Polling, Hurricane Milton, and Chances of a National Collapse

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 10/09/24.

Episode Transcript

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Good morning, five am is our time here on Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer mong
our top stories as we get started this morning, what
the poll numbers are releasing about the presidential election. Making
a B line to Tampa. It's Milton and coming up
in five oh eight. Chances of a national collapse are
now at fifty seven percent. Details in the minutes ahead.

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You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that
morning Drive for the first time. Sky Mike's here.

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I am not messing with a slinky this morning, but
so far most of our freeways are Rock and Long
Gulf Freeway twenty one from clear Lake, Nord Freeway forty five,
twenty two from the Woodlands. And I've got a call
in from Spring on our tip line seven three two
one two tips.

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From our KTRH top tax defenders, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Today's sunshine with the high tempert. You're right about ninety.
You have plenty of sunshine in our future. But Milton
is going to cause big problems in Florida more. Will
we talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in
about nine minutes right now sixty 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.

Speaker 7 (01:44):
Everyone is now five o two on news radio seven
forty k t r H and our top story this hour.

Speaker 8 (01:50):
She's got no answers on inflation. She's got no answers
on immigration.

Speaker 9 (01:54):
Inflation is horrendous.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
Yeah, Donald Trump on Newsmax last night, and if you
can believe this, latest Reuters numbers show that the race
for president is still within the margin of era a
statistical tie, but that Trump does lead Kamala when it
comes to handling the economy. Can you believe it? The
mainstream media was is to think Trump is badly trailing

(02:18):
Kamala Harris in the polls. It's why they're called push polls.
The Democrat talking site Politico just headlined Helene hit Trump's
strongholds in Georgia and North Carolina it could swing the
election end quote. Breitbart's Warner Todge Houston says this kind
of thing is not limited to just the media either.

Speaker 9 (02:37):
One the University of Kentucky professors said that she loved
the hurricane because it was punishing Republicans voting in Georgia
and North Carolina and the surrounding area.

Speaker 7 (02:49):
Yeah, adding that if he wrote something like that about Democrats,
he'd be fired. Here at home, state Senator Paul Bettencourt
accusing Harris County Judgelina Hidalgo of violating this state's election code. Hidalgo,
in her official capacity, posted a link to register to
vote through a partisan Democrat site. Hidalgo deleted the post.

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Hurricane Milton making landfall in the central Peninsula of Florida today.
It will be moving west to east right now. Is
a Category five hurricane. One hundred and sixty mile an
hour Winds has got a very tight eyewall. It's only
about four miles across, and that's making its spin like
a tornado. Forecasters predict there's going to be a storm

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surge of fifteen feet.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
It's a fifteen foot of water and then you're gonna work.
It looks like it's gonna hit a high tide.

Speaker 10 (03:41):
It makes it, It makes it worse.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
Florida Senator Rick Scott, he was on with k t
rhis Clay Travis, and Buck Sexton. President Joe Biden canceled
his trip to Germany and Angola and Gola, Angola and
Gola to stay at the White House. He's monitoring the
storm from there. Also called out airlines for jacking up
prices out of Florida. Some one way tickets to New
York we're selling for one thousand bucks. It is now

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five oh four. A warning from Economist that luring interest
rates last month was similar to the failed FED actions
of the nineteen seventies that ultimately crushed the economy.

Speaker 11 (04:18):
And Sharon that would include Houston economist Van Skin.

Speaker 12 (04:22):
Bad decisions then seem to be reminiscent or very similar
to what we are seeing today.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
And what were.

Speaker 11 (04:28):
Those bad mistakes from the seventies.

Speaker 12 (04:31):
When they pushed back on the gas with all this
money creations about the economy that pushed inflation back up.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
In fact, inflation went up higher.

Speaker 11 (04:39):
Gin says, we are at a critical moment for the economy.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k T or H.

Speaker 7 (04:47):
Here's another one. Despite laws against it, We've got American
universities and colleges taking in large amounts of funding from
countries like Cutter, Iran, even China and not reporting it.

Speaker 13 (05:00):
The Department of Education should be doing its job, and
unfortunately it's just not a priority of the federal government
at the moment.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
Chance Layton with the National Association of Scholars said that
there is a clear connection between this money and the
violent anti Israel protest on college campuses. Colleges don't want
to give up their money by clamping down on these protests.
It's now five oh five violent crime in Houston overnight again,

(05:30):
there were at least two deadly shootings. One was over
a game of dominoes in Southeast Houston. Former HPD officer
Gerald Goin sentenced to sixty years in prison after his
murder convictions in the deadly Harding Street rate of twenty nineteen.
Ryan Tuttle is the son of the two people killed
that night.

Speaker 14 (05:49):
It's been five and a half years of waiting with
little answer and with a heavy burden of my father's
and my stepmother's name being tarnished as drug dealers, which
they absolutely are not.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
Another work Tuttle with our TV partner, Channel two Goins
falsified the no knock warrant that was used in the
botched trade. US Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a
case involving the so called ghost guns. Those are guns
built by individuals at home. They don't have a serial number.
Supporters of the second Amendments say this has more to

(06:23):
do with government overreach.

Speaker 15 (06:25):
The ATF creates a rule that says that they're going
to start regulating them. That's an issue because an agency
like the ATF don't have the authority to do this.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
Michael Cargill is with Central Texas Gun Works, a group
that successfully fought against the bumpstock ban. The Heights Court
Supreme Court struck that down in June, but once again,
gun sales are picking up ahead of the election.

Speaker 16 (06:50):
Sales of firearms have seen a notable increase just since July,
when Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden on the ticket and
Donald Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt. Mark Oliva,
the National Shooting Sports Foundation, says this is typical of
election years.

Speaker 17 (07:03):
So far this year, we're seeing a slight up ticket,
not probably as much as we've seen in the past,
but that might be associated with the fact that we've
had several outsized years. But we are right now sixty
two months continuous of over one million background checks every
month for the sale of firearm.

Speaker 16 (07:18):
Harris recently bragged about owning a glock while she supports
a ban on so called assault weapons and mandatory gun buybacks.
Corey Eelson News Radio seven forty KTRH, Yeah, you know.

Speaker 7 (07:28):
Jimmy, she says, I have a glock. But she didn't
say what caliber it was. She didn't say she didn't
even call it like a glock nineteen. People people who
talk guns, they talk what caliber it is. They at
least give it a name.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
They don't say I've got a Remington or I've got
whatever they do.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
They don't say I have a glock. I've got a
glock nineteen.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
They give you a very specific model.

Speaker 7 (07:48):
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You'll hear it beginning of Sportstock seven ninety. I'm sure
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Speaker 2 (08:11):
This good news this morning, five oh eater is our
time here in Houston Sporting News. Hurricanes and political violence
have pushed the chance of a national collapse two fifty
seven percent. What's going to collapse society?

Speaker 7 (08:26):
Society? I mean, we're going to be fighting in the streets.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, that's what political violence would seem to indicate. Yeah,
Or hurricane looting, for example, lawless.

Speaker 7 (08:37):
Meant the economy lawless were done.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Lawlessness and ineffective government unable to respond. I think we
got a little taste of that in North Carolina, didn't we.
You know, those people, those people, the people in North
Carolina world, North Carolina probably have better survival skills than
your average American, and that's one of the reasons why
most of them are going to be Okay, the mountain people.

(09:01):
But you take that into a city like Houston where
they don't have survival skills and where people are prone
to violence to begin with, look out. The police won't
be able to help you. The government won't be able
to help you. That's the lesson from this and the
people who put this together, the disaster preparedness people who

(09:23):
kind of take a look at these scenarios. They say,
it's not about whether it's sixteen percent or fifty seven
percent when you've got a majority. When it's a majority number, do.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
They write dystopian novels on the side.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I don't know they should. Here's what they say. The
Biden Herries administration's response to the collapse of rural areas
where Helene hit is a warning that people should not
rely on government to bail them out of a disaster.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
They're incompetent.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
We are so unprepared both people in government female resources
that a small scale collapse can develop. Rurald North Carolina
is a fairly safe area because overwhelmingly good people are there. Now,
imagine a real pandemic grid down New Madrid or Cascadian earthquake,
Yellowstone eruption, et cetera. People will be without police or

(10:06):
guard for help, for months, they will die before the
kind of help they need can arrive, and it may
never come.

Speaker 7 (10:12):
New Madrid, the Madrid fault.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, I think what I think, what they're what they're
trying to say is is that one thing that we
used to be as Americans were very good at preparedness,
We were very good at self reliance.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Self reliance was the mantra. That's what it was to
be an.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
American, especially a Texan, and and we kind of lost that.
And maybe this is just sort of a wake up
call that we need to kind of redevelop those skills
again because we may find ourselves in a situation where,
you know, the help is not going to come, and
we have to help ourselves from five eleven time for
traffic and whether together.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Like widespread law breaking when everything breaks up.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm going to hang out with you when the apocalypse comes,
because I'm pretty sure you, between you and me, we
can forage pretty good. Sky Mine, you got this down.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
A country boy can't survive, Jimmy Barrett. Let's head to
the west. Herer Visors, you got a big problem, Katie Freeway,
Darry Ashford or we're outbound, not inbound, and boy, that
is a lot of lights. I don't like the way
this wreck looks. It's scattered all over the place. It
looks like they're just about to shut the whole thing down.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Look at that feeder pack up to this.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Is Katie outbound, not inbound.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Jump on two ninety.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Do the Grand March get around that or the West
Park tollway if you're trying to leave town heading out
thevisor side, I'm gonna check your ship channel bridges. We've
got so far Hartman Bridge rocking along. Nothing happening so far.
You're toll bridge. We've got that extra lane as of
a couple of weekends a couple of weeks ago. So
now we've got no southbound suckage and six ' ten
the Sherman Bridge rocking along between the bud Plant and

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two twenty five all good to go, Skymike and the
classic Buick GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour weather
center speaking into the world type stuff. It's going to
be a bad day in Tampa, Florida, starting about what
time tonight do you think I'm hearing? What tonight to
over night hours into early Thursday morning is when the
worst of it will be hitting the Tampa area.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
Yeah, it looks well. Okay, let's just set the stage here.

Speaker 18 (12:09):
They're already getting rain from Milton along the west coast
of Florida, from around Tampa down toward Cape Coral, So
most of the west coast is seeing the rain, and
inside some of those showers and storms, there's been some
isolated tornadoes.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
There's been hail already.

Speaker 18 (12:27):
Obviously, the winds are going to start picking up as
we head into the afternoon, but the worst of it's
going to be tonight and during the overnight hours. It
looks like landfall will be sometime after sunset tonight. So
Milton category five hurricane right now, one hundred and sixty
mile an hour sustained winds. It may weekend a little
bit before it makes landfall, but it's going to be

(12:50):
making its way through a highly populated area that's extraordinarily
susceptible to surge. They've already had quite a bit of
rain and there's more to come and then course the winds.

Speaker 7 (13:00):
So it is going to be.

Speaker 18 (13:03):
A devastating situation I think for a good bit of
central Florida, and I just hope and pray that it
gets out of their fast, so that limits the damage
to some extent. For us, we are basking in sunshine
and enjoying nice little Joseph fall, little drier air.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
You can feel it this morning when you step outside.

Speaker 18 (13:22):
Still going to be warm in the afternoon though, upper
eighty's still low nineties today, upper eighty s to low
nineties through the weekend.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, cool out there right now. Sixty at your officials,
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It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
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info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
It is a five twenty here in Houston's Born News. Obviously,
we'll spend a little time this first hour talking about Florida.
Milton and Kamala Harris Kamala and the Governor's still going
back and forth about, you know, making phone calls and
refusing phone calls. I think President Biden did something interesting.
He went out of his way yesterday to say that
he had talked to Governor DeSantis and that Governor DeSantis

(14:12):
was doing a hell of a good job. He went
off his way to do that? Was that like a
little Was that directed towards Kamala? Do you think I
think it was?

Speaker 7 (14:19):
He he's kind of coming out.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
And you know, yeah, he went and.

Speaker 7 (14:23):
Did that news conference while she was in the middle
of doing her little thing he used. And you know,
he shows up in the press room for the first
time in his presidency. Yeah, so of course the cameras
are going to be following.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Him exactly right. He sure did.

Speaker 7 (14:38):
Is that really Joe or is that his wife?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah? Last night, by the way, Laura Ingram had the
Florida's Lieutenant governor on what she had to say about
Get Out or Die? Coming up next first though, traffic
and weather together, Yes it is. Let's check out that
drive once again with sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh, Katie's not that serious, but I've got a big problem,
Darry ash for Let's do the tip line quickly seven
one three, two one two t ips.

Speaker 9 (14:59):
Good morning, sky Mike.

