More Icy Roads In The Houston Area This Morning

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 01/23/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
Matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, five am is our time as we get
started this morning. You're in Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories. One more night below freezing, that'll
be tonight. The Texas grid did just fine and coming
up at five o wight. Nothing says love like a
hissing cockroach. Details in the minutes. Say head, you're in
Houston's Morning News first, Good enough of this and we're

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checking out the drive. Hey, by the way, came down
forty five to the north three way this morning. That
was fine. Yeah, I'm six ten Loop West and South, Okay,
and this squeeze a little bit, little bit of sheen
every now and again, but pretty good compared to yesterday.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
I slipped on some of that sheen. You know, where
is the pain in the ass. But I'm only saying
that with you. I won't say that in front of Terry.
All right, let's get on the north side here. Jimmy
scoyds right in and yep, I'm showing twenty two minutes
from Woodlands here southside Go Freeway. We look good coming
up from NASA twenty one minutes. They've reopened the Chema Bridge.
Ship channel bridges are we are well. They never work closed.

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But here's the thing. There are patches that I still
out there. You know, it's below freezing, and there's some
pieces that did not free stay on the lanes that
everybody else has been driving on. And obviously let's give
everybody some distance. This morning, Skymichael a Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty
four hour weather Center.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Lots of sunshine today will warm up to fifty six,
so act you take care of whatever is left out
there for you to deal with. Here this morning, Terry
Smith will drop by more in the forecast, including warm
temperatures and storms coming up for the weekend. We get
a little bit of everything this week, don't we tip
at You're right now thirty at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k t RH. It's time now

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for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
Thank you, Jimmy five two on KTRH and our top
story to.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
The operations return to normal city services will be open.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
Houston Mayor John Wickmeyer, outside of some slick spots on
the roads this morning. We're getting back to normal after
winter storm Endzo. And while most school districts are open today,
there are several still closed, including the Cleveland and Dayton
is isds. We've got the list at KTRH dot com.
Still seeing some flight issues at Bush and Hobby this

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morning as well, with thirty canceled flights out of the
Big Airport and seven canceled flights out of Hobby. And
with Enzo now Gonzo, how did Urcotton's Center Point do?

Speaker 7 (02:35):
David Holt, president of the Consumer Energy Alliance, said, the
grid did well.

Speaker 8 (02:41):
We weathered the storm pretty well, no capacity issues, no
real reliability issues.

Speaker 7 (02:46):
And as for Center Point, they got through Tuesday.

Speaker 8 (02:50):
The second highest demand day I ever reported for the
state of Texas. So overall, very good news from an
energy demand and capacity, and.

Speaker 7 (02:58):
We'll have to wait and see how they handle the
next hurricane.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k T eight.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
And in some of our suburban counties, getting back to
normal is already nearly complete.

Speaker 9 (03:10):
The Brian solutions that we use the work to the
standing of the bridges excellent, and so we're right now demobilizing.
We're shutting down peltiers and the warming centers, and we're
returning to normal operations.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Montgomery County Judge Mark Keo telling ktr H that the
key to their quick response was good communication. It's now
five h three on KTRH.

Speaker 10 (03:31):
With time, effort, money, unfortunately, but they were all solvable.
Probably we can get our country back. But if we
didn't win this race, I really believe our country would
have been lost forever.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
President Donald Trump with our own Sean Hannity last night,
promising to fix everything that Joe Biden broke over his
four years in the White House. Now he's already having
an impact at the border, as ICE has arrested nearly
five hundred illegal aliens in several states, including New York
in California, many of them with criminal histories.

Speaker 11 (04:03):
Some of the most vicious criminals in this country, including
child pornography cases, homicide cases, sexual assault, tax on children.

Speaker 12 (04:13):
And this is just the very beginning.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Fox. The House
passed the Lake and Riley Act, which allows ICE to
detain illegal aliens that commit crimes The President will sign
the bill later this week after visiting disaster affected areas
in North Carolina and California. Meantime, Texas Congressman Brian Babbin
reintroduces legislation to block illegal aliens from taking advantage of

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birthright citizenship. That proposal was originally made in twenty twenty three,
but a troubling new development at the border. Instead of
crossing here illegally, some people are trying to tunnel through it.
Border patrol recently found a cross border tunnel near El Paso,
which was connected to the city sewers system. South Texas

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Congressman Tony Gonzalez tells Kate Fox TV this is yet
another sign of the border crisis that emerged in the
last four years.

Speaker 13 (05:07):
This is one of the more sophisticated tunnels we've seen,
but you know, until its border crisis.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Gets under control, I think you're going to see more.

Speaker 13 (05:14):
Of these tunnels, and ideally we have agencies that uncover
more of these tunnels.

Speaker 14 (05:18):
Crews began filling in the tunnel last week. President Trump
signed an executive order on day one that declares a
border emergency. Coryolson, who's Radio seven forty KTRH violent.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
Crime continues throughout Texas. Seven San Antonio police officers shot
last night. They all suffered non life threatening injuries.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Here at home.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
A carjacking a gunpoint in Katie led to a brief
chase that ended a crash. Deputies arrested the bad guy
found a woman inside the car with gunshot wounds. She
is in critical condition. The US Supreme Court here's oral
arguments on a case out of use didn't that could
determine the level of immunity granted to cops in use

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of force cases. Arison County Constant Roberto Felix shot and
killed a bad guy during a confrontation on a Houston
toll road ten years ago. Attorney Charles mcclod says there
is legal presidents allowing officers to use deadly force.

Speaker 15 (06:12):
At the moment Sergeant Felix used force, he was clinging
to the side of the fleeing suspects car, and Felix
reasonably believed that his life was in imminent danger.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
The court will decide if the victim's families lawsuit against
the officer can move ahead at five oh six. Chinese
made drones are capable of flying anywhere in the US,
especially Texas collecting information and then sending it to Beijing.

Speaker 12 (06:36):
Texas House appears to have caught up on this threat.
In December of twenty twenty four, a special Texas House
committee released a report talking about hostile threats to the
stay of Texas, and one of the categories was drones.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Investigative reporter Robert Montoya with Texas Scorecards, says, the world's
largest drone provider, Dji, has ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
It's not only drones we've got to worry about when
it comes to China. Retired Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery
says he fear's a cyber attack and that China has
a willing partner.

Speaker 16 (07:10):
I think all of the access of authoritarians could lie in wait.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
That's China, Russia, India, and North Korea.

Speaker 16 (07:15):
But I think realistically the countries that are thinking about
that they need to stop at American ability to mobilize
forces are really weak in our economic productivity.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Is China and Russia.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Montgomery at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing yesterday, and
the Rockets take down the Cleveland Cavaliers one oh nine
to one oh eight. They'll play again on Saturday in Cleveland.
I'm Cliff Saunters on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station
News Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
World Events, National Headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 17 (07:50):
Smized by the coach, promised I found this size about
wings itsed by the cockroachs.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
How do y'all feel about cockroaches? I'm not a big
fan personally, so I see the story every year I
feel compelled. I don't know why I feel compelled to
come in on it, but I think I will this morning.
It's you can name a cockroach after your loved one
for Valentine's Day. All right, raise your hand if the
woman in your life loves cockroaches or would in any way,

(08:27):
shape or form want to be compared to one. Yeah,
I didn't think so. It's probably a zoo fundraiser, so
you know that's fine. It's done every year Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.
You can name one of their Madagascar hissing cockroaches after
your significant other for fifteen dollars, for which you get
an official certificate of that naming that you can share

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with the person that you've named the cockroach after. Deadline
for This is February the fifth, five pm, according to officials,
fifteen bucks. To me, this is kind of like, oh,
by the way, we have Madagascar hissing cockroaches here in Texas.
So if you really do believe that the significant other

(09:12):
than your life would appreciate having a cockroach named after them,
you could go out there and get a real live
Madagascar hissing cockroach and take it home and present it
to her or him as a gift. I mean, if
they really like cockroaches and you can name them, you
could name the cockroach anything you want to name the cockroach.

(09:35):
This is kind of like naming a cockroach for Valentine's Day.
It's it's to me, it's kind of like the star
scam right where you can name a star after your
loved one and then they send you this little certificate.
Who has the right to pinpoint your spec of light
out in the out in the universe somewhere and say, yeah,
that's planet Jimmy, or that's that star Jimmy. I don't

(09:59):
think we really the right to do that, and quite frankly,
I think it's about as useful a gift as a
hissing cockroach. Five to ten time for traffic, and the
better together puts that sky. My name a cockroach after
your ex.

Speaker 18 (10:12):
There we go.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Now you're talking sheeting cockroach that lives in a dope.
Now let's go to let's go downtown. I got this
lovely shot here of I forty five the pier Salivated
at the Dallas Street squeeze. I don't know why it
squeezes down to you lose a lane right there both ways,
but it's sure a pretty shot at night. Look at
all these lights. We're looking good. Pier Salivated's in good shape.
Everybody's driven over it. I don't think we have to

(10:34):
worry about a whole lot of ice. These are the
places I want you to watch out. If you're outside
the Beltway, somewhere out in the country like Tarkington Prairie,
for instance, and you're on a country road and you
know people haven't been driving on it a while, that's
where you'll most likely get the ice problems. If it's
well traveled, you should be fine. But I can tell
you you could sure step on it and bust it
this morning too, this morning, so watch out. Let's go

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to the ship channel bridges. Check the Hartman Hartman looks.
It looks like we're a k take it easy both
ways and you're toll bridge also moving along fine six
' ten the Sherman Bridge, no whoop pier and as
far as the Chema Bridge they've now reopened that, Terry,
I have. I got on five shirts, my bridges and
my insulated drawers. One more day of this business. I'm

(11:16):
in the Generators Supercenter dot Com traffic Center. I got
my husky boy Corduroys on from our uh remember those
from you can hear it.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I went to see hears and bought me a bear
from our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weathers.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Walking down the hall, Terry Smith is here.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I did notice one thing, Terry and the drive home yesterday,
and that is is I Drew drove north on the
North Freeway towards the Woodlands.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
The snow just gradually went down to nothing.

Speaker 17 (11:42):
Isn't that nice?

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yes? It is so counterintuitive.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yes, I would think that anybody who's dealing with any
black ice or anything like that is pretty much going
to be south of the sixth end loop this morning.

Speaker 19 (11:55):
Okay, well, if that's the case, then we need to
be a little extra cautious. Here's a good thing. We
did get rid of some of the frozen stuff yesterday.
We'll get rid of a lot more of that today,
and certainly towards the end of the week that won't
be an issue for us.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
But do use a little bit caution if.

Speaker 19 (12:15):
You're in an area where the snowpack did hang around
and may have melted somewhat during the day yesterday.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Now has refrozen a lot of places.

Speaker 19 (12:24):
Just about everybody is right at or below freezing, so
a lot of that did refreeze.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
But a warming trend is.

Speaker 19 (12:30):
Underway, and there's great rejoicing throughout the land. We will
turn out sunny today, load of mid fifties. Tomorrow, also
sunny and dry, load of mid fifties. There's a twenty
percent chance of some rain Saturday, eighty percent chance of
showers and storm Sunday. We could get some heavy rain.
The temperatures are now into the sixties and we still

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have a little bit of rain Monday, and we're still
in the sixties Monday, TEP.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
But you're right now thirty here at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k H.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you Biden, New South
windows solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barretts and the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need to take
on the day. So here's some breaking news this morning.
Brian Babin, Congressman Brian Babin, who represents the eastern part
of Texas. He evidently has introduced a bill dealing with

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birthright citizenship. We'll share some info about that with you
coming up next. First, we have traffic and weathered together
as we check out the drive once again with Skymine.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Hey, we got an accident on the Northwest Freeway two ninety.
This is outbound, not inbound, Bingal. We've got it on
both the shoulders, so we're bowling a split. This is
where I'd be really careful about ice, and that's on
the outside. The outside ends both left and right, so
watch out leaving the loop. I'm skottmichel A Generator Supercenter
dot Com traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
R KTI RhE top tax Defenders. Twenty four hour weathers
centnder mix of clouds and sunshine today with the height
fifty three, clear about thirty tonight Sunnay fifty four tomorrow,
round sixty on Saturday sixty five on Sunday. Sunday, looks
like we're gonna get some showers and storms. Right now
thirty at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH slifas here he has an update on some

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of our top stories this morning.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
We're sponsored by DNM Auto Leasing. We now know the
bad guy is dead. In San Antonio, seven cops were
shot last night in a suicide in progress. The officers
suffered non life threatening injuries. Texas City officials discover more
than four hundred thousand worth of illegal substances in a
drug bust last week, and CNN, according to reports, is

(14:37):
going to lay off hundreds of employees, possibly today at
the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Our next update at five thirty.

Speaker 20 (14:46):
Well, with the holidays and everything, it's really hard to
keep up.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Cheeping You caught off is what we do to know
what's going on around me.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Go with Houston's News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
And if you are born to a American citizens, you
yourself should be a citizen, right The question becomes should
just being born in the United States qualify you automatically
as a US citizen? In other words, if illegal people
come here, you know, a llegal mom and a legal dad,
and they have an illegal baby in the United States,

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should they have birthright citizenship? Should they automatically be US
citizens because they were born here? Trump wants to change that.
Plenty of other conservatives in Congress want to change that too.
That includes Texas Congressman Brian Babin. Here he is this
morning talking about his bill to end birthright citizenship.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
This bill is a bill that I've had for several years,
but its time has come. And one reason for that
is because President Trump has made so many executive orders
here in just the last forty eight hours, and incredibly,
he is determined to seal that border and secure our border.

