Fort Bend County Schools Agree That Parents Should Know If Their Child Switches Genders

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 04/15/25.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven KATI RH Houston five everywhere
with now the latest.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
News, weather and traffic.

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It's more of what.

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Matters to you from the John Morris Services studios.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Well, good morning, five am is our time here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
as we get started this morning, Fort Benn County schools
agree that parents need to know if their child wants
to switch their gender identity. El Salvador won't give that
Maryland man back, and for good reason. He's illegal. And
coming up at five oh eight, Vice President Vance picks

(00:39):
up the Ohio State National Championship trophy and then bad
things happen. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
Morning News. First, let's check out the morning Drive for
the first time. The skuy Mike, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Hey Jimmy, good morning. We've got direct connector problems. This
is the one that goes from the North Loop and
also two ninety that direct connector that takes you to
the Katie five. So what are you supposed to do
now that's completely shut down.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
There's nothing good happening.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
It's some kind of wreck right at the end of
the Connector before it gets on to the KD Freeway.
So let's head down the south Loop and bust a
U turn at Wood Way.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That's the best I can do for you right now.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
If KTIE Freeway is a better option, let's do that instead.
I'm Skymike Atcher USA Rvresorts dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center.
Becoming mostly cloudy with HI today right about eighty. We'll
get you the complete forecast with Terry Smith of the
Weather Channel in about nine minutes right now sixty four
at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It's time now for the news. He's back.
Here's Cliffs Onders.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
Thank you, Jimmy. Good morning every one, five oh one
on KTRH our top story.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
You're asking for school districts to allow boys to go
into girls' bathrooms as your pasta.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
Is this acceptable? And with that, Fort Bendias, do you
approves a policy eliminating bathroom and sports access based on
biological sex? In other words, no boys in girls sports.
It also requires staff to notify parents if a student
wants to change sexual identity. This triggered opponents.

Speaker 8 (02:15):
This policy is not about education, safety or even parental rights.
It is about imposing a singular worldview on every student,
every family, every teacher.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
The vote was five to two. Similar policies are in
place at Katie and sci Fair isds in Austin. The
Texas House debates school choice tomorrow. SB two, already passed
by the Senate, would establish education savings accounts of up
to ten thousand dollars per student. Coming up on five
h three more success in the crackdown on illegal immigration.

(02:48):
Two illegals arrested in Montgomery County yesterday, charged with the
sexual assault of a fourteen year old girl near Houston
last month.

Speaker 9 (02:57):
Where are those numbers not on the media?

Speaker 10 (02:59):
Well, they get up with the fake news. You know.

Speaker 11 (03:01):
Let CNN over here doesn't want to put him out
because they don't like they don't like putting out good numbers.
They who like putting up because I think they hate
our country here.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
Yeah, President Trump putting CNN on blast yesterday for not
talking about the success the administration has had at the border.
Here also confronted CNN reporter and host Caitlyn Collins. He
was hosting El Salvador's president, who says he will not
return a man deported despite orders from the US Supreme Court.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says, this is all l Salvador's call.

Speaker 12 (03:34):
If he wanted a plane flight, we could give him
a plane flight, but we cannot effectuate it, meaning making
it happen, which is what the district Court had originally ruled.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
The administration says Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of
MS thirteen. Meantime, a federal judge appoints appointed rather by
Barack Obama, blocks the administration from revoking the legal status
and work permits of more than five hundred and thirty
three thousand illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, all

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of whom flew into the US during Joe Biden's time
in office. Now, even though radical left federal judges continue
to overstep their power, some conservatives say impeachment is not
the answer, and that.

Speaker 13 (04:18):
Includes Texas based attorney and legal expert Jeremy Rosenthal.

Speaker 14 (04:23):
A federal judge to be impeached has to commit a
high crime or misdemeanor, and I don't agree with you
about this opinion is not really.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Going to be good enough.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
He says, it's ultimately about the better good.

Speaker 14 (04:34):
If a judge is doing something improper inappropriate the legal criminal,
then impeachment would be appropriate.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
What's really critical in America.

Speaker 14 (04:42):
Today, more than anything, is that we have faith in.

Speaker 13 (04:44):
Our courts, faith that is hopefully being restored with Trump
back in office. Touff Biggs News Radio seven forty K
Tier five h five.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
China reportedly stops exporting several rare earth minerals crucial to
make certain products in the tech, automobile, aerospace, and defense industries.
This comes as the US wants to work out a
deal with the Chinese.

Speaker 15 (05:08):
President has been very clear that he's willing to talk
to his counterpart and that he expects that at some
point we'll have talks.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
Trade Representative Jamison Greer on Fox the President is also
getting tough on trade, and some in Congress, though, want
to go even.

Speaker 16 (05:21):
For Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany is introduced a buill to
withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization. Tiffany accuses
the WTO of hindering fair trade by favoring China, and
President Trump agrees.

Speaker 9 (05:32):
That started with the World Trade Organization, which was owned
by China. It was owned and paid for by China.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
They didn't even have to do things.

Speaker 9 (05:39):
They considered them a nation that was undevelopment.

Speaker 16 (05:43):
Congressman Tiffany argues that leaving the WTO would benefit America
by allowing us to negotiate fair trade deals without influence
from China. Coryolson News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Tariffs are causing volatility in the markets, so money an
expert to money and investment expert Derek Kinney says, until
their certainty, you can expect the roller coaster to continue.

Speaker 17 (06:03):
Investment managers can't take action and it's going to lead
to worry and frustration or hard working investors.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Yeah, futures are flat this morning after getting three hundred
and twelve points yesterday. Oil selling at sixty one dollars
in fifteen cents a barrel. The House approved a framework
for the President's Big Beautiful Bill last week, but there's
still a long way to go before it passes.

Speaker 18 (06:29):
This is a critical first step towards making the top
priorities of Trump's agenda a reality.

Speaker 19 (06:34):
In this bill, we are going to cebmit so many
of the promises we made on the Gampan trail and
check so many of the boxes of the America First Agenda.

Speaker 18 (06:42):
That's how Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox He says the
next step is to unify Republicans in support of the bill.

Speaker 19 (06:47):
We have to get the Senate Republicans and a House
Republicans virtually every single one of them aligned to make
sure that while we extend the tax cuts, we also
pay for them.

Speaker 18 (06:55):
Johnson says the next five to six weeks are going
to be a critical negotiating period for the final bill.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
At five O seven, the Astros lose to the Cardinals
eight to three, and the Rockets find out who they
play in the playoffs Tonight after the playing game between
Golden State and Memphis. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News
Weather in traffic station KGRH.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Let's start with the good news here about Ohio State University.
And you realize I'm not an Ohio State fan. I
root for that other team from up north when the
two play each other. But that's okay, that's all right
for the purposes of our program. I'm going to maintain
neutrality here and give them credit. First of all, the
team went, and as far as they know, the whole

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team went. I don't think there are any conscientious objectors
who didn't show up to this. The entire team which
won the national championship in college football visited the White
House to celebrate the national championship. That has traditioned to
do so. But as you know, when President Trump is
the president, not everybody shows up for these things. But
they did. And of course Vice President JD. Vance was

(08:07):
also there, a man I also respect, despite the fact
that he is a graduate of Ohio State and a
super fan of the Buckeyes. Again, I'm being magnanimous here,
but evidently somebody didn't bother to tell the Vice president

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how the National Championship trophy works. See, it looks like
it's one piece, but it's not. It's a I don't
know what it is. It kind of looks like a
fluted horn, kind of a you know thing that sits
on top of a base. You know, that has a
little hole at the bottom of the of the main

(08:51):
part of the trophy that you slip onto the base
and the base will hold it up. So it's standing upright.
So if you want to lift the trophy, you you
need to do one of two things. You either just
need to pick up the flu to horn looking thing
and pull it out of its base and hold it
in your hands, or you have to secure the base

(09:17):
underneath one hand and the part, you know, the other
part of the trophy with your other hand. It's it's
it's a two handed thing. Vice President of VANCE, not
knowing evidently the construction of the National Championship Trophy, proceeded
to lift up the entire trophy. He did grab the

(09:37):
base with his left hand, but he didn't have He
wasn't secure. You could tell he wasn't expecting the two
to separate from each other. The bottom part that has
the description you know for Ohio State and all that part.
That part he fumbled. I think it's okay. He didn't
look like it was broken. The other part. Nothing bad
happened there. The two arts of the trophy were reunited,

(10:02):
and he went ahead and got through it. Slightly embarrassed,
but that's okay. Five ten tied for traffic and blathers
together claw.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
I mean, that's kind of dumb. It's too catchable, right,
it is.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, yeah, concerning the fact that it's like any other trophy,
like the Stanley Cup trophy or any other trophy, people
are going to hoist it, right, so you should all
stick together.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
That's a good thing. He wasn't skating or something. Let's
check this problem on the direct connector. This is two ninety.
Nothing good's happening there. I'll just go right with it now.
And I don't want to talk about it being fatal anymore,
but it was. It was an overturn. This is the
direct connector that's designed to get you easily from two
ninety to.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
The North Loops six y ten.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
The problem with that is the direct Connector is just
two lanes, and so it's both of those two lanes
shut down. It's an overturned vehicle dropped at three something
this morning. So I think it'll be with us through
much of our drive this morning. And the thing to
do if you're coming over from the Heights or Garden
os some on the North Loop six y ten, or
if you're coming from two to ninety, just take the

(11:01):
signs that take you to the west Loop, like you
were going to uptown.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Take the west Loop and you can do a U.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Turn at post up might be the easiest one, So
this is going to be a problem for much of
your morning.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
I'm Skymike at.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Your USA Rbresorts dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
From r KTRH top tax Devenders twenty four hour wather Center.
Terry Smith is here. Looks like we're gonna have a
few clouds today that'll least will break up all the sunshine.

Speaker 20 (11:26):
Hey, yes, we'll have a few clouds and a little
bit of a northerly breeze. So temperatures today are slightly
cooler than what we had yesterday, but that doesn't last long.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
They start to warm back.

Speaker 20 (11:39):
Up every day the rest of the weekending a little
bit warmer, dry through Friday, upper seventies to low eighties today,
load to mid eighties Tomorrow, Thursday mid to upper eighties,
Friday mid eighties to low nineties.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
Saturday.

Speaker 20 (11:55):
There's a slight chance of a shower too, mainly for
our northern suburbs. But there's a better chance of getting
wet on Easter Sunday and perhaps in a Monday of
next week.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Right now sixty nine at your officials Severe Weather Station
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
It's Houston's Morning News brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barrits had the Houston
Morning News team all the info you need.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
To take on the day. So evidently the Texas legislatures
considering doing some kind of dogey things in Austin. What
are those being that Maybe it would be better for
the budget, and maybe it would be better for serving
the residents of the great State of Texas. If we
didn't have all these state agencies based in Texas, what

(12:40):
if we moved them to the places most likely to
be impacted by what they do? For example, the Texas
Texas Wind Insurance Association. If you have a wind to
hail and win policy with them, they're located in Austin. Well,
why are they taking up pricey real estate in Austin
when most of the problems that they have to cover
on the coast wouldn't be better if they were like

(13:02):
in Galveston or some place like that. We'll have more
that story coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather
together as we check out the drive once again with
sky Mine.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
All right, this is a fatality on the direct connector.
This is the direct connector from two to ninety and
the north Loop that takes you down to IT ten.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
If you're coming in.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
From the Northwest Freeway, are you coming in on six ten?

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Here's the deal. Just take the west Loop southbound.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
I'm not sure if that wood Way if Woodway re
routes re enters the west Loop six ten. So let's
go to post Oke. Go down to post Oke on
the west Loop bus to you, it's an easy U
turn and get back up to iten. That's how you
can get on your Kdie Freeway again. That direct connector
that's an overturned completely shut.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Down, and it's going to be like that for the
next couple hours.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
I'm skywikeel the USA Rbresorts dot Com traffic center from
r KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Mix of sun and clouds today with a high temperature
about eighty hardly cloudy, breezy eighty four tomorrow and then
the third day partly cutty, warm and windy with high
eighty six. Right now, current temperature sixty nine. At your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're
checking out some more of our top stories here on
this Wednesday morning here's Cliff.

Speaker 6 (14:14):
Thank you, Jimmy. Five twenty two. The team charged with
stabbing and killing another team in Plano is free after
his bond was lowered. The Trump administration freezes two point
two billion dollars in grants to Harvard And Today, April fifteenth,
tax day deadline. Either file your taxes or file for an.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Extension wipe prolong the agony.

