A Shutdown Looms After Congress's 2nd Continuing Resolution Fails

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/20/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is used Radio seven forty kt RH Houston Live
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, happy Friday. It is five am here on Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories. As
we get started this morning, hey, shutdown looms after the
second seedar fails, a group wants to get rid of
the Texas Rhinos and coming up at five o eight,
just what a weary traveler wants to see at Houston's airports,
right a flash bob details in the minutes ahead. You're

(00:38):
in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning
Drive sky Mike's here. Let's to the north side.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Here we've got roadwork that was supposed to be finished,
and that's westbound. This is the north sam westbound at
Alding Westfield. They've taken out two lanes here, are supposed
to have this finished. Now, Hey, you know it's a
lot of stuff to do. We still have the textalk
Wall of Death westbound and also eastbound at Imperial Valley.
And as we get out of slinking time later this morning,
it'll skunshop forty five south. That ramp you might want

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to go to Alde Vendor Busta Yuey. I'm Skywiker the
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather
center Sunday today. With the high temperature right about sixty eight,
we'll get Jeffey Oh, he's filling in for Terry today
to give us the complete forecast in about nine minutes.
Temperature right now, so we get started this morning forty
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forty KTRH. It's timed out for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is five oh one on KTRH
our top story.

Speaker 6 (01:35):
It adds that much more to the debt. It increases
the debt ceiling.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
That is Texas Congressmanship Roy one of thirty eight Republicans
voting no on the Plan B that would have kept
the government open past today, a plan that failed in
the House.

Speaker 7 (01:50):
Even though the new Trump approved bill that cuts some
fourteen hundred pages would have extended current government funding for
three months, provided billions disaster aid, and also suspend the
debt limit for two years. It was met with fierce resistance,
and now GOP leaders are regrouping. House Speaker Mike Johnson
Telen reporters he is determined to try again.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
That is Fox's Chany Painter. The President elect blames Roy
for all of this, posting on social media quote that
I hope some talented challengers are getting ready in the
great state of Texas to go after Chip in the primary,
adding that he's quote just another ambitious guy with no talent.
Trump did get a legal win as a Georgia Court

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of Appeals disqualified Fulton County DA Fannie Willis and her
entire team from prosecuting an election interference case.

Speaker 8 (02:42):
It is a huge win for President Trump and also
for our entire country. These witch hunt cases are now
dead and Sanny Willis has been disqualified.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Rightfully so incoming White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt with
ktrh's Clay Travis en buck Sexton and this just den
as you slept. The Biden administration announced another four point
two eight billion dollars in student loan handouts. Biden has
approved nearly one hundred and eighty billion dollars in forgiveness
over the last four years. It's now five zho three

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on KTR agent here at home, A powerful donor starts
a new group aimed at electing true conservatives to Austin
as opposed to moderate Republicans or rhinos.

Speaker 9 (03:26):
It's called the Texas Republican Leadership Fund, and it starts
with the new Speaker of the Texas House.

Speaker 10 (03:33):
What we would like to see happen is really simple.
We would like Republicans to get together and elect a
speaker with a majority of Republicans.

Speaker 9 (03:42):
That's Alex Fairley, the group's principal donor.

Speaker 10 (03:45):
So that our speaker is unencumbered from commitments that they
may have had to make to the other party to
become the speaker. It's really that simple.

Speaker 9 (03:53):
The conservative majority should have conservative leaders. Jeff Biggs, News
Radio seven forty K to your Age and elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
In Austin, State Attorney General Ken Paxton files a motion
for a protective order that would prevent death row inmate
Robert Roberson from testifying in Austin. Later today, we'll have
more on that coming up at five point thirty. It's
now five oh four and Governor Greg Abbott unveiled a
new strategy to deter illegal immigration putting up billboards along

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parts of Central America and Mexico talking about the dangers
those people face.

Speaker 11 (04:29):
Our goal right now, immediately is not only to discourage
it from coming, but to help them understand the consequences
when they.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Come, warning illegals that they could be assaulted, killed, or
even raped along the way. According to new research, almost
eight million illegals are living in sanctuary cities across the US.

Speaker 12 (04:48):
This isn't just a problem in blue states like New
York and California.

Speaker 13 (04:51):
Though Atlanta is a sanctuary city. Remember, Georgia has both
the Republican legislature and the Republican governor.

Speaker 14 (04:58):
There's really no excuse.

Speaker 12 (04:59):
Jason and rich Wine with the Center for Immigration Studies says,
as long as there are sanctuary jurisdictions, illegals will keep coming.

Speaker 13 (05:05):
Illegal aliens respond to incentives, if they perceive illegal immigration
to be relatively easy, then we will get more of them.
It's really as simple.

Speaker 12 (05:13):
Of that, rich Wine says. Every Republican controlled station followed
Texas and Florida's lead and banded sanctuary jurisdictions. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KRH and we told you about
this yesterday. A bipartisan group of senators having secret negotiations
about a border deal, one that could be done next month.

Speaker 15 (05:32):
We are going to deliver real border security right up front,
and no more kicking the can down the road. And
a vital part of that first reconciliation package, which will
include border security. We've got a fantastic way of paying
for it, of offsetting it.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Senator Mike Lee of Utah says they'll use the America
First Act to pay for all of this. Now five
oh six, while we know about the drones over New Jersey,
how about drone signings in Texas. Police in the Dallas
suburb of White Settlement have been flooded with calls about
lights near federal and military properties.

Speaker 16 (06:08):
You buy a commercial off the shelf drone, it's not
going to get into the air. The software is going
to say, hey, you're in no fly zone. And so
that's why we do not believe this is little Johnny
who got a drone for Christmas.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Police Chief Chris Cook. White Settlement is near a naval
air station in the military jet contractor Lockheed Martin. It's
said to be another busy day at Bush and Hobby
Airport with the Christmas travel season really ramping up. So
far this morning, we've got about two dozen delays out
of Bush and Hobby combined. This comes as thousands of
workers nationwide continue the strike against Amazon. It's now day

(06:42):
two of the walkout.

Speaker 17 (06:43):
Not getting paid accordingly, they're being paid through a scam,
which is a third party. Lisa Rangers will say, are
a joint employer. These people are not being paid a
livabool wage. They get minimal benefits of any and it's
a disgrace and it shouldn't be allowed to happen.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Teamsters president Sean O'Brien says Amazon has refused to negotiate
five oh seven. Now the AFC South champion Texans visit
the Chiefs tomorrow. CG Stround says there's plenty to play
for even with the division locked up.

Speaker 18 (07:10):
This is gonna set us up for our cding and
you know who we play if we play home or
not multiple times.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
You know, Patrick Mahomes will play for Kansas City. Despite
a spring Dankle kickoff as a noon and the Rockets
beat New Orleans one thirty three to one thirteen. They're
in Toronto on Sunday, and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
newsweather in traffic station News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
More with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News teams.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
This is Houston's Morning News. You know what that is?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's the flash bob at the airports, And if you
are flying out of either bush or hobby, you could
run into one sometime between now and Christmas Eve. If
you're flying any or picking somebody, I guess probably not.
If you're picking somebody up, here's gonna be outside right
waiting for them to come out. Both of the our
major air force here in Houston are going to have

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flashbob performances for people as they make their way to
the gates fly. For those who are uninformed about what
a flash bob is, a flashbob is a sudden coordinated
performance in a public space where participants appear to be
spontaneously bursting into song and dance. I don't know if
there's gonna be a dancing involved, but there will be song. Supposedly,

(08:29):
there will be appearances from the Grinch. Why would why
would you invite the Grinch? It's Christmas? The Grinch, ol Off,
and even Santa Claus will be making appearances. I don't
know how often these performances will occur, or which days
or which times they're happening. I just thought I would
I would warn you in case you're flying out of

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the airport. You know, if some people start spontaneously bursting
into song and dance, you know, you should be concerned
about it. It has been planned. I don't know how
you feel about, you know, those things. I think they
think that probably you're stressed and and you're.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
In a hurry. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
If there's a flash mob that's blocking my way to
the gate and I'm running late for my plan, I
might be barreling through a flash mob. I hope they're
very careful about where they set up five ten time
for traffic and kill together.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Flash pobs mobs illegal? Can we make them illegal?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Just you know, make a law and have like a
special task force, you know where undercovers go and they
look them at.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
What don't you like about a Christmas flash mob ching people?

Speaker 4 (09:29):
That is like the idea of people just appearing out
of somewhere and do it, you know, I mean wing
song and dance.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, I mean I don't want.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
To treat them like January sixth, But you know they
could come sit by.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Me in traffic court. At least I got you all right,
Let's do some mike by the way. Oh, yes, thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
We're looking at North Beltier. No, no, I see these
all the time westbound Alding Westfield. We still have that
roadwork I mentioned that. Let's go to the other side.
Let's check out your golf freeway. We don't have the
wreck yet at park Place northbound before the Loop. You
know that's coming before Long Golf Freeway looks good though,
twenty one clear leg in forty five North Freeway. We
don't have the wreck at the Shepherd Curve yet. Oh,

(10:06):
we've got big roadwork this weekend. It'll be pretty nasty
six to ten south. That's how we have fun here.
They're going to close down the south Loop from Wayside
back to Cala, which is right before two to eighty eight,
basically between Golfgate and the med Center. And of course
it starts Friday night at nine o'clock and goes till
Monday morning at five am.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Jeff, know, we got to talk.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I've thought cold fronts were supposed to be cool and
dry my windows. It took me ten minutes to get
all the butt sweat off my windows and windshield this morning.
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center from.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
R KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four. Our weather center.
Jeff is here. Yeah, the coldfront did come through, but
it really hasn't cooled down the temperatures that much, at
least not yet, not.

Speaker 14 (10:46):
Yet, not yet.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
My apologies to Skymike and everyone.

Speaker 14 (10:49):
Else's deal with that.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
We'll see the sunshine today.

Speaker 19 (10:52):
We'll get up to around the mid sixties, now, that
is where we are supposed to be for this time
of year. Once we get into the nighttime hours to night,
we will be dropping back into the low forties, a
little on the cool side, mostly clear skies, and then
a little bit of a cool start to the weekend
Saturday with sunshine and upper fifties, and then here we go.
We warm it right back up with sunshine for Sunday

(11:14):
up to the mid sixties, and we'll go ahead and
take a look into the holiday week low seventies by Monday,
and it looks like we will see low seventies all
the way into Christmas Day, so again, my apologies.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Right now, it's forty eight at your official severe weather.
Station News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you Biden, New South
Windows solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barretts and the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need to take
on the day. So, now that the Biden presidency is
coming to an ends, evidently insiders are coming clean or
decided to come clean. The Wall Street journalist story that's

(11:52):
been picked up by a lot of people as if
somehow this is news, like well, like we didn't already
know this. The story is how AIDS propped up by
In fact, there's the headline, White House Aids hid Biden's
apparent metal decline from day one of his presidency. Explosive
report reveals Is it really? Is it really explosive? Is
that a surprise? Raise your hand of your surprise? I

(12:14):
didn't think so.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
We'll talk about it next five pointy time for traffic
and weather together. Eight Yes, sir, going your hard hat,
Jimmy Barrett, We're going to the hard work in east Side.
It tight here, size seven and a half. Oh good lord,
let's do some Hartman Bridge here.

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We're looking good. I'm going to ask them to turn
camera thirteen oh seven in a little bit. That's a
prettier shot. Let's do the toll bridge. We look good.
It's wide open, four lanes of fun from north Shore

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to twenty five. And check that Sherman Bridge six '
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Speaker 3 (13:00):
From r KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour weathers
under Sunday about sixty seven today, sunny, about fifty eight
for the high. Tomorrow that's the cool day, and then
Sunday we're looking at sunshine with the high temperature of
sixty four. We go into the seventies low seventies pretty
much all week next week for Christmas temperature right now,
let me double check it for you. Yes, still forty

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eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. Time to check out some of our top
stories on this Friday morning. Here's Cliff, Thanks Jimmy. Brought
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Speaker 5 (13:30):
Mechanical HPD is searching for one of four suspects after
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the number of American troops in Syria is a lot
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Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at five thirty. Crime is on the rise,
schools are in trouble.

