Former President Jimmy Carter Dies At 100

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/30/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is HUS Radio seven kat RH Houston Drive.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Everywhere with now the latest news, weather and traffic. It's
more of what matters to you from the John Morris
Services studios.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
What do you mean the vacation's over? Five AM is
our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our
top stories as we get started this morning, Southeast Texas
hit hard by a tornado outbreak. Former President Jimmy Carter
has died, and coming up at five to eight, get
divorced to North Korea and they'll send you to a
labor camp. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's

(00:37):
Morning News. First, we're checking out the drive for the
first time. You expecting a quiet week, Scemi, I.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Know not at all.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
For one thing this morning, I've we've got to turn
off your snooze and my slinky because if you look outside,
you can't see I'm serious visibility problems this morning. We're
gonna have them all over the listener area, especially if
you're outside the Beltway, but even inside the belt on
the Hardy Vaughn this morning, it had to be quarter
inch visibility at best. So far, we're not bumping into

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each other. You know how stuff changes. We'll update you
at five ten and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Areas of fog early as Mike just mentioned them, becoming
sunny with a eye today right about eighty. We'll get
to the complete forecast when we talked to Terry Smith
at the Weather Channel in nine minutes right now fifty
eight at your official severe weather station and news radio
seven forty k TRH. It's time down for the news.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Here's Cliff Sanders, Thank you, Jimmy, Welcome back everybody, and
it's five oho one on KTRH. Full coverage of the
death of former President Jimmy Carter is coming up first though,
the cleanup and aftermath of Saturday's tornadoes.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
She was just the best man. She was loving, caring, giving.
We I'm gonna give you this shirt off her back.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Bat Man with our TV partner, Channel two. The woman
killed in the Brazoria County twister identified my family members
as Jamie Brown. Several others were injured in that tornado
as well. Now, the National Weather Service confirmed five tornadoes
on the ground, the strongest and EF three that hit
Porter Heights in Montgomery County.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Go get it fixed back up pretty quick.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Think you should have already doing it.

Speaker 7 (02:15):
We've got the church next door that hit, and we've
got parts of that coming over and hitting it as well.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
That's County Judge Marko. He will join Jimmy at six
point twenty. A tornado that strong can have wins of
one hundred and sixty five miles an hour. There was
also an EF three in Chambers County. Twisters also touchdown
in Dickinson and Baycliff, and the fifth one was in Katie,
which was an EF one.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Nobody was injured.

Speaker 8 (02:41):
You look at this and it is absolutely miraculous that
nobody was hurt.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Here, reporter Gage Golding there. Acting Governor Dan Patrick responds
to the outbreak with a statement saying, quote Texas State
agencies are working hard to help their fellow Texans and
have begun to assess the damage. Patrick told residents who
suffered damage to report it to the State Division of
Emergency Management.

Speaker 9 (03:07):
Well.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
The weather is also impacting holiday travel out of Bush
and Hobby Airports, with hundreds of flights either canceled or
delayed yesterday, leaving travelers frustrated.

Speaker 10 (03:18):
Implement weather is not new to Houston, so I'm really
surprised and kind of appalled at the management so United
as well as airport management.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
That woman has been stuck apparently since Saturday. And looking
at flight Aware this morning, we've got sixteen delays out
of Bush with ten cancelations. All ten cancelations are United Airlines.
Only a handful of delays so far this morning out
of Hobby. It's now five oh four on KGRH.

Speaker 11 (03:47):
We can say this crisis in the growing doubt about
the meaning of our own lives and in the loss
of a unity of purpose for our nation.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
That's former President Jimmy Carter, who presided over the energy
crisis of the nineteen seventies. He died yesterday at the
age of one hundred.

Speaker 12 (04:04):
Is presidency marked by high inflation and an energy crisis
when fifty three Americans were held hostage in Iran for
more than a year. Of failed rescue mission that killed
eight led to an election loss to Ronald Reagan. It
was in his post presidential years that his reputation grew
as he devoted himself to such causes as human rights

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and habitat for humanity.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
That is Fox's greg Jared Carter had been in hospice
for well over a year and passes away thirteen months
after his wife Rosalind passed away. President ELEC. Donald truck
paying Don Donald Trump rather paying tribute on social media,
posting that quote the challenges Carter faced as president came
at a pivotal time for the country, and he did

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everything in his power for the good of his fellow Americans.
And then there was President Joe Biden addressing the nation
hours after the Carter Center announced his death officially and
took a shot at Trump.

Speaker 13 (05:05):
Carter decency, decency, decency. Everybody deserves a shot. Everybody.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
That was Biden, speaking from his vacation at the US
Virgin Islands. The President ordered a state funeral for Carter,
which will reportedly take place on January ninth. Biden also
ordered flags to be flown at half staff for the
next thirty days. More reaction, former President George W. Bush
in a statement saying quote Carter was a man of

(05:38):
deeply held convictions. He was loyal to his family, his community,
and his country. And Texas Governor Greg Abbott put out
a statement saying, quote, Cecilia and I mourn the loss
of former President Jimmy Carter, alongside millions of Americans across
the country. Five oh six now bombshell report from the
liberal Washington Post Joe Biden wanted his DOJA to prosecute

(06:02):
Donald Trump earlier and way more aggressively than it actually did.
The same report also says that Biden thinks he could
have stayed in the election and that he could have
beaten Trump if he hadn't dropped out. Congress. In the meantime,
returns to work this week, and there is concern that
there will be a long fight over the speakership. With

(06:22):
Mike Johnson not certain to retain the gavel.

Speaker 14 (06:25):
Frustration is growing amongst some Republicans. How Speaker Mike Johnson's
allies say a messy speakers fight is the last thing
they want as Republicans enter the next year.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
With full control of Congress.

Speaker 14 (06:36):
They say they've got a long to do list, from
addressing the border to extending Trump's tax cuts, but the
House can move forward with any of those priorities if
they don't have a speaker, and the fight over the
gavel will serve as the first test over how the
House geop he will navigate a slim majority, that.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Is Madeline Rivera of Fox. There is also concern that
a speaker fight will delay certifying the election of Donald Trump.
His brand of populist politics didn't just win big here
in twenty twenty four, It's spread across Europe as well.

Speaker 15 (07:05):
These elites are all hanging out together. Whether you're French
or German or what have you.

Speaker 16 (07:10):
People don't take.

Speaker 17 (07:11):
Well for that.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Political analyst Jeffrey Lord five oh seven and KTRH. The
Rockets lose to Miami last night, one four to one hundred.
They host Dallas on Wednesday, And I'm Cliff Saunders on
Houston's News Weather in traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
All right, well, divorce is no fun U. I went
through one of those, guy, Mike. I think he went through.
I don't know how many I'd lost count couple. Anyway,
if you've ever gone through a divorce, especially the first
time around, it is painful, to say the least, if
nothing else, Talking to attorneys is painful. Doing some sort

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of settlement in front of a judge is painful. I
think most I'd like to think that most of us
who have been through a divorce in our lives learned
a lesson from it. Right, let's not make the same
mistakes again. That's usually enough. But evidently in North Korea,
the leader Kim Jong un has decided that divorce is

(08:18):
anti socialist. Really, I think divorce is the perfect example
of socialism. You take the assets of a couple and
you spread them around. In other words, you may have one,
either the wife or the husband, who's earned the vast

(08:39):
majority of the money. But in a divorce, everybody gets
a piece of the action, especially the attorneys. It's socialism
and it's finest. But Kim Jong un doesn't think so.
He is reportedly ordering divorcing couples be sent to labor
camps for up to six months. That's for the guys

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potentially face longer sentences because it's their fault. The North
Korean leader has declared that ending a marriage demonstrates anti
socialist sympathies and therefore warrants punishment. It represents a stuffening
of existing laws in the country, which previously only punished
the party who was seeking the divorce, even in cases

(09:23):
of physical abuse. Under the new rules, both spouses face
imprisonment once the divorce is finalized. I guess the idea
here is to force couples to stay together. But depending
on how bad the marriage is, six months in the
labor camp might be preferable.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Huh. Five.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Ten, Time for traffic and weather. Together, we're gonna check
out the drive. Skymike, you there there, I am, hey, Marco.
So yeah, my last divorce went pretty well, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (09:52):
I walked into Chambers County and chap Kine said, sky Mike,
what are you doing here?

Speaker 4 (09:57):
So you know when let's go.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Let's put on our hardhead and check out the hard
work and east side here. Let me flip over here
and do some Hartman bridge. Whoa, you can't see all right?
Visibility is a thing here looking from Missouri Street here
and looking from two twenty five, look at that tough
to see looking around main Lee College. Boy, you've got
a fog problem this morning, especially on the bridges.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
So let's get a nice early start. Look at the
top of the east sam he or the toll bridge.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
I could see up here, but so far we're clear.
We're not bumping too each other. And one more shot here,
let's check the east loop six ' ten Bridge.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I'm gonna have to check.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
From the south Loop Manchester and WHOA, okay, that one's
that's a little visibility now from two twenty five going
up to the bud Plant. But obviously fog is a thing, Terry.
I know fog does not show up on radar.

Speaker 12 (10:44):
Am.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
I correct, that doesn't show up on my little Kappels
pocket radar, but I think I don't think it shows
up on your mega Doppler either.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
I will defer time.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
We'll get to the south Side at five twenty and
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
I'll take fogg and said tornadoes any day, though.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Oh my goodness, marrh top tax defenders twenty four are
what the sent Terry Smith is here. And yeah, we
had a rough weekend round here.

Speaker 18 (11:05):
Boy did we ever. I saw those tornadoes Saturday. I
think there were at least five of them, and the
National Weather Service went out and surveyed to see just
how long they were on the ground, how strong they were.
It was a rough morning on Saturday. Well it is
quiet today with the fog, and boy, the visibility most

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areas around a quarter of a mile or even less.
And that's why we have this dense fog advisory until
nine am, and Skymike, you're right, fogg does not show
up on radar.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Rain shows off north fog. Okay, so you can't see
what you can't see. Makes sense to me. I need,
I need.

Speaker 18 (11:41):
I can use the satellite to see the fog, but
right now we can't because it's dark outside.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
So eventually the fogg will thin out.

Speaker 18 (11:49):
It's gonna actually be a very nice day with sunshine,
and temperatures will be quite warm today and then much
cooler tomorrow, upper seventies to low eighties today. Tomorrow morning
you may have some fog early on before we turn
out sunny coll front sneaks through overnight. So tomorrow the
temperatures are in the mid chupper sixties, and Wednesday load

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of mid sixties, a little bit of rain Thursday, and
then dry Friday. So fairly quiet week, just some cooler weather.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Right now, fifty eight of your officials Severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH in all our.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Sons command close.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
You know, it's not a lot of us who know
the words to the Canadian national anthem, And the only
reason why I do. It's not like I'm a dual
citizen of Canada or anything. It's not even like I
like Canada. I mean it's okay. I grew up next
to Canada in Michigan, and I did the Detroit Tigers
the PA for the Detroit Tigers back in the nineteen nineties,

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back in the day, and of course every time they
played the Toronto Blue Jays, you hear Old Canada for
the entire series, so you learn. It's not a complicated tune.
You learn the lyrics. Would that become By the way,
if Canada became the fifty first state, would that be
the state song? What happens to Canada? If that happens?

(13:12):
I laugh, but at the same toking Kevin o' larry,
you know, the Shark Tank guy, he's Canadian.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
He was on Fox the other day.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
He actually said, I don't know where this number comes from,
maybe just the top of his head, that at least
fifty percent of Canadians would like to be the fifty
first state. They would rather be a part of the
United States than in part of their own country. Here's
what Kevin o' larry said, in some reaction from Tyris
on Fox.

Speaker 19 (13:38):
Canadians over the holidays the last two days have been
talking about this.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
They want to hear more. Think about the power of.

Speaker 19 (13:44):
Combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and
the United States and putting all that resource up to
the northern borders where China.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
And Russia are knocking on the door.

Speaker 19 (13:55):
So secure that give a common currency, figure out taxes
across the board, get everything trading both ways, create a
new almost EU like passport. I like this idea, and
at least half of Canadians are interested.

Speaker 20 (14:11):
Okay, there's no fifty percent of Canadians willing to give
up Canada. I mean, that's their country. They'd be like
fifty percent of Americans being like, oh yeah, we want
to join the other side. It almost sounds like a
promotional stunt for a TV show. I think they're I
think the Canadian government is paying attention because President Trump
is put in tariffs, he's trolling them, he's having a
good time with it, and maybe mister Wonderful is trying

(14:33):
to get on it. But fifty percent that I'd love
to see the poll, like, you know, it's just it
goes back to what this administration is trying to do
is not a laughing matter. President Trump is putting his
foot down and he's using tariffs to get them to
come to the table. I think there's a huge conservative
presidence in Canada, but we haven't seen him for a
long time. And let's be honest. If Canada became a
country that will play along with this this game, okay,

(14:57):
it would be what they're one of the most liberal countries,
which mean the two sentence that they would have would
make Jessica's day because they would both be liberal and
would lose the Senate.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
So thank you, No, we're good. I agree, we'll pass.
Thank you anyway. Yeah, I need some special French fries.
I'll go up there get some poutine up there in Canada.
Leave it up there. Five to twenty one dime for
trafficking mother together poutine. It's it's it's like a Now,
you're not going ted nugent. No, it's French fries. French

(15:25):
fries with a gravy kind of a thing on it. No,
I'm not going ted nugent on you sky people.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Our age are about to slap us. All right, so far,
so far, so good.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
If we're going from the north side here forty five,
here's the deal. Visibility and we'll be talking about throughout
the morning. Let me know what you can't see at
seven one three two one two tips incident free North
free Way, twenty two minutes from the Woodlands Golf Freeway,
twenty one minutes from clear Lake East.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Text Carlos, Dude, he's from Porter My.

