Alleged Brown University Shooter Dies of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/19/25.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well, good morning, five am is our time here in
Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Barrett Moong our top stores
thisf hour. The alleged shooter, the brown shooter has died
from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Wisconsin judge found guilty
of a felony for helping an illegal of eight ice
and coming up at five to eight. Okay, how do
you feel about egg non details in the minutes ahead. First,

(00:41):
we're checking out that morning drive for the first time.
Gary Mackisonbersky Mike today.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, good morning, right now, working just one accident which
turned into a vehicle fire. That being down around Lamar
forty five Gold Free Way southbound FM seventeen sixty four
has all frontage road lanes closed, including the mainline connector.
And I'll have a review of our weekend road work
coming up in the next view. I'm Gary mack the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Travick.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center. Lots of sunshine today, back to cool temperatures
though sixty five. Then we're back up to about eighty tomorrow.
We'll get Terry Smith in here with a complete weekend forecast,
and then look ahead to the Christmas week.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
We'll talk to her in nine minutes.

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Current temperature is forty six at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
It's five oh one on KGRH. Our chop story.

Speaker 7 (01:33):
Claudio Nevis WELLINFI NATO birth and he was a forty
eight year old man.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Providence police Chief Oscar Perez identifying a Portuguese national now
dead by suicide that they believe was responsible for the
deadly Brown University shooting last Saturday and the murder of
an MIT professor earlier this week.

Speaker 8 (01:55):
They believe he acted alone. Brown University says he was
enrolled at Brown from the fall of two thousand to
spring two thousand and one, and that he was admitted
to Brown's graduate school to study in the doctoral physics program.
Nevis Valente was from Portugal but a legal permanent resident
of the US. His last address was in Miami, Florida.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
That's Fox's CB Cotton reporting. The news comes nearly a
week after the first shooting. Former FBI special Agent Stuart
Kaplan says he's got a lot of problems with the investigation.

Speaker 9 (02:26):
There were certain mistakes that were made early on, right
after the shooting that quite frankly, had a cascading effect
that probably hindered the progression.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
Remember, police obtained a person of interest on Sunday and
had to let him go. In Wisconsin, a jury has
found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugging guilty of obstructing federal
immigration agents during an attempt to serve a warrant at
her courthouse earlier this year.

Speaker 10 (02:53):
This was necessary to hold Judge Dugan accountable in our
assessment because of action.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
She took Prosecutor Brad Schimmel. Jurors deliberated for six hours.
Dougan is no longer eligible to hold public office under
Wisconsin law. After four years of Joe Biden's open borders,
new polling shows more Republicans want even legal immigration slowed
down or paused completely.

Speaker 11 (03:20):
Rampant and destructive illegal immigration, combined with weaponized legal immigration,
has soured the American public against all immigration.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
William Giney with Ali Pak says that hyper immigration has
displaced American workers, led to higher prices, lower rages, and
Americans are just fed up. Five h three, Congress takes
off from DC for Christmas break without a deal on healthcare,
and President Trump knows why the Dems want to keep
Obamacare alive in.

Speaker 12 (03:49):
Charge companies own the Democrat Party. They own it, and
the Democrats having a hard time. They give a lot
of money to the Democrats, very little money to Republicans.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
Trump at the Oval Office in the meantime.

Speaker 13 (04:03):
I think the damn is breaking.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
That's Marjorie Taylor Green claiming on CNN this week that
Trump is losing control of the Republican Party.

Speaker 14 (04:12):
Pointing to the thirteen Republicans that voted to overturn Trump's
executive orders enabling him to fire federal workers. Political consultant
Luke Massias says these thirteen are some of the most
moderate Republicans in the party.

Speaker 15 (04:25):
These are Republicans who are comfortable voting with Democrats to
undermine a Republican agenda.

Speaker 14 (04:31):
Messias says, this is typical pushback from those circles.

Speaker 15 (04:35):
I don't see that as a damn breaking I see
that as part of what Republicans have always struggled with.

Speaker 14 (04:40):
I'm Erica Smith, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
As for the Dems, the leader of the squad is
talking even more trash these days. Now she's got her
eye on Vice President jd Vance.

Speaker 16 (04:53):
The reactions or do you think that you'll be that
you could be Jadvance in the head to head raise
for president as polling suggests that twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 17 (05:00):
Listen these polls like three years out, are you know
where they are? What they are? But let the record
show I was stopped it. I was stopped it.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah, that's AOC.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
Texas Democrats have managed to recruit a candidate for every
state and federal race on the ballot coming up next year.

Speaker 18 (05:20):
By having candidates running up and down the ballot, they're
hoping to get more voters out, They're hoping to get
more Democrat engagement, and they're hoping to see some gains gaines.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
Political science professor doctor Jackie Bally says, but this isn't
likely to result in any kind of blue wave in Texas,
and it might actually just bolster Republican incumbents. President Trump
signed in order to reclassify marijuana. Yesterday, the THCHC industry
survived a proposed stateman on their products, but federal restrictions

(05:55):
are now going into place.

Speaker 19 (05:57):
Federal limits on products containing THHC take effect next year,
and while some are fighting it, backers of the band say,
newly released research proves that cannabis has no medical benefits.

Speaker 20 (06:08):
We do not want THFC sold in retail stores across
Texas because the harms out way the benefits.

Speaker 19 (06:16):
Aubrey Adams heads the group Citizens for Safe and Healthy Texas.
She says this research, published in the medical journal Jama,
shows there is little to no evidence that marijuana effectively
treats pain, anxiety, or sleep problems.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
Kgrh's Rex notes there five h six, the Rockets come
up short in New Orleans one thirty three to one
twenty eight. They've lost three of four. They visit Denver
tomorrow night. The Houston Texans look to win their seventh straight,
hosting the Raiders on Sunday.

Speaker 21 (06:43):
I think, you know, we've gone better in all phases.
You know, we got better in and as an offense,
and I think in our defense, still playing.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Great quarterback CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
There kickoff at three twenty five. I'm Cliff Saunters right
here on Houston's news, weather, and traffic station, News Radio
seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 22 (07:00):
World Events, National Headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I just not talking about egg He's getting close to Christmas.
Time to get serious here. Eggnog. It is a love
it or hated kind of item. Very few of us
feel ambivalent about eggnog. I love a really cold glass
of eggnog. I don't like it. I don't like it's
windspin sitting out for a while, it starts to get warm. No,
don't care for that. Don't like it with alcohol in

(07:30):
it either. Don't like a spiked just prefer it. I
prefer it the way it is. But there's good eggnog,
and there's not good eggnog. Most of the store bought
eggnog is not that good. I'll tell you that right now.
That that's about. If you've never tried eggnog and you decide, okay,
I'm gonna try eggnog and see if I like it
or don't like it, I would steer you away from

(07:53):
most store bought eggnog. Most of it is not that good.
Certainly don't get anything that is made low fat. Eggnog
was not meant to be consumed low fat anything along
those lines. Eggnog is kind of like the cranberry sauce
of drinks. It's a love hate relationship. Instacar looked at

(08:14):
the sales data from last year's Christmas holiday put on
a map the states that love their eggnog and the
states that hate it. The state that supposedly loves eggnog
the most is New Hampshire. Vermont is second, followed by Alaska, Maine.
I'm sensing a trend here, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, Washington State, Wisconsin,

(08:36):
and New Mexico. With the obviously exception of New Mexico,
these are all very cold weather states for the most part.
The state that can't stand eggnog the most, Florida. Is
it because the heat does eggnog not go with the heat.
The rest of the ten states that don't like eggnog
as much are New Jersey, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana,

(08:58):
and California. So we made the list of people who
don't really like eggnog. Other items that surgeon populary during
the holidays are rich red meats like prime rib, tenderloin, roast, fruitcake, gingerbread, cookies,
and add acids.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
It's not really a food, is it.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
It's to counteract the food, so it's it might be
a good topic for today. This is our last show
before Christmas. So while we weigh in foods that you
love at Christmas time and foods that traditionally get served
at Christmas time that you hate, you could beg either
and bore both. You go to the iHeartRadio ap KTRH.
Hit the talk back button first name. We're calling from

(09:40):
the Christmas Foods you hate or love the most? Five
point ten right now, time for traffic and weather together
under the weather is sky Mike, Gary Mackison for.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Him, Yeah, I'm never a fan of eggnog. Just me
planning here this weekend. If you'll be down around Fort
Vinne County again, similar to last sixty ninety south west
free wait in both directions will be roadwork from University
of Boulevard to around ninety nine.

Speaker 23 (10:05):
The Grand park Way.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Cranks up to ninety eight. I see this one says nightly,
so we'll see scheduled till Monday morning. Last week and
was around the clock still work in the vehicle bar,
that being forty five Gold Freeway southbound at seventeen sixty
four down on the frontage Road with all lanes blocked
on Perry.

Speaker 23 (10:21):
Matic in the ability Tree Experts traffic.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Sat from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
with the center. Terry Smith is here. We got your
care package. Terry. Your Christmas cookies have arrived. They look delicious.
I haven't tried one yet. Okay, I'm watching my weight. Well,
for the last five years, I've been watching my weight grow.
Now I'm trying to watch my weight come off a.

Speaker 13 (10:42):
Little bit more so herea at the area.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
But they look very tempting. I may have to try one.

Speaker 24 (10:46):
Well, if you do try one, oh yes, have a recommendation.

Speaker 13 (10:51):
Well, it just depends on what you like.

Speaker 24 (10:54):
So they're the almond snowballs that are covered in powdered sugar.
Then there's the salt to caramel peanut butter shortbreads. Those that's, yeah,
that might be your thing. Or if you like chocolate,
the hazelnut cookies. The chocolate hazelnut cookies are really really
really bad.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh man, they all sound really really good. Maybe I'll
just have a bite.

Speaker 13 (11:16):
Well, I hope you do, and let me know which
one you try.

Speaker 24 (11:18):
And I hate this sky Mike's not here to sample
all these goodies with you guys, but hopefully he'll be
feeling better soon. Well, whatever your plans are this weekend,
it's looking really good to get outside. We do have
a little bit of rain early next week, but really
it shouldn't be too problematic.

Speaker 13 (11:39):
No rain today.

Speaker 24 (11:40):
In fact, you're probably noticing it's slightly cooler out there,
drier air as well.

Speaker 13 (11:46):
Really nice day, like really December day.

Speaker 24 (11:49):
Load of mid sixties today for hives, but then we
warm back up tomorrow with southerly winds and sunshine close
to eighty. Tomorrow, we'll be close to eighty Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday they'll be play is a little bit.

Speaker 13 (12:01):
In the low eighties. Sunday.

Speaker 24 (12:03):
We have a twenty percent chance of a shower. Monday
of thirty percent chance of submarin, so not a lot
of rain, and then.

Speaker 13 (12:10):
It's back to dry weather Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Right down forty five at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, like I.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Said last show before Christmas, hop we're going to try
to throw a little bit of festiveness into this. But
we do have some news to pass along. Big story
from yesterday, obviously we need to get to that is
the is the manhunters over for the brown shooter. Yesterday
they identified who it was, they started looking for him.
They eventually found him. He died from a self inflicted

(12:41):
gunshot wound in a storage unit. Yeah, they found him
in the storage unit. We'll have more than that story
coming up next, but first, let's do a little traffic
and weather together as we check out the drive once again,
here's Gary Mack.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yeah, it's early, it's Friday, normally lighter than usual.

