Friday, May24th, 2024

Jimmy Barrett and Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 05/24/24

Episode Transcript

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This is huge Radio seven forty katrhHouston Drive everywhere with the IrMn now,
the latest news, weather and traffa. It's more what matters to you from
the John Morris Services Studios. Well, good morning Friday. It's five am
here in Houston's Morning News. JimmyBarrett here. Scher is still on vacation.

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She's back on Tuesday. Cliff isin for her. Among our top
stories as we get started this morning, a record number of Texans are hitting
the road this holiday weekend. Eightynine percent of us find grocery prices are
a problem. And coming up atfive o eight, Noah's hurricane prediction for
twenty twenty four be scary if they'reright. Details in the minutes ahead.

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You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that Morning Drive for
the first time. Here is skyMike your mission this morning. Should you
choose to accept this tonight? Butbeen anybody. We're looking at two eighty
eight southbound McGregor. They've just openedthose lines back up after Rick. It's
out of the way. Forget it. I can't even tell it was there.
East Text Freeway. There's a wreckthere. It's a lot of flashy
lights at all deemed bender northbound.It's in the feeder road. Just watch

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out for dumb people in front ofyou slowing down to reberneck. Everything else
is rock and along for now.I'm Skymike at your Generator Supercenter, dot
Com Traffic Center from r KTRH toptax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Today, we're looking at Claudie Sky'searly. We'll have peaks of the
sun a little bit later with theheight today. Right about ninety two,
we'll get the latest on the forecastfor the holiday weekend when we talk to

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Jeff maer In for Terry Today atthe Weather Channel. We'll do that in
about nine minutes. Right down Dadyat your officials Severe Weather Station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH. It'stime now for the news and for share
this morning, here's Cliff Sanders,Thank you, Jimmy five oh one on
KGRH our top story. It's beena week now since the storm knocked out
power for nine hundred thousand Center Pointcustomers. As of this morning that are

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still five thousand without lights. Thiscomes as a record number of Texans hit
the road for Memorial Day weekend,one point three million passengers expected at Bush
and Hobby through next Wednesday. Andas for our highways, we are anticipating
three point six million people here inthe Lone Star State will be traveling fifty
miles or more away from home fromtoday through Monday. Doug Shoop with TRIPAA

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Texas says that's a four point twopercent increase from last year. Gas prices
though, averaging three thirteen a gallonacross Houston and are expected to rise this
summer. So the gas prices aretoo high, and eighty nine percent of
voters say grocery prices are too highas well. Cliff, since Biden has
been in office, grocery prices havegone up twenty six percent and even more

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for some items. Bidenomics is brokenpeople. All of the price hikes are
putting major pressure on family budgets.That is James Quintero with the Texas Public
Policy Foundation, who says, don'tuse the White House excuse of corporate greed.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Franciscorecently published a stuff that found corporate

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greed was not driving inflation. Infact, it was more attributable to bad
policy. The average four person familynow spends thirteen hundred a month on groceries.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty kT eight. Thanks Jeff. It's
five oh three and today is thefinal day of early voting for the Texas

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primary runoff election. Only twenty threethousand of the more than two million registered
voters here in Harris County have turnedout so far. Now, compare the
two. On one hand, youhave a confused President Joe Biden hosting the
President of Kenya at the White House. Excell Alight, do I ask the
next question? Is wrong? No, you don't, Joe, you answer
the questions. Compare that to DonaldTrump rallying in the South Bronx. I'm

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here tonight to declare that we aregoing to turn New York City around,
and we are going to turn itaround very very quickly. The campaign was
expecting a crowd of thirty five hundred. The actual number twenty five thousand in
the South Bronx. Much more onthis. At five point thirty, former

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Democrat congress from in Tulsea, Gabberttops a new swing state poll of potential
Trump running mates. The numbers comingfrom the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
Biden's become increasingly unpopular with younger voterswho make up his base, So
of course now he's trying to buythem off with student loan bailouts. That

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is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court struckit down and said that you are not
able to do that, and heis flying in the face of the Supreme
Court and then has the audacity totalk about democracy and the rule of law.
Political analyst Raven Harrison says that theharder he tries to pander to the
far left and younger voters, themore he's going to lose the moderate never
bideners. Tomorrow night will be adifferent kind of campaign stop for Donald Trump.

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You'll be speaking at the Libertarian Conventionin Washington, DC. More liberty
and less government, that's what you'llhear from President Trump on Saturday night,
and he'll make a call to libertariansacross the country to work together as one
team so we can defeat our sameenemy, which is the radical left.
Democrat RFK Junior is speaking today inSan Antonio. The Texas GOP convention continues.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton speaking yesterday confirmingthat Democrats are already lighting up illegals
to vote in November. They areproviding social security numbers, which then allows
them, the illegals, to getdriver's licenses and then register to vote.
Paxton says it's all a part ofBiden's wide open border policies. Governor Greg

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Abbott addresses the convention virtually later thismorning. In Washington, Senate Democrats fail
for a second time in an attemptto pass what they called a bipartisan border
security bill. Texas Senator Ted Cruzwas among those who voted against it and
says, the whole problem is JoeBiden's faults. When Joe Biden became president,

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he inherited the lowest rate of illegalimmigrant in forty five years. I
had worked hand in hand with PresidentTrump, we had achieved incredible success,
had in it by and large securedthe border, and Joe Biden systematically and
deliberately broken House Republicans shot the samebuild down in February. Yesterday's vote fifty
to forty three against it. Andwhile the mainstream media tells you that border

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arrests are down, DPS arrested fiftyseven illegals for trespass in the Normandy era
in just a twenty four hour periodthis week a woman was shot two men
were injured during a home invasion inSoutheast Houston last night. HPD still working
out the details on this. Thereis no threat to the public. Coming

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up on five oh seven, It'sgetting more expensive to follow your favorite sports
teams these days. The NFL,Major League Baseball, NBA, and NASCAR
are now all airing some events exclusivelyon streaming services like Netflix, Apple TV,
Amazon Prime, and Peacock. SportsTalk seven nineties Chris Gordy says sports
fans will have to shell out morein order to see every game they want
to. You're gonna have to havea ton of subscriptions, or you know,

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maybe just a nice walk over toyour local watering hole where they'll be
carrying everything. You might run upa big bar tab doing it, but
this is the reality of cutting thecord and moving away from table. The
NFL has moved its Christmas Day gamesthis year to Netflix, while Peacock and
Amazon Prime will each have an exclusiveplayoff game Corey Jolson News Radio seven forty
KTRH and the Astro Starter seven gameroad Trip in Oakland tonight. Pregame at

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seven thirty, first pitch at eightforty. The game simulcast on both Sports
Talk seven ninety and right here onKTRH. In for Shara on Cliff Saunders
on Houston's News, weather and Trafficstation Use Radio seven forty KTRH. Houston's
Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett andSheriff Ryer. My. Believe it's our
time here in Houston's Morning News.Right we're very very breathless. Yesterday and

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television, the Noah twenty twenty fourAtlantic hurricane season prediction came out and it's
armageddon or is it? We'll seeno predicting more hurricanes than ever before,
up to twenty five named storms thisyear. That would be a lot,
no doubt about it. If that, if, if that happens Underline the

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IV, Nation's top weather agency.Are they really based on results? I
don't know anyway. They released theirmost pessimistic forecast today, giving this year
an eighty five percent chance of havingan unusually high number of tropical storms at
Hurricanes. Forecasters at NOAH cited severalfactors, including near record warm ocean temperatures,

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and yesterday, of course, alocal TV it was all about climate
change, warming up the oceans tobring us devastating hurricanes, the emergence of
La Nina in the eastern Pacific tropicalwaters, reducing the Atlantic trade winds with
less wind shear. That's that's all. That's true. All that's true.
Okay, So that's the reason whythey gave So you know, the best

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I guess, the best indicator ofpotential success for Noah on all this is
what is their track record? Whathave they done in the past. Let's
go back to last year. Lastyear they predicted twelve to seventeen named storms,
five to nine hurricanes, one tofour major hurricanes, and you know,
they said it was going to bea very active year. Now it

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was a very active year. Butdo we recall how many storms? How
many name storms hit the United States? One which was difficult for the people
of Florida, but one so asusual, it's not how many named storms
we have, it's where do thestorms go? Are they fish storms?

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Are they hitting the Caribbean, Arethey hitting Mexico? Are they hitting the
United States? More importantly for usfor purely selfish purposes, are they hitting
Houston and Texas? Because if theydon't, it doesn't really matter how many
name storms you have, right,it's just the name storms that impact you
five to ten time for traffic andweather together, a hurricane together. Have
we had j you have not yet. That something tells me this year might

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be the year we'll see scuys.We had a hurricane. I worked with
those two dinosaur parts across the streetthat keep playing the same songs over and
over. We've got east text andthat's it so far northbound at Aldine Bender,
so reckon the feeder road. Allthe dumb people are slowing down to
look at it. Smart people likeyou and me are just zipping by because
it's nothing blocking any main lanes andbound. We're talking about twenty minutes now

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from Umble into downtown. Let's checkyour north Freeway I forty five so far.
Let me get a quick timestamp here, and that looks like twenty three
minutes from Woodlands into downtown. We'rerocking long. Some of your onlines are
still showing a lot of closures ontwo ninety I don't believe them. And
you're my eyes out there where Ido have gaps in my vision. So

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ninety nine Grand Parkway to the westLoop on my ends showing about twenty six
minutes. You correct me if I'mwrong here, Katie Freeway's going all the
way into the President's heads. We'llget your ship channel bridges at five twelve
when the H word does happen inHouston. We've got a cot for you
here. We're gonna get some pizza. We'll have a generator from the Generator

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Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center, andwe're playing Nintendo. You'll have to send
her a text about all this becauseshe's not in today Terry Today. No,
it's a holiday weekend. Jeff maris in working for Terry Today.
Good morning, Jeff. What areyou predicting for a long holiday weekend?
Yeah, thanks for that offer.Well, I'll pass that long with with
Terry definitely for the weekend. Morethe same hot in humid average high this

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time of May eighty nine, wewill be in the load of mid nineties
that heat in decks each day hittingthe triple digit, so be prepared for
that. We'll see some clouds initiallytoday that afternoon sun breaks through up to
ninety two. The heat in DEXsnear one o five claud stream in tonight
down to seventy eight for Saturday,Sunday and Memorial Day morning clouds in that
afternoon sun highs each day in theload of mid nineties with triple digit heated
disease, maybe an isolated shower withthunders from into Tuesday and Wednesday right down

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to eighty at your officials Severe WeatherStation. News Radio seven forty k TRH
Houston's Morning News brought to you BidenU South Windows Solutions. Now back to
Jimmy and Shara with the info youneed to take on the day. I

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was doing nothing special after left,Bull lend some tunes, brought some songs
and bought some Trump and they're fullthe Bronx, I guess, or at
least they like thinking about it.You know, wells likes the Bronx.
After last night, Donald Trump,Donald Trump likes the Bronx just fine.
Yeah, he made an appearance inthe Bronx. Tammy Bruce says, this
says a lot about, uh,what could potentially happen with this election that

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Trump can go to the Bronx andget a big, big crowd. You
can look at both campaigns. You'vegot Joe Biden's moving going to certain states
Blue states to try to maintain them, shore up the base, and here's
Donald Trump going to some It's likeStar Trek, where man is a Republican
man has never gone before except forReagan. And this is what I think,

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really, I think resonated in twentysixteen when Trump told black Americans in
particular, what do you have tolose? And the problem with the Republicans
is there has been generally an abandonmentof certain areas in cities and states to
the Democrats, presuming they could neverbe won. That's an attitude that is
it's horrible, it is incorrect,and people not only want a choice,

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but they want to know, theywant to have some kind of a symbol
that you are genuinely interested in them, because that's what it's going to take
to get this country back on herfeet. This is the kind of move
that does that. It also signalsto the rest of the country the strength
of Trump, the fact that heis once again looking to expand not just
his coalition but the American coalition.Who can we all relate to that all

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of us could be at that rallyand be brothers and sisters style. They're
in that space unity, which isjust a good job, very good slogan
of his. Yeah, unity,the unity is good things, especially for
Republicans right now. Do you thinkJoe Biden's going to the Bronx m not
likely? Five foot eight. Timefor traffic and weather to get together.

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And by the way, what Trumphad to say after the Bronx rally coming
up next after we get a littletraffic in weather? Ye yeh, yes,
guy, Mike, what do youdo? Woo's out for summer?
O today's yeah, cool kids gotout yesterday, the the staff gets out
today. Oh we'll throw some aliceon in a little bit. Let's go
right to our tip line seven wentthrough two one two T I P S.

