An Airliner And A Blackhawk Collide Over Reagan Natl. Airport In Washington D.C.

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 01/30/25.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Drive everywhere with the high art, now.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
The latest news, weather and trapping. It's more of what
matters to you. From the John Morris Services studios.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Well, good morning, five am, our time here in Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as
we get started this morning, an airliner in a black
Hawk collide at Reagan National and Washington, DC. Are Houston
area illegals going into hiding and coming up at five
oh eight. The parties, well, party's great. His predictions suck

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details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that Morning Drive for the first time.
Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Hey, let's turn everybody snooze off. Jimmy Barrett. First of all,
we've got wet freeways, We've got other stations listeners out there.
We got this smush on it. Outbound. I thought they
would have that roadwork finished. What a disaster that is
out Well, they're doing stuff. This is outbound Jack City.
Your shiny wheels are all slow from Holland or John
Rawlston either way, and that's outbound right after six ten.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
They should pick this up in the next few minutes.
Give me about ten. Let me check the five to ten.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
We'll double check that I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot
com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center's some thunderstorms today. Gusty wind, small hill also possible
to some of these storms. High temperature right about seventy one.
Terry Smith will join us in about nine minutes. We'll
get an idea on the timing here when we can
expect to see them here in the gritty Houston area
when we talk to her again in about nine minutes.
Temperature currently is seventy at your official severe weather station,

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News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time down for
the news. Here's Cliff Sunders.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Good morning, Jimmy, Good morning everyone. Five oh one on
k t RH our top story. A search for survivors
continues after a midair collision last night between an American
Airlines jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter.

Speaker 7 (02:00):
National Airport will remain closed until at least eleven am
this morning. Just before at nine pm last night, a
jet with sixty four people on board, including the crew,
collided with that US Army Blackhawk helicopter with three soldiers
on board, including both pilots. That airliner was attempting to
land on runway three to three at Reagan National Airport.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
That's Lucas Tomlinson reporting. The US Figure Skating Association confirmed
that several members of the national team were on the plane.
Officials will have an update at six thirty. Also topping
the news, the Trump administration continues to crack down on
illegal aliens here in Houston as well, where there are
already fewer illegals looking for day work in their normal

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spots there.

Speaker 8 (02:44):
Some of these sanctuary cities had held these criminals over
for ice like they were required to do, then we
wouldn't be going through this in the first place.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
That's Chris Cabrero at the National Border Patrol Council. But
the mainstream media isn't reporting on this crackdown. They're literally
advocated for people who are breaking the law.

Speaker 9 (03:02):
Even some local TV stations are doing more activism than
fair and balanced journalism.

Speaker 10 (03:07):
The journalism industry as a whole has taking on more
of an activist's role in recent years, and I think
a lot of that started with the Trump resistance when
he first went into office.

Speaker 9 (03:17):
Jeff McCall, a media studies professor at DePaul University, says
reporting on illegal immigration should involve all impacted parties.

Speaker 10 (03:24):
It is important for journalists to take on the interest
of people who might be afflicted with the immigration story.
There are multiple afflicted people, and sometimes those afflicted people
are the victims of people who are in this country illegally.

Speaker 9 (03:36):
Cher Lewis News Radio seven forty KJR eight.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Now, yesterday we told you that Mayor John Wickmeyer said
HPD was not taking part in any ICE actions. He
didn't explain why, but hpo you, President, Doug Griffith, is.

Speaker 11 (03:50):
Our job slip for bottle fingers, which we are doing
on a daily basis, and if they happen to have
an ICE dictator, that is handled through Harris Jenny Jail.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
He says, HPD simply does and have the manpower to
enforce federal laws. Mayor told KTRCH in a phone call
that he is committed to enforcing state and municipal laws
regardless of immigration status. In Washington, President Donald Trump officially
signs the Lincoln Riley Act, requiring illegal aliens to be
detained if they are charged with theft. He also issued

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a memo on where violent criminal illegal aliens would now
be detained.

Speaker 12 (04:25):
Instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin
preparing the thirty thousand person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Speaker 13 (04:33):
Most people don't even know about it.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
Trump says that's where the worst of the worst will
be sent. And despite the mainstream media's narrative, the White
House says they have not rescinded a freeze on federal funding.
Just the Office of Emergency Management's memo.

Speaker 14 (04:48):
We're stopping all the garbage that the last administration frankly
left us with. Now to stop that, we have to pause.
And the pause, as we've said one hundred times over,
is not going to affect Americans that deserve this assistance Medicare, Medicaid, Social.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
Security advisor Elena Haba on Fox five oh five. Robert F.
Kennedy Junior faces a second day of Senate confirmation hearings
at nine o'clock. After his appearance in the Finance Committee yesterday,
Kentucky Senator and doctor Rand Paul told ktrh's Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton that Kennedy would bring much needed transparency

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to the public health system.

Speaker 15 (05:23):
People on the left have misdiagnosed this.

Speaker 16 (05:26):
They say, Oh, all the right wing people and.

Speaker 15 (05:28):
The vaccine skeptics that have created this vaccine hesdency, And
it's not true at all. The vaccine hesdency is coming
from government being dishonest.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
They need to be honest about it.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Mean time incoming. DNI Telsey Gambert has her confirmation hearing
at nine o'clock this morning. Cash Bettel, the President's choice
to lead the FBI, goes before the Judiciary Committee at
nine thirty. And there was another confirmation yesterday Lee Zeldon
now the EPA administrator, after a vote of fifty six
to forty two five h six. After three straight rate cuts,

(05:58):
the Federal Reserve Health Ingistrates SEATI economist Joel Griffith was
not surprised.

Speaker 17 (06:03):
Oh, we have not made full progress on inflation. Our
annual inflation rate is still markedly above the supposed two
percent target of the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
And looking at the markets, overnight trading is up on
all three indices. The market did close down across the
board yesterday, the Dow losing one hundred and thirty six points. Also,
looking at gas prices, they dropped a couple of cents
over nine to two sixty seven across Houston. Actually that
drop is two cents from last week. That's the good news.
The bad news is your car insurance went up fifteen

(06:36):
percent last year. Rates won't go up as much this year,
with costs projected to rise by six percent.

Speaker 18 (06:43):
Weather events, you know, those sail storms, those flooding events
that all impact both home owners and auto insurance, but
also lawsuits.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Rich Johnson with the Insurance Council of Texas ads that
we're still feeling the impacts of the supply chain disruption
for car parts and of course inflation.

Speaker 19 (07:01):
Five h seven.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
The Rockets look for their fifth consecutive win tonight when
they visit the Memphis Grizzlies. Pregame is at seven point
thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on
Houston's News, weather and Traffic station News Radio seven forty
kg RH.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
The tools you need to take on the day news
in the morning, weather and Traffic.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett. Okay, yeah,
Sunday this year, so we won't be here for it. Well,
we can be here to to see how what Phil
said on Monday, But you know, but by then it's
old news, right, And who cares what Phil says anyway
about about the weather, because as it turns out, Phil

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is not very accurate. Now the best if you're gonna
give a grades for the best party having to do
with brownhog Day Hunks and Tawney Pennsylvania, far and away
wins that. I mean they have. They have a great
party there, tens of thousands of people turnout for it.
It's a big deal. But as far as Phil himself,
he is not very good at predicting the weather. Noah. Yeah.

(08:03):
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration decided to put some
stats on predicting groundhogs around the entire country to see
who's been the most accurate over the last twenty years.
They considered nineteen groundhogs in similar species based on two
main qualifications. They must have been prognosticating for at least

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twenty years, and they must be active even if they
don't make a prediction every year. So where did Punksatawny
Phil end up? Out of the twenty they considered, he
came in seventeenth with an accuracy rate of thirty five percent.
Number one was Staten Island Chuck out of New York.

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He is an eighty five percent accuracy rate. Coming in
second general Beauregard Lee out of Georgia eighty percent. Third
place Lander Lill out of Wyoming. She's not an actual groundhog,
she's a bro's statue of a prairie dog. But she's
right seventy five percent of the time. Fourth went to
Concord Charlie out of West Virginia. Accuracy rates sixty five percent.

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In fifth place went to Gerdy the Groundhog out of Illinois,
sixty five percent accuracy rate. Now what's really funny about
this is the eleventh place, which is six places above
Punks Antony Phil went to Optorio Orphi, a taxi dermied
groundhog out of Pennsylvania. He was accurate fifty two point
six percent of the time. Two other taxi dermied groundhogs

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actually had a better prediction rate than Punks Atoni Phil.
So there you go. Three dead groundhogs did a better
job than filled it five to ten time for traffic
and weather together. You know, I guess they didn't bother
to check out BK Bob. They were just sticking with groundhogs.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
You know what I thought Terry was said Terry, either,
I thought we said b kay and like Burger King,
it's b cave Bob cave be cave Bob.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Somewhere the sea. I think he's groove and he's.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
From Austin, Man, so you know he's all child and mellow.
Let's check out the hard working east side it. It's
kind of a hassle of you trying to get groovy
outbound from the loop work. We're a little slow in
extra twelve minutes inbound you can completely get your head
together from the Sandra Center river Bridge twenty one minutes
easy Katie Freeway.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
This is this is kind of a lifestyle. It's going
to be with us for a while.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Outbound High forty five to Heights Boulevard and we'll take
two right lanes here right now, we're good to go.
You got three little skinny lanes and the text out
wall of death around. Here's the deal too. We've got
really wet freeways. It's like the freeways are sweating this morning, Terry.
It's weird. And visibility is a thing too, I think,
so let me know seven one three two one two

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t ips and tell me if you can see skymikee
a generator supercenter, dot com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
From R Katie r H stop Tax Defenders twenty four
are weather Center. Terry Smith is here. I take your
prediction for wind. Spring's going to come over three digs
any day of the week, just you don't.

Speaker 20 (11:02):
I am flattered and thank you. I appreciate the trust
you have placed in me. All right, well, let's talk
about our weather today because that's going to be rather interesting.
There's a cold front that is heading our way and
we're seeing some rain ahead of the front today, some
showers and some storms. There is a low risk of

(11:24):
severe storms today, but a low risk does not mean
a no risk of severe weather, so we'll be watching it.
Gusty winds, that's the main concern. There's a lot of
wind energy with this, and with the gusty winds, there
is a slight risk of a tornado. The tornado threat
is fairly low, but you know how these things work,
they'll spin up fairly quickly. Ninety percent chance of showers

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and storms today. Oh, by the way, we are dealing
with some fog this morning. Ninety percent chance of those
thunderstorms today. Temperatures are going to be rather warm and
muggy load to mid seventies than the ryer air shows
up and very nice stretch of weather through the weekend.
Plenty of sunshine and temperatures for the most part will

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be in the seventies into early next week.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Temperature right now seventy at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barrits and the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need to take
on the day.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
So I've been watching local TV, including our television partner
KPRC two, and they're all doing stories about what a
ghost town Houston is turning into. You know, you can
find great parking spots now at home Depot and Low's
because all of a sudden, there's not a bunch of
people who are parking lot waiting for somebody to pick
them up to do work. It's really quite amazing. Did

(12:51):
we have or do we have that many illegal aliens
in Houston that they once they go in to the hiding,
it's immediately noticeable. Or do you have people who are
here legally that somehow are afraid because of the rates
that are going on. More than that story coming up
next first though, this what's ype's going on.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
I think traffic is going to improve if they do
in immigration enforcement. Also, I think it'll be a little
safer on the freeways. And I think they should give
you a break on your insurance.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
So that's just my two cents.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
So we've just got their insurance bill, I guess.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, well yeah, that thank you very much. Hello met Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
All right, let's go, h you know what, let's do
a quick tip line. I'm going to defer time here
so you can do more stuff. But I've got seven
one three two one two t ips.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Brian from Montgomery.

