Trump's Having a Good Time Trolling Liberals About a Third Term

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 04/01/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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It's more what matters to you. From the John Morris
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
Good morning, five am is our time here on Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as
we get started this morning, Trump's having a good time
drolling liberals about a third term. Liberation Day is tomorrow
and coming up at five oh eight. Just what we
need right now a recall on two hundred thousand pounds
of liquid eggs. Details in the minutes. Say head, you're

(00:39):
in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning
drive with Skymine. Hey, let's bring it in on the
Katie Freeway this morning.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Just a random check here from the west side Advisors.
You're looking so, You're looking good so far. We'll go
out to fourteen sixty three. It's a little dark here
Katie Fort Ben Road looking good here, Greenhouse Nada and
inside the belt to the loop rocking along nicely.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
We have the roadwork outbound.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
That's a lifestyle from forty five out to studim you're
missing two right lines, three little skinny lines and the.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Text dot wall of death. I'm Skymike.

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Speaker 5 (01:35):
It's five oh one on k t r H, our
top story this hour.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
If you are allowed, for some reasons to run for
a third term, is there a thought that the Democrats
could try to run Barack Obama against you?

Speaker 7 (01:48):
I'd love that.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I love that. That would be a good one. I'd
like that. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Well, the left throws a fit over a potential third
Trump term. The President talked about a potential opponent in
twenty two. He also told reporters that he really hasn't
looked into running again. And this comes as Elon Musk
brought doe to the CIA.

Speaker 8 (02:08):
President Trump has hesitated to share some state secrets, like
war plans with China with Elon Musk because of his
business interests there, and there are many former spies hoping
that Dose doesn't make too many changes too quickly.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Peter Doucy on Capitol Hill elsewhere, tariffs go into effect tomorrow.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tubberville told Fox it's the right move.

Speaker 9 (02:29):
I want him to tell everybody, listen, we have built
China the American people in the backs of the American people.
We have built Europe, We have built the Middle East.
All the money, most of the money to come invest
in all these other countries and these continents have been
built on the backs of the American people.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
The tariffs include a twenty five percent hit for auto
imports overnight trading his flat across the board. Now there's
hope that a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine can get
back on track after a meeting between the President and
finished leader Alexander Stube.

Speaker 10 (03:01):
He's probably the only person in the world who can
mediate the peace between Ukraine and Russia. Why because poot
In respects and in many ways fears Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Stubbon Fox five h three. Now, the mainstream media keeps
trying to ambush Republicans, but one Trump administration official did
not fall into their trap, and.

Speaker 11 (03:24):
Some are pushing back, like Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins
did on CNN.

Speaker 12 (03:30):
I have a question for you, Kaylin, are you really
concerned about veterans?

Speaker 13 (03:33):
Well, mister secretary, respectfully, my question was about whether or
not he was a member of the cabinet.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
When we use this.

Speaker 11 (03:39):
Sean Fleetwood pointed it out as the Federalist and says
there needs to be.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
More of it.

Speaker 14 (03:44):
That's exactly how Republicans should be treating these media propagandists,
not as journalists, not as people interested in actually getting
to the bottom of issues.

Speaker 11 (03:52):
Unfortunately, there are still many Republicans who are afraid of
the mainstream media. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Mainstream media may not like the president's deportations, but you
do sixty percent to be exact. According to the latest
CBS News polling, the Trump administration isn't backing down from
challenges to the deportation flights. The HS Secretary Christy Nolan
says there are some bad people that we need to
ship out of the country.

Speaker 13 (04:20):
That it's very real. It could happen today, it could
happen tomorrow. We have people in this country that would
do nine to eleven all over again if given the opportunity.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Meantime, they just sent another seventeen MS thirteen and TDA
gang members to l Salvador. Here at home, the search
this morning continues for Scott Sheppel. He's the Grimes County
inmate that escaped custody from a mental hospital.

Speaker 15 (04:44):
He's out there in the community. Queen cares anyone who
might see him. He was last seen wearing a gray
shirt and gray pants. He is five five, one hundred
and seventy five pounds. Iqueencars anyone who sees him to
call stoppers.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
At Houston And this just into us. A six year
old boy was hit by a stray bullet while eating
at a North Houston McDonald's. He's going to be okay.
Cops are looking for two bad guys. It's five oh five.
As you said, your kids to school this morning. Consider this.
The Left claims public schools aren't properly funded, but many
superintendents make more than three hundred thousand a year.

Speaker 16 (05:23):
Those high salaries maybe why they're so opposed to the
idea of school choice.

Speaker 17 (05:27):
It's a big grift. They're afraid their gravy train is
coming to an end. They're afraid that they're actually going
to have to compete for those taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 16 (05:36):
Corey DeAngelis with the American Culture Project says the public
school system has just become a jobs program for administrators.

Speaker 17 (05:42):
This is probably why Texas public schools spend about seventeen
thousand dollars first student per year.

Speaker 16 (05:50):
He says, this is the result of public schools having
no competition and no reason to spend money Wisely. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTOH.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Thank you, Ethan. The state breaks another jobs record, more
than one hundred and eighty two thousand non farm jobs
over the last year. Employment expert Brenda Siri says companies
are coming here because of our location, our low union presence,
and pro business policies.

Speaker 18 (06:13):
I also think that, quite honestly, Texas has never really
suffered as bad as other states during recessions.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
I think it's a very resilient workforce, and we also
have the largest labor force in state history. At the
State House in Austin, one Republican state rep is pushing
back on the three hundred and forty billion dollar budget proposal.
A fifteen hundred page bill that lawmakers were given just
hours to look at before voting on.

Speaker 19 (06:41):
This is the most liberal, bloated, reckless budget in the
history of Texas. At a time when Texans are being
taxed out of their homes and are demanding less government
and lower taxes, this budget does the opposite.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
State Rep.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Brian Harrison, the House Appropriations Committee did wind up passing
the proposal yesterday.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Five oh seven.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
The Astros lose to the seven to two Same two teams.
Tonight pregame at six on Sports Talk seven ninety, Game
time at seven ten on seven ninety and KTRH. I'm
Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in traffic station News
Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Favorite. Those relates are those egg beaters five O eaters
our time here in Houston's Morning theres all right, we
have a recall here. Check your fridge for those of
you that use egg beaters or an egg substitute like that.
I think egg beaters is the main one. By the way,
I didn't realize what egg beaters was until I looked
it up. I'll share it with in case you've never

(07:44):
bothered to read the ingredients, but we have over two
hundred thousand pounds of liquid egg products recalled over possible
contamination contamination with bleach? How did bleach get into this stuff?
In an announcement from the US Department of Agricultures, Food
Safety and Inspection Service Cargo Kitchen Solutions recalling more than

(08:06):
two hundred and twelve thousand pounds of liquid egg products,
saying they could contain sodium hypochlorite, a product commonly used
in bleach. The Inspection services the recall products produced March
twelfth and thirteenth had used by dates of August ninth
and tenth of this year's while it's March seventh of
next year. How long have a lifespan these things have?

(08:27):
The recall products include variations of egg beaters as well
as bob Evans brand liquid eggs. Products were shipped to
Ohio and Texas, so we're one of two states. They
got it for food service use, I should say for
in store use in grocery stores. Food service use also
in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, in Iowa. Consumers who

(08:49):
have purchased these products urged not to consume them, and
food service locations urged not to serve them. You think
any of them will do? Do food service? Do they
pay any attention to things like recalls? How about restaurants?
Do restaurants pay attention? You know, if they've got egg meters,
they're in the fridge there, do they no de chectancy
whether or not they could have been affected anyway? I

(09:13):
think I've tried egg meters before. I mean, if you
just want to scramble up an egg substitute, then it'll work.
I don't, you know. I prefer the real deal. But
you know, egg meters is pretty popular, and I thought myself, well,
well it's eggs right, well kind of for those you
who've never bothered to take a look at the list
of ingredients. The main ingredient is egg whites, but it

(09:35):
also has zaxon gum and guar gum as thickeners. Vitamins
and minerals are at, including calcium sulfate, iron, vitamin E, zinc,
vitamin B two, vitamin A, vitamin B one, vitamin B six,
vitamin twelve, follic acid, bioten, vitamin D three colors added

(09:55):
beta charanteine, so they're they're using carrot juice. I guess
it is some sort of color for this, and they
also may contain a few other things, depending upon the
flavor of the egg beaters. But you know what I
like about eggs? Know what the ingredient list is on
an egg? An egg? That's it. It's just TODAYG five ten,

(10:16):
time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Why did they have the substitute eggs?

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Anyway?

Speaker 20 (10:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Oh, that was that thing in the seventies. Oh, cholesterol.
We're all going to die from cholesterol. Well, now it
turns out, depending on who you talk to the bandy
cholesterol isn't so bad after all.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, that was before gluten and GMOs and hbos and
ei EIOs.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
And all that other scary stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Which way you want to go, Jimmy, pick a direction
from so oh all right, great, let's do some golf
freeway now. They've been scheduling this roadwork every day from
Harborside off Galveston Island, across the causeway over to Grandmother's
house at Tiki Island and grandmother parties obviously, but northbound
they haven't been doing it. They've scheduled it. It was

(10:56):
supposed to be this big Nashty closure. I'm watching this
every morning, so that's another reason to keep your radio
on AM radio and keep up with us. But so
far we've been okay with that golf freeway League City up.
Twenty nine minutes up to eighty eight. There's Stephen F.
Boston standing proudly as we come up from Iowa Colony
and we look good. Twenty two minutes from Manvlinda downtown.

(11:17):
We'll check your ship channel bridges at five twenty Terry,
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Speaker 3 (11:23):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour whether center.
Terry Smith is here. Sunshine's not here and probably won't
be around much today.

Speaker 21 (11:30):
No, we're not going to see a lot of sunshine
here the next couple of days. Part of it is
because of this very slow moving storm that's to the west.
But the other part is we have that southerly flow
that brings us all the moisture from the golf. So
cloudy but dry, and temperatures on the warm side load

(11:51):
to mid eighties today and getting even warmer tomorrow, mid
to upper eighties. Still dry Thursday, we may get a
little bit of sunshine Thursday mid to upper eighties. Big
changes over the weekend. That's when we start to get
some rain. Right now, it's a twenty percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms Friday, but at eighty percent chants of

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widespread showers and storms Saturday and Sunday. We should be
able to salvage the weekend with some dry weather, but
could be a little on the cool side. Temperatures by
the end of the weekend likely in the upper sixties
to low seventies.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Wow, it is chilli right now, sixty six at your
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Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barretts and the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need to take
on the day.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
It is April first, Yes, I understand what that means,
April Fools Day. There will be no April Fools jokes
on the show. We're well, most of us here are
too mature for that. Some of us aren't, but that's okay.
We'll rain them in at any rate. No April Fool
Stakes jokes on our program. The other thing that happens
here in April, is all these tariffs supposed they kick in.

(13:08):
One of the terriffs that now that's being threatened is
a two hundred percent tariff on European wine two hundred
percent or that story coming up next. First, though, what
traffic and what traffic and weather together? Here's Skymikey. He's
way too mature to do in April. Fous joy, What
am I gonna do?

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Say there's cows on the freeway. I mean, we actually
have stuff like that happening here. Let's check out you
and drive in from forty five north. No cows this
morning in the Woodlands. We look good spring nineteen minutes
down if you're coming down from the sticks Woo, New Caney,
we look good now. Twenty two minutes from Graham Parkway
down into downtown.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's nice.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Two forty nine forgotten Freeway. Not a going on there either.
Let's do some chiplines seven one three, two one two
tips and let's see northwest monykey Mikey.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Two to my traffic girl, lovely.

Speaker 17 (14:06):
Anyway is clear?

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Tuda first banana sticker.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
You know it's kind of lonely around the ghetto house lately, Jimmy,
let's check those ship channel bridges.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
At five point thirty.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
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to get you caught up on some of our top
stories on the Tuesday. Here's clip.

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Congress is finally going to get involved in the judicial
obstruction of the Trump agenda. Texas Attorney General Ken Pexton
is looking for depositions in legal action against the Dallas
isd for allowing boys to play girls sports, and sky
Mike's gonna pour one out for Hooters stay filed for
bankruptcy yesterday. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Our next step date is at five thirty. What are
you saying they need a cash augmentation something like that? Huh?

