Trump's Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks Will Start...Soon

Jimmy Barrett takes you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 02/17/25.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:17):
Well, good morning, as President's day five am. Here on
Houston's Morning News, I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories
this morning, Trump's Russia Ukraine peace talks to start soon,
drop an elon other detractors and speaking of Elon at
five oh eight, Elon Musk has a thirteenth child. Details
in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First,

(00:38):
let's check out the Morning Drive the first time. Gary
Mack is in today.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Good morning, Yeah, Mike under the weather.

Speaker 6 (00:43):
Hope you feel better and get some rests, sir, and
knowing you the rest.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Part easier said than done. Okay.

Speaker 6 (00:48):
Our weekend I stress weekend roadwork now clear. That included
on the sixth and Staff with westbound Fan into Kirby Drive,
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We'll check that out.

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We'll be talk to Terry Smith at the Weather Channel
in about nine minutes right down thirty eight at your
official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 7 (01:32):
Thank you, Jimmy five oh one on KTRH our top story.

Speaker 8 (01:35):
I think he wants to end it, and they want
to end it fast.

Speaker 7 (01:41):
President Donald Trump saying that Russia's Vladimir Putin is willing
to come to the table after nearly three years of
war in Ukraine. Trump banning that he could meet with
Putin very soon and that Vloidimir Zalynsky will be involved
as well. But the rest of Europe Nope. And that
has Francis Emmanuel M.

Speaker 9 (02:00):
Cronup set.

Speaker 7 (02:01):
He's hosting other European leaders today in an emergency summit
on Ukraine. Five oh two DOJ continues to trim the
fat from the federal government. How about this, We're covering
one point nine billion dollars from hudd. Democrats, though, continue
to complain about Trump and Musk.

Speaker 10 (02:20):
He is bringing common sense and transparency in sunlight to
the federal government, to the bureaucracy, to what many of
us referred to as the deep state.

Speaker 7 (02:29):
OH Speaker Mike Johnson on Fuck Fox and Musk and
President Trump talked to KTRH as Sean Hannany in an
interview that airs tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (02:38):
You'll hear that at six o'clock now.

Speaker 7 (02:41):
And keeping with the president's promise to cut the federal workforce,
about twenty immigration judges were fired on Friday, including thirteen
who were about to be sworn in orders. Our Tom
Holman hits back at squad member AOC for shots that
she took at him on social media.

Speaker 11 (02:58):
I've done it since nineteen eighty four, got more about
the immigration law that AOC will ever know. As a
matter of fact to Hearing a couple years ago, I
had explained to her the enter in the country leading
was actually a crime.

Speaker 7 (03:08):
Homan told CNN that AOC's webinar last week aimed at
helping illegals evade. Ice may have quotes crossed the line.
It's now five oh three. Democrat influencers, if you want
to call them that, online are trying to push the
narrative that Trump supporters regret voting for him.

Speaker 9 (03:27):
The truth, though, is very different.

Speaker 12 (03:30):
They're trying to keep their shaky foundation from totally collapsing
while maintaining some semblance of support. Even if it's gaslighting,
nobody's taking it seriously.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
Trump currently has some of the highest approval numbers of
his political career. Brian June Deaf with The American Thinker
says that approval rating is only going to go up
as time goes on. And today is the fourth anniversary
of the iconic Rush Limbaugh's passing, So what would he
think about Trump's second term so far?

Speaker 13 (04:00):
And we do know how Trump feels about Rush.

Speaker 14 (04:02):
There is nobody like Rush. Russia's irreplaceable, unique, but he
was a fantastic man, a fantastic talent.

Speaker 13 (04:10):
And political commentator Sylviaocanto Junior says Rush is missed.

Speaker 15 (04:16):
I think he would have been very happy with the
election of Trump, but more specifically with what happened in
the country. One of the things that I missed the most.
I used to listen to him every day.

Speaker 13 (04:24):
The Rush Limbaugh Show first aired in nineteen eighty four
and went national four years later. Jeff Piggs News Radio
seven forty kt raids it is.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Now fiveh four in looking at Your Money. If you
believe the mainstream media, Trump's tariffs are going to lead
to more inflation. But if you listen to the experts,
the economists, it won't.

Speaker 16 (04:48):
Everything else Trump is doing is very disinvitionary.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So he wants to drill, baby drill.

Speaker 16 (04:54):
He wants to cut taxes or keep our taxes low.
He wants to deregulate the economy. He wants pharaoh trade deals.
All of these things put pressured down.

Speaker 9 (05:05):
Stephen Moore with the Heritage Foundation on Newsmax. Meantime, the
liberal website Politico says that Democrats were quote tricked into
thinking that the economy was good. Economist Elizabeth Ames says
it was clear from the get go that Bidenomics was
a dismal failure.

Speaker 17 (05:22):
This is not a period of dynamic growth the kind
that you saw in the nineties and the eighties, where
you had a lot of investment, job creation, innovation. This
was basically a stagnant economy with some snapback from the
COVID period.

Speaker 7 (05:35):
She says, the only fix for what Joe Biden broke
is to stabilize our dollar value. Wall Street is closed
today because of President's date. Oil futures are up this
morning to around seventy one dollars of barrel five h six.
The Texas House created its version of DOJ thirteen. House members,
you're named to a new committee that will hold its

(05:55):
first hearing later this month.

Speaker 18 (05:56):
Using technology, for instance, whether it's artificial intelligence or just
modernizing our system, that we can go and improve the
user experience, the user being the constituents Right.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
Committee chair State Rebgiovanni Kapriglioni on Dallas Television and something
to consider when your kids go back to school tomorrow.
A Texas Senate committee report shows that only forty five
percent of school districts are complying with state law requiring
armed security on campus.

Speaker 19 (06:23):
The costs for schools is a major factor.

Speaker 20 (06:26):
Some of the school districts, their budgets are extremely tight,
and then you have to be able to pay for
an officer who is willing to accept the amount of
pay that you're offering.

Speaker 19 (06:37):
Former school resource Officer Katherine Smith torres as finding the
right people for the job is sometimes a challenge too.

Speaker 20 (06:43):
You can't just put anybody in a school. You have
to have people who actually have a passion to deal
with kids. It's not just security.

Speaker 19 (06:52):
Chare Lewis, News Radio seven forty KHR eight.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
By the way, the Katie and Fork Bend isds are incompliance.
HISD is not. It's now five oh seven.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh say can see.

Speaker 9 (07:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (07:08):
That is the sound of Canadian hockey fans in Montreal
doing our national anthem on Saturday night in an international tournament.
So how did Team USA respond with fists and by
beating the Canadian national team three to one. William Byron
wins the Great American Race yesterday the Daytona five hundred.
He had over he had to do it in the overtime,

(07:28):
Byron winning for the second straight year. I'm Cliff Saunders
on Houston's News Weather in traffic station News Radio seven
forty KGRH.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
What happened, Why it happened, the information you need to
start the day. Now back to Houston's morning news. Bye
all waits our time. You're in Houston's want toduce. This
is baby Daddy story.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I guess, you know, everybody has something about them that
I don't care who you are, everybody has the dark
side more or maybe they wouldn't be appropriate to call
this a dark side, just something about them that just
makes them different. You know, we know a lot about
Elon Musk. Elon Musk is a great businessman. Of that,

(08:13):
there could be no doubt. He's seriously smart. He's a
serious inventor. If he has an Achilles heel, it would
appear to be and I guess we can maybe debate
whether or not it's an achilles heel. But he seems
to go through women the way most of us go
through underwear. And he seems to have a lot of kids.

