Monday, May 5th, 2024

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

Episode Transcript

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This is huge Radio seven forty KTRHHouston Live Everywhere with the IRNE Now the
latest news, weather and traffic.It's more of what matters to you.
From the John Morris Services Studios.Good morning, five am our time here
on Houston's Morning News. I'm JimmyBarrett Long with Sheriff Fryar Monger. Top

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stories as we get started this morning, not everything has quested yet in Montgomery
County. Bar protests in Austin thistime no arrests. And coming up at
five to eight. Another prediction ofwhen humans will become extinct. This one
is a little more believable details inthe minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Morning
News. First, I can't waitto check out that morning drop. You
got plenty of times, got Mike, not to worry. I think I'm

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gonna I don't know that I'm evengoing to die of natural causes. Here,
let's go to two eighty eight.I've got the stall truck, left
flane. This is all I've gotfor Houston incidents. Left flane northbound airport,
blah blah blah. You're getting byit just fine. And what you're
worried about is flooded roads and westill have them. East Freeway frontage Road
at min Matthew saw us filming thatthe other day. Lake Houston Parkway,

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Upper Lake that's still flooded. Thefrontage road of the East tex Sandra Center
River fourteen I can't remember, fourteeneighty five, just the east of New
Caney and off of fifty nine that'sgoing to be flooded too. It's not
going anywhere. And we'll do thisall morning. The Generator Supercenter dot Com
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three. Look at to the completeforecast with Terry Smith of the Weather Channel
in about nine minutes right now seventythree at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k t RH. It is time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Fryer. Good morning everyone. It is now five oh one
on news radio seven forty k tRH, our top story this hour.

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There's going to be millions of dollarsworth of stuffs that are going to need
to be fixed. Rain gone.These communities, though impacted, by flooding
north of Houston. Now in themiddle of cleanup, we're going to begin
going in to the communities and we'regoing to be assessing damages. We have
to do that in order to applyfor federal reimbursement and help on all this

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stuff. Lookgomory Kennedy, Jege Marcillothere. He'll be joining Houston's Morning News
at seven twenty this morning. TheSan Jacenta River not expected to fall below
the flood level until Thursday. Inthe Sheldon area, the west fork of
the San Jack and Humble should bebelow the flood level by Wednesday. Parts
of the Trinity River have crested,but the Moss Bluff area won't crest until

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tomorrow afternoon. High water rescues continuingacross the Greater Houston area. A woman
drove into high water after ignoring instructionsfrom firefighters. You should have stayed there
where you're at, Man, whatshould I do? Told you drive and
you asked me I have to goback. I didn't wait to come back.
No, man, we told yougot to drive your car. Yes.

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At rescue caught on tape by ourTV partner channel. There have been
hundreds of high water rescues over thelast week. Among the school districts closed
today, Channel View in Dayton,ISD is a complete list at KTRH dot
com. We know of one deathfrom flooding in the state. A five
year old boy died swept away bywaters in Johnson County. That's south of
Fort Worth. It is now fiveo three. Rojamas anti Israel protests returned

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to the UT also happens yesterday.No one was arrested at that demonstration,
unlike others over the last two weekswhen dozens were arrested after confronting police and
DPS troopers. Elsewhere, a Palestinianflag was hoisted above the encampment at George
Washington University in DC. A statueof this nation's first president was defaced.

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George Washington defaced with flags and stickers, and Washington is now wearing a Palestinian
Scarfleadership called out for being cowards andresponding to these demonstrations. Jean Burke with
college prep genius as the problem startsmuch earlier than college, though I think
that it goes back to the highschool. Even earlier. Kids would have

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strong belief systems they're going to beswayed one way together. Whatever sounds good,
where it comes along, They're goingto jump on it. She says.
The answer is school choice, whereparents have more say so. After
another round of negotiations with Hamas failed, Israel now telling civilians in Rafa,
that area of Gaza to evacuate.They're planning their military action in that part

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of the occupied land of Hamas.The accounting trial of Donald Trump begins his
fourth week this morning in Manhattan.I believe this is election interference, plain
and simple. I don't think thiscase has any legal basis whatsoever, Trump
attorney will sharf on Fox. Thetrial has several more weeks. Trump will

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have to be locked up in thatcourtroom before it wraps. He's now calling
meantime for the arrest of the SpecialCouncil Jack Smith. It's because the FBI
the National Archives got caught sending intampering with documents that they confiscated in the
mar A Lago raid. Oh yeah. The DOJ had to admit, under
a Foyer request that some of theevidence is no longer in its original form

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either on true Social Trump called prosecutorJack Smith a criminal. Trump told Time
Magazine in an op ed that hewould deport nearly twenty million illegal aliens who've
invaded our country. Can he fixwhat Joe Biden broke if Trump wins reelection?

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Thankfully, this is an area wherethe law is clear and the answer
is yes. Under the statutory delegationsfrom Congress, the president has brought authority
to manage our orders in the administrationof overall immigration law. So it's a
very broad authority. Dan Stein,with fair says we should really be looking
at who opposes border security and whythe court system has been used effectively by
groups like the ACLU to delay theprocess by getting these injunctions. Stein says,

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at the end of the day,all we need is a president who's
willing to do the things that wealready know work. Ethan Bchennon News Radio
seven forty ktr each Some contenders forTrump's running mate were at a retreat in
Florida this weekend. I hope thatthe President will choose a person who helps
the country unite and heal. Icertainly expect to have a decision from President

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Trump in the next sixty days orso. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott one
of those attending on NBC's Meet thePress, Big Tech once again showing its
bias in the twenty twenty four campaign. Google, however, got shamed.
They had to go ahead and runmake America Great Again pack ad showing how
life was better under Trump. Googleoriginally banned it. Local election results.

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Molly Cook beats Jarvis Jocks Johnson inthat special election to fill the rest of
Houston now Houston Mayor John Whitmyer's termin the state Senate. Now. The
two will be in a runoff laterthis month for the November general election for
the full term that begins next year. Looking at our money, more Americans
told ABC News they trust Trump morethan Biden when it comes to the economy,

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and boy was at a shock tomainstream media. This nostalgia for the
Trump years is something that I wouldsay about the the economy nostalgia I heard
from Democrats even which was really shockingto me Lay Democrats, remembering how good
they thought their four oh one kwas obviously well paid. MPR reporter Ozma
Khalid, she was on ABC's ThisWeek tougher to save her retirement. Now

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because of the Biden economy and inflation, money expert Derrick Kenney says many don't
follow basic savings recommendations until it's toolate. Then they realize, oh my
gosh, I don't have enough money. And what it forces them often to
do is go back to work atthe time they least want to go back
to work. He says, planningnow helps avoid headaches later. Five.

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Oh, wait is our time.The Strows lose to the Mariners five to
four. They visit the Yankees tonight. Pregame at five on Sports Talk seven
ninety the first pitch six O five, and then kt r H will join
all that in progress at seven.I'm Sheriff Fryar on News Radio seven forty
KTRH. This is Houston's Morning Newswith Jimmy Parent and Sheriff Fryar. Oh

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Bible nine at time, you're onJustin's Morning News. All right. The
supercomputer is on a simulation given currentdata and predictive future data for you,
things like like carbon in the atmosphereand all the other stuff junk in,
junk out, garbage in, garbageout. But even with garbage in garbage
out, Sheriff Fryar, they're notpredicting an n to humanity in the next

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ten years, the next twenty years, the next fifty years the next one
hundred years cared to gains. Howmany more years they think humanity has left
to hear on good old planet Earthbefore we blow the whole deal five hundred,
two hundred and fifty million. Anyonewith any sense would add the millions

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to it. But I thought no, considering that they would try to have
AI determine this. Yeah, Imean if they if they're trying to put
a bum's rush on us, youknow, to go all woken, you
know, carbon neutral and all thatother stuff. If we did absolutely nothing,
we have minimally two hundred and fiftymillion years left on Earth before we
have to do everything face extinction,everything remained exactly, yeah, which it

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never does. All kinds of variables, don't they They can they can predict
what happened learning how to how toincrease well, they can predict what happened
to h fifty million years ago,but you can't predict what's going to happen
over the course of the next twohudred and fifty million. Yeah, it's
not like we're static. Yeah,So anyway, I just thought you should
know that you miss discounting. Godif you're even if you're a big believer

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in the whole climate change thing.It's okay. You, you, your
kids, your kids, kids,your kids, kids, kids, skates
kids. You can keep going fora long long time before we have to
worry about this five to ten timefor traffic. I may be able to
retire by then. Yes, thinkof what your far ol cable worth.
In two undred and fifty million years, I should be a thousand eire and
I'm wanted by the tollway now,by the way, so that's about to

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get ugly. That'll be a fundrama to talk about this week. Let's
do the big grand scheme of thingshere. Six to ten northeastbound at Airlines.
That is some kind of wreck inthe front of road. It's funny
the online say four frontite road lanes. There are not four frontitge road lanes
there. See, this is whyyou get your traffic from AM radio live
in Houston by a person that's beennear by, what twenty five years whatever.

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You've got flooding on iten east atMonmouth. You saw that on TV.
I wonder who was filming it EastFreeway Monmouth right over by the truck
stops. Unless you're crabbing that won'taffect you. And we do have fourteen
eighty five and New Caney shut downstill over the San Jacino River Bridge.
That's not going anywhere anytime soon.You've got the East Tex feeder at the

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San Jacento River and unless you're parkingto fish, that's not really affecting you
here. I'm worried about some ofthese backroads like twenty eight fifty four just
to the west of Conrope and alsoone oh five. You're high and dry
from what I can understand. Ifyou're up in Liberty County, you've got
some FBIM closures, but it lookslike three twenty one's getting five just fine.
This is where I can use yourhelp out there because there's a lot

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of these spots I can't see.Tell me what's flooded, tell me what's
not passable that affects a lot ofpeople. Here's your tip line ready seven
one three two one two tips Terry. I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com
traffic Center from r KTRH Top TaxDefenders twenty four hour Whether Center, Terry
Smith is here. Seems like everyday over the weekend we had three or
four hours with a heavy rain ina lot of spots terry. So we

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could use a dry spell here totry to get these roads back in order
and get the waters receded. Yes, we could a nice long dry spell,
and you know what, looking atthe week, we have more sunshine
than rain, and when we doget rain, it's hardly any rain at
all. So this is a bigimprovement over what we had been dealing with

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through Sunday. We had flood watchesthat have been in effect since Thursday,
so much improved here. We'll turnout partly cloudy today, there is a
twenty percent chance of a shower.Most of us are dry. Any rain
that falls will be on the lightside. Load to mid eighties today.
No rain Tomorrow and Wednesday we warmup mid to upper eighties both days.
There is that twenty percent chance ofa shower again Thursday, but another dry

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day Friday. Right down seventy threeat your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KRH. It's Houston'sMorning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions. Now back toJimmy and Sherah with the info you need
to take on the day, fivetwenty now Here in Houston's Morning News,
No the weekend with some prote goingon, nothing like we saw the previous

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week or weekend, but still thegraduation ceremonies, for example, the University
of Michigan, we're disrupted by aprotest right in the middle of the graduation
ceremony. We're going to get somethoughts from a professor at CUNY about what's
happening on these campuses. Who's behindall this. We'll have more on that
story coming up next. First,trafficking weather together, starting with you Sky

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Mike Man. It's crazy this morning. Keep the tip liners calling. I'm
going to open it up shortly.But fourteen eighty five, we know New
Caney that's going to be just eastof Graham Parkway completely shut down. The
Sandra Cento River Bridge. You can'tget across it, and I think it's
going to be like this probably asTerry mentioned that, we're not going to
see receding floodwaters till Thursday. I'msurprised we don't have it closed. Over

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the Peach over Peach Creek Bridge.You've got East Text Freeway at the west
fork of the Sanda Center. Thefrontage road is closed. The main lanes
are just fine getting around and keephelping me out on the tip line SKYMIKEE
and the Generator Supercenter dot com trapfrom our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four
hour weather center. For today,considerable clowns is going to become partly cloudy,

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slack chances of a rain shower abouttwenty percent chance with the high today
eighty three. Then Tomorrow and Wednesdaypartly cloudy. Stray shower or storm possibility
both days with the high temperature innear ninety right now temperature is double check
it for you here seventy three didyour official severe weather station News Radio seven
forty KTRH. Check out some ofour top stories on this Monday. Here's

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Shia It's now five twenty two onnews Radio seven forty KTRH. Our headlines
are sponsored by dn M Auto Leasing. Florida Governor Ron Desandas has sent members
of that state's Search and Rescue taskForces to assist Texas Task Force one and
two with the flooding north of Houston. Israel says the White House put a
hold on shipments of ammunition to Israelbecause of its planned military action in Rafa

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Uh huh what side is he on? Hormel Foods recalls two Planters nuts products
over lysteria concerns, Honey Roaster Peanuts, Jimmy and Deluxe lightly salted mixed nuts.
Latest news anytime ktah dot com.Our next update will be at the
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reliable forecast next on the ten onseven forty k t r H by twenty
three now here on Houston's morning News. All right, let's get some thoughts
from a guy who's actually on campus. He's a professor at ce U n
Y. So you would think,soony, Yeah, this is what sooning.
Turn your microphone on. Sure wecan't hear you. Cuny cuney.