Speaker 12 (15:16):
The ones that are under construction two eighty eight six ten.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Accidents and alternate next on the ten on seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
It's five twenty three now here in Houston's born news. Well,
he's European and he's talking about wine. So I think
elderberry wine is something you make in your own kitchen though, right,
that's kind of the home made stuff or made your bathtub.
I don't know anyway. US Wine Trade Alliance President Ben
Enef needless to say he's concerned about the possibility of
two hundred percent tariff on wine from Europe and what

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it would do here. He is on Fox.

Speaker 22 (15:50):
We're hopeful that the administration is going to cool the
jets for a moment on big tariff on wine. Remember,
a two hundred percent tariff on wine would be so
catastrophic for the industry that every American town would know
businesses that went under more than three hundred and fifty
thousand retailer or more than three hundred and fifty thousand
small restaurants, fifty thousand retailers, eight thousand independently owned importers

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and distributors. These are mostly small, family owned businesses. They
all absolutely depend on the sale of imported wine for
their very survival.

Speaker 23 (16:24):
So it seems like not just the wine distributors or
the people directly involved, but the restaurants and this sort
of far reaching vapor trail that would spray.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
All over Oh absolutely. I mean I was on the
phone with a.

Speaker 22 (16:37):
Benchmark steakhouse outside of my hometown of Adelene, Texas, not
long ago. On a sixty five dollars steak. They think
they can make between zero and one dollar. You figure
a four top, you've made some money.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
You've made four bucks.

Speaker 22 (16:50):
But on a bottle of one hundred and twenty dollars wine,
they can make one hundred. This is how they subsidize
the rest of their business.

Speaker 23 (16:57):
Okay, So if a bottle of Chateau Noufdupop.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Not that I know anything.

Speaker 23 (17:00):
About this stuff, but obviously a very popular wine. Are
Chateau Lafitte, These expensive ones, they're in transit right now,
are they not? In some cases we were hearing I
was reading about one wine distributor who said she's got
something like fifteen gigantic cases coming from Europe right now.

(17:20):
They're in the water some you know, or wherever they're
in the water. They're in Atlantic right now. And if
by Wednesday they're not here they get slapped with two
hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
She said, she's done. She doesn't have the most Oh,
you're exactly right.

Speaker 22 (17:33):
Remember these are American businesses, mostly small family owned businesses.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
They've already bought this wine.

Speaker 22 (17:39):
This is what they're planning on to feed their families
for the next six to eight months. And if they
get hit with an unplanned tariff with no notice or
with no goods on the water exception, there are huge
numbers of companies that will go out of business on
that day.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
First of all, I think there will be a goods
out of water exemption. You know, if you've already, if
you've already purchased it, I cannot see them so having
a tariff on it, you've already, you already bought it,
you already purchased. It's just in shipping at this point.
But we'll see, you know, Tomorrow's Tomorrow's a big day
for a lot of teriffs. We'll see, you know, who
blinks first, and how many of these terraffs actually end

(18:15):
up happening, and how many of them actually being that
large could be surprising. Come tomorrow, five twenty six, it
is time to take a look at your money. Good
morning to you, Jeff Bellinger, and.

Speaker 24 (18:25):
Good morning to you, Jimmy. This will be another day
of tarrafund certainty for investors. A Wall Street closed out
at dismal first quarter with a mixed session yesterday. The
Dow closed one percent higher, the S and P five
hundred rows half a percent, but the Nasdaq closed down
a tenth of a percent. It was the worst quarter
since twenty twenty two for the S and P and

(18:46):
the Nasdaq. Stock market futures all lower at this early hour.
I'm Jeff Beldinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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You are no Houston's News.

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There were traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.

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

Speaker 3 (19:14):
By thirty our time Here in Houston's Warning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, congressional
hearings on activist federal judges, Prime in the city, three
people shot and coming up. At five thirty eight. Target
and Walmart are negotiating with their Chinese suppliers on those
tariffs details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Warning

(19:34):
News first the strict out that morning drive once again
with sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
We're still looking good on the ship channel here that
it's Hartman Bridge, Baytown Site, Laporte side rocks along nicely.
No problems on the toll bridge either.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
So far. You pay the big money two dollars, but
we're good.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
From north Shore to Deer Park, East Loop, Sherman Bridge
rocking along nicely. There's Falero over to the side and
the butt Pledg's good year wide open mark from spring.

Speaker 27 (19:58):
Don't worry Long forty five or doing their best to give.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
You some visits.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, I won't need any April fooling this morning. I'm
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(20:28):
It is time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders, Thank.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
You, Jimmy five thirty two on KTRH our top story,
Congress finally is fighting back against the left's latest tactic
to stop the agenda of President Donald Trump.

Speaker 28 (20:41):
The House and Senate holding hearings this week into how
to stop federal judges from individually blocking Trump policies. Fox
News analyst Katie Pavlich says, the left's lawfair is out
of control.

Speaker 29 (20:51):
You have these judges issuing these nationwide injunctions at a
rate that we haven't ever seen before for any other president,
and you're actually seeing Congress stepping up and saying we
need legislation to reign in these judges, which is our
constitutional duty.

Speaker 28 (21:05):
The legislation would restrict district court rulings to only apply
to the plaintiffs and the judges district rather than the
entire country. Cory Yolson, who's Radio seven forty KTRH to
that end.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
A key judicial race is taking place today in Wisconsin
with Republican Brad Shimmel in a tight race against Susan
Crawford in a state Supreme Court election.

Speaker 30 (21:26):
Many of our election integrity laws are going to end
up in front of this court, and we could see
the rules we've put in our legislators put in place
in recent years to try to protect that election integrity
gets struck down by this activist.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Court shimmel with ktrh is sean handity. We also have
special congressional elections in Florida to replace Matt Gates and
Michael Waltz.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Here at home. We told you.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yesterday that Texas Governor Greg Gabbett was in no rush
to call a special election to replace the late Sylvester
Turner in Congress. One of his potential replacements is complaining.

Speaker 31 (21:59):
If Governor Avid tries to play fresh and does not
call this election for November, I will sue him. We're
demanding that he called this election for the month of June.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Harris County Attorney Christian Menifee yesterday five point thirty three.
A violent knight across the Houston area yesterday with three shootings.
At least two people are hospitalized after a shooting outside
of a movie theater in Webster. Elsewhere, a man is
found shot to death outside of a Southwest Houston sonic.
The shooter is at large, and a six year old

(22:30):
was hit by a stray bullet while eating at a
North Euston McDonald's late last night. Jimmy mentioned this yesterday,
a recall effort against Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer. It turns
out this could be an attempt to stop his efficiency audit.

Speaker 18 (22:44):
We've had frequent news stories about things that they've uncovered.
The city had more municipal employees than any other urban
city in the nation per capita.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
Holly Hanson with The Texan says this effort is likely
being led by people upside set that Whitmeyer beat Sheila
Jackson Lee two years ago five point thirty four. Now,
a bill in Austin is set for a hearing today
hoping to rein in the Texas Medical Board after they
targeted doctors who challenged the COVID nineteen narrative.

Speaker 32 (23:15):
We stepped up when other doctors wouldn't. Yeah, I opened
my door seven days a week to treat COVID patients.

Speaker 33 (23:22):
Do it exonerates many of us that did the hard thing,
but the right thing.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Doctor Mary Tally Boden has spent hundreds of thousands in
legal fees after the board targeted her for prescribing ipermectin
the state is facing a massive doctor shortage over the
next five years, and Nicholas Armstrong with the Texas Public
Policy Foundation wants the state to tweak the requirements for
foreign born doctors.

Speaker 34 (23:46):
What Texas is doing, they're following in the lead of
ten other states that have created an alternative licensing pathway
that if these doctors hit certain metrics, they would be
able to omit the US based residency requirement and practice
under the supervision of a fully licensed doctor here in Texas.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Currently, licensed foreign doctors still have to go through a
lengthy residency before they can practice here in the US.
Looking at your money, lawmakers are introducing some bills that
would require approval for home insurance to.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Jack up your rates.

Speaker 35 (24:15):
The insurance industry is pushing back because rate hikes have
various factors.

Speaker 36 (24:19):
It's been the economy and inflation, but it's also been
insured losses. Insurance companies have incurred tremendous amount of losses over.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
The last couple of years.

Speaker 35 (24:27):
Richard Johnson of the Insurance Council of Texas as home
demand also causes fluctuation.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
In California did something similar.

Speaker 36 (24:34):
Value of property skyrocket and got to a point where
insurance companies couldn't even do business there and less companies
were in the state, so therefore less competitiveness and rates
even when higher.

Speaker 35 (24:44):
He says, this would restrict Texas from being a true
free market. Andre Parard News Radio seven forty KT Right.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Thank you, Andre. The home market nation wide is slower
than it was last year, but not in Texas. One
expert says this is because of the huge influx of
people that we've been seeing.

Speaker 37 (25:01):
We have this migration, so in the last five years,
the population goal by over two point one million.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Texas A and M's Yin Lang Mayer says the market
here is strong five point thirty sixty. Princess Cruise Line
has canceled some dozen cruises beginning next year, So how
will this impact the Galveston travel industry?

Speaker 7 (25:23):
But it's not something to worry about, according to YouTube
influencer Rick Wade, known as the Texas Cruiser, the company
will be shuffling the ships around, he says, but there's
been no mention of Galveston yet, even though it's one
of the nation's top ports.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
The hasslems of mind. It was kind of way, you know,
kind of holder breath on find out what it.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
Is, Princess Cruise Lines tells KTRH it's regal Princess will
continue its regular schedule though into next year. Michael Shiloh
News Radio seven forty ktright.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
And the Rockets lose to the Lakers last night one
oh four to ninety eight. I'm Cliff Saunters on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station news Radio seven forty.

Speaker 26 (26:02):
Be informed, be on time.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Arrett, no shirt. It's
five point thirty eight now here on Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 33 (26:14):
A right.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Target is one of the companies pushing Chinese suppliers and
has got lots of Chinese suppliers Target to Walmart, both
to absorb some of the cost of US tariffs which
are due to go into effects starting tomorrow. Walmart is
a master negotiator, and of course they have a do
I want to use the term, yeah, I guess it'd

(26:36):
be afro potocol. They're sort of ruthless when it comes
to dealing with their suppliers. They beat them down on
prices so they can obviously they can offer lower prices
and beat their competition. That's what it's all about. And
Target is the same way. Tomorrow's the day that the
tariffs are and we've already been talking about a lot

(26:56):
about this this morning. Tomorrow's the day that the tariffs
is supposed to sit in the new higher tariffs, and
major US retailers are trying to offset the cost of
the tariffs by talking to people who supply them, the
foreign people who supply them, most notably the Chinese, into
absorbing some of the cost. And quite honestly, that's probably
what is likely to happen. You probably are not going

(27:19):
to see at Target and Walmart and those kinds of stories.
You're probably not going to see huge increases on most
items because of teriffs, because there's enough room for these
Chinese suppliers to pick up some of the costs themselves
without it, you know, impacting you know, their ability to
make a profit because their profit margin is pretty high.

(27:42):
Twenty percent tariff on all Chinese goods, that's about four
hundred and thirty billion dollars worth of goods will start
tomorrow unless something changes. It's five forty. Time for traffic
and weather together. We're checking out the driving again and
we've got this guy Mike doing it.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Oh yeah, it's nice and slow so far too. We
like this as far as people bump into each other.
We'll do a little camera work here looking at the
Southwest Freeway and I'll go back to Sweetwater. If you're
playing the home game with me, it's camera five to
three eighth. We look nice, Willie t you look good
ninety all the way up this way at this pace,
I won't get their buffalo speedway inside the loop. We're

(28:16):
actually rocking up into the canyon northbound and sugar Land
in just nineteen minutes, Katie, Freeway. Check for a drag
here around Igloo Road. Whoop, that's pretty driven coming in
from Iglou Road, Grand Parkway. We're in good shape here
belt to the loop, rocking along nicely. Katie is only
twenty six Men's in your tip line seven with three two.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
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Just click that little talkback Mike thinging. It's Big j
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Speaker 34 (28:45):
Good morning sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Looks like you got a stalled crane.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Crane not April fool disabled.

Speaker 38 (28:51):
Crane and hitchcock at FN two thousand and four and highway.

