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January 16, 2025 • 116 mins
Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 01/16/25.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is US Radio seven forty katrh Houston Drive Everywhere
with the Iron now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Hey, good morning, five am. Is our time here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
as we get started this morning, the cop killer dies
in a dumpster, Biden warns about the tech industrial complex,
and coming up at five oh eight, Trumps issued a
blacklist details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning Drive for the first time.

(00:39):
Good morning Sky Mike, Good morning mister Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I have bought for Jennifer from tv A what a
burger if she will use the term suicide squeeze on
Channel eleven.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Let's see if she does it.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
This is why I did a little field study this
morning forty five the North Freeway. What you can't see
from some of these cams is the way those entrance
ramps go. If you're coming from the North Freeway and
you're trying to get into that awful construction on the
KD outbound that goes to Heights, Boulevard. It goes outbound
westbound Downtown Heights Boulevard. You're trying to get on that
ramp for it. It's a suicide squeeze. I'm Skymike. It's

(01:12):
a Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four hour weather
Center part of the Claudes Today. With the high temperature
of sixty five, next couple of days are gonna be
nice at least temperature wise. Enjoy those because big changers
are coming from next week and something kind of scary.
We'll talk to Terry Smith about that in nine minutes
right now thirty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's time now for

(01:36):
the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Good morning everyone, five oh one on KTRH. Our top story,
the bad.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Guy shot r K nine, Our deputies freach on fire
and suspects that come to his injuries inside the dump sirt.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah, the man who shot and killed a Brazoria County
deputy is killed by lease after also shooting that canine
officer who is expected to recover. Deputy Heyesus Varcas was
serving a warrant on Robert Lee Davis in Southwest Houston
when he was shot and killed. Varcus was a seventeen
year veteran of the Department. He leaves behind a wife

(02:16):
and three children. He was fifty six years old. Also
topping the news, President Joe Biden gave his farewell speech
from the Oval Office, and much like his presidency, it
was divisive in an attack on Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 (02:31):
Today, oligarchy is taking shape in America, of extreme wealth,
power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy. Are
basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone
to get ahead.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
We'll have reaction to that at five point thirty and
breaking news out of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
delayed a vote to approve a ceasefire deal that Biden
tried to take credit for. It's that deal between Israel
and Hamas. It will result in the release of Israeli
hostages being held by the terrorist group, but the deal

(03:07):
didn't come about until Trump's re election and his team's involvements.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
There is a reason there was no deal for the
entirety of the Biden presidency because Biden has been a
commander in chief who has demonstrated weakness.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Fox Business, reacting to the
deal on truth social the President elect said, quote, this
epicsies fire agreement could have only happened as a result
of our historic victory in November. Several confirmation hearing is
taking place on Capitol Hill yesterday, including one for the
incoming Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who confronted Senate Democrats Senator Herono.

Speaker 9 (03:47):
I wish you had met with me. How'd you met
with me? We could have discussed many things and gotten.

Speaker 10 (03:52):
Times to respond to the question.

Speaker 9 (03:56):
Yeah, you were the only one who refused to meet
with me, Senator.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
There is also hearings for CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe
and Trump's pick for Secretary of Skate, Marco Rubio. Bondi
has her second day of hearings today, while Doug Bergram
and Lee Zelden make their first appearances before the Senate.
It's a five h four now on KTRHN. The Trump
return is a relief for gun owners, but the fight

(04:21):
for the Second Amendment continues.

Speaker 11 (04:23):
Gunzale surged in twenty twenty and again last year leading
up to the election, as Americans faced the prospect of
another Democrat term. The American thinkers Mike McDaniel expects those
numbers will slow down now.

Speaker 12 (04:34):
I think with Trump coming in, people can expect that
the ATF is going to be kep within constitutional limits
and there may not be an immediate need to rush
out and buy guns and ammunition. Whether that's going to
happen and how fast that's going to happen.

Speaker 11 (04:48):
As another question, E warns there are still people all
through the federal government who are hostile to gun ownership.
Two Republicans in Congress have filed the bill to abolish
the ATF altogether. Coryolson, who's Radio seven.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Thank you, Corey, and experts are warning that the New
Year's Day terror attack in New Orleans is a sign
that isis is back. National security analyst Ed Tarzanski says,
thankfully Trump has beaten them before.

Speaker 13 (05:13):
The incoming administration is much more willing to use force.
In the last four years, we've broadcast weakness, and weakness
is provocative.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Adding that over the last four years, many terror threats
have entered the US through Biden's open border, speaking of
which more Biden administration spin. In an interview on NPR
DHS Secretary Alejandro Majorkis claimed the border is more secure
now than it was before COVID. The White House only

(05:45):
found religion on the border in the months before the election,
too late for Kamala Harris and way too late for
many small towns across Texas.

Speaker 14 (05:53):
They've had to bear the brunt of the population increase
from the border crisis.

Speaker 15 (05:57):
When you're talking about millions of people with their content
and traded in small towns that aren't used to huge
population increases, it's a particular problem.

Speaker 14 (06:06):
Arthur with the Center for Immigration Studies says, this place
is a huge burden on public services in these towns.

Speaker 15 (06:11):
We see property taxes going up, we see traffic increase.
You know, there's been no allocation to provide for those people.

Speaker 14 (06:19):
Arthur says, even after the border crisis is over, these
towns will still be dealing with the side effects of
rapid population booms. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH it's.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Now five oh six. Oil futures are nearing eighty dollars
a barrel this morning. That's because of a decline in
American stockpiles and the sanctions on Russian oil. The deal
announced late last week, Constellation Energy's acquisition of Euston based
Calpine is creating the nation's largest producer of energy.

Speaker 16 (06:47):
Constellation it adds significant energy resources to their portfolios, so
now they're able to provide nuclear and natural gas. Really
all forms of energy are part of their portfolio, so
that really that diversity is really helped.

Speaker 13 (07:00):
For the state of Texas.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
David Holt with the Consumer Energy Alliance says this is
a good deal for combating the large and always growing
need for energy in Texas. Centerpoint says it's putting its
emergency plans into motion ahead of next week's Arctic blast
that could include snow and ice. We'll have more with
Terry Smith of the Weather Channel in a couple of
minutes here. On Houston's Morning News at five oh seven,

(07:24):
the Rockets beat Denver one twenty eight to one oh
eight for their fifth straight win. They visit the Kings
tonight on Sports Talk seven ninety pregame at eight. Concert
Tickets for the Rodeo go on sale in two waves today,
beginning at ten o'clock on Rodeo Houston dot com. The
online waiting room opens at nine point thirty and I'm
Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station KGRH.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 17 (07:54):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
This has been the Donald Trump five Eaters our time
here on Houston's Borning News. Yesterday, Donald J. Trump at
Real Donald Trump issued a I guess you could call
it a black this. These are people who are not
invited to come to the White House and not invited
to serve in any capacity at any time in the
Trump administration. I'll just share the President's words with you.

(08:19):
As of today, the incoming Trump administration has hired over
one thousand people for the United States government. They are
outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits
of their labor over the coming years. We will make
America great again, and it will happen very quickly. In
order to save time, money, and effort, it would be
helpful if you would not send or recommend to US

(08:40):
people who worked with or are endorsed by Americans for
no prosperity. Hitted by Charles Cook, dumb as a rock,
John Bolton, bird Brain, Nicky Hayley, Mike Pence, disloyal warmongers,
Dick Cheney and his psycho daughter Liz Mitt. Romney, Paul Ryan,

(09:03):
Mark Milly, James Madis, Mark Gasper, or any of the
other people suffering from Trump derangement syndrome more commonly known
as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Like I guess, like any other incoming administration, right once
somebody has won the election, and they're going to be

(09:24):
taking over every hangar honor in Washington, DC, every swamp creature,
regardless of how they truly feel about President Trump, is
looking for a job. That's what they do. They try
to find a job, They try to continue to suck
off the government teat and that it's no different for
Trump than it is I'm sure for any other president.

(09:45):
He's just making sure that everybody understands if you are
associated with any of those people, the afore mentioned people,
that he has no interest in hiring you for anything.
Five ten time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
I don't know you can say that, yeah, you can
say That's why I say it.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm too nervous. I don't want to freak Brian out
this morning, this early.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
I've already started out with the phrase suicide squeeze, which
makes some people nervous. Jennifer won't say it on Channel eleven,
but that's what it is. I forty five southbound since
they've done that roadwork. I did a little field study
this morning, and that roadwork on the KDE Freeway from
downtown forty five out to Heights Boulevard. They've squeezed it
down to three lanes, which normally three lanes is nice, right,

(10:25):
but in the afternoon when we're trying to get from
the Baytown side to the KD side, it makes things crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
And it's already started that spackle.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
It's, of course a lifestyle long story short forty five southbound.
When you try to get on the RIMP to go
to the KD outbound, that is a suicide squeeze, and boy,
I just floor it there. You can always break if
you need to, but you don't have a whole lot
of room. You either make it or you don't. KDE
inbound looks good. Thirty one minutes from Grand Parkway and
Southwest Freeway. Twenty two minutes here tip line seven one

(10:54):
three two one two t ips.

Speaker 13 (10:56):
It is from order and using my best burbage.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
I just want to say, I love me some stymeriche
in the morning. Don't t don't make me emotional this early.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
From r KTRH stop tax Defenders twenty four our weather center.
You might not love you some some Terry Smith this morning.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
Hey, I'm not gonna say anything bad.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
No, seriously, in every single public school employee in the
Greater Houston area is praying for Tuesday, for what might
happen on Tuesday because they can combine that with the
MLK Junior Holiday and turn this turn this into a
five D weekly doggle, five maybe six day weekend.

Speaker 10 (11:41):
Well, we will see what happens. Okay, So I know
the big topic is not what's going to happen through
the weekend, but what happens next week. And I'll tell
you best as we can tell. At this point, we
could get some wintry weather starting maybe two Monday night,
Monday night into Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
But this is so precarious, and.

Speaker 10 (12:06):
If I could nail it down and tell you for
certain this is what I think would happen, I would
tell you. But it is a matter of timing of
that cold air which is already in place, and where
the storm develops, and when it develops, what do we
get do we get rain, do we get freezing rain?

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Do we get sleep? Do we get snow?

Speaker 10 (12:26):
It's a very complicated pattern, and none of the models
are agreeing right now, so it's a coin toss.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, a lot of the ones that they're sticking their
neck out are claiming one to three inches.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Yeah, I've seen.

Speaker 10 (12:38):
I've seen one to three inches in print to I'm
not ready to buy it yet.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
I'm sorry. I grew up in the South.

Speaker 10 (12:46):
I have lived through these things many times, and I'm
kind of like, until we're about forty eight hours out,
we're not really going to have a good handle on this.
I mean a really good handle, one where the school
teachers can truly get excited.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Keep your fingers crossed. It might happen. Let's talk about
our weather today, because it's really gonna be nice.

Speaker 10 (13:06):
We got the sunshine, it's warming upload of mid sixties.
Tomorrow's a Driday, mid to upper sixties. Saturday is looking
good too. Load of mid sixties. Sunday is when the
cold air arrives. It's a sunny, dry day Sunday, but
only in the mid upper forties.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
All right, temperature right now, let's stick a look. I
forgot to check that for you this morning. Okay, current
temperature is thirty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you Biden, 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. So President Biden, as delusional as ever is,
farewell speech is about nineteen minutes. Speech didn't last very long.
In it, he touted the accomplishments of his administration and

(13:53):
warned us about the tech industrial complex. More coming up next,
but first we've got track making weather together as we
check out the drive once scam with Skymike.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Oh, pretty ladies on TV helping me this time. I
found out why we have that closure on too, idiot.
It's just at the feeder road. It was all mainlanes
a few minutes ago, but now it's just the feeder
road here. Some kind of utility works, so now the
off rap is closed, but the mainlanes are getting by.
In fact, coming up from Manbo Alban all the way
back from Angleton, you're going into the canyon. Skymike on

(14:24):
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Brob R KTRH Top tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
We're looking at partly KLOUDI about sixty five today, mostly
cloudy sixty eight tomorrow mostly Sunday, breezy, cooler sixty one
on Saturday Sunday and colder forty seven on Sunday. We'll
worry about next week. I guess next week because Tuesday
is the day when they could get a little I
don't know, icy or snowy around here. Temperature right now

(14:49):
currently thirty nine at your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some of our
top stories on this Thursday. Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
We are sponsored by dn M totally seeing. The man
who shot and killed a Brazoria County Sheriff's deputy is
killed himself in a shootout with cops. The LA wildfire
death toll remains twenty five as pictures have merge of
Mayor Karen Bass at a cocktail party in Ghana when
the fires broke out, and the FDA rather officially bans

(15:19):
red dye number three because of its potential risk for cancer.
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at five thirty checking.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
In I'm m money.

