Cy-Fair Gives Final Approval To Parental Notification of Child Gender Changes

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 02/11/25.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
Morris Services studios.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, the morning, five Am is our time here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
this half hour, side pair giving final approval approval I
should say to parental notification when a child wants to
change their gender with their name. Trump warning a moss
that all hell is about to break loose, and coming
up at five oh eight, grocery chains taking action to

(00:39):
prevent egg hoarding. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive.
What's getting all the toilet paver you want? It's the
eggs of the problem this morning.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Let's go to the North Loop six ten Jimmy Barrett.
We've got eastbound before Jensen. What am I looking at?
That's a heavy truck stall. It's over on the right shoulder.
He's kind of minding his own business, but I just
don't like the way he's sitting there. If you're coming
over from the squeeze at forty five, just watch out
for him, and they're showing me these flashy lights on
the east texts at Tidwell, but it's nothing on the board.
We've got east text south Well. There you go, zoom

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in Tidwell parking right over to the right. Oh, the
theater road I see inbound. Looks like the main lanes are. Okay,
We're gonna zoom it and see what the world they're
doing there. At five ten, I'm Skymi Kitcher Generator Supercenter.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Dot Com Traffic Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders
twenty four hour Weather Center. Thunderstorms today with the HIG
temperature right about sixty seven, you could have some heavy
rain with these storms too. We'll talk to Terry about
the timing in about nine minutes. Temperature currently is sixty
six at your officials Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's

(01:46):
Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Thank you, Jimmy coming up on five oh two. In
our top story, common Sense in our Schools. SI Fair
ISD last night gave final approval to a new policy
requiring staff to notified parents if students asked to use
pronouns different from their biological sex.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
There is a way that you are created physically that
transfers into you emotionally. We are created in a special way.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
That is a former school teacher supporting the policy at
the meeting last night. It's a similar policy to what
Katie isd adopted in twenty twenty three. Also chopping the
news this morning.

Speaker 7 (02:26):
If all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at
twelve o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would
say cancel it, and all bets are off and let
hell break out.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
President Trump giving hamas an ultimatum after the terror group
delayed releasing more hostages, claiming that Israel violated the cease
fire deal. This came after a federal judge extended a
temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration's buy out offer
to federal employees. Utah Senator Mike Lee told Fox it's outrageous.

Speaker 8 (03:00):
Important to remember this is entirely within the purview of
the executive branch.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
That order will remain in place until a final ruling
is made. There is no timeline on that. The ruling
by another federal judge blocking Dose from accessing Treasury Department
data is also being blasted as overreach.

Speaker 9 (03:19):
Judge Engelmeyer, and his decision said, well, Elon might use
this for an improper manner, not that he will or has,
but that he might or could, and that is not
a basis for a preliminary injunction.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Constitutional Attorney Andy Trussavage tild ktr h that Englemeyer is
too focused on trying to slow Trump down. Meantime, a
third federal judge, this one and appointee of George W. Bush,
ruled against Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. And there's
this the triggered left protesting outside the US Consumer Finance

(03:52):
Protection Bureau. This came after Elon posted cfbp rip on
x the crowd chanting lock him up. Democrats in Congress
are also threatening that they won't fund the government if

(04:14):
Republicans continue to advance Trump's agenda.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
We will use whatever power we have.

Speaker 10 (04:20):
They will need Democratic votes to pass this budget, and fundamentally,
we're not going to vote for something that undermines the
American people.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
Oregon Democrat Val Hoyle on CNN. The deadline for a
new spending deal is March fourteenth. So if you thought
that the Trump derangement syndrome was bad before, it's even
more unhinged. Now, just listen to what a Michigan liberal
just did.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
That would be State Rep.

Speaker 11 (04:45):
Lorie Pahutsky, who got sterilized because she's afraid Trump is
going to ban birth control.

Speaker 12 (04:52):
This woman never intended to have babies in the first place.

Speaker 11 (04:56):
That is Andrea Wiberg, managing editor at America and thinker
who thinks the left is losing it.

Speaker 12 (05:03):
What I'm seeing on social media is an extraordinary level
of disconnect from reality.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
And the truth.

Speaker 11 (05:12):
Trump has never said anything about banning contraception.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty k T eight. It's
five oh five.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Telsea Gabbert's a step closer to becoming the next Director
of National Intelligence. The Senate voted along party lines to
advance her nomination. The final vote could come as early
as today. Now here's the truth about the Chinese AI
app Deep Seek. It was actually a deliberate attack on
the American tech sector from China. That's what expert Gordon

(05:44):
Chang says, explaining that the Chinese company released the app,
but it's tied to the CCP.

Speaker 13 (05:50):
This appears to be a Communist party project, not a
product of a private company.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
The source codes for the Chinese deep seak app came
from America's Open AI data. In other words, intellectual property theft. Meantime,
Trump follows through and in places a twenty five percent
tariff on aluminum and steeled products coming into the US.
We'll have more on that at five point thirty at.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Five Zho six.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
More violent crime. A sixteen year old girl has found
shot at about three am, killed inside of a car
in North Houston. HPD says one of three young adults
that was in the car at the time is on
the run there.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
The two stayed at the scene elsewhere.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
The problems that UH aren't going away after several violent
incidents on campus.

Speaker 14 (06:35):
A big factor here is the high crime that surrounds
the university campus.

Speaker 15 (06:39):
There's a criminal element that is deeply embedded and has
been for a long time. That's the population that's preying
upon the campus and also the students and its surrounding
residents as well.

Speaker 14 (06:48):
Retired HPD Captain Greg Freman says that crime has been
working its way onto the campus for a while.

Speaker 15 (06:53):
Criminals get out of jail, they get back in jail,
and for one reason or another, they start engaging in
more criminal activity in that area. And I think that's
what we see happening.

Speaker 14 (07:01):
We reached out to the University of Houston about this,
but they did not respond to a request for comment.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Five O seven. Now the Baseball Hall of Fame officially
announces that Billy Wagner will go into Cooper shown this
summer with a Astro's logo on his plaque. He played
the first nine of his sixteen seasons in his career
with the stro Suncliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in
Traffic Station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Traffic and Weather when you need it most, every ten
minutes on the tens. This is Houston's Morning News with
Jimmy Barrett tand the Houston Morning News Team.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Five Oleaders hard time here in Houston's Boing News. Won't
be hard to put all your eggs in one basket
and if you can only buy a dozen, which appears
to be the case now Trader Joe's and other retailers
like Costco who have moved to enact a purchase limit
on eggs as a result of the ongoing pricing and
availability issues brought on by the bird flu. Now, we

(07:58):
were mentioning the other day. Waffle House now has a
fifty cent per egg surcharge, and you know when when
eggs show up, they're flying off the shelves. We had
a here in Texas. We had was it here in Texas?
I can't recall it was a We had a truck
full of eggs stolen. Do you ever catch those guys?

(08:20):
Doesn't seem like, I mean, there's a limited shelf life
to eggs. I mean, it's not like they last forever. Now,
you better have a place you can put those eggs.
Be a shamed if they ended up getting wasted. Eggs
go into just about everything. Think about that. I mean,
how many things do you make that would include eggs
that are manufactured, you know, manufactured foods, breads and desserts,

(08:44):
and and just about anything it seems like you make
that you bake ends up with an egg in it.
So it really is a problem if you can't get
your hand on eggs. So they're trying, I guess, to
try to vent what happened with the toilet paper during COVID,
which is you show up at the store and you
can't find any eggs anywhere. They're doing it by limiting

(09:04):
you to one dozen eggs per purchase. Now, you may
go in there with a family and you may decide that, okay,
I'm gonna get a dozen eggs. You go through and
get a dozen eggs, if she goes through and gets
a dozen eggs, And there's all kinds of ways to
circumvent the system. And at the end of the day,
here's what I wonder, at the end of the day,
how good are these stores at enforcing the policy? They

(09:25):
are they really trying to enforce it. I mean, they
put up nice signs like here's an example. I think
this is a from a Trader Joe's. Dear customers, due
to ongoing issues with a supply of eggs, we kindly
ask you to limit your purchase to one dozen eggs
of any kind. We hope to have this resolved soon.
Until then, we appreciate your understanding. Thank you. That's a

(09:46):
request that it's only a rule. If I go to
the checkout and if I have more than one dozen eggs,
you say, I'm sorry, it's a limited one dozen per person,
which of course puts the cashier on the spot, right,
But as long as they enforcing it, I have no
problem with that. I mean, you know, there are people
out there who will hoard just about anything when they

(10:08):
understand it's in short supply five to ten high for
traffic and weather together. Sky Mike is here.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yes, guy, we are so happy to have your big,
huge bass voice in Houston radio. We lost a major
Houston based voice yesterday. Those of you my age year older,
remember the great Jim Corolla. He was the voice in
the Astronome Wow. And yeah, of course you know massive,
just basically a Houston radio legend. I worked with him
over there. Super nice guy. And I'm sure all the

(10:35):
radio and TV community will support, will you know, pay
their pay their condolences. East Tex Freeway outbound after Chidwell,
that's a wreck. It's in the feeder road. And actually
I'm told this is a pedestrian mishap. Stuff like that
happens over here sometimes. This is outbound feeder road. Main
lanes are not really affected by this around town. If

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we check your belts and loops six ' ten, we're
not loopy at the squeeze westbound the north Belt. We
haven't started the usual hubub around all Dean Westfield yet.
You've got that roadwork that's eastbound and then west. I'll
make that westbound Aldan Westfield and then eastbound at Imperial Valley.
And if we check the west Sam west Ham's actually
moving just fine.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
For now.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
What I'm wondering is what we what we're doing as
far as visibility. Let me know seven one, three, two tips.
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
From our ktr H top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather Center. Egg shortage for sure, but not a storm
shortage at least not today.

Speaker 16 (11:32):
Good.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
No rain shortage coming our way anytime soon.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
No, we are in and out of the rain the
next several days.

Speaker 17 (11:41):
In fact, really through Saturday, we have the possibility of rain,
with Thursday and Friday being perhaps relatively drier, less opportunity
for raight. So the deal is we've got an eighty
percent chance of showers and storms today. I'm seeing some
showers north of the Woodland and over toward Rosenberg and

(12:02):
Eagle Lake off to the west. So as this front
gets a little bit closer, I think our showers and
thunderstorm chances will increase as we head into the afternoon
and the temperatures upper sixties to mid seventies today, eighty
percent chance of showers and storms late tonight Tomorrow a
sixty percent chance a more rain. I think that'll taper

(12:24):
off in the afternoon. We'll be in the seventies tomorrow,
cooler and drier air Saturday. I'm laughing because it's we
go from the seventies tomorrow to the mid to upper
fifties on Thursday. Thursday, we only have a twenty percent
chance of rain. Friday a thirty percent chance of rain,
and the rain chances increase up to sixty percent by Saturday.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
And the temperature right now, let's take a look at that.
It is currently sixty six at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you byen New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barris, tend the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need to take
on the day.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
All right, I thought we'd have a little fun with
this question today. I have a question of today. It's
going to have to do with the either Disneyland or
Disney World, if you've been to either one. I've been
to both, and whether or not you would consider going
there again. And the reason why I asked. The question
is because the prices continue to rise. It's now up
to four thousand, three hundred and fifty six dollars for

(13:27):
your typical family of four, two parents, two children to
go to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. That's that's
just you know, park admissions, you know, hotel and meals.
That's that doesn't include your transportation. Four three hundred and
fifty six dollars for four days. That's up over one
thousand dollars from just five years ago. Have you been

(13:50):
priced out of the Disney experience by that? Or are
you still kind of angry at at Disney for some
of the dei woke stuff that they've done, and don't
have any entry going anyway. You can go to the
iHeartRadio app and then go to kt r H put
us on your pre sage. You can get there quickly
and then give me your first name, where you're calling from,
and your thoughts on the high prices to go to

(14:13):
Disney five twenty one. Right now, traffic and weather together
starts with you. Skuy Mike, dude, look at this fog
all right?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
If you're playing the home game when they jump on
the Transtar site and look at camera nine one five
whoa two eighty eight at six ten south. I mean
you just see these, It's really cool. Basically, the point
is visibility might be a thing this morning. Let's check
two eighty eight hype.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
It's Scott min Good morning.