Speaker 17 (28:54):
See.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
I want to drive it.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm want to drive a crane, Terry, I'm Skymike on
the Generator Supercenter dot com tract.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
What would you do with it if they don't like
about five miles an hour? Oh yeah, that's too slow
for me. From our yeah exactly, but I could reach things.
I don't think you even park it five miles per
hour now from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four
hour weather Center. Terry Smith is here. She's keeping on
the forecast here, which does not include love sun. And
it looks like some winds are going to start coming back.

Speaker 21 (29:21):
Yeah, it's going to be a little breezy at times
today in the next couple of days, and those are
southerly winds, and that means a little more warmth and
a little more humidity. It's almost like a sample of
summertime for us here. The next couple of days. No
rain until we get to the weekend, folks, so hey
take advantage of the dry weather while you can load

(29:42):
a mid eighties today, Tomorrow, mid to upper eighties, mid
to upper eighties Thursday as well Friday. That's our first
chance of summer rain, but it's only a twenty percent
chance of getting wet Saturday, though, an eighty percent chance
of showers and some thunderstorms, so we may get some
rough weather on Saturday. That does help to cool the
temperatures around eighty once the cold front's out of here.

(30:05):
On Sunday, I think we should dry out, we should
get a little bit of sunshine, but we're pulling out
the long sleeves because temperatures are going to be in
the upper sixties to low seventies.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
In the afternoon. Temperachuer right now sixty seven at your
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What you need to know for the day ahead.

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Speaker 3 (30:32):
So at least one member of it, I think virtually
every member the Trump administration understands this. Maybe more and
more members of Congress need to understand how to handle
the fake news people. How if you're going to go
on CNN, you need to know how to handle the
narrative that they're going to try to use against you.
Doug Collins recently did a great job of that the
Veteran Affairs Secretary in talking about Signal Gate. But there

(30:56):
are few others that may need to learn the lesson
Elizabeth Ames, author and news contributor. We'll talk about this
with us next, first though, traffic and weather together, starting
with you, sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Now, so far, so good on most of our freeways,
except now we've got a new problem coming in from
Liberty Dayton Crosby.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
And that is this is Highway ninety New ninety as.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
We call it Lord Road, which is right before Crosby
Dayton Road, and you've got a multiple lane accent has
met has been called out to this business. I see
a bit of a smash on the inbound and if
you have a little better eyes on it than I do,
let me know. Seven one three two one two tips.
I'm Skymike. It's the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather Center. Generally,
a cloudy day today, stray shower storm possibility with a
temperature about eighty two. Cloudy with some gusty afternoon wins
eighty eight tomorrow, and then cloud's early partly claudi late
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seven at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven

(31:56):
forty k TRH. Let's get you caught up on some
top stories this morning. Here's Cliff, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Jimmy Trump proclaims tomorrow is Liberation Day with tariffs going
into effect. HPD is investigating after a body was found
and braved by you and a judge in New Mexico
rules that the details of Gene Hackman's death will not
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Speaker 3 (32:22):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown, Southwest.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Next on the ten time saving traffic on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Five fifty two ur time here in Houston's morning news. YEP.
I think the Trump administration. Most of the people who
serve in the Trump cabinet, I believe were picked by
President Trump not just because he thought they would do
a good job in that particular job, but because they
are media savvy. They know how to go on a
CNN or god forbid, an MSNBC, and know how to

(32:53):
deal with the activist hosts who want to steer the
conversation in a certain direction. Elizabeth Ames joins us author
in Fox News contributor. There's an art form to that, Elizabeth,
and not everybody has it.

Speaker 39 (33:05):
That's right, You've got to push back. I think there's
a whole new approach to the media on the part
of Republicans that we're seeing and that's being written about increasingly. Uh.
And it's on display in this latest encounter. I would
call it Collins versus Collins.

Speaker 40 (33:20):
Uh.

Speaker 39 (33:21):
You know CNN host Caitlin Collins, who's you know, she's
infamous for asking these questions that really are you know,
trying to do? Got your questions, you basically call them?
And then the VA Secretary Doug Collins went at it
the other day.

Speaker 41 (33:37):
Uh.

Speaker 39 (33:38):
And so she he was on to talk about his
you know, what he's doing in the for the VA
for veterans, and she asked him, how would you have felt,
this is about the signal controversy. How would you have
felt of information like this was talked about in an
unclassified group chat if you were if you were a
Navy pilot in the air. And his response, instead of

(33:59):
getting flustered, he held his ground. He stood his ground,
and he said he would like to know why she
kept pushing him. He wouldn't At first, he didn't respond.
He kept saying, well, Mike, I'm not here to talk
about that. I wasn't involved. Uh, and my job is
to take care of veterans. And he stayed on message,
he didn't get flustered, but she kept coming at him,
and finally he said, I'd like to know why CNN

(34:22):
is hostile to veterans.

Speaker 36 (34:24):
Uh.

Speaker 39 (34:24):
You know, they had just lost a five million dollar
defamation suit trying to imply that a young, a Navy veteran,
Zachary Young, had extracted Afghan Afghans from the country by
offering them evacuations on a black market, when in fact
he was lining up sponsors to pay for the Afghans

(34:45):
to get out. And Uh, he was prepared and that
was basically that was amazing. He did his homework, he
was prepared, and he kept asking that question. She he
put her, threw her, threw her back on her, on her,
you know, on the defensive. So I think it was
sort of a it was an interesting case study and
how to deal with the media. And we're seeing more

(35:07):
of this from Republicans.

Speaker 40 (35:08):
You know.

Speaker 17 (35:08):
JD.

Speaker 39 (35:09):
Vance was a pro at it. Are there many reasons
why this is happening.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Here's here's my question, though, why would you go I mean,
it's one thing to go on CNN, you're rolling the
dice to begin with. But depending on who the host is,
why would you go on as a guest of Caitlin Collins?
Why would you believe her when she says, this is
what I want to talk about. You know she's going
to try to do it. Gotcha?

Speaker 39 (35:31):
Yes, I absolutely, I think that one could discuss that.
I'm not sure that I was wondering about that myself,
but I guess he feels his duty is to talk
to the American people, and you know, and that was
a he figured he'd be prepared and he would push back.
I mean, you have to talk to all the outlets.
That is Unfortunately, that's part of the job.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
I respect him for not being afraid to do it,
because a lot of people would be afraid to do it.
So I'll give him full credit for doing that. I
just I don't know why the Trump administration would make
its members available to certain members of CNN and to
anybody at MSNBC, because the only thing they do is
hate on Trump.

Speaker 39 (36:12):
That's right. Well, I think that he probably defines his
role as a public servant is to talk to the
media that disseminates information to the public. And I guess
he felt it was something he had to do. It
was unpleasant, but he had to do it, and he
had to be prepared to push back. But what I
think is very interesting now is you're seeing a whole
new approach to the press on the part of Republicans

(36:33):
who used to sort of stammer earnestly when the press
would come at them. And I think there are many
reasons for this, but I think it's a definite story.
You're seeing more different types of media, more different points
of view. You also have new outlets where the Republicans
can get their message, the administration can get their message

(36:54):
unfiltered to the American people. There's something called rapid Response
forty seven on x where you just see posts all
day long. And then you also see the loss of
trust in media because the press bias has been so
overt in the last twenty years, including the coverage of
the Biden dementia, the cover up of the not coverage

(37:14):
cover up of the Biden dementia, and also the very
obvious bias on places like MSNBC and the fact so
called fact checking in the debates. So you're seeing this,
you know, the media has just gone off the rails.
The public sees this and the GOP realizes it and
pushing back on many fronts, not just one front.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
And that's good. They're finally what's the old saying, they're
finally growing up. Bear, I'm glad to.

Speaker 39 (37:39):
Say, yes absolutely, I mean Caitlin, Yes.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Glad to see that happening. Elizabeth Ames always a pleasure,
Thank you. He's author in a Fox News contributor that
is Elizabeth Eames. It's five fifty seven.

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Speaker 3 (38:07):
Six oh one Oh Tom Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour. Trump's been having
fun trolling liberals about the third term. Liberation Day is tomorrow,
and coming up at six o' eight that Tanglewood Tesla
incident where she got her tesla keid. She was afraid
it was a Tesla terrorist. It's been solved. Well, sort

(38:28):
of details are coming in the minutes ahead. First, we're
gonna check out that morning drive. What we've got going
hasn't been a big deal so far.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
Scot I do have this one thing that just popped
up a few minutes ago, Jimmy Barrett. That's why people
listen to KGRH and keep it on a m radio
for their drive in.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
It's Highway ninety.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
We call it New ninety out in Crosby and I
got Lord Road here, talk to me on the tip line.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
Got Mike, that's an overturn.

Speaker 27 (38:51):
First responders just got there.

Speaker 17 (38:53):
I imagine they'll be taking both lanes here pretty quick.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
All right, outstanding info right there. Don't forget to give
me your name in your neighborhood. And Danny from Dayton's
also right over there, boys, guy, Mike.

Speaker 27 (39:04):
There is fall from Dayton through Crosby. Everybody's just stepping
down on the accelerator.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Just a little bit provider, all right.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
That might be part of our problem coming inbound. Since
there's fog. I can't get air support. But let me
let the rest of the media know about this. I'm
skottlike in the USA RB Resorts dot Com traffic center
from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Generally cloudy stray shower swarbys possible today with high temperature
about eighty two. We'll get to the complete forecast when
we talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in
eight minutes. Right now sixty seven at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k t RH. It's
time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
Thank you, Jimmy six thirty six o two on k
t RH, our top story. If you thought President Trump
was going to back down on tariffs, you haven't been
paying attention.

Speaker 26 (39:52):
Whatever they charge us, we judge them, but with be
nicer than they were. We have a lot of countries
friend and fall.

Speaker 42 (39:58):
I always say friend and foe, but a friend in
many cases.

Speaker 26 (40:01):
Is worse than the foe.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
President took advantage of us.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
The president calling tomorrow Liberation Day. Trump is also threatening
more tariffs on Russia if they don't start negotiating a
ceasefire with Ukraine. The Russians are also being pressured from
other Europeans.

Speaker 10 (40:17):
We need a ceasefire, and we need a date for
the ceasefire, and that date should be the twentieth of April.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Finish President Alexander Stube told Fox the only one who
can make peace in Europe is Donald Trump. Investors still
don't know what to make of all this overnight trading
is down across the board. Meantime, the mainstream media is
paying less attention to the war and more to a
potential third Trump term. RNC chief Michael Wattley says, this
is not even a thing just yet.

Speaker 25 (40:45):
I don't think that that's a real serious conversation at
this point in time. Right now, what the President is
focused on as delivering for the American people every single day.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
Trump did joke that he wants to run in twenty
twenty eight against Barack Obama. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, Elon
Musk brought Doze to the CIA at the request of
Director John Ratcliffe.

Speaker 40 (41:06):
Is not his first time working to align the agency
with President Trump's priorities. National security agencies were initially exempt
from that federal buyout employee program that President Trump unveiled
in January, but Ratcliffe wanted the agency to participate anyway
and offered buyouts to its workforce.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
Madeline Rivera reporting it's now six zero four as the
liberal media continues to attack Trump. Shawn Fleetwood at the
Federalists credits Veterans Affair Secretary Doug Collins for his recent
pushback on CNN.

Speaker 14 (41:35):
You can't always play nice with these people because they're
not interested in the truth, they're getting to the bottom
of legitimate issues. They're interested in just crafting a narrative
to slander Republicans, slander conservatives. In a advanced the agenda
at the Democrat.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Party, he says, Collins gave Republicans the playbook on how
to handle the mainstream media. By the way, they've also
been discouraging. They haven't been round their discouraging the attacks
on Tesla that we've seen lately. As Christy Nooam says,
she's drawing a line in the sand.

Speaker 13 (42:03):
I do see that as an act of domestic terrorism,
and we certainly have a president who is willing to
use his full authorities to go after people that choose
to destroy people and communities and businesses in the way that.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
People have Meantime, another seventeen MS thirteen and Trendy Iragua
illegal aliens were deported to l Salvador, and two of
the seventy two illegals arrested during a week long operation
in South Texas are confirmed gang members. The manhunt this
morning continues for Scott Sheppel. He used the Grimes County
inmate that escaped custody from a mental hospital yesterday.