Speaker 13 (15:00):
There's an accident just ahead of Aldridge.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
And I can wet Boulmi Lambs in the back a
month day.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
Oh I mustang, No, I hope it's not one of
those sixties models. All right, that's an outbound lookout for
breaks from the beltwegh inbound. You're doing a nice job
of minding you own business, and we're twenty eight minutes
into the President's heads. I'm Skymike on a Generator Supercenter
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Speaker 2 (15:25):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour weather
Center Sunday, Today, Tomorrow, and Friday. Near ninety all three days,
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out some of our top stories on this Wednesday morning.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
Here Sharon five twenty two now on news Radio seven
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Hurricane Milton could bring a storm surge there on the
Gulf coast of fifteen feet king landfall first there in
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bottom of the hour.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Hi, listen talk radio all the time. The world doesn't
wait for you to clock out.

Speaker 17 (16:33):
Usually have it on all day at work, so check
in office.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Day up to date. We used radio seven forty ktrh
by twenty three years our time. Laura Ingram last night
had Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Uniez on talking about the
severity of the situation.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Madame Lieutenant Governor.

Speaker 19 (16:50):
The Tampa mayor said, if you choose to stay, as
our reporter just syndicated, you will die. Is that your
message as well tonight, and you have what you need
from FEMA and the Biden Harris administration.

Speaker 20 (17:06):
Well, absolutely, Laura. The governor has been saying this for
the last couple of days. He's been stressing the importance
of evacuating. We understand this is going to be a
catastrophic storm. The storm surgees was mentioned, up to fifteen feet,
potentially torrential rain, flooding, the winds, all of that creates
a tremendous risk. So we are encouraging people to do

(17:27):
that now. They cannot wait around till tomorrow when the
storm starts to set in and the winds start to
pick up, it's too dangerous for them to leave. At
that point, emergency personnel can't go out and rescue you.
So we urge people, if you're still in that evacuation zone,
please leave now.

Speaker 19 (17:43):
Well, we understand that the shortage of gasoline is now
becoming a real thing fifteen percent and growing the number
of gas stations that are out of fuel. Tonight now
it's seventeen percent. What can be done about that or
does that just have to wait until after the wrath

(18:04):
of this latest hurricane hits Florida.

Speaker 20 (18:08):
Up until up until today, we had been a massing
fuel making sure we could get as much fuel as
we could into our ports that then distribute that fuel.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
We had Florida Highway.

Speaker 20 (18:17):
Patrol a company of the fuel tankers to get to
the impacted areas. So we know that this is going
to be an ongoing issue as people continue to trickle
out and evacuate. But we're also encouraging people to recognize
you don't have to travel hundreds of miles or leave
the state, or potentially even leave your county. You can
seek shelter. We have a number of shelters in every
single county that are open and available. We have a

(18:39):
partnership with Uber. They will transport you for free using
the code Milton Relief, and so there are many ways
for you to get to shelter, and so gasoline should
not be an impediment at this point. We want to
continue to encourage people find a way to leave, make
sure that you are heating those orders.

Speaker 21 (18:56):
You know.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
The thing that really stands out is just the way
the Florida government is handling this versus other places that
are not as well run as Florida is right now.
I mean, they are doing everything humanly possible to be
prepared for this. I don't know if you saw it
or not, share, but they had Tropicana Field where the
Tepa Bay Race play. That thing was filled with cots.
The entire field area filled with cots and it's been

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used for days as a sort of a preset for
electrical workers, for people cleaning up debris from Helene, to
try to get that out of the way so that's
not thrown around during the storm. I mean, the preparation
they've done is pretty amazing. You have to for a
Category five storm in particular, but and there will be

(19:40):
loss of life. There will people who will be trying
to ride this out that that aren't going to be
successful riding it out. You know that's going to happen.
There's only so many that you can do. You can
tell people they're going to die, but some people are
going to stay. But I believe they've done everything you
can humanly do to try to be prepared for this.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
Yeah, we say this all the time. Every hurricane is different.
Every hurricane I've ever covered, I learned something that I
didn't know from a previous hurricane. And so this whole
thing about the eyewall only being the eyes only four
miles across, average is twenty two miles across. So the
tight or the eye, the faster the outside winds are.

(20:18):
They're more almost like a tornado, that is what I'm saying.
And I hadn't really realized that, And that's what this
storm is. So the people, it doesn't matter where the
eye falls, it's those winds that are swirling around it.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yep. And they're in for a lot of wind today,
that's for sure. Five twenty seven, It is time to
take a look at your money. Courtney Donaholl, Good morning.

Speaker 22 (20:38):
Well, good morning, Jimmy. As we were just talking about
with Milton, the economic toll could be severe. Some models
are showing damages and losses could rise as high as
one hundred and fifty billion dollars. That is according to
Aankee Research. Taking a look at the market, stocks are
slightly in the red. Tel Future is down thirty points.
Later today, the Federal Reserve will be out with a
report on its September meeting, and that's when the Central

(20:59):
Bank cut it's by half a percentage point. I'm Courtney
Donna Hobloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty KTRH.

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It is five point thirty now here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Along with Sheriff Ryer mong our Top stores,
as have our Texas Troopers. They're picking up a lot
of special interest aliens. There's not enough illegals in Texas
to send them on the bus. And coming up at
five thirty eight. What does it say about the economy
when one of McDonald's major French fries suppliers has shut down.

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Details in the minutes ahead. Here in Houston's morning News. First,
we're checking out that morning drive. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Katie Freeway westbound. This is quite a spacle here at
AREK at Kirkwood.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Eighteen whelers involved. I sure hope everybody's okay.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
We'll take up one, two, three right lanes on the
outbound side, and since it's this early, it's not as
big of a backup as it would be from the Beltway,
but it sure looks to me like they're putting everybody
on the feeder.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Shortly.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
I would jump on two ninety or the West Park.
I'm skylike in the classic Buick GMC Traffic.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Center from our KTRH Generators Supercenter twenty four hour weather center.
Lots of sunshine today with a high red about ninety.
Looks pretty much the same for the rest of the
week as far as the temperatures and as far as
the sky conditions. Lots of sunshine in warm weather. Details
coming in about nine minutes along with the latest of Milton.
When we talked to Terry at the Weather channel. Right now,
it's sixty at your officials severe weather station, News radio

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seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 7 (22:46):
It's five point thirty one on news radio seven forty
KTRH and our top story.

Speaker 9 (22:50):
This are in.

Speaker 7 (22:50):
Afghan national living in Oklahoma has been arrested charged with
plotting a terror attack on this country on election day.
On behalf of the now, seir Ahmad Taweti entered the
US on a special immigrant visa September nine, twenty twenty one,
just weeks after the US troop withdrawal pulled out of Afghanistan.

(23:13):
Biden Harris border invasion continuing. Thousands of illegal aliens coming
here from terrorist countries, and they already have criminal records.

Speaker 25 (23:22):
These special interests. Illegal aliens are still able to walk
right across the border.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
How many are coming over and are not being content.
It's not just people from South America, It's people from
all over the world that are pouring across the southern border.

Speaker 25 (23:35):
Brenton Walton's with the Texas Scorecard, says Texas just doesn't
have the manpower to solve this problem.

Speaker 12 (23:40):
Right now.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
Governor Abbott has used what he's had available to him
to try to fill that gap, but it just shows
that Texas needs something more permanent.

Speaker 25 (23:48):
There was legislation proposed to create a full time Texas
Border Force, but it was killed by how Speaker Dave
feelin Ithan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
Last week, DPS at Eagle Pass rested a group of
two hundred and thirty illegal aliens, twenty seven of them
identified as quote special interest aliens from countries that are
of special interest, including Iran. The consequences of this invasion
of our country. The four Venezuelans arrested for robbing and
assaulting a woman in Dallas last month, according to The

(24:20):
New York Post, have been tied to the criminal gang Trendaragua.
The governor calls TDA a terrorist organization. Texas Law Law
Law Enforcement just last week arrested twenty members of TDA
who were taking over a three hundred unit apartment site
in San Antonio. They're going to use it as an

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operations center. According to DPS Governor Greg Abbots, bussing of
illegal aliens to sanctuary cities it stopped partly because they
are not crossing into Texas as regularly. They're going into
other blue states California, Arizona, New Mexico. Former Texas State
Senate Don Huffey says crossings are also down at our

(25:03):
border overall because the Biden Heroes regime asked Mexico to
help ahead of the election, to help stop Trump.

Speaker 26 (25:12):
This really proves that Mexico can control the border anytime
it wants. Mexico really is our main enemy. They have
done more to undermine the United States that all of
our other enemies combined.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
He says. Mexico has no reason to control the border
because the cartels own the government and they profit. Kamala
Harris had no answers, though, when sixty Minutes actually asked
her what about the border crisis that she's overseen as
the borders are, she.

Speaker 11 (25:47):
Has three and a half years, almost four years now
in office as Vice president and cannot articulate what needs
to be done to secure the border.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
Governor Greg Abbotty, he told kJ Ri Shshan Hannity that
interview alone, disquali advise her to be president of the
United States. CBS. Meantime, they've lent a helping hand. They're
now accused of editing that Kamala Harris interview that they did.
Here's the proof. This is the pre edit Kamala answer.

Speaker 10 (26:18):
It seems that Prime Minister net and Yah who is
not listening.

Speaker 27 (26:23):
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted
in a number of movements, and this is what CBS aired.

Speaker 10 (26:37):
It seems that Prime Minister Netanyah, who is not listening.

Speaker 27 (26:41):
We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for
the United States to be clear about where.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
We stand on the need for this war to end.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Hmmm, it's making her sound smarter.

Speaker 7 (26:52):
Yeah, well, it wasn't that. She went on to say
that they took it from something else.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Uh huh and put it in yep, got rid of
the word salad.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
They didn't just take out the ouz and the os.
Trump campaign demanding that the full unedited interview be released.
Harris did, by the way, three friendly interviews yesterday, including
the view in which she said, no, she wouldn't change
any of the policies that were enacted under Joe Biden.
There's a campaign ad for Trump. Yeah, she was drinking

(27:21):
beer with Colbert and laughing, cracking jokes while Florida is
fleeing for their lives anyway, if you believe the latest
Fox numbers. Nonetheless, Kamala closer to the two hundred and
seventy electoral votes she needs to become president than Trump is.
It's the polster darren Shaw. He says, despite Trump's lead

(27:42):
on the economy and immigration.

Speaker 28 (27:44):
Really those are still the dominant issues. They still favor Trump,
but she's habbed his lead from a last poll on
that that's made her more competitive.

Speaker 7 (27:55):
Rankings show that the two were locked in tight races
in all seven of the swing states. If you believe them,
five point thirty six is your time. Hurricane Milton deadly.
It's going to be projected to make landfall west side
of Florida at the Gulf Coast, first near Tampa sometime today.
National Hurricane Center says it's still a Cat five system

(28:17):
wins of one hundred and sixty miles an hour. They're
predicting storm surge as high as fifteen feet. Official death
toll from Hurricane Helene meantime two weeks ago remains at
two hundred and thirty two eighty nine of those deaths
officially in North Carolina alone, where bodies are still undiscovered.

(28:39):
And tens of thousands remain without power. What's happened with FEMA.

Speaker 8 (28:46):
Those people don't have any money, and it's the worst
response to a hurricane, they say, in history, worst than Katrina,
which was pretty bad.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
Yeah, Donald Trump talking to our sisters station KFI in
Los Angeles. It's now five thirty seven Texans preparing for
Sunday's game against New England Patriots, and reportedly New England
plans to start the rookie quarterback Drake May. He was
the third overall pick in the draft. This best spring,
I'm sure. For Fryar on News Radio seven forty k TRH,

(29:17):
what happens in October?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Couldn't decide who's presidents in November, used Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
If there's one area that I thought would be impervious
to job loss or shutdowns, it would be whoever supplies
McDonald's with French fries. McDonald's is world renowned for its
French fries. We'll get into that in a second and
how they make them special. But one of McDonald's major
French fries suppliers is shut down abruptly and laid off

(29:48):
a whole bunch of people. Lamb Weston is the name
of the company. They're one of the biggest French fry
makers in North America. They're announcing that with their earnings
or report that it was shuddering its factory in Cornell, Washington.
Along with the closing three hundred and seventy five workers,
that's about four percent of its worldwide workforce being laid
off again. Evidently McDonald's not ordering as much potatoes from

(30:15):
them as they used to, because they're not selling as
many French fries as they used to, because people are
not eating out at the same level they were even
at McDonald's.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
And I know, but you know, everybody's trying to lose weight.
Everybody's thinking, I can't have carbs anymore. You can't have
fried car Are you suggesting that McDonald's French fries.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Are not good for your diet?

