What We Pay Harris County Executives Is STUNNING

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 06/03/25.

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

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Now the latest news, weather and traffic. It's more what
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Good morning, five am. As we get started here this
morning on Houston's Morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our
top stories this f are Tom Holman warning that more
Boulder style attacks are coming Gunner Rabbit in Houston. Today's
he going to sign that THHC bill and coming up
at five o'weight. What we pay Harris County executives is
stunning details in the minutes. Sayhead, you're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(00:41):
let's stick out that morning Drive for the first time.
Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh that lot of ignorance on the road this morning. Watch.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
I don't know what's with people. North Freeway cross Chambers
outbound now that's not.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Ingor that's just a stall. And then southbound of Golf
Bank that's a stall.

Speaker 5 (00:53):
You got west loop at Post Oak Now the stall
that one's northbound, and also east loop northbound for the
bud Plant that's right over on the side of it.
Ten and I watch out because he's kind of tough
to see. Watch out for stalls, and you expect the unexpected.
This morning, you never know Road to breeze zombies. I'm
in the USA R and Bresorts dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
From r kt RH top tax defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center, Part the Cloudy Breezy HI. Right about ninety
four today Terry Smith will join us. A little system
off the coast of Florida that may be some problems
for the southeast. We'll see if that's gonna be our
first named storm of the year. We'll talk to her
in about nine minutes. Temp it you right now seventy
five at your official severe weather station News Radio seven

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forty k t RH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Sunders.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
Good morning every one, five oh one on kg RH,
our top story.

Speaker 7 (01:44):
It should have scared the hell out of every American
what the Biden administration did. There's two man known guidaways.
Scares the hell out of me. So I'm convinced something's
coming unless we can find him.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
A warning from borders Ar Tom Holman, who told our
own Sean Hannity that he blames Joe Biden, the former
president for the attack in Boulder, Colorado, this week that
injured twelve people.

Speaker 8 (02:06):
Mister Solomon stated that he had been planning this attack
for a year, and he acted because he hated what
he called the Zionist group.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
Yes, Mohammed Solomon is the alleged fire bomber. He's facing
federal hate crime charges, sixteen counts of attempted murder and
a maximum of three hundred and eighty four years in
state prison. Here at home, the attack in Boulder has
our local Jewish leaders worried.

Speaker 9 (02:35):
Local Jewish organizations say they're staying vigilant. Rosalie Jerome, president
of the Holocaust Remembrance Association, believes this type of violence
has been brewing for more than a year.

Speaker 10 (02:44):
Ever since October seventh, twenty twenty three, anti Semitism has
been loud, aggressive and progressive, and its main target is
state of Israel. But it seems to be happening a
lot here in America, on our campuses and in these
other locations.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
She said.

Speaker 9 (03:00):
Many in America have a pre World War two mentality,
which her organization is working to reverse. Corey Jolson, who's
Radio seven forty ktright, Thank you Corey.

Speaker 6 (03:08):
At five oh three, former Harris County DA kim augunger
fire after telling a local TV station that one of
the suspects in the Joscelyn Nungary murder, an illegal alien
from Venezuela, was accused of raping an American woman in
Costa Rica. The defense wants og held in contempt.

Speaker 11 (03:25):
She is really giving the defense a lot of AMMO
for a change of venue and this case could go somewhere.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
Else, Attorney Joe Venus with our TV partner Channel two.

Speaker 12 (03:35):
Now.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
One of the big wins from the Texas legislative session
that is now over is a new law to require
Texas sheriffs to work with ICE.

Speaker 13 (03:43):
Terrell County Sheriff that e Is Cleveland, a former Border
Patrol agent, supports the bill.

Speaker 12 (03:50):
Sure she will be mandated to collaborate with ICE and
sign administrative warrants to illegal immigrants and then turn them
over to Ice.

Speaker 13 (03:57):
Senate Bill eight closes loopholes and make make sure that
immigration law is enforced.

Speaker 12 (04:03):
CINEBILLIK definitely is another tool in toolbox, and again I
think it's a really good thing to just asking local
law enforcement to identify people that are in their custody
that are legal adiens.

Speaker 13 (04:11):
The bill is now awaiting Governor Abbott's signature. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty k tier as the.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Sheriff, will join Jimmy at six twenty among the other
victories for Republicans in Austin.

Speaker 14 (04:23):
But first date actually stopped social transitioning of children at school.

Speaker 15 (04:28):
We banned red flag.

Speaker 16 (04:29):
Law protect There's some awesome.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Things, But State Rep. Risco Kaine says the session could
have been better. He would have liked to abolish property
taxes as opposed to reform. The governor has yet to
say if there will be a special session and has
until June twenty second to veto anything that passed. The
governor is in Houston today to sign Bell reform. He
was in San Antonio yesterday making the Texas Cyber Command

(04:53):
official to protect you from cyber attacks.

Speaker 17 (04:55):
Attacks that often come from foreign actors from hostile coun
like Shahna, Russia and Iran.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
It is now five h five on KTRH In Washington,
President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is now in the Senate,
where it faces opposition from Republicans who want more spending cuts.
Oklahoma Senator Mark Wwayne Mullin told KTRH is Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton. Failure is not an option.

Speaker 15 (05:19):
This bill goes to the floor. Everybody's had to bring
a prints on. Everybody's an opportunity to put their infant.

Speaker 16 (05:24):
We're going to put whatever is on the floor that.

Speaker 14 (05:26):
Can get fifty one votes so we can get away
from the Biden era policies and move forward to the
Trump era policies.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
President Trump wants the bill on his desk by July fourth.
The House of Representatives returns to work today, and according
to Fox, the Freedom Caucus is demanding a vote on
the administration's nine point four billion dollar spending cut proposal
that'll be delivered to the House today.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's coming up on five h six.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Looking at your money, social Security checks could it two
thousand dollars this month, but that money won't go far
as it used to.

Speaker 18 (06:00):
Data from the Senior Citizens League says the purchasing power
of Social Security income has dropped thirty six percent in
the last twenty five years.

Speaker 16 (06:08):
The goods and services that seniors purchase.

Speaker 19 (06:11):
Are really kind of different than the inflation calculation that's
used to make the adjustment.

Speaker 18 (06:16):
Thank Great Investment analyst James Royle says expenses like healthcare,
which seniors use more than other age groups, is not
used in fact during the cost of living increases. Advocates
are calling for reform for better matching social security adjustments
with the real world spending habits of older Americans. Eric
Sharp News Radio seven forty k TRAH.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Jasoline prices, though, continue to drop, as the average across
uson this morning is two dollars and sixty seven cents
a gallon. Last June third, it was three dollars and
seven cents. Oil futures are up fourteen cents, trading at
sixty two dollars in sixty six cents a barrel this morning,
five o seven. The astros are in Pittsburgh tonight. Pregame
at four thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety first pitch

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at five forty. Will join in progress on KTRH at seven.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Let's it on the way to work.

Speaker 20 (07:09):
I love talk radio, so I listen to talk.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
For every day for weather, local news for every one.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I listened on the way home for traffic use Radio
seven KTRH alight, but.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
We're gonna be doing a lot of this, I think
this morning here on Houston's Morning News. Harris County bureaucrats
among the America's highest paid government employees. Nine County employees.
You'll hear a big story from our newscast coming up
with Cliff at the bottom of the hour on this.
We're going to talk about it. I think we're going
to do a Question of the Day on it so

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that you can weigh in on this, because after all,
Harris County has about what two hundred and some million
dollars deficit, and that's that was the excuse that Lena
Hildago was using as to why we can couldn't pay
Harris County deputies, why we couldn't keep up with what
Houston was trying to get their deputies paid. They're plenty
high paid people in Harris County. They're just not the

(08:05):
people who are doing the work. Those are not the
highest paid one. There are nine county employees who now
make more than the President of the United States. This
is Harris County employees. Forty five make more than a
cabinet secretary does. Harris County's top officials among the highest
compensated government employees in the entire country. By the way,

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when you make more than the president of the United States,
the president's salary is four hundred thousand dollars. Forty five
County employees now receive a compensation that surpasses two hundred
and fifty six hundred dollars. That's how much a cabinet
secretary gets paid. Harris County implemented significant salary increases for
several department has Some got a raise exceeding one hundred

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thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why why.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Latest payroll data attained by Texas Scorecard through a public
information request for the twenty twenty four to twenty five
fiscal gear reveals sharp pay races across infrastructure, public health,
and forensic science administration roles. Earning the most is the
chief Medical Examiner and the executive director of the Institute

(09:20):
of Forensic Sciences. Doctor Lewis Arturo Sanchez now earns five
hundred thirty six thousand, one hundred forty one dollars. That
is up ninety thousand dollars from the previous year. That's right,
he got a ninety thousand dollars raise. Other top earners
include Leah Barton, Interim director of Public Health Services, who

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got a salary of four hundred fifty six thousand, nine
hundred and seventy six dollars. That's one hundred eighty four
thousand more than the previous year. County engineer K. Saphor
Rahman got paid four hundred seventy nine thousand, eight hundred
thirty five dollars. That's a one hundred and twenty eight
thousand dollars increase. The flood Controlled District Director Christina Marie

(10:02):
Peterson her salary four hundred and thirty four one hundred
and thirty eight up eighty three thousand dollars, and the
list goes on. I could continue to go on. What
will I think really be startling if I'm going to
take a look here at what the average salary is
for these positions across the country. Now, I realize Houston

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is top six market in the entire country. We have
a population in the Houston metro area of the better
part of six point seven six point eight million people.
We're big, but but these salaries are even bigger. And
this is just the salary. This is just what they
get paid in cash. This does not include the benefits.

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More to come. Five eleven. Let's get to traffic and
weather together. The sky mike's here.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
I smell the burning smell of booties. You just torched,
Jimmy Barrett. Let's go to the West Sam. What do
we got southbound?

Speaker 1 (10:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Let me check with you, Tip line seven on three
two point two tips, dude, come on.

Speaker 15 (11:00):
On the tollway westbound, right before the two ninety exit.

Speaker 18 (11:04):
There's a fender bender in the right lane and they're
sticking out in the right lanes.

Speaker 16 (11:08):
Hard to see until you tough that heel.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Okay, okay, you mean north and southbound? Well, you know, perception, Terry,
it's half empty. But West Sam southbound at two ninety,
that's going to be a stall. And yeah, that is
kind of a dark spot. I think the Trendstar people
have it. There they are, and they're officially calling it
a right shoulder.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
You and me know better. It's a right lane.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
So let's look on the east text now outbound. They're
listing that as pavement repair. Boy, I sure got a
lot of flashy lights. It looks like someone ran into
something right there. This is on the outbound. It's a blur.
We're backed up now from greens val You just passed
the Beltway and toll bridge. Let's quick check on the bridges.
Hartman Bridge looks good now both sides. Baytown to Laporte.

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You've got the toll bridge in good shape. Here it
ten to two twenty five and six. Ten's all right too.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I'm in the.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
USA Rvresorts dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
It felt pretty good, Terry. It feels like back in
the calm before the next shoe drops in the woods.
I think he's right about that.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
From mar KTRH Top Tax Defenders, twenty four hour whether
senat Terry Smith, is here a couple of things to
talk about. Saharan dust because it's on its way, Yes,
and that's always a sure signed hurricane season. And number two,
a little blob of something off of Florida in the southeast.

Speaker 21 (12:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (12:21):
And that little blob is an area of low pressure
that likely won't develop into anything, but the National Hurricane
Center is watching it. It's that time of year where
if you get low pressure over warm water, you got
to pay attention to it. It's kind of like a
toddler with a wide open playground. You gotta watch it,

(12:42):
make sure it doesn't cause any trouble. It looks like
it's not going to get any better organized, and I'll
move out into Atlantic, but we'll also keep an eye
on it too. Just for grins and giggles, the Saharan desert,
the Saharan dust, I should say, that's going to be
making its way into a Texas likely later in the week.
That typically does two things. It typically suppresses showers and

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thunderstorms from developing, at least it limits it. And as
a result, this time of year, that usually allows things
to kind of heat up. And that's the direction we're going, folks.
It is pleasant this morning, It's going to get hotter
and more humid later in the week. No rain today,
a thirty percent chance of thunderstorms tomorrow, only a slight

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chance of getting wet. Temperatures near ninety today and tomorrow,
but by Thursday and into the weekend, you'll notice the
temperature starting to climb.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Here we go right now, seventy five at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KRH.

