Thursday, July 11th, 2024

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/11/24

Episode Transcript

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Now the latest news, weather andtraffic. It's more of what matters to
you. From the John Morris Servicesstudios. Well, good morning, five
am is our time now here onHouston's Morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett along
with Sheriff Ryer Monger. Top stories. As we get started this morning,
we have a Harris County deputy ambushedand killed. One point one million still
without power, and at five aweight, when the going gets tough, we

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find an open restaurant. Details inthe minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning
News. First, just check outthat warning vibe. Sky Mike is here
as digital technology continues to fail us. All am radios here for you,
and we've got it. I've gotI forty five North. We're just seeing
some just a little slow down cominginto downtown. Not sure what's up.
Maybe we have a stall right atthe merge at the b Someone Bridge.

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So I've got a road debris onthe East Tex northbound at lower copy.
That's tire stuff over there. It'son the right side. Just don't let
it, don't run over that.Watch out for other people swerving at the
last minute. But this is outbound, not inbound. We're all good twenty
minutes from the from humbold and Skymiaelthe Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center
from our KTRH top tax defenders twentyfour hour weather's under for today. We're

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looking at partly clotty skies, fortypercent chances of seeing an afternoon shower storm
with the high temperature right about ninety. We'll get Terry Smith in here from
the Weather Channel. Get your completeforecast in about nine minutes. Right now,
it's seventy eight at your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty
KTRH. It is time now forthe news. Here's Sheriff Fryer. Good

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morning. Everyone is now five ohtwo on news Radio seven forty KTRH and
our top story this hour. Manhuntunderway. A Harris County deputy ambush killed
in the line of duty in northeastHarris County while we were sleeping. This
started as an assault on a pizzashop employee. The deputy found the car
that was involved with that assault talkingto detectives when he was attacked. Deputy

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apparently was ambushed. The other detectivesin the area went to his location and
at that time they saw his undercovervehicle with multiple gun strikes in it.
Deputy died at the hospital. Hewas twenty eight years old, A five
year veteran of the department. SWATteams set up at two locations. Believe

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they will have this suspected shooter incustody soon, think they haven't cornered.
Also tragically, a fourteen year oldwas shot and killed near Hobby Airport.
HPD says appears to be a targetedshooting there. Shooter got away on foot.
Also topping our news, I amso livid with Centerpoint Energy, one

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angry caller to k TRH yesterday.One point one million customers still without power
this morning. Centerpoint says another fourhundred thousand will be reconnected by tomorrow night,
three hundred and fifty thousand more bythe end of the weekend. But
there's another four hundred thousand customers ofCenterpoint that could be in the dark,

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without power in the heat into nextweek. We know that customers want to
understand the process. We know that'sstill frustrating that our priority is to get
the most people on the stonest finallycoming into the public. A Center Point
executive Jason Ryan with our TV partnerChannel two Internet access though should be under
fire, it is under fire.There are hundreds of thousands of AT and

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T and Exfinity customers still unable toget internet. AT and T telling KTRH
here's their statement quote. Service restorationlargely depends on the extent of the damage
incurred. DUH. Exfinity claims thirtysix percent of nine hundred and seventy five
thousand customers knocked offline have been restored. I'm not one of them. Still

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not being told what is the sourceor the cause of these widespread outages.
Is it the power failure or isit damage to their major equipment. AT
and T's making separ point look prettygood, aren't they. It would help
you, It would help you tobe to understand if they would just tell
you, well, this is whatwe're dealing with. I mean, I
don't get it. As for debrispickup, Mayor John Whitmyer's office says damage

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from the direct Joe in May isstill an issue. They spent thirty days
picking it up, and on Monday, July eighth, they were planning and
had scheduled to begin the second pathof pickup, but then we were at
that point dealing with the impacts ofHurricane Beryl. Yeah, that's Mary Bitten,
a Whitmyer advisor. Now Cruz areworking twenty four to seven, she

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says, to hauloff debris. ActingGovernor Dan Patrick, he came back.
He posted on social media the calllog of his conversations with the White House,
and it refutes Joe Biden's lie thatTexas was slow to ask for federal
aid. More school districts still closetoday entire list kturah dot com. It's
now five oh five. Donald Trumpsays, yeah, he'll do another debate

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with Joe Biden. Some believe,though, Trump has nothing to gain at
this point, but Fox's David Marcusdisagrees, all of us were so incredibly
distracted by the train wreck of JoeBiden setting his own campaign on fire that
we miss a lot of the bodyof the debate. Even if sleepy Joe
is able to get some PEP pollsor something, there's a lot of opportunity

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for Trump in a second debate.Yeah. He also not sure though,
that Biden will still be the nomineein September. Democrats reportedly are using celebrity
influencers Oprah and Taylor Swift to helpunify their party, but an op ed
in The New York Times attributed toactor George Clooney called for Biden to drop
out. Cloney's a close buddy ofBarack Obama's, and he was a star

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host of major Hollywood fundraising events.The Biden campaign is, meantime, spending
that money just as widely as hisgovernment does. The Biden campaign is spending
fifty million on TV ads this month, on top of the fifty million they
spent last month. Political analyst ElizabethJames says it's not going to help the
Trump size is going to counter someof whatever they're doing on the Democrat side.

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Bottom Line, voters understand what's reallyhappening here. People know that this
is something that's not going to improve. It's only going to get worse.
That plus the fact the policies arejust nuts. Although this is why Trump
is doing so well in the pollsCliff Saunders News Radio seven forty KTRH.
It's five o six. New YorkCongresswoman, AOC of the Squad, officially

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has filed articles of impeachment against USSupreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
She doesn't like their opinions. Youknow. She calls them unchecked corruption.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial ball Boardcalls these cries of a Supreme Court
turning Maga out of touch. Theyare looking at the original text and determining

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whether or not a statue or lawis constitutional or not, and so the
Democrats don't like that. The Democratswant a Constitution that's interpreted as a living,
breathing document that changes with their ideology. Former Harris County Republican Party Chairman
Jared Woodville, well, looking atour money, we'll get another temperature check
on our economy with the government's Juneinflation numbers. They'll be out this morning

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around seven thirty. Real estate expertspredicting some huge changes in the housing market.
Though with the uncertainty in the electionand at the Fed right now as
to the direction of interest rates andwhat's happening with inflation, a lot of
people are just sort of going tobe sitting on their hands and waiting to
see how this plays out over time. Walter Cliff Freeman says it's a seller's

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market because of supply shortages right nowand those strokes. They beat Miami nine
to one last night coverage tonight atsix once again Sportstock seven ninety, the
game time seven ten. You'll hearon seven ninety and here on KTRH,
I'm Sheriff Fryar and News Radio sevenforty KTRH, World Events, National Headlines,

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Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Verrett andSheriff Fryar. Time here in Houston's
Born News. One point one millionwithout power and they were all looking for
open restaurants yesterday. It was funto watch. I'm very close to the
Woodlands and the Woodlands got their powerback at about three four o'clock in the
morning yesterday. And there's a placewhere we frequent up there called the Republic

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Grill, and I love that place. We're there probably once a week.
And they put out a notification onFacebook will be open at two pm.
So I say to Elizabeth, wegot to get there right at two because
soon's people find out they're open,it's going to be everybody's going to go.
We got there at two oh oneand there was a line of people

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to get into that place could waitto you know, especially people who are
just south because the power was outjust south of the Woodlands where we live
and still not back today, bythe way, although I did some encouraging
news. I saw a lot morelights share on the way into I don't
know about you, but I sawa lot more lights on the way into
work today. Yeah. I wasgoing to put that out. Galleria.

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All these skyscrapers over here, they'reall lit. All the floors are lit.
So I thought, Okay, theygot most of the Galleria area back
in power again. Looks like,yeah, more nearly as many dark spots
on I forty five coming in todayas I've seen in the past. A
lot more lights on there. Yeah, I have more street lights working,
some of them. Yeah. It'ssporadic, right, it's not everyone,

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right, No, you know yousee these little pockets of darkness. But
it is progress. It's it's it'sit's tough to maintain the patience with all
the heat and the humidity and everythingelse, but we are making some progress.
Do you see They had a greatcrowded min made last night. Not
only were people going because the placeis air conditioned, but they were having
dollar dog night. What a greatcombination that was. That's perfect timing,

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air conditioning and dollar dogs. Heck, yeah, how much is a ticket?
I don't care how much a ticketis. I'll buy a ticket five
eleven. Time for traffic and weathertogether. Oh lord, what's going on,
sky Mike. We got some lightsaround Bush Airport, and of course
I noticed north of Rankin and Richie. They've still got a lot of vantages
there. So just hang in there, everybody. You will get a normal

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you know, your normal life backright shortly. Let's go to the north
side here. But now with thesepower outages comes all these lights out.
Let's see who is it telling me? Text says six hundred plus signal lights
are out around town and we knowto treat them like four way, but
some other stations listeners don't know,so watch out for them. And then
you have some people that are justgoing through them like, oh well there's

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no light, there's no law,So watch out for those people especially.
I'm showing a closure on forty fivethat's not there southbound between Tidwell and that's
actually about Little York down to thenorth Loop six y ten. That's most
likely Front Detroit. I'll double checkthat for what we've got for coverage here.
And let's see we've got East TextFreeway outbound cleared to stall right past

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the North Loop six ten. I'vegot kind of something doing on it East.
Looks like a slow down. That'sgot to be a stall right there
at the East Text Freeway. We'llget you some laneage at the five twenty
report if we can backups from Wacothough, that's real. That's inbound from
the Baytown side on it. I'mSkymike and the Generator super Center, dot
Com Traffic Center from r KTRH toptax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center.

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We have Terry Smith's standing by.No real relief yet from the heat,
Terry, So you know, forthose of us that still don't have a
power the other day, we're gonnahave to figure out how to stay cool.
That's right. Well, And thething is it's July. We're not
really going to see. If weget just typical July, that's the best
we can hope for. That's prettymuch what we've got. Though. The

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temperatures are just a little bit cooler, but it trust me, between no
electricity and the humidity, it doesn'tmatter that the temperatures are a little bit
cooler. Well, the rain isback, folks, and so we are
feeling the humidity and other heat advisorytoday in effect, mainly because we still
have so many people without power.We have a sixty percent chance of showers

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and thunderstorms today. The temperatures inthe upper eighties to low nineties, so
that's just slightly cooler than what wenormally would see, but the heat and
decks over one hundred. So ifyou're one of those folks without electricity,
hopefully can get to a cooling centeror someplace to cool off during the middle
part of the day. Fifty percentchances of more showers and storms Tomorrow,

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Saturday, thirty percent chance of verySunday and Monday, just sunshine. We're
going to see those temperatures basically stayin the upper eighties to low nineties through
the weekend. Right now seventy eightat your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty k TRH five twentyis our time here on Houston's borning news.
Interesting to me how everything's being reportedin other cities. We are national

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news. We are part of localnewscast all around the country. As you
can imagine, do you have TV? I don't have TV? About I
do have TV? Yes, Ido? And I also noticed how many
how many vice presidents to center Pointhave I That'd be a question I would
love to ask, because they allseem to be coming out of the woodwork
now and making appearances. One ofthem. They wouldn't until we started battering

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them yesterday. I mean, weonly had a few minutes to ask the
questions that no one will answer,and then boy Michael Barry took off.
Yeah. Then here we go,all of a sudden, geez, somebody
finally comes out of the woodword.Well, one of them, one of
the VP the heat on them tomake them talk. That's it. One
of the vps of this one forgovernmental Affairs showed up at Houston City Council

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and got interviewed. So we'll havemore on that story coming up next.
First, though, traffic and weathertogethers we check out the drive once again.
Here's sky Mike. Let's check yourfreeways now. Katie Freeway twenty six
minutes in from Grand park Way todowntown, Southwest Freeway, New Territory at
twenty nine minutes to eighty eight,twenty two minutes from Manville. I'm Skymike
from the Generators Supercenter dot Com TrafficCenter from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty

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four hour Weather Center Party Claude fortypercent chance of an afternoon storm today with
a high temperature right about ninety morningshowers isolated, afternoon thunderstorm chance about fifty
percent Tomorrow eighty seven. Partley Cloudie'sSaturday ninety with a fifty percent chance of
an afternoon shower storm Partley clotdee inninety three on Sunday, Right down seventy
eight at your official severe weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH.

