Almost 1,000 Illegals Arrested, And That's Just Yesterday!

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 01/27/25.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:08):
With now the latest news, weather and traffic. It's more
of what matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.
It is five am. Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As we get started today in Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, almost
one thousand the illegals arrested. And that's just yesterday. Columbia
changes its mind on defying Trump and coming up at
five oh eight, ninety five percent of gen Z and
millennial workers say it's okay to sleep on the job.
Details in the minute ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News.

(00:42):
Wake up, Sky, Mike.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Is anybody else having a Monday? I know first well
it is. First of all, it is Monday. Oh that
makes sense.

Speaker 5 (00:49):
I have to turn your snooze off, everybody. I did
not realize we had rain going on outside, so you
can't drive like me. And we have one problem on
the board this morning so far. Golf freeway inbound at Monroe. Fortunately,
he's just a stall, that's what we're calling it. We're
taking up some alternating lanes here and they're working on
it northbound. Go ahead and stay the course, the golf freeways,

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find the rest of our freeways. It's rain soaked all
over town, but for now we haven't ran into each other.
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com, Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Frobro KTRH, Tom Tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather sunder
Cloudey sky'scasual light rain this morning, high Temperatu're right about sixty.
We'll get you the complete forecast. Terry spent at the
Weather Channel in about nine minutes right now fifty three
at your officials Severe Weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (01:41):
It is coming up on five oh two on KTRH.

Speaker 8 (01:43):
We now have a commander in chief in office who's
going to ensure the safety people in the country, whether
it be these young killed, young kids who are trafficked
into our country or everyday Americans.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
That's Texas Governor Greg Abbott. There nearly one thousand illegal
alas millions were arrested in ice operations nationwide yesterday. Dea
and Houston confirmed they assisted. There were also raids in
Austin elsewhere. Another wing for the President as Columbia backs
down after initially refusing to take back their illegal aliens.

Speaker 9 (02:18):
Columbia is now agreeing to accept flights of deported migrants
from the US. This after President Trump threatened to impose
steep tariffs and other measures on the country for blocking
two flights on Sunday. The White House says the drafted
actions were made in reserve and not signed unless Columbia
fails to honor the deal.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
That is.

Speaker 7 (02:36):
Ashley Stromeyer reporting, the President rallied in Las Vegas this weekend,
telling supporters he'll deliver on yet another campaign promise.

Speaker 10 (02:46):
I'll be working with Congress to get a bill on
my desk that cuts taxes for workers, family, small businesses,
and very importantly keeps my promise for no tax.

Speaker 11 (02:57):
On to.

Speaker 7 (02:59):
He also got a standing ovation when he showed up
on a casino floor after that rally. Among the cabinet
members confirmed over the weekend include new DHS Secretary Christy
Noam and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth. Despite all of this winning,
the president does face an uphill battle in weeding out

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the deep state.

Speaker 12 (03:21):
Trump has already ordered all DEI offices shut down and
put elon Musk in charge of cutting waste and abuse
with the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. But
Azoria CEO James Fishback tells Fox Trump must go beyond that.

Speaker 13 (03:33):
Doje's mission can't just be the spending cuts that are
absolutely right under Elon's leadership. It also has to be
President Trump's original vision of cutting back the administrative state
to save America and to bring in this new golden age.

Speaker 12 (03:46):
Many career bureaucrats in DC are already pledging to oppost
Trump policies if they remain in their jobs. Coryolson News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
It's now five oh four and the search continues for
fifteen month old Mateo Vasquez the boy. His uncle has
been charged with his kidnapping. The two have been missing
since Saturday, and we've got pictures of both of them
at KTRH dot com. Well, the battle for school choice
is going national. Texas Senator Ted Cruz files a bill

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allowing federal funds to go towards private K through twelfth
tuition and supplies, including homeschool supplies.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Kind of operates like.

Speaker 14 (04:24):
An education savings account, similar to the one that's being
proposed in Texas. But this will supercharge the school choice
momentum that's already happening in red state.

Speaker 7 (04:33):
School choice activist Corey Diangelis says, Americans on both sides
of the aisle want this. In Austin, the Texas senators
moving swiftly on vouchers. They've got a hearing schedule for tomorrow.
As for our colleges, they may be dominated by the left,
but according to a new report, there has been a

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rise of young Republicans on campuses as of late, and
that includes Texas too.

Speaker 15 (05:02):
Oh yeah, most definitely. I think that young people are
realizing that they want to live in the same America
that their parents.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Grew up in.

Speaker 16 (05:09):
That is Courtney Trevino, president of the Houston Young Republicans.

Speaker 17 (05:15):
We have had.

Speaker 15 (05:16):
Record attendance in our events, and we're very involved with
the GOP, and I think that we're just not afraid
to engage in those conversations anymore.

Speaker 16 (05:25):
Trump picked up a massive number of young voters, especially
in blue states. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty KTI.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
Thank you, Jeff. Looking at your money this morning. Stocks
are taking a beating on overnight training down Futures down
four hundred points as Nvidia and other AI stocks are
really down this morning. New bank rate research shows that
only forty one percent of Americans could use savings to
cover one thousand dollars emergency expense, with many relying on

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credit cards or loans.

Speaker 18 (05:58):
With a high inflation rates seen over the past three years,
and even though in plation has slowed down, the cost
of things did not go down.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
It just is not going up as.

Speaker 7 (06:07):
Fast, financial planner Bill Dendy. The data also showed that
seventy percent worried that they couldn't cover living expensive if
they lost their jobs. But there is good news. A
little bit your paycheck goes further in Texas. In most
other states, especially California.

Speaker 19 (06:25):
LA, and San Francisco, were near the top of unaffordability,
but San Antonio came in as most affordable.

Speaker 20 (06:30):
You'll need ninety seven thousand dollars in San Francisco to
equal the same purchasing power as seventy seven thousand we'll
get you in San Antonio.

Speaker 19 (06:39):
KTRH moneyman Pat Schin says Houston came in about average,
but we do rank well above average in terms of growth.

Speaker 20 (06:46):
Bankrate dot Com says more people are moving to Houston
area than just about any other area in the US.

Speaker 19 (06:53):
Houston's grown over two percent the last two years for
people aged twenty five to forty four, Andre Perard News
Radios KRH.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
But none of this will help with the price of eggs,
which is skyrocketed in Texas. A and m's David Anderson
says it's because of bird flu.

Speaker 21 (07:08):
We lose a bunch of chickens and now we have
to replace them, and that takes about, you know, twenty
five twenty six weeks to get that chicken to start
laying eggs. Then it takes a little more time to
get them kind of fully productive. This is where we
kind of hit the biological nature of production.

Speaker 7 (07:26):
Wholesale prices for a dozen eggs hit an all time
high of six dollars and fourteen cents last week.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Five oh seven.

Speaker 7 (07:33):
The Chiefs will play Philadelphia in the Super Bowl. KC
beats Buffalo in the AFC Title Game thirty two to
twenty nine. The Eagles blew out Washington in the NFC
Championship fifty five to twenty three. And I'm Cloff Saunders
on Houston's news, weather and traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
King I live near.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Sharfstown, reliable KTRH traffic and weather.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
You ever slept on the job before I get this
is amazing to me. Paper All's a survey conducted by
papers Owl whatever. That is, ninety five percent of American
respondents during the ages of eighteen thirty four said that
they have slept on the job. They have, eighteen percent
of them have shown up late, twenty seven percent of

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them have lied about being sick. Thirty four percent locked
out early even though they weren't supposed to. Sixteen percent
have quiet quitted. In other words, they have just basically
quit their job and not told anybody they quit their job.
Fourteen percent are using AI to do their job work,

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and more than half of the respondents admitted to quiet vacationing,
taking time off work without telling their boss at least
three times over the previous year, mostly due to quote
unquote burnout or limited availability of paid time off. In
other words, you used all your pay time off, so

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so you took time off without permission. This is shocking
to me. Is this shocking to you? The most shocking
thing to me is the ninety five percent said they've
they've slept on the job.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
What jobs?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
What jobs do you do that you can sleep on
the job and nobody notices you're sleeping. Is this like
an office job where you just kind of you go
into your desk or something and you hide, like a
scene from Seinfeld. I can't get away with sleeping on
this job. I think people might notice if we were sleeping.
Five ten time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
There's some days where you know, it's not as crazy,
not like last week.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Have you ever taken a nap there in the traffic center.
I've fallen dead as Cliff Saunders. Have you had like
a five minute power and app I have.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
Fallen dead asleep for a break here, So it's it's
it's normal.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Let's go to this problem on the golf freeway. I'm
forty five so far. Actually, you know what, I'm curious
while I'm while I'm here, Before I forget, let's check
I ten east. We had some roadwork.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
I was outbound the overnight thing, and that's been some
real habitdashery on the outbound right past the bubplant.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Looks like they picked that up for the night.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
They were taking a couple of lanes and it was
causing quite a smush if you're going outbound.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
I think they'll do that again tonight.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Looks like we're all good to go East Freeway and
on the inbound we rock twenty one minutes from from
Baytown into downtown Golf Freeway. Not they're calling this a
stalled truck at airport. Man, that sure looks like a wreck,
and the feeder sure looks like the entrance ramp. I'm
gonna call it a right lane on the main lanes.
It's not really causing much of a smash. Some of
you need to.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Slow down a little bit.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
This is inbound Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Time to check in with Terry Smith. She's wide awake,
right I.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Am right now? Okay, good? The coffee helps.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Are you Are you gonna nap today during work? You
ever nap? Do you ever sleep on the job? I
have really?

Speaker 22 (10:51):
Oh yeah, I'll close my eyes for like five ten
minutes when the weather's quiet, when the winds aren't blowing.
You know, you'll take It's like having a child. You'll
make your opportunities to rest when you have them.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
So you're like a horse. You can sleep standing up
or sitting up. Well, thank you, I can't do that.
I don't know how people do that. How do you just?

Speaker 7 (11:11):
I can't sleep in my chair?

Speaker 23 (11:12):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Hang on?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Is that sleeping or just zoned out? I mean those
are two different things.

Speaker 22 (11:17):
It's not sleeping. It's like closing your eyes and resting. Yeah,
so yeah, I'm like a horse.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
They stand up.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Horse, of course your wilber Sorry, oh goodness. People under
forty are like, what, yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, hey, listen,
it's a good day to take a nap because it's
gonna be kind of cloudy all day.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Right, goodness.

Speaker 24 (11:39):
So this is.

Speaker 22 (11:42):
A long stretch of lots of clouds and some rain,
Like we've got some rain every single day. There's a
couple of showers out there this morning, and they'll be
winding down pretty quickly.

Speaker 7 (11:54):
So it's a twenty percent chance.

Speaker 22 (11:55):
So you might need to turn on the windshield wiper
briefly on your morning drive. But the clouds in the
rain and the northerly winds will keep the temperatures on
the cooler side upper fifties to low sixties today. Twenty
percent chance of a shower tomorrow again, not much rain
load to mid sixties. Then our rain chance has increase.
We've got another coll front that's headed our way. Forty

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percent chance of showers Wednesday, eighty percent chance of showers
and some storms possible Thursday, and still a little bit
of rain Friday morning before the sunshine finally makes an
appearance Friday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Right down fifty three at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barritt and the Houston
Morning News team.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
All the info you need did take on the day?
All right, I'm I'm a little curious. I must admit
that this has got my curiosity up, so so I'm
sharing the story to start the show today. Right, ninety
five percent of gen Z millennials say they've slept on
the job, ninety five percent. So I start asking my
co workers. It turns out they've slept on the job too.

(13:05):
I have never slept on the job.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Have you ever slept on the job? If so, for
how long? Where were you sleeping? And did you get caught?
What did your boss say when you got caught. Go
to kat go to actually to the iHeart radio app.
Click on the microphone. There, okay, I heard radio app
kt r H. Click on the microphone. You got thirty

(13:29):
seconds to tell me your story. It's five funny time
for traffic and whether it's together is what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Cliff has slept on the job too.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
Who falls asleep in this chair every morning at eight thirty?

