Trump Continues to Make Cabinet Picks

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 11/12/24.

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Good morning, five AMSR time Here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories as we get
started this morning, Trump's makes more cabinet picks, will his
second term be even more productive than his first? And
coming up in five oh eight, are we going to
write off eighty thousand pounds of butter because of this?
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

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we're checking out that morning drive for the first time. Hey, Skymike, Hey, we.

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Just cleared something off the west Loop sixty ten. That
was a minor accident on the north found right past
I ten where all the merging happens.

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But for now that's back out of our way.

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We could clear the board, reset the jackpart rest of
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Speaker 6 (01:17):
Thank you, Jimmy. Good morning everybody. It is five oh
one on KTRH. Our top story.

Speaker 7 (01:23):
I'm a big fan of the senator. He's an amazing guy.
He's just with him a couple of days ago. He
worked very hard on the campaign and we're a big
fan as a family of the senators.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
Eric Trump with KTRH as Sean Hennity reacting to the
news that Florida Senator Marco Rubio will be President Elect
Trump's choice to become US Secretary of State. Various reports
now say that South Dakota's Christy Noan will be DHS secretary,
Florida congressman in Greenbury Mike Waltz is going to be
Trump's National security advisor, and Lee Zelden, the former New

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York congressman, will lead the EPA. With these picks, and
after years of attacks, the Democrat ra that's very well
have unleashed the best version of Donald Trump, and the
dams are freaking out.

Speaker 8 (02:06):
Now the Democrats, they're worried that Donald Trump is gonna
somehow weaponize the federal government to go after political enemies.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's writer Tristan Justice, with the federalist.

Speaker 8 (02:15):
Democrats everything in their power where Donald Trump's returned to
the oval office, and I think Democrats should raise themselves
for probably one of the most effective Republican presidents of
this country have seen sins fromer Reagan.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
And he believes Trump will fulfill his campaign promises. Jeff
Biggs News Radio seven forty KT eight.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
Thank you, Jeff. But well, the Dems, in more specifically
the deep state get in the way. We already know
that a former FEMA employee told staffers not to help
Hurricane Milton victims if they had Trump signs in their yards.

Speaker 9 (02:46):
I definitely know it's criminal. It's just a matter of
what the prosecutors can hang on them. I mean, it's
the dirtiest, most insulting thing I've just ever seen in
emergency management.

Speaker 6 (02:56):
Former FBI Special Agent Jonathan Gilliams says this is the
result of leftist ideology throughout the federal government and unless
something is done, these unelected officials will continue to target
Republicans five h three. Now, Trump will have a Republican
House in January. Decision desk HQ gives the GOP a

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ninety nine percent chance of winning with two hundred and
nineteen to two hundred ten advantage over Democrats. Republicans will
have a fifty three to forty seven advantage in the Senate,
as the AP officially calls the Arizona race for Democrat
Reuben Diego over Carrie Lake. Senate Republicans choose their new
leader tomorrow. The President ELECTO is yet to back any

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of the three candidates.

Speaker 10 (03:38):
The real question is whether President elect Trump would endorse
a candidate that's risky. It would be an embarrassment if
mister Trump tap someone and that candidate loses. Mister Trump's ally,
Elon Musk, is supporting Rick Scott of Florida. The other
candidates besides Rick Scott former Whip John Cornyn and current
Whip John Soon.

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Fox's check at program. The Tarrant County Republican Party is
opposing Cornyn's run, and a resolution that they recently passed
the party's executive board said at once to see quote
a majority leader that represents President Trump and the America
First Agenda five oh four now on KTRH in Austin, Texas.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says his top priority in next

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year's legislative session will be school choice. The Senate, of course,
passed avoucher plan last year, but the House, led by
Speaker Date Feelin, never took up the proposal. The race
for House Speaker will be decided in a few weeks.
It's down to two candidates, the incumbent Dade Feelin and
the challenger, David Cook.

Speaker 11 (04:41):
On December seventh, the Republican Caucus is going to get together,
and if fifty three Republicans choose somebody other than Daid Zealand,
then David Cook would then have the caucus endorsement. This
would make it even harder for Dade to keep his
coalition together.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Political analyst Luke Mascia says that fifteen state Republicans lost
their seats following for following Feeling and the failed impeachment
of senat State Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton filed another
two lawsuits against the White House yesterday, one of them
to prevent the destruction of any records from Special Counsel
Jack Smith's investigation into Donald Trump. Paxson has now sued

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the Biden administration one hundred and one times five oh five.
Markets are flat and overnight trading after the Dow closed
above the forty four thousand mark for the first time ever,
Bitcoin closing in on trading at ninety thousand dollars. Crypto
up more than five percent since the election. From Wall
Street to Main Street. There's some unusual behavior going on

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in the housing market these days.

Speaker 12 (05:42):
Number One, there are more cash buyers today. It's people
who built equity in their homes selling off but paying
cash for a new home. So the average age of
home buyers is now up to fifty six. Number two,
there are corporate buyers of plenty. They don't need mortgages.
The founder and CEO of Presidio, Jennifer Joe, says, the
effort is still worth it, so there.

Speaker 13 (06:04):
Is value in jumping into the market. It's just extremely difficult,
so if you can find a family member to help
you do it.

Speaker 12 (06:10):
Michael Shiloh use Radio seven forty kright.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Ask for commercial real estate. With more companies telling workers
to come back into the office. Demand for office space
across Houston is rising, but economist Van Skin says those
companies may need to find replacement workers in a tight
labor market.

Speaker 14 (06:28):
Some people will go back in the office. Some people
will find a different job. They'll leave that job and
go to a different job that doesn't require them to
be in the office.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Gain telling KTRH that years of working from home has
changed the way we actually work and it won't be
easy to go back to the way it used to be.
Coming up on five oh seven, the Rockets beat the
Wizards one oh seven to ninety two. They host the
Clippers tomorrow night College Hoops. After losing to Auburn, UH
falls from fourth to eighth in the latest rankings. They
will play Louisiana tomorrow night. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's

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Speaker 3 (07:05):
Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning Used Team,
Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
You do you like butter? Nobody? Nobody likes butter as
much as my Elizabeth does. Butter is, for example, a
piece of toast, or a piece of bread, or or
popcorn or anything else that you might put butter on
is merely a way to deliver the butter to her.

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The piece of bread that she will eat would be tiny,
but it would be loaded with butter. And why not.
Butter is good stuff. Everybody likes butter, right, and nobody
likes to see butter wasted. Which makes this story from
the Food and Drug Administration maybe this is let's put

(07:53):
Can we put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On this one? First?
The Food and Drug Administration recalling seventy nine two hundred
pounds of Kirkland's signature butter that's sold to Costco. For
those of you that go to Costco, you know that
that's almost eighty thousand pounds of butter. I'm not even
sure how much butter. Eighty thousand pounds, that's a that's

(08:16):
I can imagine, you know, a one pound carton of butter.
Eighty thousand of those suckers. So why are they recalling
the butter? It must be dangerous, right, it has to
be to waste that much butter, it has to be
really dangerous. The reason why they're forcing the recall is
evidently there's nothing on the label that says it contains milk,

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and therefore they're worried that there is an allergen issue
or potential allergen issue. Is there any other way to
make butter that doesn't include dairy. I'm unaware of a
way that you make butter. You can make margarine, because
that's not butter. You can make that because margarine is

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like made out of vegetable fat, and what's in that
vegetable fat animal fat or a combination of both, you know,
coloring and chemicals and other things to make it be
like fake butter. Real butter is just fat, water, salt,
and milk solids. That's all butter is. Butter. It's churned

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from milk or cream. It's that's what butter is. There
is no butter without milk, So we have to waste
eighty pounds of butter on something that everybody knows contains milk.
Does that make sense? Five to ten? Time for traffic
and weather together. It's your favorite butter commercial. I don't

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know that. Remember any butter like, yes, you do.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Remember Remember how the Native Americans going muzzle They're all
lined up singing the Missola song.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Mizzola is not really butter though, that's margarine, isn't it.

Speaker 15 (09:59):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Oh, well, since you mentioned that, how about the one
where he opens the lid of the park and it
goes better that one.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
I remember, I remember sky Mine. How about it's not
nice to full of mother nature? I don't know how
this is in my head.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
We've got Nord Freeway, you know why, because it's flinky
time on the freeways. Now, somebody out there may beg
to differ. And that's why we have our tip line.
That's what makes us first to know what's going on
on the roads. It's seven one three two one two
T I P S.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Let's see there.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
We've got Nord Freeway outbounds after air text.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
It's better.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
No, it's road debris. I don't know what it was,
some kind of stuff. They picked it up. We look
good Woodlands down twenty three minutes. I'm going to defer
to the gentle lady from Georgia. Is it nice to
full mother nature?

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Terry?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
I'm in the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic center.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
She is here by the way. Hello, She's got some
butter on her toast, got a you know, a cup,
a cup of coffee going here this morning. She's better,
she's ready to fill us in on the forecast. Here.

Speaker 16 (10:54):
What was the one with the king sky Mike?

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Remember? Oh god, yao? Is that Imperial Margarine.

Speaker 16 (11:02):
Yah, there you go.

Speaker 17 (11:03):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Don't ask me why we remember that. We remember all
this stuff. It's in our head. No we don't.

Speaker 18 (11:08):
We have to.

Speaker 16 (11:08):
It takes three of us, take three brains to come
up with one answer. And no, it's not nice to
full mother nature. Oh so, hey, if you've been hoping
for some fall to show up at some time in
our lifetime, we may see a little bit of that
later in the week. I'm seeing a cold front on
the way with some cooler weather. Not a lot of
rain though. In fact, no rain today, just sunny and

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temperatures are still warm, not as warm as yesterday, but
still warm. Upper seventies to low eighties. Tomorrow. There is
a chance of a shower too, but mainly near the
coast when that front moves through. Low to mid eighties
tomorrow and then Thursday, Friday and Saturday. No rain, just
sunshine and temperatures every day in the seventies.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
But you're ride down sixty here at your official severe
weather station. News radio seven forty KRH oh my turn
five nineteen here in Houston's morning news. Right, the president
has made some choices four cabinet members. He's been very busy.
Christy Nome, Homeland Security Secretary. I didn't see that one coming,
did you. Tom Homan. We talked a little bit about
him yesterday, more on Tom. The reaction, as you can imagine,

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has been a little severe from the left on Tom Homan.
But Tom Holman, technically he's going to be the borders are.
He's not going to be a secretary, a cabinet secretary,
So Trump can pick anybody he wants as far as
that goes. More than that story coming up next. First,
at five twenty, it's time for traffic and weather together,
starting with you s guy, Mike.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
All right, we picked up that whatever that road debris
was on I forty five Northtown at Airpads. It's not butter.
It's some kind of stuff that was in the road,
but it's out of the way.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
We look good.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Twenty three minutes from Woodlands down into downtown.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
The rest of your freeways rock. I'm Skymike.

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Speaker 1 (13:42):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
Welcome to this.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Welcome to the know.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
People have the right to know. To know what else,
stay in the know. Note with US Radio seven forty
KTRH my twenty two cent time here in Houston's morning news. Right.
So we have a border zar. His name is Tom Holman.
We had Tom Homan on the program. Although he's not
easy to reach here because we've been trying the last
couple of days to get a hold of him. And

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now you know, now that he's been made, borders are
I have a sneaking suspicion he will be very difficult
to reach going forward. Uh but you know, the biggest
being panned by the left, So if it's being panned
by the left, it must be a good thing, at
least in my mind. If they don't like it, then
I almost automatically will like it. So they talked about

(14:27):
it on the Five Years Stay, including Judge Jean Perrol
giving her opinion of the selection of Tom Homan.

Speaker 19 (14:33):
Published, safety threads and national security threats will be the
priority because it has to me, they oppose the most
dangerous country. I don't care if you public came a
Democrat or independent state. Borders security is national security.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
It's in.

