choice
of the Republican caucus. Both appear to be short if
the seventy six member majority required to win the speakership.

Speaker 7 (42:13):
Well.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
After years of struggling to keep up with the Biden economy.
Both big and small businesses in Texas are looking forward
to a booming Trump economy.

Speaker 7 (42:21):
I mean you see it in terms of the way
the markets are reacting, and they're moving up very rapidly,
setting all sorts of records. The job creators are clearly
very happy.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Glenn Hamberg with the Texas Association of Business till KTRH
at trump deregulation as well as the extension of his
tax cuts will be a major boost to the Texas
energy and Texas agriculture economy all. Donald Trump says among
the first things he'll do when he takes office is
to try it in the anchor baby concept birthright citizenship
in the United States.

Speaker 12 (42:54):
He says there'll be plenty more on his mind too.

Speaker 33 (42:57):
The President elect is laying out an aggressive start to
his second term in office. He told NBC that he's
going to work with Democrats to try to spare from
deportation those brought to the United States illegally as children,
so called dreamers, but he said his administration would work
to deport.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
All other illegal immigrants now.

Speaker 33 (43:17):
Trump said he's also going to treat Americans who opposed
him during the campaign. Quote as well as he treated
the greatest magas supporters. He said members of the January
sixth Committee, like former Republican Representative Liz Cheney, should go
to jail, but that he would not seek retribution against
the Biden family.

Speaker 12 (43:35):
And the President elect. Of course. In that interview, says
that America is at a turning point.

Speaker 8 (43:39):
I'm really looking to make our country successful. I'm not
looking to go back into the past. I'm looking to
make our country successful. Retribution will be through success.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Incoming National Security of Ator Michael Wallas calling it a
bright turning point.

Speaker 34 (43:53):
You've seen Bezos talking about deregulation, Zuckerberg talking about ai
Elon talking about going to the moon. This president is
ready to do big things and it's an honor to
be by aside as he does it.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
That was Walson now Fox News. TikTok's future in America
is up in the air. A federal appeals court panel
on Friday upheld a law mandating that the sale or
ban of the Chinese owned social media platform, and a
bipartisan effort Congress passed the legislation too, in its words,
protect US interest. President Biden signed off on the bill
in April TikTok arguers that the forced sales a violation

(44:28):
of First Amendment rights and may appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Biden administration says it's providing nearly a billion dollars
in military support for Ukraine. A Defense Department press release
on Saturday said that the assistance package will provide munitions
for rocket systems and unmanned aerial systems. It comes as
House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a White House request earlier

(44:49):
this week to pass an additional twenty four billion dollars
in aid for Ukraine by the end of the year.
Katry's news time is sixh five and eighty year old
US military events that was into a comba over a
parking spot in North Harris County on Friday has died.
At least a eighty year old Earl excuse me, Earl
Holland slipped into a comba Friday died Saturday night. A

(45:10):
suspect is under arrest for aggravated assault. Those charges could
be upgraded. A tom ballman is dead after his confrontation
with a man who was trying to break into his trailer.
Harris County Sheriff's Department says that Dustin Nelson was shot
and died before his first responders arrived. No arrest had
been made at last check, and Harris County judges letting
sexual offenders off the hook at.

Speaker 35 (45:31):
Least a dozen people charged with sexual crimes getting early
terminations of their probation.

Speaker 9 (45:36):
We found that least twelve defendants that were charged with
sexual offenses were given these early terminations in Harris County
just last year.

Speaker 35 (45:45):
Reporter with the Texan News Holly Hansen says, Harris County
judges are abiding by Texas law.

Speaker 9 (45:51):
Judges may not dismiss the proceedings and discharge a defendant
charged with an offense that requires the defendant to register
as a sex.

Speaker 35 (45:59):
Of Some suspects were charged with felonies and are likely
to be repeat offenders too. Jared Lewis News Radio seven
forty KRH.

Speaker 12 (46:07):
And there's actually some conservatives who are concerned about school
choice because of how it'll affect public schools or Sherry
Sylvester with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says, the result
shows it's actually a good thing.

Speaker 11 (46:19):
The school systems have risen up, responded to the competition,
made themselves even stronger, so their parents will choose to
send their kids there. That's always been the theory of
school choice.

Speaker 4 (46:30):
She added, some parents prefer public school, private, some private,
and even others that choose to homeschool. KTRH News Time
NOWT six six the Longhorns they got home field advantage
for the college football playoffs. They'll be hosting a number
twelve Clemson. First round of the College Football Playoffs will
begin December twentieth, with Notre Dame hosting Indiana. The Rockets

(46:52):
took down the Clippers in La one seventeen one six
last night. Used to We'll come back home to host
the Warriors at Toyota Center Wednesday. I'm Eric Sharp on
Houston's news weather in traffic station News Radio seven k
t RH.

Speaker 11 (47:06):
I live in Deer Park.

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Your best ways are round Houston. Next on the ten
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Speaker 2 (47:16):
Do you think President Trump smells like money?

Speaker 3 (47:21):
I wonder, yo.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
You know, if somebody's rich and powerful as he is,
the what what does that smell like? Because the President
elect is coming out with his own line of perfumes
and colognes evidently, and he's he's he's using Jill Biden,
the first current First Lady of the Land, in order
to try to help selve the stuff. There's a photograph,

(47:45):
or actually a video of a moment widely shared moment
between President Trump and Jill Biden during the reopening of
the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. They're having a very
bipartisan moment, bantering back and forth with each other, and
she's kind of smiling at him, you know, that that

(48:07):
kind of smile that women sometimes we give when they're
really attracted to somebody. It's it's a little weird. But
President Trump, being ever the marketer that he is, the
entrepreneur that he is, put out a truth social media
post yesterday with with a picture of himself and Joe

(48:31):
Biden with the tongue in cheek caption of fragrance Your
enemies cannot resist.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
So so you.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
Know, he's using that line to sell his perfume and
cologne that which, by the way, is called Fight Fight Fight,
not very romantic sounding name, but hey, he said in
the in the video, he said that they would make
a great Christmas gift. I've named them Fight Fight Fight
because they represent winning. We all want to be winning.

(48:59):
We have to win. This Fragrance is all about strength
and success and confidence for men. And for women, the
set is your ralling cry. In the bottle, the description says,
this limited edition cologne embodies strength, power and victory. Whatever
that smells like. Six ' ten don for traffic and
weather together, we're checking off the drive. I'm gonna get

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you a gallon of that stuff. Skyon.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
We're looking at your easetecks now, South Mound. I've got
some kind of I got big bill from New can
Andy Chacy from Huffman gave me this record. Looks to
me mostly on the right side coming down at the beltway.
If you're coming from the airport. If you're trying to
get to the airport, be sure and take Willie C
instead of the JFK exit, So do directly, or you
could take my secret route the Hardy Toll Road Airport

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connector ninety Dayton. I've got something scooching up here. Hey,
ninety Dayton.

Speaker 9 (49:50):
I don't know how to do the fancy lingo, but
on ninety four it's got announce the standstill, all right.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
That's Highway ninety right where they're doing all that blasted
road instruction. If you know where fourteen thirteen is, it's
between Dayton and Crosby inbound, and that's looking pretty rough.
Now that's westbound. Okay, double check that that looks westbound.
We'll get a good exact whichever way I know. I've
got rubbernecking two to forty nine. By the way, you
don't have to have burbage, but I would love your
name and what neighborhood you're from. Cartfire James Magnolia on

(50:19):
two forty nine.

Speaker 29 (50:20):
Okay, Mike, here's my burbage. Food and the Forgotten Freeway.
There are a bunch of flashy lights and Ninja's. It
is a place you're going to back up at least
for nineteen sixty here p pretty quickly.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
All right, well said southbound two forty nine at the Beltway.
It looks like multiple lanes will update that. At the
six twenty and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
You should do a class on how to speak skymikey
Skymike's one on one.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
It's not required, though, just tell me your name where
you're from.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
But he will give you a passing grade if you
take the course. Extra points from our KTRH top tax
Defenders twenty four our weather Center. Let's go ahead and
check in again with the Jeff Mahr is in today
for Terry. He's got an eye on the forecast, kind
of down on the temperatures yesterday, up today and then
back down again.

