Heavy Rain Affects Houston Area + Peaceful ICE Protests In Texas

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 06/12/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is huge Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

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Drive Everywhere with Skyler happening.

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Now, the latest news, weather and trafa.

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It's more of what matters to you from the John
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Speaker 5 (00:17):
It is five am as we get started this morning
here on Houston's Morning News. Good morning, I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories this have are going to have
to deal with a lot of rain today. They protested
the Right Way in San Antonio yesterday and coming up
in five o eight, Brian Wilson has died. So what's
your favorite Beach Boys song? Details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that

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Morning Drive for the first time. Here's sky Mike m
This is gonna suck, all right.

Speaker 6 (00:43):
We got roadways this morning, wet everywhere. Obviously, the first
thing we do is turn off this news. The second
thing we do is watch out for other people. I
like the flashy light guy that just keeps their flashers
going on. Now they can't signal west Sam southbound in Fallbrook.
That's just a stall he's but he's in a right lane.
The other thing is visibility we share. I've got a

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lot of dark spots on the freeways. Now you've got
Katie Freeway that's going to be a managed line.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Bunker Hill, this is the wreck. It's a left shoulder.

Speaker 6 (01:11):
And also you've got forty five North Boundary Research Force.
This wreck's looking pretty real. This is three left lanes
going to be like this all morning. Probably one hundred
things this morning with spinouts and everything. So get an
early start, please Skymike on the USA Rvresorts dot Com
traffic center.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather center,
thunderstorms and heavy rain. Some spots could see six or
more inches of rain today, so that gives you an
idea what we're dealing with. I temperature right about eighty.
We'll get Terry Smith in here in about eight minutes
with the complete forecast and led to know where maybe
the heaviest rain is going to be when we talk
with her right now seventy three at your official severe

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weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time
now for the news. Here's Clep Sanders Hey Jimmy at
five oh two.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
Our top story you mentioned, did Jimmy, We're tracking rain
in storms this and you can keep track of the
potential power outages in the radar by going to Operations
Stormwatch on KTRH dot com.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
Also topping the.

Speaker 7 (02:09):
News, nine hundreds protesting against Dyson San Antonio last night.
A total of two people were detained. DPS and the
Texas National Guard making sure there was no violence. Governor
Greg Gabbott vowing to keep Saturdays No King's Rally across
Houston peaceful too. We will use every tool that we

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can to ensure order across our state. He's sending the
National Guard to several state locations. Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer
and Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo have turned down Congressman
Wesley Hunt's offer for federal help. By the way, Hidalgo
is in Paris until Sunday, so she won't be here
for the protests. Five HT three on KTRH, Marines and

(02:53):
the National Guard spend a second night trying to keep
La quiet. Missouri Senator Josh Howley pushed back on dem
claims that the violence was all President Trump's vault.

Speaker 8 (03:03):
I missed it when Donald Trump went and blew up
a car on Highway one oh one. I didn't see
him when he was assaulting cops. What I saw was
a bunch of lunatics who were waiving the Mexican flag
and other flags while they burned our own.

Speaker 7 (03:14):
Holly has opened an investigation into who provided the funding
for the LA riots. That said some conservatives would be
just fine with letting liberal cities like Los Angeles burn.

Speaker 9 (03:26):
But Bonchie with Red Stage says, we've already seen that movie.

Speaker 10 (03:31):
I don't think it's controversial to say that he acted
a little too late during the twenty twenty riots. I mean,
I think that's something that a lot of even the
biggest Trump supporters have admitted.

Speaker 9 (03:38):
And what about the upcoming protests, I think he could
get ugly.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I wouldn't think it would be in Houston.

Speaker 10 (03:45):
You know, you might see some out of hand protests
in a place like Austin maybe, And I think you're
still going to be looking at the major blue cities.

Speaker 9 (03:52):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k t eh now
five oh four, Former Houston Mayor Innise Parker officially announced
as a run for him Harris County Judge, setting up
a potential primary if Lena Hidalgo runs again.

Speaker 11 (04:05):
I think Judge at Ago has huge issues to overcome
and will likely be defeated in the Democrat primary. That
battle will be expensive, it will be nasty and negative.

Speaker 7 (04:16):
Jared would fill with Conservative Republicans of Texas. S Parker
has a far left record as mayor, which could hurt
her in the general election. She will join Jimmy at
six point twenty. Meantime, disturbing new research, Houstonians in growing
numbers want the government to help them out economically.

Speaker 12 (04:34):
A study from Rice's Kinder Institute finds eight and ten
Houston residents think government should reduce economic inequality and nine
and ten think government should help people get a job.
Those numbers are more than twenty points higher than fifteen
years ago. Financial planner Mitch Kramer says we're creating a
dependent generation.

Speaker 13 (04:50):
People need to understand that they're going to be much
happier if they focus on salf reliance versus someone else,
and they'll be able to control their destiny much more
than some somebody else can, and self reliance needs to
be taught pip home.

Speaker 12 (05:04):
He adds that colleges have contributed to this problem by
giving out degrees that don't translate to good jobs. Corey Jolson,
who's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
At five oh five.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
Nearly half of Texas homeowners who found insurance claims in
twenty twenty four got nothing back. Forty seven percent were
closed without payment, often because deductibles were too high. Property
insurance expert Ron Snow, for SIS, there is a trade
off to getting a lower deductible.

Speaker 14 (05:29):
There's very few companies that still offer less than two percent,
But in order to do that, you're going to be
paying a higher premium, and premiums are already through the
roof compared to what it was five years ago.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
He says.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
You can finally complaint with the state if you think
you were unfairly denied. But that said, if you're in
the market to buy a house, you might be in luck.

Speaker 15 (05:53):
These days, the market four homes is going from favoring
sellers to favoring buyers.

Speaker 16 (05:58):
We've had such a low haul of houses going up
and up and up in value, and now we've got
people who are a little bit afraid, and we've got
a lot of people putting their houses on the market.

Speaker 15 (06:07):
Filter Caroli Gurley says the number of available houses has
picked up to the point that buyers have room to negotiate.

Speaker 16 (06:13):
Even we'll talk about interest rates. People are still buying.
We just have a surplus of houses. In buying is
starting to be more viable for people, and that's important.

Speaker 15 (06:21):
The latest support from the National Association of Wilter says
Texas has pretty much built its way out of what
was a home shortage that had been pushing home prices
of up. Charles Mollin on Who's Radio seven forty k.

Speaker 7 (06:32):
Inflation grew at a slower rate than expected last month,
but overnight futures are down almost three hundred points five
h six on KTRH.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Sad news coming out yesterday.

Speaker 7 (06:47):
Is Brian Wilson, the legendary singer, songwriter and co founder
of the Beach Boys, has died. He was eighty two
years old. Christian Walker Homer and drove in four runs.
The Stros beat the White Sox ten to two game
tonight at six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Game
at seven on seven ninety and KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders
on Houston's News Weather in traffic station News Radio seven

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forty KTRH.

Speaker 13 (07:12):
The most important issue, what matters to you concerns me.

Speaker 17 (07:15):
The most matters to us the US economy, not the
f one kun Use Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
Nineteen sixty six. Man, was that song I Have His
Time or what? I actually bought that forty five. It's somewhere.
It's all scratchy, but it's somewhere. I was a little kid,
but I scraped up probably fifty cents and went to
a little apartment store called Hessenaurers I bought that song.
I know I did. Beach Boys founder. And by the way,

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we'll get to the weather in just a second here.
The traffic. Weather's gonna be a big deal this morning
with all this rain coming. That's gonna be our top
story for sure. But I did want to kind of
throw this out as the question of the day because
I think that for a lot of a lot of people,
certainly a lot of boomers, it's kind of a big
deal that Brian Wilson has passed at the age of
eighty two, one of the founding members of the Beach Boys,

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founded in nineteen sixty one Hawthorne, California. You remember the
original lineup, You probably do. Three brothers, Brian, Dennis and
Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine.
That's the original lineup of the Beach Boys. They had
a reunion tour as recently as twenty twelve where they
all performed. They were all well, all except for the

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brother who died, Dennis, and it's again. It's kind of
a big deal. One of the best selling albums of
all time pet Sounds good Vibrations, which I was just
playing a little bit of there. I didn't realize it,
but because it's my favorite Beach Boys song, I just
picked it because it's my favorite, but it is. There
was their most recognizable and highest rated hit song. Good

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Vibrations was number one. They had a lot of great songs,
but that one was far and away the most popular.
So here's here's my question. Good chance to reminisce about
something kind of fun to reminisce about. Which is our
youth or maybe your your your father's youth, because maybe
you're young enough where your dad is a boomer, for example,
and was a Beach Boys fan or a ficionado or

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went to see them in concert. If you have a
great concert memory of the Beach Boys, or better you
have just your favorite Beach Boys song, and there's plenty
to pick from. You don't have to pick the hits.
You can pick something that's maybe a little bit more obscure.
Just go to the iHeart Radio f KTRH begas number
one in your preset talkback button. Hit that thirty seconds
up to you won't need it, but up to thirty seconds.
First name where you're calling from? Favorite Beach Boys song?

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Five to ten? Time for traffic and weather, About to
Beach Boys? What's that'sk mine?

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Well, you know a lot of us, especially when I
was young, we thought of them as these clean cut,
all American voice.

Speaker 18 (09:48):
Right.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
I don't know if you if you read up or
did any documentaries on them, but they were just as
wild as Lead Zeppelin and had twice as many problems.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Yes, do you remember what James what in.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
The Carter The Carter administration was like, we're not going
to have the Beach Boys because they're the wrong kind
of element, those hippies, and we all laughed.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
And rollers, Yeah, we were laughing at him, like the
Beach Boys, yead watch a documentary.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
All right, let's get busy. I know it's going to
be crazy this morning, two ninety. First of all, Terry,
let's turn the snooze off for everybody. No, every Freeway's
wet this morning. It's the slowest I have ever driven
to work this morning. If that tells you anything. To
ninety Hollister, you got this stall. He's just sitting right there,
minding his own business in the center lane. Look out

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from Fairbanks, North Houston. It seems to be pretty well
lit over there. Katie Freeway, the manage line, Bunker Hill,
that's clear. Don't worry about it. Just keep dragging along
slowly like everybody else. South Loop eastbound two eighty eight
clear that wreck clear. North Freeway research heavy areas of
pinding now East tex Freeway inside the Belt to the
Loop nineteen sixty Humble, but between Humble and Crosby.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
You know the bridge you've got New ninety pretty heavy.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
The East Sam's heavy stuff, and I tend the East
Freeway between the Belt and Loop. Jack City watched those
feeders also, we all know to watch those feeders on
I forty five between ten one and Park.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
Are those always flood every time it gets like this?

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Right back at you with weather wherever the weather is
high in the USAARV Resorts dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four our weather Center,
Terry Smith us here right, you're gonna have come up
with a bunch of adjectives this morning to describe the atmosphere.
That'll be your challenge. Dale, I'll give you the first one.
Let's start with juicy, jeesey. The atmosphere is juicy today.

Speaker 19 (11:36):
Saturated would be the technical term, and yes, it's very
saturated out there.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
Okay, So in.

Speaker 19 (11:45):
Case folks are just waking up and kind of getting
a grip on what's happening this morning, we've got widespread
showers and storms and heavy rain that is expected. Some
of that's falling right now, and it's going to be
with us really off and on through much of the day.
They'll be breaks at times, but they won't last long.
Main thing is because of all that juicy atmosphere, we're

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seeing some very heavy rain and so by the time
this winds down later on this afternoon early evening timeframe,
we've got two to five inches of rain that has fallen.
So flooding is a huge concern, and we have a
floodwatch until seven o'clock this evening. We are seeing some
localized flooding in spots, so allow more extra time find it.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
I'll turn it round.

Speaker 19 (12:30):
If your road's covered in water, you do not know
if the road has been washed away. One hundred percent
chance of showers and storms today upper seventies to low
eighties this afternoon. We're still dealing with the rain through
the weekend. A sixty percent chance of more storms tomorrow.
Fifty percent chance of that rain continuing Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Temperature right now seventy three at your official severe weathers station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's used in morning news. You buy new South Windows solutions.
Now back to Jimmy Barretts and the Houston Morning News
team all the info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
So the economists out there are kind of scrambling right
because they were expecting a much higher inflation report than
the one we got yesterday, which was pretty amazing. So
we'll share a little bit of the numbers with you.
Get some analysis of it coming up in a moment.
But again, the big story this morning is the weather,
where we could get five, six, seven, eight inches of
rain depending upon where you are today. So we're going
to take it slow this morning, and we're going to

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keep you in the loop as far as what's going
on with your drive? Let's do that right now? Is
we check in once again a sky Mike?