Speaker 23 (12:58):
We'll see. I'm seeing we're moving well.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Forty five north three way southbound between let's do from
League Line to the North Loop a half hour seventeen
for both forty five Gold Freeway northbound Bay Area Boulevard
hinto downtown, as well as two ninety hees found Miski
to the West Loop. I'm Gary Mack and the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Travick.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather center Sunday about sixty five today, partly cloudy near
eighty four tomorrow, Patti early on Sunday, then partly Claude
with the high temperature of seventy eight. Current temperature is
forty five. Right now, it's your officials Severe weather Station
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's a Friday morning as

(13:38):
we get ready for the holiday week. Just checking with Cliff.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
Sponsored by DNM Auto Liasing. A Texas church decides to
go look for Christmas. We will explain anti Semitism and Katie.
A Honuka display outside of a pizza shop is vandalized,
while a Christmas display is left untouched and the Kennedy
Center renamed after the President Kennedy Center at the latest

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news anytime at KTRH dot com.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
Our next update is a thirty.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Wasn't kidding about that? How about that? Nope?

Speaker 13 (14:09):
I live in Southeast Houston.

Speaker 22 (14:10):
Your forecast is at the bottom of the album on
seven k t r H.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
They got him.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Think they got a man hunters over by the way.
If you want to, if you want to look at
somebody seething, just seething during a press conference, look at
the Look at the Providence, Rhode Island police chief.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
He's just seating in that thing. He's he is so.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Pissed off about all the criticism about how long things
took and how they didn't know what they were doing. Yeah,
they're they're they're not real happy with the with the
coverage that they got on this whole thing. Hey, listen,
they thought they were being transparent, they thought they're being upfront. Anyway,
they had the big press conference yesterday. We found out

(14:56):
exactly who it was and how it happened. Here's the
report from w in Boston.

Speaker 25 (15:01):
He was found dead from her parents' self inflected gunshot
wound in his storage facility in New Hampshire. So what
do we know about this suspect? Investigators are saying he
is a forty eight year old Portuguese national who spent
one year at Brown pursuing his PhD in physics between
two thousand and two thousand and one. Brown University's president

(15:22):
saying that he would have been very familiar with the
Barris and Holly Physics and Engineering building where the shooting
took place, but that she couldn't track him to a
specific classroom.

Speaker 26 (15:33):
We're also told.

Speaker 25 (15:34):
That he went to the same university in Portugal with
the slain mit professor Nunil Lorrero. So what crack. This
case wide open. Rhode Island's Attorney General says it was
information from a very helpful witness. Remember that individual who
was in close proximity of Olente in the surveillance images
we saw. This person's image was released yesterday. Investigators say

(15:59):
that person immediately came forward after seeing themselves on television
and gave a description of a car and a license
plate which they were able to track via flock cameras.
Those are license plate reading cameras, which led them to
the car rental facility in Massachusetts where investigators say he
signed the rental car agreement under his own name. To

(16:21):
here are investigators tonight.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
It was actually a video that provides us with a description.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Of a vehicle.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
Talk back with her or no.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
That was corroborated to a tip that was received to
the tip center. That room was packed with detectives agents
receiving calls on a daily basis. We started early and
left late. Then Flock in the LPR was able to

(16:53):
provide us with this description of this vehicle. That vehicle
was picked up by Flock which led us to a
car rental place in Massachusetts. Through that the agents and
their work as well were able to get US footage
of this individual as well as a copy of the
agreement which provided his real name.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Now the shooter's dead, so trying to piece together motive
in this maybe a little bit more difficult. I actually
heard one theory that maybe it was just professional jealousy.
You know, this guy was in and out of Brown
in a New York minute. He obviously had those types
of physics and engineering background, and maybe he was jealous

(17:42):
of the MIT professor he killed. That was the thing
that also got added yesterday. This murder of this MIT
professor turns out that they were acquaintances. They had known
each other. The man was highly successful, brilliant. The man
that was murdered, who knows. In short of some sort
of a manifesto being left by we may never know
the actual reason why he did, but he did. Five

(18:04):
twenty six, it is time to take a look at
your money.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 27 (18:08):
TikTok being blocked by a group of buyers led by
oracle Fit Dance, the parent of the video sharing sensation,
signed agreements to create a US joint venture. The joint
venture will operate as an independent entity that will control
data protection, content moderation, and algorithm security. I'm John Tucker
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 28 (18:33):
A Houston's News, Why there are traffic plus breaking news
twenty four to seven.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Five Everywhere Boy the IRP.

Speaker 22 (18:44):
More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well again, Good morning, five thirty is our time. This
is Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top
stories this f are a woke Dallas church and their
political Nativity scene, V two of Turning Points, America Fest
and coming up at five thirty eight, Scripping for a
Good Cause. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking
out that morning drive once again. Here's in for Skuy Mike,

(19:11):
Gary Mack.

Speaker 23 (19:13):
Yeah, good morning.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Nothing new to report as far as the vehicle fire
is concerned. Down around Galveston County lamark I forty five.
This is southbound down on the Frontage Road at FN
seventeen sixty four. This includes the connector ramp. Both are
closed all in green. Otherwise around town currently heads up
roadwork yes this weekend ninety nine Grand Parkway both waits
eight p tonight till seven am tomorrow morning. So not

(19:36):
terrible Rocky Road to Champion Forest is a total closure.
And I'm Gary Mack and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Sunshine today with a high temperature right about sixty five.
Then we're back into the really warm stuff starting tomorrow.
More on that when we talk to Terry Smith that
the weather channelists do that. In nine minutes. Current temperature
is forty five at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news.

(20:07):
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Good morning everyone, five point thirty one on KGRH. Our
chop story the Reason for the season. While many of
you want to put Christ back in Christmas, there's a
church in Dallas, a Methodist church injecting a huge dose
of wokeness.

Speaker 29 (20:24):
Right in front of their rainbow steps is a Nativity
scene with Joseph, Mary and Jesus in a barbed wire cage.

Speaker 30 (20:32):
That's sad to see a so called church giving an
inaccurate representation of what actually happened in the Bible in
a cheap way to score political points.

Speaker 29 (20:40):
That is Jonathan Siins, president of Texas Values, the.

Speaker 30 (20:44):
Folks are incredibly desperate because the public does.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Not agree with them. Overwhelmingly.

Speaker 31 (20:50):
People of faith overwhelmingly do not agree with their position.

Speaker 29 (20:54):
Science also called the church out for keeping their doors locked.
Jeff Biggs News Radio So Tech. Meantime, Turning Point.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
Ussay's America Fest conference continues in Phoenix today. The group
has seen major growth since the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 32 (21:11):
One hundred and forty thousand plus get involved request have
been submitted since nine ten.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Erica Kirk speaking to the crowd yesterday. The conference runs
through the weekend. It's expected to draw more than thirty
thousand attendees. Police in Providence, Rhode Island, say the man
responsible for the Brown University shooting that killed two people
and the murder of an MIT professor killed himself in
a storage shed in New Hampshire. This man is identified

(21:39):
as Claudio Manuel Nevis Valente, a former student at Brown
who is also tied to that professor.

Speaker 33 (21:46):
It is believed that in Lisbon that those two individuals
attended the same university in Portugal.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
The FBI's Ted dox Reyes Valente is from Portugal and
had been a permanent legal resident here since twenty seventeen,
five point thirty three. Now there is a deal to
sell TikTok to American investors, signed, sealed and delivered.

Speaker 34 (22:09):
TikTok's Chinese parent, Byte Dance, has signed an agreement to
sell its US entity to a joint venture controlled by
three American investors, Oracles, silver Lake, and MGX, to make
sure that the widely popular social video platform can continue
operating in the United States.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
That is Fox's Hillary Barski.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
More good news for the economy, November inflation numbers come
in way lower than expectations, two point seven percent year
over year, a post to three point one percent.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
The administration is encouraged.

Speaker 35 (22:41):
We're cutting energy prices, We're cutting interest rates.

Speaker 12 (22:45):
Right.

Speaker 35 (22:45):
These things are coming down, and I think what you're
going to see next year is in extraordinary year, energy
prices down, interest prices down, and earnings up up up.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnik future trading is mixed overnight. The
President he already choosing more interest rate cuts in the
new year.

Speaker 36 (23:04):
I'll soon announce our next Chairman of the Federal Reserve,
someone who believes in lower interest rates by a lot.

Speaker 37 (23:10):
President Trump's new FED chair is expected to bring his
cutting chears, but financial planner Richard Rosso says we should
wait and see the full effect of Trump's economic policies.

Speaker 38 (23:18):
First, small business spending, people getting refund checks, higher standard deduptions,
more money, and pack space pockets. By the way, these
are all really good things, but sometimes really good things
heat up inflation.

Speaker 37 (23:30):
White House Chief Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett is the favorite
to be the next FED chair, but Trump says he's
interviewing multiple candidates. Coreyolson, Who's radio seven forty KTRH. It's
five thirty five.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
All futures are up this morning to fifty six dollars
and thirty cents a barrel. Gas prices across Houston as
we start the holiday travel period check in at two
forty two a gallon. That's about twenty cents cheaper than
you paid last December nineteenth. Ford is giving up on
electric cars, almost a year after President Trump eliminated the
electric vehicle mandate. The Climate deposts Mark Morano says, the

(24:03):
truth is that these allegedly environment friendly cars are not
all that environment friendly.

Speaker 39 (24:10):
To make one testl sized thousand pounds battery, you had
to dig up half a million pounds of material from
the earth.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
Morano says he hopes the President moves to permanently and
all Green Agenda mandates. Five point thirty five Fourth Bend
and Spring isds are both closing schools due to declining enrollment.
They may not be the only ones in the area
to do so.

Speaker 26 (24:34):
That declining enrollment is thanks to increase competition in the
education industry, So.

Speaker 40 (24:38):
The good things that feature not a bug. It should
lead leadership at the public schools to think about how
they allocate their resources effectively.

Speaker 26 (24:46):
Corey DeAngelis with the Educational Freedom Institute says this doesn't
mean public schools will die out completely.

Speaker 40 (24:52):
Not all public schools are doomed to fail. If they're
doing a great job, if families are happy with them,
If you like your public school.

Speaker 26 (24:59):
You can keep public school.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
He says.

Speaker 26 (25:01):
This is also a win for taxpayers who will no
longer have to subsidize failing schools. Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
The final eight through f report cards for Texas public
schools are now available publicly. Parents groups claim that the
grades are just a good reference point, but they don't
give the full view of what's really happening.

Speaker 41 (25:19):
Families are far more likely to trustworth mouth than the
communitied around them and their child's experience to get a
fuller picture.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
Bob Papinski with the group Raise your Hand. Texas Sys
the grades heavily reflect scores on one standardized test and
the college football playoffs kickoff tonight tomorrow. The Aggies play
Miami at Kyle Field. Kickoff at eleven o'clock. I'm Cliff
Saunders right here on Houston's news, weather and traffic station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 3 (26:04):
You know, I really hate this sky Mike is done
here today to react to this. This is his kind
of story. By the way, if you haven't heard, he's homesick.
He's he's got the walk in pneumonia in the boogie
Woogie flu Anyway, we have a group of strippers in Orgon.
They're in the news for their annual fundraiser. This is
like hookers with a heart of gold. Only as strippers.

