Elon Musk Disappointed With The Big Beautiful Bill

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 05/28/25.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven forty kat rh Houston Live
everywhere with now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's more of what matters to you. From the John
Morris Services studios.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hey, good morning, five am. Is their time here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories.
As we get started this morning, Elon Musk disappointed with
that big, beautiful bill. It could have been worse. Kamma
was considered for the Supreme Court. And coming up at
five o eight, it's National Burger Day, So who has
Houston's best details In the minutes ahead, You're in Houston's

(00:39):
Morning News. First man Skybike is here. I know he
has burger ideas.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
It is too bad that Princess isn't with us anymore.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
Although people will tell you all right, for some reason,
they're showing me East tex at Greens. It looks lovely
to me. If you're coming in from the sticks, we
look problem for you. Twenty minutes whatever was there is
gone now. Oh we might have some trouble in the
canyon partner southbound right.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Before the merge with sixty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
The southwest got us stall there and he's right smack
dab in the middle to try to get that moved over.
Watch out southbound on the East text elevated East Freeway
inbound suckage from Normandy. They're still doing some overnight roadwork.
It'll be gone shortly. For now, it's it's hurts. I'm
in the USA Rvresorts dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
From a KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Eighty percent chance of thunderstorms today with a high temperature
right about eighty. Ken boons in for Terry. We'll talk
to him at the weather channel. Get an update on
the forecast in about nine minutes. Right now seventy four
at your official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time down for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Good morning, Jimmy, Good morning, every one, five oh one
on KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
Our top story.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
More opposition to President Trump's agenda, and it comes from
a surprising place.

Speaker 8 (01:52):
I was like disappointed to see the massive spending boat.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Yes, that's Elon Musk, who recently st back from DOJE
on CBS. He says the bill adds to the debt
in quote, undermines the work the DOGE team is doing
The video is on our exit our Facebook pages. Meantime,
the president's poll numbers are at two month highs forty
four percent according to the Economist. And you guph and

(02:17):
you know what could have been scarier than President Kamala Harris?
How about Supreme Court Justice Kamala A new book says
it could have happened.

Speaker 9 (02:26):
This might seem radical, but it would have been in
character for the Biden administration.

Speaker 10 (02:30):
It doesn't surprise me at all because it's all about politics,
and the issue would quickly become why are you opposing
a black woman for the Supreme Court.

Speaker 9 (02:38):
Newsmax contributor Jeffrey Lord pointed out that at the time
Biden pledged to prioritize nominating a black woman.

Speaker 10 (02:44):
The Democratic Party has worked itself into this position. They're
hung up on judging people by skin color. They feel
that it is part of their rights.

Speaker 9 (02:52):
He says this could have also been an attempt to
get Harris out of the picture because she was so unpopular.
Ethan Buchannan News Radio seven forty.

Speaker 6 (02:59):
KATR Thank you, Ethan, it's five h three. The US
Supreme Court can overturn rulings by activist judges against the
white House and help fix illegal immigration. The question is
will they. Texas Congressman Ship Roy thinks, so.

Speaker 11 (03:16):
This is a subject that I care intentionally about because
you know, we see in Texas all the time in
our country, Birdwright, citizenship is being exploited.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
The court will rule next month on citizenship, which Trump
banned on his first day in office. Catch and release
is over and done, and ICE is now making arrests
at court hearings.

Speaker 12 (03:34):
It's all part of reversing the disastrous Biden border policies.

Speaker 13 (03:38):
This is one of the tools the Trump administration is
using to keep its promise to secure the border and
get the criminal element out of our country.

Speaker 12 (03:47):
Journalist Jennifer Oliver O'Connell says he's given plenty of options
for self deporting, and it's a refreshing return to the
rule of law.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
Trump is saying no more.

Speaker 14 (03:56):
We're going to follow the.

Speaker 13 (03:57):
Laws, and the laws give ICE authority to forrest them
in a court hearing.

Speaker 12 (04:02):
She says, the left spin that Trump is breaking the
law is simply wrong. Andre Ferrarden News Radio seven forty
e KTRI.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
It is now five h four the deadline for the
Texas House to give initial approval to Senate legislation is
come and gone. Among the bills that failed a ban
round libraries from hosting drag Queen Story Hour events on
taxpayer funded property. Now, the Senate did pass the Women's
Bill of Rights, protecting women from being forced to share
locker rooms with biological men.

Speaker 15 (04:31):
The bill makes it clear that in Texas, sex is
defined by biology, not ideology. Along with that, it helps
ensure that women's rights are protected by clearly defining what
a woman is and what a woman is not.

Speaker 7 (04:43):
That bill is now headed to Governor Rabbott's desk.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
Lawmakers are still working on property tax reform, but critics
want to see property taxes abolished. James Quintero at the
Texas Public Policy Foundation says that's got to start at
the local level.

Speaker 16 (04:58):
Encourage officials to not on spend less, but to adopt
a no new revenue tax rate. Until we get local
officials to exercise fiscal discipline, it's going to be much
harder at the legislative level to eliminate property taxes.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Those comments aimed write at Harris County Judge Alena Hidalgo,
and we'll have more on her spending at five point
thirty five oh five gasoline prices are down to two
dollars and sixty nine cents a gallon across Houston today,
oil futures up forty five cents to sixty one dollars
and thirty four cents a barrel. OPEC plus nations meet today.
They're expected to increase production again, which means prices at

(05:37):
the pump will continue to drop.

Speaker 17 (05:39):
What I call the invisible hand of Donald Trump. He
has a much better relationship with the Middle East, as
evidence by his recent trip over to that part of
the world in OPEC spent a lot more friendly towards
raising production.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Market analyst Phil Flynn, Trump's invisible hand is working on
something else too.

Speaker 18 (05:58):
That would be Trump's entergy revolution.

Speaker 19 (06:01):
Trump likes to say it will bring on a golden age,
and I think energy is a huge part of that picture.

Speaker 18 (06:08):
That is attorney and political columnist Charlton Allen Presta.

Speaker 19 (06:12):
Trump is doing fantastic work of not just this front,
but on multiple fronts simultaneously. All it takes is one
presidential election and you're right back where you started.

Speaker 18 (06:23):
Trump, which is why so much is at stake in
this second term. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty Key
t eight.

Speaker 6 (06:31):
Trump is also pushing for an American nuclear renaissance in Texas,
will profits.

Speaker 20 (06:36):
Two nuclear sites in the state. Both of those facilities
have two reactors each. Both were designed to have four
reactors each.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
That's read Clay with the Texas Nuclear Alliance. A ut
study finds that investing in nuclear power would add fifty
billion dollars to the Texas economy five point six on
k t RH.

Speaker 21 (06:53):
That what's driven left field going back Sutter Strove over
the line signor.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
The first of two jose Al two va homers on
KTRH last night the strosby Das eleven to one. Pregame
today at noone on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (07:17):
I take the Beltway sometimes, and I also take the
West Park.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Toll Road KTRH time saving traffic. Connext on the ten
oh Man, love me.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
A good juicy burger five o eight our time here
in Houston's morning news. I don't call bs on this
survey though, door Dash by the way, Happy National Burger Day.
That's what's prompting the conversation. It's National Burger day today,
So I figured it would be a good day for
us to share with each other our favorite Houston burger.
Where it is you get it? You could be a

(07:48):
hold the ball, mom and the pop. In fact, Mom
and Pops are the best as far as I'm concerned.
I'll let you know one of the places that I like.
You let me know maybe a place or two that
you like could be a You know, if you think
what a burger is the best burger in Houston, you
can say what a burger's the best burger in Houston
as far as I'm concerned. But I'm kind of looking

(08:10):
for the I'm kind of looking for the mom and
pop places because that's usually where you find the best burgers.
Here's the only thing. Here's the only thing I ask
is that we put down some criteria that no matter
how you like the burger cooked, you have to be
able to order it rare. In other words, they trust
their meat so much or they grind their own meat

(08:31):
that you can I would never eat it where you
might say, but I could get it where if I
wanted to. If you got a burger place like that,
here's what you do. You go the iHeartRadio app KTRH.
Please make us number one hundred presets. You can get
there fast and then you get thirty seconds once you
hit the talkback button. First name. Where you're calling from.
Best burger joint in Houston. It must still exist. Not

(08:56):
a burger from the past or a place you went
to as a kid. That's no longer. It's got to
be a place that we could go and we'll share
some thoughts here this morning. In the meantime, let me
share this bs with you from door Dash a National
Burger Day. They claim that chicken burgers are now the
most popular type of burger in the US. What is
a chicken burger? Chicken is not a burger. Chicken is

(09:20):
a chicken sandwich, isn't it? It's either a sandwich or nuggets.
It's not a burger. Who said? Who put this in here?
They claim that hamburgers or cheeseburgers were only the most
ordered type of burger in fourteen states. They say seventeen states,
chicken burgers were number one. Veggie burgers were number one

(09:41):
in thirteen states. Same thing. It's not a burger if
it's made of vegetables. But that's according to the people
at DoorDash another reason why I guess I don't use
door dash five ten type for track together. It's right,
it's wrong. This guy mine, My mom and dad went
to something.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
Boy, do you have to get somebody really up there
and went to somewhere I think off Washington called the
pig Stand.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Somebody knows the Shirley McClain movie stand.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yeah, there was a Shirley McClain movie filmed here, uh something.
It was some sad movie with her and I think
Jack Nicholson was in it, and they were they went
to the pig Stand. I am too young to know
about it, but that's where my mom and dad went.
All right, let's go to the tip line seven one
three two one two t ips Richard from Huntsville.

Speaker 22 (10:31):
A good morning, sky Mike, going northbound forty five. The
traffic is it is stan still from right there in
the north side of Huntsville, going northbound all the way
tooting a Waverley. I don't know if it has Mattsville
or something, but it's pretty backed up for a long way.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
All right, I've got some kind of rumbling from one
fifty two. This is northbound as you're heading up toward Huntsville.
If anybody happens to be up there, uh seven one
three two one two tips and I'll bet we have
some lineage and a little more on that at five twenty.
Rest of our freeways around Houston rocking for now. I'm Skymike.
It's your Usarvresorts dot Com traffic center. Think Stan's kind

(11:09):
of interesting.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
We'll have to talk about this to a mid somebody
that knows this from the KTRH top tax Defenders twenty
four our weather center Can Boon is in for Terry today.
Another stormy day coming up today, Ken, We certainly do.

Speaker 23 (11:20):
We're watching some storms back out across central parts of
Texas towards the Austin and San Antonio area. All that
energy and those storms are headed eastwards. So as we
approach the midday hour, I think we might start to
see some showers and storms west of Houston, and they'll
be with us into and through much of the afternoon.
And any storm that we do see today could produce
a very heavy downpours at times. High temperatures in the

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low to mid eighties, We'll keep a chance of showers
and storms in overnight low seventies.

Speaker 24 (11:45):
Showers and storms tomorrow.

Speaker 23 (11:47):
Best chance will be very late in the afternoon at
evening hours his on Thursday upper eighties to near ninety
just a slight chance Friday mid eighties, and then I
think a dryer trend of the weekend weather sunshine, just
a stray shower storm possible. Best chance for that would
be late Sunday upper eighties to near nineties Saturday Sunday.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Right now, seventy four at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you byen New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News Team.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
All the info you need to take on the day,
so little follow up coming up in just a moment here.
You may recall yesterday morning on the show, we talked
a little bit about the president of France, President Macun,
getting slapped by his wife on board that the presidential
jet as he was getting ready to get off, and

(12:39):
they're trying to downplay it is well, you know, we
were just horsing around. Yeah right, Anyway, Greg Gutfeld had
some fun with that last night. We'll share that with
you next first though, it find funny let's do traffic
and weather together. That starts with you Skyville, all right.
I checked with Walker County. You know they are so helpful.
I forty five and Richard from Huntsville.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
This morning's first banans tack or I forty five around
one fifth empty New Waverley. They did have a pretty
gnarly wreck there for a while in the early morning hours.
That is now clear, and just looking at some digital
up there, looks like the backups are going away pretty quickly.
If you're heading for Huntspiel, we're in good shape. Also
North Sam Gestner clear that wreck. It's out. You can't
even tell. Stay the course here and the pig stand, Jimmy.

(13:20):
That was a real place, but they were filming a
movie here with Shirley McClain and Jack Nicholson.

Speaker 25 (13:25):
Come on, sky Mike, it's terms of endearment.

Speaker 7 (13:28):
Every girl knows that movie Terms of endearment.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
Get out of here, all right. That's what they're supposed
to be, a great, great hamburger place.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
It's a chick flip.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 26 (13:36):
You know.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh, a friend of mine.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Dan Gallo, that worked at the last station in Houston
that played actual country music. Dan Gallo checked in. He
said it was on Washington Avenue, by Houston Avenue, you know,
by traffic Court, Jimmy. And then oh, we have a
lady that wighed in, whose husband is on another station
right now, me and missus Jones.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
The pig stand, she says was on Washington.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
They took the sign down officially ten years ago, and
she says, yes, it was a Houston institution. So interesting
Houston stuff, Skymike on the USA RV Resorts dot Com traffic.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Actually the keyword THEIRS was we need some is is is?