Speaker 15 (42:36):
Mister Sheppele has wanted for sexual assault. He's wanted for
the felony continuous violence against a family member and for
a misdemeanor resisting arrest.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
He had his picture at KTRH dot com six oh five.
It looks like it pays to be a superintendent. According
to the Texas Education Agency, some make more than four
hundred thousand dollars a year. That's more than the president.

Speaker 17 (42:59):
It had the work school districts paying people the most
amount of money because they're corrupt. I would argue it's
a form of fraud. The taxpayers should be livid about this.

Speaker 5 (43:09):
Cory Gangelis with the American Culture Project says the solution
is school choice. At the State House in Austin, the
Appropriations Committee passes a three hundred and forty billion dollar budget.
At State Rep. Brian Harrison says, nobody had time to
read this one.

Speaker 19 (43:27):
Thy fifteen pages about three hundred and eighty billion dollars.
This liberal train wreck was dropped in my inbox eighteen
hours ago.

Speaker 26 (43:36):
Nobody in the Texas House.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Has read this budget.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
Harrison on X at six ZHO six astronaut Butch Willmore
and Sunny Williams are speaking out for the first time
since they got back from being stranded in space for
nine months. Williams thank President Trump and Elon Musk for
bringing them home.

Speaker 43 (43:54):
Our situation, I think, you know I mentioned before, maybe
wasn't the perfect situation, but allow a lot of people,
including the President and Elon to look at what's going
on on the International Space Station. Take it very seriously.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
Yeah, SpaceX brought them home after the Boeing starlinership literally
broke and the Astros lost to the Giants seven to two.
Same two teams Tonight pregame at six on Sports Talk
seven ninety, Game Time seven ten, simulcast on seven ninety
and here on KTRH, I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Four more years.

Speaker 26 (44:30):
All right, Donald John Trump?

Speaker 3 (44:31):
What happens next? Who knows what happens next?

Speaker 44 (44:34):
Happens here on Youth Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 22 (44:40):
MA.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
So remember this story about this tesla the gout keyed
in Tanglewood and they had this woman on KPRC two.
They had this woman and they're shooting her from behind,
So you can I don't want anybody to see my face.
She's afraid that you know, somebody, you know, you might've
did avided me and come back for me, because I'd
dribe at Tesla that kind of thing. Her tesla got keyed,

(45:02):
is what happened in the parking lot at Whole Foods
in Tanglewood. And she thought it was because she was
driving a Tesla. And of course, you know, KPRC two
did this exclusive story about it, and they had a
follow upon it yesterday because the guy who you could

(45:22):
plainly see on the Tesla cameras, the guy came forward
and as it turns out, it wasn't an act against
the Tesla. Here's the report from our television partner KPRC too.

Speaker 45 (45:38):
The vandalism happened in a Whole Foods parking lot in
the Tanglewood area. The man in that video identified himself
as Nicholas Carrion. He says though the incident happened during
the height of Tesla attacks a nationwide causing an FBI
investigation into domestic terrorism, this wasn't his intention.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
He says.

Speaker 45 (45:56):
It was road rage and he asked this message for
the driver the video.

Speaker 46 (46:01):
I noticed that a man was walking alongside what I
first thought was just touching my car all the way
from the back to the front, and then when I
got out of my car to look, I then noticed
a long scratch along that whole side of my car,
including the door handle.

Speaker 45 (46:18):
But then, just over a month ago, on February thirteenth,
the woman whose car was keyed often to hide her
identity after looking at her car's security video system and
noticing that the man who did the damage followed her
from the interstate. That man, Nicholas Careyon, says he was
cut off by the driver while he was also on
his way to that same Whole Foods at the time.

(46:38):
He says he went inside did his shopping, but could
not let go of his anger. He now faces a
criminal mischief and felony charge due to the amount.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Of damage he caused.

Speaker 45 (46:47):
He says he was not aware of the FBI's investigation
of finding reports of arson, gunfire, and vandalism of Tesla's.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Linked to political grievances.

Speaker 19 (46:58):
I felt anger because the woman cut me off.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Please know that.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
I did not mean to cause you that much fear.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Okay, so many ways to go with this, but let's
start with this. Congratulations to you. For manning up, sir
and coming forward and identifying yourself Nicholas, that that definitely
is the right thing to do. There's a couple of
things that you probably should look into. One of them
would be anger management classes. You had an opportunity to

(47:35):
go in shop inside the store, and you could not,
quote unquote could not let go of the anger. Seriously.
I mean, you know, road rage is something if you
get angry about another driver, that should be over and
done with in a matter of seconds. So that's something
you should go shopping and then come out and decide, Oh,
the car is still there, I'm going to keep that car.

(47:56):
He is facing charges, as you can tell. And and
by the way, I don't think I think road rage
honestly is a bigger problem in our town than teslaitarism
is ever going to be. So I'm glad to hear
that he's facing charges. People who participate in road rage
should face criminal charges six eleven time for trafficing. Mother
to go feeling road rage, But I'm not doing anything.

(48:18):
You can feel whatever you want to feel.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Sky By, Yeah, I mean I'm not you know, you know,
I don't even flip people off. I just kind of
look at him and the gesture I do is I
like coked, kinda do that thing with my face.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
There that's better?

Speaker 4 (48:31):
And you know they it's the flip off that's going
to get somebody killed, all right, ninety. First of all,
this is an overturn. Here's where I need help, listeners.
I know it's an overturned truck and trailer at Lord
Road and they're saying it's multiple laneage. I need you
to keep me up to date on the lanes because
we can't see that. I can't get any air support
and the rest of the media is relying on us too.

(48:53):
So it's inbound Highway ninety. I may have to re
route shortly. And also the other thing I want to know,
I understand it's so over. Is this an eighteen wheeler
overturn or is this just like a regular pickup truck,
you know, pulling a flatbed like my mom would have.
Let me know what that's like seven one three, two
one two tips it's ninety Lord Road.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
I do understand.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Has Matt's been called out East Sam, Here's Rick from
the east side.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Forty guy Mike just south of Garrett Road and three
popos surrounding a stranded vehicle on the side of the road.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
All right, that's southbound. Doesn't look like a big backup.
Just watch out for other stations, Listeners and Terry. If
your baby daddy's.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Got warrants, watch out there. That's a lot of Copper
Freeway Generic.

Speaker 27 (49:33):
Kate, Morning Guy, Mike in there the beltway.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Looks like you guys, Leen Block emergency vehicles are on
the team. All right, southbound. Let me let the rest
of the media know.

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Speaker 21 (49:57):
My kids are in their twenties. Still have a baby daddy, Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
yes you do.

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Still you'll always have a baby daddy. That does not
change from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
Weather sent Terry is here, a lot of clouds are here,
breeze is gonna pick up, it's gonna be warm. What
else do we need to know?

Speaker 21 (50:15):
Well, it's a fairly quiet stretch until Saturday, and that's
when there's the possibility of some widespread rain, heavy rain storm.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Saturday.

Speaker 21 (50:25):
Right now is not looking all that fun to be outside,
But until then we're good. It's just warm and muggy
like this is not typical April, folks.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
I'm just gonna let you know.

Speaker 21 (50:36):
So cloudy and dry, low to mid eighties today, Tomorrow
and Thursday. In the mid two upper eighties. Friday, we
have a twenty percent chance of a shower thunderstorm.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
That's it.

Speaker 21 (50:46):
Saturday eighty percent chance of showers and storms, and again
the potential for some heavy rain. Temperature is a little
bit cooler around eighty by Saturday because of the clouds
in the rain. Once that front clears out of here,
I think Sunday is going to be a bit on
the on the I'm almost going to call it chili
because when you're talking mid to upper eighties and then
highs around seventy, it's a big drop temperature.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
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Well, there's no secret we have a doctor shortage. We
have a doctor shortage here in Texas. We have a
doctor shortage around the entire country. And our next guest
coming up blames at least part of that on training. Well,
let me explain this. Medicare funded residency positions were capped
in starting in nineteen ninety seven. The Balanced Budget Act
did that. So we are we're training fewer physicians and

(51:47):
now we have a problem in that area. So we're
going to talk with Nicholas Armstrong, he's a policy analyst
at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Will talk to him next. First, though,
traffic and weather together the shorts come on. It's a ninety.
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Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
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(52:44):
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Speaker 5 (52:46):
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Speaker 26 (53:15):
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Speaker 3 (53:25):
Six twenty three is our time here in Houston's Warning News.
We have a physician shortage in this country. We have
a physician shortage in Texas. Our next guest blames it,
at least in part. On the nineteen ninety seven cap
of Medicare funded residency positions. His name is Nicholas Armstrong.
He's a policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

(53:46):
Is that the major problem or do we just have
a lack of interest in becoming a doctor these days?

Speaker 47 (53:53):
Well, I certainly do think that that that might be
a smaller, a smaller factor into the But you know,
as you mentioned, you know, the residency caps or the
residency slots were.

Speaker 48 (54:05):
Caps back in nineteen ninety seven. There was a thought
in the US at the time that we would actually
have a surplus of doctors, and so they actually capped
those number of spots fund residency slots funded by Medicare,
and you know, that has led us to a shortage.
Right now, Texas has projected to be short over ten thousand,

(54:27):
three hundred doctors. And actually Congress has just recently lifted
that cap and added over one thousand.

Speaker 38 (54:34):
New residency slots over the next five years. However, this
isn't going to be enough because in Texas alone, they
would have to increase their residency slots in the state
by over one thousand each year for the most for
the next decade. And so, you know, residency slots adding more.
It's going to be a noble policy cause. But our

(54:57):
research has indicated that if you bring more doctors into
the state immediately, that is the best way to alleviate
the doctor shortage that Texas is now facing.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Okay, so where are these doctors going to come from?
It seems like I don't mean anything negative by it,
but it seems like most doctors who are coming into
Texas now are foreign born. We don't seem to have
as many born in America students who are interested in
getting into medicine or qualifying to get into medical programs.
Why do you think that is?

Speaker 48 (55:30):
Yeah, So for the first part, about one in four
doctors in the US right now have received their medical
training outside of the US, and so this has kind
of led to a phenomenon known as medical tourism, and
so people are going The State Department estimates anywhere from

(55:53):
one hundred and fifty thousand to three hundred thousand Americans
every year actually leave the country to go seek medical
care in other countries.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
And there's kind of a wide variety.

Speaker 48 (56:04):
Of reasons for this. Oftentimes it can be cheaper just
due to the regulations in the other country. You know,
maybe your insurance doesn't cover that particular procedure, and so
people actually go to other countries and so, but what's
keeping these doctors in these foreign licensed doctors from coming

(56:24):
and practicing in the US right now is is residency.
So they would have to repeat anywhere from three to
nine years of their medical education that they have already
that they've already completed, and they would have to come
to the US, repeat that, take a pay cut, and
then then they would be issued a license through through that,

(56:49):
through that type of pathway.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
I would so that doesn't I was gonna say, I
would guess that part of the problem too. I'm sure
for American students, the list face of medical schools not cheap. Opposition.
Should we should we be offering more scholarships to write
young individuals who are interested in becoming doctors.

Speaker 48 (57:10):
Yeah, so that that certainly could be something that Texas could.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
Could could look at doing. Uh.

Speaker 48 (57:18):
There certainly could be a benefit with that. But the
our research is indicated that bringing those bringing doctors in immediately,
this uh, this alternative licensing pathway would be able to
direct take take a direct effect and alleviate the shortage

(57:39):
quicker than if we funded more residency slots, because residency
can be anywhere from three to nine years, and so
it is a it is a longer return on investment.
Not saying that, you know, the legislature or Congress shouldn't
address those things or look at those things. We certainly
need residency slots to keep up with the demand for
people who are applying for.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Medical school. Maybe it's a little bit under this, Maybe
it's a little bit of all the above. I've got
a good run. I'm way behind time here, Nicholas, but
I appreciate your insight. Policy analyst at the Texas Public
Policy Foundation, Nicholas Armstrong at six twenty seven. It is
time to take a look at your money. Jeff Ellinger,
good morning, Good morning, Jimmy. This might be the ultimate
charter flight. A bitcoined investor chartered a SpaceX flight for

(58:26):
himself and three others. The rocket blasted off last night.
It will be the first manned spacecraft ever to fly
over the North and South Poles. The flight was bought
by Chun Wang, a Chinese worn entrepreneur. He did not
reveal how much he paid for the adventure. It's scheduled
to last three and a half days. Stock market futures
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(58:49):
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Why there were traffic plus Breaking News twenty four seven.