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Got Mike good coming up from theLA City. It's been boogey boogety
boogey until you get on the overpathto get to fifty nine. We got
some red and blue lights splashing withsomebody at the Scott Street exits. But
that's going to be gone in aminute. It's not me, all right,
Junior Crosby. Dude's got my onlyas you run now on the east
side is a blinking light still therein bomb Bilby in front of Cargo in

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cof nine days still fifteen. Can'tblame City of Houston for that. That's
going to be one forty six atnineteen forty two. Some lights still blinking
around town. We'll get to that. I'm skylike and the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center from our KTRHtop tax defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Cloudie early. We're going to seesome peaks of the sun later with

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the hike today about ninety two becomingmostly sunny in hot Tomorrow ninety four,
Sunday morning clouds afternoon sun ninety four, and then Memorial Day Monday partly cloudy
ninety seven for the high temperature.Right now, we're currently looking at eighty
at your officials severe weather station NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. Time to get
you caught up on some of ourtop stories in again today for Sherah.

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Here's clip. Thank you, Jimmy. We're sponsored by Moril Mechanical. Trump
turns out thousands in the bluest ofblue cities. Last night, Speaker Mark
Johnson says Chuck Schumer has agreed toinvite Benjamin Netanyahoo to give a speech to
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next up is at five thirty.We're living in faithful moments here. There's
so much going on your work wehave to pay attention. Is front end
ceter I check in all day onYouth Radio seven now kt RH on the
street to the Bronx, swear onthe standing on the corner, seeing goodtle

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homy a, the wa oh Ilove it. Five twenty three is that
time? Yeah, a lot ofharmony going on to the Bronx for President
Trump. Twenty five thousand people showup and I think the venue held like

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thirty five hundred. So it's bustedato the seams, it's outdoors, that's
okay. They've had overflowing over andall that. There was a lot of
cheering, no no Bronx cheers,real cheers, And of course the President
had an opportunity to talk to alocal New York political reporter who was there
to cover the rally, Tera Rosenbloom, her name after his Bronx rally,

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and of course she peppered him withquestions, Let's see how that went.
I think, really what the strategiesis to talk about the four years we
had were the greatest economy ever.We rebuilt our military. We had the
biggest tax cuts, bigger than RonaldReagan tax cuts. The things we've done
are pretty monumental things. Almost nobody, even with an eight year term,
has done what we did. Biggestregulation cuts, biggest tax cuts, space

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force. We rebuilt our entire military. We had no wars other than I
defeated ISIS. I defeated ISIS,and everybody said that would take years.
It took me one and a halfmonths. We have an incredible military and
it's not going woke except some foolsat the top. We have a great,
great military. We did it inone and a half months. Totally
defeated ISIS one hundred percent. Sothey see what happened. They see things

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that were we did on a medicalbasis. The vets see what I've done
for the events. We had thehighest approval rating and history, ninety two
percent approval rating with our vets,the veterans administration, and they looked at
that, and that's basically what Italk about. You know, much easier
than the first time, because thefirst time I said I will do things.
But we did all those things andmuch more. We had the safest

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border in the history of our country, and now we have the worst border
in history. We will make itsafe again, and it'll be safe again
very quickly. A big night lastnight, Nikki Haley making her first public
remarks since dropping out of the race. She said that Joe Biden has been
a catastrophe, and she said she'svoting for you. I'm sure those were
welcome remarks for you, but italso left a lot of people wondering is
there room for her on your teamor better yet, your ticket. Well,

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I think she's going to be onour team because we have a lot
of the same ideas, the samethoughts. I appreciated what she said.
You know, we had a nastycampaign. It was pretty nasty. But
she's a very capable person and I'msure she's going to be on our team
in some form. Absolutely so.If not, Niki, then who let's
make some news tonight. You andI for your hometown TV station, share

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with me, share with me yourtop three candidates for your running mate it
this morning. Well, we haveso many. I don't want to do
that, but we have so many. You could take people like Ben Carson,
you could take people like Barco Rubio, jd Vance. I mean,
there is so many Elisa's doing afantastic job, but I could go on
for quite a long time. Wehave many people that would do a really

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fantastic job. Do you have atimeline on when you'll make the decision?
Sometime during the convention. Although wedid name four, No, he did
name four. She has for three. He named four. I don't know
if any of them is actually onthe list. Maybe none of them are
on the list, and he's justtrying to divert attention. Who knows Donald
Trump in the Bronx? All right, five twenty six, Friday morning time,

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take a look at your money.Here's Courtney Donahoe. Yeah, the
Bronx very close to where I liveanyway, Good morning, Jimmy. Happy
Friday. This morning, the majorbenchmark's pointing to recovery, with the Dow
futures right now up sixty five points. Investors are unlikely to place big bets
before the long weekend, and justa reminder, the markets are closed on
Monday for Memorial Day, with lotsof traders going to the beach. Well,

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it was a tough day for stocksyesterday. The Dow tumbled six hundred
and six points on the back ofBoeing, which said will continue to burn
cash this year. However, sharesof artificial intelligence chip maker in Nvidia surged
on a strong sales forecast. Mortgagerates have diplow seven percent for the first
time in more than a month.According to Freddy Mack. The average we're
a thirty year fixed rate loan sixpoint ninety four percent. The real estate

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market normally kicks into high gear duringthis time of the year. Above,
Mortgage rates hovering close to seven percentare preventing many buyers from being able to
afford properties, and almost forty fourmillion people in the US are expected to
kick off their summer by traveling thisMemorial Day weekend. That's a four point
one percent increase over twenty nineteen.According to Triple A, I'm Courtney's on
Hope Bloomberg Business on News Radio sevenforty KTRH. Who you are, No

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Houston's News Weather, We're traffic plusBreaking News twenty four to seven. This
is News Radio seven forty KTRH fiveEverywhere Boys, the IRF more of what's
happening now from the John Morris ServicesStudios. It is five thirty on this
Friday morning. Beginning of the MemorialDay weekend. I'm Jimmy Barrett Cliff's Auders

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is in for Shure this morning.This is Houston's Morning News. Among our
top stories this half hour twenty fiveth to ten, Trump's rally in the
Bronx. Will the twenty twenty fourelection look a lot like nineteen eighty?
And coming up at five thirty eight, Starbucks being investigated for their DEI practices.
Good details are coming. First,We've got sky Mike with the drive.
All right, I'm still showing downtownclosures on Louisiana and Smith Street.

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Did you see the pictures of allthose windows falling out of the buildings.
Yeah, that's what they're doing.Louisiana between Peas and about Walker Smith the
same area here. Let's check thenorthwest, dude, Bie guy By caught
it. It be clear from twoninety sniper's coming in, but the need
more power captains. All right,looks good for Grand Parkway. Now I've

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got a V six, dude,it's getting me in enough trouble. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com TrafficCenter from our KT High Generator Supercenter twenty
four hour weather center for today cloudsearly and then some peaks of the sun.
Is the day progresses with the hightemperature today right about ninety two,
we'll get you the complete forecast.Jeff bar In for Terry Smith this morning
at the Weather Channel. We'll dothat in about nine minutes. Temperature right

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now, STI lady at your officialsevere weather station. News Radio seven forty
KTRAH. It is time now forthe news and for sure this morning,
here's Cliff Sanders. Thank you,Jimmy. We're coming up on five point
thirty two. Our top story.I believe that we can win New York
state. Donald Trump's campaign. Fuck. They get maybe thirty five hundred people

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for that Bronx rally last night.The actual crowd number twenty five thousand plus.
We have levels of support that nobody'sseen before. I mean, look
at this. Don't assume it doesn'tmatter just because you live in a blue
city. You live in a bluecity. But it's going red very very
quickly. The last Republican to winNew York was Ronald Reagan forty years ago.

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And we have a new deplorables momentwith Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hockel
not thinking much of Trump's supporters inher state won't make a difference at all
for Donald Trump to be the ringleaderand invite all his clowns to a place
like the Bronx Yeah Hockel on CNN. Trump's Manhattan trial resumes after the Memorial
Day holiday, with closing arguments Tuesday. The DOJ wants to downplay the fact

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that the FBI was authorized to usedeadly force during the mar A Lago raid.
The document that has been referred toan allegation is a Justice Department standard
policy that was Attorney General Merrik Garlandyesterday and added all up in this election
is looking a lot like what wesaw with Reagan and Jimmy Carter in nineteen

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eighty. You have a failing incumbentand voters who've decided they want change.
I think it was fair to concludethat the American people had decided by Memorial
Day nineteen eighty that they didn't wantto re elect President Carter. Author Silvio
Canto Junior says debates between them willlikely swing things further. Reagan also had
to unite a broken GOP similar toTrump, but only a few VP candidates

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can help. Number one is MarcoRuvio of Florida. Number two is Glenn
Youngkin of Virginia. He says bothhave reputations that could get the party behind
Trump. Andre Berrard News Radio sevenforty e KTRH, thank you Andre here
at home. Today is the finalday of early voting for the Texas primary
runoff, with many watching the racein Beaumont between incumbent House Speaker Dade Feelin

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and his challenger David Covey. Fromone, there were people on the far
right of the Republican Party who didn'tthink Dave Feeling was the best person to
speaker. You Taz James Henson onAustin Television. Election day is Tuesday,
five point thirty four on KTRH.Centerpoint still has about four thousand customers without
lights this morning. After the stormlast week, Mattress, Mack and Gallery

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Furniture will be giving away two hundredmattresses to storm and tornado victims. It
will be given out at the NorthFreeway location on a first come, first
serve basis starting at seven o'clock.Noah issues their Atlantic hurricane season forecast yesterday,
seventeen to twenty five named storms.Of these, eight to thirteen our

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forecast to become hurricanes and four toseven our forecast to become major hurricanes.
That is category three to five.Noah's Rick Spinard says there's an eighty five
percent chance of an above average seasonand that the forecast for named storms,
hurricanes and major storms is the highestday have ever issued for the May outline.

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The season begins on June first.Looking at your money, The Left's
war on American oil under this presidenthas driven up gas prices, but the
Democrats want to blame the same companiesthey like to kill instead of working to
lower gas prices for Americans. Aheadof a busy Memorial Day weekend, big
oil company executives are huddling to findways to keep prices high and keep their

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profits soaring. Senate majority of LeaderChuck Schumer there, even with gas prices
projected to go up this summer,three point six million Texans will be on
the road for the Memorial Day weekend. That is a record. Food and
labor prices they keep rising. Thingsto Buidenomics lest people are going out to
eat, So how are our localrestaurants handling all of this? Houston is

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starting to become a revolving door forrestaurants. We have seen a lot of
turnover, a lot of closures.The industry as a whole is still really
trying to dig out from the COVIDyears. Jonathan Rois with the Houston Hospitality
Alliance told KTRH the COVID hangover isjust part of the problem. Inflation generally
and the squeeze that's being put onconsumers. Those things combined to make an

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extraordinarily difficult business climate for restaurants,or Whiz says. The good news is
Houston is still a growing city andthere's still plenty of demand for restaurants.
Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven fortyKRH, Thank you, Ethan. Five
point thirty six first time jobless claimsdown from last week. It's the biggest
back to back drop we've seen sincelast September. And there's a new trend

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in remote working. One in threeremote workers goes on vacation while still technically
on the job. Honestly, Idon't really care if they're on vacation as
long as they either let me know, which a lot of people aren't,
or they get what need to bedone done. Ray Higdon tells KGRH.
The only the problem only arises whenemployees are constantly disconnected from the company and

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are not productive. Seven the summermovie season officially is underway. Woke Hollywood
continues to remove masculine characters from moviesand TV shows. Jennifer Steyer says,
this is like a Lifetime movie thesedays. There's nothing wrong with a man
having a vulnerable, sensitive side,but to portray that first, we're blurring

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in society what a man is andwhat a woman is. They're just becoming
interchangeable and blurred, which she saysis part of the left's woke agenda.
Finally, the Astro start a weekendseries in Oakland. Tonight. Pregame at
seven point thirty. The game simulcaston both Sports Talk seven ninety and KTRH.
In for Shara, I'm Cliff Saunderson Houston's News Weather in Traffic station

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is Radio seven forty KTRH Classic Elite, Chevy Sugarland dot Com be Elite by
Elite. To understand is the listener. I check in all the time,
keepbob with what's happening. Staying inform matters to the use. Radio seven
forty ktr Himes here in Houston's Bornof News Right, Starbucks is being investigated

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by the state of Florida for theirDEI practices. Florida's Yeah, I know
what you're thinking. They're a theircorporation. Why why are they worried about
a corporation. Well, you know, it is their job to prevent discrimination,
all forms of discrimination, and theythink evidently, or at least they're

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investigating that Starbucks is discriminating in theirstate and they can't have that. In
fact, their top legal officers saidWednesday, so many of their DEI policies
have been pushed in corporate America thatwere meant to address and prevent discrimination.
They're now pushing policies and programs andinitiatives that may in fact be unlawful employment
practices, in fact becoming discriminatory themselves. That's what Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody

(29:55):
said while appearing on the Sean Hannityradio show, where Governor santis I guest
hosted. He did, I missedthat we're going to make sure this quota
for hiring in programs that cause everyemployee to determine whether they're the problem based
on the color of their skin.Whether that violates anti discrimination laws. See,
here's the thing. If somebody comesin and they want to be a

(30:18):
barista, and you won't hire themfor any other reason, then they are
they're they're they're White's if that's thereason why you won't hire them, that's
discrimination, just like if you wouldn'thire somebody because they're blackest discrimination and you