Speaker 6 (13:35):
Oh, we got ponding. I just made Jennifer laugh. I said,
can we not have Kim on TV? I've got enough
on my mind already. Let's go east Sam southbound at
Lake Houston Parkway. I believe that's going to be north
Lake Houston Parkway. Yes, got a wreck here. This is
a right line coming down from a Tascacita. It's right
where all that ponding is too. You've got ponding, especially
on the east Sam item between the Belt and pretty

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much downtown nineteen sixty Crosby Freeway. That's where the painting is.
We did clear the wreck on the south Loop at
two eighty eight that was going on the eastbound side.
It's out of the way. Just slow freeways everywhere you go,
and we did clear if you missed it. Forty five
at Research Force we cleared Katie Freeway bunker. He'll stay
the course, just stay it a lot slower. It's the

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slowest I've ever driven Jimmy to work this morning. I'm
in the USA RV Resorts dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
What was that seventy five from our KTRH top tax
defenders twenty four hour weathers in a flash flood watching
effect until seven tonight. We're gonna get cope amounts of
rain today, thunderstorms, heavy rain. Some spots could see five, six,
seven or more inches of rain with a high temperature
right about eighty and then we're still going to get
wet tomorrow with scattered morning storms, then mostly cloudy for

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the afternoon with more storm chances than a high eighty five.
Right now, it's seventy three at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Get you caught up in
some more of our top stories here on this Thursday morning.

Speaker 7 (14:58):
Here's Cliff thank you, Jimmy, President Trump SA he's disappointed
in Elon musk Kosovo in Eastern Europe, agrees to take
in deported illegal aliens from the US. And Jimmy Joey
Chestnut maybe returning to the Nathan's Hotdog Eating contest on
July fourth. You'll remember he missed last year's contest over
a sponsorship issue.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
Gets the sponsors down around anymore, huh.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Or he's just that hungry. Get the latest news anytime
at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at five
point thirty Pasadena.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Living clearly reliable KTRH traffic band weather next on the ten.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
All right, we are very close to the FED target
five twenty three. So time here in Houston's worn to use,
inflation was at two point four percent in May compared
the same time last year. Prices rose two point three
percent the month before, So that seems to be a
slight increase, right one point one percent. But it actually
the report, actually we need to take a good look

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at it actually said best shock upon shock, that inflation
is actually slowing down. It is a smaller jump than
previous months. We are actually trending very much in the
right direction. And this is, you know, this is after
terrorists have already taken impact. Now there are a few
economists out there actually seem to be willing to say, well,

(16:19):
maybe maybe the terrorists aren't going to have the inflationary
effect that we thought they were going to have. I mean,
these kindoms, some of them, I mean, they're just constantly wrong,
aren't they. It just feels that way. But we'll bring
on one on here and see what they think. RBC
economist Francis what's the last name here, Francis Donald. That's it.

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I'm the cooler than normal inflation numbers. We'll see how
surprised she is about how this happened. Is she has
the discussion about all this on Fox Business with Charles Pain.

Speaker 20 (16:51):
We're gonna make a.

Speaker 21 (16:52):
Deal with you. Okay, let's say tariffs are not inflationary.
I don't believe that, but let's put it to the side.
I am still worried about inflation in America. And if
we continue to focus on the prices issue in the
United States just being about tariffs, I think we're doing
the American people at a service because what is lifting
prices right now? Even if I take tariff impact to zero,
I still end the year close to three percent. Why

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house prices are still going to come up, especially.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
In their calculation.

Speaker 21 (17:18):
The labor market is very very tight, so wage growth
is high, and we still have an incredibly wealthy consumer
and a very big government. These are all the inflationary forces.
So you know what, tariffs, let's agree to disagree, but
it's a side show on the real underlying inflation.

Speaker 22 (17:32):
Prices start to come down home I'm hearing I'm saying
nothing but negative housing for the most part, So.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
That's might start the way in a little bit.

Speaker 22 (17:39):
Those didn't get a trillion, but they got a little
bit maybe on the government's spending side.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
And as far as spending.

Speaker 22 (17:45):
Yeah, you got ten percent doing fifty percent into spending.
The rest of folks aren't necessarily spending that much. If
they are, is by now pay letter kind of stuff.

Speaker 21 (17:51):
Well, this is the issue, is that so much of
what mechanically impacts our data like CPA CPI isn't the
reality of most Americans' economies.

Speaker 20 (17:59):
So, yeah, most Americans right now.

Speaker 21 (18:01):
Are actually seeing deterioring economic environment because guess what, prices
are twenty five percent higher than they were five years ago.
But the top ten percent of Americans are fifty percent
of all of the spending in the economy. So there's
a very big difference between how I forecast growth, which
is heavily leveraged to that high income household, and what's
actually happening to the America.

Speaker 22 (18:20):
It doesn't that put the FED in the awkward position
because you can't you can't have restrictive policy because there's
rich as ten percent or actually getting richer every time
they get paid from their money market account and punished
the resident population.

Speaker 20 (18:33):
That's a huge point.

Speaker 21 (18:34):
And the other issue the FED is facing is not
just that inequality issue, but they are hamstrung by this
technical data which is being all over the place rocketed
by mechanical factors on CPI and labor. The labor market
is going to stay on paper extraordinarily tight. Why America
does not need jobs. America needs workers.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Uh huh okay. So if we read between the lines
and all that stuff, and has lots of stuff to
read between the lines of base, the FED doesn't know
what to do, which is why they haven't done anything.
I guess five twenty six, it's time to take another
look at your money as we check in again with
Jeff Bellinger.

Speaker 23 (19:11):
Good morning, and good morning to you, Jimmy. Stocks were
higher at the start of the midweek session after the
government released better than expected news on inflation, but the
early gains evaporated and the major averages ended lower. President
Trump has dialed up investors tariff tensions again. The President
says he intends to set unilateral teriff rates within two weeks.

(19:32):
Stock market futures all pointing lower this morning, and Boeing
shares are down more than seven percent in pre market
trading afterword that it was a Boeing seven eighty seven
that has crashed in India. We point out, though there
is no indication that aircraft was in any way responsible
for the crash. I'm Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News

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By thirty one, this is our time, Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories of this half hour,
We're expecting nearly half a foot of rain today in
some areas around Houston. We have a flash flood watching
effect until seven pm, So drive carefully. Elon extends an
olive branch to Trump and coming up at five thirty eight,
what's the beverage your average American just can't live without

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details In the minutes ahead, you're in Houston's Pony News. First,
we're checking out that drive again here Skymine and.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
I've gonna need a lot of it this morning. It's crazy.
Turn your snows off. The freeways are wet all over town.
There's not a good one right now, and nobody's moving
at posting speeds.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
From what I can see. I'm gonna need a lot
of your health this morning.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Tip line seven one three two one two tips.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
Talk to me big.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
Still still earn you money on day, buddy.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
All right, let's go southside, good boy, Mike.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
There is a accident on.

Speaker 25 (21:09):
The six ten ramp going to two twenty five pep
Ak dealer and a truck blogging at the ball eyelight.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
All right, I see that effect on the ramp to
the Ship Channel bridge. Also cleared the wreck on the
KD Freeway. Kirk quid Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Center from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
Weather Center, we have a flash flood watching effect until
seven to night. Thunderstorms, heavy rain. Some spots could see
five six or more inches of rain, high temperature right
about eighty. We'll get to the complete forecast with Terry
Smith at the weather Channel at eight minutes right now
seventy three at your official severe weather station News Radio
seven forty k t RH. It's time now for the news.

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Here's Cliff sanders.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Hey Shivy five thirty two on KTRH our top story,
A stormy Thursday. Some part of the area could see
six inches of rain. We've got operations Storm launch up
and running at ktrh dot com. Click on it you
can track the radar, track potential power outages.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
Also topping the news.

Speaker 26 (22:04):
Is there anything that you can do to forgive him?
Could you see that happening?

Speaker 27 (22:09):
Well, look, I have no hard feelings. I was really surprised.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
President Trump with the New York Post Miranda Divine saying
he's not really thinking about reconciling with Elon Musk yet. Meantime,
the Senate continues to work on the President's budget proposal.
Lartist Senator Rick Scott says they only have one shot
to get this right.

Speaker 28 (22:29):
We've got to golign my line and do these are
recision packages and get this in faint and get this budget.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
Ballance Scott on Fox Business five point thirty three. The
Marines and National Guard holding the line for a sixth
day of anti ice riots in Los Angeles. Republicans are
pushing back on Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass
for how they've handled this.

Speaker 29 (22:50):
How dare you, Gavin Newsom, How dare you? Karen Bass
gaslights is like this, do your job instead of pretending
that this is fine. I've never seen anything so outrageous
the dereliction of duty from these people.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
Gubitatorial candidate and former Fox host Steve Hilton in Nebraska,
federal agents assaulted by an illegal immigrant during a raid
at a meat plant in Omaha. Seventy illegals were arrested
and here at home with DPS and the National Guard
on hand. Only two people were arrested. During last night's
protest against ICE in San Antonio, only one hundreds showed

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up there.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
The city of.

Speaker 7 (23:26):
Houston expecting more people for Saturday's No King's protest air
John Whitbyer, though turning down federal assistants from Congressman Wesley Hunts.

Speaker 30 (23:35):
I'm sorry about the termar in our nation, but it
does not describe Houston.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Ariskana.

Speaker 7 (23:43):
Judge Alena Hidago in Paris on her trade mission also
turned down Hunt's help. Governor Rabbit is sitting in the
National Guard in DPS here and other locations this weekend.
It's now five point thirty four. By the way, we

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are activating the Houston Area Emergency Alert System at the
request of the National Weather Service in League City because
of a flash flood warning in northwestern Chambers County, northwestern
Harris County, and southwestern Liberty County that is going to
be in effect until seven point thirty this morning. This
concludes the activation of the Houston Area Emergency Alert System.

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Remember when news breaks out, we break in. Keep it
tuned here. For the latest weather updates or for live
radar anytime, go to KTRH dot com and click on
Operations storm Watch, which it is now.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Five point thirty five on KGRH.

Speaker 7 (25:03):
Texas lawmakers lowered property taxes during this past legislative session.
Florida is trying to get rid of them completely. Can
Texas do the same?

Speaker 31 (25:12):
The biggest of those obstacles continues to be the out
of control local spending.

Speaker 18 (25:16):
We seem to be caught in this cycle where the
Texas legislature lowers taxes, only for local governments to raise
taxes during the interim.

Speaker 31 (25:25):
James Quintero with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says the
states need to crack down on these local jurisdictions.

Speaker 18 (25:30):
One of the ways that we can go about doing
that is by instituting a local expenditure limit that contains
the growth of government at the local level.

Speaker 31 (25:39):
He says what's needed is essentially a coordinated relief and
reform planned by the legislature. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (25:46):
Governor Rabbit says he has not yet decided whether or
not to vito the new statewide ban on THCHC, which
of course was pushed by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. Political
consultant Bill Miller says, many disagree with Patrick on this.

Speaker 32 (26:00):
I don't think that he helps himself on this issue.
I know he has his reasons for deleting what he believes,
but I do think he probably underestimated how deeply this
cuts into a lot of people who otherwise support him
on a lot of issues.

Speaker 7 (26:13):
The governor has until June twenty second to decide on
a v two. Christian Walker hit a home run drove
in for the Astros blowout the White Sox ten to two,
and for the fifth straight year, Jimmy Congressional Republicans blowout,
demolish destroy the Democrats in the Congressional baseball game. The
final was thirteen to two. They raised nearly three million
dollars for charity.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
It turned out like the election.

Speaker 7 (26:35):
Ooh, shut fired. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather
in traffic station news Radio seven forty KTRH.

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Speaker 5 (26:57):
Oh well, I don't think this will surprise anybody. Thirty
is a time here in Houston's morning news. They did
a company who, by the way, owns cure egg. So
you think they had a dog in the hunt on
this one. Yeah. A doctor Pepper and a bunch of
other brands just released his first ever State of Beverages
report and found that the most important drink of all

(27:18):
the thing you can't live without is coffee. Now this
is not to be confused with your favorite beverage. The
favorite beverage went to soda some form of soda. But
the one that you can't live without is your coffee,
your morning coffee. That's the most important drink. According to
the survey, sixty two percent said that coffee was how

(27:42):
they had to start to day they couldn't start the
day without a cup of coffee. Sixty nine percent agreed
with drinking coffee every morning is my happy place. And again,
it doesn't mean it's your favorite drink, It just means
it's the one you gotta have. Fifty three percent overall
enjoyed the taste of their favorite so to more than
anything else. So I guess we could kind of combine

(28:04):
this with the Beach Boys question. We have the question
of today is favorite Beach Boys song or memory of
the Beach Boys? Because the head of the Beach Boys,
Brian Wilson, died yesterday at the age of eighty two.
They had a lot of hits, so there's plenty to
choose from. So favorite Beach Boy song and if you
want to throw in there, the beverage you can't live
without not your favorite necessarily the one you can't live without.

