Erica Kirk Rejecting All These Conspiracy Theories

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/11/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is used radio seven forty kt RH Houston and
iHeartRadio station Guaranteed Human.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now the latest news, weather, Antia. It's more of what
matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, five am is our time here in Houston's
borning news. We're going to raise some money for Saint
fhud Children's Research Hospital this morning. Tell you more about
that in the minutes ahead. Also, the US seizes a
Venezuelan oil tanker. Congress may vote today on healthcare reform,
and coming up at five oh eight are national supermarket chains.
Two big to fail details in the minutes ahead. First,

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reject out the morning Drive for the first time this morning.
Oh no, the canyon already sky mine, and that's not trouble.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
I'm just testing the signal and I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why because at the moment we're looking
pretty good.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Freeways are rocking along.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
But those of you that played the home game with me, dude,
you have got to look at the shot on the
Transtar system camera five zero three. It's beautiful shot of
the canyon. Fifty nine or sixty nine the merge with
two eighty eight. No one really knows how many lanes
there are, but this is a merged spot and it's
a beautiful shot of downtown.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
For now. We're moving at the speed you should be moving.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
The southbound site even the east text elevated's moving fine.
And I took the little field trip downtown and I'll
tell you what I found. At five to ten Terarrey,
I'll have a real radar force and I'm in the
Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center.

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From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather centers.
Lots of sunshine today with the high temperature right about seventy.
Harry Smith will join us in about nine minutes with
an update of the forecast. We'll look for the next
few days warming trend, one cold date and a warming
trend again. That pretty much sums it up right down
forty three at your official severe weathers station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH. It is time now for the news.

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Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Good morning everyone, five o two on k t RHR
top story.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
It received for very good reason.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
President Trump.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
When the oil tanker taken by American forces off the
coast of Venezuela. Data on board the ship shows the
tanker made multiple trips between Iran and Venezuela. Homeland Security
advisor Steven Miller telling Fox that oil sales from American
enemies are a national security threats, so these regimes.

Speaker 7 (02:19):
Use these ghost sleeps, these dark fleets to evade sanctions
and to fund and finance and export terrorism, violence, and death.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
Oil futures are down this morning by more than one
point four percent to fifty seven dollars and sixty two
cents a barrel.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
As tensions rise with Venezuela.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado appeared in public for the
first time in eleven months in Norway, where her daughter
accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Another American enemy,
of course, is China, and now that country is tried
to a smuggling ring connected to a Houston businessman busted
for sending chips made by Nvidia overseas.

Speaker 8 (03:03):
The chips are used for advanced AI, and China is
barred from purchasing them.

Speaker 9 (03:07):
China has been trying to get his hands on advanced
AI chips from the United States because their chips are
not nearly as good as ours.

Speaker 8 (03:15):
China expert and author Gordon Chang added that this isn't
the first time Houston was caught up in Chinese espionage.

Speaker 9 (03:21):
In the first Trump administration, Secretary of State Pompeo closed
China's consulate in Houston. He specifically mentioned espionage activities.

Speaker 8 (03:29):
He warned that these rings are operated around the world,
so we need to be careful who gets a hold
of our AI chips. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Five three concuss votes on opposing healthcare funding bills today
sent a majority. Leader John Thune says the Republican bill
discontinues one type of subsidy, but it leaves the enhanced
subsidies alone.

Speaker 10 (03:49):
The Biden COVID bonuses. What they do is they take
the income limit off, so there's no people making five
six hundred grand a year can actually now get subsidies
from the federal government. There are zero dollars premiums, so
a lot of people in this country don't even know
they're covered because the insurance companies are incentivized to auto
enroll them.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Democrats are demanding a three year extension of the Obamacare
tax credits. Subsidies expire at the end of the month
if it seems like the president's efforts to reform the
federal government are being thwarted from the inside.

Speaker 11 (04:20):
You might be right, You could have the best intentions
in the world, but if you don't have a loyal crew,
a loyal group of people that share your vision, then
they can undermine you. And that's exactly what's occurring. They're
undermining them.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Whistleblower doctor Timothy shindelar and the Lara Logan podcast. He
says that the deep state, so called rearguard, has gone
out of its way to cover for the deep state
and meetcap reform efforts, but they couldn't stop Trump from
shutting the border down and now DHS says more than
two and a half million illegal aliens have left the
US over the last year. This includes more than six

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hundred five thousand deportations. The US Supreme Court will decide
if birthright citizenship will continue on later this term. In
one political analyst says it's a win even if somehow
Trump loses, and.

Speaker 12 (05:10):
That would be Fox News columnist Liz Peak.

Speaker 13 (05:14):
I think this case being held by the court, if
the Trump white House is smart, it will take advantage
of that and say let's do other things. Let's create
a legal immigration system that most Americans would agree with.

Speaker 12 (05:25):
She says it would be a mega win on immigration.

Speaker 13 (05:29):
Every great president has a signature issue. President Trump has
the opportunity to do that because a lot of what
he's talked about is very popular.

Speaker 12 (05:38):
The case will be heard in the spring. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty k T.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Eight five five.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
The Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by another quarter percent,
but fetcher Jerome Pal took a shot at President Trump
on inflation and affordability.

Speaker 14 (05:54):
These readings are higher than earlier in the year as
inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects tariffs.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
Trump was hoping for a bigger cut.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Futures are down this morning after the Dow gained almost
five hundred points yesterday despite Pal's gloom and doom retail
As You're optimistic. Jeff Berget with the Federation of Independent
Business in Texas points to a new set of numbers.

Speaker 15 (06:15):
You add businesses to evaluate their overall health eleven percent
at excellent fifty three percent.

Speaker 16 (06:21):
That good.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
About one in three small business owners say they are
raising costs to keep up with labor expenses. BIBO six
The Rockets host the Clippers tonight pregames at six on
Sports Talk seven ninety and Jimmy alluded to it starting
at six o'clock and for the third straight year we
had KTRH are taking part in the annual Saint Jude
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Speaker 2 (07:21):
Stay in touch on your drive in with Jimmy Barrett
and the Houston Morning News team.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
I just thought this was a prop because this story
is about grocery stores. It is It is the Holidays.
That's only the song I can think of that has
grocery stores and holidays in it. And New Year's Eve
five O way, good morning, Welcome to our show. This morning,
I saw this story. It made me think of something,
and it makes me wonder whether or not we are

(07:48):
potentially looking at a bailout of some of our nation's
bigger grocery chains. Kroger, Yes, today Kroger reporting a one
point three two billion dollar quarterly loss. Now, for all
the people out there who think that big grocery is

(08:12):
making big money from inflation, how do you lose one
point three to two billion dollars if you are overcharging
people for groceries for the things you're selling. Nation's largest
traditional supermarket chain has been around for one hundred and
forty two years now, losing customers to Walmart, Aldi and

(08:33):
Costco will burning cash on failed tech bets. Okay, that's
what the problem is. Kroger has tried new technology to
try to streamline the process. It hasn't worked so well.
Neil Saunders, Managing director of Global Data, warning that Kroger
should be producing punch your numbers. These numbers show the
chain is losing shoppers and the bleeding needs to stop. Yes,

(08:54):
you get the crisis is growing deeper. They are closing stores,
They're laying off employees, spend two point six billion dollars
on an automated warehouse that has collapsed, a nine month
leadership vacuum, so they don't have people at the top
to be doing the right things in a two point

(09:14):
six billion dollar lawsuit from a block merger and forty
five hundred plus jobs at risk. So here's the thing.
Would the government step in? I just remember, you know,
being originally from Detroit, I remember how the government said
that Chrysler was too big to fail, or General Motors
is too big to fail? Is Croker too big to fail?

(09:35):
Are there too many Kroker supermarkets around the country all
throughout the country that if they were to fail and
to go bankrupt, that we would have so fewer grocery
store choices that the government would feel compelled to step in.
I wonder about that. I mean, we have CHIV, I
would prefer chib anyway, but without competition, prices go even higher.

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So that would be interesting because we're all very very
warry of food prices right now. Five ten time for
traffic and weather together.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Interesting because HIV is an organic Texas and I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
They're still family owned.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
And I wonder if they have that same situation for Texas,
would Texas want to bail out if hib ever had trouble, you.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Know, would we want to bail them out? As a state?
Would that be going? Imagine if if there were no
carger or HV Oh good, well, when the world would
we do? Then? Man?

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Dollar Store? Time let's hit you know what, I'm going
to go back to the canyon tear.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
You're on with me? Now? Check out the shot here.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
It's in the Houston Transtar system five zero three.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Look at that, isn't that pretty?

Speaker 4 (10:38):
That's the Merge with two eighty eight and I sixty
nine and so far, no trouble in the canyon you're
going up. This shot is looking northbound going up to
the ballpark, and we're looking good the Merge. No problems here,
nothing special coming down from the ballpark and we're moving
just about posting speeds enough. I'm stretched back further to
the Southwest Freeway Brass River twenty two minutes.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's up into downtown. We're looking good. Here.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
I took a little field trip through downtown this morning,
and I just wanted to get a close up feel
of that Katie Freeway smash and what it is. Forty
five just as advertised, two little puny lanes and the
text dot wall of death. That's the Katie Freeway when
you're going past downtown and you're trying to get out
past forty five.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Now it's just a little.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Short spot where it's only two lanes, but it's just
enough to really squish us up later on.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
In the day. For now, we're actually moving.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
I'm Skymike from the generator of supercenter dot com Traffic
Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
with the Center.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Terry Smith is here. I'm looking at your forecast. Looks
like today is sort of late fall, Tomorrow is sort
of early fall, Saturday sort of early fall, and then
Sunday sort of winter.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, the many moods of mother Nature.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Kidding, can we get her on some medication? What's going
on here?

Speaker 18 (11:54):
Well, the deal is you're gonna have to pay attention
every day to see what the latest is because it
is very changeable. Now, we had a cold front move
through yesterday, and now we've got some of that cooler
weather that we were talking about yesterday. Temperatures though aren't
too bad, generally mid to upper sixties this afternoon. That's

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what it's supposed to be in December. But then tomorrow
does warm up. We got a little bit of a
westerly breeze, so it looks like mainly mid upper seventies tomorrow.
Over the weekend, we're dealing with some rain, not a washout, though,
a forty percent chance of showers and thunderstorms Saturday, thirty
percent chances of submarine probably early in the day Sunday,

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and then we dry out by Monday.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
But here's the deal.

Speaker 18 (12:39):
Saturday's a mile day with our temperatures in the seventies,
but then it does get cooler Sunday, close to sixty,
and by Monday our high temperatures are in the fifties.
So yes, you will need short sleeves and long sleeves
and sweaters and parkas and all of that.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
All right, We'll keep the entire closet handy right now.
Forty three Official Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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I live in clearly.

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sounding a little bored this morning. No, no, no, not bored.

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I'm just you know what, we really need a slinky
day with the Saint Jude radiothon and that way we
can focus on helping all this all these guys.

Speaker 20 (14:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
But right now, just looking around, I want to check
out both sides of Iten Advisors, you are looking good
all the way from San Philippe, Texas into the downtown area.
President's heads, we look good here, hard hats, we're rocking.
Let's go back to Cove. Anybody know where Cove is?
I know, right past lost in Old River Bridge. Super
interesting spot. There's some kind of work on that bridge
going on, but it looks like we're moving fine. If

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you see something I don't see over the bridge, you
let me know seven one three two one two t
ips and the rest.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Of your freeways rock Let's keep it like that.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center by
the way US Post Office letting down a charity.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
We'll have more in that coming up at the moment. First,
our KTRH Top tax Defenders. Twenty four hour Weather Center
forecast Sunday today sixty eight party, cloudy, warm seventy six
tomorrow becoming party claude'slight chances with shower seventy seven on Saturday,
then morning showers on Sunday, afternoon clouds, high only about
sixty Current temperature is forty three. At your official severe

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out some more of our top stories on a Thursday morning.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
Here's class sponsored by DNM auto losing President Trump. It's
an Indiana state lawmaker on blast for slowing down read
districting in that state. Galveston County Sheriff Jimmy Fallin's two
year long battle with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
finally ends, and what a bad day for Sharon Moore.
Michigan fired him as their head coach for having an
appropriate relationship with a staffer. Then he got arrested in

(16:15):
an apparent assault case. At the latest news anytime at
KTRH dot com. Our next update is at five point thirty.

