Friday, July 19th, 2024

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/19/24

Episode Transcript

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This is Huge Radio seven forty ktrhHouston Live Everywhere with the exclusive audio home
of NBC's coveration of the twenty twentyfour Paris Olympics. Now the latest news
weather fan taffic, It's more ofwhat matters to you. From the John
Morris Services Studios. It is fiveam here on Houston's Morning News on a

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Friday morning. Jimmy Barrett here alongwith Sheriff Ryer. Among your top stories
as we get started this morning,a mass it outage impacting flights, banking
and even nine one one centers.Trump tells his assassination story, and coming
up at five o'h eight, Ihope you don't have to take a flight
today. Details in the minutes,sayhead, you're in Houston's Morning News.
First, we're checking out the MorningDrive for the first time. Sky Mike's

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here. Hey, if you haveto catch a plane though, you are
taking a flight so far around BushAirport, just checking sixty nine eures Text
Freeway coming down from mumble Word ingood shape now Will Clayton Parkway, Hey,
the light works there. That's nice. Will Clayton at the sixty nine
exit. Also, you could takeforty five forty five. Looks good,
you're north sam as it start thesubcon jete that was al Dean Westville.

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We're missing some laneage there westbound andalso eastbound at Imperial Valley. Let's check
your ship channel bridges at five tenin the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center
from our KTRH top tax defenders twentyfour hour Weather Center. A couple of
morning showers than some afternoon sunshine withthe I temperature right about ninety. We'll
get the complete forecast when we talkedto Terry Smith of the Weather Channel in

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about nine minutes. Right now,it is seventy eight at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven fortyk TRH. It is time now for
the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer.Good morning everyone. I'm Sheriff Ryer.
It is now five two on newsRadio seven forty KTRH. Our top story.
This is our a major internet outagesunderways, impacting several airlines and banks

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across the country. More on thatin a minute, But first I stand
before you in this arena, onlyby the grace of Almighty God, Donald
Trump officially accepting the Republican nomination infront of thousands in Milwaukee now live on
KATRH You heard it his first publicspeech since the attempt on his life last

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Saturday in Pennsylvania. So many peoplehave asked me what happened. Tell us
what happened, please, and thereforeI will tell you exactly what happened,
and you'll never hear it from mea second time because it's actually too painful
to tell. He then gave myminute personal account and paid tribute to the

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firefighter who was killed protecting his wifeand daughter, Corey Comparatore. He lost
his life selflessly acting as a humanshield to protect them from flying bullets.
He went right over the top ofthem and was hit. Trump also talked
about Jocelyn Nungeri. That's the twelveyear old Houston girl who was murdered by

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two illegal aliens last month. We'llhave more on that at five point thirty.
Trump's speech, as expected, wasa huge hit. Political analyst Chris
Begalli says Trump hit all the rightnotes. It was an excellent speech.
I think he did a great job, especially when he talked about last Saturday's
attack. His recanting of what happenedSaturday in Butler, Pennsylvania was very powerful

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and mesmerizing and in the end,Trump may have won over independence and never
Trumper's two. He talked about howthis country has problems and he's confident he
consolved those problems. Begala joins Houston'sMorning News at seven twenty Cliff Saunders News
Radio seven forty KTRH it's five ohthree. Republicans are calling for her to
resign. The Secret Service director KimCheadle reportedly did meet with Trump earlier this

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week. Donald Trump Junior wants someoneto be held accountable over the Secret Service
allowing his father on stage during anactive threat that they knew about before he
took the stage. They knew,and he hadn't even been on stage yet,
they let him on stage, andthen eleven minutes in is when the
shamps got so for twenty minutes theyknew, they still let him get on

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that stage. Like that's asinine,Trump Junior with kg Eurahius, Klay Travis,
and Buck Sexton. New York Postreporting whistleblowers in the Secret Service told
the House Judiciary Committee secret Service hadquote little resources to cover the Pennsylvania rally.
They had allocated them elsewhere. Trumpholds his first rally since the attempt

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on his life, and that willbe tomorrow in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Five oh four is our time.New York Times reporting Joe Biden could drop
out of the race this weekend,though longtime Biden allies admit, well,
yeah, that handwriting is on thewall. When we gather for our convention
next month, I'm confident that wewill nominate the best candidate to take on

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and defeat Donald Trump. That's DelawareSenator Democrat Chris Croons on CNN. Now
the Washington Post is claiming the formerpresident Barack Obama is behind it. He's
the one who thinks Biden should reconsiderhis candidacy. And there's this gen Z
voters guess what they're moving away fromDemocrats. A recent survey from Pew Research

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says forty seven percent of those surveyedand under the age of thirty align more
with Republicans compared to forty six percentfor Dems. This is reflecting the dissatisfaction
of younger members of generation. Theprofessor of political science at Rice University,
Mark Jones, says most contributing factorsfor young voters include a dollar sign,
cost of living, and things likeinflation, jobs, housing student debt.

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Jared Lewis Snooze Radio seven forty khrhit is now five oh six. Well,
this broke overnight. A global Internetoutage of some sort has forced the
FAA to issue a groundstop for severalmajor airlines at some airports. This is
related to CrowdStrike, and it firmit's a global issue right now. Now.

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A communications system that runs check insat airports, keeps flights on time
and banks running appears to be down. This is also related to Microsoft.
That's David Spunt reporting. Now there'sa local TV report that claims that that
stoppage is in effect here, butnot No, we just checked at Bush
nor at Hobby. However, wecan't speak for other airports across the country

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and how that might affect your flight. New data shows that more than one
third of workers are now struggling,truly struggling because of high prices and Biden
inflation. More than a third ofworkers feel like they're living paycheck to paycheck,
but some groups are disproportionally more likelyto be failing this way. Yeah,

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the Fed hopes that was bankraade.Sarah Foster, She says Generations Z
and millennials are most likely to beaffected. FED hopes to cut interest rates
though before the election. That wouldmake Wall Street happy, but it might
be too little, too late.Doing any more cuts will set off another
dramatic round of inflation like we've neverseen. We would see inflation go up

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even more than it did before.If we can expect even higher rates into
the double digits than twenty twenty five, Economists EJ. And Tony says raising
the rates is the only solution.While they've been raised some, the band
aid hasn't been entirely ripped off.These rates seem high to us today.
That's just because we've been spoiled withartificially low rates for the last twenty years,

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he says. Even if they docut rates, it'll only be by
a fraction. Andrey Perard News Radioseven forty ktrh nearly five thousand centipront customers
still without power in their twelfth daytoday. What does Houston government do though,
after this hurricane and their budget alreadymillions in the red well, Houston's
spending millions on art Council and isconsidering a new contract for the Houston Arts

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Alliance that would give them the abilityto spend up to twenty five million dollars
to procure new R to restore oldR YEP Bourbon reforms. Charles Blaine there
Astro's trail the Mariners by one gamein the American League West are starting a
series in Seattle tonight. Pregame ateight, game time at nine ten,

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and you'll hear it on Sports Talkseven ninety and here on KTRH. I'm
sherebrauff Ryer on News Radio seven fortyKTRH. This is most important. This
is the most important collection this year. It is believe that stay with your
most important station, News Radio sevenforty KGRH. Shar has already told you

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about this it outage. It's aMicrosoft problem. Let me give you some
further information as it relates to theairlines out there. Of course, you
know you're just going to have tocheck hour by hour to see what's going
on. But this morning, allflights from several major US airlines, including
Delta, United and American Airlines groundedthis morning due to a communications issue,

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according to the FAA, although Americanlater said it had resolved the issue,
So maybe this is something that theairlines can resolve themselves. Earlier this morning,
a technical issue with a vendor impactedmultiple carries, including American as a
five am Eastern time. They saidthat they had been able to safely re
establish their operation, saying we apologizeto our customers for the inconvenience. The

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ground stop impacted all flights from theairlines, regardless of their destination, So
if you have an early morning flight, it possibly could be delayed or it
could be canceled, so you're goingto need to check on that before you
head out to the airport. Unclearhow long the ground stopped for other airlines
could last. Rounding comes after asignificant Microsoft out eagch brought Frontier Airlines and

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some of their competitors to a standstillfor hours on Thursday, though the ground
stop for those airlines has since beenlifted. Earlier on Thursday, Frontier said
its systems had been impacted by theaudition offered refunds to inconvenience passengers. The
other competitors, including Allegiant and SunCountry, also said they were having difficulties,
including where they're booking, check inand trip managing thundunctions online. We're

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also hearing that banks are having issues. I know my own personal bank.
The app is still working, butif you just go online and go to
their website, that is not working. So you may have a difficulty accessing
your bank this morning. And thereare several other things that could be impacted
by this as well. The companiesare all saying they're determined to find the
cause, they're working to fix it. No immediate response from them with a

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direct quote on when they hope tohave everything fixed again, But again,
this could be an ongoing problem today. Yes, share it. American Airlines
has lifted its ground I said that. Okay, yeah, so yeah,
American has, but United in Deltaat this point have not. And again,
airports may be open, but thatdoes not mean that your flight will

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be going to its destination. Soagain you'll need to check ahead if you
have a flight schedule for today orperhaps even for tomorrow, and make sure
that flight is still unscheduled. Fiveeleven time for traffic and whether together's we
check in again with Skymine. Allright, let's check your belts and loops
as we check out the north sidehere once again, it's a I forty
five. You've got the westbound,No nothing at the squeeze. In fact,

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it's got the wicked curve Dude atforty five. This is north loop
six ten. Go on westbound ifyou're going from the airline side over past
the Farmer's Market. We look goodfrom TC Jester around this way and the
northeast corner where all the big rigsare truck stops at Wallaceville. Hey,
double check that for me. Makesure all of that's working there. Give
me some tip line. I'll giveyou the number shortly. And it looks

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like over by the butt Plant,we're in good shape this way, oh,
I said, ship channel bridges.Let's take a quick spack quick scan
of the Hartman and you look goodboth sides of Baytown. You've got eight
lanes of fun there. Toll bridgesuckage hasn't started yet. Southbound six ten
from the Budplant to two twenty fiveis going show all the way down here,
Carrie. How can those lines onthe map be both blue and red?

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That doesn't make any sense to me, because it's like red over the
ghetto house, but it's blue overin Sealy. I don't get it.
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Comtraffic Center from r katrh top tax Defenders
twenty four hour Weather Senator Terry Smithis here. We got a nice little
rain most of us yesterday morning.More rain coming, more rain coming.
In fact, I was just checkingthe rain arn. There was a cluster

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of showers and storms up near Brenhamthat have been making their way south southward.
They made grays Rosenberg here shortly,and there's some rain off toward the
east. So the blue line isslowly kind of just hanging around. It's
stalled, so it's going to bethis alternating blue and red line for Skymike.

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And because of the fact that it'shanging around, so does the rain.
We have a forty percent chance ofshowers and storms today and some of
that will be in the morning andmore in the afternoon, and a fifty
percent chance of showers and storms tomorrow, mainly in the afternoon. Load of
mid nineties today and tomorrow our rainchances increase. We're going to see a

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series of disturbances make their way intosoutheast Texas Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday,
and that will help to knock thetemperatures into the upper eighties to low
nineties early next week. And thetemperature right now is seventy eight AD Your
official Severe Weather station news radio sevenforty k TRH. It's Houston's Morning News,
brought to you by New South WindowsSolutions. Now back to Jimmy and

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Scherah with the info you need totake on the day. All right,
I'm going to show my age withthis one. One of my favorite moments
from last night's coverage of the RepublicanNational Convention was the speech by Hulk Hogan,
the Hulkster. I'll tell you what, brother man, the crowd loved

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it too. I'll take you bigwell. You know, anytime you got
Hulk cocing out there ripping a shirtoff to unveil his Trump Advans T shirt
underneath, I mean yeah, really, yeah, it's full of high energy.
He really fired it up. Yeahhe did. He did what he's
supposed to do. We'll share someof that with you coming up next,
first though, traffic and weather.Together's we check out the drive once again.