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Time to check out some of ourtop stories on this Thursday morning. Here's
share. It is now five twentytwo on news Radio seven forty k TRH.
Our headlines are sponsored by Moro Mechanical. Herris County Deputy sheriff has been
shot and killed in the line ofduty. Looks like an ambush. More
than one point one million Center Pointcustomers still without power and hundreds of thousands

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still without Internet or cable. Businessbankruptcies jumped by thirty four percent in the
first half of this year. LatestNews anytime at KGRH dot com. Our
next update will be at the bottomof the hour five thirty. It's gonna
be a hot summer this war btest the trial our borders this election,
the hottest happenings happen right here.News Radio seven forty KTRH so one of

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the center point vps of regulatory affairs. His name is Brad Ttuncian. I
think I'm pronouncing that close to correct. Anyway, I hope I am.
This. By the way, seeof KPRC to our television partner. He
was in front of Houston City Councilyesterday. Mario Diaz had a chance to
talk to him outside of chambers.It's a little echoy, but if you
listen carefully here he is toting thecompany line. Well, what I could

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tell you that when you look atthe results that we've seen to get a
million customers on within forty eight hours, the planning and everything that we've done
appropriately has been working. We haveto ask and try to get the resources.
Typically what we do when you lookat from the industry perspective responding to
the storms, the storms are unpredictableand you don't know exactly what the extent

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of that damage is going to be. So traditionally utilities will ride out the
storm, assess the damage, andthen ask for crews for us to be
able to try to work and effectivelyefficiently as possible. We want to go
ahead and start requesting the crews thatwe need. And again keep in mind
that is, you know, withthe information that we have based on the

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store, initially thinking that it wasn'tgoing to hit us, then it was
going to partially hit us, wewere able to still secure the resources necessary.
So we were operating our operations plan, which is the limited information that
we had prior to the storm.As the storm was going we were recognizing
that we're being hit directly. We'reactually increasing the number of crews that we've

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had, and so we feel thatwe've done everything on our part to be
prepared. And I could say inmy twenty six years history working with Centerpoint
Energy to have staging sites mobile upand operating for thousands of crews. We're
talking about creating circus sized tents tohouse and feed crews by the hundreds.

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We're talking about tables, We're talkingabout chairs, we're talking about offices,
we're talking about staff resources to manageinventory. That inventory consisting of one hundreds
of fifty foot sixty foot poles onthe ground, all the transformers necessary they
need to be able to park andsecure their vehicles. We need to make
sure we got the porta potties outthere, all of those things that take

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place to have that up and runningwithin fourteen hours. I've just never seen
that before. And then again,you look at in twenty twenty one when
we had Hurricane Nicholas, there wereseven hundred thousand plus customers that were without
power. We were able to restorethem within five days. We did that
Yere within twenty four hours. Wecould not have done that before. We're

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not prepared. So I feel veryconfident with our preparation that we've done.
Unfortunately, this is a category hurricanethat we've experienced. It's done significant damage
to our facilities. We're going tohave to rebuild it, and that's going
to take time. All right.It's like going to war. The logistical

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aspect of it, you know,cruise and equipment, and we've never cornered
them on that. I mean,we've tried to ask about that and all
we get are these platitudes. Theproblem is always it needs to be done.
Come out and tell us what's goingon. The problem is the pr
approach that all of these companies useAT and T is doing it now.
You can't get anybody from AT andT to give you a comment, just

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how severe the damages and wear it? Oh, shut up, Just tell
us what's going on, tell uswhat the deal is, what happens,
so we can understand. By theway, if this won't make anybody feel
the least bit better around, noteven trying to, but somebody, I've
lived before I lived here, Ilived in Richmond, Virginia. Before I
lived there, I lived in Detroit, Michigan. I have dealt with similar
situations in all three cities, andthey all do it the same way,

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and the reaction is always the same. Where's my power? But they all
do it the same way. Theyall are reactionary do these things. They
don't, you know, they're not. They don't get out in front of
the story. And that's, asyou just said, that's where the problem
is. You know, in frontof the story. Tell people exactly what's
going on, tell them what's goingon so they can make arrangements to deal
with it the way they need todeal with it in their own families.

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You know, if it's going tobe a week, we'll tell us it's
going to be a week. That'sthe thing that supposedly they're working on for
to to give you specific information aboutwhen you will get your power back.
I mean, you've got kids athome, You've got to worry about food
on How long do you can youkeep things in ice chest? Should you
make other arrangements? You know,people need to know this stuff real they

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do. Five twenty seven. Timeto take a look at your money,
Courtney, Donaho's here. Well,good morning, Jimmy. Let me give
you some numbers on the outages.More than one point one million Center Point
customers still without electricity as of thismorning. Governor Abbott telling Bloomberg that the
outages are a horrible issue for Texansand he will direct the state's Public Utility
Commission to study why the blackouts havehappened repeatedly. In Houston. Taking look

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at stock Indeck's futures there, lowerdown futures down sixty points. I'm courtneyd
On a Hope Bloomberg Business on NewsRadio seven forty k t RH Houston's News,
Why They're traffic plus Breaking News twentyfour seventh. This is News Radio
seven forty KTRH Trial Everywhere Point theIRP. More of what's happening now from

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the John Morris Services Studios Fine thirtyone hour time Houston's Boning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryar Bunger. Top stories this half hour, two
shootings, one involving a Harris Countydeputy. The internet steals poradic at best
and coming up at five thirty eight. It's winter time in Australia. Guess
what they have extreme cold details inthe minutes they head you're in Houston's Bonning

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News. First, we're gonna checkout that Borning Drive again. Here's sky
Mike. Remember you can reach meon social media on the threads, not
Messenger, go to Twitter or Facebookand I'm easy to send information to.
We've got East Freeway inbound to downtownfrom Waco. I'm backed up. That's
an accident right at the merge asyou're trying to get onto your East Tech
elevated southbound. Kind of a stickyspot too. At least we've got some

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lightage there. Southwest Freeway. I'vegot a few closure scattered ones between the
Belt and the Loop, but that'sall on the feeder. Mainlanes are actually
okay. We're twenty one minutes fromthe fountains up Skymichael the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center, tull themare KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour
Weather Center part of the coutee todayforty percent chance for an afternoon form of
the high temperature right about ninety We'llget you the complete forecast from Terry Smith

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that the Weather Channel will do thatin eight minutes. Right now, it
is seventy eight of your official severeweather station. News Radio seven forty k
TRH. It's time down for thenews. Here's Sheriff Fryer. Morning everyone.
It's now five thirty two on newsradio seven to forty KTRH. Our
top story this hour. Undercover HarrisCounty deputy has been shot and killed in

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the line of duty overnight in northeastHarris County. The shooter on the run.
SWAT team set up in two locations. So began with a pizza shop
employee calling in an assault. Thatdeputy discovered the vehicle connected to the crime
was ambush. That deputy had beenon the job for five years, just
twenty eight years of age. Moreviolence to a fourteen year old shot and

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killed overnight at an apartment complex nearHobby Airport. HPD says this was a
hit due to the fact that thesuspect shot several times from the outside window
of an apartment unit into a bedroom, striking the victim more than once.
That shooters still on the loose,also topping our news. Of course,

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their communications could be better, transparencyand communications. We're going to hold them
accountable. We demand that they dobetter. A frustrated Houston Mayor John Whitmyre
center Point still has one point onemillion plus customers in the dark right now.
More importantly, in the heat,some four hundred thousand of those could
still be without power next week.Center Point begging for patients. We understand

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it's frustrating. It's just as frustratingfor us because we want to get an
idea exactly what we need. Butuntil we have all that information, it's
really hard for us to just saycenter Point VP brad to Tungent with our
TV partner channel too. The powerissues bad here, even worse in our
coastal counties. They have a lotof polls that they need to replace in

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that area. So the closer tothe coast, of course, the heavier
the damage and the more flooding therewas. Matta Gorda County Judge Bobby Seiferman.
He says it's going to take twoweeks at least to get the power
back in places like that small townof Sergeant Now. Expendity claims they've restored
internet service to thirty six percent ofthe nearly one million customers who lost it

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during Beryl and still are without.That leaves more than six hundred thousand with
issues. There are still mass outagesfor AT and T customers too. All
beach access points west of the Galvezand Seawall are now closed until further notice.
School districts remaining closed today Conro Sciphair, Fort BENDIASDS, and entire list
at KTRH dot com. In spitethough of our current lack of power,

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we've got to warn AI is growingand so is its big drain of power
in order to run it and share. The bottom line is renewable energy is
not going to cut it. Anda lot of people don't realize is that
your phone uses as much electricity ina typical week as your refrigerator does,

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and when we go to AI,you can multiply that by one hundred.
That's Chuck DeVore with the Texas PublicPolicy Foundation, who says, we need
to move on from going green toplan B here in the US. What
that means is we need to startbuilding nuclear power plants because that's the only
thing that could really feed this requirement. Just what are already stressed Texas Power

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Grid doesn't need. Jeff Biggs NewsRadio seven forty KTRH it's now five thirty
five. The head of the RepublicanConvention next week, Nikki Haley has officially
released all of her delegates to DonaldTrump. There was a lot of bad
blood there as she stayed too long. She was being soundly defeated at every
place, but she just wouldn't leaveTrump. On with Fox's Brian Killmead.

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By the way, Nikki Haley revealedthat she has not been invited to attend
the convention, and speak says thatshe's okay with that. Oddsmakers don't think
Joe Biden will stay in the race. As of June twenty seventh, the
traders on polymarket had his chances ofdropping out at twenty five percent. It's
now up to seventy five percent.US House passed the Save Act. It's

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safeguard American voter eligibility that ensures itonly American citizens vote in federal elections citizens.
The bill pushed by Speaker Mike Johnsonand Texas Chip Roy. It passed
to twenty one to one ninety eightyes. At one ninety eight, a
preponderance of Democrats who voted against keepingillegal aliens from voting. Speaker Johnson claims

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he joins the Clay Travis and BuckSection show this morning this afternoon twelve thirty
here on KTRH Get It Straight Friartwelve thirty This afternoon. Texas Tribune claims
that Governor Abbott's plan for a borderwall would cost this state twenty billion dollars
and would take thirty years to build. They based that on building along all

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twelve hundred miles, which was neverthe plan. It's not so much how
much wall is being built. That'swhere it's being built. The governor is
deploying sections of walls in strategic areas. Bob Price of Bridebart says there's natural
barriers that don't require a wall,and Texas won't need to build it.
If Trump wins in November, hewill immediately start building the walls again like

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he was doing before, and Texastaxpayer won't have to be fitting the bill.
For the federal government's responsibility, Hesays, liberal narratives like this hurt
our security. Andre Perard, NewsRadio seven forty KGRH. Yeah, it
goes hand in hand the lawlessness ofan open border. In violent crime on
the rise here, Donald Trump repeatedlypoints out Venezuela and El Salvador seeing a

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record low in their crime numbers.Now, criminals hard won't come to the
Greatest days on Earth is where targetrich environment. They're hitting jewelry stars.
They're hitting these markets because they don'thave that target rich environment in their home
countries. For Acting ICE Director TomHoman, he says, we better start
vetting those who were crossing are inthe case of Venezuela, through Biden's refugee

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app Astros beat the Marlins nine toone. Pregame to Night six on Sports
Talk seven to ninety. First pitchseven ten and you will hear that on
seven ninety and KTRH. I'm ShepperdFryar on news Radio seven forty KTRHA.
Listen to News Radio seven forty KTRHon the free iHeartRadio app. It's all

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your news, music, sports,podcasts, and talk free never sounded so
good that wait, here's another chancefor me to, you know, get
my little spin on how the weatherworks across the planet. That when it's
really really hot in the summertime inthe place like Houston, Texas, it's
really really cold somewhere in the southernhemisphere where it's winter, and it's cold

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in Australia right now, except youknow, I think there's prone to climate
change reporting as anybody, and they'recalling it extreme weather. We have freezing
cold from Antarctica that we'll see Aussieshivering through a frosty weekend with a polar
blast to bring icy winds and frigidtemperatures. Wow, how bad must that

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be? What's the average temperature goingto be during this unbelievable cold snap?
Are you ready? Are you sittingdown shriff eighteen degrees celsius? You know
what they're transfers to sixty four degreesfahrenheit. That's what's freaking them out.