Speaker 19 (16:23):
From the Sugarland area, Javi Airport area.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven KTRH.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Well, they signed for it, they were supposed to be delivered.
They didn't get to where they were supposed to go.
That's the problem. There was a charity out there called
Boxes to Boots in What they do is they send
kind of like a little care package, you know, toiletries, cookies, snacks,
that kind of stuff to our our troops serving overseas.

(16:56):
And it's not a big organization, but you know, they
spent a lot of money, spent thousands of dollars with
the United States Postal Service to ship these holiday boxes.
And evidently there were some problems. First well, first of
all of the like thirteen hundred, eight hundred of them
ended up coming back. And then the post Office doesn't

(17:19):
can't account for at least one hundred of them. They
don't know where they are. Here we go again, US
Postal Service, here's the President Boxes to Boots talking about
what has gone wrong and how disappointed she is. So
you box these things up, what happens next?

Speaker 21 (17:35):
So next we brought them to New Britain High School
on November sixteenth, and this year was a record number
of boxes, eighteen one hundred and nine. Due to the
government shutdown, we brought seven hundred back for the Connecticut
National Guard. They weren't ready to deploy yet, so luckily
those are safe in our office, unshipped.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
So did you dot.

Speaker 22 (17:54):
Your eyes and cross your t's when you were shipping
these things out?

Speaker 21 (17:58):
My shipping manager, George spent weeks researching, working with the
post office. We thought we had everything perfected. In some
of the language. It's kind of like a union contract
where it's interpretation. So we thought even our small boxes
of cereal, you had to break it down as to

(18:19):
if it was green or non green. So we were
so precise and just included the toiletries.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
So what did customs say?

Speaker 21 (18:29):
Well, we that's the problem. We haven't gotten an answer.
Somehow three hundred of the boxes labeled with toiletrees all
the exact same cleared customs. So someone wasn't doing their job,
or maybe there was a shift change, but what's so
upsetting and disgraceful to me is every single one of

(18:51):
these boxes had my name and phone number on the
return information. So if you have eight hundred boxes, there's
eight around eight thousand dollars we spent on shipping. Someone
could have took the extra minute to call me and say, hey,
we have a huge problem here. Let me tell you
what it is. Here's your options. We could have driven

(19:14):
to New York or Customs wherever they are and with
our label maker fix that. And these boxes would have
been overseas. And clearly these boxes are all marked with
military addresses, so I would think people, if anything, would
bend over backwards for our troops.

Speaker 6 (19:31):
This is just disgusting.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
You're not happy, But then again, if you really want,
what joys do you have?

Speaker 23 (19:39):
Though?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
If you're shipping it overseas? Could she have done FedEx?
Would that be bort five twenty seven Time to take
a look at your money.

Speaker 24 (19:47):
Good morning. The Federal Reserve delivered eight third consecutive interest
rate cut yesterday.

Speaker 19 (19:52):
Lowering its frenchbark rates by quarter point.

Speaker 24 (19:55):
That drove big games for stocks, with the down rising
four hundred and ninety seven points. However, it is a
different story.

Speaker 11 (20:02):
This morning.

Speaker 24 (20:02):
Stock index futures are heading for a lower open. Shares
of Oracle are falling in the pre market after the
company reported disappointing sales in its cloud computing business, and
Chevron is in discussions with the Trump administration about remaining
in compliance with sanctions in Venezuela. Chevron is the only
remaining US oil major in Venezuela and has been operating

(20:25):
under waivers stretching back to the first Trump administration. I'm
Courtney Donaho Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty trh.

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Five thirty is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
We're about a half an hour away from the start
of our Saint Jude Radio don presented by Gallery Furniture
Monger Time Stories This f hour Erica Kirk rejecting all
of these Charlie conspiracy theories, Houston may have violated the
new state property tax laws and coming up at five
thirty eight, Kambala thinks there should be a bust of

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her at the Capitol because, after all, she's historic. Yess
details in the minutes, say, hey, does she made history?
Four hit us on the free iHeartRadio app. Here's sky Mike.
All right, let's go to the north side. I've got
your North Sam. It's been from a Taska Stamboul.

Speaker 20 (21:32):
At the Etex Freeway ramps, there are five top cars,
huge old chuck dingit.

Speaker 25 (21:38):
Oh well, said hit him, Katy herbid herbid one car.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Cobody's going to jail for speedy. You don't come in
jail for speeding.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
You have to do other things, all right, but watch out,
North Sam. That's eastbound the ramp to sixty nine. I'm Skymike.
It's your Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center from r kat
I rh Generator super Center, twenty four hour. Whether'sent a
sunny right about sixty eight for the high temp of today.
Looks like it's gonna stay warm until Sunday and then
we get the cold day before warm's back up again.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
Christmas. Looks like it's gonna be warm right now. But hey,
we won't get that far ahead. We'll get Terry Smith
in here. With the complete forecast in eight minutes. Current
temperature is forty three at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for
the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Why thirty two, Good Morning? Every one hour top story?

Speaker 26 (22:26):
Can I have one thing? Can I have one thing?
Can my children have one thing? Everything?

Speaker 5 (22:36):
Was public Erica Kirk on Fox News, pushing back against
the multiple conspiracy theories out there about Charlie Kirk's assassination,
adding that she doesn't have the time to quote address
the noise meantime in Washington.

Speaker 27 (22:50):
The only crocket we care about in Texas is Davy Crockett.
Most Textans I talk to, they're not really focused on
whatever Jasmin Crockett's latest musings are.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Texas Republican Congressmanship Roy on Fox down playing Crockett's chances
in the Senate race. He's not the only unhinged Democrat
member of the Texas delegation. May we present Al Green,
who filed articles of impeachment against President Trump again, he.

Speaker 28 (23:18):
Has conducted himself in office such that person's now threatening
members of the Judiciary, threatening members of the House of Representatives,
threatening members of the Senate.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Green has pulled this stug multiple times before and has
never succeeded. That said, eight Texas Republicans are not seeking
reelection for Congress. Marjorie Taylor Green is retiring, and South
Carolina's Nancy Mason is running for that state's governorship. They
all blasted House GOP leadership, or rather Mace did during
a recent op ed, for not getting anything done while

(23:50):
holding the majority.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well, they don't want to get anything done.

Speaker 29 (23:52):
I mean, I think that's a strategy moving forward into
the midterms. You still have a lot of Republicans who
do not like Trump, who are moderate are the rhinos.
We literally have four or five months to get something done,
and I don't think we're going to get a dog
on thing.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
Republican strategist Matt Locke says there's a lot of big
money against Trump's agenda. Five point thirty four Here at home,
Attorney General Ken Paxton launches a probe into almost a
thousand cities across Texas to ensure they are in compliance
with property tax laws.

Speaker 6 (24:21):
One of those cities is in Houston.

Speaker 5 (24:24):
He might want to start looking at the small towns
and even mud districts as well.

Speaker 30 (24:28):
The eternation those office really wanted to maximize the resources
they would look at those because those financial records are
a lot easier to pass through than the thousand pages
you're going to get from the city of Houston or
Dallas or whatever else.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Charles Blaine with Urban Reform says, it's a great way
to put these large cities on notices because they don't
know who the AG's office might focus on. Paxton's investigations
into immigrant serving nonprofits also has the Left up in arms.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
The left claims to care, but really they just want
to protect their power.

Speaker 31 (24:58):
Some of them provide service like helping them to find jobs,
but this particular group, JOELT is a Latino voter engagement nonprofit.

Speaker 25 (25:08):
Richard Harris of Truth and Liberty says, this machine's become
brazenly illegal, and Paxton's doing what every age should be doing.

Speaker 31 (25:15):
To make sure that only citizens are voting in our
elections and that the illegal practices of registering non citizens
to vote is punished.

Speaker 25 (25:24):
He says, this will give us fair and accurate elections Again.
Andre Parard, who's radio se forty kt RH, it's.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Five thirty five overnight Training down Futures Down. This morning,
the Fed met investors' expectations with a quarter point interest
rate cut yesterday, but Chairman Jerome Palell, we'll talk about
future cuts and KTRH moneyman Pat Chin says a lot
will depend on delay financial reports.

Speaker 32 (25:47):
Finally, next week we're going to get data on jobs.
We're going to get a November jobs report, and then
we're also going to be getting the consumer price index,
So that's going to give us some clues as to
more recent economic data.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
But he thinks the biggest factor will be whomever the
President chooses to replace Powell next spring. A result of
rising prices since the pandemic, the American dream of owning
a home has become a luxury.

Speaker 33 (26:14):
According to har dot com, a household income has to
earn just over ninety two thousand dollars for the median
average Houston home costing three hundred and thirty seven thousand
dollars bank rates. Alex Gaily says roughly eighty six percent
of the homes on the market just aren't affordable, and.

Speaker 34 (26:31):
That's when homeownership starts to feel less like a typical
middle class milestone.

Speaker 19 (26:36):
And more like a luxury. And Gaily says the problem was.

Speaker 34 (26:40):
Home prices grew way faster.

Speaker 11 (26:42):
Than income level.

Speaker 33 (26:43):
As the wages are playing catch up, the data shows
the market is improving. I'm Erica Smith, News Radio seven
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Speaker 5 (26:50):
Seiners are choosing cheaper happy hour prices over full course
dinners to save some cash these days. Convive hospitalities, Jonathan Horowitz.

Speaker 35 (26:58):
You're getting reduced costs on still good menu items, but
you're not necessarily paying twenty twenty five thirty dollars for
a large entrepe.

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He also says people on GLP one drugs are doing
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More with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News teams.
This is HU Morning News. Well, I make no illusions
about there ever being a statue of me.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
No, no, not. My wife was to direct the statue
to me. You know, there's a lot of statues in Washington,
DC and bus you know, the bus being just the
head or I guess part of the chest in the
head goes into a bus. I'm guessing every president has
a bust, right does every vice president have a bust?

(28:25):
Is kamo is talking about how there needs to be
a bust to her on display at the Capitol, because,
after all, she is historic. I assume she means when
she says she's historic, she means she's historic because she
is the first black Indian female vice president. You know,
she had all that kind of thing going for. From

(28:48):
a DEI standpoint, I think she was also historically bad,
but that's a different story. Here's Greg Gutfield having some
fun with it. This could be an amazing bus.

Speaker 37 (28:58):
I seem more like fuzzy naval fountain you see at weddings,
you know where streams of peach snaps come out.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Of the eyes and the ears and the nose or wherever.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Call back.

Speaker 37 (29:09):
Here's the problem with talking about a bus. It puts
you in the past. The moment she said that, she
just said that she's not gonna, she's done, She's finished.
I got my trophy. It's like, and you just think
of museums and elderly docents and musty velvet ropes and
Brian Kilmead sitting in the corner eating chips.

Speaker 23 (29:32):
No.

Speaker 37 (29:32):
Her beef, which is amplified by the title of her book,
is that she didn't have enough time.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
Dear, you had more time than anyone.

Speaker 37 (29:39):
You were VP. You know on your day planner there's
only funerals. You had four years as an understudy. At
any moment, it could have been you. You were the
emergency president, and you still think you didn't.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
Have enough time.

Speaker 37 (29:54):
We all got to know you, and we still didn't
like you. We could argue more time with Kama worse
for Kamala. Have you ever heard of crap Island? I've
talked about this, right, that's when ever you get on
crap Island. You can't get off it, and you're not
even sure why you're on it. But it's just sad
because your presence gives off bad vibes for many people,

(30:16):
and for a lot of people, they don't want to
be reminded of twenty twenty four. It's like when I
smell parmesan cheese, it reminds me of when I threw
up in third grade and they covered it with sawdust.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
It's like parmesan cheese.