(08:36):
Twelve for sure, and maybe now thirteen the thirteenth is
supposedly with conservative influencer Ashley Saint Clair claims she gave
birth to Elon musk thirteen child and gave Bertha five
months ago. Saint Clair is a conservative children's book author

(08:57):
who previously worked for the satirical news site The Avalon
b made the allegation a statement posted on Friday to
X where else would you put it? Right on the
platform known by Musk, where she's a mass more than
one point one million followers, saying, five months ago I
welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is
the father. I have not previously disclosed this to protect

(09:17):
our child's privacy and safety, but in recent days it
became clear the tabloid media intends to do so, regardless
of the harm it could cause. I tend to allow
our child to grow into a normal and safe environment.
For that reason, I asked that the media honor our
child's privacy and refrain from invasive reporting. No word on
the name of baby number thirteen or the sex of

(09:39):
baby number thirteen, if indeed it is Elon Musk's child,
And of.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Course what do you you know?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
The thing you would ask yourself is why do all
these women keep having kids with Elon Musk? Well, I
mean to put it quite bluntly, why wouldn't you if
if you could have a financial tie to a billionaire
for child support and other things that would last minimum

(10:07):
of eighteen years, then that might be part of it.
I don't know that these are all women who are
desperate to have children, and Elon must just happen to
be the person they picked to be the baby daddy,
But I mean some of them are fully legit. I
mean he has been married three times. I think the
longest he's ever been married is five or six years.

(10:30):
His first six children were with his first wife, who
he's married to for eight years. She described herself as
quote a starter wife. Six kids in eight years, so
he's always had a lot of kids. But he evidently
he's run out of names.

Speaker 21 (10:44):
You know.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
The last one's name is X, and a whole bunch
of other numerals and such. He also had three children
with a farmer romantic partner, Singer Grimes. Welcome to daughter
exa dark ceriale. Our child was Techno Mechanicus, So the
names have got a little stranger. His time was going

(11:05):
on five eleven. Time for traffic and weather together. Gary
mack is here ready to fill in.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yeah, right on, cue the itanning span. Overnight road work
has cleared from around Federal. Will traffic be on its
best behavior today? Time will tell.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Right now, we're all in green and coming up.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
We'll look at some drive times for those that are
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you laughing?

Speaker 22 (11:37):
Because it's like maybe she shouldn't be in today. Maybe
she should just stay home and stay away and.

Speaker 9 (11:43):
Not tell us what's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
No, maybe she should just not show up for work
on Wednesday. I'm thinking that they you don't want to
show up?

Speaker 22 (11:49):
Yes, all right, so we got some big changes on
the way. Not today, today's a decent day, and today
is uh my get outside is soak up the sunshine
and enjoy the temperatures because after today we won't have that.
We won't have sunshine and comfortable temperatures. We'll be in
the load of mid sixties today. Tomorrow that's when the

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cold front heads our direction. So we're going to get
some rain and ninety percent chance of showers some storms
tomorrow afternoon. It's still going to be warm tomorrow in
the sixties. But after that, once the front moves through
Alaska relocates to Texas, well, it's not quite that cold,
but it is going to be quite cold. Dry Wednesday

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and Thursday, temperatures in the forties high temperatures Wednesday and
Thursday in the forties, and there is a twenty percent
chance of some raine Friday and temperatures load to mid forties.

Speaker 9 (12:41):
So yeah, some very cold air. Winter is back.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Okay, final week of winter. Let's hope, I hope temperature
right now.

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Let me double check it for you. Here it is
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Twenty our time. Thanks here on Houston's Bard News.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
It is President's Day, which used to be Washington's birthday,
and then they we used to have a Washington's birthday,
Lincoln's birthday. They may sort of combine Washington and Lincoln,
and then it became President's Day, which I think personally
was a mistake because not all of our United States
presidents are worthy of celebrating. Anybody here want to celebrate

(13:25):
Joe Biden, for example? How about Martin van Buren? Anybody
anybody listening a Martin van Buren fan? How about Zachary Taylor,
y'all dig Zachary Taylor? How about John Tyler, James Buchanan,
Franklin Pierce. Yeah, there's mill Millard Fillmore, who could forget him?

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So if not every president is worth celebrating. So here's
my question, and you can respond to it by going
to the iHeart radio app kt RH put us on
the pre set best and worst US Presidents. Or if
you prefer to discuss this, would you like to keep
it President's Day or would you prefer to go back

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to Washington's birthday and celebrate our nation's first president. Well,
we'll let you answer that first name, where you're calling
from and your thoughts on President's Day. Go to the
iHeartRadio app KTRH put us on your preset time for
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earlier this morning with Gary Mack.

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Yeah, off to downtown.

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It tend to Katie Freeway westbound Taylor is a stall
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Center from our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
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below freezing for Wednesday night. Current temperature is thirty eight.

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At your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Get you caught up on some of our top stories.
This Monday morning is President's Day. Here's Cliff, Thank.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
You, Jimmy. It's five twenty two.

Speaker 7 (15:22):
The Texas Sentate passed one property tax relief bill, but
there's another proposal that would take care of our veterans.

Speaker 9 (15:28):
That's in the pipeline. We'll explain.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
At least ten people were killed in severe weather across
the South, and only in California. A man is in
custody for climbing on top of the Hollywood Sign this
weekend to promote a social media account. Get the latest
news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our next update is
at five thirty.

Speaker 23 (15:50):
People voted for major government PORTFOLI also know this is
just to begin here.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
It happened, and that's what people are going to get
on news radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
So how does Elon must find time to have thirteen
kids to run all of his business interest and to
run Doge. I have no idea he's like Trump. He's
just like energizer Bunny. I guess he just keeps on going.
So anyway, the Democrats continue to flail Overdosee. They just
they can't figure out what to do. They are beside themselves.

(16:22):
They are They're continued to yell and to scream and
to protest, but they seem to be pretty much powerless
to do anything about it. Here's Greg Guttfeld's take.

Speaker 24 (16:32):
They're outrage that Trump is forcing them to show their
work go through the budgets, the line items, costs and overruns,
losses and theft, and the reaction to this makes you
wonder what they're hiding. So imagine if you opened a
restaurant and you've already hired the bus boys. Investors gave
you a boatload of money to launch this huge undertaking,

(16:55):
and a year goes by and those investors are showing
up and asking how's it going, And you say say,
not great, probably because you offered all you can.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Eat shrimp to the wrong person.

Speaker 24 (17:09):
And the investors say, well, can you show us your books?
And you say no way, and then you get angry
at them for even asking, well, wouldn't a reasonable person
say that's odd. I give you money and you think
it's wrong for me to see where the money went.
That's the federal government and as taxpayers were the investors.
It's no different than running a bar, a diner, or

(17:30):
anything that serves customers.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
It goes under if you don't.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Keep tabs on the tabs to.

Speaker 24 (17:36):
Why Larry Kudlow is banned from Hooters.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
And Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
But Dems have never had to.

Speaker 24 (17:44):
Keep anything within a budget, not even Pelosi's face.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
That alone costs fifty million.

Speaker 24 (17:57):
The fact is Trump's basically running a nationwide version of
bar Rescue, where everyone can see how the sausage gets
made and stolen.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
We just found out, for example, the Department of Health.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
And Human Services blew twenty.

Speaker 24 (18:09):
Two billion on things like cars, homes, and startup businesses
for migrants. So while victims of disasters were given seven
hundred and fifty bucks to pitch a tent where their
business used to stand, Venezuelan gang members in NYC just
opened a tire celant butt clinic, but implant clinic.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's better, worse.

Speaker 24 (18:36):
EPA chief Lee Zelden revealed twenty billion was sitting in
a private bank to be doled out to green energy
companies that Biden abandoned without proper oversights. I heard one
green company received millions to produce joy Behar nude calendars.
That's to encourage people to turn out the lights. Dose

(18:58):
is also cleaning house at the Department of Education. And yeah,
even the IRS auditing the auditors. What's next checking Jerry
Nadler's secret expense accounts for liquid Plumber. So the story
really isn't just the fraud, it's those freaking out about
its exposure that puts them on the other side of

(19:18):
the good guys we know, eliminating waste and abuse. His
paramount as is reducing the size of an arrogant, bloated government.
It's good for everyone, But whoever it's bad for are
the ones screaming about it because of them. Government was
never about helping you, but helping them sells.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
He amenda that five twenty seven is our time here
in Houston's born is again It's President's Day, So a
few of us are working today. The essentials out there
are working. Your grocery stores, your retail stores, your restaurants,
all they'll all be open today. To do whatever you
want to do. It's just this s luck. Few such
as banks in Wall Street and government workers and few others.

(19:59):
I guess who have the day of today for presidents Today.
It's five twenty seven. You're in News Radio seven forty
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Why they're traffic plus Breaking News twenty four to seven.