(30:38):
can't do that. So the Stayof Florida is investigating it, probably having
a cup of coffee while they're there. Five forty time for traffic and weather.
Together, we're checking out the driveonce again. Here is sky Mike.
All right, let's grab your hardhats. Here, Jimmy, here's
your Michigan Cliff. Here's your jets. Jeff Mahr went to Georgia. He's
an ugga. So here's Jeff.You get a red and gray hard hat

(31:00):
and we're going to the hard workin east side. Let's check out your
ship channel bridges. We're doing MissouriStreet. If you're playing the home game,
hit number thirteen oh seven. Whata beautiful view of the Fred Hartman
Bridge southbound from the Baytown side.We look good over to Laport and then
northbound. Nothing doing there. Let'sclick over here hit the toll bridge.
Toll bridge, of course, isjust one skinny little lane southbound. It's

(31:22):
road construction until September. I'm notdoing it. I'm not doing the toll
bridge until September. Southbound northbound,you look great. Southbound, the succisch
has not started yet. Port ofHouston East Loop, Sydney Sherman Bridge.
You're in good shape so far.Nothing to stop you either way. Let's
do some quick tip line seven onethree two one two tips. Going eastbound,
just before two eighty eight, yougot right two lanes blocks, might

(31:45):
pull to Biden, and about fourmiles past that, just before Macawa you
got somebody else. It must havepulled a bidend hunter right lane block.
Hopefully there's no debris. This issixteen southeastbound at both two eighty eight and
it's the Generator Supercenter dot Com TrafficCenter from our KTRH Generator of super Center

(32:06):
twenty four hour Weather Center. Jeffbars Infant Terry today and we're starting off
a little cloud covered today. We'regoing to seeing sunshine before the day's offer.
Jeff. Yeah, afternoon sun we'llbreak through and with wins out of
the south, the high today atthe ninety two. That heat index though,
and you added that humidity you haveto one to oh five. That's
how high it will feel at timesas you make ray outdoors tonight, increasing
clouds down to seventy eight and notmuch of a change in the weather pattern
through the Memorial Day weekend for Saturday, Sunday and Memorial Day on Monday,

(32:30):
a few clouds each morning and afternoonsunshine, highs in the load to mid
nineties, heated disease into the tripledigits if you're heading to the beach to
seek for relief from the heat.Gussie wins out of the South will keep
their rip current risk high through MemorialDay. Jump at you right now by
the way, still lady at yourofficial severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. What you need toknow for the day ahead. This is

(32:51):
Houston's Morning News, brought to youby New South Windows Solutions five fifties our
time here on Houston's Warning USC.Coming up here in just a second,
we have a former US attorney.His name is Guy Lewis, not to
be confused with doctor Guy Lewis,from the Texas Center for Cosmetic Deastric unrelated
as far as they know to eachother. He has a prediction on how

(33:13):
he thinks the Trump trial is goingto turn out. It's a bold prediction
or in that story coming up next. First, though, let's do traffic
and weather together, starting with you, Skymike Wright. We still have these
downtown closures, mostly Smith and Louisianabetween Walker and Peace. They're still picking
up debris, they're still working onsidewalks and roads, and there's a little
concern about some of those windows stillfalling out of building. So I'm expecting

(33:35):
it to be like that for theremainder of the weekend to ninety tomorrow.
Listen up to ninety tomorrow at thirtyfourth, Remember the big power line thing
that fell. They've got to shutthe whole thing down, feeder, mainlanes,
everything both ways. About nine o'clockthey say it'll take about thirty minutes
to do this line repair thing.I'm Skywike at your Generator Supercenter, dot
Com Traffic Center, BROUM r KTRHGenerator super Center, twenty four hour weather

(34:00):
center. For today, clouds early, we'll see some sunshine this afternoon with
the heigh today of ninety two,sunny in hot tomorrow, ninety four morning
clouds, afternoon sun on Sunday andthen partly caught a ninety seven for the
high for Memorial Day. Right now, we're looking at the temperature of eighty
at your officials severe weather station NewsRadio seven forty k TRH. Time to
check out some of our top storieson this Friday morning and again today for

(34:22):
Shera who's on vacation. Here's clip, Thanks Jimmy. We're sponsored by DNM
Auto Leasing. Thousands are still withoutpower for seven days after the storm in
the Houston area. Harris County teenagershot and killed an apparent road rage incident
yesterday, and in an unprecedented move, the NCAA is allowing the Power five
conferences, the SEC and those Powerconferences to pay their players. At the

(34:46):
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at six o'clock.
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown,Southwest. Next on the ten time
Saving Traffic con seven forty KTRH.I'm only willing to hear you cry because

(35:06):
I haven't a certain hi by fiftythree at a time here in Houston's morning

(35:30):
news. I know Trump thinks he'sinnocent, man, but what does what
does this guy think? Warmer?US attorney Guy Lewis is convinced that this
jury will not be a hung jury. I'm going to go out on a
limb, not a practically, Ithink I think he's going to get acquitted.
I think the evidence and the lawreasonable jury is going to go back

(35:51):
there. Uh, these women andmen are going to talk about this case.
They're going to look at the law, and they're going to come back
not guilty all counts. Not adirected verdict from the judge. Great question,
Stuart. Frankly, it should beif we were in the real world,
a judge would look at this andsay, there are so many gaps,

(36:12):
there are so many holes in thiscase that the that the judge should
grant a directed verdict, effectively throwingthis case out. I don't think you
will, for a lot of thereasons that we've talked about, including the
judge's own partiality that he's demonstrated throughoutthis case. In the New York judicial

(36:34):
establishment, the New York judicial system. Is it in good standing in America
today? Boy? That's that Ithink in large measure, Stewart, We're
going to know the answer after thisverdict. Look I've tried a lot of
cases. Most cases that are triedresult in a conviction. However, the

(36:55):
caveat in my experience a lot ofcases is when you have someone who's notorious,
a famous person that throws everything upsidedown. And I think that again,
the women and men on this jury, even though people are saying,
oh, they're in New York,they're all gonna convict. Look, they

(37:16):
care deeply about the American system.They're going to go back there. They're
gonna be careful, They're going toread the law. And look after you
look at Stormy Daniels and you lookat Michael Cohen, who was a disaster,
How can you find beyond a reasonabledoubt that Trump committed these crimes?
I don't think they will. Well, he's got a lot of confidence in

(37:38):
the jury. Is that confidence misplaced? I think a lot of people think
that the best you can hope foris hung jury that you can at least
find one or two jurors that youknow can't convict the Trump. It seems
like there's got to be somebody onthat jury who's going to want to convict

(37:59):
him no matter what. But whathe's saying is is that he still believes
at the end of the day thatonce you are on a jury, regardless
of what your political persuasion is,that you take the job seriously, that
you inherently want to be fair,You inherently want to make the right decision,

(38:22):
and if they're going to make theright decision, they'll quit him.
I don't know if he's right,but we're gonna find a lot of about
New Yorker's when this thing is overand done with. Dury instructions will be
next week after the closing arguments aremade, and then we'll see how long
it takes to come up with averdict. Five fifty six. Now you're

(38:43):
on News Radio seven forty k TRHis used Radio seven kt RH Houston Live
everywhere with now the latest newsweather,it's more of what matters to you.
From the John Moris Services Studios.Six Am is their time here in Houston's

(39:05):
Mooning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett alongwith Cliff Saunders, filling in for Share
this morning. Among our top storiesthis half hour, record number of Texans
hitting the road this holiday weekend.Eighty nine percent of us find the grocery
prices or a problem and coming upat six o' eight, a professional eater
has decided he has eaten enough detailsin the minutes. Theyhead here in Houston's
morning news. First, let's checkout the morning drive. You always hungry.

(39:29):
Skymike is here. I eat mysleep all right. Got traffic signal
problems. We got a lot ofstupid people out there that just drive right
through. Just because the light's noton, doesn't mean you don't have to
obey it. All right, Trafficproblems done, Lady Alan Parkway, Old
Galveston Road at Howard, Katie Freewayfeeder at Taylor Kirby at South Maine,
Maine at Murworth, the Old Astronomehome Plate entrance and South Postoke at ninety

(39:54):
Also Downtown Smith at Poke and Polkat Dallas. I'm SKYMIKEE on the General
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from ourKTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center. Clouds early, then we'regoing to look at the sun this afternoon
at least sometimes look at the sunwith the high temperature of ninety two.
We'll take a look at the longholiday weekend forecast days dry all the way

(40:15):
through Memorial Day. We'll check itall out when we talk to Jeff mart
the Weather Channel in eight minutes rightnow eighty at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Itis time now for the news him
for Sharer this morning, here's CliffSaunders. Thank you, Jimmy six h
two sponsored by All Star Construction,Top Story, Center Point hope to restore

(40:35):
power to everybody by Wednesday. We'retwo days away from that deadline and there
are still about four thousand people inthe dark this morning. This is Texans
hit the road and record numbers forMemorial Day three point six million. That
is a four point two percent increasefrom last year, and it's the highest
number of travelers for Memorial Day sinceTriple A started tracking holiday travel volumes back

(40:59):
in two. Doug Shoot with TripleA Texas gas prices across the state checking
in at about three sixteen a gallonthis morning, expected to rise for the
summer, and grocery prices remain atop priority for voters. James Kintaro with
the Texas Public Policy Foundation says they'vegone up twenty six percent under Joe Biden.

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The biggest price hikes have been experiencedin things like eggs, dairy cereal
and baked goods, and the averagetwo parent household with two kids now pays
about thirteen hundred dollars per month forgroceries. He says that price counging isn't
the problem, it's bad policy.Six'oh three. The early voting period
for the Texas primary runoff ends aftertoday Harris County. More than two million

(41:45):
registered voters here, but only twentythree pa thousand have voted so far.
Well. Joe Biden was restricting mediaaccess during a White House event. First
question, Michael Wilner McClatchy, Thankyou, mister president. Two questions,
if I may are no. One. Yeah. He was Biden hosting the
president of Kenya. And while hewas doing that, Donald Trump Rallied a

(42:07):
crowd of twenty five thousand in theSouth Bronx not exactly Trump Country until now
we have mobs of migrants fighting ourpolice officers and giving America the middle finger.
The campaign expected only thirty five hundredpeople. This, of course,
was after one hundred thousand showed upin New Jersey to see Trump earlier this

(42:29):
month, and much bigger than thecrowd that showed up to an anti Trump
protest. Donald Trump is not welcometo the bronx. That was a New
York City councilman speaking to a crowdthat you could compare to friends and family.
By the way, Trump is scheduledto speak tomorrow at the Libertarian convention
in Washington. Libertarians are a veryimportant group of voters in this country,

(42:51):
and as President Trump has said andhe will say again on Saturday night,
we as Republicans, have far morein common with libertarians than we do that
separate Trump spokesperson Carolyn Levitt, theformer president will not attend the Texas Republican
convention in San Antonio as that continues, but he had a message that he
conveyed through Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.I have a message directly from President Trump

(43:15):
last night when we parted. Tellthe delegates at the convention when you speak
tomorrow, I love Texas. Ilove them and thank them for everything they've
done. By the time the conventionends, the state party will avenue leader.
There are six candidates running to replaceChairman Matt Ronaldi. We have heard
for years about the never Trump Republicans. It turns out that the Democrats might

(43:39):
have a similar issue with Joe Biden. Even the Democrats realize this is a
major problem. They know they've gota real problem with Biden, that he's
too old, he's in content todecline, and he's not able to fulfill
his duties and evidence. Political analystRaven Harrison told KTRH Biden's efforts to keep
moderate voters is costing him votes fromfar left. It that far less fringe

(44:00):
that he intends to pander to isan extremely difficult one. They are never
happy. So he's locked big chunksof his core base among the black and
Jewish voters and among the gen Z. Harrison says Biden is likely trying to
win those voters back with his unconstitutionalstudent loan bailouts. Ethan Buchennan News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It's six ohsix. For the second time this year,

(44:22):
Democrats failed to pass a bipartisan borderbill. This time it fails in
the Senate fifty to forty three.Texas Senator Ted Cruz says it's because the
bill had zero to do with actuallysecuring the border. There's not a single
Senate Democrat who cares. And Iknow they don't care because every single time
we force a vote on doing somethingmeaningful to secure the border. Every single

(44:44):
Senate Democrat votes now cruise on Fox. Meantime, illegal aliens, even they
are stunned to see how easy itis to come here illegally, no security
check, no background check. You'reworrying about who's crossing the border. Yes,
yes, of course, if youtalk some people. Yeah, not
normal. He says that man fromTurkey said he paid the cartels ten thousand

(45:07):
dollars just to walk across the border. Violent crime at home. A woman
and man are shot and killed inwhat now appears to be a domestic incident.
The shooters in the hospital after apparentlyturning the gun on himself. Six
thirty six oh seven. The costto attend live sporting events is skyrocketing,
and now it's getting even pricier towatch your favorite team at home. The

(45:29):
NFL, major League Baseball all aremoving games to streaming services like Amazon,
Peacock, and Netflix. Sports Talkseven nineties Chris Gordy says this is the
natural result of cutting the cord.Cutting the cord became very trendy, and
I'll get rid of cable. Andthen all we've done now is we've just
turned everything all l a card andIt's like you can pick and choose what
you get, but you're gonna missout on something if you have one service

(45:51):
and not the others. Many fansnow pay more for multiple streaming services than
they do for cable or satellite.And finally, Minute May Park will be
one of the venues to host thetwenty twenty six World Baseball Classic, the
first time that Houston has hosted theevent. In for Shara, I'm Cloff
Saunders on Houston's news, weather andtraffic station News Radio seven forty KGRH.
Hi, let's talk radio all thetime. The world doesn't wait for you

(46:14):
to clock out. I usually haveit on all day at work, So
check in office. Stay up todate with used Radio seven forty KTRH.
Evidently he's eaten all he can sixo eightters our time here in Houston's Warning
news competitive eater Takoro Kobayashi. Heis retiring. He says, I no
longer feel hunger. What he blewout his stomach with ten thousand hot dogs

(46:40):
in a lifetime. You might that'sit. That's that's pretty impressive. How
many night rates do you suppose arein ten thousand hot dogs? How many
perserved I mean, he The goodnews is is he'll if he's going to
be buried, he'll never have tobe embalmed. My grandfather was a butcher,
remember that. So you know,there's there's a lot of Yeah,
he will be well preserved, that'sfor sure. He's announcing his retirement.