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Sixty four degrees that's icy cold.I don't think these people they need to
spend a winter in Wisconsin and figureout what icy cold is, because that
ain't icy cold. In my book, five point forty Time for Traffic and
weather together all that winter in Wisconsin. You want, No, I don't
need any of that, Jeff.You send me some brats and some you

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know, some cheese, you know, cheese curls. I'll be fine.
Yeah, we're looking at you know. The one bad thing about this hot
weather is you know, by thetime winter gets back here, it's gonna
hit us. You know, we'regonna be like, whoa man, we're
freezing around here. I ten eastinbound. I've got a wreck here,
three lanes, and I hope everybody'sokay. This is a right lane.
We're packed up from Waco, andI see this big smush. Try to

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get that shot right there on theinbound. If you're coming from the baytown
side, should you stay or shouldyou go? Let's take the east text.
Let's take the loop around and dothe east text instead, especially if
your hazardous there, Terry. We'vegot Gold Freeway looking good so far.
Clear leg up. If you ifyou work at NASA and you're leaving downtown
the other way, that's nineteen minuteseasy to go to eighty eight. So

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far, we're we're not smushed uparound Highway six as we get normally this
time of the morning, still alittle lighter than usual on most of our
freeways and checking out the North Freewayso far, Conro, I'm not seeing
any problems in Skymichael the Generator Supercenterdot com Traffic Center from our katr H
Generator super Center twenty four hour WeatherCenter, Terry Smith joins us. Hopefully
whatever shower activity or thunderstorm activity weget here for the next few days,

(30:07):
Terry won't last for long because we'vegot about eleven thousand crew members trying to
bring our power back and it surewe'd be nice for them not to have
to stop what they're doing to dodgea storm. Absolutely, and the good
thing is our morning hours will tendto be quiet, so hopefully they're able
to get a lot of work done. And then the showers and thunderstorms are
more scattered in nature, more aresult of the afternoon heating, so they'll

(30:30):
pop up and die back down,so hopefully those crews aren't able to get
the work done well. We dohave some rain through the weekend, and
we also have the heat advisory againtoday just because of our typical July temperatures
and typical Houston humidity. Let's see, it's a sixty percent chance of those
showers and thunderstorms today, a fiftypercent chance of those thunderstorms tomorrow and Saturday,

(30:55):
than a thirty percent chance of rainon Sunday. Temperatures the rest of
them this week in the upper eightiesto low nineties. But your heat in
decks one hundred to one oh six, so it's warm, it's muggy.
Fortunately, it's just typical July,but unfortunately without electricity for some folks.
Right down seventy eight at your officialsevere weather station, news radio seven forty

(31:17):
k t RH five fifties. Ourtime here in Houston's morning is I think
you're asking yesterday's Shiah of Loud.I wonder what's what's going on with,
you know, with the disabled andthe elderly and the people in nursing homes,
and you know, do they havebackup generators in these assisted living facilities
or are they part of the prioritylist? Is Center Point Restorest? Hopefully
they're part of the priority list,because as it turns out, many of

(31:40):
them do not have generators, orif they do have generators, sore just
there to operate an elevator. Forexample, if it's I it's a high
rise situation. Fox twenty six herein Houston did a report on that.
We'll share some audio with you comingup next. First, though, at
five fifty, let's do a littletraffic and weather together. We're checking out
the drive once again. Here isthe sky mine all right, well,
just west of the Beltway of thewest of the East Belt. That's police

(32:01):
activity. I would expect some laneclosures. Looks like they've still closed it
off between Beltway eight and about somespots between ce King Parkway. Police activity
of course from that deputy shooting fromlast night, so let's avoid that spot
obviously. Lord Freeway. Still someclosures reported in the feeder road. I
don't see any major problems on themainlanes related to this though. We look

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good so far on the mainlanes Woodlandsand of course they reopened it completely that
closure we had from the loop fortwenty three minutes down. We'll check ship
channel bridges at six o'clock during thenews Skymike at your Generator Supercenter dot Com
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center partly Cloudie
sixty percent chance of an afternoon stormtoday right about ninety tomorrow on Saturday Party

(32:47):
Clottie fifty percent, stand a chanceof an afternoon shower storm and then partly
cloudy with a slight chance of ashower storm on Sunday. I am ninety
three Right now, temperature is seventyeight. If your officials severe weather station
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Timeto get you caught up on our top
Thursday morning stories. Here's shery fivefifty one now on news Radio seven forty

(33:09):
ktrh. These headlines sponsored by dnm Audo Leasing Centerpoint promising to return power
to another four hundred thousand customers bytomorrow night. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxon
told newsbacks at Texas House Committee onceagain trying to impeach him before some of
them are having to leave office.Florida Governor Ron Desanta is originally not a

(33:32):
scheduled speaker at the RNC next week, is now on the schedule, according
to NBC News Latest News anytime atKGRH dot com. Our next update will
be at the top of the hour. I live in Pasadena Sharptown Southwest.
Next on the ten time saving trafficon seven forty KTRH. Fox twenty six

(33:52):
yeers report yesterday about some of theelderly and disabled here in the city of
Houston who are having a difficult timecoping with the heat and the humidity,
who don't really have access to airconditioning, and in some cases didn't even
have access to an elevator. That'sreally really hard. I mean, we've
got a couple of people that aresitting in there right now that are like

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on their deathbed. He's been verytough. It's been very tough because in
this building there is a lot ofolder people to be freepless days now,
lifeless elevators, dark rooms and hallways, and there's people here in their eighties,

(34:35):
even in their nineties, and youknow that just they can't take this
heat at all. Make it hardfor the many elderly and disabled tenants at
the eighteen story Timber Top Condominiums.What can we do? There's nothing we
can do. So these condominiums dohave a backup generator that usually works one
of these elevators, but unfortunately todayit went out. The landlord is all

(34:58):
over it. He's actually up fixingit right now as we speak. But
during that short time, it givesresidents no choice but to use the stairs,
I lead, I guess why notand came down and lets you have
walked up and down eight floors.Tenants say the owner has done a great

(35:19):
job of providing food and help,but their energy provider, on the other
hands, you can't get any informationon when your electricity is going to come
back on. You got and ina place like this one minutes matter.
When my manager I's tried to reachthem, But first we're what door Wednesday
and then yesterday with door Friday.First they said Wednesday, Now they're saying

(35:44):
Friday. Is it just hot?How are you holding up? It is
very hot, very hard letting theunits right now. He's eighty four eighty
five. We're wanting our electricity backjust as bad as everybody else. I'm
hoping that we have powers soon.But they are doing their best. We

(36:05):
all want to go back to ourlives, do we do. We all
want to go back to our lives. But you have to feel particularly sorry
for the elderly who are suffering throughsomething like this, and they're having the
same problem that we've all had upuntil now, which is to get you
know, some definitive information. Youknow, people just want to just tell
me when my power is coming back. If it's Saturday, tell me Saturday

(36:27):
again. Because look, we're grownups. Yeah, we can make alternate
plans exactly exactly, because if it'snot gonna be till Sunday, you know,
I'll fight a hotel somewhere right whereI can at least get a couple
of days relief and get a decentnight's leave and get the dogs some relief.
But you know, without that specificeffort, supposedly today, it should
have been from day one, butsupposedly today they are going to start giving

(36:50):
out specific information to customers about whenwhen they're going to get the power regeneration
map link that we were told yesterdaywas be up, and it was I
mean, it was just terrible.Yeah, they pledged that they would get
that restoration map map up. Yeah. I would have to say, have
every of every utility I've ever dealtwith, they all have the same basic

(37:14):
problem, which is they are reallypissed poor communicators. They do not communicate
to the public well at all.It's like they're afraid to say something.
You know, It's like, uh, if it's not I don't want to
tell them it's going to be Sunday. If it's you know, because they'll
be at our door with pitchforks.Like you said, we're big boys and
girls. Give us the truth.Well, I kind of notice from AT

(37:36):
and T that they're raising my rates. I know I got yesterday. Congratulations,
you're raising my monthly raid. Yeah, congratulations. This is on my
cell phone AT and T I haveit. I have no Internet. I

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don't have internet through AT and T. I have it through Extra. Oh
you know, I speak for expendite. I love expendit. But my cell
phone. Yeah, AT and Tthey're raising my race. I'm having to
use my cell phone for everything rightnow, right now. Sure there's an
executive over there at center points goingyeah eight and c way to help us
out. It's five fifty seven.He's my race at five fifty seven.

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Now the latest news, weather andtraffic. It's more of what matters to
you. From the John Morris ServicesStudios. It's six am now here in
Houston's morning News. I'm Timmy Barrett, a long with Sheriff Ryer Amonger top
stores. This app our Harris Countydeputy has been ambushed and killed. One
point one million still without power andcoming up at six oh eight. You
know it's hard to take a refreshingdip in the ocean when the temperature's ninety

(38:44):
one degrees. Details in the minutesahead. You're in Houston's Morning News.
First, let's check out that morningdrive again, sky Mike's here Main lanes
IT and east coming into downtown rightat sixty nine. That's three lines blocked
here this wreck. We've got afull emergency response. Now that's a backup
from LOCKW Would you lose about fiveor six minutes this way and stay the
course? No, let's go.Let's do six' ten instead, north

(39:06):
or south. I am a littleloopy on six' ten northwestbound forty five
right at the squeeze, some breaks, but if the north loop is your
thing, stay the course. I'msky Mike. It's the Generator Supercenter dot
com traffic center from our KTRH toptax defenders twenty four hour weather Center.
Partly clouding about a sixty percent chanceof an afternoon storm today with high temperature
right about ninety We'll get you thecomplete forecast from Terry Smith at the Weather

(39:29):
Channel in nine minutes right now,temperature seventy eight. At your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven fortyKTRH. It is time now for the
news. Here's Sheriff Fryer. Morning. Everyone is now six oh two on
news radio seven forty ktrh's news issponsored by All Star Construction and our top
story this hour, we've lost oneof our deputies in line of duty.

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Tonight. There is a man huntunderway. A Harris County deputy was killed
in the line of duty, ambushedin northeast Harris County after or an assault
at a Little Caesar's Piece of shop. The deputy found the vehicle connected to
the pistol whipping case was ambushed whiletalking to another detective. We have two
locations that we have SWAT team setup on right now. We believe we

(40:17):
have a good idea who the suspectis. Ficials believe they know the alleged
shooter and we'll have that person incustody soon. They believe they know the
shooter. The deputy, at twentyeight year old, was on the force
for five years, part of anelite task force. Also topping our news,
more than one point one million customerswith no electricity this morning in Centerpoint,

(40:39):
hoping to have four hundred thousand ofthem reconnected by tomorrow night, three
hundred and fifty thousand more by theend of the weekend, but another four
hundred thousand could be without power intonext week. It's going to frustrate Houstonians
even more than they are right now. I just can't believe that that they
didn't have people in anything that's comingtoward the Gulf Coast, especially through Houston.

(41:04):
They should have people ready. Thatcaller with Michael Barry on KTRH.
Now, internet service providers under alot of heat too. AT and T
will not put a number as tohow many customers are still affected by their
outages, only telling KTRH is dueto the power issues. Exfinity claims that
they restored service to thirty six percentwho were knocked offline, but it means

(41:27):
more than six hundred thousand still haveno Internet. Residents angry over debris that's
not being picked up Shara after theJoe tth we are working with the contractors
and with also city employees. Theyare going to be out seven days a
week on their respective route to provideresidents with that additional notice and picking up

(41:49):
of their debris. Mary Benton,who's a senior advisor to Mayor Whittmyer says
leftover debris from the main storm isstill slowing down today's cleanup effort. Acting
Governor Dan Patrick he posted proof tosocial media that President Joe Biden was lying.
The call log shows that state officialshad no delay in asking the federal

(42:10):
government for aid and going directly tothe President the White House he lied is
six o four. President Biden andthe Democrats trying to recover from the June
debate disaster. Will the September debateactually take place? Shara after the Joe
Tko in the ATHL, we knowwhere Trump stands. Let's do another debate

(42:32):
this week so that sleepy Joe Bidencan prove to everyone all over the world
that he has what it takes tobe president. But some wonder should Trump
even bother with another debate. Trumphas handled all of this incredibly well.
He sees the Democrats are imploding,and he's just sort of like letting it
happen. Stick to the debate,stick to what you're doing. That's Fox

(42:55):
News columnist David Marcus. A seconddebate is scheduled for September tenth. The
site is TBD. Jeff Biggs NewsRadio seven forty k tier H six oh
five. Now New York Democrat AOCleftists from the Squad has filed articles of
impeachment against US Supreme Court Justices ClarenceThomas and Samuel Alito. And this is

(43:21):
after they joined in the Trump immunityruling last week. Left has been crying
for years now that the High Courtis too maga. Former chairman of the
Harris County Republican Party Jared Woodfold saysthe Supreme Court is not Maga dominated and
is simply interpreting the Constitution. Haswritten what the Supreme Court is doing as

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we've got a majority of textualists,originalists, folks who are looking at the
Constitution interpreted and with respect to itsoriginal intent. The Wall Street Journal's editorial
board said, Democrats cries of therebeing a maga Supreme Court are way off
base. Focus on the language foundin the Constitution and that's how we're going
to rule. And Democrats don't likethat. The High Court is made up

(44:05):
of six conservative justices nominated by Republicanpresidents. Jared Lewis News Radio seven forty
KRH. It's now six oh six. The government releases June inflation numbers at
seven point thirty this morning. Therewas a bad jobs report last week.
We'll see. Beware the shopping appTemu. Have you seen that that it's
a Chinese communist party and they're usingit. They offer really good look and

(44:29):
clothes Jimmy online, but they're usingit to hack your phone. Has complete
access to their phones, everything fromyour microphone, your camera, even the
files on your phone. And theyalso can insert malware. Okay, so
the government probably needs to start investigatingTMU, not TikTok. Analyst David Dunmore.