Speaker 21 (15:52):
Fifty nine inbound visibilities about an eighth of a mile.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Welcome back from your beauty contest.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Check my socials there.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
I'm Skymike of the Classic Buick GMC traffic Center from
our KTRH top tax dependers twenty four hour weather Center.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Areas of fog early becoming sunny, about eighty for the high.
Today morning fogged and sunshine cooler sixty seven. Tomorrow New
Year's Day. We'll ring in the new year with sunshine
and the high temperature of sixty two. Temperature currently is
fifty eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. Check out some of our top stories
on this Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Here's clip, Thanks Jimmy, sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. The National
Weather Service confirmed five tornadoes touchdown on Saturday. There will
be public observances in Washington and Atlanta. Following the death
of Jimmy Carter and a weekend airplane crash in South
Korea killed one hundred and eighty one passengers. Two survivors
were found. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.

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Our next update is at five thirty.

Speaker 22 (16:54):
Pasadena living clearly reliable KTRH traffic and weather.

Speaker 17 (16:59):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Five twenty three is at a time here on Houston's
Morning News.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Right speaking of fast, Steve Bannon, remember Steve Banning urging
President Trump to act fast once he gets inaugurated on
January the twentieth. Although I must mention, you know, there's
a little problem getting the inauguration done. At this moment,
the House has yet to vote for a Speaker of

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the House. There are at least five Republicans walking at
Mike Johnson. They want no more Mike Johnson as House Speaker.
They won't vote for him, and the total is so
close that that's enough that he wouldn't get the speakership.
And so they haven't voted for that yet. They can't vote,
they can't certify the election, They can't do any of
that stuff until they vote for the speaker, until they

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have a speaker appointed, and that so far has not happened,
so here we go. But aside from that, Steve Bannon says, basically,
President Trump passed about six months to get the vast
majority of what he wants to accomplished. To accomplish because
the rest of the time he's going to be in court.

Speaker 23 (18:12):
Six months outside of year, but six and first the
first one hundred days, first six months, you've got to
be getting all three.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
You got to get the He's got to personally.

Speaker 23 (18:20):
Get involved in the in the in the bringing to
a conclusion the Ukraine War. And I think also this
Middle East situation, particularly with the Persians getting close to
a nuclear weapon as he warned about. And I think
on the border, the first reconciliation, Miller and Homan, the deportations,
building the wall, and then the financial and economic crisis.
He's got I think outside a year, I would put

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it as for planning purposes, one hundred days to six months.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
You got to get on with it.

Speaker 23 (18:47):
And I mean, this is my point, You've got to
be driving this thing every day. I wouldn't even take
off if we're on the team, I wouldn't even take
off even Christmas Day. Now I'd be I'd be grinding
every second of every day because they're they're.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Lying in wait.

Speaker 23 (19:01):
And remember they're going to put a billion dollars in
back of Hekeeme. Jeffries to flip a handful of seats
in the House and on the House side in twenty
six And the first thing that came Jeffrey is gonna
do is he promises to his donus im peach Trump.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
We're not out of this.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
We're far from being out.

Speaker 23 (19:17):
Even everything we accomplished extraordinary, you and everybody on the
media side in this new ecosystem, inspiring people, the people
coming out and do it this on people's victory. But
November fifth, you gotta understand that's just the like that
gets you to the table to start the fight. And
it's gonna be brutal. They're gonna pull out they have
they will pull out every stop. You've already seen this

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and what they've tried to do President Trump, and their
goal and objective is to flip.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
The House in two years and have came Jefferies.

Speaker 23 (19:46):
The first he'll move his impeachment on Trump and maybe
many people in the cabinet. So folks have got to
understand this is this is a political war and at
the very beginning of this. This is don't think it's
the great work we did on November fifth means anything
to these people.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
They get care less.

Speaker 23 (20:02):
They're going to fight with every tool they have in
legal tool, political tool, information tool, deal from the bottom
of the deck.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Do things are unfair?

Speaker 23 (20:13):
So it's uh not now even talking about our foreign enemies,
the Chinese Communist Party, the Persians, the KGB in Moscow.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
This is uh in.

Speaker 23 (20:21):
Oh, by the way, you got ten to fifteen million
illegal Alis just on Biden's watch. I'm not even considering
the people before, just as what so stakes.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Are high, let's say six months to the outside.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yikes. Okay, so no honeymoon news. You're saying, no honeymoon right,
we don't get a chance to enjoy this for a
little bit. We just the war starts on January twentieth. Okay,
I get it. Five seven Here on news radio seven
forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
You are no Houston's news.

Speaker 24 (20:54):
Why there were traffic plus freaking news twenty four to seven.
This is news Radio seven KTRH five everywhere with a
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Speaker 3 (21:08):
Well again, good morning, it is five point thirty now
here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our
top stories this half hour. President Jimmy Carter dead at
the age of one hundred. Saturday storms inflicted a lot
of damage to the Houston area and coming up at
by thirty eighth, the guy who gave us HBO has died.
Details and the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Boning News. First,

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we're checking out that morning drive again with sky Mine.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
All right, fog is a big deal all over our
listening area. If you're just joining us, Yeah, no snoozing.
Let's get on those roads early. So far we're not
bumping into each other. On the Katie Freeway, we look good.
Grand Parkway twenty six minutes, and the Southwest Freeway rocks
along twenty four minutes.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
From the Brass River in to eighty eight tip line border.

Speaker 21 (21:50):
This is tie from Alvin just gave us to eighty eight.
FOG's fixes e soup Everybody, watch out what kind of soup?

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Do German polish? And check seat.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
We'll check the north west side in that five forty
break and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Like Chicken and Dublin suit from our KTRH generator.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Oh yeah, generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center. We
we do have areas of den fog becoming sonny eventually
today with ig temperature about eighty. We'll check all this out.
Terry Smith when we talked to her in about nine minutes.
Current temperature is fifty eight at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time down for the news.

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Here's Cliff Slanders.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Thank you very much. Jimmy, Good morning everybody, five thirty
one on KTRH. The latest on the cleanup from the
tornadoes on Saturday. In a moment, but first, the death
of an American president.

Speaker 11 (22:40):
My name is Jimmy Carott on im running for president.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Jimmy Carter introduced himself to the country in nineteen seventy
four and won the nineteen seventy six election. The one
term president died yesterday at the age of one hundred.

Speaker 25 (22:53):
The thirty ninth president, died at his home in Plains, Georgia,
where he had been receiving hospice care for nearly two years.
During his one term in office, Carter faced many challenges,
including the Iran hostage crisis and a bad economy, but
he also broke he peace between Egypt and Israel. After
leaving the White House, Carter dedicated his life to humanitarian causes,

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earning the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand and two.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
That was Fox's Mary Anne Rafferty. While his presidency was unsuccessful,
his post presidential life was nothing short of a success.

Speaker 26 (23:25):
It was an extraordinary life and a very long life.
He endured a lot of people probably could not have
for a very long time. He was true to his faith,
especially in his retirement.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Fox's brickume there, Texas Senator Ted Cruz reacting on social
media saying that quote, Heidi and I are saddened by
the passing of President Jimmy carter. Is decades long dedication
to building homes for those in need was truly remarkable,
and in a post on X, Senator John Cornyn said quote,
his legacy will remain a cherished part of our great

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American story. Among the many others paying tribute to Carter
was Iowa Senator Republican Chuck Grassley.

Speaker 27 (24:05):
Edge, it is like compassionate, simple decency, humanitarianism. I remember,
I think he restored decencies of the White House after
Nixon's resignation.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Grassley on Fox coming up now on five point thirty
four Here at Home, the National Weather Service officially confirms
five tornadoes touchdown across the Houston area on Saturday. One
of them was an EF one in Katie.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Thank God, I'll blow scale. When I saw the by
truck came.

Speaker 28 (24:39):
Through, So I went outside the chicks like something happening,
and I saw like a big win like like happening
right there. And it's just like from the big tornado,
And within like ten seconds of time, it just came
right at us.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Those people talking to our TV partner Channel two. One
person died in Brasori account from a twister that touched
down there. That woman identified as Jamie Brown.

Speaker 29 (25:05):
The damage out here is truly devastating. If you look
behind me here, this is where their home used to be.
You can see all that's left are these stairs, these
wooden stairs that went up to the house, and then
also cinderbrocks and the framing of the house. The family
tells me that their house actually blew all the way
across the field over here.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Corley Peel with our TV partner Channel Too. At least
four others were injured. The path of that tornado about
nine miles long. There were two EF three tornadoes in
the area, one in Montgomery County.

Speaker 30 (25:36):
Good news is no fatalities and only minor injuries reported,
but the path of destruction that had left behind is evident.
Just take a look at this house right behind me
that's now upside.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
Down, Reporter Devin Clark. There was another EF three in
Chambers County. Remember, tornadoes that strong could have wings up
to one hundred and sixty five miles an hour, will
have more the outbreak at six o'clock five point thirty
five on KTRH. President elect Donald Trump surprising some this
weekend announcing his support for H one B Visas Texas

(26:11):
Congress rather Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett says Trump needs to
mitigate the risks that come along with this program.

Speaker 31 (26:18):
As in the case with the Chinese, they leave family
members behind, and the communist Chinese know that, and they
compromise them. They say, hey, you know, you got an
aunt or an uncle over here, they might just disappear.
We just think a little bit of information, and that's
time and time again.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
They've done that. They've done that in our military Burchett
on Fox. Trump, of course signing with Elon muskiness debate,
and even Democrats are starting to realize that Americans want
to see some real change from the government, so they're
getting behind Musk and Doge.

Speaker 32 (26:48):
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman might be one of those Democrats.

Speaker 33 (26:51):
I think he's someone that could work well with Republicans
and prioritize this Doze initiative to cut spending balance the budget.

Speaker 32 (27:00):
Conservative activist Christian Collins says the DOSE team will end
up needing Democrat help to make any major reforms.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
There will need to.

Speaker 33 (27:06):
Be cuts for both Republican priorities and Democrat priorities if
we're going to actually fulfill the mission of DOS.

Speaker 32 (27:13):
Colin says this also bodes well for Trump's cabinet picks,
who may also wind up needing Democrat support to get confirmed.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Meantime, the liberal Houston Chronicle claims that Texans are losing
influence in Congress, but Republicans disagree. The rnc is doctor
Robin Armstrong says economic diversity always gives us power and
it will only expand as more true Republicans get elected
from the lone Star state, those.

Speaker 16 (27:40):
Same congressmen and senators are going to cause the economic
viability of Texas to just grow and get stronger and stronger.
We're just going to improve our political influence as well.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
He says. Other industries leaving blue states to come here
will also help Texas hold on to power five point
thirty seven. Several Texas teams were in bowl games this weekend.
The Aggies lost to USC in the Las Vegas Bowl
thirty five to thirty one. Texas Tech was beaten by
Arkansas at the Liberty Bowl thirty nine to twenty six.

(28:11):
TCU did beat Louisiana in the New Mexico Bowl thirty
four to three, and the Longhorns play Arizona State and
the Peach Bowl in the quarterfinals of the College football
playoffs on Wednesday. Pregame at one on Sports Talk seven
ninety and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in
Traffic Station KTRH.

Speaker 34 (28:29):
Four New years, Big Golden Age of America, the next
four years Real Happy Here News Radio seven forty JDRH.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Don't remember that, remember that music? Remember where they comes from?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yep, that is HBO circa nineteen eighty three. I want
to say that's right around is that when they started
nineteen eighty three, it must have been right around there.
I say this because Charles Dolan, the HBO founder, has died,
made a lot of money on HBO. In fact, he
died with the net worth of five point four billion dollars.

(29:11):
Died the age of ninety eightive natural costs, according to
a statement from his family. He also was the founder
of a Cablevision made a lot of money in cable television.
In nineteen seventy two he established Home Box Office, the
first premium cable channel, and in nineteen seventy three he
founded Cablevision. Okay, so it's a lot earlier than I thought.

(29:31):
I do remember. I do remember getting HBO for the
first time, way back in the day when you never
heard a single swear word on television, and I remember
how shocking and almost liberating it was to hear F

(29:53):
bombs and S bombs in other words that you never
had heard on television before coming out of your cable box.
Because they're running movies on HBO that are rated R,
and that was just that was just so mind blowing
when it first began. Of course, now you know that's
that's so yesterday, that's so ancient history, home box office.

(30:17):
But it was a big deal back in the day
by forty time for driving and whether.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
It imagination or did cable TV at one time have
no commercials like when it started.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
I want to see, I want to say you were
probably correct about that.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
See, I think you're right.

Speaker 17 (30:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
I used to have like rich cousins in Texas City.
I thought they were rich because they had cable TV. Ah,
that was in the day. Let's do visibility. That's our
thing this morning, as we come up the Southwest Freeway
rocking along now the Braslast River.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
What kind of soup you want down there?

Speaker 5 (30:46):
We look at twenty four minutes up into the canyon
northbound West Park toldway, let's don't go today because again,
since we can't see more than a quarter a mile,
probably less.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
And that's looking good.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Now I'm counting nineteen minutes here Katie Freeway, twenty four
minutes in and Steve Burton's on two ninety.

Speaker 28 (31:04):
Chapel Hill poll pretty much the Hallway in lots of fog.

