NY Judge Merchan Sentences Trump

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 01/10/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven kt RH Houston Rive everywhere
with now the latest news, weather and traffic.

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

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Good morning at five am on a Friday, here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories.
As we get started this morning, the Supreme Court won't
step in, so Trump will be sentenced today. Gallup says
Biden is only the second worst president in US history
and coming up at five oh eight, a serial button
slapper in Colorado. You're here right, sky Mike, of course,

(00:44):
just checking. Let's check out the morning drive for the
first time with sky Mike. So far.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
We got to wet right in, so I've got to
turn your snooze off this morning.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
No slinky for me.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Whichever way you're going now, we're actually okay. Just get
you know, get crank and so you don't have to
drive like me. East Freeway. I do have a stall
outbound cedar lane before the truck stops. That's on the
eastbound outbound side. They may take a right line to
pick this guy up. And my little peels pocket radar here.
So on a lot of shower a few showers still
around the northeast side.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm sure Terry will have a real radar in a
few minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I'm Skyrik at your Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center,
Claude Sky Some light rain this morning. I temperature today
right about forty six. We start warming back into the
fifties starting tomorrow. We'll check that out. And Terry Smith
at the Weather Channel, We'll talk to her in nine
minutes right now, thirty six at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for
the news. Here's Cliff Sanders, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Good morning everyone, five oh two on KGRH our top story.

Speaker 6 (01:46):
I thought it was a fair decision actually, so I'll
do my little thing tomorrow. They can have fun with
the political opponent that.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Is President ELEC. Donald Trump's reaction is the US Supreme
Court denied a request to delay sentencing in the Hatton
Business Front case.

Speaker 7 (02:01):
New York Judge Jan Mrshawn will inform President elect Trump
of his fate after a state appeals court ruled this
week the punishment for thirty four felony counts of falsifying
business records to high payments to an adult film actress
would not be stayed. Judge Murshawn has said there will
likely be no jail time included in his ruling.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
That is Fox's Gernald Scott sentencing later today. This comes
ten days before the end of the Biden presidency, and
Fox's Joe Conscious says Joe's lies will be how he's remembered.

Speaker 8 (02:34):
He has been basically an almost pathological liar, going all
the way back to his days in law school when
he said he graduated a top of his class, when
reality was caught engaging in heavy plagiarism while finishing near
the bottom of his class, and nothing has changed since then,
during all of his years in the Senate, as Vice
president and obviously as president.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
New polling from Gallup shows that Biden will be remembered
as the second worst president in history, ahead of only
Richard Nixon, which means the polling better than Jimmy Carter.
Funeral services yesterday for the thirty ninth President at the

(03:12):
Washington National Cathedral.

Speaker 9 (03:13):
Maybe this is unbelievable to you, but in my forty
nine years I never perceived a difference between his public
face and his private one.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
That was Carter's grandson Jason. Former First Lady Michelle Obama
was not there a scheduling conflict. Apparently she was on
vacation in Hawaii. Five oh three on KTRHD, Texas grid
seems to have passed its first major test of the
winter as a storm dumps snow on parts of North Texas.
The RKOV weatherwatch continues third today. That said, we've got

(03:47):
travel problems this morning out of Bush and Hobby right now,
according to flight Aware, seventeen delays, sixty three cancelations, twenty
four cancelations out of Hobby this morning. The death toll
now in the LA wildfires that continue to burn, with
residents frustrated enough to literally confront the governor Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 10 (04:07):
Governor, Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.

Speaker 11 (04:12):
Governor, please tell me what you're gonna do. I'm not
gonna hurt on my promise.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
And then Newsom pretended to make a phone call to
Joe Biden to try to get out of this. And
speaking of Joe, there was this tone deaf joke made
by the President during a briefing man and.

Speaker 12 (04:26):
Vice President, I know you're directly affected, so are you
far away?

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Meantime, one person was arrested on an arson charge connected
to one of the fires. It's five oh four. The
Texas legislative session begins next week and an incoming representative
is proposing legislation to put a two term limit on
House speaker.

Speaker 13 (04:48):
This might help prevent the drama we've seen recently in
future speaker races.

Speaker 14 (04:52):
The purpose of bringing the bill to term limit the
speaker was to stop making this thing so attractive to
people to the point where they will break with the
republ Looking Caucus.

Speaker 13 (05:00):
Representative elect Mitch Little says that term limiting the speaker
will also help limit the power of the speaker.

Speaker 14 (05:06):
After that power became consolidated, the speakers started using it
through essentially a mass political capital, which he would then
distribute out to his thronies.

Speaker 13 (05:15):
He says, all that power that the speaker holds needs
to go back to the members of the House, and
this will help do that. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven
forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Lawmakers will once again take a look at casino gambling
as well. Derek Cohen with the Texas Public Policy Foundation
says the state is losing revenue to other states.

Speaker 15 (05:33):
If we were to, you know, allow casino gaming, I
estimate that the actual revenue that we'd take in as
a state would be about eight hundred and thirty four
million dollars. We're talking about real money. The issue is
where they start talking about what the money is going for.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Which is why the state had as opted not to
roll the dice, so to speak. Legislation for casino gambling
has been filed during every session since the early nineties,
but what will state lawmakers do about this? According to reports,
Texas Land is still vulnerable to ownership from hostilentities like China.

Speaker 16 (06:07):
Specifically, China has been the issue and even legislation hasn't helped.

Speaker 17 (06:11):
This is still a problem and the Chinese Thomas Party
is still wanting to acquire agricultural land in the United States,
and in fact, they own quite.

Speaker 16 (06:19):
A bit of Robert Montoya of Texas Scorecards says our
inability to track ownership makes expulsion difficult and if you're
still wondering why this is a big deal.

Speaker 17 (06:27):
In twenty seventeen, China passed a national intelligence law mandates
cooperations from Chinese citizens and companies and intelligence activities.

Speaker 16 (06:36):
He says lawmakers need to do even more than they
have to better track landownership. Andre Parard, News Radio seven
forty k t RH.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Thank you, Andre. It's now five six. The lineup for
Rodeo Houston concert headliners that has been released. Among those
returning this year Brooks and Don John Pardy and hometown
favorite and Conro native Parker McCollum. And that's Rodeo Houston

(07:07):
first time or post Malone. He will be on stage
March eighteenth. Luke Brian will close everything out on the
twenty third. Tickets go on sale next Thursday. We've got
the full lineup at KTRH dot com. Texas plays Ohio
State in the College football Playoff Semifinals at the Cotton Bowl.
We've got that game for you starting at five thirty
on Sports Talk seven ninety Notre Dame Pete Ben State

(07:29):
last night in the first semi twenty seven to twenty four.
And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
I live in the Heights, I live in Spring Kingwin.

Speaker 18 (07:42):
Next on the ten Your Faster Commute on seven forty
KTRH want to get it.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Think we founder serah, but slapper, Sir mex a Lot
five oh eight is our time here in Houston's Born News. Actually,
I don't think it's Sir mix a Lot. It's it's
some guy in Colorado riding around on an e bike. Yeah,
mini bike, that's electric. All right, there's problem number one.
All right. So here we have a We have a
greennie out there who evidently likes to slap butts. He's

(08:13):
done it so far, at least twice. The Lakewood, Colorado
Police Department has released the details of two groping incidents.
Hang on a second, Hang on, Hang on, it's slapping
the same as groping, because it is my dad repeatedly
groped me as a young child. Should I report this
to authorities? Of course I was being very bad at

(08:35):
the time. I deserved the spanking. But a spanking is groping.
Then we got a problem. Good thing for him. He's
not alive anymore. The first instim it took place January,
which just New Years. He's just hey, nothing says New
Year's like a like a good butt. Slab took place
January first, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the suspect

(08:56):
approached a woman from well, of course you're approaching her
from behind. How else would you approach her? When the
suspect approached her from behind, she was running along Beer
Creek Trail. He then assaulted her. Well, then now we're
into assault, groping, assault, butt slapping on the buttocks as

(09:18):
she passed on by. She was west of Kipling Street
wherever that is, and oh a by golf course. The
guy in the minibike, of course, slapped the button took off.
They don't know who it is, although there is a
picture of at least the back of him on a
mini bike and authorities are looking for him. Five Tanni
is our time here in Houston's borning news. I was

(09:38):
slapped on the butt hot, I was repeatedly gropeless child
her first wife, but she slapped me. So let's go,
And you probably asked for it. I was, you know, honestly,
I was young. It kind of shocked. That's what my
dad told me. You you asked for it. You you
were asked.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Let's go, let's go to the north side here, we're
gonna check out your right And of course I got
to turn everybody snooze off Terry Freeway southbound from Conroe.
We look good now one oh five down past the river,
down to Rayford and it's we're in good shape here.
Woodland's twenty three minutes into downtown. If you're coming in
from the Sticks, let's rock.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
In from Cleveland. Now New Kany.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
You look at New Katy, sure to get fancy all
of a sudden, southbound thirty minutes into downtown. Rest of
our freeways, I won't say they rot because they're wet,
but we're not bumping into each other. Let me know
how your drive is seven one three, two one two tips.
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
From our Katie our Age Top Times Defenders twenty four
hour with the Center, Terry Smith. This year, I think
we got up pretty easy last night, Terry. We had
we had modern rainfall, we didn't have too many downpours,
and we didn't I don't think we're dealing with any
flooding issues this morning, so.

Speaker 19 (10:44):
We know things are pretty quiet.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, we can just say goodbye to winter for a
little while.

Speaker 19 (10:50):
By winter, let's just get back to regular winter. Yeah right, Okay,
so there's a little bit of rain I'm seeing some
light shows around Kingwood and down toward Pearland and Bay City,
but they're moving out and they'll be moving out here shortly.
So whatever rain may be out there, and it's light showers,

(11:11):
it's quickly winding down. We're left cloudy today. Bundle up, folks.
It is a cold day today, and it's cold tonight
as well. Load of mid forties for highs and then
temperatures tonight upper twenties to upper thirties. So yeah, chili.
But the sun's back tomorrow and it is finally working
its magic. We're going to be in the load of

(11:31):
mid fifties. I don't remember the last time we were
in the fifties. It's been a while. And Sunday's even warmer.
We do have some rain looks like mid to upper
fifties Sunday, Monday and Tuesday dry and temperatures generally in
the fifties low sixties here and there, so a much
better temperature forecast through the weekend.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Right now thirty six at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 18 (11:58):
It's Houston's morning News, brought to you byen New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barretts and the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need to take
on the day.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Even the California Lefties are really upset about these wildfires
and how the government has handled it. Here's the question,
is this enough? Is this enough to create a political
earthquake in California? Is this enough for them to backtrack
for constantly voting for people who are more worried about

(12:30):
DEEI than they are about public safety. I don't know,
I don't know. This might be the straw that broke
the candle's back for California. We'll see actor James Woods.
He's a conservative. He believes his home has been lost
to the fire. He was on Fox last night kind
of describing the whole thing. We'll share some audio with
you coming up next. First, though, let's do traffic and

(12:51):
weather together. These California Lefties sports team name, if you
think about it, the California Lefties.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Free at Northwest Jimmy Barrett, We're doing two for forty
nine the Forgotten Freeway. All of our roadways are wet
this morning, so I got to turn your snooze off.
Let's get a nice early start. Even dude, I went
fifty five miles an hour last night on a Houston
freeway two forty nine looks good now Magnolia down to
the belt, rocking along now to ninety. If you had
a grand March at your wedding, you're having a little

(13:19):
stress with the wet roads. But ninety nine Grand Parkway
to the Westloop wide open. I'm Skywitkitcher Generator, Supercenter, dot
Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
From r KTRH top tax defenders, twenty four hour weather Center. Today,
cloudy sky, some light green this morning forty six, clearing
and cold tonight around thirty for the low, and then
tomorrow Sunday and warmer with the high. Temperature read about
fifty three. Sunday looks like another rain day. It's gonna
be cloudy with some scattered showers. Fifty six for the
high on Sunday. Temp at your right down thirty six

(13:47):
at your official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Check out some of our top stories this Friday morning.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
We're sponsored by DNM Auto Leasing. So far, so good
with the Texas great no issues this storm. The Lake
and Riley Act beats the Senate Philibust during a procedural mode,
and HB is once again named the best supermarket in
the country. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update is at five thirty Pasadena Living.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Clearly reliable KTRH traffic and Weather. Next on the ten
under James Woods. You know who he is, right, He's
one of the few conservatives in Hollywood. He lives in Palisades,
Specific Palisades, and the fire was all around his house.
He he's evacuated. He doesn't know for sure whether he's

(14:41):
lost his house or not. He suspects he probably has
because all of his neighbors homes have burned, and he's
gotten some reports about, you know, whether or not his
home is still around or not. He's assuming that his
home is gone. Here he is talking about the experience
and you know, the incompetency of California government.