Speaker 21 (13:35):
Dude on the west Loop right where it's I merges
onto their act taking up a couple of the right light.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's where all the dumb stuff happens right there too.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
You come in okay, so you're on the Katie Freeway
out from downtown and then you get on those ramps
after Denny's and you try to go south to Uptown,
down to Uptown.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
That's where this is.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
Let me let the pretty ladies on TV know about it,
and I'll get us a camera. I'm Skymichael A Generator,
Supercenter dot Com, Traffic Center, prob.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
R KTRH Top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center. Thunderstorms,
gusty winds, small hail, possible seventy one for the height today,
becoming mostly sunny, high round seventy for tomorrow and Saturday.
Sunday sunshine with behind in the mid seventies. Current temperature
seventy at your official severe weathers station. News Radio seven
forty k TRH. We're checking out some of our top

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stories on this Thursday morning.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy we An amber alert continues
for a missing fifteen year old out of Missouri City.
We have Serenity Turner Douglas's picture at KTRH dot com.
AMAS releases the first of what is expected to be
eight hostages today, and NASA says that a recently discovered
massive asteroid does not have a non zero chance of

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hitting Earth in twenty three point twenty thirty two. They
put the chances at one point two percent. Get the
latest news at any time at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at five thirty.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Toll road or save a few bucks, you are cheaper
commute coming up every ten minutes on the tens.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
So is where we turning into a ghost sound here?
What in the world is going on Farmer's Market. Nobody's
showing up either to to dish out vegetables and fruits
or to buy vegetables and fruits. Everybody seems to be
doing a report about how a lot of folks have
headed underground with news that there's a nationwide now nationwide

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raids that are going on, including right here in Houston.
Here's a report from our television partner KPRC two and
Bryce Newberry.

Speaker 22 (15:38):
Now, this official tells me that there have been no
raids in Houston. All of ICE's activity has been routine
targeted enforcement operations. So what that means is that law
enforcement is going after known targets, not conducting random sweeps,
and those targets are people ICE considers a threat to
public safety, national security, or border security. So I'm told

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a large majority of the target gets were immigrants with
pending criminal charges or criminal convictions here in the Houston area,
and some other examples could possibly be repeat immigration offenders
who may have had a final order for removal. So
the official could not comment on whether there's been an
uptick in activity here in our area, but said that
ICE has been doing similar operations on a daily basis,

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and that included before President Trump's inauguration. Now, while ICE
has reported thousands of arrests across the country since President
Trump returned to office, we do not have data for
arrests here in the Houston area. And these operations have
certainly been more visible you can see there from the
photos on your screen, including some other federal law enforcement agencies,
including the FBI and the DEA. But the bottom line

(16:43):
here from this ICE official is that there's a lot
of fear that he says there should not be because
these are targeted operations. And this official pointed to data
from the last year that shows what they say, And
here in Houston's fifty seven County ICE operating area, there
was the highest number and percentage of immigration related arrests

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here again in the Houston fifty seven County operating area
of undocumented individuals with pending criminal charges or convictions.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Again, and going.

Speaker 22 (17:12):
After some of the specific targets as they've been doing
we understand here for the last week or so.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, they have not been going after just people in general.
In fact, they haven't usually just heard that report. They
haven't even been doing raids per se. We use the
term raids, but they're really doing raids per se. What
they're doing is they're looking for people they have warrants
for that for whatever reason, they just weren't bothering to

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look for before in the previous administration. These are people
who have criminal charges. These are people who've already been
ordered deported. This is not you know, this is not
your run of the mill, came across the border illegally,
has been quiet and haven't done anybody any harm since
they got here. People which is not to guarantee that

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those people won't eventually be dealt with, because after all,
the ar here illegally, and that in of itself is
a criminal act, but that's not who they're going after
right now. So either we have a lot of people
who fit that description, known criminals with warrants against them,
who are hiding out now, or we just have a
lot of people who are afraid for I'm not going

(18:22):
to say for no good reason, but are more afraid
than they should be. Split that way. Five twenty six
hour News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to take a
look at your money. Denise Bellogrene's in this morning.

Speaker 23 (18:32):
Yeah, investors are keeping a very close eye, Jimmy on
the airline industry. As you can imagine, is that tragedy
in DC continues to unfold. American Airlines CEO Robert isisim
coming out and saying in that video statement Carrier is
actively working with state and federal authorities on the investigation.
Shares of Fort Worth based American Airlines, well, they are

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under pressure this morning, as you can imagine, down more
than two percent. As for stock futures overall, we're Hired
Doubt futures up one hundred and ninety six, s and
P futures up twenty six, Nezdek futures up one hundred
and thirty eight, and Meta is among the shares trading
higher in the early going. That's on its positive outlook
about its new artificial intelligence assistant. I'm Denise Pelgreeny Bloomberg Business.

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Speaker 1 (19:27):
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Speaker 3 (19:33):
More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Five thirty our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories, this have our major air crash incident.
That's in DC Gabard and Pateel. They have their hearings
today and coming up at five thirty eight. This study
says that breakups are the hardest on men. Details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Borning News. Yeah, I
believe that. First, let's check out that morning vibe. Here's

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the guy Mike.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
All right, let's go right to our tip fright seven
one three two one two t ips east text Freeway.

Speaker 9 (20:04):
Hidwell, you got a car laying on its side, one
ninch on the.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Same all right, I think they're going to take some
extra laneage shortly.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Let me see the update. Now, this is supposed to
be woofed. Somebody's got this backwards. This is a left lane,
thank you, southbound. It's a left lane southbound. I'm Skymike
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Center from our KTRH Generators Supercenter twenty four hour weather center.
For today, we're gonna get some stormy weather showers and thundershowers,
UH in particular, probably around midday today. Gusty winds are
possible with these storms. High temperature right about seventy one.
We'll try to fine tune when we expect the bulk
of the nasty weather to come into town when we

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talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in about
nine minutes. Temperature currently seventy at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for
the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
It is coming up on five thirty two, and we
start with Capitol Hill, where we have three high profile
Senate con information hearings coming up this morning, one for
incoming FBI Director Cash Battel, another for DNI nominee Talsea Gabbard.

Speaker 25 (21:07):
I feel very confident on Cash. I'm not as confident
on my very good friend Tulsi. We've got some work
to do, and she's the person to get the work done.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Oklahoma Senator Markwaine Mullen on Fox Now RFK Junior has
a second confirmation hearing today as well, after yesterday's confrontational
one in the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy maintaining he does
not oppose vaccines.

Speaker 26 (21:31):
All of my kids are vaccinated. I've written many books
on vaccines. My first book in twenty fourteen. The first
line of it is I am not anti vaccine, and
the last line is I am not anti vaccine.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
He also told senators he's not looking to take food
away from Americans. An American Airlines flight with sixty four
people on board from Wichita, Kansas, collides last night in
mid air with an Army Blackhawk helicopter and its three
member crew on a training flight. The search for survivors,
if any, continues.

Speaker 16 (22:03):
You know, when one person dies, it's a tragedy, but
when many, many, many people die, it's an unbearable sorrow.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
It's a heartbreak beyond major cancers. Senator doctor Roger Marshall.
We are expecting an update at about six thirty this morning,
five point thirty three on KTRS. As we have been
talking about all week, ICE operations continue, but despite the
mainstream media spin, ICE officials here in Houston say the
operations are anything but random.

Speaker 22 (22:31):
All of ICE's activity has been routine targeted enforcement operations.
So what that means is that law enforcement is going
after known targets, not conducting random sweeps, and those targets
are people ICE considers a threat to public safety, national security,
or border security.

Speaker 6 (22:47):
Bryce Newberry with our TV partner Channel two. President Trump
signing the Lacln Riley Act into law, named for the
Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an illegal alien.

Speaker 27 (23:00):
Hope Riley, the vicious criminal who murdered Precious Like and
was an illegal alien member of the barbaric Venezuela in
prison gang known as Trendy Ragwa.

Speaker 6 (23:12):
The President also instructed the Pentagon to prepare for get
Guantanamo bathed there rather for a thirty thousand criminal illegal aliens.
We'll have more on that coming up at six o'clock.
Conservatives have won the first battle to restore America by
electing this president, but the fight is far from over.

Speaker 28 (23:31):
Host and Republican strategist Matt Locke says that is accurate.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Very accurate.

Speaker 29 (23:36):
These are going to be a bunch of little battles,
and really where its start is the people within the system.

Speaker 28 (23:43):
As in removing the rhinos and draining the swamp.

Speaker 29 (23:47):
I'm gonna tell you, I Maga took over the Republican
Party and I don't think there's ever going to be
a return to the old Republican guard.

Speaker 28 (23:54):
In the meantime, he says everyone has to do their
part to return America to greatness. Jeff Biggs News Radio
seven forty k T RAID. It's now five point thirty
five here at home. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton drops
charges against two former staffers of Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo. This,
of course connected to that COVID contract bid rigging scheme.

(24:16):
Charges though against former chief of staff Alex Triant Tophillis
are still pending. Now, we told you yesterday that Hidalgo
used campaign donations to pay for criminal defense lawyers, as
did Fort Ben County Judge KP.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
George.

Speaker 30 (24:29):
He's facing criminal charges relating to an alleged racism hoax
in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 31 (24:34):
The trail just keeps leading closer to more involvement with KP.
George in this first misdemeanor charge. I believe it is
just the beginning.

Speaker 30 (24:42):
Fort Ben GOP chair Bobby Everly says George using campaign
funds to pay for lawyers is causing his donations to
dry up.

Speaker 31 (24:49):
No one's going to rally to someone who's accused of
doing fake racist post for political gain.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
It's all there in.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Black and white, Everly says.

Speaker 30 (24:57):
By contrast, people rush to donate to Trump's legal defense
because they could tell his prosecutions were political. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Five thirty six. Now in Austin, the legislative session continues,
and a new University of Houston Paul finds strong support
for school choice amongst Texans.

Speaker 32 (25:15):
Per school choice or Education Savings account, two thirds of
Texans support this proposal, with support especially strong among Latino
Republicans and white Republicans, followed by black Democrats and lowest
among white Democrats.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
Political scientist Mark Jones conducted to Paul Elsewhere, a Texas
Democrat is pushing to increase the minimum death penalty age
to twenty one.

Speaker 33 (25:37):
The argument is, a brain's not developed until age twenty five,
but that holds little weight if.

Speaker 13 (25:42):
You elevate this bill to the age of twenty one.

Speaker 16 (25:44):
If you're doing an egregious disservice to society is because
you have young killers that are out there at.

Speaker 13 (25:50):
The age of eighteen, nineteen and twenty.

Speaker 33 (25:52):
Former Houston Police Captain Greg Freeman says this lets people
off the hook for brutal crimes, and it really just
adds to the problem.

Speaker 16 (25:59):
They're going to be put in prison. Some of them
may get out of prison one day, of course they'll
be older. But what service is that doing to society?

Speaker 33 (26:05):
He says, this bill will fail because lawmakers won't let
Texas deviate from being tough on crime. Ondrey Perard News
Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
And at five point thirty seven, this is something that
flew under the radar. Urkont says, Texas needs three thousand
miles of new power lines.

Speaker 34 (26:22):
We know new capacity is coming into the Texas s Crid,
most of us coming from wind plant and these cannot
be built in urban areas.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
And according to uh is at Hers, you the consumer
will wind up paying for it with your power bills.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic Station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
World Events, national headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
It's good Breakup song five thirty eighty is their time
here in Houston's Morning News. Here's the study that says
that breakups tend to be harder on men than they
are in women. That's interesting. There's a stereotype that women
are more emotionally dependent than men are, but it might
actually be the opposite. The study found that men, at
least straight men, tend to rely on the romantic partner

(27:11):
for more emotional support. Women don't need to as much
because they have a network of female friends that they
get emotional support from. Oh okay, all right, well that
makes a little sense. Guys usually aren't that good with
the whole emotions thing, at least I'm not. I don't
know about you, guys, but I'm not that good with
the emotion thing. You know. I have maybe one or

(27:34):
two friends that I could talk to about that kind
of stuff. But women have a tendency to have a
whole group of people they can talk to. It also
found that guys are more likely to see relationships as
being beneficial to their overall well being. They get more
mental and physical benefits than women do, leading to better
mental health and higher life satisfaction. Men are also more

(27:58):
likely to report feelings of sadness and loneliness after a breakup,
and because of that, they're usually not the ones who instigated.
In fact, seventy percent of all divorces are initiated by women,
not by men. Okay, I guess I can believe that
makes a little sense. By forty time for traffic and
whether together men.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Are more likely to get a ghetto house and just
go wild for.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
A little while, a little period after the last two
or yes, sir, I understand that.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Okay, you can open your ears again, Terry.

Speaker 5 (28:27):
Let's see text that east text wreck in bound at Tidwell.
That is an overturn. Who is the guy that called in? Hey, man,
I appreciate your call. Don't forget to say your name,
represent your neighborhood, my friend. All Right, we cleared the
west Loop accident. It apparently was very minor west Loop southbound.
After I tend forget about it, just watch out for
other stations. Listeners you've got. Okay, here's the deal. Cypress

(28:49):
would the feeder road northbound? This is going to be
forty five North Freeway outbound at Cypress Wood feeders totally
shut down. I don't like what I'm seeing here. This
is nothing good happening here. Stay on the main lanes
here East Freeway. They're gonna pick it up. Just in
O City, they will. That's roadwork. From the overnight. It's
still a big smush. From the Loop out to Federal

(29:09):
Road and Nord Sam from Spring it's Ramon.

