Several Tornadoes Touch Down Across The Houston Area

Bob Frantz takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/27/24.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is used radio seven forty kt RH Houston.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Live everywhere with the irm.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Now the latest news, weather and traffa. It's more of
what matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Several tornadoes apparently touched down across the Houston area yesterday,
no injuries, thankfully, and Canadian officials meeting with the incoming
Trump administration at mar A Lago today. Good morning, I'm
Bob Franz and for Jimmy Barrett. This is your five
o'clock report on news radio seven forty KTRH. Cliff Saunders
has the news, traffic and weather. Starts with jumping Joe Barnett.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
They're working at clear but accident High forty five the
north three Way. This is on the northbound frontage Road
at Ritchie Road. The exit ramp is so blocked. I'm
Joe Barnett, Classic Buick GMC Traffic Centers.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Clouds this morning, generally Sunday, this afternoon high of seventy six,
but tonight a fifty percent chance a rain overnight with
a low of sixty five. Thunder Storms are coming tomorrow.
What does that look like? Terry Smith will tell you
coming up at five to ten right now, fifty eight
degrees at your official severe weather station. News Radio seven
forty KTRH. Now the morning News, Good morning, Cliff Saunders, and.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Good morning Bob friends, Good morning everybody else. It's five
oh one on KTRH. Our top story.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It was a.

Speaker 7 (01:18):
Tornado between Elkamp and Pierce and couple. My wife's I
think that's a forum and we build out here and
sure enough it tore two barns up.

Speaker 6 (01:26):
That man talking to our TV partner channel too is
multiple tornadoes apparently touchdown in our area yesterday. One damaged
a couple of homes in southwest Euston. Damage was reported
in Wharton and Liberty Counties as well. Fortunately no one
was hurt. Now, the weather led to issues at the
airports yesterday. We have more issues this morning. Right now

(01:48):
we have about twenty two delays at Bush with seven cancelations.
Ten flights are either delayed or canceled out of Hobby
this morning. Cob five o two now on KTRH. The
man who defended himself and shot three juveniles tried juveniles
rather trying to rob him. While he's not facing charges,

(02:08):
but a grand jury is looking into it. The kids
between twelve and fourteen years old allegedly pulled guns on
the man in a robbery attempt.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Seeing that, like knowing that, like kids can come out
to get you, it's scary.

Speaker 6 (02:21):
Yeah, one of those kids is in critical condition. Now,
this is something that went under the radar. Houston ISD
says they will install metal detectors at high school starting
in the spring semester after an uptick in confiscated guns
at schools.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I can tell you Jun equivocally, and I thought this
for many years in both University of Houston and sam
Houston State. The overwhelming contributing factory that we see, that's
why these school shootings have increased. And this goes all
the way back to Columbine. It's social media, It's the Internet,
and it's a lack of strong parenting skills at home.

Speaker 6 (02:53):
That's retired HPD Captain Greg Freeman. And after shootings at
unlicensed after hours hours clubs across Houston the last two weekends,
Mayor John Wickmeyer is promising a crackdown.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
These after hours clubs have become hotbeds for all sorts
of crimes.

Speaker 9 (03:09):
That could be drugs, it could be prostitution, gambling. It
would just depend on the venue and the individuals who are.

Speaker 10 (03:16):
Operating at venue.

Speaker 11 (03:17):
Criminal Justice Professor J.

Speaker 8 (03:19):
Kuhn says many of these clubs operate outside city limits
because counties can't ban them.

Speaker 9 (03:23):
A city can pass a city ordinance, a county can't
do that, and that's why you find a lot of
the US businesses operating out in the county.

Speaker 8 (03:32):
Khon says any law targeting these clubs would have to
come from the state and be very carefully written. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
It's coming up on five to h four. A pair
of top Canadian officials visited President elect Donald Trump in
Florida to talk about trade and border security in coming borders.
Our Tom Homan also was at those meetings. President Joe
Biden's DOJ isn't leaving office without taking some final shots
at Texas. There are several lawsuits this state is dealing with,

(04:02):
one dealing with our immigration laws.

Speaker 12 (04:04):
I like to say that you know, this administration has
spent more time fighting Governor Abaton has spent fighting the
cartels in Mexico.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
That is Cleveland, that's the Terrell County sheriff says the
administration should have secured the border instead of suing the state. Meantime,
the left and the mainstream media is melting down over
Trump's talk of taking over the Panama Canal. Texas Congresswoman
Beth Van Dyne says, they just don't get it.

Speaker 13 (04:30):
He's not talking about military invasions. What he's talking about
is using the power of our economy, the power of
American influence, to be able to compete with China.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
Vandyne on Fox Business. And here's another example of liberal
mainstream media bias. PolitiFact completely ignores Democrat lies during their
Lie of the.

Speaker 14 (04:51):
Year vote when they assemble for Live of the Year.
It's what's the most outrageous thing Trump said? If you
look at the ten items politivac listed for readers, the
ones trash and the Conservatives.

Speaker 11 (05:02):
Got eighty eight percent of the vote.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Tim Grahm with the Media Research Center says that this
is an example of how the mainstream media loves to
create double standards in order to completely ignore their own hypocrisy.
Five oh five now and looking at your money, the
IRS is about to send unclaimed tax rebates to a
million Americans. Those payments will be sent to those who

(05:25):
were eligible but did not claim the recovery rebate credit
on their twenty twenty one tax returns and that might
help with this your property tax bill? US did property
taxes remain high despite efforts in the legislature to reform
it every other year.

Speaker 15 (05:40):
They've lowered it to around one percent, but other factors
come into play.

Speaker 16 (05:44):
That still doesn't mean that the other taxing units can
attended to an effective rate of two percent, or roughly
about two dollars per one hundred dollars of valuation.

Speaker 15 (05:53):
Say Senator Paul Bettencourt says, school district taxes cause bigger bills,
and they have aims at more reform next year.

Speaker 16 (06:00):
I'd love to lower the rollback rates across the board
because that would affect all the taxing jurisdictions.

Speaker 11 (06:06):
He says.

Speaker 15 (06:06):
Lowering the state rates so low has allowed local governments
to hammer down on residents. More Parard News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Thank you, Andre. Overnight trading as we look at Wall
Street is down across the board, with oil prices checking
in at right around seventy dollars a barrel this morning,
and relief is coming for oil companies after four years
of Biden administration regulations, a wave of liquefied natural gas
terminals is expected to be built during the second Trump administration.

(06:35):
One that Fox Is Phil Flynn says is bigger than
you realize.

Speaker 17 (06:39):
This is going to be a new economic boom, but
one that could actually increase the gross domestic product of
the United States and really open up the door to
powering the world.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Not only would it help make US energy independent once again,
but it would be a boost to the local economies
in places like Port Arthur and Brownsville. And The Houston
Rockets beat New Orleans last night one twenty eight to
one eleven, running their winning streak to four games. They
host Minnesota Tonight. Coverage starts at six on Sports Talk

(07:12):
seven ninety and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather
in traffic station News Radio seven forty KTRH checking in.

Speaker 18 (07:20):
I'm up money.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Why don't you call more?

Speaker 19 (07:23):
We all avoid it, but you'll better understand the world
around you if you check in with US News Radio
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (07:32):
All right, good morning to you.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Seven minutes after five o'clock, Pop Frans sitting in for
Jimmy Barrett on this Friday morning. It's the twenty seventh
morning of the twelfth month in the Year of Our
Lord twenty twenty four. We are coming closer and closer
to the start of a new America, closer to the
return of Donald Trump to the White House. And what
will that look like on January twentieth, And I'm trying

(07:54):
to do the math here, Jared, It's about twenty four days, right,
about twenty four days away from the new administer traation
taking over, and the question becomes what will be Donald
Trump's day one priorities?

Speaker 11 (08:06):
Breitbart ran a peace on this.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
President Trump, taking office on January twentieth, pledged to sign
a host of eos executive orders reversing policies undertaken by
the Biden administration, restoring his own past policies, and implementing
new policy goals. Stephen Miller, President Trump's deputy chief of
staff for policy, said deportations of illegals will be the

(08:30):
top priority. President Trump on day one, quoting Stephen Miller,
now is going to issue a seriestive executive orders that
seal the border shut and begin the largest deportation operation
in American history end quote. Axios compiled the actions. Trump
said that he would take ranking the list based on
the number of mentions from President Trump's one hundred and

(08:52):
twenty two speeches, press conferences, and interviews delivered between January
first of twenty twenty three to December sixth of this year.

Speaker 11 (09:03):
It is a lengthy one.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
The list includes settling the Rushi Ukraine War a literal
day one initiative, number two closing the border, and number
three cutting federal funding for schools that teach CRT or
who have a vaccine mandate. Breitbart published a list of
ten executive orders that he could issue on his first day,

(09:26):
recommending over two hundred executive orders in total, and actions
and policies that Trump should enact in the first one
hundred days. Democrats and their media allies are going to
try to portray him as a lame duck from day
one and cannot run again, who cannot run again, and
point to pass challenges of passing his agenda through Congress
even when Republicans controlled both chambers in the past, and

(09:46):
there is some truth to that. There are some things
that did not get done that should have gotten done
that President Trump kind of pledged to get done during
that time in his first two years in which he
had both chambers on his side. But the reality of
it was he didn't know it at the time. He
didn't have both chambers on his side. The Republicans who
were in charge of the Congress during Trump's first two

(10:08):
years in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, had no interest
in helping advances agenda. They didn't like the fact that
he won in the first place. They were obstructionists just
as much as the Democrats in large part. But this
is expected to be very, very different looking at the
Axios piece, and I'm probably going to post this to
my strictly speaking social media chain. You can follow me

(10:29):
there strictly speaking with Bob franz At on Facebook, on Twitter,
slash ACX on truth Social and on Instagram. But this
Axios list Trump's first day frenzy, everything he promised to
do on day one. It is a long one. No
way he can do all of these things on day one. Kenny,
we'll kick that around a little bit more as we

(10:51):
get going this morning. Right now, it's five to ten.
Let's kick it over to Jumping Joe Barnett. Find out
what's happening on the highways this Friday morning.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Hey Joe, Oh, they're still working to clear up this
back on I forty five the north three way.

Speaker 11 (11:01):
It's on the northbound Fronday Road.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
All lanes of the Friendie Droad are blocked, as well
as the exit ramp. I'm Joe Barnett, the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 11 (11:11):
All right, thanks sir.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
And Terry Smith at the Weather Channel has our weekend
forecast for US.

Speaker 20 (11:15):
Good morning, Terry, Hey, good morning. Well, at least it
is a quiet day today. Boy, we had some rough
weather yesterday, strong thunderstorms, severe storms, reports of tornadoes, five
of those in Southeast Texas yesterday. But today we're enjoying
a quiet day, just sunshine, temperatures load to mid seventies.

Speaker 18 (11:36):
Still very much mild for late December.

Speaker 20 (11:40):
Another round of raindos starting to head our way Tonight
and tomorrow forty percent chances some showers late tonight and
then tomorrow is sixty percent chance of showers and some storms.
We'll be watching that in case any of those storms
turn severe.

Speaker 18 (11:54):
It is warm tomorrow, mid upper seventies.

Speaker 20 (11:57):
Sunshines back Sunday, Monday and Tuesday n stretch of weather.
Temperature stay in the seventies Sunday and Monday, but.

Speaker 18 (12:04):
Then some cooler weather. He gets back to December.

Speaker 20 (12:07):
On Tuesday, the last day of December, our highs will
be in the sixties Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
All right, Terry, thank you. Right now, we're fifty eight
at your official severe weather station. There's Radio seven forty
Kitti h.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you byen New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barrett's and the Houston
Morning News team.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
All the info you need did take on the day.
All right, it is eighteen minutes after five o'clock. Good
Friday morning. I appreciate you being with us. Spot France
in for Jimmy Barrett. So, January sixth is coming around.
A lot of people don't realize there's a January sixth.
Every time there is a new presidential administration about to
be sworn in on January twentieth, they have to certified

(12:50):
the election. We all know what happened January sixth of
twenty twenty one. But this is interesting. They're calling for
an insurrection here in twenty twenty five coming up.

Speaker 11 (13:00):
Who's they? Well, that's a good question.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
We'll start with the Hill left wing news organization, if
you want to call it that. The Hill ran it
out bed just a couple of days ago, telling Democrats
the time is running out. Your chance to stop Trump
from taking office is running out.

Speaker 11 (13:19):
You need to do this.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
Don't forget about that fourteenth Amendment section three.

Speaker 11 (13:24):
What are we talking about.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
We're talking about the long since failed effort to declare
Donald Trump to be disqualified from serving as president because
of the January sixth, twenty twenty one, quote unquote insurrection.

Speaker 11 (13:39):
We know that was never such a thing.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
It was a protest that did get indeed out of hand,
especially with a couple dozen or more federal agents in
a crowd, whipping it into a frenzy. Police officers firing
on innocent protesters who then fought back because they were
under fire. I mean, some really really crazy stuff happened.
But you do understand it was never supposed to be
and it never was an insurrection. If it would have been,

(14:04):
they would have brought weapons for crying out loud. But
they call it an insurrection, and now the Hill teaming
up with some radical Democrats in Congress to say, this
is your chance to stop Trump.

Speaker 11 (14:16):
Quote.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
The Constitution provides that an oath breaking insurrectionist is ineligible
to be president. This is the planewarding of Section three
or the fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. No person shall
hold any office civil or military under the United States
or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath
to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have
engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given

(14:41):
eight or comfort to enemies thereof. This disability can be
removed by two thirds vote in the House. Disqualification is
based on insurrection against the Constitution, not the government, writes
the Hill, the evidence of Donald Trump's engaging in such
insurrection is overwhelming. It goes on like this nonsense. This
has all been discussed as dated and disputed. And the

(15:04):
one thing that cannot be disputed is the fact that
you cannot be convicted of a crime without ever even
being charged with it.

Speaker 11 (15:11):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
No one ever filed insurrection charges against Donald Trump. Nothing
of the sort ever happened. But this is what desperation
looks like. I'll play a clip for you of one
Democrat radical who is trying to push this ridiculous notion.
Four January sixth, coming up. After we do traffic and weather,
it's five twenty one. Let's do that part right now,
here's jumping Joe Barnett.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
They're still working to clear up an Axton I forty
five to the north three way northbound Frontage Road. All
lanes are blocked on the frontage Road, as well as
the exit ramp there at Richie Road, and ongoing roadwork
continues on the north Sam Houston Hillway east and westbound
between Auding, Westbite and Imperial Valley.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
L left lane is blocked.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
I'm Joe Barnett, the Generatorshupercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
All right, and our forecast today generally sunny this afternoon
high of seventy six. Nice day, but then rain moves
in overnight low sixty five, thunderstorms tomorrow seventy seven, mostly
sunny on Sunday high of seventy three, warming on Monday
up to much warmer temperatures than average at this time
of the year at seventy nine, before dropping back down,
as Terry says, and remembering that it's December, back into

(16:16):
about the mid sixties on Tuesday. Right now, we have
fifty eight at your official severe weather station is Radio
seven forty KTRH headline time.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Now here's Cliff, thank you, it's shaping up to be
another long day at the airports. Vladimir Putin says he
hasn't spoken to Donald Trump in four years. And the
mega millions jackpot tonight, Bob, are you're playing?