Speaker 20 (15:00):
That one video was my neighbor who after we had evacuated,
before he evacuated, ran down to my house to try
to stop that fire coming over my deck because he
saw it from his deck.

Speaker 12 (15:12):
I mean amazing. A fellow named Robert trink Teller.

Speaker 20 (15:17):
It was as devastating as it was it was an
extraordinary experience of realizing how essential good neighbors, good friends,
good relatives. I've had people call me. I did a
movie with Walter Goggin's a wonderful actor years ago. I
talked to him once or twice. I just got a

(15:39):
call a long text from him. Here's my address. The
keys are in the car.

Speaker 12 (15:44):
I'm out of town. Use our house.

Speaker 20 (15:46):
Here's all the codes I mean, people offering us their
homes and so on. And that's my beautiful home. There
was my beautiful home. So all I know, oh now
from him, he stayed overnight, but you shouldn't have done.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
But he did.

Speaker 20 (16:07):
Fighting the fire. There was no water pressure. Of course,
all the fire hydrants were dead, as we now know.
The fire trucks were there, but they couldn't pump water.
As it turned out, he fought the fire himself of
his house with a bucket in the pool, and this
morning texted me and said.

Speaker 12 (16:23):
Look, I had three hours sleep. I just got up.

Speaker 20 (16:26):
The houses on either side of you have burned down.
Every house across the street from you is burned down.
But I can see your roof.

Speaker 21 (16:33):
No water in the hydrants. Seventeen point six million cut
from the Fire Department Karen Bass a recent headline. I
think he might have tweeted that out from the New
York Posts.

Speaker 20 (16:44):
Yeah, and our new fire chief, you know, has And
by the way, LA Fire Department is fantastic to people.
It's like the people who work for the federal government
so many it's the good people, you know.

Speaker 12 (16:56):
But the people in charge. She took over, and she
put on her bio that her priority.

Speaker 20 (17:02):
My highest priority is inclusion, diversity, and equity.

Speaker 12 (17:07):
That is my priority.

Speaker 20 (17:09):
And somebody forgot to fill all the reservoirs. I guess
with water because when I was getting smoke alarms, there
was a fire truck parks in front of my house,
but they couldn't pump any water because there was none
because they didn't put them in the reservoirs.

Speaker 12 (17:21):
Okay, and they're busy cutting.

Speaker 11 (17:24):
You know.

Speaker 20 (17:25):
It's the same we had with all the crime we
have in our neighborhood, you know, our in Los Angeles,
when we had that idiot gascon. You know, they just
didn't care. Everybody was running loose. They were smashing places
you couldn't walk down the street.

Speaker 21 (17:39):
So I returned to competent leadership.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
This may be a wake up call. We're not trying
to make this political, but when you.

Speaker 21 (17:47):
Can't get water and your homes are burning, and you
have people trapped in their homes who don't have the
ability to walk out, that's a problem. That's a real
problem that has to be solved. So James, I'm glad
you think the first while to actually get to put
that out there last.

Speaker 20 (18:03):
Night, Laura, with all due respect, if it is true
that things were handled this way, if it is true
that Gavin Newsom is the absolute blithering idiot that I
believe he is in the way he has handled fire
management in this state again and again and again and again.

Speaker 12 (18:20):
This isn't a wake up call. This is the kind
of thing they have tribunals for.

Speaker 20 (18:25):
But they try people and say you had an oath
of office to perform certain duties. When you're the fire chief.
This isn't a social justice exercise that you're in charge of.
This is you getting water to areas that need water
because there are fires in one hundred mile an hour
winds burning houses to the ground.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
I think that in the case of the water, you know,
Trump was saying yesterday that he had offered to send
millions of gallons of water. You know, he had a
plan for California for more water supply, millions of gallons
of water that got held up by that speltfish thing
that we were talking about yesterday, and he set the
paperwork to Newsom, who refused to sign it. So, if

(19:08):
you want to hold somebody cremently negligent for the lack
of water to be able to fight the fire, I
think you start looking at the California governor first. Five
twenty seven. Time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Fellingers here, Good morning.

Speaker 22 (19:22):
Good morning to you, Jimmy, and Happy Friday. It's the
jobs report Friday, December. Statistics from the Labor Department will
likely set the tone for Wall Street, which reopens today.
S and P and Nasdaq futures both pointing a little
bit lower. The Dial futures are up fifty eight points.
I'm Jeff Beldinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
You are Houston's News. Why there were traffic plus breaking
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Speaker 1 (19:51):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRHAL Everywhere.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
With more of what's happening now from the More Services studios.
Five thirty is our time. You're in Houston's Morning News
bong our top stories this half hour, the Texas grid
it's fine this morning. The California death toll it's up
to ten, and God make up. At five thirty eight,
did you see Barack Obama and Donald Trump chatting it

(20:16):
up yesterday? What was that all about? Details in the
minute to head you're in Houston's Bonning News First the
stick out that morning drive with sky Mike. All right, no,
it's neozing this morning.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
I've got wet freeways all over town, so get yourself
in an early start. I've got something. Golf Freeway Sandman
from Katie.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
What's up a my dude, there's a red I'm in
the golf freeway.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
Etch it to six ten.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
And two twenty five going east in the.

Speaker 23 (20:41):
Bottles of the underpass blocking to the inside.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
LIGHTE Well said, Well said, all right, that's gonna be
Golf Freeway outbound. That's where the exit says Pasadena. So
watch out here and I'll let the rest of the
media know. Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic
Center from our katrh Generator super Center in twenty four
hour Weather Center, Claude's skuy some light green this morning,
forty six, clearing and cold for tonight thirty one.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Tomorrow sunny, warmer fifty three. Sunday looks like it's gonna
be catty with some showers and high temperature about fifty six.
Current temperature is thirty six at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time out for the news.
Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Thank you, Jimmy five thirty one on KTRH our top
story this hour. The RKOK weather watch continues through today,
but so far, so good with the grid. No issues
from the storm that gave snow to Dallas. The only
issues really are at the airport, where this morning, Flyaware
says sixty three flights have been canceled out of Bush
with sixteen delays. At Hobby, we've got twenty four cancelations.

(21:46):
The death toll rises to ten in the wildfires that
continue to burn in Los Angeles this morning.

Speaker 24 (21:52):
Thankfully the winds have really died down, but the devastation
is far and why we are seeing more and more
firefighters come up and down, pchs, police officers, all sorts
of personnel. The bad news, as we are learning, at
least two people were killed in the Palisades fire.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
That is Jeff Paul reporting. There have been multiple arrests
for looting in Los Angeles. By the way, President elect
Donald Trump continues to hit California Governor Gavin Newsom for
the response to the tragedy.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
I think it's one of the great catastrum is in
the history of our nation.

Speaker 25 (22:26):
This is not just in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
I've never seen anything like that.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
By the way, you will hear Newsom confronted and called
out by an angry California woman at six o'clock. It's
five point thirty three sentencing in the president elect Manhattan
Bidins's fraud case moves forward after the US Supreme Court
denies Trump's application for a delay.

Speaker 26 (22:46):
This is what some of us predicted when the appeals
were started or just began. Marshawn really played this perfectly.
And I say that not as a compliment.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
Legal analyst Jonathan Turley. Judge Marshawn has already said he
will not send Trump to jail. Former President Jimmy Carter
is laid to rest in Georgia after yesterday's funeral at
the Washington National Cathedral.

Speaker 27 (23:09):
I miss him, but I take solace in knowing that
he is beloved. Rosland are reunited again.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
President Joe Biden delivering the eulogy. His radical rewrite to
Title nine to include trans athletes that got struck down
by a federal judge yesterday.

Speaker 28 (23:27):
Trying to include gender identity turns the whole idea of
Title nine on its head.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Policy analyst Sherry Sylvester. The federal court in Kentucky backed
up the earlier ruling by the US Supreme Court. It's
now five point thirty four on KTRHN. Is the mainstream
media dead? Some say yes. After Trump's election, it certainly
is out of crossroads.

Speaker 29 (23:52):
Viewership for CNN, MSNBC, and network news has cratered since
the election, as trust in the establishment news media has
fallen to an all time low. To Paul University, Media
Studies professor Jeff McCall says, the industry should take this
as a wake up call, but they probably won't.

Speaker 30 (24:06):
My fear is an antream media will not do the
soul search that they need to do, and instead their
strategy in covering the next Trump administration will be rage
and resistance again, because I don't think they nowhere else
to go.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
At the same time.

Speaker 29 (24:20):
Ratings for Fox News and podcasts like Joe Rogan's have
soared since election Day. Corey Yelson, Who's Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
Thank you, Corey Metas Mark Zuckerberg ending Facebook's fact checking programs,
admitting that they have been censoring conservative for years. Want
a lot of rave reviews, but it may not have
been for the reason that Zuckerberg was claiming.

Speaker 31 (24:41):
What Zuckerberg specifically addressed is that the European regulatory enforcement actions,
the Chinese system and other countries like Brazil in the UK,
those are harmful to Facebook's bottom line.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
M So it was about money. Dan Schneider with the
Media Research Center a cultural change in all of the
there's a new number one podcast in the world and
it's not Joe Rogan's.

Speaker 32 (25:05):
Would you believe it's a faith based podcast, The Rosary.

Speaker 25 (25:09):
In a year, to see a faith based podcast take
over Joe Rogan's spot as number one is kind of
mind boggling just to even say that out loud.

Speaker 32 (25:18):
That's Jason Romano, host of the faith based Sports Spectrum podcast.

Speaker 25 (25:24):
I think it shows if there's a real audience out
there that's hungry four content that is positive, that brings hope,
and that brings truth from a spiritual perspective.

Speaker 32 (25:33):
Moving faith based media into the mainstream. Jeff Biggs News
Radio seven forty k tieries.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's five thirty six, Looking at your money. December jobs
report comes out at seven thirty. They're not expected to
be good. The economy added just two hundred and twenty
seven thousand jobs in November. You're going to see even
more sicker shock at the supermarket this weekend. Egg prices
are skyrocketing. Bird flu is causing the shortage the show.

Speaker 33 (26:00):
Ridges nationwide, hurting local businesses everywhere that use eggs because.

Speaker 34 (26:04):
Of what has consistently happened with eggs, and they're a commodity,
and that even the suppliers can't control the prices when
things like this happens.

Speaker 33 (26:12):
Suzanne and Mitchell Walker own a cheesecake business based in
North Texas, trying to compensate for the high prices without
hurting themselves or their customers.

Speaker 35 (26:20):
Greases you everywhere, so you look everywhere, you try to
see where can you save some money without cutting quality.

Speaker 33 (26:26):
The Walkers say they bought a case of eggs recently
for one hundred and ten dollars, up from forty five
dollars four years ago, share Lewis News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Despite all of this, small business optimism hasn't been this
high in four years. Texas economic economic researcher Ray Perriman
says that's because it's Trump time.

Speaker 36 (26:45):
On the whole, I think that there's a little more
optimism and an expectation of lower regulation, maybe lower taxes.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
I think of that nature, he says.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
When people are optimistic, they're more willing to take a
chance and open up a business or expand the one
they owned. Five point thirty seven, the Astros avoid arbitration
with Framer Valdez signing him to a one year deal
for eighteen million dollars, and the Rockets won again their
third straight, beating Memphis one nineteen to one fifteen. And
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station kg.

Speaker 18 (27:15):
HARCH stay in touch on your drive in with Jimmy
Barrett and the Houston Morning News team.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Do you have a good time at funerals? I know
it sounds like a crazy question, but but but how
are you at funerals? I don't go to a lot.
Most most of the people in my life who have
passed in the last few years didn't have funerals for
for whatever reason. I want to say. The last funeral
I went to was my father's funeral, and although I

(27:47):
kind of broke down in giving a little bit of
a eulogy, I thought Jonie speaking, I had a pretty
good time, which sounds strange, No, I mean, it's like
a family reunion. You know, you see people you haven't
seen a long time, you tell stories. Ultimately, what you
end up doing is, at least in the most of
the funerals that I've been to, is you end up
talking about the recently deceased and you remember the positive

(28:10):
things about them, or you remember the stories in the
case of a family member from from your youth, you know,
when you know fond memories of your of a grandparent
who's passed or a parent who's passed away. And you
see people haven't seen a while, you chat them up
and you talk and you might even laugh a few times.
So it wasn't surprising to me to see that at
least a few of the people at the Jimmy Carter

(28:32):
funeral yesterday were having a good time. But the two
that seemed to be having the best time. Was a
strange coupling. They sit next to each other, and they
were like talking constantly before the service began, and they're
laughing and having a good old time. Barack Obama and
Donald Trump. I thought to myself, Hey, wasn't during the

(28:56):
during the whole campaign, wasn't wasn't Barack Obama, you know,
talking about Trump like he's you know, hitler, Like you know,
he's the worst thing that could happen to this country.
You need to go out and vote for. Kamala Harris
shows you how much of this is politics, although I
did note that there's a lot of snubbing going on.