Speaker 13 (29:12):
Good morning, sky Mike.

Speaker 35 (29:14):
From the north side to the east side.

Speaker 19 (29:16):
Speed check, speed check, speed traps all all.

Speaker 16 (29:18):
Of the place, and it's way oh, just take the time,
you know.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
What, when it's like this, I think you should.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
This is me talking. You should slow down.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
I noticed that a lot.

Speaker 36 (29:28):
Of people don't want trouble with the police right well,
depending on their on their status.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
They're going on to the speed limit on the left
lane because they don't know that the left lane is
a passing name. They're holding back traffic.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
That's a very interesting take. Thank you, Ramon. Banana stickers
all around. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Center, so hangous. He's saying, I should look for slow
drivers in the left lane. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Yes, yes, I can't put out a bounty. I've been
told by management I can't buy just checking that out.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
From bounty Hunter, sky Mike, Bounty Hunter from Mark Atrah
Generator super Center. In twenty four our weather center, Terry
Smith is here. We've got some storms coming. Terry, what's
the timing looking like for these storms, well.

Speaker 20 (30:09):
The easiest thing to say is they'll be increasing by
the afternoon. I'm seeing some light rain out there right now,
and the showers will begin to pick up through the
morning hours.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
The storms are going to be themselves.

Speaker 20 (30:24):
If you're talking severe weather, it's going to be rather
random and it's not like it's a widespread outbreak. But
if we're going to get some of the stronger storms,
I suspect anywhere from late morning to the afternoon. Once
that coldfront clears out of here by late afternoon, and

(30:45):
we'll be in fine shape. So there's your timeframe. Ninety
percent chance of getting wet today. The bulk of the
rain will be later today, and it's going to be
a warm day. Load of mid seventies, lots of sunshine
tomorrow through though weekend, no rain through Monday, Temperatures tomorrow
close to seventy, and then load to mid seventy Saturday,

(31:07):
mid to upper seventies Sunday and Monday right.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Out seventy one. At your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

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(32:08):
you can just you know, fill us in on what
you're thinking about. I might ask you today about school
choice because I hear that President Trump's getting ready to
sign an executive action on school choice on a national basis.
So we'll talk about that one coming up at six
o' eight and maybe get your responses. Then five point fifty.
As I said, time for traffic and weather together as
we check out the drive again with skyline.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
But you've got you know what's weird, Jimmy. You know
we get rain all the time. We've had rain a
couple of days for some reason. It's like the roads
are more slippery today. If that's possible, I don't. I'll
have to talk to Terry about the science East Tex
southbound tidwell clear the overturn. It's out of the way,
a bit of a gudge coming down from Little York.
Go ahead and say the course on the East Text,
We're all good to go. The other thing is it

(32:51):
in East they just still keep that roadwork from the
wet East Loop six ' ten out to Federal Road.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
We just have one lane and that's quite a scunch.
Come over from the butt plant.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Got a stall now West Sam southbound Kimberly Lane and
the original Andrew from Springs on the tip line.

Speaker 37 (33:07):
Hey got Michael. There is about twenty responders right there
at the high school. Also, there's a heavy wrecord blocking
traffic going westbound. If you're coming down five PERSI westbound.
You're going to need to divert around another direction to
get to the highway.

Speaker 5 (33:21):
All right, Nothing good is happening on the forty five
north feeder at Cypresswood outbound. I'm skylike and the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
From r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four our weather Center.
Showers and thunderstorms, gusty winds, small hill possible with those storms.
Seventy four for the high today, then becoming mostly sunning
high round seventy four tomorrow, currently seventy one at your
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Check out some of our top stories this morning. Here's Cliff,

(33:49):
Thank you, Jimmy.

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Speaker 4 (34:35):
So yesterday confirmation hearing of Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Health
and Human Services Secretary, and as you can imagine, they
got pretty dog on feisty in there. They played a
video from Caroline Kennedy where she basically called RFK Junior
power hungry. You know, she basically did everything but call

(34:55):
them a pedophile. It was just sad, I mean, did
to have your family turn on you that just because
you're working with Trump. But as you can imagine, the
Democrat senators were loaded for bear questioning him. But RFK
Junior did a pretty dog gone good job of hanging
in there. Here he is his interaction on vaccines, I

(35:17):
think with Senator Widen. Senator Widen is from I'm trying
to remember with state. He's from Oregon, that's right, from Oregan.

Speaker 36 (35:24):
Your testimony today under oath, you denied that you were
anti vaccine, but during a podcast interview in July of
twenty twenty three, you said, quote no vaccine is safe
and effective.

Speaker 13 (35:36):
Yeah, a senator.

Speaker 26 (35:37):
As you know, because it's been repeatedly debunked, that statement
that I made on the Lex Friedman podcast was a
fragment of the statement. He asked me, and anybody who
actually goes and looks dad you podcasts, and well, I'll
see this. He asked me, are there vaccines that are.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
Safe and effective?

Speaker 26 (35:57):
And I said to him some of the live Irish
vaccines are. And I said, there are no vaccines that
are saving effective. And I was going to continue for
every person. Every medicine has people who are sensitive to them,
including vaccines, right, so he interrupted me at that point.
I've corrected it many times, including on National TV. You

(36:20):
know about this, Senator Widen, So bring this up right
now is dishonest?

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Yeah? So yeah, again it's the same old story they
bring up, you know, things that have already previously been debunked.
And he did pretty good job of going ahead and
handling that. I thought it was very interesting. Do you
know do you know who Nicole Shanahan is. That's his
former running mate when he was running his independent for president.

(36:45):
That's his former running mate. She's got a lot of
money and which was probably the reason she was picked.
She evidently is ready to put her money towards primary
US senators who don't support RFK Junior for Health and
Human Service.

Speaker 35 (37:00):
As Secretary, RFK did a great job, and I just
want everybody to know that the Maha Maga unity movement
is very, very strong in the United States right now.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Arguably it is.

Speaker 35 (37:12):
The largest movement in the world, and it is what
catapulted President Trump back into the White House, and it
is fully behind RFK Junior's confirmation. And so watching the
senators at work today, I just have to say thank you,
Senator Ron Johnson. I got many text messages from moms

(37:34):
across America who were in tears to hear his earnest
support of RFK Junior's confirmation.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
And I do also want to make.

Speaker 35 (37:44):
It clear that yes, we are watching every one of
these votes, every senator's actions, every word that came out
of their mouths, and there are hundreds of thousands that
are mobilized to take action during primary season.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Okay, that sounds like a threat. They're willing to make
good on five point fifty six. Now you're on news
Radio seven forty k TRH. This is huge.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Everywhere with them Now.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
The latest news, weather and traffa. It's more of what
matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
It is six am. Now you're in Houston's Borning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories, this fur An
airliner and a Blackhawk collide over Reagan National Airport in DC.
Are Houston area legals going into hiding and coming up?
At six o' eight. Trump is ready to sign an
executive order on school choice details in the minutes ahead.

(38:44):
You're on Houston's Boring News. First, let's check out that
morning drive again. Sky Mike's checking in. Lend it from
Spring just hit me up on Facebook. I'm super easy
to get a hold of.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
But she was like, I sure hope that North Freeway
Cypress would wreck clears. It's not going anywhere fast. They
have the whole feeder road shut down in front of
the school.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
This is outbound.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
They've also shut down part of Cypress Wood westbound.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
It was Andrew from Spring told me.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
And whatever's going on, it's nothing good. Has mets on
this scene, fuel spill. It's there to stay for a while.
East Freeway surely they will pick this up in the
next few minutes. Outbound. That's roadwork just past the East Loop. Outbound.
I'm skymikeel the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
From r KTRH top tax defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Showers and thundershowers today, gusty wind, small heel possible high
temperature of seventy four. Weather's going to turn really nice
starting tomorrow all the way through the weekend. We'll check
that auber Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight
minutes right now seventy at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news.

(39:44):
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 19 (39:45):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
It's six oh two when we are sponsored by Allied
Signing and Windows and our top story, the search for
survivors continues after last night's mid air collision between an
American Airlines jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over Reaga
National Airport. Here's Fox's Lucas Tomlinson.

Speaker 7 (40:03):
The airliner was a CRJ seven hundred series. There was
a regional jet sixty four people on board, sixty passengers
and four crew members. The US Army said there were
three individuals and two pilots and likely a crew chief
aboard the helicopter.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
Officials are going to update this. At six thirty, the
US Figure Skating Association confirmed that they had several members
of the national team on the American Airlines plane. Also
topping the news, as promised, President Trump started rounding up
illegal alien criminals, and that includes operations here in Houston.

Speaker 28 (40:38):
But that's not what you're hearing from the mainstream media.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
There's a lot of disinformation out there that ICE and
the authorities are out there rounding up everybody, and that's
not the case.

Speaker 28 (40:48):
That's Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
And what about here in Houston. I mean, you come
over here to work, that's one thing.

Speaker 8 (40:57):
You're coming over here to terrorize our citizens state, that's
a whole different and that's who we're targeting to get.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Here, he says.

Speaker 28 (41:04):
Despite reports, illegal immigrants are not staying away and they're
even showing up for work.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k T eight.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
Thank you, Jeff. Some local TV stations and the national
media are going so far as to do stories literally
advising illegal aliens of their rights.

Speaker 10 (41:24):
And there are a lot of aspects to this story,
and I think it's very hard for journalists to put
them into context all the time. But like I said,
I think we need to be very careful about making
sure we're doing fair reporting that is balanced as opposed
to being activist journalism.

Speaker 6 (41:38):
To Paul University's Jeff McCall. Now, Mayor John Whitmeyer has
said that HPD is not participated in any ice operations
and won't in the future. Now, the question is why
HPOU President Doug Griffith says immigration law isn't in their jurisdiction.

Speaker 11 (41:54):
We're not here to be federal agents. We don't have
that man powerful that our job is to handle crime
in Houston.

Speaker 13 (42:01):
We're going to do.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
That, Griffith says.

Speaker 30 (42:02):
When it comes to things like ice detainers, that's something
handled by the county.

Speaker 11 (42:06):
It's up to the jail to determine if they have
an active ice dettator, and that's all through Harris County
and there's not really a way for us to check those.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Mayor Whitmer spoke with KTRCH about this.

Speaker 30 (42:15):
He says they're committed to enforcing state and municipal laws
regardless of immigration status. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven forty
KTRH and Washington. President Trump officially signs the Lake and
Riley Act and orders Guantanamo Bay to prepare for the
arrival of some thirty thousand criminal illegal aliens.

Speaker 38 (42:33):
This is a temporary transit which is already the mission
of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, where we can plus up
thousands and tens of thousands if necessary, to humanly move
illegals out of our country where they do not belong,
back to the countries where they came from.

Speaker 6 (42:48):
Defense Secretary Pete HEGSA. Now the Whinehouse says they have
not rescinded a freeze on funding, just the omb's memo,
and President Trump is doubling down.

Speaker 27 (42:58):
We identified and sapped fifty million dollars being sent to
Gaza to buy condoms for.

Speaker 6 (43:06):
Hamas, adding that this did not affect social security.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Six ZHO five. Robert F.

Speaker 6 (43:12):
Kennedy Junior got an earful from Democrats had his Senate
confirmation hearing yesterday. Kentucky Senator and doctor Rand Paul told
ktrh's Clay and Buck, much of what Kennedy is promoting
is just common.

Speaker 15 (43:24):
Sense talking about chronic illness and what are the things
we can do to get people healthier.

Speaker 39 (43:29):
A lot of these things don't involve mandates. It is persuasion.
Convince people there are bad things in the food systems.
They are a risk of being sedentary and not exercising.
I can't see why the left would be opposed to that.

Speaker 6 (43:39):
Kennedy has a second hearing today before the Senate Health Committee.
Other hearings today include Ford, Tulsi Gabbard, and Cash Patel.
And Trump got another cabinet member confirmed yesterday. EPA administrator
Lee Zelden six ZHO six. As expected, the Federal Reserve
held interest rates steady yesterday. What was a surprise to

(44:00):
economist Joel Griffith was something else the Central Bank said
lap time around.

Speaker 17 (44:05):
The Federal Reserve said that quote, they've made progress towards
the two percent objectives. Interestingly, they actually.

Speaker 13 (44:12):
Struck that line, and now.

Speaker 17 (44:14):
It merely says that inflation remained somewhat elevated.