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Sky Mike, there you go.

Speaker 7 (13:42):
I've never fallen asleep in any job that I've ever had.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Do you have an alarm clock in there? I fell
asleep at Channel thirteen helicopter one time. You're flying it?
Were you? No? Thank god?

Speaker 5 (13:53):
But I leaned out and the door opened. It was
strap no kidd. All right, let's go to the freeway.
See how I did that? Go freeway northbound at airport
that was closed. This is let's call this a wreck
on the EDGEXIT ramp. They're calling it a stall. I
think somebody ran into them. This is inbound. It's not
a serious deal. Everybody's okay. Let's call it a right

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lane maybe a thirty second smash of that.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
It's nothing to it. Stay the course, just you know,
keep your eyes Peeled.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
I'm skytmike as your generator Supercenter dot com Traffic center.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
From r KTRH, top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather Center,
Claudie Sky's cashal light Grain. This morning around sixty mostly
Cloudi's about a twenty percent shower chance tomorrow sixty two
Wednesday cloudie with showers high almost seventy on Wednesday. Yeah,
then it warms up to the seventies probably for the
rest of the week. Temperature currently fifty three at your

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official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're
checking out some of our top stories here on this
Monday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (14:52):
We're sponsored by Moral Mechanical Trump Klean's House Canning seventeen
Inspectors General over the weekend could confirm Scott Besson his
Treasury Secretary today and today is the eightieth anniversary of
the liberation of Auschwitz. Get the latest news anytime at
KTRH dot com. Our next update is at five thirty.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Look what happened?

Speaker 25 (15:13):
This is the greatest political comeback of all time that
has ever been two three, four times.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Today News Radio seven JZRH.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, they still have wildfires in La but they are
talking about the red build process, and it was really
quite funny.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Trump.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
President Trump went there this weekend and he met with
all sorts of officials, and he met with homeowners, and
he met with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who was, Oh.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
We're so happy you're here. Not because we want you
to tell us what to do. We just want your money.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
And of course, you know, he isn't really promising a
set amount of money, at least not at this point.
What he does want to hear from Los Angeles is
that they are going to to speed up the process.
They're going to drop the red tape, They're going to
get rid of the deureaucracy it keeps people from being
able to rebuild. So here's a little bit of how
that exchange went.

Speaker 26 (16:10):
First of all, let me just take the opportunity to
officially welcome you to Los Angeles. Really appreciate you coming,
and especially you come just a few days after your inauguration,
so I want you to know that your presence here
is very much appreciated. Let me also say that I
know you had an opportunity to see the devastation You've seen,
the extreme loss, the grief that people are going through here,

(16:33):
and we are one hundred percent committed to getting this
neighborhood rebuilt again. You mentioned a couple of things in
terms of us expediting, so I signed executive directives right
away so that we could cut the red tape, we
could get people back building as fast as possible, and
we're going to continue doing that.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Well, one thing you say, are saying they will.

Speaker 25 (16:57):
Not be allowed to start for eighteen months.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
No, that will not be the best.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Okay, I just hope, well.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
You can hold me to it this.

Speaker 25 (17:04):
Four groups said that, No, that would be if they
should be able to do it, They should be able
to start tonight.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
That will not be the case.

Speaker 26 (17:10):
You know, first we have to take care to make
sure that there's not the getting rid of the hazardous waste,
cleaning things up so that people can start right away.
And just like you said, if somebody had their house
was destroyed and they're going to rebuild essentially the same,
maybe a little bit longer, a little bit higher, they
really shouldn't have to go through much of a process.
So I want you to know that we are expediting,

(17:32):
that we absolutely need your help.

Speaker 27 (17:34):
We need the federal help.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
You've got it.

Speaker 25 (17:36):
I told you you will have no permit problem. There
will be zero delay, and as far as I'm concerned,
you already have with our next stuff. And the reason
I am more because I met at least eight groups
of homeowners, and you know, I'm much more worried about
the fact that they said it's eighteen months exactly, and

(17:59):
they would they want to start now. They want to
start removing things. They're not allowed to do it now.
And you mentioned hazard is waste, Well, the hazard is waste.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
What's hazard his waste?

Speaker 25 (18:09):
I mean you're gonna have to define that. We're going
to go through a whole series of questions on determining
what's hazard. No, No, I just think you have to
allow the people to go on this site and start
the process tonight.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
And we will.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Okay, yeah, sure you will. Anybody believe that. And you
did hear when she's snuck in the comedy, we need
your help and you talk about paradisal. We need your money.
That's what she's that's why she's kissing butt. She knows
that California's broke, that they need federal help. They need
federal money. Five twenty six. Speaking of your money, Good

(18:44):
morning to you, Jeff Bellinger and.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Jimmy good morning to you.

Speaker 28 (18:47):
And it's safe to say you're not going to want
to check your four or one K at the end
of today's session on Wall Street, investors are ready to
head for the exits.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
When the opening bell rings.

Speaker 28 (18:56):
They are worried about the artificial intelligence industry.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
Here in the US.

Speaker 28 (19:00):
A Chinese AI startup called deep Seek has a revolutionary
business model that could compete with Western chatbotts at a
lower cost. Right now, the tech heavy Nasdaq futures are
down nine hundred and ninety points four and a half percent.
I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
It is five thirty now here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this have our
jd vance votes to confirm Pete Hegseth, Trump fires seventeen
inspectors General and coming up at five thirty eight, can
Bacon raise your risk for dementia, and if so, do
you care? Details in the minutes ahead. You're on Houston

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News first, we're checking out that morning drive again. Sky
Mike's here. Hey, you got to turn your snooze off. Everybody.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Rain, I mean real rain overnight too, and the roadways
are still slick too. And we've cleared whatever that smush
was on the Golf Freeway.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
They called it a stall.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
I called it a wrecket was on the out inbound
feeder right at Airport.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
Now downtown, I'm just taking a random look.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
Here, Dallas Street, the Squeeze forty five, the pier salvator.
You're moving around a little thick right there, but we're
moving all over town for now. Just give yourself a
nice early start. I'm Skymike from the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
From our KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Cloudie Sky's case'll light rain this morning. Let's talk about
sixty for the high temperature today. We'll get you the
complete forecast. Terry Smith joins us at the Weather Channel
in nine minutes. Right now, Currently temperature is fifty three
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
It's time down for the news. Here's Cliff Slanders.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is five thirty one on KTRH.
Our top story.

Speaker 31 (21:01):
Pet is a disruptor, and a lot of people don't
like that disruption, but Margaret, that disruption is incredibly necessary.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
Vice President j. D Vance on CBS, he casts the
designing vote to confirm Pete heg Sith as Defense Secretary,
with three Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, voting against him. Elsewhere,
Christy Noam officially is confirmed as DHS Secretary in a
vote that was fifty nine to thirty four. The president
also has started weeding out the deep state, firing seventeen

(21:29):
government watchdogs at various federal agencies. South Carolina Republican Congresswoman
Nancy Mace tells Fox this was justified.

Speaker 32 (21:38):
I've had folks from these agencies and the igs show
up without documentation that the Oversay Committee, for example, has
asked for. When they show up, they don't have the answers.
That's not rooting out corruption, that's covering it up.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Among the many agencies targeted, Defense and State. And the
President has been invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson to
address a JOINTSI Ession of Congress on March fourth. Trump
has yet to formally accept that five point thirty three
Now on KTRH, the president's threat of tariffs and sanctions
was more than enough to get Columbia in line. That

(22:13):
country initially refused to take back their illegal aliens, but
after Trump's threat, they backed down, agreeing to every single
one of Trump's terms. Nearly a thousand illegal aliens were
arrested in ICE operations across the country yesterday, with Borders
our Tom Homan telling ABC this week more arrests are coming.

Speaker 33 (22:34):
If you're in the country illegally, you're on the table
because it's not okay to lost this country. You got
to remember, every time you enter this country illegally, you
violated a crime under Title eight United States called thirteen
twenty five.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
It's a crime.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
There were raids here in Harris County and in Austin.
We will hear from Texas Governor Greg Abbott on this
at six o'clock. Elsewhere, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks posting
to social media that DHS is quote filling gaps in
the border wall left by the Biden administration in states
like New Mexico, and the CIA has finally released a

(23:08):
report indicating that a Chinese lab leak is the likely
source of COVID.

Speaker 34 (23:14):
The CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of
this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the
world was because of a laborlated incident in Wuhan, and
so we'll continue to investigate.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
CIA Director John Ratcliffe says the report was done during
the Biden administration years, releasing it as part of his
effort to rebuild your trust in the CIA. And Fox
This Morning is saying that the President will sign an
executive order to reinstate military personnel discharged for not getting
the COVID JAB, although service members will get back pay

(23:48):
as well. Five point thirty four now on KGRH. Thousands
gathered at the Texas Rally for Life in Austin this weekend.
Jonathan Signs with Texas Values was there and says the
left continues to tack this state's strong pro life laws.

Speaker 35 (24:03):
A lot of that will be trying to resist democrats
and liberals that are trying to tear down pro life
laws that many Texans have worked so hard to pass,
and protecting babies among Saturday.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
Speakers included Texas Senator John Cordon, the President pardon twenty
three pro life advocates last week who'd been targeted by
Joe Biden's DOJ Texas Congressmanship Roy wants to get rid
of the law that put them in jail in the
first place.

Speaker 24 (24:29):
Texas Alliance for Life strongly supports the initiative to repeal
to Face Act, and we're so thankful that Congressman Chip
Roy is leading the way on that. We definitely don't
want to leave the door open for the agg to
be weaponized again in the future.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Amy O'Donnell with Texas Alliance for Life says Roy introduced
that bill along with Senator Mike Lee of Utah at
five point thirty five. Looking at your Money, Some housing
experts predict prices will come down across Texas's major metro areas.

Speaker 36 (24:55):
However, not many people are moving or making their first
time home purchase.

Speaker 37 (25:00):
Inventory unfortunately, is still very low. A lot of people
are locked into low interest rates they refined during the
COVID time and now they're trying to figure out doesn't
financially make sense.

Speaker 36 (25:10):
Houston based real estate agent Matthew Villaflora doesn't expect home
prices to come down too much this year either.

Speaker 37 (25:15):
The more inventory levels we have that will kind of
bring the home prices down, but they are still pretty
lean right now and that's going to I think, kind
of keep the house prices steady.

Speaker 36 (25:25):
Jarret Lewis News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
And traditionally agricultural areas around Houston, like Waller County continue
to grow. But these areas are they prepared to handle
the traffic and flooding issues that come from population booms.

Speaker 23 (25:39):
Some of these places are trying to space things out,
leave more green spaces to act as a buffer, along
with redging and digging deeper byous setting up pretention pods.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
Don't forget we told you on Friday that place is
like sugar Land. We're losing residents.

Speaker 29 (25:55):
Well.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
Violent crime didn't take the weekend off. Across Houston, a
twenty one year old man is arrested for shooting his
father who refused to give him money. In northwest Harris County,
we had a known gang member arrested for committing a
robbery at a Spring Wendy's, and the Amber alert for
a fifteen month old remains out. His uncle is charged
with kidnapping five point thirty seven. We've got the potential

(26:16):
for a new space race under this president who wants
to send our astronauts to Mars.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Could we do it?

Speaker 27 (26:23):
Yeah, we could try, but you know it's back to
the old Jerry Maguire line, to show me the money,
who's going to pay for this? And if you're going
to do this instead of that whatever that is? What
are you not going to do at NASA now? Since
everybody wants to cut all the budgets.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
Space expert Keith Cowing says, with Elon Musk playing a
big role in the Trump administration, nothing is too far
fetched for American space exploration. The Astros will trade reliever
Ryan Presley to the Cubs after he reportedly waives his
no trade clause. Also this weekend, Jose Altuve said he'd
move to left field if it meant Alex Bregman would resign.