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You know, Biden wasn't talking to quite a few of
the Democrats who were in the room. They weren't talking
to him. Kamala Harris, you know, she clearly was miserable.
Hillary Clinton had that bitter look on her face that
she always seems to have these days. But those two,
Barack Obama and Donald Trump, they were having a good

(29:41):
old time. Five forty time for traffic and weather together.
We're checking out the drive again. The skuy miked, all right,
this hit the north side here again. I forty five
you're coming down from conro so far. I don't want
to say it's stress free because we got wet freeway.
So let's get a nice early start this morning. We're
twenty three minutes from the Woodlands down Katie Freeway. Nothing
to slow you down, BUCkies. Caine Island Parkway. Did you

(30:03):
know Katie used to be called Caine Island?

Speaker 11 (30:05):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Caine Island Parkway. Into the President's heads. We're rocking along now,
Southwest Freeways in good shape. Ard two in about nineteen
minutes from the fountains up into downtown. Hardy, bye, let's
go tipline seven one three two one two tips Aye.

Speaker 37 (30:19):
Guy, Mike.

Speaker 23 (30:20):
Everything's looking go between fifteen and the Grand Parkway right now.
Kind of like the Fighting Irish Last Life. They look
really good again.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Day all right, all.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Right, and join your fandom this morning. So yeah, you
can just throw in anything you want there. We'll check
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Speaker 3 (30:38):
Is there an island?

Speaker 24 (30:39):
Do Katie?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Is there?

Speaker 37 (30:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I have no idea. Why would they name it Caine
Island Island. It's been surrounded by water. It's not that
is so interesting. It is weird. Somebody, and Katie knows
we gotta find out the answer to that one. From
our Katie IrH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center,
cloudy sky, some light green this morning, forty six after.

Speaker 19 (30:58):
That shows up.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
After that, Terry Smith tells you how much better it's
good to get right? See, I got I passed along
the bad news and you get to talked about the
good stuff.

Speaker 19 (31:07):
Okay, can we make this a regular thing?

Speaker 3 (31:10):
No too much other bad news I'm in charge of.

Speaker 19 (31:14):
Yeah, okay, all right. So, yeah, we got a couple
of sprinkles out there, but the rain's just about over
with and looks like a cloudy, cold remainder of our day.
That's some bad news, I guess, because we're ready for
something warmer. But temperatures today load of mid forties, and

(31:34):
it's going to be cold tonight as well, upper twenties
to upper thirties tonight. But the warm up begins tomorrow
with some sunshine. That's going to be a nice change
of pace. Load of mid fifties tomorrow. A little wave
of low pressure Sunday will bring us Summarin a forty
percent chance of showers, but temperatures are in the mid fifties,
mid to upper fifties actually on Sunday, and then Monday

(31:55):
and Tuesday are dry and hies in the fifties to
low sixties.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Step at you right now thirty six at your official
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you need to know for the day ahead.

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Speaker 3 (32:14):
Just about five fifty is our time here in Houston's
Morning News. So I was mentioning a little bit earlier,
about twenty minutes ago. We were talking about how chummy
former President Barack Obama and incoming President Donald Trump were
at the Jimmy Carter funeral yesterday. I mean, they were
just chatting up a storm, laughing up a storm. Peter
Doocey from Fox asked him about it at a press

(32:35):
conference after the funeral and also asked They also asked
him about the California wildfires, and Trump talked about just
how far he's gone to try to get water to
California and Governor Gavin Newsom just refused it. So more
and both of those stories coming up next. First at
five point fifty, here's Sky Mike. We're doing to the
Golf Freeway now and Sam and from Katie.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
This morning's first banana sticker got this wreck and it's
tough to see transfer well can't see it either, but
it's there. This is the Golf Freeway southbound ramp. You
know where the sign says Pasadena that one now southbound
ramp to eastbound that takes you over to two twenty five.
If you want, you could take the Golf Freeway. Best
to you turn around Monroe or Belford, but yeah, I

(33:18):
would do that. Let's go south to Monroe Belford. Don't
know if they're blocking the whole thing at this moment.
Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center,
Cloudie sky. Some light rain this morning, forty six clearing
in cold tonight right about thirty tomorrow sunny and warmer
fifty three Sunday, Clottie with some showers and I temperature
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(33:50):
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Speaker 11 (34:01):
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Speaker 3 (34:21):
Five fifty two down here in Houston's borning days. All right,
So the fighters at a funeral yesterday chatting up with
Barack Obama. Peter Goosey asked him about that, and then
they got into the California wildfires. Here we go off
the top. You mentioned the Carter funeral today. What were
you talking to Barack Obama about it? It did look
very friendly.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
I must say.

Speaker 12 (34:42):
I didn't realize that.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
I didn't realize it how friendly it looked. I saw
it on your wonderful network just a little while ago
before I came in, and I said, boy, they looked
like two people that like each other. And we probably
do we have little different philosophies.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Right, but we've probably do.

Speaker 11 (35:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
We just got along, but I got along with just
about everybody and that we you know, we met backstages,
you know, before we went on, and I thought it
was a beautiful service.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
But we all got along very well, which is good. California.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
What specifically do you think Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass
would have done differently to prepare for this fifty billion
dollar fire?

Speaker 6 (35:23):
You know, we have great governors in this room, and
if you look at the way there are states, I
think I can say, without exception.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Anybody doing poorly in here, I don't think so. I mean,
without exception, we.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
Have great governors here that have done a great job
with the estates, and I don't think and you'll probably
if anybody, if there's a week link, you're going to
find it and you're going to be asking the next
question for that person. Gavin Newsom had an opportunity to
have millions of gallons a week, a day, millions and
millions of gallons come down from the North and I

(35:57):
was able to get a federal approval from that from
actually from the Department of Commerce of all departments. I
didn't realize we would go through commerce. I would have
thought environmental, but it goes through commerce.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
I got all of the approvals and he.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
Said, I don't want to sign it. I don't want
the water. We don't need the water. I said, you
need the water. Your reservoirs are empty the whole, but
you need the water. That was five years ago, and
I had it all done, the work was all done.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
We sent it to him.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
He refused to sign it. And if you notice, yesterday
the hydrants were empty. They didn't have any water. Many
of them, they said twenty percent, but now I just
heard fifty percent, and now none of them have water,
and that fire is still raging. When he turned that down,
I was going to give him unlimited water.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
It would come down.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
It really comes down from the North Way up north,
including parts of Canada, so much water that they wouldn't
know what to do with. Just the opposite would have happened,
and that's the.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Reason that this happened.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
He wouldn't do what we wanted, and we're going to
force that upon him now. But it's very late, because
I think it's one of the great catastrophe is in
the history.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Of our nation. Yeah, the price tag on this wildfire,
it's going to be staggering. You know, we talked a
little bit yesterday about the insurance aspects. You know, one
of the things that I started thinking about when it
comes to insurance is California is not alone. They have
something called fair is the state's last resort insurer. In

(37:26):
other words, state farm pulls out or your company decides
to cancel you, you can get insurance through Fair in California.
We have the same thing here in Texas. They're talking
in California though, they're wondering in California, is there enough money?
Is there enough money in this you know, Fair fund
in order to be able to restore these homes, to

(37:47):
to pay pay off the insurance, because I mean we're
talking about you know too probably an average price of
two or three million dollars per home. I mean, real
estate is just crazy expensive in California. Well, we have
something similar here for people around the coast, you know,
the Texas wind in Hale Association. You know, it's it's
not technically a state agency, it's a private company, but

(38:08):
it's moderated by the state. How well funded is that?
If we had a major hurricane hit here, would people
along the coast, would there be enough money to repair
the damage. So we'll be working on that one for
next week. It's five fifty six here on News Radio
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Speaker 3 (38:41):
Six am is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this fur the
Supreme Court won't step in. Trump will be sentenced today
in New York. Gallup says Biden is only the second
worst president in US history and coming up at six
o eight, a more in depth look at that Gallup
presidential poll. L's in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's

(39:01):
Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive again.
Here's skymke KGRH.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Listeners are the first to know what's happening on your freeways. Here,
Busch Airport, It's not me, it's you Bush Airport, Nord Sam.
This is Matthew from Spring.

Speaker 23 (39:14):
Just coming up to the fifty nine interchange.

Speaker 14 (39:16):
There is a vehicle in the left lane.

Speaker 23 (39:19):
Looks like he hits something. Still got Steen coming out
from underneath.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
All right, same spot at Sandy from Conro.

Speaker 36 (39:25):
Good morning, sky Mike eastbound.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
It's lights are flashing, but he's lost the wheel and
he's in the darkness.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Oh, this is Nord Sam Eastmoun coming from the airport,
coming from JFK over to sixty nine. Be super careful here.
I will let the rest of the media know. Skymike
on the Generator Supercenter dot.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Com Traffic Center from o r KTRH top tax Defenders,
twenty four hour weather center Cloudie with some light bringing
this morning high temperature today right about forty six. We're
back down around freezing for a lot of us for tonight,
but that should be the end of the freezing temperatures
for a while. We'll talk to Terry Smith about all
this in about eight minutes right nowure thirty six at
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TIH.

(40:05):
It's time now for the news. Here's Lysanders.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Thanks Jimmy six Zoho two sponsored by Plants for All Seasons.
Top story.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
This was an attack of a political opponent.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
President elect Donald Trump. As the US Supreme Court designs
not to delay sentencing today in the Manhattan business fraud case.

Speaker 9 (40:23):
There is no penalty, but.

Speaker 6 (40:24):
We're going to appeal anyway, just psychologically because frankly, it's
a disgrace.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
It's a judge.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
It shouldn't have been of the case. He's a highly
conflicted judge.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
Referring to Judge Wan Mershawn virtual sentencing at eight thirty
hour time, and that comes ten days away from the
end of Joe Biden's presidency, and the big Guy certainly
isn't leaving behind much of a legacy.

Speaker 33 (40:46):
A new Gallup poll shows President Joe Biden has the
second worst rating in American history.

Speaker 8 (40:50):
We just witnessed the worst administration and presidency in our lifetime.

Speaker 33 (40:55):
Fox News contributor Joe Concia calls Biden a pathological liar,
with a pardon of Hunter and thousands of criminals being
the icing on the cake.

Speaker 8 (41:02):
This is Joe Biden's legacy now promising up and down.
He wouldn't pardon his son, only to do it anyway,
which is the least surprising thing we probably heard all year,
because we knew this was gonna happen.

Speaker 33 (41:13):
Biden's overall rating of negative thirty five only second worst
all time behind Richard Nixon. Jared Lewis News Radio seven
forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
And this comes as America says goodbye to former President
Jimmy Carter at his funeral in Washington yesterday. Not without
controversy though, because former First Lady Michelle Obama was the
only dignitary not to show up.

Speaker 38 (41:42):
She's on vacation in Hawaii. By the way, Bill and
Hillary Clinton both there. Don't you have to get on
the plane and come to the funeral if you're Michelle
Obama and your your husband was president for eight years?

Speaker 5 (41:54):
KTRH is Clay Travis asking that question coming up on
six ZHO four. No issues with the it is Texas
deals with a winter storm, especially to our north. We
had rain, Dallas head snow and your weatherwatch continues through today.
But there are flight issues to deal with this morning,
mostly out of Bush with sixty three cancelations. There are

(42:16):
twenty four cancelations so far out of Hobby. In Los Angeles,
the wildfires continue to burn, the death toll at ten.
Governor Gavin Newsom he was confronted by a woman in
the middle of all of this devastation.

Speaker 39 (42:30):
Literally talking to the President right now to specifically answer
the question of.

Speaker 12 (42:35):
What we can do for you and your daughter?

Speaker 11 (42:37):
Can I hear it?

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Can I hear your call?

Speaker 11 (42:39):
Because I don't believe.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
It, And that's because Newsom was not on the phone
with the President at the time. Meantime, one person was
arrested on an arson charge connected to one of the fires.
As for the President, during a briefing yesterday, he literally
told Vice President Kamala Harris to quote fire away, which
has not gone over well six oh five now here

(43:03):
at home. Well, we still don't know for sure who
the next Speaker of the Texas House will be, but
State Representative elect Mitch Little files a bill that would
make sure it's only for two terms.

