Trump Is Ready To Ban Migrants From Bad Countries

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 12/02/25.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is HUS Radio seven forty kt RH Houston and
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It's more of what matters to you from the John
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
This morning, Fellow humans. Five am is our time here
on Houston's morning News. Among our top stories as we
get started this morning, Trump, well he is ready to
ban migrants from bad countries. If this Haye a second,
I'm having hard time right. Pretend you're a doctor, Jimmy,
you can read this. If this district flips the blue,
that could mean trouble. And coming up at five oh eight,

(00:39):
the top fifteen cities most likely to dress up your
bet for the holidays. Three of them, Mike, three of
them are here in Texas.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
My morning show host can't read his own writing. That's
because I'm a doctor. From this take of a sky mine, well,
it's very it's not that serious.

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On the roads, as you can see this morning, I
have for some reason, I have a shot of the
Southwest Freeway at Buffalo Speedway. Those of you that play
the home game with me, it's on camera five zero
nine on the Transtar system.

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And whatever was here is clear now.

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So we look good at Greenway Plaza all the way
up in downtown Southwest Freeway. Rock and Long Digital says
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Speaker 5 (01:42):
Here's Class Saunders, Hey you, Jimmy, Good morning everyone. It's
five oh one on k t RH, our top story.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Let's save this country by stopping this right now.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Texas Congressman Chip Roy reacting to DHS Secretary Christy Nome
who's called for a full travel band on countries flooding
the US with immigrants after last week's shooting of two
National guardsmen in the White House.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
Coming to the United States of America is a privilege,
It is not a.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Right, White House spokesperson Caroline Levitt on Fox Now could
this have all been prevented? The State Department Inspector General
worn two years ago at the federal government's special visa
program for Afghans quote relies on Taliban cooperation end quote. Meantime,
it's election day in Tennessee and Republican Matt Van Epps

(02:29):
is in a tight congressional race with radical Democrat Afton Bing.

Speaker 7 (02:34):
She wants transgender surgery for miners without parental consent, believes
that men can get pregnant, and just just you know, crazy.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Van Epps with ktr h's Klay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Now keep in mind, this was a district Trump won
last year by twenty points, but now it's closed.

Speaker 8 (02:51):
This is not a seat that should even be on
the map for Democrats.

Speaker 9 (02:56):
That's Aaron Evans, president of Winning Republicans Strategies, who says
a Democrat win would send shock waves through Washington.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
If the Democrats win, I definitely think that there's some
serious conversations that are going to be had, especially focusing
in on the midterms.

Speaker 9 (03:12):
President Trump wade in and says the whole world is
watching Chuff Biggs News Radio seven forty ky tier.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
E Closer to Home.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Troy Nels's retirement from Congress Banks it's six Texas Republicans
leaving Washington riceys Mark Jones says the Dems are unlikely
to win those seats in the midterms, especially Nels's district.

Speaker 10 (03:32):
This is a race where regardless of who the Republican
candidate is, they're going to win. In November of twenty twenty.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Six, Jones says that Nels's twin brother, Trevor, is a
shoeing for that race. Harris County Democrats are still at
odds with Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer moving ahead with an
attempt to ban him from ever again receiving the party's endorsement.

Speaker 11 (03:54):
Too many of the loud faces and voices are pushing
a radical left agenda.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Mayor Whitmeyer is not doing.

Speaker 11 (04:00):
Instead, he is focusing on safer streets, keeping taxes low,
aiding first responders, things of that nature.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Jared Woodfille with the Conservative Republicans of Texas says this
is just going to end up hurting the local Democrat
party more than it will ever hurt the mayor. It's
now five oh four Minnesota Governor Democrat Tim Walls facing
a massive fraud scandal with millions of dollars said to
be missing from programs like the Housing Stabilization Services, and

(04:28):
many are blaming the Somali community under allegations they're funding
the terrorist group Al Shabab.

Speaker 12 (04:34):
They were doing things like faking autism diagnoses, faking autism
treatment plans, opening up fraudulent autism centers.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Manhattan Institute's senior fellow, Chris Rufo, says the damage is
worse than what's being reported. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant has
lost a federal investigation into this as well. Dow futures
are up this morning. This follows a down day on
Wall Street. Meantime, reports indicate that National Economic Council Director
Kevin Hassett is the front runner to take over the

(05:04):
FED when jerown Pal finally leaves next year. Affordability is
the new buzzword. It's all over the mainstream media. Democrats
say it all the time. Very few people actually understand
what affordability is.

Speaker 13 (05:18):
Unfortunately, there isn't any one solution to solve a multifaceted
affordability issue.

Speaker 14 (05:23):
It's a soup. It's a very complicated soup.

Speaker 15 (05:26):
It's all these little microeconomic stories from everybody's household and
political perception.

Speaker 13 (05:31):
Financial planner Richard Rosso says tackling individual prices will be
the key to solving affordability.

Speaker 15 (05:36):
We got one group that wife's stake and now can't
buy it back to them. Is affordability, But to me,
it's something else, and that's why it's so hard to
figure out the problem.

Speaker 8 (05:44):
He says.

Speaker 13 (05:45):
At the end of the day, the best way to
deal with affordability is to encourage wage growth across the spectrum.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
You don't have the final Cyber Monday numbers yet. The
e commerce company Shopify, though, was hit with an hours
long shorge yesterday, or rather down.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
They were down for hours yesterday.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
Cyber Monday sales were expected to hit fourteen point two
billion dollars, up more than six percent from last year.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Our bags are on fargo. We had to go shopping today.

Speaker 16 (06:17):
It is bad man.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah, that frustrated traveler stuck in the middle of a
winter storm that made a mess out of flying yesterday.
Nearly six hundred flights were delayed out of Hobby and
Bush combined. This morning, at last checked on flight Aware,
I saw eleven delays out of Bush and seven out
of hobby. Meantime, gasoline prices continue to tick down, now
at two fifty three a gallon across Houston, the national

(06:40):
average dipping under three dollars for the first time literally
in years.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Five oh six, Wayne Kiffitt.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Officially introduced as the new head football coach at LSU.

Speaker 17 (06:49):
You take the history, tradition, passion, and the great players
in the state of Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
No one can argue that when you're.

Speaker 17 (06:58):
In Tiger Stadium on Saturday night, there is nothing like it.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Kiff It replaces Brian Kelly. The Rockets sees their three
game winning streak come to an end, losing to the
Jazz one twenty three to one twenty five, or one
thirty three rather to one twenty five. I'm Cliff Saunders
on Houston's News Weather in traffic station news Radio seven
forty k TRH.

Speaker 18 (07:20):
Now back to Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News Team.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Houston's Morning News, But.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Not if you're going to dress me up like an elf.
Five O eight is our time here in Houston's bing News.
Good morning, Welcome to the show. We've got a lot
of stories to get to today, including a story about
cash Battel. Did you see this? This appeared in the
New York Post. It's a conservative publication by Miranda Devine, who,

(07:48):
by all reports seems to be a Trump supporter. At
least it's not Trump ader, but it doesn't paint Cash
Battel in the very pretty picture. More on that coming up,
but first let's get Let's get to the story that
always bothers me, which is dressing up pets. We've gone Halloween.
I've kind of given up on the Halloween thing, I
have to have been. I saw a video the other

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day of somebody who dressed up their little chihuava like
like Chucky, you know, from the from the horror films,
and and and send it out to scare the crap
out of their other dog, which is a pit bull.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
It was pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The pit bull just freaked out over the Chihuahba that
looked like Chucky. But when we start getting into Christmas sweaters, uh, mistletoe,
dally bops, all that kind of stuff, can we can?
We can we kind of admit to each other that
maybe the whole dressing the family dog thing has gone
too far. I'm not going to bring cats into this.

(08:45):
If you decide that you want to try to wrestle
with your cat. I'm not the world's biggest cat fan.
I'm I'm pretty sure that at least one of my
cats at home that that loves my wife but does
can barely tolerate me, is plotting secretly to kill me
my sleep. So I'm not worried about, you know, whether
or not we want to put a christmasweater on her.

(09:06):
She deserves to have a Christmas weater. But for the dog,
I would never do that. The swiper, my dog. He'd
be willing to do it because he'll do almost anything
to please me, but I wouldn't do it to him.
But I find this very interesting. The top fifteen cities
where pet parents most likely to make their pets dress
up for the holidays include number one Midland, Texas Number one,

(09:32):
Dickinson City, Pennsylvania, Lexington, Kentucky. Amarello came in number four,
Johnson City, Tennessee. Winter Garden, Florida. Lubbock came in number seven.
That's in the top ten. That's three Texas cities most
likely to dress up their dog for the holidays. For Christmas, Pensacola,
Florida came in number eight, Florence, Kentucky, number nine, Athens, Georgia,

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number ten, Portland, Oregon, number eleven, West Jordan, Utah, number twelve, Antioch, California, thirteenth, Roseville, Michigan.
That's a suburb of Detroit. Came in fourteenth in Cape.

Speaker 14 (10:06):
Coral, Coral, Florida.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Overall pets Marts is ninety percent of pet parents planning
to involve their pets and holiday festivities. I'll give my
pet a stocking with goodies, but I'm not going to
put a Christmas sweater on them. And by the way,
what do you think this is just a guess, because
this is not a part of the survey. What do
you guess the dog most likely to end up in
a holiday costume would be my boat's going to Chibaba's.

(10:31):
And I'm not quite sure because Suahas are kind of mean.
I'm not quite sure why they're not fighting back five
to ten time for traffic and weather together.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, that's got to be it. I would bet money
on Chihuahuah.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Do you think that's why we had three of the
top fifteen cities.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well, I had one because and he really actually loved
wearing stuff like we had sweaters for him.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I think it was my first wife. I can't remember well.
If we want to put a sweater on them, to
take him outside because it's cold.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Oh and we had a Christmas sweater. Okay, loved it
because he was cold natured.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
I call him my little neck dog.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
I'm surprised Santa Fe didn't make that list. By the way,
let's head up the golf freeway coming up from Santa Fe.
There's nobody at Santa Fe listening this morning. We look
good so far at Texas City. Up into downtown, rocking
long thirty nine minutes, no problems here. If we check
to twenty five from the hard work and east Side,
we look good. One forty six into the East Loop,
nothing doing and rocking around forty five north. Let's do

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some Rayford sawdust woodlands, easy going twenty three minutes now.
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From our KTRH soft tax defenders twenty four hour. Whether
it's on a kimboon in for terry. Today looks like
we're finally going to see a little sunshine, A little.

Speaker 19 (11:40):
Bit of sunshine, not as chilly as yesterday, although temperatures
are still well below average, becoming mostly sunny today, mid
fifties this afternoon, a bit of a north breeze at
times today, mid forties Tonight, the clouds return Tomorrow. We
could see a shower late in the afternoon, highs in
the mid sixties, but our best rain chances are going
to come overnight Wednesday night and through the day on Thursday.
Temperatures on Thursday the mid fifties. Still a few lingering

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showers Friday to finish out the week, mid fifties. Dry
weather builds back in for the weekend with sunshine and
highs in the sixties.

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Right now forty at your official severe weather station. News
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I live in Pasadena Sharptown Southwest.

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Next on the ten time saving traffic on seven forty KTRH,
well I said, right.

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After the news there is a couple of stories circulating
about several people, Dan Bongino at the FBI. I'm trying
to remember who else is on the list, Pete Hegseth
and maybe the most damning story, I mean, if you

(12:42):
care about you know damning stories is a story about
how vain evidently FBI Director Cash bettel Is. It's written
by Miranda Devine doesn't seem like the kind of story
that she would normally write, especially about the administration, so
it kind of makes you wonder what's behind all that.

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Uh More on that story coming up next, first of
a five twenty. Let's do what traffic and weather togethers
is that? Is that wrapping paper and not wrapping Christmas
gifts here this morning? Oh it's football wrapping. It's not
much for me to do right now. By the way, Jimmy,
who do you think you're so vain?

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Is about? I have no idea. Okay, most people have
like a baby. Maybe I think it's Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger, maybe,
she says vain. All right, let's do some south side again.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
We're looking at your golf freeway now we have that roadwork.
It's a it's a lifestyle between t Ki Island and BUCkies.

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But we're moving well nicely so far this morning.

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Now, League City up is about thirty minutes up into downtown,
so problems, we're problem free Southwest Freeway. Let's go from
sugar Land up. We're twenty one minutes up into the canyon.
Northbound Katie Freeway is going from Pinoa Road all the
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It's under becoming mostly sunny right about fifty five for
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even few rumbles of thunder on Thursday. It looks like
Thursday is going to be a slightly warmer version of
yesterday with a high ride about sixty. Currently it is
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forty KTRH. Say back to our newsroom now. Cliff is
working on some of our top stories this morning.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
And Jimmy, this just in.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
A homeowner and a suspector both shot in what turned
down to be a home invasion on the East Side.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
We're waiting for more details on that.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
A pair of Rice students are robbed at gunpoint on campus.
The bad guys still on the loose, and today is
Giving Tuesday. It's the charitable follow up to Black Friday
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dot com. Our next update is at five thirty.