Speaker 16 (51:06):
Yeah, we're on the roller coaster ride and we're on
the uphill certain section. As we make our way through
this Monday with winds out of the southwest, we'll see
some clowns and fog early, and then during the afternoon
sun breaks through in the high climbs all the way
up to seventy nine degrees as winds pick up out
of the southwest and partly clouding tonight with a low
dropping to fifty five, and then tomorrow we will trind
cooler behind the front, sunny and breezy, with gusts out

(51:27):
of the north near twenty to twenty five miles per hour,
the high in near sixty two. Clear Tomorrow night down
of thirty nine, and a Sunday Wednesday with the high
year fifty nine. The temperatures will rebound into Thursday and
Friday right down sixty one. At your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH six eighteen. It's our
time here in Houston's morning news. Probably one of the

(51:48):
biggest news stories over the weekend that probably didn't get
a lot of coverage because it broke over the weekend.
Is the Asad regime falling in Syria. Here is President
Biden yesterday informing the public about this takeover from this
group of rebels, and about was here Assad, who now

(52:09):
evidently is in the Soviet Union, well in Russia, not
the Soviet Union anymore.

Speaker 12 (52:14):
What happened in the Middle East?

Speaker 36 (52:18):
After thirteen years of civil war in Syria more than
half a century brutal authoritarian rule by a sheer Assad
as father before rebel forces are forced Assad to resign
his office and flee the country. We're not sure he is,
but there's worthy. He's in Moscow.

Speaker 12 (52:38):
A long last. The sod regime has fallen.

Speaker 36 (52:42):
This regime brutalized and tortured and killed. There are hundreds
of thousands of innis Assyrians. The fall of the regime
is a fundamental act of justice. It's a moment of
historic opportunity for the long suffering people of Syria to
build a better future for the proud come. It's also
a moment of risk and uncertainty as we all turn

(53:05):
to the question of what comes next. The United States
we'll work with our partners and the stakeholders in Syria,
tell them seize an opportunity to manage the risks. You know,
for years the main backs of ASSAD have been around
Hesbalah and Russia. But over the last week our support

(53:26):
collapsed all three of them, because all three of them
are far weaker today than they were when.

Speaker 12 (53:32):
I took office.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
In other words, it's it's Joe Biden's fault if you
will that that the Assad regime is over and done with,
and what what is it replaced with? Probably another terrorist state.
Who are these rebels? Probably many of them are members
of ISIS, So now we're gonna have another terrorist state.
Instead of getting killed by ASAD, the people will get

(53:55):
killed by ISIS terrorists who want them to be to
their will. Six one ty for traffic and weather together,
let's go ahead to get you updated on that drive again.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Here's sky Matte all right, I know we've got to
get an update on the Laneage East. Text inbound at
the Beltway helped me out on the tip line. If
y'all will, you've got two forty nine. The rest of
the media now knows there's a car fire right at
the Beltway southbound, I will hit a big squish from
Willowbrook down and Highway ninety. Big wreck on the inbound
that's halfway between Crosby and Dayton at around County Road.

(54:27):
I want to say six oh five. It's by fourteen thirteen,
you know where the gas stations and all that terrible
road work is Junior from Dayton's and Liberty.

Speaker 31 (54:34):
I might go on east right there at Main Street,
front of the stripes all the way to the Merge.

Speaker 29 (54:40):
Everything reduced down the one lane right.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
That's tough going. If you're trying to hit Beaumont this morning,
and I've got Tracy from Cyprus on the line, I'll
bet something scooched up on two ninety. We'll check it
at six thirty and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
By the way, Trump already negotiating with the Mexican government.
More than that story coming up next. First, though, let's
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Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yeah, that's a little more remina sized version of Mexico.
Six twenty four is their time here in Houston's morning news.
It feels like the Trump administration is already underway. He's
negotiating with the President of Mexico as it relates to fentanyl,
as relates to illegal immigration, and of course the big
stick for him is tariffs and it has them scared
to death. Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the

(56:41):
Center for Immigration Studies. You know, for all the complains
here about people, well they're going to make things more
expensive with tariffs. It's a negotiation tool for Trump and
it seems to be working pretty well.

Speaker 12 (56:51):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 37 (56:53):
That is a shot across the bow that Mexico really
heard in Canada too. Taking it seriously. They have to
because it's Donald Trump. He's coming to office with a
big baseball bat and he's going to use it at
the diplomacy table. And I think that they understand what

(57:17):
this meant. It's economic devastation and all they really have
to do is what they've been doing for Joe Biden
for the last year, which is Operation Carousel.

Speaker 12 (57:28):
It's called in the media. That's been a.

Speaker 37 (57:31):
Major military operation throughout Mexico for since December of last
year that.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Biden got them to do.

Speaker 37 (57:40):
We don't know what under what terms, but Biden definitely
got them to do it to keep the decongestion at
a minimum at the border. During the campaign, it looked
terrible for Democrats, right, You're campaigning on an issue that
is say, it doesn't really exist, but here they are

(58:02):
running over the border by the tens of thousands a
day or a month.

Speaker 12 (58:07):
And so.

Speaker 37 (58:09):
Mexico can do this, and because of the tariff threat,
they already are doing it to a significant extent for
Trump now that the election's over.

Speaker 12 (58:21):
But doing it.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
For Trump, let me ask you this, though the cartel.
We know how deeply entrenched the cartel is and they
are working in many ways, they've worked in concert with
the Mexican government. So how does Mexico resolve the relationship
with the cartel.

Speaker 37 (58:35):
Well, that's going to have to be part of the negotiation.
Because Shinbaum, the new Mexican president, has adopted her predecessor's
policy toward the cartels, which they call I'm not making
this up. This is what they call it. Hugs not
bullets for the cartels. That's not going to work. It's

(58:58):
not going to fly for the Trump administration. It's going
to have to be bullets, not hugs for Trump. And
we'll see what sort of leverage and demands that Trump makes,
don't I don't know if he's really quite gotten to that,
other than that you now shut combat the Mexican drug

(59:19):
cartels to an extent greater than we've seen really in many,
many years, maybe since the Calderon government. The Trump administration's
going to want Mexican war, military, kinetic war with these cartels,
and we'll see whether, you know, they can leverage that.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Yeah, that's gonna be interesting, to say the least. Todd,
thank you, appreciated National security fellow at the Center for
Immigration Studies, that is Todd Bensman. It is six twenty seven.
It is time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Bellinger is here.

Speaker 20 (59:51):
And Jimmy speaking of the President elect, Donald Trump told
NBC yesterday he will not try to oist Federal Reserve
chairge your own Powell when you return to the White House,
stock market futures are mixed. Only the Dow futures are
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Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Six thirty is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Mexico says it will work with Trump on immigration and tariffs,
a Texas school band for all social media, and coming
up at six point thirty eight, seventy percent of us
say that we're overworked. Details in the minutes ahead. You're
on Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that drive

(01:00:51):
time again. Here's sky Mira.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
All right, I'm watching two forty nine southbound at the Beltway.
Looks like that's not causing that big of a scoots
right now, that's a vehicle fire. You knew it first
here at the Beltway Crosby Freeway, halfway between Dayton and Liberty.
That's an ugly wreck. Fourteen to thirteen southbound and I've
got Doug from Conro on the North Freeway time Mike.

Speaker 31 (01:01:10):
Just between you and me and the Finnish post of
southbound on forty five ride before rayfers sawdust.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
They got two right lane blocked with tar, drusts and ninches.
Boom Well said, all right, that's southbound. I'm gonna stay
the course on the North Freeway for you. I think
they'll clear that up very shortly. Skywike and the Generator
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Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Com Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four
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Deputu're currently sixty one at your officials Severe Weather Station.
News Radio seven forty k t RH. It's time now
for the news. Here's Eric Sharp, Good morning. It is

(01:01:51):
six thirty one on news radio seven forty k TRH.
Our top story this hour Fentanyl not the only drug
that's flowing across the Mexican border into Texas. Custom agents
last week seized a stash of testosterone and steroids. They
say the unusually large load was sent to through the
border town of Laredo. Atabolic steroids fall under the Controlled

(01:02:13):
Substance Act. Homeland Security agents arrested the driver and have
launched a criminal investigation. Donald Trump continues to say that
his remain in Mexico policy will start on day one,
but immigration and reporter Todd Bessman recently spoke with a
high ranking government official in Mexico says it might not
be that easy.