Speaker 37 (30:28):
When it's grated parmesan cheese, it's just like I don't
want it.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
It's nothing against the parmesan.

Speaker 38 (30:33):
You got no parason on your pasta.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
No I a big parmesan. Don't come after me.

Speaker 37 (30:38):
But it's like it's just like it's like I'd rather
I'd rather not deal with it.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
She is on crap island, she can't get off it. Well,
that's a good place to put her bust crap Island.
By the way, would that not be a perfect example
of a participation trophy? A bust for Kamala Harris five
forty Time for traffic and weather together, as we check
in and get a guy, Mike.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Let's check out a statue of a real hero. You
gotta go to Huntsville and there's Big Sam.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Standing by I forty five minutes. How tall is he?

Speaker 4 (31:08):
He's got to be way up there, about fifty feet
at least.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
And we're going by forty five.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
They're doing some kind of pavement repair on forty five
on the outbound New Waverley.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Beautiful drive in this morning.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
I think we've got stars Terry and Conrod downs an
easy thirty one minute Scooch and on it's got thirty
one minute stroll. I should say into downtown the other side.
Wh Steven at Boston, he's standing there.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Cover your eyes.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Terry two eighty eight northbound just past Angleton and we're
coming up on the roadwork roscheron. Boy, we had a
Narley wreck yesterday on five twenty one. No problems there
coming up. I will call any twenty two minutes into
the canyon where northbound looking good, and I do see
that police activity north Sam. Looks like they're clearing that
North Sam eastbound the ramp to the east.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Text we're starting to squeeze down.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Also six to ten north westbound at forty five, I'm sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
It's the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center from our KTRH
Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center. Terry Smith is
standing by. She's got the forecast a couple of really
nice days coming up. Just I'm only looking at one
day here as just to stay inside and don't worry
about what's going on outdoors. Other than Sunday, this forecast
looks pretty good.

Speaker 18 (32:17):
Well, I'm looking ahead to Monday and I'm saying stay inside. Yeah, today,
not too bad. It is cooler, but it's you know,
it's a it's a typical December day, and it's a
sunny day in our windsor light, so overall a pleasant day.
Temperatures look to be mid to upper sixties this afternoon,

(32:39):
and tomorrow is even warmer. Another sunny, dry day. His
in the mid to upper seventies tomorrow Saturday. That's why
we start to get some rain. There's a cold front
on our way, so a little bit of rain over
the weekend. Forty percent chance you'll get wet Saturday. Sunday
at thirty percent chance of showers. Looks like that'll be
in the morning hours, will be dry by the afternoon. Monday,

(33:01):
sunny and dry, but it's okay. So Sunday's cooler with
temperatures generally upper fifties to low sixties.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
But it's Monday when our heuser in the fifties. That
to me, just that sounds.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Cold because it is right exactly temperature right now. By
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I always hit traffic on fifty nine.

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(34:38):
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Mike from.

Speaker 20 (34:46):
New Caney to the Canyon by the Georgiah Brown and
I did a total of five miles in the left lane.

Speaker 16 (34:53):
The rest of it was just the right place because
everybody wants to go slow with the left plane.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
I know, and I wish management would let me put
out a bounty for left lane deal weight spent.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
I'm not allowed, hot man.

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We should give a banana sticker yet, Scott from New
Canny beIN from a Tasca seat. We should give Pat
Shinn a banana sticker.

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Two.

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Speaker 3 (35:24):
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Speaker 5 (35:42):
Looking at key congressional votes today on healthcare reform. Porch
Pirates and West You arrested after a string of thefts
and a Florida man who allegedly crashed a stolen BMW
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Speaker 3 (36:19):
Well, the Fed has decided to go along with an
interest rate Hiko. Though I know it wasn't unanimous. It
wasn't unanimous this time around. But there was a more
interesting language I thought from the FED chair Jerome Powell
regarding inflation. He seems to finally be admitting that, well,
we're not really getting any inflation from these s taruffs.

(36:39):
Pat Chin joins us our KTRH money man, what do
you make hey, Jimmy, Hey, what do you make of
the what the Jerome Paul had to say about inflation?

Speaker 39 (36:48):
Oil boy? There's a lot to unpack here, Jimmy. So,
first off, for my intro music, I was hoping for
Stevie ray Vaughn walking the tight rope. That's what the
Federal Reserve is doing right now. So remember every other
central bank around the world, they're only concerned with inflation.
The Federal Reserve, they've got a dual mandate. Not only

(37:09):
are they looking for low inflation, they also want full employment,
and that is exactly why they're cutting interest rates. They
have decided they've moved the goalposts, Jimmy, if you will,
because remember their target rate is two percent inflation year
over year. We just got the latest numbers the Federal
Reserve's favorite measure of inflation last week came in at

(37:31):
two point eight percent. So it's still well above their
target rate. Yes, it's way way down from where it was,
but they are ignoring that and they're focused on jobs. Now,
this about fell out of my chair. During Powell's press conference,
he says the government data is overstating jobs by sixty

(37:53):
thousand jobs a month. Right now, Well, if you look
at the data since April, we've only been adding forty
thousand jobs a month. So if Pal's right and these
jobs numbers are no good, we're looking at, you know,
minus jobs numbers. I think President Trump is probably headed
in the right direction in terms of the Fed probably
needs to be lowering rates even more if their job

(38:15):
is just if they're trying to target full employment.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
So we've noticed that there are some companies that are
beginning layoffs here in some of these national companies by
the thousands. Yeah, do they consider that as well as
that part of the job's number they work with.

Speaker 39 (38:28):
Absolutely, So we do get a number called JOLTS that's
job openings and Labor Turnover survey. It was interesting what
last week showed. Showed that the big, big, big companies
were adding jobs. The smaller companies know. And so if
we look at just the total picture, we're seeing not
a lot of hires, but not a ton of fires,

(38:50):
so not a lot of layoffs. And so we're looking
at unemployment right now around four point four percent. Way
back when Alan Greenspan, he told Congress that what he
considered full employment was five percent. So even four point
four is not that bad. So remember, I want to
add a couple of things, Jimmy. Remember when we talk

(39:10):
about interest rates, there's no single rate. There's an entire
spectrum that runs anywhere from overnight all the way out
to thirty years. That's called a yield curve. What we're
talking about the Fed doing is simply the overnight rate.
This has nothing to do with mortgages, credit cards, car loans,
et cetera. I could see the possibility, I don't know

(39:30):
if it'll happen or not, where longer term interest rates
go up and short rates go down. Certainly you and
I talked, gosh two years ago, I told people, you know,
short short rates are really high. Now's a good time
to move your money out of the bank into one
of these government money market funds SCHWAP, Government Money Fund, Fidelity, Vanguard.

(39:53):
The yields on those Jimmy are all coming down now.
Back when you and I talked about this, the yield
is five percent. Right now it's three point. It's going
to continue to be lower. But if you want to
beat your bank, that's still a good spot. And if
you've got the money in one of those government money
funds and you don't need it, take a look at
a Treasury bill. I think rates are going to be

(40:14):
coming down. Uh. Powell doesn't have much credibility, hardly any
I think the mark he told everybody yesterday we're only
going to cut rates one time in twenty twenty six.
The market is not buying it. No, they're still pricing
in three rate cuts.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Okay, well, we'll see what happens with all this. But
it is always thank you, sir for all the great
information you got it. That's our countrh money man, Pat Schinn.
It's five fifty seven.

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And this is the beginning of the Saint Jude Radiothon
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Congress may be taking a vote later today on healthcare reform.
US has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker and coming up
at six eight at and T is getting ready to
ditch their landlines. You still have one details in the

(41:20):
minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning ribe with
sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
All right, this time the pretty ladies on TV are
helping me. East Text Freeway pretty nearly wreck and the
feeder at Lauder Road.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
I don't think it's going to infect your main lanes.

Speaker 9 (41:33):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
I do see a little bit of a slow down,
looks like it looks like a little bit of revernecking.
A lot of flashy lights there. But stay the course
on your East Text six to ten north. We're squeezing
down westbound at forty five. Let's check your ship channel
bridges at the ten break. I'm Skymike. It's the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
From our KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour weathersent
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(42:11):
time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
Hey, it's six ZHO two. Our top story this hour.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Obamacare is a scam.

Speaker 28 (42:18):
Under Obamacare, trillions of dollars were given directly to health
insurance companies.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
President Trump on Obamacare earlier this week. Congress votes today
on dueling healthcare funding bills. A GOPS package would discontinue
one type of subsidy, but leave enhanced subsidies alone. Democrats
are demanding a three year extension on these subsidies. They're
getting help, believe it or not, from a group of

(42:46):
moderate Republicans.

Speaker 11 (42:48):
We need to be bipartisan in this approach.

Speaker 40 (42:50):
If you're going to get two undred et votes in
the House and sixty votes in the Senate, it has
to be a bipartisan bill by definition.

Speaker 5 (42:57):
Pennsylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick is one one of those moderates. There's
also this Thirteen House Republicans joined Democrats in advancing a
bill to reverse President Trump's order cracking down on federal
worker unions. Among those Republicans Mike Lawler of New York
Nicole Malliatakis, also of New York. These moderates are a

(43:18):
problem for the president. So is the deep State, which
is working overtime to thwart his agenda. According to whistleblowers.

Speaker 11 (43:25):
And sistant attorney says, I represent the United States of America,
and I don't want you to investigate corruption that specifically
involves the DOJ.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
Doctor Timothy Schindelar told the Lara Logan podcast that a
group of disloyal members of the deep State are working
across the board to undermine the Trump administration. Part of
that agenda the pushed and birthright citizenship will be heard
by the US Supreme Court. Fox's list Peak says this
is going to be one of the top stories of
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 13 (43:59):
If you really want it down on people coming across
our border illegally, you've got to reduce the enticements for
them to do so.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
And this is a huge denticement.

Speaker 13 (44:07):
Free education, free healthcare, free housing, even down the road.
So this is worth a gazillion dollars.

Speaker 6 (44:14):
She says.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
It will also lead to a great opportunity for Trump
to finally fix our immigration system. Six oh four O
futures down this morning. After the US military captured an
oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela yesterday, Data on
board the ship showed multiple trips between that country and Iran.
Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says the money was being

(44:35):
used to fund violence in the US.

Speaker 7 (44:37):
These elicit, ill gotten financial proceeds from these sanctioned transactions
are used to finance murder, mayhem, drug trafficking, and terrorism.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
And with tensions with Venezuela, rising opposition leader Maria Coarina
Machado appeared in public for the first time since January.
She was when Norway, her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace
Price that she won over Trump on her behalf. A
business here in the Houston area has been accused of
smuggling advanced AI chips to China. The bad news is

(45:13):
that there are probably more of these businesses doing these things.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
Across the world.

Speaker 9 (45:20):
Places like Singapore have been hubs for this smuggling. We
should be very concerned about chips sales to places that
have had this history of being channels to the People's
Republic of China.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
China expert and author Gordon Chang points out that this
is not the first time Chinese espionage operations cropped up
in Houston. During the first Trump term, the Chinese consulate
here was closed due to espionage issues. Six L five
futures are down across the board this morning, after the
Dow gained four hundred and ninety seven points yesterday. This
was after the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point.

(45:55):
Sherman Jerome Powell with a jab at the Trump economy.

Speaker 14 (45:58):
Conditions in the labor market appeared to gradually cooling, and
inflation remains somewhat elevated.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
Trump was hoping for a bigger rate cut.

Speaker 5 (46:06):
Retailers don't share Palell's gloomy outlook, especially here in Texas.

Speaker 15 (46:11):
You'rely at five percent that are reporting is poor, which
we think is pretty positive.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Jeff Burdett with the Federation of Independent Business in Texas
also says new survey finds that an increase in those
retailers expecting sales to be hired this year. Three fundraisers
for the Alamo Trust are leaving to protest the forced
resignation of the WOKE director, Katie Rodgers. Experts say this
is unlikely to hurt the half a billion dollar public

(46:37):
private renovation.