(28:24):
We'll do our own little survey here. We'll combine those
two things together. Go to the iHeartRadio app KTRH. You
hit once you get to the I Heard Radio app KTRH,
hit the talkback button. You get up to thirty seconds.
First thing where you're calling from favorite Beach Boys song
and beverage. You can't live without. Right down five forty
time for traffic and whether it together to come around here,
Yes we can. We can do more than one thing

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at once, and we're gonna have to all morning longsky Mike.

Speaker 6 (28:48):
If we could just drive in the rain, that's the
trick this morning. Okay, I've got a lot of ponting.
I'll get to that. Let's get to the big stuff. First,
East Sam southbound at Lake Houston Parkway.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
That's looking pretty normally here. They're just about to clear
it right length. Oh it is clear.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Okay, great, great, great to ninety Hollister. That one was
looking off lenar Ley too. That was on the westbound side.
I've got just a little bit of a smudge stayed
the course. All that business will be gone. Biggest ponding now,
just assume that your freeway is soaking wet this morning
and slippery and super treacherous. Plus there'll be a lot
of dumb people on the road. You've got a lot

(29:23):
of ponding. Right around nineteen sixty new ninety East Sam
I ten and now to twenty five. I'm getting reports
of those feeders getting pretty nasty. Southwest Freeway.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Hey, tay guy, Mike.

Speaker 34 (29:33):
This is Cindy from Morton. They're in water covering the
food northbound fifty nine, right at the.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
Right, right at the loop. I see that. Oh, let's
go to the Hardyte Road from Spring. It's the moon.

Speaker 18 (29:47):
Good morning sky, Mike on Hartytoe.

Speaker 35 (29:49):
Roll all the way to Belly eight.

Speaker 36 (29:52):
It's just bad.

Speaker 37 (29:53):
A lot of people are going flow on the left
lane while they have available raineage on the right to
make sure they don't go.

Speaker 14 (30:00):
I have a bold hire. Yes, bald people can be taked,
but bald tires can never be takety.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
Bald people can be sexy, but bald tires.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Look at him, he's over there. He's the word still
live by. Sorry, Cliff.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
I'm in the USA RV Resorts dot Com tract. He's
sexy in the USA RV Resorts dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Just okay, you could say that if you want. I
guess it's a free country. From mar ktr H Generator Supercenter,
twenty four hour Weather Center, Terry Smith is here. We
are getting huge amounts of rain today. Oh yeah. The
silliest thing I think we'll see today, somebody's gonna have
their sprinkler system on. I'm a drive past somebody's house.
It's gonna be born down rain where you get five
inches of rain and their sprinklers are gonna.

Speaker 19 (30:37):
Be going, ah, yes, I see those, see those two,
and it's like turn them off, Mother Natures.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
So we are dealing with uh if sky.

Speaker 19 (30:50):
Mike makes a very good point, and so does Ramon
about the bald tires. The roads are going to be
super soggy today. We've had some heavy rain already there
there's more on the way. I'm looking at some stronger thunderstorms,
heavier rains coming down around Bay City and that's making
its way in our direction. A one hundred percent chance

(31:10):
you'll get wet today, I can it's rare.

Speaker 7 (31:13):
I can say that.

Speaker 19 (31:14):
I'm going to bet that everybody who's listening to us
is going to be wet.

Speaker 7 (31:18):
But not just wet.

Speaker 19 (31:19):
We're talking two to five inches of wet and a
floodwatch that covers the entire area. That means with some
of this rain, we're going to see some localized flooding develop.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
So if you're in an area.

Speaker 19 (31:30):
That's prone to flooding, or if you see flooding, find
somewhere else to travel. Just be safe today. Upper seventies
to low eighties. That's as warm as we get. We
have a little bit of sunshine and less rain tomorrow
through the weekend, but it's a sixty percent chance of
more thunderstorms tomorrow, a fifty percent chance of those showers
and storms Saturday, Sunday and Monday as well.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Temperture right now seventy one at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. The Beach Boys dying yesterday
at the age of eighty two. So the question of
the day has to do with favorite Beach Boys song
or Beach Boys memory or a combination there of. If
you want to throw in the beverage you cant lit without,
feel free to do that too.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
Jimmy best Beach Boys song Sloop John B.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
It's a check in Connecticut.

Speaker 35 (32:18):
I remember seeing the Beach Boys in concert at feed
Him over Texas about thirty years ago.

Speaker 37 (32:24):
Have a good day, guys, Yeah, Skott, Mike knows my
brothers and I we played forty one years for a
wedding band for Polish weddings and stuff. But the first
thing did my oldest brother learn when he was in
fifth grade was wipe out and that was mandatory and
then we went on from there with the Beach Boys,
the Eagles, Willie Nelson, et cetera, et cetera. But yeah,

(32:49):
the Beach Boys were a big inspiration, especially with.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
Oh he ran out of time. Okay, wipeout though hang
on who did wipe out Whitebout was not done by
the Beach Boys. I have to look that buff's I
should know the answer that question. Skuy Mike probably knows
five fifty time for traffick in weather together. Safari Safari
didn't even wipeout, but they did sound a lot like

(33:15):
there were a lot of Jen and Deeine, a lot
of people that sounded like the Beach Boys.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Got engineering is gonna kill me. Let's go to the
hard work. And East I put your hard hats on.
We got it in East got some ponding hippening in
the feeder roads right around the beltway. Also that East
Sam I would stay on the main lanes for sure,
another reason to stay out of the left line. I
think that left line pawns more than any other part
of the freeways just about all over town. We cleared

(33:38):
the wreck off the East Sam southbound at North Lake
Houston Parkway. That's out of the way. We're not going
to be full speed anywhere this morning. Turn your snooze off.
Watch out for dumb people in the left line two
ninety clear hollister, that's out of the way. And let
me see what they're showing me here on the trend
Star quad that is two ninety two nineties. It's a
little thick. I see some lights on the feeder road.

(33:59):
That looks like every everybody's moving for the most part.
Early start. That's the key skymike on the USA Rvresorts
dot Com traffic Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four,
our weather center.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
We do have a flash flood watch that's an effect
until seven tonight. Thunderstorms, heavy rain. Some spots could see five, six,
seven or more inches of rain. High temperature right about
eighty tomorrow, scattered morning storm chances than mostly klaudy. For
the afternoon was more storm chances, so more rain coming
for tomorrow, not as much as today though today's the
heavy rain day HI tomorrow eighty five. Temperature right now

(34:31):
is seventy one at your officials Severe Weather Station News
Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some more of
our top stories, mainly it's got to do with the weather.
Here's Cliff, Thank you.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
Jimmy headlines are sponsor by DNM Auto Leasing. We've gone
a flash flood warning in effect until seven thirty for
hearts of Harris County, Chambers Carni and Liberty County. Foreign
nationals can now get on the wait list for President
Trump's Gold card citizenship for a five million dollar investment.
And this is just part for the course. In liberal

(35:00):
New York, Jimmy parents are outraged because a school worker
showed up on Hero Day dressed as an ice agent.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Good for him.

Speaker 7 (35:11):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at six o'clock.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
Fifty nine. Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
KTRH time saving traffic connect on the ten.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, it's pretty easy to protict rights. No rioting in
San Antonio yesterday. I'm pleased to report, of course, the
governor calling out the National Guard right right thing to do.
In Los Angeles, the violence continues in Los Angeles because well,
you've got a lot of well funded people there. You know,
that's a big headquarters for funding anarchists and rioters. Senator

(35:46):
Josh Hawley yesterday on Fox being asked about who's funding
these people, where are they getting their money?

Speaker 8 (35:51):
These aren't spontaneous at all. They're about as authentic as
astro turf. They are bought and paid for flash mobs,
and I want to know who's doing they in the paying.
That's why today I've launched an investigation. I've sent multiple
investigative demands today to various groups out on social media
claiming they are paying for this, they are organizing it,

(36:11):
they are financing it. We've all seen the videos of
vans driving up handing out gas masks right before somebody
blows up a car.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
It's time we found.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
Out where's the money coming from, who's really behind this.
I think the American people deserve answers.

Speaker 38 (36:24):
When they're saying, don't believe what you see on TV
and there's no violence at all. Doesn't that kind of
remind you of the Biden cover.

Speaker 8 (36:32):
Up, oh one hundred percent, it's the same thing, don't
believe you're lying eyes.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
Meanwhile, they're out there.

Speaker 8 (36:37):
Blowing up cars on the one oh one, they're assaulting cops,
they're rushing federal buildings, they're burning down shops. It's all
on television and we can see it with our own eyes.
I'm just glad Trump isn't letting the city burn. I mean,
Gavin Newsom would allow his state to burn for the
second time in the year. And the worst part is
somebody is paying for all of this, and they're trying

(36:57):
to spread it, Jesse, just like you reported, they're trying
to spread it across the country, to Chicago, to Saint Louis,
to Seattle, New York, everywhere. We got to figure out.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Who is behind this.

Speaker 8 (37:07):
And by the way, why is the Democrat Party now
basically an extended mental ward? I mean, what has happened
to these people? They're nuts?

Speaker 2 (37:16):
You know.

Speaker 38 (37:16):
You notice that CNN never even interviews anybody at the riot.

Speaker 7 (37:20):
We have clips of them and you can see why.

Speaker 38 (37:22):
Shenon doesn't want to talk to them because they look insane.
Your colleagues in the Senate, do they support these people?
Do they think this is good politically for the Democrat Party?

Speaker 8 (37:33):
Well, that's what they're acting like. I mean, they're out
there saying all peaceful protests. It's all peaceful. And by
the way, this is Donald Trump's fault. I'm like, really,
Donald Trump's fault. Gee, I missed it when Donald Trump
went and blew up a car on Highway one oh one.
I didn't see him when he was assaulting cops. What
I saw was a bunch of lunatics who were waiving
the Mexican flag and other flags while they burned our own.
And by the way, Jesse, we ought to penalize people

(37:56):
who burned the American flag while they're committing a crime.
If you do that, to have your prison sentence doubled.
It's time to get serious with these people.

Speaker 20 (38:03):
It's a law and.

Speaker 8 (38:04):
Order time in America. No more of this nonsense.

Speaker 5 (38:07):
Okay, he's talking tough, yet he's talking about punishment for
burning the America flag. If you're committing another crime, which
those people generally speaking are doing, double your prison time
for adding the flag charge. Can you do that constitutionally?
Worth a try? Five poin fifty six here on Houston's
Morning News.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Is used Radio seven forty kat rh Houston.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Live Everywhere with him Now.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
The latest news, weather and traffing.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Six AM is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour.
It's a bad weather day here in Houston, plenty of
heavy rain. The governor activates the Texas National Guard to
keep things peaceful. And coming up at six to eight,
Representative Anna Paulina Lue says she knows who's funding these riots.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(39:06):
we're checking out the drive again with skymakee.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
We've cleared that wreck too ninety at Hollister. For some reason,
it's still showing me that it looks like we're a
little busy in the feeder roads. Watch the ponding. Got
to get an early start on all parts of town. Oh,
we have that wreck on the South Loop. That's right
where two twenty five Meches to South Loop, and I
believe it looks like this ramp coming off the Ship
Channel bridge is most affected. So watch out there nose

(39:29):
neozing this morning. Let's get an early start. All of
your freeways are awful. Skymichael, the USA Rvresorts dot Com
traffic Center.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four, our weather center.
We have a flash flood watching effect until seven o'clock
for our entire listening area. Flash flood warning until seven
thirty this morning for Harris County, thunderstorms, heavy rain. Some
spots could see go well five or more inches of
rain High Round eighty for today. We'll get Terry Smith
in here and get you the rest of the forecast

(39:57):
in about nine minutes. Right now, it is currently seventy
one at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (40:08):
We're a sponsored by shop as John Deere and the
weather is our lead story today. As Jimmy mentioned, we
have a flash flood warning for the following counties, Northeastern
Harris County, southwestern Liberty County, northwestern Chambers County. This is
going to be in effect until seven point thirty this morning.
You can track the radar in any power outages at

(40:29):
KTRH dot com just click on operations Stormwatch. Also topping
the news this morning, only two people were detained and
less than three hundred people showed up to protest against
ice in San Antonio, as DPS in the Texas National
Guard made sure there was no violence. Unlike what we

(40:49):
see in Los Angeles, you can expect a similar proactive
response to Saturday's anti ice protests scheduled for Euston.