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What has happened just yesterday?

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What's happening today?

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Happen in dail?

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What happens ext the things are happening right.

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Here on News Radio seven.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
So does FBI Director Cash Battel have a vanity problem?
There's a story in the New York Post written by
Miranda Divine, and the story kind of goes along the
lines of demands the cash Betel made right before he
spoke at the news conference after the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Megan Kelly and her guest on her podcast were talking

(15:24):
about the story and a little intimated a little bit
about the story itself and maybe about the motivation behind
the story.

Speaker 21 (15:32):
Mostly it's focused on Cash Battel, and the thing that
they're really zeroing in on is what they say is
like a vanity, I guess of his a vanity that
they talk about how when he flew out to.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
The Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 21 (15:46):
Staging, like the FBI staging in the wake of it,
who was insistent on getting an FBI jacket brought to
him on board the plane before he disembarked, and that
he apparently did not have his own. Quoting here FBI
raid jacket with him. He refused to step from the
plane without wearing one. That FBI special agents at the

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Salt Lake City Field Office, busy working on the Kirk
case quote, had to stop and ask around to find
an FBI raid jacket, a medium sized one that would fit.
When a jacket belonging to a female agent was delivered
to Pateel on the plane, he complained that quote, two
areas on the upper sleeves did not.

Speaker 14 (16:23):
Have velcro patches attached.

Speaker 21 (16:26):
And then he would not leave the plane quote until
you had two patches to cover those areas quote. So
members of an FBI swat team took patches off of
their uniforms and ran those patches over to Patel at
the airport. The patches were then attached to the loner
FBI raid jacket, and Patel disembarked from the plane.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's a very negative story. It's a very negative report.

Speaker 22 (16:47):
So you got to ask yourself, you know, how did
this thing get done, and how did it end up
with Miranda, and how did Miranda decide to write it up.
These are not the only stories like this about cash Betel.
There's other stories, but most of them have circulated in
places like the Washington Post in New York Times. So
it's a bit of a mystery. But you've seen the

(17:08):
same things with Pete Hegseth and to some extent with
Christy Non, which is you just again, it's not liberal media.
It's it's people who love the president, who care about
the president, who are using different outlets, in this case
the New York Post to put out there there's problems.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that the people are

(17:30):
motivated by a desire to get the president to make
a change in personnel, and he it's not done that yet.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
So the theory here is that because it's being written
in a more conservative publication by somebody, and this gives
Miranda Divine, who is friendly to the Trump administration, that
she's probably being fed information from people who are close
to President Trump who don't think that Cash Betel, for example,

(17:59):
is the right person to be FBI director, or don't
think that Pete Haigseth is the right person to be
head of the Department of War, and are trying to
embarrass them in an attempt to get the President to
make a change That would make more sense. Now, I
don't know enough about the job the cash Betel's doing

(18:21):
or Pete Haigseth, for example, to judge whether or not
they're right and whether or not there should be a
change made. But clearly there are people that are supportive
of the president that are not supportive of some of
his cabinet choices. Five twenty six. You're in Houston's Morning News.
Time to take a look at your money and good morning.

Speaker 23 (18:38):
Costco is joining a fast growing list of businesses suing
the Trump administration. They're trying to ensure eligibility for refunds.
See if the Supreme Court strikes down the President's signature.
Global Tarence the nation's biggest warehouse club chain. It was
among dozens of companies to file lawsuits in a US
trade court since late October. The Trump administration urged the

(19:00):
Creame Court to take up Bear's appeal targeting thousands of
lawsuits blaming its top selling Roundup weed killer for causing cancer.
Bear executives are hoping to knock out thousands of round
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Well game, Good morning, five thirty now here on Houston's
Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this
half hour, Hresident Trump doubles down on taking out drug boats,
the second Guardsman showing improvement, and coming up at five
thirty eight, the US Department of Energy wants you to
set the heat to sixty eight. What does your thermostat say?
Details in the minutes. Ay, head First, we're checking out

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that morning drive on this cold here's sky Mike.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, we had nothing going on.

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I have my slinky going, but I've got Steve from
Seabrook on your tip line seven one three two one
two t ips.

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Mikey, dude one forty six stuff down? What road three?
Car accident? Oh it's pretty bad.

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Oh that's always a really bad spot. Plus we have
the roadwork all right now. Zoom that at the five
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Speaker 3 (20:22):
Hie, Sky Mike, It's Marilynam from spring. You're so vain
that song's about James Taylor.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
No, I know she was married to him, dude. I
think it's about mcchagger. All right, we'll talk. I'm in
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No, I don't think it's James Taylor from macchagger. I
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Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Hey, Jimmy, it's five thirty one on KTRH. O ur
chomps story.

Speaker 26 (21:02):
He knows what's good for him. Like so many other
Latin American strongman over the years, I think that it's
time for him to go.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton no on Fox's President Trump holds
tunks with top advisers discussing the pressure campaign on Venezuelan
dictator Nicholas Maduro. The White House confirms and defends a
second strike against narco traffickers and terrorists in September. Of course,
Democrats are complaining.

Speaker 27 (21:27):
We have real evidence that extra judicial killings are taking
place as sustain on America's leadership in the Free World.

Speaker 5 (21:37):
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, though saying nothing about the
damage those illegal drugs could.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Do if they make it here to the US.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Trump is protecting US from illegal drugs while at the
same time pushing for peace in Europe.

Speaker 28 (21:52):
Steve Whitcoff's meeting with President puts In is the latest
move in attempts to bring peace in Ukraine closer to reality.
There's been some back and forth since the US put
forward a twenty eight point settlement plan less than two
weeks ago. Ukraine and its allies argued it rewarded Russia
for its invasion and say they have secured a number

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of changes.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
That's Jonathan Savage reporting five point thirty three in Washington,
encouraging news about National Guard soldier Andrew Wolf shot by
an Afghan national near the White House last week.

Speaker 29 (22:25):
We were told that Andrew was asked if he could
hear the nurse who asked the question to give a
thumbs up and he did respond, and.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
We were told that he also wiggled his toes.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
West Virginia Governor Patrick Marcy. The attack killing twenty year
old Sarah Beckstrom. The Trump administration reviewing all Biden era
Afghan arrivals following the attack borders our. Tom Homan telling
KTRH is Sean Hannity online security needs stricter vetting requirements.

Speaker 30 (22:56):
We're going to try to find those doctors, which they
really don't exist. You're going to take them from the
talent Talent bands want to give us the intelligence information
we need to be people.

Speaker 14 (23:03):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
DHS Secretary Christy Nomas called for a full travel band.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
More on that.

Speaker 5 (23:09):
At six am, the President asked promise has released the
results of an MRI that he had as part of
his physical He did get a clean bill of health.
The same can't be said of the mainstream media, as
the White House is fighting fake news in new ways,
creating a media Offender of the week websites.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's funny, harmless, and an impactful way to put a
spotlight on bias.

Speaker 31 (23:34):
It is not a threat to their lives to point
out when a reporter or a news outlet is not
doing its job or putting out bias story.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Curtis Hawk of NewsBusters says this was a good time
to do this with the news cycle at a fever pitch,
but don't expect it to change the tune of the
liberal legacy media.

Speaker 31 (23:51):
More obscure liberal blogs or certain individual journalists. They will
take this as a badge of honor and try to
run with it.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
He says.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
The likely use it to solicit donations from the radical base.
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Speaker 5 (24:06):
Coming up on five thirty five and here at home.
Houston police opened fire on an armed robbery suspect on
the North Side.

Speaker 32 (24:13):
Male suspect had the employee at gunpoint in using her
as a shield upon exiting the business. Our officer responded
to the threat of the suspect and fired his weapon
multiple times, striking the suspect.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
The bad guys in the hospital.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
East Side home invasion apparently a homeowner and the bad
guy are shot.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
We're waiting for more details on that this morning.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Forth bendisd is going to unveil elementary school boundary scenarios
and new middle school attendance zones. On December fifteenth, The
district accelerated this after the parents demanded earlier access to
the information.

Speaker 33 (24:47):
Clearly, they are listening to the community by putting these
special meetings and agendas together, so we appreciate that at.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Parent with our TV partner Channel two. Now, the rules
for Texas's school choice program, which we'll launch next year,
are now out, and while they seem like a good start,
we are already seeing some calls for improvement.

Speaker 20 (25:05):
Get rid of that requirement for schools to be accredited
for two years. This is basically a barrier to market
entry if you're a new school, provider of micro school
things that can be very useful in rural areas.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
Corey Dangelis with the American Culture Project says, overall, it's
a great pilot program for school choice. About two thirds
of registered voters a four year college degrees aren't worth
the cost. It's up from about half eight years ago.
Workplace expert Jennifer Jones says it's a familiar story now
for college graduates.

Speaker 34 (25:37):
They're in debt, they're coming out and they've got you know,
the job salaries are not where they thought they would be.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
And of course there are the advancements we've seen in AI,
which has had an impact on this The summer's deadly
Hill Country flooding is leading to more oversight of summer camps,
and camp owners are in sticker shock over the proposed
hike and license fees.

Speaker 35 (25:57):
Last year we paid gosh nine hundred and sixty four
dollars and this coming year is going to be eleven
two hundred.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
Dollars, that's camp owner Susan Osborne. She says the fees
will wind up being passed on to parents when they
register for next summer. And the Rockets lose to Utah
one thirty three to one twenty five, theyn't play the
Kings tomorrow night. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, Weather
and Traffic station. Use radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 36 (26:23):
The plot of the stories of the day will thicken
as you go about your day. Aad afternoon US and
talks for easy consumption. Use radio seven forty KTRH thirty nine.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Right now, by the way is our Tembacher five thirty
eight here on Houston's Porting News. All right, colder weather,
colder Weather's here, of course, It's it's all relative, right,
compared to what they're dealing with up north. This, This
is no big deal. Some of us are. Actually I've
actually learned to like colder weather. I've with eight eight
Houston summers under my belt. Thirty nine doesn't seem so

(26:59):
bad anymore. It's got a nice little break from the
heat and actually get my air conditioning a rest, although
my air conditioner was running right before Thanksgiving. Here's the question,
and this is the thing you argue about every winter.
I don't care who you are, where you live, what
household you're in, there's always there's always a tussle over

(27:20):
the thermostat. There's a tussle here at the radio station
over the thermostat. Every now and again, somebody will perceide
me who has the temperature set for like eighty degrees.
I don't know if he suffers from senior citizen syndrome
or what the story is, but eighty degrees. You come
in here, it's like a sauna in here. So I

(27:40):
turned that thing down to seventy two. But for the
winter months, I like it a little a little bit cooler.
So I have I mean not that I follow with
the US Department of Energy tells me to do. They
want you to set your thermostat for heat to sixty
eight degrees. When you're a sleeper out of the house,
they want you to drop it even lower. Now, I
will say that there is plenty of studies who show

(28:02):
that sleeping is much better if it's around sixty five
sixty six degrees. You will actually sleep better if you
keep your thermostat lower when you're sleeping. So the bedroom
is set for sixty five at our house right now.
The rest of the house is set for sixty eight.

(28:23):
Not because the US Department of Energy is telling me this,
but because I know from practical experience that sixty eight
is warm enough. You can always grab a blanket if
you're cold, and that I do sleep better when the
temperature is cooler. That always sleep better in the winter
than I do in the summer months. But I'm just
kind of curious because I'm everybody's different. My wife and

(28:43):
I agree in the temperature that's rare. Usually have one
person who's always hot and the other person who's always cold.
You're always arm wrestling over the thermostats. So I'm curious,
where is your heat set to and where where we
do find it? Where do you keep the house, where
do you keep the bedroom at? You go to the
Iheard Radio app KTRH. It tells why, tells why while

(29:05):
you're at it, why you'd have it set that way?
And you go to KTRH on the Iheard Radio app,
hit the talk back button, up the thirty seconds. First name,
where you're calling from, and where your thermostat is at
this morning? Five forty time for traffic? And whether together?
What's the ghetto house? At the ghetto house?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I don't know. I need ken.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Boone's help with this because he's a scientist. I don't
know what thirty is. For some reason, my Mini split
switched over to metric one day and I don't know
how to make it normal again.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
And it says I'm at thirty, So I don't know
if that's good.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Or b that's a little warm. I think kim boone
will have to tell us about that. We got one
forty six southbound, all right, here's where I need your
help out there. I don't have any way to get
a camera on one forty six Port Road southbound. That's
pretty serious whereck it's actually after Shore Acres. But boy,
look at that digital smunch we've got Both ways, we
always have suckage on one forty six this time of

(29:54):
the morning, and this wreck sounds pretty serious too. If
you can get me a picture safely, My Facebook is
super easy to find and to send me a photo
and I'll send it to the pretty ladies on TV
one forty six southbound Shore Acres.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
But we have backups both ways.

