Another Christian School Shooting, This Time In Wisconsin

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/17/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Good morning, five am is our time as we get
started this morning here in Houston's Morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this f hour, another Christian school shooting,
this time in Wisconsin. Trump holds his first post election
press conference and coming up at five oh eight. Sounds familiar,
doesn't it. The shooter was a fifteen year old female.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(00:39):
let's check out that morning drive for the first time.
Sky Miike's here.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I think visibility is a thing this morning.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
If you get out and look, you can't see on
a lot of spots here. Golf Freeway, we're picking up
some roadwork between Edgebrook and Fuquay that was on the
outbound side up. My work wife, Christina Cruz, just picked
that up. And also East Freeway. We had some kind
of smush here right outside the butt plant out that's
going to be outbound from six ' ten to Federal.
That's going away quickly and go ahead and stay the

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course on your east freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
We look good, no snoozing. Let's get on that road.

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today and then becoming partly cloudy with a slight chance
of a shower about fifteen twenty percent. We'll get Terry
in here with the complete forecast. Mind now, when the
FOG's gonna left. When we talked to her in about
nine minutes right now sixty nine at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's timed
out for the news. Here's Eric Sharp, good morning. It's

(01:38):
five oh one on news radio seven forty KTRH. Our
top story this hour. Three people, including the shooter, are dead,
six more injured after that shooting at the Abundant Life
Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday. Madison Police Chief
Sean Barnes says that the shooter has been positively ided.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
The shooter has now been identified as fifteen year old.
She was a student at the school, and evidence suggests
she died from a self inflicted gunshot one now.

Speaker 7 (02:07):
The director of the elementary school side of Abundant Life
Christian School, Barbara Weirs, praising her younger students' actions during
the shooting.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
The students handle themselves magnificently. I cannot tell you how
well our students did.

Speaker 7 (02:21):
Two victims still in the hospital to others discharged on
Monday evening. No motive has been established for the shooting
as of yet. President elect Donald Trump says Mexico and
Canada are on notice over the border crisis. Speaking from
mar A Lago on Monday, and Trump criticized the Biden
administration over reports its auctioning off pieces of the border wall.

Speaker 8 (02:41):
And what they're doing is really an act.

Speaker 9 (02:43):
It's almost it's almost a criminal act. They know we're
going to use it, and if we don't have it,
we're going to have to rebuild it.

Speaker 7 (02:52):
Trump also spoke about international issues, warning Hamas's all hell
will break loose if it doesn't release the hostages before
he takes office, and pledging to work with Russia Ukraine
to end their nearly three year war. Trump also suggesting
he would end birthright citizenship, the law that anyone born
in America as a citizen Democratic lawmakers are claiming it
would require a constitutional amendment. Utah Senator Mike Lee says

(03:15):
people are misreading the Constitution.

Speaker 10 (03:18):
But the fourteenth Amendment says is that all persons born
of the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the state
wherein they shall reside. Now, subject to the jurisdiction thereof
is something that can and should be defined by Congress.

Speaker 7 (03:33):
The President elect called the practice ridiculous and said quotes,
we have to end it well. Trump's nominee for Health
and Human Services, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, will meet
with Senator Mark Waiams did meet with Mark Wayne Mullins
ahead of his confirmation hearing. Speaking to reporters afterwards, Senator
Mullins confirming that Kennedy's support of the polio vaccine.

Speaker 11 (03:52):
He said, I one hundred percent supports polio vaccinations.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
That's different.

Speaker 11 (03:58):
You go to the base of where the vaccination vaccination
starter firm was, where you know polio was one of them.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
The base is the issue.

Speaker 11 (04:05):
It's why are we giving our kids seventy two shots ound.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
Kennedy has also faced pushed back on some of his
stances in regards to pharmaceuticals and fluoride in drinking water.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
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The FBI reportedly warning some US lawmakers that the Chinese
Communist Party is working to create bogus stories to portray
them in negative light. NBC News reporting the CCP is
doing this because of those lawmakers' support for Taiwan. Oh,
there's a growing trend that actually started in California, ruled
towns trying to separate from big blue cities.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
Basically, it's a rural town divorce. Our end goal in all.

Speaker 12 (04:45):
Of this is to make California great again and also
to make the New California state at the same time.

Speaker 13 (04:51):
That is Paul Preston who founded the New California State
and is still working to make it happen.

Speaker 12 (04:58):
We won't get this opportunity, but once in American history.
If we don't succeed, you will have America anymore. It'll
be gone.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
He says.

Speaker 13 (05:05):
They've already spoken with Trump, who had massive wins in
rural areas. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty ktr.

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I'll the second attempt by Lena Hidalgo and the Harris
County Democrats to create the Uplift Harris Guaranteed Income program
has been stopped.

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I'm just so thankful we have Attorney General Paxton who's
willing to engage on these kinds of activities. So as
long as we have Attorney General Paxston, we're fine.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
Harris County Precinct three Commissioner Tom Ramsey told KTRH it's
nothing more than an attempt by local Democrats to win
over voters with handouts, and it's illegal. All The FED
is gearing up for another rate cut, but it may
not be a good idea.

Speaker 15 (05:48):
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut the base interest
rate by another quarter point this week, even though last
week's inflation readings came in hotter than expected. Financial planner
Richard Rosso says the economy is sending out mixed signals.

Speaker 16 (06:00):
Get bick a coin, Look at stocks, look at small
business sentiments. Everything is red hot when it comes to
animal spirits. Yet their inflation number is higher than it
should be. Yet they're going to cut rates again. If
it were me, I wouldn't do it.

Speaker 15 (06:13):
Most analysts predict the Fed will halt rate cuts in
the new year in order to gauge the impact of
President Trump's policies. Coreyolson News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (06:21):
As the cost of groceries goes up with the Biden inflation,
it's getting harder to make ends meat, especially for younger
people or so. A recent survey said a majority of
those in the US workforce between eighteen and twenty nine
so that they're very dissatisfied with their pay. Just look
at fifteen dollars or fifteen hundred dollars apartments, lungs lone
Star College economist SEPT Professor Hank Lewis.

Speaker 17 (06:43):
Says, combine that with also the cost of cell phone,
internet and so forth. A lot of these things add up,
and when you crunch the numbers, it's like you're not
going to have any money left to save or do
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and pay your bills. And for a lot of people
that's not living. That's just basically existing.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
Part of the problem shifting job demand. Some college graduates
are finding their more specialized degrees or not in demand
as much as they were just a few years ago. Well,
TikTok is going to the Supreme Court to stop a
law that could ban the video app in the US TikTok,
arguing that the law requiring the Chinese own platform to
be sold or shut down violates the company's First Amendment

(07:23):
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I'm Eric Sharp on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
What happened, Why it happened, the information you need to
start the day. Now back to Houston's Morning News. I
believe it's our time here on Houston's Morning News. All right,
this Wisconsin school shooting at a Christian school. This we've
been down this road before, haven't we? And not that

(08:04):
long ago. See if there doesn't seem to be some
eerie parallels between what happened in Nashville, Tennessee, with the
transgender's shooting there the female who identified as a boy,
and what happened here at Abundant Life Christian Academy in Wisconsin.
First of all, to in both cases we have a
female shooter. Now, the female shooter in Nashville went back,

(08:28):
and by the way, I don't use shooters names when
it comes to school shootings. I'm sorry, I just don't.
I refused.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
If part of what that motivates them is infamy, I
don't want to add to the infamy. But we have
a fifteen year old female who did the shooting in Wisconsin.
That is highly unusual. It's highly unusual for female to
shoot to begin with, to be a shooter, to be
a fifteen year old female and be a shooter even

(08:56):
more rare. The one in Nashville had gone to the
school in the past and went back as as an
older young woman. This is a fifteen year old kid
the year old. Fifteen year old kids have issues, but
rarely do they act out in this way, especially if
they're female. This is just highly unusual. Don't know anything

(09:20):
about her sexual orientation. I don't know if that's a
factor or not. They've may very well the benefactor in Nashville.
You know, we never really got to look at the
manifesto of the Nashville shooter. There is a manifesto evidently
that's been discovered for this fifteen year old. Will we
find out what's in that manifesto. Will we find out
what the motivation was there or not? The thing that

(09:42):
really kind of sticks out to me in this story though,
that's really very, very sad. At the same time, you've
got to admire the fact that this young kid knew
what to do. A second grader was the first one
to call nine to one one and they interviewed her.

(10:04):
Would you if you're the parents of a second grader
who has just been a part of a school shooting incident,
would you want them on TV doing an interview? Doesn't
strike me as something I'd want to Mike, a second
grader to be doing five ten time for traffic and
weather together Sky Mike, what's going on? We could barely

(10:24):
see involved. I could barely see what's happening, Jimmy. We're
looking now on the East Freeway. Put your hard hats.
We're going to the working side of town, right over
by the bud Plant.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
On the outbound.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
They've got to pick up this little bit of smushery
here from six to ten. It's outbound, not inbound at Federal,
and that would be gone any minute now. And besides that,
when you come up on them, you see all these
crazy lights, So no big thing there on the inbound
we look good rocking on from the Chevron Phillips Plan.
How you doing there, Baytown, We're looking at twenty four
minutes into downtown. Other side, advisors, you're also foggy to

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Grant Parkway.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Let's go all the way.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Out to Pinoak Road and we'll be about a twenty
six minutes scooch In and our scoot rather not a scoot.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
That's it for Southwest Freeway.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Rocking along from the fountain, Let's go back further there
Brass River. Who can't see there very well? Coming up now?
Twenty five minutes. Oh, I've got a tip line call.
Let's see who in the world. Oh, it's way out
to ninety Steve from Burton.

Speaker 18 (11:17):
Goring and Sky and Mike through Brenna through Chaffel Hill.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
I'm hungry.

Speaker 18 (11:20):
It's foggier than yesterday.

Speaker 19 (11:22):
No hoop is san crete, no kerfuffles.

Speaker 20 (11:24):
But yeah, it's going to be a pretty slow drive into.

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Everybody will set extra points for burbage with your banana sticker.
We're going to check your ship channel bridges if I
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So yeah, that's state country out there for MARKITIRH Top
Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Senner Terry Smithu's here
feels like the FOG's a little more widespread this morning, Terry.

Speaker 21 (11:45):
Oh, yeah, it's definitely more widespread. Yesterday we had a
little bit of fog initially near the coast, and then
it kind of made its presence more apparent as we
went through the morning hours.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
But looking out there this morning.

Speaker 13 (11:59):
Just about it.

Speaker 21 (12:00):
Everybody has visibility less than a mile. A lot of
places sing quarter mile visibility. So we do have that
dense fog advisory and it's going to hang around until
about nine am. At that point the visibility should begin
to improve. We also have a little bit of rain
today and one more day of warm temperatures. Twenty percent
chance of a shower thunderstorm this afternoon.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
That is it.

Speaker 21 (12:23):
It is warm, folks. This does not feel like December.
Temperatures in the mid seventies to low eighties today. Tomorrow
the coldfront begins to make its way into southeast Texas.
There's a thirty percent chance of thunder showers tomorrow. We're
going to be just a little bit cooler in the
upper sixties to mid seventies. We've got sunshine the rest
of the week and it starts to feel like December again.

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Temperatures in the mid upper sixties Thursday and Friday.

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All right, let me double check the temperaturey it is
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It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
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on the day.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
So we have some reports to share with you this
morning on that Wisconsin school shooting. Again, it was Madison, Wisconsin.
It was a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
There were.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I assume it was like a kindergarten all the way
through high school kind of thing, or at least all
the way through middle school. I'm not sure what years
they covered. The shooter only fifteen years old in the female.
But again, we have an ABC News report out of
Chicago on that coming up next. First, though, traffic and
weather together for checking off the drive again. Here's sky
makee two eighty eight.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
We just cleared a truck off McGregor southbound lanes, mainlanes, they're.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Out of the way.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
Forget it, stay the course from mamble up twenty three
minutes is my digital Now I can you see Stephen F.
Austin from the road, He kind of stands out. Well,
let me know on the tip line seven with three
two one two tips tip line and wildcard eight.