Speaker 35 (31:07):
Keep for driving.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Pretty good though, all right, get yourself an early start
Captain Jack's northwest.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Hi, sky Mike, the fog be heavy and my boat
be a ground ooh.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Go all right, there you go, Terry.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
By the way, you said two tornadoes in Liberty County.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
I think one of them was near my hometown, Tarkington.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
I let my cousins call in on the tip line
seven one three two one two t ips banana stickers around.
I'm skylike in a classic Buick TMC traffic center.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, we had one about four miles from my house
from r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour. Whether
center Terry is here, doesn't matter how thick and chunky
you want your soup today. You're going to have some
of that, aren't Joe.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 18 (31:47):
Yes, we've got wide spread fog out there and a
dense fog advisory to go along with it. And as
sky Mike was saying, a lot of places are seeing
visibility quarter mile or less.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
That means you can probably see.

Speaker 18 (32:01):
About one thousand feet maybe with some sort of clarity.
After that, you are dealing with that dense fog, that
cloud sitting on the ground. Well, the good thing is
it'll clear out bye about mid morning. We got sunshine, folks,
and a warm day today, and then after that it
gets cooler. Temperatures today upper seventies to low eighties tomorrow.

(32:25):
That's when we start to notice it's feeling like December.
Turns out Sunday Tomorrow, middumber sixties Wednesday, the first day
of twenty twenty five. High temperatures in the load of
mid sixties, a little bit of rain on Thursday of
forty percent chance of rain, and back to sunshine Friday.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Right down fifty eight at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH five forty eight hour time
here in Houston's morning news. This is kind of a
startling figure. Americans are now spending about thirty five percent
of the monthly mortgage payment on taxes and insurance, both

(33:02):
of which have gone up significantly across the country. Home
values is they've gone up, they've taken property taxes up
with them. We all know what's happened with insurance costs.
So you may have a fixed rate mortgage, you may
have a low rate because you've had the mortgage for
a while, but you're still paying more every month because
of taxes and insurance.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Here's the thoughts. Business panel talking about it.

Speaker 36 (33:24):
This is going to be really tough on a housing market.
I'm going to tell you that right now, of late,
the worst performing sector in the US equity market has
been housing related shares.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
They're under a lot of pressure.

Speaker 36 (33:36):
They've been sinking by double digit percentage for the current
quarter to date since the election.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
It's really a mess. Let's face it. You go ahead,
you take out a fixed rate mortgage.

Speaker 36 (33:49):
Well, it's great to know that your monthly mortgage payment
is fixed.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
But what you don't know is what.

Speaker 36 (33:55):
Your future property taxes might be and what your future
property insurance.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Costs might be. And I want to add one thing.
I think this is important.

Speaker 36 (34:03):
The CPI is trying to tell me that their best
measure of property insurances was up by only two percent
from a year ago.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
You've got to be kiddies.

Speaker 37 (34:13):
The November number you're saying, that the number I'm laughing
at that I'm saying.

Speaker 36 (34:17):
And people have to know the CPI does not include
property taxes in its measurement.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
There you go.

Speaker 37 (34:24):
So when you talk when you see that economic crunch,
and that is the story that again Ashley, going back
to the election, that is what we heard that voters said,
I am struggling financially. Economy number one before immigration and.

Speaker 10 (34:38):
Joe Biden kept saying everything's going well, the economy is
getting better, but they did not feel better.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
And this is a perfect example.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Yeah, it is. I'm trying to think how much I've
been trying to set aside about maybe two hundred dollars
a month extra in escrow or. I mean, if you
can afford to do that, that's a great thing to do.
If if you see that your property taxes are going up,
or you just had to resign a new insurance policy,
that's the better part. Twice as much is the last

(35:06):
one you signed. Best to you know, not wait for
the bank to tell you that they're going to collect
more money every month. Put some extra money into your
escor account to pay for that. Five fifty time for
traffic and weather. Together, we'll talk about Jimmy Carter by
the way, coming up next. We have Jeffrey Lord to
do that with us. But first we've got use GM I.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Let's leave some extra time for Jeffrey Lord.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Here, I do have a vehicle fire reported Highway seventy
five one oh five.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
Okay, that's conro. I see, that's gonna be Fraser Street
and quick deal. Here been from a Taska seated dude,
John Mike, Will Clayton.

Speaker 21 (35:38):
As soon as you turn right on Will Clayton to
go to the airport, there is a stall vehicle in
the center lane.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
There is no hazard lights on it, and with this bog,
people are gonna hit them again hotly.

Speaker 17 (35:51):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
All right, I'm putting that in your navigation right now
Will Clayton Parkway just off A sixty nine toward the
airport look out.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
That could get ugly. I'm Scotty Mike on a classic viewer.

Speaker 38 (36:00):
GMC Traffic Center from r KTRH Generators Supercenter twenty four
hour Weather Center. Areas of fog earlier, seeing that becoming
sunny today with the high temperature about eighty tomorrow, have
repeated the morning fog, than sonny and cooler sixty seven
New Year's Day, mainly sunny with the high sixty two
temperature right now still fifty eight. At your officials Severe
weathers Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out

(36:23):
some of our top trending stories on this December the thirtieth,
on a Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Here's clip. Thank you Jimmy. Former president Jimmy Carter passes away.
He was one hundred One person is killed in Saturday's
tornado outbreak, and according to new polling, Jimmy, you were
just talking about saving money. That's the top New Year's
resolution for twenty twenty five. Get the latest news anytime
at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at six o'clock.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
I live in Clearla.

Speaker 22 (36:50):
Humble, reliable KTRH traffic and weather next on the ten.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
So here's one of the better things about nineteen seven
tventy seven. That was the number one song for the
year the President. However, that wasn't one of the great things.
I've been trying all morning to think of positive things
about Jimmy Carter, and I'm glad I got Jeffrey Lord
to help me with that, because there's not a whole
lot to work with there.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Jeffrey No, I'll.

Speaker 9 (37:17):
Tell you, you know, good Lord, Jimmy Carter gets a
record here. The only president can pass away at one
hundred years old. He was quite the guy. Although I
have to say I remember I was involved with a
young staffer in the Pennsylvania four Dole campaign, which of

(37:38):
course was running against Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six,
and Jimmy Carter was quite the thing. It really became.
It reminded me, believe it or not, of the Beatles
when they arrived in America in nineteen sixty four and
everybody went crazy all of a sudden. Everybody was talking
about peanuts and how to clean a swamp, and you know,

(38:03):
he would do all these things that were incumbent upon
his job as a farmer and a peanut farmer and
all this sort of thing. Well, this became quite the
deal in the.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Day of the anti government candidate. That's how the whole
thing took off.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Right.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
We had a really bad feeling about the federal government.
We wanted an outsider to come in and fix it.

Speaker 16 (38:24):
Well, that's right.

Speaker 39 (38:25):
The deal was.

Speaker 9 (38:27):
This was the post Watergate era, and Watergate had been
a terrible experience for the country. People thought that Richard
Nixon had lied, and you know, it was scandalous and
cooked things going on government. And Jimmy Carter was seen
as the virtuous candidate, the honest guy, the outsider who

(38:47):
would clean up Washington, and that became a real strength
for him. And on the basis of that he won.
Then that's when the trouble began because after out, of course,
you've got to execute your policies, and he had problems.
He was a bit more conservative than a lot of Democrats,

(39:10):
and there were some Democrats were so upset that they
persuaded ted Kennedy to get a challenge him for renomination.
So Teddy announced in the fall of nineteen seventy nine,
and right around the time that hostages were taken in Irandom,
the American hostages from the US embassy in Tehran were taken. Well,

(39:35):
it was very difficult for Jimmy Carter, impossible, as it
turned out, for him to get the hostages released. Sadly
and tragically, on the day of the Wisconsin primary in
nineteen eighty he had authorized rescue mission to send in
the US military to rescue the hostages, and unfortunately they

(39:59):
crashed into the helicopters in the rescue mission crashed in
one another in the desert in Iran.

Speaker 17 (40:07):
Killed.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
I think I forgot how many Americans. It was a
total disaster. Well, what this did politically is it said
the image that he was helpless, that he wasn't up
to the task. And so by the time we got
to he did manage to defeat to Kennedy, but by
the time we got to the fall election with Ronald Reagan,

(40:28):
Raygan won with the forty four state landslides.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
So I remember, remember all the gas lines that we
had during the energy crisis. Now he did, I mean,
he did help come up with the Camp David Peace Accords,
which is I mean there's something.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
There was a big deal.

Speaker 9 (40:45):
I mean that still laughed. I mean, peace between Egypt
and Israel is still firmly in place all these decades later.
So and I remember I was young congressionally at the time.
I remember walking where it's I'd lived, not far from
the Capitol, and I thought, well, let me see what
I can see. So I walked over to the Capitol

(41:05):
and all of a sudden, this motor kid comes screaming by,
and I could see and wash it off. The President
of Egypt and Molochelm Bacon, the Prime Minister Rissard sitting
in the back seat of the limo as they were
whisked into the capital to I think they were going
to give a talk to Congress or whatever. But it

(41:25):
was pretty amazing thing that that was solely because of
Jimmy Carter. He had these two guys up at Camp
David and more or less said you're not leaving until
you settled it, and so they did.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
It worked.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Jeffrey Lord, we have to leave it at that for now,
but it's always fun to reminisce with you. I do
appreciate it. News Mexican tributor, Jeffrey Lord. It is five
fifty seven.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Is huge Radio rh Houston Live everywhere.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Now the latest news, weather, it's more, what matters to you.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
From the John Morris Services Studio.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Six oh one is O time, Houston's morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Southeast
Texas hit hard by a tornado outbreak. Former President Jimmy
Carter has died, and coming up at six o' eight,
they put Trump on their keep DZ trash free ads.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Warning News.

(42:25):
But first let's check out that drive again with guy Mike.
All right, east Freeway, Freeport. We had a wreck here.
My workwife, Christina Cruz, is doing TV. But she had
a center lane. Oh that was a stall.

Speaker 5 (42:34):
Okay, look out eastbound Uvalde And as I look up
at the shot looks like toe Trutt Ninjas have struck
Steve a task Asita.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
What's up guy? My biggerfuffle on the interchain from six
in to.

Speaker 21 (42:46):
I forty five south two car accident, one car in
the left lane.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
All right, let me put that in your navigation.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
What I'm showing is north loop westbound at the ramp
to forty five. Y'all correct me if I'm wrong out
there seven one to three two point two tips. We'll
revisit this at six ' ten and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders
twenty four hour Weather Center.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Areas of fog early than becoming sunny with the high
round eighty for today. We'll get you to the complete
forecast when we talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel.
Let's do that in eight minutes. Temp iture right now
fifty eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k t RH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Saunders, Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
Jimmy six oh two on KTRH sponsored by Isopharmic. Complete
coverage of Jimmy Carter's death is coming up. But first
we're learning more about the woman who died in one
of the tornadoes that hick Houston on Saturday, identified by
her family as Jamie Brown.

Speaker 6 (43:44):
I can't even put it into words, just how amazing
she was.

Speaker 17 (43:48):
Man, it's.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
You know, I look at everything and.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
This is Stuff's.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
The main thing I would love is just to be
able to huger.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
Her again, Brown's nephew with our TV partner Channel two.
Several other people were hurt in that tornado, one of
five that touchdown according to the National Weather Service. Two
of the five were EF three strength. One of them
struck Porter Heights in Montgomery County.

Speaker 7 (44:15):
We had fifteen individuals who were in They were trapped,
then we had got them all out, no injuries. Amazing.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Seven of them were in one vehicle that had.

Speaker 28 (44:24):
Apparently gone to look at a home to buy it,
and that home got hit while they were waiting in.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
The car County Judge Marko joins Jimmy at six point twenty.
A tornado that's strong can have wins of one hundred
and sixty five miles an hour. There was also an
EF three in Chambers County, and tornadoes in Dickinson and Bakeliff,
and an EF one in Katie.

Speaker 8 (44:46):
Just to give you an idea of the sheer strength
of Mother Nature. This stop sign was blown over and
actually cracked right down here at the base. You can
see was pushed over and just sheared off the base.
It's incredible the strength of this storm.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Data is reporter Gauge Golding right there. And the outbreak
has impacted flights in and out of our two airports,
both on Saturday and Sunday. This woman stuck for a
couple of days.

Speaker 10 (45:10):
See nonchalant attitude, and no one is willing to help.
We're fending for ourselves. There's no food, no water, and
just getting the run around. And the push around is
so not what we were expecting.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Directing her anger at United Airlines. More issues this morning
out of Bush fourteen delays and ten cancellations, seven delays
out of Hobby as we speak, six oh four now
on KTRH.

Speaker 40 (45:36):
If we all cooperate and make modest sacrifices, if we
learn to live tript toly and remember the importance of
helping our neighbors, and we can find ways to adjust.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
That was Jimmy Carter Smack in the middle of the
energy crisis of the nineteen seventies. He died yesterday at
the age of one hundred. Elected in nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 41 (45:57):
As if to demonstrate there was a new way of
doing things in Washington, he began his presidency on a
frigid January day in nineteen seventy seven, walking instead of
riding the length of Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to
the White House, the first president ever to do this.
Born in Plains, Georgia in nineteen twenty four to peanut

(46:18):
farming parents, Carter attended the Naval Academy, earning the rank
of lieutenant.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
That is Fox's Bret Baar. His presidency was marred by
double digit inflation, the Iranian hostage crisis, and boycotting the Olympics.
In nineteen eighty, in a tribute on truth social media,
President the Like Donald Trump said Carter quote did everything
in his power for the good of his fellow Americans.
President Joe Biden, in the meantime, used Carter's death to

(46:45):
attack Trump.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Can you imagine Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 13 (46:50):
Walking by someone he needs something to just keep walking.