Speaker 37 (30:07):
Montgomery, Dave, Eh, guy, Mike Dude, put the bubble wrap
away between Kidwell airline.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
We are all break likes fairly inchin a line.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Something's going on here sounds like we got a back
quarder slip. Let's go southbound. It's a left line. Whoa man,
look at that? A forty five southbound and tid Well,
that is a wreck. It's a left line. Two vehicles here, one, two,
three and a backup from Sheppard. I'll have more on
that at five point fifty.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I'm Skymike.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
It's your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic from a r
KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour weather center.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Ken Boone's invertary today. So if the sky Mike has
his mini splits set for thirty degrees celsius, how many
degrees fahrenheit does that tell them how hot he has? It?

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Said?

Speaker 19 (30:51):
At yeah, I believe that's somewhere around eighty five eighty
six degrees if my math is correct.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's a bit warm, a little bit warm
sky Mike. No wonder your sweating in there?

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Okay, it's mad trade, damn emit.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Trad should have paid attention to school. Huh oh, ken Vin.
We're not going to get to thirty degrees celsius for
a high today, are we.

Speaker 19 (31:12):
No, we certainly are not. Although we won't be as
bad as yesterday or as chilly as yesterday. He's still
going toa feel pretty cool out there as we're a
good bit below average. Lots of sunshine today that'll help
them make it feel a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
A bit of a north breeze at times.

Speaker 19 (31:23):
Mid fifties, mid forties Tonight, the clouds return Tomorrow, could
see a shower late in the day, mid sixties. Our
best chance for rain again will be Wednesday night and Thursday.
Even if you rumbles with thunder in there, it'll be chilly.
Highs on Thursday mid fifties. Still a chance of showers
Friday to finish the week, but back to dry weather
and sunshine this weekend and highs in the sixties.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Right now thirty nine at your official severe weather station,
news Radio seven forty ktrh.

Speaker 28 (31:48):
Problems in traffic around the Beltway and around six.

Speaker 18 (31:51):
Ten ktrh time saving traffic connext on the ten.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
All right, do we or do we not have an
affordability crisis in this country? H there's an interesting piece
in the American Thinker about that that that questions the
use of the language, especially as relates to crisis. I mean,
just because things have gotten a little tighter with your budget,
is that a crisis we'll have? Because you know, you
put crisis on anything, you'll get more attention for it.

(32:19):
We'll talk about all this with Richard Rousso financial Planner,
coming up next. First though, at five fifteen, let's do
a little traffic and weather together, starting with the U Skymane.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
All right, what forty six southbounded shore acres are? After
shore acres? That wreck sure is causing some backups both
ways one forty six As always John from Toadballs, all
your West Loop.

Speaker 20 (32:35):
Good Morningst.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Mike.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Going into the two ninety underpass, there's a cop down there.

Speaker 19 (32:42):
I couldn't tell if it was an accident.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
But the traffic is backing up real bad.

Speaker 23 (32:45):
I was hitted the other way.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Hah Okay, that's a stall, and that's going to mess
you up if you're trying to take that ramp that
goes to the heights. I'm Skymike ats your ability Tree
Experts Traffic Center.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
From r katr H Generators super Center, twenty four hour
Weather Center four today becoming mostly sunny, high temperature right
about fifty five. We have the ways to go to
get there. Then tomorrow Klotnie with a slight chance of
afternoon shower in a high of sixty four. That's a
little bit closer to normal. Current temperature thirty nine. Here
at your official Sivere weather station. News Radio seven forty

(33:16):
k TRH. We're following some of our top stories in
our newsroom and with those, here's Cliff.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Thank you, Jimmy. We know more about that east Side
home invasion.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
It turns out the home owner open fire on two
people trying to break in. He was wounded, so is
one of the bad guys. The other still on the run.
And a federal appeals court says Alina Haba was unlawfully
appointed as a top federal prosecutor of New Jersey and
the Oxford Word of the year is actually two words,

(33:44):
rage bait, rage bait.

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I'm not going to argue with Oxford.

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Speaker 2 (34:04):
Well, we're all paying our bills, right, and those fills
have been going up and your salary may not have
been going up in order to match what's been going
on with inflation. That's where you get the affordability factor.
And you see just about every talking head in the
country right now talking about affordability, whether something is affordable
or not. Even saw a guy in Fox Business yesterday

(34:25):
who said that he thinks the real poverty line for
a family of four is one hundred and forty thousand
dollars a year. Now, he's in New York, Okay, so
maybe that would be true in New York. But if
we really got to the point where the poverty line
is one hundred and forty thousand dollars a year for
a family of four Richard rosso joins US Financial Planner,

(34:45):
Let's start with the poverty line. Where do you think
the poverty line is for your average American family of
four Richard.

Speaker 24 (34:51):
Oh my god, Well, the average earnings for a family
is roughly around sixty thousand dollars. And frankly, there's enough
social sup or And there was a study done years
ago that shows you, if you took advantage of all
the social safety nets out there, you probably didn't even
need to work. So listen, we're a country that poverty

(35:12):
has pretty much been eliminated. And when you look at affordability,
which is the latest bugaboo, it's different for every household,
which makes it a challenge you what you find irritating
in your inflationary budget, Jamie could be very different than mine.
Mine may be gased and I see gas going down,
but yours may be staked and your troubled, or I

(35:35):
have children going to college. So this this is a
moving target. When it comes to affordability, everybody's going to
have an opinion, and to some degree everybody.

Speaker 10 (35:44):
Is sort of right.

Speaker 38 (35:46):
But coming up with one formula to.

Speaker 24 (35:48):
Fix it all is absolutely impossible.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
I agree that it's important. Let's let's expand on this
a little bit further though, And you brought up a
great point here, because what is affordable what is, and
it depends on what your priorities are. If your priority
is to take a vacation, you may have spent eight
thousand dollars on the vacation a couple of years ago,
then now will cost you eleven or twelve thousand dollars.

(36:12):
But if taking that vacation is a priority to you,
then you'll find a way to make it affordable.

Speaker 24 (36:17):
Well, you'll find a way to make it work. And again,
as you look at the soup of this, and you
have to realize that President Trump, the perception is reality,
and the perception as he hasn't done much to lower prices.
When you look at CPI prices have studied, I mean inflation.
The rate of change is between two and a half

(36:39):
and three percent, which is sort of reasonable, but people
don't care about that. They care about when they go
to the store. Prices are still high as they were.
There's only one way to bring those prices down, and
that's some sort of buyer strike. And if you've got
that going on, you've got an economic contraction and.

Speaker 8 (36:54):
Deflation, which is worse.

Speaker 24 (36:58):
There that's the problem with saying I'm going to fix it.
But politicians are running on this and some of the
politicians are who are running on this are the ones
who are okay with inflation at nine percent, which is
the real irony. That's how desperate people are to get
prices lower, and no one can figure it out. So
you've got this issue. The American Thinker had an article

(37:21):
about it's regulatory. Yeah, it is regulatory. It's also personal responsibility.
I am living in the most exciting age of America
with AI and if I want to increase my personal
capital and learn, I have multiple avenues to make more money.
Because it really comes down to this. It comes down
to real income. It comes down to inflation adjusted income,

(37:43):
and real personal income was up two point three percent
this year through August. But you look at and it's
about a nineteen year average. But there are some things
that in that formula the BLS has that doesn't count,
like taxes, property taxes, and homeowners insurance, which is killing people.

Speaker 8 (38:01):
So real wages.

Speaker 24 (38:02):
If listen, if I was making four five six percent
in real wages, then inflation probably wouldn't bother me as much.
You have to find a way for the masses who
live on income, not stock gains and house games. They
live primarily on cash flow and income to raise those
real incomes, and then this would put the affordability issue

(38:23):
to bed.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I agree, I think you're dead on right. Thank you, sir,
appreciate that. That is Richard Rosso Financial Planner. It's five
fifty six.

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Of what matters to you from the John Morris Services Studios.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Six AM is our time here in Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half our
will they ban migrants from places like Somalia? If this
can district flips the blue, that could mean trouble for
the mid terms. And coming up at six oh eight,
Lena and her hubby split on their first anniversary.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Baby, she's on the market now, Yes she is. He
wouldn't you would you want to take that? On Sky Mike.
I wouldn't vote for it. But you've already had crazy,
haven't you? Yeah, A couple of times.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Here's Sky Mike. Let's Susan one six all right. Channel
thirteen's Chopper is going to go look at that for me.
One forty six at Port Road. I know there's an
ugly wreck there. Thank you Steve from Seabrook. It's causing
backups both ways. Forty five forty five southbound between Parker
and said, well got a back order slip. That's a
rep in the left lane and Southwest Freeway is looking good.
Twenty one minutes from the Fountains, Diane most City.

Speaker 14 (39:41):
The song You're So Vain? Is it about Warren Batty?
He called her up and told her thank you for
the song.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
I think that settles it. I'm Skymike.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
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Speaker 2 (39:51):
From r KTRH top tax defender is twenty four hour
weather center for today becoming mostly sunny with the high
teperature right about fifty five warmers still for tomorrow. Ring
comes back in artist on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Born.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
All this coming up from the Weather Channel and ken
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Speaker 3 (40:14):
It's time out for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
Thank you, Jimmy. It's six ZHO two. We are sponsored
by an All Star Construction. Our top story.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
They opened the border wide. As we know, as many
as twenty million.

Speaker 39 (40:24):
Illegal aliens came across the border in those four years,
and then we allowed in these other people who obviously
were not properly vetted.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox last week's shooting that killed
a National Guard cylinder and wounded another might have been preventable.
The State Department's inspector General warned two years ago that
the federal government's visa program for Afghan's quote relies on
Taliban cooperation. Meantime, the President and DHS Secretary Christy Nome
now calling for a full travel ban on countries that

(40:54):
are flooding the US with immigrants.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
If you abuse that privilege, and if you don't align
with the values of the United States, and you don't
respect our country, our culture, our laws, and our people,
you are not welcome here.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
White House spokesperson in Caroline love It with ktr richis
Sean Hannity. Voters go to the polls in Tennessee today
for a special congressional election where the Democrat running is
on record is saying that she hates the city she
wants to represent.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
That would be Nashville.

Speaker 34 (41:27):
I hate the.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
City, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns,
I hate country music, I hate all of the things.

Speaker 40 (41:32):
That make Nashville apparely and hate city to the rest
of the country.

Speaker 14 (41:36):
I hate it.

Speaker 5 (41:37):
Afton Bain has been walking that one back for weeks now.
She's running against Republican Matt Van Epps. President Trump says
the world is watching this race, and Aaron Evans, with
winning Republican strategy, says this should not be close, and.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
The fact that we're even talking about this being a
competitive seat and even being a concern should be alarming.
The challenge the Republican Party has how do we get
people who are energized about the president to show up
in special elections. It comes back to turn out.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
It's a district that Trump won by twenty points last year.
Texas Congressman Troy Nails is the sixth Republican to announce
that he won't run for reelection from the lone Star
state next year. The question is whether it will impact
the makeup of Texas's congressional delegation.

Speaker 41 (42:22):
Experts say it's unlikely to shake up the Republican Party's
dominance in Texas.

Speaker 10 (42:27):
The very Republican district both under the twenty twenty five map,
as well as under the twenty twenty one map.

Speaker 41 (42:32):
Rice University of political expert Mark Jones, Hasnell's twin brother,
Trevor's a shoe inn to win the election. He's well
known in Fort Ben County. At Texas Democrat has not
won a statewide office in more than thirty years.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
ATRHS, Kerrie Lockey the Harris County Democratic Party, while they'll
vote on December fourteenth to ban Houston Mayor John Whitmeyer
from ever receiving the party's endorsement again, it's a move
that might wind up being the final nail in their
own own coffin.

Speaker 11 (43:01):
It's shocking and I guess a self conflicting wound if
you ask me that the local Democratic Party would attack
Mayor wit Meyer when he seems to be a finding
support from both sides of the.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Aisle Jared wood Fill with the Conservative Republicans of Texas as.
The only reason Democrats are considering this is because Whitmyer's
actually focusing on fixing the city instead of radical leftist priorities.
Six ZHO five Minnesota Governor Tim Walls remains under fire
after a US attorney charged eight men in his state
last week for deepfrauding the housing Stabilization services for millions

(43:37):
of dollars in Medicaid funds. When asked about who might
be behind an X account that says it's a whistleblower,
Republican state Representative Walter Hudson says he thinks it's one
or even more state employees.

