Thursday, June 20th, 2024

Jimy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 06/20/24

Episode Transcript

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This is Huge Radio seven forty ktRH Houston five Everywhere with the exclusive audio
home of NBC's coverage of the twentytwenty four Paris Olympics. Now the latest
news, weather and traffic. It'smore of what matters to you. From
the John Morris Services Studios. Itis five am. Good morning, Jimmy

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Verdelong with Sheriff Fryar. This isHouston's Morning News. Among our top stories
as we get started this morning,we have five Texas counties declaring a disaster.
AI already interfering with elections and comingup at five to eight. Why
food tastes better when you're on vacation. Details in the minutes ahead. You're
in Houston's Morning News. First,we're checking out the morning Vibe. The
first time time to chew it is. That's so different in my life.

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I think it's because somebody else iscooking. It's guy mine. Oh yeah,
that's a that's a better point here. Let's go to the hard work
and east side of town at Jimmyand Shira and I've got some well of
that water is creeping up over theSan Jacino. You could get across the
bridge from now. I'm not showingany closures, but it looks like they've
taken out the ramps, the feeders. Those of you that live over in
the Channel View Highlands area, youknow the drill on this. So main

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lanes are getting by just fine.I don't want to alarm you, but
it is becoming a thing and we'llkeep an eye on that. Also,
another place we've got to keep aneye on is Highway ninety between Liberty and
Dayton. For now, most ofour freeways are going show. I'm Skymike
the Generator, Supercenter, dot ComTraffic Center, Broball r KTRH, Top
Tax, the Fenders, twenty fourhour Weather Center, Claudie skyes cacial showers,
high tempet You're right about ninety fourtoday. Then starting tomorrow we're gonna

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start seeing some sunshine again around here. We'll get the latest from the Weather
Channel in about eight minutes. Rightnow seventy six at your official severe weather
station, News Radio seven forty kt RH. It is time now for
the news. Here's Sheriff Ryar.Good morning. Everyone is now five o
two on news Radio seven forty KTRH. In our top story this hour,
we thought the rain was going tocome down on top, but we didn't

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know it was going to come upthrough the storm drains. That would be
storm Surge, folks. Tropical stormat Alberta will be making landfall in Mexico
this morning. The Houston area avoidedany sort of direct hits, but Galveston
Surfside Beach and Matagorda Bay did getsome heavy rain, but for the most
part the flooding from storm Surge.We you know, put batteries in our

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flashlights. We you know, hadour cell phones charged and had our battery
banks filled and did all that justin case, because you never know.
That resident calling Alberto a good practicerun for the rest of hurricane season.
Nonetheless, the Texas Governor Greg Abbotthas issued disaster declarations for fifty one counties,
largely down coast, but also includingHarris, Fort, Ben, Galveston,

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Chambers, Brazoria, Matta, Gorda, and Wharton. Also topping our
news the November election, there aregrowing concerns about artificial intelligence its role in
the vote. Matt Kittle with theFederals says there's already been interference from AI
chatbots. If you're looking to artificialintelligence for answers to election related questions,

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chances are you're getting the wrong answers, and that's a big problem. Most
widely used chat bots provide incorrect informationmore than a quarter of the time,
he says. Big tech companies havesigned a voluntary agreement to block AI,
but we all know what happened fouryears ago. Thanks to big tech.

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We warn you this week about trustingpolls. In Fox's latest numbers now show
that Joe Biden is leading Donald Trumpby two points nationally, and that is
a three point swing just since May, when Trump, of course, was
convicted in that sham trial in Manhattan. Meantime, Trump has made inroads with
several traditionally Democrat demographic groups, includingyoung voters. Trump is now within two

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points of Joe Biden with voters agedeighteen to twenty nine. People graduating college
are very discouraged when Bellosidon had topay massive rent prices, massive food prices.
Wendell Husibo with Breitbart News says hethinks this could continue all the way
through the election. I think thatyoung voters absolutely will feel the pain come

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November because inflation is steadily rising,costs as steadily rising, Husubo says,
if the GOP wants to keep thismomentum up with younger voters. They should
model their message after Trump's Ethan BuchananNews Radio seven forty KTRH Independent presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy Junior. He'smissed last night's deadline to meet CNN criteria
to participate in the President's debate onCNN next week. RFK had only reached

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fifteen percent in three accepted polls andhad qualified to be on the ballot in
just six states. Our time nowfive oh five. We warned you yesterday
George Soros trying to fast track histakeover of the big radio comany odyssey.
Turns out at least one member ofthe FCC is concerned too. Congorf and

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chip Roy was first to sound thealarm that the FCC has been asked not
just to approve this, but toapprove it on a special Soros shortcut.
Were we're not even going to runthe normal agency process of looking at this
foreign ownership rule. Yeah. TheFCC Commissioner Brendan Carr there on Fox News.

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He's the senior Republican on the FDC. The FCC the majority by the
way Democrat. Yes. Europe seeinga surge in what the left calls far
right ideology is populist thanks to theleft's failed policy. The left's version of
democracy is different than the rights,and it's not working. The socialist policies

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that were favored in Europe since thenineteen fifty aren't working. You're going to
try something else. I think that'sjust common sense. Harry Castianis, Senior
director at the Center for the NationalInterest, believes what's happening over sees is
a preview of what the US cansee in November. I think looking at
the polls over the last couple ofmonths, it's clear that things have tracked

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Donald Trump's way and towards candidates thatare more you MAGA focused in the Republican
Party. Right wing parties are makinggains in recent European parliament elections compared to
years past. Jarret Lewis News Radioseven forty khrh it's now five oh six.
More pain at the pump if we'refilling up this morning. Gasoline prices
across using climb two since overnight thethree oh one a gallon, and bad

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news if you're looking for a job. Statistics we've been getting from the Biden
administration. Guess what fake news.Half of all job postings, according to
the latest numbers, aren't real.Companies find an advantage to advertising jobs that
don't exist. Jeffrey Checker with theBrownstone Institute says that there are many reasons
why companies do this. It makesthem seem like a vibrant, growing company

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with job opportunities for all. Thatalso scares existing employees that they're easily replaceable.
And keep this in mind, fedShared your Own Pal recently said that
the Bureau of Labor Statistics over statespayroll numbers. Cliff Saunders News Radio seven
forty KTRH Yeah reminder that the Apriljobs numbers were revised down by about ten

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thousand to one hundred and sixty fivethousand after they first were touted as being
so great. All this course ignoredby the mainstream media. Looking at our
money, new research from Monmouth tothe University says half of all Americans are
struggling to stay just where they arefinancially treading water. New research are also
showing military veterans nine times more likelyto die by suicide than in combat.

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Former Navy Coeal Clint Bruce says,while accessibility to resources needs to be better.
They could also help themselves a littlebit in battle. Pride keeps you
from calling in at QRS. Yourpride can the best things happen is you're
going to die. The worst thinghave as everybody else dies your pride,
you wouldn't call it help it,and we as a population of veterans,

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have to break it as the samething. He says. Veterans have a
hard time readjusting as well because societylargely ignores them. Stros beat the White
Sox four to one. The seriesfinale this afternoon. Pregame at noon,
First pitch at one ten on SportsTalk seven ninety I'm Sheber Fryer on news
Radio seven forty KTRH. The supBorder Blood, Bess Islent Crafts speak up.

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Boom, I clu, fucking Joe. Things are happening. I listen
every day because I got to stayinformed on news radio seven forty KTRH.
You ever noticed when you are onvacation that the food tastes better. It
just tastes better, even if you'reeating a dish you've had before, it
just tastes better. There's science behindthat. It's not your imagination. It's

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really true. There's real science behindthis phenomenon. It's not the food,
it's the taste buds come alive whenyou're away from home. Your taste books.
Really, they're on vacation too.They like perk up. You're trying,
maybe trying some new foods you've nevertried before. Novelty, anticipation,
the ambiance of where you are,whether you're on a cruise ship or you're

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at a resort, hotel, orwherever you are, you're surrounded by blue
skies and palm trees or whatever yourperfect vacation is, and they bring you
food. Oh, so your brain'sable to focus on Yes, you're not
thinking about work, You're not thinkingabout you know, the kids. You're
you're on vacation, you're having agood time. You're you're thinking about the
moment. You're in the moment,a relaxed state of mind. It really

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does happen. Now, Yeah,it is interesting. I'm have to take
notice of that next time. I'mYou're to put the phone down at the
table. That's it. Yeah,wherever you are, uh huh, Yeah,
that's the beauty of taking a cruise. By the way, that's the
thing I love most about the cruisebecause you can't use your cell phone.
It's inoperable. You put it downand you go back. You talk to
each other. You know, youspend time talking to other people. It's

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amazing the things you go back todoing when that cell phone isn't with you
anymore. I would be waiting forthe big wave to flip the you're gonna
find something worried about it. ThePoseidon adventure I never did. Oh wow,
I guess we're not going to getSheriff Fryar at a cruiseh you withinside
a land five ten die for trafficand whether it's going It's why New Orleans

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gets such high marked sometimes. Imean New Orleans food is probably the best
in the world life. I wouldagree with you. But and this is
a big but. You know alot of people there are on vacation,
so it gives them a little extracredit there you go. Let's check ien
both ways. We still have thoseexit ramps over the San Jacino River,
the ones that go to Monmouth.Unless you're going to the truck stops,
you don't have a big problem there. Your main lanes are getting by just

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fine. Not seeing the incidents.Check them for slowdowns. Just coming into
downtown. Now we're looking at itin east after Lockwood. No, you
look good to go. It's twentyone minutes from the bridge in flip the
sides over here for the visors andKatie Freeway, Katie Mills. You're looking
at twenty eight minutes in Arker Cypress. Checking from two to ninety into Barker

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Cypress. We're good to the westof west Loop six tennants so and Sugar
Lenn. You're right up feasy.In fact, let's go back further all
the way to Rosenberg. We're ingood shape so far, all the way
into downtown. Some almost slinky time. I'm sky Mike. It's your Generators
Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center fromr ktrge top. That's Defenders twenty four
hour Weather Center. Jeff bar isstanding by. We're through with what was

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it became known as Alberto. We'renot dealing with that today, but we
are still going to see a fewshowers around here. Yeah, isolated showers
and thunder stores this morning that afew scattered storms for the afternoon hours.
We still will be dealing with somegusty onshore wedsad times, and as a
result, there's a coastal flood warningstill at effect until seven o'clock this evening,
most of the flooding occurring early todayat high tide into the afternoon.
To hide your ninety, wrang willtake off this evening overnight a low of

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seventy six. We'll start off withsunshine tomorrow before a few scattered thunderstorms pop
up during the afternoon to hide yourninety. A little bit hotter for the
week at a Sunday Saturday as thehigh climbs up to ninety two, and
then some showers and stores may movein during the after on Sunday with a
high close to ninety three degrees temperatureride now seventy six. Here at your
official severe weather station, News Radioseven forty k TRH. It's Houston's Morning

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News, brought to you by NewSouth Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmy
and Schera with the info you needto take on the day. So,
yesterday's quite the day for the protesters. Do you hear they spray painted Stonehenge
orange climate protesters did in addition tothat, did you say that, Yeah,
the ridiculous, It was disgusting.It is disgusting, and this is

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not as but almost as disgusting.There's a protest going on at Los Angeles
restaurant. It's been a vegan restaurantfor like the last fifteen or twenty years.
They've decided, for a variety ofdifferent reasons, to start serving in
addition to the vegan menu, meatand dairy, and then the protesters showed
up. Warn that story coming upnext. First, we've got traffic and

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weather together. We're checking out thedrive once again. The sky might all
right so far, it's, youknow, kind of slinky time. We're
looking at your golf Freeway forty fiveand coming up from Galveston. We're in
good shape so far. I don'tI don't have anything on radar this morning,
so I don't see if we haveany moisture. I know we had
a little coming out of the northside this morning. Forty five North Freeway,
Woodlands. You're rocking along twenty fourminutes into downtown East Text. You're

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coming down from the sticks stress freefrom now, at least once you get
down to New Caney. We're lookingat an easy thirty one minute John In
and I can always use your helpseven one three two one two tips.
That's our tip line. Skymike andGenerator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center from
r KTRH, Top tax Defenders,twenty four hour Weather Center, Claudie skyescational
showers, high temperature today right aboutninety not a right noow bank stretch today.

