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Seven am is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Jill and Joe still trying to change history, the UK
trade deal pretty easy, but who's next? And coming up
at seven o eight, why do we dance around the
word death? Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
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Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive once again.
Here's sky Mine.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Most of your pain and suffering is on the North
Freeway this morning. But I do have this squish on
the East Text a little earlier and very on Friday like,
and we've got wet freeways, so no snoozing East Text downtown.
Here come the breaks from quipment. It's a little early
for this, trying to get down into the canyon and
extra seven to eight minutes on the south end piers
elevated a little squishy around the Dallas Street squeeze. Now
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we've got a North Freeway I'm sorry, North Loop problem
guess where the squeeze forty five westbound big backup from Hardy.
That's a minor wreck and a little more major wreck
on the North Freeway southbound.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We've got let's get an update. Roger from Magnoia. Good morning, Scott, Mike.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I got your North Freeway update.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know I got your North Freeway update right.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Here inbound at the Belway. They're now letting two left
lanes get by.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
They're still an eighteen wheeler in the right.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Lane with traffick, cones and bings on scene.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But the scrunch is still real.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
It goes all the way back past Airtex.
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It's time now for the news.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
Here's Eric Sharp, Good Morning seven point two on news
Radio seven forty k TRH. Our top story this hour.
The US and UK have a trade deal. Terrorists will
be lifted from billions of dollars in products like beef,
military equipment, and cars. Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins says it's
something to celebrate.
Speaker 9 (02:23):
Today was the first significant step as we reorient the
entire world and put America first. It's just a really
really big day.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
A ten percent baseline terror for mains in place. President
Trump's team set for trade talks with China this weekend,
but trusting the Chinese is another story.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Progress might happen, but it's a long road to.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Ho I would expect that if a deal does get done,
it's going to take several months. The number of details
that would need to be resolved between these two countries
is really a very long list.
Speaker 10 (02:53):
Josh Meierenbaum of the Foundation for Dependent Democracies says China
opening its markets will be crucial and the US US
needs to push back on Chinese practices.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Seems like stealing American intellectual property, using monopolies, using massive
subsidies in ways that push American competitors out of business.
Speaker 10 (03:10):
He says China needs the US market, which gives the
US the leverage. Andre Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
The Trump administration prepares to hold talks with Iran for
a new nuclear deal over the weekend. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton,
agreeing with President Trump's assertion the whole nuclear program must
be taken apart.
Speaker 11 (03:30):
They said that any deal requires complete dismantlement. Ron can
not only not have a nuclear weapon, they can have
a path to a nuclear weapon. That means no centrifugis,
no uranium enrichment.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Iran insists it's nuclear program is peaceful. Former President Biden
he's continuing his awkward media comeback tour yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
On The View.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
After doing an interview with the BBC earlier in the week.
He still seemed confused, claiming that he would have beaten
Donald Trump if he stayed.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
In the race.
Speaker 12 (04:00):
He still got seven minion fewer voks.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
A lot of people didn't show up.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Number one, number one, number two. They're very close in
most toss up states.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Trump actually got two million more votes last year than
in twenty twenty and won every swing state before his election.
Is Pope Leo the fourteenth. The former Cardinal Robert Prevost
shared social media post criticizing President Trump and Vice President
JD Vance his immigration stance. Despite the past criticism, President
Trump celebrated the first US elected pope yesterday to have.
Speaker 13 (04:34):
The vote from the United States of America.
Speaker 14 (04:38):
That's a great honor.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
And Vice President Vans publicly congratulated the new pope, calling
his election a historic moment for American Catholics. There's a
push in Texas to put prayer back in schools. Legislation
would allow school districts to vote on whether or not
they want to set aside time. It would allow kids
to read from the Bible or other religious texts to
go with.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The is to affirm and protect religious freedom.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
State Reped David Spiller says participation would be voluntary and
families would need to opt in. The bill has already
passed the state Senates. A bill recently passed the House
and is now on its way to the Senate that
would allow election judges and clerks with licenses to carry
firearms inside polling locations.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And this bill would allow them to be able to
do that just like currently avented people such as law enforcement,
actual judges, prosecutors, and retire law enforcement as well.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
At CJ. Gersham with Texas Got Rights, he says there's
not much law enforcement at polling locations, especially in more
rural areas. This bill would help make polling places left
less of a soft targets. After Marri Widmyer announced a
new contract agreement with the Houston Police Officers Union yesterday,
a Commissioner's Court deputies stepped up to ask county leaders
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for rays of their own.
Speaker 15 (05:55):
HPD's new contract would create a twenty four thousand dollars
pay gap between officers and deputies.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
We're losing deputies and a crisis is inevitable.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
We need pay parachu with HPD.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
And we need it now.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Don't be the one who turns you back on law enforcement.
Speaker 15 (06:08):
That's Jose Lopez with the Harris County Deputies Organization. County
Judge Lina Hidalgo says razes would require higher taxes.
Speaker 16 (06:14):
Nobody's going to.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Be upset about press for law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm just going to be happy about it.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
The challenges are you there When it's time to ask
for the money.
Speaker 15 (06:22):
Commissioner Tom Ramsey says, we don't need more money. We
just need to waste less. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven
forty KRH.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
HPD was supposed to launch the new thirty one million
dollar record system last month, but now it's been delayed
for at least six more months, something Mayor whitt Meyer
was warning about just a year ago.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
He's got a lot of people that are talking to
him on this as well. It gets delayed, and they
know the spotlight is on them right now to make
sure this is done right. I don't foresee any negative
ramifications or case backlawngs.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
As a result of this, answer, tired at HPD Captain
Greg Freeman, who says that this should not lead to
another suspended case scandal. The Astros were off Thursday, and
they opened up a weekend series at home against the Reds. Tonight,
Live coverage on KTRH begins at seven. I'm Eric Sharp,
Pat Euston's news weather in traffic station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
World events, national headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Seven on eight our time. Here in Houston's Morning News.
So I say this story in USA today, here's the headline.
My mom died of suicide. How I learned to talk about.
It kind of got my attention because talking about death
and dying is ever an easy thing to do, which
is why we've come up with so many different words
to describe death that don't say dead. So I'm reading
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the story and she said when my mom died, and
I first shared the news, I said, she committed suicide.
As I tried to explain the unexplainable, I used the
phrase I had heard most of my life. I didn't
think about it, It just came naturally, But then I
thought about it. Saying suicide can suggest a criminal intent
and can further stigmatize suicide and mental health issues. It
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can imply that someone did something wrong and keep more
people from talking about the potential for harming themselves. And in
some places in our history, suicide was once considered a crime.
So she doesn't use the word anymore. Suicide. And you know,
it is very very rare. If you were to read
a bit in a publication for somebody who passed, you know,
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most of the time, I rarely have I ever see
suicide listed. You know, sometimes you can get a clue
by where the you know, if they're asking for donations
for mental health or what have you. But you never
hear anybody say that in a newspaper article. I'm not
quite sure why. I guess I guess the stigma remains
attached to it, just like the stigma remains attached to
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the word dead. That's why we've come up with so
many different words for it. Expired. Who decided that would
be a good word to use instead dead? Well, he's expired?
What do you mean? The freshest labels out of a day?
What do you mean? Expired? Past? You hear that one
all the time? Pass past? What past were to use
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for gas? Not for dying? Eternal sleep, final rest, exited
this world? We lost her? I love that one. We
lost her? Where did you lose her? You lose her
at the grocery store? What do you mean you lost her? Oh,
she's dead. Why do we have such a hard time
saying that word? I've never quite figured that out. You know,
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we come out with all these other words. I mean,
the result is the same, the feeling is the same.
You don't soften the blow really by using these different words.
Why not just say it like it is seven to ten?
