DOGE Gets A BIG Legal Victory

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 02/19/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Now the latest news, weather and TRAFA. It's more of
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Good morning, It's five am now here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as we get
started this morning, Trump and Musk in front their critics,
Dose gets a big legal victory and coming up in
five oh eight, two hundred and forty one million taxpayer
dollars spent on transgender surgeries and treatments for animals. Details

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in the minutes theyhead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive for the first time
this morning. Here sky Mine, all.

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Right, I've already had enough for this weather. We'll talk
to Terry in ten minutes about that. I've got both
sides of it now. Hard Hats, you're in good shape.
I'm advisors, you're in good shape. Coming in from Graham Parkway,
we're looking at twenty two mines on the inbound and Hardheads.
I don't have the roadwork at Federal Road this morning.
It looks like they picked that up already. That's the

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good news, and the rest of our freeways rocking along.
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and tomorrow night. We'll check that out. We'll be talked
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for the news. Here's Cluf Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's coming up on five OHO two.
Good morning, everybody. Our top story.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
One of the biggest functions of the Doors team is
just making sure that the presidential executive orders are actually
carried out.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
Elon Musk last night saying that some of President Trump's
executive orders were not carried out by the deep state
until dose.

Speaker 7 (02:00):
If the will of the president is not implemented and
the president is a representative of the people.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
That means the will of the people is not being implemented.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
Musk and Trump with KTRH is Sean Hannity on Fox
The interview at KTRH dot com. A win for Musk
in court, Federal Judge Tanya Chuckton rejected fourteen Democrat attorneys
general in their effort to block Dose from firing federal
workers and accessing data at several agencies. This law fair

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was exactly what the left did to Drump both during
and after his first term.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
And there's a reason for it.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
I think people are worried about what Elon Musk is
capable of with the access that he now has, and
that's what we're seeing crop up in a lot of
these lawsuits.

Speaker 9 (02:45):
That's reporter Ashley Oliver, who has been covering Doze for
the Washington Examiner.

Speaker 8 (02:51):
They're wanting to basically block Elon Musk and Doze from
doing anything that seems like there's news every single day.

Speaker 9 (02:58):
It's all the Democrats can do. Only this time Trump
knew it was coming. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
K t E five oh three.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
The President signing several executive orders yesterday, including a memo
imposing quote radical transparency requirements on government agencies. He also
defended the banning of the liberal associated press from the
Oval Office until they start calling the golf by its
rightful name.

Speaker 10 (03:26):
We're going to keep them out until such time as
they agree that it's the Gulf of America. We're very
proud of this country, and we wanted to be the
Gulf of America.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
The AP is still calling it the Gulf of Mexico,
coming up on five to ZHO four. The administration is
also hitting back at Democrats Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
for blaming this week's plane crash in Toronto on Trump
and cuts at the FAA.

Speaker 11 (03:48):
It's incredibly irresponsible for Chuck Schumer to say such a
thing when the investigation is still under way.

Speaker 6 (03:54):
White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt told Fox the crash
took place not in the US but in Canada. And
you're already seeing stories by the left mainstream media crying
about whether or not it's safe to fly. But the
experts say, ignore what they're saying.

Speaker 12 (04:11):
The technology and crews we have right now are very
very good, better than any of the country in the world.
And I have total confidence in the aviation. Yeah, personally speaking,
have no problement.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
Offline aviation expert Jay Ratliffe says that statistically speaking, air
travel is still one of the safest ways to get around.
Coming up on five TOHO five with extreme cold arriving
in Houston, Mayor John Whitmeyer says the city is prepared.

Speaker 13 (04:36):
It's my goal that this would be the last news
conference we have this year dealing with the weather. We'll
have all hands on deck. We'll have people twenty four
to seven till we get through this arctic blast.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
There is no snow or ice associated with this weather
right now, and Urcott's gone us under a weather watch
through Friday. The President has promised to complete the Constitution
pop Line, which would transport natural gas to New York,
and this would be a good sign for the future
of the Keystone Excel pipeline, which of course was canceled

(05:08):
by Joe Biden.

Speaker 14 (05:09):
He is definitely open to the approval not only of
the Constitution pipeline, but he's already signaled that he would
approve the Keystone pipeline.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Market analyst Phil Flynn says the projects were canceled for
political reasons, and all that's done is help raise your
gas prices. Trump also established a National Energy Dominance Council.
As it begins to bring back American energy.

Speaker 15 (05:33):
It's signals we're recovering and putting actual experts back in charge.

Speaker 16 (05:37):
Giving the experts the authority to make some strong recommendations
to relax permitting restrictions, relax some of the regulatory onslought
that we've seen in the last several years.

Speaker 15 (05:47):
Energy expert David Holt says permitting is a huge problem
holding us back, and Trump's drill baby drill plan isn't
the whole solution.

Speaker 16 (05:54):
It is also drill baby drill and then get product
to market for consumers to lower prices, to expand our ability.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
To meet our energy needs here at home.

Speaker 15 (06:02):
He says, find in ways to tap into energy at
home will help drive the return as well. Andre Parade
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NOW five six demand charged in the UH Parking garage
rape is re arrested. Eric Brown was originally arrested the
day after the crime, but released due to a quote
miscommunication between the DA's office and the jail. Brown was
on the run for ten days before being spotted on
a metro train. Galveston's Marty Gras kicks off on Friday,

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and along with it beefed up security and traffic congestion.

Speaker 17 (06:35):
Because it's Marty Gras. Citi of Galveston Executive director David
Smith says, you need to be extra careful.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Please. More roads will be blocked for.

Speaker 17 (06:44):
The ceremonies, and glass containers are banned along the sea
wall and downtown on parade days.

Speaker 18 (06:50):
In addition to the areas in the downtown sector, we'll
have a lot more concrete barriers blocking the roadways.

Speaker 17 (06:56):
And security will be beefed up. But it's important if
you see something odd or really unusual, call nine one one.
If you see something, say something. Michael Shiloh News Radio
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College basketball number five UH beats Arizona State eighty to
sixty five. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and
traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Every hour something in our.

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City, something's happened that shouldn't have check in all day prepared.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's always something.

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For anything on US Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
This is too much monkey business, too much mice business,
too much rat business, too much animal business.

Speaker 17 (07:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
This is this is this is sick. This is this
is That's the only thing I can think of describe it.
This is sick. This would be a This would be
a case where if Peter wanted to complain about this,
I would support PETA. It takes a lot for me
to support PETERA two hundred and forty one million taxpayer
dollars used to study transgender surgeries and treatments on animals.
What is perhaps even more disgusting about this, former National

(08:03):
Institute of Allergen Infectious Diseases Chief Anthony Fauci gave the
green light to the bulk of these cruel and unusual
experiments on animals.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
In a lot of these cases, they involve mice, rats,
monkeys being surgically mutilated and subjected to hormone therapies to
mimic female to male or male to female gender transitions,
gender affirming hormone therapies, and then looking at the biological, psychological,
and physiological effects of the gender transitions, including looking at

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the effects of taking baccines after you've transitioned these animals
from male to female or female to male, looking at
the size of their genitals, and changing after you put
them on estrogen or testosterone therapies to transition them. This
all brought to light by Representative Eli Crane, Republican from Arizona,

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chairman of the househover Side Committee on this issue. He
highlighted a one point one million dollar grant to get
female labrats testosterone to mimic transgender human males and then
overdose them with party drugs to see if the animals
who were taking the test the female animals taking testosterone
to see if they were more likely to overdose at

(09:21):
a sex party on a sex party drug than animals
who are not taking testosterone. What Yeah. By the way,
represent Crane also said it was extremely difficult to navigate
the federal databases to uncover the research, but they were
able to find it. Two hundred and forty one million

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dollars for this kind of stuff. And the reason why
the progressive left screamed so much about DOGE is because
more and more of these types of stories are being uncovered.
We're finding out how sick some of these bastards are,
I mean really sick people doing really sick things and
using our taxpayer dollars to do it. Five ten time

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for traffic and whether it's the chamber would be grossed
out by that. I don't know who wouldn't be grossed
out by that same so.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Many questions though, I want to know about party drove,
but not in front of Terry. Let's go to Let's
take your golf freeway here. Check out I forty five
south the Galveston Causeway. So pretty this, you know, I
love the view of Texas City. Look at all those
refineries up there. That's beautiful heading up. Of course, you
got the road well, I think it is. Anyway Tiki
to BUCkies. We've got that road work. I'm hearing good

(10:33):
things about the pavement. Also, what exit is that logo? Mary?
They've done the underpass there you can go through, so
that's nice. Eventually we'll get all of these, and boy,
want it be nice someday. Northbound Webster up into Downtown's
an easy twenty two minute stroll.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Two eighty eight Wood Stephen f. Boston. It's cold this morning.
From Lake Jackson. He's fine.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
He's standing out there of Angleton up to Manbol We're
in good shape.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
The roadwork at road sharing. Somebody give me some updated laneage.
I can't see that far out. And yes, I've got you.
Back listeners seven one three two one.

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Those refineries are like candles in the wind. From our
Kati rh top tax debate, it was dust in the wind. Well,
there's also candles in the wind, remember Elton John and them.

Speaker 20 (11:27):
All, Yeah, thank you, Okay, thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
I guess it's it's more of an obscure musical reference
than I thought it would be.

Speaker 21 (11:34):
Shame, it's I just automatically go to dust in the wind.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's because you're on the other side of fifty.

Speaker 20 (11:42):
Yes, I am on the other side of fifty.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
But not very much.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Lord, as we all, you know, as we all take
a look at our mortality, especially when you think about
the kind of weather we're to deal with. The next
set of the goodness. Put another log on the fire,
Terry Smith.

Speaker 21 (11:57):
Put another log on the fire, another dog on bed.
Oh my goodness. It is chilly and it is going
to stay cold for the rest of this week. But
we do have warmer weather next week, so I've got
my eyes on the prize.

Speaker 20 (12:12):
We finally warm up, but not today.

Speaker 21 (12:14):
Today's going to be basically a cloudy day, a breezy day,
and a very cold day with our high temperatures really
not changing much from where they are right now low
forties to low fifties this afternoon. And if you think
today's cold, just wait until tonight mid twenties to low thirties.
Overnight tomorrow, the sun is out, the temperatures don't go

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anywhere low to mid forties tomorrow and Friday. Over the weekend,
we've got some rain, but we're starting to warm up
a little bit Saturday, mid upper forties and by Sunday
closer to sixty.

Speaker 20 (12:46):
I'm going to take sixty.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'll take it right now.

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Jimmy Barrett had the Houston Morning News team all the
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Speaker 4 (13:05):
So big interview last night on Sean Hennity's show on
Fox featuring President Trump and Elon Musk, and it was
about a twenty minute interview. They went over a lot
of stuff including Doze and the Doze cuts and the
media going after trying to split the two of them up.
And one of the things I found particularly interesting did

(13:25):
you notice that if you saw this, did you notice
Elon Musk was wearing a Tech support shirt. He gave
an explanation why he was wearing that shirt. But maybe
even more importantly, they just paid X just paid ten
million dollars to President Trump to settle a lawsuit. That's
kind of coming out of Eli's money. So Elon's money.
Not only is Elon working for free for the government

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had to pay Trump ten million dollars. Born that coming
up next first though, traffic and weather together, So we
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but you me and our listeners. Flit's our hearts Jimmy okay.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
I am oh glad to have the listeners back.

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I mean, I'm pretty okay, but this is so much
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There's a major fire anyway.

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North Side one totally shut off with fire in police.

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Cars and so expected to lay there. Can I get
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This is the other uber dude on forty five at Monroe.
The life are blanking on both sides of the intersection.
As much as Kamala Harris's inside her head.

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You know, there's two reasons I'd like to hang out
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She parties. Oh yeah, I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot
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West of the Rockies? Why not east of the Parkway line?
What the heck?

Speaker 4 (15:01):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
center for today Claudi this morning becoming partly cloudy, windy,
cold forty three today, a few clouds about twenty seven tonight, sunny,
cold forty four tomorrow down around thirty tomorrow night, round
forty for the high temperature on Friday. So we're going
to be spending some time in the cold weather here
for the next probably three or four days. Right now,
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seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some of our
top stories. It's a Wednesday morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
We're brought to you by DNM Autoly sing mass deportations
put the illegal aliens safe haven in Liberty County under
the microscope again. The Houston man wanted for groping a
seven year old girl, Carlos Jose Ayala Morales, has been
added to the most wanted list for Texas and KFC.
Did you see this, Jimmy, They're moving their corporate headquarters

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from Louisville, Kentucky, to Plano, Texas.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
To me Texas Fried Chicken.