Speaker 42 (43:51):
The things that they've been posting are completely consistent with
not only the things that we've heard as members of
the House fraud Prevention at State Agency Oversight can here
in Minnesota, but also with the anecdotal testimony that we've
heard from folks whistleblowers.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
There's also a federal investigation into all of this. After
a down day on Wall, straight down, futures are up
this morning, and according to reports, Kevin Hassett, the National
Economic Council director, is the front runner to chake over
the FED next year.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
We've heard a.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Lot about the last several months the word affordability right,
and while we've heard a number of proposed solutions, there
isn't a one size fits all option. The best step
would be focusing on wage growth.

Speaker 15 (44:33):
How do I increase my real income coming into my
house for some people that might be cutting down, how
many subscriptions do I have?

Speaker 14 (44:41):
You may not live in the neighborhood that's off the beach.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Certified financial planner Richard Rosso says affordability means different things
to different people. Cyber Monday sales were expected to hit
fourteen point two billion dollars. That would be up more
than six percent last year, but that could be impacted
by an hour's long outage on the platf form Shopify
that we saw yesterday. As for travel this morning, we've
got thirteen delays out of Bush, nine out of Hobby.

(45:06):
The Midwest winter storm making a mess of things Yesterday,
hundreds of flights canceled or rather delayed out of our
two airports, and the Houston Rockets lose to the Jazz
one thirty three to one twenty five. I'm Cliff Saunters
on Houston's news, weather and traffic station, News Radio seven
forty KGRH.

Speaker 18 (45:25):
Stay in touch on your drive in with Jimmy Barrett
and the Houston Morning News team.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Okay, I'm gonna try to tread carefully here. This is
very very difficult topic for me because, as I'm sure
most of you know, I'm not exactly a Lena Hildago
fan quite the opposite. I think she's about as crazy
as the day is long. And not to mention the
fact that she's not good at her job, never was

(45:56):
good at her job, doesn't even do her job anyway.
All that aside, you know, it's sad to think that
her marriage lasted a year, not even a year, when
you get right down to it. The announcement evidently coming
out yesterday that Lena Hildago and her husband have split up.

(46:16):
The thirty three year old judge was married to David James.
They separated on their first anniversary, less than a year
after their December wedding in the Philippines, so didn't even
make it a year. Normally, that's the honeymoon stage a year, right.
How do you wear out your welcome in a year?

(46:37):
How does that fall apart so quickly? Supposedly they had
been together for ten years prior what happened now I
don't know, obviously I'm not privy to their personal information,
but you got to think that maybe this is the
first time they actually lived together. That's the only thing

(46:59):
that comes to my mind. You could be with somebody
for ten years and at the end of the night
You're going back to your own place where it's quiet
and where it's sane, and where nobody's saying crazy stuff
to you or yelling at you or doing any of
that kind of stuff. Maybe it was the cohabitation that
was a problem. I mean, he obviously knew what he

(47:21):
was getting, right. If you're whistleboy for ten years, you've
seen it at all. So as far as what happened,
who knows, but you know again you hate to see
it happen. But that's just seems so disposable. I mean,
have you really tried everything you can try? You know,
we just give up on stuff so easily these days.
Six ten time for traffic and whether it's.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Crazy is only fun for how long? Sky? For about
an hour? A couple of times. W can't there? You
go different guys, I.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Wouldn't vote for you, doesn't mean I wouldn't. You know
you're real good, right?

Speaker 24 (47:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:57):
We have the crazy heart matrix here. Let's go to.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Is always in same At Port Road, you have that roadwork,
you're down the one lane and spot now I've got
a wreck here. Channel thirteen's chopper tells me they're going
to go over there. Take a look on the way
to Galvisston. So this is causing big delays. It's Port
Road southbound, huge backup northbound. They're also responding the other way,
so that's telling me bad things are happening right here.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Let's skip over to Red.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Bluff forty five southbound between Temble and Parker. We had
a back order slip. They just cleared a wreck off
the left lane there. I got some backups from West Mountain.
Is that a wreck on two forty nine Lance from
Magnolia Way in I'm looking at nineteen sixty and I
see a big scooch here. I know there's roadwork there,
but I'm getting reports of a wreck.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Also.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
We've cleared that stall now off of two ninety that
was inbound right at the ramp that goes to the
Heights on six to ten North Andrew Most City.

Speaker 43 (48:50):
Dude, Good morning, Mike.

Speaker 27 (48:52):
Six ten onto the northbound two eighty eight connector in
the curves a dol vehicle.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
And that's going to be the rent from two eighty
eight to six ten. Gotcha.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
I'm Skymike at your Generator Supercenter dot com.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Traffics from r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four our
Weather Center time to check in with kem boone. He's
got some sunshine coming back to our forecast today.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
We certainly do.

Speaker 19 (49:16):
We've got some clouds around here this morning, but I
think they will quickly break up and we're headed for
a mostly sunny sky today. Still a bit chilly out there,
not as cold as yesterday, but I think temperatures are
going to reach the mid fifties here this afternoon, with
a bit of a north breeze out there. Mid forties tonight.
Colder though north and west of the city where we
might actually see some readings again in the thirties. Clouds
will increase as we head through the day on Wednesday,

(49:36):
could see a shower late in the afternoon, a little
milder Tomorrow, mid sixties. Our best chance for rain and
even storms will be Wednesday night and Thursday. Chilly, Thursday,
mid fifties, lingering showers possible Friday to finish the week
mid fifties, and then sunshine back in over the weekend
as temperatures climb up through the SIXTIESEPAG.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
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Speaker 2 (50:04):
On the ten right, So the the White House has
launched a media Offender of the Week website targeting fake news.
I assume the idea here is to shame them, but
I'm wondering if shaming people who have no shame works.
I guess we'll find out. We'll talk to Curtis how

(50:24):
Media Research Center about this. Coming up next. First, though,
traffic and weather together, short and clean. Go ahead, sky Mike.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
All right, we're looking at one. It looks like they've
cleared that problem. The wreck we had after shore anchors
the suckets is still there well, mostly clean from Martin Weens,
and we're looking at an extra eleven minutes on the southbound.
I'm Skymike. It's your Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic.

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Center from our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
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Speaker 3 (51:06):
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Speaker 5 (51:06):
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Speaker 2 (51:39):
Six twenty two. Our time here on Houston's Morning News.
All right, a site dedicated to fake news is pointed
out by the White House has been launched. Caroline Lovitt,
the White House Press Secretary, making that announcement Friday as
an example of the they put up that. You know,
the Democrats have been the six Democrats who who did

(52:00):
that video telling the troops to basically disobey the president
if if if he's if they're they're given them illegal order. Well,
one of them was asked to name one illegal order
the President Trump has done, and they couldn't come up
with one those surprise there. Curtis Houp joins US Media

(52:22):
Research Center. I guess the premise is to shame these folks, Curtis,
But can you shame somebody who has no shame into
changing their behavior.

Speaker 31 (52:29):
Well that's a good point, don't I don't know if
these guys actually are capable of shame, but I think
this is I love this. I'm a huge fan of
this because it's not just simply like listing an outlet
and saying you.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Suck this one.

Speaker 31 (52:43):
The White House on their page white house dot gov
slash media bias, they run down and they have it cited.
They currently has thirty one entries, and they list the claim,
they list the publication, they list the reporters, and they
even have it sorted into categories. You know, my favor
favorite is you know, they've got misrepresentation, omission of context,

(53:04):
the lie. But for certain people like Whoope Goldberg, they
just label it left wing lunacy, which is my personal favorite,
and I'm partial because they they've cited NewsBusters in some
of these, but they run through the offense, the facts,
key points and links to back up their points, not

(53:25):
just simply saying these reporters are wrong, which I think,
you know, kind of goes with how we do things
at Doocebusters.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Well, and that's perfect if you are trying to reach
an audience that's really interested in that, in other words,
the people who are in the middle, who have not
made up their minds, who want to know all sides
of the story before they do make up their minds,
to provide them with something other than the mainstream media narrative.
The problem is is that we've just become so partisan
by nature that at least a third of us will

(53:54):
buy into whatever the left is saying, a third of
us will buy into whatever the right is saying, and
it's that I guess you're just trying to reach the
a one third that somewhere in the middle that hasn't
made up their mind.

Speaker 31 (54:04):
Well, yeah, I mean that certainly is true that we
are kind of stuck in a partisan thicket, so to speak,
and that's definitely not changing anytime soon. However, I do
think that you know, if we're fighting, if we say
we're going to fight for every voter, because as we've
seen a lot of these elections have come down to
the wire, you don't actually have to cite the White House.
You can cite the links that the White House supports,

(54:26):
because I think that's why this one is particularly helpful.
You don't have to push back by just simply saying, oh,
the White House shows this thing that the liberal media
word about them isn't true. They provide sources to explain
why they're not true. And they're more they use other
liberal outlets to debunk said liberal points, which I think
is particularly interesting. So it's kind of a randombout way

(54:46):
of using the White House to kind of get your
point across. And you know, I think it's fun and
I don't think it's particularly harmless, and it's fun to
take a pin to these people that just have such
inflated egos.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
You know, there's a buzz going on in the media
write down and I know you've heard it a million times.
I want to see what you think of it. It's
called affordability crisis. Everybody's all the mainstream talking about the
affordability crisis. They obviously want to tell you that here
we have President Trump and you can't afford to buy
things because he was going to fix inflation, but he
hasn't fixed inflation of course, what they don't tell you

(55:21):
is the Biden years of inflation that led up to
where we are at right now, and the price is
really stabilized, but they don't go backwards, and if they
do go backwards, that's a bad.

Speaker 31 (55:30):
Thing, right exactly. Yeah, it's more about slowing the rate
of increase. You know, gave me Klobachar tweeted that over
the weekend, like I forget it was like electric bills
or it's just general inflation. It was this huge thing
and like, look how high it is under the president,
whereas the entire spike came in the Biden presidency. I mean,
this is what Bernie Goldberg wrote about when he wrote

(55:51):
his book Bias, you know, twenty thirty years ago, talking
about how during the Reagan presidency, CBS News and the
like discussed that, oh my gosh, there's homeless this in America,
but they didn't really do an energy McCarter or you know,
anybody else or go Clinton. So it's very similar here.
They're playing catch up. They're playing ketchup. But you know,

(56:13):
I think people see the gas the national average is
now three dollars a gallon, which is something we even
had in four years that's like tangible results that I
think the Americans can point to.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
All Right, Curtis, thank you as always appreciated media Research Centers. Curtis,
howk it is six twenty six, It is time to
take a look at your money? Hey, good morning.

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Jimmy Barrett on her top stories. This f are that
second shot National Guardsman showing a lot of improvement, Trump
doubling down on taking out drug boats and coming up
at six thirty eight, So what's your servicedat set at
when it comes to the heat details in the minutes ahead. First,
we're gonna check out that drive again with Sky Mike, all.

Speaker 4 (57:27):
Right, we got a west loop problem, and I believe it.
It's a stall westloop northbound Hempstead Center Lane. It's right
before all that merging craziness happens if you're trying to
hit two ninety or trying to go over to Garden
Oaks Lookout in northbound.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
I see them about an eight minute scunch going this way.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
I have forty five southbound between Parker and Sidwell. We
cleared one wreck. Now we've got another one northbound right
before Parker. Give me the six forty. I'll get you
some laneage Skymike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center from.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
R ktr H Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour whether center
becoming mostly Sunday today with high temperature right about fifty five,
gradual warming trend and then some more rain in the forecast.
We'll get the details when we talked to Ken Boone
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Right now, thirty nine and your official severe weather station
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time now for the news.

(58:18):
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Said thirty nine, Yes, sir, wow, thank you.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Six thirty one on ktrh our top story this morning.

Speaker 29 (58:26):
We were told that he also wiggled his toes, so
we take that as a positive sign.

Speaker 5 (58:31):
West Virginia Governor Patrick Marshy with good news about National
Guard soldier Andrew Wolf shot by an Afghan national near
the White House last week.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
That attack, of.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
Course, killing twenty year old Sarah Beckstrom. JHS Secretary Christy
Nolan wants a full travel band now on countries that
she says are flooding the US with immigrants.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
Meantime, the Trump administration.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
Is reviewing all Biden era Afghan arrivals following the shooting.

Speaker 16 (58:56):
We have to meet the mass migration that we saw
in this country with mass deportations.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
We don't know who these people are. It's a national
security threat.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt on Fox speaking of national security threats.
The White House confirms a second strike against NARCO traffickers
in September.

