Two Teens Killed At A Pop-Up Party In A Vacant Houston Warehouse

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/16/24.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven forty kat rh Houston everywhere
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What matters to you from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Five a emisode. Time is we get started this morning
here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our
top stories this half hour, more drone sightings at this
point all across the country. Texas still wants to buy
that border wall and coming up at five weight. So
what happens to the parents of those kids that were
at that pop up party? Details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, is that you?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Is that me? What's going on?

Speaker 5 (00:41):
I'm just trying to because I can't see it. It's
all foggy out there. Jimi Beer, that's me. All right,
So far, so good. We're looking for suckach here. I
do have some overnight roadwork on the East Freeway outbound
just past the bud Plant. That's going to be outbound
after it's good from sixty nine back out to Lockwool.
As you're going toward the Budplant, I do have that

(01:02):
picked up shortly.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Don't change your course. We're good to go.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
Let's check your ship channel bridges at the sick at
the five to ten break, and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic Center from.

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R KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center
for today. Some areas of morning fog as Mike was
just describing, followed by part of the cold. These guys,
very slight chance of a showering the hike today right
about seventy eight gruntjump ature sixty nine at your official
severe weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH snip
down for the news.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
Here's Eric Shark, good morning and is now five oh
one on news Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Our top story this hour.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
A frenzy around mysterious drones flying over the Northeast continues.
There's two men now arrested for flying one too close
to Boston's Logan International Airports.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
Two men were arrested after a police officer noticed a
drone flying dangerously close to Boston Logan Airport. Now that incident,
it does appear to be isolated and separate from the
prolific amount of sightings that have been happening at primarily
in New Jersey and New York that is sparked by
partisan confusion. Reporters were told by senior Defense Department official

(02:06):
that there have been confirmed drone sightings over two military
bases in New Jersey, but that the source of them,
where they came from, who was running them, could not
be identified.

Speaker 6 (02:15):
That was Fox's Alexandria Hoff at the White House. All
this comes is after a Chinese citizen was arrested for
flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Just a week ago.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
President elect Trump naming former Acting Director of National Intelligence
Rit Grennell to serve as Presidential Envoys of Special Missions.
Trump described Renelle as someone who is always putting America first.
Trump's nomine to lead the Deprivement of Health and Human Services,
Robert F. Kennedy, Junior, will meet with key Republican senators
this week. Kennedy's controversial views on vaccines are expected to

(02:48):
draw scrutiny from several lawmakers, and Senator Lindsay Graham says
he doesn't want anonymous claims to derail the nomination at
President elect Trump's secretary of Defense pick.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
In an interview with NBC's Meet.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
The Press, the South Carolina Republicans said that he's talked
to Pete hegsath about the allegations against him and believes
his side of the story. Graham cast out on some
of the claims and said that the unless more accusers
come forwards, he thinks HEGCTH will get approved. All New
polling shows that fifty five percent of likely voters believe
that Donald Trump has a mandate to put his America

(03:21):
First agenda in place when he retakes the oath of office.

Speaker 8 (03:25):
This is a time in history where we need to
come together and do it's right by the country because
what's been going on for decades isn't working.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
And South Carolina Republican congress woman and Nancy Mayce eighty
one percent of Republicans believe Trump has that mandate. Fifty
three percent of voters also said that Congress should cooperate
with Trump in putting his policies into place. More than
two thousand migrants in southern Mexico are organizing a caravan
set to depart later this week, aiming to reach the

(03:53):
US border before President elect Trump's inauguration on January twentieth.
Caravan organizers are using private message in apps and to
coordinate their movements discreetly so not to attract the attention
of any Mexican authorities. Well, Joe Biden's still doing his
best to hurt Trump's agenda. He's now selling off materials
for border wall construction before Trump gets into office, with.

Speaker 9 (04:18):
Bidding starting at five dollars a section. It's a pretty
good deal for Texas.

Speaker 10 (04:21):
I will bid on all of that wall, and we
will bide in Texas and we will give it to
Donald Trump. I've got a billion dollars in my pocket
to do it.

Speaker 9 (04:30):
That's Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on Fox. He says he's
going to try and stop Biden from hauling these wall
materials off.

Speaker 10 (04:36):
I'm going to check in with our Department of Public Safety.
Maybe we need to start pulling over these trucks to
be sure they don't have too much weight on those trucks.
Maybe these trucks need to be slowed down.

Speaker 9 (04:44):
Patrick also called this attempt to sell these materials that
taxpayers paid for despicable. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
President Biden allowing over one million illegals to stay in
the US through temporary protected status.

Speaker 11 (04:57):
The system is to allow all people who have illegally
cross to instead have the government illegally cross them in
with some kind of quasi feelings seeming permission.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
It's Todd Bestman, Senior National Security Fellow for the Center
for Immigration Studies. He believes the numbers from the Congressional
Research Service is more like one point five million mirants
KTRH News Time five O five. Some energy experts are
warning that the Texas power grid is more unstable than
three years ago.

Speaker 12 (05:29):
The weak point is ERCOT being an electricity only market,
so generators only profit by contributing.

Speaker 13 (05:35):
Maybe thirty percent of the power. Plants don't operate but
about two months out of the year, and so it
doesn't pay the owners to keep these plants available to
the grid.

Speaker 12 (05:44):
UH energy expert at Hers says that the legislature needs
to take more action with Urcott and stabilizing the grid
will take more power plants.

Speaker 13 (05:51):
We have a lot of wind and solar, but we
don't have a lot of long duration batteries yet. Eventually
we'll get there, but in the meantime we play Urkott
weather roulette.

Speaker 12 (05:59):
He says, we ignore simple solutions because it would hurt
some people's pockets. Monterey Parard News Radio seven forty KRHM.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Track has taken over the push for a high speed
rail from Houston to Dallas, but needs thirty billion dollars
to get it started. As for whether or not it'll
actually happen.

Speaker 14 (06:16):
It definitely depends on who you ask. The city councils
of Dallas and Houston still seem very supportive, but the
legislators along the rural area of the route have filed
bills that are not friendly through the high speed rail
that they're hoping to get through this session.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
That's reporter Kim Roberts with the Texan. The funding would
have to come from private or federal sources, and the
high speed rail will take at least seventy eight years
to complete. The Houston Texans secure their second consecutive AFC
South title on Sunday. First, the Texans got the twenty
to twelve victory over the Dolphins at NRG Stadium. Then
the Colts lost to the Broncos later in the day.

(06:53):
Texans secured that AFC South Championship. They'll host a wildcard
round in the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Texans will play the
Chie this coming Saturday at Kansas City. I'm a Eric
Sharf on Houston's News Weather and traffic station News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News Team,
Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
All right, for those of us who during a different era,
we have a hard time relating to the problem of
pop up parties. But evidently pop up parties are thing,
and now we know it here in Houston. There was
a shooting over the weekend. Two teams deead three injured
at this pop up party. Now, if you're wondering what
the hell a pop up party is, Basically they go
into an empty retail space or an empty office space

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and they just set up a party and then on
social media they advertise the party, and a bunch of
kids show up to the party and havoc can ensue.
That's what happened here. What strikes me about the story, though,
is there's a couple of things. First of all, how
do you get at access to a building in North Houston.

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How do you get access to a retailed building, whether
it's a warehouse or or just empty office space or
whatever it is. How do you get access to it?
It sounds like in reading in the story that somebody
leased it to somebody, even if it was just for
a weekend kind of a thing. So it seems that
if you are the owner of a building, you know,

(08:27):
it might be wove you to kind of check out
who is leasing the building from you and what their
intended purpose of the building is. That's one thing that
struck me. Another thing that struck me about this is
how many really young people were there Saturday night, eleven
twenty pm. I don't know what your curview was when
you was thirteen years old, but I can assure you

(08:50):
that I was not allowed to be out at eleven
thirty at night when I was thirteen. Maybe when I
was sixteen, yeah, sixteen, seventeen. But there were a lot
of thirteen year old kids who are at this party.
This is where the shooting occurred. And of course you
always wonder, I know, it's Saturday, but you have to wonder,
all where are the parents and all this? You know,

(09:12):
do you allow your thirteen year old child to just
be out Saturday night at eleven thirty? And I guess
a lot of parents, especially some parents these days, do.
They just don't pay a whole lot of attention to
what their kids are doing. It's a shame. So you
had a sixteen year old boy pronounced dead at the scene,
sixteen sixteen year old girl transported to Children's Hospital Texas

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Children's Hospital in Houston. She was pronounced dead, and the
three others were injured, including a thirteen year old girl
who was in critical condition at Texas Children's Hospital and
a nineteen year old woman who transported herself to the hospital.
They have no description of the shooters. They have no
description of the shooter's vehicle. It's so far right now,

(09:57):
it's a dead end five to ten time for traffic
and weather.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Together.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
All had a gun in our truck and no one
ever got shot at our livestock pun on the farm
in Tarkington.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
When I was a kid, I'll bet when you were
thirteen though your your mom knew where you were when
you were thirteen years old pretty most of the time.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
And you know, the drinking age back then was five
foot ten.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
So I got my big german friend Greg would go
to Joy Juice and hook us up. Most people in
Liberty County, they're shaking their fingers right now. All right,
let's go to the north side. First of all, fog
is a thing. I hope Terry's not on the line here,
fog is on the line. It's a north freeway outbound
southbound at the north loop. That's stall a stall vehicle
on the right shoulder. I swear I can talk not

(10:37):
much of a backup so far. It doesn't seem to
be causing any suckings just yet. Just watch out and
the thing is I want to see if you can
see seven three two one two tips rest of our freeways. Oh,
they picked up the roadwork on the East Freeway. They
had her shut down for the weekend from downtown to Lockwood.
They had to work on the bridge. One of those
eighteen wheelers hited a while back. I'm Skymike and the

(10:59):
Generator super Center dot com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Is that you over there when you're basically about a
week away from Christmas and you're pushing eighty degrees, I
guess you're gonna end up with some fog from our
KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour whether the center
terry is here. What causes fog this time of the
year is that the temperature between the ground and the air,
the difference between those two.

Speaker 15 (11:18):
So there's a couple of different reasons for fog, the
main one being when the temperature and the due point
or the amount of humidity at the surface is very close,
like right now, our temperature is sixty eight and the
due point sixty eight.

Speaker 16 (11:39):
I would call that close.

Speaker 15 (11:40):
So the humidity is high, and with light winds and
the temperatures having cooled overnight, that does create this cloud
that sits on the ground, these little patche areas of fog.
Let's see the visibilities are running not too bad most places,
but sugar Land less than a mile, report less than

(12:01):
a mile, Angleton also less than a mile. So I
suspect we'll see the fog thicken up a little bit
here until the sun comes up, and then we're just
left with clouds. Today, lots of clouds, twenty percent chance
you'll get wet. It is warm today, mid seventies to
around eighty. We have a twenty percent chance of a shower.
Tomorrow mid to upper seventies. Tomorrow, thirty percent chance of rain. Wednesday,

(12:25):
it's a little bit cooler, load of mid seventies, and
then cooler, dryer air shows up.

Speaker 16 (12:29):
We'll get rid of the fog.

Speaker 15 (12:30):
Thursday and Friday, lots of sunshine and it feels like
it's December with our temperatures midt upper sixties.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Right now sixty nine at your official severe weather station.
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Speaker 2 (12:43):
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on the day.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
I haven't had a chance to dig into this story,
but I'm going to because I gotta see what's on
this list. I have a state suspicion. This is part
of the campaign to try to prevent RFK Junior becoming
Health and Human Services secretary. Last week, there was a
story about fifteen or twenty different food items that RFK

(13:13):
Junior may ban if he gets that position. Here's here's
another story with twenty six more grocery items that may
be banned under r f K Junior's health initiatives. Is
as if somehow, all of a sudden, they're gonna start
banning food. I think the intent there is obvious to
make you think that if he gets that job, that

(13:35):
there's gonna be that pizza your eating is gonna be banned.
The ramen noodles that you ate in college are going
to be banned are going to be banned. You won't
be able to eat them anymore. Not enough nutritional value.
I don't think that's what's about it all. It's more
about labeling. We need to put warning labels on food.
Do you think that makes any sense? I don't at

(13:56):
the best of circumstances. I mean, people have talked about
putting more, you know, caution this this, this food contains
high cholesterol causing this food. Do you think that changes
people eating habits? It certainly didn't work for cigarettes for
a long long time five twenty time for traffic and
whether to put.