(47:01):
Did it in a new Netflix documentaryin which the sixth time winner of the
Nathan's Hotdog Eating Contest that's the fourthof July thing on Coney Island open up
about his health concerns. In thefilm, he's forty six years old.
Now, he's been doing this probablyfor twenty some odd years, a twenty
year career. In fact, hesays, I hear people say they're hungry

(47:22):
and they look very happy after they'veeaten. I'm jealous of those people because
I no longer feel hunger. Infact, he now goes, evidently goes
days without eating because he just hedoesn't feel hungry, never feels hungry anymore,
And when he does, he'd hejust did eating to stay alive instead
of enjoying it. That's kind ofa shame, isn't It is really sad?
Honestly, it really is. Itreally is sad. I guess.
He said he had his gut microbeschecked out. They checked his gut.

(47:45):
Everything seems to be normal there.But there's no way, No, there's
no way. Everything's okay there.His brain scans, however, were it
caused for concern again, the nitratescould be I don't know. They didn't.
He didn't say what specifically was wrongwith his brain. But he's given
up the hot dogs. By theway, for this reminds you of the

(48:06):
hot dog contest is coming up onJuly fourth, right, as I said,
codey Island, New York. Andby the way, he said,
his next mission is to create ahealthy hot dog. There's no such thing.
Well, there shouldn't be any suchthing exactly. It couldn't possibly be
good if it's healthy. No,there's nothing about a hot dog that's healthy.
And you know, it's just oneof the it's that one of those

(48:27):
things you should eat ten thousand of. It's one of those things that you
should enjoy when you do eat itand then leave it alone for a while.
Six' ten time for trafficking weather. It's skinny. All those competitive
eaters are skinny. I don't thinkit's crazy. I don't get it.
I don't know what how that works. They should extract something out of their
blood give it to the rest ofus so that we could sit around and
eat jack in a box all thetime. Those tacos. All right.

(48:50):
We've got downtown closures at Louisiana Smithpretty much the stretch from Peace to Walker.
I think it's going to be likethat through the weekend. They're still
picking up debris, they're in theroads, they're fixing the sidewalks, and
they're kind of concerned about more windowsfalling out of those tall buildings. So
you know what, this was reallya good a good drill for hurricane season
for us because we learned a lotof stuff. And I'll tell you a

(49:13):
ktr H will be the first placeyou're listening disaster strikes. We've got East
Loop turning base and what is that? That's the wreck that just cleared southbound?
No big whoops. Stay the course. It's better than doing the toll
bridge because the toll bridge stuck.It has just begun already right at the
top. Southbound, you lose twoor three minutes. East Loop, it's
slow by about three or four,but that'll go away pretty quickly. And

(49:35):
your east text freeway elevated. That'sa big pack up from equipment tipline.
You know we don't have share,we don't have terry. Nothing against you,
Jeff, but we could really usea female voice. Let's try tipline
seven one three two one two tipsopen the door. Hey, Mike from
ninety nine to the West Belt iswide? Oh man, Gonna try to

(49:55):
right my personal past to take aminute, all right, Mike from I
know you. Your traffic Court's atsixty one hundred Cypress Wood. I'm Skymike
on the Generator Supercenter dot Com TrafficCenter. From mar KTRH Top Tax Defenders.
Is that helping we go? Fromr KTRH Top Tax Defenders twenty four
hour Weather Center, Jeff mar ishere. No, he will not impersonate
a woman, but he will giveyou an accuate forecast for the holiday weekend.

(50:17):
I'm gonna be talking about some morehot weather as we had towards Memorial
Day. Well, we're seeing someclouds to start us off this morning,
but sun will break through into theafternoon with winds out of the south.
The end result of heih in you'reninety two, but it will feel even
hotter that heate in decks make itas high as one oh five when you
factor in that humidity level through theafternoon hours, clouds bread and overnight and
low down to seventy eight. Andthen for Saturday, Sunday and Memorial Day

(50:37):
on Monday, a few clouds eachmorning than plenty of sun for the afternoon
hours. High temperatures each day inthe load of mid nineties heated disease between
one hundred and one oh six.That's how hot it will feel each afternoon.
Right now, eighty at your officialsSevere Weather Station News Radio seven forty
k trh use traffic and weather.You're starting your day right with Houston's Morning

(50:58):
News, brought to you by NewSouth Windows Solutions six twenty sour time.
Here in Houston's Barn News. It'sstory we've been talking about all morning.
We're gonna get into some finite detailshere. Eighty nine percent, according to
a new Fox Bowl, eighty ninepercent of us say the grocery prices are
a problem. Eighty nine percent.Of course, Democrats idea is to use

(51:20):
the White House in President Biden,to use this executive authority to bring down
food prices, claiming corporate greed.No, no, no, No,
corporate greed is not the problem.We'll talk to James Quintero at the Texas
Public Policy Foundation about this coming upin just a minute or two. First,
though, we've got traffic and weathertogether, starting with the use guy,
Mike, all right, let mego fast, I got tipline.
Here is it? Female? Ohmen, urd village got a eighty winner

(51:46):
rear at a small carcluded at Marketstreets. All right, south Found and
that is causing quite a smash.Now that's the second problem we've had here.
Look out from the butt plant,the Generators supercenter, dot Com traffic
center, from our KTRH top taxdefenders twenty four hour weather center. Cloudy

(52:06):
sky's early periods of sun for theafternoon today with the hive ninety two becoming
sunny and hot tomorrow ninety four.More clouds than sun, I should say,
morning clouds than afternoon sun for Sundayninety four, partly clouding ninety seven
for Memorial Day on Monday. Deempa, you're right now, eighty ned your
officials Severe weather Station News Radio sevenforty KTRH. We're checking out some of

(52:27):
our top stories on this Friday morning, and for sher again today here's Cliff.
Thanks Jimmy so much for the bigApple being blue. Trump packs them
in in the Bronx Yesterday. AjArmstrong Junior, convicted of killing his parents
in twenty sixteen, appeals for anew hearing after a key Harris County forensic
analyst was fired and the woke geteven woker. Illinois Democrats no longer use

(52:49):
the word offender for criminals. It'sbeen replaced by the term justice Impacted Individuals.
Get the latest news anytime at KTRHdot com. Our next update is
that six thirty a bunch of dumbasses. I live in Southeast Houston. Your
forecast is at the bottom of thehour on seven KTRH. But what choice

(53:10):
do we have? Six twenty twois our time. Yes, grocery store
is too high, supermarkets too high. Prices are too high. Question is
whose fault is that? James Quintarojoins us at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and represented Jim McGovernthink it's it's it's corporate greed.
So they want an executive order fromthe White House to lower grocery store prices.

(53:32):
Good luck. Do you have acomment to make, sir? Yeah,
good morning, Good morning. Yes, you know, I'm absolutely flabbergasted
with where we are today. Youknow, as we inch closer to the
November election, you have a lotof people in the media and in policy

(53:55):
pushing this narrative that the economy isdoing rate, everybody's doing well, and
you know, in those small instanceswhere we may have a hiccup or two,
we just need government to exercise itsauthority to get things back on track.
And you know, when you lookat the polling and the data,
nothing could be further from the truth. You know, there was a there

(54:17):
was some interesting information put out byAxios earlier this year that said six and
ten Americans are triggered when they goto the grocery store, and that just
absolutely astounds me. You know,we live in a time where you know,
Americans fear going to the grocery store. If you look at the actual
inflation data, you can see why. Since the Biden administration took root in

(54:43):
November twenty twenty, what's ended uphappening is inflation has gone up by about
twenty six percent for food prices,right, so we've had an enormous increase
in the cost of groceries led byincreases and eggs and bread and eight goods,
and so you know, it onlymakes sense that most Americans are scared

(55:06):
to go to the grocery store becausewe have prices going through the roof.
So what I'm saying is, don'tlisten to the media and Senator Warren because
they're flat out wrong and they're lyingto you. James. There's only one
part of the grocery store that reallytriggers me, and that is the paper
products. Aisle. I freak outevery time I have to buy you know,
what do you call a carton oftoilet paper? And I have to

(55:28):
pay twenty eight dollars because I haven'tfigured out how to live without toilet paper,
you and I both You know what'sinteresting about all of this is when
you combine all these things together,the average two person household with two kids
spends about thirteen hundred dollars a monthon groceries, including toilet paper. Right,

(55:50):
Yeah, that's about sixteen thousand dollarsa year. That's a lot of
money just to put food on thetable. And incomes haven't been rising at
the same rais. We all knowthat, and so you know, we're
all a bit we're all suffering froma bit of PTSD when it comes to
going down some of these aisles.Well, yeah, And the thing that
disturbs me the most about people likeSenator Warren is they clearly don't understand the

(56:14):
way business works. The grocery swordof the supermarket. They're the middleman,
they're not the manufacturer. Their profitmargin is relatively low. I think it's
somewhere in the neighborhood of two tothree percent. It's not like they're making
a ton of money on this stuff. They just have to, you know,
they have to pass along the costof what it takes for them to
get this product from the manufacturer.Well, that's right. They're pushing this

(56:36):
ridiculous idea that somehow corporations are thebad guys here, when in fact,
it's the Federal Reserve that's printing allthis money, and it's the federal government
that's spending it all and so,you know, and in fact, what's
interesting is the Federal Reserve Bank ofSan Francisco actually published the study earlier this
year that said, hey, thiscorporate greed narrative, it's wrong. And

(57:00):
they've looked at the data and they'veshown why. So you know, we
actually have research and materials to showthat there's there's no substance to Senator Warren's
argument. All right, always goodto talk to you, James. Have
a great holiday weekend. Take careokay, real, all right, that's
James Guintaro, Texas Public Policy Foundation, six twenty six. Let's keep spending

(57:22):
your money. It's a check inwith Courtney Dona Hope, whatever's left.
Good morning, Jimmy. We're lookingahead to the long weekend and stock Indick's
futures are in the green down futuresup thirty five points. Yesterday, stocks
dropped the downtown more than six hundredpoints, with investors believing the federers of
my key rates higher for longer.Quick look at oil lower at seventy six

(57:42):
dollars a barrel. Crude is stillhigher for the year, partly because of
OPEC production curbs, but futures haveeased since mid April. The Justice Department
issuing Live Nation, accusing the Ticketmasterowner of operating and illegal monopoly over live
events. It also wants to forcethe company to sell off Ticketmaster. Live
Nation controls more than two hundred andsixty five concert venues in North America.

(58:04):
And manages more than four hundred musicalacts, and close to thirty percent of
Americans say a college degree isn't worthit. According to a Pew Research Center
survey, foreign ten Americans believe havinga four year degree is not important in
getting a well paying job. Theseresults come as tuition costs continue to climb.
I'm Courtney down a Hope Bloomberg Businesson News Radio seven forty ktr H.