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Here's skyline from Sebastopol. Dude,I need better sound quality if we
can ditch the speaker phone and thankyou so much for calling so, I'm
glad you did, But if youcould try to do the normal phone,
your sound quality if John from Sebastopolis calling in. Then something is up
on the east text, So letme take a scan see if I can
figure out nothing right here in theHouston area itself that I can see just

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yet. For now, I'm showingtwenty minutes from Humble into downtown. These
things change in two minutes, andthat's why we've got another liver right here.
Five thirty. So far freeways rockingalong. We'll double check that at
five thirty. The Generator Supercenter dotcom traffic center from our KTRH top tax
defender is twenty four hour weather centerfor today, a couple of morning showers
than some afternoon sun with a hightemperature right about ninety Tomorrow morning showers,

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partly cloudy for the afternoon ninety oneSunday Clodie with the caational showers at high
eighty nine temperature right now seventy eightat your official severe weather station, news
Radio seven forty KTRH, we're checkingout some of our top stories this Friday
morning here SHAFF five twenty one onnews Radio seven forty KTRH. Our headlines
are sponsored by dn M Auto Leasing. Donald Trump accepts the GOP nomination in

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Milwaukee, closing out the convention AmericanAirlines says we've told you now has lifted
its ground stop. United and Deltais still affected. But what is a
global internet outage? Primarily Microsoft andCrowdStrike. Former Fox Business and before that
CNN host Lou Dobbs has died.He was seventy eight. Latest News anytime

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at KTRH dot com. Our nextupdate will be at the bottom of the
hour five thirty. The lazy daysof summer. Not around here, A
lot can happen, Jeep Bob,This some crazy on news Radio seven KTRH.
Here on Houston's Morning News. Allright, Hulk Hogan last night,

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that's the Hulkstert was at the RepublicanNational Convention there to fire up the crowd,
which he did. Well. Letme tell you something, brother,

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You know something. When I camehere tonight, there was so much energy
in this room. I felt maybeI was in massive square garden getting ready
to win another world title, ormaybe I thought the vibe was so intense,
the energy was so crazy. Itfelt like maybe I was gonna press

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that no good, stinky giant overmy head and slam him through the mat.
Brother. But what I found outwas I was in a room for
a real American's brother. And atthe end of the day, with our
leader up there, my hero,that Gladiator, We're gonna bring America back

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together, one real American at atime. Brother. You know something,
I've seen some great tag teams inmy time, Hulk Hogan and ooh yeah,
the macho man Randy Savage of Quse. You know something, I see

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the greatest tag team of my lifestanding upon us, getting ready to straighten
this country out for all the realAmericans. You know, you know,
you guys are real Americans. Youbetter get ready because when Donald Dick J.

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Trump becomes the President of the UnitedStates, all the real Americans are
gonna be nicknamed Trump Heights because becauseall the Trump Bights are gonna be running
wild for four years. So withthe power of Donald J. Trump and

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all the Trump Heights running wild,America, it's gonna get back on track.
And like Donald J. Trump said, America is gonna be great again.
There you go, the Holster whatthe Holster does? He got serious
too though, after all that myreal name is Terry, I forget his

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last name is he announced? Yeah, And he did an interview earlier day
in Fox You know, in thisnormal persona, you know. And they
asked him and they said, you'venever been political before. Why why you
why why did you decide to cometo this And he said, I just
realized I can't I can't wait anymore. I got to you. You know,

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I've got to stand up. Weall have to stand up. You
know. It's really amazing because he'sreferred to Gladiator. We've been talking,
Moyer. Now, this is sortof like an elevation. Yes, there's
a difference between Wayer and Gladiator.Maybe because definitely this is a guy who's
in the arena and all the forcesare aligned against it, have been against

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Donald Trump. Yep, So maybeGladiator is better. Yeah, the lines
are all coming for but he keepsknocking aside. Yep. So far anyway,
five twenty six, it is timeto take a look at your money.
Good morning to you, Courtney Donahoe. Welcome morning, Jimmy. Airlines,
banks, media outlets, companies allaround the world reporting technical disruptions.
And this is after Microsoft reported inand out as your process online services.

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United Delta and American Airlines have groundedflights because of communications issues. McDonald's among
a number of companies affected. Thisis weighing on the markets. This morning,
Dow Future is down sixty points.Meantime, Signs of economic weakness drove
the Dow down five hundred thirty threepoints to wrap up yesterday's session. Oil
this morning slightly lower at eighty twodollars a barrel. Oil futures continue to

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trade despite the technical glitches. Severaltraders tell us the outage is impacting some
companies active in the oil market.Crew is still higher for the year,
and Shopper spent fourteen point two billiondollars online during Amazon's forty eight hour Prime
Day sale. According to Adobe,that's up eleven percent from a year ago.
Consumers took advantage of steep discounts updatetheir electronics, apparel, and small

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home appliances. Courtney's on a HopeBloomberg business for News Radio seven forty KTRH
are own Houston's News. Whether We'reTraffic plus Breaking News twenty four seventh.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRHTrial Everywhere Bore more of what's happening now

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from the John Morris Services Studios.It is five point thirty now here in
Houston's morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrettalong with Sheriff Ryer Monger top stories of
fre Trump lays out his policies couldbe out by the race by the end
of the weekend and coming up atfive thirty eight center point as for a
federal grant to help harden the grid, but they got turned down. Details

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in the minutes ahead. You're inHouston's Morning News. First, let's check
out that morning Vibe again. Hereis sky Mike. So far, freeways
moving along nicely. Now I wantto remind you there is a funeral procession
today for falling Harris County Sheriff's DeputyFernando Skata. It looks like it's around
ten am. It's going to starton the Southwest Freeway around Fannin coming out
of midtown. What's going to affectthe Gulf Freeway also wayside Lindale, And

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it looks like they're heading down toheading down from I'll have to look that
up Coke Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. That's Saint Joseph's Parkway downtown. I'll
try to put all this information togetherfor you this morning. The Generator Supercenter
dot com Traffic Center from r KTRHGenerator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center
Party called it a couple of scatteredshowers or storms today with the high temperature

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right about ninety but a forty percentchance getting wet. We'll get the rest
of the forecast for the weekend.Looks like it's gonna be a very rainy
day on Sunday. Well, talkto Terry Smith about that in eight minutes
right now seventy eight at your officialsevere weather station, news Radio seven forty
KTRH. It is time now forthe news. Here's Sheriff Ryer, Good
morning. Everyone. Is now fivethirty two on news radio seven forty KTRH.

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Our top story this hour. Youheard it here on KTRH. Donald
Trump, speaking for more than anhour and a half accepting the GOP nomination
in Milwaukee last night, he touchedon the border crisis, the murder of
a Houston girl last month by twovicious illegal aliens, josh Jocelyn Nungerai got

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precious twelve year old girl from Houstonwho last month was tied up, assaulted,
and strangled to death after walking tothe convenience So just a block away
from her house, and Trump recountedhis own near death experience. I raised
my right arm looked at the thousandsand thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting

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and started shouting fight, Fight,Fight. Trump paid tribute to the firefighter
who was killed in the attack,named the others who were injured now recovering,
he says in a moment of silent. It was revealed on stage that
the firefighter uniform, helmet and shieldof Corey Comparatory had been loaned by his

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widow and family, whom Trump hadspoken with. Among other speakers last night,
former Fox host Tucker Carlson, Ithink it was divine intervention, but
the effect that it had on DonaldTrump. He was no longer just a
political party's nominee or a former presidentor a future president. This was the

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leader of a nation. Yeah,legendary wrestler hul Cogan, you just heard
that from Jimmy over here, butalso UFC chief Dana White. He basically
introduced Trump came back from a vacationsomewhere around the world in order to be
there for the president, who ishis good friend. Republicans are united behind

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Trump. Democrats, well, they'repretty much united in trying to push President
Joe Biden out of the race.According to multiple sources, several top Dems
now believe the pressure is so intense, so great, the eighty one year
old could be persuaded to drop outof the race as soon as this weekend.

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Kevin Cork reporting there yet another SenatorDemocrat trying to save his own skin.
Montana Senator John Tester, in atough reelection campaign, is calling for
Biden to withdraw. House Speaker MikeJohnson, Republican, says, it's clear
that the Democrats are in total disarray. I think they're ready for him to
go because it has a terrible downballid effect. There won't be as a

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big of a turnout on their side. They're terrified about that. They don't
know what to do. Johnson,with Kate r H's, Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton, it is now fivepoint thirty five political pandering, more welfare
handouts being labeled as a right thesedays. Constitution forget about it. The

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border crisis is creating. The Constitutionwas designed to lay out basic, high
level principles, figuring that the eitherlower costs or people's common sense would dictate
a lot of the minutia, notexactly what is happening. That was Alan
Vieiffer with The American Thinker. Hesays, the life just turning the Constitution
into a step by step guide onhow we should all live our lives their

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way, and their way means openborders. We've seen the largest population shift
in history in illegal immigration overseas andis happening here too. The border crisis
is creating population problems here in America. The number of people that entered the
country illegally during the Biden administration,if you put them all in one place,
in a brand new state, itwould be there would be eleven states

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that have lower population. Breitbart's BobPrice told KTRH this is extremely unhealthy population
growth. You're seeing problems with lowincome housing, with wages being suppressed because
there's more competition for low end manuallabor type jobs prices. These are the
same issues that the United Kingdom ishaving, and we should be learning from
their mistakes. Ethan Buchanan News Radioseven forty KTRH. It's five point thirty

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six. We've been telling you aboutthis global internet outage impacting millions this morning.
Several airlines, including United and Delta, are affected. CrowdStrike Now says
this is not a security problem,but a content update. We'll keep you
posted. Five thousand Centerpoint customers stillwithout power in the summer heat this morning.

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And we've heard this before and nowwe hear it again. Will underground
power lines be the solution to ourweather related power outages? Sure it could
be, but it's not likely.Even if you live in a neighborhood that
has underground power lines, at somepoint your neighborhood is connected to power lines
that are above ground. That isFlorian Martin, reporter with the Houston Business

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Journal. The other main underground issue. The cost putting lines underground is several
million dollars per mile, and ifyou put everything underground that is now aboveground,
you can you can only imagine howexpensive that would be. According to
the Center Point, around sixty percentof the households they serve already have underground

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power lines. Jeff Biggs News Radioseven kth Fave thirty seven is our time.
Airbnb customers guess what hidden cameras Andthere have been lots of complaints about
that. The person going to rentthe property agrees that if something happens while

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they're staying at this accommodation, they'reactually prohibited from suing Airbnb. They must
go a different route, which isa binding arbitration. It's a way too
strong arm someone so that no onewill know. This will be swept under
the rug. Yeah, that's attorneybelca Plata. Now bm Airbnb admits to
receiving thirty five thousand customer complaints aboutsurveillance devices over the past decade. Astro's

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visiting Seattle Tony trailing the Mariners byjust one game in the American League West.
Coverage at eight pm on Sports Talkseven ninety and KTRGE game time nine
ten. I'm sure for Fryar onNews radio seven forty KTRH Help Star of
Hope, help Houston's homeless. Todonate, go to soohmission dot org.

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This is Houston's Morning News with JimmyParent and Sheriff Fryer. Is this politics
or is it something else? CenterpointEnergy tried to get a federal grant to
harden the electric grid here in Houston. They applied with the Department of Energy
for a federal grant of one hundredmillion dollars to harden our electric grid.