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Speaker 4 (13:53):
All the info you need to take on the day,
five twentyth the time here in Houston's Morning News. A
little piece of audio, Oh I didn't get to yesterday
on the show I want to get to this morning,
I think is we're sharing with you. Also comes from
Face the Nation. On Sunday, doctor Marty McCarey was on
with the host Margaret Brennan, and they started talking about
the new recommendations for young people and pregnant women for

(14:18):
the COVID vaccine. Basically, they're no longer recommending that, you know,
healthy young people, especially kids and pregnant women, get the
COVID vaccine, feeling the risk outweighs the benefit of doing that,
and of course the pushback from the left, and if
Margaret Brennan is on the left, the pushback is really

(14:39):
quite interesting. You can I'll let you listen to those
two argue about this just a little bit coming up next,
but first, let'sen to traffic and weather together as we
check out a sky mine.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
We've got two sides of I sixty nine with some roadwork,
and you know what, the pretty ladies on me, pretty ladies.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Helping me this time, I asked Jennifer, what is that
going on?

Speaker 5 (14:58):
At will Clayton Parkway because it sure looks it's like
somebody ran into it.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
No, it's just roadwork. It's overnight stuff.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
And it's a bit of a smash after the after
the Beltway. If you're trying to catch a plane, let's
do JFK instead. Also, you've got sixty nine to the
Southwest Freeway Fan and indown. I promise they'll have this
up any minute now, but we've got some breaks after
Sheppard northbound. Im sky White gets the USA RV Resorts
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Speaker 4 (15:21):
Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather center for today party cloudy, breezy, high temperature right
about ninety then mainly cloudy, stray shower, thunderstorm possible tomorrow
in ninety mostly Sunday ninety four on Thursday, current temperature.
He is seventy five at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Glip is here and he's

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got an update on some of our top stories this morning.

Speaker 6 (15:47):
Right Jimmy, the wild spending of Harris County Democrats continues
to be exposed. We will explain Angleton police Sergeant J. D.
White was killed on Sunday while escorting a funeral procession.
He was on the job for nineteen years. And Jimmy
ut Austin is going after another quarterback with some good genes.
They already got arch Manning right. Yeah, now they're going

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after Gunner Rivers, the son of former NFL star Rivers
Philip Rivers. Yes, get the latest news anytime at KTRH
dot com, Go sark.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Our next update is at five thirty for.

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Once on are under construction two eighty eight six ten.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Accidents and alternate next on the ten on seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
All right, it's COVID update. Yes, COVID update. Can you
believe this COVID update. First of all, we have a
relatively new COVID variant out there, Not that many of
you really care about that, because, after all, it's just
a glorified case of the flu. Actually I heard it
compared more to the common cold now than even the flu.

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But we are told breathlessly by Today on NBC that
is highly contagious new COVID nineteen variant detected now in
several states across the US, currently making headlines NB one
eight to one, A mutated omikron variant that caused surgis
in parts of Asia earlier this year and recently spread

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to the United States. So far fewer than twenty cases.
We got twenty cases in Dinginging they're sounding the alarm
on this one. Every year since twenty twenty, the US
has seen COVID cases spike in June and August, and
twenty twenty five should be no exception.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
The experts say, Okay, here we go.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
The news of this variant, and there's gonna be a
new variant every year, just like there's new variants with
the flu. I mean, it just it mutates. It's what
it does. What it seems to be doing, is it
mutass becomes more contagious, but it also becomes less dangerous.
That seems to be the normal course of most viruses,
and this one doesn't seem to be any different. Doctor
Martin McCarey, though, on today getting a tremendous amount of

(17:55):
pushback from host Margaret Brennan over the idea that they're
no longer are going to recommend the COVID vaccine for
healthy young people and for pregnant women.

Speaker 23 (18:06):
It's been about four years since the original randomized trials,
so we'd like an evidence based approach. Doctor Prescott and
I published this in the New England Journal of Medicine
last week and we're basically saying we'd like to bring
some confidence back to the public around this repeat boosters
strategy theory, because your statement was not.

Speaker 24 (18:25):
About repeat boosters. It says the vaccine is not recommended
for pregnant women, the vaccine is not recommended for healthy children.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
That's differnth on annual booster.

Speaker 23 (18:32):
Yeah, at this point we're going, you know, it is
a booster strategy. People would be getting the updated shot,
so whether or not a young healthy shop. So we'd
love to see the data. We'd love to see that
no datascal level.

Speaker 24 (18:46):
For a parent at home hearing you trying to make sense.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
We're saying, take it aboack to your guys.

Speaker 24 (18:50):
Their child has not been vaccinated. Are you recommending that
their first encounter with COVID be an actual infection.

Speaker 23 (18:57):
We're not going to push the COVID shot and young
healthy kids without any clinical trial data supporting it. That
is a decision between a parent and their doctor. And
just so I don't know if you know these statistics,
but for eighty eight percent of American kids, their parents
have said no to the COVID shop last season. So America,
the vast majority of Americans are saying no. Maybe they

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want to see some clinical data as well. Maybe they
have concerns.

Speaker 24 (19:22):
About crowdsource my health guidance. I want a clear thing, right,
we just go with popularity. We're seeing, as you're saying,
data and when.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
We rest satadata.

Speaker 24 (19:31):
Okay, So the CDC data said forty one percent of
children aged six months to seventeen years hospitals with COVID
between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four did not
have a known underlying condition. In other words, they looked healthy,
So COVID was serious for them.

Speaker 23 (19:47):
So, first of all, we know the CDC data is
contaminated with a lot of false positives from incidental positive
COVID tests, with routine testing of every kid that walks
in the hospital.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
When I go to the ICU, I we.

Speaker 23 (20:00):
Walked to the p We know that data historically under
the Biden administration did not distinguish being sick from COVID
or an incidental positive COVID test. When you go to
an ICU in America and you ask how many people
are in the ICU that are healthy, that are sick
with COVID. The answer I get again and again is
we haven't seen that in a year or years.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
In other words, it's flawed data. It always has been
flawed data. They came out of the previous administration. You know,
people dying from COVID or people dying who just happened
to have COVID but have been actually died from something else,
and it got attributed to COVID. All those numbers got
skewed beyond belief. So yeah, there's we can't trust that data.

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Five twenty seven. Time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Bellinger, Good morning to you man, Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Good morning.

Speaker 25 (20:48):
Stocks posted modist games in Monday trading. A rebound and
big tech shares led the market higher, and the major
averages posted advances ranging from a tenth of a percent
to seven tenths percent. Investors are keeping close tabs on
developments in the trade war the White House, as President
Trump is likely to speak to Chinese President she this week.

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At the moment, the futures are lower. Right across the board,
Dow futures down one hundred and seventy points. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News, Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Five thirty is our time here in Houston's morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories that have our
hair's cunning. Has a lot of overpaid employees, Dallas trying
to steal away Houston police officers. And coming up at
five thirty eight, So how much does it really cost
to own a dog or a cat? On average? Twenty grand?

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Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's borning News.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Jimmy, you want some leftovers? Well leftover? What's going one? Well,
it's leftover roadwork last night. You can't put you on, Julie.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
Yeah, you can't put that on a tortilla, dude. He's
decks outbound Willie C. That's two right lanes blocked here.
It's overnight stuff. They should have that any minute now.
And also we're looking at the Southwest Freeway north found
right before you get to the canyon. We've taken out
two left lanes. They'll have this up. Just be patient.
There's about a two minute smash. In fact, I would

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stay the course for now. I'm Skymike and the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center.
Mostly sunny and breezy. It looks like about ninety for
the high today. We'll get Terry Smith in here, get
you an update on the forecast in about nine minutes.
Right now, it is seventy five at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time
now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Good morning everyone. Five thirty one on KTRH. We're exposing
Harris County Democrats this hour. Judge Leta Hidalgo claims we're
facing a two hundred and seventy million dollar budget.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
She didn't vote to.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Give deputies pay raises last month, and out Texas Scorecard
reports that county bureaucrats are some of the highest paid
in America. Nine executives currently make more than President Trump.

Speaker 27 (23:18):
Not too surprise, certainly embarrassed that it happens to be
the case. I mean It's frustrating because we're in the
midst of talking about a two hundred and sixty plus
million dollar deficit in the county, and here we are
paying these bureaucrats, I mean, more money than some cabinet secretaries.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Charles Blaine with Urban Reformed, the highest paid is the
chief Medical Examiner, who makes more than five hundred grand.
The interim Director of Public Health, Leah Barton, makes four
hundred and fifty six k and got a raise up
one hundred and eighty four thousand dollars from last year.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
The INFO received through a Foyer request.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
And remember this, Hidalgo wanted you to pay for her
in three staffers to go to Paris this month. Meantime,
Houston Police just got a raised, but the Dallas Police
Department is still trying to poach our cops with a
new ad campaign.

Speaker 28 (24:04):
It's nothing new around the state. As officers shortages grow.

Speaker 29 (24:08):
Houston, we're already twelve to fifteen hundred downs compared to
what we should be.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Everybody's going to do what they can to recruit.

Speaker 28 (24:14):
Houston Police Union president Doug Griffiths says, Houston leads the
way an expertise, so this isn't surprising, but they're already
fighting against it thanks to new pay raises they just got, and.

Speaker 29 (24:24):
Our contract speaks for itself. We're going to be the
highest paid the state. And the reason is we need
that to recruit and retain officers, and with this contract
we will.

Speaker 28 (24:33):
He says there's no incentive to leave Houston PD for Dallas.
Andre Parard News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
A Houston firefighter is injured after a commercial building went
up in flames in North Houston. It's a non life
threatening injury. Almost one hundred firefighters were called to this
blaze and it took two hours to put out. Five
point thirty four on KTRHD. Texas legislative session is now
officially over. The governor until June twenty second to veto

(25:02):
anything that was passed. And everybody's asking about the statewide
THCHC ban.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Will you be vetoing Senate Bill three that THHC ban.

Speaker 30 (25:10):
I'll be taking a look at it. I need to
be able to sit down and look at them as
a whole and see what they do, say what they
don't do.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
The governor on San Antonio television last night. He's in
Houston today to sign bail reform. Now, the backlash against
ICE agents for doing their job is getting more violent.
Texas Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne tells Fox you can blame Democrats.

Speaker 31 (25:31):
You've got these citizens now who are fighting against these
people who are only there to do their job. I
think it's horrific that was happening right now, but it's
being encouraged by a lot of Democrat elected.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Officials, including the three that stormed an ICE facility in
New Jersey last month. Texas Senator Ted Cruz is calling
for a revamp of the visa system after Sunday's terror
attack in Colorado, Mohammed Solomon over state of visa by
two months before injuring twelve people that were marching four
Israeli hostages being held in Gaza.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
There's no doubt we need to. Here's the sad reality.

Speaker 32 (26:05):
Democrats will filibuster any effort to bring sanity to securing
our border.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
Cruiz on Fox will have more on the attack and
a warning about future attacks from Tom Home and the
Borders are at six o'clock. House Republicans are ramping up
their investigation into the cover up of President Joe Biden's
cognitive decline. Florida Brian prober Were Congressman Brian Donald says,
we need answers.

Speaker 33 (26:30):
They lied to the American people. They cover up the
fact that Joe Biden was not capable of doing the job.
And that's why the Oversight Committee is going to investigate.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yes, setting up interviews with President Biden's White House doctor. Meantime,
Democrats are still trying to figure out their future, and
new polling shows growing support for Pete Buddha Judge in
twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 34 (26:51):
In response, Houston area State Representative Risco Kaine says, this
could be proof that Democrats or Americans in general have lost.