Speaker 15 (01:02:30):
They don't want to take non Mexicans, so there's going
to be conflict on inauguration Day and beyond. They don't
want to take all these people back.

Speaker 12 (01:02:38):
They just don't, and they also don't want the Trump tariffs.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
In the meantime, Investment says that many immigrants, realizing the
border will soon be closed, are actually heading back to
their home countries. Trump has yet to take office, but
there are already reports coming out that some would be
illegal aliens in Mexico have decided to just turn around.

Speaker 6 (01:02:56):
These immigrants are already feeling the Trump effect and they
don't like it.

Speaker 22 (01:03:00):
Are going to give up the right then and there
and not make their way all the way north, especially
the ones that are coming from way south and our
in Mexico.

Speaker 6 (01:03:07):
City, Retired Homeland Security agent Victor Avilaw told KTRH he
expects illegal aliens that are already here to start self
deporting soon.

Speaker 22 (01:03:15):
There's a lot of them that are self sustained, they
have money, they're they're well educated, and I think that's
the first group that's going to decide to go back
on their own.

Speaker 6 (01:03:23):
There is a downside, though, more legal aliens have begun
turning to cartels to smuggle them into the United States.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
And some blue cities and counties vound to oppose the
Trump deportation effort. Texas lawmakers are ready to step in.
Fort Worth State Rep. Made To Swaslin has filed a
bill to require all Texas counties to cooperate with ICE.
Former federal immigration juhnge Mark Metcalf says that cities and
counties must findel federal law.

Speaker 24 (01:03:49):
Local law enforce sheriff's officers, and city police will be
required to do so, and there's really no reason for
them to resist unless they want to be held accountable
by a US occur for failing to enforce.

Speaker 12 (01:04:02):
The law incoming borders on time.

Speaker 4 (01:04:04):
Zar Tom Homans called on local leaders to either help
with enforcement or get out of the way. State Representative
Dustin Burroughs says that he has enough votes to become
the state House speaker, but some of his supporters to
appear to be backing another candidate. Burroughs made the announcement
on Saturday, but quickly ran into problems. At least one
of his presumed backers requested his name be removed from
the list of his supporters as comes as Representative David

(01:04:27):
Cook remains the preferred choice of the Republican Caucus. Both
appear to be short of the seventy six member majority
required to win the speakership. The former commander of US
Central Command says that US troops stationed in Syria are
likely in less danger after the fall of President bashirl
A Lassan's regime. Retired Marine Corps General Frank Mackenzie told
ABC's This Week that while there may be less threats

(01:04:50):
to US troops, the presidence of those troops is still
important to the fight against terrorist groups in the region.
Katrh News Time Now six point thirty four a social
media ban on miners in Texas is a possibility next year.

Speaker 35 (01:05:03):
One state lawmaker is proposing banning miners from having access
to social media.

Speaker 25 (01:05:07):
I'm a big believer in banning cell phones from all
kids at school. It's nothing but trouble for the teacher.

Speaker 35 (01:05:13):
As the admin, author and president of college Prep Genius,
Jean Burke suggests that parents get ahead of the issue.

Speaker 25 (01:05:19):
There needs to be education for parents because these cell
phones are coming with no warnings. They're given to kids
younger and younger, without boundaries, without monitoring.

Speaker 35 (01:05:29):
Burke says the dopamine hits young people get from social
media sites can have bad effects on their brain. Chare
Lewis News Radio seven forty key chair, eh, and.

Speaker 12 (01:05:36):
You've seen the headlines.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
Beginning January one, car safety inspections will no longer be
required in Texas.

Speaker 12 (01:05:42):
That's a little misleading here.

Speaker 26 (01:05:44):
At least in Houston, newer vehicles you're still going to
have to have them inspected because of the emissions requirement.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
That's Texas GPS Trooper Richard standerfer As mikey You, owner
of Midtown Auto, says the emissions test for population and
pollution will have a set price.

Speaker 27 (01:06:00):
The set see would be eighteen fifteen. Now that'd be
the new charge.

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
And in the seven fifty that you used to pay
for the safety inspection, it's a new name. It's an
inspection program replacement fee. Allis set back for the Artemis
Moon mission is NASA postpones them until twenty twenty six
and twenty seven.

Speaker 12 (01:06:19):
There was no surprise to Eric Berger.

Speaker 38 (01:06:22):
I think the bigger question is whether the incoming Trump
administration takes a look at the way going about this
from the ongoing delays, and tries to find a better
way to do these learner missions.

Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
Despite all the delays, Burger expects NASA to get us
back to the Moon before the end of the decade.

Speaker 12 (01:06:40):
A Long Horns.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
They're playing in the College football Playoffs. Number five Long
Horns will be welcoming Number twelve Clemson. The first round
of the College Football Playoffs begin December twentieth. I'll me
Notre Dame hosting Indiana. The Rockets took down the Clippers
in LA one seventeen to one to six.

Speaker 12 (01:06:53):
Last night.

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
Used to We'll come back home the host of Warriors
at Toyota Center Wednesday. I met Eric John von Houston's
News Weather and traffic station. Thanks Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
No, make your season more burn with the latest news, traffic,
and weather. News Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Six thirty seven our time here in Houston's morning. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
I've been looking at studies like this for the last
twenty five years, and you'll find stories year after year
after year like this. The only thing that seems to
change is the reason why we're burned out. But routinely
fifty to seventy percent of us feel burned out on

(01:07:43):
the job. Here's a new story that claims that seventy
percent of us are burned out or feel that our
work environment is toxic and if we could just get
a better job, we'd be much happier in life. Seventy
percent seventy percent. That's not just a majority. That is

(01:08:05):
a vast majority of people who just aren't happy with
their job. So I would have to say, maybe the
thing that's changed a little bit is not the work
environment as much as it is us. What are our
expectations for our jobs now versus what they were twenty

(01:08:26):
five fifty years ago? Were we just less likely to
complain twenty five fifty years ago than we are today,
or has the work environment really changed that much. The
thing that's changed the most in the last fifty years

(01:08:46):
certainly is the loyalty factor. Now, when our parents took
a job, chances are once they got a job that
they felt was a good paying job or is maybe
as far up the letter as they could go, they
stuck with it. They stayed with that company until they
were ready to retire. That rarely happens anymore. You know,
people people leave way before retire. People leave when they

(01:09:09):
think there's something better around the corner. Maybe maybe that camaraderie,
the work camaraderie thing is missing. Maybe we don't have
that anymore. Maybe we know it used to be that
you you might even have in your social circle, friends
that you made a work, who you had a life
with outside of work. That that seems to have changed too.

(01:09:29):
I don't see people doing much of that anymore. I
don't know. All I know is is that we would
rather not work, evidently, and protectivity can't be looking real
good if that's the case. Six forty time for traffic
and weather together.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
Miss this when we retire, though, You're gonna miss What
time do you get up? I get up at two fifteen.
See I get up at three, so but you know,
and all this craziness that happens in the morning, we're
gonna miss well. I love my job. Yeah, and I'm
you know when I'm never gonna retire. I've never I
feel like I've never worked a day in my life.

Speaker 39 (01:10:00):
I'm gonna be like, here's your besket, thank you for
coming into Walmart.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
That'll be me never retiring.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Let's do it in Doing the traffic around Walmart is
what you'll be doing, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
Or I could be doing a lot of things besides this.
But North sam westbound all Dean Westfield. We've got the
road work that's starting to really squish up coming over
toward the airport. If you're trying to catch the plane,
you know to take will Clayton Parkway or my secret route,
the Hardy Toll Road connector ninety coming between Dayton and
Crosby about halfway. That's at FM fourteen thirteen where all

(01:10:32):
the gas stations are in that really nasty road work.
Nothing good's happening with this wreck. This is westbound. Which
other way could we go? We could do one forty
six to ten. That's way out of the way. If
you know your back roads like me. Nineteen sixty is
a good way to get around that. Let's see carfire
two forty nine jump and Joe cleared that for me.
At the Beltway. He's also doing Channel eleven, so he's busy.