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It was a competitive grand process,which means there are others who are going
for the money. And it wasup to these various different utilities to show
how they would use the money,how it would harden the grid, et
cetera, et cetera. In otherwords, tell us what you would do
and how it's going to improve things. They lost out on that. In
rejecting them, the Department of Energysaid, quote, the application does not

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adequately lay out the project risks andhow those will be managed. They also
said the application is vague and howthe community engagement will involve going forward.
They also said the application does notadequately describe how economic and industry benefits from
grid hardening in these areas, besidesHouston being a major port city, and
on and on and on and on, And that would be the Biden Department

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of Energy. Yes, So youknow, is it politics or is it
something that we've kind of seen forourselves here over the last week that maybe
they just aren't real good at pleadingtheir case. May maybe they didn't do
an adequate job of showing how theyhad a plan if they got one hundred
million dollars for making things better.Since Center Point is known for natural gas,

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I would say I am suspicious,Okay, in this government, It's
fine to be suspicious. We've seenit before with democratic governments and how they
try to penalize Texas. Sure,sure, and I would be suspicious of
that as well. But I wouldalso be suspicious of Center Point because we've
also seen it. We're going tobe we're digging into They're not very good
at dotting not real good at dottingeyes and crossing teams. This was a
federal grant of one hundred million dollars. Do you think they're going to give

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that? Well, then if theyif they' somebody who's primarily natural gas.
It's also it's also fair to askif they had gotten one hundred million dollar
grid, how that money would havebeen put to use and if it would
have really improved things at a timewhen the national they're trying to take over
our grid are independent grid. Don'tforget that five forty Now, time for
traffic and weather together. Sky Mike'sstanding, Mi, what you got.

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I've got your twenty five right here. That's to twenty five Laport Freeway.
They don't have a shot for me, but I've got this wreck al Lingenoah,
get on Genoa's mixed up. That'sAlan Genoa on the inbound and it's
westbound. Let's see right lane here, looks like some flashing lights. That's
going to be a bigger thing shortly, so we'll keep an eye on that
up the north side east text,I've got something up in the sticks.

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Got the fluff four stepper directing offthat off the freeway onto the way.
All right, let me zoom thatat the five point fifty and if anybody
can get me some laneage. Itlooks like right now, it's all laneage
ninety nine, big shots, GrahamParkway. It's gin from Tomball. Hey,
I be bound on right at theGlenlock or Champion exit. One car

(31:41):
in the right lane, one carin the left lane that have crashed into
each other. Only one pop onthe fee right now. All right,
I'm not seeing any big backup justyet, so let's be super duper careful.
If you're coming over from fifty nine, that'll probably cause a big cram
up shortly. And we'll zoom allthis at the the Generator Supercenter dot Com

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Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator superCenter twenty four hour where the Sunay Terry
Smith is here. The weekend isalmost tiered. We're gonna be dodging rain
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fan of ram I'm a fan ofall this, kind of all things in
moderation terry. That's yes, exactly, a little of this, a little

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of that variety. So here's thething. If you do have outdoor plans,
sooner is better than later. Todayand tomorrow aren't too bad. But
then we get kind of stuck inthe muck and it it just gets super
soggy Sunday and early next week.Today we have a forty percent chance of
some showers and storms and we getto see some sunshine. Temperature's load of

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mid nineties. Fifty percent chance ofthunderstorms tomorrow, mainly in the afternoon load
of mid nineties. But it's aseventy percent chance of showers and storms and
heavy rains of possibility Sunday, eightypercent chants of more heavy rain Monday and
Tuesday. Right now seventy seven.Here at your officials, Severe Weather Station
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(33:07):
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One of our Texas delegates, FeliciaCraven's, will join us give us her
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have about a sixty percent chance,and then an eighty percent chance of rain
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(34:15):
stories on this Friday. Here's sheragood morning. It's five fifty one on
Newswatch seven forty KTRH our headlines aresponsored by Morow Mechanical and Internet outage affecting
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On Tuesday, comedian Bob Newhart hasdied at the age of ninety four.
Latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update will be at
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KTRH traffic and weather. Next onthe ten Newsfully Shah Cravens joins us.

(35:00):
He's a Texas delegate. She wasthere for the republic republican excuse me,
national Convention. So which day wasthe high life for you, Felisha?
I think the whole thing was ahighlight. I've never seen a convention that
had so much entertainment, so much, so much information, so much.
I mean, it just had alittle something for everybody. It really did.

(35:23):
It was so amazing to be onthe floor, to be there with
all the energy, to meet delegatesfrom across the country and hear what they
had to say and what their impressionswere in their opinion was and it was
a big party more than anything else. I think that by the time we
got through the convention process, everybodyknew Donald Trupleve's candidate. We were all

(35:45):
coming off the new Saturday that hehad been shot, and it was just
a big relief to have the candidatelocked in, to have him live there.
We weren't mourning his loss or himbeing in the hospital. It has
just been transformational, I think fora lot of people in that room to
be there and see him be therestanding talking to everyone and not you know,

(36:12):
a situation that would have been farworse. Donald Trump has a unique
ability to connect with people and doesn'tmatter whether it's ten thirty, fifty thousand
at a time, he makes aconnection and you feel like it's personal.
I can't imagine that you didn't feelthat, oh, oh, absolutely.
And the care that the convention andthe campaign had taken with us delegates and

(36:36):
to give us opportunities to meet himor at least be in the room and
listen to him speak. Ahead ofthis, he came every night to the
convention to be there. It wasjust I can't even explain how people were
so moved at the stories that hewould tell, or the stories that other

(36:59):
people coming to speak for him wouldtell. The whole room every time he
would be in it would be abuzz with energy. And also people felt
that he understood them. You know, it kind of felt, Felicia like
the assassination attempt was a real bigreset button for Donald Trump. I thought

(37:19):
he came across last night as beingsympathetic, empathetic. He was kind in
many cases, he was emotional inmany cases. We saw a lot of
fat facets of Donald Trump last nightthat he doesn't normally show us right.
And people always have been misled aboutthis, you know, violent rhetoric or

(37:42):
something like this. It's as thoughsomething switched when Donald Trump won the last
time, and all the people whohad just indulged him before had to attack
him, and they had to findanything they could do to criticize him,
to complain about whatever it was thathe might have said and twisted and something
like that, and people that Ispoke to over and over again believe that

(38:05):
he got a poor shake from themedia from day one, and so there's
a lot of forgiveness and a lotof indulgence that people have for things that
he might say, the words thathe might use. We know Donald Trump
now, he's a known quantity,and so a lot of the things that
people have been criticizing him with itjust doesn't resonate with people the way it

(38:29):
used to. I think there's anelement of that too. Well. We're
seeing some Democrat voters who saying they'renot swayed. They're tired of hearing about
what he did. They want toknow what he's going to do. And
I'm thinking, where are you livingunder a rock? I mean, his
twenty twenty statements of what he willdo, what he said last night,
what he will do on day one. I mean, the mainstream media is

(38:52):
still pulling the wool over their eyes. Oh indeed, And I will tell
you the Trump campaign is so muchbetter about messaging this time around, at
least in my opinion. When I'mlooking at the kind of signs that they
had for the floor make housing affordableagain, that's a clear message, Make

(39:12):
America wealthy again. That's a clearmessage, more opportunity that things like fire.
Joe Biden, make America great againis one of the most remember,
remarkable and memorable slogans you could haveeven last night, bring back common sense.
This campaign has distilled the message downso well that some of the noise

(39:35):
that the media or left is createdis not going to get through this time
well. And maybe best of all, the Republicans are not the Party of
unity and the Democrats are the Partyof dis array. How times have changed.
Thank you, Felicia, good totalk to you. Glad you have
a great time. Alicia Cravens,Texas Delegate. It's five fifty seven.
This is Used Radio seven Kati rhHouston Drive Everywhere in the exclusive audio home

(40:01):
of NBC's coverage of the twenty twentyfour Paris Olympics. Now the latest news,
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Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Fryar Monger. Top stories this half hour and mass
it outage impacting flights, banking andeven some nine to one to one call

(40:23):
centers. Trump tells his assassination storyat the convention, and at six oh
eight it looks like Joe he isjust about ready to go. Details in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston'sBoning News. First, we're taking out
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(41:08):
twenty four hour Weather Center Party Cottywith a few showers today, about
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Good morning, six oh two onnews radio seven forty KTRH. Our

(41:30):
top story of this hour. We'vegot a massive Internet outage affecting airlines,
banks, and even Amazon around theglobe. More on that in a moment.
First, with faith and devotion,I proudly accept your nomination for President
of the United States. Thank you, Donald Trump. Last night in Milwaukee,

(41:52):
closing out the Republican Convention, aninety two minute long speech he gave
talking about the attempted assassination on himlast Saturday, the only time he says
he will speak at this level aboutit. I heard a loud whizzing sound
and felt something hit me really reallyhard on my right ear. I said

(42:15):
to myself, Wow, what wasthat happen? He paid tribute to the
firefighter who was killed, the rallygoer, Corey Comparatore, who died protecting
his family in the stands. Theycan't compensate. They all said, the
same thing. You're right, sir, We appreciate so much what you're doing,
but nothing can take the place.Yeah, he talked about talking with

(42:38):
the family. Jocelyn nunger I,the twelve year old using girl murdered by
two illegal aliens last month, wasalso addressed by Trump. We'll have that
at six thirty. Speech hitting allthe right notes for many analysts, including
local Chris Begalam. He talked aboutunity and it was very strong and it

(42:59):
was a Trump Magawala will join Houston'sMorning News at seven twenty this morning.
It's now six' oh three.Calls for her resignation, but the director
of the Secret Service nup. She'sremaining on the job, Kimberly Cheetle,
refusing calls to step down. Sheis set to testify before the House Oversight

(43:20):
Committee Monday, as she faces growingcriticism over what Republicans believe was a security
failure leading to the assassination attempt.Meanwhile, a source familiar says FBI Director
Christopher Ray will not attend the HouseHomeland Security Committee hearing next week looking into
the shooting. New York Post reportingthat whistleblowers told the House Judiciary Committee that

(43:44):
the Secret Service had quote little resourcesto cover the Trump Pennsylvania rally. It's
now six' oh four. NewYork Times reporting the President Biden could drop
out of the race this weekend.This will expedite the exit of Joe Biden.
Democrats will be at a fever pitch. We'll have seen one of the
greatest moments in presidential history. That'sFox's Kaylee mcinenny weighing in on the Trump

(44:07):
performance last night. New numbers showthe gen Z well, they're leaving the
Democrat Party well. This suggests thatmembers of Generation Z, particularly the younger
members, are increasingly dissatisfied with theBiden administration and are taking it out on
the Biden administration and Democrats by leaningmore towards the Republican Party. Rice's Mark

(44:28):
Jones. He says rising costs,housing, affordability, that's big role in
all of this with Gen Z.Six oh five is our time. There's
a global internet outage forcing the FAAhere to issue ground stops for several major
airlines this morning, including United andDelta. American Airlines has lifted its ground
stop. Fox's David Spott here.This outage is affecting millions of people from

(44:52):
Sydney, Australia to Boston, Massachusettsto London, England. Rare to see
such a global outage like this persistingseveral hours. We have calls to the
FBI to see what's being done here, but as we can tell, this
is strictly software related. Yeah,the CEO of crowd Strike says this is
actually because of a content update.This is not a security assault. We'll

(45:15):
see interest rate cuts proposed by theFed this year could be a welcome sign
to some, but it could overallspell disaster for our economy. It is
going to be another sugar high forWall Street. It is going to be
another round of the stock market exploding. And that looks great for advertising purposes
for the politician, but in termsof improving the everyday life of the average