Speaker 9 (40:57):
As a concerns to exact tactics and things like that,
we don't disclose those publicly.

Speaker 7 (41:02):
You will see them arise in response to what we
see on the ground. Governor Greg Abbott will deploy resources
across the state. Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo and Uston
Mayor John Whitmeyer turned down the offer from Congressman Wesley
Hunt for federal help. Hidalgo, by the way, is in
Paris through the fifteenth, so when these protests take place,

(41:23):
she won't be here. There are concerned about how these
protests will impact peaceful, law abiding civilians, especially gun owners.
Kirk Watson with the US Gun Shields says Texas gun
owners need to think twice before using deadly force.

Speaker 39 (41:37):
Basic lawn Texas is that you cannot use deadly force
to prevent minor property crimes.

Speaker 7 (41:44):
But if you are in fear of death or serious
bodily injury, state law permits the use of deadly force.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Six h three, the.

Speaker 7 (41:52):
US Marines and National Guard on the streets of LA
for a second straight night.

Speaker 40 (41:56):
President John promised to carry out the largest mass deporte
campaign in American.

Speaker 33 (42:01):
History, and left wing riots will not deter him in
that effort.

Speaker 7 (42:05):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt that said something Trump
should just let those liberal cities burn.

Speaker 10 (42:11):
I think he can make that argument on some level,
but also think if he were to just let them burn,
you know, quote unquote let the burn, that puts law enforcement,
federal LA enforcement, like I agents in danger, and we
can't do that. And then two, I think it would
make him look.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Weak, lawn't you With red State.

Speaker 7 (42:26):
There at least half a dozen no Kings protests are
scheduled for Saturday. Here in Houston six ZHO four, former
Houston mayor and niece Parker officially announces a run for
Harris County Judge, setting up a potential local Democrat civil war,
that is, if Lena Hidalgo runs for a third term.

Speaker 31 (42:44):
If a Dogo does seek a third term, Parker will
likely prove to be a tough opponent.

Speaker 11 (42:47):
But at these Parker, you have someone who's likely to
run much stronger, organized, effective campaign and can rely upon
her history at government service.

Speaker 31 (42:56):
Jared Woodfield with the Conservative Republicans of Texas warned that
Parker is still her off a radical leftist.

Speaker 11 (43:01):
We have an a nice Parker, someone who has a liberal,
progressive agenda to reshape and not only Houston Harris County,
but the entire country.

Speaker 31 (43:09):
He says Parker's left wing record will help her in
the primaries, but could hurt her chances in the general election.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (43:18):
So much for self reliance to do? Study from Rice's
Kinder Institute finds nine to ten Eustonians think the government
should help them get a job. Financial planner Mitch Kramer says,
we have created a dependent generation by not preparing them
for the workforce.

Speaker 13 (43:34):
A lot of the college programs today that are not
stem are creating kids who graduate who don't have a
useful skill set. I mean gender studies. How does that
increase the top line revenue?

Speaker 18 (43:45):
That doesn't.

Speaker 13 (43:46):
But that's a four year degree that maybe cost somebody
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 7 (43:50):
The study also finds eight and ten Eustonians think it's
the government's job to reduce quote economic inequality six oh
five now on KTRH eight A whopping forty seven percent
of all home insurance claims filed here in Texas last year,
we're closed without payment. Property insurance expert Ron Stover says,
while there's a lot you can do about your deductible,

(44:11):
you can save money. Rather, there's not a lot you
can do about your deductible, but you can save money
on your premiums.

Speaker 14 (44:17):
You have a lawn system on the house, you can
get a discount. If you bundle your house and your car,
you can get a discount. If you have no accidents
for three years, you can get a discount. There's things
that you can do to reduce the liability of that insurance.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
If you think you were unfairly denied, you can file
a complaint with the state. Meantime, the latest report from
the National Association of Realtors says Texas has built its
way out out of a home shortage. Now home more
homes are going up on the market and buyers have
room to negotiate.

Speaker 16 (44:49):
When interestrates for first rising, Sellers didn't want to put
them on the market because they had such a great
interest right and now they're all putting them on the
market because they're starting to see a little bit of
vulnerability in the market with cariffs and everything that's been
going on in the economy.

Speaker 7 (45:03):
Realtor Carolie Gurney says she is giving home buyers more
leeway to negotiate and sometimes finally having the ability to
consider buying it all. A good inflation report and progress
in Chinese trade talks aren't doing much for investors. Overnight
training is off across the board down Future down two
hundred and seventy six points.

Speaker 5 (45:23):
Coming up.

Speaker 7 (45:24):
On six oh seven. The Astros beat the White Sox
ten to two. Chris Walker, Christian Walker homers and drives
in four runs. Pre game tonight at six on Sports
Talk seven ninety, Game time at seven on seven ninety
and KTRH. The Stros by the way, Jimmy now lead
the al West over Seattle and the Angels by four games.
Love it so much for taking a step back this year.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
Huh, Well, still got some trades we need to make.
Get the latest.

Speaker 7 (45:49):
I'm a club that is, for garn sure a couple
of bats would be nice. I'm Cliff Saunters on Houston's news,
weather and Traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 15 (46:00):
The Beltway sometimes and I also take the West Park
Toll Road KTRH time saving traffic.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Next on the ten.

Speaker 5 (46:08):
So play a little clip from and by way born
the weather in your drive and the ponding and all
the heavy rain coming up here in the next two minutes,
so please stay with us. But I did want to
talk about this because I played a little cut here
from Senator Josh Hawley towards the end of our last hour,
and he says he wants to know who's funding the

(46:28):
rioting and the protesting, who's behind it, where's the money
coming from, where the gas masks coming from, where the
other equipment coming from. Who's providing them with all the
Mexican flags, even though probably none of these people are Mexican.
I'm going to guess that Senator Hawley already knows the
answer to that question. I think there are plenty of people

(46:49):
in Congress who know the answer to that question. The
question is what are they going to do about it?
Here is Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who said she
knows exactly who's funding this stuff.

Speaker 40 (47:01):
So it's actually being funded by a billionaire by the
name of Neville Singham. He's actually funding a group called
the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which if you look online,
they are a communist organization.

Speaker 20 (47:12):
What they're doing is they are using.

Speaker 40 (47:13):
Hispanic Americans the way that BLM used Black Americans during
these whites and frankly the way that Code Pink, which
is also funded by the CCP, is using Palestinians. So
what they're trying to do is they're using this to
usher in Marxism. But it's important to note that actually
when you find and you follow the money trail, mister
Singham is actually largely funded by the Communist Chinese Party.
So House Oversight has issued and we'll be sending a

(47:35):
letter this Friday with all my members of Oversight calling
Minister Singham to testify before Congress. If he does not appear,
it does not provide documents. Who will then be held
a contempt of Congress and he will be prosecuted by
the Department of Justice. We are not playing This is
a different administration. We have the Department of Justice, and
if you interfere with American politics and are a foreign agent,
you will be held accountable. I can tell you that
there is significant financial money trails.

Speaker 20 (47:57):
All you have to do is follow the money.

Speaker 40 (47:59):
Remember also seeing him is actually financing.

Speaker 20 (48:01):
The LA Rights. But there's also other groups coming in
but they have.

Speaker 40 (48:04):
Different ideological perspectives, some backed by source that are globalists,
and then obviously the Marxist organizations. But remember this is
a color revolution, right, they're using these immigrants as a
guys for their real objective and goal here, and frankly,
it's nothing different than what happened in the Summer of
Love during the BLM rights right before the election. They're
doing the same thing before the midterms, and Democrats are

(48:26):
trying to get the Hispanic votes, so that's why they're
using Mexican flags.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Well that's pretty specific, don't you think. The Party for
Socialism and Liberation communist political party here in the United
States formed in two thousand and four when its members
split from the Workers World Party. It is funded by
that billionaire she mentioned. They do not release membership numbers,
but they believe that the only way to end capitalism

(48:51):
and establish socialism is through revolution. So that's part of
what they're trying to do. Six' Ten time for traffic
and whether together think we already knew that the kind
of other stuff comes from. Communism, they of, course what
we don't necessarily know are the names behind. It and
that's WHERE i think we're taking a closer look now
Skymake oh, wait.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
We've got ponding all over the. Place that's what to
watch out. For the main thing this. MORNING i don't
care what's going on with your, phone but just assume
the person in front of you is going to do
something stupid like hit their brakes when there's rain on the.
Freeway all, Right i've said my. Piece let's do south
loop six? Ten have we cleared to twenty? Five oh
the rest of the media did not. Note that's my.
Fault off The Ship channel bridge six to ten. Southbound

(49:31):
that ramp is. Blocked we had a wreck there and
that was Big phil New, CANEY i. Belief watch out
on the southbound. Bridge remember you can also get over to.
Wayside that's my secret. Hack but the toll, bridge now
not that. Bad it's a little thick right over right
before it hits two twenty five southbound Heart. Membridge looks.
Good we've got ponding all over the place to talk.

(49:51):
About To South, sam let's go.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
To, you good. Morning make A South sam is all
the way up.

Speaker 25 (49:57):
To The Katie.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Freeway no smudg as, yet drizz sort of rules a
pretty wet all, right wet. Roadways Tony. Beaumont thank, my
this is what's going.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
On you could hear it all my with. You did
you have a? Boat all?

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Right that's Awesome ian For Bear. Creek.

Speaker 22 (50:14):
Dude it's wet with a wonderful lightning to play Any, yeah,
yeah we got.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Lightning and let's go north.

Speaker 34 (50:23):
Side my city from the woodn't heading on the beltling
wet just before the ninety. Eight there is a salt
tractor trailer truck there and cops are, there but.

Speaker 6 (50:34):
It's in them less all, Right bananas tickers all. Around
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Center from R kt R H Tom Tax defenders twenty
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Speaker 7 (50:48):
Does AND i just see.

Speaker 19 (50:50):
That, uh you, know we're getting a little bit too
much rain in certain spots and that's causing some minor
flooding to more notable. Flooding and there is a flash
flood warning that's been issued for Northwestern Chambers, county Northeastern Harris,
county in Southwestern Liberty county where they've already picked up

(51:11):
about two to four inches of rain so far and
more on the, Way so some flooding in the creeks
and the, streams and you're going to see it on
the roads as, well and those underpasses too could be especially.

Speaker 7 (51:23):
Tricky that's going to be our main problem. Today the.

Speaker 19 (51:25):
Rain it's with us off and on much of the,
day heavy at. TIMES i, mean by the time this
winds down later, today many places we'll see between two
to five inches of. Rain and that's an awful lot
of rain in a short period of. Time so flooding
is the main thing we'll need to be alert for.
Today one hundred percent chance you're going to get wet
temperatures upper seventies to low. Eighties that rain eases up,

(51:49):
some but it's still with us tomorrow through the. WEEKEND
a fifty to sixty percent chance of more showers than
storms through the.

Speaker 7 (51:56):
WEEKEND.

Speaker 5 (51:57):
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Solutions, okay scheduled to, appear but we haven't heard from her.
YET a Niece, parker Former houston. Mayor she may may
recall she was mayored till twenty twenty was twenty twenty
sixteen through twenty. Sixteen but oh, shit we got.

Speaker 11 (52:27):
Her.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
Great we will talk to her. Next SHE i have
the first time having an opportunity to talk to An East.
Parker she was mayored BEFORE i came To houston back
in twenty. Seventeen but she evidently would like to resume
her political career As Harris county. Judge we'll talk to
her about that coming up. Next, first, though Traffic court
was nice once she was in, Charge is that, right Sky?
Mike but she she take it easy on. YOU i should.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
KNOW i should, know especially. Downtown let's do West sam Southbound.
Philippine that's a stalled, truck, boyd what a sticky spot left.
Line we've got this wreck here that the rest of
the media is not really covering six ten, southbound the
ramp to two twenty five off The Ship channel, bridge
ponding all over the.

Speaker 5 (53:05):
Place let's get an early.

Speaker 6 (53:06):
Start I'm skottwike at Your usarvresorts Dot com traffic center.

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From OUR ktrh top Tax defenders twenty four our weather,
center we have a flash flood warning until seven thirty
for parts Of Harris, county Also Liberty county And Chambers.
COUNTY a flash flood watched throughout today until seven. O'clock,
thunderstorms heavy, rain and some spots could see, five six
or more inches of rain in some spots with a
high today right about. Eighty current temperature is seventy one
at your Officials Severe Weather. Station News radio seven FORTY.

(53:33):
Ktrh get you caught up on some of our top
stories this. Morning Here's, Cliff thank, You.