Speaker 14 (43:13):
Fired in nineteen seventy three and the speakership was really
a servant leadership position. No one served in the office
for more than one term.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Little says that the fact that we've gotten away from
that has allowed the House Speaker to accumulate power and
then give it up to his friends and cronies. Little
will join Jimmy at seven twenty with the legislative session
beginning next week. Could this be the year that casino
gambling finally gets a big win?

Speaker 32 (43:41):
According to Derek Cohen with the Texas Public Policy Foundation,
it's a safe.

Speaker 15 (43:46):
Bet we've seen legislation for casinos specifically every session since
the seventy third legislature that was in nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 32 (43:55):
Casino gambling continues to grow across the US, and so
does the revenue.

Speaker 15 (44:01):
We could probably see or reasonably expect well over eight
hundred million dollars a year here in Texas.

Speaker 32 (44:08):
The question is will lawmakers play along? Jeff Biggs News
Radio seven forty K Tier eight, and.

Speaker 5 (44:15):
Despite the legislature's best efforts, reports say Texas is still
susceptible to foreign hostile nations buying up our land. Robert
Montoya with Texas Scorecard says, China owns a lot of
our land, wants to buy more, and we don't have
a safeguard against it.

Speaker 17 (44:31):
So the way the State of Texas keeps track of
land ownership may make it difficult to try and expel
or screen out on adversaries from owning our land.

Speaker 12 (44:41):
Texas really has to.

Speaker 17 (44:42):
Start taking ownership of this issue and acting on its own.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
He says, that starts with lawmakers and fixing the way
we track land ownership. Six h six New Faces some
tattooed along with old familiar faces are coming to the
rotating stage at Rodeo Houston or.

Speaker 40 (44:58):
Rodeo Houston, bringing back the reigning Queen of country music
to kick things off on March fourth, Read the Lack Entirely,
making her twentieth overall appearance at Rodeo Houston and her
first in eleven years. Post Malone will make his Rodeo

(45:19):
Houston debut March eighteenth, and Luke Bryan will close out
performances March twenty third. Tickets go on sale January sixteenth.
Go to KTRH dot com for the full lineup and
ticket information. Eric Sharp News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
Thank you Eric. The college football Playoffs semifinals continue tonight
on Sports Talk seven ninety at five thirty as UT
takes on Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. The winner
will play Notre Dame for the championship. The Irish beat
Penn State last night twenty seven to twenty four, And
I'm Cluff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Stay Informed, Stay on Time.

Speaker 18 (45:57):
Houston's morning news continues Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning
News team so say so way it is our time
here in Houston's born news songs called Watergate Blues.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Tom T. Hall what great storyteller Tom T. Hall of is?
You know he was?

Speaker 31 (46:13):
And is he?

Speaker 3 (46:13):
I mean his stories, his stories are really quite amazing. Anyway,
he did that song about Watergate. That's what the song
is about. Watergate, of course, was Richard Nixon's thing. Cliff
has been telling you during the news this morning that
at least right now, according to Gallop, the second worst
president in history is Joe Biden. The worst in history

(46:34):
Richard Nixon. You know, the thing about any of these
presidential polls to remember is the change over the course
of time. But let's get into this one a little
bit more. Americans expect history to judge Joe Biden's presidency
unfavorably rather than favorably. I would hope fifty four percent
of US adultimately Biden will be remembered as below average

(46:55):
or poor. Thirty seven percent or nineteen percent says he'll
be evaluate it is outstanding. Who are these nineteen percent
six percent above average? Compared with nine recent presidents included
in the new gallupole, Biden rates almost most similarly. I
should say to Richard Nixon, who has a minus forty
two net rating. Biden receives more poor reviews than Nixon,

(47:19):
but Biden gets more outstanding or above average ratings. George W.
Bush and Donald Trump also received more negative than positive evaluations.
Trump got a relatively high positive forty percent and forty
four percent for negative ratings for his first term. Trump's
thirty one percent poor ratings are similar to those of Nixon,
but Trump's seventeen percent outstanding ratings are higher than for

(47:41):
most other presidents. Well shows how polarizing it was. Right,
you either loved him or you didn't. John F. Kennedy
rated the best by Americans with a net rating of
plus sixty eight. Ronald Reagan's second with a plus thirty eight.
Barack Obama got a plus twenty one. Interesting. Here's the
thing to remember about all this, though, You know, you've

(48:03):
got a lot of perspective on some of these people.
You know Kennedy serving in the early sixties. You know
Trump's first term only four years ago. Biden's term just
now coming to an end. I think when it's over
and said and done with, Biden's ratings will be even
worse in retrospect. We will think back to the Biden
years as being even worse than what we think they

(48:26):
are right now. History will not judge him very well.
They'll judge him very poorly. I think he'll end up
being worst president of all time. Trump, on the other hand,
his ratings have gone way up from his first term
since he left office the first time, and if he
has a very successful second term, and I pray that
he does, then I think, you know, overall, he'll end
up going way up the list as far as president's

(48:50):
being much better president than that he was rated the
first time. All right, six to eleven. Let's get to
traffic and weather together, hay scot like, all right, we're
busy this morning.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
Let's see end from Conroe and Matthew from Spring gave
me this North Sam. But by the way, I don't
think the rest of the media has this. I did
give it to Jennifer on Channel eleven. This is North
Sam eastbound, coming off the airport entrance from JFK, going
over sixty nine.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
That's the guy that looks like he ran into the wall.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
We'll take a left lane and it's a dark spot,
so be super careful. North Sam eastbound at I sixty nine.
Let's do Shannon to a North Freeway off the tip
line seven one three two one two t ips and
before I go to the North Freeway, Cindy from Dayton,
your sound quality was back. Could you please try me
again and maybe do ditch the speakerphone Nord Freeway.

Speaker 19 (49:37):
Hi Joes, guy Mike, there is a truck in the
middle of the freeway before two forty two uh northbound
on forty five with his lights off second right lane.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Holy wow, And I bet he's tough to see too.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
That's outbound. We got wet freeways. We call that a
right center lane North Freeway to forty two. Samman from
Katie gave me a wreck on the Golf Freeway that
was southbound in the here well said, good verbage. Looks
like they've cleared that. That was on the six '
ten interchange ramp. And let's see we've got that. Looks
like that's clear. Now we're going we're actually okay, twenty

(50:11):
one minutes from CLEARLA like an Terry's and the bowels
of the Weather Channel. I'm Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffics.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
I don't want to be in the bowels of anything
anything amen to that from mar KTRH Top Tax Defenders
twenty four. Our weather center Terry is here. We've got
just a little light rain that's left. It's getting ready
to clear on out of here, and then we can
start enjoying the weekend that includes warmer.

Speaker 19 (50:31):
Temperatures, sunshine and warmer temperatures. This is like a shock
just because we haven't added so much of that lately.
So yeah, a couple of sprinkles still out there, but
we're on our way to a cloudy day today and
it is a cool day, another cool day, load of
mid forties today, but tomorrow the sun is out and
the temperatures will warm up into the load to mid fifties.

(50:55):
That's some of the warmest weather we've had in a while. Tomorrow,
and then Sunday we have some rains, clouds and a
fifty percent chance of showers. Temperatures though mid to upper fifties.
So we'll keep our slightly warmer weather and we stay
dry with some sunshine Monday and Tuesday, and temperatures for
the most part in the fifties early next week, though

(51:17):
there will be a few places that may reach the low.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Sixties temperature Right now, is thirty seven and your official
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Just about six twenty or time here in Houston's Worn News.
Here's a conversation we have all the time here in Texas.
Should we legalize gambling? You know what, what what are
the positives? What are the negatives? I think we at
this point we know what the positives and the negatives are.
I mean, it's just a case of are we going
to do it? Are we not going to do it?

(51:56):
I mean, are we operating under the suspicion that they're
Texans who won't gamble because you can't gamble in the
state other than maybe on an Indian reservation. I mean,
you can gamble all across the country. You don't have
to leave the comfort of your home to do it.
So why not cash in on some of this? But
we'll see what Dark Cohen thinks. He's chief research officer
at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. They did a study

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on the economic and social implications of a casino gambling
expansion here in Texas, or that story coming up next. First,
traffic and weather together, Starting with you, Skymike, Are.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
You pretty much gamble every time you get on a
Houston freeway Jimmy, let's go. Let's go to I forty
five outbound at two forty two. Let's see if the
rest of the media has this yet. No, I don't
think they do. That's an outbound stall Nord Freeway too
forty two, and that is don't see any backup from
it either, So really watch out, Robert Crosby will go fast.

Speaker 23 (52:47):
Or like, hey, what did they start to work on
Beltway eight?

Speaker 14 (52:51):
I didn't even know they were working on the Beltway
up here by Imperial.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Value or messing with me, We've got it both ways,
Imperial Valley and all the in Westfield. The sky Mike
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Six twenty two. Our time here on Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 14 (54:10):
Right.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
I don't know if you're a rambling gambling man or not,
Derrek Cohen, but we seem to have this discussion all
the time. Do we want to allow gambling expansion in
Texas or not? I know the people next door in
Louisiana who are making a lot of money from it.
They don't want us to do it, and they spend
a lot of money lobbying the state legislature to make
sure we don't.

Speaker 41 (54:31):
That's true, Jimmy, We actually do see that it's kind
of a bootleggers and Baptist arrangement in that way.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Well, you've done sort of a I guess a cost
analysis both on an economic and a social implication basis,
what what did you find at the Texas Public Policy Foundation?

Speaker 41 (54:48):
Absolutely, and so we found that it's actually, you know,
both sides of the equation. Both the costs and the
benefits are very stark and very identifiable, and so it
really comes down to the legislature to determine whether they
want to make this trade off.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
So we found, basically.

Speaker 41 (55:04):
Extrapolating out Ohio's experience with a casino expansion, that Texas,
if they were to follow the same model, would appreciate
about eight hundred and thirty four million a year in
tax revenue. Now that's not casino gambling revenue that would
actually be far larger, but in what the state would
take in would be a eight hundred and thirty four million. Unfortunately,
on the other side, we would also have a large

(55:26):
expansion on people who have really, really pronounced gambling problems.
You know, we calculated that the problem gamblers, which make
about three percent of the adult population, that'd be about
six hundred and forty two thousand adult Texans.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Those are people with very very severe gambling problems. Okay,
have these people though that already have a severe gambling
problem and they're just the only difference is is now
they're going to exercise it in Texas versus doing it
online or in Louisiana.

Speaker 41 (55:53):
Well, that's an interesting question, Jimmy, because we the way
we looked at this is that we looked at the
extrapolation from data that was found in Ohio. Now in
Ohio pass they're gambling an issue in two thousand and nine,
and then put it into place in twenty twelve. That
first year they actually established a baseline of how much
problem gambling and disordered gambling of all levels. To be honest,
they actually experienced. And so what they saw, and here's

(56:16):
the kind of shocking part is that each category of
disordered gambler problem gambler, that most terminal serious category that
went up sevenfold and ten years between twenty twelve and
twenty twenty two. Moderate risk gambling went up about sixfold.
Low risk gambling went up about twofold and while to
be fair, those who have no problem gambling, the non

(56:37):
problem gamblers did go up ten percent. All those increases
cannibalized from the people that did not gamble.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Here's the bottom line to me anyway, and this is
I realized this is a very libertarian approach. And I
don't know how you feel about, you know, people in
their personal issues. We allow people to smoke, we allow
people to drink, We allow people to do a lot
of things that are potentially addictive. But the question becomes,
what sort of a toll does it take on the
rest of society that doesn't have the problem? In other words,

(57:04):
is the problem gambler is he going to resort potentially
to stealing? Is it going to lead to an increase
in crime for the rest of us? Is there beening
studied done on that.

Speaker 41 (57:14):
Yes, actually there has discreetly in Atlantic City, discreetly in
Wisconsin when they expanded tribal casinos, and also a nationwide
one over the course of the basically the seventies to
the eighties, which is when we saw most of the
casino proliferation in the States. Each one has identified an
increase in crime, specifically geolocated to the casinos. So you know,

(57:39):
for example, Atlantic City, they found that when the casino
enterprises started going up there, crime not only increased in
that area, but also in surrounding areas, and that the
surrounding areas were able to mitigate some of that crime
by you know, putting money in police resources. And you know,
if they didn't really have a direct highway, they didn't
experience the crime increase as much. But all that is

(58:00):
say is that these are you know, at least attenuably tied.
The casino expansion got you, okay.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Just you know, from your own personal point of view
and knowing what you don't about the state legislature because
you're located in Austin, do you think that we will
ever pass state wide gambling here in Texas? To be
honest with Jimmy, I can't really say.