Speaker 14 (14:14):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh for the pole? We need is for the pole? Yeah,
actually still existing places from our KTIRH Top tax Defenders
twenty four our weather center today eighty percent chance of
thunderstorm's about eighty Tomorrow morning clouds, afternoon showers and thunderstorms
scattered variety about ninety and then cloudie with a stray
shower storm possibility on Friday, high eighty six. Right now

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seventy four at your officials Severe Weathers Station News Radio
seven forty k TRH. Time to check out some more
of our top trending stories this morning, your sklip.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
Thank you, Jimmy. Sponsored by D and M Auto Leasing.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
We are learning more about Harris County's wild spending, will
explain it to you. Two Secret Service officers are suspended
after getting into a fight in front of Barack.

Speaker 7 (14:57):
Obama's mansion last week. This is some sad news.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Mary lou Retten arrested for dui earlier this month in
West Virginia. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update at five thirty.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
In every neighborhood there lives a nosy neighbored.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
We are that neighbor. Check in often for the latest round.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Town News Radio seven k t r H.

Speaker 13 (15:24):
No.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
I don't know what she's saying. Five twenty three is
our time here in Houston's Born News. I didn't learn
much French in school. Bon jour comasava sava, b c avu.
That's about it. A little greeting here and there. That's
about as far as I go. But evidently the wife
of the president of France is willing to go all
the way in a slugfest, the public slugfest, the slap

(15:46):
heard round the world. We talked about that a little
bit yesterday. Here's Greg Guttfeld having some fun with it
on his show last night. The leader of.

Speaker 26 (15:53):
The French gets slugged by his wench.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Our.

Speaker 26 (15:58):
Video of the day comes from US from French President
Emmanuel Macrone's wife, Obrigette, caught on cameras shoving him in
the face before getting off a plane in Vietnam. He's
tried his best to play it off when he realized
they had been spotted. Macrone later tried to downplay it, saying, quote,
we are scribbling and rather drugging these wife, I know.

(16:21):
Is that amazing? Let's watch it again in slow motion?
Oh my god, yeah, here we go, here we go. Hey, yeah,
just a playful merrill, love touch. But here's how you
know it's real. As they're getting off the plane, Macron
offers his arm to help her walk down the stairs.

(16:41):
She doesn't take it. She walks right by him. That's
all you need to know. So what were they really
fighting about?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Who knows?

Speaker 26 (16:48):
Couples fight all fight over all sorts of things, right,
But remember they did meet when he was just fifteen
and she was thirty nine, a teacher at his school.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
That's a difference of.

Speaker 26 (17:01):
Twenty four years between a kid and a middle aged lady.
Goes to show the difference between their first lady and
America's previous one and France. It's the elder who dishes
out the abuse.

Speaker 27 (17:13):
I happened to think that she was upset because of
that press conference.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
He gave those jokes. He was making play that tape.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Guys.

Speaker 28 (17:24):
My wife, he's so old. She was a waitress at Zasava.
My wife, she's so old. She drove a cheve to
high school. My wife is so old. She remembers when
the Beatas were called a new kid's own zeb. My

(17:45):
wife is so old she remembers when the Mayans.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Published the first Canada.

Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Wow, Yeah, she's sensitive.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I would be too. Twenty four. I didn't realize
there's twenty four year age difference. They met at a
school she was teaching at. She was thirty nine, he
was fifteen. Wow. Something tells me, I'm just guessing that
she's the boss in that relationship. Wouldn't you guess that's

(18:22):
the case. Five twenty six Our News radio seven forty
ktrh Time take a look at your money. Jeff Elder,
Good morning, and good morning to you. Jimmy.

Speaker 29 (18:30):
Stocks advanced at the start of the holiday shortened trading week.
Investor sentiment got a boost from the apparent easing of
trade tensions with the European Union, and the market's got
some help from word that consumer confidence increased this month.
Yesterday's games for the major averages range from one point
eight percent to two and a half percent. Shares of
AMC Entertainment surge nearly twenty four percent. Movie Theater Operator

(18:54):
had its best Memorial Day weekend. Everett was the opening
weekend for two blockbuster films. There has been another setback
for SpaceX, a starship. Spacecraft broke apart after it was launched.
Stock market futures slightly lower right across the board at
this early hour. I'm Jeff Beldinger, Bloomberg Business on News
Radio seven forty ktrh A Houston's News.

Speaker 30 (19:20):
Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 3 (19:33):
It is five point thirty here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories, this I f
are Lina says no money for deputy raises, but we've
got millions to lobby This day what makes us so
much more confident in April and coming up at five
thirty eight, here come your favorite burgers. Can't wait to
hear them. Sure, By the way, you can go ahead
and participate. iHeart Radio app KTRH Bank is number one

(19:56):
on your pre set. But first, let's check out the
drive again. Here's Skymike.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Start cooking now, Jimmy, we've got Southwood.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
But by the way, you just heard something about the
Southwest Freeway that was recorded two minute morning from yesterday.
I don't know why it played, but it shouldn't have
Southwest Freeways wide open.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
Rosenberg up into town.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
We do have delane shift up at the Brazis River
that's on the outbound.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
You can't even feel the pain. Now.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
We're looking at twenty one minutes from the fountains Skymike
on the USA Rvresorts dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center.
Eighty percent chance of thunderstorms today with the I temperature
right about eighty. More chances for tomorrow and maybe even
on Friday before we clear things out for the weekend.
We'll get the latest on the forecast with Ken Boone
at the weather channel in nine minutes right now, seventy
four at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven

(20:45):
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
It is five thirty one on KTRH. Our top story.
Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo and PREA sing One Commissioner
Rodney Elwis voted against giving lawn enforcement a raised last week,
claiming the county just couldn't afford it. But the county
was spending as much as five point five million dollars
on lobbying efforts.

Speaker 31 (21:10):
This has been an issue with conservatives for many years
and have complained about how these funds are spent. The
only ones who get wealthy on it are the lobbyists.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Aris County GOPHR. Cindy Siegel says, since state lawmakers failed
to ban taxpayer funded lobbying this session, it's up to
voters to vote out the officials who sign off on
this kind of thing. Meantime, another Republican priority bill in
Austin to require proof of citizenship from all Texas voters
has died. It missed a House deadline last night to

(21:42):
give initial approval to legislation that had already been passed
by the Senate. Meantime, a four week trial is under
anl passo over redistricting maps. Rat Johnson with the Texans
says Democrats claim the Hispanic vote has been diluted. They
want new districts in Dallas and here in Euston.

Speaker 14 (22:01):
One of the ones they note specifically is C thirty eight,
which is held by Wesley Hunts, which is a new
district one of the districts that Texas gained.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
He says, Democrats are also refusing to acknowledge all of
the gains Republicans made with Hispanic voters. Even if the
case makes it all the way to the Texas Supreme Court,
the maps are likely to remain as they are five
point thirty two. So much for the mainstream media scaring
you because of tariffs. Consumer confidence shot up twelve points

(22:30):
last month, blowing away expectations, and the mainstream media is
not going to like this either.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
New poll numbers from Rasmussen the.

Speaker 32 (22:37):
Majority of Americans view our country as heading on the
right track under President's Trump.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt on Fox it's the
first time in twenty years that half the country believes
we're going in the right direction. Wall Street is happy
with how things are going to get now gain seven
hundred points yesterday. Overnight trading is mostly flat five point
thirty three on KTRH. President Trump is making Canada an

(23:05):
offer it might not be able to refuse, join US
as the fifty first state and get free protection under
the Golden Dome Missile Defense system. Trump posted to truth
Social that the Canadians are considering the idea, but the
Trump Vladimir Putin feud is escalating. The President is now
considering new sanctions on Russia. President Trump's Russian president Vladimir

(23:28):
Putin is playing with fire, riding in a truth Social post.
If it weren't for me, lots of really bad things
would have already happened to Russia. It follows the President's
harsh assessment of Putin over the weekend, calling the Russian
leader absolutely crazy after large scale air strikes targeted Ukrainian cities.
Jared Halpern reporting five point thirty four on KTRH. If

(23:50):
you're a Texas businessman or business woman, Katie has been
named a top ten city for entrepreneurs by GoDaddy in that.

Speaker 33 (23:58):
We found that there are sub verbs in various places
throughout the country that are performing as strong, if not
stronger than large cities.

Speaker 7 (24:05):
Greg F.

Speaker 6 (24:06):
Timu with Go Danny says the rankings were based on
looking at twenty million plus online businesses. But while Katie
does well, Houston does not do well when it comes
to those struggling to pay their bills.

Speaker 34 (24:18):
That's according to a report from the personal finance site
wallet hub, saying it did a deep analysis of the
one hundred largest cities looking at credit reports, bankruptcies, and
distressed debt online searches.

Speaker 35 (24:30):
And Houston is number one in financial distress because it
does have a high share of people with accounts in
financial distress.

Speaker 34 (24:38):
Wallet Hub analyst Chip Lupo says a big reason is
wages in many parts of Texas if not kept up
with inflation. Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty ktra It's.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
Now five point thirty five.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
We are learning more about how harmful those COVID shots
really were. Former CDC director Robert Redfield told newsbacks twenty
percent of the patients he sees now and treats for
long COVID got it from the vaccines. Are you surprised
there haven't been class action lawsuits.

Speaker 36 (25:06):
Well they should be, but right now as you know
that they've been immune to lawsuits, that needs to be doing.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
That needs to be changed.

Speaker 6 (25:14):
As of now, the companies are protected by the Public
Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act. We also now know that
the Biden administration delayed telling you about the risks of
the vaccine, which remain high. According to Houston doctor Mary
Tally Boden.

Speaker 37 (25:30):
Right now, only about twenty three percent of America since
the latest version of the shot. But I think they're
going to say, oh, you're high risk and try to
increase that uptake.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
A panel of FDA adviters voted to keep the current
booster formula for this coming fall. Now the committee's advice
isn't biding, but the FDA is likely to follow it.
On Tuesday, the CDC said it's no longer recommending the
COVID vaccine for healthy kids or pregnant women. Five point
thirty six on KGO, Good news, bad news night for

(26:02):
SpaceX on its starship test launch.

Speaker 7 (26:05):
The good news is it lifted off, but.

Speaker 12 (26:07):
We have essentially lost attitude control on the ship at
this point.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
In other words, the rocket had a rapidly unscheduled disassembly.
It's thought to have exploded somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
The two previous test flights exploded over the Atlantic. Speaking
of explosions, the Astros offense exploded. Christian Walker homerd jose
Al Twove went deep twice the Strosbda's eleven to one
pregame today at noon on Sports Talk seven to ninety.

(26:34):
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Info at this speed of Houston's Right Now.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News Team.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
National Burger Day today. Case you had noticed and I
thought we'd have some fun with us today. I want
to know your favorite burger. Where do you go to
get it? Is it a hole in the wall? Is
it a bomb and Pop? Is it a national chain?
What is it about that burger you love so much?
What makes it so good? Can I get it rare?
Not that I have to eat it rare? But can
I get it rare? Because then I know they trust

(27:13):
their meat. That kind of stuff you go to the
iHeartRadio app KTRH. Please make us number one on your preset.
That'll get you there nice and fast. Hit the talk
back button you get thirty seconds. First name, where you're
calling from, your favorite burger, Where it's that, and what
do you love about it so much?

Speaker 38 (27:29):
Jimmy, I find Burger Vibe down on the Heights to
be the best I've found in the Houston area.

Speaker 24 (27:34):
They call it a New York style burger.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm telling you it is Texas good and.

Speaker 24 (27:39):
Worth of this.

Speaker 39 (27:39):
It's kiddy in the city. My favorite burger is at
La Lucha in the Heights. Now that place. The restaurant
is known for its oysters, raw oysters and fried chicken.
I said what I said, I know, but if you
order the burger, there's only like fifteen things on the menu.
If you order the burger, it's what chefs would make
for each other. It is amazing. It's going to run

(28:03):
you a little bit under fifteen dollars. Other than that,
X Prime is pretty good.

Speaker 25 (28:07):
Yeah, Hey, this is Daniels order.

Speaker 40 (28:10):
My favorite burger probably bits Burger in Town I think
is the Bubba's Burger Shack. It's on the Quest Park
and Price kind of that area of rom bel Air.
Fantastic Vegas Burger is probat of my favorite burger there.

Speaker 25 (28:26):
Fantastic burger place.

Speaker 40 (28:29):
Kind of a dievy place, but really good.