(45:37):
American, it's just not going tohelp. Ej Antni with a heritage foundation,
he says the only inflation to solutionto inflation is to raise rates to
bring them down. That maybe it'sjust too late. What did the third
of workers say they are struggling toget by? A recent survey from bank

(45:57):
Rate says thirty four percent of surveyto America and workers are living paycheck to
paycheck. We wanted to focus specificallyon workers, because they're the people who
are doing everything right, but yetthey still feel like they're having trouble making
in me. Bankry analyst Sarah Fostersays, this isn't really new news,
but it's still not fun news either. We know Americans, we're living paycheck
to paycheck long before inflation surge,so to say that this is an inflation

(46:22):
phenomena would really be kind of oversimplifyingit. Generation X and millennials as well
as Southerners are most likely to feelthis way. Jared Lewis, news radio
seven forty KJRH six O seven nowfive thousand Center Point customers still without power
this morning used to Mayor John Whitmeyersays this city is broke, apparently not

(46:44):
enough to stop a new art contract. City council members are set to approve
a new twenty five million dollar artproject. Charles Blaine, president of Urban
Reform, says, this is moredems disconnect us had a hurricane and fire
stations not having generators. We havea lot of issues in a lot of

(47:05):
needs in this city. The cityalready has a large art collection with over
eight hundred pieces. Jeff Biggs,News Radio seven KTRH six o seven.
The Stros visit Seattle tonight, trailingthe Mariners by just one game. Pregame
at eight on Sports Talk seven ninetyand here on KTRH. I'm Sheriff Fryar
on News Radio seven forty KTRH.I take the Beltway sometimes, and I

(47:31):
also take the West Park Toll RoadKTRH time saving traffic. Next on the
ten, Oh, is Joe readyto go? A lot of stories about
that. Joe evidently soul searching inDelaware. That's one story I'm looking at.
Soul searching. Yeah, that's whathe's doing. The heat is on
just about every major Democrat party memberis telling him he's got to go,

(47:54):
including Barack Obama, because the heatis on them. Yes, he's got
to go. Blame it on Joe, the guy that they've propped up and
hidden for so long. Exactly right. So the question the question is twofold.
Number one, when does he decideto go? The reports are that
he could decide before the end ofthe weekend. And number two, what
does he want before he goes?Because that's probably the waiting game they're playing

(48:17):
right now. Well, has heever done anything that he didn't get a
better deal? For his family.Exactly right. There's whether we're talking about
money, pardon for Hunter, apardon for Hunter, let's see here,
well, maybe some others, theambassadorship for Jill, maybe doctor Jill.
Yeah, I wonder what are theygoing to do for Jill because she's lacking
what she's doing, exactly right.So the thing of it is that it

(48:37):
just shows you the party controls everything. Forget about the voters. The voters
don't count anymore, certainly not inthe Democrat Party. No, twelve million
people voted for him. He hasthose delegates. Those are his delegates.
But now you've got the Obama atObama's and the party because they're scared to
death that they're going to lose theirhold on power, exactly right. So

(49:00):
the announcement by the weekend, thequestion becomes whether they do next Kamala Harris
or do they just have an openconvention? That would be my back open
convention making maneuver. There you go, So I'll be a dog and pony
show though the party's in control.Well and tell me you won't want to
watch it. Of course you'll you'regonna want to watch it to see what
the hell happens. Must see TV. They turned the Republican National Convention into

(49:22):
the must see TV. Now theDemocrats feel like they have to do the
same six ten time for traffic andweather together. Steck out that drive.
Here's sky Mike, Oh, Igot rumblings all over the place. Let's
dude, John East Text, what'sgoing on? This is John from Sebastopol
again. Go ahead, just beforeGlen Dora there's a vehic will six fun
out back, then through the trafficbarricade and sticking halfway into the inside lane.

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There are nones on site, wellsaid, watch out as you're coming
down from Cleveland, Texas. Andfrom what I'm getting, you're not seeing
this very well. We've got moreEast text trouble. I'm getting rumblings.
I have that feel like the forceat cross Timbers. Dude on the left
hand side, got a cup ofbowles, Gonna need a ninja ah more

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great and a car, a fantasticgreat burbage by the way southbound, Let's
look out from the Beltway and totwenty five lookout. It's a WREC inbound
westbound right lane. I thought they'dhave this sucker picked up by now.
It's backing things up after red Bluffand let's skip over to it if you
can. Washington Tunnels looking good,Carlos Tomball, Dude, am I I

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Ax Avenders twenty four hour whether senterTerry Smith? This year weekend is almost
here in the forecast, Well,not great if you want to do a
lot of outdrectivity. No, it'sit's not the best. I mean we
have some rain today and tomorrow,and then our rain chances really start to
ramp up Sunday and early next week. Now today and tomorrow, I would

(51:12):
you know, there'll be windows whereit's sunny and dry or at least dry.
So if you've got out to ourplants, today and tomorrow might be
your best days. Forty percent chanceof showers and thunder storms. Today we've
got some of that around this morning, we'll see some into the afternoon,
fifty percent chance of afternoon storms Tomorrow, load of mid nineties today and tomorrow,
rain chances increase, and we're goingto be dealing with heavy rain at

(51:36):
least the potential for some heavy rainSunday, Monday, and Tuesday. So
we're going to be keeping an eyeon this because if we have this long
period of rain, we may windup with some local life flooding. Right
now seventy seven at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty krh
US Traffic and Weather. You're startingyour day right with Houston's morning news.

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You buy new South Windows solutions.The City of Houston's infrastructure is a mess.
We don't have enough firefighters, wedon't have enough police officers. We
have a mounting debt deficit as faras our budget goes, and yet we're
getting ready to spend twenty five milliondollars on more art. Does that make
any sense more than story? Comingup next first though, traffic and weather

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together as we check out the driveonce again, here's skuy Mine. The
rest of the media now knows there'sa wreck on the East tex Freeway southbound
at cross timbers been from a Taskastas on it. Mike starting to back
up, but did well. Truckis on the left hand. Wallack,
who's all smashed trucks and dings arethere? Well said, I've got backups

(52:43):
now from it looks like gents andRobert Cleveland whatever. Sky my car decided
to pure wet and the rain intothe movie in at twenty ninth southbound on
fifty nine. All right, that'sSplendora. I'm SKYMIKEE on the Generator Supercenter
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(53:06):
about ninety forty percent chance of thatmorning showers and partly COTTI tomorrow ninety one
and then Sunday looks like a rainday about eighty percent chants of occasional showers
and storms in a high of eightynine right now, temperature is seventy eight
at your officials severe weather station,News Radio seven forty KTRAH. Let's get
you caught up on some top storieson this Friday morning. Here's Sharon six

(53:28):
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Donald Trump brings down the house atthe RNC in Milwaukee. Last night,
we'll have highlights a major Internet outageaffecting everything from airlines, to airports,
to banks and Amazon. This morningacross the globe. American Airlines,
however, has lifted its ground stop. Mayo Clinic scientists have identified a new

(53:52):
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cheap up with our steady flow ofupdates to continue onward line with US Radio
seven KTRH six twenty three is ourtime here in Houston's warning news. But
it's got a lot of art.Is getting ready to spend twenty five million
dollars more on art because the cityhas a Civic Art Ordinance that requires that
one point seventy five percent of thetotal budget it costs for capital improvement projects

(54:37):
be spent on acquiring or conserving art. Charles Blaine joins US president at Urban
Reform, So it's built in thecity charter at this point, Charles,
instead of voting for twenty five milliondollars for art, how about we vote
to repeal the ordinance. Let's let'sstart with that. Well, good morning,
and I completely agree with you.I mean, it's it's truly absurd

(55:00):
to think that there is an ordinancerequiring this amount to be spent on art.
And the way it works is thatthis one point seventy five percent is
required for any capital improvement project budget. So think you know, a new
fire station or the redevelopment of afire station or something like that. They
got to take that total budget andone point seventy five percent of that has
to be spent on civic art.It is absolutely crazy. Yeah, instead

(55:22):
of generators exactly. I mean,you know, we heard many times throughout
the course of not just Hurricane Barrel, but even before that, when there
was the flooding up in Kingwood aboutthe need for generators for fire stations and
things like that, and you know, it's frustrating to hear. I will
say that there is a little bitof hope. So there is not a

(55:42):
conservative majority on Council. So weknow the conservative council members have a hard
time there, but they did fightthis effort and they were successfully able to
reduce it from twenty five million tofifteen million. So while it's not the
biggest, the biggest drop council memberFred Flickinger, who represents the king Wood
and clear Lake area fourth and Amendment, to get them to reduce it,
and he was successful in that effort. What is it that city council doesn't

(56:07):
understand about what their job is atthis point? Even the liberal members,
I mean clearly they see we haveproblems that we are underfunded in many different
areas, and we have a citythat's falling apart, a city whose budget
is completely out of whack. Wheredo they think the money comes from?
You know, I think a lotof them just forget that the money comes
from us. And it was interestingwatching the hearing on this because the vice

(56:30):
mayor, she's a Democrat who wasselected by the mayor, she was kind
of being condescending to taxpayers who cameup there to complain about this. You
had a number of people saying,we have all these needs across the city.
We have communities that are ignored police. Don't spend this money on art
spend it on other things. Andthe way that she would speak to them
saying that, you know, thereare other people who have needs too,

(56:52):
and a lot of the artists haveneeds and it's up to us to help
them. It's economic development. Wegot to lure people to this work.
We're in the business of supplementing starvingartists. Now, yes we are.
And who are those artists and howare they selected? You know, this
is just more of spending money toyour buddies, delivering it to your buddies
who help you get elected. Imean, it really is, because you

(57:15):
know, we're not selecting that,are you and I We're not on a
panel selecting that, And we don'treally even get to pick who is on
the panel selecting that. But wedo have to deal with what they select,
and we see it around the cityall the time, and so it
is really frustrating and it is usuallya gift to people's buddies. I'll say
though, that another upside that aminor upside that came out of this is

(57:35):
that because council members, because theConservative council members finally realized that this was
going on, there was another pushagain from Fred Flickeninger and another council member,
Julian Ramirez, to actually bring upthis ordinance for a review, because
it hasn't been reviewed since it waspassed, and so they're pushing to reconsider
if we're going to actually keep doingthis, and so they're gonna need some
help on that going forward, becauseyou know, obviously they're out numbered at

(57:57):
council. But I'm excited that thisconversation least starting because it's absolutely ridiculous.
Wellt's keep the pressure on. Thankyou, sir, appreciate it. Charles
Blaine, President at Urban Reform.It's six twenty six. It is time
to take a look at your money, Hoordy Donajos here, Well, good
morning, Jimmy. A tech outagedisrupting operations for many companies around the world.
Airlines have halted flights. Everything frombanking to healthcare firms have been hit

(58:17):
by system issues. A botched updateof a widely used cybersecurity program has taken
out Microsoft Systems. Stocks are strugglingtoday with the outage hitting so many businesses.
SMP futures are little changed, however, Dow futures are down eighty points.
Accidental Petroleum expects to close its tenpoint eight billion dollar purchase of Crown
Rock next month. Crown Rock isone of the largest private oil and gas

(58:40):
producers in the premium basin. Theperiod for the Federal Trade Commission to block
the deal has expired, and budLight has slipped to the number three spot
in US beer sales. According toNielsen. Iq Medello is holding on as
the best selling beer in the country, followed by michelob Ultra Marketing. This
step last year has not bud Lifefrom its position as a top selling beer

(59:00):
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(59:22):
from the John Morris Services Studios.It is six point thirty now here in
Houston's Boring News, I'm Jimmy Barretalong with Sheriff Fryarmonger Top stories this f
hour, Trump lays out his policies. Biden could be out of the race
by the end of the weekend,and at six thirty eight, Dana White
shows us what kind of guy Trumpreally is. Details in the minutes ahead.