Speaker 45 (59:15):
What House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says, Secretary Pete Hegseth,
authorized Admiral Frank Bradley, the commander of Joint Special Operations Command,
to carry out the kinetic strike. Democrats in Congress are
questioning the follow up strike after a report in the
Washington Post said there were survivors from the initial strike.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
That's Jaron Halper reporting.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
President Trump held talks with top advisors yesterday discussing the
pressure campaign on dictator Nicholas mcdora.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Trump is also sending Special ENVOYE.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
Steve Whitcoff to Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin in
the hopes of finally getting a peace deal done to
end the four year old Russia Ukraine War.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
I want to sup people from being killed. Doesn't have
much to do with us, but I'd like to see
if we could, say, have a lot of Trump over
the weekend and ask promised.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
The White House put out the MRI that Trump had
as part of his physical doctors gave him a clean
bill of health. The White House is also rolling out
a media Offenders of the Week website. It's a new
effort to expose fake news. Curtis Hawk of NewsBusters says
this is a harmless way to point out the increasing bias,
and really it comes at a great time.

Speaker 31 (01:00:25):
Is smart from a strategy standpoint, because you give it
a few weeks now with the news cycle back at
a fever pitch, and I think people will kind of
be clamoring to find out who it's going to be
at the end of a week, and the White House
can easily drive engagement.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
With dot he says, though some Liberals will take this
as a badge of honor to fundraise from their liberal base.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Congress is back at work, but.

Speaker 5 (01:00:47):
Senate Majority Leader John Thune Warren's time is running out
to pass another round of funding bills before the Christmas vacation.
The continuing Resolution by the Way to keep the government
running is in effect through January. It's now six thirty
four here at home. The rules for Texas's school choice program,
which officially kicks off next year, have been announced.

Speaker 13 (01:01:10):
The rules make it clear that this isn't a handout
to the rich, like some Democrats claimed.

Speaker 20 (01:01:15):
Well income families benefit from school choice more than anybody else.
This is a big deal for families who couldn't afford
private school before.

Speaker 13 (01:01:22):
Corey DeAngelis with the American Culture Project says the next
step is to expand access to school choice further.

Speaker 20 (01:01:28):
Remove the arbitrary capped, and fund every student who applies
for the program, because we're already paying for these students
tax payer funded education.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
He says.

Speaker 13 (01:01:37):
This is a good starting point, but issues will come
up that will have to be fixed later. Ethan Buchanan,
News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
About two thirds of Americans now say college degrees aren't
worth the money they're printed on. That's up from about
half a few years ago. In workplace expert Jennifer Jones says,
one factor here is a I it's.

Speaker 34 (01:01:56):
Really living fast, but it is also opening at some.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
New opportunity among those energy markets which are greatly needed
for data centers. And speaking of those data centers, combine
their need for power with this week's cold snap, and
you've got fresh new concerns about the Texas power grid.

Speaker 46 (01:02:15):
The rise in data centers is straining what is already
a tight grid. Earlier this year, the governor signed legislation
that gives the PUC the power to remotely disconnect what
are described as large loads as a way to conserve electricity.

Speaker 8 (01:02:28):
Well, they give them twenty four hours notice and they
could dispatch them for as long as they need them off.

Speaker 46 (01:02:33):
Michael Jewele with a conservative energy networks as data centers
are on board with the plan, they buy electricity on
the open market, and during a power crunch like winter
storm Muri that price goes through the roofs.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
That is ktrh's Beth Myers. It's now six thirty six.
A mystery unfolding in Austin. A Chexas A and M
student dies hours after tailgating before the UTA and M
game last week.

Speaker 47 (01:02:57):
Loved ones have identified this student a Rienna Aguilera, a
student at Texas A and M's Bush School of Government
and Public Service. According to Austin Police, officers found Aguilera
on responsive early Saturday at an apartment on Rio Grand Street.
This is near a University of Texas's campus. She was
pronounced dead at the scene. At this time, we don't

(01:03:19):
know what happened after the tailgate in which she attended.
Investigators say there are no signs of foul play and
they're not treating the case as a homicide.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
That is Zach Lashray with our TV partner Channel two.

Speaker 5 (01:03:30):
We also had a home invasion on the southeast side
of Houston this morning that put both the homeowner and
one of the two bad guys involved in the hospital.
The homeowner confronted the bad guy, fired several times. The
other bad guy got away. The rockets loose to the
Jazz one thirty three to one twenty five. They'll play
the Kings tomorrow night. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's newsweather

(01:03:52):
and traffic station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 18 (01:03:56):
More with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston Morning News.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
This is Houston's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Yeah, there's oftentimes a couple's war going on in the house. Mercifully,
I don't have that going out of my house. The
wife and I agree on what temperature we want the
house to be at. It's wintertime now or as close
to wintertime as we get, and the heat is set
for sixty five in the bedroom because you can always

(01:04:29):
put on another blanket and you sleep better when it's
really cool. I have a friend, by the way, who
does that in the summertime. I don't know what his
elector bill looks like, but he turns it down to
sixty five years the ac turned out to sixty five
to sleep at night, and you know that costs a
little bit of money. But the question of today is
because the energy department comes up with their usual recommendations.
Not that I care what the energy department tells me.

(01:04:50):
I don't follow the energy department, but they came up
with their normal recommendation. Don't set the thervice down any
higher than sixty eight degrees for the winter.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
You should not heat your home too higher than sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Well, what if I'm old and I got thin blood
and sixty eight feels like forty eight degrees to make?

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
Can I turn it up just a little bit? No,
set it for sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
So I'm just And then again you got the couples
who say, well, I want a war No, I want
a colder. So I'm kind of wondering what the deal
is at your house? Where is your thermostats set for
the heat for the Winner? You know, my furnace hasn't
even kicked on yet for the first time, at least
I don't think it has. Luckily, I got enough insulation

(01:05:33):
in the house where they you know, I can turn
the fireplace on and heat the first floor no problem.
So anyway, where is your thermostat?

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Said?

Speaker 24 (01:05:41):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Go to the iHeartRadio, I have KTRH. Hit the talk
back button where your heat is set for the winner?
And why he Jimmy, this is Paul and caddiot. My
thermos Dad's set to sixty seven degrees. Gotta save money
on that oil.

Speaker 48 (01:05:55):
Bill, Jimmy, as you were speaking, I was in here
and in the living room area, and I just just
turning down the thermostat to seventy degrees from seventy six degrees.
And the wife's in the bedroom, and normally it's hotter
in there, so I ain't gonna tell her though, until
she figures it out. But it's hot out here. I

(01:06:16):
mean it's hot inside the house. Okay, it's cold outside here.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
It's cold outside here too, in the thirties right down. Yeah,
don't tell her. She'll figure it out soon enough, and
then then you can wrestle over the whole thing. Six
forty time for traffic, b leathers. What's that's gonna make?
Why I turn everything up? I see, I figure I
can always take off.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
More clothes, so that's why I keep betting. Well, eventually
you get nicked, nicked right, Ray, welcome to Texas. And yeah,
you just set.

Speaker 4 (01:06:42):
That thermostat to thirty celsius whatever that is?

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Eighty six degrees. Guy, Mike, you don't want thirty celsius? Okay, Well,
thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Weslop six ten southbound right at Bracewood look Out. I
got reports of a wreck. Does trend start know about it.
Let me help them out, all right. So this is
southbound west Sloop going through Meyer Lamb Braiswood. Boy, look
at that Scotch from bell Air. That's got to be
at least eight to ten minutes on the southbound northbound.
We cleared the stall out of the center lane at
Hempstead and NJ just have us struck there, but we

(01:07:11):
got the backups from Woodway going this way forty five north.
We still have the back order slip at Parker. I
don't have the lineage yet, we can't get eyes on it,
but we got backups from Tidwell. I believe that six
extra minutes this way. Lance from Magnolia's on two forty nine. Gota, dude,
Lance from Magnolia.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
I know I'm a forgotten freeway.

Speaker 10 (01:07:29):
And there is not a wreck at nineteen sixty.

Speaker 15 (01:07:33):
It is a.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Service truck inside the construction zone.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Back in the old days, we didn't have to talk
about two forty nine. But I see these backups now
right before nineteen sixty from Cyprus Wood and you're losing
about six minutes this way Go Freeway starting to smunch
up just a little around waffle House at Airport northbound.
I'm Skymike from the Ability Tree Experts Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Center tri setting up for twenty two degrees celsius. You'll
you'll be happy, we said in English. That is going
about seventy one seventy two degrees from our KTRH Generator
super Center twenty four hour whether center. Ken Boone is here,
he's got the forecast for you. I think the heat's
kicking on for a lot of folks this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Again, it certainly is. It's a little chili out there
this morning.

Speaker 19 (01:08:14):
Temperatures, depending on where you are, anywhere from the upper
thirties to low forties. So chili start here today. And
we're gonna be a little bit milder than we were yesterday.
I put that in quotes because it's still gonna be
a pretty chilly day today. Lots of sunshine, though, that'll
help make it feel a little bit better, a bit
of a north breeze. Mid fifties this afternoon. That's still
about ten to thirteen degrees below where we typically are

(01:08:35):
this time of year. Mid forties tonight, clouds increased tomorrow,
we could see a shower late in the day, milder tomorrow,
mid sixties best chance for rain will come through Wednesday
night and Thursday with scattered showers and even storms. A
chili day Thursday, with eyes in the mid fifties, some
lingering showers around during the day. Friday, otherwise cloudy and
chili to finish the week, mid fifties, sunshine ahead for
the weekend. Temperatures expected to climb back up through the

(01:08:57):
sixties for both Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Right now thirty eight or official severe weather station News
Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 18 (01:09:06):
Your best ways are round Houston. Next on the ten
on seven forty KTRH. All right, tis the season, right?
Most big cities have things like parades, Christmas parades or
tree lighting ceremonies. Even Portland, Oregon had a tree lighting ceremony,

(01:09:26):
but they're tree lighting ceremony. They didn't want one. Not
only did they not ever mention the word Christmas, they
did a lot of other things you would not expect
to find at a tree lighting ceremony. More in that
story coming up next.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
First.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
So it's six fifty. Traffic and weather together your sky mine.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
All right, Well, so we've southbound, lookout for this wreck
at Bracewood. We've got nothing but breaks and a pack
of them from bel Air down. That's fourteen extra minutes
trying to make that curve. If you're going from the
Galleria trying to go to NRG let's reroute to the
Southwest Freeway two eighty eight instead north, we cleared the
stall of Hempstead Highway Advisors, you're slow Katie Freeway from
Grand Parkway forty five north. It's the second back order slip.

(01:10:07):
This time they're about to clear Parker. But look at
that's much now coming up from cross timbers.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
It's an extra eleven minutes going this way. Play timeline
with me.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
At six fifty five Skywike and the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four
hour weather center.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Becoming mostly Sunday, about fifty five for the high today,
Cloudie's like chances of an afternoon shower sixty four. Tomorrow,
better chance of showers and maybe a storm or two
on Thursday with the high year sixty currently thirty eight.
At your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH,
it's Tuesday morning.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Cliff is here. He has some of our top stories
this morning, and we're sponsored by Cars for Kids.

Speaker 5 (01:10:43):
Christy nom calls for a travel ban after the National
Guard shooting last week. League City PD is investigating a
stream of hoax bomb threats reported over the Thanksgiving holiday,
and wallet Hub says we in Houston are the sixth
most fun city in the country. Vegas is number one,
followed by Orlando, Miami, Atlanta, and New Orleans. At the

(01:11:04):
latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update
is at seven.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
Fifty nine. Inbound at the loop is always a problem.

Speaker 18 (01:11:13):
KTRH time saving traffic connect on the ten.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Well, it is originally German, you know, That's where the
Christmas treek came from Germany. Six fifty two Our time
here in Houston's morning is right. Tree lighting ceremony in Portland,
Oregon not like your normal tree lighting ceremony in a
regular place on Planet Earth. Portland, Oregon is not a
regular price Here is this from Outnumbered yesterday, Emily Compogno

(01:11:41):
sharing the story of how they did their tree lighting
in Portland.

Speaker 43 (01:11:45):
Outrage has spread across the country after speakers there failed
to mention the word Christmas during the city's annual tree lighting.
The celebration was only referred to as the tree lighting,
with a group leading the event erasing the word as
they protested alleged genocides.

Speaker 33 (01:12:02):
Watch on this Native American heritage day.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
I hold both gratitude and truth.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
The tree that we stand beside was once rooted in
its own home.

Speaker 49 (01:12:12):
No, there's a full blown genocide happening live streaming in
four k. You know, I feel like this is a
perfect time to bring this up. I felt like this
is a perfect time to put them up there and
for your guys' prayers, for every single one of the Palestinians,
all their press peoples.