Speaker 6 (14:37):
Just file. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update is at five thirty.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Team Joe looking for corruption versus ten Madness Federal judge.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Has Waltz flap drooped access.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Stay in the game with US Radio seven forty KZRH.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
What in the world did you do? Sir? Five twenty
three is time here on Houston's morning news. Okay, the
example in this KPRC two story that they did yesterday
is about the Texas Wind Insurance Association. These are the
people who are the ones that write policies if you
have to have beach property, for example, write policies for

(15:18):
you know, wind and hail damage. You can't get wind
in hail coverage generally speaking with your normal homeowners insurance
policy and need this special coverage. And it is Ick
Spence SIEV take it from someone who's got it. It's expensive,
but would it be better if the TWYA was located
in let's say, Gobbleston instead of Austin, because after all,
those are the people who need the help. Here's the

(15:40):
report from KPRC two.

Speaker 21 (15:43):
Jim Wade is fighting to get the condo building where
he owns three units back to where it once was.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Nine months after Hurricane Barrel.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
We had to go borrow money to consue the work
to spend.

Speaker 21 (15:54):
Wade's fight is against the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, better
known as TWEA, and it is a surreal one for him.
You see, he was a member of twea's board over
twenty years ago. The association is based in the shadows
of the Texas Capital.

Speaker 22 (16:11):
There's no reason why you couldn't relocate multiple functions, decentralize everything.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Out of Austin.

Speaker 21 (16:18):
The potential for relocation of government offices from Austin is
part of a legislative push to save taxpayer dollars. Small
business owners along with elected officials I spoke with, we're
on the same page.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
I think it's a great idea.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
I think it's overdue. It makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 21 (16:36):
Gray Hunt is the executive director of the Houston Police
Officers Union and a former member of the Texas Commission
on Law Enforcement.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Tea Cole right now is renting office space and non
state building.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
It's very, very expensive.

Speaker 21 (16:49):
In fact, we found a previous for lease advertisement for
the building that t Cole lists as its office address
on their website. It's miles away from the capitol, but
smack in the heart of the most expensive city in Texas.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Most of the people who work at Tea Coole don't
live in Austin because they can't afford to live in Austin.

Speaker 21 (17:09):
Aside from saving taxpayers dollars, a potential relocation for say
the likes of a TWEA means having workers with a
personal connection in an area devastated by the winds of
a named storm.

Speaker 22 (17:23):
They'd have a better understanding of what we have to
go through when a storm impacts the area.

Speaker 21 (17:28):
But while a potential relocation is being pushed, one pivotal
question remains about this concept.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Do you think it will make business more efficient? I
would think so.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
That'd be more responsive.

Speaker 22 (17:45):
Than not having to wait on getting someone out of
Austin to come down and see what the problem was.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, why does everybody have to be in Austin? It's
the most is the report just said, it's the most
expensive city in Texas. Why not go where the real
estate is a little bit cheaper. Unless you are a
direct government agency that depends on the legislature, you've got
to be right there in order to be able to
deal with with lawmakers. Then why do you have to

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be in Austin? Five twenty six? Now time to take
a look at your money is check in with Jeff
Bellinger and.

Speaker 23 (18:18):
Jimmy Good Morning.

Speaker 24 (18:19):
This report is sponsored by Total Wine and more stocks
advanced at the start of the holiday shortened trading week,
President Trump fueled some optimism when he floated the possibility
of a temporary tariff reprieve for important vehicles and auto parts.
Gains for the major averages range from six tenths percent
to eight tens percent. Stock market futures are modestly higher

(18:40):
at this early hour, and Lowe's has struck a deal
to acquire the Texas based interior services provider Artisan Design Group,
the home improvement chain looking to do more business with
professional contractors. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

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You are Houston's News.

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Why there were traffic plus Preaking news twenty four to seven.
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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Five thirty is our time. You're in Houston's Warning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett bong Our top stories this f hour,
bond reduced for that accused high school track killer Erkant
upstill tricity demand for Texas and coming up at five
thirty eight, there are some tax day freebies today, not
that that's going to make you feel a whole lot better.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Warning News

(19:37):
next day. First, Yes, guy, Mike, you had your taxes
have to be a mess. You've got a little independent
business than you do.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, I'm going crazy today. Let's go to the direct connector.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
If you're trying to come in to the Katie Freeway
from two ninety or the North Loop, You've got a
whole new set of problems here. Direct connectors shut down.
That reck's been there since three this morning. Nothing good's
happening there. It's shut down. So if you coming in
from two ninety or the North Loop, let's go down
like you're going to the Galleria Westops southbound, busting U
turn at Post Oke Nord Sam Fairbanks westbound. You see

(20:09):
that on your traffic map.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's nothing.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Eighteen wheeler over on the side. Nobody cares. Advisor's talk
to me, ay, sky.

Speaker 26 (20:15):
Mike ninety all Tonate going from Highway six out to Richmond.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
It's getting patchy, fogged, and it.

Speaker 10 (20:21):
Is real thick in some spots.

Speaker 14 (20:23):
Man, you'll be terriful out here.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
All right, We're gonna have a little talk quit Terry
at five forty.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Our k TRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center
mixes sun and clouds. Today looks like about eighty for
the high temperature. We'll check out the rest of the week. Forecast.
Looks like easter Sunday will be the best chance for rain,
doesn't that figure. We'll get you the very latest from
Terry Smith when we talked to her in eight minutes.
Right now, it is sixty nine and your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k trh it's time

(20:54):
for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
Thank you, Jimmy. Our top story at five thirty two.
Another accused killer is walking around free. The teenager charged
in the stabbing death of another teenager, Austin Metcalf.

Speaker 27 (21:07):
It's important for everyone to stay in their lane, and
our lane was to argue that the judge should keep
it at one million. The court decided to reduce it
down to two hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Collin County DA Greg Willison Fox. We told you last
week that crowd funding for Carmelo Anthony, the accused that
raised one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That number almost
triple that now. Bail reform, a priority item for Governor
Rabbit and the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, passed the Texas
Senate a month ago. The House has yet to move

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on it, but a House committee did take up a
second amendment rights bill removing short term barrel short barrel
firearms from the state's list of prohibited weapons.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Short barreled rifle.

Speaker 28 (21:47):
It's much lighter, it's much easier to handle, as much
easier to utilize, whether it is hunting or self defense.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Kyle Caruth is with gun owners of America five point
thirty three. Despite property tax reform passed by the legislature
two years ago, many Texans so o their bills go up.
That's due to high local government spending, something the Texas
legislature is now trying to get a handle on.

Speaker 10 (22:13):
Until you get the spending problem under control, what the
legislature is doing on the tax side is only going
to have a partial effect.

Speaker 6 (22:21):
James Quintero at the Texas Public Policy Foundation says imposing
spending limits on local jurisdictions is a necessary step towards
fixing this. Again, the Senate has acted, the House is not.
Urkott Mean time has significantly increased its electricity demand estimate
by forty percent for twenty thirty.

Speaker 29 (22:42):
They project data center growth will push demand over two
hundred thousand megawatts.

Speaker 30 (22:47):
Showing just how much commerce and businesses are coming to
the states in which all comes with electricity need.

Speaker 29 (22:53):
Brad Johnson of the Texans says the Senate has a
bill to combat this, but we just need more power.

Speaker 30 (22:58):
The state definitely knows this the problem, and they're not
shying away from it or not. The PUC not the legislature,
of course, they're different opinions on how exactly to address this.

Speaker 29 (23:07):
Senate Bill six would establish guidelines for data center interconnection,
which the industry says with stimy growth. Andre Perard News
Radio seven forty KTRH five thirty four.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
The Trump administration pulls sixty four million dollars in federal
funding for the high speed rail project between Houston and Dallas.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says private investors should take the lead.
Even though the left continues to protest they have zero
answers for the latest doze. Discovery get ready for this

(23:39):
two hundred and fifty four million dollars worth of unemployment
insurance claims for people under the age of five. Scott
Powell with the Discovery Institute says this is just hypocrisy.

Speaker 31 (23:52):
Obama was the one who initiated this and it was applauded.
But because it comes from Donald Trump, the enemy, and
they don't even know why he's the enemy, they cannot
believe that any good will comes out of Donald Trump,
or that anything he says is worth listening to, and
so they don't listen.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
Meantime, a man is arrested in New Mexico charged with
attacks on a Tesla dealership and a state Republican Party
office said say.

Speaker 32 (24:15):
Surveillance video caught Jamison Wagner torching both a Tesla showroom
and the GOP headquarters in Albuquerque. FBI director Cash Mattel
credited ATF investigators for linking Jamison too the firebombing of
both locations. At Tesla, police found a intact ied filled
with a flammable liquid and graffiti saying die elon Tesla,

(24:38):
Nazi Inc. And the swastika on the building and six vehicles.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
William Longenes reporting now Musk and Tesla have been targeted
by leftists for months. Those are the same radicals that
are also telling Tesla owners to give up their cars.

Speaker 33 (24:54):
But will they That's more talks than anything. Help people
who love their Teslos love their Teslas. I mean they're
very loyal to the brand, buy and large. Most people
are hanging on to them and they liked them.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
Yeah, but there are a few that Jerry Reynald says
are hitting the market five point thirty six. We've told
you about fake job openings in the past. Now we're
seeing a rise in fake job candidates thanks to AI.

Speaker 23 (25:19):
Employers are finding that some applicants are deep faked artificial
intelligence directed CVS photos, even deep fake face and voice
for Zoom interviews. Cyber expert Paul Peters says it could
be a huge waste of time and it's another reason
to include it people in more business meetings, as well
as getting into new areas for fighting cybercrime, which is

(25:42):
on the rise.

Speaker 34 (25:43):
I would definitely recommend biometric identification, authentication access controls DIF
things like that that companies can do on a front end.

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Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty ktrs.

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And here's a warning for those of you thinking of retiring,
it might not be good for your health, especially if
you're not really ready to give up the grind of
nine to five.

Speaker 23 (26:02):
If you're going to retire and make sure you have
something else to do, Susie lose purpose, So sous we
lose reason.

Speaker 33 (26:07):
For being around. That's when we.

Speaker 23 (26:09):
Start to our age starts to really catch up with us,
we start to die.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
Doctor Matt Chalmer says it doesn't have to be work,
but it can be a hobby or volunteering. And the
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Speaker 23 (26:25):
So it's a little bit different.

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Every day is different.

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The story is a little bit different. Different things are
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It's the source. It's the same, always been the same.

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Use Radio seven forty KTRH. What a strange song to
play on Text Day?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Five thirty eight is our time here in Houston's sporting
are some freeview's connected to text Day. Not that this
will make you feel any better, especially if you haven't
gotten your taxes quite done yet and you're doing them
yourself and you're feeling the pressure. Chrispy Kreme has a
buy one, get one deal by a dozen donuts. You
pay only the sales tax for a second dozen of
the original Lade Burger king one cent cheese burgers. Why

(27:03):
not just make it free. You have to be a
Royal Perks member and go through their app. You get
one cheese burger for a penny if you spend at
least a buck. Shake Shack we have those free black
truffle burgers with the promotional code Truffle tags. You have
to spend at least ten dollars and forty cents. Oh
is in ten w Yeah, it's in ten forties, Okay,

(27:24):
I got it. Seven to eleven has a delivery deal.
The code right off gets you a ten dollars forty
cent off your delivery if you spend at least twenty
bucks through the app. Hooters has a discount on appetizers
through the app Tapril fifteen, so you can get one
appetizer for four fifteen four dollars and fifteen cents. And

(27:44):
Potbelly has a buy one, get one sandwich deal with
the promo code Bogo, as in buy one, get one,
buy one original sandwich, and get a second one free.
Of course, none of these things, like I said, necessarily
make you feel a better. I'm a little giddy this year.
I have to admit I'm getting a refund that so
rarely happens. I think this is the second refund I've

(28:04):
had in maybe the last ten fifteen years. So, and
trust me what I say, I had to lose a
lot of money to qualify for a refund. So I
really shouldn't be that happy about getting a refund, right
because if you're getting a refund, you either have allowed
the government to have your money to use for free
for the entire year, or you have taken a big

(28:26):
loss on something else. So it's you. You're not really
gaining anything, are you? Five forty? Time for traffic and
weather together?

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Man?

Speaker 2 (28:34):
As we check out the drive again, are your tax
is done? Kind of mine?

Speaker 5 (28:37):
I just keep thinking this, you know, this weekend Eastern
Family backyard. We're going to put it into the stress.
But just just just get through today, all right? Big
problem here. Listen up, guys. If you're coming in from
two to nine, you're coming in from the North Cliff.
The direct connectors completely shut down. Normally you take that.
It makes me nervous because it's two lanes in a wall.
I don't I don't like to be confined like that.

(28:57):
But it's completely shut down the from two ninety also
the entrance from the North Loop sixteen.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I did share that with my friends on TV. Here's
the deal. Just go down the West Loop like you're
heading to the Galleria Duke Post. Ok.