(26:25):
The fundraiser is called are You Ready Sorry Tatas for
Tolls Tatas for Toys. Fifteenth year that they'd done it,
and this week they brought into record sixty thousand dollars.
This is a group of strippers in Portland, Orgon who

(26:48):
have turned holidays here into serious giving, donating a jaw
dropping one hundred and eighty three thousand dollars in toys
to Dornbrecker Children's Hospital over the last fourteen years through
their annual fundraiser Tatas for Toys. The total makes them
the hospital's top toy donor. They started fifteen years ago
as a five hundred dollars joke with a heart and

(27:09):
has grown into a full blown transition. Now I'm not sure.
The story just talks about how they're raising funds for
the toys for the children's hospital. It doesn't say how
they're raising him.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't I.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Don't know if they're donating the proceedings from their clients
or exactly what it is that they're doing. But the
promo for the event is rather fun to read, so
I'm going to read that to you join Portland's finest
North Pole dancers for an unforgettable evening of holiday cheer,
beer and rear as you make it reindeer, all to

(27:48):
benefit Dornbecker Children's Hospital. Got to give him a bit
eight plus for creativity on that one. Five time for
traffic and weather. Together's we check it again with Gary Mack.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Only imagine, let's take it to the six ten North
Loupe first off westbound right airline.

Speaker 23 (28:04):
That's an accident here.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Remind us a right lane, a very minimal delays antheus
time I am seeing slower speeds. Is still on the
loop westbound approaching I forty five north down. You know
the connector that Bottlenecks has a stop and go from Fulton.
I'm Gary Mack in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Center from r ktr H Generator super Center twenty four
our weather Center. No okay, I'm a little early, so
it's not Terry's fault. Sunday today with the high temperature
right about sixty five, partly cloudy with a high year
eighty four tomorrow, and then Sunday clouds early, then partly
cloudy with the high temperature right about seventy eight. Terry's
just popped in the door there. So let's I did

(28:42):
the forecast through Sunday, so let's find out about Let's
find out about Christmas week, Terry, what are you thinking
for Christmas Week?

Speaker 24 (28:48):
This is insane these temperatures. So high pressure is taking
over our weathers starting tomorrow, and so we've got high
pressure keeping a stry and southern wins and the temperatures
just keep going up.

Speaker 13 (29:03):
So I don't know.

Speaker 24 (29:04):
If you mentioned that slight chance of rain Sunday, I'll
make mention of it quickly, and perhaps a few showers,
I should say Sunday that slight chance of rain. In
the Monday, a few showers, But I think after that
we're dry, and we're looking at temperatures upper seventies to
low eighties to start off the week, and I don't
see that really changing Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and

(29:27):
the nighttime temperature is probably in the sixties, so it's
it's not.

Speaker 13 (29:30):
Going to feel like Christmas.

Speaker 24 (29:33):
Maybe early next week, like around December twenty ninth, thirtieth
thirty first, we may get a little bit of a
cool down, but it's still going to be quite mild.

Speaker 13 (29:46):
Really, it looks like for the rest of the year.
How's that for a forecast.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Well, we got told right that it was going to
be a lu ninia winter, that we're going to have
a warmer than normal winter. Sures turn out showing up. Yeah, exactly,
exactly as predicted. Current temperature is no, no, no, no, no, no no,
there it is forty four at your official severe weather station,
these Radio seven forty KRH. Well again it's our last
show before Christmas. We have a question today. I'd love

(30:10):
to have you participate in this, and we may add
to the question here at six o' because I have
another thing I wanted to ask you about. But we're
starting off with eggnog today. Eggnog, the cranberry sauce of December.
You either love it or you hate it. I don't
know anybody who feels ambivalent about it. So your feelings
on eggnog number one. But even more than that, there

(30:34):
is something that gets served i'm sure, on the holiday
menu at Christmas time that you you really look forward
to and you really love it. And there's something that
maybe you grew up with as a kid that your
mom always served that you just you just didn't like
it and everybody else did and you couldn't figure out, Well,
why don't I like this? Everybody else likes this?

Speaker 2 (30:55):
This is horrible. I hate this.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
So the worst and the best Christmas food as far
as you're concerned, you know, it could be as simple
as Christmas cookies. You know, Terry Smith, give us some
Christmas cookies. You if she sent us some little care
package of Christmas cookies. We'll save you some, Mike for
when you feel better again, you go to the iHeart
radio up ktr H and give us your thoughts there. Hey,

(31:18):
speaking of Christmas, you remember the Seinfeld episode with Festivus.
Festivus for the rest of us. Senator Ram Paul does
a Festivus list every year, kind of his his big
government waste items, things that we waste money on that
he would like to see eliminated.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Well, you know, we celebrate.

Speaker 42 (31:35):
Festivus is where you air your grievances. I've got a
lot of problem with these big spenders up here.

Speaker 26 (31:42):
And so we point out some of the craziness.

Speaker 42 (31:45):
Two million dollars spent on teaching people to eat bugs,
a million dollars teaching ferrets to binge drink alcohol. A
quarter of a million spent on teaching Pakistani kids about
climate change. I mean the ridiculedlessness of these things that
on the face value of it, people would say, I
got a lot of problems with that.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Most Americans would.

Speaker 42 (32:06):
Say, why why? Why are we still doing this? A
lot of it comes to the National Science Foundation. I
think you could eliminate the National Science Foundation and you
would know no detriment to that. We spend billions through
the NIH. There's no real reason to have the National
Science Foundation. And most of the really crazy dumb you know,

(32:28):
having fish drink gin and tequila and ask which makes
them more aggressive in gin or tequila.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
I mean, everybody knows it's got to be tequila, right,
is crazy.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I knew you were going to say that, but I don't.

Speaker 42 (32:41):
But I don't think that we really, you know, need
those kind of studies. Most of them are crazy behavioral studies,
you know, Japanese quail on cocaine.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
I mean, there's just some.

Speaker 42 (32:50):
Dumb stuff that the average ordinary American would go, well,
that's insane. I'm struggling to put food on my plate
and the government spending money, you know, giving drugs to animals.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah, the Deist of the Ton and every year he
comes up with this list and he'll have a list
every year because government just doesn't get rid of it.
All Right, Tom, we'll get we'll get by the way
to our guest here in just a moment, Corey to
Angelis Educational Freedom Institute about declining public school enrollment. But first,
let's do traffic and whether together is starting to you,
Gary Mack, just like.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
That, I jinxays, we're saying pretty sizable delays down on
the sixteen North Loop accident westbound, because that's an airline,
by the way, it's gone from blocking a right lane
to at least a couple of them, and we're bumper
to bumper from.

Speaker 23 (33:34):
Nearly the hearty toll rote.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
I give that around ten to fifteen minutes extra if
you'll be stepping out the door anytime soon.

Speaker 23 (33:41):
At Gerry Mack, the Ability Tree Experts.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Traffic Center from our Katie H. Generator super Center. Twenty four.
Our weather send lots of sunshine today sixty five, so
cooler than yesterday. Part of the cloudy near eighty Tomorrow
Sunday clouds early, maybe a rain shower with a part
of the Claudie Skuy later in the day seventy eight
for the high temperature on Sunday right now forty four
at your officials, Severe Weather station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(34:08):
We're checking out some more of our top stories on
a Friday morning.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Here's Cliff, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Jimmy, the accused Brown University shooter is found dead by suicide.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
President Trump says.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
He doesn't need approval from Congress to launch strikes on
Venezuela and Texas DPS. This is a follow up from
something we did last week. Is now investigating the Flock
Safety camera company for operating without a license. At the
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
is at six o'clock.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Twenty twenty five a year.

Speaker 43 (34:37):
Then we'll go down come twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
As yet to come, the President's set the table come
to us.

Speaker 26 (34:44):
Use Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 39 (34:48):
Right.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Well, you may be true to your school, but declining
enrollment has more and more schools shutting down here. Experts
believe declining public school enrollment could cause more districts to
close campuses. Certainly, locally, we have seen not so much
campus closures as much as we have seen the school
systems go from a five day a week classroom to

(35:11):
four days a week. You know, looking for ways to
cut costs. Corey de Angelis joins US Educational Freedom Instant.
See is how we brought that up. Let's tackle that
one first, Corey, do we have any data that tells
us whether or not a four day or a five
day school week makes a big difference in the education
of a child.

Speaker 40 (35:28):
It doesn't make much of a big difference because they're
not really teaching kids much to begin with, So when
you take a day away, they're not really losing as much,
but you are losing some of what you're paying for.
You're losing the time that you you know that the
kids spends at the school, so whether it's as your
curricular activities or otherwise. But the big problem here is

(35:51):
that the property tax payers and the parents don't get
twenty percent of the money back. If you're only getting,
you know, four days of services as opposed to five
days of services, you would think you'd reduce some cost
and some of that money would go back into your pocket,
but it doesn't. And this has been tried in so
many places across the country and that hasn't really improved

(36:13):
academic outcomes or anything. So you know, when when school's
ultimately closed, because of so much enrollment being reduced. You know,
that's that's a that's a that's a feature, I would say,
not a bug, especially when you have something like school
choice that just passed in Texas. You know what I've
said many times before that when underperforming private schools do

(36:38):
a bad job, they shut down, and that's that's how
markets work in every industry. But when government schools do
a bad job, they typically lobby the government and say, well,
we need to get more money because because we're failing,
if you give us more next time, we'll do a
better job. And that never actually works because it's throwing
good money after bad it's basically lighting it up fire,

(37:00):
and the parents get the short end of the stick
when you don't have choice, and taxpayers basically can never
own their homes because all of their property tax money
is going to fund school system. And we don't want
to get in Texas to be like places like Chicago
where they're just a total dumpster fire. They've had schools
get to like three percent of their expected enrollment, so

(37:23):
basically empty schools, and they'll continue funding them for years
and years, Like why are we funding these empty buildings? Well,
it's because the school system is a political apparatus that
just employs adults. It's become a jobs program for adults
as opposed to an education initiative for kids. And so
it gets so wacky when you don't have market pressures

(37:48):
where they keep these schools open even though they're not
serving anybody well.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
To quickly ask you before we run out of time here,
the thing, the big beef I've always had with the
public school system is we are basically working the same
business model we've had since the eighteen eighties, and nothing
has really changed in how the public school systems are run.
So what point do we finally fail enough where people
finally decide it's okay to blow up the system and
start over again and try something different.