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Six thirty one Our time, Houston's Warning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour for Shaw in Houston,
a sixteen year old is dead, Congresional hearings on activist
federal judges, and coming up at six thirty eight, a
tax service accused of helping illegals get big refunds. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Warning News. First,

(59:31):
we're checking out that drive again. Here's sky Mike all right,
ninety Crosby Free Way.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
I understand we have a right lane getting through, but
I'm hearing bad things about the backup. Now. This is
Lord Roade inbound ninety and we might want to switch
over to one forty six or nineteen sixty.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
I've got Andrew from Most City DUDEO.

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Guy Mike Hey sixty west right.

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The hardy he west is coming with dead all right.

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You're talking westbound from sixty nine. Let's check that out
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Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour weather Center.
Generally cloudy, breezing warm today with the high ride about
eighty four. We'll get to the complete forecast when we
talked to Terry Smith of the Weather Channel in eight minutes,
differ to right now sixty seven at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time
now for the news. Here's Flipp Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is six thirty two on KTRH.
Our top story is more violent crime. We know of
at least four shootings overnight. According to Channel thirteen, a
sixteen year old was killed as two groups if people
got into a gunfight on the southwest Side. Another child,
a six year old, was hit by a stray bullet
while eating McDonald's in his North Side apartment.

Speaker 15 (01:00:44):
We have no witnesses, like I said, just the evidence
of the directions of these shots that were fired in
the different cases.

Speaker 5 (01:00:52):
Elsewhere, a man was found shot to death outside of
a Southwest Houston sonic. The shooter at large. Two people
are hospitalized after another shooting, this one outside of a
movie theater in Webster. A follow up to something Jimmy
talked about yesterday, an effort under way to recall Mayor
John Whitmeyer.

Speaker 18 (01:01:09):
Whitmeyer, of course, was a longtime Democratic state senator. He
does have some detractors coming from his left who are
not happy with his stance on criminal justice issues.

Speaker 5 (01:01:21):
Colly Hanson with the Texans says, with Meyer's popular enough
to survive any recall effort six point thirty three. We
also told you yesterday that Texas Governor Greg Gabbott could
leave the congressional seat left opened by Sylvester Turner's death
open for months. Christian Menafie, the Harris County attorney who
helps to replace Turner, is now threatening to sue.

Speaker 31 (01:01:42):
He's taken his orders from Donald Trump and from Elon
Musk and leaving people to languish with no access to
federal resources, no one to advocate for them in disaster recovery.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
Menafee on X. Meantime, it's election day in Florida and Wisconsin.

Speaker 36 (01:01:56):
Will be a vote for the Trump agenda, and with
the House majority being as tight as it is, that's
why this election is so important.

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
Republican Randy Fine with kgrh's Clay Travis and Buck Sexton,
two congressional races in Florida, plus a key state Supreme
Court race in Wisconsin, and all eyes are on the
US Supreme Court after dozens of district court judges block
Trump policies. But Republicans are trying to take manage into
their own hands. Tennessee Senator Marshall Blackburn says they're holding

(01:02:26):
hearings this week on a bill to reign in those.

Speaker 41 (01:02:29):
Judges, legislation that would clarify that a district judge's purview
is over the district to and over the case in
front of them. Therefore, if it's a case on immigration,
it applies to the immigrant in front of them, not
to all immigrants.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
In one month, federal judges issued more injunctions against Trump
than during the entire presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack
Obama or Joe Biden six point thirty four. In Austin,
a Senate hearing is set for today on a bill
to protect doctors from being punished by the state Medical
Board over using ivermectin during COVID.

Speaker 16 (01:03:07):
This would help return the Texas Medical Board to its
original purpose.

Speaker 32 (01:03:10):
Texas Medical Board is a bureaucratic agency with no oversight.

Speaker 33 (01:03:14):
They have abused their powers. This is one way to
rain them in.

Speaker 16 (01:03:19):
That's doctor Mary Tally Boden, who was targeted by the
Medical Board after she prescribed ivermectin to a COVID patient.

Speaker 32 (01:03:25):
They've become weaponized against the doctors that don't fall in
line with the narrative, and that's what they've done with me.

Speaker 16 (01:03:33):
SB twenty four to twenty two would also force the
Medical Board to vacate past actions against Boden and other
doctors it targeted. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
And more on Your Health. In addition to higher premiums
and to doctor balls, Texas is facing a doctor shortage.

Speaker 11 (01:03:48):
Something that Nicholas Armstrong is sounding the alarm on at
the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Speaker 34 (01:03:54):
Texas is protected to be shot over twenty three hundred
doctors by the year twenty thirty two.

Speaker 11 (01:03:59):
The solution bring in more doctors from outside of the US.

Speaker 34 (01:04:04):
What Texas are trying to do in other states is
trying to bring more doctors into the state by creating
an alternative licensing pathway for doctors who receive their education
outside of the US and our doctors in other countries.

Speaker 11 (01:04:15):
Right now, foreign doctors are required to complete a three
to nine year residency here in the US. Jeff Biggs
News right the seven forty K tier AH.

Speaker 5 (01:04:25):
It's now six point thirty six as a new bill
in Austin would require home insurers to get approval before
implementing right hikes. Texas is bucking the nationwide trend of
dropping home sales.

Speaker 7 (01:04:36):
So huge influx of people of the Texas is keeping
the housing market strong when compared to other states, and
perhaps the strongest growth is being seen in Houston. According
to Texas A and M University Real Estate Research Center
economist jin Langmeyer.

Speaker 37 (01:04:50):
Houston is seeing one of the largest increases in inventory.

Speaker 7 (01:04:56):
Texas housing remains strong because she says more than two
million people have moved here in just the past five years.
Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty K t R.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
Six thirty seven. UH Fans looking for tickets to the
Final Four against Duke on Saturday in San Antonio could
pay nearly six thousand bucks for the best seat in
the house.

Speaker 26 (01:05:15):
I just I'm just going to be there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
I don't really care how we can get in the
back rows.

Speaker 26 (01:05:19):
They as long as could see the game live.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
You know that fan talking to our TV partner channel
to the Rockets loose to the Lakers last night, one
o four to ninety eight. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
news weather in Traffic station k t RH.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
I live in Spring, I live in Katie.

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You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty
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Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Tax days coming. How you doing this year? How you doing?
I'm not I'm not. I'm not saying this to brag.
It's just such a rare occurrence. We are actually getting
a refund this year. What Yes, it's a business loss,
let's put it that way. So it did come in

(01:06:04):
handy for something for once, I don't know, and that's
a beautiful thing. Although I still pay way too much
in taxes, so when I hear stories like this, it
kind of it gets me a little angry. Here's the
headline in Breitbart, Jackson Hewitt Tax Services allegedly caught handing

(01:06:24):
out tax filing instructions to illegal aliens. Yes, this is
in New York City. Jackson Hewitt Tax Services was handing
out flyers advising illegal migrants on how to get up
to fourteen thousand dollars in tax refunds from the Internal
Revenue Service. According to independent journalists Savannah Hernandez, the company's

(01:06:47):
representatives were handing out information outside the Roosevelt Hotel. Migrant,
are they still using that as a migrant shelter in
New York? Evidently it came with tax filing tips showing
illegal aliens how they can get thousands of dollars from
the IRS based on how many children they claim to have.
Hernandez presented a flyer that seems to inform the migrants

(01:07:08):
so that they can get seven thousand, six hundred and
fifty dollars refund if they claim one child, twelve thousand,
six hundred and thirty five dollars if they have two,
and fourteen two hundred and fifty five for three children.
So they're helping illegals steal from the United States government.
Jackson Hewitt, Now this is in New York. I'm not

(01:07:29):
saying this is happening all across the country. I don't
know who prepares your taxes haven't heard anything as far
as a response from Jackson Hewitt. At some point, I
would hope they would speak up, and I hope they
would say that we have not authorized these people to
do this then, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But

(01:07:49):
so far they seem to be pretty quiet about this.
Six forty time for traffic and weather together. As we
check out the driver's skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
It's a headline story this morning is ninety in bill
My headline Clifford ninety at Lord Road inbound. We call
it New ninety. That is a flipped over truck here,
double checking that I've got help on the tip line
seven one three two one two t ips.

Speaker 27 (01:08:11):
Hey, this is Buck from Maulfield, Texas. That is trevilet
truck pull into the regular sixteen put trailer flipped up
for might want to take one for all right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
I was wondering exactly what kind of truck and trailer
that was Buck from Moss Hill. First banana sticker forty
five north Andrew from Spring. I'm going to use shortly,
but let's do it in Katie Freeway. We're doing a
good job. I'm not colliding. I've got some breaks at
Grand Parkway. West Park's looking pretty good until you hit
the ramp for the southwest Southwest Freeway. Smashed up a

(01:08:43):
little at Fountain. To you here, Andrew Spring forty five north.

Speaker 48 (01:08:46):
Guy, my southbound, let's Mount Houst Feeder Road there is
police will be taken up too rightly.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Yo, Yo, Terry, look out, I got warrants. I'm wanted
by the toll way. And let's see Westloop down to uptown.
We're slow from two ninety up to uptown. We're slow
right at Outhwest Freeway, Nord Freeway. We cleared that record
the belt Gerald from Conroe.

Speaker 48 (01:09:04):
Pace Guy Mike from Conrad all the way to the
greatest point.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
Smooth and fast.

Speaker 34 (01:09:08):
I was unaware of the Hooters bankruptcy.

Speaker 27 (01:09:11):
Thank you for keeping me abreast of the situation.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Lord, I am sorry you had to hear that, Terry.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
I am in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
As I said earlier, all they need is a cash
augmentation and they'll be absolutely fine. From Rkati rh Yeah, yeah,
from our kide sorry, from ourcade from our and then
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Center twenty four our Weather Center, Terry Smith is here.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
We are sorry. What telling Terry? We're so sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
We have the well yeah, not really, We're not really sorry.
Are you still there, Terry? No, we're not. I mean,
why apologize if it's not sincere right? Exactly?

Speaker 21 (01:09:56):
All right, let's talk weather please, Okay, let's let's do
something constructive here, gentlemen. A dry day and a dry
stretch today, tomorrow and Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
No rain. It is warm.

Speaker 21 (01:10:08):
It is muggy, little mid eighties today, mid to upper
eighties tomorrow and Thursday. This is no fools right here
on April fools, this is warm. Twenty percent chance of
a thundershower Friday Saturday, big change. That's when the cold
front heads our way. We have an eighty percent chance
of showers and storms could get a little rough. We're

(01:10:29):
gonna have to watch that, and then much colder like
temperatures in the I'm hoping only upper sixties to low seventies,
so that would be, you know, a little on the
cool side, but it could be even cooler than that
by Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Okay, just cold enough to get our attention right now
sixty seven at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. You are commute, you are forecast your news.
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you buying new south
Wind those solutions. Well, today is April the first and night.
I wasn't gonna ask a question about April Fool's Day

(01:11:03):
because I do not participate in April Fools Day. I
find nothing funny about April Fool's jokes. In fact, I
saw one online I thought was really cruel where a
guy played a April Fool's joke on his wife who
really wanted to get a puppy, and he made it.
You know, he had this box and this whole thing,
and the box was making noise like there's a puppy inside,
and the box was empty. April Fools. What's funny about that?

(01:11:27):
But I'm just kind of curious. Have you ever played
or had an April Fool's joke played on you that
backfired in a spectacular way? If so would love to
hear about it, you can go to the iHeartRadio app
ktr H. Put us on your preset, You get thirty seconds,
You give me your first name, where you're calling from,
and that April Fool's joke. First, We've got traffic and

(01:11:50):
weather together.

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
That fish thing on grumpy old man, where you put
a fish in some ice car.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
That's all prefermerly efficient, still alive, right because they don't smell.
Do good? What's there gone that makes it worse?

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
Let's do some ninety here Crosby Freeway, and I'm going
to start rerouting you. This is Lord Road inbound. It's
an overturned pickup truck. It doesn't matter what make it's
an overturned trick pickup truck and trailer.

Speaker 3 (01:12:14):
And has Met's there too.