Time for traffic and weather together? Bought the farm? There's
another one's gone. Mind.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
We don't have to worry about Jimmy Barrett, doesn't he
neither one of us have to worry about dying young anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No, we don't, and we also means we're not good
because only the good die young.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You know, when's the last time you had to use
a bottle of oxy five or oxy ten. The other
thing we don't have to worry about Acne Nord Freeway
out of just random stuff. Forty five north southbound at
the Beltway. We've adjusted the laneagees two right lanes. It's
an accident. There's a big rig involved in this. It'll
take a while in ninja him. But we've got backups
now from air Tex that is on the southbound.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Big shots jump on the Hearty Till Road.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
My workwife, Christina Cruz, says that we've packed something up
right around the airport connector.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Is that a stall or a rex? Southbound, we'll have to.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Get to the seven twenty, then you check on that
one on the north Sam it's all on the north
side this morning, westbound Alding Westfield. That's a pretty good
roadwork scunch. And we're loopy at the squeeze again. Six
to ten north at forty five. We finally got language
on that westbound that rex over on the side, but
it's a squishy spot.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
We're backed up from the east text and two eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Need to check on you coming up from the Beltway
in extra three or four minutes all ninety most City Express.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You look good.
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Southwest Freeway, you look pretty decent too. Sugarland up twenty
two minutes. I'm skylike in the USA Rbresorts dot Com
traffic center.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And you know what else we don't worry about. Terry.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I remember telling my radio dad, Bill Ingram at the
Christian station when I was a teenager.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Bill, I can't gain weight.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
That.
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Oh my yeah, just turned thirty. Those are the days.
Man from our KTRHS top tax Defenders twenty four Weather Center,
Terry Smith is here. MA might be getting some weight
on Sunday. Oh yeah, maybe all weekend long. Little candy,
little breakfast, little dinner, Fridstone.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
It's gonna be good weekend, especially with this weather. Oh
this is an outdoor weekend for me. I don't know
about you, guys, but take advantage of it because summer's
right around the corner. In fact, we may see a
little summer next week, So nice, comfortable temperature is only
a little bit of rain, a twenty percent chance of
a shower, maybe a rumble of thunder. Today temperatures upper
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seventies to low eighties. Tomorrow at thirty percent chance of
rain and upper seventies to low eighties. And then Monday
is a gorgeous day, not only sunny and dry, but
even a little cooler in the mid topper seventies. But
after that we start to warm back up next weekend.
We're going to see some ninety degree readings before the
week is over.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Might as well get used to it. From right now,
the temperature nowhere near that sixty seven at your official
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Speaker 1 (12:37):
All the info you need to take on the day.
All right, So we have a trade deal with the
United Kingdom China is not necessarily a deal, but the
meeting with China, at least the initial meeting with China
is going to be tomorrow in Sweden. We'll talk to
Josh Bernbaum Deputy Director of the Foundation for Dependent Democracies,
about what we might be able to expect from these
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talks with China. If anything, we'll talk to him right
after we do a little traffic and weather together, which
starts with you Skuy Mike Nord Freeway.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
We're still working that eighteen wheeler wreck that's inbound at
the Beltway. KTRH listeners were the first to know about
the problem and we're backed up all the way from China.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Okay air techs the Hardy Toll Road.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Something scooting up right at the airport connector southbound posing
that At seven thirty in the.
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USA RV Resorts dot Com Traffic Center brom R KTRH
Top Tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center. For today,
it was going to become partly cloudy skies. There is
a slight thunderstorm chance with a high temperature right around
eighty three degrees today party cloudy's slight chance of a
couple of sh hours tomorrow around eighty and then Sunday.
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Sunday and cool for the high seventy six. Right now,
temperature is sixty seven at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some more
of our top Friday morning stories.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Here's Eric Good Morning seven twenty one on News Radio
seven forty KTRH Transportations Secretary Sean Duffy unveiling a plan
to upgrade the country's air traffic control system. He said
he will ask Congress for all the money needed to
update technology and equipment. NYPD arresting anti Israel protesters in Brooklyn.
It was a day after setular protest at Columbia University.
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A protest group set up camp Thursday in the Quad
at Brooklyn College, and the US Postal Service unveiling the
design of a commemorative foreign stamp honoring former First Lady
Barbara Bush during a White House event yesterday At the
Latest News Anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
comes your way at seven point thirty.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Listen to News Radio seven forty KTRH on the free
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talk free never sounded so good, all right, So the
beat and Swedish meat balls, not the dim sum in
I guess in Sweden tomorrow when they sit down to meet.
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Josh Bernbaum joins US Deputy director at the Foundation for
defendent democracies. Do you expect much to come from these talks,
these initial talks between US and the Chinese. I guess
we're talking trade. We don't really know for sure.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Well, I think the most important part is that the
relations are starting to thaw.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
A little bit.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
And I would expect that any deal that takes place
between China and the United States is going to take
a long time and a lot of details are going
to need to get worked out. But the first step
is meeting, and that's a big one.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Okay, Just China have that kind of time because we're
seeing a lot of reports about, you know what a
teeter's position that their economy is in right now. They're
closing down factories, they're sending people home who are not working.
I would guess that this whole trade war thing is
quite at least at this point. There's a lot tough
around them than it is on us.
Speaker 17 (15:47):
It absolutely is.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
The urgency on their side must be tremendous, and that
gives the United States tremendous leverage in those negotiations. But
there's also a lot that needs to change, and at
the base of the negotiations is the need for China
to rebalance its economy away from the state and towards consumers.
And that's a difficult bask for a Chinese communist party
that's built its country around supporting the state.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, that's for sure. I guess the other part of
it this is going to be very, very difficult from
our point of view, is trust. We don't have a
lot of trust in China. They've made deals before, and
they generally break the deal right after they make the deal.
So they can promise all they want about not stealing
intellectual property and leveling the playing field, but that doesn't
mean that's going to happen.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
That's absolutely right, and one thing that we see from
this administration is that they're willing to switch on a
dime as well. So I think that there is a
situation where the trust needs to be built with over time,
and if China doesn't hold up, it's into the bargain.
I imagine TARS will go right back into place.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Josh, what would be a reasonable expectation, what do you
think we should look to try to accomplish with the Chinese.
We're probably never going to get to the point are
we where we are on equal footing, where it's a
level playing completely level playing field where China is importing
as much from us as we're importing from them, or
in your mind, is that a reasonable goal to try
to achieve.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
I'm not sure that that's the end state that we're
ever going to get to, and it's certainly not where
we're going in these negotiations to get to a total
balance trade. The problem is that China's structured right now
so that it must export in order to survive, and
that's got to change structurally for the Chinese economy. As
Scott Best, the Treasury Secretary, said, China needs that as
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much as we do. Their economy is simply not sustainable
and they're going to need to find a pathway to
a more sustainable and balance growth. In the short term,
I expect that to be that the trade comes into
greater balance, but it's not going to be fully balanced
for probably a decade.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I wouldn't think so, okay, And a quick thought
if you would on the deal with the United Kingdom.
We had a pretty even trade partner with the United
Kingdom to begin with. It sounds like the biggest news
that seems to be concerning US automakers is the deal
to allow one hundred thousand UK vehicles into this country
without paying an additional.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Terror Well, I think that UK is a real strong
economic partner and has been for decades, and I think
it's important. The big picture here is that getting greater
alliance with partners like the UK with India allows us
to have better leverage against countries like China, and so
it's important that those deals are happening. With respect to
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specific industries, There's always going to be benefits and harms,
but we are strong proponents of free trade and to
the extent that we can support an ally, we should
be doing that, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Josh, thanks for your time today. I appreciate it. Deputy Director
at the Foundation for Dependent Democracies, Josh Beerenbaum, it is
seven to twenty six. It's time to take a look
at your money. Here's Jeff Bellincher and Jimmy.
Speaker 18 (18:49):
The Future suggests investors are calm again after a scare
from President Trump. Just an hour ago. He posted that
an eighty percent tariff on China seemed right. That sank
the futures, but only briefly. They're recovering now that our
futures are up forty points and lift shares are rallying
pre market. The ride Haling Company's first quarter bookings, top
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forecast and list expanded its stock buyback program. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Than you are, no Houston's News, Why there are traffic
plus Breaking News twenty four seventh.
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This is News Radio seven forty KTRH five Everywhere with.