(27:00):
And the Rockets are in Boston tonight. Pregame at five
point thirty on Sports Stock seven ninety. I'm Close Saunders
on Houston's news weather and traffic station k trh.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
HT two.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's US Radio seven krh on FM, Houston's news, weather,
traffic and talk at ninety nine one HT two.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
I don't care what's wrong with you. Bacon is the cure.
Bacon can heal you in so many different ways. It's
good for your soul. It may be bad for your waistline,
it may be bad for your cholesterol. It might even
be bad for your brain. But it is good for
your soul. And I will defend bacon under any circumstance.

(27:41):
All right, here's another one of those stories about how
there's an increased risk of dementia with consuming process meets,
including the most popular of all process meets, bacon. Team
of researchers primarily from the Harvard School of Public Health
recently broke the latest bad news about bacon after analyzing

(28:05):
a pair of studies dating back as far as nineteen
seventy six and involving abruptly one hundred and seventy thousand
nurses and other health professionals. I mean, Bacon's been studied
a lot, right, Is there anything new here that we're hearing?
The focus of the study, published in the February eleventh
issue of Neurology, was to clarify the link between red
meat intake in overall cognitive health Overall, the findings won't

(28:28):
cheer up anybody who's a dedicated carnivore, which I am,
by the way, But for the lovers of process pig
the news is particularly painful. To conduct their research, the
experts took a look at two different decade long studies
involving the neighborhood of about one hundred and seventy thousand
mentally sound nurses and other healthcare professionals. Many years and

(28:48):
many crunch numbers later, process means like bacon, hot dogs, sausage,
and ham were called out for increasing the risk of
cognitive decline in dementia by thirteen percent in the study,
and this is in participants who averaged just zero point
twenty five servings per day, so one fourth of the
normal intake that people have for processed meats. According to

(29:12):
the American Psychological Association, cognitive function is defined as the
performance of the mental processes of perception, learning, memory, understanding, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intuition,
and language. All those things can suffer if you eat
too much bacon, to which I say, I'll risk it

(29:35):
like a biscuit with some eggs and bacon on it.
Five point forty time for traffic and weather together. Yes,
Skuy Mike, I'm more concerned.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
About Jack Daniels than I wouldn't be about Bacon. Amen.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
All right, put on your hard hat, Jimmy, we are
going to the east side. Simon from Katie just popped
up on the tip linet. If you've never called before
seven one three two one two t ips Dude.

Speaker 38 (29:55):
Your motives, Scott, Mike. That's just thirty th from sixth
gen where if you go to a tree, twenty five
west is posted all future run on that lamp. Appropriate
people from the whole nap.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
My head hurts.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
I don't know exit numbers, but it sounds like it's
two twenty five at the loop. Let me get you
a direction at the five point fifty trig from Cypress.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Dude, got Mike two ninety.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Gotta stolidate two wheeler of the sixty ten nor Ram
be saved out there.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Austin from Cypress has given me that too. I can
tell you the trans star is having a tough time.
He's in a he's in a blind spot. But this
is two ninety. If you go in from two ninety,
you're trying to hit Garden Oaks or the heights that
ramp that takes you eastbound, and I see the smush
on that too.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Watch out.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Austin from Cypress says it's kind of a sticky situation too.
Will zoom all that At five fifty Skymichael the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
From r K T r H Generator super Center twenty four.
Our weather center Terry Smith is here with the forecast
for today. Now I can to see a lot of
sunshine earlier in the week, are we No.

Speaker 22 (31:02):
We are not going to see much sunshine really all
week long. We've got plenty of clouds, a little bit
of rain today and tomorrow, and then a better chance
of rain the second part of the week. Only a
slight chance, like a twenty percent chance of a shower too.
And I am seeing some sprinkles around sugar Land and Houston.
Up toward Liberty, there's a couple of rain drops as well.

Speaker 7 (31:24):
They're all light.

Speaker 22 (31:26):
But between the clouds and the northerly winds, these temperatures
are going to be a little bit cooler than yesterday.
Upper fifties to low sixties today and tomorrow. That twenty
percent chance of a shower. Temperatures tomorrow low to mid sixties.
Now we're going to keep getting warmer, and we've got
more rain ahead, a forty percent chance of showers Wednesday.

(31:47):
Thursday looks to be the soggiest day, even some thunderstorms possible,
and a little bit of rain early in the day
Friday before the sunshine will show up. At least I
got my fingers crossed Friday.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
All right, three at your officials, Severe Weather Station News
Radio seven forty KTRH. So, I was amazed by this
survey of gen Z and millennials. Ninety five percent said
they have slept on the job before.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
I don't know if they're talking about like a five
minute cat nap where they're sitting up in their chair
with their eyes closed, or if they're talking about grabbing
a pillow and going to a spare room and sitting
down and taking a half hour hour nap or what
they're talking about here, But that amazed me.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
I've never slept on the job. Have you ever slept
on the job?

Speaker 3 (32:29):
You can respond, by the way to my question by
going to the iHeartRadio app KTRH, click on the microphone
button and talk back to us. You have thirty seconds.

Speaker 39 (32:38):
Several years ago, I was starting a new job and
I had shown up way too early, so I decided
to take a nap in the parking lot and I
didn't wake up till noon. So I missed my first
day at work because I took a very long.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Nap, half hour nap and he slept till noon. Yeah,
they won't. They won't well for the job. Five fifty.
Time for traffic and weather together. As we check out
the drives. Sky Mike's had the last on that.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
All right, this is not showing up on your main
your sources, but two ninety inbound.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
That is a stalled eighteen wheeler. I have had multiple reports.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
This is on two ninety, the ramp that takes you
to the North Loop eastbound. You're going to the Heights
from two ninety. Watch out because he's in a sticky spot.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Here.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Also something new popping up on the east side East Freeway.
This is inbound at six ten. Got a stall right
on that connector Downtown.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
Something smashing up.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
You've got Katie Freeway right before forty five, right before
you make the curve for the President's got a stall
in a sticky spot.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
There too, that's a left lane.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
We cleared the stall truck on the Gulf Freeway at
Airport Sean from Lamark. So far all right and forty
five north Mark from Spring.

Speaker 38 (33:49):
Scott Back asked over sixty ten. There were two cars
and the far right lane with their blinkers on.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
All right, looks like they're trying to steer it and
clear it. That's inbound, not out down. And I know
I wish other stations listeners would move steer and clear
when they can.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
You know they're not going to draw chalk outline around
your car.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center.
Cloudie's guys, catile light rain this morning. High temperature today
about sixty mostly clouda's light. Twenty percent shower chance tomorrow
sixty two. Cloudy was showers around seventy for the high
temperature on Wednesday, still fifty three at your officials, Severe
Weather Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Get you caught

(34:32):
up in some of our top stories here on this
Monday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
We are sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. Nearly one thousand illegal
aliens are arrested in nationwide ice operations. Officials in Los
Angeles after the wildfires are now concerned about month slides
with rain in the forecast, and according to a new
Credit Karma survey, nearly forty percent of taxpayers rely on
their IRS refunds to make ends meet. Get the latest

(34:59):
news anytime at ca gr dot com. Our next update
is at six o'clock.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
Four more years.

Speaker 38 (35:05):
Donald John Trump?

Speaker 4 (35:06):
What happens next? Who knows what happens next?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Happens here on news radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
We're all pretty amazing weekend.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Is the cliff is just telling you almost one thousand
illegals arrested, many of them criminals, many of them gang members.
In fact, most of them would fit that description. And
just just amazing what can be done when the government
decides to work on actually enforcing the law. I saw
Greg Abbott, he was on yesterday morning with Maria Bartaroma

(35:39):
on Sunday Morning Futures, and of course the first question
they asked him is is can you tell the difference
Like they already knew the answer, can you tell the
difference of working with the Trump administration versus working with
the previous administration on this issue.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
I don't think there's ever been a more sudden and
swift change in any government operation than under President of Trump.
When he took the out of office, I would say
over I but on the first hour of his tenure
as president, we saw the change where there were military
center of the border, the military we're blocking people from
crossing the border illegally.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
The numbers of people.

Speaker 8 (36:13):
Who cross on the nineteenth of January dropped dramatically. On
the twentieth of January, they have continued to drop in
every single day. President Trump, working with Tom Homan, they've
been deporting people to the countries that came from. But
to show how Texas is a partner in all this process,
on the hour that President Trump took office, Texas was

(36:36):
deploying more buoys in the real grand to deter and
deny illegal entry into the country. The change, Maria, is this,
we suddenly now have a commander in chief who cares
about national security, who cares about securing the border, who's going.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
To enforce the law.

Speaker 8 (36:51):
And importantly, he has a governor in a state in
Texas that will be a partner with the Trump administration.
We will assist in the arrest the detention and the
deportation of people coming across.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
The border illegally.

Speaker 8 (37:05):
Hundreds up too close to one thousand are being sent
back across the border on a daily basis under the
Trump administration.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Some are going to Mexico, others.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
You will see flights that are going to Guatemala and
some other Central American countries, and the Trump administration is
going to be sending them back to their home countries
and demanding compliance by these countries that they take back
the people who crossed the.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Border illegally and know this and that is right now.

Speaker 8 (37:33):
I always say there's two categories of people that the Trump
administration is sending back. One, they're trying to go after
those who are public safety threats, who are criminals as
well as national security threasts. Remember under Joe Biden, they
allowed into the United States people who were on the
Terrorist What's List, and the Trump administration is seeking out
and trying to find them and deport them. And then

(37:56):
the other that they're sending back is that listen, those
people who think they can cross the border and stay
here in the country illegally. Now those days are gone,
and so anybody apprehendion coming across the border is going to.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Be sent back immediately.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
There you go, different day, different sheriff, whole different feeling. Right,
five point fifty six Here on news Radio seven forty
k t RH.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
This is used Radio seven forty kt RH, Houston.

Speaker 38 (38:23):
Live Everywhere with IRN.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Now, the latest news, weather and traft.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
It's more what matters to you from the John Moris
Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Six oh one. Now, if you're in Houston's Morning News,
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
almost one thousand illegals arrested. And that's just yesterday. Columbia
changes its mind, ondefying Trump and coming up at six
oh eight free first class drinks by being a seat squatter.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(38:54):
what seat squatters? Guy, Mine seat squatter? That's interesting.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
All right here, you're ready to go north, Jimmy, let's
hit forty five North Freeway right under the Nord Street bridge.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Mark from Springs. The hickels, All.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Right, Ninjas are working there. They're taking two left lines.
Houston Trends star watching that for me. Let me see
what the smashes. Oh yeah, we're messed up. From the
North Loop now southbound. We've got wet freeways. I'm not
surprised at all. We've got problems. We have that stall
on two ninety that's right before you get in on
the ramp to the six to ten North Loop. If
you're trying to go from two ninety over to the hikes,

(39:29):
look out. He's right there on the right side. Skymike
at your generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
From r kt RH top tax Defenders. Twenty four hour
weathers in the Cloudey skuy'sccasional light rain this morning. Hi,
right about sixty. We'll take a look at the rest
of the work week. A lot of clouds, not a
whole lot of sun, but at least the temperatures are warm.
We'll check out with Terry Smith in eight minutes at
the weather channel. Right now fifty three at your officials
Severe Weather Station News Radio seven forty k t RH.

(39:55):
It is time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (39:57):
Thank you very much, Jimmy. It is six oh two.
Response by ISO Pharmic.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
We now have a commander in chief in office who's
going to ensure the safety of people in the country
where it be these young killed young kids who were
trafficked into our country or everyday Americans.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
Nearly a thousand illegal aliens were arrested in the ICE
operations across the country yesterday. DEEA used to confirmed they
assisted with that effort in Harris County. That was, of course,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott. There were also raids in Austin.
Also on the immigration front, Columbia agrees to take their
illegal aliens back, but not until they refused flights, and

(40:36):
the President threatened them with tariffs and sanctions. This did
not surprise Fox analyst Lisa Booth.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
He has a governor in a state.