Speaker 18 (15:30):
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Speaker 2 (15:32):
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Speaker 3 (15:41):
It wasn't pretty. Nothing pretty about it. Five twenty three
is at that time you're in Houston's morning news A right.
He is on his way out the door. It's his
last speech to the nation. Not that he gave a
lot of speeches to the nation. I mean, think how
many species they actually give us over the course of
four years. A handful, and this was his last one.

(16:02):
But he sucked it up and they read the teleproperty
as best he could. And here is part of what
he had to say in the past four years.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
Our democracy is how strong and every day I've kept
my commitment to be president for all Americans through one
of the toughest periods in our nation's history. I've had
a great partner and Vice President Kamala Harris. Spend the
honor of my life to see the resilience of essential
workers getting us through once in a century pandemic, the

(16:33):
heroism of service members of first responders keeping us safe,
the determination of advocates standing up for our rights and
our freedoms instead of losing their jobs to an economic.

Speaker 19 (16:46):
Crisis that we inherited.

Speaker 7 (16:48):
Millions of Americans now have the dignity of work, Millions
of entrepreneurs and companies creating new businesses and industries, hiring
American workers using the Mariamerican products. Together, we've launched some
new era of American possibilities, one of the greatest modernizations
of infrastructure in our entire history, from new roads, bridges,

(17:12):
clean water, affordable high speed internet for every American. We
invented the semiconductor smaller than the tip of my little finger,
and now is bringing those chip factories and those jobs
back to America where they belong, creating thousands of jobs,
finally giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower prescription drug

(17:35):
prices from many of the seniors, and finally doing something
to protect our children and our families by passing the
most significant gun safety law in thirty years.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
He did all that, he did, no wonder he thinks
he did a good job. Yeah, it's a bit of
revisionist history. History will remember Joe Biden well the only
one who remembers Joe Biden. Well, is Joe and maybe
Jill Biden at this point pretty much so Brett baron Fox.

(18:09):
You know, he listened to it. Here's his reaction to
the claims and the speech.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, it's interesting, Jesse.

Speaker 20 (18:14):
You know, he harkened back as I mentioned to President
Dwight the Eisenhower's farewell address in nineteen sixty one, talking
about a military industrial complex. He started talking about the
threat from an oligarchy and the concentration of power and
wealth having an impact on US policy. You know, it's
interesting that Democrats raised a lot more money and spent

(18:36):
a lot more money on that election, almost two to
one over the Trump campaign, and so there was a
concentration of money on the Democratic side. It was just
what they were selling was not selling to the American people,
I thought. You know, obviously he was trying to put
rose colored glasses on some of the things that the
administration did. You have to give credit for a bipartisan

(18:58):
effort on infrastructure and other things. There were real critics
of a lot of those pieces of legislation, but he
did push them through Congress. But you have to realize
that the result of that election is a complete repudiation
of going a totally different direction than the Biden administration
and the Harris administration would have.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
And when he told.

Speaker 20 (19:17):
USA today that he still could have beaten Donald Trump,
I think no one believed that after that June twenty
seventh debate.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
No nobody believed it at all. And I don't believe
personally that if he had stepped down sooner and given
Kamala Harris more time to run, that she would have
beaten Trump. It's as much the policies as it was
the persons the people were voting against. Five twenty six.
Time to take a look at your money. Jeff Bellinger's here.

(19:47):
Good morning, and good morning to you, Jimmy.

Speaker 21 (19:49):
The core rate of inflation ease slightly at the end
of last year. The news triggered a midweek rally on
Wall Street. Major averages had games ranging from one to
two thirds percent two and a half percent. Stock market
futures are mixed this morning. S and P and NASDAC
futures are both higher. Now futures have shown some volatility.
They're down sixty two points at the moment. I'm Jeff Beldinger,

(20:11):
Bloomberg Business. I'm news Radio seven forty KTRHON you are.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
No Houston's News.

Speaker 22 (20:20):
Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seventh.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH five everywhere with
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Speaker 2 (20:29):
More of what's happening now from the Jehan Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Five thirty our time. Here in Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f are the
canine is going to live, the cop killer is dead,
some Texas schools secretly allowing boys in girls' sports, and
coming up at five thirty eight, a massive nationwide recall
from Alding. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive against

(20:55):
skylike's here.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
On nord side.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
We've got this small spackle that's this west bound forty five.
There's a stall right on that exit ramp that takes
you on to forty five the North Freeway, so watch
out if you're coming over from the airport from JFK.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Otherwise you have the roadwork.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
It's a smunch at Aldan Westfield going westbound, and a
bit of a skunch eastbound at Imperial Valley and fun
to say Imperial Valley both ways we're getting by for now.
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weather center
for today, partly Cladi looks like sixty five for the
high temperature, even warmer tomorrow, but then we start to
cool down before we freeze. Temperatures will go into the
thirties for highs of Monday, well certainly by Tuesday. We'll
talk to Terry about that in about eight minutes. Right now,
temperature thirty nine at your officials Severe Weather Station, News

(21:47):
Radio seven forty KTRH. It is time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
Good morning everyone. It's five thirty two. In our top story,
the man accused of shooting and killing Brazoria County Sheriff's
Deputy Jesus Vargas is himself killed in a shootout with police.
Argus was trying to serve a warrant on Robert Lee
Davis when he was murdered. Davis also shot a canine
officer when he was found hiding in a dumpster. That

(22:13):
dog is going to be okay. More on this at
six o'clock. Also topping the news. Consider this as you
send your kids to school this morning. Our Texas school
districts secretly defying bands on boys playing girls' sports, while
a Dallas ISD official was recently caught helping an undercovered

(22:33):
journalist sneak around those laws.

Speaker 18 (22:35):
The LGBTQ youth coordinator in the Dallas Independent School District,
Mahogany Gueston, is telling that undercover quote unquote parents that
they can find loopholes.

Speaker 13 (22:45):
To the law.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Activist Corey DeAngelis says that the bottom up accountability that
would come from school choice would stop this from happening.
The impacts of wokeness in our schools. College enrollment could
fall to record low over the next decade with more
colleges closing up.

Speaker 23 (23:03):
It's allows the investment to spend twenty one years of
your life paying off debt for something you did in
four years. And what's happened over the last decades is
colleges are not accountable to anyone, so they keep raising
their price and making it out of reach for most people.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
Gen Burk of College Prep Genius says more high school
graduates are going down the route of taking courses online
or attending trade schools. And then there's this. A new
report from members of the Texas House reveals that China
has infiltrated our k through twelve schools.

Speaker 24 (23:37):
Doing though by owning two well known tutoring services, a.

Speaker 25 (23:42):
Prist Review as affiliate to dot com. Both are owned
by the Hong Kong based Prema Are Capitol.

Speaker 24 (23:48):
Group that's reporting to Robert Montoya with Texas Scorecard, who
says they are also involved with byte Dance.

Speaker 5 (23:55):
The parent company of TikTok.

Speaker 25 (23:57):
Introduces potential pathways for undoing and long term ideological manipulation.

Speaker 24 (24:03):
Which is why they are calling on Governor Abbott to
ban contracts with adversary controlled entities.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k TCH. So China
is embedded here and getting richer by the day. The
Chinese just reported a record breaking trade surplus of nine
hundred and ninety billion dollars last year, which, according to
Breitbart's John Hayward, is due to other countries putting up
tariff barriers to protect their own economies.

Speaker 26 (24:31):
You could get chief goods and consumers would like that
in a time of inflation. That's great, but then long term,
what happens to your manufacturing base, Your ability to produce
those goods domestically. Everybody who could do it gets driven
out of business.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
He says.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
The Trump administration coming in will protect the American manufacturing
sector and retail base five point thirty five. Now, President
Joe Biden giving his farewell address last night, and remember
how he once preached of unity, Well, now he's warning
about an oligarch under Donald Trump.

Speaker 27 (25:01):
It was so incredibly tone deaf, and there was a
bit of irony. He is exiting the stage with the
lowest approval rating he has ever had, at thirty seven percent.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Kaylee Mcananey on Fox, you'll hear Biden himself at six.
Trump's pick for Attorney General, Pam Bondi, begins her second
day of hearings in the Senate later this morning. Among
the other Trump cabinet choices appearing today, Lee Zelden and
Doug Bergham. Also in Washington, the US Supreme Court heard
arguments yesterday in a case challenging Texas law requiring age

(25:37):
verification online.

Speaker 28 (25:38):
In our history, we have always said kids can't come
and look at this.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Stuff, referring to referring to porn Net's Solicitor General, An
Nielsen says the law is a way to keep up
with technology five point thirty six and looking at your money.
Inflation comes in hot once again, as prices rose point
four percent last month and two point nine percent year
over year. This comes as the White House claims that

(26:03):
the economy is strong, but according to new Rice University research,
that's not true. Half of Ustonians struggle financially.

Speaker 29 (26:12):
Most people say they can go to their savings if
they have to cover expenses, but not very many.

Speaker 30 (26:17):
It's our classic four hundred dollars question. If you had
to come up with four hundred dollars to cover an
unexpected expense, could you or would you have to borrow it.

Speaker 29 (26:25):
Senior director of research at Rice University's Kinder Institute for
Urban Research, Daniel Potter says about one third of Fewstonians
are in a position to save.

Speaker 30 (26:33):
It's unfortunately it's the classic emergencies pop up housing repairs,
car repairs, medical expenses.

Speaker 29 (26:40):
Potter suggests everyone should have a budget, regardless of their
financial situation. Share at Lewis News Radio seven forty k
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up with inflation, be aware between thirty and forty percent
of job postings are fake.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
They're ghost jobs in a.

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It's time for employees.

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BET's the manning of destination workplaces. These fake job openings
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(27:32):
Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station k
t RH.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Be informed, be on time.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Houston's morning news continues with Jimmy.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Arrett taketos what Taketo's, Yeah, tainted taketos is what we're
dealing with this morning. Five thirty eight year in Houston's
boring news used to seeing recalls from Walmart.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
What was the recent chicken broth?

Speaker 13 (27:56):
Right?

Speaker 3 (27:57):
This big recall on chicken broth and you know other
grocery providers. I don't recall seeing one from Aldi before,
but we have one now. Aldi has issued product recalls
in recent months for various food items due to risk
they could endanger the health of those who consume them.
The latest one, it impacts thirty four states that includes

(28:18):
Texas and Washington, d C. Two word at risk of
bacteria contamination, while the other one was recalled because it
potentially bore pieces of metal. That's what this one does,
so your takeitos could get a little bit chewy. It's
cassa mamita, chicken and cheese taketos twenty four thousand pounds
worth that have been recalled by Audi Audi not Audi Aldi.

(28:40):
If it's an Audio, it should have metal, right at
least some Aldi contaminated potentially with foreign material. We've had
a lot of those. You know, there's so much automation
involved in food production now, so many machines are involved
that you know when you have one, and these lines
run constantly, So when you have one where you have

(29:02):
you know a breakdown of metal fragments that get into
the food, it takes a while to be discovered. These
were produced. These takeitos were produced last year back in
early December. They're not not on the store shelves anymore,
so you have to worry about buying them if you
go to Oldie. But if you bought them and they
may be in your freezer. Yeah, it's one of those things.

(29:24):
I guess you can take it back if you want.
I mean you can. To me, I don't know if
I want to take the trouble to take it back,
or if I just want to pick through the taketo
and see if there's any metal pieces in there. Then again,
there's no guarantee you're going to get the ball right,
although the big ones you should see by forty time
for traffic and whether it's catchee.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Actually, I think you should record that what's that tainted
taketosos that we don't have numbers anymore?