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More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services studios.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
It is five thirty. You're on Houston's Morning News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour. I'm
trying to read home running here for a second. I can't.
I can't read them all running. Hey, oh, Ercott, that's
what I wrote. Ercott says that we're going to be
out of power, well not out of power, but low
on power by next year. So what are they doing

(20:44):
about it? Property tax relief for the disabled. And coming
up at five thirty eight, if they audited Fort Knox,
what do you think they would find there? Details in
the minutes say head here Houston's Morning News. First to
check out the drive again, Gary Max here, I.

Speaker 5 (20:59):
Know the feeling my own writing.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
The accident on our southeast side forty five Gold Freeway
south waystside has now cleared. Let us hit the roads
forty five North Freeway south down in from the Woodlands
to the North Loop, or iten the beast westbound Baytown
around one forty six to the East Loop and Highway
to nine at eastbound between ninety nine to Grand Parkway
and the West Loop, all averaging about twenty minutes. Scary

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From our KTRH Generator super Center in twenty four hour
Weather center. Mostly sunny today, seasonable high temperature about sixty four.
Cold change coming for Wednesday, though we'll talk to Terry
Smith about that in about nine minutes. Right now, temperatures
thirty eight at your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH. It's time now for the news.
Here's Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 9 (21:45):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
It's coming up on five point thirty two on KTRH HAN.
With temperatures dropping below freezing this week, there is a
dire new warning about the state's power grid.

Speaker 25 (21:54):
Urcott has released a worst case scenario where Texas energy
demand could outpace supply as really as summer twenty twenty six.
U of H Energy fellow ed Hers says the state
not only needs new power plants, but must tend to
its older ones.

Speaker 26 (22:06):
Coal fired power plants are about fifty five years in
age now. The natural gas power plants average more than
thirty years in age, So we're finding ourselves running short
on supply when plan operators take some of them offline
to perform maintenance.

Speaker 25 (22:20):
And the earliest any new power plant would be ready
is five or six years. In the meantime, the state
is ramping up battery supply to store up more existing power.
Coreyolson News Radio seven forty KTIH.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
By the way, Governor Rabbit holds a news conference about
the coming Arctic blast at ten thirty. Late last week,
Chevron announced that they were cutting twenty percent of its workforce.
Many are wondering what that means for the rest of
the oil industry.

Speaker 21 (22:44):
It was certainly in the hyebrow raiser. I wouldn't say
a shocker or a stunner. So it's apparent that there's
something else going on here, and this appears to be
Chevron simply streamlining and cost cutting.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
Oiler economist car Ingram says Chevron and will do better
once they move from California to Houston five point thirty
three Now in Austin, the state Senate passes a property
tax relief bill last week, but another one to give
our veterans needed relief is also in the pipeline.

Speaker 27 (23:15):
One hundred percent disabled veterans don't pay any property tax,
but everyone else does.

Speaker 28 (23:19):
If you're in the category of sixty percent disabled to
ninety percent disabled, the relief is not very much. It's
twelve thousand dollars off the cost of your property.

Speaker 27 (23:28):
Jeff Atticott with the Warrior Defense Project says that can
result in huge tax bills for injured vets, but SB
eleven twenty six would fix that.

Speaker 28 (23:34):
If you're one hundred percent disable, you still get one
hundred percent disability property tax relief. If you're ninety percent,
you get ninety percent. You're eighty percent, you get eighty percent.
All the way down the line.

Speaker 27 (23:43):
At a cost, says we owe it to veterans to
pass this bill, and it should have been done years ago.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Eathian Buchanan News Radio.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
Seven forty KTRA shoming up on five thirty four, President
Trump says talks aimed at ending the almost three year
old war between Russia and Ukraine will start quote soon.
The mainstream media one to think Trump will just give
in to everything Vladimir Putin wants. Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, though,
says no, that's not happening.

Speaker 29 (24:08):
There is absolutely no way that Donald Trump will be
seen and he will not let himself go down in
history as having sold out to Putin. He will not
let that happen.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Meantime, another mainstream media claimed that was debunked yesterday that
the Nazis used free speech to conduct the Holocaust.

Speaker 30 (24:27):
Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The
genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened
to also be genocidal because they hated Jews, and they
hated minorities, and they hated those that they had a
list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on CBS has faced the
nation after host Margaret Brennan questioned Vice President j. D
Vance's recent speech in Munich last week five point thirty five.
It's been just four weeks since Donald Trump took office.
Apprehensions at the border have dropped to the lowest levels
we've seen in years.

Speaker 31 (25:00):
You know how long it's been since we've had appar
inches at low I've seen reports, say sixty years, but
I can tell you the twenty six years I spent
as a bard of Atrol agent, I don't know that
we had any apprehensions at that level.

Speaker 7 (25:09):
Turell County Sheriff that he is Cleveland on Fox. Ice
operations continue in Houston, where one of last week's arrests
was an illegal alien charge with murder in Mexico that
had crossed into the border illegally ten times. Meantime, more
violent crime across Houston. A man about to enter the
Navy shot and killed after confronting a person breaking into

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cars in midtown.

Speaker 32 (25:33):
It's honestly been like this for a long time. But
I would say that the amount of.

Speaker 33 (25:38):
Cars is abundant of all varieties, and you have no
choice but to park them on the side of the
streets because there is The parking situation is bad.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
That woman with our TV partner channel too. This was
one of five shootings over the weekend. Three people lost
their lives. Elsewhere, a man is injured in northeast Harris
County after his neighbor shot up a birthday party and
a former Magnolia ISD teacher is arrested for threatening to
burn down the school that he worked at. It's five

(26:10):
point thirty six. Houston's cost of living isn't as good
as you might think it would be, and you can
blame inflation.

Speaker 34 (26:16):
Houston came in at number twenty nine. That means there
are seventy one other cities that actually cost more. The
most expensive is California, followed by.

Speaker 9 (26:25):
New York KGRH.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
Moneyman Patchin says that according to go banking rates dot com,
the cost to live comfortably here is around seventy five
thousand dollars a year. And a disturbing real estate trend,
more homes are being pulled off the market by sellers,
with buyers not wanting to commit to current interest rates.

Speaker 35 (26:44):
The real litmus test will be March. That's when the
spring season is really going in full force. The best
day to sell a house it's around the mid or
end of April. That's when seasonally home prices are at
their best.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
Real Estate expert Cliff Freeman says this is an early
sign of a weakening housing market. Five point thirty seven
the Astros hold their first full team workout at spring
training tomorrow. The exhibition season begins Saturday, split squad action
against the Nationals and Mets. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
News Weather in Traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Stay Informed, Stay on time.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Barrett and the Houston
Morning News team.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
I'm not sure if there's gold on the cili at
Fort Knox. I'm not one hundred percent sure there's gold
at all. Five thirty eight is our time here in
Houston's Morning News. And the reason why I say that
is we've heard the stories right that supposedly that goal
with missing a long, long time ago. And the reason
why nobody's allowed to get into Fort Knox is because, well,
they don't want you to see how much gold is missing.

(27:51):
But then again, I've seen a few other reports where
they've actually gone in, they've allowed cameras in long enough
to show you at least some gold at Fort Knock.
Fort Knox is supposed to have a large amount of gold.
It is the place where we keep most of not all,
but most of the nation's supply of gold. There was
a time in this country when we had what was

(28:12):
called the gold standard, which means that the dollar was
backed up by gold, you had an equal amount of
value in gold as you had dollars in circulation. Of course,
we gave that up way back, and I want to
say nineteen sixty eight. I know it's during the next
administration that happened. Estimated that there's one hundred and forty
seven point three million ounces of gold, which would be

(28:35):
about half of the West Treasury's gold reserves. Gold is
stored in sealed vaults. Gold has held us an asset
of the US. Gold is primarily in the form of
gold bars. The gold is not used to make coins, medals,
and bars for citizens. It's protected by the United States
Mint Police. That's what supposedly has gone on. But there's

(28:56):
been a call in Congress to audit Fourth Knox. You know,
as long as we're going down the doze road here,
maybe we should actually audit Fourth Knox. Count how much
gold is in there, actually in there, and see if
it meets up with what we're told, and if it doesn't,
to try to ascertate what happened to it, where it went,

(29:19):
if it was ever completely there at all. Five forty
time for traffic and weather together. Here's we checking again
with Gary Mack.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah, we have that broken down vehicle. I tend to
Katie Freeway. It's westbound at Taylor Street in the center
lane around the downtown area. Y'all seem to be doing fine.
Zoom and yob got speeds in the fifties. There also
now in red Up on the Hardy Toll Road northbound
approaching I forty five in spring. This one probably closer
to Northgate. Whatever is going on, I'll investigate and report back.