Speaker 11 (16:35):
You should?

Speaker 6 (16:36):
It's one point one five billion dollars. Get the latest
news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update is
at five point thirty.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
A new year is always a news year on Houston's
information station.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
New Journey is something new each.

Speaker 11 (16:51):
Two day in the new year.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Use radio seven forty.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
KTRH has to be has to be thirty forty years.
So I bought at a lottery ticket. Honestly, I just
don't do it. Billion dollars or a million dollars. It's
not going to change much for me as far as
my desire. But thank you for the heads up on
that cliff. So let's get back to this now. It's
five twenty three. So the Hill and radical Democrats are

(17:20):
trying to say we can still stop Trump. We couldn't
beat him. We couldn't We impeached him, and we couldn't
take him out. We shot him and couldn't take him out.
We brought four or five different cases of law fair
against him. Couldn't take him out. Let's take him out
with the fourteenth Amendment and Section three. On January sixth,
when it's time to confirm and certify the election results,

(17:42):
Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin, one of the most radical, basically
said the exact same thing. We can still stop him.
Let's declare him disqualified and therefore not certified the election.

Speaker 21 (17:56):
Listen, what can be put into the constitution can slip
away from you very quickly. And the greatest example going
on right now before our very eyes is section three
of the fourteenth Amendment, which they're just disappearing with the
magic wand as if it doesn't exist, even though it
could not be clearer what it's stating. And so you know,
they want to kick it to Congress. So it's going

(18:17):
to be up to us on January sixth, twenty twenty five,
to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified. And
then we need bodyguards for everybody in civil war conditions,
all because the nine justices, not all of them, but
these justices who have not many cases to look at
every year, not that much work to do, a huge staff,

(18:39):
great protection, simply do not want to do their job
and interpret what so.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Raskin says, as you just heard that Donald Trump cannot
take office because it could not be more clear of
the Fourteenth Amendment. The third section of the fourteenth Amendment
makes it very very clear that if you've engaged in insurrection,
you cannot be president of the United States and hold
that office. And for those who don't know, you probably
should because we've been through down the shold already. They've

(19:07):
tried this to declare him ineligible to even be on
the ballot, if you recall, in several states it failed
in every turn. But the Fourteenth Amendment Section three basically
was written and referred to any Confederate soldiers or Confederate officers,
anybody who actually in the Civil War abandoned the United

(19:29):
States and joined the secession and then led or fought
for the Confederacy. Once the Civil War was over, they
weren't allowed to then come back and become officers or presidents,
hold elected office and so forth in the Union. That's
what Section three was all about in the Fourteenth Amendment.

(19:49):
It does not apply here, and even if it did,
once again, President Trump has never been charged, much less
convicted with insurrection. So this is desperation time. Democrats used
to call. You know, it's funny. These are the people,
and this is the party that used to be concerned
with democracy, protecting and upholding democracy. As in the result

(20:10):
of the people getting out and voting. Well, the people
got out and voted and passed their own verdict on
the law fare cases and on insurrection and on everything
else Donald Trump did, and the overwhelmingly to the tune
of three hundred and twelve electoral votes said yeah, not guilty,
and that's our president. I wonder if the Democrats won't
realize that at some point. Okay, five twenty six, Now,

(20:32):
let's see what's going on in the markets.

Speaker 11 (20:34):
Here is a Bloomberg money minute.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
This is a Bloomberg money minute.

Speaker 22 (20:38):
Could be a volatile and of the week for bitcoin
because a huge amount of financial products like derivatives based
on bitcoin and either expired today, including thirteen billion dollars
in bitcoin options alone. Could be about to get even
harder to find an affordable car. Nearly a third of
vehicles price below thirty thousand dollars are built in Mexico,
according to the Wall Street jourtleing at Edmund's data, including

(21:01):
the Nissan Sentra and Ford Maverick and President Elect Donald
Trump's threatened new tariffs could drive those prices way higher,
and move over, Starbucks. Here comes Dutch Bros. While Starbucks
struggles to keep up growth rates, Oregon based Dutch Bros
Is expanding rapidly across country. According to Baron's, Dutch Bros
basically bypasses Brood coffee and serves mostly ice and espresso

(21:22):
based drinks instead, with lots of flavor options and some
eyebrow raising names like the Annihilator and Double Torture. Oh
and the workers they're called Broistas. Denise Pellgretty Blomberg Radio.

Speaker 23 (21:36):
You are Houston's News.

Speaker 24 (21:39):
Why there were traffic plus Breaking news twenty four to seven.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Trive Everywhere with r App more of what's happening now
from the John Moore Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's shaping up to be another long day at Bush
and Hobby, and the new Trump border plan will include
more than just mass deportations. Good morning, I'm Bob fransin
for Jimmy. Cliff Saunders has the details on those stories
and more coming right up. At first, We're gonna check
the traffic on the weather. Here is jumping Joe Barnett,
and keep.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
In mind if you're going to bus Shunter Continental Airport
and you're planning on taking the north Sam Houston toil Away.
Ongoing roadwork continues east and westbound between Ardne, Westwood and
Imperial Valley. A leftlane remains expecting about a ten minutes
delay going through.

Speaker 11 (22:26):
We're and an accidents.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Still working to clear up HIG forty five, the north
three way northbound frontage.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Road at Richie Roads.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
I'm Joe Barnett, the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Clouds this morning, generally sunny, this afternoon high of seventy
six for your weather, fifty percent chance of rain overnight
to note tonight rather low of sixty five and then
thunderstorms tomorrow with a high of seventy seven. The rest
of the forecast with Terry Smith is coming up at
five point forty right now fifty eight degrees at your
official severe weather stations Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (22:56):
Now the morning news.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Bob, Good morning everybody, five thirty
one KTRH. And as Bob alluded to our top story,
you can expect more issues at the airports today. According
to fly to ware, we've got just under seven hundred
delays nationwide, more than three hundred cancelations at Hobby Airport
this morning. Latest numbers eighteen delays, one cancelation at Bush

(23:20):
It's getting bigger already, twenty four delays, seven cancelations. In
other words, could be a long day. Those storms that
produced several tornadoes did not help things yesterday. Several properties
were damaged, fortunately though there were no injuries.

Speaker 25 (23:36):
Just outside of El Campo, Texas, it's Wharton County, and
the Wharton County Sheriff's office did confirm with me that
three tornadoes hit this area.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
That is Jory Addison with our TV partner Channel two.
A twister also damaged some homes in a Leaf. Apparently
the National Weather Service has yet to go out there
and look at things, or once they do, they will
tell us how strong those tornadoes were. Two on KTRH
incoming borders are Tom Homan says on day one, the

(24:06):
president is going to bring back ice work site rates
and programs like Bermain in Mexico. It's all part of
the plan for mass deportations, which the Left continues to
have tantrums over.

Speaker 26 (24:17):
It's not about a political party. It's about the future
of America. And what they're doing is they're trying to
bring forth policies and laws to defend criminals.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
They're trying to come forth.

Speaker 26 (24:26):
With policies and laws so there's no consequences for individuals
that are committing crimes.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
Artel Cueta with the National Border Patrol Council on Fox Business.
According to the newest numbers, more than one point four
million illegal aliens entered this country between January of last
year and last month using programs like the CBP one app. Yet,
DHS Secretary Alejandro majork Is blamed Republicans for the broken border.

Speaker 27 (24:52):
But it's offensive to hear him pointing the finger and
blameing Republicans and politics. He has no further to look
than the mirror and the White House on what happened
in this border the last four years.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
That is, Retired Border Patrol Sector Chief Chris Clem how
about the impact of this border disaster? Millions of illegals
could have an impact on future congressional seating.

Speaker 28 (25:14):
The United States seeing a net of two point eight
million people migrate here between twenty twenty three and twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 29 (25:20):
Under the Biden administration, about eight million newcomers arrived, most
of whom came illegally.

Speaker 28 (25:28):
Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies
Jessica Vaughn says the Census Bureau will include refugees and
border releases in its population estimates.

Speaker 29 (25:36):
They're counted for the size of the district, but they
don't vote, meaning that these members of Congress are representing
fewer voters.

Speaker 28 (25:45):
It's possible Texas and Florida could gain up to four
congressional seats after twenty thirty. Jarret Lewis News Radio seven
forty KRH. It's now five point thirty four on KTRH.
It's not where's Waldo, it's where's Joe? The President of
spending his last few weeks, like a lot of his
time during his presidency on vacation. He's in the Virgin Islands.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
On our dime, he spent five hundred and seventy days,
almost forty percent of his time in office on vacation.
So how will history remember him? Likely not kindly. According
to at least one Republican.

Speaker 30 (26:18):
Joe Biden is in cognitive decline, and I do believe
that you know, his own party instead of really rolling
with him, they undercut him, they ousted him, and so
he hasn't exactly been putting forward a big effort to
support the Democrat Party.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Florida congresswoman and A Paulina Luna before leaving on January twentieth,
Biden's already pardoned thirty seven federal death Row inmates. It's
part of a series of moves that many see is
sabotaging the incoming Trump White House.

Speaker 31 (26:49):
All that I can hope for is that Trump will
be able to put the brakes on the deep state,
the unelected bureaucrats who are running the country into the ground.

Speaker 6 (26:59):
Political commentator Ed Brodo says, the good news is most
of these policies can be reversed by Trump on day one,
and the new administration can also cut out a lot
of the federal government fat thanks to DOGE.

Speaker 32 (27:12):
One of my Doge Acts provisions is to make certain
that people return to work. If they're not returning to work,
then we need to remove them or we need to
sell those buildings.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
Tennessee Senator Marshall Blackburn, speaking of DOGE, Elon Musk created
a stir this week by trimming a different kind of fat.

Speaker 33 (27:36):
We've seen a lot of Elon Musk lately, but I
don't know if we've ever seen him like this before.
He's shown off a slimmer Christmas bod this holiday season
to Tesla Ceo, posing for the camera in a Santa suit.
He has the bushy white beard like mister Claus, but
he is missing the belly.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Here.

Speaker 33 (27:50):
Musk is writing this, saying he was technically using Manjaro,
but says it didn't have the same ring to it
as Ozempic.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
Senate Alexis mccadam's reporting. It's five point thirty six. It
looks like the Starbucks strike is over. Barista's making fifteen
bucks an hour. Waft walked off the job in several cities,
including Dallas and San Antonio. Houston stores were not affected.
Amazon driver's dat struck earlier this month are also back
on the job for now.

Speaker 34 (28:17):
A driver in New York who was taking part in
the strikes, which affected several facilities across four states, telling
Fox News they were sent home yesterday and told to
enjoy the holiday with their families, and that they're meeting
after Christmas to vote on whether to continue the strike
or to extend a new deadline to Amazon to come
to the negotiating table with the teamsters.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
That's Fox's Lillian Wu five point thirty seven. Several Texas
teams are playing bowl games this weekend. Today, we've got
Texas Tech in Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl. There's also
the Aggis in USC in the Las Vegas Bowl. Tomorrow
it's TCU and Louisiana in the New Mexico Bowl, and
the Rockets beat New Orleans one twenty eight to one eleven.
They host Minnesota tonight. Pregame six on Sports Talk seven ninety.

(29:02):
I'm Cliff Cylinders on Houston's News Weather in Traffic station
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Team, Houston's Morning News. All right, we continue now five
thirty seven. Good morning to you about France. Sitting in
for Jimmy Barrett this morning, talking a lot in the
opening here about President Trump and his agenda when it
comes to deportations, when it comes to border walls, when
it comes to security, when it comes to remain in Mexico. Well,
at least one big blue state is doing everything they

(29:35):
can to prevent the president's efforts from being successful. Oregon
is preparing what's being called by some as a toolkit
to assist illegal aliens when ice raids come a knocking.
Do they work for Americans or legal immigrants? Washington Examiner
reports it this way. The Oregon Department of Justice unveiled

(29:58):
a Sanctuary Thomas Community Toolkit as the sanctuary state gears
up to resist the incoming Trump administration's plan to deport
illegal aliens. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, a Democrat, said
the toolkit, which is available as an online website, includes burchures, posters,

(30:20):
and public service announcements in English and Spanish.

Speaker 11 (30:24):
Quote.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
I asked my civil rights unit here at the Oregon
DOJ to do whatever we could to provide the people, businesses,
and local governments of our state with easy to read
materials to help them know their rights and to educate
others end quote, she announced in a press release. The
toolkit provides resources to illegals, such as a crisis hotline

(30:47):
and avenues to report a suspected Oregon sanctuary law violation.
In nineteen eighty seven, according to Fox News, Oregon lawmakers
passed then Representative Rocky Barilla's HR twenty three fourteen in
response to several raids by then what was known as
the i ins US Immigration and Naturalization Service, which transformed

(31:08):
into ICE in two thousand and three. The law is
largely considered the first sanctuary state policy in the country.
So one of the ogs when it comes to protecting
criminals as opposed to the citizens and the taxpayers of
their state are taking it to the next level here
and trying to resist President Trump's efforts to do exactly
what he said he was going to do what the

(31:29):
American people gave him a mandate to do, and that is,
of course, to start the biggest deportation operation in the
country's history. It absolutely absolutely has to happen, but these
big blue states are not going to give in easily.

Speaker 11 (31:43):
We'll have more on that coming up.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Right now, it's five forty, so we've got to have
more on the morning Drive and see what's happening.

Speaker 11 (31:48):
Here's jumpin, Joe Barnett. They're still we're going to clear
up this accident.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
I forty five the north three way northbound frontage Road
at Richie Rode All Lane to the frontage rudd Or Block,
as well as the exit ramp to Richie wrote, ongoing
roadwork continues north sam Houston toil Away East and west
Man between Aldan Westfod and Imperial Valley.

Speaker 11 (32:05):
A left lane is blocked.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
I'm Joe Bardett, the Classic Buick GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
All right, thank you, sir, Terry Smith. That the Weather
Channel has an interesting forecast for us this morning. Hello Terry, Hey,
good morning.

Speaker 20 (32:17):
Yeah, things are changing, but the one thing that isn't
changing so much the warm weather.

Speaker 18 (32:23):
We stay warm through the weekend. We got a break
in the rain today.

Speaker 20 (32:27):
We had a rough day yesterday, but today just sunshine
and temperatures in the load of mid seventies. We'll start
to get some rain scattered showers late tonight. Tomorrow there's
a sixty percent chance of showers and storms. Temperatures tomorrow
mid to upper seventies. Now we're going to clear it
out so that Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday all sunny. Still
warm in the seventies Sunday and Monday, but Tuesday cooling

(32:49):
into the sixties.