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That's what I was thinking. Get the latest news anytime
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Speaker 2 (16:02):
This is this just happened across my street.

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Speaker 4 (16:14):
So the head of DOGE sat down with President Trump
and gave an interview to Sean Hannity last night Elon
Muskin for use. It was interesting watched those two interacting
with each other. They talked about a lot of things.
But let's start with this, the ten million dollar lawsuit
that that Elon's attorneys urged him to go ahead and
pay off to the President for you know, some of

(16:37):
the things that Twitter had done to President Trump before
Elon Musk bought it and changed the name X and
a few other things too. Let's take a listen.

Speaker 25 (16:45):
He's working for free with Doosee. He's he's kind of
put a lot of his life on hold. And you
sued Twitter a number of years ago. You just made
him pay you ten million dollars.

Speaker 24 (16:56):
Since, right, that's right?

Speaker 10 (16:58):
Well, I see, I sued from long before he had it,
and I mean they really did a number on me,
you know, and I assued and they had to pay.

Speaker 24 (17:07):
They paid ten millionaire settlement. You're okay with that?

Speaker 7 (17:12):
I mean I left it up to the lawyers and
you know, the team running Twitter.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
So I said, do you guys do what you think
is the right. It makes sense.

Speaker 24 (17:19):
I think it's fine.

Speaker 10 (17:20):
I think because it's a very low I was looking.

Speaker 24 (17:22):
To get much more money than that.

Speaker 25 (17:23):
So you gave him a discount on the laws you
got it.

Speaker 24 (17:25):
Oh, he got a big discount.

Speaker 10 (17:28):
I don't think he even knows about He's become one
of you.

Speaker 25 (17:31):
If you read didn't believe the media, he become one
of your best friends.

Speaker 24 (17:34):
He's working for free for you.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
He doesn't. I want to be clear about that. I
don't care about that.

Speaker 24 (17:39):
I know I love the love the President.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
I think I think President Trump is a good man
and he's you know, that's that's.

Speaker 24 (17:47):
The way he said that.

Speaker 7 (17:48):
You know, it's something nice about it, really is, you know,
because I mean the President has been so.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Unfailure attacked in the media. It's truly outrageous.

Speaker 7 (17:59):
And I've spent at this point, I spent a lot
of time with President and not once have I seen
him do something that was mean or cruel or or
wrong that once.

Speaker 24 (18:11):
You know, I've known him for thirty years.

Speaker 25 (18:13):
Yeah, and I've never seen anybody take as much as
he's taken. Yeah, And we've discussed this, and I'm like,
how do you deal with it?

Speaker 24 (18:21):
As well?

Speaker 25 (18:23):
You would say that to me, I'm like, what do
I Let's see how am I going to do? Worry
about it and you know, and then culminating into assassination
attempts which resulted in your endorsement.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, I was going to do it anyway. But that
was that was a spitting event.

Speaker 24 (18:35):
It's feed it, yeah a little bit. Yeah, the day
of the assassin I didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, I just sped it up. But I was going
to do it anyway. Okay, well I was going to
do it anyway. It sped it up. The assassination attempts
five twenty six. It is time to take a look
at your money. Scott Cars in this morning at Bluebird.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Marty Jimmy.

Speaker 26 (18:54):
President Trump's now threatening to widen his trade war and
slapped tariffs as high as twenty five percent on hims
of automobiles, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals. An announcement could come as
soon as April. Second about it, Trump says he wants
to give companies time to possibly relocate their factories or
plants to the US before announcing the new import taxes.

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New levies on automobiles would have sweeping effects on that industry,
with European and Asian automakers likely to be among the
most affected because of their large share of US sales
that are imports. There's a pair of major economic reports
on today's agenda, Housing Starts and Minutes of the Fed's
policy meeting their last meeting. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg say

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that they expect January housing starts fell and largely due
to higher mortgage costs, but also the cold weather that's
been plaguing much of the nation this winter. Stock features
have all turned lower down Features are now down ninety
one points. The SMP, which hit a new record yesterday,
is that features down nine points. Nasdaq features down twenty three.

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It is five point thirty on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour. Ice
raids put Colony Ridge back in the spotlight. Birthright citizenship
likely to be decided by the US Supreme Court and
coming with five thirty eight twenty four Texas Dairy Queens
have just closed and you can buy the contents. Details
in the minutes ahead you're on Houston's morning news. You

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got a blizzardy, We wouldn't want to have a blizzard
machine in Stoline. Let's a blizzard machine. Let's check out,
all right?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
One forty six and quiet from Baycliff.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Our first banana sticker of the morning, dude, I think
that's his first ever.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
One forty six. It's going to be in Bankcliff, which
is between six forty six and ninety six. That's a
lot of sixes. It's a fire. It's big o fire,
and it looks like they've blocked off one forty six.
People having to go through the backstreet.

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So if you've got them up from Texas City, let's
go ahead.

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You're almost better off taking Highway three instead. I'm Skymike.
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Center from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
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seven forty KTRH It's time now for the news. Here's

(21:42):
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
Hey you, Jimmy at five thirty two our top story.
Donald Trump's mass deportations continue and as a result, the
illegal alien colonia in Liberty County, Colony Ridge is back
on to the microscope.

Speaker 29 (21:56):
That's thanks to the arrest of three illegal aliens that
were caught during a traffics there.

Speaker 30 (22:00):
Each one had been deported at least four times. One
of them during the stop admitted they had a statu
house full of illegal drugs.

Speaker 29 (22:09):
Brad Johnson with the Texan says that's likely just scratching
the surface of the crime that's being committed there.

Speaker 30 (22:14):
They're also curtainly is more that law enforcement isn't aware of.
When this became a really big story, law enforcement said, yeah,
there's cartel activity here.

Speaker 29 (22:23):
Johnson hopes this case will lead to Colony Ridge getting
more attention from law enforcement and more arrests. Ethan Buchannan
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (22:30):
Arrests at the Texas Mexico border continued to plummet as well.
They were just two hundred and eighteen on Monday, compared
to eighteen hundred and twenty five on the same date
last year. The next big US Supreme Court case could
very well be the issue of birthright citizenship, this after
several federal judges block Donald Trump's executive order banning it.

(22:53):
Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakowski says the High
Court has legal grounds to restrictmadic birthright citizenship.

Speaker 31 (23:01):
The Supreme Court needs to clarify what it means, and
according to prior Supreme Court cases, it only goes as
far as the children of permanent resident aliens. That's very
different from someone who's in the country illegally.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
He predicts the case could end up at the Supreme
Court this fall, and because he's cooperating with Borderzaar Tom Homan,
New York City Mayor Eric Adams could be removed from
office by Democrat Governor Kathy Hokeel. Adams also has a
hearing today in court connected to the criminal case against
him that's about to be officially dropped five point thirty

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four now, Trump's pick to run the FBI, Cash Pattel,
gets a win in the Senate, which voted forty eight
to forty five to advance his nomination a final vote
later this week. After Democrats delay by thirty hours, which
they've now done on several Trump Cabinet selections. The first piece,
talks between the US and Russia about the war in

(23:57):
Ukraine have wrapped up. Secretary of State Marko Rubio and
other officials met with a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 32 (24:05):
We're going to appoint a high level team from our
end to help negotiate and walk work through the end
of the conflict in Ukraine in a way that's enduring
and acceptable to all the parties, engaged.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
Rubio, adding that the president is the only one who
can quote drive the war to a conclusion. While the
Trump administration deals with Russia. One lawmaker is warning us
not to take our eyes off the Chinese.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
China is an evil empire.

Speaker 33 (24:30):
China's preparing for war, China is waging an economic world war.
China has infiltrated our society, China has infiltrated our government.
China is coming for our kids, and China could win.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton with ktrh Is Klay Travis, and
Buck Sexton. In the Middle East, Hamas claims it will
free six Israeli hostages on Saturday. This comes after the
terror group turned over the remains of several hostages, including
a mother and her two young children. One was nine
years old, the other four months old. It's now five

(25:03):
thirty five. Preparations for tonight's freeze continue across the city,
the City of Houston opening a dozen warming centers tonight.
Terry Smith of the Weather Channel will have more on
the forecast in a few moments on Houston's morning News.
You'll also hear from Mayor John Whickmeyer on the coming
freeze at six o'clock. Meantime, the mayor is calling out

(25:23):
City Controller Chris Hollins to stop playing politics with Houston's budget.
The deficit, of course, is now at three hundred and
thirty million dollars. Political writer Bill King says this is
all part of the mess left by former mayor and
now US Congressman Sylvester Turner.

Speaker 34 (25:41):
It certainly was plenty, and it was covered up with
a bunch of federal money, and so all that.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Was used to fill the gaps.

Speaker 34 (25:48):
Well, all that stuff's running out, So it's going to
be some tough time. Scenreal built titany, I think.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
Earlier this month, the Texas Supreme Court refused to hear
an appeal on an amendment approved by voters, and now
the city has to spend an additional one hundred million
dollars on infrastructure. It's now five point thirty six. We've
talked about the benefits of homeschooling four years on the show.
Here's more scientific proof. A new study says homeschooled kids
may be more healthy than their peers as adults.

Speaker 35 (26:16):
You know, if your child is in a public school
for eight hours a day, then you know the teacher,
and that environment has more impact than the family does.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
Texas Homeschool Coalition founder and chairman Tim Lambert, and maybe
our parents were right all along. New research shows that
too much screen time as a small child can lead
to language and speaking problems. Later on, psychologist doctor Bradswall
says screens cannot replace social interactions and parents should not
use them as babysitters.

Speaker 36 (26:44):
We definitely have moved from play based childhoods to screen
based childhoods, and since then anxiety rates have increased.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
The study also shows that kids who have parental involvement
during screen time do better on language skills than those
who are just left with the electronic babysitter. And too little,
too late, the NFL were sins a twenty five thousand
dollars fine it gave to Texans running back Joe Mixon
for ripping the refs after the team lost to the
Kansas City Chiefs and the playoffs last month. I'm Cliff

(27:15):
Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station News Radio
seven forty k t RH.

Speaker 37 (27:21):
Under the orders I signed today even here for the
very latest, all of this will change starting today.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
What Youth Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
This story got my attention because you know, I grew
up in a small town and Dairy Queen was sort
of the you know, the epicenter when I was in
high school. That's where we all went and we hung
out in the parking lot at Dairy Queen, and you
know that was that was a social central. That's where
you met up with your your girl, That's where you
met up with your buddies. You know, you got a

(27:53):
little DQ snack and then you went on with your
evening and did whatever the heck it is you were
going to do. So, you know, Dairy Queen will always
have a kind of special place in my heart, and
I think that's true for a lot of folks that
grew up in the small town, so I mean, you
see stories like this, he kind of gets your attention.
There are twenty four Texas locations of Dairy Queen being
sold off, not the buildings, but the contents. The franchise

(28:18):
owner closed twenty five locations in Texas. This is one
franchise owner. He had a bunch of them, and he
has sold off twenty five of them. I guess twenty
four or twenty five of them. He continues to operate
other DQ restaurants here in Texas. You know, there are
more DQ restaurants in Texas than anywhere else. I mean,

(28:42):
it's just amazing. There are five hundred and sixty dqs
in Texas, which can leads the country. There's seven seven
hundred in the entire country, five hundred and sixty of
them are right here in Texas. So, but these locations.
The thing that's interesting about this, I mean, if you
all wanted to have a blizzard machine, I mean, wouldn't

(29:03):
you like to be able to make a butter fag
or blizzard whenever you wanted to. They are selling off
the contents of these restaurants, and there are five or
six of them that are not that far from Houston,
one in Flugerville on Pacan Street, one in Nakadochus on
North Street, one in Huntsville right off of I forty five,
one in Tombull on twenty nine to twenty one in

(29:26):
Cleveland and South Washington Street, and one Huffman in East
Houston Parkway, and then another one in Dayton right off
of ninety East. And you can bid on the contents
online for these things. They'll go to the highest bidders,
the small ones. The smaller restaurants will have a winning
bid somewhere between five hundred and two thousand dollars. The

(29:47):
larger locations have bids going between two thousand and six thousand.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
You've got.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Maybe two days I think left in order to be
able to make your bids. You go to Localauctions dot Com.
That's Local Offertions dot Com and you'll put in dairy
queen and there you go. You could have your own
blizzard machine. What blizzard would you make if you had
blizzard machine? Five forty one time for traffic and weather together.
I'm a butterfinger man all the way.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
So they're closing the dairy queens in Huffman, Cleveland, and Dayton.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, at least one location. I don't know if there's
multiple locations in those places. I eat it all three
of those or not. Yeah, all right, all right, let's
get terry. Let's get a dairy queen.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, let's do uh, let's do the hard work in
east side.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Now, your ship channel bridges and the Hartman Bridge looks good.
Baytown to Loport, both sides were in good shape for
rocking along on your toll bridge too.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
You know we can make hunger busters on six '
ten Sherman Bridge. Nothing doing from the budweiser plant throws
some of that in with our DQ dude, and down
to two twenty five were rocking along posted speech one.
It's Miles Road. I don't know. I don't know where
Miles Road is, but I know it's south of ninety six.
I can see it. And the suckets just showing up
on our maps. Now that's up some kind of big

(30:59):
building fire. So if anybody gets a close up of that,
if you can do it safely, send us some pictures here.
I understand that the TV choppers can't get up because
of the weather. Oh oh, oh, Tipline, I'm so glad
to have you back seven one three two one two tips.
Let's check the Hardy Toll Road. He's from Spring. It's Ramon.