Speaker 5 (14:10):
The warning labels on computers and screens and stuff, you know, warning.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
This picture butt big. You can put a warning label
on just about anything these days.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
Bad things sometimes, all right, Uh tip line, if you
can't see, let me see if you could see, and
you tell me, uh, what the visibility's like out there?
Seven point three two one two t ips. I do
have one thing of concern here North Freeway. That's a
stall forty five southbound at the six ten North Lupets
right at the interchange ramp.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
That's a sticky spot.

Speaker 17 (14:38):
Alex from Tarkington, Hey, dude, picking nine up here in Splendora.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
I got about that's about a mile visibility.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Should we still be at Sonic fighting with them? No,
that's that's the old days, all right. Northwest side, dude,
I guy.

Speaker 18 (14:51):
Mike Lord, just be Captain Shack.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
There be no frog or fog coming in on two
timing this.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Oh you know two ninety.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
Not only do we get Captain Jack, but you know
that's where most of my female impersonators that call the
tip line drive in.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
From here we go.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
Let's check the south side at the at the five
thirty break in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center,
We're looking at some areas of morning fogg. Otherwise it'll
be partly claude. Today it's flank chance for a shower
in a high seventy eight. Tomorrow morning fog, then partley
cloudy seventy seven. Wednesday party cloudy for the morning, increasing
clouds with afternoon showers in the high temperature of seventy three.
Card temperature is sixty nine at your officials Severe Weather

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Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out
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Good morning. It's five twenty one on news Radio seven
forty k TRH. Your headlines brought to you by Morrow Mechanical.
Federal agents reportedly talk to the mother of this suspect
in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson just
hours before he was arrested. We report Saint cat Lean

(16:00):
Mangioni told the FBI that photos of the suspect had
a resemblance to her son. The Biden administration does not
intend to authorize a bird flu vaccine. The President says
the virus is not spreading rapidly among people and isn't
causing severe illness and Megamigan's players hoping Tuesday the seventeenth
much luckier than Friday the thirteenth. There was no grand
prize winner in Friday's drawing. Tuesday nights jackpot will be

(16:22):
worth an estimated seven hundred forty million dollars. Get the
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
comes your way at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 19 (16:31):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Welcome, This is welcome to the know. People have the
right to know, to know what else Stay in the know.

Speaker 20 (16:38):
A note with US Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Do you think that President Trump thinks he's smarter than
everybody else? I don't know what he thinks, but I
thought it was interesting that Van Jones, you know who
Van Jones is, right, big Obama guy works at CNN,
has been one of the few Democrats who've been willing
to kind of admit that maybe President Trump is a
little bit smarter than all of his critics, all of

(17:05):
his detractors. Here is what he said over the weekend
on CNN. Uh, and we get some reaction to it.

Speaker 21 (17:12):
Of course, Donald Trump is smarter than me, you and
all critics. You know how I know because he has
the White House, the Senate.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
The House totally agree for the popular vote.

Speaker 21 (17:26):
This dude is is a phenomenon. He is the most
powerful human on earth and in our lifetime.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
And we're still saying, well, how was this card? We
look like idiots or you're He's totally right.

Speaker 22 (17:41):
I love, It's so great.

Speaker 8 (17:45):
You got you behind stages of grief and the last
one is acceptance.

Speaker 23 (17:48):
Are we reaching?

Speaker 24 (17:49):
This is a baby learning to walk. This baby hasn't
learned how to talk. This baby hasn't learned how to reason, interrational,
What we're watching here is not notable. It's only notable
in that it's them noticing the first step on the
way to add. What I mean by this is, of course,
Donald Trump is incredibly smart. Everyone knows this. That's like
understanding the gravity exists. What they don't understand is the

(18:09):
unique combination of things.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
That Donald Trump possesses.

Speaker 24 (18:12):
I was texting with one another old friend of ours
last night about Jadvance. You know what's juststing about Jady Vance.
Not that he's smart, but that he's smart and he's normal.
That's a rare combo. Donald Trump is smart and believe
it or not normal. And then on top of that,
Rachel strong. And that is what they neglect to continue
to appreciate that combination.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
That strength is the outlier.

Speaker 24 (18:35):
Okay, he saw the culture movement, but seeing it and
doing something about it is one step. Because they all
pushed back so hard on it and tried to stop him.
It took unreal strength to push forward with that intellect.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
But to get back to the smarter than you comment
the Van Jones main. I mean, it's pretty obvious, right,
any cited the reasons. Look at it, man, he won
the White House, he basically, when he get right down
to it, he won all the lawsuits, he won the
White House, and look who he's got the Senate. He's

(19:10):
got the House. Look who's flocking to him. More and
more world leaders and America business leaders are flocking through
this guy day by day. There has been an epiphany here.
I think, I really do believe this. There has been
an epiphany among the people who, if they weren't directly
opposed to Trump, they were at the very least not

(19:35):
really interested in working with him. That makes them say
they can see what's going on. Zuckerberg can see what's
going on. These world business leaders can see what's going on.
These world leaders can see what's going on. This guy
is large and in charge, and that's not going to change.
So either come to the party and participate or risk

(19:57):
being ostracized at your own expense. Five twenty six, It's
time to take a look at your money. Happy Monday,
Jeff Billinger.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
And to you also, Jimmy.

Speaker 25 (20:07):
Strategists have started making predictions for how the stock market
might perform in twenty twenty five. Experts at several banks,
including Bank of America JP Moore, can Chase think option
selling will keep volatility low in the new year, but
they say geopolitical tensions and weakening job market may cause
some big swings. And they note there is some uncertainty

(20:28):
now about the impact of tax and tariff policies that
may be enacted by President elect Trump. Stock market futures
all pointing higher at the moment that our futures up
forty one points. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 3 (21:02):
By thirty our time. Here in Houston's Sponing News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, two
teams killed at a pop up party in a vacant
Houston warehouse. Donations still coming in for the United Healthcare
Killer and coming up at five thirty eight.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
That Washington d C.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Server we told you about last week who said you
wouldn't serve Trump officials fired. Details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Boning News. First Check out that morning.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Five. Here's sky Mike, sam anfreg Katie, Dude.

Speaker 18 (21:32):
Want Mike. Yeah, the fog is pretty thick.

Speaker 17 (21:35):
Headed into Pasadena Laport dear Park area.

Speaker 13 (21:39):
Hey Jason, all.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Right, thanks so much. Banana stickers all around.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Oh, Steve Purton, Steve from Burton is way out on
two ninety.

Speaker 18 (21:46):
Happy Monday, Sky Mike going through Chapel Hill.

Speaker 26 (21:49):
Now I'm hungry warts Houston and its foggy visibility.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
Is pretty bad out there, all right, I got to
turn everybody snooze off. I will check your bridges at
the five forty break in the classic Buick G Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather centers
Somemarias of morning, fog than Bartley clouding with the very
slight chance of a shower in the high temperature today
of seventy eight. We stay warm through at least Wednesday.
We'll check out the forecast in detail when we talk
to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in nine minutes.
Right now, current temperature is sixty nine at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time

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now for the news.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
Here's Eric Sharp, Good morning, It's five point thirty one
on news radio seven forty ky trah our top story
this hour. Search continues this morning for the suspect or
suspects after a deadly weekend shooting in North Houston. Two
teenagers dad at least three other teens injured following that
mass shooting at a pop up club off of Jensen
Drive late it's Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Houston Mayor John Whitmyer spoke at the scene.

Speaker 27 (22:46):
I'll be following this for survey days to see how
something like this.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Is created. So far, no arrest have been made.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Turns out, of it, it's not just the Houston Police
Department that's struggling to staff up. DPS also short about
fifteen hundred troopers across the state.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Turns out, law enforcement agencies across the country are all
having this problem.

Speaker 18 (23:11):
Law enforcement in the military and other private sectors are
fighting over a small pool of resources, and that's qualified candidates.

Speaker 9 (23:18):
Retired HBD Captain Greg Freman says the border crisis is
making it even harder for DPS to staff up.

Speaker 18 (23:24):
I know personally that every two weeks a vast number
of troopers that would regularly be assigned to highway patrol
or ship down to the border. They have to do
a two week due the assignment down there.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
Freman says that even in a best case scenario, it
will take around ten to fifteen years to get law
enforcement fully staffed up. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
And the Defense Fund for the suspected killer of United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is growing. Multiple online fundraisers for
Luigi Mangioni have been started by anonymous individuals. One of
them has raised over one hundred thousand dollars as of yesterday.
The annual Army Navy Game being played in Landover, Maryland
over the weekend, with a President elect Trump and a

(24:04):
whole cast of cabinet members in attendance.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Vice President elect JD.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
Vans, Trump's Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegson, Elon Musk, Vivic Ramaswami,
and Tulci Gabbard all there, but it was the fourth
year in a row that the sitting president wasn't at
the game.

Speaker 28 (24:19):
Very surprising that Joe Biden has not yet made it
to the game as a president. I think that's very disappointing.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
That's Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Wantley. The Midshipman won
the Commander's in Chief Trophy with a thirty one thirteen
victory against the Black Knights. All the social media post
on TV some people praising the United Healthcare assassin Luigi
Mangioni for taking out CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
And what's the reaction?

Speaker 29 (24:48):
The Saturday Night Live does an entire skit with the
audience laughing along.

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Taylor Lorenz.

Speaker 29 (24:53):
The journalists scare quotes formerly of the New York Times
Washington Posts that we were all told to take so seriously.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
She's talking about the she felt.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
As Fox News contributor Joe conci He says that there
are far better ways to protest the US healthcare system
thanm I threatening or killing people. ABC has agreed to
settle with President elect Trump in his defamation lawsuit against
the network. Fox's Madison Scarpino has details.

Speaker 30 (25:18):
ABC News and one of its top anchors, George Stephanopolis,
will now be paying fifteen million dollars to settle Trump's
defamation lawsuit. This all stems from an interview back in
March where Stephanopoulos said Trump was found liable for rape
several times the president elect was in fact found liable

(25:38):
for sexual abuse, but not rape.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
The network will also pay one million dollars in legal
fees to the president Elect's attorney. Another long time Trump
aali is being named to a post in the upcoming administration.
The President elect announcing Richard Grenell would be his Envoy
to Special Missions on Truth Social over the weekend. Trump
said Grenell will continue to fight for peace through strength
and always put America first. Grenell was Trump's former acting

(26:03):
Director of National Intelligence and former ambassador to Germany. He
was reportedly being considered for Secretary of State in the
Trump cabinet, but lost out to Florida Senator Marco Rubio
KTRH News time is five thirty five. A new study
has found that climate scientists have underestimated the benefits from
our forest so much so that it's made their climate

(26:25):
change models completely wrong.

Speaker 31 (26:27):
What this is is that the trees emit this what's
called isoprene. It essentially creates more clouds. More clouds sort
of act like an umbrella essentially and keep you cooler.
The forests are putting out this, essentially cloud machines which
are blocking the sun.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
That's Mark Marino with the Climate Depot, who says that
this is true science, not science that fits a climate agenda.
Amazon teamsters saying that they're ready to strike in the
midst of the holiday shopping season. The announcement Sunday comes
after two New York warehouses voted to go on strike
following Amazon's refusal to negotiate with new contractors. The union

(27:03):
had called on Amazon to agree to bargaining dates for
a contract by December fifteenth. Thousands of Amazon workers went
on strike late last month, asking for higher pay and
better working conditions during one of the company's busiest weekends
of the year. All The Federal Reserve is set to
begin its two day policy meeting Tuesday. The event is
widely expected to cut interest rates once again when it

(27:25):
announces its decision Wednesday. It would be the third rate
and final rate cut for the year, with most economists
expecting a quarter percentage point reduction. Ktrrah News Time five
thirty six out of the Houston Texans on the AFC
South Champions for the second season in a row. Hometown
team now guaranteed to host a game at a wildcard

(27:45):
round of this year's playoffs. Texans took the title Sunday
when they topped the Miami Dolphins twenty to twelve and
their division rivals. Of course, the Colts fell to the
Denver Broncos thirty one thirteen. The Houston Texans will face
the Chiefs in Kansas City this coming. I'm metic Sharp
on Euston's news, weather and traffic station News Radio seven
forty k t rh.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
More with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News teams.