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It's just you know, you couldhave a pop up shower anytime,
mostly Sunday early tomorrow. A coupleof showers for the afternoon ninety two.
Looks like Sunday on Saturday. Partlycloude on Sunday, so nice weekend coming
up. Temperature right now is seventysix and your officials the here weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Timeto check out some of our top
stories here on this Thursday morning,your share. Good morning. It's five

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twenty two on news Radio seven fortykg RHR. Headlines are sponsored by d
and m Audo leasing Tropical Storm Albertomaking landfall in Mexico this morning, leaving
some damage behind us here in Texas. Donald Trump blast Fox News for keeping
former House Speaker and active never trumperPaul Ryan on its board. How much

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influence is he having on this summersolstice? NASA get this predicting a once
in a lifetime event in our comingmonths, an earth size remnant of a
dead star three thousand light years fromEarth will explode, they say, And
it's going to be so bright wecan see it with the naked eye from
here. Dang, once in alifetime. Oh, he'll probably be cloudy

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here knowing us in day's latest newsanytime KTRH dot com. Our next update
is at the bottom of the Earth. Five thirty rangers, a border bloodbath,
isolent crafts speak up. Bloo oh, look at Joe. Things are
happening. I listen every day becauseI got to stay in formed on US
Radio seven KTRH. I don't mindvegan. If you want to eat vegan,

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eat vegan. I don't mind restaurantsthat serve vegan food. But restaurants
are in business to make money.So if they make a decision for the
purposes of, you know, tryingto keep their business afloat, to also
offer an addition to vegan items meetingderry, is that not there right?
Evidently protesters in California don't think so. They don't think they have the right.

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Is the right of the restaurant toserve what they want to serve exactly?
Really, no, you must servenothing but vegan. So the first
thing you're gonna hear is protesters.By the way, they're hard to understand.
They're saying blood on your hands iswhat they're chanting inside the restaurant.
And then we have the owner ofthe restaurant explaining why they made the change.

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Over the years, I thirteen yearswe've been a vegan restaurant, and
I believe that that was the bestpathway forward for human health and for the
soil and for the planet. AndI realized over the years that that was
not true. I became a farmerto deal with all of our food waste
from the restaurants, and I startedto realize there is no agriculture without death.

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That is an illusion. And weneed to support American farmers that are
doing the right thing, that arereally having the animals have a better life,
and doing the right thing for thesoil, because soil is the foundation
of all of life on the planet. And so I thought the best thing
to do would support California farmers andbring those products where the farmers doing the

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right thing into my restaurant. It'sbeen six weeks since we announced the menu
change, and it's been pretty muchNonStop on social media. This is the
third in person protest, and we'rereally struggling right now. We've already lost
two restaurants through the pandemic. Andwe're a family business. I have five
children, and so this is justcrazy. If they're mad, go protest

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McDonald's or somebody else to protest asmall family business doing farm to table with
local, organic and regenerative farms.It's the opposite of what I believe they're
committed to. Well, it's peta. It's peta. They're chatting blood on
your hands. It's peta. Andthat's organized and it's bankrolled exactly right.

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Yeah, they don't care about familyfarms. They don't care about you know,
anything it has to do with,you know, using animals, political
activism. It's all well, exactlyright, And these are the people who
suffer, right, and and they'llkeep showing up this restaurant and that always
that drives business away. Do youwant to show up? You want to
show up at a restaurant and youdon't be subjected to that. I probably
not so much for your taste.Bud's working exactly five six. It is

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time to take a look at yourmoney. Forty Donaho's here morning. Fact
at they're dust after exchanges we're closeto Observants of June teen THESMP looking at
a slightly higher open Dow futures risingforty points on Tuesday, a rally and
the chip makers drove stocks to anotherrecord in Nvidia became the world's most valuable

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company, topping Microsoft the search forthis company. On the back of the
frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence, the Dowgain fifty seven points. American shale drillers
will continue to raise oil production foryears before it stalls around twenty twenty eight.
That's according to HSBC, which saysthis dashes opex hopes for a quicker
fall off and output from the USoil at eighty one dollars a barrel this

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morning. And thousands of car dealershipsground to a halt yesterday by a cyber
attack, and a major software provider, CDK Global Systems provide services such as
appointment scheduling and electronic signature capabilities.Some functions are still not fully operational.
I'm Courtney Donahoe Bloomberg Business on NewsRadio seven forty ktrh own Houston's News,

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Why They're Tracks plus Preaking News twentyfour to seven. This is News Radio
seven forty kt RH everywhere. Whenare apt More of what's happening now from
the Sean Morris Services studios. Itis a five point thirty now here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrettalong with Sheriff Ryer Motor. Top stories
of this half are flooding and Galvestonand other Gulf Coast communities. The illegal

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that raped a thirteen year old.He came to Eagle Pass and coming up
at five thirty eight, five hundredand fifty deaths on the way to Mecca.
Details and the minutes ahead. You'rein Houston's Morning News. First,
we're gonna check out that morning driveagain. Here's guy mine. All right,
I think we have trouble up inthe sticks. Hey, doub boutto
East Text between Fulk Storia Road EastRiver is a major AxMan. You'll be

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careful. A lot of emergency fruitsout there. All right, Thank you?
That was l M. And I'vegot another call on the East Text
Freeway. Dude bike coming south foundfifty nine right before Splendor exit. Got
somebody in rear end and lived byrear edge of the concrete drugs flash she
likes. Therefore, all right,I could see that scutch right before twenty
ninety. I think they're going totake some extra laneage shortly. Don't forget

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to tell me your name, especiallyif you're from Splendor, because I gotta
throw in on Olive French Skymichael AGenerator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from r
KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four our weathercenter CLOUDIEV occational showers today looks like about
ninety for the high temperature. We'llget the complete forecast. We'll we talk
to Jeff Margin at the weather channelin for Terry. We'll do that in

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nine minutes. Temperature right now seventysix at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.It is time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Fryer. Good morning,everyone, is five thirty one on news
radio seven forty k TRH. Ourtop story this hour of the Houston area
did not really catch the worst ofTropical Storm Alberto, which we'll be making

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landfall in Mexico this morning. It'sareas to our south coast, especially Corpus
Christy as forecasts that caught the brontIs this what you plan on for vacation.
I no, but we love itno matter what. Just to get
out of ELLINOI yeah. Governor GregAbbott included Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston,
Harris, and Fort Being Counties nonethelessin a fifty one county disaster declaration.

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National Hurricane Center now monitoring another areaof interest for development in the southwestern Gulf
of Mexico. We have our eyeon it. This one has a fifty
percent chance of becoming something tropical overthe next seven days. We're gonna have
more with the Weather Channel in justa few minutes here on Houston's Morning News.
Also topping our news, the illegalalien who is charged with raping a

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thirteen year old girl in New YorkCity came to the United States through Eagle
Pass three years ago, Texas GovernorGreg Abbott. Since President Joe Biden is
just making every American less safe withhis open border policies. Our Americans are
dying at the hands of people thatwere allowed illegally across the border by Joe
Biden's policy. Abbott on Fox thatillegal alien charge with the murder of Rachel

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Marin is going to be extradited toMaryland today. Victor Martinez. Ernandez was
arrested in Oklahoma ten months after thatmother of five was killed. Ernandez also
suspected of a murder last year inEl Salvador. He has crossed the southern
border at least four times, oncethrough El Paso. Doesn't look like the

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new Mexican president, Claudia Schenebaum,will be cooperating with American border security efforts
anytime soon. This is why wecare what happens in Mexico. It necessarily
has an outsized effect on life andwell being in the United States. Again,
we see it every day in ourcommunity. Joshua Travino with the Texas
Public Policy Foundation. He told KTRH, we really can't assume mutual goodwill with

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Mexico anymore, HBD. I've beenidentifying the twelve year old girl who was
found murdered in a North Houston creekthis week, Joshlyn Nangare. She was
found strangled to death after sneaking outof her house. I keep caring.
Everybody's telling me everything, and Ihear it, and I hear it,

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and it's just it's not registering,and it doesn't register at all. It's
just like I feel like I'm inan alternate universe girl's mother on our TV
partner Channel two. Police still searchingfor two persons of interest men last seen
on surveillance video at a seven toeleven where Jocelyn was last seen alive.
It's now five point thirty four.Well, we're looking at the US Supreme

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Court with major rulings about to comedown today. One of them could be
that ruling on Donald Trump's claim ofpresidential immunity the president of charge with trying
to overturn the twenty twenty election results. The case itself has essentially been on
ice since late December, once anappeal was announced in the case. Judge
Tanya Chutkin, the federal judge inDC who's overseeing the case, has stopped

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all activity, at least publicly onthe docket until the Supreme Court issue resolved.
Yeah Fox's David Spot reporting there thereare also two big cases before the
Court that reflect directly on all ofus and freedom of speech, one of
them being led by Texas. Opinionsstart coming down at nine am our time.
Utah Senator never Trump Ermitt Romney wascalled out by the mainstream media after

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attending last week's Republican Senate meeting withTrump. Well, listen to how Romney
tried to explain himself to CNN.I didn't go there to support former President
Trump. I went there to listento what he was planning on doing if
he became president. Yeah. Romneyfirst has said he would not attend and
cited scheduling conflicts, but he went. Another black eye for the Biden FBI

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new memos showing the bureau actually investigatedone of his own agents as being potentially
dangerous because privately he had supported Trumpthe Second Amendment and opposed COVID shot mandates.
American thinkers Mike McDaniel believes the agencymaybe just too far gone to the
left now. Even if Trump isre elected, could the current FBI be

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fixed, Well, I suppose anything'spossible, But with Democrats already working to
completely resist Trump even before he's elected, it's definitely going to be an uphill
battle. Yeah. The FBI inthe center of the Hunter laptop scam.
Trump tried reforming that bureau in hisfirst term. He fired the director,

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James Comey, and he hired ChristopherRay. Same problems persist. Oops DOJ
has gone after Galveston County. Nowon a move that may actually backfire big
time, Sarah. As judge MarkHenry tells kat or H, this all
started over the most recent congressional map. EOJ came down and said, if

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you don't create an all Democrat precinct, we will sue you. And I
said, and you're gonna assume me. And that's what happened. One guy
said, they picked on the wrongkid for his lunch money, and I
fought back. And if Galveston Countywins, which they should, these bogus
Democrat districts will be done. They'regoing to lose House seats in the US
House Representatives over a little county commissionerprecinct. At the end of the day,

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they probably don't care that much aboutas many as twelve congressional seats held
by Democrats would be redrawn. JeffBiggs, News Radio seven forty kt ORH.
It is now five thirty coming upin five thirty seven. Texas A
and M has reached its first everCollege World Series Finals, eliminating Florida six

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to nothing. They're now taking onTennessee for a chance to win its first
ever national Championship game one Saturday,Astros Beach Chicago four to one pregame this
Afternoon starts at noon in the firstpitch at one ten on Sports Talk seven
ninety I'm Surever Fryar a news Radioseven forty KTRH Classic Elite Chevy, Sugarland

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dot Com, be Elite by EliteMore with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryar.
This is Houston's morning News. Thereis a pilgrim to Mecca called the Haj,
which involves one generally speaking, anywherebetween one point five and two million
people who go. You're supposed tomake one in your lifetime, at least

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one. It happens obviously during thehottest time of the year. There are
generally people who die during this pilgrimage. It happens every year that people die,
usually by the hundreds. This yearso far, about five hundred and
fifty have died making their way toMecca. But let's make sure that we

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blame it on climate change. Here'sthe story. In an example of how
even wealthy nations cannot deal with climatechange, hundreds have died on their pilgrimage
to the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca. They're blaming it on climate change.
It is hot as can be everysummer in Saudi Arabia. This is very

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much a desert country with intense heat. If you're going to walk a great
length, then yes, if you'renot properly hydrated, you're going to have
a problem. What's interesting, though, is that they've decided that they're going
to blame it on climate change.Is if Saudi Arabia is that much more
hot than it ever has been.The biggest problem really when it comes to
deaths on the Hojj is a littlesomething we like to call a stampede,

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which happens fairly frequently. You mayrecall back in nineteen ninety one, four
hundred and twenty six pilgrims were killedin the stampede. It's not unusual to
have hundreds of people killed that wayevery year in the Hodge. But you
know, let's make sure we blameit on climate change. Five forty time
for traffic and weather together, iswe check out the drive again, what's
going on? I would just liketo point out, because you know,