(29:47):
Gary Mack and the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hour whether
Centaert Terry Smith is here. We've got a big weather
change coming for Wednesday, Terry, but maybe one last blast
of wintertime before we finally get things straight.

Speaker 9 (30:02):
Let's hope it's the last blast.

Speaker 22 (30:05):
Definitely, some much colder air like temperatures will be running
easily fifteen to twenty degrees below the norm for mid
to late February starting Wednesday into Thursday and Friday. So
if you've got cold temperatures during the day, you know
you're going to be dealing with very.

Speaker 9 (30:24):
Cold temperatures at night. We'll talk a little bit about that.
Today's quiet day.

Speaker 22 (30:28):
Today's a good day to get things done because we've
got the sunshine and it feels like February.

Speaker 9 (30:33):
Low to mid sixties today.

Speaker 22 (30:35):
Tomorrow, that's when we start to get the rain, some
showers in the morning, showers and perhaps some storms by
the afternoon. Ninety percent chance of getting wet Tomorrow. It's
still comfortable in the sixties Tomorrow. The colder air starts
to move in Tuesday night, but you really notice it.
Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, temperatures are generally in the forties. Wednesday, Thursday,

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and Friday, Friday, we may get a little bit of rain.

Speaker 9 (31:02):
Those are the daytime temperatures.

Speaker 22 (31:04):
Our nighttime temperatures are going to be generally in the
upper twenties.

Speaker 9 (31:08):
To upper thirties. So nice cold stretch.

Speaker 22 (31:11):
I wouldn't call it nice actually, but we will start
to warm up as we head into the weekend. It's
just going to take a couple of days to get
back to average February.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
I got all the plants into the garage.

Speaker 9 (31:24):
Yes you do, all right.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Temperature right now thirty eight at your official severe weather
station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Yeah, fucking President's Days today,
five fifties our time here in Houston's Port News. So
we're doing a little talkback feature. My question today you
go to iHeartRadio app KTRH, put us in your preset
and then you get thirty seconds to tell me your
favorite president or who you thought the best president was

(31:49):
the worst president if you want to, if you prefer
to go that way, do you like having a President's
Day where we honor all presidents? Should we go back
to Washington's birthday and just recognize that as the nation's
first president and forget the whole President's Day thing because
not all presidents are worth celebrating. Right anyway, here's one

(32:09):
of our callers. Hang on, let me hit that button
one more time.

Speaker 23 (32:15):
Good morning, Jimmy. This is Jeff from Conrod. I was
born in the early sixties and I grew up and
I believe Ronald Reagan was the best president. But now
we have great Donald Trump, which will also do well.
Thank you for your time. That's my opinion.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Okay, I don't disagree. You know, I think if you
were around for Ronald Reagan, more importantly, if you were
around for Jimmy Carter, he made Ronald Reagan an even
better president than what he already was. It might be
the similar effect with Trump, right that we couldn't really
appreciate Donald Trump until we had a Joe Biden. Joe
Biden was even worse than Jimmy Carter, and he may

(32:52):
ultimately make Donald Trump even better than Ronald Reagan. Five
point fifty one time for traffic and weather together's we
check it again with Gary mac all right.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
Whatever it was quickly cleared from up around spring. Never
got confirmation of much of anything. I speak up the
Hardy toll road northbound at Northgate went to red for
a bit. Nevertheless, we're good to go up that way.
Thanks Jane off our tip line. Also a shout out
to Jack from Connecticut, one of our biggest fans. Hoping
sky Mike feels better soon as we all are. Seven
one three two one two tips if you see something,

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holler atus scary mac Atthegenerator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour weather center,
mostly sunny seas. The more about sixty four for the
heighth today morning showers after in thundershowers sixty five tomorrow
Wednesday partly cut it windy and cold. I only about
forty two down to twenty eight for the low on
Wednesday night. So here we go again, back below freezing

(33:44):
temperature right now thirty eight at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k t RH. Let's get you
caught up on some of our top stories here in
this President's Day twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Here's Cliff, Thank.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
You, Jimmy.

Speaker 9 (33:57):
We're brought to you bymorrow.

Speaker 7 (33:58):
Mechanical President Trump says keachtonks between Russia and Ukraine could
start quote soon. The Trump derangement syndrome continues. There are
protests planned today against his policies in all fifty states.
In another week, another record high price for a dozen
eggs four dollars in ninety five cents. Get the latest
news anytime at KTIH dot com. Our next updates at

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six o'clock.

Speaker 8 (34:22):
Under the orders I signed today, keep it here for
the very latest. All of this will change starting today on.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Youth Radio seven KTRH.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
So did you hear what AOC did?

Speaker 21 (34:36):
Yo?

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Alexandria Castio Cortez was giving a webinar on how to
avoid capture by ice in actually yes, in actual webinar,
the borders are Tom Homan yesterday morning was on with
Maria Bartarama Sunday Morning Futures talking about ice raids, lack
of cooperation in some places like Dallas and what AOC

(35:00):
did here.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
We go absolutely not, don't stop us.

Speaker 11 (35:02):
I mean it makes our job more difficult, makes a
job more dangerous. I mean the numbers as you said
we're about we're more than twice numbers as Joe Biden
had a year ago from today, and the vast majority
of being public safety threats. But am I happy? No?
I want more because we had last time, we had
over six hundred thousand illegal aliens with criminal convictions walking

(35:23):
the streets of these countries. We got a lot of
them to find. But Sanctuarius City makes it difficult. But
it was most concerning though. It makes it more dangerous
when we can arrest a bad guy in the county jail,
if one officer arrest one guy in a safety and
security of county jail or state prison. But these sanctuous
cities released a public safety threat back into the public,
which on his face is just ridiculous. There's more dangerous

(35:45):
for the ice officers to make that arrest. It's more
dangerous for the alien, and it's certainly more dangerous for
the communities released on public safety threat back in the community.
It's just dumb and it puts the communities at great
risk of more crimes. So we want to work with
the sanctuary cities and get into the jail. It was
excess to the guy that you locked in at jail cell.
That's who we want to talk to.

Speaker 36 (36:04):
Well, I mean, look, you've got Alexandra Ocasio Cortes doing
webinars to explain to illegal immigrants how to evade ice arrests.
And then she tweeted out after something you said. You said,
maybe she's going to be in trouble now, and she says,
maybe he can learn to read the Constitution would be
a good place to start. She's continuing her resist efforts

(36:27):
against your efforts.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Tom.

Speaker 11 (36:29):
Look, I've forgot more about the constitution immigration enforcements.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
You ever know me.

Speaker 11 (36:34):
I had to educate her during congressional testimony entering the
country illegally as a crime. So whatever, But what she
needs to do is read the statues and acted by
Congress Title Eate United States Code thirteen twenty four United
States Title late United States Code thirteen, twenty four and
twenty five. That's what she needs to read because there
were legal interest country. It's a crime dunist country illegally.

(36:58):
Not only that, when you harbor and conceal and impede
law enforcement, that's a felony. So what she's doing, she says,
she's give educating measure the constitutional rights, and we all
know they got constitutional rights.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
But what she's really.

Speaker 11 (37:10):
Doing you and I and the rest of the country
knows she's trying to teach them how to invade law enforcement.
Now I just said, well, out of the gate, we're
contentrated in public safety threats, national security threats. So she's educate,
educating those in the country legally with a significant criminal conviction.
Public safety thread, don't open the door, don't talk to us.
Here's how you invade law enforcement. Let us hope she's

(37:31):
not educating the next person who gets out and murders
a young college student in Georgia. I mean, these are
bad people were looking for So she can call it
education all she wants, but we all know is about
evading law enforcement. These people have been ordered removed, but
people are looking for it now have final orders. They're criminals,
they're in the country LEADIA judges ordered them removed, they
become a fugitive. Then these are the folks she's helping.