(58:29):
You are no Houston's News. Whythe We're traffic plus Breaking News twenty
four to seven. This is ViewsRadio seven forty ktrhol Everywhere Boys IRP more
of what's happening now from the JohnMorris Services Studios. It is six point
thirty now here on Houston's Boning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett Lift Saunders is in

(58:49):
for share again this morning. She'sback on Tuesday. Among our top stories
this half hour, more than twentyfive thousand to ten. Trump's rally in
the Bronx. Will the twenty twentyfour election look a lot like nineteen eighty?
In coming up at six thirty eight, Red Lobster's bankruptcy is racist.
Details in the minutes ahead. You'rein Houston's Morning News first, let's check
out that morning drive once again.Sky Mike's here. Oh, we are

(59:10):
running out of ship channel bridges.Okay, where you have the usual toll
bridge. Suck in southbound. That'san extra fifteen minutes because of the roadwork.
A east sloop. I've got awreck with an eighteen wheeler before the
Sherman Bridge that's backed up from gilHorn. Let's do some tip line.
What do we have here? Goodmorning, Skyline. It's Nicky from Dayton,
Nankey from Dayton, coming in fromthe sixth to the hard work in

(59:32):
east side. Furbus tried to takeMacy down instead of the Cervofle on six
ten. Everything stood except the lightat nine ten and Macy is his lasses
all right, extra points for verbage. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com
traffic Center from our Katie IrH GeneratorSupercenter, twenty four hour weather center for

(59:53):
today, clouds early, some peaksof the sun this afternoon with the high
temperature of ninety two. We'll getyou the complete forecast through the holiday weekend
all the way through Memorial Day.When we talked to Jeff Maher at the
Weather Channel in about eight minutes rightnow, temperature eighty at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven fortyKTRH. It is time now for the
news and for sheer again today,here's Cliff Sanders. Thank you Jimmy for

(01:00:15):
coming up on six thirty two.In our top story, Joe Biden puts
illegal aliens first. I put Americafirst. I put America. The Trump
campaign was expecting thirty five hundred peoplefor his rally in the Bronx last night.
More than twenty five thousand were actuallythere. In Brooklyn, American students

(01:00:36):
at James Madison High School were recentlytold they had to stay at home from
school so their classrooms could be turnedinto housing for thousands of thousands of migrants.
By the way, New York hasn'tgone Republican in a presidential race in
forty years. Even CNN had toadmit that the crowd was massive. Well,

(01:00:57):
there really a bigger crowd than Ithink Democrats would like to see,
particularly as one of Lewis County inthe entire country. Yeah, reporter Kristen
Holmes. There. Trump's trial inManhattan, by the way, remains adjourned
until closing arguments on Tuesday. TheJustice Department in the meantime, claims that
the authorization to use deadly force inthe raid on mar A Lago two years
ago was quote standard policy, nothingmore. That allegation is false and it

(01:01:24):
is extremely dangerous. Attorney General MerrickGarland. There are similarities, though,
between now and the nineteen eighty electionbetween Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Political
analyst Sylvia Oconto Junior says, byMemorial Day that year, everybody decided they
would vote for Reagan, like peoplehave already decided they're tired of Joe Biden.

(01:01:45):
They had looked at him. Thecountry was a mess, the economy
was a mess, the foreign policy. More than that, there was a
sense that he just wasn't up tothe job. He didn't project the kind
of confidence that I think Americans wantto see in a president until will join
Jimmy at seven twenty. Early votingfor the Texas primary runoff ends today,

(01:02:06):
with the biggest race featuring incumbent HouseSpeaker Date Feelin trying to keep his job
and hold off David Covey back byDonald Trump, I think you're going to
see a very embattled Date feeling.I think, even if he is able
to survive his runoff challenge from DavidCovey. I don't think he'll return his
speaker Hol's candidate Mitch Little on AustinTelevision. Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez also finds

(01:02:30):
himself in a runoff. Election dayis Tuesday, six thirty four on KTRH
Center Point. Still working to getthe lights back gone for everybody that was
impacted by last week's storm. Aboutfour thousand customers still waiting. Meantime,
Mattress Mac is giving away two hundredmattresses to Houston and East Texas flood and

(01:02:51):
storm victims at giveaway starts at seveno'clock this morning at the North Freeway location
of Gallery Furniture until about nine o'clockthis morning. Noah is forecasting an above
average hurricane season with seventeen to twentyfive named storms, eight to thirteen hurricanes,
and four to seven major hurricanes.Noah is predicting an above average twenty

(01:03:13):
twenty four Atlantic hurricane season. Specifically, there's an eighty five percent chance of
an above normal season, a tenpercent chance of a near normal season,
and a five percent chance of abelow normal season. Noahs Rick Spinard said
that this forecast is the highest everfor the May outlook. Hurricane season begins
on June first. The Texas townof Temple is in recovery mode after a

(01:03:37):
tornado fire. Chief Mitch Randall says, amazingly, nobody was killed. We
counted over thirty different injuries. Mostof those were minor in nature and were
either self transported to the hospital ortaken by our local EMS provider. The
National Weather Service confirmed an EF twotornado with wins over one hundred and twenty
miles per hour six thirty five.Ever since COVID, the Houston restaurant industry

(01:04:00):
has been struggling it Inflation and otherstorms haven't helped the situation. So what
can owners do to increase business?Restaurants have always done things like happy hours
and specials, but now it's evenmore important because the consumer is looking for
value. Jonathan Horowitz with the HoustonHospitality Alliance told KTRH is still a growing

(01:04:25):
demand for restaurants, and according tonew research, one in three remote workers
go on vacation without letting their bossesknow. Anytime you have remote work,
unless you set up elaborate checks andsecurity systems and things like that, you're
going to have people that may abuseit or may use it still to get
their work done. And travel businessowner Ray Higden says that as long as

(01:04:47):
his workers get their jobs done,he has no problem with it. Six
point thirty six on KTRH Go Ahead, Make My Day. Yeah, Dirty
Harry doesn't exist in hollwe in Hollywoodanymore, where masculine male characters have become
extinct. Cliff disappearing from books,movies, and TV shows too. You

(01:05:11):
look at everything in today's world fromwhat you watch on TV. Everybody's politically
correct. We are seeing the declineof male and female or in a woke
society. That is expert Jennifer Steyers, who says this is not reality,
just reality TV. There are plentyof masculine men still out there, some
of them not willing to move andbecome anything different. Many men are offended

(01:05:34):
by it. They say that womenare too masculine themselves. It all goes
back to attacking God's design. JeffBiggs News Radio seven forty, k t
R eight and finally, the Astrostart a seven game road trip in Oakland
tonight. Pregame at seven thirty,first pitch at eight forty on Sports Talk
seven ninety and ktrh in for Shara. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's Newsweather in

(01:05:57):
traffic station News Radio seven forty kraise a glasses, springtime in big Savings
at your neighborhood specs cheers the savings. How bad things are the twenty twenty
four elections? What's really happening?Everything in your world? Here? And
abroad news Radio seven forty ktrh YOsix thirty eight Our time here in Houston's

(01:06:19):
Warning News. Oh, this isa perfect wrap in so many different ways
here. This is one of thecrazier things I've seen lately. Did do
you know that the Red Lobster bankruptcyis racist? What? Racist? MSNBC
contributor Robin Autrey claiming that the RedLobster bankruptcy proceedings quote will hit Black communities

(01:06:44):
differently. Okay, how's that are? Are they? Are they saying that
more red lobster restaurants in black communitieswill close than in other communities. No,
that's not what they're saying. Whatthey're saying thing is that Black people
really like red lobster. Therefore,shutting down a bunch of red lobster restaurants

(01:07:06):
will disproportionately affect black people. Here'smy objection to that, other than it's
ridiculous in the first place. Havinglived in cities that do not have the
kind of thriving seafood restaurant, I'vebeen there business. Yes, you know,
you and I have both worked ourway around this country doing radio.

(01:07:26):
Sure, Red Lobster is a perfectlyfine establishment that I have enjoyed many many
endless shrimp and many margarita's. Andwell, you're part of the problem with
the endless shrimp thing. People thatthat is part, but certainly not most
of this decision is not my fault, exactly right. It's it's business.
It's a Darden restaurant. It's notlike the Dartens don't understand how to operate

(01:07:49):
restaurants. They do. Red Lobster'sbeen around since nineteen sixty eight. I
get all that. But at theend of the day, Oh, it
goes on to say that red Lobsteris popular. Hang on, Red Lobster
is popular among black and Latino Americansand pins its success and failures to the
economic prospects of Black Americans. Therefore, black and Zimmers are among the most

(01:08:10):
loyal. Sure, we like fishin a good deal. Red Lobster represents
something like the stripmall versus of theblove fish fry, but we like being
treated equally even more. Okay,this is totally ridiculous. I know it
is. It's just absolutely freaking stupid. Everybody who loves Red Lobster will miss
the fact that a lot of theseRed Lobster restaurants are closing. Restaurants are
like every other business, they're aroundtwo to make money. When you go

(01:08:30):
bankrupt, you have to cut yourlosses and keep the ones the most profitable
going. And that is exactly whatDarden is doing. They're shutting down the
least profitable of their restaurants and keepingthe ones open that they know they can
make money at. You know,Red Lobster has a hard time in a
place like Houston because we have alot of good places to go for seafood.
Actually, any national chain is ahard time in a place like Houston,
if you think about it. Sure, I don't infen too a chain

(01:08:53):
restaurant in the twelve years I've livedhere. So we expect most of the
Red Lobsters that stay open will bein places like Michigan and the Ohio.
Even more in Ohio and Missouri,midwestern states that don't have a lot of
seafood options. Six forty time fortraffic and weather together. Skybike is here
all right. The online, someof the online sources, these cute little

(01:09:14):
aps are showing two ninety closed.Why do I keep getting this two ninety
closed? See? This is whyyou get your traffic from AM radio.
AI just cannot I mean it's artificial, not that I'm real intelligence, but
too ninety's still clear even though theonline show all these closures. Now,
tomorrow morning they will at nine o'clockshut down two ninety at thirty fourth both
ways mainlanes and Frontage Road. They'vegot to fix that power line deal.

(01:09:39):
So they got all this line.They think it takes like about thirty minutes
to do this. Advisor's Katie Freeway. You look nice. Now, I'd
like for somebody to give me alook at Brookshire between about fourteen eighty nine
and the Brass River. I've gotsome shots of that, but I'd like
to see your take on it,just to make sure we don't have roadwork
messing us up. West Park Toilway'sgoing. Let's do some tip line.

(01:09:59):
Hey, thank this is the uncleAunt Joe. Joe and I just went
from Dayton to Taildale, ninety crossthe streeway clean and green. Obviously a
goof called. But ten ten doeslook good, and so does ninety more.
Tiplin, Hey, iie guy.My existence come from Sebastopol six ten
south at the ten exchange. It'spretty much stop. I can't see what's

(01:10:23):
ahead of me, but it's notmoving. We just cleared that wreck.
Go ahead and stay the course causesix tennel clear up shortly. Lances Lance
from Magno, Yeah, I know. I think Nikki from Dayton sounds like
capital. I was ice Stream ontop. I've seen her in Crosby in
real life. This is the GeneratorSupercenter, dot Com Traffic Center, Bromo

(01:10:44):
r ktr H Generator Supercenter, twentyfour hour Weather Center. Jeff mar In
today for Terry. All right,all the pressure's on you, sir.
It's a holiday weekend. You knowwhat that means. We have a lot
of stuff to do this weekend.Yeah. Speaking of pressure, how about
high pressure and control of the weatherpattern force And that's going to mean some
hot and humid weather right on throughthe Memorial Day holiday on Monday. The
high today eventually headed to ninety two. A sun breaks through the clouds,

(01:11:06):
It's going to feel more like oneto five though at pak heating where that
heat index climbing and then increasing clouds. Tonight a low down to seventy eight.
Then for Saturday, Sunday and MemorialDay a few clouds each morning.
The afternoon sun highs in the loadof mid nineties with triple digit heat and
desease gusty wins out of the South. We'll keep the rip current risk high
at the beaches over the next fewdays. Temperature right now is eighty at

(01:11:27):
your official severe weather station. NewsRadio seven forty k TRH commute you are
forecast your news. It's Houston's MorningNews, brought to you buying new South
Windows solutions. Six fifty is ourtime. We're just picking on MSNBC about
twenty minutes ago, talking about theirstory about how the Red Lobster bankruptcy disproportionately
hits black communities there for its races. Sophia, Well, here's some more

(01:11:51):
great MSNBC logic. Stephanie Rule,We'll share some audio with you. In
just a moment, she thinks theeconomy is just fine. I'm fine.
Everything is great with the economy,and she needs the Chicago Fed President to
explain to everybody why everything is finewith the economy, even though we know
it's not. More than that storycoming up next. First, we've got

(01:12:11):
traffic and weather together. What's it'sfine, Everything's fine, fine, fine,
seeing the girls know what I'm talkingabout. Let's go to the hard
work and east side again. Wecleared the wreck off the east Live.
I told you Joe from Sebastopol thatthat would clear. Uh. The backups
are going away pretty quickly, GailHorn. It is the backdoor that'll get
better. Tollbridge, you don't wantto do it. Just one lane southbound
eighteen ext four minutes. I'm stilltrying to figure out what that is downtown

(01:12:34):
on the East Tex Elevator right therein front of the Big George got backups
from Collingsworth back at you and ten. We'll find some langage. I'm in
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Centerfrom our katrh Generator or Supercenter twenty four
hour weather center for it. Today. We're looking at clouds early, but
they're gonna burn off and we're gonnahave some periods of sun for the afternoon.