Speaker 40 (40:45):
How many of these countries are going to want to
take back you know, terror as, gang members, criminals, so
you have to have some means to force them to
do so.

Speaker 7 (40:53):
The Colombian president even offered up his playing for the
flights after Trump's threats. No, that was not a Trump rally,
That was the President getting a standing ovation at a
Vegas casino this weekend. Of course, he did rally for
thousands in Las Vegas and promised to push through legislation

(41:14):
for no tax on tips. Trump also got two more
cabinet members confirmed, including Pete Hegseth Scott Bessant might be
confirmed as Treasury Secretary today, and he's cleaning house in
the federal government, shuttering DEI offices, firing more than a
dozen inspector generals. But there's still a vast bureaucracy in
place at every single level of the federal government. Azoria's CEO,

(41:37):
James Fishback says Trump has a tall but necessary task.

Speaker 13 (41:42):
Cutting excess regulation, bureaucracy, and the administrative state. Over the
past fifty years, the codes of the federal regulations have
gone from fifteen pages to over one hundred and eighty
thousand pages. This bureaucracy is holding back new businesses.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
He says, Trump and Elon Musk must use DOGE to
not only to cut spending, but the entire administrative state.
In DC, it's six point four and police continue to
search for a missing Houston fifteen month old Mateo Vasquez.
His uncle has been charged with kidnapping. We've got pictures
of the boy and his uncle at r at KTRH

(42:18):
dot com. In Austin, the Texas Senate holds a hearing
on school choice tomorrow, while in DC, Texas Senator Ted
Cruz files a bill on school choice at the national level.

Speaker 41 (42:29):
The bill would open up funds to cover tuition and
other expenses for K through twelve students.

Speaker 14 (42:34):
Home schools could even use this for curriculum expenses and
any other approved education expenditure, so it kind of operates
like an education savings account.

Speaker 41 (42:42):
School choice activist Cory D'Angelis says we should be pushing
for both state and federal school choice bills.

Speaker 14 (42:48):
There's no reason why you can't do both. Why not
allow for more tax benefits at the federal level for
people paying for their own kids education.

Speaker 41 (42:56):
Dangelis says that members of the legislature should listen to
their voters and support Cruises bill either beginning news radio
seven forty.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
KTRH and encouraging trend on our college campuses. In the meantime,
young Republican groups are on the rise. Courtney Trevigno with
the Young Republicans of Houston says they have also become
more vocal.

Speaker 15 (43:15):
It is exciting to see the young people being able
to join their college Republican groups and get active and
to be involved in campaigns and just stuff that they've
never done before.

Speaker 7 (43:25):
She says this trend will continue to grow. Six h five,
with Nvidia and other AI stocks taking a beating this morning.
Down futures are down by four hundred points. The financial
struggles of everyday Americans continued to grow, with high inflation
and interest rates, leaving many without the savings to handle
unexpected expenses. According to bank Rate, only forty one percent

(43:48):
could dip into their savings for an emergency.

Speaker 18 (43:51):
They went to the savings that they had available. Some
people even tapped out their retirement plans, and others went
into debt.

Speaker 7 (43:58):
Financial analysts Bill Dendi blames inflation, but Texas has it
easier than most, and San Antonio is among the most
affordable cities in the country according to new Research at least.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Katerriach Butymen.

Speaker 7 (44:12):
Pat Chin says you need ninety seven grand in San
Francisco to get the same buying power as seventy seven
thousand dollars we'll get you in San Antonio. And while
Houston was averaged, the growth among young people was near
the top.

Speaker 20 (44:25):
Houston's been known for a long time as one of
the least expensive big cities on the list number one
with San Antonio, new broun fuls. Number two was Tampa,
Saint Petersburg, number three, Houston.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
And unsurprisingly the least affordable cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
That all said, none of this is helping you when
you go to the supermarket. Have you seen the price
of eggs lately?

Speaker 21 (44:48):
Hypathogenic avian influenza, that's the culprit. Basically an animal disease
hits poultry birds pretty deadly on them to try to
keep it from spreading. The I having chickens are euphanized,
and so when it hits a farm, it wipes out
all the hands.

Speaker 7 (45:04):
David Anderson with Texas A and M says he would
not be surprised if prices continue to go up. Six
oh seven wash rinse repeat. Kansas City will play the
Eagles in the super Bowl in two weeks, the second
time we've had that matchup in three years. I'm Cliff
Saunters on Houston's news, weather and Traffic station k t
r H.

Speaker 27 (45:24):
Under the orders I saw it today, leave it here
for the very latest.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
All of this will.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Change starting today. What Youth Radio.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Seven kt r H.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Six eighth time here in Houston's word of news. Will
you fly? Do you fly first class or economy or business?
Or where do you like to sit on the plane. Well, sure,
we'd all like to be in first class, right and
some of us can afford to fly in first class
and some of us can't. That's just how that works.
But you pay more to obviously fly first class, so

(46:12):
you would think that, you know, everybody up there with
you is also paying extra. Of course, you don't know
how much they paid, because everybody seems to pay a
different price, but you assume they're paying probably something similar
to what you spent in order to get that first
class ticket, right, Well maybe not. Maybe what you have

(46:33):
up there with you is a seat squatter. A what
a seat squatter? Evidently there's hacks that are going around
that a lot of people are watching about how not
only to just hopefully steal a better seat on the plane,
but mainly just to try to grab some free drinks

(46:54):
in the process. And evidently I'm not sure how they
go about doing it, but evidently getting free pre flight
booze is is important enough to some people that they
will grab an empty first class seat on the way
on board the plane and then grab the free drink

(47:15):
before they're you know, the other person who actually has
the ticket comes in. That's one of the things they do,
and once once in a blue moon, you get lucky
by doing this. Evidently, and that was a vacant seat
that nobody had booked that seat, and therefore you can
just go ahead and stay there. And it is true
unless unless somebody else has that seat and they're showing

(47:37):
the flight attendant the ticket stub or their or their
phone showing that that's the seat that they have. Nobody
bothers to check that when you get aboard the plane.
So so if you're lucky enough to get into a
seat quickly, so you can grab that free drink before
they kick you out or into an empty seat, so
you can just kind of stay there. In first class,

(47:58):
people are doing it. They'll pay the ticket, they're just
grabbing the seat. Six ten Time for traffic and weather together,
Scot Mike's reading to feel you do.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
You know what while you were telling us about seat
squatting the toe track ninjas, I mean they're not missing
around this morning North Freeway right under the North Street Bridge,
which by the way, is one of the best views
of downtown if you want to take pictures, but you
have to go through the little area off North Houston Avenue.
So forty five North mark from Spring with the banana
sticker that's inbound.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
It's gone.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Look at this smushery going away pretty quickly. Now you'll
still hit some brakes at Cavalcade. Stay the course on
the North Freeway. Just no snoozing this morning because we've
got wet freeways. Golf Bank, Nord Freeway, golf Bank. This
is outbound, that inbound it's wrecking the right lane. It's
not really hurting anybody at the moment. We do have
that stalled eighteen wheeler on the two to ninety ramp.
Now this is after thirty fourth. Watch out on the

(48:48):
ramp that takes you to the heights, there's an eighteen
wheeler and Houston Transtar and all my friends official friends,
they can't see it. It's in a blind spot, but
it's there. Now while we're on the northwest, let's go
to Mike from Magne, oh.

Speaker 20 (49:00):
Yeah, from ninety nine to the west with lippery but
all the grand marchers are laying.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
Night bum You know what, I'm going to have a
grand march next time. I got married and a second
line and maybe a pongo to Terry.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Can we rent the golf ball? I'm tired of all
these barns.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (49:21):
We can get you TABC certified and have your party
at the golf. You could have a guest list of seven.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
The cows a little tight, which is many times you've
been married. That's probably plenty of people.

Speaker 11 (49:33):
Right.

Speaker 22 (49:34):
I'm seeing a good idea, which is if your previous
weddings were at a barn, a new location might be good.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Yeah, try something different this time for sure.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
From our kt RH top tax defenders twenty four hour
weather center, Terry is here and this would not be
a good day.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
For an outdoor wedding, would it.

Speaker 7 (49:50):
I wouldn't want one, Let's just put it that way.
There's not a lot of rain.

Speaker 22 (49:55):
We've got a couple of sprinkles the col front that
brought us all that rain yesterday.

Speaker 7 (49:59):
Boy did we get get some rain that has.

Speaker 22 (50:01):
Moved southward, and so the few remaining sprinkles are also
going to be heading in that direction. So the rest
of today I think will be dry, but cloudy and
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Speaker 44 (01:00:02):
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Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
It is six twenty two. One man is killed, another injured,
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Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Yeah, Paula County is having some growing pains out there.
Their population, yeah, let me find this. Their population in
twenty twenty was fifty six, seven hundred ninety four. By
twenty twenty three had gone up to sixty five thousand,
five hundred and thirty three, and I'm guessing it's exponential
grown since then. Joining us to talk about Hank lewis

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lone star College economics professor. I mean, we're seeing a
lot of growth, not just in Waller County, but all
over Southeast Texas and even central Texas at this point,
are we Hank.

Speaker 23 (01:01:14):
Oh, absolutely, the growth of what we'd like to call
the exxerbs, the extreme external suburbs, has been phenomenal, and
COVID kind of helps spur that along, not to mention
the real estate industry, and so this is going to
be continuing as long as there's jobs to be had
and people need a place to live.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Okay, there are people moving out there. Do you think
because they're looking for more land, are they looking for
cheaper housing? Maybe a little bit of both.

Speaker 23 (01:01:37):
It's a bit of both. Actually, I think, but when
I first moved to Houston, the exerbs were like Cyprus,
Richmond Rosenberg. And then like you drive out those areas,
these days you got every franchise you can imagine. You've
even got some skylines buildings in those areas where you
didn't used to see that kind.

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Of stuff before.

Speaker 23 (01:01:54):
This kind of a pattern that follows here, and typically
what happens is these massive farms reach a point they're
no longer a viable they sell, a builder buys them up,
they build all these m mansions and houses everywhere.

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People start moving.

Speaker 23 (01:02:06):
There because the real estate prices are cheaper, but there's
no grocery store, there's no services, and those start sprouting up.
More people start to locate. The thing perpetuates, and eventually
some employers say, hey, wait a minute, why don't we
set up some offices out here instead of downtown Houston.
The land is cheaper, and people love that because there's
less of a commute. So things kind of perpetuates itself.
In other words, urban sprawl, yes, sir, Urban exurban sprawl, yeah,

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exurban sprawl. There you go. At this point, you know,
Texas is so big, it's only going to get bigger.
I think we all know that there's an economic cost
to that. I mean, there's some benefits to it, obviously, Hank,
but there's some economic costs to it. There's infrastructure costs,
there's road building costs, there's public school costs. There's a
lot of things you have to do when you take

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a small community like Waller County and you turn it
into something a whole lot bigger. Absolutely, you have to
have a water system that can support the population, electricity,
natural gas, you name it. Not to mention, you have
to practice flood control. I think, especially after some of
the hurricanes we had in the last decade, a lot
of these agerums that are building are trying to leave
more space in between and more exposed dirt to absorb

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the rain, as well as build more retention ponds and
reservoirs to kind of accommodate some of the runoff. That's
one of the things we don't need to have as
a massive flood on top of all this sprawl. But
that also means more property taxes, more costs as well.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Yeah, it does. One of the big worries we have
right now is power. You know, how are we going
to generate enough power for all these new Texans. Are
we making progress there?

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Do you think? Are we still way behind?

