Trump Announces Hs Reciprocal Trade Policy

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 02/14/25.

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Good morning, It's Friday, Valentine's Day. Five am. You're in
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
this half hour. Trumponounces his reciprocal trade agreement is policy,
Liberal judges hand down anti Trump rulings, and coming up
at five oh eight, it is Valentine's Days. He just
said it's also Gallentine's Day. Details in the minutes ahead.

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You're in Houston's Morning News. First, let's check out that
morning drive this sky Mike. All right, we're looking at
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Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:33):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's coming up on five oh two
in our top story. We knew it was coming, but
the President made it official announcing reciprocal tariffs.

Speaker 7 (01:41):
However, they charge us with judging them, so it works
out very much. It's very It's a beautiful, simple system,
and we don't have to worry about you were charging
too much.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Or too little.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
Trump finding back on questions about raising prices by saying
the move will create more jobs. Meantime, federal Judge A Mirror,
an appointee of Joe Biden, orders a temporary reversal of
the Trump administration freeze on foreign aid.

Speaker 8 (02:07):
They're panicking, and the only thing they do is go
to radical left judges that want to make a name
for themselves to stop the ex executive branch for doing
exactly what was mandated to do on November fifth, when
we swept the nation.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
Trump counselor Elena Haba on Fox to that end, and
Obama appointee becomes the fourth judge to block the Trump
executive order on birthright citizenship, while another Biden appointee yesterday
put a hold on the order restricting so called gender
care for children. So where are all these legal battles headed.

Speaker 9 (02:39):
This is something that Trump teams saw coming, and they've
already scored some wins.

Speaker 10 (02:43):
They've got an offense, and think a lot of the
efforts of these laws that are going to backfire. We
already saw one judge in Massachusetts say that yes, you
can do the fork and the road email you produced forces.

Speaker 9 (02:52):
Professor Josh Blackman with the South Texas College of lawses
over time, this judicial obstruction will slow down.

Speaker 10 (02:58):
You know, litigations expensive in time, and if these blue
states and blue groups keep losing, I think they might
decide to put their efforts elsewhere.

Speaker 9 (03:05):
In the short term, though, Blackman says, expect to see
more of these frivolous lawsuits come and go. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 11 (03:12):
Five oh three now Robert F.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
Kennedy Junior confirmed by the Senate as HHS Secretary fifty
two to forty eight, telling Fox's Laura Ingram, well, he
doesn't oppose all vaccine. He's definitely against the COVID jabs.

Speaker 12 (03:25):
We don't have good data on it, and that is
a crime, the fact that we don't have a surveillance
system that actually works.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
The only Republican to vote against him was Mitch McConnell.
The Senate also confirmed former Texas Public Policy Foundation president
Brooke Rollins as Agriculture Secretary while holding hearings for incoming
Education Secretary Linda McMahon, in passing Cash Pttel's nomination as
FBI Director out of committee at.

Speaker 11 (03:52):
Five oh four.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Reports say that layoffs have begun at multiple federal agencies
a result of the efforts by Elon Muhdusk in the
Department of Government Efficiency. You can check out our daily
dose tracker at KTRH dot com. So the left continues
to complain about Doze and Elon, and they've got a
new catchphrase.

Speaker 13 (04:11):
Constitutional crisis, Constitutional crisis, crisis.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
Media analyst Joe Conscious says that people just want Trump
to be a disruptor.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
This is what Donald Trump was elected on.

Speaker 14 (04:22):
It will go through the courts, and they even get
to the Supreme Court at one point, but in the
end it will be decided there.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
It's not a constitutional crisis.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Meantime, new EPA administrator Lee Zelden said he canceled a
Biden era fifty million dollars grant to an organization that
believes and this is the quote, climate justice travels through
a free Palestine five oh five. Following calls from Governor
Greg Gabbett, Texas Congressman Roger Williams has introduced legislation to

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reburst this state for Operation Loan Star.

Speaker 15 (04:54):
It's payback for more than eleven billion dollars that Texas
spent secure the border.

Speaker 16 (05:01):
Nobody spent money like Texas. We spent more than anybody.
We did more than anybody. We took the place the
federal government when we shouldn't have had to do it.

Speaker 15 (05:09):
Yeah, if the bill does pass, what should Texas do
with the money.

Speaker 16 (05:13):
There's a lot of things we have to do. I mean,
look at the damage and it's been created on the border.
We need to spend money down there to get our
border back in line and help people get their lives
in line.

Speaker 15 (05:21):
Williams tells k th he expects the bill to pass.
Jeff Biggs New three Radio seven forty K Tierich and.

Speaker 11 (05:29):
He'll join Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
At seven point twenty, the Texas Sentate unanimously passes property
tax reform. The package now goes to the House. More
on this and five point thirty five oh six. Police
are still looking for Eric LaTroy Brown, who was released
from custody the same day that he was arrested for
last week's UH Parking garage sexual assault Aris County Dashawn

(05:51):
Tier's office says it's investigating how this all happened. Speaking
of Tier, a shocking number from Attorney General Ken Paxton
in a have you seen an interview with former Fox
host Tucker.

Speaker 17 (06:02):
Carlson, seventy percent of our population controlled by Soros das.
He went in and knocked off Democratic DA's because we
can't get elected Republicans in those areas.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Sorow spent two million dollars on Tears campaign last year.
By the way, Tears office also dismissed charges against eight
cops linked to the Harding Street raid in an overtime
fraud scheme, citing a quote lack of evidence. A moved
Tears office has gone to in several other cases since
he took over.

Speaker 11 (06:29):
Coming up on five oh seven, just.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
A week away from Marty Grass in Galveston. But it's
been a slow tourism season so far. Officials are hoping
that changes.

Speaker 18 (06:39):
We're looking at actually about even where we were for
last year. This symbol was a strong month for us.
January has been a little soft, but we are looking
at numbers to be very good. We've got a great
season coming up and some really cool things in store
to come down to the island.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Chris Stanley with Visit Galveston says the area relies greatly
on tourism and that the city's restaurants have taken a
one to two hit between the slower numbers and bird flew. Finally,
the Rockets lose the final game before the NBA's All
Star Break one O five to ninety eight to Golden State.
There off until next Friday when they face Minnesota. I'm

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Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic Station kt RH.

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Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News Team,
Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Oh, it's Valentine's Day. Days, the day where a lot
of men will just you know, show up somewhere and
grab a box of candy or a dozen roses or
something along those lines and race home with them and
try to convince their wife or significant other of some
sort that you know this, this was, this was all
very spontaneous, which it was, and that you intended to

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do it all long. Sure you did. Yesterday was was
Gallentine's Day. I never heard of Gallentine State? Have you
ever heard of gallant Day? Its celebrated the day before
Valentine's Day. It's described as a day to leave your husband, boyfriend,
or significant other at home and go gather with other
women to celebrate female friendships over bloozy filled brunch, lunch,

(08:16):
or dinner. Hmmm, Where's what about, guys, don't we get
like a Palatine's Day the day? How about we take
Palatine's Day which would be tomorrow, day after Valentine's Day
and hang out with their buddies and play golf and
smoke cigars and play cards and drink beer otherwise known

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this most Saturday nights. Why not go ahead and do that?
Sounds like an idea to be And here's an idea.
I didn't realize that waffle House did this. I know, Skymike,
you're a big fan of waffle House. Did you know
that some of the waffle Houses two about two hundred
around the country on Valentine's Day they dimmed the line,
they put down tablecloths. Really yes, and they give you

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an opportunity to have a romantic meal. You little on
Beyonce at waffle House. At waffle House that I found
four in the greater Houston area that are participating in this.
I don't know if you have to have some sort
of reservation for it, though, I'll find out what they are.
There's one on FM nineteen sixty in Houston. There's one
in Pasadena on Fairmont Parkway. There's one in Spring on Cirkandall,

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and there's one in Webster on Nasa Road one bit
that are all participating in this five ten time for
traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
A lot of single mothers that work at I could
see you showing up for an e bit like that.
I just kind of skip around on triwaffle house here,
one there, and big ol' pecan waffle sounds good this morning.
Let's hit the Katie Freeway. Hang on, Jimmy, we're going
to go fast on the KDI Here. Outbound at Campbell Road,
they just cleared a wreck. You can't even tell that
was there. And inbound, look at you rock from Katie

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Mills mom twenty seven minutes into the President's Heads. Easy
ride so far, Sugarland beautiful, historic, Rosenberg and Richmond and
you hop on sixty nine and you're having a pretty
good life this way. Now outbound over the Brass River
well from University, they have that lane shift thing on
the outbound side, but you can't even tell there's a
problem of any kind of Eventually that will become a thing.

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And of course this is where you'll tune in two
eighty eight northbound. I don't have the scoots with the
pavement repair that comes after our morning drive northbound well
Steven Boston look Out. We're going from Manvil up twenty
two minutes into downtown and your golf Freeway Dickinson up
an easy thirty two minutes stro Let's check your ship
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is here. We may have to light a candle or
two today because there's not going to be much sunshine

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light the way.

Speaker 19 (11:02):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, some candles would be nice. A
little perfume and a waffle House meal all sound great.
So we've got a low pressure down on the golf
that's heading in our direction that's going to bring us
not just clouds, but some rain today, folks. Fifty percent
chance we're going to see some showers on this Valentine's Day.

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Temperatures they're still cool, but a little bit better than yesterday.
Mid fifties to mid sixties today, scattered showers, Tonight, more
scattered showers and storms tomorrow sixty percent chance again what
it is much warmer tomorrow, just briefly in the seventies.
Tomorrow cooler and drier air moves in Sunday and Monday.

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Sundays hides in the mid to upper fifties. Monday we
start to climb back up into the load of mid
sixties Tuesday.

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That's our next chance of rain.

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We are just in and out of this wet weather
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our time on this Valentine's Day.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
All right, we're gonna see if we can get some
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or worst Valentine's Day experience or gift you ever got,
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seven forty KTRH. We'll talk about Trump's reciprocal trades in

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just a moment, but first let's get you up to
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Speaker 6 (14:16):
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Speaker 4 (14:52):
You know that's kind of what Reciprocal trades are all
about right, what's good for the goose is good for
the gander, and that pretty much with President Trumps said yesterday,
you know you're going to charge us the tariff, We'll
charge you the same tariff right back at you. It's
easy to keep track of the accounting on It's super easy.
And we will be amazed, I think, and how many
countries that kind of took for granted that we would

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pay a tariff and not charge them a tariff. All
of a sudden, they're going to rethink this whole thing.
Here is the President yesterday talking about his executive order
on reciprocal trade tariffs.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
The has been very nasty and it's just been they.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
Haven't treated us properly. Look were great to them on NATO. Essentially,
it's a similar group of countries. When I came in
my first term, I raised their fees. I mean they
were not paying. We were paying for, in my opinion,
almost all of NATO. And now you know, I had
the bad moment with the press where the press said, well,
does this mean you won't protect him?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
I said, I won't protect him if they're not paying.

Speaker 7 (15:53):
But because I said that, the Secretary General, as you know,
said it was the greatest thing he's ever seen because
the money.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Came pouring in. But they don't treat us right on trade.
They don't treat us right on the military either. I mean,
if you look at.

Speaker 7 (16:07):
Ukraine, we're in for probably two hundred billion dollars more
than Europe. Why are we in for more than Europe?
We're in for more than Europe, I mean, think of
it or NATO. I mean, that's just call it now
because Canada is And by the way, Canada is just
about the lowest.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Payer also just you know, they shouldn't be that.

Speaker 7 (16:26):
They are just about the lowest payer in NATO in
addition everything else.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
So Canada has really been taken advantage of.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
And if they had to pay just something modestly fair,
they wouldn't be able to succeed as a country. And
that's why that's why I feel they have to become
a state.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
Very presidental.

Speaker 11 (16:47):
Is it your expectation that partners will offer major concessions
and that you actually don't end up applying those tariffs.

Speaker 7 (16:56):
No, I think that a lot of them will stay
the same and whatever they pay, I'll pay. I mean, well,
we'll have you, we'll have a lot of them stay
the same. I think some Look I heard they as
an example, EU lowered their tax and cars down to
the exact same amount that they were much higher. They
were approximately five times higher, and they lowered them down

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to the exact tax that we're charging.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
You know, here's the thing we've been taking advantage of
during many different administrations. I can only I can only
assume it's because the politicians in those administrations really don't
think much of our country. They somehow think we deserve
we deserve it, We deserve to pay tariffs and nobody

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should have to pay tariff does Yeah, like we've done
something wrong the European Union? What have we've done wrong
to the European Union? All we've done is send our
troops there and protect them since nineteen forty five. I mean,
we have all these military bases. We basically protect Europe
from Russia than anybody else. Who would, you know, threaten

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them with war. You know, they don't pay their fair
share in a NATO. They charge us tariffs. They expect
that we don't charge them tariffs. Yeah, that's going to change.
Five twenty six, here on Houston's Morning News, it is
time to take a look at your money. Here's Denise Pelogreeny.