Speaker 11 (32:52):
All right, Thank you so much, Terry.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
And right now fifty eight at your official severe weather
station is Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 11 (32:59):
What need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Okay, so, talking a little bit about Oregon as mentioned
in the previous segment, and their toolkit that they have
put together to try to resist the Trump administration's efforts
to actually enact the policy that the American people voted for,
which is to indeed, yes, deport millions of illegals, the
largest in American history, the largest deportation operation in American history.

(33:32):
President Trump is ready to rock and roll, Tom Borman,
Tom Borman, excuse me, Tom Holman. The borders are about
that little wordplay there, but the incoming borders are. Tom
Holman is meeting today with Canadian officials. Canadian officials are
worried about the terrorists that are being put in place

(33:52):
by President Trump, or at least threatened by President Trump
if they don't do everything that they can and more
in order to protect the our northern border from not
just individuals, but from substances, drugs and so on and
so forth from being transported in. So Canadian officials are
coming tomorrow. I'm going to meet with maybe President Trump's himself,
but certainly Tom Homan and Tom Homan is dedicated to

(34:16):
doing everything that it takes to make sure that the
borders are secured. When President Trump won the election on
November fifth, his very first announcement, Unless I'm mistaken, if
somebody can point out somebody he announced first, I truly
believe if memory serves that Tom Homan was the first
name that he announced that he will be in charge
of the border. He said, not only will Tom Homan

(34:38):
be in charge of the southern border, he'll be in
charge of the northern border, and he'll be in charge
of air and maritime border security as well. He's going
to be put in charge of the deportation task for
so he basically said, this is my star, and Tom
Holman has embraced that role. He'll talk to Canadian officials
today about what they will have to do to secure

(34:59):
the border from their side in order to hold off
those harris Meanwhile, Homan is also speaking to anybody who
will listen. Told the Washington Post quote, we haven't really
worked out the plan for work site enforcement, but we
know employers are going to be upset. He is committed
to restoring the work site enforcement raids as a part

(35:21):
of the deportation task force, as well as reinstating to
Remain in Mexico policy. In February of twenty twenty one,
Joe Biden stripped ICE of the ability that it had
to conduct work site enforcement raids. At the time, an
agency official told The Washington Post that the administration had
abolished ICE without officially abolishing ICE.

Speaker 11 (35:42):
That's pretty accurate. It's also accurate to say.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Tom Homan is rebuilding ICE, while yes, indeed rebuilding ICE
in addition to protecting workers from illegal employment home and
said the administration will reinstraate the reinstate the Remain in
Mexico policy, which Biden ended on his first day in office.
That was one of the most successful programs that President
Trump was able to implement to try to cut down

(36:06):
on that massive border crossing issue that was that was
going on when he took office. So Tom Holman is
ready for the fight, and it looks like it's gonna
be a big one. All right, we'll take a time out,
and not a timeout, but we're gonna throw it over
to jump in.

Speaker 11 (36:21):
Joe Barnett. Find out what's going on on the roadways.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Joe going to answer, we're getting reports of an accident
highway to fort nine. This is the Texas AGI tollway
there southbound at Pinehurst.

Speaker 11 (36:32):
Keep that in mind.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
I forty five that or three way northbound frontage roads.
The intersection still remains bought from an accident, as well
as the exit ramp to Richie Road. I'm Joe Barnett,
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 11 (36:46):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (36:47):
Good sir.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Cloudy this morning, generally sunny this afternoon, high about seventy six,
fifty percent chance of rain overnight, dropping on to sixty
five thunderstorms tomorrow. High of seventy seven, mostly sunny on Sunday,
seventy three, warming all the way to about seventy nine
on Monday before dropping way back down to the mid
sixties on Tuesday. And right now we are counting fifty

(37:09):
eight degrees at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. Let's check the headlines now with Cliff.

Speaker 6 (37:15):
Sun and they are brought to you by DNM Auto Leasing.
Several tornadoes apparently touchdown in Houston without causing any injuries.
MasterCard says that holiday sales were above projections, and an
update on Rowdy. Rowdy is the pet kangaroo that went
missing in Seay earlier this month. Apparently he's still hopping
around missing. Get the latest news anytime at ktih dot

(37:39):
com our next updates at six o'clock.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
News, weather, and traffic updates. It makes my day easier.
Remember the rule of three can make the day better.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
On Youth Radio seven ktrh okay.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
So, among President Trump's top priorities when he takes office
January twentieth, was as mentioned, borders and deportation, but the
other one was a massive expansion of American energy getting
away from the nonsense that the Binding administration had done
with the declared war on fossil fuels.

Speaker 11 (38:11):
President Trump is ready to.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Impose basically a massive construction project in look at liquid
natural gas that is of course going to affect Texas
in a big way. Joining us now to analyze that market.
Analyst with the Price Futures Group Phil Flynn, Phil, good morning.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Good morning, Bob.

Speaker 17 (38:30):
It's great to be here, and we're trying to make
American energy great again.

Speaker 11 (38:35):
Right, that's the plan.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
That's exactly what President Trump ran on, or one of
the biggest things that he ran on, and it got
him an extraordinary number of votes, including a popular vote
because Americans are sick and tired of the alternative fuel
in the face of all of the climate nonsense they want,
and what we had for the first four years of
the Trump presidency, which is becoming a net exporter of
energy for the first time in American history, and it's

(38:59):
time to return to tell us about the liquid natural
gas push.

Speaker 17 (39:04):
Well, you know, I'll tell you what. The Biden administration
paused approvals for LNG exports from the United States, mainly
because a blogger, you know, got on his back and
he was trying to win favor, you know, with some
small segment of society. But at the same time, lookified
natural gas is going to be one of the best

(39:26):
tools we have to fight carbon emissions, because, let's face it, today,
despite all the millions and trillions of dollars that have
been spent on alternative energies, we're burning more coal than ever,
We're putting up more carbon emissions than ever, and it's
been a failure. And one of the best ways to
do that is liquefied natural gas. And the US is

(39:47):
the biggest exporter today and they could dominate the world
when it comes to liquefied natural gas.

Speaker 11 (39:53):
In the future. Yeah, well, there's no question.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
And you know, it's funny because the left and the
Biden administration, which is so concerned about the burning of
so much coal and so on and so forth in
terms of the uh, you know.

Speaker 11 (40:07):
The carbon footprint.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
The massive push for electricity by necessity means that we're
going to burn more coal because how does electricity How
do these electric plants get powered by coal?

Speaker 11 (40:18):
And by lucid natural gas as well.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
So it's kind of funny that they want to declare
this war on fossil fuels while saying, by the way,
we're going to need a whole heck of a lot
more of those fossil fuels.

Speaker 17 (40:29):
Bobby, You're absolutely right. And you know, the thing is
is that when you look at the Biden administration, they
have this aspirational energy policy that isn't based in reality.
His entire administration doesn't live in reality. They live in
some kind of crazy world. But I'll tell you this,
the economy of the future is going to be powered

(40:50):
by electricity. Okay, we have artificial intelligence, that's the economy
of the future. We have these data centers that take
tremendous amounts of power. That's the energy of the future,
and we're not going to power that, you know, with
wind and solar and alternative energies, you know, despite how
much money you throw at it. You know, even if

(41:10):
every car in America you know, became electric tomorrow, we
wouldn't have the infrastructure to support it. So it's it's
just been crazy, Bob, as you know.

Speaker 11 (41:19):
Yeah, no, you're a hundred sent right.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
I mean, the electrical grid can't even handle you know,
Texas heat in the summer without you know, blackouts in
California as well, rolling blackouts and all of these different things,
just because people are all flipping on the air conditioners
at the same time. Now, imagine everybody getting home at
four thirty in the afternoon and plugging in their cars.
There's no way that our uh that our infrastructure, as
you say, the grids could even handle that much, which
is why we need to disperse the need for energy

(41:42):
into some of the other areas, including LNG.

Speaker 31 (41:44):
Right.

Speaker 17 (41:46):
It really is, you know, and it also comes and
gives us more energy security, Bob, because look what's going
on today in Russia. Russia's threatening the cutoff supplies to Europe.
You know, they're having pipeline disputes with Ukraine, and they
could leave Europe in the dark, right. And the reason

(42:07):
is it's the years of silly energy policies in Europe
allowed them to be held hostage, you know, by you know,
other countries. Here in the United States, we've kind of
learned that we can't be held hostage.

Speaker 11 (42:20):
Opeck.

Speaker 17 (42:21):
That's why we became a major energy producer, right, you know,
And why throw all of that away? It doesn't make
any sense. So you know, President Trump isn't saying anything
grand or glorious. He's talking common sense, and that's what
we need in the energy space.

Speaker 11 (42:37):
Well, you're exactly right.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
And this pause on LNG projects that Biden had put
in place, obviously, is only going to lead to problems
if it were to be to remain. Obviously, President Trump
is going to flip that switch and get the flow
going once again of liquid natural gas out of the
United States. Phil Flynn, market analysts with Price Futures Group,
breaking it all down for us. Phil, thanks so much,
We really appreciate that.

Speaker 17 (43:00):
Thanks Bot, have a happy New.

Speaker 11 (43:02):
Year, and the same to you. Phil. It is now
five pin fifty seven.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
This is Houston's Morning News on News Radio seven forty
k TRH.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
This is used Radio seven forty kt RH Houston Rive
Everywhere with ANUE now.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
The latest news, weather and traffic. It's more of what
matters to you. From the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Several tornados touched down across the Houston area yesterday, thankfully
no injuries, and Canadian officials meeting with the incoming Trump
administration in Florida today. Good morning, I'm Bob Frans and
for Jimmy Barrett. This is your six o'clock report on
news radio seven forty k tr H. Cliff Saunders has
the news, but we're gonna check the drive first. Here
is jumping Joe Barnett.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
They're working a clear up an accident on the Texas
A Expressedway. This is Highway two forty nine that's away
southbound at Pinehurst and an accident just cleared out of
the way. I forty five the North Freeway north bound
frontage road at Richie Road. I'm Joe Barnett, the Classic
Viewing GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Cloudy this morning, Sunday, this afternoon going to reach about
seventy six today, fifty percent chance of rain overnight down
to sixty five thunderstorms are coming tomorrow. What about the
rest of the weekend. Terry Smith has that information for
you coming up at six ' ten. Right now, we
have fifty seven at your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KTRH, and now the morning news.

Speaker 11 (44:26):
Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
Bob six oh one on KTRH our top story this morning.

Speaker 7 (44:31):
Got a pretty good retrail from across the road back
this way and get out damage that man with.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
Our TV partner Channel two. Several tornadoes apparently touching down
across the Greater Houston area yesterday. One damaged a couple
of homes in a leaf. There was also damage in
Liberty County and Wharton County. Fortunately, as of now, we
know that there have been no injuries. This also messed
up weather yesterday. Rather this messed up travel yesterday with

(44:58):
ground stops at Bush and High Hobby at times. We've
got more issues this morning if you're heading to the airport,
if you're going to Hobby, We've got about two dozen
flights that have been impacted, just one cancelation. But the
bigger delays are out of Bush right now, with twenty
seven delays and seven cancelations. We'll keep an eye on
that throughout the morning. It's six poh two on KTRH.

(45:20):
A grand jury in Harris County will decide if the
man who shot three juveniles that pulled guns on him
yesterday during a robbery will face charges. Residents, though, have
different questions about what happened.

Speaker 35 (45:33):
It ultimately comes down to parenting. Whoever their parents, that
would be my question, and how I'm just wondering how
they got a hold of these weapons.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
One of those kids was in critical condition. They were
all between twelve and fourteen years old. Speaking of kids
and guns in Houston, HID, well, they've been forced to
install metal detectors at district high schools.

Speaker 28 (45:58):
Houston ISD is putting new weapons to action systems on
high school campuses starting next semester.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
HID is absolutely correct on doing this. It's for the
protection of the students.

Speaker 28 (46:08):
Retired to Houston Police Captain Greg Freeman says bad parenting
is one contributing factor to the rise in confiscated weapons
at schools.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
The Internet has contributed greatly to this, where you've got
a lot of young men and women that are out
there that are having some mental challenges and all they
have to do is watch something delamorize on taping or
social media.

Speaker 28 (46:25):
There have been at least ten instances of guns being
confiscated at Houston area schools this year. Jarre Lewis News
Radio seven forty Key Cha eight.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
And then there are the problems connected to those after
hours nightclubs. The last two weekends, there have been two
shootings at those clubs across Houston and Harris County.

Speaker 9 (46:42):
They can get out hand, and especially with social media,
it's no longer word about. You can literally broadcast the
availability of this venue throughout the entire city.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
Criminal justice professor j. Khon says it's difficult to crack
down on these clubs the way Mayor Wickmeyer wants to
because many of them operate outside of city limits where
city ordinances don't apply. It's six oh four on KGRH.
The incoming Trump administration is making more moves to hit
the ground running. On January twentieth, a pair.

Speaker 36 (47:13):
Of top Canadian ministers is in Palm Beach, Florida for
meetings at President elect Donald Trump after Trump threatened to
impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products if the border is
not need secure. Foreign Minister Melanie Jolee and new Finance
Minister Dominic LeBlanc are reportedly planning to meet with Donald
Trump's incoming borders are Tom Homan to discuss Candida's efforts

(47:34):
to secure the border.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
That is Fox's Sue Gusman at the Southern border. Some
eye popping numbers that'll show you exactly how bad the
Biden administration was at keeping the border secure.

Speaker 12 (47:46):
When this administration took over, the highest water mark we
have had was a four hundred and seventeen percent increase
in legal aiding apprehensions.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Right here in Tyrol County.

Speaker 12 (47:55):
In that same year, which was fiscal year twenty and
twenty two, we had a four hundred and sixty nine
percent increase in godaws.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
That is Terrell County Sheriff Thattius Cleveland. The incoming president
is also talking about the Panama Canal, but it's not
just because of how the Panamanians treat us in terms
of trade.

Speaker 13 (48:13):
We have an ability to be able to exert some
influence in other areas of the country, be it Canada
or Mexico, other areas of Latin America, Africa, even in
the Middle East that we have missed out on numerous
opportunities or last years, and as a result, that vacuum
is being filled by China.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
Texas Congresswoman Beth van Dine. PolitiFact named Trump's claim of
Haitians eating cats and dogs in Ohio their lie of
the Year. Recently, they completely ignored the Democrat lies, for instance,
Biden's repeated line that he would not pardon Hunter.

Speaker 14 (48:47):
PolitiFact doesn't call that a lie. It calls it a
full flop. They're saying, basically, that's a reverse policy stand,
not a lie.