Speaker 20 (14:01):
The next four years, we'll have to get better telling
this story of Houston every day.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Quite a story use radio seven KGRH.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, it's a cover up, but nothing that should surprise this.
Five twenty two is our time here in Houston's party
of your news. All right, here's the story. I just
I'll read a little bit of the story to you.
Uncle Jimmy's going to read a story now and then
we'll get some reaction to it. White House aids covered
up President Biden's apparent mental decline from day one of
this presidency, raise your hand of your surprise, I didn't

(14:33):
think so, shielding the aging commander in chief of the
public and even rearranging his schedule after scatter brained performances.
The lack of access to the nation's oldest president ever
has been well known in Washington, with Biden hosting the
fewest large press conferences in modern history and frequently descending

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into gaps at the podium when he appeared. But how
much the White House made up for the haziness had
until now been hidden. According to his aides, Democratic lawmakers
and donors who spoke with The Wall Street Journal notes
they're not named. Unnamed sources are sharing this information now
that the presidential staff formed a tight shell around Biden

(15:15):
after he took office. I made the COVID nineteen pandemic
with staff immediately limiting his in person interactions in January
twenty twenty one. That COVID pandemic that came in pretty
handy for President Biden, didn't it. I mean it got
him out of a lot of trouble in the very
very beginning because he didn't have to have a press conference.
He didn't He had a minimal amount of appearances that

(15:39):
he would make. The story goes on to say staffords
also began making adjustments to daily plans when the president
appeared tired or kept stumbling on the world stage, both
figuratively and liberally. You know, he'd not off at meetings. Again,
none of this is a real surprise. But now that
it's out there that do it's come out. The media,

(16:03):
who supported and hit for him many times, is making
out like this is a real revelation. We had no
idea this stuff was going on. Here's some reaction with
the folks at BOTSU did realize that this was going on.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Here's Jesse Waters. Yeah.

Speaker 21 (16:16):
So they kept the COVID structure throughout the rest of
the presidency, and he was treated like an aging dictator
and aging king. You know, the same things they said
about Trump were true of him. He was isolated, he
was out of touch, he was mentally unfit. People were
keeping things from him.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
They wouldn't give him.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Bad polling, they wouldn't give him bad headlines.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
He was a wall.

Speaker 21 (16:43):
During the lead up to Afghanistan, people were trying to
get him on the phone at key moments. There's no
way to get a hold of the guy, and he
delegated his presidential powers to his staff judge. So when
people ask, well, who's really the president, it was his staff.
This staff were executing the duties of the president.

Speaker 22 (17:06):
And I think it was.

Speaker 21 (17:08):
April twenty twenty one, right out of the gate, they
were canceling meetings because he was having a bad day.
So all his conspiracy theory about, you know, Joe Biden
shot he's a puppet.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
It was true. I mean, at this point, we're going
to find out he stole the election from Trump.

Speaker 21 (17:24):
At this point, the way things are going, Jesse, I'm
just saying, the way things are going, I wouldn't be
surprised if we found that.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yeah, well, here's the thing. He's still there. He's still
there technically running the country, although he's not really there president.
Would you even know right now, if if somebody were
to come in and just watch normal television coverage, you know,
for a few hours, you know, pick any news channel
you want, who would they assume if they had no

(17:54):
idea who the President of the United States was? Who
would they assume the president is Joe Biden or Donald Trump?
Leave it assumed Trump already is president. Right by twenty
six it is time to take a look at your money.
Here's Jeff Ellinger and good morning Jimmy, and Happy Friday.
Stocks struggled through a volatile Thursday session. They closed Mix
that now ended a ten second lose, a ten session

(18:16):
losing streak, with a fifteen point advance that barely registered.
Percentage wise, the Nasdaq and S and P five hundred
both fell a tenth of a percent. The inflation gage
favored by the Federal Reserve will be out this morning.

Speaker 20 (18:28):
It's part of the monthly report on personal incomes and
consumer spending. We also get a reading on consumer sentiment
from the University of Michigan. Concerns, though over a possible
government shutdown, will likely be on investors' minds today. Stock
market futures are lower right across the board at this hour.
I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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This is News Radio seven KTRH Child Everywhere with the more.

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Of what's happening now from the Sean Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
It is five thirty now near in Houston's morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett among our top stories this half hour,
banning Bibles at this Panhandle school, it pays to be corrupted,
Houston and coming up at five thirty eight, Today's recall
list includes tomato sauce, coconut butater, and oysters. Details in
the minutes ahead, you're in Houston's morning, but Jack Daniels says, Okay,

(19:30):
you never have to worry about that going bad, Sky Mike.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
What's going on with the drive.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
Let's do some West Park Tollway now. I wish they
had more than two lanes. That's why I don't trust
the West Park sometimes. But Graham Parkway into the Southwest
Freeway ramp, we look good all the way, just pure
dew all the way in Graham Parkway. I always like
to check with Mott Bellvue. Look how much you've grown
over this way pressure points, Mott Bellbue good, Dayton good

(19:54):
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Center from our KTRH generator of Supercenter, twenty four hour
Weather Center. Lots of sunshine today with the high temperature
run about sixty seven. We'll take a look at the
rest of the weekend Sunday, all weekend, so not a
bunch to look at, but we'll take a look into
the work week as well, short work week for most
of us Christmas holiday at all. We'll do that when
we talk to the weather channel. We'll do that in
eight minutes. Right now, temperature is forty eight at your

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official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's
time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
Jimmy five thirty two on KTRH. Our top story inconceivable
Bibles being pulled from schools in Texas well. It's happening
in libraries at the Canyon ISD in the Panhandle. Officials
they're saying state law prohibits explicit books. Reporter Aaron Anderson
with scorecardsays parents are outraged.

Speaker 24 (21:06):
The superintendent responded to parents who asked about it, that
the law required them to remove anything that had any
quote sexual content and that they thought the Bible fit
the bill.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Parents are waiting a decision from the school board on this,
And then there's this last month, the Houston Housing Authority
president and CEO resigned after accusations that he misused tax dollars,
but David Northern did not leave without a golden parachute.

Speaker 25 (21:35):
It received a copy of that settlement that the new
board approved. It shows that Northern received six months of
paid time off that was a total of more than
two hundred and ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Amy Davis with our TV partner Channel two also says
Northern got paid more than sixty five grand for paid
time off. It's now five point thirty three. In Washington,
the House's backup spending plan, supported by Donald Trump fails
with thirty eight Republicans voting against it. A partial government
shutdown could happen tonight.

Speaker 26 (22:07):
We're doing what Washington always does, which is leave it
to the last minute, scare the American people with a
government shutdown, which really isn't a government shutdown. But there
are lots of guardrails in place.

Speaker 24 (22:17):
If there is.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace with Fox the president elect
blames a Texas congressman for the stalemate. We'll tell you
who that is at six o'clock. This bill and the
one that came before, we're both being pushed by the
Speaker Mike Johnson, and some conservatives are calling for a
new speaker, Elon Musk, whether or.

Speaker 27 (22:38):
Not they'd considered as a serious proposal, it at least.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Lets you know. I am unhappy with.

Speaker 28 (22:43):
What's going on now.

Speaker 29 (22:45):
I'm not unhappy with.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
The lack of resolved Kentucky Senator Rand Paul with Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton on KTRH. The Republicans can't get
a deal done now, and they will have a razor
thin majority in the House next year as well. So
so what does that mean for Donald Trump's agenda going forward?

Speaker 30 (23:03):
I think you're going to see tremendous pressure on those
members on the far right and those members in the middle,
because they often don't, you know, see things the same way.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
Political consultant Matt mccoveac tells KTI Race that anything Trump
wants done is going to require Republicans to be one
hundred percent unified. It's now five point thirty four on KTRH,
An Amber alert is out for a fifteen year old
girl last scene in Katie last week. Initially police thought
this was a runaway, but recently discovered that the teenager

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left with an adult male. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
files a motion for a protective order that would prevent
death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying at the Capitol today.
Cameron abrams with the text and tells KTI ratio was
always unclear if Roberson would actually show up.

Speaker 29 (23:52):
This is the second subpoena that's been issued for death
row inmate Robert Roberson.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Roberson was said to be put to death earlier this year.
He was convicted of killing his daughter in two thousand
and three. The science since over shaken baby syndrome has changed,
which led to the current legal battle. It's now five
point thirty five on KTRH, and stock futures this morning
are down across the board ahead of the November PCE report.

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That is the Fed's preferred measure on inflation that's likely
to be above the Central Bank's goal of two percent. Meantime,
the Central Bank continues to get called out over inflation
and how they handled it. Wrightbart's John Carney says Chairman
Jerome Powell has always been more lucky than right.

Speaker 31 (24:37):
The FED completely misread where inflation is going to go,
and they're admitting it tacitly and its projections. They are
right now saying inflation will be two point five percent
at the end.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Of next year.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Carney also told Fox Business Wall Street no longer trusts
the Fed.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Here at home.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
People have been moving to the Woodlands for years. The
area has now become a hotspot for office lease.

Speaker 28 (25:00):
They have a ninety percent least rate and high occupancy
rates to boot.

Speaker 32 (25:03):
And I think that's a lot to the low taxes
here in Montgomery County, low crime, but also the kind
of the live war, clay and prey model that we
have here in the Woodlands.

Speaker 28 (25:12):
Chairman of the Woodlands Township Board of Directors, Brad Bayley
says it's a wide diverse group of companies and they're
looking to hook some big fish corporations too.

Speaker 32 (25:20):
We're going to go to places like California and New
York and Chicago and really start telling the story of
how we're a great business environment here in Texas.

Speaker 28 (25:28):
You said bad politics and taxing and Harris County have
driven people northward. Andre Perard News Radio Son forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
Christmas travel season ramping up right now. Out of Bush
and Hobby combined, we've got about twenty five delays. Those
delays could build as the day goes on. Five point
thirty seven. No matter when a spending bill gets pasted,
the AM radio for every vehicle act won't see any
more money. Local officials say it's a vital part of
disaster planning.

Speaker 27 (25:55):
Communication is always our biggest challenge, and that's been that
way for you know, probably since the nineteen hundred storm,
trying to get the word out to people, and AM
radio is probably the most consistently available medium for.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Estjnvilson County Judge Mark Henry there now as mattress Mack
continues to recover from open heart surgery. Gallery Furniture holds
two Welcome Back Mac events today. There's one at the
North three Way location at eleven o'clock, another at the
Grant Parkway location at five. College football the playoffs start tomorrow,
actually they start today, but Texas plays Clemson tomorrow. Pregame

(26:31):
starts at two on Sports Talk seven ninety and on
Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, Weather, and traffic station KGRH.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett. Tomato sauce
cloystersins it water.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
But we've heard the water thing before, except this time
it's coconut water. Anyway, let's get to the tomato sauce.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
First.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
FDA update on the contaminated sauce investigation now includes two
hundred and forty units of sixteen ounce traditional country canning
spaghetti sauce due to the presence of egg, which is
not listed on the product label. Egg is, of course,
one of the nine major allergens that must be barked

(27:19):
on all food distributed in the United States. It's tomato sauce.
Why is there egg in there?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Hanging?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
I feel like I'm having a Deja voos all over
again from yesterday. Here's what's normally in tomato sauce. Tomato paste,
crushed tomatoes, onion, garlic, olive oil, dried herbs like a
regular basil, salt, pepper, and sometimes a small amount of
sugar to bounced the acidity of the tomatoes. And of course,
with meat baitsat based sauces, the meat in there as well,

(27:44):
not egg. But as we surmise from yesterday. I'm guessing
that the tomato sauce is not the only thing they
make at this company, so therefore we're looking at maybe
cross contamination leftover product egg product in the vat from
whatever they made before they made the tomato sauce, which

(28:07):
makes you wonder how many different things are making in
the same place. The other one on here, which I
found very interesting. It doesn't affect very many people, but oysters.
Why would you recall oysters? Evidently these oysters and clams
could be they didn't say they are, could be contaminated
with neurovirus. The recalled oysters originated from British Columbia, Canada,

(28:28):
so this mainly is a West Coast problem. Can you
get then auro virus from an oyster? If you eat
an oyster contaminated with an auura virus? Evidently you can.
IFDA waiting further information on the distribution of the oysters
and they will monitor the investigation and provide assistance to
state authorities as needed. If you do get the nual virus,

(28:50):
you know the symptoms right, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, founding
fever after eating affected oysters. That could happen mos elevant?
Oh yeah, coconut water. This involves twenty nine states, including Texas.
See if I can find the delio on that one.
Where's this one at?

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Okay? There?