Speaker 3 (29:47):
I mean more of a mariachi band to do justice
to that though, That.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Would be awesome.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
A Mariacci version of Tainted Taketos by Jimmy Barretty'll all right,
let's go to the North Freeway. You're always the first
to know what's going going on around here at seven
because of my tip line seven one three two one
two tips Mark from Spring.

Speaker 32 (30:07):
Dude, Skott, make right lane just about fifty yards before
North Vane overpass. There is a car in the right
lane that stopped. Luckily there's nobody playing meet up with
this guy.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
All right, look out southbound, and I know that's not
very well lit. I mean, it's just like a little
obstacle course this morning forty five, you have Mark from
Spring's stall sitting on the right side, and then if
you're trying to merge onto it in the Kdie Freeway outbound,
you've got that suicide squeeze there, Terry.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
So my best advice is once you get on that
floor it.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
If I'm wrong, law enforcement let me know seven one
three two one two t ips. But I say the
best way to enter the freeway when everybody else is
doing seventy or so is to go ahead and floor it.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Get up to their speed.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
You can always slow down on that squeeze.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Ramp Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center, Terry,
why do I work out?

Speaker 5 (30:57):
I'm in shape, but I'm wearing eight Like.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Here's the clothes.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I look like the damn staypuff marshmallow man.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
From our k Atras Generator super Center twenty four our weather center,
Terry Smith is here.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Yeah. We've had to where a lot of layers lately,
haven't we.

Speaker 10 (31:11):
Yeah, And it is a little chilly out there this morning.
I've been so focused on the wintry weather next week
that I hadn't really looked at our temperatures. But a
lot of places are in the thirties and low forties
this morning. So the staypuff jacket definitely is appropriate for some.
Now if you're you know, really buff, you don't need it.

(31:32):
But oh what a nice stretch we've got through the weekend,
the cold air, the Arctic air showing up on Sunday.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
We're dry through Sunday.

Speaker 10 (31:40):
Load to mid sixties today, mid upper sixties Tomorrow, load
to mid sixties Saturday.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
So the rest of this week thumbs up.

Speaker 10 (31:47):
Sunday multiple airs because temperatures will only be in the
mid to upper forties for highs. Monday, we have a
twenty percent chance of a shower and our temperatures are
from the mid thirties to the mid forties, so it
is really cold Monday, and that sets the stage Monday night, Tuesday,
maybe Tuesday night for something wintry. And at this point

(32:12):
it is anybody's guest, but we could see some wintry
weather next week.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Okay, right now thirty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions. Another contentious day, with another contentious hearing
on Capitol Hill, this time for Pam Bondy, who is
the Trump nominee for Attorney General. We'll share some audio.
She and Eric Schiff got into it. Well, and you
know what a jerky is. Well, we'll share some audio

(32:44):
with you coming up next. First though, at five fifty,
when he sat on his head, Yes she did. Hi, Stuy, Mike,
what you got for us?

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Put on your hard hat. We got to hit two
twenty five. Got a wreck report. It just passed Red Bluff.
If you'll hang on to the six o'clock news break
with Clifford, I'll get you some lanneage. But I can
see it clearly outbound, so watch out there. If you
can do it in east, do that instead forty five
north off the tip line. I've got another mark from Spring.
I already have a mark from Spring. All right, Well,
this is going to be young Mark from spring Hey.

Speaker 32 (33:12):
Sky Mike, there's a six car Paula forty five south
at Parker forty five.

Speaker 17 (33:17):
If you're a left hand lane, just occurred.

Speaker 33 (33:20):
Emergency cruise are not on sea?

Speaker 4 (33:22):
All right, outstanding, and you're the first to know about
that southbound Let's watch out from Gulf Bank. I'll bet
they take a second left lane in a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
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Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Partly Claudie looks like about sixty five today, becoming mostly
Claude sixty eight Tomorrow sunny, breezy, cooler sixty one Saturday,
Sunday sunny and even colder forty seven for the high
and then we start going into the deep freeze for Monday,
Tuesday and probably Wednesday, and some frozen precipitation is probably

(33:55):
gonna fall. Step it tore right down thirty nine at
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Check out some of our top stories on this Thursday morning.

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(34:27):
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Got the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
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Speaker 1 (34:36):
I live in Katie, I live in Ito.

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Speaker 3 (34:47):
Now here in Houston's morning to do so is Pam
bonding the very very very modern What does he say,
the very model of a modern attorney general.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
Yeah, that's it. That's that's that's that's that's what he says.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Well, she sure took on, you know, mister mister nasty
Adam Schiff yesterday. Here's a little bit of the exchange
between those two.

Speaker 28 (35:08):
The President has said Jack Smith should go to jail.
Will you investigate Jack Smith.

Speaker 9 (35:15):
Senator, I haven't seen the file. I haven't seen the investigation.
I haven't looked at anything. It would be irresponsible of
me to make a commitment regarding anything without You're a
long practicing attorney without looking at a file.

Speaker 28 (35:33):
So you would need a factional You would need a
factual predicate to open investigation of Jack Smith.

Speaker 9 (35:38):
Is there not a summary by you sitting here?

Speaker 28 (35:41):
Yes, sir, and not a summary by the President either, right?
Absolutely so, summary by the President or his desired to
investigate Jack Smith would not be enough for you to
open an investigation of Jack Smith?

Speaker 19 (35:52):
Is that right?

Speaker 9 (35:53):
I will look at the facts and evidence in any.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Case you know, and and here sitting here today.

Speaker 9 (36:01):
Senator seven, in your department of.

Speaker 28 (36:06):
Sitting here today, sitting here today, are you aware of
any factual predicated to investigate Jack Smith sitting here today?

Speaker 13 (36:13):
Yes? Or no?

Speaker 9 (36:14):
Senator, I will look at the facts and the circumstances.

Speaker 28 (36:17):
You can't answer that question. You're not a part of
the department yet. There's no worry about divulging. I'm sitting
sensitive insmation, So just tell us.

Speaker 19 (36:27):
Are you aware?

Speaker 25 (36:28):
Tell us?

Speaker 28 (36:28):
Are you aware of a factual predicate to investigate Jack Smith?

Speaker 13 (36:31):
Yes? Or no?

Speaker 9 (36:32):
Senator what I'm hearing on the news, Are you aware
of a do I know I have not?

Speaker 28 (36:37):
You see, reluctant to answer a simple question. Let me
ask you a different simple question. The president also wants
to jail Liz Cheney's sitting here today. Are you aware
of any factual basis to investigate Liz Cheney?

Speaker 13 (36:49):
Yes? Or no?

Speaker 9 (36:51):
Senator, that's a hypothetical, and I'm not going to answer no.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's not hypothetical.

Speaker 28 (36:55):
I'm asking you, sitting here today, whether you are aware
of a factual predicate to investigate.

Speaker 9 (37:00):
Senator, to investigate Liz Cheney.

Speaker 28 (37:04):
That is a highest president has called for it publicly.
You are aware of that, aren't you.

Speaker 9 (37:08):
No one has asked me to investigate.

Speaker 13 (37:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:14):
Why he's so worried?

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Why is he so worried about He's worried about Jack
Smith and Liz Cheney and anybody else who might have
been on the end of persecuting President Trump. He's fearful, Well,
they all are, I guess, fearful that there will be
some retaliation. Well, first of all, the President has never
shown a propensity for retaliation. He talks a lot, he

(37:38):
says nasty things about people like that, but as far
as going after them legally, he just doesn't do that.
Maybe he should. Maybe maybe maybe they are worth investigating.
But didn't Liz Cheney already get a pardon? Yeah, it
seems to me Surety got a pardon, So why would

(37:59):
she be worried about investigation? Nothing would happen as a
result of it. Five point fifty six. Now Here in
news Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Is Use Radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 34 (38:14):
I everywhere with them now the latest news, weather, and trapping.
It's more of what matters to you. From the John
Moris Services Studios. Six am is our time here in
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett again. Good morning, Welcome
to our show. Among our top stories of this half hour,
the cop killer has died appropriately enough in a dumpster.

(38:35):
Biden warns about the tech industrial complex, and coming up
at six eight, leave the Louis Vaton at home. A
Delta passenger got her expensive bags stolen. Details in the
minutes ahead here in Houston's borning News.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
First, let's check out the drive with guy Mike. All right,
let's take her downtown.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
I think we have a brand new problem downtown.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I ten, what's that payment?

Speaker 17 (38:57):
Mike? Might have occur by you? Of Aby downtown. There
is a eighteen wheeler with a flat tire and the
inside lane HBD is already on scene, but you're having
to merge out of lane one.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
All right, watch out westbound as you're passing Saint Arnold
going that way. Clear two twenty five at Red Bluff
at Rex Gone, stay the course north Free Way. They
are taking two lanes now southbound. KTRH listeners dow at first.
That's a rec with six cars in a backup from
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Speaker 5 (39:29):
Did he just call you, Mattress Mike?

Speaker 1 (39:31):
He did, because you know I do that.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
I forty five forty five back order slip.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
That's pretty funny. Yeah, that's good. From our KTRH top
tax defenders. Twenty four hour weather center part of the
county with a heighth today of sixty five. It's next Tuesday,
Monday night, Tuesday, Tuesday night that we're looking out for
some wintry weather. We'll talk to Terry about all this
in about eight minutes. Temperature right now currently is thirty
nine at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's

(39:57):
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
It is six oh two and our top story is
We're a sponsored by shop As Farm Supply. The man
who shot and killed a Brazoria County deputy is debt
himself shot by police after shooting and wounding a canine officer.
Ose Vargas or Jesus Vargas was serving a warrant on
Robert Lee Davis when Davis shot Vargas in the head.
He was found hours later hiding in a dumpster.

Speaker 28 (40:21):
This guy had no intentions whatsoever to be taken alive.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
The K nine named Rocky, is expected to survive. Deputy
Vargas leaves behind a wife in three kids. Davis's criminal
history included numerous felonies. Also topping the news this morning,
President Joe Biden made his final address from the Oval
Office last night doing Biden things, warning that the country
is becoming an oligarchy that threatens democracy, run by the

(40:51):
ultra wealthy and going on a ti rate about social
media and misinformation.

Speaker 19 (40:56):
The truth is smothered by lies and for profit.

Speaker 7 (41:02):
We must hold the social platform accountable to protect our children,
our families from a very democracy from the abusive power.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
This was the guy who was preaching unity five years ago.
There's a snag in the ceasefire deal this morning between
Israel and Hamas.

Speaker 35 (41:19):
The Israeli Cabinet was scheduled to vote today on the deal.
That would be followed by a forty eight hour period
that would allow for objections.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
In the Israeli Supreme Court.

Speaker 35 (41:29):
But we've just received a statement from the Prime Minister's
office claiming that Hamas is going back on some of
the agreements. Diplomatic conversations are continuing at a high level,
urging stability in the deal.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
Trey yankst reporting President Biden tried to take credit for
the deal, but it only got done after the incoming
administration and Donald Trump got involved. On truth social Trump
called the deal epic and giving credit to his Special
Envoy Steve Whitcoff on Capitol Hill. More Trump Cowboy confirmation

(42:01):
hearings today, including Pam Bondy second day in front of
the Senate Judiciary Committee. Former Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe, Trump's
pick to run the CIA, has promised to focus on
threats coming across the southern border during his here.

Speaker 7 (42:15):
Transnational criminal organizations are flooding American communities with violence and
deadly narcotics, but.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
He says China remains our number one security threat at
six ZHO four. Trump's return is a promise to protect
your Second Amendment rights, but many federal agencies continue to
promote an anti gun narrative. The American Thinkers Mike McDaniel
says the FBI is pushed debunked data on so called
active shooter cases.

Speaker 12 (42:43):
Part of that is blue cities and states don't want
to admit their policies are hitting crime run rampant, so
many of them aren't reporting to the FBI, and the
FBI understanding that what's all's data anyway.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
He says, some of the FBI's data on shootings is
based on Google Search. While questions still remain following the
terror attack on New Year's Day in New Orleans, one
thing is clear, and that is that isis is back.

Speaker 13 (43:11):
It should have been a reminder that they continue to
reconstitute themselves. They're self motivated, and that's what makes this
so very difficult, and that.

Speaker 24 (43:20):
Is national security expert Ed Trzanski.