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Who calls it cuneye? They do? Yeah, Okay, talked over the
weekend to a guy went to schoolthere, cuney, cuney, cuney.
Not to be the University of NewYork. Right, there's another. There's
also a Suny, s u nY. Yeah, there's an s U
n Y and c U n Y. Yeah, just to cuny. Learn
something new every day. You're nevertwo alter learning. Kids never too old

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to learn. It's easier. Youcan get it out faster in radio.
You call it CuNi. I betI could. I'm in radio. I
bet I could say see you whenthey're like, well, I would have
been able to if you and joinsme on it, I would have been
able to say, just as fasterand faster shakes me, she cheakes me.
Okay, let's get to the professor. His name is Jeffrey Lax.
He has some definite thoughts on thestudent protesting and he thinks the main thing

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behind the student protesting are radical factoryyou know, members, members of the
faculty, radical faculty members, noteven necessarily long standing professors, you know,
grad students, those types. Hereis this isn't This is a combination
of Islamo Marxists there And what dothey have in common? What are Islamis

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and the Marxists have in common?Nothing? You know what it reminds me
of. It reminds me of WorldWar two when we were allied with the
Russians. We had nothing in commonwith the future, you know view we
had for our nations, but wehad a common common enemy. And what
do the Marxists wants Because all theseprofessors of Marxist every student rally, you
see like this are Marxist professors leadingit, guiding it. It's not students.

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Don't be fooled by the face ofthe rallies. I see this uplill
close and personal every day in ourcampuses. It's Marxist faculty leading it.
And it's a convenient relationship right nowwith the Islamists radicals who are supporting terror.
A Columbia Law review that's a legaljournal, is run by Columbia law
students. It's calling on the schoolto cancel final exams and give everybody a

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passing grade. Here's what they said, and I'm quoting now. Many of
us are unwell at this time andcannot study or concentrate while their peers are
being hauled off to jail. Youknow, I'm pouring scorn on this.
This is outrageous, Jeffrey. Theseare law students. Count rageous. Listen.
The only reason I can't laugh isbecause I'm still thinking about the hostages

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that are stuck in Gaza, whohave been there for now close to a
year. So that's the only thingthat stops you from laughing, because it's
so ridiculous, and it is hilariouson a on accord. But there are
people who are there for close toa year now, suffering, their families
are crying, and these people areasking for these ridiculous requests. Its absolutely
absurd, obviously, but it's alsohard. They might get it, Yeah,

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they might well get this. Youknow the fact that these schools,
I mean this really rous me up. That these schools are negotiating with these
lunatics is insanity. It's pure insanity. And I saw one of those schools,
I think it was NYU. Ithink that they agreed to eight out
of ten demands that these encampment studentsmade, which is unbelievable. As if

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they're the victims. They're not thevictims. They caused the violence, They
caused the harm to Jews, theycaused the threats. And by the way,
this is not anti Semitic, thisis anti American. This is anti
Western culture. The Jews are thelow hanging fruit. Next is America,
Next is Western culture. Yeah,he's probably right about that. Do you
believe that they're negotiating though, Yeah, we don't want to take final exams.

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We give us all a passing gradeon the final and we'll maybe we'll
leave our encampment behind. Well,and there you have at George Washington University,
the Statue of Washington wrapped in aPalestinian you know, a headscarf,
and they've got labels and Palestinian flagsall over him. That's an esteemed law
school too. Yeah, well,uh huh, getting less esteemed every day.

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Five twenty seven is their time.It's time to take a look at
your money. Joan Donnigher is here. Good morning, Good morning, Jimmy.
This is a huge day for Bowing. It is poised to send astronauts
into orbit using its long delayed spacecapsule. This is a first of its
kind test for Boeing and its rocketmaking joint venture, the star Liner space
taxi, will carry two NASA astronauts, but the Starliner has been plagued by

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years of technical problems. The launchis set for ten thirty four tonight,
Eastern Time from Cape Canaveral. Here'ssome Monday morning news to wake up to.
Coffee prices are higher than they've beensince the late seventies. The International
Coffee Organization says a supply crunch inVietnam is getting worse. For the variety
of coffee bean used in espresso blendsand in instant coffees, the group's gage

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of wholesale prices rose seventeen percent inApril. Oil prices on the rise again
too, after dropping below eighty dollarsa barrel. Saudi Arabia boosted prices for
its grade to Asia for a thirdstraight month. Right now, crude futures
are up eighty cents to seventy eightninety three of barrel On Wall Street,
we're seeing small gains in stock futures. S and P Future is up fifteen
as Deck Future is fifty two.DEW futures up ninety points. I'm Joan

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Donagher, Bloomberg Business on News Radioseven forty k TRH. You are known
to Houston's News. Why there aretraffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is US Radio seven forty KTRHTrive everywhere point the IRP. More
of what's happening now from the JohnMorris Services Studios. It is I point

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thirty now here in Houston's Warning News. I'm Timmy Barrett, a long with
Sheriff Ryer Monger Top sources f ourAre things getting any better? In Kingwood?
Marjorie Taylor Green's still out for speakerJohnson and coming up at five thirty
eight. A zebra on the run. It has finally been caught. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're inHouston's Morning News. First, let's stick
out that morning drive. Here's guyMike. Oh the canyon already, Mike,

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we got shrivel in the canyon,Jimmy Barrett. It sounds like a
Western, doesn't it. Let's gosouthbound. It's I sixty nine down at
two eighty eight at the merged spot. That's a stall. Now they've moved
it to the left shoulder, butthat's a really sticky spot because of all
the merging and craziness that goes onin the canyon. So let's watch out
for those tow truck Nanjas Paul fromConrad I Mike, yesterday we went down

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twenty eight fifty four of Icanro andit was smooth. There is a high
water kay party, all right.First banana sticker of the morning. And
hey, if y'all will turn offthe turn off the speakerphone for me,
but thanks so much for that.And we've got some east side stuff coming
up at the five forty break.The Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from

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r ktr H Reader super Center oftwenty four. Our Weather Center co serviral
clouds becoming partly cloudy at some pointtoday. Slight chance for range our twenty
percent or so. With the higheighty three, we'll check out the rest
of the work week looks a lotdrier than last week. Well, Doctor
Terry Smith in about eight minutes rightnow, temperature seventy three at your officials
Severe weather station. News Radio sevenforty KTRH. It is time now for

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the news. Here's Sheriff Fryer.Good morning. Everyone, is five thirty
two on news Radio seven forty ktrh'snews sponsored by Generator Supercenter. Our top
story this hour. It's come downa lot. We were out here a
couple hours ago and the water wasup to the windows on that car right
there. That's Harris County Sheriff's DepartmentLieutenant David Jasper. The rain's gone.
The floodwater's still coming down in areasnorth of the city. But Jasper told

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our TV partner channel too, thereis still danger. This water is contaminated,
there's biohazards. Patrollium. I wouldn'tget in it if I didn't have
to run off. Parts of theSan Jacenter River will not all below flood
level until Thursday. Parts of theTrinity will drop below flood level tomorrow.

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Severe weather resulting in a house firein northwest Harris County. A tree hit
by lightning fell, hitting the homeand a gas line inside. No one
was hurt. There are more schoolclosings today, including the Liberty and harden
Isds. Complete list at KTRH dotcom. Also topping our new Georgia,
Republican Marjorie Taylor Green expected to bringit to a vote her motion to vacate

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the speakership of Mike Johnson. Itis not helpful to our cause to advance
conservative policy and principle to have anyany of the uprising in her own camp.
And that's what this is. Idon't think it goes anywhere. Johnson
on Fox Now. The motion isexpected to fail because the Democrats are going
to vote to save Johnson's speakership.Speaks volumes. Some contenders to be Donald

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Trump's running mate were in Tampa,Florida this weekend. It was a donor
retreat. South Dakota Governor Nome wasnot there. It's fallout, they say
from her book, in which sheadmitted shooting and killing a fourteen month old
dog that was by the way killingher neighbor's chickens. This was a dangerous
animal that was killing livestock and attackingpeople. And I had little children at

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the time. Our operation had manykids running around and people in interaction with
the public, and I made adifficult choice. No, I'm on CBS's
face the nation. Biden's been adisaster, But Democrats claim that conservative media
actually secretly once four more years ofthis failed presidency, Liberals think we want
more Biden just so we can complainabout him. Emergency room doctors don't want

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more accidents because it's job security.No, we do not want Joe Biden
to win. TJR Reaches. MichaelBerry says this election is life or death
for conservative media. The government isnow intruding into free speech on such a
level that we can't survive a Bidenadministration, So it's purely a question of
survival at this point. Harry saysthis claim from the left is a result

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of their inability to admit that Bidenhas been a disaster for everyone. Ethan
Buchinnon News Radio seven forty KTRH.And the persecution continues. The accounting trial
of Donald Trump resuming in Manhattan thismorning, though the mainstream media now starting
to even admit this case is goingto fail. There isn't a case.
Remember him, the straight arrow Republicanall the Democrats thought would hold Trump accountable

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for colluding with Russia. But withMueller, as with Garland, now when
we needed a pit bull, wegot a purse dog. Hbos Bill Maher.
He's blaming Attorney General Merrick Garland forslow walking all of these witch hunts
against Trump so it would interfere withthe elections. It is now five thirty
five rich keep getting richer in thisBiden economy. Some lawmakers want to kick

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Wall Street out of the housing market. Large investment firms have bought up hundreds
of thousands of homes in recent yearsto rent out. Real estate expert Ted
Jones it says these companies still holda significant share of US homes. Of
those eighty six million, the aresingle family, about sixty eight sixty nine
million are owned by people, Sohe's about twenty million those single family homes.

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But he adds they are now sellingoff many of those homes due to
the costs. Kash a lot moreto repair that house. So what we're
seeing right now because Wall Street firmsare actually reinvested in to build too rich
communities. Some Democrats want legislation tocap the number of homes companies can buy.
Cory Ulson, who's radio seven fortyktrh oil futures trading for about seventy

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nine bucks of barrel this morning.But there are concerns that oil prices.
We've seen them go up, comedown, They're not going to stay steady.
If they stay more or les's wherethey are, we could have a
comparatively low priced season this summer,but it doesn't seem likely, as analyst
Trilby Lundberg, Israel on the vergeof a military operation in Rafa, that's

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in Gaza. It's a Hamas stronghold. Israel's defense minister says it has to
happen now because Hamas has rejected thelatest offer of a truce. Talks on
the hostage release deal are meant tocontinue today, and Israeli spokesman's confirmed a
limited scope operation is planned in Rafa, the military urging one hundred thousand Palestinians

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to move to an expanded humanitarian zone. More pro Hamas protests this weekend at
colleges across the country concerned now thatthe agitators are going to be disrupting commencement.
There are many ways to protest somethingthat's happening in another part of the
world, but not by by killing, or not by throwing stones or it's

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saying killed the Jews in some ofthe campuses. Florida Republican Congresswoman Maria Salazar
and Fox we know the protests arefunded by outside sources. Political reporting they
include Joe Biden's biggest donors, GeorgeSoros, money behind two groups responsible for
the riots of Columbia. Jewish Voicefor Peace is the name and if not

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now yeah, he funds them.It's five thirty eight. We may not
have seen the last of JJ Wattin a Houston, Texas uniform. After
all, I told Demico last year, I said, don't call unless you
absolutely need it. But if youever do call, I'll be there.
He knows not to call him lesssee absolutely needs it. What before his

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charity softball game this weekend. Heretired after the twenty twenty two season.
I'm sheryf Rar in news radio sevenforty KTRH. I usually take iten West,
but lately that's been a nightmare ktrhtime saving traffic. Next on the
ten Kitts and Zebra Seebra's on theRun five thirty nine ers their time here.