Speaker 38 (28:32):
Good morning, Jimmy, Barrig and Sky. This is Jeff from Conrod.
My favorite burger and it's standalone is In and Out Burger.
They're the same taste and quality. You can't touch.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Y'all.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Have your day, all right? We got one national one
in there, In and Out or what a burger?

Speaker 18 (28:54):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (28:55):
No contest for me anyway, I'll share one with you.
It's a whole I kind of considered a home wall.
It's in Spring. It's right off of it's on a
west I'm not on a west Brayford on Rayford Road,
just east of I forty five. It's called is it
three bees? B threes B threes? That's it it is.

(29:17):
They have something they're called the Doorstop. Are you ready?
American cheese, Swiss cheese, grilled mushrooms, bacon, a fried egg, avocado,
an onion ring on their fresh, never frozen, half pound
beef patty and grilled to your preferred done this in
other words, you can get it rare served on a
toasted brioche bun. It's so big I can't eat it.

(29:41):
I can eat half of it. I have to share
it by forty time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
That's its just east of forty five.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yep, that's it. That's it. That get the doorstopper. Take
somebody to help you, those guys, I can't eat it
all by yourself.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
I need help getting out of there. All right, but
let's you know what I've definitely I think we should
give love to the mom and pop places for sure
this morning.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
All right.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Ktr H listeners are the first to know what's going on.
Let's get right to our tip line seven one three
two one two tips hard hats.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I got Danny from.

Speaker 25 (30:13):
Dayton guy Mike, westbound ninety at Lord Road, upside down.
It looks like he's in the ditch. No sirens, no ninja,
and it's gonna stack up bad. I can't tell it.

Speaker 24 (30:28):
Anybody hurt.

Speaker 25 (30:30):
Several people have gotten out there. Wehicles.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
It just happened, all right.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Let me let the rest of the media know. This
is inbound ninety Lord Road is going to be about
a couple of miles this side of fourteen thirteen and
where they're doing all that awful construction. So let's be
super careful on the inbound keep it coming.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Let me know what's going on. I'll let the rest
of the media know.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
Skymike on the USA Rbresorts dot Com traffic Center from a.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
R KTRH generator super center in twenty four hour weather center.
Time to check in, kim boone in four terry today,
we've got some stormy weather on the way. Any idea
about timing and all this can.

Speaker 23 (31:04):
Yeah, I think just west and southwest of downtown the
Houston area. I think we could be looking at mid
to late morning, maybe around eleven o'clock towards midday, and
then as we approach the midday hour into the afternoon,
we're going to start to see those storms kind of
fill in and move across the region.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
So late morning through much.

Speaker 23 (31:21):
Of the afternoon we're going to have on again off
against storms, and with any of the storms that we
do see, some heavy rainfall is very possible. Temperatures today
in the low to mid eighties, we'll keep a chance
of showers and storms in overnight, otherwise partner to mostly
cloudy low seventies tomorrow. That storms best chance will be
late in the afternoon and into the evening hours are
the wise partly sunny upper eighties to near ninety. Just
a slight chance for those storms on Friday with highs

(31:43):
and the mid eighties, and an even smaller chance to
rain over the weekend with sunshine upper eighties to near
nineties Saturday Sunday.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Right now seventy three at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KATRH What you need to know
for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
This is Houston's Morning New brought to you by New
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Speaker 3 (32:03):
Just about five fifties our time here in Houston's Born News.
So President Troup is getting really po to Vladimir Putin
after Putin's last attack against citizens in Ukraine. He is
livid about it. He says he doesn't know what happened
to Putin. Putin's gone crazy. So he made that pretty
clear to the media on Sunday. If you didn't hear

(32:24):
his comments, I'll share those with you DEXX. Followed by
some analysis from General Jack Keene, who says Putin is
just showing us who he is. Five fifty right now,
time for traffic and weather togethers we check out the
drive once again. Here's skymye.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
All right, you're the first to know about the wreck
on ninety. It's just apparently one vehicle overturned at Lord
near Lord Road. That's going to be before Crosby Dayton Road,
so watch out. I expect responders to probably take a
real lane shortly east text Freeway ed from Porter.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Let's get busy, Lawren skymight we are two right.

Speaker 14 (32:56):
Lanes on the Alding Vendor over Pass closed down, looking
like two and a half lanes starting back up pretty good?

Speaker 4 (33:04):
All right?

Speaker 5 (33:04):
That southbound the seconds has already started from Lee Road
and they just threw that up on camera. If you're
playing the home game, it's on one two two four
East Tex southbound Aldean Bender. Let's hit forty five instead,
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather Center. Today,
we're going to look at an eighty percent chance of
thunderstorms probably starting around mid to late morning with the
high temperature today right about eighty morning clouds tomorrow, scattered
afternoon showers and thundershowers with a high ninety current temperature
is let's see here seventy three at your official severe

(33:40):
weather station News Radio seven forty k TRH. Time to
check out some more of our top stories this morning.
Here's Cliff, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Jimmy Elon Musk is calling out President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
The FBI reopens the investigation into the mystery cocaine that
they found in the White House two years ago. Jimmy,
This one is based on your local best burger talkback
of the day. Yes, the national best burger of the day,
according to something called Delish, belongs to.

Speaker 7 (34:08):
In and Out Burger.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
That's BS.

Speaker 7 (34:11):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
Others that ranked high on the list. Shake Shack, Okay,
that I agree with. Culvers not around here, but I've
had culvers in Wisconsin.

Speaker 7 (34:21):
Great stuff. Okay, five guys also pretty good.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Five but fight you can't get it where. You can't
get it where at any of those places you just named. No,
that is much as true.

Speaker 19 (34:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update, not rare, is at six o'clock.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
I listen on the way to work.

Speaker 24 (34:36):
I love talk radio, so I listen to the.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Talk for every day for weather, local news for every one.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
I listened on the way home for traffic use.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Radio seven H.

Speaker 24 (34:48):
I know one thing.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
He can cause a lot of trouble, and he is
five fifty three our time. Here in Houston's Born News.
Here is President Trump on Sunday complaining about how crazy
Putin has gotten with some of from retired General Jack Keene.

Speaker 41 (35:03):
I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a
lot of people, and I don't know what the hell
happened to Putin. I've known him a long time, always
gotten along with him. But he's sending rockets into cities
and killing people, and I don't like it at all. Okay,
we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets
into Giev and other cities.

Speaker 7 (35:22):
I don't like it at all.

Speaker 18 (35:24):
But whsident?

Speaker 22 (35:25):
What do you want to do.

Speaker 41 (35:26):
About I'm surprised. I'm very surprised. We'll see what we're
gonna do. What am I going to tell you? You're
the fake news?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Aren't you?

Speaker 7 (35:32):
You're totally fake?

Speaker 16 (35:34):
All right?

Speaker 41 (35:34):
Any other questions. I don't like what Putin is doing,
not even a little bit. He's killing people and something
happened to this guy, and I don't like it.

Speaker 42 (35:43):
You've talked before about putting more sanctions on Russia.

Speaker 13 (35:46):
Is that something you're considering more career.

Speaker 41 (35:48):
Absolutely, he's killing a lot of people. I don't know
what's wrong with him. What the hell happened to him? Right,
he's killing a lot of people.

Speaker 24 (35:56):
I'm not happy about that.

Speaker 43 (35:57):
I mean, Putin is a war criminal. He's talking me
civilians that that is a war crime. But he has
always done this. In two thousand, when he took over,
he targeted innocent civilians in Checknaire, which was he believed
there were radicals there threatening Russia and he went in there.

Speaker 24 (36:15):
So there were military targets, but.

Speaker 43 (36:17):
He took down entire villages of civilians, no military targets.
He went into Grosny, the principal city, the short, entire neighborhoods.
Tens of thousands of people killed as a result of
his bombing and artillery that he used on those civilians.
In twenty fifteen and sixteen, he did carpet bombing of Aleppo.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
He used chlorine bombs.

Speaker 43 (36:39):
He used cluster munitions that don't self detonate like the
United States does if they're on the ground for a
period of time. He used deep penetration bombs to go
into underground hospitals and kill the people. It was the
largest carpet bombing air campaign ever conducted since World War Two.

Speaker 24 (36:58):
This is Whuputin really is.

Speaker 43 (37:01):
He targets civilians and he's doing here to put pressure
on the president because he knows the president wants to
stop the killing, and he wants the president and get
so frustrated he backs away.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
He wants the president and gets so frustrated he backs away.
And that might be the end result here, because if
Putin doesn't want to deal, if Trump can't broke her
some sort of a piece, he's going to want to
distance himself from this entire thing. By Poin fifty six
now here on Houston's Boring News.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
This is Huge Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 44 (37:40):
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It's more of what matters to you from the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Six Ambisode time here on Houston's Borning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour. Look at it
this way. If Kamala wasn't the VP, she could have
been on the Supreme Court. Are you disappointed? With a big,
beautiful bill And coming up in six oh eight two
suburban Houston Cities Top ten best places to live. Details

(38:11):
in the minutes ahead here in Houston's morning news. First, urch,
I got that.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
What's I can't I'll wait till the tim break. Okay
to Houston area cities. Okay, First of all, we got
this east text problem all deemed bender High Holly from Porder.

Speaker 31 (38:27):
Southbound right before the East Mount Houston X. There's a
couple of lane flocks.

Speaker 14 (38:32):
There's already a firetruck and some ambulances there.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
All right, that's a banana sticker southbound. It's still two
right lanes. We're spackled up now from the Beltway big
shots to the hardy commoners.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
So it's two forty five north freeways.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Not bad.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Oh oh, congratulations, cute little app that comes on the internet.
They just found out about the wreck that ktr Rachel
listeners knew twenty minutes ago. Highway ninety inbound Lord Road.
There's an overturned vehicle right in the middle and KG.
You know, it's got to suck to not have an
am radio. I'm Skymike on the USA Rvresorts dot Com
traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Don't even need one of those, as long as you
have the iHeartRadio app. Right click on from our KTRH
top tax Defenders twenty four our Weather Center, eighty percent
chance of thunderstorms today with the high temperature about eighty
looks like mid to late morning before the action gets going.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Well.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Double check that though, when we talked to Ken Boone
at the Weather Channel in eight minutes, temperature right now
seventy three at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (39:31):
Hey you Jimmy six oh one on KTRH. We're sponsored
by All Star Construction. Our top story.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
Increases the budge deeps, if not just decrease it, and
that reminds the work that Fidoch team is doing.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
Surprising opposition from Elon Musk talking to CBS about President
Trump's budget plan, saying he was disappointed in what he
called a quote massive spending bill. The video at our
Facebook and X page that you can check out for yourself,
that said.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
Louisiana Republican Senator John.

Speaker 6 (39:59):
Kennedy told Fox Business that the bill in some form
needs to pass and soon.

Speaker 45 (40:06):
If I were sent up to Pune, though, I would
give us a time limit. This can't This bill's not
like wine, it doesn't get better with age. We've got
to wrap this up on about the next sixty days,
and probably the president will will have to get it aloft.

Speaker 6 (40:21):
Meantime, more good poll numbers for the president. Rasmussen has
his approval rating at about fifty one percent. A new
book claims that Kamala Harris was considered for a US
Supreme Court justice seat after former President Joe Biden promised
to focus on race engender when picking the next justice.

Speaker 46 (40:40):
She probably, let's be honest, I mean, she's certainly not
the legal mind that Kotanji Brown Jackson is, but she
would have been confirmed. She's a senator. She's in a
former Attorney General of California.

Speaker 6 (40:51):
CNN's Jake Tapper co wrote the book Original Sin. By
the way, that's the same book detailing Biden's decline, even
as Tapper ignored it for years while he was on
the air six oh three. The Supreme Court could reversed
activist judges next month with a ruling on birthright citizenship.

Speaker 47 (41:09):
The justices are poised to decide the fate of an
executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, which Congressmanship Roy
thinks is a slam dunk.

Speaker 11 (41:18):
What the President doing is right, It is good policy,
and we should stand behind it.

Speaker 47 (41:21):
The Texas Republican says. Clarifying the Fourteenth Amendment, which shut
off an illegal immigration magnet, President Trump used an executive
order to end automatic citizenship for anyone born on US soil.
Beth Myers News Radio seven forty KTR.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
You can say so long to the days of catch
and release, as Ice is now making arrests during court hearings.
Journalist Jennifer Oliver Oliver O'Connell says that this brings us
back to a sense of law and order, and Trump
has given plenty of warning.

Speaker 14 (41:51):
You can self deport.

Speaker 13 (41:52):
Otherwise, they're letting them know you are under the full
penalty of the law.

Speaker 18 (41:57):
You're breaking our laws.

Speaker 13 (41:58):
You're not supposed to be here. If you don't do
it yourself, we're going to do it for you, and
we're going to not do it.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
A nice way. She says.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
It's the latest tool to reverse Biden's disastrous border policies.