Speaker 13 (43:24):
We continue to be a target because our borders continue
to be poors. Tom Holman's got a lot of work
to do in that respect, with a lot.

Speaker 24 (43:32):
Of terror suspects to round up here in the US.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k tr AH.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
Thank you, Jeff. At the Border, a shocking discovery in
El Paso, a cross border tunnel connecting that Texas city
to Juarez in Mexico. Small towns have been dealing with
the strain of the border disaster for the last four years. Unfortunately,
they'll be feeling the effects of it for even longer.

Speaker 15 (43:59):
Even under or a mass deportation program, You're still going
to be left with millions of people who are going
to be here, who are going to have to be
accounted for over the next decade.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
Art Arthur with the Center for Immigration Study says that
the rapid population increases in these towns has resulted in
everything from rising property taxes to wor sending traffic congestion.
Six h six, British oil company BP says it's cutting
thousands of jobs to cut costs. That number expected to
be around five thousand. This comes as two of this

(44:31):
country's largest energy providers are now one.

Speaker 29 (44:35):
Constellation Energy is buying Houston based Coalpine for sixteen point
four billion dollars.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
It's significant.

Speaker 16 (44:41):
It really shows how much the power and electricity generation
and electricity needs in the state of Texas are going
to change in the next few years.

Speaker 29 (44:50):
President of Consumer Energy Alliance David Holt says this move
comes as energy demand continues to skyrocket.

Speaker 16 (44:55):
There's a lot of estimates that we're going to need
twice as much, not morelectricity just in the next three, four, five,
six years than we have right now.

Speaker 29 (45:04):
Constellation is already the country's largest producer of twenty four
to seven emissions free electricity. Jared Lewis News Radio seven
forty kJ eight thank you.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
Jared Center points putting emergency plans into place ahead of
the freezing weather expected next week. We'll have more with
Terry Smith in a couple of minutes. The Rockets beat
the Nuggets one twenty eight to one oh eight for
their fifth consecutive win. They're in Sacramento tonight at eight
on Sports Talk seven ninety and concert tickets for the
Rodeo go on sale in two waves starting at ten

(45:33):
o'clock this morning. The online waiting room at Rodeo Houston
dot com opens up at nine thirty. I'm Cliff Saunters,
on Houston's news, weather and traffic station k TRH. A
new year is always a news year.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
On Houston's information station.

Speaker 19 (45:50):
New Journey is something new each two.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Day in the new year. Huesradio seven forty KZRH.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Well hellog six oh eight is our time here in
Houston's morning news. Christ Guy, I didn't understand the Louis
Paton reference and the tea, So let me explain to
you now this this woman was traveling. She's an Atlanta resident.
Her name is Alison Joyner. She was traveling from the
Bahamas back to Atlanta. Actually take that back, she was

(46:19):
going from Atlanta to the Bahamas. It's important to get
the order right here because at some point in time,
her two designer purses, which she had packed in her
checked luggage, worth forty five hundred dollars. She checked with
Delta Airlines, That's who she flew. She got to the Bahamas,

(46:43):
opened up her luggage. The contents looked like they've been
kind of they they'd been pulled through, and her two
designer purses were missing. Of course, she contacted Delta, who said, hey, listen,
we're sorry this happened to you. We will do the
best we can Oh. One other thing here, and this
is this is kind of maybe a good idea for
those who insist on traveling with valuables.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
I don't believe in traveling with that with valuables. You know,
if I'm going to a foreign country, for example, if
I would, I would say that, you know, if you've
got a big hawk and you know, three four carrot
engagement ring, I would leave that home I under locking key.
I would not be going to a foreign country flashing,
you know, flashing jewelry. I wouldn't be taking designer purses

(47:28):
knowing that the TSA is going to go through it,
and and there's always the possibility that luggage handlers will
go through it. Who knows what happened here? I mean
that's gonna be the hard part. How were you going
to try to figure out? I mean, those designer purses
are never coming back. How are you going to figure
out who took them to begin with? How do you
know that something didn't happen in TSA? How do you

(47:48):
know that something you know that that a Delta employee
who is you know, moving luggage from you know, from
where it was checked in to to to the plane itself.
And somewhere down the line somebody got in there and
took something. She did, however, have it. And this is
a good idea. She did have an Apple air tag
in her Chanel bag before flying, and so she could

(48:09):
track it. So when she found out it was stolen,
she she activated it and found it was thirty miles
south of Hartsville Jackson Atlanta International Airport. So that's how she,
you know, knew that, you know, somebody obviously at the
airport had stolen her stuff, and you know it had
already had already removed it either to their home or
somewhere else. Six ' ten Time for traffic and weather together. Now, bag,

(48:33):
what are these things?

Speaker 4 (48:34):
It's a bag that these are Chanelle and Lewis Vatari.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
These are ridiculous, stupid, ridiculous high price purses that ladies
like to carry.

Speaker 5 (48:44):
It's a status symbol.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
It's you know, carried over your shoulders.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Like when I had a wife, she had this little
small thing she carried around.

Speaker 5 (48:50):
Is one of those deals like that would be a clutch,
I believed New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Listen, I'm sounding very gay by knowing you know, all
these different persons terms here.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
We need help here, all right, tip line. You're doing
a great job this morning. In fact, I'm trying to
keep up with all the calls. Seven one three two
one two t ips. Let's let's go back to the board.
Two twenty five clear red bluff. That one's gone. Forget
it was ever there. We're getting loopy and the squeeze
on six ' ten north westbound at forty five. You
just have two lanes north side Heiights.

Speaker 17 (49:18):
Guy Mike Andrew the original or from Spring.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
Oh, yeah, I have two Andrews from Spring.

Speaker 13 (49:23):
I have forty five southbound that his car file up the.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Kirk Buffo nice verbage includes the HIV lane, which I'm
stuck in right now.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
All right, look out inbound.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
They have just cleared the main lanes, but you have
suckage in both the main lanes and HOV from West Road.
Now eighteen extra minutes there, big shots, do the hardy
toll road commoners. Let's flip over to the east text Freeway.
Remember you have the roadwork on the Kadie outbound from
downtown to Heights Boulevard and one more tip line, Uber Mike.

Speaker 33 (49:50):
Hey, it was up sky Mike, dude, nice and foods
coming in from Kingwao to bush herebort Ce free Gienda.
I want to darn go the Marriott or actually go
down to the bottom and drop off your pastor at arrival.
And Jimmy, I left something for you on your Facebook cage.

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Oh we are so you know.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
I wish back in the day, Jimmy, I could have
talked to the people I listened to on the radio.
On Facebook and Twitter. We're so easy to get a
hold of it. You talked to Terry too. Yeah, I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four, our weather center.
Just let me clear one thing up very quickly with you,
Terry Smith. Okay, you you live? Do you live like
thirty miles south of the of the Hartsville Jackson Atlanta
International Airport.

Speaker 10 (50:34):
I do not?

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Okay, good, Just we're trying to well, I'm trying to
help find the chanel bag that's missing from this from
this from this woman, and that's where it was last scene.
Supposedly was that at the airport or something. Well, somebody
stole it at the airport. Somebody stole somebody stole it
out of her check bag.

Speaker 10 (50:50):
Let's put it that way, Oh well, what you doing
putting something expensive in your checked bag?

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Thank you very much. I appreciate, yes, I appreciate the
support on that. That's that's not don't take that or
big hawk and diamond ring when you're going to a
foreign country right last.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
Well, or like a suit full of cash? I mean,
what do you expect? Unfortunately, Okay, let's.

Speaker 10 (51:13):
Get back to the weather, which is looking mighty fine
as far as I'm concerned. I know Skymike's not all
that thrilled because he's having a hard time warm and up.
Somebody go give him a space heater.

Speaker 5 (51:25):
Please. We are sunny and dry and mile the rest
of this week.

Speaker 10 (51:30):
Load to mid sixties today, middupper sixties Tomorrow, Saturday, load
of mid sixties, Arctic air Sunday, middupper forties, even colder Monday,
and a slight chance of a shower Monday, with some
frozen precipitation possible after Monday.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Temperature right now is thirty nine. At your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty krh.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
USE Traffic and Weather.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
You're starting your day right with Houston's morning news to
you by New South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
So what happened in New Orleans should be a wake
up call to all because you had a basically you
had a suburban Houston man who had a good job.
Granted he was having some other issues in his life,
some personal issues. You know, he's going through a divorce
and you know, the kids and all the things they
go along with the divorce. But he had a military background.

(52:23):
He at the end of the day, he was radicalized
in record time. He went from zero to sixty and
on the radicalization chart in like no time. So isis
is obviously very good at doing that. These terrorist groups
that recruit these people to become terrorists are very good
at convincing them that this is something they need to do.

(52:45):
We'll talk to national security expert Ed Trzanski about that
coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together, Yes,
I'm very short.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Then let's go to the westbound sides here North Loop
at the squeeze forty five were slow backups from sixty
nine Freeway because the roadwork on the KD the suckage
begins at Lockwood and we still have the suckage on
the North Freeway to southbound clear the record. Parker backed
up from west Mount. Big shots do the hardy commoners
jump on the East tex I'm Skymike on the Generator

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Speaker 3 (53:15):
From our KTRH Top tax Defenders twenty four our weather center.
For today, we're looking at a warm day, at least
a warm compared to the way it has been for
the last couple of days. Mostly Sunday to partly cloudy
with the high tempature of sixty four, partly to mostly
cloudy tomorrow with the high temperature of sixty seven. Current
temperature is thirty nine at your official severe weather station.

(53:36):
News Radio seven forty KTRH steck out some of our
top trending stories on a Thursday.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Here's clip Thank You Jimmy. At six twenty two, police
shoot and kill the man who murdered a Brazoria County deputy.
The search continues for twelve year old Candice Williams, who
went missing Monday from Missouri City and Houston, Texans Wide
receiver Chank Dell had the first of several required surgeries
after injuring his knee into against the Chiefs. Get the

(54:02):
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Speaker 1 (54:08):
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Speaker 3 (54:19):
Sure, New Orleans is still recovering from all this. We
are certainly, you know, with our Houston connection from this.
But at the end of the day, is this just
another terrorist attack we're going to forget about or have
we gotten the necessary wake up call, especially at the
federal level, to be on the lookout for isis, especially
within our own borders, because I think it's pretty safe
to say they're here now. We don't know if they

(54:41):
were they were terrissd here or terrorist trainers here who
radicalized this guy din Jabbar, but it could have been
at Gerzaski joins US national security experts as the wake
up alarm registered in DC yet ed.

Speaker 13 (54:59):
It will if the new administration. And I think the
problem we had is an administration that's on its way
out that just denied reality and did not recognize that
the problem is much more persistent than their rhetoric would allow.
The world view Jimmy was that if we're just nice

(55:21):
to people, they'll be nice back to us, And that's
just foolhearty.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Yeah, well, it's it's at the very best, it's naiven
at the very worst. It's it's criminal in the fact
that we would take that attitude. ISIS is one of
those terrorist organizations. Obviously you can try to eradicate them,
but keeping them, keeping them out, keeping them down for
a lengthy period of time is not very easy to do,
is it.

Speaker 13 (55:49):
No, it's not an enlarge part because the appeal is
so widely broadcast through the internet. So in all likelihood,
this individual was not directed by ISIS. It's just somebody
who went online found what he was looking for. And

(56:10):
there are plenty of how to manuals that ISIS and
other terror organizations broadcast just by virtue of other attacks
that have been tried and succeeded. And it's the self
starter that seeks out the name of the organization and

(56:32):
then gets into the details of how to conduct terror attacks.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Yeah, I think this should be painfully obvious to all
of us. We have an inauguration coming up on Monday.
There have been concerns expressed about whether or not the
inauguration is going to be safe or can be kept safe.
Do you have those concerns?

Speaker 13 (56:51):
Sure? I think that because the Trump administration has said
they're going to push back, you'll have these smaller players,
these lone ranger types. For lone wolf types, I should say,
who are self motivated, they'll go out and do what
they can. The good news, to the extent there is

(57:12):
news that's good, is that the administration, the incoming administration,
isn't playing games. Hamas struck a deal with the Israelis
that most people didn't think was going to happen anytime soon,
in large part because Donald Trump said there was going
to be hell to pay. You better believe it, because

(57:33):
he has a track record, and that record is if
you play games with us.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Will hit back.