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In Houston's morning news, a groupof four zebra is being transported from
just outside Seattle, Washington, toMontana to a new home. Trailer broke
down, so guy pulls over tothe side of the road and he's working
on the trailer, and the zebrasdecided, hmmm, this this this,

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uh, this door looks pretty loose. Maybe we can get out of here.
And sure enough they did, sofour zebras took off. They're gonna
live in the wilds of Washington.Evidently, no more captivity for us.
Three of them got caught right away. Sug, however, that's that's the
zebra's name. Sug decided that shedidn't want any party getting caught, so

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she won on a week long adventureand she gets spotted and she gets her
photograph taken, and she's becoming anInternet sensation. But she's a loser a
looting captivity until she finally wanders onto a farmer's property and the farmer's got
a little, you know, littleexperience, you know, rounding up horses
and that kind of thing. Sohe he basically, first of all,

(29:52):
he gains her confidence with food,because Shug's pretty hungry. Sugar finds out
there's not a lot to eat.Sometimes it's not apples season. You have,
What am I going to eat outhere? So he starts building a
little fence and he just kind ofmoves her closer and closer and closer,
moves the fences in closer and closerin feedzer, and they finally capture.
Took six days for her to dothat. I'm not sure how long a

(30:15):
zebra would last in the wilds ofWashington State anyway. That's not exactly like
you know, the Serengeti five fortytime for traffic and weather together, we're
at a zebra on the freeways inHouston. Of all the stuff we've had,
you know, never had zebra.We've had We've had families of ducks
blocking roads. We've had alligators asa lot of you know, we've had
a lot of livestock. We've hadnaked people that we get a lot of

(30:37):
those. Have we ever had anybodyanything escape the Houston Zoo and make it
onto a freeway that would be coolright there. I'd like to see some
lamas or something. But no,no, no, don't do that.
Let's go let's head to the hardwork and easaide. But your heart hat
some we're doing it in at Monmouth. The duck from Mott Bilby tells me
there's all these blow shoeloids there rightat Monmouth before the truck stop, and

(30:57):
people are actually kind of rubbernecking justa little bit. I'll tell you something
I saw Terry when we I wason call for TV and we were filming
over at some of the high waterrescues. But the debris in the Sanja
Cento River is pretty troubling. Andalso there was all kinds of fuel spill.
So you know, if you gotkids, don't let them play in
that stuff. The feeder road completelyblocked out here, and people are revernacking

(31:19):
just a little bit at an extraminute or so now over our shoulder toll
bridge southbound, that suckage continues.It's one lane, that's all you have.
Southbound looks like about a ten minutespackle and you've got let's see North
Loop Airline. They cleared that wreckedtrouble in the canyon southwest Freeway outbound at
two eighty eight southbound. It's rightthere in the left shoulder, really sticky

(31:41):
spot. And I'm getting reports offourteen oh nine closure. I need a
cross street. Remember to give meboth the regular street and the cross street
when you give me these. I'mthe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.
Looks like we had a baby elfthat to escape the Houston Zoo once,
but he didn't get very far.Definite thing he ever got. He went
down Maine. Yeah, he nevergot off his zo property. I don't
think from our KTRH Generators super Centertwenty four hour whether Center, Terry Smith

(32:05):
is here and the rain isn't forchange and that's nice. Oh what a
nice change of pace. I mean, we had so much rain I think
since Thursday. I remember the floodwatches Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
and there are no flood watches.We're just watching the rivers and the
creeks receipt and it is going totake some time, especially along the around
New Caney, the Sanjacento River therethat's still going to be in flood stage

(32:30):
till about Wednesday morning, but withvery little rain in the forecast. All
week long. Conditions will begin toimprove, but the temperatures do warm up.
I will warn you that twenty percentchance of a shower today. That's
it. Load of mid eighties today, Tomorrow and Wednesday, no rain,
mid to upper eighties. Thursday,we have a twenty percent chance of a

(32:51):
shower, maybe a rumble at thunder. Friday's dry. Friday does cool down
a little bit, we'll be inthe load of mid eighties Friday, still
seventy three here at You're a fishsevere weather station, News Radio seven forty
KRH. What you need to knowfor the day ahead. This is Houston's
Morning News, brought to you byNew South Windows Solutions, five fifties a

(33:12):
time. Here in Houston's Morning News. So evidently the short list is being
speculated on for the Trump VP pick. It probably will be another month,
maybe another two months before he actuallymakes the pick. But who's supposedly is
on the short list. We'll takea look at that coming up next.
First, though, traffic and weathertogether as we check out the drive once
again, here's sky Mike. Allright, I got Mark from Spring on

(33:34):
the tip line. He's doing theNorth Freeway just before the main straight bridge.
Please car that got a car pullsover? Everybody blowing down? All
right, that's a really sticky spot. Let's watch out coming down from porter.
I got Stephen from Dayton. Dude, got my four nine is shut
down? Water over the road andturn around? All right. Travis from

(33:58):
Dayton's helping me out too, offchannel and he is saying that's by four
to twenty seven. You know you'rean Old River when your landmark is the
Assembly of God Church. But thisis north of Old River fourteen oh nine.
We've got a closure. Let's skipover and do one forty six.
I'm Skymite the Generator Supercenter dot comTraffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter,

(34:19):
twenty four hour weather center. Fortoday, we're looking at considerable clouds to
start, but it will become partlyClaudius. Today goes on a very slight
chance of seeing a shower today,like twenty percent or less chance of seeing
a shower today, and then similarforecast partly cloudy sky, stray shower or
thundershower possible for both tomorrow and forWednesday. Hi. Both days will be
near ninety temperature right now is seventythree at your official severe weather station news

(34:45):
Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checkingout some of our top stories here in
this Monday morning. Here shera goodmorning everyone. It is down five fifty
two on news radio seven forty KTRH. Our headlines are sponsored by Moral Mechanical.
Rain's gone. The dangers from thef utting though still a concern this
week across the Houston area. Moregun crime in gun control states, a

(35:07):
nightclub shooting in California over the weekendinjuring seven people. There New research shows
that only twenty two percent of Americansactually know the origins. Why do we
celebrate Sinko demaya a holiday? Latestnews anytime at ktorh dot com. Here
those beer. Our next update isthat at the top of the l I

(35:29):
live in Pasadena, Sharptown Southwest.Next on the ten time saving traffic on
seven forty KTRH. Now you don'tknow this is the official song of the

(35:49):
vice president, then you wouldn't bealone because a lot of people don't.
Let's face it, once elected tooffice, you don't see the vice president
that often. You don't hear fromthe vice person send that often. If
it's Kamala Harrish, you you're grateful. You'll hear from them that often.
There is speculation now about who Trump'snumber two pick will be. They're talking
about it on the big weekend show. Some of the finalist names. They'll

(36:14):
go over those and some reaction fromTammy Bruce, Senator Marco Ruby of Florida,
Senator J. D vansil Ohio,Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina,
Representative Lys Sonic of New York,Byron Donalds of Florida, North Dakota Governor
Doug Burgham, and still on thatlist, South Dakota Governor Christy Nome.
Tammy, which one of those excitesyou the most? And why, well,

(36:34):
you know, there just needs tobe a big red X on the
dog killer. It just needs tobe. I mean, what's great about
campaigns is that you learn about peopleand that it's a constant scrutiny. They
say things that are important, whetherthey're good or bad. You see how
people handle stress, what their characteris or lack thereof. So I think
that this again is what's very importantin this regard. But at the same

(36:57):
time we look at those individuals.What we've heard, of course, is
that the talent bench is deep.That is true. The president. The
benefit for President Trump this time aroundis he knows what he's getting into.
Before he did not, neither didthe rest of us. He presumed,
like when you're running a business,that everybody's on the same page and everyone
wants success, not in Washington.So now he knows, and I think

(37:17):
we're looking at the dynamic where heexpected things from Pence that he did not
get. He needs a teammate.This is not a frivolous decision. I'm
sure he knows that, and Ithink he also knows the seriousness of what
it means. He is thinking aheadusually for the country. I think I
would accept because I've learned to notsecond guest President Trump whoever he wants,

(37:38):
because he understands what's at stake.All of these individuals with again minus one
would be fabulous. Also, SarahSanders comes to mind. I mentioned Mike
Pompeo on Fox and Friends this morning. Some people got upset, But the
reality is all hands on deck forthis because we've got a big job and
he's got one term to do it, which means two and a half or
three years again, because they'll fighthim. A person who's in that spot

(38:00):
has got to be able to bea ringer for twenty eight and thirty two.
I think any of those names areactually going to be who he picks.
I don't know. We'll have towait and see, obviously, but
I just you know, when allthe media is saying blah blah blah,
these are the four these, Ijust don't buy it. Especially I think

(38:22):
Donald Trump is cagy. I thinkhe learned sure, especially Marco Rubio that
that makes no sense to me.I don't for one thing. Marco Ruby
is the senator from Florida. He'sofficial residents as president of Florida. So
you know Ron Desandis maybe is backin the mix. You don't know,
I mean, well, they'd haveto you have to switch their state then,
because you can't be Yeah, Trumpwould have to move, You'd have

(38:45):
to. Yeah. I guess hecould afford to move wherever he wants to.
But no, I think a lotof this. You know, it
was a donors meeting, so youbring in people who can pull in help
pull in money and help cover theirstate. Right, you don't know that
he's talking them about VP. Mightbe talking about another position. Good,
very well. Be These could allbe cabinet positions who knows. Yeah,
time will tell. It's five fiftysix. This is HUES Radio seven forty

(39:12):
kat rh Houston five everywhere with nowthe latest news, weather and trapping.
It's more what matters to you?From the John Morris Services Studios. Six
oh one is our time, Houston'sMorning News. I'm Jimmy Barret along with
Sheriff Fryar among our top stories thishalf hour. Not everybody or not everything,
I should say, has crested inMontgomery County. More protests at Austin

(39:36):
this time Noah rests were made andcoming up in six w eight. Google
doesn't want you to know that lifewas better in the good old days of
Donald Trump. Details in the minute. Say hey, you're in Houston's Morning
News. First, let's check outthat morning drive once again. Here's sky
Mike. All right, Dayton driversskip over to one forty six fourteen O
nine's close north of Old River andTravis from Dayton and Stephen from Dayton.

(39:58):
Banana stickers for you. I've gotsome trouble Kingwood over here, Uber Mike,
do it? Hey, mor guy, Mike the bridge over all with
like you did a connection between acap of data and kingwid Sure I do
believe it's still closed. Okay,I'm showing it closed also, and it
sure looks closed from the south end. Here I'm having trouble. See in
the north end. Somebody helped metip line Kingwood to a task casita.

(40:20):
That's Westlake Houston Parkway. I'm puttingit closed in your navigation. It's the
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center fromr KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
weather center for today. Can severalclouds to start them becoming partly clouding.
Twenty percent chance maybe of a rainshower with a high temperature today right about
eighty three. We'll get you thecomplete forecast from Terry Smith at the Weather

(40:40):
Channel in need Minett's still seventy threeright now at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Timenow for the news. Here's Sheriff
Ryer and good morning everyone. Issix oh two on News Radio seven forty
ktrh's news sponsored by Choice Home andCommercial. Top story this hour. Beginning
to calm down a bit in termsof our rainfall. Now, Montgomery County

(41:02):
Judge Mark Kello says, well,they've moved into the recovery phase. Of
their operation in Montgomery County, peopleare already starting to be able to get
back into their homes. I talkedto Commissioner Riley. He sent his team
out there to clear the mud offof the entrance in the road into River
Plantation. Yeah, KEO. JoiningHouston's Morning News. We'll get the latest

(41:22):
at seven twenty this morning. Sandjust sent a river, though not down
below the flood level until Thursday.In the Sheldon area west fork of the
San Jack in Humble, expected tobe below flood level by Wednesday. Still
some rough times ahead. Parts ofthe Trinity of crested, but in the
Moss Bluff neighborhood it won't crest untiltomorrow afternoon. There were more high water

(41:46):
rescues yesterday, including two women whogot caught in high water in Kingwood and
others who got caught inside their homes. We have eighteen people that are sheltered
in place. We've also evacuated twentythree people today. The FHFD firefighter they're

(42:06):
talking to our TV partner Channel two. People just couldn't get out of their
homes because of the roads being impassable. There are several school districts with no
classes today. Dayton and Channel Viewamong them. The list at ktorh dot
com. So far when death fromthe flooding in Texas a five year old
boy caught in waters in Johnson Countysouth of Fort Worth. It is now

(42:27):
six oh four. Yeah, thepro Hamas agitators rioters returning to the campus
of UT in Austin. No arrestsmade this time, unlike the last two
that we saw at the university.A statue of this country's founding father to
face by protesters at George Washington University, Palestinian flags, pro Palestinian stickers of

(42:52):
Palestinian scarf, all now encompassing thestatue of this nation's first press protests not
slowing down University leadership is being calledout as cowards, but some say the
cowardice and Marxism starts long before kidsget to college. It goes back further
than that, because you know,all of a sudden, wake up one

(43:13):
day and say I'm going to bean activist. Geen Burke, with college
prep Genius, says it starts inhigh school and that she's afraid for the
future. Actually pretty scary, andto be honest, I think that's why
parents who wake up and say,you know what, we demand school choice,
either that or homeschooling them so thatthe parents can control what's being taught.
Cliff Saunders, News Radio seven fortyKRH in time, Israel starts civilian

(43:36):
evacuations in Rafa ahead of a militaryoperation in that part of Gaza. It's
after a round of negotiations they madeoffers Israel, did they want their hostages
back hamas uh uh. Here athome. The Manhattan Bookkeep contrial of Donald
Trump, it's underway again this morning. The Trump legal team once again pointing
out it's all a sham. Itreally is an outrage that we're seeing our

(44:00):
courts, in our system of lawand order weaponized for nakedly political purposes.
Trump attorney Will Sharf on Fox Atrial now in its fourth week, Trump
says that special counsel Jack Smith shouldbe arrested. The FBI National Archives got
caught tampering with those documents that theyconfiscated in the mar A Lago raid,
including boxes of documents that they sentin. Don't know what they sent in.