Speaker 43 (01:12:28):
Okay, they didn't stop there. Another featured speaker draped in
a Palestine flag broke the crowd out into a free
Palestine chant just moments later.

Speaker 49 (01:12:39):
And so if I could get a free, free.

Speaker 43 (01:12:41):
Palestine, free free Palestine.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 43 (01:12:50):
Critics tearing the city apart on social media, for example,
wondering why they can't say the word Christmas, questioning how
things got so divisive, so ridiculous, and one person going
as far to say that it will, as a captain
obvious point.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
Always be a Christmas tree.

Speaker 14 (01:13:07):
That's the thing.

Speaker 43 (01:13:08):
And you know what, Rachel, having spent a lot of
time there and I still in Portland, yes, and the
surrounding area. It is fascinating to see what a tiny
microcosm of that it has become. And everyone with common
sense and appropriate values and north stars and not sensory
ship and people who believe in God and talk about it,

(01:13:30):
and all the things have moved outside of the city.
So all of the counties around it are normal where
you can say Merry Christmas. And my dad at his
small business has an annual Christmas tree lighting the day
after Thanksgiving. But there it seems to have just become this,
this tumor. And I think that we're seeing the result,
which is that people are voting and responding with their

(01:13:51):
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migrants from some countries into the US. All eyes on
Deep Red Kentucky could at flip a seat blue and
coming up at seven o eight more fighting over that
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Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
Sanders hey You jimmy seven oh one on k T
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this right.

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Now Texas Congressmanship, roy reacting TO Dhs Secretary Christy nome
was calling for a full travel ban on countries that
she says flooding THE us with immigrants after last week's
shooting of Two National guards soldiers near The White, house.

Speaker 6 (01:17:55):
Coming to The United states Of america is a, Privilege
it is not a.

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
Right spokesperson In Caroline levitt On Fox, now could this
have been? Prevented The State Department Inspector general warned two
years ago Under Joe biden that the federal government special
visa program For afghan's quotes relies On taliban. Cooperation it's
election day today In tennessee With Republican matt Van epps

(01:18:20):
in a tight rate with a Radical democrat by the
name Of Afton.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
Baine she wants transgender surgery for miners without parental, consent
believes that men can get, pregnant.

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And just just you know.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
Crazy that Was Van epps with ktr H's Klay travis
And Buck. Sexton keep in, mind this is a close
race in a district That President trump won by twenty
points a year.

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
Ago but now it's.

Speaker 8 (01:18:45):
Closed this is not a seat that should even be
on the map For.

Speaker 9 (01:18:48):
Democrats That's Aaron, evans president Of Winning Republicans, strategies who
says A democrat win would send shock waves Through washington.

Speaker 8 (01:18:58):
If The democrats, win AND i definitely think that there's
some serious conversations that are going to be, had especially.

Speaker 14 (01:19:04):
Focusing in on the.

Speaker 9 (01:19:05):
Midterms President trump wide in and says the whole world
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Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
Holm Troy nils's retirement From congress makes it Six Texas
republicans Leaving washington next. Year rice As Mark jones, says
The dems are unlikely to flip those, seats Especially nils's.

Speaker 10 (01:19:24):
District this is a race where regardless of who The
republican candidate, is they're going to. Win In november of
twenty twenty, six.

Speaker 5 (01:19:31):
He, Says trevor nills choice twin brother is a luck
to win the. Election Harris County democrats are still at
odds With Houston Mayor John wickmeyer moving ahead with an
attempt to ban him from ever getting their endorsement.

Speaker 11 (01:19:44):
Again too many of the loud faces and voices are
pushing a radical left.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
Agenda Mayor whitmeyer is not doing.

Speaker 11 (01:19:50):
That, instead he is focusing on safer streets keeping taxes.

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Low eighteen first responders things up that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
Nature Ared woodville with The Conservative republicans Of texas says
a move life that is just going to end up
hurting the Local democrats more than it will hurt the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
Mayor it's now seven oh.

Speaker 5 (01:20:06):
Four Minnesota Governor Tim wallas is facing a massive fraunt,
scandal with millions said to be missing from programs like
housing stabilization. Services many blaming The somali, community allegations they're
funding terror groups Like Al.

Speaker 12 (01:20:20):
Shabab they were doing things like faking autism, diagnoses faking
autism treatment, plans opening up fraudulent autism.

Speaker 5 (01:20:29):
Centers Manhattan institute's senior, Fellow Chris, rufo says the damage
is worse than what's being. Reported there's a federal investigation
ongoing as. Well dow futures are up this morning after
a down day On Wall street. Yesterday, meantime reports indicate
That National Economic Council Director Kevin hassett is the likely
frontrunner to Replace Jerome powell next. Year affordability that's the new.

(01:20:52):
Buzzword you hear it all over the place. Today the
mainstream media of The, democrats Even. Republicans very few people
actually understand what affordability.

Speaker 13 (01:21:01):
Is though, unfortunately there isn't any one solution to solve
the multifaceted affordability.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
Issue it's a.

Speaker 14 (01:21:07):
Soup it's a very complicated.

Speaker 15 (01:21:09):
Soup it's all these little microeconomic stories from everybody's household
and political.

Speaker 13 (01:21:15):
Perception financial Planner Richard rousso says tackling individual prices will
be the key to solving.

Speaker 3 (01:21:19):
Affordability we got.

Speaker 15 (01:21:21):
One group that wife's stake and now can't buy it
back to. Them is, Affordability but to, me it's something,
else and that's why it's so hard.

Speaker 14 (01:21:27):
To figure out the.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
Problem he.

Speaker 13 (01:21:28):
Says at the end of the, day the best way
to deal with affordability is to encourage wage growth across the.
Spectrum Ethan Buchanan News radio seven FORTY ktrh no.

Speaker 5 (01:21:37):
Final Cyber monday numbers yet the e commerce Company shopify
was here with an hour's long outage. Yesterday Cyber monday
sales expected to top fourteen billion.

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Dollars our bags are In. Fargo we had to go shopping.

Speaker 45 (01:21:50):
Today it's Bad.

Speaker 5 (01:21:54):
Man Midwest winter store making a mesh out of flying.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
Yesterday this.

Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Morning we've got a winter storm in the, northeast so
we've got seventeen delays out Of bush and of the
thirteen out Of. Hobby, meantime gasoline prices continue to tick.
Down there are two fifty three a gallon Across houston this.
Morning the national average dips under three bucks for the
first time in. Years it's now seven oh. Six Lane
kiffin officially introduced as the new head football coach AT.

Speaker 17 (01:22:21):
Lsu when you take the, history, tradition, passion and the
great players in the state Of, louisiana no one can
argue that when you're In Tiger stadium On saturday, night
there is nothing like.

Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
It kiffin leaves Oh miss and Replaces Brian, kelly who
was canned by The tigers earlier this. Year rockets see
that three game Winning street come to an, end losing
to The jazz one thirty three to one twenty. Five
I'm Cliff saunders On houston's, news weather and traffic Station
News radio seven forty K.

Speaker 18 (01:22:50):
Trh the tools you need to take on the day
news in the, Morning weather and.

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Traffick this Is Houston's Morning news With Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Barrett All, right we don't fight at our. House i'm
pretty lucky when it comes. Out we don't fight over the.
Thermostat we both pretty much, agree you, know we like
it a little on the colder side during the winter.
MONTHS i don't care that THE Us Energy department wants
me to accept my thermostat for sixty. Eight i'll do you.
BETTER i think the one on the main floor sixty

(01:23:22):
six right. Now, ANYWAY i may turn it up to sixty,
eight but it's at sixty six and the bedroom is
at sixty five before the heat would come. On it's
gotten down to sixty, five but it hasn't gone below
sixty five, yet so the furnace is not kicked. On

(01:23:43):
it's kind OF i don't. Know it's kind of a
point of pride with. Me how late in the year
CAN i go before that thermostat kicks. On it's not
Like i'm trying to freeze to death or. ANYTHING i
JUST i just like to see how LONG i can
go before the furnest kicks. On so here's that's my question.
Today yours entergy department says they wanted at Sixty what

(01:24:04):
is your heat set? At At what point does the
heat kick on at your? House you have it set
for like seventy or seventy. Two what's your comfort?

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Zone you?

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Know they, say the colder it, is the better you.
SLEEP i mean to a certain. Point so mid sixties
is where you ought to, be they, say if you
really want to get a great night's. Sleep but where
is your?

Speaker 50 (01:24:25):
Thermostats, Say, Hey, jimmy no matter what time of the
year it is when we leave the house for. Work
my wife AND i, said OUR ac says seventy. Five
we don't worry about the furnace at all. Now when
we're home during, winter we usually keep it at seventy
one on the, furnace or during the summer months we
keep THE ac at seventy, two but only when we're
inside the.

Speaker 3 (01:24:44):
House, hey good, Morning. Jimmy Is jason From San.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Antonio hey, MAN i haven't turned the heater on yet.
EITHER i think WHEN i woke up this morning it
was about sixty three degrees in my.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
HOUSE i just put on some socks in a. Hoodie
it's all, Good.

Speaker 51 (01:24:57):
Hey, Jimmy marty and fair. FILLED i keep mine during
the winter at sixty, six and if it kicks, ON
i get up and turn it.

Speaker 16 (01:25:08):
Lower skip From webster, Jammy i'm right there with. You
twenty two degrees, celsius which bounces from seventy one to seventy.
Two we live on the. Water it gets cold down.
Here good.

Speaker 3 (01:25:19):
Morning there's a tech From.

Speaker 14 (01:25:20):
Connecticut we don't have, Heaters no you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Don't well they, have they have. Furnaces but up In.
Connecticut you know what they have up? There oil heating.
Oil that's most of The. Northeast most of most of
The northeast runs on heating. Oil and the price of heating.
OIL i have no idea what the price of heating
oil is right, now BUT i remember a couple of
winters ago week got really really high and when they,
come they come and fill your. Tank you have like

(01:25:46):
an oil tank in the basement that will come and
fill your oil, tank and that can cost you thousands
of dollars to get that thing full enough to last
year for the, winter at least the better part of.
It seven, ten time for traffic and weather to Get.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
Lena hidalgo would want me to set the thermostat to
in the ghetto house just maybe thirty celth you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
Thinking of dating or now that she's becoming, available.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
You'll answer my, messages you, know AND i would set
it the thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
CELSIUS i feel like we need.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
That let's hit that problem on your West loop southbound
Lookout Beach. Nut this wreck is causing a major smudge
coming down from About let's call that with fourness and
we're looking at sixteen extra minutes on the.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Southbound so if you're.

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Trying to go from the southwest side and hit the
north side or the south, side let's go up The
Southwest freeway steat or you could take the Most City
expressway all ninety North.

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Freeway, finally we've cleared the wreck.

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Outbound that's still a back order slip At parker on
the outbound, inbound got a new Wreck Little york and
that's a solid. Scune now coming down from West, road
let's do The Hearty Toil. Road if you're a big
stot with the toll. Stickers lance From magnolia cleared up
that two forty nine. Problem nineteen sixty we had some
kind of construction smune.

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There you still got a lot of breaks From louetta.

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Down we are two ninety up In Eldridge parkway, visors
You're Katie freeways messed up From Graham parkway Into Eldridge.
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From R ktrh top tax defenders twenty four Hour Weather
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seeing some blue Sky i'm actually seeing at sunrise this.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
Morning that's a big.

Speaker 19 (01:27:18):
Improvement, yes mostly sunny sky here, today so do get
a break from the.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Rain mid breezy.

Speaker 19 (01:27:24):
At, times and not as chili as, yesterday although temperatures
are still a good bit below. Average typically we're in
the upper sixties this time of the. Year today looks
like our highs are going to be in the mid,
fifties so still a good bit below average mid forties.
Tonight clouds do return, tomorrow, however with a chance of
showers by the end of the. Day high temperatures On
wednesday middle part of the. Sixties much better rain chances
even if he rumbles a thunder For wednesday night And.

(01:27:45):
Thursday Chili Day thursday with highs in the mid, fifties
some lingering Showers friday to finish the week mid, fifties
and then sunshine back over the. Weekends temperatures climb up
through the sixties both.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Afternoons still thirty, Eight you're at your official severe weather,
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Live In, KATIE i live In.

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Ito your reliable forecast next on the ten on seven FORTY.
Ktrh normally a congressional election special election wouldn't get that much,
attention but the race is so. Cooled this is basically
a red. State but this particular, district the the the

(01:28:26):
distance between The republican and The, democrat it's raised it.
Thin it is like two percentage points between the woman
who's The democrat who's running for office and The republican
and what is normally a Reliable republican. District is it
because the candidate is not everything you'd want it to,
be or is something else happening that we need to
watch that may have some implications for what happens in
the midterm. Elections more than that story coming up. Next, first,

(01:28:48):
though let me be perfectly.