Speaker 5 (29:09):
It's a very easy U turn. In fact, you have
your own little dedicated lane there. That's the best way
to get back on the Kdie Freeway. Some of you
with the online those cute little apps, you're seeing this
wreck on the North sand with a truck westbound at
two forty nine. Don't worry, it's nothing. It's over on
the side. We do have some interesting things going on there.
I think I've got a Southwest Freeway problem, dude.

Speaker 35 (29:29):
I'm my fifty nine northbound just before the Green Bar exit.

Speaker 10 (29:34):
There's been called.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
All right, that's it, that's inbound. That's the Southwest Freeway.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
I turned myself down, and Terry, we've had a little
issue out on the visor side of the world.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
That would be ninety, would be ninety. Let's try it again.

Speaker 35 (29:49):
Got my forty five south hidden inbound from Jayhoo's past.
He's doing ninety miles an now got pulled over, rob
before away first, all those roads flashing light?

Speaker 5 (29:59):
All right, Dave, that's a watch out that sawdus. Here's
our ninety problem.

Speaker 35 (30:03):
Hashy fog and it is real thick in some spots.

Speaker 14 (30:06):
Man, get me Terribul out.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Here, all right, watch out all around here. It doesn't
show up on radar.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
I'm Skymike the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
You have to expect to hear about fog from our
KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center. Terry's here.
You'd expect to hear about that either, did you?

Speaker 20 (30:20):
No, I didn't, So I went and looked, and sure enough,
Wharton's got about a quarter mile visibility, Bay City about
a half mile visibility. Those are the only places I'm
seeing fog being reported at the moment, So I guess
the closer you are to Galveston Bay, you may see
a little bit of fog. We do have some clouds

(30:41):
this morning, but once the sun comes up and the
winds start to kick in, we'll get some dryer air
in here. So it's going to be a mix of
sun and clouds today and it's going to stay like
that through Friday.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
Saturday, there's a slight chance of a shower and that
is it.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
For rain this week.

Speaker 20 (30:59):
Temperatures to are cooler, and then after today they just
get warmer and warmer. Upper seventies to low eighties today,
load to mid eighties Tomorrow, mid to upper eighties Thursday
and Friday from the mid eighties to the low nineties.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Temperature currently is let me double check it here since
the last time I looked sixty four Now at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TIH.
What you need to know for the day ahead.

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Speaker 2 (31:33):
Oh, I'll tell you what the evil geniuses that are
on the progressive left never seemingly never come to an
end of ideas and how they can fleece us out
of more money. Even at the local level, Harris County
is looking to enact a climate justice plan that would
promote a new greenhouse gas tax, promote DEI and they're

(31:54):
also talking about maybe income based property taxes and rent controls.
Good Lord, is the Is there any way the state
legislature can prevent all these things from happening? Other other
localities are proposing bonds and working with n goos in
order to circumvent Texas law. They never stop and we

(32:15):
never seem to be able to keep up with them.
More on that story with James Quintero, a policy director
of the Texas Public Policy Foundation In just a moment,
but first, traffic and weather together, Starting with the U
S guy Mike.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
QW ninety, the direct connector from two ninety and the
north loops totally shut down. Go to the west Loop
bus to U turn at Post to downtown East text
Alex Tarkington.

Speaker 35 (32:32):
Yes, Mike, it's nine northbound at George R.

Speaker 22 (32:37):
Brown left, two lane closed the two car accident angleenth
on Thine.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
All right, I see we're all backed up from the canyon. Alex.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
That's a banana sticker for your egg jacket. And I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
R ktr H Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center
for today. Mix of sun and clouds looks like about
eighty for the High Harley. Cloudy, breezy, eighty four tomorrow
and then Thursday partly cloudy, warm and windy with I
temperature of eighty six, current temperature sixty four at your
officials severe weather station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time

(33:10):
to get you caught up on some of our I
think I said Wednesday early is Tuesday. It's only Tuesday
Morning's tax day. Here's clip.

Speaker 6 (33:16):
That's why you're all messed up because it's tax day.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Another local school district passes a common sense gender policy.
Bail is denied for the man charged with arson connected
to the fire at the residents of Pennsylvania Governor Josh
Shapiro and Jimmy despite living in Ireland anti trumper Rosie
O'Donnell's Irish citizenship application has yet to be approved. They

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What's happening on Youth Radio seven forty JGRH, Well, they're trying.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Five fifty two is our time here in Houston Morning News.
We're joined by James Wintero, policy director of the Texas
Public Policy Foundation. There are seemingly no end to what
the far left will do to try to circumvent Texas
law and the Texas legislature and get their hands on
more tax money.

Speaker 10 (34:15):
That's exactly right, Jimmy, good morning. Leftist local governments love
to spend your money on all sorts of things. They're
very activist at the local level, and it's one reason
why we're pushing hard at the legislature to preempt what
they're trying to do and rain them in, focus them
on core services, get them back to basics, not only

(34:38):
because it's good for the Texas economy, but also because
the more activists they are, the more money they cost us,
and the more released, the more tax relief we all
lose in the process.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, some of these municipalities are turning to bonds. And
then you have Harris County, which seems to be very creative.
I don't know if you've heard me mention before the
break here they have this climate Justice plan where they're
proposing to do greenhouse gas tax, they're promoting DEI, which
I know the governor is not going to be very
happy with. And they're recommending income based property taxes and
rent controls. Are they even allowed by Texas law to

(35:14):
change the property tax formula to income based?

Speaker 10 (35:18):
No? You know, county governments actually are supposed to do
very few and defined things. But you have activist local
leaders in office who think it's a platform for them
to make a name for themselves and try and move
on to the next level. And I can tell you
that a lot of this activism is really frustrating people

(35:39):
at the at the capitol right now. And here's one
reason why. Two years ago the legislature passed a historic
measure of tax relief. They devoted eighteen billion dollars to
buying down everyone's property taxes. It was supposed to get
the average person about thirteen hundred dollars in relief that
was supposed to last a while. Well, turns out we

(36:01):
all convened in January and everyone acknowledges that that that
relief that was provided two years ago is gone. And
what happened is it effectively turned into a subsidy for
your cities and your counties and your special districts. So
we have folks at the local level who don't understand
that when the legislature provides tax relief, that's not a

(36:24):
signal to raise your rates, to issue big bonds, to
use certificates of obligation, and do all the rest. They
need to give folks a time out, and unfortunately they
didn't do that this time. It's really causing a lot
of frustration, and I think it's going to lead to
some pretty good, strong tax reforms to rein in what

(36:46):
they can do on the tax side.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Why do I always get the billiing though that there
are one step ahead of conservatives, always one step ahead.
They're probably already thinking up there were working two moves ahead.
They're like Trump, only they're work for the far left.
They're big, they're doing things two moves, they add, Well.

Speaker 10 (37:05):
You're right, they are. You know. One of the one
of the things that became very obvious once the legislature
passed the death Star bill last session was the fact
that they they understand how to not only utilize the
courts to their advantage, but they have some very creative
interpretations of state law. And because they've got a lot
of tax payer funded lawyers at their disposal, they're constantly

(37:29):
thinking of ways to circumvent what conservatives do with the legislature,
to either mitigate or get around entirely what we're trying
to do. You know, it's again, it's one of those
reasons I think we have to get a bit more
prescriptive in the law and say, look, city's county, school districts,
this is what y'all be doing, and you can't do
any of these things period.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, well, until they think of something else. I think
one of the things that Harris County is looking at
is getting around Texas law by supporting nngos. In other words,
we'll just we'll get around government by sending the money
to a nonprofit who will do our bidding.

Speaker 10 (38:06):
Yeah, it's really unfortunate. You know, the Elon must Doze
investigation at the federal level really uncovered this pernicious relationship
between government and NGOs, and I think that dynamic exists
here in Texas too. What I'm trying to persuade the
legislature to do is empower individuals to have the ability

(38:28):
to utilize the Public Information Act for these government funded
NGOs so that they can go and ask them questions about, Hey,
how are y'all spending my money. I think we're getting
a little traction at the legislature. There's there's some definite
interest there, so we've got some vehicles in play. Hopefully,
when the legislature finally adjourned Signide in June, we'll be

(38:53):
able to give people a tool so that they can
go out and ask questions on their own and hold
these folks to account where where needed.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
All right, James, thanks as always for your time. Appreciated
Policy director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, James Guintero,
It's five fifty seven.

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Speaker 2 (39:25):
Six am is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour.
Fort ben County schools agree their parents need to know
if their child wants to switch their gender identity. Al
Salvador won't give that Maryland man back. And coming up
at six oh eight tomorrow just might be d day
for school choice here in Texas. Details in the minutes

(39:47):
ahead here in Houston's Morning News. First, Ooh, trouble in
the canyon offul early for that skuy mikel it's.

Speaker 5 (39:52):
Because of that East text problem. Jimmy Barrett northbound. That's
Toreck right in front of the Big George, and that's
packing up the merge now with two eighty eight and
the Southwest Freeway.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Trouble in the marsh it's mark from winning.

Speaker 35 (40:04):
Okay, Mike at five sixty five on it in.

Speaker 10 (40:08):
Big wad up. Three cars are involved.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
It just happened.

Speaker 35 (40:11):
Everybody, be careful coming in and get to the left light.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
All right, look out if you're coming over that big
bridge and two twenty five. I've got something spackling up
in the East Loop. Give me the six ten and
we'll get you. Some laneage hop Skymike and the USA
RV Resorts dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center mix of Sunday clouds with a high red about eighty.
For today, We'll get Terry Smith in here with an
update on the forecast in eight minutes right now, sixty
four at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
Thank you, Jimmy six ZHO two on KTRH. We're sponsored
by All Star Construction and our top story.

Speaker 23 (40:50):
Foundation of our educational institutions rest on the bedrock of biology,
biological truth.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
This policy is about safeguarding our children. The Fort Bend
isd Board, Okay's a new gender policy requiring staff to
tell parents if a child wants to change sexual identity.
It also limits bathroom and sports access based on biological sex.
And all of this is triggering the woke left.

Speaker 18 (41:15):
If you're fooling yourself, if you believe this policy doesn't
constitute bullying or harassment, this whole.

Speaker 15 (41:21):
Line of discussion is unnecessary in damaging to non binary students.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
They shouldn't have to defend their existence to you or anyone.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
The vote was five to two and in Austin, the
full House finally debates school choice tomorrow six ZHO. Three
more illegal aliens arrested across the Houston area. Yesterday. We
saw a pair of illegals picked up in Montgomery County
and they're charged with the sexual assault of a fourteen
year old Houston girl. In March, President Trump at El

(41:50):
Salvador's president, calling out CNN for not talking about the
success the administration has had in closing the border down.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
It's a shame.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
You're right, isn't that a great question?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Why is the mediate What don't they put out numbers? Yeah,
ninety nine percent.

Speaker 6 (42:03):
It's crazy, right, we're doing. Trump also said he thinks
CNN hates our country. Now you bukell the l Salvador
president says he will not return the man that was
deported despite orders from the US Supreme Court, and Secretary
of State Marco Rubio took that a step further.

Speaker 36 (42:22):
The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by
the President of the United States, not by a court,
and no court in the United States has a right.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
To conduct the foreign policy of the United States.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
It's that simple.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
The Trump administration accused Kilmar Abrego Garcia of being MS thirteen. Elsewhere,
an Obama federal judge blocks Trump from revoking the legal
status and work permits of more than half a million
illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, all allowed to
fly here during the Biden administration. Now, as rogue federal

(42:55):
judges continue to overstep their authority, many are calling for
their MPa, but Texas Attorney Jeremy Rosenthal says that's not
the answer.

Speaker 14 (43:04):
The court needs to stay out of politics. When you
charge the hoop, you're going to get a lot of fouls.
Your remedy is the appellate courts, and by taking action
that might be a little too aggressive against judges you
disagree with, I think you simply make yourself the bad guy.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
He says.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
These cases, though, are helping to reset the judicial branch,
hopefully back to normal. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expands
his investigation into Epic City, which is affiliated with East
Plano Islamic Center, by demanding documents from all local officials
potentially tied to real estate development. Texas Senator John Cornyn

(43:39):
wants the doj to get involved. It's now six h five.
China has fired the next shot in the tariff war.

Speaker 37 (43:46):
China's government ordered restrictions on the export of six types
of rare earth metals refined in China that are needed
for vehicles and weapons like drones and missiles. The restriction
is part of Beijing's retaliation to escalating tariffs by President Trump.
Boxes Jared Helper and the administration does want to talk
to Chinese, but this latest move doesn't help.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
The rivers are a part of lots of the economy.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
It's a little bit of the value add to the
US economy, but a crucial part of the value added.

Speaker 6 (44:14):
Kevin Hasse with the National Economic Council says all options
are on the table now. The World Trade Organization it
turns thirty this year, but the US might be ready
to get out. President Trump recently ripped the organization for
being owned and paid for by China, noting the Chinese
favored status in.