(44:25):
The DOJ forced to admit that someof the evidence is no longer in
its original form, and they stageda lot of that classified stuff. Remember
the photos there on the floor.They got caught in all of that.
With a border continuing to be areally hot issue for our election, many
wonder can trumperly secure it after allthe damage Biden has done. Trump as

(44:50):
a president has very broad powers underthe executive He can allocate resource, he
can finish the wall, but mostimportantly, he can re empower ICE to
do interior and four, I meanwithout interior enforcement, there's no immigration law.
Dan Stein with the Federation for AmericanImmigration Reform, he told KTRH the
real concern that the court system isbeing used by open border radicals in order

(45:13):
to impede any effort made by Trump, and that would be happening when he
becomes president. Too big tech forceto reverse Corus after its anti Trump bias
got called out, Google had torestore a pro Trump ad that it had
banned because it showed how life wasbetter under Trump's presidency. Well, there

(45:35):
was a special election this past Saturday, you know Molly Cook, and she
defeated Jarvis Johnson. She now willfulfill the rest of the term in the
state Senate that was vacated by Houstonmayor John Whitmeyer. Now the two will
be in a runoff for the Novembergeneral election for the new term later this
month. The new term will beginin January. Of course, we have

(45:57):
the election in November. Despite abad job report for April, markets closed
up on Friday, Futures up thismorning, heading towards the opening bell on
Wall Street. Inflation making it prettytough for anyone to save for retirement,
and overlooking a key part of retiredlife is making it even tougher. The
biggest thing is that people don't planfor what they want to spend when retired.

(46:19):
So many people think the rules ofthumb apply to everybody. The problem
is everybody's retirement is a custom mademovie for them. Money expert Derek Kinney
says you can solve that problem byliving on a practice retirement budget, and
it's important to get your idea nowbefore it becomes unattainable. Retirees don't know
the mistake that they're making until it'stoo late to correct it. He says,

(46:43):
you should have an open discussion withfamily and craft a strategy. Andre
Perard News Radio seven forty ktrh Asher'slosses Seattle five to four. They're visiting
the Yankees tonight pregame five on SportsTalk seventy nine D first Pitch six oh
five and KTRH joins in progress andI'm Sheriff Ryer on News Radio seven forty
k TRH. Do you understand listen? I check it all the time,

(47:07):
keep up with what's happening, andyou staying in form matters to then Hues
Radio seven forty kt RH. Youwould have thought that the old days would
be twenty sixteen, the good olddays. Evidently there are some who don't
want you to remember the good olddays. The problem. The problem is

(47:29):
the good old days weren't that longago. You know, most all of
us were around in twenty sixteen.In our memory banks. We remember what
the economy was like, We rememberwhat life was like. The biggest thing
we had to worry about was,you know, whether or not you know
what the latest thing that Donald Trumpwas going to say to you know,

(47:49):
did to get us distracted, orthe latest thing that they'd tried to do
to stop Trump from doing what itis that we wanted him to do.
Google evidently is afraid of the goodold days. They abandoned AD recently mad
an ad showing how life was betterunder Trump, and they said, nope,
we're not going to run that censorship. I mean they're turning down good
money. Some of these liberal mediaout lists are going to turn down good

(48:14):
money for fear that you will beprompted to remember that your life was better.
Oh you mean those who were tenyears old at the time, and
now they're eighteen in voting and demonstrating. Well, yeah, they might remember.
They might still remember. They getall their information online anyway, I
know, but they live life.I mean, when you remember what life

(48:34):
was like when you were ten yearsold, I was an adult and I
was paying bills. You know.Ten year olds they don't remember good old
days. No, but they knowwhat it's like now and they know life
wasn't like that they I mean,that's why Google has to take these steps.
Sure, yeah, because those eighteenyear olds are are losing the young.
They are losing the young, especiallyyoung males, as the young comes
of age and has to start payingfor things themselves. Mm hmm, yep,

(48:59):
exactly. Right. With with thevote comes responsibility. They got a
lot of ads they're gonna have tocut if they think they're gonna have to
aid the impact on this though.Six eleven time for traffic and weather together,
we're checking out the drive again.Hey sky Mike, I've got some
two twenty five trouble here. Goingstraight to Hoyt from Beach City. Guy,
Mike, dude, right before thisBarbaro exit, two cars just just

(49:21):
collided. Just have it just nowin the right hand lane. We'll get
back there pretty bad morning, youknow. And that's gonna be an inbound
Let's watch out if you're coming infrom Pasadena North Sam. I got Hoss
from Spring on the line. He'sfound the flyover exit to an Accommental airport.
Two car accidents currently blocking the farright portion of the lane. One

(49:43):
HB unit. I'm guessing your ninjasaren't on scene either yet. So let's
you know what, let's take adifferent way. Let's take will Clayton Parkway.
I don't tell anybody, but theairport connector is also good. Coming
off the hardy toll word Donnie fromCrosby, what's that man which got to
brook in the on that way southboutbefore greens Bio. They may have to

(50:04):
take an actual lane shortly that's onthe inbound and also we have a flooded
that's right the king Win of TeskaCeedar Bridge Westlake Houston Parkway that's closed fourteen
eighty fives closed to new canny overthe Sanjacenter River. I'm Scott Miike and
the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Centerfrom our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four
hour weather Center. Time to bringon Terry Smith. The good news is

(50:24):
was going to chance. It's goingto be at least a few chances this
week Terry to dry out a littlebit. Yes, I think we have
more dry weather than we have rainby far. All week long. We
do have a twenty percent chance ofa shower, but that means eighty percent
of us will not see any rainat all, and anybody who does get

(50:44):
wet the rains on the light side. It should not aggravate the flooding problems
that we've had since Thursday of lastweek. Along with the less rain,
we get the chance to warm upload of mid eighties today. We are
dry Tomorrow and Wednesday, and thetemperatures start to heat up mid upper eighties
Tuesday and Wednesday, mid upper eightiesThursday. There's a twenty percent chance of

(51:07):
rain Thursday. Friday's dride perhaps alittle bit cooler in the load of mid
eighties by Friday temperature right now seventythree at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH News, Traffic and Weather. You're starting your
day right with Houston's Morning News,brought to you by New South Windows Solutions.

(51:28):
So it's a busy weekend at theHarris County Sheriff's Department, a lot
of water rescues. The one ofthe Sheriff's department lieutenants who was working on
all this, David Jasper, willjoin us in just a couple of minutes
to talk about what it's been liketrying to rescue folks, especially in the
Kingwood area. More in that storycoming up. As I said next,
first though, we've got traffic andweather together as we check out the drive

(51:50):
once again, here's sky Mike WestlakeHouston Parkway. The bridge between Kingwood and
a Taska Sita closed due to highwater. I think they're just worried about
the safety. Here five inbound beforeShaver. That is an accident taking up
a right lane. We'll start topack up after the Beltway point from Beach
City. With the banana sticker onhis hard hat, I'm Skywike from the
Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic center fromour KTRH Generators Supercenter twenty four hour weather

(52:15):
center for today, conserveable clouds tostart, then becoming partly cloudy slang chance
for rain shower twenty percent with ahigh today of eighty three. Partly cloudy,
straight shower storm possible tomorrow with theeone year ninety right now seventy three
at your official severe weather station,news Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking
out some of our top stories hereon this Monday morning. Here's shera.

(52:37):
Good morning everyone. It is nowsix twenty two on news Radio seven forty
KTRH. Headline sponsored by DNM AudoLeasing. Several school districts closed today because
of the weekend flooding. Channelview ISDamong them. The complete list at kth
dot com. A trans female trackathlete has won several NCAA Division three track

(52:59):
events this weekend with times that wouldhave been good enough for last place in
men's competition. Roger Banister round thefirst ever four minute mile on this day
in nineteen fifty four. Latest newsanytime at kjurah dot com. Our next
update will be at the bottom ofthe hour. You'll know more if you

(53:21):
listen. More is more going on? I want to be more informed.
No more for in twenty twenty fourwith US Radio seven forty ktrhe six twenty
three start John here on Houston's MorningNews. Yeah one with the mud.
Indeed, you have these a toughweekend, especially around Kingwood. Join us
to talk about Harris County Sheriff LieutenantDavid Jasper, who is doing water rescues

(53:45):
all weekend. Lieutenant, thanks fortaking the time to join us here this
morning. You must be exhausted.Tell me how the troops are doing out
there. Good morning, Thank youfor having me on. The troops are
awesome, our guys with the HarrisCounty Sheriff's Office flood Rescue, and our
partners with the Harris County Fire Marshall'sOffice and the Huffman Fire Department and the

(54:09):
Crosby Fire Department. It was justawesome working with them. I know that
you got a lot of equipped,a lot of Houston area fire department's got
boats and other equipment after Harvey.How handy has that come in for you
folks over the course of this weekend. Hey, that's a great question.
So you know, just like youhear carpenter say, different tools for different

(54:34):
jobs. So starting Wednesday, wewere using our zodiacs, which are motorized
inflatable boats, and we were upin the Huffman area and we formed a
lot of rescues. I think itwas close to eighty people and about thirty
animals, men, women and children. And then we followed the flood down

(54:59):
to the Crosby and Channelview area onSaturday and Sunday, and then the air
boats were much more effective because theycan go over patches of land and water.
So all of the assets were used. Tell me how many of these

(55:19):
were like flash flooding, like roadsand waters, and how many were just
coming downstream to release from the damsand people not really realizing just how much
water was coming. So that's anothergreat question, because you know, it
wasn't like Hurricane Harvey where it affectedthe entire area, but the Sanja Center

(55:40):
River I think the peak was aboutseventy eight feet during Hurricane Harvey, it
was eighty one feet. So youknow, it all started up north,
as y'all know, and as LakeConroe filled up, they had to release
a tremendous amount of water into theriver which makes its way down to Lake

(56:02):
Houston, and then that effected theKingwood area, and then it's Lake Houston
is jumping the water. Then itaffects all the communities south of the Lake
Houston Dam along the Sandy Central RiverChannel view area all the way down to
the Ship Channel. So I knowthat Texas Task Force one and two were

(56:24):
very quickly utilized. Did you interactwith them at all? You know,
when we were operating up in theHuffman area, we were working with the
Huffman Fire Department and the you know, the Harris County Fire Marshall's office,
and they told us that Task Forceone was up there, and I didn't

(56:44):
personally see them, and also theyheard reports of the Cajun Navy. And
then also Mattress Mac had his heavyutility truck out there and we helped load
up about nineteen people on his truck. And so it really was it brings

(57:05):
out the best in humanity, everybodyworking together to try to help these folks
out there affected by the flood.If you had to take a guest,
lieutenant, how many people do youthink you rescued over the course of the
weekend or since all the flooding began. It was an excess of one hundred.
Like I said, it wasn't likeHurricane Harvey. It was very localized.
And as we got down there onRiver Road in the Channel View area,

(57:29):
there were some diehards that are youknow, we're walking out to them
waste deep water and they don't wantto rescue. And oddly enough, and
you just can't make this stuff up. Yesterday we had people asking us to
take them back to their flood athomes. I believe it. People hate
to abandon. Will you do that? No, we're not going to provide

(57:52):
that service. No, it's aone way ride, that's for sure.
Lieutenant, thanks for joining us.You've had lots of grub and that you're
dried out and ready to do thenext day. And God bless you and
thank you for all you do.We do appreciate it. Harris County Sheriff
Lieutenant David Jasperts six twenty seven.Time to take a look at your bunny.
Joan Doniger is here well. Jimmy. Former Democratic presidential candidate and Starbucks

(58:15):
CEO Howard Schultz, has some advicefor his old company. In a post
on LinkedIn, Schultz calls on Starbucksto focus on the customer experience. He
says the chain needs to put somecaffeine into its mobile ordering and payment systems
and invest in coffee focused drinks.When it comes to new products, Starbucks
saw sales drop last quarter for thefirst time in four years. Electric cars

(58:37):
are having an effect on demand forgasoline. Reuter's reports. The Wood Mackenzie
consulting firm expects global demand for gascould fall by half this year because of
the shift to evs in China andeven in the US, where sales have
cooled but demand for hybrids is not. On Wall Street, s and P
futures are up seventeen as DAD futuresforty four, Dow futures up one hundred

(58:58):
and twenty three points. I'm JoanDonagher, Bloomberg Business On News Radio seven
forty k t rh NO Houston's News, Why They're Traffic plus Breaking News twenty
four to seven. This is NewsRadio seven forty kt rh VEL Everywhere with

(59:19):
more of what's happening now from theJohn Morris Services Studios. Six thirties are
Time Houston's Morning News. I'm JimmyBarren along with Sheriff Ryer, Bunger top
stories this half hour. Are thingsgetting better in Kingwood? Marjorie Taylor Green
still out to get speaker Johnson andcoming up at six thirty eight. The
protesters are being funded by Biden donors. It's a familiar list of names.