Speaker 35 (31:17):
Oh the morning sky Mike from the north side Spring.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
All the way to his Vailey A.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
It's clear traffic, boom peak check all over the plate.
Oh thank you man.

Speaker 30 (31:26):
Kerry Smiths can tell us about.

Speaker 22 (31:27):
The wee feet because trugs are swerving all over the plate.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I can feel it.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Oh yeah, I was getting blown around on the Hardy
Toll Road earlier this morning too. I'm in the Generator
Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Ramone from Spring.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Terry from r TTRH Generator super Center twenty four our
weather center. It's not really blizzard weather, is It's more
like chili dog weather.

Speaker 21 (31:46):
I think you're probably right about that, but but it
might feel like a blizzard with the cold temperatures and
the winds. I'm glad Ramone mentioned that because we do
have a wind advisory today until noon, because we're seeing
fifteen to twenty five mile an hour winds, but some
higher gusts as high as forty miles an hour possible,

(32:08):
and so far I've been looking at wind us closer
to thirty miles an now OOO thirty five mile hour
gufs around Wharton. Okay, so it's breezy out there this morning.
It is going to be cold. You're gonna want to
bundle up. Temperatures today it's dry, but lots of clouds.
Low forties to low fifties today. Tonight, get ready for

(32:30):
temperatures to be at or below freezing mid twenties to
low thirties. Overnight it is downright cold. Tomorrow and Friday,
we're dry, but temperatures only low to mid forties. A
little bit of rain over the weekend, but we finally
start to warm up. Sixty percent chance of showers. Saturday.
Temperature is still in the forties, but by Sunday we

(32:50):
have a forty percent chance of rain and we're close
to sixty on Sunday. So woo, Finally warmer weather.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
And next week looks good.

Speaker 21 (32:57):
Right, Yeah, next week's looking much better. I'll have to
look at that in detail here, but I know early
next week we're much milder.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Good Right now thirty six at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

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Speaker 4 (33:21):
Five point fifty our time here on Houston's morning News
right coming up here in just a moment, little report.
You know, they rearrested the suspected rapist robber at the
University of Houston. This is the guy they had in custody,
and the only thing we're being told about it is
it was some sort of a miscommunication between the DA's
office and law enforcement. And so the first question is

(33:43):
how the hell does that happen? And the second question
is what what do you mean miscommunication? What kind of miscommunication?
More than that story coming up next, but first we've
got traffic and weather together. We're gonna check out the
drive once again. Here's skuy Mine.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
I got to aha myself here. I've been calling that
a building fire. It's actually a really bad one. Six
Thanks for the tip there just south of ninety six.
If you're from Baycliffe, you know where Miles Road is,
and looks like they've shut down the whole northbound here.
Originally that was reported to me as a building fire.
But that's a really tough accident. And if you're coming

(34:16):
up from Texas City, you might be better off taking
Highway three instead. If you can't do the golf freeway
chip line. I'm so happy to have.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
You back a Mike.

Speaker 34 (34:23):
You mentioned opening up Dairy Queen with Terry.

Speaker 30 (34:26):
You've got to rename it.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Terry Queen, Terry Queen, right, Thank you for that.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
Seven one three two tips. I'm skywik on the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
When a wind advisory Terry says until twelve noon today,
cloudy's guys this morning part of cloudy windy forty three
for today down to twenty seven tonight twenty seven thirty
somewhere in that range blow freezing and then tomorrow sunny
and cold, high only about forty four currently the temperature
thirty six at your official severe weather station, News Radio

(35:00):
seven forty k t RH. Get you caught up on
some of our top stories this morning. Here's the thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
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era federal judge signs with Trump and Doge. The Dallas
County GOP centers two state reps for voting against David
Cook in the Texas House Speakers race and like her
boss Joe Biden and his old boss Barack Obama. Former
Vice president. Kamala Harris signs with a Hollywood talent agency.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Now she needs some talent.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at six o'clock.

Speaker 28 (35:38):
GM Doge looking for corruption versus ten madness.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
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the game.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Next with use Radio seven KTRH. Problem is they let
this guy out. What what happened? He's been rearrested. This
is the accused rapist raw Ber, who accosted a student
into parking garage at the University of Houston. Here's the
report from our television partner KPRC two.

Speaker 38 (36:08):
This manhunt ended just before three o'clock this afternoon, at
two forty eight, exactly according to law enforcement.

Speaker 20 (36:15):
I got the text at.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Three h five.

Speaker 38 (36:17):
Eric Brown in custody, and we've learned that the arrest
happened just less than four miles from the UH campus
where he's accused in that violent attack just.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
About ten days ago.

Speaker 38 (36:28):
I want to show you the map just to give
you an idea of the proximity that arrests happening in
Edo right near the Shell Energy Stadium. Metroped arrested Brown
after he had been spotted on the light rail by
a civilian. According to investigators, an officer who was monitoring
Metro cameras also recognized Brown as the suspects from the
UH rape case, and then those Metro officers were able

(36:49):
to respond there to the intersection by that Metro stop
and they were able to take him into custody.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
We do have a brand new.

Speaker 38 (36:55):
Booking photo to show you since we last saw you
at four point thirty. This was taken this after noon
after Brown was booked into custody at the Joint Processing
Center downtown. And we also have that photo of Brown
showing him right after his arrest.

Speaker 20 (37:08):
You can see the tattoos on his chest.

Speaker 38 (37:10):
That are pretty visible, and that's a key part of
this case that actually linked him to the rape back
on February seventh, because according to the records, the victim
in that case remembered his tattoos and then was able
to describe them and actually draw them for police to
continue this investigation. Now, his arrest is ending days of
fear and uncertainty. Hear on the UH campus he's accused

(37:32):
in that rape and robbery at knife point in a
UH parking garage, and after he got initially arrested, those
charges got declined. So his mistaken release from jail has.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Been blamed on paperwork.

Speaker 38 (37:44):
Problems and communication issues between the District Attorney's office and
UH police officers.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
Paperwork issues. So the charge is the Shawn Teer the
new district attorney, there is a paperwork issue. They they
declined the charges. Did they know who? Did they know
who this guy was and what he was accused of?
I mean, is this scrabble here? Just oh crap? Maybe

(38:14):
we should have you know, maybe we should have accepted
the charges on this guy. I mean, is this maybe
sort of a beginning look into what it's going to
be like with this da Shawn Tier that we're gonna
we're gonna have to keep an eye out for these things.
I mean, after all, I mean, this is this is
UH George Sorow's charge, the chosen guy. You can see
where they might not want to bring charges against somebody

(38:36):
even if if evolves, you know, rape in this particular
case though. I mean, here's a piece of advice to
queer camerals. Yeah, the tattoos not a good idea. You know,
it makes it really easy to identify you when you
have these tattoos all over your chest that are very
distinct and where victims can describe to the police exactly
what the tattoos look like. Five point fifty six. Now

(38:57):
Here in news Radio seven forty k tr H.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
This is Huge Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 30 (39:07):
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Speaker 3 (39:10):
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Speaker 4 (39:17):
It is six am here on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Trump
and Musk confront their critics. Those gets a big legal
victory and coming butt six o' eight. They want to
pause on the COVID vaccines details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that
morning drive again with skylines. A good thing.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
The rest of your freeway's rotten, Jimmy, because I got
this one forty six. I'll get to that first.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
In the second Katie Freeway westbound outbound at the Loop,
that is a red WHOA two right lanes.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Lookout if you're passing.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
I hop and Denny's be ready for the suckage on
the outbound side.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
And then one six in Bay Cliff. Let's make up
our mind.

Speaker 30 (39:57):
People, that's one forty six is not a brick.

Speaker 34 (40:01):
It is a commercial building for golf cart.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Somebody just called and said it was a wreck, all right.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Clyde from Baycliff said it's a building fire too, can
we I'm super easy to find on Facebook. Send me
a picture if you can do it safely. One forty
six south of ninety six, that's Miles Road. I'm Skymike
on the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
We have a wind advisory that's till twelve noon today.
Aside from that, Claudi this morning becoming partly cloudy, windy,
about forty three for the high temperature today. We'll get
to the latest on the forecast, including just how cold
is going to get tonight and tomorrow night a little
freezing both cases. Well, Doctor Terry Smith about that in
eight minutes. Right now, it is thirty five at your

(40:45):
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k t RH.
It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 6 (40:52):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's six oh two. We're sponsored by
shoppist John Deere, and our top story this hour is
a legal victory for Elon Muskin Doge in federal court.

Speaker 39 (41:02):
US District Judge Tanya Chutkins, saying that several Democratic state
attorneys general failed to meet a necessary legal standard did
not temporarily stop the Department of Government Efficiency from facilitating
mass firings to root out wasteful spending. Judge Chutkins says
the attorney's generals, citing media reports, did not give the

(41:22):
court the facts it needed to issue a temporary restraining order.

Speaker 6 (41:26):
Fox's Gernald Scott. The law fair against Doje at Elon
was no surprise the Washington Examiners. Ashley Oliver told KTRH
the White House was prepared.

Speaker 8 (41:35):
I think that Trump and his team knew that these
were going to be coming, because that's why they've been
working rapidly, at breakneck speed to make all these different
changes to the government essentially take a sledgehammer to some
different aspects of government agencies.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
As of now, there are seventy four lawsuits against Musk
and Doge. As for the President, he's been impressed with
what Elon has done so far in less than a month.
He's a leader, and during last night interview on Fox,
Musk says, the picture that the mainstream media is painting
about the President is just wrong.

Speaker 7 (42:06):
I've spent at this point, I spent a lot of
time with president, and not once have I seen him
do something that was mean or cruel or wrong.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
That one Trump and Musk on Fox the interview at
KTRH dot com. The President signed several executive orders yesterday,
including a memo imposing quote radical transparency requirements on government agencies.
Of course, Democrats are crying, and Republicans had the perfect response.

Speaker 40 (42:35):
Perfectly fine and not at all hypocritical to convey outrage
about a Republican president daring to use executive power, even
if the prior Democrat administration used it profusely.

Speaker 6 (42:50):
Sent a majority of the Leader John Thune, the President
doubling down on his ban of the leftist ap from
the Oval Office for not calling the Gulf by its name,
Gulf of America. It's now six 'zho four. Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer accuses Trump of being to blame for
this week's Toronto plane crash. White House Press Secretary Carolyn

(43:11):
Levitt fired back.

Speaker 11 (43:13):
This crash unfortunately took place in Canadian airspace with Canadian
air traffic controllers overseeing it.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
No one died in that accident, and the latest incident
has the mainstream media breathlessly asking if it's safe to
fly these days.

Speaker 29 (43:28):
Despite the recent incidents, airplanes aren't still one of the
safest ways to travel.

Speaker 12 (43:32):
And of course of a week you'll have fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen,
twenty million people fly without any problem at all.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
The numbers are still there.

Speaker 29 (43:40):
Aviation expert Jay Rantliffe says, as we investigate these incidents,
air travel will only get safer.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
You're gonna be able to have the cockpit voice recorder.

Speaker 12 (43:47):
You've got a lot of different videos and different things
that are going to aid the investigators and they'll find
out exactly what took place.

Speaker 29 (43:53):
He added that anyone trying to assign blame for these
crashes before the investigations are complete is jumping the gun.
Ethan Buchanan seven forty KRH six oh five.

Speaker 6 (44:02):
Now the latest Arctic blast is here. Mayor John Whitmyer
says it won't be as bad as what we saw
a month ago.

Speaker 13 (44:08):
We do not believe it will be a severe freezing episode.

Speaker 6 (44:12):
And we're not expecting any grid issues either, but we
are under our weather watch through Friday. The President recently
allows that he will work to complete the Constitution pipeline
bringing more natural gas to the northeast. Keystone could be next.

Speaker 14 (44:28):
Telling these pipeline projects actually just caused prices to go up.
They didn't have any meaningful impact on improving the environment,
and people are saying, well, why are we doing this?