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Gute kids, cap jack shit, she'd be choked.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
By the fog on two ninety this morning.

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Becare wow go I gonna turn your snooze off everybody.
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Get you caught up now on some of our top
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(14:52):
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Speaker 5 (15:41):
You know I uh.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
My problem, one of my many problems, but one of
my problems in life is I tried to make sense
out of something that doesn't make sense. And I'm guessing
you probably do the same thing. And it's frustrating sometimes
because you you take a look at a situation like
a school shooting, and you wonder, and ultimately, at the

(16:06):
end of the day, you know, you find out that
there were people who should have known that this individual
was a potential problem. Probably were people at the school.
The new probably were a parent or parents the new
We know that there's a manifesto this fifteen year old
left behind all. The other difference is that this shooter,

(16:28):
unlike the Nashville shooter, was not taken down by police.
She took her own life. So let's take a listen
to the ABC news reports see if there's anything else
new we can share with you there.

Speaker 23 (16:38):
Rob Tonight, law enforcement of sources here in medicine say
that police were able to clear that school in a
matter of minutes. Firefighters say they were able to get
the injured students to hospitals in fifteen minutes. But now tonight,
nearly seven hours after that shooting, there are parents who
are still reuniting with their children for the first time.
Ambulances screamed through the streets of Wisconsin's capital city. Once again,

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gunshots had echoed through another American classroom, this time inside
a small Christian school.

Speaker 24 (17:08):
This is not a place that any fire chief or
any one of us would ever want to be.

Speaker 13 (17:13):
And I can't believe I'm standing here today talking about
this incident.

Speaker 23 (17:17):
Moments before eleven am, police say, a teenage student armed
with a handgun to a game at fellow classmates and
teachers at Abundant Life Christian School. Hundreds of students inside
the school ducked for safety.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
We went out the side of the building to the church.
Did you have any idea what was going on? Did
you know it was a shooting? I guess so because
I saw.

Speaker 25 (17:41):
When we went outside there's a cop with a.

Speaker 26 (17:44):
Massive gun, So I guess I kind of knew it
was a shooting.

Speaker 23 (17:47):
All two familiar images of panicked parents racing to their
children's school, desperate to hold them, played out outside the
K through twelve Academy. Freshly trained police officers and firefighters
raced into the school knowing exactly what they might encounter.

Speaker 26 (18:02):
It's hard for me to place into words what they
ran into.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
Our commanders, including the fire chief, And I was in
a commander's training less than two weeks ago going over
this exact same scenario for another fictional location, and so
all of that came into play today. Stop the threat,
stop the killing, find the threat.

Speaker 23 (18:22):
By the time they got there, police say the shooter
was already dead.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, shooter committed suicide. The nine on one call was
reported by a second grader, that's the one who phoned
it in. I think I'll have a cut a little
bit later where she actually did. They actually had her
doing in a television interview. I thought, you know, again
that that's not what I would be doing if if
that was my daughter. But okay, you know, she's actually,

(18:48):
you know, very bright, very sharp, very well trained. I
don't know how much training they did that school for
these types of scenarios, but she certainly seemed to know
what it is she needed to do in order to
report what was going on at the school. It was
a teacher who was killed and another student. Two other
students actually were treated, Yeah, two were killed. Two students

(19:11):
also got to life threatening injuries. But it was a
teacher who was shot and killed. Five, twenty six. Now
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Speaker 27 (19:21):
Jimmy of Wall Street started the trading week with a
mixed session that now fell a quarter percent in yesterday's trading,
but the S and P five hundred closed to quarter
percent higher and the Nasdaq rallied for a one and
a quarter percent advance. The government's report on November retail
sales will be out this morning, and the Federal Reserve
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(19:42):
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Five thirty s Our time, you're in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half are
at Wisconsin school shooter, a fifteen year old female claims
that eating out will cost more after mass deportation, and
coming up at five thirty eight, a missing nuclear package?
Is that a problem? Details in the minutes to head.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that

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morning drive again. Here skyline could be on a Katie Freeway.
We wouldn't see it.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Let's go on iten West check out from Katie Mills mall.
And for what I can see here in the digital
as showed me about a twenty six minute stroll. Hand
of the President said, so we're good there two ninety
on the tip line.

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two ninety.

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wall's back.

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No, that sounds pretty thick.

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than partley clouding it slight shower chance with the high
temperature today right about seventy seven.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
We'll get to the latest on the forecast. Terry Spence
at the Weather Channel. We'll talk to her in nine minutes.
Temperature right now is still sixty nine at your officials
Severe Weather Station. News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's
time now for the news. Here's Eric Sharp, Good morning.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
It is now five point thirty one on News Radio
seven forty k TRH. Our top story this hour. Wisconsin's
capital city, Madison, still in shock after that deadly shooting
Monday at a Christian school went out from Fox's Cornel Scott.

Speaker 30 (21:54):
I hope that this day would never come.

Speaker 26 (21:55):
In that Mayer Sacho Rhodes Conway talked about the shooting
at Abundant Life Christian School that killed a teacher and student.
The shooter also died. Mayor Rhodes Conway said a whole
of government approach is in place to comfort and console.
Police Chief Sean Barnes is working on the timeline that
led to this tragedy, hoping it prevents the next one.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
How can I say one hundred percent that no child
will ever be harm in school? I can't, No police
chief can. For now, police are working with parents and
the school to discover why this happened. Grnald Scott Fox News.

Speaker 7 (22:32):
A Pasadena man facing charges for selling a handgun to
a Deer Park High School student who then brought that
weapon to school. A student was found with the gun
December eleventh, three days after buying it. His phone records
showed that he paid twenty year old Jesus Emilio Rodriguez
four hundred dollars on an app for the gun. Rodriguez's

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charged with unlawful transfer of a weapon to a child.
A student also facing charges. All mainstream media outlets are
now raising question about how Trump's deportation plan might hurt
the restaurant industry.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
But should we be worried?

Speaker 31 (23:06):
The reality is American industries can and will survive without
illegal alien labor.

Speaker 32 (23:11):
America got all of the cabbages picked and all the
streets sweeped and all of the hamburgers cooked before there
were twenty to thirty million illegal aliens brought into this country.

Speaker 31 (23:20):
William Dean with Alipex says these illegal aliens shouldn't have
been given jobs in the first place.

Speaker 33 (23:24):
It's against the law to hire illegal immigrants. It's against
the law to be an illegal immigrant, and we need
to start applying those laws across the board.

Speaker 31 (23:32):
Dean says that we have more than enough American citizens
and legal immigrants to fill any jobs left open. Eathan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH. A Houston couple shot
Monday afternoon after being followed from their apartment in Northwest Houston.
The shooting happen at McDonald's on two ninety and took
place after the couple had been in an argument with
a man. Both were taken to the hospital in serious condition,

(23:53):
but are expected to survive. The manhunt continues after two
teams were killed, four others wounded, and a mass shooting
at a pop up party in North Houston over the weekend.

Speaker 34 (24:03):
We are assuring the public that we are going to
put all our resources and finding out what happened here
and who did this so we can bring them to justice.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
HPD Assistant Chief Luise ben Indez and these pop up
parties are organized on social media and are not a
legit business. All of Manhattan Grand Jury could return a
murder indictment this week against Luigi Mangione, the man accused
of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangioni could appear
in court this week for other extradition hearing, and President

(24:32):
elect Trump says that he would consider a pardon for
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted on
corruption charges. Trump says that he predicts its predicted Adams
would be indicted after Adams criticized the administration over illegal
illegals coming to New York City. KTR to news Time
Now five thirty four. All after losing the election and

(24:53):
most of their influence, Nathaniel Blink with the Federalists, telling
k TR eight to the left support of the alleged
shooter of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson very alarming.

Speaker 35 (25:03):
The more radical elements of the left may be responding
to losing power, to losing influence by becoming even more
radicalized and extreme and justifying actions that will tear this
country apart.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
He says.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
Most Americans want the return of law and order, but
the left is out for blinds. The UT system now
trying to get in line with state law and reviewing
their DEI practices, they.

Speaker 24 (25:30):
Found thousands of DEI related phrases in their websites.

Speaker 20 (25:33):
After this was discovered to they mandate that all University
of Texa system employees, including student employees, undergo regular compliance training.

Speaker 24 (25:41):
Robert Montoya of Texas Scorecards says this is a positive
action to get away from the DEI movement, and while
state law bands DEI practices, it stops short of the
actual classroom, but.

Speaker 20 (25:52):
It doesn't apply to academic instruction, and as we're saying,
there's still a problem in terms of what's actually being
taught in these universities.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
He says, well, this is a good thing.

Speaker 24 (26:00):
There's a lot more work to be done to truly
reform education Andoree Parard News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
Harris county second attempt at a basic income program is on hold,
and Appeals Courts has halted Uplift Harris two point zero
while the state challenges its legality. Courts already struck down
the county's first attempt at a guaranteed income program. However,
Commissioner's Court passed another nearly identical version to try to
get around the ruling. KTRH News Time Now five thirty six.

(26:28):
A record number of airline travelers expected this holiday season
putting a spotlight on the nation's strained air traffic control
system sent it to Ted Cruz using a Capitol Hill
hearing to highlight damning new reports.

Speaker 36 (26:41):
More than one hundred ATC systems meaning radar, software and hardware,
were unsustainable or potentially unsustainable.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
He says throwing money at the problem won't fix it,
and is calling for changes to make air travel more efficient.
The Government Accountability Office suggesting that replacing the four dozen
out of date air travel the control systems named in
the report would have a price tag in the billions
of dollars. Triple A says that the number of holiday
travelers will return to pre pandemic levels. Around one hundred

(27:10):
and twenty million people are expected to travel at least
fifty miles between December twenty first and January first. It's
a three point five percent increase over last year's holiday
travel period. I'm me Eric Sharp on Houston's news, weather,
and traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 29 (27:28):
Stay Informed, Stay on time.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News Team.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well, speaking of radioactive, at least this didn't happen here,
Although you have to wonder, you know there was a
missing nuclear package. I'm trying to make sure I don't go,
George wdvotion go nuclear missing nuclear package sparked a major
search after a very dangerous radioactive container vanished on its

(28:00):
way to a Spanish airport, the Madrid airport. What what
do you mean advantage? A hunt was underway last night
for a missing radioactive package which failed to arrive at
Madrid's Morajas Airport.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
What do you mean it failed to arrive? It didn't
show up.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Spain's Nuclear Safety Council sounding the alarm yesterday evening over
the transport package with four radioactive sources, a very dangerous
category two Selenium seventy five. Would you just ship that
stuff through an airport? Local reports said they had sent
a team of inspectors to the airport to try to

(28:39):
get more information. A Spanish media outlet reported that they
have since located the package and it has been deactivated.
What do you mean deactivated? Do you mean it was activated?
You had a nuclear package that was activated to do?

Speaker 18 (28:55):
What?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Where did they find it? How did they lose? Well,
that's that's where the information all of a sudden slows
down to nothing. Yikes. Turns out incompetence is worldwide. I
guess five forty. Time for traffic and weather together. As
we check out the drive once again, here's sky Mike Ray.
Put on your hard asks. We're going to the hard

(29:18):
work in east side. Let's check out your toll bridge.
We don't need a stall southbound. Let me see what
kind of suckage we have southbound? Well, I almost wish
we did have a little bit.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
There we go. I've got some people packing up now
that way you can see it.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
I don't want it. I don't want it sneaking up
on you.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
It's right as you're getting over the rail tracks now
before two twenty five, So look out southbound six ten
Sherman Bridge, Budweiser Plant down to.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
Two twenty five rock and along.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
It kind of smells funny right there at twenty five
and then Baytown to Laport both sides Hartman Bridge.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
I can see some of it both ways. We're looking good.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
I've got no air support, so you're my eyes out there.
Listeners seven one three two one two t ips is
the ktr H tip line, and we'll check your north
side at the five fifty break. Oh Terry there's this thing.
Jack from Connecticut's listening on the free iHeartRadio. They have
the craziest thing in Connecticut. It's called fall. They just

(30:11):
like a transition from summer to winter. I saw it
National Geographic one time.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
I mean the classic view at GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
From r KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather Center.
I guess you could qualify today as the dense fog.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yes, we do.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I think that's what the dens fog alert sounds like,
something like that.