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before they get off Greeny Winnie withthe climate change thing, a Civil War
general years and years ago said,if I owned Houston and I own Hell,
I'd live in Hell and rent outHouston. It's been like this forever.
Believe me, it adds certainly duringseveral lifetimes anyone that's ever been to
Astro World. Let's do some tollbridge suckond southbound. You've got looks like

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about a four or five minute scunchthat's gonna get worse. If you are
past the river, stay the course. I think you'll be okay. If
you just insist on driving on aone lane road, I won't do it.
But six ten the Sherman Bridge islooking good, and if you still
haven't got to Crosby at I wouldplan on trying to make that six to
ten bridge. If you're trying toget over to the plants on the south
side of the ship Channel, Splendora, you got a problem. East Tex

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southbound, someone has ran into aconcrete truck. From what I'm told,
I don't have actual eyes on it. We can see the scunch, though.
This is southbound coming down from Cleveland. Be ready, it's about three
or four extra minutes here. Theymay take some extra laneage shortly too.
The rest of our freeways rocking along. I'm looking at forty five the North
Freeway now twenty four minutes from Woodlandsparkway down and let's check your west side

(29:48):
at five fifty Generator Supercenter, dotCom Traffic Center from r ktr H Generator
super Center in twenty four hour weatherCenter. We have the weather channels standing
Bhind Jeff Marr, who's need tofill you in on the forecast. The
good news is less rain to dealwith and maybe even some sunshine for the
weekend. Yes, sunshine and asa result of more temperatures heading into the
weekend, Tropical Storm Alberta about tomake landfall near Tampaco, Mexico, with

(30:11):
winds of fifty miles per hour.As far as our weather today, we
still have some gusti onchour winds andas a result of coastal flood warning still
effect until seven this evening. Otherwiseon mix of clouds and sun with a
few scattered showers and thunderstorm especially duringthe afternoons. We had ninety rain ends
this evening with an overnight low inthe mid seventies early sun tomorrow, then
some scattered afternoon storms with the highof ninety a Sunday Saturday after ninety two

(30:32):
and then ninety three for the highSunday with the chances for afternoon showers and
thunderstorms right now seventy six said yourofficials Severe Weather Station News Radio seven forty
KRH what you need to know forthe day ahead. This is Houston's Morning
News, brought to you by NewSouth Windows Solutions. It is a five
point fifty here on Houston's Morning News. So let me see if I got
this straight. The left says thatall the Biden videos are fake. They're

(30:59):
all fake videos of showing him stumblingand mumbling and bubbling and falling down and
can't find his way and being helpedoff stage. They're all fakes. They're
all fakes created by the right andbut selective energy. Yeah, select He's
cheap cheap fakes is what they callthem. So Trump it doesn't call cheap
fakes. He probably even know whatcheap fakes were, and the advisor told
him and he called it something else. And they're they're claiming that that he's

(31:22):
going downhill faster than Biden is.It's kind of you know what it is.
I figured I finally figured out whatthe Democrats are. You remember when
we were kids and somebody would insultyou, you're fat. I know you
are, But what am I.That's what the that's what the Democrats are.
Ain't even more famous, but peewee Herman, Yes, I know
you are, but what am I? Yeah? Exactly, that's who they

(31:44):
are now more than that story comingup next first though, traffic and weather
together, that's gonna stick. I'mso sorry, oh man, this check
out the skuy Mike. Let's douh, let's do some easticks again.
We've had some problems here. What'sup in the sticks? Tip or right?
Seven? Two tips? Eh?Guy? Myke com from sebastacool Again,

(32:06):
there's a minor vender vender at theSplendora Axit Hopo the entire volunteer fire
department and coaches on night, alongwith about four or five other people with
flashy lights on there. All right, Tom from Sebastopo with the banana sticker
and the verbiice. I'm in theGenerator Supercenter. Dot Com Traffic Center from
r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty fourhour Weather Center. Claude Sky schedule showers

(32:30):
high in here ninety for today,Tomorrow, mostly sunny early, A couple
of showers for the afternoon, withthe high ninety two right down seventy six
at your official severe weather station,news Radio seven forty k TRH. We're
checking out some of our top trendingstories on this Thursday morning. Here's Shera.
It's five fifty two now on newsradio seven forty k t RH.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has issued disasterdeclarations for fifty one counties in our state

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because of Tropical Storm Alberto. Asecond whistleblower comes forward about the gender modification
program at Texas Children's Hospital. Here, the state is investigating. One hundred
five year old Virginia Hislop received amaster's degree from Stanford eighty three years after
earning it. She had completed thecoursework but left before her final thesis because

(33:17):
of World War Two. Latest newsanytime at KGRH dot com. Our next
update will be at six am.Life It's stop and go, well,
just go time. Cheap up withour steady flow of updates to continue onward
ride with US Radio seven KTRH.Cheap fakes. That's the claim about all

(33:40):
these Biden videos. So here isthe here's the obedient media repeating the cheap
fake line. All in course togetherand Greg Gutfell's reaction to take highly misleading
and selectively edited videos of President Bidenand then use those videos to spread messages

(34:01):
viraally to cast out on President Biden'sfinness for office. The Republican accounts circulating
many of the clips responded, claimingthe videos are unedited and promised to keep.
We've been worried for years about AIdeep fakes, that computer generated images
are going to trick people into believingsomething that's totally false. Cheap fakes are

(34:22):
a little bit simpler. They're cheap. They're just distorted, out of context
videos chopped up in certain ways,constructed in certain ways. That's what we're
seeing. Isn't that adorable. It'salmost as if they hold us to higher
standards than they hold themselves, Likewhen Heraldo once told me a mustache would
make me look like a pervert.But CBS took it a step further,

(34:51):
tacking a digitally altered video note toa clip featuring Joe that was actually one
real I guess to protect Joe.Well, O case, try that trick.
Here is this video digitally altered.My name is Joe Biden and Jill
Biden's husband Nice all platters of Congressand homeless Security secretary hold on it could

(35:22):
be digitally altered. Let's just runit again and listen. My name is
Joe Biden and Jill Biden's husband niceall cletters of Congress and homeless security secretary.
I'm no, I'm sorry, kids, that's real. That's the leader

(35:44):
of the free world. I wouldn'tlet him lead a conga line at a
nursing home. Yeah, that happenedyesterday. I think is that yesterday that
he couldn't remember? Might have beenthe day before. We had it on
the news. Yes, Secretary ofby yorkiss name yesterday? I couldn't,
you know, and he just frozer. He couldn't remember New York as his
name, and I'm not sure hecould say it if he could remember.

(36:06):
He was announcing his big initiative,Christy initiative, which was the day before
yesterday. Yep, there you go, five fifty six our time here on
News Radio seven forty k trh.This is Huge Radio seven forty kt RH
Houston Live Everywhere with the exclusive audiohome of NBC's coverage of the twenty twenty

(36:30):
four Paris Olympics. Now the latestnews, weather and traffic. It's more
of what matters to you from theJohn Moore Services Studios. Well again,
Good morning. Six am is ourtime here in Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer MongerTop Stores. This half hour we have
fifty one Texas counties declaring a disaster. AI already interfering with elections and coming

(36:52):
up at six awaight. Tired ofbeing scammed. Stop answering your phone details
in the minute to head. You'rein Houston's Morning News. Let's check out
that morning drive again. Here's skyMike. Looks like they've cleared our problem
in Splendora twenty ninety. I'm lookingaway. I may be looking too far
up. Let me slip a littlefurther down. All right, sixty nine
East text. Yeah, around twentyninety you had a concrete truck involved in

(37:13):
this and toe truck. Ninjas havetaken care of that new problem. This
is Golf Freeway. We're looking atan accident that hit at Dixie Farm Road
northbound, knocking out two left lanes. Hopefully we're okay. Look out for
backups from El Dorado and something scunchedup downtown. I forty five northbound the
pier salvated right at Allen Parkway.Let me get some eyes on that gets
you some laneage at six' tenfrom the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

(37:37):
From our KTRH top tax Defenders twentyfour hour weather center for today,
Clottie sky s cacial showers with theI temperature right about ninety We'll get you
a complete update on the forecast.Here. Will me talk to Jeff Mahert
the Weather Channel will do that innine minutes. Right now, it is
seventy six at your official severe weatherstation. News Radio seven forty KTRAH eight

(38:00):
is timed out for the news.Here's Sheriff Ryer. It's now six oh
one on news Radio seven forty kTRHR. Top story. This auratropical storm
Alberto making landfall in Mexico this morning. As expected, the impact of the
city of Houston was minimal with MattaGorda Bay, Galveston Surfside Beach dealing with
rain and also that big storm surge. Rising water happens quite a bit just

(38:22):
with the high tide. Storm surchpushed it in quite a bit. Luckily,
a lot of the way rain wentto the south of US. Yeah,
that's the pictures you're seeing on NationalTV. That man was on with
our TV partner Channel two. TexasGovernor Greg Abbott declaring a disaster. Though
for fifty one counties most of theworst hit downstream down coast from US,

(38:43):
but here as well, Harris,fort Ben, Galveston, Chambers, Brazoria,
Matta, Gorda, and Warden.It opens up the ability to get
loans and rebuilding efforts. Also toppingthe news the election, we keep hearing
more about AI and it's in influenceand how it can factor into the vote.
Sarah, it turns out the AIchatbots are already a problem. For

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instance, if you're asking whether youcould register to vote on election day in
a key swing state Pennsylvania, andit said yes you can and no you
can't, and that's problematic. That'sMatt Kittle, senior elections correspondent for The
Federalist. Really, what concerns meis the people behind the chatbots, behind

(39:30):
the artificial intelligence, are the samepeople who are interfering in our elections In
twenty twenty AKA covering up the HunterBiden laptop story. Jeff Biggs, News
Radio seven forty KTRH. We're findingthe Donald Trump's poll numbers are not being
hurt post verdict in the battleground states. Anyway, He's leading Joe Biden in

(39:52):
Arizona among LI likely voters by sevenpoints now. This is according to Rasmussen
looking a nearly thirty year old trimTrump may actually be able to win over
voters between the ages of eighteen andtwenty nine to vote Republican for him in
the twenty twenty four presidential election.The Republican Party can carry forward Trump's potential

(40:15):
victory in November by modeling the partyafter Trump's populist message. Yeah. Wende
Luseba with Breitbarty says it's the populistmessage of Trump plus rising inflation. That's
why Trump's been able to make significantinroads with young voters who are just trying
to get the most for their moneythese days. Robert F. Kennedy Junior

(40:37):
missing CNN's deadline last night in orderto qualify for the next week's presidential debate.
He has only fifteen percent in threeaccepted polls, as stated by CNN,
and only qualified to be on theballot in just six states. He's
running as an independent. Texas influencerswho spread propaganda on social media will soon

(40:59):
have to say if they got paidto post. The Texas Ethics Commission changing
the rules this week to keep pacewith political advertising that until now has only
forced disclosures during commercial advertising when thestandby your Ad provision was passed. This
is before social media really became animportant platform for campaign advertising. Yeah,

(41:24):
UTSA professor John Taylor. He sayspolitical advertising has now skyrocketed on platforms specifically
like X it is six oh fiveour time. George sorows he's trying to
get Democrats to speed up his purchaseof radio company Odyssey. Is getting money
from abroad, by the way,and making this purchase, and current FCC

(41:45):
rules state that foreign ownership cannot exceedtwenty five percent. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr,
a Republican, told Fox A sorrowshut cut shortcut is not okay looking
at this, we're an ownership rule. I agree with Congressmanship Roy the extasy
should not be creating this special Soroshortcut. Yeah. Honesty is the second

(42:08):
largest radio network in the US behindiHeart. But don't forget the SEC is
led and it has a majority ofDemocrats. Recent European parliament elections showing a
shift towards far right politics as acollege is really populist politics are winning the
day across Europe and away from theleft leadership of failing policies. Just like

(42:32):
Americans, Europeans are sick and tiredof you know, policies that are you
know, let's say, said,you know, very progressive in many cases
far less that aren't always necessarily interestedin Americans or Europeans perspectives. It starts
by labeling it all far right.Foreign policy analyst Harry Catsiana says, what's

(42:53):
happening over in Europe, though,can easily happen here in America. It
is now six oh six looking atour money. We've got new numbers from
mom Off University showing that half ofthis country is struggling to maintain this status
quo financially. We've told you foryears that the FEDS have been cheating fudging
jobs numbers under Biden. Now weknow that half of all jobs listings that

(43:16):
they the Labor Bureau of Labor Statisticsskits are fake. Jeffrey Tucker with the
Brownstone Institute says it's been done byemployers to scare employees and to make those
companies look better than they are.Their HR departments need something to do.
They have whole divisions of companies designedfor recruiting and promotion of jobs, and

(43:37):
if there aren't jobs, they don'thave the jobs themselves. Yeah, we're
just learning that almost eight hundred thousandjobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics claimed
to were created in the year twentytwenty three, they weren't. They were
fake jobs. They had to reviseit downward eight hundred thousand jobs. So

(43:58):
much for that is going to makeyou think more too, about how we
treat our veterans. American soldiers morelikely to die from suicide than anything else.
Eight hundred and ninety six died ofsuicide from twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen,
compared to just ninety six by wayof combat. What happens to the
military veteran who's experienced hyper purposefulness,hotal clarity of identity than also it's gone.

