The Democrats Got The Speaker They Wanted

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 01/15/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well, good morning, it's five am here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as we get
started this morning, the Democrats got the speaker. They wanted,
fireworks at Pete Hegsett's confirmation hearing and coming up at
five o'h eight, making NRG fit four hockey details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, explain

(00:37):
to me what's going on with what withm with hockey. Yeah,
that's what I'm gonna do here in about eight minutes.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Okay, because I know nothing about hockey. All right, let's
don't ruin my teas here. I'm not gonna blow it.
What's going on with the drive, let's ull you know what.
Let's have over to the butud Plant, Jimmy, and we're
looking at iten East.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
This is pure suckage.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Every night this week they have been shutting down lanes
on the East Freeway from the butt Plant out to
Federal Road, and it's been horrible. It's not those trucks fault,
but it's a wall of them on the outbound eastbound side.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
And then when they finished this work, the freeway's actually worse.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I don't know what the hell they're doing there, but
that's at least twenty extra minutes of suckage on the
outbound side. Tech ninety Instead, I'm Skytmike on the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Claude Sky's for today's light chance of a shower with
a high temperature right about fifty four. If we certainly
have some shower chances this morning, ran into a little
one on the way into work this morning. We'll get
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rumors of frozen precipitation on Tuesday. But right now it
is anywhere or nothing butt frozen or nothing like frozen.

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now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
He thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
It's five oh two in our top story this hour,
the Austin Swamp.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
At the midpoint of an exciting day, on the heels
of an eventful cup of months. I'm honored beyond words
to stand before you as speaker.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
Lubbock State Representative Dustin Burrows is the new speaker of
the Texas House, beating the Republican nominee David Cook.

Speaker 8 (02:12):
I don't think he can be a conservative bainly because
he's elected by Democrats. Four Democrats supported him, then the Republicans.

Speaker 6 (02:18):
Texas GOP chair Abraham George. Talking to KTRH after the vote,
Burrows got forty nine Democrat votes, only thirty six from Republicans. Meantime,
in the Senate, Governor Greg Abbott called on lawmakers to
pass priority items like criminal justice reform.

Speaker 9 (02:36):
There were a problem with judges not adhering to the laws.
What should be the law, and that is you don't
let somebody arrest it for murder back out on the
screen just to kill somebody else again.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
Abbit also pushed for school Choice five three and in Washington,
fireworks during the hearing for incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegsith.

Speaker 10 (02:55):
Thank you for figuratively and literally having my back.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
Who are Missagus That protester was kicked out. Democrats also
tried to attack Hegxith on accusations that were debunked years ago,
and Texas Senator Ted Cruz aid Hexith was impressive.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I believe Pete Hegseth will be confirmed.

Speaker 11 (03:17):
I believe all the President Trump's cabinet nominees are going
to be.

Speaker 12 (03:21):
Confirmed, Cruz on Fox.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
Among those with hearings today incoming Attorney General Pambondi and
Marco Rubio, Trump's choice to be Secretary of State. Also
on Capitol Hill, the House passing a bill banning men
from playing women's sports.

Speaker 13 (03:37):
It's not just anger, it's fear biological men competing against
women also poses a threat to the safety of our.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
Girls, Speaker Mike Johnson to Texas Democrats, including Henry Quaar,
voted with Republicans five oh four on k TRH and
with days until Donald Trump returns to office, the mainstream
media has shown that they'll be just as bad as
they were during the first Trump administration.

Speaker 14 (04:03):
As Tristan Justice notes in The Federalist, that's because they
haven't learned.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Anything over the last eight years.

Speaker 15 (04:10):
Claim to have some type of honest reflection about how
they're operating, and then go back and do exactly what
they've been doing, which is undermine Trump at every opportunity.

Speaker 14 (04:18):
Which means we can expect more of the same over
the next four years.

Speaker 15 (04:23):
Donald Trump sends these people on such a personal level
for some reason. I think the Trump range ins in
room that it's going to be even more hysterical.

Speaker 14 (04:32):
With more and more people now getting their news elsewhere.
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty k T or eight.

Speaker 12 (04:39):
Thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
At The border crossings in December were up from November
as illegals try to get here before Trump takes office.
The Biden administration claiming though that crossings are at their
lowest level since July of twenty twenty. If Trump really
wants to close the border, analysts say he should just
follow the Texas playbook.

Speaker 16 (04:58):
We will continue to hold a present on the line.
But most importantly, this is going to be a multi
jurisdictional effort. This is going to require federal, state, and
local resources.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
Selene Rodriguez with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says the
state has learned a lot about the cartels and terrorism
and should share that knowledge with the feds. At five
h five, the death toll rises in the California wildfires
now at twenty five, with dangerous conditions in place through
midday today and among the many ripping Governor Gavin Newsom

(05:29):
over the state's response includes actor Michael Rappaport, We want.

Speaker 17 (05:34):
A Trump proof California. How about fireproof in California?

Speaker 18 (05:39):
Tell about Trump?

Speaker 5 (05:40):
This Trump that he's not even president of.

Speaker 18 (05:42):
What he say.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
This is on you, Rapaport, on X looking at your money.
We get at least one last temperature check on the
Biden economy at seven point thirty. With the release of
December's inflation numbers, it's expected to show that inflation is
still sticky UHS. Even Craig says markets aren't concerned and
that there's a lot of talk about how the Federal

(06:05):
Reserve will respond.

Speaker 19 (06:06):
The Fed is doing as best as can and tricky environment.
They claim to be a political and the average they've
held to that, and you can always tell as politicians
complain about what they're doing, So that's always a good sign.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
As for overnight training, Dow is up eighty two points,
with the S and P five hundred and NASTAQ futures
up as well. Because of inflation. There's a New Year's
resolution to quit spending cold Turkey.

Speaker 20 (06:32):
The buy nothing movement has been around for years, but
it's picking up steam now with Americans facing high inflation
and record debt. Financial planner Richard Rosso says it's a
good place to start getting a handle on your money.

Speaker 21 (06:43):
If this gets you off the fence and accelerates you
to look at your daily cash flow micro budget, maybe
so you know where every dollar's going. You might create
some good habits, and I don't think there's anything wrong
with it.

Speaker 20 (06:55):
Buy nothing plan includes only spending on basic necessities and
acquiring other items through artering or second hand sales. Cory
Ulson Here's radio seven forty KTRH and more ripple effects
from Bidenomics. You could see a new fee at your restaurant.
Check this after an Iowa barbecue joint added what was
called an inflation fee.

Speaker 22 (07:14):
There's still this issue of you know, costs of goods
are up, cost of labor is up, and you know
many restaurants are taking it on the chin.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
After customer outrage, the Iowa place changed the name to
markets their charge and the Rockets go for their fifth
straight win visiting Denver tonight pregame at seven on Sportstock
seven ninety I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News weather in
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Speaker 2 (07:40):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett Go five Oh.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
It is our time here on Houston's Morning News. We
don't care about hockey, even though I'm from a originally
from a city that was one of the original eight
members of the National Hockey League. Now never got in,
never got into hockey. Too hard to follow the puck.
It really is hard. It's it's it's a fast sport,
it's a brutal sport. There's a lot of it, like

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much like soccer. There's not enough scoring, at least in
my mind to keep me entertained. But but but that aside,
I did that aside.

Speaker 18 (08:14):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
The National Hockey League is a successful entity, and there's
been talked for a long time whether or not Houston
should join Dallas as another Texas city that has a
professional hockey team. Question is, okay, how do you attract
how do you attract a team here? And do you
end up with an expansion team if you do do this,
or do you end up with a relocation situation. I

(08:36):
don't know if there's any franchises in the NHO who
are looking to relocate at this point in time, that
would be I think probably preferable to an expansion team,
because if you're talking expansion, you're talking about a number
of years before they even begin to get competitive. Anyway,
first things first got to have a place to play,
right There have been multiple conceptual plans for revamping NRG

(08:58):
Arena not Energy Stadium, Energy Arena four. New designs focus
on key needs for the two biggest events, the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo and the Home of the Texans.
But in addition to that, they would like to create
a new arena or revamp the arena that they have
right now so that professional hockey could be played there.

(09:23):
Right now, they're talking about two point three million dollar renovation.
You'll just for new signage, spruce to place up, make
it look a little bit better. But in addition to
having the proper seating for rodeo events, they also are
talking about suitable seating for a hockey arena, a two
hundred by eighty five foot hockey ice floor. I have

(09:47):
no idea how much that would cost, but they feel
it something that they would need to do to get
the arena in line with NHL regulations, which would be intended,
of course, to eventually land pro hockey team in Houston.
Five ten time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
You're the rules to hockey, right, I mean you understand
what's going on.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I mainly I mainly watch hockey for the fights. When
I watch hockey, I watch it for the fights.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ye all right, I would need I would need like
an interpreter. I love I love to watch it. It's fascinating, but.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
It is interpreted if you and if you don't understand
the rules, you can really enjoy it, can't it.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
No, I don't know. It's it's so weird, you know.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
I'm just I like it when people do like hockey traditions,
when they yell whatever, why do they throw octopuses? We'll
talk about that. Outbound, I tend each one. We can't good, good,
We'll get to the bottom of this. Uh East Freeway.
I don't know what this suck. It just well, I
mean I know it's road work. They've been doing it
all week and they started at night, and it's it's
just terrible. Don't get caught in that. This is East

(10:44):
Freeway outbound right at the bud Plant, right at six
' ten and it goes over to Federal. I think
they've just now picked it up, but man, it's been awful.
And then I don't know what they're doing, but the
lanes are actually worse after they do the work. If
you can get somewhere by two twenty five instead or
high one down and do that for now, Terry your hazardous,
so that forces you onto six ' ten this way now, Advisors,

(11:06):
Katie Freeway inbound, you look nice outbound. I've got the
roadwork coming out of downtown, and I've let the pretty
ladies on TV know if they don't know the exact laneage,
there's down to three lanes outbound from forty five to
heighths Boolevard. You've gained that fourth lane back right at
TC jest or why do they throw octopuses, Jimmy, I'm
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffics on.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I try to keep it quick. How many legs does
an octopus have? Eighth?

Speaker 23 (11:29):
Right?

Speaker 5 (11:29):
How many original teams were in the National Hockey League?

Speaker 24 (11:32):
That is so cool.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Yeah, it's when it's it's it's it's like a thing.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
We're going to the playoffs kind of thing, you know,
we're going to make it to the playoffs, so yeah,
they throw out the octopus.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
Yeah did you know that Cherry.

Speaker 25 (11:42):
I had no idea about the's hockey like.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Me, we might all have to learn about hockey On
Tuesday from Mark katrih Top Pass Defenders twenty four hour
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Right, yeah, exactly, these we're screwed on Tuesdays. What it means?

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Well, here, okay, let's get the next couple of days
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Speaker 12 (12:29):
Load of mid.

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Sixties Tomorrow, mid upper sixties Friday, load of mid sixties Saturday.
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Speaker 12 (12:42):
So that's the one thing.

Speaker 25 (12:44):
I can tell you we will need to bundle up
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Speaker 5 (13:00):
Okay, I don't like that much.

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Speaker 3 (13:17):
So I'll tell you what that was. Quite the hearing
yesterday with Pete Hegseth in front of the Senate. The
clear motive of the Democrats and all this is just
to try to smear the guy's best they could. They're
even talking about you know, Tim Kaine was out there
talking about marital infidelities and all that kind of stuff.
In Pete Hegseth, he just kept a straight face, kept

(13:40):
his calm, kept his school We've all made mistakes. That
kind of thing, and the thing that was impressive, I
guess was his ability to keep his cool, to stay
level headed and not let them goad him into a
really bad response, which is what they were trying to do.
We'll share some of that dialogue back and forth between

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the Democrats and Pete Eggseth and that confirmation hearing coming
up next. But first we've got traffic and weather together
as we check out the drive once again with skuy
Mike Dude.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Let's ride up from Freeport. We will need two eighty
eight for that as well. We come up northbound from
Lake Jackson. What's going on, Dell? How are you doing
this morning?

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Outbound? We're looking good.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Northbound, there's Steven f Woo, Stephen Foston Lookout. It's always
morning in Angleton and coming up from Highway six twenty
two minutes into down we haven't had our golf freeway
record park Place yet, and we haven't had our north
Freeway reck at Shepherd yet. Tip line's right there when
it does happen. Seven one three two one two t ips.
I'm Skywiite from the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
From r KTRH top Tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center,
Claude Sky slight chance of a shower. High temperature today
right about fifty four, partly Claudi little warmers sixty five tomorrow,
mostly cloudy, about sixty eight for the high on Friday,
and then we start the big cool down into next
week's weather, which is not going to be very nice.
Temperature right now is forty nine at your officials Beer

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weather Station. News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check
out some of our top stories. Here's Cliff, Thank you Jimmy.