Speaker 6 (48:55):
Tim Graham with the Media Research Center says this is
just another example of how the main stream media is
run by leftists four leftists six oh six. Property tax
bills in Euston remain high despite all the legislative maneuvers
for the last number of years. State Senator Paul Bettencourt says,
local school districts take up over half of your bill,

(49:18):
and even roll back rate fixes didn't help.

Speaker 16 (49:21):
Paris County drove a mac trek through this formula, using
it effectively a disaster exemption and then voter approval and
incremental rates to drive up taxes dramatically. So we're going
to look at closing that loophole.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
Bettencourt will join Bob later this morning. Overnight trading is
down across the board ahead of the opening bell on
Wall Street. Oil prices checking in at just above seventy
dollars a barrel, and Texas oil companies, well, they can't
wait for January twentieth to get here. The new administration
means construction of a wave of liquefied natural gas terminals

(49:56):
all along the Texas Louisiana coast.

Speaker 17 (49:58):
This is a new era of it's not demonizing US
oil and gas producers, but working with them with the
realization that even if you want to be carbon free
at some point in the future, you can't make that
transition without more reliance on natural gas.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
Fox contributor Phil Flinn says this will benefit the economies
in places like Brownsville and Port Arthur. And the Rockets
beat the Pelicans one twenty eight to one eleven. They
host the Timberwolves. Tonight coverage on Sports Talk seven ninety
starts at six pm. And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather,
and traffic station News Radio seven forty kgrh.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Info at this speed of Houston right now.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News team.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
You know, Cliff, if if it wasn't PolitiFact, I would ask,
what is this a joke? This lie of the aar story.
But it is PolitiFact, so I know it's a joke
because the entire left wing operation of political PolitiFact is
an absolute joke. Their lie of the Year for the
fourth consecutive year is a statement by President Trump, And

(51:07):
as Cliff just said, they said that the eating the
dogs and the cats in Springfield, Ohio is the lie
of the year. They're blaming it on the readers, by
the way, they said, this is the readers vote. Of course,
they are the ones who give the choices to the
readers about what they're going to vote for a lie
of the year. But they say that it was the
Springfield story, which by the way, wasn't even a quote

(51:29):
unquote lie. President Trump and Vice President elect JD. Vance
were reporting things that they were told from JD. Vance's
constituents on the grounds. Vance, by the way, is a
senator from the state of Ohio, so his people on
the ground in Springfield constituents rather were telling him these things.
So it wasn't even a lie in that regard. And

(51:50):
the only people who said it was are the city
officials who were trying to deflect the terrible, terrible conditions
in the community, therefore the people of Springfield.

Speaker 11 (51:58):
But that's not the issue here. The issue here is
the first.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Left wing lie, if you will, that made the list
was the Joe Biden promised to not pardon Hunter Biden.
But then they called that a full flip flop, not
an actual lie. And then it goes into a bunch
of other things from JD. Vance Barjorie Taylor Green, Elon Musk.
Finally at number nine, Kamala Harris's Donald Trump would force

(52:24):
states to monitor women's pregnancies, and then at number ten
left wing Governor of Illinois J. B.

Speaker 11 (52:32):
Pritzker lying about JD.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
Vance and his obsession with couches with that ridiculous story.

Speaker 11 (52:38):
But here's the reality why I call this a joke.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Not one single item on the list about the biggest lie,
maybe arguably in American presidential history, and that is that
Joe Biden was competent and was not experiencing massive rapid
cognitive decline.

Speaker 11 (52:59):
They lied, and that he was peak Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
He did cartwheels down the hallways in the in the
overlaw or in the West Wing, and the aids and
the staffers can't even keep up with him. All of
this stuff about him being cognitively impaired and having a
terrible memory and not being able to articulate or understand things,
all of that was just those were cheap fakes from
the Republicans.

Speaker 11 (53:22):
Remember they lied. Who's they?

Speaker 4 (53:26):
The media, the Democrats, the DNC Congress, every staffer, Karine,
John Pierre. They lied about this guy's ability. This guy
cannot manage a daily schedule.

Speaker 23 (53:39):
This guy.

Speaker 4 (53:41):
Can you imagine if he was ready to sign up
for four more years?

Speaker 11 (53:45):
It's impossible.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
The biggest lie, arguably in American presidential history, is that
this guy should have been up for reelection at age
eighty two when he literally has not been competent enough
being to be able to handle a daily schedule calling
lids one o'clock in the afternoon after waking up at ten.
These kinds of things impossible. And they're going to say
that Donald Trump's comments on eating dogs and cats is

(54:10):
the biggest lie of the year. It's unbelievable. All right,
welcome back to that. It's six eleven. Now, let's move
onward to traffic and weather now and see what's happening
on the world.

Speaker 11 (54:19):
It's jumping, Joe Barnett.

Speaker 5 (54:21):
They're still working to Claiprec Highway two forty nine. This
is the Texas Aggie toll Way through there at Pinehurst.
Keep that in mind, and an accident's cleared out of
the way. I forty five the North Freeway northbound frontage
Road at Richie Road. I'm Joe Barnett, the Classic Viewing
GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
Terry Smith that the Weather Channel has our forecast for us.
Hello Terry, Hey.

Speaker 18 (54:42):
Good morning.

Speaker 20 (54:43):
Well, we've got a quiet day today, another round of
rainbow on the way tonight and tomorrow it's another wave
of low pressure that's heading our way. But after that
the sunshine hangs around for a little while. Today will
be a sunny day as well, and temperatures still on
the warmer side for late December. Load of mid seventies today,
forty percent chance is some showers late tonight. Tomorrow it's

(55:06):
a sixty percent chance of showers, perhaps some storms again
that very slight risk of severe storms tomorrow.

Speaker 18 (55:12):
We'll be watching.

Speaker 20 (55:13):
It clears out of here with just blue sky Sunday
and Monday and Tuesday. Now we'll stay in the seventies
all weekend long and into Monday as well, but then
some cooler temperatures show up Tuesday with his in the sixties.

Speaker 11 (55:29):
All right, Terry, We'll be ready for it. Thank you.
Fifty seven degrees right now at.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Your official severe weather station is Radio seven forty k trh.

Speaker 11 (55:37):
USE Traffic and Weather.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
You're starting your day right with Houston's Morning News, brought
to you by New South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 11 (55:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Pretty good way to start today, no question about it.
Pop France, and for Jimmy Parrot, good morning to you.
Thanks for being with us. I want to go back,
just for a moment to the lie of the Year story,
because I don't.

Speaker 11 (55:58):
Know, this seems.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
When you've been doing this as long as I have,
and it's been for over twenty seven years I've been
doing radio, you would think that you would get pasted
and get over these kinds of things and just accept it.

Speaker 11 (56:11):
And maybe I do, but sometimes they just.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
Really really irritate me, and the lies that we have
endured from the left over the course of the last
four years, much less twenty twenty four. As they look
back on these things, it's just infuriating that they think
they can gaslight us into believing, you know that this
is real what they did in trying to run an old,

(56:32):
decrepit demented dementia as in dementia, you know, ad old man. Listen.
The story to me begins and ends with the Robert
Herr Report. Robert Herr, the special investigator assigned to investigate
Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents with documents top secret documents,

(56:58):
classified documents, and said he had no ability to declassify
because he took them when he was a senator, and
he took them when he was a vice president. Only
the president can declassify those things, which is what made
Donald Trump's document situation of mar A Lago very very different.
He could declassify those things, but Joe Biden had no
ability to do this, and he had them in up

(57:19):
to ten different locations, including in a cardboard box in
his garage next to his beloved corvette. Robert Hurr investigated
this and then came back and said, yes, he broke
a ton of different rules, regulations, and laws with his
mishandling of classified documents, no question about it. But he said,

(57:42):
we're not recommending he'd be charged for it because a
jury would be sympathetic to an elderly man with a
really poor memory. He literally said the man wasn't competent
to stand trial for his illegal classified docum mins Joe Biden.
But then the Left told us he was absolutely competent,

(58:05):
not to stand trial, but to run the greatest, most
powerful economic and military force in the history of the world.
What that If that isn't the biggest lie of the year,
that Joe Biden was still competent, then they should just
stop these ridiculous year and you know reviews.

Speaker 11 (58:23):
Altogether, it's this very very frustrating.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Like I said, I've been doing this for a lot
of years, and you get frustrated and sometimes you just
kind of shrug. Sometimes though, it just gets to you,
and this is one of those times. My goodness, gracious, Okay,
it is six twenty. Let's do a trafficking weather once again,
checking in here now with jumping Joe Barney.

Speaker 11 (58:42):
Oh they're still we're going to clear.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
We're wreck on Highway two forty nine, the Texas Aggie
Expressway southbound at Pinehurst and watch out for a disabled
vehicle sixth in the east of northbound at the forty
Houston's on the right side. I'm Joe Barnett, the Generator
Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 11 (58:57):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
Terry Smith's forecast today calling for clouds this morning, sun
this afternoon high of seventy six tonight, fifty percent chances
ran overnight down into the mid sixties, thunderstorms tomorrow up
to seventy seven, though mostly sunning on Sunday seventy three,
warming back into the real upper seventies around seventy nine
or so on Monday, and then dropping back down into

(59:20):
the mid sixties on Tuesday. So a little yoyo there
for you right now, fifty seven degrees at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. And now
we'll check the headlines with Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (59:31):
Thank you, Bob. Six to twenty two. We've got more
delays and cancelations at the two airports. A man is
shot trying to help a woman who was in a
shootout with our carjackers in Spring Branch. Police are said
to be looking for several suspects, and former New Jersey
Senator Bob Menendez wants a federal judge to delay sentencing
on his bribery conviction. Get this he's citing quotes the

(59:54):
emotional toll on his family. Get the latest news anytime
at ktich dot com. Next update is at six.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Thirty Informed for today's world, for tomorrow, So America and connected.

Speaker 11 (01:00:08):
To Houston and now I can stay in the no.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
News Radio seven ktrh.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
Okay, let's return back to something a little more positive
now if we can, and let's talk for a second
or two about the President's deportation proceedings. Tom Holman has
announced a couple of different things. As we pointed out
a short while ago, He's bringing back ICE in the
form that it once was in terms of rating work sites.

(01:00:36):
He is going to send ICE agents to these work
sites where legal aliens all gather and conglomerate and look
for day work. These are individuals who are indeed going
to be a part of the deportation force. He is
also going to push for and indeed help the President
implement the new Remain in Mexico policy. But one of

(01:00:56):
the more controversial decisions that Tomman the borders are President
Trump's very first selection of an administration official after he
won the election. Out of November fifth is Tom Homan
is pledging to reinstate family detention. This is this has
got the left up in arms, as you can imagine,

(01:01:18):
because they are so concerned about the kids. Except the kids,
of course, we're being trafficked into the United States and
or living lives of hell right now as enforced labor situations,
sexual slavery, and other things. Those kids don't seem to matter,
but the family detention units do. Tom Hohman, president elect

(01:01:39):
Donald Trump's top border advisor, said immigration officials were resumed
detaining the children of illegals with their parents in an
interview with The Washington Post ran yesterday. The Trump administration
will not allow I legal immigrants to remain in the
country just because they have US born children, and will
instead provide families with the choice of whether to exit
together or be split up. This is going to drive

(01:02:01):
the left bananas. But what other choice is there. If
you have broken the law and you are going to jail,
you were going to be split up from your family
because you can't take your kids to jail with you. Well,
if you've broken the law and come into a foreign
country like the United States and you get sent back,
guess what, you don't get to stay just because you

(01:02:23):
have kids, you still have to go to your assigned
designated place, whether, like I said, if it's a jail cell,
a prison cell, or to your home country. That's up
to you. Homan told The Washington Post yesterday with no ambiguity. Quote,
you knew you were in the country illegally, and then
you chose to have a child. You put your family
in that position. End quote. I will tell you what

(01:02:45):
I would vote for this guy to be president. He
just pulls no punches, does not care who he offends.
He's going to stay it the way that it is.
Trump's mass deportation efforts will require the construction of residential
centers and family facilities. Home said, we are going to
need to construct family facilities. How many beds are going
to need will depend on what the data says. The

(01:03:06):
comments came after Homan told Fox Business on Tuesday that
the White House is going to need about eighty six
billion dollars to jumpstart the deportation process and that he
hopes to increase the number of detention beds from tens
of thousands to one hundred thousand. Holman also told the
Post he would resume the worksite raids as we mentioned,

(01:03:26):
and that the Trump administration would bring back Remain in Mexico,
the program that Harvard migrants claiming asylum in Mexico until
their applications were processed. The only real question is whether
or not Mexico will comply. Will they agree to allow
this to happen the way they did the last time around? Answer? Yes, tariffs,
that's correct. President Trump has said, if you don't do

(01:03:49):
what we tell you and make sure that you don't
use your country as a land bridge to get the
rest of the world into the United States, we will
tear if every single thing you produce, and you will
have no trading partner here in the United States at all.
That's how it worked the first time. It will work
the second time. Okay, six twenty six, Now time for
a Bloomberg one minute.

Speaker 22 (01:04:10):
This is a Bloomberg money Manute Investors this morning are
looking ahead to reports on retail and wholesale inventories. We
could glean moore about how big the inventory build up
is getting on auto dealers' lots. Businesses worldwide, meantime, are
rushing to prepare for potential tariffs and trade wars, leading
to a surge in imports and supply chain disruptions, and

(01:04:32):
it looks like Netflix scored on Christmas Day. The Streaming Giants.
Coverage of those two Christmas Day NFL games attracted over
twenty four million viewers each that set streaming records for
the NFL. The games produced by CBS Sports featured announcing
talent and performances by Beyonce and Mariah Carey. Minimal technical
glitches noted. Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Stealers game averaged

(01:04:56):
twenty four point one million viewers, and the Ravens Texans game,
which featured that halftime performance by Beyonce June twenty four
point three million and peaked at more than twenty seven million.
During her show, Denise Peller Greney Bloomberg Radio, there are.

Speaker 23 (01:05:13):
No Houston's News.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Why there?

Speaker 24 (01:05:15):
We're Traffic plus Breaking News twenty four seventh. This is
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Five Everywhere Boys, the IRPP.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
It's shaping up to be another long day at Bush
m Hobby and the new Trump border plan will include
more than just mass deportations. Good morning, I'm Bob fransin
for Jimmy, this is your five third or excuse me,
six thirty report. Cliff Saunders will have the details on
those stories, and we're coming right up, coming right up.
At first we're going to check the traffic, and that
means jumping. Joe Barnett, there's an accident. Time things up

(01:05:53):
I forty five. This is North three way north Baun
at FM nineteen sixty. A couple of white lanenger block
driving a slow backed up to north and they just
cleared the wreck out of the way.

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
Highway two forty nine southbound at Pine Course. I'm Joe
Barnett and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Cloudy this morning, Sunday, this afternoon up to about seventy six.
Tonight fifty percent chancell rain coming in low of sixty
five and tomorrow thunderstorms. HI have about seventy seven. Terry
Smith will tell you about those storms and beyond into
the weekend.