Speaker 3 (29:10):
It is UH Food and Drug Administration initiating a recall
for Lourdito's Loritos no jaw Rito's pardoner j A R
R I t Os coconut water twelve can cartons made
by Tip distributors. The product recall product distributed across twenty
nine states, including Texas. It includes one hundred and seventy
thousand cases or over two million cans that have contamination

(29:36):
in them. The most dangerous potential outcome is batchalism that
wouldn't be fun, which can paralyze the muscles needed for breathing,
resulting in sudden death. Okay, make sure you don't have
any Jarrito's coconut water in the house by forty one
time for traffic and weather together led.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
The oysters from New Orleans. That's good stuff.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
That's good stuff, Stem Mike, don't worry about the I'll
take the norovirus.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I'll think it to you. I mean, I've taken chances before.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Let's go with west Side here I have this lovely
shot of two ninety jumping.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Joe Barnett put this up.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
He's working all alone now inbound, Well, they weren't nice
two ninety inbound at the west Loop. Here looks like
we're rolling along nicely and all the way back.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
If you had a grand march at your wedding.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
You're rocking along twenty two minutes just out of side
of Graham Parkway call it from Mason Road into the
west Loop six ten Katie Freeway.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
You look goodvisors so far. Nothing to slow you down.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
West Park's going you always Sinko Ranch and sugar Land
up is in good check.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
You know what Alt ninety I didn't check allt ninety. Dude.

Speaker 33 (30:38):
Heys guy, Mike.

Speaker 34 (30:39):
Highways six to Richmond and Rosenberg On is getting real foggy.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
It's real den some some spots out here.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
All right, there you go, Jeffino, I'm in the classic
Buick GMC Traffic.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Center from r ktr H Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour
Weather Center. Jeffy Neil is in for Terry today and
he's got a forecast that looks pretty dog one nice
this time of the year. I mean, it's not gonna
feel very Christmas Eve. But that's okay.

Speaker 14 (31:03):
Now, it's all right.

Speaker 19 (31:04):
We'll get a little cool Saturday. Today we'll be right
in the mid sixties and that is pretty much where
we are supposed to be with lots of sunshine. And
as the caller alluded to, it is dense in some areas.
The fog kind of patchy threw out, but on the
west side looking at Fort Ben Brazoria and then west

(31:24):
including Colorado, as far as the counties are concerned, we've
got that dense fog advisory until nine am. In spots,
visibility cut down to a quarter mile or less, so
you know the drill there the low beams and be
very careful Tonight, mostly clear overnight low in the low forties.
We'll be in the upper fifties tomorrow, a little cool
with sunshine, and then bouncing right back up to the

(31:44):
mid sixties for Sunday. And yes, we go to the
low seventies as we get into the upcoming shortened work week.
Right down forty seven at your officials, Severe Weather Station
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Speaker 1 (31:56):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

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Five fifties our time here on Houston's Morning News. Nearly
eight million illegals are living in sanctuary cities across the
United States, many of whom are still pledging not to
cooperate with the incoming Trump administration. Eight million people. Jason
rich Wine, resident fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies,
joins us to talk about that next first though, thistl

(32:25):
little traffic and weather together as we check it again
with Skymine.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, Jimmy, let's go fast here.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
I do have one call here on the tip line
seven one three two one two t fps It's truck
or Scott, Hey.

Speaker 35 (32:36):
Guy, Mike, call in a long distance problem.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's a long distance dedication.

Speaker 33 (32:41):
I then is.

Speaker 35 (32:42):
Completely shut down at the Louisiana, Texas state line. It's
both directions. You have to get off and go back
to the wool.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Right, keep those calls coming, help me out, Golden Triangle,
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Web Center,
Sapatchie Fogg. Obviously, this morning becoming sunny at some point
sixty seven Sunday tomorrow, fifty eight and then sunny on
Sunday with high sixty four. Looks like loadavid seventies next week.
Temperature right now currently is forty seven. At your official
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(33:18):
out some of our top stories on this Friday morning.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy, brought to you by DNM
Honor Leasing. Donald Trump goes after Texas Congressman Ship Roy
after last night's failure of the spending bill in the House.
According to court documents, the driver in the crash last
month that killed a Deputy constable and her daughter was drinking.
And the Randall High School football team in Richmond plays
for their first ever state championship tonight when they take

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is at six o'clock.

Speaker 22 (33:51):
I live in Pasadena Sharptown, Southwest.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Next on the ten time Saving Traffic con seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Well, sanctuary cities, I guess, have been a safe place
for illegals to land, so much so that nearly eight
million are living in sanctuary cities, but that's not going
to be quite so safe. After January the twentieth, Jason
Richwine joins US Resident Fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies.
It's interesting the reaction that we've seen so far, Jason,
of the mayors of some of these cities. For example,

(34:21):
New York's mayor Eric Adams, seems like he's going to
be very cooperative with ICE and with immigration officials once
the Trump administration takes over. Other liberal cities not so.

Speaker 14 (34:32):
Much, that's right.

Speaker 13 (34:34):
I mean, there's some good news and some bad news here.
Of course, a sanctuary jurisdiction could be at the state
level or the local level, and it means any jurisdiction
that does not fully cooperate with ICE, Immigration and Customs enforcement.

Speaker 14 (34:46):
And you know, as you said, you know the numbers
are pretty high.

Speaker 13 (34:49):
Over half lived in these sanctuary areas, and that amounts
to about eight million or so illegal aliens.

Speaker 14 (34:56):
Now, as I said, New York is good news.

Speaker 13 (34:58):
I think there are some politicians who are starting to realize,
especially with a huge Biden surge over the last four years,
that they have to get control of illegal immigration, and
that by serving as sanctuaries they are effectively part of
the incentive for illegal immigrants to come to United States
in the first place.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
No, I think you're right about that. I wonder though,
when you're dealing with the well, let's take California as
a prime example. I mean, it's not just sanctuary cities.
Los Angeles is a sanctuary city, so San Francisco and
several others in the state. The entire state, though, is
a sanctuary state. We know, at least we've been told
by the federal government that it's not a state issue,

(35:37):
and we've had to test that here in Texas. Immigration
is not a state issue. It's a federal issue. The
Feds have total control over the border and over immigration.
If that's the case, then does the federal government have
the right to go into a place like California to
retrieve illegal aliens even if they can't get any cooperation.

Speaker 14 (35:57):
Of course they do, yes.

Speaker 13 (35:58):
And the phenomenon on your man is very frustrating because
the federal government of starts full jurisdiction, full control of immigration,
but then basically says and yeah, we're not actually going
to enforce it. You know, that's an extremely frustrating thing.
So in your state, you know, your governor particular has
been trying very hard to fill that gap that the

(36:18):
federal government has abandoned, you know, despite the responsibility to
do something about it. And now we're going to get
a big change in January twentieth. Now the administration is
going to be attempting to actually not only enforce the border,
but the poor illegal aliens, and they're going to be
working with the states that want to work with them.

Speaker 14 (36:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (36:38):
I should mention that that the percentage of illegals who
live in sanctuaries is not as high as it could
be because Texas and also Florida, both high immigration states,
ban sanctuaries statewide. So no jurisdiction in Texas, no jurisdiction
in Florida are sanctuaries. But that's not the case for
some other red states. Georgia, for exams, allows a planner

(37:01):
to be a sanctuary city. I would say that any
state that wants to work with President Trump on this
needs to make sure that there are no sanctuaries in
their states.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
I feel like we've talked about this a million times
in trying to get cooperation from state and local officials,
either willingly or not willingly. And I realized that if
they are going to cooperate at all. There's is only
so much you can do, but the characteristic approach always
seems to work the best. Do you think this administration
is willing to withhold federal funds from states and cities

(37:34):
that are not willing to participate?

Speaker 14 (37:37):
But I think they would like to do that.

Speaker 13 (37:38):
I mean, there are some legal questions over to what
degree they can do that. There's some question of you know,
if you offer funds for a certain program, you can't
necessarily add on more requirements to receive the same funds,
So that will be a little bit of a challenge.
But again I want to emphasize that just because they're
not getting cooperation from the local government doesn't mean the

(37:58):
local governments. For the state governments are allowed to interfere.
When federal agents come to California or Illinois or New
York and they want to arrest in the illegal alien,
they can No state or local officials are allowed.

Speaker 14 (38:12):
To step in between. So that's that's something.

Speaker 13 (38:15):
That the Trump administration can rely on, although as I said,
it would be so much better if those states actually
just cooperating.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
We have fads, all right, Jason, Thanks for joining us
appreciate it. Resident fellow at the Center for Immigration STUDIESIDE
is Jason Richwind. It's by fifty six.

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Speaker 3 (38:47):
Six AM is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories, this half hour
shutdown looms after the second cr fails. There's a group
that wants to get rid of all the Texas rhinos.
And coming up at eight, this isn't a rhino in
Seay they're looking for. It's a missing pet kangaroo. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First

(39:09):
this check out that morning drive again with a guy mine.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
All right, my radio dad, Bill Ingram from the Christian
station and I both got callers coming in. I'm shortly
on whatever's going on in Orange there we have a
closure of I ten between Orange and Venton. That's the Louisiana,
Texas state line. Whatever's going on, nothing good. They've shut
down the whole interstate and they're actually re routing everybody
basically through the woods.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
We'll keep an eye on that if you happen to
be out there.

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We have some patchy fog this morning.

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It will become sunny eventually with the high temperature of
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We'll talk to him in eight minutes. Temp itture right now,
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Speaker 1 (40:09):
It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders and.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
We're sponsored this morning by shop as Farm Supply at
six ZH two. Our top story. Unless there's a deal
before eleven o'clock tonight, our time. The government runs out
of cash as the House votes down a proposed clean cr.

Speaker 36 (40:24):
Last night, the GOP's Trump backed bill failed with thirty
eight Republicans voting against the proposal. And whether we get
a new bill remains to be seen, so Trump says, quote,
Congress must get rid of or extend out to twenty
twenty nine the ridiculous debt ceiling. Without this, we should
never make a deal. Remember the pressure is on whoever
is president.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
That is Fox's Brooks Seingment. Texas Congressman Ship Roy, one
of the thirty eight Republicans voting no.

Speaker 6 (40:50):
This one hundred and sixteen pages still continues to spend
one hundred and ten billion dollars unpaid for.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
Thatk got Roy on President elect Donald Trump's Naughty List,
with Trump hosting that he hoped somebody primary Roy. In
twenty twenty six. On the Trump legal front, a Georgia
Corter of Appeals disqualifies Fannie Willis and her entire team
from prosecuting an election interference case. So now the question
is whether or not that case dies completely.

Speaker 37 (41:18):
Honestly, I just don't think that a prosecution of a
sitting president, if they have to start on Inisio from
the beginning, it makes any sense.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Now that's Jenine Piro on the five, and this is
going to make you spit out your coffee. This morning,
President Joe Biden announcing yet another four point two eight
billion dollars in student loan debt forgiveness, putting his four
year total at more than one hundred and eighty billion dollars.
Six h three on KGRH. In Austin, there are still

(41:46):
Texas Republicans working with Democrats, and an Amarillo based donor,
Alex Fairley, has launched a pack the Texas Republican Leadership
Fund to hold them accountable.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
Even though we have a majority in the House, we
send for the speaker who is encumbered by and beholding
to the Democrats. And this just seems kind of crazy
that we do this this way.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
He's putting his money where his mouth is, starting the
group with twenty million dollars and he'll join Jimmy at
seven twenty this morning. Elsewhere, State Attorney General Ken Paxton
has a motion found for a protective order to prevent
death row inmates Robert Robson from testifying today at the Capitol.
We'll have more on that at six thirty. It's six

(42:29):
oh four on ktr H.

Speaker 11 (42:30):
In the last month before Donald Trump becomes the president,
there are many people who may may make a last
gas effort to try.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
To cross the border.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
That's Governor Greg Abbott and the Eagle Pass, announcing billboards
in Mexico and in Central America that he says, would
the ter would be illegals from coming here with warnings
that they could be killed or raped on their way.
Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, Well, he's calling out the lack
of coordination when it comes to fighting the drug cartels.

Speaker 20 (43:02):
There is no strategic coordination anywhere in the US government.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
That's a problem.

Speaker 19 (43:08):
I think we're basically at one place where it's all centralized.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Crenshaw says, officials don't even know if the cartel should
be handled by Defense or the Justice Department. With the
illegal aliens still flocking the sanctuary cities, even in red
states like Georgia, it's going to make it harder for
the Trump team to close the border next month.

Speaker 13 (43:28):
We can do as much as we can at the
border to disincentivize migration, but if at the same time
there's that other positive incentives that's going to encourage more
of the tempted border crossing.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
Jason rich Wine with the Center for Immigration Study says
eight million illegals live in these sanctuaries right now. And
a follow up to something we brought you yesterday, some
US senators are holding super secret talks on a new
border deal.

Speaker 33 (43:53):
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson says it's time for the GOP
to step up and for Dems to get on board
with securing the southern border. These are leaders in Congress
who realized that is.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Immoral to mortgage our children's future.