Speaker 9 (44:33):
The way said they were developing nation Well, we're developing
nation two. If you think about it, look at our
inner cities, look at what's happened. I think we're starting
from ground zero there. So we're Developing Nation two.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany has a bill to withdraw the
US from the Wto entirely add it up, you get
nervous markets. Money and investment expert Derek Kinney says Wall
Street wants to see more certainty.

Speaker 17 (44:57):
He needs to know that if something happens here the
result they can expect and clearly as anybody's guests as
to what direction the market goes right now.

Speaker 6 (45:06):
Which is why Dow futures are flat this morning and
oil is trading at sixty one dollars and eighteen cents
a barrel. The House approves a framework for Trump's Big
Beautiful Bill, which is expected to address many of his
top policy priorities, including extending the tax cuts.

Speaker 19 (45:23):
The big priority is to ensure the American people don't
experience the biggest tax increase in their lives at the
end of this year, which is what would happen by
default if we didn't accomplish this mission.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
Texas House Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox Right now, there's
a divide within the GOP over this proposal. The Astros
lose to the Cardinals eight to three. The Rockets find
out their playoff opponent after tonight's playing game between Golden
State and Memphis. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, weather
and Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Tem Joe looking for corruption versus deem Madness. Federal judge
has blocked flap flowed access to stay in the game
with you three seven forty KZRH. Well, it looks like
tomorrow is going to be a decision day on school
choice here in the Great Stay of Texas six to
eight our time here in Houston's morning News. Governor Abbott

(46:12):
set for debate on the floor of the Texas House
that starts tomorrow. Well, I shouldn't say tomorrow's decision day.
Tomorrow's the day they start talking about it. We'll see
if it ever gets to the point of even getting
voted on. Senate Bill two advanced out of the House
Public Education Committee on a nine to six vote earlier
this month. It's now scheduled for a full debate. It

(46:34):
would establish an education and Savings account up to ten
thousand dollars per student to help families fund private school tuition, textbooks, transportation,
and other qualified expenses. Students with disabilities would be eligible
for eleven thousand, five hundred dollars annually. Homeschool families would
receive two thousand dollars per trial. The lawmakers have set

(46:55):
aside one billion for the twenty twenty six twenty seven
school year, which would be enough to fund up to
one hundred thousand students out of the more than five
million enrolled in Texas public schools. Doesn't seem like a
one hundred thousand out of five million is a lot it,
does it. Are they only anticipating that that's how many
people will want to make that decision about school choice,

(47:17):
or they just saying, well, we don't have any more money.
That's all the money we can afford to throw at
the problem right now. The governor wants it to pass badly.
The Texas House has always been the sticking point. I
don't trust Dustin Burrows as far as I can throw them.
So even though he has claimed that there will be

(47:37):
school choice, I'll believe it when I see it, because
the Democrats and the Rhinos have been very successful at
killing this so far. Here's my question of today, though,
And you can go to the iHeartRadio app. You just
put KTRH up there, then hit the freset button so
that KTRHS becomes your number one pre set and then
you can get to us quickly. My question of the

(47:58):
day is do you support school choice? You support this bill?
You want to see this bill passed. You can go
to the iHeartRadio ap KTRH, put us on your pre set.
You get thirty seconds once you hit the talkback button
to respond you say yes, no, and if you have
any reservations about it, feel free to tell me about
those two time for traffic and weather. Together, we're checking
out the drive once again. Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 5 (48:19):
Okay, we're starting to play whack them all around in here.
I got stuff going here and there. Two ninety the
direct connector from both two ninety and six ten north
is shut down. Nothing good's happening on that ramp. Let's
stay on the West Loops southbound. Buzz to U turn
at Post oh Downtown eastex Elevated. That's a wreck right
in front of the Big George. It's messing up the
canyon northbound. You've got five sixty five at iten coming

(48:42):
in from Cove, Texas. That's a wreck on the side
lookout from the bridge to twenty five.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Let's do it. Hoyt Beach City.

Speaker 38 (48:49):
Guy, Mike, it's a Richie exit broke down eighteen wheeler
in the left hand lane, all.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
Right, that watch out inbound and southwest Freeway, Kirby, it's
a stalled metro US. I'm skylike in the USA Rbresorts
dot Com traffic.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Center from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather center for today, We're looking at a mix of
sun clouds, high temperature right about eighty tomorrow partly clouding
breeze eighty four after that. What happens Terry Smith?

Speaker 10 (49:16):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Are we ever going to see some rain?

Speaker 20 (49:20):
Yes, maybe a little bit of rain Saturday, but a
better chance of rain Sunday. Like we could get some
much needed rainfall. Most locations around Houston have seen an
inch or less of rain so far this month. It's
been extremely dry, so we could use some rain, but
we're dry through Friday. It'll keep getting warmer every day

(49:42):
through Friday. By Friday, temperatures mid eighties to low nineties,
and Saturday there's only a twenty percent chance of a shower,
but Sunday and Monday sixty to eighty percent chants of
some showers and storms as well.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Temperature right now, still sixty four at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k trh USE Traffic
and Weather.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
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Speaker 2 (50:12):
So we have a lot of federal judges out there
that I think are abusing their power. At the very least,
they're overstepping their power. They're ruling on cases that don't
involve anybody or anything within the confines of their federal jurisdiction.
They're making decisions about government policy, decisions by the President
of the United States. So people are saying, well, why

(50:32):
don't we just impeach them? Well, this Fox story says,
the impeachment is not the answer. What is the answer?
Can these judges be rained in at all? Jeremy Rosenthal,
Texas attorney and legal expert, will join us next to
talk about it. But first I'm going to be short.
We've got a short sky My.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
Two ninety direct connectors totally shut down. Nothing good's happening.
Stay on the west Loop southbound bust to Yui at Postoke, East,
tex Elevated downtown right front of the Big George.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
That's a wreck.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
We're backing up two freeways the south west from Jefford
and two Heady eight from Southmore. I'm Skymike on the
USA RV Resorts dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
center for today, mix the sun and clouds with a
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(51:27):
Let's get you caught up on some of our top
Tuesday morning stories. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
We're sponsored by National Land Partners. At Texas, teen charged
with murderers free after his bond was cut by almost
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Assault charges are found
against the teen accused of almost hitting an HPD cop
with a stolen car, and the state House gives initial
approval to a bill allowing universities to pay student athletes.

(51:51):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at six thirty alday.

Speaker 26 (51:57):
Long local state What is happening in our country in
all day.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
It's actually happening.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
It's always something you think you've seen it all on used.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 33 (52:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
These federal judges, I think it's abusive power. Jeremy Rosenthal,
I want if he agrees with me or not, let's
find out. He's the Texas attorney and legal expert. Bringing
in these federal judges is becoming a rapidly a top priority.
The question is, Jeremy, how do.

Speaker 34 (52:23):
You do it?

Speaker 13 (52:25):
Good morning?

Speaker 3 (52:25):
How are you today?

Speaker 14 (52:27):
This is a really it's a fascinating topic, and I
think it's one that's important to talk about how these
courts work, what we do if you don't agree with
the judges ruling, and and sort of how that's handled
in the big picture. And I think to take a
step back, I think you have to understand why it

(52:49):
is we're seeing as many judicial actions as we're seeing.
I think the easiest way for me to understand this
is that right now, Donald Trump has a very very
very slim majority in the House. He's got a slim
majority in the Senate. Uh that the Republicans had to

(53:09):
go across the aisle to prevent a government shutdown, which
is just another way of saying, you're just not going.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
To see a lot of legislation here.

Speaker 14 (53:17):
What you do see is you see from Because you're
not going to see a lot of legislation, Donald Trump,
if he wants to advance his agenda, has to do
it through a lot of these executive orders. And to
put it in Houston rockets Houston Cougar's parlance, when you
drive to the hoop a lot, there's gonna be a
lot of contact. And these are necessarily going to draw

(53:38):
a lot of judicial executive orders just tend to draw
a lot of lawsuits. And that's why you're seeing as
many rulings as you are.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Yeah, I do like a good sports analogy, So thank
you for that. But Dom but that but that aside
is there is there a limit to what a federal
judge can do? In other words, are they allowed to
here are cases brought to them even though the complainant
has absolutely nothing to do with the jurisdiction that that

(54:09):
judge services, because because we have a lot of judge
shopping going on, that's a great question.

Speaker 14 (54:16):
So the way that it works, obviously, as you just
hit on it, a federal judge just he's not like
in go back to the sports analogy. By the way,
I'm so I'm a Red Raider and we couldn't finish
off Florida and the Houston Cougars had the chance to
and you guys, man that that breaks my heart and for.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
The Big twelve.

Speaker 14 (54:34):
But getting you know, focusing on this, uh, what what
we have to remember is that a judge isn't a
guy in the stands who just comes out of the
stands to block the president's shot. There has to be
a lawsuit filed and the judge is ruling on that
lawsuit that's filed. And to your point, you have to
have what's called standing to bring a lawsuit, which is

(54:58):
to say that if Donald Trump tomorrow, well let's just
take the Gulf of America, right, Jeremy and McKinney, Texas
can't go and file a lawsuits stopping that unless I
have some type of interest in that, which I don't
know how anybody would, right, and maybe you're a map maker,
I don't know, but but you have to have some

(55:20):
type of vested interest or standing to bring that case.
And you have to have you have to to be
able to bring it into whatever court that that you're
bringing it in right, So if I wanted to sue
the Trump administration for the Gulf of America, Jeremy from McKinney,
Texas can't go to the Northern District of California and

(55:41):
file a suit there.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
It the judge wouldn't hear it.

Speaker 14 (55:45):
So you do have to have some initial qualifications A
to challenge a lawsuit and B to challenge it where
it where that judge is.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Seems to me they're playing fast and loose with that, though, Jeremy,
aren't they when you get right down to it, they're
being lawyers. Uh, it is my it is my god
given right.

Speaker 14 (56:03):
Just so you know, to forum shop, right, That's what
any lawyer does that That's what the good ones do.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
In North Texas.

Speaker 14 (56:10):
I'm in Collin County where the suburbs were, a conservative
county north of Dallas County. If you have a car accident,
you you definitely look and see which side of the
line that's on right, because you're going to want to
shop for the for the most favorable venue.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
What's key here is that it is the review process
because and.

Speaker 14 (56:32):
I think the way to think of this is not
in terms of Okay, of course there of course, somebody
who wants to shut down an order is going to
go to a more favorable judge. What nobody can avoid
is the US Supreme Court. And that's what really matters here.
And to the point that you were talking about before
impeachment or no impeachment, the real remedy here is to

(56:56):
it is to appeal the rulings up. And you saw
a lot of that with Judge Bosberg, where Judge Bosberg
would make it an initial ruling and the Trump administration
didn't like it, and they would and it would go up.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
And down and up and down only and generally these things, well,
the only problem I see with that is just the
amount of time that it takes. So if they could
expedite that, then that you're right, that would be the
perfect remedy. I'll have to leave it at that, though, sir,
we're out of time. Appreciate your time. Counselor Jeremy Rosenthal,
Texas Attorney. It's six twenty seven. It's time to take
a look at your money as we check them with
Jeff Bellinger and Jimmy.

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Speaker 4 (58:16):
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Speaker 2 (58:20):
Six thirty our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories. This half hour bond has been
reduced for that accused high school track killer. Urcott ups
electricity demand grid for Texas. Looks like we're gonna need
a lot more energy by twenty thirty. And coming up
at six thirty eight, Katy Perry is back from space,
but she's still spacey. Details in the minutes ahead. You're

(58:42):
in Houston's Morning News, which first.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
Left in the International Space Station, so she couldn't sing
for about eight months.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
That would have been That would have been Goda. No,
we don't want to do that sky mike anyway.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
Well, the direct connecting Jimmy, oh no, let's do direct
connectors totally shut down southbound. Nothing good's happening there. That's
the one that goes to the Katie for away from
two ninety and the north loop. Stay on the west
loop bust to yuiy at Post Oke, East, tex Elevated
downtown Big George look out.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
That's a wreck.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
It's messing up both the Southwest Freeway and two eighty
eight two. Let's see Southwest Freeway inbound at Kirby. It's
a stalled metrooo and I got a wreck on iten east.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
We'll check that out.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Of five sixty five coming in from the marsh, I'm
skylike on the USA RV Resorts dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather center
mixes something cloud's about eighty for the high temperature today.
We'll get to the complete forecast. When we talked to
Terry at the Weather Channel in eight minutes right now,
sixty five 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 6 (59:43):
Thank you, Jimmy. It is six thirty two on k
t RHR. Top story.