Speaker 6 (44:38):
That's market analyst Phil Flynn. Meantime, a National Energy Dominance
Council has been established by the President. David Holt with
the Consumer Energy Alliance says this puts the experts back
in charge to begin cunning back on regulations and the
permitting processes that we're holding us back.

Speaker 16 (44:55):
All those things add costs, add time to projects and
prevent projects from coming on online, prevent new energy projects
from coming online.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
To help Americans.

Speaker 16 (45:03):
Everywhere, So looking at ways we can reduce redundant regulations
Dreamline Authority.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
It's now six six the sex offender who escaped from
a Belleville hospital is back in custody. Salvador Soseato was
found at a home in Grimes County which was on
fire and with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
And this just into us more violent crime in the
City of Houston police investigating after a man was shot
and killed in front of his girlfriend and five year

(45:31):
old daughter on the northwest Side. There will be increased
security in street closures at Galveston's Marty Graw, which kicks
off on Friday. City of Galveston Executive Director David Smith says,
you'll find concrete barriers blocking some streets and if you
see something, say something an here.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Please enjoy.

Speaker 34 (45:49):
But if you see something odd.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
That doesn't seem to look correct, please reach out to
our nine to one one.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
This year, no motorized vehicles will be allowed along the
sea wall and parking regulations will be strictly enforced. It's
now six oh seven.

Speaker 34 (46:03):
Three, fat power and.

Speaker 6 (46:12):
More history for Elon Musk and SpaceX, the company launching
a rocket from Florida yesterday land to get off the
coast of the Bahamas, first in the industry. On Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news weather and Traffic station k t RH.

Speaker 36 (46:26):
A twenty five percent increase in listening to our news
and talk is being added to your.

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Day check in even more often News Radio seven forty KTRH,
or we.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
Have ourselves a little COVID update. Yes, yes, I said,
COVID six oh eight is our time here on Houston's
Waring News. The thing we never talked about anymore, COVID,
COVID vaccines or any of those types of things. But
but this is interesting. Here's the headline. Trump team makes
radical u turn on COVID vaccine. What are they proposing?
COVID vaccines could be suspended for all age groups in

(47:01):
America under radical DOUP plans backed by key health figures
in the Trump administration. Several experts poised for top jobs
in US health agencies subscribe to the disputed idea of
the shots are causing widespread side effects and deaths. Doctor
J Batakara, who has been nominated to lead the National

(47:22):
Institute of Help, you know Fauci's old job, as back
the petition calling for the mr NA vaccines to be
paused and retested. Why wouldn't you do something like that?
What's wrong with retesting the vaccines? That doesn't mean they're
going to pull the vaccines, although it wouldn't bother me

(47:46):
if they did. As long as we're testing them for
side effects, can we test them again for effectiveness. I mean,
it's not just a matter of whether or not they
can cause any harm. I think it's safe to say that,
you know, from what we can tell. Of course, you know,
we don't have years of research on this, but at
least so far, from what we can tell, the negative

(48:10):
side effects are relatively minimal given how many people have
taken the vaccine, but the effectiveness is very low at
this point, so I would I don't know why anybody
would be taking the vaccine at this point. How a
band would be implemented, according to the story still not clear.

(48:31):
A total band would require the FDA withdrawing its approved
status for safety or effectiveness reasons. The COVID vaccines have
been linked to a small risk of heart damage in
Gee and Barr syndrome, where the immune system attacks nerves,
causing pain, fatigue, and numbness. Data from the US COVID
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program suggested fourteen thousand people had filed

(48:52):
claims for injury or death, which is a drop in
the bucket, of course, compared to many people who actually
taken it. They claimed they were caused by the COVID
vaccine as of December of twenty twenty five, out of
two hundred and seventy million Americans who received at least
one dose of the vaccine. Again, my question is as
much about its effectiveness as anything else, and there's nothing
what's wrong with retesting it. Why would we just continue

(49:16):
to recommend that you get it when we don't really
believe it's all that effective anymore? Six ' ten Time
for traffick in weather together as we check out the
drive again, here's guy mine.

Speaker 5 (49:26):
All right, I can't get any air support on this
one forty six either. Tammy says she's down for weather.
So the rusty hook one six Baycliff. I'm just looking
around to see what would normally be here. Oh, there's
a nice nursery. What we have is I originally, let's
see who was that Clyde from Baycliffe said we had
some kind of building fire there. Somebody else called and
said no, so Rick, And now I'm hearing from fire

(49:49):
people that yeah, it's some kind of building fire, some
kind of business deal there.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
So I've got no eyes on one forty six. I
do know we have the closures and I need to
do a better job of sharing this with the rest
of the meeting. Let's take Highway three.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
If you're coming up from Texas City instead, and or
you know Gold Freeway. Obviously he's the easy route to
get up now from the south side.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Golf freeways actually looking good.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
We don't have that wreck yet northbound at the south
loop six ' ten while.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
We're checking forty five. So let's do some.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
Forty five north Freeway two as we're coming down southbound
and seeing a little breaks on forty five between Parker
and Tidwell.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Just a slight back order slip.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
We don't have our wreck at Shepherd yet and the
tipline seven one three two one two tips. I'm hungry
this morning. Got the golf freeway meg from Keema.

Speaker 41 (50:35):
Morning, Mikey, what's good chocolate fudge blizzard with M and
M's and peanuts right before the HOV entrance pickup truck
in the left lane. There are no toe truck Ninjas
that great day, all right.

Speaker 5 (50:50):
That's a banana sticker on your fudge Sunday there. And Terry,
we had a listener comment at the fifty Hey.

Speaker 34 (50:56):
Mike, you've got to rename it.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Terry Queen.

Speaker 5 (50:59):
Terry Queen, right, she can make biltbusters and blizzards.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Oh God, where are the generators?

Speaker 5 (51:06):
See I'm at hungry now we're the Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
You won't be able to call it a blizzardough for
copyright reasons, Terryscope, Yes, if we haven't.

Speaker 21 (51:15):
I thought the National Weather Service own that idea before
Dairy Queen did.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
I don't think that would cover you in the world
of ice cream, but do your CREATI if you're a meteorologists,
you could come up with another name.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Good queen, what would you call it? Let's call it U.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Maybe maybe you would name it after one of these
name storms, like Uri or whatever.

Speaker 20 (51:37):
There you go.

Speaker 21 (51:38):
I'll have to think about that, you know. That's that's
where they are spending some time on. All right, well,
blizzard or not, it feels like the frozen tundra has
relocated to southeast Texas. Oh, because it is going to
be so called the rest of this week, folks. And
on top of it being called today, it's also windy.
There's a wind advisory until noon. We could see these

(52:01):
guts as high as forty miles an hour. So you're
gonna feel how cold it is, like, it's not just
cold you're feeling it. Temperatures won't get any warmer than
most of us in the forties. There'll be some low
fifties near the coast today and very cold tonight, mid
twenties to low thirties, sunny and dry Tomorrow. Friday strives
well load to mid forties both days. Saturday is a

(52:23):
little bit warmer, mid upper forties. We got some rain Saturday,
we got some rain Sunday, but Sunday temperatures are almost
to sixty degrees and they keep getting warmer next week.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
Jimmy, yeah, love it. How high do you think, Eliot,
are we going to look at eighty degrees next week?

Speaker 21 (52:38):
I did see eighty?

Speaker 20 (52:41):
Did I see eighty?

Speaker 24 (52:43):
I was looking.

Speaker 20 (52:44):
I'll get back to you. I have to go digging around.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
Okay, get to digging right now. Current temperature is thirty
five at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty ktrh.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
USE Traffic and Weather.

Speaker 22 (52:58):
You're starting your day right with Houston's Morning News, brought
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Speaker 4 (53:06):
Time here in Houston's Morning News. There's been plenty of
lawfairs surrounding Elon Muskin Doge and uh, you know, the
good news is we got good news from a federal
judge yesterday who blocked an effort to block Doge. So
we'll have more in that story. We're gonna talk to
Ashley Oliver. She's a reporter at the Washington Examiner. She's

(53:27):
their Doge reporter. We'll talk to her next. First, though,
we've got traffic and weather together, starting with you, Skymie.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
All right, let's clear the katie that was an accident
on the outbound side right at six ' ten the
west Loops Steve from Burton's on the tip line two.

Speaker 42 (53:39):
Ninety ninety coming in from Brenham through Chapel Hill. A
little light sprinkle but no ice on the road. And
that's fire over there in Banykliff.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Is probably a be nice to quit.

Speaker 42 (53:53):
We all have a nice day and stay warm.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
You're not funny.

Speaker 5 (53:55):
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Speaker 4 (54:00):
Are KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weathers in
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that's the best we're gonna do today down around freezing
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currently is thirty five at your officials severe weather station

(54:21):
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Some of our top stories.
Cliff is keeping an eye on those for.

Speaker 6 (54:26):
You, and we're sponsored by Moral Mechanical. The US Supreme
Court could settle the issue of birthright citizenship once and
for all. Elon Musk says he decided to endorse Donald
Trump after last July's assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. And in
case you missed Jimmy talking about this last hour, dairy
Queen closing twenty locations in Texas, including two here in

(54:47):
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Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
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Speaker 22 (54:57):
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Speaker 4 (55:03):
All right, that's what Dosee is doing, cutting like an
I've six twenty three is our time here in Houston's
Barning News. Ashley Oliver's with us. She's a reporter the
Washington Examiner. She covers Doge for you're a Doze reporter.
Who would have ever thought this week big enough? Here
we have a Doze reporter.

Speaker 8 (55:20):
Hey, Hey, Jimmy, Actually I'm a DOJ reporter, but it's
turned into a Doze reporter. I love how you say
that because it's pronounced correctly, but it feels like I
am a Doge reporter right now. Because of the number
of lawsuits that involved dose.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
I'll bet well they got good news yesterday from a
federal judge refusing the block a Doze from accessing federal
employee data or making personnel changes.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
That's kind of a big win, don't you think.

Speaker 8 (55:46):
Yeah, I would say it's a it's a it's a
big win in that the states that we're doing doge
asked for a lot, and so for a judge to
deny them upfront is a big denial. However, it's a
small a victory in the grand scheme of things, because
there's a lot more as you called it, law fair
going on right now. But this particular lawsuit involves fourteen states,

(56:11):
some blue states and some purple states, but they're all
led by Democratic attorneys general, and they are suing the
federal government saying that Elon Musk and Doge are improperly
accessing sensitive information that they shouldn't be accessing in a
number of agencies, and they wanted to block them from
basically doing all of their work. They said, they don't

(56:33):
want them, They don't want Elone Muskin Doge messing with spending,
they don't want them hiring and firing anybody. They don't
want them to otherwise improperly access to confidential information. And
to a degree that could be reasonable. But the judge
found that the States were speaking largely in hypothetical saying, well,

(56:53):
this could happen if they do this. This could happen
if Doge does that. And that doesn't work when you're
seeking a temporary restraining order because that is an extraordinary
form of relief in the courts. And the States simply
didn't prove that they have this they have they would
suffer this like irreparable damage or harm, say if Elon

(57:15):
Muskindoja's activities continued. Now, this judge is Tanya Chuskin, who
your listeners might know her name from, presiding over Trump's
big criminal case in DC before that fizzled out when
he won his election.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
So she is.

Speaker 8 (57:29):
Known for being unsympathetic towards Trump. She often ruled against
him during that criminal case. Now she is being a
little more sympathetic upfront to Trump's administration. However, this lawsuit
is still in the early stages, So a temporary restraining
order is the first thing that someone who's doing is
going to look for, and then after that they're going

(57:50):
to look for receiving a temp an injunction of some sort,
and that can take weeks. So that's why the pro
as they call it, comes first. So now we're looking
at the states trying to obtain an injunction.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
That is probably not a good sign going forward.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
Though.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
If you have a judge that.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
Is naturally not sympathetic towards Trump ruling in the Trump
administration's favor, then that probably tells you there's going to
be problems with this all the way down the line.
For Democrats.

Speaker 8 (58:18):
Yeah, you know, the DOJ is going to be aware
of who they're working with, and they know their audience.
So the lawyers that come in on behalf of Elon
Musk and Doge are going to probably try to work
with Tanya Chupkin and speak to her in her language.
She also presided over many January sixth cases and was

(58:38):
known as a harsh sentencer in those cases. So she's
definitely not the ideal judge for Trump. I would say
she's also an Obama appointee. But we've seen some other
judges rule against Trump in similar Doze cases in New York.
We know the judge up there is also an Obama
a pointz and he granted the tro and that case

(59:00):
that's the restraining order. But that said, Chutkin noted that
that was different because it was more tailored directly to
the Treasury Department and identified specific ways that harm could
happen to the planetiff. So in that case, that tierro
was granted. But we still don't know if that lotsuit's
going to pan out in favor of the Trump administration

(59:22):
Elon Muskindoze or not. And we know many of these
are on their way into the appellate court system and
potentially the Supreme Court.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Is oh yeah, so it'll all ultimately end up and
from the Supreme Court, I'm fairly sure about that, Ashley,
thank you so much. Reported with the Washington Examiner that's
Ashley Oliver six twenty seven. Time to take a look
at your money. You just got car.