(59:42):
You're in Houston's boring news. First, we're checking out that drive once
again. Here's sky Mine all righteast text, let's reroute now southbound.
iHeartRadio listeners were the first to knowabout this. We did share it though,
just to be nice. He's textfreeway southbound. Let's call it Laura
Coffy. I'm taking two left laneshere, big shots jump on the hardy
tall road. Commenters the north freewaysnot bad for now to twenty five.

(01:00:05):
Alan Genoah, that's her wreck inbound. A little worse than we thought at
first. Right lane here and splendor. I can't see that. I know
we had the wreck southbound on theEast tex at twenty ninety. You tell
me if that's still here. Sevenone three two one two tips watch out
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(01:00:28):
forty percent chance high temperature right aboutninety We'll get to the complete forecast
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at your official severe weather station,News Radio seven forty k TRH. It
is time now for the news.Here's Sheriff Ryer. Good morning at six
thirty one on news radio seven fortyk TRH. Our top story this our

(01:00:49):
Donald Trump live on KTRH last nightaccepting the Republican Party nomination in Milwaukee.
Any pay tribute to the family littleHouston girl Joscelyn Nunger II, the twelve
year old murdered by two illegal alienshere in June. Because recently I spoke
to the grieving mother of Joscelyn Nungary, a wonderful woman, a precious twelve

(01:01:15):
year old girl from Euston, andTrump, on his near death experience,
moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down. My hand was
covered with blood, just absolutely bloodall over the place. I immediately knew
it was very serious that we wereunder attack. Trump paid tribute to the

(01:01:38):
firefighter who was killed in that attack. Corey Comparatore's funeral is today. Among
other speakers last night, uf Cbass Dana White, I'm not telling you
what choice to make, and I'mnot telling you what to think. I'm
telling you what I know. Iknow America needs a strong leader in the

(01:01:58):
world needs. White and Trump arevery close friends, and Trump attends many
UFC pay per view events has foryears. Publicly, Joe Biden maintains he's
going to stay in the race forthe White House, but privately is a
different story. Privately, apparently he'sresigned to the fact that there's not only
mounting pressure, there are bad pollsand an untenable amount of scrutiny on his

(01:02:22):
age, making it impossible to continuethe campaign now. Behind the scenes,
according to axio's top leaders in theparty want you to give it up,
including former President Obama, Yeah foxIs Kevin gork reporting there, and now
Montana's Senator John Tester. He's ina tough reelection campaign. Has gone public
he's a Democrat, the latest oneto publicly call for Biden to drop out.

(01:02:45):
We want to save our own skins. Democrat disarray a welcome site for
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. Ihad two whole days unimpeded where I could
walk through the hallways without being accostedby media. Where are they? Oh,
they're chasing the Democrats for a chance. They had to introduce themselves to
our Democrat colleagues. They never askedthem tough questions. I called Hakem Jeffrey's

(01:03:06):
my friend, the Democrat leader.I said, how's it feel gro you
know? Jos said with kaj h'sKlay Travis and Buck Sexton, it's now
six thirty four. Well, ourconstitution has supported us for over two hundred
years, close to two hundred andfifty now, but the left once more
new fake rights. Yes, theywant to put stress on the system that

(01:03:28):
our constitution actually created. This stresson our system comes from trying to read
things into the Constitution. We wantto define the limits of everyone's existence in
finite detail. Never was intended tobe there. We're a nation of free
people. Alan Pfeiffer with The AmericanThinker says political pandering is also complicating the
constitution, where they're pandering to people'sworst desires, like not having to work

(01:03:52):
and getting free things. Millions ofpeople live for free thanks Those free things
are then labeled as rights, andpolitical debates end up becoming Supreme Court cases.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KRH. They call it migration open borders
between the year twenty twenty two andtwenty three. We're done. Just in
a year's time, over six hundredand ten thousand people migrated, as they

(01:04:15):
say, into the UK. Thatreally mirrors our own border crisis that we've
seen under Joe Biden. When itdrives the prices of housing up, it
drives the prices of commodities up becausethere's more demand and the supply can't keep
up with it. Rightbart'spob price tellingKGIH it just isn't sustainable. Six thirty

(01:04:36):
five. A global internet outage powerNo, it's an internet outage affecting millions
of people. Several airlines including Unitedin Delta being affected. American Airlines was
on a ground stop lifting it nowsaid to be a software issue, and
CrowdStrike claiming it's the content issue duringa software reboot some sort of software proble.

(01:05:00):
Microsoft involved too. About five thousandCenterpoint Energy customers still without that energy
twelve days in the conditions and growingcalls again for underground power lines to prevent
weather related power outages. But FloridianMartin with Florian Martin, I'm sorry with
the Houston Business Journal says well,we already have more underground lines than we

(01:05:25):
actually thought. Centerpoint told me thatabout sixty percent of their customers are served
by underground power lines in the GreaterHouston area, which most of that is
newer neighborhoods. Yeah, what aboutall those older lines that are above ground,
those old wooden poles. Well,we find out it would cost several

(01:05:45):
millions of dollars per mile to burythem. It's six thirty six. A
new report unveils some pretty frightening privacyconcerns when you rent Airbnb. In a
court order deposition, Airbnb admitted togetting thirty five thousand customer complaints about surveillance
devices over the past decade. Thiswoman told CNN she and her fiance found

(01:06:09):
a hidden camera disguised as a phonecharger in their Airbnb room. It's just
like, holy crap, this isa camera. It's so eerie and so
creepy. Then your brain starts thinking, what did they see? What happened
while we were in that room.Airbnb now bans all indoor cameras and its
rental properties, but attorneys warned thatwhen you sign up for Airbnb, you

(01:06:30):
agree to forego any litigation against them. Corey Ulson News Radio seven forty KTRH
six point thirty seven. Now Astrostrail the Mariners by one game in the
American League West and start a seriesin Seattle tonight. Pregame at eight,
game time nine ten. You'll hearit on Sports Talk seven ninety and here
on KTRH. I'm Shervra Fryer onJusin's News, weather and Traffic station News

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Radio seven forty KTRH. Discover lowerprices on your So we're favorites at specs.
The fun starts here. Life,It's stop and go Brooks. Just's
go talk. Keep up with oursteady flow of updates to continue onward ride
with News Radio seven JTRH. Headof the UFC, Dana White was there

(01:07:18):
last night to introduce President Trump andgot a little personal shared a text that
President Trump had sent to him,which I think probably tells you a lot
about what kind of guy President Trumpreally is. Dana, I'm so honored
that you will be doing the introductionat the National Republican Convention. Think of

(01:07:40):
it as the biggest fight you everhad, a fight for our country and
even the world. I only wishyou didn't have to interrupt your family trip
but I hope they understand. Theylove you, and they know how important
this is. Now, think aboutthis man's running for president of the United
States. He's fighting for the futureof this country, and he's concerned about

(01:08:05):
interrupting my family trip. That's thePresident Trump that I know, a man
who truly cares about people. Themainstream media likes to push the narrative that
he doesn't care about anyone but himself. Absolutely know that's not the truth because

(01:08:27):
I've been friends with this guy fortwenty five years, and for the people
who know me, they'll know thisis true. I just want to make
something very clear. Nobody in theTrump campaign has ever told me what to
say. Nobody tells me what tosay, and I'm nobody's puppet, and

(01:08:50):
I'm not telling you what to think. I'm telling you what I know,
and I know President Trump. Iknow President Trump is a fighter. I've
been saying this since twenty fifty.Now look at what's happened over the last
ten years. We have all seenit with our own eyes. I'm in

(01:09:11):
the tough guy business, and thisfan is the toughest, most resilient human
being that I've ever met in mylife. The higher the stakes, the
harder he fights, and this guynever ever gives up. So what's a
stake here? The answer is inPresident Trump's text and I quote, a

(01:09:34):
fight for our country. I knowwhy he's running for president again. Why
else would he put himself through everythinghe's dealt with just to get back here.
We all know he doesn't need this. This guy's got a great life.
He has a beautiful family, andhe has achieved everything that you could
possibly achieve in life. I knowPresident Trump is literally putting his life on

(01:09:59):
the line for something bigger than himself, and he's willing to risk it all
because he loves this country. Thereyou go pretty well, said I'd say,
yeah, Dana White, UFC sakesforty one time for traffic and weather
together. Let's get you caught upon the drive. Here's sky Mike right.
I've got West Sam southbound. That'sgoing to be around the Little York
Toll Plaza. Something from Jerry fromspring looks like right lane. Looks like

(01:10:24):
you can get by this too.Let's just be super duper careful to twenty
five. That wreck is still there, Alan Genoa, this is inbound,
will take up a right lane.That's smashing things up now after looks like
all the way back to Red Bluff. I'd be ready for breaks. Clayton
from Splendor is checking on twenty ninety. That's a sixty nine southbound. That
was a spinout accident. Good Lauren, Skot Mike. That southbound at twenty

(01:10:45):
ninety on East Texas Freeway is clear. Just went through there and it's flying
at high speeds. All right.More Splendor representation here, Kevin, dude,
thanks Goot, Mike didn't shout fiftynine north of FM thirteen Fourteen's got
some serious road desponding in the leftplane. A little weather up that way,

(01:11:06):
Terry. So, I've got tobanana stickers and olive branches for Splendora,
and they did clear the East Techrecord cross timbers that's out of the
way. Still have breaks from waterroad southbound. I'm skylike at a Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic center from rKTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weather center.
Terry Smith is here and uh soit's kind of a mixed bag.

(01:11:28):
I think today probably looks a lotlike yesterday weatherwise, doesn't it. Yes,
it's very similar. We had someshowers and storms early in the day
yesterday and they had a break,then a little bit of rain later on.
I think today's kind of the samesetup. We are looking at some
rain to the north and east ofHouston, up around Kingwood and Liberty,
and then some rain off to thewest. It's a forty percent chance of

(01:11:49):
those showers and thunderstorms today. Overthe course of the day, we'll see
some sunshine too, loadavid nineties today, a fifty percent chance of those thunderstorms
tomorrow. Rain chance is increasing startingSunday into Monday and Tuesday. Widespread rain,
heavy rain possible through early next week, and so we're going to be

(01:12:11):
watching it because with that kind ofwet weather we may see some issues with
flooding. Teba, you're right nowseventy eight at your officials, Severe Weather
station, News Radio seven forty kTRH. You are commute, you are
forecast your news. It's Houston's MorningNews, brought to you buying new South
Window solutions. Just about six fifthof our time here in Houston's Morning News.
We played a lot of stuff fromlast night's finale at the Republican National

(01:12:35):
Convention. We haven't really played muchPresident Trump yet. We'll share as during
your news. But I haven't shareda whole lot with you. I do
have some policy stuff to share withyou coming up next before we get the
timeline. But first, let's checkout a sky mike. I'm looking at
you twenty five. All right,hardheads, tell me what the deal is
with this record. Doesn't look likeit's anything crazy to twenty five inbound at

(01:12:57):
allan Chano. I see the rightlane blocked. I see the big smashup
now after red bluff on the inboundjust watch out. We've got this back
up and we cleared the east text. I'm looking at Laura copy. You
look great. Now You'll hit somebrakes at Westmounth. That was a wreck
earlier right before, Laura copy,stay the course on the east text.
That's getting better. I got megfrom Keema on the golf freeway Ringstein Mike
from five eighty League City South andwest to I ten was a fast only