Speaker 27 (59:47):
The judges made the call, and so what's important is
what's next. And it's our job to be level headed,
to be fact based, and to follow the truth wherever
it leads.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
Colin County DA Greg Willis's reaction after a judge lower's
bond in the Carmelo Anthony case from a million to
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Anthony is now free
after being charged in the stabbing death of another teenager,
Austin Medcalf And where did Anthony come up with the cash? Crowdfunding?

(01:00:18):
We told you last week they had raised one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for the person accused. That number
is now four hundred and fifteen thousand. This is why
bail reform has been a priority in the Texas legislature.
But while the Senate has moved on this, the House
has not. A State House committee though he is looking
at a gun rights bill that would take short barrel

(01:00:38):
firearms off the list of banned.

Speaker 28 (01:00:40):
Weapons, see it more manageable, making it more accurate in
your firing, making it more safe as.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
Another bill for debate would eliminate so called gun free
zone six point thirty three. The House also has slow
played property tax relief while the Senate has already passed
a bill to rein in local jurisdictions.

Speaker 18 (01:00:58):
Local property tax increases have essentially eroded any relief passed
by the state.

Speaker 10 (01:01:03):
This is really prompted lawmakers to reconsider how and why
local governments ought to be raising taxes on the average person.

Speaker 18 (01:01:11):
That's James Quintero with the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He says,
there's a simple solution to this problem.

Speaker 10 (01:01:16):
We need to stop tinkering around the edges and impose
a comprehensive spending limit on our cities, counties, and school districts.

Speaker 18 (01:01:25):
He thinks that there's still enough time in the legislative
session to actually get that done. Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
And Now, according to Urkott's state demand from power will
eclipse two hundred thousand megawatts in five years. That's largely
due to data center growth and Brad Johnson of the
Text and says Senate Bill six would help curb some
of that demand.

Speaker 30 (01:01:46):
The legislature is looking at it and thinking, well, we
have to compensate for this somehow, and we have to
put some guidelines around these data centers and how they
come in, how they connect to the grid, are they
bringing power with them, are they paying for transmission costs?
Because all of that is going to get uplifted the market.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
And great payers across the states.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
It's now six point thirty four does impacting the proposed
high speed rail between Houston and Dallas. Nearly sixty four
million dollars in federal funding is pulled. Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy calls it a waste of taxpayer money. And yet
another shocking Doge discovery, two hundred and fifty four million
dollars worth of unemployment claims was found for people under

(01:02:26):
the age of five. Scott Powell is with Newsmax and
he is not surprised.

Speaker 31 (01:02:32):
It's just one more installment to what we can only
call sophisticated white collar crime, stealing taxpayer money.

Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
Stealing that the Left swore wasn't happening.

Speaker 31 (01:02:44):
Sad to say that we've come to a point in
America where you have large numbers of our population that
can no longer think critically, that can no longer really
think common sensically. But that's where we're at.

Speaker 13 (01:02:55):
And that's what needs to change over the next four years.
Higgs News Radio seven k tieries. And there's this a
man who's arrested in New Mexico, charged with an attack
on a Tesla dealership in a state Republican Party office.

Speaker 12 (01:03:10):
This guy is looking at forty years in prison. I
have directed my prosecutors not to make any offers. He
is going away if convicted for forty years.

Speaker 6 (01:03:21):
US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Fox. Radical leftists have
spent months attacking Tesla. They've also been selling Tesla's that
they own, so if you want one, you can probably
find a good deal.

Speaker 33 (01:03:34):
When someone goes to get in the market for a Tesla,
you can buy used one very cheaply, you know, as
opposed to what a brand new one would cost. So
a lot of people are going in that direction.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
Carpro Jerry Reynolds says the majority of Tesla owners still
love their cars and being loyal to the brand. Six
point thirty six on KTRH. Companies looking for employees or
seeing something new. Fake job seekers who used to step
give AI to get work. Cyber expert Paul Peters tells
companies to use small groups or committees to actually do

(01:04:07):
job interviews, and.

Speaker 34 (01:04:08):
Then we also record those interviews because sometimes you're going
to see some fluctuations with the voice and the facial
expressions that would typically be identified as AI.

Speaker 6 (01:04:17):
He also says companies that can afford IT should keep
some IT on full time because of the rising number
of this and the rising number of cyber attacks. Six
point thirty seven Houston says goodbye to the legendary George Foreman.
He had an acronym called Joy.

Speaker 39 (01:04:34):
The first letter Jay, he said, should always be Jesus,
the second letter Oh for others, the third why for yourself.
And that's the order he wanted everything to be in,
and I think that that is the way he lived
his life.

Speaker 6 (01:04:50):
The former two time heavyweight champion of the world died
last month at the age of seventy six. I'm close
Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 28 (01:05:00):
I usually take iten West, but lately that's been a nightmare.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the ten, she also
went into space. I don't know if she liked that
as much as kissing a girl or not. Katy Perry
was part of a quote quote unquote all female flight crew.
Isn't that kind of using the term pretty loosely? If
I were a legitimate astronaut, I would say, you want

(01:05:27):
to consider Katie Perry part of a flight crew? Hey,
they strapped her in and then they'd just shot her
up into two miles into outer space and brought her
right back down again. By the way, I think I'm
gonna change my question of the day today. If you
had a chance to go on a Blue Origin flight,
you know where you could get just the edge of
outer space, just in outer space and then come back

(01:05:48):
down that capsule and hope the parachutes open.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Would you do it? If you had a chance to
do it, would you do it? Go to KTRH on
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By the way, if you put a number one on
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(01:06:11):
tickets for Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, who are coming
to town.

Speaker 18 (01:06:16):
So do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
But in the meantime, I guess I'm not the only
one that's gonna make fun of the fact that we
had this all female quote unquote flight crew made up
of Katie Perry, Lauren Sanchez, who is the journalist fiance
of Jeff Bezos, who owns Blue Origin. Of course, so
you got a little nepotism at work there, journalist Gail King,

(01:06:39):
former NASA rocket scientist Alicia Bowe at least she's qualified,
and bio astronautics research scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Wynn,
and filmmaker Carrie Anne Flynn. That was the all female crew.
Here's Raymond de Royo with Laura Ingram making a little
fun of this situation.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
It's so insulting to real astronauts.

Speaker 40 (01:06:57):
I mean, watching Katie Perry kissed the ground when she
got out, you would have sworn she'd been trapped at
the space station for three years. I mean, it was
an eleven minute journey, okay, from takeoff to touchdown. It's
not like she went to Mars and the minute the
cameras found Oprah. I thought Gail King was bringing back
some rare interplanetary minerals or something. Oprah's crying. What's she

(01:07:21):
crying about? I mean, this is an eleven minute. It's
the equivalent of driving around your neighborhood, Laura.

Speaker 8 (01:07:27):
I mean, so, do you think you'd scream Raymond coming down?

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
I would, I definitely would scream. I would be cos
I love roller coasters and I love I love like that.
But I would be screaming.

Speaker 12 (01:07:42):
But Katy Perry was like ractically claiming what the nobel
peace price when she got out.

Speaker 41 (01:07:49):
Of the castle space is incredible? And I wanted to
model courage and worthiness and fearless. You, Dick, really finding
the love for yourself because you got to trust in
yourself on this journey.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
I feel really connected to that strong divine feminine.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Right now, strong divine feminine right now. Okay, I guess
her God is a female. Okay. Anyway you can respond
to the question today KTRH on the iHeart Radio app.
Would if you had a chance to go on a
Blue Orgin flight, if you could go in ounter space,
would you do it? Would you do it? You hit
the talkback microphone button. When you get to the KTRH

(01:08:31):
site on the iHeartRadio app, you get thirty seconds, give
me your first name where you're calling from, and you
know your idea is about going into space. All right,
let's do a little traffic and weather together. It's not
in that thing that didn't look like much fun coming
down sky Mine.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
Well it looks wrong. I couldn't go back home to
Tarkington after that. Let's go to your direct connector. First
of all, it's completely shut down. Nothing is good happening
good at the end of that ramp. That's the direct
connector that goes to the Ktie Freeway. So it's kind
of an easy skip around. If you're coming in from
two ninety and you're trying to hit I ten, or
if you're coming from the North Loop from my birthplace

(01:09:07):
to Heights, you go to go down the West Loop
and bust a U turn at Post Oak and you
have your own little lane there too. There's always somebody
stupid that doesn't realize that. But go to Post Oak
and just bust a U turn East tex Elevator. We
still have the wreck at the Big George. Oh has
mets there? Damn it, that's going to mess up the canyon.
Now from Shepherd on the Southwest Freeway and two eighty eight,

(01:09:28):
I'm going to call that almost ost Now we still
have the stall bus at Southwest Freeway Kirby and that's northbound.
They have moved that to the side five sixty five
it ten. Let's come up from the marsh. This would
be Scott from Wallaceville.

Speaker 10 (01:09:43):
Morris My westbound by five.

Speaker 35 (01:09:47):
The three car pile up there no toe jokes on
the scene yet.

Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
All right, truck or Scott got Mike have fun out
here to see only plane get through vigor. All right,
that's coming in from that's I'm in from Chambers County.
Let me see if I can get the rest of
the media interested in this. It's a pretty big smush
from the Trinity River. I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center. Terry
Smith is here. She's got the forecast for you. No
rain yet.

Speaker 20 (01:10:16):
No rain yet, but it does look like some rain
over the weekend Sunday, Sunday night Monday time frame.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Even a little bit on.

Speaker 20 (01:10:29):
Saturday. There's that slight chance of a shower. But between
now and Friday, all it does is get warmer and
more human. Now, today to me is the five star
day because it's like typical April upper seventies to low
eighties today, and then it just keeps getting warmer each day, Tomorrow, Thursday,
and Friday. By Friday we're seeing some places in the

(01:10:49):
low nineties. Saturday, there's a twenty percent chance of a
shower in the afternoon, that's it. But Sunday and Monday
about fifty to sixty percent chance of some showers in storms,
So hooray for rain.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
By the end of the weekend, temperature remains sixty five.
At your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty
k TRH. You are commute, you are forecast your news.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you, buying you Southway
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Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
So again, I got a question to day today. I'm
asking and if you're just now getting around and putting
KTRH number one on your preset, don't forget to send
me a snapshot of that, okay, Cuz every week we're
giving away concert tickets. This week it's the Outlaw Music Festival,
featuring Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, among others. July the
sixth of the Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets on sale at ticketmaster
dot com. But we're gonna have a random drawing of

(01:11:44):
the people who send me a snapshot of KTRH as
their number one preset, and one of them will not
on a Monday, one of them will be going to
the concert on us. All right, I understand some of
you have some opinions about going up into space. We'll
share some next. First, we've got Trapped and weather together.
Jeven f.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Austin says, I don't see anything wrong with that spaceship.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
He likes it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
Husky Mike, Yeah, it's normal to ninety inbound the direct
connectors completely shut down. Nothing good's happening there. They have
put some tow trucks in there, but it's going to
be around for a while. Go to the west Loop
southbound bus to U turn at post O downtown, Big George.
That's a wreck on the East tax salivated sixty nine.
It's messing up two freeways. It's messing up your Southwest Freeway.

(01:12:26):
It's messing up to eighty eight coming up from Southmoor northbound.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
I've offered Jennifer of Pezezeff. She'll say toe track Ninjas
on the air on Channel eleven.

Speaker 5 (01:12:33):
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center
from r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Our Weather center mix of sun and clouds. High temperature
about eighty four today, partly cloudy, breezy six or eight
to sixty four. No, and that'll be the low eighty
four for the high on tomorrow, and then Thursday partly
cloudy and warm and windy eighty six right now, still
sixty five of your officials severe weather Station News Radio
seven forty k T. It's time to check out some

(01:13:02):
more of our top stories for Tuesday morning. Here's clip
Thank you Jimmy at six point fifty two. We're sponsored
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Speaker 6 (01:13:08):
Forth Bend. ISD is now requiring parents be informed if
their child changes genders. A man is in serious condition
this morning, shot by his girlfriend's X overnight on the
north side.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
The X is on the run.

Speaker 6 (01:13:22):
And the twenty twenty four Navy football team visits the
White House today after winning the Commander in Chiefs Trophy.
Last season at the latest News anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update is at seven Sure Rock.

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The financial war, US caribs, the stock market, Cashian on
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Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
Hey, would you like to be a major?

Speaker 33 (01:13:48):
Tom?

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Would you like to go into space? What prompted my
asking the question is though that quote unquote all female
flight crew featuring Katy Perry made it back from the
Blue Origin flight. That thing just goes up, goes up
about sixty two miles, which is about two miles past
going in outer space, and then comes back down again.

(01:14:09):
The whole thing lasts about eleven minutes long. And I'm
just I'm curious if you had the opportunity to do that,
would you do that. Here's what some of you said, Yeah,
hey this David, Yeah, I'd go up.