Speaker 11 (01:06:23):
That'll be coming up at six forty.

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
Right now, we have fifty seven degrees at your official
severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (01:06:30):
Now we've got news. Here's Cliff. Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
Bob six thirty one on KTRHR top story, it could
be one of those days. At the airport nationwide, Flyaware
says we have eight hundred and forty three flights delayed
more than three hundred and twenty five flights canceled. So
at the local airports, Hobby is reporting seventeen delays in
one cancelation. Bush is reporting seven cancelations in twenty six delays.

(01:06:55):
So if you have a flight check with your airline.
The weather caused issue that the airports as well. Yesterday
with several tornadoes touching down across the area.

Speaker 8 (01:07:05):
In the forklift when this hatime, Ah, Yeah, I was
driving the forklift.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Yeah, so this is gonna be what was a glass?

Speaker 11 (01:07:12):
Just glad it wasn't me and a whole forklift?

Speaker 6 (01:07:14):
Yeah, that Wharton County man talking to Fox. Elsewhere, a
possible twister damaged two homes at a Leaf. The National
Weather Service has not yet confirmed or indicated how strong
those tornadoes were. Six point thirty two. Now we know
more about Donald Trump's border plans and what they'll look
like January twentieth, or does our Tom Holman says they
include the return of remain in Mexico and ice worksite raids.

(01:07:39):
As for the mass deportations. Those are expected to start
with illegal alien criminals already in jail.

Speaker 37 (01:07:46):
Local and state law enforcement. They partner up with ICE
and trained officers are given some federal powers allowing them
to basically talk to anyone within the jail, ask them
questions about their immigration status, and then they can contact
ICE and flag them right here. In Texas, twenty five
counties are already part of this program. It is not

(01:08:07):
something new, but under a new Trump administration, more jails
are expected to join in.

Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
That is Brooke Taylor reporting. According to the latest numbers,
more than one point four million foreign nationals i e.
Illegal aliens entered this country between January twenty twenty three
and November twenty twenty four through two Biden administration programs,
including that controversial CBP one app But on January twentieth,

(01:08:34):
all of that changes.

Speaker 38 (01:08:35):
I can tell you right now that my contacts that
are still on the border Patrol, that are in ICE
and are associated with all the federal LA enforce, they
are just chomping at the bit for day one because
they know that they're going to be allowed to go
out there and do the job that they swore to do.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
Retired Border Patrol Sector chief Chris Klem millions of illegal
aliens in the US temporarily may have an impact on
congressional districts. After twenty thirty.

Speaker 29 (01:09:01):
They are likely to affect the representation of citizens in
Congress because each congressional district is drawn up based on
total population. That's everybody who lives in the district, not
how many voters.

Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
Jessica Vaughan with the Center for Immigration Study says states
like New York and California wouldn't have some of the
seats in Congress if it weren't for illegal aliens.

Speaker 18 (01:09:26):
Six thirty four.

Speaker 6 (01:09:26):
Now, the House of Representatives returns to work after New
Year's Day. Their big job next week would be to
elect a new speaker. But what if they can't. Madeline
Rivera explains.

Speaker 39 (01:09:39):
Well, out in one of the House is paralyzed. It
can't swear in members, it can't pass legislation. And here's
the kicker, it cannot certify the results of the electoral
college on January six, So here are the speaker election rules.
The House clocks in with four hundred and thirty four members,
with one vacancy thanks to former Republican Congressman Matt Gates.
The breakdown is two hundred and nineteen Republicans to two

(01:09:59):
hundred fIF team Democrats. The Speaker of the House must
win an outright majority of all members.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
And if it seems like the future president is actually
running the country as opposed to the current president, maybe
you're right, because Joe Biden's on vacation again. During his
four years, he spent five hundred and seventy days on
vacation forty percent of his time in office, and as
he prepares to lead, he still has more important decisions

(01:10:26):
to make.

Speaker 40 (01:10:27):
The President is on the clock, with less than two
weeks until a deadline to approve or deny a proposed
sale of US steel to Japan's Kneepon Steele. A US
agency responsible for assessing national security risks of foreign ownership
failed to reach a consensus or recommendation, leaving the decision
entirely up to President Biden. The President has previously stated

(01:10:49):
his opposition to foreign ownership of US steel. President Elect
Trump also says he'll block the deal.

Speaker 6 (01:10:56):
That is Jaron Halpern reporting six point thirty six fallout
from Biden's decision to commute the pardons of thirty seven
federal death row inmates. Is the outgoing administration trying to
cause as many problems for Donald Trump as it possibly can.

Speaker 8 (01:11:11):
The good news is Trump should be able to correct
most of this pretty quickly.

Speaker 31 (01:11:14):
Trump Kim reverse Biden's ebxecutive orders. The destructive things that
Biden did will be turned around very, very quickly.

Speaker 8 (01:11:23):
That's political commentator Ed Broudou, who pointed out that Biden
might not be the one making these decisions.

Speaker 31 (01:11:28):
Did Biden make the decision about the border wall or
was it the people behind him? We don't really know.
I think the answer has turned out to me. No,
he's not in charge.

Speaker 11 (01:11:36):
Broughto says.

Speaker 8 (01:11:37):
Many of the staffers and officials making these decisions will
likely go on to work for other Democrats. Ethan Beginning
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:11:44):
And there's this president. Pictures rather of the President meeting
with his son Hunter's business associates went viral this week,
raising the eyebrows of people like China expert Gordon Shane.

Speaker 21 (01:11:56):
The President of the United States, the one with the
constitutional duty to protect Americans from foreign attacks, his number
one constitutional duty.

Speaker 6 (01:12:03):
By the way, those pictures were taken during a taxpayer
funded trip to China. Back in twenty thirteen, they showed
Joe Hunter and several other officials meeting with China President
Jijin Ping. The mainstream media ignored the story. It's six
thirty seven. We've got a pair of Texas schools playing
college bowl games.

Speaker 11 (01:12:23):
Tonight.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
The Aggies take on USC at the Las Vegas Bowl,
while Texas Tech faces Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl. Tomorrow.
You've got TCU in Louisiana in the New Mexico Bowl,
and the Rockets beat New Orleans one twenty eight to
one eleven, their fourth consecutive victory. They host Minnesota tonight.
Coverage will start at six on Sports Talk seven to
ninety and I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather and

(01:12:46):
traffic station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 10 (01:12:49):
Look it happened.

Speaker 38 (01:12:50):
This is the greatest political comeback of all time.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
This has ever been two, three, four times Today News
Radio seven forty KGRH.

Speaker 11 (01:13:01):
All right, it is six thirty seven.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
Good morning, once again, Bob France sitting in for Jimmy
on this Friday. It's the twenty seventh morning of the
twelfth month in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty
four Hopefully you got a great Christmas and you've got
a great New Year's planned. Here's a New Year's resolution
to avoid. Don't get on blue Sky. Do you know
what blue Sky is? If you are a social media user,

(01:13:25):
particularly if you are a user of Elon Musk's ax
version of Twitter.

Speaker 11 (01:13:31):
Maybe you've heard about blue Sky. Maybe you haven't.

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
Most of the left wing lunatics that left Twitter because
they hate the concept of the First Amendment, they really
really do not like that whole free speech thing, that
free speech thing that Elon Musk brought in to Twitter
where they don't ban and shadow ban and censor and
suspend and kill accounts for saying things that leftists don't

(01:13:55):
agree with. Boy, they just hated that. So they went
to this new platform called blue Sky. Are you familiar
with this? It's been around for a little while. But
what's really really interesting is all of the leftists who
left Twitter so that they could have, you know, so
they wouldn't have what they called threats and violence and
all kinds of other things from right wingers who came

(01:14:16):
unto came into Twitter when Elon bought it. It's interesting
that they have created their own platform that is just
filled with threats and lies and all kinds of the
same misinformation that they are complaining that Twitter or Elon
Musk's X had allowed. Interesting article in The Daily Caller
about it. Left wing journal's new anti Twitter playground is

(01:14:38):
rife with what death threats and fake news. There's a
story here, and I'm going to share this on my
own social media. I'll even share it on my Twitter
x account. How about that, just so you can find
it follow me there at strictly speaking with Bob Frantz.
But it's really really kind of astounding the types of
things that they allow to exist on this new Blue
Sky platform, which was founded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.

Speaker 11 (01:15:03):
Jack Dorsey, of course, is.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
The one who let you know that banned and shut
down President Trump shut down so many other conservative voices
in a variety of ways in order to advance the
democratic democratic agenda without any obstruction whatsoever. So he's the
one who founded Blue Sky and it has just become
a landing pad for dissenting leftists looking to protest Elon

(01:15:28):
after he acquired Twitter and opened up the doors for,
like I said, for free speech. There's a who's who
of celebrity left wing journalists and celebrities, and even whole
news outlets. For example, former CNN flunky Don Lemon, former
Star Wars and one of the most radical leftists out there,
Mark Hamill, even The Guardian. They've all closed their Twitter

(01:15:49):
accounts and gone on to Blue Skies. They say that Twitter,
excuse me, they left Twitter searching for an app free
of perceived misinformation, extremism and bigotry. But yet that is
exactly what they deliver on Blue Sky. I'll give you
an example. Just a cursory perusal of blue Sky shows that,

(01:16:13):
outside of rampant misinformation provided by people like AOC, Alexandria
Casio Cortezo's got the number and largest number of followers
on the platform, it's rife with violent threats against Republicans
and their allies, like Elon Musk himself. One user who
used to work for Elon Musk at Tesla said, and
I quote thinking about how I met with Elon Musk

(01:16:37):
on multiple occasions when I worked for him at Tesla,
and I could have prevented all of this if I
had just been as brave as Luigi end quote. In
other words, he wishes he would have killed Elon Musk
the way Luigi Mangoni did with the United Healthcare CEO
Brian Thompson. But the platforms users go even further than that,

(01:16:57):
threatening those who aren't even right of center, like a
leading journalist named Jesse Single, who has experienced so many
death threats on the Blue Sky platform. He wrote about
it in an article for The Free Press entitled blue
Sky has a death threat problem. They don't like him
and want him dead because he writes, even though he's
left a center, about something that they think is too

(01:17:18):
taboo to discuss, and that is that children shouldn't be
experimented on with bodily mutilations when it comes to transsurgeries.
So rather than responding to his commentary and his articles
with their arguments, they give you things like this on
Blue Sky quote Jesse Single, two to the chest, one

(01:17:40):
to the forehead, a little less than an inch above
the nasal bridge. Another one just wrote someone should kill
Jesse Single. Another one then said, here's his address. This
is what left wing social media looks like. And this
is why they left because Elon would never allow this.
This is why they left the new free speech platform

(01:18:01):
that Twitter had become. So yeah, do yourself a favor,
make it a resolution. Don't get anywhere near blue sky.
All right, six forty two, A little late on the return.
Sorry about that. Let's catch up and see what's going
on in the World's here's jumping Joe.

Speaker 5 (01:18:15):
They're working to clear up an accent of the box
took I forty five the north three way north bound
at FM nineteen sixty. A couple of right lanes of
block driving its slow backed up to Ritchie Road. I'm
Joe Barnett, the Degenerator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 11 (01:18:28):
Terry Smith, apologies for the delago run ahead.

Speaker 18 (01:18:31):
All right, Well, at least we've got a quiet day today, folks.
No rain.

Speaker 20 (01:18:35):
Temperatures this afternoon loa to mid seventies. Another round of
showers and storms tomorrow, though, and some of those could
be severe. Sixty percent chance you'll get wet, mid to
upper seventies. Sunshines back Sunday and into the first part
of next week.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
Okay, thank you, Terry, And right now still fifty seven
at your official severe weather stations Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
You are commute, you are forecast, You're us. It's Houston's
Morning News, brought to you. Buying New Southway. Those solutions, okay,
six point fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
Now let's get right back out onto the road ways
and see what's happening on that drive.

Speaker 11 (01:19:10):
Checking in with jumping Joe Barnett, they're still.

Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
Working at clear moonback on I forty five the north
three way north BEATNM nineteen sixty. This one involving a
box truck traffic a slow back up to Richie Road
and at accident in Fort ben County Highway thirty six
northbound at Barrick Road, a right lane of block. This
one involvinga has Matt's built. I'm Joe Barnett and the
classic view at GMC traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
All right, thank you, Joe and Terry's forecast looks like this.
Cloudy this morning, but Sunday this afternoon high of seventy
six gonna be a nice day. Rain showers overnight fifty
percent chance of those sixty five for a low Tomorrow
back up to seventy seven, but thunderstorms will be around
mostly Sunday on Sunday seventy three Monday all the way
up to seventy nine and then dropping back down into

(01:19:56):
the mid sixties around sixty four on Tuesday. Right now,
I'm looking at fifty seven, but let's refresh it to
make sure. Yeah, nope, we lost another one fifty six
at your official severe weather station's radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (01:20:09):
Let's hit the headlines now with Cliff.

Speaker 6 (01:20:11):
Thank you, Bob. We're sponsored by Morrow Mechanical. Remember Mary
Ann Wilson while she's announced that she's running to lead
the Democratic Party. The Amazon in Starbucks strikes appear to
be over, and another reason not to go to California, Bobby.
Another human leg washed up on a beach near Los
Angeles after two fishermen went missing this week when they're

(01:20:33):
boat capsized. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com.
Our next update is at seven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
Checking in. I'm mo money, Why don't you call more?

Speaker 19 (01:20:43):
We all avoid it, but you'll better understand the world
around you if you check in with US News Radio
seven KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
So we had a story earlier this week about VAX's vaccines,
and more and more parents are requesting exemptions for their
children to go into kindergarten. With this massive schedule of
vaccines that do I want to say, medical science or
pharmaceutical companies have tried to really push forth even more

(01:21:13):
and more. You know, back in when we were kids,
if you're in the gen X era or older, you know,
we had a few that we had to do. Now
there's some thirty two different shots that kids have to
take just to get into schools. Well, there's a huge
pushback because of concerns over a lot of things. There's
been a long, long, long time discussion over the issues
of autism and other ancillary you know, side effects of vaccines,

(01:21:37):
heavy vaccine schedules on kids. Well, some people don't want
to hear about those things. Some people don't want to
hear that there might be problems among those. Bill Gates.
Bill Gates wants to use AI to censor vaccine misinformation
article in Hot Air this morning. Americans should be free

(01:21:58):
to speak, to think, and to most of all, and
most of all to agree with Bill Gates. If you
think about it, agreeing with Bill Gates may be the
key to freedom, which is why Gates is pushing for
a future where artificial intelligence agents scoured the Internet to
ensure that disagreeing with his views on vaccines is simply
not allowed. Gates is calling for anti vaxxers to be

(01:22:19):
censored by AI. Questioning vaccines is now inciting violence. A billionaire,
Bill Gates is calling for members of the general public
to be censored by artificial intelligence if they dare to
question the official corporate line on vaccines. Really great response
here from gen X. Genner said Mao's thought reform needed

(01:22:41):
prisons and struggle sessions to brainwash and enslave the people.
Gates and his cohort, a cohort of no betters, just
needed AI and getting around that pesky Bill of rights.
I just got done discussing the dangers of websites and
platforms like Blue Sky. But what's more dangerous than even
their death threats and some of the other things that

(01:23:03):
we pointed out there doing over there on the left
wing Blue Sky as they fled Twitter, is the fact
that they fled a place in which free speech and
different opinions and different yes, science science.