(01:12:55):
With today ninety two sunny and hot, Tomorrow ninety four morning clouds,
afternoon U sun ninety four Sunday,and then partly CLOUDI on Monday Memorial Day,
all the way up around ninety seventemperature right now eighty at your official
severe weather station. News Radio sevenforty KTRH. Time to check out some
of our top stories on this Fridaymorning shares off again today. Cliff is
in for her and we're sponsored byMorral Mechanical. Thousands of Centerpoint customers remain

(01:13:19):
in the dark this morning. NorfolkSouthern agrees to a three hundred and ten
million dollar settlement with the Feds afterlast year's train derailment in East Palestine,
Ohio. And Jimmy new research showsmore American smoke pot on a daily basis
than drink alcohol. At the latestnews anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at seven o'clock lifeIt's stop and go. Well, just

(01:13:44):
go talk cheap up with our steadyflow of updates to continue onward ride with
news Radio seven forty KTRH. Wellnow, but the economy is not fine
six fifty two s Our time andMSNBC can't make us believe that, or
at least there having a hard time. Hey, we need some backup here.
We keep telling people this biknomics thingis working. They're better off than
they think they are. They don'tbelieve us. So she's urging the president

(01:14:09):
of the Chicago Fed to help herout. He doesn't help her out all
that much. Here's a little bitof that conversation and get reaction to the
other end from Jesse Waters on thefive. We need an economic explainer.
People are confused, they're exhausted,but they're also doing quite well. So
I want to start with prices.They've been an issue for everyone. You've

(01:14:30):
had inflation that got way too highin the US and in other countries around
the world. Incomes didn't keep upwith that. I think the economy is
doing well, but we get shocksfrom outside the United States. Have seen
that happen with supply chains. We'veseen that happen with wars. I think
we're kind of keeping our fingers crossedwe don't get another I did not take

(01:14:53):
a one oh one in college,one of my biggest regrets, but I
made up for it by reading theWall Street Journal Andinancial Advisor. I mean
I'm no Harold Ford Junior or anything, but I think I have a basic
grasp of this. So a littleecon explainer. If Joe Schmoe makes I
don't know, ten percent more oneyear, that's great way to go,

(01:15:14):
Joe Schmo. But if rent,insurance, gasoline, mortgage payments, groceries
are all up thirty to fifty percent, then Joe Schmoe is getting hammered and
he can maybe not survive that.Stephanie rule can survive that. So why
doesn't Stephanie just feel his pain?I thought Democrats were compassionate, and here's

(01:15:36):
why they can't acknowledge that their policiescause the pain. That's isn't that the
truth? All? Right? Timefor the timeline? What have we got
today? Got another pair of tickets? Go see Luke Combs on his Growing
Up and Getting Old tour. They'recoming to Houston Friday, August the night
at NRG. Take us to boththe Friday and the Saturday shows are on
sale right now at axs dot com. But you can win a pair from

(01:16:00):
us right now. Just tell uswhat year today's timeline's from. So if
you standby ninety eight is about thelotch it was made, forcing us to
divorce the Internet from our operating underallegations of monopoly. Microsoft launches Windows ninety
eight second edition would be unfair toMicrosoft. On TV and the Outstanding Diva
is After losing eighteen times, SusanLucci finally gets her Daytime Emmy. The

(01:16:26):
streak is over, Susan Loach,What are you? SpongeBob SquarePants debuts on
Nickelodeon. Hind behind You, Patchackbrand new on the big screen. You
refer to the prophecy of the onewho will bring ballots to the fourth Star
Wars episode one. The Phantom menaceforce is unusually strong, and on the
radios me bye sixpence. None ofthe richer is in the top ten.

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What year was it? If youknow seven one three two two fifty eight
seventy four, that is seven onethree two one two k t RH good
luck. Well, we've got ourselvesa winner. That'd be Lewis in spring
near The right year is nineteen ninetynine. Well done, Lewis. To
get a pair of tickets, gosee Luke Combs is Growing Up and getting
old. Tour Friday, August theNight at NRG. Enjoy the show,
Thank you, for listening to Houston'sMorning News is Huge Radio seven forty kt

(01:17:24):
RH Houston Live Everywhere with now thelatest news, weather and traffic. It's
more what matters to you. Fromthe John More Services Studios, seven Am
is our time here in Houston's MorningNews. I'm Jimmy Barrett Cliff Sanderson today
again for the vacationing Sheriff Frar.Among our top stories this that hour,

(01:17:45):
a record number of Texans hitting theroad this weekend. Eighty nine percent of
us find that grocery prices are problem. And coming up at seven oh eight,
a good Samaritan tries to stop adrunk driver yues who got arrested.
Details in the minutes ahead. You'rein Houston News. First, let's check
out that morning drive sky Mike's hereall right these text freeway. We never
got eyes on that problem on theelevated around the Big George. I won't

(01:18:08):
say why, or I'll make thegovernment mad. But southbound we're backed up
from Collingsworth. I've got something goingon in the canyon now right at the
split. This is all southbound onsixty nine right at two eighty eight,
and I'm counting twenty three extra minutesforty five. What are you doing?
We're packed up from Crosschimbers all theway in six' ten norths loopy at
the squeeze at forty five. Somuch for Friday. Your west loop down

(01:18:30):
to uptown all breaks from two ninetyI'm Skymike Pitchergenerator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic
Center from r KTRH Top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center Claudie Early
peaks of the sun by this afternoon, with a heighth today right about ninety
two. This will be the coolestday between now in Memorial Day, so
it's only going to get hotter fromhere. We'll get further weather details from

(01:18:50):
Jeff Bart the Weather Channel in aboutnine minutes. Right now, still eighty
at your officials, Severe Weather Station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It
is time down for the news andfor sheer again today, here's Cliff Saunders.
Thank you, Jimmy. We're comingup on seven zero two our top
story. It's been a week sincea storm knocked out power for over nine
hundred thousand Center Point customers. Theyare still about four thousand without lights as

(01:19:14):
of this morning. This comes asa record number of Texans hit the road
for Memorial Day weekend. One pointthree million passengers are expected at Bush and
Hobby now through next Wednesday. Andas for the Texas roadways, we are
anticipating three point six million people herein the lone Star state will be traveling
fifty miles or more away from homefrom today through Monday. Doug Shoot with

(01:19:36):
TRIAA Texas says that is a fourpoint two percent increase from last year.
Gasoline prices this morning are averaging threethirteen eight gallon gas prices are too high,
and eighty nine percent of voters saythat grocery prices are out of control
too Cliff. Since Biden has beenin office, grocery prices have gone up

(01:19:57):
twenty six percent and even more forsome items. Bidenomics and broken People.
All of the price hikes are puttingmajor pressure on family budgets. That is
James Quintero with the Texas Public PolicyFoundation, who says, don't use the
White House excuse of corporate greed.The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco recently

(01:20:17):
published a study that found corporate greedwas not driving inflation. In fact,
it was more attributable to bad policy. The average four person family now spends
thirteen hundred a month on groceries.Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty KT eight.
Thank you, Jeff. It isseven oh three on KTR rach In.

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Today is the last day of earlyvoting for the Texas primary runoff election.
Only twenty three thousand of the morethan two million registered voters in Harris
County have turned out. Now wewant you to compare the chew. This
was Joe Biden hosting the president ofKenya yesterday. Okay, next him?
Do I asked the next question aswell? And then there's Donald Trump rallying

(01:21:00):
in the South Bronx expecting a crowdof thirty five hundred and getting one of
twenty five thousand. I think wehave a chance to win New York.
It hasn't been done in many,many decades as a Republican. I think
we have a verge of chess.Trump on Fox and what sounded like a
party. Former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsea Gabberttops the new swing state poll of potential
Trump running mates. Those numbers fromNew Hampshire. Biden has become increasingly unpopular

(01:21:27):
with younger voters who make up hisbase, so now he's trying to buy
off the never bideners with student loanbailouts. That is unconstitutional. The Supreme
Court struck it down and said thatyou are not able to do that.
And he is flying in the faceof the Supreme Court and then has the
audacity to talk about democracy and therule of law. Political analyst Raven Harrison
told kt I Rachs that the harderhe tries to pander to the younger,

(01:21:47):
far left Democrats, the more he'sgoing to lose moderate Democrats. Tomorrow night
will be a different kind of campaignstop for the former president as Trump speaks
at the Libertarian Convention in Washington.More liberty and less government, that's what
you'll hear from President Trump on Saturdaynight, and he'll make a call to
libertarians across the country to work togetheras one team so we can defeat our

(01:22:12):
same enemy, which is the radicalleft Democrat RFK Junior is speaking today here
in Texas. The State Republican Conventioncontinues in San Antonio, with Attorney General
Ken Pexton mourning that Democrats have alreadystarted registering illegals to vote. This leaves
us in a precarious and very dangerousposition. Potentially allowing this administration to steal

(01:22:35):
another election. He says, theillegals are given social Security numbers and then
drivers' licenses so that they can register. Governor Greig Abbott speaks to the convention
this morning virtually in Washington, SenateDemocrats fail again in an attempt to pass
what they claimed was a bipartisan bordersecurity bill. Texas Senator Ted Cruz voted

(01:22:57):
against it and says the issue wason Biden. When Joe Biden became president,
he inherited the lowest rate of illegalimmigration in forty five years. I
had worked hand in hand with PresidentTrump, we had achieved incredible success in
it, by and large secured theborder, and Joe Biden systematically and deliberately
broke it. The bill failed bya fifty to forty three vote. And

(01:23:18):
while the mainstream media tells you thatborder arrests are down, DPS did arrest
fifty seven illegals for trespass in theNormandy area. Those arrests this week came
in a twenty four hour period.And there's more Houston violent crime to tell
you about, with a man andwoman shot and killed in what appears to
be a domestic incident from last night. The shooter apparently turned the gun on

(01:23:41):
himself and is in the hospital sevenoh six on KTRH. It's getting more
expensive to follow your favorite sports teamsthese days. The NFL, Major League
Baseball, NBA, and NASCAR arenow all airing some events exclusively on streaming
services like Netflix, Apple TV,Amazon Prime, and Peacock. Sports Talk
seven nineties Chris Gordy says sports fanswill have to sill out more in order

(01:24:02):
to see every game they want to. You're gonna have to have a ton
of subscriptions, or you know,maybe just a nice walk over to your
local watering hole where they'll be carryingeverything. You might run up a big
bar tab doing it, but thisis the reality of cutting the cord and
moving away from cable. The NFLhas moved its Christmas Day games this year
to Netflix, while Peacock and AmazonPrime will each have an exclusive playoff game

(01:24:23):
Corey Yolson, Who's Radio seven fortyKTRH and the Astro Starter seven game road
trip in Oakland tonight pregame at seventhirty, the first pitch at eight forty
on Sports Talk seven ninety and righthere on KTRH in for Shara. I'm
Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weatherand traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Stay in touch on your drive inwith Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryer.

(01:24:47):
This is Houston's morning News. Well, this is even worse than just a
good deed being punished. This isthis is HPD that caused this to happen.
This is an officer who, forwhatever reason, made a horrible decision
and then lied about it. Socompounding a bad decision with a bad lie

(01:25:12):
is not a good thing. Ina scathing opinion, a three judge panel
from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appealsslamming HPD for wrongfully arresting a man named
Austin Hughes back in twenty nineteen.So it's taken five years to get to
this point. Hughes is a formerpolice officer who at the time was working
part time security jobs. He callednine to one one because he saw a

(01:25:32):
drunk driver on the highway. Thedriver then crashed the car and ran into
traffic, so Hughes went after him, used his handcuffs to restrain him.
But when the HPD officers who respondedwhen they got there, they let the
driver go and arrested Hughes on chargesof impersonating law enforcement. What are you

(01:25:57):
kidding me on? Believable? Andthen when the report was written, the
patrol officer Michael Garcia left all informationout of the sworn affid David that he
would support CU's criminal charges. Instead, Garcie and his partner chose to believe
the intoxicated man's story that Hughes attackedhim in a fit of rage and pretended

(01:26:23):
to be a police officer while doingso. Now, all of this happened
despite the fact that another person atcalled nine to one and had described exactly
what happened, and the drug drivertook and failed a sobriety test. So

(01:26:43):
you had a sober farmer police officerrestraining somebody who was trying to get away
after crashing his car drunk, andthey took the word of the drunk.
I had no idea what they werethinking that day. Seven to ten,
Type for traffic and weather together,stick up the drive again, All all
there goes the canyons, guy,Mike, we got a few in these

(01:27:05):
here parts. I got trouble inthe canyon. Doesn't that sound like a
great Western movie? Title southbound Isixty nine. I've got some kind of
stall right around the merge with twoeighty eight. This is southbound. That
we had something earlier right in frontof the ballpark or just north of,
but that's clear whatever that was.This stall here has us backed up all

(01:27:26):
the way from Collingsworth. And ifsomebody can get me a little better laneage
on that, I'd sure love tohear it. On the tip line seven
one two tips. Some of yourerouting to forty five. Forty five guys
has a wreck right before the vsomeone bridge. So now you've got the
two headed monster here. Nord Freeway. It's backled up all the way from
FS to airline and then iten slowfrom studemont In that's about to get a

(01:27:48):
lot worse. Downtown's just all tangled, and your golf freeway that's breaks right
at U of H right in frontof Old Jefferson Stadium toll bridge southbound.
The suckage is on twenty extra minutesto on just one little skinny lane take
the eastlip six tenths. Looking alot better, Katie, you're driving you're
a little smashed right around Eldritch Parkway, but otherwise you're good for now.
Outside the loop, I'm skywite atyour Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center from

(01:28:13):
our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty fourhour weather center. We have Jeff mar
infre terry today and it's going tobe a dry Memorial Day holiday weekend is
going to remain hot with highs intothe load of mid nineties the next few
days. The heat in decks eachafternoon ap under the triple digits. The
record hi today's ninety five set backin nineteen fifty five. We'll get pretty
close to that, inventially hitting ninetytwo with afternoon sun breaking through the clouds,

(01:28:35):
that heat in decks closing in onone oh five when he had a
humidity clouds streaming overnight, a loaddown to seventy eight for Saturday, Sunday
and Memorial Day on Monday, fewclouds each morning, with then plenty of
sun for the afternoon hours in hotand human again with highs each day and
the load of mid nineties and heatin disease between one hundred and one oh
six. Right now, it's eightyat your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH. It'sHouston's Morning News brought to you by New

(01:28:59):
South Windows Solutions. Now back toJimmy and Scherah with the info you need
to take on the day. Theyare they are put that in quotes.
They are drawing a lot of parallelsbetween nineteen eighties presidential election and the twenty
twenty four election, mainly because JoeBiden is the worst thing since Jimmy Carter.
In fact, he's starting to makeJimmy Carter look good. We'll have
more than that story coming up withthe political commentator Silviocento Junior coming up next.