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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Seven thirty is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
what's the future for high school graduates skilled labor. Just
because you went home voluntarily doesn't mean we're going to
let you back in. And coming up at seven thirty eight,
more ways you'd spend Bill Gates billions. Details in the
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minutes ahead. You're in Houston is first. We're checking out
that morning drive again with skymin All.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Right east text hov lookout Mount Houston. The hop has
this one little design problem. It's just one lane, so
stay on the main lanes get around that problem. That's
a stall North Freeway. It's an eighteen wheeler wreck southbound
at the Beltway. We'll take two lanes out big backup
from air Tex and two eighty eight northbound. You've done
a nice job of not bumping into each other. Kevin
from Danbury says they're going to do more work on
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that sound wall later on this morning, after eight o'clock
at Croi Road southbound northbound.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Just a little squish now alme to Genoa.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I'm Skymike on the USA Rbresorts dot Com traffic.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Center from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
weather center. Part of the Cloudie Skies. Looks like about
eighty for the high today. There's a slight chance with
thundershower part of the Claudie with a chance with a
couple of showers on Saturday eighty and then Sunday for
Mother's Day, mostly sunny and cool, high seventy six. We'll
get more on the forecast and try to time any
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rain showers. We're going to add when we talk to
Terry Smith in about another nine minutes, right sixty seven
at your official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty KTRH.
It's timed out for the news.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Here's Eric Sharp, Good morning seven thirty one on news
Radio seven forty KTRH top story this hour. The left
trying to shift again on immigration, calling on deported illegal
aliens to be allowed back in the US legally.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Jessica Vaugh with the Center for Immigration Study says that
is not a good idea.
Speaker 17 (21:28):
No, it's not the answer. Legal immigration and illegal immigration
right now are almost like two sides of the.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Same coin, a costly coin for the US.
Speaker 17 (21:39):
Our country simply cannot absorb that many newcomers in such
a short period of time, and we don't have strong
assimily institutions as we used to.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Have, which is part of the let's plan to change America.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven k ter.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
On Capitol Hill this week, lawmakers their concerns with the
head of Homeland Security. South Texas Congressman Henry Quaar says
that we need an upgrade in border cameras, which are
mostly broken, inoperable, running an obsolete technology.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
This all technology is like going to a car and
you fix it, and they keep coming in to fix
it up.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill includes billions of dollars for
new border wall and other improvements. The Trump administration asking
the Supreme Court to allow the President to end Biden
era amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
A district court ruling keeping in place humanitarian parole for
half a million people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
is now being appealed to the US Supreme Court. The
Trump administration says the lower court nullified one of the
administration's most consequential immigration policy decisions. Attorneys for the immigrants
say the administration has an incorrect reading of the law
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and puts vulnerable people in the country legally at risk
of losing everything. A Biden administration policy granted the temporary
protected status the hundreds of thousands of migrants, usually with
a two year work authorization. At the White House, Jared
Halpern Fox.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
News, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announcing the department will be
requesting billions from Congress to revamp air traffic control systems.
He says it's an urgent need.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
If we don't actually accomplish the mission that we're announcing today,
you will see Newarks not just in Newark, You'll see
Newarks in other parts of the country because it's an
agent system.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Several air incidents in recent months, we're linked to air
traffic control staffing or equipment problems. The Food and Drug
Administration is restructuring under the Trump administration, laying off three
thousand workers. Commissioner of Food and Drug Marty Makery telling
Fox it's a shifting of the FDA's mission back to
people's health.
Speaker 19 (23:57):
In the last administration number one priority, the commissioner state
was fighting misinformation and the DEI staff ballooned out. We
want to focus on cures and meaningful treatments. We believe
in the letter and the spirit of right to try.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
The AHHS has been ordered to restore some employees who
were laid off, including those in the nine to eleven program.
A meeting between FDA leadership and the agency's union was
canceled without explanation earlier this week. The House voting Thursday
to follow President Trump's lead renaming the Gulf of Mexico
to the Gulf of America. All Republicans voting yes except
(24:32):
for Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon. All Democrats voting no.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yes are two hundred and eleven. The nays are two
hundred and six. The bill has passed without objection. A
motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green had introduced the bill,
mirroring the president's recent executive order. The city financial director
says Houston could face a deficit of around five hundred
million dollars over the next few years. Mayor John Whitmeyer
can work this fix, but the city council winds up
standing in his way.
Speaker 20 (25:06):
I think the counselors are going to do that for
their own political game. But I also think there's certain
people that are trying to hurt Whitmyer. They're going to
vote opposite Whitmyre just to sort of give them a sumping.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
That's former city Councilman Greg Travis. He says this is
all a result of former Mayor Silvester Turner wasting COVID
funds and putting off important maintenance projects until now. All
businesses are looking beyond colleges to high schools now to
find skilled workers.
Speaker 21 (25:35):
Some high school students are already getting seventy thousand dollars
per year job offers from companies looking for those in
skilled trades. Former Dirty Jobs host Mike Rotels Fox this
is the future of high paying.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Work in the automotive industry.
Speaker 22 (25:47):
We've got sixty seven thousand openings right now for skilled tradesmen.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They can't find them.
Speaker 22 (25:52):
This is the year we're going to be talking about
what is happening in terms of this recruiting crisis.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Chickens are coming home to root.
Speaker 21 (26:01):
Any companies are partnering with high schools for training programs
to develop a new generation of skilled workers due to
the retirement of baby boomers. Corey Ulson, Who's Radio seven
forty KTRH. The astros were off Thursday.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
They open up a weekend series at home against the
Cincinnati Reds. Tonight, Live coverage on KTRH begins at seven.
I'm at Rick Sharp on Euston's news, weather and traffic
station News Radio seven forty KTRH. I live in the Park,
I live in the Woodlands.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You're reliable forecast. Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.
You know, one of the most fun things in life
is to spend other people's money and to fantasize if
you were as rich as Bill Gates, what would you
do with the money? And then what proped in my
question of the day at the iHeartRadio app KTRH. Please
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the iHeartRadio apps free. Why not? And again, you know
number one on the preset you hit the talkback button,
first name where you're calling from. And the question of
(27:12):
the day was prompted by this story that Bill Gates
says he doesn't want to die a rich man. I'm
not sure that his you know, three kids probably would
love him to die as a rich man and inherit,
you know, some of those billions of dollars. He's already
donated one hundred billion dollars he saw as one hundred
and eight billion dollars left, so he wants to get
(27:35):
rid of that money, he says, in the next twenty years.
He doesn't want to die rich. So my question was,
you know, from a practical standpoint, if we had one
hundred billion dollars, if you had one hundred million dollars,
or I had one hundred billion dollars, how would we
spend the money? And the responses have been kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Is Stacey from Wall Or if I had Bill Gates
money how to retire?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Thank you, hey, Jimmy this fall.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Look I had a hundred billion dollars, I'd make sure
all military events that were disable at depot pieces and
makes and everything else that could get maybe.
Speaker 22 (28:07):
A lot of help in night set the brother who
do not have a home, and no, they're homeless.
Speaker 18 (28:16):
I don't mean they do not have a home, but
they are homeless.
Speaker 11 (28:19):
And I'll get each one of them.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
A home, a place to live, and I'll.
Speaker 18 (28:25):
Sool my nephew, my sister, sons who live with her
and they're living with strangers right now.
Speaker 20 (28:33):
And the home I live in I live with my
mom and my.
Speaker 23 (28:37):
Sister, one of them Jimmy Asia from Spring. If I
won one hundred billion dollars, I would invest a bunch
of that into gold. I would invest some of that
into sons. I would send missionaries overseas. Help some single brothers,
help some veterans, help some struggling churches. Maybe by some
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friends of cars, need some new cars or cars or clunkers.
Build a really nice house, spend all my days with
my family, travel, play a bunch of golf.
Speaker 12 (29:08):
Bhye, this is Ettie from Spring, Texas. If I got
Bill Gates money, I would get on the bills by
two hundred acres of land to divide it by the
four kids I have. Then I would also give the
money to our military dots and see a very special
charities that I loved.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, a lot of help there for military bets. I
love that. I know what Elizabeth would do. She would
she would she would buy a whole bunch of land
and put up a whole bunch of buildings, and she
would make sure that every sheltered dog in America had
a forever home where they had all the treats they wanted,
you know, got to hang out with all the other dogs,
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get all the love and attention they ever wanted.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm pretty sure she'd that'd be the first thing she'd
spend that money on. Seven forty one time for traffic
and weather together. I'm issuing a correction. What you're not
going to rebuild astro World with you one hundred billion?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I would do fillanthropic things first and then rebuild an
exact replica of astral World with all the concerts we
had then of the groups that hadn't yet kicked the bucket.