Speaker 11 (01:23:18):
Can be expressed.

Speaker 4 (01:23:19):
That is what they're most terrified of Twitter, slash x
and other platforms, and quite frankly, just the Internet in
general should be free for people to say, Look, I
disagree with your premise on climate change because of ABCD,
and you don't get to censor me, or censor the
science or the doctors or the researchers, the climatologists, and

(01:23:42):
so on and so forth, just because you don't like
the results that they got with their science. But that's
what this is all about here. If you disagree with
Bill Gates, you are going to be shut down and
you are going to be silenced. That's just, period, point blank,
what they want to do. The main purpose for AI,
according to multiple critics of Bill Gates, is to immediately

(01:24:02):
eliminate all negative information everywhere about things that are being
pushed by the big oligarchs, if you will, one of whom,
of course, is Bill Gates. The Children's Health Defense Network
replied to a recent clip saying that you may not
know this, but in twenty twenty two, we were kicked
off of Facebook and TikTok and Instagram all on the

(01:24:26):
same day, and guests who pushed and made that happen
Bill Gates. This is so dangerous. Social engineering is a dangerous,
dangerous game to play, particularly when you're talking about things
that are being proven more and more with more and
more studies and more and more science to have very
very deleterious effects side effects on the body from this

(01:24:48):
massive vaccine schedule and now again they are trying to
make sure that the effects are not known if you
question the science. Remember we talked to Frauschie called himself
when he was pushing the covid vaxx's, the COVID shots.
He said, when you argue with me, you're arguing with
science itself. He himself declared that he is science. Well,
Bill Gates apparently is making the same claim, and if

(01:25:12):
you dared across him, you will be silenced by their science.

Speaker 11 (01:25:18):
Six fifty six. Now, this is Houston's morning news.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
This is used Radio seven Katie rh Houston Drive Everywhere
with fire Now.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
The latest news, weather, it's more of what matters to
you from the John Morris Services studios.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
Several tornadoes touched down across the Houston area yesterday, no injuries,
thank goodness. Canadian officials are meeting with the incoming Trump
administration today in Florida. Good morning, Bob France and for
Jimmy Barrett. This is your seven o'clock report now on
news radio seven forty k t H. We'll have the
news with Cliff Saunders after we check the traffic with
Jump and Joe Goods. He is here I forty five

(01:26:01):
the North three way northbound a FM nineteen sixty.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
That accident just cleared out of the way. Traffic's still slow,
about a ten minute delay. Starting around Richie Road, Highway
thirty six northbound and Fort Ben County approaching Barrick Road.
Watch out for an accident, this one involving a has
Mattsville right Linder's luck and an accident tying things up,
FM thirteen fourteen at Borders Mills Road. I'm Joe Barnett,
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 11 (01:26:25):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
Joe, and we're looking at pretty good day today, generally Sunday.
This afternoon high of seventy six, going to rain tonight
though fifty percent chancell ran finding its way to you,
a low of sixty five, thunderstorms tomorrow scattered throughout the area,
high of seventy seven. We'll let Terry Smith tell you
the details about that and the rest of the weekend
to come.

Speaker 11 (01:26:44):
Right now.

Speaker 4 (01:26:45):
That'll be at seven ten, right now, fifty six at
your official severe weather station. He's Radio seven forty k TRH.
And now it's time for the morning news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:26:53):
Thank you very much. Pop seven on one on KTRH
our top story there that horn I I prove you
were multiple tornadoes apparently touching down across the Houston area yesterday.
One damaged some homes in south west Houston, specifically a
leaf damage also reported in Liberty County and Wharton County.

(01:27:14):
As of now, we don't know about any injuries at all,
so thank goodness for that. The weather led to travel
issues at the airports today. Guess what more issues this
morning is? These storms spread out nationwide, nine hundred and
thirty four delays, three hundred and forty one cancelations. That's
according to flight aware dot Com. At Bush Airport, current

(01:27:35):
count is thirty three delays with seven cancelations. Seventeen flights
have been delayed out of Hobby with one cancelations so far.
It's now seven oh two on KTRH. The man who
defended himself in Harris County and shot three children juveniles
trying to rob him is not facing charges, but a
grand jury apparently is going to look at this. The

(01:27:57):
kids were between twelve and fourteen, and they allegedly pulled
guns on the man early yesterday morning.

Speaker 23 (01:28:04):
Seeing that, like knowing that like kids can come out
to get.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
You it's scary.

Speaker 6 (01:28:08):
One of the juveniles was in critical condition as of yesterday.
This went under the radar earlier this week. Houston ISD
is going to install metal detectors at high schools starting
in the spring semester. This is because of an uptick
and confiscated weapons at schools.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
I can tell you unequivocally, and I thought this for
many years in both University of Houston and SAM Houston State.
The overwhelming contributing factory that we see, that's why these
school shootings have increased. And this skills all the way
back to Columbine. It's social media, it's the Internet, and
it's a lack of strong parenting skills at home.

Speaker 6 (01:28:43):
That is retired Houston Police Captain Greg Freeman. After shootings
at unlicensed clubs the last two weekends across the Houston area,
Mayor John Whitmyer is promising a.

Speaker 8 (01:28:53):
Crackdown These after hours clubs have become hotbeds for all
sorts of crimes that could be drugs, prostitution, gambling.

Speaker 9 (01:29:01):
It would just depend on the venue and the individuals
who are operating that venue.

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
Criminal Justice Professor J Kuhn says many of these clubs
operate outside city limits because counties can't ban them.

Speaker 9 (01:29:12):
A city can pass a city ordinance, a county can't
do that. And that's why you find a lot of
the US businesses operating out in the county.

Speaker 8 (01:29:21):
Khon says any law targeting these clubs would have to
come from the state and be very carefully written. Ethan
Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH it's.

Speaker 6 (01:29:28):
Now seven oh four on KTRH. Two top Canadian officials
visited President elect Donald Trump's home in Florida yesterday to
talk about trade and border security, incoming borders in our
top home and also was at those meetings. Biden's Department
of Justice isn't leaving office without taking some final shots
at Texas. There are several lawsuits to deal with, one

(01:29:52):
with our state's immigration laws.

Speaker 12 (01:29:53):
I like to say that you know, this administration has
spent more time fighting Governor Abaton has spent fighting the
cartels Mexico.

Speaker 6 (01:30:00):
Terrell County Sheriff Fannius Cleveland says the administration should have
secured the border instead of securing the state. Meantime, the
left and the mainstream media is melting down over Trump's
talk of taking over the Panama Canal, but Texas Congresswoman
Beth Van Dine says, they just don't get it.

Speaker 13 (01:30:19):
He's not talking about military invasions. What he's talking about
is using the power of our economy, the power of
American influence, to be able to compete with China.

Speaker 6 (01:30:29):
Van Dine on Fox Business And here is yet another
example of mainstream media bias. PolitiFact totally ignored the Democrat
lies during their Lie of the Year voting.

Speaker 14 (01:30:41):
When they assemble for Live of the Year. It's what's
the most outrageous thing Trump said? If you look at
the ten items politivac listed for readers, the ones trashing
the Conservatives got eighty eight percent of the votes.

Speaker 6 (01:30:54):
Tim Grant with the Media Research Center says this is
an example of how the media loves to create double
standard in order to completely ignore Democrat lies. Seven oh five. Now,
the IRS, they're apparently going to send unclaimed tax rebates
to a million Americans, sending out payments to those who
were eligible but didn't claim the recovery rebate credit back

(01:31:18):
in the twenty twenty one tax return. That might help
with your property tax bill if you get that money
from the IRS. Because Houston property taxes remain high even
with all of the efforts in Austin for reform.

Speaker 15 (01:31:31):
Every other year, they've lowered it to around one percent,
but other factors come into play.

Speaker 16 (01:31:36):
That still doesn't mean that the other taxing units can
attend it to an effective rate of two percent, or
roughly about two dollars per one hundred dollars of valuation.

Speaker 15 (01:31:45):
State Senator Paul Bettencourt says school district taxes cause bigger bills,
and they have aims at more reform next year.

Speaker 16 (01:31:52):
I'd love to lower the rollback rates across the board
because that would affect all the taxing jurisdictions.

Speaker 11 (01:31:58):
He says.

Speaker 15 (01:31:58):
Lowering the state rates low has allowed local governments to
hammer down on residents. Andre Perard, News Radio seven forty Ktright.

Speaker 6 (01:32:06):
Thank you, Andrea on Wall Street, Overnight trading is down
across the board, with oil prices checking in at just
over seventy dollars a barrel, and relief is coming for
Texas oil companies after four years of Biden administration rules
and regulations. There will be a wave of liquefied natural
gas terminals constructed during the second Trump administration, and Fox's

(01:32:28):
Phil Flynn says that's bigger than you realize.

Speaker 17 (01:32:30):
This is going to be a new economic boom, but
one that could actually increase the gross domestic product of
the United States and really open up the door to
powering the world.

Speaker 6 (01:32:43):
He says, it would help us become energy independent again
and be a boost to the local economies in Port
Arthur and Brownsville. Seven oh seven, the Rockets beat New
Orleans one twenty eight to one eleven. They're in action
tonight hosting Minnesota pregame at six on Sports Talks of
a ninety And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather
in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
Traffic and Weather when you need it most, every ten
minutes on the tens. This is Houston's Morning News with
Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News Team.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
All right, it is indeed Bob Fran sitting in for
Jimmy this morning, one more time during Christmas week.

Speaker 11 (01:33:22):
He'll be back on Monday. So how about it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
Canada, This is such an interesting thing President Trump, I mean,
seemingly trolling everybody, including Canada. He has been teasing Justin Trudeau,
the Prime Minister, who is pretty much a communist. He's
been teasing him for some time, calling him the governor.
You can be the governor of Canada when it becomes
our next state, our fifty first state, and all kinds

(01:33:48):
of things like this. But what's Kevin O'Leary doing. Kevin O'Leary,
this shark tanks star. Is he joining in the trolling
that President Trump is doing of Canada or is he
serious about this? He said Thursday yesterday that he wants
to help broker deal with President Trump that would create
some sort of economic union between the United States and Canada,

(01:34:11):
declaring that at least half of his countrymen he's a Canadian,
would support such a merger. O'Leary's interest in unifying the
US and Canada comes after Trump has repeatedly suggested in
recent weeks that Canada should become our fifty first state.
Canadians over the this is what he said yesterday. Canadians
over the holidays the last two days have been talking

(01:34:32):
about this.

Speaker 11 (01:34:33):
They want to hear more.

Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
The Montreal Bourne businessman acknowledge there's obviously a lot of
issues that would arise if Canada attempted to actually join
the United States, but said that Trump's interest in the
matter could be the beginning of an economic union.

Speaker 11 (01:34:49):
Think about this quote.

Speaker 4 (01:34:50):
Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing
the border between Canada and the United States and putting
all that resource up to the northern borders where China
and Russia are knocking on the door. So secure the
northern territories, give common currency, figure out taxes across the board,

(01:35:11):
everything trading both ways, create a new, almost EU like passport.
I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians
are interested, he said. It's quite fascinating because I think
would think that most Canadians would be insulted by the
idea that they would be absorbed by the United States.
But Kevin O'Leary is a very sharp guy, he said.
The major impediment right now would be the collapsing Canadian

(01:35:34):
government under Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is
very likely to resign or be voted out of office
by October of twenty twenty five. Trump, who thinks Canada
has been ripping off the US over trade, has been
taunting Trudeau for weeks by referring to Canada as a
prospective US data and the Prime minister as the next governor.
Nobody wants Trudeau to negotiate this deal. He said, I

(01:35:56):
don't want him doing it for me. So I'm going
to go to mar A Lago and I'll start the narrative.
The forty one million Canadians, I think most of them
would trust me on this deal. In a Christmas Day
Truth social post we read this yesterday, Trump argued that
Canada should become the fifty first state because of taxes
of its citizens in Canada are far too high. And

(01:36:16):
he said that if Canada was to become our fifty
first state, their taxes would be cut by more than
sixty percent, and also that they would be militarily protected
like no other country anywhere else in the world.

Speaker 11 (01:36:26):
If the Great White North was.

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
To Jill joined the US so Kevin and Leary, mister
Wonderful as he's known, says Canadians would dig this idea.

Speaker 11 (01:36:35):
I'm interested.

Speaker 4 (01:36:36):
Seven to eleven. Let's do trafficking weather once again. We're
checking now with jumping Joe Barnett.

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
Here we go AI forty five the North three way
northbound at FM nineteen sixty. That accident's cleared out of
the way. That's the good news. Demand news is traffic
still slow. Backed up to Richie wrote, and they're working
to clear up a wreck on FM thirteen fourteen at
Sodors Mills Road and an accident Highway thirty six northbound
at Barry wrote A right latest WoT. I'm Joe Barnett
in the classic ic GMC traffic center.

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
All right, sorry about that, a little mike glitch here,
but thank you, Joe. And Terry Smith is at the
Weather Channel with a look at our weekend forecast.

Speaker 20 (01:37:20):
Hello, Terry, Hey, good morning Bob. Well, it's nice to
get a break from the rain. We had a rough
day yesterday in spots, especially north of Houston, where there
have been reports of five tour possible tornadoes. National Weather
Service will go check those out later today. Today's a nice,
quiet day with some sunshine, comfortable temperatures a low to
mid seventies. We've got another wave of low pressure though

(01:37:42):
on the way. A forty percent chance of some showers
late tonight. Tomorrow is sixty percent chance of showers and storms. Yes,
there is a slight risk of strong to severe storms tomorrow,
so stay weather aware.

Speaker 18 (01:37:55):
We'll clear it out Sunday.

Speaker 20 (01:37:57):
Lots of sunshine Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with the tre
staying in the seventies through Monday, and then some cooler
air in the sixties by Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
Being weather aware is a good thing to be. Thank you,
Terry fifty six degrees. Right now at your official severe
weather Stations Radio seven forty KTIH.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News team.

Speaker 11 (01:38:23):
All the info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 4 (01:38:27):
Okay, seven eighteen, Good morning, once again, thank you so
much for spending some time with us on this Friday morning.

Speaker 11 (01:38:33):
So, if you're out in.