Speaker 21 (18:17):
Yeah, good morning to Apple and Google have put TikTok
back on their app stores following assurances from US Attorney
General Pam Bondi that a ban won't be immediately enforced.
Two companies removed TikTok in the US last month to
comply with a new law, but President Trump signed that
executive order last month, temporarily halting it. Game Stop is
apparently thinking about investing in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. CNBC

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says the Texas based company is still in the process
of figuring out if it makes sense for the business.
Stop futures right now are lower. Dow futures down one
hundred and sixty s and P futures down eleven. Nasdaq
futures down forty four. Did have a higher close yesterday
as investors kind of shrugged off those worries about the
tariffs that it looks like are coming. I'm Denise Pela

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Speaker 4 (19:26):
Good morning, five thirty is our time here in Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as
half are the Texas Centative has this more property tax relief,
This wallmaker wants to abolish the Texas Education Association, and
coming up at five point thirty eight, Republicans are pushing
for a repeal of the inheritance tax. Details in the minutes.

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Say head, you're in Houston's Morning News. First, I'm all
for that. Let's check out the drive again, Sky, Mike's here,
somebody's got to get my cows.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
All right, Let's go check your ship channel bridges. I'm
ten minutes later on this, sorry, guys, Hartman Bridge. So
far we're heading over from Baytown two Port or the
other way, and we're in good shape. Eight lanes of
fun here, toll Bridge rocking along full speed ahead. It
tend to Deer Park and Sherman Bridge, but plant to
two twenty five, easy going.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Let's check the south side.

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Good morning sky on my cap.

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It's Friday travel westbound on sixteen south. It's like a
lot of people inside the state home on this hold
or a super avid.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
For maybe they stayed home with their second wife.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
All right, let's check the southwest side and we'll do
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A couple of showers this morning, mostly Connie for the rest
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Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 11 (20:53):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's coming up on five thirty two.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Good morning, and our top story is relief from the
state capital, where the Senate unanimously passes property tax reform
sponsored by Houston's own Paul Bettencourt.

Speaker 25 (21:06):
Center Belt, Florida's companion at SJAR two will increase the
Texas school homestead exemption to a record one hundred and
forty thousand dollars for five point seven million both Texas homeowners.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Both bills move to the State House, where they are
expected to pass with bipartisan support. Also in Austin, there
is a move to abolish the Texas Education Agency, led
by state Representative Andy Hopper.

Speaker 26 (21:31):
The THA is an organization that does not help and
it only gets in no a. So I would like
to start the conversation of what we can do a
conservatives down here in Austin, not only to power parents,
but also to have power schools. And this seems to
be like the starting point.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
His proposed bill would transfer all authority from the TEA
to the state Board of Education.

Speaker 11 (21:51):
It would also kill the Star test. He joins Jimmy
at seven point fifty.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
And as for higher education, the state continues to clean
out wokeness in our public colleges. This has led to
some leftist professors resigning. Unfortunately, the majority of them won't quit,
but it does present the state with an opportunity for
a little bit of change.

Speaker 27 (22:12):
Academic competition is high, and this is a good thing.
We can get the best professors in our universities and
we can be teaching foundational principles that are going to
help the future of Texas graduates.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
Valerie Munios with Texas Scorecard calls this a win for taxpayers.
It's five point thirty three. ICE operations continue and this
one flew under the radar. Yesterday, the FBI announced an
arrest in Houston of a suspect in a terrorism case
that management turned over to ICE. That said sanctuary cities

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continue to defy borders. Are Tom Homan, who is fed
up with it.

Speaker 28 (22:50):
All golves are off. Game over.

Speaker 29 (22:52):
We're coming, so you can hide all you want, but
I'm not going to be satisfied to every gang member,
every TVA member. We eradicated from this country, every illeg
little gang memory. They need to be gone.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Home in on Fox meantime, while Dallas is not an
official sanctuary city, interim police Chief Michael Igo announced on
Facebook that his department will quote not be assisting any
federal agency in detaining people that are either documented or
undocumented in the city.

Speaker 11 (23:21):
It's now five point thirty four.

Speaker 28 (23:23):
The vote of twelve to ten.

Speaker 30 (23:25):
The nomination will be FAVORA reported to the floor.

Speaker 11 (23:30):
More winning for Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
The nomination of incoming FBI Director Cash Pattel goes to
the full Senate after passing out of Committee. The Senate
also held confirmation hearings for Linda McMahon as Education Secretary yesterday.
The full Senate confirms two more members of the Cabinet
RFK at HHS Secretary Brook Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture.

Speaker 11 (23:53):
The RFK vote fifty two to forty eight.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
Mitch McConnell, here we go again, the lone Republican to
vote against him. The President did sign more executive orders
yesterday and announced reciprocal tariffs, and he also shut down
a CNN reporter too.

Speaker 21 (24:10):
Mister President, you've won the White House and heart because
of high inflation.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
If your tariffs make prices.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
Build, we don't yes care, pase Trump, adding that nobody
watches CNN anymore, and we'll hear from Trump on tariffs
at six o'clock. Meantime, the debt ceiling might be the
next target for Trump and his team.

Speaker 31 (24:31):
He certainly would not like to deal with it, as
most presidents don't.

Speaker 32 (24:35):
If he can get that rolled into a deal on
the budget or into a reconciliation, build so much the better.

Speaker 31 (24:40):
Economist Peter Morosi says, deficit hawks and the GOP won't
like it because they want deficit reductions, and he really
has no way to work around it.

Speaker 33 (24:49):
We're up against the limits of the debt ceiling.

Speaker 28 (24:51):
It has to be raised.

Speaker 33 (24:52):
We'll be out of money by July. He's got to
do something about this. The government stops if the dead
seiling is not raised by summer.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
He says.

Speaker 31 (24:59):
The Republican can troll in the House and Senate need
to work with Trump on a fair deal. Andre Perard
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (25:06):
It's now five thirty six.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
According to a new Google survey, over ninety percent of
gen Z knowledge workers are using more than one AI
tool at work, and it's giving them a huge advantage.

Speaker 24 (25:19):
Obviously, it makes you more productive and it cuts do time.
But above and beyond that, you have a greater access
to knowledge. So if you are some sort of a
knowledge worker, you won't necessarily have those access as you
had previously.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
AI analyst phasel Hawks's tech savvy gen Z is fully
impraced AI in the workplace.

Speaker 11 (25:39):
But there's this.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
A new Microsoft study says that USINGAI makes your brain lazy.

Speaker 34 (25:46):
Tech expert John Schultz says, AI, like anything else, is
a tool, and it's all about how you use it.

Speaker 35 (25:53):
I'm pretty blunt when it comes to writing emails, and therefore,
what I find is that, you know, an AI model
allows me to expand my vocabulary and make that document
seem more flowing and more appealing to.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
A wider audience.

Speaker 36 (26:08):
He adds, the big problem with AI will be how
to verify facts stay historically accurate, and it'll be people
who come up with those verification systems. Eric Sharp, News
Radio seven forty KTRH five thirty seven.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Americans are pack rats by nature, but while we hoard things,
it turns out only one in ten of us actually
rent storage space.

Speaker 37 (26:30):
And I can tell you in two decades, no one,
not a single client, has ever had anything in those
storage units worth more than they pay to store.

Speaker 11 (26:41):
That's Tracy MCCOBBN with Declutter Fire.

Speaker 6 (26:43):
According to the numbers, I didn't realize this, Jimmy, consumer
storage is a forty four point three billion dollar industry.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
More with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News team.
This is Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Well, inheritance is something my kids won't have to worry
about because I'm spending at all while I'm here. Well,
maybe not all of it, but a lot of it.
But for those who've ever had an inheritance tax levied
on a family farm or a family business, then you
know how painful that can be. The inheritance tax could

(27:26):
hit the chopping block. It's also known as the death tax,
by the way, maybe more appropriately the inheritance tax will
hit the chopping block. More than two hundred Republicans are
pushing for a repeal of the tax, along with the
other extensions of the Trump tax cuts that he wants
to do. It's also back the inheritance tax repealed, backed

(27:46):
by the House's top tax writer, and that's ways of
means Chairman Jason Smith, the Republican from Missouri. An inheritance
or a state taxes levied on the beneficiary who gets
assets upon a person's death. You know, well, you shouldn't
have to be a Texas because tax just because somebody
died and left you something. Supporters of the federalist state
tax point out that the effects a relatively small number

(28:09):
of estates, but that that well, in other words, oh,
it's just the rich people have all this stuff. Yeah, no,
not exactly. I wouldn't call family, farmers to be rich people.
There's a counterfeit bill, a counterpart that counterfeit counterpart bill
in the Senate being led by Majority Leader John Thune,
back by forty four of the Senators. So it's got

(28:32):
a ways to go before it gets enough support. But
hopefully this is something that's going to get through both
the House and the Senate. It's five forty now, time
for a little traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
A lot of traffic and weather, A lot of traffic
and mother bill average amount. All right, sky mine, let's
do the two eighty eight side here. I've getting a
report here from Alvin. Let's see five eighteen northbound. Well,
that's pairland close enough northbound, some kind of stall. Lookout there,
lights are flashing. Could sneak up on you? Okay, thank
you very much. I'm super easy to find on Facebook
and Twitter X. Let's add a little further south.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Looks good.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Stephen F's happy this morning, and Lake Jackson through that
road work at roach Scheron. Hey, somebody give me some
updated lineage so I don't have to check myself. And
a golf freeway up from Galva stun from the causeway.
We're rocking along now Dickinson, you look good. Up there's
BUCkies and as we approach clear Lake an easy twenty
one minute right up Nord Freeway. No drama yet except

(29:26):
Mark from Spring gave me that police stop. No big
woop there around the Shepherd Curve Golf Freeway.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
It's Meg from Keema.

Speaker 38 (29:32):
Happy Valentine's Day, Mikey clear Lake City Boulevard, stalled flatbed
eighteen wheeler flashing his lights there. Nobody loves him either,
ho talk Ninjas. And then at the exit of clear
Lake City Boulevard there's police activity literally at the exit.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
That's insane.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
All right, Thank you Meeg from Keema with the heartsticker
this morning, I'm Sky Michael and Jenner Supercenter.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Dot Com Traffic Center tire. It sounds to me like
she loves you from from our Cazyra Generator Supercenter twenty
four our weather center, Terry Smith is here and she's
giving you a Valentine State forecast. Let's just call it
a moody Valentine's Day, right, I mean it's actually it's
you know, if you like it a little dark for
the romance part of it, it might be fine there
you go.

Speaker 19 (30:20):
You know, sometimes it's nice to just stay at home
and relax, right, and we've got some rain to help
to incentivize us to do that. I suppose, or you know,
meteorologists enjoy umbrellas as Valentine's steak gifts.

Speaker 11 (30:38):
I guess, oh, thank you, there.

Speaker 19 (30:43):
You go, So we do have some brain for the
first part of the weekend, and then when it dries out.

Speaker 11 (30:46):
It's really really cold.

Speaker 19 (30:48):
A fifty percent chance of showers today and temperatures are
running chilli, mid fifties to mid sixties for highs, with
sixty percent chance of those showers and some storms tomorrow
slight chance of severe weather.

Speaker 11 (31:02):
We'll be watching that.

Speaker 19 (31:03):
Temperatures warming up tomorrow, seventies for highs and then the cooler,
dryer air moving in. Sunday. It's a sunny day, but
only mid to upper fifties. Monday's a little bit warmer,
load to mid sixties, and another cold front Tuesday. More
showers and storms Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
All right, the full it is fine. I good keep
you warm with my buddy heat Carden. Temperature by the way,
forty four at your official severe weather station News Radio
seven forty KTRH Tappy. Valentine's Day five, twenty nine now
here in Houston's morning News, I am doing a question
of the day on Valentine's Day again today, although it's
a different aspect. Today, I'm looking for quick little stories

(31:42):
about the best and or worst Valentine's Day present you
ever got? And why was the best or the worst
Valentine's Day present you ever got? You can just go
to the iHeartRadio app. If you don't have it, it's
really easy to download. Take you second and then you
put in KTRH. He'll take you to the radio station.
Then you can program us into the preset right, so

(32:02):
the next time you go there, you just hit one
button in your There when you're at the site KTRH,
look for the microphone. Click on that. You've got thirty
seconds to give me maybe your first name, where you're
calling from in your story best and or worst Valentine's
Date person you ever got? Five fifty time for traffic
and weather together as we check out the drive once

(32:24):
again with Skymie.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
Something up on my uh west Sam here northbound at
the Briar Forrest, tot plus. Okay, that guy's just sitting
there right lane plenty of laneage. Don't even worry. Dine
from Alvins on two eighty eight.