(01:10:53):
Southwest Freeway inbound Greenway Plaza. Something skipping up there right
around it looks like Buffalo's Speedway northbound. Give me a
few minutes. I'll get you a landed to see what's
going on here. And I believe I've got might from Manville.
You've got to be around here somewhere. Go fast, dude.

Speaker 31 (01:11:08):
My dude, horse trailer broke down oncoming ramp to six
ten with that's.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Two eighty eight northbound at the south Loop man a
horse trailer. Al Right, I'm in the Classic Buick GMC traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather Center.
We're ready to check in with Jeff mar find out
about the next air. So I guess the best thing
to tell people to do for the next day or
two is to dress in layers. Huh, both taking it
off and putting it back on again.

Speaker 16 (01:11:34):
Yeah, definitely a big swing as far as our temperatures
are on the warm side today out ahead of a
front with winds out of the southwest. We'll see a
clearing tread this morning, a lot of sun for the afternoon,
and that's when the high should hit seventy nine degrees
with some of the wind gusts from the southwest near
fifteen to twenty miles per hour.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Partly cloudy tonight down to fifty five, and.

Speaker 16 (01:11:50):
Then cooler air moves in tomorrow behind the front, sunshine
and gusty wins out of the north. The end result
of high of sixty two clear tomorrow night with a
low dropping of the upper thirties. The Cooen train gets
you use Wednesday with sunshine and to hide your fifty nine.
The temperatures will rebound to the sixties on Thursday and Friday,
still sixty one. At your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
You are commute, you are forecast your news. It's Houston's
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Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
If there was an app out there that could accurately
tell you the exact day that you would die, would
you want to know that information? I mean, I guess
you could come in handy if you're somebody who likes
to plan for things, to make sure you've got your

(01:12:40):
will done, to make sure you've got all those arrangements
taken care of so that nobody ends up with a
big surprise. But there is an app out there, artificial
intelligence app called death Clock, which claims it can accurately
predict when you will die or on that story coming
up next. First, though, we're gonna do a little traffic
and weather together with sky my ghetto for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
All right, whatever that is, let's see, it's not Buffalo's Springfield.
It's Buffalo Speedway Southwest Freeway. There's something happening here. I
know that's a wreck inbound. I just can't get the
laneage just yet. I see the backup from the loop.
Should you do the KD No, Katie Freeways really scootched
up from Durham coming in because we've got to wreck.
Report it here at Taylor Street. Call that to right

(01:13:24):
lanes inbound at about a ten minute Wait here, let's
see how do we get around? Do the South Loop,
especially if you're hazardous. You've got the North Loop six
' ten westbound loopy at forty five ninety inbound at
thirteen fourteen. That's halfway tocrossby from Dayton. That wreck's nasty
on the inbound. Clear your vehicle. Fire two forty nine
at the belt. I'm Skymike. It's the classic bu at
GMC Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
Center from r KTRH Generators super Center, twenty four hour
Weather Center. Born in clouds. Afternoon sun today, high temperature
right about eighty. Then we're going to cool back down again.
Mostly cloudy, windy, golder Tomorrow sixty for the high. Wednesday
sunny with the high in the low sixties. But you're
currently sixty two at your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some of

(01:14:07):
our top stories on the Monday morning. Here's Eric Sharp.

Speaker 4 (01:14:10):
It is six fifty one on News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Headlines brought to you by Morral Mechanical. The search continues
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(01:14:55):
I live in Katie, I live in Ito. Your reliable forecast.
Next on this on seven forty KT six fifty two
is our time here in Houston's morning news. Right, regardless
of whether you're going to die young or die old,
would you want to know when you're going to die?
Not to say that you know. The only way to

(01:15:17):
prove whether or not this app as accurate as to
have you know. It actually makes some predictions that come true.
And of course it's just started, so it'll be a
while before we know the results. It's called Death Clock
Matt Lovely. It is available on Android if you if
you have an Android, I know there's an Android app
for death clock, not that no I particularly would want

(01:15:39):
to download.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
It, but you know what the heck. A reporter doing
the story on this, who's twenty five years old answered
the questions, and of course it related to the usual things,
you know, diet, health, lifestyle choices, those types of things.
And the twenty five year old was told that he
would die Monday, May twenty four, twenty seventy seven, at

(01:16:03):
the age of seventy seven, and the most likely cause
of death would be cancer, liver disease, or heart disease,
while those are the most often causes of death. So yeah,
I guess part of the idea behind it is to
maybe try to give you a reason why you might
want to be a little bit healthier so that you
can live a little bit longer. But like I said,

(01:16:23):
I have no idea if there's any accuracy to this
or not. But let's do this premise, and let's bring
in the Gutfeld panel to discuss this. If you could
be accurately told exactly when you're going to die, would
you want to know, Aaron?

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
Would you press the button?

Speaker 28 (01:16:40):
Ugh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
Why not? I mean?

Speaker 40 (01:16:41):
Like, either way, this is artificial intelligence created by real stupidity.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Out of all the things we can.

Speaker 40 (01:16:48):
Come up with, you know, they have put their time
and energy into something like this, which I mean, I'm
going to say, really, I mean, there may be some accuracy,
but I mean, how do you really tell that right now?
I think what we can do is monetize this. We
can kind of make like a cameo for people that
you hate where you can enter their stats in and
then it predicts their death and you can send them.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
A video and mess with the bank. I think that
would be I would get on that.

Speaker 11 (01:17:12):
That's really mean.

Speaker 41 (01:17:13):
Okay, I just like to say, for the record, I'm
never opening a email from you. You know what, I
I don't want to know because I think it would
extremely change my personality. Like if I knew I had
three months left, all the attitude I would have at work. Oh,
I'm not going, you know, like, hey, you know what

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rob a bank, sir? You got thirty years, not a
corner AI I got. So I think if you could
have fun with your own mortality, I think that would
But again I think it's best left.

Speaker 42 (01:17:47):
To because then also what if it doesn't want to
be wrong? So then it just kills you? How it
works where it's like you're gonna die on this day
and either it's wrong or it's got to make sure.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
It's right so it kills you. Hey, it's artificial intelligence
soon knows all right.

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Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Among our top story is this have our not enough
votes to declare the next Texas Speaker of the House.
Trump says he will pardon the January sixth prisoners, and
coming up at seven away Houston getting yet another area
code details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
let's check out that morning drive once again. Here's sky

(01:20:19):
Mike Southwest Freeway. Clear the wreck at Buffalo Speedway. I
always want to say, Springfield, that's out of the way.
You got the backup. Now inbound at the Loop.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
You got Katie Freeway three lanes here, Taylor, this is
getting ugly, Yale. Let's take the loop instead and Crosby
Freeway nineteen. That's a Crosby Freeway ninety between Dayton at
Crosby at fourteen thirteen. Yes, I know where that's from.
I'm from there. We also have a second wreck at
Graham Parkway, so watch out on this route here in

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nineteen sixty might be a good way around, and we'll
update your north side in ten minutes of the classic
Buick GFC traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
From our KTRH top tax devenders twenty four hour. Weather's
under some morning clouds, afternoon sun with a high today
right about eighty. We'll get you the complete forecast with
Jeff mart the Weather Channel in nine minutes. Temperature right
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Here's Eric Sharp, good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
It's seven oh one on news radio seven forty k TRH.
This news brought to you by Plants for All Seasons.
Our top story this hour. Drama in the Texas speaker
race take. Representative Dustin Burroughs says that he has enough
votes to become the state House speaker. Some of his
supporters appear to be backing in other candidates.

Speaker 5 (01:21:31):
I love the House. It has given me many, many
opportunities and chances to do great things. And this House
has done great, great things together. And these members I
cannot thank enough for putting their trust, in faith and
support in me to make sure that next session we
deliver the results to all Texans.