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this wreck is causing a twenty two minute drag southbound
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Center from OUR ktrh top tats defenders twenty four hour
weathers inner becoming Mostly. Sunday it looks like about fifty five,
Today claudie's, light chances of an afternoon shower sixty four,
tomorrow Then claudie with showers and maybe a rumble of.
Thunder high temperature right around sixty On. Thursday it's still
thirty eight at your officials severe weather. Station News radio
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(01:29:23):
an update on our top. Stories thank, You.

Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
Jimmy The White house is not backing off their pressure
campaign On Venezuela's nicholas Macturo ghs says the sanctuary city
Of New york is harboring more than seven thousand criminal illegal.
Aliens and The democrat state Of connecticut get, This they
are trying to suspend the law license Of Hunter. Biden

(01:29:46):
get the latest news anytime AT kgrh dot. Com our
next update is at seven.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
Thirty it's one policy going to take our capital. Back
we're taking it back after. Another you burn a, flag
you get one year in.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Jail on NewsRadio seven kt R. H well Sonth district
In tennessee is just outside Of. Nashville Aaron evans is
with this president of Winning republican. Strategies we're talking about
a race in a reliably red State eron where the
margin between The democrat and The republican is like two
percentage points last TIME i saw WHETHER i think about

(01:30:19):
five percent. Undecided so this is an election that obviously
is too close to call and could go either. Way
why is this such a close? Race, YEAH i think
that's the million dollar.

Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
QUESTION i, mean we're talking about a district That President
trump won by twenty points just last. Year and, so you,
KNOW i think a couple of. Dynamics one with special,
elections you, know it always is a little. Tighter those
are the elections that you have to pay more attention
to because people aren't. Expecting it's the middle of the.
Holidays people aren't expecting to be.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Voting you.

Speaker 8 (01:30:54):
Know we just you have elections In, november you have
elections maybe you, know primary, season and and, uh no
one's going into The christmas season thinking about. Voting and
SO i think that in and of itself presents a
challenge and uh and so so really it comes down
to voter enthusiasm and which party has their base fired
up the, most and the two most powerful motivators are

(01:31:17):
are fear and. Hope AND i think right now The, democrats,
uh you, know have the fear. ANGLE i mean they've
definitely uh continually, weaponized uh firing people up on The
democrat side against the president and and uh The American First,
agenda that's that The americans voted for at. Large but
you've got a, small small minority that's very uh you,

(01:31:41):
know very energetic right now with The democrat base uh
in that. District and and so you, know we've got
to get the vote. Out republicans have to turn out
to vote.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
Or sometimes maybe the candidate is not everything you would
want him to. Be what can you tell me about
The republican, nominee Mad Ben? Epps what kind of guy is?

Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
He, look you, know V f is a phenomenal. CANDIDATE
i think he's a great.

Speaker 20 (01:32:02):
Guy.

Speaker 8 (01:32:03):
Uh you, Know President trump has said he's going to
be a champion for uh The American First agenda and
a strong member Of. Congress you, KNOW i think that
at the end of the, day you, know it's it's
a short, uh it's a short election. Process AND i
would actually say this as as someone who's led winning
campaigns and you, know had some losing campaigns over the.

(01:32:25):
Years you, know it's uh in a in a in
a race like, this it really is on the campaign.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
To deliver the.

Speaker 8 (01:32:34):
Message and so uh you can have the best candidate
in the. World but you, KNOW i would when When
i'm looking at these, numbers you know there's something missing
on on how the message is getting uh conveyed to
the voters. Themselves SO i would probably be MORE i
would probably be looking a little more uh closely at

(01:32:57):
the campaign itself versus the, candidate knowing that this is
a great and he's going to be a great member Of.
Congress but you, know we've got to get better As
republicans on get out the vote, programs and we've got
to get better As republicans on how do we connect
with These trump only voters who vote in presidential. Years
AND i, MEAN i think that's a problem we've. Seen

(01:33:19):
we just saw it In, virginia we saw it In.
Georgia you, know how do we get people who will
show up to vote For President trump and for his
agenda with passion to show back up and vote in
these other elections that are critical if they want this
agenda to actually come to.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
Fulfillment you, know we have.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Been talking about messaging and about voter turnout for twenty
thirty forty.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
Years how come? Up why is it that nothing ever
changes on?

Speaker 8 (01:33:44):
That you, KNOW i think it's like. ANYTHING i think
that industries and consultants and parties get stuck in their,
ways and, ultimately when that, HAPPENS i do think that
you start seeing losses. Occur and you, KNOW i mean
one of the things we used to kind of joke, about,

(01:34:07):
uh we we'd make fun Of obama for being a community,
organizer and, it's you, know what the heckx of community?
Organizer and and, LOOK i think The democrats have proven
to us what a community organizer is since two thousand and.
Eight AND i mean they they've, uh you, know they've
they've organized like crazy and and they get their base.
OUT i mean they have, uh coalitions and groups and

(01:34:29):
and and micro, targeting and they know who their people
are and you, know AND i feel like that's the
type of Infrastructure republicans have to get serious about if
we're going to really compete in this new landscape over
the next you, know, decade is, uh you, know we
we've got To we've got to do some of the same.
Stuff and right, Now republican campaigns, typically you, know we

(01:34:51):
depend on, uh you, know mail and texting and digital
and you, know and all those things are, great but
there's very so all them a real grassroots infrastructure in,
place whereas The democrats really have the communities organized and
they know who their people are and they get them
out and that makes a big.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Difference you're, Right, Aaron thank you appreciate. It Aaron, Evans
president Of Winning Republican strategies seven twenty. Seven time to
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Seven thirty our, Time Houston's Morning. News I'm Jimmy. Barrett
among our top stories this half. Hour if they're, terrorists
then we can hit them anytime we. Want, right it's
looking like that Second National guardsman is on the road
to recovery and coming up at seven thirty. Eight quick
with THE, ac but we're kind of slow with the.
Heat details in the minutes. Ahead, first let's check out

(01:36:22):
that morning drive again With. Skyline it's your.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Two forty Nine Tomball. Parkway you know two forty nine
is starting to look like two ninety now. Inbound you
got the road work at nineteen sixty and, boy.

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
That is a tight.

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Wall to back up From, luetta we lose eleven. Minutes
here we are two ninety up From hotmeister Into Jones.

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Road you lose about eleven.

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Minutes They're Katie, freeway a visors nothing but, Breaks Graham
parkway almost solid to the belt and Your West Park.
Tollway it's stopping and going From South Parker cyprus and
that's about a nine minute drag coming into.

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
The West belt's The west Belt.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
Way I'm skymike it's Your Generator supercenter Dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Center from our KTR H generator Super center twenty four
hour with. Us i'm becoming mostly sunny today with a
high temperature right about fifty, five a little bit warmer,
tomorrow and then some rain coming back On. Thursday we'll
check all of that. Out when we talked to the
weather channel in ken boone in For terry today in
about nine, minutes still thirty eight at your, Officials Severe weather,
Station News radio seven FORTY. Ktrh it's time now for the.

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News Here's Cliff.

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
Saunders good, Morning jimmy seven thirty one ON, ktrh top
story this.

Speaker 26 (01:37:24):
Hour if he knows what's good for, him like so
many Other Latin american strongman over the, YEARS i think
that it's time for him to.

Speaker 5 (01:37:31):
Go Arkansas Senator Tom cotton On fox As President trump
held tonks with his top advisors yesterday Discussing Nicholas maduro
in the pressure campaign to get him out Of, venezuela
the Lighte house confirming a second strike Against narco terrorists In.
September of Course democrats want to complain about.

Speaker 27 (01:37:48):
It we have real evidence that extra judicial killings are taking.
Place that's the stain On america's leadership in the free.

Speaker 5 (01:37:59):
World as minor leader at Keem jeffrey saying nothing about
the damage those illegal drugs could do if they make
it here to THE. Us trump is about Projecting america
from illegal. Drugs he's also pushing for peace In.

Speaker 28 (01:38:11):
Europe Steve whitcoff's meeting With president Puts in is the
latest move in attempts to bring peace In ukraine closer to.
Reality there's been some back and forth since THE us
put forward a twenty eight point settlement plan less than
two weeks. Ago ukraine and its allies argued it Rewarded
russia for its invasion and say they have secured a

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number of.

Speaker 5 (01:38:33):
Changes Jonathan savage reporting it's now seven point thirty three In,
washington encouraging news About National guard Soldier Andrew wolf shot
last week by An afghan national near The White.

Speaker 29 (01:38:43):
House we were told That andrew was asked if he
could hear the nurse who asked the question to give
a thumbs, up and he did, respond and.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
We were told that he also wiggled his.

Speaker 5 (01:38:57):
Toes As Virginia Governor Patrick morrisey, attack killing twenty year
Old Sarah. Beckstrom The White house reviewing All biden Era
afghan arrivals following The tech And borders, Our Tom homan
Told fox That Homeland security needs stricter vetting.

Speaker 30 (01:39:11):
Requirements if you're going to try to find those, docments
which they really don't, exist you're going to take them
from the talent. Band you're gonna make talent bands gont
to give us the intelligence information we need to vet.
People it's ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
The president AND Dhs Secretary Christy nome calling for a
full travel ban now on countries that flood THE us with.
Immigrants The president has promised put out the results of
THE mri he had as part of his Physical there's
nothing wrong with. Him the same can't be said of
the mainstream, media as The White house is fighting fake
news in new, ways creating a media offend your website

(01:39:42):
of the.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
Week it's, funny, harmless and an impactful way to put
a spotlight on bias is.

Speaker 31 (01:39:49):
Not a threat to their. Lives to point out when
a reporter or news outlet is not doing its job
or putting out bias.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
Story Curtis hawk Of NewsBusters says this was a good
time to do this with the news cycle at a fever,
pitch but don't expect it to change the tune of
the liberal legacy, media.

Speaker 31 (01:40:07):
More obscure liberal blogs or certain individual. Journalists they will
take this as a badge of honor and try to
run with, it he.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Says they'll likely use it to solicit donations from the radical.
Base Andre Berrard News radio seven FORTY. Ktrh it's now
seven thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:40:23):
FOUR a home invasion On Southeast. Side the homeowner fight's,
back shooting at the two bad, guys one of them
hit multiple. Times the homeowner was hit well as. Well
both of them are in the. HOSPITAL a second bad
guy is still on the. Run houston police opened fire
on an armed robbery suspect In North.

Speaker 32 (01:40:40):
Houston male suspect had the employee at gunpoint in using
her as a shield upon exiting the. Business our officer
responded to the threat of the suspect and fired his
weapon multiple, times striking the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:52):
Suspect the bad guys in the.

Speaker 5 (01:40:53):
Hospital Fort bendid will unveil elementary school boundary scenarios On december,
fifteenth accelerating the timeline because parents demanded earlier access to that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
Information, curely they.

Speaker 33 (01:41:05):
Are listening to the community by putting these special meetings
and agendas, together so we appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
That parent with OUR tv partner channel.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
Too the rules For texas's new school choice program have been,
released and while they seem like a good, start we're
seeing some calls for.

Speaker 20 (01:41:20):
Improvements get rid of that requirement for schools to be
accredited for two. Years this is basically a barrier to
market entry if you're a new school, provider a micro.
School things that can be very useful in rural.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
Areas corey D'Angelis with The American Culture project, says, overall
it's a great start for school choice In. Texas about
two thirds of registered voters say four year college degrees
aren't worth the.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Cost it's up from about half eight years.

Speaker 5 (01:41:47):
Ago workplace Expert Jennifer jones says it's a familiar story
now for college.

Speaker 34 (01:41:52):
Graduates they're in, debt they're coming out and they've got you,
know the job salaries are not where they thought they would.

Speaker 5 (01:41:58):
Be and of course there are advancements we've seen AN
ai that are playing a part in. This this summer's
deadly hill country floodings leading to more oversight of summer
camp and camp owners are in sticker shock over proposed
raises and license.

Speaker 35 (01:42:11):
Fees last year we paid, GOSH i, think nine hundred
and sixty four dollars and this coming year is going
to be eleven two hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:42:20):
Dollars Susan osborne is one of those camp owners and
says fees will be passed on to parents when they
register for next. Summer and, finally The Houston rockets lose
To utah one thirty three to one twenty. Five they'll
take on The Sacramento kings tomorrow. Night I'm Cloff saunterers
On houston's, news, weather and traffic, Station News radio seven FORTY.