Speaker 23 (01:03:37):
Let me put it to you this way. Right now,
the power companies has been seeing a lot of time
the last several years, especially after twenty twenty one, upgrading
and ruggedizing the power grid. But they're having to expand
as well. There's going to need to be more power plants.
And although some of the solar and wind and hydro
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And for a lot of people they think there may
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of a bit of a risk at times.

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Ank Lewis thank you as always, sir, appreciate it. Lone
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Six thirty our time, You're in Houston's Bonning News. I'm
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Hey you, Jimmy six thirty two on KTRH and our
top story. Vice President JD. Vance was the deciding vote
confirming Pete Heagseth as Defense Secretary over the weekend with
three Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, voting against the new Defense secretary.

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We need a big change now.

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Admittedly there are people who don't like that big change,
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Their forty seventh president.

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
Elsewhere, Christy Noam officially confirmed as DHS secretary and Scott
Besson could become Treasury Secretary as early as today. The
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Speaker 48 (01:07:19):
Is a specific law that requires notice thirty days and
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The Defense and State departments were among the agency's target.
House Speaker Mike Johnson formally invites the President to speak
at a joint session of Congress that would take place
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That country at first refused to take back their illegal aliens.

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But after Trump's threat, they did a one to eighty
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Another campaign promised that Trump is delivering on I.

Speaker 28 (01:08:13):
Think the American people are tired of other countries, you know,
sending their criminals here, of us being taken.

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Advantage of Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt on Fox. Operations also
taking place in Austin yesterday, and there's this new Border
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border wall. Among the areas where new construction is taking
place already include New Mexico.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
Well.

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
The CIA releases a report indicating that a Chinese lab
leak is the likely source of COVID, but Ohio Republican
Congressman Mike Turner told CBS's Faced the Nation we should
have found out about this months ago.

Speaker 49 (01:08:56):
Congress passed and the Biden administration signed and ordered classifying
the information concerning the Lablique theory and the issues with
respect to COVID origins, and the administration still refused to
release it.

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Meantime, Fox reporting that the President will sign an executive
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for not getting the COVID shot. Those service members also
will get back paid. Six point thirty four thousands gathered
at the Texas Rally for Life in Austin over the weekend,
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Speaker 50 (01:09:31):
For fifty two years, this event has united millions of
pro life Americans. Just liked us for the common purpose
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Speaker 7 (01:09:41):
Life, speaker Mike Johnson, and on the heels of these rallies,
Texas Congressmanship Roy has reintroduced a bill to repeal the
Face Act.

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That was the law that Biden's dojy used to put
pro life advocates in prison.

Speaker 24 (01:09:58):
Unfairly target pro life advocate while ignoring vandalism and violent
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Speaker 16 (01:10:04):
And that's not justice, that's Amy O'Donnell with Texas Alliance
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We're very grateful to Representative Chipbroy for seeking to protect
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Speaker 16 (01:10:16):
Continue ninety seven percent of Phase Act prosecutions. We're against
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Speaker 7 (01:10:26):
It's six thirty six. The Texas housing market may be
more favorable to buyers this year, with some experts predicting
a drop in home prices.

Speaker 37 (01:10:34):
I don't expect them to drop dramatically. We'll have different
sectors of the markets that you'll see some decline in
the prices, but overall, real estate generally increases in value.

Speaker 7 (01:10:45):
Real estate agent Matthew Villa Floresa's low inventory and high
interest rates are keeping people from moving or getting their
first home. Houston's economic growth continues to spread to nearby
counties like Waller County.

Speaker 41 (01:10:58):
The biggest reason for this group both is how affordable
the land is.

Speaker 23 (01:11:02):
A lot of people have moved to Conroe Waller County
because they were trying to find lower home prices, and
this attractiveness to that area attracted developers.

Speaker 41 (01:11:10):
Lone Star College economist Tank Lewis says that it's not
just people, even businesses have begun to move to these areas.

Speaker 23 (01:11:16):
I think about the Energy Quarter as example, used to
just be a couple of energy companies with some low
level midrise buildings, but now it's another skyline in the
Houston area.

Speaker 41 (01:11:24):
Lewis says this type of growth will continue across the
area unless there is a major economic downturn. Ethan Buchanan,
News Radio seven forty krh.

Speaker 7 (01:11:32):
At six thirty seven and with Trump in charge along
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Speaker 36 (01:11:40):
The US could be launching into a brand new space
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Speaker 27 (01:11:44):
You look at where China has positioned itself in terms
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Speaker 36 (01:11:53):
Keith Cowing, editor at nasawatch dot com, says Trump's plan
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Trump talks about going to Mars.

Speaker 27 (01:12:03):
Elon Musk is building the things that will take us
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Finding money in the NASA budget will be a challenge cherit. Lewis,
news Radio seven forty k chair eight. The astros trade
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I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station KTRH.

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Takes thirty eight our time here on Houston's boring News.
All right, this story involves cell phones, gang members, illegal immigration,
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one of the busts that occurred right here in Houston
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report from Bryce Newberry on our television partner at KPRC.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
Too.

Speaker 51 (01:13:11):
Nearly thirty people have been arrested, a majority of them
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Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
The cartel, also known.

Speaker 51 (01:13:30):
As CJNG, would send drugs.

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To the US and sell them.

Speaker 51 (01:13:34):
That money would then be taken to two Houston area
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to avoid detection by law enforcement by not shipping large
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Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
There you go, id this is happening all across the country,
colluding right here in Houston, and we'll see a lot
more of it, a lot more of it is the
months go by, six forty time for traffic and weather together,
we're checking out the drive again with sky Mine.

Speaker 5 (01:14:16):
All right, two ninety boy, this is becoming some real
trouble here. I think we hexted earlier, right, I'm looking
from five to twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:14:23):
It's actually at the Beltway. It's a wreck.

Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
The best I can see, it's three right lines here.
But the main thing you need to know is there's
a big squish from upmeister now on the inbound so
watch out here. Do they clear the stall on it
in to Katie Freeway?

Speaker 21 (01:14:37):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:14:37):
They did.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
That was Katie Freeway right before the President says inbound
coming into downtown.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
That's out of the way.

Speaker 5 (01:14:42):
We've also cleared North Street, the North Freeway I forty
five southbound.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
That wreck is gone.

Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
The backup, Yeah, it's a little thing coming down from Cavalcade.
Stay of the course six to ten north. We're getting
loopy westbound.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
I got brakes from right after the East Tex Entrance
ramp forty five north again the original Andrew from Spring.

Speaker 52 (01:15:01):
Guy Mike southbound from Spring. The HOV lane seems to
be mimicking what's going on at this point. You're better
off not getting stuck in the HOV lane going thirty
five miles an hour. You're better off taking the main
I'm just.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
Not a big HOV guy, And let's check on the
north side.

Speaker 40 (01:15:18):
Ray conro Ay skuy Mike listening to you guys from
the free iHeartRadio app Boom twenty nine degrees in first
Go Texas with a real feel of nineteen kil terry.
To deport this cold weather, She's got to make weather
great again.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
She's got a send it to China. I'm Skymike Kitchen.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic from our Katie Urge Generator
super Center twenty four hour Weather Center. I think we
are deporting the cold weather in Southeast Texas, aren't we.

Speaker 45 (01:15:46):
We are?

Speaker 22 (01:15:47):
Yes, we in fact much of the country, I uh,
except around the Great.

Speaker 7 (01:15:51):
Lakes to the northeast. I think much of the country.

Speaker 22 (01:15:53):
We'll see some warmer weather this week, and we will
as well. But along with the warmer weather comes some
rain and quite a bit of rain starting midweek. Only
a twenty percent chance of a shower this morning. The
rest of the day we're cloudy. It is cooler today,
temperature's upper fifties to low sixties, and Tomorrow still cloudy,
twenty percent chance of rain load the mid sixties. Tomorrow

(01:16:17):
keeps getting warmer Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and we have
that rain. A forty percent chance of showers Wednesday, eighty
percent chance of showers and maybe some storms Thursday, and
a thirty percent chance of some wet weather early in
the day Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Right now fifty two at your officials Severe Weather station
News Radio seven forty KTRH. So I did this story
to open up the show today about ninety five percent
of gen Z millennials sleeping on the job. They think,
they think it's perfectly fine. Cash you a little cat nap,
you know, maybe a half an hour, whatever it takes.

(01:16:53):
And come to find out, there's a lot of people
who sleep on the job, even if it's just for
a few minutes, you know, take a little siesta. So
I was asking you if you would shall share your stories,
your sleep on the job stories by going to the
iHeartRadio app kt RH, click on the microphone. You get
thirty seconds to respond like this listener did.

Speaker 53 (01:17:12):
Good morning from the real Grande Valley. My name is Dora. Yes,
I have slept on the job. I'm a teacher and
if I go into work and I'm sick, so instead
of eating during my lunch hour, I'll just take a
little nap, just put my head down on the table

(01:17:32):
desk and just try to get in some these before
the kids come back to class.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
You know that's I could never do that. I guess
maybe I'm just a little bit jealous. I gotta I
gotta go to bed to sleep. I can't sleep on
a plane. I can't sleep in the car. I don't
think I could put my head down on my desk
and fall asleep. I don't know how folks do that
all right, time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 4 (01:17:57):
You can't sleep in a helicopter.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
Can't sleep in a helicop. You're not sleepwalking right now,
are you?

Speaker 14 (01:18:04):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
No, I'm perfectly with us right now.

Speaker 5 (01:18:06):
This is weird. North Freeway. Let's go back to North Maine.
At the beautiful North Street bridge. We had this five
car Kerpunkle here and that's out of the way now.
They took tow TRUCKX Ninja that a few minutes ago.
But now we have a stall right at North Maine.
That's a bad spot. You've got slippery freeways, you've got
suckage back to cross timbers. I think it's connecting with

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the backups on the North Loop sixty ten North Loop.

Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
You do have a stall right at the Hardy.

Speaker 5 (01:18:31):
This is all happening westbound as you're trying to go
over from the east side and make that curve down
to the ramp to forty five. That's going to mess
things up North north West Freeway to not an inbound
five twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
That's a three three lane, three right lanes block. This
is inbound backups from Huffmeister and East Tech. Something up
at Splendora.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
We'll check that at the seven o'clock break, and the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
R ktr H Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour weathers in
a Cloude's guyscasion a light this morning about sixty mostly
thought he with a slight shower chance twenty percent chance
tomorrow sixty two thought he was showers in a high
round seventy degrees on Wednesday right now currently fifty two
at your officials Severe weather Station News Radio seven forty
k TRH. Check out some of our top stories on

(01:19:18):
a Monday. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy Ice.

Speaker 7 (01:19:21):
Rag's nationwide result in the arrests of nearly one thousand
illegal aliens. Police are still looking for Salvador Socito, who
escaped police custody on Thursday, and according to Zillo, Dallas
Fort Worth replaces Austin as the Texas city with the
highest rents. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update is at seven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
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Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
Hold on six fifty three our time here in Houston's
Wing News. So President Trump made two stops over the weekend.
We play a little cutter early from his stop in
Los Angeles, he met with LA Mayor Karen Bass, talked
to a lot of residents, toured damage. In other words,
he acted very presidential. And he also made a trip

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to a place the Liberals don't the progressives don't care
about it, and that would be North Carolina. He was
in Nashville, North Carolina, and while he was there, he
was asked questions about FEMA.

Speaker 54 (01:20:23):
FEMA has been a very big disappointment. They cost a
tremendous amount of money, is very bureaucratic, and is very slow.
Other than that, we're very happy with him.

Speaker 23 (01:20:35):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:20:36):
If FEMA goes away, disaster relief becomes a lot more efficient.

Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
And I say that as someone who grew up on
the Gulf Coast.

Speaker 11 (01:20:42):
I remember Hurricane Andrew nineteen ninety two, all of us
waiting for the power to come back, for the supplies
to arrive, and the only thing that could provide those things, Shannon,
were local people. FEMA is in microcosm.

Speaker 4 (01:20:56):
What's wrong with the federal government.