(01:29:24):
First, though, make it JimmyCarter look good at trafficking weather together.
Here's Skymike. All right, thisis why you don't use artificial intelligence
to get your traffic. They're showingtwo to ninety completely shut down stick to
AM radio. It's not we're finedso far. Now you correct me if
I'm wrong in spots. They willshut it down tomorrow at thirty fourth,
at nine o'clock. They're going todo that power line thing. They're going

(01:29:46):
to work with those lines. Theysay it only last thirty minutes. Downtown
all spackled up in the canyon sixtynine right at the merge with two eighty
eight. That's a stall. We'repacked from Collingsworth. I'm Skymike and the
Generator Supercenter dot com traffic center fromour KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
weather center. For today, cloudsearly, they'll burn off eventually, We'll
have some sunshine for the afternoon withthe height today of ninety two Sunday and

(01:30:10):
hot tomorrow ninety four morning. Cloudsafternoon sun ninety four and Sunday Memorial Day
Monday partly clouding and hot with ahigh read about ninety seven temperature. Right
now, still where we've been allmorning, stuck at eighty and your officials
severe weather station News Radio seven fortyKTRH. Time to check out some of
our top stories here on this Fridaymorning. And for share right, here's
Cliff who knew the Blue Bronx turnsout and droves to support Donald Trump.

(01:30:32):
RFK Junior wants to have a presidentialdebate on X and on this day in
eighteen eighty three, the Brooklyn Bridgeopened up for business at the latest news
anytime at KGRH dot com or nextupdate is at seven thirty. Toll wrote
it or save a few bucks youare cheaper commute coming up every ten minutes

(01:30:53):
on the tens. You know,A couple of really good things happened in
nineteen eighty That song was one.Even more so, Ronald Reagan was elected
versus of the United States because JimmyCarter was the most unpopular president at the
time. I think he's going tobe outdone, however, by Joe Biden.
And in fact, I think thatJoe Biden's making Jimmy Carter look good.

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I mean, Jimmy Carter was generallya nice guy, meant well.
His policies were crap, but hemeant well. I don't think there's anything
about Joe Biden this says he meanswell, not be any stretch of the
imagination. Sylvia Cano Junior joins thispolitical commentator, Who would you rank worse
Joe Biden or Jimmy Carter. Well, I think by a long shotow first
of all, good morning, andthank you for the invitation. I think

(01:31:38):
Jimmy's going to look pretty good afterall of this. Actually, because I
agree with you. I think JimmyCarter was a nice man. I mean,
I remember him quite well. Ididn't vote for him in nineteen eighty,
but I don't think he would.You know, he was not a
lawless president like Biden. He wasn'tpersecuting his opponents. He was just misguided
made some bad decisions that ended uphurting him a lot. But no,

(01:32:00):
I think he was a good manoverall. We forget that he was the
last pro life Democrat whoever sad inthe White House. So no, I
think he was a good man.But I don't think Joe Biden is a
good man. I really don't,guys, I don't either. Here's the
thing, though, what brought downJimmy Carter, of course, more than
anything else. I mean, theIran hostage crisis certainly didn't help, But

(01:32:21):
I think it was the economy morethan anything else that brought him down,
And it is probably if Joe Biden'sgoing down in a big way, it's
what's going to bring him down,don't you think. Absolutely? When I
went back to nineteen eighty, Isaw four things that were very similar.
Number One, you have an unpopularincumbent, different personalities, but unpopular.
Nevertheless, you had a bad economy. You had a very chaotic international situation

(01:32:45):
back then, and then of courseyou had a third party candidate named John
Anderson. But I think there wasa sense back then that Jimmy Carter was
not up to the job. Thelittle difference between eighty and twenty four is
that by this time in Memorial Day, most Americans didn't know about Ronald Reagan.
That didn't happen until later, andin fact, when the two men

(01:33:06):
were put a finally debated each otherthe last week of the campaign, it
was too close to call when thedebate started. By the time the debate
was over and for the next threedays, the country shifted dramatically towards Reagan,
and that's how he ended up winningby a landslide. But Jimmy Carter
was a good man. I agreewith you. He just made some very

(01:33:27):
bad decisions. Now, the comparisonwith Joe Biden is, I don't think
Joe Biden is a nice man.I think Joe Biden is honestly, whatever
you put in front of him,he's going to read and that is despicable.
Guys. Yeah, here's the thing. I think that we can also
make a comparison. I guess it'dbe fair to make a comparison if possible,
between Trump and Reagan, and Ithink the most. I mean,

(01:33:48):
they're two very very different people,but I think that the thing that they
have in common is they were bothgreat communicators. Now, now Trump does
not have the polish that that RonaldReagan had from if nothing else is acting
background, but he certainly has thatappeal, that personal appeal. How else
do we explain twenty five thousand peopleSylvia turning up in the Bronx, New

(01:34:12):
York to see Trump. Oh,I agree with you, I agree with
you. I think that turnout,though, tells you a great deal about
the dissatisfaction in New York City,about what is happening in New York and
happening in other cities as well.I mean, you talk to people from
New York and have lots of friendsthere who will tell you, you know,
the bodegas, these little shops areconstantly being harassed by young people who

(01:34:34):
go in and steal. They getarrested the next day. Out in the
streets, the subways are a disastertaking a subway. If you're a woman
and you take a subway in NewYork, watch out. And if you're
a little grandmother and you're walking downto the bodega to do your shopping,
watch out, somebody's going to steal. Nothing happens to these people who commit
crimes, and then you've got allthis sham trial against Donald Trump over something

(01:34:57):
that it should have never gone totrial. So I think that turnout speaks
volumes about the dissatisfaction. And ifI was a Democrat, I would be
looking at that turnout and taking notice. Because if you remember the last time
they had a governor's race in NewYork in November of twenty twenty two,
Lee Zelden came within five points ofwinning. That was pretty remarkable. And

(01:35:18):
so if I was a Democrat,I'd take that turnout very, very seriously.
I think he could do the samething. By the way we went
to other cities like Philadelphia or Baltimoreor Milwaukee, Chicago, he could have
similar turnouts. I hope the campaignpicks up on that and does a lot
more of these turnouts. There's greatdissatisfaction in the black community where things are

(01:35:41):
going, I mean, just terribledissatisfaction, and that's what you see.
I believe in these turnouts, notjust a Black community, but the Hispanic
community in New York. Yeah,well, if we can never get them
out of the courtroom. We'll beable to do that, Sylvia Canto Junior.
Always a pleasure, sir, Thanksfor coming on. It's seven twenty
six. It's time to take alook at your money, courney. Donaho's
here. Hey there, Jimmy Welllooking at a higher open this Friday.
After yesterday's more than six hundred pointdropped for the Dow, It's looking like

(01:36:05):
the Dow is up about twenty fivepoints this morning, Investors seeing more evidence
of using inflation. Donald Trump raisedforty million dollars from oil executives and other
deep pocketed donors in Texas. Thisweek. He's been appealing directly to the
oil industry for support in his presidentialbid with promises to dial back regulations.

(01:36:25):
The fast food value war is on. Bloomberg has learned Burger King is coming
out with a five dollars meal deal. The chain plans to launch the offering
ahead of McDonald's five dollars promotion nextmonth. Burger King's deal will include a
choice of one of three sandwiches withnuggets, fries, and a drink.
A Memorial Day weekend and crowded airports, Canceled flights and extra fees aren't fun

(01:36:45):
so it's no surprise that, accordingto Expedia, air travel is now a
major cause of stress for fifty fivepercent of Americans. I'm Corney Donahoe Bloomberg
Business on News Radio seven forty KTRHown Houston's News. Why there were traffic
plus breaking news twenty four to seven. This is News Radio seven forty KTRH

(01:37:08):
Wild Everywhere with the IRF. Moreof what's happening now from the John Morris
Services Studios. Seven thirty Now ourtime here in Houston's Morning News, I'm
Jimmy Barrett Clift Saunders in again todayfor the vacationing Sheriff Friar. She's back
on Tuesday. Among our top storiesthis half hour, more than twenty five
thy ten Trump's rally in the Bronx. Will the twenty twenty four election look

(01:37:29):
a lot like nineteen eighty Yes,hopefully? And coming up at seven thirty
eight, they won't let his businesshave a sign because they don't like his
behavior. Details in the minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive.I'ms trust hitting guy. Mike is
into the chips again. All right, this downtown, it's just given US
fits now Canyon southbound. You havethis record fifty nine the merge with two

(01:37:55):
eighty eight, and that was actuallya stall. Okay, the wreck was
behind it. Some own body couldnot get eyes on it for me who
should have been able to. Butwe're backed up from Collingsworth twenty extra minutes.
No name mentioned. Now this isbacking up. I ten in because
that's connected like your nebone. Thebackups from wayside, that's nineteen extra minutes.
And look at that forty five NorthFreeway. Is it not a Friday?
We're packed up now all the wayfrom forty five at tid Well.

(01:38:18):
That's a twenty minute back order slipdowntown. I'm Skymike at your Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center from our KTRHGenerator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center.
Clouds early, we'll see some sunshine, at least martial sunshine by this afternoon.
With I today about ninety two.I'll let Jeff Bart the Weather Channel
fill you in on the rest ofthe Memorial Day holiday weekend. When we

(01:38:39):
talked to him in eight minutes.Right now, it still lady at your
officials Severe Weather Station News Radio sevenforty KTRH. It's time now for the
news and for share again today.Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy.
It's seven thirty two on KGRHR topstory. I believe that we can
win New York State. Donald Trump'scampaign thought they'd get maybe thirty five hundred

(01:39:00):
people for his rally in the Bronx. Twenty five thousand people showed up.
We have levels of support that nobody'sseen before. I mean, look at
this. Don't assume it doesn't matterjust because you live in a blue city.
You live in a blue city.But it's going red, very very
quickly. The last Republican to winNew York State was Reagan in nineteen eighty
four. And we have a newdeplorable's moment as Democrat New York Governor Kathy

(01:39:26):
Hochel took a shot at Trump andhis fans won't make a difference at all
for Donald Trump to be the ringleaderof and invite all his clowns to a
place like the Bronx HOCl on CNN. Trump's Manhattan trial resumes on Tuesday for
closing arguments after the Memorial Day holiday. Meantime, the DOJ is trying to
downplay that the FBI was authorized touse deadly force during the mar Lago raid

(01:39:51):
in twenty twenty two. The documentthat has been referred to in the allegation
is a Justice Department stam dirt policyAttorney General Merrick Garland. This election is
looking a lot like what we sawwith Reagan and Jimmy Carter in nineteen eighty.
You have a failing incumbent and voterswho've decided they want change. I

(01:40:12):
think it was fair to conclude thatthe American people had decided by Memorial Day
nineteen eighty that they didn't want tore elect President Carter. Author Silvio Canto
Junior says debates between them will likelyswing things further. Reagan also had to
unite a broken GOP similar to Trump, but only a few VP candidates can
help. Number one is Marco RuvioFlorida. Number two is Glenn Youngkin of

(01:40:34):
Virginia. He says both have reputationsthat could get the party behind Trump.
Andre Berrard News Radio seven forty eKTRH here at Home. Today is the
last day of early voting for theprimary runoff, with many watching the race
between House Speaker Date Feelin and challengerDavid Covey. From day one, there
were people on the far right ofthe Republican Party who didn't think Date Feeling

(01:40:56):
was the best person to speaker.You, Teaz James Henson on Austin TV.
Election day is Tuesday. More Welcome. College presidents are hauled into Congress
to answer for anti Israeli demonstrations oncampus. Each of you refuse to enforce
your own rules, preserve campus safetyand protect Jewish students. North Carolina Republican,