Speaker 7 (30:35):
Youare front Well, it's in your face almost every day
one way or another.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
By the way, you ever wonder what makes McDonald's french
fries taste the way they do sugar? That was always
the rummer. Yeah, personally, I thought it was cocaine. I'm
pretty sure they're putting.

Speaker 7 (30:52):
Cocaine Coca cola, remember that.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, I thought they were trying to truly get me
addicted to the French fries. No, they claim there's no sugar.
It's the flavor, of the texture and the consistency. What
they do is they use a special oil blend that
contains beef flavoring, canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, and
hydrogenated soybean oil. The beef flavoring mimics the taste of

(31:17):
the beef tallo that they originally used in their fries
but became too expensive to use. So it's that beef
tallo flavor that goes into the French fries that makes
them a little bit different. They also use premium potatoes
like Russet, Burbank and Chappodi. Their suppliers use state of
the art technology to identify the ideal potatoes and that's
what goes into its Supposedly.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
I love McDonald fries.

Speaker 29 (31:40):
I do too.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
I think they're the best.

Speaker 7 (31:43):
But back when I was twenty, I could eat them,
uh huh, and I wouldn't be sitting on them for
the rest of the life.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Ain't fair?

Speaker 21 (31:49):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Cure? Fresh life? Just ain't fair. That's what you're sitting
out over there, baked with loving care lots of cushion,
one sitting on a quarner, pound of cheese, and a
lot of arge fried. Okay, time for traffic and weather together,
sky Mike, what's going on.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Let's go to First of all, let's check your Southwest Freeway.
I've got to look here coming up from the bridge. Now,
remember we did that lane shift outbound over the Brass River,
that roadwork.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
But inbound we're good to go. Fountains twenty one minutes.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
If you're coming in on the other side of the
east text from the sticks, no problems so far. I
don't have any incidents. Now we do have the big
thing on the Katie Freeway tip line.

Speaker 9 (32:25):
Dude, Hey scam, Mike, Heyking.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
I drove by.

Speaker 9 (32:28):
It was a Dodge charger in the middle lane that
was at a.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
Dead stop, and so that's what I think the eighteen
wheeler hit.

Speaker 9 (32:34):
So the accident will probably be there for a long time.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
All right, I understand what you're saying. It looks like
they've shut down all lanes. This is outbound, not inbound
at darry Ashford, and yeah, it looks like nothing good's
happening here.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
They'll put you on the feet.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Of course, we'll update you at the five point fifty
Skymike and the classic Bwick GMC Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
R KTRH Generator super Center twenty four hour Weather Center.
Terry Smith is here. Milton will arrive in Tampa, Florida
or close to tempt Florida sometime tonight. In the meantime,
we have just too much of a good thing. We
have an incredible stretch of weather.

Speaker 9 (33:09):
Now.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
It's warm during the day.

Speaker 18 (33:11):
Temperatures are running around five degrees above what we typically see,
but the humidity is low and it's comfortable in the morning,
so it's all fine. And it stays like this through
the weekend, folks, upper eighties to low nineties today through Sunday.
By the way, temperatures tonight, a lot of places will
be in the fifties overnight.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Wow. Yeah, it's close to that now sixty at your
official sever weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. This
is Houston.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
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Speaker 2 (33:55):
Five fifties at a time. Here in Houston's Morning News,
our thoughts and prayers certainly are with all the folks
in Tampa, Florida. This morning, Ryan Soudol is the morning
news anchor at WSNNTV in Sarasota. He's going to join
us to talk about hurricane preparations and what they're expecting
to have a ground zero wherever ground zero is going
to be in the Tampa, Florida area. We'll talk to
him next. First, we've got traffic and weather together as

(34:17):
we check out the drive once again, here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
I'm pitching from the stretch here, Jimmy, it's Katie Freeway
outbound Darry Ashford. Some of your onlines are showing this
three lanes. It's actually all lanes blockedier and I'm hearing
bad things about this, right.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
I don't think anything is Good's happening westbound.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Darry Ashford or maybe kirkwhit It's a little closer watch
out as you're coming from the Beltway. Let's jump on
two nine here the West Park instead. I'm Skymike on
the classic pubic GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather center.
Sunny near ninety four today, same forecast for tomorrow, slightly
warmer on Friday with the high ninety three. Temperature currently
is sixty at your official severe weather station, news Radio
seven forty KTRH. We're checking out some of our our
top trending stories on this Wednesday.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
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Pick one of the three. If he doesn't choose, the
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Speaker 30 (35:48):
You in the know all the information in real time
and in the now, Right now, news Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Five fifty three now here in Houston's Morning News. We
have a special guest checking in from Sarasota, Florida, just
south of the Tampa area. Ryan is Sudhal. He's a
morning news anchor a WSNN TV. I'm sure you folks
have been hoping this thing is going to jog or
move or go somewhere else, but it sure seems like
it's bligning its way somewhere between Tampa and Sarasota this morning.

Speaker 21 (36:22):
You know, I never thought I'd get to get on
the air and say it and have it have meaning.
But Houston, we have a problem.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 21 (36:30):
It is you know, it's crazy because a lot of
people forget we've just gotten the battered from the storm
search for Hurricane Helen. But even weeks before we had
that first INVEST ninety, we were in drought conditions here
in Sarasota for a very long time. And then just
within weeks of each other, basically two hundred year storms

(36:51):
in INVEST ninety and Hurricane Debbie, which kind of ruined
the inland a little bit, and then Helene just completely
taking out the the barrier islands. This is yeah, this
is definitely no joke.

Speaker 15 (37:03):
Thought.

Speaker 7 (37:03):
So you haven't you haven't totally recovered. I mean I'm
talking about we're thinking about clean up piles of tree
limbs and lumber and whatever boats. Uh, and now you've
got to lock down and get out.

Speaker 21 (37:20):
Well, the everything basically from Bradenton Beach and Anna Murray
Island in northern Manateee County all the way down to
c St. Key, which is, you know, historically considered one
of the greatest beaches in the world. I mean, they
still have debris lined up on the streets, and everybody.

Speaker 9 (37:36):
There has basically evacuated.

Speaker 21 (37:38):
So everything that's been piled up over since Hurricane Helene
is basically just gonna rewash up into the water and
just make everything pretty much untravelable for a very very
long time.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, government officials, including the mayor of Tampa, said get
out or die. At least if you're in one of
those evacuation zones. Have been heat. People been heating the warning.
How's the evacuation of going any idea? How many people
have left?

Speaker 21 (38:04):
I mean two days ago, it was just solid red
on I seventy five heading north. I have a few
friends here that have headed south towards the Boca Rattan
Miami area. It's it's definitely been a lot. I'm fortunate
to not be in in a flood or an evacuation zone,
but that doesn't that doesn't mean that it's not gonna
do damage even a little more inland. But it's definitely

(38:28):
probably the weirdest angle of a hurricane I've seen in
my fourteen years here in Sarasota. And I'm here. I'm
not as scared as i am kind of anxious, just
kind of the waiting the last forty eight hours has
really been what's been the kind of crippling emotional thing.
But it's you know, at this point, it's kind of
too late to leave, and we're just you know, sitting out.

(38:50):
I'm in a pretty secure house, so just anticipating, you know, hoping,
hoping for the best, but brace for the worst.

Speaker 7 (38:58):
Well, you be careful and you take care and thank you,
thank you for joining us.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Yeah, we sure to appreciate it because you've got bigger
things to worry about today, that's for sure. Thank you. Ryan,
Ryan soud All morning news anchor wsn N TB, and
Sarah So to Florida. It is five fifty six.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Traffic and weather every ten minutes on the tents Houston's
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Speaker 24 (39:24):
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Speaker 3 (39:34):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
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Speaker 2 (39:39):
Six am is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer. Among our top
stories this half hour, what the poll numbers are really
saying about the presidential election. Milton making a B line
for Tampa, Florida and coming up at six oh eight.
Milania on Fox gets asked, does Donald Trump wear pajamas?
Details in the minutes ahead here in hous Good Morning News. First,

(40:01):
we're checking out that morning drive again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
All right, we're about to get some air support on
the KD Freeway. I've talked to the pretty ladies on TV.
I think nothing good's happening on this KDIE Freeway. Darry Ashford,
Kirkwood deal. Thanks to you, the callers, what you're telling me,
and of course the authorities have refocused some of these
shots so it's all lanes block Darry Ashford outbound jump
on two ninety or the West Park or even the

(40:24):
feeder they're going to force you off that way.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
This is outbound. Got a new wreck on the.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
North Loop eastbound at the squeeze at forty five. Will
zoom it at the six ten, and also check your
Bush airport problems in the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
From our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
Sunshine today with the high temperature right about ninety pretty
much the same forecast all the way through the weekend.
We'll check it out in further detail when we talk
to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel. We'll do that
in nine minutes. Temperature right now is fifty nine at
your official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty KTRH.

(41:00):
It's timed out for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 7 (41:04):
Good morning, everyone, is how six point two on news
Radio seven forty kt rh's news is sponsored by Allied
Siding and Windows and our top story this hour, the pain.

Speaker 8 (41:15):
That inflation has inflicted on this economy is just record setting.

Speaker 7 (41:21):
Terrible, President Donald Trump, he was on Newsmax last night inflation.
Why only half of black voters now half, according to
the latest AP numbers, are confident that Kamala Harris could
quote set the country on a better trajectory. She's losing
her biggest demographic. Not a story the mainstream media wants

(41:42):
us to hear. Though they're always suppressing things, they're also
suppressing this. Jeffrey Epstein client list, and Elon Musk says
he knows why.

Speaker 31 (41:54):
A lot of why Kamal is getting so much support
is that if wins, that FCN client list is going
to become public. Yes, and some of those billionaires behind
Kamala autorifight of that outcome.

Speaker 7 (42:08):
Yeah, He went on to name a couple of those billionaires.
Musk was on with the former Fox host Tucker Carlson.
Making things worse. Media openly rooting for natural disasters like
these hurricanes to impact Republican voters.

Speaker 32 (42:23):
In a recent political piece, the headline read, Helleen hit
Trump strongholds in Georgia and North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
It could swing the election.

Speaker 9 (42:30):
These days, I don't think anything surprises me.

Speaker 32 (42:33):
You know, all right, far to Warner, Todd, Houston says,
this is a new low, even for the liberal media.

Speaker 9 (42:38):
Isn't this supposed to be America where we all reach
out and help each other in kinds of need, not
mock each other. When there's problem, and that.

Speaker 32 (42:45):
If he wrote something like that about Democrats, he'd probably
be fired. Cliff Saunderer's News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (42:52):
It's now six o three and that Cat five Hurricane
Milton as it is right now, expect you to make
landfall somewhere on the west coast of tamp near Tampa
of Florida later today. The time for Floridians to evacuate
is actually running out.

Speaker 20 (43:11):
You don't have to travel hundreds of miles or leave
the state, or potentially even leave your county. You can
seek shelter. We have a number of shelters in every
single county that are open and available.

Speaker 7 (43:21):
That is the Florida Governor Janet Nuniez on Fox. The
system still packing winds one hundred and sixty miles per hour.
They expect you to go down to a Cat four
sometime this morning. President Joe Biden has canceled his trip
to Germany and Angola to stay at the White House
to monitor the storm, he says, and he's still defending

(43:44):
famous response to Hurricane Helene.

Speaker 29 (43:48):
There was a rough start in some places, but every governor,
every governor from Florida to North Carolina have been fully
cooperative and supportive and acknowledged what is to he was doing,
and we're doing an incredible job.

Speaker 7 (44:02):
We're gonna have much more on FEMA and the calls
for it to be abolished. At six thirty it's now
six oh five. Federal Reserve cutting interest rates last month,
ha ha rah rah, just in time for the election.
Economist Vansgin says they're making a big mistake, the same
mistake we saw in the seventies.

Speaker 12 (44:22):
They're increasing the money supply again, and my concern is
is that we may.

Speaker 7 (44:26):
Repeat those past fail mistakes in the.

Speaker 12 (44:28):
Nineteen seventies and see inflation go up even higher because
they're not taking the necessary steps to bring down.

Speaker 7 (44:33):
Inflation unless you change who's in the White House. Gen warrens,
we could see this economy end up in a double
digit recession. Jimmy and I lived through that.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
We know.

Speaker 7 (44:44):
According to a new report, American colleges are receiving huge
amounts of money grants funding from foreign countries like China, Cutter,
and Iran.

Speaker 25 (44:55):
This might explain why college students tend to show strong
support for.

Speaker 13 (44:58):
Hamas it is, it's pretty easy to follow the money
here and the largest supporters of the terrorist organization in
the United States tend to come from America's colleges and university.