Speaker 40 (38:13):
Yeah, I think we've already gotten there. I mean, look
what happened with COVID, where it's just got so bad
that some of the schools they were refusing to open
their doors. It wasn't as big of a problem in
Texas because we had better leadership at the state level
to tell them, maybe you should provide the services that
people are paying for. But in states like you know,
California and New York, they were closed and families got
to see what was happening in the classroom. And we've

(38:35):
seen in undercover videos in Texas from groups like Accuracy
and Media that the problems aren't just you know, California
and New York. You have far left ideology in Texas
public schools too, gender ideology, divisive concepts, Marxist concepts like
critical race theory, pitting people against each other based on
their immutable characteristics. And a lot of parents said, you

(38:57):
know what, you know, I thought the schools were just
supposed to be focused on math, reading and writing. What
the heck are they doing? And so they pushed for
school choice. We now have universal school choice in Texas.
It's rolling out next school year and everybody should go
apply for it. Starting at the beginning of February, applications
will start. You can take up to about ten thousand
dollars per student. You can get scholarships to go to

(39:20):
a private school if you don't like what's happening in
the public school, and.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
All you have to do is find enough room in
a private school to have your kid go there. Corey,
thank you appreciate it. Corey to Angelis Educational Freedom Institute.
It's five fifty seven.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
This is Use Radio seven forty KATI RH Houston and
iHeartRadio Station Guaranteed Human. Now the latest news, weather, it's
more of what matters to you.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
From the John Morris Services Studios. Six am our time.
Here in Houston's morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our
top stories this half hour. Remember that wisconstant judge who
was helping to hide in illegal alien helping them at
vay Dice. She's been found guilty of felony. That alleged
brown shooter died from a self inflicted gunshot wound in
a storage shed. And coming up at six oh eight

(40:09):
as a kid, what was the worst Christmas present you
ever got?

Speaker 11 (40:14):
That?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
That one's easy for me. Best and worst. We'll ask
you a question about that. Coming up first, though, let's
do this. We have traffic and whether to go is
starting with Gary.

Speaker 23 (40:22):
Mack Hey, good morning.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
Let's first take it back to Lamark down on the
southbound I forty five frontage.

Speaker 23 (40:29):
Road and it hath them.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Seventeen sixty four is the total closure due to the
vehicle fire trans Star shows that happened around four this morning.
This also includes the enclosure of the Emmett Lowry Connector
now on the westbound sixteen North Loop before Airline. That
crash just cleared a few moments ago. Still the laser
big around fifteen minutes. It was blocking two right lanes.

(40:51):
That Sprak's building now almost to the east Techs Freeway.
I'm Gary Mack at the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
From r KATRH top tax Defenders twenty for our weather
soon Sunday sixty five for the high today, we'll get
you the complete to weekend and also into the Christmas
week outlook. When we talked to Terry Smith at the
Weather Channel in eight minutes right now forty four at
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH,
it's timed out for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (41:17):
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
Everyone is six p'oh two on KTRH. We're sponsored by
Shoppers Farm Supply.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
In our top story, he was.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
A Brown student.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
He was a Portuguese.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
National, and he's last name noan adress was in Miami, Florida,
and I will tell you that he took his own life.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez identifying Claudio Manuel Nevis Valente
as the Brown university shooter and the killer of a
professor at MIT.

Speaker 44 (41:46):
Thti's in Rhode Island say both the MIT professor and
the suspected shooter attended the same school in Portugal and
both studied physics. Investigators say the professor, Nuno Lbrero, was
shot and killed on Monday night in an upsose scale
Boston neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
Fox's Jeff Paul reporting it took police six days to
solve this. They had one person of interest in custody,
had to let him go.

Speaker 9 (42:09):
I think it eroded the confidence and the trust in
the local law enforcement.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Former FBI special Agent Stuart Kaplan on Fox six ZHO three.
New polling shows two thirds of Republican voters support not
just Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, but major changes when
it comes to how many legal immigrants are allowed into
the US.

Speaker 11 (42:30):
For many years now, over eighty percent of our supporters
favor reductions in legal immigration levels, if not full on,
time out for a period of years to help us stabilize.

Speaker 6 (42:43):
William Dean with Ali Pack says that for years, the
legal immigration system a H one B visus have been
abused in Wisconsin at jury fines Milwaukee County Judge Hannah
dugg In guilty of obstructing federal immigration agents during an
attempt to serve for warrant at her courthouse. She's no
longer eligible to hold public office under the law in Wisconsin.

(43:05):
Here at home, the Conrod judge recently arrested for DWY
is even in more hot water this morning because we're
finding out more about his past.

Speaker 45 (43:14):
According to court documents, Judge William Wagoner was disciplined for
DUI in the military. That would make last week's arrest
in Montgomery his fourth arrest for driving while under the influence.
One was in twenty fourteen, but a judge dismissed it
citing insufficient evidence. Another in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
Reporter Jaywon Jung with our TV partner, Channel two, Coming
up on six ZHO five, Congress goes on Christmas break.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
No deal done on healthcare.

Speaker 6 (43:41):
President Trump says the Democrats have a choice to make.

Speaker 12 (43:46):
They're gonna have to decide do they want to do
the right thing or do they want to be be
hauled into the insurance companies.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
Trump at the Oval Office.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
Representative Marjorie Taylor Green continues her anti Trump ran in
an interview on CNN this week, she claimed that quote
the dam is breaking and President Trump is losing support
with Republicans. Political consultant Luke Mescia says moderate Republicans have
sided with the Dems for a long time now.

Speaker 15 (44:14):
Appointing to them as some type of new trend I
think is inaccurate.

Speaker 6 (44:19):
Greenclaims that the Indiana Republicans who voted against redistricting will
also turn on Trump in the primaries, but Messia says
the conservatives willing to give Dems redistricting seats will face
likely consequences. The left is still in meltdown. Note over
Trump taking shots at Joe Biden and Barack Obama on
their presidential plaques in the Walk of Fame at the

(44:41):
White House.

Speaker 38 (44:42):
Everything is about race with him, Yes, well, it might
also be the jealousy of how well he did for
people that well, Obama lives rent.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
Free in his head.

Speaker 6 (44:50):
Yeah, Joy Behar and the rest of the leftists on
the view there. Texas Democrats are celebrating the fact that
they actually recruited a candidate for every state federal race
on next year's ballot. Here's your reminder. They haven't won
a statewide race since nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 26 (45:08):
So does this mean they'll finally get their blue wave
and flip Texas purple or even blue.

Speaker 18 (45:12):
Their goal is boost turnout and engagement and down ballot races. However,
it does not guarantee changing partisan control.

Speaker 26 (45:20):
Political science professor doctor Jackie Bally says this might actually
end up helping Republicans.

Speaker 18 (45:25):
Their base will feel more in boldened to block walk,
get the word out, and give money when they have
not had the need.

Speaker 13 (45:31):
To do so before because there wasn't a real race.

Speaker 26 (45:34):
She also says Governor Abbott working to flip Harris County
is going to make things even harder for the Democrats.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (45:41):
Federal limits on products with THHC take effect next year,
and while some are fighting it, backers of the band
say newly released research proves cannabis has no medical benefit.

Speaker 20 (45:52):
The study needs to be used to halt the legalization
of marijuana THHD in Texas. We don't pass policy to.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
People as expected.

Speaker 6 (46:01):
President Trump reclassified marijuana yesterday as a less dangerous drug.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
Rockets lose to New Orleans won thirty three to one.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
Twenty eight Texans host the Raiders Sunday in three twenty five,
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
I live in the Heights.

Speaker 13 (46:19):
I live in Spring Kingwood.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Next on the.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Ten Your Faster Commute on seven forty KTRH six.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Only our time here in Houston's morning is right. That
brings me to the worst Christmas present I ever got
Christmas pajamas.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
And in Backpenest kady was it.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
They weren't pajamas that were, you know, had a Christmas
message or a Christmas theme to them. They were just pajamas.
And we were as kids, we were allowed to open
one present on Christmas Eve. The problem was is that
the president was always picked by the parents, and the
president was always Christmas pajamas. And finally it's like, it's okay,
we don't need to open a present today.

Speaker 5 (46:59):
No, go ahead, I end over for the present.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Christmas pajamas, the best Christmas present. Oh that's easy. One
year I got a tape recorder, a real to real
tape recorder that I desperately wanted because I was probably
twelve thirty yeah, twelve or thirteen years old, and I

(47:24):
already knew I wanted to be on the radio. I
wanted to be on the radio, and the worst kind
of way. And of course, the only way you could
really practice is to have a tape recorder. So I
got that tape recorder. I wore that sucker out. I
just completely wore that thing out, all right. As far
as a new poll asking people to describe the worst
kind of gifts to get here, here's what made the

(47:45):
list number one. Closed that don't fit. You know, it's
funny how people will look at you and assume you're
a certain size. Oh, he's a medium, and then you're
actually a next large, so you end up having to
take the clothes back or trade them in or whatever.

(48:05):
That that always was a pain. Cheap perfume or after
shape came in next, followed by fake sports merchandise. Underwear. Yeah,
I put the same category's pajamas. Anything that's clearly last
minute that you could tell there's no creative thought put
into it at all, socks, a mug or novelty item, candles,

(48:29):
household supplies. Wait a minute, does somebody like giving you
pints al or something? Jim gear, and then gift cards
and vouchers now not everybody would agree with that one.
You know, there's some people that you know you just
have to get that for them because you have you
know that way, you know they'll go out and get
something they actually want. So, in addition to answering our

(48:52):
question regarding eggnog this morning, you know pros and cons
of eggnog. Favorite thing to eat for Christmas, thing that
you always somebody always tries to feed you for Christmas
that you just you hate it. You just don't care
for it. By the way, we got a couple of
talkbacks on that.

Speaker 39 (49:05):
Give me.

Speaker 46 (49:06):
I like a good hot piece of fruitcake with an
ice cool glass of eggnog. Just Mike's here, you put
the high dollar moves in there.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 47 (49:18):
One thing that I look forward to for the holiday
is prime rib with Yorkshire pudding. It's been a tradition
in my family since I was a child, and I
continue it with my children. And one thing I do
not look forward to is fruitcake. Cannot stand that that

(49:41):
texture is just so odd.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yeah, fruitcake is like eggnog. You either love it or
you hate its eggnog, fruitcake and cranberry sauce. Six' ten
time for traffic and weathered together as we check it
again With Gary.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Mack sixty Nine Sex freeway southbound up Around bush Will
Clinton parkway to The Gulf.

Speaker 23 (49:59):
Freeway, answer running eighteen, minutes you'll first encounter a few
breaks first at nine.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Ten also twelve minutes on sixty Ninety Sounds West freeway
north Found williams straight up to the Sixteen West. Loop
also a reminder nearby roadwork this weekend starting ten night
at eight both Directions university Of boulevard ten ninety Nine Grand,
parkway several lanes will be closed Till monday. Morning I'm
gary mac in The Ability Tree Experts Traffic.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Center from R katie al, Right top Tax defenders twenty.
Four our weather Sentre Terry smith joins as she sent. Cookies,
Yeah marco, said you, Said, oh tell him if he's
just gonna try one. Cookie, yes try the chocolate. Cookie that's,
Right and that little little voice on my shoulder start,
saying try this chocolate.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Cookie the chocolate cookie is probably dy, nice try, It
and SO i tried. It it is.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
DELICIOUS i give the rest Of, marco THOUGH i only
only took one. Bite, well good for, You, wow trying
to show that will.

Speaker 43 (50:55):
Power.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
Wow i'm.

Speaker 13 (50:56):
IMPRESSED i am really.

Speaker 24 (50:58):
Impressed delicious, Though, Well i'm, Glad i'm glad you liked.
It that's, uh that's my husband's favorite cookie and he's
like an.