(37:53):
So I've goss to the Department of Justice to look
at this. Where is the line on impediment? Where does
that find line? So we can instruct ILFAIC what they
can do when people don't open the doors or or
try to invade the arrest. So I simply asked the
OJA give me a legal opinion, because every department just
one term things differently. What's the legal opinion on impediment
and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
All Right, Is AOC committing a felony? If she is,
where are the charges? When will the charges come? Five
poin fifty seven now here in news radio seven forty
k TRH.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
This is used radio seven forty KTRH, Houston five everywhere
with the IRA now the latest news, weather and traffic.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
It's more of what matters to you from the John
Moris Services Studios.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Six AM is our time here in Houston's morning news.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this f are
Trump's Russia Ukraine peace talks are going to start soon.
We're told Trump and Elon on their detractors and coming
up at six oh eight. Texas should be the most
populated state in the Union by twenty forty five. Details
and the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's morning news. First,

(39:02):
just check out that morning drive once again. Here's Gary Mack.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
Already slow in several spots that in a moment the
stalled vehicle Indy center lane of Itent to Katie westbound
Taylor in downtown no longer an issue. We add another
accident early, but business has been brisk. Sixty nineties text
freeway southbound around the GRBB A five minute delay back
from Lorraine. Same for this one, just sluggish sixteenth north

(39:25):
loof westbound from the Hardy to Airline. Add another three
to four minutes. Scary Mac at the Generator Supercenter dot
com track.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Center from our KTRH top tax defenders twenty four hour
weather center mostly sunny, seasonable today with I temperature about
sixty four. Will take a look at the rest of
the work week, including Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, which are
going to be wintry days around here. I will talk
to Terry about that in eight minutes, right now thirty
eight at your officials Severe Weather station News Radio seven

(39:52):
forty k TRH. It's time now for the news. Here's
Cliff Saunders.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Thank you, Jimmy.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
We're coming up on six ZO two and sponsored my
shopist John dear Our top story. Democrats complaining about Doze
and Elon Musk, but President Trump is not paying attention
to any of the noise.

Speaker 14 (40:08):
I get ninety eight percent bad publicity I could do
outside of you, a few of your very good friends.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
It's like the craziest thing. But you know what I
have learned, Elan, The people are smart. They get it. Yeah,
they do.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
They get it.

Speaker 14 (40:21):
They really see what's happening.

Speaker 7 (40:23):
Yes, Trump at Elon with KTRH is Sean Hannity. That
entire interview airs tomorrow on Fox. But Doze continues to
cut the fats from the bloated federal government, covering one
point nine billion dollars from hud We've got the latest
dose tracker for you at KTRH dot com.

Speaker 13 (40:42):
Six two.

Speaker 7 (40:43):
President Trump says that Russia is Vladimir Putin is willing
to talk peace after nearly three years of war in Ukraine,
adding that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will be involved and
that the talks will take place soon, but they will
be done without other European leaders getting in, and those
leaders aren't happy. National Security Advisor Michael Waltz told Fox, Hey,

(41:05):
you know what, too bad.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
I have to push back on this.

Speaker 27 (41:09):
Any notion that they aren't being consultant, they absolutely are.

Speaker 9 (41:13):
And you know, at the end of the day, though,
this is going.

Speaker 24 (41:16):
To be under President Trump's leadership that we get this
war to an end.

Speaker 7 (41:20):
Francis Emmanuel McCrone is hosting other European leaders in an
emergency summit on.

Speaker 9 (41:24):
Ukraine six three.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
The war of words between borders are Tom Homan and
the Squad's Alexandria Ocasio Cortes continues, aoc has been holding
webinars to try and help illegals avoid ICE.

Speaker 11 (41:39):
When you sit down with people who are wanted by
criminal islands that have been ordered to report it from
the night, says comment and ignore that order. If you
ain't ignore that order, we'd be sitting in prison. But
they ignored an order from federal judges. Are hiding in
a home and she's telling him not to open the door.

Speaker 9 (41:53):
Homing on CNN.

Speaker 7 (41:54):
So how effective has Trump been as far as border
is concerned. San Diego Illegal Alien Shelter has shut down
because since Trump took off his four weeks ago, there
have been no new arrivals.

Speaker 9 (42:08):
It's now six zh four.

Speaker 7 (42:10):
One of the left talking points is that Republicans regret
voting for Trump, which of course is fake news.

Speaker 27 (42:17):
That's because by and large they're happy with Trump's performance
so far.

Speaker 12 (42:20):
You may find people that quibble on really minor stuff,
but the overall, big picture people are in favor of it.
This is why people voted for him.

Speaker 27 (42:28):
Brian Juneff with The American Thinker says this is just
a bad attempt by the left to damp in Trump's momentum.

Speaker 12 (42:34):
It's anything to provide some hope to their base. What
they don't want is their base to become demoralized and
join the winning side.

Speaker 27 (42:42):
Juneff says Trump currently has a strong approval rating and
is only going to get stronger over the coming months.
Ethan Bginnon News Radio seven to forty katrh.

Speaker 9 (42:49):
Thank you, Ethan.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Today is also the four year anniversary of the iconic
Rush Limbaugh's death, and some of his final comments about
President Trump then remain true.

Speaker 9 (42:59):
Today.

Speaker 37 (43:00):
Somebody that is fearless and willing to fight against the
things that no Republican has been willing to fight against,
war or defend. They can't get over the fact that
he's likable because they hate him.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
They despise him.

Speaker 7 (43:14):
Rush, speaking with KTI reaches Sean Hannity back then, we
can only imagine what Rush would have to say about today's.

Speaker 9 (43:21):
Democrats at six ZHO five.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
The left also likes to say that Trump hasn't lowered
your food prices yet.

Speaker 9 (43:27):
But here's what they're not telling you.

Speaker 38 (43:29):
We found out that the stagflation that was created by
the policies of President Biden was way worse than we thought.
Over the last three months, across all goods, including eggs,
the average inflation rate was four point six percent, way
above target and an acceleration at the end of the
Biden term.

Speaker 7 (43:45):
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on CBS's Face the Nation,
and there's this left wing politico now claims that Democrats
were tricked into believing the economy was good in November.

Speaker 39 (43:58):
In reality, they were either sleeping on under a rock
or more likely, we're just completely delusional.

Speaker 17 (44:03):
I mean, anybody who understands economics could see that Dynamics
was a bust all along from the beginning.

Speaker 39 (44:09):
Economist and Fox contributor Elizabeth Ames says even their job
reports were fake new to snapback jobs from COVID, and
it's more evidence of how far left the media has gone.

Speaker 17 (44:19):
They wanted a Kamala elected and that's what they did.
They try to spin it as positively as they could.
I'm not even sure they believed it, She says.

Speaker 39 (44:26):
The only fix is to stabilize our crumbling dollar. Andrei
Parard News Radio seven forty, kg R eight.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
Six SOHO six. What's good for DC might be good
for Austin. The Texas House creates its version of DOGE.
Thirteen House members named to a new committee that will
hold its first hearing later this month. A report from
the state Senate Education Committee says only forty five percent
of school districts are in compliance with state law requiring

(44:53):
armed security on every campus.

Speaker 20 (44:55):
The school has to juggle to the education safety needs
save different plays where their money's come from. If you
have to move moneies over in the state, or somebody
isn't paying for them to put these people in the schools,
they're going to have to rob.

Speaker 7 (45:10):
Peter to pay Paul former school resource officer Katherine Smith
Torres their HID is not compliant. D KD and Fort
bendiasds are six oh seven.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Now this is your favorite President.

Speaker 28 (45:22):
I'm a a fief fan.

Speaker 26 (45:24):
I am a really big fan of people that you
do this.

Speaker 40 (45:27):
I don't know, but I.

Speaker 21 (45:28):
Just want you to be safe.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
You're challenging people, a great people and great Americans. Have
a good day, have a lot of fun and I'll
be later.

Speaker 18 (45:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (45:37):
President Trump at Daytona right before the Great American Race yesterday.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
This is when he's doing the Lap of the Beast exactly.

Speaker 9 (45:44):
I thought that was awesome.