Speaker 15 (46:38):
We thank those people for their service. They will be
replaced and the fundraising will continue with great success.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Former Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson Rogers quit under pressure from
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who objected to woke social media
posts by the Alamo staff. Six h six Texans game
scheduled for Christmas weekend on the twenty seventh against the Chargers,
will be on the NFL netw work at three thirty
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Speaker 2 (47:45):
The tools you need to take on the day news
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News with Jimmy Barrett. Yeah, that might be the last
time I had a landline with this song was Big
six eight is our time here in Houston's more News
at and T continues to talk about because they're expected
to maintain, they're made out of copper, they're they're they're

(48:08):
difficult to maintain land lines, and it just makes me wonder,
when was the last time you used a landline? Do
you still have a landline in your home? You know,
we tease all the time that it's just the old
people who have landlines, but I'm guessing there are a

(48:28):
few who have landlines for other reasons, not the least
of which is whether or not they have sketchy cell
phone service where they are. You know, if you live
in a cell tower dead zone, if you don't have
a landline, how are you supposed to communicate in an emergency?

Speaker 3 (48:42):
I guess you could. Well, you're going to text nine
one one. Texting works in areas where phone calls sometimes don't.
But you've got to text nine one one looking for help.
Probably not so at and T continues to say, the
end is coming. We just want you to know, just
like we had the story I think it was yesterday
about uh, you know, the FED, the FED and the
federal government stopped stopping accepting checks or sending checks from

(49:05):
bank to bank from the from the FED. You know,
checks becoming a thing of the past because of electronic banking.
Landlines are becoming a thing of the past because of
cell phone technology and the and the and the cost
of maintaining the landline. So here's our question today. You
go to the iHeartRadio at k t r H. Do

(49:26):
you have a landline. If you do have a landline,
why do you still use it? Do you or do
you have a member of your family who is never
going to give up their landline until the just plane
stops working. Or if you recall, when was the last
time you had a landline? How long have you been
without one? We I don't think we've had a landline

(49:48):
for well over twenty years, six ten time for traffic
and weather together.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
I think I had AOL when I had a landline.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Okay, the last time you ever? You ever loaded aoo AOL?
Are you talking about the yeah, the old hand things?
You used to call that the handshait?

Speaker 39 (50:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Yeah, sorry, I'm loading here. Sorry, it would take like
two or three minutes to load. Ricky Si, how got
the internet?

Speaker 23 (50:12):
All?

Speaker 9 (50:12):
Right?

Speaker 3 (50:13):
East tax Freeway? Later road?

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Pretty ladies on TV? You're telling me that recks pretty gnarly.

Speaker 6 (50:18):
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Oh, Gary Matck got me a shot here, Thank you.

Speaker 39 (50:20):
Gary.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
That is twelve to twenty five on the Transtar cameras.
And yeah, that's looking pretty ugly.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
It's in the feeder.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
My question for you, if you're driving in from the sticks,
can you see it? Can you see it from the roadway.
I don't know if I can anticipate any rubbernecking on this.
It's not causing any problem for the main lane so far.
Just don't get on the feeder right there. I don't
think you would anyway, six in northwest bound we are
squeezed down at forty five.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
That's maybe an extra minute going that way.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
And they've reopened the ramp now on the eastext Dude,
they had the East Tex ramp that goes to Baytown
shut down. I know that missed some people up. You
have to get off the road and go. It'll force
you to go toward downtown. You have to get off
Maine Sanjacino and sit through a light or two. We'll
look out for zombies there. You get back on nine
ten head the other way, but they're about to reopen

(51:07):
that and just checking a six to ten east.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
I'll check the bridge, this bridge here and south.

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Oh, look at that northbound the ramp from the bridge
to the Butt Plant shut down. You can go outbound,
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From r KTRH Tom tats Defender's twenty four hour with
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land line?

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Uh? No, we do not, but we kept the landline
for a long time while the kids were home, because
that way they could just pick up a phone and
call somebody if they needed to without a problem.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
But she still has that TV that looks like furniture.
It's about eight feet long. It's made out of wood.

Speaker 23 (51:44):
You know.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
The TV itself is only this big. But you can
land an aircraft on those you mean the one where
the channel turner breaks and you have to pull all
a pair of plyers and click. Yeah, if there's a tornado,
you go under that. Sorry, I'm.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
That's why I keep it for protection.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
State of the art. State of the art. All right.

Speaker 18 (52:06):
Well, hey, there's a nice stretch of weather until the weekend,
and that's when we start to get some rain and
there is a big dose of cold weather. You know,
this might just help with the holiday spirit that starts
Sunday and Monday. Today's a mild day, I'm going to
call it. It's a nice day with the sunshine. Temperatures
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Tomorrow gets warmer in the mid upper seventies. Tomorrow Saturday,
we start to get some rain. Forty percent chants of
rain Saturday, thirty percent chants of some rain early Sunday.

Speaker 6 (52:42):
Saturday, still in the seventies.

Speaker 18 (52:44):
Sunday though starting to cool down, starting upper fifties to
low sixties, and then Monday, high temperatures with all the
sunshine only in the mid upper fifties.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Right now, we're down one forty two in your official
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Speaker 3 (55:00):
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Speaker 41 (55:46):
What has happened just yesterday?

Speaker 35 (55:48):
What's happening today.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Happen, ikil what happens?

Speaker 9 (55:52):
The things are happening.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Right here on news radio seven forty KTRH tells what
Nancy mas is asking these days.

Speaker 15 (55:59):
Why by.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Nancy Waye Mason has come out against the leadership of
the Republican Party, I assume that includes the House Speaker.
She take a swing at leadership and a new opinion
piece that she did for The New York Times, saying
I came to Congress five years ago believing I could
make a difference to my constituents for South Carolina, for
a country I love deeply. I was the first woman
to graduate from the Citadel's Corps of Cadets. I don't

(56:23):
scare easily, but I've learned that the system in the
House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.
No one can be held responsible for inaction. So far,
too little gets done. The obstacles to achieving almost anything
are enough to make any member who came to Washington
with noble intentions asked why am I even here? Joins

(56:45):
to talk about Matt Locke, host and Republican strategist. I've
heard some of the things coming out of the mouth
of Marjorie Taylor Green. Are these just you know, far
right women who are having a history Vader They have
a legitimate gripe here, Matt.

Speaker 42 (57:00):
Well, I think a lot of us have a legitimate
gripe when it comes to both sides of the aisle.
And currently we're watching as a Republican party isn't following
through on all of the things they said that they
wanted to do in midterms and all that stuff. So
folks are getting upset. And now you're seeing people like
Marthie Taylor Green, Nancy Mays who are out, you know,

(57:20):
putting that out on the air, and I guess letting
you know they're frustrated as well.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Okay, well, what do you think the results are of this? Clearly,
I think they're probably trying to spur Republican leadership to action,
to shame them into getting something done. But do they
run the risk of having the effect of people saying, well,
it doesn't matter if I both for Republican, they won't
get anything done. It does?

Speaker 42 (57:43):
It does, And I don't know if this is the
appropriate way to be going out and shaming anything. We
know what our politicians are doing, we know what they're
not doing. Maybe pull them aside behind closed doors and say, hey, look,
you know this is not what my constituents want. Maybe
we go a different direction. If that doesn't work, I'm
not for sure if it's I don't know. I don't

(58:05):
know if it's worth saving, or if it is capable
of being saved.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
You know, I wonder too, we've had a couple of
Texas Republicans who have pulled out and are not running
for re Electionship Roy comes to mind. He's running for
state wide office. There are others who have decided that
they're not going to run for reelection. They give the
rationale to be either spending more time with family or
coming back to their home state. But I wonder how
many of them are just as frustrated as Nancy Maceys.

Speaker 26 (58:31):
Well.

Speaker 42 (58:31):
I think there's a couple of things within that frustration
is probably one of them. But Trump has turned off
the money spickt that you used to make more money
in Congress. She saw Nancy Pelosi's now retiring, but she's
like ninety five thousand years old, But she did what
six thousand percent better than the stock market in all
of these things. But I think the money's starting to
dry up a little bit with usaid going away. You've

(58:54):
got all the stuff for PBS and NPR and parenthood
and all of these corporations that we're kicking money back.
I think lobbyists and special interest have less hold onto
these people now, and so a lot of them are like,
well the squeeze, you know, the juices or the squeeze.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not making enough money and I'm
not getting anything done. Bad combination. All right, man, before
we let you go, I know you have a new
book out called I See. What's what's the book all about?

Speaker 42 (59:21):
Well, I wrote a book that is the Matrix, Big
Brother and Atlas Shrugged all kind of combined in the
one where folks are being controlled by disinformation.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Is a feel good story.

Speaker 15 (59:34):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 42 (59:35):
He really has some underpinnings of what is taking place
today with social media, with corporations selling you a bag
of goods that my main.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Character figures out.

Speaker 42 (59:45):
Hey, look, he gets the gift of site from what's
called the optolink, but he has given the site that
they want him to see, so he figures that out,
goes after them, and it's a feel good story in
the end.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Okay, sounds good. Thank you, sir, appreciated Matt Lock, host
and Republican strategist and the author of renewed book called
ic spelled E y E s E. I see it's
six twenty seven. It's time to take a look at
your money.

Speaker 19 (01:00:10):
Good morning.

Speaker 24 (01:00:11):
The International Energy Agency is forecasting a smaller oil surplus
this year and next. This is the first reduction since
Opex started ramping up production in May. However, Opex said
last month it will pause output increases in the first quarter.
Grewed this morning is at fifty seven dollars a barrel.
Turning to stocks. Oracle is reigniting concerns about all the

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spending surrounding artificial intelligence and if it will eventually pay off.
The tech giant is sinking and early trading pulling down
the overall market futures or heading for a lower open.
I'm Courtney Donahoe Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven to rh.

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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services
Studios six thirty Our Time, Houston's borning news. I'm Jimmy
Barrett bong our top stories, as have our Erica Kerr
rejecting all of these conspiracy theories about the death of
her husband Cidy of Houston made a violation of Texas
state property tax laws and coming up at six thirty eight,

(01:01:23):
Farmer speaker Kevin McCarthy leeds in on the Jasmine Crockett
campaign details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking out
that morning drive again the sky mike.

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I see the scoots from nineteen sixty.

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Tammy's flying over the east text right now Channel thirteen
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in the theeder, so it's not affecting the main lanes
where a little more gnarly though, at will Clayton Parkway
inbounded direct They're about to clear it right.

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Lane Skymike of the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center, mr
KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center. Lots of
sunshine today with the high temperature right about sixty eight.
That's a pretty pleasant day today, even nicer for tomorrow.
We'll talk to Terry Smith about all this in eight minutes.
Current temperature is forty two at your official severe weather station,

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News Radio seven forty KTRAH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Launders at.

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
Six thirty two.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
Our top story here in Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton
is investigating nearly one thousand cities, including Houston, to make
sure they are following new requirements on property taxes.

Speaker 8 (01:02:46):
This is a warning to these cities that they're being
watched and will be held to account.

Speaker 30 (01:02:50):
None of those thousand cities that get this request know
which one that he's just going to stop and kind
of take a look at him, So it kind of
puts them all on notice to adhere to go off.

Speaker 8 (01:02:58):
Charles Blaine with Urban Reform says x Paxton should start
looking into smaller towns and mud districts.

Speaker 30 (01:03:03):
Not only do you often find a lot of ways
abuse and just outright fraud in them, but you don't
have the level of accountability that you have in major cities.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
Blaine says this is also a sign that voters need
to start paying more attention to things like this as well.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
We left is losing its mind over Paxton's investigation of
immigrants serving nonprofits, but he's doing what any age is
doing in his position. Richard Harris of Truth and Liberty says,
many of these outfits blatantly register illegals to vote, which
needs to stop.