Speaker 48 (51:07):
Addict WHEN i make he's like a crack. Addic why
are those? Cookies it's. Hilarious so it has a little
bit Of New tella in. It that's kind of like
the secret.

Speaker 24 (51:19):
Ingredient not so secret, obviously and uh, yeah he just cannot.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
RESIST i can appreciate.

Speaker 13 (51:27):
That, Well i'm just Bob skybike's not. There he's gonna miss.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Out we're gonna save him a couple of.

Speaker 24 (51:34):
Cookies, okay, good, good, good and hopefully he'll have his
days butts back by the time he drives. Them All, right, folks,
listen whatever your holiday plans, are the good thing is
the rain's not going to be an. Issue we do
have a little bit of wet Weather sunday And, monday
but that is it for. Rain the main thing is
it's just not gonna feel Like. Christmas. Now today feels Like.

(51:55):
DECEMBER i do have to give you. That it's a
little bit, cooler load of mid sixties, today very nice day,
overall but then the southerly winds start to kick in
later on, today and so it's warm over the weekend
into most of next. WEEK i don't see any cooling
trend next. Week So tomorrow close to. Eighty sunday And
monday we're close to. Eighty we have a twenty or

(52:16):
thirty percent chance of Rain sunday And. Monday tuesdays. Dry and,
yes the Temperatures tuesday are still close.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
To eighty temperture right now forty Three here at your
Officials severe weather, Station News radio seven FORTY. Ktrh last,
show but For christmas six twenty our time here In
houston's morning news, again we have a question today you
can comment on eggnog or favorite the least favorite food For.
Christmas you could also comment on best or worst present
you ever got as a.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Kid make it as a, kid not as an. Adult
as a.

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button up to thirty, seconds first thing where you're calling,
from and comment on any of those. Things as we
get ready For, christmas time for traffic and weather. Together
we're checking out the drive again With Gary mack.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Clockwise because business has picked up on the six Ten
North loop westbound at. Airline that accident. Gone DeLay's getting
back to. Normal not there, Yet give that a few
extra forty Five North freeway southbound At Little york originally an,
accident now calling it a stall in two right lanes
back From.

Speaker 23 (53:17):
Gulfbank adding on, ten let's take it To. Lamark no change.
There the closure of.

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The Southbound high forty five frontage road at two do
no AT fm seventeen sixty four used that vehicle fire
in West ham northbound at The Briar forest Toll. PLAZA
a fender vender has just. Cleared I'm gary mack is
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Hour Weather. Center sunny cooler today says terry sixty five
looks like about eighty tomorrow with sunshine and warm again
and then part of THE cotti early with a slight
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here last TIME i checked it was down, Up it's

(53:57):
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Six twenty three our time here In Houston's Born. News,
yeah throw a little bit of politics in, today even
though we're kind of in The christmas mood here this.
Morning Texas democrats have done something kind of. Unique for
the first time In texas history as far as we,
know they have filled every state and federal race on
the twenty twenty sixth, ballot every single. One that's a

(55:07):
first for either. Party Doctor Jackie bally is a political
science professor here In. Houston she joins us to talk
ABOUT i don't remember us putting the doctor. Before you
worked really hard to get that. Doctor, CONGRATULATIONS i.

Speaker 26 (55:20):
Did thank.

Speaker 13 (55:21):
YOU i appreciate you as, always.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
And you even went to Southern california to do. It
AND i was concerned at the time that you might
get brain, damage something might happen to you along the.
Way but that will never, Happen, no. Never you're a
strong woman and you're approving it. Constantly, okay but this
is kind of, UNIQUE i, guess and it makes. Sense

(55:43):
it is always amazing to me how many unopposed races
that we, have especially here In. HOUSTON a lot of
the judges races in years, past these judges have been running,
unopposed and we keep getting the same people doing the
same things over and over, again and it's easy to see.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Why.

Speaker 49 (55:59):
Yeah, well you, know two things are happening at the same.
Time The democrats are deciding we're going to make sure
that every single race from top to bottom is. Filled and,
then of course we know that the governor just had
his announcement and he, Said i'm pouring twenty five million
dollars into the county to make sure That Harris county
becomes deep. Red so you have both parties that have

(56:22):
decided they're going to get their base engage and they're
going to make sure up and down the ballot get
voters out based on their both different, causes and to
make sure that each party is, competitive each race is.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Competitive, well as long as the govern pointed that, out
let me let me say, this is there enough money
on the planet to Turn Harris county? Deep it takes
more than just money in order to be able to
make that.

Speaker 49 (56:45):
Happen What Governor abbott is planning to do is he's
going to have field workers coming, In he's going to
have strategies coming, In he's going to have grassroots. Applied
he's looking at the infighting that's happening With Democratic party,
particularly you've covered it With lena calling out Both Kim

(57:06):
ogg and now she's calling out a, Niece, parker and
a lot of, voters independents, included are very very very
leery about the crime wave that's happening their property.

Speaker 13 (57:19):
Taxes so he's going.

Speaker 49 (57:20):
To be pointing and his strategies are going to be
pinpointing a lot of these key policy, areas and they're
going to give it their. All and we've heard so
many times That republicans have not done that In Harris
county because they've just assumed that The democrats will have.
It so now he said that's not going to be the,
case and we're going to make it a Competitive.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Well i'm glad to hear. THAT i really. AM i would.
Agree you can't win if you don't, run, right you
can't win if you don't.

Speaker 49 (57:45):
Try, well that's exactly, right and you know this is
the time to. Strike the governor has said that this
is the. Time there is infighting with on The democrat
side and people are looking for strong. Leadership people want some,
answers some real, answers some key policy, areas and he
has it.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Well and they want, accountability And i'd like to think
that they want. Honesty and that's one thing we don't
have In Harris county right, now is either accountability or.

Speaker 49 (58:11):
Honesty, WELL i, mean you look at you have several
people in Both Karris county and surrounding counties where you
Have republican candidates in races that you haven't seen. Before
and so not only is he pouring his money into,
it but The republican party feels this is the time to.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Strike, okay, doctor have a Merry. Christmas thank you for
your time this. Morning Merry, christmas, Doctor Jackie, balley political
science professor here In. Houston it's six twenty. Seven it's
time to take a look at your.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Money, Hey good.

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Studios six Thirty Our, Time houston's Borning. News I'm Jimmy.
Barrett among our top stories this f, Hour it's day
two Of Turning, Points america fest that Woke United Methodist
church In dallas and their Political nativity scene details coming
in the. Minutes oh what more thing, Too we'll have
some more thoughts on your favorite things For christmas dinner

(59:36):
coming up in the minutes. Ahead first, though we're going
to check out the Drive Gary mackison For, skymike and.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
We have something else. Stirring not looking good on the
six Ten northcliffe. Westbound might have another crash this time
AT i forty five to the back at beginning all
the way from The EAST X.

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Freeway plan on twiddling your thumbs.

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For ten very similar for that stall in two right
lanes forty five north three way south bound At Little
New york that's bogging down from two forty nine eight
to nine more MINUTES i sixty nine southbounds starting At
lorraine To fannin and then also a five minute delay
through the work zone it in Westbound gregg up To Heights.
Boulevard And I'm gary mack in The ability Three Experts

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Traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
From R Ktrh generator Super. Center twenty four hour weather.
Centers sunny and cooler, today but the high temperature of
sixty five we'll get you to The lace four, that
by the, way is gonna be the coolest date between
now And christmas is. Today we'll check out the entire
forecast as we get closer to the. Holiday when we
talk To Terry smith at The weather. Channel let's do
that in nine minutes right, now forty four at your

(01:00:34):
official severe weather, station news radio seven forty K. Trh
it's time now for the. News Here's Cliff. Saunders thank,
you Good.

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
Surrey it is six point thirty one ON. Ktrh our
top story.

Speaker 17 (01:00:45):
When he was.

Speaker 32 (01:00:46):
Assassinated we saw, Infighting we've seen. Fractures we've seen bridges being.

Speaker 6 (01:00:55):
Firms Erica kirk on opening day Of Turning Point USA's
Arca fest In, phoenix alluding to the rift between herself
and Commentator Candice. Owens the two did meet this. Week
they said it was. Productive thirty thousand people and more
are expected to attend the conference Through. Sunday closer to,
home there's church In dallas wants it to be a Woke,

(01:01:18):
christmas putting up A nativity scene With mary And joseph
and Baby jesus in ice. Custody Jonathan science With Texas
value says.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
The so called church just wants.

Speaker 31 (01:01:29):
Publicity what the scandalous church is doing is a cheap
and obvious attempt to get, attention and it's, working, sadly
but it's also an inaccurate depiction of what's going on
now and.

Speaker 6 (01:01:42):
Historically the church also has rainbow steps at the, entrance
along with openly gay pastors six point thirty. Three, well
it took them a week to figure it, out but
officials In providence say the man responsible for The Brown
university shooting and the murder of AN mit professor took
his own life in a shed In New.

Speaker 50 (01:02:01):
Hampshire Our Providence Police, department The Rhode Island State, police THE,
fbi THE, atf and many other federal. Partners of, course
the incredible presbytorial advice and guidance that we received from
The Attorney General's, Office.

Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
Providence Mayor Brett smiley acting like they didn't botch the.
Investigation you recall they first attained a person of interest
On sunday who turned out not to be involved at.

Speaker 5 (01:02:27):
All the shooter has.

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
Been identified As Claudio Manuel Nevis. Valente he's a Former brown.
Student he's From. Portugal he's been a permanent legal resident
in THE us for eight years. Now two people were
murdered On, saturday nine others were. Wounded akde man fatally
shot and killed himself as officers were serving a warrant.
Yesterday the man was wanted on various. Charges did not

(01:02:51):
respond to officer, commands and after they entered the, home
they had a gun.

Speaker 51 (01:02:55):
Shot they've reached the master bedroom window and found the
suspect in, bed ceased from an apparent self inflicted. Dunshot
Need ems arrived on scene and pronounced the suspect as.

Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
Deceased, investigator seeing nobody else was in the. House six
point thirty four of The trump administration is moving to
cut off federal support for so called gender affirming, care
targeting both hospital practices and public insurance.

Speaker 52 (01:03:19):
Funding this declaration is a clear directive to providers to
follow the science and the overwhelming body of evidence that
these procedures hurt not help.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
CHILDREN Hhs Secretary ROBERT. F Kennedy.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
Junior under one proposed, RULES cms would bar hospitals from
performing these procedures on anyone younger than. Eighteen russian And
american negotiators meet In miami this weekend as talks and
the war In ukraine. Continue If russia doesn't play, Ball
senate majority of Leader John thune says there's another.

Speaker 53 (01:03:51):
Option there are a couple of bills have been hanging
around up here for a. While one On russia. Sanctions
it's a bill That Lindsey graham and others have put
out this guy like eighty five co sponsors in The
Senate democrat And.

Speaker 6 (01:04:03):
Republican The Treasury department has already put its own sanctions
On russia into, place targeting their oil Companies looking at your.
Money november inflation numbers came in much lower than expected
two point seven percent yearly over the or rather as
opposed to the three point one percent. Expectation overnight futures

(01:04:23):
are mixed this. Morning the new year will bring a
New Federal reserve, chair With White House Economic Advisor Kevin
hassett one of the favorites to replace the outgoing, Chair Jerome.
Powell financial Planner Richard rossi says this, might, though bring
some new.