Speaker 4 (01:21:51):
Burrows made the announcement late Saturday, but quickly ran into
problems when one of his presumed backers requested his name
be removed from the list of supporters. This comes as
Representative David Cook remains the preferred choice of the Republican caucus.
Both appear to be short of the seventy six member
majority required to win the speakership. The House won't vote
for the speaker until it reconvenes next month. Businesses, both

(01:22:13):
big and small, have struggled under the Biden economy. Now
Texans are looking forward to an economic boom during Trump's
second term.

Speaker 6 (01:22:21):
Texas energy companies are especially optimistic about the next four years.

Speaker 7 (01:22:25):
The Trump administration is very clear that it's going to
support a very aggressive domestic energy production plan.

Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
Glenn Hammer with the Texas Association of Business ses small
businesses will also benefit here.

Speaker 7 (01:22:38):
I feel very good about the agricultural sector, the small
business sector, and really, look, we have a business guy
that's returning to the White House.

Speaker 6 (01:22:46):
Hammer says Trump's victory essentially guarantees that the twenty seventeen
tax cuts will be extended, and those are a major
hope to small businesses. Ethan bugannan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:22:55):
Adding a sit down interview with NBC's Meet the Press,
President elect Trump says, when the election came down to
multiple things, but two in particular, I.

Speaker 8 (01:23:04):
Won on two things, the border and more than immigration.
You know, they'd like to say immigration. I'd break it
down more to the border. But I won on the
border and I won on groceries. It's very simple word, groceries.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
Trump also expects Pete Hegseth and Cash Pattel will get
confirmed to and he said it's likely that there'll be
partons handed out for the January six ers president like Trump,
naming personal attorney Lena Habba's councilor to the president. Habba
has represented Trump in some of his major civil cases,
along with serving as a senior advisor in his campaign.

(01:23:37):
The Syrian government has collapsed after rebels seized control of Damascus.
Russia's foreign ministry said that President Ubashirl al Hassan has
resigned and left the country. Opposition forces declared victory in
a statement read on Syrian state television. The US military
is about nine hundred troops stationed in Syria. The Biden
administration says it's providing nearly a billion dollars in military

(01:23:59):
support for U Crane. A Defense Apartment press release on
Saturday said that the assistance package will provide munitions for
rocket systems and unmanned aerial systems. It comes as House
Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a White House request earlier last
week to pass the additional twenty four billion dollars in
aid for Ukraine by the end of the year. Katrh

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News SIDNE seven four. A Tom Ballman is dead after
he confronted men trying to break into his trailer. Harris
County Sheriff's deputies said that Dustin Nelson was shot and
before first responders arrived, he passed away. No arrest had
been made in that several judges in Harris County are
letting sexual offenders off and with probation in early terminations.

Speaker 9 (01:24:41):
We have found in Harris County there have been judges
that have been awarding even non compliant defendants with early
termination of their probations, sometimes just a few months after
their initial sentence.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
Reporter with the Texans News Holly Hansen says that they
found at least twelve suspects had their probation cut short
in the past year. With school choice set to be
a major item on the agenda for the upcoming legislative session,
there are some conservatives who are speaking out against it.

Speaker 10 (01:25:10):
But Sherry Sylvester with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says
school choice is the best choice conservatives.

Speaker 11 (01:25:19):
What we're looking for here is freedom for parents to
choose the best school for their child.

Speaker 10 (01:25:25):
But you can't do that if you don't have a
good choice public school.

Speaker 11 (01:25:30):
Good setting for one kid not the best for another kid.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
So you would have that kind of.

Speaker 10 (01:25:35):
Option, which she says is making it a win win
here in Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven k T ktr H New
Times seven six. The transgender left ideology continues being pushed
onto children with subpar brainwashed teachers. Andrea Wigburn of the
American thinkers his education programs have ruined teachers and create
a vicious cycle of crazy.

Speaker 12 (01:26:00):
But there is hope with Trump's return.

Speaker 14 (01:26:02):
The tide is turning, and that's going to make a
huge difference.

Speaker 13 (01:26:05):
But it needs to turn fast in the classrooms.

Speaker 14 (01:26:07):
Because if you tell a five year old that men
are women and women are men, and everybody can be
whatever they want and you can be a.

Speaker 13 (01:26:12):
Dragon or a cat, five year olds believe that.

Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
She says, the best way to fix the problem is
to get rid of education degree requirements for teachers. Longhorns
will have home field advantage they're playing the College Football Playoffs.
Number five long Horns will welcome number twelve Clemson. The
first round of the playoffs begins December twentieth. Meanwhile, the
Rockets took down the Clippers in La one seventeen one
oh six.

Speaker 12 (01:26:34):
Last night.

Speaker 4 (01:26:35):
Used to We'll come back home to host the Warriors
at Toyota Center on Wednesday for the quarterfinals of the
D season tournaments. I'm Eric sharp On Euston's news weather
in traffic station News Radio seven forty Ktrrange.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
I live near Sharpstown, reliable kt or range traffic and weather.
Next on the ten.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Well, now you could have up to five of them
different area codes here in Houston starting in January seven
oh eight is our time here in Houston's morning news.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Have you heard about this?

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Our newest area code will officially launch January twenty third
of the new year. That is, what about six weeks away,
not very long. It'll be area code six two one.
So now we'll have seven one three, two eight one
three four, six eight three two and six two one.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
Yikes.

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved a fifth area
code back in October of twenty twenty three. The Commission
had previously said it was set to run out of
phone numbers by the end of twenty twenty five. Rather
than adding area codes, why don't we just add digits
to the phone number. That way, we could all keep
our like seven to one three or two eight one,

(01:27:49):
Just add add another digit. What's the rule that says
it has to be?

Speaker 12 (01:27:53):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
A three digit area code would then follow by three
more digits, followed by four more digits. Why do we
have to do that? Can we add another number? It's
kind of like I guess I understand. For example, in
license plates, you're limited because of the size of the plate,
right just how many things you can fit on there?
How many different numbers or letters or what have you

(01:28:15):
can fit on the plate. But there's got to be
a way to do it. You would think that'd be
easier than continually to add area codes. I mean, how
long before we run out of area codes? I guess
it'd be a long long time, wouldn't it be? Or
we run out of area codes. All five area codes
will service the same locations. That includes Houston, Baytown, League City,
Missouri City, passing into Paarland, the Woodlands, and other communities.

(01:28:40):
In total, Dairy codes stretch into ten counties and include
nearly all of Harris County. The Mission believes the new
area code will be able to sustain additional fund numbers
in the region for the next nine years, So in
nine years will run out again and they'll be looking
for another new area code. Adding a new area code
to the region will not result it and any major changes.

(01:29:01):
Current phone numbers won't be changed. At and T also
said in release that what currently constitutes a local call
will remain a local call, and prices won't rise as
a result just because you're calling a different area code.
There are twenty eight area codes listing for the state
of Texas on the Publicatelity Commission website, not including the
new six to one area code, which again will go

(01:29:21):
into effect January the twenty third, seven to ten. Time
for traffic and weather together. As we check out the
drive again, here is skyline. Look at that Katie Freeway. No,
don't look, you don't want to see this, Jimmy, all right,
we cleared the wreck at Taylor Street. I wasn't expecting
that to be out that quickly. Katie inbound Taylor coming
into downtown. It's breaks from TC.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Jester. Now I've got a new wreck on Greenhouse. That's
Katie Freeway outbound, not inbound Greenhouse. Let me see one
two call of this two left lines, Lukes Minor. We're
just kind of pointing at things. But sure as scooching
up things from Graham Parkway on the inbound I don't
think that's reveren necking. It's just usual Katie Freeway stuff,
all right, clear, the southwest Freeway, Buffalo Speedway northbound. Thank

(01:30:02):
you Rob from Katie for your help here Golf Freeway
squished a little bit coming up on the loop. Now,
let's see I sixty nine Downtown East tex It's the
elevated backed up before the ballpark. Six minute wait to
get down to the big George here Nord Freeway. It's
a forty five Roger from Magnolia.

Speaker 31 (01:30:19):
Good morning, got my dude in round North Freeway in
the Ahob lane.

Speaker 15 (01:30:23):
It's stop and go starting at Little York.