Speaker 21 (30:33):
We need to find our fog horn. We definitely need
a fog horn this morning. There you go, that's what
we're looking for. So, yeah, we got some fog out there, folks.
It's widespread and the visibilities are low, unlike yesterday morning
where we had a couple of areas that were kind
of eh. But this morning it's it's across a good

(30:54):
bit of the area. So give yourself extra time, no
need to get in a hurry. Let's see. The fog
should have proved by about mid morning, and we might
even see a little sunshine today when we're not going
to see a whole lot of rain either, kind of
like yesterday. Twenty percent chance of a shower maybe arounmol
thunder this afternoon and war mid seventies to low eighties.
Call front's headed our way tomorrow, So we have a

(31:17):
thirty percent chance of thundershowers tomorrow, and the temperatures will
start to cool down upper sixties to mid seventies tomorrow.
The rest of the week sunshine and temperatures for the
most part in the sixties except Saturday, it'll be even
cooler in the upper fifties to low sixties by Saturday.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Temperature right now sixty nine at your officials, Severe Weather Station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions. So when did President Biden, let's last
have a press conference where he's, you know, taking questions
of the media. He's doing all that, wasn't it like
Jill something like July. President Trump's not even in office yet,

(32:05):
not until next month. And he had his first official
press conference yesterday, and he talked about a couple of things.
He talked about a measure that evidently the bite administration
has enacted that would prevent forty nine thousand federal employees
from having to report to work would allow them to
continue to work from home. And that's just part of
what's going on the border wall. Two more in that

(32:27):
story coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together,
starting with yuskuy, Mike, Wait.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Some kind of scoochery downtown East text elevated southbound right
at the suicide squeeze ramp to forty five.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
You either make it or you don't.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Southbound.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Watch out, that's a left and a stall in the
left lane here. Let's check on the forgotten freeway. Say tiplane, Mike, Gay,
j Timprom Tomba giving.

Speaker 14 (32:49):
If you put to nine that bogs gets thicker and
Leon is getting larger.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Who is Leon? You guys are really vague today.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean I had Roy from the Northwest with modulating bovine,
and now I've got something about Leon. Does anybody speak jive?
Seven to three two one two tips.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
I need Beaver's mom.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
I'm a classic buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center
for today morning fog obviously then partly cloudy, slight shower
Chan seventy seven tomorrow, rain shower early, some sun later.
Seventy two Thursday, partly cloudy with a hive sixty six temp.
At you're right now still sixty nine at your official
severe weather station, news Radio seven forty k TRH. So

(33:29):
I'm to check out some of our top stories here
on this Tuesday morning.

Speaker 5 (33:32):
Here's Eric Sharp. Good morning.

Speaker 7 (33:34):
It is five fifty one on news radio seven forty
k TRH. Your headlines brought to you by Moral Mechanical.
President elect Trump and the CEO of Soft Bank announcing
one hundred billion dollar investment in the US. The Japanese
tech investment firm will also pledge to create one hundred
thousand jobs in artificial intelligence and infrastructure. The White House
says the rash of drone settings in the Northeast is

(33:55):
due to drones that are legally and lawfully in the air.
White House nationals here at His spokesman John Kirby said
Monday that there's no national security threat and tonight's Magamillion's
drawing will be worth at least seven hundred and forty
million dollars coincidence and I don't know. It's the largest
Magamillion's jackpot that has ever been up for grams in
the month of December. Get the latest news anytime at

(34:16):
KTRH dot com. Our next update comes your way at
the top of the hour. I live in Katie, I
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
Your reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
One of the things that President Trump has said that
he intends to do when he takes office is to
require federal employees to come to work. There are tens
of thousands of federal employees who'd never come to work.
They all quote unquote work from home if they're indeed working,
but they don't bother to come into the office. So
evidently the Biden administration, and a kiss to some of

(34:51):
these unions, has written a piece of executive order. I
guess that would mean that forty nine thousand federal workers
would not have to come to work. They wouldn't have
to show up at work. So here's President trumpet and
his press conferencation. They're talking about that and about the
border wall.

Speaker 9 (35:09):
One of the things I'd like to ask the Biden administration,
as you probably heard, there are two events that took place.

Speaker 8 (35:15):
We're talking about.

Speaker 9 (35:17):
A friendly takeover, a friendly transition, as they like to
say this is a friendly transition, and it is, but
there are two events that took place that I think
are very terrible. One is that if people don't come
back to work, come back into the office, they're.

Speaker 8 (35:32):
Going to be dismissed.

Speaker 9 (35:33):
And somebody in the Biden administration gave a five year
waiver of that so that for five years people don't
have to come back into the office. That involved forty
nine thousand people for five years, they don't have to go.
They just signed this thing. It's ridiculous. So it was
like a gift to a union and we're going to

(35:53):
obviously be in court to stop. And the other thing
is really terrible. We spent a tremendous amount of money
in building the wall. The wall was designed specifically by
the Border Patrol because it's very hard to climb.

Speaker 8 (36:06):
They need to have see through They needed.

Speaker 9 (36:09):
To be steeled because you can't cut it's very powerful steel.

Speaker 8 (36:12):
It's very hard steel.

Speaker 9 (36:13):
It's special type of steel, but very very hard to cut.
Inside the steel, as you know, we pour concrete and
that's a grete ten concrete, which is a very strong concrete.
Very as though you were building about a sixty story building.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
It's very powerful concrete.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
They've made tremendous technology advances in the word concrete. Who
would think that, but I know that from the construction
industry today. What you can do with concrete is incredible.
So we have a very strong concrete and then we
have a rebar, but rebar inside the concrete, and the rebar, likewise, is.

Speaker 8 (36:50):
Very hard to cut.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
So it's a very expensive process, very expensive wall. And
then we put a anti climplate on the top.

Speaker 8 (36:58):
You saw that. I built much more than I said
I was going to build.

Speaker 9 (37:02):
But then after it was built, I said, you know,
we can do some more because it's sort of like
water people flow through.

Speaker 8 (37:09):
And that will pretty much really take care of it.

Speaker 9 (37:12):
And what happened is they just as you see, they're
trying to sell it for five cents in the dollar.
And that's really that has nothing to do with a
smooth transition. That has to do with people really trying
to stop our nation.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
In other words, they're being punck asses. I guess that
would be the term you would use. Right, they're being
punk ass selling the border wall for you know, pennies
on the dollar, ridiculous, just so Trump can't have it
just so Trump has to go out and spend more
money to buy more material, because you're always going to
do it anyway. It's five p fifty six here on
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 29 (37:53):
This is Used Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 18 (37:57):
Live Everywhere with irm.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Now the latest news, weather and traffic. It's more of
what matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.
Six Amazo Time, Houston's Moorning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among
our top stories this half hour, another Christian school shooting,
this time it's in Wisconsin. Trump holds his first post
election press conference in coming up at six o' eight.

(38:20):
Some obesity medications can also counter the effects of alcohol abuse.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Details in the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Borning News. First,
Oh Coo. Checking out that morning drive again. Here's Skuy
Mine all.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Right, golf freeways so far, so good. Meet from Chemos
having an easy ride.

Speaker 26 (38:36):
Good morning, Mikey leon Is from the movie Airplane.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
I saw Airplane all right. Itens looking good both sides.
Hard hats twenty one minutes from Baytown. Visor's twenty one
twenty four from Grand Parkway ninety Crosby Freeways good east Side.
Joe Leon is a fictitious character in Airplane, the movie.
I saw that, all right. I'm in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
From our KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour weathers
in their morning fog than mostly cloudies like shower chance
high temperature near eighty four today. We'll get the complete
forecast with Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in nine minutes.
Temperature right now still sixty nine at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now
for the news. Here's Eric Sharp, Good.

Speaker 7 (39:21):
Morning in six oh one on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
This dude is brought to you by Shappa's Farm Supply,
our top story this hour. More details about the shooting
at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin on
Monday could be released later today. Madison Police Chief Sean
Barnes urging people to not spread misinformation over social media.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
Though I would encourage people to be responsible with your
social media, I won't go into some of the things
that I've seen on social media that quite frankly, are incorrect,
that are not true, that are just not helping.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
Now here's what we know this morning.

Speaker 7 (39:57):
The suspected shooter was identified as a fifteen year year
old female student at that school. Three people, including the shooter,
are dead, six more are injured. Police are still investigating
a motive and how she was able to access the
firearm used to the shooting all. President elect Donald Trump
not happy about the Biden administration messing with the border wall.
At a news conference from mar A lanco on Mondane,

(40:19):
Trump accused the White House of trying to undermine his
plans to finish the wall.

Speaker 9 (40:23):
We ordered an additional two hundred miles of wall. It's
very expensive, and now it's about double the price of
what it would have been six years ago. And the
administration is trying to sell it for five cents under dollar, knowing.

Speaker 8 (40:38):
That we're getting ready to put it up.

Speaker 9 (40:41):
And what they're doing is really an act. It's almost
a criminal act.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
Trump says that he would consider a pardon for New
York Center City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted on
corruption charges. Trump also pledging to work with Russia and
Ukraine to end their nearly three year old war. The
New York jud Donald Trump's hush money case, denying the
president Elect's bid to have the guilty verdict tossed out.
Trump had argued that the charges against them should be

(41:07):
dropp due to presidential immunity. The FBI is reportedly warning
some US lawmakers that the Chinese Communist Party is working
to create bogus stories to portray them in a negative light.
NBCDWS reports the CCP is doing this because lawmakers support
for Taiwan katr.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
To do SIME is coming up. On six oh four.

Speaker 7 (41:28):
A group in California's leading by example the divorce of
ruled towns from big blue cities. Paul Preston founded the
New California State, which is trying to separate.

Speaker 12 (41:40):
We decided to make a new state, and that new
state is called New California. That's the only option that
we have. We've been in contact with the Trump people.
We will become the next state. We will save the nation.

Speaker 7 (41:51):
He notes that California is currently three trillion dollars in
debts and that will create the opportunity for a split.
Ken Paxton has now yestfully shut down the second attempt
by local Democrats to KOREEA guaranteed basic income program in
Harris County.

Speaker 31 (42:06):
This second attempt at the Uplift Harrors program wasn't any
better than the first.

Speaker 14 (42:10):
They designed this program to give money to selected zip
codes in Harris County. It was greatly partisan.

Speaker 31 (42:18):
Precinct three Commissioner Tom Ramsey says they have the money
to try a third time too.

Speaker 14 (42:22):
They have money set aside in what I called the
slush find but they've lost this in court once. They'll
lose this time.

Speaker 31 (42:30):
Ramsey says the Harris County Democrats won't be able to
get this program past the courts as long as Attorney
General Ken Paxton keep stepping in Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (42:43):
And A record number of airline travelers are expected this
holiday season, putting a spotlight on the nation's strained air
traffic control system. Texas Senator Ted Cruz using a Capitol
Hill hearing to highlight a damaging new reports.

Speaker 36 (42:56):
More than one hundred ATC systems meaning radar, software and hardware.
We're unsustainable or potentially unsustainable.

Speaker 7 (43:05):
He says throwing money at the problem won't fix it,
and is calling for changes to make air travel more efficient.
The Government Accountability Office suggesting that replacing the four dozen
out of date air traffic control systems named in the reports.
Whatever price tag and the billions of dollars, well, it's
a full steam ahead for the FED. The central bank

(43:25):
expected to cut interest rates another quarter point this week,
despite inflation still being well above the target rate. Financial
planner Richard Rosso says this will likely be the final
rate cut for a while.