Speaker 25 (45:08):
Chance Layton with the National Association of Scholars says, when
it comes to China, there's a whole other set of problems.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
It's deeply concerning.

Speaker 13 (45:15):
There is some level of espionage that occurs, and this
is something that is directly tied to the funds that
we were able to find.

Speaker 25 (45:22):
Layton says that there are already laws on the books
to stop this, they just need to be properly enforced.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH and.

Speaker 7 (45:30):
This coming from Israel today, Prime Minister Benjamin Ette and
Noahu claiming that the IDEAF has taken out potential successors
to the assassinated Hesbela leader Hassan Nasralla Netanya, who did
not name who those potential leaders were. It's now six
oh six. The former HPD officer Gerald Goins sentenced to

(45:52):
sixty years in prison for his convictions in the deadly
Harding Street rate of twenty nineteen murder convictions. Goins falsified
the no knock warrant that was used in that and
other raids. US Supreme Court heard arguments in the case
involving ghost guns yesterday. Critics say it's the ATF, it's

(46:13):
the Biden bureaucracy overstepping its bounds.

Speaker 15 (46:17):
They're going to have to go back to Congress and
get Congress to write a bill, create a law to
do they're trying to do right now.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
Michael Cargill is with the Central Texas Gun Works, a
group that successfully fought the bump stock van that was
struck down by the Supreme Court in June. It was
a violent night across the city of Houston, two deadly
shootings of fatal stabbing two. But we've seen gun sales
increasing once again since Kamala Harris became the Democrat nominee.

(46:45):
Mark Oliva with the National Shooting Sports Foundation says he
expects the trend to rise if she were to actually
win the White House.

Speaker 17 (46:57):
Should she be elected to president, I think that you
would see that there were people be going on person
in the FIMS.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
They would want to buy that.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
She would choose to go ahead and ban and make
that impossible for.

Speaker 9 (47:06):
You to own.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
Harris has called for a ban on what she terms
assault weapons, including modern sporting rivals. She's also advocating mandatory
gun buybacks. That's gun confiscation. Even while she crows she
has a gun, she has a block. It's now six
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(47:28):
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Speaker 1 (47:33):
H Billy lection is going to be most in the life.

Speaker 30 (47:38):
Of our gun Joy November fifth, News Radio seven forty
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Speaker 2 (47:45):
The bulb of questions you can ask Melania Trump, the
former First Lady, who was on Fox yesterday on the
five and several other shows, would be because she has
a memoir out and she's not going to go to
the view. I'm pretty sure she's not going to try.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
My book came yesterday.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Oh did it?

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Did you to that book?

Speaker 7 (48:00):
I pre ordered it arrived yesterday.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Boom, there you go. The book is out. It's a
memoir written by Millennia Trump six o nine or time
here in Houston's Morning News, she got asked a lot
of questions. You know, how her reaction to you know,
the two attempts on her husband's life and security and
the victorol coming from the left. But leave it to
Greg Guttville to come up with some lighter questions to

(48:24):
have some fun with I like you, I was a
model and you some magazines. You probably never heard of it.
They're out of business.

Speaker 33 (48:36):
Now do you ever stop and think about your life
and wonder how did you get here? Like you came
to the United States in ninety six, you arrived at
jfk uh.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
And then you end up in the White House?

Speaker 33 (48:50):
And did you like, did you Obviously you didn't expect it,
but you ever like, does it ever?

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Kind of dog at these moments? Where how did I
get here?

Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 34 (49:00):
Incredible journey, incredible story where I came from small town
in Slovenia and then went to Milan, Paris, New York.
And you know, you never know what can happen in life, right,
We don't know the future. We don't know what will
happen next year.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
So you know, here we are.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Would you have married.

Speaker 33 (49:19):
Donald Trump if you had a crystal ball that said
he would be president?

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Huh?

Speaker 9 (49:24):
That's a.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
By the way, does he ever sleep?

Speaker 7 (49:31):
He doesn't sleep much?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
He does, of course you were no, Yes, what does
he where when he sleeps? And that's what she would
put the zipper across her lips. In other words, wear nothing.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
You know, she speaks five languages. Maybe she should have
just answered in one of those.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
She should have she should give the full answer in
the in the Slovenian or whatever they whatever they speak
over there.

Speaker 7 (49:56):
She speaks five language.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
She probably speaks Rusian. I'm guessing right. I would think
one of.

Speaker 7 (50:00):
The five languages. It's pretty easy to switch over to Russian.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Six eleven Time for trafficking and leather together. How tall
is she? I don't know that. To look up for speed,
I think wow.

Speaker 7 (50:10):
Six Trump is six three six five.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
If I'm happy being no wonder, no wonder, Baron is
so tall?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yeah, let's up, Okay, let's take you know what, We've
got to check out our Katie Freeway here, guys, I
just don't like the look of this wrick.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
It's all lanes and uh.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
For a while, some of the official sources and some
of the onlines were saying it was, you know, three
lanes whatever. It's been all lanes, because what you're telling
me from the freeway level is.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
That an eighteen wheeler ran into someone that was just
sitting there.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
The rest of the media has now seen the eighteen wheelers,
so They're like, oh you knew at first. iHeart listeners
outbound Kirkwood Katie Freeway all lanes of putting you on
the feeder road. It does look like some managed lanes
are getting through there, but again this is outbound.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Watch out for the Beltway. I think this problem is
going to be around.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
I don't have any other info on This's just six
' ten north right by the Farmers Market. He's found
forty five loopy at the squeeze. This wrick's taking up
two right lanes. Hopefully everybody's okay, and I've got time
to go to Uber Mike. He's gonna give you the
update on Bush Airport.

Speaker 9 (51:12):
Hey with us kind of Mike.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
Letty go in airport from Willie Keeve me. It was
great once you get an airport through a lot of
size age.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Do my tip for Marriott drop off right there I,
B and C and also your drop off at see
I drop off at arrivals boom Bampalantary.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
I'm seeing traffic going through Georgia too. We'll check ship
channel bridges at the six twenty and the Generator Supercenter
dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
From r KTRH top Ax defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center Terry Smith is standing by. Great forecast for US.
For Florida not so much.

Speaker 18 (51:46):
Hi, Yeah, Florida expecting Hurricane Milton making landfall as a
major hurricane later on tonight, making its way.

Speaker 7 (51:53):
Through the central part of Florida.

Speaker 18 (51:55):
Highly populated, very dense area in terms of development here,
just blue skies. We'll stay sunny and dry through the weekend.
Temperatures every afternoon in the upper eighties to low nineties through.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Sunday fifty nine. Right now at your official severe weather station,
news Radio seven forty KTRH two to ninety nine one
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Speaker 3 (52:17):
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Speaker 2 (52:30):
So there's a story that got our attention here. Political
openly rooting that Hurricane Heleen survivors have a difficult time
being able to vote. I'm sure they're hoping for the
same thing in Florida as a result of what's going
on with Milton, or maybe that is would they feel
that the very least would give them an.

Speaker 7 (52:47):
Excuse, Well, the difference is a Republican governor and Secretary
of State as opposed to what you have in North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Right, Democrats, But these Republican areas have been impacted the
most from Helene in at least in North Carolina.

Speaker 7 (53:02):
Yeah, but is the governor's office and the Secretary of
State Democrats who are running things? Sure, how difficult would
they make it for those areas to vote?

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Probably very difficult, and they'll use of the hurricane as
an excuse. We'll talk to Brightbart's of Warner Todd Houston
about this coming up next. First, we've got traffic and
weather together. We're checking out the drive again. Here's sky Mike.
All right, I'm going to pitch from the stretch here.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
I do have a new problem North sam westbound Tomball Parkway.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
That's stall moved over to the side. Just watch out
for your ninjas. Katie Freeway outbound at Kirkwood.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
I don't like the way this wreck looks. An eighteen
wheeler ran into somebody that was just sitting there. The
rest of the media now knows the severity of this wreck.
This is westbound at Kirkwood and clear north Loop six
' ten at the airline that was eastbound I'm Skymike
and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic center.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
From r ktirah top tax defenders, twenty four hour weather center,
sunny with a high year ninety today and tomorrow Sunday
with a high right about ninety three on Friday. Yep,
but you're right now fifty nine at your official severe
weather station, Use Radio seven forty k TRH. All right,
let's check out some of our top stories on this Wednesday.

Speaker 7 (54:04):
Here's Share six twenty two on news Radio seven forty
k TRH. Hurricane Milton hanging onto that cat five string
that still has one hundred and sixty mile per hour wins.
Two teachers in Spring ISD placed on administrative leave after
giving their pupils And I'm telling you this is like
pre school sleeping stickers believed to be drugs.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Oh boy, wow.

Speaker 7 (54:31):
The new Sam's Club in Grapevine will not have checkout lines.
It's going to be a digital store. Customers will have
to use an app to ring up their purchases as
they walk the aisles. Forget it if you've got a
flip phone. Latest news anytime at KTRH dot com or
next update will be at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
What happens in October, could decide who's president's in November.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
Use radio seven KTRH DO.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Carol is a battleground state, of course, so it'd be
very helpful to Democrats there if Republicans just couldn't quite
get to the polls because of all the damage from
Hurricane Helene. I mean, how aggressive would North Carolina's Democrat
governor be at wanting to get mail in ballads or
whatever else might be necessary in emergency polling place, whatever

(55:21):
might be necessary for those folks to be able to vote.
Brightbart's Warner Todd Houston joins us to talk about it.
What do you think, Warner.

Speaker 9 (55:28):
Boy, Thanks for having me first of all, But yeah,
they sure would love it if all those darned old
Republicans couldn't get to the polls, wouldn't they.

Speaker 7 (55:38):
Yeah, I think so. I mean, when you consider that,
but you know, right there in the middle of western
North Carolina, which is where the Republican strongholds are, You've
got this city, the very blue city of Asheville, And
I think Asheville certainly they'll be able to vote there,
won't they.

Speaker 9 (55:54):
Well, of course, so I'll probably pull out all the
stops to make sure they vote. It's the other areas
they're not MUNTI interested in.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Yeah, I wonder too. You know, we've got a Milton
that's bearing down on Florida. Florida's the red state, so
certainly have Governor Ron DeSantis who's going to do everything
humanly possible to make sure that his citizens can vote.
I don't know how Tampa breaks down politically, If it's
I'm guessing it like any other major city, it's probably
more blue than it is red. But could we be
facing similar problems in a state like Florida.

Speaker 9 (56:22):
You know, it's hard to say. Florida really is much
much better organized for these kinds of things, and it's
much heavier Republican right now for the first time in
so long, so I think they will probably be able
to get that organized much quicker than perhaps North Carolina
or even Georgia for that matter.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
Do you see something new ferry is happening here? I mean,
could the state of North Carolina? Could the governor declare
such a state of emergency they have to delay the
election there, which then of course delays the entire country.
I mean, can this be done?

Speaker 9 (57:02):
Oh boy, that's a good question. I hadn't even followed it,
but I do believe it is legally possible to do,
especially when you look at the past history of elections.
Judges usually go for you know, for making things easier
and pushing things off if necessary. So even if it
isn't quote unquote technically legal, it would happen if they

(57:23):
wanted it to happen.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Yeah, well that doesn't happen. Thank you, sir, Appreciate your time.
Bright Bart's Warner Todd Houston six twenty six. It is
time to take a look at your money, Hartey Donahoe.
Good morning again.

Speaker 22 (57:35):
Well, good morning, Jimmy. Stocks are slipping slightly this Wednesday.
Dell futures down thirty points. The Justice Department is weighing
a historic breakup of Google, signaling an antitrust crackdown on
big tech. Hurricane Milton roaring toward western Florida wind and
water could damage the state's citrus crops, and many businesses,
including its iconic theme parks, announce that they're closing until

(57:56):
the hurricane passes. Ninety percent of the flights today out
of Tampa International Airport have been canceled. Negotiations to resolve
in almost month long strike at Boeing have collapsed, the
company and the union blaming each other for the impasse. Meantime,
SMP Global Ratings is looking at downgrading Boeing's credit score
to junk, and WeightWatchers plans to offer a copycat version

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and we go v. The first month of the compounded
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Each additional month will cost one hundred and eighty nine dollars.
I'm according Ton Hope Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven
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along with Sheriff Ryer Monger Top Stores. This fr Texas
troopers picking up a lot of special interest aliens. There's
not enough illegals in Texas to send a bus. And
coming up at six thirty eight, Elon Musk says that
the billionaires who are terrified that Trump will release the
Epstein client list details in the minutes ahead. You're in

(59:16):
Houston's Morning News. First, let's check out that morning Drive
once again. Sky Mike's here.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Katie Freeway's totally shutting the bound outbound at Kirkwood.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Nothing good's happening here inbound.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
You're doing a nice job not repernacking east text young
Al from Kingwood.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Hey, ky Mike, just north of Kingwood Drive.