Speaker 13 (57:41):
We're not going to engage in this kind of long
drawn out let's be nice to one another diplomacy. He
recognizes his weakness is provocative and he will be nothing
but strong.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Although I should note that this morning we're hearing that
the Israeli government is whole holding off on signing this
agreement because evidently Hamas is starting to renege on some
of the things that they had agreed to. So it
doesn't sound like it's exactly in concrete just yet.

Speaker 13 (58:11):
It's a game they play for the last year. They
constantly play it because they know we place a super
high premium on getting back hostages Hamas they could care less.
They'll get their fighters. They know they'll get their fighters
back because of our zeal to get back even the

(58:35):
dead bodies of hostages. Gilax Shalit was an Israeli soldier
killed years ago, and the Israelis gave up one thousand
men who were taking captives just to get his body back.
That market, once it opens, it doesn't close.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
Got you, Tarzanski, Always a pleasure. Thank you, National security
expert at dars Aski joining us at six twenty seven.
It's time to take a look at your money. Here's
Jeff Fellinger and.

Speaker 21 (59:01):
Target shares are looking good in pre market trading at Jimmy.
Target says it's holiday business top expectations. The chain has
increased at sales guidance. Stock market futures are mixed this morning,
with the S and P and Nasdaq futures higher. The
Dow futures are down fifty four points. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
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Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty four seventh.

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Speaker 3 (59:41):
Six thirty Our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett.
Among our top stories, this fur the canine is going
to live. The creep cop killer He's dead. Are some
Texas schools secretly allowing boys and girls' sports? And coming
up at six thirty eight, young people taking up grandma hobbies.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(01:00:03):
let's check out the morning Vibe with sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:00:05):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
It in East Downtown, pass past the Saint Arnold Planned Lookout.
You're about to hit some brakes. I have a new
mark from Spring. This is Young Martin from Spring Banana
sticker for you. Westbound It ten Downtown before forty five
trend Stars. Just about to get a camera on this
eighteen wheeler. I'm gonna call it two right lanes. I
want you to be ready for them to take two
East text Freeway.

Speaker 32 (01:00:25):
Hello, sixty nine fifty line north found on the feeder
road and at Hopper Doctor trailer's on the feeder road
on fire.

Speaker 13 (01:00:34):
Everyone looking at it?

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
All right, that's outbound sixty nine East Text freeway the
feeder hopper. It's going to cost some reverendecking inbound. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
From r KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour Weather
Center mostly Sunday to Partley Claudie today with the high
temperature about sixty four. We'll get you the very latest
on the forecast with Terry Smith at the weather Channel
in eight minutes currently thirty nine at your officials Severe
Weather station. He is Radio seven forty KTRH. It's timed
out for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
Thank you, Jimmy six thirty two on KTRH. Our top story.
The man accused of murdering a Brazoria County Sheriff's deputy,
Jesus Vargas, is killed in a shootout with cops last night.
Vargas was trying to serve a warrant when he was murdered.
The bad guy also shot a canine officer when he
was found in a dumpster one hundred Club. The one
hundred Club has already pledged a twenty thousand dollars check too.

(01:01:27):
Vargas's wife also topping the news today. As you your
kids go off to school. Something to think about. A
Dallas isd LGBT youth program coordinator is caught on tape
trying to find loopholes to get around this state's laws
on transgender sports.

Speaker 14 (01:01:49):
That official is Mahogany Gastone, who was exposed by an
undercover journalist.

Speaker 18 (01:01:53):
We're talking about biological boys playing against biological girls in
sports at the K to twelve level, and a lot
of parents do want that. That's why the law was
initially passed.

Speaker 14 (01:02:02):
School choice advocate Corey D'Angelis says this is a clear
sign that better oversight is needed in public schools.

Speaker 18 (01:02:08):
I don't know what the extent that this is happening,
but if you have a few bad actors, they can
ruin it for the entire system that they get into
the right positions.

Speaker 14 (01:02:16):
D'Angelis says that school choice would create bottom up accountability
and help prevent this from happening. Ethan Buchanan News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:02:24):
New numbers show a drop in college enrollment that could
continue for years to come. Jean Burke of College Prep
Genius says high school is not preparing kids for the
options that they have after graduation.

Speaker 23 (01:02:36):
High school is not giving kids a career test and
making those type of classes available to where they can
really do some searching long before you think about college
or think about spending any money, see what might be
the best fit for you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
Only sixty two percent of high school seniors in the
US immediately go on to college. A new report from
the Texas State House finds that communist China has found
a way to infiltrate our public schools. Robert Montoya with
Texas Scorecards says that two well known tutoring services have
Chinese owners.

Speaker 25 (01:03:10):
They hold investments in byte Dance, which is the parent
company of TikTok. Lawmakers should send to Governor Greg Abbat
a ban on using corn owned touring services to have
such connections to China.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
They're calling on lawmakers to take action during this legislative session.
The Chinese reported a record breaking trade surplus of nine
hundred and ninety billion dollars last year. Trade analysts predict
that this year more countries will be following Donald Trump's
lead imposing tariffs as a way to stop the flood
of cheap Chinese made goods into the US economy.

Speaker 26 (01:03:45):
That's one of the things the Trump administration is going
to look at They don't want to hit people with
artificially high prices, and tariffs can do that, but they
also want to protect the American manufacturing and retail base.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Wright Bart's John Hayward. It's now six thirty five.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
President Joe Biden gave his final speech from the Oval
Office last night and warned of an oligarchy under Donald
Trump's second term.

Speaker 9 (01:04:08):
What in the world was he talking about?

Speaker 22 (01:04:10):
For example, when he talks about dark money, does he
not remember that just last week he gave the medal
of a Medal of Freedom Award to George Soros.

Speaker 5 (01:04:20):
Foxes Dana Perino pointing out that uncomfortable truth for the left.
Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee to be the Attorney General, is
back on Capitol Hill today for her second day of
Senate confirmation hearings. Elsewhere, the US Supreme Court heard arguments
yesterday in the case challenging this state's law requiring age
verification for pornographic websites. Age verification today, however, is simple,

(01:04:46):
safe and common. Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielsen at six
point thirty six, looking at your money, Overnight trading is
flat across the board, after the Dow gain seven hundred
and three points yesterday, and that was after the December
in inflation report came in hot as prices rose point
four percent in December and two point nine percent year

(01:05:07):
over here. According to a new Rice University study, only
about a third of Houstonians are financially secure and can
cover the day to day and weekly expenses.

Speaker 30 (01:05:18):
It's the last third that for us was this very
sobering wake up call, which was a third of residents
saying that if all they had were their savings, how
long could they cover their day to day expenses, the rent,
the grocery bill, the transportation less than two weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:05:34):
Researcher Daniel Potter There, and if your job hunting, so
called ghost jobs or fake job postings are becoming a
very real problem.

Speaker 36 (01:05:43):
Around thirty to forty percent of postings or nothing more
than window dressing.

Speaker 5 (01:05:47):
Post jobs are like.

Speaker 31 (01:05:48):
The online dating profiles of the employment world of plenty
of flash, but when you'd swipe right, no one's actually there.

Speaker 36 (01:05:55):
Betsy Allen Manning of Destination Workplace says these jobs stay
posted for more with no action, and really most are
there for nothing more than false shows of growth and
it's harming companies.

Speaker 31 (01:06:06):
One in three workers wouldn't actually recommend to their current workplace.
Ghost shops are actually amplifying that disc truck.

Speaker 36 (01:06:14):
She says, doing your research can help you avoid these postings.
Andre Perard News Radio seven forty kt RH.

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
And at six thirty seven, Texas Longhorns quarterback Quin Ewers
officially entered the NFL draft, handing the program over to
the grandson of Archie Manning.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Arch Manning.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
I live in Spring, I live in Katie.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
You're reliable forecast. Next on the ten on seven forty
kt RH. Grandma, what six thirty eight our time here
on Houston's Want of News. I don't know what your
grandma's like. Unfortunately for me, I've I had one grandparent
who survived until I was little, and that was one

(01:06:59):
grandma and I do remember her, and she was sort
of the quintessential grandma. I mean, she wore the quintessential
grandma dress, she had the quintessential grandma glasses, and if
you went to her house, there'd be Doiley's, you know,
all over the place. And I'm pretty sure she had
plastic on the couch. If I recall correctly, you know,

(01:07:21):
the living room was someplace you You didn't actually live
in the living room. It's something you looked at and
maybe went in there on special occasions like Christmas or Thanksgiving,
and that was about it. So I was little little.
I guess everything comes around again, right, everything comes in
fashion again. There's something called grandma Core which is making
some sort of a comeback. Grandma Core is inspired by

(01:07:45):
the home life, fashion, and lifestyle of a traditional grandmother.
Think cozy, whimsical nostalgia, Think homemade baked goods, home cooked meals,
and it seems like it's starting to get embraced by
my millennial and gen Z women. They like granny hobbies
like knitting and crocheting and baking and gardening, things associated

(01:08:08):
traditionally with a grandmother. It's making a comeback, and that's
kind of refreshing because I don't know about you. I
watched some of these homebuying shows, like house Hunters, and
it seems like when these couples are looking for a
home and when they get to the kitchen, it's always
the guy who is most concerned about the kitchen because
he's the one that does all the cooking. So maybe
we're gonna make kind of flip that around and make

(01:08:29):
a comeback where at least that duty is a little
bit more share than it has been in the past,
and maybe we'll make some more home cooked meals and
order less takeout six forty time for traffic, and whether.

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
Create in the ghetto house like my grandma parts the
ghetto house.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
But what I do have is she had like all these.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
Fruit decorations in the kitchen.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
I have one of those big giant fake plastic fruit
baskets from And also there's a painting and I.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Just have to show you to you on my Facebook.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Everybody had this painting in nineteen seventy seven. I put
that in the living room. Anyway, there you go. I
like grandma stuff. Let's do East Freeway here, I ten
East Freeway. Talk to Cindy from Dayton, Hey, lovely.

Speaker 13 (01:09:04):
Ninety westbound was beautiful.

Speaker 25 (01:09:06):
Getting on it in westbound was beautiful until you get
to Lockwood or.

Speaker 13 (01:09:11):
Waco Street and we are not.

Speaker 29 (01:09:13):
We're barely moving a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
I can tell you why too.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
That stall truck that young Mark from Spring found that
was downtown on itm past Saint Arnold at forty five.
He said in front of you, of h we'll take
out a left lane. I need to put that the
other way in your navigation, but it's a left lane.
And now we're scunched uff almost from gil Horn on
the inbound. A lot of people rerouting to the six
' ten north Loop, specially hazardous people like Terry. Right

(01:09:38):
before Fulton, I've got a stall and that's a backup
from LBJ Hospital. This way north Freeway. Clear that wreck
at Parker. I don't think it's gonna recover. We sell
backups from West Mount. Oh And we have a vehicle
fired and I mentioned that. Let me see who gave
that to me the six thirty report. You were the
first to know. It's in the feeder east text outbound
at Hopper that's causing rubber necking.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
It's a lot to see.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
We're back at from the graveyards, Skymike and the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center from.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Kati rh Generator super Center, twenty four hour weather Center.
Terry Smith is here. All eyes are on Tuesday, but
until Monday at least, or at least until Sunday night.
We're looking at some pretty nice weather.

Speaker 10 (01:10:15):
Yeah, it really is a very comfortable stretch of weather.
The rest of this week.

Speaker 5 (01:10:21):
Sunday is not bad.

Speaker 10 (01:10:23):
It's sunny and dry, but it's cold, and then it
starts getting messy Monday night into Tuesday. So let's talk
about what's going on right now, which is a nice
dry stretch for the rest of this week and the weekend,
and temperatures in the low to mid sixties today, in
the sixties again tomorrow and Saturday, and then Sunday about

(01:10:45):
twenty degrees colder, mid to upper forties. We have a
twenty percent chance of rain Monday. Now it's going to
be a cold day Monday, but if we're going to
get any frozen precipitation, it will likely be Monday night
into Tuesday. At this point of course, that part of
the forecast is going to change a bunch, but we're
watching it.