Speaker 19 (14:46):
Some of these democratic governors say they're going to stand
in the way they're going they're going to make it
hard for us. Well, you know a suggestion. If you're
not gonna help us, get the hell out of the way,
we're going to do it to the American people.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
President Trump is going to secure this order American lives.

Speaker 20 (15:01):
He was in the first Trump administration. He has been
a star wart support of the president during the last
four years. Look, he has the president has a mandate
popular vote, the Electoral College. The American people want this,
and right now they're estimating that there are twenty million
illegals in this country. And when you try to assess

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who's going to be deported, Homan said, the bottom line
is if you come into this country illegal illegally, you're.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Not off the table.

Speaker 20 (15:30):
So I say to myself, I suspect they're.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Going to start with the criminals. All right.

Speaker 20 (15:35):
The first it's felons, the violent felons, and then it's
the criminals, and then it's going to be what about
those people who had appointments for asylum and then never
went to court. They should be deported immediately as well.
So they're going to try to revive and remain in Mexico.
They're going to try to get the third these individuals
to stay in a third country. And all of these

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governors they can resist all they want, but seventy five
million Americans want this done.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
You know. Tom Homman said something interesting yesterday, and maybe
this will come to pass. He said that maybe what
some of these people should do is self deport In
other words, you know, the border's closing. You know that
we know who you are and where you are. I
don't know how true that is or how many people

(16:24):
we actually I guess some of them we know who
they are and where they are. And it just would
be wise if you just went ahead, if you're worried
about splitting up your family, whatever, just gather your family
and head on back to your country of origin. Just
self deport. And my guess is there may be a
few people who do that, but there won't be There

(16:45):
won't be a ton. But you know, we'll see, we'll
see what happens. I remember back in twenty eighteen when
Tom Homan was testifying in front of Congress, you know,
and getting grilled by a Cassio Cortes and the other
far left Democrats in Congress. You know, they kept trying
to bring up the specter of separating children from their families,

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and he said, you know, I used to be a
police officer when we would when we'd have a child
abuse case, we would separate the child from the family.
If dad was driving drunk with the kids in the
back seat, we would separate dad from the family. It's
under those circumstances where we do that. If families want
to stay together, it's very simple. They stay together. They

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all go to wherever they're going to go together. So
it's not really a matter of separating families the way
the left would like to portray that it is. It
gets to be a choice. You chose to come here illegally,
you've chosen to stay here illegally, and now you have
a choice to make again, whether or not you want
to voluntarily go back to your country of origin and

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take your family with you, or if you want to
roll the dice and see what happens here. Five twenty
six hour News Radio seven forty KTRH. It is time
to take a look at your money. Jeff Bellinger, Good
morning to you, sir.

Speaker 21 (18:02):
Good morning, Jimmy. Stocks advanced in Monday's training. The Dow, Nasdaq,
and S and P five hundred all settled at record
highs Futures are a little bit lower at this early hour.
Tesla shares rose another nine percent yesterday. Fans of the
electric car maker were reinvigorated by Donald Trump's victory in
the presidential election. Home Depot's comparable store sales declined in

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the latest quarter, but not by as much as feared.
The company raised its sales outlook for the year. Home
Depot says demand for home improvement goods has increased that
was partly driven by bad weather. It also reported a
pick up in sales of some seasonal goods and supplies
for outdoor projects. And Chipotle Mexican Grills interim CEO is
named permanent chief executive. Scott Botwright gets the vote of confidence.

(18:48):
He's been leading the restaurant chain since August, when Brian
Nickel moved on to the CEO's post at Starbucks. I'm
Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg Business on News Radio seven forty ktrh.

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Speaker 4 (19:18):
It is five thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, today's
the deadline for Trump's New York case. At least one
group is decided who won the House, And coming up
at five thirty eight, the EPA is going to start
charging oil and gas companies for burning off methane. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's morning news first

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for this first, here's sky Mike. All right, let's go
to the.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
South side here Golf Freeway I forty five south and
we look good coming up from Texas City.

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What would burning a little methane there?

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for the news. Here's Cliff sanders.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Hey to Jimmy five thirty one on KTRH and our
top story. The deadline is today for Manhattan Judge Wan
Murshawn to decide if he'll toss Donald Trump's conviction from
earlier this year. Trump may be covered by the US
Supreme Court ruling giving presidents some immunity. Now, this does
not mean that the Democrat law fare is over, as

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the president elect still has cases pending and Democrat prosecutors
targeting him.

Speaker 23 (21:01):
New York ag Letitia James says she's prepared to quote
fight back against Trump.

Speaker 24 (21:06):
I'm in the left in the country are interested in
attacking President Trump, so he can't work on his agenda
because he has to send off all these attacks the rumors.

Speaker 23 (21:15):
Gary Pollinds with the Texas Conservative Review told ktr H
Americans just aren't interested in this lawfair.

Speaker 24 (21:20):
They don't care about coning after Trump. They don't think
they just qualifies them from being president. If you look
at the polling, every time they're being a new charge
of new indictment, his numbers will go on.

Speaker 23 (21:29):
Pauland says these left wing legal attacks are going to
be even less effective now because Trump knows what's coming.
Ethan Buchannan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Five thirty two. Trump reportedly selecting Florida Senator Marco Rubio
to be Secretary of skate with the rest of his
team coming together.

Speaker 25 (21:45):
Florida Congressman and China Hawk Mike Waltz has been named
as White House National Security Advisor. He was a huge
surrogate for Trump on the trail, and former New York
Congressman Lee Zelden heads the EPA and Congressman at least
Defonic has been to be the next US ambassador to
the UN.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
That is Fox's Ayisha Hanse. CNN reports that South Dakota
Governor Christy Noam will be Trump's DHS Secretary. Decision Desk
HQ now gives Republicans a ninety nine percent chance of
retaining control of the House of Representatives. Their projections right now,
giving Republicans two hundred and nineteen seats. RNC coachair Lara

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Trump on Fox's reaction.

Speaker 26 (22:25):
I kind of think that it's like the American people
broke up with the Democrats on Tuesday night, a bad breakup.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
Republicans will have a fifty three to forty seven advantage
in the Senate Republicans in that chamber will elect its
new leadership tomorrow. Florida's Rick Scott, South Dakota's John Thune,
and Texas Senator John Cornyn are running to replace Mitch McConnell,
who is stepping down from leadership. Younger voters turned against
Kamala Harris last week. The radical left's trans agenda playing

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a big role in that.

Speaker 27 (22:57):
Why would I believe a word that comes out of
your mouth on any subject if you can look at
me and say confidently that men can become women and
vice versa.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
Former college swimmer Riley Gaines telling our Clay and buck
On KTRH that the issue exposed how radical the Democrat
Party has become. It's five point thirty four. Looking at
your money. The President elect needs Congress to extend his
tax cuts before the end of next year, but can
cut regulations immediately to help the economy.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Bank regulation in particular.

Speaker 28 (23:29):
He can come in and say, I'm going to change
this so banks can make the kind of loans we
need them to write.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Parts says that changes in bank regulations could supercharge the
Trump economy quickly, and that oil and gas would benefit
the most from less regulations. That was John Carding. By
the way, oil futures are slightly up this morning to
just over sixty eight dollars a barrel in trading. Trump
is looking to shake up healthcare as well, with most

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of the pharmaceutical drugs we use right now coming from China.
It's one reason why David Blot, the CEO of Healthcare
Finance Specialists, is happy to see people like RFK Junior
coming into power.

Speaker 29 (24:10):
There's opportunity to improve all of these entitlements that we
have so that they're more efficient and they're doing what
they're intended to do and not just making insurance companies
richer and growing bigger and bigger.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
A lot adds that to shake up in healthcare is
sorely needed. A warning though. Drug dealers are using fake
online pharmacies and search engine loopholes to sell illegal drugs.

Speaker 30 (24:33):
They appear legit but link you to buying drugs without
a prescription.

Speaker 31 (24:37):
That's been an issue for years now. I mean there's
some websites that the FDA has flagged, and I mean
there's still an operation.

Speaker 30 (24:44):
Elaanne Mallin of The Washington Examiner says many of the
drugs have been laced with fentanyl. And companies like Google
need to take some action.

Speaker 31 (24:51):
Or regulations should be at play. The fact that you're
able to easily track down cocaine from just a simple
Google search on the first page, you know.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
That is She says.

Speaker 30 (25:00):
You can protect yourself by checking if there's pill prices
because pharmacies won't do that Andore Perard News Radio seven krh.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
I thirty six. The anti Israel protesters at Columbia University
were back yesterday on Veterans Day, holding what they called
a Martyr's Day protest, drawing out a group of student
veterans who responded with their own peaceful protests.

Speaker 32 (25:23):
It's a pledge to maintain.

Speaker 33 (25:25):
Freedom to church by all marias speech, freedom of religion,
freedom from lawns, and.

Speaker 16 (25:33):
Freedom from fear.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
And those students that planted American flags on campus. With
college enrollment falling, some universities are dropping degree programs that
are no longer deemed viable. Jean Burke with College Prep Genius,
says the cost of college alone is reason enough to
pick the right field of study.

Speaker 34 (25:52):
Takes the average sudent twenty years the payoff college debt,
and according to the Flabor Department, one third of all
earnings now are from a non traditional nine to five job,
so it's definitely incumbent upon young people to do their research.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
She says, forget about English lit or fine arts. She
recommends technology, business, medicine, or anything that can't be automated. Finally,
SpaceX with not one but two successful launches from Florida yesterday,
one of which put twenty four Starlink satellites into orbit.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather, and traffic station,

(26:27):
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
More with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News teams.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
This is Houston's Morning News. All right, well, I guess
burning gas is one thing. Burning methang is another. Five
thirty ages their time here in Houston's Morning News. We've
got the EPA, the Biden Administration EPA, not to be
confused with bubblebe of the Trump administration. EPA, has decided
that they are going to begin charging oil and natural

(26:59):
gas companies, yes, for burning off methane. You know, when
you drive by and I forget what the process is called.
I should I've been in Houston long enough I should
know the answer to that. But you know where you've
got the flame going, the burning off methane into the atmosphere,
and methane is considered by the EPA to be a
super pollutant. They believe it's bad for the environment. So

(27:20):
I'm not sure how much they're going to charge, but
they're going to start charging if you exceed certain levels
of methane. That's the bad news for the oil and
gas industry. Here's the good news for the oil and
gas industry. You've got the rest of November, December, and
part of January to be concerned about this, and knowing
how slowly government works, my guess is it's pretty pretty

(27:44):
safe to say that maybe the EPA is not really
going to get alout around to, you know, taking any
testing or or or or putting out any bills or
making any fines before the Trump administration takes over. Now,
Lee Zelden, we found yes day of the New York
former New York Congressman leez Eldon he is going to
take over the EPA. I'm not sure exactly where he

(28:07):
stands on burning methane, but my chances are pretty good
that there'll be a change in many different Environmental Protection
Agency policies once the Trump administration takes over by forty
time for traffic and whether together flaring. Thank you, that's
the word. I couldn't come up with that. I looked
everywhere and I couldn't find it. It's so cool too.

(28:28):
I love to see them, you know.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
That's a flaring is an industry to itself, you know,
like one of my father in law's work for Allied Flair.
I don't know what other companies they are, but love
to hear from y'all out there. Let's you know what,
put on your hard hats. We're going to go to
the hard work and east side. See who's flaring over here?
It in east checking out from Mott Bellevue, Chevron Phillips.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Boy, that's a huge plan.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
We look good twenty four minutes and now flip over
to the.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Other side of the Heart Member.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
It's two twenty five as we passes, that's still du
Punt coming over from one six yep yep, passing KBR
and the east Sam all the way to Goodyear Plant.
We're looking good, rocking long, full speed south side Larry.
It's funny that you know he's from down Under and
he lives down under Houston six ' ten south Larry.