Speaker 4 (01:12:16):
It's becoming quite a smush Joe from Crosby saying maybe
we better jump on nineteen sixty or one forty six instead.
Most City Expressway Robert Richmond.

Speaker 36 (01:12:25):
Ninety alternator the Most City Expressway.

Speaker 27 (01:12:29):
Buffalo boom for South metrobus blocking right wing.

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All right, watch out inbound.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
All right, kid rock in the Oval office coming up next,
but first from our KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour
with the center generally cloudy, breeze in war eighty four today,
partly mostly cloudy with gusty winds eighty seven tomorrow. Right
now sixty seven at your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty k TRH stout out some more of
our top trending stories this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:12:57):
Here's clip thank you Jimmy Trump names his dream opponent
for a potential run for president in twenty twenty eight.
By the way, the Energizer Bunny is nothing on New
Jersey Senator Corey Booker, who apparently is still talking on
the Senate floor against Trump and Elon Musk. We're going
on fourteen hours now and the New York Stock Exchange
Texas officially opened for business yesterday. Get the latest news

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anytime at ktih dot com. Our next update is that seven.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Team Joch looking for corruption versus Team Madness.

Speaker 35 (01:13:28):
Federal judge has walked flap dlat access.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
To stay in the game.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
Next with US Radio seven forty Ktrhay.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
One, what is it free? Kid Rock? Your concerts they're expensive,
but they're expensive because of ticket resales. Kid Rock in
the Oval Office yesterday while President Trump signed an executive
order that would any luck at all will lower the
price you have to pay for resold concert tickets.

Speaker 49 (01:13:57):
So this is an executive order, as you said, that
deals with the ticket reselling business. For fans of live
entertainment and for entertainers as well. The ticket reselling industry
has become a huge issue.

Speaker 26 (01:14:10):
These people use.

Speaker 49 (01:14:11):
Bots and computer algorithms to buy up huge flocks of
tickets and then jack up the price so that fans
of live entertainers, like mister Ritchie was called it, mister Rock,
don't have access to concerts the way that they should,
and when they do, it's at exorbitantly high prices.

Speaker 26 (01:14:28):
So what this executive order does.

Speaker 49 (01:14:30):
It charges the FTC and the Department of Justice with
rigorously enforcing laws on the books in collaboration with state
attorneys general that have power over consumer protection and other
people who have the power to really crack down on
this issue so that entertainers and fans won't be subject
to these abusive and oftentimes illegal practices.

Speaker 40 (01:14:52):
Good, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
You own a solution.

Speaker 50 (01:14:57):
Yeah, anybody who's it doesn't matter your politics.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
First off, thank you, mister President, because this has.

Speaker 26 (01:15:02):
Happened at lightning speed.

Speaker 50 (01:15:04):
I know you put. I want to make sure Lena
habbah Alena Abba gets her credit to because I know
she worked very hard on this. But thank you for
making this happen so quick. Anyone who's bought a concert
ticket in the last decade, maybe twenty years, no matter
what your politics are, knows it's all count under them.
You buy a ticket for one hundred bucks, by the
time you.

Speaker 15 (01:15:19):
Check out, it's one hundred and seventy.

Speaker 26 (01:15:20):
He don't know what you can charge for.

Speaker 50 (01:15:22):
But more importantly, these bots, you know, they come in
to get all the good tickets to your favorite shows
you want to go to, and then they're relisted immediately
for sometimes a four or five hundred percent mark up,
and the artists don't see any of that money. And
you know, ultimately, I think this is a great first step.
I would love down the road if there would be
some legislation we could actually put a cap on the

(01:15:43):
resale of tickets. And I'm a capitalist and a deregulation guy,
but they've tried this in some places in Europe, and
it seems to be doing anything that's us as artists
to be able to give the tickets into the hands
of the fans at the prices we set. I'll be
the first one to say, and I know the President
doesn't want to say this, but I'm a little overpaid
right now.

Speaker 26 (01:16:01):
It's kind of ridiculous.

Speaker 50 (01:16:02):
I would rather be you know, a heroes, some working
class people and have them be able to come in
time my shows and give him a fair take your price.

Speaker 26 (01:16:09):
I can't control them right now, so hopefully this is
a step to really be able to make that happen.

Speaker 50 (01:16:14):
And a lot of artists, a lot of fans who
love conference and views are can be very appreciative.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Did you did you notice that the President Trump called
him Bob? You know kid Rock real named Robert Ritchie.
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Trump's having fun droiling liberals about a third term. Liberation
Day is tomorrow and coming up at seven O. Way,
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Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
All right, it's ninety that's an overturned truck and trailer,
and I'm hearing bad things about the backups here. This
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take nineteen sixty or one forty six instead. Nord Freeway
is starting to smash up now around Golf Bank southbound.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Not bad for the.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
North, but it's still kind of thick southbound. You lose
about six minutes here Nord Sam, that's roadwork all Dean
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Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
Thank you very much, give me seven oh two on
KTRH our top story this hour.

Speaker 6 (01:19:19):
If you are allowed, for some reason to run for
a third term, is there a thought that the Democrats
could try to run Barack Obama?

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
I thanks you. I'd love that.

Speaker 26 (01:19:30):
I love that that would be a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
I'd like that that was the As the left throws
have fed over potential third term for Donald Trump, the
President jokes about a potential opponent, Barack Obama. He also
told reporters yesterday that he really hasn't looked into running again.
But the obstruction continues, as does the Trump Derangement syndrome.

Speaker 15 (01:19:50):
A rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business
of the United States Senate for as long as I
am physically.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Able, and Senator Corey Booker has been speaking on the
Senate floor now for more than twelve hours against Trump
and Elon Musk. Tariffs are supposed to go into effect tomorrow.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tubberville tells Fox it's the right move
to make.

Speaker 9 (01:20:15):
I want him to tell everybody listen We have built
China the American people in the backs of the American people.
We have built Europe, we have built in the Middle East.
All the money, most of the money to come invest
in all these other countries and these continents have been
built on the backs of the American people.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
Tariffs included twenty five percent fee for auto imports. Overnight
trading on the stock market is down across the board, down,
futures off two hundred and fifty seven points. There is
hope though, that ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine can
get back on track after a meeting between President and
Trump and finished President Alexander Stube.

Speaker 10 (01:20:51):
He is probably the only person in the world who
can mediate the peace between Ukraine and Russia. Why because
Pootin respects in many wars fears Donald.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
Trump stubon Fox sevenh four. Now, the mainstream media keeps
trying to ambush Republicans, but one Trump administration official did
not fall for the trap.

Speaker 11 (01:21:13):
And some are pushing back, like Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug
Collins did on CNN. I have a question for you, Kaylin,
are you really concerned about veterans?

Speaker 13 (01:21:23):
Well, mister secretary, respectfully, my question was about whether or
not he was a member of the cabinet.

Speaker 11 (01:21:27):
When we use this, Sean Fleetwood pointed it out as
the federalist and says there needs to be more of it.

Speaker 14 (01:21:33):
That's exactly how Republicans should be treating these media propagandas,
not as journalists, not as people interested in actually getting
to the bottom of issues.

Speaker 11 (01:21:42):
Unfortunately, there are still many Republicans who are afraid of
the mainstream media. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k thiery.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
And the media certainly does not like Trump's deportations, but
most Americans do sixty percent according to the latest CBS polling.
The administration also is in backing down from challenges to
the deportation flights. DHS Secretary Christy Noam says, there are
some bad people that we need to ship out of
this country.

Speaker 13 (01:22:10):
That it's very real. It could happen today, it could
happen tomorrow. We have people in this country that would
do nine to eleven all over again if given the opportunity.

Speaker 5 (01:22:21):
Meantime, the administration sent another seventeen MS thirteen and trend
Deuragua gang members to El Salvador. Here at home, the
manhunt for Scott Sheppel ends in a Houston motel this morning.
He was taken into custody the Grimes County inmate escape
from a mental hospital yesterday, and as we've been mentioning,
there have been at least four shootings overnight across the area,

(01:22:44):
including two children. One of them is dead, that's a
sixteen year old. Another one, a six year old, was
hit by a stray bullet, the result of a gunfight
on the North Side. More at seven point thirty coming
up on seven oh six. As you send your kids
to school, consider this. The Left claims public schools are
not properly funded, but many superintendents make hundreds of thousands

(01:23:05):
every year.

Speaker 16 (01:23:06):
Those high salaries may be why they're so opposed to
the idea of school choice.

Speaker 17 (01:23:10):
It's a big grift. They're afraid their gravy train is
coming to an end. They're afraid that they're actually going
to have to compete for those taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 16 (01:23:19):
Cory DeAngelis with the American Culture Project says, the public
school system has just become a jobs program for administrators.

Speaker 17 (01:23:25):
This is probably why Texas public schools spend about seventeen
thousand dollars first student per year.

Speaker 16 (01:23:32):
He says this is the result of public schools having
no competition and no reason to spend money wisely. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH at the State.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
House in Austin. One Republican is pushing back on the
three hundred and forty billion dollar Bunchet proposal, a fifteen
hundred page bill that lawmakers got just hours before a
vote was called.

Speaker 19 (01:23:53):
This is the most liberal, bloated, reckless budget in the
history of Texas. At a time when Texans are being
taxed out of their homes and are demanding less government
and lower taxes, this budget does the opposite.

Speaker 5 (01:24:04):
State Representative Brian Harrison. The House Appropriations Committee did pass
the proposal seven oh seven. The Astros lose to the
Giants seven to two, same two teams tonight. We'll have
the pregame at six on Sports Talk seven ninety Game
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Solid seven eight ar time Here on Houston's Borning News.
A right, the Environmental Protection Agency. Did you know they
have a museum. Well, had a museum until Lee Zelden,
the new head of the EPA, shut it down one floor.
The Biden administration spent more million dollars creating it. It

(01:25:03):
is not made a penny back, and as you might imagine,
it is a well Lee Zelden he showed it to
Laura Ingram last night on her show. Let's take a
listen to that.

Speaker 42 (01:25:16):
We're in a one room that is less than sixteen
hundred square feet. You'll see all sorts of time missing.
You might remember during this period between twenty fourteen and
twenty twenty one, there was a Trump presidency. Yeah, they
just conveniently leave that out of the timeline. Come over,
here's a lot about climate change and environmental justice. I know,

(01:25:39):
it's the only emissions that they're even going to talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Here is carbon dioxide.

Speaker 42 (01:25:43):
No reference to anything that is good and necessary about
carbon dioxide. Here's a shot of the entire museum. This
is everything. Four million dollars to build this, I don't
even know how the heck they need to spend four
million dollars for this one room coming over here, another
tribute to environmental justice. And what's amazing is that, over

(01:26:06):
the course of this last administration, all this talk about
environmental justice and climate change, it was really to justify
giving out tens of billions of dollars to their friends
through self dealing, conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients. We're shutting
this museum down. The taxpayer wins. Enough of this partial,
biased EPA history.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
We should tecme back to the basics.

Speaker 42 (01:26:29):
And if we're spending a dollar, we should spend it
directly on remediate environmentala.

Speaker 20 (01:26:33):
I have an important question because I'm looking at that
amazing interactive museum. I mean, the technology that seems to
have gone into that is really stunning.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
Mister administrator.

Speaker 20 (01:26:44):
Those poster boards must have cost a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
But how much.

Speaker 20 (01:26:47):
Revenue has it brought in for four million dollars to
build it?

Speaker 47 (01:26:54):
So?

Speaker 26 (01:26:54):
How much?

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
Wow? Zero zero? You know what it looked like. It
looked like you remember doing like science projects back in high
school for like a science fair or something, you know,
and you got this you know post, you got these
neat poster boards that kind of have and whatever where
whatever science project it was you were working on it,
that's exactly what looks like. It looks like a high

(01:27:16):
school display and they spend four million dollars doing it.
Seven ten time for traffic and weather together, we have.

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
To see a display of petroleum, you know, like like
a refinery exhibit or something.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Yeah, why not at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences.
Actually we do get all the things we use oil for,
all the things, all the things that especially in the
world of women and makeup and lipstick and all that
that would not exist without oil. That would be everything.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
All right, Let's go straight to I forty five North
Freeway truck or Tim's on the spot on the sky.

Speaker 9 (01:27:46):
Mike's southbound right here at Rayford saldust E the right.