Speaker 11 (44:06):
We also fully realize that Biden's open border policy represents
a clear and present danger to America.

Speaker 33 (44:11):
Florida Senator Rick Scott says Americans have asked for this
by electing Donald Trump.

Speaker 22 (44:15):
And why they voted for Republicans. Number one, they want
a secure border. They're fed up.

Speaker 6 (44:19):
They're fed up with drugs, they're fed up with criminals,
they're fed up with terrorists coming across the border.

Speaker 33 (44:22):
A border deal could be in early next year. Char
Lewis News Radio seven forty eight.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
It's now six h six and we now have mysterious
drone signings in Texas. Police in the Dallas suburb of
White Settlement say they have been flooded with calls.

Speaker 16 (44:36):
We have multiple reports these drones were flying in formation.
They're in close proximity to federal military properties, which certainly
is concerning.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Pullice Chief Chris Cook there. White Settlement is near a
naval air base and a military jet contractor, Lockheed Martin.
Officials at Bush and Hobby Airport are expecting today to
be a busy one if you're traveling. So far, there
are about thirty delays between the two airports. And today
is also date two of the Amazon strike.

Speaker 17 (45:04):
We've made attempts to sit down and bargain with Amazon,
with the people that we represent that signed the cards,
the majority of the cards, and Amazon has refused continuously.
I've even petitioning NLRB to say that what we're doing
is illegal, which it's not illegal.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
Teamster's president Sean O'Brien there. It's now six zero seven.
The Texans are in Kansas City tomorrow. Patrick Mahomes will
play despite an ankle injury. That doesn't surprise CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 18 (45:32):
You know he's ability to win. You know, he's just
a winner at in the day, like, find's a way
to get it done?

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Kickoff?

Speaker 27 (45:39):
Is it new?

Speaker 5 (45:40):
And then the Rockets beat the Pelicans last night one
thirty three to one thirteen. I'm close Saunders on Houston's
news weather in traffic station News Radio seven forty KGRH well, with.

Speaker 36 (45:50):
The holidays and everything, it's really hard to keep up.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Chiefing you caught up is what we do to know
what's going on around me. Go with Houston's News Radio
seven forty KG.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Kill Hello, six eight is hard time here on Houston's
Morning News. This story is out of Sealy.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
I'm by Austin. A family is looking for their pet.
Who's a kangaroo named Rowdy, which strikes me as a
very good name for a kangaroof you're gonna have a
kangaroo Rowdy. You couldn't do a whole lot better than
Rowdy the kangaroo. There's just one problem. Rowdy slipped away
from his home. Now what does that mean? Slipped away?

(46:30):
How do you slip away? He was obviously outdoors. There's
a picture of him that I'm looking at, in fact,
a video of him I saw posted online. And it
looks like they have this big, huge, commercial fence, because
obviously kangaroos can jump, and they can jump rather high,
and I can't tell by looking, I'm going to guess

(46:52):
it's probably about ten feet tall. So my question is,
if you have a fence that he's never been able
to jump before, how did he get out this time
number one, number two. Of all the choices you can
make in a pet, why pick a kangaroo. Now we're
told that rowdy is not a danger to people or pets.

(47:14):
They claim they won't harm people their pets. But you know, kangaroos,
I mean, they have certain instincts about fighting, and they
kind of sit back on their tail, and they're and
the claws that they have are are just like razor sharp.
They could evisceerate somebody if motivated to do so, which
I'm not claiming that Rowdy is going to eviscerate anybody

(47:34):
looking for him, but by the way, he should stand out.
The only problem with kangaroos is they're nocturnal, which means
they sleep most of the time during the day. They
spend most of the time up at night. So it's
just tougher to see a kangaroo running around at night.
And if he finds a little place of wood area
to sleep, and it's gonna be tough to spot him too.
But then again, if you see a kangaroo, you know

(47:55):
whose it is, right. I don't think there's a whole
lot of other people with pet kangaroos, But why would
you pick a kangaroo for pet. I mean some people
have the craziest pets. What's wrong with dogs and cats?

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Six ten? Time for traffic and whether the.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
Guy and couldn't shoot that had a tiger that doesn't
make anything? When and then he got loose and of
course you know there was nothing more exciting to people
and couldn't.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
SHOOTO, go ahead and get that.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
I know sometimes drug dealers like to get these exotic
animals to protect their stash or whatever, like a cobra. Yeah,
but what in the world are people thinking? But like kangaroos?

Speaker 4 (48:28):
All right, we got a big problem on it at
the state line. I think I've got some help coming
out shortly. Let's be Houston centric for just a moment. First,
I got Ben from a task Casita. He's doing some
East text.

Speaker 35 (48:40):
Got from Parker on end to sixteen design is saying
is the accident on the right hand lane?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
All right, Ben, a banana sticker for your head and
yes this is inbound.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
The sign wasn't lying.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
I got one, two, three right lanes jumping Joe put
this shot up for me here. That is a solid
pack up on East text. Big shots do the hardy
commoners go ahead and do forty five. We're going backwards
this time. Now we've got a big problem. I've got
a closure on iten at the Texas Louisiana State Ryan
Junior from Dayton, Dude.

Speaker 35 (49:12):
Day Scott might be working in Port Author. Looks like
from when I was able to see, it's three semis
pickup truck and the welding machine looks like a welding
machine came on hooking to pick up and three semiles
got involved and it's nasty.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Holy wow.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Okay, I'm showing a complete closure between Vinton and Orange
and this is not getting better anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
We'll continue to zoom that.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
I've got another one coming up at six twenty and
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour wather Center. Jeff,
you know working for Terry today. He's got just a
beautiful weekend coming up.

Speaker 19 (49:46):
Looks good sunshine today and little tweek here. Mid to
upper sixties is where we're headed, so we're gonna stay
on the warmer side. Had that initial frontal system come through,
didn't really do anything with those due points, and that's
another reason why we got that dense fog advisory until
nine am. This does include both Fort Ben Brazoria and
then areas to the west visibility cut down to a

(50:08):
quarter mile or less. And now we're going to get
a reinforcing frontal system coming through that will drop temperatures
a little more, bring in some drier air with that
northerly flow. Mostly clear tonight, overnight low in the low forties,
and then sunny on Saturday, high in the upper fifties.
That high pressure returns starts to kick the east and we'll
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It's six twenty now.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Here in Houston's Morning News, they came up with a
second cr supposedly a lot cleaner did include pay raises,
which is I guess is why the Democrats didn't vote
for it. It didn't include any pay races for Congress.
But the thing that seemed to be a deal killer
for thirty eight Republicans was that it increased the national debt,

(51:15):
and they no longer are willing to vote for something
that requires an increase in the national debt. Chip Roy
is among those speaking out, so much so that Donald
Trump is talking about, you know, primary in him, Chip Roy.
We'll get chip Roy's thoughts on why he didn't vote
for it coming up in just a moment. First, though,
traffic and weather together, chip Roy, Well, the a audio

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skuy mike that we already have on hand. Oh oh,
don't get too excited, he's not in person.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Oh okay, all right, So let's do here's our big
problem here. I'm taking it in at the state line shortly. First,
let's do your East text freeways too. If we still
have this shot here that is inbound East Texas southbound
at Kelly Street, which is right before the north Live
it's a wreck. It's three right lines, big solid pack up.
Now call it Lauder Road. You might as well if
you could jump on the hearty, if you're a big shot,

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do that.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Commoners do forty.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Five forty five North freeways not bad now, East texts,
I'm sorry, East. I ten there we go state line
between Louisiana and Texas. Obviously that's a complete shut down
both ways. Nothing good's happening. I'm going to run Junior
from Dayton again because I think it's important.

Speaker 35 (52:19):
It's three smiles pickup truck on the welding machine. Looks
like a welding machine came on hooking to pick up
and three semiles got involved, and it's nasty.

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They've got all the lanes closed down both ways at
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Speaker 3 (53:39):
Yeah, cutting it down to a government shutdown midnine to
night six twiney three is their time here on Houston's
morning News. I again, I do not believe that a
government shutdown, especially shorterter on one, is any big deal,
at least not for you and me. If you get
Social Security, you're still going to get to your Social Security.
Anything that's considered essential will continue to operate. What's funny

(54:00):
is how little of the federal government is essential. That's
the lesson you get from that one Chip Broy, the
Texas congressman, voting against the second Continuing Resolution making President
Trump or President elect to be technically correct, President Trump
making him a little bit angry. Here's Chip Roy and
why he voted against it.

Speaker 6 (54:20):
Look, if the president knows that I support what he's
trying to accomplish it. By the way, look, if I'm
the ambitious for anything, it's too actually cut spending and
do what we said we would do. After we shined
the light on this bad bill, recognizing that they were
going to violate the seventy two hour role, which was
important for transparency, Elon de Beck and others, they all
kind of caught up to where a few of us
had been out there saying, guys, this is a bad bill.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
And guess what.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
The American people responded, and a good thing happened. A
fifteen hundred and fifty page bill dropped tw one hundred
and sixteen and a lot of bad stuff was taken out.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Pause.

Speaker 6 (54:49):
What what happened is a lot of that bad stuff
will get inserted into some crap next year if we're
not vigilant. And number two, just because it's one hundred
and sixteen page bill doesn't mean it doesn't have bad
stuff in it does It's still one hundred and ten
billion dollars unpaid for. It still wracks up more deavsent spending,
it still turns off paygo to the tune of one
point seven trillion dollars in potential automatic cuts. And importantly,

(55:13):
it increases the dead ceiling two years, which is probably
at least worth five trillion dollars with no spending restraint,
no structural reforms. I can't take that back to my constituents.
I know President Trump wants it off the table. I agree,
but it has to come with spending cuts and assurances
that we are going to cut spending, which appropriators don't

(55:34):
want to do. I'll say thirty eight Republicans stood up
and said this wasn't good enough. I think there were
a bunch of others who recognize that this isn't where we.

Speaker 22 (55:40):
Ought to be.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
I do think that we can come together. We were
pretty close this morning. We had had some really good
conversations late night last night this morning to use reconciliation
to do what the President wants to do, which is
actually deal with the dead debt ceiling, but do it responsibly.
That is set up the spending cuts that are necessary
now you have any buble.

Speaker 38 (56:00):
It doesn't say he wants to do that specifically said
I don't want to deal with Social Security and I
don't want to deal with Medicare, which are the two
things you have to deal with to, in your words,
be responsible and be serious.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Well, I think what the president means.

Speaker 6 (56:12):
I don't want to put words in his mouth, but
I think and I agree that you don't want to
touch benefits that people are reliant upon. But there's a
lot of things you can do in Medicare and social
Security to deal with driving down the prices of healthcare.
I've got legislation, for example, to empower people with health
savings accounts, move the locust and power wave you insurance
companies and pharma and hospitals to patients and doctors.

Speaker 22 (56:35):
That would drive down prices of medicare. We have lots
of reforms.

Speaker 6 (56:38):
The President's Office of Management and Budget, Director of RUSS
Vote put forward a budget in the private sector that
would have gone through and done a lot of reporting
and Medicaid medicare. We can do a lot of stuff
without touching benefits, and that's what we would do in
addition to getting rid of the student loan fiasco, getting
rid of the Inflation of Reduction Act nonsense, doing what
we need to do to cut spending with COVID levels.

(57:00):
That's what we wanted to do. Okay, that's what jip
Roy wants to do. I don't disagree with them. I
don't Six twenty seven. Time to take a look at
your money. Jeff Bellinger is here and Jimmy, Good morning.

Speaker 20 (57:13):
FedEx announced plans to spin off its freight trucking division
into a separate public company. The delivery giant says this
move will streamline its operations and unlock some shareholder value.
And Tesla is recalling nearly seven hundred thousand of its
vehicles it has to fix the tire pressure monitoring systems.
Stock market future sharply lower this morning. I'm Jeff Bellinger,

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Six thirty is our time here in Houston's morning news.
Jimmy Barrett among our top stories. This fur banning the
Bible at this Panhandle school district. It pays to be corrupt.
It pays to be corrupt. There you go.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
Easy for me to say.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
In Houston and coming up at six thirty eight, everything's
bigger in Texas, including the incoming population details in the
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's spawning News. First, we're checking
out that drive time again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
Clear the east text wreck of the North Loop. We
still have suckage from Hopper Road. I ten both ways Louisiana,
Texas completely shut down, big nasty wreck with three eighteen
wheelers two ninety It's Mike from Magnolia.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
I'm bound from ninety nine.

Speaker 35 (58:36):
To the West Belt.