Speaker 18 (01:11:03):
Jem.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
But you're still thirty nine here at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
You are commute, you are forecast, You're news.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
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Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
The officer that was killed here in Houston was a
seventeen year Brazoria County sheriff. His name Haesus Vargas. He
was serving a warrant when he was shot. May have
heard also, the canine dog when they found him, was shot.
The canine dog is going to be fine. The suspect
is dead, but it caused quite astir when the whole

(01:11:39):
thing came down. We have a report from our television
partner KPRC two when the whole thing came down yesterday.
Coming up next, first though, traffic and weather together. It's
check out the drive again. Here's sky Mike. I forgot
to update my TV friends. Okay, they didn't know what
was going on on the East Text, now they do.
It's a direct fire on the East tax outbound at Hopper.
Thanks to our tip line callers. It's in the feeder

(01:11:59):
road at the main lanes.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Are looking.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
There's a lot to see, I understand. There on the
East Freeway coming into downtown. That stall truck at forty
five right after you of h that's causing a big
scooch all the way back from Waistside.

Speaker 5 (01:12:11):
Now I've got James from Crosby on your tip line.

Speaker 13 (01:12:14):
Eh, guy Mike. Right across the Sanders Center, river Bridge.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
We got flashing lights, a little flow down, but we're
getting through it.

Speaker 17 (01:12:20):
Hey, it's just another polk sal at any day.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Suck a little, all right, inbound ninety that's right at
the Sanda Center river Bridge. We're already packed up from
twenty one hundred and I'm Skymike Inthegenerator Supercenter, dot Com
Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Oh oh, from our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour
weather center for today mostly Sunday to partley cloudy sixty four,
partly to mostly cloudy sixty seven, Tomorrow partly cloudiy mild
Saturday sixty three, Sunday sunny and colder with the high
temperature forty seven.

Speaker 5 (01:12:49):
Right now, temperature is thirty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
At your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Here's some of our top stories with the cliff.

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
Thank you, Jimmy. We're sponsor DNM auto Leasing. President Joe
Biden's farewell speech featured more shots of Trump and less
unity ahead of the winter weather next week, Center Point
is putting its emergency plans into action, and on this
date in nineteen nineteen, prohibition was ratified. It ended on
December fifth, nineteen thirty three. For those of you keeping

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score at the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update is at seven o'clock.

Speaker 19 (01:13:26):
Fifty nine. Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
KTRH time saving traffic connect.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
On the ten.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Six fifty three. Now here in Houston's borning news, as
I mentioned, we had a seventeen year Bassooria County Sheriff's
deputy killed in the line of action by a vaunted felon.
They were trying to serve a warn on him. They
were they were in public in a parking lot at
a shopping center. And here's the report by the way
of them finding this guy. He was in dumpster. It

(01:13:57):
comes courtesy of the folks at KPRC two.

Speaker 37 (01:13:59):
We were able to get a lot closer to that
dumpster where the suspect, Robert Lee Davis was killed.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
It's right beyond that police safe.

Speaker 37 (01:14:08):
There on the other side of that building right now,
as you can see, a very calm scene though it
is still active. But I can tell you as we
saw about five hours ago, complete chaos. We heard gunfire
rang out, we had to duck for cover. But as
soon as that was over and the scene was secured,
we got live on air.

Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
And this is what you saw.

Speaker 38 (01:14:30):
One hundred officers running and then people who were shopping
here started running the other way. We're not exactly sure
if anyone was shot. It does appear there's somebody. Okay,
somebody's being carried right now. Oh, if you could see it, Oh,
it looks like someone in all bage. I'm not sure
if it was another officer. Okay, they're coming over here

(01:14:54):
this way. They're asking people to clear out as this
person is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Oh that's I said.

Speaker 5 (01:15:00):
Oh, that's a dog.

Speaker 38 (01:15:01):
It appears that that's a caline dog on the ground,
and now they are signaling for the helicopter. It looks
like the helicopter is landing here in this parking lot
there now transporting this dog onto the helicopter.

Speaker 6 (01:15:20):
After doing a secondary methodical search, our team.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Secured an area behind this building here.

Speaker 6 (01:15:30):
The US Marshall Service initiated with a canine. The canine
got near a dumpster, opened a dumpster, and the canine
alerted again.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
The bad guy shot our canine.

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
Our deputies return fire, and the suspects that come to
his injuries inside the dumpster.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
Yeah, appropriately died in a dumpster. He was trash and
put the trash in the dumpster. All right, So what's
the background on this guy? This Robert Lee Davis. Pass
charges include burglary of a vehicle, evading arrests, multiple counts
of aggravated robbery. Texas Department of Criminal Justice records show
that he spent time in prison in Huntsville. Was released

(01:16:16):
in April twenty nineteen. He was wanted on an aggravated
assault charge on a warrant, and they were trying to
serve that warrant when the officer was shot. All right,
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Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
The evidence in this case we believe will show it
was January. OJ Simpson is an innocent.

Speaker 39 (01:16:53):
Opening statements in the OJ Simpson trial are underway in
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It is time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders,
Hey you, Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Good morning everyone.

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Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
The man who shot and killed a Brazoria County deputy
is killed by police himself after also shooting that Canine officer.
Deputy Jesus Vargas was serving a warrant on Robert Lee
Davis in Southwest Houston when he was shot in the head.
He leaves behind a wife and three children. Also topping
the news this morning, President Joe Biden giving his farewell

(01:20:18):
speech from the Oval Office, and much like his presidency,
it was an attack on Donald Trump and divisive.

Speaker 7 (01:20:25):
Today, oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth
power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy are
basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone
to get ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:20:39):
Yesterday, he also tried to take credit for a ceasefire
deal between Israel and Hamas that has developed a snag,
as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho is the late of
vote to approve the agreement. This deal, though, did not
come about until the Trump team got involved.

Speaker 8 (01:20:56):
There is a reason there was no deal for the
entirety of the Biden presidency because Biden has been a
commander in chief who has demonstrated weakness.

Speaker 5 (01:21:06):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Fox Business and reacting on
truth Social the President elect called the deal quote epic.
Several confirmation hearings taking place on Capitol Hill yesterday, including
one for Trump's prospective Attorney General Pam Bondy, who confronted
Senate Democrats.

Speaker 9 (01:21:25):
Senator Herono, I wish you had met with me. Had
you met with me, we could have discussed many things
and gotten time listening to you know me to respond
to the question, yeah, you were the only one who
refused to meet with me.

Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
Senator Bondy has her second day of hearings today, while
Doug Bergom and Lee Zelden make their first appearances on
Capitol Hill. It's seven oh four. Trump's return to the
White House is a relief for gun owners, but the
fight for the Second Amendment continues. Gunzalees surged in twenty
twenty and again last year leading up to the election,
as Americans faced the prospect of another Democrat term. The

(01:22:00):
American Thinkers Mike McDaniel expects those numbers will slow down now.

Speaker 12 (01:22:04):
I think with Trump coming in, people can expect that
the ATF is going to be kickling constitutional limits and
there may not be an immediate need to rush out
and buy guns and ammunition. Whether that's going to happen
and how fast that's going to happen as another question.

Speaker 11 (01:22:19):
Eve warns there are still people all through the federal
government who are hostile to gun ownership. To Republicans in
Congress have filed the bill to abolish the ATF altogether.
Cory Jolson, who's Radio seven FORTYKTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:22:30):
Thank you Corey Experts, warned that the New Year's terror
attack in New Orleans is a sign that isis is back.
National security analyst Ed Tarzanski says that Trump has beaten
them before.

Speaker 13 (01:22:42):
The incoming administration is much more willing to use sports.
In the last four years, we've broadcast weakness, and weakness
is provocative.

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
Also over the last four years, he says, terror threats
entered the US through Biden's wide open border, and speaking
of in an interview on NPR, DHS Secretary Allejandro Majorcis
is now claiming that the border is more secure now
than it was before COVID. The White House only found

(01:23:12):
religion on the border months before the election, too late.
For many Texas small towns.

Speaker 14 (01:23:18):
They've had to bear the brunt of the population increase
from the border crisis.

Speaker 15 (01:23:22):
When you're talking about millions of people, when they're concentrated
in small towns that aren't used to huge population increases,
it's a particular problem.

Speaker 14 (01:23:30):
Arthur with the Center for Immigration Studies says, this place
is a huge burden on public services in these towns.

Speaker 15 (01:23:36):
We see property taxes going up, we see traffic increase.
You know, there's been no allocation to provide for those people.

Speaker 14 (01:23:44):
Arthur says, even after the border crisis is over, these
towns will still be dealing with the side effects of
rapid population booms. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:23:53):
Thank you, and at seven oh six, oil futures are
nearing seventy nine fifty eight barrel this morning. That's thanks
to a decline American stockpiles and the sanctions on Russian oil.
The deal was announced late last week, and Constellation Energy's
acquisition of Houston based Calpine creates the nation's largest producer
of reliable energy population.

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It adds significant energy resources to their portfolio, so now
they're able to provide nuclear and natural gas. Really all
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really that diversity is really helpful for the state of Texas.

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David Holt with the consumer energy alliances, this is a
good sign for the growing energy need in Texas. Center
Point putting its emergency plans into action ahead of next
week's Arctic blast. We'll have more with Terry Smith in
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A successful test launch for Blue Origins new rocket early
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Did you apply for the for the job driving the
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Here's another chance. Planners hiring three people to drive their Nutmobile. Yeah,
it's the Nutmobile around the country for a year, so
it's only a one year job. That's the downside. You
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thousand dollars plus benefits and a travel stipend. Here's the
full story, though, I mean, let's go ahead and read
the requirements here. Make sure make sure that this is
something worth doing well. First of all, forty five thousand
dollars isn't a lot, But if you have a because
this is probably gonna go to a young person, right,
Only a young person would not be embarrassed by driving

(01:26:22):
a nutmobile around the country and would probably like to
see the country. So is a beginning job for a year.

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Speaker 3 (01:26:29):
You can you can make do on that, especially if
they're paying for the other stipends that you need for
traveling whatever. It's a one year job though, starting in June.
So it starts in June. You'd be the brand ambassador
for a year, driving around the country to different events
as part of their Peanut Nutters squad. You also will

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manage event planning, pitch the brand to local media, and
occasionally dress up in costume. Okay, so I gotta be
mister peanut, right, you got to be willing to dress
up like mister peanut. That's for forty five grand a year. List,
but if it's also a travel stipend. If you would
like to apply or have one of your kids apply,

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Sky Mike, I'm all over that right there, but I'm
still trying to get you know, I want to tell
you you know who gave me my first rejection letter
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back in nineteen ninety So you know, if I could
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get the Wiener mobile gig eventually. I just have to
keep believing. Let's do some East text here. I got

(01:27:41):
Blake from New Caney.

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Dude, what's up, Patti?

Speaker 32 (01:27:43):
Guylike that They exit for nineteen sixty for blocking a
right lane. Their repairents the little barrier there, So just
a little bit of a sludge and not quatiker buffle.

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All right, it's not a full hoohah yet.

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Just watch out for those workers southbound coming from Kingwood
Nord Freeway, Keith from Spring.

Speaker 13 (01:27:59):
Good morning, Mike.

Speaker 39 (01:28:00):
At Parker in the number three lane, we have a
stalled eighteen wheeler.

Speaker 13 (01:28:05):
Lots of flashing lights but no sumo sized ninjas.

Speaker 4 (01:28:09):
Yeah boom, extra points for verbage there. And yeah, I'm
getting multiple reports of that eighteen wheeler. Now I give
it to the ladies on TV that southbound, same old spot.
It's the back order slip from the Beltway. So big shots,
let's jump on the hardy and commoners do the east text.
Even though East text we have the fire, the eighteen
wheeler fire. The fire's out at Hopper outbound. It's in
the theater, not the main lanes. But it's causing some

(01:28:31):
rubber necking lost load. What is that junk on the
north Loop westbound at Irvington. Give me the seven to
twenty report. We'll figure that out. I'm Skymie, get your
generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center from.

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Our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Terry Smith is here. We might need somebody to get
a job driving a snowplow around here for Tuesday. But oh,
wait a minute, we don't have any of those.