Speaker 32 (29:12):
Hey Sky Mike eastbound just ahead at two eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
It love a flashing lights like to left lane taking
up much sure as an accident on the Broadwood.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
They're picking out, pinching down to one lane.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
All right, if you're going from NRG to MLK, that's
easy to spell. It's tough to get around there, Terry.
Check out that picture of the sunrise. Jack from Connecticut's
listening on the free iHeartRadio app. I'm in the classic
Buick GMC traffic Center from r ktr H Generator super
Center twenty four hour where the Senator Terry is here,
and I guess we're gonna be able to see a

(29:44):
beautiful sunrise this morning around here, aren't we?

Speaker 16 (29:46):
I think we are. Boy, It does look like a
beautiful morning there wherever Jack up in Connecticut. Yes, ah,
nice sunrise there. We should have a nice sunrise here
about six forty four this morning, so in about another hour,
so lots of sunshine, not just today but really all
week long. It's slightly cooler today. The trend is for

(30:08):
some cooler weather, but just a little bit cooler today
upper seventies to low eighties tomorrow. There's a chance a
twenty percent chance of a shower. Two if you are
near the coast. We've got that col front moving through,
so we may see a brief shower. It's going to
be warmer ahead of the front tomorrow, low to mid
eighties tomorrow, and then Thursday, Friday and Saturday sunshine and

(30:30):
temperatures in the seventies anywhere from the low to upper
seventies for the rest of the week.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Deeperture right now sixty Here at your official severe weather
station is Radio seven forty k TRH. What you need
to know for the day ahead.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
This is Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New
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Speaker 4 (30:48):
So far, there's only one news outlet that is reporting
that the Republicans have maintained control of the House of Representatives.
This is how many days after the election, and many
of them aren't anywhere close to calling these races. It's
really quite amazing. News Nation was the first television outlet
that did that. I'll share a load of the audio

(31:09):
from that coming up next. First, though, let's do a
little traffic and weather together, and that starts with you
sky Mike. All right, we've got a wreck on the
I forty five.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
The Golf Freeway northbound feeder at Dixie Farmer and I'm
going to double check that direction, but it's it's in
the feeder road, so you can get around it just fine.
Just to suspect that nothing good's happening there, I'm hearing
rumblings of a pedestrian a southbound okay, southbound Dixie Farm.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Road south Floop six ten eastbound.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
They have now reopened the lane's handsome loaf left over
roadwork southside.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Larry with this morning sports banana sticker and seven two tips.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Let's check your ship channel bridges at the six o'clock
news break Skymike on the classic Puick GMC Traffic.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center.
Sunny and warm, right about eighty for today, most of sunny,
very warm, slight chance of a coastal shower Tomorrow eighty
four and then Thursday sunny a mile I load the
mid seventies. Temperature currently is sixty at your official severe
weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time to

(32:09):
check out some of our top trending stories this morning.
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy five to fifty two. Trump's
cabinet coming into shape, with Marco Rubio of Florida. Reportedly
the choice is Secretary of State. President Joe Biden welcomes
Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the White House today. And
according to new research, if you put led lights on
the bottom of surfboards, it might reduce shark attacks. At

(32:32):
the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next
update is at six o'clock fifty nine.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
KTRH time saving traffic connext on the ten.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Five fifty three. Now here at NEUSTA This morning news.
All right, Well, the Republicans have had a lot of winning,
won the White House, won the Senate handily, and now
would appear they have also won the House of Representatives.
Although very few news organizations Schoolnybox News, you know, all
the mainstream certainly all the mainstream media outlets done to them,
seem to be willing to call it News Nation. Did

(33:10):
they called it Chris Cuomo. Here's Chris Cuomo on NewsNation
making the announcement of why they believe the House of
Representatives will be in Republican control.

Speaker 35 (33:19):
Decision Desk HQ our polling watching partner can now say
that the GOP will take control of the House of
Representatives and therefore all of Congress. Now, why aren't you
hearing this everywhere? Because News Nation once again has called
it first. The real question is why again DDHQ has

(33:41):
been on its game, and just as important, Unlike a
lot of other outlets, News Nation has no preference in
the outcome as long as it is accurate and fair.
So there's nothing for us to wait for. If this
is what it is. This is what it is. So
now let's talk about what it will mean for you, me,

(34:04):
and our entire country. With both houses, President elect Trump
will likely be able to get legislation through now, as
we've seen in the past, a president with both houses
can get one, maybe two major pieces done. Okay, then
the midterms come, which have been historically punitive to the
sitting president, but these days, who knows what happens.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
But here's what we do know. Okay. While it will take.

Speaker 35 (34:29):
Time for Democrats and dissatisfied voters to process the loss,
that's not really unusual, especially when it came as a surprise,
which it did to many. Here, they're going to have
to move through blame all these hollow, hindsight reckonings. That's
their fate for now.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
That shouldn't be our focus.

Speaker 35 (34:51):
Our focus should be forward Trump and co. Must be
forward focused, focused on what they will do to help
to help as many as they can in this country
and abroad.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
You know, that seems crazy, though, doesn't it? That you've
got control of the White House, the House, and the
Senate and you can only maybe move through one or
two pieces of major legislation a year. Why is that?
I mean, is there not a way to streamline that process?

(35:24):
I mean that sounds to me like if that's the case,
good luck getting a budget, good luck getting a balanced budge. Well,
they're never going to get a balance budget. I mean
even during the previous four years of President Trump we
didn't have a balanced budget. But that just seems crazy
to me that we can only get one or two
pieces of major legislation through in a year. By the way,

(35:47):
right now, the Associated Press claims that the Republicans have
two hundred and fourteen seats, Democrats two five, and the
rest of the month decided. The decision desk with News
Nation thinks that the total for Republicans will let up
end up being two hundred nineteen seats, which is one
more than the majority needed. It is five point fifty
six now here in Houston's Morning News. This is Huge.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Radio seven forty kt RH Houston five everywhere with now
the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
It's more of what matters to you. From the John
Moore Services studios. It is six am here in Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this
half hour. Trump makes more cabinet picks, will his second
term be even more productive than his first? And coming
up at six oh eight, well the last one out
at MSNBC. Please turn off the lights. Details in the

(36:40):
minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First recheck out
that morning five once again your sky Mike.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
All right, put on your hard hats, Jimmy and and Clifford.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Let's let's go to the hard work in east side.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
Here.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
I'm looking from I'm going backwards this morning.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
Let's go from the outside or inside out, looking from
six to ten to south loop up at the Sidney
Shermanridge six ' ten.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
We look good both ways all the way up to
the butt plant.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
Let's flip over here, take a Look at your toll bridge,
four lanes of fund this time north end southbound.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
We're good. I ten to two twenty five. Look at
the Hartman Bridge thirteen oh seven. If you're playing the
home game, that's pretty shot. We're great. From Baytown to
Laporte Rest and freeways.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
I do have that golf freeway Dixie Farms southbound. That's
all lanes blocked. Whatever goes going on there, it's nothing good.
I'm Skymichael the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Center from r KTRH stop tax defenders. Twenty four hour
weatherstunder sunny, warm today with the high temperature right about eighty.
We'll get Terry Smith in here with your complete forecast
in about nine minutes. Temperature right now is still sixty
at your officials severe weather station News Radio seven forty
k TRH. It is time now for the news. Here's
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
Thank you, Jimmy. We are sponsored by Plants for all
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Speaker 36 (37:51):
Very well run process, incredibly well organized, meticulous, big focus
on merit, making sure the best person actually gets the
job for the cun.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Vivek Ramaswami on Fox, the new Trump team is coming
together with reports indicating that Florida Senator Marco Rubio will
be the president elects Secretary of State. Elsewhere, South Dakota
Governor Christy Noam apparently will be Trump's DHS secretary. Mike Waltz,
the Florida congressman in green beret national security advisor, former

(38:21):
New York Congressman Lee Zelden will lead the EPA. Now,
these picks may be signs that the Democrats may have
given America the best version of Trump we've ever had.

Speaker 8 (38:30):
What they should be concerned about is Donald Trump being
reelected at his best. Donald Trump has an entire four
years under his background. Now I think you have a
boulder wiser empowered Donald Trump with the national mandate.

Speaker 6 (38:44):
First and justice with the Federalist also tells KTRH, he
believes Trump will be able to fulfill all of the
promises he made on the campaign trail this time around.
That is, unless some elected bureaucrats get in the way. Again.
We are ready know that FEMA officials deliverly ignored Trump
supporting hurricane victims in Florida.

Speaker 23 (39:03):
This just goes to show that the deep state is
still a threat to Trump supporters.

Speaker 9 (39:07):
It is a perfect example of how the left identifies
conservatives Trump supporters and then they try to cancel them.

Speaker 23 (39:15):
Former FBI Special Agent Jonathan Gillam told KTRH, these ideology
driven leftists are all over the federal government.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
A lot of those people were given free reign, and
the lower level people became more radical, as did the
people as well.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
And this is a type of outcome that you have,
Gilliam says.

Speaker 23 (39:30):
The key to clearing these people out is strong top
down leadership in the cabinet. Ethan buchinnan News Radio seven
forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
It's six po oh three now on KTRH. Republicans are
on the verge of controlling all of Congress. Decision desk
HQ gives them a ninety nine percent chance of maintaining
power with right now a two hundred and nineteen to
two hundred ten advantage over the Democrats. Republicans will have
a fifty three to forty seven advantage in the Senate.
As Carrie Lake officially loses the Arizona race to Ruben Diego,

(40:01):
Senate Republicans choose Mitch McConnell's replacement tomorrow. Texas Senator John
Cornyn is running against Florida's Rick Scott John Thune of
South Dakota.

Speaker 15 (40:11):
Republicans aren't perfect, but the other side is crazy, and
President Trump is going to do things differently, and we
will pick pick the leader who will help him do that.

Speaker 6 (40:22):
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy on Fox. The Terran County Republican
Party passes a resolution against Cornyn's candidacy. The party's executive
board says it wants to see a quote majority leader
that represents President Trump and the America First Agenda six
POHO four Now in Austin, Texas, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick

(40:43):
names school choice as his top priority in the legislative
session next year. The Senator, of course, passed vouchers last year,
but House Speaker Date Feelin ever brought it up to
the House floor. Fleet Feelin's speakership is up in the
air as he faces a g the election next month.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
Still up in the air, at least for.

Speaker 11 (41:03):
Now, Dave Feelan is less likely to be the Speaker
than he is to remain in his chair. The odds
are definitely stacked against him at this time.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
That's political commentator Luke Messias, who says Challenger David Cook
is now the favorite ahead of next month's House gop
cauk is.

Speaker 11 (41:21):
He already has secured forty seven Republicans behind him, so
he's six votes away from.

Speaker 30 (41:27):
Being able to secure the Republican nomination.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
That meeting will take place on December seventh. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty k T eight Thanks Jeff.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files two more lawsuits against
the Biden Harris administration yesterday, one of them to prevent
the quote destruction of any records from Special Counsel Jack
Smith's investigation into Donald Trump. Paxton hassued the Biden Whitehouse
one hundred and one times six oh five. Overnight trading

(41:59):
is flat. The Dow closed for the first time ever
above the forty four thousand mark, a new record. By
the way, that Bigcoin on the verge of trading for
ninety thousand dollars as crypto is shot up more than
five percent over the last seven days on main street,
though inflation, the corporate purchase of new homes, and high
mortgage rates pricing many out of the market. The average

(42:21):
home buyer today fifty six years old. That's up from
forty nine years old just last year. Americans simply can't
save enough for a down payments.

Speaker 13 (42:30):
And so to come up with nine percent of a
purchase price where our values have gone up so drastically,
that's a huge chunk of change to save. And when
they can't save because rents have gone up so high,
they just it's out of the question for them to buy.

Speaker 6 (42:44):
Real estate agent Jennifer Ea keep this in mind. Mortgage
rates have been going up despite the Federal Reserve cutting
rates in September and again last week. Demand for office
space across Houston continues to rise as more companies returned
to work working from the office, but economist Van Skin
says those companies may find resistance to a shift in

(43:06):
that policy.