Speaker 6 (44:17):
Translation, it could be a while before we see another cut.
Overnight trading is up across the board after yesterday's losses
on Wall Street, and oil prices are dropping currently at
seventy two to fifty five a barrel. This morning, gas
prices across Houston checking in at two sixty seven. Now,
your car insurance premiums are going to rise again this year.

(44:37):
Rich Johnson with the Insurance Council of Texas says there
are several factors that determine how much rates go up,
including the number of weather events and lawsuits.

Speaker 18 (44:47):
The amount of what they call nuclear verdicts, which are
amounts that are like five to ten million dollars and more.

Speaker 13 (44:53):
Those those multimillion.

Speaker 18 (44:54):
Dollar lawsuits when it comes to trucking and auto accidents
are are going to play it factor as well.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
Rates were up fifteen percent last year. This year's increase
likely to be six percent. And the Rockets visit Memphis tonight.
Pregame is at seven thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety.
The Rockets have won four in a row. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station News Radio
seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
What happened, Why it happened? The information you need to
start the day. Now back to Houston's morning news. UH
school's changed?

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Has that ring?

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Six?

Speaker 4 (45:32):
The bells still rings? Six o eight is our time
here in Houston's Morning News. You know, there's not a
lot of good news when it comes to education. Fourth
grade reading A mass scores fourth in eighth grade reading A.
Math scores across the country have dropped over the last
couple of years. We are still having whether you want
to blame it on the COVID shutdowns or just the

(45:53):
state of our education system, or a combination of both
those things. We have seen that those sports continue to
draw up. Now. The good news for Texas is is
that we're doing better than others some of the other
states are doing, in particular with some of the areas
that they've been the most biggest concerns in the past,
and that is children where they're just learning English and

(46:16):
black students ranked near the top of the country in
reading in math now still not where you would want
it to be, but compared to other states, we did
pretty well. But even the Star test shows that we
still aren't getting the job done when it comes to
educating our kids. And with that in mind, that of course,

(46:38):
is one of the big reasons why Governor Abbott wants
to have school choice here in Texas well. Evidently, President
Trump also wants to have school choice around the entire country.
He's going to be signing some executive actions relating to
school choice. One of them includes directing Secretary of Defense
Pete Hegseth to submit a plan for how military families
can use available funds to send their kids to any

(46:59):
school they choose. It also had directed the Department of Education.
I thought we're getting rid of that. It also directs
the Department of Education to prioritize school choice with grant
programs and instructs the Department of Human Services to help
states to determine how federal block grants can be used
for faith based schools. So I don't know that the

(47:20):
President's going to get a lot of cooperation from the
Education Department, you know, even with one of his people
heading it up. I'm sure there are plenty of people
in the Education Department that are going to try to,
you know, be conscientious objectors to the whole school choice idea.
But I guess my question would be, is is this
something that we should be doing at the federal level

(47:42):
or is this something we should be doing at the
state level, state by state basis. I guess as long
as we depend on the federal government for so much
funding for public schools, then we're going to have to
have the federal government go along with the school choice thing.
Right six ' ten, Time for traffic and weather together.
Just check out the drive against's here, Terry. It's like more.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
It's more slippery on the freeway the normal rain. For
some reason, I've noticed this. And man, we've had a
time this morning East tex We cleared an overturned vehicle
at Tidwell. That's going stay the course on the east text.
It's a little thick right after the cemeteries, but do
it anyway. We're fine East Freeway. I promise they will
pick this road up. If you could safely send me
a picture of this, I'd like to see the laneage

(48:23):
a little better. This is outbound from the bud Plant.
Thank you to Federal Road. And you're losing about ten
minutes doing the East Freeway, So ninety is a good option.
Or if we want to take two twenty five, that
looks good. Something off the causeway to southbound forty five
Golf Freeway. We've got a wreck reported right before the
causeway trying to get onto Galveston Island. Let me get

(48:45):
some langage here at the six to twenty report, and
let's see I've got oh, I want to go back
to the original Andrew from Spring. We've got this wreck
on the North Freeway Cyprus Wood. There's nothing good happening there.
Eighteen wheelers involved. They've shut down the whole feeder northbound.
It's not affecting the main lanes, but it is affecting
that feeder and also that'll mess up Cyprus With Andrew.

Speaker 37 (49:05):
There's about twenty responders right there at the high school
off So there's a heavy wrecord blocking traffic Tillia westbound.
If you're coming down five or slow westbound.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
All right, it is closed.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
If you're coming from the hardy vind Let's jump up
to Louetta. I'm skywike at your Generator Supercenter, dot Com
Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry Smith is here. There's no reason why the rain
today's ainy more slippery than any other day? Is it?

Speaker 20 (49:31):
None that I can think of. But I'm definitely going
to investigate this. I'm going to consult my friends in
the golf ball and see what they happen.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Maybe somebody's been seeing the clouds with sort of such slices.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
It's like they have Crisco on the on the roads.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
They're seeing the clouds with basoline. That's what's going on.

Speaker 5 (49:47):
Yeah, it's it's awful on the freeway. So everybody get
an early start, Get.

Speaker 20 (49:51):
An early start, and my advice is, uh, just enjoy
the drive wherever you're going, Just take your time. Sky
Mike's here for the next couple hours. He'll be providing
entertainment during that time period.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
Will all be good? All right, folks. It is going
to be a soggy day today. I think the bulk
of the wet weather, the heavier rain, will be later on.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Today.

Speaker 20 (50:14):
We've had some light showers and you can get wet
at any point. There's a ninety percent chance of showers
and storms. But call fronts moving through southeast Texas this afternoon,
so I do think that's when we'll see the concentration
of showers and storms.

Speaker 6 (50:28):
It's going to be a warm day, load of mid seventies.
Now the rain is gone.

Speaker 20 (50:33):
We've got sunshine and comfortable temperatures tomorrow through the weekend,
perfect for outdoor plans. Near seventy tomorrow, Saturday load to
mid seventies, and then Sunday and Monday by the way,
Sunday is Groundhog's Day, So the groundhog is going to
see his shadow because it's going to be a sunny
day and a warm day. Mid upper seventies.

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Speaker 4 (51:07):
So we have a Texas Democrat House Representative who is
filing a bill or has filed a bill to raise
the minimum death penalty age here in Texas to twenty one,
saying that some recent studies showed the human brain isn't
fully developed until age twenty five. Okay, so if you

(51:29):
think that's the case, why don't you raise it to
twenty five in your bill? Doesn't seem to make much sense,
does it. And just because your human brain isn't fully developed,
does not mean you don't know the difference between right
and wrong and murder and not murder, you know what
I mean. Greg Freeman, retired HPD Captain, will join us
to talk about this next first though, traffic and weather together.

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Oka.

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It starts with Skymine, all.

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Right, new problem before the Galveston Causeway southbound forty five
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Hey, what you got, Let's try it one more time.

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Galveston Causeway forty five southbound.

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Hey, Mike confo wet I couldn't hear that.

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Actually, two accidents, ambulances out for one of them.

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We've got records coming, ones on the outside ones and
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And it's a big skunch.

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Up in a hub up farbage.

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Yeah.

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I gets backing up all the way to the Techa
City Wy.

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All right, that's southbound. Great job. I'm in the Generator
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Speaker 6 (52:50):
You, Jimmy officials. We'll update the situation at six thirty.
After last night's mid air collision between an American Airlines
regional jet and an Army black Hawk helicopter, Texas Governor
Greg Abbott order state agencies to assist the Trump administration
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Speaker 4 (53:36):
Go man. Nobody does dark like Johnny Cash. Six twenty
three is our time here in Houston's morning news. So
we have a Texas Democrat house member filed bill that
would raise the minimum death penalty age to twenty one.
One of the reasons he rationalized it is by saying
that the human brain is not fully developed until age
twenty five. Greg Freeman joins US retired HPD Captain. Do

(53:59):
you think this change is needed, Greg and what do
you think of this representative his name is Joe Moody
by the way, from Alfasso, about his justification by saying
the human brain isn't fully developed until age twenty five.

Speaker 16 (54:13):
Jimmy, good morning, and I agree with your commentary preceding
that I think it's a ludicrous bill and it is. Yes,
there are studies that are out there that show that
the human brain does not fully develop until you're twenty five.
But just like you earlier stated, we have young men
and it's mainly men that are committing these violent crimes,
and it's a group of predatory males. They know the

(54:35):
difference between right and wrong. Supreme Court ruled on this
in two thousand and five and the elevated the minimum
age of execution in the United States from seventeen to
now eighteen. So Texas can execute an individual that commits
a crime at the age of eighteen and they know
right from wrong. And it's important for the listeners to
know that there is a huge grouping of juveniles. And

(54:57):
we say juveniles, you've got fourteen and fifteen year olds
out there, I mean committing capital murder literally, and it's
a sad sign of the times of.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
What we have.

Speaker 16 (55:05):
But that is a situation that we're dealing with. When
you're seventeen years old, you're old enough to join the
military and die for this country. You're old enough to vote.
And that was the age of eligibility for execution, but
the Supreme Court ruled and they moved it to the
age of eighteen.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Yeah, it's kind this is kind of getting off practice
a little bit. But it's kind of amazing, isn't that
how we vary so much and what we consider the
appropriate age to be an adult. If you want to
spoke cigarettes, you have to be a certain age. If
you want to drink, you have to be a certain age.
If you want to vote, you have to be a
certain age. You want to join the militaries, you said
you have to be a certain age, But that age
varies between eighteen and twenty one.

Speaker 16 (55:41):
Yes, it does, and you're doing a disservice to society.
I mean, the state of Texas has spoken, the legislation
has spoken. When you commit a crime at the age
of eighteen, and it's a capital of fancier eligible for.

Speaker 13 (55:52):
The death penalty.

Speaker 16 (55:53):
And one thing I think it's important to know, you
have these young group of predatory males that are that
are and the juvenile crime is rising in America and
especially in the state of Texas. They are committing a
large disproportionate amount of crime carjackings, murder, aggravated assault, robbery,
and their life experiences has advanced them greatly. Yes, they
may be eighteen or nineteen, but I can assure you

(56:15):
that their thought processes, they are all souls. They've experienced
more in life than most people who have in two lifetimes.
So is their brain fully developed in my opinion, I've
seen it.

Speaker 13 (56:24):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Well in bottom line too, don't you think when you
have an eighteen year old that is that sort of
predatory individual, you're not going to rehabilitate them. The only
different either are going to be spending their life behind bars,
or they're going to have the death penalty and they're
going to go through every appeal imaginable. It's going to
be at least a decade before they're executed. Anyway, that's correct.

Speaker 16 (56:45):
And we've had this debate and with my students over
and over and with my professional colleagues, and at the
end they affirm whole with the death penalty, you commit
the ultimate crime that society has exacted upon you. You need
to pay the ultimate punishment. And I don't care if
it takes ten or fifteen years. Society has exacted this
punishment upon you and it needs to be carried out.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
Yeah. And they can talk all the time about deterrent.
It's not about it being a deterrent for people committing
those types of crimes, right, It's about the appropriate punishment.

Speaker 16 (57:13):
That is correct. And I mean studies have shown, hey,
it's not going to deter people from committing copple offenses.
But that person that committed mass murder, active shooter or
whatever he did, we'll never do that again. And we
know that for a fact.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
All Right, Greg, thank you so much, appreciate your time.
Retired HPD Captain Greg Freeman. It is six twenty six.
It's time to take a look at your money. Did
these pellogreennies here?

Speaker 6 (57:34):
Yeah, Jimmy, Good morning Shares.

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Six thirty our time. Here in Houston's Boring News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories, as have our a
major air crash. Is HA been in Washington, d C,
Gabard and Patel. They have their hearings today and coming
up at six thirty eight. Costco doubles down on DEI
will you still shop there? Details and the men to
say head. You're in Houston's Boring News. First, we're checking

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out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
All right, Nord Freeway. It's in the feeder at Cypress Wood.
That's our big wreck with an eighteen wheeler here. The
feeders totally shut down. Nothing good's happening there has mets
also doing a fuel spill. This is outbound. They've shut
down Cypress Wood up on the wed And still I'm
still not understanding this guy's name. Enunciate it for me
if you will. Let's go Golf Freeway southbound causeway.

Speaker 40 (59:07):
Heys, guy, Mike, you got a third accident near the
geek out.

Speaker 23 (59:11):
It's going to be an exit five south found.