Speaker 32 (58:38):
Not Friday like, it's more like Sunday like.

Speaker 35 (58:40):
I made it from ninety nine to the West Belt
six minutes and fifty two seconds.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
We are not timing you, but I appreciate the hustle.
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Some patchie fogg this morning becoming sunny with the high
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(59:10):
It is time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's six thirty two on KTRH. Our
top story, unbelievable. A Texas school district, Kenyon ISD in
the Panhandle bans the Bible from school libraries. Their excuse,
We're just following the law and now.

Speaker 9 (59:29):
Parents are demanding that they put the Bibles back.

Speaker 24 (59:33):
They have made the request that the Bibles be placed
back in the school libraries. We don't have a resolution yet.

Speaker 9 (59:40):
That's Aaron Anderson, senior reporter with Texas Corecard. Officials are
blaming House Bill nine hundred, which bans explicit books.

Speaker 24 (59:49):
One of the arguments that came up quite often was well,
there's a lot of sexual content in the Bible.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
You know.

Speaker 9 (59:56):
Angry parents want to know if they will have to
take their further. Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty KTI.

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
And here in Houston, more corruption the Housing Authority President
David Northern. While you remember that he resigned last month
accused of misusing tax dollars. He got a golden parachute
and in terms of two hundred and ten thousand dollars
to walk away.

Speaker 25 (01:00:20):
But there's more In this settlement. Both parties have agreed
not to sue each other, not to disparage one another.

Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
That's reporter Amy Davis with our TV partner, Channel two Northern,
also got more than sixty five grand for paid time off.
Six point thirty three now on KTRH. The second version
of a House spending bill fails last night, meaning we
could have a partial government shut down at eleven o'clock tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
The guid is to the head of the American people
of mortgage in our.

Speaker 20 (01:00:48):
Future, and you just don't You're not in that You
shouldn't be in that position.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
South Carolina's Ralph Norman was one of thirty eight Republicans
voting against this. Several Texas representatives also voted no, including
Chip Roy and Wesley Hunt. President and like Donald Trump,
blames Roy for the failure, but Senate Republicans blame Speaker
Mike Johnson and Ran Paul Now wants a new speaker
and that man's name is Elon Musk and.

Speaker 33 (01:01:13):
The Republicans have always given.

Speaker 32 (01:01:14):
In to whatever the Democrats want, they'll get.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
But that's why the deficits.

Speaker 32 (01:01:18):
Two trillion dollars and we have a trillion dollars in
interestments every year.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
The Kentucky senator with KTRH is Klay Travis and Buck Sexton.
It gets worse. Believe it or not. The Republican majority
in the House is razor thin and it will stay
that way until special elections are held to fill the
seats left open by Trump's cabinet picks.

Speaker 12 (01:01:38):
That's going to make the first several weeks of Trump's
presidency tricky.

Speaker 30 (01:01:41):
They're going to have to have almost unanimous support in
the House for Trump's initiatives. Everybody's got to be pulling
in the same direction. With the margin as near as
it is.

Speaker 12 (01:01:49):
Political consultant Matt mccovec says he thinks Republicans will unite
in order to get a border bill through.

Speaker 30 (01:01:54):
That is going to have to be a unifying piece
of legislation, and I think it probably will. I mean,
Trump ran on that, you won on that the problem
is an absolute crisis.

Speaker 12 (01:02:02):
M kobe X says Republicans should also be able to
pass a tax cut relatively easily as well. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
Now six thirty five, and Amber alert remains out for Katie,
fifteen year old Alexa Jones, who was last seen a
week ago. Police first thought this was a runaway, but
now they say she left with an adult male. Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton files a motion for a protective
order to stop death row inmate Robert Roberson from testifying

(01:02:30):
in Austin today.

Speaker 29 (01:02:32):
Roberson has said that he just wants an opportunity to
speak and tell his side of the story, so it
seems as though that's what the committee is attempting to do.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
The Texans cameraon Abrams says it was always unclear if
Roberson would have shown up even before Paxton made his move.
Looking at Your Money, The November PCE report that would
be the Fed's preferred measure when it comes to inflation
comes out this morning. It's expected to show that inflation
you already know it. It's not under control. Overnight stock

(01:03:04):
trading is down across the board as well. The Fed's
handling of inflation and interest rates is not sitting well
with many economists, investors, aren't happy with Chairman Jerome Powell either.

Speaker 31 (01:03:15):
Frankly, I think Jerome Powe should resign. This is an
admission of failure on his part. The market has lost
confidence in the FED. It does not believe that the
FED has inflation under control.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
Bright Bart's John Carney on Fox Business. Here at home,
the Woodlands is becoming a new hotspot for office leasing.
It's got a ninety percent lease rate in high occupancy rates.
The chair of the Woodlands Township Board of Directors, Brat Bailey, says,
Aris County's big taxes have hit companies harden they're getting
out of dodge.

Speaker 32 (01:03:47):
That hits the bottom line right off the bat. So
that's just bad politics. I think bad fuduciary morals. And
I think that there's another reason people are bailing and
coming to Montgomery County and the Woodlands specifically.

Speaker 5 (01:03:59):
And he says low crime rates at the Woodlands help
as well. Houston's airports are expecting today to be especially
busy with Christmas travelers. As of now, we've gone about
thirty delays out of Bush and Hobby combined six thirty seven.
Despite widespread support in the critical role it plays in
disaster preparedness, the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is

(01:04:21):
not getting any money in a stopcap funding bill. Local
leaders say it's vital for their emergency planning.

Speaker 27 (01:04:27):
Communication is everything, getting the word to people to keep
them protected and safe.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Why we're here, Galveson County Judge Mark Henry. There are
two Welcome Back Mack events today to celebrate Mattress max
recovery from open heart surgery. One at the North Freeway
location at eleven o'clock this morning, the other at the
Grand Parkway location at five o'clock this afternoon. And from
college football to Texas Longhorns played Clemson in the playoffs tomorrow.

(01:04:54):
We've got that game at two o'clock on Sports Talk
seven to ninety and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news
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Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
Yeah, everything's bigger in Texas. You know you always hear that, right,
and it's true. The state's big and the population continues
to grow as people continue to move here. This story
will not surprise you, well, maybe part of it will
surprise you. Part of it just might surprise you. It'd
surprised well, it did in it, you know. Let me

(01:05:37):
just share the figure. Then we'll see who's surprised about what.
The Texas population surpassing thirty one million people within the
last year, as we added more residents than any other
place in the country. That's according to the US Census Bureau. However,
the number of people who moved from other parts of
the country slowed down. Not as many people coming here

(01:05:59):
from California, good right now, as many people coming here
from other states. However, and this is the part that
might make you a little bit concern, A lot of
the growth came from a different category, international migration. Wow,

(01:06:23):
hang on, that's an interesting little term, isn't it. International migration?
That could be people who've moved here from other parts
of the world legally, and plenty of people who moved
here from other parts of the world who didn't move
here legally. We added three hundred nineteen thousand, five hundred
and sixty nine new residents from abroad, the most since

(01:06:47):
the COVID nineteen pandemic, still behind Florida and California. They
saw the largest increase in that category. But that's almost
three hundred and twenty thousand people from other parts of
the world. How many of them are here legally and
how many of them are not here legally? That would
be the question we'd like to have answered. Right six forty,
time for trafficking and weather together, Skuy Mike, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
Well, we cleared the East text Freeway. Jimmy, that was
a southbound wreck right at six ten. What are you
showing me this time, Joe, I've got Houston Trends Star
camera nine to one one. Oh, it's two idiot, Holly Hall.
This looks to be inbound. It's fun to say, Holly Hall.
May be tough to get by on the northbound. Here
so far, we're okay. Just watch out.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
I think they'll take another lane in a few minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
East TeX's clear, Kelly, that's right by the north loops.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Six ten. We still have some suckage.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
Now after the graveyards, Hardybond, let's go to iten first.
Iten east of the state line, Texas, Louisiana, complete shutdown.
I'm told there was a welder came loose, three trucks
collided and it's ugly. We're shut down both ways. Now,
that's going to put you through Deweyville. I believe Hardy Vine.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Talk to me morning.

Speaker 10 (01:07:53):
Guy Mike coming from the North side Woodland.

Speaker 23 (01:07:56):
Area on Hardy that there's a lot of beat trapped.

Speaker 21 (01:07:59):
I know, OLTHELLI from the north side to the east side.
Man almost in every act staked e.

Speaker 17 (01:08:04):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
An officer told me a while back, I actually got
a warning ticket for once in my life, Jimmy, he said,
He said, I'm not really trying to give you a ticket.
I just want you to slow down.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
That's it. I'm a the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic
center with your record, they give you a warning time,
second time ever and I don't even have you know
these up top. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
I don't mean to be a skeptic, but I'm guessing
that maybe he just was at the end of his
shift and didn't want to have to deal with the
additional paperwork. Good yeah, yes, yes, I think they'd probably
more to deal with the day they goes from R
Katie I range A Generators Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Time to check in with Jeffy. You know, he's in
for Terry today. Lots of sunshine coming our away here

(01:08:42):
once we get rid of this morning fog. Plenty of that, Yeah,
and the fog definitely an issue.

Speaker 19 (01:08:46):
Visibility in some spots a quarter mile or less do
have a dense fog advisory until nine. This includes Fort
ben Brazoria and then pretty much west from there. As
it burns off, we'll get that sunshine will be just
a warmer than what we thought we were going to
be earlier, headed up to the mid to upper sixties. Tonight,
mostly clear, overnight low in the low forties. We get
that reinforcing cold front through, we'll bring in that northerly

(01:09:10):
flow and tomorrow's high perfect day for Saturday, sunny only
going up to the upper fifties. We'll start to get
a little more of a southerly flow in by the
end of the weekend. We'll see sunshine Sunday, but head
up to the mid sixties, and then we'll cross over
into the low seventies as we get into Monday. Yep,
at you're right now forty six at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. You are commute,

(01:09:32):
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to you buying you South Windows solutions. All right, we
have a drone up day coming your way, including here
in Texas where they have been spotting drones for the last
couple of days flying near military installations and Lockheed Martin
in North Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
More information on drones, whether or not they might be Chinese,
coming up in a moment. First we're doing I think
whether to go Their own music works pretty good, doesn't
this guy, Mike correks me up.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
Two eighty eight northbound Holly Hall. Look out, there's a wreck.
It's on the left side. It's not causing a whole
lot of suckage on the inbound, but watch out for
those responders.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
I think they may take a second lane in a
few minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
We're totally shut down on it at the Louisiana state
line both ways. Really ugly wreck eighteen wheeler accident could
be there for a long time too.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
I'm Skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
We're playing timeline shortly in the classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

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From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather centers
and patche fog then becoming sunny sixty seven today Sunday
fifty eight, Tomorrow sunny sixty four for the high on Sunday,
and then we're into the seventies for the week of Christmas.
Temperature right now currently is forty six at your official
severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH. Steck out

(01:10:51):
some of our top trending stories this morning. Your clip
Thanks Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
Brought to you by Texas Mutual Insurance. The clock is
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And if you're traveling to La Chicago or Seattle for Christmas,
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Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
See the reason why I picked the music is it
reminds me of drones, which reminds me of bees. Does
this sound like a swarm of bees blind over your
head when the drone comes by? That's that's what it
reminds me of anyway. Drone sidings North Texas. We're saying
it abound military bases all around the country. It's got
to be the Chinese, doesn't it, Despite what the government's

(01:11:52):
telling us. He's got to be the Chinese. Certainly, more
and more are coming on board with that, and more
and more starting to realize this is serious stuff, This
is important stuff. Representative Mike McCall he's part of the
Foreign in fact, he's the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman. Represent
McCall on who he believes are responsible for the drones,

(01:12:16):
followed by Gordon Chang, who's a China expert.

Speaker 34 (01:12:20):
My judgment, based on Mike experience, is that those that
are over our military sites are at a serial and
most likely are coming from the People's Republic of China.
Commedist China is very good at this stuff, and we
know they've bought land around military basis. This would be
very consistent with their policy over the last couple of years.

Speaker 39 (01:12:42):
He certainly is Communist China for many of these drones,
maybe even a majority of them. You know, the increased
tempo of these drone flights against our military basis is
occurring at the same time as there's increased frequency of
incursions and attempted incursions of these bases by Chinese and
other nationals. Really, what is occurring here is that they

(01:13:05):
are preparing to attack the United States from American soil.
I don't know why we need an engraved invitation from Beijing.

Speaker 22 (01:13:13):
It's clear what's going to happen.