Speaker 12 (01:27:50):
Three lanes of shut down with accident, fire trucks and
everything out here.

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
All right, I see that smash on the southbound already
Woodlands Parkway. Get ready, you're about to hit the breaks.
Let me write the rest of the media know about it.
Ninety Crosby Freeway. That's an overturned pickup truck trailer is
involved here. We do have a right lane getting by,
But ninety Lord wrote, it's getting pretty nasty here. You
might want to take one forty six south or take

(01:28:15):
nineteen sixty for coming in from Dayton. Also, while we're
this way, all ninety the most city expressway, I'm calling
that Chimney Rock inbound. And Robert from Richmond with the
banana sticker. It's an accident, but it's a minor, but
it's a metro inbound. They're taking up a right lane.
Two ninety Nick from Cypress.

Speaker 34 (01:28:32):
Hey, Jimmy, I'm not a participant in April Fools either,
but I celebrate April first every year.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
It's my wife's birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Nick from Cypress's wife. And two
ninety just a few breaks around Huffmeister. By the way, Terry,
I think the pallen's getting to me. You're the closest
thing we have to a doctor.

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
Can you write it for? Can you write a prescription?

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
I mean you had a lab code.

Speaker 21 (01:28:56):
You're scaring me now, Okay, I was just hoping you could.
I'm a no, I cannot write you a prescription.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
You go to the prescription all right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:04):
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Well, she is a scientist over the counterflow days. Mind
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washed right out of the sky.

Speaker 21 (01:29:21):
Yeah, you know, between getting some rain and some cooler
temperatures that it's going to damp down the pollen. It's
you know, we're going to be in pollen season for
a while, folks, but it might ease up and that that.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
Would be kind of nice.

Speaker 21 (01:29:34):
But between now and then, there's very little rain between
now and Saturday. In fact, we're dry through Thursday, and
it's warm, it's muggy, and the plants are just loving
life and they're letting you know how much they love life.

Speaker 28 (01:29:46):
Right now, a.

Speaker 21 (01:29:47):
Load of mid eighties today, mid to upper eighties Tomorrow
and Thursday Friday, we've got a twenty percent chance of
a thunder shower and eighty percent chance of showers and
storms Saturday when the Colfront comes into down and then
Sunday the rain is gone and the temperatures are a
little bit on the Chili side. Some afternoon highs in

(01:30:08):
the sixties Sunday.

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Oh my, right now it is sixty seven at your
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Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
Well, this topic is a little sensitive one for me
because I just just got done paying a whole bunch
of homeowners insurance policies for the two homes that we have,
especially the one in Freeport, which is second row off
of the Gulf of America. That one, who that one
was really steep. Anyway, homeowners would need our home insurance

(01:30:49):
I should say, would need approval to jack up rates
under a Texas Senate bill that's out there. We'll talk
to Richard Johnson with the Insurance Council of Texas about
this coming up next. First, we've got traffic and weather
together to invite a KGRH staff for a party. Hey,
you're right, house. We will rectify that this summer, sky Mike.
We're working on it. They got ninety We're rewritting you off.

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In ninety.

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Now that was wreck inbound at Lord Road and Crosby
overturned vehicle here and also North Freeway look out. I've
let the rest of the media noe the wreck North Freeway,
sawdust inbound, big wreck three lanes. I'm Skymike on the
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Time to check out some more of our top stories
on the Tuesday. Here's cliff.

Speaker 5 (01:31:46):
Two children are shot in a night of violence across
the Houston area. The Trump administration is reviewing nine billion
dollars worth of contracts with Harvard over the school's handling
of anti Semitism, and more bad news for those view
with allergies. According to the forecasters, there will be higher
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Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
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Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Maybe, yeah, I probably should up my life insurance policy
to cover me for the next heart attack I'm likely
to have when I'm paying my premiums on our beach
house in Freeport. Anyway, seven twenty two is our time.
You're on Houston's Morning News. Richard Johnson is with US
Insurance Council of Texas. I know there's a bill, a
Texas Centive bill that would require home insurance to get

(01:32:41):
approval to jack up their rates. I don't know how
much they're talking about, as far as how much the
rate would have to increase before they get approval and
who would give the approval.

Speaker 12 (01:32:50):
Richard, Yeah, thanks for having me. This is a great,
great discussion. I think there's probably some things that we
can probably clear up a little bit right now. When
an insurance company asks for a rate increase, it still
has to go through TDI, the Texas Department of Insurance,
and that's what this bill would also do. So it's

(01:33:10):
kind of duplicative. What they're trying to do is put
a cap on how much you could raise and then
it would go into hearings and things like that, so
we'd look a lot, it would be a system a
lot like California as right now, and they've actually faced
a lot of challenges when that happens. Companies aren't aren't
allowed to ask for the amount of rate that they're
looking for in order to cover the losses that they've

(01:33:32):
had to cover because of like everything we have in here, flooding, hurricanes, hailstorms,
wind rain to be able to cover those those costs.
And so therefore companies started pulling out of out of California.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
And it became less competitive.

Speaker 12 (01:33:48):
So rates right now are approved by TDI. Companies have
to submit actuarial reviews and ensure that they're meeting that
they're meeting the obligations. And it's it's not an instant
thing that that that some people are saying out there.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
Well, here, here's the thing. Are the rates that they
these insurance companies are charging are they justified based on
replacement costs and correct all the other things that go
into insuring somebody for losses during a storm. Correct, That's
exactly it. So you have to look at it.

Speaker 12 (01:34:22):
They have to go through an actuarial analysis. It's not
just hey, we want to make money in Texas. You know,
insurance companies they actually look for it's a pretty low
profit margins. It's not you know, one and a half
to two and a half percent. So when you look
at it in totality like that any other businesses as
you know, as much higher than that they're looking for,

(01:34:42):
but it is it's based on the risk that they have.
So again here in Texas, we have hail, we have wind,
we have tornadoes, we have you know, kind of everything
that you ask for, uh when it comes to weather.
And over the years that has gotten stronger and more
more expensive, you know. So in twenty twenty three, companies
paid out almost forty six billion dollars in insurance claims

(01:35:06):
here in Texas. So it's expensive to do to do
business here in Texas, especially with the economy, with inflation,
with the cost of roof repair, you know, roofing is
really the big expensive part, although other than when you
lose a whole entire home. Sure, so all those costs
of just you know, skyrocketed and then you know, we're
all happy about our property values increasing, but more expensive

(01:35:29):
your home is, the more insurance.

Speaker 51 (01:35:30):
That you need.

Speaker 3 (01:35:31):
How concerned are you though? They And this is this
is where I'm concerned. I just got this is just
for the beach house in Freeport, Okay. I've got three
thousand dollars flood insurance policy. I've got a twelve hundred
dollars regular homeowners insurance policy to cover for theft and
fire in those types of things. And I've got, you know,
for basically fourteen hundred square foot house. And the biggest

(01:35:54):
increase came from the Texas Wind and Hail Association, where
I now have to pay over thirty six hundred dollars
a year for wind and hail. I mean, they're going
there're gonna be a lot of people with those types
of prices, there are gonna be able forward to be insured.

Speaker 12 (01:36:08):
Yeah, we're seeing I mean, we're we're It has been
concerned just because you know, and this is a nationwide thing.
It's not it's not a Texas thing, although Texas is
unique because of the amount of weather and claims that
we've had here and the population increase that we've seen.
But it is a concern, you know. We we couple
that with with inflation. People are seeing you know, essentially
less money in their in their paycheck, and it's one

(01:36:31):
of those expenses that you know, people are starting to
realize has an impact on their wallets. So we're trying
to keep Texas as competitive as possible when it comes
to insurance. We want as many companies doing business here
as possible to keep that, you know, to keep that competitiveness.
But we're hoping that over you know, now that inflation

(01:36:54):
has kind of slowed, uh, you know, labor costs have
even doubt that insurance rates will also even out, and
hopefully we won't see those double digit increases that we've
seen over the last four years.

Speaker 3 (01:37:06):
I hope you're right, Richard Johnson, Insurance Council of Texas.
Thank you, sir. Seven twenty seven. Time to take a
look at your money as we check him with Jeff
Bellinger and Jimmy Houston.

Speaker 24 (01:37:15):
Leads the nation and the percentage of workers who are
back at their offices. Castle Systems, which tracks key card swipes,
says nearly two thirds of the employees and the Metro
we're back at their desks as of last week. The
countdown to tariffs continues. Wall streeters are nervous. The now
futures down two hundred and forty points. I'm Jeff Bellinger,

(01:37:35):
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Seven thirty is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
we have forshawn in Houston. Two were kids congressional hearings
on activist federal judges and coming up at seven thirty eight,
butch in sunny admit they kind of were stranded up there.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive again with Skymine. All right,

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all ninety the.

Speaker 4 (01:38:21):
Most City Expressway lookout just past the FOURT Men's allway.

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That's a minor rag step, but.

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It's a metro inbound about a twelve minutes smunch this
way six ten norths getting athlely loopy at the squeeze.

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Westbound forty five.

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Jim from Kingwood's on that North Freeway wreck inbound at sawdust.

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Guy, Mike the scuffle.

Speaker 34 (01:38:39):
Halton has already backed up past to forty two.

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It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:39:16):
He thank you, Jimmy seven thirty two on KTRH. Our
top story this hour. Four shootings across the Houston area
last night.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Here's what we know.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
A sixteen year old is killed in some sort of
transaction that turned into a gunfight on the south side.
We also know that a six year old is recovering
after being hit by a stray bullet on the north side.
Two people are hospitalized after a shooting outside the movie
theater in Webster, and a man was found shot to

(01:39:45):
death outside of a Southwest Houston sonic. The shooter in
that incident is still at large now. Jimmy mentioned this yesterday.
A recall effort against Mayor John Whitmeyer, which might be
an attempt to stop his efficiency audits.

Speaker 18 (01:40:02):
We've had frequent news stories about things that they've uncovered.
The city had more municipal employees than any other urban
city in the nation per capita.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
Ollie Hanson with The Texan does not think they'll be
able to get enough signatures to trigger the recall seven
thirty three. Finally, Congress is fighting back against the left's
latest tactic to stop the Trump agenda.

Speaker 28 (01:40:26):
The House and Senate holding hearings this week into how
to stop federal judges from individually blocking Trump policies. Fox
News analyst Katie Pavlich says, the left's law fair is
out of control.

Speaker 29 (01:40:36):
You have these judges issuing these nationwide injunctions at a
rate that we haven't ever seen before for any other president.
And you're actually seeing Congress now stepping up and saying
we need legislation to reign in these judges, which is
our constitutional duty.

Speaker 28 (01:40:50):
The legislation would restrict district court rulings to only apply
to the plaintiffs and the judges district rather than the
entire country. Corey Jolson New's Radio seven forty ktr chew.

Speaker 5 (01:40:59):
That end a key state judicial election is today with
Wisconsin Republican Brad Shimmel in a tight race with Susan Crawford.

Speaker 30 (01:41:07):
Many of our election integrity laws are going to end
up in front of this court, and we could see
the rules we've put in our legislators put in place
in recent years to try to protect that election integrity
gets struck down by this activist court.

Speaker 5 (01:41:19):
Shimmell with k trh's Sean Hannity. There are also special
congressional elections in Florida, with the President backing the Republicans
who are running to replace Matt Gates and Mike Waltz.
We told you yesterday that Texas Governor Greg Abbott was
in no rush to call a special election to fill
the seat left vacant by the death of Sylvester Turner.
One of Turner's potential replacements is now complaining.

Speaker 31 (01:41:43):
If Governor Abot tries to play fresh and does not
call this election for November, I will sue him we're
demanding that he called this election for the month of June.

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
Harris County Attorney Christian Menafie seven thirty four on KTRHA
Bill and Austin is set for a hearing today hoping
to rein in the Texas Medical Board after they targeted
doctors who challenged the COVID nineteen narrative.

Speaker 32 (01:42:08):
We stepped up when other doctors wouldn't. Yeah, I opened
my doors seven days a week.

Speaker 33 (01:42:13):
To treat COVID patients. It would exonerate many of us
that did the hard thing, but the right thing.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
Doctor Mary Tally Boden spent hundreds of thousands in legal
fees after the Medical Board targeted her for prescribing ivermectin.
The state is facing a massive physician shortage over the
next five years, and Nicholas Armstrong with the Texas Public
Policy Foundation wants the state to change the requirements for
foreign born doctors.