(59:42):
Details in the minutes ahead. You'reon Houston's Barning News. First, let's
check out the morning vibe once again. You're sky Mike right two twenty five.
They're still working with us. Inboundaccident. Ktr H listeners knew about
it first. It's right before rightbefore Shaver right lane. You'll see the
backups after the Beltway. Let's goto your tip line Crosby Freeway. My
power from mul Hill ninety south boundis a parking lot from Vacui Road all

(01:00:07):
the way back to the Beltway.All right, Donny from Crosby gave me
a wreck at Green's Value. Itwas over on the site. Looks like
they're taking some real laneage. Nowthis is inbound. Let's jump over to
it if you can. Skymichael theGenerator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center from our
KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weathercenter for today, we're looking at considerable
clouds and start it will become partlycotty today. Just a very slight chance

(01:00:30):
of a rangehower about twenty percent withthe high today around eighty three. We'll
get you the complete forecast from TerrySmith to the Weather Channel in about eight
minutes, right down seventy three atyour official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It's timed outfor the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer,
Good morning. Everyone. Is nowsix thirty two on news Radio seven forty
KTRH has new sponsor by Steam Cleaning. Top story this hour. We personally

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did close to one hundred water evacuationsHarris County Deputy Lieutenant actually David Jasper of
the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Floodwatersreceding with the main rain moving out.
The water really caught my eye inthis sense, not that it's going up,
it's actually going down. Where we'restanding at right now. Just a

(01:01:16):
few hours ago was covered in waterreporter Gauge Golden with our TV partner Channel
two that said, though still issues, parts of the San Jack River won't
fall below flood level until Thursday.Parts of Trinity will get below flood level
tomorrow. They're forcing a bridge ona highway connecting College Station to Huntsville yesterday,

(01:01:38):
and there are some school closes today, including Liberty and Harden. I
d's the full list of KTRH dotcom. Also topping our news March,
Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green expectedto bring a motion to vacate the speakership
of Mike Johnson to a vote thisweek. Not expected to succeed. Allowing

(01:02:00):
the democratic process to move forward,our process that we have in our constitution
to move forward, is apparently thecrime of the century. Well that's a
no vode Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw onFox. Democrats say that they will join
in. They're going to save Johnsonfrom Green's effort. A retreat held in

(01:02:20):
Florida for those looking to be onthe ticket with Donald Trump. Christynome not
there. Her chances of reportedly dwindlingbecause she admitted to killing a dog in
her autobiography, a dog that waskilling her neighbour's livestock. She's doubling down
in that, though she's now callingout Joe Biden. Joe Biden's dog has

(01:02:40):
attacked twenty four secret service people.So how many people is enough people to
be attacked and dangerously hurt before youmake a decision on a dog and what
he's not living at the house.That's a question that the president should be
held accountable to. NOME on CBSFace the Nation, Liberals complaining that Conservatives
want four more years of Biden.Really, Katie Riches Michael Berry says,

(01:03:04):
they're making that claim so they don'thave to admit how bad his presidency has
been. Put it on the Republicans. They don't want to have to admit
they were wrong. You know what. You see that in every marriage,
You see that in every business deal, you see that in every fight that
should have stopped at an argument.It's human nature. They know they're wrong,
but they're not about to admit it. Yeah, Barry says conservative media

(01:03:29):
knows how terrible four more years ofBiden would be for free speech. He
says, Conservatives aren't fighting for clicks, They're fighting. We're fighting for survival.
Manhattan Money trial of Donald Trump startsweek number four this morning. Mainstream
media now admitting they don't know abouta conviction and they're throwing a tantrum.

(01:03:51):
Derek Garland, who is that AttorneyGeneral I speak of, and who spoiler
alert sucks. HBO's Bill Maher blamingMerrick Arland for slow walking all of these
Trump trials. It is now sixthirty five members of Congress calling for legislation
to restrict Wall Street investment firms frombuying up massively single family homes. But

(01:04:15):
real estate expert Ted Jones says,many of these companies are already divesting of
those homes. You look at invitationhomes, They've actually been selling their individual
single family homes and they're reinvesting incommunities that are built to rip. He
has a support federal action to interferein the private market. The government has

(01:04:36):
a lot more important things to doright now. Congress does than retal housing.
Focus on your own retal housing.Sobtle Housing Agency, get out of
our business. Homeowner associations are supportinglet sort of legislation. Rental rights groups,
though, are strongly opposed. Well. It's the Offshore Technology Conference used

(01:04:57):
to be a big deal beginning todayat Energy Park. David Holt with the
Consumer Energy Aligned says it is thebig show for oil and gas companies.
OTC is kind of the flagship conferencein the world for that, and you
know, Houston is the energy capital. It's a great draw kind of a
knowledge center, and it's one ofthe premier conferences in Houston every year.
Conference runs through Thursday. It focuseson new technologies, however, the ones

(01:05:21):
that are going to be needed inorder to combat the left's green agenda trying
to destroy the oil industry. Israelsays it's about to make a move on
the last Hamas stronghold of Rafa,Israel's defence minister saying the upcoming attack comes
after several attempts to negotiate a hostageand ceasefire deal. The IDF says an

(01:05:45):
estimated one hundred thousand civilians will haveto evacuate parts of Rafa, but according
to military officials, this is nota large scale evacuation. Yeah, Fox
is Ashley Stromayer reporting there there weremore pro moss protests at the nation's colleges
this weekend. Florida Senator Marco Rubiosays it's the wrong people getting all the

(01:06:05):
attention. You know who's not gettingany coverage right now, The kids who
paid eighty thousand dollars a year togo to these universities, who can't take
finals, can't use the library,can't go to class. Rubio on Fox
News Sunday, and we've been tellingyou for more than a couple of weeks.
It's outside sources organizing, financially backingthese demonstrations. Big donors to Joe

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Biden, don't you know George sorowsone of them, a big Biden donor.
He's tied to two groups responsible forthe protest at Columbia University, in
particular, I'm sherber Ryer and NewsRadio seven forty KTRH need Land Clearing Daniel
Dean Land Clearing and Dirt Work twoeight one three five six dirt nationally and
locally, all the big stories becausebig events happen every day and will happen

(01:06:54):
to be there, this is important, it's critical. News Radio seven forty
KTRH six thirty eight is their timehere in Houston's morning news. Just to
elaborate on what Share was just talkingabout here. Who's supporting these protesters,
where's the money coming from the moneyis coming from several different groups, but
they're all the usual suspects. TheTides Foundation, which is seeded by George

(01:07:16):
Soros, as well as the Billand Linda Gates Foundation, So Bill Gates
is involved in this. Gates,by the way, was requested by Breitbart
for a comment. He declined,as did George Soros. Another notable Democrat
donor whose philanthropy has helped fund theprotest move it is David Rockefeller Junior,

(01:07:39):
who sits on the board of theRockefeller Brothers Fund. In twenty twenty two,
that fund gave three hundred thousand dollarsto the Tides Foundation. See how
this works. You can keep yourhands a little clean. You just give
the money to the Tides Foundation,and the Tides Foundation gives the money to
the protesters, and everybody else triesto hang behind the scenes. Several other
groups involved in the old By theway, the Tides Foundation gave about a

(01:08:02):
half a million dollars in the lastfive years to Jewish Voice for Peace Peace,
which is a misnomer. Yes,it describes itself as an anti Zionist
movement, so they're anti Jewish.Several other groups involved in profile stadium protests
back by the Foundation funded by Susanand Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt
Hotel Empire. Yeah, as inrelated to the governor, Pritzker yep,

(01:08:28):
and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratcampaigns, including about ten grand to the
Biden Victory Fund a few months agoand more than three hundred thousand dollars during
the twenty twenty campaign. Now,I'm sure that Joe Biden would prefer you
not know that these protests are beingfunded by his supporters. But they are
on the fanciest hotel in Aspen.Think about the Aspen Institute. Think at

(01:08:49):
how all these institutions are just riddledwith his liberal billionaire money. Yeah,
globalss, these are Globaliss, RockefellerFoundation two, yep, they're all globalless.
It all came from time for trafficand weather together. We're checking out
the drive again here Sky Mike,all right, Nord Sam, you're thick.
It looks like they've cleared that accidenton the eastbound ramp that takes you
up JFK to Bush Airport westbound.Got a bit of a smash now just

(01:09:13):
right before JFK. If you're tryingto get over to Green's Point, stay
the course. It's it's not worthit to try to reroute Nord Freeway.
You've got the scoots here at airchecks, you've got a squish right after the
chepperd Curve. But north Freeway it'snot bad this morning. West Loop six
ten down to uptown. Does thatmake sense? Yeah, down to Hempstead
Highway west tim Or you lose aboutfour or five minutes Gulf Freeway. We
have not had our wreck yet atpark Place inbound standby. You've got back

(01:09:38):
up from Airport two eighty eight,smushed up a little at the beltway and
the toll bridge. The suckets isstill there. Fifteen minutes. I ten,
that's not going anywhere ninety. I'vegot two problems here. Two banana
stickers. Tyler from Moss Hill,Donni from Crosby. This is inbound accident
right before Green's by you. Let'scall it south Lake Houston Parkway. And
I don't have the laneage. Somebodyhelp me with that. That's backups from

(01:10:00):
the Beltway, and of course thisis inbound. Don downtown talk to me.
Hey, I'm mark right under aforty five fly over fifty nine northbound.
There's a Amoco food verbage, awrecker on teams. But we're going
through miles per hour, all right, and downtown day from Kingwood's on itent
eighth, I might wear fifty nineout joining there is an eighteen wader broke

(01:10:26):
down on cotton. Quite a backup there on IDs. All right,
that's inbound. Let me let thepretty ladies on TV know about it.
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot ComTraffic Center from r ktr right, Generator
super Center, twenty four hour WeatherCenter. Time to check in with Terry
Smith. Lots of clouds to start, Terry, but things get better as
the day moves on. Yeah,those are just some lingering low clouds from
all the wet weather we had yesterdayand now it's a quieter stretch of weather,

(01:10:51):
and boy do we need it.I don't see a lot of rain
in the forecast, which is reallygood. But with less rain, we've
got a little more sunshine and heeight that'll start to show up by tomorrow.
There's a twenty percent chance of ashower thunderstore today. I don't think
we're gonna get much rain from anyof that. Temperatures today load to mid
eighties, We're dry, partly cloudyTomorrow and Wednesday mid to upper eighties in

(01:11:15):
the afternoon. Slight chance of athundershower. Thursday, nice Friday, Friday,
Friday, maybe a little bit coolerthough, in the load of mid
eighties. Right down seventy three atyour official severe weather station, news radio
seven forty k TRH. You arecommute, you are forecast your news.
It's Houston's Morning News, brought toyou. Buying new south Way those solutions.