Speaker 12 (15:06):
At five twenty two.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
DHS nominee Christy Noam's confirmation hearing is pushed back until
Friday because of a delay in her FBI background check.
HPD is investigating a homicide after a man was found
dead in his Midtown apartment, and tonight's powerball jackpot is
three hundred and three million dollars. Get the way this
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Speaker 18 (15:33):
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Speaker 3 (15:45):
So yesterday was the Secretary of Defense hearing in front
of the Senate. Pete Hegseth I think he did a
very good job of keeping his cool, keeping his calm,
answering questions as specifically as he could. You can imagine
there are a lot of left leaning lawmakers out there
who are trying to make him look bad. So I

(16:06):
thought we'd share a little audio of what he had
to put up with yesterday.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Here we go.

Speaker 24 (16:09):
Would you explain what a jag off is?

Speaker 10 (16:13):
I don't think I need to, sir. Why not because
the men and women watching understand.

Speaker 24 (16:20):
Well, perhabsolutely.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
My colleagues don't understand it would be a.

Speaker 10 (16:24):
Jag officer who puts his or her own priorities in
front of the warfighters, their promotions, their medals, in front
of having the backs that those are making the tough
calls on.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
The front lines.

Speaker 27 (16:35):
The most important thing about these hearings is that the
nominee shows they have the right temperament. Defend your position
without losing your cool, and do your best to avoid
the gotcha moments. Pete did that today.

Speaker 28 (16:47):
Quite sure that every general who serves should not go
directly into the defense industry for ten years. You're not
willing to make that same pledge.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
I'm not a general.

Speaker 23 (16:59):
Senator.

Speaker 27 (17:02):
Democrats underestimated access. They thought he was just a TV
talking head.

Speaker 18 (17:07):
And I get it.

Speaker 26 (17:08):
We make it look easy.

Speaker 18 (17:10):
But everyone here.

Speaker 27 (17:11):
At Fox knows when you come to work you have
to be prepared. And the Democrats didn't see it coming today.
Pete was more prepared than they were.

Speaker 11 (17:19):
Can you give me an experience or your actual experience
of driving innovation in an organization?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Give me an example of where you have done.

Speaker 10 (17:27):
My Goodness Center absolutely a concerned Veterans for America. We
created the Fixing Healthcare Veterans Healthcare task Force, a bipartisan
task force that had never been done before, to create policy,
to drive policy change on Capitol Hill that organizations fought
ferociously against. Where you got the via Accountability Act passed
and the Mission Act passed in a way that a
nonprofit of our size, veterans organization.

Speaker 18 (17:48):
You appreciate, has never done.

Speaker 10 (17:49):
If you're testified in all the letters you put forward.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
To the committee which are on the care.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (17:56):
Okay, all right, I didn't get you on that one.
Good Could you stop talking please, because you're making me
look bad. Basically that's what happened with that one. Okay, Well,
you know we'll have some more to share with you
this morning, and some reviews on how Republicans in particular
think that he did. I mean, at the end of
the day, the Senate majority is Republican, so the only

(18:17):
people that really have to be impressed are Republican senators.
So that you note that you get all of their support,
and you will be just fine. You will be confirmed.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Five twenty six now here on news radio seven forty KTRH,
it is time to take a look at your money.
Jeff the morning, and good morning to you, Jimmy.

Speaker 30 (18:33):
There was another mixed close on Wall Street. The doll
and the S and P five hundred posted gains yesterday,
but the Nasdaq closed a quarter percent lower. The Consumer
Price Index could be the direction center for today comes
out at seven point thirty this morning. The clock is
ticking for TikTok, and there's a report the social media
platform will decide its next move after the Supreme Court

(18:56):
issues its decision on whether to block a federal law
banning the China owned app. The information says TikTok is
ready to pull the plug on its US operations on Sunday.
Other reports indicate China is considering selling TikTok to Elon
Musk and the Jimmy Donaldson known as Mister Beast, is
trying to put together a group of billionaires interested in

(19:17):
buying TikTok. Stock market future is higher right across the
board this hour. The S and P futures up eleven,
Nasdaq futures are up fifty three, the Dow futures are
up ninety points. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

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It is five point thirty now here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Verrett. Among our top stores this half hour.
If the Left tried to rattle Pete, it did work.
The Texas GLP didn't get the guy they wanted for speaker,
and coming up at five thirty eight, Trump wants to
create an external revenue service. Details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston this morning news. First, let's check in

(20:10):
with scud Mike. By the way, I have an update
on the Octopus story.

Speaker 23 (20:13):
Let me tell you about it.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Okay, we'll get to that at forty right. Let's do
you know what, Let's do the Golf Freeway now one
more time. We've got I'd just like to check that
roadwork between Tiki Island and Buckets. For now, we're not
bumping into each other.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
You got three little teeny tiny lanes and the text
dot wall of death. This is a lifestyle now, a
new lifestyles on the Katie Freeway. If you're just getting
back from vacation somewhere warm outbound from forty five outbound
side Katie Freeway, we're down to three lanes. That's a
lot of fun. In the afternoon. Two right lanes are blocked.
You get four lanes back after heights Boolevard. I'm Skymike

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From our Katie rh Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
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It's time out for the news. Here's Cleff Saunders.

Speaker 12 (21:11):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
It's five thirty one on KGRH.

Speaker 31 (21:13):
Our top story, mister Hagg said, I do not believe
that you are qualified to meet the overwhelming demands of
this job.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Democrats went on the attack against Pete hag Seth and
his confirmation hearing yesterday, but the incoming Defense Secretary held
up and impressed Republicans.

Speaker 32 (21:29):
He put it himself extremely well and made a strong
argument for why he ought to be the next Secretary
of Defense.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
Senate majority of Leader John Thune there. Meantime, several of
Trump's cabinet picks have their hearings today, including Marco Rubio,
the potential Secretary of State. At five point thirty two. Meantime,
in Austin, I.

Speaker 33 (21:48):
Declare the Honorable Dustin Boroughs of Lubbock County to be
the duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of
the eighty ninth.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
Legislature's GOP nominee David Cook. So Burrows is the new Speaker,
getting more Democrats to vote for him than Republicans.

Speaker 34 (22:08):
That raises concerns about not only backroom deals and by
partisan compromises, but it is correctly legitimately seen as a
continuation of Democrat chairmanships and influence in the Texas legislature.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
Political analyst led Davidyick joins Jimmy It's seven twenty Meantime,
Governor Abbott is threatened to fire the Texas A and
M president over sponsoring a DEI conference.

Speaker 35 (22:31):
They're sponsoring travel to a conference which bans white and
Asian students.

Speaker 36 (22:35):
This president, Mark Welsh, is someone who was working in
the Obama administration.

Speaker 26 (22:41):
He's someone that is very liberal.

Speaker 35 (22:43):
At hard Christian Collins of Texas Youth Summit says this
is just another loophole to skirt state DEI laws and
turning A and M red again falls on the Senate
and Board of Regents.

Speaker 36 (22:53):
Governor Abbott needs to be careful about who he appoints.
The Board of Regents needs to be careful about who
they hire.

Speaker 35 (22:59):
A and M in a statement they don't support any
organization or conference that excludes people based on race Andrey
Perard News Radio seven forty KTR.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
And because of the threat late yesterday, A and M
withdrew its participation the Texas Railroad Commission has to deal
with plugging a number of abandoned oil wells, a problem
that goes back decades.

Speaker 37 (23:20):
Follow up which just not as robust as what it
is today, and so most of these issues are being
dealt with with much much over wells. We believe that
can be addressed.

Speaker 6 (23:30):
Todd Staples with the Texas Oil and Gas Association says
they're working with the legislature to resolve this quickly. Oil
prices have hit four months highs, just in time for
Trump's return to power. Foxes fill Flynn blames Joe Biden's
sanctions on Russian oil.

Speaker 38 (23:46):
Well, it means less oil on the market. But to
all of a sudden enforced sanctions when the president's out
the door seems to me to be a little bit vindictive,
wanting to create more problems for President Trump.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
All futures are up slightly this morning to about seventy
seven sixty a barrel. Joe Biden, who gives his farewell
address tonight, releases his farewell letter moments ago, claiming today
we have the strongest economy in the world. Our news
time now five thirty five. President Electrump may be ready
to roll back the Biden administration's power grab to restrict

(24:23):
things like gas stoves.

Speaker 39 (24:25):
He's considering a presidential order to protect the gas stoves
and heaters many have come to love on cold days
that mister Trump says he just likes gas heat better.

Speaker 24 (24:35):
Gas heater is much less expensive.

Speaker 40 (24:37):
As the expression goes, you don't itch, Does anybody have
a heater where you go and you scratching and Joe,
that's what they want you to have.

Speaker 24 (24:45):
They don't want you to have gas where you.

Speaker 40 (24:46):
Don't have the problems of the electric.

Speaker 39 (24:49):
Details of any presidential order over natural gas are still
in the discussion stages, according to reports this week. Michael
shilohe News Radio seven forty KTRA.

Speaker 6 (24:58):
And then there's the big Trek transformation Prey Trump two
point zero, the heads of Google, Meta and x all
supporting next week's inauguration. Ask Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan
telling kgih's Clay and Buck, this is the result of
a year's long effort by conservatives.

Speaker 41 (25:15):
A bunch of us just jug in and said we
cannot have this censorship. Because if you lose the right
to debate, you have free and fair and open debate,
you lose the First Amendment you lose Western civilization until
it is great to see the turnaround that has taken
place here in the past.

Speaker 26 (25:29):
Couple of years.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerbert are expected to attend the
inauguration in person, but don't look for Michelle Obama, the
former First Lady, won't be there. She didn't give a
reason eleven days after skipping Jimmy Carter's funeral. On the
international front, a deal between Israel and Hamas may be
close to getting done.

Speaker 42 (25:48):
The draft proposal stipulates that the ceasefire in Gaza would
last an initial forty two days. During that time, dozens
of hostages held by Hamas would be freed in exchange
for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
Fox's Jonathan Savage the Times of Israel reporting that Trump,
as President elect, has done more to push the two
sides to a deal in recent months than President Biden
has done in more than a year. It's five point
thirty six and dangerous conditions are expected to remain in
place today. As the wildfires continue to burn in California, the.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Wines are going to kick up.

Speaker 43 (26:24):
They're saying that maybe forty five mile an hour gusts,
So that definitely is something to be concerned about.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
La County Fire Captain Sheila Kelleher And looking at your health,
there's an alarming new report showing that sixty three percent
of doctors experienced burnout symptoms at least once a week.

Speaker 44 (26:41):
I think what we're seeing is something called moral injury.
A lot of physicians are burnt out or morally injured,
as some would say, because they're no longer practicing medicine.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
David Blott with Healthcare Finance Specialists says this could lead
to an even bigger shortage of doctors than we have
right now. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and
traffic station, News Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 12 (27:07):
The twentieth day of January.

Speaker 45 (27:09):
The President, Hi, Donald John Trump inauguration Day, the first
one hundred days and beyond on news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Yeah, what do we all stop paying taxes? What would
like be like?

Speaker 23 (27:23):
Then?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Five thirty eight is high time here in Houston's morning news.
The reason why I mentioned this is because President Trump
the President Act announcing yesterday he's going to create an
External Revenue Office External Revenue Service. If you will upon
his return to the White House, the External Revenue Service
will be collecting all foreign sourced revenues such as tariffs, saying,

(27:46):
for far too long, we've relied on taxing our great
people using the Internal Revenue Service through soft and pathetically
weak trade agreements. The American economy has delivered growth and
prosperity to the world while taxing ourselves. I am today
announcing that I will create the External Revenue Service to
collect our terrorists, duties, and all revenues that come from
foreign sources. How about that? What else did you say?