Speaker 39 (01:13:15):
We are going to get hit, and we're not taking
the necessary precautions to protect these bases and to protect
the American people.

Speaker 26 (01:13:23):
Why aren't they shooting down these drones in the air
if they suspect it from China?

Speaker 22 (01:13:27):
There's no good answer.

Speaker 39 (01:13:29):
You have base commanders, first of all, don't have the
authority and they don't have the equipment to shoot down
these drones. And the Chinese are noticing this, which means
they see a big vulnerability, you know. And with those
nuclear warheads, Maria, you know, China is building up it's arsenal,
not to deter it already has enough warheads to deter.

(01:13:49):
It's building up it's arsenal so that it can coerce
US and others into not doing things like defending Taiwan.
They saw the way Biden reacted to Vladimir Putin's threats
before the invasion of Ukraine. They saw that they worked,
and the Chinese are going to do the same thing
when they go after the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, whomever.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Yeah, if the Chinese are responsible, they have to be
laughing at us in our response to this. They have
to be going, this is great, we can do whatever
we want and they have no response for it. Six
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Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
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Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
Seven am is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories of this half
hour shutdown looming after the second continuing resolution fails to pass.
Our group wants to get rid of the Texas Rhinos,
and coming up at seven oh eight, the Supreme Court
is going to take on the ban of TikTok. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First

(01:16:29):
this check out that Morning Vibe once again. Here's sky Mike.
It's two ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
That's a stall at West litteral Yark.

Speaker 4 (01:16:34):
I thought maybe we had a legit wreck here, but
it's a stall vehicle right line.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Just watch out.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
We are cramming things up a little bit from Jersey Village,
stay the course, so it's not worth jumping off for
On the north sand that's roadwork al Dean Westfield that's
starting to spackle up. Westbound from JFK and Iten is
completely shut down both ways the state line.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Nothing good's happening there. Multi eighteen wheeler wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:16:58):
I'm Skymike and the generator super si dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
From our KTRH top Tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center.
We've got some patchy morning fog, it will become sunny
with the high temperature today sixty seven. We'll get the
complete forecast. Jeff ENO's infantry at the Weather Channel. We'll
talk to him in nine minutes right now forty six
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (01:17:22):
We are sponsored this morning by Oopstein Cleaning our top story.

Speaker 6 (01:17:25):
It adds that much more to the debt. It increases
the debt.

Speaker 5 (01:17:28):
Ceialing Texas Congressman Ship Roy, one of thirty eight Republicans
that voted no on the plan to keep the government
open past today, a plan that failed.

Speaker 7 (01:17:38):
Even though the new Trump approved bill that cuts some
fourteen hundred pages would have extended current government funding for
three months, provided billions in disaster aid, and also suspend
the debt limit for two years, it was met with
fierce resistance, and now GOP leaders are regrouping. House Speaker
Mike Johnson telen reporters he is determined to try again.

Speaker 5 (01:18:00):
That is Fox's Chandy Painter. Word is the House could
vote on a new temporary plane at nine o'clock Houston time.
The President elect blames Chip Roy for the situation, posting
on social media that somebody should primary him in twenty
twenty six. Now Trump did get a legal victory as
a Georgia Court of Appeals disqualifies Fulton County DA Fonnie

(01:18:22):
Willis and our entire team from prosecuting the election interference case.

Speaker 8 (01:18:26):
It is a huge win for President Trump and also
for our entire country. These witch hunt cases are now
dead and Sanny Willis has been disqualified rightfully so.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
In coming White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt with kt
rech's Clay Travis and Bunk Sexton, and as you slept,
the Biden administration announced another four point two eight billion
dollars in student loan handouts. In his four years, Biden
has pretty much wiped out one hundred and eighty billion
dollars in student loan debt. Seven oh three. Here at home,
a powerful donor starts a group aimed at electing true

(01:19:02):
conservatives to Austin as opposed to Rhinos.

Speaker 9 (01:19:05):
It's called the Texas Republican Leadership Fund, and it starts
with the new Speaker of the Texas House.

Speaker 10 (01:19:12):
What we would like to see happen is really simple.
We would like Republicans to get together and elect a
speaker with a majority of Republicans.

Speaker 9 (01:19:21):
That's Alex Fairley, the group's principal donor, so.

Speaker 10 (01:19:24):
That our speaker is unencumbered from commitments that they may
have had to make to the other party to become
the speaker. It's really that simple.

Speaker 9 (01:19:33):
The conservative majority should have conservative leaders. Jeff Biggs News
Radio seven forty k.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
T or eight elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
In Austin, State Attorney General Ken Paxton files the motion
for a protective order to prevent death row inmate Robert
Roberson from testifying in Austin today or on that coming
up at seven point thirty. It's now seven ZHO four.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott unveils a brand new strategy to
deter illegal immigration and putting up billboards in Central America

(01:20:03):
and in Mexico describing the dangers that these people face.

Speaker 11 (01:20:07):
Our goal right now, immediately is not only to discourage
it from coming, but to help them understand the consequences
when they come.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
The billboards warned illegals that they could be assaulted, killed,
or even raped along the way. According to on your report,
almost eight million illegals are living in sanctuary cities across
the US.

Speaker 12 (01:20:27):
This isn't just a problem in blue states like New
York and California.

Speaker 13 (01:20:30):
Though Atlanta is a sanctuary city. Remember, Georgia has both
a Republican legislature and the Republican governor.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
There's really no excuse.

Speaker 12 (01:20:38):
Jason rich Wine with the Center for Immigration Studies says,
as long as there are sanctuary jurisdictions, illegals will keep coming.

Speaker 13 (01:20:44):
Illegal aliens respond to incentives. If they perceive illegal immigration
to be relatively easy, then we will get more of them.

Speaker 14 (01:20:51):
It's really as simple as that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Rich Wine says.

Speaker 12 (01:20:53):
Every Republican controlled station followed Texas and Florida's lead and
banned sanctuary jurisdictions. Ethan Buchanan Radio seven forty KRH and
we told you about this yesterday. A bipartisan group of
senators are having secret negotiations about a border deal, one
that could be done in January.

Speaker 15 (01:21:10):
We are going to deliver real border security right up
front and no more kicking the can down the road.
And a vital part of that first reconciliation package, which
will include border security, We've got a fantastic way of
paying for it, of offsetting.

Speaker 5 (01:21:25):
It us TOAs Senator Mike Lee right there at seven
oh five now on KTRH. Forget about drones in New Jersey,
We've got signings in Texas. Police in a Dallas suburb
have been flooded with calls about lights in the sky
near federal and military properties.

Speaker 16 (01:21:40):
You buy a commercial off the self drone, it's not
going to get in the air. The software is going
to say, hey, you're in no fly zone. And so
that's why we do not believe this is little Johnny
who got a drone for Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:21:52):
White Settlement Police Chief Chris Cook, it's going to be
another busy day at Bush and Hobby Airport this morning.
So far we've got three dozen, three dozen delays, I
should say, out of Bush and Hobby combined. And thousands
of workers nationwide continue their walk out against Amazon. It's
day two of the strike.

Speaker 22 (01:22:10):
They're not getting paid accordingly.

Speaker 17 (01:22:12):
They're being paid through a scam, which is a third party.
Lisa Rangers will say, I are a joint employer. These
people are not being paid a liverabol wage. They get
minimal benefits of any and it's a disgrace and it
shouldn't be allowed to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
Teams Church President Sean O'Brien says Amazon has refused to negotiate.
Coming up on seven oh seven, the Texans AFC South
Champions visiting the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (01:22:36):
CJ.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
Strautz says there's still plenty to play for even with
the division locked up.

Speaker 18 (01:22:41):
This is gonna set us up for our seting. And
you know who we play if we play home or
not multiple times.

Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
You know, Patrick Mahomes will play despite a springed ankle.
Kickoff is at noon and the Rockets beat New Orleans
one thirty three to one thirteen. They'll play at Toronto
on Sunday. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, whether in
traffic station News Radio seven forty k TRH, the.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
Very latest on your way to work. This is Houston's
Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 3 (01:23:13):
All right, we have a TikTok update seven h seven
their time here on Houston's Morning News. Is the Supreme
Court ready to throw a lifeline to TikTok. They have expedited.
That doesn't happen very often with the Supreme Court. They
have expedited of ruling. They're going to be ruling in
just a matter of weeks on whether or not TikTok

(01:23:35):
and it's Chinese parent company can be banned for the
United States. Is the federal government had the authority to
ban free speech? I guess that's what the question is.
And I don't know what's at work here. I don't
know why the Bide administration is pushing so hard on
this they want to ban TikTok. Trump is not so

(01:23:56):
sure if he wants to ban TikTok or not, because
he basically said, hey, I may be president of the
United States because of TikTok. You know, they reach all
these young voters, these eighteen to thirty four year old voters,
and we won them by thirty four percent. So's what
they're going to consider here is whether or not government

(01:24:19):
can regulate free speech. I mean, we get right down
to it. Is that what the issue is going to
be here or will the government be making a case
against TikTok that it's not really free speech if the
if the speech that's being shared on TikTok is going
to the Chinese Communist government and that the Chinese Communist

(01:24:43):
government is using it as a propaganda tool for young
people in the United States. I guess that's the things
that they're going to be considering it all this. Opponents
of the law say the lower cord gave too much
deference to the federal government's national security concerns and not
enough consideration of freedom of expression when upholding the law. Yeah,
that's what the lower courts rule that TikTok could be banned.

(01:25:05):
So now the Supreme Court's gon'll wing in on this
and we'll find out what they have to say. They're
gonna hear oral arguments on the case on January the tenth,
and they're doing it early. They say, because TikTok the
law that would require them to divest. See this the
other thing about it. We're not really demanding that TikTok

(01:25:27):
be banned. We're saying that they have to divest themselves
from the Chinese government or disband. Seven ten Time for
traffic and weather together, we're checking out the drive again
with Skymine.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
All right, let's head out to the state line. Here.
It's a boy. We love our Golden Triangle listeners.

Speaker 4 (01:25:41):
We got them too, And of course I'm going to
give you a number to reach us at the end
of this. But I tend state lines completely shut down
those of you who go from Orange over to Louisiana
on the eastbound and westbound lane. So this is a big,
nasty triple eighteen wheeler wreck. No telling how long this
will be like this. I know the roads to go
through Deweyville. I'm hearing that makes it. It's going crazy

(01:26:03):
with people trying to divert. You don't have a lot
of options here. Closer to h Town, we've got forty
five North Freeway southbound of Parker.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
Is that a stall? That sure looks like a skunch?

Speaker 4 (01:26:12):
Now coming down from west Mount Houston east text the elevated.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Starting to pack up.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
Now you've got suckage from Liberty Road down to past
minute past the ballpark. We're looking at six or seven
extra minutes that way. Golf Freeway breaks right after you
of h. Strangely enough, the west side looks good. Katie
Freeway Park Road of the President's easy twenty six minutes
to ninety. We cleared the stall in Jersey Village, so
we're rocking along Huckmeister to the Loop, an easy seventeen

(01:26:37):
minutes stroll northwest.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
It's roy guy, Michael.

Speaker 5 (01:26:41):
If you're modulating in your bowbine to the intercomment their.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
Port bel Wait, Lean and Green have a Merry Christmas.
I don't know what that means.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
There you go traffic and jive every ten minutes, Jimmy
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
And we're gon have to have subtitles pretty soon.

Speaker 10 (01:26:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
From our KTRH top tax Depender's twenty four hour web
a broom check in with Jeffino. Now, no fog where
we are in the Galleria, so I guess we're we're
good in some parts of down just other places that
are getting some fog this morning.

Speaker 19 (01:27:08):
A little farther to the west. Yeah, no subtitles needed
for this forecast. We've got sunshine headed to the midwupper sixties.
But yeah, we go from Fort ben and Missouria Counties
up towards Colorado and then west. You've got that dense
fog advisory pretty much just hugging the coast and visibility
cut down to a quarter mile or less. We will
head up to the mid upper sixties today, so just

(01:27:30):
a shade above average tonight, mostly clear. The overnight low
slides back to a cool low forties, and then a
good looking start to the weekend with sunshine Saturday, we
hit the upper fifties. Now we will ride up to
the mid sixties on Sunday. That high pressure starts to
come in, brings in a little more of a southerly flow.
We'll see plenty of sunshine and then a few more
clouds mixed in for Monday, and we cross over into
the low seventies. Right down forty seven at your official

(01:27:52):
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
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on the day.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Seven twenty is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
There's a group here in Texas that would like to
get rid of all the rhinos. We're not talking about
the zoo. We're talking about Republicans in name only. Alex Fairley,
founder of Texas Republicans Leadership Fund, will join us to
talk about how they hope to accomplish that. Next first, though,
let's do traffic and weather together as we check out

(01:28:27):
the drive and the latest discovery of well semi it's
right there.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
It's an epiphany forty five that's just to stall center
lane right around a little York big suckets. Now from
West Road, take the Hardy or the east text I
tend the state line shut down both ways. Really ugly
accident with multiple eighteen wheelers. And I've got reports of
a wreck involving a motorcycle on two forty nine in
Pound after north Point.