Speaker 12 (14:36):
It's a pretty funny coming up to eighty eight past
the belt.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Maybe about quarter mile visibility.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
You'll be careful out.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
All right.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
I wonder if you can see Steven f. Boston this morning.
He kind of stands out Jimmy, all right, Steve from Burton, good.

Speaker 13 (14:48):
Morning, Scot, Mike Grew Brenham, chap o'hill, Pino Sausage, super
super dense bog Man, super den spog all right.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Jeff from Conrod owns seven volkswagons going.

Speaker 18 (14:59):
We have bo I'd say maybe half mile visibility coming south.

Speaker 19 (15:03):
Found on High forty five out of comrade.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
All right, Banana stickers all around. I'm Skymik on a
Generators Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
So it's the dense folk that worries me. It's so stupid.
Romar KTRH top Gas Defenders twenty four hour weather center
for today, showers and thundershowers, with the high temperature about
seventy four today. Tomorrow, scattered thunderstorms are likely seventy three Thursday,
becoming partly clotting and colder, high only fifty five. I'm
back to winter for a day. Right now sixty six

(15:29):
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
We're checking out some of our top stories on this Tuesday.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Arrests at the southern border continue to plummet thanks to
Trump policies. Defense Secretary Pete Hegsheth signs a memo officially
changing the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg,
and the President officially pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagoyevitch,
five years after he commuted his sentence on a corruption conviction.

(15:58):
Got the latest news anytime it came dot com. Our
next update is at five.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Thirty from the Sugarland area Pave Airport Area.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Should I just go ahead and apologize right now for
playing this. This is an airworm that'll be probably stuck
in your head for the whole day. I hate this song.
If you've ever been to Disney World, and you've ever
been to a Small World. It plays over and over
and over and over again, and it just gets in
your head. But that's the least of my issues with Disney.
I think my biggest issue right now is how much

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they're trying to It reminds me in this couple things
remind me of this. It reminds me of of an
example of a toll road in Virginia I used to
be on that never got used because it was so expensive.
I mean, it costs like seventeen bucks to go like
three or four miles. It was a connector to the

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airport that saved you five minutes. It's seventeen dollars. It
wasn't worth the five minutes. So nobody ever took it.
And their answer was because it was owned by some
Australian company who had bought it. Their answer to the
problem was to continually raise the prices. Well, we can't
get a lot of people to write on it, so
the people who do write on it, we need to

(17:18):
charge them more so we still make money. It's kind
of the philosophy that's going on at Walt Disney World
right now. Not enough people were coming when we were
charging over three thousand dollars for a family of four
for four days, So we need to raise those prices
so the people who are willing to come we can
still make money. At some point, you got to look

(17:40):
back and say, eventually, we're going to price ourselves out
of this. Plus you have all the other negative things
that have gone on to Disney. So my question to
you is, is it's still worth it for four days
for a family of four three hundred and fifty six
bucks average. I don't think that includes any airfare. That
just includes your your hotel and your food, and your

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park admissions, and of course they charge you extra if
you want to get to the front of the line,
and all the other things that go along with it.
At what point do you say to yourself, it's not
even a matter of whether I can come up with
the money or not. It's a matter of you know,
is it worth it or not? It's no longer worth it.
And you can respond to that by going to the
iHeartRadio app ktr H. Put it on your preset. You

(18:26):
get thirty seconds, first name, where you're calling from, and
when's the last time you've been to Disney. I'm trying
to I've been to Disney multiple times because I used
to work for the Mouse. In a matter of speaking,
a radio station I used to work at, you know,
was a Disney Corporation radio station. We used to go

(18:46):
every time they'd open up something new. In fact, I
went to epscop Center when they first open up. Is amazing.
But at this point I have no desire to go,
even if I were taking small kids. Anyway, Love to
know what you think about that. Five twenty six ear
News Ready k TRH. It is time to take a
look at your money. Here's Jeff Bellinger and.

Speaker 20 (19:05):
Jimmy good Morning.

Speaker 21 (19:06):
Stock started this week on a positive note Monday. Gains
for the major averages range from four ten percent to
one percent, but at the moment the futures are lower.
Right across the board, McDonald's shares were up almost five
percent yesterday. Domestic sales for the fast food chain declined
in the latest quarter, but McDonald's total comparable sales topped

(19:26):
forecast thanks to its overseas business, and optimism among small
business owners declined last month. The National Federation of Independent
Business says members are uncertain about how they'll be affected
by the Trump administration's economic policies. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg
Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
You are Old Houston's News.

Speaker 22 (19:50):
Why there were traffic plus Breaking News twenty four to seventh.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Five Everywhere with irm more of what's happening now from
the Johan Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
It is five thirty now here on Houston's Warning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories of this half hour,
only three hundred rre at the Texas border on Sunday,
the federal buio program put on a permanent pause and
coming up at five thirty eight, driving under the influence
of laughing gas. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Walk. Okay, that sounds fun. First you would like that,

(20:26):
skuy Mike, wouldn't you.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
Let's do some east text here, Jimmy, all right, first
of all, northbound tid Well. Nothing good's happening in the
feeder road. That's a complete shutdown. I don't think you
were planning on going there anyway, But stay on the mainland.
She'll be good to go from Umbleedown twenty one minutes
on the East Text Freeway forty five. Jeff from Conrod says,
there's a bit of fog if you're coming down from Conrod,

(20:48):
that makes sense. We're looking at twenty two minutes from
the Woodlands down rest of our freeways. Little fuzzy in spots,
but we're moving along. I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
R KTRH Generator Supercenter, t twenty four hour Weather Center.
Showers thundershowers today with hig temperature run about seventy could
get an introy to a brain tubes with some heavy
downfos will check out. Terry gets some more timing on
when the heaviest of the weather's going to be. When
we talked to her in about eight minutes. Temperature currently
is sixty six at your officials Severe Weather Station News

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Radio seven forty KTRH. It's timed out for the news.
Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's coming up on five point thirty two.
Good morning, everybody. Our top story. Border numbers continue to
plummet under President Trump. Texas DPS Lieutenant Chris Olivares posting
to social media that there were just three hundred three
crossings at the southern border on Sunday, continuing the three
week trend. But the situation remains dangerous, and that's why

(21:46):
Texas Congressman Morgan Latrelle has introduced the Cartel Act. He's
hoping to stop terrorists from entering the country illegally. Former
Acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey says, this should be a
no brainer.

Speaker 23 (21:58):
Hey, people are coming through on aitorist watch list.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
We should know about it.

Speaker 23 (22:02):
Certainly now under Donald Trump, the border is so much
more secure just than what less than three weeks. It's
a deterren for anyone that's going to want to come
into our country.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Knowing that we're on top of it.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
At least ninety nine illegals on the terror watch list
were released into the US under Joe Biden, but there
is continued resistance to efforts by ICE to deport illegal aliens.
And of course it's coming from sanctuary cities like New York.

Speaker 24 (22:29):
If ICE comes to the home, you do not have
to open the door. In fact, you should not open
the door.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
That teacher's union representative was caught on video obtained by
The New York Post during a recent zoom call and
then there is the resistance at the judicial level, with
a federal judge extending the hold on Trump's buy out
to offer federal government employees at pause will remain in
place until there's a final decision, and there's no timeline

(22:58):
for that. It's five point thirty three here at home.
Democrats on Harris County Commissioner's Court voted to give the
county attorney, Christian Menafee, the power to sue the Trump
administration for six months. So why are they doing that
as opposed to working for the county.

Speaker 25 (23:14):
For them, it is easier to join the resistance and
try to make everything national issues and hope that the
citizens of Harris County are ignoring the neglect that they
are suffering.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Former Harris County gopachair Gary Pollin says that local Democrats
should stop wasting taxpayer money on lawfare and while they
get involved with national issues, the county may not have
enough money for vital flood control projects. Six years after
Harris County voters approved a two and a half billion
dollar bond issue for flood control, the county is running

(23:46):
out of funding with several projects still unfinished. Reporter Holly
Hanson with the Texan News says this is a bad
look for county leaders.

Speaker 26 (23:53):
The county is spending, for example, some thirty six million
dollars for murals.

Speaker 27 (23:58):
That seems like a bit of a flock in shade when.

Speaker 26 (24:02):
Everyone is very concerned about the next time we have
one of these major swarm events.

Speaker 28 (24:08):
Just last year, Harris County voters approved another increase in
the flood Control District's portion of property taxes. Cory Jolson,
who's Radio seven forty KTR eight.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
It's now five point thirty four and as expected, the
President put tariffs in place on all aluminum and steel
products being imported into the US.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
Our nation requires steel an aluminum to be made in America,
not in foreign lands.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Those tariffs are set at twenty five percent now. The
possibility of tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico have
led to concerns from homebuilders, who say it could worsen
the housing affordability crisis. Analysts predict that if the tariffs
are put in the place, lumber costs could spike by
as much as forty percent. Not everyone buys it, though.

Speaker 29 (24:51):
Finished materials that's imported, Yeah, that could start going up.
I don't think it'll go up forty or fifty percent.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
Jim Dutton, host of Texas Home and Movement here on KTRH,
says the market for new homes is hot right now,
in an increase won't affect that. Meantime, US manufacturing is
set to boom. Is business optimism source to high as
we haven't seen in three years.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
There's renewed hope for a rebound after a few struggling years.

Speaker 19 (25:18):
Without positive business optimism, most likely are not going to
be making any investments, you know, not only in people,
but then cap X in an inventory.

Speaker 30 (25:26):
Tim Fioria of ISMS Manufacturing Survey Committee says destaffing is
helping things and the room for a boom is there
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 19 (25:34):
Plan on growing about four and a half percent on
the top line number in twenty twenty five compared to
what we think was less than one percent in twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 30 (25:41):
He says high prices and inflation are still an issue,
but an ease is expected in coming months. Andre Parade
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Five thirty six. McDonald's reported lower than expected fourth quarter revenues,
blaming the recent E Coli breakout, but It's not the
only reason. Idonomics factor in too.

Speaker 31 (26:00):
We've seen consumers pulling back in their spending even in
the fast food sector. Those two things combined, I think
definitely had an impact on their numbers.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
Jonathan Harwitz with the Houston Hospitality Alliance. Meantime, the egg
shortage that has led to sky high prices and hoarding, well,
there's no threat to your chicken dinner for now. Tuna
and pork might be a different story.

Speaker 20 (26:26):
That's because the chickens raised for eating, called broilers, are
treated more carefully than egg laying hens, which sometimes crowd
up to a million at a time in some facilities
and are killed off by bird flu. USA Today Consumer
reporter Betty Lynn Fisher says people who can't get eggs
move on to tuna and pork as substitutes.

Speaker 18 (26:46):
There might be shortages, not because of girt loop, but
because consumers are moving to those products and the grocers
might not be ready.

Speaker 20 (26:54):
Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty kra.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Ive thirty seven. It's already that time of year. Jim
pitchers and catchers report to the Astros spring training complex
on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Where's Alex Bredman?

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Good question? I Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and
traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Wow, welcome to this, Welcome to the know.

Speaker 27 (27:17):
People have the right to know, to know what.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Now stay in the know. A note with US Radio
seven forty KTRH five thirty eight our time here in
Houston's morning news. Laughing gas otherwise known as nitrous oxide,
sometimes used by dennist. You know, dude, did you breathe deeply?
And you know it makes you happy and you don't
really care? You're at the dentist office anymore. Well, the

(27:40):
Houston dentist and university professor, his name is Christopher Pedlar,
has been arrested again. Evidently this is not the first time,
this time with more than one hundred canisters of nitrous oxide.
What one hundred? While the chemicals frequently used in dynastry,
authorities alleged that Pedlar was huffing the gas while driving.

(28:03):
I guess that's one way to forget about a traffic jam.
How long we've been hut here? Three hours?

Speaker 4 (28:08):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Unbelievable. He's now been charged three times since October for
a possession of nitrous oxide. How do you get your
hands one hundred canisters of that stuff. It's a regulated gas.
You should you shouldn't be able to get his hands
on that stuff. In two of the incidents, incidents that
he has been caught, he reportedly had over one hundred
canisters in his possession, so he's got a lot of it.

(28:34):
He spent Sunday night in custody after being stopped in
the Heights. He's thirty nine years old. You know, in
addition to making you high, nitrous oxide also causes dizziness, fatigue, psychosis, sweating,
shortness of breath. Didn't that sound like fun? Shivering, euphoria, nausea,
and blurred vision, none of which you want to be

(28:56):
suffering from when you're driving. To drive in Houston Trap
five forty time for traffic and weather together as we
check out. No, you can't have any skyline.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
You want to buy some You want to buy some
nitrous oxide?