Speaker 9 (59:32):
It just turned into a parking lot.

Speaker 5 (59:34):
There is everybody hitting breaks.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
We're gonna have you some laneage in at the six
forty break, I'm sure class sky Mike here in the
classic Buick GMC traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Our KTRH Generator supercenter. Twenty four hour weather center for
today Sunday with the high temperature right around ninety similar
forecast for the rest of the work week. We'll check
it all out when we talk to Terry Smith that
the weather channel will do that in nine minutes. Currently
it is fifty nine, your officials, severe weather station News
Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news.

(01:00:05):
Here's Sheriff Fryer.

Speaker 7 (01:00:07):
It is now six thirty one on news radio seven
forty k trh our top story This our guests, who's
coming to this country illegally? The Department of Justice announcing
the arrest of an Afghan national living in Oklahoma for
years now for plotting a terror attack on election day
in support of ISIS. Nasir Ahmad Tahweti entered our country

(01:00:29):
on a special immigrant visa issued by the government just
a few weeks after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in
twenty twenty one. Just the latest example of these special
interest illegal aliens coming from terrorist countries, and many of
them as well with criminal records.

Speaker 35 (01:00:48):
That's because border crossings have dropped, but not Fuzia.

Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
People coming across who don't only have criminal backgrounds in
their home countries, but sometimes you're committing crimes here and
they come back across, they come back again.

Speaker 7 (01:01:00):
Brandon Walton's with the Texas scorecard. He says, despite the
best exer efforts of this state, we don't have the manpower.
Texas doesn't just stop all the illegal aliens coming across. Texas.
Governor Greg Abbot he did have to stop bussing illegal
aliens to sanctuary cities after his incredible impact of putting

(01:01:20):
that invasion in the spotlight for the entire country.

Speaker 35 (01:01:24):
That's because border crossings have dropped, but not from any
security improvements.

Speaker 26 (01:01:28):
The leftists in Washington have teamed up with the leftists
in Mexico City. They called and said, hey, slow the
invasion down until the election's over.

Speaker 35 (01:01:37):
Former Texas Senator Don Huffines says, this proves Mexico can
control the border and Texas needs to put more pressure
on them.

Speaker 26 (01:01:44):
We need to declare an economic war against the cartel
controlled government in Mexico, and we can do that unilateraline.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Stay out of the federal court house.

Speaker 35 (01:01:53):
Illegals are now crossing instead in the liberal states like
California and Arizona. Andrey Perarden New's Radio seven forty.

Speaker 7 (01:02:01):
Meantime, Kamala the Borders are accused of lying about her
open border policies. During that controversial sixty minutes interview this
past weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
She talked about from day one, they had solutions.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
To be clear, from day one, what they did was
to gut all of the.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Policies that President Trump put in a place.

Speaker 9 (01:02:20):
YEP.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
Governor Greg Abbott there he was talking to kg H
Sean Hannity. He said that the entire interview that Harris
gave and six on CBS is disqualifying for her. CB
has taken a lot of heat for heavily editing that
interview to make Harris look better. You're gonna hear that

(01:02:41):
at seven point thirty. Trump campaign wants the network meantime
to release the full unedited interview so you can see
their deception. Harris did a lot of friendly interviews yesterday,
though here's one with the view.

Speaker 22 (01:02:57):
Which you have done something differently than President Biden during
the past four years.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
There is don a thing that comes to mind.

Speaker 7 (01:03:06):
No, she wouldn't do anything differently. She then she talked
to Stephen Colbert. The media was fawning over the fact
that she popped the top on a Miller high Life
I think a beer with a late night host and
she cackled a bit, and then she had a really
tough discussion about how she loves Raisin brand. She did

(01:03:27):
that with Howard Stern. Numbers crunchers at Fox though they
say Kamala is very close. She's got more electoral votes
right now. She's closer to the two seventy needed than
Donald Trump has. It's suppolster Darren Shaw. He says Trump's
leading on all the issues, including economy and immigration, though,

(01:03:50):
but that's not enough.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Those are still the dominant issues.

Speaker 28 (01:03:53):
They still favored Trump, but she's had his lead from
a last poll on that that's made her more competitive.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Yeah, but she's not gaining strength in any demographic and
in fact, she's losing in every demographic. So how does
this work. The rankings are showing a fox or showing
that they're locked in tight races in all seven swing states.
Go figure this. It's now six thirty six. Hurricane Milton
making landfall, is coming in from the west and it's

(01:04:21):
going to hit central Florida, the peninsula somewhere near Tampa Bay. Today.
National Hurricane Center says it's still a Cat five storm
right now, wins one hundred and sixty miles an hour
storm surge they predict could be as high as fifteen feet.

Speaker 36 (01:04:38):
This storm is going to go across the Florida Peninsula
and it's going to exit on the east coast of
Florida into the Atlantic Ocean.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Likely still is a hurricane.

Speaker 7 (01:04:48):
Governor Ron DeSantis tens of thousands in North Carolina still
in the dark, almost two weeks after Helene hit There
and of course there's still the rescue operation underway, or
i should say recovery.

Speaker 24 (01:05:02):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:05:02):
Eighty nine of two hundred and thirty two official deaths
in that storm came in that state, And of course
FEMA and its reaction under fire.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
The federal government just doesn't seem to have its stuff together.

Speaker 20 (01:05:16):
But there's a reason why political appointees are important.

Speaker 34 (01:05:19):
They should not be chosen because they fit a DEI checklist.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
They should be chosen based on their experience.

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
They're going to get things done in leadership, and they're not.

Speaker 7 (01:05:28):
Texas Congresswoman Beth Van Dyne, leading to the question should
FEMA be abolished.

Speaker 11 (01:05:34):
Political writer Paul Bosakowski says, it's time to end FEMA.

Speaker 37 (01:05:39):
We should abolish FEMA because it's in effective. Accountability no
longer seems to exist anywhere within the federal government.

Speaker 11 (01:05:47):
Instead, what the government should do give the money and
get out of the way.

Speaker 37 (01:05:51):
The only thing that the government should do is make
funds available so they can do their work so much
better and more effectively and efficiently than the federal government can.

Speaker 10 (01:05:59):
Because, well the red.

Speaker 11 (01:06:00):
Taper, FEMA has been prioritizing equity over helping those in need.
Jeff Biggs, News Radio seven forty kt r H six
thirty seven.

Speaker 7 (01:06:10):
Now, no, Jimmy, that's not a hurricane. That is the
sound of the Hotel Tropicana imploded in Las Vegas early
this morning. That Land now will be the new stadium
site for the Major League Baseball's Oakland A's. The Oakland

(01:06:36):
A's in Las Vegas is so complicated. I'm Shepherd Freer
and News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
When we say what happens next, happens here, breaking is justice,
your guests is as good as ours.

Speaker 9 (01:06:55):
What happens next?

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Man on Youth Radio seven forty ktr six point thirty nine.
Our time here in Houston's morning news. So Elon must
sat down with Tucker Carlson and they talked about a
lot of things. They talked about his support for Donald Trump.
They talked about starlink getting back to the victims of
Hurricane Helene. They talked about the movement to decriminalize crime.

(01:07:19):
They talked about Europe's declining birth rates, and they also
talked about the Jeffrey Epstein and p Diddy client lists.
Who are the people who were being serviced, if you will,
by those two individuals, especially Jeffrey Epstein, wouldn't you love
to know?

Speaker 7 (01:07:38):
And gathering George and uh huh and blackmail on him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
And Tucker basically asked Elon, you know, why do you
think you know so many billionaires are supporting Kamala Harris,
and he basically came out and said, they're afraid. Some
of these billionaires are a freight because they know they're
on that lie and they're afraid if Donald Trump is elected,
that list will be released and they'll be outed for

(01:08:04):
what they had done. And that does strike me as
a powerful motivator. There's not a lot of things that
scare you. I would think if you're a billionaire, right,
certainly you're not afraid of You may be afraid of
losing her fortune. But the only thing that you really
can I would think appeal to a real fear factor
for you would be losing your freedom, you know, of

(01:08:25):
going to prison for the things that you've done, and
that that is an existential risk if that client list
comes out, and there's and the no doubt there's some
big names on there of people who have a lot
to lose if that list comes out, So that seems
like a powerful motivator to me. You know, if Donald
Trump indeed plans to do something like that, he certainly

(01:08:45):
would have the power to get that released, get that
information that's been hidden from us. Take forty time for
traffic and weather together, we're checking out the drive again.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
Hayesky, Mike Man, it's Katie Freeway, Jimmy, this is out
there on at Kirkwood.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
They've taken up all the lanes.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
I don't really want to do a lot of end
zone movements here, but iHeartRadio listeners were the first to
know the severity of this wreck. And it's closed down
the whole freeway. Watch out from the belt. Wait it's outbound,
not inbound and inbounders advisers, you're doing a really nice
job and not reverndaking.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Just moving along.

Speaker 4 (01:09:16):
And we're actually twenty eight minutes from Katie Graham Parkway
into the President's heads.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
We cleared that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Wreck off of six ' ten the north Loop that
was eastbound by the Farmers Market at the squeeze at
forty five.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
We're back to full speed going that way.

Speaker 4 (01:09:28):
Now the other way, we're loopy again at the squeeze
from the westbound. Let's see, we've got young Albert from Kingwood.
He thought we had a problem on Grand Parkway.

Speaker 35 (01:09:37):
Dude Albert again, chuck Ninjo's spoos did a thing because
it is cleared up.

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
I'm past Roley.

Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
Buzzle Well, said young Albert, and I've got to eighty eight.
Jason from alban what's up.

Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
My two D northbound wallow breaks before McCart at your
slow through airport.

Speaker 9 (01:09:55):
Just regular to eighty eight suggets here here.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Well said, extra points for Verbert.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Banana stickers all around and forty five North Freeway.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Something smushing us up for around cross timbers.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
We'll have some laneage at the six fifty in the
classic view a GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
From r KT r H Generator super Center, twenty four
hour Weather Center. Time to check in with Terry Smith.
I think we should start a betting pool on this one.
Name the date the last time that we had a
temperature in the fifties here in Houston. I'm going to take.
I'm gonna take April eighteenth.

Speaker 7 (01:10:29):
April eighteenth, all right, I'm gonna go look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
No, No, did you cheat?

Speaker 7 (01:10:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
I did not cheat. I looked up. I just even
thought of this idea.

Speaker 7 (01:10:39):
Okay, let me go check.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Okay, yeah, all right, what do you before you before
you check check put me.

Speaker 7 (01:10:44):
On the spot. Random thing. Well, it was cool for
the fiddlers frolics, and that was in late April, so
I woulday say sometime in May, okay May, early May,
like May four.

Speaker 18 (01:10:59):
All right, going for April eighteen, yep, next time we talk,
I'm going to see if I can find that out
fair enough.

Speaker 7 (01:11:06):
All right, Yeah, it's been nice.

Speaker 18 (01:11:08):
I mean, it's the dry air that's causing things to
be very comfortable in the morning. Because when the humidity's
low and there are no clouds and the winds are light,
the heat just radiates back into space. We call it
radiational cooling, and it works so nicely, and it's it's
in effect right now. Radiational cooling Alert everybody.

Speaker 7 (01:11:27):
It's so pleasant outside. But the inverse is also true.

Speaker 18 (01:11:31):
When the sun comes up, those temperatures do warm up
rather quickly. We'll be in the upper eighties till low
nineties today and every afternoon through the weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Right now though fifty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH, the most informed way
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Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Houston's Morning News. You are commute you are forecast your news.
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Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
So we have a Houston male area that's been arrested
for stealing checks in the mail over a million dollars
worth boring. That story coming up next first though, So
my check was not in the mail, it wasn't lost
in the mail. Let's put that way. Sky some time
I was like, so, I my problem. My mail is
out in space. And there's that sir.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
It's not in space, it's somewhere in the system. All right,
let's go Katie Freeway outbound. That's a complete shutdown. I
don't like the way this reclords. There's an eighteen wheeler
involved here. It's a story and it's going to be
one and a little bit outbound inbound to Reberneck. At
Katie Freeway, you lose about two or three extra got
the lane, it's Aha Nord Freeway airline. It's the right lane.
It's just a stall. Southbound. The suckage is beginning from

(01:12:40):
the Shepherd curb. I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather centers.
Sunny today tomorrow and also on Friday, near ninety today
and tomorrow about ninety three for the high end Friday
current temperature fifty nine at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty k t IrH checking out some
of our top stories this morning. Here's Shera.