Speaker 31 (01:03:35):
Every illegal that's registered dilutes the vote of every other
citizen that votes, so this is perfectly legitimate. One of
the driving problems with election integrity are loaded and inaccurate
voter registration roles. It is one of the primary defects
that allows fraud to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
He says, cleaning up the roles like this should be
a priority for every state. South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace
is just the latest Republican that go off on the
House GOP leadership. As it stands right now, twenty seven
Republicans won't be coming back to Congress after the midterms, and.

Speaker 29 (01:04:11):
That includes eight here in Texas. It's no longer profitable
to be in politics. Trump's starting to take the money away.
They're looking at stock trading. You're going to see a
lot of representatives and senators leave, which they are.

Speaker 12 (01:04:23):
That is host and Republican strategist Matt Locke.

Speaker 29 (01:04:27):
I think they see the fact that it's no longer
profitable to do it, so they're going into the real world.
They're going back into the free market where they can
make more money, be lobbyists and get rich now that
they've made money off you and I.

Speaker 12 (01:04:38):
In twenty eighteen, thirty four Republicans did not seek reelection.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k T reach.

Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is the latest to downplay Jasmine
Crockett's run for Senate, telling KTRH is Sean Hannity, she
does not get Texans or Texas at all.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
She doesn't understand Hispanics and.

Speaker 43 (01:05:00):
Texas because I'll tell you in twenty twenty four, Donald
Trump carried a majority of Hispanics in Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
In twenty twenty four, I carried a majority of Hispanics
Crockett told Vanity Fair last year that Hispanic Trump owner
Trump voters had a quote a slave mentality. Here we
go again, Houston Democrat Al Green files impeachment papers against
President Trump. You know he's done this several times over
the year and hasn't succeeded. Erica Kirk, Well, she is

(01:05:26):
pushing back against the multiple conspiracy theories that are out
there about her husband's assassination.

Speaker 26 (01:05:32):
Can I have one thing? Can my babies have one
thing where we hold it sacred, where my husband is
laid to rest, where I don't have to be worried
about some secular revolutionary coming.

Speaker 19 (01:05:42):
And destroying my husband's grave.

Speaker 26 (01:05:44):
Well, my daughter is sitting there praying.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
Kirk on Fox, adding that she doesn't have time to
quote address the noise. It is now six point thirty
five on KTRH. The Fed did what they were expected
to do, but they're so uncertainty ahead.

Speaker 38 (01:06:01):
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by another quarter percent
that its final meeting of the year, the third rate
cut since September. The Fed cher Jerome Powell hinted at
just one rate cut in the new year. KTRH moneyman
Patchin says investors are more optimistic.

Speaker 32 (01:06:14):
We think the market believes President Trump is going to
bring in somebody who might lean more towards cutting rates,
and therefore that may be why the market is pricing
in three rate cuts.

Speaker 38 (01:06:25):
Trump is vowed to replace Powell, and Powell's term ends
on May first. Coriolson News Radio seven forty KTRH and as.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
Of now, futures are down.

Speaker 5 (01:06:35):
This morning, housing experts a eighty six percent of homes
on the Houston marketer out of reach, making home ownership
feel like a luxury bank. Rates Alex Gaily says wages
in Houston, though, are playing catchup.

Speaker 34 (01:06:53):
If a typical household in the area can only afford
ten to thirty percent of homes on the market, it's
a sign that home prices are out of sync with
what many people are actually earning.

Speaker 6 (01:07:03):
She says.

Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
The Houston market is moving in the right direction of
supply increases. Australia's new Under sixteen social media ban is
now in effect. In social media consultant Peter Shankman things
the other countries should do the exact same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
Is a brilliant move.

Speaker 44 (01:07:18):
I wish the United States would do it, in which
every country would do it. Countless studies show that social
media is damaging to teenagers, to young kids, to those
who have not whose brains have not fully formed yet.

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
An effort in Austin to pass a social media ban
for minors failed this year. The Rockets host the Clippers
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I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in traffic station
News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 36 (01:08:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
It's six thirty eight. Now, if you're in Houston's Morning News,
a right much has been made again. My theory on
Jasmine Crockett running for you a centate number one. She's
a She's an attention whore. You she she wants the attention.
Number one. Number two, it's about the Benjamin's about making
the money. It's about, you know, being able to go
out to donors and make more money for her campaign,

(01:08:32):
and you know, maybe use a little bit money for
her own self if you don't what I me. So,
I think she understands that she hasn't got a prayer pointing,
and she's perfectly okay with that, because that's not what
she's all about anyway. She's not about policy, she's not
about politics. She's about making money and making a name
for herself. Jesse Waters had former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

(01:08:56):
on his program last night talking about the candidacy of
Jazz Crockett.

Speaker 43 (01:09:00):
Can you believe the Republican Party tricked Crockett into running
for Senate?

Speaker 40 (01:09:06):
You know what, Jim Scott, everybody should send money to
the Senatorial committee because well done, well played, gonna save
was a lot of money.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
People were afraid.

Speaker 40 (01:09:15):
Coming out of competitive Republican primary that the Democrats could
win that Senate seat.

Speaker 6 (01:09:21):
And Crockett gets in, Allard gets.

Speaker 40 (01:09:24):
Out, they still got another Democrat or to in. But
oh my god, she makes Kamala look bright. She does
told her to run who knows?

Speaker 43 (01:09:34):
You know Beato, I guess you can say was competitive.
You know, he wore blue jeans, He campaigned all around
the state. They had something going. Does Crockett appeal to
the entire state of Texas?

Speaker 6 (01:09:48):
No, that would be the last state.

Speaker 40 (01:09:50):
If you were a cad if you were advising her
to run statewide in and then would you literally have
a campaign announcement and say I don't need anybody who
voted for Trump. How do you think you win? You
win by getting more votes. You want people to join
with you. She's rejecting people. She's trying to play the

(01:10:10):
Kamala Harris race. How do I start high and end low?

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Again? I think they're missing the point of what this
woman's trying to do. I think she knows exact I mean,
we may think she's an idiot, and she certainly says
some things that are idiotic, but you know, she was
a lawyer. You're not doubles to stuff and become a lawyer,
at least last time I checked. So I think this
is all very calculated. Six forty time for traffic and

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weather together. What you got sky mine? Oh man, we're
starting to We're starting to play whack a mole. Now
this is becoming a thing. First of all, you've.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Got that record huff by Start two ninety outbound, we're
bawling a split outbound, not inbound, y'all. They're on the
shoulders here. Double check that, Gary, did you get that?
And we are yep, they're just about to clear it.
All right, don't worry about it. If you're inbound. We
look good from Graham Parkway on the main lanes, our
forty five north, Matt from Conrod, Dude on your.

Speaker 20 (01:11:04):
Mine, headed down forty five. I don't know, kids, but
it wasn't just awake yet before ray.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
The roads to go right might have the freeway shut
down the last time.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
All right, in bound, let me get you some laneage
at the next hit. That's gonna be the six to
fifty break. Oh me from Keema's popping in. She's got
your gold freeway.

Speaker 12 (01:11:23):
Right here, morning, Mikey.

Speaker 24 (01:11:25):
I'm calling from my landline after clear Lake City Boulevard.

Speaker 19 (01:11:28):
Doll pon tuned boat with the truck attached.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
You just never know what you're gonna see on a
Houston freeway. Could be a pontoon boat. It could be cows,
we've had alligators. All right, watch out, let's get some
laneage on that golf freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Are we smashed up yet? Just a little bit right there.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
If you're coming up from League City thirty two minutes,
let's check the bridges at six fifty two.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
And I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center from
r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hours with a center.
We're joined by Terry Smith. She has the forecast for us.
It's been an interesting pattern so far, hasn't it. We
get these we get these really nice mild days, and
then we get go right into the a really cold day,
and then we come right back again.

Speaker 18 (01:12:11):
It's like a roller coaster, you know. Like today's a
little bit cooler than yesterday. Yesterday was quite mild, about
five to ten degrees above the norm. Today's back to
normal December. We're in the middumber sixties today, so it's
a nice day tomorrow, though warm's backed up into the
mid umber seventies. Next coldfront's on the way, so we've

(01:12:33):
got some rain Saturday and Sunday. Now, Sunday's still mild
because the coldfront hasn't moved through. Forty percent chance of thundershowers.
Saturday load to mid seventies, and then the colfront moves
through and Sunday we have a little bit of rain
in the morning, but the afternoon's dry and the temperatures
are beginning to get colder. Upper fifties to low sixties

(01:12:54):
on Sunday. Monday's our coldest day, though at least we're sunny.
We're not up though mid upper fifties. That's as good
as it's going to get on Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Temperature right now is forty Let me see here get
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I live in Spring, I live in Katie.

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You're reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.

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are blocked at.

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Sawdust inbound, about a twenty minute drag. I'm going to
revisit that at seven o'clock in the Ability Tree Experts
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Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
All Right, being addicted to social media, We'll talk about
that next first though, our KTRH Generator super Center twenty
four hour weathers of forecast Sunday sixty eight today, part
of the Cloudie warm seventy six tomorrow. Right now, it
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Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
Here's Clive, five year old is found wandering alone on
a road in North Harris County.

Speaker 6 (01:15:22):
Do child hospitalized.

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Gasoline prices across Houston took down to an average of
two forty eight a gallon. More problems for Cracker Barrel.
You know about the whole rebrand disaster. Well now, customers
say the quality of the food has gone down. At
the wlaatest news anytime at KTRH Dot com Our next
update is at seven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
Fifty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Inbound at the loop is always a problem KTRH time
saving traffic connect on.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
The ten Chalco Baby Go to Behalf, I said, yeah,
you know, there are a plenty of people addicted to
social media staring at their phones all the time. I'll

(01:16:11):
even find myself doing that every now and again. So
I wonder Australia has decided to ban it for under
the age of sixteen. But doctor Docole's Sapphire from Fox
says you can detox from social media.

Speaker 19 (01:16:24):
This isn't breaking news.

Speaker 45 (01:16:25):
We all know that social media probably isn't good for
our mental health, and this one survey that came out
really is just adding to additional data that shows that
when you come off social media there are positive mental
and physical health benefits. When you're on social media, we've identified.

Speaker 6 (01:16:41):
Through functional MRI and other.

Speaker 45 (01:16:42):
Studies that it directly affects our anterior singulate gyrus, which
is responsible for our emotional regulation, and also our brain chemistry,
our stress hormones, our feel good hormones. They're all affected
by being on social media. And when people take a
break from social media, one thing that what they do
notice is that initial feeling of restlessness and even fomo

(01:17:04):
fear of missing out. But eventually within a few days
they actually are feeling more clarity, they're able to have
better interpersonal community or connections, and they're able to be
more focused. They have more energy, and they are even
sleeping better and saying they have decrease depression, anxiety, and
some of those negative feelings. So getting away from social

(01:17:26):
media actually recenters your brain and resets that dopamine stimulation
that those feel good hormones. When you get away from
social media, you start having those good, feel good neural
hormones for other things like human interaction and healthy things.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Yep, yeah, but don't you get the DTS because I don't.
I don't need to be getting all shaky all right.
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Speaker 15 (01:18:05):
Rice Lombardi doesn't like the looks of things from the
green Bay bench.

Speaker 46 (01:18:08):
It was December the Green Bay Packers beat the Philadelphia
Eagles for the NFL title.

Speaker 14 (01:18:12):
Jerry who throws the key block and Dean drives in
for the score.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
On television, foil the Robbie one of you and Ship
been doing today.

Speaker 6 (01:18:19):
Fred McMurray starred in the first season of My Three Sons.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
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Speaker 9 (01:18:24):
It's very pretty, and she's very attractive.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
But if I'm going to try to impress the girls,
You'll be a little over.

Speaker 19 (01:18:28):
The nineteen marriage is rather frightening, isn't it? Oh, I
must confession ladyship and did the court musical?

Speaker 46 (01:18:33):
Camelot opens on Broadway camelotts and number one on the radio,
You long, Elvis Presley? Are you lonesome? Tonight was in
the top spot.