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
We're scrambling now.

Speaker 4 (01:28:50):
We should have some laneage at seven thirty and the
Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather
center for today. Some patchie fall. We're seeing that in
some of the western areas Katie points West. Otherwise Sunday
today sixty seven, Sunday Tomorrow fifty eight, and Sunday on
Sunday with the high sixty four, it warms up for
Christmas week into the low to mid seventies. Temperature currently
forty seven. At your official severe weather station, News Radio

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seven forty KTRH, we're checking out some of our top
stories for you here on this Friday morning.

Speaker 5 (01:29:23):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy, brought to you by Tomorrow Mechanical.
We'll tell you what excuse a Texas school district is
using for pulling bibles from library shelves. The House of
Representatives apparently will vote on a planned C spending bill
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Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Well, I don't mind elephant skin because that means you're tough,
but I don't like the rhino. I don't like the
rhino politics, and neither does our next guest. His name
is Alex Fairley, founder of Texan Republican Leadership Fund. Welcome
to the show, Alex. I know you folks would like
to rid our state in our state legislature of rhinos.
We know we have a rhino problem. Well, we have

(01:30:25):
a rhino problem at the national level too. I mean
we're kind of seeing that with this whole continuing resolution
argument right now.

Speaker 10 (01:30:34):
Good morning, and thank you for having me. Yeah, we
definitely have a challenge with folks who love being in
their Republican party to get elected in Texas, but then
struggle with who they really are when it comes to
who's going to be in power.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
So well, we got rid of some of them in
the last election. I guess the question is how do
you get rid of the rest of them? And I'm
guessing that what you do is you just try to
make sure that their constituents realize exactly not you know,
they may have an art next to the name, but
understand exactly how they vote.

Speaker 27 (01:31:15):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 10 (01:31:17):
I I don't know if most Texans understand what happened
in this last election season. How many people were here
that you know aren't here anymore. And yeah, we have,
you know, made a lot of progress. But besides some
you know, conservative policies, one of which for me, a
big one for me, is school choice. The speaker's race

(01:31:39):
has become, you know, my focus, and I think it's
the I think it's the Bell Weather issue of how
healthy the Texas House, you know, really is going to be.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
What do you what do you make of as long
as you brought up what do you what do you
make of the speaker race? How do you think that
whole thing is going to turn out. We are not
going to know for a little while. Until the last
I heard, nobody, you know, neither one of the Republicans
have enough votes in order to claim the speakership. Is
that still the case.

Speaker 14 (01:32:04):
Yeah, I think that's still the case.

Speaker 10 (01:32:07):
I think anyone who says they know isn't being honest.
I think there's no telling, you know, what will happen
in the speaker race, And I haven't been so focused
on who that person ought to be as much as
the pop process having integrity and Republicans, you know, being Republicans,
and so I don't think anyone knows, you know, really

(01:32:28):
really what's going to happen. But I think it's a
topic that is critical and Texans ought to be paying
attention to it and they ought to be talking to
their state raps about what they want to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
Well, you mentioned school choice is one of the big
issues for you, Andy, and it seems to me that
of the two choices that you have for the Texas
House Speaker, one of them would support school choice and
the other one we're not so sure about.

Speaker 14 (01:32:51):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:32:51):
Actually, I think both of these guys have stated that
they're going to be for school choice. I think the
question is if one of if the person who's elected
Speaker gets elected with a majority of Democrats and a
minority of Republicans, the assumption is that person will have
had to make trades to get those Democrats votes. The
Democrats are they're smart and they're not giving up all

(01:33:14):
their votes to somebody without getting something back. And so
the question is what is being traded. We know in
the past what's was traded. We're you know, parliamentary positions
which often go overlooked, but they're critical, critical and chairmanships
of committee. So you know, the question is are their
deals being made by one of these guys to become

(01:33:37):
you know, the speaker at the expense of you know,
Republican priorities and ideals.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
One last one for you here. And I don't know
that anybody has the answer to this. I guess if
they did, then they would have come up with something.
So far, Why do you think it is that, whether
it's national politics, statewide politics, or local politics, Democrats all
row in the same direction and Republicans do not. Why
why is it the Republicans can't get together on things

(01:34:02):
and the Democrats.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
Can yeah, you know, I don't exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:34:08):
I will say I think that Republicans tend to be
tend to be very principled, and I think I think
that is a draw into the Republican Party. And so
I think I think folks who are principle tend to,
you know, spit spat a little bit. So I'm not
sure it's an unhealthy thing, you know, completely, But yeah,
there's no question the Democrats do a lot better at

(01:34:29):
staying together than these Republicans do, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Alex Fairley, thank you, appreciate you joining us. Founder of
Texas Republicans Leadership Fund, Alex Fairley. It's seven twenty six
and it's time to take a look at your money.
Here's Jeff Bellinger and Jimmy.

Speaker 20 (01:34:41):
You're shaping up to be a rough Friday session on
Wall Street. Investors are coming to terms with a likelihood
that interest rates will stay higher than previously expected next year,
and the prospect of a government shutdown is another worry.
Stock market futures are lower right across the board. The
inflation gauge favored by the Fed will be really seven thirty.
We'll see whether that changes the outlook. I'm Jeff Bellinger,

(01:35:04):
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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
It is seven thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f are banning
the Bible in this Penheadle school district, it pays to
be corrupt in Houston, and coming up at seven thirty eight,
the best selling Christmas Toys of all time. Details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. Welcome Sucking Robots, Sir.
I don't know if that made list. We'll find out,

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skuy Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:35:48):
You know, technically the Golden Triangle's not our area, but
we have some really loyal listeners there, so I gotta
cover you.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
And that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:35:54):
In at the state line shut down both ways, big
eighteen wheeler wreck and whatever's going on is nothing good,
So I expect this to be a closure for a
long time both ways.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
Texas Louisiana State Line forty.

Speaker 4 (01:36:05):
Five North Parker that is forty five southbound, a back
order slip.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
I've got a stall in a center lane here.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
Ninjas are hooking up now and we've got pack ups
from west Road Katie Freeway, Highway six.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
That's an accident.

Speaker 4 (01:36:17):
Also, that's a motorcycle on a two forty nine Cline
fire department at north point in the feeder southbound. I'm
skylike on the classic GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center
for today, we're looking at sunshine with a high temperature
right about sixty seven. Unless you're in a stuck in
a spot with some patri fag here this morning, that
should left within the next hour or two. Temperature right now,
by the way, is forty seven at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's timed out

(01:36:49):
for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's coming up on seven thirty two.
Our top story. Bibles being pulled from Texas schools. Well,
it's happening in the Panhandle, specific the Canyon. ISD. Officials
there say state law prohibits explicit books. Reporter Aaron Anderson
with Texas scorecards as parents are mad.

Speaker 24 (01:37:11):
The superintendent responded to parents who asked about it that
the law required them to remove anything that had any
quote sexual content, and that they.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
Thought the Bible fit the bill.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
And they're demanding action from the school board on this.
And there's this this morning. Last month, the Uston Housing
Authority president and CEO resigned after accusations that he misused
tax dollars, but David Northern did not leave without a
nice little severance package.

Speaker 25 (01:37:40):
We received a copy of that settlement that the new
board approved. It shows that Northern received six months of
paid time off that was a total of more than
two hundred and ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:37:52):
Reporter Amy Davis with our TV partner, Channel two says
that Northern also got more than sixty five grand for
paid time off. It's now seven point thirty three in Washington.
The House backup plan, passed rather backed by Donald Trump
fails when thirty eight Republicans voted against it. A partial
government shutdown could happen tonight.

Speaker 26 (01:38:13):
We're doing what Washington always does, which is leave it
to the last minute scare the American people with a
government shutdown, which really isn't a government shutdown, but there
are lots of guardrails in place if there is.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace on Fox the President elect
is blaming Texas Congressman Chip Roy for the stalemate. There
is a plan see and a vote planned for nine
o'clock this morning. Now, this bill and the one that
came before were both pushed by Speaker Mike Johnson. Some
conservatives now say we need a new speaker, and Elon

(01:38:46):
Musk's name is being tossed around whether.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Or not they'd considered as a serious proposal it at
least lets you know.

Speaker 28 (01:38:52):
I am unhappy with what's going on now.

Speaker 29 (01:38:55):
I'm not unhappy with the.

Speaker 5 (01:38:56):
Lack of resolved Kentucky Senator Ran Paul with Kate Trhs,
Klay Travis, and Buck Sexton. The Republicans can't get a
deal done now, and they'll have a razor thin majority
in the House next year too. So what does that
mean for the Trump agenda going forward?

Speaker 30 (01:39:12):
I think you're going to see tremendous pressure on those
members on the far right and those members in the middle,
because they often don't you see things the same way.

Speaker 5 (01:39:20):
Political consultant Matt mccoveac telling KTRH that anything Trump wants
done is going to require Republicans to be one hundred
percent unified. It's now seven thirty four on KTRH and
Amber alert remains out for fifteen year old Alexa Jones,
who was last seen in Katie last week. At first
police thought this was a runaway, but now say she

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left with an adult male. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
files emotion for a protective order to prevent death row
inmate Robert Robertson from testifying in Austin later today. Cameron
abrams with the text. Until KTRH, it was always unclear
if Roberson would actually show up at the Capitol.

Speaker 29 (01:40:01):
This is the second subpoena that's been issued for death
row inmate Robert Roberson the.

Speaker 5 (01:40:07):
FED and by the way, Roberson was said to be
put to death earlier this year after being convicted for
killing his daughter in two thousand and three. The science
overshaken baby syndrome has changed since then. It's led to
the current legal battle. Seven thirty five now, and stock
futures are down across the board this morning ahead of
the November PCE report, and the FED continues to get

(01:40:29):
called out over its handling of inflation and interest rates.
Wrightbart's John Carney says Chairman Jerome Powell has been more
lucky than right.

Speaker 31 (01:40:38):
The Fed completely misread where inflation is going to go,
and they're admitting it tacitly and its projections. They are
right now saying inflation will be two point five percent
at the end of next year.

Speaker 5 (01:40:49):
Carney told Fox Business Wall Street no longer trusts the Fed. Locally.
People have been moving to the Woodlands for years. You've
probably thought about it at some point. The area the
oh is now a hotspot for office space leasing.

Speaker 28 (01:41:03):
They have a ninety percent leased rate and high occupancy
rates to boot.

Speaker 32 (01:41:07):
I think that's a lot to the low taxes here
in Montgomery County, low crime, but also the kind of
the live war, clay and prey model.

Speaker 1 (01:41:14):
That we have here in the Woodlands.

Speaker 28 (01:41:15):
Chairman of the Woodlands Township Board of Directors, Brad Bayley
says it's a wide diverse group of companies and they're
looking to hook some big fish corporations too.

Speaker 32 (01:41:23):
We're going to go to places like California and New
York and Chicago and really start telling the story of
how we're a great business environment here.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
In Texas.

Speaker 28 (01:41:31):
He said, bad politics and taxing and Harris County have
driven people northward. Andre Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Thank you Andre. The Christmas travel season heating up right now.
We've got about three to four dozen flights delayed out
of Bush and Hobby this morning. Delays could also be
building as the date goes on seven thirty seven now.
And no matter when the spending bill gets passed in Washington,
the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act will not get
any more money. Local officials say a radio is a

(01:42:01):
vital part of disaster planning.

Speaker 27 (01:42:03):
Communication is always our biggest challenge, and that's been that
way for you know, probably since the nineteen hundred storm,
trying to get the word out to people, and AM
radio is probably the most consistently available medium for us.

Speaker 5 (01:42:17):
He's Galveston County Judge Mark Henry Mattress Mac continues to
recover from his open heart surgery last week, and Gallery
Furniture holds two Welcome Back Mack events today, one at
the North Freeway location at eleven o'clock this morning, another
at the Grand Parkway location from five to nine pm.
And the Texas Longhorns finally it's been weeks, right, Well,

(01:42:39):
they play Clemson in the college football playoffs tomorrow. Pregame
is at two and we'll have it on Sports Talk
seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news Weather in
traffic station news Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
Listen to news Radio seven forty KTRH on the free
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Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
Never sounded so good for tots, isn't it funny? Yes,
how the language has changed over time. I mean when
that King Cole was around, Yes, tots were little kids.
It was kind of a nickname for a toddler. Wreck
was a tot. Now it's a potato. It's like a
French fry. Oh, it's a potato. Tots what we eat?