Speaker 7 (01:13:03):
It's now six fifty two on news Radio seven forty
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Next on the ten.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
It was stealing checks from the mail. Former Houston mail
carrier indicted by a grand jury accused of stealing millions
of dollars in checks zips affected seven seven zero one
six seven seven zero two eight seven seven zero four
four seven seven zero five zero seven seven zero seven eight.
This happened at the roy Royal Facility. Here's our television partner,

(01:14:34):
Kate the RC two with the report.

Speaker 38 (01:14:36):
To be stealing your mail, and the way that all
of this happened is a little bit unbelievable. Postal workers
who steal and sell checks are common enough to have
a street name. They're known as postal plugs. That's according
to a law enforcement source who tonight tells me these checks.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Are in high demand right now.

Speaker 38 (01:14:52):
This group is accused of using an encrypted messaging app
and an underground lingo to try and pull all of
this off. This post office on Houston's northeast side now
at the center of a multi million dollar theft ring.
It started with USPS credit cards being swiped for fuel

(01:15:13):
seen here, filling up non USPS vehicles at odd hours,
Then hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks that should
have been delivered along the roy Royal Post Office's mail
routes spanning these five zip codes began disappearing like every he.

Speaker 5 (01:15:30):
People was complaining it was game complaints about mails.

Speaker 9 (01:15:34):
Coming up missing.

Speaker 38 (01:15:35):
That's a postal employee who used to work at roy
Royal who asked to remain anonymous fearing retaliation.

Speaker 9 (01:15:41):
It made me angry to get his thieves portion. Oh
was supposed to serve.

Speaker 5 (01:15:47):
I'm pretty sure he's not.

Speaker 27 (01:15:48):
The on one.

Speaker 38 (01:15:50):
Investigators from the USPS Inspector General's Office opened a criminal
investigation in twenty twenty two, and when Houston Police served
a search warrant at this house last November because they
say it had been rented using a stolen identity, they
started uncovering more of a mail theft and check fraud scheme.

Speaker 39 (01:16:06):
The person inside this residence is a mail carrier. Officers
immediately began to notice a lot of mail that was
not addressed to the legal residents.

Speaker 38 (01:16:14):
Through search warrms for homes, cell phones, and Instagram, combined
with timesheets and attendance records, what happened to all those checks,
mostly belonging to small businesses became clearer and.

Speaker 39 (01:16:25):
In the case of every check that was stolen, that
was found either in his vehicle or through images in
his phone. They were able to pair up a route
that he had worked on an owner about the exact
day the check went missing.

Speaker 38 (01:16:36):
Records share the checks included monthly Social Security and disability payments,
as well as federal tax refunds. Harris County Grand Jury
Justin dited twenty six year old Cameron Goodwin, a roy
Royal Postal carrier of two years, for engaging in organized
crime and theft.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Stealing social Security checks.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:16:56):
Well, my brother in law had his payment to the IRS,
his taxes stolen, and there went his identity too.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
There you go. Yeah, tell me again why we need
the United States pustle sence.

Speaker 7 (01:17:08):
It gives you a lot of comfort in thinking about
those mailed in ballats does Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Sure, yeah, I'm sure they're taking perfect care of those
all right. Time for the timeline. Got a pair of
Take us to Jeff Lind's e l O October sixteenth
at Toyota Center. Tickets on sale right now at Live
nation dot com. But you can win a pair. Just
tell us what year today's timeline's from.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
It's a very horrific crime scen It was October one
of the worst that I've seen. HI shooter kills eleven
at a synagogue in Pitts and members of the Trio.

Speaker 32 (01:17:34):
Life Synagogue were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them
simply because of their faith.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
On TV, Roseanne odeed on opioids after being fired for
racist remarks that Connors returned with the death of Roseanne
All over dust.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
It doesn't make any sense in theaters.

Speaker 7 (01:17:52):
Tell me something.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper debut in A Star Is Born.

Speaker 10 (01:18:00):
I gotta tell you a secret. Thank you might be
a songwriter.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Number one on the radio, Arianna Grande, Thank you. Next,
what year was it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
If you know seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four, that is seven one three two one
two k t R H. Good luck.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
All right, we have.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Ourselves a winner. That be Terry and Magnolia who knew
the right year was twenty eighteen. Well done, Terry, get
a fair tickets to go enjoy Jeff Lynn's e l
O October sixteenth at Toyota Center. Enjoyed the show and
thank you for listening to Houston's morning news.

Speaker 24 (01:18:37):
This is US Radio seven forty kt RH, Houston ive
everywhere with now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
It's more of what.

Speaker 9 (01:18:48):
Matters to you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
From the John Moris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Seven on one, our time, Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy
Verit along with Sheriff Fryer. Among our top stories this
half hour, what the poll numbers are really saying about
the residential election. Milton is now a cat for and
making a bee line to Tampa and coming up at
seven to eight, Lena Hildago delete her posts after being
accused of electioneering details in the minutes ahead here in

(01:19:12):
Houston's Morning News, First, we're checking out that morning Drive
once again. Here's sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
All right, Jimmy, put on your hard hat. Share here's
one for you. Three thirty spurred three thirty bay Town
which used to be.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Called Decker Drive. I've got a report here.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
My work wife, Christina Kruz, thinks there's a wreck right
where it hits one forty six.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
That's a bad spot if you're trying to get to
the bridge.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
Katie Freeway outbound totally shut down at Kirkwood all lanes.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Nothing good's happening.

Speaker 4 (01:19:35):
He's text Let's go to the sticks with Clayton from
splendoras got my.

Speaker 5 (01:19:39):
Inbound just north of East River Dry. There is an
eighteen winder on its side in the bitch super Ninja
all side trying to upriting here. Oh it's tire fear's.

Speaker 4 (01:19:52):
Pluck all right, good verbage. Hopefully it looks like everybody's okay.
And I don't see any problems on the main lanes.
Why does he get an olive bretch?

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
Can anybody tell me?

Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
Scott Hi, Mike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather
Center Sunday with behind your ninety Today, we'll get Terry
Smith in here with the latest on Milton just downgraded
to a Cat four. We'll talk to her about eight
fin Let's temperature right now is fifty nine at your
officials Severe Weather Station. News Radio seven forty k t RH.
It's time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryar seven

(01:20:23):
oh three.

Speaker 7 (01:20:23):
Now on news radio seven forty KTRH is news sponsored
by Partnership and Building. In our top story this hour.

Speaker 8 (01:20:30):
Prices evant come down, that damage on groceries, on cars,
on everything has been done.

Speaker 7 (01:20:36):
Donald Trump Newsmax last night. The latest Reuters numbers, however,
show that the race for president is still within the
margin of error, is a statistical tie. They tell us.
They want us to think that Trump is badly trailing
Kamala Harris in terms of mainstream media. Is why these
are called push polls. The Democrat talking site Politico just

(01:20:59):
head line Helene hit Trump's strongholds in Georgia and North Carolina.
It could swing the election. En quote. Breitbart's Warner Todd
us To says this kind of thing is not just
limited to media either.

Speaker 9 (01:21:12):
One the University of Kentucky professor said that she loved
the hurricane because it was punishing Republicans voting in Georgia
and North Carolina and the surrounding area.

Speaker 7 (01:21:23):
He said if he ever wrote anything like that about Democrats,
he'd be fired here at home. State Senator Paul Bettencourt
has accused the Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo a violation
of the state election code because Hidalgo posted a link
to register people to vote through a partisan Democrats site.
You know she's a public office holder. Hidalgo went on

(01:21:47):
and has now deleted that post Hurricane Milton making landfall
as we expect on central peninsula of Florida today near Tampa,
moving west to east. Now, the system as a cat
for hurricane Now it's just got downgraded with one hundred
and fifty five mile per hour winds enough that forecasters

(01:22:08):
still continue that storm surge prediction of fifteen feet.

Speaker 21 (01:22:13):
It's definitely been a lot unfortunate to not be in
a flutter or an evacuation zone, but that doesn't mean
that it's not going to do damage even a little
more inland.

Speaker 7 (01:22:22):
That was Ryan Sudahl of WSNNTV and Sara Soda Florida.
He was on with us very early this morning here
on Houston's Morning News. Joe Biden has canceled his trip
to Germany and Angola. He's staying in the White House
monitoring the storm. He says, seven oh five is our time.
We got a warning from any economists lowering the interest
rates as they did last month the Fed. It is

(01:22:46):
similar to failed FED actions of the nineteen seventies that
ultimately crushed our economy.

Speaker 11 (01:22:54):
And Sharon that would include Houston economist Van Scan.

Speaker 12 (01:22:58):
Bad decisions then to be reminiscent or very similar to
what we are seeing today and what.

Speaker 11 (01:23:04):
Were those bad mistakes from the seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
When they pushed back on the gas.

Speaker 12 (01:23:09):
With all this money creation throughout the economy, that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Pushed inflation back up. In fact, inflation went up higher.

Speaker 11 (01:23:15):
Gin says, we are at a critical moment for the economy.
Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty k t R H.

Speaker 7 (01:23:23):
Seven O five Now. Violent crime in Houston again. Over
night two deadly shootings, including one in southeast Jusa, was
over a game of dominoes. There was also a fatal stabbing.
Former HPD officer Gerald Gones sentenced to sixty years in
prison after his murder convictions in the deadly Harding Street
Rate of twenty nineteen. Ryan Tuttle is the son of

(01:23:45):
the two people killed that night.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
It's been five and.

Speaker 14 (01:23:48):
A half years of waiting with little answer and with
a heavy burden of my father's and my stepmother's name
being tarnished as drug dealers, which they absolutely are not.

Speaker 21 (01:24:00):
An never work.

Speaker 7 (01:24:01):
Tuttle with our TV partner Channel two Goins falsified the
no knock warrants that was used in what was a
botched raid. US Supreme Court hearing arguments yesterday, the case
involving so called ghost guns guns built at home that
don't have serial numbers. Supporters of the Second Amendments say
this really has everything to do with government overreach.

Speaker 15 (01:24:24):
The ATF creates a rule that says that they're going
to start regulating them. That's an issue because an agency
like the ATF don't have the authority to do this.

Speaker 7 (01:24:35):
Michael Cargill is with Central Texas Gun Works, the group
that successfully fought against the bump stock ban, which the
Supreme Court struck down just back in June. It is
now seven oh seven. Our job market starting to go
into stasis. Companies have stopped hiring, but they also are

(01:24:56):
not making that many job cuts.

Speaker 40 (01:25:00):
Companies are not sure which way the economy is going
to go, so they don't want to lay off anybody
and ksey economy revs up. At the same time, they
don't want to hire people because the economy might slip.

Speaker 7 (01:25:11):
In other words, the election financial planner Bill Dindy told
KTRH is this is just a bad time if you're
looking for a job. And the Rockets they visit Oklahoma
City in preseason action six thirty tonight, you'll hear it
on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm sure by Fryar on
news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 30 (01:25:32):
Keeping you in the know all the information in real
time and again the now right now news Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Did you hear what happened with Lena Hildago and Senator
Paul Bettencourt. You just did that.

Speaker 7 (01:25:49):
I just did the story in the new skett while
you were getting your coffee dog on it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Yeah, I didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:25:55):
I don't have time to give a lot of details.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
Well, you know, if there's there's not a ton of
details on this. Basically what she did was she posted
on X I believe it was that you know, turn
out to vote, make sure you go out to vote
on the election day. Blah blah blah. Here's a link.
And the link was not for Harris County and election information.

(01:26:20):
The link was for Democratic Party information and that is
what we call electioneering. And he called her on it
and she removed the postpartus against the law. Yeah, well,
here's my question. Did anybody capture this while it was
still up?

Speaker 15 (01:26:36):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Is anybody going to pursue it any further? Is anybody
going to call her on it? Is any state official
going to say you are being accused of electioneering. We'll
see you in court or is it just going to
be dropped? I mean, if Senator Benincourt saw it, I
hope you'll pursue it.

Speaker 7 (01:26:57):
Yeah. You see what happens when you try to pursue
anything that strikes you as being crooked in this county. Yeah,
baby drags on in court forever, for andever, and you
get it in front of it, it goes back only
judge and then there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
You go, exactly goes nowhere. That's why I'm wondering if
there's something the state can do. Is there any sort
of a charge the state could bring versus Harris County?

Speaker 7 (01:27:17):
Well, not until the legislature changed the law, changes the law.
Remember the Attorney General used to be able to pursue
and then he got shut down from doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
Right, And if they do change the law, leave it
up to the Democrats to find a loophole. They're very
good at loopholes.