Speaker 54 (01:04:38):
Complications if he's a GOOD fed, chair he is going
to do sometimes what The president doesn't want him to,
do and then we're going to see how that is
going to, look because now you're how dare?

Speaker 38 (01:04:48):
YOU i put you in? There and now you're not
lowering rates the WAY i want. Them SO i don't
know if we're in for a whole new level of.

Speaker 6 (01:04:54):
Drama trump said this week that the NEW fed chair
will be somebody who supports lowering interest rates by. Quotes
Lot well futures this morning are up twenty cents to
fifty six thirty five a, barrel as gasoline prices across
used and dropped to two forty two a.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Gallon it's six point thirty.

Speaker 6 (01:05:10):
Six declining enrollment has resulted in Multiple houston area isd
is looking at closing. Campuses assigned that competition and education
is finally having an effect.

Speaker 40 (01:05:21):
That'll allow for the market to expand in other.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Areas maybe a.

Speaker 40 (01:05:26):
Private school will be able to expand its capacity or
open another, campus or maybe a public school that's knocking
out of the park we'll get more funding from.

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
Students cori D'Angelis with The Educational Freedom. Institute the final
report card grades For texas public schools are finally available.
Publicly Bob papinske with the Group Raise Your Hand texas
says parents need to use the grades as a jumping off.

Speaker 41 (01:05:49):
Point you should be involved with what's going on in
your student's, classroom should be talking to the.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Teacher he adds that grades heavily reflect scores on one standardized.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
Test college football playoffs kickoff.

Speaker 6 (01:06:02):
Tonight we've Got oklahoma ticking On alabama tomorrow at eleven
At Kyle.

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Field it's The aggies In.

Speaker 6 (01:06:08):
Miami I'm Cliff saunders On houston's, news weather and traffic,
Station News radio seven forty K Trh.

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Info at this speed Of, Houston.

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Houston right, Now Houston's Morning news continues With Jimmy barrett
and The Houston Morning News.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Team i'm good and. Hungry listen to. This six thirty
eight is our time here In Houston's Morning. News all,
right we're talking about the things you love or hate
About christmas. Dinner, everybody there's always a. DISH i was
never a big fan of the jello. Mold, Yeah i've
never cared for cranberry. Sauce we had turkey at our.
House we had turkey For thanksgiving in For. CHRISTMAS i

(01:06:47):
wasn't quite sure why we did. That seemed like everybody
else did a ham or maybe a rib roast or
something like. That Why, mom how come we goeshead? Turkey
maybe less expense of maybe could be. Anyway love to
have your wigh. In you go to the eye here and.
RADIO i have kt R h first name where you're calling.
From we're doing a couple of different topics, today, favorite,

(01:07:09):
worst well got me started on this with whole eggnog,
thing you, know because eggnog is something either love it
or you you really. Don't so if you want to
comment on, eggnog you. Can you can comment on the
favorite things For christmas center the or the things you
really didn't care, for or if you, prefer you're the
worst and Best christmas present you ever got as a.

(01:07:31):
Kid but let's deal with food right.

Speaker 55 (01:07:33):
Now, hey good, Morning. Jimmy It's jason From San. Antonio Merry,
christmas my. Friend so eggnog for me.

Speaker 43 (01:07:41):
Is a lot like.

Speaker 55 (01:07:42):
Liver i've tried it a lot of different. Ways i've
tried to like, it just don't care for.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
It you can have.

Speaker 56 (01:07:49):
Mine good, Morning, Jimmy Merry, Christmas james from My. Taska
see to hear we are really looking forward to brisket
and ribs For, christmas and eggnog is best served with
whiskey two to, one two parts, eggnog one part.

Speaker 57 (01:08:03):
Bourbon it's, Amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
OKAY.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
I had somebody else who somebody else had Written i'm
gonna have to find that in suggested a particular type
of alcohol to put into the eggnog that you know
it would make you like eggnog with. Alcohol six forty
time for traffic and weather. TOGETHER i don't like it
With boo's in. There Gary mack is. Here he's ready
to fill you in on the.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
Dry two big obstacles currently around our norse. Sign let's
have a. Look forty five north three way, southbound.

Speaker 23 (01:08:33):
First call to.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
Stall now we have first responders out there and that's
gone to an accident in a couple of right. Lanes
delays at twenty five minutes from two forty. Nine then
give it another fifteen on the westbound six y ten.

Speaker 23 (01:08:45):
North flu BUT i forty five no.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Visual if you're around, there feel free seven one three.

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solid from hersh not looking.

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From Our KATIE i Right generator Super center in twenty
four our weather. Center The Cookie queen is, Here Terry.
Smith it is all fat and. Happy and this is
not good timing, too because it's swimsuit weather and you
know we don't need to be putting on any more
weight during swimsuit.

Speaker 24 (01:09:14):
Web, well you just do it like you did, it
which is just have a bite and call it a.

Speaker 13 (01:09:19):
Day one bite of a.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Cookie, Yeah usier, said than.

Speaker 24 (01:09:23):
Done, yeah, WELL i appreciate you tasting, it at least trying.

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It.

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WELL i had. To you took the trouble to make those.
Forests we had to try it very.

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Sweet, well around here at The Weather, channel if you
put out free, food we have.

Speaker 13 (01:09:36):
Vultures that work. Here these people shed their humans and
turn into.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
Vultures like a word of like a swarm of locus came.

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In it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Is it's.

Speaker 24 (01:09:45):
Crazy, well, yes you just might want to have to swimsuit.

Speaker 13 (01:09:51):
HANDY i just can't believe these.

Speaker 24 (01:09:52):
Temperatures not today, today it's really. Comfortable we are a little,
cooler less humid, today lots of s, shine load to
mid sixties this. Afternoon That's december In. Houston but starting
tomorrow and then into next week and right, now for
as far AS i can, see next, week temperatures are

(01:10:13):
going to warm. Up it'll be, warm a little more.
Humidity it's a dry Day, saturday near. Eighty, sunday we
have a twenty percent chance of a. Shower, monday there's
a thirty percent chance of some. Showers, Tuesday, Wednesday Christmas.
Day right, now look, dry but temperatures will continue in
the upper seventies to low. EIGHTIES i think Through, christmas

(01:10:36):
maybe even.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Beyond right now forty three here at your, Officials Severe
Weather Station News radio seven forty K. Trh all, Right Merry.
Christmas everybody's our last show Before. Christmas got this, Email Hello,
jimmy when you mentioned receiving a tape recorder For christmas
when you were a. Kid that was my Favorite christmas gift,
ever BECAUSE i KNEW i wanted to.

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Be on the.

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Radio it sparked a long forgotten. Memory one YEAR i
was a, youth ALL i wanted For christmas was a tape.
RECORDER i got, one AND i used it to interview
everyone who crossed my. PATH i grew up to be a.
Journalist never wanted to be anything. Else thank you for
triggering that fond. Memory, Mary, christmas and Happy New. Year
Rox Amne. Bilger listening to your program From, scotland she,

(01:11:17):
says please tell me you're not Having hagis For christmas.
Dinner six Fifty time for traffic and weather together as
we check it again With Gary.

Speaker 23 (01:11:25):
Mack, YEAH i kind of have.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
You we're seeing delays ON i sixty nine around Down
town southbound from it ten to forty five to Gold Free.
Way also it in Westbound Lockwood Houston, avenue and whatever
the case may, Be i'm thinking an accident. Westbound i'll
be six to Ten North, loupe BUT i forty five
way times ladder three now up to fifteen nearly a half,
hour very quickly a crash forty five north three way

(01:11:49):
southbound Around Little york in a couple of. Right I'm
Gary mack in The ability Three Experts Traffic, center.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
CROM R KATIE Rh generator Super, center twenty four Hour Weather.
Center today we're looking at the sunshine cooler temperature sixty
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near Eighty, sunday partly cloudy early and then slight chance
wash ower twenty percent chance with the high temperature right
about seventy. Eight current temperature is forty. Three at your

(01:12:18):
official severe weather. Station News radio seven FORTY Ktrh gliff
Is Stady. Bye he has an update on some of
our top.

Speaker 6 (01:12:25):
Stories The Qus Brown university shooter is found dead by
his own. Hand we've got DeLay's building at the. Airports
with The christmas travel season kicking off and weather an
issue in other parts of the. Country right, now about
thirty six Between bush And hobby and The Dallas cowboys
are ranked as the most valuable sports franchise once again By.
Forbes we checked The. Texans we're, seventeenth The rockets were thirty.

(01:12:50):
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Learned how To lift Their land from. YOU i don't
miss the, show talk about it.

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HERE i can't help but listen to you all the.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
Time Use radio seven Atrh, yeah but maybe a little
looser here in the new year six point fifty. Two
now here In Houston's Born, news we have the timeline
coming up here in just a couple of. Minutes first
of the little economic. News Kevin, Hasset Trump economic, advisor
first of, all pleasantly. HAPPY i don't think he's, surprised
but he's pleasantly happy that the inflation rate was two

(01:13:29):
point seven, percent only point two percent for the last.
Month the two point seven percent is just for a yearly.
Basis they were expecting to be three point one. Percent
so there's a piece of good, news and the other
piece of good news is what he says is coming
is we've talked about what is coming in twenty twenty.
Six higher, paychecks he, says and lower. Taxes when will

(01:13:50):
people start to feel things tangibly.

Speaker 58 (01:13:53):
Improved, WELL i mean right, now if you look at
what's happening with the lower inflation and the higher. Wages
you saw in The Job support that the latest wage
number was that wages for the typical worker were up
three point seven. Percent so if you're running three point
seven percent wage increases at what point six percent core,
inflation then real wages are growing at a rate of

(01:14:13):
about two and a half percent by our estimates right,
now blue collar workers have already seen an almost two
thousand dollars rays this year after, inflation because wages.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Are growing so much faster than.

Speaker 58 (01:14:24):
PRICES i think that what happens in the, end and
this is what happened in the first, term is that
people will see it in their. Wallets one of the
things THAT i think is really interesting what The president
said last, night which is a very important, point is
that we didn't pass the big beautiful bill into the
middle of the, summer and so that a lot of
the tax changes which affect last, year weren't in any

(01:14:45):
tax forms that people filled out at the beginning of the,
year and so we are going to see the biggest
refund cycle ever in the history Of. America and people
are going to get massive refund. Checks so for the
typical person who's a tip worker or gets so overtime,
pay we're expecting just that part of it alone to
be worth a couple thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
Refund and we're.

Speaker 58 (01:15:06):
Gonna definitely have a big pr campaign at the beginning
of the year urging people to file early so they
can get the money that they're owed from taxes this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
YEAR i think that might be a, question If i'm
right to put that on my, calendar possible or potential
question of the day In, march as you have your taxes,
Prepared are you getting a massive? Refund will you be
getting a massive refund compared to what you've gotten over
the course last couple of. Years, yeah we'll hang on
to that one all. Right time for the. Timeline let

(01:15:35):
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effect that probably hindered the.

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Progression, remember police attained a person of interest On sunday
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Year this was necessary to Hold Judge dugan accountable in
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is no longer eligible to hold public offense Under wisconsin.
Law after four years Of Joe biden's open, border new
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or paused.