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What year was it? If you know seven one, three,
two and two fifty eight seventy four, that's seven one,
three two and two k t RH good luck, all right,
we have a wonder that'd be Stephanie and Houston knew
the right year was nineteen sixty. Stephanie, you get that
pair of tickets for trans side Bearing Orchestra the Son
of the Nineteenth at Toyota Center. Enjoy the show and
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
This is used Radio seven forty KTRH Houston and iHeartRadio
Station Guaranteed Human Now the latest news, weather at It's
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Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Matters to you from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Seven am our time. Now here in Houston's borning news
lowle reminder Here we're in the midst of our Saint
Jude radiothon the benefit Saint Jude Turtle's Resarch Hospitals being
presented by Gallery Furniture. More on how you can donate
coming up in the next few minutes. First, though, let's
talk about this. The US has found a way to
enforce the Venezuelan oil embargo. Congress likely to take up

(01:19:45):
some healthcare issues today and coming up in seven o eight,
Preparing for a world without a landline details in the
minutes ahead. First, letas check out that morning drive again.
The skyline. All right, woodlands, this is a mess. Southbound,
Let's reach check your laneage. It's all lanes. Just moments ago.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
We're reshuffling now one, two, three, four, five lanes five vehicles.
The hov It saw us inbound and it is a
mess from two forty two to thirty five minute. Wait already,
that's on the southbound side GO Freeway. We just cleared
a wreck at the loop inbound. Also Drake, Texas City.

Speaker 20 (01:20:20):
Yeah, Mike, just before the overpath for clear Lake City,
there is a tall truck with a pretty nice boat
on it, and there is a to track ninja already
on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
All right, well said, that just happens to be a
pontoon boat. Be careful.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
That's inbound clear Lake City Boulevard. I'm Skymike at your
Generator Supercenter dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
Traffic from r KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour
weathers on a Sunday with the height today read about
sixty eight. Forecast looks warm up until Sunday. We'll check
it all out with Terry Smith of the Weather Channel
into in about eight minutes seven to ten. Right now,
current temperature still forty two at your official severe weather
station News radio seven to forty KRH. It's time out

(01:21:02):
for the news. Here's Clipsanders.

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
Helps if you turn the mic on seven oh two
on KTRH our top story.

Speaker 9 (01:21:09):
It was sized for very good reason.

Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
President Trump on the oil tanker taken by American forces
off the coast of Venezuela. Data on board the ship
showing the tanker made multiple trips between Iran and Venezuela. Iran,
of course, accused of evading sanctions by selling their oil
to China and other nations. Oil futures this morning are
down seventy three cents to fifty seven dollars and seventy

(01:21:32):
two cents a barrel as tensions rise with Venezuela. Opposition
leader Maria Corina Machado appeared in public for the first
time since January in Norway as her daughter accepted the
Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Another American enemy, China,
tied to a smuggling ring connected to a Houston businessman
busted for moving chips made by Nvidia overseas.

Speaker 8 (01:21:57):
The chips are used for Advanced AI and China's bar
from purchasing them.

Speaker 9 (01:22:01):
China has been trying to get his hands on advanced
AI chips from the United States because their chips are
not nearly as good as ours.

Speaker 8 (01:22:09):
China expert and author Gordon Chang added that this isn't
the first time Houston was caught up in Chinese espionage.

Speaker 9 (01:22:15):
In the first Trump administration, Secretary of State Pompeo closed
China's consulate in Houston. He specifically mentioned espionage activities.

Speaker 8 (01:22:23):
He warned that these rings are operated around the world,
so we need to be careful who gets a hold
of our AI chips. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
It is now seven oh four Congress votes on opposing
healthcare funding bills today sent a majority. Leader John Thune
says the Republicans would discontinue one subsidy but leave enhanced
Obamacare subsidies alone.

Speaker 10 (01:22:45):
The Biden COVID bonuses. What they do is they take
the income limit off, so there's no people making five
six hundred grand a year can actually now get subsidies
from the federal government. There are zero dollar premiums, so
a lot of people in this country don't even know
they're covered because the insurance companies or incentivized to auto.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
N roll them.

Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
Democrats are demanding a three year extension for subsidies that
expire at the end of the month. If it seems
to you like President Trump's efforts to reform the federal
government or being thwarted from the inside.

Speaker 6 (01:23:13):
You're probably right.

Speaker 11 (01:23:15):
You could have the best intentions in the world, but
if you don't have a loyal crew, a loyal group
of people that share your vision, then they can undermine you.
And that's exactly what's occurring. They're undermining them.

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
Federal whistleblower doctor Timothy schindelar on the Lara Logan podcast.
But this deep state could not stop Trump from shutting
down the border, and now DHS says more than two
and a half million illegals have left the US over
the last year. The US Supreme Court will decide birthright citizenship,
and one political analyst says it's a win even if

(01:23:48):
Trump somehow blueses.

Speaker 12 (01:23:50):
And that would be Fox News columnist Liz Peak.

Speaker 13 (01:23:53):
I think this case being held by the court, if
the Trump white House is smart, it will take advantage
of that and say, let's do other things. Let's create
a legal immigration system that most Americans would agree with.

Speaker 12 (01:24:05):
She says it would be a Maga win on immigration.

Speaker 13 (01:24:09):
Every great president has a signature issue. President Trump has
the opportunity to do that because a lot of what
he's talked about is very popular.

Speaker 12 (01:24:17):
The case will be heard in the spring. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty k T eight seven h five.

Speaker 5 (01:24:23):
The Fed cut interest rates by twenty five basis points,
but Fed shared jerown. Powell took a shot at President
Trump on inflation.

Speaker 14 (01:24:30):
These readings are higher than earlier in the year as
inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of
tariffs down.

Speaker 5 (01:24:36):
Futures are flat after the doll closed up four hundred
ninety seven points yesterday. Despite Powell's gloom and doom, retailers
are optimistic. Jeff Burgette with the Federation of Independent Business
in Texas points to a new set of numbers.

Speaker 15 (01:24:50):
Apt businesses to evaluate their overall health. Eleven percent at excellent,
fifty three percent said good bought.

Speaker 5 (01:24:56):
About one in three small business owners say they are
raising their average selling prices because of rising the labor costs.

Speaker 6 (01:25:03):
Seven oh six.

Speaker 5 (01:25:04):
Rockets host the Clippers tonight pregame at six on Sports
Talk seven ninety and it's day one of the annual
Saint Jude Radiothon presented by Gallery Furniture to help cure
kids with cancer.

Speaker 17 (01:25:15):
As you know, no family ever receives a bill from
Saint Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so they
can focus on helping their child live. So it's important
for us to have those necessary funds in order for
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Speaker 5 (01:25:28):
You can become a Partner in Hope by pledging nineteen
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Speaker 6 (01:25:47):
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I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station
news Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 19 (01:25:57):
I want to know what's happening.

Speaker 6 (01:25:58):
I know what's going on around town, around the country.

Speaker 39 (01:26:02):
I need to know the weather in traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
Listen and you'll know use Radio seven KTRH. Not only
is that song about a landline, it's about a payphone.
If you could if you were to ask a twenty
one year old what a payphone is, would they be
able to answer the question. Probably, I don't know. Maybe

(01:26:25):
if they've been to a museum. Landlines are on their
way to the museum at and t reminding everybody again
that they are phasing out landlines slowly, but surely they
are going to go away now. Their grandma might still
have a landline, but I don't know how much longer
the landline is going to work. So the question of
the day became for me anyway, do you still have

(01:26:46):
a landline? Do you still use a landline? Why? Why
do you still have a landline? I haven't had a
landline in probably twenty twenty five years. Of course i'd
lived somewhere. I've always lived somewhere where. With cell phone
services good, I'd never had to worry about not being
able to make a connection. That's the question landlines. Do
you or someone you know are low to have a
lane line? Why do they insist on keeping their landline?

Speaker 28 (01:27:07):
Hey, Jimmy, I've only started owning a home eight years,
and even before then, I'd never had my own landline,
and I don't intend to have one ever.

Speaker 41 (01:27:15):
David Oakridge. The old public switch telephone network was based
on copper lines and had batteries and their switching facilities
was the most reliable network ever built. That doesn't happen
anymore because so much of the network is based on
fiber optics with equipment that needs power, and the old
PSCN work when the power went out, not anymore with

(01:27:38):
the new optical based networks.

Speaker 16 (01:27:41):
Dave on Lake Conrad. The last time I had a
landline was in two thousand. But I remember when I
was a kid up in the country at the farm,
we had a party line, and then in the heights
you had a rotary doll with Oxford four eighty ten
or Underwood forty two, or you used to get the

(01:28:01):
Yellow Page's phone book. When's the last time hec You
want to live.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
Long time, long long time? Anyway, you can share your
thoughts on landlines. Uh, just go to the iHeartRadio ap KTRH,
hit the talkback button first name where you're calling from,
and if you have one, or when the last time
was you had one, or if you know somebody who
won't give theirs up seven to ten right now, time
for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 20 (01:28:24):
Me from Keema called inline.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
I think she's I think she's spoofing us. I do
did she have an operator place the call for here? Hey, operator,
could you call seven four eight nine five? And until
that sky Mike, I got a landline.

Speaker 4 (01:28:40):
Dude, she called me collect so I got the young people.
You're gonna have to google all this stuff. All right,
let's go to the east text. First of all, boy,
that East Texas smashed. I think we got something downtown
across Texas Avenue southbound. It looks like a stall or something.
That's why the mess up is from a calling Stuarts.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Now k t r H. Let's were the first to
know and I shared it with the rest of the media.
What was going on in the woodlands.

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
This is pretty gnarly stuff at Rayford ed from Magnolia.

Speaker 20 (01:29:09):
Guy, my dude, our.

Speaker 15 (01:29:10):
Left three lanes the h OV lane has about three
car file up.

Speaker 20 (01:29:14):
Only the right two lanes are getting by.

Speaker 4 (01:29:16):
All right, I let everybody else in the rest of
the media, no, look at that backup from two forty
two southbound. You don't have a lot of options golf freeway.
We've got a scooch at let's see Scott Street. We
cleared a wreck right before six to ten south and
of course Meek from Kima found that problem. Twenty three
to fifty one. Wang Dang a sweet pontoon boat. Terry

(01:29:36):
doesn't listen to ted nugent Soul we're safe here.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Today, Jay, what I'm in that woo? Yeah, I may
be in trouble.

Speaker 39 (01:29:43):
I'm in the.

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
Generator Supercenter dot com draft easy easy from our KTRH
top tax Depender's twenty four Our weathers there, Terry is here. Uh,
this weather is just about darn near perfect for the
next few days.

Speaker 26 (01:29:59):
It is.

Speaker 18 (01:30:00):
And you know, all this talk of rotary phones makes
me think.

Speaker 6 (01:30:03):
Of phone booth, Like, when was the last time you
saw a phone baths?

Speaker 17 (01:30:06):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Yeah, yeah, remember those a long time ago? Yeah? Yeah,
it was the last time you used a phone booth?
Even longer?

Speaker 6 (01:30:12):
Right, yeah, even longer. I honestly can't remember.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
All right.

Speaker 18 (01:30:17):
So, yeah, it's a nice day. Nice day today and
tomorrow and Saturday is not too bad. We have some rain,
but get ready for the cold air. And I am
talking cold. This isn't like cool air.

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
This is cold air that's on the way.

Speaker 18 (01:30:28):
But today mid to upper sixties, Tomorrow, mid to upper seventies. Saturday,
we have a forty percent chance of some showers, maybe
a rumble at thunder. We're still in the seventies Saturday. Sunday,
a little bit of rain in the morning, and then
we're dry and Sunday is the beginning of the cool down.
Upper fifties to low sixties on Sunday. But it's Monday,

(01:30:50):
that's chilly.

Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
I mean it's cold. Let's just call it cold. Mid
to upper fifties for highs on Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
Right now, forty three you're at your officials severe weather
station News Radio seven forty R.