Speaker 28 (27:00):
We laugh, but there may be something that they know
that we don't.

Speaker 35 (27:03):
I mean, I would hate to see that Poland somehow
is shown that Pete Buddha Judge.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Is the guy.

Speaker 34 (27:08):
But Houston area State Senator Paul Beckincourt had a more
visceral response to the possibility of Buddha Judge as president.
Michael Schungloh News Radio seven forty KRH it is.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
Now five point thirty six looking at your money down,
Futureshire down this morning. Wall Street started June with gains
all across the three indicies.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yesterday.

Speaker 6 (27:30):
Meantime, the White House is giving China a deadline on
trade talks.

Speaker 36 (27:34):
China accused the US of violating the ninety day trade
truce enacted last month after Trump accused Beijing of breaking
it in a post on Friday. The Chinese Foreign Ministry
called that a serious distortion of the facts, adding what
the US does overstretches the concept of national security, politicizes
and weaponizes trade and tech issues, and are malicious attempts
to block and suppress China. Two sources, Telfox, the US

(27:56):
Trade Representative set a Wednesday deadline in a letter asking
all entries and negotiations to submit their trade offers.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
That is Jackie heinrig reporting and the Astros are one
half game behind Seattle and the Al West. They're in
Pittsburgh tonight. Pregame at four point thirty on Sports Talk
seven ninety. First pitch at five forty. KTRH joins after
the Michael Berry Show in progress at seven. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's News. Whether in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 37 (28:23):
I usually take iten West, but lately that's been a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the ten, why is
he giving us kikitty cat flowers? I don't get that.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Five oh not that okay, oh never mind five thirty
eight our time here in Houston's Warning News.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
I find this interesting all the time because this doesn't
surprise me. It really doesn't. But I know it surprises
a lot of people because a lot of people think
that owning or if you prefer, being a parent to
a pet, turns out that it's a lot more costly
than most people think it's going to be. Most people

(29:04):
think if you were to ask them, how much Okay,
you just got a cat, right, how much do you
think it'll cost you to care for that cat for
the next fifteen years? And you think about it. Okay, well,
let's see here we got we got cat food that's
not particularly expensive, unless, of course, you're buying you know,
more of the healthier stuff, and the healthier it is,

(29:25):
the more expensive it is, of course, just like everything
else in life. Then you got litter, right, you got
you're buying litter, and then you're buying you know, you've
got litter boxes, and you've got trips to the vat
and you know all the annual you know, trip to
the vat and vaccines and all that kind of stuff.
So most people think for fifteen years for a cat,

(29:46):
the average came out to a little over fifty seven
hundred bucks. That's how much people thought it would cost them.
For dogs, the average they thought would be about eight
and fifty eight bucks. The real numbers are more than
three times that much, depending on what type of food
you buy. You know how much your vet cost and
how much you spoil them with things like treats. I

(30:07):
think I've had this conversation before. You know, with Swiper.
We buy him dog treats and they are crazy expensive,
but we spoil him and now he expects it. Of course,
caring for a cat actually costs anywhere from twenty thousand
to forty seven thousand dollars of the course of their life.
For dogs is twenty two thousand to just under sixty

(30:27):
one thousand dollars. And that's an average of thirteen hundred
dollars a year for cats or fifteen hundred dollars a
year for dogs. Even a rabbit can easily cost over
one thousand dollars a year to take care of. The
cost for caring for a dog has gone up about
twelve percent in the last three years nineteen percent for
cats having multiple pets. Well, now you're talking dogs and cats,

(30:51):
which we happen to have. Yet I don't even want
to think how much we spend five forty time for
traffic and weather together. I got you beer right here,
Skuy my family. My family has horses. You know you
should pay the vet bills for horses.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Now it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
What does it give me an example of an average
VET bill for a horse?

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Holy well, pretty much what we would pay, you know,
like we're talking eight to one thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
It gets crazy. Yeah. OK, and the feet, of course,
you know, and they eat a lot. They're horses. Let's
go to let's go to the you know what, Let's go.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Over the Barker reservoir and right off your tip line
seven one three two one two t I P s
Ian but bear creek, dude.

Speaker 15 (31:28):
Taste guy, Mike blinking red light report highway sick.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
I both directions.

Speaker 20 (31:35):
It's just now starting to stat up.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
All right, let me let the rest of the media
know about that. Kjr RACH listeners are the first. We
have cleared the roadwork, but the scoot is no, we
have not. We have not cleared Southwest Freeway at Fannin.
That's on the inbound side. Here here's breaks now right
after you hit that little Montrose canyon with the pretty
bridges East text Freeway.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Let's talk. Carlos reporter, heys, guy, my dude, it's outbound.

Speaker 14 (32:00):
It looks like there's some boom truck boom. It's working
on a signage.

Speaker 27 (32:04):
Some of the lanes blocked off, so it's outbound traffics,
not indown.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
All right, that's will Clayton Park. Great Teresa from Humble.

Speaker 14 (32:11):
It's got Mike definitely suit chick going north. If you're
gonna try to get to Intercontinental, you need to take
lift on Will clay I'm sorry belt way.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Ah, all right, there we go.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
That's outbound Teresa from Humble. Major banana sticker. Extra points
for both verbage and being female. Cherry Smith, I'm in
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You know perception is half empty. What'll be great?

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Not a curb this morning summer from our katrh Generator
super Center twenty four hour with the center.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Terry is here.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
She's got the forecast for you, and we're gonna start
to settle in. I think to a summertime pattern here
are we.

Speaker 22 (32:46):
It sure feels like it, and you know it's yes.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Let's just say yes.

Speaker 22 (32:53):
Sunshine, heat and humidity, some marine as well. Every day,
just some minor variations on that theme, and nice suspect
we will continue that theme for the next several months.
So today, I'm not anticipating any rain. I think we'll
wind up dry thanks to a briefly stronger high pressure
system over us. Temperatures in the upper eighties to load

(33:13):
nineties today. After that, the rest of the week we
have some rain of twenty to thirty percent chance of
a shower thunderstorm, and it's mainly in the afternoon, So
you've got that part lockdown. Upper eighties to load nineties tomorrow,
and then we get a little more heat to kick
in Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Most of us in the
load of mid nineties, but we're going to start to

(33:34):
see some of those upper nineties by Saturday.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Right now seventy five at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
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Five forty eight is our time here in Houston's Warring News.
The story that is sticking to my crawl this morning
is Harris County bureaucrats among America's high paid government employees.
I want to ask a question of the day about it.
I'm just struggling to figure out what to ask. I mean,
some of this stuff is just unbelievable. I mean, we're
paying Daniel Ramos Santana, Harris County budget director, a salary

(34:15):
of four hundred eleven thousand, two hundred and seventy eight
dollars a year. That's more than the President of the
United States makes. That's more than any cabinet member makes.
And the average salary for a county budget director in
the United States one hundred twenty two, one hundred and
thirty five dollars. The highest paid ones are making maybe

(34:36):
one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. If we're paying this
guy four hundred and eleven thousand dollars a year, that's
about three times one of the more high salaries for
a county budget director. How does this get justified? How
The only way you can justify these kinds of inflated
salaries is if you can somehow show that that's the

(34:58):
going rate, that's what you have to pay to get
good quality people. But clearly that's not the case.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
This is the first time anyway that I've heard anybody
really ask these questions.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Well, so kudos to you on that, well overdue for
asking the question. Now my question would be, I guess
our question of the day is, how do we fix
the problem. Do we just fire all these people and
start all over again. Do we say, okay, here's the
new salary. We're going to cut that in half. We're
going to pay you two hundred thousand dollars a year.
You will still be amongst the highest paid in your
position in the entire country, but we're not going to

(35:33):
pay you three times the going rate. How would you
solve the problem? Go to iHeart Radio app KTRH number
one on the preset and then you get thirty seconds
with the talkback button. You can hit the talkback button,
first name, where you're calling from. How do we fix
this problem? Just incredibly overpaid county executives in Harris County

(35:55):
five point fifty. Right now, time for traffic and weather
together as we check in again with sky k t
RH listeners.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
The first to know about this problem.

Speaker 5 (36:03):
It's I forty five North Freeway Cypress Woods southbound, and
we've got ourselves a vehicle fire. Hopefully, oh look at that.
Hopefully everybody's okay. The trend Star just found it too.
This is two well, guess where they got that info?
Southbound two right lanes. Man, I hope you're okay there
camera two four zero. If you're following along at home,
this is southbound and that is causing a pack up.

(36:26):
Now right after Louetta on the southbound, it's out forty
five north. Let's go to the tip line quickly. Tony
from Beaumont, Hey, scoying.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Mike, Tony for Beaumont, traveling west on I ten all clear.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, horses a very expensive.

Speaker 14 (36:40):
Don't forget the shoeing.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Also totally Fred. Their shoes are way more than Nike,
that's for sure. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather
center for today, mostly Sunday sky is darry, a little
bit breezy right about ninety partly cloudy street shower with
thunderstorm possibility about thirty percent chains tomorrow ninety and then
partly Cloudie's slight thundershower chance. I have ninety four on Thursday.
Right now seventy five at your official severe weather station,

(37:09):
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some
more of our top stories on a Tuesday, Here's Cliff.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Thank you, Jimmy Borders.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Our Tom Holman says we could see more Boulder style
attacks thanks to Joe Biden's border disaster. The Texas Education
Agency extends control of HID through twenty twenty seven, and
fourteen people were injured at a park near Fort Worth
over the weekend. Lightning hit the canopy they were taking
shelter under during a storm. Get the latest news anytime

(37:38):
at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at six.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Fifty nine. Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
KTRH time saving traffic connect on the ten.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Hey, it's a love song for Taiwan. Okay, five fifty
two is our time here in Houston's borning news. Right,
Taiwan is probably in real trouble. Secretary of Defense Pete
Hegseth saying that there is a plan. China has a
plan for invading Taiwan sometime over the next couple of years,

(38:12):
so Here is what Pete Hegseth had to say in
some reaction from well known China expert Gordon Chang.

Speaker 37 (38:19):
What is happening with respect to China and Shijenping and
they're negotiating strategy right now.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
What are they trying to do well, they're trying to delay.

Speaker 38 (38:27):
They want to go beyond the ninety day pause because
this is a very good deal for China. You know,
as President Trump said, he was worried about what was
happening inside China, so he gave them concessions. And by
the way, this gets them through the Christmas season, because
this is time of Christmas for factories. The problem for
us right now is that we want to talk to

(38:47):
ce Jimping, but ci Jim Pink has lost a lot
of power recently, and that means, first of all, he
can't come to any sort of reasonable relationship with the
United States because that makes him look weak. But also
he very may not have the.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Authority to do it anymore.

Speaker 38 (39:02):
So really, these talks with c Jinping, while we may
have great hope for them, I don't think they're going
to produce anything of.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Value to US.

Speaker 37 (39:10):
And Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with a week in warning
about the imminent threat China poses to Taiwan.

Speaker 27 (39:17):
It's public that she has ordered his military to be
capable of.

Speaker 14 (39:21):
Invading Taiwan by twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
There's no reason to sugarcoating.

Speaker 25 (39:25):
The threat China poses is real and.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
It could be eminent. We hope not, but it certainly
could be.

Speaker 37 (39:32):
It seems like he sort of sees his legacy. I'm
talking about Si Jinping as a wartime president.