Speaker 18 (01:42:40):
Ktrh houston's morning news continues With Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
BARRETT i DON'T i like it? COOL i DO i
like it cool even the. SUMMERTIME i think we said
that at seventy for the. Bedroom anything warmer than, that you,
know the covers come flying. Off see here here's my.
Thought it took me a long time to to to

(01:43:06):
buy into. This but at the end of the, day
there's only so many clothes you can take. Off when
you get the neckd you're. Done if you're, still if
you're naked and you're, hot there's nowhere to. Go but
if you're, cold you can always put another layer. On
you may look like The michelin, man but you can

(01:43:26):
always put another layer. On So i've never like WHAT
i get why we fight over the thurvistat during the summer,
months because you, know running the ac really really, low
that can jack up the bill and and and some
people are more susceptible to the cold than. Others but
BUT i really don't understand why we argue about it
in the winter. Time let's just set it low and

(01:43:47):
if you're, cold put you, know put some more clothes,
on or you'll turn on the fireplace something if you
have a. Fireplace but but that's our topic, today because
The Energy department wants you to set your irvistat at sixty.
Eight don't get your home to more than sixty. Eight
and they we know from research sixty five sixty six
that's the ideal temperature for. Sleeping so where's your thermostats?

(01:44:11):
At that's my? Question where's ther? Thervistat said? At and
y'all fight over?

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
It did?

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
You are you on the same page with your significant?
Other you can tell your story at the Iheared brady
w ap katrh just hit the talkback.

Speaker 34 (01:44:21):
Button nancy From, Angleton my heater is set on sixty
five during the winter.

Speaker 3 (01:44:26):
Months i'm sorry sixty.

Speaker 46 (01:44:28):
Eight my husband has threatened to call his mother and
tell her on me BECAUSE i won't let him turn
the heat.

Speaker 52 (01:44:34):
On oh, well It's vincent From, westbury where they refuse
to fix our roads during the. Winter we set our
thermostat between sixty nine and seventy while we're.

Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
Awake when we go to bed.

Speaker 52 (01:44:47):
And it's cold, outside we turn it off and open the.
Windows we're empty, nesters you get.

Speaker 53 (01:44:54):
Me this Is mike From, Avid. TEXAS i WISH i
could answer your, question but it's not even sick for
me to look at the thermostat BECAUSE i lost the
thermostat war two months and forty nine years.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
Ago blink your eyes if you're, okay bleink your. Eyes
he sounds like he's in a hostage. SITUATION i can't
even look at the. Thermostat she'll kill me seven forty
times for. Traffic i'm fiddling.

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
That most of my wife's were cold, natured were?

Speaker 8 (01:45:22):
They?

Speaker 4 (01:45:22):
YEAH i just you, Know i've always thought you can
always take off more. Clothes that's WHY i keep it thirty.
Celsius once you get THE, neckad you're. Done let's go
to the no more closed AT. Neckd let's go to
the West loop six Ten all, right. Southbound we got
a camera. Shot, now we've been waiting a little. Bit
this is a southbound West loop At Beach. Nut two,
vehicles one of them hit the. Wall hopefully everybody's. Okay

(01:45:42):
HPD's been there for a little. Bit let's call it
a right lane, now BUT i want you to treat
it like two, lanes and that's why we. Have let
me check to this nineteen minute drag on the southbound
coming down from. Uptown if you're going up to, uptown
you've got some breaks right before The Southwest freeway and
then coming down from two, ninety you're going to stop
and go and Crawl Hempstead highway sixteen extra minutes to The.

(01:46:03):
Galleria we're two nining up From. Huffmeister You're Katie. Freeway
the break start at Park row From Grand parkway and
you lose you lose time right After highway six to
eight extra minutes There west Park. Tollway are we slow
From Grand mission?

Speaker 40 (01:46:17):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:46:17):
Yep we are twelve extra minutes on the Inbound Here
Golf freeway breaks From edgebrook And North. Freeway your smut
starts From Green's point.

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
Down belt to The. Loop you're losing fourteen minutes this.

Speaker 4 (01:46:28):
Way i'm Sky mike from The Ability Tree Experts Traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
Center from our Katrh generator Super center twenty four hour weather,
Center ken boone is here with the sun is. Up
it's still pretty chilly out there, Though.

Speaker 19 (01:46:38):
Ken it is, chilly not quite as chilly as, yesterday
but it's certainly well below, average only reaching the mid fifties.
Today typically we're in the upper sixties this time of,
year so we're a good bit below, average and that'll
be a. TREND i think it'll carry us right into
and through the. WEEKEND i think we're going to stay
below average mid forties. Tonight clouds will increase, tomorrow see
a few showers late. Today it'll be a little milder,
tomorrow SO i think we'll climb up towards mid sixties tomorrow.

(01:47:01):
Afternoons still below average, though best chance for Rain wednesday
night And, thursday with showers and storms Highst, thursday mid.
Fifties still a chance of Showers friday to finish out
the week mid, fifties milder this weekend with hids in the,
sixties lots of, sunshine low to mid Sixties, saturday middle
to upper Sixties.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
Sunday right now thirty eight at your official severe weather,
Station News radio seven forty K trh story about the
demise Of Social. Security to, me it's a lot of white.
Noise but knowing that we have listeners On Social security
and how easily people On Social security get scared or
the idea of a reduction in benefits or something happening

(01:47:37):
to Social, SECURITY i feel compelled to cover the, story
AND i trust a little bit about what Ej antni
has to. Say he's been a frequent guest in our,
program also frequent guest On. Fox they had a discussion
about this latest report that says that Social security would
become insolvent by twenty thirty three without some major. Changes

(01:47:59):
here they, ARE.

Speaker 39 (01:48:00):
I think you're going to have to have those structural changes.
Now to be, clear we don't want to pull the
rug out from, anybody, Right it's not as if someone
who's already getting benefits we want to see big cuts. There,
no but younger generations need to be. Told look for
a lot of you, folks the system is not going
to look like at the time of your. Retirement it's
not going to look like what it does. Today that's

(01:48:20):
just the. Reality we're not having enough. Kids the population
is not growing fast. Enough, specifically the number of working
people is not growing fast.

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
Enough and if you're going to.

Speaker 39 (01:48:29):
Keep A ponzi scheme, going which, sorry, structurally that's what
Social security. Is it relies on an ever growing increase
of people paying into the system to pay for today's.

Speaker 3 (01:48:39):
Retirees if you're not.

Speaker 39 (01:48:40):
Going to keep that, growing that, population that working, group then,
yeah you are going to have to make structural.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
Changes that's the math.

Speaker 40 (01:48:48):
Taking you, agree, yes, absolutely the viewers some get angry
every TIME i say that a couple retiring this year
is take making out three dollars out Of medicare for
every dollar that they paid into the.

Speaker 28 (01:49:04):
System so it is people who are.

Speaker 40 (01:49:06):
Currently working paying taxes into the system who are covering those.
Individuals and it's not quite as extreme With Social, security
but there's a couple retiring this year is still taking
out more than they paid, in and so the security
hits insolvency in twenty thirty. Three Also Medicare's Hospital Trust

(01:49:29):
fund runs out of money that same, year and there's
an automatic benefit cut to eighty nine cents on the
dollar being paid. Out and This, congress these lawmakers can't
get rid of a super subsidy For obamacare that is
forty billion dollars a. Year how on earth are they

(01:49:52):
ever going to fix?

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
This, well they can't even come up with a budget
other than a continuing. Resolution are we going to wait
For congress to fix this? Problem cause you'd be waiting
a long time seven fifty time for traffic and weather,
together Sky, mike what do you?

Speaker 3 (01:50:06):
Got you got a new?

Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
Problem on two eighty eight reported wreck At orum AND
i believe. It look at that backup now from. McCarten
we'll try to get some laneage on. That if you
listen To Safe money With Scott, man you can afford
those toll.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
Lanes Golf freeway.

Speaker 4 (01:50:18):
NORTHBOUND i got breaks From edgebrook and we've got this
wreck on the West loop. Southbound somebody ran into a.
Wall somebody ran into. Him this is Southbound westroop From.
Braizwood that's now twenty four minute drag coming down from.
Uptown so let's take all ninety The Most City expressway
instead or The Southwest.

Speaker 3 (01:50:35):
Freeway get around that.

Speaker 4 (01:50:36):
Business I'm skymike in The Ability Tree Experts Traffic center
from R Ktrh generator Super.

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
Center twenty four hour weather center for today becoming mostly,
sunny fifty Five blody's light chancemen afdune shower tomorrow sixty,
Four cloudy with showers and maybe a storm For, thursday
with a high near Sixty current temperature still thirty eight
at your official severe weather, Station News radio seven forty K.
Trh time to check out some more of our top

(01:51:01):
trending stories here on A, Tuesday Here's Cliff.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
Hey we're brought to you By Kelsey Seabowl.

Speaker 5 (01:51:06):
Clinic we're getting word of a centerpoint power outage affecting
tens of thousands of customers this, morning mainly affecting Northern Harris,
county The Spring cline And tomboil. Areas we are looking into.
This President trump holds a cabinet meeting later, today and
the latest college football playoff rankings are Out. Tonight the
Y aggie's expected to drop after losing to Ut get

(01:51:26):
the latest news anytime AT ktrh dot. Com our next
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Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
I live In Pasadena Sharptown.

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Southwest next on the Ten Time Saving traffic on seven
FORTY ktrh seventy and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
Fifty two is our time here In Houston's Wonting. News you,
Know i've said this many times AND i still believe.
THIS i don't understand why people who are this smart
turn to a life of. Crime it's amazing how smart
people who want to rob you can, be how they
can overcome. Technology the latest, thing and it's happening here In,

(01:52:04):
houston is people are burglarizing homes and they're disabling The
Wi fi for the security cameras so they can't be
caught on. Camera here's the report from our television PARTNER kprc.

Speaker 54 (01:52:16):
Too it's surveillance video from a Bell air backyard that
could have been, crucial but as three suspected burglars get
closer to the camera and hold up a, backpack it
became fuzzy video of little.

Speaker 38 (01:52:27):
Use they're overwhelming the signal and they're causing what's called
a packet.

Speaker 54 (01:52:33):
Disruption inside that. Backpack Bell air police believe the suspects
had A Wi fi, jammer distorting the video that would
have clearly captured them breaking into a home On Aspen
Street saturday.

Speaker 38 (01:52:43):
Evening they're relatively inexpensive and there are tons of websites
online for people who like to cast chaos like.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
This Nigel nielsen is AN it.

Speaker 54 (01:52:54):
Expert he estimates the device could have been built for
sixty bucks or less and put together an under thirty,
minutes causing data interference simply by pointing at the.

Speaker 8 (01:53:03):
Camera there are always ways that people will try and
defeat whatever the system of the day.

Speaker 54 (01:53:08):
Is Los angeles police warned about the high tech crime
trend earlier this year after similar break ins caught on.
Camera experts suggest updating the firmware and hardware on Any
Wi fi cameras and have multiple cameras pointing at the same.

Speaker 3 (01:53:21):
Area they could hold it up.

Speaker 38 (01:53:22):
To one, camera but you're going to get them from
a separate angle that is further.

Speaker 54 (01:53:28):
Away the most fool proof, Solution nilsen, says is to
have AN sd card recording backup or hardwire surveillance cameras
to block criminals from blocking.

Speaker 2 (01:53:37):
Them uh, Hardwired, okay how long before they figure out
how to circumvent the hardwired? System right? Now they're jem
of The Wi. Fi so if you have a wireless camera.
System then you, know if you've got the smart burglar
at work, there then they can you, know get around that.
System the reason for having security, CAMERAS i think for most,

(01:53:59):
folks at least for me, anyway it's just the, deterrent
even if they're not, working the fact that you have
security cameras, there that would probably keep most burglars. Away
but because of the fact that everybody has security, cameras
now you, know they've had to come up with a
way to make sure that the security cameras don't. Work

(01:54:20):
and most of us do it on The Wi fi
system because hardwiring cameras is it's a. Project you, know
you need somebody to come in. Hardwire that system In
Wi fi is just a whole lot easier to do
and evidently a lot easier to. Trump i've always thought the,
sign just having the sign in your yard is got to.
Help but it's the same. Thing if everybody in the

(01:54:41):
neighborhood has a has a yard, sign you, know, security buy.
Whatever then at that point did the burglars just, say,
well you, know we're gonna have to take our. Chances
everybody seems to have a. Sign maybe all, right. Listen
big thing this time of, year of, course porch, pirates
so just have somebody keep an eye out for your
front porch when all the packages start, coming if they haven't.

(01:55:01):
Already y'all have a great. Day we'll see you tomorrow,
morning bright and, early starting at five. Am hope to
see you this afternoon at four ON am nine point
FIFTY kprc