Speaker 6 (01:31:02):
Fifty nine in bound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
KTRH time saving traffic connect on the ten. Well, again
we're trying to help out our sister station, Sonny with
you know, just making you where that the Saint Jude
Radiothon is going on today. It's also going on tomorrow.
We'll be doing this tomorrow as well. It's presented by
Gallery Furniture. Very simple for you to make a donation.
We hope that you will. It's a very important charity.

(01:31:28):
I think anything that deals with kids and a life
threatening illness is just at least on my list, is
super important. I know I've probably told this story a
million times, but when my oldest son, Matt was little,
he had a condition called pyloric stenosis. He ended up
at mont Trelin's Hospital in Annurbur, Michigan. Another fine facility,
by the way, but when you have a six week

(01:31:50):
old undergoing surgery, it will you know, as a parent,
it just scares the death out of you. I can't
even imagine what it's like when you have a child
with cancer that's being told that we're going to send
you to Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital because that's there's
nothing we can do for you. Those are the cases
they take on, and they're highly successful with those cases.

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So if you would like to become a partner of
Hope by pledging just nineteen dollars a month to help
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little traffic and whether together as we check in again
with sky Mike clear the Woodlands wreck now forty five.
The wreck is gone, the backup is still there. From

(01:32:53):
fourteen eighty eight, you're losing fifty four minutes. Victoria from
Cyprus is on two ninety under the belt.

Speaker 19 (01:32:59):
When car traffic, little pile up traffic is moving.

Speaker 20 (01:33:03):
Slowly on the left side.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
Ah, nice work, they're Victoria future traffic reporter there.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center from our
KTRH Top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather start is
Sunday about sixty eight today part of the Claudie Warm
seventy six, Tomorrow Saturday seventy seven, and then Sunday only
a high right about sixty but Mondays can be even
colder then it warms up again. Crazy temperature right now

(01:33:29):
is forty three at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to get you caught up
on some of our top trending stories this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:33:38):
Here's clip Galveston County Sheriff Jimmy Fallens to your long
battle with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement finally ends.
Time Magazine just named the Architects of ai As. It's
twenty twenty five Person of the Year in FIFA World Cup.
Soccer tickets or football, whatever you want to call it,
goes on sale today. Get the latest news anytime at
KTRH dot com. Our next up date is at seven

(01:34:01):
thirty The Schumer shut Down, The Events of the day, Portland, Chicago,
Violent crime every Day Israel Pamas on news radio seven KRH.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
Tell you what this Venezuelan story is fascinating to me.
We have we captured a Venezuelan oil tanker, took it
into US custody. I mean the whole thing. There's like
a million gallons of million barrels of oil something like that,
million barrels of oil on board this thing. It's a
big oil tanker. So why did we do it? What
is the strategy behind this? Here is retired Marine intelligence

(01:34:36):
officer Hal Comfort. One of the reasons that.

Speaker 23 (01:34:38):
We're that is being done is simply because we have
the forces there to do it. In many cases, these
these tankers, sometimes called dark tankers tankers are involved in
various smuggling of sanctioned oil and things like that, which
is what this tanker is accused of doing. Uh, they
go in and out, they don't get stopped because we
just simply don't have the four is on hand to

(01:35:00):
do the interrediction. In this case, that tanker came out
of the port in Venezuela, and we have this massive
naval armada out there and everything that we need to
stop it. And technically, and I'm not sure if those
were Coast guardsmen that were actually repelling onto the ship.
Could have been could have been navy seals, or could

(01:35:22):
have been you know, bringing raiders, or it could have
been any mix that went on the ship.

Speaker 18 (01:35:27):
And uh.

Speaker 23 (01:35:27):
And but the but the vessel is actually being seized
by the US Coast Guard and uh, and it is
being held.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
It's it's somewhat unusual, it's big.

Speaker 23 (01:35:35):
It's about one point one million barrels of oil on
that tanker.

Speaker 9 (01:35:40):
Uh.

Speaker 23 (01:35:41):
That's more than the daily output of Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (01:35:44):
So it's a it's a lot of oil.

Speaker 23 (01:35:46):
But it is very forceful enforcement of of some of
the sanctions that we have on oil producing countries. Actually
there aren't very good reasons. Part of it is that
it focuses on Iran and I'm Rain and oil and
sanctioned Irenian oil, particularly now into the statback provisions that
have kicked back in and Iran.

Speaker 3 (01:36:05):
So that's part of it.

Speaker 23 (01:36:06):
Part of it is looking at that, and you can
bet that we have a lot of ways that this
has been identified, not just by the US but by
other countries involved with illegal shipments of oil from Iran
to various different other places.

Speaker 3 (01:36:20):
I would not be surprised if.

Speaker 23 (01:36:22):
We find out that this was involved with sh ship
to ship transfers at sea, which are very hazardous, potentially causing.

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
Significant environmental damage.

Speaker 6 (01:36:32):
That could have been some of the stuff done.

Speaker 23 (01:36:33):
This particular load, though, was coming out of Venezuela, was
supposed to be going up to Cuba, and that was
going to get transship from what I could tell, probably
over to China. But you know, I was bringing a
sanctioned oil out and the US stopped it, and it
had been linked to a number of other illegal maritime
activities and that was probably enough. And there's also a

(01:36:56):
report out that the individual that either owned the ship
or owns the cargo wasn't quite clear to me, is
linked to Maduro and another senior in Venezuelan officials. He's
showing up on a list as as someone who's been
targeted with sanctions, and of course you know Maduro and
his senior leadership are tied to Cartel de Solis, which

(01:37:19):
we have declared to be a terrorist organization. Hence you
see the connection to terrorism, not just terrorism coming out Iran,
but terrorism tied to the narco cartels, particularly the drug
cartels in Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
So in nutshell here, we took the oil tanker because
it is smuggling embargoed oil Number one and number two.
We could because of our military presence. They are going
after rug boats. Seven teven. It's time to take a
look at your money.

Speaker 24 (01:37:47):
Good mornings, that a reserve delivered eight third ten secutive
interest three cut yesterday, lowering its benchmark great five quarter points.
That drove big games for stocks, with the Dow rising
four hundred and ninety seven points. However, it is a
different story this morning. Stock indext futures are heading for.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
A lower open.

Speaker 24 (01:38:05):
Shares of Oracle are falling in the pre market after
the company reported disappointing sales in its cloud computing business.
I'm Courtney Donaho, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty
k t RH.

Speaker 3 (01:38:20):
Houston's News.

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Whether we're track plus breaking News twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Child Everywhere with r more of what's happening now from
the John Morris Services.

Speaker 3 (01:38:34):
Studios seven thirty one. Here in Houston's morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this out hour, Erica
Kirk sick and tired of Charlie death conspiracy stories, is
the City of Houston breaking state law. And coming up
at seven thirty eight, Hey, At and t you can't
take my landline away. Details in the minutes ahead. First,

(01:38:55):
we're checking out that drive again. The skyline all.

Speaker 4 (01:38:57):
Right, Woodland's is still a mess. We clear the wreck
at Sawda southbound. That is a fifty four minute drag
from fourteen eighty eight. Big rig Randy's on the Hardy
toll roads.

Speaker 23 (01:39:06):
You go, my dear, north of Rank and there's a
big who ah there, whoa whoa you said, Repon.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
It is backed up a long way.

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
We are running out of options on the north side.

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
Thank you, Randy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:19):
That is a banana sticker. And I'm in the Ability
Tree Experts Traffic.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Center brov A KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center.
For today, we're looking at sunshine with a high temperature
right about sixty eight degrees. We'll get the full forecast
with Terry Smith of the Weather Channel. We'll talk to
her in eight minutes. Current temperature is forty three at
your officials severe Weather station, News Radio seven forty k
t RH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 26 (01:39:47):
Can I have one thing? Can I have one thing?
Can my children have one thing? Everything was public?

Speaker 5 (01:39:59):
Erica Kirk on Fox yesterday, pushing back against the multiple
conspiracy theories out there about her husband's assassination. She says
she doesn't have time to quote address the noise meantime
in Washington.

Speaker 27 (01:40:12):
The only Crockett we care about in Texas is Davy Crockett.
Most Texans I talk to, they're not really focused on
whatever Jasmin Crockett's latest musings are.

Speaker 6 (01:40:21):
Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy.

Speaker 5 (01:40:24):
They're downplaying Jasmin Crockett's chances in next to your Senate race.
She's not the only unhinged member of the Texas Democrat
congressional delegation. Here's Al Green, who filed articles of impeachment
against President Trump yet again.

Speaker 28 (01:40:39):
He has conducted himself in office such that person as
are now threatening members of the Judiciary, threatening members of
the House of Representatives, threatening members of the Senate.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
And for the record, he's done this several times over
the years. It's never worked. That said, eight Texas Republicans
are not running for re election. Marjorie Taylor Green from
Georgia's retiring South Carolina's new Nancy Mace is running for governor,
and yesterday she blasted House GOP leadership for not getting
anything done while they held the majority.

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
Well, they don't want to get anything done.

Speaker 29 (01:41:09):
I mean, I think that's a strategy moving forward into
the midterms.

Speaker 6 (01:41:13):
You still have a lot of Republicans who do not
like Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
Who are moderate are the rhinos.

Speaker 29 (01:41:18):
We literally have four or five months to get something done,
and I don't think we're going to get a dog
on thing done.

Speaker 5 (01:41:22):
Republican strategist Matt Locke says there is a lot of
big money against the Trump agenda. Seven thirty four, Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating about a thousand cities
across the state to ensure that they're in compliance with
property tax laws. He might want to start looking into
small towns and even mud districts as well.

Speaker 30 (01:41:42):
The attorney those office really wanted to maximize the resources
they would look at those because those financial records are
a lot easier to pass through than the thousand pages
you're going to get from the city of Houston or
Dallas or whatever else.

Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
Charles Blaine with Urban Reform.

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
Meantime, Paxton's investigations into immigrants serving nonprofits has the left
all upset.

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
The Left claims to care, but really they just want
to protect their power.

Speaker 31 (01:42:06):
Some of them provide services like helping them to find jobs,
but this particular group, joelt is a Latino voter engagement nonprofit.

Speaker 25 (01:42:16):
Richard Harris of Truth and Liberty says, this machine's become
brazenly illegal, and Paxton's doing what every age should be doing.

Speaker 31 (01:42:23):
To make sure that only citizens are voting in our
elections and that the illegal practices of registering non citizens
to vote is punished.

Speaker 25 (01:42:32):
He says, this will give us fair and accurate elections again.
Andre Parard New's Radio se forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:42:39):
Seven thirty five down futures are flat this morning as
a federal reserve cuts interest rates by her quarter point. Yesterday, however,
fetchered your own pal won't discuss future cuts, and KGRH
money man Patchin says a lot will depend on the
layed financial reports.

Speaker 32 (01:42:54):
Finally, next week we're going to get data on jobs.
We're going to get a November jobs reports, and then
we're also going to be getting the consumer price Index,
so that's going to give us some clues as to
more recent economic data.

Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
An He thinks the biggest factor will be whomever President
Trump selects as Powell's replacement. A result of rising prices
since COVID, the American dream of owning a home is
now a luxury.

Speaker 33 (01:43:19):
According to har dot com, a household income has to
earn just over ninety two thousand dollars for the media
and average Houston home costing three hundred and thirty seven
thousand dollars bank rates. Alex Gaily says roughly eighty six
percent of the homes on the market just aren't affordable, and.

Speaker 34 (01:43:36):
That's when homeownership starts to feel less like a typical
middle class milestone and more like.

Speaker 19 (01:43:41):
A luxury and Gaily says the problem was.

Speaker 34 (01:43:44):
Home prices grew way faster than income.

Speaker 19 (01:43:47):
Level, as the wages are playing catch up.

Speaker 33 (01:43:49):
The data shows the market is improving I'm Erica Smith
News Radio seven forty KTI.

Speaker 5 (01:43:55):
Trend in dining out, people are choosing cheaper happy hour
prices over full course dinners to save cash.