Speaker 29 (43:36):
Next year.

Speaker 16 (43:36):
Could be a big disappointment for many investors if their
focus is solely on the FED, because you might find
they're not going to go forward as quickly as possible
next year, especially depending on President elect Trump's growth agenda.

Speaker 7 (43:50):
This will be the third consecutive rate cut after the
FED raised interest rates to historic levels during the inflation crisis.
Oh there are changes of the US economy all the time,
but one of the long term trends are shift in
demands for some jobs over others.

Speaker 19 (44:06):
And that may make President elect Donald Trump's efforts to
improve the economy a little more difficult. Lone Star College
economics professor Hank Lewis says some people between eighteen and
twenty nine are more likely to be dissatisfied with their jobs.
They're also part of the trends.

Speaker 17 (44:23):
There's a lot of students who are graduating with degrees
that are not as in demand as they may have
been a few years ago.

Speaker 19 (44:29):
Mister Trump promised during the campaign increased energy production and
lower taxes that, along with tariffs, would create explosive growth
in the US economy after years of economic drift during
the Biden administration. Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Trible A says the number of holiday travelers will return
to pre pandemic levels. Around one hundred and twenty million
people are expected to travel at least fifty miles between
December twenty first and January first. It's a three point
five percent increase over last year's holiday. Peer all the Rockets.
They are out of the NBA Cup. They will return
to action this Thursday. They'll host the Pelicans at Toyota Center.

(45:07):
I'my Eric Sharp on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station
news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Listen to News Radio seven forty KTRH on the free
iHeartRadio app. It's all your news, music, sports, podcasts, and
talk free.

Speaker 5 (45:22):
Never sounded so good.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Takes only in our time here in Houston's bort News
Yet drinking that stuff that'll tear you up, man. That's
not good for your lever, or your kidneys or just
about anything else. I thought this was interesting though, because
there's this huge push on right now. Hey, if you
watch cable TV at all, and I'm sure you do,
you see all the commercials for all the weight loss

(45:47):
drugs out there, ozempek mcgovie and Jardians and all these
other all these other drugs. I mean, they are running
like crazy. So you know, they've got to be making
all kinds of crazy money with those drugs, or else
they wouldn't be able to afford all the television advertising
that they're doing. Sometimes hyped his miracle drugs, though semi

(46:08):
glutide and brand name variants such as ozempic and with
govi are increasingly being taken against it, as you know
obesity and diabetes. It's used as a weight loss drug.
The problem is when you stop taking it, you put
the weight back on. They also found, though, according to
the University of Eastern Finland and the Colsinki Institute in Stockholm,

(46:32):
people with alcohol use disorder who took the drugs saw
fewer hospitalizations. It was associated with a thirty six percent
lower risk and the twenty eight percent lower risk of hospitalization.
The drugs, they say, offer a promise as a novel
treatment to reduce alcohol consumption and to prevent development of

(46:55):
alcohol related outcomes. So it might be a good drug
to fight alcohol abuse and the effects of alcohol on
your system. Like everything else, though, it is expensive if
you haven't priced w Gooby lately four pre filled. This
is according to GoodRx four pre filled twenty five milligram pens.

(47:20):
One carton of those is one thousand, six hundred and
fifty three dollars and eighty cents. O zembik one pre
filled two milligram pen. A carton of those one thousand,
one hundred and fifty one dollars in ninety three cents.
So that's expensive stuff. No wonder they advertise like they do.

(47:40):
Six ' ten Time for traffic and weather together. We're
checking out the drive again of sky.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Hey you know about it? First?

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Listening to iHeartRadio stations East Tex southbound at the Beltway.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I've got Ben from a task Asta on the line.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
He's gonna get me some laneage on whatever that is
southbound Watch out from will Clayton Parkway. They were supposed
to have that roadwork picked up on the north sam
at Aldean Westfield, but something's delayed, so we still have
the text dot wall of death right there at westbound
and then eastbound at Imperial Valley. Also east text Downtown.
Some kind of scoochery here, Oh that was that stall,

(48:12):
all right? The stall is clear. That was on the
elevated downtown right at the suicide squeeze ramp with forty five.
We're still backed up in extra eight minutes on the southbound.
Do the Pierce elevated forty five instead? It's big rig
Randy on your tip line.

Speaker 37 (48:26):
Good morning to Mike FN twenty nine twenty at Hull's Word.
Somehow the lights got hit and they are flipping out
and it is gonna get very dangerous right there, all right.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Randy Bennett, banana sticker for your hard hat. And also
on ninety we're looking pretty good. East side. Joe gave
me a clear Crosby Freeway for now. Plus he tried
to explain to me about Leon on airplane and you
do my brother also Jeff from Tomball, Roy from the
northwest side with another vague reference.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Steve from Burton, Captain Jack Terry.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Speak jib i'm skymgaess Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Uh chump, don't want no help jump, don't get no
help from our from our katrh top tax defenders. Twenty
four hour Weather Center Terry is here. She's not speaking jib,
She's talking fog.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
I am talking fog. Oh my goodness.

Speaker 21 (49:19):
We've got some dense fog out there, folks. And to
go along with it, a dense fog advisory until nine
o'clock this morning. A lot of places that I'm seeing
visibilities a half mile or less, So allow a little
extra time this morning to get wherever you need to go.

Speaker 32 (49:34):
We will see.

Speaker 21 (49:36):
Perhaps a little bit of sunshine. Mainly, it's just another warm,
muggy day. Twenty percent chance of a shower at thunderstorm
later on Today. Most of us are dry, mid seventies
to low eighties. Starts to cool down tomorrow. Here comes
to the cold front. Thirty percent chance of a thundershower.
Temperatures tomorrow in the upper sixties to mid seventies, and
then it feels like December Thursday, Friday and Saturday sunny,

(50:00):
Cooler temperatures, but a little more in line with where
we should be with highs in the sixties. Thursday, and
Friday and Saturday upper fifties to low sixties in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Jepiter right now is still sixty nine. At your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Use traffic and Weather.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
You're starting your day right with Houston's Morning News, brought
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Speaker 2 (50:26):
Remember Uplift Harris County one point zero, Well, that ended
up being ruled as illegal, so that went away, and
now we have Harris County's Uplift two point zero income
scheme and the Attorney General Ken Pax has won a
second stay on that one. So how many times are
they going to try this? We'll talk to Precinctree Commissioner
Tom Ramsey about that coming up next. First, though, it's

(50:49):
seven twenty. Time for traffic and weather together as we
check it again with Skymike.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
I got a problem on two on nine ninety Crosby Freeway.
I just need a cross street trying to figure out
exactly where that is. Give me tim minutes, we'll get
you that. James from Magnolia is on two forty nine.

Speaker 14 (51:03):
Orange Scott Mark Daddy gonna come correct.

Speaker 29 (51:05):
We're gonna get you from the medaside say what two
forty nine?

Speaker 14 (51:09):
Definitely less than a quarter mile of visibility.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
All right, gotta turn your snooze off. That made sense.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
The morning fog yet we're seeing plenty of that, then
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Police have identified the shooter who opened fire at a
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Speaker 5 (52:44):
Never sounded so good.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Something tells me in their minds, that's what Harris County
officials think that a five hundred dollars a month free
money stipend is going to do.

Speaker 5 (52:55):
But I think we know that that's not the case.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
And more importantly, the Attorney General of the Great State
of texasan packs has already ruled twice now that this
is not legal, But they keep trying to make it happen.
Precing three Commissioner Tom Ramsey joins us. Of course, he's
the loan descending vote against all this. Mischer, welcome back,
Marry Christmas, sir. How many times are they going to
try that?

Speaker 14 (53:19):
Well, I guess until they run out of money. And
they have spent millions of dollars in terms of paying
lawyers outside lawyers inside lawyers, and this is the type
of stuff that drives I think people crazy. This is
what I think the election three weeks ago was about

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that people are tired of wasteful spending. Uplift two point
zero defined wasteful spending.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
What was the difference between two point zero and one
point oh or was there really any difference?

Speaker 14 (53:57):
Well, they their scheme, I'm going to use that word.
Their scheme this time was to rather than give you
a five hundred dollars checked, they're going to give you
a five hundred dollars credit card debit card, so you
can take this debit gift card out and spend it
on anything you want to spend it on. And they

(54:21):
think that that's going to be helpful to people, but
it really really isn't. What the whole basis of this
was to, in my opinion, gather the mailing address, the
emails of phone numbers for over seventy thousand people. It's
not the eighteen hundred people that quote unquote won the lottery.

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It's the seventy plus thousand people that they got names,
addresses and phone.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Numbers on all right, it's for all the people who
applied for something they can use to reach out next
election time.

Speaker 14 (54:58):
Yeah, and how cruel is that? No getting seventy thousand
people's hopes up.

Speaker 5 (55:02):
That's horrible. I don't think they really care about that aspect.

Speaker 14 (55:05):
Do you probably don't. I mean, one other requirement is
you could not live in Precinct three and apply. There
was no zip codes in Precinct three. And believe me,
we have underserved neighborhoods in Precinct three, Jimmy, as you
well know.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Now, just out curiousity you bring that up, Commissioner Ramsey,
Are there any other things right now that the other
county commissioners in the Harris County Judge are doing to
try to punish you and the people of Precinct three.

Speaker 14 (55:34):
Well, we continue to focus on infrastructure, public safety, to
the constables. I'm still not funded to the degree I
need to. I have three hundred percent more roads and
Precinct one three hundred percent, yet I get to save
them out in some cases less than less than Precinct one.

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That's simply not fair.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Well again, you know, Precinct three is pretty overwhelmingly Republican.
That's the problem, right, It's not just that you're a Republican.
Most of us who live in Precinct three are Republicans.

Speaker 14 (56:09):
Do that's right, And it punishes everybody, all one point
two million people that live in Precinct three, underserved neighborhoods,
other neighborhoods. It's not just Republicans, it's everybody that lives
in Precinct three. They're choosing to punish because of politics.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
And of all the precincts, which is Precinct three. Do
you think the top revenue producer as far as property
taxes for hairs counting?

Speaker 32 (56:34):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (56:34):
Oh, absolutely, I mean more than thirty percent, thirty five
percent of all the rest of oters live in Precinct three.
It's the only part of the county that's growing. There's
more people live in the unincorporated area of Harris County
than live in the city of Houston. The fifteen. School

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districts are the leading school districts in the county. Tomball Humble.
So people move to where there are school district safe
neighborhoods where people take care of the basics of parks
and other things. So yeah, and it's the only part
of the county that's growing. People are moving out of
Houston into unincorporated Harris County, which is Precinct three.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
I guess this is the very definition of redistribution of wealth,
isn't it. Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Precinctree Commissioner Tom
Ramsey six twenty seven. Time to take a look at
your money. Let's take a listen to what mister Bellinger
has to say for us this morning.

Speaker 27 (57:32):
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It is six thirty down. You're in Houston's Bony News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as have are
that Wisconsin school shooter, fifteen year old female claims that
eating out will cost more after mass deportation, and coming
up at six thirty eight, Gordon Chang has some thoughts
on where those drones are coming from. You'll think Homeland
Security or maybe the CIA. Details and the minutes ahead.

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You're in Houston's morning News. First, let's check out that
morning drive once again to stay By.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
Found our problem on ninety Cindy from Crosby IY Mike
on ninety westbound.

Speaker 12 (58:43):
That's twenty one hundred before the Sheldon Road exit and
the left hand.

Speaker 17 (58:48):
Lane truck has gone off into the center median, and
of course people are slowing down.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
That's going to make things crazy after the bridge. Here,
I'm hearing about seven miles an hour go freeway. Steve
south Shore, Hey.

Speaker 14 (59:00):
Sky, Mike Shlveler Pop found exit BUCkies and go around
whatever's going on.

Speaker 12 (59:06):
It's a ten minute.

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Backup right, that's going to be huge road.

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Will zoom it at the six forty report in the
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time now for the news. Here's Eric Sharp.