(01:41:16):
Virginia Fox, Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetsan Yahoo will be invited to speak
to a joint session of Congress.The announcement made by US House Speaker Mike
Johnson coming up on seven thirty five. Center Point still has about four thousand
customers without lights this morning. Afterthe storm last week. Mattress Mac and
Gallery Furniture are giving away two hundredmattresses to Houston and East Texas flood in

(01:41:41):
Tornado victims. They'll be given outat the North Freeway location on a first
come, first serve basis. Thegiveaways started at seven o'clock. Noah is
that with their Atlantic hurricane season forecastcalling forward eighty five percent chance of an
above average season, seventeen to twentyfive named storms, eight to thirteen hurricanes,
four and seven of those will bemajor storms. Of note, the

(01:42:05):
forecast for named storms, hurricanes,and major hurricanes is the highest Noah has
ever issued for the May outlook.The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June first.
Looking at your money, The leftwar on American oil under Joe Biden
has driven up gas prices, butthe Democrats are blaming the same companies they

(01:42:26):
want to kill instead of working tolower gas prices for Americans. Ahead of
a busy Memorial Day weekend, bigoil company executives are huddling to find ways
to keep prices high and keep theirprofits soaring. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
And even with gas prices projected togo up this summer, three point
six million Texans will be on theroad for the Memorial Day holiday. That's

(01:42:49):
a record. Food and labor pricesthey keep rising thanks to Bidenomics. Lest
people are going out to eat,So how are our local restaurants handling this
economy? Houston is starting to becomea revolving door for restaurants. We have
seen a lot of turnover, alot of closures. The industry as a
whole is still really trying to digout from the COVID years. Jonathan Horowitz,

(01:43:13):
with the Houston Hospitality Alliance told KTRHthe COVID hangover is just part of
the problem. Inflation generally and thesqueeze that's being put on consumers. Those
things combined to make an extraordinarily difficultbusiness climate for restaurants. Horowitz says,
the good news is Houston is stilla growing city and there's still plenty of
demand for restaurants. Ethan Buchanan NewsRadio seven forty K seven thirty seven,

(01:43:35):
the summer movie season officially kicks offwith well Hollywood continuing to kill off masculine
characters from movies and television shows.Expert Jennifer Steyer says everything now seems like
a lifetime movie. There's nothing wrongwith a man having a vulnerable, sensitive
side, but to portray that first, we're blurring in society what a man

(01:43:58):
is and what a woman is,so becoming interchangeable and blurred, which she
says is all part of the left'sagenda. And the Astros begin a series
in Oakland tonight, pregame at seventhirty first pitch at eight forty on Sports
Talk seven ninety and KTRH. Infor Shara, I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
news, weather and Traffic station NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. Digging a pond

(01:44:19):
Daniel dean Land clearing in dirt workto eight one three five six dirt.
I love a sugar Land be preparedfor wild Houston Weather. Next on the
ten on seven forty KTRH of seventhirty eight is our time. Maybe that's
Morgan Wallen's problem. He SIPs afuture of many just ahead of his.

(01:44:42):
He's got a six story bar inNashville that's getting ready to open up.
In fact, I think it opensup this weekend. But the sign he
wanted to display, a twenty footsign advertising the bar, which is on
in the downtown nashal Strip, eventhough it is located right around Luke Ryan's
Place, in Miranda Lambert's Place andothers that have these big, huge,
large Neon signs. They said noto his The city council did. They

(01:45:08):
turned him down by a vote ofthirty to three, pretty lopsided. Hang
on a second, thirty how manycouncil people do they have? Thirty three
that's a lot of I know,national's bigger than they used to be,
but it's not that big, isit. They need thirty three city council
members. Give me a break.Anyway. Here's some of the comments that

(01:45:30):
they were making, because, well, evidently Morgan has been known, well,
he's been known to do a fewthings that people don't like very much.
But it's kind of unusual if youallowed him to have a business,
why are you denying his sign becauseyou don't like his behavior? Why didn't
you just deny him a business licenseif you dislike him that much. I

(01:45:50):
guess they thought they couldn't get awaywith that right. Anyway, He's been
known to, you know, havea few and and you know, drop
an end bomb in every now andagain like Kid Rock does every now and
again. He's also been known tothrow chairs off the top of buildings.
When he did it, it justnarrowly missed two police officers, So he
got in big, big trouble forthat one. That one's still working his

(01:46:13):
way through the court system. Buthere's a couple of council members. Here's
a quote from them on what theysaid about it. Someone he's someone that
continues to get second chances. MisterWallen is a fellow East Tennessee, and
he gives us all a bad name. His comments are hateful, his actions
are harmful, and that's pretty typical. But like I said, why you
if you're going to allow him tohave a business in your city, why

(01:46:35):
wouldn't you give him the same courtesyas relates to the signage on his business.
If you're going to have him tohave a business, you have to
treat him equally with the other businessowners, don't you. I guess they
don't think they have to seven fortytime for traffic in brother to government just
needs to hang around with Wayland andWilliam Johnny Cash. He's just a modern
day outlaw, isn't they country outlaw? About time? All right, let's

(01:46:56):
go North Freeway southbound? Something rightbefore the b someone bridge. That was
a minor accident. But look atthe crush on the North Freeway all the
way down from AH forty five atParker southbound. We're looking at eighteen extra
minutes. Whatever it is. Itcleared quickly. East text. We had
a minor wreck on the elevated downtownand then you've got the stall in the
canyon. That's a too idiot wherethe merge is. This is actually messing

(01:47:20):
up three freeways. It's messing upthe East text Freeway from Quiitman. That
is easing up, but it's stilla nineteen minute drag. It's packing up
by ten the East freeways packed withthe connection all the way from waystside,
and that's nineteen extra minutes here.It's also the Katie Freeway side you're coming
in. It's not really it's notcausing it, but it's not helping.

(01:47:40):
And we're backed up from Student MountKatie outside the loop. You were fine
until we had this wreck right atEcho Lane, which is also Blaylock,
and you add twenty minutes to yourinbound drive. We've got two eighty eight
smashed up now from the South Loop. I haven't South Belt, rather,
I haven't mentioned you a whole lotthis morning downtown Audrey Cypress on Main Street,

(01:48:00):
which is however many streets over fromLouisiana. There's little pieces of glass
everywhere. There's just glass everywhere.There's no way they're going to get all
that up completely. Louisiana and Smithcompletely shut down from it looks like Walker
to Peas both ways and those closureswill be around a while by the way,
two to ninety quickly Tomorrow thirty fourth, closing it both ways for about

(01:48:20):
thirty minutes at nine am. I'mSkymike at your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic
Center from our KTRH Generator super Centertwenty four hour weather Center. Let's bring
on, Jeff Mark. Got cloudsfor now, Jeff, but they're gonna
go away. I guess as theday moves on today, that's right,
I'll be trading those in for somesunshine into the afternoon hours and winds will
pick up out of the south.It is going to be hot in humid.

(01:48:41):
The high today ninety two will feelcloser to one to oh five,
though during the middle of the afternoon. That's where the heat index will top
out when you factoring that humidity level. Clouds increase over night, a load
down to seventy eight. More ofthe same for the Memorial Day weekend.
For Saturday, Sunday and Memorial Dayon Monday, a few clouds each morning,
a lot of afternoon sunshine with highsand the load of mid nineties and
once again some triple digit heating deceason. Maybe an isolated shower thunderstorm by Tuesday.

(01:49:02):
Right now, it's eighty one atyour official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k TRH. Whatyou need to know for the day ahead.
This is Houston's Morning News, broughtto you by New South Windows Solutions.
So doctor Fauci, Doctor Fauci's chieflieutenant at the National Institute of Health
was a guy by the name ofdoctor David Morins, and it turns out

(01:49:25):
he did a lot of his communicatingbusiness communicating in private emails and probably for
very good reason. Have some audioto share from his hearing yesterday coming up
next. First of all, we'vegot traffic and mother together as we check
out the drive once again with Skymike. Here we go. Visors, you've
got the brakes now Highway six intolet's call it Blaylock. We had an
earlier wreck that looks to have clearedyep out of the way, toe truck

(01:49:46):
Ninjas. We've lost twenty minutes hereonlines are still stowing two ninety to be
closed. That's why you get yourtraffic from AM radio, not AI.
Inbound from Graham Parkway. We're okay, we're looking at about thirty five minutes.
They're totally shutting it down tomorrow morningat nine thirty fourth Street. That
they're doing that power line thing restoringall that, and officials say it should

(01:50:08):
only take about a half an hour. So Southwest Freeway we're clogged up now
after he'll crop go Freeway. Theback door is Edgebrook Doug from Conrod.
Hey, guy, Mike, thisis easy day on the HEARTYIL road today.
It must be nice tent from topto bottom. Jimmy, I think
I'm going to turn myself into thetollway next week. I'm in the Generator
Supercenter dot com Traffic Center. Ican smug you on the tollway if you

(01:50:30):
slugs, they don't catch it.Glad that you didn't turn me in for
a reward. It's because the warreward was ten bucks from our KTRH Generator
Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center.Clouds early peaks at the sun for the
afternoon with a high ninety two Sundayand hot tomorrow morning. Clouds afternoon sun
hot on Sunday, even hotter ninetyseven for a high for Memorial Day.
Currently it is eighty one at yourofficial severe weather station, news Radio seven

(01:50:55):
forty ktra billing in again to forshare with some of our top stories.
Here's thank you, Jimmy. Aboutfour thousand customers still don't have power a
week plus after yes after the stormin the Houston area. First Liberty is
suing the National Park Service for notallowing the Knights of Columbus to hold a
Memorial Day mass inside a national cemetery, and Wayfair opens up its first brick

(01:51:16):
and mortar store. Get the latestnews anytime at KTRH dot comper next update
is at eight o'clock. How badthings are the twenty twenty four elections?
So what's really happening? Everything inyour world? Here and abroad News Radio
seven forty KTRH. Oh. Yeah, there's some weird science at work.
National Institute of Health n IAH workingin collusion with each other, I think

(01:51:43):
in many different cases. Yeah,it's going to turn out that the United
States was very evolved in funding gainof function research and they have damaged their
reputation and this is not helping.By the way, there's a hearing yesterday.
Who you're going to hear in thishearing is Representative Balliotakis questioning doctor David
Morins. He is a chief lieutenantof doctor Fauci at the NIAH, and

(01:52:09):
here they are talking about communications goingon between doctor Mortons and eco Health.
EcoHealth is one of the groups theyended up funding, also involved in gain
and function research. Doctor Morins,you used your personal email to conduct official
Naiad business and you shared non publicinformation with eco Health, an organization that

(01:52:30):
was vying for federal dollars from youragency. Given your position experience, you
knew that this was against for yourregulations. You've an indicated it in many
of the emails in your personal Gmail. Can you explain why you chose to
bypass official channels and how do youjustify that? Well, let me go

(01:52:53):
back to the very beginning in earlytwenty twenty. Peter Dashak, who's been
a personal friend of mine for almosttwenty years. I've had government interactions with
him that are would be on myNIH email, but almost all my interactions
with him for years have been personalas a friend. And suddenly he was

(01:53:15):
getting death threats, credible death threats, and his wife and his two daughters
are getting credible death threats, andthe FBI was investigating, and they were
publishing these death threat people which aresaid to be QAnon. I don't even
know who they are, but youknow, they were marching outside his house
and they were sending threatening things,and anthrax powder envelope was mailed to him,

(01:53:39):
and it just freaked everybody. Whydid you choose to use personal email?
That's because that was not government business. What happens to a private citizen
in a death threat situation is,in my mind, is not government business.
Well, it is government business.If you are advising him, you're
advocating on his behalf, you're editing, editing things that that he wanted to

(01:54:00):
send to Nih. You did allthat on personal email, correct, I
don't remember, but if I did, I shouldn't have done that. That's
wrong. It is wrong. Andthat's why we're asking the question, because
you were using it for official business. And that's what we're trying to understand.
Why why were you trying to hidethis from members of Congress, from
the government, from the public.Should it have been a freedom of information

(01:54:23):
law? It does seem that youhave a very cozy relationship with Peter Dazzagu
indicated that he was a good friend. I have to I mean, I
just I have to after reading thisemail from Exhibit six on August twenty seven
to twenty, after Nih was awardeda seven point five million dollar grant to
Eco Health Alliance. You wrote tohim and you asked, do I get

(01:54:47):
a kickback? Too much? Foking, fo king money? Do you deserve
it all? Question Mark, let'sdiscuss. Would you like to explain that's
typical black humor? Or is ita bribe about to happen? And are

(01:55:11):
there other people at NIH that werealso making money the same way? That's
of course what we suspect, rightAnd as for why he would do a
business government business and a private email, well just because it's not covered under
Freedom Information Act. Therefore they supposedlywouldn't be able to get their hands on
the information, but they did.Hey, listen, have a great Memorial

(01:55:31):
Day weekend, enjoy some time withfriends and family. We'll see a Monday
morning bright and early, or makethat Tuesday morning. We get Monday off
too. We'll see Tuesday morning brightnearly at five am.