Speaker 7 (46:53):
Can you imagine Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 13 (46:56):
Referring to someone by the way they look or the
way they.

Speaker 4 (46:59):
Talk Biden from his vacation spot on the Virgin Islands.
He ordered a state funeral, which reportedly will be taking
place on January ninth. The President also ordered flags for
the next thirty days to be ploan at half staff.
Other tributes coming in. Former President George W. Bush called
Carter a quote man of deeply held convictions. Governor Greg

(47:21):
Abbott put out a statement saying President Carter leaves behind
a great legacy as a husband, father, naval officer, governor,
and Nobel Prize winner six h six on KTRH, the
liberal Washington Post reports that President Biden wanted Attorney General
Mayor Garland to prosecute Donald Trump earlier and far more

(47:42):
aggressively than he wound up doing. That same report also
said Biden indicated he could have beaten Trump in the election.
There's more speculation that House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have
the votes to keep his job when Congress comes back
to work this week. There are Republicans angry over the
deal that Johnson made keep the government open. Texas Congressman
Brian Babben says Republicans don't need another civil war. Quite frankly,

(48:07):
I don't know what their plan B is who are
they going to run?

Speaker 24 (48:11):
It took us almost a month to get Mike Johnson
elected last year or earlier this year.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Any speaker fight, by the way, could delay certifying Trump's election.
If there's one thing the election proved, it's that Americans
support Trump's brand of politics, which is spreading to other
parts of the world.

Speaker 32 (48:29):
Turns out Europeans also want lower prices and less of
legal immigration.

Speaker 15 (48:33):
I think there really is a serious political movement behind
Trump that evolved over time. Now he is the local
leader of this.

Speaker 32 (48:41):
Political commentator Jeffrey Lord says that Trump's cabinet picks could
also help this populist movement grow.

Speaker 15 (48:46):
He picks them for a week because they are fundamentally
on board with him, and I think that it will
have an effect globally.

Speaker 32 (48:53):
Lord says he thinks the movement is going to be
able to make bigger changes both here and internationally than
it did even in twenty sixteen, Ethan Buchinnan News radio
seven forty KRH.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
And the Rockets lost to the Heat one oh four
to one hundred. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Whether
in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Used whether and traffic updates. It makes my day easier.
Remember the rule of three can make the day better.

Speaker 24 (49:18):
On Youth Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
That reminds me Tolas trash. I need to put the
can out tonight because it's nasty. I don't know what's
in there. Something left over from Christmas dinner I'm sure
is causing is causing a stink anyway. Uh, there's a
stink in Washington, DC right now because the district's Department
of Transportation evidently did a transit ad spotted near the

(49:45):
capitol that likened the Maga had to in people who
wear them to garbage. No, it does more than that.
It's not just somebody wearing a mega hat that looks
suspiciously like President Trump incoming President Trump. And what it
is is it's a side view of Trump wearing a
Maga hat what looks like a Maga hat, and it's

(50:06):
got you know, the circle of the line drawn through it,
and basically it says keep d C trash free. Somebody
in the city authorized this ad. Of course nobody, nobody
wants to own up to it, but somebody in the
in Washington d C authorized it, paid for it, and
had it done, they keep DC trash Free. At the

(50:29):
bottom of the ad includes the logo for the District
of Columbia Department of Public Works and the Mayor's Office
of the Clean City Program. So it shouldn't be that
hard to figure out who's responsible for that.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I guess they're scrabbling to get the ads down before
the inauguration day on January twentieth, six ' ten, time
for traffic and weather. Together, we're checking out the drive
again with sky Mike. The fog is what we're dealing
with this morning. Mike Man, that is a story.

Speaker 10 (50:56):
Now.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
I want everybody to be super duper careful on Will
Clayton Parkway.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
We got that report.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Earlier from been from a Taska see he found a
stall up there that was right off the East text
Freeway heading over for the airport.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
And while we're there, let's check uber Mike, dude, Hey,
it was.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
That kind of Mike to ask you that Will Clayton stall.

Speaker 21 (51:14):
Remember guys at FM nineteen sixteen to Lee.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Road five pasts all that and welcome.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Back, Mike, Oh, thank you so much. I feel refreshed.
Let's get I don't know what side of town we're
on here. Check it out, Hey guy, Mike, Crossby Freeway,
the Beltway.

Speaker 17 (51:28):
These visibility is very low.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Be very careful.

Speaker 5 (51:32):
I almost missed my exit.

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Oh I've done that justin from Crosby.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
That's a banana sticker for your hard hat. Seven one
three two one two tips. Let us know what you
can or can't see. Let me check my screen here
as my work wife, Christina Cruz, just put in Conrod
Highway seventy five.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
That's Frasier at one oh five, you got a vehicle
fire reported.

Speaker 5 (51:52):
We cleared the East Freeway. That was a stall at Uvalde,
so it's wide open. We can reset the jackpot there
and ten North. I'm still poking around for that wreck
of the squeeze at forty five. I believe Steve from
Burton Oah. I think that was Tie from Alvin that
gave me that. Let's check around your west side and
also your southwest free with the six twenty report, I'm

(52:13):
skylike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour with
its under Terry Smith is here. I guess when you're
gonna have a high temperature close to eighty degrees, and
this late in the year, you're bound to have some
extra moisture out there.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Aren't you.

Speaker 18 (52:27):
Yes, it is a rather muggy set up here, and
with the light winds and the high humidity, the fog
has formed and it is dense. We're seeing fog just
about everywhere across Southeast Texas. So if you are out
the door early this morning, no need to rush, get
to your destination safely. Good thing is the fog will

(52:48):
be fitting out by mid morning. And we've got a
sunny day today and a very warm day, and then
after that it gets cooler. It starts to feel like
it's December tomorrow today though, those temperatures for seventies to
low eighties tomorrow with the sunshine, midumber sixties and Wednesday,
the first day of the new year, a little bit cooler,

(53:08):
load ofvid sixties. Wednesday, dose of sobray, Thursday, Driday, Friday.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Right now, fifty eight A your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty krh USE traffic and Weather.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
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Speaker 3 (53:26):
I don't think it's any secret that Saturday was a
tough day. I mean, it really was weatherwise. I'm at home,
I'm on vacation, and I'm watching, you know, the television coverage,
and I'm watching that line of the first line of storms,
you know, where they had spotted a tornado and Katie
and you know, they had that triangle aimed right at

(53:49):
Spring the Woodlands in the southern half of Montgomery County,
Conroe in that area, and sure not, they came right
up there and goes all kinds of problems. We had
five confirmed tornadoes here in the Greater Houston area that
included Waller, Montgomery, Brazoria, Galveston, and Chambers Counties, all on Saturday,
in a relatively short period of time, according to the

(54:09):
National Weather Service, and some of them were quite big,
and some of them caused rather extensive damage. We're going
to check in with the folks in Montgomery County. Judge
Marko joins us next. But first, it's six twenty. Let's
do a traffic and weather together. Yep, you're right, Liberty took.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Let's go, you know what, Let's check the golf freeway quickly,
NASA one visibility still a thing all over town.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
So turn off this news twenty one minutes.

Speaker 5 (54:31):
Here I've got that rec reported on the North Loop
West found at forty five.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
Looks like they've ninjaed that already.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center.
We have areas of dent fog early becoming sunny today
with the high temperature about eighty morning fog, then sunning
and cooler tomorrow sixty seven New Year's Day Wednesday, mainly
sunshine with the high temperature of sixty two. Temperature currently
fifty eight at your official severe weather station. News Radio
seven forty KTRH strat out some of our top stories

(55:01):
on this Monday morning, one of the last days of
twenty twenty four.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Here's clip, Thank you, Jimmy. One person is unfortunately killed
in Saturday's tornado outbreak. Former President Jimmy Carter passes away.
Actress Linda Lavin, who played Alice in the popular TV
sitcom Alice from the seventies, she passed away as well.
She was eighty seven. Get the latest news anytime at
KTRH dot com. Our next update is at six thirty.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
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Speaker 3 (55:36):
It's so good. Six twenty one time here on Houston's
morning News. You have bad weather day on Saturday, and
so unusual to have that at the end of December,
but you know, it's been unusually warm, and those storms
kicked in and once they started forming, they caused problems
for several hours. Joining us to talk about Montgomery County,

(55:56):
Judge Mark Keel, I know the Conro area, that area
kind of between ron Roe and the Harris County line
was particularly hard hit.

Speaker 7 (56:03):
Judge, Well, you know it was, but more so over
towards the East County Porter Heights over in.

Speaker 39 (56:10):
That area to the two forty two and thirteen fourteen area.
But I got to tell you they did get hit hard.
It was an EF three. I don't know if you know.

Speaker 7 (56:21):
This, but that categorizes that that is a severe damage
to devastating damage one hundred and thirty six one hundred.

Speaker 39 (56:28):
And sixty five mile prior winds.

Speaker 7 (56:30):
It was amazing when we got there, it was chaos.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
I guess the good news about tornadoes is they generally
don't last long. The bad news about tornadoes is that
you don't get a whole lot of warning, do you.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
No, you don't.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
And as a matter of fact, this particular one, it
came we went out there on the just as it
had come and had done the devastation.

Speaker 39 (56:50):
Then all of a sudden, the sun comes out.

Speaker 7 (56:51):
It was amazing, and then right behind that came hail
and more storm, and so you know, there was a
there was some serious damage out there.

Speaker 39 (57:00):
It was three hundred and two homes that were damaged.

Speaker 7 (57:03):
Of that, thirty were absolutely destroyed, forty seven had major damage,
then the rest from minor and cosmetic damage. Had fifteen
people that were trapped, but somehow they were the first
responders for they were able to get them out and nobody.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
We had no fatalities.

Speaker 7 (57:22):
We did have some people that had injuries, minor injuries
taken to the hospital. But I have to tell you, you know,
we really did dodge a bullet on this one. The
Lord was watching out for us, and although it was
pretty devastating to the actual structures, the people came out
good on this deal.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Yeah, you're right about that, because you know, there's not
a lot of places to run and hide when the
tornado hits in Texas, most of us don't have a
basement to go to. We just have to head towards
the interior of the home, so there's no place to
get below ground in order to try to protect yourself
and your family.

Speaker 7 (57:53):
That's right, That's exactly right, you know, we we are.
We have an EESD one fifty four out in that area,
and they had farmen were in the building and all
of a sudden, just out of nowhere, that that building
got hit and did a lot of damage to it,
and so they're putting it back together.

Speaker 39 (58:11):
But I got to tell you it was it happened
so fast. It just came out of nowhere.

Speaker 7 (58:16):
And we knew there was.

Speaker 39 (58:18):
Going to be storms. We expected it.

Speaker 7 (58:19):
I gave plenty of warning on my Facebook, my County
Marquillo County Judge Facebook page.

Speaker 39 (58:26):
But then all of a sudden, it really did happen.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
It materialized.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
So sounds like you had a lot of homes of
residences that were damaged. There were there any businesses that
got damaged or any other public buildings like schools, Yes.

Speaker 7 (58:38):
Yes, no schools to the best of my knowledge. Texas
Department of Emergency Management along with my emergency management team,
are still doing damage assessments. But this is where we're
at today and we pretty much got it under control,
I believe. And we also we have a shelter that's
been set up in splendor for anybody that has the need.

Speaker 39 (59:00):
But I have to tell you there hasn't been much
response to that.

Speaker 7 (59:02):
We let We've let that be very well known and
people are dependent on out there that are depending on
their families and I guess local hotels and that sort of.

Speaker 39 (59:11):
Thing, but we've made things available to them.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
So so is there any I think I'm gonna say,
is there any state an se that also kicks in
Judge Keo as far as you know, is their response
to what happens during a storm like this.

Speaker 7 (59:24):
Yes, the Texas for Emergency Management there there are awesome
teetom uh. They have people on the scene very quickly
to help with us.

Speaker 39 (59:34):
We have all of course, we had so many of
our own people out there.

Speaker 7 (59:38):
We had all the constables and and and the fire
departments and the all the eesd's emergency services divisions. I
have to tell you though, the way that everybody came
together on this was pretty remarkable. We had people and
first responders that came from spring. There was nothing hit
in the woodlands, and the woodlands were out there. The

(59:58):
people from Willis from all over the county. They converge
it on this to help in any way that they could.

Speaker 39 (01:00:03):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
I do want to say though, that it's important for
people though, as we're doing these claims we have I
have signed a disaster declaration, but we have to meet
the thresholds and this helps the county and the state
justify our claim to the federal government. So people are
going to have to help us by utilizing the self

(01:00:24):
reporting damage assessment and they can get that on a
link to our system is on the Office of Emergency
Management social media or a web page or the county
judge page and social media. So if they would do
that and do the self assessment, that would be huge.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
Yeah, even if you just had a fence blowdown, it
all adds up, doesn't it.

Speaker 39 (01:00:43):
It sure does.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Yeah, absolutely all right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Glad to hear that no lives were lost to Montgomery
County Judge and the neighbors are doing what they do
best here in Texas at neighbors helping neighbors.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
That's right.

Speaker 39 (01:00:53):
Wellisten, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Follow me again.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
We'll do Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Judge Mark ke
oh and Montgomery County. It's six twenty seven.