Speaker 38 (39:38):
Yes, well, he talks about war all the time, and
he is mobilizing all of Chinese society, not just the
military but civilians as well, calling up reservists, taking over
civilian factories so they can turn out items for the military.
This is total mobilization and we need I'm very glad
this Secretary Hegseth said this because you know, normally at

(39:58):
the Shango Laud Dialogue or heg Seth was, you have
all of these kind and polite words from the United States,
And this time Hegseth didn't show sugarcoated at all. He
really laid it out. But the important thing, Jackie is
now that he said that this could be imminent. Where
are the actions of the president of the United States
and the Secretary of Defense himself to get us ready.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
I'll get us ready for what, right, get us ready
for war. I'm pretty sure President Trump doesn't want to
get into a war with China. Not saying he wouldn't
be willing to do it if he had to do it,
but I'm pretty sure he doesn't want to do that.
So is he hopeful that we can talk China out
of that? Is he hopeful that by presenting, you know,

(40:44):
a level of toughness that the Bide administration wouldn't, that
China could be convinced not to go after Taiwan. You know,
so far, we are getting very good signals from China.
You know, we supposedly, you know, they met in Switzerland,
came up with this trade agreement, and so far China
has done its best job to break it. They and
they won't even admit that they're breaking the agreement, but

(41:06):
they are five poin fifty six our time here on
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
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Speaker 4 (41:28):
Six am is our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Verrett.
Among our top stories this half hour. Governor Abnet is
in Houston today to sign more bills. More terrorists in
our country thanks to the Biden administration. So don't think
Boulder is a one and done kind of incident. And
coming up at six o' eight is Texas getting ready
to slap a warning label on your package of Dorito's

(41:50):
details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive again. Here sky Miike.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
The rest of the media now knows about that car
fire on I four I told the pretty ladies.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
And on Armstrong.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
This is I forty five North Freeway at Cypress Wood,
right before the bridge.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
We'll take out two right lanes.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
This is squishing us up now after Luetta southbound. Already
an eighteen minute drag. Looks like everybody's okay. Derek from
New Waverley, we'll check that. We'll check in with you
at six' ten to get an. Update and also Outbound
east Text freeway At WILLIE.

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C we still have that.

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out for the. News Here's. Cliffsonders thank, You.

Speaker 6 (42:50):
Jimmy we are sponsored By plants For All. Seasons our
top story at six oh, one we're finding out more
About Mohammed, solomon the illegal alien wo faces sixteen counts
of legal of attempted murder and nearly four hundred years
in prison for setting a dozen Pro israel supporters on
fire In, Boulder.

Speaker 8 (43:08):
Colorado he said that he had previously tried to purchase a,
firearm but resorted to the molotov cocktails when he could
not purchase a gum because he was not a legal.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
Citizen prosecutors Say solomon had planned the attack for a
year and also told law enforcement.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
He hated quote The zionist.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
Group federal officials are concerned that there could be more
people Like solomon out there thanks To Joe biden's open border.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
Policies what concerned me the most was they created the
biggest national security vulnerability this country's ever.

Speaker 6 (43:39):
Seen orders Our Tom homan telling K Trh Sean henndy
that the two million gotaways Under biden means we could
be dealing with this for the next. Decade Local jewish
groups are on alert as.

Speaker 21 (43:50):
Well Wi chan to teach people to not be.

Speaker 10 (43:53):
SILENT a genocide begins with. Words pay attention to the
words that are being spoken and yelled at and protested
in our youth. Campuses what they're saying About, israel The Jewish.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
State Rosalie, jerome the founder of The Holocaust Remembrance, association
says that Anti semitism has spread and grown more boldly
In america since The october seventh attacks In. Israel six
oh three ON, ktrh Former Harris COUNTY Da Kim ogg
warned last week that one of the suspects in The
Joscelyn nungery murder case was accused of a violent crime

(44:27):
In Costa rica before coming here.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Illegally but It's ogg who is now in Hot.

Speaker 39 (44:32):
Water the defense is calling for her to be held
in contempt of court and a criminal investigation after she
revealed confidential information about the case against one Of Joscelyn
nungerrey's accused. Killers in an interview last, Week ogg said
That Franklin, penya one of the men accused of raping
and Murdering, nungery allegedly raped An american woman on vacation
In Costa.

Speaker 6 (44:52):
Rica Bryce newberry with OUR tv Partner channel. Two, meantime
a new bill that will Require texas sheriffs to partner
WITH ice is away.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Meading Governor Greg abbott's SIGNATURE.

Speaker 12 (45:02):
Sb eight is mandating that sheriffs and communities have to
cooperate WITH ice to allow state and local law enforcement
to keep aliens who are criminal aliens illegal aliens in
their jail and wait FOR ice to come pick them.

Speaker 6 (45:14):
Up Cheryld Kenny Sheriff Thanneas cleveland says that most sheriffs
already work WITH. Ice this, bill, though will close any.
Loopholes cleveland Joins Houston's Morning news at six point, twenty
and as the legislative session wraps, up Some Republican house
members aren't quite happy with how things played.

Speaker 34 (45:31):
Out Houston Area Representative Briscoe kaine, says by the time
The Texas legislature finished up the session, yesterday there was
so much more that could have been done for the conservative.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Agenda this Is.

Speaker 35 (45:42):
Texas we should be coming home and bragging about how
red it, was and that's not what we get to.

Speaker 16 (45:46):
Do and So i'm just going to be honest to
say it was, good but it could have been way.

Speaker 34 (45:50):
Better there were eighty Eight republicans elected this, Session Representative kane,
says and the tide should have been, overwhelming but in
some cases THE gop In austin barely made. Waves I'm
michael Shin Low News radio seven forty K.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
Trh Governor abbott will be In houston today to sign
bill reform into. Law after Signing Texas Cyber command, yesterday.

Speaker 17 (46:12):
Attacks that occur thousands of times every single second of
every single.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
Day Cyber command will be based out Of San antonio
six oh five now ON ktrh In. Washington President Trump's
Big Beautiful bill faces pushback From republicans Like Kentucky Senator
Rand paul who doesn't like that it raises the debt.
Ceiling Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne mullen told Ktrh Is Klay
travis And Buck sexton they have no. Choice the money

(46:39):
was already.

Speaker 14 (46:39):
Spent we can do it now and negotiate With republicans,
only or we're going to do it. Later there's EITHER
a OR b BECAUSE c means with, default and we're
not going to default on the money we.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Spent he.

Speaker 6 (46:51):
Says passing this bill is the first step towards balancing
the budget in a few. Years, Meantime fox reports that
The Freedom caucus in The house is demanding a vote
on The White house's nine point four billion dollar spending
cut proposal that will reach The house today as they
return to. Work SIX zho Five Social security benefits are

(47:12):
back on. Track drew hit a record two thousand dollars this,
month but that number hides a big. Problem new analysis
shows that the buying power of those checks has dropped
thirty six percent since two thousand and just twenty percent
in just the last fourteen.

Speaker 19 (47:27):
YEARS i think anytime you're on a fixed, income you
really want to anticipate how inflation is impacting your spending
and your.

Speaker 6 (47:38):
Income Right bank, Rates James royal says healthcare is not
really considered in the current cost of living, formula AND
i could say it's time to overhaul how the social
security raiss are calculated to reflect what seniors actually.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Spend but you are getting a break at the.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Pump gasoline is averaging just two sixty seven a gallon
this morning Across, houston ty cents cheaper than it was
Last june. Third as for, oil it's up twenty three,
cents trading at sixty two dollars in seventy five cents a.
Barrel coming up on SIX zho, Seven The astros visit
The Pirates tonight coverage at four thirty On Sports talk seven,
Ninety first pitches at five FORTY ktrh will join the

(48:18):
game in progress at. Seven The stros or one half
game Behind seattle in The Al. West And I'm Cliff
cylinders On Houston's News weather In traffic Station News radio
seven forty k T.

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Rh we see what's happening? Here when it happens?

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Here?

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Speaker 4 (48:43):
Doritos should we put warning labels On dorito's uh? Skittles
how about mountain? Dew should we put warning labels on mountain.
Dew texas bill lists more than forty, ingredients including synthetic
food dyes and bleached. Flour, many but not, all of
the editors are banned or require warnings in other. Countries if,

(49:07):
approved the impact on the package food industry this is
A texas, bill by the, way the impact on the
packaged food industry would be far. Reaching companies would be
forced to comply with state, regulations and they have often
opted to adopt those changes nationwide to streamline. Production so
would also mark one of the most substantive victories yet
for THE maha movement That Make America Healthy again.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
MOVEMENT i Mean kennedy supports. This ROBERT.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
F Kennedy junior supports. This the bill supporters have said
that it Has kennedy's. Backing Representative Lacey hull, is the
state lawmaker who was one of the bill's sponsors in The.
House she received a call from him when it passed the.
Legislature abbot is yet to commit to signing the, bill
so it's one of many bills That Greg abbott has
that he's not yet. Signed he's not signed THE thchc bill,

(49:58):
yet by the, way they will care before this hour's
over from A texas veteran who's very upset That Lieutenant
Governor Dan patrick has decided that people like him SHOULD
i have access TO thhc because he's pretty much just,
said it's saved my, sanity it has saved my. Life
Lieutenant governor Dan patrick makes it makes it sound, like you,

(50:18):
KNOW thc is Destroying america's sanity and causing people to kill.
People the truth is much closer to what the veteran
has to say than What Lieutenant governor Dan patrick has to.
SAY i have no idea why he is on this
this you, know this mission to get rid of ALL,
thc even for consenting adults who are getting a treatment

(50:41):
from a physician for. This so, ANYWAY i. Digress so
what do you think of? This should we ban or
should we have a warning label In texas on any
food that contains either synthetic, food, dyes bleached, flour or
any one of more than forty ingredients that are band
or require warnings in other? Countries do you support? This

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side To the lockwood visor side or To The katie freeway.
Advisor Side so terry, your hesters you got to do
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Nineteen sixty you got a car fire on the.

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On ram they got the road construction people out there
still backed up way Past belt way eight and the
feeder road is.

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Back down, all right you're trying to catch.

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The.

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Loop, ghetto david.

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The moon i'm gonna make a bet with you, Right Now,
Jimmy barrett i'll bet you two Tacos that terry did
Not Own Pink floyd dark side.

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Of THE moon. I did woa you lost? That bed.
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Speaker 4 (53:20):
From mark katrh Top, tax defenders twenty Four Hour, Weather
Center terry smith. Is, here well we're WATCHING and i
know you're watching, it too but you don't think it's
going to develop into our first. Named storm there's this
little system off the Coast. Of florida there seems to
be a lot of people back in the idea that
that Made. The andrea but you're not.

Speaker 22 (53:36):
Thinking, so, Well no i'm not thinking so for a number.
Of reasons but the primary reason is because the people
who spend day and night focusing on these things are
going eh about any sort of formation in the next,
several days and it's gonna be making its way Into

(53:57):
the atlantic and away FROM. The us so even if
if it does turn, into something it's not going to
have really much of, an impact except maybe along the
Coast of North And south Carolina. And georgia it might
kick up the waves a, little bit maybe bring, some
Rain but i'm not impressed at. This point it's going
to take a little something more than just something swirling

(54:17):
around to. Impress me closer, to home we also don't
have a whole lot.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Going on it's a. QUIET stretch i think we're.

Speaker 22 (54:25):
Dry today thirty twenty to thirty percent chance of afternoon,
thunder showers tomorrow through the rest of, the week so
rain chance is. Very limited near ninety today, and tomorrow
and then it does get hotter for the second part of,
the week in the load of mid nineties for most,
of us and some upper nineties over.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
The weekend, right now seventy five at your official severe,
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And weather you're starting your day Right With Houston's, morning
news brought to You By New South.

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Windows solutions so here's another bill that man it Through
the texas legislatures waiting the signature of. The governor texas
sheriffs may soon be enforcing federal immigration warrants under a
new Bill At senate. Bill, eight again it made it
out of. Both chambers yet to, BE signed i guess by.
The governor my guess is he probably will sign. This
bill we'll wait. And see but we're going to Talk

(55:20):
To Thadeus Cleveland Terrell county sheriff about these new potential
duties coming. Up, next first traffic and, weather together starting
WITH The u skymike Forty.

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Five North Freeway cypress.