Speaker 35 (01:44:02):
You're getting reduced costs on still good menu items, but
you're not necessarily paying twenty twenty five thirty dollars for
a large entrede.

Speaker 5 (01:44:13):
Arwitz also says, by the way, that's convived hospitalities. Jonathan
horror It says people on GLP one drugs are doing
this because they now have smaller appetites. College hoops, uhbzas
and State eighty to thirty eight. The annual Saint Jude
Radio Thon presented by Gallery Furniture to help cure kids
with cancer is underway. We're helping these kids for the

(01:44:33):
next two days, and you can become a partner in
Hope by pledging just nineteen dollars a month. The topeboard
presented by Oakcarver's Financial Group. As of now twenty one
thy seven hundred five dollars, we're looking for thirty partners
in Hope by eight o'clock. The number again eight hundred
five eight eight fourteen thirty three. We also have an
online link to donate on our Facebook and x page.

(01:44:56):
I'm Cliff Saunders. On Houston's news, weather and traffic station
News Radio seven k TRH.

Speaker 36 (01:45:01):
Michael Barry only endorses Texas Renters dot com for property management.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
Needs, world events, national headlines. Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett. Yeah,
remember there was a day we didn't have even have
answering machines. Back in the day, the phone would just
ring and ring and ring, and if nobody picked up,

(01:45:26):
you didn't get to talk to anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:45:28):
That's how it worked back then. A lot of memories
about landlines is a kid. As an adult, I don't
think I've had a landline since. Let me think here now.
Our current house never had a landline. Our last three
houses before that never had landlines. It's been twenty plus years,
Well over twenty years, says I've had a landline. There

(01:45:51):
are some folks who still have them. The problem is
AT and T wants to get rid of them. You know,
they're too expensive to maintain, and AT and T doesn't
want to do that anymore, so they're on the way
of phasing them out. It'll get to the point where
you can't have a landline. Your landline just won't work anymore.
But in the meantime, do you still have a line line?
Do you know somebody that still has a landline? Why

(01:46:11):
are they hanging on to that landline? Good morning. This
is Jack from Connecticut.

Speaker 6 (01:46:16):
I haven't had a landline since I lived with my
mom over thirty years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:46:19):
Have a good day, guys, good naming all.

Speaker 47 (01:46:22):
This is Henry from Spring. I think a landline is
still very important because due to the power outage we
had in cell towers having no power, there were some
spots in Spring and the surrounding area where the cell
phones would not work. In case I'm an emergency, you're

(01:46:45):
gonna need a landline. Have a great day, Hey, Jimmy,
if I get Spring, I don't have a landline anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
I haven't had one for quite some time.

Speaker 47 (01:46:55):
But I still remember my phone number late one three
five zero nine.

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
I still remember my original phone number as a kid
in Michigan one hundred four eight two three eight nine.
I think something like that started with an HU. Remember
when they used to do that back in the day.
It started with letters, two letters, and then you go
into the numbers seven forty. Time for traffic and weather. Together,
we're checking out the drive again with the sky Mike.

(01:47:25):
All right, I got let me see who I've got.
I've got the iHeartRadio app here. I'm gonna get right
to the Hardy Toll Road. This is Jason, Jason, what
is that brother?

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
Heray, Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:47:35):
There are two recks on the Hardy the northbound lane
about a mile north of the beltway. Spin out hit
the wall. There are ninjas and topped off site.

Speaker 15 (01:47:44):
Southbound south of the Beltway about a quarter mile there's
another spin out hit the wall.

Speaker 24 (01:47:49):
It just happened.

Speaker 3 (01:47:50):
There is nobody on the site. Yet everybody appears to
be Okay. Oh that's crazy, man. We don't even have rain, Terry.
I don't know what you didn't do this?

Speaker 4 (01:47:58):
So by we got dueling problems on the Hardy Bond
both sides of the Beltway. Lookout in and outbound. Oh,
play the home game with me. Four one six, two
ninety inbound at Zennate. I'm looking at the stall. That's
something in the hov on two ninety at the Beltway.
Victoria from Cyprus. You started all this. We were the
first to know. Look at these backups. Now from Hotmeister

(01:48:20):
inbound you lose about sixteen minutes on the T ninety
the Northwest Freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
Checking the North Freeway Rayford Sawdust. We had that reck.
It's been cleared a while.

Speaker 4 (01:48:28):
It's still a forty two minute drag coming down from
Conroe Gladstealp. Not much for not much for alternates with
the Hardy bond problem eastex Elevated Lawler. Nothing good's going
on in the feeder. Main lanes are getting by that
just fine, and check you right in from nineteen sixty
twenty four minutes on your southbound I'm Skymike. It's your
Ability Tree Experts.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four
hour where the centre Terry Smith is here. We've got
the roller coaster is in effect. We're going to be
going way up on the roller coaster Saturday, and then
by Monday we're gonna be way down that hill.

Speaker 19 (01:49:04):
Weee.

Speaker 28 (01:49:05):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (01:49:06):
Everybody put your hands in the air like we don't care.

Speaker 18 (01:49:09):
It is going to be cold love Sunday Monday, all right.
So today, today's a little bit cooler. Today's kind of
like the warm up, so to speak, for the cooler weather.
Temperatures today mid upper sixties. It's really quite nice for December.
Actually Tomorrow still sunny, still dry, getting much warmer though,

(01:49:30):
mid upper seventies. We start to get the rain Saturday
and forty percent chance of showers some thunder. We're in
the load of mid seventies Saturday, so it's still pleasant.
Sunday begins the downward hill. Thirty percent chance of some
rain Sunday morning. Highs on Sunday upper fifties to low sixties.

(01:49:51):
Monday Sunday and dry, but temperatures in the mid to
upper fifties Monday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
Man right now forty three at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH I Sugar lanb be
prepared for a wild Houston weather. Next on the ten
on seven forty KTRH seven fifty is our time. We're
to talk with the pastor Dureaux. He's with Saint Jude
Children's Research Hospital. He kind of works here out of Houston,

(01:50:20):
so it's kind of interesting to get that perspective of
him being in Houston working with the folks in Memphis, Tennessee,
that kind of synergy and how all that works. We'll
talk to him next. I do want to remind you
that our Saint Jude Radiothon is being presented by Gallery
Furniture and we would love you to become a partner
and hope just cost nineteen bucks a month and to
help kids at Saint Jude fight cancer. This is where

(01:50:40):
kids who have exhausted the medical opportunities at the hospital.
They would normally go to the physicians they would normally see.
This is where the worst cases go. And these families
don't have to worry about spending money on anything, and
that is a burden that we like to We really
love being to help to take that burden away from families.
It's simple to make a donation. You can either call

(01:51:02):
one eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. That's
eight hundred five eight eight fourteen thirty three. Or if
you prefer a text, that's great, just text the word
kids kids to six two six two six two. That's
kids to six two six two sixty two. Is a
thank you. We'll send you a T shirt in the
Saint Jude Hoodie. Traffic and weather together before we talk

(01:51:23):
to pastor. But that means you sky Mike, Keep it short,
Keep short. It's forty five southbound. We cleared the wreck
in the Woodlands at Rayford.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
If you're under two forty two, stay the course behind
two forty two you're packed. From Gladsdale. I'm in the
Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour weather
Center Sunday about sixty eight today, part of the Cloudie
warm seventy six tomorrow right now forty four at your
officials severe weather station News Radio seven forty k TRH.
It's get get caught up on some more of our
top stories on Thursday.

Speaker 5 (01:51:54):
Here's clip sponsored by Kelsey Sea Bowl Clinic watching for
key congressional votes on healthcare form. Today, President Trump speaks
with European leaders about the war between Russia and Ukraine
and Arizona Cardinals fans officially flagged as the heaviest drinkers.

Speaker 6 (01:52:10):
In the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:52:11):
Well, if you had watched that football program exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:52:14):
Get the latest news anytime at KGRH dot com. Our
next update is that eight.

Speaker 6 (01:52:19):
I live in Pasadena Sharptown Southwest.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
Next on the ten time saving traffic on seven forty
kt right man, I can't believe it's already that time
of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
That's how that's how we mark time around here by
certain events that happened, and one of them is the
Saint Jude Radio bon and it it seems like we
were just doing it and here we are again. Pastor
giro joins us. He's based here in Houston, worked with
Saint Jude Tiln's Research Hospital. What's your title again, pastor?
Hang on? Here's his microphone? Please? All right?

Speaker 15 (01:52:50):
There you go?

Speaker 3 (01:52:51):
Okay, so up down, senior advisor. Hang on. That sounds
like a promotion. This is the last time I talked
to you.

Speaker 6 (01:52:56):
Well, they all are so just glad, glad to be
able to help out.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Guess new title, same pay, same pastor's same pastor. That's
the most important thing. How important is something like this?
These fundraisers for Saint Jude that you pretty much, well
almost one hundred percent depend on these, don't you.

Speaker 6 (01:53:13):
That's right.

Speaker 22 (01:53:14):
So families never received a bill from Saint Jude for treatment, travel, housing,
our food, so that a family can just help their
child live, and so we want to help them to
focus on that. We want to take off the burden
because when you're sick with cancer, of course, it impacts everybody, right,
and so our families don't have to worry about that
they can be next to their child helping them get better.
And we can't do that without your listeners, without the

(01:53:35):
public helping us to keep the lights on and put
food on the table.

Speaker 3 (01:53:38):
You always loved the story about Saint Drede got started
with Danny Thomas. You know, he just kind of made
a little prayer. You know, Lord, I'm I'm trying to
get into this entertainment business. Help me along, and I will,
I will, I will give you a big payback. And
he certainly did, didn't he.

Speaker 22 (01:53:51):
And it's his first job was on the radio station
as a singing toothbrush. And Danny kept this promise. So
one guy made one promise and he kept it, and
that was in nineteen sixty to and from then we've
been able to treat over eighty five hundred active patients.

Speaker 3 (01:54:04):
I was going to say, how much has Saint Judgejildn's
rastart to hospital? How have things changed there since nineteen
sixty two? For one thing, a lot of cancer cures
and treatments have been bound, haven't they?

Speaker 22 (01:54:12):
Well, from twenty percent which was a survival rate when
the hospital first opened its doors, to eighty percent now
and the most common form of cancer. At Q, lymphoblastic
leukemia had a four percent survival rate. Today we're north
of ninety four percent. But you know what that means,
there's still six kids, six percent of kids that don't
survive the most common form of cancer, and that's not okay.

Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
And we wanted to mention that because that's that's in
addition to helping these families, that's where the money goes
that Saint Jude raises is under that research button. I
think Saint Jude Jolnes's Research Hospital has done more for
cancer treatments that I think any other hospital in the
entire country.

Speaker 22 (01:54:50):
Listen, the research part of our name is really important, right,
because our doctors are able to go from the lab
to bedside to help kids with the most unique with
the most common form of cancer. They're able to help
bring that survival rate up, and then we share that
research freely, right, not just here locally, but nationally in international.

Speaker 3 (01:55:08):
Yeah, it's pretty amazing what you folks do. Again, we
want to remind everybody that's where the money goes. Charity
Navigator has given you guys about as higher rating as
you could possibly get.

Speaker 6 (01:55:16):
That's right, and we loved the support of the public,
and we put those fonts to good use.

Speaker 3 (01:55:22):
Here's how you can donate. Call one eight hundred five
eight eight fourteen thirty three. That's eight hundred five eight
eight fourteen thirty three. Or text Kids Kids to six
two six two six two. You get a T shirt,
you get a Saint Jude hoodie. It's just nineteen dollars
a month. You can put it right on the credit card.
I've dropped the credit card every month. Simple easy. You'll
spend more on that on breakfast tomorrow morning. I guarantee it.

Speaker 22 (01:55:44):
You can make your donation in honor of the state
of the healthy kid in your life, because you never
know when it could happen to ninety of us.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
Well said, passor thank you, y'all have a great day.
We'll see you tomorrow morning early five. Hope to see
you the staff from at four run am nine p
fifty KPRC