Speaker 4 (28:11):
This is Houston's Morning News. If you were.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Waiting tables in Washington, d C. Right and you saw
a member of the current administration commitment I don't I
don't care which administration is by dedministration or the incoming
Trump administration, and it was like, I don't know Health
and Human Services secretary or somebody in the cabinet, or
you know, somebody who knows fairly powerful, and they're sitting

(28:36):
at one of your tables. What would you do? Would
you if you if you let's say, what would you
do if you disagreed with their politics? This woman decided
that what she would do is talk to the Washingtonian
magazine about how she would make sure that she gave
them really bad service or no service. She would refuse
to wait on them, and if she somehow was waiting

(28:57):
on them, she'd be sure to tell them exactly what
she thought them. See, last time I checked, don't don't
don't Most waiters and waitresses still rely on tips. Isn't
that generally the top top means of making a living
as a weight person is tips. And the bigger the tips,
the better. And the more money they spend on wine

(29:21):
and food and such and and get the bill way
up there, the more likely you are to get a
big tip. That that's why I always thought it worked.
And not to mention the fact that, let's face it,
you know, a story like that makes the rounds, and
you're associated with this this restaurant on Capitol Hill. Then

(29:44):
words soon spreads that certain people are not welcome there
and and that costs the restaurant business. So guess what
she got fired for. I assume because well, mainly because
they don't want to. The restaurant basically said, we're not
one of the businesses turning down business. You know, we're
in the business of feeding people. We we feed people,

(30:05):
that's what we do, and we you know, our weight
staff is expected to give great service to whoever is
sitting at that table, and it doesn't matter what their
politics are or anything else. So I guess she's looking
for a new gig. Good news is is that, you know,
weight staff comes and weight staff goes, so she'll probably
find a job somewhere else. Who doesn't really you know,

(30:25):
somebody doesn't really know who she is, but it might
not be in Washington, d C. Five forty Time for
traffic and whether to go?

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Did Michael Jordans say about selling shoes? I don't know, Mike,
what did he say?

Speaker 5 (30:37):
He said that Republicans buy shoes also, and that's why
he never went political.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Well, there you go. Makes all the sense of the world, right, Dude.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Clyde from Laporte says one forty six is showing about
eight hundred feet visibility, so we're got to zoom that
at the five point fifty break. Here, I got Junior
from Dayton on the road.

Speaker 13 (30:54):
Dude, he's got my head and a port author again
in Long Naney and the race is own out.

Speaker 17 (31:00):
I mean a little bit of fog, but it ain't
slowing anybody down.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
I love it when country boys and girls get them
trucks going haws from Spring is on two forty nine.

Speaker 26 (31:10):
Mark Scot Mike. No fog issues coming in on the
Forgotten Freeway.

Speaker 18 (31:15):
However, the construction.

Speaker 26 (31:16):
Gods lied to us text dot wall of depth stuff
is still up on the Beltway, Imperil Valley, Alding, Westfield.
Obviously they didn't make the sixteen December dates they promise us.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
All right, oh in extra points for burbage by the
way Haws from Spring. You know what we're complaining about
fog and it's two warm?

Speaker 4 (31:34):
What it's kind of like, it's two warm? You know what?

Speaker 5 (31:36):
You could be Jack from Connecticut, who's listening on the
free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 13 (31:40):
Terry, it is twenty eighty's the snowing.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
No thank you, I'll stick to Texas. We're in the
Classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
He sounded happy about the snow from our ktr H
Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center. Terry Smith
is here. No snow in the forecast. How maybe a
little rain in the forecast at some point, but a
few more days away, it looks like.

Speaker 15 (32:00):
Yeah, well yeah, we don't have a whole lot of
rain here the next couple of days. What we do
have is a cold front that's on the way. So
if you want it cooler, it's not going to get cold,
but it will get cooler like December is supposed to be.

Speaker 16 (32:14):
That'll happen later in the week.

Speaker 15 (32:15):
So today, we do have some patchy fog out there,
nothing widespread at the moment.

Speaker 16 (32:20):
I'll keep an eye on it.

Speaker 15 (32:22):
Mainly, just a cloudy day and a twenty percent chance
of a shower.

Speaker 16 (32:25):
That's it.

Speaker 15 (32:26):
Temperatures mid seventies to around eighty today. I know you,
miss us Jack with that kind of warm weather. Twenty
percent chance of a shower Tomorrow, middubber seventies. Wednesday, there's
a thirty percent chance of submarine Temperatures are still warm,
load to mid seventies. Then the cooler, dryer air shows
up Thursday and Friday, sunny with highs in the middupper sixties.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
They'll fall out at the airport sixty nine at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
We're still going.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Drone crazy drones stories all weekend long. Drones everywhere, not
just on the East coast, not just on the West coast.
There was even a report out of Ohio, Ohio. Yeah,
out of Ohio. I think around Dane, Ohio. I guess
there's a military there's a military base up there. Anyway.
Here's the report for you from Fox twenty six in Cincinnati.

Speaker 32 (33:19):
The Dayton Daily News reports that the base says no
property was damaged and no one was harmed. I went
to the Right Patterson Air Force Base. They were unable
to talk to us, but we did talk to a
few people who live in the area. Nobody I spoke
with saw the drones Friday night, but they were familiar
with the sidings on the East coast. Tyler Morgan lives
near Right Patterson's Air Force Base and was surprised to

(33:42):
find out the airspace was shut down for around four hours,
and he was first hearing about it two days later.

Speaker 22 (33:49):
It was kind of shocked to hear that made its
way out here.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
I think there's a lot of unknowns. I think it's
kind of weird. No one really knows what it is.

Speaker 32 (33:57):
Alex Blankenship lives one mile from the base. She says
after seeing the New Jersey sidings near the east Coast,
she thought it was only a matter of time before
they made it to Right Patterson's Air Force Base. With
limited information, people are trying to fill in the blanks.
This is what Blankenship thinks about the drones.

Speaker 9 (34:15):
Think that the government hides a lot of technology from us,
and that this stuff is it's getting harder and harder
to keep quiet.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Okay, so what do we need to know about Right
Patterson Air Force Space. It's in Green County, Ohio, this
near Dayton, Ohio. There's about fifteen hundred and fifty four
people on that base. It is controlled by the Air
Forces in Air Force Base there. So are the drones

(34:45):
something that the Air Force is experimenting with? Is that
why we're seeing them in Ohio? Or is this cementity
spine on Right Patterson Air Force Base? Evidently that Air
Force bace closed airspace during the sidings, so one would
think it's not something the US government is doing, but
maybe somebody else. But you know, hey, nothing to see here.

(35:07):
The bide administrations, didn't you say, you don't no need
to worry, there's nothing. No, there's nothing going on. Five
point fifty one time for traffic and weather together on music,
it's chicken again with Skymike.

Speaker 14 (35:19):
So far.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
You know, visibility is a thing this morning, but we're
just basically waiting. It's the calm before the next shoe
drops in the woods.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
And I've got I do have this one stall.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
It's on the north loof westbound at the Hearty toll
word Alex is in the canyon.

Speaker 17 (35:33):
Hey got Mike, I got your other shoe for you.
Fifty nine at two eighty eight split south bound. Got
two vehicle wreck right a split, one on the right shoulder,
one on the left shoulder.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
All right, that's trouble in the canyon.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Will zoom it at the six o'clock break in the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
From r KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Some areas of morning fog and then partly cloudy with
a slight chance of a shower seventy eight for today.
Morning fog again tomorrow, then partly cloudy with seventy seven.
Step at You're right now still sixty nine at your
official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time
to check out some of our top stories on a
Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Here's Eric.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
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forty KTRH. Your headlines brought to you by Moral Mechanical.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Maiorcis says Americans shouldn't be concerned
about the recent surge and drone settings across the country.
He told ABC's this Week, thousands of drones are flown
every day for a variety of personal and commercial uses.
Unions for Amazon authorizing strikes at two warehouses that serve

(36:34):
twenty million people in the New York area. Amazon teamsters
had called on Amazon to agree to bargaining dates for
a contract by December fifteenth, which of course was yesterday.
Apple reportedly working on a foldable iPhone at a foldable iPad.
According to multiple reports, the tech giant could be looking
at launching those devices sometimes in twenty twenty six. Get

(36:55):
the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next
update comes your way at the top of the checking in.

Speaker 22 (37:01):
I'm money.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Why don't you call war?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
We all avoid it, but you'll better understand the world
around you if you check in with us.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Use radio seven kt RH. Yeah, we got a new
sheriff in town. His name is Donald Jay Trump and
he's bringing our cage Junior long with him, at least
if he can get him approved. Like I said, there's
been all sorts of scare stories about the things that
would be banned by our FK Junior, but the senial
of Goya Goya Foods, Bob on the way, he's not

(37:29):
afraid really of that whole idea, and he thinks there
does need to be a new sheriff in time. When
it comes to food.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yes, well, inherently we are healthy.

Speaker 33 (37:39):
I mean, beings have protein, fiber, antioxidist, fighter nutrients. You
combined with rice, you get a complete protein, a complex protein.
So you know, and we worked with President Obama years
ago with the Myplay program, which is USDA and let's
move where you take the nutritional pyramid and you put
it into poor control into the different food groups.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
You know.

Speaker 33 (38:02):
But we have standards all over the world that vary,
and we need to get together, you know, Mexico, KINDAA,
the European Union, even California has different standards.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Within our own country.

Speaker 33 (38:15):
So we really need to work and getting those standards
established and working together so we have something that can
you know, we make a million labels with three thousand products,
and the nutritional labeling is just very hard to handle.

Speaker 34 (38:32):
Well, it sounds like RFK Junior really wants to go
after that. And you know, whether you're in the food
business or whatever business CEOs business leaders are incredibly optimistic
about the Trump administration. Business confidence is going way up.
Part of that to me is when you look at
the guys on the list and women on the list

(38:53):
who Trump is bringing in. There's a lot of business
people there, Bob, I got to believe for someone like
you running a busines this you like to see other
business operators, other investors coming into this administration.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
It's a change from Biden.

Speaker 33 (39:09):
You well, you can we were there. It is palpable.
You can already feel the change. The presidents on the
world stage in France, you know, Trudeau and Canada and
our friends in Mexico is threatening some tariffs and they're
getting in line. We could have our fifty firsts and
fifty second states. The president was quipping, but you know,

(39:32):
you're already feeling. We initiated the Biden term with the
Warren fossil fuel, green new Deal, out of control spending,
and then our weakness the war in the Ukraine and Russia,
which is the bread basket for Northern Africa and Europe,
and so the wheat, the corn, all these things. This
skyrocket during COVID, the supply chain freights went up ten times.

(39:56):
You know, a trailer from Thailand would be eighteen hundred
dollars went up to eighteen thousand, and you couldn't get
a trail. It was like a you know, blackmail. So
and so all these things took off, and we see
this president back. He's already a new sheriff in town.
He's already kicking butt, and uh, we're going to see

(40:18):
it change very quickly.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
There you go, kick mutt, take names. Five poin fifty seven.
Now you're a news radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
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Speaker 2 (40:35):
Now the latest news, weather, and it's more of what
matters to you from the John Morris Services Studio.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Six am is a time here in Houston's forty news.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as we get
started this half hour, more drone sightings all across the country.
Texas still wants to buy that border wall. In coming
up at six to eight, more food items that could
be under scrutiny by RFK details and the minutes ahead.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
You're in Houston's morning News.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
First, we're gonna check out that morning drive again kind
of early for problems in the canyon.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Mike, Oh, I don't know if the canyon's big enough
for both of us.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
Partner southbound, that's I sixty nine Alex from Tarkingdon with
the double banana sticker this morning. That's I sixty nine
southbound at two eighty eight. Houston Transtar is trying to
get me a camera shot now and KGRH listeners the
first to know about this wreck on the North Freeway
southbound Shepherd the usual spot that is a left lane
black five vehicle mashup and all kinds of backup from

(41:32):
West Road down. I'm sky Mike, got your classic Buick
GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center.
For today, we're looking at pretty much some fog in
the morning and then part of the clotty skies like
chance for shower, high temperature for seventy eight. We'll look
at the rest of the work week when we talk
to Terry Smith at the weather Channel in eight minutes
right now sixty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
It's time now for the news.

Speaker 6 (41:58):
Here's Eric Sharp Morning six two on news Radio seven
forty KTRH. This news brought to you by Shappa's Farm Supply.
Our top story this hour. People still looking for answers
on the multiple drone sightings of the East Coast in
New York, New Jersey and other nearby states. Secretary of
Homeland Security Alejandro Majorc is trying to assure people that
they're not in any danger now.

Speaker 35 (42:18):
I want to assure the American public that we in
the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel technology to
assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
One Biden administration official said that there had been a
slight overreaction from some residents who are seeing these drones incoming.
National Security Advisor Mike Walls claims that the issue is
bringing attention to something else.

Speaker 36 (42:45):
I think what the drone issue points out are kind
of gaps in our agencies, gaps in our authorities between
the Department of Homeland Security, local law enforcement, the Defense Department.
I think Americans are finding it hard to believe we
can't figure out where these are come coming from.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
The drones sightings started back at mid November and have
picked up since then. Trump Staminie to lead the Department
of Health and Human Services.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Robert F.