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Wood southbound we'll still hold that two lanes for the
vehicle fire, outbound boy that's a squish on the east
text right before ranking they're doing some kind. Of roadwork
we're still packed. Northbound outbound i'm skylike IN. The usa
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FROM R ktrh Top tax defenders twenty four hour. Weather
center mostly sunny, and breezy about ninety today part Of
The klaudie stray shower at thunderstorm possible about. Thirty percent
chance right about ninety. For Tomorrow then thursday part Of
the kadi. Slight thundershower chance ninety four for The high,
right now it's seventy five at Your Officials Severe. Weather
Station news radio SEVEN. Forty ktrh it's time to get

(56:08):
you caught up on some of our top trending stories On.
The TUESDAY Here's klev.

Speaker 6 (56:11):
Thank you jimmy six, Twenty one just weeks after getting,
A raised houston cops are being recruited By another.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
Texas city we'll let you know who.

Speaker 6 (56:18):
THAT is i s arrest some fifteen hundred illegal aliens
during a large scale operation in the sanctuary City of
Boston and Jimmy Mad Max maxine waters got caught with
her hand in the cookie Jar The california democrat was
fined sixty eight grand for campaign. Finance violations get the
latest news ANYTIME at ktrh dot com or next update

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Round houston next on the ten on SEVEN forty ktrh six.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Twenty two now You're in houston's. Borning, news so if
the Governor Signs senate, Bill eight texas sheriffs may soon
be enforcing federal immigrant warrants under a brand. New bill
we're going to bring on a sheriff to tell us
whether or not he supports this or not that He
Is Cleveland Terrell. County sheriff welcome back to, The. Show
sheriff How did jeff great to be? Back on how are?
You terrific?

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Thank You.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
It's jimmy by, the way what do you think here?
Is this does this create more work? For you and,
if so is this the kind of work you want to?

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Take, on.

Speaker 12 (57:21):
Well, of course as, you mentioned, You know i'm down on,
the border so we already do a lot of. Border
work but this part of it is really is expanding
our scope of work in the peace of legislations giving
sheriffs three different OPTIONS to uh to. Work with they
can either be part of what's called the jail, enforcement
model the warrant, service model which which you have kind

(57:43):
of mentioned and doesn't create really any work other than
than just issues. And paperwork and then thirdly ONE that
i don't see a lot of, shriff participating which is
a task, force model where you actually join a task
force and go out and look for the.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Criminal agents.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
You Know of i'm hearing you say, the Paperwork and i'm,
kind of, you know laughing a little bit, to MYSELF
because i know that in, law enforcement probably the worst
part of your job has got to be. The paperwork
there's so much, paperwork involved, you know even even if
you're just pulling somebody over to give them a citation,
for something all the paperwork is involved in doing that
that probably the last thing you want is. More Paperwork, Right,

(58:20):
well jimmy let me tell you, what since, OF course
i spent twenty six years AS A us, orbitral Agent
and i'd still be one had our shri if not
passed away out Here In dryll COUNTY when i.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Took OVER but i, tell you.

Speaker 12 (58:32):
On the, state SIDE when i process an alien, smuggling,
load man it's a lot, less paperwork and it takes
a lot. Less time there's a lot a lot less
OF the biera. Credit paperwork so actually it's been an
easy it's been an easier transition than you might think
at the.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
Local, level well that's good. For sure so at the
end of the, day here obviously this is a big
help to border patrol and to even bigger HELP. To
ice when when you can execute these federal immigration warrants
and and help them out, with this certainly be, some
alternative which is when you couldn't, do that what? Would
happen you'd either give them dice or just let. Them, loose,

(59:13):
no no you're that. Latter part just let. Them loose
and and that's, a big.

Speaker 12 (59:17):
Big thing why wouldn't, you know a local shriff's officer
or other entity that has somebody in their custody that's
committed to crime material legally not want to cooperate with
the federal government and turn those those. Individuals over what
it may occur is having somebody in your jail a little,
more time which will, you know again create maybe a
bit more of a, you know having to shell out.

(59:38):
Some money BUT as, i understand there will be some
money tied to this bill for shriff's departments based on,
you know their their, city size so it won't be
necessarily one of those. Unfunded requirements and uh again it's
it's gonna be a. GOOD thing i couldn't see why
shrift wouldn't want to participate unless, you know they live
in a community that doesn't agree with it and they

(59:58):
want to you stay. In office but other, than that
it's gonna be a. Good thing it really Is for
texas And. For, americans twice ser thank you for. Your time,
Appreciate It Terrell. County sheriff That. Eas cleveland it's six.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Twenty six it is time to take a look at
your money as we check it Again With jeff Bellinger.

Speaker 25 (01:00:14):
And jimmy forecasts for global economic growth have been cut
for a second time. This Year the Organization For economic
Cooperation and development now projects worldwide growth will slow to
just under three percent, this year WHILE the us economy
grows at a rate of just over one and a.
Half PERCENT the OECD says us tariffs have tipped the

(01:00:34):
world economy into a downturn and caused. MORE uncertainty a
coalition of health groups is PUSHING for fifa to end
its decades long Partnership With coca cola Before The Club.
World cup the groups say most media Coverage Frames coca
cola sponsorship and a, favorable light ignoring the health harms
linked to. Sugary, Drinks meanwhile PepsiCo has a Commitment with

(01:00:57):
formula one to showcase three of its brands at. Racing
events stock market future is all pointing lower. This Morning I'm,
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Speaker 26 (01:01:13):
Houston's news why there were Traffic plus breaking news twenty four.
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Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
More of what's happening now From The Johan Morris. Services
studios it's Six Thirty Houston's. Morning News I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Jimmy barett among our top stories this, half Hour some
harris count executives are making three times the. National average
we just gave them a big, pay raise but it
looks Like another texas city's trying to steal Away our houston.
Police officers and coming up at six, thirty eight hundreds

(01:01:50):
of Layoffs. At disney details in the. Minutes ahead You're
In Houston's. Morning news first, That's right skylight.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Read my. Own writing that's good if we.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
Got You nord freeway. Right here this Is Southbound. Cyprus,
wood HEY did i? Mentioned seriously we are the first
outlet that. Had this of course we're used to that
southbound and we shared it with the rest of.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
The media.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
Everybody's okay it looks like we got a lot of
Breaks from lueta coming. Southbound northbound they're fixing some kind
of signage on the east text outbound At Rank. And
road that's a, big squish both the main lanes and.
Feeder roads and also now we're seeing that southbound. Back
up if you're trying to get you, a plane take
the North Pauld i'm skytmike On The generator Supercenter Dot

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Com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
FROM Our ktrh Generator super center twenty four our. Weather center, mostly,
sunny breezy high about ninety. Four today we'll get into
the summertime pattern in the next couple of days and
probably stay there for, a while especially With that saharan
dust coming. To town we'll have more in that coming
Up With terry smith Of The weather channel in the next.
Eight minutes right now seventy five at your official severe

(01:02:54):
weather station news radio seven FORTY. K trh it is
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Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
Jimmy six thirty ONE, on ktrh our top story. This
hour despite facing a two hundred and seventy million dollar,
Budget Deficit aris county has some of the wait, for
it highest paid government employees in, the country.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Including nine that make more than. The PRESIDENT and.

Speaker 27 (01:03:18):
I can't imagine that the day to day duties are
much more difficult than what the president is doing about
a day to day so it's kind.

Speaker 13 (01:03:23):
Of Crazy That's, Charles blaine President Of, urban reform and
it's almost as Crazy As Harris County Judge lena hedalgo
asking taxpayers to pay for her Trip.

Speaker 27 (01:03:35):
To paris some of our county officials look at the
county as their own personal piggybank rather than what it.

Speaker 13 (01:03:40):
Actually is some employees have received raises of more than
one hundred Thousand Dollars Jeff Biggs news radio seven forty K.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
T ree by, the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:50):
Way the highest paid is the county's chief, medical examiner
who makes five hundred and thirty six. Thousand Dollars, dallas
police in, the meantime around up their efforts To recruit
houston cops to. THEIR area Hbo You President doug griffith
says officer shortages have hit all, departments Hard but houston's
latest pay increasemates poaching our.

Speaker 29 (01:04:13):
Cops harder houston is obviously much Better. Than dallas that
shows in nothing more than our. Football Teams The Houston
police department leads the nation as far as what, we
do training. Our expertise it. Won't work our officers are
true blue and they're going to stay exactly where.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
They are. HE says hpt is the highest paid officers
in All.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
Of texas the capital murder Trial Of oscar rosales continues
as prosecutors asked for the death penalty in the Shooting
Of Deputy Constable charles galloway three. Years ago rosales was
captured after an international manhunt six point. Thirty three With
The texas legislative, Session Ending Governor greg abbott has yet
to indicate if he'll call a.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Special session he Is.

Speaker 6 (01:04:54):
In, houston, today though to sign bail reform Along With
Lieutenant Governor dan patrick and his praising lawmakers for doing
more to strengthen.

Speaker 30 (01:05:01):
The border the start of a good legal immigration process
means ending the illegal immigration process that Existed Under joe.

Speaker 6 (01:05:09):
Biden Governor On SAN antonio tv, last night he's Gotten
until june, twenty Second de vito anything that, was passed
including the state wide ban on thhc ice arrest nearly
fifteen hundred illegal aliens during a large scale operation in
the sanctuary City. Of Boston White House Press Secretary carolyn
levitt says those cities are.

Speaker 41 (01:05:30):
Being targeted only place this country should be a sanctuary
for are Law buying, american citizens and that's Why the
president has, taken historic unprecedented action to secure our nations.

Speaker 6 (01:05:40):
Territorial borders Levitt On. Fox Texas Senator ted cruz wants
to revamp the visa System after sunday's terror Attack, In.

Speaker 32 (01:05:48):
Boulder colorado this guy was a lunatic who was at
A pro. Israel Protest elderly, jewish people Including a holocaust
survivor there calling for the release of hostages Taken on,
october seventh and this guy Screams free palestine and lights them.

Speaker 6 (01:06:05):
On Fire mohammed solomon overstate his visa by two months
plus before injuring. Twelve people we'll. Have more at seven
o'clock WHILE The us satate looks at Visas In President
Trump's Big. Beautiful Bill the house is back, to work
diving into the cover Up Of joe biden's.

Speaker 42 (01:06:22):
Cognitive Health house republicans trying to figure Out if biden
age used an auto pen to sign executive Orders without.
Biden's knowledge comer Suggests THAT trump doj could get any
documents Signed without biden's consent thrown out.

Speaker 6 (01:06:37):
In Court mike emmanuel reporting new polling Shows Former Transportation
Secretary Pete buddha judge is the top contender For the
democratic presidential nomination in twenty.

Speaker 35 (01:06:48):
TWENTY eight, I mean i would hate to see that
poland somehow is Shown That.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Pete buddha judge is. The guy BUT would i?

Speaker 16 (01:06:53):
Be, Surprised, No no america has sometimes lost.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Away Reaction From. State rep riscocaine was a distant second in.
The poll six.

Speaker 6 (01:07:03):
Thirty five Looking At, Your Money wall street started with
gains all cross all three. Indices yesterday futures right now
are down about one hundred and. Thirty points on the,
international FRONT the us sends a nuclear deal Proposal.

Speaker 43 (01:07:16):
To Iran The white house tells Us That president trump
has made Clear that iran can never obtain a, nuclear
bomb But The state department SAYS the us position through
these negotiations has been To allow iran to pursue a
civilian nuclear program that can exist, without enrichment but would
require importing fuel or relying on external. Enrichment Facilities The

(01:07:40):
white house officially would not get into, any details but
said that, this deal this proposal would Be in iran's interest.

Speaker 6 (01:07:47):
To Accept jackie heindrich reporting it's now six Thirty six
oregon high school track athlete goes viral for refusing to
share the podium with a trans athlete who used to
compete as a mail is now.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Speaking out this.

Speaker 31 (01:08:01):
Was my first time competing against a trans, Under individual
so this is the first public STAND that i have
taken in, this ISSUE but i.

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Have privately supported all. Other girls they've done.

Speaker 6 (01:08:10):
The same by, the Way the Department of education Announced
that june will be recognized as titled. Nine month, last
YEAR the Doe under Biden Celebrated.

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Pride Month the astros Are in.