(28:14):
He says, We'll begin charging those that make money off
of us with trade and they will start paying finally
their fair share. And he went on from there. Wow, okay,
external Revenue Service. I can sound to that a lot
better than Internal Revenue Service. Oh, by the way, I
have a correction, and I'm very disappointed to myself for

(28:35):
forgetting this wrong.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
You know, Mike was acting Sky.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Mike was asking because we were talking about the possibility
of a Houston and hockey team not too far down
the road, you know, and then that renovations they want
to make to NRG over and there or two, so
they could have a hockey arena. The uh he asked
me about the tradition of throwing an octopus on the ice.
It actually began. This is why I'm so disappointed myself,
because I'm from Detroit. For goodness sakes, the Detroit Red

(29:01):
Wings started the tradition. It happened in nineteen fifty two
when two brothers who were running a market at the
Eastern Markets, like a farmer's market, a big farmer's market
in Detroit, you know where they have fresh seafood and
all kinds of other things. They threw an octopus onto
the ice at Olympia where the Detroit Red Wings were playing.
The significance of the eight arms is not the original

(29:25):
hockey teams. The significant significance of the eight arms is
that it takes eight games, eight wins in order to
win the Stanley Cup. That's at the time, it took
eight wins to win the Stanley Cup. That's where the
tradition came from. I guess other places throw other things
on the ice. I guess if you go to Nashville,
the Predators, they throw a catfish on the ice. I

(29:46):
have no idea why five forty times for traffic and
brothers together.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
There you go. I should have known that. No, No,
don't feel bad.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
I'm from Texas and it would surprise you what I
don't know about Rodeo. And I even come from a
Rodego family, so that's kind of embarrassing.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
Let's head back to iten.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Did they pick up that suckage over there on the
east side, Yes, they did. All right, you're good to
go now on the outbound eastbound side, and of course
later this morning around eight o'clock, they'll do that pavement
repair in front of the truck stops at Magnolia on
the outbound side, and for now it's a little thick
actually trying to get across the bridge going that way.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Pfizers, you look good this morning.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
On the inbound Katie Mills twenty nine minutes into the
President's he's outbound.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
Of course we started that roadwork.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Lifestyle that is on the outbound from forty five to
Heights Boulevard, three lanes, getting by Andy from Conro's on
the tip line.

Speaker 29 (30:34):
Good morning, Scot Mike.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
At Richie Road, there's a light rain.

Speaker 38 (30:38):
Traffic is boderate, going smoothly, but I'm just out coming
to air text.

Speaker 24 (30:43):
The rain is gone.

Speaker 19 (30:45):
Away.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Holy wow.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Doug from Mott Bellbue just hit me up on Facebook too,
and he said that they're getting rain over there. Terry,
it's too cold for rain. Come on, man, I mean
I can always take off more clothes. I'm Skymike on
a Generator supercenter dom I Center.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
No, you can from our Katy Rage Generators super Center
twenty four hours.

Speaker 12 (31:03):
Well way, it's cold, so you don't take off.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Clows exactly right. That's that's why the guy lives in Texas.
So we don't have to be subjective of this stuff.
But I'll tell you what we could be subjected to.
The only nice I like is on a hockey rink
at this point, Terry spith end of that. Don't want
to on the North Freeway, thank.

Speaker 25 (31:19):
You well, And we won't get any on the North
Freeway this week, let's just put it that way. Yeah,
we do have some showers out there this morning, a
little area of low pressure out in the Gulf bringing
us Summarine. It's a forty percent chance of getting wet
over the course of the day, and we'll keep an

(31:40):
eye on that for you. But the good news is
temperatures are above freezing everywhere, so We're okay. No freezing today,
no warmer than the load of mid fifties. Though today,
we're dry Tomorrow through Sunday and we've got some sunshine.
Every single day it gets warmer Tomorrow, load ofvid sixties,
Friday primo mid upper sixties. Friday, Saturday just slightly cooler

(32:04):
load of mid sixties.

Speaker 12 (32:06):
And then Sunday that's.

Speaker 25 (32:07):
When Skymike is layering up because temperatures will only be
in the mid to upper forties.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
What yeah, temperature right now forty nine at your officials,
Severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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What you need to know for the day ahead.

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So one of the many things that the outgoing Biden
demonstration has done in the course of the last few
weeks is to one of the things is to put
sanctions on Russian oil exports. They hadn't done it up
until now. Their claim is, well, we did it because
oil and gas prices are pretty good right now. We

(32:48):
didn't do it before because we thought it would do
it put too much of a burden on the American people,
and now we don't think it will but of course
you have to wonder if that's the case or not.
Phil Flynn will join us Oil in this story expert.
We'll talk to him next, but first we've got traffic
and weather together as we check out the drive once
again with sky mone my.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Little pop Peel's pocket radar that I ordered off TV
showing right now the southwest side Richmond and Rosenberg, which
will effect the Southwest Freeway, and also clear Lake and
Pearland which will effect two eighty eight, and the Golf
Freeway mark Spring go fast just.

Speaker 19 (33:19):
Before Old Spanish Trail.

Speaker 36 (33:22):
The load of cyberglass installation on all lane.

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Watch out.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
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We're checking out some of our top stories. On this

(33:53):
Wednesday morning. Here's Cliff and.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
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in Austin. Yes, Democrat says Dustin Burrow is elected State
House speaker Iowa. Republican Senator Joni ernstays you will vote
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Speaker 3 (34:37):
All right, we have sanctions now on Russian oil. Interesting timing.
Phil Flynn joins US oil industry expert. Then, Phil, welcome
back to the show here. I don't know if you're
suspicious about the timing on these sanctions, are not? Are
you a little suspicious?

Speaker 38 (34:52):
Me?

Speaker 18 (34:55):
No?

Speaker 38 (34:57):
Are you mean? But it's a absolutely amazing to me.
You know, we had years of course with this Russian
invasion of Ukraine, you know, and the Biden administration has
done everything to try to manipulate the oil market to
the downside, you know, tapping the strategic patroleum reserve, you know,

(35:17):
you know, turning a blind eye to sanctions on Venezuela
and Iran to make up for any loss of Russian supplies.
And the thing is is that Russian oil revenue is
better than it's ever been. You know, they made over
fifteen point one billion dollars last month and oil revenues,
so whatever they've done isn't working. So it's kind of

(35:40):
like closing the barn door on your way out of
the White House, right the animals are gone. But I
think he just wants to create more problems for Donald
Trump as he gets into office.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
No doubt.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
And we are seeing, granted it's not much of a spike,
but we have seen, i want to say, somewhere in
the neighborhood of ten cent a gallon increases here in
the greater Houston area as far as a guess lean
here over the course of last week or two.

Speaker 38 (36:04):
Yeah, and you're going to see it around the country.
Oil prices are the highest prices they've been since eighty
you know, since August, excuse me. And it looks like
overseas prices are over eighty dollars a barrel, and that
could happen here in the US real quickly. And the
thing is is that we've had this narrative, you know

(36:25):
about energy, like, oh my gosh, we're all going to
be driving electric cars and demand for oil is going
to go away. We're going to have an oil glot.
But I'm looking at the latest in and I'm like,
where's the glot? Right, We're supposed to see oil demand,
you know, peak out, you know months ago and years ago.
Now we're seeing oil demand at a record high. We're

(36:46):
seeing supplies below average around the globe. And you know,
the country's getting hit with a major cold blast, right
and are too blast? Even down in Texas You're going
to be feeling it and in different parts in the
cold of course is going to mean more energy demand,
and it's going to challenge our infrastructure, infrastructure that hasn't

(37:06):
been invested in correctly, mainly because of the Biden administrations
anti fossil fuel policies.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, I'm imagining folks in the Northeast. I can only
imagine what home heating oil is going to be going
for here pretty soon.

Speaker 38 (37:20):
Yeah, they've been filling up their tank. I spoke to
a few of the dealers, and the prices have been
going up sharply. And really, you know, one of the
things President Biden has had going for him the last
couple of years is that we haven't had a real
cold winter, not like the ones you and I remember
growing up. You know, when we walked, you know, to

(37:40):
school uphill both ways and then you know the windshow
factor is.

Speaker 23 (37:43):
Forty below zero.

Speaker 38 (37:44):
But now we're getting that and we're really going to
challenge the narrative that we have. You know, this this
you know, comfortable amount of supply. I think we're going
to see supplies tighten and you know, God forbid, you
know that this cold is as bad as some people
are predicting. Uh, you know, we could see power outages
and shortages you know, developed very quickly.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Obviously, President Trump is going to is drill, baby drill
when President Trump takes office. So how quickly can the
oil industry gear up for what Trump wants to do?

Speaker 38 (38:13):
You know, I think it's going to take some time.
There's certain things that are going to happen right away,
but it you know, it takes time to build pipelines,
right You're not going to get that done overnight, but
it's going to happen a lot faster than it would have,
you know it had President Piden got back in the
office on day one. You know, we're already hearing reports

(38:33):
of a record amount of executive orders. Most of them
are reversing the executive orders that President and Biden put
into place when it came to you know, killing the
Keystone pipeline or federal drilling regulations. But there's been a
lot of damage done.

Speaker 23 (38:50):
Right.

Speaker 38 (38:50):
We have seen under investment in the US oil and
gas industry, mainly because it's been demonized, and that's going
to create problems for the future. So President Trump has
a lot of work to do to keep those prices
low in his first term in office.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
Right, sir, have a great day. Thanks for joining us
in office.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Thank you, Phil Flynn Industry oil industry Experts. Five fifty seven.
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I'm Jimmy Barrett among our top stories this f our
the Democrats got the Speaker of the House that they
wanted fireworks at Pete Hegset's confirmation hearing and coming up
at six oh eight, national Security worried about the inauguration
details and the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(39:51):
we're checking out that drive again with sky Mike on
your hard ads.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
We're going to the work inside.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Let's check out it. Send the East Freeway we would
pick up the roadwork outbound at six to ten.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
That's gone. Forget about it.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
I think they'll do some pavement repair later right before
the San Jacento River Bridge inbound now twenty two minutes
from Baytown.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Mike from Magnolia is on two.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
Ninety ninety nine of the web's belts not writing, but
it has been so the streets are.

Speaker 46 (40:16):
Slick's gotta be other stationers, dumbass listeners with calf and
changing lanes.

Speaker 47 (40:21):
It's crazy and.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Click all right, watch out for low information drivers. I'm
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seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.

(40:51):
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 12 (40:52):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (40:53):
We are brought to you by Plans for All Seasons
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Speaker 7 (40:57):
Thank you for your professionalism and dedication to the members
of this House. I thank you for placing your trust
in me.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
That is new State House Speaker Dustin Burrows, the Republican
using Democrat votes to beat the GOP's candidate David Cook.
The Texas Republican Party chair Abraham George told k TRH
there will be consequences the next primary.

Speaker 8 (41:18):
I can promise you it's going to be bad for them.
This is not going to be forgotten, that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (41:23):
Borrow's got forty nine Democrat votes compared to just thirty
six from Republicans in the Senate. Governor Greg Abbott pushed
to end activist judges, allowing criminals back on the street
to commit more crime.

Speaker 9 (41:35):
It is going to be up to us to make
sure we do something about that. So we stopped criminals
from killing by the innocent paper.

Speaker 6 (41:44):
He also is pushing for a passage of school vouchers
At six ZHO three in Washington. The first of the
Trump cabinet picks appeared before the Senate yesterday.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
I support Israel's existential war in Gaza. I assume, like
me and President Trump, you support that war as well,
don't you.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Senator I do.

Speaker 10 (42:02):
I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas.

Speaker 6 (42:07):
Incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had to deal with Democrat
Grant Standing and protesters, but Texas Senator Ted Crue says
heg Sith impressed him.

Speaker 18 (42:16):
Pete heg Seth is a warrior. He served his nation.

Speaker 11 (42:19):
He's a decorated combat veteran, and then when he came
back from active duty, he devoted his life to fighting
for veteran cruise.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
On Fox today, several Trump Cabinet pigs will be on
Capitol Hill, including John Radcliffe, Pam Bondi, and Marco Rubio.
Also on the Hill, the House passes legislation to protect
women's sports from biological men.

Speaker 13 (42:45):
My own daughters competed in sports as they were growing up,
and I can only imagine the anger I would feel
as a dad if they had their trophies stolen from them.

Speaker 6 (42:52):
Speaker Mike Johnson. There six oh four now, with less
than a week to go until Trump returns to office,
Tristan Justice with the Federals says, you can expect more
Trump derangent syndrome from the mainstream media for the next
four years.

Speaker 15 (43:07):
I think it's going to be wilder than the first term,
even with all these supposed reflections on how they've been operating.
I think the hysteria you're going to see some legacy
press in the second term is going to be much
more elevated than from the first term.

Speaker 6 (43:20):
He says, the real issue is the reporting of the news,
which is anti Trump. Meantime, the state of Oklahoma is
suing the Biden administration over the border crisis. They're looking
for a refund of four hundred and seventy million dollars.
That's the amount of money they spend to educate illegal
alien children. And with mass deportations beginning under Trump, the

(43:42):
question is how Texas can help the new Trump team
shut the border down. Texas actually already has by giving
President Trump a great starting point.

Speaker 16 (43:52):
Texas has started to create a blue print or border defense,
and we want to help the federal government in picking
up back up the torch, in doing their job.

Speaker 48 (44:00):
Selena Rodriguez with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says Texas
will likely still have an active role in border security.

Speaker 16 (44:07):
We've learned so much about counter terrorism efforts, about counter
Cartel effort, and we have to help educate our federal partners.