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And when he wrote that executive order, we actually welcome
these lawsuits because these lawsuits being filed by the ACLU
and in these blue states and cities which you just
had on your on your map and.

Speaker 21 (16:12):
On the screen there.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
We want to codify what he is doing with an
executive order and pass this bill, get it through the House,
the Senate, and have President Trump signed in the law
so that the next president can't come along another Joe
Biden and uh and just overturn the executive order.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
We have to have it written in law, and that's
what is for. So we're we're we like to see.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
This because it's going to have to wend its way
through the court system.

Speaker 12 (16:41):
UH.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
And then hopefully the Supreme Court of the United States
will rule UH, and we will take care of this
problem once and for all. This birthright citizenship, the the
the whole premise of it is based on the fourteenth
Amendment to the US Constitution, which was written for one
purpose and one purpose only, and that is to make

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the children of freed slaves right after the Civil War
and they were freed to make them citizens. Had nothing
to do with bringing illegal aliens in or birthright tourism,
a million dollar, multimillion dollar business where people come, wealthy
folks from Russia, from China give birth to a baby here.

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And goodness, gracious, let me tell you, Todd, four hundred
thousand women come across this border each year to have babies.

Speaker 21 (17:30):
One in ten is now an illegal birth. And we
have to just get this thing right. We got to
get it done right, and we got to get.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
It done quickly.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I get what he's saying. And yes, it will end
up in front of you of Supreme Court, no doubt
about it. Here's what the Fourteenth Amendment says, or at
least the part that is most often quoted. All persons
born are naturalized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United plates States

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and of the state wherein they reside. No States shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges
or immunities of citizens of the United States. Nor shall
any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, nor deny to any person
within his jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. He's
right about why he was written. He was written post slavery,

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so that those people who were brought here as slaves
would become citizens automatically citizens of the United States those
born here. But of course nobody could have foreseen. The
founding fathers could not have foreseen what was going to
happen with the illegal immigration. The problem is is that
even for the Constitution, that's pretty broadly worded. But then again,

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that's why you have a Supreme Court right to make
that interpretation. Now, the question would become if the Supreme
Court decided that that includes illegal aliens. That what I
just read to you from the fourteenth Amendment that includes
anybody born in the United States, regardless of the citizenship
of the parents. Then it would take a constitutional amendment

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to change that, and that would take a lot five
twenty six. Here in these radio seven forty ktrh. Time
to take a look at your money. Jeff Ellinger, good morning,
and good morning to you, Jimmy.

Speaker 22 (19:17):
As stocks advanced in midweek trading, the major averages had
gains ranging from three tenths percent to one and three
tenths percent. Netflix shares rallied. They closed nearly ten percent higher.
The streaming service posted stellar quarterly results. Shares of Alaska
Air moved higher and after hours trading, the carrier became
the latest airline to post better than expected fourth quarter results.

(19:39):
Alaska Air's first quarter guidance also topped forecasts. We'll be
hearing from American Airlines today. Texas Instruments is also scheduled
to open its books. I'm Jeff Beldinger, Bloomberg Business on
News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
You are no Houston's News.

Speaker 23 (19:58):
Why there were traffic plus preaking twenty four seventh. This
is news Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Child everywhere within the IRP.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
More of what's happening now from the Sean Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's five point thirty now here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f are.
The roads are much improved compared to yesterday. Trump I'm
fixing everything and coming up at five thirty eight, they
walk up to a chunk of frozen waste crashing through
their bedroom roof. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive again, Sam, Mike,

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what's going on out there?

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Aparently ice mcgeddon is not over people two to ninety
outbound at Bingle. That's the wreck here. We're bowling to
split its on both shoulders. Got a new wreck San
Jacento River Highway ninety Crosby Freeway, and I'm hearing that's
blocking lanes both ways. I got Becky from Kema on
the Gulf.

Speaker 24 (20:53):
Heyday, Mike, new accident. There is ice on the overpass
of the Bolt Freeway over Eldorado, so I split around
on it. But as you're coming over, everybody's stop and
there was a booh, this one's slickery too.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Over twenty or fifty one, all right, I think that
tells you what's going on. I've got reports of AREC Monroe.
I've got reports of AREQ one forty six at Fairmont.
Let's zoom it at five p forty one. I have
more time in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center. Yup.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
If you're south of iten be on the lookout for
that stuff from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four
our weather center. Mix of clouds and sun with a
high today right about fifty three, so we're gonna warm
up and this will probably be the last day we
have to deal with the slippery stuff. We'll talk to
Terry Smith about that in about eight minutes. Temperture right now,
currently is thirty at your officials, Severe Weather Station, News

(21:42):
Radio seven forty k TRH stime. Now for the news,
here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is five thirty one on KTRH.
Top story.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
We're waking up to one last morning of freezing tempts.
We're talking about some slick spots out there if you're driving.
But in the aftermath of Enzo Uston fire chief Thomas
Muno says the city did well.

Speaker 9 (22:03):
No fatalities on the road, no fatalities with carmon knoxide,
no fire injuries, firefighters at an amazing job.

Speaker 5 (22:10):
There were three deaths possibly related to the storm. Text
Dot officials say they are pleased with how the roads
look overall.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Following the system.

Speaker 25 (22:19):
Pre treating and retreating Houston's roads helped crews remove the
snow and ice much easier.

Speaker 26 (22:24):
Text Dot I think did a great job this time around.
We started making preparations logistically as early as last week,
as soon as we got the forecasts.

Speaker 25 (22:33):
Public information officer for tex Dot Houston, Leo Flores, says,
it's always better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 26 (22:39):
What we've always known is that preparation is key, it's paramount,
and we don't get them often. This type of weather
event was unprecedented here.

Speaker 25 (22:47):
Snowplows were used from other Texas cities, including Dallas and
El Paso. Cher Lewis News Radio seven forty k CHR eight,
Thanks Jared.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Most of our schools are open today.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Several districts are closed, though, including Crosby and Liberty isds.
We've got that list at KTRH dot com. Louisiana is
still digging out from more than eight inches of snow
in some spots and first time ever blizzard warnings.

Speaker 27 (23:11):
We have had snowmageddon here. Look, we got the snowplows
from Governor Satan's. I want to give a great shout
out to Governor Sarah Sanders and her crew from Arkansas.
It's not like we got snowplows in the garage. I
don't even think anybody in Louisiana has a snowshovel's.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on the Walton and Johnson Show
on nine point fifty KPRC New Orleans said a one
hundred year snowfall record. It's five point thirty four on KTRH.
And President Donald Trump sat down for his first interview
in the Oval office in starting his second term, detailing
how he plans to handle sanctuary city hold down. Says

(23:46):
he tries to protect the border.

Speaker 10 (23:47):
We're trying to get rid of and we're trying to
end him in a lot of the people in those
communities don't want them.

Speaker 21 (23:52):
You know, California is a big Woodjana off their money.
I might have to do that sometimes that's the only
thing you can.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Do Trump with KTRH is shown on Hannity. The president's
five hundred billion dollar stargate project won't just increase AI
in the US. Evin dun Moyer with the Texas Public
Policy Foundation says it might very well be a major
boost to an already healthy Texas economy.

Speaker 28 (24:15):
These data centers are going to create jobs, it's going
to create innovation, but only if we have the energy
to do so.

Speaker 21 (24:21):
We just had a snowstorm.

Speaker 28 (24:22):
Bankfully the grid upheld that, but the legislature will want
to focus on new energy to meet this new investment
coming here.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
The first data center built for this initiative will be
right here in Texas. Five point thirty five. And as
you send your kids to school this morning, one Texas
lawmaker is proposing a review of the economic value of
a college degree.

Speaker 29 (24:44):
State Senator Mays Middleton of Galveston wants to focus more
on outcomes and.

Speaker 30 (24:48):
At the end of the day, we need to make
sure that students that are receiving these degrees can actually pay.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Off that debt. He says.

Speaker 29 (24:56):
Many schools are finally eliminating some useless courses and it
will also bring more value to our state.

Speaker 30 (25:02):
Schools that are focused on their ability to earn a
litting after they graduate with these degrees, and they're going
to be able to do it at a lower cost.

Speaker 29 (25:10):
He says, college has become a distribution wealth game that's
hurting the students. Andre Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH
thank you.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Andre.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
Houston Mayor John Wickmeyer officially announced that effective on February first,
the city's telework program remote work requiring all will end,
rather requiring all sixteen hundred city employees to get back
to the office.

Speaker 31 (25:32):
Now.

Speaker 32 (25:32):
I think they're kind of looking at the efficiencies within
the city and what is best for the taxpayers, and
at the same time, they're also going through an efficiency audit,
if you will, from Ernst and Young.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Charles Blaine with urban Reform. Meantime, Harris County Commissioner's Court
could follow the City of Houston's lead. They will evaluate
the county's work from home policy at Commissioner's Court next month.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
It's now five point thirty six.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
The damage that Joe Biden did to the American economy
won't be fixed overnight, specifically when it comes to oil.
But Fox's Phil Flynn says the Trump agenda is the
right way to get back to more stable oil and
gas prices.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
I think it's going to be drill, baby, drill right.

Speaker 33 (26:12):
It's going to be the Trump administrations to be, you know,
starting to allow the US energy business to do what
they need to do.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Oil futures this morning are right around seventy five dollars
of barrel gas prices across Houston check in at two
dollars and sixty nine cents. A consequence of the Biden
Administration's economy and criminal justice reform, theft from retail stores
is up by ninety eight percent over the last four years.
Retired HPD Captain Greg Freeman blames the politicians, and I

(26:45):
have to say.

Speaker 34 (26:45):
That these radical leftist policies where they were sought on criminals.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
So it's no surprise that the large increase in retail
theft is resulting inclosures of some stores. Five point thirty
seven Americans are at their tipping point when being asked
to tip. New data from bank Rage shows that the
average tip fell from nineteen point six percent four years
ago to eighteen percent last year.

Speaker 20 (27:08):
Only sixty seven percent of restaurant goers always tip. Now
that's down from seventy five percent a few years ago.
That's one that I feel should be pretty.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Universal bank rates.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
Ted Rossman says tipping less is becoming a bigger trend,
and the Astros reportedly receive interest from the Chicago Cubs
in acquiring reliever Ryan Presley. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
News whether in traffic station news radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
I live in their park, I live in the Woodlands.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
If you throw in a burp sad, you'd blow up,
wouldn't you. I think you'd blow up. I don't think
the human body could withstand that. Five thirty eight is
our time here in Houston's morning News. Well, there's all
kinds of things that end up in airline toilets, all
those things if you can poop and pee, and maybe
a few other things in there as well. And that's
perhaps why California couples filed a lawsuit against Jet Blue

(28:08):
after a frozen chunk of said waste from one of
the company's planes came crashing through their bedroom ceiling woke
them up from a sound sleep on New Year's day.
The chunk was about the size of a watermelon. I
know how I wonder how the plane was when it
dropped this thing. I mean, if you're a thirty thousand

(28:29):
feet that's like a bomb coming in. According to the lawsuit,
they barely escaped devastating physical injury. They're asking for one
million dollars.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Now.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
I don't know what this couple does for a living.
Maybe their attorneys, But they managed to find out that
the FAA Federal Aviation Administration had done an investigation. The
same plane that dropped that chunk on them dropped a
chunk on a Massachusetts home in August of twenty three.

(29:00):
So in the lawsuits, they're saying that Jet Blue failed
to investigate and correct the problems after the twenty twenty
three incident. Jeff Blue, of course, is not commony because
they're being sued, so they're you know, they're keeping tight
lift on this. Here's here's my prediction, especially if this
happened with the same plane before, there will be a

(29:20):
settlement of some sort. I don't know if they're going
to get a million, but there'll probably be an out
of court settlement. This is not the kind of publicity
you want if you're Jet Blue five forty. Time for
traffic and weather together as we check out the drive
again with sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Apparently we need to put the alerts back out, y'all.
I got ice all over the place. Got a wreck
on two ninety outbound. That's going to be I want
to I keep forgetting bingal Okay outbound, not inbound Bengal.
I got two one two three rex on the south
sam Post Oke going that way westbound, another one two
eighty eight westbound, another one at Macowo westbound. What does
that tell you? We got some serious conditions on the

(29:55):
south side. I got recks both ways over Crosby Freeway
ninety bo ways over the bridge. Apparently that ice had
not melted and that's causing big problems here. Got Keo
Becky from Kema gave me a wreck around Monroe on
the Golf Freeway northbound. Now I got Keyo from Leak City.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Hey, brother, this is gonna be a crazy morning.

Speaker 24 (30:15):
I just recorded in an accident over for clear Lake.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
City Boulevard heading northbound.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Right after that, I myself hid a patch of ice
and noticed right in front of you there was gonna
be a goal that it was completely overturned. All right,
I'm gonna call that Monroe for the northbound. We got
to keep zooming this. It's a lot of stuff to
sort out southside, Larry, Hey, morning, Sky Mike, Guys Scarsdale, Okay,
the fool, let's talk.

Speaker 35 (30:40):
At Toriota, Cameron or Malibu fighting the wrong way with
a lot of us thing. You're hanging out and there's
a big up truck a little bit further down fighting
the wrong way, and Moby a little bit oft there.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
All right. This is three different locations of the golf
freeway Scarsdale, Monroe and what was the third one? Airport.
I got three different wrecks on the golf Apparently we
still have an ice problem. Skymike and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com traffic seer, and again it seems to be
concentrated southside.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
So yeah, south sideary, if you are, if you were
in the south, if you're in the Gulf Freeway and
not the North Freeway, please pay attention from Mark and
TRH Generator super Center twenty four hour whether the center
Terry Smith is here. It's that's what happened to the snow, Darry,
I mean the snow, the heaviest snow was from the
city of Houston South and so that's what's taking the
longest to get rid of it all right where.