Speaker 5 (59:13):
Okay, so we've got at least two southbound Golf Freeway
before the Galveston Causeway. We are crammed up from the
Texas City. Why, I'm sky White gets your Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center.
Showers and thunderstorms, gusty Wednesday with the high temperature right
about seventy four. It happened almost any time, but probably
midday to the afternoon. Is the best chance of seeing
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Speaker 19 (59:47):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
It is six point thirty one on KTRH our top
story this hour. We have three Sentate confirmation hearings coming
up this morning, one for incoming FBI Director Cash Patel,
another for DNI nominee Chelsea Gabbard.

Speaker 41 (01:00:00):
If a nominee acts like a complete meat head or
start screaming like he or she's part of a prison riot,
you know people are going to say, WHOA, we need
to take a second. Well, but short of that, I
think most, if not all, will be confirmed.

Speaker 6 (01:00:17):
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy there our FK Junior will be
in the Senate for a second straight day. Yesterday, he
told senators there's some fake news being spread about him
by the mainstream media.

Speaker 26 (01:00:28):
I don't want to take food away from anybody. If
you like McDonald's jeezburger, which my boss loves, and you
should be able to get them, but you should know
what the impacts are on your family and on your house.

Speaker 6 (01:00:44):
Kennedy at the Saidate Finance Committee yesterday, We're expecting an
update any moment now. As an American Airlines flank with
sixty four people on board collides in mid air with
an Army Blackhawk helicopter and its three member crew. That
helicopter on a train flight. The search for survivors continues.

Speaker 42 (01:01:03):
I know that flight. I've flown it many times myself.
I lobbied American Airlines to begin having a direct NonStop
flight service to DCA.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
That flight has been in existence about a year.

Speaker 6 (01:01:16):
Kansas Senator Jerry Moran there Michael Wants, the National Security
Advisor to President Trump just confirmed on Fox thirty bodies
have been recovered. There were members of the US Figure
skating team on that plane six thirty three on KTRH.
As ice enforcement operations continue, the mainstream media would like
you to believe that these are random, but that's not true,

(01:01:40):
and now the media has to admit it.

Speaker 22 (01:01:41):
I'm told a large majority of the targets were immigrants
with pending criminal charges or criminal convictions here in the
Houston area, and some other examples could possibly be repeat
immigration offenders who may have had a final order for removal.

Speaker 6 (01:01:56):
Bryce Newberry, with our TV partner Channel two Cresident, signs
the Lincoln Riley Act into law, which requires the detention
of illegal aliens charged with theft and other crimes.

Speaker 43 (01:02:07):
We will keep Lacoln's memory alive in our hearts forever
everyone's hearts. Her name will also live forever in the
laws of our country, and this is a very important law.

Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
The President also announced that thousands of illegal aliens would
be transported to the facility at Guantanamo Bay. Now Trump
may be back in the White House, but many Republicans,
including strategist Matt Locke, believe the battle to restore America
is nowhere near over.

Speaker 29 (01:02:33):
You're now seeing in this Trump two point zero presidency
where he's really gotten smart about the people that he's
asking to do things. And so there's a lot of
little mini battles currently going.

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
On, and you could expect those to continue for the
next four years. Six thirty four, Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton drops charges against two former staffers of Harris County
Judge Leader Hidalgo, but charges against her former chief of staff,
Alex triantiphillis, of course connected to the COVID contract big
breaking scandal will remain in place. Both Hidalgo and Fort

(01:03:10):
ben County Judge K. P. George have had to dig
into their campaign funds to pay for criminal defense lawyers
in Georgie's case that's leading to fewer donations.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
It's unsavory.

Speaker 31 (01:03:20):
Well, who wants to donate to a campaign that's using
it to defend themselves for legal bills? I mean, what
a waste of money.

Speaker 6 (01:03:27):
Fort Bend County GOP chair Bobby Everley there. George is
currently charged with a misdemeanor in connection to a racism
hoax from the election last year at six thirty five.
As the legislative session continues in Austin, Texans priorities are
lining up with those of lawmakers.

Speaker 44 (01:03:45):
A new University of Houston survey of Texas adults finds
broad support for property tax reform, school choice, and border security.
Rice political science professor Mark Jones property.

Speaker 32 (01:03:55):
Tax relief Didstummingness stands Democrats, Republicans, Independence.

Speaker 13 (01:04:00):
Toys has majority support, but tends.

Speaker 32 (01:04:02):
To be more popular among Republicans, and immigration legislation also
enjoys broad appeal across Democrats Republicans.

Speaker 44 (01:04:08):
Independent school choice leads all issues with sixty seven percent
support among all Texans, including a majority of Democrats and
three quarters of Texans. Either one to maintain or increase
funding for border security. Corey Jolson News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:04:22):
Now there's one Texas House Democrat who is pushing a
bill to raise the death penalty minimum age to twenty one.
Claims that brain development is not complete until twenty five,
but former Houston kopp Greg Freeman says people between the
ages of eighteen and twenty can be the most violent
criminals in Austin.

Speaker 16 (01:04:40):
Won't budge we're treating the criminals as criminals and we're
not treating them as victims. And conversely, we are treating
victims as victims and that we're not treating them as
the criminals as we see in other states. I see
that Texas is going to remain firm on crime. We
believe in the rule of law.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
He says.

Speaker 6 (01:04:55):
All this bill would do is put violent people in
prison where they can be released later on. On six
thirty seven, you might have missed this, but the state
needs thousands of miles in new power lines.

Speaker 9 (01:05:07):
The magic number maybe three thousand miles of new lines
to accommodate the growing demand for electricity.

Speaker 34 (01:05:12):
Whether three thousand miles is the right number or not,
I don't know. We just know that we're going to
build a lot more transmission lines to get that electricity.

Speaker 9 (01:05:20):
To the Consumer Energy Fellow at the University of Houston,
Ed Hers says the price tag will likely end up
falling on Texans.

Speaker 34 (01:05:26):
This will not be paid for by the government, It'll
be paid for by the consumer.

Speaker 9 (01:05:31):
Urkott beliefs Texas couldn't need almost eighty percent more electricity
during times of peak usage by the year twenty thirty.
Jarre lewis News Radio seven forty KJA eight and recapping
our top story. NSA Michael Waltz just told Fox that
at least thirty bodies have been recovered after last night's
plane crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic Station KTRH.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Stay informed, Stay on time.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News Team six thirty eight a time here on
Houston's barn of this.

Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
You probably heard that Costco is double down on their
DEI program. I mean They're not the only one. They're
not the only ones that are defying the idea that
they should not have diversity, equity and inclusion programs, that
it should be a meritocracy open to people of all colors, faith, genders,
sexual persuasions, et cetera, et cetera. But you should be

(01:06:31):
hiring the best people and not basing it on a
quota system. Costco has rejected this idea. Kevin o'lurry, You know,
mister wonderful, he's a shareholder a Costco. He doesn't think
this is a very good idea.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
You know what I find so fascinating is.

Speaker 45 (01:06:51):
If you just hire on merit, because I have a
huge base of companies to look at that we're investors
in over fifty of them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
You just hire on merit as we do.

Speaker 45 (01:07:01):
You get tremendous diversity because we don't care if you're
gay or transvestite, or you have tattoos or fish hooks
in your eyelids. We couldn't give a damn. Can you
do the job? Can you execute on the mandate? Those
are the people we advance. If you can do it,
I don't care what planet you came from.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
You got a job.

Speaker 45 (01:07:18):
And that actually solves this whole problem. And we should
have never got ourselves in this place. Regarding Costco, I'm
a shareholder. They're nuts if they think I want them
fighting the federal government on policy. I don't care who
took that poll when there's no way you'd get that
result today. You don't fight the attorney general in multiple states.

(01:07:39):
You've got to be out of your mind. That's bad
for business. So chop chop, guys, figure this out. You're
breaking the law. Get compliant, I mean, hire for merit
and advance people that deserve it. And you will find
every race, colored, gender, everybody will come.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
To the foe. So if you would prefer, by the
way to punish the people that own Costco. It's mainly
investment groups, Vanguard, Black Rock, Good Lord, Blackrocks, Tentacles are
and everything, aren't they? State Street Corporation, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments,
Bank of America. Yeah, that's who owns Costco. But here's

(01:08:17):
my question. I finally came up with a question of today,
and you can respond to it by going to the
iHeartRadio app. I hit that preset button that you have
for KTRH. If you haven't make sure you put us
on your presets. You can get to us really fast.
Then you can hit the microphone and talk back to
us your thoughts on doing shopping in the future. At
Costco as long as they are still instituting their DEI programs.

(01:08:39):
Do you separate your politics from your shopping or do
you vote with your wallet? Again? Just go to the
iHeart radio app KTRH, hit the microphone. You get thirty seconds.
Please if you if you don't mind, give us a
first name, where or at least where you're calling from,
and give us your opinion traffic and weather. Together, we're
checking out the driver again. That slander the police. I

(01:09:02):
certainly would ever do that. I vote with my wallets, guy, Mike,
big time right there.

Speaker 5 (01:09:06):
Thanks, Let's go Galveston Causeway. Let me take a look here, man.
We've got a lot of stretching to do, all right,
southbound I got two recks.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
I got one right.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
Before the causeway and I did not understand that caller's name.
But southbound right before the causeway, we had one had
a second when it's spurred five. Thanks to you, we
were the first to know. Now I've shared it with
the rest of the media. Transtars got it on camera too.
That's about a thirty minute smash southbound trying to get
onto the island. I got young Albert from Kingwood on

(01:09:36):
the tip line morning, Mike, Dude.

Speaker 21 (01:09:37):
Kingwood Drive at fifty nine, there's a bunch of whoopy
called WHOOPI lights going on, and it doesn't look good
if you're trying to get out on Kingwood Drive. I'd
recommend taking Alphen.

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
I'd almost go to Porter Joe from Crosby's on New
ninety Am.

Speaker 17 (01:09:51):
There's a small hubub on New ninety Crosby Freeway.

Speaker 5 (01:09:55):
See, I know when somebody's really a hard hat when
they call it New ninety go ahead for s he's.

Speaker 26 (01:10:00):
Causing a figure backup on the west out I started
at twenty one.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
People can't stop looking at it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
All right, expect some slowdowns there and got more tip
line seven two t ips, Hey, Scott Mike.

Speaker 21 (01:10:12):
People don't know how to drive, Scott Mike, I think
this is the race out here. You have people cutting
people off and those signs that you see please slow down,
seems like they read it back whards, Please hurry up
and feed up. No snow, there's no light.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
I'm so glad you came on invented.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
That's cool with me, and I like I say, Terry
traffic is ninety percent ignorance. Anyway, Thanks for your calls, everybody,
we'll check your west side advisors in ten minutes and
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
Please sends guy Mike check for fifty dollars. By the way,
he's he's a paid therapist. He doesn't do this for free.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Just so, here's the.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Couch from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
Weather Center. Terry Smith is here with the forecast guaranteed
to be more accurate than punks of Tony Phil.

Speaker 6 (01:10:54):
Well, thank you very kindly.

Speaker 20 (01:10:55):
I do appreciate that punks and Tony Phil will announce
his thoughts on Sunday after all the rains out of here.

Speaker 6 (01:11:05):
That makes his job easy.

Speaker 20 (01:11:06):
Okay, so we got showers and thunderstorms today, ninety percent
chance you're gonna get wet.

Speaker 6 (01:11:11):
At some point today.

Speaker 20 (01:11:13):
The bulk of that's going to be later in the
day when the colfront gets closer. That's when we're going
to see the concentration of the showers and a better
potential possibility of some stronger, maybe severe weather.

Speaker 6 (01:11:24):
We're going to be watching it.

Speaker 20 (01:11:25):
Load of mid seventies today, cooler, dryer air shows up
tonight upper forties to mid fifties. Tonight, blue skies through
the weekend into early next week. Temperatures mild, near seventy tomorrow,
load of mid seventies Saturday, mid to upper seventies Sunday
and Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:11:42):
Right now seventy one at your officials, severe weather station,
News radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
You are commute, you are forecast. Your news is Houston's
Morning News, brought to you, bying you southway to those solutions.

Speaker 4 (01:11:56):
So there's been a lot of talk about tariffs, right,
Evidently I didn't even realize this. Evidently tariffs on Canada
and Mexico are due to go into effect this weekend, unless,
of course, President Trump changes his mind. More than that
story coming up next, along with the timeline. But first,
we've got traffic and weather together, starting with the Usky Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
All right, we've got a lot to clean up.

Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
On the Golf Freeway now southbound. There was a wreck
right before the causeway. Second accident at round exit five.
Now I know normally I don't know exit numbers. That's
the one right after the Texas City. Why, it's got
to be at least a thirty minute scooch on the
southbound here, and this not much for alternates nord Freeway
Cypress with the feeders totally shut down.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Nothing good's happening there outbound. I'm Skymike from the Generator Supercenter.

Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
Dot Com Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty
four hour Weather Center for today, showers, thunderstorms, gusty winds,
small hill possible seventy four, then becoming mostly Sunday tomorrow
with the high bout seventy looks great. By the way,
for Saturday and Sunday, loa to mid seventies. Saturday, mid
to upper seventies On Sunday. Temperature currently is still seventy one.

(01:13:04):
Ed your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
We're checking out some of our top stories this morning.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:13:12):
Officials just announced that there will be no survivors from
last night's plane crash in DC SO sixty four people
aboard that American Airlines jet and three members of the
military on the Blackhawk helicopter. The illegal alien charged with
killing five people in Sanchocino County in twenty twenty three
gets life in prison after a plea, and North Carolina

(01:13:34):
football coach Bill Belichick suggests that the Super Bowl Trophy
should be renamed from the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the
Tom Brady Trophy. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH
dot com. Our next update is at seven o'clock.

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
Under the orders I signed today, even here for the
very latest, all of this will.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Change starting today. What Youth Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
Tariffs Canada and Mexico going to effect this weekend. Caroline
Love is the new White House Press Secretary, large and
in charge. Well, she's not large, she's petite, but she
is in charge, that's for sure. By the way, do
you hear what the view said about her? Oh, he
just hired her because she's a ten?

Speaker 34 (01:14:16):
What?

Speaker 4 (01:14:19):
He just hired her because she's pretty?

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
Why did they hire Kareem Jean Pierre in the Biden administration?
Did they just hire her because she's gay? They did?
They certainly didn't hire her for her brain power? Good lord? Anyway,
Caroline lovit here. She is, she's smart, had nothing to
do with how she looks. She can handle herself. She
says that she talked to the President and as far

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as she knows, the tariffs are still on.

Speaker 46 (01:14:47):
The President has made it very clear again that he
expects every nation around this world to cooperate with the
repatriation of their citizens, and the President has also put
out specific statements in terms of Canada and Mexico. But
when it comes to what expects in terms of border security,
we have seen a historic level of cooperation from Mexico.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
But again, as far as.

Speaker 46 (01:15:05):
I'm still tracking, and that was last night talking to
the President directly, February first is still on the books.

Speaker 47 (01:15:11):
Unless the companies directly affected, not much will happen. I
don't think it's going to have much of an immediate
impact on the economy. Let's take a look at what's
going on with the stock market. You would think that
if this was such a big deal, if this was
such a threat to inflation, expectations, to business activity, the
market would be sinking. It's not sinking because of the

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possible imposition of tariffs as set.

Speaker 45 (01:15:36):
Is it possible the Tennis go into effect twenty five percent,
Mexico twenty five percent kind of nothing happens.

Speaker 47 (01:15:42):
Yeah, nothing may happen. And I would add that let's
not forget this is a negotiating tool as far as
immigration policy is concerned, and also as far as the
illegal importation of drugs into the United States go. So
this may get both and in Mexico to go have

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some reforms that please the Trump administration, and that's the
end of tariffs.

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
Yeah, tariffs. If tariffs do get instituted on Saturday, February first,
they probably won't be around for long because if they
put them into effect, then the Canadians and the Mexican
government will see that Trump isn't bluffing, because he doesn't bluff,
and they'll they'll go ahead and do what it is
he wants them to do. It's generally how it works.

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Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 13 (01:19:40):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 19 (01:19:40):
It's seven oh one.

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Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
This is a terrible tragedy.

Speaker 6 (01:19:47):
I know I can speak for the President and that
our our.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
Heart is broken.

Speaker 6 (01:19:52):
National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. At least twenty seven bodies
have been found after last night's mid air collision betwe
in an American Airlines plane and an Army black Hawk helicopter.

Speaker 13 (01:20:03):
We have located the two aircrafts.

Speaker 50 (01:20:06):
The fuselage of the American Airline plane was inverted.

Speaker 49 (01:20:11):
It's been located in three different sections, so that recovery
is going to.

Speaker 13 (01:20:16):
Go on today.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. No survivors are expected. Also topping
the news. The Trump administration continues to crack down on
illegal aliens, including here in Houston, where there are already
fewer illegal aliens looking for day labor in their usual spots.

Speaker 8 (01:20:34):
There some of these sanctuary cities had held these criminals
over for ice, like they were required to do, then
we wouldn't be going through this in the first place.

Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
Chris Caberra with the National Border Patrol Council. There now,
the mainstream media is not reporting on this crackdown. They're
actually advocating for people breaking the law.

Speaker 9 (01:20:50):
Even some local TV stations are doing more activism than
fair and balanced journalism. The journalism industry as a whole
has taking.

Speaker 10 (01:20:58):
On more of an activist role in recent years, and
I think a lot of that started with the Trump
resistance when he first went into office.

Speaker 9 (01:21:05):
Jeff McCall, a media studies professor at DePaul University, says
reporting on illegal immigration should involve all impacted parties.

Speaker 10 (01:21:12):
It is important for journalists to take on the interest
of people who might be afflicted with the immigration story.
There are multiple afflicted people, and sometimes those afflicted people
are the victims of people who are in this country illegally.

Speaker 9 (01:21:24):
Cher Lewis news radio seven forty KRH Elsewhere, Houston Mayor
John Whitmyer says HPD has not participated in any ICE actions,
and HPOU President Doug Griffith says there's a reason why.

Speaker 11 (01:21:37):
Our job slip for violent offenders, which we are doing
on a daily basis, and if they happen to have
an ICE dictator that is handled through Harris Kenny Jail.

Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
He says HPD does not have the manpower to enforce
federal law. The mayor told KTRH in a phone call
he's committed to enforcing state and municipal laws regardless of
immigration status. In Washington, President Donald Trump officially signing the
Lacol and Riley Act into law and issued a memo
on where violent criminal illegal aliens would be detained.

Speaker 12 (01:22:08):
Instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin
preparing the thirty thousand person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Speaker 13 (01:22:15):
Most people don't even know about it.

Speaker 6 (01:22:17):
He says, that's where the worst of the worst will
be sent. And despite the mainstream media narrative, the White
House says they have not rescinded a freeze on funding,
just the memo.

Speaker 14 (01:22:28):
We're stopping all the garbage that the last administration frankly
left us with. Now to stop that, we have to pause.
And the pause, as we've said one hundred times over,
is not going to affect Americans that deserve this assistance Medicare, Medicaid,
social Security.

Speaker 6 (01:22:43):
Trump advisor Elena Haba on Fox seven point five. RFK
Junior faces a second day of Senate confirmation hearings beginning
at nine o'clock. After his appearance yesterday, Kentucky Senator and
doctor Rand Paul told KTRHS Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Ay would bring transparency to the public health system.

Speaker 39 (01:23:03):
People on the left have misdiagnosed this.

Speaker 16 (01:23:05):
They say, oh, all the right wing people and the.

Speaker 15 (01:23:07):
Vaccine skeptics that have created this vaccine hesdency.

Speaker 13 (01:23:10):
And it's not true at all.

Speaker 15 (01:23:11):
The vaccine hesdency is coming from government being dishonest.

Speaker 39 (01:23:14):
They need to be honest about it.

Speaker 6 (01:23:16):
Meantime, incoming Director of National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbert has her
confirmation hearing at nine o'clock this morning, FBI prospective director
Cash Pattel at nine point thirty, and Lee Zelden was
confirmed as EPA administrator yesterday. It's seven point five after
three straight rate cuts to end the year, Federal Reserve
held registrates steady. Economist Joel Griffith wasn't surprised.

Speaker 17 (01:23:40):
We have not made full progress on inflation. Our annual
inflation rate is still markedly above the supposed two percent
target of the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 6 (01:23:50):
Wall Street certainly didn't like what it saw yesterday, as
there were losses across the board. Overnight futures training Dow
was down, while the S and P five hundred and
Nasdaq are up. Gasoline prices are down over the last
week since Donald Trump became president, down to two sixty
seven a gallon across the Houston area. That's the good news.
Here's the bad news. Your car insurance went up fifteen

(01:24:12):
percent last year and it's going to go up again
this year by as much as six percent.

Speaker 18 (01:24:19):
Weather events, you know, those sailstorms, those flooding events that
all impact both home owners and auto insurance, but also lawsuits.

Speaker 6 (01:24:27):
Rich Johnson with the Insurance Council of Texas. Ants that
were still feeling the impact of the supply chain disruption,
remember them from COVID and the sting of inflation coming
up on seven oh seven, the rockets look for their
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recapping our top story. At least twenty seven bodies have

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been found after last night's mid air collision between an
American Airlines plane and an Army Blackhawk helicopter. This has
now shifted from a rescued to a recovery mission, with
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of thousands of app developers with code known as Amazon
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been on that app you downloaded, even though it had
nothing to do with Amazon. Wouldn't you think, I mean,
it's fine if you want to sue Amazon over that,
but wouldn't you think that equally was responsible for that
would be any company who knowingly did that? Who because
they probably got paid by Amazon to do it. This

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allegedly enabled Amazon to collect an enormous amount of timestamped
geolocation data about where consummers live, workshop, and visit, and
revealed sensitive information such as religious affiliations, sexual orientations, and
health concerns. The suit says that Amazon has effectively fingerprinted
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about them entirely without the consumer's knowledge or consent.

Speaker 4 (01:27:04):
Wow. Suit filed in California. We'll see where this one goes.
Keep an eye on this one. I mean, it's one
thing if you download an app from Amazon and you
can kind of assume that Amazon's got something in there
that's probably keeping track of you. But if you're downloading
an app from somebody else and other companies like Amazon

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and piggybacked and are tracking you and then selling that
information without your knowledge or permission, yeah, that's that ain't right.
Seven to ten Time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (01:27:35):
Getting belly dancers on my Facebook because you keep googling
belly dancers. It must mean I mean, you know the
thing is. I don't know where it comes from, but
they found my weakness. I'll just say that. All right,
let's go to hard work in east side of town.
First of all, did we finally clear up that problem?
I ten outbound, Yes, we did, Jack City. That was
roadwork that had stuck around for a while. Jennifer from

(01:27:58):
TV's bringing me up to.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Guy Mike, what is going on inbound at Waco Street
on nine ten?

Speaker 5 (01:28:02):
I'm like, cause she talks like that, inbound, I've got
a wreck. I don't have the laneag yet. It's at
Waco Street. It in east Freeway. You're plumb backed up
from wayside on the inbound side here causeway that's now
a forty five minute drag.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
Southbound.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
There's two wrecks here forty five Golf Freeway at the
Causeway Galveston and a second wreck right after the Texas City.
Why you are backed up from Lamark Now? Big backups there?
Dimension that makes sense. Katie Freeway breaks from Grand Parkway
to Fry Road, Southwest Freeway scunching up right around the
West Park Curve. I got Greg from Klein on the
tip line.

Speaker 13 (01:28:36):
Do you have one?

Speaker 21 (01:28:37):
And my if anybody's going Spring Cypress towards two for nine,
which is taking off a route because there's a wreck
just before two.

Speaker 16 (01:28:44):
Forty nine, which is back of the traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
A lot, all right, that's westbound.

Speaker 5 (01:28:47):
Also, Cypress Wood is shut down westbound at forty five
because of that ugly wreck with the eighteen wheeler in
the feeder road.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
Main lanes are just fine.

Speaker 5 (01:28:55):
But if your usual route is off the Hardyvine, jump
on the Luetta instead. I'm Skymike at your Generator Supercenter
dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
From r KTRH stop tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
center for today. We're looking at well the radar, Yeah,
and what do you see on that? What do you
see in that radar? I see a lot of green stuff.
What's the green stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:29:14):
What's the green stuff. It's Lepricans.

Speaker 20 (01:29:19):
So I've seen a couple of sprinkles, but there's really
not much rain, which is good.

Speaker 6 (01:29:25):
Right now.

Speaker 20 (01:29:26):
The line of showers and storms that is running ahead
of that front is around Austin and stretching up into northeast.

Speaker 6 (01:29:35):
Texas, so it's still a little bit away.