Speaker 6 (01:08:22):
Pittsburgh tonight pregame is at four point Thirty On sports
talk SEVEN ninety kgrh joins the game in progress. At
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Station ktrh THERE'S a uni accident On the parkway.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
This morning another updates.

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Woke version six thirty eight is our time Here in
Houston's Worn news and speaking, of woke is that's What's
causing disney to have so many problems. THESE days, i
mean not necessarily. Income problems they're still making a pretty
good living, over there but they're laying people off, the
again and a lot of it is in their, television
production corporate finance. And film things haven't been going very

(01:09:11):
Well with disney and film that the Remake Of snow
white was a bomb by just about just about, anybody's
estimation didn't do well. At all our Report, from reuters
citing an unnamed source familiar with, the matter Said that
disney plans on layoff hundreds of people from, their film
tving corporate. Finance divisions disney spokespeople confirming the layoffs said

(01:09:35):
they attributed them to quote the rapid transformation of the
industry and the need to efficiently manage. Our Businesses while
vieling the state of the art creativity and innovation.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
To love.

Speaker 4 (01:09:47):
Corporate speak california based company employs about two hundred and
thirty THOUSAND, people wow sixty thousand of whom are. Based
abroad the last major layf Of announcement kane in twenty
twenty Three with disney said it'd be reducing the headcount
by seven thousand people as part of a cost. Cutting
INITIATIVE so i guess a few hundred compared to what
they did in twenty twenty three with seven thousand is

(01:10:08):
really not all, that. MUCH right i wonder how the
theme parks. ARE doing i continue to be amazed at
the fact that they have the attendance they do in the,
theme parks mainly based on, the cost not based on the,
wokeness part because there's plenty of people with young kids
who just ignore, all.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
That but just.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
The cost the cost Of a disney vocation to take
your kids To The, magic kingdom and, you know the,
hotel costs the, food cost the one, day admission all
the add ons if you want to skip the lines
and all. That stuff it just for a. Few days
it costs thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars for
a family Go, to DISNEY and i just don't know

(01:10:49):
how people are affording it, right now six forty time
for traffic and whether they get what's going on Coming.
Son is i'm telling you that eraser. Was real let's
go right To The.

Speaker 5 (01:10:58):
North, freeway guys you got freeway Outbound around, Shepherd here
Keith From, Spring Dude.

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Sky mike with that fire and, Tow truck ninja's unseen
is blocking the two.

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Left lanes, all right.

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Good verbage. That's outbound let's Call. It shepherd, it's outbound.
Not inbound then you've got the other problem we've Had
At cypress. Wood southbound that's a. Vehicle fire Roger from
magnolia's right.

Speaker 21 (01:11:21):
On, It, guy mike it's your number.

Speaker 5 (01:11:23):
One fan, hold on, hold on And from porter we're
gonna Go to Roger From Magnolia.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
North freeway, good Morning. SKY mike i just passed the.

Speaker 15 (01:11:32):
Burned vehicle ninjas are hooking it up as we Speak.
To moods only three left lanes, getting by and this
gunge is reeled all the way back Do To.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Hurricane harbor but it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Looks like they've got everything, under control.

Speaker 5 (01:11:42):
ALL right a lot of good verbage. This morning that
looks like. Everybody's Okay At. Cypress wood that's a big
pack up Now from luetta on The Southbound, North freeway.
East tex finally they picked up that Work at ranking
on The Outbound, southwest freeway little Breaking At, Chimney Rock Visor's,
katie Freeway Little abound highway six And From Porter, guy.

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Mike it's your number.

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ONE fan i had that eraser SEE when i was.

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A kid i, have SEVERAL and i always erased his.

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Morning crew you're.

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I love, FREETOS conships i love them.

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Like A Free Doo's corn chips. Love, Song, Anyway uh
terry is here to talk about. The weather lots of clouds, To,
start TERRY but i know they're gonna burn off here
in a couple.

Speaker 22 (01:12:45):
Of, hours yeah they're not gonna hang around. Very long
WE'RE gonna, i mean you'll see. Some clouds but the,
thing is our weather's. Fairly quiet it's going to be
fairly quiet most of. The week we may get some
rain Tomorrow, through saturday but our raine chances are, pretty
slim and our rain chances today are.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Virtually nothing i'm not expecting any wet. Weather today, let's.

Speaker 22 (01:13:09):
See, temperature wise we're on track For early june upper
eighties to low. Nineties today tomorrow there's a thirty percent
chance of showers. And storms temperatures will be close to
ninety tomorrow and then only a twenty to thirty percent
chance of rain the rest of. The week but it
starts to warm up load to Mid nineties Thursday, and
friday And, by saturday looks like some places will be

(01:13:31):
in the. UPPER nineties i suspect we'll see those temperatures
back up in the nineties upper Nineties again sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:13:37):
As well right down seventy five at your official severe,
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little earlier, THIS morning i mentioned this About How Lieutenant
Governor dan patrick is VEHEMENTLY anti thchc and he cites

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kids doing crazy things HIGH. On thchc but what he
either fails to take into consideration or doesn't, care about
is all the veterans who RELY on thchc to TREAT their.
Ptsd symptoms and many of them were just stoned out
of their minds on prescription medications and this has turned

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out to be far better. For them so more on
that story, coming up and we're gonna hear From a
texas veteran who is vehemently opposed to. This ban, of
course the governor hasn't signed. This yet he may end
up bedoing, the bill which would create interesting dynamic between
Him And.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
Dan.

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
Patrick right more in this story coming. Up, next first
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yeah that's what we're talking.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
About here we're TALKING about thc in in. Chewable form
there are a lot of VETERANS with ptsd and other
ailments who use this as an effective way to treat.
Their condition here's some pretty compelling testimony From a texas
veteran about his support for going against the state legislature and,

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the governor hoping the governor will not sign that measure
that WOULD ban thchc Here. In texas let's hear what
he has to say about HOW important thchc is. For
him my wife once went.

Speaker 44 (01:16:52):
To, the store came home with, a friend only to
find me two blocks from, my house standing on the
sidewalk holding my cat hit the low ready like, a
rifle completely lost in a fog due to. PRESCRIPTION drugs
i didn't KNOW who, I was i didn't KNOW where.
I was all this was at a TIME where i could.
Barely walk now the, GOOD news i was moving. SO

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slow i didn't make it. THAT far i was only
two blocks From. The house but let's, be honest that's,
not funny. That's terrifying that was THE moment i realized
the so called solution the government gave me was killing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Me slowly this, right here.

Speaker 44 (01:17:39):
Legal him DERIDE consumable thc gummies brought.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Me back, one man A.

Speaker 44 (01:17:46):
Coast, guard veterer started a company that saved my life
and the life of thousands of other Veterans in texas
and across. The country i'm not going to call him out,
by name but he's here today and he knows who.
He is these gummies are clearly labeled right there on
the back.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
Say it regulated. And effective since.

Speaker 44 (01:18:09):
TWENTY eighteen i haven't touched a single opioid or any
of the other DRUGS that i.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
Mentioned above i've rebuilt.

Speaker 44 (01:18:15):
My life i've become a, better leader a, better husband a,
better father and ultimately a. Better man, but Now sending
bill three wants to turn this. Into contraband it wants
to turn me and thousands of other veterans into criminals
for choosing an alternative that works.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
For us.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
And if that.

Speaker 20 (01:18:35):
Hypocrisy wasn't, bad enough.

Speaker 44 (01:18:38):
Let's talk about the false narrative these politicians Are spinning
We've Seen Lieutenant governor patrick and them stand up and
paint this as a fight to, protect children but that
is not.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
The truth let's, be clear this is not a loophole in.
The industry it's not A wild.

Speaker 44 (01:18:58):
West market consumable himp has been legal from. The start
it is in the, original legislation not. A loophole it's
as plain. As day consumable himp products for human consumption
are legal. Under regulation let's stop pretending that this is about.

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Public safety this is, About power this is, about control
and veterans are caught in.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
The crossfire so what is the governor going? To do
is he going to sign that bill or is he
going to?

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Vet?

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Thank you jimmy at seven OH, two on ktrh our top.

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Story this hour it should have scared the hell Out.
Of every American what the bider administration did, those two
men known guidaways scares the hell. Out Of me so
i'm convinced something's coming unless we.

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Can find Him.

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Warning From Borders oar tom HOLMAN with K Trh. As
sean Hannity He blames joe biden for The attack in
boulder that. Injured twelve people the, Alleged Fire, bomber mohammed
solomon faces federal hate crime charges in sixteen counts, of
attempted murder and now we know it drove him.

Speaker 8 (01:23:01):
To Do it, mister solomon stated that he had been
planning this attack for a year and he acted because
he hated what He called. The zionist group.

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He faces a maximum of three hundred and eighty four years.
In state prison The attack In boulder has jewish Leaders
here in. Houstad On alert local jewish organizations say. They're Staying,
vigilant rosalie jerome President Of The, holocaust remembrance association believes
this type of violence has been brewing for more.

Speaker 10 (01:23:29):
Than a Year ever, since october seventh, twenty Twenty three
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main target Is. State of israel but it seems to
be happening a Lot, here in america on our campuses
and in. These other.

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Locations she Says.

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Many in america Have A PRE world, war ii mentality
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Is really giving the defense a lot of ammo for a,
change of venue and this case could.

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Partner, channel too now one of the big wins from
the state legislative session that is now over is a
New law, requiring texas sheriffs all of them TO.

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Work With Ice.

Speaker 13 (01:24:28):
Terrell county Sheriff That, e is Cleveland A former, border
patrol agent.

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Supports the bill.

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Church will be mandated TO cooperate with ice and sign
administrative warrants to illegal immigrants and then turn Them.

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Over To ice senate.

Speaker 13 (01:24:42):
Bill eight closes loopholes and make sure that immigration.

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Law Is enforced senate bill definitely is another, tool and
TOOLBOX and again i think it's a really good thing
to just asking local law enforcement to identify people that
are in their custody that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Are legal aliens the bill Is Now awaiting.

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Governor Abbott's Signature Jeff biggs news radio seven FORTY k
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Among the Other victories For. Republicans in austin.

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But first state actually stopped social.

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Transition of, children at school so we banned.

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Red, Flag law next there's, some Awesome Things.

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But State rep risco kaine says it could have been.
A lot better he wanted to. Abolish property taxes the
governor as yet to say if there will be. A
special session He hasn't chilled june twenty second to. Veto
Any bills governor Rabbit is in houston today to sign bail.
Reform into law yesterday He Was in san Antonio making
cyber command official a tacks.

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That often come from foreign actors from Hostile, Countries, like Shanna.

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Not an option for this.

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Bill goes for everybody's had to bring, a prints on
everybody's had an opportunity to. Put their input we're going
to put whatever is on the floor that can get
fifty one votes so we can get Away from the
biden era of policies and move Forward to the Trump
era policies trump.

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Wants to Build passed.

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By July fourth The house of representatives is back, at
work today And, according To Fox the freedom caucus is
demanding a Vote On the white house's nine point four
billion dollars spending cut proposal seven H six And Looking.
At Your money social security checks could it two thousand,
dollars this month but that money doesn't go as far as.

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It used to new Data From The senior citizens league
says the Purchasing Power of social security income has dropped
thirty six percent in the last.

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Twenty five years the.

Speaker 19 (01:26:43):
Goods and services that seniors purchase are really kind of
different than the inflation calculation.

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That's used to. MAKE the injustment i.

Speaker 18 (01:26:51):
Think Great Investment analyst james royle says, expenses like healthcare
which seniors use more than, other age groups is not,
used in fact during the cost. Of living increases advocates
are calling for reform For Better matching social security adjustments
with the real world spending Habits. Of Older Americans Eric
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Thank you eric gasoline prices continue to drop The average
across houston this morning to sixty. Seven a gallon it
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Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
That's for anybody that's had To Fly Into newark international
airport for the, last few months they've had a runway
shut down and had restricted some of the flights because
of radio problems on the things that. They, were having
evidently and this this just feels weird, to say it

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but evidently they think they've solved the problems and they
are reopening the runway that have, been shut down and
they're increasing the amount of flights Allowed into new work
and at least for the, last few days things have
been running pretty much.