Speaker 19 (31:27):
We had the heaviest snow, it takes a little bit longer.
And it's safe to presume that if you see anything
on the roads that it's frozen, because our temperatures have
been at or below freezing for most of Southeast Texas
since the overnight hours, so a lot of that has refrozen.

(31:48):
And the tricky thing about black ice is you don't
see it. That's the problem. And a number of our
listeners were describing I was going along and I hit
some ice, or there's a car facing backwards.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
How did that happen? It probably hits some ice.

Speaker 26 (32:06):
So just be go.

Speaker 19 (32:08):
Slow and leave a little bit of distance, more distance
than you usually do between you and the other cars
around you, if possible. And it will improve here fairly
shortly because the sun's coming up and we're going to
see those temperatures warm up above freezing and have more melting.

Speaker 21 (32:25):
Today.

Speaker 19 (32:25):
We're getting there, folks. Let the mid fifties today and
tomorrow Saturday, we have a twenty percent chance of rain.
Temperatures around sixty Saturday. Sunday's looking to be a socurve
a day and eighty percent chance of showers and storms,
maybe some heavy rain and the possibility more rain Monday,
but temperatures are going to be afternoon highs in the
sixties into early next week.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Temperature is still thirty here at your officials Severe Weather
Station News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
What you need to know for the day ahead. This
is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South Wind.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Those solutions just about five fifty yar time here in
Houston's Morning News. I think they did the best they
can with what they had to work with. It that
we are limited here in Texas as far as, especially
in South Texas, what we can do with something like snow.
We just don't get snow. It's not like we got
a bunch of snowplows and you know, a bunch of
salt to spread on the roads. We'll talk to Christina Hadley,

(33:20):
public information officer with tech Dot about how she thinks
things went in just a moment first though.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Hey Christina Hadley, Yeah, you know Christina, she sends me email.
I appreciate that, Christina, and I think tech Dot did
an amazing job. By the way, Hey, so much for
the south side thing. We thought everything was on the
south side. Here's young Albert from Kingwood.

Speaker 36 (33:37):
Hey, guy, Mike fort five, there are emergency vehicles. We
are completely at a standstill hardy toll road. So we
are attempting to get out of a preaking money nobody's moving.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
All along, he said. He said, freak. By the way,
that was on the westbound side Graham Parkway, right where
you hit all that business with the hardy toe word
going that way. Got three accidents on the golf free
scarsdel Monroe Airport, got three on the south felt I
Macowa telephone I Macawa two eighty eight and also guestner
Skymike at the Generator Supercenter dot com traffic sent.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Now the Graham Parkway is elevated right there, so there's
your problem. From our KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour
weather Center mix of clouds and sun fifty three today,
clear tonight, about thirty Sunday tomorrow with a high fifty
four sixty on Saturday, sixty five on Sunday. I'm sure
that's music to text docs series. Temperature right now is
still thirty at your official severe weather station News Radio

(34:33):
seven forty k TRH. We're checking out some of our
top stories on this Thursday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
We're sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. We're about to get an
update on the roads from tech dot. With ice once
again an issue this morning, Tens of thousands of Californians
forced to evacuate thanks to another wildfire in the LA area.
And on this day in nineteen fifty seven, toy company Whammo,
remember them, rolled out it's first patch of Frisbees.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
I was gonna say hula hoops, but that's okay.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
Get the latest news anytime at ktreach dot com. Our
next update is at six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
I live in clear Lake, Humble reliable kt R traffic
and weather.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
About fifty two our time here in Houston's morning years.
We're still slipping and sliding in some spots, especially south
of IT ten, and now we've got a Grand Parkway problem.
Christina Hadley joins US public information officer at tech dot.
Just when we thought that maybe the worst was over,
we're still seeing some problems out there.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Christina, good morning.

Speaker 37 (35:35):
Is you know unfortunately overnight the temperatures did drop below
freezing and we still had condensation on the road.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
So, you know, we want to tell our motors, you know.

Speaker 37 (35:44):
Please be aware of those overpasses because they're still going
to be iced over.

Speaker 21 (35:49):
You know, we still have.

Speaker 37 (35:50):
Cruise outspot checking and springing Brian in those locations, but
please take your time.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
How effective is Brian against ice if you've got if
you've got a section that's got maybe a quarter inch
half inch of ice, does Brian do anything to the ice?
Is there enough salt in there to melt it?

Speaker 37 (36:06):
Well, it's not going to completely melt it. It's to
help prevent the sticking. So you know, it's a preventative measure.
It's not going to completely eliminate it, which is why
we still encourage motor it's not to go out on
the roadways if they don't have to. And also if
you're driving over that location, you know it don't you
can't go in normal speed. You're gonna have to slow down,
especially when you're going over those overpasses in those elevated areas.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
At one point we supposedly had what twenty two borrowed
snowplows that came to town. Where do Where were those
snowplows dispatched? I never did see one of those.

Speaker 37 (36:37):
They were dispatched on our Tier one roadways, you know,
the main roadways that were traveled, but anywhere that they
were needed, we had them on I ten, I sixty nine,
I forty five. You know, twenty two snowplows in the
Houston district. It's going to be, you know, spread pretty thin.
But you know, our guys did a great job, you know,
keeping the rotation going and keeping those plows on the road. Unfortunately,

(36:59):
when that snow is still falling, you know, they just
have to keep going over it, over it again.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I think I think spotting a snowplow in Houston's kind
of like spotting a polar bear. You'd be so shocked
to see one of those things. You'd have to you
want to stop and take a picture. Maybe it's a
good thing I didn't see it.

Speaker 37 (37:13):
Absolutely, this was absolutely a shocker for Houston.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Where where does this rank? And are there any lessons
to be learned by this? You know, the lesson I
think we're all hopefully learning is that we just you know,
we live in the South, We live in the Deep South.
This is an extremely unusual generational event. It's not something
that is likely to happen again anytime soon, and there's
only so much you can do to prepare for something

(37:37):
like this.

Speaker 37 (37:38):
So definitely a lesson of mother nature has no boundaries
whether we're in the South or not. But you know,
this was a precautionated tale for us to we now
know how to better prepare if if ever this event
ever occurs again.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, what what would you do if you could do
anything differently? What would you do differently?

Speaker 37 (37:58):
I you know, I can't complain on high team win.
Everything went well, everybody's mobilized. Well, you know, we had
our neighboring districts that came down from Dallas and Angelo L.
Passo to also give us an assist. So you know,
we can't complain about how things win. It was just
an unexpected event that you know, Houston would never dream
would happen.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, well, yeah, I guess if if you had to
deal with this or deal with you know, the things
we have to deal with when we have a hurricane,
which which which you prefer, I guess at least with
a hurricane. At least with a hurricane, you don't get
you don't have anything frozen on the roadways.

Speaker 21 (38:30):
Right.

Speaker 37 (38:31):
No, No, we don't want either one. Let's just saying,
please do I'm not wishing for one.

Speaker 21 (38:38):
I'm not. I'm not.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
I'm sorry, Universe, I shouldn't have put that out there.

Speaker 37 (38:42):
No, don't put it out there.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
I prefer neither.

Speaker 37 (38:44):
We can avoid it neither.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, well maybe maybe maybe the rest of our winter.
We've had two weeks of winter so far this year.
Maybe the rest of our winter will be uneventful. Let's
hope so. But thanks for joining me today.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
I appreciate it, no problem, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Bet Christina Hadley, public information officer at tech Dot. It's
five point fifty six ERE News Radio seven forty k trh.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
This is US Radio seven forty kt RH Houston, Rive
everywhere with now the latest news, weather and tramping.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
It's more of what matters to you.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Six AM is our time here in Houston's morning news.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f hour,
we have one more night tonight coming up of below
freezing temperatures the Texas grid it did just fine, and
coming up at six of eight, Houston getting its first
ever Trump Burger details in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Borning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive

(39:41):
againa sky mike. All hell has broken out. I guess
we thought the ice thing was over. I've got twenty
things going on right now they're off. They're all pretty
rough too.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
You've got Sanjacenter Riverbridge Highway ninety both ways, two different accidents.
One forty six shut down northbound Fairmount Parkway. Big wreck
here whatever going on the East Sam's nothing good passing
to Boulevard. Don't have the laneage on that had three
wrecks on the golf Freeway Scarsdal twenty three point fifty
one Monroe. I've got to flip over on one of them.
Don't know which one. South Sam two eighty eight. That's

(40:13):
a wreck westbound Macawa, clear it. South Post Oak. Got
that one southwest Freeway inbound right before. Make that the
west park where it hits the southwest. You got the
Hardy Toll Road southbound at six y ten Albert from Kingwood,
giving me a grand Parkway westbound Hardy Toll Road. Let's
go original Andrew from spring.

Speaker 38 (40:31):
Hey Mike forty five southbound as the cypress Wood exit.
There is a car that lifts on and it's against
the wall, so turned ends are on site, all.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Right, outstanding, and that southbound cypress would turn off. Your
crews treat the roads like they're covered with ice because
it's not over Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Traffic Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four
hour weather center for today. Mix of clouds and sun
with the high temperature of fifty three, so we'll get
above freezing. The good news we'll get above freezing fairly
early this morning, and that will certainly help things out.
We'll get Terry Smith in here and try to get
some timing on the temperatures and when we'll get above freezing.
We'll talk to her in eight minutes right now thirty

(41:09):
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
It is time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (41:17):
Thank you very much, Jimmy. It is six o'clock six
so two sponsored by ISO Fharmic. In our top story
the roads.

Speaker 37 (41:24):
The temperatures did drop below freezing and we still had
condensation on the road, so you know, we want to
tell our motors, you know, please be aware of those
overpasses because they're still going to be iced over.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Christina Hadley with text doc moments ago on Houston's Morning News,
and those conditions are already affecting many.

Speaker 30 (41:42):
Of you black guys on the road.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
I just hit the gogrill that caller to our traffic
tip line at seven one three two one two tips
let us know what you're seeing. Also use the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. Most school districts are open today,
but several remain closed. They include Hardin and Huffbin isds
the list at KTRH dot com. And we're still dealing

(42:05):
with flight issues as well out of Bush and Hobby,
with thirty cancellations at the Big Airport and seven at Hobby.
So In the aftermath of the storm, David Holt, president
of the Consumer Energy Alliance, says, the power grid held
up and hopefully Center Point got the point we all.

Speaker 8 (42:23):
Need reliable energy, and I think the lessons learned and
what URCOD has done to add more natural gas or
energy mix to make sure that we have enough capacity
a Centerpoint. This is very good news coming from an
extreme cold event.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
Ask for an extreme wind event or hurricane Holt says
those are different, and we'll have to see about Centerpoint's
readiness when those pop up.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Let's clean up.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
Efforts from Enzo continue and wrap up in certain places.
How did the preparations in our suburbs hold up? In
Montgomery County, things couldn't have gone much better than they did.

Speaker 9 (42:56):
I got to tell you, our roadways are clear, they're dry,
park and the Brian solutions that we used to work
to the standing of the bridges excellent.

Speaker 39 (43:05):
That's Montgomery County. Judge Mark Keo. In Galveston, however, Judge
Mark Henry says they did have some issues.

Speaker 8 (43:10):
The city of Kema had a main break, probably due
to the temperatures. They have a temporary fix in place
and told they're waiting on some parts to make a
permanent repair.

Speaker 39 (43:19):
Here in Harris County, there were no major incidents and
even the airports were opened by nine am yesterday. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
It is now six oh four on KTRH.

Speaker 21 (43:29):
It would have been over. We wouldn't have inflation, we wouldn't.

Speaker 10 (43:32):
Have had the Afghanistan disaster, we wouldn't have October seventh
with Israel or so many people who were killed, and
you wouldn't have a Ukraine Wargo Island.

Speaker 5 (43:41):
President Donald Trump with KTRH as Sean Hannity continuing to
unravel the mess left behind by the Bikeen administration. He'll
sign the lakeln Riley Act that just passed the House
once he gets back from trips to North Carolina in
California tomorrow. Elsewhere at the border, ICE has already arrested
almost five hundred illegal aliens in several states, according to Fox.

(44:04):
Those states include New York and California, many with long
criminal histories.

Speaker 11 (44:08):
This is just the very beginning in the effort to
liberate this country from the migrant criminal threat. In the
coming days, you're going to see a massive scale up
in enforcement activities.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Fox and Texas
Congressman Brian Babin reintroduces a bill to ban illegals from
taking advantage of birthright citizenship.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Four hundred thousand women come across this border each year
to have babies.

Speaker 21 (44:34):
One in ten is now illegal birth, and we have
to just get this thing right.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
You originally proposed this in twenty twenty three. A disturbing
discovery near l Passo border patrol finding underground border tunnels
connected to the sewer system. Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez told
the local TV station there there are likely other tunnels
we'll find.

Speaker 13 (44:57):
Now here in Washington, we are eagerly waiting for the
new page to turn and back home in the district.
Regardless of your politics, everyone's just ready for a new chapter.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
Trump is already signed executive orders declaring a border emergency.
It's now six zho six. Seven police officers in San
Antonio are shot in what was called a suicide in
progress last night.

Speaker 21 (45:21):
Those officers have been transported to the hospital.