(44:22):
Former Navy Seal Clinton Bruce says,part of it to society not being
welcoming to them. While there aresome resources for them to access, there
remains issues to fix. Accessibilitated approachabilityof this challenge has to throw he says.
Pride also gets in the way forveterans, which they need to do
a better job at addressing. AndrePerard, News Radio seven forty KTRH astros

(44:43):
meat the White Sox four to one. They're closing out the series today coverage
at twelve pm noon on Sports Talkseven ninety Magnolia High School grad Adam Clothenstein.
Urstein could make his major league debuttoday after being called up by the
Saint Louis car Knows. I'm surea friar on news Radio seven forty KTRH.

(45:05):
I live in Conrad, I livein Deer Park. Next on the
ten, You're a reliable forecast onseven forty KTRH six O nine is our
time here in Houston's morning news orcar warranty. Those are the phone calls
that I used to get what Iused to answer the phone, which I
don't anymore. Everybody I know hasa name attached to their phone number.

(45:29):
So if a number pops up andthere's no name attached, guess where that
call's going. It's going to voicemail. And if it's important, they'll leave
me a message and I'll call themright back. If it's not important,
they won't leave a message cause they'retrying to sell me something. It really
is that simple. Washington both saysa story. Sick of scams. Stop

(45:50):
answering your phone. Plenty of peopledo it. Is he a number,
even a toll free number, andthey answer the phone anyway and talk to
these people. Some of them arereally really slick. But you know the
thing about the prices of share thatreally pisses me off the most, pardon
my language, is that the greatState of Texas and plenty of other states
do it too. Give up myinformation so these people can call me.

(46:14):
The Secretary of State's office does it. The Department of Public Safety does it.
Public information? They sell it.They sell it to the highest bidder.
They they're making millions of dollars.They don't do nearly as much as
Google does. No, that's truetoo. But you know, we cannot
buy anything online without giving your phonenumber pretty much, and that means you're
going to be open to everything.There you go, right after I buy

(46:36):
something online, that's when here theycome again. Well, and we started
getting a whole bunch of phone callsright after Elizabeth renewter driver's license. Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, that'swhat that's that's that's the latest one when
it started to public information. Thereyou go six' ten time for traffic
and weather together. If they're like, hello, is this Michael Valdez.

(47:00):
You don't know me. You don'tknow my voice. When I answered the
phone, like people don't know me? Doing with that? Okay? You
know everybody's like that's blue right,yeah? So what do you doing?
Do you hang up real quick?Oh yeah? I'm like, well he's
not here right though. We gotyour roads here. I sixteen ninetiest text
freeway beIN from a Taska Sita.Whate I am? I taking the N

(47:22):
exit. There's a pickup truck withthe flash roots on the right hand lane,
very light lights on it, andonce you go I can west.
They're an eighteen wheeler. As soonas you get onto the I can that
broke down in the right hand lane. Also, all right, boom,
that's a pair of banana stickers.Been from a Taska Seda. Let's check
on the south side here Stephen andBoston's looking happy this morning. Two eighty

(47:44):
eight. I might eats from Alvettwo eight north sound just about airport.
Get the breaks pretty good, noissue as far as I can see.
But it was a little bit ofrain coming down, all right. They
just cleared that golf freeway deal atScarsdale or northbound at Dixie Farm Road.
It's out of the way. Staythe course on forty five out. The
backups go away pretty quickly. Thisis your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center

(48:05):
from r KTRH top tax Defenders twentyfour are Weather Center. We have Jeff
Maarr ready to fill you in onthe forecast. It's going to get better,
right, Jeff, Yeah, thisis going to get better as we
make our way into the start ofthe weekend. A little bit drier and
also a little bit warmer. Andwe also have the summer solstice occurring this
afternoon at three fifty if you're boundabout today. Breezy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms developing as we make our wayinto the afternoon hours. And we still

(48:25):
have a coastal flood warning until seventhis evening along the coast with these Gussie
entre are winds, some more waterpiling up at the coast at times near
ninety for a high. The rainmoves out this evening with an overnight love
of seventy six. We'll see sunearly tomorrow that a few afternoon storms at
the Hive ninety sun China, warmerweather Saturday after ninety two for the high
and some afternoon thuttererstorms to wrap upthe weekend on Sunday with a high ninety
three degrees. Use traffic and weather. You're starting your day right with Houston's

(48:52):
Morning News, brought to you byNew South Windows Solutions. Does a new
president in Mexico mean better thing forthe border in dealing with a cartel?
Probably not. We'll talk to JoshTravino, he's at Texas Public Policy Foundation
about that coming up next. First, first, traffic and weather together.
What's going on sky Mike? Oh, a whole lot of stuff going on.

(49:14):
First of all, we did clearthat golf freeway problem, and the
squish northbound is just about out ofour way, so that's the good news.
East Text. I thought they'd clearedthat wreck around twenty ninety. Remember
I've got no straight visual, soyou are my eyes coming down the East
Text and the sticks Clayton splendor,our dude, Good morning, Scott,
Mike. On the inbound side ofthe East Text, right when you go

(49:35):
over the heel of East River Drivenamed the left car on this pretty bad
looking rag, all right, sowatch out southbound. I still think they
may have to take some extra laneagenow that you mentioned it. Clayton and
Bananas took her for your head.We've got Sam Tollbridge. Here we go
with that scunch. That's an extraten minutes on the southbound if you're trying
to get over to Deer Park.Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic

(49:57):
Center from r KTRH top tax.There's twenty four hour weathers under clouding sky
is cacial showers, high temperature todayright about ninety tomorrow, mostly sunny early,
couple of showers for the afternoon,ninety two Sunday on Saturday, Partly
cloudy on Sunday. Temperature right nowis still seventy six at your officials.
Severe weather station News Radio seven fortyKTRH. Let's get you caught up on

(50:17):
some of our top stories on thisThursday. Here's Sherah Well. It is
now six twenty two one News Radioseven forty KTRH. Tropical Storm Alberto making
landfall in Mexico. Now, LouisianaGovernor Jeff Landry signs a law requiring the
Ten Commandments to be posted in everypublic school classroom in that state. The

(50:38):
Airline Pilots Association, guess what,They've put out a new manual banning the
use of all kinds of words likethe term cockpit, mother and father.
Oh. The list goes on becausethey're non inclusive. Yeah right, yeah,
change the way we're allowed to talk? Is that freedom? Latest news

(50:59):
anytime the katiereage dot com. Ournext update will be at the bottom of
the hour. How bad things arethe twenty twenty four elections? What's really
happening? Everything in your world?Here and abroad News Radio seven forty katrh
so Joshua Travino at the Texas PublicPolicy Foundation. Does anything really change with

(51:19):
the new president in Mexico? No, unfortunately not and thanks for having me
on. Claudia Shanbaum is going tobe the new president of Mexico and October
first, she takes over from herpredecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez overdoor, who
is almost certainly in the pay ofthe Sinaloa cartel at the very least,
and Claudia herself is from the samepolitical machine. She's one of his very
trusted deputies. And there's not alot of reason for rational optimism when it

(51:44):
comes to Mexico at this point,in fact, there's a lot of reason
to think things are going to getmuch worse. Yeah, we talk about
you've talked about Sinaloa. Well,cartels are pretty much running the government in
Mexico now, aren't they. Theycertainly are running our border quite a bit.
Yeah, you have to understand Mexiconow as really a state cartel synthesis.
You've got power holders in the state, you've got powerholders in the various

(52:07):
cartels, and they tend to worktogether at a high level. There are
exceptions. Of course, it's nota total integration, but it's integrative enough
to be able to say that theMexican state at this point really isn't a
partner of ours it used to be. Now it's really much more a partner
of its own cartels, and wehave to adjust policy and views accordingly.

(52:27):
Well, and let's talk about thatfor a second. Let's assume, for
the sake of argument, the PresidentTrump is elected. He's going to want
to get tough at the border.He's going to want to build the wall,
finished building the wall. He probablyis also going to have to do
some sort of military intervention at theborder. Don't you think it The only
way you can fight the cartel iswith the military. Yeah. You know,
one of the things that we talkabout quite a bit is that the

(52:47):
border and the border security crisis.And look, I'm from South Texas.
I've seen this firsthand for many years. The border crisis used to be a
law enforcement crisis, right, Itused to be an immigration crist and law
enforcement immigration are still tremendously important,but it's changed into something else over the
past ten years. Now it's anational security crisis, which is qualitatively different,

(53:08):
and exactly to your point. Nationalsecurity crises demand national security solutions,
and we've got to have Department ofDefense involvement in some fashion. In fifteen
the border, it's gone too farfor anything else we talk. Our first
thought when we think about fighting isto do it militarily. The Donald tromp
while he was president. He managedto not get us into wars, but

(53:30):
he certainly wielded a big club economically. Is there not just a huge way
of stopping this in Mexico? Thisfailed thing economically? Yeah, no,
great question. And look, Ithink one thing the President Trump understood very
well, and I think he'll bringback when he returns to the presidency in

(53:51):
January next year. Is the realitythat it's successful. Policy involves no military
action, but there has to bea credible threat of it, and I
think foreign leaders, including loop asoverdoor in Mexico understood that that. Undergrad's
a lot of Trump administration policy.You've got to be willing to do certain
things, but you don't want todo it, And in the case of
Mexico, I don't think it willactually be necessary if we are credible in

(54:15):
our production of power. Linking tradein security is the number one thing that
we can do to incentivize on amaterial basis Mexican power holders the state cartel
synthesis to pay attention to the securitythat Americans as neighbors deserve from Mexico,
and that linkage of trade and securityhas never happened. Mexico continues to enjoy

(54:37):
the benefits of very robust trade withthe United States and the prosperity that it
brings without any obligation to provide security. That has to change. Unfortunately,
there's an opportunity to do that.In twenty twenty six, USMCA, which
is the latest iteration of NATA,is actually up for renegotiation and renewal.
And that's going to be a majoropportunity to say, hey, if you

(54:57):
don't deliver security, you don't gettrade either, and we need to look
at that very hard. There yougo, josh Thank you, appreciate it.
Joshua Trevino with the Texas Public PolicyFoundation, six twenty seven. Time
to take a look at your money. Cordy Donaho's here, Good morning,
Tommy. The economy's growing. Lowerinterest rates on the horizon. That's the
fuel that's supporting a soaring stock market. SMP five hundred at a record this

(55:20):
morning, stops in the green deathfutures right now, up forty points.
I'm courney down a hop Bloomberg Businesson News Radio seven forty KTRH. There
are no Houston's News whether we're trafficplus breaking news twenty four to seven.
This is News Radio seven forty KTRHfive everywhere with IRP. More of what's

(55:42):
happening now from the Shoan Moore ServicesStudios. It's six point thirty here on
Houston's Porting News. I'm Jimmy Barrettalong with Sheriff Ryer Bnger Top Stores,
as have our fudding in Galveston,and other Gulf Coast communities. The illegal
that reportedly raped a thirteen year oldcame through Eagle Pass and coming up at
six thirty eight is the key tolouring office workers back to the office.