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Six fifty is our time. We'vegot timeline right around the corner.
And a University of Michigan graduation ceremonyinterrupted by protesters. One of the graduating
students was having none of it.You'll speak out in just a couple of
minutes. First, though, trafficand weather together as we check out the
drive once again. Here is SKYMKEright two twenty five. We're still working

(01:11:55):
on the wreck in the right linethat's inbound before Shaver. You've got backups
coming in after the Beltway. You'vegot your problem downtown. Two of them
actually forty five at fifty nine.That's going to be southbound down from the
downtown area, giving me this stallover on the side. They're about to
pick that up. I wouldn't worrythere inbound. I'd be much more worried
about the East Freeway inbound. That'sa big, old stalled eighteen wheeler and

(01:12:18):
he is inbound right at it tenand sixty nine on the off ramp.
The rest of the media now knowsabout it. And you've got the high
water closing a task to seat KingWoodbridge. That's that's a west Lake Houston
Parkway both ways. Skymike the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com traffic Center from r KTRH
Generator super Center, twenty four hourWeather center for today, considerable clouds start,

(01:12:40):
it will become partly clotty. Slightchance for rainshower about twenty percent.
High temperature today eighty three, thentomorrow and Wednesday party cloudie, straight shower
storm again slight slight chance with theIIG temperature near ninety both days. Right
now seventy three at your officials seof your weather station. News Radio seven
forty k TRH. We're checking outsome of our time stories on this Monday.
Here share good morning everyone is nowsix fifty two on news radio seven

(01:13:03):
forty k TRHR. Headlines are sponsoredby Morrow Check Mechanical. Thousands of Centerpoint
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Well, just go time. Keepup with our steady flow of updates
to continue onward ride with News Radioseven forty KTRH. So college graduations are

(01:14:00):
happening now and at the University ofMichigan. It's kind of a big deal.
After all, it's a fairly prestigiousuniversity. They told the graduation ceremonies
inside of Michigan Stadium, which you'dtell you all you need to know about.
The crowds they get and they dogone near filled up and it holds
over one hundred thousand. I huardten thousand, actually, so I would
say there's probably seventy or eighty thousandpeople who were there for the graduation.

(01:14:24):
And of course, what better placeif you're a protester then to walk right
down the aisle and disrupt the graduationceremonies with your pro Palestinian anti Israel movement,
which is what happened, and alot of the students weren't real happy
about that, especially University of Michiganstudent Benny Shaveski, who was there at
his graduation ceremony, wasn't really happywith the encampment going on on the campus

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either. I apologize for my roughvoice. It comes from yelling at these
protesters during my graduation ceremony that wasinterrupted, So I apologize for that,
but thank you for having me onthis morning. I wanted to clarify your
prior report. The protesters were notremoved from the disruption from the event.
Rather and they remained for the entireduration of the event, causing a massive
disruption. It was not a briefdisruption. In fact, I was seated

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about five rows in front of themfor the vast majority of the commencement ceremony.
They began disrupting when the Secretary ofthe Navy decided to speak. I
got up on stage and then abanner overhead flew that said free Palestine,
divests from Israel. These protesters,about one hundred in number, decided that
they wanted to interrupt the commencement ceremonyfor eight thousand graduates and their families.

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I've been in a lifelong Michigan fan. I've been a supporter of the university
my entire four years, and reallyit's my dream school, and to have
this happened to me in the mostimportant day of my four years is really
troubling, and I'm just really speechlesswith what happened. There's been a large
encampment on our campus for about twoweeks. It continues to grow in size,
and the university administration has done nothingto remove it. They've had banners

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displayed that say long live the Intofada, calling for a violent genocide against my
people. They want us systematically eliminated, and frankly, I'm not willing to
stand for that on my campus.So I took it upon myself to remove
these genocidal posters that are displayed againstschool policy on university buildings. I removed
one of these from a school building. Andy anti Israel agitator decided to confront

(01:16:18):
me and try to figure out whyI was doing this. Don't think it
went terribly well for her, consideringhow viral the video has gone. But
I think it shows that these peoplejust hate America and they want to destroy
our values and they don't believe inthe free speech of everybody. Well,
you know, University of Michigan isa liberal institution, as most of those
northern schools are. You know,if these things don't happen at least not

(01:16:40):
to the same extent here in theSouth as they do up north. Unfortunately,
six point fifty five is there time? We've got pair of tickets for
the timeline to see Chris iz Yeah, he's coming to town made the twenty
first House of Blues. Tickets areon sale right now at livenation dot com.
But you can win affair from us. Just tell us what year today's
timeline is from. I know,well May it was May. Margaret Thatcher

(01:17:02):
is selected Prime Minister of Britain.Quite a first. The killer of San
Francisco Mayor George Moscone Dan white isconvicted yelling for Dan white Head on television.
Let's get suited out of the earfor five minutes. The White Shadow
is in its first season on CBS. As long as I'm coaching here,
you will practice how I say andwhen I say coctly. Brand New at

(01:17:27):
the Movies, Blast survivor of Benstromo, Sigourney Weaver, stars in Alien signing
on number one on the radio,Peaches at herb Reunited. What year was
if you know seven one three twoone two fifty eight seventy four, that
is seven one three two one twok t r H. Good luck.

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All right, we have ourselves awinner. That would be Michael in Portland.
Really that's like three hours out oftown. That's like all the way
down by Corpus Christie. All right, well done, sir. You get
a pair of tickets to come allthe way up to Houston to see Chris
Isaac Live, made twenty first atthe House of Blues. Enjoy the show
and thank you for listening to Houston'sMorning News. This is huge radio seven

(01:18:13):
forty kt RH Houston drive everywhere withnow the latest news, weather and trapping.
It's more of what matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.
Seven on one is our time herein Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy
Barrett along with Sheriff Fryer. Amongour top stories this half hour, not
everything has crested yet in Montgomery County. More protest going on in Austin this

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time no arrests, and coming upat seven o' eight did big grocery.
Just blink details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're checking out the Morning Drive onceagain. Here Skymine, Hey Jimmy,
while you were doing your intro,they just now there he rolls away
two twenty five cleared that wreck onthe inbound I would stay the course.
I think that's back a log awaypretty shortly. The rest of the media

(01:18:58):
now knows about the wreck. IenEast coming into downtown. The ramp to
the east text this is inbound westboundto southbound, trying to make your way
to the Big George. You coulddo the loop if your hazardous. And
we've got Crosby Freeway still smashed uppretty heavily. That's an accident just before
Green's by you and a big packup after the Beltwait Skymichael the Generator Supercenter

(01:19:19):
dot com traffic center from our KTRHtop tax defenders. Twenty four hour weather's
under conservable clouds becoming partly cloudy withthis like chance for rain shower, but
twenty percent today. I've eighty threeright now, what one seventy four at
your official severe weather station News Radioseven forty k t RH. It is
time now for the news. Here'sSheriff Fryer. Good morning, everyone is

(01:19:40):
seven oh two on News Radio sevenforty k TRH, Just News sponsored by
Choice Home and Commercial. Our topstory this hour. This nick from the
Dayton area FM ten oh eight.Water is over FM ten oh eight.
Be careful out there, yeah,caller to the KTRH traffic tipline this morning
because the rain has gone to Imean, the northern counties are in the

(01:20:01):
clear. Montgomery County Judge Marko willbe joining Houston's morning News at seven twenty
in order to update the situation.Sandjacent A River not expected to fall below
the flood level until Thursday. Inthe Sheldon area, west fork of the
San Jack and Humble should be belowthe flood level by Wednesday. Parts of
the Trinity River have crested, butthe Moss Bluff area will not crest until

(01:20:26):
tomorrow afternoon. High water rescues continuingacross the Greater Houston area. One woman
drove into high water after she wastold don't do that by firefighters. You
should have stayed there where you're at. Man, what should I do?
You told you drive my court andyou asked me I have to go back.
I didn't wait to come back.No, man, we told you

(01:20:47):
not to drive your car. Yes, rescue was caught on tape by our
TV partner, Channel two. Therehave been hundreds of high water rescues over
the last week among school districts closedtoday Channel View and Dayton. Complete list
at KTRH dot com. It isnow seven to four Anti Israel protest Broma

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Mosk returning to the UT Austin campusyesterday. No one arrested in this demonstration.
Palestinian flag hoisted above the encampment ofGeorge Washington University in DC. Statue
of this nation's first president has beendefaced, still covered with flags, stickers,
and a Palestinian scarf covering his headand face. College leadership calling down

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being called out as being cowards.How they responded to these demonstrations and riots.
Jean Burke, college prep genius,says, the problem starts a lot
earlier than college. I think thatit goes back to the high school.
Even earlier. Kids would have strongbelief systems. They're going to be swayed
one way together, whatever sounds good, where it comes along, They're jump

(01:22:00):
on it. She says. Theanswer is school choice. Meantime, Israel
is telling civilians in the Rafa areaof Gaza evacuate today. They're going to
plan their military action. They're movingin that part of Gaza. The accounting
trial of Donald Trump begins its fourthweek this morning in Manhattan. I believe
this is election interference, plain andsimple. I don't think this case has

(01:22:23):
any legal basis whatsoever. Trump attorneywill sharp there on Fox. The trial
has several more weeks before it wrapsup. Trump's calling for the arrest of
the Special Council Jack Smith that FBIand National Archives got caught. First they
sent in boxes thousands of documents theysent in, and then they went in

(01:22:45):
to confiscate them, and they tamperedwith documents they did take in the mar
A Lago raid. The DOJ hashad to admit now that some of the
evidence in its custody is not inits original form. Trump called prosecutor Jack
Smith basically a criminal. Trump toldTime magazine in an op ed that he
would deport nearly twenty million illegals ifhe is elected. Can he fix what

(01:23:10):
Joe Biden broke if he does win. Thankfully, this is an area where
the law is clear and the answeris yes. Under the statutory delegation from
Congress. The president has brought authorityto manage our borders in the administration of
overall immigration law, so it's avery broad authority. Dan Stein, with
fair says, we should really belooking at who opposes border security and why

(01:23:30):
the court system has been used effectivelyby groups like the ACLU to delay the
process by getting these injunctions. Steinsays, at the end of the day,
all we need is a president who'swilling to do the things that we
already know work. Ethan Buchennan NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. Big Tech showing
its bias in the twenty twenty fourcampaign. Google had to be shamed into

(01:23:51):
running a make America Great Again packad that showed how much life was better
under Trump. Google originally banned it. Local election results, Molly Cook,
the nurse activist, beat Jarvis Johnsonin a special election to fulfill the remaining
term of now Houston mayor John Whitmeyerin the state Senate. The two will

(01:24:15):
be in the Democratic Party runoff laterthis month, facing a Republican in the
November general election for a new term. Looking at our money, more Americans
told ABC News they trust Trump thanBiden when it comes to the economy and
boys, the mainstream media shocked.This nostalgia for the Trump years is something
that I would say about the economy. Nostalgia I heard from Democrats even which

(01:24:39):
was really shocking to me, LayDemocrats remembering how good they thought their four
oh one k was PR reporter OsmaKhalid on ABC's This Week, The Astros
lose to the Mariners five to four. They visit the Yankees to night pregame
five on sports Stock seven to ninetyfirst pitch six oh five and kt r
H joins it in progress at seven. I'm Sheriff Ryer on news Radio seven

(01:25:01):
forty k t RH. You likefree stuff. We all like free stuff.
Guess what our iHeartRadio app is freeand free never sounded so good.
It's art sign here on Houston's MorningNews. Who is blinking first, customers

(01:25:25):
or grocers? That's the question rightnow. Grocery stores are starting to get
nervous. They're noticing you're not buyingas much. Do you think, Yeah,
they're noticing that. For a while, we just kept on buying,
you know, the prices kept goingup, and we kept on buying it,

(01:25:47):
and here's the thing. I listen, I I have nothing but capitalism
in my heart and soul. ForGod's sakes, make make your profit.
I'm and I know the grocery storesgenterly jon't. No, they don't.
It's like two in between. It'slike two percent for your average you know,
grocery store per store as far asthe profit margin goes. But as

(01:26:09):
prices have been increasing, you know, everybody has been wondering, when do
we get to the point where itreally becomes habit changing, where we decide,
Okay, we're going to do somethingdifferent now because this is not working
anymore. We can't keep doing whatit is that we're doing. And I
get the feeling we might be atthat point, not only at grocery stores,

(01:26:30):
but also at restaurants. Look,we're getting close to graduations, we're
getting close to summer vacations, We'regetting close to all sorts of expenses.
You know, we've just gotten throughall the taxes and all this income taxes
and everything, and so people arethinking, boy, where where can I
cut some corners here? Yeah,here's here's what. Here's the part that

(01:26:53):
I'm wondering about because there's the partof me that wonders, you know,
is all of the increases we're seeingstrictly inflation or some of it trying to
make up for COVID and some ofthe other stuff. Because and if we
if we didn't change our habits,they go, Okay, they're still buying,
keep racing the prices. Are theynow blinking where they're gonna go?