Speaker 1 (01:28:18):
All On Time What.

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
Transportation secretary sean duffy Along with the united spokesperson taking
a victory lap. Over this yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
You gotta. Be, potted up okay let me try. Hitting,
It Again hi katie carroto.

Speaker 45 (01:28:37):
From pix eleven so you Had to particularly united, cancel
flights voluntarily and that is with. One runway down so
now that you've added, this runway back can you really
can you start adding? Flight flights back is that in the.

Speaker 40 (01:28:53):
In the foreseeable, future they are so we the schedule
is Now built starting june fifteenth at thirty four twenty,
eight until then but the airport's going to easily be
able to handle the twenty eight because the.

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
Runway's back early but once it's back.

Speaker 40 (01:29:05):
To starting, to june fifteenth the airport is scheduled at thirty,
four per day and again that's what's in the, Selling
schedules today so if you're buying a, ticket this summer
you can have confidence that. That's THE schedule and i
think we'll be able to gradually ramp that up by
the time we Get out to october and look.

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
At the data but.

Speaker 40 (01:29:23):
We're more confident and the Other thing that united is
done is, flight bigger airplanes so we'll, have fewer flights
we have, fewer regional jets and we're flying bigger aircraft
in to keep the number of seats for customers similar
to what.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
It was before but the schedule. Is, now set okay
just to.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Add to. That we have we.

Speaker 46 (01:29:40):
Have three problems one the runway was getting rebuilt and
again today were celebrating. Thirteen days early we had, a
telecom issue is that new, fiber is laid but it has.
To be tested and then we have the staffing issue with.
Air traffic controllers so all of those things on a
rolling basis are going. To come online and, as that
happens we're going to build expand the capacity.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
Of the, airport but.

Speaker 46 (01:30:02):
Again you can't snap your fingers and make it, happen
really quickly because these things take longer than a week
or two or.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
Even, a month okay but. We're making. Progress that's good
and for those of us who have a flight that's
going to go through new work here in the next,
couple of months it's good to hear right that you'll
be able to maybe get to where you. Need to
go seven ten time for traffic, and weather together we're
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Her all right i've got two cars two twenty Five,
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we'll take a right. Lane out here we knew this.
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got about a twenty minute drag already on.

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Two twenty, five hard hats take.

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It ten instead now we've got something squishing up that
ramp coming down. Six to ten if you're trying to
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Down katie freeway we're starting to smash up Now Right,
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SET up here i guess. It's about timing where did you?

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Know we?

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Are Did You but i'm we're only Three.

Speaker 22 (01:31:51):
Days into june mother and nature wasted, no time though
flipping the switch into a nice quiet, stretch of, sudshine,
warp tepper humidity and just a little. Bit of rain
that's the one thing that we don't have a lot
of this. Week is, rain in fact today's going to be,
a dry day upper eighties. To low nineties this afternoon

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looks like a thirty percent chance of.

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Showers.

Speaker 22 (01:32:13):
And thunderstorms tomorrow there's a week cold front to the
north of us that'll help to kind of gin up
some rain tomorrow upper eighties, to low nineties and then
a twenty to thirty percent chance of showers or thunderstorms
mainly In, The, afternoon Thursday. Friday and saturday by the end,
of the week the temperatures are going to climb into

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the nineties and some places into.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
The upper nineties.

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Tempitture right now stuck. At seventy five You're your officials
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team all the info you need did take. On the
day so What, Happened in boulder colorado was not a random.

(01:32:58):
Act of violence turns out, that this guy This. ILLEGAL
from egypt.

Speaker 19 (01:33:04):
A.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
Couple of things, first of all it turns out that
he had tried to purchase a weapon but was unable
to because of. His immigration status so when you see
the immigration status says that basically he's supposed to be
deported because he's. Overstated his visa how is it that
something doesn't get?

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
Done? About? It then right?

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
This number, one number two he'd been planning this for,
over a year and he's probably the tip. Of the
iceberg we've allowed so many people into this country that were.
Not Appropriately vetted tom homan warning that there will be more.
Of this unfortunately how does This make the? Jewish community
feel are we Concerned here in houston about random? Acts
Of violence russie jerome will join As President Of holocaust
remembrance association, Coming up next but first we've got traffic. And,

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Weather together yes guy'm on.

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To Twenty Five westbound Allen Juoa. The wreckus rio you
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to get ketchup or play ketchup here on some of.
Our Top stories here's cliff my life.

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Is playing ketshup what are?

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Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
Houston's born news we Are Joined, by rosie jerome President
Of The, holocaust Remembrance. Association and rosalie just another tragedy
that you would like to you would hope to think
could have been avoided with better planning, or better monitoring
or for whatever reason we want to. Come UP with
but I Think what Tom Homan the borders are had
to say yesterday, was rather startling, and quite frankly it

(01:35:29):
is quite quite, likely the truth which is this is
the tip. Of the iceberg we have a lot of
unvetted people in this country who Mean harm to jewish
citizens and are not afraid to. Carry out attacks how
does the local community? Reacting to this are we Concerned
here in houston about? Potential soft targets of.

Speaker 21 (01:35:48):
Course We're concerned the jewish community is very very upset
worldwide And. Especially in, America you know i'm not only
the founder and President Of, holocaustter members association but also
The descendant, of holocaust survivors and most of my relatives
were turned in. By their neighbors i'm talking about the

(01:36:10):
rest of my family were burned in The. Ashes of
Auschwitz and, in october seventh in, TWENTY twenty three I
was in israel with my daughter and grandchildren, running FROM
rockets and i saw the fear. In their eyes we
experienced firsthand the, terror that day and unfortunately the silence
of many in the world, that followed it and The,
loud Anti jewish anti israel rhetoric that has exploded on our.

(01:36:34):
Campuses and worldwide and What, happened in boulder where a
coward used a flamethrower, of All things considering holocaust, MEANS
burnt offering i mean the fires of the crematoria To
attack elderly jewish people, walking in prayer one of Them even.
A holocaust survivor this is NOT a. Random i act

(01:36:56):
it's part of a growing violent. Pattern of hate and
yet there's sleeper cells all over our city and all.
Over our country since you're talking about this refugee or,
this immigrant SITUATION you know i have A, friend who's
egyptian and she told me that there Are signs in
egypt that's, on the stores some of the stores that

(01:37:18):
say no Dogs and, no jews. Allowed you know following
the MURDERS, in D c pro palestinian social media accounts,
celebrated for years some of these groups have called for,
a global intifada and this. Is the result and, we
say again this, is not, activism it's Hate and the
west has to wake up before. It's too Late And

(01:37:39):
The holocaust remembrance association strongly condemned and of course everyone
in Most of the jewish community worldwide and especially, in
our country this Rise in anti we condemned the Rise
in anti Semitism and anti israel Rhetoric across, the western
world and are especially, disturbed by, the of course the
violent rhetoric and celebrateratory social media posts following the murder.

Speaker 4 (01:38:02):
OF innocent people i don't, know ABOUT you but i
find particularly horrifying the inability, of some people mainly on,
the progressive left to call this, what it was. A
terrorist attack they didn't want to use the word what
else would you use?

Speaker 21 (01:38:19):
TO describe, it i mean IT took the fbi to,
finally say it and even to use the, man's first
name sorry to. Say you know over nine Three hundred
anti semitic incidents were reported in twenty twenty FOUR, in
the us the. Highest ever recorded This is. Post october,
seventh in Fact right, after October seventh anti semitic incidents

(01:38:43):
in our country surged three hundred and. Sixty one PERCENT this.
Is adl research, and you Know At The, HOLOCAUST remembered
association i want to give, hope somewhere, too you know we, just,
to remember reconcile and take a Stand. Against anti semitis
We Have a Holocaust garden of hope here for free,

(01:39:03):
for the public for our community. To come To it's
On Lake. On lake easton, We're still focusing we're still
raising funds to build the rest. Of the garden but
there's plenty to see right Now Right. In king's harbor
we also have marches of Remembrents on the texas director
where we bring peaceful walks publicly standing Against anything anti

(01:39:27):
israel and making a clear Statement For, the Jewish state
for israel. On our campuses we've Done, It at rice
we've Done, IT at TEXAS A, and m galveston and
a and m we are hopefully maybe Doing it at
Rice this Year, january or april so which we're part
of a Larger group. Of nazi Descendants i'm a texas
director and We're. Just in peru, There.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
Was yesterday rosalie we're way, over ON time but i
want to give you a chance to put your website
out there for people who would like to.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
Find out, more, I'm Sorry Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:39:58):
Holocaust members association our WEBSITE is h r one.

Speaker 4 (01:40:03):
Eight, dot org rosalie thank you for. Your time today sure.
To Appreciate, It brosley jerome President Of The. Holocaust remembrance association.
Seven twenty eight time to take a look. At Your
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I'm jimmy barrett among our top stories, this f Are
How did harris county's salaries get so?

Speaker 1 (01:41:06):
Out of control they're trying to steal?

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Our police officers and coming up at, seven thirty eight
would you support warning Labels here in texas on Your
bag of dorito's details in The Minutes Ahead You're houston's
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Good Morning michael it's Terry, from beautiful richmond trying to
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Speaker 6 (01:42:05):
You very much jimme. Seven thirty two, Our Top Story
Harris County. Judge lena hidalgo here. We go again she
says we've got a two hundred and seventy million. Dollar
budget deficit she didn't vote to give. Deputies A raise
texas scorecard through a, four year request found out that
county bureaucrats are some of the highest paid. In the
country nine executives Make More Than. President donald trump, not.

Speaker 27 (01:42:27):
Too surprised certainly embarrassed that it happens to. BE the,
case i mean it's frustrating because we're in the midst
of talking about a two hundred and sixty plus million
dollar deficit in the county and here we are, PAYING these,
bureaucrats i mean more money than Some, cabinet secretaries.

Speaker 6 (01:42:41):
Charles blaining, with urban reform. Do not forget hidalgo wanted
you to pay for Her trip to, paris this month
until county commissioners.

Speaker 1 (01:42:48):
Rejected that idea.

Speaker 6 (01:42:50):
Houston police just, got A raised but dallas police are
still trying to poach our cops with a.

Speaker 28 (01:42:56):
New ad campaign it's nothing new, around the state as officers.

Speaker 1 (01:42:59):
Show or To.

Speaker 29 (01:43:00):
Just grow houston we're already twelve to fifteen hundred downs
compared to what.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
We should be everybody's gonna do what they.

Speaker 28 (01:43:06):
Can To Recruit houston Police Union president, Doug griffiths says
houston leads the, way an expertise so, this isn't surprising
but they're already.

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
Fighting against it thanks to new pay raises they just got.

Speaker 29 (01:43:17):
And our contract. Speaks for itself we're gonna be the highest.
Paid the state and the reason is we need that
to recruit, and retain officers and with this.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
Contracts we.

Speaker 28 (01:43:26):
Will he says there's no Incentive TO leave Houston. Pd
For Dallas Andre parard news radio SEVEN, Forty kt, Rh.

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Thank you andrea houston firefighter was hurried after a commercial
Building Blaze, in north houston non life threatening injuries there
it took one hundred firefighters two hours to.

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Put this out there are no. Other injuries reported it's.
Seven Thirty four the.

Speaker 6 (01:43:47):
Texas legislative session is, over for now as the Governor has.
Until june Twenty second of vito anything now was passed
and all eyes are.

Speaker 21 (01:43:56):
On THE.

Speaker 1 (01:43:56):
State, ye thhc band.

Speaker 40 (01:43:58):
Will you be?

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
Vetoing BILL.

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
Three?

Speaker 30 (01:44:00):
Do thc van i'll be taking a look AT it
if i need to be able to sit down and
look at them as a whole and see what they
do and see what.

Speaker 6 (01:44:07):
They don't do The Governor on san antonio television he
Will be in useton today to sign bail. Reform into
LAW backlash against ice agents for doing their job is.
Getting More Violent Texas Congresswoman beth, van Dine. Says blame
democrats you've.