(56:04):
A desk details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,
we're going to check out that morningdrive again. Here's sky Mike.
Think some of us still stayed homethis morning. We've got two eighty eight.
We've got a bit of a squishnorthbound at the Beltway, just maybe
an extra four or five minutes upto Oorum west Loop down to Uptown.
That's about a two or three minutewait. Trying to head down to West
Timer and toll Bridge. Suckee hasbegun. It's southbound and extra eight ten

(56:30):
minutes now eight to ten minutes headingto Deer Park, just the southbound side,
Skymichael. The Generator Supercenter, dotCom Traffic Center from our kt RH
Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour WeatherCenter, Clonne sky I Scational showers HI
today right about ninety we're gonna startseeing some sunshine starting tomorrow'll that's Jeff mar
about that when we talk to him. In about eight minutes, Temp ature.

(56:50):
Right now, still seventy six atyour official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty k t RH.It is time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Ryer. Good morning.Everyone is six thirty two on news radio
seven forty k TR reche in ourtop story this hour. The aftermath tropical
Storm Alberto giving us rain in Houstonbrought some flooding to coastal communities like Galveston

(57:12):
and Surfside Beach. Even more impactcourse closer to Mexico where it's making landfall
i e. Corpus Christies, thewaves just blow you away. It's mind
boggling. Yeah, it's what happenswhen you have a hurricane come through.
And this was a tropical storm.Certainly. Governor Greg Abbott included Brazoria,

(57:35):
Chambers, Galveston, Harris, andFort Ben counties on a disaster declaration spanning
some fifty one counties because of whatbrought. What it brought, beach erosion
is really a major factor of stormsearch for all those coastal counties. National
Hurricane Center watching another area though ofdisturbed weather. It's way out in the
southwestern Gulf of Mexico, pretty muchlower following Alberto. Right now this one

(58:00):
has a fifty percent chance of developmentinto something over the next week. Also
topping our news, they are hemorrhagingat the southern border and they are arguing
in Washington about what type of bandaid to put on it when they should
be putting a tarnanquet on it andstopping this flow. Attorney Randolph Rice on
Fox he represents a family of themom of four children, Rachel Morin,

(58:24):
who was murdered ten months ago,and an illegal alien arrested in Oklahoma charged
in that case crossed the border atleast four times, including once through Texas.
Victor Martinez Evnandez is going to beextra dotted to Maryland today to face
those murder charges. We now knowthat that illegal alien from Ecuador charge in

(58:45):
the rape of a thirteen year oldgirl in New York City came to the
United States through Eagle Pass in twentytwenty one, he was captured by residents
of the Borough of Queens. Thenew president of Mexico promising to Conte can
you the same leftist policies, maybeeven further left of her predecessor. This

(59:06):
recent election in Mexico could have massiveimpacts on Texas. The United States,
and Texas in particular, has toface the reality that it's going to have
to secure the border without a partnerin the Mexican state. Joshua Travino with
the Texas Public Policy Foundation says,moving forward, we'll have to play hardball
with Mexico. We cannot cooperate withMexico on a basis of assumed goodwill of
partnership. We're going to have tocreate facts on the ground, and we're

(59:29):
going to have to create hard incentivesfor them to cooperate out of material self
interest. Travino says, ensuring thatMexico is a good neighbor and partner should
be a critical part of our foreignpolicy. Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty
KTRH Here at Home. Police haveidentified the twelve year old girl whose body
was found in a North Houston creekon Monday. She'd been strangled to death.

(59:52):
Jocelyn Nungary. HPD continues the searchfor two persons of interest in the
case, who are caught on surveillancevideo at a seven to eleven where the
little girl was last seen alive aftershe's slipped out of her house. It
is now six thirty five US SupremeCourt is going to come down with more
rulings beginning at nine am this morning. One of the cases we've been watching,

(01:00:12):
the Donald Trump claim of presidential immunityfrom prosecution. Another huge decision pending
to a couple of them on freespeech for all of us. One of
the cases we're waiting for the HighCourt to weigh in on. And here's
Fox's Christian Goodwin. With more SupremeCourt justices could soon rule on whether to
preserve a federal law that prohibits peopleunder domestic violence restraining orders from having guns.

(01:00:37):
The case involves a Texas man accusedof hitting his girlfriend and threatening to
shoot her. Justice is also expectedto decide whether the Sackler family, which
used to control Purdue Pharma, makerof oxy cotton, should be immune from
future lawsuits linked to the opioid crisis. It is now six thirty six House
Republicans continuing to push back on theWhite House claim that videos showing President Joe

(01:01:00):
Biden freezing up our cheap fakes.This is a sad, desperate attempt to
spen the reality of what's actually happeninghere and to try to get the American
people to stop asking the question thatthey're asking now, is what's wrong with
this man? Right? Texas CongressmanRonnie Jackson, a doctor with k T

(01:01:20):
H is Sean Hannity Biden's DOJ Isit too late to save it? Probably
even with a change in leadership,We're told new memos reveal the FBI investigated
one of its own agents about supportfor Donald Trump, opposition to the COVID
vaccine, and attending a Second Amendmentrally. American thinker writer Mike McDaniel says,
this is why Americans no longer trustthe FBI. You would like to

(01:01:43):
believe that they are honorable, honestpeople whose only interested in barely enforcing the
law. But considering what's happening withthe Bureau these days, you can't afford
to believe that. And that's theultimate problem. Even Donald Trump likely wouldn't
be able to turn around the bureau, considering he hired current FBI director Christopher
Ray Corey Yelson. He's radio sevenforty KTRH. It's now six thirty seven.

(01:02:06):
There's a lawsuit law fair brought bythe federal government against Galveson County on
the way it drew congressional districts,and it could end up actually costing the
Democrats in a big way. JudgeMark Henry tells KTRH the DOJ probably is
going to lose in court, andthat could lead to ultimately congressional districts being
different and it could flip Republican.This is just a county commissioner, but

(01:02:30):
the implications will be the same.Law will be applied at state House,
state Senate, US House. Everythingfrom county commissioners up to US House representatives
will be impacted by this decision.Yeah, when they drew seats, they
called these coalition seats where they lumpedtogether certain minorities in order to make sure
that they were elected that way.Well includes ones held here in Houston by

(01:02:53):
Lizzie Fletcher Democrat, Al Green Democrat, Shila Jackson Lee Democrat. We're gonna
be talking to the Judge Henry.He's joining us at seven twenty. Well,
good news for the Astros. Theybeat the White Sucks four to one
series finale this afternoon at noon,first pitch at one ten on Sports Talk

(01:03:15):
seven ninety And how about Texas Aand M. They're making it to the
College World Series Finals for the firsttime in their history, beating Florida sixth
to nothing. They now take onTennessee Game one set for Saturday night.
I'm Sherber Fryar on News Radio sevenforty k TRH World Defense, National Headlines,

(01:03:40):
Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Parrett andSheriff Fryar. We've had lots of
stories about how hard it has beento lure workers back to the office,
the ones that have the kind ofjob that can be done from just about
anywhere. So they've been giving thesefolks perks trying to get them back.
They've been giving them fancy coffee,yoga classes, DJ parties, free lunch,

(01:04:01):
and now they're thinking, maybe theyneed to do one more thing,
and this one might make as muchsense as any of them do as far
as getting people to come back intothe office. Turns out that that home
workers are tired of working about onething from working at home, and that
is their work area because a lotof people don't have room for a home
office, so they're sitting at thekitchen table one day and they're in the

(01:04:26):
bedroom another day, and you know, they're just finding place to try to
work from. Over the last fiveyears, a lot of companies transition to
what they call hot desking, whichmeans you don't have a dedicated desk.
You just use whatever desk is open. And people don't like that. They
like to have their own spot,their own place with their own stuff and

(01:04:48):
their own pictures, and they wantthey don't like the sterile environment of hot
desking. They want their own spot. So now companies, I'm having to
haul all their stuff back and forth. Yeah, stick it in a Duffel
bag. Huh, who would dothat? Stick in a Duffle bag in
I got three bags and haul itaround. We kind of have a hot
desking setup situation here where we don'treally have a dedicated workspace. I mean

(01:05:12):
we usually use the same workstations becausethey're available when we're available. We're not
allowed to put anything personal there.Yeah. Well it turns out that people
don't like that, so they're they'retalking about making a switch back, and
that may be the easiest thing todo. Give every employee their own dedicated
desk. Sake forty time for trafficking, whether it's together. Well, you're
the exception, skuy Mike, andyou've got your own spain. You do

(01:05:33):
like this bag of who I've gotthe thing that share? Give me that
says, I feel a chicken dancecoming on, and I've got this.
I got my banana stickers here.I think we all know about this thing.
Plus I eat here. Nobody's evergonna want to sit in the studio
after I've been in here. There'sa certain sky Mike funk about it.
That's yeah, yeah, we gothard heads for you. Put them on.
We're going to the east side.Let's check the toll bridge suckage.

(01:05:55):
That's an extra ten to twelve minutessouthbound. Do people get hangovers after June?
Cheap? Trying to figure out whereeverybody is this morning? Southbound?
You've got the construction and yeah,extra ten to twelve minutes if that.
If you want to jump over theSherman Bridge looks a lot better. I've
got a wreck reported coming off theworking side. This is iten over the
Sanjacento River Bridge. Jennifer from TVsitting me up trying to get laneage.

(01:06:17):
I'll get us all laneage at sixpoint fifty. That's inbound. I see
that squish now, So if totwenty five is in option, do that
go freeway starting to cram up rightaround airport. You've got a bit of
a scunch now at Griggs and Downtown. I have forty five pier elevated that
little Dallas street squeeze as this backedup an extra two SKYMIAE and the Generator
Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center, ohour Katie RhE Generator super Center twenty four

(01:06:41):
our weather Center. It is timeto check in with meteorologist Jeff mar find
out what we're going to finally seesome sunshine when we can see some least
peaks at the sun. Jeff,y'all see some peaks at the sun today,
but we also have the potential fora few more scattered showers and thunderstorms,
but the rain will not be asheavy as what fell yesterday. Sold
the little coastal flood warning until seventhis evening with some gusti onshore winds creating

(01:07:02):
some high water right at the coast. Hin you're ninety today if you rank
the develos this afternoon moves out duringthe evening with it overnight low in the
mid seventies. We'll start off withsunshine tomorrow before if few afternoon thunderstorms pop
up in the high hits ninety sunshineSaturday or the high headed to ninety two
a little bit hotter Sunday, witha chance for some afternoon thuader storms with
the high climbing to ninety three degrees. Step at you're right now, still
seventy six at your officials, severeweather station News radio seven forty k TRH.

(01:07:27):
You are commute, you are forecastyour news. It's Houston's Morning News,
brought to you buying new Southway,those solutions. We're at six fifty
here on Houston's Porn News. Wehave the timeline right around the corner.
And just to show again, sometimesI like showing why it's so great that
we live where we live and notin a place like San Francisco, which
is it's the city of San Franciscois having a mayoral debate right now,

(01:07:53):
and the mayor wants to know whyher opponent can't name three drag queens.
That's a campaign issue in San Francisco, whether or not you can name drag
queens. More in that story comingup next, first, though, Traffick
and whether together Here's Divine? Whodivine is here? Sky, Mike Paul,
I'm in all right, Pelosi's husband. Really, let's grab your hard

(01:08:19):
hats again. We're going to goto the east side. Here by the
way, if you go to churchwith me, turn your radio down for
about five minutes, and then youjust come back. We've got it ten
east. You'll see one iten EastFreeway coming in around the truck stops.
We're backing up. We had kindof a skunch there with something either stall
or record right side. He's outof the way. We're backed up still

(01:08:39):
from about twenty one hundred inbounds.Stay the course. I think that's gonna
be okay. Toll bridge about tenextra minutes this way. Let's do some
west loop down to uptown. Gotan accident at river at the River Oaks
exit, sam Phillippie southbound. That'sbacking everybody up for my chin and west
Park. Starting to squish up alittle around Highway six. We'll check the
northwest side at the seven o'clock breakand the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center

(01:09:03):
prom r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty fourour weather center today clotdie skies with accacial
showers right about ninety for the hightomorrow mostly Sunday early. There's a shower
chance in the afternoon ninety two Saturdaysunny in ninety four sunny a Sunday,
partly Cloudie's like shower chants ninety four. Right now, we're at seventy six

(01:09:23):
at your official severe weather station,news Radio seven forty KTRH. We're checking
out some of our top stories.Shara has those six fifty one now on
news Radio seven forty KTRH. Theseheadlines sponsored by Moral Mechanical Disaster Declaration issued
for fifty one Texas counties by thegovernor making possible assistance with damage from tropical

(01:09:45):
Storm Alberto. A family of Taekwondoblack Belts have stopped the sexual assault of
a teenager working at a next doorstore in Katie. They held the assailant
until police arrested him. Today SummerSolstice, the first official day of summer
and the longest day of the year. If we get to see the sunlight

(01:10:06):
latest news anytime ktiurah dot com.Our next update will be at the top
of the hour. How bad thingsare the twenty twenty four elections? What's
really happening? Everything in your world? Here and abroad News Radio seven KATRH
Name three drag queens. No,not the famous ones like RuPaul that Mike

(01:10:27):
was naming. We're talking about dragqueens in San Francisco. Evidently that is
a topic of discussion at the bayoraldebate, not just in the first debate,
but in the second debate. SanFrancisco Mayor London Breed challenging her opponent
to name three drag queens, whichhe couldn't do the first time, and
some reaction from Jeanine piol on thefive you were at the debate last week

(01:10:49):
and couldn't name any drag queens onyour own. I was wondering if you
could. This is an opportunity tore dean yourself, and if you could
named three LGBTQ advisors for your campaignand three drag queens in San Francisco.