Speaker 6 (43:08):
Kennedy Junior, will meet with key Republican senators this week.
Kennedy's controversial views on vaccines expected to draw some scrutiny
from several lawmakers. Meanwhile, Senator Lindsay Graham says he doesn't
want anonymous claims to derail the nomination of President Electrum's
Secretary of Defense pick.

Speaker 37 (43:25):
He's given me his side of the story.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
It makes sense to me. I believe him.

Speaker 37 (43:29):
Unless somebody's willing to come forward, I think he's going
to get through.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
Remember Kavanaugh.

Speaker 37 (43:34):
Five people accused of Justice Kavanaugh of misconduct. Three were
outright lies, the other two I think were not credible.
So we're not going to let that happen to Pete.
That was Graham on NBC's Meet the Press over the weekend.
The latest rescuse in numbers show that nearly sixty percent
of Lanthly voters want Donald Trump to put his America

(43:54):
First program into place.

Speaker 8 (43:56):
Everything costs more and we have no time to waste,
So I hope that his nominees get through immediately.

Speaker 38 (44:03):
Because Trump received.

Speaker 8 (44:04):
A mandate on November fifth, and it's up to Congress to.

Speaker 6 (44:07):
Deliver South Carolina Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace fifty three percent
of voters also said Congress should cooperate with Trump in
putting his policies into action. More than two thousand migrants
in southern Mexico organizing a caravan to is set to
depart later this week, aiming to reach the US border
before President elect Donald Trump's inauguration January twentieth. Caravan organizers

(44:29):
are using private messaging apps to coordinate their movements discreetly
so as not to attract attention of the Mexican authorities.
The Bide administration tried to sell unused segments of the
border wall on their way out. They've been hauling material
away from the border to auction sites where bidding starts
as low as five bucks.

Speaker 10 (44:48):
And the American people obviously aren't tolerated. That's why they
were thrown out. We've been trying to buy this wall
from them for four years and they wouldn't sell.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
It to us.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
That's Texas and Tay Governor Dan Patrick on Fox He
says Texas has a billion dollars that he intends to
spend on finally buying the wall material at least one million.
The Texas grids Texas power Grid rather is more fragile
than during the winter storm Yuri in twenty twenty one.

(45:19):
It's according to some experts you raise h Energy expert
at Hers says, a simple solution is more power plants. However,
producers do not profit off of that, which is what
Urkot is all about.

Speaker 13 (45:33):
Urkott is a one percent government operated entity. It is
an arm of the state. It is exactly like an
old style Soviet purchasing bureau. It doesn't reward capital investment,
so as a result of that, nobody's building power plants.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
He says, we avoid simple solutions to keep profits flowing,
and the legislature needs to take action. Well, according to reports,
efforts to get that high speed rail rolling here in
Texas or gaining momentum, but that made us be some
wishful thinking.

Speaker 19 (46:02):
Or a ploy to get money. Now that Amtrak has
taken over.

Speaker 14 (46:07):
The cost when originally proposed was supposedly around ten billion dollars,
and it's more than triples. The cost of constructioning it
will exceed thirty.

Speaker 19 (46:15):
Billion dollars, which will have to come from private or
federal funds.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
That's reporter Kim Roberts with The Texan.

Speaker 14 (46:22):
I don't think rail is necessarily on people's radar in
Texas at this point.

Speaker 19 (46:27):
As for whether or not the rail will ever happen,
she says, it depends on who you ask. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty kt h KT range News time
is six six.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
The Houston Texans secure their second consecutive AFC South title
on Sunday. First, the Texan's got the twenty to twelve
victory over the Dolphins at Energy Stadium, and the Colts
loss to the Broncos later in the day, and the
Texans secured them to AFC South Championship. They'll host a
wildcard round in the playoffs. I'm Eric Sharp bout Euston's news,
weather and traffic station Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Stay in touch on your drive in with Jimmy Barrett
and the Houston Morning News team six.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
O eight our time here on Houston's Morning News. I
consider this scare tactics. You know that they're running these
lists online of here are some of the Here are
the twenty six latest food grocery items that may be
banned under an RFK Junior Health Initiative. What they're doing
is they're looking for anything that has artificial color, artificial flavor,

(47:33):
artificial anything processing in it and making the assumption, I
guess that somehow these these foods are going to be
in danger. I will say this, it is interesting to
look at the list if we're no other reason then
to know what's in some of these things that we
just don't pay a whole lot of attention to. Number
one item on this list instant noodles, you know, like

(47:53):
ramen noodles, convenience stable, but they contain high levels of sodium,
artificial flavors, and preservatives like territary buterol. Most of these names,
they can't even begin to pronounce, a synthetic antioxidant that
has been linked to negative health effects in some studies, Yes,
some studies. What else is the oh, farm raised salmon

(48:15):
often fed synthetic some sort of synthetic color to enhance
its pink color. This artificial coloring has raised health concerns
in some studies. They may want to take a look
at artificial coloring in farm raised salmon. Artificial sweeteners, of course,
you know, like aspartame and cyclose and the stuff that's

(48:37):
in diet sodas and sugar free products. Microwave popcorn, they
contain pf oas, which is in their lining, a chemical
associated with various health risk. Additionally, the artificial butter flavor
make and train it contained a chemical linked to lung
issues in factory settings. Yes, we know that, but that

(48:59):
is in the production of it. That's just not in
making it and eating it. So again, big thing about
maybe nothing high fruitose corn syrup. I think we know
that that stuff's not particularly good. Transfats and baked goods
could be on the list. Frozen pizza what they contain
preservatives like sodium nitrite in the meats and artificial flavors
in the crust could face reformulation under stricter guidelines. Oh

(49:23):
maybe that wouldn't be all bad. Canned tomatoes have BPA
packaging concerns. Processed cheese contains often contains emulsifiers, artificial colors,
and preservatives to maintain texture and shelf life, and also
on the list. Underscrutiny is anything that has an artificial
food flavoring, and that is a whole lot of stuff.

(49:44):
Six ' ten Time for traffic and weather together pizza,
frozen pizza.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
S guy, Mike Terry, get a pitchfork in a torch.
We're gonna go crass.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
You holy what you know in nineteen seventy eight, I
ate nothing but crap and I was about this big
a round.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
It's the com pewters. Kids, Let's do.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
The South sam East found at Guessna. That is a
wreck and right it's a stall, right lane. Okay, just
watch out. There's not a big backup from this Nord Freeway.
Sheppard KJR H listeners the first to know about that wreck.
Now the rest of the media has it to center lanes.
Where's the backup? West Mount Houston down. Let's call it
West Road and you know what tolls ticker, big shots,
Let's go ahead, jump on the hardy toll Road and

(50:22):
common riff raft to the East Texas instead north Loop
six ' ten. I'm getting tired of this TC Jester
Spackle two center lanes here, two vehicles. I think everybody's okay?
And what else do we have? Oh, downtown, clear the canyon.
Clear the canyon that was southbound Southwest Freeway at two
eighty eight.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Lot of banana stickers.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
Jack from Connecticut listening on the free iHeartRadio app. Captain
Jack Alex from tarkingdu and Steve from Burton, Sam Man
from Katie and Junior from Dayton. There's a small pattern
here Schulenberg Fest. I'm in the Classic viewick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry's here and we're going to take a look at
the work weekly.

Speaker 16 (51:00):
Yeah, and it's not looking too bad.

Speaker 15 (51:03):
It's rather warm the next couple of days, but then
some cooler air shows up by the end of the week.

Speaker 16 (51:10):
Little bit in the way of clouds.

Speaker 15 (51:12):
Today, it's more clouds than anything, but there's a twenty
percent chance of a shower today. Temperatures similar to yesterday,
mid seventies to around.

Speaker 16 (51:21):
Eighty in the afternoon.

Speaker 15 (51:23):
We have a twenty percent chance of getting wet tomorrow
mid to upper seventies. Wednesday, that's when the colfront starts
to make its way into southeast Texas. Right now, it
looks like a thirty percent chance of showers and some
thunder Temperatures starting to cool slightly, low to mid seventies.
But it's Thursday and Friday when all of this clears out.

(51:44):
The temperatures cool down. The sunshine's back as well. Thursday
and Friday look fantastic, mid upper sixties for highs both days.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
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Speaker 3 (52:05):
It is just about six twenty here in Houston's Morning News.
You probably saw the report. We certainly did that. That
indicates that our power experts are a little concerned about
whether or not the grid can make it through the winter. Now,
we had all this hardening of the grid that supposedly

(52:27):
happened after a storm jury came through and in North
Texas was hugely impacted by that. We lost our power
round here for a number of days as well in
freezing temperatures. That didn't turn out very well. So why
are they so worried? If they've taken the necessary steps
to harden the grid, why are they worried? Doctor ed
Hurst joins us Energy Fellow at the University of Houston.

(52:49):
We'll talk to him next. First, let's do a little
traffic and weather together. I'll be short as we check
out the drive again, here's that short sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
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Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather center. For today, we're looking at partly cloudy skuys
once we give it to this fog here this morning,
very slight chance of a shower with the high seventy
eight morning fog, then partly cloudy's seventy seven tomorrow and
then Wednesday, partly cloudy in the morning, increasing clouds with
afternoon showers in a high seventy three current tepeture sixty

(53:33):
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Speaker 6 (53:42):
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You have it like our wires live six twenty three
is our time here in Houston's mooring dows. That means
the electricity is flowing through. Doctor ed Hurs joins US
Energy Fellow at the University of Houston. I get the
impressions sometimes that Urkats maybe out of either abundance of
caution or just after all the flack they took for
not being transparent with us during Yuri when we had

(55:11):
so many power problems, that maybe this is why they
are reacting with these premature what I would call premature
warnings about losing power this winner. They seem to be
concerned about the grid. Are they concerned about the grid?
And if so, why I thought we hardened the grid.

Speaker 13 (55:27):
Well, we hardened the grid, we just didn't expand the grid.
You know, Urkat said prior to Uri, there was a
five percent chance of rolling blackouts in the event of
a storm like Cury. This year, it's an eighty percent
chance of rolling blackouts in the event of a storm
bi Cury. And the reason is we haven't added any
power plants to the grid since twenty twenty one.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
You know.

Speaker 13 (55:51):
The URKOT management is directed by the Public Utility Commission,
which is directed by the governor, and COT ordinarily doesn't
make investments. It's unlike other grids which will go out
in advance and contract for power or COTT doesn't do that,
and so we Texas leadership has to provide the incentives

(56:18):
for companies like NRG or Vista or Cowpie to build
new power plants, and we haven't done that. We remember
last March, Blackrock was in town. The governor and the
Lieutenant governor went to Blackrock asked them for ten billion
dollars to build natural gas power plants, and Blackrock said, no,
we're not going to do it. We can't make any
money the way you've got your market set up. And

(56:39):
in twenty twenty one, Berkshire Hathaway Energy and star Ward
Energy Capital both proposed bringing nine thousand to ten thousand
mega loots of power plants to the grid. Those would
have been operating by now. All they asked for was
a nine percent rate of return, and the state leadership said, no,
we don't believe in paying for people to to stay

(57:00):
on the bench. You know, the challenge is the Texas
electricity market. The aircut market is electricity only, and so
only those generators that are actually in use today are
getting paid. If the Texans were paid that way, only
those guys taking the field yesterday would have been paid.

Speaker 4 (57:17):
Those who stayed on the bench wouldn't get paid.

Speaker 13 (57:20):
And you know when we have peak in the winter
and peak demand in the summer, that's when we need
all power plants there. Well, today we don't have enough
power plants to service us in you know, cold winter night.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Well, at the last time I checked up your hurst,
we are still adding population, and we're adding a lot
of businesses, and we're adding a lot of businesses that
use a lot of power. So there's a real disconnect here.
We're living on borrowed time unless we get some more
power plants.

Speaker 13 (57:48):
No, you're absolutely right. And as soon as we can
get any in if you and I were to start
today with the Jimmy and Ed Power Company, it would
be maybe two years. If we could find the equipment,
probably four years and then get the connects. You know,
this is going to be a real challenge. You know,
we've got long duration batteries that are joining the grid

(58:10):
very quickly, but you know we don't have enough of them,
and so in the meantime we need natural gas power
plants to spend up, and to be fair, nobody wants
to do it because they can't make any money.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
CPS.

Speaker 13 (58:24):
The city owned utility of San Antonio bought two relatively
new power plants for fifty cents on the dollar. Earlier
this year, NURG sold off one old unit for about
forty cents on the dollar. So building a new one
is not a good economic objective for anybody on Wall Street.

(58:45):
They're not going to give you the money to do.

Speaker 4 (58:46):
It, got you. So it's going to have to come
up on the state, is what you're saying.