Speaker 48 (44:14):
Rodriguez also said that a good starting point for Trump
would be declaring Cartel's foreign terrorist organizations. Ethan Bugannan News
Radio seven forty ktright.

Speaker 6 (44:22):
At six zero five. Dangerous conditions remain in place as
the wildfires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area.
The death toll is up to twenty five. We told
you there's a new effort to recall Gavin Newsom, the governor,
for the state's botched response to the fires.

Speaker 18 (44:38):
This is on you. You're the governor. You want a.

Speaker 17 (44:41):
Trump proof California, fireproof California.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
You're done, Actor Michael Rampaport there on X. The December
inflation report comes out at seven point thirty, expected to
show that despite the White House spin it's still a
major problem, and that inflation has more Americans looking for
a drastic financial solution. Here comes the buy nothing movement. Basically,

(45:05):
it's cutting off spending except for basics. Financial planner Richard
Rosso says, you can start by just buying.

Speaker 26 (45:12):
Less, moderation and balance.

Speaker 21 (45:13):
Then I will put aside a budget and say this
is how much I have to spend that and then
track those dollars. So nice effort, but if it's extreme,
you're probably not going to do it for long and
you will probably wind up spending more money in the
long term.

Speaker 6 (45:26):
New survey says that one third of Americans have a
New Year's resolution to spend less. Inflation is just one
reason why markets are nervous these days, but they might
also be nervous about Trump shaking up the status quo.

Speaker 39 (45:40):
You might call it transition jitters, but University of Houston
economics professor doctor Stephen Cragg says, despite any worries about
what President Trump will do in office, there's a lot
of confidence about his actions. If there's trouble ahead.

Speaker 19 (45:54):
I think Trump is if there were signs of recession,
I think Trump is likely to try to do big
things to countervail that.

Speaker 39 (46:02):
Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
Now futures are up over two hundred points so far
this morning. A barbecue restaurant in Iowa makes headlines for
the wrong reasons, adding an inflation fee to checks. Restaurant
marketing expert Sharif Mitchas says that inflation has led restaurant
owners to try anything to stay afloat.

Speaker 22 (46:24):
People expect a little bit higher price sometimes, right you
go into the grocery store, even you go in to
your restaurants, you know prices have gone up.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
After complaints, the Iowa barbecue Joint changed the name of
the fee to market surcharge. And the rockets are in
Denver tonight pregame at seven on seven ninety. I'm Cliff
Saunters on Houston's News, Weather and Traffic station KTRH.

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Six Oh, wait our time here on Houston's morning news
are national security is concerned about the inauguration. Less than
one week ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, which is Monday,
of course, also MLK Junior Day, US national security officials
warning of possible violence. According to a Tuesday report in
Political politic Co Pardon me further report, despite the fact

(47:20):
that intelligence and law enforcement agencies have said so far
there's no specific credible threats to worry about, they say
the vicinity could be an attractive potential target for violent extremists.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
Do you think.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
If they can get anywhere close to it, would they
be able to get any work close to it? I mean,
isn't that whole area going to be cordoned off? Are
we going to have great security for the inauguration of
President Trump? Or is this another potential secret service tobacco.
You have to worry about that, don't you. I hate

(47:55):
to say, but you do. According to a threat assessment
obtained by politic Go, the national security officials wrote person
specifically with quote election related grievances could see the event
as their last opportunity to influence the election results through violence.
In other words, left activists on the left not we're

(48:19):
not talking January sixth people. We're not talking Maga people.
We're talking people on the left. Mike want to show
up and see this as the last chance to change
how the election turned out. You know what that means, right,
Please tell me that we have enough security on hand

(48:39):
to know that President Trump's going to be safe. Six
' ten Time for traffic and weather. Together, we're checking
out that drive once again with Skymike.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
All right, this breaks more about Terry than me, because
weather is becoming a thing. Now give it about ten
minutes by the sixth twenty break and I'll have all
kinds of wrecks.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
Grant Parkway.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
You're getting rained on now, This Richmond area Southwest Freeway
from rich to the Galleria south Belt.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
Let's see one forty six.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
I've got rain coming up from Texas City all the
way to to twenty five and meek from Chema.

Speaker 26 (49:08):
Morning, Mikey.

Speaker 12 (49:09):
It's raining pretty steady on the Golf Freeway.

Speaker 23 (49:12):
There is some.

Speaker 33 (49:13):
Dark puddles and folks are hitting them at high speed
and starting to slam on their break.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
You know, I wish we would drive on the rain
the same way we drive on the ice. Don't touch
those brakes. Rusty from Leake Cities listening.

Speaker 26 (49:24):
Got my twelve.

Speaker 44 (49:26):
Degrees in Tennessee.

Speaker 23 (49:28):
I cannot wait to get home.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
Cool, Oh you're listening on the app all right, Ray from.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Conrod, Hey guy, Mike, listening from the free iHeartRadio app Boom.

Speaker 35 (49:35):
It is thirty one degrees in Crossroads, Texas, with a
real feel of nineteen degrees.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
Let Kerry know she's doing a fantastic job.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Oh that's great. And now Melissa from Maryland's on the
app toude. She says it's eighteen degrees in Maryland. So
there we go. Weather Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 25 (49:53):
Are you trying to take my job from market? You's
got weather reporters all over the place. You'd better stay
in your lane there, Mike from our from r KTRH,
This so serious from r KTRH Top Tax Defenders twenty
four our weather center. Terry is here.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yes, she does do a fantastic job reporting the weather,
creating the weather. She stop responsible for that.

Speaker 25 (50:16):
I really stink at creating the weather. That'd be kind
of fun, though. I can have a lot of fun
with that one. And I appreciate all those reports Skymike
from our listeners, especially.

Speaker 12 (50:27):
Ray talking about the real field temperatures. I love it.

Speaker 25 (50:30):
Well, we're really going to enjoy the weather this week.
As opposed to next week. Let's start off by saying
that even though we do have some brain out there
right now, we've got some showers around. We'll see about
a forty percent chance of showers today, a little storm
out there, and the golf is helping to touch off
some rain. Load of mid fifties today for highs. We

(50:51):
are dry through the weekend with sunshine. Temperatures tomorrow noticeably
warmer load of mid sixties, mid to upper sixth Friday
Saturday is still comfortable. It looks like load to mid
sixties Saturday, and then Arctic care moves in Sunday. High
temperature Sunday mid to upper forties.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Right now, that's where we're at. Forty eight at your officials,
Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
USE traffic and Weather.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
You're starting your day right with Houston's Morning News, brought
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Speaker 3 (51:26):
Six twenty is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
A couple things to cover here coming up in just
a moment. The latest on the LA wildfires, not so
much from I mean, the fires is still burning, the
damage is still piling up. It's got more to do
now with what is coming next when they get towards
the rebuilding process. I can't even imagine trying to rebuild

(51:48):
that level of real estate, and many people will not
be able to afford to do so. This changes that
city for decades to come. But what is pretty clear,
at least from conservatives and maybe even from some Democrats
at this point, is they expect to change and who
is running that state, who is running that city, and

(52:09):
some are even demanding that they those people step down
before they even consider giving them any sort of AI
trafficking weather together. First, though, let's go ahead and check
out the drive once again. What's going on skyline?

Speaker 4 (52:20):
We just cleared the Katie Freeway Washington inbound accidents stay
the course, it's nothing the south side. Here comes the
rain on the Golf Freeway.

Speaker 12 (52:27):
MiG major suckage is happening.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Well, said tipline two eighty eight.

Speaker 12 (52:31):
Os come on colics from Talking Center.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
No we must be cousins.

Speaker 12 (52:34):
To eighty eight is clear all the way to sixteen.

Speaker 26 (52:38):
No infallation on the road.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
Clear the insallation I gave Jennifer from TV insallation on
two eighty eight. She gave me bricks on the golf freeway,
so we should build a house. I'm in the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic Center, Total friend Zone, Jimmy, I
got you from our KTRH top tax defenders.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Twenty four hour weathers under most of the clottings, scattered
showers fifty four for the heigh today mostly Sunday to
partley cloudie warmer sixty three and then Friday partly to
mostly clotting with the high sixty seven. Right now forty
eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. Time to check out some of our top stories.
It's a Wednesday, and here's slip.

Speaker 12 (53:13):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (53:14):
We are sponsored by Moral Mechanical. Donald Trump announces a
new external revenue service to collect money from foreign countries.
The FBI now says the New Year's terror attack in
New Orleans injured fifty seven and not thirty five people,
and Rockets owner Tillman for TITA will co host a
Trump inaugural. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.

(53:35):
Our next update is at six point thirty.

Speaker 31 (53:38):
Well, with the holidays and everything, it's really hard to
keep up.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Gvnwe caught off is what we do to know what's
going on around me.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Go with Houston's news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
YEP still burning, and the politicians are still not owning
up to their role in how this whole thing has
been handled, not only the water issue, the temper issue,
the brush issue.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
They're not owning up to any of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
There is absolutely zero signs that any changes are coming
unless the people in California decide to recall these elected officials,
and evidently there are recall efforts for both the mayor
of Los Angeles and Governor Gavin Newsom that are underway.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
Kevin O.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Larry from Shark Tank fame, though, thinks it needs to
go step further. If you need to convince the folks
in California that they have to make a change in
how their state is being run, then the best way
to do that is by holding up any federal aid.
Here's what Kevin ol Larry would like to see happen.

Speaker 49 (54:42):
I think every tax payer in America, including those in California,
would like to tie this aid to removing Newsom and
Bass now gone. Part of the deal would be and
I know Trump likes new ideas, here's one not a
dime until those two are whacked from their jobs immediately.
They are so incompetent in all of the decision as
they've made led to this, and they're still making mistakes.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
They're horrific managers. Whack them.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
Whack them now. Listen.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
I know Kevin o'larry's Irish, he's not Sicilian, but whack
them is a little bit more than eliminating them from office.
Usually in Ford involves the trunk of a really, really
big luxury car, all right, Uh so he wants to
whack them. Jesse Waters, on the other hand, see's a

(55:28):
bigger problem. It's not just it's not just the leadership there,
it's it's it's the prosecutors. It is the entire justice
system in California. They are dealing with looters by the hundreds,
people who are going in stealing whatever is left from
these homes. And the reason why they are is they
guess what, None of these looters are afraid of jail time.

Speaker 27 (55:50):
So I guess you can loot from someone's burned out
home less than one thousand dollars and that's okay.

Speaker 23 (55:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
With Gavin Newsom, I.

Speaker 27 (55:57):
Think the big frustration is that you can see the
United States be able to build anything anywhere, anytime overseas,
but you can't do it in California because it takes
ten years to build a reservoir in California. But if
we wanted to build a reservoir in Ukraine, we could
do it in six months. Because that's a matter of
life and death. But it's also a matter of life
and death in California.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Why isn't California on a war footing?

Speaker 27 (56:20):
It's the most riskiest place you could ever live, and
you know better than anybody judge with beauty comes great risk.
You put yourself in the most beautiful part of the coastline,
but you have to deal with earthquakes, wildfires and mudslides.
But the government doesn't mitigate the risk because there's this
toxic brew of lawsuits and regulation and ideology and in

(56:41):
competence that you can just get rid of because now
he's just getting rid of all the red tape to rebuild.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
But are we gonna let them?

Speaker 23 (56:47):
What?

Speaker 27 (56:47):
Are we just going to keep destroying Western civilization then
paying to rebuild it over and over again. No, there
has to be strings attached to this money, because we're
not going to go bankrupt because California is stupid. They
have lost twenty four billion dollars on the homeless, fifty
billion dollars on COVID jobless claims. They lost what twenty
three billion dollars on a train it doesn't even go anywhere.

(57:09):
So they completely fail every leadership test in California, from
natural disasters to COVID to the riots.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
And we can't let it happen again.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Amen, But we probably will hate to say it, but
they probably will let it happen again. Six twenty six.
Here on news radio seven forty KTRH, it's time to
take a look at your money. Jeff Bellinger's here and Jimmy.

Speaker 30 (57:33):
High mortgage interest rates could restrain the nation's housing market.
Mortgage banker's report this morning, the average rate on a
thirty year fixed rate home loan is back above seven percent.
I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 12 (57:51):
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Why there were traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.

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This is US Radio seven RH.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Five Everywhere with the r More of what's happening now
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Speaker 3 (58:07):
Six point thirty Now here on Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour. The
Left tried to rattle Pete yesterday, it didn't work. The
Texas GOP didn't get the guy they wanted for speaker,
and coming up a sixth though thirty eight part being
out six thirty eight PlayStation, adding smell Avision details in
the minutes ahead here on Houston's Morning News. First, let's

(58:29):
check out that morning vibe. Here's sky Mike advisors. You
won't need them, but we're slow now.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
Right inside Grand Parkway, here comes the breaks, the ramps
that come up from Sinco. Rancher getting off flicksbackle two
to eighty eight. We're dragging it right at the Beltway
up to Orim. You lose three or four minutes here.
You can't afford those toll lanes. Southwest Freeway got two stalls,
one at He'llcroft, the other at Chimney Rock. All I
see is slick freeways. Katie at Washington we cleared that accident.