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Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Six thirty is our time. You're in Houston's borning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of one hundred.
Saturday storms inflicted a lot of damage to the Houston area.
And coming up at six thirty eight, who has the
highest GDP in Texas? It's Harris County. Details in the
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's borning News. First, let's take

(01:01:41):
out that morning drive. Can you even see the canyon
this morning? Stem On, I don't know. Let's ask Cindy
from Dayton.

Speaker 21 (01:01:47):
Before you get into the canyon, it is so bad
you can't see.

Speaker 29 (01:01:51):
And then whenever you come out there, it is saltar
left hand lane.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
Uh huh, Transtar found that this is the Southwest Freeway
outbound Buffalo Speedway. I think they're just about to ninja
this inbound. We're thick and foggy, but we're still moving well.
From the Brass River Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center,
areas of pache fog or dense fog in some cases
early today than becoming sunny with the high temperature right
about eighty. You'll get the complete forecast with Jerry Smith
of the Weather Channel in nine minutes. Temperature stuck right
now fifty eight at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
It's time now for the news. Here's Cluff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy.
Good morning everybody. Six thirty one on KTRH. Top story
we clean up from Saturday's tornadoes. More on that coming up,
but first.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
Hi, Jimmy Carter to sell him.

Speaker 4 (01:02:43):
This where Jimmy Carter at his inauguration in nineteen seventy seven.
The thirty ninth President of the United States, died yesterday
at the age of one hundred.

Speaker 42 (01:02:53):
James Earl Carter Junior served one term as president, leading
the USS the Cold War with Russia raged and brokering
a monumental peace between Israel and Egypt. He lost reelection
in nineteen eighty but became one of the most significant
former presidents in history, overseeing free and fair elections abroad
and building homes across America for those in need. Health

(01:03:16):
issues into his nineties led to his decision in February
twenty twenty three to receive hospice care at home in Plains, Georgia.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
That is Fox's Gernald Scott, and reaction continues to come in.
Political analyst Rick Hume says that while Carter broker peace
between Israel and Egypt, other foreign policy decisions were disastrous.

Speaker 26 (01:03:36):
He also had a lot of trouble overseas. The Iran
hostage crisis, as has been mentioned, was a part of that.
He was never able to get the hostages released, and
finally they were on the day that Ronald Regular was
inaugurated four.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
Hundred and forty four days later. Carter also boycotted the
nineteen eighty Olympics in Moscow because of the Soviet Union's
invasion of Afghanistan. Texas editor John Corny, in a statement
on social media said that Carter's quote legacy will remain
a cherished part of our great American story, while Senator
Ted Cruz posted that Carter's quote decades long dedication to

(01:04:11):
building homes for those in need was truly remarkable. Among
the others paying tribute one of his former Secret Service agents.

Speaker 43 (01:04:19):
I learned more about peanut farming that I ever thought
I would know about, learned a lot about growing up
in the Depression era, his time in the Navy.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
So it's just just a very special time.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
He really was living history.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
Nick Stein on Fox It's six point thirty three on
KTRH Here at home. The National Weather Services five tornadoes
touched down across the Houston area on Saturday, one of
them in the EF one in Katie.

Speaker 43 (01:04:44):
They endured probably any mount and I mount hour straight
land wins and which you can say, this is a community,
a manufactured home community. You can look around, you can
see approximately twenty trailer homes will have sustained moderate and
severe damage.

Speaker 4 (01:04:58):
Brian Cantrell with the Waller County Office of Emergency Management
with our TV partner Channel two. One person was killed
in the EF two that hit Brazoria County that woman
identified as Jamie Brown.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Been on a roller coaster with no seatbelts. It just
clows you up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
You go up with it, you go down, you fly,
you fly up with earning candy. Four other people were
injured in that particular tornado. There were two EF threes
in our area as well, one in Montgomery County.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
It was horrible.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
In seconds and seconds, it just happened.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
In second there was another EF three in Chambers County.
Remember tornados that strong could have wins as high as
one hundred and sixty five miles an hour. More on
that coming up at seven o'clock six point thirty five
now on KGRH And in Washington, there's a divide inside
MAGA over H one B visas. Elon Musk leading the.

Speaker 44 (01:05:52):
Charge in defense of those visas, using some strong language
online and even writing at one point quote the reason
I'm in a America along with so many critical people
who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that
made America strong, is because of H one B. Take
a big step back and blank yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
I will go to war on this issue now.

Speaker 44 (01:06:15):
President elect Trump weighed in on the topic, essentially settling
the matter, telling the New York Post he's in favor
of the h ONEB visas.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
That is Fox's Matt Finn reporting. Now, Musk and Doge
could end up being a bipartisan effort after multiple different Democrats,
including Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, have come out in support
of the departments.

Speaker 33 (01:06:38):
Democrat cooperation with those could lead to the reduction in
our deficit. Hopefully we balance the budget so there isn't
a deficit, and hopefully we stop the ballooning of our
national debt.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Conservative commentator and activist Christian Collins says the fact that
Democrats are willing to cooperate on this is a good
sign for Trump's cabinet nominees Here at home. If you
believe the Houston Chronicle, Texas is losing clout in Congress.
But guess what, that's not true.

Speaker 45 (01:07:08):
Based on Cheer Saws alone, Texas will always wield power.

Speaker 16 (01:07:12):
With such a well diversified economy that Texas will always
have a sizeable influence irrespective of losing a chairmanship here.

Speaker 45 (01:07:19):
Or there Republican National Committee than doctor Robin Armstrong says,
Texas is putting in more true Republicans and there's more
influential growth potential as companies flee Blue States.

Speaker 16 (01:07:29):
I think there's a lot of industries moving here that
is going to make us a strong economic power and
therefore going to give us more and more political influence.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
He says.

Speaker 45 (01:07:37):
We're also putting in younger lawmakers, which will bolster the
power more. Andre Berrard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
Coming up on six thirty seven, the Texas Longhorns take
on Arizona State in the quarterfinals of the college football
playoffs Wednesday at the Peach Bowl. That game will be
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Pre game is at one,
kickoff at two thirty and in ball action this week,
and the Aggies lost to USC in the Las Vegas
Bowl thirty five to thirty one. Texas Tech is beaten

(01:08:06):
by Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl thirty nine to twenty six.
TCU did beat Louisiana in the New Mexico Bowl thirty
four to three. And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news,
weather and Traffic station k TRH.

Speaker 14 (01:08:20):
I usually take iten West, but lately that's been a nightmare.

Speaker 38 (01:08:24):
KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the ten. If you
don't were getting ready to go into twenty twenty five.
These figures are from twenty twenty three, but these are
government figures, so you know they're not quick turnaround at
the federal level. But according to this government data, at

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least for twenty twenty three, Harris County, Texas, had the
highest real GDP of any county in the state. Harris
County was number one in the entire state of Texas.
The county's real GDP was nearly four hundred and thirty billion,
which is about one hundred and twenty five billion more
than second place Dallas County. Wow, that's amazing. Montgomery County

(01:09:11):
and Fort ben County also routed out the top ten,
while Brazoria County in Galveston County gave the Houston metro
area five spots among the top twenty Texas counties engrossed
domestic product. Nationally, only Los Angeles County in California and
New York County in New York had higher GDPs than
Harris County, so we were third in the entire country.

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Harris County itself is also greater than the majority of
the fifty states. Now think about that for a second.
We have a higher GDP just in Harris County, Texas
than the majority of states in the country has. That's
pretty amazing. Now, I'm not sure what all gets included

(01:09:55):
in GDP when it comes to county, but it tells
you that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
The sky's really I think, kind of the limit, depending
upon what's going on politically. Even though even though politically
I think Harris County has some issues, has some problems,
there's still plenty of companies who see this as a
high growth area and Texas in general is the place
to be. You know, Blue cities have not prevented companies

(01:10:23):
from moving here and have not prevented people from moving here.
We continue, we continue to grow. How many borris do
We have? Like over half a million new residents I
think in the last year. And again those figures from
twenty twenty three. We'll see what the twenty twenty four
has to say, but I guess we'll probably knowing the
government have to wait another the year to find that
information of six forty Time for traffic and weather together,
as we check in again with sky Mike east.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
Text Freeway I sixty nine north Lookout Greens Road southbound.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Here's the deal. I can barely see this thing. It's
so crazy foggy.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
But one two call that three left lanes and the
backup looks to be willy c.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
I don't believe that. Let me double check that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
No backup's almost nineteen sixty southbound, so if you could
do the hardy big shots forty five. Actually North Freeway
is showing me no problems.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:07):
Visibility is a thing all over town.

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
Big Phil New candies on your tip line seven one
three two one two t Ipsky.

Speaker 21 (01:11:14):
Mike Belait eight more cento fort drove right out of
the fall.

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
No fog here, that's weird. That's the second report I've
heard that the terry.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
As you go up, they're saying that people on the
top of the bridges can see. So I guess that
fog is hanging down here, low Junior Dayton, what's that, maight?

Speaker 26 (01:11:30):
The only Claire's Mont went out.

Speaker 41 (01:11:31):
Fog is at the bridge, so you get a nice
view of the plan other than that joing the suit.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
All right, that's one forty six the Hartman Bridge, and
we've had a grand march at our wedding, Mike Magnolia.

Speaker 33 (01:11:43):
Only Claire's Mont went.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
Out, Junior, repeating yourself Mike Magnolia.

Speaker 21 (01:11:48):
Ninety nine to the west. South is not too bad
with the fall, but people still need to take it easy.
And hey, don't forget, we would have never had Billy
beer if it wasn't for Jimmy being president and then
the brother.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
You guys remember Billy Carter. Oh yeah, Terry, do you
remember Billy Are? Yeah, I'm sure you never drank any
Billy beer.

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
I'm in the I mean, there's the first time for
everything classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
That boy can get into trouble from our KTRH Generators
super Center twenty four hour whether Center. Terry Smith is
here where they want to have pea soup or how
about a little let's break it up with some bean
with bacon soup. There you go, all the thick soups,
we're getting them all today.

Speaker 18 (01:12:28):
We really are visibility quite low most places, around a
quarter of a mile or even less. The fog wide
spread across southeast Texas. It'll start to improve though by
mid morning, and we actually have a sunny day ahead
and a very warm day ahead as well. Upper seventies

(01:12:48):
to low eighties on this almost last day of December.
Blowing my mind. But here comes the cold front with
some cooler temperatures, so it feels like December. You'll notice
it tomorrow, Sunny Day. Tomorrow, heis in the mid upper sixties.
And then for the first day of the new year,
load of mid sixties. We do have some rain, a
forty percent chance of some showers Thursday. Friday's a dry day.

(01:13:12):
Expect temperatures to basically stay in the sixties through Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Right down fifty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 16 (01:13:23):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
COVID update six forty eight is our time here on
Houston's worting News. This is a This is proof that
COVID is the gift that keeps on giving. Have you
heard about this yet? The Biden Internal Revenue Service sending
out two point four billion dollars of COVID relief money
that hadn't been spent yet, and they're just because they

(01:13:47):
don't think there's enough time left in their administration for
you to officially ask for it. They're just going to
send it to people they think should get more COVID money.
Whoever those people may be, so get ready for some
of you will be getting a COVID check, which, of
course you will have to claim on your taxes, probably

(01:14:08):
next year, because you probably won't get it in time
before this year runs out. What in the hell two
point four billion dollars for? What do we need for
COVID relief?

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
Now we don't.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
The point is this is money that they would never
consider saving or giving back to the taxpayers. This is
just money that they've got that they set aside, and
they are, by golly, they're going to suspend it. Here's
North Dakota Senator Kramer, Kevin Kramer talking about it.

Speaker 35 (01:14:40):
Yeah, I guess they didn't get the whole inflation is
a bad thing a memo, David, and we're responsible for it.
They seem to have missed that one as well. It's
really quite ludicrous because to think that one million people
who didn't ask for the money, didn't apply for it
when it was, you know, supposedly available in twenty two
twenty one tax returns, that now somehow they're just going

(01:15:03):
to force it on them, and who knows for sure
if it's even true. Who knows, but by true, I
mean who knows if it's if they're even eligible or
if they're really supposed to get in it, or if
this is just some sort of last minute stunt to
drive up inflation as Donald Trump comes in to the
White House. I don't know, but it's one of the
crazier things. And just imagine this is with eighty seven
thousand new IRS employees, that they that the first fuel

(01:15:28):
on the fire of inflation and the American Rescue Plan
created so they could go after more tax payers. I mean,
it's it's why we're where we are, and it's why
Donald Trump's going to be president soon. Well, and I
think that's part of what's at stake, David is I
don't know how much there is. I don't think anybody
knows exactly how much there is, but a lot of
what is left is what they're trying to get rid

(01:15:49):
of quickly so that it doesn't become, oh, say, a
pay for for some tax cuts or pay for for
some regulatory you know, cuts in various agencies. There are
just all kinds of ways better ways to utilize any
leftover COD money than just to simply give it back,
give it to people and drive up inflation. So no,

(01:16:11):
I don't know, but I would hope that's one of
the things that the Dose Committee gets after and that
Congress itself gets after well.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
And maybe that's why even some Democrats are starting to
think the dose is a good idea of six fifty
one time for traffic and weather together. It's checking again
a skymine, all right, let.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
Me get this Southwest Freeway Buffalo Speedway stall off your
in car navigation.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
It'll show up for a couple of minutes, and let
me get that out of there.