So here we go, jump on the cyclone, jump on
grease lightlying us have some fun.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That kind of money might be able to bring back
some of the dead groups. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Let's go to the North Loop sixth in throwing a
little AI at the squeeze.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
We had this wreck, bad spot. Everybody was okay.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
There we're backed up from I sixty nine southbound rick
from Magnolia's on forty five to the North Freeway.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
With an update, I got my three lanes are now
getting on that wreck in the bed way. Only an
eighteen wailers sitting there in the right lane, So.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Right, put this banana sticker on your toolbox.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
That as an eighteen wheeler at the north Belt southbound
looks like they're about to ninja that and six tenths
south steep from Deer Park.
Speaker 14 (30:53):
Hey, Scot Mike just before MLK or there's a little
black dog running along trying to get across the street.
Can keep an eye out for him. Be nice if
somebody can rescue.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
All right, there's a little puppy for Elizabeth's home. For
a little way where doggies and kiddies watch out as
you're going. That seems to be westbound, Steve, so watch
out on the south loop.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
What's going down to uptown? If that makes sense, Terry,
we're slow. From two ninety. I'm in the USA Rbresorts
dot Com traffic center from r KTRH generator of super
Center twenty four our weathers center. Yep. Mother's Day weekend
is this weekend, and you ordered up a perfect day
for mom.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Nice job, thank you. I'm happy to be the reporter.
I'm not going to take the credit as much as
it would be nice to. It's mother Nature who's saying, hey,
let's cut mom some slack and give her a nice day.
And you know what, we had all the rain during
the week, and so that means all the flowers are blooming,
and it's just it really is going to be a
fine spring weekend, which by itself is a treat. We
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do have a twenty percent chance of a shower or
two today, maybe a rumble of thunder. There's obviously not
much rain over the course of the day. Upper seventies
eighties today, thirty percent chance of those showers, some thunder
primarily in the afternoon, and temperature still in the upper
seventies to low eighties, which is very pleasant. And Sunday's
(32:11):
even better. Primo day, mid to upper seventies. No rain
on Sunday, and then the temperatures start to heat up.
Next week. We're going to be in the eighties to
start with. We're going to see some low nineties I
think Tuesday, maybe into Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So you know, summer is not too far away. No
plas right around the corner sixty seven at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. What you
need to know for the day ahead.
Speaker 16 (32:39):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
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Speaker 1 (32:44):
The latest, and I say the latest because there's always
a disagreement. The latest disagreement between Harris County Precinct three
Commissioner Tom Ramsey and Judge Lena Hilldogole coming up next,
But first, the seven fifty lits do a little traffic
and weather together. Starting with the Usky Mike.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
It's north freeways southbound. All the other vehicles have been
pulled away. We still have the eighteen wheeler two right
lanes southbound at the belt. Kevin from Danbury has hit
my Facebook page. He put up a comment he says
tonight at nine o'clock his cruise, we'll be taking out
a right lane at Kroy Road on two eighty eight
in front of Rodeo Palms. They're gonna move the text
(33:19):
dot wall of death, and by next week we'll have
the new southbound main lanes. And you can always talk
to us on the tip line or the free iHeartRadio app.
Click the talkback Mike.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Art Sky, Mike, I have Bill Gates's money. I only
got two words. Boogie nights.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Oh, he's gonna build a disco. I'm Skymike on the
generator of supercenter dot com traffic sounds like a great
way to lose the money.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center.
Partly cloudy about eighty today, there's the chance of a thundershower.
Same forecast for tomorrow and then for Sunday. Mostly sunny
and cool for Mother's Day with the high seventy six.
Right now, temperature is sixty seven at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check
some more top stories in for clip today.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Here's Eric Good Morning seven fifty one on news Radio
seven forty k TRH. Pakistan and India accusing each other
of launching drone attacks against one another. Meanwhile, President Trump
is calling for a thirty day ceasefire in the Russia
Ukraine War, and the Department of Justice investigating New York
Attorney General Letitia James for fraud. Get the latest details
(34:23):
anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update comes your
way at eight.
Speaker 18 (34:27):
When events are happening, people knew that something was going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Check in the big trade deal.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
India and Pakistan.
Speaker 12 (34:33):
Lepope elected.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
He's Radio seven k t RH. Except in this case,
there is a good guy. He's our next guest. Harris
County Precinct three Commissioner Tom ramsay, And there is a
bad guy. It's Lena Hildago and it's it's the typical argument,
is it, Doc Commissioner. Here we have a situation where
EAHBD has gotten a much deserved raise. Harris County Sheriff's
(34:56):
Office says, Hey, I think it's our turn now we
need him deserve raise. Leading Hedgo says sure, but I'm
going to have to raise taxes. And of course your
answer to raising taxes to give them a raise.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Is I think we need to focus on statue tool responsibilities,
and if we would do that, we would address a
lot of wasteful spending. And that's one thing that Judge
Rdalgo does not want to talk about, does not want
to acknowledge. And that was really the debate yesterday. It's
really two different ways of looking at the issue. Number One,
(35:32):
I congratulate the City of Houston Mayor Whitmeyer and giving
those increases to HPD. They've set a great new standard
in this county for law enforcement. We need to respond.
We had sheriff's deputies there to remind us that they've
waited patiently for many years. Now it's time that we
(35:55):
address it. I totally agreed with it. And the pushback
from Jeffildalgo is he brings up the story of when
I refuse to come to court because they wanted to
raise a lot of money through taxes and she wouldn't
tell me what it was for. She says that she'll
(36:17):
spend it on law enforcement, but I'm not believe in it.
And at this point, if we'll focus on a wasteful spending,
get that under control, we'll have plenty of money to
take care.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Of the raises well. And you brought me. I was
gonna say, you brought up may Mayor. Whitmeyer is a
prime example. He's got seven billion dollar budget that they
have wiped out their deficit. They have rearranged departments, they
have They've done the heavy lifting and the hard work
to balance the budget. The City of Houston has a
balanced budget. Why can't Harris County do the same.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Well, we'll have a balanced budget, but it'll be balanced
on the backs of law enforcement. And that's that's not.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
What we should do.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
He did it right. He did it the hard way.
He did He rolled up his sleeves and got in the.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Middle of it.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
The easy way to do it is what Lena Hildalgo
wants to do. She just wants to go to the
credit card, get more money through taxes, and raise it.
She doesn't want to do the hard work of eliminading
the wasteful spending of access Harris twenty five million, County
Administrator's office twenty five million, Consulting firms over fifty million.
(37:34):
I can get to one hundred and forty one million,
which is what it would take to fund the sheriff's
deputies and the gospels one hundred We can get to
one hundred and forty one million.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Pretty easy. Yeah, I was going to say, it really is.
That's what's shameful about it. It's not that hard. All
you'd have to do is it's not that hard to
find fraud and waste in Harris County. It really isn't.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Yes, Jimmy, you and I could get and run about
fifteen minutes we get to one hundred and forty one
It wouldn't be hard.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You're right, nobody's gonna elect me to do that work.
But you keep doing what you do, sir, You're you're
you're the lone wolf in the wilderness who's keeping us
sane in Harris County. We appreciate it. You take care,
have a great weekend. That's Harris County Precinct three Commissioner
Tom Ramsey. Yeah, Happy Mother's Day. Told you moms. We'll
see him Monday morning, bright and early, starting at five am.
Hope to see you this afternoon four on AM nine
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This is used Radio seven forty ktrh Houston.
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Now the latest news, weather and trap. It's more of
what matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Seven am is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Jill and Joe still trying to change history, the UK
trade deal pretty easy, but who's next? And coming up
at seven o eight, why do we dance around the
word death? Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's
(00:38):
Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive once again.
Here's sky Mine.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Most of your pain and suffering is on the North
Freeway this morning. But I do have this squish on
the East Text a little earlier and very on Friday like,
and we've got wet freeways, so no snoozing East Text downtown.