Speaker 24 (42:09):
Six Ol.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
Four, the deadline for the House in Austin to approve
Senate legislation has passed. Among the bills to die was
a ban on drag Green's story time events that taxpayer
funded properties. The legislature continues to work on cunning property
taxes in its final week, but why not just get
rid of them completely?

Speaker 21 (42:30):
Florida is moving to completely eliminate property taxes, which Texas
has not yet been able to do. James Quintero with
the Texas Public Policy Foundation says, our leaders haven't had
the political will to go all the way.

Speaker 16 (42:41):
There is a pass forward on replacing the property tax
with a reform sales tax. The Texas were to transition
to a reform sales tax, property owners would.

Speaker 7 (42:52):
Finally be able to own their homes and.

Speaker 16 (42:54):
Businesses, which currently is not possible.

Speaker 21 (42:56):
Instead, the state is gradually buying down property taxes every session,
which could eventually wipe them out. Coryolson, News Radio seven
forty ktr hew.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
Our new poll number is released just moments ago by
Texas Southern University showing a pretty big gap in the
GOP Senate race between John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Speaker 48 (43:15):
Right now, we're in a situation where Paxton has a
pretty strong lead over Cornyan. That would be difficult for
Cornyn to potentially close absence some external help, say from
Donald Trump, or Paxton doing something to undermine his candidacy.

Speaker 6 (43:28):
Rice is Mark Jones. They are six ZHO five OPEC
plus nations meet today. They're expected to increase production, which
will lower your price at the pump.

Speaker 17 (43:37):
Well, you never know for sure, but if you listen
to the unnamed sources, they seem to be preparing the
market for a potential increase and supplies of at least
four hundred thousand barrels a day.

Speaker 7 (43:49):
Foxes Phil Flynn.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
Their gas is at two sixty nine an average across
Houston this morning, oil futures trading at sixty one dollars
in fifty six cents a barrel from blackouts breakouts. Attorney
and political colonist Charlton Allen says President Trump's energy revolution
is underway.

Speaker 19 (44:07):
The potential certainly is there for not just a Golden Age,
but almost a new American energy revolution that will bring
peace and prosperity for the American people. It's all intertwined.

Speaker 6 (44:19):
He says, energy is the key to the economy, prosperity,
and foreign policy, and this state stands to benefit from
Trump's push for an American nuclear renaissance if we want.

Speaker 20 (44:29):
To continue to be the leader in terms of providing
energy security for our allies and the developing world.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Then we need to lead on.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
Nuclear Reid Clay with the Texas Nuclear Alliance. By the way,
a ut Austin study finding that investing in nuclear would
add more than one hundred thousand jobs to the Texas economy.
Six oh seven, jose A al Twove went deep twice.
The Astros beat the A's eleven to one. The two
game series wraps up today. Coverage starts at noon on

(44:56):
Sports Talk seven to ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
News Weather in traffic station, News Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
World Events, National Headlines, Houston This Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
I'll get to that best cities thing. We have two
Houston suburb cities that are in the top ten best
US News Best Places level. I'll get that in the second.
But first, let's talk about burgers because a lot of you,
a lot of you are participating in this one, so
I want to share your thoughts on this. Here's the
rules this National Burger Day. That's why I brought it up.
But here are the rules. So here's the only thing

(45:33):
I ask. It'd be your favorite burger wherever it is
what makes it so good? And along with that, please
make sure that you're nominating a place where that still exists.
We're not. I'm all about nostalgia, but I can't go
to a place that doesn't exist anymore. Oh and the
other only other rule. Can I get it anything other

(45:54):
than well done? Can I order it like rare if
I wanted to. I'm not saying I have to have
it rare. I'm just saying I have to be able
to order it breh because that tells me how much
they trust their meat. So if you've got a place
like that, I'd love to hear about it. On National
Burger Day, you go to the iHeartRadio app KTRH begas
number one on your preset, and then once you hit
the talkback button, you get thirty seconds. First name, where
you're calling from, and your favorite burger.

Speaker 49 (46:16):
Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Porter. I just wanted
to check in with Taehas Burgers and tom Ball. They've
got a smoke burger Man. You can't go wrong with
that one. And Ron's Hamburger's also in Tomball. They've got
the chili down so you can get your chili cheeseburger.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
There.

Speaker 12 (46:33):
That's all I got.

Speaker 49 (46:33):
Y'all have a good day.

Speaker 50 (46:35):
David and Oakridge. Bess Berger is a wagou beef at
Land's Table in old Town Spring.

Speaker 24 (46:41):
Burger Bay Cliff, Texas. They're Buffalo Burger is awesome. This
is Scott Pacedena. Y'all have a good one.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
Those are some good suggestions. I love it. I'm gonna
have to try some of those.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Tryl is pretty good too for one of here. That's
one Bee's place right. Uh he does a smashburger. I
don't know I could get I don't think I could
get it rare there. That's the only problem all right.
Now back to the cities that made the list US
News and World Report. Now, I don't know, I know
what the criteria was in that they wanted places that
were you know, moving up, you know, population moving up.

(47:18):
But the prices, home prices are still affordable, schools are good,
the quality of life is good. But I don't know,
you know, how they managed to you know, rank some
of these cities so high on the list, or some
other ones that I would expect to be in the
top ten to be low on the list. Here in Texas.

(47:39):
But here's the top ten list in its entirety, and
I'll get to the Texas cities in just a second
because it doesn't take long. Johns Creek, Georgia, number one
according to US News and World Report, number two, Carmel, Indiana,
number three, Pairland. Pairland made number three of the top
ten list of best cities to live in the US.
Fisher's Indiana number four, carry North Carolina number five, League City,

(48:03):
Texas came in number six, Apex, North Carolina number seven, Leander,
Texas number eight, Rochester Hills, Michigan, number nine, and Troy,
Michigan number ten. Six to ten. Time for traffic and
weather together as we check out the drive once again.
Here is guy Mike all.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
Right, East Text Freeway. It looks to me like everybody's
okay here, Jimmy. They keep zooming this on. If you're
playing the home game, it's East Text at all.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
Dean Bender. That is camera number one, two two four.
There's a big truck.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
I think that's the biggest problem is there. He doesn't
seem to be able to move, so they're going to
need a supercize for him.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
And we got backups from the Beltway.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
If you're a big shot with the toll sticker jump
on the Hardy Toll Road.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
Commoners.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
Forty five is starting to scutch up around Sheppard. I
looked like they had a stall just for a moment
south of Oh that was a wreck, okay, right before ten. Well,
and it's forty five southbound. Got a bit of a
back quarter slip. Now six extra minutes this way. Your
best thing is to do the Hardy Crosby Freeway at
Lord Road. We even knew it before the online appsne
about it. That's an accent. Somebody's overturn. Hopeful, everybody's okay.

(49:06):
There is kind of a smudge coming in from Dayton
this way. It looks like he was about four or five.
Skymike on the USA Rvresorts dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
From our KTRH top Tax Defenders twenty four hour weather center.
Terry's off today. Ken Boone is in for her, and
he's got some thunderstorm activity that's probably going to rear
its ugly little head sometime today. What do you think
of midday afternoon somewhere in there?

Speaker 23 (49:28):
I think if you're a southwest of downtown Houston, could
be more like mid to late morning. We've got energy
down off to our southwest. We've got some back to
the west, all that kind of moving towards the Houston area.
So if you're west southwest of downtown Houston, you could
start to see those thunderstorms move in as we approach
mid morning, getting into downtown Houston. Probably a little closer

(49:48):
to midday, but showers and storms mid to late morning
into and through the afternoon at any that we do
see could produce a very heavy downpours Today, Temperatures into
low to mid eighties. We'll keep a chance of showers
and storms in overnight low seventies. Tomorrow, storm's best chance
it'll be late afternoon and evening highs up for eighties
to near ninety. Just a slight chance for those afternoon
evening storms Friday, and then just a stray storm over

(50:09):
the weekend as we see it, kind of drier trend
to the weather for the weekend.

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Six twenty is our time here in Houston's Morning News
coming up here in just a moment. We've been running
this story all morning long. We've been talking about Lena
Hildango for the last few days, you know, trying to
get Harris County to give her twenty three five hundred
bucks so she could do the little junket to Paris.
Says they don't have money for races for the Sheriff's department,

(50:48):
but they do have five million dollars to lobby the state.
We'll talk about this with Gop had Cindy Siegel in
just a moment. First, though, let's do this traffic and
weather together. Your sky Michael, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Okay, we got two problems.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Short side east text clear all deem Binder that's out
of the way. The Suckinds is still twenty minutes coming
down from the Beltway. Your other option, AH forty five
southbound ten Well, I got a back order slip. This
is a wreck trendstars looking for langnage. Now let's do
the hardy big shots. Skymike on the USA Rvresorts dot
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Speaker 3 (51:18):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
center mostly cloudies scattered midday afternoon a showers and thundershowers
also this afternoon, with the high temperature about eighty four.
Tomorrow becoming partly sunny late after scattered showers and thunderstorms
and a high temperature near ninety cards temperature seventy four
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(51:41):
Time to check out some more of our top trending stories.
It's a Wednesday morning. Here's clip.

Speaker 7 (51:45):
Thank you Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (51:46):
Lena Hedalgo did not sign off on pay races for cops,
but she's okay with millions of your text dollars for lobbying.
The US Supreme Court won't review a free speech case
involving a middle schooler punished for wearing a shirt that
said there are only two genders in Jimmy Leonard Skinner
releases a new music video for free Bird.

Speaker 7 (52:09):
Okay, I just thought that was interesting.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
It is interesting. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:13):
Get the latest news anytime at katrh dot com.

Speaker 7 (52:16):
Our next update is at six thirty.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
When events are happening.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
People knew something was going to happen.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Check in the big trade deal India and Pakistan.

Speaker 15 (52:25):
Lepope elected.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
These Radio seven kt.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
Rhix plenty two Our time here in Houston Morning News.
All right, we all know who Lena Hildago is, so
the things that she does are not a surprise to
me or to you or to our next guest who's
there as County GOP chair, Cindy Siegel. But it sure
is ripe that somehow there's no money for at least

(52:51):
in her mind, no money for Deputy Racis, although thanks
to the rest of the Commissioner's Court, the deputies will
be getting their wage. Parody. But there's plenty of money
five million dollars in fact, to lobby the state. Cindy Singal,
the Harris County GOP chair, joins us. You know, I
don't know about you, but I think one of the
things that we could do to immediately improve politics in

(53:11):
the state of Texas is just to ban all lobbying
in Austin. Could we consider doing that?

Speaker 31 (53:18):
I wish we would, Jimmy. I mean, actually, it's been
a priority for many years with the Republican Party state
as well as Harris County Republican Party and our Republican
elected officials, but we just can't seem to get it done.
You know, our governments pay millions and millions of dollars

(53:42):
to lobby us to go lobby for things that are
not necessarily h you know, in favor of the taxpayer
or the voters. Uh. And we see that particularly with
Harris County and Lena Hidalgo.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Yeah, what kind of things did does Selena hill Down
Doggo send lobbies to do? What are the things that
Harris Gunny is asking.

Speaker 31 (54:04):
For, Well, you name it. They have all their little
pet projects. You know, they've been opposed to bail re form.
You know, they don't like the fact that the state
keeps trying to shut down them raising our tax rate arbitrarily.

(54:26):
You know, you can look at the last session that
they had and when we were fighting to get the
elections after that horrible election cycle in twenty twenty two
when they didn't have paper ballots, We fought really hard
to return the elections to the county clerk versus a

(54:47):
bureaucrat election administrator. They use lobbyists for that, and you know,
quite frankly, Jimmy, it's hard to tell what they're spending
their money with lobbyists for transparent there there's no accountability.
You can't Commissioner Ramsey can anything get the information.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Yeah, it's pretty pretty bad, isn't it when you when
you're serving on the Commissioner's Court and you still can't
get access to the basic information you need to do
your job. They're spending somewhere in the neighborhood of five
million dollars in all this, and and you brought up transparency.
My thought is that probably what they're spending the money
on is to try to prevent things like transparency from happening.

(55:29):
They don't want us to know what they're spending the
rest of.

Speaker 31 (55:31):
Their money on, No, they don't. They they want to
be able to cover up their little pet you know,
their pet projects. You know, it's it's all about these
social programs. It's not about the basic function of Harris
County government, and that's the safety of our citizens. Uh safety,

(55:55):
health and welfare and safety should be first. And the
fact that you know, Lena didn't want to pay the
commissioner or pay the constables a pay raise just says
it all. And she has the audacity and we've all
heard her say it like, oh, she really was for

(56:16):
the deputy. She said that the last election cycle when
she ran that she was supporting law and order. And
you know, I was raised to believe and told you
know your actions speak louder than words and the voters
need to remember it. November twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Amen to that, Cindy Siegel. Thank you has always appreciated
Harris County Topchair. Cindy Siegel. It's six twenty six. Time
to take a look at your money? Is Jeff Bellinger
and Jimmy Another retail chain is on the ropes.