Speaker 33 (32:35):
Duoy.

Speaker 39 (32:35):
Mike is before the five eighteen overpass on two eighty
eight doll car and he is not all the way.

Speaker 40 (32:42):
Off the road.

Speaker 28 (32:42):
Got a light flashing, but he sneaks from one you
bass you could turn into a hubbub later on.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
Well, set extra points for verbage there and let's take
it to two ninety.

Speaker 26 (32:51):
Hey, good morning, mikey Mike going out site.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Christ Look at all the bot donkey dude, dude, dude looking.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Over ninety modulating in my phoe looking good. Oh wow,
I think that's positive.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
Jimmy, if anybody speaks jive coming seven one three.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Two one two tips.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'm skylinking the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center.
A couple of showers this morning, mostly cloudy for the day.
High temperature about sixty. Tomorrow mostly cloudy with morning shower scheduled,
afternoon storm seventy four, and then Sunday Sunday and cooler
fifty seven. Right now, temperature is forty four at your
officials Severe weather Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time

(33:32):
to get you caught up in some of our top
stories on this Valentine's Day morning. Here's clip Thank you Jimmy.

Speaker 11 (33:37):
We're a sponsored by DNM Auto Leasing.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
As expected, President Trump announces reciprocal tariffs. Hamas says it
plans to release three more hostages tomorrow. And according to
the newest numbers, Texas leads the nation in motor vehicle
theft number two, Washington state number three, Colorado. Get the
latest news anytime at KGRH dot com. Our next update

(34:00):
is at six o'clock.

Speaker 40 (34:03):
Fifty nine.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
In Bound at the loop is always a problem KTRH
time saving traffic connect.

Speaker 19 (34:08):
On the ten.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
All right, Republicans do tripling, quadripling down on Doge as
well they should. And yesterday in the Senate, ram Paul
decided to be a good time just to read the
laundry list of all the things that usaid spent money
on in case any of all Democrats want to stand
up and try to justify any of this. Of course

(34:31):
none of them did. Here is Senator ram Paul.

Speaker 13 (34:34):
Every year I released my Festivist Report to expose the
ridiculous spending of the federal government, and this past year
was no exception. I uncovered over a trillion dollars in
government waste, with the State Department and USA USAID being
some of the worst defenders.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Let me give you just a few examples. So what these.

Speaker 13 (34:53):
Unelected bureaucrats are spending your hard earned money on. Four
point eight million dollars went to u Crane's public affairs
office in Kiev to fund social media influencers instead of
protecting our own borderm Two point one million dollars was
sent to Paraguay to enhance their border security. USAID also

(35:17):
funded a group of Ukrainian women led designers to travel
to the Paris Fashion Show. I don't know about you,
but i'd imagine Ukrainian women have more important things to
worry about than appearing in the Paris fashion show. USAID
spent two million dollars on transgender surgeries, hormone therapy, and
gender firming care in Guatemalam. Three million dollars was spent

(35:41):
to promote girl centric climate action in Brazil. And I'd
love to picture what a conversation about girl centered climate
action looks like. It's like, Hey, Barbie, do you know
what girls centered climate change is?

Speaker 4 (35:54):
Since when do we believe arguments need to be tailored
for girls?

Speaker 13 (35:57):
To understand how insulting to women at large that they
think there are special arguments for girls to understand that
are different than boys. Twenty five thousand dollars to fund
a transgender opera in Colombia.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Was nobody in Colombia willing to buy a ticket?

Speaker 13 (36:14):
USAID spent thirty two thousand dollars in Peru to create
a comic featuring a trans heero to address social and
mental health issues.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
What does that have to do with diplomacy?

Speaker 13 (36:25):
Twenty thousand dollars to fund a DEI program for a
drag theater in Ecuador. Twenty million dollars was spent to
produce a new sesame street show in Iraq. USAID spent
six million dollars to promote a project boosting.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Sustainable tourism in Egypt.

Speaker 13 (36:44):
I guess the US is now a travel agent for
the entire world, since they spent fifty million dollars on
Tunisia's tourism, even though it's already one of the most
visited countries in Africa.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
USAID gave eighty.

Speaker 13 (36:59):
Seven point nine million to help Afghans farm and incidentally
farm poppy, the plant from which opium is extracted. As
of twenty twenty one, Afghanistans supplied ninety percent of the
world's heroin. I thought this saying in the US was
just say no to drugs. How about we just say
no to wasteful foreign aid.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
And of course he went on from there. I mean,
the list goes on and on and on and on,
and as the Senator said, he's identified one trillion. That's
with the t one trillion dollars in government waste. Even
if even if half of it stayed, you'd still be
saving the taxpayers five hundred billion dollars. I mean, that's

(37:40):
that's real money when you get right down to it.
So let's hope the dose just keeps on, keeping on
with with what it is that they're doing. And of
course one of the things they're also doing is layoffs.
There are mass layoffs going on and multiple US government agencies,
thanks to DOGE, they have been purging the break They

(38:00):
have sent termination emails in the last forty eight hours
the scores of government workers most recently hired. That the
ones that most recently were hired, the ones that are
still on probation, so their probation hires is very easy
to let them go. And the departments that have been
impacted so far include the Education Department, the Small Business Administration,

(38:20):
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of Personnel Management,
and the General Services Administration, which manages a lot of
those empty federal buildings. It's five point fifty six here
on Houston's Pony News. This is used.

Speaker 22 (38:36):
Radio seven ktrh Houston Live Everywhere with now the latest news, weather,
and traffic.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
It's more what matters to you. From the John Moris
Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Six am is our time here in Houston's Porting News.
I'm Jimmy kit Who am I? Oh, Jimmy Barrett. That's right.
Among our top stories this f are Trump announces his
reciprocal trade policy, Liberal judges and down to anti Trump rulings,
and coming up at six eight, this Kdi based cooler
company has a product that is hazardous to your fingertips.

(39:10):
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're chaking out that morning drive again with sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
Let's check out your north sam here as we take it. No,
I see these all the time. Don't freak out westbound
at aldin Westfield. That's roadwork. We're taking out a left
lane and then eastbound. That's a left lane at Imperial Valley.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
This was supposed to.

Speaker 5 (39:28):
Be gone for several weeks, but it just held over
like a stalker. Got freeway. Now Nasau Bay, coming up
from NASA one. We're looking at just twenty one minutes
and two eighty eighths rocking along now, mamble up twenty
one minutes. I'm Skymike Atcher, Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weathers Center.
A couple of showers this morning, mostly caudy for the
day with the high temperature right about sixty. They'll take
a look at the rest of the weekend when we
talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight minutes.
Right now forty four at your officials severe but station
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for

(40:04):
the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is six oh one on ktr H.
We are sponsored by shoppist John Dear. Our top story
this hour more obstruction. Federal Judge Amir Ali. He was
a Joe Biden appointee. Well, he's the latest federal judge
to try and stop the Trump agenda, ordering a temporary
reversal of the administration's freeze on foreign aid. Interior Secretary

(40:28):
Doug Bergham says, there's a reason for this.

Speaker 41 (40:30):
Everything he's doing is one hundred and eighty degrees different
from the Biden administration, and he's delivering on all the
promises and that's fantastic.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
And one of those promises was.

Speaker 42 (40:39):
He was going to make government more efficient Bergamon Fox.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Meantime, another Biden appointee put a stop to Trump's order
restricting so called gender care for children, while an Obama
judge became the fourth one to block the order ending
birthright citizenship. As for where all of this litigation is going,
probably to the US Supreme Court, but legal lands say
Trump is in the right.

Speaker 10 (41:02):
Yes, the Secutor of the Treasury can terminate contracts. It's
insane that he can't. So I think a lot of
these sort of initial reaction laws that are going to
fade away and people realize the Trump is thanking you
be actually the power to do it.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
Professor Josh Blackman with the South Texas College of Law
there another part of the agenda are tariffs.

Speaker 42 (41:19):
The president says, to ensure the US is treated fairly
by trading partners, friends and foes alike. He'll impose reciprocal
tariffs on imports the mirror what US producers are charged
to ship their goods overseas. President Trump has already increased
tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and says he plans
to impose tariffs on cars, pharmaceuticals, and computer chips. That's

(41:40):
Jared Halpern reporting six ZHO three. Now the US Senate
confirming RFK Junior is HHS Secretary, So as for what
is at the top of his to do list.

Speaker 12 (41:50):
A snap program in food stamps and in school lunches
because they are the federal government in many cases is
paying for it, and we shouldn't be denizing people to
eat poison them.

Speaker 6 (42:02):
Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to vote against RFK.
Brook Rollins is confirmed as Agriculture Secretary in a bipartisan vote,
while Cash Ptel's nomination as FBI Director advances out of committee,
and the Senate held confirmation hearings for incoming Education Secretary
Linda McMahon six oh four. According to reports, multiple federal

(42:24):
agencies have started laying people off a result of Elon
Musk's effort to cut government waste. And we've got the
latest doze tracker at KTRH dot com. You know, we're
only three weeks into the Trump administration. Democrats in the
mainstream media are already in crisis mode.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
Left's phrase of the week is hard to miss.

Speaker 34 (42:45):
Constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis,
constitutional crisis.

Speaker 43 (42:54):
That's the new mantra on President Trump's effort to cut
waste and fraud in the federal government. Media analyst Joke
Conca tells Fox this is no accident.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
The memo went out this week.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Make sure you push those two words constitutional crisis.

Speaker 14 (43:07):
As much as possible, all in an effort to jump
fear around what Donald Trump is rightfully doing.

Speaker 43 (43:12):
White House says the real crisis is unelected judges who
keep blocking Trump's moves. Corey Jolson New's Radio seven forty
ktr right now.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
And by the way, there's a hearing today over Elon
Musk's access to Treasury Department payment systems.

Speaker 11 (43:25):
It's now six ZHO five.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
The administration is navigating multiple crises on the world stage,
from Russia and Ukraine to the Middle East. Secretary of State,
Marco Ruby, Oteld ktich Is, Klay Travis, and Buck Sexton
that the President's direct approach makes his job easier.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
I talked to my foreign counterparts.

Speaker 33 (43:42):
There isn't any ambiguity.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
They're not wondering what did he mean or what is
he really going to do?

Speaker 28 (43:45):
Now they know what he's going to do, and it
actually makes them want policy better. I would argue that
probably the best job in Washington right now.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
Is to be the Secretary of State for Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (43:53):
Rubio is in Germany today to meet with Ukrainian President
Volodimir Zelensky along with Vice President jd Vance. So just
how expensive was the Biden border crisis to Texas?

Speaker 40 (44:05):
Well?

Speaker 6 (44:05):
Operation Loan Star cost eleven billion dollars. Texas Congressman Roger
Williams introduced a bill to have the state reimbursed by
the federal government.

Speaker 16 (44:14):
The bill, frankly, is not a reimbursement the way I
look at it, it's just repaying us for what we
loaned the government. I mean, we had to do the
business the government wouldn't do so instead of as the USA,
and we ought to have Texas aid.

Speaker 6 (44:25):
Williams joins Jimmy at seven twenty, the State Senate unanimoally
unanimously passes property tax relief. This now goes to the House,
where it is also expected to pass more at six thirty.

Speaker 11 (44:38):
At six oh six, the.

Speaker 6 (44:39):
Trend that new Harris County DA Shawn Tier started in
January continues at dropping cases because of quote insufficient evidence
charges against eight police officers connected to the deadly Harding
Street raid in an overtime fraud scheme.

Speaker 11 (44:54):
We're dropped.

Speaker 28 (44:54):
Yesterday.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Meantime, Texas's top cop, Attorney General, Ken Paxton, told former
Fox host Tucker Carlson that seventy percent of the state
is now controlled by George Soros.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Back DA's George Soros has figured this out.

Speaker 17 (45:09):
He's gone in and elected das in democratic counties Austin, Houston, Dallas,
San Antonio.