Speaker 7 (59:35):
It's now six thirty one on news radio seven forty
k TRH. Our top story this hour. More details emerging
about the shooting at the Abundant Live Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.
Three people, including the shooter, are dead and six more
are injured. Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes says that the
nine one one call came in from a student during
study hall.

Speaker 6 (59:56):
A second grade student called nine to one one to
report a shoot in how to occurred at school. Don't
let that soak in for a minute.

Speaker 7 (01:00:04):
The shooter was identified as a fifteen year old female
student who used a handgun. Police still investigating a motive
and believe the suspect to did work alone well. Deer
Park police trying to find a pass the data man
accused of selling a handgun to a teenager who brought
it to school three days later. Acting on a tip,
a school resource officer found a nine millimeter handgun inside

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the student's backpack last Wednesday at Deer Park High School.
The seventeen year old was arrested on charges of carrying
a gun in a prohibited place. Investigators found evidence that
the teen had paid Heyeseus Rodriganz four hundred bucks for
the gun. Rodriguez now wanted a charge of unlawful transfer
of a weapon to a child. All mainstream media outlets
are now claiming that Trump's mass deportation plan could ruin

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the restaurant industry with labor shortages.

Speaker 5 (01:00:50):
The truth is, it's not very likely at all.

Speaker 33 (01:00:53):
We have plenty of Americans and plenty of legal immigrants,
and a legal immigration system that already admits more than
every other nation on the planet combined. That's not going
to be any shortages.

Speaker 7 (01:01:05):
William Gain with Ali Pact told ktr Range at people
who don't respect our country's immigration laws shouldn't be working
here in the first place. A Manhattan grand jury could
return a murder indictment this week against Luigi Banngioni, the
man accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangioni
could appear in court this week for another extradition hearing. Meanwhile,

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President elect Trump says that he would consider a pardon
for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted
on corruption charges. Trump says he predicted Adams would be
indicted after Adams criticized the administration over illegals coming to
New York City. Well, Houston police still looking for suspects
and answers after a mass shooting at a pop up
party in North Houston killed two teens and wounded four others.

Speaker 34 (01:01:50):
Since it's not a non section that they're not own
there any regulations, which is what causes the problems with
these type of events.

Speaker 7 (01:01:56):
That's HPD Assistant Chief Luis Menendez. Some of these sides
are rented out like airbnbs. Others are just vacant businesses
ktr H News Time six thirty four. Even though Americans
are clamoring for the return of law and order. The
left now seems to be okay with political violence here
in the US.

Speaker 13 (01:02:16):
Kas in point, their response to the murder of the
United Healthcare CEO Brian.

Speaker 38 (01:02:21):
Thompson, Senators like Elizabeth Warren, people in Congress like Alexandria
Coffio Court has basically justifying it to saying, well, murder's wrong,
but and then run through all the reasons why they
actually think it was so bad.

Speaker 13 (01:02:32):
That's Nathaniel Blake, senior contributor with The Federalist.

Speaker 35 (01:02:37):
That tells me that the Democrats are starting to think
that political violence is justifiable.

Speaker 13 (01:02:42):
Like with the BLM riots or even two assassination attempts
against Trump. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty kt H.

Speaker 7 (01:02:52):
On a new review by the UT system to get
in line with state law banning DEI initiatives at school,
found thousands of mention across their website. Robert Montoya of
Texas Scorecard says this led to mandatory compliance training, which
is good, but there's still a problem.

Speaker 20 (01:03:09):
Earlier this week we had to report on a UT
Austin course that promoted the LGBTQ agenda and one of
the required textbooks appeared to be encouraging the sexualization of minors.
While this is a very good move, there's still a
law of work that needs to be done in order
to reform our higher education.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
He says.

Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
The system will finish a review of websites by the
end of the year. Texas lawmakers will have a budget
surplus of about twenty billion dollars as they headed to
the new legislative session next month. Com Troiller Clint Hagar
reporting that the figure to Austin Chamber last week. Hagar
expecting to issue an official review estimate before the eighty
ninth legislative session starts January fourteenth. A record number of

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airline travelers expected this holiday season, putting the spotlight on
the nation's strained air traffic control system. Sexas Senator Ted
Cruz using a capital hearing to highlight it. Hamming new reports.

Speaker 36 (01:04:01):
More than one hundred ATC systems, meaning radar, software and hardware,
were unsustainable or potentially unsustainable.

Speaker 7 (01:04:09):
He says throwing money at the problem won't fix it,
and is calling for changes to make air travel more efficient.
The Government Accountability Office suggested that replacing the four dozen
out of date air traffic control systems named in the
reports would have a price tag of in the billions
of dollars.

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Myself.

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Now, you're probably wonder why in the world is he
playing the theme from Rawhide.

Speaker 5 (01:04:57):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Here's here's my It's not great logic, but here's my logic.
I've got a story here about whether or not those drones,
those New Jersey drones. Could they be connected to United
States government for some reason? Could the drones be operated
by Homeland Security or the CIA? No, I know, I
know the CIA is not supposed to operate in the

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United States, but don't you think they might probably do that?
By the way, that's the number one torture song that
the CIA has actually admitted they've used in the past.
Imagine playing that full blast over and over and over again.
You're trying to get some terrorists or somebody to give
up information that's what they used or that's what they
used to use. All right, Gordon Shang, he's the one

(01:05:42):
that's kind of throwing this theory out here that it
might have something to do with some sort of foreign
government activity in the United States and the United States
response to it. So let's get the theory of one
Gordon Shang.

Speaker 39 (01:05:55):
One thing we know, and that is, for more than
a decade, US officials had been worried about the North
Koreans taking apart a device, smuggling the parts into the
United States and reassembling it in the location of their choice.
So this is not something which is just wild speculation.

(01:06:16):
And when you talk about radiation, clearly this could be
one of the things that the drones are doing, and
that will explain while they're over residential areas because the
device could be planted in one of those places. Now,
the reason why this speculation has gained some currency is
because the Pentagon has said these are not military drones

(01:06:39):
and that sort of and they say it's not foreign.
So if you put those two things together, it means
they're domestic. These are obviously not drones operated by individuals
and that leads you to believe maybe Department of Homeland Security,
maybe FBI, maybe even the CIA, even though they're not.

Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
Allowed to operate on America soil.

Speaker 39 (01:07:01):
So if the danger is serious enough, you know, we
could see the US taking emergency action like that. So
until we hear from the President, until we get more information,
until we get more consistent information, and we have to
plan for the worst.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
I'm not saying he's right by an you stretch of
the imagination, but it would explain a lot, right about
keeping things secret. If if you believe North Korea or
some other foreign entity has been able to get materials
in to build some sort of a big bomb, nuclear device,
or something along those lines for some sort of a

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terrorist attack at their pleasure, and you have gotten tips
that this is happening, and now's the time it may
be getting ready to happen, it would certainly explain a
lot about why you'd have all these drones flying and
nobody messing up to exactly who they are and what
it is they're doing. Again, I'm not saying he's right.
I'm just saying there's theory, all right, Diaper, Driffic and

(01:08:03):
weather together, we're checking out the drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
Multiple problem os. I'm going to give you what the
rest of the media does not have.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
First.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
That's going to be ninety. Let me let the ladies
on TV No. Ninety inbound Sheldon Road. Thank you, Cindy,
Thank you, James from Crosby, Robert from Crosby.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Inbound Sheldon Road.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
Big wreck here, guys in the median we're scattered all over,
backed up now from almost twenty one hundred on the
inbound Golf Freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
The rest of the media doesn't have this.

Speaker 39 (01:08:29):
Steve Dickinson just south of Holland Road, just past one
flashy light looking at another.

Speaker 14 (01:08:35):
It's slow going, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
You got Tim from Hitchcock, got.

Speaker 20 (01:08:38):
My right hand lane, police and fire there.

Speaker 30 (01:08:41):
You also have Grubble at Bay Area Boulevard, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
The outbound is right at the outlet mall.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
That's outbound past buckets in an inbound bay Area.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
The rest of the media does have that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
Three vehicles which way we're going inbound outbound that is
southbound at Bay Area. We'll take up three center lanes here.
I got Uber Mike on the east text.

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Heay with ups sky Mike end down all the vendor
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It looks like we've got two right lines backed up
and we're scooched up from nineteen sixty. Let's assume thevisor
side Katie Freeway. We'll do that in ten minutes in
the classic Pewick GMC traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
From our Katrh Generator Supercenter twenty four our weather center,
Terry Smith is here. Fog is also here. When do
you think that we're gonna start seeing some less foggy conditions, Terry.

Speaker 21 (01:09:29):
Well, Usually once the sun comes up and the winds
start to blow even lightly, that'll help to improve things.
But I'd say by mid morning most of the visibilities
should improve. We've got a lot of low VIZ out
there right now, folks, and you'll want a little extra
time to get wherever you need to go this morning.
Twenty percent chance again it wet today, mid seventies to

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low eighties. Thirty percent chance of thundershowers tomorrow, starting to
cool upper sixties to mid seventies, and then sunch and
feeling like it's December, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Right now sixty eight at your officials, Severe Weather Station
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Buying new south wind, those solutions. More thoughts on those
drones coming up next. First though, at six fifty, let's
do a little traffic and weather together as we check
out the drive once again with Skymike.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Well, we've got something up on the Gulf Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Actually two something's up southbound Bay Area. They just cleared
that out of three lanes. Nice work there, Stay the
course if that's your area. Also at Budgies there's a
wreck before seventeen sixty five seventies em at Lowry and
that's on the southbound. That one's pretty ugly. Ninety Crosby Freeway,
Sheldon Road. This one scooches us up coming in twenty

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extra minutes here East Tex. Clear the record the Beltway.
That's still a lot of habitash ray already from nineteen
sixty Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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to check out some of our top stories here on
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Speaker 7 (01:11:22):
Good morning six fifty one on news radio seven forty ktrh.

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Members of the House Intelligence Committee expected to receive a
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Agencies will be in attendance.

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The New York judge and Donald Trump's hush money case
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Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Uh, what in the world is going on with the drones?
We shared If you missed it, you can check it
on our podcast page at KTRH dot com. But we
we got Gordon Chang's idea, and you know he's got this, Uh,
maybe a foreign power is building a nuclear device here
and maybe that's homeland security running the drones trying to
find the device, you know, something something like that. Here's

(01:12:51):
what we do know, and that is that we really
don't trust our United States government that tell us what
in the world is going on. Most people in Congress
don't trust the government, including Senator Lindsey Graham.

Speaker 30 (01:13:05):
Your problem is, how do you know when they're lying
versus when they're incompetent?

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
They say they well, is that a ques.

Speaker 30 (01:13:13):
Whether they let open up their mouth or they incompetent
when they open up their mouth. I mean they told
us the border we're secure. That's clearly that that's a lie.
Their policies don't work, and they try to tell you
things that are not credible.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Why is this going on now?

Speaker 30 (01:13:29):
The people telling us about the drones recording this information
have lived there for years.

Speaker 5 (01:13:35):
This is something new.

Speaker 30 (01:13:37):
Something the size of a bus or an suv is
not something you buy off the shelf. It's not a hobby.
So I don't want to alarm anybody. I just don't
buy this. I don't trust these people to tell me
the truth. And I can't wait to President Trump gets
in office. We got to secure that border. We're talking
about drones today. What about terrorist on the watch list

(01:13:57):
here and the largest numbers ever.

Speaker 5 (01:14:00):
I got a broken border where.