Speaker 28 (01:30:25):
So I'm doing it all right.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
Your main lanes are kind of plugged up to not related,
but from Gulf Bank down you'll hit some brakes. Lance
from Magnolia giving me a two forty nine.

Speaker 31 (01:30:34):
Hey, thanks you got Lance for Magnolia on the Forgotten
Freeway clear saving all the way down to nineteen sixty
and over to the surgery center for mama's next surgery.
Send out big prayers, all.

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
Right, prayers for mama. Jimmy, do you refer to Elizabeth
as Mama? What's what she did? Sometimes?

Speaker 26 (01:30:52):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Every now and again?

Speaker 11 (01:30:53):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
If I ever break this losing streak, I'm guarantee you
I'm not gonna call her mama. Maybe Mammy, let's go
in the claud think buing TMC traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Yeah, there's a huge difference from our KTRH top tax
defenders twenty four hour weather center. Ready to check in
with Jeff Bars and he has planned for us today.
I guess pall the short pants again today and then
get ready to dress in layers for tomorrow when we
start to go back down again.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Yep, cold front swings through and that's got impact.

Speaker 16 (01:31:20):
Temperature is into Tuesday and Wednesday, and then we'll start
to warm back up a little bit more by Thursday
and Friday. But certainly the warmest day of the week
on this Monday, as we hit a high of seventy nine.
Year of the afternoon, the sun breaks through the cloud
cover and weds increase out of the south west than
part of clouding Tonight. There may be fog late where
the low in the mid fifties. Cooler behind the front.
Tomorrow Sunday with gusty wins out of the north at
a high sixty two to the low tomorrow night falling

(01:31:40):
into the upper thirties under a clear sky. It's more
sunshine Wednesday with a hind your fifty nine than high
shit hit the sixties for Thursday and Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Right now sixty one at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
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on the day.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
So we've been talking a little bit about education this morning.
We've talked in the past about doing away with with
the with the National Department of Education, should that happen.
We've been talking all morning about how Texas is trying
to figure out how to ban social media from schools. Well,
the way you do that is by banning cell phones,
but parents go crazy over that stuff. Plenty of things

(01:32:25):
to talk about when it comes to education. With Sherry
Sylvester distinguished, a Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
We'll talk to her next.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
First, though, traffic and weather together to get that's ninety inbound.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
We've cleared both recks at fourteen thirteen and also at
Grand Parkway. Those are gone too. A new problem on
Grand Parkway North. That's Chris from Hockley, got.

Speaker 31 (01:32:47):
My east bound right at Liskey eight and well in
the right lay fire trust flocks going George to the
Doctor Way.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
I see that squish North Freeway. HOV gotta stall southbound,
Katie Clear Taylor, We're inbound backed up from TCJ Skymike
in the classic buke GMC traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders. Twenty four hour
weather sunder morning clouds, afternoon sun about eighty today, most
of the cloudy, windy, cooler. Tomorrow's sixty and then Sunday
with the high molow sixties on Wednesday, temperature currently sixty one.
Here at your officials severe weather station. News Radio seven
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(01:33:22):
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Speaker 4 (01:33:25):
It is seven twenty one on news Radio seven forty
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President Biden calling the collapse of the Osan government in
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CEO of major healthcare company. Now in day five, the
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Photos of the suspect have been posted at patrol stations
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Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
Crime is on the rise, Our schools are in trouble.

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The next four years, we'll have to get better.

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Telling the story of Houston every day. Buite a story.
News Radio seven forty KTRH say goodbye.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
It's the time to say goodbye to the Department of Education.
Seven twenty two is our time here in Houston this
morning news. Cherry Sylvester's with us, distinguished Senior Fellow at
the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Would you like to see
it go away? Sherry, the Department of Education? Would you
just like to see it performed?

Speaker 11 (01:34:47):
Absolutely, let's get rid of it. Jimmy, thanks for having
me on this morning. You know, the Department of Education,
it's not like it's sprung up from need. Jimmy Carter
established it and made a deal with the National Education Association,
which is you know, is a big Democrat lobby. I
mean they are one of the biggest ender underwriters of
the Democrat Party. They don't do anything that actually helps

(01:35:12):
the schools.

Speaker 13 (01:35:13):
I mean, let's dismantle it.

Speaker 11 (01:35:15):
They are the people that gave us Title nine directives
to make sure that anybody could go in any bathrooms,
getting rid of privacy bathrooms for girls, and saying, you know,
all schools, in order to get federal money, had to
open their bathrooms to anybody who said they were a
boy or a girl, regardless of what they actually were.

(01:35:39):
Sports teams keeping putting people the opposite sex on sports
teams don't do.

Speaker 13 (01:35:47):
And they also put these mandates in.

Speaker 11 (01:35:49):
On what you have to teach, you know, so we
have to deal with fighting those off. Let's just take
the money, give it to Texas. Let Texas block grant it.
And it's not all that much money. You know, we've
been billions.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
As I recall, wasn't the idea behind the Department of Education.
The excuse given for the Department of Education is that
kids in Mississippi were not getting the same level of
education as kids in New York State, for example. So
we're going to make sure that all students are created
equally and that they all have the same opportunity and
they all get a great education. Has that even happened,
of course not.

Speaker 11 (01:36:23):
No, it doesn't look had gotten any better since the
Jimmy Carter's days, which the ancient ancient history. No, everything
that they think they know how to do is wrong.
I mean, one of the things that I was looking
at this morning, Jimmy, before we're talking to you, was
just in Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
You know, think of all.

Speaker 11 (01:36:40):
The blowback and I'm not sure what you all have discussed,
and I'm not an expert on this against Mike Miles.
Everything that's happened happened over there. But when they went
in and we were still measuring, there were one hundred
and forty one schools in Houston that were scoring at
least the and f's. Now there are forty a fired

(01:37:03):
two hundred administrators. Yeah, yeah, And administrators in our school
have increased almost eight hundred percent over the last forty years,
while students have only increased like two hundred and fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
Yeah, that's it's pretty top heavy how most public schools
are these days. Let me quickly ask you to before
we run out of time. There's another issue we've been
talking about this morning on the show, and as the
state of Texas is looking to try to figure out
how do we get social media out of the school?
Social media is causing bullying, problems, fights, all sorts of
all sorts of other issues. Of course, the only way

(01:37:36):
to really do that is to get cell phones out
of schools. And of course the parents always complain because
they want to have a way to communicate with their child.
Of heaven forbid, there's a school shooter or something. What
do we need to do to get control of cell
phones and the social media.

Speaker 13 (01:37:50):
I don't think it's magic. I think it's the obvious answer.

Speaker 3 (01:37:53):
Just check them.

Speaker 13 (01:37:55):
We cannot have them. They're too distracted.

Speaker 11 (01:37:58):
And you know a lot of private schools, a lot
of charter schools already just take the phone away.

Speaker 13 (01:38:04):
There are other ways to keep parents informed. That's a
school's job.

Speaker 11 (01:38:08):
Anything bad happens, school's on fire, they can get to
the parents. But yeah, we've just got to pull them
out there.

Speaker 18 (01:38:16):
We know.

Speaker 13 (01:38:16):
I mean, you know, it's that great thing that.

Speaker 11 (01:38:18):
We learned that the people that invented the cell phones
and that build them they don't let their kids have them.

Speaker 3 (01:38:25):
That should tell us something.

Speaker 13 (01:38:26):
Right, Absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Sherry, Thanks is always good to talk to you, distinguished
senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Sherry Sylvester,
it's seven twenty six. It's time to take a look
at your money.

Speaker 20 (01:38:38):
Here's Jeff Ellinger and Jimmy Sherifs, a inter public group
for up about fifteen percent pre market after it was
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by Omnicon. It's a stock for stock transaction that will
create the world's largest advertising agency with annual revenue of
more than twenty five billion dollars. The combined company will

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keep the Omnicom name. Tesla is being sued for alleged
sexual harassment, and employee at the automaker's manufacturing facility in
Austin filed the legal action in Texas federal court. The
plaintiff claims she was subjected to requests for sex, graphic
photos and unwanted touching. Tipped workers can expect to receive

(01:39:20):
more tips this holiday season. A bank create survey finds
more people they're planning to tip this year. The size
of the tips will be about the same as last year.
The survey finds younger consumers will be the most frequent
and most generous tippers. Stock market futures are mixed right now.
S and P futures down three, Nasdaq futures down thirty five.
Now futures are up twenty. I'm Jeff Beldinger, Bloomberg Business.