Speaker 10 (01:28:51):
Oh I should send you this video that's hilarious of
a snowplow in Alabama, just to you know.

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
We have to explore our options around here. If we
need that, right, we'll have to send out a state
to get one of those. I think, doll this is
a very creative snowplow. It's a truck with a dumpster
in front of it. Though, Okay, so whatever it takes exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:29:14):
All right, So no snowplows necessary through the weekend, folks,
We're sunny, we're dry. Temperatures in the low to mid
sixties today, will stay in the sixties Tomorrow and Saturday Sunday,
goodbye sixties. Arctic are moves in mid upper forties. Monday,
we only have a twenty percent chance of rain, but
our temperatures are even colder mid thirties to mid forties,

(01:29:35):
and there's that possibility of something falling from the clouds
Monday night and Tuesday.

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We'll keep you posted.

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Temperature right now, stuck at thirty nine at your official
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Take on the day, seven twenty is our time here
in Houston's Morning News. What it surprised you to find
out that even though the state has made it very
clear that boys cannot participate in girls sports here in Texas,
that some Texas isds are secretly defined that sports trans
band will talk to Corey Dangelis about that senior fellow

(01:30:20):
with the American Culture Project coming up next. But first though,
we've got traffic and weather together as we check out
the drive again to Skymike nor Freeway.

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That's a stalled eighteen wheeler at Parker, a full who
high from Airtech's ninety Crosby Freeway, a wreck at the bridge,
and a full hoobastankery from twenty one hundred Elvis League City.

Speaker 32 (01:30:37):
Barni Steimike trash truck versus pickup truck accident. Why over
ramp from the Beltway to I ten going west?

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Which belt and which it in? Easter or west? I'm
going to say he's talking west. Will zoom it.

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At seven thirty Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

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Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
we the center mostly Sunday to partley cloudy today. We're
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Saturday party cloudy mild sixty seven and then Sunday sunnay
and coolder. Well make it colder high only forty seven

(01:31:15):
right now still forty nine, or make that thirty nine.
Pardon me at your official severe weather station, News Radio
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Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Back in twenty twenty one, the Texas legislature passed HB
twenty five, which prohibits public schools from allowing students to
compete in a district or school sponsored interscholastic athletic competition
designed for the biological sex opposite to the students biological sex.
That's wow, That's that sounds like the way lawmakers would
write a law right, but even that's relatively clear. Boys

(01:32:33):
can't play girls sports here in Texas. But there has
been an investigative journalist group that is claiming several North
Texas school districts are actively trying to bypass that state law.
And he says he has video evidence to prove it.
Join us to talk about it. Is Corey Dangelis, a
senior fellow of the American Culture Project. You broke the story, Corey.

Speaker 18 (01:32:54):
Yeah, look at A lot of people were surprised at
the title of the person who was interviewed at the
school district. This was Dallas Independent School District, and we
caught on camera the LGBTQ youth program coordinator, an administrative
position there basically coaching an investigative journalist who was posing

(01:33:15):
as a parent trying to get her biological boy into
girls' sports. Coaching that parent on how to circumvent that
law that you just mentioned in Texas, to try to
quote find loopholes to get around that law, and we
have it on camera. It's posted on my x account.
A lot of people were surprised that position even existed.

(01:33:36):
I don't even know what an LGBTU youth program coordinator
is doing. In the schools right now. But this is
just the first of many videos to come. We have
other Texas school districts where they're doing basically the same thing.
So I think parents will be very surprised to learn,
and they are.

Speaker 13 (01:33:52):
It's blowing up on.

Speaker 18 (01:33:53):
Social media right now the first district alone that the
school districts aren't actually trying to follow the law. In fact,
they're trying to do things that are that would make
parents happy to allow biological boys to play in growth sports,
or at least try to figure out ways to do so.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Have you found any of those isds in the greater
Houston area, know, the first few are.

Speaker 18 (01:34:17):
In the Dallas area, and another one should be coming
today that I'll that I'll release on social media. But
it's it's multiple districts. It wasn't really hard to figure out.
But these people are bragging on camera about how they're
circumventing the law.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
How are they circumventing law? What what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
We've learned the hard way here in Texas that just
about any law that's written by the Texas State legislature,
you know, a really sharp individual, sharp attorney can find
a loophole in it. What's the loophole that they're trying
to exercise in this law.

Speaker 18 (01:34:48):
This same group Accuracy Media, found undercover videos of them
circumenting the anti CRT law. For example, they were just
moving the goalpost. Oh, we're just not going to call
it CRT. We're not going to call it social emotional learning.
We'll call it something else. But do the same thing anyway.
And when it comes to this particular law, one of
the big quote unquote loopholes that they found is that well,

(01:35:10):
if you have an updated birth certificate, I know that
the kid is born as a boy, but if you
can find a way to update the birth certificate. And
in this video in Dallas in particular, they're talking about, well,
if you moved from New Jersey where they allowed that
to happen, and then you get to texta with that
new updated birth certificate, well then that's the birth certificate

(01:35:32):
they're going to.

Speaker 13 (01:35:32):
Go based off.

Speaker 18 (01:35:33):
But they're not gonna go based on biology. They're going
to go based on So there's that's one of the
loopholes that they found the law that they were very
proud about. This person in Dallas, ISD, the youth program
coordinator for LGBTQ, her name is Mahogany guest on and
she's bragging about to this so this quote unquote parent
that she she she would probably go to jail for

(01:35:56):
saving a child's life. And I don't the dots there.
I don't think you know, that's saving anybody's life. To
to play in the opposite sex is sports.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
In fact, in some sports here but in some sports
might be endangering hero for getting around the wall. You
might be endangering somebody's life depending on the sport. I mean,
we've seen the videos of some of those, you know,
boys playing girls volleyball and some of the damage they've done.

Speaker 5 (01:36:20):
All right, the journalists, the JOURNALI.

Speaker 18 (01:36:22):
Has brought that up and said, well, you know, there
could be you know, an injury, and I just want
you to stick up for my my transgender daughter. And
the administrator basically laughed about it. I don't know if
did she laughed because she was uncomfortable or because she
thought it was not a big deal, but it was
not a good look.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
Yeah, Well, they're probably laughing because they don't think the
state will do anything about it. And unfortunately they may
be right. You know, is the state willing to enforce
enforce their is fine to make a law, but you
have to be willing and able to enforce it, don't you.

Speaker 18 (01:36:56):
Right, So I think we need to close the loopholes.

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
Obviously.

Speaker 18 (01:36:58):
I think that's one of the benefits the undercover journalism.
But then also we should have bottom up accountability too.
And it looks like we're going to pass universal school
choice this year, even with Speaker Burrows winning the speakers race.
Some conservatives aren't happy about that, but I'm kind of
okay with it. Look, Burrows voted for school choice this

(01:37:19):
a couple times in the past year or so, and
he has listed universal school choice as one of his priorities.
So I think we have the votes according to Governor
Abbott on school.

Speaker 13 (01:37:29):
Choice, okay.

Speaker 18 (01:37:30):
And look, if your school is circumventing the law, don
dan you get a whip of that, you should be
able to go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
I agree, Corey to Angelis, thank you, sir, appreciate it,
senior fellow, The American Culture Project, seven twenty eight. It's
time to take a look at your money. Jeff Ellinger
is here.

Speaker 21 (01:37:46):
And Jimmy new government reports on retail sales and unemployment
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Seven thirty one is our time. You're in Houston's Warning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this have are
the canine is going to live, the cop killer He's dead,
some types of schools are secretly allowing boys in girls' sports,
and coming up at seven thirty eight, did the FDA
finally do the right thing in banning red dye number three?
Details in the minute say, Hey, you're in Houston's Warning News. First,

(01:38:51):
let's check out that morning drive a skyline.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
Six ten north.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
I never did find out what that road debris was
supposed to be westbound before the squeeze at Irvington. We
had a stall. They're supposed to be a lost load
to something. It's nothing big. I can't see it on
camera anywhere, but I know the scooch is there. You
are slow from Homestead going that way. Looks like you're
losing twenty one minutes. No, East Freeway's not any help.
We have the stall downtown, the eighteen wheeler at forty five.

(01:39:16):
That's causing a backup from wayside on the East Freeway.

Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
You could do the South Loop. That's your best way.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
There is a scooch between the bridge and Golfgate forty five,
but that's your best route if you're trying to go
West Rail Golfgate Golf Freeway now slow from Edgebrook. I'm
Skymike from the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Center
mostly Sunday to Party CONTI Today with the I temperature
about sixty four, we're looking good until Sunday, especially Sunday
night Monday Tuesday. That's that's when we could get a
real dose of winter around here. We'll talk to Terry
Smith a little bit more about that in about eight
minutes right now, temperature is thirty nine at your official

(01:39:54):
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time
now off of the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 5 (01:40:01):
Thank you, Jimmy. At seven point thirty two. In our
top story, the man accused of shooting and killing Missouri
County Sheriff's deputy Jesus Vargas is killed himself in a
shootout with police. Vargas was trying to serve a warrant
on Robert Lee Davis when he was murdered. Davis also
shot a canine officer who will recover when he was
found hiding in a dumpster. More at eight o'clock, also

(01:40:25):
topping the news, consider this as you send your kids
to school. Our school district secretly defying Texas's bands on
boys playing girls' sports. A Dallas ighst official was caught
on tape helping an undercover journalist sneak around state laws.

Speaker 18 (01:40:40):
The LGBTQ youth coordinator in the Dallas Independent School District,
Mahogany gust On, is telling that undercover quote unquote parents
that they can find loopholes.

Speaker 17 (01:40:50):
To the law.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
Activist Corey DeAngelis. By the way, we have the video
at KTRH dot com. The impacts of wokeness in our
schools call enrollment could fall to record lows over the
next decade. It could lead to more institutions closing up.

Speaker 23 (01:41:06):
It's allows the investment to spend twenty one years of
your life paying off debt for something you did in
four years. And what's happened over the last decades is
colleges are not accountable to anyone, so they keep raising
their price and making it out of reach for most people.

Speaker 5 (01:41:23):
Geen Burke of College Prep Genius, as more high school
graduates are going the route of taking courses online or
going to trade school, and then there's this. A new
report for members of the Texas House reveals that China
has infiltrated our k through twelve schools.

Speaker 24 (01:41:39):
Doing though by owning two well known tutoring services.

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owned by the Hong Kong based Prima Are Capitol Group.

Speaker 24 (01:41:50):
That's a report to Robert Montoya with Texas Scorecard, who
says they are also involved with byte Dance, the parent
company of TikTok.

Speaker 25 (01:41:59):
Introduces potential pathways for undue influence and long term ideological manipulation,
which is why.

Speaker 24 (01:42:05):
They are calling on Governor Abbott to ban contracts with
adversary controlled entities.

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k t eh so
China's embedded here and getting richer by the day. They
just reported a record breaking trade surplus last year, which
according to Breitbart's John Hayward, is partially due to other
countries putting up tariff barriers to protect their own economies.

Speaker 26 (01:42:30):
You could get cheap goods, and consumers would like that
in a time of inflation. That's great, But then long term,
what happens to your manufacturing base, your ability to produce
those goods Domestically, everybody who could do it gets driven
out of business.

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
Heyward says the Trump administration is trying to protect the
American manufacturing and retail bases.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
At seven thirty five.

Speaker 5 (01:42:50):
President Biden gave his farewell speech last night, and the
man who used to preach unity warned of an oligarchy
under Donald Trump.

Speaker 27 (01:42:59):
It was so credibly tone deaf, and there is a
bit of irony. He is exiting the stage with the
lowest approval rating he has ever had at thirty seven percent.

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
Kaylee Mcananey's reaction on Fox Trump's choice to be Attorney General,
Pam Bondi, begins her second day of hearings in the
Senate later this morning. Among the other cabinat choices on
the Hill today, Lee Zelden and Doug Burgham the US
Supreme Court hearing arguments yesterday in a case challenging the
Texas law requiring age verification for porn websites.

Speaker 7 (01:43:34):
In our history, we have always said kids can't come
and look at this stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:43:39):
Solicitor General Aaron Nielsen says the law is a way
to keep up with technology seven thirty six, and looking
at your money. Inflation coming in hot once again, as
prices rise point four percent in December and two point
nine percent year over year. The doubt gained seven hundred
points yesterday, but futures are down one hundred and twenty

(01:43:59):
four points this morning.