Speaker 7 (53:37):
Jimmy Senate republicans say they're going to Make President trump's
budget bill. Better California Republican congressman Darryl isa calls The
La riots an, insurrection And Brian wilson of The Beach
boys has died at the age of eighty. Two get
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Speaker 33 (53:55):
Thirty the once on our under construction to eighty eight
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Speaker 4 (54:00):
Didn't send alternate next on the ten ONE ktrh six twenty,
two so our time we welcome An Ease, Parker democrat
candidate For Harris county judge Former houston mayor may Recle
during her, tenure The Houston Equal Rights ordinance was a
big deal for.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
Her that was one of her pet. Projects what would
she bring to the table if she were to be
Elected Harris County. Judge, well let's ask. Her first of, All,
anie welcome to the. Program nice to meet. You thank.

Speaker 41 (54:27):
You it's nice to meet you as.

Speaker 5 (54:28):
Well first of, all let's start with the. Decision we
haven't heard anything From Lena hildago yet about whether she
intends to run or not to. Run i'm wondering if
maybe you think she doesn't intend to, run and that's
one of the reasons why you're.

Speaker 41 (54:42):
RUNNING i have no idea whether she's going to run or.

Speaker 14 (54:48):
NOT i made my own.

Speaker 35 (54:50):
DECISIONS i, mean obviously as, CANDIDATE i hope that she.
Doesn't BUT i think that's one of the you, know
one of the. Issues there ought to be, certainty and
if you want the, job you ought to stand up
and say you want the, job say it publicly and,
privately and stand in your.

Speaker 5 (55:08):
Record, well it's a stressful. Job at least it's very
stressful to her over the course of the last few.
Years maybe maybe that'll have something to do with their.
Decision you've been to the world of, Politics you've been
out for a. While get why jump back? In are?
You are you looking for?

Speaker 35 (55:22):
Trouble you, know three months of retirement that probably allowed
me to consider, Mischief but, NO i actually.

Speaker 41 (55:33):
CONTEMPLATED i left THE i left my office's mayor at
the end of twenty fifteen and.

Speaker 35 (55:40):
Went to working in nonprofit. Sector AND i intended to
run for county judge in twenty.

Speaker 41 (55:46):
Eighteen adam it.

Speaker 35 (55:47):
Was not going to run for re election and had
already started putting a campaign, together And ed changed his.
Mind he announced that he was going to run.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
Again AND, i.

Speaker 41 (56:00):
You, Know ed AND i have a working. RELATIONSHIP i
don't know if you.

Speaker 35 (56:02):
Know we actually teach a class together At rice AND i,
said how did you do in a fine?

Speaker 9 (56:08):
JOB i will.

Speaker 41 (56:09):
Wait and that is the year That lena he took him.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
Out, well as you, know there is And i'm just gonna,
say as you.

Speaker 41 (56:16):
Know THERE'S i went off AND i continue to do.

Speaker 5 (56:18):
This, yeah big difference between the Way Ed emmett Ran
Harris county and the Way Lena hildago is sort of
kind of trying to Run Harris. County one of the great,
criticisms of, course is that she spends a lot of
time on social programs and doesn't seem to really spend
that much time preparing for things like. HURRICANES i guess
the first QUESTION i would really have if you were
Elected Harris county judge in, hees how would you be

(56:40):
different Than Lena.

Speaker 35 (56:41):
Hildago SO i understand the job Of Harris county. Judge
it is not the same as a job of. Mayor
and one of the primary differences is as, mayor you
can make, law pass, ordinances but county government.

Speaker 41 (57:03):
Is the creature of the state and you enforce state.

Speaker 35 (57:06):
Laws but the primary responsibilities public, safety public, health floodwater,
management roads and, bridges and then there's some other smaller
aspects of county, government and for the county judge is
the biggest thing is emergency. Management if you look at
my first priority in my first term as mayor Of,
houston it was.

Speaker 41 (57:26):
Infrastructure the.

Speaker 35 (57:29):
Drainage the litigation that just, completed uh that was my
drainage fee THAT i THAT i passed BECAUSE i thought
we needed to put more money into.

Speaker 41 (57:41):
Floodwater management here In Harris.

Speaker 35 (57:43):
COUNTY i agreed with the engineers who sued The city
Of houston it was being it was being. DIVERTED i
also launched the major initiative to overhaul the water and
sewer lines in The city Of. Houston still needs to be.

Speaker 41 (58:01):
Done so infrastructure was my highest priority WHEN i came.
In BUT i also came in in.

Speaker 35 (58:08):
The middle of The Great recession in two thousand and
eight two thousand and, nine so most of WHAT i
did in my first term as mayor was slash, budgets
laid off more than seven hundred city. Employees SO i
know how to make tough decisions AND i know what
the priorities. ARE i know you guys on the right

(58:31):
life to talk about the Hero.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
We're a little. Conservative we're a little, conservative but we
do like hearing a message about. It, yeah we do
like hearing a. Message we do like hearing a message
about infrastructure in public safety because that's what we also
believe is the job of the, judge and we don't
believe that job is being done by our current. Judge
so we would like to see a judge in there
who would do the. Job we've also been very, supportive

(58:56):
by the, way just you, know a Mayor John whipmyer
because he's A democratic seems understand.

Speaker 41 (59:00):
That you, know we have we worked on the same
we have worked on the same.

Speaker 35 (59:08):
Issues, NOW i did disagree with With john in his
effort at the state to pull money out of the
toll roads.

Speaker 41 (59:17):
To shift over to the city Of.

Speaker 35 (59:20):
HOUSTON i don't think toll road money should be spent
on anything but, roads frankly and management of the toll.

Speaker 41 (59:29):
Roads but GENERALLY i Think john's doing a good.

Speaker 5 (59:33):
Job, well, LISTEN i want to thank you for your
time this. Morning we appreciate you calling in and hope
to talk again here pretty. Soon thank. You Niece Sure
democratic candidate For Harris County JUDGE. A Niece, parker six twenty.
Seven it's time to take a look at your money
as we check in again With Jeff bellinger And. Jimmy
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this f are flash flooding could be a problem today In.
Houston trump says he's disappointed With Elon musk and coming
up at six point thirty, eight more of your Favorite
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Mike and downtown on The Crosby freeway At Miller road.

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Two there is a car in the.

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Median there's A benja on the well said we're gonna
have spinouts all over the. Place we did clear two
ninety south the West sam southbound at two.

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parts Of, Harris liberty And Chambers. Counties other than, that
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Here's Cliff, Saunders.

Speaker 20 (01:02:06):
Thank, You.

Speaker 7 (01:02:07):
Jimmy six thirty two ON ktrh our top. Story some
parts Of houston could see up to six inches of
rain with storms. Today we've got Operations stormwatch going up
ON ktrh dot. Com you can watch for any power
issues and keep track of the radar also topping the
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Speaker 27 (01:02:24):
MORNING i haven't thought too much about, it, yeah in
the last little, while and he just didn't think he
feels very badly that he said.

Speaker 7 (01:02:32):
That President trump talking To Miranda divine On Pod force,
one saying he's not thinking about reconciling With Elon musk just,
yet adding that he was quote disappointed In elon's opposition
to The Big Beautiful, bill that, said there are others
who want to see these two back on the same.
Page this is a classic case of poop poo. Happens
but they really need each, other shark. Tanks kevin O'Leary On.

(01:02:56):
Fox The senate is now working on The president's budget
bill that led to the split With elon six point
thirty three of The president sending in The marines In
National guard To la and it's.

Speaker 43 (01:03:06):
Working we are seeing zero demonstrators out in front of
this detention. Center there were some scuffles out in front
of City.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
Hall once.

Speaker 43 (01:03:13):
Again it was the mounted, police the police on, horseback
who were called in to move out crowds after they
were ordered to. Disperse they did so without a whole
lot of.

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
Violence fox And Steve harrigan In Los Angeles it's a
different story In, nebraska where federal agents actually got assaulted
by an illegal alien during a raid In. Omaha seventy
illegals were arrested closer to, home WITH dps in The
National guard on. Hand two people were. Detained during last
night's protest Against Eisen San, antonio three hundred people showed

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Up euston is bracing For Saturday's No king's Anti trump,
protest but Heir John whitbyer turned down federal assistance From
Congressman Wesley.

Speaker 30 (01:03:53):
Hunt from years of, experience sometime it's best to respond
because we're all united and encouraging people to use Their
First amendment, Rights Aris.

Speaker 7 (01:04:08):
Kenny Judge lenahdogo also Rejected hunt's. Offer by the, way
she's still In paris and will be there Until. Sunday
we had more arrests BY isid immigration courts In houston.
Yesterday this was after several arrests were made at a
different location On. Tuesday it's now six thirty. Four so
you thought the radical left ideology At TEXAS a AND

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m was a thing in the, past you were wrong this.

Speaker 9 (01:04:32):
Time it's in the textbook for a political science summer school.

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Class it really.

Speaker 25 (01:04:38):
Goes hard Against President Donald, trump repeating the established a
median narrative That President trump is a.

Speaker 9 (01:04:43):
Criminal that's Reporter Robert montoya who broke the story For Texas.

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Scorecard what we've.

Speaker 25 (01:04:50):
Found is an evidence that many of the same problems
that people are finding at other universities across the nation
summer ones are also surrounding up At TEXAS a AND.

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Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
State lawmakers lower property taxes during the legislative, session and
Now florida wants to get rid of them. Completely so we're,
wondering Can texas do the same. Thing not unless there's
a crackdown on local.

Speaker 18 (01:05:20):
Government we need the legislature to control city and county
spending so that the things they're doing on the school
DISTRICT m AND o elimination side actually take effect and
are realized by the average.

Speaker 7 (01:05:32):
Person James quintero with The Texas Public Policy foundation says
measures like spending an income limits would be a major
first step towards property tax. Abolition THE Thc bend is
sitting On Governor Greg gabbott's, desk and plenty.

Speaker 5 (01:05:46):
Of conservatives are pushing him to veto the.

Speaker 39 (01:05:49):
PACKAGE a wide range Of republicans opposed the, ban and
it's not a small sample.

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Size these are people who are. Conservatives There, republicans we're caired.

Speaker 32 (01:05:57):
Military it's not people THAT i would acpect to be
voting for a progressive candidate For.

Speaker 39 (01:06:02):
Congress political Consultant Bill miller Says Governor rabbit doesn't help
himself by signing.

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It as for what the governor might, DO i.

Speaker 32 (01:06:10):
Think he'll veto the, bill AND i think he'll vito
it Because texas is noted for its openness.

Speaker 39 (01:06:17):
Business Governor rabbit said this week he's yet to decide
on vetoing the. Bill Andre Parard News radio seven FORTY
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Speaker 7 (01:06:25):
There's this several gun rights bills passed In austin and
will take effect In, september including short barreled guns which
will no longer be. Banned another bill On abbot's desk
blocks red flag.

Speaker 16 (01:06:36):
Laws this has been a great legislative session for firearms.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
Owners you're state, government it's here to protect your gun.
Right conservative Lawyer Michelle maple's other new laws and local
gun buyback events that haven't. Worked it's now, seven six thirty,
seven a big night For Christian walker of The Houston.
Astros He homer drove in four. Runs The stros beat
The White sox ten to. Two I'm Cliff saunders On
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Six thirty eight our time here In news's voying, News
Brian wilson has passed away at the age of eighty,
two the one of the founding members of The Beach.
Boys you know there's, another you, know another group from
from my, youth certainly maybe from your youth or from
your father or mother's youth that people. Remember, finally So
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That AND i forgot about The Beach boys being on
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and sometimes those are two different. Things you, know whether
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can't live without having a cup of coffee in the.
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without not necessarily your. Favorite six forty time for traffic
and weather together on'ster energy drink this. Morning well we
might need some of that this, morning Sky. Mike it's

(01:09:16):
a white knuckle right into, work that's for. SURE i
tell you, What i'm nervous for you out. There let's
get an early. Start we got to turn your snooze,
off of. Course and whichever way you're, going you got,
rain you've got awful. Conditions you got ponding and just
about all of our freeways on the left side mostly
so watch out for other stations listeners in that left.

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
Lane watch out for the too slow, guy watch out
for the flashers, guy and watch out for the Mediac
we've Cleared west sam southbound at two. Ninety that's out
of the. Way we've Cleared East loop six, ten double check. That,
Nope i'm holding That East sloop six ten southbound rep
to two twenty. Five it's a wreck that's been there
much of the, morning and we're looking at slow downs
now from turning basin a golf.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
Freeway it's.

Speaker 6 (01:09:57):
Thick you're, moving you're not going to move full speed
breaks From Edgebrook Southwest.

Speaker 5 (01:10:01):
Freeway something's munching us up At bcinette look.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
Out this is on the, outbound not the inbound inbound
its breaks from The West Park.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
Tollway let's. See i've Got cindy From. Dayton.