Speaker 41 (58:19):
I do know that the Lieutenant governor is pretty bearish
on the prospect, not only because his membership I don't
think is there either. You know, I know that in
the House, you know, it comes up every now and again,
But they struggled clearing the threshold for the constitutional amendment
last year, and so Obviously it'll need that constitutional amendment

(58:41):
to enable either sports betting or casino gambling, and I
just don't think the votes are there in either chamber
at the moment.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Now.

Speaker 41 (58:47):
In the future, obviously that's subject to change, but currently
it's statutorily prohibited.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
Got you all right, Derek Cohen, Thank you, appreciate it.
Chief Research Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Derek Cohen,
six twenty seven. Time to take a look at your money.
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drive again. Here's Skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
All right, I'm gonna clear Nord Sam eastbound at fifty nine.
That was a one vehicle slam into the wall there.
I'm gonna clear that. Nobody could find it. And Cindy
from Dayton is on Crosby Freeway between.

Speaker 34 (01:00:20):
Ninety nine and there's a fall truck on the left
hand shoulder and the front quarter panel. It's like almost
in the lane.

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The guy's got a blink to a splashers on.

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Cindy takes us off.

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The Schulenberg Festival got a banana sticker.

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This is inbound. We'll call it right before ninety nine,
and we might as well call that a left lane.

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Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:01:06):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is six thirty two on KTRHR.
Top story. So far, so good with the hardened Texas
grid during this winter storm that gave us rain and
Dallas snow. The weather watch from Urkott ends today that
said flying is going to be an adventure. We've got
sixty three cancelations out of Bush so far, twenty four

(01:01:26):
out of Hobby. In Los Angeles, the wildfires continued to burn.
The death toll is up to ten. With the mayor
Karen Bass facing angry residents during.

Speaker 42 (01:01:36):
A news conference on Thursday, Bass was immediately peppered with
questions from reporters about the city's response. Bass call the
fires and wins unprecedented. She was ask about a seventeen
million dollar budget cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department,
which the fire chief war last month, would affect the
department's ability to maintain core operations. Basso argues the budget

(01:01:57):
did not impact the challenges the area had been experience
and seeing the last few days.

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
That was Madeline Rivera reporting twenty people have been arrested
for looting in the wake of these fires. President elect
Donald Trump is going after Gavin Newsomney, California governor, for
a botched state response.

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
We're talking about homes that cost two hundred and three
hundred and four hundred million dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Nobody's ever seen anything like Trump at mar A Lago
last night six point thirty three now on KTRH Manhattan.
Judge Van Vershawn sentences Donald Trump virtually today after the
US Supreme Court decided against stepping in for.

Speaker 26 (01:02:34):
Many people in this country. He will also go in
as someone who was the victim of law fair. You know,
this was the most outrageous of the cases.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
Legal analyst Jonathan Turley, Trump is unlikely to spend any
time in jail. Former President Jimmy Carter is laid to
rest in Georgia after yesterday's funeral service in Washington.

Speaker 27 (01:02:55):
Jimmy Carter's enduring attribute character.

Speaker 12 (01:03:01):
Character kerr.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
President Joe Biden delivering the eulogy. Carter died last month
at the age of one hundred. Biden's Title nine rewrite
to include trans athletes takes another loss, knocked down by
a federal court in Kentucky.

Speaker 28 (01:03:17):
Hoping up locker rooms so that any boy who thinks
they're a girl can go in the girls restroom.

Speaker 23 (01:03:23):
That made no sense at all.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
Policy analyst Sherry Sylvester points out that the US Supreme
Court had already blocked the administration's efforts on this sex
thirty four. The reelection of Donald Trump was a rejection
of the establishment media, which spent the last eight years
bashing Trump. To Paul University's Jeff McCall says, they should
do some serious soul searching now.

Speaker 30 (01:03:47):
The strategy of the mainstream media is going to have
to be adjusted. They need to reinvent themselves, and I
think the question is whether or not they can actually
do that. Can they really look in the mirror and
say we've missed the American people.

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
For CNN and MSNBC are down fifty percent since election Day,
and traditional network newscasts have lost half of their audience
in recent decades. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook would
removed fact checkers, adding community notes, similar to what Elon
Musk did on X But.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
That's not all.

Speaker 13 (01:04:20):
Zuckerberg also confirmed something conservatives have known for years.

Speaker 31 (01:04:23):
He specifically said, we censored political speech, we did it
on a bias basis, and he admitted that it was wrong.
Those are serious admissions.

Speaker 13 (01:04:32):
Den Schneider with the Media Research Center says Facebook has
also parted ways with some anti free speech executives.

Speaker 31 (01:04:37):
They've been replaced by well known Republicans who have pretty
good track records in this area. Things that Facebook are different.
They have made serious systemic changes.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Schneider says.

Speaker 13 (01:04:47):
The real question now is will there be any restitution
for the conservatives Facebook censored for years? Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
Thank you, Ethan, and a shocker. In the world of podcasting,
Joe Rogan placed is the number one podcast by the
Rosary in a year. Jason Romano, host of the faith
based Sports Spectrum podcast, says this is not so surprising.

Speaker 25 (01:05:10):
I think this is an opportunity for not just that show,
but for many shows, even shows like the ones I
work on, to be able to provide that outlet for
people to grow spiritually and see that there's really great
things happening in the world, and to encourage them in
their faith.

Speaker 5 (01:05:23):
He says, faith based media is quietly becoming mainstream. It's
now six thirty six. In an hour from now, we'll
get the December jobs numbers and be prepared to be
hit by even higher ed prices. This weekend. At the
supermarket Texas, A and M's David Anderson says bird flu
is affecting producers, leading to a shortage and sending prices

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through the roof.

Speaker 23 (01:05:44):
Egg prices is shot up. The biggest culprit here is
HPAI hypathogenic Avian influenza. To try to keep it from spreading,
the policy response is the surviving chickens are euthanized, and
so when it hits a farm, white out all the hands.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
According to the US Eureau of Labor Statistics, and prices
are up thirty eight percent nationwide over the last year.
That said, it's not just corporate America excited for the
return of Trump to the white House. Mom and pop
businesses are looking forward to it too.

Speaker 36 (01:06:17):
It does create some optimism, and when you have people optimistic,
they are more willing to invest, more willing to take
some chances that type of thay.

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
Texas economist Ray Perrman. According to the latest number, small
business optimism hasn't been this high in four years. Six
thirty seven, one day after avoiding arbitration with pitcher Luis Garcia,
the Astros give a new deal to from Bravaldez, a
one year deal worth eighteen million dollars, and the Rockets
beat Memphis one nineteen to one fifteen for their third

(01:06:45):
straight win. I'm close, Saunters on Houston's newsweather and traffic
station KTRH.

Speaker 18 (01:06:51):
The very latest on your way to work. This is
Houston's morning News with Jimmy Barren. All right, it's uh
COVID up daytime.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
What in the world? Why are we updating the COVID story?
Oh who? The Florida Grand Jury has released its final
reports on possible criminal or wrongful activity regarding the creation
and promotion of COVID shots. It was requested by Governor
Rond DeSantis, Florida willing to do what the federal government
evidently is not willing to do, which is to thoroughly

(01:07:23):
examine whether or not there is any wrongdoing to make
recommendations on what should be done about it. All right,
They found eight items that they had issues with. Number one,
premature emergency approval. While understanding the seriousness of COVID post
to vulnerable populations such as the elderly, and the desire
to quickly develop medical interventions to save lives, the grand

(01:07:46):
jury disagreed with the FDA's assessment that the COVID emergency
applied to everybody. In other words, it should have just
applied to people at risk, not to the rest of US.
Number two disservice to pregnant women. The jury found an
alarming lack of care given to conducting secure flagship trials
and research on the COVID shots impact on pregnant women. Specifically,

(01:08:07):
the jurists disclosed their belief that expected mothers were not
well served by the United States public Health apparatus and
that such troubling issues were not properly and meaningfully disclosed
and discussed over the last four years. In other words,
they didn't do any research into what this could do
to a pregnant woman. And yet they recommended that pregnant
women get the shot. Number three failure to complete safety studies.

(01:08:31):
The FDA provided full approval letters to Pfizer and maderna
grant and complete market access for the respective COVID shots.
In order to keep their licenses, both companies were required
to conduct a series of interventional and observational studies monitoring
the safety and effectiveness of the jabs which they were
supposed to release to the market. They did not do that.

(01:08:51):
Number four a lack of information on safety signals. Number
five Oh, here's a big one. The myo carditis cover up.
While maintaining that vaccine related milcarditis imperic carditis events are
very rare, the Granduary disclosed significant findings about such incidents,
including the apparent withholding of such information from the American public.

(01:09:14):
Number six government censorship. They said that the federal government
and big Tech censored anybody who disagreed with their preferred
narrative on COVID and that that's true, completely, one hundred
percent true. In Number seven, deceptive advertising, Madernam Pfizer also

(01:09:34):
deployed deceptive unbranded advertising tactics when marketing their products to
the public and finally risks and benefits. While the Grandjar
acknowledged that the emergency use authorization for Pfizer and Maderner
shots was reasonable at the time given the early data,
it subsequently noted that circumstances had changed in the year
since and they haven't done anything to correct it. That's

(01:09:56):
pretty damning. Six forty one. Time for traffic and weather together.
We're checking out the drive again, us guy Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:10:01):
All right, sendy from Dayton, give me a stall on
ninety Crosby Freeway between ninety nine Grand Parkway and twenty
one hundred that narrows it down. Just watch out from
a left lane here. It's part of a left lane
min as well be the whole thing here. I've got
Amy from Lake Jackson on the tip line seven one
three two one two tips. Good morning time, Good morning love.

Speaker 33 (01:10:22):
There's some kind of hubbub boom bourbon southbound right south
of Urridyana Parkway.

Speaker 14 (01:10:28):
There's a whole bunch of flashy lights and a backup
goes for a little way right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
Watch out on the outbound side and I'll see if
we can get in range for that. Try to get
a camera shot for the pretty ladies on TV and
put this on your head and wear it at the office. Amy,
you've got Montgomery County on the line.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Morning's got mine, dude, got from the metropolitan area Willis, Texas.

Speaker 14 (01:10:48):
Go found forty five and forty twos.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
Because anythin's all there is not there anymore, all right?
Clear the North Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
We're getting a little loopy eastbound on the North Loop
at the squeeze at forty five. And we'll check your
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Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Time to check in with Terry Smith. She's got good
news with this forecast.

Speaker 19 (01:11:12):
Yeah, if you like sunshine and temperatures above forty degrees,
I've got a fair amount of goods, but not for today, folks.
And just warning you, rains just about over with lots
of clouds today, and between the clouds and the northwesterly breeze,
we're not going to warm up much today. Load of
mid forties and it's cold tonight, mainly in the thirties tonight,

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but tomorrow mark your calendar sunny and dry and above
fifty degrees load of mid fifties.

Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 19 (01:11:40):
We will get some rain Sunday or forty percent chants
of showers, but temperatures are in the mid to upper fifties,
and Monday and Tuesday are dry with some sunshine, and
we'll stay in the fifties for high temperatures early next week.

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Those solutions all right, coming up in just a second here,
this one's going viral. I'm gonna share the long version
audio with you of a California woman who ran up
to California Governor Gavin Newsom on the street to quiz
him about why there was no water, and I will

(01:12:26):
say this, he was very patient with her. Then again,
there was a television camera right there in front of him,
So what's he going to do? Go off on her? Yep,
her child's school had just burned down, and she was
angry and she had the vent. So we're gonna share
that with you. Coming up next first, though, traffic and
weather together oh yeah, we've also had the timeline coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
All right, I knew we had something Aha north Loop
six ' ten from North Maine. I'm looking at this
accident right over before the squeeze at forty five.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
This is eastbound the other way.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Usually when I mentioned the squeeze, I'm talking westbound, this
time right up the airline in front of the Farmers
Market exit. So watch out coming over from TC Jester,
I need your help. To eighty eight listeners. I need
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shower chances on Sunday fifty six, Right now thirty eight
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I don't think Gavin Newsom has really cared about his
constituents for a long long time. They have done absolutely
nothing in California from a public safety standpoint to improve
anybody's lives. Just horrible, and he's getting called out. He
along with the mayor of Los Angeles getting called out
by the voting public. And I've been wondering all morning,

(01:14:52):
is this finally the straw of the growth, the Campbell's
back for California. They finally going to turn it around?
Or are they just going to send more refugees here
to Texas. Anyway, here's one of the women who's gone
viral her confrontation with the governor who she clearly does
not believe.