Speaker 13 (58:51):
It's going to have to do that, or we as
a state are going to have to guarantee people a
rate of return. And you know in the old days,
that's what happened. The chairman of the board of URKAT
last week said, well, this ain't your granny's grid. Well, no,
granny had a grid that actually worked. It was end
to end reliable, it was a direct supply chain. And

(59:13):
today what we're left with granny's old generators and they're
breaking down is.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Nine percent affair return? Or is that asking for too much?
Is black Rock guys asking for too much for a
nine percent return?

Speaker 13 (59:24):
I you know, a nine percent rate of return when
everybody else is given him fifteen, twenty and thirty or
or less. You know, it's stable. It's what needs to happen.
You know, without power, we can't stay in the twenty
first century. We can't talk on the radio, we can't
have our cell phones, we can't microwave our bacon. We're

(59:45):
we're in deep trouble without electricity. And for what electricity provides,
the cost of it is really just a small fraction
of the value.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
All right, ave to hers as always, thank you, appreciate it.
Donner's you fellow, University of Houston, doctor ed Hers. It
is six twenty seven. It's time to take a look
at your money. Here's Jeff Bellinger and Jimmy. Looks like
we'll start the week on a positive note. On Wall Street,
futures are higher. Right across the board, the DIW futures are.

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Up ninety points.

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Six thirty is our time, Houston's Sporting News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this fur two teams killed at
a pop up party in a vacant Houston warehouse, the
nation still coming in for the United Healthcare CEO killer,
and coming up at six thirty eight, Elon Musk wants
to turn his Texas star base into its own city.

(01:00:55):
Details in the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Sporting News. First,
let's check out that morning drive again. Here sky MIKEE
at Nord Freeway.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
Whoa, whoa southbound the Cheppard Curve Touchwrack Ninjas are on
the scene. Here it's two left lines, four vehicle crash
up and we're backed up from Green's Point.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
Big shots do the hardy commoners do the East.

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
Tex outbound Big rig Randy from Springs giving me a
wreck at Luetta that's in the feeder.

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
Just stay on the mainline, stay out of that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
And six ten north we cleared the wreck at TC
Jester the sucket just gone to stay the course. I'm
Skymike in the classic You at GMC Traffic Center from.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Our KTRH generators Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center areas
of morning fog and then partly clotting with a very
slight chance of a shower today I temperature of seventy eight.
We'll get you the complete forecast in eight minutes when
we talk to Terry at the Weather Channel. Right now,
temperature is still sixty nine at your officials Severe Weather Station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time for the news.

(01:01:48):
Here's Eric Sharp.

Speaker 6 (01:01:49):
Good Morning at six thirty one on news Radio seven
forty k TRH. Our top story this hour. Two teams
killed four others injured in a shooting at a makeshift
club called the Curfew Club in North Houston late Saturday night.
A sixteen year old boy at the scene and a
fourteen year old girl pronounced dead at the hospital, while
the injured included a critically wounded thirteen year old girl and.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
In promptu party.

Speaker 27 (01:02:12):
This is what I would call it, an empty warehouse, unregulated.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
That's matter what John Whitmyer.

Speaker 6 (01:02:19):
He condemned the unregulated pop up party and urged witnesses
to come forward. So far, no suspects have been arrested,
and it turns out the same officer at shortage that
to flicks the Houston Police Department.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
It's affecting the.

Speaker 6 (01:02:31):
Texas DPS as well, ided at least fifteen hundred more
positions filled all across the states.

Speaker 18 (01:02:37):
The border crisis has exacerbated their staffing issues even worse.
And at the end of the day, it's a public
safety issue because, I mean, everything you can think of
the troopers do on the road.

Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
They're not there.

Speaker 6 (01:02:48):
Retired HPD Captain Greg Freeman says that this even is
a best case scenario, it could take up to fifteen
years to really solve the law enforcement crisis in America.
President elect Trump taking in the Army Navy game over
the weekend, also their VP elect JD. Vans, Trump's Defense
Secretary nominee Pete Hegsent, and special guest Daniel Penny, who

(01:03:08):
was found not guilty in a New York City courtroom
this month of a few charges in the choke hold
death of a man threatening other people on the subway.
Republican National Committee Chair Michael Wattley calls Penny a hero.

Speaker 28 (01:03:21):
The man was trying to protect people that were on
that train. I think it's very important that we kind
of look at motives as people are moving through life,
and his motive was to protect and serve. That's what
he learned when he was in the Marines, and that's
what he was doing on that train.

Speaker 6 (01:03:37):
The midship and took home the Commander in Chief's trophy
with the thirty one to thirteen way and against the
Black Knights over the weekend, all some unhinged Americans are
seeing Luigi Mangioni as a hero.

Speaker 22 (01:03:49):
Social media activists and even some government officials are making
excuses for United Healthcare assass in Luigi Mangioni.

Speaker 29 (01:03:56):
I think social media plays a big role, right. I
mean what we're seeing online and even on tele television
in terms of celebrating this murderer, I mean it's absolutely sickening.

Speaker 22 (01:04:04):
Fox News contributor Joe Consciousness. Those that want to protest
the current US healthcare system should try a different approach
rather than murdering people.

Speaker 29 (01:04:11):
If you don't like the US healthcare system, go to
our future at fifty first state.

Speaker 16 (01:04:14):
Go to Canada and see how quickly you get.

Speaker 29 (01:04:16):
An emergency surgery after discovering a lump somewhere under government
run healthcare.

Speaker 22 (01:04:21):
Cher Lewis Snows Radio seven forty KHRH.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
President elect Trump has settled his defamation lawsuit against ABC
News and anchored George Stefanopolis. The company will pay out
fifteen million dollars to the president elect, on top of
issuing an apology.

Speaker 39 (01:04:35):
Trumpsuit ABC News and anchor George Stfanopolis for defamation, days
after the anchor, during an interview, falsely claimed a jury
found Trump liable for raping writer Eging Carol, when in
fact the jury only found him liable for sexual abuse,
which has a distinct definition under New York law. Stephanopoulos
repeated the false claim ten times while interviewing South Carolina

(01:04:57):
Representative Nancy Mace last March, and ABC News also had
to issue then editor's note at the bottom of an
online article. In a statement, ABC News said, we are
pleased at the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss
the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing now.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
The settlement money will be donated to the president Elect's
presidential Library. The company will also pay out one million
dollars to cover Trump's legal fees. Another long time Trump
outline being named to a post in the upcoming administration.
The president elect announcing Richard Grennell will be his Envoy
for Special Missions on Truth Social Over the weekend, Trump
said Grenell will continue to find for peace through strength

(01:05:34):
and always put America first. KTRH News Time six thirty
five others. More bad news for the climate change agenda.
A new report found that so called scientists have missed
a major factor in their data that comes from forests.

Speaker 19 (01:05:50):
It turns out the Amazon produces what is known as isoprene.

Speaker 31 (01:05:55):
The Amazon rainforests are essentially cloud machines. They're pumping out
cloud by releasing these aerosols from the forest.

Speaker 4 (01:06:03):
That's climate expert Mark.

Speaker 31 (01:06:05):
Murano, which then create more clouds, which then coolier clouds
are not accounted for well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
In the climate models.

Speaker 31 (01:06:12):
And this is what every skeptical scientist has been saying
for decades.

Speaker 19 (01:06:16):
This discovery proves those climate models are wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty kt H.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
Well union's for Amazon authorizing strikes at two warehouses that
serve twenty million people in the New York City metro area.
Amazon teamsters had called on Amazon to agree to bargaining
dates for a contract by December fifteenth, but that didn't happen.
A spokesperson for Amazon says the teamster new Union is
misleading the public and promoting false narratives. The Federal Reserves

(01:06:45):
had to begin its two day policy meeting Tuesday. The
Fed widely expected to cut interest rates once again when
it announces its decision on Wednesday. And the Houston Texas
are the AFC South Champions for a second season in
a row. A hometown team is now guaranteed to host
a game in a wildcard round of this year's playoffs.
Texans took the title on Sunday when they topped the

(01:07:06):
Dolphins twenty to twelve, and of course, the division rival
Indianapolis Colts fell to the Denver Broncos thirty one to thirteen.
I may Eric Sharp on Houston's news, weather and traffic
station News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Houston's morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett Sweet Disco in
Space six thirty eight.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
Is their time here in Houston's morning News. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
I don't know if you'd heard this before or not,
but evidently, and I guess this is not the first
time the story's actually been talked about a little bit.
Elon Musk, who of course has built SpaceX right down
by the border, wants to turn SpaceX star bas site
into a Texas city. He's launching a new mission to

(01:07:52):
make it a part of the great stay of Texas.
Is going to have in that In fact, that's what
the name would be. Star Bas Texas. Which is an
name or were they called spacexx text let's take a
look here. Billionaire Elon Musk sent a letter this the
end of this last week to local officials requesting an

(01:08:14):
election to turn what he calls star Base. Okay, it
would be star Base Texas, the South Texas site where
SpaceX built and launches its SpaceX rocket ships, into an
incorporated city. Residents of the area known as star Base
havemitted the petition. According to the company, there is on
the southern tip of Texas at the Bokachka Beach near

(01:08:34):
the Mexican border. He announced he was moving his headquarters
he may recall, from California to Texas. That's where it
ended up. He says, to continue growing the workforce necessary
to rapidly develop and manufacture Starship, we need the ability
to grow star Base as a community. That is why
we're requesting that Cameron County call an election to enable

(01:08:55):
the incorporation of star Base as the newest city in
the Rio Grande Valley. That's according to Catherine Luters, the
general manager of Starbas. Since the first time the idea
has been floated. Busk proposed the idea back in twenty
twenty one when he wrote a social media post simply
said creating the city of star Bas, Texas. But now
he wants to make it official. They'd have to do

(01:09:16):
it by having election where the residents would agree to
become incorporated into this new city. Six forty Time for
traffic and weather together as we check out the drive
once again, sky Mike is standing by.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Terry named this song because I heard it while ago,
and I'm like, I.

Speaker 15 (01:09:33):
Know, isn't that the theme song to some come on
TV show back in the seventies.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
It's like, but this is the disco version of it.

Speaker 36 (01:09:43):
It's Star Trek no Way, Yeah, yeah, that sounds two disco,
the star Trek.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
I don't know, I know it's the disco version.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
We got a disco on the north side, thank you, Marco.
Our north side here is like a disco on the
North Freeway. I've got the wreck at the Shepherd Curve
now southbound I forty five. It's a big backup from
Green's point. And now I got Roger from Magnolia helping
me out.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Good morning, Mike, A north three way outbound right on
top of Little York.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
There's a two.

Speaker 13 (01:10:13):
Car accident in the left lane.

Speaker 18 (01:10:14):
Boom and man, it's got everything backed up almost the airlines.

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
This is outbound, not inbound.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
So now we've got suckage in both directions from the
Loop to from the North Loop to the North Belt.

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
Linda from Springs on the.

Speaker 26 (01:10:27):
Line from the hearting left dound north Red going on
over here?

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
You know what that's loopy or the normal on six
' ten westbound, I'm gonna have to look into that.
I see the backup all throw from the east text uff.
Anybody else can get me some laneage?

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
Help me.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
I'm in the Classic Buick GMC traffic Center on Terry.
Just you know, frest up your hair into a fro
and put on some bell bottoms. You can get ready
to go.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
Let's get down with it from our ktr H Generator
Supercenter twenty four hour whether Center, Terry is here, and
there is some fog to deal with this morning.

Speaker 15 (01:10:59):
And I just saw the National Weather Services issued a
dense fog advisory for Southeast Texas until nine o'clock this
morning in anticipation of the visibilities, and they have become
more of an issue. A lot of places are reporting
a mile visibility or less. So hey, if you're out
early this morning, you just might be running into some

(01:11:21):
of those low clouds and fog, at least for a
little while.

Speaker 16 (01:11:25):
The fog will end up dissipating.

Speaker 15 (01:11:27):
But we're still left with lots of clouds today, only
a twenty percent chance of you getting wet though. Mid
seventies to around eighty today is warm. Tomorrow another warm
day with a twenty percent chance of a shower middumber
seventies tomorrow. Call front on Wednesday will bring us a
thirty percent chance of thunder showers. Temperatures Wednesday load to

(01:11:48):
mid seventies once the front clears out, that's when the cooler,
dryer air shows up. Thursday and Friday sunny and feeling
like December with highs in the middumber sixties.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Right now sixty nine at your official severe weather station,
news Radio seven forty k t RH.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
You are commute, You are forecast. Your news is Houston's
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all right?