Speaker 4 (01:38:35):
Paarland, you're paying an awful lot to live out there,
aren't you. We're going to talk about this, hopefully with
the state Senator Bettencore here in just a few minutes here.
But when it comes to Texas, Paarland is expensive, but
it's more than that. It's expensive property tax wise compared
to the rest of the country. Number ten, is that right? Yeah,

(01:38:56):
it's the tenth most expensive, our highest property tax city
in the country. And we're going to talk about what
can be done about that, if anything at all. I
have no earthly idea what could happen here, But here's
the story. According to the Chronicle, property taxes in parlanda
the tenth highest among all US cities. According to SmartAsset

(01:39:19):
dot com it's a personal finance website, the median home
value in that suburb is three hundred and sixty four
thousand dollars. The owner of a median priced home of
the mortgage pays an annual real estate tax of eight
and forty seven dollars, for an effective property tax rate
of two point one six. Several other Houston area communities

(01:39:39):
made the list, but Pairland was the highest. These property
tax rates are even higher than the Texas statewide national
average in the lone Star state. As in most property
taxes are levied by local government entities such as cities
and school districts and utility districts. In twenty twenty four,

(01:40:00):
to the Tax Foundation, the effective property tax rate in
Texas was one point four to seven percent, seventh highest
among all states. So it's already high anywhere in Texas
compared to the rest of the country. But boy, if
you're in Paarland, you are really in a rough spot.
Tenth highest. Can anything be done about that to lower
the property tax rates or to reassess and evaluate properties.

(01:40:23):
Hopefully we'll check in with the state centator here at a
moment or two. Right now it's seven twenty. Let's check
in with jumping Joe Barnett, though we can do that
for sure. Find out what's happening on.

Speaker 5 (01:40:31):
You if you're planning well, if you're planning a trip
to push in a continental airport or away from there,
keep in mind ongoing roadwork continues up in the north
Sembus until wait east and westbound between Aldan Westfield and
Imperial Valley. A left lane remains block and an accident
involving a haist Mattsville Highway thirty six northbound at Barrick Road.
I'm Joe Barnett, the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center.

Speaker 11 (01:40:52):
All right, thank you, sir. And Terry's forecast you order.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
It's going to be a sunny day today and I
stay today six then some rain moving in overnight, low
sixty five, thunderstorms tomorrow, high of seventy seven, mostly Sunday
on Sunday seventy three, then Monday all the way up
to seventy nine before dropping back down into December like
temperatures sixty four on Tuesday.

Speaker 11 (01:41:16):
Right now, we are.

Speaker 4 (01:41:17):
Sitting at fifty six at your official severe weather station
is Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 11 (01:41:22):
And now we're going to get some headlines, aren't we, Kliff.

Speaker 6 (01:41:24):
Yes, we are sponsored by DNM Auto Leasing. It's going
to be another long day at the airports. Police in Boulder,
Colorado say they're planning to use new DNA technology to
try and solve the murder of John Bena Ramsey and
recording your reports. The Detroit Tigers have emerged as one
of the favorites to sign Astro's free agent Alex Brigman.

(01:41:46):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at seven thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
Listen to News Radio seven forty KTRH on the free
iHeartRadio app. It's all your news, music, sports podcasts, and
talk free.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
Never sounded so good. Okay, it is seven twenty two.
Let's welcome State Senator Paul Bettencourt to the program. Talk
a little bit about these property taxes, particularly in Pairland.

Speaker 11 (01:42:11):
Senator, Good morning, How are you.

Speaker 16 (01:42:13):
Good morning, Bob. Yes, it's a little higher than it
needs to be.

Speaker 11 (01:42:17):
My goodness, gracious.

Speaker 4 (01:42:19):
Yeah, we're talking about to two point one six tenth
highest in the country.

Speaker 11 (01:42:25):
I never would have guessed that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:26):
I would have thought the property taxes in some of
the you know, San Francisco, La, New York, Manhattan, some
areas would be higher.

Speaker 11 (01:42:33):
But boy, Pairland really up there. So what do you
attribute that to.

Speaker 16 (01:42:37):
Well, we started working on property tax relief in earnest
in about twenty nineteen. We passed the first major reform
bill in like thirty eight years, and basically it lowered
the amount of money that local jurisdictions could take from
taxpayers without a boat of the public. Now, we just

(01:43:00):
recently seen what that's like in Harris County, who on
their own basically literally raised an average tax bill by
nineteen percent. They unfortunately got about fifty one percent of
the public to go along with them on a public

(01:43:21):
vote that was held in November. But the sticker shock
on the average citizen is enormous because that's literally three
hundred and twelve dollars just for county taxes, and it
points out to this bob that the state is buying
down the tax rate, We're increasing exemptions on school taxes.

(01:43:44):
We poured you know, you know, well over you know,
twenty billion dollars in just last year to buying down
the state rate.

Speaker 10 (01:43:52):
But we don't have a state income tax. I mean,
we don't have a state income tax. For sure. We
don't have a state property tax either.

Speaker 16 (01:44:00):
So what happens in cities like Pairland and in you know,
MUDs and a task, a seed and all these other
local entities makes a big difference in your property tax
bill because the school tax.

Speaker 10 (01:44:15):
Portion of it is less than a half now.

Speaker 4 (01:44:18):
So we're talking with State Senator Paul Bettencourt about the
property tax rate high, very very high rates in the
greater Houston areas, particularly in Pairland, the tenth highest in
the country. What about property valuations, I know a lot
of times that's the key to this whole thing is
having properties reassessed, find out whether or not they are

(01:44:39):
worth exactly what they say they are. If you get
a lower valuation and get a lower tax bill, right right.

Speaker 16 (01:44:44):
The actual key to this is how much you have
to pay the value times the rate equals your bill.
If the value goes up and the rates go down,
then you could get a cut.

Speaker 10 (01:44:59):
And that's what happened in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 16 (01:45:02):
We pour money into increasing the homestead exemption but dropping
the tax rate all across the state, and.

Speaker 10 (01:45:09):
That saved the average homeowner thirteen and.

Speaker 16 (01:45:12):
Twelve dollars in the in the Harris County area specifically,
about nine hundred and forty four bucks of that still
remains because we've been able to buy down.

Speaker 10 (01:45:24):
The tax rate as values have gone up.

Speaker 16 (01:45:28):
So what we're doing is you you can always look
at I guess the best way. Don't be fooled by
the man behind the curtain. The point is how much
money do.

Speaker 10 (01:45:38):
You actually pay?

Speaker 16 (01:45:39):
And for over sixty fives, after we put all these
reforms in, over half the over sixty fives now don't
pay any tax and every year their tax bill goes
down because what happens is the value is frozen, but
the rate goes down each year. So look, get your

(01:46:00):
in the back of your tax bill. And that's what
people are doing right now, Bob. They're paying their taxes
because if you itemize your taxes, you need to pay
in December to get credit on your federal income tax.

Speaker 10 (01:46:11):
Flip it overlook at.

Speaker 16 (01:46:12):
It and you'll see how much your school taxes have
gone down. But we're going to change what happened here
in Harris County because you know you just you can
only imagine, you know, the type of phone calls I've
been getting because Leen and hilldogo right around saying that
it was an eight percent increase when was really in nineteen.
So we're going to make sure that she can't pull

(01:46:34):
that trick again.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
Well, I hope, and I know every taxpayer is hoping
for the very same thing. I'm glad they've got you
on their side. State Senator Paul Bettencourt trying to work
hard to help keep these tax rates down for as
many as they can around Harris County and beyond. A Senator,
thank you for the time. Hope you had a merry Christmas,
and I wish you're very happy new Year.

Speaker 10 (01:46:55):
Yes, happy new Year to you, Bob, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:46:57):
Thank you, sir, God bless seven seven. Now we're going
to catch up here and get a Bloomberg month. I'm sorry,
Bloomberg money minute.

Speaker 11 (01:47:06):
This is a Bloomberg money minute.

Speaker 22 (01:47:07):
Some possible bad news if you're looking for a reasonably
prized car, because it could be about to get harder
to find an affordable one.

Speaker 18 (01:47:14):
Nearly a third of.

Speaker 22 (01:47:15):
Vehicles price below thirty thousand dollars are currently built in Mexico,
according to the Wall Street Journal looking at Edmund's data,
including the Nissan Sentra and also the Ford Maverick. Presidentelect
Donald Trump's threatened new tariffs could drive those prices higher.
Could be a volatile end of the week for those
who own bitcoin because a huge number of financial products
like derivatives based on bitcoin and ether expire today, including

(01:47:38):
about thirteen billion dollars in bitcoin options alone. And have
you heard of Dutch Bros. Well, a lot of people
focus on Starbucks. The growth of that company is slowing.
Not so with Oregon based Dutch Bros. It's expanding rapidly
across country. According to Baron's, company is bypassing brewed coffee
and selling iced and espresso based drinks instead with lots

(01:48:00):
of flavor options. And they are served to you not
by a barista but by a bro East Denise Pelagreedy
Bloeberg Radio.

Speaker 23 (01:48:09):
There are no Houston's News.

Speaker 24 (01:48:11):
Why they're traffic plus Breaking News twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRH five everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:48:26):
It's shaping up to be another long one at Bush
and Hobby and the new Trump border plan will include
more than just mass deportations.

Speaker 11 (01:48:34):
Good morning, I'm Bob frans and for Jimmy.

Speaker 4 (01:48:36):
Cliff Saunders has the details on those stories are more
coming up, but first we're going to hit the roades.

Speaker 11 (01:48:40):
Here's jumping Joe.

Speaker 5 (01:48:42):
And if you're going to Bush and or contin report,
keep in mind there is roadwork causing about a ten
minute delay on the north Sam Houston Toaway east and
westbound between Ardy and Westman and Imperial Valley. A left
lang remains block for that roadwork project. Highway thirty six
northbound at Barrick Road, an acident with the haz Metsville
still has a right lane block. I'm Joe Barnett and
the Generators Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:49:04):
We've got clouds this morning, We've got sunshine this afternoon,
high about seventy six. Overnight about a fifty percent chance
of rain coming in overnight low of sixty five, thunderstorms
tomorrow high of seventy seven. We'll give an extended forecast
into the next work week coming up with Perry Smith
at seven forty. Right now, I can tell you we
have fifty six degrees at your official severe weather station.

(01:49:26):
News Radio seven forty kt RH and now it's morning
news time.

Speaker 11 (01:49:29):
Here's Cliffs Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:49:31):
Thank you very much, Bob seven thirty one on KTRH
our top story this hour. If you're flying today, get
ready for some headaches. According to flight Aware nationwide, right now,
we've got seventeen hundred plus delays with about three hundred
and fifty flights canceled so far. Now, these numbers have
gone up big in the last half hour over at

(01:49:52):
Bush and Hobby. At Hobby we've got forty six delays
in one cancelation, and at Bush it's forty four delays
and seven cancelations. Storms that produced several apparent tornadoes didn't
help things yesterday, and that's the system that's causing all
these problems this morning. Yesterday, several properties were damaged, Fortunately

(01:50:12):
nobody was hurt.

Speaker 25 (01:50:14):
Just outside of El Campo, Texas. It's Wharton County and
the Wharton County Sheriff's office did confirm with me that
three tornadoes hit this area.

Speaker 6 (01:50:23):
Joy Addison with our TV partner Channel two. A possible
twister also damaged homes in a Leaf. The National Weather
Service has yet to confirm or tell us how strong
the tornadoes were seven point thirty two incoming borders are
Tom Holman says that on day one, the president will
bring back ice, work site rates and programs like Remain

(01:50:43):
in Mexico. This is all part of Trump's plan for
mass deportations, which the left continues to have hysterics over.

Speaker 26 (01:50:52):
It's not about a political party. It's about the future
of America. And what they're doing is they're trying to
bring forth policies and laws to defend criminals.

Speaker 1 (01:51:00):
They're trying to come forth.

Speaker 26 (01:51:01):
With policies and laws so there's no consequences for individuals
that are committing crimes.

Speaker 6 (01:51:06):
Art del Cueto with the National Border Patrol Council on
Fox Business. According to new numbers, one point four million
foreign nationals illegal aliens entered the country between January of
twenty twenty three and last month using Biden administration programs
like the CBP. One app Yet, DHS Secretary Alejandro Majorcis
blames Republicans for the current crisis.

Speaker 27 (01:51:28):
It's offensive to hear him pointing the finger in blaming
Republicans and politics. He has no further to look than
the mirror and the White House on what happened in
this border.

Speaker 11 (01:51:37):
The last four years.

Speaker 6 (01:51:38):
Jan has retired Border Patrol Sector chief Chris Klem. The
impact of the border disaster millions of illegal aliens could
have an impact on future congressional seating.

Speaker 28 (01:51:49):
The United States seeing a net of two point eight
million people migrate here between twenty twenty three and twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 29 (01:51:55):
Under the Biden administration, about eight million newcomers around, most
of whom came illegally.

Speaker 28 (01:52:02):
Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies
Jessica Vaughn says the Census Bureau will include refugees and
border releases in its population estimates.

Speaker 29 (01:52:11):
They're counted for the size of the district, but they
don't vote, meaning that these members of Congress are representing
fewer voters as possible.

Speaker 28 (01:52:20):
Texas and Florida could gain up to four congressional seats
after twenty thirty Jarre Lewis News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:52:26):
It's now seven thirty four on k TRH. President Joe
Biden spending his last few weeks in the White House,
like a lot of his presidency on vacation. He's in
the Virgin Islands on our dime right now. You spent
almost four hundred or rather forty percent of his presidency
five hundred and seventy days on vacation. So how will
history remember the Biden presidency? Likely not kindly.

Speaker 30 (01:52:51):
Joe Biden is in cognitive decline, and I do believe that,
you know, his own party, instead of really rolling with him,
they undercut him. The out said him, and so he
hasn't exactly been putting forward a big effort to support
the Democrat Party.

Speaker 6 (01:53:06):
Florida Congresswoman an A Paulina Luna there now before leaving
Biden pardon thirty seven federal death row inmates is part
of a series of moves that many see is sabotaging
the incoming Trump administration.

Speaker 31 (01:53:19):
All that I can hope for is that Trump will
be able to put the brakes on the deep state,
the unelected bureaucrats who are running the country into the ground.

Speaker 6 (01:53:29):
Political commentator Ed Brodos says, the good news is most
of the terrible policies that Biden has made can be
reversed by Trump on day one, and the new administration
can also cut a lot of the fat thanks to Doge.

Speaker 32 (01:53:43):
One of my Doge Acts provisions is to make certain
that people return to work if they're not returning to work,
then we need to remove them or we need to
sell those buildings.

Speaker 6 (01:53:59):
Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn there speaking of doge Elon Musk
creating a stir this week by trimming a different kind
of fat.