Speaker 14 (43:07):
Many people have changed their psychology about where they want
to work, whether it be in the office or at home,
and many of people have choose chosen home.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
In telling KTRHDA companies in a tight labor market they
have to find a new workforce if they push for
a full time return to work from the office. Six
oh seven, the Rockets beat the Wizards one o seven
to ninety two. They'll play the Clippers at Toyota Center
tomorrow night, and after losing to Auburn over the weekend,
Houston Cougar's fall from fourth to eighth in the latest

(43:37):
College Basketball Top twenty five. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news,
weather and traffic station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Stay in touch on your drive in with Jimmy Barrett
and the Houston Morning News team.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
Yeah, that's MSNBC's television viewership saying bye bye six start
time here in Houston's parning news. They have a relatively
reliable audience because they're so liberal. I mean, after all,
let's face it, the reason why we don't watch MSNBC
is because we don't like any of their opinions and
our presentations, or what they have to say about Trepper

(44:16):
pretty much anything, which I guess is the same reason
why liberals like MSNBC because they agree with all that stuff.
But interestingly enough, since election Day they have lost a
staggering fifty four percent of their primetime viewership. MSNBC averaged
one point one million viewers during the month of October.

(44:37):
Think about that, one point one million. Even when their
ratings are better, one point one million people watch MSNBC
on average out of a country of three hundred and
four hundred million people. That's not very much when you
get right down to it. But then you take that
audience and you peel it away to seven hundred and
thirty six thousand people average on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

(45:00):
last week following the election, that's a remarkable thirty one
percent drop. Over the same period, Fox News viewership went
up by sixty one percent. So it might be a
combination of things. It might be a combination of liberals
just not wanting to talk about the election, not wanting

(45:20):
to hear about the election, trying to put the election
out of their minds, and and that MSNBC's very bad
habit of blaming all sorts of people for what went wrong.
You know, everybody, with the possible exception will even sometimes
including the candidate or the candidate's representatives. They don't want

(45:41):
to I don't think they want to hear it. When
when you're mourning something like the loss of an election,
you don't want to hear the reasons why you didn't win.
You just want to be left alone for a while.
I think that's at the very least that's what's going
on there. Yeah, I mean, it's it's not a very
happy place to go to these days. Right at least,
if you're watching Fox, you're watching, at least to some extent,

(46:04):
into a celebration of what went right for the election,
versus on the other side on the MSNBC, where you're
hearing a funeral dirge of what went wrong. Six ten
Time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
My neighbors weren't amused when I lit up my ghetto
house in red, white and blue the other night.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
So they did. They opposed red white and blue metal
house flashing lights. I think they know, all they do
what your celebration was all about. I think so now.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
Seven one three two one two t I P s
K g R rates listeners the first to know what's
going on.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Sixtenth south east bound, right above the overpaths of Broadway done.
There's a four car.

Speaker 24 (46:42):
Pile up in the middle lane.

Speaker 37 (46:43):
There is no lights, there is no toll Ninjas boom.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
All right, let me twitter the pretty ladies on TV.
I'll put that on there and jumping. Joe's trying hard
to not die on board. I'm working with those two
dinosaur parts across the street.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
So I'll let him and my other media friends.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
Know this is Southloop six ten eastbound Broadway. I see
the scunch from forty five and we'll double check that
laneage again. At six twenty, Jen tells me whatever's happening
in the feeder on the Golf Freeway Dixie Farm Road outbound.
There's nothing good going on, but it's not affecting your
inbound drive so far. Just you know, move along, everybody.
It's twenty one minutes from now. I'm telling the other

(47:18):
stations listeners. Twenty one minutes NASA Parkway into downtown and I'm.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Skymike, can you generator Supercenter dot com traffic center from
r KTRH stop tax defenders, twenty four hour weather Center.
Time to bring on Terry Smith here. Plenty of sunshine
coming up today, Terry.

Speaker 16 (47:32):
Yeah, plenty of sunshine today really through the rest of
the week as well. We are going to see a
coal front kind of sneak its way into southeast Texas
late tomorrow, but there's not a lot of moisture for it,
so we're not going to get much rain at all today,
A dry day. Still on the warmer side for early
November up for seventies to low eighties. There's a twenty

(47:54):
percent chance of a shower tomorrow. The closer to the
coast you are, that's where you're more likely to see
any sort of rain.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
If you get it.

Speaker 16 (48:03):
Little bit eighties tomorrow, nice warm day, but once the
front's out of here, cooler and drier and feeling like
November with temperatures in the seventies Thursday, Friday and Saturday
as well.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Deperture right now sixty at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty ktrh USE Traffic and Weather.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
You're starting your day right with Houston's Morning News, brought
to you byden New South Windows Solutions.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
Turns out there's some unpaid bills from the twenty twenty
four election for Democrats. You know, they spent one billion,
one billion dollars on the election, and supposedly they still
owe twenty million dollars. You're outstanding dead. I guess we
shouldn't be surprised by that, right, politicians overspending their budget.
Here's the Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts on this Democrat debt.

Speaker 38 (48:49):
Well, they spend a billion dollars because they spend millions
of dollars on elites, pop culture icons who might be
fine people, but what they learned was they don't sway
public opinion that much. And the more they did this,
I mean, think about this Sean paying a million dollars
to Oprah Winfrey. Who needs a million dollars if your
name's Oprah Winfrey, but more than that, which is the
waste of money, Which is an example of how they

(49:11):
run the government the last three and a half years.
It told the average American, even if they might agree
with Harris on some things, this lady can't run a government.
This isn't about elites. This is about ordinary Americans. And
we're ready to have our power back. Trump Advance won
a great victory and I think they're going to have
a huge set of policy achievements. But what the left
still has not learned is that their condescension toward us,

(49:32):
toward the two of you, toward your audience, toward the
ordinary Americans is actually part of the problem. And tell
unless they address that, we're going to keep winning election
after election and we will usher in a golden era
of conservative policy reform for the ordinary American.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Well, and you know, if that's the case, I hope
they never change. Go ahead and keep being condescending. That
works for me. We're going to talk about the Texas House.
Will date Feelin be reelected speaker or ill his opponents
of being the speaker. We'll talk about it, as they said. Next,
first though, traffic and weather together. We have a guest. Yes,
we do have a guest. Guy, Mike, we're right on

(50:09):
time this morning. All right, well'd you gotta do?

Speaker 5 (50:11):
I got to talk to young Albert from Kingwood.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
He's on the east Text.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
What happened morning, sky, Mike.

Speaker 24 (50:16):
Dude.

Speaker 37 (50:17):
It starts slowing down a lot in between the north
Park and Kingwood Drive, and right at Porter, I see
solid break. There is no movement on the inbound side
of Easton.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
All right, we are plumb backed up in Porter.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
This has got Holly from Porter and uh and Bruce
from the hard Work and east Side written all over it.
Golf Freeway. Whatever's going on there? I'm looking from Astoria.
They've shut down the feeder road southbound. Looks like nothing
good's happening there. The main lanes are fine. You're doing
a nice job of minding your own business.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
Southloop.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
The rest of the media got the memo, there's a
Rex south Loop at Broadway that's eastbound coming over from
Golf Gate and it's two center lanes here Skymike on
the Generator Supercenter dot com Traffic center from r kt
al right, stop tax defenders.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Twenty four hour weather center for today's sunny, warm high
temperature will be right about eighty Tomorrow mostly Sunday very
warm with the slight chance of a coastal shower at
a high temperature of eighty four. And then Thursday sunny
and mild high temperature low to mid seventies. How good
does that sound? Right now sixty at your official severe
weather station. News Radio seven forty k TRH. Time to

(51:19):
check out some of our top Tuesday morning stories. Here's Clive,
Hey you Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
We are sponsored by d and m autolyasing Donald Trump's
conviction in Manhattan may get thrown out today. Police in
Amsterdam report more violent incidents against Jews. This is days
after Israeli soccer fans were attacked there. And about one
third of the forty three monkeys that escape from a
South Carolina research facility are still on the run. Get
the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next

(51:45):
update is at six thirty.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Run Monkeys Run.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
Four New years.

Speaker 39 (51:52):
Big Golden Age of America, The next four years.

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Speaker 4 (52:02):
Dade Feelin wants to be the House Speaker. Still plenty
of people, including the governor, do not want him to be.
In fact, it was Governor Abden who came out and
said he has enough votes now to pass school choice,
but if Dade Feelin finds himself as Speaker of the
Texas House, that bill will never see the light of day.
Mixed little joints a former Kim Paxton defense attorney also

(52:24):
Texas House elected District sixty five that's in North Texas.
If you're not aware of that, welcome to the show, sir.
I guess your thoughts first and foremost on the chances
of Dade Feelin being re elected to Speaker of the House.
It's not looking good right now.

Speaker 40 (52:39):
I don't know if you happen to see some of
the information that came out yesterday. Apparently he can't get
more than eleven people on his side out of the
Republican caucus, which is an absolute nightmare for those potential
supporters of Dave Feelin. I mean, they'd be in probably
the primary fight of their lives in twenty twenty six
if they try to hold on with a majority of Democrats.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Okay, you've got Representative David Cook who would like the job.
I understand he doesn't have enough votes either, well he
doesn't publicly at the moment. He's got forty eight on
a list. I'm one of those on a list.

Speaker 40 (53:12):
You've got some Houstonians who are also on that list too,
representing your people. I think what you're going to see
is you're going to see people who have not come
out publicly in support of Dave Cook or Dave Feelin
saying you know what I want to I want to
get my legislative agenda done this time, and we just
we can't do this again. And so when we head

(53:34):
to the Republican caucus in about three weeks or so,
I think you're going to see some energy behind replacing
the speaker that maybe is unexpected, or maybe Dave Feelin
doesn't anticipate.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
You know, when you said he has eleven Republican supporters,
that surprised me a little bit because I know there
was a real purge of Rhinos like Dave Feelin from
from the Texas House, but clearly there are still some
that are there.

Speaker 40 (53:57):
Well, you got to understand people. People really cling to
power and the people who think that now I'm safe,
I don't need to.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
Worry about a primary.

Speaker 40 (54:05):
People who've been in the Texas House for way too
long are clinging to the authority and power that they
have as you know, chairs and vice chairs under the
Feeling administration.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
And so this is.

Speaker 40 (54:18):
Some people like to learn things the hard way, and
they certainly will.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Well. Is that true? That is very true, sir. There
are people who are in many cases are unteachable. So
what is it about this issue the Dade Feeling just
can't get behind. If he would just get behind it,
he probably could have avoided all this, including almost getting primary.
You mean school choice?

Speaker 40 (54:41):
Yes, yeah, so it's school choices is not the disease
for Daid Feeling, it's a symptom. It's that Dade Feeling's
leadership in the Texas House is completely dependent now upon
a complete the complete support of.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
The Democrats in the Texas House.

Speaker 40 (55:02):
So when he goes to county's numbers, then the Democrats
are basically his base now. And so it's it's not
just a school choice. It's the same reason we didn't
get any election integrity bills passed in the previous legislature.
It's the same reason that you see red flag laws
come up in the legislature again, over and over again.
The same reason you see sports gambling and casino gambling

(55:25):
coming up, yes and yet over and over again, despite
the fact that we have an actual Republican Party platform
item against sports gambling casino gambling. The Democrats want it.
They want to grow government, and date feeling is their
way to do that.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
All right, Mitchelle, let me ask you one last thing
about date feeling, and that what is it about that
position of the House of Speaker of the House that
is so powerful that you're willing to make a deal
with the devil in order to try to keep it.