(01:39:43):
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Seven thirty Our Time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories of this half hour. Mexico says
it is working with Trump an immigration in tariffs, a
Texas school band for all social media, and coming up
at seven thirty eight, Houston is a top ten in
America for fun. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Morning News. First told you that anybody having fun

(01:40:28):
on the drive this morning. Stemma I tell you we
are slammed on your freeways this morning. You've got east
Loop here. I'm trying to put this in your navigation
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
That's east Loop southbound at right off the Ship Channel bridge,
two right lines. Everybody's okay, we're just pointing at things now.
On the southbound side, it is scooching up the bridge
to the toll bridge instead Grant Parkway. You've got a
big scooch here at TELGI that's eastbound. It's a trek
right line ambulance. I'm not sure why, but it's a
pretty big back up here. Katie Freeway cleared downtown at

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Taylor Street. We're still wish now from TC Gesture. I'm
skylike on the classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

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From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center
for today, morning clouds, afternoon sun with the high temperature
right about eighty. We'll get you the complete forecast from
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It's timed now for the news. Here's Eric Sharp, good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:41:26):
It's seven thirty two on news Radio seven forty ktrh
our top story this hour. Fentanyl not the only drugs
that's flowing across the Mexican border into Texas. Customs agents
last week seized a stash of testosterone and steroids. They
say the unusually large load was being smuggled by a
woman who was driving a truck into the border town
of Laredo. Antabolic steroids fall under the Controlled Substance Act.

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Homeland Security agents arrested the driver and have launched a
criminal investigation. Immigration reporter Todd Bessman just returning from Mexico
where he spoke with the high ranking officials about the
Trump and Mexican presidents.

Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
And then Bensman told us what's really going.

Speaker 15 (01:42:04):
On, Well, what's really going on is that the Mexican
government is pushing back.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
He says.

Speaker 10 (01:42:10):
They don't want the terriffs and they don't want immigrants
from other countries.

Speaker 15 (01:42:15):
There may be some sparks for trade tariffs, and they
probably will lose any kind of trade to.

Speaker 29 (01:42:20):
War with the United States.

Speaker 15 (01:42:22):
They don't want to take extra commentals. That's it. They don't.
They'll take Mexicans. They don't want to take anybody else.

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Which is why they are trying to strike a deal
with Trump.

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Jeff Biggs News Radio seven.

Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
Kh reports are coming out of southern Mexico that migrants
are heading back to their home countries before Trump returns
to office. Some are still trying to use cartel smugglers
to sneak into the US.

Speaker 22 (01:42:47):
They are trying to avoid all detection. They're trying to
avoid not being fingerprinted, not having the picture taking, not
identified by any means.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
Former Humbland security agent to Victor Avila, I'm telling ktrh's
worried that these illegals sneaking in last minute could be
criminals or even worse. Texas looking to prevent Democrat resistance
to the Trump border enforcement plan.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
Fort Worth State Rep.

Speaker 23 (01:43:10):
Nate shats Line has filed a bill that would require
all Texas counties to comply with federal immigration law. Former
federal immigration judge Mark Metcalf says the state would be
on solid legal ground.

Speaker 24 (01:43:20):
There is no area in federal law which the federal
government is more supreme than in the area of immigration.
In this case, what the legislature is being asked to
do is hell local jurisdiction. She will faithfully execute immigration
law within Texas.

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Under the bill, any county that fails to cooperate with
ICE could be sued by the Texas Attorney General and
have state funds withheld. Corey Jolson, Who's Radio seven forty KTRH, the.

Speaker 4 (01:43:45):
Former commander of US Central Command, says US troops stationed
in Syria are likely and less danger after the fall
of President basherl Alasad's regime. Retired Marine Corps General Frank
Mackenzie telling ABC's This Week that while there may be
less threats to US troops, the presence of those troops
is still important to the fight against terrorist groups in
that region. Laura Trump stepping down as co chair of

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the Republican National Committee. She's reportedly being considered to replace
Lurida Senator Marco Rubio, who President elect Donald Trump, Laura's
father in law, tapped for Secretary of State. Rubio's termins
in twenty twenty six. Florida Governora de Santis announcing last
month he aims to have the Rubio replacement announced by
early next month. KTRH News Time seven thirty five. State

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lawmakers likely to consider banning minors from having social media
accounts when they meet for this legislative session next month.

Speaker 25 (01:44:36):
It gives them what's called the dopamine stimulation hit. So
the success of dopamine to successive gaming and social media
leads to addiction. In many cases, even physically, it shrinks
their frontal cortex, which decreases the ability to say no.

Speaker 4 (01:44:51):
President of College Prep Genius Jean Burke agrees with a
ban and says that cell phones in general can have
a strong effect on the brain of young people and
she wouldn't mind seeing them ban in schools as well. Oh,
you're going to hear a lot of a lot over
the next few weeks about how car safety inspections will
no longer be required in Texas. Here in Harrison County, though,

(01:45:12):
Texas DPS Trooper Richard Stataffer says that if you're going
to need a different kind of inspection that is correct.

Speaker 26 (01:45:18):
People are going to read that and they're going to say, well,
no vehicle has to be inspected, and that's not necessarily true.
You'll still have to pay to have it inspected due
to the emissions.

Speaker 4 (01:45:29):
Emissions test will be required in seventeen counties, including Harris, Fort,
benn Yalveston, Montgomery, and Brazoria, all because of the population
and the clean air mandate. Mikey You, owner of Midtown Auto,
says it's the real headline.

Speaker 27 (01:45:43):
So people think that that fee goes away, they'll have
a root awakening when it comes to their buying their
new registration sticker.

Speaker 4 (01:45:51):
The emissions fee will be set at eighteen fifty as
for the seven to fifty safety fee, the state is
adding that to your registration. KTRH News Times seven thirty six.
Last week, NASA delayed the Artemis Moon mission to twenty
twenty six and twenty seven. Eric Berger says that he
wasn't surprised, and you shouldn't be either.

Speaker 28 (01:46:09):
Well, you know, to anyone who's really been paying attention
the dates that NASA had put up at the beginning
of this year, we're unrealistic to begin with.

Speaker 4 (01:46:17):
Burger says he's confident that NASA can get us back
to the Moon by the end of the decades. Well
Baylor in LSU will face off for the twenty twenty
four Kinders Texas Bowl. The Bull Organization Committee made that
announcement yesterday. The game will be played at in our
G Stadium, kickoff at two thirty on New Gear's Eve.
The Rockets took down the Clippers in La once seventeen

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to one oh six Sunday night, Houston will come back
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Houston evidently is a pretty fun place, at least according
to the people who rank these things. Houston ranks one
of the top ten most fun cities in America according
to this wallet hub study, ranked ninth among one hundred
and eighty two cities in the nation for being the
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That's provided, of course, you find losing your paycheck in
the casino to be fun, although there are last shows
obviously in Vegas. San Antonio ranked twenty fourth. Dallas came
in at thirty one, But evidently we're the most fun
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fitness what's fun about working out cost per capita to
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By the way, your average American spends more than thirty
six hundred dollars a year just on entertainment. And there's
plenty of things to do. I mean, we have the
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got the Johnson Space Center and Space Center Houston. We
else you got You've got the livestock show and rodeo
during the approporcate time of the year. We've got the
Astros have been a mad park. We've got the Texans
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great restaurants to go to seven forty time for traffic
and weather together.