Speaker 36 (01:10:13):
Hi, okay ninety nine southbound past the nineteen sixty. Exits
left hand lane has. Locked a car has had an.
Accident one it's blocking the lane. Completely the other one
is down on the it went over the embankment part.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Totally.

Speaker 6 (01:10:29):
Wow, okay that's getting pretty ugly over. There Also Crosby
freeway right after the. Bridge reports of an accent will
get you some laneage in just a few. Minutes Andrew
it From springs not having a tough time on the
north of forty Five North.

Speaker 5 (01:10:40):
Freeway, well let me tell you this lightning is.

Speaker 37 (01:10:44):
Spectacular there you, Go.

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Terry i'm in The Generator supercenter Dot Com Traffic. Center it's.
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yeah there's quite a light show we got out there this, Morning.
Terry i'm sure it.

Speaker 19 (01:10:57):
Is i've been watching the ring ages up and there's
BEEN i mean it is pouring in, spots And i'm
sure some very difficult driving conditions because of that intense.
Rainfall but What i'm seeing is in the last couple
of hours between two to just over three inches of

(01:11:20):
rain Around channelview and Bay town And highlands And. Sheldon
that's where the heaviest rain. Is So i'm not surprised
to see that there's some flooding concerns. There all of
us are under a flood watch today until seven o'clock
because the rain should be winding down by. Then but
between now and, then two to five inches of rain

(01:11:40):
is going to be the norm for our, listeners and
there'll be places that see more than five inches of.

Speaker 7 (01:11:46):
Rain so super soggy.

Speaker 19 (01:11:48):
Day no need to rush wherever you're going, today and
just be prepared for a lot of water on the.
Roads temperatures around. Eighty it does improve tomorrow into the.
Weekend we'll get some, sunshine not as much, rain but
still a sixty percent chance of thunderstorms tomorrow and a
fifty percent chance of more storms over the.

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Southway those solutions simeline in the next four minutes or. So,
Also President trump Told, elon but he didn't tell him.
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Speaker 5 (01:12:33):
MAN i was having flashbacks of my old man talking
to me as a. Kid that's the worst thing your
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Speaker 7 (01:14:12):
Jimmy the anti ice protest In San antonio did not get.
Violent Senate majority Leader John thune says he'll force his
group to stay In washington over The july fourth break
to help pass The Big Beautiful bill and A houston
man is in the, hospital charged with stealing an ambulance
From Ben Tobb hospital and then crashing into a tree
while trying to run from the. Cops at the latest

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Ktrh. Hello disappointment expressed By President. Trump here he is
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LOOK i have no hard.

Speaker 27 (01:14:58):
FEELINGS i was really surprised that that. Happened he went After.
Bill that's that's. Phenomenally just didn't think he feels very
badly that he said. That actually things like that. HAPPENED
i don't blame him for anything THAT.

Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
I was a little.

Speaker 38 (01:15:14):
Disappointed DO i Think they're gonna be sitting next to
each other While trump blows out his birthday candles after
the military? Parade, no but but there could be a
cooling and they could appear, together and then that'll be
a big deal that'll wipe everything.

Speaker 5 (01:15:31):
The democrats are doing out of the. News.

Speaker 38 (01:15:33):
Cycle BUT i don't Think trump trusts him. Fully he
thinks he might be on drugs and it's hard to
come back from something like. This but it is, interesting
as you mentioned who broke he. Did so you Got
Susie wilds because she wants to keep the house And
elon PROMISED i think one hundred million dollars to keep the.
House and then Jd, vance who Needs musks money if
he wants to.

Speaker 5 (01:15:52):
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Eight so that was.

Speaker 38 (01:15:54):
Key but remember what The democrats said before the.

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Fight they Said elon was co. President, Wrong they Said
trump was.

Speaker 38 (01:16:01):
Going to pay him back in the big beautiful built at.
Wrong and then after the falling out they Said trump
was going to deport him or murder.

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Him, wrong or they.

Speaker 38 (01:16:11):
Said trump Cid helon was going to donate The.

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morning drive again With. Skyline All, RIGHT I, God.

Speaker 6 (01:18:24):
So i've got a scoot here on The Crosby freeway
over the bridge Inval give me a few. Minutes we'll
get you some laneage Here Southwest. Freeway this is getting.
Ugly bizit at, one, two, three right. Lines everybody's, okay
but you got Web freeway's got a, wreck got another
one At Chimney, rock and now we're losing thirty minutes
Northbound West sam holding my beer.

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SOUTHBOUND i got two reports of, wrecks one.

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At philippine second one in the same, spot the other
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Com also topping the, news.

Speaker 7 (01:19:49):
About three hundred people protested Against Dyson San antonio last.

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
Night very.

Speaker 7 (01:19:53):
Peaceful dps in The Texas National guard making sure it's
stayed that, way two people were. Detained Governor Greg abbott
promising to Keep Saturdays No King's rally In houston peaceful as.
Well we'll use every tool that we can to ensure
order across our. State, yeah he's going to send The
National guard to several locations across the. State Houston Mayor John,

(01:20:15):
Whitmeyer Harris County Judge Lena hidalgo turned Down Congressman Wesley
hunt and his offer for federal. Help, oh by the,
way don't Expect adalgo to be here On. Saturday she's
In paris Until sunday seven oh.

Speaker 39 (01:20:28):
Three ON.

Speaker 7 (01:20:29):
Ktrh marines in The National guard spend a second night
trying to Keep Los angeles from getting out of. Control
Missouri Senator Josh hawley pushed back on The democrat claims
that the violence over the last week Is President Donald trump's.

Speaker 8 (01:20:43):
FAULT i missed it When Donald trump went and blew
up a car On highway one oh. ONE i didn't
see him when he was assaulting. Cops WHAT i saw
was a bunch of lunatics who were waiving The mexican
flag and other flags while they burned our.

Speaker 7 (01:20:54):
Own hally has opened an investigation into who provided the
funding for THE la. Riots that said some conservatives would
be just fined with letting liberal cities Like la burn.

Speaker 9 (01:21:06):
Down But bonchie With Red stage, says we've already seen that.

Speaker 10 (01:21:11):
MOVIE i don't think it's controversial to say that he
acted a little too late during the twenty twenty. RIOTS i,
MEAN i think that's something that a lot of even
the Biggest trump supporters have.

Speaker 9 (01:21:19):
Admitted and what about the upcoming, PROTESTS i think you
could get.

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
UGLY i wouldn't think it would be In.

Speaker 10 (01:21:25):
Houston you, know you might see some out of hand
protests in a place Like austin, Maybe AND i think
you're still going to be looking at the major blue.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
Cities Jeff, Biggs News radio seven forty k teries it
is now seven.

Speaker 7 (01:21:37):
Four Former Houston Mayor Anisee parker officially announces a run
For Harris County, judge setting up a possible primary If
Lena hidalgo decides to run for a third.

Speaker 35 (01:21:47):
TERM i understand the job Of Harris County. Judge the
primary responsibilities public, safety public, health flagwater, management reads and.

Speaker 7 (01:21:55):
Bridges the former mayor talking To jimmy earlier this. Morning,
Meantime new research shows a sad state of. Affairs ustonians
in growing numbers want the government to help them.

Speaker 12 (01:22:08):
FINANCIALLY a study From Rice's Kinder institute finds eight and
Ten houston residents think government should reduce economic inequality and
nine and ten think government should help people get a.
Job those numbers are more than twenty points higher than
fifteen years. Ago financial Planner Mitch kramer, says we're creating
a dependent.

Speaker 13 (01:22:25):
Generation people need to understand that they're going to be
much happier if they focus on self reliance versus someone,
else and they'll be able to control their destiny much
more than somebody else. Can and self reliance needs to
be taught tip.

Speaker 12 (01:22:38):
Home he adds that colleges have contributed to this problem
by giving out degrees that don't translate to good. Jobs Corey,
jolson who's radio seven FORTY ktrh it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:47):
Is now seven h.

Speaker 7 (01:22:48):
Five nearly half Of texas homeowners who found insurance claims
last year got nothing. Back forty seven percent denied without,
payment often because deductibles were too. High property insurance Expert
Ron snowfers says there's a trade off to getting a lower.

Speaker 14 (01:23:03):
Deductible there's very few companies that still offer less than two,
Percent but in order to do, that you're going to
be paying a higher, premium and premiums are already through
the roof compared to what it was five years.

Speaker 7 (01:23:18):
Ago you can file a complaint with the state if
you believe you are unfairly, Denied but if you're in
the market to buy a house these, days you might
actually be in.

Speaker 15 (01:23:27):
Luck the market for homes is going from favoring sellers
to favoring.

Speaker 16 (01:23:31):
Buyers we've had such a long haul of houses going
up and up and up in, value and now we've
got people who are a little bit, afraid and we've
got a lot of people putting their houses on the.

Speaker 15 (01:23:40):
Market Filter Carollie gurley says the number of available houses
is picked up to the point that buyers have room to.

Speaker 16 (01:23:46):
Negotiate even we'll talk about. Interstrates people are still. Buying
we just have a surplus of houses In buying is
starting to be more viable for, people and that's.

Speaker 15 (01:23:54):
Important the latest support from The National association Of wilter
Says texas has pretty much built its way out of
what was a home shortage that had been pushing home
prices Off Charles mallin on News radio seven forty.

Speaker 7 (01:24:05):
Ktr inflation grew at a slower rate than expected last.
Month despite that and encouraging news on the trade front
With china, down futures are down three hundred points seven oh.
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World, events national, Headlines Houston's Morning news With Jimmy barrett.

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
Seven only our time here In Houston's Morning. News All,
right the The Simone Biles Riley gaines story. Continues, Yes
Riley gaines has Forgiven Simone, biles but clearly is not
forgotten what she had. Said Here's Riley gaines yesterday talking
about the.

Speaker 33 (01:25:04):
Incident, well let me just start by SAYING i fully
accept her. Apology it was never the personal attacks that bothered.
Me it was more so just how willing and quick
she was able to and willing to throw under the,
bus so many young girls who have dreams.

Speaker 20 (01:25:17):
To achieve and, succeed just like she.

Speaker 33 (01:25:19):
DID a couple of things here THAT i have problems,
with both of which you. Highlighted number one the, verbage
the nonsensical verbiage of competitive. Equity, look sports are in
by nature. Inclusive everyone can, play AND i believe everyone should.
Play but the idea that competition is, inclusive that's where she's.

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Wrong competition is.

Speaker 33 (01:25:38):
Exclusive and to now come out and say very proudly, like, Look.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
I'm not advocating for men and women's.

Speaker 20 (01:25:44):
Sports it was a big.

Speaker 33 (01:25:45):
Turnaround and Now Simone, BILES i would, imagine is feeling
the heat from both. SIDES i went over To Blue
sky to look at some of the responses that she
was getting from those on the, left and it is
the same venomous hatred.

Speaker 20 (01:25:57):
THAT i have received for, many many. Years so that's
to be.

Speaker 33 (01:26:00):
Expected when you sit on the fence and kind of
wink at both, sides you alienate yourself from.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
Everyone.

Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
Yep in other, words nobody likes her anymore neither. Side you,
know you're running a. Business, now you're training young women
to be. Gymnasts you don't need to be. Political you
shouldn't be. Political nobody cares what you think about, politics

(01:26:26):
like for any other. Celebrity we care that you are
a world class. Athlete and if you're a parent that
has a young daughter or son that wants to be
involved in, gymnastics you would care about getting them maybe
trained with some own. Biles but you don't need all
this other. Stuff when you alienate, everybody that's just generally
not good for you or your. Business so MAYBE i

(01:26:48):
don't know if she's learned a valuable listen from this or.
Not her pr people will probably still. Squawking seven to
ten time for traffic and. Weather, together we're checking out
the drive. Again it's been a mess this, morning sky.

Speaker 6 (01:26:57):
Mate it's insane this, morning AND i don't care what
of the isle we're. On we are suffering this morning
on The Southwest. Freeway busn't that we just cleared. That
i'm looking at that. Shot thank. You, northbound we Cleared Chimney.
Rock Now i've got a smash right before The West Park.
Curve i'll need a few minutes to get some. Langage
they've cleared ninety at The Sandracino River. BRIDGE i got
two wrecks on The West sam Southbound philippines Southbound West

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road meg From.

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Keema, Morning MIKEY i ten west And.

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Antonio people are. Behaving keep one car lane for every
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won't need those.

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Skey seventy four all the way down in two forty.

Speaker 33 (01:27:43):
Nine it's been, clear, stive but we can see.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
The lightning in the.

Speaker 37 (01:27:48):
Clouds, OH i saw that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
Too that's a common. Theme Terry ian From Bear creek
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side on forty Five this.