Speaker 29 (56:48):
At Home Group is reportedly preparing for a possible Chapter
eleven bankruptcy filing. Source to say the company is also
looking at other options to shore up liquidity. At Home
was facing a cash crunch before the trade war made
matters worse. And Toyota will be part of the air
taxi industry. The Japanese sauto maker invested two hundred and

(57:08):
fifty million dollars in Jobe Aviation to become the air
taxi maker's biggest shareholder. Stock Market futures are mixed. S
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Futures are down fifteen points. I'm Jeff Fellinger, Bloomberg Business
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Speaker 3 (57:43):
It's six thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this half hour Lina no money
for deputy raises, but billions to lobby the state, and
coming up at six thirty eight, Democrats are been than
twenty million dollars just to try to figure out why
they lost so many men. Those stories of more in

(58:05):
the minutes, say head first, let's check out that drive again.
Here's sky Mike. All right, we've.

Speaker 5 (58:09):
Switched fish Mechlery. We've gone from the east text to
forty five. Now East text cleared, the rec all deem Bitterer,
the backle is pretty much done.

Speaker 4 (58:17):
Some breaks down at Lee Road southbound. That's it. I
would do the east.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Text if you're a big shot, hartytail roads easy. Now
we're dealing with this back order slip on the North
Freeway southbound at Sidwell I forty five. Tough to see
the langage there, but I can see this smush all
the way.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
From West Road. Inbound.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
From our KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour weather center.
Mostly Clonnie with scattered midday and afternoon showers and storms,
high temperature. Right about eighty four, we'll get to the
complete forecast from Ken boone infretary at the Weather Channel.
We'll talk to him in eight minutes. Right now seventy
four at your officials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven
forty kt RH. It's timed off for the news. Here's

(58:59):
cliffs on.

Speaker 6 (59:00):
Thank you very much, Jimmy Foss six point thirty one
on KTRH. Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo voted against cop
raises last week, but several county departments under her watch, well,
they spent five point five million dollars of your money
for lobbying.

Speaker 9 (59:14):
One of the worst parts of all of this is
there's almost zero accountability for those funds.

Speaker 31 (59:19):
We know Harris County in recent years has not been
transparent where they spend any taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 9 (59:27):
Harris County GOP chair Cindy Siegel says elected officials should
advocate for laws on their own dime.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Not yours.

Speaker 31 (59:33):
Why do we allow our elected officials to spend taxpayer
dollars this way to lobby other elected officials?

Speaker 9 (59:41):
There was a build a band taxpayer funded lobbying in
Texas this session, but it never made it out of
the House. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Thank you, Eathan, a high profile Republican strategist, is joining
the effort to vote Hidoggo out of office next year.
Piney Point Village Mayor Eliza Dutt hired Cable Hobbs to
join the campaign. She's got ties to both Texas Senator
Ted Cruz and Elon Musk. Elsewhere, a trial over Texas
redistricting maps and whether or not they discriminate against Hispanic

(01:00:11):
voters is underway.

Speaker 18 (01:00:13):
NL Paso Senior reporter Brad Johnson is covering it for
the Texan the.

Speaker 14 (01:00:19):
Plane that's for asking the court to throw out the
existing maps and force the legislature to redraw them so
that there is more democratic majority district in Houston.

Speaker 18 (01:00:29):
The Dems also won a new district in Dallas, but
the state has a solid defense.

Speaker 14 (01:00:35):
They're arguing just flatly that the legislature has almost sole
discussion on how to draw maps, where to draw them,
and what to make the district look.

Speaker 18 (01:00:43):
Like something that has been happening here in Texas for decades.
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty k t RaSE it
is now six thirty three. Here's more proof you don't
buy into the mainstream media's scare tactics when it comes
to tariffs. Consumer confidence shot up twelve points last month,
blowing away expectations. The administrations say more trade deals are

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close to being announced, specifically with India.

Speaker 32 (01:01:09):
We continue to move forward and cutting good deals that
put the American people and the American worker first.

Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt on Fox. The President
post haarris on the EU as negotiations continue between both sides.
After a winning Tuesday that saw the Dow Jones Industrials
Index gain seven hundred and forty points, futures are flat
across the board this morning. It's now six point thirty four.
President Trump is making Canada an offer join US as

(01:01:39):
the fifty first state and get protection under our Golden
Dome Missile defense system free of charge. Lucky Martin CEO
James Taiklett says defense contractors are going to play a
big part of determining the total cost of the project.

Speaker 51 (01:01:52):
Basically, it's going to have to be done over time.
An industry's role in all of this is to take
that government priority list and provide information on the technical
and industrial feasibility in the cost of actually rolling that out.

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
By the way, Trump posted to truth Social the Canadians
are considering his offer. The President is also considering new
sanctions on Russia as they continue to attack Ukraine.

Speaker 11 (01:02:17):
Will build a pass this in the Senate, will build
a pass it on the House, and then President Trump
will sign it. The sanctions will cripple Russia's economy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
You'll see the ruble.

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
Craft Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne mullins there six point thirty five.
If you're looking to open up a small business, Katie might.

Speaker 7 (01:02:36):
Just be the place to do it.

Speaker 34 (01:02:37):
The go Daddy online company surveyed pro business environments in
cities across the nation and found that suburbs with the
small town feeling next to big cities are in some
cases especially nurturing for small business success.

Speaker 33 (01:02:50):
Katy, Texas is one of them. Ontario, California signs for
Illinois all punching above their weight because there's a terrific
concentration of small businesses, and these are the also small businesses.

Speaker 34 (01:03:01):
That's Go Daddy, Vice president of public Relations, Greg Ftmu,
who adds that the study shows the street location of
a business is less important these days than the business
atmosphere of the surrounding area. Michael Shiloh News Radio seven
forty k tr.

Speaker 6 (01:03:16):
And then there's this wallet hub says that nearly ten
percent of Houston residents have credit accounts that are considered
quote in distress.

Speaker 35 (01:03:24):
In other words, and the number of people that are
searching online terms such as debt relief, high interests, or
loan related type searches.

Speaker 6 (01:03:32):
Wallet Hub's Chip Loupo says that some Eustonians lack financial
literacy don't understand the learned long term impacts of high
interest rate credit cards. And there's also this Texas wages
just having kept up with Joe Biden's inflation six point
thirty six on KTRH and you heard it here last
night on KGRH.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
Three to two. Runner will be going and Walker's drives
it pretty deep to left center field park is back looking.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
Up see a letter off the committed.

Speaker 25 (01:04:00):
He later signed Christian Walker Holors for a second straight game.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
At the Astros lead is eleven to one, two run
shot for Walker.

Speaker 6 (01:04:09):
Robert Ford on the call, jose L Twovey went deep
trice twice in the eleven to one victory for the Stros.
Pregame for today's series finale starts at noon on Sports
Talk seven ninety. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather
and traffic station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:04:26):
I live in Deer Park, i live in the Woodlands.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.
All right, So Democrats are going to spend twenty million
dollars to try to figure out why they lost so
many men to Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Really, I'll tell you what. Give me one million, and
I'll be glad to spell it out for you in
terms that are easy for you to understand. That's pretty funny. Actually,
I think it's more than just trying to figure out.
They kind of know that why they lost men. Now
they're trying to figure out how they can talk to
men because evidently they heard no manly men left in

(01:05:07):
the Democrat Party to give them any direction like that.
So here is some discussion on the Democrats and Jesse
waters will give them some help on this as well.

Speaker 52 (01:05:19):
The Democrats have forgot I mean, we should just talk
to people like people.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
We don't need to do studies on it. We don't
need to meet at hotels. How about we just go
to community meetings.

Speaker 53 (01:05:27):
And is not the question of what the party's image is,
but is what does the party's stand for? The party
expositions on issues that our weekend woke, it will seem
we could woke.

Speaker 31 (01:05:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
I don't think nationally the Democratic brand helps very much anyway,
I mean anywhere. If it did, we wouldn't have lost
to Donald Trump twice.

Speaker 27 (01:05:49):
Democrats should save twenty mil and watch the five for free.
Democrat men are afraid of offending minorities and women, and
the war snobs and the voters are like dogs.

Speaker 7 (01:06:04):
We smell fear.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
And it's just all over.

Speaker 27 (01:06:08):
The Democrat process. Saying the right thing doesn't matter. It's
about doing the right thing. Democrats need to figure out
what the right thing is and then do it instead
of trying to trick men into believing they're doing the
right thing for the wrong reasons. Remember when they couldn't
define what a woman was. Now they're trying to define

(01:06:29):
what a man is. It's like an anthropologist studying the
uncontacted tribes of the Amazon jungle. Except Democrats aren't even
flying to Brazil. They're paying other people to listen to Rogan.
There's the NBA playoffs going on.

Speaker 7 (01:06:47):
We just finished with football.

Speaker 27 (01:06:48):
They've been talking about going to sports. I haven't seen
them in a single game. They're not even putting in
the work that needs to be done. Males are half
the voting population. Whites are like two thirds of the country.
I mean, these are large blocks of voters that they
have no idea how to deal with.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
No idea how to deal with. I don't know. It's
twenty million dollars enough to teach them how to deal
with real men. I don't know. That might not be
enough for them. Six forty time for traffic and weather together,
we're checking out they drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
We've switched Hoopla on the north side. Of course.

Speaker 5 (01:07:27):
First of all, you had the east text thing southbound
all Dean Bender. That wreck is now gone and the
backups are a lot better now the Hoopla has moved
to the North Freeway. They just cleared the wreck at
Tidwell southbound A lot of breaks from West Road either way.
Wyatt from Porter came down. The hardy got around all
that business.

Speaker 49 (01:07:45):
Tell Cliff you can get Culver's in Kingwood and Conrad.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
See that sid Fo.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
You just can't get everywhere else elsewhere North Sam You've
got the spackle westbound. That's roadwork at all. Dean westbuild Uber.
Mike's trying to get you to the airport.

Speaker 6 (01:07:59):
It was like Breakport gets the airport Will Clayton and
fifty nine feet or.

Speaker 14 (01:08:04):
Right there underneath the bridge right inside at Will have
broke down.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
You know, when the super sized ninjas get there, it
may get tough to get through Will Clayton. From the
Taska seat a side to the airport, round the horn
Katie Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
It's a little thick around Fry Road. We're not bad.
We're twenty six minutes from Grand Parkway.

Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
West Park starting to smush up right at Attic's Clothing
and the Southwest Freeway looks pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:08:26):
Sugar Land up twenty two minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
I'm Scott Mike from the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
At Culpers they got butter burgers. Ooh ooh, that sounds good.
That sound good. Butter on that burger you do a
live broadcast from a burger stand in the morning, not
just any burger stand though, no, No, it's got to
rotate there. You go from our katrh Generator Supercenter twenty
four hour weather sometime to check in with Ken Boone
and find out about storms today. Sounds like they're gonna

(01:08:54):
be more scattered than we originally thought. Does that mean
that some of us might not see them.

Speaker 23 (01:08:58):
It's potential that there might be some areas that might
just see a light shower stuff. But we've got a
lot of energy coming in from the south end, from
the west, and we've been watching these storms build off
to the southwest, and over the last hour they've really
built out across Wharton County and they're moving towards the
kind of north northeast, and within about the last half
hour really kind of saw cell kind of blow up

(01:09:19):
just west of downtown Bunker Hill Village back towards Westwick
West Chase. We've got to sell kind of that's kind
of developed here over about the last half hour, producing
some pretty good rainfall. So that's well out ahead of
what is the main energy that's coming from the west
to the south so showers and storms are going to
be with us here as we have through the morning
into the afternoon, and any storm that we do see
today would have the potential for some heavy downpours with

(01:09:42):
some of those storms. Temperatures today into the low to
mid eighties, chance for a few storms overnight tonight, tomorrow,
the chance for storms mainly later on in the afternoon
and evening hours as we approach ninety degrees, and then
just a slight chance of storms Friday, and just a
stray storm expected over the weekend as we'll start to
see kind of a drier trend of the weather.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
Temperature right now still seventy four at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Well, not only is the timeline coming up here in
just a couple of minutes, Also they're getting ready to reinvestigate,
reopen three different cases from the Biden administration, including the
who left the cocaine at the White House mystery, the
FBI getting ready to get involved Dan Bongino and the
FBI getting ready to get involved in solving those cases,

(01:10:36):
which conveniently just sort of went away when the Biden
administration went away. Warned that story coming up next along
the timeline. But first we've got traffic and weather together.
Here's sky, Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:10:45):
I got Katie Freeway Highway six visors.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
You lose about two or three right there. It's not
bad on the Kdie west part.

Speaker 5 (01:10:51):
It is kind of tough right around at exploding on
the inbound side here. Southwest Freeway twenty four minutes in
two eighty eight is not bad. Golf Freeway too, eighty eight.
It is a little thick right around now. Meet at
Genoa Golf Freeway.