Speaker 33 (01:14:22):
I'd go up just for greens, but I don't think
my doctor would let me.

Speaker 38 (01:14:26):
Jimmy, Brian Martin and Lake Conro I would do the
Blue Origin flight, but only if sky Mike.

Speaker 10 (01:14:32):
Went with me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
I wonder if sky Mike would do it. He goes
up in helicopters, so he might do it. All right,
Before we get to the timeline. Let me share this
with you. You heard about Bill Maher, right, Bill Maher,
the HBO host, having dinner with President Trump and Kid
Rock and who else was there? Dana White, I guess
was there. He talked about on a show. I haven't
played any audio from that. I just want to share
a couple of quips clips from you and get some

(01:14:57):
reaction to it. This is from Gutville to show last night,
Bill Maher talking about his experience with Donald Trump. This
is cut number four, by the way, if you want
to grab that real quick for me in there, Marco
cut up. Here's Bill Maher.

Speaker 26 (01:15:11):
As you know, twelve days ago I had dinner with
President Trump. I never felt I had to walk on
eggshells around him, And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama,
but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the
way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
He's much more self aware and he lets on in public.

Speaker 26 (01:15:29):
I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists,
because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I
swear to God absent at least on this night with
this guy, Trump was gracious and measured and why he
isn't that in other settings.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 26 (01:15:45):
I've had so many conversations with prominent people who were
much less connected, people who don't look you in the eye.
None of that with him, and he mostly seered the
conversation to what do you think about this? I know
your mind is blown, so's mine. I had my staff
collect and print out this list of almost sixty different

(01:16:06):
insulting epithets that the President has said about me, things
like stupid, dummy, lowlife, dummy, sleeves bag six said, stone
cold crazy, really a dumb guy, furred.

Speaker 6 (01:16:19):
Like a dog.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
His show is dead. I brought this to the White House.

Speaker 26 (01:16:22):
I guess I wanted him to sign it, which he did,
which he did with good humor. And I know, as
I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened.

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
Yeah, he drove a lot of people crazy with that,
But hey, give the devil his due. He had dinner
with President Trump and shows you up, persuasee of a guy.
Trump can be right when you get a chance to
know him. Six fifty six. All right, time for the timeline.
What do we have today? Let me find my little
price sheet here and here we go. We have a

(01:16:58):
bear of tickets for Pranki Valleys still touring at ninety
This might be the farewell. They're calling it the last
Encore tour, which which might be very true. He's coming,
I think in June. Frankie Belly in the four Seasons
of May twenty third at Smart Financial Center and Sugar Line.
Tickets on sale right now at Smart financial Center dot net.
But you can win a pair from us. Just tell
us what year today's timeline's.

Speaker 29 (01:17:19):
From the Transition Deepwater Horizon rig. It was April, caught fire,
had an explosion, and ultimately a day and a half later,
save the VP oil rig.

Speaker 17 (01:17:29):
Deepwater Horizon explodes and burns in the Golf of Mexico.

Speaker 29 (01:17:33):
Yesterday, the federal government gave VP approval to move forward
with a procedure known as a top kill to try
to stop the leak.

Speaker 6 (01:17:40):
When she threw that baton into the air in television news,
my sister caught that baton.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
A Chris Nixie Carter from Designing Women dies at the
age of seventies. Is the night the lights went out?
Short brand new in theaters?

Speaker 23 (01:17:56):
Have you seen what's happening out here?

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
The remake of Clash of the Titan Stabutes release track
and Top ten on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
This is such a sass Lady Gaga and Beyonce with telephone.
What year was it? If you know seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four, that is seven
one three two one two k t RH. Good luck.
All right, we have a winner. That would be Dave

(01:18:25):
and the Woodlands knew the right year was twenty ten.
Well done, Dave. You get yourself a fair of tickets
for Frankie Valley in the four seasons. Last Encore Tour
May twenty third at Smart Financial Center in Sugarland. Enjoyed
the show and thank you for listening to Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
This is Used Radio seven forty kt RH Houston Live
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News, weather and traffic.

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It's more of what matters to you from the John
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Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
It is seven am now here on Houston Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as fur for
Ben's schools agree that parents need to know if their
child wants to switch their gender identity. El Salvador won't
give that Maryland man back and coming up at seven
oh eight, many companies aren't getting rid of DEI. They're
just rebranding it. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in

(01:19:20):
Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that Morning Drive
once again. Here is sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:19:25):
All right, direc Connectors completely shut down. You can't do
it from two to ninety or the North Loop. Nothing
good's happening at the end of that. It was an overturn.
Go down to the West Loop and bust a U
turn at Post O Downtown has matched there. That's why
this has taken so long. East text the elevated that's
sixty nine northbound in front of the Big George. That
wreck is messing up your Southwest Freeway from Greenway Plaza. Also,

(01:19:47):
it's spackled up two eighty eight northbound five sixty five.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Do I have time?

Speaker 31 (01:19:50):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
Jeff Walgreen's truck on I ten coming in from the
east Shure.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Mike westbound lanes at the Old River.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
Of the Ninjas. It's backed up for at least a
mile on the westbound inbound lane.

Speaker 5 (01:20:05):
All right, extra points for verbage. We're back from the
Trinity River. I'm in the USA Rbresorts dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center mix of sun and clouds today with the high
temperature right about eighty. We'll get the complete forecast from
Jerry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight minutes right
now sixty five at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 6 (01:20:30):
Thank you, Jimmy seven oh two. We're sponsored by shopist
John Dear. In our top story this hour.

Speaker 7 (01:20:35):
You're asking for school districts to allow boys to go
into girls' bathrooms as your pasta.

Speaker 6 (01:20:44):
Is this acceptable? And with that, Fort Bendiast approves a
policy limiting bathroom and sports access based on your biological sex. Also,
staff is required to tell parents of a student changes
sexual identity.

Speaker 8 (01:20:59):
The left triggered this policy is not about education safety
or even parental rights. It is about imposing a singular
worldview on every student, every family, every teacher.

Speaker 6 (01:21:11):
The vote was five to two, similar policies that were
in place at the Kadie Incife. Their isds. Texas House
debates school choice in Austin tomorrow. The Senate bill would
establish savings accounts up to ten thousand dollars per student
seven oh three more success in the crackdown on illegal
immigration under President Donald Trump. Two illegals were arrested in

(01:21:33):
Montgomery County yesterday and charged in the sexual assault of
a fourteen year old girl in March. The President put
CNN on blast at the White House for not talking
about the success at the border.

Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
Why are those numbers not on the media?

Speaker 11 (01:21:49):
Well, they get out of the fake news, you know,
like CNN over here doesn't want to put them out
because they don't like they don't like putting out good numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
They all like putting out because I think they hate
our country.

Speaker 6 (01:21:59):
Actually, Trump hosting El Salvador's president Naib Bukeley yesterday. By
the way, Bukeley says he will not return a man
that was deported to his country in March, despite orders
from the US Supreme Court. Attorney General Pam Bondi says, Hey,
it's El Salvador's call.

Speaker 12 (01:22:16):
If he wanted a plane flight, we could give him
a plane flight, but we cannot effectuate it, meaning making
it happen, which is what the District Court had originally ruled.

Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
The Trump administration accused Kilmar Obrego Garcia of being MS thirteen. Elsewhere,
a federal judge appointed by Barack Obama blocks the administration
from provoking the legal status of more than a half
million illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, all of
whom flew into the US during the Joe Biden years.

(01:22:47):
And even though radical left federal judges continue to overstep
their power, some conservatives believe that impeachment is not the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:22:56):
That includes Texas based attorney and legal expert Jeremy Rosenthal.

Speaker 14 (01:23:01):
A federal judge to be impeach has to commit a
high crime or misdemeanor. And I don't agree with you
about this opinion is not really going to be good enough.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
He says.

Speaker 6 (01:23:09):
It's ultimately about the better good.

Speaker 14 (01:23:12):
If a judge is doing something improper, inappropriate, illegal, criminal,
then impeachment would be appropriate. What's really critical in America today,
more than anything, is that we have faith in our courts.

Speaker 13 (01:23:23):
Faith that is hopefully being restored with Trump back in office.
Tough Bigs News Radio seven forty KT at seven h five.

Speaker 6 (01:23:33):
China reportedly stops exporting several rare earth minerals crucial to
making certain products in the tech, automobile, aerospace, and defence. Industries.
This comes as the US wants to work out a
trade deal with the Chinese.

Speaker 15 (01:23:47):
President has been very clear that he's willing to talk
to his counterpart and that he expects that at some
point we'll have talks.

Speaker 6 (01:23:52):
Trade Representative Jamison Greer on Fox the President is getting
tough on trade and some in Congress want him to
go even further.

Speaker 16 (01:24:00):
And Congressman Tom Tiffany is introduced a bill to withdraw
the US from the World Trade Organization. Tiffany accuses the
WTO of hindering fair trade by favoring China, and President
Trump agrees.

Speaker 9 (01:24:10):
This started with the World Trade Organization, which was owned
by China. It was owned and paid for by China.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
They didn't even have to do things.

Speaker 9 (01:24:18):
They considered them a nation that was undevelopment.

Speaker 16 (01:24:21):
Congressman Tiffany argues that leaving the WTO would benefit America
by allowing US to negotiate fair trade deals without influence
from China. Coreyolson News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:24:31):
Tariffs causing more volatility in the markets, and money and
investment expert Derek Kinney says, until their certainty, you can
expect a roller coaster.

Speaker 17 (01:24:40):
Ride investment managers can't take action, and it's going to
lead to worry and frustration or hard working investors.

Speaker 6 (01:24:47):
As of this morning, futures are down one hundred points
and oil is down as well, to sixty one dollars
and eleven cents a barrel. The House did approve a
framework for Trump's Big, Beautiful bill last week, but there's
still a long way to go before it passes.

Speaker 18 (01:25:03):
This is a critical first step towards making the top
priorities of Trump's agenda a reality.

Speaker 19 (01:25:07):
In this bill, we are going to cement so many
of the promises we made on the Game Pan trail
and check so many of the boxes of the America
First Agenda.

Speaker 18 (01:25:15):
That's how Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox He says. The
next step is to unify Republicans in support of the bill.

Speaker 19 (01:25:20):
We have to get the Senate Republicans and a House
Republicans virtually every single one of them aligned to make
sure that while we extend the tax cuts, we also
pay for them.

Speaker 18 (01:25:28):
Johnson says the next five to six weeks are going
to be a critical negotiating period for the final bill.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:25:35):
And at seven oh seven, the Astros lose to Saint
Louis eight to three. They'll play again tonight. Pregame at
five thirty On seven ninety KTRH joins the game in
progress at seven. I'm Cloff Saunders on Houston's News Weather
in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
People voted for major GUVMN perform.

Speaker 28 (01:25:51):
You also know this is just the beginning here.

Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
It happened, and that's what people are going to get
on used radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
So we got the impression that changes were happening at
major corporations with return to Donald Trump to the White House,
that they were ditching their DEI programs, and many of
them made it sound like that's exactly what they were doing.
But as it turns out, all they're really doing is rebranding.
And the companies that come to mind most guilty of this,

(01:26:20):
Amazon Cohle's, Dollar Tree Ups, Nationwide Insurance, the Walt Disney Company, JP,
Morgan Chase, Walmart, and Google. Here is Consumer Research Executive
director Will hild on the rebranding of DEI and do
something else. We predicted it would happen about a year

(01:26:42):
ago that as the pushback on DEI on the anti
white and anti Asian and sometimes anti Jewish racism took.
As that pushback was successful, that they would simply rebrand,
and belonging was even one of the words that we
suggested they might use, and here it is.

Speaker 42 (01:26:56):
This week's Vocalert names five companies that you just listed
that have simply rebranded their DEI departments to departments of belonging,
in some cases renaming even the title of their DEI
director in the case of Coals, director of Belonging. So
they've haven't changed personnel, they haven't changed the photos, they
haven't even changed the images stock images that they use

(01:27:16):
on their websites. They've simply changed the wording. And what
that really means is that they're still engaging in the
same anti white and anti Asian discrimination. Well, it's extremely
insulting to the intelligence the average consumer who we've seen
from bud Light to Target to a panoply of other companies,
has hurt those companies as they've engaged in crazy wocism,
as they've let crazy far left activists take over their companies.

(01:27:40):
It's insulting to their intelligence that simply a name change
is going to be enough. They need to change personnel.
These people who engaged in this kind of discrimination don't
belong at the company, and they need to repudiate fully
those behaviors, the anti white and anti Asian discrimination, the
hostile workplace environment, the lot of their DEI efforts created

(01:28:02):
for people of different races.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
They need to repudiate that fully. Then we can believe them.

Speaker 42 (01:28:06):
Simply changing from DEI to belonging is a is a
pirate's it's it's not even a victory.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
It's it's them.