Speaker 40 (55:53):
It's it's purely about money. So if you look at
the chairs and vice chairs in the in the Texas House,
they're able to raise them out four or five times
as much as the regular member because of their ability
to control what comes in and out of their committees.
It's the same thing for the speaker. The speaker raises
as much as i'll call it a statewide official when

(56:14):
he's out raising money and he says, oh, well, you
know what I'm doing This for you. This is all
for you, and he used he dispenses political campaign funds
in order to gain loyalty. The the problem is that
the speakership in the Texas House was never intended to
be that powerful. Is intended to be a servant position
that generally people don't serve more than one term in

(56:36):
the last twenty or thirty years. The novelty is that
we've taken a speaker admitted an inordinately powerful position. We
need to reform that job, perform the Texas House, and
we're well on our way to doing that now.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
All right, sir, thank you, appreciate your time. This morning,
it's former Ken Paxton, Defense Attorney, Texas House District sixty
five elect Mitch Little six twenty seven. Time to take
a look at your money.

Speaker 21 (56:58):
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Speaker 4 (57:45):
Among our top stories this half hour. Today's the deadline
for Trump's New York case. At least one group is
decided who won the House, and coming up at six
point thirty eight are more people now participating in threesomes.
Details in the minutes ahead Here in Houston's Morning News. First,
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Here's clip Saunders.

Speaker 6 (58:52):
Thank you, Jimmy coming up on six thirty two on
KGRH and our top story. Manhattan Judge Wan Hreshan decides
today whether or not he will throw out Donald Trump's
conviction from earlier this year on business fraud charges. For
Sean to determine if Trump is now covered by this
year's US Supreme Court decision granting immunity to the commander
in chief. But New York Attorney General Letitia James is

(59:16):
promising to continue her law there against the President elect.

Speaker 24 (59:19):
She's righting for real action. She's up in twenty twenty six,
she ran the first time saying that she's running to
prosecute Trump. That's going to be her most important thing
she can do.

Speaker 6 (59:29):
Gary polland, an attorney who's also with the Texas Conservative Review,
telling KTRH, this is all just an effort to stop
the Trump agenda. Special counsel Jack Smith has been looking
to resolve the other cases pending against Trump. Meantime, Trump
continues to assemble his cabinet.

Speaker 41 (59:46):
Governor Christy Nome could reportedly be named Secretary of Homeland Security,
which has oversight of everything from customs and border patrol
to FEMA and the Secret Service. Trump is also expected
to nominate Florida Senator Marco rube as Secretary of State.
The President could still change his mind here, but right now,
a source tells US he is planning to offer Rubio

(01:00:07):
the job, and if he does, Rubio would be the
first Hispanic secretary of State in US history.

Speaker 6 (01:00:13):
That is Fox's Brooks Singman. Trump already named former acting
ICE Director Tom Homan the border jar.

Speaker 21 (01:00:19):
I've had private talks with the President and he's going
to be stronger and better at securing the border than
he was in his first arm.

Speaker 6 (01:00:25):
That is Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Meantime, Florida Republican Mike
Waltz will be Trump's National security advisor. Republicans now have
a ninety nine percent chance of maintaining control of the House.
Decision DESKGHQ gives them two hundred and nineteen seats so far.
One above two hundred and eighteen that would be the
magic number for the majority. Republicans control the Senate fifty

(01:00:47):
three to forty seven after the Democrats landslide defeat last week.
They may be trying to change course when it comes
to their transagenda.

Speaker 27 (01:00:57):
They knew that this is not a winning issue does
it pull well in their favor. Therefore, they desperately and
effectively honestly try to run from their voting records.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
Former college swimmer Riley Gaines told ktrh's Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton that embracing this woke ideology caused the Democrats
to lose the trust of everyday Americans six point thirty
four now on KTRH. Investors are betting big on Trump's
ability to turn around the economy, since tax cuts and
tarifs will take time for Congress to act. Rereichbart editor

(01:01:28):
John Carney says Trump can immediately change banking regulations to
jumpstart more oil and gas exploration and pipeline construction.

Speaker 28 (01:01:37):
The Biden administration was trying to hurt anybody who.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
Had anything to do with fossil fuels.

Speaker 28 (01:01:41):
They try to push banks out of doing that. Donald
Trump is going to unleash energy and unleash the banking system.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Into energy again.

Speaker 6 (01:01:49):
Carney adds that changes in bank regulations could also spark
the expansion of high tech manufacturing here in the US.
Oil futures rise this morning, trading at nearly sixty nine
dollars barrel at last check. Coming up on six thirty five.
With a new Trump administration likely to include Robert F.
Kennedy Junior, healthcare reform is probably coming our way as well.

(01:02:11):
Some are calling it a new era for federal health agencies.
David Blot with healthcare finance Specialists in Texas, says, the
sooner the.

Speaker 29 (01:02:19):
Better, I think a shakeup, whether it comes from RSK
Junior or someone else, is badly needed because a lot
of the statistics related to the healthcare industry or well,
they're unsustainable, as the best way to describe it.

Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
There's room for improvement in all areas of healthcare. Search
engine loopholes and fake online pharmacies are being used by
drug dealers to push that product, sometimes laced with sentinel,
into the public domain. Lane Mellon with The Washington Examiner
says this has been a problem for a long time,
but now those links are popping up on legitimate websites.

Speaker 31 (01:02:56):
They've taken government website. You could do this right now.
You could go on Disaster Assistance dot gov and you
can typing buy cocaine and their website will come up,
and it's going to be like a user generated page
where it's going to have direct someone where to buy
the drugs.

Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
She says Google needs to put up more regulations to
prevent this sort of thing. Six point thirty six. The
anti Israel protesters at Columbia University. We're back yesterday.

Speaker 33 (01:03:21):
We stand here to honor all our models, those who
are resisted, whether violently or non violently.

Speaker 6 (01:03:28):
Holding a Martyrs Day protest against Veterans Day. A group
of dozens of student veterans on campus responded with their
own protest, planting American flags in the spot where the
Martyr's Day protesters would later hold. Some colleges are re
examining their degree programs these days.

Speaker 42 (01:03:46):
One university recently scrapped its English literature degree for no
longer being viable. The same could be said for a
lot of college majors. Geen Burke with College Prep Genius,
says the big earning potential these days is in technology.

Speaker 34 (01:03:58):
We are in the fourth Industrial Revolution, and I think
one of the things to think about when it comes
to creature proofing the criers that are going into is
think about jobs that are hard to automates. Beach if
that seems to be the trajectory a lot of fields
are going into.

Speaker 42 (01:04:11):
She also recommends fields that will always need people like medicine,
law and business. Cory Yolson, He's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 6 (01:04:18):
Six thirty seven, and the Michelin Guide awards six Houston
restaurants with stars in their first ever Texas Guide, including
Quirkscrew Barbecue in Spring Oh Yeah. Several other places got
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(01:04:39):
seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
She said that the three of us six thirty eight
is our time here in Houston's Morning News all right,
I don't know if I should share this poll or not,
but what the heck, I'm gonna go ahead and do it.
According to a poll, nine percent of Americans, they're about
one thousand participating in this poll, forty nine percent of
Americans have had a threesome, including fifty nine percent of

(01:05:11):
men who claim that they have had a threesome. That
is a rather large increase compared to what the numbers
used to say. Almost that means almost half of people,
if the poll can be believed, and I don't know
necessarily if it can. After all, they can't get the
presidential election, right, So why why should I believe this pole?

(01:05:32):
Maybe it's just something that people are claiming because it's
a fantasy item that they've had, and they think it
makes it sound like they're, you know, more attractive and
sex here if they've actually participated in something like that. Personally,
I don't quite understand that I would liken this. See
if I can put this in some sort of a

(01:05:52):
sports analogy, I prefer to play one on one and
not zone. Okay, I'm I'm not good at the zone.
I need to concentrate on one thing and one thing
only at the time. This is, this is, this is
not a good thing for people who are easily distracted.

(01:06:12):
Not to mention, I just I'm not good at sharing either,
I guess when you get right down to it. And
and why should I disappoint more than one woman? I mean,
only one woman should be disappointed as far as I'm
concerned at the time. Anyway, six forty right now, time
for run time for traffic and whether in you, sir,
you do not have the attention span to participate in a.

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
Thriso shia la la la l there we go zone
coverage there. We're not gonna call it man oh man
for this context. Let's go to the south side. You've
got Golf Freeway at Astoria. They've shut down the freeway
and the frontage road here. I just don't like the
way they're set up here. Something and nothing good's happening

(01:06:53):
there in that feeder. So it's all lanes plocked. Main
lanes are just fine. Northbound, we're actually about twenty four minutes.
You'll hit a scooch on the northbound right around Broadway
because i'll call it park Place.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
Right around park Place, you hit a scooch.

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
That's because those of you on the connecting ramp over
to the south Loop.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Six ' ten. You've got that back up south Loop.
It's direct at Broadway.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
We have cleared your East tex Freeway Young Albert from
Kingwood with banana sticker. Southbound, we're still plumb. We've not
really plumb backed up from Porter now, but we lose
about three or four minutes here. They've cleared whatever that
was six ten north.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
We're getting loopy in the squeeze westbound at forty five.
We're backed up from I sixty nine. Terry, you can
open your ears now. I'm skylike on the classic Buick
GMC Traffic Center from r ktr H generator of super
Center twenty four are whether Center. Terry is here. I
have circled Thursday on my calendar, Terry, to just spend
the entire afternoon outdoors.

Speaker 16 (01:07:47):
Oh yeah, No, it looks amazing because the temperatures are
cooling down and we've got lower humidity, which is one
of our favorite combinations of weather conditions here in Southeast Texas.
But it's not just Thursday, Friday and Saturday looking good too.
Not much change today is a little bit cooler, a
little less humidity. You might notice it temperatures this afternoon

(01:08:10):
upper seventies to low eighties. Tomorrow, it's warming up ahead
of the front. We're going to see those winds kick
in and help warm things up into the load of
mid eighties. There is a twenty percent chance of a
shower tomorrow ahead of the front, but most of us
are not going to see any rain. The front will
clear out sometime late Wednesday, so that Thursday, Friday, and

(01:08:31):
Saturday sunny and cooler like November is supposed to be.
Temperatures will be in the seventies anywhere from the load
to upper seventies for the rest.

Speaker 40 (01:08:39):
Of the week.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
Temperature right now down to fifty nine at your official
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Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
So here's the question that's been posed here for the
last day or two, especially yesterday. We talked a little
bit about this yesterday, and that is, if Democrats so
badly want to have the first black woman president, then
why don't they go ahead and appoint her, even if
it's for two months. I don't want to see them
do it because I don't want them to waste the

(01:09:15):
money because of all the lifelong benefits you get. But
if they really stand for that particular issue, what's stopping
them from doing it? More than that story? Coming up next?
First though, traffic and whether to get a timeline's coming
up two schem ich Yeah, I got feedback.

Speaker 5 (01:09:30):
Jimmy Kim from League City says her husband David should
only disappoint one woman at a time.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
So I'm familiar with this strategy.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
Just a messenger here, south Floop six ten, let's go right, George,
tip blank, dude, taste.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
Guy, Mike.

Speaker 32 (01:09:43):
This is Dave on the way to the hard working
east northbound and there's about it looks like about two
or three left hand lanes that are blocked with a
whole bunch of light.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
All right, I think you mean eastbound, but I get it.
You're trying to make that curve up to the Ship
Channel bridge. That's going to be a south Floop six
ten Broadway. Yep, just lines block, just one lane getting
by uber Mike.

Speaker 18 (01:10:03):
Hey, what usky Mike heading down is a hearty Wow?

Speaker 24 (01:10:06):
It clean man. I cleaned that last bear.

Speaker 35 (01:10:09):
Jimmy came on, Dad, that.

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Sunny warm, right about eighty four heighth today, mostly sunny,
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(01:10:39):
top trending Tuesday morning stories. Here's Cliff, thank you.

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Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
She's a better woman that soul. I mean Hillary Clinton
and Kamala Harris probably not the two best choices for that.
Greg Guttfeld on this show, riffing on the Democrats who
say that they want they desperately wanted to elect I
mean all the misogyny claims and all the other things.
You want an elect her because she's a woman. You know,
the same thing they said about Hereily Clinton. Don't we

(01:11:36):
want an elector because we don't think she's any good.
Here's Greg Guttfeld countering the Democrat attacks.