Speaker 26 (59:43):
Tommy Elon Musk's social platform X looking to raise forty
four billion dollars now from investors. That's the same amount
must paid for it back in twenty twenty two. That
extra money would mark a turnaround for X that saw
a massive loss and its value from advertisers and users
fleeing the platform after Musk bought it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
His relationship with President Trump.

Speaker 26 (01:00:04):
Has changed the perception of the platform's prospects. Some investors
are betting his role as a confident now of the
US president will give a.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Boost to his businesses.

Speaker 26 (01:00:13):
The company behind Pokemon Go, Niantic, is in talks to
sell off their video game business completely to a Saudi
controlled company called scope Ly for about three and a
half billion dollars. Niantiks had trouble duplicating the successive Pokemon Go.
They've had to cut staff, They've canceled new games, and
their Harry Potter Wizard's Unite game had to shut down

(01:00:34):
completely last year. Stock features have turned lower with the
threats of new teriffs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
From President Trump.

Speaker 26 (01:00:41):
Today, the Dow features down fifty nine points, SMP futures,
which had a new record the SMP did yesterday. Now
it's slightly in negative territory. Nasdaq futures close to flat.
From the Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk. I'm Scott Carr on
News Radio seven KTRH News than.

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This is News Radio seven forty ktrhild Everywhere with the IRP.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
More of what's happening now from the Sean Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:01:16):
It is six thirty one. You're in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories, this have our
ice raids put Colony Ridge back in the spotlight. Birthright
citizenship likely to be decided by the US Supreme Court,
and coming up at six thirty eight. I guess there's
no limit for social security even if you're one hundred
and forty years old. Details in the minutes ahead. You're

(01:01:38):
in Houston's Morning News. First, let's check out that morning
drive with sky Mike. All right, one forty six.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
A lot of discussion of what's going on in Baycliff.
This is between six forty six and ninety six, and
it sounds to me like you need to jump on
Highway three. What's up, dude, guy? Might one forty six
south bound just got through that fire.

Speaker 43 (01:01:57):
Or whatever it was.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
They are letting one lane go through northbound?

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
All right, I might?

Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
I might go ahead and stay the course now on
one for six deep from Burton gave me a wreck
two to ninety outbound at the belt.

Speaker 42 (01:02:08):
That fire over there and Bankliff is probably a flavi
ex plow.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
It is not a lab explosion. Please be nice on
the tip line.

Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
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R KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center Wind
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part of the Claudie Windy right about forty three for the
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Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight minutes right
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Radio seven forty k t RH. It's time now for

(01:02:39):
the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is six thirty two on KTRH.
Our top story. Trump orders our Tom home And says
there are active discussions about the American military and whether
or not they'll conduct strikes on the cartels in Mexico.

Speaker 44 (01:02:54):
That's something we're working on now. By Entalia, President Trung's
made it if next to the cartels will put a
death right against borbitual agents or a military If they
hire a borbital agent in the military, President Trump will
wipe them off the face of the earth.

Speaker 6 (01:03:07):
That is home and on Newsmax and Colony Ridge and
Liberty County is back in the headlines after three illegals
were arrested and found with nearly four hundred pounds of meth.
So will we finally see a major law enforcement cracked
down in that area?

Speaker 30 (01:03:22):
Texas CPS has been there for a couple of years now. Frankly,
I'd be surprised if federal officials haven't already had some
level of operations set there. This will be an excuse
to ramp that up further.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
Brad Johnson with the Texan says that it's almost guaranteed
that there are more crimes than even cartel activity at
Colony Ridge. On the legislative front, Senate Republicans are pushing
ahead with a budget proposal funding mass deportations and the
border wall and elsewhere. On the question about birthright citizenship, well,

(01:03:53):
you can expect that to wind up in the US
Supreme Court.

Speaker 43 (01:03:56):
Several lower courts have blocked President Trump's executive action restricting
autumatic citizenship for those born to illegal aliens, but Herod
Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakowski says the Constitution specified
they must be subject to the jurisdiction of the US.

Speaker 31 (01:04:10):
What that meant was your subject to the complete jurisdiction
of the US, and you don't owe your political allegiance
to any other country. That is certainly not the case
for the child of an illegal alien who's born in
this country.

Speaker 43 (01:04:24):
Courts have already held that it doesn't apply to those
born to foreign soldiers or diplomats in the US. Corey Yulson,
Who's radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
It's now six thirty four. A final vote in the
Senate later this week, after the nomination of Cash Pattel's
FBI director was advanced. Yesterday, Talks between the US and
Russia about ending the war in Ukraine wrap up. In
Saudi Arabia, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says President Trump deserves
credit for jump starting the process.

Speaker 45 (01:04:50):
The plan that I've seen the President Trump has. I
think he could win the Nobel Peace Prize for this
if it were fairly awarded. I think in a year
he should get it from what I've seen.

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
As if Trump didn't have enough to deal with on
the world stage, China continues to expand its influence globally
and in the US. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton telling kgrh's
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Chinese infiltration started with Hollywood
and grew from there.

Speaker 33 (01:05:19):
Whether it's corporate America, Wall Street, professional sports, higher education,
all designed to protect China as it goes forward with
its campaign to replace America as the world's dominant military
and economic superpower.

Speaker 6 (01:05:33):
And in the Middle East, Hamas says it will release
six Israeli hostages live ones on Saturday. Terror Group also
is returning the remains of several hostages, including two young children,
one just four months old and born in captivity six
point thirty five. We're getting ready for the coldest temperatures
of the winter tonight and tomorrow more with Terry Smith
of the Weather Channel. In a few moments, you'll also

(01:05:55):
hear from Mayor John Witmeyer about preparations at seven o'clock.
Speaking of the mayor, Houston has a budget problem, but
the deficit, now up to three hundred and thirty million dollars,
is not the fault of current city leadership.

Speaker 9 (01:06:09):
All an unwanted leftover from former Mayor Sylvester Turner.

Speaker 34 (01:06:14):
Well, he kicked a whole bunch of things down the road.
These are all things at Widmyer ended at inheriting.

Speaker 9 (01:06:19):
That's Bill King, writer and fellow at the Baker Institute.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
So how long will it take to fix?

Speaker 34 (01:06:25):
I think he's gonna take a long time. Houston is
in a difficult situation. People like Holland thinks we are
to race property taxes. I don't agree with that. I
think people are paying enough property taxes.

Speaker 9 (01:06:35):
And Mayor Witmeyer says Hollins needs to stop playing politics.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k.

Speaker 6 (01:06:43):
T raise six thirty six. Homeschool kids, according to new research,
outperform their public and private school peers.

Speaker 35 (01:06:50):
The longer that a student's homeschool, the better they do
academically from those test course standpoints. So this just seems
to be another one of those areas that the longer
this homeschool, the more advantages they have.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
That's Tim Lambert with the Texas Homeschool Coalition. But another
new study shows parents who use electronic devices to babysit
their kids could be stunting. Language development psychologist Brad Schwall
says increased screen time can also lead to other mental
health problems.

Speaker 36 (01:07:18):
This is not just because we're comfortable talking about it.
This is based on statistics related not just to self reports,
but visits to the hospital.

Speaker 6 (01:07:29):
He says, passive screen use cannot replace the critical social
interactions young children need for healthy development. And with Alex
Bregman Goahn, the Astros, according to our TV partner, Channel two,
signed free agent infielder Brendan Rodgers to a minor league deal.
Rogers was taking one spot after Bregnant in the twenty
fifteen draft. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and

(01:07:50):
traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 24 (01:07:53):
I live in Sugarland.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
Be prepared for wild Houston Weather next on the ten
on seven eight ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
I don't think I'm gonna make it to ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
I'm not sure I'm gonna make it to eighty nine
back I think if I make it to ninety nine,
I'm doing something wrong. I'm not. I'm not living life
to the fullest, so to speak. So it's amazing to me,
you know, knowing that the average lifespan is still somewhere
in the mid upper seventies for average American male, for example,
that somehow Social Security has so many people who.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Are living so long.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
In going through the records, those just determined that Social
Security has three point six million people they're paying that
are between one hundred ten and one hundred nineteen years old,
three point five million people between one hundred twenty and
one hundred twenty nine, three point nine million between one
hundred thirty and one hundred thirty nine, three point five

(01:08:58):
million between one hundred forty and one one hundred and
forty nine years old, one point five million between one
hundred and fifty and one hundred and fifty nine years old.
They even have one person they're paying that is between
the ages of two hundred and forty and two hundred
and forty nine years old. That's quite I'll tell you what,
if they're two hundred years old and they're still alive,

(01:09:20):
they definitely should be getting Social Security. But I think
we know the answer to this is we got multi
millions of people that are not alive that are getting
Social Security checks. Here's Liz Peak on Fox Business.

Speaker 8 (01:09:31):
Last time I checked list, there was no one in
America that's one hundred and forty years old.

Speaker 46 (01:09:36):
But if there is someone one hundred and forty years old, Maria,
they sure deserve Social Security payments, and I'm all for it. Look,
there are two astonishing things here. Number One, that this
sloppiness and the fraud and waste has gone on for
so long. Obviously this is not something that happened overnight.
It is incredible to me that people working in our

(01:09:58):
government have had such laziness, such inertia that they have
never even bothered to look at these numbers that apparently
are pretty easy to find. Number Two, what's really incredible
is that anyone is objecting to this, because, as Carolyn
Levitt pointed out, this isn't just about hauling in all
those illegal and fraudulent and wasteful payments. It is about

(01:10:21):
making sure that if you're sixty years old, you're going
to get Social Security payments from a healthy institution for
the next many years. So how can anyone object to this?

Speaker 24 (01:10:33):
I have no.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Idea unbelievable that we've put and without doze, would we
have ever learned any of this? Probably not six forty
one time for traffic and whether together. As we check
on the drive once again, here's guy Minel.

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
All right, well we knew it wouldn't stay quite long
on the main lanes here in h Town six '
ten north, we.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Are loopy at the squeeze. This is westbound. The squeeze
right there, Terry before it gets forty five, just goes
down to two lanes. So that is a lot of
flashing lights. Whoa eighteen wheeler.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Lookout he's turned sideways and how far the backups already
from hersh road going that way. If you're coming over
from wayside and your hazardous, or if you're thinking about
going on the loop, let's stick the south loop instead.
I tend through town is actually not bad.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Two ninety on the eastbound side the beltway. Now now
we've got a stall. We've got an excellent westbound at
the ramps, so we're a little too ninety up right there.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
They have cleared that wreck on the Kadie Freeway at
the loop six ' ten tipline.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
I've got the original Andrew from Spring.

Speaker 23 (01:11:32):
Hey, Scott, Mike Spring we got a really good scoots
with nothing but franklights, just like from to forty nine.
What's not Houston on forty five the North Freeway going southbound?

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
All right, extra points for burbage.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Original Andrew from Spring and constable justin West Precinct, Ford,
Galveston County, just ring me up, and he says Baycliff
Fire Department has now requested additional help for they already did.
Keema Sanley on Dickinson also responding, that's one and it's
a closure northbound. I'm hearing they have opened up the
lane now. That's just south of ninety six. The actual

(01:12:06):
cross is Miles Road. Will zoom that in a few minutes, Terry,
and I'm looking like the Staypuff marshmallow Man and five
layers of clothing. Here the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
Center from r ETRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour
Weather Center. It's pretty cold out there right now, Terry Smith.
But it's going to get even colder for tonight.

Speaker 20 (01:12:23):
Right this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Speaker 21 (01:12:25):
Literally, temperatures will get even colder. The winds are still
a factor overnight there not going to be as gusty
as they are this morning, but you know, we're talking
below freezing, and then you add a little bit of wind,
and wind shills will be running between ten and fifteen degrees.
He's during the overnight early morning hours. So just make

(01:12:47):
sure you're prepared for an extended stretch of cold temperatures.

Speaker 24 (01:12:50):
Folks.