Speaker 33 (01:54:07):
We've seen a lot of Elon Musk lately, but I
don't know if we've ever seen him like this before.
He's shown off a slimmer Christmas bod this holiday season
to Tesla Ceo, posing for the camera in a Santa suit.
He has the bushy white beard like mister Klaus, but
he is missing the belly. Here Musk is writing this
saying he was technically using Manjaro, but says it didn't
have the same ring to it as Ozempic Sanna.

Speaker 6 (01:54:28):
That's Alexis mccadams reporting seven thirty six. It looks like
the Starbucks strike is over. Bista's making fifteen bucks an
hour walked off the job in cities that included Dallas
and San Antonio, and Amazon drivers that struck earlier this
month are also back on the job for now.

Speaker 34 (01:54:46):
A driver in New York who was taking part in
the strikes, which affected several facilities across four states, telling
Fox News they were sent home yesterday and told to
enjoy the holiday with their families, and that they're meeting
after Christmas to vote on whether to continue the strike
or to extend a new deadline to Amazon to come
to the negotiating table with the teamsters.

Speaker 6 (01:55:07):
That is Fox's Lilyan Wou at seven thirty seven. Several
Texas teams are involved in bowl games this weekend. Texas
Tech plays Arkansas in the Liberty Bowl tonight, A and
M and USC play in the Las Vegas Bowl. It'll
be TCU and Louisiana in the New Mexico Bowl tomorrow,
and the Rockets beat the Pelicans one twenty eight to
one eleven. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather in

(01:55:29):
Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 1 (01:55:32):
Welcome to this, Welcome to the know.

Speaker 10 (01:55:36):
People have the right to know.

Speaker 1 (01:55:37):
To know, Ella, stay in the know.

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
Note with US Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:55:43):
Okay, it is seven thirty seven, So Christmas may be over,
and maybe you're done with the holiday music and the
Christmas specials and the Christmas movies and everything else. But
I just want to throw this story out there because
it really really did anger a lot of people. Did
you watch It's a Wonderful Life this year? It's my
wife's favorite, that one in a Christmas Carol, and it's

(01:56:04):
you know, it's a classic. What are you gonna say
about It's a Wonderful Life? Well, apparently Amazon can say
a lot of things about it It's a Wonderful Life,
including you don't get to see it all, especially the
core portion of it. Fans of It's a Wonderful Life
are living over the Amazon abridged version of the movie
that they provided on their streaming service. The movie from

(01:56:26):
nineteen forty six follows the life of businessmen banker George Bailey,
and it sparked outrage after Amazon cut a pivotal portion
from the film. And I'm still trying to figure this out.
People are calling it, you know, woke, and you know,
try to describe all kinds of reasons for why they
would have done this. Nobody really seems to have one.
But the Amazon abridged version of It's a Wonderful Life

(01:56:49):
doesn't include the most important scene in the movie, which
is the Pottersville scene in which George wishes he had
never been born, prompting his guardian angel to remind him
that he needs to earn his angel wings. Outraged fans
said the scene sets up the rest of the whole movie,
and without it, the movie abruptly jumps between scenes without
the context.

Speaker 11 (01:57:07):
Of the story.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
In the original version, George tells his guardian angel Clarence,
he believes he's better.

Speaker 11 (01:57:13):
Off dead than alive.

Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
Clarence explains he doesn't know all that he has done
in his life and all the people he's affected. He
proceeds to show him what the town would have looked
like if he hadn't been if it hadn't been for
all of his good deeds over the years. The alternative reality,
of course, helps excuse me. George realize that he has
had a wonderful life, but in the Amazon Prime version

(01:57:36):
of it, details of what led to that changed attitude
toward his life are left out.

Speaker 11 (01:57:41):
Instead.

Speaker 4 (01:57:41):
After the angel tells George he has to earn his wings,
he Clarence has to earn his wings. The scene cuts
to George joyously running through the streets after he realized
the value of his own life. Just watched A Wonderful
Life abridged edition with my mother, who didn't remember the
whole film. What an abomination, said one ex user. The
whole point of the story was for George to witness

(01:58:03):
life without him in it. Completely acting this part of
the plot renders the movie pointless. Just accidentally watched the
abridged version of A Wonderful Life, and honestly it shouldn't exist, Like,
what was the point of that? Said another, brace yourself
for the abridged version of It's a Wonderful Life, which
does away with the entire Pottersville how it would be

(01:58:26):
if he had never been born bit and cuts directly
to him being totally okay. Again, for no obvious reason,
this exists and is on Prime, so a lot of
people are really really furious. I did not see it,
and I must ask why it exists. I really don't know.
Actor Michael Warburton said it best quote, I kid you not.
But Amazon Prime are running a version of this movie

(01:58:47):
without this entire sequence. I'm sorry, with this entire sequence
removed completely edited out so as if to make it
less dark, blanking sacrilege, blanking streamers, and those blank words
began with F in case you are wondering, So, yeah,
is it an attempt to make it less dark? Because
it was talking about suicide and talking about you know,

(01:59:09):
those dark themes. Is that what they were trying to do.
Nobody really knows. Amazon hasn't explained, but they did cut
that out of the movie in a way.

Speaker 11 (01:59:16):
We go, all right, it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:18):
Is seven forty, so let's go back to the roadways
now and find out what's happening there.

Speaker 11 (01:59:23):
Jumping Joe Barnett.

Speaker 5 (01:59:25):
Well, there's an accent on the east side on the
sixth and east of northbound in market too left Lanenger
block with a rick and an accident. Still tying out things,
this one with a Hazmattsville Highway thirty six northbound of
Fort Benk County at Barrack Road. I'm Joe Barnett in
the classic viewing GMC Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:59:42):
I do believe we have one more forecast from Terry
Smith on the program. Terry, what does the weekend look
like for us?

Speaker 20 (01:59:49):
It's kind of what i'd call a half and half weekend.
Nice day today, nice comfortable temperatures too, load of mid seventies,
then a fast moving call front. It'll swing through with
sub marine tomorrow. Sixty percent chance of showers and storms
tomorrow and again that risk of severe weather. Temperatures tomorrow,
mid dumber seventies, and then the other sunny day is

(02:00:13):
on Sunday with highs in the load at mid seventies.
Now we're dry early next week, but getting cooler. We
get back to December by Tuesday, temperatures in the sixties Tuesday.

Speaker 11 (02:00:23):
All right, a.

Speaker 4 (02:00:23):
Little normalcy around here. Good stuff, Thank you, Terry. Have
a great weekend. Fifty six degrees right now at your
official severe weather stations Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 11 (02:00:32):
What you need to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (02:00:35):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 11 (02:00:41):
Okay, seven forty seven.

Speaker 4 (02:00:43):
So you know, at the end of the year, the
way things work the AP and you know, i'd give
you a PolitiFact and they're livey ar. Everybody looks back
at the year that was and does their tops and
bottoms and so on and so forth. Well, the Associated
Press in the sports world has decided to name their
athletes of and they announced that they're Athlete of the Year,
which is not controversial at all. Female athlete of the

(02:01:05):
Year anyway is WNBA star Caitlin Clark. The next runner up,
or the first runner up, if you will, is Simone Biles.
The US Olympic gymnast of course, and that's no problem either.
Those are two terrific choices for female Athletes of the year.
The third one maybe not so much. Algerian Olympic boxer

(02:01:27):
Imani Kileef or Kliph, however you say his name took
third place, four votes going to Califf for Female Athlete
of the Year. One problem, this is a male boxer.
The IBA disqualified Caliph fighting in the sixty six kilogram
division in a Taiwanese fighter named Lynn Yu Ting fighting

(02:01:49):
in the fifty seven kilogram division from fighting in women's
tournaments in March of twenty twenty three because they failed
tests to prove that they were women. And that's because
they're not. They're biological men. But they were allowed to
box in Paris at the Olympics and they won gold medals.
So the Associated Press said, that's good enough for you
to be Female Athlete of the Year. As you can imagine,

(02:02:12):
Riley Gaines, who has been one of the champions of
women's sports being left only to women, had some thoughts about.

Speaker 41 (02:02:19):
This, gradulating Kaitlin Clark a huge, huge achievement. Look, as
you said, this was a male boxer who was previously
barred from World Championships for failing a simple sex eligibility
requirement tests which the only requirement was to have two
X chromosomes. He failed that, and now his medical record,

(02:02:41):
even in further detail, has been leaked by a French journalist,
which might I add, the IOC had the entire time
they knew this when he stole a gold medal from
a deserving woman at the Games. It has showed us
that Khalif not only does he have X y chromosomes,
he has male levels of testosterone, no uterus testicle and
word for word, a micro penis. And so what the

(02:03:05):
Associated Press has done here they nominated and awarded. This
is the message I received. They nominated an awarded Khalif
because he is a male. His achievements aren't comparable with
the other athletes who are nominated, and even even ones
who weren't nominated. People for example, like like Sidney McLoughlin,
who broke her own world record at the Games for
the fifth time after a long injury break that kept

(02:03:27):
her off the track. And so the message I got
was that he was nominated because he is a male,
and because they want to punish women.

Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
For speaking out, And that's exactly it. Punishing women for
speaking out. People like Riley and so many others have
they tried to cancel every single step of the way,
people like Kim Russell, They've done everything they can to
punish them for daring to tell the truth, and that
is that women's sports deserve to be women's spaces. No
men should be able to compete, and no men should

(02:03:55):
be allowed into their private spaces, either where they change,
where they shower, where they dress, and so on and
so forth, and so yeah, I agree.

Speaker 11 (02:04:03):
The AP is woke.

Speaker 4 (02:04:04):
Is any of the other organizations, media organizations trying to say, uh, yep,
we are giving a nod to a man in a
woman's sport just because they dared to exclude him.

Speaker 11 (02:04:16):
Okay, seven fifty.

Speaker 4 (02:04:17):
One, let's do traff again, weather one more time, and
that means jumped in Joe Barnett on the job. Well,
they're still we're going to clear up this accident sixt
in north through the eastbound I'm sorry northbound head Market
three left lanes are block driving those slow going through
and an accident Highway thirty six northbound at Barrick Road.
This one abolving has Mettsville a right lane his block.

(02:04:38):
I'm Joe Barnett and the Generator Supercenter dot Com draffic Center.

Speaker 11 (02:04:42):
All right, thank you Joe.

Speaker 4 (02:04:44):
And what we're looking at today is some clouds this
morning and then a lot of sunshine this afternoon. High
of seventy six, fifty percent chance of rain overnight dropped
down to about sixty five tomorrow. Thunderstorms scattered, so not everywhere,
but high seventy seven on Sunday. It's going to clear
up mostly Sunday, with the highest seventy three, warming all

(02:05:06):
the way up to near eighty on Monday, and then
dropping right back down to about sixty four for a
high under mostly sunny skies on Tuesday. So that's what
we can tell you about the weekend. And right now
I can tell you it's fifty six degrees. It's your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. Now
we're going to get one more check of the headlines.

Speaker 6 (02:05:25):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Bob, brought to you by DNM
autoly Sing. Several tornadoes apparently touchdown in Houston without causing injuries.
Russia denies reports that its air defense system took down
a flight over Kazakhstan, killing more than three dozen people,
and at least sixty five million people watched the two
NFL Christmas Day games on Netflix. Get the latest news

(02:05:46):
anytime at KGRH dot com. Our next update is at
eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 (02:05:50):
A new year is always a news year. On Houston's information.

Speaker 1 (02:05:55):
Station, New Journey is something new. It's two day in
the New Year. Newsradioh Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:06:03):
So we are just about twenty four days away from
the new administration taking over. President Trump's second term as
president forty seven is about to begin.

Speaker 11 (02:06:15):
What's gonna do on day one?

Speaker 4 (02:06:17):
I started the show this morning with this story, and
I'm going to end today's show with this as well.
On day one, he's got fifty nine different agenda items,
at least according to what he promised, what the things
that he promised he would do.

Speaker 11 (02:06:30):
On day one, there are fifty nine items.

Speaker 4 (02:06:32):
Axios loving of course, trying to do this so that
they can keep track and then point to promises made
and promises kept or not kept and so forth.

Speaker 11 (02:06:40):
So all from one.

Speaker 4 (02:06:42):
Hundred and twenty two speeches, press conferences, and interviews between
January first of twenty twenty three and December sixth of
twenty twenty four. Now why they chose to go back
into twenty twenty three and not just in this election cycle,
I don't know, but it doesn't matter. Here's what President
Trump has said his agenda will include on day one,
Settle the Russia Ukraine war, close the border, cut federal

(02:07:07):
funding for schools to teach CRT critical race theory or
who have a vaccine mandate, Begin the largest deportation operation ever.
End the electric vehicle mandate, Increase drilling and fracking for oil.
Begin ending inflation and making life affordable. Terminate open border

(02:07:28):
policies of the Biden administration.

Speaker 11 (02:07:30):
Now some of these crossover.

Speaker 4 (02:07:31):
Obviously, close the border would be very similar to terminate
open border policies of Biden administration, Begin largest deportation operation,
and so forth.

Speaker 11 (02:07:40):
So some of these do crossover.

Speaker 4 (02:07:41):
But in some of them I think are absolutely at
the top of his agenda for January twentieth. I think
these are things he will sign executive orders on immediately.
But we continue end Bidenomics and start Maganomics. I don't
know how you do that one on day one, but
there it is. End the Green New Deal policies, and

(02:08:02):
birthright citizenship, which would be extraordinary if he is able
to pull that off. Whether it be on day one
or day you know, one thousand, I don't know, but
it would be amazing if he is able to do that.
That is one of the biggest draws for legal aliens
that they have here that come over here, get pregnant,
or come over here a while already pregnant, have a kid,
and say, oh, that's a child. That's an American citizen.
That child. You can't break us up. It's one of

(02:08:23):
the biggest scams in the entire game. Let's see begin
reducing energy costs by fifty percent. Ban trans women from
competing in women's sports. That's coincidental that we just did
the rite of Game story. A point of task force
to review cases of January six prisoners. That's very important.
Pardon January six prisoners. That's very important. Stop flights bringing

(02:08:47):
migrants into the United States. Roll back bio fuel regulations
in the military. Restore and expand the Trump travel ban,
roll back job killing auto regulations. Direct Secretary of Veterans'
Affairs to fire the sadistic VA employees. Ask for resignations
of those involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Bring competence

(02:09:09):
and common sense back to the Oval office, and turn
the country around. Those are just a mind that's a
very general one, obviously, but those are some of the
fifty nine stated goals for President Trump on day one.
It's twenty four days away. Everyone will be watching closely,
and I can tell you from my vanished point, I
expect him to deliver on a very very strong majority

(02:09:31):
of those as quickly as humanly possible. That is how
we're going to end it this morning on Houston's Morning News.
Thank you for letting me sit in for Jimmy all week.
I certainly appreciate that. Thank you to Cliff Saunders, thanks
to Brian, thanks to the entire team. Hope you have
a wonderful, glorious New Year's celebration, and we'll see you
next time right here on News Radio seven forty ktr H.