Speaker 32 (29:08):
Man?

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Uh, Let's see, so far our freeways are okay. We
do have this one problem on the east text that's
in the feeder road. It's nothing good is happening. They're
pedestrian outbound at Chidwell. Mainlanes aren't affected so far West
Park to Way inbound outbound outbound. That's a stall hits
the right lane. He's just mining his own business, basically.
Jeed Blight seven one three two one two t I

(29:30):
p s.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Dude, it might just.

Speaker 33 (29:32):
Scotty from the Woodlands man, just stick up here back
it is.

Speaker 32 (29:35):
I think I'm on I five North.

Speaker 34 (29:41):
But and if somebody had to say it, I ain't
got the foggiest I know where I am.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Oh, Lord Scottie, he does that sometimes, Tommy.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
I'm a the Generator Supercenter dot com traffic center from Otay.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, right from r KT r H Generator super Center,
twenty four hour weathers Center. Terry's here. Storms are coming.
Do what do you think as far as timing for
the heaviest rainfall today, Terry.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Sometime afternoon.

Speaker 17 (30:05):
I'd say anywhere between twelve and six as a general rule.
We've got a couple of light showers out there right now,
and we may continue to see, you know, some light
rain here and there through the morning hours. But it's
later today, as the front hits a little bit closer
that we'll see the showers and some thunderstorms begin to

(30:28):
pick up. We could get some brief periods of heavy
rain today and tonight. I don't think we're going to
have a widespread flat flooding issue, but we're going to
be watching that just in case we do get some
of those isolated areas of heavy rain. Eighty percent chance
of showers and storms today and temperatures upper sixties to
mid seventies. We have an eighty percent chance of rain overnight,

(30:50):
mainly late tonight, and then the front's going to be
swinging through tomorrow, so a sixty percent chance of showers
and storms that'll be tapering off in the aft. Temperatures
tomorrow are even warmer, in the seventies, and then Thursday
they get much colder. We have a twenty percent chance
of rain Thursday, and.

Speaker 27 (31:10):
Hei's only in the mid to upper fifties.

Speaker 17 (31:13):
We'll start to warm back up a little bit more
Friday and Saturday, and there's more rain on the way
toward the end of the week.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Right now, sixty six at your officials, Severe Weather Station
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Just like the ride, I'm
likely to wear this one out this morning, over and
over and over again until it's in your head and
you can't make a go away. Five forty nine Here
in Houston's warning you all right question of the day.
Go to the iHeartRadio app to answer it. You go

(31:40):
to KTRH. Put us in the know. Put us in
there in the preset so you can get to us quickly.
Give me your first name, where you're calling from, and
your Disney experience. Have you've been to Disney recently? Too expensive?
Are you going back? I mean, the horror story's just
continued to come in. Here's a woman, she and her
husband and two kids spent over three thousand dollars for

(32:00):
a two day adventure at Walt Disney at Disneyland. Actually,
in this case, including did not include airfare and lodging,
which her parents evidently paid for. She instantly regretted it.
The amount of add ons is ridiculous. So I'm asking
the question about, you know, the Disney experience. Have they
priced them out, priced themselves out of your family's realm

(32:23):
of even considering going.

Speaker 34 (32:25):
Okay, here are my thoughts on Disney. I will shorten
this real quick. I am a California refugee. I left
California for these very kind of reasons. Disney is a
human monster that just takes everybody's money at every turn.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
By the way, this is John Brusher. You guys have
a great day. Bye awesome Cyprus, Texas.

Speaker 15 (32:50):
Yeah, it's a combination of cost and the company policies.
I'll never go to Disney again.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
By the way, one day ticket to Disneyland, the cheapest
one day ticket is now over two hundred bucks. One person,
one day, two hundred bucks. And if you want to,
if you want to skip the lines, you can add
a couple hundred more bucks to that. All right, five
fifty one time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Fit in the room, Jimmy Barrett, what's the elephants name
we need? The elephant's name is Elon Musk. Hold up
your hand if you agree with me out there. Elon
Musk needs to come to Houston and rebuild Astro World.

Speaker 23 (33:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Okay, all right, hearty toe road, it's ramone. Good morning,
my dude, buggy.

Speaker 35 (33:31):
And there are currently no steet trapped all the way
from the ninety nine to the airport.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 18 (33:37):
For whatever reason, everybody is holding up on the left lane.

Speaker 36 (33:41):
They got to go to death with the get that right.

Speaker 15 (33:44):
I checked out because h right lanes are in.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
We appreciate that so much for it's he's given some
left to doctor Jeff Whitson. I'm Skymike on the Generator
Supercenter dot com Traffic Center from r k t.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
R H Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center showers
and thunderstorms. Looks like the heaviest stuff will be early
this afternoon according to Jerry anyway, not seventy for the high.
Scattered thunderstorms likely for tomorrow seventy three partly Claudie colder
and now dooming colder. High only near fifty five on Thursday.
Temperature right now currently is sixty six at your official

(34:17):
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH. Check
out some of our top trending stories here on this Tuesday.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
We're brought to you by Morrow. Mechanical sci Fi ISD
gives final approval to a policy informing parents if their
kids change gender ID. The FBI reportedly discovers some twenty
four hundred documents related to the jfk assassination, and a
jet owned by Motley Kruzinger Vince Neil was involved in
a deadly collision in Arizona. The singer was not on

(34:48):
the plane. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH. Dot
com Our next updates at six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
I live in clear Lake, Humble, reliable KTRH traffic band
weather next on the ten.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Well, that's what we're trying to do with the government.
Shrek the government, right. Great Gutfold on the show last
night was talking about, you know, all all the names
the president Trump continues to be called. He's a fascist,
he's a Nazi, blah blah blah blah blah blah. He's
a dictator. Name a dictator or a fascist that ever
shrunk government, they made government bigger and all encompassing. And

(35:26):
that's the point he made last night.

Speaker 16 (35:27):
Trump speaks to Putin, makes plans for Iran, and announces
that he's the new chairman of the Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts. The Kennedy Center is funded by US,
of course, and as usual, has become a bastion of
left wing causes, including drag queen shows for kids. It's
like MSNBC opened up a theater where Sam Brinton and
adamal Levine had boxed seats. Trump even signed an EO

(35:52):
designating February ninth as Gulf of America Day.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
What do you make of that?

Speaker 16 (36:02):
Definitely not a sombrero. He even got rid of a penny.
Now I'll have to give the homeless Canadian pennies. So
it's no wonder the left is more off balanced than Kamala.
Leaving Happy Hour and watching them try to figure it
out reminds me of watching Joe try to put on
his jacket on a windy day. Trump signed more eos

(36:23):
in ten days than any predecessor did in their first
one hundred, and the media is flailing. The Washington Post
published this scary headline, Trump's second term is all about
curtailing government's power and rate, as if that's what he
wasn't elected to do. And by calling it out, they
just admitted that he's no fascists. But they're even too

(36:44):
stupid to realize that. Brilliant men like me have to
point it out to them.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Oh thank you, you agree.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Sometimes I have to point it out myself.

Speaker 16 (36:55):
I mean, what fascists ever sought to shrink government?

Speaker 9 (36:59):
Did?

Speaker 16 (36:59):
Hitler, Mussolini, et cetera? They expand never shrink. Truth is
as one side of government tries to expose waste, fraud,
and abuse, the other side is the waste and fraud itself.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
They're wondering they viewed dose as an act of terror.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
They're very concerned about for obvious reasons. They're still complaining
about usai D. They're still trying to justify the things
that they were spending in USAID. Incredible, But the good
news is is that they haven't learned anything. Clearly, they
haven't learned anything, and they're not making any changes. So

(37:40):
I guess the conservative sweep will continue. That's probably the
best thing that could happen. Five point fifty six. Now
you're a news radio seven forty k t RH.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Is use Radio seven kt RH Houston everywhere with now
the latest newsweather and Trappaily it's more of what matters
to you from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Six AM is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories, this af our
sipe Air gives final approval to parental notification. Trump warns
some us that all hell is about to break loose,
and coming up at six o' eight, does your pet
have a microchip that doesn't work? Anymore details in the minute,
Say head, you're in Houston's Morning News. First, let's check

(38:27):
out that morning drive again. Sky Mike's here all right,
this is not.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Affecting your mainlanes, but east texts outbound. If you're wondering
what all the lights are, that's a pedestrian accident at
Tidwell outbound. It's shut down the feeder. Nothing good's happening there.
Main lanes are actually okay. Fog drizzle, so let's get
an early start. I'm turning off your snooze on the
east text forty five north. Here's Shadow Dave.

Speaker 15 (38:46):
Thanks got my dude showering and Willis made it all
the Lady Parker Road in forty five minutes in the fall.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
That's a banana sticker.

Speaker 15 (38:54):
And God bless Jim Carroll, a man one of.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
The legendary radio voices of Houston. Jim Carrol. We lost
him yesterday. Also the voice of the Oilers and the
astrodom Jimmy. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
How old was it man? He had to be in
his seventies.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
I gotta tell you this. He's nice to farm boys.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
I got you. I got you from our KTRH top
tax defenders. Twenty four hour Weather Center. Showers and thunderstorms
with the height today right about seventy. We'll get Terry
Smith in here with more specific details in eight minutes.
Right now, temperature is sixty seven at your officials se
of your weather station, news radio seven forty k TRH.
It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
And at six oh two we're brought to you by
ISO pharmaic LC. Last night, sci Fair ISSD giving final
approval to a policy requiring that parents be notified if
students change their gender identity. The whole thing triggered the
left at a board meeting.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Know this, you're the ones casting judgment.

Speaker 6 (39:53):
You will bear the weight of these students' suicides caused
by your actions. It's not protection, it's harm, and it's
on your hands.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
The policy is similar to what was adopted by the
Katie ISD a couple of years ago. Also topping the news,
President Donald Trump giving Hamas an ultimatum release the hostages or.

Speaker 7 (40:11):
Else Saturday at twelve o'clock and after that I would say,
all hell is going to break out.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
This was after Hamas's claim that Israel violated the current
ceasefire and refused to release any more hostages that they've
held since October seventh.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Here at home.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
A federal judge extends a temporary restraining order blocking the
administration's buy out of federal employees. Utah Senator Mike Leetels
Fox this is an attack on doze in Elon Musk.

Speaker 8 (40:42):
Elon Musk and the doche crew are going in looking
for waste, fraud and abuse, looking to ferret out ways
that we can stop this problem. It's landed US thirty
six trillion dollars in debt with no easy way out.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
Elsewhere, another federal judge ruled against Trump's executive order ending
for right citizenship. And there's this the federal judge Paul
Engelmeyer in Massachusetts being called that for judicial overreach after
he blocked Doge from accessing Treasury Department information.

Speaker 9 (41:12):
The fact that this order prevents the Secretary of the Treasury,
who's been confirmed by the Senate, that he can't even
look at any IRS documents, that is ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Constitutional attorney Andy True Savage told KTRH that Engelmeyer's entire
reasoning was flawed because it was based on the quote
possibility that Musk might use the information improperly. Six four
the anti Elon crowd protested yesterday outside the US Consumer
Finance Protection Bureau, led by Elizabeth Warren.

Speaker 37 (41:45):
He and his co president, Elon Musk, have tried to
shut down the agency that has delivered twenty one billion
dollars to hard working families.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
The government, or rather the crowd chanting lock him up.
Democrats are now threatening a shutdown next month over the
Trump agenda. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to
his colleagues in the Senate yesterday threatening investigations and litigation. Oh,
by the way, the deadline for a new spending bill
is March fourteenth. A number th example of the unhinged left.

(42:25):
There's a state representative in Michigan who went and got
herself sterilized because she's afraid President Trump is going to
ban birth control. Andrea Whidberg with The American Thinker says
the left is even more loony now than they were
in Trump's first term.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
This is performative.

Speaker 27 (42:44):
They have a lot of mental problems.