(58:54):
More slick freeways. If you exit there you can get
some pancakes. I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Com Eraphic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four
hour Weather Center mostly Cottie, scattered showers, high temperature today
right about fifty four we warm up and the next
week we're going to go right into the DeFreeze.

Speaker 5 (59:11):
We'll talk to Terry Smith about all this. In eight minutes.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Temperature currently is Let me double check at forty eight
of your official severe weather station News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (59:25):
Thank you, Jimmy, and at six point thirty one on
KTRH our top story.

Speaker 40 (59:28):
Instead of asking about his vision, they just went for
the smear and.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
Is incoming Trump National Security advisor Michael Waltz on Fox
as Pete Hegseith weathered the storm from Democrats at his
confirmation hearing.

Speaker 16 (59:41):
Will you resign as Secretary of Defense if you drink
on the job.

Speaker 28 (59:46):
You cannot denigrate women in general, and your statements do that.

Speaker 6 (59:50):
By the way, Hegsith said yesterday that he stands by
women serving in combat role. Several nominees have hearings today,
including Marco Ruby, Oshawan, Duffy Pan Bondie, and John Ratcliffe.

Speaker 12 (01:00:03):
Six point thirty two.

Speaker 6 (01:00:04):
On KTH So there were fireworks in DC and more
in Austin.

Speaker 33 (01:00:11):
There are eighty five votes in favor of the Honorable
Dustin Boroughs of Lobbott County.

Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
And with that Democrat support, Republican Dustin Burroughs is elected
House Speaker, beating the GOP's pick David Cook.

Speaker 34 (01:00:28):
It's disheartening and disconcerting that it seems like in the
in the House of Representatives, we cannot get a Republican
speaker for the Republican majority.

Speaker 6 (01:00:40):
Political analyst vlad Davidick joins Jimmy at seven. Twenty forty
nine of Burroughs's votes came from Democrats Elsewhere. Texas A
and M backs out of sponsoring a DEI conference after
President Mark Walsh. Welsh rather was threatened by Governor Greg
Abbott with termination. Christian Collins of Texas Youth Summit says

(01:01:03):
Welsh is a liberal at heart and has reverted a
once conservative school to the dark side.

Speaker 36 (01:01:08):
He doesn't represent all values of the vast majority of
the families.

Speaker 26 (01:01:12):
And the students that are going.

Speaker 36 (01:01:13):
Parents that work hard to pay their bills, they send
their kids off to college. They're not doing it with
the intent to be taught. Because you're white you're inherently racist.

Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
A and M now says they quote do not support
any conference that excludes based on race at six.

Speaker 12 (01:01:30):
Point thirty three.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
There are also concerns about the growing number and the
growing cost of orphan oil wells that Texas has to
take ownership of and plug.

Speaker 48 (01:01:41):
Typically, that responsibility goes to the company that dug the
wells in the first place.

Speaker 37 (01:01:45):
The industry plugs about eighty five percent of all wells
that are plugged on.

Speaker 18 (01:01:49):
An annual basis.

Speaker 37 (01:01:50):
Those that they don't plug is because an operators going
out of business.

Speaker 48 (01:01:54):
Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association,
says this is a problem. They're focused on talking.

Speaker 37 (01:02:00):
To the Railroad Commission and to legislate doors about the
ways that permits are issued some greater accountability in that space.

Speaker 48 (01:02:08):
Staples says this is largely the result of port record keeping,
but it shouldn't be a long term problem for Texas.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
And gasoline prices are on the rise now at two
sixty four a gallon across Houston, up almost ten cents
over the last month, and it comes as oil prices
are at a three month high.

Speaker 12 (01:02:28):
The reason Joe Biden.

Speaker 14 (01:02:30):
In another farewell for Trump, Joe Biden decided to impose
sanctions on Russian oil.

Speaker 38 (01:02:37):
It's a shot by the Biden administration at the Trump administration.
The question is why.

Speaker 14 (01:02:42):
Now that's industry expert Phil Flynn, and now where are
prices headed.

Speaker 38 (01:02:47):
I think oil has a shot to get above eighty
dollars a.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
Barrel, he says.

Speaker 14 (01:02:52):
The California wildfires have also added to the price hike.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k T e R
eight six point thirty five.

Speaker 6 (01:03:01):
President elect Trump is reportedly considering executive action to preserve
your gas appliances.

Speaker 24 (01:03:08):
The source is plentiful.

Speaker 40 (01:03:10):
They're much cheaper to operate, they're much better, they work
much better, they look much better. Sixty percent of homes
and departments have gas heaters.

Speaker 6 (01:03:18):
In their green energy push. The Biden administration has been
restricting these appliances for the last four years. Congressional Republicans
are moving to pass the Trump agenda asap. The question
is whether they'll do it in one or two separate bills.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan told KGRHS Clay and

(01:03:38):
Buck the important thing is to simply get the agenda done.

Speaker 41 (01:03:42):
The timeline is as possible, hopeful by easter is some
of the projections that we're here in some leadership. So
let's have get done what we said we would do.
Whether it's one or two, I don't share.

Speaker 6 (01:03:51):
By the way, that agenda includes extending the Trump tax cuts.
Eleven days after not showing up to Jimmy Carter's funeral,
her own former First Lady, Michelle Obama says she's skipping
the Trump inauguration, without explaining why. As for Joe Biden,
he makes one last Oval office speech before leaving.

Speaker 50 (01:04:12):
The president has spent his final week of the presidency
trying to defend his administration's record on foreign policy and
the economy and submit his legacy. But he will leave
office with lagging approval ratings and Democrats out of power
in Washington, not just here at the White House, but
in both the House and Senate boxes.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
Jaron halpern there Biden speaks at seven o'clock. At six
thirty six, dangerous conditions remain this morning as the wildfires
continue to burn in California.

Speaker 43 (01:04:39):
They're saying that maybe forty five mile an hour gusts,
so that definitely is something to be concerned about on
any normal day. If we didn't already have these fires,
we'd be fully staffed up ready for those red FIG conditions.

Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
La County Fire Captain Sheila callaher and according to the
latest research this should scare you. Sixty three percent of
doctors have symptoms of burnout out at least once a week.
David a Lot with healthcare finance specialists, explains.

Speaker 44 (01:05:05):
Why they're not doing what they went to school to do,
and for that they're disenchanted and unhappy and that contributes
to what may look like burnout.

Speaker 6 (01:05:14):
He says this could make an already alarming doctor shortage worse.
On Cliff Cylinders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station
News Radio seven forty k t r H.

Speaker 44 (01:05:26):
I usually take Ien West, but lately that's been a nightmare.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
KTRH time saving traffic.

Speaker 18 (01:05:32):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Sex thirty eight, our time. Here in Houston's bord of news,
here we go in old ideas, newigains. Here ever's smell
the vision. I think they'd try to add in theaters
for a while, where you know, they'd have smells that
came out to a company of the movie that was playing. Now,
like maybe you got a machine gun going off, you
could smell like gunpowder or that kind of a smell,
or you know, you could spell smells like gasoline for explosions,

(01:06:01):
that kind of stuff. Well, evidently Sony is unveiling a
new gaming new PlayStation gaming system. They would allow PlayStation
players to snip their way through games like The Last
of Us. Now, the Last of Us is, as I
understand it, like an apocalyptic game, you know, so, I'm
sure there's a lot of death and dying in there.
Have you ever smelled death? Have you ever smelled decomposition?

Speaker 5 (01:06:24):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
My god, it would certainly get your attention, that's for sure.
One thing's for sure. If you smell dead, you remember
the smell. That is a very definitive smell. I have
no idea what kind of smells they're going to put
in a post apocalyptic type of game, but that's evidently
what they want to start with, by adding smell vision

(01:06:44):
to it to give players a completely new experience. The
idea here is that you put this new system in
a room and you just it just kind of takes
over the room. They just, you know, they're making these
things more and more realistic every day make me seemingly
it seemed to me. It also makes it more difficult
every day to tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

(01:07:05):
I'm not sure when this new system will be available
or how many people are interested in buying it. Well,
I'm sure there plenty of people interested in buying it.
Six forty time for traffic and whether it's to get
a log on a fire. There you go, that's a
nice smell. We need one here, right, Vanilla, that's nice here.
I like gasoline though, too. I like the smell of gas.
That's weird, but I know it is nice. Michael, all right,

(01:07:26):
let's do the Katie Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
Of course, the rain's hitting in spots, Katie, you're not
getting the rain like everybody else for the most part.
I see that wet spot between the Belt and the
Loop now around Grand Parkway that's about to hit. And
we've got the slowdowns coming in off the ramps from
Sinco Ranch West Loop we are.

Speaker 5 (01:07:42):
Going down to Uptown.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
Does that make sense, Terry, We're extra slow now from
two ninety down to Woodway and then northbound going up
to Uptown. You're slowing that ramp from the southwest freeway.
Clear the stall Southwest Freeway at Chimney Rock.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
We still have that one.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
At Hillcroft he's over on the side. You've got two
eighty eight smashed up now with the belt six ten nords.

Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
Getting awfully loopy.

Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
I think something's going on there at forty five westbound
right there in the squeeze. And here's backups from Homestead
going that way. Doug from Conro's on the tip line
on the Hardy Toll Road.

Speaker 26 (01:08:13):
You guy, Mike just going You mean in the fence post.
We need a new road side left lane for pashing only.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
You know, I'm just say we don't need more lanes,
we just need more brains. I'm in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Fromong Ktrh Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center. You
know what smell I really miss? I missed the smell
Terry Smith of New Mown Grass. I cannot wait for
that park hole. Yeah, I can't wait for that smell
to come back. It's gonna be a while, though, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (01:08:43):
It is gonna be a while.

Speaker 25 (01:08:44):
In fact, I'm hoping the grass is still around by
the time we get to the point where those temperatures
warm up.

Speaker 12 (01:08:51):
So you know, we're looking.

Speaker 25 (01:08:53):
Ahead with the big change in the Arctic air mess
that heads our way early next week, and it does
look like a long stretch like several days at least
through midweek of temperatures like you know, very very very cold,
like Canada has moved down here to Texas. So that

(01:09:13):
happens Sunday and early next week, and the potential for
some frozen precipitation that there's a big question mark obviously
surrounding that. Right now, we have liquid precipitation, and that's
the forum we prefer it. In forty percent chance of
showers today, load to mid fifties, a little cool, but
then sunshine tomorrow through Sunday, no rain, temperatures tomorrow warming

(01:09:38):
up into the load of mid sixties Friday, mid to
upper sixties Saturday, the cold front swings through. Right now,
it looks like we're going to be dry Saturday and
still on the milder side in the load of mid sixties,
and then that's when the bottom falls out Sunday, mid
upper forties for high Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Right now forty eight at your official Severe Weather station
News Radios seven KRH, you are commute. You are forecast
your news.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you, buying you southway
to those solutions. Just about six fifty here in Houston's
Morning News, we have the timeline coming up right around
the corner, and also have a report for you on
the vote yesterday in the Texas State Legislature that elevated
Dustin Burrows to House Speaker. Yeah, if the GP didn't
get the guy they wanted. More than that coming up next,

(01:10:26):
But first we've got traffic and whether it's wet.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
We have a four pack of tickets to the twenty
twenty five Houston Automotive Show.

Speaker 5 (01:10:32):
That would be correct, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
It's the ultimate event for both land and seeing.

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
That's what I hear.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
I'm not just reading it. I mean, let's go to
the Let's go downtown. Take Ien now, as you're coming
in hard Hats, you'll slow up at Lockwood Advisors, you'll
slow up inbound at Student Mound. Of course, if you're
just getting off vacation. They started roadwork out of downtown
forty five. We're down the three lanes between there in
Heights Boulevard. This is going to be a lifestyle for
a while. Southwest Freeway smashed up now from Hillcroft. I'm

(01:10:57):
in the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Crum R KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Mostly Clotdie's scattered to showers throughout the day today. It's
reading pretty good outside our studio right now, mostly sunny
to partly Clotdie warmers sixty three Tomorrow partly to mostly
Clotti sixty seven on Friday, that's gonna be the nicest day.
And then we start going in the other direction and
by Sunday night. Yep, we're back in the deep freeze.

(01:11:20):
Current temperature is forty eight at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some
of our top trending stories this morning. Here's Cliff, Thank.

Speaker 12 (01:11:31):
You, Jimmy. We are sponsored by DNM autoly seeing.