Speaker 7 (01:27:31):
As long as you've got the rhinos led by day
feel and it ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
You're right, seven to ten, traffic and weather together, we're
checking it out. Doggo would call the tip line though
it leased. I mean, you could just be about traffic.
I wouldn't care she has. I'm sure she has somebody
driving her around. She has she has no clue what's
going on with the traffic, like she doesn't have a
clue in anything else that night. But I just you
know what, we need a female voice here.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
I got Ramon from Spring Banana Stickers, Albert Kingwood, Young,
Albert Jason, Albert Jason from Albert Clayton from Splendora. We're
having a little bit of a Schulenberg thing, so even
Lina can fix that. Seven one three two one two tips.
All right, your Katie Freeway deal. This is going to
be with us the rest of the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Trust me.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
I don't have confirmation on you know what I'm talking about,
but nothing good's happening Katie outbound Kirkwood all lanes for
block Now, you're doing a nice job inbound of minding
your own business. I do have a stall on the
KD at the ramp to the west, Sam, and we've
got some suckage. Now from about Barker Cypress In you
lose about ten minutes this way. On the other side

(01:28:31):
East Freeway, you've got to pack up now from Lockwood
hard Hats, you lose about two or three minutes here,
gotta reckon.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
I believe it three point thirty reported at one six.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
That's decker or three thirty where the spur hits one
forty six to go to the bridge.

Speaker 1 (01:28:45):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
Give me about ten minutes here, Terry, and I'll have
you some laneage. And we are in the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Rom A KTRH Top Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.
I see Milton has down been downgraded to a Cat four.
I think that's a very little seliz to the folks
in Florida to make much of a difference, Is it daring?

Speaker 37 (01:29:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:29:05):
Right, So it's now at one hundred and fifty miles
an hour as opposed to one hundred and sixty miles
an hour. So no, And it's going to continue to
weekend at least I would expect it to continue to
weeken for a number of reasons. But it's still going
to make landfall in Florida. Bad bad thing number one.

(01:29:25):
It's still going to be a major hurricane when it
makes landfall. Bad thing number two. And it's going to
be a hurricane the entire time it crosses the state
of Florida. So as quickly as it weekends, that'll be fine,
but it's not going to help us out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Sorry to say that.

Speaker 18 (01:29:42):
So sunshine, folks, we got it nice and quiet, lots
of sunshine, comfortable in the morning because the humidity's low.
Afternoons are going to be warm, but nothing out of control.
Just running a little bit above average for this time
of year. Uper eight east to low nineties today through Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
All right, did you happen to find out the last
time we had a temperature in the fifties?

Speaker 6 (01:29:59):
So I have.

Speaker 18 (01:30:00):
I've gone back all the way into May, and so
far no fifties in May, so I'm gonna have to
go back into April, and I'll be doing that the
next time we talk.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Very good, Thank you very much. Yes, right now fifty
nine at your official severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty k t RH.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
It's Houston's morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy and Scherah with the
info you need to take on the day. Oh, I
can use a little sum and bring a smile to
my day. Senator John Kennedy usually does that for me,
even if he's talking about FEMA and how feeble FEMA is.
More on that coming up next. First though, at seven twenty,

(01:30:37):
let's do a little traffic and weather together. Yesuch, you
get Lena to call in on the tip line. I'm
shocked by that. I thought I thought she was one
of our prime listeners.

Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
I said seven three two on two Tips called me Lina.
All right, let's go east Loop Ship Channel Bridge northbound.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
This is the Sherman Bridge. Gotta stall. The report is
center lane. I don't know if I will leave that.

Speaker 4 (01:31:00):
We're going to zoom that at the seven thirty report.
They probably have moved him over. I don't have a
direct look Katie Freeway outbound totally shut down at Kirkwood.
Nothing good's happening there. I've got that East River overturned vehicle.
That's East River Drives Splendora fifty nine southbound and Clayton
frim Splendora.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Nobody knows why.

Speaker 4 (01:31:19):
I give him olive branches either southbound, Banana stickers all around.

Speaker 9 (01:31:23):
I go fast.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Two forty nine Lance from Agnolia, Thanks.

Speaker 26 (01:31:27):
I'll apologize to Jim from the Woodlands are I'm sure
you did something and we don't get to hear her
sweet boys anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Oh, see if I can ring her up to with
Lena I'm skylike in the classic Buick GMC Traffic center.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
There's a twosome to talk about. From our KTRH top
tax devendors twenty four hour weather center for today, we're
looking at plenty of sunshine today, tomorrow and Friday near
ninety today and tomorrow about ninety three for the high
end Friday stemper to ride down fifty nine at your
official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty k TRH.
Let's get you caught up now in some of our

(01:32:02):
top trending stories this morning. Bere Shera.

Speaker 7 (01:32:04):
It's now seven twenty two on news Radio seven forty
k TRH. Our headlines are sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. Hurricane
Milton has weakened just a tad now a cat for
storm with one hundred and fifty five mile per hour winds.
Storm surge still predicted at fifteen feet, making landfall in
Florida later today between Tampa and Sarasota. Well, we've got

(01:32:26):
more new polling, this one showing that Donald Trump leads
Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania. He rallies in reading tonight and
guess what the big one's going to be Friday in Aurora, Colorado.
Ethel Kennedy has been hospitalized. She suffered a stroke last week.
She's ninety six years old. Latest news anytime ktiireach dot com.

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Our next update will be at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 41 (01:32:54):
I will probably put my record against him.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
She's absolutely terrible your decision twenty twenty four. Headquarters is
Youth Radio seventy forty KTRH.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
Senator John Kennedy. I don't think he has that high
an opinion of FEMA either. He got asked about the
job that FEMA did, especially on Eleen. Here is what
our favorite man from Louisiana had to say.

Speaker 42 (01:33:16):
Vice President Harris and some members of the media are
complaining that people are asking hard questions about the Biden
Harris recovery to Hurricane and Aleen. They say it's a
new conspiracy theory. I've concede that we need some new
conspiracy theories, but it's because.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
All the old ones turned out to be true.

Speaker 42 (01:33:41):
Conspiracy theories up something like thirty seven and nothing. Here
are the facts. Halen was a monster storm. We saw
it coming. The federal government had time to prepare. It
wasn't prepared we don't have nearly enough soldiers and military
helicopters rescuing people. During Katrina, we had twenty thousand soldiers

(01:34:08):
and three hundred and fifty military helicopters. A week after
the storm in Naplasia, we had I think seven thousand
soldiers and maybe one hundred helicopters. And you especially need
helicopters in a mountainous area. Senators Budd and tell Us
are so frustrated. They've asked Vice President Harrison President Biden

(01:34:30):
to put an active duty military and leader in charge,
but so far, I don't think they've heard anything. Now,
in the middle of all this, the White House sends
a female representative on a national talk show on Sunday
to say, stop with the hard questions. It's hurting the
morale the FEMAE employees. You can't even Jessee Smallett can

(01:34:52):
make this stuff up.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
I mean, most Americans who.

Speaker 42 (01:34:55):
Saw that interview Sean thought, you know, crimea.

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
River, that's what we pay. Get your ash back to work.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
What was that you said at the end? Their senator
did trash back to work? Okay, I got it. Get
your ass back to work. Quit your crime. Crye me wherever,
get your ass back to work. Kiss my grass, I'm
gonna have six. It's time to take a look at
your money. Courtney Donaho, Good morning again.

Speaker 7 (01:35:23):
Well, good morning, Jimmy.

Speaker 22 (01:35:25):
Stocks are holding steady this morning after yesterday's gains.

Speaker 7 (01:35:28):
A technology is in focus.

Speaker 22 (01:35:29):
The Justice Department is considering asking a federal judge to
force Google to sell off parts of its business. Antitrust
enforcers are weighing a break up to mitigate Alphabet's dominance
and search. Turning to energy oil A little change seventy
three dollars a barrel the market monitoring developments in the
Middle East. Mortgage rates have jumped higher, the most in
more than a year. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association,

(01:35:51):
the rate on a thirty year loan is six point
thirty six percent. Mortgage rates tend to move in tandem
with treasury yields, which have been rising recent and Home
Depot will begin requiring corporate employees to work a full
day on one of its stores every quarter. The company
says the move is aimed at understanding its retail staff's challenges. Employees,
including senior management, will have to complete an eight hour

(01:36:14):
shift starting this quarter. I'm courtingy Donahoe Bloomberg Business on
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 23 (01:36:23):
A Houston's News Weather, We're traffic plus breaking news twenty
four to seven. This is News Radio seven forty KTRH
five Everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
For more of what's happening now from the John Morris
Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
It is seven thirty now here on Houston's Barding News,
I'm Jimmy Barrett Long with Sheriff Ryer. Among our top
stories this f hour, Texas troopers are picking up a
lot of special interest aliens. There's not enough illegals in
Texas to send a bus and coming up at seven
thirty eight, Why would well, why would Why would hospitals
do sex change procedures on minors one hundred and twenty

(01:37:04):
million dollars? That's why. Details in the minutes ahead here
in Houston's Morning News. First, we're gonna check out that
drive once again. Here's sky Mike. All right.

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
That stall is real Ship Channel bridge Sermon Bridge A
six ten east northbound, not the toll bridge right in
the middle. They're working on moving him over to the side.
I've got some breaks now from two twenty five. Katie
Freeways totally shut down outbound nothing good's happening at Kirkwood inbound.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
We're okay.

Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
East text up and splendor. I've got an eighteen wheeler.
Hopefully it's okay. It's on its side southbound on fifty
nine over to over in the grassy area.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
And David from Kingwood's doing the east text. He knows why.

Speaker 9 (01:37:39):
I think that Olive branch is for the Battle of
the Bell between Tartinton and Mondora.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Would you like to hear my school song?

Speaker 4 (01:37:45):
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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Take a hard pass on that from mar ktur Age
Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour Weather Center Sunday today with
the high temper jure near ninety we'll get you the
complete forecast when we talked to Terry Smith at the
Weather Channel in nine minutes. Step but you're right now
is fifty nine at your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty KTRH. It is time now for the news.

(01:38:09):
Here's Sheriff Ryer.

Speaker 7 (01:38:10):
It's now seven thirty two on news Radio seven forty KTRH.
Our top story. This aar in Afghan national living in
Oklahoma has been arrested charged with plotting a terror attack
in this country on election Day, allegedly on behalf of Isis.
Nasir Ama Taweti entered the US on a special immigrant

(01:38:31):
visa given to him by our government September ninth, twenty
twenty one, just a couple of weeks after US troops
were pulled out of Afghanistan. The Biden Harris border invasion
still underway, and thousands of illegal aliens are coming into
our country from terrorist countries, and among them also many

(01:38:53):
who have criminal records.

Speaker 25 (01:38:56):
These special interest I legal aliens are still able to
walk right acros across the border.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
How many are coming over and are not being caught.
It's not just people from South America, It's people from
all over the world that are pouring across the southern border.

Speaker 25 (01:39:09):
Brenton Walton's with the Texas Scorecard says Texas just doesn't
have the manpower to solve this problem right now.

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
Governor Abbot has used what he's had available to him
to try to fill that gap, but it just shows
that Texas needs something more permanent.

Speaker 25 (01:39:22):
There was legislation proposed to create a full time Texas
border force, but it was killed by how Speaker Dade
feelin Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:39:31):
Yeah, reminder, just last week DPS at Eagle pass Or
rested a group of two hundred and thirty illegal aliens
twenty seven identifying as special interest aliens, meaning they're either
criminals or they're from countries that are hostile to the
United States, terrorists supporting countries like Iran. Yes, it included

(01:39:51):
Iranian immigrants. Governor Greg abbitts buzzing of many illegal aliens
to sanctuary cities. It's stopped because the majority are crossing
in blue states like California and Arizona. But former Texas
State Senator Don Hauffein says crossings are also down because

(01:40:11):
the Biden heroes regime is as Mexico to help a
head of the election in order to help stop Trump.

Speaker 26 (01:40:21):
This really proves that Mexico can control the border anytime
it wants. Mexico really is our main enemy. They have
done more to undermine the United States that all of
our other enemies combine.

Speaker 7 (01:40:36):
Mexico no reason really to control the border, he says,
because the cartels own them the government and they profit
from it. Kamala Harris, asked by sixty Minutes about the
border disaster that she has overseen.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
I think that the interview is disqualifying. She has no answer.

Speaker 7 (01:40:57):
Yeah, she got very flustered, and Governor Greg Abbott went
on Sean Hannity to talk about that. CBS meantime they
covered it. They're being accused of editing Kamala Harris's interview
from this from the tape. Here's the proof, here's the
pre edit Kamala answer.

Speaker 10 (01:41:16):
It seems that Prime Minister Netanyah who is not listening.

Speaker 27 (01:41:20):
Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted
in a number of movements.

Speaker 7 (01:41:32):
Interview was done on a Sunday, it wasn't aired until Monday,
and this is how it aired after being edited.

Speaker 10 (01:41:41):
It seems that Prime Minister net and Yah, who is
not listening.