Speaker 42 (01:28:12):
Assuming the Conservatives and Independence who are sick of this,
are going to be cheap dates.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
And that just isn't the case. Department the Belonging, What
a stupid name. Seven to ten, Time for traffic and
weather together. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:28:28):
We've got you two ninety right here, and some problems
here tip line seven one three two one two t
ips joke from Cypress.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
So we are called to boom.

Speaker 31 (01:28:39):
You've got a major accident outbound for Jones Road.

Speaker 6 (01:28:44):
On the inbound side.

Speaker 35 (01:28:46):
You've got the extra I can.

Speaker 22 (01:28:48):
Shut down, which has two ninety traffics backed up all
the way to forty third.

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
All right, that's on the inbound side. Now we've got
a wreck at Fairbanks North Houston. To add to the
craziness on two ninety. Uh, you've got the direct connector, Yes,
that's been closed since five this morning. You've got now
north Loop six to ten eastbound, a's forty five at
the squeeze. The other going the other way eastbound, that's
a stall in the ramp.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
You don't need it. Westbound.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
The usual smush from sixty nine downtown has Matt's on
the scene. I sixty nine northbound in front of the
Big George, and that is going to mess up the
canyon is going to mess up two eighty eight from
south more it packs up the Southwest Freeway. Go ahead
and connect those dots now from he'llcroft. Let's kill the
Schulenberg fast.

Speaker 6 (01:29:29):
Hey, good morning sky Mike.

Speaker 30 (01:29:31):
I passed a check dot sign that's six to ten
south is closed.

Speaker 42 (01:29:36):
At I ten.

Speaker 7 (01:29:38):
Can you please verify if that's accurate?

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
All right, let me see if I can get the
guys to change the verbiage on those signs, because what
that means, that's just talking about the direct connector from
the North Loop and from two to ninety is completely
shut down. And Terry five sixty five I ten coming
up from anawac. That accident is clear. We're backed up
from the marsh, and you know what lives in the
marsh right now, and they're feeling very amorous. It's alligator

(01:30:03):
mating season. Skymike in the USA Rbresorts dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
From my katrh twenty four hour weather center. We're ready
to check in with Terry. All right, Terry, Yeah, what
do you think?

Speaker 36 (01:30:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:30:15):
I see some clouds. No rain in those clouds though, right, No,
no rain in the clouds. Okay, little cooler today, A
little cooler today, yeah, okay.

Speaker 20 (01:30:24):
Had a wind shift that happened and some light northerly
winds have brought us a little less heat, little less
humidity today, But it's just today. After that, we keep
climbing through the week and getting even warmer. In fact,
I think we'll see some nineties by the end of
the week. But today upper seventies to low eighties this

(01:30:44):
afternoon and the humidities in check.

Speaker 6 (01:30:46):
So today's an awesome day.

Speaker 20 (01:30:48):
Getting warmer, load to mid eighties tomorrow, mid upper eighties Thursday, Friday,
some places in the low nineties and then some much
needed rainfall. We have had two days of rain so
far this month, and nobody's picked up an inch of
rain that I've seen, so some rain Sunday and Monday
next week.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Temperature remains sixty five at your officials Severe Weather Station.
News Radio seven forty KRH.

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Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
All the info you need to take on the day. Well,
we know all about the waste and fraud. The DOGE
is found latest being in unemployment insurance claims two hundred
and fifty four million dollars for people under the age
of five. Is there no end of this stuff? Scott

(01:31:46):
poul joins us Newsmax senior fellow in just a moment
to talk about it. But first we've got traffic and
weather together. Started with Usky, Mike clear the direct connector
from two ninety. The sucket just still on the ramp.
It'll get better soon. Fairbanks out down clear that golf freeway.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
Sarah Hobby, Nick and Ike just has fiften.

Speaker 17 (01:32:05):
There's a stall car entrance grants from sixty ten onto
forty five.

Speaker 31 (01:32:09):
Chuck Ninjas are trying to get there, but it's definitely
making a kerfluffle, so well said.

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
I'm in the USA Rvresorts dot com traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Center from our KTRH Top tax Defenders twenty four hour
weather center. For today, we're looking at the mix of
sun and clouds, more clouds than sun at the moment.
We're right about eighty for the high part of the
cloudy breezing eighty four tomorrow than part of the cloudy
warm eighty six for the high temperature Thursday. Right now,
still sixty five at your officials Severe Weather Station News

(01:32:38):
Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time to check out
some more of our top stories this morning with Cliff.

Speaker 6 (01:32:44):
Thank you, Jimmy. A jury convinced the illegal alien the
convicts rather the illegal alien charge in the rape and
murder of Rachel Morin. The mayor of Kendleton and Fort
Bend County resigns after a guilty plea on charges of
refusing to provide access to public information, and a Houston
funeral homes ordered to close after ten bodies were found

(01:33:06):
without air conditioning. Get the latest news anytime at KGRH
dot com. Our next update is at seven thirty.

Speaker 42 (01:33:12):
I listen more than you Weather Traffic for every day
I travelize, so I listened for the talk for every one.

Speaker 36 (01:33:19):
There's always something new every day.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Use radio seven KGRH seven two is our time here
in Houston's borning news. I'm not singing the blues over
unemployment claims, well of or some of them, I guess.
Breitbart Reporting the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE has posted
some pretty shocking findings from a survey of unemployment insurance

(01:33:42):
claims since twenty twenty, which found individual far too young
as in under the age of five and far too
old over the age of one hundred and fifteen, claiming
some two hundred and fifty four million dollars in unemployment benefits.
Is it just in efficiencies or is it fraud? Scott
Paul joins US newsback senior fellow at the Discovery Center.

(01:34:06):
You got any theories on this, Scott? Is to where
where all this waste we're finding in all these different departments.
Is is it more about fraud or is it more
about inefficiencies inaccuracies and just not getting the job done?

Speaker 36 (01:34:18):
I would I would tend to think that it's more
more of a problem of fraud because I think that
these funds that are distributed to non existing people. They're
going somewhere and it's been orchestrated. In other words, these
these things don't happen by accident. They happen by people

(01:34:40):
that are gaining the system. And that's what DOSE is
finding out, and that's what we need. We've needed it
for years. So people should, uh, you know what Dose
is doing because it's bringing about honest, more honest accounting
accountability of government, something that is just essential. And our

(01:35:02):
country is just out of control with debt. We can't
allow the debt to be increasing. Even if we root
out most of the fraud, we still have to tackle
how we're going to really move to a what we
call a balanced budget where we're taking in as much
in resources as we are spending by government and government agencies.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
Yes, we're a long way away.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
Actually, I think they were really hoping to find more
waste and fraud than they have already. Not that they
haven't found hundreds of billions of dollars worth, but I
think the goal initially was maybe two trillion dollars worth.
I don't think they're going to get there. To you, No,
I don't think so. No, Yeah, I don't think there's
that being the case, and given how large our deficit is,
that there really is no choice but to pare down
these departments, which is the other thing the Trump administration

(01:35:50):
is trying to do, but they run into court battles
every time it seems they tried to get rid of
a department or employees.

Speaker 36 (01:35:56):
Well, what American people are waking up to is the
politicized nature of our country. And it's not just a
traditional Democrat and Republican. We have a level of corruption
in our country that really threatens the proper functioning of
our constitutional republic. It is totally inappropriate for judges, federal

(01:36:20):
judges whose jurisdiction is some area in the country, to
be involved in blocking the executive branches ability to carry
out the people's will to carry out its job. People
voted for Donald Trump for a lot of different reasons,
not the least of which was the depart the deporting

(01:36:43):
of illegal aliens and what judge should stand in the
way if people are here illegally, and we know that
millions have come into our country and this is just
a it's unacceptable. So we've got the we we've we've
we've got constitutional cases on our separation of powers cases.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
And I suppose we could say this is all good,
because it's it.

Speaker 36 (01:37:11):
You know, we have to have legal battles in order
to get to the in order to get to a
proper functioning or you know, traffic has to stay in
its own lane, right. If you're out of your lane,
you get into an accident. And that's really what's happened,
is that our constitution, which has a separation of powers,

(01:37:32):
is not functioning as it should because we have the
judiciary in you know, involved in both now not just
legislating law, but also blocking the executive branch from carrying
out its duty.

Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
And that includes, by the way, the Supreme Court. If
you want to talk about that so called Maryland man
who is whether or not he's a gang member or
secretary of the fact that he was sent back to
his country of origin, l Salvador and he was here illegally.
That should be the end of it, shouldn't it. It
should be absolutely all right, sir, Thank you for your
time today. Appreciate it. Scott Powell Newsmax, Senior Fellow at
the Discovery Center at seven twenty seven. Time to take

(01:38:08):
a look at your money. Here's Jeff Bellinger Jimmy. This
report is sponsored by Total Wine and More. President Trump
says he's considering temporary terriff exemptions for the auto industry.
The President told reporters he wants to give automakers some
time to make supply chain adjustments. He said he realizes
the car companies will need time to relocate production from Canada,

(01:38:29):
Mexico and other nations. Stock market futures are lower across
the board with an hour to go before the opening bell.
Now futures down one hundred and ninety one points. I'm
Jeff Bullinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 25 (01:38:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
It is seven thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy,
Barrett bong Our Top stories this half hour, bond reduced
for that accused high school track killer, Urkott, ups electricity
demand in Texas and coming up at seven thirty eight,
A CNN anchor gets the Trump treatment details in the
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking

(01:39:22):
out the drive again. The sky Mike downtown.

Speaker 5 (01:39:24):
Has mat That's the reason we still have that big
suck ine downtown on I sixty nine year East tex Elevated.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
We have backups both ways.

Speaker 7 (01:39:31):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:39:31):
This is messing up the Southwest Freeway from Greenway Plaza.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
It's spackled up to eighty eight.

Speaker 5 (01:39:36):
From ninety if you're trying to get from the Med Center,
and that's about a twenty minute wait. This way, you've
cleared the direct connector that goes from two ninety inbound.

Speaker 35 (01:39:45):
I mike, nothing at.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
All, wide open it straight there, dude, No, no, I
don't control those signs, but I will tell the people
involved there it is all good on two ninety inbound. Also,
we do have some breaks now from Huffmeister, I'm Skymike
on the Generator super Center dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
I feared to think what would be on those signs
if you control them.

Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
They no better.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour Weather Center
mix of sun and cloud today with the high temperature
right about eighty We'll get you the complete forecast with
Terry Smith in eight minutes. Temperature right now still sixty
five at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's seven thirty two on k TRH.
Our top story. Another accused killer is three on bond
in Texas. This would be the team charged in the
stabbing death of Austin Metcalf.

Speaker 27 (01:40:35):
It's important for everyone to stay in their lane, and
our lane was to argue that the judge would keep
it at one million. The court decided to reduce it
down to two hundred fifty thousand.

Speaker 6 (01:40:44):
Colin County DIA. Greg Willis on Fox Now. Last week,
we told you that crowdfunding for the defended Carmelo Anthony
had raised one hundred and fifty thousand. That number since
then has tripled. Bail reform a priority item for the legislature,
did asked the Texas Senate a month ago. The House
hasn't really done anything with this, yes, but they did

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in a committee take up a second Amendment rights bill
removing short barrel firearms from the state's list of prohibited weapons.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Short barreled rifle.

Speaker 28 (01:41:14):
As much lighter, it's much easier to handle, as much
easier to utilize, whether it is hunting or self defense.

Speaker 6 (01:41:21):
Kyle Caruth is with Gun Owners of America seven point
thirty three. Despite property tax reforms past two years ago,
many Texans saw their bills go up. That's because of
local government spending, something the legislature is trying to get
a hold of.

Speaker 10 (01:41:36):
Until you get the spending problem under control, what the
legislature is doing on the tax side is only going
to have a partial effect.

Speaker 6 (01:41:45):
James Quintero at the Texas Public Policy Foundation says imposing
spending limits on local jurisdictions like Harris County Commissioner's Court
is a necessary step towards fixing this elsewhere. Erkat has
significantly increase said's electricity demand estimate by forty percent for
the year twenty thirty.

Speaker 29 (01:42:05):
They project data center growth will push demand over two
hundred thousand megawatts.

Speaker 30 (01:42:09):
Showing just how much commerce and businesses are coming to
the state, which all comes with electricity needs.

Speaker 29 (01:42:15):
Brad Johnson of the Texans says the Senate has a
bill to combat this, but we just need more power.

Speaker 30 (01:42:21):
The state definitely knows this is a problem, and they're
not shying away from it or not, the PUC, not
the legislature. Of course, they're different opinions on how exactly
to address this.

Speaker 29 (01:42:30):
Senate Bill six would establish guidelines for data center interconnection,
which the industry says with stimy growth.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
Andre Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH at.