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
We have the timeline coming up around the corner. Little
prize today at that gets you and the Christmas spirit. Also,
everybody has an opinion on all these drone sightings. We
have a drone expert who says, you know, whatever you do,
don't shoot them down. There's been advice that maybe you should.
He says, that's bad advice. Don't shoot them down. Not

(01:12:36):
that we're seeing any around here at the moment. More
than that story coming up next first though, it's six
fifteen lit to a little bit prassy for timeline. Jimmy,
what's the prize for timeline? Yeah, well you'll find out
in just a moment's timeline. You're so impatient.

Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
All right, let's look on the north north side here.
I'm forty five North Freeway outbound at Little York Roger
from Magnolia, wearing the banana sticker this morning, and then southbound.
That's an accident at Sheppard. It's been there for a while,
big shots with the toll stickers. Let's do the hearty
toll road. Just common riff wrap chump on the East
text Freeway. Got tim from League City on the Gulf Freeway.

Speaker 18 (01:13:08):
Thais, guy, Mike, you got a two car smash up.

Speaker 13 (01:13:11):
Look out Paul forty five more right or Lockwood looks
like the middle lane.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
Hurry up, Ninjas Oh extra points for Erbert's nice job there.
I'm in the classic Buick GMC Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
Center from r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
Weather Center. We are experiencing some patchy fog this morning. Uh,
pretty dense in some areas. It will eventually become partly
cloudy with a slight chance for shower seventy eight morning
fog again tomorrow, then partly cloudy to the high seventy
seven currently still sixty nine at your official Severe Brothers station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. Check out some of

(01:13:45):
our top trending stories on a Monday morning.

Speaker 6 (01:13:47):
Here's Eric Good Morning six fifty one on News Radio
seven forty ktr H. Your headlines brought to you by
DNM Auto Leasing. The Defense Fund for the alleged killer
of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is growing. Multiple online
fundraisers for Luigi Mangioni have been started by anonymous individuals,
one with at least over one hundred thousand dollars as
of last night. Two men are in custody after flying

(01:14:09):
a drone dangerously close to Boston's Logan International Airport.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
This is New York.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
Governor Kathy Hochle says the federal government is deploying a
new drone detection system in her state to assist law enforcement.
And Santa's House is up on Zillo, the real estate
site offering virtual tours of clauses North Pole home at Home,
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million dollars. Get the latest news anytime at ktiah dot com.
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Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
All right, type for another drone update six fifty two
stir time here on the Houston's Morning News. All right,
we have a drone service provider aligned CEO. That's quite
a title. That's what he does. He flies drones for living,
he sells drones for living. His name is Vic Moss.
He says that a lot of what is being spotted

(01:15:09):
aren't really drones their aircraft. So whatever you do, don't
shoot these things down.

Speaker 41 (01:15:13):
The vast majority of the in focus video I'll say,
in focus video that we've seen are aircraft. It's pretty
easy to designate, you know, to really see whether or
not it's an aircraft. I'm not saying all of them are,
but with the exception of one video I did see
this afternoon, it's pretty obvious that they are aircraft.

Speaker 34 (01:15:34):
So one of the problems is nobody's really been able to.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Pin that down. We're sort of speculating on that.

Speaker 34 (01:15:41):
So then you get the question of, Okay, well, what
do we do And because there's sort of no official response,
one of the things that even the President elect has said, look,
if we don't know what they are, let's take them
down and figure out what they are.

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
But taking them down.

Speaker 34 (01:15:56):
Is tricky, right, I mean, so like you can't just
do that in the neighborhood. Right, So if you're going
to do something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
How do you do it? You don't.

Speaker 41 (01:16:06):
Let's just let's just let's just spell that myth right now.
Actually really incredibly disappointed in our president elect for stating that,
first of all, shooting out a drone the same thing
as shooting down seven forty seven. Legally, we are protected
under eighteen USC thirty two. And the illegality and aside
the idiocy and danger behind it is, first of all,

(01:16:29):
if it's a legitimate drone, let's make sure we say.
If then you're powered by lithium polymer batteries, and you
puncture a lithium polymer battery, you've got a fire on
your hands. So you've got to you've got a dive
bomber basically, and if you shoot it down over your
neighbor's house, you're going to be your insurance is going
to be rebuilding your neighbor's house. But since so many
of them are also I don't know if I want

(01:16:51):
to use the word also, but let's say so many
of them could be manned aircraft. If you shoot down
manned aircraft, you don't even know what the implications are there,
So no, shooting them down is out of the question.
Nobody should do it. It's no, just don't. I mean, there's
no excuse for it.

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I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this fur we
have more drone settings all across the country. Texas still
wants to buy that border wall than coming up to
seven oh eight, Trump looks to privatize the post office etails.
In the minutes ahead, you're in Houston's Morning News. First
the strick out that morning drive again with sky bite all.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
Right, golf Freeway, Habitdashery northbound and who is that that
found that northbound at Tellipson That's where the wreck actually is.

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Well, chake up two Center lanes. It's not good.

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Toe Trek ninjas have showed up backups from park Place
North Freeway. We cleared Shepherd inbound. We still have Little
York outbound. Still a big smash up now from the
Loop to the Belt both ways and six ' ten north.
Something spackling us up now right at the squeeze westbound
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It's time now for the news.

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Here's Eric Shark, Good morning, seven oh one on news
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Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
Our top story this hour.

Speaker 6 (01:20:18):
Congress continues to push for more transparency from the White
House regarding alleged drone sightings over the East Coast.

Speaker 23 (01:20:25):
See your administration officials. They maintain that these reported drone
sidings they don't pose a public safety risk or or
are a national security threat.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
Yet.

Speaker 23 (01:20:33):
Just on Saturday, Boston police arrested two people after a
Jonas spotted flying dangerously close to Logan International Airport. DHS
and FBI officials are urging people to stay calm. They
say most of the sightings are actually of manned aircraft.
They've been comparing the reported sightings with the flight patterns
from busy airports and they say the tracks in a

(01:20:53):
majority of these cases match. Still, they confirm some of
the sidings are in fact drones, and they want Congress
to help them trust.

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
The issue that's fox is Madeline Rivera at the White House.
Donald Trump nominating the CEO of Truth Social to lead
the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Trump made the announcement over
the weekend, saying Devin Nunez will provide independent assessments of
the effectiveness of the US intelligence communities activities. Trump's nominated
to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

(01:21:21):
Kennedy Junior, will meet with key Republican senators this week.
Kennedy's controversial views on vaccines expected to draw some scrutiny
from lawmakers, and Senator Lindsay Graham says he doesn't want
anonymous claims to derail the nomination of President elect Trump's
Secretary of Defense pick. In an interview with NBC's Meet
the Press, the South Carolina Republican says he's talked to
Pete Hank Seth about the allegations against him and believes

(01:21:45):
his side of the story. Graham cast out on some
of the claims and said that unless more accusers come forward,
he thinks Seth will get approves all The new polling
shows that fifty five percent of likely voters believe Donald
Trump has a mandate mandates to put his America First
agenda in place when he retakes the oath of office.

Speaker 8 (01:22:04):
This is a time in history where we need to
come together and do what's right by the country, because
what's been going on for decades isn't working.

Speaker 6 (01:22:12):
South Carolina Republican Congresswoman Nancy May says eighty one percent
of Republicans believe Trump has that mandate. Fifty three percent
of voters also said Congress should cooperate with Trump in
putting his policies into place. More than two thousand migrants
in southern Mexico, organizing a caravan said to depart later
this week, aiming to reach the US border before President

(01:22:34):
elect Donald Trump's inauguration January twentieth. Caravan organizers are using
private message apps to coordinate their movements discreetly so as
not to attract attention of the Mexican authorities. All Joe
Biden is still doing his best to hurt Trump's agenda.
He's now selling off materials for border wall construction before
Trump gets into office.

Speaker 9 (01:22:55):
With bidding starting at five dollars a section. It's a
pretty good deal for Texas.

Speaker 10 (01:22:59):
I will bid on all of that wall, and we
will buide in Texas and we will give it to
Donald Trump. I've got a billion dollars in my pocket
to do it.

Speaker 9 (01:23:07):
That's Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on Fox. He says he's
going to try and stop Biden from hauling these wall
materials off.

Speaker 10 (01:23:13):
I'm going to check in with our Department of Public Safety.
Maybe we need to start pulling over these trucks to
be sure they don't have too much weight on those trucks.
Maybe these trucks need to be slowed down.

Speaker 9 (01:23:22):
Patrick also called this attempt to sell these materials that
taxpayers paid for. Despicable. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty
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President buying allowing over a million migrants to stay in
the US through temporary protective statuses.

Speaker 11 (01:23:37):
The system is to allow people who to have illegally
cross to instead have the government illegally cross them in
with some kind of quasi feelings seeming permission.

Speaker 6 (01:23:49):
Todd Bestman, Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for
Immigration Studies, believes the number from the Congressional Research Service
is more like one point five million migrants. Kt H
News Time Now seven oh five. While some energy experts
are warning that the Texas power grid is more unstable
than just three years ago.

Speaker 12 (01:24:10):
The week point is ERCOD being an electricity only market,
so generators only profit by contributing.

Speaker 13 (01:24:16):
Maybe thirty percent of the power. Plants don't operate but
about two months out of the year, and so it
doesn't pay the owners to keep these plants available to
the grid.

Speaker 12 (01:24:24):
UH energy expert at Hers says that the legislature needs
to take more action with URCOTT and stabilizing the grid
will take more power plants.

Speaker 13 (01:24:32):
We have a lot of wind and solar, but we
don't have a lot of long duration batteries. Yet eventually
we'll get there, but in the meantime we play Urcott
weather or LTTE.

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He says, we ignore simple solutions because it would hurt
some people's pockets. Enterree Parard News Radio seven forty kt RHM.

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Track has taken over the push for a high speed
rail from Houston to Dallas, but needs thirty billion dollars
to get it started.

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As for whether or not it'll actually happen.

Speaker 14 (01:24:57):
It definitely depends on who you ask. The The councils
of Dallas and Houston still seem very supportive, but the
legislators along the rural area of the route have filed
bills that are not friendly to the high speed rail
that they're hoping to get through this discussion.

Speaker 6 (01:25:12):
Supporter Kim Roberts with the Texans is the funding would
have to come from private or federal sources, and the
high speed rail will take at least seven to eight
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the Broncos later in the day. The Texans secured that
second AFC South Championship. They'll host a wildcard round in
the playoffs. They will play the Chiefs this coming Saturday
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would not be surprising how hard it would be to
pull off. However, would remain to be seen. President like
Donald Trump reportedly considering privatizing the United States Postal Service.

(01:26:19):
It's at least according to a report from the Washington Post,
three people with knowledge of the matter of the term.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Three people with knowledge of the matter.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
Told the outlet that Trump had been talking with Howard Lutnick,
who Trump picked a Service Commerce secretary, about carrying out
an overhaul, but that quotes of the US Postal Service now,
overhaul doesn't necessarily mean privatized, but I guess it could.
Trump's plans regarding how he plans to overhaul the postal

(01:26:49):
service not immediately clear. One of the sources told the
outlet that Trump had met with a group of transition
officials and had requested their input on privatizing the agency.
I think the unsed state's postal system should have been
privatized a long time ago. Of course, if it had
and it hadn't made any changes or improvements, it would
be bankrupt, out of business by now. The only reason

(01:27:11):
why the post Office is not out of business is
not bankrupt. It is because it's propped up by your
tax dollars, because it's run by the United States government
and the most inefficient way humanly possible. Trump has criticized
the post Office as being and I quote, a joke.
Can we all agree that the way it is now,

(01:27:31):
it's kind of a joke. It loses billions and billions
of dollars every year. Last year was like ten billion.
It's just you can't run a business like that. And
if we were to treat every single government entity like
it was a business, where you either here's your budget,
you don't get any more. This is how you live

(01:27:54):
within your means. You have to run your department for
X amount of dollars. If we ran every single government
agency that way, that they would be forced at some
point to figure out how to run it efficiently. And
there's nothing more slow at doing changes than the post
office and the government one of the same. Slow, slow, slow.

(01:28:15):
They're slow at adopting new ways of doing things. They're
slow at adopting technology. They're slow at everything. They're slow
at delivering the mail. They're slow at everything. The only
way to potentially fix it is to privatize it. In
the long haul, the question becomes, all right, what do
you what do you do with all the postal carriers
are in retirement? How do you handle the retirement because

(01:28:36):
all gay government mentions at this point seven to ten
time for traffic, and whether they go then.

Speaker 5 (01:28:41):
There's that line you get to stand in and that's
where all the fun is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
That the line at the post office skyline. Yeah, especially
this time.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
And they're even friendlier than the toll way people. So
there we are helpful. Let's get on the north side.
We've cleared both our wrecks outbound Little York southbound at
Shepard we're still a mess on the North Freeway from
the Belt to the Loops. So big shots, let's jump
on the Hardy Toil Road.