Speaker 10 (01:15:07):
Governor, you got a second governor, Governor, I live here. Governor,
that was my daughter's school.

Speaker 11 (01:15:15):
Governor, please tell me what you're going to do. But
I'm not gonna hurt of my promise.

Speaker 39 (01:15:18):
I'm literally talking to the President right now to specifically
answer the question of what.

Speaker 12 (01:15:23):
We can do for you and your daughter.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Can I hear it? Can I hear your call?

Speaker 11 (01:15:27):
Because I don't believe it?

Speaker 39 (01:15:30):
I'm sorry, Can I There's literally I tried five times.
That's why I'm walking around to me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
Why is the president not taking your call?

Speaker 12 (01:15:37):
Because it's not going through.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
Why I have to get self service, Let's get it,
let's get it.

Speaker 11 (01:15:40):
I want to be here when you call the President.

Speaker 12 (01:15:42):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 39 (01:15:43):
I'm doing that right now, and it's to immediately get reimbursements,
individual assistance and to help.

Speaker 11 (01:15:49):
God.

Speaker 12 (01:15:49):
Yeah, this is I'm so sorry, especially for your daughter.

Speaker 19 (01:15:53):
I have the four kids, everyone who went to school
where they lost their home.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
They lost to.

Speaker 19 (01:16:00):
Homes because they were living in one and building another.

Speaker 11 (01:16:03):
Kevin, please tell me, tell me what are you going to.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Do with the president.

Speaker 39 (01:16:06):
Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
Why water in the hydrants?

Speaker 11 (01:16:11):
Governor?

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
That's all? Literally?

Speaker 11 (01:16:14):
Is it going to be different next time?

Speaker 19 (01:16:15):
It has to be has to be of course, what
are you going to do to fill the hydrants?

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
I would fill them up personally.

Speaker 11 (01:16:22):
You know that. Literally I would fill up the hydrants myself.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
But would you do that? I would do whatever I can,
But you're not.

Speaker 19 (01:16:30):
I see the Do you know there's water dripping over there? Governor?

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
There's water coming out there.

Speaker 25 (01:16:35):
You can use it.

Speaker 12 (01:16:36):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 39 (01:16:37):
I'm going to make the call to address everything I
can right now, including making sure people to make.

Speaker 19 (01:16:43):
Sure you can I can, I have an opportunity to
at least tell people what you're doing, what you're saying
you're doing.

Speaker 11 (01:16:48):
Can somebody have a contact?

Speaker 19 (01:16:50):
Can I have your contact?

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Make right now? Getting in the car to escape it. Well,
he was in contact with the President that the President
has showed up, and he did a briefing on the
federal government's plan to help local officials, because after all,
they're helpless without the federal government to help themselves. He

(01:17:11):
gave the Florida Vice President Kamala Harris, who hails from California,
and said, Madame Vice President, I know you're directly affected,
so fire away no pun intended. Was a really sensitive
thing to do, all right. Time for the timeline four
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Enjoy the show and the pit passes too, And thank
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Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
This is HUSED Radio seven forty kt RH Houston Everywhere
with now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
It's more of what matters to you. From the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
It's seven am now here in Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, the
Supreme Court won't step in. Trump will be sentenced today
in New York. This Gallup poll says Biden is only
the second worst president in US history and coming up
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(01:19:34):
let's check out a sky Mike, Jimmy, what was the
timeline year? What was the year for ten? Do we
know you're right now? What was the year for the timeline? Marco?

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
I want to find out. I'm gonna go to the
north loop fin. We're waiting on Marco to tell Jimmy
what you're the timeline.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Nineteen eighty five night, Oh man, let me guess you're
off by one yes, six ten north.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
It's loopy like my timeline. Guess is here we go
six to ten north eastbound.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
If you're trying to.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
Hit the Farmer's Market or trying to get over to
the sixty nine east text this is I'm going that
way this time at forty five it's a wreck, one, two,
three right lanes blocked here it's a truck convention too,
so we're stuck.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
After TC Jester two.

Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
Eighty eight, still seeing if somebody can send me a
picture on social media.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Transtar cameras don't got that far. I don't have any
air support.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
Two eighty eight southbound Big Reck Merittia now Meridiana Parkway.
Look Out Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four our weather center,
Claude Sky. Some light rain this morning. That's pretty much
out of here at this point. High temperature forty six
for today. We're back down below freezing for a lot
of US tonight. So one last night to keep the
plants in the safe place. I will get the last
on the forecast from Terry at the Weather Channel at
eight minutes right now thirty eight at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time

(01:20:45):
down for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders and we.

Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
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Speaker 6 (01:20:52):
I thought it was a fair decision actually, so I'll
do my little thing tomorrow.

Speaker 25 (01:20:56):
They can have fun with a political.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
Opponent President of led Donald Trump's reaction that little thing.
The US Supreme Court denies a requested delay sentencing in
the Manhattan case.

Speaker 44 (01:21:07):
President elect Trump is expected to attend via video conference,
but Judge Wan Merchon has indicated he will not give
Trump jail time, fines, or probation. The incoming president tried
to stop the sentencing from moving forward, appealing to a
higher court in New York, all the way up to
the United States Supreme.

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
Court Brook Singh. Thean reporting sentencing is at age thirty.
This comes ten days before the end of the Biden administration.
Fox's Joe conscious as chose lies will be what he's
remembered for.

Speaker 8 (01:21:36):
He has been basically an almost pathological liar, going all
the way back to his days in law school when
he said he graduated a top his class when reality
was caught engaging in heavy plagiarism while finishing near the
bottom of his class, and nothing has changed since then,
during all of his years in the Senate, as Vice
president and obviously as president.

Speaker 5 (01:21:53):
According to New Paulling from Gallup, Biden will be remembered
as the second worst president in history. The only one
worse according to the poll was Richard Nixon, which means
Jimmy Carter was better. Speaking of which, funeral services yesterday
for the thirty ninth president at the Washington National Cathedral.

Speaker 9 (01:22:14):
Maybe this is unbelievable to you, But in my forty
nine years, I never perceived a difference between his public
face and his private one.

Speaker 5 (01:22:23):
And his grandson Jason. Former First Lady Michelle Obama was
not there, claiming a scheduling conflict, which turns out to
be an Hawaiian vacation. Seven oh four. Now, the Texas
grid seems to have passed its first big test of
the winter. The Irkank Weatherwatch continues through today as the
winter storm dumps some snow on parts of North Texas,

(01:22:46):
the system causing more issues and headaches out of Bush
and Hobby this morning, sixty three cancelations out of Bush
and twenty four cancelations out of Hobby. It's now seven
oh five in the death toll at ten and possibly
rising in the LA wildfires. Residents frustrated enough to literally
confront Governor Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 10 (01:23:07):
Governor, Governor, I live here, Governor, that was my daughter's school.

Speaker 11 (01:23:12):
Governor, please tell me what you're going to do. I'm
can hurt of my promise.

Speaker 31 (01:23:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
Newsom pretended to make a phone call to Joe Biden
to try and get out of this. And then there
was the tone deaf joke made by the President during
a briefing yesterday, Man.

Speaker 7 (01:23:25):
And Vice President.

Speaker 12 (01:23:26):
I know you're directly affective, so are you far away?

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
He really said that. Meantime, one person was arrested on
an arson charge connected to one of the fires, and
there have been twenty people arrested for looting seven oh
five here at home. The Texas Legislative session begins next
week and incoming representative wants to put a law into
place to put a two term limit on the House speaker.

Speaker 13 (01:23:53):
This might help prevent the drama we've seen recently in
future speaker races.

Speaker 14 (01:23:57):
The purpose of bringing the bill to term limit the
speaker was to stop making this thing so attractive to
people to the point where they will break with the
Republican Caucus.

Speaker 13 (01:24:05):
Representative elect Mitch Little says that term limiting the speaker
will also help limit the power of the speaker.

Speaker 14 (01:24:11):
After that power became consolidated, the speakers started using it
to essentially a mass political capital, which he would then
distribute out to his cronies.

Speaker 13 (01:24:20):
He says, all that power that the speaker holds needs
to go back to the members of the House, and
this will help do that. Ethan Buchannan News Radio seven
forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
Lawmakers once again, we'll look at casino gambling in Texas.
Derek Cohen with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says the
state is losing a ton of revenue to other states.

Speaker 15 (01:24:37):
If we were to, you know, allow casino gaming, I
estimate that the actual revenue that we'd take in as
a state would be about eight hundred and thirty four
million dollars. We're talking about real money. The issue is
where they start talking about what the money's.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Going for, which is why the state is opted not
to roll the dice, so to speak. By the way,
legislation for casino gambling has been filed during every session
for about thirty year now. But what will the legislature
do about this? According to reports, our land is still
vulnerable to ownership from foreign.

Speaker 16 (01:25:09):
Entities, specifically China has been the issue and even legislation
hasn't helped.

Speaker 17 (01:25:14):
This is still a problem and the Chinese Chonglis Party
is still wanting to acquire agricultural lands in the United
States and in fact, they own quite a bit.

Speaker 16 (01:25:22):
Robert Montoya of Texas Scorecards says our inability to track
ownership makes expulsion difficult and if you're still wondering why
this is a big deal.

Speaker 17 (01:25:30):
In twenty seventeen, China passed a national intelligence law mandates
cooperation from Chinese citizens and companies and intelligence activities.

Speaker 16 (01:25:39):
He says lawmakers need to do even more than they
have to better track landownership. Andre Perard News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:25:46):
Seven h seven Now and the lineup for this year's
Uston Livestock Show and Rodeo concerts is out among them.
Among those returning to the rotating stage Brooks and Done,
John Party and hometown favorite and Conro native Parker McCollum.

(01:26:12):
That's running your Houston first time or post malone. He'll
take the stage on March eighteenth. Luke Brian will close
out the shows on the twenty third. Tickets go on
sale Thursday. The full lineup at KTRH dot com. College
football the Big One Tonight, Texas plays Ohio State in
the semifinals at the Cotton Bowl. Coverage on Sports Talk
seven ninety at five thirty. Notre Dame beat Penn State

(01:26:33):
last night in the first semifinal twenty seven to twenty four.
And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic
station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Social media keeps me in the not good for you.
Use justn't care what KTRH keeps you in.

Speaker 31 (01:26:48):
Four.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
There's a lot going on. Use radio seven forty KTRH
two seven or later a time here in Houston's warning.
Do you remember getting your driver's license for the first time? Man,
what a big deal that was, At least for my generation,
that was a big deal. That was freedom. That's what
got you out of the house. That's that's what got
you out from underneath your old man's thumb. You could

(01:27:10):
go out and you know, kiss your girlfriend and have
a good time, and as long as you got home
at a decent hour, it was all good. Kids don't
seem to be that concerned about getting their driver's licenses,
but for those who are. And here's the other thing
that's changed since I was a kid. But I was
a kid, the old man would take me out on
back roads to teach me how to drive back roads
and parking lots. Teach you how to drive. You know,

(01:27:31):
one week I'd steer and the next week I'd use
the pedals. And you know, by the time I went
to Driver's ed I probably had more hours than the
rest of the kids combined. I was already I was
already a pretty good driver at that point. Not so
much kids these days, you know, and a lot of
them struggle a little bit the first time they have
to take their driver's test. So Uber has decided they're

(01:27:53):
going to offer this deal a free rides to teens
who flunked their driving exam. You get up to six
free rides at a value of twenty dollars each. So
it's not like you can get in the car go
cross country with Uber. You have to be, you know,
obviously somewhere between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. You

(01:28:13):
have to have legal guardian consent, you have to go
on their app. There's a lot of other hoops you
have to jump through. Here's the first thing I thought of,
and they already answered it, which is, okay, what if
you got a teen who wants Uber to pick you
up at eleven o'clock at night, is getting ready to
go break curfew and do something that he or she
should not be doing this This app also has a

(01:28:34):
parental notification and parental approval, so if a team requests
a ride using this, then the parent has to approve
it in order for it to happen. Of course, you
have to admit to Uber that you actually failed your
driver's test. But if you're not too ashamed of that,
then I guess you know, it could be a nice
little benefit at least for a while. Seven ten Time

(01:28:56):
for traffic and whether together you just miss bench seats? Yes, desperately,
she could sit up and snuggle next to you. Why
you drove old man at sixteen? That was the best,
wasn't it? Boy? Did I have some hair and no
skinny back?

Speaker 4 (01:29:08):
Then let's go to it and Katie Freeway so fast
inbound at Washington. That's some kind of metal debris. What
is that stuff, Terry?