Speaker 21 (01:12:50):
We're dry today, breezy in the forties this afternoon, overnight
mid twenties to low thirties. Tomorrow, sunshine only, load of
mid forties in the afternoon. Friday, load of mid forties Saturday.
We've got some rain, temperatures mid to upper forties, and
a forty percent chance of shower Sunday, but will be warmer,

(01:13:11):
closer to sixty.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
Temperature Right now thirty four 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 six fifty our time
here in Houston's Warning News.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
A long interview last night Sean Hennity interviewing both President
Trump and Elon Musk. They talked about how the media
is trying to drive a wedge betea between them to
break them up. They want a Trump Musk divorce. More
than that story coming up next, But first traffic and
weather together, starting with the Uskuymine Queer, the.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
North Gloop westbound that wreck. We had an eighteen wheeler
in there.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
Man, they got that out of their fast That was
westbound at the squeeze at forty five, and that's quite
a kerpuff full from sixty nine going that way one
forty six structure fire and baycliff.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
That's reddit miles road. Avoid it. Let's do a different
route like Highway three.

Speaker 5 (01:14:10):
Got something new, hard hats on the Crosby Freeway. Nobody
else in the media knows about this accident there. It
is at C. E. King Parkway on the inbound. Give
me ten minutes, I'll get you some laneage. Skymike on
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from our KTRH
Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.

Speaker 4 (01:14:27):
We have a wind advisory till twelve noon today. Cloudie
this morning becoming part of the cloudy windy about forty
five today. A couple of clouds low twenty five to
thirty two, depending on where you are in the metro tonight,
and then sunny and cold forty four for the high tomorrow,
back down around freezing tomorrow night. Current temperature is thirty
four at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven

(01:14:49):
forty k TRH. Time to check out some of our
top stories here on this Wednesday morning.

Speaker 6 (01:14:54):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy, brought to you by DNM autolyasing.
The tag team of Elon Musk and Donald Trump are
back at the critics. Trump, by the way, told the
DOJ can all the remaining Biden era US attorneys, and
the iconic Imperial Sugar Charhouse in sugar Land will be
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Speaker 37 (01:15:20):
Under the orders I signed today, even here for the
very latest, all of this will.

Speaker 19 (01:15:25):
Change starting today on Youth Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
All right, there's still a couple.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
They're still together, President Trump and Elon Musk Sean Hennity
last night in his show, asking them or talking to
them about the media efforts to try to break them up.

Speaker 10 (01:15:44):
I want somebody really smart to work with me in
terms of the country a very important aspect because I
mean he isn't talking about he's actually a very good businessman.
And when he talks about the executive orders, and this
is probably true for all precedents. You write an executive
order and you think it's done, you said it out,
it doesn't get done, it doesn't get implemented.

Speaker 24 (01:16:05):
They don't implement it. They maybe they're.

Speaker 10 (01:16:07):
From the last administration, and they are in some cases.
You try and get him out as fast as you can.

Speaker 24 (01:16:13):
But I could. As soon as he said that, I said,
you know, that's interesting.

Speaker 10 (01:16:17):
You write a beautiful executive and you sign it and
you assume it's going to be done, but it's not.
What he does is he takes it and with his
hundred geniuses.

Speaker 24 (01:16:25):
He's got some.

Speaker 10 (01:16:26):
Very brilliant young people working for him that dress much
worse than him.

Speaker 24 (01:16:30):
Actually they dressing just T shirts.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
You wouldn't you.

Speaker 24 (01:16:33):
Wouldn't know they have one hundred and eighty. I so
he's your tech support. No, especially much more than that.
Actually he gets it done. He's a leader. He really,
he gets it done.

Speaker 10 (01:16:44):
You get a lot of tech people and you have
people that go to a.

Speaker 24 (01:16:46):
Tech but they he gets it done.

Speaker 10 (01:16:48):
You know, I said, in real estate, you had guys
that would draw beautiful renderings of a building. And they
draw the rendering, it would be great, and he say, great,
when are you starting?

Speaker 24 (01:16:56):
But they were never able to get it built.

Speaker 10 (01:16:57):
They couldn't get the finances, they couldn't get the approved.
It would never get done. And then you have other
guys that are able to get it done. You know,
they could just get it done.

Speaker 24 (01:17:06):
That was in real estate, same thing in this he
gets it done.

Speaker 10 (01:17:09):
So when he said that, he said, you know, when
you sign these executive orders, a lot of.

Speaker 24 (01:17:13):
Them don't get done.

Speaker 10 (01:17:14):
And he'd be the most important ones and he would
take that executive order that I'd sign and he would
have those people go to whatever agency it was, when
are you doing it?

Speaker 24 (01:17:24):
Get it done? Get it done. And some guy that
maybe didn't want to do it all of a sudden
he signing, he just doesn't want to get involved.

Speaker 25 (01:17:31):
Does do a lot of those executive orders have to
be codified into the water.

Speaker 24 (01:17:35):
You need the Republican Yeah, and a lot of them
will be look in the meantime, we have.

Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
Four years, yeah, four years to get it done. Four years.
Of course, he continues to work at this breakneck speed,
it might be enough all right, time for the timeline there,
let me see here, let me let me find my
prize sheet.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
So there we go.

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I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Trump and Musk confront their critics, Doge gets a big
legal victory, and coming up at seven oh eight, band
until they call it the Gulf of America. Details in
the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's morning news. First, we're
check again that morning drive again with sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
All right, Highway ninety Crosby Freeway. Hard hats, listen up.
I got a wreck at South Lake Houston Parkway, which
is also ce King Boy.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
That is quite a squish now. It looks like it's
backed up all the.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
Way from the Beltway text dot can't see the lane
in cheether, so let's whoop out a cana you seven
one three two one two t ips, tell me what
you see there.

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And on two ninety I got Darryl from Dayton.

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Fish Guy westbound and Thor Guestner dru there's a stall
pickup truck in the middle lane.

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That's outbound, not inbound. Let's look out coming from Fairbanks.
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Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
Thank you, Jimmy at seven oh two. We're sponsored by
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Speaker 7 (01:21:08):
One of the biggest functions of the Dose team is
just making sure that the presidential executive orders are actually
carried out.

Speaker 6 (01:21:14):
Elon Musk on Fox last night along with the President,
who says the mainstream media won't break them up.

Speaker 10 (01:21:20):
It's so bad at it. I used to think they
were good at it. They're actually bad at it. Because
if they were good at it, I'd definitely be president
because I think nobody in history has ever gotten more
bad publicity than me.

Speaker 6 (01:21:31):
You can watch the interview at KTRH dot com. A
win for Muskin cord as an Obama federal judge, Tanya
Chuckton rejected fourteen Democrat attorneys general in their effort to
block those from firing federal workers. The law fair was
exactly what the left did to Trump both during and
after his first term.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
And there's a reason for it.

Speaker 8 (01:21:54):
I think people are worried about what Elon Musk is
capable of with the access that he now had.

Speaker 24 (01:22:00):
And that's what we're seeing crop up in a.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
Lot of these lawsuits.

Speaker 9 (01:22:03):
That's reporter Ashley Oliver, who has been covering Doze for
the Washington Examiner.

Speaker 8 (01:22:09):
They're wanting to basically block Elon Muskin Doze from doing
anything that seems like there's news every single day.

Speaker 9 (01:22:16):
It's all the Democrats can do. Only this time Trump
knew it was coming. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven k
T reids.

Speaker 6 (01:22:24):
The President's signing several executive orders yesterday, including one to
lower costs of IVF and other fertility treatments, and he
also defended banning the Liberal Associated Press from the Oval
Office until they start using the right name for the golf.

Speaker 10 (01:22:41):
We're going to keep them out until such time as
they agree that it's the Gulf of America. We're very
proud of this country, and we wanted to be the
Gulf of America.

Speaker 6 (01:22:48):
They're still calling it the Gulf of Mexico though it's
now seven oh four. The administration also fires back at
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for blaming the Toronto Airplay
airplane crash this week on Trump's cuts at the FAA.

Speaker 11 (01:23:02):
It's incredibly irresponsible for Chuck Schumer to say such a
thing when the investigation is still under way.

Speaker 6 (01:23:08):
By the way, the White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt
also pointed out to Fox that the crash took place
not in the US but in Canada. You're already seeing
the stories being run by the mainstream media crying about
whether or not it's safe to fly, But the experts
say that's all fake news.

Speaker 12 (01:23:25):
The technology and crews we have right now are very
very good, better than any of the country in the world.
And I have total confidence in the aviation. Yeah, personally speaking,
have no problem at offline.

Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
Aviation expert Jay Ratliff says statistically speaking, air travel is
still one of the safest ways to get around seven
oh four with extreme cold arriving in Houston, Mayor John
Wickmeyer says the city is prepared.

Speaker 13 (01:23:49):
It's my goal that this would be the last news
conference we have this year dealing with the weather. We'll
have all hands on deck. We'll have people twenty four
to seven till we get through this arctic blast.

Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
Kon has us under a weather watch through Friday. The
President has promised to complete the Constitution Pipeline, which would
transport natural gas to the Northeast. It's a good sign
for the future of Keystone, which was canceled by Joe Biden.

Speaker 14 (01:24:13):
He is definitely open to the approval not only of
the Constitution pipeline, but he's already signaled that he would
approve the Keystone pipeline.

Speaker 6 (01:24:23):
Market analyst Phil Flynn says these projects were canceled for
political reasons. Trump has also established a National Energy Dominance
Council as he begins bringing back American energy.

Speaker 15 (01:24:34):
Its signals we're recovering and putting actual experts back in charge,
giving the experts.

Speaker 16 (01:24:39):
The authority to make some strong recommendations to relax permitting restrictions,
relax some of the regulatory onslought that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
We've seen in the last several years.

Speaker 15 (01:24:48):
Energy expert David Holt says permitting is a huge problem
holding us back, and Trump's drill baby drill plan isn't
the whole solution.

Speaker 16 (01:24:55):
It is also drill baby drill, and then get product
to market for consumers to lower prices, to expand our ability.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
To meet our energy needs here at home. He says.

Speaker 15 (01:25:04):
Find in ways to tap into energy at home will
help drive the return as well. Andre Parade News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:25:10):
Thank you, Andre, seven h six more violent crime in
use and with police investigating. After a man was shot
and killed in front of his girlfriend and five year
old daughter on the Northwest Side last night, the man
charged with the uh parking garage rape is re arrested.
He'd been on the run for ten days. Galveston's Marty
Gras kicks off on Friday. Along with it beefed up security.

Speaker 17 (01:25:33):
Because it's Marty Gras. Citi of Galveston Executive Director David
Smith says, you need to be extra careful please. More
roads will be blocked for the ceremonies, and glass containers
are banned along the sea wall and downtown on parade days.

Speaker 34 (01:25:47):
In addition to the areas in the downtown sector, we'll
have a lot more concrete barriers blocking the roadways.

Speaker 17 (01:25:54):
And security will be beefed up. But it's important if
you see something odd or really unusual, called nine. If
you see something, say something. Michael Shiloh News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:26:05):
And in college basketball last night, number five UHB to
Arizona State eighty to sixty five. I'm Cliff Saunders on
Houston's news Weather in traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 20 (01:26:17):
The twentieth day of January.

Speaker 24 (01:26:19):
Well, President Hi, Donald John Trump.

Speaker 22 (01:26:21):
Inauguration Day, the first one hundred days and beyond on
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Speaker 4 (01:26:30):
Can you can you find the Golf of America? Do
you know where that is? Seven or eight? Is their time?
You're in Houston's morning News. President Trump has doubled down
on the name change to Golf of America. He has
banned the Associated Press from key White House spaces, saying
the news organization would be denied access until they refer

(01:26:53):
to the body of water previously known as the Golf
of Mexico is the Golf of America. I don't think
President Trump cares much for the Associated Press to begin with.
But here's the quote for the President. We are going
to keep them out until such time that they agree
that it's the Golf of America. That's what the President
told reporters at a Mari Lago press conference yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
Quote.

Speaker 4 (01:27:16):
We're very proud of this country and we want it
to be the Golf of America. The Associated Press just
refuses to go with what the law is in what
has taken place, the President said, referring to an executive
order he signed earlier this month that changed the golf's name,
adding I have the right to do it. The body
of waters. Previous name is recognized by other countries, and

(01:27:39):
many of the Eight's readers and the outlet's policies refer
to it on first reference as the Golf of Mexico. Oh,
but they're willing to call it the Golf of America
after they referred to it as the Golf of Mexico.
In its most recent statement on the situation, the Associated
Press said, the actions taken to restrict APS coverage of
presidential events because of how we refer to a geographic

(01:28:02):
location chip away at this important right enshrined in the
US Constitution for all Americans. The White House Correspondence Association,
a number of press freedom groups have slammed the Trump
administration's decision, ORG you to reconsider the hardline stands. Trump
doesn't care. Trump said they're doing us no favors, and
I guess I'm not going to do them any favors.