Speaker 6 (01:11:34):
The Texas GOP is promising consequences after Dustin Burrows used
help from the Democrats to become House speaker. The SEC
is suing Elon Musk, claiming he didn't disclose his stake
in Twitter three years ago, and the legendary John Daily
he underwent emergency hand surgery but says he should be

(01:11:55):
back gripping and ripping quote in no time.

Speaker 5 (01:11:58):
Emergency hands, sir, exactly. That's interesting.

Speaker 6 (01:12:02):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next updates at seven.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
A new Year's always a news year on Houston's information station,
New Journey.

Speaker 18 (01:12:13):
Is something new each two day.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
In the new year.

Speaker 18 (01:12:15):
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Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
All right in the U. In the Texas House, Democrats won.
Republicans nothing after Dustin Burroughs. That is the Dade Pheelan
choice for Speaker of the House. He got elected yesterday.
Here is a report from twelve News Now in Beaumont
on the opening day of the Texas Legislature.

Speaker 51 (01:12:39):
The eighty ninth Texas Legislative session kicked off Tuesday with
the swearing in of Representative David Burrows from Lubbock as
the new Texas House Speaker.

Speaker 26 (01:12:49):
Today we begin the people's work.

Speaker 5 (01:12:52):
Whether you voted for me or not, my office.

Speaker 12 (01:12:54):
Door will be open to you.

Speaker 7 (01:12:57):
In the end, we're all here for the same reason,
not to please ourselves or anyone individual, but to serve
our districts with distinction and to serve Texas with integrity, courage,
and common sense.

Speaker 51 (01:13:12):
Burrows is an ally of his predecessor State representative and
Beaumont native Dade Feeling. Dallas Morning News Austin correspondent Aaron
Torres says this likely means the former speaker will still
have a voice.

Speaker 52 (01:13:25):
We can probably imagine that Feeling would chair a powerful
committee or an influential committee, whether it be the Calendar's Committee,
which acts as a filter of what bills are on
the floor. He can be the chair of State Affairs
like he would still have a role influencing legislation, be
among the leadership within the House Republican caucus.

Speaker 51 (01:13:47):
As the day progressed, Governor Greg Abbott addressed the Senate,
he made it clear school vouchers remain a top priority.

Speaker 9 (01:13:55):
I can testify for a fact, to the urge please
of thousands of Texas to please use your voice and
use your vote this session to expand the opportunity for
every parent to choose the school this best for their child.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Yeah. Well, Deeed Felan opposed that. Supposedly, Dustin Burroughs claims
that he is in favor of school choice. We'll see
how long it takes that legislation even be considered. All right,
time for the timeline, We've got four packing tickets. As
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Initial report from the rescue team to the command center
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Speaker 46 (01:15:00):
West Virginia Say Go mine collapse kills thirteen.

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Who has now been rushed to a local hospital in
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On TV ABC's Bob Woodruff and Camraman, Doug Votes severely
wounded in a roadside bombing. ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff
is seriously injured.

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In a raft.

Speaker 11 (01:15:15):
Bob and Doug were hit by shrapnel and both men
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Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Seven am is our time here in Houston's morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
the Democrats they got the Speaker of the House. They wanted,
fireworks at Pete Hexss's confirmation hearing, and coming up at
seven oh eight US desks well pace burse in the
next ten years. Details of the minutes ahead. First, we're
checking in again with sky Mine. Ha knew it North

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Loop sixteen.

Speaker 4 (01:16:41):
I saw that big smash on the eastbound side north
Loop right before westside.

Speaker 34 (01:16:45):
There it is.

Speaker 5 (01:16:46):
It's a wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
We'll be packed up from the East Tech Center. Change
now and then going the other way westbound is actually
worst all the way from wayside back over through that
squeeze at forty five solid breaks.

Speaker 5 (01:16:57):
Young Albert from Kingwood is on the tip line. Hey Morny, I'm.

Speaker 27 (01:17:01):
Like, I gotta go to Jerry Duty and the HOV
lane to road is not moving at Lauder all.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
Right, that's on the inbound. The HOV has a design flaw.
It's just one line. We'll see if we can get
to the bottom of that. At the seven to ten report,
it's your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center.
Mostly Clonnie Scattered showers today with the I temperature right
about fifty four. We'll get the complete forecast look ahead
to the weekend when we talk to Terry Smith. We'll
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At your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Slyff Saunders.

Speaker 12 (01:17:39):
Thank you, Jimmy seven oh one on KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:17:42):
We are sponsored by ISO Farmerck and our top story
is the swamp in Austin.

Speaker 7 (01:17:48):
At the midpoint of an exciting day, on the heels
of an eventful couple of months. I'm honored beyond words
to stand before you as Speaker.

Speaker 6 (01:17:55):
Dustinmorrow is elected the new Speaker of the Texas House
yesterday publican beating the GOP nominee David Cook.

Speaker 8 (01:18:03):
I don't think he can be a conservative bainly because
he's elected by Democrats. Four Democrats supported him. Then the Republicans.

Speaker 6 (01:18:10):
Texas GOP Chairman Abraham George talking to KTRH after the vote,
which saw Borroughs get forty nine Democrat votes just thirty
six from Republicans. In the Senate yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott
calling on lawmakers to correct criminal justice reform by radical
Democrat judges.

Speaker 9 (01:18:30):
We have a problem with judges not adhering to the laws.
What should be the law, and that is you don't
let somebody arrest it for murder back out on the
street just to kill somebody else again.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
Abbott also pushed for the passage of school vouchers seven
h three now in Washington fireworks during the hearing for
incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseith.

Speaker 10 (01:18:52):
Thank you for figuratively and literally having my backs.

Speaker 6 (01:19:02):
Democrats also tried to attack Hegseeth on the accusations that
have been debunked years ago. Texas Senator Ted Cruz said
Hexeth was impressive.

Speaker 11 (01:19:11):
I believe Pete Hegseth will be confirmed. I believe all
the President Trump's cabinet nominees are going to be.

Speaker 6 (01:19:17):
Confirmed, Cruz on Fox. Among those having hearings today include
the incoming Attorney General, Pam Bondy. The hearings start at
eight thirty this morning. Also on Capitol Hill, the House
passes a bill banning men from playing women's sports.

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
It's not just anger, it's it's fear.

Speaker 13 (01:19:36):
Biological men competing against women also poses a threat to
the safety of our girls.

Speaker 6 (01:19:42):
That is Speaker Mike Johnson to Texas Democrats, including Henry Quay,
are voted with Republicans. It's now seven oh four and
with days to go until Donald Trump returns to office,
the mainstream media has shown they'll be just as bad
as they were the first time around.

Speaker 14 (01:19:58):
As Tristan Justice notes in The Federalist, that's because they
haven't learned anything over the last eight years.

Speaker 15 (01:20:04):
Claim to have some type of honest requestioned about how
they're operating, and then go back and do exactly what
they've been doing, which is undermine Trump at every opportunity.

Speaker 14 (01:20:13):
Which means we can expect more of the same over
the next four years.

Speaker 15 (01:20:18):
Donald Trump stends these people on such a personal level
for some reason. I think the Trump range ands in
room that's going to be even more hysterical.

Speaker 14 (01:20:26):
With more and more people now getting their news elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:20:30):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven k.

Speaker 6 (01:20:32):
T or eight at the border crossings last month, we're
up from November as illegals try to get here before
the Trump administration takes office. The Biden administration, though, claims
that crossings are at their lowest level since July of
twenty twenty. Now, if Trump really wants to close the
border down, the analysts say, all he's got to do
is follow the Texas playbook.

Speaker 16 (01:20:54):
We will continue to hold a presence on the line.
But most importantly, this is going to be a multi
jurisdictional effort. This is going to require federal, state, and
local resources.

Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
Celine Rodriguez with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says the
state has learned a lot about counter terrorism and cartel
efforts and should share that knowledge with the FEDS.

Speaker 12 (01:21:13):
At seven oh five.

Speaker 6 (01:21:15):
The death toll is rising in the California wildfires, now
at twenty five, with dangerous conditions remaining through today. Among
the many ripping Governor Gavin Newsom over the state response
to the disaster include Hollywood actors like Michael Rappaport.

Speaker 17 (01:21:31):
We want a Trump proof California. How about fireproof in California?

Speaker 18 (01:21:37):
Tell about Trump?

Speaker 5 (01:21:38):
This Trump that he's not even president.

Speaker 6 (01:21:40):
What he's say this is on you, Rapaport on X
and looking at your money. We get one last temperature
check on the Biden economy in about a half an
hour with the release of the December inflation numbers, which
are expected to show that inflation is still sticky. Uh's
doctor Stephen Craig says markets aren't concerned that there's a
lot of talk about how the Federal Reserve is going

(01:22:03):
to respond.

Speaker 19 (01:22:04):
The Fed is doing as vest as can and tricky environment.
They claim to be a political and the average they've
held to that, and you can always tell as politicians
complain about what they're doing, So that's always a good signing.

Speaker 6 (01:22:18):
Overnight trading is up though across the board because of inflation.
There's a new New Year's resolution to quit spending cold Turkey.

Speaker 20 (01:22:27):
The buy nothing movement has been around for years, but
it's picking up steam now with Americans facing high inflation
and record debt. Financial planner Richard Rosso says it's a
good place to start getting a handle on your money.

Speaker 21 (01:22:38):
If this gets you off the fence and accelerates you
to look at your daily cash flow micro budget, maybe.

Speaker 26 (01:22:45):
So you know where every dollar's going.

Speaker 21 (01:22:47):
You might create some good habits, and I don't think
there's anything wrong with it.

Speaker 20 (01:22:50):
Buy nothing plan includes only spending on basic necessities and
acquiring other items through bartering or second hand sales. Coryolson,
here's radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 6 (01:23:00):
Or ripple effects from Bidenomics. You could conceivably see a
new fee on your restaurant bills after an Iowa barbecue
joint added an inflation fee.

Speaker 22 (01:23:10):
There's still this issue of you know, costs of goods
are up, cost of labor is up, and you know
many restaurants are taking it on the chin.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
Customers were understandably outraged. The Iowa restaurant changed the name
of the feed to quote market surcharge didn't get didn't
get rid of the fee though, and finally the Rockets
go for their fifth straight win visiting Denver. Pregame at
seven on Sports Talk seven ninety I'm Cliff Saunders on
you Sen's news, weather and traffic station k TRH, in.

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Connected to Houston and now I can stay in the no.

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Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
Well, this face of roll dying seven to eight is
our time here in Houston's boring news. The question is
not if the question is win right. According to the
Congressional Budget Office, well, that means taken with a grain
of salt. I guess assuming these figures are accurate. Their
annual thirty year projection of the US population was released Monday,
and in that projection, they predicted the number of deaths

(01:24:14):
in the United States would exceed the number of births
in the United States by the year twenty thirty three.
The last time they did a projection on this, they
predicted it would be twenty forty before that happened. So
now it's going to be seven years sooner. They are
reporting lower population growth over the next three decades than
they did in the twenty twenty four Demographic Outlook. Their

(01:24:37):
population estimate for twenty twenty five three hundred and fifty million,
slight increase from the three hundred forty six million to
predicted for twenty twenty five, but its projection for twenty
fifty four three hundred and seventy two million has decreased
since last year, when the CBO projective population would be
three hundred and eighty three million, So we're starting to
work in the other direction. People just aren't having as

(01:24:58):
many kids in some cases, they're having kids in general.
So at that point, you know, burst in the US
will continue to decline unless something changes to turn that around.
Seven ten, Time for a little traffic and mother together.

Speaker 4 (01:25:12):
I found the people. You gotta do your part. Sky
Mike where sky Mike Junior. There's a couple around there.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
Let's get on the North Loops six ten. You never
know what will happen.

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
We are still we're packed up both ways on six
to North Loopy at forty five at the squeeze, we're
backed up from wayside now eastbound. There's a good reason
for it. It looks like they're just about to ninja
that wreck. So no, it looks like everybody's okay too.
We're backed up from the Hardy Toll Road entrance ramp
going that way. That's going to be at least nineteen
extra minutes that way. If you're thinking about I ten

(01:25:44):
too late. We're slow from wayside back into downtown. It's
not helping with that road construction on the KD outbound
where we're down the three lanes, and also had a
minor wreck right before the ramp to the Golf Freeway.

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
So we're just having all.

Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
Kinds of smushes and spackles trying to get downtown.

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
Then you're east text elevated. Are you wetting on the
east text?

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
Looks like you are there?

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
You are well.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
Equipment down all the way through midtown to the fan
and exit. If you're trying to hit the med Center early,
you lose about twenty one minutes this way. Something is
squashing me up now in the east, Sam, right around ninety.
I know usually we have that light and that's awful.
This one's kind of unnatural. I can't see what there
is in the front right before Wallaceville. Help me on
the tip line seven one three two one two tips

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Skymichael the Generator Supercenter Dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour whethers
entner Terry Smith is here. I'm warming up the soundtrack
to Frozen for the beginning of next week. Terry may
come in.