Speaker 40 (45:25):
As far as I know right now, they are non
life threatening injuries.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Police Chief William McManus, they are here at home. A
carjacking at gunpoint last night in Katie leads to a
chase and then a crash.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
The bad guy was arrested.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
The woman that was found with him, who was shot
several times, is in critical condition. Six h six Chinese
made drones are posing a threat not just to our
national security, but to the security of the Lone Star States.

Speaker 25 (45:53):
These drones, made by d Ji are capable of gathering
data and sending it back to Beijing.

Speaker 12 (45:58):
You have a Chinese company ties to CCP, and China
has a law that basically compels corporations as well as
citizens to provide them with information.

Speaker 25 (46:07):
Investigative reporter Robert Montoya says, these drones can pretty much
fly wherever they please and collect information for the CCP.

Speaker 12 (46:14):
If they're flying over anywhere, they're able to gather information
about our infrastructure, information like placement buildings, even placement of
our first responders.

Speaker 25 (46:22):
DJI dominates the drone market nationally and globally. Jared Lewis
News Radio seven forty KCHA eight and the Chinese aren't
just going to use drones against us. The cyber threat
they present continues to grow, and they're getting help from
another American enemy.

Speaker 16 (46:37):
I have no doubt that there's Russian malware in our
systems with access with an ability to be access to
the later date.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
So it's China Russia, and we got to keep our
eye on. If I had to choose one, I choose China.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
Retired Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery in Congress yesterday six
o seven. The Rockets beat Cleveland last night one nine
to one oh eight. The same two teams play in
Cleveland on Saturday. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather
in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
I live in Heights, I live.

Speaker 40 (47:08):
In Spring Kinglin.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
Next on the ten Your Faster Commute on seven k TRH.
We're getting a new burger join here in Houston.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
In fact, it's supposed to open up sometime in the
next couple of weeks, so you won't have to wait
long for trump Berger.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Trump Burger's coming right now.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Trump Burger is basically in Belleville, and that that's where
it started. It's kind of an interesting little story here.
I'm doing a little investigation on this during the news. Yeah,
I'm curious, does Donald Trump owned trump Berger? Now he's
had nothing to do with trump Berger. It actually kind
of started off there's a couple of immigrants started this

(47:48):
up who came from Israel and they're Muslim, huge Trump fans,
huge Trump fans, and they started something called the Trump Cafe.
That was the first thing they did. And then that
was in twenty sixteen after the president was first elected.
Now since then they've kind of expanded slowly with this

(48:10):
whole Trump Burger thing. And a trump Burger is it's
your typical burger joint, except this got obviously the Trump theme,
and Bellville was the closest one, which is what about
an hour and a half away, so you'd have to
travel about an hour and a half if you want
to go there. They're opening up on Chimney Rock, the

(48:30):
thirty four hundred block of Chimney Rock again anytime here
over the next couple of weeks. Now, if you're curious
about the menu, it's it's pretty typically a lot of burgers, obviously,
and there's a few that have names. For example, there's
the Trump Tower, which is a sixteen ounce that's a
one pound Angus burger top with four slices of yellow

(48:52):
and white American cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, Trump sauce.
I got to ask, what is Trump sauce? I canna
find that out as barbecue sauce served with fries. It's
not cheap eighteen dollars and sixty cents for that big
one bound burger, but bet it's good. Here's my question.
Can I get it medium rare or do I have
to get it well done? Six ' ten Time for

(49:13):
traffic and weather together. It's checking out the drive again
with sky Mike, who has gotten awful busy out there.
It's gotten serious all of a sudden.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Yeah, I was, I wasn't expecting this, all right, Kyle
from Friendswood's on the Golf Freeway eight guy.

Speaker 38 (49:25):
Mike got a lot of friends would It is an
absolute mess. Just before the Ellington Field exit. It's traffic's
light edge, traffic lights all the way back from there.
There's fire and EMS crews that are kind of dealing
with ice, and a couple of miners.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
All right, we got the one on Scarsdale that's the
biggest one on the map. Now one of these either
that one of Monroe is actually an overturned vehicle. Matt
from Texas City, zumit Hey, Sky Mike.

Speaker 24 (49:49):
They have the NASA Road exit close up and a
lot of leets and tow truck ninjas.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
Over on the Beeder Road there all right, look out
northbound especially, but it's ice. Just treat the whole thing
like it's ice. Now, I've got multiple reports here. I
can't get this guy's name. A Slate Beach City.

Speaker 38 (50:08):
Talk to me, Mike, coming across trying to get to
one forty six on going across where.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
Lee Drive, the bridge is completely froze over.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
There's cars everywhere. People are slipping and sliding. Hit it bad,
but that's going to be Baytown and it's over as
you're trying to get over toward the Hartman Bridge from
Alexander West Park. Got a tip line here, Darcy from Fulcher.

Speaker 31 (50:30):
There is a couple of cars run off the road
and quite a few icy patches at the Peak toll
Plaza on the west part full lest.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
All right, the Peak toll Plaza. Darcy from Foldsure her
very first banana sticker ever. Got REX one forty six
shut down at Fairmunt northbound, Grand Parkway westbound at the
Hardy Toll Road. That one looks ugly, Sanda Cento river Bridge,
Crosby Freeway, Highway ninety both ways are wreck and they've
now cleared all three of my South Belt REX got

(50:57):
a new one at Belfort westbound. And that's how of it.
I'm going to Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center. This
is a disaster.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Bottom line, Stay off of anything elevated, you know, that's
your best bet. From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty
four hour Weather Center, Terry Samantha. It's gone to hell
in a handbasket, this splating.

Speaker 19 (51:14):
It has, and I guess part of what's catching people
off guard is, you know, it stops snowing like about
twenty four hours ago, so we're like, oh, maybe it's
not so bad.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Okay.

Speaker 19 (51:25):
So you bring up a really good point, Jimmy. It
is the bridges and the overpasses that are most likely
to be your icy spot, simply because they're exposed to
the cold air from up above and bound down below,
so they cool off really quickly compared to the roads.
But if you see achine on the road, it is

(51:46):
safe to assume that that is ice. It's frozen, it's
black ice. So you can't control. It's hard to control
a car unless.

Speaker 21 (51:56):
Your car has skates.

Speaker 19 (51:57):
And then if your car has skates, you're going to
be a very wealthy person. So the bridges and the
overpasses are the problem. We are at or below freezing
right now.

Speaker 12 (52:06):
Now.

Speaker 19 (52:06):
Our temperatures will get above freezing starting about mid morning,
and with sunshine and temperatures warming into the low mid fifties,
we should see some pretty quick improvement by mid to
late morning and certainly by the afternoon. And the good
thing is tonight we're only our northern suburbs will be

(52:28):
down below freezing, and I think they sound like they're
in better shape than here in the city and southward. Tomorrow,
another dry day, low to mid fifties. We've got rain,
about a twenty percent chance of rain Saturday, eighty percent
chance of showers and storm Sunday, more rain Monday. It's
all rain because temperatures are close to sixty or even.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Warmer temperature Right now at thirty officially at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty krh.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
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Speaker 3 (53:00):
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Speaker 21 (53:07):
All right.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
President Trump sat down with Sean Hannity last night did
an in depth interview basically said, in a nutshell, Yep,
everything's pretty much broken.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
But that's okay.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
I'm here to fix it, and there's nothing broken that
I can't fix, is what he's basically saying. So we'll
share some of that Hannity Trump interview with you coming
up next. First, though, we've got time ash when the
helicopters come in to.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Yeah, that's not good. That's not a good science guy.
Make all right, Apparently our ice is still on ice
mcgeddon is still happening. Let's turn the cruise control off, everybody.
Let's treat all your freeways north and south like they've
got ice on them, lots of space. Slow it down
and don't touch your brakes. Lee Jones, Creek Go.

Speaker 36 (53:48):
Mike combing off at two eighty eight on the six
ten South sixth ten headed he.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
We are at a stand deal, all right. Let me
see what's going on. Jared Pearland, Hey, Mike, loop turns
from westbound to northbound.

Speaker 8 (54:02):
Let's think they had a couple of flight outs there.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
There's police already.

Speaker 8 (54:06):
The ninjas haven't arrived yet, but there's wider grippoble going
on on the pre all right.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
It sounds like we need to watch out after stell
A Link here. Don't forget guys, and you're doing a
great job. I think you try to get me cross
streets if you can cross streets like Stella Link, South
Post Oak, et cetera. South belt.

Speaker 12 (54:20):
Let's right, I'm right Beltway just before five twenty one
after Equay far the.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
Net may net to get to the wall. All right,
I've got another one right there at Belford so South
Belt has They've had six different incidents in the last hour.
Randy from Seabrook.

Speaker 38 (54:35):
Hey Scot Mike northbound closed as faramount everybody's having the
exit of Pharamont.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
I also know we have I saw the way up
to Wharton Williams on one for six golf Freeway. They're
working this. The rest of the media knows about the
wreck now at Dixie Farm Road in bound. You got
a north freeway Cypress Wood. That one's clear outbound west
road that's going on Grand park Way westbound at Hardy
Toll Road. That bigreck should backed up, probably right after

(55:02):
the Sanjacento River Bridge. I got to zoom it at
six thirty. This is your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic
center from.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Our KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour weather center
mix of clouds and sun today fifty three clear tonight
around thirty Sunday, fifty four for tomorrow, around sixty on Saturday.
Sixty five on Sunday looks like a slight shower. Chants
Saturday evening had much better chance of showers and storms
on Sunday. Right now, currently it's still thirty at your officials,

(55:29):
severe weathers Station News Radio seven forty k TRH. Just
check out some of our top stories. Is Thursday morning,
Here's Clif.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
Thank you Jimmy. Sponsored by dn M Auto Leasing. As
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Speaker 21 (55:59):
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Speaker 17 (56:11):
I'm fixing the home where the rating gets it and
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Speaker 18 (56:20):
Where it will.

Speaker 17 (56:30):
I'm feelings through the dome and kept my mind from.

Speaker 24 (56:36):
Wandering where it will.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
Try to President Truff, the fixer in chief. He is
on the job.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
He is holding press conferences, he is writing executive orders.
He's getting Congress in line for the Trump agenda. He
is talking to Sean Hennity. That's what he did last night.
Spent a few minutes of his day doing that. And
you talked about some of the things that need to
be fixed, including by the way, Los Angeles. So if

(57:06):
all those progressives out in Los Angeles think that Trump
is going to be ventul and not help, that's not true.
He is going to help, but he's also going to
help FEMA because FEMA is broken as far as he
is concerned. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 10 (57:23):
Now, I will say that Los Angeles has changed everything
because a lot of money's going to be necessary for
Los Angeles, and a lot of people on the other
side want that to happen in North Carolina. And Servius, well,
they don't care about North Carolina. The Democrats don't care
about North Carolina. What they've done with FEMA.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Is so bad.

Speaker 10 (57:42):
FEMA is a whole nother discussion because all it does
is complicate everything. FEMA has not done their job for
the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working
really well. We had hurricanes in Florida, we had Alabama tornadoes.
But unless you have certain types of leadership, it's really
it gets in the way. And FEMA is going to

(58:04):
be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather
see the states take care of their own problems. If
they have a tornado someplace, and if they let that state,
Oklahoma is very competent.

Speaker 21 (58:15):
I love Oklahoma seventy.

Speaker 10 (58:17):
Seven out of seventy seven districts and that's never been
done before.

Speaker 21 (58:23):
I did it three times. I've been think of it
three times. Never been done.

Speaker 10 (58:26):
Ronald Reagan had the record six fifty six out of
seventy seven. I got seventy seven out of seventy seven.

Speaker 21 (58:33):
See, you have to love a place like that. I
love Oklahoma.

Speaker 10 (58:36):
But you know what, if they get hit with the
tornado or something, let Oklahoma fix it you don't need
and then the federal government can help them out with
the money. The FEMA is getting in the way of everything,
and the Democrats actually use FEMA not to help North Carolina.

Speaker 21 (58:52):
It makes no sense.

Speaker 10 (58:53):
So I'm stopping on Friday. I'm stopping in North Carolina
first stop because those people we're treated very badly by Democrats,
and I'm stopping there. We're going to get that thing
straight out because they're still suffering from hurricane from months ago.
And then I'm going to Then I'm going to go
to California.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I think he's right about the whole FEMA thing. Right
if the federal government's going to contribute money towards fixing
what's left over after disasters. That's one thing, But why
should they be in charge when they don't show any
real competency, especially in places like North Carolina that, as

(59:33):
President Trump said, they don't seem to really care about.
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Speaker 22 (59:43):
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Six thirty our time Here in Houston's morning news I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour. The roads,
well they're much improved, at least we thought they were
much improved, but we got some problems of this morning.
The ice is still there, especially south of Iten and
in elevated areas.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
I'm fixing everything and coming up at six thirty eight.
The court rules that elephants can't sue to leave the zoo.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Moorning News
First where check out the morning drive. You're gonna be
a busy boy today. This is a this is a disaster. Now,
I got over twenty incidents. You've got parkways and it's
not just south. I thought it was just South, just

(01:01:03):
like you No.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
North Grand Parkway north westbound. That's going to be at
Hardy Toll Road. This accident multiple lanes here. What you
need to know is you're gonna jam up after the
San Jacenter River on the North Freeway outbound. That's a
wreck at west Road. You've got a bus wreck on
the Hardy Toll Road. I think it's a Metro Southbound's
not school southbound at six ' ten North Loop and

(01:01:24):
that's packing up the hardy spacing up the loop. You've
got East Sam at Pasadena Boulevard. You've got one forty
six with a wreck GYM from Baycliffe.