Speaker 7 (45:46):
After weather delays, William Byron took the checkered flag in overtime.
I should add for the second straight year, I'm Cliff
Saunders on Houston's news, weather and traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
Listen to news Radio seven forty KTRH on the free
iHeartRadio app. It's all your news, music, sports podcasts, and
talk free never Sound.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
It's so good.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
A lot of folks in a lone star state of mind.
Six' eight is our time here in Houston's party. News
stories in Newsweek about the Texas population boom. Here's what
it says. It says that we are poised to become
the biggest states population wise, the biggest state by the
year twenty forty five. Talks about how we've seen our

(46:29):
population swell over the last ten years, with residents increasing
by nearly four million between twenty thirteen and twenty twenty three.
That's more than any other state. Between July twenty twenty
three and July twenty twenty four, our population increased another
five hundred sixty three thousand people, according to the Census Bureau,
giving US an analyzed growth rate of one point eight percent,

(46:50):
the third heist in the nation, behind Florida and the
District of Columbia. Between July twenty twenty and July twenty
twenty four, the Census Bureau figures show the states by
relation rose from twenty nine point one million to thirty
one point three million, which is an increase of almost
four zero point eight percent in just four years. According

(47:11):
to reilter dot com, during the COVED era, in which
health restrictions for war laxer in Texas than many other
Democratic run states, we had a surgeon internal migration. In
twenty nineteen, about twenty percent of the company's home shoppers
came from out of state, but this searched to thirty
three percent by April of twenty twenty three, and of course,

(47:34):
says we all know a lot of these folks came
from California, giving rise to such phrases as police don't California.
Are Texas particularly notable? Source one hundred and two thousand
people moving from California to the Long Star State in
twenty twenty two alone, according to the Texas Realtors twenty
twenty four Texas Relocation Report. An analysis of Census Bureau

(47:59):
data by realtor dot org concluded the highest proportion of
California to Texas movers thirty seven percent. Made the decision
for a change of climate. What do you suppose that
means mean like change in weather or just political climate.
I'd be inclined to say more likely the political climate change,
followed by a new job or job transfer thirty six percent,

(48:22):
the desire to own a home rather than wreck one
because you couldn't afford to buy in California thirty one percent,
and a job loss or job search ten percent. And
again California, far and away, you know, the number one
state losing population to Texas, but we would be number
one population wise by twenty forty five, when they estimate
we'd have about forty five million people living in Texas.

(48:47):
And we're in Urkot's talking about how we don't have
enough power to get through twenty twenty six. How in
the world are we going to sustain that growth unless
we get our butts in gear. It's started generating some
more power. DoD for traffic and whether together's check out
the drive again. Here's Gary Mack, and I get.

Speaker 6 (49:03):
The feeling many of us are working today. Lots of
yellow and some red already. I set you's on forty
five the North Freeway southbound Gulf Bank to Tidwell, along
with Onto six to ten north West Mound from the
Hardy Toll Road to Airline. I'd add a few extra
if you're stepping out the door anytime soon. Also, that
accident continues sixty nine to the east Tank southbound at the
GRB in downtown, which we'll set you behind by round five.

(49:26):
Gary Mack Degenerator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
From r KTRH top tax Defenders twenty four hour. Whether
senat Terry Smith is here? Big change coming weatherwise by
Wednesday Terry.

Speaker 22 (49:37):
Yeah, well, and it'll kind of start Tuesday.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Tuesday's our transition day.

Speaker 22 (49:41):
We'll get some rain Tuesday, maybe some storms ahead of
the cold front, and then that front swings through Tuesday night.
So the big drop in the temperature begins Wednesday, but
it lasts Wednesday into Thursday and Friday and Saturdays.

Speaker 9 (49:59):
Trying to so you kind of get the idea.

Speaker 22 (50:01):
But today, I give today two thumbs up because we're
sunny and dry, and the temperatures like yesterday.

Speaker 9 (50:07):
On the mild side, load to mid sixties.

Speaker 22 (50:09):
Tomorrow ninety percent chance of showers and storms, some of
those storms in the afternoon and evening hours. We'll be
watching it in case anything gets a little overly excited.

Speaker 9 (50:19):
Temperatures Tomorrow will be in the sixties.

Speaker 22 (50:21):
But highs on Wednesday only in the forties. It's going
to be a partly cloudy, windy day. Wednesday, still sunny
and dry. Thursday temperatures load of mid forties. These are
high temperatures now.

Speaker 9 (50:35):
And Friday we have a twenty percent chance of.

Speaker 22 (50:37):
Ray more rain Saturday. Friday's temperatures load of mid forties.
Saturday's a little warmer, closer to fifty on Saturday, but
that's still almost twenty degrees below normal by Saturday.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
Wow, taking our time getting out the cold for thirty
eight right now, do your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty KTRH. This is President and we're taking
your comments at the iHeartRadio app. You go to KTRH.
You could listen a preset to get there quickly. You've

(51:10):
got thirty seconds. Give me your name, a first name anyway,
and where you're calling from. Favorite president, worst president, whether
or not you think President's Day should go back to
being Washington's birthday, Washington and Lincoln or state President's Day.
Your comments are welcome. This morning.

Speaker 41 (51:28):
Hi Jimmy, good morning. It's Colleen from Montgomery. I think
we should celebrate President's Day every year and celebrate our
first president and our current president.

Speaker 42 (51:41):
Thanks by good morning, Jimmy. This is Mike from mass HL.
Best president in my lifetime, Donald J. Trump, Worst president
of all time, Barack Hussein Obama. He set this country
back with our race relations, our healthcare, and orian just
to name a few. Additionally, President's Day is a celebration

(52:03):
of the office, not the man.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
Okay, so he's full in Favorita keeping the President's day.
Although there have been plenty of people in the office,
he just mentioned one that you might not feel like
celebrating six twenty one. Time for traffic and weather together.
We're talking about these big Chevron layoffs coming up in
just a moment, but first it's still a little traffic
and weather togethers we check in again with Gary Mack.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
And we begin again.

Speaker 6 (52:25):
Let's hop on forty five the Gold Freeway northbound between
NASA Road one. We'll take that to downtown for a
twenty one minute trip. And this morning twelve on sixty
ninety Southwest Freeway northbound from Volumes Trace down in sugar
Land or the sixty in West Loop. I continue to
see that one crash sixty nine East Text Freeway, this
one southbound around the GRV wait times, nothing outrageous hanging

(52:46):
in there. Around five minutes. Gary mac at the Generator
Supercenter dot Com.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
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Check out some of our top stories on this president's
state twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Here's Cliff, Thank you.

Speaker 7 (53:24):
Jimmy Urcott says Texas is running out of power, so
we'll tell you what we're doing to avoid it. There
were no injuries reported after a magnitude five point zero
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Speaker 4 (54:03):
Six twenty three is our time here in Houston's Boy News.
So he got our attention last week when we found
out that Chevron getting ready to slash its workforce. But
up to twenty percent. It's headquarters now here in Houston,
of course, so we're talking maybe seven eight thousand people
worldwide who will end up losing their jobs. Join us
talk about it. As Car Ingham, president of the Texas

(54:25):
Alliance of Energy Producers, I guess the question we are
curious about, car and I don't know if we have
a field get for you know where these layoffs are
coming from. But you know, this being their world headquarters
at this point, how many of these layoffs do expect
will impact Houston.

Speaker 43 (54:43):
I don't think we do know the answer to that
question yet. There probably will be some. I mean, you know,
in a state where they are big and active and
as you said, just relocating their headquarters to Houston. And
by the way, welcome to the great state of Texas, Chevron.
This is where you should be rather than in California,
certainly in this environment. But it's hard to imagine that

(55:04):
there won't be some of those in Texas. But this
is not really a result of things that are going
on in Texas, and certainly not in their upstream or
their exploration production side of the business. They do have
some upstream difficulties in other parts of the world and
they're trying to acquire and they have been trying to
acquire the S Corporation for some time. They're in a

(55:28):
bit of a dust up with Exomobile over that and
it's dragging out and it's costing them some money. And
they're trying to develop the field somewhere else in the world.
But they're very active in Texas, very active in the
Permium basin. They are moving to Texas and those operations
are going just fine. So in addition to these difficulties

(55:48):
that we just talked about, this is also a time
where the industry has simply been producing more with fewer people.
This is an industry that game to some extraordinary efficiencies
and productivity increases over the year. Chevron certainly has been
the beneficiary of this, and so any opportunity to cut

(56:12):
costs and still maintain their core business and in fact
kind of shifted focus to their core business some which
is in Texas and drawing for oil and gas in
the Permia, and they're going to take it.