(01:11:11):
Those people are nuts. Okay,they are nuts. They don't care about
the people who live in San Francisco, They don't care about anything. They're
just like Gavin Newsom. All right, wasn't Gavin at one point the mayor
of San Francisco. Well, well, it was wonderful under him, But
I want to talk about what's wonderfulunder Gavin Now. The country's six worst
roads in the United States are inCalifornia, Oaklynn, San Francisco, San

(01:11:36):
Jose, Anaheim, Long Beach andLos Angeles Greasy Gavin can take credit for
that. And San Francisco, youknow it's moving out, Amazon, Anthropology,
Target, Old Navy, Google,Macy's, North From's, Whole Food,
Starbucks, and they want to talkabout drag queens. Yeah, let's
talk about at least we have aDemocrat mayor who wants to talk about roads

(01:11:58):
in infrastructure, right inblic safety policeexactly that those are the issues that a
mayor should be concerned about, nothow many drag queens you can name.
All right, time for the timeline. We're gonna give away another pair of
tickets to go see the Doobie Brothersand the Robert Craig Band June thirtieth at
the Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets around saleright now at Live nation dot com.
But you can win a pair fromus. Just tell us what year today's

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timeline's from the Right to Vote isthe crown jewel of American liberties. It
was June. President Reagan signed theVoting Rights ac Count number one not guilty
by reason of insanity. There's averdict in the John Hinckley trial. The
count charging him with attempting to killthe President of the United States ran new
at the Theater. The film Poltergeisthas its opener speak Away on television A

(01:12:46):
soon. Nel Carter starred in GiveMe a Break and number one on the
radio, Toto Rosanna, What yearwas? If you know seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four, that's seven one three two one two
k t RH. Good luck,all right, we have ourselves, so

(01:13:10):
whinner? That would be Matthew inTexas City. He did the right years
nineteen eighty two. Matthew, youget a pair tickets go see the Doobie
Brothers with the Robert Craig Band.June thirtieth of the Woodlands Pavilion. Enjoyed
the show and thank you for listeningto Houston's Morning News. This is Huge
Radio seven forty kt RH Houston LiveEverywhere with IRM, the exclusive audio home

(01:13:33):
of NBC's coverage of the twenty twentyfour Paris Olympics. Now the latest news,
weather, fantaffic, it's more ofwhat matters to you. From the
John Morris Services Studios. Seven amis our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett Long with Sheriff Fryer. Among our top stories. As
half hour, we have fifty oneTexas counties declared a disaster. AI already

(01:13:57):
interfering with elections and coming up inseven to eight criminals, beware of a
family who knows why a tai kwondo. There we go first, though,
let's check out the drive. SkyMike is standing by with laced on.
That on behalf of all my Facebookfriends. Wha I think we all graduated
the same year. Jimmy. We'relooking at Westboom six' ten northbound at
postok. It's hard to get eyeson this guy so disabled vehicle is he

(01:14:20):
taking up the middle It's hard totell you let me know, but northbound
we're going up to uptown, whichmakes sense. We're backed up from bell
Air Southwest Freeway northbound. We justcleared a stall at Newcastle, got some
breaks from Fountain View. I'm Skymike. It's your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic
center from r KTRH top tax Defenderstwenty four hour weather center for today,

(01:14:41):
we're looking at mostly Claudi's guys.Shower chances off and on with a high
temperature right about ninety This should beit though for rainy days. I mean
we could see a few pop upshowers or storms every day through the weekend,
but mainly we're going to see somesunshine for change. Right down seventy
six at your official severe weather station, news Radio seven eighties. Time for
the news. I'm so sorry.Here's Sheriff Friar. Here, I am

(01:15:04):
seven oh one on news radio sevenforty krh's new sponsored by partners in building
a top story this hour. Oh, I mean, I've kind of been
around it, but I've not everseen it like this. Tropical Storm Alberto
making landfall in Mexico this morning,but being on the dirty side of the
storm certainly did its hit on Texas. The Houston area did avoid a directed

(01:15:27):
of course, Galveston surfside Beach,Matagorda Bay did get some heavy rainstorms,
but really it was a storm surgecausing the flooding that you're seeing on the
national photos right now. Other partsfurther down the coast got hit with both.
It looks pretty nasty out there,water coming up to the dunes into
the access roads. Beaches are closedoff. Yeah, storm surge and riptides

(01:15:50):
still a serious issue. Tyler Castillowith the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi,
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a disasterdeclaration for fifty one Texas counties,
including though Harris, Fort, Benn, Galveston, Chambers, Brasouria, Matta,
Gorda, and Wharton. It allowsus to apply for assistance federal assistants

(01:16:12):
once we know what the damage is. Also topping the news the November election,
growing concerns about AI artificial intelligence itsrole in the vote. Matt Kittle
with the Federals says there's already beeninterference from AI chatbots. If you're looking
to artificial intelligence for answers to electionrelated questions, chances are you're getting the

(01:16:33):
wrong answers, and that's a bigproblem. Most widely used chat bots provide
incorrect information more than a quarter ofthe time. He says. Big tech
companies have signed a voluntary agreement toblock AI, but we all know what
happened four years ago with big techblocking. They only block the Conservatives.

(01:16:54):
We warn you this week about trustingevery poll. Fox now with latest numbers
showing Joe Biden is actually leading DonaldTrump by two points overall nationally, a
three point swing just since May.An abortion seems to be what the key
issue is among independent voters. Meantime, Trump has made inroads with several traditionally

(01:17:19):
Democrat demographic groups they're getting panicked,including young voters. Trump is now within
two points of Joe Biden with votersaged eighteen to twenty nine. People graduating
college are very discouraged when they allof a sudden had to pay massive rent
prices, massive food prices. WendellHusibo with Breitbart News says he thinks this

(01:17:42):
could continue all the way through theelection. I think that young voters absolutely
will feel the pain come November becauseinflation is steadily rising, costs as steadily
rising. Husubo says, if theGOP wants to keep this momentum up with
younger voters, they should model theirmessage after Trump's Ethan Buchanan. News Radio
seven KRH CNN has decided that RobertF. Kennedy Junior, an Independent,

(01:18:04):
is not eligible to debate in thepresidential debate they're hosting this coming week.
He only reached fifteen percent polling favorabilityin three of their accepted polls and had
only qualified to be on the ballotin six states they demanded fifteen. It
is now seven oh four. Relationshipbetween Biden and Israel it's deteriorating. Israeli

(01:18:30):
Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo slamming theBiden administration this week, claiming that the
United States is halting weapons shipments neededto fight Iran and other common enemies.
It's unconcealable that in the past fewmonths the administration has been withholding weapons and
ammunitions to Israel. The video statementreportedly upset American officials who canceled a scheduled

(01:18:54):
meeting between the US and Israel regardingIran. That's Treeks reporting, YNGST reporting.
Europe starting to see a surge inpopulism is threatening the power structure there
because of leftists failed policy of itsleaders. Foreign policy expert Carry CASSIANUS believes

(01:19:15):
what's happening overseas is a preview ofwhat we're going to see and are already
seeing here in the US in thevote in November, I think looking at
the polls over the last couple ofmonths, it's clear that things have tracked
Donald Trump's way and towards candidates thatare more you know, MAGA focused in
the Republican Party. French and Italianshave soundly rejected leftist policies. They're voting

(01:19:41):
against the EU and in France theyhad to declare new elections for their parliament
there. It is seven six nowpainted the pomp this morning. Gasoline prices
around Houston climbing two since over nightthree oh one a gallon, and bad
news if you're looking for a newjob, because all the statistics we're getting
from the Biden administration fake news.They've had to revise last year's total down

(01:20:05):
eight hundred thousand because of the waycompanies were reporting. Half of all job
postings according to the latest numbers,aren't real. Companies find an advantage to
advertising jobs that don't exist. JeffreyChecker with the Brownstone Institute says that there
are many reasons why companies do this. It makes them seem like a vibrant,

(01:20:26):
growing company with job opportunities for all. That also scares existing employees that
they're easily replaceable. And keep thisin mind, fed shared your Own palal
recently said that the Bureau of LaborStatistics over State's payroll numbers. Cliff Saunders
News Radio seven forty KTRH reality formost Americans. According to Monmouth University,

(01:20:47):
half of all America is now strugglingjust to stay where they are right now
financially, even as your dollar isworthless. You know, Olia high school
grad. This is some good news. I like to say it. At
seven o seven now Adam Clofenstein.Clofenstein could make his major league debut today.

(01:21:11):
He got called up by the SaintLouis Cardinals. Gotta find out how
to pronounce his name. Astros beatChicago four to one. Pregame this afternoon,
and it starts at noon, firstpitch at one ten. Right here
on Sports Oh on Sports Talk sevenninety our sister's station. I'm shere Friar
A news Radio seven forty KTRH ninetynine one h T two. It's US

(01:21:32):
Radio seven forty KTRH on FM Houston'sNews, Weather, traffic and Talk at
ninety nine one HD two. Afamily is being hailed as heroes after stepping
into stopping attempted sexual assault at aneighboring business in Katie. This happened on
Monday. The heroes are han On, his sons Simon and Christian, and

(01:21:53):
his daughter Hannah. They showed upat their studio. What does their studio
say? Young in tie Kwondo maybelts. All four of them are black,
belts. Criminal don'tes stand no chanceagainst black belts, that's for sure.
They said they heard a scream.They thought it was horseplay. Then

(01:22:14):
they heard a second scream, whichwas a horror scream. They went inside
the wireless store, opened the doorto the back room, found a man
on top of a young female employee, and that's when they went at action,
got him, offer, subdued him, called the police, and waited
for the police to arrive. They'rebeing held as heroes. They don't really
necessarily feel like heroes, though,they said. They said, not necessarily

(01:22:38):
heroes. Were just doing what isright. A man is on top of
a girl trying to assault her.I mean, what's the right thing to
do? Take him off and holdhim there until he gets arrested. Yeah,
it's the right thing to do,absolutely, But how many people in
that instance would do the right thing? How many would even respond? How
many people would ignore the scream?Maybe they would call the cops from their

(01:23:00):
cell phone, but how many ofthem would actually go in investigate, respond
to the situation, and subdue thepotential criminal. And the dad apparently held
held the dude up against the wallin a corner and buy his shirt He
had twisted his shirt around his neck, holding him there until the cops could
get there. But the guy wasbiting and scratching him. You know,

(01:23:21):
he's going to be tested for rabiesnow, I mean think about it.
Yeah, no bacterial infection or somethingelse. I should give him a little
little chop maybe, Well he didn't. He waited for the police put him
to sleep, as we say,because he could. Yeah, seven ten.
That's good news. Though. Hewarms your heart like seeing criminals get
their ass kicked on videos. That'seffects. By the way, Sharon,

(01:23:45):
I'm a statistic I got broken intolast night my back window in the truck.
Oh no, not in the ghettoeither, not at the ghetto house
in the heights. Well, criminalsgo where the money isn't it. I
guess right, the fitness place there. Let's do't we'll get to a tip
line shortly. First, let's goto the west Loop six ten. In
fact, I need your help.I can't see this directly west Loop northbound