Speaker 21 (01:01:33):
Good morning.

Speaker 41 (01:01:33):
It's got my way one forty six northbound at Fairmont
Parkway completely shut down, major accident.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Got an overturned golf Freeway Scarsdale. Another overturned West SAM
South SAM South Sam westbound at Belfort. Another wreck on
the South SAM Post Oak that's eastbound. Second one, same location,
and I'm forgetting something. Oh. Crosby Freeways completely shut down
at the Sandercenter river Bridge on the inbound. I've got
a second accident outbound. Apparently we have an ice problem.

(01:02:01):
Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Mix of clouds and sun today with the high temperature
of fifty three, so we're going to get about freezing
here about mid morning, and the drive will get a
whole lot better for a lot of folks. In the meantime,
be careful. Temperature right now thirty at your official severe
weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH timed out

(01:02:25):
for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders, Thank.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
You very much, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:02:28):
Six thirty two on KTRH our top story this morning, we.

Speaker 34 (01:02:31):
Got a a spin out single car on itin going west.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
That is a man calling into our KTRH traffic tip line.
We've got yet another morning of icy roads that should
get better in a couple of hours. You can tell
us what's happening by you give us a call at
seven one three two one two tips or use the
talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Now, despite what we're
seeing this morning, text On says their preparations for Enzo

(01:02:59):
were successful.

Speaker 26 (01:03:01):
It looks like the pre treatment did its job. When
you treat and then retreat a lot of times slush
starts to form, and that allows our snowplows to easily
be able to go through and push that off to
the side.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
Tex Dot's Leo flores as it was crucial that they
prepared for end Zoe more than a week in advance.
Most of our schools are open today, but there are
several that are still closed. We've got the complete list
at KTRH dot com. It's now six thirty three on KTRH.
President Donald Trump sits down for his first interview in

(01:03:35):
the Oval Office since beginning his new term as president,
detailing how he plans to handle the sanctuary city holdouts
as he works to shut the border down.

Speaker 21 (01:03:44):
We're trying to get rid of it. We're trying to
end him in.

Speaker 10 (01:03:46):
A lot of the people in those communities don't want them.
You know, California is a big wood jam.

Speaker 21 (01:03:50):
At off their money.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
I might have to do that.

Speaker 21 (01:03:53):
Sometimes that's the only thing you can do.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
Trump with ktrh's Sean Hannity.

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
President Trump is also receiving praise for his five hundred
billion dollar Stargate project. The AI initiative is also going
to be a big boost for Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
And specifically the Texas economy.

Speaker 28 (01:04:10):
The money is going to come here to Texas to
build these next generation technologies.

Speaker 7 (01:04:15):
That is David Dunmoyer with the Texas Public Policy Foundation,
we heard ten.

Speaker 28 (01:04:20):
Data centers in Texas. I think that number is going
to be double or triple in the next.

Speaker 21 (01:04:24):
Four years here.

Speaker 7 (01:04:25):
But before that, he says, it's now up to the
Texas legislature to make sure we have enough power to
operate them. Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty k t H.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
Thank you, Jeff.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
It's six thirty four State Senator Mains Middleton of galvestiniis
proposing a review of the economic value of university degrees
as students struggled to pay their debt. He says useless
courses have devalued them and made it tough on graduates
to find jobs.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
But he says the tide is turning.

Speaker 30 (01:04:55):
You've seen recently where A and M eliminated some degrees
that were essentially worthless. Degrees performing social activism and LGBTQ studies.
Those are the types of things that clearly are not
outcome space.

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
He says.

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
They want to focus more on outcomes and help graduates
continue contribute to the Texas economy. Mayor John Whitmeyer is
shaking things up at city Hall again. He recently announced
that he would end the City of Houston's work from
home policy.

Speaker 39 (01:05:25):
It wasn't on the top of his to do list,
but it will bring a boost for city efficiency.

Speaker 32 (01:05:29):
I think it's also making sure that there's no daylight
between what is going on with, you know, department directors
and their subordinates, and making sure that the city is
running as smoothly as it can.

Speaker 39 (01:05:37):
Charles Blaine, president of Urban Reform, says This will also
help make better use of city resources.

Speaker 32 (01:05:43):
The city has a lot of real estate around the
city that is owned by the local government, and so
are they maximizing it are they using it as effectively
and efficiently as possible.

Speaker 39 (01:05:51):
The telework program will officially end on February first, requiring
around one six hundred employees to return to in person work.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
Meantime, Harris County Commissioner's Court is going to evalue their
policy when it comes to remote work at a meeting
next month.

Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
Six thirty six.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
Oil prices are hanging around the seventy five dollars a
barrel mark this morning, and Fox's Phil Flynn says that
with Donald Trump's drill baby, drill energy plan, it won't
be long before we feel a difference in our pockets.

Speaker 33 (01:06:22):
I would say after a couple of years of Donald Trump,
we're going to get back to a new era of
stable energy prices.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
That said, gas prices across used in this morning are
two dollars and sixty nine cents a gallon.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
That's up nine cents over the last month.

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
Another consequence of bad Biden policies, retail theft is skyrocketing, and.

Speaker 31 (01:06:44):
The reason is the radical leftist policies that are soft
on crime. That's what former Houston Police Department Captain Greg
ree Freeman says.

Speaker 34 (01:06:52):
And unfortunately, you've seen massive closures in once prominent retail
grocery store chains and food chain because of this. They
just couldn't sustain losses anymore.

Speaker 31 (01:07:02):
And the latest National Retail Federation study shows a nearly
one hundred percent increase in shoplifting in the past four years,
a time that coincides with a similar decrease, he says
in consequences for people caught and charged with retail theft.
Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty ktra it's.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
Now six thirty seven.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
Americans were big tippers right after COVID, but new data
shows people are tipping less and those that do rather
bank rates. Ted Russman says businesses don't want to raise
their prices, but they will add a tap here option
to the end of digital transactions.

Speaker 20 (01:07:36):
Some of it, like I said, is just this sentiment
that were annoyed that we're being asked for so many tips,
and a lot of it has to do with inflation too.
People feel like they're paying enough already they don't want
to pay more.

Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
On top of that, he calls this tipping fatigue. Finally,
the Astros reportedly receive interest from the Chicago Cubs in
reliever Ryan Presley, a month after the two teams made
a trade for star outfielder Kyle Tucker. I'm Cliff Saunters
on news radio Stay in touch on.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Your drive in with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning
News team.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Well you can ignore the elephant in the court room.
Evidently six thirty eight is at that time here in
Houston's Morning News. Who would have thought this would have
to go all the way to a state supreme court.
But well, let me tell you about the lawsuit. First,
five elderly African elephants and a Colorado zoo sued to

(01:08:32):
be let go from the zoo. Well, no they didn't sue.
Animal rights organizations sued on their behalf. See, elephants are people. Therefore,
elephants aren't capable of picking up the phone and calling
an attorney and hiring an attorney to represent them in court.
So this animal rights group did it for them. But

(01:08:53):
in a six nothing decision by Colorado Supreme Court, Jembo Kimba, Lulu, Lucky,
and missyy. The elephants well remain at the Cheyenne Mountain
Zoo in Colorado Springs because they have no legal standing
in the courts. You see, they're not human beings. Therefore
they have no legal standing in the court system.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Why the lawsuit was brought to begin with. Are they
trying to indicate that because they're old, they should be
set free? Is that why the lawsuit was brought? Where
would you set them free too, that they would be
cared for any better than they're being cared for in
the zoo. It's not like you can set them out
in the wild. I mean, what if you repatriated them

(01:09:39):
to Africa and elderly elephants had set them in the wild.
How long would they last in the wild? Not very long.
I wouldn't think six forty. Time for traffic and weather together,
we're checking out the drive again. You can tell that
sky Mike is exacerbated this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
You know, I knew the potential for this would be there.
I knew that we would have some ice spots in
some rough places. I didn't know it was going to
be complete poop mageddon on the freeways this morning and
apparently we've got it going on. One northbound is shut down.
That accident's pretty ugly. This is coming up from Keema
Seabrook and forget it. You could take Bay Area Boulevard

(01:10:14):
go behind that. If you're on the road. I'm about
ready to write everybody in an excuse and just say
stay home. Grand Parkway westbound, Hardy Toll Road. This wreck
is this is going to be all lanes. Nobody's going anywhere.
Don't like the look of it. Backed up from the
Sandra Cento river Bridge. You've got ice all over the place.
On the South Belt, we've had six wrecks here. This

(01:10:34):
one here westbound after Belfort's our latest. I think we've
had a couple of these with flipovers. Ninety nine West
Graham Parkway Chris from Hockley.

Speaker 24 (01:10:42):
Southbound, right before the Peak Road exit road is shut down.

Speaker 21 (01:10:47):
Before the toll flaws to drafted it on the bridge.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
All right, Golf Freeway they cleared Scarsdale northbound. We've had
four wrecks on the Golf Freeway, including an overturned vehicle.
Crosby Freeway. That's an accident at the Sandra Center River Bridge.
Cindy from Dayton.

Speaker 38 (01:11:01):
Traffic is like not moving at all and it's backing up.

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Then all right, Dan, I understand there's actually an eastbound accident,
same spot. The ice causing havoc on your roads.

Speaker 38 (01:11:11):
Tony from Richmond, Mike Southwest bill Way between Albeda is
south POSTO. The mice still messed up and backwards and
a bunch of people on the scene.

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
All right, And I've got a Katie Freeway westbound at
the West Floop also West Park Tollway at the Peak
Road that would be Darcy from full Share with the
banana stick. Or this is an inbound wreck and I
think someone ran into a wall here. This is West
Park toll Waite Peak Road. Skymike on the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
Broball katrh Generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry Smith is here. Better days are coming, Terry. For
one thing, where not nearly scold this morning as we
were yesterday morning. It will be even less cold tomorrow morning,
and by the weekend it'll be back to a more
typical winter weather pattern for us.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Exactly.

Speaker 19 (01:11:58):
The temperature during the day obviously are above freezing. The
problem has been at night when everything refreezes. But with
this slow warming trend that we have, that's going to
become less and less of an issue.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
Folks.

Speaker 19 (01:12:12):
If you see something reflecting off the pavement, assume that
it is frozen. That's just a safer way to get
into work this morning, because the black ice is extremely
difficult to see far enough in advance. So maybe if
you just wait a couple hours, things will get better.
I really do think so, because we're right at freezing

(01:12:32):
or just below freezing at the moment, so temperatures should
be warming up and helping to melt some of this
frozen stuff. Load to mid fifties today and Tomorrow. Twenty
percent chance of rain. Saturday, temperatures near sixty. Sunday widespread
rain and perhaps even heavy rain. Eighty percent chance of
getting wet. Forty percent chants and more showers Monday. But Saturday,

(01:12:53):
Sunday and Monday temperatures will generally be in the sixties.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Temperature right now currently still thirty at your officials, Beer
weather station, News radio seven forty k TRH. You are commute,
you are forecast, You're news. It's Houston's Morning News, brought
to you. Biden, you Southway those solutions. What are the
more interesting little tidbits, if you will, that came out
of the Hannity Trump interview last night was what happened

(01:13:18):
to the letter that the Trump that Peter Doocy from
Fox pointed out asked him if he'd found the letter
from Joe Biden. He looked in the resolute desk and
there it was addressed to forty seven. What happened to
that letter? What did that letter say?

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
More than that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Coming up next, First, let's new traffic and weather together
as we check out the drive once again with Skyline.

Speaker 4 (01:13:40):
All right, Rachel from Dayton has pointed out the problems
we have in Baytown. Rachel, this is south that's actually
now Graham Parkway. As you're trying to hit the apartment bridge.
Complete shut down this wreck here right after Lee Road
and call it all lanes for now. I had that
early this morning. Also on the north part, the pass

(01:14:00):
part of one forty six, got a big spackle here
past Alexander. That doesn't look good. Whatever's going on there.
Got a problem on three point thirty past Exon Mobile
that's northbound. That's a wreck. You're just not going that
way north It Wade Road. Allen from Baytown gave me
this a long time ago. Second accident behind it at Maine.
It's on an overpass. Everything that's an overpass is ICET

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in Baytown. Ninety from Crosby. You've got a wreck mostly
I've got recks both ways over the San Jacino River Bridge.
Sindy from Dayton. Thanks for your help. Here got another
ninety wreck right at the butt plant at the east
Loop six ' ten golf Freeway. We had an overturned.
Two accidents now Monroe. The other airport northbound clear Scarsdale,
Sam from Iowa Colony.

Speaker 34 (01:14:43):
Tayse Guy Mike's tweedy at northbound.

Speaker 38 (01:14:45):
The on ramp to the Beltway flyovers is completely shut down.

Speaker 21 (01:14:50):
Ramps, so if you're.

Speaker 8 (01:14:51):
Listening to this waiting line, find an alternate prout all right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
Five twenty one maybe, or stay home Grand park Way westbound.
There's a really bad look at this. At the Hardy
Toll Road, all lines are shut down and you're packed up.
From the Sandracenter River Bridge. We're going nowhere. I'll write
you an excuse. Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot com
traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center
mix of clouds and sun. Fifty three for the high
temperature today, clear around thirty tonight Sunday, fifty four for tomorrow,
sixty on Saturday, sixty five on Sunday, So things they
will get better. Temperture Right now thirty at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking
out some of our top trending stories on a Thursday.

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Here's clip.