Speaker 4 (01:29:01):
Commoners to the east. Text get around that business.

Speaker 5 (01:29:03):
That was Tim from League City that gave me the
wreck on the Gulf Freeway northbound. Tellipson's the what the
official crosstreet is now? It's two center lanes that'll smash
everybody up northbound from Park Place. That's getting worse by
the minute here six ten north. We never did find
the cause of that problem forty five. Everybody looked the
whole media and transtar and sometimes it just gets all

(01:29:25):
spackled up in the sea of red lights. Linda from Spring,
banana sticker on your portfolio. Solid breaks now from the
hospital Hardy vind it's young Albert Kingwood.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
Morris Skoy, Mike.

Speaker 12 (01:29:35):
The Hardy Toll Road frams from ninety nine are in
a complete backup, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:40):
I got Julian from Spring, same spot.

Speaker 18 (01:29:42):
Got Mike.

Speaker 26 (01:29:43):
Looks like there was a wreck there, and I added
six extra minutes to decide to try to take the
ninety nine.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
Raff on the Hardy all right, that's been trouble, and
you looked getting a little heavy around the golf ball
going eastbound, Terry. We'll zoom that at the seven twenty
and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

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O katrh Top tax Defenders twenty four. Our weather center,
Terry Smith is here, and it is very cloudy still
at least yes, and a lot of that is due
to I guess just low overhead cloud giver, right, that's
what some of the bogs gotta be.

Speaker 15 (01:30:14):
Yeah, Well, some of the fog is really thick too
in spots, is what I'm noticing. And there is a
dense fog advisory until nine o'clock this morning. At that
point a lot of the fog will begin to thin out.
It's still a cloudy day though today folks. Not a
lot of rain though, So if you've got things you're
taken care of today, I don't think the umbrella will

(01:30:35):
be quite as critical. Just a twenty percent chance of
a shower. It's warm again, mid seventies to around eighty today.
We do have that twenty percent chance of a shower Tomorrow,
mid to upper seventies Tomorrow Wednesday are thirty percent chance
of shower, some thunder as well, and load to mid
seventies Wednesday. But the cooler, dryer air shows up Thursday

(01:30:57):
and Friday, Blue Skies, love of sunshine, and temperatures will
be in the mid upper sixty So we're back on
track where we should be temperature wise by.

Speaker 16 (01:31:06):
The end of the week.

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On the day.

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So, the Texas Department of Public Services requesting fifteen one
hundred plus positions. Some of them are law enforcement, some
of them are for driver's license bureaus in order to
be able to process driver's licenses. Fifteen hundred plus. So
what kind of money is involved in that? And how

(01:31:44):
easy or difficult would it be, especially in law enforcement
to recruit these officers considering the fact that we've had
a shortage of officers for so long. We'll talk to
Greg Freeman, retired HPD Captain about all this in just
a moment. First, though, traffic and weather together as we
check out that drive once again, Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:32:00):
I'm gonna give Greg Freeman some extra time here. I
do have a wreck here research for US. I think
Jersey Village Justin is on the southbound. That's the North Freeway.
We're packed up all the way from Conroe and Nord
Sam that's westbound past two forty nine. Call it Guessner,
big wreck here. This is Agly Elizabeth on the North Belt.
And also James from Graham Mission and we'll get you

(01:32:21):
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From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center.
For today, some areas of morning fog and then mostly clouding,
very slight shower chants twenty percent with a high seventy eight.
Pretty much the same forecast for tomorrow, Then partly cloude
for Wednesday, with increasing clouds in the afternoon. Another shower chance,
high seventy three. Right now, temperature is sixty eight ye

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Seven forty KTRH. How long did you have to stand
in line? Actually, I had a great customer service experience.
Last time I got my driver's license renewed, so I'm
not complaining. Seven twenty two is their time here in
Houston's Morning News. Now, I think probably recruiting people to
work at the driver's license office is maybe a little
bit easier than trying to recruit more law enforcement. We've

(01:34:12):
had a shortage there for quite some time. Johnny us
to talk about Greg Freeman, retired HPD Captain. Welcome to
the show, sir. Let's talk about the difficulty of in
just attracting people to law enforcement these days. This has
been going on ever since the George Floyd incident, and
maybe a little bit before that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
It's become very, very difficult. But if you've got fifteen
hundred plus positions that are open with the Texas Department
of Public Safety, that tells us it's not just a
Houston issue. It's a state wide issue.

Speaker 18 (01:34:43):
Yeah, Jimmy, good morning, Thank you for having me. It's
a national issue. And we've seen this trending ever since
the post George Floyd rise of twenty twenty and law
enforcement across the board. We saw mass exodus of senior
veteran officers that were leaving a department, and it was
hard recruiting, and it was for a couple of years,

(01:35:03):
but the pendulum has starting to swing back the other way.
You have a lot of variables that are out there.
The military is trying to recruit, the police departments are
trying to recruit in the private sector, and you have
a very select pool of applicants that are qualified right
now to join. And what we see happening also is
that you have departments that are changing their hiring standards
to try to meet their quotas for getting these cadets in.

Speaker 4 (01:35:25):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Is that a problem though, changing those those quotas as
far as you know what they're what they're requiring. The
physical requirements of the job have always been rather stringent,
at least for cadets that are coming in. Do those
need to be loosened up or is that potentially dangerous
to do that?

Speaker 18 (01:35:43):
It is a it's a flippery slope, Jimmy, it is.
You know, you want to make sure that you're hiring
the best and the most qualified and the most competent.
And I'd like to say Houston has still maintained a
very good firm grip on our hiring. They have changed
the requirements and made it a little bit more accessible.
For the educational requirements hiring, you can have employment for

(01:36:04):
three years out of a four year period and that
can be satisfied as one of the requirements, opposed to
having a forty eight hours. But you have other departments
that are starting to loosen the requirements, and it kind
of it opens up a Pandora's box. It really does
when you start hiring applicants that might have criminal records
or drug usage. And so it's always been a challenge

(01:36:29):
and it will contain to be a challenge trying to
find those applicants that meet the requirements.

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
Yeah, both smoking a little marijuana is one thing, but
a criminal record, that's quite another problem. You know, how
loosely are some of these departments looking at that particular
requirement not having a criminal.

Speaker 18 (01:36:44):
Record the department I can use Houston as an example,
and I'm hoping I'm getting the information, Craig, But they'll
look at a person that might have had a Class
BE misdemeanor arrests or a Class C and they will
go back five to ten years, so that person could
not have had something prior to a ten year period
or and that and that's understandable. It could have been

(01:37:06):
a Class B offense and or a drug usage over
a certain period of time.

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
What would be in those requirements would be a Class
B offense other than maybe you smoking a joint? What
would be a Class B offense? D w I Okay, And.

Speaker 18 (01:37:24):
It could be a Now, if it's a crime of
moral turpitude, a sex offense, or something to that effect,
then no, that's going to exclude them completely. But you
have other offenses that are out there, trespassing, any type
of domestic violence, that's that's going to be a disqualifier.
So there are things out there that will immediately disqualify

(01:37:46):
a cadet from or an applicant from applying.

Speaker 4 (01:37:49):
Yeah, what if you've just been accused? Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Is it just if you've been convicted of one of
these offenses, or is it if you been arrested for
one of these offenses?

Speaker 18 (01:37:59):
No, arrest is different. It's going to be a conviction,
deferred adjudication and probation, anything of that nature where the
case has been disposed of. And there's a lot of
people out there that think that if they get their
record exposed, that that's going to give them a free
pass and it does not. And that's a bigness number
in the criminal justice world.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
You know, we talk all the time, Greg about the
importance of paying these people what they're worth. I don't
know that we'll ever pay police officers what they're worth.
I pray some day we will. But you know, money
has always been an issue. Not to say that money
alone is going to be the answer, because certainly most
people have become police officers. I believe that they considered
a vocational like location as much as they considered a

(01:38:36):
way to make a living. But how much do you
think improvement over starting salaries for police officers could make
a big difference as far as recruiting more people.

Speaker 18 (01:38:46):
Oh, it's a huge factor, Jimmy, And I mean, Houston
likes to stay competitive, but we're still far down on
the total ball. We're probably six or seventh in the state.
You have agencies like Plane OPD that are starting our
officers out at one hundred and eight thousand dollars, whereas
Houston is starting their cadets out at forty eight I believe.
But within the first year or two years, you know,

(01:39:06):
they're making in the mid fifties. But it's a very
decisive factor. But it's a big city and it's all
about taxing and to pay your officers more. We run
about five classes a year and there's about seventy cadets
in each class. So on a good year we might
graduate three hundred and fifty cadets. But we're also averaging
about two hundred to three hundred retirees, so you're really

(01:39:28):
only getting a net benefit of about fifty to maybe
one hundred officers added onto the street. We have the
same number of officers now that we had twenty years ago.
Let that think, endy, we have about fifty one hundred
offsers that's what we had twenty years ago, and our
city has increased by over a million in population that
we know of, and.

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
By twenty forty they're saying we may be the third
largest city in the United States. Yep, it's problem, Greg.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
We will be. We will be.

Speaker 18 (01:39:53):
We'll to past Chicago in the next census.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
All right, Greg Freeman, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Best
of luck to you, sir, retired HPD caffin grat free
minutes seven twenty eight. Time to take a look at
your money. Here's Jeff Bellinger.

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Optimism is building on Wall Street. Jimmy, the Fed and
overseas central banks expected to cut interest rates this week.
The now futures are up seventy seven points. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Seven thirty one is their time, Houston's Borning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half our two
teams killed at a pop up party in a vacant
Houston warehouse. Donations still coming in for the United Healthcare
CEO killer and coming up at seven thirty eight. And
estimate on just how big Houston will be by the
year twenty forty. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in

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Houston's Borning News. First checking out that morning drive again
with Skymine clear the.

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Golf freeway in front of you, of age, I've got
the North Sam, Elizabeth Mike going westbound.

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There's a small kuffle.

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Oh food left hand lane.

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Two cars one wheel totally off the car.

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Can I have a mango sticker instead of banana?

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You know what?

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I think I can hook you a mango sticker, Elizabeth.
It's James Graham Mission.

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Good morning.

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Got Mike.

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Just west up to forty nine and acts two left lanes.

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You're closed, Coach Trek Ninchees are not there yet.

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Nobody's on sene all right.

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Look at that backup now coming over this way, I'm
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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From a KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather Center.
For today, we have some areas of morning fog. When
that lifts, it'll just be a mostly cloudy day. It's
sly chance for shower twenty percent. With the HIG temperature
right about seventy eight. We'll get you the complete forecast
from Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight minutes.
Right now, temperature is sixty nine again at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k t IrH.

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It's time now for the news. Here's Eric Shark.

Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
Morning seven thirty two on news Radio seven forty KTRHR
top story this hour. A search continues this morning for
the suspect or suspects after a deadly weekend shooting in
North Houston. Two teenagers dead at least three others injured
following that mass shooting at a pop up club off
of Jensen Drive late Saturday night. Euston Mayor John Whitmeyer
spoke at the scene.

Speaker 27 (01:42:20):
I'll be following this for several days to see how
something like this.

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
Is created.

Speaker 6 (01:42:30):
The victims were sixteen year old, a sixteen year old boy,
and a fourteen year old girl. No arrest have been made. Meanwhile,
it turns out it's not just the Houston Police Department
that struggling to staff up. DPS also short about fifteen
hundred troopers across the state.

Speaker 9 (01:42:44):
Turns out law enforcement agencies across the country are all
having this problem.

Speaker 18 (01:42:48):
Law enforcement in the military and other private sectors are
fighting over a small pool of resources, and that's qualified candidates.

Speaker 9 (01:42:56):
Retired HPD Captain Greg Freman says the border crisis is
making it even harder for DPS to staff up.

Speaker 18 (01:43:02):
I know personally that every two weeks a vast number
of troopers that would regularly be assigned a highway patrol
or ship down to the border. They have to do
a two week due the assignment down there.

Speaker 9 (01:43:11):
Freman says that even in a best case scenario, it
will take around ten to fifteen years to get law
enforcement fully staffed up. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty
ktrh AH.

Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
The defense Fund for the suspected killer of the United
Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson is growing. Multiple online fundraisers for
Luigi Mangioni have been started by anonymous individuals. One of
them has raised over one hundred thousand dollars, and that
was as of last night. In social media posts on
or on TV, some people, of course praising the United
Healthcare assassinations assassin Luigi Mangioni for taking out the CEO

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in Manhattan.