Speaker 7 (01:44:01):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:44:01):
The White House claims that the economy is strong. But
if that's true, why are half of Ustonians struggling financially.

Speaker 29 (01:44:09):
Most people say they can go to their savings if
they have to cover expenses, but not very many.

Speaker 30 (01:44:14):
It's our classic four hundred dollars question. If you had
to come up with four hundred dollars to cover an
unexpected expense, could you or would you have to borrow it?

Speaker 29 (01:44:22):
Senior director of research at Rice University's Kinder Institute for
Urban Research, Daniel Potter says about one third of Houstonians
are in a position to save.

Speaker 30 (01:44:30):
It's Unfortunately it's the classic emergencies pop up housing repairs,
car repairs, medical expenses.

Speaker 29 (01:44:37):
Potter suggests everyone should have a budget, regardless of their
financial situation. Sharret Lewis News Radio seven forty k chair
h and.

Speaker 5 (01:44:44):
If you're looking for a better paying job to keep
up with inflation, be aware about forty percent of all
job postings are fake news ghost jobs.

Speaker 31 (01:44:53):
In a world clad of ghost jobs, it's time for
employers stop tricking and start treating the talent with more transparency.
For employees, do your due diligence on your end, and
for the employer, be transparent and ethical in your hiring practices.

Speaker 5 (01:45:08):
Betsy Allen Maning of Destination Workplace says the ghost jobs
are a slap in the face for applicants and Texas
Longhorns quarterback Quen Yours enters the NFL draft, handing the
program over to arch Manning the nephew of Peyton and Eli.
I'm Cliff Saunters on Houston's news, weather and traffic station KTRH.
Crime is on the rise, our schools are in trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
The next four years, we'll have to get better telling
the story of Houston every day.

Speaker 1 (01:45:35):
Quite a story.

Speaker 3 (01:45:36):
Use radio seven forty KTRH. You're gonna see a little
less red.

Speaker 13 (01:45:45):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
The FDA has banned the use of red dye number three.
Now that's found the list for I don't know. I
want to say, like thirty forty years. He's been banned
just about everywhere of United States, but we didn't do
anything to ban it here until now. A lot of
people think it's the right thing to do. Here is

(01:46:05):
a guy by the name of doctor William Lee. Here's
what do you have to say about the FDA action.

Speaker 5 (01:46:10):
This has been a.

Speaker 40 (01:46:11):
Band that's a long time in coming, because, as you
pointed out, the data of the harm of this drug.
I'm sorry, this food coloring that could actually cause thyroid
cancer in animals violated a law called the Delainey Clause
that the FDA was supposed to follow thirty five years ago,

(01:46:32):
and the data actually emerged in nineteen eighty eight and
was published by a group in Japan, subsequently repeated and confirmed.
So it was it was banned in cosmetics in nineteen
ninety And we've been waiting, We and other you know,
myself and other people that have really been championing that
our food should be safer, finally have a reason to

(01:46:54):
celebrate this one needed small step forward. Many of the
innovations we experienced in the nineteen fifties and sixties and
seventies that were amazing at the time, science is now
beginning to tell us, in this case a long time ago,
but even more recent research is telling us that the
things that we thought were okay before are not so

(01:47:16):
okay now. And so I think what's happening is that
the zeitgeist of our nation is now saying we need
our country to protect our interest. So finally, this move
actually shows us that the FDA cares.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
Well, take more than that to show me the FDA cares.
But here's what you should also know about food that mood.
Food manufacturers haven't till January twenty seven to remove the
die from their products. Makers have ingested drugs have until
January twenty twenty eight to do the same. So it's
not in the media ban So if you're worried about

(01:47:52):
red dye number three, then you know, like everything else,
it's on the ingredients label. Just read the list of
ingredients seven forty time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
Get scared of red dye number three?

Speaker 5 (01:48:01):
Does a body?

Speaker 4 (01:48:02):
Scott put a whole bottle of it in my jacket?
Coke tonight, Let's see if I die, Terry, you want something.
Let's head over to the North Freeway. First of all,
that's I forty five. We've been struggling all morning. First
you had a wreck there. That's a six car pile up.
Ninjas pulled all six cars away. And then we had
this big old eighteen wheeler in a center lane.

Speaker 1 (01:48:20):
He's still there.

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
We still need that supersized ninja and we're packed up
from airtexs.

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
Big shots.

Speaker 4 (01:48:25):
Jump on the hardy commoners do the East text and
get around that business.

Speaker 5 (01:48:29):
Also downtown, another stalled eighteen wheeler.

Speaker 4 (01:48:32):
This is it coming from the Baytown side, heading to
the KDI side, right before the roadwork skunt starts at
forty five. We'll take a left lane here and let's
connect the dots on the East Freeway back to Mercury
Am I seeing two twenty five right.

Speaker 1 (01:48:44):
Do I see a big scooch coming inbound?

Speaker 25 (01:48:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
I do, right after Red Bluff.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
We'll have to zoom it and find out what was
the laneage at Alan Genoah, that's the source of that.
Let's see. Nick from Cyprus is on your tip line.

Speaker 18 (01:48:55):
Hey, sky Mike, outbound on the West Beltway. Look like
be a ker buffle, But no, just a punching nuts.

Speaker 17 (01:49:04):
Come on, we have a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:49:05):
They just cleared a wreck off that interchange. Elvis from
Lake City with the banana sticker. Nord Loop squeeze, this
is east side Rick.

Speaker 13 (01:49:12):
Hey guy, Mike, you need to get over here.

Speaker 32 (01:49:14):
Do six ten and forty five.

Speaker 5 (01:49:17):
There's an eighteen wheeler.

Speaker 17 (01:49:18):
In the middle of the freeway with a lost load
of faster fin Oh men, and I bet you could
use some, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:49:23):
That stuff's not getting a cheaper Yeah, my family needs
some for the farm. Nord Loop six ' ten is
all loopy from Homestead going that way westbound. Terry, I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
Eight layers of clothes from our KTRH Generator super Center
twenty four hour Weather Center. Terry is here, I'm not
afraid of red dye number three as much as I'm
afraid of Wintery Mixed number one.

Speaker 5 (01:49:43):
Terry Well, and.

Speaker 10 (01:49:44):
I'm wondering if we need to start a clothes drive
for Skymike because.

Speaker 1 (01:49:47):
He may not have enough.

Speaker 4 (01:49:49):
I was eight layers on. I looked like the Staypuff
marshmallow Man, and I'm cooling.

Speaker 10 (01:49:54):
Well, I just I can't wait to see you Monday
and Tuesday of next week when the temperatures are Do you.

Speaker 3 (01:50:00):
Call travel with Jimmy dot Com. By the way, I
do have a snowshovel if anybody would like to run it.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
I brought it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
I've carried it with me from every place I've been,
so I've never seen one. One hundred dollars an hour.
It's a bargain.

Speaker 5 (01:50:11):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 10 (01:50:13):
All right, well, hey, we don't need snowshovels today through
the weekend. Nothing falling from the clouds through Sunday, and
temperatures are quite pleasant the rest of this week. Load
to mid sixties today, more sixties tomorrow and Saturday, and
then in the forties mid upper forties Sunday Monday. Right now,
I'm looking at a twenty percent chance of a shower.

(01:50:34):
It's Monday night and Tuesday. That's the big question mark,
Will it rain?

Speaker 5 (01:50:38):
Will it snow? Will we need Jimmy's shovel? Who knows?
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
Time will tell right down thirty nine at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:50:49):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
So the Biden Farewell addressed was yesterday. It's like he's
trying to channel Dwight Eisenhower. Remember when first at Eisenhower
At least you may not remember, but historically he was
credited with in his farewell address warning us about the
military industrial complex. Well, Biden's warning us about the UH,
not the intelligence community, the tech community. He says that

(01:51:20):
they're the big danger. More on that coming up next. First, though,
traffic and weather together, starting with U Skymike, all.

Speaker 4 (01:51:25):
Right, Dad, eighteen wheelers still stuck North Freeway front of
Max Place, Parker. We're backed up from the beltway. Make
it air Tech six ' ten north westbound.

Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
We're loopy.

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
That's a trek accident. Flatbed at Irvington going that way westbound,
lost pasture fencing it's not getting any cheaper. We're backed
up from Homestead East Freeway because of the stalled eighteen
wheeler downtown on Iten westbound forty five. Your East Freeway's
backed up from the butt plant, and I've got your
tip line Highway ninety.

Speaker 10 (01:51:51):
Good morning, sky Mike is Nikky from Dayton.

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
Nikey from Dayton ninety.

Speaker 20 (01:51:56):
At twenty one hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:51:57):
A lot of suckage.

Speaker 13 (01:51:59):
Looks like there's row.

Speaker 18 (01:52:00):
We're pretty much not moving all right.

Speaker 4 (01:52:02):
We have that wreck at the Sanjacento river Bridge that
started all that business. Nikki from Dayton to Banana Sticker
extra points for being female. I'm Skymike and the Generator
Supercenter dot com Traffic Center all right.

Speaker 3 (01:52:13):
From our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four our weather
center mostly Sunday to party Cloude's sixty four today Tomorrow
party to most of the cloudy with the high temperature
of sixty seven. We're good until Monday Tuesday. That's when
things can get icy around here with a wintry mix.
Right down thirty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check out some

(01:52:34):
of our top stories this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:52:36):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy, and brought to you by
Moral Mechanical. As first time jobless claims go up by
fourteen thousand this week, more confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill today,
including Pam Bondy's second day in the Senate and center point.
With the weather that we've been talking about all morning,
puts emergency plans into motion. Get the latest news anytime

(01:52:57):
at KTRH dot com. Our next update is at eight o'clock.

Speaker 19 (01:53:02):
I live in Pasadena, Sharptown Southwest.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Next on the ten time saving traffic on seven KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Biose job time right off into the sunset, or maybe
get carried off into the sunset. Seven fifty three is
our time. So Biden's warning us about big tech. He
says that they're part of the danger. Here's what he said.
We'll respond to it in a moment.

Speaker 7 (01:53:27):
Powerful forces want to wield their unchecked influence to eliminate
the steps we've taken to tackle a crimer crisis to
serve their own interest for power and profit. We must
not be bullied in the sacrifice in the future, the
future of our children and our grandchildren must keep.

Speaker 19 (01:53:46):
Pushing forward and pushed faster. There's no time to waste.

Speaker 7 (01:53:52):
It's also clear of American leadership and technology as an
unparalleled and non parallel source of innovation can transform lives.
We see the same dangers of the concentration of technology, power,
and wealth. You know his farewell addressed President Eisenhower spoke
of the dangers of the military industrial complex.

Speaker 19 (01:54:15):
He warned us then about my quote the.

Speaker 7 (01:54:18):
Potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and to quote,
six days, six decades later, I'm equally concerned about the
potential rise of a tech industrial complex to compose real
dangers for our country as well. Americans are being buried

(01:54:40):
under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse
the power. The free press is crumbling, others are disappearing.
Social media is giving up on fact checking. The truth
is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.
You must hold the social platform and accountable to protect

(01:55:03):
our children, our families in a very democracy from the
abusive power.

Speaker 5 (01:55:09):
Did he not perfectly describe his administration? I know you are, Joe,
but what am I?

Speaker 3 (01:55:17):
All the things he described, the fact checking well, the
fact checkers, Joe, were members of your administration, calling meta
and telling them.

Speaker 5 (01:55:30):
No, no, no, you need to take that down. That's
not right.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
Censoring Americans because only opinion you wanted out there was
your party's opinion. That is the true meaning of censorship.
And if you're worried about the media doing their job,
they stopped doing their job for your administration, although they're
gonna start quote unquote doing their job again now the

(01:55:54):
Trump's in there. But they didn't do their job during
your administration. They ignored your snility all the other issues. Yep,
he perfectly described his administration that farewell address and gave
us the usual dystopian future warning. Future looks a lot
brighter to me, how about you for the next four

(01:56:15):
years anyway, y'all have a great day. See you tomorrow morning,
bright nearly at five am, and I'll see you. The
stat from four and am nine fifty KPRC
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