(01:27:13):
Okay, We're gonna have to dosomething now because this is having a negative
impact on our business. We're gonnahave to either hold prices at this point
or we're gonna have to cut backeven if our profit margin goes down some.
I don't know, I spend less, but I've been growing tomatoes and
basil, yeah, in my backyard, and I've been having a lot of
tomato and basils, and I've gotlots of rice. I've got lots of

(01:27:35):
beans, you know, So,sir, you're on the tomato, basil,
rice and beans diet right now untilmy tomatoes run out. Got about
fifteen sitting there with a what's thenext crop to come in? I don't
know, I haven't but all myherbs are doing great, you know,
so got to have something to putthose herbs on though, Well, yeah,

(01:27:55):
rice, beans, rice and beans. Beans? Are I put up
sausage, So I've got sausage.I can always pull out there you go,
you know me stockpiling? Yeah,exactly right. Seven eleven. Time
for traffic and mother together, Sharah, Shara, bring me beans and rice
tomorrow morning. Please. I've gotthings to do tonight. I'm too busy.

(01:28:16):
Actually, I've got a funeral togo too, so I won't be
cook. Sorry, Scot Mike,You're gonna have to fend for yourself,
man, and you made me hungry. Let's go, all right, let's
head downtown. First of all,you've got it in East iHeartRadio listeners the
first to know about this stalled eighteenwheeler. It's on iten and it's really
it's really, you know, missingthings up on the inbound here. It's
the ramp from the East Freeway thattakes you to the East Text past the

(01:28:40):
Big George, and that's causing aquite a spackle here. Let me see
if I can get a back upthere. Looks like we'll hit the brakes
after Lockwood. You've also got CrosbyFreeway. Double check here. I need
to get a new screen. Thisis Crosby Freeway. In bound. Looks
like they've cleared that wreck south LakeHouston Parkway. Oh, Bill from Kingwood,
I stand corrected, he says,the Kingwood of Taska seated bridge is

(01:29:00):
open. I had no eyes onthat. Thank you for that. I'll
give you the tip line at thebottom of this. By the way,
you've also got to twenty five.That wreckus cleared. Stay the course that
was right before Shaver. That backupwill go away pretty big. The backup
that's not going away is the tollbridge southbound and that's just one little puny
lane and a concrete wall and twentyminutes of southbound suckage. So let's take

(01:29:23):
six to ten instead. Go freeway. Your back door is Airport, Nick
from Dayton talk to me, hey, Scott Mark FMG and OA Trandy River
is over the over the road thereall right, Nick, that's gonna be
And by the way, you're fromKennefick. I want you to be proud
to be from Kinnefick. That's goingto be right in front of Encino Estates.
I'm in the seven one three twoone two tips Generator Supercenter dot Com

(01:29:45):
traffic Center from r KTRH top taxDefenders twenty four hour Weather Center. We
had Terry Smith's standing by. Wehave a better forecast. It may not
be perfect, but it is farbetter than what we've had for the last
week. Anytime we have less rain, it's a good thing. And we
have a whole whole lot less rainthis week, Thank goodness for that,
after all the rain we had lastweek up until yesterday. So today only

(01:30:06):
a twenty percent chance of a shower. That's it. We will see some
sunshine eventually. Temperatures for the martloadof mid eighties today starts to heat up
though Tomorrow Wednesday. We'll dry bothdays mainly mid upper eighties, but a
couple of nineties may occur. Wemay see a few places near ninety twenty
percent chance of a shower thunderstorm Thursday, Friday and Saturday drive. Friday is

(01:30:30):
a little bit cooler, load ofmid eighties for highs. By Friday,
temperature is seventy four. Now atyour officials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It's Houston's Morning Newsbrought to you by New South Windows Solutions.
Now back to Jimmy and Sharra withthe info you need to take on
the day. So it was abusy weekend in Harris County. We talked

(01:30:51):
to David Jarvis, the lieutenant withthe Harris County Sheriff's Department and all the
water excuse they did over one hundredof them over the weekend in Channel View,
in particular Kingwood hard hit. Butwe also talked May recall on Friday
with the Judge Marko and Montgomery Countyand they were having a hell of a

(01:31:11):
time up there. So we're goingto kind of check in with the Judge
Keyo again and see how things arelooking now in just a couple of minutes.
First though, we've got traffic andweather together as we check out the
drive once again. Here is skyMike. I'll pitch from the stretch Highway
six both ways between West Park andbell Or. This accident has the whole
thing shut down both ways. Nothinggood's happening here. Stay away Katie Freeway

(01:31:31):
backdoors Mason Road, West Park fromfourteen sixty four. We are two ninety
dep Pidildrich Parkway. I'm Skymike onin the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center
from our KTRH top tax Defenders,twenty four hour Weather Center, CONCIPC loundes
them becoming partly Claude. Today there'sa slight chance for rainshower twenty percent eighty
three, and then tomorrow and Wednesdaypartly Claudie, straight shower storm slight chance

(01:31:55):
again near ninety both days. Rightnow seventy four at your official severe weather.
Stay news Radio seven forty KTRH.Time to get caught up on some
of our top stories here in thisMonday. Here's Shriff. Good morning.
Everyone is now seven twenty two onnews Radio seven forty KTRH. Our headlines
are sponsored by DNM Auto Leasing.State of Florida is one of those that's

(01:32:15):
reaching out helping Texas recover from flooding, sending search and rescue resources here to
our neck of the woods. AHarris County homeowner has shot and killed a
man who jumped the fence onto hisproperty. This morning. A second fence
jumper fled on foot. Boeing willbe launching its first manned Starliner crew from
Cape Canaveral tonight. Latest news anytimeat KTRH dot com. Our next update

(01:32:40):
will be at the bottom of thehour. Life It's stop and go,
well, just go talk. Keepup with our steady flow of updates to
continue onward Lide with NewsRadio seven fortyKTRH seven twenty three is a time here
in Houston's forty newswel the rain isgone for now. There's just ever slight

(01:33:01):
chances here for the first couple ofbusiness days of the week. So that's
gotta be good news for Montgomery CountyJudge Mark Keel, who was busy as
can be Friday Saturday, and I'mguessing just as busy yesterday, were you
not, Judge, Oh, yes, absolutely, you know. We yesterday
we were deciding how soon we weregoing to go into the recovery mode.

(01:33:23):
This morning, at six point thirty, we went into recovery mode. And
that's where it's all starting right now, as soon as you know, it
has been with the response and rescueposition that we've taken here in our county,
along with Harris County and the rest. Right now, we have the
Texas Task Force who continues to bewith us. They'll probably with us the
next couple of days. But thenRon DeSantis, as you also know,

(01:33:45):
sent but for our listeners, alsosent to the Florida Search and Rescue Task
five Force to be with us.They're staying at our We have a huge
supply and apparatus warehouse for our Officeof Emergency Management. So these guys are
getting out and it's not just forus, this is for the entire region.
So they'll be helping anybody that calls, if you will, from Harris

(01:34:09):
County or from Polk County, orWalker or San Jacino or Liberty or wherever.
But being in the response rescue rightmoving from the response to recovery,
you know, we've got we figuredwe have and we're still counting, but
have had over two hundred evacuations andrescues that have taken place. Now we're

(01:34:30):
in this submitting damage program. Buthere's what the listeners need to know.
If they'll go to my Facebook pageCounty Marquillo County Judge, we've got self
assessment there for FEMA that you canfill out and send into the States.
We can't do this for you.You have to do it. Even though
we are in the process of goingaround and assessing the damage, which is

(01:34:53):
a meticulous thing. The homeowners needto be the ones to get into the
situation damage assessment and everything you needis right there on that web page.
So as we're doing this, whichwe want to get the federal help that
we need. As you also know, we have declared here in our county.
I've declared a disaster. But alsoGovernor Habit and the guys over at

(01:35:15):
the San Jacinto River Authority and thedam they've been involved in. Everybody's been
working in such a cooperative way.It's it's been pretty incredible. So we're
moving in the right direction. TheEast Fork, although we're still watching it.
It was still going up yesterday afternoon, but it's crested, is on

(01:35:36):
its way back down in East County, and so what we spend time out
there as well, you think thisis much what we have for it.
So it's pretty smooth. For thepeople who who are the victims of all
this, this is going to bepretty smooth in terms of what they have
to jump through because it all allroads lead to the state ultimately, as

(01:35:57):
basically as what you say and youknow, and you know, when it
comes to this kind of stuff,I wish I could say it's gonna go
smooth. I think it's gone prettysmooth so far. Since twenty nineteen,
since Amelda, we have seriously beenbeen planning for these kinds of events and
all the resources that have come togetherto do it to help our people.

(01:36:18):
Has been pretty remarkable. But again, our work is cut out for us.
Now comes the tedious part. We'realso going to be going from home
to home checking those homes. Ifwe have to, we'll go into those
home to make sure there is noloss of life. If you had to
judge, if you had to puta price tag. I know it's kind
of early in the process, butif you had to put a price tag
in Montgomery County on the damage,where would you guess it is? Right

(01:36:40):
about now? Man, I can'tMan, don't do that to me.
Buddy. I can't tell you atthis point. But next time I talk
to you, I'll have some information. But we're talking step by step.
Well that's right, Judge. Thankyou making yourself available to us so we
can get the information out to everybody. Well you, betch, I appreciate
you, guys conject keeping the peoplehappy to do it. True leadership,

(01:37:03):
true leadership. Hats off to you. Yeah. Amen, And by the
way, go to Montgomery Judge MattKeo's website or go do his Facebook page
if you want to get more informationon FEMA and all the stuff you need
to do to make a damage claimseven to twenty eight. Time to take
a look at your money. JoanDonagher is here well, Jimmy, the
store people jokingly referred to as Tarjemay soon have that international flavor for real.

(01:37:27):
Target is looking to expand items itsells from its house brand to Canada's
Hudson's Bay department store chain, butit has gotten interest from other retailers around
the world as and is in earlystages of talks to sell its products in
Europe and Latin and South America.That would be crucial as Target is looking
to get back to growth after threestraight quarters of falling sales. A few

(01:37:49):
years back, it seemed like brickand mortar stores were obsolete, but now
The Wall Street Journal says brick andmortar got with the e program. Experts
have learned shoppers go to stores tosee, touch, or try on items
before ordering online. So once storesbrought e commerce under their roofs, they
started thriving, and now they usestores as fulfillment hubs on Wall Street.

(01:38:11):
S and P futures are up twentytwo Nasdaq Future sixty six, Dow Futures
one hundred and forty seven. I'mJoan Donager Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven
forty k TRH. You are knownHouston's News. Why they were traffic plus
Breaking News twenty four to seventh.This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(01:38:32):
Child Everywhere for five more of what'shappening now from the John Moore Services Studios.
Seven thirty yard Time, Houston's MorningNews. I'm Jimmy Verrett along with
Sheriff Fryer Mongertop Stores this half hour. Are things getting better in Kingwood?
Channel View, Montgomery County? MarjorieTaylor Green is still out for speaker Mike

(01:38:53):
Johnson and coming up at seven thirtyeight at California Town with an outbreak of
tuberculosis. Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we'll check out that morning drive onceagain. Here's skuy Mike's go down
Chown on the tip line this skyMike between Allen Parkway and exits to High
ten. We've got a moving vandstalled in the left line. No bit,

(01:39:15):
no emergency vehicles or anything there again, that's just past Allen Parkway northbound.
Thank you, MJ from Friendswood.The backup is Scott Street. We
have that eighteen wheeler disabled on theramp on the East Freeway inbound to the
East Tech southbound Skymike and the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com Traffic Center from r KTRH
Generator Supercenter twenty four hour Weather Centerconservable clouds to start them becoming partly clotting.

(01:39:41):
It's light chance for rain showers todaywith the I temperature of eighty three.
We'll get you the complete forecast forthe rest of the work week.
When we talked to Terry Smith atthe Weather Channel in eight minutes. Right
now, it is seventy four atyour official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH. It's timenow for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryar.
Good morning everyone. It is nowseven thirty two on news Radio seven

(01:40:04):
forty KTRH. This news brought toyou by let me See here Oak Harvest
Financial Group our top story this hour. Heard reports of the Cajun Navy and
then also Mattress Mac had his heavyutility truck out there and we helped load
up about nineteen people on his truck. It brings out the best in humanity,

(01:40:28):
everybody working together. Yeah, someof the private folk who've been enlisted
or have come to give aid.Harris County Sheriff's Department Lieutenant David Jasper there.
He was on Houston's Morning News earlier. Now the rain's gone, the
floodwater is still coming down in areasnorth of this city. Jasper told her
TV partner Channel two there is stilldanger. Parts of the San Jacenta River

(01:40:49):
won't fall below flood level until Thursday. The Trinity, some of it not
dropping below flood level until tomorrow.Severe weather resulting in one house of all
things in Northwest Terrace County. Itwas a tree hit by lightning that fell,
hitting the home in a gas linethat was inside. No one was
hurt. There are more school closingstoday, including Liberty and Hardened isds.