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That was his opinion. It's nowsix oh seven. The Astros beat
the Marlins nine to one. They'retwo games back in the American League West.
Pregame tonight six on Sports Talk sevenninety game Time sevent ten, both
on seven ninety and here on KTRH. I'm Sheriff Ryer on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station News Radio sevenforty KTRH. I live in the heights.

(45:13):
I live in Spring Kingwood. Nexton the ten You're Faster commute on
seven forty KTRH. You know,for those who do not have their air
conditioner going, do not have theirpower back, I'm among those of you
who do not have your power backyet. I don't know when it's going
to be. They're saying several closest. I've gotten to definitive informations several more
days whatever their definition of several lists, So I don't know when that's going

(45:36):
to be. I'd head down tothe beach, but there's no power at
TI right now. Treasure Island,where the beach house is, there's no
power there. Only residents can getin. At least as of yesterday,
only residents can get in, Soit may not be a whole lot better
to head in that direction. Andeven if you get there, I just
want to get in the water,JB. I don't want to get in

(45:57):
there and get a refreshing dip.It's eighty eight degrees. Well that's typical,
I think, yeah, I meanthat's that's somewhat refreshing. Like eighty
six I think is what average.Yeah, it's a little it's a little
warm, but not nearly as warmas it is in Florida right now.
Here are the current water temperatures aroundFlorida. Fort Myers ninety point seven degrees,

(46:20):
Clearwater Beach eighty nine point eight.We're talking on the Gulf Coast.
Uh huh, Florida Jacksonville University eightynine point six, Saint Augustine. Oh,
they go to Saint Augustine eighty fourpoint two and Long Sound ninety point
nine degrees. So there's a lotof ninety degree plus temperatures. You know
why that's bad news. Warm waterbuilds hurricanes of course, plus do you

(46:43):
have it? Yeah, plus atsome point it's probably not great for the
sea life either. They probably don't. They probably don't like get cooked.
We have that a lot. Yeah, oh yeah, to get those algae
blooms and that kind of stuff goingon. Yeah. Yeah, So there's
not a lot of relief even ifyou get around the water. There's not
a lot of relief right now fromthe hot temperatures. It is six to
ten times four traffic and weather together. What's again, I remember mcgivert.

(47:04):
What do you do you have likea rubber band and some oh yeah,
yes, razy glue or something youwant to build something. Well that's what
we call ethan No. Yeah,mcgivers this macguiver because he came in and
fixed Jimmy's microphone, you know,and he's our young person too, so
he could teach me how to usemy phone and computers. So digital technology
continues to fail. Of course,a m radio works, just saying but

(47:25):
I have managed to put some ducttape and some baling wire together, and
I've got some tip line for you. So so it's open basically seven pine
three two one two T I PS. I found a way to use
this. Roger, Magnolia Rock goodmorning. Got Mike three from fourteen all
the way past nineteen sixty is ohwell, all right? Extra points my

(47:50):
first banana sticker this morning. Rogerfrom Magnolia Plus extra points verbage. I've
got I ten in bound. We'retrying to figure out why we've got three
lanes blocked here. This is afuller emergency response. Hopefully everybody's okay.
The backup continues to be Lockwood inboundeither way. Let's take six to ten.
I know north six ten. We'vegot that little skunch down at forty
five. That's westbound, just twolanes. But go ahead and stay the

(48:13):
course if the north loop is yournormal thing. Highway six still all kinds
of power issues, which means thelight suckage both ways from two ninety to
fifty nine Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dotCom Traffic Center, you're running any more
problems. I've got Gorilla Glula anda Louisville slugger. And here the Chickabarrow
kittrh top tax Devenders twenty four hourWeather Center. Here's Terry Smith. No

(48:37):
problems with the radar. She's notseeing anything, at least not yet.
But maybe this afternoon. Yeah,later this afternoon and really the next several
days. I'm seeing some showers showingup right near the coast. There may
be a few sprinkles there, butthe rain really isn't going to make its
way inland until we get the heatingof the day to kick in, and
that obviously will be later today.Sixty percent chance is hours and storms today.

(49:00):
A fifty percent chance of more thunderstormsTomorrow and Saturday, not as much
rain Sunday, a thirty percent chanceof getting wet. Temperatures the rest of
this week operates to low nineties,and then as the rain tapers off Sunday
and Monday, we'll start to heatup load to mid nineties. And for
folks who are looking for places tocool off, I hear a lot of

(49:22):
the libraries are a good place togo and some of the YMCAs as well
are open for people who don't haveelectricity to come in just chill out for
a little bit. Jump at youright now is seventy nine at your official
severe weather station, News Radio sevenforty KTRH News, Traffic and weather.
You're starting your day right with Houston'sMorning News, brought to you byen New

(49:45):
South Windows Solutions six twenty now hereon Houston's Borning News. Starting our attention
with the Way briefly from from Beryland Barrel Recovery, Bob Price from Brightbart's
going to enjoy us here in acouple of minutes. This is a very
Texas centric story as well, GovernorGreg Abbot's border wall building it at about
half a mile a week, andat that rate it would take about thirty
years and twenty billion dollars to buildit. Course, if the federal government

(50:07):
changes, if we get Trump backinto the White House, that won't be
a Texas problem anymore. It'll returnto the way it should be a federal
problem. But we'll talk a Bobabout that next. First, let's do
traffic and weather together as we checkout the drive once again with sky Mine
pitching from the stretch. Jimmy,it's I inbound at downtown I sixty nine.
That is a semi involved he's underthese overpasses, so he's a little

(50:28):
tough to see, but I knowhe's blocking three lanes here inbound East Freeway.
Let's jump on the loop. TheSouth Loop is your best alternate.
West Sam northbound Bisonett lookout. That'sa WRECA left lane and feels like this
is not going to be there.That long watch out from the Southwest Freeway
northbound. I'm Skymike. This isyour Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from
r KTRH top tax defenders, twentyfour hour Weather center Today partly cloude sixty

(50:51):
percent chance of an afternoon storm rightabout ninety today Tomorrow on Saturday, partly
cloude fifty percent chance of a showerstorm. Temperature to ninety degrees right now
it is seventy nine at your officialsSevere weather Station. News Radio seven forty
KTRH. Let's get you caught upon some of our top trending Thursday morning
stories here Sharon. It is nowsix twenty two on news Radio seven forty

(51:15):
k TRH. Our headlines are sponsoredby DNM Auto Leasing. Manhunt continuing after
a Harris County deputy was ambush fatallyshot in the line of duty last night.
Still no electricity for more than onepoint one million Center Point customers,
and Joe Biden has now agreed todo an interview with NBC News Latest News

(51:37):
anytime KTRH dot com. Our nextupdate will be at the bottom of the
hour from the Sugarland area, JaviAirport area. Your reliable forecast next on
the ten on seven forty KTRH.Keeping his ears tuned. His name is
Bob Price from Bright Bart He's keepinghis eye on what's going on with the
Texas border wall. Bob, Welcomeback to News radio seven forty KTRH.

(51:59):
How much of the Texas border wallhas been built up till now, Well,
you know, the governor is movingvery quickly on building as many miles
of the border as needed in specificareas. You know, the Texas Tribune
came out with this piece over theweekend or the earlier this week talking about
that it's going to take thirty yearsto build the wall on the entire southern

(52:21):
border of Texas. Well, thatwas never the premise that you know,
that's just their liberal spin on this. The governor is building tactical wall in
positions where it's needed to stop theflow of crossings in specific areas. Right
now that the Texas crossings have droppedsignificantly thanks to the actions of the governor,
and so it's not as high apriority today as it was a year

(52:44):
ago. Yeah, and you know, we're facing a presidential election. So
do you have any doubt if DonaldTrump is alleged to the presidency that that
wall, the federal wall, willgo up to suite Well, let me
break that into two part share.First, I don't have any doubt that
President Trump is going to be thenext president of the United States. You

(53:06):
know, it's very clear to theAmerican people that Joe Biden is not mentally
physically fit to be the president ofthe United States for another four years.
Lucky if he's going to make itthrough the end of this term, and
when Trump becomes the next president ofthe United States, he will again start
building the wall and take that responsibilityoff of the backs of Texas taxpayers.

(53:29):
Do you think though that, becauseobviously it spent a long time in court
last time out, that whole projectgot delayed so much. That's why he
didn't get completed in the first termof his office. Do you think there's
a plan a foot, hopefully tobe able to get back to building that
ball and find a way to circevent all of these lawsuits that seem to
pop up in the left. Well, President Trump built seven hundred and forty

(53:50):
miles while he was in office duringhis first term. He found a way
to work around it. He wouldhave liked to have gotten a lot more
done. The courts slowed that processdown. The Democrats in Congress slowed that
down, and now we can seewhy. Yesterday, the Save Act passed
the House of Representatives to require thatyou be a US citizen to vote in

(54:12):
federal elections. That seems like itwould be a no brainer, but you
look at one hundred and ninety eightDemocrats voted against that voted against making sure
that only US citizens get to votein the races. Now, there's not
much doubt that it will pass inthe Senate. Very likely that it won't
pass in the Senate. But ifit does, President Biden has already announced

(54:35):
that he will veto it. Sothis tells you why they've been doing this
all along, Why they've allowed millionsand millions and millions of migrants to come
into this country illegally. Is becausethey're planning on giving them the right to
vote in American elections. Yeah.And it's not just the right to vote,
it's getting their names on the voterrolls so then they can take control

(54:58):
of the ballots. Oh absolutely,I mean that's how it works that these
illegal aliens don't show up to vote. A lot of them don't even speak
English. I mean, this isjust get their names on the roles when
they go to collect their welfare afterthey cross illegally, and then you've got
the voter rolls and you can haveanybody you want vote their ballots. Well.
Sure, the cost of the Americantaxpayer of Biden's folly, his intentional

(55:22):
acts of opening the border allowing thisto come in is affected Americans now all
across the country, and his party'sgoing to pair the price for it in
November. When you look at thecost of housing for low income housing,
not just the cost okay, availabilityof lowing come housing has just been taken
up by all of these people allacross the country. Wages are being suppressed,

(55:46):
cost of food is going up,all these other inflationary things that happen
when you have much more demand onthe supply side and not the increases to
keep up with it. Yep,good to hear from you. Was always
Bob appreciate you. Just remember that, anybody who's listening, you've got to
vote against the Democrats all the waydown ballot. That's Bob Price from Breitbart

(56:07):
six twenty seven. Time to takea look at your bunny. Corney Donaho's
here. Good morning, Jimmy.Governor abbitts telling Bloomberg he's instructing the Public
Utility Commission to conduct a study aboutwhy electricity disruptions are repeatedly happening in Houston.
Meantime, Hurricane Barrel is casting asharp spotlight on the economic repercussions at
accompany major storms. According to Moody'sratings, more than a third of Texas's

(56:30):
gross domestic product is at high riskfrom hurricane damage like strong winds and severe
flooding. Moody's added Harris County isespecially vulnerable. The Army Corps of Engineers
has recommended a roughly thirty billion dollarplan to reduce the cost of coastal storm
damages on the Texas Gulf Coast.Turning to trading, all eyes will be
on key consumer price data this morningheaded that Stockstar slightly lower, DOWT futures

(56:53):
down seventy five points. Fed AReserve chair J. Powell told lawmakers this
week that he can inflation heading lower. Yesterday, the S and P five
hundred hitting another record. I Courtney'sone Hopelimber business on News Radio seven forty
k TRH, Houston's News, Whythey were Traffic plus Breaking News twenty four

(57:15):
to seven. This is US Radioseven forty KTRH Wild Everywhere with more of
what's happening now from the Sean MorrisServices Studios. Six thirty is our time,
Houston's Boning News. I'm Jimmy Barrettalong with Sheriff Ryer Bunger. Top
stories this f are two shootings lastnight. One involved a Harris County deputy.