Speaker 12 (42:45):
These are often people who are mentally ill, and the
fact that she has taken herself out of the reproductive
market prevents the child from being brought up in an
insane asylum called home.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
For the record, the President has never said anything about
banning conception six O five on KTRH. The final vote
to confirm Telsea Gabbard as DNI could come as early
as today. She cleared a major hurdle last night when
the Senate voted along party lines to advance her nomination.
The Chinese AI app deep Seek didn't just rock the

(43:18):
tech sector a couple of weeks ago. It turns out
that it's an attack on the American technology sector.

Speaker 20 (43:25):
China scholar Gordon Chang says the company that released deep
Seek has ties to the Chinese Communist Party and most
of the claims made about the product are false. Now,
he says there should.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Be action eventually.

Speaker 13 (43:38):
The Trump administration will have to do something because this
was intellectual property fask and I think this was a
project to harm US tech companies.

Speaker 20 (43:47):
Much of the tech involved in deep Seek, he says,
came from the American Open AI projects. Michael Shiloh News
Radio seven forty k TRI.

Speaker 5 (43:56):
Meantime, the President places at twenty five percent tariff on
steel and aluminum products. We'll have more on that coming
up at six point thirty six ZHO six. Houston's violent
crime wave continues. A sixteen year old girl shot and
killed in North Houston in a car overnight. One of
three men inside that car is still on the run.
The HPD officer shortage continues, and the mayor now says

(44:19):
last year suspended case scandal did not help.

Speaker 38 (44:22):
It had a huge impact on what I was trying
to accomplish by increasing the number of recruits. We had
to deal with two hundred and sixty thousand, not twenty
six thousand. Two hundred and sixty thousand suspended cases.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
Mayor with our TV partner Channel two, safety concerns rising
at UH after a string of violent crimes. So what
is the school's police department doing.

Speaker 15 (44:46):
We're making everybody extremely aware of your surroundings and similar
to what Houston Police Department would do, we start having
spikes and crime in certain areas. Are you going to
make the residents to students more vigilant?

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Retired HBD Captain Greg Freeman says this is likely a
side effect of the high crime surrounding the school you have.
H did not respond to ktrh's request for comment.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
Six seven.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
Billy Wagner will officially go into the Baseball Hall of
Fame this summer as an ASTRO. That decision made yesterday
by the National Museum. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News
weather in traffic station k t R H.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Houston's morning news continues with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
And he all got a missing pet six of eight
hour time here on Houston's Boring News. I think that's
for pet owner, that's like the worst nightmare rank especially
if you took all the precautions. You got your your
beer pet micro chift, and and you know you did
your level best to make sure that they didn't have
an escape route. My dog would be afraid. I think
my dog. My dog won't go out in the backyard

(45:48):
for any appreciable length of time without me, So I
feel pretty safe. And he's a chucky little guy, so
I don't think anybody's gonna come and carry him away.
He'd bite the heck out of him if they tried
to do that. But for those who have the security
of feeling well, my pets microchip, at least if something happens,
we have a way of finding that pet. You should

(46:08):
know that a Texas based company called Save This Life
that makes microchips for pets has gone under. They're bankrupt,
they're shutting down, they're shutting down all their operations. There
will no longer be anybody to monitor that microchip. So
if your microchip came from this company, and of course

(46:30):
it was probably put in by a vet, right, you
may want to ask your vet where that microchip came from.
Make sure it didn't come from Save This Life. Because
there's no way to monitor it. There's no information linked
to it anymore. It's useless.

Speaker 18 (46:47):
Now.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
The good news is is that that information can be
transferred to a different company. You just need to be
aware of it so that you can get that information
transferred so that you know you have a microchip that's
actually working again. The name of the company win under
is called Save this Life. Check you check with your
bet to see if your your pet was microchip by
this Texas company, and if so, then you're going to

(47:10):
need to work with that vet in order to get
a different monitor for that situation so that you can
get that information transferred over so that you know that
that microchip is going to work if it's ever needed.
Heaven forbid six ' ten. Time for traffic and weather together. Yes,
guy mine, Well we've.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Gotten gold freeway that just cleared this wreck here Jimmy
northbound at the South Loop six ten, Terry sent your hazardous.
You have to take the loop either south or north,
and we have finished the roadwork on the south Loop,
so that's out of the way. North Loop, we're not
really tying up at the squeeze just yet westbound, so
it's a good time if your hazardous. Otherwise, take ien
Baytown Freeway into the Kadie Freeway. Let's go to Jared.

(47:48):
I've gone to Jared before.

Speaker 15 (47:50):
Dude Yo sky Mike headed north on the west Loop
right next to it.

Speaker 6 (47:55):
Next.

Speaker 35 (47:55):
That fog is actually starting.

Speaker 15 (47:57):
To accumulate into rain. On the webbit resident slick.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
High beams are super helpful during the fog. Really appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Good kidding, all right, low beams, everybody Mark from Springs
on forty five north.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Good luck.

Speaker 13 (48:08):
Just as soon as as they started talking about no grain,
it started raining.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
That makes sense, all right. So far I'm seeing a
lot of thickness too. After shephard, we're starting to really
drag butt talks.

Speaker 39 (48:20):
Sindy from Dayton, Dude, Sindy from day Tiny westbound from
ninety nine dick bog and sit drizzle actually a raining,
and then of course we got everybody going slow in
the left hand lane.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
All right, Terry, see traffic of weather like a Reese's
peanut buttercup. You've got chocolate in my peanut butter again.
I'm in the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Brob r ktlright stop DAX Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry is here, and yeah, it's gonna be a stormy
day today, some showers and storms. You put it all together,
we could get the pretty good dose of rain today.

Speaker 17 (48:49):
Goodn't we Yes, we could wind up with easily one
to two inches of rain between today and tomorrow when
the rain does why down. But there may be some
places that see even more than that. Especially our northern
suburbs are more likely to run into a little bit
more rain.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
We are looking at some showers this morning.

Speaker 17 (49:12):
What I've seen so far, for the most part, has
been light to moderate, but it's a steady flow of
moisture from the south. So we're going to see this
off and on through the day today eighty percent chance
of getting wet at some point over the course of
the day. I expect we'll see our rain chances increase
into the afternoon as well. Temperatures upper sixties to mid seventies,

(49:33):
eighty percent chance of more showers, some thunder overnight, sixty
percent chance of showers and some thunder Tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
It'll taper off by the afternoon.

Speaker 17 (49:42):
That cold front's moving through, so at some point by
tomorrow afternoon we'll be drying out. Now we're in the
seventies tomorrow, but the colder air moves in Thursday. We
still have a twenty percent chance of a shower Thursday,
but temperatures only in the mid to upper fifties.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
That's a little chilly.

Speaker 17 (49:58):
We'll start to warm back up Friday and Saturday, but
we still have some more rein to deal with towards
the end.

Speaker 27 (50:03):
Of the week.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Right now, sixty seven at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty ktrh USE Traffic and Weather.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
You're starting your day right with Houston's Morning News, brought
to you by New South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
All right, we had a story a few days ago
about this Michigan state representative who claims that she got
herself sterilized because she's afraid, well, she's afraid of a
couple of things. First of all, she's afraid of the
Trump presidency, but also claims she's afraid that Trump might
ban contraception products. And there's been all sorts of rumor

(50:40):
stories about Plan B going away under Trump, none of
which are true, but they're all over social media, and
young women seem to be buying into some of this stuff. Well,
Doctor Andrea Widberg, Managing editor, American Thinker, about this coming
up next, But first traffic and weather together, we check
out the drive again here Sky Micael.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
All right, Jimmy, I think we got trouble in the canyon.
My work wife, Christina Cruz is like, what you need
to see?

Speaker 2 (51:03):
What's going on in the canyon?

Speaker 4 (51:04):
Southbound A nine sixty nights, so you know, because she
talks like that, it's northbound. Actually, something scooched up on
the east text elevated. I'll try to zoom. It gets
you some laneage at the six thirty report. I've got
backups now from Shepherd northbound and then southbound the east
text equipment. It's the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather
center for today, showers, thunderstorms, high temperature right about seventy
looks like the heaviest rain is going to be probably
this afternoon tomorrow. Scattered thunderstorms are likely seventy three, partly cloudie,
much colder, twenty percent shower chance fifty five for the
high on Thursday. Temperature currently sixty seven at your officials

(51:43):
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let's check out some of our top stories this morning.
Here's clip, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (51:51):
Border arrests continue to slow to a trickle. A Houston dentist.
Jimmy mentioned this last hour, but in case you missed it,
Christopher Peddler was arrested for huffing and driving. The guy
had one hundred and seven canisters of laughing gas in
his car. And Meta is in cost cutting mode. Facebook's
parent company laid off more than thirty six hundred employees yesterday.

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Speaker 2 (52:31):
Well, I think in this case, she drove herself crazy
with Trump derangement syndrome. Six twenty three is our time
here in Houston's morning News. We're joined by Andrea Wiberg,
Managing editor of American Thinker. Now, the only thing I
could think of when I saw this story about this
Michigan state representative who claims that she got sterilized because
of fear over of Trump and Trump a Trump ban

(52:51):
on contraception or all lest other stupid murmers that are
going around that aren't true. I'm thinking to myself, well, good,
that that's one less crazy person that we have to
worry about raising another crazy person.

Speaker 40 (53:06):
I'm sorry to say that was my same thought as well.
Someone like that is not capable of raising a child.
But what also struck me is how performative it was,
because Trump has been explicit that matters related to contraception
and abortion and now the purview of the state. And

(53:29):
she lives in the state Michigan, where abortion is completely
legal in the legislature, completely Democrat run and pro abortion
and everything. So she's one of those women on the
left who thinks she's living in the Handmaid's Tale. And
what was ironic was that was written in the mid
eighties at the height of Iran being the real Handsmaid's

(53:52):
Handmaid's Tale. But all these crazy leftist women for the
last four decades have been thinking it's always tomorrow in America.

Speaker 27 (54:00):
Well, social she's one of them.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Social media has sort of been going crazy over this,
the rumor that President Trump plans to ban Plan B
the morning after Pill, the supposed morning after Pill. I
haven't heard anything about that. If you are anything about that,
is there any truth at all to that?

Speaker 40 (54:16):
I have not heard a word from that about that
from Trump. Trump doesn't want to touch this issue because
he also knows that although the Republican Party is generally
pro life, there are a lot of women in the
Republican Party who are not quite so pro life, and

(54:36):
it's not an area.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
He wants to go to right exactly.

Speaker 40 (54:40):
He's got other things on the table, much more important.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Right now, speak speaking of which, are you as amazed
as I am at the sheer volume of executive orders
that this man has put into effect in this first
few weeks in office. He's already exceeded any other president's
efforts in their first one hundred days in office. In office,
and he's only been in office less than thirty.

Speaker 40 (55:02):
It is extraordinary and quite wonderful. He is a juggernaut.
The best thing that ever happened to America was that
he was booted I don't think honestly from the White
House in twenty twenty because his second term would have
been a lane duck term, and his twenty twenty four term,

(55:26):
twenty twenty five term is turning into the most explosive,
transformative moment in American history. And he's also doing something
very important, which is forcing a confrontation with the judicial
system where every two bit hard left district court judge
in some blue region is trying to control the entire

(55:49):
executive branch of government. And he must have known this
confrontation was coming. He's hitting it hard and fast because
it truly will determine America's future. Are we going to
be a constitutional country or are we essentially going to
have rule by judges?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Yeah? Yeah, It's gonna be amazing to watch all of this. Andrea,
thank you. Has always appreciated Andrea Wiberg, Managing editor of
American Thinker, six twenty seven. Time to take a look
at your money. Here's Jeff Bellinger and Jimmy.

Speaker 21 (56:15):
American households expect to increase their spending by just under
four and a half percent this year. This according to
a survey by the New York FED. That is the
lowest reading in four years, but it is still above
pre pandemic levels. Stock market futures pointing lower across the
board this morning. The now futures are down ninety one points.
I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 22 (56:42):
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four to seven.

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

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Six thirty Our time, Houston's borning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour, only three hundred
Sunday at the Texas border, the FED buyo program has
been put on a permanent pause by a judge. And
coming up at six thirty eight, it's Fort Bragg again,
but this time it's with a twist. Details In the
minutes ahead, you're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking

(57:19):
out that morning drive again with sky May. All right,
we just.

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Your southwest is packed up now from Greenbrier southbound. That's
making your east text smush up from quipment. Let's take
it in the Katie or the Baytown Freeway. Get around
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Weather Center.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Showers thunderstorms today with the high temperature right about seventy
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or two anyway. Terry Smith will join us with more
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at your officials Severe Weather Station. News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time now for the news.