Speaker 20 (01:29:38):
I think it's going to be the afternoon really before
we get much of an impact. We get some light
rain maybe this morning, but it really is the afternoon
when the showers and thunderstorms become a little more widespread.
Ninety percent chance of get any wet folks. We are
monitoring in case anything turns severe. There is that possibility.
There's a lot of wind energy with this particular front.
Not a lot of cold air, but a lot of

(01:29:58):
wind energy. Temperatures today load to mid seventies. Now, it's
cooler tonight, and it's a little bit cooler tomorrow, just
a little bit sunny, upper sixties to low seventies. The weekend,
we're in the seventies with lots of sunshine. Mondays dry
and mid upper seventies Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
Right now, seventy one at your officials, Severe Weather Station
News Radio seven forty k trh twenty our time here
in Houston's went to two. So we're asking you to
talk back on this one. I mentioned earlier that Costco
is doubling down on DEI. They're not going to get
rid of it. They're going to continue their program despite
the fact that obviously we have an administration that is

(01:30:40):
asking everybody to get rid of their DEI programs. So
my question to you was do you support their decision?
Does have any impact on whether or not you shop there?
Do you vote with your wallet or do you ignore
politics when it comes to where you do your shopping.
Here's Robert Hi.

Speaker 51 (01:30:56):
My name is Robert and as regarding the Costco situation,
I'm just glad I have a Sam's card.

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
There you go the still little traffic and weather together.
Then we're going to talk to Doug Griffith Houston Police
Officers Union about what the mayor said about not helping
ice with a of these raids. First though, traffic and
weather together. That's you, Skuy Mine.

Speaker 5 (01:31:18):
I'm going right to forty five and Steve from spring Hey.

Speaker 13 (01:31:21):
Guy, Mike bronxkin Redecta.

Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
There's two fars ones into the bankment and the other
ones into him, blocking one and a half lanes on.

Speaker 13 (01:31:28):
The left side.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
All right, that's inbound. I'll let the rest of the
media know.

Speaker 5 (01:31:31):
God Freeway southbound, don't go there, causeway one hundred and
eight minute backup from the Texas City Wy southbound. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center from r.

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At your officials Severe Weather Station, News Radio and forty KTRH.
Get you caught up on some of our top stories

(01:32:04):
here on this Thursday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:32:07):
We are there are no survivors expected after the midair
collision last night between an Army black Hawk helicopter and
an American Airlines jet. We had more violent crime in
Harris County and man killed at a convenience store into
shooting with the band guy on the run and the
Mona Lisa is being moved to its own room as
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You're reliable forecast Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
Seven twenty two is our time heuring Houston's morning news.
So Mayor John Whitmyer and his press conference basically said
that the Houston Police Department is not assisting with ICE
or any of their deportation efforts. Doug Griffith joins, US
President of the Houston and Police Officers Union. I got
the impression, Doug, that you weren't real pleased with what

(01:33:04):
the Mayor had to say.

Speaker 11 (01:33:06):
Well, what he said really didn't come out the way
I think he meant it. We are going to help
any agency that needs our assistance, But the FEDS are
going after violent offenders, mainly those with open warrants right now.
We are already doing that in the City of Peace,
and we've been doing that for years. We go after

(01:33:27):
violent offenders. Now the ICE detainer, we would even know
they had one. When we make an arrest. They find
that out. In the Harrison County jail. Our system doesn't
afford us the opportunity to see who's legal, who's not legal,
or if they have an ICE detainer on them. We
do know there's over three hundred thousand people in Harrison
County with ICE detainers, but we are going after them.

(01:33:50):
We don't have the manpower for that. We don't have
the manpower to go serve all the warrants that we
have in Harris County because it's astronomical the numbers, and
we are almost two thousand uncers down at this point
in the game.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
Yeah, I got the feeling, honestly, that the mayor was trying.
The other thing is the mayor's trying to thread a needle, right,
He's trying to thread a political needle there. He's got
progressive members on city council who don't want him to
cooperate with ICE under any circumstances. He has constituents in
the county that are more conservative that do want him
to cooperate. He seems to be trying to find that

(01:34:26):
middle ground between, you know, not pissing off people on
the left and not pissing off people on the right.
Would you agree with.

Speaker 11 (01:34:36):
That I would say that, yeah, he listened. He's in
a political situation. We have a predominantly Hispanic community out there,
and we aren't going looking for people's papers. We're not
asking for people's status on immigration. We really don't care.
We don't have the manpower to go and do that.
That's not our job anyway. That is the federal government's job.

(01:35:00):
They are doing it to the best of their ability,
and I believe that moving forward, if an offstreach help,
we're going to help them.

Speaker 13 (01:35:06):
Period.

Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Yeah, that's what we do.

Speaker 11 (01:35:08):
But as far as the immigration status, we're not looking
for that. Nobody's trying to round up illegal immigrants and
send them back.

Speaker 6 (01:35:18):
That's just not.

Speaker 11 (01:35:19):
What we do as a local law enforcement agency. Our
job is to go out and chase bad guys. That's
what we're doing. We're going to continue to do that,
and if they happen to be illegal and the Feds
want to send them back, that's their priority to do.

Speaker 13 (01:35:31):
So.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
Okay, one thing you did you said does surprise me
a little bit from a practical standpoint. You said you
have no way when somebody's booked in the Harris County jail,
you have no way of knowing if there's an ICE
detainer on them or not. Isn't that something that would
be very helpful to you to be able to know
that information. You could just call lice and have them
come pick these people up.

Speaker 11 (01:35:51):
Well, again, years ago, we used to have I want
to say it was under Clint we had check boxes
that if they were illegal, we had to check it
and Harris County would deal with it from there. That
has since changed over the years and we no longer
do that. Again, that's something that they do in the
Harris County jail, and I'm not exactly sure how they

(01:36:13):
run their SNeW but from a standpoint from our local
enforcement officers, we wouldn't see that, okay, and we just
take them in and book them for whatever we have,
what charges we have on them.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
I got you. So that's a question I would need
to ask the Harris County Sheriff's Department or maybe Judge
Lena Hildago as to why they don't do that, right, Yes, Okay,
fair enough, Doug. Thanks By the way, one more question
for you here, and that is I get the impression
that there are a lot of people who are scared. Now,
maybe you said we have over three hundred thousand people

(01:36:45):
in Harris County that are probably here illegally. That would
certainly explain why we have people who are not showing
up at Farmers Market and a noticeable difference in the
amount of people who are in certain areas where we
used to see people all the time. Do you get
the impression there are a lot of people who are
afraid at this point of what's going on?

Speaker 11 (01:37:05):
All right, yes, sir, and there's really need to be
Even the truck administration, they're not going around.

Speaker 6 (01:37:11):
Just browning up people that are very leely what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
They're going to after.

Speaker 32 (01:37:15):
Vittent offenders and those are people with warrants, Those are
people that have armumation jacted and are in prison.

Speaker 11 (01:37:23):
Those are people that all run for reasons, uh, with
felony offenses on their record. Okay, that's the only ones
at this point that they are going.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
After, exactly so the rest of the rest of people
who are here, regardless of immigration stats, no need to
be afraid, Thank you, sir, appreciated. Doug Griffith, president of
the Houston Police Officers Union. It's seven twenty seven. Time
to take a look at your money. Here's Denise Pellowgreene.

Speaker 6 (01:37:46):
Yeah, good morning to you.

Speaker 23 (01:37:47):
We've got crude oil futures lower for a second day
today as investors wait for clarity on US trade policy.
Donald Trump's pick for Commerce secretaries saying Canada and Mexico
country's top crew suppliers, may avoid high tech priffs. And
this is the word from Howard Lutnik, who says the
two neighbors could avoid the curbs if they took action
on illegal migration and on fetanyl. Previously, officials had indicated

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Seven thirty our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this have our Gabbard and Betel.
They have their hearings today. Major air crash incident in Washington,
d C. And coming up at seven thirty eight, piling
on RFK Junior details in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Porning News. First, we're check out that drive again

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with Skymike.

Speaker 5 (01:39:13):
All right, the rest of the media now knows about
the wreck on the North Freeway.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
Cross timbers. It's now to become two left lane southbound.

Speaker 5 (01:39:20):
Big banana sticker, Steve from Spring Golf Freeway. We have
a seventy five minute wait from Texas City down to
the Galveston Causeway.

Speaker 2 (01:39:28):
It's Steve from Dickinson.

Speaker 13 (01:39:29):
Guy, Mike Dude.

Speaker 10 (01:39:30):
The accidents on the Golf Freeway by the Causeway have cleared.

Speaker 21 (01:39:36):
Traffic starting to move again.

Speaker 5 (01:39:37):
Woo hoo, boom banana sticker for your briefcase. I'm in
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
From our KTRH Generator of Supercenter twenty four hour Weather
Center showers and thunderstorms, gusty winds, small hill possible today.
With the intemperature right about seventy four, it's gonna clear
out'd be great for the weekend, though. We'll talk to
Terry Smith one more time at the Weather Channel about
all this in eight minutes right now seven at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's

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time down for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders, thank you
very much.

Speaker 6 (01:40:08):
To me, seven thirty two on KTRH, our top story.
There are three high profile Senate confirmation hearings coming up
this morning, one for incoming FBI Director Cash Pattel, another
for Tulsie Gabbard.

Speaker 25 (01:40:21):
I feel very confident on Cash. I'm not as confident
on my very good friend Tulsi. We've got some work
to do, and she's the person to get the work done.

Speaker 6 (01:40:30):
Oklahoma Senator Mark Waine Mullins on Fox Now RFK Junior
has a second confirmation hearing today after yesterday's confrontational one
in the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy maintaining he does not
oppose vaccines.

Speaker 26 (01:40:45):
All of my kids are vaccinated. I've written many books
on vaccines, my first book in twenty fourteen. The first
line of it is I am not anti vaccine, and
the last.

Speaker 13 (01:40:55):
Line is I am not anti vaccine.

Speaker 6 (01:40:57):
Kennedy will be at the Senate Help Committee today. It's
now seven point thirty three.

Speaker 52 (01:41:01):
So we are now at a point where we are
switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At
this point, we don't believe they are any survivors from
this accident, and we have recovered twenty seven people from
the plane who won from the helicopter.

Speaker 6 (01:41:17):
Officials updating the situation last hour and American Airlines flight
with sixty four people on board from Wichita, Kansas colliding
midair with an Army Blackhawk helicopter and its three member
crew on a training flight. There were members of the
US figure skating team on the plane. ICE operations continue nationwide,

(01:41:38):
but despite the mainstream media spin, officials here in Houston
say the operations are anything but random.

Speaker 22 (01:41:44):
All of ICE's activity has been routine targeted enforcement operations.
So what that means is that law enforcement is going
after known targets, not conducting random sweeps, and those targets
are people ICE considers a threat to public safety, national security,
or border security.

Speaker 6 (01:42:00):
Bryce Newberry with our TV partner Channel two. President Donald
Trump signing the Lincoln Riley Act into law yesterday, named
for the Georgia nursing student who was murdered brutally by
an illegal alien, lacn Hope Riley.

Speaker 27 (01:42:15):
The vicious criminal who murdered Precious Liacan was an illegal
alien member of the barbaric Venezuela in prison gang known
as Trendy Rugwa.

Speaker 6 (01:42:25):
The law requires the detention of illegals who are charged
with theft and other violent crimes. President Trump also instructed
the Pentagon to prepare the facility at Guantanamo Bay for
thirty thousand criminal illegal aliens. We have more on that
coming up at eight o'clock. Conservatives have won the first
of the battles to restore America by electing Donald Trump,

(01:42:45):
but the fight is nowhere near over.

Speaker 28 (01:42:48):
Host and Republican strategist Matt Locke says that is accurate,
very accurate.

Speaker 29 (01:42:54):
These are going to be a bunch of little battles,
and really where its start is the people within the system.

Speaker 28 (01:43:00):
As in removing the rhinos and draining the swamp.

Speaker 29 (01:43:04):
I'm gonna tell you, Maga took over the Republican Party
and I don't think there's ever going to be a
return to the old Republican guard.

Speaker 28 (01:43:11):
In the meantime, he says everyone has to do their
part to return America to greatness. Jeff Bigs News Radio
seven forty kt RAID.

Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
It's now seven thirty five and here at home. Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton drops charges against two former staffers
of Harris County Judge Leada Hidalgo connected to a COVID
contract bid rigging scheme. However, charges against former chief of
staff Alex Trant Phillis are still pending. Now, we told
you yesterday that Hidalgo used campaign donations to pay for

(01:43:42):
criminal defense lawyers. So did Fort Ben County Judge KP. George.

Speaker 30 (01:43:46):
He's facing criminal charges relating to an alleged racism hoax
in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 31 (01:43:51):
The trail just keeps leading closer to more involvement with KP.
George in this first misdemeanor charge. I believe it is
just the beginning.

Speaker 30 (01:44:00):
Fort Ben GOP chair Bobby Everly says George using campaign
funds to pay for lawyers is causing his donations to
dry up.

Speaker 31 (01:44:06):
No one's going to rally to someone who's accused of
doing fake racist post for political gain.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
It's all there in black and white. Everly says.