(57:36):
The internet steals for riding at bestand coming up. At six thirty
eight, Governor Abbott finally speaks outabout the hurricane, But where's he been?
Details in the minutes ahead, You'rein Houston' sponning news. First,
we're taking out that morning drive again. Sky Mike is here over six hundred
traffic lights out. A lot ofthem along Highway six. Remember to treat
them like four ways and watch outfor people that just think there's no law

(57:58):
at all. There. I you'vedowntown. That's a semireck it in east
inbound right at sixty nine, threelanes here, let's jump over to the
south loops six y ten. Northloops not bad, but the south loops
your best option. And you know, I'm from the Prairie, so I
know how to use baling wire putthings back together. I managed to get
some tip line. This is donKey on the southwest face time southbound fifty

(58:21):
nine at six ten. There's ahuge crane stall blocking two or three lanes.
It's a big old mat all right. I'm going to let the rest
of the media know right now.It's the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center
from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twentyfour hour Weather Center, Partley Colony.
Sixty percent chance of in afternoon stormtoday with the ITEP at you're redbout ninety.

(58:43):
We'll get you the complete forecast fromTerry Smith at the Weather Channel in
eight minutes right now seventy nine atyour official se of your weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Itis time now for the news. Here's
Sheriff Fryank. Good morning. Itis six thirty two on news radio seven
forty KTRH. A top story thishour, an undercover Harris County jeputy has
been murdered ambushed in the line ofduty in northeast Harris County. The shooter

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on the run. We'll have morefor you on that at seven am.
Also topping our news, Centerpoint cutmy power twenty seven hours after the hurricane
had completely cleared gone through. Theydidn't send notice until after they cut the
power, saying that it could beseveral days or even weeks, and I'm
disabled, exasperated Houstonian using the talkbackfeature on our iHeartRadio apps. Center Points

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still has one point one million pluscustomers with no power, and about four
hundred thousand of those could still bewithout much needed electricity for air conditioning next
week. Our goals is for onehundred percent. So do you have an
idea when everybody will be back online? Nothing that you know we want to

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share you nothing to share. CenterpointSenior Vice President Darren Carroll on with our
TV partner Channel two just moments ago, a frustrated Houston Mayor John Widmy are
not happy with Centerpoint. He saysa previous administration under Sylvester Turner was not
upfront about their Centerpoint's readiness for astorm. I inherited system where you sent

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everybody to a multi service center asa chilling center or a heating center.
Problem is they left out. Theydon't have any powers in when they lose
power, they don't have a generator. It's all about transparency. Yeah,
it's access to information and communication transparency. Mass Internet outages continuing too. At

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one point, Expinity had about amillion customers with no Internet. Well they've
gotten some of it restore, butthere's still more than six hundred thousand disconnected
at and t's issues continuing to thatcompany is blaming the power outages for why
they are lacking service. Spring Branch, Pasadena, Houston ISDS among districts with

(01:00:58):
no classes today. The list toKTRH dot com. Houston Airports are back
to running full schedules, but theystill need some repairs and they've got a
staffing shortage. So we are managingtraffic. We're managing traffic lights for imagine,
the people are coming in to taketheir flights out. So we're at
full capacity today, but we arelimited on our stopping and moving people through

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the airports. Yeah, give yourselftime. Houston Airport's COO Kelly Woodward there
traffic lights at more than five hundredHouston intersections were down still as of last
night. Something to consider with ourcurrent power problems. Chuck Devor with the
Texas Public Policy Foundation says our energyneed has only increased exponentially because of artificial

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intelligence. The International Energy Agency,they're predicting that AI globally will reach a
consumption of one thousand tarrawad hours annuallyin only two years, more electricity for
AI than the entire nation of Andyeah, means just more strain on the
Texas power grid. Renewables are notgoing to be enough to meet that demand.

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It is six thirty five GOP conventiontaking place next week, opens Monday.
Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley released herdelegates now told them vote for Donald
They go to Donald Trump. Oddsmakers at Polymarket put the chances of Joe
Biden dropping out of the race atseventy five percent right now, and some

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think that number is low. Ithink the odds are about eighty percent that
they're going to pull the cord onJoe Biden. I think his cognitive disabilities
are so enormous. Now Texas SenatorTed Cruz on with k t Rash Sean
Hannity. Now Biden does what's considereda key news conference at the NATO summit
late this afternoon. US House haspassed the Save Act, but not with

(01:02:52):
help from Democrats. The vote wastwo hundred and twenty one to one hundred
and ninety eight. Democrats of votingvoting again requiring that only American citizens are
allowed to vote in federal elections.That's their game. More liberal biases.
A Texas Tribune reports a Greg Abbott'sborder wall which cost Texas taxpayers twenty billion

(01:03:15):
dollars. Bob Price of Breitbarts thoughsays, look, this is based on
the Tribune thinking Texas should build twelvehundred miles a wall. That was never
the point, and even then itshouldn't be falling on Texans to pay for
border security. There's going to bea change, probably in November, of
the administration at the federal level,and then that function will go back to

(01:03:38):
the federal government, who is ultimatelyresponsible for it. Anyway, he says,
Abbott has been building where immigration isthe worst, and of course the
FEDS are doing nothing about it.It's not going to cost nearly that much.
Venezuela has had a big drop inits crime. Imagine that it didn't
happen until our southern border was openedup wide to them and our crime rates.

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Of course, rose crime has droppedin Venezuela because their criminals are here
now. Bord show everybody the arrests, you know, like eighteen percent of
everybody the ar rests in the pastdecade had some sort of criminal pass Former
Acting Ice Director Tom Holman told KTRHthose criminals aren't getting vetted properly and they're
being released. If the Biden administrationand you Catcher release and detain these people,

(01:04:19):
we'd have time to drive down therepast. Also, if you're detained,
they get immigration here within thirty fivedays. At they're released, they
might not see a judge for five, seven, eight years. Homan says,
we need a president who will sendthese violent criminals back to their home
countries. Ethan Buchanan News Radio sevenforty KTRH six point thirty seven Now strosby
Miami nine to one coverage tonight atsix pm on Sports Talk seven ninety,

(01:04:42):
Game Time seventy ten on seven ninetyand KTRH. I'm sherw Ryer on News
Radio seven forty KTRH specs Big Bordosale is happening now. Your cookouts,
well, thank you, Cheers tosavings. You like free stuff. We
all like free stuff. Squad iHeartradio app is free and free. Never

(01:05:04):
sounded so good from Governor Greg Abbottabout the storm. His first comments about
the storm since the storm, whichof course he wasn't here for he's off
on a trade mission. When wedid here right after the hurricane, the
first thing we heard about was sometrade deal that he had made no comment

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at all about the hurricane. Ofcourse we have Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is
still the establishment of semiconductor manufacturing plantshere in the state of Texas, a
big one that he announced yesterday upin Temple. I get that that's important,
that's important, great, But Iknow time to make that announced.
It wasn't just over there. Iget that. I get that, but

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he is a victim of poor timing. As many people. Public relations is
a lost art. I agree injust about every sector of politics. Politics
a bad optics. But you know, can you say that the state was
not in good hands with Dan Patrick. Nope, I'm not saying that everything
that he needed to do, I'mnot saying that, right, you know,
I'm just saying that if it wereme, and of course I let

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the governor and are do I haveany ambition to be a governor? I
think I would have said, youknow what, I'll get back to you
guys, and we'll resume this missionjust as soon as I get back and
make sure everything's okay. In Texas, there was several countries and it was
really aligned. You know, I'mnot trying to defend the optics of this.
I'm just saying it's very convenient forthe Democrats to try to attack all

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the Republicans in this state, andthey're going to use any means that they
can, whether it's a tribune,going after the border wall or whatever.
Okay, but let's not help them. Okay, let's not help them.
I'm not going to help them,and I think I think that it was
very, very bad optics. Hedid announce, by the way, that
he is also calling for an investigationof Centerpoint you know, I think there
will be. There will be justjust as there was after the winter storm.

(01:06:56):
We'll have the same thing that willhappen. What I don't know is
if anything will change as a resultof it. It's pretty tough to put
a public relations or communications mandate inthe company. The only way any thing's
gonna change if they make some sortof determination that actually Centerpoint dropped the ball
in the way they've handled the stormis physically handling the storm, which is
different than communicating to us about thestorm and about the issues. Six forty

(01:07:20):
one time for traffic and weather together, sky Mike, what's going on?
Well, I'm trying to get tothe bottom of I forty five North Freeway.
I guarantee you iHeartRadio listeners will bethe first to know laneage and exactly
why we're smashed up a cross timbers. We see this backup now, there's
something happened right there, and I'mtrying to turn things fast enough. Backed

(01:07:40):
up from Parker already, and ofcourse you know the drill terry. If
you're a big shot jump on thehardy Toil road, you got the bumpers
at the special sticker. If youdon't then let's just do the East text
Freeway downtown. We still have thatbig smush. That's an eighteen wheeler accident
here, he's under all that laneage. This is Ien inbound at sixty nine.
The backup's Lockwood. Now the SouthLoop. Apparently some of you are

(01:08:01):
listening to me and you're re routingand go ahead and stay the course there.
I know we're backed up around Cullen, but South Loop is better than
getting stuck in that toll bridge.Suck. It's sixteen extra minutes going down.
I've got West Loop down to uptown. We're crammed up from Woodway and
North Sam. There we go withthat roadwork at Aldan Westfield. That's a
real hair puller because it's also messingup the feeder road. People are trying

(01:08:24):
to get through the back streets.Oh oh, I put a little bubble
gum to the tip line. Thisis Rob from Katie. We've got Southwest
Freeway. Good morning, Scott,Mike. Get it inbound on fifty nine
in the outbound lane, just underthe six ten loop. There's a significant
accident like maybe two cars have sideddown and it's backing that UIG. All
right, that's a good work,but thank you, thank you. That's

(01:08:44):
the same wreck that don Key justgave me a minute ago. And there's
a crane in the freeway. Therest of the media, I'm trying to
get them to get on this,but it's outbound at six ten, right
in front of Greenway Plaza. That'snot even on your official or your online
stuff Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot comtraffic Center from our KTRH Generator super Center
twenty four hour what the Senator TerrySmith is here and so are the partly

(01:09:05):
cloudy skies and the warm temperatures,much like we have seen the last couple
of days. But it looks likethe rain chances are increasing day by day.
Yeah, we've got a pretty decentshot of some rain today through the
rest of the week, and thenwe'll see those rain chances drop off by
the end of the weekend. Iguess one upside to the rain is that

(01:09:27):
our temperatures will be just a shadecooler, but the humidity is higher,
so in the end game, itdoesn't really change that much. Heat Advisory
again today, heatnt desease as highas one oh six, temperatures upper eighties
to low nineties, but there's thatsixty percent chance of showers and storms today,
fifty percent chances of more showers thunderstormsFriday and Saturday, thirty percent chants

(01:09:49):
of rain Sunday. Friday and Saturdayagain will be close to ninety once the
rain eas is up though, startingSunday, those temperatures are going to heat
up back to more typical July generallyin the load of mid nineties early next
week. Temperature right now still seventynine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.You are commute, you are forecast your

(01:10:14):
news. It's Houston's Morning News,brought to you. Biden, you southway
to those solutions six point fifty nowhere on Houston's Morning News. Coming up
here in just a moment. Youmay have heard that actor George Clooney has
come forward and asked Joe Biden notto run. So there's a few of
the Hollywood types that are coming forward. Now there's a real divide going on
amongst Democrats between those who are tryingto support Biden and those who are trying

(01:10:35):
to get rid of them. Don'tforget George Clooney is like almost joined at
the hip with Barack Obama. Uhhuh whatever Obama says publicly. Well,
now you suddenly have this op edand if Obama wants him out, they'll
find a way to get him out. So more in that story coming up
next. First, though, trafficand weather together, we're checking out the
drive once again here Sky Mike,I'm all too happy to help the rest

(01:10:58):
of the media. Southwest Way.They're going to get that in the system
sometime. But KGRH listeners do aboutthis twenty minutes early. It's southwest outbound.
That's a crane in the road.There's three right lanes blocked here,
and you're gonna have some big backupstrying to get out of downtown. So
let's take the Southloop. That's yourbest route around this north freeway, two
right lanes. It's an accident southboundat cross Chimbers backed up from Little York

(01:11:23):
clear downtown. The wreck on itin east inbound at sixty nine. This
is your Generator Supercenter dot Com trafficCenter from r KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty
four hour weather center partly cloudy,sixty percent chance of an afternoon storm today,
about ninety tomorrow on Saturday. Partlycloudy with about a fifty percent storm
chance near ninety both days, andthen Sunday partly cloudy ninety three. Another