Here come the breaks from quipment. It's a little early
for this, trying to get down into the canyon and
extra seven to eight minutes on the south end piers
elevated a little squishy around the Dallas Street squeeze. Now
(01:03):
we've got a North Freeway I'm sorry, North Loop problem
guess where the squeeze forty five westbound big backup from Hardy.
That's a minor wreck and a little more major wreck
on the North Freeway southbound.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We've got let's get an update. Roger from Magnoia. Good morning, Scott, Mike.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I got your North Freeway update.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know I got your North Freeway update right.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Here inbound at the Belway. They're now letting two left
lanes get by.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
They're still an eighteen wheeler in the right.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Lane with traffick, cones and bings on scene.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But the scrunch is still real.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
It goes all the way back past Airtex.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Now extra points for burbage. The USA RV Resorts dot
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Speaker 1 (01:42):
Center Promo rtt r H Tom Tax Defenders twenty four
hour Weather Center Partley Cloudie. Today's slight chance with thundershower
with the high temperature bout eighty. We'll get you the
complete forecast for the weekend. Sunday looks great for Mother's Day.
In case you haven't heard, Terry Smith will join us
in about eight bennetts right now sixty seven and your
officials Severe weathers Day News Radio seven forty k TRH.
(02:03):
It's time now for the news.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
Here's Eric Sharp, Good Morning seven point two on news
Radio seven forty k TRH. Our top story this hour.
The US and UK have a trade deal. Terrorists will
be lifted from billions of dollars in products like beef,
military equipment, and cars. Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins says it's
something to celebrate.
Speaker 9 (02:23):
Today was the first significant step as we reorient the
entire world and put America first. It's just a really
really big day.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
A ten percent baseline terror for mains in place. President
Trump's team set for trade talks with China this weekend,
but trusting the Chinese is another story.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Progress might happen, but it's a long road to.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Ho I would expect that if a deal does get done,
it's going to take several months. The number of details
that would need to be resolved between these two countries
is really a very long list.
Speaker 10 (02:53):
Josh Meierenbaum of the Foundation for Dependent Democracies says China
opening its markets will be crucial and the US US
needs to push back on Chinese practices.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Seems like stealing American intellectual property, using monopolies, using massive
subsidies in ways that push American competitors out of business.
Speaker 10 (03:10):
He says China needs the US market, which gives the
US the leverage. Andre Perard News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
The Trump administration prepares to hold talks with Iran for
a new nuclear deal over the weekend. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton,
agreeing with President Trump's assertion the whole nuclear program must
be taken apart.
Speaker 11 (03:30):
They said that any deal requires complete dismantlement. Ron can
not only not have a nuclear weapon, they can have
a path to a nuclear weapon. That means no centrifugis,
no uranium enrichment.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
Iran insists it's nuclear program is peaceful. Former President Biden
he's continuing his awkward media comeback tour yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
On The View.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
After doing an interview with the BBC earlier in the week.
He still seemed confused, claiming that he would have beaten
Donald Trump if he stayed.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
In the race.
Speaker 12 (04:00):
He still got seven minion fewer voks.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
A lot of people didn't show up.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Number one, number one, number two. They're very close in
most toss up states.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Trump actually got two million more votes last year than
in twenty twenty and won every swing state before his election.
Is Pope Leo the fourteenth. The former Cardinal Robert Prevost
shared social media post criticizing President Trump and Vice President
JD Vance his immigration stance. Despite the past criticism, President
Trump celebrated the first US elected pope yesterday to have.
Speaker 13 (04:34):
The vote from the United States of America.
Speaker 14 (04:38):
That's a great honor.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
And Vice President Vans publicly congratulated the new pope, calling
his election a historic moment for American Catholics. There's a
push in Texas to put prayer back in schools. Legislation
would allow school districts to vote on whether or not
they want to set aside time. It would allow kids
to read from the Bible or other religious texts to
go with.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The is to affirm and protect religious freedom.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
State Reped David Spiller says participation would be voluntary and
families would need to opt in. The bill has already
passed the state Senates. A bill recently passed the House
and is now on its way to the Senate that
would allow election judges and clerks with licenses to carry
firearms inside polling locations.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And this bill would allow them to be able to
do that just like currently avented people such as law enforcement,
actual judges, prosecutors, and retire law enforcement as well.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
At CJ. Gersham with Texas Got Rights, he says there's
not much law enforcement at polling locations, especially in more
rural areas. This bill would help make polling places left
less of a soft targets. After Marri Widmyer announced a
new contract agreement with the Houston Police Officers Union yesterday,
a Commissioner's Court deputies stepped up to ask county leaders
(05:53):
for rays of their own.
Speaker 15 (05:55):
HPD's new contract would create a twenty four thousand dollars
pay gap between officers and deputies.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
We're losing deputies and a crisis is inevitable.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
We need pay parachu with HPD.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
And we need it now.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Don't be the one who turns you back on law enforcement.
Speaker 15 (06:08):
That's Jose Lopez with the Harris County Deputies Organization. County
Judge Lina Hidalgo says razes would require higher taxes.
Speaker 16 (06:14):
Nobody's going to.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Be upset about press for law enforcement.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm just going to be happy about it.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
The challenges are you there When it's time to ask
for the money.
Speaker 15 (06:22):
Commissioner Tom Ramsey says, we don't need more money. We
just need to waste less. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven
forty KRH.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
HPD was supposed to launch the new thirty one million
dollar record system last month, but now it's been delayed
for at least six more months, something Mayor whitt Meyer
was warning about just a year ago.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
He's got a lot of people that are talking to
him on this as well. It gets delayed, and they
know the spotlight is on them right now to make
sure this is done right. I don't foresee any negative
ramifications or case backlawngs.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
As a result of this, answer, tired at HPD Captain
Greg Freeman, who says that this should not lead to
another suspended case scandal. The Astros were off Thursday, and
they opened up a weekend series at home against the Reds. Tonight,
Live coverage on KTRH begins at seven. I'm Eric Sharp,
Pat Euston's news weather in traffic station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
World events, national headlines, Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Seven on eight our time. Here in Houston's Morning News.
So I say this story in USA today, here's the headline.
My mom died of suicide. How I learned to talk about.
It kind of got my attention because talking about death
and dying is ever an easy thing to do, which
is why we've come up with so many different words
to describe death that don't say dead. So I'm reading
(07:43):
the story and she said when my mom died, and
I first shared the news, I said, she committed suicide.
As I tried to explain the unexplainable, I used the
phrase I had heard most of my life. I didn't
think about it, It just came naturally, But then I
thought about it. Saying suicide can suggest a criminal intent
and can further stigmatize suicide and mental health issues. It
(08:05):
can imply that someone did something wrong and keep more
people from talking about the potential for harming themselves. And in
some places in our history, suicide was once considered a crime.
So she doesn't use the word anymore. Suicide. And you know,
it is very very rare. If you were to read
a bit in a publication for somebody who passed, you know,
(08:30):
most of the time, I rarely have I ever see
suicide listed. You know, sometimes you can get a clue
by where the you know, if they're asking for donations
for mental health or what have you. But you never
hear anybody say that in a newspaper article. I'm not
quite sure why. I guess I guess the stigma remains
attached to it, just like the stigma remains attached to
(08:53):
the word dead. That's why we've come up with so
many different words for it. Expired. Who decided that would
be a good word to use instead dead? Well, he's expired?
What do you mean? The freshest labels out of a day?
What do you mean? Expired? Past? You hear that one
all the time? Pass past? What past were to use
(09:14):
for gas? Not for dying? Eternal sleep, final rest, exited
this world? We lost her? I love that one. We
lost her? Where did you lose her? You lose her
at the grocery store? What do you mean you lost her? Oh,
she's dead. Why do we have such a hard time
saying that word? I've never quite figured that out. You know,
(09:36):
we come out with all these other words. I mean,
the result is the same, the feeling is the same.
You don't soften the blow really by using these different words.
Why not just say it like it is seven to ten?