Speaker 31 (01:44:22):
Got these citizens now who are fighting against these people
who are only there to. DO their job i think
it's horrific that was, happening right now but it's being
encouraged by A lot of, democrat elected officials.

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
Including the three THAT storms an Ice Facility.

Speaker 6 (01:44:34):
In New Jersey Texas senator ted cruz wants to revamp
the Visa system after sunday's Terror. Attack In boulder mohammed
solomon overstayed a visa by two months before fire bombing
twelve people Marching for the israeli hostages still Being. Held
in gaza there's no doubt we need to here's.

Speaker 32 (01:44:52):
The sad reality democrats will filibuster any effort to bring
sanity to.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Securing our Border.

Speaker 6 (01:44:59):
Cruise, On fine house republicans are ramping up their investigations
into the Cover Up of president. Biden's Cognitive Decline Florida congressman,
byron donald says.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
We need answers they Lied to.

Speaker 33 (01:45:10):
The american people they cover up The Fact that joe
biden was not capable of. Doing the job and That's
Why the oversight committee is.

Speaker 6 (01:45:17):
Going to investigate and this JUST, in the Doj, according
to fox is Now investigating biden era pardons amid concerns over. His,
Cognitive issues meantime democrats are still trying to figure out
what their, future looks like and new polling shows there's
Growing Support For pete buddha judge in.

Speaker 1 (01:45:35):
Twenty twenty, Eight.

Speaker 34 (01:45:36):
In response Houston Area State representative risco kane says this
could Be proof That democrats or americans in general have.

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
Lost their, way we.

Speaker 17 (01:45:45):
Laugh but there may be something that they know.

Speaker 35 (01:45:47):
THAT we, DON'T i mean i would hate to see
that polling somehow Is Shown That pete buddha judge.

Speaker 34 (01:45:51):
Is The guy But Houston Area State senator paul bettencourt
had a more visceral response to The Possibility of buddha.
Judge as President Michael schungloh news radio seven Forty, k tra.

Speaker 6 (01:46:04):
Yeah that belly Laugh Was because buddha Judge was the
transportation secretary when the toxic train derailment Took. Place in
Ohio It took buddha judge twenty days to. Visit the
city it's seven thirty six looking at. Your money down
futures are off sixty three points this morning after gains
across all three, in deceased Yesterday And the white.

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
House is giving china a deadline.

Speaker 36 (01:46:25):
On trade talks CHINA accused the us of violating the
ninety day trade trups enacted Last month After trump accused beijing.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
Of breaking it in A, post On Friday The chinese foreign.

Speaker 36 (01:46:35):
Ministry called that a serious distortion, of the facts ADDING
what the us does overstretches the concept, of national security
politicizes and weaponizes trade and tech issues and are malicious
attempts to Block.

Speaker 1 (01:46:46):
And suppress. China, two SOURCES.

Speaker 36 (01:46:48):
Telfox The, us trade Representative set a wednesday deadline in
a letter asking all countries and negotiations to submit.

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
Their Trade offers.

Speaker 6 (01:46:55):
Jackie heinrich reporting, seven Thirty seven the astros are a
half Game behind the Mariners in the west as they
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Speaker 1 (01:47:16):
Be informed. Be On Time houston's morning News Continues. WITH
jimmy verrett.

Speaker 4 (01:47:24):
I know, about the fritos but there'd be warning Labels
there In texas on dorito's because it contains, some, synthetic food,
dies bleach flour, about you know. Several other things there's
about forty ingredients that the Bill, here in texas which,
by the way got through. The state legislature is the
governor going? To sign this the list more, than forty

(01:47:46):
ingredients including, as they, said, synthetic, food dies bleach flower
additives that are banned or require warnings, in other countries
and it would require a warning Label here in texas
to Be, sold in texas which means Your bag of
doritos would have a.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
Warningly on It Like.

Speaker 4 (01:48:01):
The surgeon general, you know, danger you know not FIT
for human i don't know what, it would say not fit.
FOR human consumption i don't know how you go about
going that.

Speaker 1 (01:48:11):
Far with it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:14):
The bill supporters SAY It Has HHS. Secretary Robert f.
Kennedy junior's backing it Was Proposed By. Representative lacey hull
she was one of the bill's Sponsors. In The house
governor abbitt has yet to commit to. Signing the bill
the Statement from his PRESS secretary And I quote governor
abbot will continue to work with the Legislature to ensure

(01:48:35):
texans have access to healthy food to care for themselves,
and their families and will thoughtfully review any legislation they send,
to his desk which is up let us speak for i'd.
SIGNING that bill i got too Many people like dorito's,
in my life so we asked the talkback question about
this one. Question of today IHEARTRADY To app ktrh magus
number one, on your preset you hit, the talkback button

(01:48:57):
you get up. To, thirty seconds first name where, you're
calling from and do you support putting a warning label
on things like Bottom do and dorito's and some of
the other things you might want to eat in your
life that contain things that probably are not that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:11):
Good, For You hey.

Speaker 47 (01:49:12):
Jimmy Brick From. The, east side yeah let them ban
all those ingredients in, those snack, foods you know because
the warning labels on cigarettes and pates and all that
other craft would. Work so well don't they think we
Know that a dorito's not good for us?

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):
Or a, skittell, Come, On, man hey Jimmy this Is.

Speaker 48 (01:49:33):
Whyett from, PORTER generally speaking i think people already have
a pretty good idea about what's good for him and
what's not. GOOD for him i think warning labels would
be a complete, waste OF time and i think warning
labels would put us one step closer to Being The
socialist People's.

Speaker 20 (01:49:48):
REPUBLIC of california, I vote AGAINST that's.

Speaker 4 (01:49:51):
All i got y'all have A good dat i think
if we put warning labels on those things and they'll sell.
Like hot gates time for traffic and weather together YOU
just say i found a song that Worked in both Doritos.
And and, FREDO'S whoa DUDE i didn't i. Didn't catch
that we'll give. You a reprieze let's.

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Off GOOD well and i don't think those clouds are
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Speaker 22 (01:51:09):
Of beans today just another, dry day today another Warm
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(01:51:31):
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HOUSTON'S morning news i think the story of the, morning
for us at, least for me has been this Story
Out of texas scorecard where They Use The freedom information
act to get the salaries of Top Officials in harris
county and we find out that these people are getting
six figure raises and have salaries that are about three times.
The national average more in that story coming Up Next,

(01:52:29):
With charles Blaine President. Of urban reform we'll talk, to
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Speaker 6 (01:53:04):
You Jimmy Borders our tom holman is Concerned about more colorado.

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Style TERROR Attacks.

Speaker 6 (01:53:09):
The us supreme court won't hear challenges to bands on
assault style guns and. High Capacity, magazines and jimmy there's
something in the Barbecue Sauce at Bill Millers, in san
antonio because they have now been sued for the third
time for serving what's being called dangerously hot barbecue sauce
that caused injuries. To a customer, first of All, this

(01:53:31):
is texas? Who needs sauce did put a warning? Label
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WAY to work i, love TALK radio so i listen
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Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
You sure that?

Speaker 4 (01:53:56):
Seems to me it is when you're paying The chief
medical examiner a salary of five hundred, thirty six thousand
one hundred and, forty one dollar. Nice round figure five hundred,
thirty six thousand one hundred and forty one, dollars a
year and gave him a ninety thousand dollars raise from. The,
previous year yeah it kind of is. About the money
joins To Talk about Charles Blaine. From urban reform this is,

(01:54:16):
very eye opening? Is it Not this this texas scorecard
article where they've got the payroll data through a. Public
information request we're not, just overpaying people. We're overpaying people
we're paying people more than We paid the President Of,
the United states.

Speaker 1 (01:54:31):
For, god's, sakes yeah yeah good morn thanks.

Speaker 27 (01:54:34):
For having me, AND you're, right I mean and i
can't imagine that the responsibilities and their day to day operations,
are more important heavier Than what the president have you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:43):
Guys says has.

Speaker 20 (01:54:44):
To deal with and also this comes.

Speaker 27 (01:54:45):
On the heels of a very heated and contentious fight,
that the deputies both constable and sheriff's Deputies Had with
commissioner's court to try to get. Raises for them and
so now we're seeing that all these people are being
paid in the, hundredths of thousands some of them getting.

Speaker 20 (01:54:57):
Six figure raises.

Speaker 4 (01:54:58):
It's, just unbelievable well here's one that really stands Out
To the interim Director Of The, Public Health Services Interim
director leah barton four hundred and fifty six nine hundred
and seventy six dollars one hundred and eighty four thousand
dollars more than. The previous year these are increases that.
Are unheard of and the thing that really stands out

(01:55:19):
is these salaries we are paying these officials, are generally
speaking up three or four times the national average of what.

Speaker 27 (01:55:28):
That, position pays absolutely you would not see these salaries
or these increases in. The private sector, and you know
another one that's shocking is, the interim director the, interim
county administrator who's getting four hundred and. Eleven thousand dollars
because when you, think about it some of these positions
not only did these people they're not like it wouldn't
make it okay if they were, lifetime bureaucrats either but
they're not even like lifetime bureaucrats who spent thirty years

(01:55:49):
and They make this the county administrator position was created
years less than, five years ago and so this is,
a new department a new, administrator all together and yet
we're paying this.

Speaker 20 (01:55:59):
Amount of money it's just, for the director that's not for.
The entire department.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
So, that's crazy yeah Here's the part i'm trying, to
figure out though we're paying all These Executives. In harris
county these incredible salaries with incredible raises that are far
more than. The commissioners themselves why are the commissioners approving
raises in some cases that are more than they actually make.
Doing their, job you know it's a hard.

Speaker 27 (01:56:23):
QUESTION to answer i think one of the it was
kind of ENLIGHTENING back in i Guess it was january
when the vote Came Up before commissioner's court to increase
The Salary For, robert roberto trevino the Director Of The,
toll road authority by.

Speaker 20 (01:56:34):
Thirty nine percent and the argument was that he has a,
very you know it's. A heavy job he's got a
lot of work to, do over there and he does,
a great.

Speaker 27 (01:56:41):
Job you know And to give lena, credit for once
she was the only one to speak out against that and.

Speaker 20 (01:56:47):
Vote against it but he got a thirty nine percent.

Speaker 27 (01:56:49):
Increase this year in the argument was that the task
that he is asked to undertake is just so significant that.

Speaker 20 (01:56:55):
He deserved it, and you.

Speaker 27 (01:56:56):
Know when we look at the services, IN the county
i can't imagine that people genuinely feel well that the
services they're getting are worth the amount They're paying for
these administrators.

Speaker 4 (01:57:03):
And, The, bottom. Line charles nobody it's not like anybody
else can steal these people. Away from us nobody can
compete with these salaries. To begin with if these people aren't,
going to leave they're not in, Danger, of leaving.

Speaker 39 (01:57:15):
No.

Speaker 27 (01:57:15):
NOT at, all, i mean listen the only thing they're
probably gonna want is a more high profile job. Or more,
Money You know harritts county is the third. Third largest
counties you're not really getting much. Bigger THAN that and i,
Doubt Other counties cook county or any other county out
there is really going to offer any more than what.
They're getting here it'll probably be. Roughly the, same, and
so yeah these people are kind of outside of the
realm of being threatening. To be poached that that was

(01:57:38):
part of the conversation with the director of. The toll
authority they said the city was looking, to poach him
so we've got to give him a thirty.

Speaker 20 (01:57:43):
Nine percent increase but that was based on just kind
of word of. Mouth and rumor there was no actual.
Docuentation for, it so.

Speaker 4 (01:57:49):
Yeah, it's ridiculous yeah if they want to pay, him
that much go ahead and take, Them, all right, Charles
Thank you president President Of The Urban. Reform, Charles blaine
listen you'll have. A great dank see, you tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (01:57:58):
Bright and.

Speaker 4 (01:57:58):
Early five am hope to See. You this afterno of
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