(01:11:45):
chance of an afternoon thunderstorm, justa small chance. Right now, temperatury
is seventy nine at your official severeweather station, news Radio seven forty k
TRAH. Let's check out some ofthose top stories that you're is following for
you in our newsroom six fifty onenow on news radio sep KRHR. Headlines
are sponsored by the way by MarralMechanical Center. Point says they will have

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hundreds of thousands still without power nextweek, but the bulk will have it
restored by the weekend. President JoeBiden meets with Vladimir Zelenski today. As
the NATO summit continues, the climatecrazy is exposed again new research revealing that
EV batteries are a source of hazardousforever chemical pollution. Latest news anytime at

(01:12:30):
KTRH dot com. Our next updatewill be at the top of the hour.
Life it's stop and go well,just go talk cheap up with our
steady flow of updates to continue onwardride with US Radio seven forty KTRH.
Greg Guttfeldt had fun riffing on thatin other news of the day. I
need to laugh, how about you. George Clooney called on Democrats to name

(01:12:54):
a new nominee for the twenty twentyfour presidential election, claiming President Biden cannot
win. I haven't seen an actortake out a president like that since John
Wilkes Booth stop it. After hearingClooney's call for Biden to step down,

(01:13:15):
the Dems are holding strong, addingwe're not making any decisions until we hear
from Bob Crane. Got to dropa Bob Crane reference in the show once
in a while. My Serious Deaththough Radio Charlemagne the God said Biden's staying

(01:13:36):
in the race because he has agiant ego. Well, you know it's
bad when you're called the egotistical bya man who calls himself the God.
On his podcast, Michael Moore calledthe Biden reelection effort the cruelest form of
elder abuse he's ever been forced towatch. I guess he hasn't seen sex

(01:14:01):
in the city too. A neurologisttold NBC News that Joe Biden shows such
obvious signs of Parkinson's that he couldhave diagnosed him from across the mall,
especially if Joe's taken in a sharperimage massage chair. I love those,

(01:14:23):
Love those. President Biden attended NATO'sseventy fifth anniversary summit, where he reaffirmed
his stance against Russian aggression, causingthe crowd to cheer when he said,
mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Despite concerns about Biden's mental decline,

(01:14:45):
Democrats say they're not considering the twentyfifth Amendment. This is not surprising,
considering the cabinet hasn't even worked upthe courage to talk to Janet Yellen about
her haircut. And finally, accordingto a new report, Donald Trump's unlikely
to choose a vice president with facialhair. Well, better luck next time.

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Jimmy Barren along with Sheriff Fryar.Among our top stories, this f our
Harris County deputy ambushed and killed onepoint one million as of this morning,
still without their power and coming upat seven oh eight? Is that a
snake in your pants? Are youjust happy to see us details in the
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's MorningNews. First, let's check out that
morning drive. Here's sky Mike.Oh, let's do Southwest Freeway all right,

(01:17:24):
and I'm getting some air support onthis. I've got your calls in.
Let's see that would be robbed fromKatie and don Key. Southwest Freeway
outbound at the west Loop six ten. I'm hearing that it's an overturn,
a truck, a crane. NowI'm hearing something about fire. This is
three lanes and what we do knowis the backups getting kind of nasty now
from Greenway Plaza southbound outbound Southwest Freewayspeaking a nasty backup. That's the north

(01:17:46):
sam It's roadwork at aldein Westfield thatlooks to be causing that problem. Toll
bridge suckage is now sixteen minutes andI've got I'll get to Jason from Alvin
at the six to ten break.He's got some downtown for me. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com trafficCenter from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty
four hour Weather center. Partly cloudewith a sixty percent chance of an afternoon

(01:18:08):
storm today. It looks like aboutninety for the high temperature. We'll get
the latest on the forecast with TerrySmith at the Weather Channel in eight minutes.
Right now, still seventy nine atyour official severe weather station, news
Radio seven forty KTRH. It istime now for the news. Here's Sheriff
Fryar seven oh two on news Radioseven forty KTRH. This news sponsored by
Choice Home and Commercial. Our topstory this hour, a man hunt under

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way. A Harris County deputy wasambushed and murdered in the line of duty
in northeast Harris County while we sleptover night. It started as an assault
on a pizza shop employee. Thedeputy found the car involved and was talking
to another detective when he was ambushed. The deputy died at the hospital.
He was twenty eight years old,a five year veteran of the department.

(01:18:57):
I did in Harvey. I meanwe thow truck and trucks coming down.
We have two locations that we haveSWAT team set up on all right now.
We believe we have a good ideawho the suspect is, and police
believe they will have that shooter incustody soon. Also topping our news,

(01:19:17):
I don't see the trucks like Idid in Harvey. I mean we saw
trucks and trucks coming down the freewayto help us out and stuff like that.
And even if they were station inCorpus, it would only take like
a few hours to get over here. Angry Houstonians venting here on ktrasiers.
One point one million customers still withoutpower this morning. Centerpoint says they will

(01:19:40):
have another four hundred thousand customers reconnectedby tomorrow night, another three hundred and
fifty thousand by the end of theweekend, but that still leaves about four
hundred thousand customers across our area withoutpower into next week. We know our
customers are hot. Men and womendoing this work are hot, so they

(01:20:01):
are taking breaks, they are rehydrating, So that may be another reason why
you see the crews not actively working. They are out there working. Center
Point executive Jason Ryan, he wason with their TV partner Channel two Internet
Access. What's happening there? Well, hundreds of thousands of AT and T
and Exfinity customers still unable to getinternet or cable. At and T told

(01:20:24):
KTIH and their statement service restoration largelyjust spends depends on the extent of the
damage incurred, and they're also layingit off to the power issues. Exfinity
claims that thirty six percent of itsnine hundred and seventy five thousand customers who
have been knocked offline, thirty sixpercent have been restored, but not being

(01:20:45):
told by Exfinity what is the causeof their widespread outages, Where does it
start? What is the deal?As for debris pickup, Mayor John Whitmyer's
office says damage from that derecho abig line storm in May is still an
issue. They spent thirty days pickingit up, and on Monday, July

(01:21:06):
eight, they were planning and hadscheduled to begin the second path of pickup,
but then we were at that pointdealing with the impacts of Hurricane Beryl.
As mayoral advisor Mary Benton, shesaid, CRUZ are working twenty four
to seven to haul off debris.Acting Governor Dan Patrick, he's posted on
social media the proof the call logof his conversation with the White House seeking

(01:21:30):
federal aid a federal disaster declaration,and it refutes Joe Biden's lie that Texas
was slow to ask. School districtsstill closed today several while We've got the
entire list for you at KTRH dotcom. It is now seven oh five.
Donald Trump wants to debate Joe Bidenagain, and some believe that Trump
has nothing to gain on doing thatat this point. But Fox's David Marcus

(01:21:53):
disagrees. All of us were soincredibly distracted by the train wreck of Joe
Biden setting his own care campaign onfire, but we miss a lot of
the body of the debate. Evenif Sleepy Joe is able to get some
pep pills or something. There's alot of opportunity for Trump in a second
debate. Yeah, well maybe so. He's not sure that Biden will even
be the nominee. In September.It's now seven oh six. You've got

(01:22:16):
the New York congresswoman AOC of thesquad filing articles of impeachment against US Supreme
Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, you know, the Conservatives. She's
alleging their unchecked corruption. Wall Streetat a journal editorial board is calling Democrats
who cry out about the Supreme Courtare just out of touch. They are

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looking at the original text and determiningwhether or not a statue or law is
constitutional or not. And so theDemocrats don't like that. The Democrats want
a Constitution that's interpreted as a living, breathing document that changes with their ideology.
Yeah. Former Harris County Republican PartyChairman Jared would Fill there. You

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notice when you're online, you betterbeware this group called TAMU. It calls
itself a harmless online discount retailer.You know, all the shoes in the
clothes, it's a shopping app thatTimu is actually a huge privacy and security
risk. To Americans. TIMU isconnected to the Chinese Communist Party, but

(01:23:21):
there's more Chinese Communist Party which runs, owns, and operates this app to
theoretically download files onto your devices tocompletely surveil you. David dun Moyer told
KRH TMU is a bigger national securitythreat than TikTok. It's flown under the
radar in the name of affordable consumergoods. But really what they're trying to
do is create digital Dotsier's on Americansso they have her personal information. Dun

(01:23:45):
Moyer says, it's time we startinvestigating TIMU more thoroughly and take action against
it. Ethan Buchanan News Radio sevenforty KRH seven oh seven strosby Miami nine
to one. There are two gamesback now in the American League West.
Coverage to night is six on SportsTalk seven ninety as a resume game time
seventy ten on seven ninety and hereon ktr H. I'm sure a Fryar

(01:24:08):
on News Radio seven forty KTRH infoat this speed of Houston right now,
Houston's morning news continues with Jimmy Verrettand Sheriff Fryar. I would think that
one customs office that you wouldn't wantto mess with would be China. You
know, you wouldn't want to tryto smuggle something into China. You're not

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supposed to try to smuggle in Iwould think that the retribution be rather rather
quick. Travelers stopped by customs ashe sought to slip out of Hong Kong
and into the border city of shenZhin with one hundred snakes in his pants.
Huh How big were those sneaks?Pretty big? They weren't little baby

(01:24:50):
snakes. Man. I know thatcargo pants can hold a lot of stuff,
but one hundred pants? What doesit? What does that look like?
What's the giveaway? You know?Were the snake's drugs? So they
weren't moving or what I means squirmingaround? You know, you make a
swishing noise when you walk in corduroys. Maybe he was making a hissing noise

(01:25:12):
while he was walking in his cargopans. If your cargo pants are moving,
yeah, that's that's yeah, exactlyright. Unnamed travelers hid by customer
officials trying to slip into the bordersthat upon inspection, customer officials discovered that
the pockets of the trousers the passengerwas wearing were packed with six canvas drawstring
bags and sealed with tape. Onceopen, each bag was found to contain

(01:25:35):
living snakes of all kinds in shapes, sizes, and colors. No real
word on why he was smuggling thesnakes. I mean, is there like
a big black market for snakes inChina? Is there a lot of money
to be made with snakes? Theymay eat them. Officers seized one hundred
and four of the reptiles, includingmilk snakes and corn snakes, many of

(01:25:58):
which were non native space That's whatgot into trouble. You can't bring non
native species into a country. Maybethey were a food delicacy. Maybe must
be. I had some weird thingswhen I was in China. Did you
always know what you were eating?Nope, I almost speak Chinese. I'll
never, I'll never, I'll neverforget. They put it in front of
me, and I'm pretty adventuresome.I would eat it. And this is

(01:26:21):
this is how naive I used tobe. Elizabeth. I went on a
trip to London and we got anEnglish breakfast and blood pudding was on the
menus, and I had no ideawhat it was and I'm eating the blood
pudding, going this is really good. Oh yeah, and Elizabeth is looking
at me, going, you knowwhat that is right, got a lot
of iron in it. And sheproceeded to tell me, yes, that

(01:26:42):
really was blood. Uh huh,animal blood that you were eating in the
form of a pudding. I livedin Scotland one summer. Did you have
hagis? Oh my god? Iwould never even think of trying that.
How'd you get past the smell?I drank a lot of beer. Well
that's there, you go. That'sthat's the answer, with a Scotcha.

(01:27:05):
That's where I learned to drink Scotch. Well, Scotland, you know you've
sare a Scotch. And She'll tryanything. Seven to eleven. This new
traffic and weather together. It's inyour pants, next in your pants sky
Mike, that's going in my nextblue? Is your theme song? That's
going in my next blue. Let'scheck out here. Mick from Conro says,
well, still no lights out upthere. Doug from Mount Bellevue says,

(01:27:26):
no lights highlands? Who was that? Robert from Indian Shores has no
lights. They say they were destroyed. He is not hippy with a certain
power company. So I'm just I'mjust passing this along because I know a
lot of you want to vent.We've got the big problem Southwest Freeway.
Now that I've got some air support, they're saying no crane. I don't
know where this guy saw a crane, but that was an outbound accident.