(01:13:25):
forty five minutes both to behavior.All right, put this on your head.
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot ComTraffic Center from our KTRH Generator super
Center twenty four hour weather center partlyClaude with a few showers or storms today
forty percent chance of that with thehigh temperature right about ninety morning showers and
then partly cloudy for tomorrow ninety one, and then Sunday Claudie with acacial showers

(01:13:46):
but an eighty percent chance of rain. So it's going to be more on
than off on Sunday with the hightemperature of eighty nine. Right now,
it's seventy eight at your officials,Severe Weather Station, news Radio seven forty
KTRH. Let's get you called onsome of our top stories here on this
Friday morning. Here SHAFF six fiftyone now on news radio seven forty k
TRH. Several airlines and banks havebeen affected by a global internet outage this

(01:14:10):
morning. USA Today reporting, thoughthat United Airlines has resumed flight operations as
of an hour ago. Does expect, though delays and cancelations throughout the days.
Not our airports, It's the otherones across the world. And Emerson
College pole excuse me. An EmersonCollege poll has Donald Trump leading Joe Biden

(01:14:31):
in more than half a dozen swingstates. The funeral for Harris County Deputy
Sheriff Fernando Eskeeda taking place today.Escada, killed late last week, who
was ambushed in the line of duty. Latest news anytime at KGRH dot com.
Our next update will be at sevenam. I live in Katie,
I live in Ito. Your reliableforecast next on the ten on seven forty

(01:14:56):
KTRH. Presidents both for about ninetyminutes life last night, so I think
it's maybe the longest acceptance speech inthe history of the Republican National Convention.
He had a lot of things tosay, many heartfelt things to say,
so I did my best to tryto put together highlights on a couple of
different topics. Here he shows alittle heart in talking about his wife,
Milania. He also talks about hisVP choice JD Vance, and about inflation.

(01:15:21):
On this journey, I am deeplyhonored to be joined by my amazing
wife Milania and Melania, thank youvery much. You also did something really
beautiful, a letter to America callingfor national unity, and it really took

(01:15:44):
the Republican Party by surprise. Iwill tell you it was beautiful. But
I'm thrilled to have a new friendand partner fighting by my side the next
Vice President of the United States,the current Senator from Ohio, JD.
Vance and his incredible wife Usha.But he's going to be with us for

(01:16:08):
a long time, and there wasan honor to select him. Great great
student at Yale. His wife wasa great student at Yale. They met
it Yale. These are two smartpeople, So JD, you're going to
be doing this for a long time. Enjoy the ride. If you took

(01:16:29):
the ten worst presidents and the historyof the United States, think of it,
the ten worst, added them up, they will not have done the
damage that Biden has done. Onlygoing to use the term once Biden.
I'm not going to use the nameanymore, just one time. The damage
that he's done to this country isunthinkable. It's unthinkable under this administration,

(01:16:53):
our current administration, groceries are upfifty seven percent, Gasoline is up sixty
and seventy percent. Mortgage rates havequadrupled. And the fact is it doesn't
matter what they are because you can'tget the money anyway, can't buy houses.
Young people can't get any financing tobuy a house. The total household
costs have increased an average of twentyeight thousand dollars per family under this administration.

(01:17:18):
Republicans have a plan to bring downprices and bring them down very very
rapidly. By slashing energy costs,we will in turn reduce the costs of
transportation, manufacturing, and all householdgoods. So much starts with energy.
Yup, we spent a lot oftime talking about energy last night. That's

(01:17:38):
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anything. NBA basketball star Big Bryantis charged with sexual assaults on television.

(01:18:03):
America's Next Top Model is America's NextTop Model crowns its very first winner Ari
at the movies, Your horse justbroke the track record at tamp French Seabiscuit
is a summer smash. Look us, our horse is too small, our
jockey's too big. And on theradio, Kelly Clarkson has a top ten

(01:18:29):
hit with Miss Independent. What yearwas it? If you know seven one
three, two one two fifty eightseventy four, that is seven one three
two one two k t RH.Good luck. This is used Radio seven
forty kt RH Houston Ive Everywhere withthe exclusive audio home of NBC's coverage of

(01:18:50):
the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics.Now the latest news, weather and traffic.
It's more of what matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.
Seven am is our time here inHouston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett,
along with Sheriff Ryar. Among ourtop stories, this fur a mass
it outage has impacted flights, banking, and even some nine to one to

(01:19:12):
one call centers. Trump tells hisassassination story at the convention and coming up
at seven o' eight, a Detroitpastor got the crowd fired up last night.
Details in the minutes ahead. You'rein Houston's Morning News. First,
let's check out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike. It's still a
little thick on the East Text Jimmysouthbound right around west Mount, but that's
getting better if the East Texas normalroute stay the course. Here, I've

(01:19:33):
got something skipping up East Freeway Lockwoodlook Out reported wreck. I believe at
the backup wayside. I'll have yousome laneage at seven ten two twenty five.
What's the suck age? Now?Fourteen minutes now, that is a
wreck in the right lane and Iforty five North Freeway at Ritchie. I
had a possum in my fan.Watch out. That's a left shoulder kind

(01:19:53):
of a sticky spot as you're comingdown after nineteen sixty it's a stall.
I'm Skymike the Generator Supercenter dot Comtraffic center from r KTRH top tax Defenders,
twenty four hour Weather Center, PartleyCOTTI. With a couple of showers,
maybe a thundershower today with a hightep oft, you're read about ninety
about forty percent chance of you gettingwet. We'll get the latest on the
weekend from Terry at the Weather Channel. We'll talk to her in nine minutes.

(01:20:14):
Right now, it is seventy eightat your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Itis time now for the news. Here's
Sheriff Ryer. Good morning is sevenoh one on news radio seven forty KTRH.
This news sponsored by Oopstein Cleaning.Top story this hour. We've got
a major internet outage impacting several airlinesand banks and more and We're gonna have
more in that in just a fewminutes. But first I stand before you

(01:20:39):
in this arena, only by thegrace of Almighty God, Trump and accepting
the Republican nomination in front of thousandsand then millions more watching on TV in
the internet. You heard it herelive on KTRH, his first public speech
since the attempt on his life lastSaturday in Pennsylvania. Despite such a heinous

(01:21:02):
attack, we unite this evening moredetermined than ever. I am more determined
than ever, and so are you, so is everybody in nursing. He
paid tribute to the firefighter who waskilled protecting his wife and daughter there Corey
Competatory, and talked about Jocelyn Nungeraias a twelve year old Houston girl who
was murdered by two illegal aliens lastmonth. Here and we'll have more on

(01:21:26):
that at seven point thirty. Trump'sspeech, however, a big hit political
analyst, Chris Bigalli says Trump hitall the right notes. It was an
excellent speech. I think he dida great job, especially when he talked
about last Saturday's attack. His recantingof what happened Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania
was very powerful and mesmerizing, andin the end, Trump may have won

(01:21:48):
over Independence and never Trumper's two.He talked about how this country has problems
and he's confident he can solved thoseproblems. Begalla joins Houston's Morning News at
seven twenty Saunders News Radio seven fortyKTRH. It's now seven oh three.
Republicans calling for her to resign.Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, though has

(01:22:08):
met with Donald Trump earlier this weekand she's refusing to step down. House
Republicans they continued their call, though, for her to be held accountable.
From the information that I have gatheredso far, this should have never happened.
And we have to find out exactlywhere the breakdowns were. Were they
local breakdowns, were they federal breakdowns? Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez, even as

(01:22:30):
The New York Post reporting whistleblowers tellingthe House Judiciary Committee Secret Service had quote
little resources to cover the Pennsylvania rally. Well, where were those resources?
Trump will be holding another rally,his first along with his VP candidate since
the attempt on his life. It'llbe tomorrow in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

(01:22:50):
It's now seven oh four New YorkTimes reporting Joe Biden could drop out of
the race this weekend. Longtime Bidenallies admit well hand writings on that wall.
I respect those who have concerns becausethe stakes are so high. Delaware
Senator Chris Coons on CNN, andwhose handwriting is it? Is it well?

(01:23:10):
The Washington Post claims, Barack Obama, what about this? Though?
Gen Z voters, they're moving awayfrom the Democrats. You understand the panic
now. A recent survey from PewResearch says forty seven percent of those surveyed
and under the age of thirty alignmore with Republicans compared to forty six percent
for Dems. This is reflecting thedissatisfaction of younger members of Generation. The

(01:23:35):
professor of political science at Rice University, Mark Jones, says most contributing factors
for young voters include a dollar sign, cost of living, and things like
inflation, jobs, housing, studentdebt. Jared Lewis snows Radio seven forty
khrh News Time Now seven oh fivebreaking. Overnight there was a global internet

(01:23:56):
outage of some sort that forced theFAA to issue ground stops for several major
airlines. This is related to CrowdStrikeand it firm. It's a global issue
right now. A communications system thatruns check ins at airports, keeps flights
on time and banks running appears tobe down. This is also related to
Microsoft. Yeah, David Spun reportingthere. They're saying it was some sort

(01:24:19):
of software issue. It was nota cyber attack. Also, Bush and
Hobby Airports no ground stoppages there.However, they on their Twitter account they
say, while resuming flights, youhave to be aware of what's happening at
some other airports. A lot ofit has to do with TSA and what's

(01:24:39):
happening there. CrowdStrike. Harris Healththough has canceled elective procedures today due to
this outage. New data is showingthat more than one third of workers are
struggling with inflation. As we getback to our own lives, more than
a third of workers feel like they'reliving paycheck to paycheck, but some groups
are disproportionally more weed to be failingthe play bank rates Sarah Foster there,

(01:25:03):
she says gen z and millennials aremost likely to have those feelings that fed
well. They say they want tocut interest rates before the election, but
is it too little, too latedoing any more cuts will set off another
dramatic round of inflation like we've neverseen. We would see inflation go up
even more than it did before.If we can expect even higher rates into

(01:25:25):
the double digits in twenty twenty five, Economists EJ. And Tony says raising
the rates is the only solution.While they've been raised some, the band
aid hasn't been entirely ripped off.These rates seem high to us today.
That's just because we've been spoiled withartificially low rates for the last twenty years.
He says. Even if they docut rates, it'll only be by
a fraction. Andrey Perard News Radioseven forty KTRH seven oh seven now five

(01:25:48):
thousand Centerpoint customers still without power.Is day twelve. What does Houston government
do after this hurricane? And withthe budget already millions in the red,
Well, they're going to spend millionson art. Council is considering a new
contract for the Houston Arts Alliance thatwould give them the ability to spend up

(01:26:11):
to twenty five million dollars to procurenew art, to restore old art,
urban reforms. Charles Blaine, wespoke to him live Listen to that entire
interview. KTRH dot Com. TheAstros visit Seattle tonight. They trail the
Mariners by just one game in theAmerican League West. Our coverage is eight
on Sports Talk seven ninety and hereon KTRH Game Time nine to ten.

(01:26:34):
I'm Shereber Fryar on News Radio sevenforty KTRH World Events, National Headlines,
Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Parrott andSheriff Fryar. A lot of energy last
night at the RNC. I meanevery night at the RNC there was a
lot of energy and a lot ofinspiration. And last night's part of the
inspiration was provided by Hulkchin. Weplayed in a little bit earlier. The

(01:26:57):
other speaker last night, we providea whole lot of energy. Is that
Detroit pastor who invited Trump to comespeak is Roundtable? On his birthday,
Donald Trump went to this small blackchurch I assume is small in Detroit,
relatively small. Yeah, boy didthat guy? Oh he brought the fire
here is great. Here's Detroit PastorLorenzo School providing us with some inspiration.