Speaker 5 (01:16:33):
East text southbound at Greens I can barely see this
record's taking up three left lanes. It doesn't look good though,
backed up from nineteen sixty. If you're a big shot,
jump on the hardy forty five North is actually moving
fairly well. And of course visibility is the thing, so
get an early start. Skymike on the classic butth.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
GMC Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator super Center twenty
four hour Weather Center. Areas of fog dense fog early today,
becoming sunny with a high temperature near ety morning fogg
than sunny with a hive sixty seven. Tomorrow New Year's
Day mainly sunny and cooler with a high sixty two
temperature fifty nine at your officials. Severe weather station News
Radio seven forty k TRH. Check out some of our

(01:17:13):
top trending stories on this Monday morning. Here's clip Thank
You Jimmy.

Speaker 4 (01:17:16):
Former President Jimmy Carter passes away after nearly two years
in hospice care. Saturday's tornado outbreak kills one and injurests
several others, and a couple of hours ago this happened.
President Joe Biden announces another two point five million dollars
in eight for Ukraine. Get the latest news anytime at
KTRH dot com. Our next updates at seven o'clock. I

(01:17:39):
live in Katie, I live in Itito.

Speaker 38 (01:17:41):
Your reliable forecast. Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH. Yeah,
well that's not the kind of tornadoes that we had
on Saturday. It was a mess all over the Greater
Houston area. Here's a little round robin report from KHOU
eleven on the torn.

Speaker 46 (01:18:00):
One adult has been confirmed dead and four others hurt.
But I'm told those four people are expected to be okay.
This is what we're seeing in places all across Brazoria County,
including the Alvin and Hillcrest areas, Just mangled messes of
wood and metal. This is a fifth wheel and you
can see all of this wood and metal and the
wiring that is out here. We're told that the winds,

(01:18:24):
the strong winds are ripped it apart and scattered debris
from it all across this area, including this here on
the ground, which is actually side one of the sides
of that fifth wheel. Now, the owner of the fifth wheel,
Anna Peterson, was out here for most of the afternoon
trying to clean up the damage. She tells us the
vehicle was securely hooked into the ground, but again the

(01:18:46):
strong winds tore it from her front yard and brought
it all the way to the property next door. The
material of the fifth wheel and all the furniture and
belongings inside are strewn across the grass. Peterson describes the
terrifying moment when the form ripped through this area.

Speaker 4 (01:19:02):
I third the back door blew oakvision.

Speaker 47 (01:19:05):
I told my husband run and we gave him a
closet with our puppies and we got do you bring
Minutes later it was over and then we can't walk
in the front door to see and.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
Begs all wrong.

Speaker 46 (01:19:20):
Yeah, just a scary situation for that family. Residents in
another neighborhood near Main Street also saw quite.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
A bit of damage.

Speaker 46 (01:19:27):
The roof of a home got ripped off and part
of it landed several yards down the road. Neighbors we
spoke to say thankfully no one was inside that home
when this happened. People out here, as well as Brazoria
County officials, tell us that having a tornado touchdown this
time of year and this area is very uncommon. Now,
the next step is to clean up all of this

(01:19:49):
debris and to restore power to the impacted areas. Now,
we want to go to our Troy Kless, who is
covering the damage in Montgomery County.

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
Troy, what do you see up there?

Speaker 48 (01:20:01):
Well, workover, We're seeing what is likely the result of
damage from some very high winds here in Montgomery County.
We're off the area of FM thirteen fourteen in Old
Houston Roads. So if you take a look behind me,
you can see this neighborhood is currently in the dark,
but you might be able to see what is this
misshapen building that was just pushed over by some of

(01:20:24):
the strong wind over and you can take a look
over to the left, you can see that the property
owners here are cleaning up in the dark. In fact,
there was a two story home there where that vehicle
was working, but that even collapsed. Now, I do want
to remind you we are in the dark because there
are some down power lines, but there were some even

(01:20:44):
some strong wind across the street here at home where
I'm told that the wind had caught part of the
roof and lifted it off.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
Yeah, lots of damage. We had Mark Keo Judge Keo
on from Montgomery County last hour. We're actually earlier this hour,
about a little over half an hour ago. You can
hear that interview with KTRH dot com on our podcast page.
He was kind of filling us in on all the
damage there. We will visit with the mayor of Manville,

(01:21:14):
Dan Davis. They had lots of damage in Alvin and
Hillcrest as you heard in Brassooria County. Will kind of
do a dut check and see how they're doing in
Manfilm when we talked to him in about twenty minutes.
It's six fifty seven.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
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Speaker 17 (01:21:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
The latest news, weather and traffa. It's more of what
matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios seven
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I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour.
Southeast Texas hit hard by a tornado outbreak. Former President
Jimmy Carter has died, and coming up at seven o
eight tomorrow night will be a bad night be a

(01:21:58):
dog in Houston. Details and the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Morning News. First, let's check out that morning drive.
Cats aren't gonna like it much either. This guy, mate, Oh,
I know why.

Speaker 5 (01:22:07):
Okay, let's do the East Tech southbound queer the accident
at Greens. It looks like the suckage is actually clearing
up pretty quickly. But from will Clayton Parkway, you're about
to hit a wall of breaks.

Speaker 4 (01:22:19):
Charles from Rosenberg, Dude, Hey.

Speaker 39 (01:22:20):
Skoy, Mike fifty nine sal at seven sixty two, the
fog gets.

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
Really really really fit Boom.

Speaker 9 (01:22:27):
Thanks for all the hard work, and we really appreciate
what I.

Speaker 5 (01:22:30):
Really appreciate our tip liner seven one three two one
two tips. Let's check your ship channel bridges at the
seven to ten break and the Generator Supercenter dot Com
traffic Center from r KTRH Top tax Defenders twenty four
hour Weather Center Areas of dense fog early becoming sunny
today with the high temperature right about eighty more fog
in our future for tomorrow, and much cooler temperatures as

(01:22:52):
we ring in the new year.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
We'll talk to Terry Smith about all that when we
talked to her in nine minutes. Temperature right now still
fifty nine at your officials Severe Weather Station News Radio
seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 4 (01:23:06):
He thank you. Jimmy. It's coming up on seven oh two.
We're sponsored by Okarva's financial group. The death of Jimmy
Carter is coming up. At first, We've got to clean
up in the aftermath of Saturday's tornadoes.

Speaker 6 (01:23:18):
She was just the best man. She was loving, caring,
giving we I'm gonna give you this shirt off her back.

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
That man talking to our TV partner Channel two. The
woman killed in Brazoria County and that twister on Saturday
is identified as Jamie Brown. Several other people were hurt
in that tornado. Now, the National Weather Service confirmed six tornadoes.
The strongest was an e F three that hit the
Porter Heights area in Montgomery County and there was almost

(01:23:47):
no warning.

Speaker 7 (01:23:48):
As a matter of fact, this particular one, it came.
We went out there on the just as it had
come and had done the devastation. Then all of a sudden,
the sun comes out. It was amazing.

Speaker 39 (01:23:59):
And then right behind that came Hale and more.

Speaker 4 (01:24:02):
So on Montgomery County Judge of Marquio with Jimmy on
Houston's Morning News. A tornado that strong could have winds
of up to one hundred and sixty five miles an hour. Now,
there was also an EF three in Chambers County. We
had twisters in Dickinson Bayleaf and an EF one in Katie.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
Nobody was injured.

Speaker 8 (01:24:21):
You look at this and it is absolutely miraculous that
nobody was hurt here.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Reporter Gage Golding there. Acting Texas Governor Dan Patrick responds,
saying in a statement that Texas agencies are quote working
hard to help their fellow Texans and have begun to
assess the damage. Patrick also told residents who suffered damage
to report it to the State Division of Emergency Management.
The weather impacting holiday travel out of Bush and Hobby

(01:24:48):
on Saturday and Sunday, with hundreds of flights either canceled
or delayed. With passengers angry implement weather.

Speaker 10 (01:24:56):
It's not new to Houston, so I'm really surprised and
kind of all at the management so United as well
as airport management.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
And as we look at flataware dot com this morning,
it's telling us that delays out of Bush we have
got about fifteen of them. There have been ten cancelations.
All United Airlines flights at Hobby we have ten delays
and most of those are Southwest flights. This morning now
seven oh four on KGRH.

Speaker 11 (01:25:25):
We can say this crisis in the growing doubt about
the meaning of our own lives and in the loss
of a unity of purpose.

Speaker 4 (01:25:33):
Former President former President Jimmy Carter, who presided over the
energy crisis of the nineteen seventies, dies at the age
of one hundred.

Speaker 12 (01:25:41):
Is presidency marked by high inflation and an energy crisis
when fifty three Americans were held hostage in Iran for
more than a year. Of failed rescue mission that killed
eight led to an election loss to Ronald Reagan. It
was in his post presidential years that his reputation grew
as he devoted himself to such causes as human rights

(01:26:02):
and habitat for humanity.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Foxes Greg Jarrett, reporting Carter had been in hospice for
more than a year and dies thirteen months after the
death of his wife, Rosalind. President elect Donald Trump reacting
on social media, saying that quote, the challenges Carter faced
as president came at a pivotal time for the country,
and he did everything in his power for the good
of his fellow Americans. President Joe Biden did address the

(01:26:28):
nation hours after the death was announced by the Carter
Center and took a shot at Donald Trump.

Speaker 39 (01:26:38):
President Carter.

Speaker 13 (01:26:43):
Decucy, decency. Everybody deserves a shot.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
Everybody, Biden, speaking from the Virgin Islands on vacation. The
President did order a state funeral, which will reportedly take
place on January ninth. Bien also ordered flanks to be
flown at half staff for ninety days. Former President George W.
Bush put out a statement saying that James Earl Carter,
Junior was a man of deeply held convictions. He was

(01:27:12):
loyal to his family, his community, and his country. And
Governor Greg Abbott also put out a statement last night saying, quote,
Cecilia and I mourn the loss of former President Jimmy
Carter alongside millions of Americans. Across the country. Seven h
six bombshell reporting from the liberal Washington Post this weekend,

(01:27:33):
Joe Biden wanted the DOJ to go after Donald Trump
earlier and more aggressive than it actually did. The report
also says Biden thinks he should have stayed in the
election and that he could have beaten Trump if he
hadn't dropped out. Congress returns to work later this week,
and there is concern that there will be a long
fight over the speakership, with Mike Johnson uncertain to retain

(01:27:56):
the role.

Speaker 14 (01:27:57):
Frustration is growing amongst some Republicans. House Speaker My Johnson's
allies say a messy speaker's fight is the last thing
they want as Republicans enter the next year with full
control of Congress. They say they've got a long to
do list, from addressing the border to extending Trump's tax cuts,
but the House can move forward with any of those
priorities if they don't have a speaker, and the fight

(01:28:17):
over the gavel will serve as the first test over
how the House dope will navigate a slim majority.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Fox's Madeline Rivera. There's also concern that a speaker fight
will delay certifying Trump's reelection. His brand of politics didn't
just win big here in one big in Europe too.

Speaker 15 (01:28:34):
These elites are all hanging out together, whether you're French
or German or what have you.

Speaker 9 (01:28:40):
People don't take.

Speaker 17 (01:28:41):
Well to that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
Political analyst Jeffrey Lord seven oh seven. Finally, the Rockets
lose to Miami at Toyota Center last night. The final
was one O four to one hundred. And I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's News weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
In four for today's world, for tomorrow America and connected.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
To Houston Now.

Speaker 42 (01:29:03):
I can stay in the now.

Speaker 38 (01:29:04):
Use radio seven k t rh oh boy fireworks time
seven oh eight or third time here on Houston's part News.

Speaker 3 (01:29:14):
I mentioned this every year, and every year I get
grief from Proud Sex and to say, there's just Texas.
We shoot off fireworks, that's what we do. You don't
like fireworks, you need to go somewhere else. I have
no problem with your fireworks, sir, none whatsoever. It's my
dog who has a fireworks issue. And I just I
just put it out there from a neighborly. Can we

(01:29:35):
all just kind of be you know, can we all
just kind of can't we all just get along and
ask that if you are going to do fireworks, first
of all, please know what you're doing. I had a
neighbor one year who said his house on fire. They
cured him for the fireworks thing, but please be careful.

(01:29:57):
Please do not shoot them off in a densely populated
or residential areas where you've got houses right next to
each other. Because you know you land burning fireworks on
somebody else's roof, you might burn their house down, and
that you try to do it within some hours of limitation.

(01:30:19):
In other words, you know, I understand you want to
bring in the new year, right, so midnight is not
unreasonable on New Year's Eve. I guess it is for
me because I gave up welcoming in the new year
a long long time ago. But I'll let this. I'll
let it slide. It's New Year's Eve, but let's not
be doing it at two, three four in the morning.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
There are only certain periods of time where you can
legally buy fireworks. The period known for New Year's Eve
is December twentieth midnight till January the first. So you know,
if you're going to buy fireworks, you're down to your
last couple of days in order to get them. You Also,
I didn't realize this because we don't we are within
one hundred miles of the Mexican border. But if you

(01:31:03):
live within one hundred miles of the Mexican border, you're
allowed to buy fireworks made first to May fifth for
sinko demayo.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
I didn't realize that. Seven to ten for traffic and
weather together, and horses and cows too. Yeah, they don't
much care for.

Speaker 4 (01:31:16):
Me either, do they know. I'm it's getting out of hand.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
I'm just saying maybe we should do you know how
much horses cost and you risk getting a horse hurt.
Let's do I mean I love fireworks too, Don't get
me wrong. I love blowing up fireworks. But we got
to do something here East Tech southbound, we cleared Greens Road.
Let me check the suckage here southbound right after will
Clayton Parkway. You hit some brakes, terry, otherwise you're kind
of have a big shot jump on the hardy toll road. Commoners,

(01:31:42):
let's do the forty five North Freeway. Of course, the
big story this morning all over town. Oh, thank you
Captain Jack and forty five North Spring down nineteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
It's crazy two nineties actually moving well too.