Speaker 30 (01:11:03):
Drake, Texas City, got mic, dude, school's almost out?

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
How thought school was out?

Speaker 14 (01:11:07):
A few more days to go.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
It's been a while for me.

Speaker 14 (01:11:10):
Twenty five northbound teams A OK.

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
Right now, it's a little thick right around Edgebrook West,
Sam Jersey Village, Chestin.

Speaker 22 (01:11:18):
Hey, guy, Mike, dud you got some pretty good rainfall
down here on Beltway and I can that's coming down
pretty good.

Speaker 5 (01:11:27):
I wasn't even looking at the radar, Jimmy, that's crazy. Yep,
there it is right there west. The west side's starting
to get heavy. So that's going to affect us. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Will be one of those kind of days. From our
KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center. Mostly cloudy
with the scattered mainley midday and afternoon thunderstorms, although we're
getting some pop up showers and storms right now. High
temperature today right about eighty four. Tomorrow becoming partly sunny
late after scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in the morning.
Nine year ninety current temperature is seventy four at your

(01:11:59):
officials weather station News Radio seven forty k TRH. Time
to check out some more of our top trending stories
this morning. Here's clip Thank You.

Speaker 6 (01:12:08):
Jimmy Elon Musk comes out against the big Beautiful Bill
President Trump posting on truth Social that Vladimir Putin is
quot playing with fire by continuing the bomb Ukraine and
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at seven.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
When events are happening, people knew something was going to happen.

Speaker 44 (01:12:35):
Check in the big trade deal India and Pakistan.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
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Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
Six fifty three. Now here in Houston's morning news. All right,
the FBI is going to reopen some cases here. The
Justice Department wants to know who let the cocaine at
the White House. They want to know a couple of
other things too. Here's Fox correspondent David Spunts on the
three different cases the FBI is going to look into.

Speaker 54 (01:13:03):
This news coming from Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino. Let's
see what he posted over the weekend on social media.
Then I'll take you through each of the cases. He said,
we made the decision to either reopen or push additional
resources and investigative attention to these cases. The cases are
the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the
prior administration's White House, and the leak of the Supreme

(01:13:24):
Court Dobbs case.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
That's the case overturning Roe v. Wade.

Speaker 54 (01:13:27):
I received requested briefings on these cases weekly, and.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
We are making progress. Let's start with a pipe bomber.

Speaker 54 (01:13:34):
The Bureau continues to analyze video of a mass suspect
planting a pipe bomb near the bench outside both the
DNC and RNC headquarters on January fifth, twenty twenty one,
the night before the attack on the US Capital. Luckily,
no one was injured and the bombs did not detonate.
The second investigation, Dana Bongino and Director Cash Pttel want
to look into the cocaine found at the White House

(01:13:56):
in July twenty twenty three. It was found in a
locker of the US wing of the White House in
a publicly traveled area where tours go by, but the
Secret Service never identified a suspect. Finally, the third case
the leak of the Supreme Court draft overturning Roe v.
Wade in the spring of twenty twenty two. This is
a big one. Politico received a draft copy and published

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it weeks before the Supreme Court overturned the federal right
to abortion. As to how the reporters received it, we
still don't know the Supreme Court data and build it
an internal investigation through the Marshal of the Court, but
they never were able to publish any information or never
were able to find it, or they did find it.
We just don't know who they are. But now the

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FBI is taking a look.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
Okay, so the FBI wants to know about the Supreme
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that one out? Yeah? I think they probably did what
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this f are, some are concerned about the big part
of the big beautiful bill.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
This is scary. Imagine Kabla Herron. So this is a
Supreme Court justice and coming up at seven to eight,
more of your nominations for best Houston Burger. After all,
it is National Burger Day. Those stories of more in
the minutes ahead. First, we're checking out that drive again
with sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
All right, here's that rain to smash us up now
on the west side Katie Freeway. You're getting it inside
the beltway. Same thing for West Park Southwest Freeway two ninety.
We're starting to get awfully thick. You can see the
slowdowns with the radar. Let's go to your tip line
from the east side.

Speaker 52 (01:17:27):
It's just heavy from the hard working east side.

Speaker 17 (01:17:30):
Looks like a little fender blender just after twenty five
and they're on their phones.

Speaker 31 (01:17:35):
Traffic's not too backed up here, but you know it
will be in real bit y'all.

Speaker 50 (01:17:39):
Have a good one, y'all.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
Oh, that's the toll bridge southbound, all right, look out,
we'll zoom that at the ten break and the Generators Supercenter,
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Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
From r KTRH Top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center,
for today, mostly Connie with the scattered showers and thunderstorms
mainly in the afternoon. High temperature today right about eighty four.
We'll get the complete four with Ken Boone at the
Weather Channel in about eight minutes. Card temperature, by the way,
is seventy four at your official severe weather station, News

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Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliffsonders.

Speaker 7 (01:18:13):
Thank you, Jimmy. We're sponsored by Shampas John Deere.

Speaker 6 (01:18:15):
Our top story more opposition to the big beautiful bill
that President Trump is trying to get passed by July fourth.

Speaker 8 (01:18:24):
I was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill.

Speaker 7 (01:18:28):
Frankly, no, you're not hearing things.

Speaker 6 (01:18:30):
That was Elon Musk, who recently stepped back from Doge
on CBS. Meantime, the president's poll numbers are any two
month high forty four percent according to you Gov. And
you know what could have been worse than a Kamala
Harris presidency. How about Supreme Court Justice Kamala A new
book says it could have happened.

Speaker 9 (01:18:50):
This might seem radical, but it would have been in
character for the Biden administration.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
It doesn't surprise me at all.

Speaker 10 (01:18:56):
Because it's all about politics and the issue would quickly
become fire. You opposing a black woman for the Supreme Court.

Speaker 9 (01:19:02):
Newsmax contributor Jeffrey Lord pointed out that at the time
Biden pledged to prioritize nominating a black woman.

Speaker 10 (01:19:08):
The Democratic Party has worked itself into this position. They're
hung up on judging people by skin color. They feel
that it is part of their right.

Speaker 9 (01:19:16):
He says this could have also been an attempt to
get Harris out of the picture because she was so unpopular.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty katrh It.

Speaker 6 (01:19:25):
Is now seven oh three of the US Supreme Court
can overturn rulings by activist judges against the White House
to help fix illegal immigration. The question is will they.
Texas Congressmanship Roy hopes, So.

Speaker 11 (01:19:36):
This is a subject that I care intensely about because
you know, we see in Texas all the time. In
our country, birthwright citizenship is being exploited.

Speaker 6 (01:19:44):
The Court will rule next month on birthright citizenship. Catch
and release is over and done. Ice is now making
arrests at court hearings.

Speaker 12 (01:19:53):
It's all part of reversing the disastrous Biden border policies.

Speaker 13 (01:19:57):
This is one of the tools the Trump administration is
used then to keep his promise to secure the border
and get the criminal element.

Speaker 18 (01:20:04):
Out of our country.

Speaker 12 (01:20:05):
Journalist Jennifer Oliver O'Connell says he's given plenty of options
for self deporting, and it's a refreshing return to the
rule of law.

Speaker 13 (01:20:13):
Trump is saying no more. We're going to follow the law,
and the laws give ice authority to arrest them in
a court hearing.

Speaker 12 (01:20:20):
She says, the left spin that Trump is breaking the
law is simply wrong. Andre Ferrarden New's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:20:27):
Seven h four.

Speaker 6 (01:20:28):
The deadline for the Texas House to give initial approval
to Senate legislation that has already passed has come and gone.
Among the bills that failed a ban on draggreen events
at taxpayer funded properties.

Speaker 7 (01:20:40):
The Setate did.

Speaker 6 (01:20:41):
Pass the Women's Bill of Rights, protecting women from being
forced to share locker rooms with biological men.

Speaker 15 (01:20:47):
The bill makes it clear that in Texas, sex is
defined by biology, not ideology. Along with that it helps
ensure that women's rights are protected by clearly defining what
a woman is and what a woman is not.

Speaker 6 (01:20:58):
That bill is headed to Governor Greg Gabbott's desk. Lawmakers
are still working on property tax reform, but critics want
to see property taxes done away with completely. James Quintero
at the Texas Public Policy Foundation says, that's got to
start at the local level.

Speaker 16 (01:21:14):
Encourage your officials to not only spend less, but to
adopt a no new revenue tax rate. Until we get
local officials to exercise fiscal discipline, it's going to be
much harder at the legislative level to eliminate property taxing.

Speaker 6 (01:21:30):
And this is your reminder that Harris County Judge Lena
Hidalgo talked about raising taxes to pay for raisers for
law enforcement seven oh five. At k TRH, gasoline prices
are down to two dollars and sixty nine cents across Houston. Today,
oil futures are up to nearly sixty one dollars and
fifty cents a barrel. Opec plus meets today expected to

(01:21:50):
increase production, and that means your prices at the pump
are going to keep dropping.

Speaker 17 (01:21:54):
That's what I call the invisible hand of Donald Trump.
He has a much better relationship with the Middle East.
Its evidence by his recent trip over to that part
of the world in OPEC's been a lot more friendly
towards raising production.

Speaker 6 (01:22:07):
Fox is Phil Flynn that invisible hand of Trump is
working on something else as well.

Speaker 18 (01:22:12):
That would be Trump's energy revolution.

Speaker 19 (01:22:15):
Trump likes to say it will bring on a golden age,
and I think energy is a huge part of that picture.

Speaker 18 (01:22:22):
That is attorney and political columnist Charlton Allen Presta.

Speaker 19 (01:22:27):
Trump is doing fantastic work, not just this front, but
on multiple fronts simultaneously. All it takes is one presidential
election and you're right back where you started.

Speaker 18 (01:22:37):
Trump, which is why so much as at stake in
this second term. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty key
t read.

Speaker 6 (01:22:45):
The president's also pushing for an American nuclear renaissance in Texas.

Speaker 7 (01:22:49):
Is going to profit for.

Speaker 20 (01:22:50):
Two nuclear sites in the state. Both of those facilities
have two reactors each. Both were designed to have four
reactors each.

Speaker 6 (01:22:56):
Read Clay with Texas Nuclear Alliance. The UT study minds
that investing in nuclear power would add fifty billion dollars
to the Texas economy seven oh six.

Speaker 4 (01:23:06):
Now, and that what's driven left field going back.

Speaker 49 (01:23:10):
Stutter strong over the line, say signor.

Speaker 6 (01:23:15):
The first of two Jose L two Bay Homers on
KTRH last night as the Astros beta's eleven to one.
Today's pregame is at noon on Sports Talk seven ninety.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 24 (01:23:29):
I live in the Heights.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
I live in Spring kingw Next on the ten your
faster commute on seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Seven eight our time here in Houston. Sport News National
Burger Day today, and that's why we're doing this. You
can participate too. Tell me your favorite burger place or
your favorite burger at your favorite burger place. What makes
it so good that you recommend it to other people?
Preferably a mom and pop local place, maybe a dive,

(01:23:58):
maybe a diner, whatever it may be, not a national chain,
you know, just just that nice mob and pop burger
that you just can't seem to get anywhere else. So
we've been doing this all morning long. You go to
the iHeartRadio af KTRH. Put US number one on your
preset button so you can get there fast. You get
to talk back button, give me your first name, where

(01:24:20):
you're calling from, and your favorite burger. Oh, by the way,
it also helps if I can get that burger to order,
which means that not that I'm saying I'm going to
get it rare, but if they're willing to serve me
a rare burger, I know they trust their meat.

Speaker 44 (01:24:35):
Skip from Webster Jonathan's the rub Cheeseburger.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
They have four locations in Houston and you can get.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
It done any way you want it.

Speaker 50 (01:24:44):
You want a good burger, yet to come to my
house to get the Ghetto Dave Burger. We just got
three hundred pounds processed black angus cattle bee some of
the best you ever want to eat.

Speaker 7 (01:24:56):
I like my medium rare on a butter toasted all
the way.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Is that an offer because you can't nominate yourself unless
you're willing to invite being Skymike over for a burger. Right,
just so we know for sure how we're there, we'll come.
Don't think we won't, that's right, So don't extend the
invitation unless you're sure you'll want to have us around
seven ten time for traffic and weather together, Let's go
ahead and check in with Skymike.

Speaker 4 (01:25:24):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
Doug from Mott Bellevue gave us a nice iten so far,
and he said track check up and Spring's got.

Speaker 4 (01:25:30):
Some pretty killer burgers up there.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
There's three places from Spring to been nominated.

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
Ring keeps getting that and also Kelly's Country Kitchen, Perland
who gave me that, Doug. That was somebody from the
south side. Let's do the south side. Now go freeway.
We're looking pretty good. You're a little smashed up right
after waffle house from airport. You could tell we're hungry.
It's an extra two minutes on the northbound.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
We're not bad. To eighty eight. Surprise to eighty eight.
We're getting by.