Speaker 21 (56:27):
Well.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Yeah, and you know, technology is going to change as
always does, and there'll be fewer people that need to
be employed because of technology. I guess that's just the
nature of any business right now, isn't it.

Speaker 43 (56:38):
You just hit the nail on the head. All industries
and all businesses endeavored to do this over time. It's
just been extraordinarily obvious. In oil and gas, there was
a time in twenty fourteen, which was an activity peak
before a big industry downturn. We had over three hundred
thousand Texans directly employed of oil and gas, which is

(57:01):
operating and producing service companies and drilling companies. Numbers one
hundred thousand less than that now, but we're producing millions
more barrels a day than we were then. So the
the what the industry has achieved in terms of raising
production and bringing more product to the market, both in
terms of crude oil and natural gas for the benefit

(57:23):
of consumers, it's truly extraordinary. But as you say, they're
doing it with the less people, they're doing it with
fewer rigs. I mean, the rig count nor employment are
anywhere close to what they once were, and they likely
never are going to be again. And so it's a
shifting nature of an economy. It's a shifting nature of
an industry that has gotten extremely well at what it does.

Speaker 4 (57:45):
Cars loves, I have you let me let me ask
you about what Urcott is telling us. I realized this
is not necessarily right up your belly, wick Air. But
we have Urcott, which is our you know, Economic Council
on a Reliability basically saying that by next we're going
to have power problems here in the state. We have
another story Newsweek saying that by twenty forty five we're

(58:06):
likely to be the most populous state in the country
by a long shot, overtaking California. How do we marry
those two things? How do we continue to welcome so
many people to Texas without being able to provide enough
energy for them?

Speaker 43 (58:20):
Well, you're right, You're right in one respect. It's not
the it's the core of what the text Alliance of
Energy Producers focus on. The focus is on, but it
is a huge focus of ours. Why is this Because
we generate a lot of power with natural gas in Texas.
And as you may know, I'm an economist as well

(58:42):
as as the president of this trade group of great
groups of Text Alliance of Energy Producers, And you know,
it's just a simple fact that if you incentivize, and
I mean greatly incentivized that both the federal and state level,
the development of technologies like wind and solar, you're going

(59:06):
to get a greater capacity. You're going to get greater
share of those things as a as a share of
the total capacity of power generating ability in any particular region,
in this case the Arcot region of Texas. And had
we just left this to markets and frankly, it's just
my view as an economist, not Nolan gas guy, that

(59:29):
if we had more dispatchable thermal power from natural gas,
coal or nuclear, we might not be in this position.
We've run short of power because we don't have reliable power.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
All the time. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
In other words, we have to change the incentives, and
we have to change them the big way. Well, I
got to run, Car, but thank you as always do
appreciate it. Car, My pleasure to you guys. You bet
President of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, Car Ingham.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
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Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Six thirty is our time here on Houston's Morning News.
I'm Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour,
Urkott says, we'll have power supply issues next year, so
what are they doing about it? Property tax relief for
the disabled. Those stories and more are coming up in
the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're
check out that morning drive again. Here's Gary mack.

Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
Thank you, sir. Clear the fender vender around downtown. Sixty
nine The East Tanks Freeway south Bown at the GRB
still not back to moving. How we should be there.
That'll add on about ten minutes or so. Also add
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bound from it ten to sixty nine. The East Tanks
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Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
From our KTRH Generator Supercenter. Twenty four hour. Weathers are
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doctor Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in eight minutes.
Right now, it's thirty eight at your officials severe weather.
Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. It's time down for
the news. Here's Cliffsanders.

Speaker 7 (01:01:24):
Thank you, Jimmy. We are coming up on six point
thirty two. In our top story, veterans in Texas with
one hundred percent disability do not have to pay property taxes,
but veterans with lower disability than that only get a
twelve thousand dollars discount.

Speaker 9 (01:01:39):
There's a push in Austin to do something about it.

Speaker 28 (01:01:41):
So if you own a three hundred thousand dollars home,
you pay taxes still on two hundred and eighty eight thousand,
as opposed to the individuals one hundred percent disabled but
pays no taxes.

Speaker 7 (01:01:51):
Jeffrey Attacount with the Warrior Defense Project says SB eleven
twenty six would raise the discount to match their disability percentage,
something he says should have been done years ago. Govern
To Greg Abbott holds a news conference later this morning
to talk about the Arctic blast hitting us later this week.
Terry Smith of the Weather Channel will tell us how
cold it will get on Thursday morning. In a few

(01:02:13):
moments on Houston's Morning News, our states rapidly growing energy
demand could outpace supply in less than two years.

Speaker 9 (01:02:21):
That's the worst case scenario.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
Warning from Urkott and u of h's ed HRS says
there's no easy or quick solution to our power crunch.

Speaker 26 (01:02:30):
This is going to be a big issue for US.
I mean the backlog or natural gas power plants now
extends well out to twenty twenty nine twenty thirty. We've
been behind the curve on this for many years, and
it's not just the peak demand periods.

Speaker 7 (01:02:45):
He says that our existing plants are several decades old
and need a lot more maintenance. In the meantime, the
state is ramping up battery power to store more existing energy.
And as we told you last week, Chevron is slashing
twenty percent of its workforce a cost cutting move. What
does that mean for the rest of the industry.

Speaker 13 (01:03:04):
Well, Texas based expert car Ingham says, the oil industry
is fine.

Speaker 21 (01:03:10):
I don't think they're in trouble. In fact, I'm certain
they're not in trouble, and this is not a company
experiencing financial difficulty.

Speaker 13 (01:03:17):
Ingham says Chevron is just looking to make more money.

Speaker 21 (01:03:21):
I think this is just to move to streamline operations,
to cut costs, and to focus on where their core
areas of business are.

Speaker 13 (01:03:30):
Chevron is in the midst of moving its headquarters from
California here to Houston. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty
k T.

Speaker 9 (01:03:39):
Thank you, Jeff, six thirty four.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
President Trump says talk shamed at ending the almost three
year old war between Russia and Ukraine will get underway
quote soon. Other countries like France and Britain are being
left out of these talks. Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw says,
there's a reason for that.

Speaker 29 (01:03:57):
You need to not just bolster your own defense spending.
I mean, because that's a long term issue, that's a
long term investment. You need to be talking about where
you're going to be putting actual troops on the ground.
Just stop following our lead and actually take the lead.

Speaker 7 (01:04:11):
Crenshaw on CBS Now, the mainstream media and Democrats are
complaining about Doze and Elon Musk, but the Internet never
forgets and the last two Democrat presidents we're calling for
what Elon Musk is now doing.

Speaker 21 (01:04:27):
Budget reform is not an option, it's a necessity.

Speaker 30 (01:04:31):
The American people are entitled to transparency.

Speaker 23 (01:04:34):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:04:34):
Barack Obama and Joe Biden, both speaking during the Obama years.

Speaker 9 (01:04:39):
It's now six thirty five.

Speaker 7 (01:04:41):
Not every Democrat is fighting President Trump's border policies.

Speaker 29 (01:04:45):
We want to make sure that it doesn't matter if
you're on the border.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Or in DC or wherever you might be. We want
our community safe, and if you're a criminal alien, then.

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
You should be targeted.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
No, it's no buds about that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:59):
Texas Democrat Congressman Henry Quaar on Fox and here is
who Ice is deporting. One of the arrests in Houston
last week was a man charged with murder in Mexico.
That man had crossed over here illegally at least ten
times that we know of. Six point thirty five more
violent crime across the Houston area this weekend. At least

(01:05:19):
five shootings were reported, Three of them were fatal. One
of those a twenty one year old man who was
about to enlist.

Speaker 9 (01:05:26):
In the Navy.

Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
He had confronted a man who was breaking into some
cars Midtown. Elsewhere, a house in Rosenberg the scene of
a recent murder well that was destroyed in a fire
over the weekend, and fire Marshall say it was set
intentionally looking at your money. A new survey is out
from go banking rates dot Com, which says you'll need

(01:05:47):
about seventy five thousand dollars a year to live comfortably
here in Houston.