Speaker 5 (01:31:56):
We're going from Grand Parkway twenty two minutes into the
west Lip six ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
You look good.

Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
We're talking twenty twenty four minutes now from Park Row.
I make that Grand Parkway into the President's Heads ninety
Crosby Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:32:09):
I got Rick from the east side.

Speaker 21 (01:32:10):
Good morning, sky mine. Dude headed westbound on it now
and the fog seems to be lifting up.

Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
All right. We're getting a lot better on some parts
of town.

Speaker 5 (01:32:19):
And the weirdest thing, Terry, I'm getting people telling me
that when they get up on the bridges like the
East Sam because I could swear it looks clear at
the top of the bridge, but then the fog is
down low.

Speaker 4 (01:32:29):
The same thing's going on in the Hertmon Bridge. I
will leave it to you here. I'm Skymike on the
Classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:32:36):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
senat Terry Smith is here. You want to explain that
why would the top of the bridge be clear in
the bottom of the bridge have all the fog?

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
Is it got something to do? With the water.

Speaker 18 (01:32:45):
Well, it could do with a number of things. Part
of it has to do with how high up the
bridges are. Yeah, these guys are high. Yes, okay, Yeah, See,
the fog settles to the ground. Fog is the easiest
way to explaining fog, as it's a cloud that has
reached the ground, that's sitting on the ground. But it

(01:33:05):
depends on how gusty the winds are. Usually the winds
are very calm near the surface. They may be blowing
just a little bit higher up.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
It has to do with the humidity.

Speaker 18 (01:33:18):
Again, cool dense air likes to sink, and so the
temperature tends to be cooler close to the ground. So
there's a number of factors that we contribute to it.
Very interesting, and that's one of the problems with fog
is that you could be driving along and the visibility's fine,
and then all of a sudden, the visibility changes, not
only drastically but much you know, less visibility, and you

(01:33:42):
might run into a neighbor quite by accident. So yeah,
be careful out there, folks. The dense fog advisory until
mid morning. We should start to see some improvement as
the winds begin to pick up. It's going to be
a sunny, warm day upper seventies to low eighties today,
call front though sneaks into town Tonight. Tomorrow we're sunny
and dry, but cooler in the mid upper sixties, load

(01:34:04):
to mid sixties on the first day of the new year.
Chance of rain Thursday and a dry day Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Okay, so this recap what we've learned. A cloud fog
is nothing more than the cloud that has fallen down
and it can't get up. Okay, eighties life alert or
something now. Temperature jemperature right now is fifty nine at
your officials severe weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you byen New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barrits had the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need to take
on the day.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
You know, there was not a lot of things to
like about the about the nineteen seventies, in particular the
mid nineteen seventies. The cars were ugly, the clothes were ugly,
the hair was ugly, the presidency was ugly. But it
chanced to reminisce at least a little bit this morning
because Jimmy Carter's passed to the age of one hundred.

(01:35:01):
He died over the weekend, and we'll reminisce a little
bit about that experience with doctor Robin Armstrong coming up next,
staunch Republican that he is. First though, we're gonna do
traffic and weather together, and short shorts go head, short
white shorts. Well, I you fog maybe the one redeeming
seventies factor there, sky Mike, it was so fun.

Speaker 4 (01:35:20):
All right, let's do East Tex.

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
I'm still seeing a little suckage coming down from will
Clayton Parkway.

Speaker 4 (01:35:24):
That will go away.

Speaker 5 (01:35:25):
Let's stay the course. If you're coming down from the Sticks.
We cleared that wreck at the East Tex and greens
fog is the story. So I got to turn your
snooze off. But that's it for right now. I'm Skymike
in the classic Buick GMC traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather center. For today, areas of dense fog early becoming
sunny with a high temperature about eighty. We'll have some
morning fog again for tomorrow for New Year's Eve morning
cooler high sixty seven in the New Year's Day, mainly
Sunday with the high sixty two temperature. Right now, fifty
nine of your officials Severe Weather station News Radio seven

(01:35:59):
forty KTRH time to get you caught up on some
of our top stories this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:36:04):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy, brought to you by Morow Mechanical.
The National Weather Service confirmed six tornadoes touchdown across Houston.
This weekend. Public observances to be held in Washington and
Atlanta following the death of former President Jimmy Carter, and
officials recovered the black box from the weekend plane crash
that killed one hundred and seventy nine in South Korea.

(01:36:24):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at seven point thirty.

Speaker 22 (01:36:31):
Pasadena Living clearly reliable KTRH traffic band Weather next on
the ten.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
So it is Dona Summer seven twenty two. Stir time
here in Houston's morning news. Politics weren't so great, however,
in nineteen seventy seven, after Jimmy Carter took office, joining
us to talk about the former president, Doctor Robin Armstrong,
RNC committee man and Galveston County Commissioner. You're too young
to remember Jimmy Carter. You uh, you know, No, I'm not.

Speaker 39 (01:37:02):
Actually I was.

Speaker 16 (01:37:03):
I was, I was a boy, but but I was
certainly I certainly remember the presidency when Reagan came in,
and and yeah, I I don't I certainly did experiencing
all the all of the inflation and all of the
turmoil that was taking place at that time. But I
think I've got a pretty good representation of that with
the with the Biden years. So it's been a I

(01:37:24):
know how they feel now because of the turmoil that
we've just had over the last four years with Biden
Erris administration. Yeah, so I got it, got a pretty
good understanding of what it was like.

Speaker 9 (01:37:34):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
Well, you know, that's a good comparison to make because
what led to this this landslide election victory for Donald
Trump is what led to the landslide victory for Ronald Reagan,
and that people people had had enough. You know, the
national psyche was at at an all time low, at
least at that time. Energy prices had gone through the roof,
at least for that time when you could when you

(01:37:55):
could find energy. We had the energy crisis, we had,
we had problems overseas. These people just weren't feeling very
good about being an American.

Speaker 16 (01:38:05):
Absolutely. You know, the comparison is great because you had
Reagan that came in and brought in a revolution not
only in the country but also in the Republican Party.
And right now we have Trump coming in and bringing
in a revolution not only in the country but also
in the Republican Party. So I think that it's amazing.

(01:38:27):
How you know, the party is sort of pivoting, you know,
during in nineteen eighty and then again into twenty twenty four,
and I think it's going to be for our positive benefit.
I think we're going to see Republicans doing acting more
like Republicans, acting more like conservatives and populists, you know.
So it's going to be a big change now in

(01:38:47):
the Republican Party, just like we saw back then. I
think Trump, Trump is ushering it in, ushering it in
now on the heels of Biden and Reagan ushered it
in on the heels of Carter back in nineteen eighty
and so I think the comparison is very very appropriate.

Speaker 3 (01:39:02):
Yeah, the best thing I could say about that that
was the last time I supported the Democrat for president
would have been nineteen seventy six at that particular point.
Done not to date myself. I guess I am to
a certain extent, you know, from a positive standpoint. Other
than living to the ripe old age of one hundred.
The things I think most people will remember fondly about

(01:39:23):
Jimmy Carter, we're nothing really that had to do a
whole lot with his presidency, had more to do with
the life he lived afterwards.

Speaker 16 (01:39:31):
Absolutely, you know, he was a good man. He was
a strong Southern Baptist man. He was a Christian man,
and he just had all his policies wrong.

Speaker 15 (01:39:39):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:39:39):
I believe that he was a humanitarian. He also won
the Nobel Peace Prize for the David Accords, you know,
bringing peace to Israel in Egypt, and so I think
that he did some positive things. But like I say,
he's known for his work and habitat for humanity after
his presidency, building homes for the homeless and for the poor.

(01:40:01):
And I think that that's what he's going to be remembered,
as a humanitarian who cared about people. Just was a
horrible president, ye and so and.

Speaker 4 (01:40:10):
And and that's a good thing.

Speaker 16 (01:40:11):
That's that's a good thing that he cared about people.
He was a humanitarian, he gave his life in service
to our country.

Speaker 3 (01:40:17):
It's more than we can say about John Biden, isn't it.
Let's let's absolutely let's wrap it up with this though,
because this is kind of current events and in Washington,
d C. It would appear that as it stands right now,
House Speaker Mike Johnson does not have the necessary votes
to maintain the speakership. What do you see happening there?
And how critical is it that this is taking care

(01:40:38):
of one way or another relatively quickly? Because as I
understand it, they cannot even certify the election results and
hav an inauguration until they have a House Speaker named.

Speaker 16 (01:40:49):
Absolutely, yes, they're going to have to resolve this quickly.
I believe personally that Mike Johnson will have the votes,
just because I believe these guys are going to have
to get on board because a few days later they're
going to have to certify the election results bringing in
President Trump as President of the United States, and so
they're going to have to get their act together. You know, Listen,
they're going to have to unify around a leader. We

(01:41:11):
don't get a vote on who that leader is. They
do they need to be responsible. Republicans need to be responsible, unify,
choose a leader.

Speaker 4 (01:41:20):
And have it done within a day or two.

Speaker 16 (01:41:23):
I don't think that that can happen unless that speaker
is Mike Johnson, and I think that's probably what's going
to happen. I believe that President you get behind him,
and I think that's going to happen. But it's going
to have to happen very very quickly if we're going
to bring in the Trump administration.

Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
All right, sir, Happy New Year till you. Thanks for
joining us again. Appreciate all your time this year. Doctor
Robin Armstrong. It's seven twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (01:41:48):
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Speaker 2 (01:42:00):
What's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
Seven thirty is our time here in Houston's boring News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
President Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of one hundred.
Saturday storms inflicted a lot of damage to a whole
bunch of the Houston area and coming up in seven
thirty eight five types of homes whose values are expected
to plummet in twenty twenty five details in the minutes ahead.

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You're in Houston's Boning News. I think you're safe with
the ghetto house, sky Mike, Okay, same same value east text.
You can't tell me there's not something else popping up.
That wreck at Green's cleared a long time ago, and
the circuits should be gone now from will Clayton Parkway,
but it's there.

Speaker 5 (01:42:43):
I think we've got something at Rank and Road. You
tell me seven three two one two tips. The fogs
making it tough for us this morning. Also the north
sam westbound at All Dean Westfield. Here we are with
that smushery. That's roadwork.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
It's on.

Speaker 5 (01:42:56):
It's a lifestyle westbound coming over from JFK. I'm sky
Mike on the Classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
From r KTRH Generator's Supercenter. Twenty four hour Weather Center.
Areas of dense fog early becoming sunny though eventually today
with the high temperature right about eighty. We'll get to
the complete forecast with Terry Smith of the Weather Channel
in about nine minutes. Current temperature fifty nine at your officials,
severe weather. Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time
now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
Thank you very much. Jimmy. It is seven thirty one
on KTRH. The latest done. The cleanup from Saturday's tornadoes
coming up. But first, the death of an American president.

Speaker 11 (01:43:33):
My name is Jimmy Cardon.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
I running for president. Jimmy Carter introduced himself to the
entire country in nineteen seventy four and then won the
nineteen seventy six election. One term president died yesterday at
the age of one hundred, The.

Speaker 25 (01:43:47):
Thirty ninth president, died at his home in Plains, Georgia,
where he had been receiving hospice care for nearly two years.
During his one term in office, Carter faced many challenges,
including the Iran hostage crisis and abat Acon Mean, but
he also broken peace between Egypt and Israel. After leaving
the White House, Carter dedicated his life to humanitarian causes,

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earning the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand and two.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
That is Fox's Mary Anne Rafferty. Now, the Carter presidency
was a failure, but political analyst Jeffrey Lord told Houston's
Morning News, the country had higher hopes. Back in nineteen
seventy seven.

Speaker 9 (01:44:21):
Jimmy Carter was seen as the virtuous candidate, the honest guy,
the outsider who would clean up Washington, and that became
a real strength form and on the basis of that
he won in.

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
His post presidential life. Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize
in two thousand and two for his decades of work
trying to find peaceful solutions for the Middle East, Europe, Asia,
and Haiti. Texas Senator Ted Cruz reacted on social media
saying that quote, Heidi and I are saddened by the
passing of President Jimmy Carter. Is decades long dedication to

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building homes for those in need truly remarkable, And in
a post on ex Senator John Cornyn said Carter's quote
legacy will remain a cherished part of our great American story.
Among the others paying tribute, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley ed, it.

Speaker 27 (01:45:14):
Is like compassionate, simple decency, humanitarianism. I remember, I think
he restored decency to the White House after Nixon's resignation.

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
Grassley on Fox Coming Up on seven thirty four, the
National Weather Service officially confirms six tornadoes across the Houston
area on Saturday, one of them in EF one in Katie.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
Thank God, I will scale. When I saw the by
truck can thrill.

Speaker 28 (01:45:43):
So I went outside to chicks like something happening, and
I saw like a big win like like happening right there,
and it's just like from the big tornado, And within
like ten seconds of time, it just came right at us.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
Those people talking to our TV partner Channel two. One
person was killed in the EF two that touchdown in
Brazoria County, the woman identified as Jamie Brown.

Speaker 29 (01:46:06):
Damage out here is truly devastating. If you look behind
me here, this is where their home used to be.
You can see all that's left are these stairs, these
wooden stairs that went up to the house, and then
also cinderbrocks and the framing of the house. The family
tells me that their house actually blew all the way
across the field over here.