Time for traffic and weather together? Bought the farm? There's
another one's gone. Mind.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
We don't have to worry about Jimmy Barrett, doesn't he
neither one of us have to worry about dying young anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
No, we don't, and we also means we're not good
because only the good die young.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
You know, when's the last time you had to use
a bottle of oxy five or oxy ten. The other
thing we don't have to worry about Acne Nord Freeway
out of just random stuff. Forty five north southbound at
the Beltway. We've adjusted the laneagees two right lanes. It's
an accident. There's a big rig involved in this. It'll
take a while in ninja him. But we've got backups
now from air Tex that is on the southbound.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Big shots jump on the Hearty Till Road.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
My workwife, Christina Cruz, says that we've packed something up
right around the airport connector.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Is that a stall or a rex? Southbound, we'll have to.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Get to the seven twenty, then you check on that
one on the north Sam it's all on the north
side this morning, westbound Alding Westfield. That's a pretty good
roadwork scunch. And we're loopy at the squeeze again. Six
to ten north at forty five. We finally got language
on that westbound that rex over on the side, but
it's a squishy spot.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
We're backed up from the east text and two eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Need to check on you coming up from the Beltway
in extra three or four minutes all ninety most City Express.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You look good.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Southwest Freeway, you look pretty decent too. Sugarland up twenty
two minutes. I'm skylike in the USA Rbresorts dot Com
traffic center.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And you know what else we don't worry about. Terry.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I remember telling my radio dad, Bill Ingram at the
Christian station when I was a teenager.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Bill, I can't gain weight.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
That.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh my yeah, just turned thirty. Those are the days.
Man from our KTRHS top tax Defenders twenty four Weather Center,
Terry Smith is here. MA might be getting some weight
on Sunday. Oh yeah, maybe all weekend long. Little candy,
little breakfast, little dinner, Fridstone.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
It's gonna be good weekend, especially with this weather. Oh
this is an outdoor weekend for me. I don't know
about you, guys, but take advantage of it because summer's
right around the corner. In fact, we may see a
little summer next week, So nice, comfortable temperature is only
a little bit of rain, a twenty percent chance of
a shower, maybe a rumble of thunder. Today temperatures upper
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seventies to low eighties. Tomorrow at thirty percent chance of
rain and upper seventies to low eighties. And then Monday
is a gorgeous day, not only sunny and dry, but
even a little cooler in the mid topper seventies. But
after that we start to warm back up next weekend.
We're going to see some ninety degree readings before the
week is over.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Might as well get used to it. From right now,
the temperature nowhere near that sixty seven at your official
severe weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH.
Speaker 16 (12:29):
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Speaker 1 (12:37):
All the info you need to take on the day.
All right, So we have a trade deal with the
United Kingdom China is not necessarily a deal, but the
meeting with China, at least the initial meeting with China
is going to be tomorrow in Sweden. We'll talk to
Josh Bernbaum Deputy Director of the Foundation for Dependent Democracies,
about what we might be able to expect from these
(12:59):
talks with China. If anything, we'll talk to him right
after we do a little traffic and weather together, which
starts with you Skuy Mike Nord Freeway.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
We're still working that eighteen wheeler wreck that's inbound at
the Beltway. KTRH listeners were the first to know about
the problem and we're backed up all the way from China.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Okay air techs the Hardy Toll Road.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Something scooting up right at the airport connector southbound posing
that At seven thirty in the.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
USA RV Resorts dot Com Traffic Center brom R KTRH
Top Tax Defenders twenty four hour weather Center. For today,
it was going to become partly cloudy skies. There is
a slight thunderstorm chance with a high temperature right around
eighty three degrees today party cloudy's slight chance of a
couple of sh hours tomorrow around eighty and then Sunday.
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Sunday and cool for the high seventy six. Right now,
temperature is sixty seven at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some more
of our top Friday morning stories.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Here's Eric Good Morning seven twenty one on News Radio
seven forty KTRH Transportations Secretary Sean Duffy unveiling a plan
to upgrade the country's air traffic control system. He said
he will ask Congress for all the money needed to
update technology and equipment. NYPD arresting anti Israel protesters in Brooklyn.
It was a day after setular protest at Columbia University.
(14:16):
A protest group set up camp Thursday in the Quad
at Brooklyn College, and the US Postal Service unveiling the
design of a commemorative foreign stamp honoring former First Lady
Barbara Bush during a White House event yesterday At the
Latest News Anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
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Speaker 1 (14:34):
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talk free never sounded so good, all right, So the
beat and Swedish meat balls, not the dim sum in
I guess in Sweden tomorrow when they sit down to meet.
(14:55):
Josh Bernbaum joins US Deputy director at the Foundation for
defendent democracies. Do you expect much to come from these talks,
these initial talks between US and the Chinese. I guess
we're talking trade. We don't really know for sure.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Well, I think the most important part is that the
relations are starting to thaw.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
A little bit.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
And I would expect that any deal that takes place
between China and the United States is going to take
a long time and a lot of details are going
to need to get worked out. But the first step
is meeting, and that's a big one.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Okay, Just China have that kind of time because we're
seeing a lot of reports about, you know what a
teeter's position that their economy is in right now. They're
closing down factories, they're sending people home who are not working.
I would guess that this whole trade war thing is
quite at least at this point. There's a lot tough
around them than it is on us.
Speaker 17 (15:47):
It absolutely is.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
The urgency on their side must be tremendous, and that
gives the United States tremendous leverage in those negotiations. But
there's also a lot that needs to change, and at
the base of the negotiations is the need for China
to rebalance its economy away from the state and towards consumers.
And that's a difficult bask for a Chinese communist party
that's built its country around supporting the state.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, that's for sure. I guess the other part of
it this is going to be very, very difficult from
our point of view, is trust. We don't have a
lot of trust in China. They've made deals before, and
they generally break the deal right after they make the deal.
So they can promise all they want about not stealing
intellectual property and leveling the playing field, but that doesn't
mean that's going to happen.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
That's absolutely right, and one thing that we see from
this administration is that they're willing to switch on a
dime as well. So I think that there is a
situation where the trust needs to be built with over time,
and if China doesn't hold up, it's into the bargain.
I imagine TARS will go right back into place.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Josh, what would be a reasonable expectation, what do you
think we should look to try to accomplish with the Chinese.
We're probably never going to get to the point are
we where we are on equal footing, where it's a
level playing completely level playing field where China is importing
as much from us as we're importing from them, or
in your mind, is that a reasonable goal to try
to achieve.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
I'm not sure that that's the end state that we're
ever going to get to, and it's certainly not where
we're going in these negotiations to get to a total
balance trade. The problem is that China's structured right now
so that it must export in order to survive, and
that's got to change structurally for the Chinese economy. As
Scott Best, the Treasury Secretary, said, China needs that as
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much as we do. Their economy is simply not sustainable
and they're going to need to find a pathway to
a more sustainable and balance growth. In the short term,
I expect that to be that the trade comes into
greater balance, but it's not going to be fully balanced
for probably a decade.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, I wouldn't think so, okay, And a quick thought
if you would on the deal with the United Kingdom.
We had a pretty even trade partner with the United
Kingdom to begin with. It sounds like the biggest news
that seems to be concerning US automakers is the deal
to allow one hundred thousand UK vehicles into this country
without paying an additional.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Terror Well, I think that UK is a real strong
economic partner and has been for decades, and I think
it's important. The big picture here is that getting greater
alliance with partners like the UK with India allows us
to have better leverage against countries like China, and so
it's important that those deals are happening. With respect to
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specific industries, There's always going to be benefits and harms,
but we are strong proponents of free trade and to
the extent that we can support an ally, we should
be doing that, all right.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Josh, thanks for your time today. I appreciate it. Deputy Director
at the Foundation for Dependent Democracies, Josh Beerenbaum, it is
seven to twenty six. It's time to take a look
at your money. Here's Jeff Bellincher and Jimmy.