(01:28:23):
That's the way life works, Ain't that the truth. I'm
sorry they haven't done me any favors. I don't intend
to do them any favors. Because that's how life works
in the real world, whereas Rush Limball used to call
it realvill seven to ten.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Trump doesn't give it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:44):
He doesn't give a honey badger of president. He doesn't
give a rats booty. That's for dog gone. Sure about
the Associated press. Here what you got, skuy Mike, I
got you.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
You have ninety Crosby Freeway and uh that's inbound.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
Wow to trek ninjas. They've cleared that.

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Wreck that was at ce King south Lake Euston Parkway
and it was inbound. So we're now we're still squished
up from the Beltway. You're going to lose about fifteen
minutes on the inbound. Let's jump on I ten if
you can. If you can do that, it's worth it
to get through the Scooch on the west sand or
the East sam southbound, because ten is running nice from
the hard hat side. As far as visors you're looking

(01:29:20):
good too. You'll hit some road, you'll hit some a
little bit of grift right there from Grand Parkway into
Fry Road. Other than that, even getting into the President's
he's we're looking pretty good for now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Two ninety outbound.

Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
Got us stall at the belt It's not causing any problem,
and that's what makes me nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
It's right there, center lane.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
This is outbound and Daryl from Dayton with the banana
stick or inbound.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
We're two nine eight up from pump By Start. Yeah,
yo yo, Drake from Texas City, My dude.

Speaker 30 (01:29:45):
Bird hold out here.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
There must be toros in the atmosphere.

Speaker 33 (01:29:49):
Toros five northbound right now is read and clear, no issues.

Speaker 2 (01:29:56):
It's crazy. We don't even have that wreck at the south.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
Look.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Have you ever heard of toro? Is that a weather termterary?
I think that's something going on with our signal here.

Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:30:06):
Center, twelve from Bock atrh Top tax Defenders twenty four
hour Weather Center. Is there such a thing as a toro?

Speaker 20 (01:30:12):
I've never heard of it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
I've never heard of it.

Speaker 20 (01:30:13):
I mean, I've heard of toro as a bull twin.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
Maybe you was saying churos since we've been talking about,
you know, stuff to munch this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:30:22):
That in the atmosphere, that's on the list. If we
could get trails from the atmosphere, we'd be onto something
there would make. But what we all we've got from
the atmosphere right now is a whole lot of wind,
a whole lot of wind, which is making the cold
temperatures feel even cold, dirtary spin.

Speaker 20 (01:30:37):
Yes, a whole lot of wind and a whole lot
of cold.

Speaker 21 (01:30:39):
So let's see, temperatures right now are in the thirties
for a number of places. Uh yeah, everybody's pretty much
in the thirties. And then you add in the winds, and.

Speaker 20 (01:30:50):
Our wind chills are in the twenties.

Speaker 21 (01:30:52):
So it's a bundle up kind of day, and it's
we're going to stay bundled up by the rest of
this week, folks. That's the hard cold truth. At least
we're dry. It is breezy in the forties. That's as
warm as we'll get today. Below freezing tonight for just
about everybody unless you're right along the coast. Mid twenties
to low thirties. Overnight. We have a cold weather advisory

(01:31:13):
overnight through the morning hours because our windshills will be
running somewhere between ten to fifteen, especially in the morning,
So prepare for that low to mid forties Tomorrow and Friday,
it's still called Saturday's a little bit warmer, middupper forties.
We've got some rain, but we've got rain and warmer
temperatures that perfect combination.

Speaker 20 (01:31:32):
On Sunday close.

Speaker 21 (01:31:34):
To sixty the high and we should stay in the
sixties and seventies for the next several days.

Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
Temperature right now, thirty four at your officials, Siverer Weather Station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's Houston's Morning News, brought
to you by New South Windows Solutions. Now back to
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Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
All the info you need did take on the day.

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
So all eyes are back on Colony Ridge, and it's
never on Colinie Ridge for any good things, for any
good ideas, or any good things that are happening up there.
And certainly what ICE is doing in rounding up criminals
has made us pay attention to Coliny Ridge again four
times supported illegal alien arrested at Colony Bridge with three

(01:32:20):
hundred and fifty pounds of meth. Three hundred and fifty
pounds more in the story with Brad Johnson. He's a
senior reporter at the Texan. We'll talk to him next. First,
we've got traffic in whether to get us start with
the US guy, Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:32:32):
I Smell Langage on the east text I'm being short here, Jimmy,
but east tex southbound right around Parker Are Little York.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
That's an accident reported.

Speaker 5 (01:32:39):
Boy, look at that squish coming down from the Beltway
clear Crosby Freeway, ce King.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
That was a five vehicle smashup.

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
We still have a big cram up from the Beltway,
new problem north Loop six ' ten right at Maine westbound.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
That's a wreck. And by the way, we're gonna find
out what Toro's in the atmosphere means. That really is
something in a few minutes. I'm the Generator Supercenter dot
com ick Center.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather
center for today wind advisory that's in effect until twelve noon. Cloudy, fairy,
cloudy this morning, becoming part of cloudy windy, about forty
five for the high today on average, few clouds twenty
five to thirty two tonight, depending upon where you are.
Sunning cold only forty four for the high tomorrow and
then back down around or below freezing tomorrow. Night temperature

(01:33:24):
is thirty four at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some of our
top stories on a Wednesday. Here's Cliff, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:33:33):
Jimmy, brought to you by partners in building. The illegal
alien safe haven in Liberty County is back in the
spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Minutes from the FEDS
January meeting will be released today, and Pope Francis remains
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Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
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commute coming up every ten minutes on the tens.

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
Try three hundred and fifty pounds of the stuff with
some of illegal aliens, three illegal immigrants, three hundred and
fifty pounds of methaphi, I mean, all found near Liberty
County's Colony Ridge settlement just in the last week. There's
an article in The Texan about it. Our reporter, their
senior reporter, Brad Johnson, joins us there's never been any

(01:34:22):
good news coming out of Colony Ridge, and I guess
you know what's going on with ice right now, and
the deportations just shows us again you know where a
lot of problems are here in Southeast Texas, and they
revolve around Colony Ridge.

Speaker 48 (01:34:38):
It seems like the settlement keys popping up in the headlines.
You know, you have the flashy one, Yeah, certainly. Where
As you said, there were three illegal immigrants that were
like this, stood after a traffic stop and during which
they one of them was around to have a handgun
in his waistband and then admitted to have down pounds

(01:34:59):
of mes out of another site. And sure enough all
string three hundred and fifty found it, seize it, arrested
the three. Turns out all three of them have bene
went there fast, full times and are now back.

Speaker 33 (01:35:12):
You know.

Speaker 48 (01:35:12):
So there's the flashy ones led deported. Well, there's other
ones that are less flashy, with problems that can come
with just like that, a thousand people being dropped into
an ex servant county. The you know fifty resources there
are stressed. The local sheriffs department is in overy manpower wise,
and so you've had the state come in and for

(01:35:34):
a while in the head implements law enforcement presence.

Speaker 4 (01:35:37):
Your phone's got a clipping on spread. Well, we'll try
to still with you as long as long as we can. Here,
did they have the three hundred and fifty pounds of
meth on them or did this just did the arrest
lead to the three hundred fifty pounds of meth? I
can't even I'm trying to imagine in my mind what
three hundred and fifty pounds of math looks like.

Speaker 1 (01:35:55):
It's hard to imagine.

Speaker 48 (01:35:56):
I think there's a picture that Sheriff Bobby Braider Liberty. Yeah,
it's a lot of bags. No, they did not have
it on them on he put out in another site
that officers asked the trendment they had it and went
and seized at a property in collefor stop.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
Yep, three of them were arrested. They are all in
the country lately, and as I understand that, several of
them have been deported at least four times. Of course,
the border has changed now. So my guess is if
you deport them again, hopefully well, first of all, hopefully
they do some prison time here in the United States,
and then when you do eventually deport them again, hopefully

(01:36:39):
they will be prevented from coming back into the country.

Speaker 48 (01:36:43):
Yeah, that's the idea, but we've seen how that's worked
out of handful of years. One of them was charged
with a felony, the other two yess in ice holds.
So I assume they're going to be deported or soon,
depending on how long that take by the other one.

Speaker 31 (01:37:01):
Fairly so.

Speaker 48 (01:37:02):
Not sure whether they'll put them in in the klan.

Speaker 30 (01:37:05):
Cour afil to board hint.

Speaker 48 (01:37:07):
But yeah, he is being charged with salenty for possession
of all that as well all that illegal substance.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
Well, the best bet is to prosecute them and put
them in jail, so at least you can get them
off the streets for a while. Brad, thank you. Seeing
a reporter at the Texan. That's Brad Johnson seven to
twenty six. It is time to take a look at
your money as we check in again. A scot Car.

Speaker 26 (01:37:27):
Jemmy Ford is eliminating its stock award bonuses for most
of its thirty three hundred middle managers. The automakers trying
to boost performance amid declining profits and expected coming higher costs,
largely out of higher US tariffs. Ford's forecasting losses upwards
of two billion dollars for this year. They're trying to
cut back on a billion in costs there this year.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Bad news. Chocolate lovers.

Speaker 26 (01:37:50):
Executives at Hirshey and others are signaling more price increases
because cocoa prices just won't come down. The head of
Mandalize tells a consumer conference the company's keeping an eye
on man levels.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
They expect it's going to continue to.

Speaker 26 (01:38:03):
Go higher by thirty forty, maybe fifty percent, and threats
of higher tariffs on items from auto's to pharmaceuticals has
got investors more cautious. Today, futures are lower by one
to two tenths. From the Fidelity Bloomberg Business Desk. I'm
Scot car on News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
Than you No Houston's News.

Speaker 27 (01:38:25):
Why there were traffic plus preaking News twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
Five Everywhere poind the irrap More of what's happening now
from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
It is seven thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories, this hath our ice
raids put Colony Ridge back in the spotlight. Birthright citizenship
likely to be decided by the US Supreme Court, and
coming up at seven thirty eight, Why we need those
in Austin right now? Details in the minutes ahead. You're
in Houston's Warning News. First, we're checking out that morning

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drive again. Here is sky Mine all right.

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
We're still scooched up on ninety Crosby Freeway. Our new
ninety is my heart, friends call it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:08):
That's inbound right before ce King they cleared a five
vehicle wreck. It's going to take a while. You're backed
up from the Beltway and I've sent you to it,
which made iten worse. Now inbound at Federal that's a
pretty big backup coming in from about Freeport Street. Looked
like we had a stall to twenty five hard at
You're slow right at Alan Genoa inbound. We've had some
roadwork on the South Loop messing you up. And Drake

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from Texas City gave me a good golf freeway. We're
a little slow at Edgebrook.

Speaker 14 (01:39:35):
Hold out here.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
There must be toros in the atmosphere. What is he
talking about?

Speaker 5 (01:39:40):
We'll find out in ten minutess in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
From a kt RH Generator super Center twenty four hour
Weather Center Wind Advisory until twelve noon today, Claudie, this
morning party, Claude, windy I only getting up to about
forty five on average, today and we are very close
to freezing right now thirty three at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
It's timed out for the news. Here's Thelypsaunders.

Speaker 6 (01:40:04):
Thank you, Jimmy seven thirty two on KTRH. The mass
deportation started by Donald Trump and Tom Homan continue and
they've put the illegal aliens safe haven of Colony Ridge
and Liberty County back under the microscope. That's thanks to
the arrest of three illegal aliens that were caught during
a traffic stop there.

Speaker 30 (01:40:23):
Each one had been deported at least four times. One
of them during the stop admitted they had a stash
house full of illegal drugs.

Speaker 29 (01:40:31):
Brid Johnson with the Texan says that's likely just scratching
the surface of the crime that's being committed there.

Speaker 30 (01:40:36):
They're also suredly is more that law enforcement isn't aware of.
When this became a really big story, law enforcement said, yeah,
there's cartel activity here.

Speaker 29 (01:40:45):
Johnson hopes this case will lead to Colony Ridge getting
more attention from law enforcement and more arrests. Ethan Buchannan
News Radio seven forty KTRH a.

Speaker 6 (01:40:53):
Time at the border. Arrests continued to plummet. On Monday,
there were just two hundred and eighteen compared to eighteen
hundred five on the same date last year. The next
big US Supreme Court case could be the issue of
birthright citizenship, this after several federal judges block President's executive
order banning it. The Heritage Foundation's Han Spakowski says the

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High Court has legal grounds to restrict automatic citizenship.

Speaker 31 (01:41:19):
The Supreme Court needs to clarify what it means, and
according to prior spreing court cases, it only goes as
far as the children of permanent resident aliens. That's very
different from someone who's in the country illegally.