Speaker 3 (01:48:39):
Bad places in Houston too, well, of course, somebody you know,
I wouldn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Like, for example, they include the Galleria on their list
of fun things to do. Yob, Yeah, that might have
been a fun thing to do ten years ago, all.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
Right, let's go to the hard work in east side
six ' ten southbound. This is a good place, but
it's a bad spot to be right now. It's hears
right off the ship Channel Bridge southbound the six to
ten bridge one two, three, right lanes. Everybody's okay, we're
just pointing at things. You're backed up now from the
bud plant. So let's skip over to the toll bridge
if you can. My secret hack, but don't tell anybody

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is also a wayside. There's only one light that's really
bad there Harrisbury. The rest of it rocks on the
Katie Freeway if I don't choke to death here Katie
Freeway inbound at Taylor. They cleared that wreck a good
while back. We're actually better now you've got the backups
from Studentot. Stay the course. Katie's not bad now. Southwest
Freeway it's getting nasty from Sharpstown bel Air up to

(01:49:37):
the West Loops six ' ten and if you're trying
to make it to the Galleria, you're looking at twenty
extra minutes through this mess. Here. Let's jump on all
ninety again. The Katie's a good alternate route for that
Grand Parkway north. I'm trying to help the rest of
the media know about that truck that's eastbound at telge.

Speaker 32 (01:49:54):
Hey Mike right after the fifty nine X at four
cars in the right ind lane and then additional cars
in the left hand line.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Oh, that's Golf Freeway all right, Golf Freeway northbound right
at I sixty nine. This wreck has multiple vehicles. Looks
like everybody's okay. But I got a big backup from
the southwoop six ' ten and we'll revisit our Grand
park Way north in ten minutes in the classic Buick
GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:50:17):
And from our KTRH Generators super Center twenty four hour
Weather Center. Time to check in with Jeff Mark find
out more about the forecast. We're just kind of socked
in with a little bit of dense fog and low
clouds so far this morning. I guess that's going to
burn off those the day moves on.

Speaker 16 (01:50:32):
That will indeed, and when you combine the sunshine this
afternoon with winds out of the southwest, temperatures will warm
up nicely all theough up to seventy nine degrees and
then partly cloudy tonight with a low fifty five then
cooler behind the front Tomorrow, winds will shift and start
to gust in from the north, drawing in that cool
and dry air mass. The end result a high sixty
two hunder sunshine. Tomorrow night, the low sh dip down
into the upper thirties. It will be clear. We'll stay

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drying Wednesday and seas of sun with a high fifty nine,
and then temperatures had the other direction as highs top
out in the sixties by thirdday and Friday.

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nine is our time here in Houston Sporting News. All right, well,
this is interesting to be Big Pharma. Evidently some other
executive took a trip down to mar A Lago. There's
been a lot of people going down to mar A
Lago to talk to President Trump, and I don't know
if the big farmer folks were expecting it. But also

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special guests AREFK Junior set in on the meeting. Is
this good that we're putting in a buy what appears
to be a bipartisan effort to try to make ourselves
a little bit healthier. We get reaction to this meeting
from cardiologist doctor Peter McCullough.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
I think it's a good thing, Liz.

Speaker 54 (01:58:27):
We need this executive leadership between big pharma and the
executive branch.

Speaker 12 (01:58:33):
Trump and RFK.

Speaker 54 (01:58:34):
Meeting with them so much to tackle topics could have
included the cost of prescription drugs, biopharmaceutical safety, the role
of the GPO as the mettleman, and direct to consumer advertising.
I hope Trump and RFK do this with the large
nutraceutical health and Wellness Company in order to devise strategies

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so America can have less of a reliance on drugs.
Anytime you see the left and the right coming together
on a topic where there's consensus.

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In this case, these.

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Unnecessary dies that are in food and drugs, they're linked
to problems with neurologic development in children.

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Sanders and RFK are on the right track.

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These aren't necessary At Wellness Company, none of our products
have these unnecessary dies. Many Americans want them out of
the food supply.

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Imagine a topic word of barfk Junior. Donald Trump and
Bernie Sanders are in agreement. It's pretty rare seven to
fifty time for traffic and weather. Together, we're checking out
that drive once again. Here's skuy Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:59:38):
Great A forty five north between Tidwell and Parker. I
got a hard front door southbound and we're having a
real tough time trying to get a camera shot on
whatever this is. That Tidwell just passed Tidwell hard front door.
I see a big backup all the way from Green's
Point and it is already I do see a backup
of twenty two minutes southbound toll sticker. Big shots do
the hardy toe road. Commoners to the east Text get

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around that. Clear the loop southbound ship Channel bridge. Everybody's okay,
but we're still squished all the way down from the
butt plant. My secret hack is wayside, don't tell anybody
you could take the toll bridge. You'll hit some brakes
after ITM sixty nine east Text Freeway southbound. We had
that problem at forty five. It's a big smash from
Liberty Road or equipment down to the fan and exit

(02:00:22):
twenty extra minutes this way Southwest Freeway's nasty from beach
Tonight Katie Freeway, Stay the course, It's all better at
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From our KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour weather Center.
Morning clouds, afternoon sun today with the eye temperature right
about eighty. Little patchy fog as well. This morning mostly cloudy, wendy,
cooler Tomorrow only sixty and then Wednesday sunny, high in
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your official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRAH.

(02:00:53):
Let's get you caught up on some of our top
stories on this Monday. Here is Eric Sharp.

Speaker 12 (02:00:58):
Good morning.

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All right, So we've got.

Speaker 2 (02:01:58):
At least some members of ers seem to understand that
there's been a mandate here, that the election was a mandate.
President Trump should be able to pick his own cabinet,
and for people like Joni ernz To who evidently I
don't know if she has her eyeset of wanting to
be the head of the Defense Department or she just
has an extra grind against Pete Hegseth. But Chip Roy

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got up on the floor of the House to remind
members that this is Trump's choice, not theirs.

Speaker 39 (02:02:26):
You don't like Taulci because she's a Democrat, Get over it.

Speaker 12 (02:02:29):
She's not anymore.

Speaker 39 (02:02:30):
She's the Republican now she was in this chamber.

Speaker 3 (02:02:32):
I serve with her. She's a Democrat.

Speaker 39 (02:02:34):
You don't like Bobby Kennedy because he's a from an
iconic Democrat family.

Speaker 3 (02:02:39):
Get over it.

Speaker 39 (02:02:40):
I don't agree with Bobby Kennedy on a lot of
different things, but I agree with him that we need
to fundamentally change our healthcare system, that we need to
make America healthy again. I agree with Tulci that we've
been involved in endless wars and endless conflict that is
draining our resources and undermining the men and women in uniform.

Speaker 3 (02:02:56):
I agree with Pete.

Speaker 39 (02:02:57):
Hegseth that wokeism is destroying the United States military. I
agree with Pete that we don't need to have endless wars.
I agree with Pete that we ought to have somebody
who's served in battle and understands that who's at the
top of the top of the Pentagon, rather than the
brass who frankly often like the ribbons more than actually

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doing the work that is necessary to defend this country.
I like the fact that we have people that the
President is nominating that will take take on the establishment
and take on, for example, the FBI with Cash Betel.
And the fact of the matter is we have senators
who are wanting to challenge it. For example, the senator

(02:03:40):
from Iowa who's going after Pete Hegseth or seemingly being critical.
Same individual, by the way, says and voted for an
NBAA that would draft our daughters and has been fighting
to draft our daughters. And I tell her, you'll do
that over my dead body, there will be no draft
of my daughter. Voted for the Marriage Act to codify

(02:04:00):
gay marriage. Went out to her constituents and talked about
how the horrible Senate Border bill was somehow a good bill,
and then scolded President Trump for opposing it. Voted for
Garland for AG, voted for Lloyd Austin for Devents, voted
for Budages for DOT, voted for Janet Yellen. Voted for

(02:04:20):
Ukraine's borders over America's borders. And with all due respect
to the Center from Iowa, You're not where the American
people are, President Trump is You're not a conservative, is well.

Speaker 2 (02:04:37):
I've often wondered if President Trump as conservative as we
think he is, but that, hey, listen, I can't argue
with anything he's wanted to do so far. That's for
dog gone.

Speaker 12 (02:04:45):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
Listen, y'all have a great day. Enjoyed the sunshine when
it shows up this afternoon. See you tomorrow morning bright
nearly at five am. And I'll see this afternoon four
on the AM nine to fifty KPRC.