Speaker 5 (01:25:52):
If you've sold, you know, another house, you can afford
those toll lanes northbound, but we're pretty good. Manville nineteen
minutes up Southwest Freeway starting to smush up a little
up to look all right, Tollbridge southbound. That would be
Debbie from the hard work in east Side. She's got
a banana sticker on her hard hat. Southbound it's a
minor wreck right before they get off to two twenty five,
but that's gonna mess you up. Now southbound. I'm here

(01:26:15):
in two miles an hour, and the rain on the
west side starting to smash up two ninety Katie Freeway
as well as the west Park Hallway and the southwest
inside the belt, so get ready for all that business.
I'm Skymike in the USA RV Resorts dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
Center from our KTRH Top Tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather center. We've got ken boone in for Terry today.
We've got a bit of a storm just west of
the city right now at lista's dropping and dropping a
whole bunch of rain at the moment. I don't know
how long it's gonna last though, KA probably not long.

Speaker 23 (01:26:44):
It certainly is. It kind of spired up well out
ahead of the two main sources of energy that are
headed our way. But you're right, some pretty good rain
falling from the Jersey Village area down towards Carverdale to
bunker Hill Village to Gulfton, and it's kind of slowly
drifting towards it north and northeast as well. And then
we've got a couple of isolated cells again out ahead

(01:27:05):
of the main energy across Fort Bend, one near Stafford
one near Nadville. But the main focus is the big
cluster of storms that's still back out across Wharton County,
and we have a cluster just east of the Austin area.
All that is moving towards the east, and so we're
going to see these showers and storms more and more here,
I think as we head through the morning, especially late
morning and into the afternoon, where the rank could be

(01:27:26):
very heavy at times with some of these storms. Temperatures
today into the low to mid eighties, widely scattered showers
and storms possible tonight, low seventies, late day storms tomorrow,
late afternoon evening. I think's the window for the storms tomorrow.
Otherwise partly sunny, upper eighties to near ninety and just
a slight chance to see those storms on Friday, mid eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
Right now, seventy four at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KRH, It's Houston's Morning News, brought
to you byen New South Windows Solutions. Now back to
Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News team. All the
info U need did take on the day. So coming up,
it's not inside baseball, but it's inside politics. And I

(01:28:07):
realized that a lot of you probably don't think a
whole lot about redistricting and where the lines are drawn
and how that impacts an election and whether a Democrat
gets elected or Republican gets elected, but it's always a
big deal. A jury trial has begun over the Texas
Redistrict game maps. The Planoffs are alleging that Hispanic voting

(01:28:27):
power has been diluted by the new lines that have
been drawn. We'll talk to Brad Johnson, senior reporter at
The Texan about this coming up next. First, though, let's
do a little traffic and weather together as we check
in again with sky out.

Speaker 5 (01:28:38):
All right, Tollbridge is still smashed up southbound. They're working
on this wreck. Everybody's okay, it's just minor, but we're
going two miles an hour. Let's jump on the Sherman
Bridge and Golf Freeway northbound. Lookout, Tellipson that's a wreck
taking up two right lines and it's squishing us up. Suddenly,
we've got breaks from airport Skymike on the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather
center for today, we're looking at mostly cloudy skies for
the most part. We're also looking at scattered showers and storms.
We're getting one just west of the city right now.
High temperature about eighty four, becoming partly sunny late afternoons.
Scattered showers and thunderstorm chances for tomorrow ninety mostly cloudy

(01:29:18):
with a straight shower storm possibility eighty five on Friday.
Temperature currently is seventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some
more of our top stories. Here's clip Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:29:32):
We're learning even more about Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo's
wild spending waves. The Trump administration is pausing student visa interviews,
and Jimmy guitarist Rick Deringer now is dead at the
age of seventy seven. His song Real American used by
the legendary Hulk Hogan as his theme song since the
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Today seven twenty two. Now here on Houston's morning news.
All right, here's a little something that's starting to pick
up steam, and I'm glad to see it pick up
steam because it's high time that it happened, and that
is the defunding of NPR, well, not necessarily the defunding.
Here's the thing that we found out about NPR, and

(01:30:33):
it shows you how smart liberal politicians can be, because
that's generally who supports National Public Radio, because just about
everybody that works at MPR, as we've found out many
times from testimony, is a Democrat registered Democrat, but they're
all liberal, and that's the way they present their information.

(01:30:53):
National public Radio was never meant to be political, or
it just wasn't. It was meant to be both sides
of an issue, to inform the public, to give them
information they otherwise would not supposedly get from commercial radio.
But at the end of the day, it's pretty clear
that you're more likely to get accurate information in both

(01:31:16):
sides of a story from commercial radio than you are
from national public radio. It's a propaganda tool for the left.
So we have finally gotten to the point now. Although
I will say they're funded for the next couple of years,
they're not going to go way tomorrow even if they
cut off the funding for MPR, because they're smart enough
to work it that way. But there's a guy right

(01:31:36):
here in Texas Representative Here in Texas Representative Brandon Gill,
who is on the warpath to see this happen. To
get the funding away from National Public Radio. If they're
going to survive, they're at some point they're going to
have to survive as a commercial entity. Here is Brandon
Gill talking about the demise or what he hopes will

(01:32:00):
soon be the demise of MBR.

Speaker 55 (01:32:02):
What you hear from Catherine Maher today is the last
dying whimper of an antiquated organization that's about to have
their corporate welfare pulled away from them. The American people
are sick of their tax dollars funding radical left, wildly
Marxist news outlets who hate the very things that this
country was built on.

Speaker 24 (01:32:23):
During that hearing, I had.

Speaker 55 (01:32:24):
The chance to ask her, do you believe that, for instance,
America is addicted to white supremacy?

Speaker 24 (01:32:29):
Shaid, Well, you know I didn't really say that.

Speaker 55 (01:32:31):
Yes, you did actually say that these people are insane
and we shouldn't be giving them our tax dollars.

Speaker 24 (01:32:36):
We're finally going to stop that.

Speaker 55 (01:32:38):
I'm so so glad that we have a President who
is taking this seriously. This is something that Republicans have
been talking about for decades, and President Trump is finally
doing it.

Speaker 24 (01:32:48):
And I can tell you we're.

Speaker 55 (01:32:49):
Going to follow it up with Congress with recision bills
that permanently pull this money back.

Speaker 54 (01:32:55):
Yuri Berliner, who was a senior editor of MPR for
about twenty years, he wrote a tell all pieces into
Free Pest Press Admittigate eighty seven.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
His eighty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Coworkers were all registered Democrats.

Speaker 24 (01:33:07):
There was zero.

Speaker 7 (01:33:09):
Republicans on board.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Is that informing the public.

Speaker 24 (01:33:13):
No, that's not informing the public.

Speaker 55 (01:33:15):
That is taxpayer funded to propaganda, the same kind of
propaganda you would expect in communists China or in North Korea.
We don't need that here in the United States. We
don't need state sponsored media. Remember this is the same
outlet that deliberately chose not to cover the Hunter Biden
laptop scandal, saying in their own words that it was

(01:33:35):
nothing more than a distraction. In their own words, the
vast majority of the people who work at NPR are Democrats.
They routinely bash Republicans and run cover for the other
side of the aisle, and then they have the gall
to come to us and ask us to give them
more and more taxpayer dollars every single year.

Speaker 24 (01:33:54):
You know we're going to end this, but they've set
this up in.

Speaker 55 (01:33:58):
A way to make it as difficult as possible for Congress.
We fund in PR two years in advance. For instance,
we end up funding local radio stations and TV stations
that are required to purchase inpr's content.

Speaker 24 (01:34:10):
But we're done with it. We've had enough of it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:12):
Wow. Okay, strong words. I hope he's right about that.
By the way, if you're curious about this guy, he's
thirty one years old, born in New Mexico, raised on
a ranch here in Texas. Graduated from Dartmouth Sharp obviously
bachelor's degree in history and economics. He was a head
of brief career as an investment banker. He founded the
online newspaper, The DC Inquirer in twenty eighteen, and he

(01:34:37):
is now a representative from the twenty sixth Congressional district
here in Texas. Seven twenty six It is time to
take a look at your money. By the way, we
will get to that redistricting story coming up at seven p.
Fifty two, but first let's check in with the Bloomberg, folks,
and take a look at your money and Jimmy. Apple
is reportedly designing a dedicated app for video games. Sources

(01:34:59):
tell Bloomberg you iPhones, iPads, Max and Apple TV set
top boxes will come with the app pre installed starting
later this year. Shares of Abercrombie and Fitch are up
twenty six percent pre market trading. The clothing retailer's comparable
sales and profit for the first quarter handily top estimates.
An f's Hollister brand did especially well. Stock market futures

(01:35:22):
are mixed. S and P and NASDAC futures are higher.
Now futures are down two points. I'm Jeff Beldinger, Bloomberg
Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Seven thirty Our Time. You're in Houston's morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f are. Despite
the media's best efforts, You're not afraid of Trump's tariffs
they spend five million of your tax dollars to lobby
and Austin for progressive policies. And coming up at seven
thirty eight, some of the school bills that are headed
to governor appat design or reject. One of them is

(01:36:12):
about your child's cell phone details in the minutes they head. First,
we're checking out that drive once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:36:18):
All right, rain starting to scutch us up on the Katie.
We were doing so nice, but no, now you got
breaks from Firoad that's pretty solid into the Beltway West Park. Also,
it's following suit with breaks from fourteen sixty four.

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
Hard hats. Your toll bridge wreck has just cleared south
bounds the.

Speaker 40 (01:36:34):
Ship channels at two miles an hour.

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
All right, that's a big spackle there. Tech six ten.

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By the way, Clifford Rick Darringer's biggest hit was hang
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Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour weather center
for today mostly Clounie scattered mainly midday and afternoon showers
and storms all that. We're getting one in the city
right now, high temperature right about eighty four for today.
We'll get the latest on the forecast with Ken Boone
at the Weather Channel in about nine minutes. Right now
seventy four at your officials, Severe Weather Station, News Radio

(01:37:09):
seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:37:13):
Hey you, Jimmy. It is seven thirty one on KTRH.
Our top story this hour, any hosts, Yeah, that was
Harris County Judge Lena Hedalgo and Rodney Ellis voting against
cop pay raises last week, claiming the county couldn't afford it.
But did you know the county was spending as much
as five and a half million dollars on lobbying.

Speaker 31 (01:37:36):
This has been an issue with conservatives for many years
and have complained about how these funds are spent. The
only ones who get wealthy on are the lobbyists.

Speaker 6 (01:37:47):
Harris County GOPHR Cindy Siegel says, since state lawmakers failed
to ban taxpayer funded lobbying this session, it's up to you,
the voter, to kick out county officials who sign off
on this kind of stuff. Meantime, another Republican priority bill
to require proof of citizenship from all Texas voters has
died and missed a House deadline last night to give

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initial approval toll legislation passed by the Senate.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
A trial is.

Speaker 6 (01:38:13):
UNDERWAYNL Passo over redistricting. Rat Johnson with the Texans says
Democrats are claiming the Hispanic vote has been diluted and
they want new districts in Dallas and here in Houston too.

Speaker 14 (01:38:25):
One of the ones they note specifically is CD thirty eight,
which is held by Leslie Hunts, which is a new
district one of the districts that Texas gained.

Speaker 7 (01:38:33):
He says.

Speaker 6 (01:38:34):
The Dems are also refusing to acknowledge all of the
gains Republicans made with Hispanic voters. Even if the case
goes to the Texas Supreme Court, expect the maps to
remain the same seven thirty three. So much for the
mainstream media scaring you over Tariff's. Consumer confidence shot up
twelve points last month that blew away expectations, and the

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mainstream media won't like this either.

Speaker 7 (01:38:57):
New numbers from Rasmussen the.

Speaker 32 (01:38:59):
Majority of Americans view our country as heading on the
right track under President Trump.

Speaker 6 (01:39:05):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt on Fox it's the
first time in twenty years. At half the country believes
we're on the right track. Wall Street is happy with
how things are going. The Dow gain seven hundred and
forty points yesterday. Overnight trading is flat across the board.
Coming up on seven thirty four, President Trump is making
Canada an offer.

Speaker 7 (01:39:25):
It might not be able to refuse.

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Join US as the fifty first state, and you can
get protection under the Golden Dome Missile Defense System for free.
Trump posted a truth Social that the Canadians are considering
the proposal, but the Trump Vladimir Putin feud is escalating
as the president considers new sanctions on Russia. President Trump's
Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing with fire, writing in

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a truth social post, if it weren't for me, lots
of really bad things would have already happened to Russia.
It follows the President's harsh assessment of Putin over the
weekend and calling the Russian leader absolutely crazy after large
scale air strikes targeted Ukrainian cities. Jared Halpern reporting there
here at Home at seven thirty four, Katie has been

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named a top ten city for entrepreneurs by Go Daddy
in that.