Speaker 5 (58:06):
Here's Cliff Saunders, Thank you, Jimmy six thirty one on
KTRH and our top story, Dwindling border numbers under Donald Trump.
On Sunday, Texas DPS says they were just three hundred
three arrests at the border. Keep in mind, three hundred
three along a twelve hundred and fifty four mile area.
But there are the continued consequences of the Joe Biden

(58:28):
border disaster. Texas Congressman Morgan Latrelle introducing a bill that
provides more transparency on terrorist activity at the border.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
The bill is called the Cartel Act.

Speaker 23 (58:40):
There were several hundred people who were on the terrorist
watch list, and even worse, ninety nine of them after
they were.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
Stopped, they were released into the United States.

Speaker 11 (58:50):
That's Jonathan Fahey, former acting ICE director, and.

Speaker 23 (58:54):
The American people need to know are our border secured
and we certainly didn't have them during the Biden administration.

Speaker 11 (59:00):
Amazing that you need to pass a law to report
terror threats. Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven k T eight.

Speaker 5 (59:07):
Thank you, Jeff. Meantime, DHS Secretary Christy Noan accuses the
FBI of leaking ICE operations in Los Angeles. That's not
going overwhelm with US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Speaker 23 (59:19):
People don't understand that jeopardizes the lives of our great
men and women in law enforcement.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
And if you weaked it, we will find out who
you are and we will come after you.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
Bondi on Fox. This comes after the leak that impacted
an ICE operation in Colorado and resistance at the judicial
level to Trump as a federal judge extends to hold
on Trump's buy out of federal government employees, and that's
going to remain in place until there's a final decision,
and we have no idea when that's coming down. It's

(59:49):
six thirty three. Democrats in Harris County continue to target Trump,
giving the county attorney authority to sue the administration for
the next six months.

Speaker 14 (59:58):
They're doing all of this continuing to ignore their local responsibilities.

Speaker 25 (01:00:03):
They were elected to take care of infrastructure, take care
of law enforcements, take care of our roads, bridges.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Et cetera.

Speaker 14 (01:00:11):
Gary Polland with the Texas Conservative Review says that they
should get back to the basics of local government.

Speaker 25 (01:00:16):
Back to the Bay six means for not joining the
lawsuits for the Democratic efforts to distract and stop President
Trump from following his mandate.

Speaker 14 (01:00:24):
He says, our tax money should be spent on our
roads and bridges, not lawfair against the Trump administration. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTR.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
And the county is so busy blocking Trump that it's
run out of your money for vital flood control. Leaders
are now looking at a shortfall of more than one
hundred million dollars for unfinished projects this year alone. Reporter
Holly Hanson with The Texan says, there is no good
explanation for this.

Speaker 26 (01:00:49):
It's going to be pretty painful to have to come
back to taxpayers and ask for more flood control money
after this huge tax increase and some questions about the
way twenty eighteen bonds have.

Speaker 27 (01:01:02):
Been spent thus far.

Speaker 5 (01:01:03):
Voter's approved a two and a half billion dollar flood
control bond in twenty eighteen, and then another increase in
flood control district taxes last year six point thirty four.
As EXPEC did. The President put in place tariffs on
all aluminum and steel products being brought into the country.

Speaker 7 (01:01:20):
We need to create in order to protect our country's future.
Resurgence of US manufacturing and production, the likes of which
has not been seen for many decades. It's time for
our great industries to come back to America.

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
Those tariffs at twenty five percent, and there is growing
concern that the tariffs on Mexico and China could lead
to a spike in the cost of.

Speaker 41 (01:01:43):
New homes, while some analysts predict the tariffs could spike
lumber costs by forty percent Locally, there's a different.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Outlook, but I just don't think we're going to have
a huge increase.

Speaker 29 (01:01:54):
I believe there'll be some increase, just not a huge
increase in material costs.

Speaker 41 (01:01:59):
Jim Dutton, hosts of Texas Home Improvement heard on KTRH,
says the increase will mainly be unfinished materials. Industry leaders
still warrant of a possible disruption in the supply chains
if tariffs are enacted.

Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
Eric Sharp, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
Thank you, Eric. Business optimism source to a year three
year high which is now triggering a potential boom for
US manufacturing. Tom Fiori of the ISM Manufacturing Survey Committee
says this will trigger more capital investment, and he welcomes it.

Speaker 19 (01:02:29):
We had twenty eight months of contraction post pandemic, and
that's the longest period of contraction we've had in twenty years.
We've had six manufacturing cycles in those twenty years, so
I think we're in a pretty good position here for
twenty five and twenty six.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
He says. The feds attempt to force lower interest rates
is still a problem and a lot of growth will
depend on how they approach inflation. Six point thirty six
McDonald sooy decline and revenue in the fourth quarter of
last year, largely due to the fact that you can
often get more bang for your bucket.

Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Other places.

Speaker 31 (01:03:01):
We're seeing a lot more emphasis put on that value dining.
There are a lot of deals promotions out there, a
lot of limited time offers.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
Jonathan Horowitz with the Houston Hospitality Alliance says that's why
restaurants like Chili's have done well while McDonald's underperforms. And
while bird flu is ravaging large groups of chickens used
for laying eggs, there's no shortage of the chickens ray
used to be on your dinner plate. USA Today's Betty
Lynn Fisher says consumers have proven in the past they

(01:03:32):
will take a certain path when eggs start costing too much,
and so.

Speaker 18 (01:03:35):
When it's too expensive, they're going to go move to
the next cheapest protein, which is tuna, chicken, and poor.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
So there could be a run on those items. Six
seven scrambletoon it doesn't sound good. No, I'm not a
big tuna fish fan anyway, Just to be for that
for the record. Sixth right, Uh beats Baylor last night,
seventy six to sixty five. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news,
weather and Traffic station KTRH the twentieth day of January.

Speaker 42 (01:04:02):
President Hi Donald John Trump, inauguration Day, the first one
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Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Right, you've heard that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth yesterday directed
the US Army to change the name of Fort Liberty
back to Fort Bragg. And you're probably thinking, okay, well,
here come the haters again, because the reason why they
dropped the Fort Bragg name is because it was named
after a Confederate general, right, Braxton Bragg. That's what they

(01:04:37):
named it after, who, by the way, was from Texas well.
Actually he was born in North Carolina. He died in
Galveston Civil War general for the Confederate Army. But the
part of the story that you probably should know is that, Okay, yeah,

(01:04:59):
they've named it Fort Bragg, but they didn't rename it
after Braxton Bragg, the Confederate general. Here's the twist, Here's
here's here's the workaround that Pete Hegseth has decided to
go with and it's really quite brilliant. They are naming
it after Roland L. Bragg, a World War Two hero.

(01:05:22):
How about that? So it goes back to being Fort
Bragg b R A g G. It's just Fort Roland L.
Bragg instead of Fort Braxton Bragg. Either way, it's Fort
Bragg again, only they got rid of the problematic naming
after a Confederate general. It's pretty smart. Wonder how many

(01:05:42):
other names you could come up with for some of
the other some of the other forts that have had
their names changed because of their connection to a Confederate general.
You know, there's there's plenty of Lee's. I'm sure they've
served in the military, so you don't have to have
named something after Robert E.

Speaker 13 (01:05:59):
Lee.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Sup Ford Lee in Virginia. Maybe they could rename that
after a differently six forty time for trafficking weather together.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Bruce Lee Circle in New Orleans. There you go, Scott,
everybody was kunk fu fighting downtown.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
We had this sixty nine east text elevated wreck. We
never really got the lineage on I neew it was
there northbound right forty five. This messed up the Southwest
Freeway and it's this mess up is here to stay.
I think with the weather from Greenbrier all the way up,
you lose about twelve minutes this way, and then your
east text elevated all smudged up from Quipman down back
past the Big George Katie Freeway. You've got the brake

(01:06:35):
lights now hitting right around Yale inbound as you're trying
to get to the President's Heads and extra eleven minutes
coming this way Westlop going down to uptown. We're packed
up from Hempstead Highway Katie Freeway. You'll hit the brake
lights just past Graham Parkway and I've got Steve on
two ninety.

Speaker 18 (01:06:51):
One and sky Mike getting off of the two ninety
on that Cellway connect south.

Speaker 15 (01:06:57):
There is a salid car right there before you get
on the bridge.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
All right, watch out trick ninjas on the way to
that terry reach over there. Please and turn everybody snooze off,
because you know we've got this fog and drizzle and
rain all over town this morning. We've got to get
an early start. I'm skylike from the Generator Supercenter dot
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Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
From our Katii rh Generator super Center twenty four Hour
Whether Center Terry is here. Aren't seeing the worst of
the rain yet, though, are.

Speaker 17 (01:07:20):
We No, we haven't seen the worst of the rain,
and the fog is making our morning drive a little problematic.

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
Boy.

Speaker 17 (01:07:28):
The visibility super low around Ellington Field right now, about
an eighth of a mile visibility.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
So the fog is the main problem this morning.

Speaker 17 (01:07:36):
We have some showers out there too, They're kind of
spotty right now, but the rain's going to increase and
the fog will be less of an issue. So it's
just no fun to drive today. Well, it'll be a
little slower, let's just put it that way. Eighty percent
chance of showers and some thunder today. Now, our temperature
is upper sixties to mid seventies. We still have an
eighty percent chance of rain tonight and a sixty percent

(01:07:59):
chance of showers and doms tomorrow. They'll be tapering off
late in the day. Call front's going to be bringing
us some dryer air bying late tomorrow. Temperatures tomorrow in
the seventies now thursdays when the cold air moves into
Southeast Texas, at least briefly, we do have a twenty
percent chance of rain Thursday. But the main thing is
our temperatures will only be in the mid to upper fifties.

(01:08:20):
We're going to start to warm back up Friday and Saturday,
but there is more rain for the last part.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
Of the week as well.

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So all morning I've been asking you about your Disney
experience last time you went to Disney, if you would
go back to Disney. It's gotten so expensive now history
this morning, a family of four, two adults, two kids,
four days at the Disneyland or disney World cost about
forty three hundred dollars down including air. I don't know
if they included me any meals or not. Just crazy expensive.

(01:09:04):
So your Disney experience, would you spend that kind of
money to go to Walt Disney World or Disneyland. You
can respond if you go to the iHeart radio app
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on the button so you can get to us right
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Speaker 15 (01:09:26):
Jimmy Andrew from Spring. You know, I never had any
desire to go to Walt Disney either one.

Speaker 29 (01:09:32):
And it was funny because I was talking to my
mom recently and she says she always felt bad that
she could never afford to take us, so that was
a relief on her part.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
Have a good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
I wonder the kids beg to go to Disney World
like they used to, or are they kind of over that?
You know, I see a lot of parents, maybe with
fond memories of their own, who scrape together the money
and they'll spend crazy amounts of money to take the
family to Disneyland or Disney World, and I kind of
wonder are they doing it for them or are they
doing it for the kids? Six to fifty time for traffic,

(01:10:01):
and whether I just want the Texas cyclone back. The
lot is still open there, Elon, you could come up there.
You can make an exact replica. You could put up
Grease Lightning again.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
So here we go. Let's go to the south Loop
six ' ten. As we go under the Astro World Bridge,
which is still there from two eighty eight over to Mereland.
We're looking good, Clifford. If you go on the other
way to eighty eight back to Gulf Gate. Nothing to
slow you down so far. You've got Southwest Freeway smunched
up a little. At West Park. We're not bumping into
each other. Good job there downtown, of course, we cleared

(01:10:33):
that east text. While we're at the topic two eighty
eight northbound Andrew from most cities affected by that.

Speaker 35 (01:10:39):
This guy Mike, doggy and rainy coming in from full
Vento Road. Oh lord, fifty nine is a parking lot
added through that erb parking lot.

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We had that deal. Downtown. Some kind of wreck popped
up on the elevated right by the Toyota Center. We're
packed from Montrose on the Southwest Freeway side and from
quipment on the East Techs Freeway. Said hey, jump on
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of our top trending stories on the Tuesday.

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I think they're dead on right.

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Your reliable forecast. Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.
All right, the Raging Cajun's been raging again. Told you
a little bit about this yesterday. James Carville wants to
know why they keep doing such stupid things in the
Democrat Party. Is there like a Republican operative that got

(01:12:33):
planted in there is that what's going on anyway, here's
a reminder what James Carville had to say.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
We have some reaction to it.