(01:27:19):
I believe that prayer is preventative andprayer is proactive. I believe that pray
in the name of Jesus changes everything. And when we prayed for President Trump,

(01:27:45):
only God knew that thirty days laterthere would be a miracle by a
millimeter. Only God knew that ifwe prayed for him during his birthday,
there would be a miracle by amillimeter. If President Trump had moved one

(01:28:15):
millimeter, he wouldn't have been hereon Monday to talk to us about how
America was going to be made wealthyagain. If President Donald Trump would have
moved just a millimeter, he wouldn'thave been here on Tuesday to talk about
how he was gonna make America secureagain. If President Donald Trump would have

(01:28:45):
moved just a millimeter, he wouldn'thave been here on Wednesday to tell us
how he was gonna make America strongagain. And if President Trump would have
moved just a millimeter, we willnot be hearing to not how he was

(01:29:08):
gonna make America great. A goodcalled the millimeter miracle. That guy is
a young guy. Yeah, yes, I tell you what what a future?
No kidding, no kidding. AndI hope he's bringing a lot of
Detroiters along with him. Seven eleven. Time for traffic and whether together an
organ two. You're right, yeah, I didn't want to miss anything what

(01:29:30):
he said. Those guys by loveit. We got two twenty five hard
heads. What is special about thisrecord? Looks to me like everybody's okay.
You know, there's nothing flipped.I don't see a spill. It's
two twenty five Alan Ganoah. Hitme on that chip line. I'll give
you the number shortly. That's theonly way I do things around here.
East Freeway, Mercury. That's astall exit wrap, no big woop.

(01:29:50):
Just watch out for all the mergingcraziness on it. And they cleared that
wreck off of Lockwood now Toe Trek'sNinja that before I could really get eyes
on it as text elevated. It'sa lot of breaks now right after equipment.
It's kind of Friday like you losetwo or three minutes here, watch
your north belt. If you're catchinga plane at Bush westbound Aldean, Westville,
it's two left lines. That's gettingkind of nasty now from JFK,

(01:30:13):
this is all happening going that waywestbound eastbound Imperial Valley. It's the left
line. Gerald from Conro's on fortyfive North Bay Sky Mike I made it
from Conroe all the way to theGreensborne area without anti traffic treble. I
was going pretty quick. Couldn't caseme because of all of the slope.
Come on, Jerald, our policerock. I do wish the Secret Service
was in charge of speed enforcement.Here Skymike and the Generator Supercenter, dot

(01:30:36):
Com Traffic Center from r KTRH toptax Defenders twenty four hour Weather's Center.
Terry Smith checking, and we couldsee a few showers or storms today.
Got anything on your radar right now, Terry Smith? Oh, I do.
We've got a line of thundershowers stretchingfrom Kingwood eastward over towards Sour Lake
that's moving southward. And then anothercluster of thundershowers off to the west of

(01:31:00):
Houston near Columbus and also making itsway southward. So a little bit of
rain this morning, more rains possibleinto the afternoon. It's a forty percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms today.We'll see some sunshine at times. Temperatures
load of mid nineties. Tomorrow afifty percent chance of thunderstorms and load of
mid nineties. Now it's Sunday,Monday, and Tuesday, when the rain

(01:31:24):
chances increase seventy to eighty percent chanceof showers and storms. Doesn't mean it's
going to rain all day, butthat we have a very good chance of
getting some rain. The thing is, we could be dealing with some heavy
rain, and with day after dayof heavy rain, at some point the
ground goes I quit. And sowe're going to be keeping an eye out
for the potential for flooding at leastsome localized flooding early next week. Right

(01:31:46):
now, seventy nine at your officials, Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. It's Houston's MorningNews, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmyand Sharrah with thefo you need to take
on the day. So, whileRepublicans were having a kumbai A, Democrats
were having a coup. We'll talkabout that coming up next. Yeah,

(01:32:10):
it didn't work on Trump so wellit did in twenty twenty. But whatever.
Yeah, we'll talk to Chris Pagalabout the all this. Yeah,
not that the coup is underway.Seven to twenty. Time for traffic and
weather together as we check out thedrive once again, here's guy, my
advisors. I haven't talked to youmuch this morning because you have done a
great job this morning. Katie FreewayRocks from sik See. I've said that
now Siko Ranch, I've jinx heretwenty eight minutes here West Park Toway's going

(01:32:33):
hoo and to twenty five we stillhave the wreck at allan Ghenoah inbound.
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Comtraffic Center from our KTRH top tax defenders
twenty four hour weather center for todaygenerally partly KAUDI, but you will see
some pop up showers and storms.About a forty percent chance of that ninety
today morning showers partly KADI. Forthe afternoon ninety one tomorrow KLAUDI with occasional

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top stories on this Friday. Here'sShare seven twenty one now on news radio
seven forty kt ERH. Donald Trumpaccepts the GOP nomination in Milwaukee. Closing

(01:33:16):
out the convention, the CEO ofCrowdStrike saying now that a software update is
what caused this morning's global internet outage. It's affected airlines, airports, and
banks. Keep it tuned right here, will keep you updated. There are
nearly five thousand now customers of Centerpoint. We aw they've come down from a
couple million to five thousand, butthose five thousand people still without power this

(01:33:41):
morning, hoping it will be restoredby tonight. Latest news anytime KTRH dot
com. Our next update is atthe bottom of the hour. Hi,
listen talk radio all the time.The world doesn't wait for you to clock
out. Usually have it on allday at work, so check in office
day up to date with used radios. KTRH talked to Chris Bogala about the

(01:34:03):
Republican National Commission and we no doubtwill in Trump's space. Well, that's
sure, but before we do that, I find what's going on on the
left even more interesting for the moment, because there's a coup underway. Nancy
Pelosi, Barack Obama, they're allbehind it. Right now. You've got
Joe Biden's inner circle has shrunk downto maybe Jill and Hunter and that's about

(01:34:24):
it. And it would appear thatthey are trying to talk him into peacefully
giving up his run for president,joining us to talk about Chris Bagala.
Chris, I think you foresaw thiscoming. I think we all kind of
foresaw it coming. But now it'sreally happening. You know, Yeah,
it is, and I think it'sinevitable. I just thought when we talked,

(01:34:45):
I don't know, a year anda half ago or two years ago
or so, I thought it wouldbe around March of this year that they
could usher President Biden out give thethen president. He would step aside,
somebody else would come in, whetherit be Kamala or maybe Michelle Obama,
they'd be president and run as president. Now that still could happen. It's

(01:35:09):
possible that President Biden will not juststep aside on the ticket. He could
step aside and resign, and thatway Kamala Harris or somebody else could then
step in and run as the presidentof the United States against the former president
of the United States, Donald Trump. But you know, it's just unbelievable.

(01:35:30):
The party that says Donald Trump willtake away democracy. They have engaged
in somebody who's not even president beingthe president who's calling the shots, I
think is the question everybody should beasking, but whatever it's gonna happen,
and I think it's it's you knowwhat, I don't know, ninety eight

(01:35:53):
percent chance President Biden will step asidein a few days. Million Democrats,
million Democrats, fourteen million Democrats votedfor him, and their votes don't matter,
do they No, they don't,and it's it's it doesn't matter,
and that's not right. And youknow, look, it was what three

(01:36:14):
three and a half weeks ago thateverything was great, all quiet up the
Western front, no problem. Wegot a great president. He's sharp and
focused and oh my gosh, youcan't believe how active he is, and
all the cabinet meetings and whatnot.Of course none of that's true. And
now all of a sudden they're goingto have to move him out what we

(01:36:36):
thought all along. But you know, it's staggering when you take a step
back and you think about that they'regoing to remove the president because they got
caught and everybody else, even thoughthey knew it, but the media and
the Democrats were still trying to tellAmerica and the rest of the world that
President Biden was fine, when ofcourse he was done. Chris, I've

(01:36:57):
got to ask you this because wedon't have a lot of time. The
chaos that has ensued in the DemocratParty visible now very wine to see is
what Americans have felt under this entireregime, and even before while Donald Trump
was president, the chaos and theDemocrats brought after watching that convention and how
well managed it was in this senseof this is a man who was almost

(01:37:19):
assassinated, and yet that convention wentoff and it was it was controlled,
and yet it was spontaneous at thesame time, it was amazing. It
gave us a feel for the wayAmerica should be and could be. How
are the Democrats ever going to overcomethat? You know, that's a great

(01:37:39):
question and obviously very perceptive. Ithought the same thing. I thought that,
you know, of course, alot of it's theater and what those
people were real. That African Americanlady who spoke about her son getting stabbed
in New York City after fighting inIraq and she said that was not right.
The Hispanic woman who said I camehere legally and we want to do

(01:38:00):
what's right, she was real.Eric Trump, Laura Trump, of course,
I mean it goes on and on. Yes, it was an incredible
week, and it stands juxtaposed tothe Democrats. And I don't think this
fighting is over either. Jimmy andSherry. You know, they're not just
going to get into a room andsay, oh yeah, it's fine.
They are going to go hammer andtong and it is going to take a

(01:38:24):
while. And of course by thetime their party comes around for their convention,
they'll act like everybody's together. Butthat's just not possible. The Republicans
did a great job. My hat'soff to Lara Trump and everyone else.
It was emotional. I had tearsin my eyes listening to those gold Star
families. President Trump last night wasmoving. It was very very well done.

(01:38:47):
And I think you saw a partyand a candidate one hundred percent in
lockstep and telling America we can getback to where we were. Yep.
It's amazing. The party that wasin disarray, or they thought was in
disarrays, the party now that isunited. Is the other party that is
in disarray. Chris Bagala, alwaysgood to talk to you, sir.
Thank you. It is seven twentyseven. It is time to take a

(01:39:09):
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Baird, along with Sheriff Ryer Mongertop stories of this half hour. There
we go. Trump lays out hispolicies at last night's convention. Biden,
as it turns out, he couldbe done out of the race by the
end of the weekend. At seventhirty eighth, this teacher has never voted
for a Republican until now. Detailsin the minute to head here on Houston's

(01:40:15):
Morning News. First, let's checkout that morning drive again, here's sky
Mike. All right, let's doit. If you're coming in from the
work inside two twenty five still hasthat wreck, that's going to be Alan
j You know what, we'll takeup or right lane. We're a little
thick on the north Loop now westbound. You lose about two or three minutes
going over from hersh back over toShepard through the squeeze at forty five forty
five itself. Jin from the Woodlandsis looking pretty good so far, Hiks,

(01:40:39):
Mike, Chris Jent from Woodland,just calling to check in and wishing
everybody a happy fry Yay. Yeah, we're a little thick right around the
Beltway, but we're moving, Skymikethe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
our KATIRH Generator super Center, twentyfour hour Weather center for today, partly
cloudy skyes forty percent shower and stormchance with the high temperature right about ninety

(01:41:00):
Terry Smith throt flying one more timeto talk about the weekend in about eight
minutes right now at seventy nine atyour officials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It is time nowfor the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer seven
thirty two on News Radio seven fortyk TRH. Our top story this hour,
You heard it here on KTRH.Donald Trump speaking for more than an
hour and a half accepting the RepublicanParty nomination in Milwaukee last night, touching

(01:41:26):
on our border crisis, keep ourfamily safe. The Republican platform promises to
launch the largest deportation operation in thehistory of our country, day one,
he promises. Trump, looking backalso at the assassination attempt from last weekend
and the other victims. I askedthat we observe a moment of silence in

(01:41:49):
honor of our friend Corey Trump,paying specific tribute to the firefighter who was
killed in the attack and also namingthe others who were injured. Among other
speakers last night, the legendary HulkHogan, I see the greatest tag team
of my life standing upon us,getting ready to straighten this country out for

(01:42:12):
all the real Americans, real Americans. UFC Chief Dana White there and Tucker
Carlson spoke as well, and Foxactually showed him. So what was it
like on the convention floor last night? Was just a big relief to have
the candidate locked in, to havehim live there. We weren't mourning his

(01:42:33):
loss or him being in the hospital. Texas Delegate Felicia Craven, She was
on Houston Morning News earlier today.Republicans united with Trump. Democrats, Well,
they're united in trying to get thepresident that they put there, Joe
Biden, out of the race.According to multiple sources, several top Dems

(01:42:55):
now believe the pressure is so intense, so great, the eighty one year
year old could be persuaded to dropout of the race as soon as this
weekend. Kevin Cork reporting on theDemocrat panic. Another top Democrat coming out
against Biden is the Montana Senator JohnTester. He's facing a tough reelection campaign
in Montana, and he went publiccalling for Biden to withdraw. How Speaker

(01:43:20):
Mike Johnson says, well, it'spretty clear that the Dems are in total
disarray. I think they're ready forhim to go because it has a terrible
down ballid effect. There won't beas a big of a turnout on their
side. They're terrified about that.They don't know what to do. Johnson
with Katie RHUs Klay Travis, andBuck Sexton. It's now seven thirty four.