Speaker 4 (01:15:33):
Yeah, but you're leaving out the rain next week is
what you're forgetting. I don't mind rain. I'll take rainover
snow any day.

Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
We are tracking icy conditions across the Houston area this morning.
The freed Israeli hostages say they were held at UN
facilities while they were being held captive. And all refugee
flights into the US have ended after President Trump suspended
the State Department's refugee program. Get the latest news anytime
at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at seven o'clock.

Speaker 4 (01:16:00):
I live in Katie, I live in it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
You're reliable forecast Next on the ten on seven forty
kt right.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Goodbye, Joe, glad to see you go. Six fifty three
Star time. He left a little note though for forty
seven in the desk he didn't interview. Trump did an
interview last night with Sean Hannity, and one of the
first questions he asked was whether or not Trump actually
said to him welcome home when he showed up at
the White House, and also asked him about the letter.
What was in the note from Joe Biden?

Speaker 42 (01:16:31):
So did Biden really say to you when you came
up to the front of your White House welcome home?

Speaker 21 (01:16:40):
No, did somebody say that I read it somewhere? I
made it, remember you. I really don't know. So you
left him a letter.

Speaker 42 (01:16:46):
It was funny with Peter Doocey and Peter said, oh,
mister presidents of Joe Biden leave you a letter.

Speaker 21 (01:16:52):
He did leave you a letter. He did, and you
had left him one.

Speaker 42 (01:16:55):
But you've never disclosed either one of them.

Speaker 21 (01:16:58):
Well, a lot of Pete, that would be a great time.
You know, It's interesting.

Speaker 10 (01:17:01):
A lot of people thought it was sort of like
a setup with Peter Doucy and myself, and I have
a lot of respect for Peter, but he just asked
me a question about the letter, and then I remember that.

Speaker 21 (01:17:10):
You know, it's like a custom, you leave it right
in the.

Speaker 10 (01:17:13):
Draw of that beautiful desk, right alongside of us. And
so I opened it up and I actually gave the
letter to Peter.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
What you gave the letter to Peter Doocey, You just
gave it away. Well, stay tuned. Coming up at seven
o eight, Peter Doocey tells us what the letter said.
It's six fifty five. Time for the timeline. We have
a pair of tickets to see Reba McIntyre. She's gonna
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what year today's timeline's from?

Speaker 12 (01:17:53):
What is really best about America?

Speaker 40 (01:17:55):
It was January. Richard Nixon gave it a State of
the Union address. This is a good eleven fifty remaining.

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Donald fleitting seventeen to three, and there at put seventy
yard line.

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Of Miami at the Super Bowl, Dallas beat Miami twenty
four to three.

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My coot Guyzach.

Speaker 40 (01:18:13):
At the movies, Sean Connery was back as Double O
seven and Diamonds are Forever.

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Jim say pop cigarettes a quilli.

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You don't you believe me? I believe you.

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You've a friend of mine.

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And doing local on TV Sandford and Sun debut got
cue back.

Speaker 17 (01:18:27):
To back of truck, Miss American Pie.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
On the radio, Don McClain was number one heavy but
the levy was dry. What year was it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
If you know seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four, that is seven one three two one
two k t r H. Good luck, all right, we
have a winner. That would be Elizabeth in Houston who
knew the right year was nineteen seventy two. Well done, Elizabeth.
To get a bear of tickets for Reba McIntyre live
March the fourth opening night of Rodeo Houston. Enjoyed the
show and thank you for listening to Houston Morning News.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
This is huge Radio seven forty kt RH Houston Live
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Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
News, weather and traffic. It's more of what matters to you.
From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
Seven o'clock in the morning is our time here in
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
this half hour, we have one more night coming up
tonight at or below slightly below freezing temperatures, so tomorrow
morning strive might not be that great either. The Texas
grid did just fine during the storm and coming up
at seven to eight. What Biden's letter to Trump actually said,

(01:19:40):
he tells in the minutes ahead, you're in Houston's morning news. First,
sky Mike's got a whole world of hurt. Seven recks
in Baytown.

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
I ten Waite Road westbound westbound North Maine, three point
thirty Baker Road, after exim mobile north part. They bypassed
part of one forty six Garth Road, North Maine. Behind
that another wreck one forty six south, which is new
now Graham Parkway right before Goose Creek. And again after Alexander.
That one's all lanes blocked. Graham Parkway North. I don't

(01:20:07):
like the way this looks. Hartytell Road westbound, Grand Parkway
north westbound coming to Spring. That's all lanes blocked and
it's not going anywhere. Got Rex both Ways on ninety
Crosby Freeway. This is all ice causing this people. That
is Crosby Freeway, San Jacino Riverbridge, Rex both Ways, Golf Freeway.
We've had seven different accidents here. The newest one looks

(01:20:29):
to be Monroe. We've got overturns. I've got the fort
Mentollway report of something at Fukeway. And let's see South
Sam at Fuquay westbound. And also that's a bus reg
it's a metro, it's not a school Hardytil Road southbound,
the connector two six ' ten. I'm Skymike and the
Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
From our katrh top tax defenders. Twenty four hour weather center.
Mix of clouds and some with a hike today right
about fifty three. So we should get a bud freezing
here in a couple of hours, and we will be
talking with Terry Smith and try to get a timeline
on above freezing temperatures. When we talked to her in
eight minutes. Current temperature is stuck at thirty at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's

(01:21:12):
timed out for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
Thank you very much, Jimmy. It is seven oh two
on KTRH. We're sponsored by is of Farmic. In our
top story this hour.

Speaker 21 (01:21:20):
There's still bitter temperatures.

Speaker 5 (01:21:22):
We have some work to do Houston Mayor John Wickmeyer
was right, because there's more ice on the roads this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
I took the hearty tall roll belly eight.

Speaker 27 (01:21:31):
Yes there's some eyes, but if you've got branding new tires,
good threat, you should have no problems.

Speaker 5 (01:21:36):
That color to the KTRH Traffic Tip line seven one
three two one two tips. Most school districts are open today,
but some are still closed. The list at KTRH dot com.
In case you don't already know, still have some issues
at the airports at Bush. I am looking at flight
Aware with thirty cancelations, about ten cancelations now over at

(01:21:58):
Hobby with now gone zo. For the most part, let's
talk about the grid. How did Urcotton Center Point do?

Speaker 7 (01:22:06):
David Holt, president of the Consumer Energy Alliance, said, the
grid did well.

Speaker 8 (01:22:12):
We weathered the storm pretty well, no capacity issues, no
real reliability issues.

Speaker 7 (01:22:17):
And as for Center Point, they got through Tuesday the
second highest demand day.

Speaker 8 (01:22:23):
Ever reported for the state of Texas. So overall, very
good news from a energy demand.

Speaker 7 (01:22:28):
And capacity and we'll have to wait and see how
they handle the next hurricane.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k t H.

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
Thank you, Jeff, And in some of our counties. Getting
back to normal for the most part, was almost complete
heading into this morning.

Speaker 9 (01:22:43):
The brind solutions that we used, the work to the
standing of the bridges excellent, and so we're right now demobilizing.
We're shutting down peltiers and the warming centers, and we're
returning to normal operations.

Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
Montgomery County Judge Marchio had told KTRH that the key
to their quick response was good communication. It's seven oh
four on KGRH.

Speaker 10 (01:23:02):
With time, effort, money, unfortunately, but they're all solvable.

Speaker 21 (01:23:07):
Probably we can get our country back.

Speaker 10 (01:23:09):
But if we didn't win this race, I really believe
our country would have been lost forever.

Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
President Donald Trump, with our own Sean Hannity promising to
fix everything that former President Joe Biden broke. He's already
having an impact at the border. ICE reportedly arresting nearly
five hundred illegals in several states, including New York in California.
Many of those arrested have long criminal histories.

Speaker 11 (01:23:32):
Some of the most vicious criminals in this country, including
child pornography cases, homicide cases, sexual assault, tax on children.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
And this is just the very beginning.

Speaker 5 (01:23:44):
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Fox. The House
passed the Lake and Riley Act yesterday, allowing ice to
detain illegals that commit crimes. President Trump will sign that
built later this week. Meanwhim Texas Congressman Brian Babin reintroduces
legislation to block illegals from taking advantage of birthright citizenship.

(01:24:04):
That bill was originally proposed by Babin in twenty twenty three,
but a troubling new development at the border. Instead of crossing,
some illegals are trying to go underneath the border.

Speaker 14 (01:24:15):
Border patrol recently found a cross border tunnel near El Paso,
which was connected to the city sewer system. South Texas
Congressman Tony Gonzalez tells k Fox TV this is yet
another sign of the border crisis that emerged in the
last four years.

Speaker 13 (01:24:28):
This is one of the more sophisticated tunnels we've seen.
But you know, until this border crisis gets under control,
I think you're going to see more of these tunnels,
and ideally we have agencies that uncover more of these tunnels.
Crews began filling in the tunnel last week. President Trump
signed an executive order on Day one that declares a
border emergency Corey Jolson.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
Who's radio seven forty KTR eight. It's now seven oh six.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
Seven police officers are recovering after being shot last night
during what was a suicide attempt in San Antonio.

Speaker 21 (01:24:57):
Papers found to be deceased.

Speaker 29 (01:25:00):
Know if he was shot by a self afflicted door
or building guy shot by one officers.

Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
Police Chief William McManus closer to home. A carjacking at
gunpoint last night in Katie led to a brief chase
that ended in a crash. The bad guy was arrested.
Deputies found a woman shot several times in the car.
That woman is in critical condition. This morning, the US
Supreme Court heard arguments on a case out of Houston
yesterday to determine the level of immunity granted the police

(01:25:30):
officers in use of force cases. Aris County Constable Roberto
Felix shot and killed a suspect during a confrontation on
a Houston toll road ten years ago. Attorney Charles McCloud
says there's legal precedents allowing officers to use deadly force.

Speaker 15 (01:25:46):
At the moment sergeant Felix used force, he was clinging
to the side of the fleeing suspects.

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
Car and Felix reasonably believed.

Speaker 21 (01:25:52):
That his life was in imminent danger.

Speaker 5 (01:25:54):
The court will decide if the victims' families if the
victim's family lawsuit can continue.

Speaker 21 (01:26:01):
Seven h seven.

Speaker 5 (01:26:01):
Chinese made drones are capable of flying anywhere in the US,
including Texas. They're collecting information and sending it to Beijing.

Speaker 12 (01:26:10):
Texas House appears to have caught up on this threat.
In December of twenty twenty four, a special Texas House
committee released a report talking about hostile threats to the
stay of Texas, and one of the categories was drones.

Speaker 5 (01:26:25):
Reporter Robert Montoya at the Texas Scorecard says that Dji,
the world's largest drone provider, has ties to the Chinese
Communist Party.

Speaker 4 (01:26:35):
Seven oh seven.

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
The Rockets take down the Cleveland Cavaliers last night at
Toyota Center one o nine to one oh eight. They'll
play against Saturday in Cleveland. I'm Cliff Saunders, Houston's News,
weather and Traffic station kat.

Speaker 4 (01:26:46):
RH Stay informed, Stay on time.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News Team.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
So uh, Joe left a goodbye letter. It's It's tradition
It's tradition, right, That's what presidents do. They leave a
little envelope, usually in the resolute desk, and they they
you know, pen some pithy thoughts or whatever for the
incoming president. Usually it's a a wish you luck kind
of a thing. And Peter Doocey at Fox, you know,

(01:27:19):
when when Trump finally got into the Oval office and
was doing things in there, he asked him, have you
found a letter from Joe Biden yet? For President Biden?
And he hadn't. Oh, I kept kind of forgot about
all that, I don't know. And he opened up the drawer,
the main drawer of the resolute desk, and voila, there
was a little note sized envelope that said forty seven

(01:27:44):
on the front of it, you know, which is obviously
addressed to President Trump. So, you know, Peter Doocey helped
remind him that there was a letter there to begin with.
But what what did the what happened to the letter?
Well was we found out about twenty minutes the press
or last night when he gave the interview to Hennity.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
Trump gave a letter to Doocey. He didn't read it,
he didn't keep it. He gave it to Doocey. So
what does the letter say? Here's Peter Doocy we.

Speaker 43 (01:28:14):
Saw the other night on Monday, just a few minutes
after President Trump return of the Oval Office. I asked
him if the President left him a letter he hadn't
checked yet.

Speaker 4 (01:28:24):
He opened up the drawer.

Speaker 43 (01:28:25):
We were only able to see the outside of the
envelope that said forty seven We can report now for
the first time anywhere in the world this history making
text of what it said on the inside. The letterhead
was of Joseph R. Biden Junior and said President of
the United States. And his cursive handwriting that I reviewed

(01:28:46):
was difficult to read at times.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
But this is what I got from the letter. Let's
read it together.

Speaker 43 (01:28:51):
Dear President Trump, as I take leave of this sacred office,
I wish you and your family all the best in
the next four years. The American people people around the
world look to this house for steadiness and the inevitable
storms of history. And my prayer is that in the
coming years will be a time of prosperity, peace and
grace for our nation. May God bless you and guide

(01:29:14):
you as He has blessed and guided our beloved country
since our founding. Joe Biden won twenty twenty five, and
that is it.

Speaker 4 (01:29:24):
That's it. No in your face. No, I would have
beat you if they would have let me run.

Speaker 21 (01:29:32):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Uh no, ill words at all. Interesting, just kind of
a boring, typical good luck to you kind of a letter. Okay,
seven eleven. Time for traffic and weather together. This guy
Mike joins us with a whole world of problems.