(01:41:12):
A complete list at KTRH dot com. Topping our news as well. Georgia
Republican Marjorie Taylor Green expected to bringto a vote her motion to vacate the
speakership of Mike Johnson. She'll doit this week. It is not helpful
to our cause to advance conservative policyand principle to have any any of the
uprising in her own camp. Andthat's what this is. I don't think

(01:41:34):
it goes anywhere. Johnson on Foxemotion expected to fail, Democrats actually turning
the tide, saving Johnson's speakership somecontenders as Donald Trump's running mate. They
were in Tampa, Florida over theweekend. It was a donor retreat.
South Dakota Governor Christy Nome was notthere fallout after her book in which she

(01:41:56):
admitted many years ago shooting and killinga fourteen month old dog that was killing
her neighbor's livestock. This was adangerous animal that was killing livestock and attacking
people. And I had little childrenat the time. Our operation had many
kids running around and people in interactionwith the public, and I made a
difficult choice. No, I'm onCBS's face the nation. Joe Biden's been

(01:42:19):
a disaster, But Democrats claim thatit's conservative media that secretly wants for more
years of this failed president. Liberalsthink we want more Biden just so we
can complain about him. Emergency roomdoctors don't want more accidents because it's job
security. No, we do notwant Joe Biden to win. TTR reaches.

(01:42:41):
Michael Berry says this election is lifeor death for conservative media. The
government is now intruding into free speechon such a level that we can't survive
a Biden administration, So it's purelya question of survival at this point.
Barry says this claim from the leftis a result of their inability to admit
that Biden has been a disaster foreveryone. Ethan Buchinnon News Radio seven forty

(01:43:01):
KTRH. It's now seven thirty fivewell oiled futures trading for just undred seventy
nine bucks a barrel this morning,but there are concerns that prices won't stay
steady. If they stay more orles's where they are, we could have
a comparatively low priced season this summer, but it doesn't seem likely. Oil

(01:43:23):
industry analyst Trilby Lundberg will hear moreabout us all week as the Offshore Technology
Conference gets underway here in Houston.The OTC, that's the big one.
Rich keep getting richer in the Bideneconomy. Some lawmakers want to kick Wall
straight now out of actually overtaking theprivate housing market. Large investment firms have

(01:43:46):
bought up hundreds of thousands of homesin recent years to rent out. Real
estate expert Ted Jones says these companiesstill hold a significant share of US homes.
Of those six million single family aboutsixty eight six nine million are owned
by a people. It's only he'sabout twenty million single family homes. But
he adds they're now selling off manyof those homes due to the costs.

(01:44:06):
Kash a lot more to repair thathouse. So we'll see you right now.
Because Wall Street firms are actually reinvestedin to build too rich communities,
Some Democrats want legislation to cap thenumber of homes companies can buy. Cory
Yolson nehw's radio seven forty KTRH it'sseven thirty six. Israel on the verge
of a military operation in Rafa,a Hamas stronghold there in Gaza. Israel's

(01:44:31):
Defense minister says it has to happennow because Hamas has rejected the latest offer
of a truce. Talks on thehostage release deal are meant to continue today,
and Israeli spokesman's confirmed a limited scopeoperation is planned in Rafa, the
military urging one hundred thousand Palestinians tomove to an expanded humanitarian zone. Nonetheless,

(01:44:54):
well, I should say yeah,Nonetheless, I should say who that
was? Where is it? Ilost his name. Well, I apologize
for that. Maybe he did protestunderway still on college campuses, Yes,
the pro Humas people. Nonetheless,we know these are funded by outside sources.
Now Politico is finally reporting it includesJoe Biden's biggest donors, George Soros,

(01:45:18):
money behind the two groups responsible forthe riots at Columbia University alone.
Yeah, they named themselves Jewish Voicefor Peace. And if not, now
it's seven thirty seven. Well havewe seen the last of JJ Watt in
a Houston Texans uniform? HM?Ask him? I told Demiko last year,

(01:45:42):
I said, don't call unless youabsolutely need it. But if you
ever do call, I'll be there. But he knows not to call unless
he absolutely needs it. What doesthat mean? Well, you stick a
microphone in my face, We're notgoing to do he Uh, if you're
desperate, give me a call.He had a charity softball game this week,
so you know where are you goingto ask him? Put him on
the spot. Yeah, he retiredafter the twenty twenty two season. I'm

(01:46:05):
sure for Fryar and News Radio sevenforty KTRH, Michael Berry only endorses Texas
Renters dot Com for property management needs. The Victim Ferry latest on your way
to work. This is Houston's MorningNews with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff fryar eminely
getting harder and harder to breathe inLong Beach, California, where they've had

(01:46:28):
an outbreak of tuberculosis. You know, we're seeing these diseases pop up that
we eradicated in this country a long, long time ago, but they didn't
eradicated in other countries because they don'ttreat for it, and they don't do
preventive measures for it, you know, vaccinate for a lot of things in
these countries. City of Long Beachis declared a public health emergency following a

(01:46:48):
tuberculosis outbreak that's been linked to ahotel in the area that may have exposed
up to one hundred and seventy people. So far, nine have been hospitalized
and one has died as a resultof the tuberculosis. Fourteen cases have been
associated with a single room occupancy hotelin the city, which officials decline to
name, citing patient privacy and hipporules and regulations. Outbreak is currently isolated

(01:47:15):
to a distinct population and the riskto the general public is low. According
to their statement, the population atrisk in this outbreak has significant barriers to
care, including homelessness and housing insecurity, mental illness, substance abuse, and
serious medical code marbidities. Okay,you're talking about the homeless population, right,

(01:47:39):
but more specifically, is there subgroupwithin that homeless population that is spreading
the TB? What is the countryof origin of the people spreading the TB?
Are they from the United States orare they from somewhere else? Are
they here legally or are they hereillegally? Creating a public health emergency for

(01:48:00):
traffic and weather togetherment? And thatwhat is forty two? Yeah? Reinjected?
Uh whoops, I hear the canof Cheryl. Whoop ass it's ready
to be uncorked on somebody or something. It's going for Kingwood this morning.
I mean it's a ton of allright. This product does not actually float?
Hell with this not to be usedas a life saving device? Classic
out from Kingwood's give me some tipline. He's not Mike, Kingwood Drive

(01:48:24):
is a mess, just at leasta twenty minute ways. You are not
happy either, are you out?Jim from Kingwood? Help us guy?
Mike trying to get out of KingwoodEverything is backed up because Amblin Road is
still closed. If you're trying totake the side streets, you're best off
going to Trailwood Village or to WoodlandHills and then going up Kingwood Drive to

(01:48:48):
fifty nine. The other side streetsthat are closer to fifty nine are completely
backed up. All right, yousaid that, not me. I'm not
sending everybody through those neighborhoods. I'vegot a big wreck. Highway six completely
closed both ways between West Park andbel Air. You've got roadwork, road
closures due to flooding fourteen oh ninenorth of Old River, ten oh eight

(01:49:10):
Kenne Big Highway and and Sino Estates, and also downtown forty five pier elevated
northbound. That's a disabled vehicle,a left light. It's a moving truck
northbound. We're packed up from ScottStreet, and you have the eighteen wheeler
that's on the East Freeway inbound rampto the East Tech southbound. Cool Terry,
I need a break. I'm inthe Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

(01:49:31):
We all need a break from ourKTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour whether
Center. Terry Smith is here witha break how's the rest of the work
week look As far as rain,you know, it is looking very quiet,
and that's exactly what we need.Hardly any rate in the forecast,
little more heat, little more humidity. Though there is a twenty percent chance
of a shower, maybe a rumbleof thunder today, temperatures generally low to

(01:49:56):
mid eighties. We'll have a fewupper eighties though Tomorrow, b oh and
Wednesday, no rain, mid toupper eighties, mid to upper eighties Thursday,
there's a twenty percent chance of rainThursday, and a week call front
makes its way into town Friday,so we're just slightly cooler and dry,
little bit eighties Friday. Right nowseventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.What you need to know for the

(01:50:19):
day ahead. This is Houston's MorningNews, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Seven fifty one isa time here in Houston's far News.
We were talking earlier this morning aboutare we getting to the point who's going
to blink when it comes to ourspending habits? Who's going to blink first?
Is it going to be those whoprovide services to us like grocery stores

(01:50:39):
and restaurants or are we blinking asit relates to the prices. Jack Hartong
runs Chapolte. He's kind of goingthrough the process now, He says,
he's watching the reactions of consumers asthey change their menu prices, wondering when
it is that you know, hemay get to the point where you're going
to change your habits. More inthat story coming up next. First,
we've gone traffic and whether to getthey're starting with you was guy Mike,

(01:51:00):
all right, you've got downtown fortyfive northbound moving van here MJ from Frinswood
with the bananas ticker that's on thenorthbound just past Allen Parkway GO Freeway.
Already had the suckage from Lockwood justpast U of H hearing really bad things
about Kingwood Drive. Also, NorthPark's not going to be pretty. You've
got the closures of Looke four ninetyfour and Hamlin Road. People are having

(01:51:21):
a re route. That's getting crazy. And let's go quickly tip blind Downtown,
got my eash bound. Who's comingout of downtown rock World Maysook Street
exit. There's the right lane blockeighteen wheeler. Looks like you got a
blowout and it looks like super sizednanzas are on scene here. You've got
backups from the forty five side.I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic

(01:51:42):
Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twentyfour hour Weather Center conserveraal clods becoming partly
clownie Slight chance of rainshower, highof eighty three. Similar forecast tomorrow and
Wednesday with a heigh year ninety bothof those days. Right now, temperature
seventy four. At your official severeweather station, news Radio seven forty KTRS.
We're checking out some of our topstories on this Monday. You're shaa,

(01:52:02):
good morning everyone. It is nowseven fifty two on news Radio seven
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(01:52:28):
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(01:52:49):
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(01:53:15):
wondering if you are going to changeyour habits as menu prices continue to increase.
Here's Jack Hartung, the CEO ofChapolte. Yeah, you know,
we had a great first quarter.We had a seven percent comp and more
than five percent of that was certainlyby transaction growth, which I know is
tough to come by, you know, in this kind of environment. The
thing we're most proud of when welook at our customers by income brackets,

(01:53:35):
our low income consumers came at thesame rate as our high income consumers,
and that tells us that we arereally providing a great value and we're charging
a fair price for it. Weknow that consumers, especially on the low
end, are inflation weary these days, and so we've been very careful about
not trying to get over you know, a little over zealous with price increase.

(01:53:56):
In that we're running under a threepercent price increase during the first quarter.
We can back, combined with ourrestaurant team providing a great experience,
keeps our customers coming back. Yeah, the minimum wage higher minimum weights just
took effect earlier this month, soit wasn't part of our reporting period.
We did take a modest price increaseof six to seven percent. We've been
watching the traffic since we took theprice increase. We're not seeing anything yet.

(01:54:19):
We're not seeing any change in behavioryet. It's very early, so
we'll keep a close eye on it. Jack, I understand you're partnering with
a company called hyphen to create robotsthat can help build meals for you.
Now, I don't like that becauseI like to sweet talk the person making
my burritos so they'll give me morechicken. I don't know if I can

(01:54:39):
do that with the robot. Butis that the future and how soon is
it coming? Yeah? Well,so, first of all, you won't
see robots at the front line.So if you want to commit and sweet
talk and try to get a littleextra a nice a little extra ingredients along
the way, you'll still have thatopportunity. What we're talking about is really
for our digital business. Our digitalbusiness is done on a completely separate line.

(01:55:00):
Today. It's about thirty seven thirtyeight percent of our business, and
it can be very very busy duringour peak launch and our peak dinner and
so you know, you can seeon the screen here that what we're trying
to do is we're not going toreplace employees, but we're going to make
the jobs of our employees much easier. It'll be a calmer experience, and
then we know that we can giveour customers an order digitally, an accurate
order because the robots are going toput exactly the right ingredients in and we

(01:55:24):
can make sure those orders are alwaysdone on time as well. So we
think it's going to make the customerexperience and the care experience better and you'll
still be able to sweet talk ourcrew along the line. Yeah, there's
going to be more automation, ofcourse there is in the restaurant industry.
There has to be that's coming.We don't know it well know it?
Technology marches on sure does absolutely howyou use it? Yep, darn right.
Hey listen, you all have agreat day. I'm hungry. Now,

(01:55:45):
we'll see We'll see you tomorrow morningbreakw it sounds good to be see
you tomorrow morning breaking early five.I'll see the half from four an Am
nine fifty k PRC