Speaker 27 (01:41:46):
We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for
the United States to be clear about where we stand
on the need for this war to end.

Speaker 7 (01:41:54):
Oh, they just inserted an answer. It made her sound good.
Trump campaign demanding that the full unedited interview be released. Harris,
by the way, is putting on the full court press.
She did three friendly interviews yesterday, including the view in
which she said, well, I wouldn't change any of the
policies that we enacted in the Biden Harris regime. So

(01:42:15):
much for change of foot if you believe the latest
Fox numbers, though, Kamala is closer than Trump is to
getting the needed two hundred seventy electoral votes that pollster
Darren Shaw says, despite Trump's lead on the economy and
immigration and her falling support and all demographics.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
Explain it, those are still the dominant issues.

Speaker 28 (01:42:38):
They still favor Trump, but she's had his lead from
a last poll on that that's made her more competitive.

Speaker 24 (01:42:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:42:45):
Well, the Fox rankings show the two locked in tight
races in all seven swing states, but earlier we just
reported Pennsylvania is showing it's swung to Trump. It is
now seven thirty six. Hurricane Milton will be making landfall
to day near Tampa. National Hurricane Center says it's a
Category four storm now wins one hundred and fifty five

(01:43:07):
miles an hour. They still warn about the deadly storm
surge as high as fifteen feet a wall of water
coming in the official death toll of Hurricane Helene two
weeks ago, still remaining at two hundred and thirty two.
They're saying officially eighty nine of those deaths in North
Carolina alone, where things are still totally disruptive for people

(01:43:30):
in the rural areas and tens of thousands without power.
So what has s FEMA done to help those people?

Speaker 8 (01:43:39):
Don't have any money and it's the worst response to
a hurricane, they say, in history, worst thing Katrina, which
was pretty bad.

Speaker 7 (01:43:46):
Donald Trump weighing in there, we know he was talking
to our sisters. Station KFI out in Los Angeles is
now seven thirty seven Texans facing rookie quarterback Drake May
apparently on Sunday when they visit the New England Patriots.
May was the third overall pick in the NFL draft
back in April. I'm sure Fryar on news radio seven

(01:44:10):
forty ktrhy.

Speaker 37 (01:44:15):
Damn.

Speaker 1 (01:44:18):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
Why it happened? Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar explain it.
Now back to Houston's morning news. This is quite a
statistic here US hospitals. You know, it was such a
big story share that broke when Texas Children's Hospital, you know,
when they found out just how many sex change procedures

(01:44:40):
that they had done and they got shamed in to
stop doing them. Pretty much well, far from the only
ones doing it. US hospitals. You want to know why
they did all these procedures. US hospitals charged one hundred
and twenty million dollars or less than five years for
sex change perceed teachers performed on about fourteen thousand kids.

(01:45:05):
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 7 (01:45:07):
Does that include just giving the drugs, includes hormone block
everything from hormone blockers to actual physical surgery. What a racket.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
It's the first of a kind database which logs sex
change procedures given to children nationwide between twenty nineteen and
twenty twenty three. It cataloged a total of five thousand,
seven hundred and forty seven miners who underwent sex change surgeries,
along with eight five hundred and seventy nine who obtained
puberty blockers across sex hormones. Again, these are all miners.

Speaker 7 (01:45:39):
Well I didn't add that up, but you know, divide
it into one hundred and forty million and you find
out just how much money.

Speaker 2 (01:45:46):
On each one is a big money maker? Oh my, well,
you know, unfortunately for a lot of corporate hospitals that
that's what Benison has become. It's a big money maker.
It's not about it's not about doing the right thing
for people or for the right treatment, right. It's a
business exactly doing all harm. Is the one that turned
this data up. The numbers were drawn from just These
numbers just came from insurance claims across all fifty states.

(01:46:08):
They do not include self pay, charity payments, internal veteran
affairs claims, or patients covered by Kiser health blends. So
the number is probably a whole lot higher. It's just
from the insurance claims that they were able to find
more procedures were no doubt done.

Speaker 7 (01:46:24):
Is government controlled so because of the insurance companies, I
mean ultimately is government control of medical care because they
define everything because of the assured amount of money that
government controls in medicine. And what kind of society does
this to its children?

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
A pretty evil society.

Speaker 7 (01:46:42):
Sound a lot like the Aztecs.

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
This is this is some pretty evil stuff. If you
ask me seven forty time for traffic and weather together,
we're checking out the drive once again. Hey sky Mike, Hey,
let's go to the Weser side of town.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
I've got Katie Freeway inbound right before Highway six call
at Barker, Cyprus.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
That's an accent.

Speaker 4 (01:46:59):
Looks like everybody's okay at this one in the hov uh,
so that'll slow things down. Mainlands are already packed now
from Greenhouse coming this way, going the other way westbound.
That wreck at Kirkwood, there's just nothing good happening there.
This is all lanes block eighteen. Wheeler ran into somebody
that was just sitting there. On the West Park tollway.
It's pretty crammed up now. Fourteen sixty four into about

(01:47:21):
Eldridge on the inbound southwest Freeway. If I can talk
here southwest inbound, you're slow at the fountains. You'll hit
more brakes at West Park and a big scoots right
there after Kirby northbound. It's about all the North Freeway
we can stand now from West Road, losing sixteen minutes
coming into town.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
Nord Sam.

Speaker 4 (01:47:37):
You've got the roadwork westbound at Alden Westfield and eastbound
at Imperial Valley Tip.

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
Blind seven one three two one two tips.

Speaker 15 (01:47:46):
Oh is it Lena?

Speaker 41 (01:47:46):
Howdogo tight time stems from the woodlands, so it's better.

Speaker 33 (01:47:50):
Hey, it's the west.

Speaker 8 (01:47:51):
Blue down the uptown.

Speaker 15 (01:47:53):
It is flowed from two nine to Post Oak, lots
of rape and northbound at West timer is low as well.

Speaker 9 (01:48:00):
Happy Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
We are now Gary. She gets a pair of banana stickers.

Speaker 4 (01:48:04):
I am in the Generator Supercenter dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Traffic Center from Mark Katie rh Generator Supercenter, twenty four
hour Weather Center. Terry Smith. He's here. But the first
things first are we need to settle a bed. Yes,
and that is when was the last time? Because right
now it's fifty nine. We've got down to fifty eight
about an hour or so ago. When's the last time
we had a temperature here in Houston in the fifties?

Speaker 7 (01:48:27):
It was April twenty third.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
Ooh, I was close you were, I said, April eighteenth, Yes,
you did.

Speaker 7 (01:48:34):
I said it was close to the Fiddling contest, which
was that weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
Well in out in Hollittsville, they might have had temperatures
in the fifties back yeah, yeah, but that's out of
the city, so like cooler. Yeah, how about that.

Speaker 7 (01:48:45):
Dry or there, so it's cool.

Speaker 18 (01:48:47):
Yeah, but it's nice to be in the fifties again.
Oh yeah, yeah, we'll be there tonight, so enjoy it.
We've got dry air that's made its way into Southeast Texas,
so low humidity, fine stretch of weather no, just sunshine
through the weekend. We'll be in the upper eightist to
low nineties this afternoon, and we'll be there again tomorrow
through Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
Tebaja Right now fifty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH. What you need to
know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
Maybe because it's really fun to listen to, I just
want to share this with you. You know, there's been
a back and forth going on between Kamala Harris and
Governor Ron DeSantis about you know, who called who, and
who's answering the phone and who isn't answering the phone.
I think Governor DeSantis got the last word in on
that one. I don't think there'll be any further response
coming from the left, so stand by for more on that. First,

(01:49:43):
we've got traffic and weather together. As we check out
the drive once again, heurtesye of Skymine. I'm gonna check
your belt. Sloop's here west Sam.

Speaker 4 (01:49:50):
Both ways, it's pretty much a cram up from Jersey
Village up and down to Sugar Lane. You're gonna lose
about twenty minutes on the northbound, a loan on the
north with sixteen where lufy at the squeeze westbound forty
five back from the hardy eastbound all breaks from I
will say Stella link from Ella. You lose about eight
minutes that way. Leno won't call me, So I've got
justin from Galveston.

Speaker 21 (01:50:11):
One forty six southbound at seventeen sixty five in Texas City.

Speaker 9 (01:50:14):
There's a major accident and it looks like one forty
six south down its closed.

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
All right, let me let the rest of the media.
No one more tip line.

Speaker 13 (01:50:22):
Come march from full we left forgotten.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Climbing from a go all right, bring on the mail lens.

Speaker 4 (01:50:34):
I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot comp traffic from
our KTRHS Generator Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
Sunny near ninety today and tomorrow Sunday about ninety three
for the hind Friday temperature currently is fifty nine At
your official severe weather station, news Radio seven forty k
t RH. We're checking out some of our top stories
on this Wednesday. Here's Shery.

Speaker 1 (01:50:56):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (01:50:56):
Everyone is seven fifty two on news Radio seven forty
k t r H. These headlines sponsored by Moral Mechanical
Hurricane Milton, a cat for storm now will be making
landfall Gulf coast of Florida later today. Wall Street analysts
predict this storm could cost one hundred and seventy five
billion dollars in damages, and that means insurance claims are

(01:51:18):
going to go crazy, not just there, but all across
the country.

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
Rates All yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 7 (01:51:23):
Remember that young Kansas City fan that the liberal web
site dead Spin claimed was dressed in blackface at a
game last year, Remember that he was wearing team collars instead.
A Delaware judge ruled that the lawsuit against his lawsuit
against that site for defamation of him, it can move forward.

(01:51:44):
Good yeah, latest news anytime, lawfair works both ways. Kturh
dot com. Our next update is at the top of
the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
I live in Katie, I live in Ito.

Speaker 3 (01:51:55):
Your reliable forecast next on the ten on seven forty
KTR eight.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
All right, still going at it, but I think the
argument is over and done with.

Speaker 15 (01:52:29):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Kamala Harris. We start with Kamala Harris, asked on the
tarmac of where she was at the time about being
snubbed by Governor Ron DeSantis, supposedly then we get Governor
Ron de Santa's very strong response.

Speaker 41 (01:52:42):
You know, moments of crisis, if nothing else, should really
be the moment that anyone who calls themselves a leader
says they're going to put politics aside and the people first.

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
People are in desperate need to.

Speaker 41 (01:52:55):
Support right now, and playing political games with this moment
in the.

Speaker 1 (01:53:00):
Price the situations. These are the height of the emergency situations.

Speaker 41 (01:53:03):
This is utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish, and it
is about political gamesmanship.

Speaker 1 (01:53:09):
Is that of doing the job that you saydn't know
what to do, which is a.

Speaker 41 (01:53:13):
Put the people first.

Speaker 36 (01:53:14):
My focus has not been on dealing with Kamala Harris.
I saw the news report. I didn't know she tried
to contact me, But I'd also say, it's not about you, Kamala,
It's about the people of Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
She has never called on any of the storms.

Speaker 36 (01:53:30):
We've had since she's been vice president until apparently now,
Why all of a sudden is she trying to parachute
in and inject herself when she's never shown any interest
in the past.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
We know it's because of politics. We know it's because
of her campaign.

Speaker 36 (01:53:44):
I have zero time to entertain these political gains, She says,
focusing on protecting your people a selfish.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
I think she ought to look in the mirror.

Speaker 7 (01:53:53):
Who was she on the tarmac in San Francisco. You
know she'd been out. She was out there raising mind
among her big Democrat donor for ends billionaire friends out there, yeah, probably, yeah,
and partying and having.

Speaker 2 (01:54:05):
Good time while yeah, all this, while all this is
going on.

Speaker 7 (01:54:09):
She has suddenly had to look serious.

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
You know, who can settle all this for us? Ironically,
President Joe Biden.

Speaker 6 (01:54:14):
He did.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Here's what he had to say.

Speaker 29 (01:54:17):
The governor of Florida has been cooperative. He said he's
gotten all that he needs. I talked to him again
yesterday and I said what I said, No, you're doing
a great job.

Speaker 10 (01:54:27):
Is being all being done, Well, we thank you for it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:30):
And I literally gave my personal phone number to call.

Speaker 37 (01:54:34):
So I don't know.

Speaker 29 (01:54:36):
There was a rough start in some places, but every governor,
every governor from Florida to North Carolina, has been fully
cooperative and supportive and acknowledged what this team is doing.
And they're doing an incredible job.

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
Welly got a lot more than just I just talked
to him yesterday. I gave him my personal love.

Speaker 7 (01:54:56):
What kind of back end is that?

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
Yeah, heye gobbla, don't you? You have governed Desantasis personal
phone number. Listen, y'all have a great day. We'll see
you tomorrow morning burn nearly five am. I'll see the
staff from a four on AM nine fifty k PRC.