(01:24:06):
at Woodway. There's something in theway. Uh, I know, I've
got a stall. I see thesquish coming up northbound. Yeah, that's
a pretty good big hubbub coming upfrom bel air. It's an extra nine
minutes this way southbound. I don'tthink that's rubbernecking. I think that's just
the usual down to uptown thing wehave. That's an extra three or four
minutes. That makes sense. KatieFreeway, You've got breaks at Frye Road

(01:24:27):
North Freeway. We'll get to that. Let's go to David and the Woodlands.
Dude today, Guy Mike, yougot a stall vehicle in the middle
lane. I'm forty five inbound atthe Beltway. All right, watch out
from Green's Road by the way,big road work. We're gonna get to
that shortly. And blake from NewCaney out the skyline just over on the
hard Look east side. It tendwestbound as folks get over the Santona River

(01:24:47):
Bridge. Looks like there's a littlepuffle going on in the right lane.
Choe Truck Ninjo is already out therewith a police officer blokingheads. Traffic still
looks like it's moving here here well, said multiple banana stickers. Where the
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center fromour KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
weather Center. Time to check inwith Jeff Maher. We're done with the

(01:25:09):
bulk of the rain. Right,we may see a shower or two today,
but that's about it. Right.Yeah, we still have an on
shore flow, so we'll see afew showers and thunderstorms pushing in from the
gold They could produce some brief heavydownpours, but not as heavy as what
we experienced yesterday. But there stillis a coastal flood warning in effect until
seven o'clock this evening, with somegusty winds and times out of the east
and northeast. The high today andyear ninety with a few of those scattered
thunderstorms to didge as you make yourway out in about rain moves out during

(01:25:30):
the evening overnight party clouding a lowdown to seventy six, some early sun
tomorrow, that a few afternoon stormswith the high of ninety a little bit
hotter for the weekend a Sunday Saturdaywith the highitting ninety two. Then after
a dry start to Sunday, somethunderstorm should pop up later in the day
with the hide you're ninety three.Still we're up on seventy seven at your
official severe weather station, News Radioseven forty KTRH. Back to Jimmy and

(01:25:51):
Sherah with the info you need totake on the day. There are three
Texas communities that have been on FoxNews all morning, Galveston, Surfside and
Treasure Island, where I happen tohave a beach house. The storm serge.
It's a little disconcerting to watch yourhouse on DV because there's flooding going
up. Keep showing that same videoover and over and over again because that's

(01:26:14):
where the storm shirt. But allthose houses are instill your beach house short
stills, and the water's receded sinceso at least I think it has.
We're gonna check in with Galveston CountyJudge Mark Henry about a couple of things,
including whether or not the waters havereceded down on the coast. Also,
you can't get into assess whatever kindof damage you might have each erosion
and everything else. Sure, sure, he's coming up next first, though.
We've got traffic and weather together.As we check out the drive once

(01:26:38):
again, the sky might pitching fromthe stretch here, Jimmy, we've got
it, Katie Freeway back doors,Mason, we're not bumping into each other,
West Park, dragging it around Highwaysix West. Sam northbound. Got
some breaks at Bissonet and I've bananastickers Jason Ben Tom Clayton, Blake David.
I think my ad scaring them off. Jimmy, I need a female
seven two t ips. It's theGenerator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center. Those

(01:27:00):
shoes things you talk about their scaringthem off from our KTRS top tax defenders,
twenty four hour weather center for today, condumunicational showers in a high temperature
right about ninety Finally some sunshine fortomorrow early at least with a shower chance
in the afternoon. Ninety two rightdown seventy seven at your officials, Severe
weather station. News Radio seven fortyKTRH. Just check out some of our
top stories this morning. Here's Shareseven twenty two now on news Radio seven

(01:27:24):
forty KTRHUR. Headlines are sponsored byMoral Mechanical Landfall. Tropical Storm Alberto over
the city of Tampico, Mexico.US sentate passing legislation to accelerate the development
of nuclear power plants, and thatvote was eighty eight to two. Mount
Saint Helens maybe recharging. Since Februaryfirst, or been over three hundred and

(01:27:46):
fifty small earthquakes, with a magnitudeof less than two. But when it
blows, it blows. Sure doeslatest news anytime kturh dot com o next
update will be at the bottom ofthe hour. You like free stuff.
We all like free stuff. Guesswhat our iHeart radio app is free and
free. Never sounded so good.We have a couple of things to talk

(01:28:10):
about with Galveston County Judge Mark Henry. But let's start with a little damage
assessment, judge, if you wouldbe so kind, because I know my
house had about three or four feetof water underneath it. Yesterday, sir,
side got hit and there was floodingin some of the streets in Galveston.
What does it look like this morning? Are you there? Sir?
Did not have big reports, Oh, GUSA, good morning. As of

(01:28:34):
twenty minutes ago, we did nothave reports of any significant damage caused by
a coastal flooding, which we didexpect and it did occur. Okay,
well, that's good news. Thatis good news. Is the water all
receded at this point? Is itall gone? It is not all gone,
It's largely gone. There are stillsome areas where it's still draining out.
But we expect that it should bedone by noon today. I would

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think, okay, that's that's goodnews. Indeed, all right, let's
get to the topic that we wantedto talk to you about, the lawfare.
Folks of the Democrats came in toGalveston County in a commissioner's court race.
But the effects of whatever the courtruling are far reaching. Explain to
us that's correct. How does thathappen? The concept is called a coalition

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district, and a coalition district iswhat I call legal fiction. It doesn't
exist anywhere. The Democrats were ableto sell it to courts over the last
thirty years, and some courts acceptedit as being acceptable. We think that
it's not because it's not statutory law. It's just a concept that only ever
benefits Democrats. So we have challengedthe concept. We had a trial that

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the district Court, which we knewwe were going to lose, because the
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled onthis issue thirty years ago in a split
decision. We think they would liketo change their opinion, and all the
signals so far are down that path. So the Fifth Circuit said, let
us hear this as an end entirecourt because only the entire court can overturn
the entire court again, and wehad that hearing coating back on May the

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twelfth. Okay, coalition districts ishow you draw lines for congressional district,
state legislature, all kinds of thingsso that it favors minority voters so they
can be assured of having representation.Is that a fair assessment? That's pretty
close. The problem is there's noone minority group that can make up enough

(01:30:27):
to have a precinct. So theywant you to ban different minorities together,
but they only want you to banDemocrat voting minorities together. So you know,
Hispanics and friends wood in Lake City, who are going to vote Republican,
they don't want those. They wantthe Democrat voting Hispanics to be coupled
with the African Americans to create aprecinct that will again only benefit a Democrat.
So if it turns out that thisis illegal, and certainly that's what

(01:30:49):
you're hoping is going to happen here, then the seats of Lizzie Fletcher,
Al Green, Shila Jackson Lee,they're all in coalition districts, those could
all turn Republican that's correct, butwe can only give the state the tools
the state has to go back inredistrict once we hopefully win our Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals case. So ifthe states will go back and do that

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and undo the coalition districts, correct, we count five coalition districts congressional districts
in Texas. We have not hada chance to do the math on state
representatives and state senators too late forthe upcoming election. However, we will
not have a decision in time toaffect the twenty twenty four election. No,
any timely, any idea when you'llhave that decision, Judge, I

(01:31:32):
do not I The Fifth Circuit doesn'thave a timeline. They get to,
you know, work at the facethat they choose. We would hope to
have it by end of July,but again that's just our hope. It'll
come when it comes, and that'sall we can do. Would affect state
elections, and it's certainly midterms comingup in twenty twenty six. Absolutely,
if the state goes back and redistrictsas they will be allowed to do now,

(01:31:54):
ignoring the coalition district comes up.All right, Judge makes a fight
for the House a lot more important, doesn't Thank you, sir, Thank
you very much. We appreciate allthe info. Galveston County Judge Mark Henry
seven twenty seven. Time to takea look at your money, Cordy Donaho's
here oo. Good morning, Jimmy. Stocks are heading for another record high,
driven by gains and tech shares dewfutures of about fifteen points. The

(01:32:15):
optimism is coming from two places,enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and hopes of had
a reservile engineer a soft landing forour economy. Turning to energy oil this
morning, just a slightly higher eightyone dollars a barrel. Crude has tracked
other assets of late, including stocks. We get stockpiled data later today.
Artificial intelligence will replace more finance jobsthan any other industry. That's according to

(01:32:39):
City Group data, which finds aboutfifty four percent of jobs across banking have
a high potential to be automated.The insurance and energy industries are also most
prone for automation, and Ford isthe most recalled automaker in America, and
the problem has gotten so bad thecompany has delayed new vehicles. Ford will
hold newly redesigned models for up sixweeks to perform extra qua holitay checks.

(01:33:00):
Recalls have ballooned until four point eightbillion dollar a year problem for the automaker.
I'm Courtney to don A Hope BloombergBusiness on News Radio seven forty k
TRH. Are no Houston's News whetherwe're traffic plus breaking news twenty four to
seven. This is News Radio sevenforty KTRH. Trive Everywhere with the IRF.

(01:33:23):
More of what's happening now from theJohn Morris Services Studios. Seven thirty
one is our time, Houston's BonningNews. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff
Ryer Monger top source. This furflooding in Galveston and other Gulf Coast communities
looks like it's almost over for thatthough. The illegal that right, a
thirteen year old came through Eagle Passand coming up at seven thirty eight,

(01:33:45):
our national debt ready to hit twotrillion dollars and that's just for this fiscal
year. Details in the minutes aheadhere in Houston's Warning News. First,
we're checking out that boarding drive wherewe've got problems in the canyon. You
know, we just got a wholelot of people packed up Jimmy Barrett both
ways through the canyon right after thetwo eighty eight to sixty nine split northbound.
Not all kinds of breaks. It'salways terrible trying to get on that

(01:34:06):
ramp to forty five northbound. You'relosing at least ten minutes here and then
the east tax elevated from minute maymake equipment down to the Museum District exit
or the Med Center. It's twentyextra minutes that way. All right,
guys, I need your help.My work wife, Christina Cruz, just
gave me the own nothing because Ican't get lanage on the West Loop.
There's got to be somebody that cansee the laneage on the West loops.

(01:34:28):
Stall at Bracewood looks to be northbound. I'm in the Generator Supercenter, dot
Com Traffic Center, bro Mark KTRHtop tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather
Center for today, cloudy occasional showers. Looks like about ninety for the high
temperature for today. We'll see plentyof sunshine starting tomorrow and in particular for
the weekend. We'll talk to Jeffmar about that in eight minutes. Right
now, it is seventy seven atyour official Severe Weather station news radio seven

(01:34:51):
forty KTRH. It's time now forthe news. Here's Sheriff Ryer. Good
morning. Everyone is how seven thirtytwo on news radio seven KRH. Our
top story this our tropical storm Albertohas made landfall over Tampico, Mexico this
morning. Areas to our south,especially Corpus Christi down coast as forecast caught
the brunt. Is this what youplan on for vacation? No, but

(01:35:15):
we love it no matter what,just to get out of Illinois. Houston
area not hit directly. Governor GregAbbott including Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston,
Harris, and Fort Benk County ona disaster declaration making them eligible for help
in making repairing damage. National HurricaneCenter now monitoring another area of interests for

(01:35:36):
development though in the southwestern Gulf ofMexico. It has about a fifty percent
chance of becoming something tropical over thenext seven days, largely impacting Mexico the
way it stands now and we'll havemore throughout this day with the weather channel
in here on KTRH. Also toppingour news, the illegal alien charge with

(01:35:57):
raping a thirteen year old girl inNew York City came to the United States
through Eagle Pass three years ago.Texas Governor Greg Abbott says President Joe Biden
has just made every American less safewith this open border invasion. Do you
believe this policy will encourage you,as citizens and mixed status families benefiting from

(01:36:17):
this to vote for the president?I believe that you know it's important that
it is really wrong. Let ushere for the governors, I think,
for issues that mattered to them.Our Americans are dying at the hands of
people that were allowed illegally across theborder by Joe Biden's policy. Abbot was

(01:36:38):
on Fox. Illegal alien who wascharged with the murder of Rachel Maureen will
be extra douted to Maryland today.Victor Martinez Evnandez arrested in Oklahoma, ten
months after that mother of five waskilled. It took him that long to
find him. Nanda suspected of amurder last year. And now Salvador should
not have been allowed into this country, but he crossed the southern border at

(01:36:59):
least four times and once came inthrough El Paso. Doesn't look like the
new Mexican president. The new presidentof Mexico, I should say, Claudia
Shanbaum will be cooperating with American bordersecurity efforts anytime soon. This is why
we care what happens in Mexico.It necessarily has an outsized effect on life

(01:37:21):
and well being in the United States. Again, we see it every day
in our community. That's Joshua Travinowith the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He
told us we can't assume mutual goodwill from Mexico anymore. HPD has identified
the twelve year old girl who hasfound murdered in a North Houston creek this
week as Jocelyn Nungary. She wasfound strangled to death after sneaking out of

(01:37:45):
her house. I keep hearing everybody'stelling me everything, and I hear it
and I hear it, and it'sjust it's not registering, and it doesn't
register at all. It's just likeI feel like I'm in an alternate universe.
Girl's mother on our TV partner Channeltwo. Police still searching for two
persons of interests last seen on surveillancevideo at a seven to eleven store where

(01:38:11):
Joscelyn was last seen alive. It'scoming up on seven thirty six. Now
another black eye for the Biden.FBI. The Department of Justice, because
memos are showing that the bureau investigatedtheir own agent, considering him dangerous because
he supported Donald Trump the Second Amendmentand opposed COVID shot mandates. The American

(01:38:35):
Thinkers Mike McDaniel believes the agency probablynow is too far gone to the left.
Even if Trump were re elected,could the current FBI be fixed?
Well, I suppose anything's possible,but with Democrats already working to completely resist
Trump even before he's elected, it'sdefinitely going to be an uphill battle.