(01:43:25):
I bet if you go, if you went on the
street and you ask ask somebody what a todd was,
they would describe the potato thing. They wouldn't describe a
kid anyway. Best selling Christmas toys of all time some
of them buzz Lightyear nineteen ninety five, Brats Dolls two
thousand and one, Tomagatchi nineteen ninety seven. Here's here's what

(01:43:50):
I bet I bet Sky Mike, I bet you had
some hot wheels, didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
You, Oh, all over the place.

Speaker 3 (01:43:54):
Yeah, hot wheels nineteen sixty eight for hot wheels, Ferbie
Le Ferbie nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
Oh here this one. I remember.

Speaker 3 (01:44:01):
Cabbage Patch kids. Remember gabbage Patch kids? They sold like crazy,
drove me nuts. Game Boy nineteen eighty nine. Barbie, which began,
believe it or not, in nineteen is still around, began
in nineteen fifty eight. Huh the big Christmas gift of
nineteen seventy four. Uh, real BIG's cube? No way, Yes,

(01:44:24):
trying to figure that one out. What was your favorite
toy you ever got?

Speaker 4 (01:44:27):
How about the little football game that you hold in
your hands, but it didn't look anything like football.

Speaker 1 (01:44:31):
It was a little dashes and tic tics.

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
How about the football game that you plugged it in
and the players moved by.

Speaker 27 (01:44:36):
Vibranting, yet exactly they went around.

Speaker 4 (01:44:39):
The wrong way. What was the favorite Christmas gift? Is
the kid you ever got? That was the train, the
the ho scale train, little toy train.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
Mine was a real to reel machine, a real to
When I was like nine or ten years old, I knew, yeah,
I knew. I wanted to be in radio back then. Yeah,
and the real to reel machine was so I could
practice being a disc jockey.

Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
We misused our cassette players. I'll just leave it there.
You can imagine what little boys would come in, you know,
the Mikey and Ronnie show. Oh Boy seven forty time
for traffic and weather together. Here is guy Mike all right,
that was a stall on the north freeway. Toe truck
ninjas have struck. But it's forty five between Tenable and
Parker southbound. We still have a back quarter split all
the way back to all back to west road sixteen

(01:45:21):
extra minutes this way, big shots do the hardy commoners
do the East Texas instead. Don't like the look of
this wreck on two forty nine climb fires on a
north point southbound. It's in the feeder road, but it
does involve a bike here and out of the state line.
The Texas Louisiana state line completely shut down.

Speaker 1 (01:45:38):
Iten is.

Speaker 4 (01:45:38):
I'm talking like Yoda, but this is not a thing
good happening here between Orange and Benton, Louisiana. And course
people are scrambling to find back roads Deweyville. I'm told
it's just crazy right now. It's not helping to get
on seventy three. Obviously I'm missing something. Oh, I think
I've got it. Katie Freeway, a tip line called Dudekay
Mike Howway.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
Accident on the feeder road, staffing back up behind how
we stick in front of it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:05):
All right, it's not really causing any suckage on the
main lanes. But stay on those mainlanes we're looking at
right now. Twenty eight minutes from Grand Pakway into the
President's Heads. I will check your ship channel bridges at
seven fifty Jimmy and the Generators Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:46:19):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four our weather Center.
Jeff Eno joins us before you give the forecast. So
what was your favorite Christmas toy?

Speaker 14 (01:46:25):
Ever?

Speaker 19 (01:46:26):
Favorite Christmas toy would be the evil Knevil? Oh yeah,
the little wind up thing.

Speaker 35 (01:46:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:46:31):
Absolutely, I've seen some Instagram stuff where that thing does
some amazing They're still out there, and I'm thinking mine
never did that. He always fell off and it always crashed,
so you know, but it's a more power to him.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
Maybe it was operator error.

Speaker 19 (01:46:46):
It definitely was, yeah, or maybe the stupid things I
was trying to do with that thing.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
But a lot of sunshine here for the next few days.

Speaker 19 (01:46:52):
Huh, absolutely, Yeah, just a beautiful Friday for us here.
We'll hit the mid to up for sixties temperatures on
the warm side. If we do see those upper sixties
out there, and it looks like we willed on a
lot of spots today mostly clear. Tonight overnight low falls
to the low forties, we might see even closer to forty,
maybe some upper thirties out there, but it looks like
we'll bottom out right at forty and then tomorrow a

(01:47:13):
little cooler sunshine and upper fifties and then mid sixties,
four hour Sunday with sunshine. And I want to wish
everyone a very merry Christmas and a safe and happy
New Year. You too, Right down forty eight at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 1 (01:47:27):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions. Hey y'all, remember Fanny Willis Fanny, you know,
the Georgia district attorney who was trying to bring a
case of election interference against President Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
Well, in case you missed, it. She got tossed. Her
and her entire crew got tossed from the case yesterday.
The case hasn't been dropped, but she has been dropped.
She will not be a part of that case. Here's
a report on that or reaction to it as they
should say.

Speaker 1 (01:48:01):
Yeah, I have.

Speaker 37 (01:48:02):
A feeling the case is going to disappear. They have
several options. I mean, the court made the decision to
throw her off, throw you know, her team off, throw
the office off, and in a case like that, it
may go to another office within that particular region. Maybe
the chief administrative judge would do that. But honestly, I
just don't think that a prosecution of a sitting president,

(01:48:24):
if they have to start on an issio from the beginning,
it makes any sense.

Speaker 1 (01:48:28):
Now.

Speaker 37 (01:48:28):
But I just want to talk about that woman. That
woman is an embarrassment to me. For her to walk
into that courtroom like that, as if she's in charge,
pouring her finger at the judge and everyone else. She
would have been taken out in the patty wagon.

Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
Okay.

Speaker 37 (01:48:42):
I would never have tolerated that courtroom. That means it's
like a circus down there, you know, end of it.

Speaker 22 (01:48:49):
That's it.

Speaker 37 (01:48:50):
The whole case should be thrown out. They work her
up six hundred and fifty four thousand dollars. She gives
a lover, he takes her on vacation. Then she says,
you know, I really give money back, but it's from
the cash. Where the hell did you get the cash?
She worked for the state.

Speaker 3 (01:49:05):
Judge Deedine Beryl. You know she has such a hard
time expressing herself, doesn't she seven fifty time for traffic
and whether it's together.

Speaker 1 (01:49:11):
Thanks gift card, Jimmy Barrett. Well you're very welcome. I
love this little tenant.

Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
You know what, when I'm gonna put it under the tree.
When I get a tree, I ten with Cliff. You
got a tree?

Speaker 1 (01:49:20):
Oh never mind?

Speaker 4 (01:49:21):
I ten at the state line. Both ways shut down.
I got some great news. No injuries. It's just mainly
it's a mess. They've got hasmad, their fuel spill. They're
diverting eastbound TAFF. This is a I ten the Louisiana
state Line. Eastbound traffic is being diverted to Highway sixty two.
Westbound traffic in Louisiana is being diverted at exit for.
It's a huge mess, so don't go there. But the

(01:49:44):
good news is looks like everybody's okay. Forty five we
cleared the stall North Freeway southbound backups from West Road
and two forty nine just past North Pound north Point southbound.
That's a wreck involving a motorcycle. Jimmy, you're off next week.

Speaker 1 (01:49:58):
Right, I am on vacation, Yes, okay, Just do not
get in.

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
A high speed chase and do an arm shootout or
anything like that. Because I'm flying for Channel thirteen, I
have to film me.

Speaker 1 (01:50:06):
I'll do my best, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
The classic Buick GMC Traffic Center from our KTRH generator
supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center.

Speaker 3 (01:50:14):
Sunshine Today's sixty seven unless you're in the spop with
some PATCHI fogg that'll burn off soon. Sunny tomorrow for
your Saturday fifty eight. Sunny, sixty four degrees on Sunday,
and right now for the beginning of the weekend through Christmas,
it looks like we're looking at load to maybe mid
seventies each day. Current temperature is forty eight at your
officials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time

(01:50:37):
to check out some of our top stories this morning
on a Friday. Here's clip helps.

Speaker 5 (01:50:42):
If you turn the mic on right regard to you
by Texas Mutual Insurance. The Personal Consumptions Price Index, the
FEDS preferred inflation gauge went up one point rather point
one percent last month. And vote on a new temporary
spending bill could take place at about nine o'clock this morning.
And we mentioned this earlier, but it's our favorite story

(01:51:03):
of the day. A pet kangaroo is missing in Ceily.
Rowdy was last seen on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:51:10):
Why do you need a pet kangaroo?

Speaker 5 (01:51:11):
Why do you want to name it?

Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
Well, it's a pet. Why do you need a pet kangaroo?

Speaker 5 (01:51:17):
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Speaker 3 (01:51:39):
So hope you didn't buy those at Amazon. Seven fifty
three is our time. Amazon is on strike those that
are a member of the Teamsters union. It's not impacting
It's mainly impacting California at this point. It's not impacting
that many. Although the union president is vowing that the
strike will expand Neil Cavudo, who's getting ready to leave,

(01:51:59):
thoughts and back to think, either yesterday or today's last day,
you will the last anti trumpers to leave. Fox did
an interview with the Teamsters union president Sean O'Brien and
asked a really dumb question, But that's okay. The question
you wanted to know is why are you doing this
right before Christmas?

Speaker 17 (01:52:16):
We've been dealing with this company in their games and
antics for almost two and a half years. Now, enough's enough.
We have the workers have spoken, they've chosen the teams
to represent them. We've made attempts to sit down and
bargain with Amazon with the people that we represent that
signed the cards, the majority of the cards, and Amazon

(01:52:37):
has refused continuously. They've even petitioned on NLRB to say
that what we're doing is illegal, which it's.

Speaker 22 (01:52:43):
Not illegal, So we have no other choice. And look, collective.

Speaker 17 (01:52:47):
Bargaining is all about leverage, and this is our leverage,
this is our pinch point.

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
But you're leveraging Santa.

Speaker 17 (01:52:52):
Yeah, well, you know Santa would be disgusted in the
behavior that Amazon has has been engaged aging in over
the last several years. They don't respect their workers, they
don't respect who makes them the success they are, and
we're going to hold them accountable.

Speaker 22 (01:53:07):
They're among the highest sides.

Speaker 41 (01:53:08):
I understand some of these differences, but they're along the
highest retail workers in the country.

Speaker 1 (01:53:14):
Now there are BC here.

Speaker 41 (01:53:15):
I understand some of these pieces, but again I'm going
back to the timing of this and a lot of
Amazon customers who aren't really knee deep in the weeds
on what these contract issues are. But again, it is Christmas,
and again a good many Americans will see their presence delayed.

Speaker 1 (01:53:33):
If their presence get there.

Speaker 22 (01:53:34):
At all, well they can divert them.

Speaker 17 (01:53:36):
To a good union company like un noted Apostle Service,
THHO and everybody else.

Speaker 22 (01:53:40):
And you know it's unfortunate.

Speaker 41 (01:53:41):
They got six days to do that, right these folks.

Speaker 17 (01:53:45):
These folks are out there three hundred and sixty five
days a year getting abused by Amazon. And you know,
we have to set an example.

Speaker 41 (01:53:52):
And you know, so when you say abuse, show what's
going on that they're getting abused, I'm almost thinking like
they're getting beaten.

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
On the job.

Speaker 22 (01:54:00):
Interview.

Speaker 17 (01:54:00):
Oh they are, they're getting beaten on the job. They've
got the most violations in OSHA if you do the
fact checked.

Speaker 22 (01:54:08):
They're not getting paid accordingly.

Speaker 17 (01:54:10):
They're being paid through a scam which is a third
party Lisa Rangers, which they are a joint employer. These
people are not being paid a liverabool wage. They get
minimal benefits of any and it's a disgrace and it
shouldn't be allowed to happen. And this company's worth two
trillion dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:54:25):
Bah bug, says Sean O'Brien. Yeah, they I mean, he's
pretty obvious. They do it right now because it's right
before Christmas. This is when they have the most leverage.
I get that, all right, Listen. I'm on vacation. I'll
be off all next week for Christmas. I hope you
have a very merry Christmas and a great holiday season.
Get a bunch of time to spend with your friends
and your loved ones. And I will see you a

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week from Monday here in news Radio seven forty KRH