Speaker 25 (01:26:38):
Handy Elsa predicts the weather awesome it is.

Speaker 12 (01:26:45):
It is getting a cold, folks. The question is how.

Speaker 25 (01:26:48):
Cold and will we see some moisture that may be frozen,
and that is the concern next week. So right now
we have rain and this this is our last shot
of rain through the weekend.

Speaker 12 (01:27:03):
That's the good news.

Speaker 25 (01:27:04):
Forty percent chance of showers today and temperatures are cool
in the load of mid fifties sunshine tomorrow through Sunday.
It gets warmer load of mid sixties tomorrow, mid dubber
sixties Friday.

Speaker 12 (01:27:17):
Saturday is a nice day.

Speaker 25 (01:27:19):
Load of mid sixties Saturday, but that Arctic front moves
through sometimes Saturday, so that the cold air moves in
Saturday night, Sunday morning. Sunday temperature's only middubper forties and
it looks like high temperatures in the thirties and forties
to start off next week.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
Right down forty eight at your officials, Severe Weather Station
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All the info you need did take on the day.

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
So we had the chair of the Texas GOP on
our show yesterday and he signed very confident that they
were going to get cooked, is the Speaker of the House.
They didn't. They got burrows instead. We'll talk to Ladavidiak
political consultant about that coming up next. But first we've
got traffic in weather together, so we check out the
drive again with Skymie.

Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
All Right, Albert from Kingwood.

Speaker 4 (01:28:14):
Young Albert from Kingwood says, the hov's cleared out now
at Lauder Road inbound. Of course, it's stick all the
way most of your freeways. We're getting awfully slow in
a lot of spots. Lisa from Lisa from Splendora is
on the tip line for Skyliser is.

Speaker 21 (01:28:29):
A wreck Sex Freeway southbound right before the will Clayton
Parkway exit in the left lane.

Speaker 52 (01:28:38):
There's a truck Ninja on the scene.

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
All right, well said, that's inbound lookout from nineteen sixty.
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
From KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center
for today, mostly clouding, scattered showers. High today right about
fifty four. Tomorrow mostly Sunday to partly cloudey, little warmer
sixty three, and then Friday partly to mostly cloudy, little warmer,
still with the high sixty seven right down forty eight
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(01:29:08):
Check out some of our tough stories this morning. Here's Cliff,
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:29:11):
We are sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. Several of Trump's nominees
in the cabinet appear before the Senate for confirmation hearings.

Speaker 12 (01:29:18):
Today.

Speaker 6 (01:29:19):
Officials in South Korea arrest the impeached president Yun Suck Yull.

Speaker 12 (01:29:24):
And the weather for Saturday's.

Speaker 6 (01:29:25):
Texans playoff game in Kansas City, Well, it's not Texas
like game time temperatures around twenty six degrees good, be worse.
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com true,
especially in Kansas City. Our next update is at seven
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Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
All right, so Dustin Burroughs has been elected the speaker
of the Texas House. That is not who Abraham George
and the Texas GOP said they wanted to get the
job they wanted cook. So what happened? Lad Davidio joins
this political consultant. At the end of the day, the
Texas GOLP did not get what they wanted. What does

(01:30:16):
that tell us about Republican politics here in Texas right now?

Speaker 47 (01:30:19):
Led, Well, it's deeply troubling. This is you know, going
back to two thousand and nine, Republican back candidates get
defeated with substantial Democrats support because you know, several Republicans
peel off for reasons that you know are varied, but
typically come down to they want to share of their power.

(01:30:40):
It's it's a continuation of a pattern. And these backroom deals,
these by partisan compromises, quote unquote, are betrayal of the
grassroots Republican voters and conservative principles.

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
And I'm gonna say it's interesting for me, interesting for
me to see some of the reaction. Though I don't
know if you know who Jonathan Signs is. He's with
Texas family values. He's a very conservative guy. He made
it sound like he's excited that Dustin Burrows got the job.

Speaker 18 (01:31:07):
Well, look, I think.

Speaker 47 (01:31:09):
A lot of Textans are concerned, are questioning whether Burroughs,
who is elected by Democrats, who owes Democrats his position,
can effectively champion conservative priorities. But I think what what
Jonathan Simes and some others have brought to light is
this really highlights the dark side of the deal making.
For too long, these deals were being made in secret

(01:31:32):
and really nobody knew, like why why these people, why
certain people were becoming Speaker of the House. This election
at this time threw it into sharp relief and put
a bright light on it. So it's exciting because you
people are going to see the direct connection between what
Burroughs delivers and how he got into office, and it

(01:31:53):
could signal the end of the acceptance of these back
room sweetheart deals that allow Democrats to pick and choose
who gets to be a speaker even though they're in
the minority.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
Yeah, you're right about that. It's going to be very
interesting to hear. On one hand, he is the date
feeling disciple, and on the other hand, he is supposedly
in favor of school choice and plans to carry the
water on that. But we'll find out soon enough if
he's actually going to do that, won't we.

Speaker 47 (01:32:20):
Well, you know, he faces an opportunity. He can prove
his commitment to Republican values with the critical conservative legislation.
School choice, like you mentioned, banning takes pair of funded lobbying,
bail reform, inte election, and cebrity. But we're going to
see how far the Democrats allow him to go, because
at the end of the day, he has some favors
he has to repay and we'll see what. We'll see

(01:32:40):
how far he's willing to move.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
All right, sir, good to talk. He's always thank you.
Glad to Vidio Political Consultant. Seven twenty six. It is
time to take a look at your money. Jeff Bellinger
is here and Jimmy.

Speaker 30 (01:32:51):
The Security sand Exchange Commission has accused Elon Musk of
cheating Twitter's shareholders out of millions of dollars. The SEC
says Musk waited too long to disclose that he was
increasing his stake in Twitter as he prepared to take
over bid. Attorneys from must dispute the allegations. TikTok is
reportedly prepared to shut down its app for US users

(01:33:12):
on Sunday unless the Supreme Court blocks the band scheduled
to go into effect that day. The information says the
social media company will not allow people who have already
downloaded the app to continue using it. Meta Platforms is
preparing to weed out its low performing employees. The social
media company expects performance based terminations to cut its workforce

(01:33:33):
by about five percent, and the spirits maker Brown Foreman,
which makes Jack Daniels, is cutting its global workforce by
about twelve percent. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on US
Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
Seven thirty is our time, Houston's morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories of this half hour. The Left,
they tried to rattle Pete, it didn't work. The Texas
GOP didn't get the guide they wanted for Speaker of
the House. And coming up at seven thirty eight, there's
a new professional golf league and it's played indoors. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're a Houston's Morning News. First,

(01:34:25):
check out the drive. Here's the guy, Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:34:27):
All right, let's go to the North Loop six '
ten at west side.

Speaker 5 (01:34:30):
Clear that eastbound wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
It's still pretty thick from the east side from the
east text Freeway Tech the south Loop instead.

Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
Rick from the east side.

Speaker 18 (01:34:39):
Good morning, guy, Mike.

Speaker 26 (01:34:40):
We have a little issue on I in heat wet
bound from the east side.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 19 (01:34:46):
Got it forty five north?

Speaker 26 (01:34:47):
Got it sent out the middle of the freeway.

Speaker 47 (01:34:49):
It just happened, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:34:50):
That's I ten coming from the Baytown side in downtown
at forty five over to the way to Katie's side westbound.
That rex messing us up all the way from the
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Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center.
For today, we're looking at mostly cloudy sky's we're seeing
a few showers. I temperature today we're right about fifty four.
We'll get you the complete forecast. It's gonna warm up
and then it's gonna cold, get cool, no cold for
next week, but we'll worry about that in eight minutes
when we talk to Terry. Right now, the temperature forty

(01:35:24):
eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's
Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 6 (01:35:31):
Seven thirty two on KTRH. Good morning everyone, our top story.

Speaker 31 (01:35:35):
Mister Heck said, I do not believe that you are
qualified to meet the overwhelming demands of this job.

Speaker 6 (01:35:40):
Senate Democrats attacking Pete Hegseth yesterday during confirmation hearings, but
the incoming Defense secretary held up an impressed Republican.

Speaker 32 (01:35:49):
He quoted himself extremely well and made a strong argument
for why he ought to be the next Secretary of.

Speaker 6 (01:35:54):
Defense Majority leader John Thune. Several of Trump's cabinet picks
have hearings to including Marco Rubio, the incoming Secretary of State.
So we had fireworks in DC, and then in Austin
there was this.

Speaker 33 (01:36:10):
I declare the Honorable Dustin Boroughs of Lubbock County to
be the duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives
of the eighty ninth Legislature.

Speaker 6 (01:36:21):
Boroughs and not Republican nominee David Cook is the new
Speaker of the Texas House, getting more Democrats on his
side than Republicans.

Speaker 34 (01:36:31):
That raises concerns about not only backroom deals and bipartisan compromises,
but it is correctly legitimately seen as a continuation of
Democrat chairmanships and influence in the Texas legislature.

Speaker 6 (01:36:43):
Political analyst lad Davidiak on Houston's Morning News. Elsewhere, Governor
Greg Abbott threatened to fire of the Texas A and
M president over sponsoring a DEI conference.

Speaker 35 (01:36:55):
They're sponsoring travel to a conference which bans white and
Asian students.

Speaker 36 (01:36:59):
This president, Mark Welsh, is someone who was working in
the Obama administration.

Speaker 26 (01:37:05):
He's someone that is very liberal.

Speaker 35 (01:37:06):
At pArg Christian Collins of Texas Youth Summit says this
is just another loophole to skirt state DEI laws and
turning A and M red again falls on the Senate
and Bard of Regents.

Speaker 36 (01:37:16):
Governor Abbott needs to be careful about so he at
points the Board of Regents needs to be careful about
who they hire.

Speaker 35 (01:37:22):
A and M said in a statement they don't support
any organization or conference that excludes people based on race.
Andre Perard News radio seven forty k t RH.

Speaker 6 (01:37:31):
And because of this threat late yesterday A and M
backed out from this conference. Elsewhere, the Texas Railroad Commission
has had to deal with plugging abandoned oil wells, a
problem that goes back decades.

Speaker 37 (01:37:45):
Follow up was just not as robust as what it
is today, and so most of these are issues are
being dealt with with much much over wells. We believe
that can be addressed.

Speaker 6 (01:37:55):
Todd Staples with the Texas Oil and Gas Association says
they're working with the legisla and Railroad Commission to resolve
this quickly. Oil prices have hit four month highs, just
in time for the second Trump administration. Foxes Phil Flynn
blames Joe Biden's sanctions on Russian oil.

Speaker 38 (01:38:13):
Well, it means less oil on the market, But to
all of a sudden enforced sanctions when the president's out
the door seems to me to be a little bit vindictive,
wanting to create more problems for President Trump.

Speaker 6 (01:38:27):
And oil futures this morning just hit seventy eight dollars
a barrel of fifty cents over the last couple of hours.
It is now seven thirty five on KTRH. President elect
Trump might be ready to roll back the Biden administration's
power GREB to go after your gas stoves.

Speaker 39 (01:38:45):
He's considering a presidential order to protect the gas stoves
and heaters many have come to love on cold days
that mister Trump says he just likes gas heat better.

Speaker 24 (01:38:55):
Gas heater is much less expensive.

Speaker 40 (01:38:58):
As the expression goes, you don't does anybody have a
heater where you go and you scratching? And that's what
they want you to have. They don't want you to
have gas where you don't have the problems of the electric.

Speaker 39 (01:39:09):
Details of any presidential order over natural gas are still
in the discussion stages, according to reports this week. Michael
shilohe News Radio seven forty KTR.

Speaker 12 (01:39:19):
Thank you, Michael, breaking news.

Speaker 6 (01:39:21):
We have the December inflation numbers and they were as
we expected, still sticky up for up point four percent
month to month, and the core number a two point
nine percent year over year, above expectations, closer to three
percent than the two percent that the that is looking for.
The big tech transformation pre Trump two point zero continues.

(01:39:43):
The heads of Google, Meta and x all supporting next
week's inauguration. Our Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan told ktrh
Is Clay and Buck, this is the culmination of an
effort that's taken years by conservatives.

Speaker 41 (01:39:56):
A bunch of us just jug in and said, we
cannot have this censor citic. If you lose the right
to debate, have free and fair and open debate, you
lose the First Amendment, you lose Western civilization. And so
it is great to see the turnaround that has taken
place here in the past couple of years.

Speaker 6 (01:40:10):
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg are all expected
to attend the inauguration, but don't look for Michelle Obama.