(01:38:58):
Yeah. Trump tried reforming the duringhis first journey. Fired the director James
Comey, you know the Russia hoaxleader. He hired Christopher Ray. Big
mistake. The same problem still persist. DOJ has gone after Galveston County two
and is a move they actually backfirebig time Kara. As judge Mark Henry
tells ktr H, this all startedover the most recent congressional map. EOJ

(01:39:24):
came down and said, if youdon't create an all Democrat precinct, we
will sue you. And I said, then you're gonna ssume me, And
that's what happened. One guy saidthey picked on the wrong kid for his
lunch money, and I fought back, and if Galveston County wins, which
they should, these bogus Democrat districtswill be done. They're gonna lose House
seats in the US House Representatives overa little county commissioner precinct. And at

(01:39:45):
the end of the day, theyprobably don't care that much about as many
as twelve congressional seats held by Democratswould be redrawn. Jeff Biggs News read
the seven forty ktr H seven thirtyseven. Now the Stros be the White
Sox four to one. They're closingout the series. This afternoon. Coverage
starts at twelve pm on Sports Talkseven to ninety. First pitch one ten.

(01:40:06):
I'm sure we frar on News Radioseven forty KTRHA info at this speed
of Houston right now. Houston's MorningNews continues with Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Fryer.

(01:40:27):
I like to bring this up fairlyfrequently, just so we don't forget
that we're just spending money like we'redrunken sailors, buck well the boards.
Yet we're borrowing money like we're drunkensailors. Are you getting ready talk about
the interest we're having to pay alittle bit. Actually, I'm going to
let ej. And Tony do itbecause he does it better than anybody else.
We frequent guested in our program.He was on Fox yesterday talking about

(01:40:47):
the national debt. We're rob readyto hit two trillion for this fiscal year
alone, two trillion that we're addingto the national debt. And he talked
a little bit about that in thepercentage of course that, as you said,
share that is going to just payinginterest. The only thing that we
pay more out on annually now,uh huh, social Security, which is
going to run out of money.We're paying more in our national debt than

(01:41:09):
we are in every other program exceptnational Security. Exactly exactly right, here's
ej Antoni. It means a wholeheck of a lot more inflation. Look,
all government spending is paid for thisidea that we can just borrow and
put it on future generations. That'strue only to a certain extent. That's
if we're borrowing from the public.But so much of what this administration has

(01:41:30):
done, Brian is borrowing through theFederal reserve. In other words, the
Fed is printing the money out ofnothing. It's devaluing the dollar. It's
causing inflation, and that is ahidden tax on people today that is paid
today, and that is why thecost of living has exploded. Under the
Biden administration, interest on the debthas already surpassed major categories like defense.

(01:41:54):
But it's actually even worse than whatCBO says or other groups, because even
the Treasure uses what they call netinterest, which frankly is a made up
category. It's not the real costto service the debt, that's simply gross
interest. What they do is theythen subtract out a bunch of different revenue
streams that the Treasury has and arriveat again this made up category called net

(01:42:15):
interest. In reality, we arealready spending over a trillion dollars a year
just in interest on the debt.That's no roads and bridges, that's no
hospitals, no schools. We're nottalking military, nothing, it's just interest.
And we got into this problem byall these social programs that we've created.

(01:42:36):
You know, we aren't spending moneyon the things that we need to
be spending money on, like infrastructure. We are spending money on programs that
just basically shouldn't be the government's jobto spend money on seven forty time for
traffic and weather together, we're checkingout the drive once again. Here's guy
my ha, I got lanea's allright. West Loop six tenth southbound.

(01:42:59):
We found it beach Thank you Claytonfrom Splendora. That is going to be
west Loop southbound right before Beach Nutand it's a right line. And he's
got a had a possum in myfan though it's the number one share a
sound bite across America. Southbound,we've got a backup coming down from uptown.
If you're going down to uptown,we're not bad. I got some
breaks right around Woodway, but thebig breakage is from two ninety to I

(01:43:20):
ten six' ten. We're gettingloopy both ways at the squeeze. If
you're on the north Loop trying toget over from Hirst, that's a big
fourteen minute dragged through that squeeze.At forty five eastbound breaks from the Heights
and downtown, we're still struggling Isixty nine east tax elevator. That solid
breaks now down to Montrose. That'san extra twelve minutes northbound Southwest Freeway its

(01:43:42):
breaks at west Park and one moretime at Buffalo Speedway, Skymike and the
Generator Supercenter. Dot Com Traffic Centerfrom r ktr H Generator Supercenter, twenty
four hour weather Center. Time tocheck in with Jeff mar and see if
we can get a few peaks ofsunshine today. The big thing is we
need to start drawing things back outagain, Jeff. Certainly do we have
a rainfall surplus of over a footas far as the rain we've received so

(01:44:03):
far this year, and we're notdone today. We'll still have some scattered
showers and thunderstorms pushing in from theGulf, a high right around ninety and
it's told me wenty at times inthese Gussie onshore winds resulting in a coastal
flood warning until seven o'clock this eveningright at the coast with some high water.
Rain tapers off this evening overnight partlyclouding alone in the mid seventies.
Will start off with sunshine tomorrow beforea few scattered afternoon thuaderstorms develop in the

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high hits ninety A sunny Saturday ofthe high ninety two, a little bit
hotter Sunday of the few afternoon thunderstormsand a high year ninety three right now
seventy seven at your officials, SevereWeather station, News Radio seven forty k
TRH. What you need to knowfor the day ahead. This is Houston's
Morning News, brought to you byNew South Windows Solutions. So a bill
that Senator Ted Cruz is working onwould bring landmark protections to victims of deep

(01:44:53):
fake revenge porn. We see allthese new things that we have thanks to
new technology we have to be worriedabout, and it's really kind of scary.
Little girls in middle school exactly,your child, your daughter, your
daughter being there, your boy.I mean, it's the bullying having her
face put on a porn actress,for example, and then just spreading it

(01:45:15):
around. They're talking about making thata felony. More than that story coming
up next. First, though,traffic and weather together as we check out
the drive once again here Skyline.We're getting to be in the red around
town now. Just doesn't matter whichway Southwest, Free Way. You've got
the breakage right after the West Park. In fact, that's making the West
part. Those backups are connected likeany bone. You'll get some breaks right
after he'll croft in bound. Youlose about eight minutes and then you got

(01:45:36):
to deal with the big squish aftera greenway plaza. A lot of breaks
at Kirby fourteen extra minutes this waysouth glop six' ten. We're going
from MLK to NRG. It's easyto spell, but it's an extra eight
minutes westbound. I'm Skymike the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com Traffic Center from r KTRH
Generator of super Center, twenty fourhour weather Center Today Clounie skyes cacial showers

(01:45:59):
hig Tepert. You're near mostly Sundayearly with a shower chance in the afternoon
tomorrow ninety two, Saturday looks great, Sunday in ninety four, partly claudi
in ninety four on Sunday with aslight chance of pop upstorm. Temperature right
now is seventy seven at your officialssevere weather station. News Radio seven forty
KTRH. Time to check out sometop trending stories on this Thursday morning.

(01:46:19):
Here's shera Good morning seven fifty twonow on news radio seven forty KTRH.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is issued ata disaster declaration for fifty one Texas counties
after Tropical Storm Alberto lashed our coast. First time, jobless claims dropped by
five thousand. They came in attwo hundred and thirty eight thousand for the

(01:46:40):
week. Authorities in Nevada now lookinginto us being called oh. Another one
of these mysterious monoliths reportedly appearing outof nowhere in a desert near Las Vegas.
This is either the fifth or thesixth, maybe seventh. One hmm.
What's going on? Latest news anytimektih dot com. Our next update
will be at eight am. Doyou understand? I check it all the

(01:47:06):
time. Keep up with what's happeningyou staying in form matters to the JEWS
Radio seven forty KTRH in a pornfilm, not because she was actually in
a porn film, but because herface was superimposed on a porn actress and
then sent out. Revenge porn iswhat they call. It's amazing what you

(01:47:28):
can do with artificial intelligence. Mywife and her friends fool around with it
scares the death out of me.They were superposing their faces on supermodels and
it was scary. I mean it'sscary. It was my wife, supermodel.
It looked like her. You'd swearit was her, at least her
face, but it's not her,and there's no end to what they can

(01:47:50):
do. Senator Ted Cruz very concernedabout this. That's why he's champing a
bill to make it a felony toperpetrate revenge born on somebody. Here he
is on Fox explaining his bill.Sadly, this is a sick and twisted
pattern that is getting more and morecommon. There are thousands and thousands of
people who are victims just like Elliston. We are saying, if you look

(01:48:13):
online, of the deep fakes thatare online, up to ninety five percent
of them are non consensual intimate images. And the technology is such that you
can take Ellison had a perfectly innocentpicture on social media that another teenage boy
at her high school took and usedan app to turn it into a deep
fake, and you can turn theminto pictures, you can turn them into

(01:48:36):
videos, and with technology, youcan't tell that they're fake. You think
it's real. And this is apattern that is being used to abuse.
Almost all of the victims are womenor are teenage girls. That's who's targeted.
And so the Take It Down Actis bipartisan legislation we introduced yesterday that

(01:48:56):
does two things. Number One,it makes a crime. It makes it
a felony to do this that ifyou target on adults, you can be
punished up to two years in prison. If you target a child, you
can be punished up to three yearsin prison. But secondly, and the
second piece is really important, itputs a legal obligation on the big tech
companies to take it down, toremove the images when the victim or the

(01:49:16):
victim's family asks for it. Youknow, Anna Elston's mom went to Snapchat
over and over and over again,and Snapchat just said go jump in a
lake. They just ignored them foreight months. Yep. Yeah. I
was to say, okay, youmake it a felony, But what if
it's a kid who puts it up? I mean, who goes to jail,
who gets charged with a felony ifyou're eleven years old? Right,

(01:49:40):
I mean, until you can sue, but taking it down and forcing the
companies to take it down right assomething else. But until you start hitting
them with jail or money, thiskind of stuff's going to go on.
Well, and I don't think necessarilythe two years is enough to have the
impact that you would want to have. I mean, it seems to me
that especially if it's involves an adultpraying on a minor child, it should

(01:50:01):
be a lot more than two years. Yeah, but it shouldn't just be
up to the state to determine,you know, right, give people the
power to sue the hell out ofthem. Well, well, I think
the good news bringing down a company, the good news is I think they
probably already have the right to gointo civil court. But you know,
you're talking about attorney's fees and allthe other things that go all over stan
on the First Amendment. Sure,these big tech companies. Yeah, well

(01:50:24):
First Amendment rights. Well, Iget that, but make it actionable easily.
This is probably a good bill.Yeah, well, it's a good
starting. We'll see if it getspassed exactly. All right, Well,
listen, you'll have a great day. We'll see tomorrow morning breaking nearly at
five am. I'll see you thisafterm at four on AM nine fifty KPRC