Speaker 11 (01:20:57):
That's bloated, It's bureaucratic, inefficient, it is outdated, and I
applaud President Trump for doing this on behalf of disaster
relief for everyday Americans.

Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
It would be a great update to the federal government.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
There you go, So no FEMA, Yeah, maybe that would
be a better idea. Just you know, make sure that
the state you're sending it to is organized and knows
what to do with the money. I wouldn't consider it
California to be one of those states, but I would
think Texas would be. And if you need FEMA relief,
you just send the money and eliminate the middleman. All right,

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Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
Seven am is our time. You're in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
almost one thousand illegals arrested. That's just yesterday, Columbia changes
its mind. I defined Trump and coming up at seven
o eight, this Texas teacher wants Ice to raid his school.

(01:23:34):
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Pawning News. First,
let's check out that morning drive again. Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
We're two ninety five twenty nine. We were getting pretty
two ninety up from huffmeister In.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
There was a wreck. It's out of the way. They've
reopened three lanes. Stay the course. I think that'll get better.
Shortly forty five North Freeway, we had the wreck of
North Street. That's clear.

Speaker 12 (01:23:53):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:23:53):
We got to stall at North Maine and he's in
a left spot, left lane next to the text wallow death.
We're back to from Cavalcade East text HiT's Clayton from Splendora.

Speaker 38 (01:24:03):
Sky Mike. Just south of thirteen fourteen.

Speaker 52 (01:24:06):
There is a stall truck in the left lane. It's
backing up pretty good the area.

Speaker 4 (01:24:10):
All right, we are plumb backed up in porter. I'm
Skymichael the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
From r KTRH stop tax defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center,
Claude Sky scation of light rain this morning. Hi today
will be right about sixty. We'll get to the complete
forecast with Terry Smith of the Weather Channel in eight
minutes right now, currently fifty two in your officials Severe
Weather Station News Radio seven forty k t RH. It's
time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saudiers.

Speaker 4 (01:24:37):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (01:24:37):
We're coming up on seven oh two and we're sponsored
by Isa Pharma, LLC. Our top story. Nearly one thousand
illegal aliens were arrested in nationwide ICEA operations yesterday. DEA
Houston was a part of this. There were also raids
in Austin and Texas. Governor Greg Abbott says if the
Trump administration wants help, all they've got to do, as he.

Speaker 8 (01:25:00):
Has a governor in a state in Texas that will
be a partner with the Trump administration. We will assist
in the arrest, the detention, and the deportation of people
coming across the border.

Speaker 7 (01:25:13):
Illegally, speaking of those deportations, a wing for the president
as Columbia backs down after they first refuse to take
back their illegal aliens.

Speaker 9 (01:25:22):
Columbia is now agreeing to accept flights of deported migrants
from the US. This after President Trump threatened to impose
steep tariffs and other measures on the country for blocking
two flights on Sunday. The White House says the drafted
actions were made in reserve and not signed unless Columbia
fails to honor the deal.

Speaker 7 (01:25:40):
Ashley Stromyer reporting there. As for the President, he rallied
in Vegas over the weekend, telling thousands he'll deliver on
yet another campaign promise.

Speaker 10 (01:25:49):
I'll be working with Congress to get a bill on
my desk that cuts taxes for workers, family, small businesses
are very importantly.

Speaker 1 (01:25:57):
Keeps my promise for tax on tip.

Speaker 7 (01:26:03):
And after that he went to a Vegas casino and
got a standing ovation from those on the floor. Among
the cabinet members confirmed over the weekend include Pete Hexith
and Christy Noams. Scott Bessant may get confirmed as Treasury
Secretary today. Despite all of this winning and the President
faces an uphill battle in weeding out the deep state.

Speaker 12 (01:26:23):
Trump has already ordered all DEI offices shut down and
put Elon Musk in charge of cutting waste and abuse
for the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. But
Azoria CEO James Fishback tells Fox Trump must go beyond that.

Speaker 13 (01:26:36):
Doje's mission can't just be the spending cuts that are
absolutely right under Elon's leadership. It also has to be
President Trump's original vision of cutting back the administrative state
to save America and to bring in this new golden age.

Speaker 12 (01:26:49):
Many career bureaucrats in DC are already pledging to oppost
Trump policies if they remain in their jobs. Cory Jolson,
Who's radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:26:57):
It's now seven zero four. The search continues this morning
for fifteen month old Matteo Vasquez. The boys uncle Jason
has been charged with kidnapping. The two have been missing
since Saturday. We've got pictures of both of them at
KGRH dot com. Well, the battle for school choice goes
national with Texas Senator Ted Cruz filing a bill allowing

(01:27:18):
federal funds to go towards private k through twelve Tuition
and supplies kind of.

Speaker 14 (01:27:23):
Operates like an education savings account similar to the one
that's being proposed in Texas. But this will supercharge the
school choice momentum that's already happening in red state.

Speaker 7 (01:27:33):
School choice activist Corey DeAngelis. The Texas Senate is moving
on this issue already. They've got a hearing tomorrow in Austin. Now,
we all know that our colleges are dominated by the left,
but according to a new report, there's been a rise
lately of young Republicans on campus and.

Speaker 16 (01:27:51):
That includes Texas too.

Speaker 15 (01:27:53):
Oh yeah, most definitely. I think young people are realizing
that they want to live in the same America that they're.

Speaker 22 (01:28:00):
Trew up in.

Speaker 16 (01:28:01):
That is Courtney Trevino, president of the Houston Young Republicans.

Speaker 15 (01:28:06):
We have had record attendance in our events, and we're
very involved with the GOP, and I think that we're
just not afraid to engage in those conversations anymore.

Speaker 16 (01:28:16):
Trump picked up a massive number of young voters, especially
in blue states. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k
T eight seven h five Now down. Futures are down
by three hundred and twenty seven points. The problem This morning,
tech stocks, Nvidia and other A stocks, AI stocks are
taking a beating new bank Rate research shows that only

(01:28:38):
forty one percent of Americans could use savings to cover
one thousand dollars emergency expense. Many are relying on credit
cards or loans instead.

Speaker 18 (01:28:47):
With the high inflation rates we've seen over the past
three years, and even though inflation has slowed down, the
cost of things did not go down.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
It just is not going up as fast.

Speaker 7 (01:28:57):
Financial analyst build dendy there, but there's good news. Your
paycheck does go further in Texas than most other states,
especially liberal California.

Speaker 19 (01:29:07):
LA and San Francisco were near the top of unaffordability,
but San Antonio came in as most affordable.

Speaker 20 (01:29:13):
You'll need ninety seven thousand dollars in San Francisco to
equal the same purchasing power as seventy seven thousand we'll
get you in San Antonio.

Speaker 19 (01:29:22):
KTRH moneyman Pat Schin says Houston came in about average,
but we do rank well above average in terms of growth.

Speaker 20 (01:29:28):
Bankrate dot Com says more people are moving to Houston
area than just about any other area in the US.

Speaker 19 (01:29:35):
Houston's grown over two percent the last two years for
people aged twenty five to forty four. Andre Perard News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:29:43):
And you probably saw it this weekend. The price of
eggs is going through the roof in Texas. A and
m's David Anderson says, blame bird flu.

Speaker 21 (01:29:51):
We lose a bunch of chickens. Now we have to
replace them, and that takes about, you know, twenty five
twenty six weeks to get that chicken to start late eggs.
Then it takes a little more time to get them
kind of fully productive. This is where we kind of
hit the biological nature production.

Speaker 7 (01:30:09):
Alsale prices for a dozen eggs hit an all time
high last week of six dollars and fourteen cents.

Speaker 4 (01:30:15):
Seven h seven.

Speaker 7 (01:30:16):
Kansas City will play Philadelphia in the Super Bowl for
the second time in three years. Case beats the Bills
in the AFC Championship thirty two to twenty nine. The
Eagles blew out Washington on the NFC side fifty five
to twenty three. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather
in traffic station k t RH.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
Info at this speed of Houston, Houston right now, Houston's
Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning
News Team.

Speaker 4 (01:30:46):
Ice is back with his Ice at the high school.
Probably not at the high school. You think there should
should we raids public schools? Should we? Should we?

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
I mean there's gonna be a lot of people. I mean,
here's the thing. I'm not interesting really in sending Ice
into You'll pull people out of the public schools, scare
other students, and create other sorts of issues. But one
Texas teacher evidently likes the idea. This Texas teacher invited
Ice to raid his school. He says, I have many

(01:31:16):
students who don't even speak English. He's a substitute teacher
in the fourth Worth Independent School District, and the district
has launched an investigation after the substitute teacher responded to
a post by Ice on social media giving an update
on arrest for January twenty third. The teacher, who was
not publicly identified but had the ex user name O

(01:31:39):
come to thirty two call for agents to quote come
to Fort Worth, Texas to North Side High School. I
have students, many students who don't even speak English, and
they are the tenth eleventh grade. They have to communicate
through their iPhone translator with me. The Western Partment of
Education should totally overhauler schools in Texas too. According to

(01:32:04):
the school board President fort Worth, I st please be
sure that we are taking this situation very seriously in
our committee to resolving it as quickly as ponsible. Two
thirds of fort Worth Public school students are Hispanic. More
than one third or one in three students, I should say,
is learning English as the second language. If they don't
speak English, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're they're illegally.

(01:32:26):
So can you go in and just start, you know,
grabbing kids who don't speak English? Take me to your parents?

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Probably not. But one thing the public schools have never done,
including here in Texas, is ask parents to prove their
immigration status. We should be under no obligation to teach
people who are here illegally. That is a drain on
our taxpayer support of public school system. We should teach

(01:32:55):
every student who wants to learn who's here legally, but
not the ones who are aren't here legally. Seven ten
Time for traffic and weather together, we're checking out the
drive again.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
Here's sky Mine. All right, I guess this is all day,
hunts Terry.

Speaker 5 (01:33:07):
As far as the rain on the freeway's got to
turn everybody snooze off two ninety. We cleared the wreck
inbound at five twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
That's out of the way. I've got backups now from Telgi. Yeah,
coming inbound.

Speaker 5 (01:33:17):
If you had a grand march at your wedding, you're
loosening about nine minutes on the inbound stay the course.
You might as well. Let's do some Katie freeway advisors.
I wish you needed them today. Off the Grand Parkway ramp.
That's a lot. I suck Atjenda Fry Road. More slowdowns
right after Highway six and just south of itent on
Highway six.

Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
That's going to be a wreck. Right at Memorial bad
spot too. That light's always smushing things up.

Speaker 5 (01:33:39):
Got a stall on six ' ten north westbound Lockwood.
We already had that spackle all the way from LBJ
Hospital back to the squeeze at forty five.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
This is all westbound. If you're following along and two
eighty eight north bound, let's see what's going on from
the beltway.

Speaker 5 (01:33:54):
That's breaks. Call it McCart. You lose about eight minutes
up this way. We're not messing, we're not bumping into
each other. And out in the Golden Triangle. I got
reports of a wreck on it inbound coming in from
coming in from Louisiana around Orange.

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
That looks like a big smush here. Maybe somebody can
see it out there. Seven one three two one two tips.
I'm Skymike.

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
It's your Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry Smith's here. And yet we're off to a cloudy
start this week and probably not go see some real
sunshine till what Friday, maybe Friday afternoon.