Speaker 6 (45:17):
Soro spent two million dollars on tears campaign last year.
Six oh seven, the Rockets lose to Golden State in
the final game before the All Star break, one oh
five to ninety eight. They are now off until next
Friday when they take on the Tea Wolves. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station news Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Stay in touch on your drive in with Jimmy Barrett
and the Houston Morning News Team.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
I don't think I've ever heard of a cooler recall before.
Have you ever you ever heard of a cooler recall.
That's that's kind of unusual. That's a little weird. Katie
based Igloo has issued a recall in over one million coolers.
What in the world. What's wrong with the cooler? Does
it not keep things cool? No, it keeps things cool.
That's not the problem. They got a dozen or dozens,

(46:09):
I should say, reports of people receiving fingertip injuries, including amputations.
What yet, the cooler crushed the fingers. One point zero
six million ninety quart flip and toe rolling coolers price
between eighty and one hundred and forty bucks that were

(46:29):
manufactured before January twenty twenty four are included in the
recall due to quote posing fingertip amputation and crushing hazards.
At least that's according to the recall alert. Cooler comes
in multiple color combinations, so it doesn't matter what color
you got. It's the ninety quart flip in toe rolling
cooler price between eighty and one hundred and forty Bucks.

(46:52):
Consumers are urged to stop using the coolers immediately and
contact Igloo for a few replacement handle. Oh it's the handle.
Evidently the handle stamps into place and you can't you
can't get it to move and it crushes your finger
or could crush your finger, depending on how you've got
your hand on that on that handle. The there have

(47:15):
been twelve reports, so I guess it has been a dozen,
not more than a dozen. Twelve reports of fingertip injuries
including finger amputation, bone fractures, and lacerations. Wow, yeah, best,
best go ahead, and you know, take that one back
right and get a hold of the folks at I'll
be glad to replace it for you. Okay, we're asking

(47:36):
the question today. It is Valentine's Day, right. My biggest
concern today figuring out where to go to dinner where
there won't be a line of people or people who
already have reservations. You can't go anywhere probably today where
it requires a reservation to get in because I'm sure
they're booked. You're probably you're probably better off not going
to a really nice restaurant today because if you're not

(47:57):
participating in the whole Valentine's Day thing and you don't
have a resume because they'll be packed. And I'm asking
the question of the day today about Valentine's Day, best
and or worst Valentine's Day person you ever got. You
just go to the iHeartRadio app KTRH, hit the microphone button.
You get thirty seconds. Put us on your presets. You
can get the get to it easy, and you've got
thirty seconds to tell us your story, no matter what

(48:20):
it is, best and or worst Valentine's Date person you
ever got, gonna go up.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
You can't do much right now.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Russia possible?

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Huh, that's weird. Couldn't hear the call of that on
that one six ten time for traffic and whether together?
So it was good about it? He couldn't hear what
be gone? I'd rather talk about finger amputations. All right,
All rights that, Mike, Let's do some you might. Let's
do some north side I forty five.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
Let's get down from Conro on I forty five, and
we're going through Shenandoah, past the Woodlands, past Cypress West
Cypress station. We're in good shape here. Twenty two minutes
from Rayford into downtown.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
That's easy.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
If you're coming down from the sticks New Caney, you
know it's kind of bougie. Now New Caney southbound from
Graham Parkway and we're down to Humble. Twenty minutes from
Mumble into downtown. That's piece of cake here, Partytail Road.
You don't need it right now, but if you want
this is America, it's nineteen minutes down North Sam.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
You do have the roadwork.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
That's the closest thing to anything I've gotten now North
Sam westbound at Alding Westfield and eastbound at Imperial Valley.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
That's roadwork. Let's go to Rice Country.

Speaker 11 (49:29):
Jez going Mike.

Speaker 39 (49:30):
It's tony most here from New York to Paul.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
Mine, Marco.

Speaker 5 (49:34):
Keep your finger on two one two t ips Skywike
on a generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
Just a guess, but I'm thinking he's eating Italian tonight
from our KTRH Top Tax Defenders twenty four hour withinses
er Terry Smith is here. It's moody weather today for
Valentine's Day. A lot of clouds, a little bit of rain.

Speaker 19 (49:52):
Yes, So you'll have to be the spark in her
life tonight, Jimmy, because the weather's not helping. We do
have some rain today and tomorrow, and then we have
so much colder weather Sunday, and this little trend of
rain and cold, rain and cold's going to continue into
next week as well. So a fifty percent chance of

(50:14):
showers today mid fifties to mid sixties today, Tomorrow a
sixty percent chance of showers and some storms.

Speaker 11 (50:22):
Not like a widespread.

Speaker 19 (50:24):
Severe outbreak, but there is that risk of some damaging
winds with the storms, slim risk of a tornado. We'll
be watching it. Temperatures tomorrow in the seventies. Everything's cleared
out by Sunday, and that's when the cold air shows
up in full force. Like temperature Sunday mid umber fifties
and Monday in the low to mid sixties, and then

(50:44):
another cold front Tuesday with some rain Tuesday, and some
much colder weather, like really colder Wednesday and Thursday.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
Temperture right now still forty three at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Well, here's helping.
You're Valentine's Day's now the roller coast decide and smooth, right,
But I'm asking the question today best and or worst?
That's best and or worst Valentine's Day present you ever got.

Speaker 21 (51:14):
Valentine's Day was February fourteenth, nineteen sixty one, when I
was first Happy Valentine's to everybody, and it's the best
day ever.

Speaker 30 (51:24):
Hey, this is Robert from Lee City, Texas. The best
Valentine's gift I ever got was my firstborn son, who
was born on February fourteen. He's a full grown man
in the age of thirty three today and I am
so proud of him.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Wow. Couple of births born on Valentine's Day, son born
on Valentine's Day. Pretty hard to forget Valentine's Day when
that's the case. If you would like to tell's best
and or worst Valentine's Day gift you ever got, you
just go to the iHeartRadio app KTRH. Hit the microphone.
You got thirty seconds to give me your first name,
where you going from, and tell me your story. First

(52:02):
though traffic and weather together, I guess this was a
good Valentine's gift. Yeah, you're hitting a half the morning
off today, Sam, might as well.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
We've got north Loop six tom westbound at forty five,
just a little squished up in the squeeze.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
It looks like an extra minute if fat.

Speaker 5 (52:17):
Just watch out for other stations listeners, because they're doing
some crazy merging this morning. East text Downtown. We're all
packed up from Ien to the Big George. Maybe an
extra two minutes on the southbound and the Golf Freeway.
We're starting to squish a bit right after. You have
h northbound freeways actually rocking along for now. I'm Skymike
at your Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather Center.
A couple of showers this morning and mostly claudy for
the day, the entire day, a few showers mixed in
sixty tomorrow, mostly claudy for the morning showers and then
scattered afternoon storm. Seventy four Sunday Sunday and cooler fifty
seven temperature. Right now, it's forty four at your official
severe Weather's station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time

(53:00):
now to get you up to date on some of
our top Friday morning stories. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
We are sponsored by Moral Mechanical. A state lawmaker files
a bill to get rid of the Texas Education Agency
and American Israeli will be among the hostages released by
Hamas tomorrow and Jimmy, it's not just eggs that are
more expensive.

Speaker 11 (53:19):
Bad news.

Speaker 6 (53:20):
On this Valentine's Day, the price of chocolate has gone
up twenty percent from last year. Get the latest news
anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at
six thirty, the twentieth day of January present.

Speaker 22 (53:33):
Hi, Donald John Trump inauguration day, the first one hundred
days and be on on news radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Six twenty three Star time here in Houston's morning news. Right,
So your old school, did you ever dream, by the way,
if and when you went to college that there would
be DEI programs in college? I mean, did that thought
ever enter your mind? The thought never ended mind. The
question we have now, of course, is now that you

(54:06):
have states like Texas cracking down on things like DEI.
You know now that that is happening, and universities are
finding it hard to hide these people in other departments
to continue doing what they're doing. Will this eventually lead
to some sort of faculty exodus? Because you know, it's

(54:29):
fairly competitive landscape when it comes to you know, college
professors Christian Collins Joints is founder of the Texas Youth Summit.
Are you concerned about that at Old Christian or are
you maybe happily looking forward to to people who support
DEAI programs leaving Texas universities. Thank you so much for
having me on. And I think this is really a

(54:49):
nothing burger.

Speaker 44 (54:51):
I mean, there is actually great legislation in the Texas legislature.
First Senate Bill seventeen authored by Creighton, which went after
the offices and hiring practices at public universities. Well, now
there's another piece of legislation being put forth in this session.
That one was last session, this one this session in

(55:12):
the Texas House if past will extend restrictions to academic courses,
research and student admissions. And so what we have is
a climate that is really being pushed forward where you have.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
It's based on meyrit.

Speaker 44 (55:27):
It's not based on all this propaganda, and so naturally
there are going to be some woke professors who want
to leave, but in the end that will mean that
we have a more competitive job environment, we have better
students in our university. And it's based on the right
things merit and integrity and work ethic as opposed to
political propaganda.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Yeah, let me also ask you all I have you about.
There's a lawmaker and I forget his name at the moment,
not important anyway, but there is a lawmaker there's proposing
then and we're going to talk about it, by the way,
coming up at Actually I do know his name, save
Representative Andy Hopper. He has filed House Built twenty six
fifty seven in the Texas House that would eliminate the

(56:10):
Texas Education Association the TEA. Do you think that's a
good idea or not. I think that's a great idea.

Speaker 44 (56:19):
And I mean they're they're taking a page out of
what's going on nationally. I mean President Trump has given
everyone at mandate and he's assigned executive orders attacking DEI
and federal agencies and with contractors, and so what's happening
on the state is an outpouring of what's happening on
the federal level. And you know, Glenda McMahon, once she's

(56:40):
confirmed as Secretary of Education, she wants to dismantle the
Department of Education. Okay, And so I love what I
see from Representative Hopper, you know, going after a lot
of these restrictions that that really just you know, they're
they're they want to control, you know, there's groups that
want to control what is being taught. But really this

(57:01):
should be it should be decided by parents and leaders
of the community within the states, and that's what President
Trump has wanted, and so that's what these legislators here
in Texas are doing.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
You know what if that if that does happen both
at the national and the state level, that is really
going to put a lot of school boards and a
lot of superintendent's on the hot seat, isn't it, because
they won't have any excuses anymore for the things that
they're doing. They don't be able to blame the National
Education Association in federal grants, or or the tea and
tea policies.

Speaker 44 (57:32):
Yes, you know, I live in Montgomery County, Texas, and
you know what I've seen here is there's a group
of Mama bears that have gotten elected. There's seven women
who have gotten elected, and they're vigionly watching, you know,
the curriculum, and they're vigionally watching, you know, what's happening
in our school libraries. And unfortunately, there's been a lot
of trash, muck, pornography, you know, that's being shown to children,

(57:56):
and the focus really should be on map and science
and and helping student compete on a global.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Level in a global economy. Really and and you.

Speaker 44 (58:05):
Know, it's unfortunate that you have some woke librarians that
have put forward these books. And so you know what's
happened in Montgomery County and what's happened in Cyfair, ISD,
conor Sty and Sifair ict that's going to happen all
across the state of Texas and that we're better for it.
And so I love to see parents getting involved in

(58:25):
the schools and taking action because for so long this
has been looked over and we need people to rise
up and stand up and do the right thing and
protect our children.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
You're right about that, Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Christian Collins,
founder of the Texas Youth Summit. Six twenty eight. It's
time to take a look at your money as we
check in again with Denise PELIGRINNY.

Speaker 11 (58:44):
Yeah, good morning to you, Jimmy.

Speaker 21 (58:45):
Sources say Coca Cola and PepsiCo are preparing to comply
with President Trump's executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Both are government contractors as Frisk talks today, futures putting
to a lower and down futures. They are now down
one hundred and eighteen points. S and P futures down nine,
Nasdaq futures down thirty seven and more adults are apparently

(59:09):
ordering off the kids meal Jemmy, and I'll tell you
more about why they're ordering off the kids menu in
my next report. I'm Denise Pelligrinny Bloomberg Business on News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
You are Houston's News.

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Why they're traffic plus Breaking News twenty four to seven.

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

Speaker 4 (59:39):
Six thirty one is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f are
the Texas Senate passes more property tax relief, this lawmaker
wants to abolish the Texas Education Association, And coming up
at six thirty eight, your best and worst Valentine's Day
gifts details in the minutes. Say head, you're in Houston's
Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive again

(01:00:01):
here's sky Mine.

Speaker 5 (01:00:01):
Downtown starting to get a little squishy in spots here
southbound at the east text elevated. That's a backup from
equipment down just past the Toyota Center.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
It's an extra two or three here, got them? Is
that a record? A stall?