Speaker 4 (01:46:25):
Corley Peel with our TV partner Channel two. Four others
were injured. The path of that tornado was likely less
than just nine miles long. There were two EF threes,
one in Montgomery County.

Speaker 30 (01:46:36):
Good news is no fatalities and only minor injuries reported,
but the path of destruction that had left behind is evident.
Just take a look at this house right behind me
that's now upside.

Speaker 4 (01:46:47):
Down, Reporter Devin Clark. The other EF three was in
Chambers County. Tornadoes that strong could have winds as high
as one hundred and sixty five miles an hour seven
thirty five. President elect non Trump surprising some this weekend
going public with his support for each one be Visas, Texas.
Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett says Trump needs to mitigate the

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risks that come with the program.

Speaker 31 (01:47:12):
As in the case with the Chinese, they leave family
members behind, and the communist Chinese know that, and they
compromise them. They say, hey, you know you got an
ant or an uncle over here. They might just disappear.
We just think a little bit of information, and that's
time and time again. They've done that. They've done that
in our military.

Speaker 4 (01:47:29):
Trump, by the way, signing with Elon Musk in the
visa debate, and even Democrats are realizing that Musk's doze
is a pretty good idea.

Speaker 32 (01:47:37):
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman might be one of those Democrats.

Speaker 33 (01:47:41):
I think he's someone that could work well with Republicans
and prioritize this Doze initiative to cut spending balance the budget.

Speaker 32 (01:47:49):
Conservative activist Christian Collins says the Dose team will end
up needing Democrat help to make any major reforms.

Speaker 33 (01:47:55):
There will need to be cuts for both Republican priorities
and Democrat priorities if we're going to actually fulfill the
mission of Doche.

Speaker 32 (01:48:03):
Colin says this also bodes well for Trump's cabinet picks,
who may also wind up needing Democrat support to get confirmed.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:48:11):
Thank you, Ethan. The liberal Houston Chronicle claims that Texas
is going to lose influence in Congress. Republicans say that's
not true. The RNCs doctor Robin Armstrong says economic diversity
always gives Texas power and will only expand further as
more true Republicans get elected.

Speaker 16 (01:48:30):
Those same congressmen and senators are going to cause the
economic viability of Texas to just grow and get stronger
and stronger. We're just going to improve our political influence.

Speaker 4 (01:48:40):
As well, and he adds that other industries leaving blue
states to come here will help Texas hold on to power.
It's seven thirty seven. Several Texas colleges were in bowl
games this weekend. Only one of them won. TCU beat
Louisiana into New Mexico Bowl thirty four to three. The
Agis lost to USC in the Las Vegas Bowl. Texas

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Tech lost to Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl. But the
big one is the Longhorns playing Arizona State at the
Peach Bowl the quarterfinals of the College football playoffs on Wednesday.
Pre game at one o'clock on Sports Talk seven ninety
and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic
station KGRH. Well, with the holidays and everything, it's really hard.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
To keep up, chief, and you caught up is what
we do to know what's going on around me. Go
with Houston's News Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
Seven thirty eight is our time here in Houston's morning news.
A right.

Speaker 3 (01:49:37):
Who knows how accurate this report is, But there are
five different areas in which housing could go south, And
by south, I mean in the wrong direction. Normally south
is the right direction as far as I'm concerned, but
anyway could go south as far as values go. Condominiums
being at the top of the list, so why condos.

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Condominiums were once aga extremely popular, particularly with retirees and
those who wanted a vacation property with less upkeep, but
they are falling out of favor with younger buyers in
demand just isn't keeping up. So there's a big, bigger
supply than there's demand at this point. In fact, right
here in Texas, a guy with the name of Danny Johnson,

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who's a real estate expert at Danny Buy's Houses Texas,
says condos have been the housing type of choice for
many builders for a while now is a simple matter
of supply demand. They've been building a lot more condos
than single family homes. I guess because it's like building
an apartment. They're cheaper to build. Older suburban homes also

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on the list. With increasing popularity of new construction, those
traditional stick built homes you see in all those old
neighborhoods could also lose value, especially likely for older homes.
The one type of home that is consistently seeing new
construction in large homes in suburbs and no, I can't
even read that excerpts. Okay, While brand new homes of

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this type are quite expensive. One of the reasons they
keep being build is that they're so profitable. Homes that
are ten to thirty years old in suburban areas are
having a hard time holding their value. So the newer
suburban homes are doing better than the older suburban homes.
And certain luxury properties made the list. You know, I'm
thinking of somebody like an Alex Bregman, for example, who

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appears aheaded somewhere other than Houston and will have a big,
expensive house, no doubt, probably to sell here in Houston,
and may have a hard time finding a buyer. Then again,
he's also having a hard time finding a team right now.
And then finally, you've got properties in areas with high
unemployment rates are expected to see their number's plummet because

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it's hard to attract somebody to buy your home in
an area where there's a high unemployment rate. For one thing,
there's not as many people able and willing to buy.
Seven No ghetto homes listed seven forties are times I
think you're okay, Sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:51:58):
All right, ghetto homes aren't listed first house.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Days, say employed employeed, It'll be okay, all right, that's
a good plan.

Speaker 5 (01:52:04):
For us here all right, East Tex Freeway. I've had
some question on what was going on. We had a
wreck cleared a long time ago at Greens Road. I
thought the suckings would be out of there for a while,
but no, it stayed. And Lisa from Splendora is my
eye on the ground.

Speaker 49 (01:52:17):
Heydamily.

Speaker 21 (01:52:18):
I just got through the backup on the East Text Freeway.

Speaker 18 (01:52:21):
There was nothing at Rankin.

Speaker 21 (01:52:23):
I don't know why, but it's just didn't clear until
Green Throw.

Speaker 4 (01:52:27):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:52:27):
I had one report that we had a minor accident
and the feeder there also. It looks like both problems
are now clear southbound Terry. Do you know why Lisa
also gets an olive branch with her banana sticker, not
just why we went to rival schools Splendora.

Speaker 4 (01:52:42):
So yeah, we burned each other's bonfire one year East Text.

Speaker 5 (01:52:45):
I still have the backup. Now will Clayton Parkway southbound? Now,
I would say stay the course forty five north? Where's everybody? Oh,
it's like a holiday, all right, Woodland's down twenty two
minutes Golf Freeway kind of a holiday there to twenty
one minutes from clear Lake up to ninety If you
had a Grand March at your wedding, you're gonna have
a tough time seeing this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:53:03):
Fog is the thing. Captain Jack Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:53:06):
To the west Loop now twenty six minutes, Katie Freeway
rocking along now, And let's remember Mike from Magnolia said.

Speaker 21 (01:53:12):
Don't forget, we would have never had Philly beer if
it wasn't for Jimmy being president the good old seventies.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
Jimmy, I'm Skymike in the classic Buick GMC traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:53:22):
We've never had leisure suits either that could have done
without that, yeah, or those really short shorts or Amy
Carter all about platform shoes. You ever have a fair
of those, dude, those those frosty sunglasses.

Speaker 3 (01:53:34):
It's very popular with the short guys, you know, the
platform platform shoes.

Speaker 4 (01:53:38):
From our Katie starting to sound like Elton John concerts.

Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
It really is, except for we're all in walkers now
from our kat Rah Generator super Center twenty four hour
Weather cent aer Terry Smith is ear. The fog is dense,
which is it's stupid. I guess it's so dense as stupid.

Speaker 18 (01:53:57):
It is dense, and it's causing people to slow down,
and you should slow down because we want you to
get to your destinations safely, folks.

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
And it should be.

Speaker 4 (01:54:05):
Improving here shortly, maybe in another hour or so. Hey,
it is going to be a great day.

Speaker 18 (01:54:10):
Love the weather today, sunny and warm, upper seventies to
low eighties. Call front moves through tonight. There's no rain
with this front, but there is some cooler weather. It
will actually feel like December for the next several days,
starting tomorrow, mid upper sixties the first day of twenty
twenty five, in the load of mid sixties in the afternoon.

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We do have some rate of forty percent chance of
showers Thursday and then Friday's drying temperatures, they're still going
to be in the sixties toward the end of the week.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
Temperature right now is sixty at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (01:54:44):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
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Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
So we've been talking all morning about all of the
tornado damage done. In particular on Saturday, we had Mark
Montgomery County Judge John talking about the damage they had.
We're going to be enjoined by Manville Mayor Dan Davis,
to talk about some of the Brazoria County problems. We
will talk to him in just a couple of minutes,
but first at seven fifty, let's do a little traffic

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and weather together. Sky Mike, let me move over a
chair for.

Speaker 5 (01:55:15):
Mayor Dan Davis. It's like Johnny Carson. Let's go inbound
now on your East tex Freeway. We still have just
a little bit of a smashing up around will Clayton Parkway.

Speaker 4 (01:55:25):
Stay the course there and downtown.

Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
Trying to get through the canyon southbound from the East
tech Side to the Southwest Freeway, you lose about ten
about two minutes, Skymike and the classic Buick GMC.

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generators super Center, twenty four
hour weather center. For today, we have areas of dense
fog to start becoming sunny with a high temperature about
eighty the more morning fog for tomorrow becoming sonny and
cooler high sixty seven, and then mainly sunny on New
Year's Day with a high sixty two temperature right now
fifty not make that sixty. At your official severe weather station,

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News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some of
our our top stories on this Monday morning. Here's clip.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
Thank you Jimmy. Jimmy Carter, the former president passes away
at the age of one hundred. One person confirmed killed
in Saturday's tornado outbreak. The CDC reports an uptick in
stomach flu cases nationwide. Get the latest news anytime at
KTRH dot com. Our next update is at eight o'clock
fifty nine. In Bound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 38 (01:56:24):
KTRH time saving traffic connext on the ten.

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
Seven to fifty two, so that time here in Houston's
morning news. Brazoria County one of those areas hard hits
by tornado action. In total, we had five I think
we had one as big as an EF three officially
from the National Weather Services, that's about up to one
hundred and sixty five miles. For our wins with that sucker,
we had one person killed, five confirmed tornadoes in the

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Greater Houston area. In Brazoria, one of those areas that
got hit pretty good. Manville Mayor Dan Davis joined us. Mayor,
welcome to the show. Glad you could join us here
this morning. Bring us up to day with damage your
city compared to For example, I know Alvin got it
pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:57:03):
What about Manville, Well, thank you for having mey Ond.
Thankfully Mample was spared.

Speaker 49 (01:57:09):
We had strong winds and rain and after the storm
passed through, our police department went out and surveyed the
city to see if there was any damage, and thankfully
there wasn't. But the city to the east of us,
our neighbors over there, the city of Alvin, the city
of Liverpool, they were the ones that were hit. And
that's where the tornado touched down, right off of the
thirty five County Road one to ninety one area and

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it began to work its way northeast from there.

Speaker 1 (01:57:34):
So a lot of homes, some homes completely destroyed.

Speaker 49 (01:57:38):
Businesses and schools were all severely impacted by the devastation
from that tornado.

Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
Yeah, you mentioned schools. I know when I talked to
Marko up in Montgomery earlier this morning, he didn't think
they had any public buildings such as schools that were
impacted by it. But in Basooria you did. So is
there any word on what happens to the rest of
the school year for those kids? Are they going to
have to find different building to go take classes at?

Speaker 49 (01:58:00):
As I understand it, the school district is actively putting
plans in place to be able to accommodate the students, teachers,
and administrators of the schools that were impacted. The main
school is a school called Walt Disney Elementary. Thankfully, we
are out for winter break right now, so there were
no staff or teachers or students that were on campus

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during that time. But seeing the aerial photos and hearing
stories of people that have seen in the person, my
son and I drove by it as well to lay
eyes on it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:32):
There are a lot of memories in that school.

Speaker 49 (01:58:34):
Kids were excited to finish out the school year, those
kids moving on to junior high, We're excited to finish
up elementary school there.

Speaker 1 (01:58:41):
So they're definitely in our prayers.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Yeah, I heard the name Walt Disney Elementary. I thought
to myself, han, was Walt Disney from Texas? Why is
it named after Walt Disney.

Speaker 49 (01:58:52):
I don't know why specifically it was named Walt Disney.
We try to name a lot of schools after people
that have made a significant impact in our community. Bell
Sanchez Elementary, Shirley Brothers Elementary, But I do not know
specifically where that name.

Speaker 4 (01:59:06):
All you have to find out for me. There's got
to be a good story there somewhere. I will thank you.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
One of the things that I noted that i'd always
know we get a big storm here in south east
Texas is neighbors helping neighbors. And I'm sure you saw
the same thing in your community over this.

Speaker 49 (01:59:23):
That's what it's all about, and that's one of the
reasons why my family and I love calling Virgilia County home.
The city of Parland just to the north of US
Mayor Kevin Cole reported that Parland PD and Periland Fire.
We're sending resources down to the Alvin area. Our state
elected officials, Congressman Randy Weber, so many different organizations, nonprofits,

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governmental entities are coming together to help those in need.
I've been in conversation with Alvin Maher gave a Dame
and others, and I know that they are working diligently
to help in all of the recovery efforts. Our prayers
are especially with family that lost the loved one. It's
a very tragic situation. You can replace homes, you can

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replace belongings, but you can't replace a life that's been
lost in the.

Speaker 4 (02:00:09):
Hearts go out to that. Amen.

Speaker 3 (02:00:11):
Mayor, thank you for joining us this morning. I appreciate
the update and lead to hear you folks fared fairly
well in Manville. That's Manville Mayor Dan Davis. Y'all have
a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright nearly
five am. I'll see this after at four on AM
nine fifty KPRC.