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Completely rampant and destructive illegal, immigration combined with weaponized legal,
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Pointing to the Thirteen republicans that voted to Overturn trump's
executive orders enabling him to fire federal. Workers political Consultant
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Party these Are republicans who are comfortable voting With democrats
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The ballot in twenty twenty.

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Six by having candidates running up and down the, ballot
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And they're hoping to see some.

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Texas The president has signed in order to reclassify. Marijuana
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Benefits we do not WANT thc sold in retail stores
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SUNDAY i, think you, know we've gotten better in all.

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Time Houston's Morning news continues With Jimmy barrett and The
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Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
Team all, right best the Worst Christmas? PRESENTS i asked
that question earlier this. MORNING i mentioned that for, me
the worst was always the. Pajamas The Christmas eve is
like for the first when we were when we were,
little you, know it was easy the okidok us into
thinking that it might be something we actually. Wanted you

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don't they get all parents of get all, excited but oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah what you could open one present here it is
and every Year christmas. Pajamas so after a while coming,
out n it's, Okay i'll do it. Tomorrow, no, no, no,
no open it. Down and then the BEST i mentioned
this morning was the tape. Recorder, no it was A

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sears tape. Recorder that's When sears had, everything vacuum, cleaners lawn, mowers, clothing,
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RECORDER i got came From. Sears well maybe From, santa
But senna bought it At. Sears, okay near AS i can.

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Tell All, Right so again the question is best and
or worst presence you ever got as a kid For?

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Christmas, paul my Favorite christmas camp was a child was
my director set THAT i.

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Got, well believe it or, NOT i.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Still have, It, jimmy this is why From.

Speaker 60 (01:25:59):
PORTER i was thirteen years old in nineteen eighty two
when my sister got me A Culture CLUB t shirt
For christmas with a, big, old fabulous picture of Boy
george right on the front of. IT i said thank
you because that's the WAY i was. Raised BUT i
knew in my mind there was no, way no WAY
i was ever gonna wear that, Shirt so, Boy george

(01:26:21):
went right back in the closet UNTIL i wound up
throwing that shirt away a few years.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Later oh that's, hilarious the t shirt your sister got
you that you just couldn't bring yourself to. Wear all,
right seven to, Ten time for traffic and weather together
as we checking again With Gary.

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Mack, yes, sir the accident all the six' ten North
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From lockwood this was was also causing things to.

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Houston road you left lane also crashed there.

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CENTER Crobog Ktrh Top, tax defenders twenty Four Hour. Weather
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lots Of Sunshine comry. Way today kind Of normal december,
temperature today but this is one of those rare, Normal,
days terry it is a rare.

Speaker 24 (01:27:29):
Normal day it's been kind of crazy so far, this
MONTH and i don't see that really changing much. At
all AND when i, say crazy we had a lot
of cold weather for the first Part, of december and
then we, warmed up and now today Feels. Like december
but it really looks like, after today the rest of
the year is going to be much warmer than it. Should,

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be see we should have our temperatures in the. Mid
sixties afternoon highs are supposed to be in the, mid
sixties and we're going to be much warmer than that's.
Starting tomorrow today temperatures will be in the low to,
mid sixties so It's, normal december and it's cool at
night pleasantly so mid forties to mid. Fifties tonight but

(01:28:11):
tomorrow the southerly winds. Kick in high pressure is going
to keep us sunny, and dry and temperatures will be
either side, of eighties so upper seventies to, low eighties
easily ten almost fifteen degrees above, the norm and that's where,
WE stay, i think really at Least, through christmas probably.
Beyond that the only RAIN that i see in The

(01:28:33):
forecast sunday or twenty percent chance of, a Shower and
monday maybe a thirty percent chance of.

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Some rain, right now temperature forty two at your officials severe,
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you ready Seven nineteen Here In Houston's. Morning news, all right,
coming up we're going to talk About this dallas church
Depicting The holy family in a barbed wired cage with

(01:29:00):
a sign On the nativity scene That says ice.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
Was here.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
Is this some sort of esoteric far left, You know
greenee church kind of. A Thing, THIS well i, don't
know but it's a mainstream It's A united. METHODIST church
i don't know about what religion you. WERE raised i
was Raised. A methodist what?

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Is it what?

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Has happened why have churches become just? Like politics where
you've got people on the, far LEFT churches i, should
say on the, far left churches on the, far right
and maybe a handful. In between it's as divided as
the rest of.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
US are.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
I Guess jonathan Science From texas values will join us
to talk. About it next first of at, Seven twenty
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FROM Our ktrh Generator super center twenty four hour. Weather center,
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from our newsroom On this, friday Morning.

Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
A methodist Church in texas goes Woke. For christmas we
will give you. THE details a top A point d
of the incoming socialist Mayor Of New york city is
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Little lord jesus is in a barbed wire cage At
This united methodist Church. In dallas what the heck is going?
On Here jonathan siens joins Us With Texas Values and
jonathan here here's. The part as somebody who was Raised,
A methodist i'm looking at this going what happened To the?
Methodist church This is i'm sure this is not true

(01:31:49):
Of All united, methodist churches?

Speaker 42 (01:31:51):
Is?

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
It or or are we finding more and more that
certain denominations are becoming more and.

Speaker 61 (01:31:55):
More, liberal, Well, look jimmy it's. Excuse me it's good
to be, with YOU and i really appreciate being on
the show, this morning because this is a scandalous wayward
church that has a history of pushing back against their.

(01:32:15):
OWN denomination a few years ago they ordained a gay
member of, their clergy and when they were told by
their bishop that that.

Speaker 59 (01:32:26):
Was not a part of, their.

Speaker 61 (01:32:27):
Denominations believes, you know Now The methodist church in many
ways has voted to go in that direction in the
past year, or so but at the time they. Had
not this is a, scandalous use in a cheap publicity
stunt on behalf of, this church using something as precious
and central To the christian Faith as christmas And the
manger scene to gain. Political points but that's how desperate some. People,

(01:32:51):
are unfortunately because they're losing the public, perception battle they're
losing the debate amongst the public And, within christians, you
know because we know what's going on is we're simply
enforcing our, border laws Just like, obama did Just like.
Biden Did Now president trump is being more firm, about

(01:33:11):
them Whereas the biden administration And the, obama administration where,
you know sometimes they would enforce them sometimes they, would
not but they were deporting people.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
At high numbers.

Speaker 61 (01:33:22):
As, Well biden, obama Was and trump is just getting
more news because they're being more clear. And firm and
you cannot have public safety when you have laws that
are enforced sometimes and sometimes. There's not what that means
is that bad people take advantage. Of those, and Look
the Christian and christmas time that we're in is, about

(01:33:42):
hope it's about, the future it's about, a savior it's
about something that's so fundamental To our, christian faith and
it's not about people's misinterpretation of how we should enforce our.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
Border, Laws yeah i'm just noticing from the video two
of this church that they have they have rainbow steps
going up to this this altar where this where the
sign is For their. Nativity scene, so yeah they're pretty.
Out there i'm, surprised though if they are going against
the teachings Of The, methodist church how is it that
they are Still a. Methodist church don't they normally, take those,

(01:34:16):
you know take those types of churches, and, say well
you can't be can't be part of our. Faith, anymore, WELL.

Speaker 61 (01:34:22):
Look i mean this church has a history of causing
controversy within their own denomination and Going against.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Why haven't they been?

Speaker 61 (01:34:30):
Kicked, out, yeah well look it's a, good Question and
i'll tell. You this people are deciding on their own
to Leave the methodist denomination or to split from them
because they're not following What the bible says about. This
thing they're not actually living in Demonstrating a, christian life
and so, you know they're becoming really more of a
political organization in. Many ways your point about the rainbow,

(01:34:55):
you know painted on their steps was their way of
pushing back against.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
The fact and.

Speaker 61 (01:35:00):
State law make it clear what we've always known that
there's a difference between male, and female and we have
to put that in law now just so people start
stop acting like there's some type.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Of difference we know This, in.

Speaker 61 (01:35:11):
Houston right this issue came up with the bathroom more
than its in twenty fourteen that the people voted down
that An ease. Parker pushed and so you have a
church where you the expectation is they would be following
What the bible says about. These things they care more
about politics than they do about what Their own christian.
Faith says and Look at. Texas values we work on
these issues. A lot we know that there are Attacks

(01:35:32):
on christmas. Every year that's what. This is this is
not just simply their opposition to our federal laws, being
enforced which we have every right. To do this is
Them attacking christmas and really misusing it in a way
That all christians should be ashamed. To see and, you
know we work On protecting christmas every year at our.

(01:35:53):
Nonprofit organization that's what we're. Doing now there are other
issues across. The state we have state laws on this
to say that you have a right to display. These
THINGS but i think it's important they got the attention, they,
wanted sadly and you can, understand WHY but i think
it's important for people to see to communicate their disagreement
with this and to recognize what it is, a desperate

(01:36:14):
cheap attempt to get attention on a matter that they're.
Actually losing the majority of people believe we should be
enforcing our laws at. The border when you see what
happened to the, Young girl joscelyn, and others we know
there are bad people on the streets because our, border
laws our, immigration laws we're not being enforced before they
are now and you're going to see a.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Big difference, All.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Right jonathan, Thank You. Merry christmas appreciate. Your Time that's
Jonathan Signs texas values at seven twenty seven and time
to take a look at.

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Yep There america best continues today and coming up at seven.
Thirty eight more of your thoughts on Presence And christmas
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Speaker 6 (01:39:08):
Many want To put christ Back, into christmas a Church
in dallas is injecting a huge dose.

Speaker 29 (01:39:14):
Of wokeness right in front of their rainbow steps Is
a nativity Scene, With joseph Mary and jesus in a barbed.

Speaker 30 (01:39:22):
Wire cage that's sad to see a so called church
giving an inaccurate representation of what actually happened In the
bible in a cheap way to score.

Speaker 29 (01:39:31):
Political points That Is, jonathan siins President Of.

Speaker 31 (01:39:35):
Texas values the folks are incredibly desperate because the public
does not agree.

Speaker 61 (01:39:40):
With, them overwhelmingly people of faith overwhelmingly do not agree with.

Speaker 29 (01:39:45):
Their position science also called the church out for keeping their.
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H Meantime turning Point USA's america fest Continues in. Phoenix
today the group is seeing major growth since the Assassination Of.
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Hundred and forty thousand Plus get involved request have been
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Nine Ten erica kirk speaking to the. Crowd yesterday the
conference Runs. Through sunday it's expected to draw more than
thirty thousand. To tendees Police, In Providence, rhode island say
that the man responsible For The brown university shooting that
killed two people and the murderer OF an mit professor
this week took his own Life In, new hampshire Identified

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As Claudio Manuel, nevis valente a former Student at brown
who was also Tied To.

Speaker 33 (01:40:35):
Neo larero it is believed That in lisbon that those
two individuals attended the same University.

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United States Box's hillary barski more good news For the.
Trump economy november inflation numbers were lower. Than expectations the administration.

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Is encouraged we're cutting, Energy prices we're cutting.

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Interest.

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Rates right these things.

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Are, coming DOWN and i think what you're going to
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prices down and earnings up.