Speaker 33 (01:40:15):
We found that there are suburbs in various places throughout
the country that are performing as strong, if not stronger,
than large cities.

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
Greg Ftimo with GoDaddy says that the rankings were based
on looking at some twenty million online businesses. But while
Katie does well, Houston does not when it comes to
those struggling to pay the bills.

Speaker 34 (01:40:37):
That's according to a report from the personal finance site
wallet hub, saying it did a deep analysis of the
one hundred largest cities looking at credit reports, bankruptcies, and
distressed debt online searches.

Speaker 35 (01:40:49):
And Houston is number one in financial distress because it
does have a high share of people with accounts in
financial distress.

Speaker 34 (01:40:56):
Wallet Hub analyst Chip Lupo says a big reason is
wages in many parts of Texas if not kept up
with inflation. Michael shan Loh News Radio seven forty KTRI.

Speaker 7 (01:41:06):
It is now seven thirty five.

Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
We are learning more about how harmful the COVID shots
really were. Former CDC director Robert Redfield tells Neumax that
twenty percent of the patients he treats today for long
COVID got it from the vaccines. Are you surprised there
haven't been class action lawsuits.

Speaker 36 (01:41:24):
Well there should be, but right now, as you know
that they've been immune to lawsuits, that needs to be
that needs to be changed.

Speaker 6 (01:41:32):
As of now, those companies are protected by the Public
Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act. We also know that the
Biden administration delayed telling you about vaccine risks, which remain high.
According to Houston doctor Mary Kelly Boden, right.

Speaker 37 (01:41:47):
Now, only about twenty three percent of America since the
latest version of the shot. But I think they're going
to say, oh, you're high risk and try to increase
that uptake.

Speaker 6 (01:41:58):
A panel of FDA advisors to keep the current booster
formula for the coming fall. The committee's advice isn't finding,
but the FDA is likely to follow the recommendation. On Tuesday,
the CDC said it is no longer recommending the COVID
vaccine for healthy kids or pregnant women. It's now seven
thirty six. Good news, bad news for SpaceX on its

(01:42:19):
Starship test launch. The good news is the launch was successful.
But here's the bad news.

Speaker 12 (01:42:25):
We have essentially lost attitude control on the ship at
this point, and it was.

Speaker 6 (01:42:29):
More than that the rocket exploded somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
The two previous test flights exploded over the Atlantic. Speaking
of explosions, the Astros offense exploded. Christian Walker went yard
josel two. They did so twice. Astros eleven Athletics won.
That was your final and pregame for the series finale
at dyke In Park starts at noon on Sports Talk

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Stay in touch, find your drive in with Jimmy Barrett
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Not every day game.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
You're a love song to a cell phone seven thirty
eight our time here on Houston's Morning News. Cell phones.
There was a bill about did you know this? There
was a bill that passed the Texas State legislature regarding
cell phones and schools. Huh, why didn't he spend them?
I don't think a lot of us knew about that.

(01:43:30):
Several other things more than just school vouchers. Wasn't the
only thing that got through the Texas State legislature. Here's
a report from KPRC two, our television partner, on some
of the other things that are going to go in
front of the governor for his signature.

Speaker 56 (01:43:46):
Lawmakers are sending several bills to the Governor's desk, impacting
students across the state. As the Harris County Medical Examiner's
Office says, the death of fourteen year old land in
Peyton remains undetermined, Lawmakers are working to make sure automatic
external defibrillators are working properly.

Speaker 57 (01:44:03):
A function in AED machine was not available until first
responders arrived, which unfortunately.

Speaker 1 (01:44:11):
Was too late.

Speaker 57 (01:44:14):
His tragic passing highlighted a critical gap in safety measures
across Texas schools.

Speaker 56 (01:44:20):
Another school bill allowing prayers back in the classroom say
A Bill eleven says prayer time cannot replace instructional time,
but school boards could allow school administrators to set time
aside for students to pray or read any religious texts
of their choosing. Gobston's Maze Middleton wrote the bill.

Speaker 42 (01:44:38):
In Texas, our schools are not God free zones. This
bill outlines a framework that school districts may use if
they vote to allow a period of prayer and Bible
reading or other religious texts.

Speaker 56 (01:44:49):
The bill requires parental consents, and students who don't consents
cannot be around other students who are either praying or
reading a religious text. A Bonents say, if signed into law,
this opens this states, it's lawsuits. Another bill that could
change what happens in the classroom isn't terribly new, banning
cell phones during instructional times. Several school districts in our

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area have something similar, like HISD sci fi ID and
Katie Dat's an Interfew.

Speaker 52 (01:45:16):
I think that the policy neglects the parent's ability to
decide what's best for their child. It cuts off communication
in a way that I think most people are a
bit nervous about, or a lot of Maybe not most,
but a lot of parents are nervous about them.

Speaker 56 (01:45:32):
In the last two years, at least eight states have
issued similar cell phone banned policies. In this legislation has
bipartisan support. In Austin, we are waiting to see if
the governor signs it or any of the other bills.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
All right, so still up to the governor to signed
those bills, including the cell phone bill. That's an interesting one.
I think that that the woman you heard speaks for
a lot of moms. And I don't mean to make
this a sexist story, but I think the moms are
the most worried about being able to communicate with their
school child at any time during the school day. They

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want the ability to be able to do that, and
you can think at least in part school shootings and
some of the other things that have happened that have
made them very concerned about security issues. But they do
remain a major distraction the kids learning and for kids,
you know, not being able to cheat by using their

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cell phones a test time, although most of them will
not allow them to use a cell phone during test time,
a lot of these kids, you know, a lot of
these schools, they just they have not done a very
good job of preventing cell phones from being in the classroom.
They are a distraction. At the very least, they're a distraction.
Seven forty time for traffic and weather together skybikes here. Hey,

(01:46:47):
it's a good thing. We got Ken boone standing by
with a real radar, my little pocket radar the best
I can see. We've got some showers affecting us on
the Southwest Freeway. Look at that smash now all the
way back from ninety and you lose twenty one minutes
up this way North Freeway. Awfully thick and spring from
nineteen sixty down Katie Freeway between the belt and the Loop.

Speaker 5 (01:47:06):
That's a bit of a smudge. And Sean from pear
Lance checking out to eighty.

Speaker 12 (01:47:10):
Eight and sky Mike to eighty eight north. We're pitting
breaks south of the Beltway and looks pretty jammed for.

Speaker 4 (01:47:16):
A while there we are up to the Loop. It's
that darn rain. All right. Let's head for Clayton from
Splendora on the working side.

Speaker 22 (01:47:24):
He is northbound Beltway right before you go over the
ship Channel bridge the elane.

Speaker 5 (01:47:34):
All right, we have matching suckage now southbound. We just
cleared that wreck that we got from Debbie from the
hard Work.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
In east Side.

Speaker 3 (01:47:40):
I have a good one, yeah, I just like listening
to her.

Speaker 5 (01:47:42):
She sounds like Pecompie Robert from Crosby's out on two ninety.
He came all the way across a real a little
thick at thirty fourth.

Speaker 14 (01:47:49):
Morning, sky like northwest side of town.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Goodiat for blue water seafood.

Speaker 4 (01:47:54):
No more good Burgers.

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
And Cindy from the Woodlands rung in on my Facebook
and she says Burger's humble good stuff. Skymike on a
generator supercenter dot Com traffic centers still.

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
Have to drive to New trump Berger here in town.

Speaker 8 (01:48:06):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
I think we're we're gonna have to do a little
field trip on that one. I think from our ktr
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off today. Ken Boon is in for her. Yeah. Look
it out my window right next to the six to
ten little bit. It looks like nighttime. It's so dark
out there right now. Ken.

Speaker 23 (01:48:22):
Yeah, we are certainly getting more and more of these
kind of little cells that are developing on the west, southwest,
and south side of the Houston area. We've got one
to the north near Green's Point, just north of that,
right along Interstate forty five, and just to the west
of that, we've got a couple of just south of
downtown as well. The main crux of the energy we're
moving into southern Fort Bend and across central and southern

(01:48:45):
Bassouria County. But more and more of those little isolated
storms are starting to form in front of that, So
I think we're going to start to see more and
more of that kind of fill in here. So here,
as we head through our mid and late morning and
into the afternoon, we're going to continue to see more
and more of the shower thunderstorm activity. And with all
those storms there is going to be the potential because
they're very slow moving for some very heavy downpours. As

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we head through the day today, temperatures into the low
to mid eighties. We'll keep a slight chance of showers
and storms in during the overnight hours Tonight, low seventies. Tomorrow,
it looks like late day storms, late afternoon evening showers
and storms upper eighties to near ninety. Slight chance for
those afternoon and evening storms on Friday, high temperatures in
the mid eighties. That as we'll get into the weekend,
just a stray excuse me, late day shower storm of

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the forecast. Better chance Sunday than Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:49:30):
Heis in the upper eighties to near ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
Right now seventy four at your official severe weather station,
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Now we're ready for our guest. Brad Johnson, senior reporter
at the TEXA will join us in just a couple
of minutes that we're going to talk about this lawsuit
suing the state over redistricting maps. The plane is now
alleging that Hispanic voting power is the with these new maps.
Or that story coming up next, But first, listen to
traffic and weather together. Start with you, Skymake Let's go

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That's gone.

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It's a little sponged up still from I. In fact,
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Our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center, mostly
Connie with some scattered midday, afternoon and midday and afternoon
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(01:50:48):
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Speaker 3 (01:51:40):
Yeah, they're constantly dragging the line for voting. And the
reason why he is because it's whatever power. You know,
parties in power, you get the ability to redraw the map,
and when you redraw the map, you generally try to
redraw it to your advantage. Usually what we're talking about
is democrats versus Republicans. But in this particular lawsuit where

(01:52:01):
jury trial, by the way, we'll be involved in this.
We're talking about the plans alleging it's not Democrats or Republicans,
it's Hispanic voting power that spend eluted. Brad Johnson joined
us seeing a reporter at the Texan. That's kind of unusual,
don't you think, Brad.

Speaker 14 (01:52:17):
Well, while it is talking about specifically Hispanic voting power,
it is a proxy fight between Republicans and Democrats. So
you know, every time the maps are redrawn, as you said,
we see lawsuits filed and usually it takes most of
the next decade to result them.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
That's so true.

Speaker 14 (01:52:34):
We are here, we are with one more lawsuits and
this may be the last one, although not Gonwood.

Speaker 3 (01:52:40):
We'll see.

Speaker 14 (01:52:41):
But yeah, the argument is from groups like LULAC and
other progressive groups that state Republicans intentionally cracked communities of interest,
specifically Hispanics in Dallas and Houston. They're arguing that there
should be at least one more Hispanic majority congressional district

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in each of those places, along with state legislative districts
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
Okay, are they bringing the suit because the assumption is
is that that's how those Hispanics will vote is for Democrats.

Speaker 14 (01:53:14):
Yeah, exactly, And you know, obviously after what happened last
last cycle, that's something. The fact that Hispanics are shifting
towards Republicans is something but probably have to contend with
and they'll.

Speaker 3 (01:53:25):
Have to argue.

Speaker 14 (01:53:27):
Although when they first filed this lawsuit, the Hispanic shift
hadn't happened yet. So it's an interesting situation where you know,
they're arguing facts from you know, four years ago versus
what we're seeing now. And I'm not sure how it's
going to play out, but I don't think it's going
to turn out too well.

Speaker 3 (01:53:45):
So here's the other thing strikes me about this, Brad Johnson,
and that is that, at least here in the Houston
metro the Hispanics are the majority. There are more Hispanics
than there are Caucasians at this particular point in time.
So it's very unusual, is it not to try to
bring a lawsuit involving the majority against the minority.

Speaker 14 (01:54:07):
Well, it's not just Houston, it's it's the state of
entire state. Right last year something, Yeah, Hispanic majority was established.
Now with federal law, it's not really statistical minorities. It's
racial minorities, as you know, constitute under federal law, and
so I think there's a bit of a different twist there,

(01:54:28):
But you're right. I mean, that's another thing we'll have
to contend with.

Speaker 19 (01:54:31):
This is not.

Speaker 14 (01:54:33):
This is not a majority white state anymore, and so
what exactly constitutes a majority as we're talking, you know,
the federal redistricting law. So I think there's a lot
of stuff that's about to change in the way we
think about, especially in Texas, the way we think about this.

Speaker 3 (01:54:51):
I think you're probably right. This could this could end
up blowing up in their in their faces in a
very big way. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
Brad Johnson, thank you, appreciate that that senior reporter at
the Texan Brad Johnson, all right, to be safe from
the storms today. I'll have a great day. We'll see
you tomorrow morning, bright and early, starting at five am.
Hope to see you this afternoon four on Am nine
fifty KPRC.