Speaker 32 (01:12:40):
It's like there's a plant somewhere in quote progressive unquote
America that just just sees how many jack stupid things
that they can embrace.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
There has to be a AI.

Speaker 32 (01:12:56):
Generated progressive generator of really dumb ideas.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
They have not been right about a single thing in
all of history, and they're.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Never going to be right.

Speaker 16 (01:13:09):
The difference between Hunter Biden and other Democrats as Hunter
did blow, the Dems did overblow, and the difference is
blow can be fun, but there's nothing fun about overblow.

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
No one wants to hang out with you. Nobody definitely
wants to sleep with you.

Speaker 16 (01:13:22):
Performative outrage empties the room. And you can tell now
that people don't want to be around you. Even the
people you claim that you were defending don't want to
be around you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
A black guy will say, enough of the anti white hysteria.
My daughter dates a white guy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
He seems like a good guy. Got away from me,
you weirdo.

Speaker 16 (01:13:40):
The Democrats were always telling people that they were helping,
you know, the poor, the needy. They were helping themselves
and their rich donors. That's why USA USAID terrifies them.
So Trump comes in and drinks their milkshake. The Republican
Party is now the Party of the worker, Party of labor.
The guy who has a truck loan, not an outstanding

(01:14:00):
college loan for trans.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
African studies, you know.

Speaker 16 (01:14:04):
Out of fear the Democrats, they embraced DEI and trans
which weren't kitchen table issues. They weren't even massage table issues.
And so what happened was they weren't just removed from
the average Americans' needs.

Speaker 4 (01:14:17):
They demonize those needs.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
And that's why they're in a really dark place.

Speaker 4 (01:14:21):
I don't see them getting out of this.

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For two years. Let's hope they stay in that dark
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I still wake up sometimes.

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The silence of the Lambs with Jody Foster and Anthony
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David, I do wish we could chat long good but
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Seven AM is on time. You're in Houston's Morning News.
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Trump warns some oz that all hell is about to
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Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
Hey, visors, watch out ten ninety three at Highway six.
The lights are out and that's going to really scooch
things up badly on all four sides of that Katie Freeway.
While we're here drizzling, slowing, and fog all over the
place too, So turn your snooze off. We're losing about
four or five minutes here. Jimbo from Tomballs on two
forty nine.

Speaker 15 (01:16:54):
Shot Mike dude, well forgotten freeway I was going to
pitch from the stretch and tell you there's no rain,
no fall. Traffic is Sunday light until I got to
north Point.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
Now it's raining.

Speaker 15 (01:17:04):
It's the sea of break lights, and everybody finally woke up.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
The second goes down to Willowbrook. I'm Skymike and your
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
From r KTRH, top Taks Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center. Showers, thundershowers,
Hi today right about seventy more showers and storms coming
away tomorrow and then much much colder on Thursday. We'll
check in with Terry Smith and all this in eight
minutes right now, sixty seven of your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for

(01:17:35):
the news. Here's clipsonders.

Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
Thank you Jimmy at seven oh two. We're sponsored by
ASAP Pharmac LLC. Our top story Common Sense in Schools
as sci Fair ISD gives final approval to a new
policy requiring staff to notify parents if students change their
gender identification.

Speaker 6 (01:17:53):
There is a way that you are created physically that
transfers into you emotionally. We are created in a special way.

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
That former school teacher supporting the policy at a meeting
that did turn contentious last night. The policy is similar
to what was adopted at Katie ISD two years ago.
Also topping the news.

Speaker 7 (01:18:15):
If all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at
twelve o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time.

Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
I would say.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
Cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break.

Speaker 5 (01:18:28):
Out, President Trump giving himas and ultimatum yesterday. That was
after the terrorists delayed releasing more hostages, making the claim
that Israel violated the deal. This all came after a
federal judge extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump
administration's buyout offer to federal employees. UTA Senator Mike Lee

(01:18:49):
told Fox this is outrageous.

Speaker 8 (01:18:51):
It's important to remember this is entirely within the purview
of the executive branch.

Speaker 5 (01:18:55):
That order will remain in place until a final ruling
is made. Time Timeline on that the ruling by federal
Judge Paul Ingelemeyer blocking DOGE from accessing Treasury Department data
is being blasted as overreach.

Speaker 9 (01:19:09):
Judge Engelmeyer and his decision said, well, Elon might use
this for an improper manner, not that he will or has,
but that he might or could, and that is not
a basis for a preliminary injunction.

Speaker 5 (01:19:21):
Constitutional attorney Andy Trusavage telling k Terryes that Inglemeyer is
too focused on trying to stop Trump. Meantime, a third
federal judge ruled against Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship.
And there's this, the triggered left now holding protests, this
time outside the US Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Hey now

(01:19:49):
the crowd also chanting lock him up. This all came
after Elon posted on x cfbp rip. Democrats in Congress
are also that they won't fund the government if Republicans
continue to advance the Trump agenda.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
We will use whatever power we have.

Speaker 10 (01:20:07):
They will need Democratic votes to pass this budget, and fundamentally,
we're not going to vote for something that undermines the
American people.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
The deadline for a new spending deal is March fourteenth.
That was Oregon Democrat Val Hoyle on CNN. So if
you thought the Trump arrangement syndrome was bad the first
time around, it's even worse now. Just take a listen
to what a Michigan liberal state representative did.

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
That would be State Rep.

Speaker 11 (01:20:33):
Lorie Pahutsky who got sterilized because she's afraid Trump is
going to ban birth control.

Speaker 12 (01:20:40):
This woman never intended to have babies in the first place.

Speaker 11 (01:20:44):
That is Andrea Wiberg, managing editor at American Thinker, who
thinks the left is losing it.

Speaker 12 (01:20:51):
What I'm seeing on social media is an extraordinary level
of disconnect from reality and the.

Speaker 11 (01:20:59):
True Trump has never said anything about banning contraception.

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty kt raids now seven
h five.

Speaker 5 (01:21:08):
Tulsea Gabbert a step closer to being the next Director
of National Intelligence, clearing a major hurdle last night in
the Senate. The final vote to confirm her could come
his earliest day. Meantime, Here's the truth about the Chinese
AI app deep Seek. It was a deliberate attack on
the American tech sector from the Chinese Communist Party. That's

(01:21:29):
what China expert Gordon Chang says, explaining that the company
released the app, but it's tied to the CCP.

Speaker 13 (01:21:36):
This appears to be a Communist Party project, not a
product of a private company.

Speaker 5 (01:21:43):
The source codes for the Chinese Deepseek app actually came
from America's Open AI. In other words, this was intellectual
property theft. In the meantime, Trump follows through and places
a twenty five percent tariff on aluminum and steel products
coming into the US. More it's seven thirty seven h six.
More violent crime as well in the city. A sixteen

(01:22:04):
year old girl is shot and killed inside of a
car in North Houston at about three AM.

Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
One of the three men in the car at the
time is on the run.

Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
Meantime, the problems at the University of Houston aren't going
away after several violent incidents on campus.

Speaker 14 (01:22:19):
A big factor here is the high crime that surrounds
the university campus.

Speaker 15 (01:22:23):
There's a criminal element that is deeply embedded and has
been for a long time. That's the population that's preying
upon the campus and also the students and its surrounding
residents as well.

Speaker 14 (01:22:32):
Retired HBD Captain Greg Freman says that crime has been
working its way onto the campus for a while.

Speaker 15 (01:22:38):
Criminals get out of jail, they get back in jail,
and for one reason or another, they start engaging in
more criminal activity in that area, and I think that's
what we see happening.

Speaker 14 (01:22:45):
We reached out to the University of Houston about this,
but they did not respond to a request for comment
Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 4 (01:22:53):
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Speaker 5 (01:22:54):
And not that there should have been any debate about this,
but the Baseball Hall of Fame officially announced that Billy
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Weather in Traffic station News Radio seven forty k TRH.

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Speaker 40 (01:23:23):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
You know, we talked last week about this couple of raids.
Actually they got circumvented when somebody tipped off the location
of the raids ahead of time. And of course the
job they've been trying to do since is to figure out, Okay,
where did that leak come from? I mentioned that in
Audacity Radio station in San Jose KCBS had broadcast that information,

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But where did that information come from? Initially? How did
they get that information as far as where the raid
was going to be? And of course since then, there's
been a lot of speculation about it. Tom Holman, the
borders are got asked about whether or not this leak
might have come from the FBI.

Speaker 43 (01:24:06):
We'll think it's coming from inside. And we know the
first leak of Aurora is under current investigation. We think
we identify that person under investigation right now. The California
League Secretary of NOME, you know, she's correct on some
of the information. We're receiving tensive lead toward the FBI.

(01:24:26):
But I talked to the Deputy Attorney General all this weekend.
They've opened up a criminal investigation and they have promised
that not only this person will lose their job and
lose their pension, they won't go to jail, they won't
criminally prosecute.

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
So we're all over it.

Speaker 43 (01:24:40):
We got the dhs IG investigating the first one. Have
a pretty good idea what happened, can't share lots of
it is under investigation. But the igs opened up a
criminal investigation on the second. Well, we're selling a strong message.
It's just not you know, given the bad guys the
heads up so they can escape apprehension right arresting, and
you know, given you know Venezuela gang heads up, so

(01:25:00):
we can't arrest them. You're putting officers lives at risk.
It's only a matter of time. We walk into a
place where there's going to be a bad guy doesn't care,
he's going to be sitting and wait for the officers
show up and ambush them.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
This is not a game.

Speaker 43 (01:25:11):
So DHS and DOJ are connected at hip to hold
these people responsible in a criminal fashion.

Speaker 44 (01:25:18):
So early indications are this is coming from our own FBI.
How certain are you of that information leading to that? Again,
I'll let the Department of Justice do their own investigation.
But again I talked to the Deputyttorney General this week
and they've opened up their criminal investigation. He thinks the
information is coming from there also, So we'll let an

(01:25:38):
invigation investigation play out.

Speaker 43 (01:25:40):
But some of the leads point that way.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Okay, Well, the good news is that there will be
a thorough investigation now and now that you have an
Attorney General at Pam Bondi who would be willing to
bring charges against a member of the FBI, willing to
do this criminal charges, then maybe this stuff will stop.
Seven to ten, time for traffic and weather together, we're
checking out that drive once. Good to Skymike all.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
Right, I got flashing lights ten ninety three Highway six.
Get out of that intersection or stay away from it,
because it's ugly all the way around here. We're checking
your Katie Freeway while we're checking out your visors here.
From Grand Parkway to Fry it's not that bad for
the kdie so far. You'll get a little thick right
after Heights Boulevard hitting the President's heads, big shots on
the West Park Tollway. You got your sticker. Now you're

(01:26:22):
slowing down at South Park or Cypress, rain, drizzle, fog,
all kinds of reason to not snooze this morning to
Eddy eight. You're dragging it now from hard pretty much
all the way up into Oreum East Text. I got
Blake new Caney.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Taking the kids to school.

Speaker 15 (01:26:37):
There is a car broke down at North Park.

Speaker 11 (01:26:39):
Looks like a flat tire.

Speaker 35 (01:26:41):
No flashy lights yet, but everyone is slowing.

Speaker 4 (01:26:43):
Down a little bit going by, all right, outstanding two
ninety Good morning, sky Mike.

Speaker 15 (01:26:46):
I got on to ninety at Cypress Rose Hill, and
I just can't wait to get up to the fluff
that way because I've been two miles an hour all.

Speaker 17 (01:26:55):
The way in here.

Speaker 4 (01:26:55):
Here, Will said let's go hard hats east.

Speaker 36 (01:26:58):
Side Interesteddy hard work an east shot on Old Highway
ninety A bad accident, three ninjas on sain. I've got
people that are actually trying to go around the accident
that were coming right at me.

Speaker 40 (01:27:10):
Head on and y'all have a good day.

Speaker 4 (01:27:12):
Y'all come back now here. I'm in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
From r KTRH top Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry Smith is here. The rain is in the area,
some of us are rain is in the air. It's
in the air. Some of us are getting a little rain,
and some of us will get a lot of it
before the day's over.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
Yeah, the rain's not very widespread this morning.