Speaker 30 (01:44:15):
By contrast, people rush to donate to Trump's legal defense
because they could tell his prosecutions were political. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:44:23):
At seven thirty six, with the legislative session continuing in
Austin and new University of Houston survey finds strong support
for school choice amongst most Texans for school.

Speaker 32 (01:44:33):
Choice or education savings account. Two thirds of Texans support
this proposal, with support especially strong among Latino Republicans and
white Republicans, followed by black Democrats and lowest among white.

Speaker 6 (01:44:45):
Democrats Rice is Mark Jones. Elsewhere, a Texas Democrat is
trying to increase the minimum age for the death penalty
to twenty one.

Speaker 33 (01:44:53):
The argument is a brain's not developed until age twenty five,
but that holds little.

Speaker 16 (01:44:57):
Weight if you elevate this bill to the age of
twenty one, and if you're doing an egregious disservice to
society is because you have young killers that are out there.

Speaker 13 (01:45:05):
At the age of eighteen, nineteen and twenty.

Speaker 33 (01:45:08):
Former Houston Police Captain Greg Freeman says this lets people
off the hook. For brutal crimes, and it really just
adds to the problem.

Speaker 13 (01:45:15):
They're going to be put in prison.

Speaker 16 (01:45:16):
Some of them may get out of prison one day,
of course they'll be older, but what service is that
doing to society?

Speaker 33 (01:45:21):
He says, this bill will fail because lawmakers won't let
Texas deviate from being tough on crime. Andre Perard, News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:45:29):
Thank you, Andre, and this one flew under the radar.
Erkan says, Texas needs three thousand miles of new power lines.

Speaker 34 (01:45:36):
We know new capacity is coming into the Texas s Crid.
Most of it's coming from wind plant and these cannot
be built in urban areas.

Speaker 6 (01:45:45):
Uh Is at Her says consumers will be the ones
to pay for this with their power bills. On Cliff
Saunders on Houston's News, weather and Traffic station, news Radio
seven forty KTRH, we.

Speaker 19 (01:45:56):
Can't let these things happen anymore.

Speaker 27 (01:45:58):
A new age, the Golden Age of America, begins right now.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
He's here, Stay two on these radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:46:08):
Except thirty eight is our time. You're on Houston's borning news.
So yesterday RFK Junior confirmation hearing getting it in spades.
From from Democrats of all the usual suspects, including Senator
Elizabeth Warren here she is trying to grill RFK.

Speaker 40 (01:46:25):
So, mister Kennedy, will you also agree that you won't
take any compensation from any lawsuits against drug companies while
you are secretary and for four years afterwards.

Speaker 26 (01:46:41):
Well, I'll certainly commit.

Speaker 13 (01:46:44):
That.

Speaker 26 (01:46:44):
Well, I'm secretary, but I do want to clarify something
because you're making these sound like a shell.

Speaker 40 (01:46:50):
I'm asking about fees from suing drug companies.

Speaker 1 (01:46:55):
Will you agree not to do that?

Speaker 26 (01:46:57):
You're asking me to not sue drug company. I'm not
going to agree colonies as what you're asking me. Senator,
you're asking me not to supervaccine.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
Companies.

Speaker 13 (01:47:11):
My ye, you are that exactly you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
Help kids might die.

Speaker 40 (01:47:16):
But Robert Kennedy can keep cashing.

Speaker 13 (01:47:19):
In, Senator.

Speaker 26 (01:47:20):
I support vaccines, I will I support the childhood schedule.
I will do that. The only thing I want is
good science. And that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:32):
By the way, part of his response good and probably
should have been to Elizabeth Warren, And what about the
eight hundred thousand dollars in campaign funds you've taken from
big pharma? You commit to not do that are you
protecting Big Pharma because of all the money they've donated
to you and many of the other Democrats who were
who had testified Ron Widen. We played a clip from

(01:47:53):
him earlier. Senator Widen has accepted one point two million
dollars from Big Pharma. Seven On for Traffic and Weather
together to check out that drive again with Skymie.

Speaker 5 (01:48:03):
All right, we cleared the Gulf Freeway Tiki Island wreck
that was southbound before the causeway. We still have a
twenty four minute backup. It's getting better by the minute,
but it's gonna take a while. We've cleared North Freeway
southbound cross Chimbers. iHeartRadio listeners were the first to know
about this wreck. We've got a big backup steal from
West Road on the southbound North Freeway at Cypress Wood.
That's a wreck in the feeder. Main lanes are not affected.

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Nothing good's happening in the feeder of northbound, so stay.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
Away from it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:28):
You've got Katie Freeway DeLay's Grand Parkway into Barker, Cypress
and West Park Tollway slowed fourteen sixty four Uber Mike,
what are you doing in the med Center?

Speaker 34 (01:48:38):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:48:38):
Got it?

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
Chris southeast side.

Speaker 34 (01:48:40):
Got Mike got a little hob well said, backed up
right around to away, hitting westbound at Makawa like a
six foot step ladder. Come off from pickup truck eight
the face end of the Nation TV.

Speaker 5 (01:48:53):
All right, lookout Paarland in most city. I've got Jeff
from the north side. I was asking why it seems
more slip read the normal on the roadway.

Speaker 16 (01:49:01):
Safe slip street has something to do with the temperature
and humidity causing condensation.

Speaker 5 (01:49:09):
Listen to this science talk Terry, give that guy a
job in the golf ball. I'm in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
Jip from the north side.

Speaker 4 (01:49:17):
By the way, Terry is not officially confirmed his diagnosis
from our from our kt i H Generator super Center,
twenty four hour Weather Center. Second opinion we get getting
a second opinion out from from doctor Terry. He's going to.

Speaker 6 (01:49:32):
Get my laptop.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
But on the glasses they make you look smarter.

Speaker 6 (01:49:35):
Okay, I wear those all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:49:37):
Go right ahead and fill us in. If do you
do you make anything of what he had to say
about the temperature in the miduning.

Speaker 20 (01:49:43):
Well, he makes an interesting point, which is when you
have the temperature and the humidity pretty close together. You
will get condensation somewhere, and I guess it's on the roads,
and so that I would explain perhaps some of the
slick conditions.

Speaker 4 (01:49:59):
But there's already rain on the roads. Does the humidity
make it more slippery.

Speaker 20 (01:50:04):
I don't know that the humidity makes it more slippery.
But the more moisture you have on the roads, the
more slippery it is.

Speaker 4 (01:50:11):
Okay, science weird, Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:50:14):
Yeah, Well, I'm looking at the radar, folks, and it's
unimpressive at this point. I mean, it's pretty quiet out there.
We've got clouds, there's some foggin spots. You might get
some drizzle, misty stuff going on, but nothing that's concentrated
like what we're going to see later on this morning
and into the afternoon. That front still back to the
west until it gets into southeast Texas. Our showers are

(01:50:38):
going to be kind of spotty, but it is a
ninety percent chance of getting wet today. And not only
do we have that possibility of rain, but a very
slim risk of severe storm. So we'll be watching in
case something gets a little overly excited, shall we say,
loa to mid seventies today, sunshine tomorrow through early next week,
and it's nice and mild. You're seventy tomorrow and hies

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in the seventies into Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:51:04):
Right now, seventy one at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH seven fifty our time here
in Houston's morning news. We've been talking all morning about
Costco in there doubling down on DEI, and I've been
asking to talk back by using the talkback button iHeartRadio
app KTRH. Put us on your preset. You can go

(01:51:25):
right to the station and then if you hit the microphone,
you got thirty seconds to respond. See what kind of
response we have this time.

Speaker 51 (01:51:31):
Hi, my name is Robert, and as regarding the Costco
DEI situation, I'm just glad I have a Sam's.

Speaker 4 (01:51:38):
Card, fellow Sam's Club member. Huh Okay, there you go.
If you want to talk back again, go to the
iHeartRadio app. You can do it anytime you want, any
time of the day. You can go there again, put
the preset on KTRH, hit the microphone when you get
to the KTRH site, and you can talk back up
to thirty seconds. Traffic and weather together let's check out

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the drive against guy Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:52:02):
What you got a right from Conrad in the free
iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 4 (01:52:05):
We have rain and hoopish thank.

Speaker 5 (01:52:07):
Refer golf Freeway. We cleared the wreck ad Tiki Island.
This is a three headed monsters, though still a thirty
minute wait southbound from Lamark. This is also messing up
Highway six and seriously scooching up one forty six southbound
from Texas City. I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four
hour weather center.

Speaker 4 (01:52:27):
For today, We're looking at showers, thundershowers, gusty winn small
hail possible seventy four. Tomorrow, things get really nice, mostly
sunny around seventy load to mid seventies on Saturday and
mid upper seventies on Sunday. Plenty of sunshine both days.
Right now, temperature seventy one at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Check out some of our

(01:52:48):
top stories this morning. Here's clip, Thank you very much, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:52:51):
Sixty seven people are presumed dead after that mid air
collision last night between an American airlines plane and an
Army Blackhawk helicopter near DC. Three of President Donald Trump's
cabinet picks have confirmation hearings today, including Tulsea Gabbard and
Cash Patel. And despite the Biden spin that the economy
is strong, GDP in the fourth quarter comes in at

(01:53:13):
just two point three percent growth, less than expectations. Get
the latest news anytime at ktrh dot com. Our next
update is that eight o'clock, four more.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
Years h Donald John Trump?

Speaker 1 (01:53:25):
What happens next?

Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
Who knows what happens next?

Speaker 3 (01:53:28):
Happens here on news radio seven forty ktrhaly.

Speaker 4 (01:53:34):
Seven fifty three. Is that time here in Houston's Boying news.
The FED made a decision on interest rate. Yes, say
they decide to leave rights alone. They are not going
to raise them, They're not going to lower them. They're
leaving them exactly where they are. Is that the right decision?
I guess you know, we could argue about whether that's
the right decision or not. Certainly not going to make
some people happy who want to get a mortgage, for example,

(01:53:55):
Not that that the mortgages are died directly to what
the FED does, but it can evident BacT on that
he's got Ram Pole, Senator Ram Paul thinking again about
a build that the had that he's going to bring
this up again that would audit the Fed. They have
trillions of dollars of assets, we just don't know what
they are. Here's Rand Paul.

Speaker 50 (01:54:14):
It's funny how conservatives are worried about prices. And we
know that price controls are bad. If you put the
price of bread or the price of eggs too high
or too low, you call shortages, or you cause scarcity
of goods, or you cause surplus sames with money if
the government sets the price of money. But many conservatives
sort of laps there and they say, well, we need

(01:54:34):
the Federal Reserve to set the price of money or
interest rates. And in reality, probably interest rates are more
important than any other price in the marketplace because they're
so diffusely attributable to everything we do in the marketplace.
And that's why I think we should have less Fed
involvement in this. But when you talk about, you know,
high interest rates, I think the one thing if you

(01:54:54):
talk about real interest rates, now you know interest you know,
minus the inflation rate, I think there's talking about relatively low,
if negative interest rates, and there is a boom and
an inflationary pressure from all this new money is in
the marketplace, So there's a question where the marketplace is overbid.
But things don't correct as well as they would as
if the interest rates were freely fluctuating. So if interest

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rates were allowed to rise and fall without intervention to
the Fed, I think what you'd get is a quicker correction,
but less of a bubble, but also less of a
burst when it finally bursts.

Speaker 28 (01:55:28):
So if there was the ability for Congress or some
other brands and governments that actually audit the Fed, what
would they be able to do with the findings.

Speaker 50 (01:55:37):
Well, it would be a look back, so it wouldn't
be like, you know, simultaneous to the twenty four hour cycle.
So I don't think it would disturb investments or effect investments.

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
But we'd be looking back over the previous year. We
would know what the FED owns.

Speaker 50 (01:55:51):
I'd like to know does the Fed by use car loans?
Does it fed by you know, bonds that are not
of value? What kind of things does the FED own?
The Fed owns what nine trillion dollars worth of stuff?
What is included in the Fed's portfolio? We need to
know more precisely, and we do need to know. You know,
once upon time the dollar was backed by gold. Now

(01:56:13):
the dollar is backed by debt. But what is that
debt comprised of triple A double A single A double
D What is the kind of death of the FED owns?
And I don't think we know as precisely as we
could as if we were to get a FED audit.

Speaker 4 (01:56:27):
That's kind of crazy, isn't it. The FED has nine
trillion dollars in assets and we have no idea what
those assets are, not any idea at all. All right, listen,
y'all have a great day. Thanks for listening. I'll see
you tomorrow morning, bright early five am. And this after
a four on the AM nine fifty KPRC