Speaker 12 (01:40:18):
She's not going. She's not giving a reason.

Speaker 6 (01:40:20):
She also didn't really speak eleven days after skipping Jimmy
Carter's funeral.

Speaker 12 (01:40:25):
On the international front.

Speaker 6 (01:40:26):
A deal between Israel and Hamas might be close to
getting done.

Speaker 42 (01:40:30):
The draft proposal stipulates that the ceasefire in Gaza would
last an initial forty two days. During that time, dozens
of hostages held by Hamas would be freed in exchange
for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.

Speaker 6 (01:40:45):
Boxs Jonathan Savage, and according to the Times of Israel,
the President elect has done more to push the two
sides to a deal in recent months, and President Joe
Biden has done in more than a year. Dangerous conditions
remain in place as the wildfires continued to burn in
Los Angeles, as the death toll is now up at
twenty five and expected to rise. I'm Cliff Saunders on

(01:41:06):
Houston's News Weather in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 31 (01:41:10):
Well, with the holidays and everything, it's really hard.

Speaker 26 (01:41:13):
To keep up.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
Chiefing, You've caught up is what we do.

Speaker 12 (01:41:15):
To know what's going on around me.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
Go with Houston's News Radio seven KTRH seven thirty eight,
our time here in Houston's Winners. I don't play golf
like I used to, which is a good thing because
I was a horrible golfer. But I have spent a
fair amount of time back when I was playing more
often in front of a golf simulator, and I always

(01:41:38):
kind of wondered, you know, are they ever going to
find a more more than not practical use, but a
wider use of a golf simulator? And I saw it
last night. It kind of blew my mind a little bit.
Tiger Woods and Rory McElroy evidently have formed this league
where professional golfer is called the TGL League. Yesterday was

(01:42:01):
week two. On Tuesday nights, they play a league match.
It is a group of golfers from one professional golfers
from one country club versus a group of golfers from
the other country club. In this case, it was Tiger
Woods being joined by Kevin Kissner and Max Homa of

(01:42:21):
Jupiter Links Golf Club to take on the Los Angeles
Golf Club of Justin Rose, Colin Mackinawa and one other
guy forget his name. So it was a three on
three thing, and they did it kind of like a
Ryder Cup format too.

Speaker 23 (01:42:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
They had all sorts of different kinds of match plays
going on. They had nine holes of alternate shot triple
play followed by six holes of singles play, two holes
for each player at each team. And although Tiger Woods
team got their butts beat twelve to one in the
fifteen hole made for TV match, they all seem to
be having a good time and they were interacting with

(01:42:56):
the crowd. It was like an indoor arena kind of
a arrangement, big huge golf simulator in actual green and
actual sand traps, and then the rest of it was
done on a simulator using mats made out of real grass.
You know, well, first of all, I thought this is crazy.
Then the more I watched it, I found the more

(01:43:18):
I kind of liked it, much to my surprise. Seven
forty Time for traffic and whether or not that's the beer.
I assume there's beer for the crobs going.

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
Mic Oh, okay, I would want to be if I
was playing golf.

Speaker 5 (01:43:29):
Let's go downtown.

Speaker 4 (01:43:30):
I ten east, let's go to iten Rick from the
east side gave me this.

Speaker 26 (01:43:33):
I did bound from the east side, which.

Speaker 4 (01:43:36):
Makes a lot of sense. That's downtown. I ten from
the Baytown side, heading over to the KD side. There's
a wreck right at forty five. We had it first
by the way, two left lanes here, three vehicles. Hopefully
everybody's okay. That's gonna smash up your East Freeway all
the way back from jack City. Call it Mercury now,
thirty five minute delay north Loot. Not much help for
you there. If you're going that way, you're dragging it now.

(01:43:58):
Right after Homestead, trying to hit the squeeze at forty
five South Loop Center, hazardous terry.

Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
That's your best way around here. Golf Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:44:05):
My workwife, Christina Cruz, just cleared that wreck up the
south Loop sixty ten.

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
That's on the Golf Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
There's the breaks from Edgebrook northbound Katie Freeway slowing down
from Graham Parkway into Barker Cyprus East Text Freeway. We're
just about to clear that wreck at Willie see will
Clayton Parkway. Lisa froms Glendora left plane.

Speaker 26 (01:44:25):
On the scene.

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
Well said, and backups from nineteen sixty and East Sam.

Speaker 5 (01:44:30):
I'll get to you. I got time here.

Speaker 26 (01:44:31):
Hey, Mike, this is David from the Spring.

Speaker 49 (01:44:33):
I'm on a East Beltway at Wallaceville that slowed down.

Speaker 26 (01:44:36):
It looks like.

Speaker 22 (01:44:37):
It's just a more brains than lane situation, taking four
lanes and squeezing them into two.

Speaker 4 (01:44:42):
All right, that's right down by ninety. We need more
Blaines and we need more brains. I'm in the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
Our katrh Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center. Terry
Smith is here. I think we'll akcacuate to the positive
on this go around. Terry, let's talk about the next
few days when we're actually going to feel a little
bit closer to normal with the temperatures.

Speaker 25 (01:45:02):
I know, I never thought that being average would be
so wonderful, but I really like average right now. And
our average high temperatures are in the low sixties this
time of year. So it's a little chili right now,
and we've got summ rain, a forty percent chance of
showers today, load to mid fifties.

Speaker 12 (01:45:23):
That's where we are.

Speaker 25 (01:45:24):
So that's about five to ten degrees below the average.
But we're going to warm it up tomorrow load of
mid sixties, and Friday's even warmer. In fact, Friday gets
a gold star banana stick or whatever else because it's
dry and in the mid to upper sixties. And after
that average is fleeting because Saturday Saturday is dry, load

(01:45:47):
of mid sixties and Sunday that's when the Arctic hare
moves in.

Speaker 12 (01:45:50):
It's going to hang around for a while too.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
All right, And we have to keep our eye on
for Tuesday. But at this point, let's worry about Tuesday Monday, right.

Speaker 25 (01:45:57):
Well, maybe maybe we can worry about it Friday. Maybe
we'll get a better feel for just the timing of
all of this by another forty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
Hours, all right, right now? Forty eight at your officials,
severe weather. Station News Radio seven forty k TRH. What
you need to know for the day ahead.

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Seven fifty miles our time here in Houston's born does.
Let's get right to traffic and weather together, because you
know we've got a shower or two out there this morning,
closing little problem on the roadway. What you got out there,
sky Mike, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:46:29):
Besides the wet freeways, of course, we've just got a
lot of folks packed up downtown. Iten westbound right at
forty five. We had to spin out, started to wreck,
big backups all the way from jack City Mercury and
a sixty minute delay going westbound now Katie Freeway. Of course,
you have that outbound road construction out to Heights Boulevard
and East Texas southbound call it will Clayton Parkway. That

(01:46:51):
accident's about to clear. We have breaks from nineteen sixty.
I'm Skymike at your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.
Texas Congressman Chip Roy joins us in just a minute
or two. First our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four.
Our weather center forecast mostly clouding, scattered showers fifty four
today mostly Sunday to part of the cloudie warmer. Sixty
three for the high tomorrow. Right now forty eight at
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(01:47:15):
Lets get you caught up on some of our top stories.

Speaker 6 (01:47:17):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy, brought to you by DNM
auto leasing. Inflation was up in December. Iowa Senator Joni
Ernst says she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth in
the US Supreme Court. Here's arguments today challenging the Texas
law aimed at keeping children from seeing online porn. Get
the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next

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update is at eight o'clock.

Speaker 18 (01:47:40):
I live in clear.

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Lake, Humble, reliable KTRH traffic and weather.

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
Next on the ten, seven fifty two is our time
here in Houston's worting news. Concressman Chip Roy joins us
he has reintroduced his Border Safety and Security Act. Welcome
to the show, Congressman. I want to ask you about
the hearings that are going on, but let's get to
this first. You've really introduced your border bill. Can you
remind us of exactly what's in there and what its

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attempts to accomplish.

Speaker 53 (01:48:09):
Sure great to be on you know, last Congress, before
we were able to come up with the historic Republican
package that got dubbed as h R two, the number
that you know that it was filed under. But that bill,
which was a bill that dealt with border security in
a in a really strong, holistic fashion, reforming a lot

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of the problems that were being abused under Biden, like
the asylum abuses and the abuse of parole, to release
people in the United States, you know, building the wall,
you know, ending a lot of the releases of families,
you know, and changing the policy so we can make
that all work. All of that was done built upon
a bill that I had introduced in late the previous Congress,

(01:48:53):
so heading into into January of twenty three. And that bill,
which is the bill I just reintroduced, does the very
simple thing. It simply says that the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall detain anybody or shall turn them away. Now
what that means is we don't do any of the

(01:49:13):
ridiculous things we are doing now, like releasing people into
the United States with some date to appear literally years
in the future or under quote alternatives to detention.

Speaker 23 (01:49:24):
What we say is we need to literally.

Speaker 53 (01:49:26):
Put them in a facility and detain them, make a
determination if they have some legitimate claim to asylum, which
is a small fraction that people who ever come across
our border or otherwise turn away. That fundamental change is
what would literally stop the abuse at our boarder. We
embraced that model in HR two, so I refiled my

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very short three or four page bill as the model
that I think is still important while we develop our
version that we will do as a conference this year.

Speaker 3 (01:49:58):
Well, and hopefully you got much better chance of getting
that act to upon all right, I want to ask
you a little bit about it. I don't know if
you watched any of the hearing yesterday for Pete Hegseth
or not, but it's pretty clear what the Democrats are
going to attempt to do with President Trump's nominees, especially
the ones that are considered quote unquote controversial. They're going
to try to beat them down to mean them. I

(01:50:20):
don't know what you thought or if you saw any
of Pete's performance, but I was pretty impressed.

Speaker 53 (01:50:25):
Look, I think Pete demonstrated yesterday that he is going
to be the soldier's secretary. He is going to stand
up for the men and women in uniform who are
out there on the front lines, who are taking bullets,
or are the ones who understand what it takes to
defend the country.

Speaker 23 (01:50:40):
He's not going to be an.

Speaker 53 (01:50:41):
Apologist for the brass or the k Street lobbyists that
represent all of the contractors that unfortunately defined so much
of our defense policy. He stood strong against the attacks.
He did so with respect, but with the appropriate amount
of strength that you would expect out of a Secretary

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of Defense. I think he's gonna a phenomenal job. I'm
been supporter of it since he was announced by the President,
and he's We need that kind of change in the
Pentagon in Washington, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:51:11):
And I want to quickly ask you too. The Los
Angeles wildfires they continue to burn. There are a lot
of people who are calling for government change in California
before providing aid. In other words, as long as Governor
Gavin Newsom in the Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bassar there
with the policies that they have, why will we sink
billions of dollars in trying to help California rebuild when
they wouldn't do anything in order to help themselves.

Speaker 53 (01:51:35):
Well, first of all, you know, we had a lot
of our Democrat colleagues in the administration, the Biden administration,
who were prettydamned slow to want to help the people
in North Carolina. A lot of times this is a
you know, becomes a pop political Let me answer the
question this way. Of course, we shouldn't be giving a
blank check to California when they've got ridiculous policies that
caused the problem.

Speaker 23 (01:51:55):
But I look at it slightly differently.

Speaker 53 (01:51:57):
The reason we have any kind of disaster of funding
at all, why we have FEMA, is because when there's
a crisis, we help each other out, right, So we
send resources immediately. Federal resources combine state resources share, you know,
whether it's National Guard, whether it's firefighters from other states.
But the Feds can do a very specific and quick

(01:52:17):
role for relief at the moment, right, because that's what
you do. It's like triage, right you're under attack, or
if you got a hurricane flood, to get boats here
with the fires, how can we get the fires out?
Because the point here is to get the damn fires out.
Stop the damage. We should do that immediately without question.
There's no politics on any of that. FEMA should be
all over that. And I'm sure President Trump, if these

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things are still going in a week, which you know,
I hope they're all gone, you know, we should absolutely
do what we can to.

Speaker 23 (01:52:44):
Help them and stop the fires.

Speaker 53 (01:52:46):
But when it comes to a big check for rebuilding,
then yeah, we need to have a long, hard conversation
about number one, what is the role of the federal
government in doing that anywhere in California, North Carolina, anywhere, Like,
what's the role and writing big checks that we don't
and then we need to pay for them. But then secondly, yeah, California,

(01:53:06):
you create the mass. Why are we going to give
you a blank check without changing your policies created the mass,
your policies, your water policies.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
Yeah, I apologize for interrupting service. We're way past our time,
but I want to thank you for your time. As always,
we appreciate it so much. That is Texas Congressman ship Roy.
You all have a great day. We'll see tomorrow morning,
bright and early at five am.