Speaker 36 (01:11:41):
What about a president that's incapacitated. Isn't a president who
keeps falling down supposed to step down? This guy was
responsible for more spills than a waitress with Tourette's.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
And yet, and yet no twenty fifth Amendment or.

Speaker 36 (01:11:58):
Forced resignation, a move, by the way, that prevented the
first black woman from becoming president.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
And yet they accuse you of bigotry because you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
Didn't vote for Harris. Now never mind that.

Speaker 36 (01:12:10):
Trump increased his numbers with blacks, Hispanics, and yes, even
suburban white women. Turns out, mister Hitler himself, mister Misogynist's
more about inclusion than the Democrats themselves. And these accusations
of racism are coming from people who said nothing when
the Democratic Party itself rejected Kamala. Kamala's twenty twenty primary

(01:12:30):
for president made the Hindenburg look like SpaceX, but were
the racist ones. No fact is Kamala's about as popular
with both parties as crabs.

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
Are at a nudist colony.

Speaker 36 (01:12:43):
I mean, she had to appear with Liz Cheney, so
she wouldn't be the least popular person on stage. But
it's so much easier just to call us Nazis. It's
certainly easier than reporting on a candidate who can't answer
a question without cackling like a hyena whose twirl on
the wrong end of an electric toothbrush.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
But it was them who didn't want her, or they
could have had her.

Speaker 36 (01:13:12):
I mean, she could have been president use the twenty
fifth Amendment that would have been lawful.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
Actually, so why didn't they do that?

Speaker 17 (01:13:19):
Was it racism? Was it misogyny? Because you know they
can still do it. Joe Biden's been a phenomenal president.
He's lived up to so many of the promise that
he's made. Is one promise left that he could fulfill.
Being a transitional figure, he could resign the presidency in
the next thirty days, make Kamala Harris the president of
the United States.

Speaker 36 (01:13:36):
Well, see that crazy people can be right if they
truly believe Kamala was denied the presidency because of racism
and sexism. Biden can resign right now and she can
be president for two and a half months.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
So what are they waiting for? They can make history
or her history. So why haven't they done it? Who
are the Nazis?

Speaker 43 (01:14:01):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Good question, because you would be the ultimate dei higher
for president, wouldn't she?

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That is a big scunch.

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Now from Grand Parkway, it's also messing up the ramps
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news Radio seven forty k TRH. It is time now
for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 6 (01:17:05):
Hey you, Jimmy. We are sponsored by Allied Signing in
windows our top story at seven oh one.

Speaker 7 (01:17:10):
I'm a big fan of the senator. He's an amazing guy.
He's just with them a couple of days ago. He
worked very hard on the campaign, and we're a big
fan as a family of the senators.

Speaker 6 (01:17:19):
Eric Trump with KTRH a Sean Hannity reacting to Florida
Senator Marco Rubio being reported as President Elect Trump's choice
to become Secretary of State. Elsewhere, there are multiple reports
now saying that South Dakota Governor Christy Noam will be
DHS secretary, Florida Congressman Mike Waltz is going to be
the National Security Advisor, and former New York Congressman Lee

(01:17:41):
Zelden will lead the EPA. With these picks, and after
years of attacks, the Democrats may very well have unleashed
the very best version of Donald Trump.

Speaker 8 (01:17:51):
And the dams are freaking out now, Democratic worried that
Donald Trump is gonna somehow weaponize the federal government to
go after political enemies.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
That's right, Tristan Justice, with the federalist.

Speaker 8 (01:18:02):
Democrats everything in their power. Where Donal Trump's returned to
the Oval office, and I think Democrats should raise themselves
for probably one of the most effective Republican presidents of
this country of Seamsinsvamer Reagan.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
And he believes Trump will fulfill his campaign promises. Jeff
Biggs News Radio seven forty KT eight.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
Thanks Jeff.

Speaker 6 (01:18:21):
But will the Dems and the deep state get in
Trump's way? We already know that a former FEMA employee
told staffers not to help hurricane victims if they had
Trump signs in their yards.

Speaker 9 (01:18:32):
I definitely know it's criminal. It's just a matter of
what the prosecutors can hang on them. I mean, it's
the dirtiest, most insulting thing I've just ever seen in
emergency management.

Speaker 6 (01:18:42):
Former FBI Special Agent Jonathan gilliam says this is the
result of leftist ideology throughout the federal government seven oh three.
Trump is going to have a Republican House in January.
Decision desk HQ gave the GOPA ninety nine percent chance
of winning as of less than an hour ago, So
with two hundred and nineteen seats so far, Republicans will

(01:19:03):
have a fifty three to forty seven advantage in the Senate,
as the AP officially calls the Arizona race for Democrat
Reuben Diego over Republican Carrie Lake. Senate Republicans choose their
new leadership tomorrow. The President elect as yet to back
any of the three candidates.

Speaker 39 (01:19:20):
Current whip in number two, John Thune, is facing off
against Texas Senator John Cornyan and Florida's Rick Scott. President
Elect Trump has said he wants whoever takes over to
support what's called recess appointments, which allows for the President
to confirm cabinet members without Senate approval. In Washington, Ryan
Schmels Fox News.

Speaker 6 (01:19:41):
The Terran County Republican Party opposes Cornin's run to replace
Mitch McConnell. In a resolution they just recently passed the
party's executive board says it wants to see a quote
majority leader that represents President Trump and the mayor the
America First Agenda. It's seven o four now. In Austin, Texas,
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says his top priority in next

(01:20:03):
year's legislative session is school choice. The Senate passed vouchers
in twenty twenty three, but the House, led by Speaker
Date Felin, ever took the proposal up. The race for
House Speaker will be decided in a few weeks. It's
down to Felan and his challenger, Mansfield's David Cook.

Speaker 11 (01:20:21):
On December seventh, the Republican Caucus is going to get together,
and if fifty three Republicans choose somebody other than Dave Zeland,
then David Cook would then have the caucus endorsement. This
would make it even harder for Dade to keep his
coalition together.

Speaker 6 (01:20:35):
That's political commentator Luke Messias, who notes that fifteen state
Republicans lost their seats for following Felin in the failed
impeachment of State Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton filed another
two lawsuits against the White House yesterday, one of them
to prevent any records from Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation
into Trump from being destroyed. Paxton has now sued this

(01:20:58):
white house one hundred in one on times seven h five.
Now market's flat over nine after the Dow closed above
the forty four thousand mark for the first time ever.
Bitcoin is closing in on trading at ninety grand. Crypto
up more than five percent in the last seven days
from Wall Street to Main Street, though some unusual behavior
going on in the housing market.

Speaker 12 (01:21:20):
Number one, there are more cash buyers today. It's people
who built equity in their homes selling off but paying
cash for a new home. So the average age of
home buyers is now up to fifty six. Number two,
there are corporate buyers of plenty. They don't need mortgages.
The founder and CEO of Presidio Real Estate, Jennifer Yohe says,
the effort is still.

Speaker 13 (01:21:40):
Worth it, so there is value in jumping into the market.
It's just extremely difficult. So if you can find a
family member.

Speaker 6 (01:21:47):
To help you do it.

Speaker 12 (01:21:48):
Michael Shiloh News Radio seven forty KTRIH thanks.

Speaker 6 (01:21:52):
Michael asked for commercial real estate with more companies telling
workers to come back to the office to band for
office space across the Houston area is rising, but economist
Van Skin says those companies may need replacement workers, and
we've got a tight labor market.

Speaker 14 (01:22:06):
Some people will go back in the office. Some people
will find a different job. They'll leave that job and
go to a different job that doesn't require.

Speaker 6 (01:22:13):
Them to be in the office, and tells KTRH that
years of working from home has changed the way we
do work and it won't be easy to go back
to the pre COVID way of life. Coming up on
seven oh seven, The Rocket Speed Washington one oh seven
to ninety two. They host the Clippers tomorrow, and in
college basketball, the Cougars fall from fourth to eighth in

(01:22:33):
the latest rankings after their loss to Auburn over the weekend.
I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, weather and traffic station
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:22:43):
The tools you need to take on the day news
in the morning, Weather and Trammick. This is Houston's Morning
News with Jimmy Varrent. Yeah, you can't. You can't smoke
in the boys room, y'all. They they don't let you
do that. Now, if you're a boy that wants to
go into the bathroom dressed as a girl, that might
be okay. Just don't light up a smoke okay while

(01:23:04):
you're in there, or vape or any of that kind
of stuff. That we can't have any vaping in the
boys room, but we can have girls in the boys
room and vice versa. Except now there's some common sense
that seems to be showing up. And I don't know
if the timing on this has anything to do with
the election or not, but sci fi ISD, their trustees

(01:23:25):
have finally approved a policy that mandates that students can
only use the bathroom and locker room corresponding with their
sex assigned at birth, which means there will be no
boys in the girls' locker room and vice versa. Sorry,
but you're stuck with the sex you were assigned at birth,

(01:23:47):
and it doesn't matter how you identify. See, there is
a way to work with this that the dead I
believe makes sense. It makes common sense. I mean, every
school these days has gay kids, every school these days
as transgender students. Whether you like it or disagree with
or whatever, it's just a fact. That's what that that
that's the world we live in today. So if you

(01:24:08):
have a transgender student who doesn't want to use the
boys room or the girls room because they don't identifies
either one of those sexes, then chances are pretty good
somewhere in that school, maybe several places in that school,
even if it's off of you know, the teacher's lounge
or whatever, there's some sort of a unisex bathroom where
it doesn't matter. It's a private bathroom, only one person

(01:24:32):
at a time in there. Let them use that they
if they are so freaked out the idea of going
into the bathroom of the sex of their birth, let
them use the unisex bathroom. There's got to be a
couple of the school, right. Shouldn't be that hard. I
don't know why. I don't know why that's such a
hard thing for schools to do. Seven to ten time

(01:24:55):
for traffic and whether together outside.

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
I'm from the country, it's true, guy, Mike, all right,
let's hit your Katie Freeway now inbound. That's yourrect. Hopefully
everybody's okay. This is a left lane part ten and
we're backed up from Grand Parkway. It's also messing up
the ramp coming southbound. If you're coming down from Morton
Road or five twenty nine, you'll get caught in that.
Maybe you should take five twenty nine instead.

Speaker 4 (01:25:18):
No, I would.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
I might stay the course. On the Kadie southwest northbound
beach it's a stall. Why is it taking up to
center lanes.

Speaker 4 (01:25:24):
I don't know what.

Speaker 5 (01:25:24):
We're backed up from the Beltway North Freeway coming out
coming into downtown right before you hit the.

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Pierce at iten got a stall right there.

Speaker 5 (01:25:34):
Nothing good's happening on the Golf Freeway Dixie Farm Roads southbound.
That's outbound feeder road. You can get via the main lanes.
But I'm seeing a police investigation here. We cleared the
south loop KGr Rachel listeners knew that one first too.
Broadway that was eastbound backed up from Golfgate and on
the hard work and east side it. Let me see
if I can get some lane and figure out what's

(01:25:54):
going on Over the San Jacino River Bridge.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
That's an eastbound smash.

Speaker 5 (01:25:59):
I know we get squish stepped there a lot, but
this one's a little smush here the normal and I
see backups from shell di in.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
That's what I'm gonna say, Skymike and a.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center. I'll bet you every
dollar in my pocket, Jimmy that Terry Smith has never
smoked in a bathroom.

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
I bet you're probably right about that. Let's find up
from our KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four our weathers.

Speaker 23 (01:26:20):
There.

Speaker 4 (01:26:21):
Have you ever smoked in the bathroom?

Speaker 10 (01:26:22):
Terry?

Speaker 16 (01:26:23):
No, that is nasty.

Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
Hey have you ever smoked?

Speaker 38 (01:26:28):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:26:28):
No, no.

Speaker 16 (01:26:30):
My father was a smoker and it was the most
disgusting thing in the house. I grew up with it
and I did not like it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
Do you like cigars?

Speaker 16 (01:26:38):
I like the smell of cigars, Okay. I like the
smell of a pipe.