Speaker 22 (01:34:29):
Yeah, yeah, I wish it was a little different, but
it's a very active weather pattern. We've had the colfront
that brought us all the rain yesterday, and we had
some heavy rain that is pushing into the Gulf right now.
So that's going to keep the clouds and the possibility
of a shower to this morning with us, and then
the next storm starts gearing up back to the west

(01:34:51):
and so more clouds and more rate. It's only a
twenty percent chance though, of getting wet today and tomorrow.
Temperatures today upper fifties to sixties, tomorrow slightly warmer, low
to mid sixties. Forty percent chance of showers Wednesday and
then an eighty percent chance of showers and storms Thursday
and Friday, a little bit of rain in the morning

(01:35:12):
before it clears out and we see that sunshine Friday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
Jeff, you're right now fifty two at your officials Severe
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All the info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
So, Texas Congressman Chip Roy has reintroduced the bill that
he had to repeal a law used to throw pro
lifers into prison. There was a Texas rally for Life
as well on Saturday in Austin. We'll find out all
all that went with the executive director of the Texas
Alliance for Life. We'll talk to him next. First, we've
got traffic and weather together. That starts with you skin Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:35:54):
I'll be SURET six ' ten northwestbound. That's a stall
truck at Lockwood. That's a big squish though, if you're
going on westbound all the way from Albcha I ten
in the Golden Triangle.

Speaker 23 (01:36:04):
Here's Warren, the backup at the Louisiana State line. Is
Highway Department has got one lane block, so it's backed
up about four miles into Louisiana westbound.

Speaker 5 (01:36:13):
All right, that's coming this way, big backup, it's roadwork.
I'm Skymik and the Generators Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather
Center for today, Claudie skies. We have an occasional light
rain shower, high temperature about sixty most of the cloudy
with a slight shower chance about twenty percent Tomorrow sixty
two Wednesday Claudie with showers at a high round seventy
right now currently fifty two at your official severe weather station,

(01:36:40):
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some
of our top trending stories on the Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
Here's Cliff thank.

Speaker 7 (01:36:47):
You, Trump, Klean's House, Jimmy firing seventeen inspectors general over
the weekend. Scott Bessen could be confirmed as Treasury Secretary today,
and there's a proposal from an ai company allowing the
federal government to own about fifty percent of the new
company that could potentially buy TikTok. At the latest news

(01:37:07):
anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at
seven point thirty.

Speaker 22 (01:37:13):
The twentieth day of January.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
Well, President Hi, Donald John Trump, inauguration Day, the first
one hundred days and beyond on news Radio seven forty KZRH.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
On seven twenty two is our time here on Houston's
warriant is. We had a Texas Rally for Life Saturday
in Austin. Doctor Joe Poyman joins us executive director of
the Texas Alliance for Life. Anytime you have a conservative
cause going on in Austin, always kind of wonder how
those things turn out. Doctor Joe how how First of all,
how was the attendance and what was the reaction in
the city?

Speaker 55 (01:37:46):
Way, thanks for having me here with sensational attendance. We
had thousands of people from Central Texas at Austin, but
so many from around the state, including Southeast Texas and
Houston was well represented. It's a joyful event and to
celebrate the tremendous the tremendous resources that Texas provides for
women with unplanned pregnancies. There's some three hot three hundred

(01:38:08):
pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and adopted sagencies across the City
of Texas, publicly funded, privately funded. They just provide tremendous
help for women with unplanned pregnancies and the protection that
Texas offers for unborn babies on board babies are protected
from abortion from conception. So you know, I'll have to say,
Austin PD and the States Billie Forest DPS just did

(01:38:32):
a sensational crowd. Everyone enjoyed it, great family event, So
thanks for asking about that. It was just a great
event for Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:38:39):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
You know, anytime you have a conservative event in Austin
and what how the whole thing's going to turn out, right,
because they're not I'm sure there were counter protesters.

Speaker 55 (01:38:48):
Actually, you know, they were completely absent, and maybe they're
just a little demoralized. With our new president restoring sanity
to the White House in the country, maybe they little
demoralized because the elections went so strongly for conservatives in
Texas and wherever. Elections just so much to be to
be grateful for in Texas and I'm so proud of

(01:39:09):
our state.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
I want to ask you about Representative Chip Roy. He's
reintroduced a bill he did that last Tuesday that would
repeal a law from former President Joe Biden's Department of
Justice used to put pro life advocates in prison. The
law was first passed in nineteen ninety four, which prohibits violent, threatening, damaging,
and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with

(01:39:32):
the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.
So that was interpreted by Biden's Department of Justice as
an opportunity to go after pro lifers. I don't know
how you get that interpretation from that law, but then again,
I don't pretend to understand a whole lot of what
Joe Biden's Department of Justice did.

Speaker 55 (01:39:50):
You know, we commend Congressman Chip Roy. He's a good,
solid conservative from Texas and we love him a lot.
He's got a great deal. This bill was was I
think it was a Clinton era. He signed that into law,
and it was supposed to allow abortion facilities to thrive.
And and you know what, when people non violently want

(01:40:14):
to protest in front of abortion facilities, they they we
should not be putting them in prison for years and
years in federal and federal penitentiaries. That was just wrong,
and that's what Biden has done. He tried to intimidate
our movements. Dozens of many of these people who were
elderly women, grandmothers, and were put in prison for many,

(01:40:35):
many years. And you know the president, now our new
president Trump has pardoned them, and that there's several dozens
of these of these individuals completely non violent. So you
know that that law is being misused, was being misused
by the Biden administration. Needs to go. And let's hope
that law gets gets uh gets passed.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
But for sure, I mean, standing silently outside an abortion
clinic with a sign does not constitute constitute violent, threatening,
or damaging behavior in any way, shape or form, does it.

Speaker 55 (01:41:10):
It does not, of course not. And that was not
the intensity of people. Now some of them might may
have been engaging in you know, petty trespassing standing you know,
where they were told they're not supposed to stand, but
they were standing, they were standing, They were not they
were not doing anything harmful to the individuals threatening in
any way.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
So you know, it was an abuse of the law.

Speaker 55 (01:41:32):
It was. It was a bad law to begin with,
and but Biden his administration just prosecuted with a vengeance
and tried to intimidate all of us in the pro
Life movement, and you know that was that's a danger
to all of us. Yeah, we've got to have some
free speech. Yep, we've got to have our first Amendment.
And WAKES is so different from so much of the
rest of the world. So we're so glad that that

(01:41:53):
this may may in fact be repealed.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
All right, Joe, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Doctor
Joe Poyman, Executive director of the X's Alliance for Life.
It's seven twenty seven. It's time to take a look
at your money as we check it again with Jeff
Bellinger and Jimmy.

Speaker 28 (01:42:07):
United Health revealed over the weekend that the hacker attack
on its Change healthcare business did far more damage than
originally reported.

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
Last year.

Speaker 28 (01:42:16):
The intruders stole personal data on about one hundred and
ninety million people when they broke into the network. That's
almost double the number that was previously estimated. Stock market
futures remain sharply lower. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Seven thirty Our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett
among our top stores as half our jd Vance votes
and confirms Pete Hegsett he's the vote, Trump Buyers, seventeen
Inspectors General and coming up at seven thirty eight, Eli
must suggest a new name for the English Channel. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(01:43:12):
let's check out that morning vibe. Here's sky Mike Wesers,
let's hit it.

Speaker 5 (01:43:16):
Katie Freeway. Wet roadways. You've got breaks right off the
ramps from Grand Parkway. Connect those dots to Eldridge Parkway.
You lose about nine minutes on the inbound West park Tollway.
Here's breaks from South Parker Cyprus. It's dragging it pretty
much in past Highway. Six eleven extra minutes this way too.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Eighty eight.

Speaker 5 (01:43:33):
We did a nice job of not bumping into each other,
if you could afford those toll lanes to them, and
the west Loop going down to Uptown, solid breaks from
two to ninety back down all the way to the
Southwest Freeway, losing nineteen minutes this way.

Speaker 4 (01:43:46):
I'm Skymike. It's your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center
Clottie Skies. With occasional light rain this morning. High temperature
right about sixty. We continue to warm up as the
week moves on. In fact, by Wednesday will probably be
flirting with seventy and certainly by Friday Saturday will be
in the seventies. We'll get more details on the warmer
temperatures with Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight
minutes right now fifty two at your officials, sever your

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weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time
now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (01:44:19):
Thank you, Jimmy at seven thirty two on KTRH.

Speaker 31 (01:44:21):
Pete is a disruptor, and a lot of people don't
like that disruption, but Margaret, that disruption is incredibly necessary.

Speaker 7 (01:44:27):
That's jd Vance on CBS. Has faced the nation. He
was the deciding vote to confirm Pete. Hegseith as Defense Secretary. Hexath,
by the way, will report to work at eight o'clock
our time this morning. Another Cabinet member confirmed this weekend
is DHS Secretary Christy Noaen. President Trump also started weeding
out the deep state, firing seventeen government watchdogs at various

(01:44:51):
different federal agencies. South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Grace told Fox
this was justified.

Speaker 32 (01:44:57):
I've had folks from these agencies and the show up
without documentation that the Oversay Committee, for example, has asked for.
When they show up, they don't have the answers. That's
not rooting out corruption, that's covering it.

Speaker 7 (01:45:09):
Up among the agency's affected. Defense in State. The President
officially is invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson to speak
to a joint session of Congress on March fourth. Trump
is not formally accepted yet seven point thirty three on KTRH,
the threat of sanctions and tariffs is enough to get
Columbia in line. That country initially at first refused to

(01:45:33):
take back their illegal aliens, but after President Trump's threat,
they back down and even offer Trump the President's private plane.
Nearly a thousand illegal aliens were arrested in ICE operations
nationwide yesterday, and borders are Tom Holman told ABC's This Week.
More arrests are coming.

Speaker 33 (01:45:51):
If you're in the country illegally. You're on the table
because it's not okay to lost this country. You got
to remember every time you're at this country, you violated
a crime under Title eight United States Colled thirteen twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
It's a crime.

Speaker 7 (01:46:04):
We had raids here in a Harris County and in
Austin as well. Meantime, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks posted
to social media that Homeland Security is quote filling gaps
in the border wall, gaps left by the Biden administration
in states like New Mexico and the CIA, it finally
releases a report indicating a Chinese lab leak is the

(01:46:26):
likely source of COVID nineteen.

Speaker 34 (01:46:28):
The CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of
this pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around the
world was because of a laborated incident in Wuhan, and
so we'll continue to investigate.

Speaker 7 (01:46:41):
CIA Director John Ratliffe told Fox that the report was
at first none during the Biden administration, and releasing it
is part of his attempt to rebuild your trust in
the CIA. According to Fox, President Trump will sign an
executive order today to reinstate military personnel discharge for not
getting the code A jab the service members will also

(01:47:02):
wind up getting back pay. Seven thirty four. Now thousands
gathered in Austin for the Texas Rally for Life this weekend.
Jonathan Signs with Texas Value says the left continues to
tack our states strong pro life laws.

Speaker 35 (01:47:16):
A lot of that'll be trying to resist Democrats and
liberals that are trying to tear down pro life laws
that many Texans.

Speaker 4 (01:47:22):
Have worked so hard to pass and protecting babies elsewhere.

Speaker 7 (01:47:25):
The President pardoned twenty three pro life advocates who are
targeted by Biden's doj and Texas Congressman Ship Roy wants
to get rid of the law that put them in
jail in the first place, the Face Act.

Speaker 24 (01:47:37):
Textive Alliance for Life strongly supports the initiative to repeal
to Face Act, and we're so thankful that Congressman Chip
Roy is leading the way on that. We definitely don't
want to leave the door open for the AC to
be weaponized again in the future.

Speaker 7 (01:47:49):
That is Amy O'Donnell with Texas Alliance for Life. Roy
introduced the bill with Utah Senator Mike Lee seven thirty
five and Looking at Your Money, some housing experts predict
prices will come down across Texas's major metro areas.

Speaker 36 (01:48:04):
However, not many people are moving or making their first
time home purchase.

Speaker 37 (01:48:08):
Inventory unfortunately, is still very low. A lot of people
are locked into low interest rates they refined during the
COVID time and now they're trying to figure out doesn't
financially make sense.

Speaker 36 (01:48:18):
Houston based real estate agent Matthew Villaflora doesn't expect home
prices to come down too much this year either.

Speaker 37 (01:48:24):
The more inventory levels we have that will kind of
bring the home prices down, but they are still pretty lean.