Speaker 18 (18:49):
The Future suggests investors are calm again after a scare
from President Trump. Just an hour ago. He posted that
an eighty percent tariff on China seemed right. That sank
the futures, but only briefly. They're recovering now that our
futures are up forty points and lift shares are rallying
pre market. The ride Haling Company's first quarter bookings, top
(19:09):
forecast and list expanded its stock buyback program. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Than you are, no Houston's News, Why there are traffic
plus Breaking News twenty four seventh.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH five Everywhere with.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Seven thirty is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
what's the future for high school graduates skilled labor. Just
because you went home voluntarily doesn't mean we're going to
let you back in. And coming up at seven thirty eight,
more ways you'd spend Bill Gates billions. Details in the
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minutes ahead. You're in Houston is first. We're checking out
that morning drive again with skymin All.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Right east text hov lookout Mount Houston. The hop has
this one little design problem. It's just one lane, so
stay on the main lanes get around that problem. That's
a stall North Freeway. It's an eighteen wheeler wreck southbound
at the Beltway. We'll take two lanes out big backup
from air Tex and two eighty eight northbound. You've done
a nice job of not bumping into each other. Kevin
from Danbury says they're going to do more work on
(20:25):
that sound wall later on this morning, after eight o'clock
at Croi Road southbound northbound.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Just a little squish now alme to Genoa.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I'm Skymike on the USA Rbresorts dot Com traffic.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Center from our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour
weather center. Part of the Cloudie Skies. Looks like about
eighty for the high today. There's a slight chance with
thundershower part of the Claudie with a chance with a
couple of showers on Saturday eighty and then Sunday for
Mother's Day, mostly sunny and cool, high seventy six. We'll
get more on the forecast and try to time any
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rain showers. We're going to add when we talk to
Terry Smith in about another nine minutes, right sixty seven
at your official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty KTRH.
It's timed out for the news.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Here's Eric Sharp, Good morning seven thirty one on news
Radio seven forty KTRH top story this hour. The left
trying to shift again on immigration, calling on deported illegal
aliens to be allowed back in the US legally.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Jessica Vaugh with the Center for Immigration Study says that
is not a good idea.
Speaker 17 (21:28):
No, it's not the answer. Legal immigration and illegal immigration
right now are almost like two sides of the.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Same coin, a costly coin for the US.
Speaker 17 (21:39):
Our country simply cannot absorb that many newcomers in such
a short period of time, and we don't have strong
assimily institutions as we used to.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Have, which is part of the let's plan to change America.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven k ter.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
On Capitol Hill this week, lawmakers their concerns with the
head of Homeland Security. South Texas Congressman Henry Quaar says
that we need an upgrade in border cameras, which are
mostly broken, inoperable, running an obsolete technology.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
This all technology is like going to a car and
you fix it, and they keep coming in to fix
it up.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill includes billions of dollars for
new border wall and other improvements. The Trump administration asking
the Supreme Court to allow the President to end Biden
era amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
A district court ruling keeping in place humanitarian parole for
half a million people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
is now being appealed to the US Supreme Court. The
Trump administration says the lower court nullified one of the
administration's most consequential immigration policy decisions. Attorneys for the immigrants
say the administration has an incorrect reading of the law
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and puts vulnerable people in the country legally at risk
of losing everything. A Biden administration policy granted the temporary
protected status the hundreds of thousands of migrants, usually with
a two year work authorization. At the White House, Jared
Halpern Fox.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
News, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announcing the department will be
requesting billions from Congress to revamp air traffic control systems.
He says it's an urgent need.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
If we don't actually accomplish the mission that we're announcing today,
you will see Newarks not just in Newark, You'll see
Newarks in other parts of the country because it's an
agent system.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Several air incidents in recent months, we're linked to air
traffic control staffing or equipment problems. The Food and Drug
Administration is restructuring under the Trump administration, laying off three
thousand workers. Commissioner of Food and Drug Marty Makery telling
Fox it's a shifting of the FDA's mission back to
people's health.
Speaker 19 (23:57):
In the last administration number one priority, the commissioner state
was fighting misinformation and the DEI staff ballooned out. We
want to focus on cures and meaningful treatments. We believe
in the letter and the spirit of right to try.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
The AHHS has been ordered to restore some employees who
were laid off, including those in the nine to eleven program.
A meeting between FDA leadership and the agency's union was
canceled without explanation earlier this week. The House voting Thursday
to follow President Trump's lead renaming the Gulf of Mexico
to the Gulf of America. All Republicans voting yes except
(24:32):
for Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon. All Democrats voting no.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yes are two hundred and eleven. The nays are two
hundred and six. The bill has passed without objection. A
motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green had introduced the bill,
mirroring the president's recent executive order. The city financial director
says Houston could face a deficit of around five hundred
million dollars over the next few years. Mayor John Whitmeyer
can work this fix, but the city council winds up
standing in his way.
Speaker 20 (25:06):
I think the counselors are going to do that for
their own political game. But I also think there's certain
people that are trying to hurt Whitmyer. They're going to
vote opposite Whitmyre just to sort of give them a sumping.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
That's former city Councilman Greg Travis. He says this is
all a result of former Mayor Silvester Turner wasting COVID
funds and putting off important maintenance projects until now. All
businesses are looking beyond colleges to high schools now to
find skilled workers.
Speaker 21 (25:35):
Some high school students are already getting seventy thousand dollars
per year job offers from companies looking for those in
skilled trades. Former Dirty Jobs host Mike Rotels Fox this
is the future of high paying.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Work in the automotive industry.
Speaker 22 (25:47):
We've got sixty seven thousand openings right now for skilled tradesmen.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They can't find them.
Speaker 22 (25:52):
This is the year we're going to be talking about
what is happening in terms of this recruiting crisis.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Chickens are coming home to root.
Speaker 21 (26:01):
Any companies are partnering with high schools for training programs
to develop a new generation of skilled workers due to
the retirement of baby boomers. Corey Ulson, Who's Radio seven
forty KTRH. The astros were off Thursday.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
They open up a weekend series at home against the
Cincinnati Reds. Tonight, Live coverage on KTRH begins at seven.
I'm at Rick Sharp on Euston's news, weather and traffic
station News Radio seven forty KTRH. I live in the Park,
I live in the Woodlands.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You're reliable forecast. Next on the ten on seven forty KTRH.
You know, one of the most fun things in life
is to spend other people's money and to fantasize if
you were as rich as Bill Gates, what would you
do with the money? And then what proped in my
question of the day at the iHeartRadio app KTRH. Please
(26:50):
bank us number one on your presets. You can get
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the iHeartRadio apps free. Why not? And again, you know
number one on the preset you hit the talkback button,
first name where you're calling from. And the question of
(27:12):
the day was prompted by this story that Bill Gates
says he doesn't want to die a rich man. I'm
not sure that his you know, three kids probably would
love him to die as a rich man and inherit,
you know, some of those billions of dollars. He's already
donated one hundred billion dollars he saw as one hundred
and eight billion dollars left, so he wants to get
(27:35):
rid of that money, he says, in the next twenty years.
He doesn't want to die rich. So my question was,
you know, from a practical standpoint, if we had one
hundred billion dollars, if you had one hundred million dollars,
or I had one hundred billion dollars, how would we
spend the money? And the responses have been kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Is Stacey from Wall Or if I had Bill Gates
money how to retire?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Thank you, hey, Jimmy this fall.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Look I had a hundred billion dollars, I'd make sure
all military events that were disable at depot pieces and
makes and everything else that could get maybe.
Speaker 22 (28:07):
A lot of help in night set the brother who
do not have a home, and no, they're homeless.
Speaker 18 (28:16):
I don't mean they do not have a home, but
they are homeless.
Speaker 11 (28:19):
And I'll get each one of them.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
A home, a place to live, and I'll.
Speaker 18 (28:25):
Sool my nephew, my sister, sons who live with her
and they're living with strangers right now.
Speaker 20 (28:33):
And the home I live in I live with my
mom and my.
Speaker 23 (28:37):
Sister, one of them Jimmy Asia from Spring. If I
won one hundred billion dollars, I would invest a bunch
of that into gold. I would invest some of that
into sons. I would send missionaries overseas. Help some single brothers,
help some veterans, help some struggling churches. Maybe by some
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friends of cars, need some new cars or cars or clunkers.
Build a really nice house, spend all my days with
my family, travel, play a bunch of golf.