Speaker 4 (01:26:42):
I find that women like that, you cigars and pipes.
They like the smell. They don't necessarily like to kiss
you after you've had one, but they do like the
smell our onions or garlic. Well, here's the good news.
If you will smoke them, if you've got them, go on,
go out in the backyard, especially on Thursday. You can
spend all afternoon out with the quality cigar and it
Just enjoy the cool breeze.

Speaker 6 (01:27:03):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:27:04):
It is going to be an awesome stretch of weather
towards the end of the week. And today's not too bad.
It's still warm, it's just not as warm as yesterday.
We do have a light northeasterly breeze, so a little
less heat in humidity upper seventies to low eighties today,
and the coldfront on the way tomorrow may touch off
a shower or two. I'm thinking a twenty percent chance

(01:27:24):
of rain, so that means most of us won't get
wet at all. Temperatures are going to warm up ahead
of the front, low to mid eighties tomorrow. Behind the front,
the temperatures get cooler starting Thursday and a Friday and Saturday.
We are sunny and dry and highs every afternoon, anywhere
between the low to upper seventies temperture.

Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
Right now fifty nine you're at your official severe weather station.
News Radio seven forty k TRH seven nineteen is our
time here in Houston's morning news. In addition to filling
a lot of cabinet spots, which he has done over
the last two days, President Trump, the left is obsessed
by the idea that once he gets into office, he's

(01:28:01):
going to begin extracting revenge against his enemies, Revenge against
the Department of Justice, revenge against Democrats who have persecuted
him in the past, revenge against some of these prosecutors
who have participated in the law fair. They've had him
spend so much time in court. Victor Davis Hansen doesn't

(01:28:23):
think that's the case at all. He's never shown a
propensity for revenge. In fact, there are people on the
right who would like him to extract some revenge to
teach some lessons, and he doesn't want to do it.
So more in that story's coming up next. First though,
at seven to twenty, it's to a little traffic in
weather together. We're checking in again with a skymine. All right,
Katie Freeway. This is a really fuzzy shot. Oh they

(01:28:44):
just cleared it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
Boom bam while you were talking, Jimmy and bound Katie Freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:28:48):
Part ten.

Speaker 5 (01:28:48):
That's out of the way, Yeah, Kevin, I've got backups
now from Graham Parkway and Rothwood.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
This is let's check here, Graham Parkway North, hy Mike,
what's going on in ninety nine?

Speaker 29 (01:29:00):
Found between Goslin Road and god knows what else?

Speaker 4 (01:29:03):
Is at a dead stop?

Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
Gott a wreck. We just got it, thank you, Transtar.
This is eastbound at Rodwood all Lanes block. I don't
like the look of this. We're backed up from stupent
to airline. Skymike on a Classic bu at GMC Traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:29:16):
Center from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center. Sunny, warm, high temperature today right about eighty
mostly sunny, very warm, with a slight chance of a
coastal shower. Tomorrow high temperature eighty four and then Thursday.
I'm circling this one on the calendar. Sonny and mild,
low to mid seventies for high temperature. Just perfect weather
temperature right now, still fifty nine at your officials Severe

(01:29:38):
weather station News Radio seven forty k TRH. Check out
some of our top stories on this Tuesday. Here's Cliff,
Thank you Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (01:29:45):
Sponsored by Morrow Mechanical Decision Desk HQ gives House control
to Republicans with two hundred nineteen seats. Senate majority leader
Chuck Schumer reversus course invites Republican Senator elect Dave McCormick
from Pennsylvania to Orientation this week. Spirit Airlines, Jet Blue,
and American all suspend flights in Tahiti after a pair
of planes were hit by gunfire. At the latest News

(01:30:08):
anytime at KTRH dot com or next up dates at
seven thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:30:13):
I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor.
What happens next, promises may happens here, promises kept US
Radio seven.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
Forty KTRH Well, is there going to be retribution from
President Trump in his second term? I mean the left
talks that way.

Speaker 40 (01:30:30):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
You've got all these journalists who think they're going to
end up in a gulag somewhere, or at least say
they think they're going to end up in a gulag somewhere.
It didn't happen in his first four years in office,
not likely to happened this time either. Victor Davis Hansen
said He's had plenty of opportunities to extract revenge and retribution,
but he just doesn't do it.

Speaker 18 (01:30:50):
He was in a position to fire all of the
DOJ lawyers, three hundred of them that had hounded him out.
He did not do that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
Obama did that. Biden did that. He did not do that.

Speaker 18 (01:31:03):
Obama weaponized the IRS against his Trump did not do that.
Trump did not indict.

Speaker 4 (01:31:13):
He's not going to have local.

Speaker 18 (01:31:16):
Or state prosecutors work as surrogates to go after the
Biden family. In fact, I would imagine he might even
pardon Hunter Biden. And he's a transactional kind of art
of the deal. So with the Europeans in NATO, he
talks a tough game and then he he gets them

(01:31:39):
to reluctantly spend one hundred billion dollars on arms, and
then all of a sudden, the Ukraine War during the
Biden administration breaks out, and they're much better because of Trump.
They're in a much better position to defend themselves. Of course,
they don't give him any credit. So he talks certain ways,

(01:32:00):
but he's been actually criticized on the right for not
being more vindictive and for not playing tit for tat.
I've had so many prominent Republican people, are conservatives talk
to me and say, you know, somebody's got to talk
to him because he doesn't understand the terms. These people
attack him and attack him, and he mousof Andy replies,

(01:32:22):
but they're not going to get the message until we
start indicting those people. Or if they want to have
sanctuary cities, then we have to have sanctuary gun cities,
or maybe well our sanctuaries this right wing cities. But
he hasn't done that.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
No, I don't think he does. He wants to be
a unifier, and it's got to be very frustrating for
him because the progressive left is never going to allow
that to happen. They're never going to stop complaining, They're
never going to accept him, They're always going to work
against him. There obviously are going to be plans underway

(01:32:59):
over the course of the next four years. That's up.
That's what we'll end up talking about over the next
four years, is the latest lawsuit involving some sort of
a you know, Trump executive order. They will, they will
try to fight virtually everything he does. And the reality
is that maybe he should extract some revenge. I wouldn't
mind if he extracted some revenge on the Department of Justice.

(01:33:20):
I think that that department needs to be turned on
it's ear in many ways, that needs to start all
over again. Yeah, we need to get back to a
pure justice system where the justice is blind. It has
nothing to do with your political party affiliation. It only
has to do with whether or not you violate American law.
I hope we can get to that point, but I

(01:33:41):
don't think he'd get there with that. This Department of
Justice with a lot of and with a lot of
whole without a lot of wholesale changes and not just
by the way. You know, the Attorney general needs to
be more than the Attorney General. I think that v
E Director needs to go to and a whole whole
lot of other people further down the chain. All right,
seven twenty six, Time to take a look at your money.
Jeff Bellinger is here and Jimmy good morning.

Speaker 21 (01:34:04):
Small business owners grew more optimistic ahead of the election.
The National Federation of Independent Business says sentiment reading rose
last month to the highest reading since early twenty twenty two.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
There's good news if you order your groceries online.

Speaker 21 (01:34:18):
Adobe says online food prices were lower last month than
they wore in October of last year. It was the
first year over year declined since the start of the pandemic.
For a fourth month in a row, OPEK trimmed its
oil demand forecast. The Cartel says it belatedly recognized the
slowdown in China. More than half of all Americans are
telling Trip Advisor they plan to travel this winter. A

(01:34:41):
lot of families are planning trips around the holidays, and
this is getting a lot of reaction on social media.
The Food and Drug Administration forcing Costco to recall nearly
eighty thousand pounds of perfectly good butter because the label
fails to mention that the product contains milk. I'm Jeff Bellinger,
blue Burg Business on News Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 22 (01:35:06):
A Houston's News, Why there are traffic, plus breaking news
twenty four to seven. This is News Radio seven forty
KTRHIL Everywhere with the IRP.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
It is seven thirty here on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour Today
is the deadline for Trump's New York case. At least
one group has decided who won the House and coming
up at seven thirty eight, Bah Humbug, a famous New
York City holiday light show, has been canceled. Details in
the minutes ahead here on Houston's Morning News. Is it racist? No,

(01:35:44):
I don't think it's. Maybe well we'll see. Well, I'll
let you know about it here. Maybe you'll think it's
anti Christmas. I don't know. Or maybe it's just we
can't afford to do it anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:35:53):
Let me get Doug Pike off the Southwest Freeway. Doug,
get up the Southwest Freeway northbound Beachnut.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
That wreck they just cleared it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:59):
We have solid suckage now from ninety eight Katie Freeway advisors.
You really need them today. We have the wreck at
part ten inbound. That's solid breaks. Now you've got Grant
Parkway north which way we're going Grant Parkway northeastbound, all
lanes blocked.

Speaker 4 (01:36:14):
And thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (01:36:15):
Callers for letting me know we're backed up well before
the golf ball. It's Rockwood where the wreck is. It's
ugly and we're backed up at least an extra thirty
five minutes going toward the Woodlands Skymike and the Classic
Buick GMC traffic Center from our KTRH Generator super Center
twenty four hour weather Center.

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
Sunny warm today with the high temperature right about eighty. Look,
get Terry Smith in here in about eight minutes and
take a look at the forecast. Is going to cool
down be just terrific fall weather towards the end of
the week. Right now, temperature is fifty nine at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH. It
is time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 6 (01:36:50):
Thank you, Jimmy coming up on seven point thirty two,
our top story. The deadline is today for Manhattan Judge
Wan Mrshaan to decide if he'll toss President the like
Donald try Trump's conviction from earlier this year, Trump might
be covered by the US Supreme Court decision giving presidents
some immunity. Now, this does not mean that the lawfare
is over. The president elects still as cases pending Democrat

(01:37:14):
prosecutors targeting him.

Speaker 23 (01:37:15):
New York ag Letitia James says she's prepared to quote
fight back against Trump.

Speaker 24 (01:37:20):
I'm in the left in the country are interested in
attacking President Trump, so he can't work on his agenda
because he has to send off all these attacks the rumors.

Speaker 23 (01:37:29):
Gary Pollins with the Texas Conservative Review told KTRH Americans
just aren't interested in this lawfair.

Speaker 24 (01:37:35):
They don't care about Cohn after Trump. They don't think
they just qualifies them from being president. If you look
at the polling, every time they're being a new charge
of new indictment, his numbers will go on.

Speaker 23 (01:37:43):
Paulind says these left wing legal attacks are going to
be even less effective now because Trump knows what's coming.
Ethan Buchannan News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
Seven thirty three. Trump reportedly selects Florida Senator Marco Rubio
to be Secretary of State, with the rest of his
team coming together.

Speaker 25 (01:37:58):
Florida Congressman and China Hawk Mike Waltz has been named
as White House National Security Advisor. He was a huge
surrogate for Trump on the trail, and former New York
Congressman Lee Zelden heads the EPA and Congressman at Leastafoniic
has been tapped to be the next US Ambassador to
the UN.

Speaker 6 (01:38:16):
Fox's Aisha Hansei, CNN and others reporting that South Dakota
Governor Christy Noan will be DHS Secretary. Decision Desk HQ
gives Republicans a ninety nine percent chance of retaining the House.
Their latest projections put them over the top with two
hundred nineteen seats.

Speaker 26 (01:38:33):
I kind of think that it's like the American people
broke up with the Democrats on Tuesday Night, a bad breakup.

Speaker 6 (01:38:40):
Rnc CoA chair Alara Trump on Fox. Republicans have a
fifty three to forty seven advantage in the Senate. Senate
Republicans elect their new leadership tomorrow. Rick Scott of Florida
South Dakota's John Tuone and John Cornan, the senior senator
from Texas, all running to replace Mitch McConnell, who is
stepping aside from leadership. Younger voters turned against Kamala Harris

(01:39:02):
last week. The radical lefts trans agenda playing a big.