Speaker 4 (01:48:30):
Right now and that's going.

Speaker 37 (01:48:31):
To I think kind of keep the house prices steady.

Speaker 36 (01:48:34):
Jarret Lewis, News Radio seven forty Kjright, thank.

Speaker 7 (01:48:36):
You, jer ed Agricultural Agricultural areas across Houston, like Waller County,
continue to grow, but are these areas prepared for the
traffic and flooding issues that come with population booms.

Speaker 23 (01:48:48):
Some of these places are trying to space things out,
leave more green spaces to act as a buffer, along
with redging and digging deeper byous setting up pretention pods.

Speaker 7 (01:48:58):
Lone Star College economist Tank Lewis as the growth is
caused by people moving to these areas because land is cheaper.
Crime didn't take a break across Houston this weekend. Overnight
we had one man killed another injury in a shooting
on the Southeast Side near a food truck. A twenty
one year old was arrested over the weekend for shooting
his father who refused to give him money in northwest

(01:49:19):
Harris County, and an amber alert remains out for fifteen
month old Mateo Vasquez, whose uncle is charged with kidnapping
at seven thirty seven. There's potential for a new space
race under President Trump, who wants to send American astronauts
to Mars.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
Could we do it?

Speaker 27 (01:49:36):
Yeah, we could try, but you know it's back to
the old Jerry Maguire line to show me the money, who's.

Speaker 4 (01:49:41):
Going to pay for this?

Speaker 27 (01:49:43):
And if you're going to do this instead of that
whatever that is? What are you not going to do
at NASA now? Since everybody wants to cut all the budgets.

Speaker 7 (01:49:50):
Space expert Keith Cowing says that with Elon Musk playing
a role in the new administration, nothing is impossible. The
Astros traded really Ryan Presley to the Cubs after he
reportedly waived his note trade clause, and Jose Altuve at
FanFest this weekend said he'd move to the outfield if
that meant Alex Breadman was coming back. I'm Cliff Saunders

(01:50:12):
on Houston's news weather in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
Look what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:50:16):
This is the greatest political comeback of all time. There's
ever been two, three, four times Today News Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
The English Channel is that little body of water between
England and France. I don't know why it's the English Channel,
not the French Channel, but is England claimed it? I
guess they named it. Eli Musk, seizing on the idea
that President Trump's already shared of renaming the Golf of

(01:50:47):
Mexico the Gulf of America. Of course, wasn't it. Governor
Avenue said he'd rather rename it the Golf of Texas.
My wife would rather rename it the Golf of BUCkies,
so he thinks that would be a good name. We
all agree we could do better than the Golf of Mexico.
But as far as English Channel goes, evidently Elon Musk

(01:51:08):
has weighed in on this one. He has called for
the English Channel. I'm not sure if he's serious or
Not has called for the English Channel to be renamed
the George Washington Channel. He posted a photo showing how
a new map would look for the words George Washington Channel.
Of course, the first person in the United States was
also the commander of the rebel forces that defeated the

(01:51:31):
British in the War of Independence. I guess that's why
he suggested rename it. That they ranted by the Brits
who weren't real thrilled with the idea. But a former
Tory the Tories at the Conservatives in England, a former
Tory Prime minister, said well, if we're going to rename it,
let's just rename it the the Gulf of Dwight D. Eisenhower,

(01:51:53):
who was the Allied Supreme Commander in Chief who saved
both England and France during World War Two from sure
defeat at the hands of the Germans. I would have
a tendency to agree with him. I think Eisenhower, Mike
deserve that on her seven forty time for traffic and
weather together.

Speaker 4 (01:52:11):
That's the best choice, right, I do too, Sky Mike.
Why sorry, there is a quiz at the end of
this traffic report just for you, all right, This is
a multiple choice. No, No, this is gonna be She's
just gonna have to coak. She's gonna pull it out
of her hat from the golf ball.

Speaker 1 (01:52:24):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:52:25):
Let's go downtown now as we get a little smashed up.

Speaker 5 (01:52:28):
We're having a real Monday. And if you're just getting up,
be sure and turn this news off. Come on, get
out of bed, because I need you on the roads early.
We got rain, We have other stations listeners not paying attention.
And let's start with it downtown. Both sides of iten
packed up now. From hard Hatch you're slow. From Lockwood
and Advisors, you'll hit the brakes around stew to mind

(01:52:48):
also before you ever get there. From just past Katie Mills,
right after Graham Parkway, off the ramps, connect that back
up for Eldridge Parkway.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
Twenty extra minutes here. Why are you showing me West
Park Tollway on Trendstar. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:53:01):
I think we had something at old West Timer inbound.
I see the breaks now from addicts cloding into Highway six.
West Park's a little rugged this morning. Southwest a little
squishy too. From right around Sugar Lakes, connect those dots
to the west loops six ten and the North Sand
both Ways roadworks between forty five and fifty nine.

Speaker 4 (01:53:20):
That's kind of a lifestyle. I ten.

Speaker 5 (01:53:22):
If you're coming in from Louisiana. This morning, we cover
the Golden Triangle too. Warren was taking a look at
that that pavement repair that they're doing right up the
state line was.

Speaker 44 (01:53:31):
Back as about four miles into Louisiana westbound.

Speaker 4 (01:53:34):
All right, Lori, Lori Terry. I was thinking of Lori
from Winnie Terry, whose.

Speaker 5 (01:53:39):
Idea was the Interstate Highway system.

Speaker 4 (01:53:43):
Who's this, loriie? Is what I want? I know? Don't
don't get jell us in. Don't you start talking to
me about highways? Is what's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:53:53):
Wait?

Speaker 4 (01:53:53):
God, this is good?

Speaker 7 (01:53:54):
Who's the interstate Highway's.

Speaker 4 (01:53:56):
Idea was the interstate highway system? People out there are
going crazy. D The answer was already given by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:54:03):
That's right.

Speaker 27 (01:54:05):
Oh was it?

Speaker 5 (01:54:06):
Because he saw the German Audubon system and it said
got a hard.

Speaker 3 (01:54:11):
And he wanted a place too. That's why they run
north south east west. He wanted a place where planes
could be landed in a national emergency.

Speaker 4 (01:54:18):
That's very smart. And it was originally military too.

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All right, I'm out in the Generator Supercenter dot Com
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Love me a little history in the morning from our
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Speaker 22 (01:54:36):
We do have a history of cloudy days. And I
still want to know who Laurie is.

Speaker 4 (01:54:43):
She doesn't hold a candle to you, just so you know,
thank you. All right.

Speaker 22 (01:54:48):
So there's only a twenty percent chance of getting wet
today and tomorrow, but the clouds are around, folks, so
don't count on much sunshine. Temperatures today cool, upper fifties
to low sixties, Tomorrow get back up into the low
to mid sixties, keeps getting warmer the rest of the week.
By Friday, we're going to be looking at well, actually
my Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, we're going to see

(01:55:10):
if some of those temperatures in the seventies.

Speaker 7 (01:55:12):
It'll be nice.

Speaker 22 (01:55:12):
But there's rain on the way, another storm, the one
that's actually in California today, bringing us rain Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. By Friday afternoon, though the rain should be
done and hopefully we've got the sunshine making in appearance.

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
Temperature right now currently is fifty two at your officials
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Well, this next segment should give us some hope for
the future. The rise of Young Republicans on America's college campuses.
Is it happening in Texas? Yes, it is. In fact,
we're going to talk to Courtney Trevino, president of Young
Republicans of Houston. We'll talk to her in about two
minutes right now though, at seven fifty. Do a little
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West Park toll Way. I've got this minor smush that's
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(01:56:40):
out some of our top stories this morning. Here's Cliff,
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (01:56:43):
Nearly one thousand illegal aliens are arrested in ice operations
across the country. President Trump is expected to reinstate those
military personnel booted for not getting the COVID Jeb and Jimmy,
Did you see this? Paul McCartney is now advocating for
protections for young artists against artificial intelligence. Never mind that

(01:57:03):
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Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
I live in Katie, I live in Ito.

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Speaker 4 (01:57:24):
Come seven fifty two our time.

Speaker 3 (01:57:26):
We don't just have a young American, we have a
young conservative American. Her name is Courtney Trevino, President of
Young Republicans of Houston. Courtney, welcome to news radio seven
forty KTRH. If you don't mind me asking, and trust me,
I would not normally ask this question. You never ask
a woman at her age, but it's probably pertinent to
this conversation. So I'm going to make an exception here

(01:57:47):
and ask you how old you are?

Speaker 17 (01:57:50):
Of course, yeah, I'm thirty four.

Speaker 4 (01:57:52):
Okay, well that's still young.

Speaker 17 (01:57:54):
Yeah, yeah, still young. Been a young Republican ever since
college and excited to just get more involved and take
a leadership role in city, in the city of Houston.

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
Well, good for you. So where did you go to college?

Speaker 17 (01:58:09):
So I'm from South Texas, grew up in the Rial
Grand Valley, and I went to college at a in Kingstall,
where I was the president of the College Republicans back
then too during the Obama era. Alf I know was.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
That college campus maybe a little bit more conservative than
for example, the University of Texas would be.

Speaker 17 (01:58:30):
So the professors, surprisingly were I didn't have to go
through what I think a lot of the campuses probably
experienced today, but the people weren't, So I know, when
Obama won the presidency, there was like parades and stuff,
and I wouldn't. I don't think that the Democrats had

(01:58:51):
like a presence on campus as far as like with
young people, but we always did, and I know they
still do today, and I think it's a lot bigger
than it used to be back then. But yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (01:59:05):
I'm assuming that part of what you do you probably
do a little college campus outreach. Now I'm guessing. I'm
guessing when you go to certain universities you feel more
welcome than others. Again, I kate having to hold up
the University of Texas as an example, but when you
go to a UT or a Texas A and m
what sort of reaction do you get there versus a

(01:59:26):
more conservative school? Are they open to the message? Are
you finding more young people open to the idea of
being a Republican?

Speaker 17 (01:59:33):
So I have friends and I asked them that same question,
like how is it living in Austin And they just
said they're very outnumbered. They kind of have to do
things a little bit behind the scenes. They can't be
openly ouseteing themselves or lack of a better term. But
I mean, they still do work. But I would say
it's a little bit more underground, they're not. You know,

(01:59:56):
if they show who they are and what they believe,
they'll get a task and become a target. And I
know in Houston years ago there was an active college
Republicans group at U of H and recently they've had
a hard time getting a sponsor, just getting a professor

(02:00:16):
to commit to being an advisor. So there's currently not
one in Houston. So we are trying to do more,
you know, tailgates and ten all games. We can have
a UH alum there on a board and a current
UH student on our Republican board.

Speaker 3 (02:00:31):
We just had an election. Do you think that helps
your cause as far as trying to get more people
to listen to your message.

Speaker 17 (02:00:38):
I think so. I know people are like, oh, this
is an off year, and I'm like, this will an
off yere actually where we have amazing momentum that now
is not the time to slow down. We should continue
having these conversations. And with Republicans winning the White House,
the Senate, and the House, I think this is the
time to do it. There's going to be so much
going on there in session three out of the four

(02:01:00):
weeks every month, so I think people are going to
see now more than ever Republicans doing what they said
they're going to do.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
So Yeah, and I think, regardless of which side you're on,
having a politician actually deliver on their promises is rare.
It's it's refreshing to seety. I'm of have have to see
if you're available a little bit later so I can
have you my on my afternoon show today because I
have so many questions to ask you and not enough
time to do it. But I'm glad to know you're
out there. Thanks for doing what you're doing.

Speaker 17 (02:01:28):
Of course, thanks for having me you bet.

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
Courtney Trevino, President of Young Republicans of Houston. You'll have
a great day. See you tomorrow morning, bright nearly at
five am. I'll see you this s after at four,
hopefully Courtney will join me. News Radio seven forty k TRH,
also on AM N fifty KPRC