Speaker 4 (01:43:46):
And what's the reaction?

Speaker 29 (01:43:47):
The Saturday Night Live does an entire skit with the
audience laughing along. Taylor Lorenz the journalists scare quotes formerly
of The New York Times Washington Posts that we're all
told to take so seriously, she's talking about the joy
she felt.

Speaker 6 (01:44:02):
That's Fox News contributor Joe Conca. He says that there
are far better ways to protest the US healthcare system
than by threatening or killing people.

Speaker 4 (01:44:11):
ABC has agreed.

Speaker 6 (01:44:12):
To settle with President elect Trump and his defamation lawsuit
against the network. There Fox's Madison Scarpino has details from dc.

Speaker 30 (01:44:21):
ABC News and one of its top anchors, George Stephanopolis,
will now be paying fifteen million dollars to settle Trump's
defamation lawsuit. This all stems from an interview back in
March where Stephanopoulos said Trump was found liable for rape
several times. The president elect was in fact found liable

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for sexual abuse, but not rape.

Speaker 6 (01:44:44):
The network will also pay one million dollars in legal
fees to the president Elect's attorney. Another longtime Trump ally
being named to a post in the upcoming administration, the
president elect announcing Richard Grenell will be his Envoy too
Special Missions on Truth Social Trump said that Grenell will
continue to fight for peace through strength and always put
America first. Grnell was Trump's former acting Director of National

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Intelligence and former ambassador to Germany. He was reportedly being
considered for Secretary of State in the Trump cabinet, but
lost out to Florida Senator Marco Rubio ktr Rangel News
Time seven thirty five and WHO study has found that
climate scientists have underestimated the benefits from our forests so
much so that it's made their climate change models completely wrong.

Speaker 31 (01:45:30):
What this is is that the trees emit this what's
called isoprene. It essentially creates more clouds. More clouds sort
of act like an umbrella essentially and.

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Keep you cooler.

Speaker 31 (01:45:40):
The forests are putting out this, essentially cloud machines which
are blocking the sun.

Speaker 6 (01:45:46):
That's Marc Moreno with the Climate Depot who says that
this is true science, not science that fits a climate agenda.

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All.

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The Federal Reserve is sent to begin its two day
policy meeting Tuesday that it Feds widely expected to cut
interest rates one again. What it announces its decision on Wednesday,
it would be the third rate and final rate counts
of the year, with most economists expecting a quarter percentage
point reduction. Are The Houston Texans are the AFC South

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champions for the second season in a row. They're hometown team,
now guaranteed to host a game in the wild card
round of this year's playoffs. The Texans took the title
Sunday when they topped the Miami Dolphins twenty to twelve,
and their rivals, the Indianapolis Colts, fell to the Broncos
thirty one thirteen. The Texans will face the Chiefs in
Kansas City this coming Saturday. Oh, I'm Eric Sharp on

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News Radio seven forty k t RH.

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World Events, National Headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
All Right, So Houston's big and keeps getting bigger. And
you know, I think we've done a few of these
stories in the past, but I keep seeing them, so
there must be some truth to it. And for those
of us who live here, it's a dual ed sword
because we already have a population that is well in

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access of eight million people that are part of eight
million people at this point in the population. How much
is going to grow depends on a lot of different things.
But everything I have seen says that by the time
twenty forty rolls around, Houston's population could be as much

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as twelve million people in the Houston Galveston metro area.
That would be about a sixty eight percent increase in population.
Most of the growth would be in the city of
Houston and in Harris County, which is already pretty congested. Now,

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what drives the growth the course, is probably going to
be the economy. It generally is the climate. It generally is,
let's face it, you know, for those of us who
don't want to live somewhere where there's winter, this is
a good place to be. For someone looking for economic opportunity,
this is a great place to be, and people have
been figuring that out and have been leaving northern cities

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like Chicago, for example, in order to head more towards
Houston or the South. In general. The population. If the
population continues to grow the way it has the projected,
then our past guest Greg Freeman would be absolutely correct.
Houston would go from being the sixth largest metro area

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in the country to being the third largest. We would
overtake Chicago. It'd be New York number one, Los Angeles
number two, Houston number three. And there are other Texas
cities Austin, San Antonio, Dallas who would continue to move
up the charts as well. Seven forty time for traffic
and whether together a million people.

Speaker 5 (01:49:05):
I'm yeah, I don't want to talk anymore on this microphone.
Old You know what what if I get on here
and I say something stupid? All right, you've got your
north side here. We cleared two wrecks on the North Freeway.
I forty five between the belt and the Loop. It's
still a pretty big back order slipped both ways. We
had those recks cleared now two eighty eight. Stephen at

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Austin's nice and happy this morning. We've got breaks now
from the Beltway. You're actually not bumping into each other, advisors.
You're having a good morning. Katie Freeway, it's a little
thick around Mason Road.

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That's it. Forty five north, that's Jersey Village.

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Justin, hey's got my dude.

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Hey, if you're coming out of Conroe right after Research Forest,
looks like two center lane traffic is backing up to
about two forty two now.

Speaker 5 (01:49:48):
All right, Justin, that's a banana sticker for your brass knuckles.
I got Nick from Cyprus on the Katie Freeway.

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Hey, got Mike going a different way today.

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I can inbound the left hand side, the left lane.
The car hits the little barriers in there. Got a
police officer there with flashy likes.

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All right, watch out on the inbound here's a sticker
for your head. Wildcard line.

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It's a Dan from Porter and using my best burbage.

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I just want to say I love me some Skywrichs
in the morning.

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I ktra Oh you are so sweet, thank you, and
from Porter out of one hundred dollars please, Yeah, I'm
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in a classic viewing GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:50:30):
By the way, just to be exact.

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Current Houston, Pasadena, the Woodlands, Texas metro area seven million,
five hundred ten two fifty two.

Speaker 4 (01:50:37):
Holy wow, I'm dizzy.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
We got a lot of folks from our KTRH Generator
super Center twenty four hour Weather Center. Weather's got something
to do with it. Despite the fog this morning, Terry Smith.

Speaker 15 (01:50:46):
Yeah, the FuG isn't so bad. It doesn't hang around
very long. Here's the thing. Uh, it's mid December and
we're talking temperatures ten to fifteen degrees warmer than they
nor really are, and it's going to stay like that
through Wednesday and then cool down. So if you like
the warm weather, you're in luck. If you like the

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cooler weather, wait till later in the week. It'll it'll
be really nice. Actually, lots of clouds today. There is
only a twenty percent chance of a shower though mid
seventies to near eighty here on this what is it
the sixteenth of December. It's crazy Tomorrow a twenty percent
chance of rain as well, and temperature's mid upper seventies

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and Wednesday are thirty percent chants of shower, some thunder
load to mid seventies Wednesday, No rain, just sunshine Thursday
and Friday. And it's cooler in the mid upper sixties
Thursday and Friday.

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Tepitchure right now sixty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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What you need to know for the day ahead.

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Seven point fifty. Now Here in Houston's Morning News, we've
had lost stories this morning about drones and more drone
sightings over the weekend. A New Jersey representative met with
local law enforcement on the Jersey shore and comes to
find out that a lot of these drones seem to
be coming from the ocean. From the ocean, won that
story coming up next first, though, traffic and weather together

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as we check out that drive once again, here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:52:17):
Oh so glad to have my work wife, Christina Cruz back.
She's putting stuff in your in car Navigation, Jersey Village.
Justin found my wreck on the forty five North Freeway
right around research for US. It's clear, but we are
plumb backed up from Conroe now and a thirty minute
dragged this way. They were supposed to have that roadwork
on the north sam Finish. Nope, it's still their westbound

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plus the text tot wall of death both ways Aldine
Westfield westbound eastbound, Imperial Valley. I'm Skymike and the Generator
Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

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From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center.

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Areas of morning fog.

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We're seeing that dents in some areas, then mostly clouding
with this like chance twenty percent chance for shower seventy eight.
Pretty much the same forecast for tomorrow. Current temperature sixty nine,
your officials, severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Just check out some of our top stories on a Monday.
Here's Eric.

Speaker 4 (01:53:07):
Good morning.

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Maiorcis says that Americans shouldn't be
concerned about a recent surgeon. Drone setings across the country.
My ORC has told ABC's this week, thousands of drones
are flown every day for a variety of personal and
commercial uses. President elect Trump's pick to lead the Department

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of Health and Human Services looking for support on Capitol
Hill today. Robert Kennedy Junior will start meeting with senators
today who he'll need to back his bid to run
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According to the reports, the tech giant is said to
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Speaker 1 (01:54:00):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
You know, if Secretary of my orcis tells me I
should not be concerned, I'm immediately concerned. Seven fifty two
is our time here on Houston's Boarding News. Also concerned
is a New Jersey representative. His name is Chris Smith,
who met with law enforcement and was told that some
of these drones are coming from the ocean.

Speaker 43 (01:54:23):
So last night I was on the beach in Island
State Park in Ocean County with the with the Sheriff's
he has been working it every single night. He's got
his own tether drones chronicling. One of his officers two
nights ago saw fifty drones come in off the ocean
right there, so he thought maybe they'll replicated.

Speaker 38 (01:54:45):
They didn't, but we thought it was a possibility. I
then last night.

Speaker 43 (01:54:49):
We had a number of other people there, including a
commanding officer from the from the Coastguard, who said that
one of their forty seven foot motor life boats was
followed by between twelve and thirty of these drones as
they went through the water, followed right behind them, you know.

Speaker 38 (01:55:09):
And I said, what's the rules of engagement?

Speaker 43 (01:55:10):
I mean, you do it if you're fighting against a
you know, a narco trafficker or something. And they said,
we don't know, we don't have any So I did
reach out to the committee officer at the Joint Base,
which is also in my district and talk to him.
Had a very good conversation Colonel Anthony Smith, Joint Base
Fort Dix, McGuire and the eighty seventh Air Wing Airbase

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Wing today and I said, I know you have the capability,
you put out press releases to.

Speaker 38 (01:55:37):
Identify and bring down drones.

Speaker 43 (01:55:41):
Why can't you deploy them at least to the ocean,
bring one of these down, find out who's doing it.
They have the capability, he said, we don't have the
authority only within the parameters of our base.

Speaker 38 (01:55:52):
Well, there's a national interest here.

Speaker 43 (01:55:55):
Our jets fly over the ocean all the time for trading,
so that perimeter is larger. So I did write Secretary
Lloyd Austin asking that that capability that may be sitting
in a closet somewhere.

Speaker 38 (01:56:07):
I know they use it all the time, but you know,
bring it out. And I'm not saying you got to share.

Speaker 43 (01:56:12):
It with the sheriffs would be nice, Just do it
yourself the interest of the of the American public. So
I would ask if you would echo that request. I mean,
do D's got the capability? And maybe Homeland Security does
as well. When we had a zoom meeting with Secretary Mayorcis,
our governor put it together and I appreciated that, but

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I asked them, why can't we just track where they
go to? Seemingly they're going out to sea to something
at ship. We don't know for sure, but they come
in off the off the you know.

Speaker 4 (01:56:43):
From the ocean.

Speaker 38 (01:56:44):
So the question really is can't we just get d
D to share.

Speaker 43 (01:56:49):
In my first term, d O d n v A
did a great thing, the v A d O d
v A Shay Agreement for healthcare capabilities.

Speaker 38 (01:56:56):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 43 (01:56:57):
Why can't the d D share this with Home Security,
with FBI and others so that you can go out
and find out who they are?

Speaker 38 (01:57:03):
Maybe it's China. I chaired the China Commission.

Speaker 43 (01:57:06):
And you know, I've had one hundred and fifteen hearings
on it. I'm barred from going there now. China is
and I'm on their hit list. You know, Shijingping is
a monster. You know, we'll look at Putin's doing. They're
all capable of doing horrible things to our people, and
now they're threatening my good friend and colleague from New York.

Speaker 38 (01:57:24):
And of course New Jersey big time.

Speaker 43 (01:57:26):
So let's go get that DoD capability and find out
and put the rest the question who is it?

Speaker 3 (01:57:32):
Okay sounds to me like he thinks it's China. As
for President Trump, he had the President Trump actually said
shoot these things down, So I would think as the
incoming president, that somebody would have given him some sort
of security briefing. Wouldn't you think if this was you know,
if this was anything that he needed to know about,

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or would they or would they you know? Like I said,
I don't take anything. Secretary of Marioca says with a
grain of salt at all. He says, Yeah, you don't
need to be worried about this. I yeah, I think
you do. I think you do need to be worried
about it. All right, listen, you'll have a great day.
I'll see you tomorrow morning bright nearly five am, and
we will also see you this afternoon at four. I
think you m nine to fifty KPRC