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
That's north Loop six to ten westbound before forty five
and this just popped up. I'll get you some laneage
at the six forty report. You need to know the
North Loop is pretty heavy between the east texts westbound
and forty five. I'm skylike and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
R KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center. A
couple of showers this morning, mostly code for the day
today with the I temperature right about sixty. We'll get
to the complete forecast when we talked to Terry Smith
at the Weather Channel in eight minutes. Right now, temperature
forty four at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's

(01:00:49):
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 11 (01:00:49):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:00:50):
It's six thirty two and our top story is relief
from the state Capitol right the.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Department of Education.

Speaker 11 (01:00:56):
It's a Big Conjab.

Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Not only is President Trump trying to shut down on
the US Department of Education, a state lawmaker wants to
get rid of the Texas Education Agency.

Speaker 15 (01:01:06):
That would be State Rep. Andy Hopper from Decatur.

Speaker 26 (01:01:10):
My view of what's going to say public education in
Texas is local control and de centralization of control.

Speaker 15 (01:01:16):
So how would spilling the TEA work?

Speaker 26 (01:01:21):
Essentially, all the fiscal responsibilities that are currently administered by
the THA would be handed over to the comptroller.

Speaker 15 (01:01:28):
Along with the state Board of Education. The bill would
also eliminate the star test. Jeff Bigs News Radio seven
forty KT raise, so how safe are your kids' schools?

Speaker 6 (01:01:39):
A majority of school districts, as it turns out, according
to a Texas Senate report, are not in compliance with
the law requiring armed security on every campus. Only forty
five percent actually have it. And as Texas pushes back
against DEI in state college's professors are resigning Valerie Munos
with Texas scorecards. This is a wing for taxpayers who

(01:02:02):
don't want to fund woke education.

Speaker 27 (01:02:04):
If professors want to teach DEI, gender studies and all
these different things, they can do that at private universities
or in another state.

Speaker 6 (01:02:12):
She added that Texas teaching jobs are in high demands,
so our schools won't have any problems replacing woke professors.

Speaker 11 (01:02:19):
No surprise.

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
In Austin, the Texas Senate unanimously passes property tax relief.

Speaker 25 (01:02:25):
All the members of the Senate that signed on to
the joint authorship, and I want to give a special
shout out to the five point seven million homeowners in
the state of Texas and just tell them that more
property tax cuts are on the way.

Speaker 6 (01:02:38):
State Senator Paul Bettencourt. This now goes to the State
House where it's expected to pass.

Speaker 11 (01:02:44):
It's now six point thirty four.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
The fight to catch a criminal illegal aliens continues as
the FBI in Houston announces the arrest of a terror
suspect yesterday who has now been handed over to Ice,
but sanctuary cities continue to resist orders. Are Tom Homan
is done playing around.

Speaker 29 (01:03:02):
Pam Bindey's going to take these sanctuary cities out. We're
gonna pull favorite funding. We're gonna start suing people if
we have to, if they impede us, actively impedus, or
if theigan harbor and concealing illegal alien from US, especially
at child predator.

Speaker 28 (01:03:16):
We're going to seek prosecution.

Speaker 11 (01:03:18):
Home and on Fox.

Speaker 6 (01:03:19):
The city of Dallas is not an official sanctuary city,
but interim police chief Michael Igo says the department will
not assist in any ice operations, much like what Euston
Mayor John Whitmeyer said about HPD coming up on six
point thirty five. More winning for Donald Trump the nomination
of his incoming FBI Director, Cash Battel moves to the

(01:03:41):
Full Senate after passing out of committee despite the usual
Democrat attacks.

Speaker 45 (01:03:46):
After reviewing cash Bateel's record and meeting with him, questioning
him at this hearing, I'm even more convinced that he
has neither the experience, the judgment, nor the temperament to
lead the FBI.

Speaker 6 (01:03:57):
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. The Senate also held confirmation hearings
for Linda McMahon, Trump's incoming Education secretary, and the full
Senate confirmed another two members of the cabinet, Our FK
Junior as HHS Secretary and Brooke Rollins, the Texans Secretary
of Agriculture. The President also shut down CNN's Caitlin Collins

(01:04:19):
after her attack on reciprocal tariffs yesterday, and it was
classic Trump.

Speaker 7 (01:04:24):
Nobody wants your CNN anymore because they have no credibility.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
You'll hear from Trump on tariff, specifically at seven o'clock.

Speaker 11 (01:04:33):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
Raising the debt ceiling is certainly on the president's radar
with the deadline coming this summer. Economist Peter Maurici says
rolling this into a budget deal would be ideal, but
it's the Freedom Caucus that won't be thrilled to get
a deal.

Speaker 33 (01:04:47):
On the debt ceiling. They want deficit reduction, and so
I don't think he can deliver that give it his aspirations.
I don't see this as something that's terribly doable, but
you never know. All kinds of miracles happen in the
middle of the night in Washington when people get tired
out and feel they just have to compromise to get done.

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
A spending deal needs to be done by the middle
of March six thirty six. You may be cautious about
using AI, but gen Z isn't, and they're getting ahead
of you at the office.

Speaker 46 (01:05:14):
A survey from Google says ninety three percent of gen
Z knowledge workers use at least one AI tool.

Speaker 24 (01:05:19):
They're much more tech savvy. They grew up with the
tech and these teple. These are now highly democratized.

Speaker 46 (01:05:25):
AI analyst Facil Hawk says AI tools can cut multiple
hours into someone's workload in a week.

Speaker 24 (01:05:30):
Increasingly, people are using AI tools off all kinds, anything
from genera AI tool that does email crafting to PowerPoint
presentation to do research.

Speaker 46 (01:05:41):
It's not just writers or marketing professionals using AI on
the regular either, Chair Lewis News Radio seven forty KJA eight.

Speaker 6 (01:05:47):
And new research suggests that the more we use AI,
the more we lose critical thinking skills. But tech expert
John Schultz says, you still need smart people to tell
AI what to do.

Speaker 47 (01:05:58):
It's able to speed up a lot of the voting
practices that we require to basically enhance our software, but
if we don't have somebody with the experience of understanding
what the foundation of what we're trying to accomplish, it
can just produce a lot of garbage.

Speaker 11 (01:06:12):
Now six thirty seven, the Texans officially introduced new offensive
Coordinator Nick Keyley yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Excited for the opportunity.

Speaker 11 (01:06:20):
You know, it's a great opportunity, great.

Speaker 14 (01:06:21):
People in this organization, and you know, really looking forward
to working obviously with CJ.

Speaker 11 (01:06:27):
He replaces the fired Bobby Slowick.

Speaker 6 (01:06:29):
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and I'm here
six thirty eight our time here in Houston's Warnings.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Right, it is Valentine's Day and a question of the day.
You go to the iHeartRadio app KTRH, put us on
your preset, hit the microphone. You got thirty seconds. Give
me your first name. Where you're calling from? Your best
and or worst Valentine's Day.

Speaker 48 (01:07:00):
Jimmy's the original Edge Spring. The best Valentine's Day gift
I ever got was a watch from my wife. The
worst Valentines that we both ever had. It's Our reservations
were actually canceled, and after two hours of trying to
find a restaurant, we ended up at Chuck E Cheese Pizza.

Speaker 4 (01:07:28):
The only place you could get into was Chuck E
Cheese with all this, with all the screaming kids, and
you're sitting there eating with pepperoni pizza right with screaming
kids all around you. Makes a good story, though. Do
you remember, by the way, when you were kids used
to do they still do Valentine's Day in elementary school,
you know where where the kids, you know, give each

(01:07:50):
other candy and that kind of stuff. I mean, you
remember those Do they still make those little hearts? Those
little hearts that were probably one hundred percent sugar, didn't
taste particularly great, but they had like little things like
give me a hug, or you go some sort of
a little phrase on it. For Valentine's Day. They stayed
like those. I wonder six forty time for traffic and
whether it's keep.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
A friend zone? What is that colone you're wearing. That'll
be another topic for the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
I think you're rights guy mine. All right, let's.

Speaker 5 (01:08:18):
Check out your Southwest Freeway. Now we're still rocking along.
I don't have that usual squish before the loop. Now,
if you get on that ramp going up to uptown,
you will drag it once you get on the ramp
itself up to West tim or you lose a couple
of minutes there. But just do the normal thing there.
Don't do anything crazy east text downtown. All right, that's
a big pack up from quipment southbound around minute made.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
I'm missing here I.

Speaker 5 (01:08:40):
Go again, Dacon Sorry, Dacon Park Southway six minute loss here,
let's see Kingwood. Let's check on the North Freeway. Veronica
from Spring says her ride in is easy. Oh and
the best trips. The best thing she ever got for
Valentine's Day was a trip to highlands. Well there's nothing
wrong with highlands per se. Oh oh oh the Scottish Highlands. Okay,

(01:09:01):
that's different, Yeah, yeah, slightly. Twenty three minutes in from
the Woodlands East text Clayton Splendora.

Speaker 39 (01:09:07):
Got my outdown. Right after you go over the fourteen
eighty five overpassion, there's a stall vehicle in one of
the middle wayes post on the scene. That's pretty dangerous
because you don't see it come right over the top hill.

Speaker 5 (01:09:20):
All right, look out eastext out to bound fourteen eighty five.
That's going to be New Caney And yeah, Terry, they
have a lot fewer bagpipes than our highlands than the
Scottish Highlands. Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
My son Brian was buried on Valentine's Day, So if
I thought you were to say in Highland, I think
in his case, he's just trying to make sure he
doesn't forget his anniversary from from Mark atrh.

Speaker 19 (01:09:42):
Now he's knocking out two big holidays in one.

Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
That's true. That got it. You save on the presents
right from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four or
whether Senator Terry Smith is here and we've got more
clouds than anything else today.

Speaker 19 (01:09:55):
We have a lot of clouds and we have submarine
on the way. Fifty percent chance is seeing some showers
make their way into southeast Texas right now.

Speaker 11 (01:10:05):
All the wet weather's out there in the Gulf.

Speaker 19 (01:10:06):
Of Mexico, but it's moving northwards, so you may see
some of that wet weather later today. Mid fifties to
mid sixties this afternoon, showers continuing tonight, sixty percent chance
of showers, perhaps some storms.

Speaker 11 (01:10:20):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 19 (01:10:21):
It is going to be warmer, in the seventies, and
then it's going to get cooler. It's funny how that
works out. Colfront moves through the temperatures drops. Sunday it's
a sunny day, mid upper fifties for highs. Monday a
little bit warmer, low to mid sixties, another cold front,
more rain, more cold air on the way next week.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
Temperature down one forty three now at your official Severe
Weather station News Radio seven forty k TRH. You are commute,
you are forecast your news. It's Houston's Morning News, brought
to you buying new South Windows solutions. So the timeline's
coming up here in a few minutes. Again, our question
of the day is best or worst Valentine's gift you
ever got? You can respond to that by going to

(01:11:00):
the iHeartRadio app KATRH put us on your presets. You
can get there quickly. You get thirty seconds. Once you know,
push the talkback button the microphone. You have thirty seconds.
Give me your first name, where you're calling from, and
your best and or worst Valentine's Day. President, We're going
to be talking about the energy sector and the Energy

(01:11:24):
Secretary's plans on the Trump agenda coming up in just
a second. First though, traffic and weather together. Guy Mike
has been taking it easy all morning. Now, yeah, it
has been.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
You know, our timeline price would make a great Valentine's gift.
Let's do some north loop here Irvington. Don't you forget
about me? Westbound? That is one two right lines blocked here.
It started as a stall. I think somebody ran into it,
and now we have an accident, full blown backed up
from the east text the original Andrew from Spring is
doing I forty five the North Freeway.

Speaker 11 (01:11:54):
Face guy, Mike Dude, Cross timbers.

Speaker 23 (01:11:57):
The cross Timbers cringe is becoming more and more of
a reality as we start to see a little bit
more rescoote as time goes on. But nothing out of
the usual, nothing out of the norm.

Speaker 40 (01:12:08):
Traffic.

Speaker 23 (01:12:09):
We're about thirty five forty five miles.

Speaker 5 (01:12:11):
An hour boom extra points for burbage there, Andrew, I'm
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Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour weather Center.
A couple of showers this morning. Joinally cloudy for today
with the high sixty mostly cloudy, scattered showers, maybe a
storm tomorrow seventy four, and then Sunday sunny and much
colder with the high fifty seven. Current temperature is forty
three at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven

(01:12:38):
forty KTRH. Let's get you caught up on some of
our top stories this morning. Here's Cliff, Thank.