(01:27:48):
There is a car fire a SouthwestFreeway outbound at the west Loop six'
ten. You know it's a disaster. Resources are a little thin both ways.
I see backups. That's the pointfrom Greenway Plaza out from West Park
Curve in and then over our shoulder. I'm watching the west Loop down to
uptown, cram up an extra elevenminutes here North Sam. It's worse than

(01:28:09):
usual. We have that roadwork allDean Westfield that's here with us for a
while. That's at least a twentyminute drag doing the North Sam. My
little secret hack. Oh, Ihate to tell you all right, will
Clayton Parkway. I know we've gotsome lights out, but they're four ways,
and do the Hardy Airport connector getaround that, or take the north
Loop six' ten. What elsedo I have? I've got Golf Freeway
smashing up now northbound at the loopand your toll bridge. We got a

(01:28:31):
quick tip line. I use somesilly putty. Put it back together.
I got Jason Alvin, dude,got Mike Lay at Smith Street. Eahbd's
walking the road looks like moresmalliglave.Oh boy, here we call again with
that downtown stuff. All right,we'll check more of that at the twenty
Breakthgenerator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center fromr KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
with U Center. Terry Smith ishere. We could use a little relief

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from the heat, but this isJuly. Not a whole lot of relief
is gonna be coming, is it. No, we really have to weigh
if we're lucky to August, maybeSeptember to get a break in the heat.
We have a little less humidity anda little less heat, but it's
really hard to notice. And westill have some rain. We've got some
rain out in the Gulf right nowand along the coast. Some of that'll

(01:29:15):
be making its way inland today.Sixty percent chance of showers and thunderstorms today,
a fifty percent chance of more raintomorrow and Saturday. Temperatures the rest
of this week upper eighties to lownineties. There's a heat advisory today.
Heat index could run as high asone oh six. I suspect we'll see
heat advisories again, perhaps tomorrow andSaturday. We'll keep an eye on that.

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A little less rain, but thetemperature is starting to heat up.
By Sunday, thirty percent chance ofrain Sunday loa to mid nineties. Temperature
right now seventy nine at your officialsevere weather station. News Radio seven forty
KTRH. It's Houston's Morning News,brought to you byen New South Windows Solutions.
Now back to Jimmy and Scherah withthe info you need to take on

(01:30:00):
the day. Seven twenty is ourtime here on Houston's Morning News. Mark
ke oh is Montgomery County Judge.We're going to check in with him in
just a moment, kind of geta damage assessmen, see how the recovery
effort is going there. I wonderhow his dealings with Centerpoint have been.
Does he feel they've been communicant England. We'll talk to him next first though,
traffic and weather together, we're checkingout the drive again. Here's guy
Mike. Mark you all right,I'll hurry let's go west Loop to this

(01:30:23):
is Southwest Freeway outbound at the Loop. Turns out that was a car fire.
I don't know where the crane went, but I sent a helicopter there
for no reason. Outbound backed upfrom Green's Point. Inbound packed up from
west Park West Loop all the wayfrom two ninety down and north Sam's ugly
from sixty nine through that roadwork westboundad Alding Westfield. I'm Skymike in the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center fromr KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four

(01:30:48):
hour weather Center. For today,we're looking at partly cloudy skies sixty percent
chance of an after you in showerstormright about ninety tomorrow on Saturday, partly
cloudey fifty percent chance with shower stormright around ninety and then partly cloudy ninety
three on Sunday. Currently it isseventy nine at your officials Severe Weather Station
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It'stime to check out some of our top

(01:31:10):
trending stories. Here's sha morning.It's seven twenty two on news Radio seven
forty KTRH. Our headlines are sponsoredby Morrow Chemical, Harris County Deputy sheriff
was murdered in the line of dutyovernight. To search for the shooter continues.
Hundreds of thousands of Houstonians don't haveinternet. No word on when they'll
get it. One point one millionsstill don't have power. Today is seven

(01:31:32):
eleven. It means you get freeslurpees. It's seven eleven stores. Latest
news anytime at KTRH dot com.Our next update will be at the bottom
of the hour. You'll know moreif you listen more. It's more going
on. I want to be moreinformed. No more more. In twenty
twenty four, with News Radio sevenforty KTRH foring News, Marko, the

(01:31:54):
Judge of Montgomery County, joins usthis morning. Judge, welcome to the
show. Good to have you on, sir. Who who's your provider in
Montgomery County? Is the Center Point? Well, we have Centerpoint is a
portion of it. By and large, it is energy, and then we've
got San Bernard co Op and acouple of other smaller ones, but primarily

(01:32:15):
it's energy. But we've been servicedalso by the guys at Center Point,
and I have to tell you we'renot happy. Okay, what tell us
about some of the problems. Yeah, well, let me tell you what
we got going on. You know, I can go to Energy. I
have to be honest, I'm nottrying to drop anybody here, but the
fact of the matters. I cango to Energy and I can find out
what their plans. I know wherethey're going, I know what they've done,

(01:32:38):
and I cannot get that information fromCenterpoint. They did send out somebody
yesterday to come out and be apart of our team this morning and throughout
the rest of this effort that we'redoing out here in Montgomery County. But
even then, when they came out, I was asking and trying to get
information. I just couldn't get it. Right now, Montgomery County is about

(01:32:59):
sixty percent, the whole county's aboutsixty percent out of power. Energy has
got fifty percent of their stuff prettymuch squared away. But again we're still
looking at Center Point in the amountthat they have probably eighty five ninety percent
still out. And uh, andwe don't when we can't give our people
any information to know when this stuffis going to be fixed, that the

(01:33:24):
Assured does because people want to know, excuse me, and they have a
right to know. They're they're theyare if you will, they are tax
paying citizens, and they have aright to know what's going on with the
energy that they that they depend uponfor the Internet, for all of the
uses that we have. You know, when we don't have electricity, man,
we are out of business. Andso when it carries on this many

(01:33:47):
days and we don't know what thefuture is, that's a problem, I
can tell you. Well, andthat's good to hear, because obviously you're
having a different experience depending upon whichpower, what a you're dealing with.
You do you have a feel atall, judge about why it's so difficult
to extract information from from center point. If a county judge can find out

(01:34:09):
from center point what's going on,how's anybody else gonna find out what's going
on? Well, you know that'smy question. Then how are we supposed
to know? And I cannot getanswers. Now we know they're doing something,
we know they're working, and theyhad about sixty five in our area.
It's about sixty five thousand max thatwe're out, and now they're down
to I think fifty seven thousand,you know, but that's over the period

(01:34:31):
of this entire time. Entergy hasjust been killing it and they've got they've
got the line workers, and they'vegot people out all over working very,
very hard. So we're working withCenter Point. We're hoping that they'll step
up and help us. But wehave people out in East County, we
have people down in the South Countyand some out in West County towards Magnolia

(01:34:53):
that are certainly going to be withoutpowerful number of days. So we still
have our county offices closedmployees, ournon essential employees are staying home. We've
got pods that we've set up todayout at Magnolia High School and also at
Bullsailis Park out in Newquay, andwe're going to be distributing meals ready to

(01:35:15):
eat, water and ice at thoselocations. Texas Park and Emergency Management has
been helping us. Yesterday we werea wood forest for a good portion of
the day distributing those things, andI want to say people are just so
thankful because they can't get water,they can't get ice, and there's a
problem here. So we're doing thevery best that we can. We have

(01:35:36):
a great team, we've been planningfor this and we're on it. How
many of the grocery stores, gasstations have backup generators so that they're able
to stay open or all those close. You know, there are some.
I sure, I couldn't even giveyou a number. I can tell you
this. Anybody that does not buildinto their business model when they're establishing a

(01:35:59):
business a generator, they're not payingattention because the loss of business to our
economic community here is monumental just becauseof this very thick So yep, yeah,
that's a major problem, major goodpoints to make. I'll tell you
what too. If I were anew homebuilder, I would be building new
homes that all have generators built rightinto the home. What a great selling
point that would be, absolutely forsure, especially if you're anyway. We're

(01:36:25):
we're we're our game here and we'revery hard. We're fixing right now.
We've got an upload of Yep,there goes the cell phone judge. Thank
you. I hope you can hearme say thank you. Seven twenty seven
is our time here in Houston's warning, use time to take a look at
your money. Courtney Donaho is here. Good morning, Jimmy. Hurricane Barrel
is one expensive storm. According toACI Weather estimates, the cost in the

(01:36:49):
US could reach as much as thirtytwo billion dollars. Turning to trading,
stock futures are lower down, futuresdown sixty points. Moments from now,
we're going to be getting the latestreading on consumer prices. So I'm Courty
Done Hope Bloomberg Business on News Radioseven forty k t r H Houston's News.
Why there were traffic, plus breakingnews twenty four to seventh. This

(01:37:12):
is US Radio seven forty KTRH fiveEverywhere with the IRF. More of what's
happening now from the John Morris ServicesStudios. It is seven thirty here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy BarrettLong with Sheriff Fryar. One of your
top stories of this half hour.Two shootings, one involving a Harris County
deputy last night. The internet stillsporadic at best, and coming up at

(01:37:35):
seven thirty eight. You know,even Dallas feel sorry for us. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're inHouston's Morning News. First, let's check
out that morning drive. Here isskymine all right? Southwest Freeway. Turns
out that's a car fire southbound atthe west Loop six' ten. Big
backups both ways though outbound from GreenwayPlaza northbound from Hillcroft. You've got your

(01:37:55):
north Sam. It's awful this morning. The roadwork at Altine WESTFIELDI why are
you crushing up southbound right around ShoreAcres. I know we've got a wreck
here. I see the backups fromFairmont Parkway. By the way. I've
got some bailing wire from Tarkingden Prairie, and I put the tip line back
together seven one three two one twotips. This is your Generator Supercenter dot

(01:38:16):
Com Traffic Center from our KTRH Generatorsuper Center, twenty four hour Weather Center
Party Clounde. Today's sixty percent chanceof an afternoon's form with the high temperature
right about ninety. We'll get youthe complete forecast when we talk to is
Terry Smith of the Weather Channel inabout eight minutes. Step to right now
seventy nine at your officials Severe WeatherStation, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

(01:38:36):
It is time now for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer. I inhaled
a tea leaf supposed to read them. It is now seven thirty two on
news Radio seven forty k TRH.Our top story this hour and undercover Harris
County Deputy is murdered responding to anassault call in northeast Harris County. Now
the shooter on the run, butSWAT teams are set up in two locations.

(01:38:59):
We'll have more. Eight am.Also topping our news, I'm not
in the business. Are great,I'm in the business saying, list get
it done, let's fix it.Frustrated Houston Mayor John Whittmeyer. Center Points
still has one point one million pluscustomers without power right now, some four
hundred thousand they say could be withoutpower into next week. They're begging for

(01:39:24):
patients. We understand it's frustrating.It's just as frustrating for us because we
want to get an idea exactly whatwe need. But until we have all
that information, it's really hard forus to just say Centerpoint VP Brad to
Tungent. He was on with ourTV partner Channel two. Power issues are
bad here and even worse in ourcoastal counties. They have a lot of

(01:39:45):
polls that they need to replace inthat area. So the closer to the
coast, of course, the heavierthe damage and the more flooding. There
was Matta Gorda County Judge Bobby Seifermanthere He says it's going to take two
weeks to get the power back inplaces like the town of Sargeant. Exfinity
claims it's restored internet service to thirtysix percent of its nearly one million customers

(01:40:09):
who lost internet with Beryl. Sixhundred thousand still waiting. No time on
when this is going to be remedied. Mass outages for AT and T customers
too. We're not getting numbers thereeither. All beach access points west of
the Galveston Seawall are closed until furthernoticed. Among school districts remaining closed today,

(01:40:31):
conro Scifair Fort Bend ISDS. Theentire list at KTRH dot com.
If you're looking to head out ofthe city though. Houston Airports they're back
to full capacity. Despite ongoing repairsaround the airports and a lack of staffing.
Today we're backed up to our normalsummer everyone it's flying. All of

(01:40:55):
the flights are going out. Everyonehas been rebooked, so we're in full
capacity for flying at both airport HoustonAirport COO Kelly Woodward there. It is
now seven thirty four ahead of theRepublican Convention next week. Nikki Haley has
finally released her delegates to Donald Trump. There was a lot of bad blood

(01:41:15):
there. She stayed too long.She was being soundly defeated at every place,
but she just wouldn't leave Trump.On with Fox's Brian kill Mead,
Odds makers don't think Joe Biden's goingto stay in this race. As of
June twenty seventh, on Polymarket,he is chances of dropping out were just
twenty five percent and that went upto seventy five percent after his debate performance.