Speaker 6 (01:42:40):
Seven thirty four, the Trump administration pulls nearly sixty four
million dollars of funding for the long talked about High
Skill high speed rail project between Houston and Dallas. Transportation
Secretary Sean Duffy says private investors should take the lead,
even though the left continues to cry about it. They've
got no answers for the latest Doge bombshell over two

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hundred and fifty four million dollars worth of unemployment claims
for people under the age of five. Scott Powell with
the Discovery Institute says it's more hypocrisy.

Speaker 31 (01:43:15):
Obama was the one who initiated this, and it was applauded.
But because it comes from Donald Trump, the enemy, and
they don't even know why he's the enemy, they cannot
believe that any good will comes out of Donald Trump,
or that anything he says is worth listening to, and
so they don't listen.

Speaker 6 (01:43:29):
But they did swear that this wasn't happening, and yet
dogs continues to find that it was meantime, a man
arrested in New Mexico charged with a tax on a
Tesla dealership and a state Republican Party office.

Speaker 32 (01:43:42):
Heed say surveillance video caught Jamison Wagner torching both a
Tesla showroom and the GOP headquarters in Albuquerque. FBI director
Cash Mattel credited ATF investigators for linking Jamison too the
firebombing of both locations.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
At Tesla, police.

Speaker 32 (01:43:58):
Found a intact ied filled with a flammable liquid and
graffiti saying die elon Tesla, Nazi Inc. And a swastika
on the building, and six vehicles.

Speaker 6 (01:44:10):
Fox's William Laugeness now Musk and Tesla have been targeted
by leftists for months. Those same radicals want Tesla owners
to give up their cars, but are they.

Speaker 33 (01:44:21):
That's more talks than anything else. People who love their
Teslas love their Teslas. I mean they're very loyal to
the brand, buy and large. Most people are hanging on
to them, and they liked them.

Speaker 6 (01:44:33):
Ktr H Car pro Jerry Reynolds seven thirty six. We've
told you about fake job openings in the past. Now
we're seeing a rise thanks to AI of fake job candidates.

Speaker 23 (01:44:44):
Employers are finding that some applicants are deep faked artificial
intelligence directed CVS photos, even deep fake face and voice
for Zoom interviews. Cyper expert Paul Peters says it could
be a huge waste of time and it's another reason
to include people and more business meetings, as well as
getting into new areas for fighting cybercrime, which is on

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the rise.

Speaker 34 (01:45:07):
I would definitely recommend biometric identification, authentication, access controls, different
things like that that companies can do on a front end.

Speaker 23 (01:45:15):
Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty ktr.

Speaker 6 (01:45:18):
And the Astros losing Saint Louis last night eight to
three on Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic
station KTRH all day long.

Speaker 28 (01:45:27):
Local state, what is happening in our country?

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
Check you in all days it's actually happening.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
It's always something I think you've seen it all on
US Radio seven forty KTRH, seven thirty eight hour time
here in Houston's Barn News. That's pretty much what President
Trump told Caitlin Collins from Singing y You You guys
really suck. They're there when the President of the President
of L. Salvador was meeting with the president, and the

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reporters were there, and they're asking all these questions about
a so called Marilyn man who who is in L.
Salvador now that the Supreme Court is ordered returned. Well,
Al Salvador is not giving him back. He's not a
United States citizen, he's a citizen of L. Salvador. He
was here illegally. He's also a gang member. Despite what

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he's told his attorney, he's a gang member. And even
if he wasn't a gang member, did I mention he's
here illegally. He's here illegally. So Caitlin Collins from CNN
is asking all these questions, and she asked another question
to ask the president, and the President is more than
happy to respond and let Pam Bonnie actually answer the question.
Here we go, let's hear the question from this very

(01:46:38):
low rated anchor has planned.

Speaker 1 (01:46:41):
To ask President Omerley to help return the man who
your administration says was mistaken which was deported the man
who was mistakenly deported to L.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Salvador.

Speaker 11 (01:46:49):
Well, let me ask Pam, would you ask to answer
that question, Sir President, first and foremost, he was illegally
in our country to the wilt.

Speaker 9 (01:46:58):
You are doing a great job.

Speaker 33 (01:47:00):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:47:02):
You just also respond to that question because.

Speaker 9 (01:47:05):
You know it's asked by CNN, and they always ask.

Speaker 11 (01:47:07):
It where it slant because they're totally slanting because they
don't know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (01:47:12):
That's why nobody's watching them.

Speaker 42 (01:47:13):
We want a case nine zero, and people like CNN
are portraying it as a loss as usual because they
want foreign terrris in the country who kidnap women and chiuldren.

Speaker 9 (01:47:22):
Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're
keeping criminals out of our country?

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
Why can't you just say that?

Speaker 3 (01:47:28):
Why do you go over and over And that's why
nobody watches you anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
You know, you have no credibility, especially her love it,
just absolutely love it. But that doesn't deter them at all,
does it. It's kind of like, you know, it goes
like right over their head. But I love the way
that was handled seven forty time for traffic and whether
together we were checking out the drive once again, here

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is sky Mike, we're the two to ninety problem.

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
We had that direct connector here Victoria from Cyprus. Thanks
for your help too, And you tell me are the
signs right now? I don't control the signs. We do
have something to do with your in car navigation. Meet
Christina and Jumping Joe. But signage. If you see the
signs are messed up, let us know seven one three
two one two tips clear the direct connector. We're back
in business on two ninety inbound. You will have some

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breaks at Huffmeister. You've got this problem downtown. That's at
the Big George I sixty nine northbound. It's has met
on the scene and it's messing up the Southwest Freeway
all the way back from Hillcroft. It's not helping two
eighty a d the north Loop westbound Wallaceville. That's a
stall truck that's causing all kinds of fish anchory coming
around from a carty that way south Belt cat Brookside Village,

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Ryan sky Mike.

Speaker 33 (01:48:40):
Apparently there is an accident guestner on stuff in the
backup at Fort Bench Hallway.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
So it's pretty ugly, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
That's gonna be westbound East Belt.

Speaker 35 (01:48:48):
Got Mike belt Way southbound on the East Belt, just
before Highway three.

Speaker 10 (01:48:54):
There is a wreck cause of all kinds of stinkery.

Speaker 5 (01:48:57):
Oh so well, said more banana stickers, twenty nine Grand
Parkway West.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
It's todd days.

Speaker 29 (01:49:02):
Guy might south on ninety nine is sugar Lands exit
of airport and ninety nine you have a gun shot.

Speaker 10 (01:49:09):
So well, fire and.

Speaker 35 (01:49:10):
Rescues on the scene.

Speaker 10 (01:49:11):
Te Trutt ninjas already, but the sucond has started on
that side here.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
I have to commend you on your verbiage, everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:49:18):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
R KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour whether Center. Terry
Smith is here and she's got another day. We're actually
a little bit cooler day today, Terry, Yeah, it is.

Speaker 20 (01:49:32):
It's a subtle change, but I'm a fan of spring,
so I kind of like this change, and it doesn't
hang around long. The heat and humidity will gradually return
to Southeast Texas, return as in this week the next
couple of days. Today's like a typical spring day, though
we've had some drier air make its way into Southeast Texas.

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So comfortable afternoon with temperatures upper seventies to low eighties.
Now tomorrow's just slightly warmer, low to mid eighties, and
Thursday's just a little warmer than that, mid to upper eighties. Friday,
we're looking at temperatures in the eighties to low nineties,
and it's still warm and muggy, with a little bit
of rain on Saturday, but a better chance of rain,

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a forty to fifty percent chance of showers and storms.

Speaker 6 (01:50:17):
Right now it looks like for Easter Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
Temperature is sixty six. Here at your officials Severe Weather Station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. What you need to know
for the day ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:50:29):
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Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
So also driving CNN Crazy, uaw President Shaan Fain coming
on in supporting Trump's tariffs. We'll have some audio to
share with you coming up next. First though, traffic and
weather together with U skynike Man. It's downtown awful. This
is full hoops tankering now on the East tex elevated.

Speaker 3 (01:50:51):
George R.

Speaker 5 (01:50:51):
Brown, everybody's okay at the wreck, but they had to
call in NASMAC. I've got brakes from Hillcroft East Sam
cleared the wreck and Highway three we still have that
backup south of it. Bruce from Porter all kind of
two ninety clear direct connector. We still have Huffmeister slowdowns.
Joe from Cyprus, we are all to go Freeway northbound.
We've cleared the problem at the loop. You have Edgebrook.

Speaker 10 (01:51:13):
It's definitely making a.

Speaker 5 (01:51:15):
Sarah from Hobby and ninety nine Grand Parkway West clear
the wreck at airport southbound.

Speaker 10 (01:51:20):
Todd from Katie, you have a gun to the sucket
just started.

Speaker 5 (01:51:23):
I must commend you all for your eloquence this morning.
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:51:28):
Center from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
weather center. Mix of sun and clouds for about eighty
for the high today, part of cloudy, breezy eighty four.
Tomorrow party cloudie, warm and windy with the high eighty
six on Thursday. Current temperature still sixty six, said your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.
Let's get you caught up on some more top Tuesday

(01:51:49):
morning stories. Here's Cliff, Thank you.

Speaker 33 (01:51:51):
Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:51:51):
Another local school district passes a common sense gender policy.
Arrests at the border in March average just two hundred
and sixty four a day, and Jimmy, he's been missing
since January twentieth, literally on the back of milk cartons. Tonight,
though he's back, Joe Biden makes his first public speech

(01:52:12):
since leaping office.

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
Back of milk cartons, more like on the back of
a pepto bismal can or something.

Speaker 6 (01:52:18):
Get the latest news anytime with KTRH dot com. You're welcome.
Our next update is at eight o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
Why need you just stay away?

Speaker 4 (01:52:24):
I live in clear Lake, Humble, reliable KTRH traffic and weather.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Next on the ten. Yeah, I know the workers make
some cool little cars, that's for sure. They're a president.
Sean Fain, who's ever been known to be a Republican,
certainly it never has been known to be a particular
supportive Republican. Causes went on CNN and basically praised President

(01:52:51):
Trump over the terraffs, which of course drove everybody at
CNN completely utterly insane. So here he is doing his
thing at CNN, and then some reaction on the five
from just waters know.

Speaker 43 (01:53:01):
That tariffs will influence these companies to do the right
thing and reinvest in this country and reinvest in factories
in this country.

Speaker 25 (01:53:08):
I'm really struggling to figure out to understand how UAW
has aligned itself with.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
Trump on this, Well, how do tariffs create jobs?

Speaker 43 (01:53:16):
We support tariffs as a tool, a tool in the toolbox,
not the end all be all. We got to fix
the broken trade system, but tariffs are a motivator to
make these companies do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
Harold and I would agree that we need to confront China,
no doubt.

Speaker 38 (01:53:30):
You would agree that we need to reindustrialize the economy
for the twenty first century high tech manufacturing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:36):
We agree, We agree to absolutely.

Speaker 38 (01:53:38):
You would agree that we want to get our trade
partners to reduce their tariffs on our exports.

Speaker 2 (01:53:43):
Correct, Okay.

Speaker 38 (01:53:45):
You would agree that we need rare earth minerals and
we need abundant energy to fuel this modern economy, without question. Okay,
So that's where we agree. Donald Trump is the only
one making progress on any of this. He's the only
one talking about it, and he's the only one getting results.
He's actually the first person to talk about how all
these things come together under one goal to make America

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great again. We've already gotten our eyes on the minerals
in Ukraine, and we have our eyes on minerals in Greenland.

Speaker 3 (01:54:18):
We've gotten four trillion in.

Speaker 38 (01:54:19):
Private investment into this country on high tech manufacturing.

Speaker 6 (01:54:22):
We have companies racing to decouple from China, and one hundred.

Speaker 38 (01:54:26):
And thirty allies have now said they're going to drop
their tariffs on our exports down to ten percent. That's
massive progress. Has it been perfect, No? But has it
gotten results? Absolutely. We could get a lot faster and
better results if the Democrats would cooperate. This is not
a Republican or Democrat issue. This is an American issue.

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So instead of just sitting around and complaining where your
only idea is to do nothing, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:54:56):
Just going to isolate the Democratic Party.

Speaker 38 (01:54:57):
Because once this thing starts going, and Trump's proven to
be flexible, he has carve outs.

Speaker 2 (01:55:03):
He's watching the bond market.

Speaker 38 (01:55:04):
He says, we might need to help Detroit because even
he understands you can't relocate major factories in the month.

Speaker 2 (01:55:10):
Could take a year, could take two or three. Why
don't we reach across.

Speaker 38 (01:55:14):
The isle like you and I are right now, herold
shake is and do this for the American people together.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
Yeah. In one of those ways, he's tried to help
with the automotive industries by not putting the tariffs on
automotive parts, at least not at this point. Hey listen, y'all,
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