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
Now we are having an ic disaster on the freeways.
Tell your friends that are too cool to listen to
the radio. Well, I listened to podcasting Spotify and Pandora.
Maybe you should consider am radio when you drive in
this morning. We told you there was ice first thing
in the morning, Baytown. I'm getting to you. Let's go
to the west side here, Grand Parkway both ways pretty
much from Mason Road to ITM. We had a wreck

(01:30:09):
around Peak Road. I've got backups on the west part
of Graham Parkway southbound at Morton Road. You're smushed up there.
I haven't even seen what's causing that Grand Parkway north.
Let's see Tammy maybe flying up there. This is wreck
looks bad. Westbound totally shut down at the Hardy Toll Road.
If you're coming from New Caney to two forty nine,
you're going nowhere north sam the usual roadwork called in

(01:30:31):
Westfield Imperial Valley. Forget about that. East tex I've got
some kind of scooch at Laura Coppy southbound. I've had
people flipping over on the Golf Freeway northbound. The latest
one is Monroe. You got two eighty eighth the ramp
to the south belt can't even see what's going on there,
but that wreck has the ramp completely shut down for it.
Ben Tollway right before the Beltway northbound. That's an accident reported.

(01:30:53):
It's nothing but reck's from Highway six. And then we
haven't even gotten to the Crosby Freeway. That's a wreck
over the San Jacino River both ways. There's two different
wrecks right there. The is is called this and backed
up now from twenty one hundred. I'm told that one
for six at Fairmont Parkway is clear. I still see
a northbound back up. And also Baytown's seven active incidents

(01:31:14):
at the moment. You've got three on the it Wade Road.
That one's clear, Garth Road Showlander. This is all westbound,
and then the north part of the bypass part of
one six. I still think of that as new before
three thirty westbound backed up and also south part of
Grand Parkway just past Alexander. We are at a complete

(01:31:34):
standstill westbound. I'm sky White, get your generator supercenter, dot
Com traffic center from.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
R KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center
eight of one cure for all this, Terry Smith, and
that is warmer temperatures.

Speaker 19 (01:31:46):
Ay Man, and that's where we're heading folks. Now, We're
still right around freezing or below freezing across most of
the area, So I suspect this is going to continue
to be a problem through about mid morning. But once
we hit that at nine or ten o'clock hour, the
sun is working its magic. Temperatures will be in the
mid to upper thirties at that point and only getting warmer.

(01:32:08):
So a sunny, dry day today and tomorrow load to
mid fifties both days. We're not as cold tonight. That's
another plus with helping to improve our road conditions. Keeps
getting warmer into the weekend. There's a twenty percent chance
of subrine Saturday and eighty percent chance of widespread rain
and heavy rain Sunday and then a forty percent chance

(01:32:29):
of getting wet early Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Temperature remains thirty. Here at your officials severe Weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barrits and the Houston
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on the day.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
So progressive Episcopalian Bishop Marianne Bud is enjoying her fifteen
minutes of fame on all of the progressive talk shows
like The View and MBC talking about her lecturing of
President Trump during the National Prayer Service. Barn that story
coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather they're together,

(01:33:09):
sky Mike, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:33:10):
Let's go Crosby Freeway. San Jacenter River Bridge is backed
up both ways. There's accidents in both directions. Blamed the
Ice Bay towns having an ice disaster. They cleared, They
cleared North Maine and Garth. Those wrecks are gone. On
Wade Road. We still have the one at Showlander. South.
Part of Grand Parkway at Alexander completely shut down. That

(01:33:32):
reck looks really ugly. North before you hit the three
thirty spur, you've got a wreck. You've got now Grand
Parkway north at Hardy toll Road westbound. That's a complete shutdown,
and you're packed up from the San Jercenter river Bridge
west loops awful from two to ninety down to West
tim Or down to uptown twenty two extra minutes and

(01:33:53):
up to uptown about a nine minute wait here. We've
cleared the wreck on West park Tollway, Peak Road. Clear
the wreck on the west part of Graham Parkway southbound
after Highland Knowles, but it's still messing.

Speaker 21 (01:34:04):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
We've got one right around West Timer Parkway. This is
all southbound. Will hit your north side in northwest at
ten minutes and whatever happens next. And the Generator Supercenter
dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
From r KTRH top tax defenders, twenty four hour Weather
Center mix of clouds and sun today fifty three clear
about thirty tonight. That's kind of where we are right now,
Sunday fifty four for tomorrow, sixty on Saturday, stormy weather
and sixty five on Sunday. Current temperature still thirty and
your officials severe weather. Station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(01:34:36):
It's time to check out some top trending stories this morning.
Here's Cliff.

Speaker 4 (01:34:40):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:34:40):
We're sponsored by DNM Auto Leasing. As we've been telling
you all morning, icy roads remain an issue across the
Houston area. Seven San Antonio police officers are recovering after
being shot last night. The bad guy is dead, and
for the first time in ten years, Houston gets a
new area code beginning today six two one. Get the

(01:35:00):
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
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Speaker 4 (01:35:18):
It's seven twenty three now here on Houston's Boring News.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
Mary I'm Budd, the episcopal bishop who presided over the
National Prayer Service and proceeded to lecture President Trump on
transgender and the illegal alien issues, is enjoying her fifteen
minutes of fame. First of all, here's a little bit
from the service of what she said to the president,
followed by a little bit of her an interview with
I believe this is MSNBC, maybe the view one of

(01:35:44):
those progressive shows. And then of course we have reaction
to it all.

Speaker 44 (01:35:48):
There are gay, lesbian, and transginger children in democratic, Republican
and independent families, some who fear for their lives.

Speaker 45 (01:36:00):
And the people, the people who pick our crops and
clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and
meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants,
and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not
be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast

(01:36:22):
majority of immigrants are not criminals.

Speaker 46 (01:36:26):
But what this woke bishop didn't count on is that
President Trump is one heck of a counterpuncher forty seven,
going scorch earth on the nasty clergy woman, calling her
service boring and uninspiring and adding that she.

Speaker 4 (01:36:41):
And the church owed the public and apology.

Speaker 46 (01:36:44):
And no surprise here the woke bishop is capitalizing on
our new found fame, making all the stops to liberal
outlets like CNN and then worshiping with the five disciples
of the view.

Speaker 18 (01:36:58):
Unity requires a degree of mercy, mercy and compassion and understanding.

Speaker 4 (01:37:03):
We need to be merciful.

Speaker 18 (01:37:05):
And I was trying to counter the narrative that is
so divisive and polarizing, and in which people, real people
are being harmed.

Speaker 4 (01:37:20):
How could it not be politicized?

Speaker 10 (01:37:21):
Right?

Speaker 18 (01:37:21):
We're in a hyper political climate. I was trying to
speak a truth that I felt needed to be said,
but to do it in as respectful and kind a
way as I could.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
He is a Presbyterian.

Speaker 47 (01:37:35):
You take a big risk when you go into an
Episcopalian service.

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
Let this be a lesson to you.

Speaker 47 (01:37:40):
Pastor Jeffers said something very poignant. She insulted rather than
encourage the president. She said that trans and illegals are scared. Well,
what about Lake and Riley?

Speaker 21 (01:37:50):
She was scared? What about Riley Gaines? She was scared.

Speaker 47 (01:37:53):
I don't think this bishop ever talked about those two women.
I wouldn't know, because I'm not in her service. Though
Christianity is a rules based religion, as are most religions.
They have the ten commandments, don't do this, don't do that.
So when you apply to become a citizen of another country, you.

Speaker 4 (01:38:10):
Wait in line.

Speaker 47 (01:38:11):
What if someone went to communion at this bishop's service,
cut the whole line, guzzled the blood of Christ, stole
the body of Christ, and then slapped her in the face.

Speaker 4 (01:38:21):
Would she have mercy on that person?

Speaker 34 (01:38:24):
No?

Speaker 47 (01:38:24):
You don't run a confessional like you run a country.
She's what she's doing is she's exploiting mercy in order
to judge Donald Trump.

Speaker 21 (01:38:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Bottom line, as I said, yes say, is that religion
comes in all forms. There are some denominations that have
become very liberal, very progressive, and evidently the Biscopellian Church
is one of them. And if that doesn't meet your needs,
then there are plenty of other places you can go
that have a much more conservative point of view. Maybe

(01:38:58):
they should try matching up whoever is conducting the National
Prayer Service to whoever the incoming politician is. Seven twenty seven.
Time to take a look at your money as we
check in again with Jeff Bellinger and Jimmy. The median
price of a home in the US increase nearly five
percent in twenty twenty four to a record three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. That's according to a new report

(01:39:21):
from Adam. Stock Market futures are mixed, with the S
and P and Nasdaq futures both a little lower.

Speaker 22 (01:39:26):
The now futures are up thirty two. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 23 (01:39:36):
Houston's News, Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty
four to seven.

Speaker 1 (01:39:41):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
Five everywhere within the IRF.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
More of what's happening now from the Sean Moore Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
Seven thirty Our Time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour. The accidents are
piling up, so please slow down.

Speaker 4 (01:39:59):
Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:39:59):
I'm mixing everything and coming up at seven thirty eight.
Biological woman, No, This ACLU attorney says you're a non
transgender woman. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning Drive once again.
Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:40:15):
Still got this wreck on three point thirty Baytown past
x on Mobile northbound Hardy Toll Road. That's hoo Metro
southbound at six ' ten the North Loop. The Hardy's
even backed up West Park Tollway. Clear the wreck at
Peak Road. Darren from Spring.

Speaker 34 (01:40:29):
Laurence sky Mike northbound East Sloop at the Wallacedale Drive
A you got three slung out all.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
Right to east. Sam. We've got a wreck too, Deevy,
hard work.

Speaker 28 (01:40:39):
In east Side before you ninety is a really really
bad wreck.

Speaker 38 (01:40:44):
Lots of ninjas and amazing men and lou trying to
do the rescue.

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
All right, they cleared the wreck on the bridge over
the San Jacina River Highway ninety. We're still pretty backed
up both ways. Skymike and the Generator Supercenter.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Dot Com traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty
four hour weather Center. Mix of clouds and sun today
with the temperature right about fifty three. Hopefully we should
get above freezing just about everywhere by maybe about nine
nine thirty this morning, and that will cut down on
the accidents. But in the meantime, please be careful. Current
temperature is thirty at your official severe weather station. News

(01:41:17):
Radio seven forty k t RH STIM Now for the news,
here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 4 (01:41:22):
Thank you very much. Jimmy. It is seven thirty two
on KTRH.

Speaker 41 (01:41:25):
In our top story, I Way Won forty six northbound
at Fairmont Parkway completely shut down, major accident.

Speaker 12 (01:41:35):
This is not a way to start a day back
to or No, it is not.

Speaker 5 (01:41:40):
We are waking up to another morning of freezing temps
with ice on our roadways. Net driver calling in at
seven one three two one two tips you can do
the same. Let sky Mike know what you're seeing as
you try to get to work this morning. Despite all
of this, text that officials say they are pleased with
their preparations for Enzo and retreating Houston's roads helped crews

(01:42:02):
remove the snow and ice much easier.

Speaker 26 (01:42:04):
Text I think did a great job this time around.
We started making preparations logistically as early as last week,
as soon as we got the forecast.

Speaker 25 (01:42:13):
Public Information officer for tex Dot Houston, Leo Flores, says,
it's always better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 26 (01:42:19):
What we've always known is that preparation is key, it's paramount,
and we don't get them often. This type of weather
event was unprecedented here.

Speaker 25 (01:42:27):
Snowplows were used from other Texas cities including Dallas and
El Paso.

Speaker 4 (01:42:31):
Jared Lewis News Radio seven forty k JR eight and
if you.

Speaker 5 (01:42:34):
Think it's bad here, Louisiana is digging out for more
than eight inches of snow in some spots, first time
ever blizzard warnings too.

Speaker 21 (01:42:44):
We have had Snowmageddon here.

Speaker 27 (01:42:46):
Look, we got the snowplows from Governor Satan's I want
to give a great shout out to Governor Sarah Sanders
and her crew from Arkansas. It's not like we got
snowplows in the garage. I don't even think anybody in
Louisiana has a snow shovel.

Speaker 5 (01:42:57):
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on the Walton and Johnson Show
on KPRC nine fifty New Orleans said a one hundred
year snowfall record seven thirty four on KGRH, President Donald
Trump sitting down for his first interview in the Oval
office and starting his second term, detailing how he plans
to handle sanctuary city holdouts as he shuts down Biden's

(01:43:20):
open border.

Speaker 21 (01:43:20):
We're trying to get rid of him.

Speaker 10 (01:43:21):
We're trying to end him in a lot of the
people in those communities don't want them.

Speaker 21 (01:43:25):
You know, California is a big jamnet off their money.
I might have to do that sometimes that's the only
thing you could do.

Speaker 5 (01:43:31):
Trump with KTRH is Sean Hannity. Now, the President's five
hundred billion dollar Stargate project won't just increase AI here
in the US. David dun Moyer with the Texas Public
Policy Foundation says it's going to be a major boost
to an already robust Texas economy.

Speaker 28 (01:43:49):
These data centers are going to create jobs, it's going
to create innovation, but only if we have the energy
to do so. He just had a snowstorm. Bankfully the
grid upheld that, but the legislature will want to focus
on new energy to meet this new investment coming here now.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
The first data center built for this initiative will be
here in Texas. It's now seven thirty five. One Texas
lawmaker is proposing a review of the economic value of
a college degree.