Speaker 4 (01:27:56):
Morning lightning is.

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Spectacular it's just.

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Fabulous i'm in THE usa Our feversorts Dot com traffic center.

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From OUR ktrh top Tax defenders twenty four our weather.
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eyes glued to that. Radar when did when did rainy
season begin here in the rainforest Of.

Speaker 7 (01:28:15):
HOUSTON i just you, know you, know that's a that's
a good, question And i'd have to go back and
look at the.

Speaker 19 (01:28:24):
Records but this week certainly has been, that but if
you can believe it or, not so far this month
we're below normal for.

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
Rainfall something tells me we're going to catch. Up uh,
YEAH i.

Speaker 19 (01:28:36):
THINK i think we'll take care of that probably. Today
so a lot of places have already seen some. Rain
we've got more rain and heavy rain that's going to
continue off and on through the day. Today not obviously
not a good outdoor, day but also definitely a tougher
situation with trying to get around town today with all
the water that's out there and coming down at the same,
time flooding's the main.

Speaker 7 (01:28:57):
Concern we have a flood watch till seven o'clock.

Speaker 19 (01:29:00):
Tonight that's because most of us are going to see
somewhere between two to five inches of rain before it
tapers off later. Today that's all in one, day less
than twenty four hours, actually and though will be some
PLACES i pick up more than. That so, far the
heaviest rain has been on the east side of. Town
i've seen two to three inches. Already we got more rain.
Coming one hundred percent chance of those showers and storms,

(01:29:23):
today heavy, rain temperatures around Eighty now we have a
little more, sunshine but we're still dealing with rain tomorrow
through the. Weekend the sixty percent chance of thunderstorms, tomorrow
fifty percent chants of more storms over the.

Speaker 7 (01:29:35):
Weekend so this is not going to end any time
between now And.

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
Monday got you right now seventy three at your official
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all the info you need did take on the. DAY
i wonder If Lieutenant governor D patrick has been sort

(01:30:03):
of surprised by the backlash he's gotten over THE thhc
band that he favors here In. TEXAS i haven't heard
anything yet about the governor signing that. THING i think
The governor's very aware that there's a lot of veterans
groups here In texas that are opposed to this who
think THE thhc has been a saving grace for them
with THEIR. Ptsd more than that story coming up with

(01:30:24):
political Consultant Bill miller in just a minute or. Two
but first we've got traffic and weather, together because those
are both problems.

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
Today oh, yeah let's go to The Katie. FREEWAY i
got rolling From, Richmond dude.

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Happening we're all doing maybe about ten miles an.

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Hour he meant to, Say, KIRKBUCKLE i was just being
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Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
SIXTEEN i see it right. There that's a.

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Wreck we'll take a left. Lane looks like everybody's. Okay
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Yet flash flooding could problem. Today we have watches and
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seeing already three or four inches of rain with more
on the. WAY hi about eighty same thing, Tomorrow, well
not the same thing. Tomorrow scattered morning storms that mostly,
cloudy with some more storm chances for the, afternoon but

(01:31:16):
not this super heavy rain like we're getting. Today eighty
five for the high. Tomorrow right, now the temperature is
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top stories and On, thursday Here's.

Speaker 7 (01:31:31):
Cliff thank, You jimmy The president says he's disappointed In Elon.
Musk David hogg won't run FOR feis chair again in
THE dnc. Elections, he of, course has been critical of
the Dem old card and Actress Eva longoria Says ice Is.
Unamerican that's not surprising that she said.

Speaker 5 (01:31:50):
That is she live In.

Speaker 7 (01:31:50):
Spain, now that's exactly where she was doing the criticism from.

Speaker 5 (01:31:54):
Her mention In. Spain stay In spain at.

Speaker 7 (01:31:58):
The latest news anytime AT kr or next update is
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Speaker 5 (01:32:02):
THIRTY i live In.

Speaker 4 (01:32:04):
Katie your best ways are Round. Houston next on the
ten on Se, Ktright, WELL i think The Lieutenant governor
thinks it's more than just maybe being a little. Lazy
he thinks it's it turns you into a, murderous, rampaging crazy,
individual which is a little over the top if you ask,

(01:32:26):
me And i'm a. Conservative Mill miller joins this political.
Consultant do you think The lieutenant governor is the least
bit surprised that the BACKLASH us received on this so?
Far on THE thc, band.

Speaker 32 (01:32:38):
Well if he's not, surprised Then i'm surprised that he's not.
Surprised let's say that it's pretty pretty darn wise spread
and pretty darn. Overwhelming AND i can say from my own,
EXPERIENCE i run into it in more places for more,
people and maybe any other issue THAT i can recall. Memory,

(01:32:59):
wow it's it's just. Pervasive it's it's something that it's
a big time. Issue AND i think at Least Governor
abbot by not saying, anything is saying a lot in his,
silence AND i think that's kind of where we. Are
And patrick's been very quiet about it since his famous press.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
Conference so we'll see what we. See you, know when
you have veterans groups that are coming out to oppose,
something and that they were among the first to come
out and oppose THIS thhc, band you know that that
that has a definitely has a snowball down a hill
effect for the rest of the. Cistens we are very
pro military here In, texas and when you have veterans

(01:33:42):
who are suffering FROM ptsd telling you how this stuff
has helped save their, lives it's a compelling.

Speaker 32 (01:33:47):
Story so it's a it's more than, compelling it's it's
as persuasive an argument as can be made about any.
Issue there's something that is saving your lot and allowing
you to live as a human. Being what more can
be said about? IT i mean that as reinforcing as

(01:34:08):
you can possibly, imagine AND i think it's also as
probably as persuice toward What abbot is prepared to do
between now And july twenty second as you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:19):
Can possibly have out.

Speaker 32 (01:34:21):
There and he has to consider that in all its.

Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
Seriousness, yeah what do you Think Governor abbott ends up
doing on? This do you think he signs? It do
you think he vetoes? It what do you think he? Does,
well he's got three.

Speaker 32 (01:34:33):
Choices of, course he can sign, it he can veto,
it or he can do nothing and it becomes law
and he has to do this one of the three
By june twenty, second next week For. Sunday my prediction
today is one he's been, quiet which and he says he's, studying,
okay judicial temperament and. All BUT i predict that he

(01:34:56):
will veto the, bill AND i think he'll be told
for a couple of. Reasons one is the arguments that
are made about how it helps. Military, two it's a
big time. Industry whether you say that or. Not don't
believe that it's an eight billion dollar, industry and that's
a big deal In. Texas The Texas miracle is based
on being recepted to businesses and growing their businesses. Here

(01:35:18):
SO i think they're compelling arguments for him to be,
killed AND i think that's what he'll. Do but believe,
me that's just my. Opinion and you can hear anything
you want out. There in anyone's opinion counts right, now
it certainly.

Speaker 5 (01:35:30):
Does. Bill thank you has always appreciate a political, Consultant Bill.
Miller it's seven twenty. Six it is time to take
a look at your money as we check it again
With Jeff bellinger And.

Speaker 23 (01:35:39):
Jimmy mattel has a new. Partner the toymaker has a
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could be powered BY ai. Executives the two companies say
the collaboration is in an early. Stage they envision the
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like The magic eight ball becoming even more. Interactive the
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futures pointing, lower we get The may producer Price, index
a read on wholesale inflation just a few minutes from.
Now I'm Jeff, Bellinger Bloomberg business On News radio seven
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Everywhere with.

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More of what's happening now from The Sean Morris Services.

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Studios seven thirty is our time here In houston's Borning.
News I'm Jimmy. Barrett among our top stories this f
are beware of water on The, Road elon says he
went too, far verson That trump, agrees and coming up
at seven thirty, eight more of your Favorite Beach boys
songs as Remember Brian wilson who died just eight at
the age of eighty. Two details coming in the minutes,

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Ahead but first let's check out that morning drive once.
Again Sky mike's, Here.

Speaker 6 (01:37:06):
Katie freeway's all smashed. Up you got this wreck. Here
it's minor inbound at the loop six.' ten but we're
creeping along now after. Bunker heel looks like that is.
Getting Better West part tilway breaks at fourteen Sixty Four.
Southwest freeway the back Door's Findering, gulf freeway slow dragging
It wet edgebrokshire. Back, door jimmy did you know only
one beach boy could? Actually surf you got ten minutes' stance.

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Station news radio SEVEN. Forty ktrh it's time now for.
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one our.

Speaker 7 (01:38:00):
Top story shaping up to be a really bad weather, day,
today storms. Storm storms some parts of the area could
see six inches, of rain and if, you'd like you
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Speaker 26 (01:38:17):
The news is there anything that you can do to?
Forgive him could you see? That, happening, WELL look.

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I have no.

Speaker 27 (01:38:24):
HARD feelings i was.

Speaker 7 (01:38:26):
Really Surprised president Trump With miranda Divine on, podforce one
saying he's Disappointed In elon musk and that reconciliation is not. A,
priority Meantime the senate continues to work on the big
beautiful bill That the house passed. Weeks Ago Florida's rick
scott says they've got one shot and one shot only
to get.

Speaker 28 (01:38:45):
This right we've got to go align my line and
do these are recision packages and GET this fot and
get this.

Speaker 7 (01:38:52):
Budget balance Scott On. Fox business it is now seven point.
Thirty Two the Marines And national guard hold the line
for a six day of anti ice Protests In. Los
angeles republicans are pushing Back On Governor gavin Newsom And
Mayor karen bass for how they've.

Speaker 5 (01:39:08):
Handled this how Dare You?

Speaker 29 (01:39:10):
Gavin newsom how Dare You? Karen bass gaslights is, like
this do your job instead of pretending that this. Is
fine i've never seen anything so outrageous the dereliction of
duty from.

Speaker 5 (01:39:20):
These people Goodbernatorial Candidate.

Speaker 7 (01:39:22):
Steve Hilton Attorney General pam bondi says looters will be
charged Under The hobbs act and phase twenty years in Jail.
In nebraska federal agents assaulted by an illegal alien during
a raid Yesterday. In omaha seventy illegals were arrested there
And in TEXAS with dps In The national guard, on
hand only two people. Were detained during last night's PROTEST

(01:39:43):
against Iis In, san antonio only three hundred people bothered to.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
Show up the.

Speaker 7 (01:39:48):
City of houston is expecting way more than That. For
Saturdays no Kings anti. Trump Protest Mayor john whitmeyer turned
down federal Assistance From Congressman.

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
Wesley hunts i'm sorry about to terma in, our nation
but it does Not.

Speaker 30 (01:40:03):
Describe houston, that.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
Is, Of Course Mayor.

Speaker 7 (01:40:07):
John, Whitmyer Meantime Harris County Judge lena Hidalgo in paris
on her, trade mission also rejected. The Offer governor rabbitt
is Sending The national GUARD in dps here and in
other locations across the state. This weekend arrests continued immigration Courts.
Across HOUSTON our Tv partner channel TWO says ice agents

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Were In north houston Yesterday after cheveral arrests were made
at a different Court, on tuesday seven. Thirty four there's
a new Report From texas scorecard finding That anti trump
bias still Exists AT texas A. And M Reporter robert
montoya Brooke the news.

Speaker 25 (01:40:43):
A textbook that's In a Texas and political science course
that's currently happening this. Summer semester so's the country's attention
Remained on trump through demand the blimelight during his presidency
and refused to relinquish it as well as political.

Speaker 7 (01:40:55):
Power quotes that's from chapter one of, the textbook which
wastes No time i'm attacking. The president we reached Out
TO texas A.

Speaker 5 (01:41:02):
And m they did.

Speaker 7 (01:41:03):
Not respond state lawmakers lowered your property taxes during the
legislative session that Just. Ended florida they're trying to get
rid of property. Taxes Completely can texas do the.

Speaker 31 (01:41:14):
Same thing the biggest of those obstacles continues to be
the out of control.

Speaker 5 (01:41:18):
Local spending we seem to.

Speaker 18 (01:41:20):
Be caught in this cycle Where the texas legislature lowers
taxes only for local governments to raise taxes during.

Speaker 31 (01:41:27):
The Interim james quintero With The Texas Public policy foundation
says the states need to crack down on these.

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Local jurisdictions one of the ways that.

Speaker 18 (01:41:34):
We can go about doing that is by instituting a
local expenditure limit that contains the growth of government at the.

Speaker 31 (01:41:42):
Local level he says what's needed is essentially a coordinated
relief and reform planned by. The Legislature Ethan Buchanan news
radio SEVEN, forty ktrh.

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
Thank.

Speaker 7 (01:41:50):
You Ethan governor rabbit says he has not yet decided
whether or not to sign or veto the new BAN,
on thchc which is being Pushed By Lieutenant Governor, Dan
patrick political concert Out AND bill millersh has many Disagree
with patrick.