Speaker 6 (01:41:33):
He predicts the case could end up at the High
Court as early as this fall, and because he's cooperating
with borders our Tom Homan, New York City Mayor Eric
Adams could be removed from office by Governor Kathy Hokel.
Adams also has a hearing in court today connected to
that criminal case against him that's about to be dropped.
Seven thirty four, Trump's pick to run the FBI cash

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battel gets a win in the Senate, which voted forty
eight to forty five to advance it's his nomination. A
final vote will come later this week. The first peace
talks between the US and Russia about the war in
Ukraine have wrapped up. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and
other American officials met with Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 32 (01:42:14):
We're going to appoint a high level team from our
end to help negotiate and walk work through the end
of the conflict in Ukraine in a way that's enduring
and acceptable to all the parties engaged.

Speaker 6 (01:42:24):
And while the Trump administration deals with Russia, one lawmaker
is warning us not to take our eye off the Chinese.

Speaker 33 (01:42:31):
China is an evil empire. China's preparing for war. China
is waging an economic world war. China has infiltrated our society.
China has infiltrated our government. China is coming for our
kids in China could.

Speaker 6 (01:42:43):
Win Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton with KTRHS, Klay Travis, and
Buck Sexton. In the Middle East, Tamas says it will
free six Israeli hostages on Saturday. They're also turning over
the remains of several hostages, including a mother and her
two young children, one nine years old, the other born
in captivity and four months sold. Meantime, anti Israel protests

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continue in our Democrat cities. That was a protest in Brooklyn,
New York last night. Only one person was arrested despite
the violence and clashes between the two sides. Seven thirty five.
Preparations for tonight's freeze continue across Houston the city. We'll
have a dozen warming centers opening tonight at eight o'clock.

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You'll hear from John Wickmeyer at about eight o'clock as well. Meantime,
the mayor is calling out city Controller Chris Hollins to
stop playing politics, as Houston's budget deficit has now grown
to three hundred and thirty million dollars. Political writer Bill
King says it's all part of the mess left by
former mayor turned US Congressman Sylvester Turner.

Speaker 34 (01:43:47):
It certainly was plenty, and it was covered up with
a bunch of federal money. So all that was used
to fill the gaps. Well, all that stuff throwning out,
So it's going to be some tough times. Sreal built titany,
I think.

Speaker 6 (01:44:00):
Earlier this month, the Texas Supreme Court refused to hear
an appeal on an amendment approved by voters, so the
city a noow us to shell out an additional one
hundred million dollars on infrastructure. Seven thirty six. We've talked
about homeschooling and it's benefits for years on Houston's Morning News.
A new study shows that homeschool kids may be more
healthy than their peers as adults.

Speaker 35 (01:44:21):
You know, if your child is in a public school
for eight hours a day, then you know the teacher
in that environment has more impact than the family does.

Speaker 6 (01:44:29):
Texas Homeschool Coalition founder and chairman Tim Lambert, and maybe
our parents were right all along. Research shows that too
much screen time as a small child can lead to
language and speaking problems. Later on, psychology expert doctor Brad
Schwall says screens cannot replace social interactions and parents shouldn't
have them babiesit their kids.

Speaker 36 (01:44:50):
We definitely have moved from play based childhoods to screen
based childhoods, and since then anxiety rates have create.

Speaker 6 (01:45:00):
The study also shows that children who have parental involvement
during screen time do better on language skills than those
who have that electronic babysitter. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather,
and Traffic station News Radio seven forty ktrh the.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
Tools you need to take on the day news in
the morning, weather and traffick. This is Houston's Morning News
with Jimmy Varrett.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
So we need a version of Doze in Austin, and
we needed there sooner versus later. And I'll give you
an example why a House committee, and this is the
Texas House, is unilaterally raised office budgets and given Democrat
vice chairs three point six million dollars in new pay
in an unprecedent This from Texas Corecard. In an unprecedented move,

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the Texas House Administration Committee has unanimously approved significant increases
to legislative office budgets without a vote of the full House,
especially voted on by the House at least. Traditionally, those
budget changes are enacted through a housekeeping resolution, which requires
a vote by all members. However, the new Speaker, Dustin Burroughs,

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declared a floor vote unnecessary, allowing the committee to implement
the changes independently. The approved adjustments include a two thousand
dollars a month increase in Session office budgets, a one
thousand monthly increase to interim office budgets, the elimination of
staff salary caps, and an increase in the annual carryover

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of unused funds to thirty thousand dollars. Most notably because
Dustin Burroughs obviously made a deal with Democrats in order
to become the next House Speaker. Most notably, the thirty
Democrat vice chairman's of committees will receive an additional five
thousand dollars per month, which totals to extra three point
six billion over the biennium. The vice chairs previously did

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not receive any sort of a stipend. They do now.
I think we need some doze in Austin. Damn right,
we do. By the way, the House Administration Committee compromises
the following members and I'm only gonna mention the ones
that might include. For example, Sam Harless, a Republican from Spring,

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is on this committee. We have Ron Reynolds, a Democrat
from Missouri City who is on the committee. And I
think those are the only two that are local on
this committee. So Sam Harless, Republican from Spring, and again
Ron Reynolds, Democrat from Missouri City. You may want to
let them know that you're not real happy with this happening.

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Seven forty time for traffic and Othery're together. Ah, another
discovery from Skymike.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
You know, even though you know we got a lot
of goof going on in my traffic. I know, I know,
but we're the first to know what's going on in
the freeways here. It's not me, it's you. East Text
Freeway south THEND. We got lane at here, Little York
I to wreck three iner lanes. I hope everybody's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:48:01):
That's a lot of flashing lights now, backups well before
the cemetery. Just go ahead and call it. From the
Beltway southbound twenty minute lost. You want to be a
big shot this morning, jump on the Harty toll Road
the North Freeway.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
I don't see an incident, but we've.

Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
Got a pretty big squish now after west Mount Houston
down to the North Loop sixty ten clear Crosby Freeway
wreck a long time ago, see e king big backups
from the Beltway Southwest Freeway. That's a gem from He'llcroft
up West Park Tollway from fourteen sixty four Katie Freeway.
Visor's your slow from Grand Parkway into Eldridge Parkway and
Texas City coming up the Golf Freeway. Looks good till

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you hit about edge. Drake from Texas City. You're driving
me crazy, all right, what does that mean?

Speaker 49 (01:48:42):
It's from a movie called Bring It On.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
I'm Michelle spring Branch.

Speaker 41 (01:48:46):
I sign Mike Carls in the atmosphere is from the
movie Bring It On.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
This is real, Terry.

Speaker 49 (01:48:51):
Hey, hi Sam, I need to ktch up on your
pop culture from the movie Bringing On about cheerleaders. Here
there must in the atosphere.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
Okay, Terry, We're gonna have to have a movie night
cheerlie from Pearland there.

Speaker 5 (01:49:05):
We have to have a big movie night there. You
know what, you know what Drake did do? He broke
totally broke.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
Up my Shoelnburg festival this morning. I'm an a Generator
supercenter dot Com traffic center. It's a cheerleader movie. Sorry,
Carston Dunns Jimmy in case you haven't seen it. It's
just it's just rad.

Speaker 21 (01:49:21):
I'm just glad there's people out there that can inform
us because I'm cheerleader clueless.

Speaker 4 (01:49:26):
Yeah, like, oh my god, it was the name of
the cheerleading squad in the movie is evidently evident, the Toros.

Speaker 1 (01:49:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
I don't know if it's the nickname of the school,
name of the school or what.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
But did I throw us off topic this morning? Completely
dairy queen, the toros and now freezing.

Speaker 20 (01:49:42):
Our boat and now and now popcorn and movies.

Speaker 4 (01:49:44):
We're covering it all from our kat ir H Generator
super Center, twenty four hour weather Center. Terry is here
and I don't know what it is in the atmosphere.
Can barely see the atmosphere so cloudy.

Speaker 21 (01:49:54):
And and we should all be covered because of how
cold it is, folks. And it's like this the of
the week. I mean, this is Arctic care, all right.
So temperatures today in the forties. Tonight we're below freezing
from the mid twenties to the low thirties and then
only in the low to mid forties tomorrow and Friday.

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So just bundle up from head to toe. Saturday and
Sunday we've got some rain.

Speaker 20 (01:50:19):
It does warm up a little bit Saturday, mid upper forties, and.

Speaker 21 (01:50:23):
Then by Sunday in the sixties. And then next week
we have sixties and seventies.

Speaker 20 (01:50:27):
In the afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:50:28):
Love that right now. Current temperature is thirty three at
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:50:37):
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Speaker 4 (01:50:44):
No secret that city Houston has about a three hundred
million dollars probably more than that budget deficit right now.
How to close it? Bill King, Ryder and fellow at
the Baker Institute joins us next. But first, we've got
traffic and weather together. Need a quick ones sky Mike, all.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
Right, it's ninety that's out of the way, and we
still have a big scooch now coming in from the Beltway.
We cleared the eastext right, that's still a lot of
breaks coming from the north. Sam SKYMIKEE and the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:51:11):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather Center,
Winded buyse Rechel twelve noon, Claudia this morning, partly Claude.
Windyed this afternoon forty five down below freezing for tonight.
Current temperature is thirty three at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Here's some of this morning's
top stories with Cliff.

Speaker 6 (01:51:29):
Thank you, Jimmy. We're sponsored by Morrow Mechanical and Obama
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the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com or next
up to eight eight am.

Speaker 2 (01:51:42):
Four more years.

Speaker 24 (01:51:43):
All right, Donald John Trump?

Speaker 2 (01:51:45):
What happens next?

Speaker 24 (01:51:46):
Who knows what happens next?

Speaker 19 (01:51:47):
Happens here on youth radio seven forty ktrhe.

Speaker 4 (01:51:53):
Yeah, we're pretty busted here in Houston. Seven fifty three
is at that time. Bill King joins us writer and
fellow at the Baker Institute. He wrote a story called
Another City of Houston, Fiscal Chicken comes home to roost?
Which chicken is this one? Bill?

Speaker 34 (01:52:08):
This is the drainage fee issue. The voters a couple
of times approved that the city would not borrow any
more money to do streets and drainage project and as
the existing debt was paid off, the savings from that
debt service reduction would go into new projects. And it

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provided that a certain percentage of that, say that the
tax rate would go to this fund as that was
paid down. And what the Turner administration did was it
reinterpreted that to say it was an absolute amount, but
it was a relative amount based on what the tax
rate was. And the courts said that's not what the
that's not what the people said in the referendum.

Speaker 4 (01:52:55):
Right, Well, Mayor Turner was well known for his reinterpretations.
Let me just ask you about the budget duvisit in general. Yeah,
I've got of been musing on the air, wondering on
the air if we were to have a Doze committee
for the City of Houston, do you think we could
find enough waste, fraud and corruption in the City of
Houston that we identified all these things and to them

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we could actually pay for the deficit that we have.

Speaker 34 (01:53:21):
Well, you know, Witmeyer is doing something fairly similar to that.
He had this sufficiency report done by Crinchton Young and
it was published last week and it's got a whole
lot of identifies a whole lot of management issues in
the city. Trying to quantify that is not you know,
that's still yet work to be done. But the Witmeyer

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administration thinks there's at least a couple hundred million dollars
there the budget as that thinks about three fifty right now.
So I think there's definitely part of the gapth can
be closed. But Jimmy, look, the real problem here in
the city is number one. In the nineteen seventies, the
city if you elected to give away half of its

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sales tax revenue to Metro, that's now a billion dollars
a year. If the city had that money back, you'd
be paving the streets in Gold Instead. We have a
transit agency that's carrying twenty five percent fewer riders than
it did in nineteen ninety eight, so that money is
being wasted. So the city needs to stop spending as

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much money on Metro as it is and start spending
money on streets, drainage, police officers, you know, the basic services,
because that program is just not worked. The second problem
is that we're now giving two hundred million dollars a
year to these so called tours is the tax increment
reinvestment zones. And they do things like build bus lanes

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on Post Oak, which nobody rides for two hundred million dollars.
So those two items, by them, Salves could more than
close the budget gap. You did both of those, and
you do this efficiency report that with Meyer's doing and
we'd been no, we should have plenty of money to
at least balance the.

Speaker 4 (01:55:08):
Budget much much better shape. They just have to have
the political will to do it. Always a pleasure, sir,
Thank you writer and fellow with the Baker Institute, Bill King,
you all have a great day. See you tomorrow morning,
bright and early.

Speaker 2 (01:55:17):
Five.

Speaker 4 (01:55:18):
I'll see you, I hope this afternoon. Four an em
ninet fifty KPRC