Speaker 29 (01:44:15):
State Senator Mays Middleton of Galveston wants to focus more
on outcomes and.

Speaker 30 (01:44:20):
At the end of the day, we need to make
sure that students that are receiving these degrees can actually.

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
Pay off that debt. He says.

Speaker 29 (01:44:27):
Many schools are finally eliminating some useless courses and it
will also bring more value to our state schools that are.

Speaker 30 (01:44:34):
Focused on their ability to earn letting after they graduate
with these degrees, and.

Speaker 4 (01:44:39):
They're going to be able to do it at a
lower cost. He says.

Speaker 29 (01:44:42):
College has become a distribution wealth game that's hurting the students.
Andre Parard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:44:49):
Thank you, Andre. In the city.

Speaker 5 (01:44:51):
Mayor John Wickmeyer officially announces that effective on February first,
the telework program will end, so that means sixteen hundred
city employees have to start coming back to the office now.

Speaker 32 (01:45:03):
I think they're kind of looking at the efficiencies within
the city and what is best for the taxpayers. And
at the same time they're also going through an efficiency audit,
if you will, from Ernst and Young that.

Speaker 5 (01:45:13):
Is Charles Blaine with Urban Reform. Meantime, Harris County Commissioner's
Court could follow suit. They'll evaluate their work from home
policy at Commissioner's Court. That was originally supposed to happen today,
it's been pushed back till next month, seven thirty six.
Looking at your money, the damage that Joe Biden did
to the American economy is not going to be fixed overnight,

(01:45:34):
specifically when it comes to what he did to the
American oil sector. But Fox's Phil Flynn says that the
Trump agenda is the right way to get back to
more stable oil and gas prices.

Speaker 4 (01:45:45):
I think it's going to be drill, baby, drill, right.

Speaker 33 (01:45:48):
It's going to be the Trump administrations to be, you know,
starting to allow the US energy business.

Speaker 5 (01:45:55):
To do what they need to do, so it's no
surprise that the oil futures are right around seventy five
dollars a barrel this morning, with gas prices across the
area checking in at two sixty nine a gallon.

Speaker 4 (01:46:08):
By the way, that's up nine cents over the last month.

Speaker 5 (01:46:11):
A consequence of Joe Biden's economic and criminal justice reform,
theft from retail stores is up more than ninety eight
percent over the last four years. Retired Houston Police Department
Captain Greg Freeman blames the politicians, and.

Speaker 34 (01:46:27):
I have to say that these radical leftist policies where
they were sought on criminals.

Speaker 5 (01:46:32):
So it's no surprise that because of this increase we've
seen mass closures of some retailers. Seven thirty seven Americans
are at their tipping point when being asked for gratuities.
New data from bank rate shows that the average American
restaurant tip fell from nineteen point six percent and twenty
twenty one to eighteen point eight percent last year.

Speaker 20 (01:46:52):
Only sixty seven percent of restaurant goers always tip now
lets down from seventy five percent a few years ago.
That's one that I feel should be pretty universal.

Speaker 4 (01:47:02):
Bank Rates Ted Rossman.

Speaker 5 (01:47:04):
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News whether in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:47:09):
There's the very latest on your way to work. This
is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
All right, well, things get nothing but strange when you're
talking about the left, and talk about the progressive left.
In this particular case, we have an ACLU attorney out
there who evidently has decided that they need to respond
to this idea that somehow or another, there is no

(01:47:42):
such thing as a biological woman. That if you are
a what Trump would call a biological woman, you are
in reality a non transgender woman. So so if you
are just somebody who is a man who dresses like

(01:48:05):
a woman who feels that he's a woman, you're a
transgender woman. And if you are an actual woman with
the right chromosomes and the right science to back it up,
you are a transgender woman. That that according to the
American Civil Liberties Union, that at least this particular attorney
with them, that that's how that whole thing works.

Speaker 4 (01:48:26):
Really, I think that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
That Trump has probably done a pretty good job of
redefining at this point the fact that we have two sexes.

Speaker 4 (01:48:38):
We have men and we have women.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
We have you can you can believe you are what
you want to believe you are, but it doesn't change
the fact that you were assigned to certain sex at birth. Uh,
he's a trans right act. Actually, I'm trying to figure
out if this is male or female who came up
with this conclusion here, But this is a trans right act.

(01:49:00):
Pardon me, trans rights activist who is also oh, also
a transgender man. So it's a woman who is living
the life as a man, who was on the left
wing digital news show Democracy Now to slam President Trump's
executive order on sex and gender. Okay, thanks placing seven
forty here on news radio seven forty ktrh. Time for

(01:49:21):
traffic and weather together in the very busy sky. Michael,
it's a disaster for sure this morning. We knew there
would be ice. We didn't know that other people wouldn't
be looking out for ice. Other stations, listeners, good news.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
I've got Grand Parkway North shutdown at the Harty Road
that is now reopened. The accidents clear. It's going to
take a long time to get this suckage off from
the Sandracento River Bridge. You've got two ninety this time
a guestner inbound that stalls moved over to the side.
Why am I talking that West Park outbound Eldridge. Look out,
that's a wreck. We keep hitting ice all over the place.

(01:49:55):
Golf Freeway. We've cleared most of those problems to eighty
eight northbound. The to the south belt is completely shut down.
Let's go to the east belt. Jeff from tom Ball.

Speaker 34 (01:50:04):
Okay, Mike northbound.

Speaker 8 (01:50:06):
They are break wrapping the road, so traffic is backed
up the house blocking everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:50:11):
All right, Kathy nineteen sixty. We've cleared a wreck on
the e on the north Freeway at Shepherd inbound.

Speaker 34 (01:50:17):
Yes, high Mike, that is all clear.

Speaker 24 (01:50:19):
Forty five is clear Shepherd exit. The passover does have
black ice, so be.

Speaker 7 (01:50:25):
Careful, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:50:26):
Scott from Wallaceville's on the south part of gram Parkway.

Speaker 21 (01:50:29):
It's got Mike Highway ninety nine.

Speaker 8 (01:50:31):
We're stuck like shut all right.

Speaker 4 (01:50:33):
We still have that wreck. I'm looking at it on
camera too. Nobody's moving. This is ninety nine south as
you're trying to get to the Hartman Bridge through Baytown
over Alexander Drive. They are sitting there going nowhere fast
more heart hats good.

Speaker 34 (01:50:44):
Morning's time Mike, there is a wreck on the northbound
side of Belwagh eight crossing over.

Speaker 4 (01:50:50):
Wood Forest and eighteen wheeler and.

Speaker 34 (01:50:52):
Ech and there appears to be ice on the road
at that overpass.

Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
All right, look out from I in northbound Hardy Toll Road.
That's a metro southbound the connector ramp to six ' ten.
I'm skylike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four. Our weather Center,
Terry Smith is here. Better days are coming. I think
I get here soon enough. Yes, all we really need
at this point is like three or four degrees and
things would change in a hurry.

Speaker 19 (01:51:20):
Yes, And you know so temperatures this morning generally are
in the upper twenties, still our thirties, So if you
are driving, just assume that anything that is on the
roadways resembling snow or liquid is frozen and very slick,
and be extra careful, little extra time. The biggest key

(01:51:43):
to success usually driving in this kind of weather is
allowing extra time and extra space. So by mid morning
we should be at our above freezing. I suspect we've
got the sunshine. It is going to be a warmer afternoon,
so we're going to see more of this melt. We'll
wind up in the mid fifties today and not as
cold tonight. Not everybody below freezing tonight, but there'll be

(01:52:06):
some places below freezing. Wind up in the low to
mid fifties tomorrow and getting even warmer into the weekend,
generally in the sixties. But we do have the possibility
of some rain over the weekend, more so Sunday than Saturday.
Saturday only a twenty percent chance of rain, but at
eighty percent chance of showers and some storms Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
Right now, thirty at your officials, Severe Weather Station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (01:52:30):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
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Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
So we're all wondering going into Enzo, you know, the
winderstorm Enzo, whether or not everything would be fine with
center Point, whether or not the grid would be fine,
if we'd have enough electricity keep everybody warm, if we'd
have any sort of associated weather event with Enzo that
would cause, you know, loss of power lines and major
power outages. None of those things really happened. We'll talk

(01:53:00):
to David Hold about that. Is that because Center Foyd
did such a great job, or just the conditions were
such that they didn't really threaten the electric grid like
they did our roadways. Well, talk to David Hold, president
of Consumer Energy Alliance, about that coming up next. First, though,
traffic and weather together as we check out the drive
once again to sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:53:17):
Tammy's taking Channel thirteen's chopper to Baytown. Grand Parkway westbounds
completely shut down. I'm looking at Alexander. I'm seeing the
same cars sitting there. This is westbound as you're trying
to get to the heart Membridge. If you're already on
Grand Parkway, skip over to Tri City Beach Road, go
through downtown Alexander south Belt two recks. You got westbound
Parallem Parkway westbound at Hughes Sabo And that's a metro

(01:53:40):
bus on the Hardy Toll Road southbound entrance ramp or
exit ramp down to the North Loops. So the Harty's
all messed up. Skymikee on the Generator Supercenter dot Com
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator super Center in twenty
four hour Weather Center mix of clouds and sun today
fifty three clear tonight about thirty Sunday about fifty four
for tomorrow, borrow into the sixties or near sixty at

(01:54:02):
least over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
So things are getting better temperature wise. We are pretty
much where we've been all morning thirty at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time
to check out some of our top stories this morning.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
We are sponsored by Moral Mechanical. Icy conditions are causing
issues all across the area this morning. Tens of thousands
of Californias are forced to evacuate things to another want
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you earlier in the morning, a new location for Trump
Burger is coming here to Houston in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 4 (01:54:43):
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Speaker 21 (01:54:46):
Fifty nine. Inbound at the Loop is always a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
KTRH time saving traffic connect on the ten. Well, if
you were dancing of the dark, chances are pretty good
you turned off the light yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
Thing to do with the storm. Joining us to talk
about center Point, how things went. David hold, President the
Consumer Energy Alliance, You know, I don't know can we
can we really judge how Center Point did on this storm,
because when you get right down to it, we didn't
get any of the conditions that would endanger the electric grid.
We didn't get ice for the most part, or those

(01:55:20):
types of things that would bring down power lines.

Speaker 8 (01:55:23):
Well, I think you know, listen, no good no news
is good news. And we did have some extreme weather.
We had a very very high demand.

Speaker 4 (01:55:33):
A couple of days this week.

Speaker 8 (01:55:35):
So it just shows the added resiliency, the added capacity,
all the work that Centerpoint is done just to make
sure that we just meet basic energy demands.

Speaker 4 (01:55:45):
I agree with you.

Speaker 8 (01:55:46):
We didn't have the wind events, we didn't have the
hard ice. But when you have demand days like this
and you have, as I said, no news is good news,
that's something that Center Point.

Speaker 4 (01:55:57):
Should should take a bow.

Speaker 8 (01:55:59):
State pol heality makers that have added more capacity to
our grid, more natural gas, more always available power, they
should take a bow as well. So all of us
had our lights, all of us at our heat.

Speaker 4 (01:56:10):
And that's just good news. Yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
At the end of the day, I thought it was interesting.
I will say this about Centerpoint. If nothing else, their
communication has improved immensely. They are much more proactive about
sending you a notification about any potential power problems, about
how many people don't have power, where the power outages are, although,
like any good corporation, I guess they do like to

(01:56:34):
accentuate the positive. I think at one point in time
they sound up a notification we just want to let
you know that ninety nine point nine percent of our
service area has power. Rather than put a number on
how many people didn't have power, they went with a
ninety nine point nine percent.

Speaker 8 (01:56:48):
Do well well. I saw that they did a little
bit of both. You know, they did, of course ninety
nine point nine percent had power. That's great news.

Speaker 4 (01:56:57):
But they also talked about.

Speaker 8 (01:56:59):
Areas without our areas that were intermittent power. You know,
there were there were a few thousand of us in
Houston that had a few power outages for a variety
of reasons. And Center Point was very responsive and their reporting.
I agree with you, their communications has gotten very good,
but the resiliency that they've added more work needs to

(01:57:20):
be done, of course, and I think Center Point would
be the first to say that. But you know, next
time we have a big rain event, big wind event,
we'll we'll have to really.

Speaker 4 (01:57:29):
Test the system again.

Speaker 28 (01:57:30):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:57:31):
As a final note to David, I think that the
public relations to department the Center Point has has awoken,
don't you think. I think they now seem to have
a better understanding of the proper way to communicate with
their customers, the things that they need to do as
far as the information goes in order to prevent a
lot of headaches for themselves.

Speaker 8 (01:57:49):
I agree, you know, and I think it signals the
future for the state of Texas. You know, energy demand,
electricity demand.

Speaker 4 (01:57:55):
Is only going to go up.

Speaker 8 (01:57:56):
We're going to add all these AI data centers which
are going to be a huge, huge energy, electricity intensive resources.
So continuing to stay ahead of it is going to
be a challenge for Centerpoint and for the entire state.
And I know the legislature this session is going to
take these issues up, So staying ahead of it is
going to be another.

Speaker 4 (01:58:15):
Key for us.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
All yeah, especially if we're going to continue to expand.
David hold always a pleasure. Thank you, President of Consumer
Energy Alliance, David Holtz, all right, you all have a
great day. Be careful out there now. Seriously, don't today's
not to day to speed, keep it, keep it slow
until we get those temperatures well above freezing. I will
see you tomorrow morning break nearly five am, and we

(01:58:36):
are also back at four on AM nine to fifty
KPRC