Speaker 17 (01:27:34):
There's certain areas to the north and west that are
picking up some light showers, light to moderate showers right now.
But as the cold front cats cluser, our chances of
rain will increase. So I suspect that it'll be mainly
in the afternoon where we're dealing with the rain. Right now,
we're dealing with the fog and the reduced visibilities, and
so it's one of those mornings where you'll want to

(01:27:57):
allow a little extra time to get wherever you're going,
and then by the time you're heading home later on
this afternoon, be prepared for some slick roadways. Eighty percent
chance of showers and storms today upper sixties to mid seventies.
Sixty percent chance of those showers and maybe some thunder
through the morning and early part of the afternoon. At

(01:28:17):
some point later in the day, we're going to dry out.
Heights Tomorrow will be in the seventies, and then the
cooler air moves in Thursday. Twenty percent chance of getting
wet Thursday, and high's only mid.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
To upper fifties right now, sixty seven at your official
severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
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Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
I would think that as a parents, your biggest concern
about sending your daughter, in particular off the college, especially
if you sending her to an urban campus, is whether
or not she could become a victim of crime. And unfortunately,
at the University of Houston, they're on high alert here.
We've had three violent incidents, two of which took place

(01:29:08):
in a campus parking garage in the span of just
a week or so. It would appear that there may
be a serial rapist on the loost because one of them,
two of them, I believe it involved sexual assaults, happened
late Friday night, prompting uh police to urge students and
staff to stay very vigilant. We'll talk about the vigilant
part with Greg Freeman, retired HBD captain, coming up next. First, though,

(01:29:31):
traffic and weather together as we check out the drive again.
Here's sky Mike. I'm pitching from the stretch. Let's take
it downtown. We've got all kinds of scunches this way.
Both sides of iten hardheads.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
You're dragging it from Lockwood Advisors, from Heights Boulevard East text,
both sides of I sixty nine east text south bound.
Its breaks equipment coming up from the Southwest Freeway. It
slows down after Montrose. You lose twelve minutes going up.
I'm Skywike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
From r KTRH top to Tien Defenders twenty four hour
weather Center. Showers thundershowers today high temperature about seventy good,
see an inch or two of rain, scattered thunderstorms so
likely tomorrow seventy three then partly Claudi mounths colder. I
only fifty five degrees on Thursday. Temperature currently is sixty
seven At your officials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven

(01:30:18):
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Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
Violent crime.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
It's it's certainly not unique to Houston, but it's become
a bigger problem in Houston recently, seven twenty two is
their time. Greg Freeman joins US retired HPD captain, and
we were just talking about the University of Houston and
the parking garage situation they've had for the last week
or two, and I think it's probably every parent's nightmare
sending your child to an urban campus. Not that not

(01:31:30):
that every campus can have the same problem, but urban
campuses in particular in big, big cities where you know,
crime is a bit of an issue. You're you're always worried.
You know what happens when my kids out there at
ten or eleven or twelve o'clock at night and they
go into a dark parking garage to get their vehicle
and they get attacked.

Speaker 15 (01:31:48):
Yeah, Jimmy, and good morning. It's always nice to talk
to you. It is as a parent, and I'm a
parent of two boys or two young men, and I
have the same feelings and concerns as well. And one
thing I would say it and the University of Houston
campus itself is safe. Let me be clear what I'm
saying that this was a tragic, unfortunate incident. They have
statistically extremely low crime compared to the surrounding area which

(01:32:12):
is third Ward, And I'll preface this. Third Ward is
a magnificently historical Black community that's been there for years,
but unfortunately it's got some very challenging areas in it.
And there's a deep seated criminal element that has been
embedded there for a long time. And they have high
part one crime, robbery, murder, rate, aggravated assault. And this
is surrounding the University of Houston, so it's like a bubble.

(01:32:35):
There are a lot of sex defenders that live in
that area, and I would encourage your listeners to go
to DTS's website and just type in the zip code
and you will populate all of the sex offenders that
live in and around the area. There are hundreds of them.
So it's a predatorial target rich environment. And the kids
are the young men and women have to be very safe.
That's what we advocate to them.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
What is your best advice to have the student should
conduct themselves. Do they need to avoid being by themselves?
Do they need to avoid being out late at night,
especially about something like this is going on? Do they
need to carry mace? What sort of advice would you
give these students.

Speaker 15 (01:33:14):
Jimmy, I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment. And
I would tell all my students and all of the
young men and women that I would talk to when
they become of age, become a gun owner and don't
just have a know how to use it. And I
would advocate that even to my own children. But in
terms of thinking clearly and cognizant, be careful in doing
what you do. When the young girls are going out
to sorority parties, fraternity parties, traveling pairs of two, don't

(01:33:37):
let your friends lead by themselves intoxicated. Same thing can
go for men. They can get jack just as easily.
So practice good common sense safety when you're in and
around that area. Because when you venture off campus, you
literally are in a danger zone. There's no question about
that whatsoever. Be careful of your surroundings. Don't drink to
the point where you're going to get so ineborated you

(01:33:57):
don't know where your surroundings are, because that's when bad
things will happen.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Yeah, I'd like to say that you know they luck
at all. The whoever is responsible, that the person or
persons responsible for these attacks will be apprehended. Used to
be where you wouldn't fear too much once they've been apprehended,
because you know they're going to jail, they're going to
stay in jail, and they won't be a threat to
anybody before they go to trial. I don't know that
we can say that anymore, though, Ken.

Speaker 15 (01:34:18):
We well, unfortunately, with the criminal justice system the way
it is right now, I'd like to say Harris County
is changing a little bit more red than it was blue.
And I think some of the judges now are getting
a message along with the very firm position of the
DA's office with keeping these offenders locked up or at
least give them a high bond and don't have a
revolving door where they're getting right back out on the street.

(01:34:39):
And that was one of the biggest complaints that we
heard from a lot of the residents in and around
that area, is that these repeat offenders were coming right
back out. They get paroled from prison, they go right
back to where they were at and they go back
to doing what they were doing best.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
Yeah. Well, hopefully things are under way to changing. I
hope so anyway, Greg, thanks has always appreciate HPD Retired
HBD Captain Greg Freeman. It is seven twenty six it
is time to take a look at your money as
we check in again with Jeff Bellinger and Jimmy.

Speaker 21 (01:35:07):
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell goes before the Senate Banking
Committee later this morning for the first day of a
semi annual report to Congress. Investors will be paying close attention.
A product parents cannot do without could become more expensive
because of tariffs on goods imported from China. Newell Brand
says it will be forced to hike the prices on

(01:35:27):
its Great Co brand child car seats unless they are
exempted from the levies. And Coke Cola shares moving higher
this morning, and pre market trading, customers were willing to
pay more for SODA's energy drinks and juices. Cox profit
topped forecasts in the latest quarter. Stock market futures lower
right across the board this hour, I'm Jeff Beldinger, Bloomberg

(01:35:48):
Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
You are known Houston's News. Why there were traffic plus.

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Breaking US twenty four to seven. This is US Radio
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Child Everywhere with the IRF.

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

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
Seven thirty Our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour. Only about three
hundred worth the entire Texas border on Sunday, the federal
buyout program put on pause and coming up at seven
thirty eight, the media is amazed by Trump's high poll numbers.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(01:36:31):
we're checking out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:36:34):
Let's clear the stall two ninety inbound at at the
West Sam that was inbound. We're two ninety up from
Telgy Golf Freeway. We're slowed from Edgebrook Hill. Drag it there.
We're not bumping into each other. North Loop. We're awfully
loopy at the squeeze westbound at forty five, trying to
get through those two lanes backed up from the east.
Text New I make that old ninety, old ninety at Mesa.

(01:36:54):
That accident's really ugly. Stick to New ninety, get around it.
I'm Skymike and the Generator super Center COMP Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center. Showers,
thunderstorms Hi today right about seventy it looks like the
heavier rain is going to be probably early this afternoon.
We'll check Inmteri and try to get a timing on
the heavy dose of rain that's coming. When we talked
to her in about nine minutes right now sixty seven
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty

(01:37:22):
k TRH. It's timed out for the news.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
Here's Cliff Saunders, Thank you very much, Jimmy seven thirty
one on KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Our top story, the border.

Speaker 5 (01:37:30):
This situation remains dangerous even though Donald Trump has shut
things down. This is why Texas Congressman Morgan Latrelle is
introducing the Cartel Act. He's hoping to stop terrorists from
entering the company the country rather for we're acting ICE
director Jonathan Fakey says, this one is a no brainer.

Speaker 23 (01:37:48):
If people are coming through on a tourist watch list,
we should know about it. Certainly now under Donald Trump,
the border is so much more secure just than what
less than three weeks. It's a deturn for anyone that's
gonna want to come in door country.

Speaker 5 (01:38:01):
Knowing that we're on top of it, and speaking of
those numbers plummeting, Texas DPS Lieutenant Chris Olivars posted onto
x that there were just three hundred three crossings at
the border on Sunday. However, there is continued resistance to
Trump's efforts to deport illegal aliens, and it's coming in
from sanctuary cities like New York.

Speaker 24 (01:38:22):
If ice comes to the home, you do not have
to open the door. In fact, you should not open
the door.

Speaker 5 (01:38:29):
That is a New York City school Teacher's union rep
caught on video obtained by The New York Post recently.
And then there is the resistance at the judicial level.
Federal judge extending the hold on Trump's buyout offer to
federal government employees, and that's going to remain in place
until there's a final ruling, and there's no timeline for that.

(01:38:51):
Seven p thirty three on KTRH, Democrats and Harris County's
Commissioner's Court voted to give the county attorney, Christian Menafie,
the power to sue the try Up administration for six months.
So why are they doing that and not working for
the county.

Speaker 25 (01:39:05):
For them, it is easier to join the resistance and
try to make everything national issues and hope that the
citizens of Harris County are ignoring the neglect that they
are suffering.

Speaker 5 (01:39:15):
Former Harris County gopachair Gary Pollin says that local Democrats
should stop wasting your taxpayer money on what amounts to
lawfare and while they get involved with national issues. The county,
as it turns out, might not have enough money for
vital flood control projects. Six years after Harris County voters
approved a two and a half billion dollar bond issue

(01:39:37):
for flood control, the county is running out of funding
with several projects still unfinished. Reporter Holly Hanson with The
Texan News says this is a bad look for county leaders.

Speaker 26 (01:39:46):
The county is spending, for example, some thirty six million
dollars for murals.

Speaker 27 (01:39:51):
That seems like a bit of a flock in the
chase when.

Speaker 18 (01:39:54):
Everyone is very concerned about the next time we have.

Speaker 27 (01:39:57):
One of these major storms.

Speaker 28 (01:39:59):
Of Just last year, Harris County voters approved another increase
in the flood Control District's portion of property taxes. Cory Jolson,
Who's radio seven forty KTRH it is.

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
Now seven thirty four. As expected, the President put tariffs
into place on all aluminum and steel imports.

Speaker 7 (01:40:16):
Our nation requires steel an aluminum to be made in America,
not in foreign lands.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
Those tariffs said at twenty five percent, and the possibility
of tariffs on Canada and Mexico have led to concerns
from home builders who say it could worsen the housing
affordability crisis, and unlysts predict that if the tariffs are enacted,
lumber costs could spike by forty percent. Not everybody's buying
that finished.

Speaker 29 (01:40:41):
Materials that's imported. Yeah, that could start going up. I
don't think it'll go up forty or fifty percent.

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
Sough that is Jim Dutton the host of the Texas
Home Improvement Show on KTRH, and he says the market
for new homes is hot right now in an increase
is not going to affect that. And there's this US
manufacturing is set for a boom as business optimism source
to highs we haven't seen in about three years.

Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
There's renewed hope for a rebound after a few struggling years.

Speaker 19 (01:41:10):
Without positive business optimism. Most likely are not going to
be making any investments, you know, not only in people,
but then cap X in an inventory.

Speaker 30 (01:41:18):
Tim Fioria of isms Manufacturing Survey Committee says de staffing
is helping things, and the room for a boom is
there in twenty twenty five, plan.

Speaker 19 (01:41:26):
On growing about four and a half percent on the
top line number in twenty twenty five, compared to what
we think was less than one percent in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 30 (01:41:34):
He says high prices and inflation are still an issue,
but an ease is expected in coming months. Andre Parard
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:41:41):
It's now seven point thirty six. McDonald's reported lower than
expected fourth quarter revenues, blaming E Coli in the recent outbreak,
but that's only part of the problem. Bidonomics is another part.