Speaker 30 (01:14:01):
Thirteen million people have come into our country. What about
lack of bedspace to keep them in custody, having to
turn them loose? What about the lack of agents to
deport them? What about building the wall? The number one
priority of the Republican Party should be to secure your border.
You had a piece right before I came on saying
people trust Trump. World leaders are rallying around him. He

(01:14:22):
has credibility. Let me tell you this to the Republicans.
If we don't deliver on the border, we're going to
lose that credibility. It was the number one position of
President Trump to secure our border on day one. If
we don't do that on day one, we're making a
huge mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
We expect immediate actions. Senator Graham, you're right about that,
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Seven am is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
another Christian school shooting, this time in Wisconsin. Trump holds
his first post election press conference, and coming up at
seven o' eight, a great time to celebrate some of
the year's best podcasts. Details in the minutes to head.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that

(01:16:55):
morning drive again with sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
All Right, we've got that big problem on the golf
freeways southbound at Bucky's. Melanie from Lamark's gonna check in
a minute, but I'm hearing the ugly stuff about that.
That's southbound clear Bay Area Crosby Freeway, Nasty Sheldon Road.
That's a big wreck here. Backups from the River Golf Freeway.
Sarah from Hobby.

Speaker 19 (01:17:13):
Hey Semi there is a fender fender in the left
lane between Waystside and Telesions and just haven't been there yet, so.

Speaker 38 (01:17:21):
I don't know what it's gonna get.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Shirt up female and verbiage.

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
Inbound. That's a big backup from the loop. I'm in
the classic GMC traffic Center from R KTRH top tax defenders.
Twenty four hour Weather Center morning fog and then mostly
cocky with a slight shower chance today I temperature near eighty.
We'll get to the complete forecast when we talked to
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sixty eight at your official severe weather station. News Radio

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seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Eric Shark.

Speaker 7 (01:17:50):
Good morning, seven oh one on news Radio seven forty
ktr H. This news brought to you by Oops Steam Cleaning.
Our top story this hour a fifteen year old student
in Madison, Wisconsin open at Abundant Life Christian School, killing
two people before taking your own life.

Speaker 41 (01:18:04):
This is a small private K through twelve Christian school,
just a four hundred and twenty students, including some students
as young as three year old kindergarteners. This is where
police say a fifteen year old girl who was a student,
armed with a handgun open fire, started shooting in a
study hall, killing a teacher and a student and injuring

(01:18:26):
six others before turning the gun on herself. Two students
remained in life threatening critical condition. Police were inside the
school within three minutes of the first nine to one
to one call, which came from a second grade student.

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
That it was Fox's Garrett Tenney in Madison, Wisconsin. President ELEC.
Trump says Mexico and Canada are on notice over the
border crisis. Speaking from mar A Lango Monday, Trump criticized
the Biden administration over reports its auctioning off pieces of
the border wall.

Speaker 9 (01:18:56):
And what they're doing is really an act. It's almost
it's almost a criminal act. They know we're going to
use it, and if we don't have it, we're going
to have to rebuild it.

Speaker 7 (01:19:06):
Trump also spoke about international issues, warning Hamash that all
hell will break loose if it does not release the
hostages before he takes office, and pledging to work with
Russia and Ukraine in their nearly three year war. Trump
also suggesting that he would end birthright citizenship, the law
that anyone born in America as a citizen. Democratic lawmakers
are claiming that it would require a constitutional amendment. Utah

(01:19:29):
Senator Mike Lee says people are misreading the Constitution.

Speaker 10 (01:19:32):
But the Fourteenth Amendment sas is that all persons born
in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof
are citizens of the United States and of the state
wherein they shall reside. Now subject to the jurisdiction thereof
is something that can and should be defined by Congress.

Speaker 5 (01:19:47):
The President.

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
Eleank called the practice ridiculous and said that we have
to end it. Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who I met with Senator
Mark Wayne Mullen a head of his confirmation hearing, speak
to reporters. Senator Mullins confirming Kennedy's support of the polio vaccine, he.

Speaker 11 (01:20:05):
Said, I one hundred percent supports polio vaccination.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
That's one that's that's different.

Speaker 11 (01:20:10):
You go at the base of where the vaccination, vaccination
started firm was where you know, polio was one of them.
The base sin is the issue. It's why are we
giving our kids seventy two shots out.

Speaker 7 (01:20:20):
Kennedy is also face pushed back on some of his
stances in regards to the pharmaceuticals and fluoride in drinking water.
KTRH News Time seven oh four. There's a growing trend
that actually started in California ruled towns trying to separate
from big blue cities.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
Basically it's a rural town divorce. Our end goal in all.

Speaker 12 (01:20:42):
Of this is to make California great again and also
to make the New California state at the same time.

Speaker 13 (01:20:48):
That is Paul Preston, who founded the New California State
and is still working to make it happen.

Speaker 12 (01:20:55):
We won't get this opportunity, but once in American history,
if we don't see you will have America anymore will
be gone.

Speaker 5 (01:21:02):
He says.

Speaker 13 (01:21:03):
They've already spoken with Trump, who had massive wins in
rural areas.

Speaker 5 (01:21:08):
Jeff Bigs News Radio seven forty KT eight of.

Speaker 7 (01:21:11):
A second attempt by Lena Hidalgo and the Harrison County
Democrats to create the Uplift Harris Guaranteed Income program has
been stopped.

Speaker 14 (01:21:19):
I'm just so thankful we have Attorney General Paxton who's
willing to engage on these kinds of activities. So as
long as we have Attorney General Paxston, we're five.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
Harris County priesting three.

Speaker 7 (01:21:30):
Commissioner Tom Ramsey telling k TRH this is nothing more
than an attempt by local Democrats to win over voters
with handouts, and it's illegal.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
All the fat is s.

Speaker 7 (01:21:39):
Gearing up for another rate cut, but it may not
be a good idea. The Federal Reserve is expected to
cut the base interest rate by another quarter point this week,
even though last week's inflation readings came in hotter than expected.
Financial planner Richard Rosso says, the economy is sending out
mixed signals.

Speaker 16 (01:21:55):
Look at Big acoin, look at stocks, look at small
business sentiments. Everything is hot when it comes to animal spirits.
Yet their inflation number is higher than it should be.
Yet they're going to cut rates again. If it were me,
I wouldn't do it.

Speaker 15 (01:22:08):
Most analysts predict that will halt rate cuts in the
new year. In order to gauge the impact of President
Trump's policies, Coreyolson, He's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:22:17):
As the cost of groceries goes up with Biden inflation,
it's getting harder to make ends meet, especially for younger
people or so. A recent survey set a majority of
those of the US workforce between eighteen and twenty nine
years old said that they're very dissatisfying with their pain.
Just look at the fifteen hundred dollars apartments. Sloane Star
College economists economic professor Hank Lewis says.

Speaker 17 (01:22:39):
Combine that with also the cost of cell phone, internet
and so forth. A lot of these things add up,
and when you crunch the numbers, it's like you're not
going to have any money left to save or do
much else beyond just eat, sleep and.

Speaker 5 (01:22:50):
Go to work and pay your bills.

Speaker 17 (01:22:52):
And for a lot of people that's not living, that's
just basically existing.

Speaker 7 (01:22:57):
Part of the problem is shifting job demand. Some college
graduates are finding their more specialized degrees or not in
demand as much as they were just a few years ago. Well,
SpaceX is looking at a seven nineteen a m launch
time from the Vandenburg Space Force based in California.

Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
That's our time. Just a few minutes from now.

Speaker 7 (01:23:16):
Falcon nine rocket will be carrying star shield satellites for
the National Reconnaissance Office. I'm Eric Sharp on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station, News Radio seven forty kt RH.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Crime is on the.

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Rise, Our schools are in trouble the.

Speaker 19 (01:23:30):
Next four years.

Speaker 21 (01:23:31):
We'll have to get.

Speaker 29 (01:23:31):
Better telling the story of Houston every day.

Speaker 14 (01:23:35):
Quite a story.

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Use Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
Allright, y'all in the podcast and podcast seven those sevens
the time, yere in Houston's Warning News. It's been a
very interesting year, you know, the election. Joe Rogan has
a podcast the Election. I do believe that Joe Rogan
had a role to play a very major role to
play in the election results for Donald Trump. I also
believe that the beauty of podcasting, and we're very proud

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of our efforts here at k t r H and iHeartRadio.
The beauty of podcast is that you can listen when
you want. Obviously, you know you can. You make it
a part of your schedule when it's convenient for you.
So we like to remind you every now and again
that iHeart is one of the biggest I think we

(01:24:23):
are the biggest podcasting company in the entire country. And
this is the end of the year coming up, so
there's gonna be a lot of best of podcasts that
you can listen to. For example, if you go to
KTRH dot com, the Michael Berry Show, his show's podcast,
Our show here in the Morning is podcast Clay and Buck.

(01:24:44):
The Buck Sexton Show is on separate show that he
does garden Line. If you miss and we all miss
Rush Limbaugh, certainly Rush Limbaugh's Timeless Wisdom, Sean Hennity's show
all these things are available your health first. All these
features are available on the iHeartRadio app. So if you
don't have that, because that's you know what makes that

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so convenient, take it with you anywhere that you go.
And we'd like to thank you for uping make KTRH
the most listen to podcast station on the iHeart app
for the entire state of Texas. You've helped us do
that and we appreciate that. So check us out anytime
that you want to and make sure that you have
the iHeart Radio app. There's a lot of great features

(01:25:27):
there that you're really going to enjoy. Seven ten time
for traffic and weather together. Yes, yes, yes can.

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
You can you curse on our podcasts?

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
You can curse at my podcast anytime you want to.
You could just listen to it and you can talk
back to me anytime you want.

Speaker 4 (01:25:41):
I mean, we can't say, like my favorite Spanish word
to describe that guy in the left lane on the
golf freeway what bonde?

Speaker 5 (01:25:46):
Hell easy easy easy? But inbound?

Speaker 4 (01:25:49):
Yeah, this is golf freeway inbound after wayside. That's your
wrec everybody's okay, let's say text, just gave me two right, lanes.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
We're backed up from the loop now.

Speaker 4 (01:25:59):
Sarah from Sarah from Hobby with a big banana sticker
and also extra points for verbiage and extra extra points
for being female.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
Let's go Melanie from Lamark. She's on that golf Freeway.
Bucky Hikes, got Mike.

Speaker 26 (01:26:12):
They have the ninjas out there clearing up that wreck
on Hin south by the BUCkies the traffic southbound.

Speaker 42 (01:26:18):
It's still horrible on the Faure as well as dannerd
State off Channel.

Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
Pit folks are telling me that there's just a ton
of rubbernecking if anything on the East Loop southbound head
for the ship Channel. We're backed up right after the
bud Plant. Something scooched up after market. Give give me
that seven twenty and I'll get you some language on
whatever is that is. And ninety Crosby Freeway looks like
they've cleared Sheldon Road. A lot of banana stickers out
east there. Robert from Crosby and also Cindy from Crosby

(01:26:47):
got backups all the way from twenty one hundred that's inbound.

Speaker 5 (01:26:50):
You lose about twenty minutes this way.

Speaker 4 (01:26:52):
Southwest Freeway, No fun West Park, that's arect big backups
from fondering.

Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
I'm Skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
It is your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
From r katrh stop tanks Devenders twenty four hour weathers
senter Terry Smith this year, would you like to do
a weather podcast? You know you can just talk about
fog all the time? No, you could take a hard
pass on that heart pass.

Speaker 21 (01:27:13):
Okay, yeah, I mean because FOG's like, there's not much
going on except you can't see. That's the drag. So no,
I'm not a big fan of fog. Give me some
other topics, maybe I'd get a little more excited.

Speaker 5 (01:27:28):
So what I.

Speaker 21 (01:27:29):
Do like is that we have some cooler weather on
the way, like it's December. It's supposed to feel like December,
and it will starting about Thursday. Today, another warm day
with the morning fog and a twenty percent chance of
getting wet. Mid seventies to low eighties. Today, it's a
warm day like yesterday. Tomorrow, coal front's on the way.
We have a thirty percent chance of showers and some thunder.

(01:27:53):
It's a little bit cooler tomorrow, upper sixties to mid seventies.
Tomorrow afternoon it's a lot cooler. Thursday, Friday, and sud
and it's sunny too, and I just love that. Temperatures
in the sixties Thursday and Friday and Saturday, upper fifties
to low sixties.

Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
In the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Right now, sixty eight at your officials, Severe Weather Station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
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Speaker 5 (01:28:24):
All the info you need to take on the day.
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
I can't believe we're still going to be talking about this,
because I would have thought this would have resolved itself
by now. You may recall about it, Wizard. About a
week or so ago, we talked to Texas State Representative
Steve Toath about Dustin Burroughs, who decided he was going
to go ahead and call himself speaker elect even though
nobody has elected him speaker, and at this point last

(01:28:49):
I heard, he still doesn't have enough votes in order
to become elected speaker. So, I mean, is this just
a matter of semantics? Why is it that we're actually
requesting an official from the Attorney General Ken Paxton regarding
the legality of calling yourself speaker elect without having been
elected speaker or of that story coming up next. First, though,

(01:29:09):
traffic and weather together as we check out the drive
once again to sky My.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Southwest Freeway inbound at West Park, big wreck, big backups
from Foundering Golf Freeway westside and inbound mishap Terry from
Old Richmond on the west.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
Sam, Good morning, Michael.

Speaker 18 (01:29:22):
We are stopping go for as far as I can see.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
All right, let's zoom in Shine Pearland West Sam.

Speaker 17 (01:29:28):
Hey, sky Mike northbound right around West tim Or there's
a Selen left lane.

Speaker 6 (01:29:33):
Ninjas are on the scene.

Speaker 24 (01:29:34):
Not much of a skunch, stay the court.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Oh, extra points for burbage.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Center from our KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour
weathers under four today morning fog. Yeah, we're seeing that,
plenty of that. Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
a shower today near eighty. Tomorrow rainshower early, partly claude
later seventy two, then Thursday and Friday sunny, cooler both
days with the high temperature sixty four. Right now, temperature

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is sixty eight at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to catch up on some
of our top stories this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:30:09):
Here's Eric.

Speaker 7 (01:30:10):
Good morning. It is seven twenty one on news Radio
seven forty KTRH. Your headline is brought to you Buying
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Donald Trump. At a press conference yesterday from mar Alago,
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who's facing federal fraud and corruption charges. A Russian general

(01:30:31):
in charge of nuclear forces is dead, killed by a
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General Igor Kirillov comes amid allegations that Russia has been
using banned chemical weapons In Ukraine and Texas, lawmakers have
already filed about two thousand bills ahead of the twenty
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voter integrity, education reform, a minimum wage hike, and strengthening
the grid. Get the best news anytime at KTRH dot com,
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Speaker 16 (01:31:07):
Pasadena Living clearly reliable KTRH traffic and weather.

Speaker 29 (01:31:12):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Well, I guess we aren't going to talk about don't
have to worry about repeating myself because we couldn't find
the representative. That's okay, I have other things to discuss.
The Speaker of the House. Thing will take care of
itself one way or another. What I'm more interested in
when it comes to the Texas State House and next
time I talked to State Rep. Steve Toave will be

(01:31:36):
are we finally going to get school choice passed? Are
the votes going to be there? Or is the governor
going to become majorly disappointed again. In the meantime, let's
go back to a more of a national scale, because
right now it's it's it's interesting. It's fascinating to me anyway,
to watch all these business leaders and world leaders come

(01:32:00):
hat in hand to President Trump. They all want a meeting,
they all want to sit down and talk with him.
As part of his press conference yesterday, the CEO of
what is the name of that company, soft so I'll
get the name of the soft bank.

Speaker 5 (01:32:14):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
SoftBank pledged one hundred billion dollars in US investment YEP.
One hundred billion over the next four years, and the
President said he's doing this because he feels very optimistic
about our country since the election. So you've got business
people who are looking to invest in the United States.

(01:32:36):
All it took was all it took was that economic
jump start of knowing what the policies are going to
be come January. Here's economist deed More. He says, expect
to see a lot more of this, not just here,
but all over the world because he believes that more
Trump like politicians are going to end up getting elected
in England and France and other countries.

Speaker 42 (01:32:57):
I just can't stop smiling because this is an amazing story.
One hundred billion dollars of new investment in.

Speaker 8 (01:33:03):
The United States.

Speaker 42 (01:33:04):
I think you said one hundred thousand jobs.

Speaker 8 (01:33:07):
Oh my god.

Speaker 42 (01:33:07):
We've been waiting for this for a long time, haven't we.
In In fact, under Biden, we've seen a lot of
disinvestment in the United States and factories and businesses moving out.
They're moving back in right now. And Trump isn't even
president yet. That's the most amazing thing. You know, he
doesn't actually take take office, he doesn't move into the
old office for another month, but does it seem like
Stuart he's almost like the acting president right now? In

(01:33:30):
terms of the way he's conducting himself and the way
all the foreign leaders are coming to meet with him.

Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
So it's exciting.

Speaker 42 (01:33:36):
And by the way, you guys put it very well,
this didn't happen by accident. It's the lower energy costs,
it's the lower tax rates, it's the deregulation of the economy.
All of these things paint a very rosy scenario. But no,
the economy today is not good. I mean, as you said,
the average inflation of goods and services is up twenty

(01:33:58):
one percent since Biden came into office, and incomes are
only up by about eighteen percent. So no, the average
family does not feel like they're better off than they
were four years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
And that's what the election was all about. The son
he was.

Speaker 1 (01:34:11):
In your new article, you're saying that Trump is igniting
a worldwide revolt against the elites.

Speaker 5 (01:34:19):
Sounds good to me. Tell me more.

Speaker 42 (01:34:22):
Yeah, no, it is happening all over and by the way,
you know, Britain I think will be one of the
first dominos to fall. You've got an incompetent a labor
government there, or the Conservative Party screwed up. I think
people around the world in Britain and Europe, in many
of the South American countries and Asian countries. You saw
what happened in Korea where they ousted their prime minister.

(01:34:42):
You're seeing it in France or seeing it all over
the world. And you know, Trump isn't just popular here
in the United States. Everybody in the world is looking
at what's happening in America with this kind of populist
power to the people movement, and people are saying, hey,
we want that here in our country. So yes, I'm
predicting within the next day team months, you're going to
see major government's topple bringing in populous Trumpian candidates, and

(01:35:06):
I think is a great thing because it'll bring prosperity.

Speaker 8 (01:35:08):
To the whole world.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
There you go, We'll see if that happens. It's hard
to manage some of those countries that are so socialists, though,
like France, are going to be able to pivot and
go in that direction, but they might seven twenty six.
Time to take a look at your money. Jeff Bellinger
is here.

Speaker 27 (01:35:24):
And Jimmy the advisory firm TENNIOHS surveyed chief executives from
some of the top global companies and as your guest
just said corporate leaders around the world are more upbeat
than they have been in years. After the US election,
stock market futures pointing lower this morning, the Dow futures
down one hundred and ninety five points. This report is

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sponsored by Total Line and More. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg
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This is US Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Five Everywhere with the IRP.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

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Seven thirty is our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour, that Wisconsin school shooter,
fifteen year old female, claims that eating out will cost
more after mass deportation. In coming up at seven thirty eight,
a data breach that's affecting nine hundred thousand Americans. Details

(01:36:30):
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive again with sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
Southwest Freeway inbound cleared, the wreck at West Park AT's
solid breaks Now from the belt West Park to wait
that's breaks now fourteen sixty four to eighty eight back
doors the Beltwait Tracy from Kingwood.

Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
Kay Skimike.

Speaker 16 (01:36:47):
If you're trying to get to fifty nine, do not
take north Park d I have ten fifteen minutes to go.

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
One mile Kingwood or Porter.

Speaker 29 (01:36:54):
Simptoms, but don't take North Park.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
All right, We've got that roadwork at the railroad.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
I'm Skymike on the Classic View TMC Traffic Center from
r KTRH Generator Supercenter.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
Twenty four hour Weather Center. Some morning fog and then
mostly conty with a slight shower chance today, high temperature
near eighty. We'll get to the complete forecast with Terry
Smith at the Weather Channel in nine minutes right now
sixty eight at your official severe weather station. News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It's time out for the news. Here's
Eric Sharp.

Speaker 7 (01:37:22):
Good morning at seven thirty one on news Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:37:25):
Our top story this hour.

Speaker 7 (01:37:26):
Wisconsin's capital city, Madison, still in shock after that deadly
shooting Monday at a Christian school.

Speaker 26 (01:37:33):
I hope that this day would never come. In Medisine,
Mayor Sacho Rhodes Conway talked about the shooting at Abundant
Life Christian school that killed the teacher and student. The
shooter also died. Mayor Rhodes Conway said a whole of
government approach is in place to comfort and console. Police
Chief Sean Barnes is working on the timeline that led

(01:37:53):
to this tragedy, hoping it prevents the next one.

Speaker 6 (01:37:57):
How can I say one hundred percent that.

Speaker 26 (01:37:59):
Notes will be harm in school.

Speaker 8 (01:38:01):
I can't, No police chief can.

Speaker 26 (01:38:03):
For now, police are working with parents and the school
to discover why this happened. Grnald Scott Fox.

Speaker 7 (01:38:10):
News Abasadena man facing charges for selling a handgun to
a Deer Park High School student who then brought that
weapon to school. The student was found with a gun
back on December eleven, three days after buying it. His
phone records showed that he paid twenty year old Heyeseus
Emilio Rodriganz four hundred bucks on a cash app for
the gun. On Regaez's charge with unlawful transfer of a

(01:38:31):
weapon to a child. The student also facing charges. mainStreet
media outlets are now raising questions about how Trump deportation
plans might hurt the restaurant industry, but should be re
really worried.

Speaker 31 (01:38:44):
The reality is American industries can and will survive without
illegal alien labor.

Speaker 32 (01:38:49):
America got all of the cabinet is picked and all
the street sweeped and all of the hamburgers cooked before
there were twenty to thirty million illegal ams brought into
this country.

Speaker 31 (01:38:58):
William Dean with Alipex as these illegal aliens shouldn't have
been given jobs in the first place.

Speaker 33 (01:39:03):
It's against the law to hire illegal immigrants. It's against
the law to be an illegal immigrant, and we need
to start applying those laws across the board.

Speaker 31 (01:39:10):
Dean says that we have more than enough American citizens
and legal immigrants to fill any jobs left open. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:39:18):
House lawmakers receiving a classified briefing on the mysterious drone
sidings that have been pomping up all over the country,
including in the northeast.

Speaker 5 (01:39:26):
Florida.

Speaker 7 (01:39:27):
Congressman Greg Stuby telling Fox's Business Mornings with Maria he
hopes federal officials have got reliable information about those drones,
and since the American people deserve to know what these
things are doing.

Speaker 25 (01:39:39):
Obviously, if they're friendly, or if they're law enforcement, or
if you know you don't want people shooting down drones
that are being used for an official purpose.

Speaker 29 (01:39:48):
If they're commercial aircraft.

Speaker 25 (01:39:50):
Obviously, the knowledge to the American people is important for
people to know what these things are flying around their houses.

Speaker 7 (01:39:56):
Federal officials have insisted the drones pose no securecurity threat
to the US and that most of these cases are
just misidentification, with people mistaking planes and atmospheric phenomena for drones.
President elect Donald Trump says he would consider a pardon
for New York City Mayor Eric Adams meanwhile, who was
indicted on corruption charges.

Speaker 5 (01:40:17):
Trump says that the.

Speaker 7 (01:40:19):
That he predicted Adams would be indicted after Adams criticized
the administration over illegals coming into New York City. KTRH
News Time seven thirty four. After losing the election and
most of their influence, Nathaniel Blake with the Federalists telling
ktr RH at the left support of the alleged shooter,
I mean nited Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is very alarming.

Speaker 35 (01:40:41):
The more radical elements of the left may be responding
to losing power, to losing influence by becoming even more
radicalized and extreme and justifying actions that will tear this
country apart.

Speaker 7 (01:40:55):
He says, most Americans want the return of law and order,
but the left issound for blood. The UT systems now
trying to get in line with state law and reviewing
their DEI practices.