(01:43:40):
You call this political pandering. Forsure, more welfare handouts being labeled
as a right these days, doesn'tmatter whether the Constitution provides. The Constitution
was designed to lay out basic,high level principles, figuring that the either
lower costs or people common sense woulddictate a lot of the minutia. Yeah,

(01:44:03):
Alan Pfeiffer says that the American Thinkerof the American thinker says that the
left, they've been turning the Constitutioninto a step by step guide on how
to live our lives their way,and their way means open borders. We've
had the largest population shifts in historyacross the globe with illegal immigration. The

(01:44:27):
border crisis is creating population problems herein America. The number of people that
entered the country illegally during the Bidenadministration, if you put them all in
one place, in a brand newstate, it would be there would be
eleven states that have lower population.Breitbart's Bob Price told KTRH this is extremely
unhealthy population growth. You're seeing problemswith low income housing, with wages being

(01:44:48):
suppressed because there's more competition for lowend manual labor type jobs prices. These
are the same issues that the UnitedKingdom is having and we should be learning
from their mistakes. Ethan Buchanan.There's radio seven forty KTRH, seven thirty
six now nearly five thousand Center Pointcustomers without air conditioning in this summer heat
still this morning. We've heard itbefore, now we're hearing it again.

(01:45:13):
Would underpower lines underground power lines bea solution to Houston's weather related power outages?
Sure it could be, but it'snot likely. Even if you live
in a neighborhood that has underground powerlines, at some point your neighborhood is
connected to power lines that are aboveground. That is Florian Martin, reporter

(01:45:34):
with the Houston Business Journal. Theother main underground issue. The cost putting
lines underground is several million dollars permile, And if you put everything underground
that is now above ground, youcan you can only imagine how expensive that
would be. According to the CenterPoint, around sixty percent of the households

(01:45:55):
they serve already have underground power lines. Jeff Bigs News Radio seven KTRH.
It is now coming up on seventhirty seven. Breaking overnight, the Wall
Street Journal reporter Evan Gersovich has justbeen found guilty of all counts of espionage
by a Russian court, and there'llbe more unfolding as the day unfolds itself.

(01:46:20):
Astros are going to be visiting Seattletonight. They are trailing the Mariners
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It's all your news, music,sports podcasts, and talk free.
Never sounded so good. Former teacherwho is never in her life voted for
a Republican. She's from Mount Erie, North Carolina, which, of course

(01:47:05):
is the town that the Andy GriffithShow used, you know, the Meberry
on that town because that's where AndyGriffith was born and raised. So she
was on last night and she's talkingabout her experience going from the Department of
Corrections into a teaching position. Guesswhich one she found worse. The teaching

(01:47:29):
profession. During my fourteen years workingwith the Department of Public Safety, offenders
never laid a hand on me.Yet I was violently assaulted by a group
of students in a public high school. The uptick is school violence was related

(01:48:00):
to an Obama Biden policy that directedschools to reduce suspension rates and key dangerous
students in the classroom. President Trumpreverse the Obama policy and put the safety

(01:48:28):
of our kids first. While Democratsthe school resource officers are a threat to
our students, Republicans knows that theyprotect our kids. While Democrats won't admit

(01:48:54):
that our schools are felling. Republicanswill fix the system and make our schools
safe. That's why this year,for the first time in my life,
I am Rechtan as a Republican.Thank you, Thank you, And in

(01:49:30):
November I will probably cast my botfor Donald J. Trump. Well,
welcome to the good side. Niceto have you. Seven time for a
little traffic and weather together as wecheck out that dribe once again. Skuy
Mike's here man this rec on twotwenty five. It just won't go away.
At Talon Genoah Jimmy inbound, they'retacking up a right line. It

(01:49:54):
doesn't look like anything crazy. Idon't see a fuel spill, nothing's turned
over, you know, no lawslowed of anything. But we've got some
backups now thirteen minutes spackle coming overfrom Red Bluff on the eastbound westbound side.
So if iten's an option for you, or the Golf Freeway, Golf
Freeway, let me double check.Now that I've sent you there, No
go freeway actually looks pretty good.I don't have the usual park place drama.

(01:50:16):
Southwest Freeway starting to cram up rightat the west loop six to ten,
that ramp that takes you up tothe Galleria. You lose two or
three there, But actually outside theloop you look great. On the southwest
some slow downs now before the downtownsplit east text elevated. That's a big
pack up from it ten and you'vegot six to ten northwestbound loopy right there
at that squeeze at forty five that'swestbound. Lose about two minutes there.

(01:50:40):
West Loop down to uptown breaks fromtwo ninety and Carlos says two forty nine
is good. That PLO code.By the end of that, he'll be
good to go. All right,if you're chataw and tom ballis rocking O.
Terry's there. I'm Skywike and theGenerator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
r KTRH Generator super Center twenty fourhour with a center. Terry Smith is

(01:51:00):
here. We need to give youthe forecast for the weekend, and I
guess today and tomorrow the days youwant to be outdoors. Huh. I
think today and tomorrow are your betteropportunities to get outside because the rain chances
really do ramp up Sunday and intoearly next week. It's going to be
a long stretch of rain. Soyeah, go outside, get some vitamin
D today or tomorrow if you geta chance. We have a forty percent

(01:51:21):
chance of showers and storms today,a fifty percent chance of getting wet tomorrow.
Temperatures both days load of mid nineties, but with increasing moisture from the
Gulf on Sunday and these little weakdisturbances swinging through the clouds are going to
be hanging around. We've got aseventy percent chance of thunderstorms Sunday, eighty

(01:51:43):
percent chance of more rain Monday andTuesday, and it will be a little
bit cooler. I guess that's theupside of all the rain, uper eatings
to low nineties for the first partof next week tempers. You're right now.
By the way is seventy nine atyour official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH. Whatyou need to know for the day ahead.
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Seven fifty is our time here inHouston's Born News. One more at
least one more cut from last nightfor Republican National Commission Tucker Carlson. He
was there, Yes, he was, and Fox showed him and he talked
about leadership, and I thought hedid a very good job with that,
so I thought we'd share that withyou coming up next. But first we've
got traffic in Weather together with skyMike starting off. Yeah, we've got

(01:52:30):
your Katie Freeway here. I don'tknow why they're showing me the shot of
the west Loop at old Katie Road. Do we have a problem there?
Whatever it was, it wasn't therevery long. It's a little thick now
coming down from two to ninety anda bit of a smash if anything on
the west Loop southbound. But youknow what, if this is your route,
stay the course here. No bigproblem to twenty five. That's been
a problem. It's over two hoursAlan Genoa. We're still taking out a

(01:52:53):
right lane. Not sure why thatis southbound stall Fairmont Parkway. He's kind
of a weird spot, so watchout if you're coming down from the heart
Mean Bridge Advisers. We're going yourside at eight o'clock during the news and
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Centerfrom our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour
Weather Center. Partly cloudy with somescattered showers and storms today, high temperature

(01:53:16):
right about ninety about forty percent overallchance morning showers, partly Klaudi for the
afternoon ninety one tomorrow and then SundayClaudi with occasional showers and storms, so
off and on, rain pretty muchall day on Sunday with the high temperature
of eighty nine. Right now,it is seventy nine at your officials Severe
weather Station. News Radio seven fortyKTRH time to get you up to date

(01:53:36):
on some of our top stories.Here's shera. Good morning. Everyone is
seven fifty two on news Radio sevenforty KTRH. American Airlines back from a
ground stop that was caused by aglobal internet outage. United and Delta is
still being affected, but the airportsare operating out of the Houston Airports.
Donald Trump rallies in Michigan tomorrow isfirst since the attempted assassination in Pennsylvania.

(01:54:00):
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich hasbeen found guilty of espionage in Russia sentenced
to sixteen years in prison. Latestnews anytime at ktorh dot com. Our
next update will be at the topof the hour fifty nine. Inbound at
the loop is always a problem KTRHtime saving traffic. Next on the ten

(01:54:21):
three years their time here in Houston'sboy News. So Tucker Carlson last night
at the Republican National Convention talking abouthow the assassination attempt really kind of changed
everything and maybe for some people itchanged the way they view Donald J.
Trump. He hates to say it, but it is also true. Is
a fact that you could take Idon't know, a manic at a dead
person in making president. If youknow you could, you could. I'm

(01:54:45):
just saying theoretically possible, with enough, with enough cheating, that could happen.
But being a leader is very different. It's not a title. It's
organic. You can't name someone aleader. A leader is the bravest man.

(01:55:09):
That's who the leader is. Thatis true in all human organizations.
This is a law of nature.And in that moment, Donald Trump,
months before the presidential election, becamethe leader of this nation. That was
the most obvious to me. AndI have to say, you know,

(01:55:29):
I think it changed him. Iyou know, reached out to Trump within
hours of it that night, andwhat he said to me that night,
having justin shot in the face,he said not a single word about himself.
He said only how amazed he wasand how proud he was of the
crowd which didn't run. And Ithought two things. The first thing I

(01:55:53):
thought was, well, of coursethey didn't run. His courage gave them
heart. A leader's courage, hegives courage to his people. And the
second thing I thought was, thisis the selfish guy I've been hearing about
for nine years really not a wordabout himself about his people period. And

(01:56:14):
the second thing I noticed, whichI don't think anyone has remarked upon in
public, but I'm just going tosince I'm a script, like why not,
is that he turned down the mostobvious opportunity in politics, to inflame
the nation after being shot, toinflame the nation, which is an opportunity
that almost every other politician I've evermet, and certainly his opponents would have
taken instantly, and they would havesaid, well, what is this?

(01:56:38):
How did he get shot? Like, how did this happen? And those
are real questions that we have toget to the bottom of. But in
the moments, the days, theweek after the shooting, he did not
say that he did his best tobring the country together, and I thought,
this is the divisive figure, thisis the irresponsible person. Know,
this is the most responsible, unifyingbehavior of a leader I think I've ever

(01:57:01):
seen. There you go, Hey, listen, I'm heading off on vacation.
Yes you are. I'm going tomiss a really interesting week next week.
Yes you are. Well. Ifyou spot anything on your journey,
just call in let us know.I will I will be are a reporter.
I'll be a reporter on the Eastcoast. Yeah, from the beach.
From the beach. We'll see what'shappening in the beach. Bob France

(01:57:24):
will be in for me, Cherylwill be with you. You're in good
hands. I'll see a week fromMonday. Have a good vacation. I
will thank you. You'll take care