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Up Up Commerce Secretary howard Lutnik On fox business overnight futures.
Are Mixed the president is already choosing more interest rate
cuts in twenty.

Speaker 36 (01:41:45):
Twenty six i'll soon announce our next chairman Of The,
federal reserve someone who believes in lower interest rates by.

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A Lot president TRUMP'S new fed chair is expected to
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policy first.

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Small, business spending people getting, refund checks higher, standard deductions
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Up Inflation White House Chief Economic Advisor kevin hassett is
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Thirty five all futures are up to fifty six dollars
and fifty five cents a barrel, this morning as gasoline
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A gallon ford is giving up.

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On evs this is almost a Year After president trump
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the truth is that these supposedly environment friendly cars are not.
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The earth it is now seven.

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Thirty Six fort Bend and Spring id or closed schools
because of. Declining enrollment they may not be the only
districts in our area to.

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Do so that declining enrollment is thanks to increase competition
in the. Education industry so.

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The good things that feature not. A bug it should
lead leadership at the public schools to think about how
they allocate their. Resources Effectively corey DeAngelis With The Educational,
freedom institute says this doesn't mean public schools will die.
Out completely not all public schools are doomed. To fail
if they're doing a, great job if families are happy,
With them if you like your, public school you can

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keep your.

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Public school.

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He says this is also a win for taxpayers who
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news radio Seven forty kris, and finally.

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The college football playoffs kickoff tonight Is the aggies Take
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Ken seven thirty seven is. Their time Yere in houston's.
Morning news we always get on topics. Involving, FOOD here
i did a story, about eggnog and you know it's
a love it or hatey kind. Of thing by, The Way,
richard rosso frequent guess in our program says you you
don't like eggnog, With alcohol try it. With fireball i'm
just just the combination in, my mind fireball. And, eggnog

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hey you know WHO am i to judge it? By
work but we got on the topic. Of food you
know that we Have. For christmas you know that we
all grew up with food that we like and we
don't like much of which our parents try to get.
Us teeth and so Your favorite christmas dinner item your
the thing that you always ended up getting Served at
christmas that you just really don't. Care for that became

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a topic here, this morning Skip.

Speaker 57 (01:44:53):
From webster ONE thing i have to Make for christmas
every year Is the, Thunderbowl Annually Yie. Hot chilling make
it for all the employees and the customers that walk
in and Tell sky mike that if.

Speaker 60 (01:45:05):
He, needs.

Speaker 59 (01:45:08):
Over and my mom made a wonderful raisin gravy to go.

Speaker 62 (01:45:19):
OVER it i agree that eggnog is, like liver you
either love it or. Hate it but the recipe of
my wife's family uses has brandy and rum and, fresh
eggs and it is not the same animal as the
eggnog that.

Speaker 59 (01:45:36):
You purchase from.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
The store change my opinion, On it.

Speaker 62 (01:45:40):
SO now i am a lover of.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
Homemade eggnog, oh okay so the key there is the. Homemade,
part yeah That's it's there are, A few i'm trying
to remember once they come. To mind there are. A
few a lot of them come from, local dairies, you
know if you CAN find i can usually tell by
the consistency of the eggnog if it's gonna be good.
OR not, i mean it really needs to be nice.
And THICK and i know that, sounds disgusting but as far,

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AS flavor i mean that, to me that's. The key
it's gotta be really nice and thick in order to be,
a really really. Good eggnog the other topic we had
this Morning was president's best or worst present you ever
got when you were.

Speaker 57 (01:46:15):
A kid Skipped for West best christmas present ever eleven.
Years old we got My First john vote with a
seven on horsepower scaltboard. On it it was loud, and
CLUNKY but I was king Of The river Joe.

Speaker 23 (01:46:27):
From Conra best christmas present was a chat a new good.
Train set the worst one.

Speaker 11 (01:46:34):
Is had this answer always got us educational for little
electronic deveelling bees and stuff.

Speaker 63 (01:46:40):
Like, That, hey jimmy This, is eric don't Include favorite
christmas present as, a kid parents entered a rifle for
a promotional go kart From sun kiss back in the. Early,
EIGHTIES well i won bright orange go cart With a
corvette body, on it and all the kids loved me.

Speaker 3 (01:47:00):
That year, no kidding you were the cool kid that year.
For sure Seven forty time for traffic him. Weather together
as we check, It Again sky mike's still under, The
weather gary maxim for him.

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Thirty two minutes. Your trip time to move westbound on
the Six' ten North loue Between Homestead. AND ella boulevard
i gotta be an accident. In their summer been mangled
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Bend at lions that's Clear now to lee's.

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A very minor we're running twenty minutes On iten to
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Kirkwood to downtown.

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That's about the.

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Worst of it if you're taking that route And Forty
five go freeway north Batt Right the south belt shan from.
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Our weather's center. Terry is here looks, Cloudless. Out THERE
terry so i know we're gonna have a lot. Of
sunshine today how, About the temperatures it's going.

Speaker 23 (01:48:00):
To be a.

Speaker 13 (01:48:00):
Really nice.

Speaker 24 (01:48:01):
Day it's cooler we've had a front moved through and
our winds have shifted and, their northerly winds so slightly
cooler and. Drier air today but then after that we
go through another wind shift, there more southerly and so
the warmer weather and the. Humidity will return that. HAPPENS
starting tomorrow. I like today it's like a Quick dose

(01:48:22):
of december if you're not a fan of. The cooler
temperatures it's, quite pleasant though low to the. Mid sixties
today tomorrow definitely warming up, a dry day upper seventies to.
LOW eighties tomorrow i think we're going to stay in
the upper seventies to low eighties, through next week at
least most.

Speaker 13 (01:48:40):
OF next week i don't see. Any big change.

Speaker 24 (01:48:42):
Only thing is we may get a little Bit of Rain,
sunday and monday a twenty percent chance Of a shower
sunday and a thirty percent Chance. Of Rain monday so
i'm thinking we need to revisit this Idea of. Ugly
christmas Sweaters. Here in houston they go With the, Ugly,
CHRISTMAS shirt, yeah i agree Or the? Ugly christmas swimsuit

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do they make those? That'd be, cool my goodness that
would they have?

Speaker 3 (01:49:06):
One of those current temperature is forty three at your official,
Severe Weather station news radio SEVEN FORTY, k trh yep Last.
Show before christmas let Me Throw another merry. Christmas in
there we'll be back to wish You A happy New
year on monday of. The twenty ninth coming up in. Just,
a moment year they finally, the man. Huts finally older
they got the guy Responsible For the, brown university, shooting

(01:49:31):
also responsible we believe for shooting of A. Professor at
mit we'll TALK To Former fbi Special Agent In Navy
CeAl jonathan gilliam about all this. Coming up, next first
though the traffic, and weather Together Starting with gary mack
and watch, for.

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Ktrh it's, a friday morning and clip is here with
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Our TOP Stories The acqus brown university shooter is found dead.
By suice signe thirty Flights had delayed. Bush this morning
another twenty three at Hobby. And in austin two men
are okay after getting stuck on a roller coaster at
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and thirty feet. In the air at the latest NEWS

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Ten, Man hunters over he's been caught and. He is
dead He is a portuguese national forty eight years old
who EVIDENTLY shot an mit professor in addition to The Shooting.
At brown university thanks, to the testimony, if you will of,
a homeless man evidently that second person of interest that They,

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had snapshot bob he evidently heard of that he HAD,
been on tv contacted the police and gave him some
much needed information that led to them tracking this guy
down and again he took his own life in his
storage unit rather than face the law or give us
any real explanation of why he did. What HE Did

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Former fbi Special Agent And Navy seal jonathan, Gilliam joins,
us You Know The, Providence Police Department Brown university police
department took a lot of. Criticism over this going on
five six days was seemingly without much of any progress
here as, We, look back now what do you think
of the police work they did?

Speaker 64 (01:52:13):
In, THIS case well i think the police work that they,
did was excellent but which this is, typically the case
the briefings by the executives and the city. Officials was
horrendous even up. Through last night the brief that they
gave after this individual killed himself was basically like a

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pageant of everybody given speeches about how, great they are and.
It's just terrible we've got to get past this where
there's standards of how we give briefs, across this country
because if there's information that, the public needs they're.

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
Not getting it and some of it's important.

Speaker 64 (01:52:53):
And could be helpful, in solving crimes and they're just
missing it because of. All, these executives meanwhile all the
detectives and police are out there busting the rear ins,
on the street. Doing great work and, in this case,
a homeless, individual you know was. LIVING for free i
guess in the basement, Of This school brown university was

(01:53:14):
smart enough and coherent enough to give the right advice
that led to this capture or to.

Speaker 2 (01:53:20):
Finding, the body now what do we make of?

Speaker 3 (01:53:22):
The suspect himself he, has killed himself so the chances
of us unless he left some, sort OF manifesto and
i have not heard. That he did we may never
find out exactly why he did. What he did but
you take a look at who is targeted in this
and you kind of, have to wonder this is going
to sound, weird job then but you think there's any
possibility that jealousy was. Involved in this this is a

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guy who went To School at brown university like twenty
four twenty five years ago, and dropped out and the
guy HE killed at mit is, a well known highly
successful professor in the field this guy wanted to be
in that he also had gone to School. With, IN
portugal evidently i just have to kind of wonder if
these people were targets because this guy didn't turn out

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to be the success he.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
WANTED to, be.

Speaker 64 (01:54:06):
I mean it, could be jealousy it, could be delusional
but he definitely knew the professor. That he killed he
definitely went to that school. At some period whether or
not he knew people in that classroom is still yet,
to be seen, but it appears you know from the
video footage that we've the limited footage, that we've seen
That he was he didn't just rush. Into that building

(01:54:28):
he waited for periods of time and then he. Went
in there so the possibility that he knew somebody or
something about somebody in. There IS plausible so i think
they may be able to connect these dots if there's
enough of an online presence and they're able to find

(01:54:50):
enough evidence about his background and the connections. BETWEEN these
people i think that we may be able to see some,
intent or motivation but it could also just be the
guy's delusional and the people, that you know the place where,
he's been in the person that he knows fell. Victim
TO that so i think.

Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
Time will tell you think all the information eventually comes out,
on this one because it feels like they they haven't
been completely forthcoming with the. Information they have we never
have seen a video coming out of that classroom that
supposedly exists with what he was shouting.

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
In, the CLASSROOM yeah.

Speaker 64 (01:55:21):
And I listen do i think all the information? Will
come out it's a. Fifty to fifty it really depends
on who's in charge of this because and how fast the,
news cycle runs because once people, forget about it they
don't continue to hope for that information or. Press for
it so, that's, you know good. GOOD police work i
think the information is there that the public. COULD be

(01:55:41):
given i just think law enforcement needs to realize that
the public is. A force multiplier and if they stop
treating the public like they're helpless idiots and start using
them as as sound sources, TO find information i think
things could change in.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
This country greatly that's. A Great, Point, merry christmas jonathan thanks.
For joining us.

Speaker 3 (01:56:01):
We APPRECIATE It Former fbi Special Agent And Navy Seal
jonathan gilliam. And that's it i'll be. Off next week
you'll Have A. Great merry christmas see you A week
from monday here on news radio SEVEN forty k trh