Speaker 24 (01:41:06):
They found thousands of DEI related phrases in their websites.

Speaker 20 (01:41:09):
After this was discovered, they mandate that all University of
Texas system employees, including student employees, undergo regular compliance training.

Speaker 24 (01:41:18):
Robert Montoya of Texas Scorecards says this is a positive
action to get away from the DEI movement and wall
state law bands DEI practices.

Speaker 5 (01:41:26):
It stops short of the actual classroom.

Speaker 20 (01:41:28):
But it doesn't apply to academic instruction, and as we're seeing,
there's still a problem in terms of what's actually being
taught in these universities.

Speaker 5 (01:41:35):
He says, well, this is a good thing.

Speaker 24 (01:41:36):
There's a lot more work to be done to truly
reform education andore Perard News Radio seven forty ktrh O, the.

Speaker 7 (01:41:44):
Manhunt contin years after two teams were killed four others
wounded during that mass shooting at a pump up party
in North Houston over the weekend.

Speaker 34 (01:41:51):
We are assuring the public that we are going to
put all our resources and finding out what happened here
and who did this the weekend bring them to justice.

Speaker 7 (01:41:58):
The HBDA Assistant Chief, Louis Eastman Indez says these pap
up parties are organized on social media and not a
legit business. Wel triple A says the number of holiday
travelers will return to pre pandemic levels. Around one hundred
and twenty million people are expected to travel at least
fifty miles between December twenty first and January first. It's

(01:42:18):
a three point five percent increase over last year's holiday
travel period. The Rockets they are out of the NBA Cup.
They will return to action this Thursday when they host
the Pelicans at Toyota Center. I'm Eric Sharp on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 22 (01:42:36):
Informed for today's world, for tomorrow's America and connected to Houston.

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
Now I can stay in the mid news radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
You know that kind of kind of sounds like a databris,
doesn't it? Seven thirty seven? Is there taught me? Or
in Houston's morning news?

Speaker 9 (01:42:55):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:42:55):
What are the great fears?

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
I had when when we decide that we were going
to put all medical records online. You know, when the
government dictated that was okay. You know, at least when
my medical records were in a file in a file
cabinet in a doctor's office, unless somebody broke in and

(01:43:17):
burglarized the office and stole all the files, they didn't
have access to all my personal information. But no, no,
no no, we had to in a lot of states
made a mandatory. We had to put this stuff online. Right,
and now we have over nine hundred thousand Americans who
have just had their personal and health information exposed in
a medical data breach that includes names, phone numbers, treatments,

(01:43:41):
and social security numbers. The worst part of course being
social security numbers. Do you ever get asked, like from
your doctor's office for your social Security number? I never
fill that in. And if they asked me to go, why
do you need my social Security number? And they never

(01:44:01):
have an answer. They never have an answer for me
why they needed it. You've got my you've got my
health information. As far as you know who my health
insurance is with. They have my social Security number. I
had no choice about that one. But here's the thing,
this is just going to continue to happen. More and more, because,

(01:44:25):
to be quite frank about it, the people who hack
into these systems, these data breachers, they're smarter than the
people who are trying to protect the systems. They're always
one step ahead. Now, if you're wondering who got broken into,
it's telehealth telehealth platform systems accessed by an unknown third party.

(01:44:48):
You know, if you use telehealth instead of going to
a regular doctor, those are the people who are impacted.
And again, over nine hundred thousand Americans and their information
in here data breach with all that personal information exposed
online reported by Bleeping Computer. The servicing question is Connect
on Call and it's a subsidiary of the healthcare software

(01:45:11):
as a service company Freesia. In addition to Telehealth, Connect
on Call provides after hours on call answering services for
doctors' offices, hospitals, and other healthcare businesses. They revealed now
that between February and May of this year, a third
party had access to its service app data and some
provider patient communications and a lot of information has been lost.

(01:45:34):
Seven forty time for traffic and weather together, we're checking
out the driv again with Skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:45:39):
What's clear the golf freeway northbound. The wreck at way
sides out of the way. The skunch is still there.
From Edgebrook northbound eighteen extra minutes here Southwest Freeway. Clear
that rick we had at West Park. It's ugly from
the Beltway up. This might be a good time to
jump on all ninety. The most city Expressway advisor shir
Katie Freeway is all dragging it now. Graham Parkway into

(01:45:59):
Eldridge Parkway sixteen extra minutes through the Energy Corridor to nine.
If you had a grand march at your wedding, you're
stuck from huff By st Yeah into about Eldridge Parkway.
Nord said, we were supposed to have the road work
finished at Aldan Westfield and Imperial Valley both ways.

Speaker 3 (01:46:14):
Got that going on tip Line Spring.

Speaker 11 (01:46:16):
Hey, my, Rayford just past Imperial Oak eastbound lanes are closed.

Speaker 20 (01:46:22):
Telephone poll down.

Speaker 14 (01:46:23):
Everybody's getting diverted.

Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
Holy wow, let's avoid that. See Terry, it's been a
great morning for language. By the way, Jimmy almost custo
in Spanish. We had west side shine from Pearland.

Speaker 6 (01:46:33):
Ninjas are on the scene.

Speaker 17 (01:46:34):
Not much of a skun to State of the courts.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
See he was speaking perfect articulate verbiage. But then we
get a bunch of give.

Speaker 12 (01:46:41):
Come, correct, get you from the medicide.

Speaker 4 (01:46:43):
Like James from Magnolia. See, I know you have your
own jive up in the golf ball. You're a scientist,
so you say correct, good, you know, and then you
started stuff with According to my calculations, we're about to
see some serious stuff like that, So go ahead and
talk all sciencey with us.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
The classic beauty seek traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:47:00):
How any more waste can you describe the bog? I
can now, however, Terry, I can now see the nose
in front of my face. That's about all that I
can see the nose in front of my face.

Speaker 21 (01:47:08):
Okay, good for you. Well, okay, here's some a way
to talk about fog that we kind of forget about
now and then, which is fog is basically a cloud
hanging out on the ground. Probably got tired just hovering
it around and decided to take a break. All right,
So this FOG's a problem, and I should start to
thin out by about mid morning. Folks, it's another warm,

(01:47:30):
buggy day. I can't believe we're still talking temperatures today
mid seventies to low eighties in December. We do have
a little bit of rain, twenty percent chance of a shower,
so not a big deal.

Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 21 (01:47:40):
Colfront's on the way, thirty percent chance of shower, some thunder.
Upper sixties to mid seventies tomorrow. I am loving the
cooler weather on the way Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It
is sunny and dry and temperatures in the sixties Thursday
and Friday, and just even a little bit cooler Saturday.
Upper fifties to low sixties Saturday. Huh, Cloud's second under

(01:48:03):
the ground. Sounds like we need a fog lift from
our current temperature. By the way, sixty eight at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 5 (01:48:13):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
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Speaker 2 (01:48:21):
So our Texas University's got a pretty you know, pretty
emphatic marching order from the state. You will not be woke.
You will not We are not doing DEI initiatives. So
the question becomes, Okay, are they still doing these initiatives?
Are they still using DEI terms? And sort of an

(01:48:42):
internal review, if you will, of the University of Texas
and their website found that there were something like thirteen
thousand DEI related terms on University of Texas websites. So
are they if they if they just not cleaned up
the website, or are they still follow the DEI mandate.
Robert Montoya wrote a story about it for the Texas Scorecard.

(01:49:04):
We'll talk to him next. First, though, Traffic and Whether
together started with you, sky Mike. All right, one forty
six southbound.

Speaker 4 (01:49:10):
My bells and whistles are growing off some kind of
wreck right there at five Seventeen's looking really tough. You've
got sixty nine Southwest Freeway cleared, the wreck at West
Park that was on the inbound, and you've got West
Park Tollway dragging it now fourteen sixty four. I'm skylike
in the classic Buick GMC Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
Center from r KTRH Generators super Center, twenty four hour
weather centers. The morning fog, the mostly clouda's like shower
chants near eighty today tomorrow rain shower early becoming part
of the cloudie with the high seventy two right now
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seven forty KTRH stick out some of our top stories
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Speaker 5 (01:49:47):
Here's Eric Sharp, good morning.

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Speaker 8 (01:50:31):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown, Southwest.

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
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Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
Yeah, what does BOK mean these days? Seven to fifty
two is their time here in Houston's sporning news. All right,
Texas scorecards. Robert Montoyo joins us to ensure compliance with
the statewide ban of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. University of
Texas staff now mandated to undergo regular training, but an
audit of their website shows something like thirteen thousand take
references to DEI related terms. Join us to talk about

(01:51:04):
it is Robert Boyntoya. So I guess the question is
are they complying or not complying?

Speaker 20 (01:51:09):
Robert Well, this move by the University of Texas system
is part of a pattern of very positive moves they've
shown where there looks like they're trying to come in
compliance with the law. I mean, earlier they shut down
their division of Campus Community Engagement, their Multicultural Engagement Center,
so it appears at administrative level they're trying to come

(01:51:32):
to compliance with the law. And they've also said that look,
there should be every college, school or unit of the
university text system should finish their own review of their
websites by December thirty first for DEI related terms.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
Okay, so they might just be a little bit behind
the times when it comes to gain those websites cleaned up.
I did know that Senate Bill seventeen, which is the
law that prohibits universities from establishing a DEI office or
to use DI criteria. They're hiring practices. They made it
mandatory for everybody. But academic instruction isn't that where most

(01:52:07):
of the DEI problems occur is in the classrooms.

Speaker 20 (01:52:12):
That is that is true. There are limits to Bill seventeen.
And what people should take away is, look, the Universe
Text system is making a very positive move, but DEI
is still in your Texas universities. Like, for example, earlier
we report that UT Austin has a LGBT course that
promotes LGBT values and has a required textbook that appears

(01:52:33):
to promote the sexualization of minors. We've also reported that
Texas A and M has an educational foundation course that's
just chocked full of DEI. So DEI is still alive
and well unfortunately in our education system. But you know,
what the University of Text system is doing is a
very positive move, but there's still a lot of work

(01:52:53):
remaining to do.

Speaker 2 (01:52:54):
I would I would think you know, part of when
you have a DEI office, when you have people whose
main function is to incorporate these programs, when that no
longer exists that certainly helps, but when you have people
who have been trained in that, the question I would
ask Robert is how many of those people who are
working specifically in DEI programs at Texas universities are now

(01:53:16):
just employed in some other department and maybe doing many
of the same things. They just don't have the same
title or or or the same you know, the same
sort of.

Speaker 5 (01:53:29):
Mission.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
They don't necessarily have a DEI mission, but that's what
they were trained in. They have another job at the university.

Speaker 20 (01:53:36):
Well, that was a concern. What is going to happen
with these individuals who used to be staffed in DEI.
Are they just going be moved around? That's something that
we've been listening for. I think that's something that's been discussed.
But another core problem is that in too many of
our texts universities like the University of Texas system, like
text A and M, there is this concept of shared governments,

(01:53:58):
and it's this idea that the faculty member should share
governing power with the board of regents. And as you know,
we just have way too many faculty that are woke
and really shared governments should not be a thing. It's
the boards of regents that are appointed by the governor,
that are approved by the Senate, the State Senate, that
have the responsibility for running these universities. They should not

(01:54:18):
be sharing power with faculty, especially when many of these
faculty members are woken are against Texas values.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
Quickly because we're almost out of time, But is the
state of Texas itself, is there enough oversight on these
universities to see if they're complying.

Speaker 14 (01:54:34):
Well?

Speaker 20 (01:54:34):
State Center Brandon Crichton is indicated that he is intense
on ensuring there is compliance, that he's going to be
following up with them. And in regards to Senate Bill seventeen,
as regards to eradicating di I completely, we'll have to
see what else the legislature does in the upcoming session.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
All right, Robert Montoya, thank you, sir, appreciate it from
Texas Scorecard, Robert montoyan all right, y'all, have a great day.
We'll see tomorrow morning, bright and early five. I'll see
the safew four on AM nine fifty KPRC