(01:41:39):
US House passing the Save Act,Yes, but they did it on
party lines that safeguard American voter eligibilityto ensure that only American citizens vote in
federal elections. That bill pushed bySpeaker Mike Johnson and Texan Chip Roy.
It passed to twenty one to oneninety eight. And yes, it was
the Democrats who voted against it.Speaker Johnson will be joining Klay Travison buck

(01:42:03):
Sexton their show around twelve thirty thisafternoon. Right here on KGRH Texas Tribune,
they're stirring it up. They're claimingthe Governor Abbott's plan for a Texas
border wall would cost twenty billion andtake three decades to build. Right.
They based that on building along alltwelve hundred miles, which was never the

(01:42:26):
plan. It's not so much howmuch wall is being built. That's where
it's being built. The governor isdeploying sections of walls in strategic areas.
Bob Price of Bridebart says there's naturalbarriers that don't require a wall, and
Texas won't need to build it.If Trump wins in November, he will
immediately start building the walls again likehe was doing before, and Texas taxpayer

(01:42:47):
won't have to be footing the billfor the federal government's responsibility. He says,
liberal narratives like this hurt our security. Andre Perard News Radio seven forty
KGRH notice that violent crime is onthe rise here as the open border becomes
ever more lawless. Donald Trump repeatedlypoints out that Venezuela and l Salva are

(01:43:08):
seeing now a record low in theircrime numbers. Criminals pard won't comes to
the greatest nation on Earth because we'rea target rich environment. They're hitting jewelry
stords or hitting these markets because theydon't have that target rich environment in their
home countries. Yeah, organized crime. Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan he
says we better start vetting those whocross our borders illegally or in the case

(01:43:29):
specifically of Venezuela through Biden's refugee appjust coming in wholesale. It's now seven
thirty seven. We saw a recordamount of people changing jobs in twenty twenty
two, you know, right afterthe pandemic. Well it's no longer the
case. I just think we're ina season of fear. There's so many
people that are afraid. And whenpeople are afraid, they will stay in

(01:43:53):
places that they don't necessarily want to, but they're afraid that they can't do
any better. Do you think Eloyand Annalys ray higg And he says it's
all being driven by this lousy economy. The Astros beat the Marlins nine to
one. Pregame tonight at six andSports Talk seven ninety first pitch at seven
ten. You'll hear it on sevenninety and KTRH. I'm Sheriff Fryar on

(01:44:15):
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Didyour favorite summer beverage for a lower price
at SPEC's Cheers to savings. Thetools you need to take on the day
news in the morning, weather andtraffic. This is Houston's Morning News with
Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar. Oh, things are so bad here in Houston

(01:44:44):
that even JR. Ewing feel sorryfor us. Seven thirty eight is our
time here in Houston's mornings. Ifind the coverage from other parts of the
state and other parts of the countrykind of interesting to hear they're reporting what's
been going on here with Beryl andthe power loss and all that stuff.
Seka, listen to what Fox forin Dallas was saying yesterday. New video
shows the extent of the damage topower lines in places like Galveston. Line

(01:45:05):
cruis are working around the clock toget power restored. Frustrations are mounting for
residents without power since Sunday left todeal with sweltering heat. I had to
sleep downstairs with the door open,had the dog out on the porch.
You've been just taking her upstairs tothe bass and taking shower hose a little
cooling her down with that, andthen once she kind of evaporates off and

(01:45:28):
we can do it again and keeptrying to keep it cool that way.
Power is our number one goal tohave restored as soon as possible. At
a news conference in hard hit MetagordaCounty where barrel made landfall. See official
stress. Power is the priority thistime. When you don't have power,
but it's pitch black at night one, it's hot as hades during the day.

(01:45:51):
You don't have access to food thatyou normally had. It's a miserable
situation. Center Point Energy, whichis in charge of many of the lines
in the Houston area, said Wednesdayit's restored power to around forty percent of
customers affected by barrel, but thecompany notes some parts of its system will
have to be rebuilt. Additional crewsare arriving from out of state, including

(01:46:14):
this fleet that departed from More,Oklahoma early Wednesday. We understand it's hot,
it's getting hotter. We certainly appreciatetheir patients with us as we continue
the assessment and cutting of vegetation andremoving, as well as restoring people as
a band aid. Cooling centers aremade open across the area, and there
are long lines at area gas stationsas people seek to top off generators.

(01:46:38):
Food pantries are also doing what theycan to meet the needs. We have
about two hundred and fifty three hundredcars right now. Why it's seems to
get food. Centerpoint Energy says ithopes it can give more specific restoration times
by tomorrow morning. That, ofcourse was yesterday. Well it is tomorrow
morning if we got more and youall got more specific restoration times. The

(01:47:00):
closest thing I've gotten to the restorationtime is several days. I got that
several days ago, and I gotthat again yesterday several days. So that
tells me no progress being made whereI am, at least not yet.
Although we did see a Centerpoint truckfor the first time. You know what
I haven't seen though, exfanity truck. No, I have not seen truck.
I've not seen an Harris County worktruck. I haven't seen anybody else

(01:47:24):
picking up any of the anything inmy precinct. Yeah, precinct. I'm
in Precinct three. I'm in Precinctone, and that is Rodney Ellis's precinct,
and I haven't seen a single Yeah, I'm a little surprised, just
because Commissioner Tom Ramsey does such aterrific job. I'm a little surprised I
haven't seen that. You're live withhis telling us so many crews they have
out there, you know, Oh, yeah, it's good it's gonna take

(01:47:45):
a while, but I hope tosee one soon because I got quite a
pile in my front. Oh Idid two. I've got it all around.
I'm on a corner, so I'vegot it all the way around.
Oh yeah, you get from allyour neighbors. Seven forty one. Time
for traffic and whether together? Heyes, got my co all right. I
got some rerigally spearmit gum here,so I put our tip line back together.
I've got something on one for six. I see this big smush up
around Shore Acres southbound. We're losingsome camera coverage, but I see that

(01:48:10):
backup all the way from Fairmont Parkwayhere. You let me know, you
know we have. We haven't hada female today seven one, three,
two one two tips. Something isdoing on one for six. Lord Sam,
they've taken four lanes poof and madethem into two lanes westbound. And
that's what's causing all your fun dueto the roadwork all Dean Westfield and that's

(01:48:30):
where it's happening. We're backed upall the way from sixty nine twenty minute
drag here. Don't tell anybody,but my secret route has jump on Will
Clayton Parkway. Even with the signalproblems, it's still better. Will Clayton
Parkway goes around to the Hardy AirportConnector. We're starting to squish up on
two ninety around Eldridge, Katie Freeway, around Grand Parkway, Southwest Freeway.
They are calling that clear at thewest Loop six ten. I don't believe

(01:48:53):
it. I'm gonna hold that onmy screen. Southwest Freeway outbound from Green's
Point to the west Loop, that'sjust pure spackle there, and then northbound
it's pretty heavy too. From Hillcroft. You loose about sixteen minutes there and
let's check to eighty eight. Justsome breaks quickly at the South Belt.
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dotCom traffic Center again. By the way,

(01:49:15):
in about ten minutes, we'll talkwith the judge in Brazoria Accounting.
Get you caught up, Matt Sebesta, get you caught up on what's going
on in one of the hardest hitareas in the great Greater Houston area.
Katie rh Generator super Center twenty four, our webther center. Let's check in
with Terry Smith and find out aboutthe next few days because we're likely a
lot of folks are not going tohave air conditioning before the weekend. I'm
guessing yeah. And the heat andhumidity obviously is not going away. It's

(01:49:42):
July and there's nothing to change it. So keep using whatever methods you can
to avoid any sort of heat illness. And obviously there's a number of other
factors that are in play as well. But the weather is fairly consistent and
that we have some rain every day, and it's days warm and muggy,

(01:50:02):
temperatures upper eighties to low nineties.The rest of this week, the heat
and disease will be over one hundredbetween one hundred and one hundred and six
today, sixty percent chance of showersand storms today, fifty percent chants of
more rain Friday and Saturday, thirtypercent chance of rain Sunday, Mondays look
dry now. The bad thing aboutless rain is that usually means more heat.

(01:50:24):
We're going to see the temperatures inthe load of mid nineties early next
week. Temperature right now is eightyone at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.What you need to know for the day
ahead. This is Houston's morning News, brought to you by New South Windows
solutions. So we have Missouri CountyJudge Matt Sebesta's standing Bible check in with

(01:50:45):
him. I wonder if his experiencewith you know, Centerpoint the powers that
be has been similar to what allthe other county judges have been telling us.
We'll talk to him next seven fiftyTime for traffic and weather together.
That starts with you, skuy Man. I got a wreck on one forty
six southbound at Shore Acres North.Sam's horrible westbound. It's roadwork all Dan
Westfield. This is your Generator Supercenterdot Com Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator

(01:51:08):
Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center. Partly Kladi sixty percent storm chance in
the afternoon ninety today tomorrow on Saturday, partli Kladi fifty percent, a thunderstorm
chance near ninety both days and thenninety three and partly CUTTI on Sunday.
Right now, temperature remains eighty onenow at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Let'sget you caught up on some of our

(01:51:29):
top stories this morning. Here's sheryseven fifty one on news Radio seven forty
KTRH. Our headlines are sponsored byDNM Ondoly, saying the Consumer Price Index
release for June show's inflation is threepercent on an annual rate. There was
a point one or a one tenthdrop in the monthly number first time jobless
claims down by seventeen thousand, debttwo hundred and twenty two thousand people claiming

(01:51:53):
unemployment. Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamiltonand their duel on this day in eighteen
o five. Latest News anytime atktorh dot com. Our next update will
be at the top of the hour. How bad things are the twenty twenty
four elections? What's really happening?Everything in your world? Here and abroad
News Radio seven forty KTRH. MattSebsta joins us he's the Brazoria County judge.

(01:52:19):
I haven't to have a piece ofproperty in Brazoria. I got a
picture of my Treasure Island piece ofproperty. It looks like I got through.
Okay. I don't think there's anypower there though, Matt probably not.
But she probably didn't have any treedamage either. No, No,
you're right about that. No,trees didn't have to worry about that.
What has your experience been trying toget information about what's going on with electricity

(01:52:42):
being you know the crews where they'reworking. How long it's going to be
before you get power back? Didthey what are they telling you? If
anything? We have two power providersin Brasori County. We have center Point
in Texas New Mexico. They're bothstruggling to get power back on. We
had more tree damage from this stormthan any storm that I can remember.

(01:53:09):
Center Point is communicating better. TexasNew Mexico has issues communicating. We've got
center Point in our EOC. They'retalking with us. I can't even get
Texas New Mexico to send a representativeby our EOC. So it's been a
mixed bag. They're both struggling.They've got a lot of homes and businesses

(01:53:32):
that they have on their list thatthey need to get back, get power
back to people. This time ofyear, it's hot, it's humid,
and the longer we go without power, the crankier our citizens are getting.
Well, it's understandable. I mean, I think that a lot of the
coverage is certainly coverage is coming ona national level and from elsewhere, even

(01:53:54):
from Dallas. They don't understand howmany trees there are in our urban setting.
You know, it was one thingwhen I came through, and I
did get a lot of trees inmy neighborhood certainly, but a lot of
the areas were ranches that they weren'tas populous as here. This is our
entire urban area, and it's treesthat did terrible damage, trees that were

(01:54:15):
weakened, probably because of drought andfreeze and everything preceding us. Share your
spot on and we go back.Ike was sixteen years ago. We've had
the trees have come back in BrazoriaCounty. When IKE came through the east
side of the county got hit prettyhard. The west side of the county,

(01:54:36):
where we are lots and lots oftrees, was pretty much unscathed by
IKE. So it has been decadessince we have had a wind event of
this magnitude to come in and hitthe trees. We've had a lot of
growth, and then, of course, like you said, we've had the

(01:54:58):
droughts that have weakened the trees.We've had a very wet year, so
the ground was very wet, soover top they had a lot of trees
that blew over because it was sowet this year. So it's a lot
of factors that come into play.Speaking of trees, Matt, how is
the county working to try to removethe storm debris and are you making progress

(01:55:20):
as far as clearing up the roadsand some of these major trees have been
blocking things. The trees the roadswere clear within twenty four hours, other
than the trees that had power linesentangled with them. Those have taken a
little bit longer. But I wouldsay we've got ninety nine percent of the

(01:55:43):
roads are passable. We have engagedin gotten our tree removal or excuse me,
our debris removal contracts. We've gotthem going. They will be sending
crews. We're putting out information onhow folks need to get there and segregate

(01:56:05):
their their material, you know,green material. Then you've got you know,
if you've got a barn or somethingthat's come down, you know,
keep those things segregated. Within thenext week or two, we will start
getting things picked up. Now that'sjust in the unincorporated areas of the county.
Each city as their own contract withtheir own provider. Okay, so

(01:56:29):
patients will be needed there too,Matt. Thank you for bringing us up
to date. Sir. We suredo appreciate it. That is Bissouri County,
Josh Matt Sebasta. Listen, y'allhave a great day. Hope you
get your power back. We'll talkto you tomorrow morning, bright and early,
five am. I'll see this afternoonfour an am, nine fifty k PRC