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:29:18):
It's some kind of metal junk in the road lane
for so watch out inbound, watch out for other stations
listeners that don't know about it, swerving at the last minute.
All right, Amy from Lake Jackson walking around her office
with a banana stick her on her head this morning
for finding me that wreck on two eighty eight southbound
at Maria after Meridi on a parkway. That's outbound. Boy,

(01:29:38):
this looks like some real stuff. We just I got
no air support this morning. Can't get a camera that
for us? So if you can safely send me a picture,
do so on your socials and North Loop. We have
cleared the squeeze eastbound. That's out of the way. We're
getting back to speed heading over from TC. Jesterre and
Terry was always home before ten o'clock. Jimmy never in
the backseat either.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
No, she doesn't even know what that looks like. I'm
in the generators. Oh my god, Markatie rh Hi top
tax the vendors twenty four our weatherusif don't you miss
Ford LTDs? Though? Remember how big they were?

Speaker 14 (01:30:10):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
I yes, man? Could you could get seven of your
friends in there and have still have room left over
and have a park head? And my mom and dad
had a fifty seven Chevy. I think that's where I
came from. Surprised you weren't named after a fifty seven
Chevyhoo all right, anyway, back on to more family friendly things,
like the forecast, which is looking up.

Speaker 19 (01:30:30):
Yeah, looking great for us Skymike to get backs outside,
exercise some more. Thank you, you're welcome. We got sunshine tomorrow.
Now it's cloudy and cold today. I don't know how
much outdoor moving around everybody's going to be doing but
temperatures today. Load of mid forties twenty upper twenties to
thirties tonight, so it's cold tonight. It'll take a little

(01:30:50):
while to warm up tomorrow, but it will sunny. Load
of mid fifties finally warmer, and then mid fifties to
upper fifties Sunday. We do have a forty percent chance
of rain on Sunday, but we're dry. Back to dry
weather and some sunshine Monday and Tuesday, and temperature stay
in the fifties now low sixties. That's our average. That's
the goal is to get into the low sixties, but

(01:31:12):
we're heading in that direction.

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
Temperature ride now is still thirty eight. Here at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 18 (01:31:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
All the info you need to take on the day.
All right, So that the Texas House speaker position is
still up in the air. As far as who's going
to get that position, we have an incoming Lawmaker's name
is Mitch Little. He's a former Ken Paxton defense attorney.
He is proposing a piece of legislation regarding term limits

(01:31:52):
for House speakers. It used to be tradition for Texas
house speakers only serve one or two terms, so he
would propose that the Speaker of the House could be
limited to two terms. So we'll talk to him about
that while he's proposing it. Coming up next first though,
trafficking with their discussions. What's that ask him to do? Impressions?
It's Mitch Little, No, it's done, rich Little. It's Mitch Little. Y. Hey,

(01:32:13):
I'm going to go short for Mitch.

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
Here we got itm Katie Freeway inbound right after the loop.
Lookout in front of Denny's and IHP. That is some
kind of metal junk in the road. We'll take up
center lane. Watch out for other stations. Listeners swerving two
eighty eight. That's a big ugly wreck.

Speaker 11 (01:32:28):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
Merity Anna Parkway southbound. It's south of.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center from.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
R KTRH top tax defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center,
Claude Skies. Some light rain this morning. I think that's
pretty much moved off now. Forty six Learringham cold tonight
thirty one sunny warmer fifty three tomorrow Claudie, with a
high near fifty six with a couple of scattered showers
for Sunday. Temperature right now is thirty eight at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Sketch

(01:32:57):
up on some of our top stories this morning. Here's Cliff,
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:33:00):
We're sponsored by dn M Auto Leasing. The jobs report
for December comes out in nine minutes. The National Guard
is being deployed around LA to stop looting in neighborhoods
that have been destroyed by the wildfires. And the US
Supreme Court here is arguments today over the potential ban
of TikTok. Get the latest news anytime at kgiach dot com.
Our next update is at seven.

Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
Thirty I live it, Katie.

Speaker 18 (01:33:24):
Your best ways are round Houston next on the ten
on seven ktright.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
Seven twos. Our time here in Houston's borning news. Betch Little.
He is a former Kempaxton defense attorney. He is an
incoming House Republican elected in District sixty five in North Texas.
To get any snow match, did we get any snow?
Did you get any any snow? From the storm.

Speaker 14 (01:33:51):
Yeah, the city is complete. Yeah, the city is almost unusitable.
All the kids are out of school, everybody's sledding is working.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Yeah, we got a lot of In other words, gridlock.
Exactly what do you would expect? It's locked up? No kidding?
All right, Well, let's get back to the House speaker situation.
You're coming in, you're proposing a two term limit for
House speaker. Why do you think we need that? Physicians
got too much power. The speakership in the Texas.

Speaker 37 (01:34:19):
Houses has been a forlorn on the side of the
Conservatives for a generation. In the early decades, it's been
under the control of the Conservative It's always been under
control of the party.

Speaker 14 (01:34:31):
And the problem is the one the party consolidates and
replicates its power is fear. Fear that this person's going
to be in the position for a decade and it's
going to be able to kill all of your bills
the whole time you're serving in office. They appoint all
the committees, they determine the composition of all the committees,
and they determine which bills live and die. And if you,

(01:34:53):
if you can remove the power from the speaker, prevent
that person from consolidating campaign in finance, uh, the laundering
uh campaign donations out to his his quote unquote friends
in the Republican Party.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
The we might be able to get some page the snow.
The snow seems to have worked his way into a
cell phone signal. So you know, we'll just stick with
you as long as we can here because it's kind
of cutting in and out. But but but I understand
what you're saying. But it almost sounds like it's a
bigger problem with how much the setup of what the
Speaker of the House of Texas is capable of doing
is the bigger problem than how long they're doing it.

(01:35:33):
Did they have to have too much power? Do they
need to take some power away from them?

Speaker 14 (01:35:37):
Yeah, we need to get rid of We need to
make sure that person can't serve in that role forever.
So taking uh term limiting that person will change the
way that the lobby interacts with the speaker. Right now,
the speaker raises millions of dollars that he distributes out
to members that he's better faithful than him and it's
it's how he how perpetuates his regime.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
Okay, what do you make of the current situation.

Speaker 14 (01:36:04):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
Is no, we don't know howse speaker we had. We
still have the same two candidates we had a week
before and the week before that and the week before that.
When does this get resolved? In your mind?

Speaker 14 (01:36:14):
Jimmy, this is the best situation Conservatives have ever been
in the Texas House.

Speaker 12 (01:36:18):
And we're less than a week out from.

Speaker 3 (01:36:20):
The speakership vote, and no one knows who.

Speaker 17 (01:36:22):
The speaker's going to be.

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
It's the first time in decades that's never been the case.
That's a good thing, and the reason is no one
has the votes right now.

Speaker 14 (01:36:32):
So we've got David Cook and we've got uh, Dustin Burroughs.
Dustin Burroughs kind of represents the UNI Party. David Cook
represents our best opportunity to really transform the way the
Texas House works and reform uh, not only the speakership,
but the interaction of the members with the speakership. We're
in the best position we could possibly be uh to

(01:36:55):
change the way that things are done. So, no one
knows who's gonna have the vote on January fourteenth, but
the speakership boat in my view.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
It could last for days. Yeah, Okay, we shall see
what happens. Thank you for your time, sir, appreciated. Good
luck with the snow. Mitch Little, former Ken Paxton defense attorney.
He's a new state representative from North Texas, where evidently
they're having some cell phone issues this morning. I guess
I shouldn't be surprised. Did you guy have the roads
all cleared for the semi final games tonight up at
Jerry World, Ohio State? I mean, folks in Ohio know

(01:37:29):
what to do in the snow. I don't know if
you know those of us from Texas, you know from
ut know exactly what to do. And hopefully everybody got
up there early seven twenty six. It is time to
take a look at your money. Jeff Bellinger is here,
and Jimmy, there's a big deal in the energy sector.
Constellation Energy agreed to buy Calpine Corporation for nearly sixteen

(01:37:49):
and a half billion dollars. This deal expands Constellation's power
generation assets. It adds seventy eight plans in twenty two
states to the company's portfolio. The Labor Department releases the
December employment report just a few minutes from now. Analysts
say Wall Street needs a Goldilocks employment report if December
job creation was too hot stocks will likely fall. If

(01:38:12):
it's too co a cool, they would also expect to
pull back.

Speaker 22 (01:38:15):
The analysts say the Goldilocks range is between one hundred
thousand and two hundred thousand new jobs. The forecasts are
in that range. Stock market futures are mixed ahead of
the report. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
You are Houston's News. Why there are traffic plus breaking
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More of what's happening now from the John Moris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
It is seven thirty now here in Houston's Morning News,
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
the Texas great, It's fine this morning. The California death
toll is up to ten and up at seven thirty eight?
Is Trump getting ready to save your gas? Kitchen stove
details and the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive again with skyline.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
Kind of a three headed monster on the northwest corner here.
This is a wreck on the west Loop six ten
southbound at Hempstead. I don't think it'll be there for
a while. But it's not just messing up the west
loop from two to ninety going down to uptown. It's
also messing up two nine. You're two ninety up from
Antwan now it's all connected there, and also your north
loop six y ten as I'm messed up from TC

(01:39:31):
Chester trying to get down this way, So that's messing
up all three roadways two eighty eight south of Meridiana
Parkway and outbound accident.

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
It looks ugly too.

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
Skymichael A Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather
Center Clotdie Sky. Some light rain this morning, that's pretty
much going at this point. Just cloudy for the rest
of the day. Forty six, clearing in cold Tonight, low
thirty one, sunny, a little bit warmer, fifty three Tomorrow
Sunday cloudy, more scattered shower chances with a high fifty six,
looking at some sixties next week. Temperature right now thirty

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eight at your officials, severe weather station News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It is time now for the news. Here's
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:40:12):
Thank you, Jimmy It is seven point thirty one on
KTRH our top story. The aircut weatherwatch continues through today,
but the grid as held up in the winter storm
that gave snow to Dallas. The impacts here are rain
and flight disruptions. This morning, we have sixty five cancelations
at Bush twenty four, a hobby so far. In Los Angeles.

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The death toll is at ten in the wildfires that
continued to burn this morning.

Speaker 24 (01:40:38):
Thankfully the wins have really died down, but the devastation
is far and why we are seeing more and more
firefighters come up and down, pch, police officers, all sorts
of personnel. The bad news as we are learning at
least two people were killed in the Palisades fire.

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
Jeff Paul reporting there there have been multiple rests for
looting in the area. President elect Donald Trump continues to
hit California Governor Gavin Newsom for the response to the fires.

Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
I think it's one of the great catastium is in
the history of our nation.

Speaker 25 (01:41:10):
This is not just in Los Angeles.

Speaker 12 (01:41:13):
I've never seen anything like that.

Speaker 5 (01:41:15):
That was Trump at mar A Lago last night. Seven
point thirty three. Now sentencing in Trump's Manhattan business fraud
conviction moves forward after the US Supreme Court denies his
application for a delay.

Speaker 26 (01:41:26):
This is what some of us predicted when the appeals
were started or it just began. Marshawn really played this perfectly.
And I say that not as a compliment.

Speaker 5 (01:41:36):
That's legal analyst Jonathan Turley. George Marshawn has already said
he would not be sentencing Trump to jail. Time Former
President Jimmy Carter laid to rest in Georgia after his
funeral service at Washington National Cathedral yesterday.

Speaker 27 (01:41:51):
I miss him, but I take solace in knowing and
he is beloved. Rosland are reunited again.

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
Joe Biden's eulogy and Biden's radical Title nine rewrite to
include trans athletes is struck down by a federal judge trying.

Speaker 28 (01:42:08):
To include gender identity, turns the whole idea of Title
nine on its head.

Speaker 5 (01:42:15):
Policy analyst Sherry Sylvester. The federal court in Kentucky followed
an earlier ruling by the US Supreme Court. It's now
seven point thirty four. Is the mainstream media dead? Some
say yes. After Trump's election win, it certainly is at
a crossroads.

Speaker 29 (01:42:31):
Viewership for CNN MSNBC and Network News has cratered since
the election, as trust in the establishment news media has
fallen to an all time low. To Paul University, Media
Studies professor Jeff McCall says, the industry should take this
as a wake up call, but they probably won't.

Speaker 30 (01:42:46):
My fear is an ainstream media will not use the
soul search that they need to do, and instead their
strategy in covering the next Trump administration will be rage
and resistance again, because I don't think they nowhere else
to go.

Speaker 29 (01:42:59):
At the same time, for Fox News and podcasts like
Joe Rogan's have soared since election Day. Corey Yelsen, who's
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
Meantime in admitting in an ending rather their fact checking
program metas Mark Zuckerberg admits that they've been censoring conservatives
for years. The whole thing may not have been for
the reason Zuckerberg was claiming.