Speaker 5 (01:42:02):
ON this i don't think that he helps himself on.

Speaker 32 (01:42:05):
THIS issue i know he has his reasons for believing what,
he BELIEVES but i do think he probably underestimated how
deeply this cuts into a lot of people who otherwise
support him on a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:42:16):
Of issues the governor Has until june twenty second to issue.
A veto multiple longtime restrictions on gun rights are about
to be shot down thanks to a list of new
laws that passed. The legislature the bills ban read, flag
laws recognize out of state, gun licenses and ban local
buyback programs that.

Speaker 5 (01:42:33):
Never Worked The texas state is, saying, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
No cities, No, No, no houston, no.

Speaker 41 (01:42:37):
No No.

Speaker 33 (01:42:38):
Harris county we, regulate firearms and we say that We
want texans to have lawful possessions.

Speaker 7 (01:42:44):
Of firearms to protect themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:42:46):
In the protect their family gun Rights Attorney.

Speaker 7 (01:42:48):
Michelle Maples If governor abbott signs them, as expected the
bills would go on the Books. In september it's now
seven thirty six ON. K trh and you heard it here,
Last night oh hammer day till.

Speaker 39 (01:43:01):
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radio SEVEN.

Speaker 5 (01:43:30):
FORTY ktrh i live in, THEIR park i live In.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
The woodlands you're. Reliable forecast next on the ten on SEVEN. Forty,
ktrh yeah that was their big hit from.

Speaker 5 (01:43:44):
The seventies, you know they had at least one hit in, the,
sixties seventies, and eighties so over. Thirty years kocomo it
was their. LAST one i think that was like nineteen.
EIGHTY three i want, To Say brian wilson dying yesterday
at the age of. Eighty two that's why we're kind
of Bring The beach boys and getting your thoughts on
some of your Favorite To beach boy moments. Or songs

(01:44:06):
it's our question. Of today iHeartRadio. App ktrh hit the.
Talkback button you get up to. Thirty, seconds first name
where you're calling from and Favorite beach. Boy song this
is al.

Speaker 42 (01:44:15):
FROM spring i got to See The beach boys back around. Nineteen,
eighty man what a. Great show i'm not going to
go out and name my favorite song because there's just
too many. Of Them but i'll tell you the one
that they probably wish they could take back is In.
My room never a fan of. That one have a,
Great Day.

Speaker 43 (01:44:36):
Sparl well plant drink in the Morning just red blook
k hate FUNCTION unless i.

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
Have them but that was the. Other question by, the
way we're asking, this morning is not necessarily your favorite
drink but the one that if you don't, have it
problems are going to occur. For him evidently He's. Red
Bull red bull is. His coffee anybody Else Favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
Beach, boys song wouldn't it?

Speaker 36 (01:45:01):
Be nice Favorite Beverage mountain Dew, zero woo have a, Great.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
Day, Good morning Jimmy.

Speaker 45 (01:45:10):
And company ONE drink i can be without. His coffee
i've been drinking it Since four i'm in. My fifties
two to three cups in the Morning and i'm all
set for the rest of. The day it's working out.
Good benefits that is ONE drink i can. Live without
This is Orlando, From. Alvin, texas yeah have a, great days.

Speaker 5 (01:45:32):
Stay dry he sounds pretty calm. For somebody you just
have four cups of coffee seven forty time for traffic and.
WEATHER together i don't know if you want to drink
a whole bunch of caffeine before you go. Out driving,
Today's Guy, mike.

Speaker 6 (01:45:43):
Man let's watch out on. The roadways and by, the
way you got about thirty seconds to. Tell me just
figure out between You, and TERRY which i know the
answer you have the? Answer to you know which beach
boy couldn't only one beach boy. Actually surf LET'S go i.
Don't know, all right let's go To The. North, freeway
First Outbound. North maine This is rick one two three left. Lengths,
here boy that's a bad spot for the. Squeeze down this,

(01:46:05):
is outbound, Not Inbound, North, freeway maine and that's gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:46:08):
Mess up not Just The.

Speaker 6 (01:46:09):
North freeway the piers elevated. Is ugly that's gonna. MESS
up i ten from the. Baytown side you've already got
It from lockwood and it's not. Gonna help two. Eighty
eight the canyon getting pretty rough, now northbound right after
the split From The southwest freeway to, eighty eight you're just.

Speaker 5 (01:46:24):
Sitting There.

Speaker 6 (01:46:25):
Southwest freeway we clear Two Rex man ninja's on.

Speaker 5 (01:46:27):
Fire today.

Speaker 6 (01:46:28):
Businette fillair those got breaks From. West park you lose
about eight Minutes Here. Katie freeway the suckond Starts Around
fry road and we're dragging it Through The.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
Energy corridor a sixteen minute.

Speaker 6 (01:46:40):
LOSS here I got Mike. FROM magnolia i think he's Two. Ninety,
mike hey he's Got of.

Speaker 25 (01:46:45):
Mike ninety inbound from ninety nine To The west.

Speaker 18 (01:46:47):
Belt is, mostly peaceful but there is the occasional rioter
that wants to go nine miles.

Speaker 6 (01:46:54):
An hour, all right and watch out for the, other
guys the people that are just almost at a. Dead
stop you got breaks there from thirty fourth, All right
i'm In The generator supercenter dot Com, Traffic.

Speaker 5 (01:47:04):
Center terry which beach boy could? Actually SURF can i
give her? A? Clue, yeah okay here's here's. Your, clue
okay the original drummer who was the first beach boy
to pass away at a. Young age oh Was That? Dennis, wilson,
yes sir yes. ABOUT it i had no idea he was.

Speaker 7 (01:47:22):
THE drummer i just remember when he passed Away.

Speaker 6 (01:47:25):
To wilson round of, A Clause ron wilson said he
tried to surf one time and almost hit himself in
the head, and died and that was it for a
prime and everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:47:34):
Else, here yeah that would. Almost drowning that'd be. Enough
You so DENNIS From r KATIE. R h Generator super
center is only four Hour, Whether center terry. Is here
there's there's almost enough rain to surf on nineten. This morning.

Speaker 7 (01:47:47):
Nice, segue yeah there.

Speaker 19 (01:47:50):
We Go, uh, okay folks break out the surfboards And
The beach boys music and enjoy your trip into the
office because the weather. Is miserable we've got some very
heavy rain that's been coming down for the past couple.
Of hours so we're starting to see some water level

(01:48:12):
rises on some of the rivers and the creeks and,
the streams.

Speaker 7 (01:48:15):
And the floodwatch is.

Speaker 15 (01:48:17):
In.

Speaker 19 (01:48:17):
Effect today we're going to pick up two to five inches,
of rain some spots more, Than that so give yourself,
extra time stay away from the fast drivers and the
slow drivers and all the Things that mike has been
talking about. This morning on chance of those showers, and
storms they're going to continue off and on through the
day today afternoon.

Speaker 7 (01:48:35):
As well they'll be gone by.

Speaker 5 (01:48:38):
Later.

Speaker 7 (01:48:38):
On tonight at least we'll get a break near.

Speaker 19 (01:48:40):
Eighty today we still have, sun rain but we also have,
some sunshine sunshine and. Some rain The, Combination, Friday, Saturday,
sunday monday and temperatures will be held in check because
we still have.

Speaker 5 (01:48:53):
More, rain, okay, rain rain. More rain right now seventy
three at your official severe, Weather Station news radio SEVEN.
Forty krh what you need to know for the.

Speaker 4 (01:49:03):
Day ahead This Is Houston's, morning news brought to You
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Speaker 5 (01:49:08):
Windows solutions so about six twenty two, this morning We
Had anise parker On Former, houston mayer a candidate now
For the democrat nomination To Be Harris. County judge we
thought we'd visit With the republican candidate from last, Time Out,
alexandra mieler to talk to her about the job and
the changing politics perhaps with the. Judge's office is she

(01:49:30):
interested in? Running again more in that story coming. Up, next,
first though let's do a little traffic and weather together
as we check out that very short sky out South
at kela.

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Center FROM Our Ktrh generator supercenter twenty four our weather
center flash flood watch until. Seven tonight we've got lots
of rain, around town thunderstorms and heavy rain pretty much all.
Day today they'll be not one hundred percent, all day
but more often. Than not high temperature right. About eighty
current temperature is seventy three at your official severe, Weather
Station news radio SEVEN. Forty ktrh we're checking out some

(01:50:10):
more of our top stories. This morning. Here's clip, Thank.

Speaker 7 (01:50:13):
YOU jimmy a groundstop issued a hobby for all departures
until eight thirty this Morning In, san antonio where we're
getting some of this. Weather from two people have been
found dead as a result of, the storms AND The
us open gets underway Today in Oakmont. In pennsylvania get
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TO work i love, talk RADIO so i listened from
talk for every day, for weather local news for.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
EVERY one i listened on the way home For traffic
news radio SEVEN. Forty ktrh.

Speaker 5 (01:50:46):
It's seven. Fifty two now You're in houston's. Morning news
former Candidate For Harris, County judge Republican Candidate alexander mieler
joins us this morning on news radio SEVEN. Forty ktrh
we Had, niece parker who's going to Run Against. Lena
Hildago If lena hildago is going, to run if you
heard anything. About that by, the way as far as

(01:51:07):
whether Or not lina is actually considering not running this, Time.

Speaker 46 (01:51:09):
Out, Good, Morning jimmy thanks for having, me ON and
i think that is a.

Speaker 3 (01:51:15):
Huge question so everyday.

Speaker 46 (01:51:17):
DIFFERENT rumor i, just think With the democrats in, their
primary get your popcorn ready because we're going to have
probably another crowded field hearing about Candidates From Texas Ledge
city council all. Getting in Just like republicans see weakness with,
the Seat the democrat to do.

Speaker 5 (01:51:36):
As, WELL yeah i would think at the very least if,
she's not if she is considering, a run then Obviously
the Democrats In harris county are thinking about a change
because they see that seat as. Being bultable you damn near,
beat Her and i'm not so sure you didn't beat
her in the. LAST election.

Speaker 46 (01:51:54):
I feel very similarly, about it and, you know having
a lot of time, to reflect certainly think it's crucial
to Get a republican in. The Seat marinice parker is a.
Hyper progressive you know clearly is going to move to
the left during.

Speaker 41 (01:52:11):
The primary but.

Speaker 46 (01:52:12):
You know when speaking with donors, and independents you know
we'll be highlighting, public safety and that's what the interesting
thing is going to be during. This Race every democrat
is going To say i'm for, public safety but that's
not what YOU and i. Think of we say, public
safety we mean more. Law enforcement, you know quicker investigation's fast,
response time let's get dangerous criminals buy. In Jail when democrats,

(01:52:33):
say it it's everything but more. Law enforcement so it'll
be interesting to see how, they position because they can
read a pull.

Speaker 5 (01:52:40):
Just like we can surely can now. About you are
you going to make A run are you going to
run on the next election As a Republican For Harris?

Speaker 46 (01:52:47):
CUNTY judge i, am, not like as, you said very
uncertain to Doubtful that lena will be in, the RACE
but i will be very active in Supporting the republican,
judicial candidates active supporting them twenty four and just Spoke
to mac recently and he's very fired up to go
After these democrat judges and hold them accountable for their. Failed,

(01:53:09):
Record okay so want to, be supportive and it certainly
is critical That a republican runs, that seat and so
excited that there'll be a slready, several CANDIDATES and i
think it will even probably.

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
Get bigger, Of course dammittt did it for years and
did it, very successfully so much So, that Democrats most
democrats seemingly supported him most of the time when it
came to that, particular position do we do we Have
a republican who can, do that who can bring, everybody together.

Speaker 18 (01:53:35):
YOU know.

Speaker 46 (01:53:36):
I hope so that's one of the challenges with, you
know crowded primaries is you don't get very much time
to get everybody. BACK together i think going through the
runoff was one of the biggest challenges, for me and
So for, REPUBLICANS running i hope they stay focused on
how Terrible the democrat. Alternatives are because In The east
parker will have a big advantage of great relationship with

(01:53:58):
Former county Judge, at emmett great Relationship With, mayor whitmeyer
and she's not going to have, a media, you know
kind of holding her accountable for her very. Progressive STANCES
so i think it's even more of an Urgency for
republicans to really focus on who that, enemy is get a,
strong candidate and.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
Run hard, All, right alexandra always, A pleasure thank you.
Appreciate It Former Harris county, Judge Candidate. Alexandra meeler y'all
have a, great day. Stayed dry we'll see, tomorrow, morning
bright early. Five am hope to SEE this aftero at
four on the nine point fifty kprc