Speaker 12 (29:08):
Bhye, this is Ettie from Spring, Texas. If I got
Bill Gates money, I would get on the bills by
two hundred acres of land to divide it by the
four kids I have. Then I would also give the
money to our military dots and see a very special
charities that I loved.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, a lot of help there for military bets. I
love that. I know what Elizabeth would do. She would
she would she would buy a whole bunch of land
and put up a whole bunch of buildings, and she
would make sure that every sheltered dog in America had
a forever home where they had all the treats they wanted,
you know, got to hang out with all the other dogs,
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get all the love and attention they ever wanted.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm pretty sure she'd that'd be the first thing she'd
spend that money on. Seven forty one time for traffic
and weather together. I'm issuing a correction. What you're not
going to rebuild astro World with you one hundred billion?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I would do fillanthropic things first and then rebuild an
exact replica of astral World with all the concerts we
had then of the groups that hadn't yet kicked the bucket.
So here we go, jump on the cyclone, jump on
grease lightlying us have some fun.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That kind of money might be able to bring back
some of the dead groups. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Let's go to the North Loop sixth in throwing a
little AI at the squeeze.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
We had this wreck, bad spot. Everybody was okay.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
There we're backed up from I sixty nine southbound rick
from Magnolia's on forty five to the North Freeway.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
With an update, I got my three lanes are now
getting on that wreck in the bed way. Only an
eighteen wailers sitting there in the right lane, So.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Right, put this banana sticker on your toolbox.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
That as an eighteen wheeler at the north Belt southbound
looks like they're about to ninja that and six tenths
south steep from Deer Park.
Speaker 14 (30:53):
Hey, Scot Mike just before MLK or there's a little
black dog running along trying to get across the street.
Can keep an eye out for him. Be nice if
somebody can rescue.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
All right, there's a little puppy for Elizabeth's home. For
a little way where doggies and kiddies watch out as
you're going. That seems to be westbound, Steve, so watch
out on the south loop.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
What's going down to uptown? If that makes sense, Terry,
we're slow. From two ninety. I'm in the USA Rbresorts
dot Com traffic center from r KTRH generator of super
Center twenty four our weathers center. Yep. Mother's Day weekend
is this weekend, and you ordered up a perfect day
for mom.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Nice job, thank you. I'm happy to be the reporter.
I'm not going to take the credit as much as
it would be nice to. It's mother Nature who's saying, hey,
let's cut mom some slack and give her a nice day.
And you know what, we had all the rain during
the week, and so that means all the flowers are blooming,
and it's just it really is going to be a
fine spring weekend, which by itself is a treat. We
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do have a twenty percent chance of a shower or
two today, maybe a rumble of thunder. There's obviously not
much rain over the course of the day. Upper seventies
eighties today, thirty percent chance of those showers, some thunder
primarily in the afternoon, and temperature still in the upper
seventies to low eighties, which is very pleasant. And Sunday's
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even better. Primo day, mid to upper seventies. No rain
on Sunday, and then the temperatures start to heat up.
Next week. We're going to be in the eighties to
start with. We're going to see some low nineties I
think Tuesday, maybe into Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So you know, summer is not too far away. No
plas right around the corner sixty seven at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. What you
need to know for the day ahead.
Speaker 16 (32:39):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
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Speaker 1 (32:44):
The latest, and I say the latest because there's always
a disagreement. The latest disagreement between Harris County Precinct three
Commissioner Tom Ramsey and Judge Lena Hilldogole coming up next,
But first, the seven fifty lits do a little traffic
and weather together. Starting with the Usky Mike.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
It's north freeways southbound. All the other vehicles have been
pulled away. We still have the eighteen wheeler two right
lanes southbound at the belt. Kevin from Danbury has hit
my Facebook page. He put up a comment he says
tonight at nine o'clock his cruise, we'll be taking out
a right lane at Kroy Road on two eighty eight
in front of Rodeo Palms. They're gonna move the text
(33:19):
dot wall of death, and by next week we'll have
the new southbound main lanes. And you can always talk
to us on the tip line or the free iHeartRadio app.
Click the talkback Mike.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Art Sky, Mike, I have Bill Gates's money. I only
got two words. Boogie nights.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Oh, he's gonna build a disco. I'm Skymike on the
generator of supercenter dot com traffic sounds like a great
way to lose the money.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather center.
Partly cloudy about eighty today, there's the chance of a thundershower.
Same forecast for tomorrow and then for Sunday. Mostly sunny
and cool for Mother's Day with the high seventy six.
Right now, temperature is sixty seven at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Time to check
some more top stories in for clip today.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Here's Eric Good Morning seven fifty one on news Radio
seven forty k TRH. Pakistan and India accusing each other
of launching drone attacks against one another. Meanwhile, President Trump
is calling for a thirty day ceasefire in the Russia
Ukraine War, and the Department of Justice investigating New York
Attorney General Letitia James for fraud. Get the latest details
(34:23):
anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update comes your
way at eight.
Speaker 18 (34:27):
When events are happening, people knew that something was going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Check in the big trade deal.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
India and Pakistan.
Speaker 12 (34:33):
Lepope elected.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
He's Radio seven k t RH. Except in this case,
there is a good guy. He's our next guest. Harris
County Precinct three Commissioner Tom ramsay, And there is a
bad guy. It's Lena Hildago and it's it's the typical argument,
is it, Doc Commissioner. Here we have a situation where
EAHBD has gotten a much deserved raise. Harris County Sheriff's
(34:56):
Office says, Hey, I think it's our turn now we
need him deserve raise. Leading Hedgo says sure, but I'm
going to have to raise taxes. And of course your
answer to raising taxes to give them a raise.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Is I think we need to focus on statue tool responsibilities,
and if we would do that, we would address a
lot of wasteful spending. And that's one thing that Judge
Rdalgo does not want to talk about, does not want
to acknowledge. And that was really the debate yesterday. It's
really two different ways of looking at the issue. Number One,
(35:32):
I congratulate the City of Houston Mayor Whitmeyer and giving
those increases to HPD. They've set a great new standard
in this county for law enforcement. We need to respond.
We had sheriff's deputies there to remind us that they've
waited patiently for many years. Now it's time that we
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address it. I totally agreed with it. And the pushback
from Jeffildalgo is he brings up the story of when
I refuse to come to court because they wanted to
raise a lot of money through taxes and she wouldn't
tell me what it was for. She says that she'll
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spend it on law enforcement, but I'm not believe in it.
And at this point, if we'll focus on a wasteful spending,
get that under control, we'll have plenty of money to
take care.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Of the raises well. And you brought me. I was
gonna say, you brought up may Mayor. Whitmeyer is a
prime example. He's got seven billion dollar budget that they
have wiped out their deficit. They have rearranged departments, they
have They've done the heavy lifting and the hard work
to balance the budget. The City of Houston has a
balanced budget. Why can't Harris County do the same.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Well, we'll have a balanced budget, but it'll be balanced
on the backs of law enforcement. And that's that's not.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
What we should do.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
He did it right. He did it the hard way.
He did He rolled up his sleeves and got in the.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Middle of it.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
The easy way to do it is what Lena Hildalgo
wants to do. She just wants to go to the
credit card, get more money through taxes, and raise it.
She doesn't want to do the hard work of eliminading
the wasteful spending of access Harris twenty five million, County
Administrator's office twenty five million, Consulting firms over fifty million.
(37:34):
I can get to one hundred and forty one million,
which is what it would take to fund the sheriff's
deputies and the gospels one hundred We can get to
one hundred and forty one million.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Pretty easy. Yeah, I was going to say, it really is.
That's what's shameful about it. It's not that hard. All
you'd have to do is it's not that hard to
find fraud and waste in Harris County. It really isn't.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Yes, Jimmy, you and I could get and run about
fifteen minutes we get to one hundred and forty one
It wouldn't be hard.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You're right, nobody's gonna elect me to do that work.
But you keep doing what you do, sir, You're you're
you're the lone wolf in the wilderness who's keeping us
sane in Harris County. We appreciate it. You take care,
have a great weekend. That's Harris County Precinct three Commissioner
Tom Ramsey. Yeah, Happy Mother's Day. Told you moms. We'll
see him Monday morning, bright and early, starting at five am.
Hope to see you this afternoon four on AM nine
(38:19):
fifty KPRC
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