Speaker 31 (01:43:19):
What Zuckerberg specifically addressed is that the European regulatory enforcement actions,
the Chinese system and other countries like Brazil in the UK,
those are harmful to Facebook's bottom line.

Speaker 5 (01:43:31):
That is, Dan Schneider with the Media Research Center, a
cultural change in the country there's a new number one
podcast and it's not hosted by Joe Rogan.

Speaker 32 (01:43:41):
Would you believe it's a faith based podcast? The Rosary
In a.

Speaker 25 (01:43:46):
Year to see a faith based podcast take over Joe
Rogan's spot as number one is kind of mind boggling
just to even say that out loud.

Speaker 32 (01:43:54):
That's Jason Romano, host of the faith based Sports Spectrum podcast.

Speaker 25 (01:44:00):
I think it shows that there's a real audience out
there that's.

Speaker 12 (01:44:02):
Hungry for content that.

Speaker 25 (01:44:04):
Is positive, that brings hope, and that brings truth from
a spiritual perspective.

Speaker 32 (01:44:09):
Moving faith based media into the mainstream. Jeff Biggs News
Radio seven forty K Tier eight, seven.

Speaker 5 (01:44:17):
Thirty five, and you're gonna have even more sticker shock
at the supermarket this weekend. Ed prices are up as
bird flu causes a shortage.

Speaker 33 (01:44:25):
The shortage is nationwide, hurting local businesses everywhere that use eggs.

Speaker 34 (01:44:29):
Because of what has consistently happened with as and they're
a commodity and that even the suppliers can't control the
prices when things like this happens.

Speaker 33 (01:44:37):
Suzanne and Mitchell Walker own a cheesecake business based in
North Texas, Trying to compensate for the high prices without
hurting themselves or their customers.

Speaker 35 (01:44:45):
Queazes you everywhere, so you look everywhere. You try to
see where can you save some money without cutting quality.

Speaker 33 (01:44:51):
The Walkers say they bought a case of eggs recently
for one hundred and ten dollars, up from forty five
dollars four years ago. Share Lewis News Radio seven forty We've.

Speaker 5 (01:45:00):
Got the latest jobs numbers for December and they're much
better than expected. Maybe it's excitement over the new Trump administration.
The economy added two hundred and fifty six thousand jobs
in December, and we know that small business optimism is
at its highest level in four years. Texas economic researcher
Ray Perriman says that's because of Trump.

Speaker 14 (01:45:21):
On the whole.

Speaker 36 (01:45:22):
I said that there's a little more optimism and an
expectation of lower regulation, maybe lower taxes.

Speaker 17 (01:45:27):
I think to that nature.

Speaker 5 (01:45:29):
And he says when more people are optimistic, they're more
willing to take a chance and either open a new
business or expand the one they own. Seven thirty seven.
The Astros, a day after avoiding arbitration with Luis Garcia,
do the same with starter from ber Valdez. The Rockets
win again their third straight, beating Memphis one nineteen to
one fifteen. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, Weather and

(01:45:51):
Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 18 (01:45:55):
Con your best ways are round Houston. Next on the
ten mindset KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
So what your stoves? He's in a gas stove. Seven
thirty eight is our time here in Houston's Warning News.
You know, we've had a lot of stories about the
environmental types wanting to get rid of your gas stoves.
All the New York and California governments that have tried
to ban gas appliances from new builds, et cetera, et cetera,

(01:46:25):
et cetera. You know, especially in New York, they want
to take away gas powered stoves and ranges and the like,
and heaters and and all that stuff. Evidently, President elect
Trump is weighing an executive order that would protect gas
powered appliances, including stoves and heaters, from federal and local
regulators who want to phase them out of homes and businesses.

(01:46:47):
They've spent the last couple of years where Republicans have
attacking local Democrat efforts to limit gas powered appliances and
new construction projects. So they think The best way maybe
to handle the is through executive order. Now, the question is,
can you make an executive order as president of the
United States that supersedes what the local government wants to do.

(01:47:10):
Certainly you can make an executive order that would have
an impact on federal rules and regulations, but what about
local rules and regulations. That's going to become the question
of say bet to say that that if he does
do that, there'll be a lawsuit, no doubt. I also
wonder because I believe that the true answer to some

(01:47:30):
of these problems are not executive orders, but acts by Congress,
laws passed by Congress that that is much more difficult
to overturn Number one, and and and it's not at
the whim of whatever president is in power to be
able to change an executive order. If it's like all
of Biden's executive orders, very easy to overturn once Trump
gets into office, just like when Trump is no longer

(01:47:52):
in office, his executive orders will be very easy to overturn.
So the real answers are in Congress or in state
and local government for them to seven time for traffic
and weather to getting I guess stove out of my
cold just got stick to your ahead and your guys stops.

Speaker 4 (01:48:07):
Come on, all right, let's get on west Loop six
' ten. This was a three headed monster southbound. I'm
going to see if it's still there. I believe they've
cleared that, but I need to verify it. This was
southbound west Loop at Hempstead Highway.

Speaker 3 (01:48:19):
This is just not coming in for me.

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
It sure looks clear, but I've got the backup now
going down to uptown right after two ninety. That's getting better.
We're not as two nine eat up on the Northwest Freeway.
But somebody bumped into somebody in the backup right at
Mangum where you get your driver's license, so we're backed
up from Antoine. Still on two ninety. It's not bad
enough to take Campsted Highway. That's a bunch of lights here.
To eighty eight southbound Meridiana Parkway. Clear that wreck. Some

(01:48:46):
of the people have moved over to five twenty one,
so that's getting a little heavier. To eighty eight northbound
from the Beltway. That spreaks Gulf Freeway. Smashed up a
little at Griggs Well. Look at the Southwest Freeway. I
think we got drouble in the canyon we'll check that
at the seven and fifty break, Jimmy southwest endbound right
past two eighty eight, reports of an accident. Terry gets
what I did last night that I haven't done a

(01:49:08):
long time. Losses are getting nervous. No, no, no, I
drove fifty five. We had slick freeways. I drove fifty
five holes hours.

Speaker 6 (01:49:15):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center. It
normally does fifty five in the twenty five from our
KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center. Terry is here.
We're loved with a boy. We've got a lot of
clouds out there this morning. It is dark looking.

Speaker 19 (01:49:30):
Yeah, well, let me check the radar. I haven't checked
the radar because I've been watching snow across the south. Yeah,
things are looking much quieter. That's great. The clouds are
going to hang around, though. It's gonna take us a
little while before we get a good dose of drier air.
So clouds and a northwesterly breeze, and it is breezy,
temperatures aren't really warming up. Load of mid forties. That's

(01:49:53):
all we're going to see today. It's cold tonight. Most
of us in the thirties tonight, but the sun is
back tomorrow and it is warmer than forty degrees. Will
be in the allud of mid fifties tomorrow and temperatures
will stay in the fifties and to Sunday, Monday and Tuesday,
we do have some rain, a forty percent chance of
some rain on Sunday, and then we dry out for

(01:50:15):
Monday and Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
Right down thirty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. What you need to know
for the day ahead.

Speaker 18 (01:50:24):
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Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
All Right, seven fifties our time here on Houston's Morning News.
You know, one of the things I've been pondering all
morning here from the California wildfire stories the insurance aspect here,
and we've talked a little bit about this on the show,
about people having their insurance canceled or the rates have
gotten so high they can no longer afford it. We
have a certain amount of that going on here in
Texas related to homeowners insurance. My homeowners insurance policy went up,

(01:50:55):
went from like twenty eight hundred dollars to four grand
last year to this year, and that was the cheapest
rate I could get. It's going to be very pricey.
And there is insurance of last resort. That's something that
California and Texas have in common. We have an insurance
of last resort as well. So we'll talk a little

(01:51:16):
bit about the comparisons between the two and hopefully maybe
Monday on the show we can get into the more
specific Texas angle of this. But the former head of
the California Insurance Commission was on Fox yesterday. We have
some audio from him coming up next. First, we've got
traffic and weather together, starting with Skypikes problems in the canyon.

Speaker 4 (01:51:35):
Oh, this freeway big enough for both of us. Pardner
Southwest Freeway inbound right after two eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
That's your rag boy.

Speaker 4 (01:51:42):
That's multiple lanes here, multiple vehicles, big backups after curving northbound,
loosen twenty minutes this way.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
Let's do the Kdie Freeway instead.

Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
I know they have that pavement repair on the curve
after Houston Avenue, but it's a better route. If you
have to take the loop, go around and take too
eighty eight instead. They've cleared the West Loops southbound wreck
that was right at Hempston Highways, not only messing up
the Westloop but also packing two ninety inbound. I'm Skymichael
the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather
center for today, cloudy skys. What you see is what
we get for the day today. With the high temperature
right about forty six, we're going to see some sunshine
tomorrow we warm up to fifty three and then back
to cloudy sky's on Sunday with a shower chance and
a high temperature about fifty six. Right now thirty nine
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(01:52:33):
I'm to check out some of our top stories this morning.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:52:36):
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economy adds two hundred and fifty six thousand jobs in December,
while the unemployment rate drops to four point one percent.
The death toll in the Los Angeles wildfires is up
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Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
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Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
Use radio seven KTRH seven fifty two is our time
here in Houston's morning news. Insurance it's gotten very, very expensive,
and in some states where natural disasters are sort of
a part of life, they have insurance of what we
call insurance of last resort. In California it's called FAIR

(01:53:29):
is the name of their organization. Here is former California
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. Whether or not Fair has enough
assets given the huge billion I don't even know at
this point how many billions of dollars are down the
drain in California? Do they have the money in order
to pay off on this insurance? The people who have
this insurance, will they be able to get their money?

Speaker 45 (01:53:50):
Insurance companies that are insuring homeowners and businesses in California
have adequate reserves to cover clays associated.

Speaker 12 (01:54:00):
With this event?

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Okay, that's great, one too, the Fair plan.

Speaker 12 (01:54:05):
Yeah, well that and that is important news.

Speaker 25 (01:54:07):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:54:07):
So if you have insurance, you're going to make a claim,
You're going to.

Speaker 45 (01:54:13):
End up in a battle with the insurance company because
that's always how it works, and there's going to be
some delay. It's going to be very frustrating, but they
have the resources to pay the claims. However, as you
point out, some number of private insurance companies have been
non renewing policies, including substantially state farm in the Pacific

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Palisides area.

Speaker 12 (01:54:36):
The state of California, like.

Speaker 45 (01:54:37):
Thirty five other states, has set up an insurerve last
resort called a Fair Plan, which is an involuntary private
association of all the insurance companies writing in the state.
It's not a state agency, it's not taxpayer funded, but
it's required to offer an insurance policy if you can't
find a private insurance policy. So because many homeowners in

(01:54:58):
Pacific Palisades we're non renewed by their insurer, many of
them ended up on the Fair Plan. That explains why
the Fair Plan has about five point eight nine billion
dollars in exposure just in Pacific palises The other reason
that number is so big is because the average home
value in Pacific Palisades is about three point five million dollars.

(01:55:20):
So both the policy numbers and the amount of the
value of the home has created a significant and substantial
exposure for the Fair Plan. Can we say at this
moment that the Fair Plan has inadequate reserves and inadequate
reinsurance to cover claims?

Speaker 12 (01:55:38):
No, we don't know that.

Speaker 45 (01:55:40):
We do know, though, is they have about two hundred
million dollars in reserves, two point five billion dollars in reinsurance,
and if they blow through that state law allows them
first to assess all the private insurers up the one
billion dollars, not each but collectively to further cover any
losses the Fairplan has. But then after that, under an

(01:56:01):
order that was issued last year, the Fair Plan can
get permission to then assess through the private insurers all
policy holders in California. So the bottom line is, if
you have a Fair Plan policy you're going to get
and your home is destroyed or damaged, the Fair Plan
has either enough resources directly or the ability to assess

(01:56:24):
to cover those claims.

Speaker 3 (01:56:25):
Yeah, it's the assessment part. You have all the other
people that don't live in wildfire country who are going
to end up, you know, paying thousands of dollars themselves
towards relief for the people who do live in fire country.
Like I said, we have something here at the Texas
wind Storm Insurance Association. I'm trying to get some more
information about that. I have that insurance at our Freeport

(01:56:46):
home because it's on the on the coast, and that's
you know, that's about the only thing you can get
to protect you from hail and wind damage along the
Texas coast. But do they have the funds if we
had a Category five hurricane in order to pay everybody off. Anyway,
we'll worry about that Monday. You'll have a great weekend.
See a Monday morning, bright nearly at five. I'll see
you the saf froom at four an am, nine fifty
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