Speaker 31 (01:41:53):
We've seen consumers pulling back in their spending, even in
the fast food sector. Those two things combined, I think
definitely had an impact on their numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
Jonathan Horowitz with the Houston Hospitality Alliance says consumers have
been drawn away from fast food joints by deals and
bundles at more traditional restaurants, and the egg shortage is
let the sky high prices. We all know about that,
but there's no threat to your chicken dinner for now.
We'll explain, and we'll also tell you how tuna and

(01:42:25):
pork might be a different story.

Speaker 20 (01:42:29):
That's because the chickens raised for eating, called broilers, are
treated more carefully than egg laying hens, which sometimes crowd
up to a million at a time in some facilities
and are killed off by bird flu. USA Today Consumer
reporter Betty Lynn Fisher says people who can't get eggs
move on to tuna and pork as substitutes.

Speaker 18 (01:42:49):
There might be shortages, not because of girt loop, but
because consumers are moving to those products and the grocers
might not be ready.

Speaker 20 (01:42:57):
Michael Shiloh News Radio seven.

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
And at seven thirty seven, mark your calendars. Pitchers and
catchers report to the Astro Spring Training Complex on Thursday.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 29 (01:43:15):
I usually take iten West, but lately that's been a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
KTRH time saving traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Next on the ten. Oh, yeah, I'm not sure some
polling dates. Seven thirty eight is our time here in
Houston's morning news. Yeah, we've gone to the polls, and
the polls have told us how popular President Trump is, Like,
what was it, fifty three percent approval rating. There's one area,
there's only one area that he didn't poll very well,

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and it's not his fault, but we'll get into that
in a second. In the meantime, the mainstream media, otherwise
known as the the guys on the left, you know,
the the anti trumpers, the never trumpers, are truly amazed
by these poll numbers that they're seeing, and they sound
like they're truly amazed. So listen to them getting amazed

(01:44:06):
and get some reaction to it.

Speaker 10 (01:44:07):
All our CBS poll finds and a majority of Americans
fifty three percent approve of the job he's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
That's a better approval number than he ever.

Speaker 27 (01:44:16):
Reached during his first term in the White House.

Speaker 33 (01:44:19):
And holy smokes, I mean, look at what the difference
is between now versus eight years ago during the first
Trump term.

Speaker 4 (01:44:24):
What a difference eight years makes.

Speaker 33 (01:44:26):
He's on the positive side of the Ledger at plus
four points, a positive net approval rating for Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
Again. Whoa whoa, whoa whoa.

Speaker 2 (01:44:35):
Every single day of.

Speaker 33 (01:44:37):
Trump's second term so far, he has been on the
positive side of the ledger twenty one days all three weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
That's already ten more days.

Speaker 45 (01:44:44):
So this is like a guy who buys an estate
who the previous owners had just let go and he gets.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
To work immediately.

Speaker 45 (01:44:54):
You know, you have waited a million dollar solar paneled
greenhouse which was growing alpha alpha sprouts.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
That know, ite ate gutted it.

Speaker 45 (01:45:02):
Now it's a beautiful English walking garden with a coy
pond and Japanese maples. He comes in, converts to natural gas,
fixes all the holes in the fence, fires all the
contractors that are bilking the estate, and restores it to.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
What it should be.

Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
And that's what he's doing to this country. It's a
restoration of the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
Because the previous owners had let.

Speaker 45 (01:45:26):
It get dilapidated, Jessica, and now everyone's marveling at how great.

Speaker 4 (01:45:29):
The country can be. Oh my gosh, look at all
these great things.

Speaker 27 (01:45:32):
This is what it should be.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
It's now a National.

Speaker 45 (01:45:35):
Historic Landmark, all right. So we get new contractors, alarm system,
no squatters, no broken windows, and this is what America deserves.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
Love it. It's a great analogy. Actually love the house analogy.
Uh huh, yup. He took a dilapidated United States and
he's well on the way to complete and utter restoration. Seven.
Time for traffic and weather together as we check out
the drive again with sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
I'm too busy to turn everybody snooze off.

Speaker 12 (01:46:06):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
We need a button like that in the golf ball terry.
Just you know, push it and everybody can get you
right up out of bed. Let's get an early start
whichever way you're coming in. Speaking of the golf ball,
let's check your Grand Parkway north right around Kirkandall. It's
fun to say it's a little tough to get by
an extra two or three minutes headed over toward the Woodlands.
We're doing nicely and doing a great job of not colliding.

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Two ninety we cleared the stall at the Beltway. We're
still two ninety up from Delgi. Yeah, Katie Freeway right
around Grand Parkway. Let's connect those dots into the Highway
six and the Beltway. We're looking at fourteen extra minutes
to Katie Freeway, West park big shots. Your slope from
Grand Mission, you've got that ten ninety three and Highway six.
The lights are flashing and that's a big skunch there.

(01:46:48):
North Freeway we're packed up right after west Mount Houston again,
collision free surprise down to downtown in extra sixteen minutes
and two eighty eighth. The back door northbound is the Beltway.
I'm sky Mike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Whether Center.
Terry Smith, who's here. We've got a low cloud deck.
We've got uh, you know, rain in some spots. We
got more rain coming, maybe some thunder and lightning and
all that s fun stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:47:17):
Yeah, a lot of stuff going on.

Speaker 17 (01:47:20):
First, we've got the fog, a little bit of rain
this morning, showers and thunderstorms are going to increase into
the afternoon. That's an eighty percent chance of getting wet today.
There's also a very slim risk of some stronger to
severe storms, gusty wins, and very slight risk of a tornado.
But we've got enough sheer going on that we may

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get something to spin up, so we're going to be
watching that. Temperatures today in the upper sixties to mid seventies,
eighty percent chance of showers and storms. Tonight tomorrow sixty
percent chants of rain that will taper off in the afternoon.
The cold front starting to move through southeast Texas tomorrow,
so once it clears out of here, we'll get some
dryer air. We're in the seventies for highs tomorrow, but

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then the colder temperatures showing up Thursday. Twenty percent chance
of rain Thursday, and highs only in the middumber fifties.
We do start to warm up a little bit Friday
and more so into Saturday. We should be back up
in the seventies by Saturday, but we still have more rain,
a little bit more rain Friday and then Saturday as well.

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
Right now sixty seven at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (01:48:29):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
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Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
So Morgan Latreell, Representative Morgan Latreell, the Congressman, was supposed
to join us on the show today, but he is
down with the flu. He introduced a Cartel Act to
increase transparency around border threats. In other words, who are
terrorists that we are coming across the border, Where are
they coming from, what border are they crossing? Those types
of things, make that public knowledge. We'll talk to Jonathan Fahee,

(01:48:59):
former acting Ice Director and prosecutor about that coming up next. First, though,
this new little traffic and weather together. That starts with
you sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:49:07):
Visibility is still a thing if you live anywhere in
the boonies. Looks like I'm checking out two ninety heading
out chilled waller and yeah, it's a little thick out there.
I'm also getting reports to eighty eight south part of
Missouria County. It's tough to see in spots. Got a
reported wreck Katie Freeway look out downtown inbound at Taylor Street.
They moved that over. Will zoom it at eight o'clock
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:49:30):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center. Today,
we're looking at obviously a lot of cloudy skies, low clouds,
little fog, showers, thundershowers today, high temperature about seventy more
scattered thunderstorms Tomorrow seventy three, turning partly cloudy and colder,
with a high only fifty five on Thursday. Right now,
temperature is still sixty h up ninth and we're up

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one sixty eight at your officials Severe Weather Station News
Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some of our
top stories. Here's clue.

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Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
Fifty nine. Inbound at the Loop is always a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
KTRH time saving traffic connect on the ten.

Speaker 2 (01:50:33):
That's actually a song about drug trafficking and terrorism and stuff.
Sounds so friendly, though, did the seven to fifty one?
Is their time here? In Houston's warning news. As I mentioned,
Morgan Latrell, the Texas Congressman, has introduced the Cartel Act
in an effort to increase transparency around border threats. The
bill would require more transparency around terrorist activity around the border.

(01:50:56):
In the bill, US Customs and Border Protection would release
for poor on whether individuals list on the Terrorists Screening
Database have entered the United States, among other things. Joining
us to talk about this, as Jonathan Fahey, former Acting
ICE Director and prosecutor, I'm all for transparency. Does this
make any real difference in fighting back against the cartel?
What do you think?

Speaker 23 (01:51:18):
It probably makes a difference one just sort of the
optics of it, which a lot of the you know,
what Donald Trump is doing is just sending the message
that were done with the Biden majoricus open borders, you know,
putting national security of public safety behind the interest of
you know, illegal immigrants and drug dealers and everything else.
But it is you know, this really stemmed from during

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the you know, the Mayorcists Biden regime at the border
that hundreds and hundreds of people on the terrorist watch
lists were encountered at the border. And the worst thing
about this is they let ninety nine of them into
the country after they were already encountered on their terrorist
watch lists at the border, which is.

Speaker 4 (01:51:57):
Just stunning to me. And this doesn't even count the.

Speaker 23 (01:52:00):
People that might be on that list that where they
you know, what they described as a known god aways
that didn't come through ports of entry. And during you know,
during the last administration, when Secretary a Mayor orcus was
asked about this, he would always give this sort of
try to act cooy and say, well, we know where
these people are, and it's like, well, we shouldn't have
to care. They shouldn't be here regardless, you know, and

(01:52:22):
and it just seems like we need to. I think
there's a public interest in knowing if people are coming
to the border that are on the terrorist watch list, even.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
If they don't get through.

Speaker 23 (01:52:32):
I think there's there's an interest to know, hey, there
are people trying to infiltrate our country. And the other
additional benefit I think of O'donald Trump declearing the drug
cartel's terrorist organizations is a lot of them and their
associates could be put on this terrorist watch list, which
will make it more difficult or hopefully impossible for them

(01:52:52):
to enter the country, So putting more restrictions on them,
making it harder for them to do business, and.

Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
Reduce their quality of life.

Speaker 15 (01:52:58):
So overall, I think this seems like a good thing.

Speaker 23 (01:53:01):
Transparency is generally always better. You know, it doesn't mean
and you know, there's certain cases we don't we don't
want it, but generally I think the public is benefits
from it. That increases trust in the government and also
increases accountability for the government.

Speaker 4 (01:53:15):
So overall it's a good thing.

Speaker 23 (01:53:16):
But I think the most important thing is the message
being sent with you know, the Congressman as well as
this administration is the game is up and we're done
with these open borders letting drug traffickers control our southern border.

Speaker 27 (01:53:30):
We know.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
Chip Roy also introduced to bill which would require the
Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on
the designation of the Golf Cartel and several other cartels
is terrorist organizations. So we need to start treating the
cartel like what it is, a terrorist organization, and that
is going to change how we look at law enforcement
and dealing with these people. Do don't you think?

Speaker 27 (01:53:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:53:52):
I think so.

Speaker 23 (01:53:53):
It's just it's really a game changer, and a lot
of you know, declaring these organizations, you know, terrorist organizations,
a lot of it gives additional tools for the government
to get after their finances, make it harder for them
to do banking, and ultimately, drug trafficking is about money.
So if you make it harder for them to make money,
that's going to make it harder for them to get
drug They're going to be less drugs coming across the border.

(01:54:14):
And then you do other things to make it even
more difficult but certainly the time has come on this
when we're looking at what one hundred thousand or so
people dying every year from drug overdoses, and most of
it's Sentinel and most of it's coming through Mexico.

Speaker 15 (01:54:28):
So yeah, we don't deserve deserve that.

Speaker 23 (01:54:30):
That many people dying every year without without doing something
and fighting back. And unfortunately, the last administration essentially just
let it happen because their open borders agenda seem to
trump everything. They didn't care about public safety, didn't care
about people overdosing, didn't care about national security. They just
wanted as many illegal aliens to come into the country
as possible. And it's one of the most shameful and

(01:54:53):
unconscionable things that's ever been done in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:54:55):
I agree. I wish charges would be brought against majorcis
and the other people who instituted of those policies because
they were completely illegal. Jonathan Faihey, you have to leave
it at that, but thank you for your time, sir,
do appreciate it. Thank you you met former acting ICE
Director and prosecutor Jonathan Fahey. Listen, y'all, have a great day.
See you tomorrow morning, bright and early at five AM
and I hope this afterno bet four an am nine

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