Speaker 11 (01:12:44):
You, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
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(01:13:05):
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Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown Southwest.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Next on the ten Time Saving Traffic con seven forty KTRH. Yeah,
well that's a former energy I guess six fifty three
at a time here in Houston's Warning News. It's not
a one size fits all, it's a more of everything approach.
I think that seems to be what the President wants
to do. We have a new energy secretary. His name

(01:13:35):
is Chris Wright. Here he talks about Trump's energy agenda.

Speaker 49 (01:13:40):
President Trump's agenda is one hundred and eighty degree transformation
for where we've gone the last four years. For four
years we went to obstructing energy. I would say a
program of energy subtraction. Now we're all about energy addition,
more energy, more affordable energy, more opportunities, we had four
years of how can we make appliances more expensive and

(01:14:02):
lower quality? I mean truly degradation of life things. Now
we're going to bring common sense to back to that
as well. LNG, like the United States, has become the
largest export of LNG, and then we decided we were
going to just retire and leave our allies hanging and
not continue to grow our exports of LNG. This President
Trump is all in on expanding LNG exports. Great for

(01:14:27):
our country, great for our allies, great for the global economy.

Speaker 4 (01:14:30):
I've got so many other points here.

Speaker 50 (01:14:32):
So you mentioned LNG obviously extraordinarily important. Refill the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve. That was one heck of begin It could
have got us in a lot of trouble. I like
the number six and number seven. Modernize the nuclear stockpile,
also the unleased commercial nuclear power. We know this is
the cornerstone of us staying ahead in the global AI race.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Right absolutely, Charles.

Speaker 49 (01:14:52):
Look at nuclear technology was invented in this country, critical
to the effort to win World War Two and to
prevail in.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
The Cold War.

Speaker 49 (01:15:00):
What President Trump wants to do is modernize our nuclear
weapons stockpile. There's not been as much investment as there
should be there since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But we want to modernize those and upgrade those and
keep our country strong and ready for any challenge. And
of course related use of that nuclear technology is to
unleash nuclear energy in the United States.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Unleash the hounds, or in this case, of the power. Yeah,
we're talking more nuclear power here in Texas too. You know,
not big, huge nuclear reactors, you know, the traditional form,
but more of the smaller you know, can power a
city or power a neighborhood kind of nuclear power. We're

(01:15:42):
doing a lot of work with that at Texas A
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Seven am is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Trump announces his reciprocal trade policy. Liberal judges hand down
anti Trump rulings, and coming at seven oh eight, more
cuts are coming to the HHS, the IRS and the EPA.
Details and the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

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we're checking out that morning drive once again. He's skuy Mike.
It's six ' ten north.

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
The biggest thing we've got going on right now. They
keep moving this camera at Irvington that is westbound, calling
it a wreck.

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It's a right lane. They need a slinky too.

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This morning on the westbound side, we lose about three
or four minutes rest of our freeways.

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Not bad, you've taken today off.

Speaker 5 (01:18:15):
We do have a bit of a squish coming up
the Southwest Freeway ramp that goes up to uptown. I'm
Skymike at your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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From our KTRH Top Tax Defenders twenty four, our Weather
Center for today. A couple of showers this morning. It
remains cloudy pretty much all day today with the high
temperature right about sixty. We'll update the forecast with Terry
Smith at the Weather Channel in nine minutes. Right now
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Here's Clyffsaanders.

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Thank you, Jimmy.

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Well, we knew what was coming.

Speaker 6 (01:19:04):
President Donald Trump made it official, announcing reciprocal tariffs, finding
back on the left claim that it would raise prices
by saying it will create more jobs. Meantime, federal Judge
Amir Ali, he's a Joe Biden appointee, ordered a temporary
reversal of the Trump administration freeze on foreign aid.

Speaker 8 (01:19:23):
They're panicking and the only thing they do is go
to radical left judges that want to make a name
for themselves to stop the ex Executive branch for doing
exactly what was mandated to do. On November fifth, when
we swept the nation.

Speaker 6 (01:19:35):
Trump counselor Elena Haba on Fox Elsewhere and Obama appointee
blocks the birthright Citizenship executive Order. Another Biden appointee put
a hold on Trump's order restricting so called gender care
for children. So where are all these legal battles heading.

Speaker 9 (01:19:52):
This is something that Trump teams saw coming, and they've
already scored some wins.

Speaker 10 (01:19:56):
They've got an offense, and think a lot of the
efforts of these lasses are going to backfire. We already
saw one judge in Massachusetts say that yes, you can
do the fork and the road email he produced forces.

Speaker 9 (01:20:05):
Professor Josh Blackman with the South Texas College of Law says,
over time, this judicial obstruction will slow down.

Speaker 10 (01:20:11):
You know, litigation's expensive and time consuming, and if these
blue states and blue groups keep losing, I think they
might just decide to put their efforts elsewhere.

Speaker 9 (01:20:18):
In the short term, though, Blackman says, expect to see
more of these frivolous lawsuits come and go. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (01:20:26):
It's now seven oh three. Robert F.

Speaker 6 (01:20:29):
Kennedy Junior confirmed by the Senate as HHS Secretary fifty
two to forty eight, telling Fox's Laura Ingram that while
he doesn't oppose all vaccines, the COVID JAB, well, he's
definitely against that.

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We don't have good.

Speaker 12 (01:20:42):
Data on it, and that is a crime, the fact
that we don't have a surveillance system that actually works.

Speaker 6 (01:20:48):
The only Republican voting against RFK was Mitch McConnell. The
Senate also confirms Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture. She's
the former Texas Public Policy Foundation president. They held confirmation
hearings for Linda McMahon and pasted Cash Ptel's nomination out
of committee to the full Senate as FBI Director.

Speaker 11 (01:21:08):
It's now seven oh four.

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According to reports, layoffs have begun at multiple federal agencies
a result of Doze and Elon Musk and you can
check out our daily dose tracker at ktrh dot com.
The left continues to complain about Elon and Dojan. They've
got a new catchphrase.

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Constitutional crisis.

Speaker 43 (01:21:27):
Constitutional crisis crisis.

Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
Media analyst Joe Conscious says, the people want Trump to
be a disruptor.

Speaker 14 (01:21:34):
This is what Donald Trump was elected on It will
go through the courts and may even get to the
Supreme Court at one point, but in the end it
will be decided there.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
It's not a constitutional crisis.

Speaker 6 (01:21:42):
Meantime, the EPA administrator Lee Zelden says he canceled a
Biden era fifty million dollar grant to an organization that
believes and this is the exact quote, climate justice travels
through a free Palestine.

Speaker 11 (01:21:57):
It's now seven oh five.

Speaker 6 (01:21:59):
After calls from Governor Abbat, Texas, Congressman Roger Williams introduces
a bill to reimburse this gate for Operation Loan Star.

Speaker 15 (01:22:07):
It's payback for more than eleven billion dollars that Texas
spent securing the border.

Speaker 16 (01:22:13):
Nobody spent money like Texas. We spent more than anybody.
We did more than anybody. We took the place the
federal government when we shouldn't have had.

Speaker 33 (01:22:20):
To do it.

Speaker 15 (01:22:21):
And if the bill does pass, what should Texas do
with the money.

Speaker 16 (01:22:25):
There's a lot of things we have to do. I mean,
look at the damage and it's been created on the border.
We need to spend money down there to get our
border back in line and help people get their lives
in line.

Speaker 15 (01:22:34):
Williams tells k TH he expects the bill to pass.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty K Tier eight the
state Senate, meantime, unanimously passes property tax reform.

Speaker 6 (01:22:46):
We'll have more than that at seven point thirty seven
oh six.

Speaker 47 (01:22:50):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:22:50):
Police still looking for Eric LaTroy Brown, who was released
from custody on the same day he was arrested for
last week's UH parking garage sexual assaults on a Dashawn.
Tears office says it's investigating how this happened. Speaking of Tier,
a shocking number from Texas Attorney General Ken Pext in
an interview this week with former Fox host Tucker.

Speaker 17 (01:23:11):
Carlson, seventy percent of our population controlled by Soros das
he went in and knocked off Democratic DA's because we
can't get elected Republicans in those areas.

Speaker 6 (01:23:19):
Soro spent two million dollars on Tears campaign last year,
and Tears office also dismissed charges against eight cops linked
to the deadly Harding Street raid in an overtime fraud
scheme because of lack of evidence, a move that Tears
office has gone to several times since he took over
in January.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
Yeah, what you vote for seven oh six.

Speaker 6 (01:23:40):
We're just a week away from Marty Grass in Galveston.
It's been a slow tourism season so far. Officials are
hoping it picks up.

Speaker 18 (01:23:48):
We're looking at actually about even where we were for
last year. A symbol was a strong month for US.
January has been a little soft, but we are looking
at numbers to be very good. We've got a great
season coming up, some really cool things in store to
turn down to the island.

Speaker 6 (01:24:03):
Chris Stanley would visit Galveston, says the area relies heavily
on tourism. The city's restaurants they've taken a one to
two punch between the slower numbers and bird flu. Finally,
the Rockets lose the final game before the All Star
Break one O five to ninety eight to Golden State.
They're off until next Friday, they face Minnesota. I'm Cliff
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This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett. All Right,
so we got double cuts going on right now, which
is a beautiful thing. We have doze cuts which are
going on, and then we have these new department heads,
if you will, these cabinet members who are instituting their
own cuts. Let's start with another doze set of cuts.
They're getting ready to come headline, says DOGE. Staffer arrives

(01:24:56):
at Internal Revenue Service headquarters. Bomb bomb bomb Can you imagine, yo,
you're you're part of this huge bureaucracy, and something from
DOSE shows up and knocks on the door, and yes,
we'd like to see the books we'd like to talk
to you about. We'd like you to show us how
many probationary employees you have, because that those are the

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people who are getting laid off right now. A key
staff member of the Department of Government Efficiency arriving yesterday
at the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service to review
the tax agency's operations. So I'm sure they're gonna be
making some recommendations for big cuts at IRS pretty soon.
And then on the other end of the coin, in

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addition to DOGE, you also have department heads or in
this case, cabinet secretaries that are going to be making changes.

Speaker 4 (01:25:49):
At the EPA. The new EPA head Lee Zelden has
canceled a fifty million dollar environmental justice dis grant to
an organization that believes the climate justice travels through a
free Palestine. What yeah, EPA fifty million dollars they were

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giving for this organization, Trump writing on true social give
back the money now, So he's canceled that one. There's
fifty million dollars saved right there. That was a past
during the Biden administration. So that's not going to happen.
And then you've got the newly appointed Health and Human

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Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior yesterday, who's begin whittling away.
He says he doesn't necessarily want to just get rid
of people who are probationary hires. He's looking for the
people who have made some of the really bad decisions
about COVID and other programs that have actually cost Americans

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their lives. He's looking for those decision makers as the
first people on his list that he's looking to get
rid of. Big, big changes all the way around seven ten,
time for traffic and weather together. Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (01:27:07):
I hope Elon must doesn't come to the Generator Supercenter
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I don't think you need me today, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:27:12):
We do have a bit of a squish on the
Southwest Freeway ramp to the Gallery of Uptown six to
ten right there, and also Golf Freeway. I mean, if anything,
you've got to slow down. I don't have the wreck
at the loop yet, don't even know if we'll get
it today, but we're slow. Right from Scott Street northbound
Katie Freeway. Bit of a scoots as you're hitting around
the President's heads, but it's really nothing. And then also

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forty five southbound right around the b Someone Bridge.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
Some breaks.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
I've got six to ten north. Here's Dustin from the
north side.

Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
That makes sense, morning, Scott, Mike. Dude, if you're coming
down off Irvington trying to get on.

Speaker 16 (01:27:45):
To six ten, they've got that entrance ramp closed and
you're not expecting it to send you for heaf of
a loopy loop detour.

Speaker 5 (01:27:51):
Well, don't get loopy on six to ten. That's a
westbound wreck at Irvington. Lance from Magnolia's on two forty nine.

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Dude, Lance from Magnolia.

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I know I'm forgotten.

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Free white traffic normally lot this morning.

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There's a lot of people to be changing doctors in
that month.

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Yeah, I've been a long time since the rock Hanroe Lance.

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
We'll check.

Speaker 5 (01:28:11):
Yeah, it looks like your full speed ahead all over
the place here, Terry, we need to go to Simple Minds.

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I'll see if I can get us some tickets.