Speaker 34 (01:42:39):
What Texas is doing, they're following in the lead of
ten other states that have created an alternative licensing pathway
that if these doctors hit certain metrics, they would be
able to omit the US based residency requirement and practice
under the supervision of a fully licensed doctor here in Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:42:54):
As of now, licensed foreign doctors still have to go
through a lengthy residency before they can practice in the USA. Yes,
looking at your money. State lawmakers or introducing bills that
would quire home insurers to get approval before jacking your
rates up.

Speaker 35 (01:43:09):
The insurance industry is pushing back because rate hikes have
various factors.

Speaker 36 (01:43:13):
It's been the economy and inflation, but it's also been
insured losses. Insurance companies have incurred tremendous amount of losses
over the last couple of years.

Speaker 35 (01:43:21):
Richard Johnson of the Insurance Council of Texas as home
demand also causes fluctuation.

Speaker 3 (01:43:26):
In California did something similar.

Speaker 36 (01:43:28):
Value of property skyrocket offense got to a point where
insurance companies couldn't even do business there, and less companies
were in the states, so therefore less competitiveness and rates
even left higher.

Speaker 35 (01:43:38):
He says this would restrict Texas from being a true
free market Andorey Parard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:43:44):
The home market nationwide is slower than it was last year,
but not in Texas. One expert says one of the
main reasons for that is the huge influx of people
coming to the lone Star state.

Speaker 37 (01:43:54):
We have this migration. So in the last five years
the population goal by over two point one million.

Speaker 5 (01:44:04):
That's Texas A and m's Yin Lang Mayor who says
the market here is strong. Seven thirty seven. The Rockets
lose to the Lakers last night, one o four to
ninety eight. They host Utah tomorrow. I'm Cliff Saunders on
Houston's news, weather and traffic station k t RH.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
Always stronger than the setback, the comeback.

Speaker 26 (01:44:25):
The greatest comeback of all.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
Time, Here America Comeback on news radio seven forty k
t RH.

Speaker 3 (01:44:35):
So Butch and Sunny gave their first post flights interview
to Bill Hammer over at Fox, and they got asked
about whether or not they were stranded up there, because
you know, everybody who's want to make this deal about
President Trump saying they were stranded up there, and they
so that's why they went up there to get them.
And then you've got the Left saying they weren't stranded. Well,

(01:44:58):
the truth, of course, was somewhere in between. I think
Butch did a particularly good job at trying to handle
that without throwing anybody under the bus in cert respects.

Speaker 22 (01:45:06):
Maybe we were stranded, but based on how they were
couching this that we were left and forgotten and all
that we were nowhere near any of that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
It is amazing. How long ago was this? About nine
days ago that this happened, that they came back.

Speaker 44 (01:45:19):
Yes, yeah, so this is normally a national story of
great American significance achievement, and it gets less attention from
the legacy media than the group chat story.

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
For me, it's an amazing contrast.

Speaker 44 (01:45:33):
The media cannot be bothered by a story that doesn't
fit the anti Trump playbook. So because they hate the man,
they have to hate the actions, and if the actions
are heroic, and these are it, they don't even pay
attention to it. I remember it wasn't long ago going
to Times Square when bin Laden was killed. That was
under Obama. It was emotional, it was unifying. Everybody was

(01:45:54):
in Times Square cheering. I wonder if the Democrats, Jessica,
are even capable of daring a national experience when they've
turned everything into a personal vendetta, a resentment.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
How dare you? Yeah, they didn't. The legacy media as
he calls them, or the mainstream media, whatever whatever it
is you want to call them really didn't pay all
that much attention other than perhaps carrying when they when
they landed, But they haven't really followed up since then.
I think that they look at that story. It's a

(01:46:25):
bit of an embarrassment, you know, and is perhaps they
should the incompetence of the previous administration. You know, you've
got two astronauts that are up there for nine months.
They shouldn't be left up there because they got stranded
because of a Boeing rocket. You know, Boeing has had
so many problems. Why did they have a contract with
Boeing when Boeing has had so many problems and you

(01:46:45):
have somebody from the private field who basically had to
go up there and rescue them, which is what they did.
So they're not going to spend a lot of time
talking about that because that's embarrassing. Seven and forty time
for traffic and weather together, as we check out the
drive again, this guy, my advisors, let's come in your
Kadie Freeway. I've got the breaks now.

Speaker 4 (01:47:02):
You've done a fantastic job of not colliding this morning
from Grand Parkway Eldridge Parkway connect that in extra twelve
minutes in.

Speaker 3 (01:47:09):
West Park Tollway.

Speaker 4 (01:47:10):
Here's the breaks at South Park or Cyprus Southwest Freeway. Also,
I was gonna call you collision free, but no southbound.
That's gonna be at the beltway right over our shoulder
Beltway southbound at sixty nine. That's a truck accident. One
two right lanes flocked here. This is about to get
ugly now from West Park down Southwest itself does not

(01:47:31):
have a wreck. We've got breaks at ninety in and
ninety Crosby Freeway. Lord Road lookout. That's an overturned vehicle.
That's getting pretty nasty this way. Also North Freeway I
forty five southbound at Sawdust Road that says they've cleared
that they hope they've cleared it. Okay, I've got some
solid backups. Now at two forty two we had rubbernecking too,
Jim from Kingwood. That was that was on the outbound.

(01:47:54):
Now from Graham Parkway.

Speaker 34 (01:47:56):
There's a blue bonus and the red buzz booming out
there in.

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
Willis no ghetto.

Speaker 4 (01:48:00):
Dave wanted to tell Terry about the blue bonnets.

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
He'll send it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:04):
He's gonna put some pictures on my Facebook and we
can all check them out. I've got those southbound backups
from Conroe and we'll go to the golf Freeway side
of the world. That's seven fifty hits your Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
Yeah, Terry, that's kind of a big tradition to take
your kids out there where the bluebond. Sorry, and they're
all blooming on the hillsides and.

Speaker 4 (01:48:22):
Say you take pictures of your kids when they're little
in the blue bonnet.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
Exactly right, and they're pretty. They are pretty. From Arkatyrh
Generator Supercenter, Bond. It's not your kids. Hopefully the kids
are pretty too. From Arkatyrh. Well, that sure is an
ugly child posting next to those blue bonets.

Speaker 5 (01:48:39):
Everything looks better next to blue bonnet.

Speaker 3 (01:48:41):
Everything's better with blue bonnets on it. Yeah. From rkatyr
Generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather Center. Terry is
here and she's got the forecast. Some rain for the
blue Boness is coming, yes.

Speaker 21 (01:48:52):
Amarne, and hopefully not the heavy rain that causes the
pedals to fall off.

Speaker 4 (01:48:58):
That would be sad.

Speaker 21 (01:49:00):
But for the time being, it's just warm and muggy
and there's no rain through Thursday. Low to mid eighties today,
tomorrow and the middupper eighties, same thing Thursday, middeper eighties.
This is a little out of a little bit warmer,
about ten degrees warmer than what we would normally see.
And then Friday we have a twenty percent chance of rain,
so not much of a change. Friday, it's Saturday when

(01:49:22):
the colfront moves through that we have the widespread showers
and storms and the possibility of heavy rain and maybe
some stronger thunderstorms. We'll keep an eye on that. It's
all gone Sunday, but Sunday's kind of chilli, folks. Don't
put away the long sleeves just yet.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
Debut. You're right now sixty eight at your officials, Severe
Weather Station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
What you need to know for the day ahead. This
is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
So Greg Guttfeld has been on a roll lately with
Jasmine Crockett, you know, talk about what a racist she is,
and he brought brought a piece of audio they played
the last night on his show of Jasmine Crockett with
Charlemagne and the God That's an iHeart breakfast club show,
and she was all over a certain congressman Byron Donald's

(01:50:13):
for being married to a white woman. So her racist
comments and reaction from Guttfeld to it. Coming up next first, though,
traffic and weather together as we check out that ride
once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
It's Nord Freeway southbound at Maine, right in front of McDonald's.
That's a wreck on the feeder. Stay on the mainlane,
stay out of that silliness. West Bell southbound at the Southwest.
That's truck accent. Two left lines are blocked here. That's
a big spackle both ways. From Belfort northbound. That's even worse.
From ninety northbound West Park southbound ninety Crosby Freeway clear,

(01:50:45):
the overturn wreck also clear the North Freeway accident inbound
at Sawdust, and we still have a pretty good spackle
coming down from Conrad. I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center, Crumbo r kat r Age Generator Supercenter,
twenty four hour weather center for today generally cloudy breeze
in war eighty four and then tomorrow and Thursday partly
the mostly cloudy, gusty wins high temperature of eighty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:51:07):
Right now it is sixty eight at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check
out some more of our top stories on the Tuesday.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:51:19):
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And we all know that at April first, and we
know what it is. But did you know that April
fools Day dates back to the fourteenth century and France,

(01:51:42):
Oh another reason, not the like at the French Indeed,
get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. I
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Speaker 16 (01:51:53):
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Speaker 50 (01:51:57):
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Speaker 26 (01:52:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
Evidently it matters to Jasmine Crockett if you're black or white.
Seven fifty three is our time here in Houston's morning News. Yeah, Gutfelds.
He's he's out together, that's for sure, and he's doing
a pretty good job. But he drug out a video
slash audio tape of Jasmine Crockett on with Charlemagne the God.
This must have been like three or four months ago.
It's been a while, but she was talking about Byron Donalds,

(01:52:29):
who had just got married to a white woman, and
evidently she didn't care for that very much. Here's what
she had to say, with some Gutfeld reaction to it.

Speaker 52 (01:52:37):
If we continue to put people into office, and that
even means some of our skin folk who definitely are
not our kim folks, such as Byron Donald's, who are
gonna continue to say that, like, I mean, the fact
that you're sitting around talking about life was better under
Jim Crow, Like, is this because you don't understand history?
Or literally it's because you married a white woman, and

(01:52:58):
so you think that whitewashing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Hmmm, that's not very woke his eggs.

Speaker 51 (01:53:03):
It has to come from me, yes, Terry. One of
you all are qualified, not just for one thing. That's
I'm mad at Charmagne the God because he should have
kicked her out.

Speaker 3 (01:53:16):
See.

Speaker 51 (01:53:16):
The problem is is that we are allowing our own
culture to be openly racist and get away with it. Now,
if a white person is offended by that, and they
should be, they say something. It's like, it's not the
same thing. But if another if you say that and
another brother looks at you and goes, man, you're wrong
for that, and I don't want you on my show,
get the hell up, because that's I'm telling you right now.

(01:53:37):
If I was not on the show, which happens sometimes,
and someone was sitting in his chair and he was
complaining about black men this and black that, and they
shouldn't be here, and you know what happens when a
white woman marries a black guy, Greg would have you
would not have seen that guy in the next segment.

Speaker 3 (01:53:49):
He would have kicked his ass off because you're.

Speaker 51 (01:53:51):
Not going to talk about somebody that I care about
like that, or somebody another person like that. That's the
problem is that we let blacks, We.

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
Let too much slide. Listen.

Speaker 51 (01:54:01):
I have been with every shade of women on the planet.
I started out. I started out black, and then I
went Pacific Islander Asian and had a little Hispanic face,
and then I ran out.

Speaker 3 (01:54:17):
To do and ended up with a white one. That's
just how it happened.

Speaker 51 (01:54:21):
But they're all I'm telling you, They all bitch the same,
they all take your money the same, they all don't
sleep with you all the time the same, and they
all leave you the same.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
They're all the same on the inside, is what he's
saying and speaking speaking of which, by the way, I
didn't do this story because I figured it would just
get me into trouble. But it's the end of the show,
so I might as well anyway. And there's a story
about hearing and men do not hear as well as

(01:54:55):
women here, And it's a fact. It is the fact
that I actually did go to an audienologist who said,
you've lost some of your hearing in this range. And
I said, what's in this range? He said, the female voice.
So if I tell my wife that I'm not ignoring
her I just can't hear that, i'd be telling the truth.

(01:55:15):
He said yes. I said, well, good luck with that.
Good luck with that. Y'all have a great day. We'll
see you tomorrow morning, bright nearly at five am. I
hope to see you. The stat from four and AM
nine fifty KPRC