Speaker 27 (01:39:06):
Role in that Why would I believe a word that
comes out of your mouth on any subject if you
can look at me and say confidently that men can
become women and vice versa.

Speaker 6 (01:39:16):
Former college swimmer Riley Gaines telling KTRH is Klay Travis
and Buck Sexton. The issue helped expose exactly how radical
the Democrat Party has become. Seven thirty four on KTRH
and Looking at Your Money. The President elect needs Congress
to extend his tax cuts before the end of next year,
but on his own he can cut regulations immediately to
help the economy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
Bank regulation in particular.

Speaker 28 (01:39:39):
He can come in and say, I'm going to change
this so banks can make the kind of loans.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
We need them to.

Speaker 6 (01:39:45):
Wrightbart's John Carney says changes in those regulations could supercharge
the Trump economy, and that oil and gas will benefit
most from less red tape or ill futures are up
slightly this morning to just over sixty eight dollars a barrel.
Trump is looking to shake up healthcare as well. Most
of the pharmaceutical drugs we use come from China. It's

(01:40:05):
one good reason why David Blott, the CEO of Healthcare
Finance Specialists, is happy to see people like Robert F.
Kennedy Junior coming into power.

Speaker 29 (01:40:14):
There's opportunity to improve all of these entitlements that we
have so that they're more efficient and they're doing what
they're intended to do and not just making insurance companies
richer and growing bigger and bigger.

Speaker 6 (01:40:25):
Adding that to shake up in the healthcare industry is
sorely needed. Drug dealers that are using fake online pharmacies
and search engine loopholes to sell illegal drugs.

Speaker 30 (01:40:37):
They appear legit but link you to buying drugs without
a prescription.

Speaker 31 (01:40:41):
That's been an issue for years now. I mean there's
some websites that the FDA has flag, and I mean
there's still an operation.

Speaker 30 (01:40:48):
Elayne Mallin of The Washington Examiner says many of the
drugs have been laced with fentanyl, and companies like Google
need to take some action.

Speaker 31 (01:40:55):
Or regulation should be at play. The fact that you're
able to easily track down cocide from just a simple
Google search on the first page. You know that is concerning.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
She says.

Speaker 30 (01:41:04):
You can protect yourself by checking if there's pill prices,
because pharmacies won't do that. Andore Perard News Radio seven KRH.

Speaker 6 (01:41:12):
Seven thirty six the Anchi Israel protesters at Columbia University
in New York. We're back at it yesterday, holding what
they called a Martyrs Day protest against Veterans Day.

Speaker 29 (01:41:24):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:41:24):
A group of dozens of student vets responded with their
own peaceful protest.

Speaker 16 (01:41:29):
It's a pledge to.

Speaker 33 (01:41:29):
Maintain freedom's church by all areas, the speech, freedom of religion,
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It is a seven thirty eight year at Houston's forty News.
Do you and your neighbors have you your lights up yet?
Our lights went up yesterday. We have a company that
does ours, because well, I'm not, for one thing, I'm
not getting up on a you know, fifteen foot ladder
and getting up on the roof of the house in
order to put the lights up. I love I love
Christmas lights, just absolutely love them. But would it surprise

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you to learn I have rules about how soon they
go on. Generally speaking, I used to I used to
have Thanksgiving is the is the be all end all
as far as you cannot turn your lights on before
Thanksgiving and then you turn them off after New Year's Day.
I realized there are other people who have different rules,
and in fact, most of my neighbors this year a

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sort of breaking the rules because a lot of them had,
in order to save some money. Those that have a
company put up their lights, had them put up in
October and started they started doing their their their Christmas
lights right away, and I thought, hang on a second,
it's October. But then I thought, you know what a

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lot of people were at that time in my Neighborhodame,
and we were particularly worried about how the election was
going to turn on. And I think Christmas and Christmas
lights and then those kinds of holiday traditions they kind
of sell you down a little bit. They make it,
they make you feel more comfortable. So when I see
stories like this, I wonder myself, you know what's going
on here? This is in New York City, Manhattan. Sacksmith

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Avenue has an annual holiday lights show. They've been doing
for decades. Just spectacular, the way they decorate the outside
of the store and all the holiday lights they put up.
They're not doing it this year, and they aren't really
saying why and quite honestly, I think they would be
better served if they did. They've got some pr flak
who's writing copy that basically says, it is our one

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hundredth year, which also marks the anniversary of our flagship.
We are celebrating the season by honoring the architectural significance
of this iconic building. ELI get the illuminating the facade
and framing the holiday windows, as well as highlighting the
fashion for which Saxsmith Avenue is known. In other words,
this year has been a really tough year for retailers,

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in particular department store type retailers. They can't really afford
to do the holiday lights. They're trying to save some money.
Wouldn't you be better off telling people that that's why
you're not doing the holiday lights, because you can't afford
to do it this year. Maybe people would feel sorry
for you and shop there a little bit more. Seven
forty time for traffic and weather together. Hit cheap, We're checking.

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I mean, I'm lighting not just scrowge this guy, Mike, Dude,
I'm lighting.

Speaker 5 (01:45:18):
Up the ghetto house next week. What do you kind
of budget you think I'm on? All right, let's do
some Katie Freeway. Here visors, we cleared part ten. The
wreck has gone. Everybody's fine. We're backed up from Graham
Parkway and that's nineteen extra minutes of inbound suckage Southwest
Freeway northbound.

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I hope Doug got off that road that is beached out.
We cleared it.

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That's solid breaks now from ninety all right. They did
fix Graham Parkway. That one was looking pretty ugly. Rothwood eastbound,
but that's at least a thirty five minute smunch trying
to head over toward the Woodlands.

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Jibbo tom Ball Guy.

Speaker 37 (01:45:49):
Mike Dude, your little uh huba stink on the ninety
nine is starting to affect.

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The forgotten freeway. Good furbage crawling in about ten miles
to zero balls an hour.

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I don't believe you.

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I don't think that it's really connected like your neebone.
But I've put that in my hat and smoked it.

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Here.

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You've got some slow down on two forty nine.

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Blake new Caney, got it, gun, Mike Hey, westbown On
Sall metrough right at the same Tenter River Bridge.

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It's walking traffic both ways.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
Wow, I see that back up the Yeah, it's a
metro out in highlands. That's crazy, all right.

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Look out coming in you lose about twenty minutes this way.
SKYMIKEE on a Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.

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From r KTRH Generator super Center twenty four. Our weather center,
Terry Smith is here. We don't have the moan and
growing about the weather. The forecast is great, I think
it is.

Speaker 16 (01:46:37):
There's not much in the way of rain to cause
any problems, so I'm probably is going to work out
for most folks as well. No rain today, just sunshine,
a little less heat, little less humidity. Still in the
upper seventies to low eighties though this afternoon Tomorrow's the
only chance of rain I see this week, and it's
only a twenty percent chance of getting what Cole Front's
on the way, so we may see a shower or

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two ahead of the front. It is warned tomorrow lott
of mid eighties and it cools down lower humidity starting Thursday,
Friday and Saturday as well, so lots of sunshine and
temperatures will be in the seventies for the rest.

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Of the week.

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Seven forty nine is at a time here in Houston's
Morning News. Break ins always accelerate this time of the year.
You know, Christmas packages, deliveries, those types of things, you know,
get people's attention. The porch pirates will be out in
full force if they aren't already, because the Christmas gifts
are going to start to arrive and the break ins.

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I saw an interesting little piece on our television partner
KPRC two about the three areas that have the vast
majority of break ins in the city of Houston. I'll
share that with you coming up next. First, though, traffic
and weather together as we check out that drive. On's
the going here is Skymine, Grand Parkway North.

Speaker 5 (01:48:06):
Don't go there westbound or eastbound eastbound if you're trying
to pass the golf ball over to Rothwood. They just
cleared the wreck that was at Rothwood. Pretty serious stuff.
Forty five minutes delay from Tomball getting that way Katie Freeway,
nothing but breaks park ten. We cleared the wreck, packed
up Grand Parkway Southwest Freeway beach nut.

Speaker 4 (01:48:25):
That one's out of your hair.

Speaker 5 (01:48:26):
Solid backups from Highway six and East Freeway coming in
from Baytown.

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That's it.

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Ten over the San Jacino River Lake from New Cany
with the banana sticker. It's a stalled metro bus. We're
backed up from three point thirty. I'm Skymike on the
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From our KTRH generator of Supercenter twenty four hour weather Center.
Sunny and warm today, high temperature bout eighty mostly sunny,
very warm, eighty four for tomorrow, there is this like
chance of a coastal shower, and then Thursdays sunny and mild.
High load to mid seventies Thursday, probably Friday and Saturday
as well. Step at You're right now. Well is sixty
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Seven fifty two now here in Houston's morning news. All right,
break ins always increased this time of the year. But
do know the areas that get the most amount of
break ins, most amount of burglaries here in Houston. Our
television partner KPRC two's Joel Eisenbaum did a report on that.
Here's a little bit of that for you.

Speaker 43 (01:50:00):
Detective Greg Shelton just retired from HPD. He spent decades
learning stuff like this.

Speaker 44 (01:50:07):
Well, mostly in my experience, most of the residential burg
buries would typically occur between about eight o'clock in the
morning and generally two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

Speaker 43 (01:50:19):
Exactly when you're not home. A car in the driveway
goes a long way, so does a playing radio. When
I tell you that though that this is one of
the highest there is in the city for breakings, as
it surprised you h no, no reight.

Speaker 4 (01:50:33):
Baraj Manjari doesn't have a driveway. He lives in an
apartment complex.

Speaker 43 (01:50:39):
It's just off West Timer and in this area it's
complex after complex, and.

Speaker 4 (01:50:45):
They're attractive targets, especially.

Speaker 43 (01:50:47):
In residential complexes with security lapses, like we noticed here
she slips right through a hole in the fence. And
it's all come together to make this West Side area
on near and around West Timer number one for home
burglaries in Houston this year one hundred eighty four such

(01:51:08):
HPD reports since January first. Number two in home burglary
this year is Sunnyside and other neighborhoods near it east
of two eighty eight on both sides of the South
Loop one hundred and forty two residential burglary reports this year,
and rounding out our list at number three.

Speaker 4 (01:51:27):
It's southwest Houston.

Speaker 43 (01:51:28):
You may recognize street names like Fondren and Gesner near Belfort.
Matt Amens has been victimized not once but twice this year.

Speaker 14 (01:51:37):
Having someone like break into your home and it kind
of gives you an uneasy feeling.

Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
It's like, you know this your secure place, okay. So
three big takeaways here right.

Speaker 43 (01:51:46):
One is illuminate your whole property.

Speaker 40 (01:51:48):
At nine.

Speaker 43 (01:51:48):
Two is have an outdoor visible camera that does record footage.
And in three, if you can during the day fill
this space right here in your driveway with a car.

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
Especially the car part. I mean, it makes sense that
if there's a car in the driveway right that the
assumption will be made that there's somebody home. Therefore I
should go, you know, pick on somebody else. But that
also means that if you have a car outside, then
maybe your car could be prone to a break in.

(01:52:21):
And the key of course with that is if if
you have windows that are tinted dark enough so that
you can't see in the car for any sort of contents,
or if they are and you do have contents in
the car, have them in the trunk or somewhere on
the floor at least where they're not visible to somebody
who might be checking your vehicle out. That's the only

(01:52:42):
way that works. And the illumination at night, well that's great,
but it sounds like this is mainly a daytime problem.
That did that surprise you at all? This surprised me
a little bit. Most of the burglaries occur between eight
in the morning and three in the afternoon when they
assume that you're at work and there's nobody at home,
and then all they all the locations around Fondren and
West Timer. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that, right,

(01:53:04):
it's some of the nicer neighborhoods. And I'm guessing you know,
burglars are like anybody else, right, They're going where they
think they can get the best stuff, where the pickens
are going to be the best. That's probably where the
porch pirates are going to listen, You'll have a great day.
We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright nearly at five am.
I'll see at this half from four on AM nine
fifty KPRC.