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Dan milk with you. Oh sorry, modern English too, I'm sorry.
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So a little bit of rain today and tomorrow, and
then a whole lot of cold after that. Today it's
a fifty percent chance of showers and it's not a
washout of a day. But you'll want to the umbrella,
maybe a nice red umbrella on this Valentine's.

Speaker 11 (01:28:59):
Day mid fifties to mid sixties. Today.

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Tomorrow is sixty percent chance of showers and possibly some storms.
Temperatures in the seventies tomorrow, cold and dry air shows
up Sunday. Sunday's in the mid to upper fifties. Mondays
a sunny day, a little bit warmer, load to mid sixties,
and then another colfront with more rain Tuesday and some
very cold air.

Speaker 11 (01:29:21):
It looks like next week.

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Right now, forty four at your official severe weather station,
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Jimmy Barrits and the Houston Morning News team all the
info you need to take on the day. So Governor
Abbot would like some reimbursement, if you would, for the

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billion plus they got spent and in order to try
to protect the border here in Texas when the United
States government wouldn't do it well. Of course, now you've
got President Trump who's more than happy to protect the border.
But you know we're still out all that money. So
the United States Representative Roger Williams here in Texas has
introduced a bill that would reimburse Texas for Operation Lone Star.

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More on that coming up with the Representative next. First though,
at seven twenty, let's be short traffic and weather together
here sky Mike.

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It's getting kind of short on the Katie Freeway inbound
right past Taylor Street, trying to reach the President's Aid.
You lose an extra minute or two that way. And
also the East Text Elevate, it's getting kind of squishy
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Speaker 6 (01:30:58):
Here's Cliff thank You, Jimmy Brunt by DNM auto Leasing.
A state lawmaker wants to abolish the Texas Education Agency.
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Speaker 4 (01:31:21):
Four more years.

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Hi, Donald John Trump?

Speaker 40 (01:31:24):
What happens next?

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Who knows what happens next?

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Happens here on youth Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
Yeah, we're looking for a little payback. Seven twenty two
is at time here on Houston's Morning News. All right,
we spent a lot of money on Operation Loan Star
and the reason why we had Operation Loan Stars because
the federal government wouldn't do their job. So it's only
fair now that we have a president who is doing
that job to give reinbursed for the time we had
to do the job. If you follow my drift here.
US Representative Roger Williams from Texas has introduced a bill

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which would reinverse the lone Star State. He's here with
us on Houston's Morning News. Thanks for coming on, sir.

Speaker 40 (01:32:04):
Good morning, good to be with you, Good to have you.

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
So is this something that President and Trump could do
through executive order or because it involves money, is this
something that has to pass through Congress so the money
can be allocated.

Speaker 40 (01:32:15):
Yeah, it needs to go through Congress.

Speaker 16 (01:32:17):
As you said, we dropped the bill two days ago
to get eleven point one billion dollars back to Texans
in the state of Texas that we spent because the
federal government was not interested in secure in the border.

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
That's a lot of money, eleven point one billion dollars.
Do you think there's I'm sure there's support with Republicans
and maybe that's all you need. Do you think there's
enough unanimous support among Republicans that we're going to get
the payback?

Speaker 40 (01:32:41):
Well, I think there is. I mean, you know, now
there might be some that want money.

Speaker 16 (01:32:44):
For their state, but the fact is Texas. Texas went
out first. Texas has spent more money than anybody. I
don't know that it's you know, to me, it's a
loan that we loaned the federal government. We need to
get it paid back. It's not so much reimbursement, it's
paying back a loan. We advance money to the federal
government because they wouldn't do it. So we do have
a lot of support behind it, and we'll just see
what happens.

Speaker 40 (01:33:04):
That's how things work up in Washington, of.

Speaker 4 (01:33:06):
Course, or don't work, as the case may be. Yeah, right,
So is this something that would be a standalone or
is this something that you would look to tag into
perhaps the new budget or whatever else is being worked
on right now in Congress.

Speaker 40 (01:33:17):
Well, it's probably going to be a standalone.

Speaker 16 (01:33:19):
A governor abbit totally supports it, as with him the
other night, and he made mention of it. Of course,
you know, yesterday, as you saw, we got the budget out,
So it.

Speaker 40 (01:33:28):
Probably be a standalone.

Speaker 16 (01:33:30):
And I think it's got a great chance of getting
through and getting the presence of desk.

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
You know, as long as I got you, let me
ask your opinion on something here. The Dallas Police Department
has come out basically and said they are not going
to support ice raids. They're not going to participate or
be helpful for ice raids. The governor is not very
happy about that. I'm guessing you're probably not very happy
about that. So even in the lone Star state, where
we pride ourselves on being pretty tough and illegal immigration,

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we have places that are not so tough. They're not
being cooperative with the federal government.

Speaker 40 (01:34:00):
Now, well, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 16 (01:34:03):
It's unbelievable that we don't want to we want to
take care of the people are doing bad things and
if you're here illegally, you're breaking the law.

Speaker 40 (01:34:11):
It's as simple as that.

Speaker 16 (01:34:12):
And the cities, of course need to they need to
respond to cord ly and work with us. But I think,
you know, ICE is going to do their thing anyway.
We've got twenty million people in this country. We don't
know who they are, what they are, and what their
message is. And here, if you break the law, you
need to pay for the law. Especially in Texas.

Speaker 40 (01:34:28):
It's always been our motto and we need to stick.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
With it, you know. And I don't think we're really
asking that much of these police departments, But what we're
really asking them to do is that if they have
apprehended an illegal alien, especially one that has committed a crime,
that they notify ICE and wait and hold them in
custody until ICE can come and pick them up. And
for some of these quote unquote, even though we are
not a sanctuary state, I would consider Dollas and Terence

(01:34:52):
County to be sanctuary cities in a sanctuary county at
least that's how they behave. Is there any sort of
federal recourse that can be brought against you know, these
municipalities who decide not to cooperate. Is there anything that
we can do at the federal or the state level?

Speaker 40 (01:35:09):
Well, I think there is.

Speaker 16 (01:35:10):
I mean home and talks about basically going in and
doing what his job is to do. So, I mean
the bottom line is, why do we want to promote
bad behavior? You know, that's not the spirit of Texas.
If you break the law, you need to pay. And
if you're in law enforcement, that's what you signed up for,
is to protect the protect the law, protect law of

(01:35:31):
body citizens.

Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
Right, sir, thanks forreytime, appreciate it. That is United States
Representative Roger Williams at seven twenty six. Time to take
a look at your money. Here's the Denise Pelagreeny.

Speaker 11 (01:35:41):
Yeah, good morning, Jimmy Bloomberg.

Speaker 21 (01:35:43):
BusinessWeek has this interesting report just out you're going to
want to hear about. It says undocumented workers helped build
Elon Musk's factories in Texas. The report says this is
not unusual. I know you know this in the construction industry.
The American Immigration Council says almost order of Texas construction
workers lack authorization to work. Those Some dispute those numbers

(01:36:05):
stop futures are putting to a lower open right now.
Dow futures down ninety eight s and P futures down six,
Nasdaq futures down twenty five. And are you one of
those adults who orders off the kid's menu? Wall Street
Journal says growing number of adults are doing it because
it's way cheaper, sometimes a better bargain, you know, chicken fingers, pasta,
grilled cheese, stuff like that. Others just aren't eating as

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much as they used to because of dieting or ozembic.
Even without the money factors, some adults apparently order off
the kids menu because they just like feeling like a
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Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Our time here on Houston's Bonning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories of this half hour. The Texas
Senate passes more property tax relief. This lallmaker wants to
abolish the Texas Education Association and coming up at seven
thirty eight, good Mike googled hang on, hang on, sky Mike,
Google change their uh the name of the body of

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water to Gulf of America on their maps in Mexico's
not Happy details in the minutes ahead, you're in Houston's
Bonning News first Sky Mike. Now it's your turn.

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Oh, thank you, East Text I found a wrec are. Actually,
Lisa from Splendor, I found a wrec for us.

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Sorry, Mike is north found just past ninety nine. Only
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All right, let me let the rest of the media know.
Let's go to Sean from Pearland.

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Age guy, Mike, don't you forget about me? No way,
six o'clock, nine o'clock.

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We are motor and brother.

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Mostly cloudy skuys today with a couple of showers, high
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Speaker 11 (01:38:23):
Thank you very much. Jimmy.

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It is seven thirty one on KTRHR. Top story. The
Texas Senate unanimously passes Property Texts reform sponsored by Houston's
Paul Bettencourt.

Speaker 25 (01:38:35):
Center Belt four in his companion at SJAR two will
increase the Texas school homestead exemption to a record one
hundred and forty thousand dollars for five point seven million
Texas homeowners.

Speaker 6 (01:38:46):
Both items go to the State House where they're expected
to pass also in Austin and move to abolish the
Texas Education Agency, led by State Rep. Andy Hopper.

Speaker 26 (01:38:57):
The THA is an organization that does not have and
it only gets in OA. So I would like to
start the conversation of what we can do have conservatives
down here in Austin not only to power parents but
also to have power schools. And this seems to be
like the starting point.

Speaker 6 (01:39:11):
Is proposed bill A transfer all authority from the TEA
to the State Board of Education and within the Star
test too. He joins Jimmy at seven fifty and then
they're so called higher education. As the state continues to
clean out wokeness and DEI, some woke professors have quit. Unfortunately,
the majority of them will probably stick around, but as

(01:39:33):
for the ones that left, it presents the state with
an opportunity for change.

Speaker 27 (01:39:37):
Academic competition is high, and this is a good thing.
We can get the best professors in our universities and
we can be teaching foundational principles that are going to
help the future of Texas graduates.

Speaker 6 (01:39:49):
Valerie Munyos with Texas Scorecard says this is a win
for taxpayers who don't want to pay for woke professors
teaching woke courses. It's now seven thirty three more ICE operation,
the FBI announcing and arrest in Houston of a suspect
and a terrorism case. That man's been turned over to ICE,
but sanctuary cities continue to resist borders are Tom Homan,

(01:40:12):
who's pretty much done with it all.

Speaker 29 (01:40:14):
Golves are off, game over. We're coming, so you can
hide all you want, but I'm not going to be
satisfied to every gang member, every TVA member. We eradicating
from this country, every.

Speaker 28 (01:40:24):
Illegal gang member. They need to be gone.

Speaker 11 (01:40:26):
Home and on Fox.

Speaker 6 (01:40:27):
Meantime, while Dallas is not an official sanctuary city, interim
police Chief Michael Igo says the department won't assist any
federal agency in dictating people that are quote either documented
or undocumented. Kind of similar to what Mayor Whitmyer said
about HPD. It's now seven thirty.

Speaker 29 (01:40:45):
Four, the vote of twelve to ten, the nomination will
be in favor of.

Speaker 4 (01:40:50):
Reported to the floor.

Speaker 6 (01:40:53):
Chuck Grassley, there is the domination of incoming FBI Director
Cash Battel moves to the full Senate. The Senate also
held a confirmation hearing for Linda McMahon as Education Secretary yesterday.
Two more confirmations to Trump's cabinet are FK. Junior as
HHS Secretary. Brook Rollins asked the Secretary of Agriculture the

(01:41:13):
President signing more executive orders yesterday, announcing reciprocal tariffs and
shutting down a CNN reporter as well.

Speaker 31 (01:41:21):
Thanks, You've won the White House at heart because of
high inflation.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
If your terriffs may prices.

Speaker 33 (01:41:27):
Go, we.

Speaker 6 (01:41:30):
Care, Please Trump adding that quote nobody watches CNN anymore,
also of saying they have no quote credibility. The debt ceiling, though,
might be Trump's next target for the administration.

Speaker 31 (01:41:47):
He certainly would not like to deal with it, as
most presidents don't.

Speaker 32 (01:41:50):
If you can get that rolled into a deal on
the budget or into a reconciliation builds so much.

Speaker 31 (01:41:55):
The better economist Peter Morosi says, deficit hawks and the
GOP won't like it because they want deficit reductions, and
he really has no way to work around it.

Speaker 33 (01:42:04):
We're up against the limits of the debt sheeling. It
has to be raised. We'll be out of money by July.
He's got to do something about this. The government stops
if the debt sheeling is not raised by summer.

Speaker 4 (01:42:14):
He says.

Speaker 31 (01:42:14):
The Republican control in the House and Senate need to
work with Trump on a fair deal. Andre Perard News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (01:42:22):
Thank you, Andre. It's now seven thirty five.

Speaker 6 (01:42:24):
According to a new Google survey, over ninety percent of
gen Z knowledge workers, you're using more than one AI
tool at work, and it's giving them a huge advantage.

Speaker 24 (01:42:34):
Obviously, it makes you more productive and it cuts on time.
But above and beyond that, you have a greater.

Speaker 4 (01:42:40):
Access to knowledge.

Speaker 24 (01:42:41):
So if you are some sort of a knowledge worker,
you won't necessarily have those access as you had previously.

Speaker 6 (01:42:48):
Author Faisal Hawk says tech savvy gen Z is fully
embraced AI.

Speaker 11 (01:42:52):
But there's this.

Speaker 6 (01:42:53):
A new Microsoft study suggests that using AI makes your
brain lazy.

Speaker 34 (01:42:59):
Tech expert John Schultz says, AI, like anything else, is
a tool, and it's all about how you use it.

Speaker 35 (01:43:06):
I'm pretty blunt when it comes to writing emails, and
therefore what I find is that an AI model allows
me to expand my vocabulary and make that document seem
more flowing and more appealing to a wider audience.

Speaker 36 (01:43:21):
He adds, the big problem with AI will be how
to verify facts stay historically accurate, and it'll be people
who come up with those verification systems. Eric Sharp, News
Radio seven forty ktiras.

Speaker 6 (01:43:34):
Coming up on seven thirty seven Americans or pack rats.
But at the same time, only about one in ten
of us actually rent storage space, and I.

Speaker 37 (01:43:43):
Can tell you in two decades, no one, not a
single client, has ever had anything in those storage units
worth more than they pay to store it.

Speaker 11 (01:43:53):
That's Tracy MCCOBBN with declutterfy.

Speaker 6 (01:43:55):
Now, according to the numbers, consumer storage is a forty
four point three billion dollar business. Now, I'm Cliff Saunders
on Houston's News Weather in Traffic Station News Radio seven
forty k t RH.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
World Events, National Headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
I guess Mexico's president's a little upset with the Google
Maps because Google Maps renamed it Golf of America. They
just took off on the whole Trump thing. And if
you if you look at Google Maps now it says
Golf of America, doesn't say Golf of Mexico anymore. And
I don't know if the president of Mexico if she

(01:44:37):
is a big fan of Google or not. Probably not
a big fan of Google right now, but she's demanding
they change it back. I don't know if they intend
to change it back or not. I would hope they don't.
Why why should you change it back? Call it whatever
we call it, whatever we want to call it, can't we?

Speaker 33 (01:44:57):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:44:57):
And Republican well, Ryan know, Lisa Markowski in Alaska is
upset that Trump has renamed it back to Mount McKinley
from Mount Danali and demands that they'd be renamed again
Mount Danali, which I think he is thoroughly ignoring, as
he generally does. So. I guess we're at the point

(01:45:19):
where we're just going to call these things what we
want to call them. I don't know what's in what's
involved in technically changing the name of something anyway. I mean,
who would you petition to change the name of the
Golf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It is
whatever it says on the map, I suppose, right. I mean,

(01:45:40):
who who named it Golf of Mexico to begin with?
Is that somehow trademarked or or copy copyrighted? I don't
think so.

Speaker 24 (01:45:49):
So.

Speaker 4 (01:45:50):
Uh. By the way, the name Golf of America is
more appropriate than Golf of Mexico anyway. Mexico is just
one corner of the what was the Golf of Mexico.
You've got, yep, huge North American continent that borders it.
You've got Kiba that borders it. You've got you know,
also much more than just Mexico. The United States takes

(01:46:13):
up more land, you know, bordering on that gulf than
Mexico does. I think we should name it whatever we
want to seven forty time for traffic and weather together.
Here's sky Mike. Sure he's text elevated. That's a lot
of breaks.

Speaker 5 (01:46:25):
Now from I ten down into the canyon, you lose
about fourteen minutes southbound. Got roadwork on the north sam
westbound at Aldan Westfield will take out a left lane,
and then eastbound the same Scooch at Imperial Valley. If
you're trying to catch a plane, you might want to
take my secret hack. Just don't tell anybody the Hardy
Airport connector. I'm Skymike and the generators.

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
Sounds like you're cutting off in there again. Did you
did you get out your ball bean hammer? Mess that
up again? From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour
Weather Center, we have Terry Smith standing by with a
kind of a gloomy forecast for today and really up
and down in these temperatures.

Speaker 19 (01:47:00):
I'm telling you it's a very active stretch of weather.

Speaker 11 (01:47:03):
And it's not just here in Texas.

Speaker 19 (01:47:05):
It really goes from coast to coast because these are
Pacific storms for the most part, and so they come
through bring us some rain, cool the temperatures some and
then another one heads our way.

Speaker 11 (01:47:16):
Well, there's more cold air on the way, folks.

Speaker 19 (01:47:18):
I'm telling you so a fifty percent chance of showers today.
It's not going to rain all day, but it is
cloudy and it's still on the cooler side. Mid fifties
to mid sixties. This afternoon. Tomorrow is sixty percent chance
of showers and some thunder.

Speaker 11 (01:47:32):
Now, we're going to warm up tomorrow.

Speaker 19 (01:47:34):
Temperatures will be in the seventies tomorrow, but then the colder,
dryer air shows up Sunday. High Sunday mid to upper fifties.
Mondays a little bit warmer, in the low to mid sixties.

Speaker 11 (01:47:47):
Tuesday, We've got.

Speaker 19 (01:47:48):
Another cold front, more rain, and it looks like we
get to have some very cold temperatures Wednesday and Thursday
next week.

Speaker 4 (01:47:56):
Right now forty four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Yeah, it's Valentine's Day time
here on Houston's Morning News. And I've been asking you
all morning to go to the iHeart radio app KTRH.
Put us on your preset so we can get to
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(01:48:18):
best and or worst thing you ever got for Valentine's Day.

Speaker 20 (01:48:22):
And the best Valentine's Day I ever had was when
I asked my husband to marry me thirty years ago
and he said, yes, I have a great day.

Speaker 30 (01:48:35):
The worst Valentine's Day was when my girlfriend stole my
fake Rolex watch.

Speaker 33 (01:48:39):
And broke up with me.

Speaker 4 (01:48:43):
Stole his face. At least it wasn't a real Rolex.
And how about that Sadie Hawkins action. You don't see
that every day?

Speaker 47 (01:48:51):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:48:52):
We got a couple more best and worst.

Speaker 40 (01:48:54):
Hi, this is day from Kingwood.

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
The best and worst Valentine's.

Speaker 7 (01:48:58):
Day gift was to say gift and it was my
divorce papers being served.

Speaker 51 (01:49:04):
Our best Valentine's they ever got. Gifts I ever got
was a hummer from my wife. It was adel one
of the old ones. I still had it.

Speaker 4 (01:49:16):
I've always yeah, you always you could. How could you
say no to getting a free hummer? You couldn't?

Speaker 47 (01:49:21):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:49:22):
Seven fifty Time for traffic and weather together the drive
once again. Here's the guy, Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:49:28):
All right, we've got let's say we've got this north
loop thing. Scoot step westbound here really through me Irvington.
That's an accident on the right side there, it's an
extra two or three minutes going that way.

Speaker 4 (01:49:39):
It's really kind of Friday like it, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:49:41):
Valentine's Day whatever, Cliff, And if you're going southbound on
the east text, you're going to hit some brakes now
just before dyking what I got it right this time?
Dyken parked down to the big short. You just lose
a minute or two. I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:49:56):
From our kat r H Generator super Center twenty four
our the center. Cloudy skies for today is scattered shower too,
with a high temperature right about sixty forecast tomorrow all
the way into the seventy four or seventy five degree range,
along with a chance of a shower or thundershower and
then sunny cool down to fifty seven for the high
temperature on Sunday right now forty four at your official

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On Youth Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:51:05):
Well, at least we don't need no education department. According
to our next guest, anyway, seven point fifty two, our
time here in Houston's morning news. You know the President
Trump getting ready to get rid of the National Education Association.
Our next guest would like to get rid of the
Texas Education Association, a state representative, Andy Hopper, the Republican Fordicator.

(01:51:26):
Welcome to the show, sir. You think we could live,
just live, just fine without the tea huh, Well, you
know you hit it right.

Speaker 26 (01:51:34):
I mean, President Trump is doing great things at the
federal level, trying to clear out a lot of the
craft and bureaucracy that has accumulated over decades, and here
in Texas we should do the same thing. We should
actually consider the fact that over the last century we've
put a lot of things in place that are no
longer necessary. You know, we've said that parents should have
the right to determine what the best educational options are

(01:51:57):
for their kids, and in that competitive environment, it makes
sense right that we should also unbridle education to be
able to operate at the local level under the control
of citizens as close as you know, the level of
government can be to the people. You know, we Republicans
believe in local control. So let's just let's just like

(01:52:18):
make it a competitive environment and let schools operate the
way that people in their area want them to operate,
and if parents don't like it, they can move their kids.

Speaker 4 (01:52:26):
So that's kind of what I'm all about. I'm kind
of guessing that maybe your average text and probably doesn't
even know what the tea does. In all practicality. What
do they do? Well?

Speaker 26 (01:52:35):
They accumulate over five hundred and seventy million dollars every biennium.
That's half of the amount of money we want to
allocate to school choice. The over one hundred million dollars
every single year is allocated to a Star test. And
you know, here's the funny thing about the Star test.
This is a this is a test that is given
to every kid. And so what ends up happening is

(01:52:55):
is that every year, you know, parents tell me that,
you know, the.

Speaker 40 (01:53:00):
The teachers are teaching to the test. The teachers complain.

Speaker 26 (01:53:02):
About this test, and as a counselor at a big
school district tell me that they have never had a
military recruiter, they've never had a college recruiter, they've never
had a potential employer ever reach out to the school
and ask can I see the Star Test. So part
of this bill is to get rid of the Star Test,
which is basically an anchor, I think on the entire
education system.

Speaker 4 (01:53:22):
Yeah. Well, the Star Test, of course, was supposed to
tell us how much kids were or were not learning,
and the only thing we've learned from it is how
little they've learned because the test scores generally have not
gone up all that much. So, as you say, I
mean we there really has been kind of a national movement,
hasn't there to get back to the basics, you know, reading, writing, arithmetic,
do away with all these programs that have nothing to

(01:53:44):
do with the basic education.

Speaker 40 (01:53:46):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 22 (01:53:47):
You know.

Speaker 26 (01:53:48):
One of the things that I observed, you know, running
for office twice in a period of you know, four years,
is that you know, as you drive through the countryside
in Texas, you see these signs out sometimes pastors, sometimes
private land this says, you know, like former side of
like Sandy Creek School or you know, or whatever, and
you see dozens of these and what what when you
look into the history of it is in the you know,

(01:54:10):
thirties and forties, there was a kind of a period,
a kind of a fad of consolidation of schools across
the state where you know, these former you know, one
room school houses were consolidated into bigger districts. And I
think that the TA, you know, the capstone of that
was and the TA was graded in nineteen forty nine.

(01:54:30):
And I think that what we've seen is that maybe
centralization of government at every level is a bad idea.
You know, the more decentralized, the more close to the
people government can be, you know, the more chance people
can have is to first of all, determine if it's
doing well and it's not doing well. You know. Brent
Money is a joint author of this. He's a wrap

(01:54:51):
out of East Texas, and he had a really great analogy.
He said, Hey, he says, you know, I don't want
government to tell me what the best Tex Mex restaurant
in town is. I just want to tell me if
it's safe. You know, I can determine what the right
atmosphere is and whether or not they have the best salsa,
and so same thing goes for schools.

Speaker 4 (01:55:10):
Well, I'll tell you what. It's been very difficult to
get school choice through. I'm imagining that this is not
going to be any easier.

Speaker 10 (01:55:15):
Is it.

Speaker 33 (01:55:17):
No?

Speaker 26 (01:55:17):
But you know it's it's interesting. I have wanted to
start the conversation. I you know, I think that part
of the reason that I went to Austin is that
I think that there are so many issues that just
need us to basically highlight and bring a conversation to it.
And now I'm not going to be afraid to bring
in a bill like this. But what's amazing to me
is that how much support there is. I mean, I've

(01:55:38):
have no one called me and say, hey, this is
a terrible idea, But I've had dozens and dozens of
people call our office, call me and say, hey, you
know I'm in public education. Thank you for starting this conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:55:48):
So maybe, yeah, maybe it won't be that tough at all.
It turns out stay representative. Good to talk to you, sir,
Thank you for your time. That is Eddie Hopper joining us.
You're on news radio seven forty KO. I'll have a
great Valentine's Day, a great weekend. I'll see you Monday morning,
bright and early five. I hope to see the sam
from four and AM nine fifty k PRC