Speaker 34 (01:05:51):
Looking at Texas, Austin is the most expensive in the study,
while Lubbock is the lowest. Among the larger cities in Texas,
only Santa and Antonio is cheaper, running about seventy thousand dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:06:03):
KTRH money man Pat shin there home sales last year
were at their lowest level in nearly thirty years, and
there are more alarm bells about the current market that
are ringing right now.

Speaker 19 (01:06:14):
More sellers are pulling their homes off the market as
buyers just aren't budging yet.

Speaker 35 (01:06:18):
It's still a cat and mouse game here with interest rates.
Fires are not going to come out and get active
at these levels like they were in the past.

Speaker 19 (01:06:26):
Texas real estate expert Cliff Freeman says sellers don't want
to give up their ray either.

Speaker 35 (01:06:30):
The motivation right now to give up a great rate
and go out and find a house and pay seven
percent for a mortgage is still holding sellers back.

Speaker 19 (01:06:38):
The best time to sell, if you have to, according
to Freeman, is in April. Sure Lewis News Radio seven
forty key Tier eighth.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
And at six thirty seven. The first full team workout
for the Astros in Florida is set for tomorrow, with
the exhibition season starting Saturday, split squad action against Washington
and the New York Mets. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's
news weather in traffic station News Radio seven four KTRH.

Speaker 9 (01:07:01):
We can't let these things happen anymore.

Speaker 14 (01:07:04):
New Age, the Golden Age of America begins right now.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Easier K two on Youth Radio seven kt RH. Right,
I was like, how would you like your kiss in
the morning. I'm fine as long as you give me
some eggs, because eggs are Eggs are expensive. They are
stupid expensive. And I've seen a lot of features lately
about the high price of eggs. One of them included

(01:07:30):
Fox Business, who was interviewing the co owners of the
New York Deli here in Houston on Hillcroft. I was
just looking at their menu. They got steak and eggs,
which is more expensive. I wonder right now the price
per pound the steak or the eggs. I think that
the eggs might be more expensive, But here they are

(01:07:51):
talking to the co owners of the New York Deli
about how difficult it's been to deal with these crazy
egg prices.

Speaker 44 (01:07:59):
Right before OVID, we're paying on average about thirty larty
five dollars a case. Right now, we're paying upwards of
one hundred and thirty a case, which is not sustainable.
And the restaurant business usually, you know, inventory will go up,
but it goes right back down, and we're not seeing
any decrease in pricing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
We're only seeing it.

Speaker 44 (01:08:21):
Go up four or five dollars a case week over week.

Speaker 36 (01:08:24):
So, Rihanna, is the majority of you have money now
being spent on eggs.

Speaker 45 (01:08:28):
It really is a good chunk of our money is
being spent on eggs right now. And you know, a
lot of establishments, a lot of restaurants have been increasing
their price of eggs.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
As you mentioned.

Speaker 45 (01:08:37):
We are a fifty year old establishment in Houston, and
we have a lot of elderly customers, we have a
lot of multi generational customers, so we are not at
that point yet in raising our prices. However, you know,
as Michael mentioned, this is not sustainable, and we've heard
rumors that it could go on throughout the course of

(01:08:58):
this entire year. That's the case, we may have to reassess.

Speaker 36 (01:09:02):
So so Michael, what kind of an increase are you considering?
I mean, you haven't raised prices yet, but you're trying
to be sensitive to the client tele What are you
going to do?

Speaker 44 (01:09:14):
So we're same tight right now. We are not planning
to raise prices. You know, we're a small business. You
know a lot of our clientele are loyal and coming
us for generations, and you know, we don't want to
spike the price, you know, for a local business like ourselves.
You know, we got through COVID, now we're dealing with inflation.

(01:09:35):
Now we're dealing with legslation, you know, aka the bird flu,
and we don't know what's going to happen with terrorists,
you know, you know prices can go continue going higher,
and you know from our distributors, we're being told, you know,
it could get up to the one hundred and fifties.
You know, it's uh, you know, we won't have any
release this year, is what I'm being told.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Dang, one hundred and fifty bucks per case of eggs.
So I'm looking at their menu right now. They're this
strike me as being fairly reasonable. I mean, we eat out, Elizabeth.
I eat breakfast out every weekend, and we have a
couple of places we like to go on a regular basis.
And I've watched one place by my over the course
of the last five years or so, watch the average

(01:10:16):
breakfast bill for the two of us go from about
twenty three dollars to twenty five dollars to twenty eight
dollars to thirty dollars to thirty two dollars. Yesterday was
thirty five. Wou used to be what we used to
spend for dinner, thirty five bucks, you know, for two breakfasts.
But the New York Deli and Houston Breakfast Burrito eat
ninety five. It strikes me as a fairly decent price.

(01:10:37):
Eggs Benedict twelve ninety five, two breakfast tacos ten ninety five,
So they seem to be, you know, they seem to
be going for the going raiders slightly below at New
York Deli. I don't know how restaurants, you know, try
to balance all this, because you know, you get angry
restaurants when they may raise their menu prices. But when
you're paying that kind of money for eggs, what are
you supposed to do when you're a breakfast place. Time

(01:10:59):
for traffic, and together we're checking out the drive again.
Here's Gary Mack.

Speaker 6 (01:11:02):
Yeah, up to around the big airport and we're already
seeing a delays because of that road work equalling five min.
It's both ways on the North Belt from Imperial Valley
to Aldan Westfield is where we're minus that left lane
till twenty twenty seven, hopefully sooner. Also more roadwork bogging
us down downtown. I tend the Katie Freeway from forty
five the North Freeway to studemot that is westbound.

Speaker 5 (01:11:25):
In two right ones.

Speaker 6 (01:11:26):
I'm Gary Mack is the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
Center from r KTRH Generator super Center, twenty four hour
Wather seven. Terry Smith is here. She's got one more
blast of winter, three or four days worth of winter
coming our way.

Speaker 22 (01:11:40):
Yes, we do have another blast of winter and the
temperatures are going to stay cold, it looks like really
through the rest of the week, but.

Speaker 9 (01:11:48):
We'll warm back up next week.

Speaker 22 (01:11:50):
So hang in there, folks. Keep the heavy coat handy,
you're going to need them. You don't need them so
much today. It's a little cool right now, but nothing
out of the dorm and we'll wind up the load
of mid sixties this afternoon. Nice sunny day, but to
cold front making its way across Texas tomorrow. There is
a ninety percent chance of showers, some storms as well.

(01:12:11):
Temperatures tomorrow will be in the sixties, and then that
is all gone Wednesday, once the front clears through, we
are dry. It's a windy day Wednesday, temperatures high, temperatures
load upper forties, load to mid forties Thursday and Friday
and Friday and Saturday, and there's some rain coming back,
but at least it's rain.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
Yeah, at the frozen stuff right now, thirty eight at
your officials, Severe weather station, News Radio seven forty k TRH.
You are commute, you are forecast your news. It's Houston's
Morning News, brought to you. Buying new South Windows solutions. Hey,
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(01:12:53):
the things that they're pointing out. Turns out that we're
we're funneling tens of millions of dollars to terrace groups
through through things like USAID. More in that story coming
up next. First, though, traffic and weather together, Starting with you,
Gary Mack.

Speaker 6 (01:13:10):
Yes, s're over to the sixteen west Loop northbound after
west Timer.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
That's an accident.

Speaker 6 (01:13:14):
Reported which will tie you up from past sixty nine
to Southwest Freeway. And as soon as I get lane age,
I'm up here in the mezzanine, I'll pass that long
week times tack on fifteen dit OV delay downtown for
a stalled vehicle in the right lane of iten to
Katie this time E spound at I forty five Heights
Boulevard is where you'll begin breaking that one down. I'm

(01:13:35):
Gary Mack and Degenerator Supercenter dot com Traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:13:38):
From r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center.
Mostly sunny, seasonable today, but the high temperature about sixty
four morning showers afteroon thundershowers Tomorrow sixty five and then
Wednesday through probably the better part of the weekend. We
get cold around here, only forty two for a high
on Wednesday, windy as well, low twenty eight Wednesday night

(01:13:59):
temperature right now thirty eight at your officials Severe Weather
Station News Radio seven forty KTRH. Let's check out some
of our top stories on this Monday morning.

Speaker 7 (01:14:08):
Here's Cliff, thank you Jimmy, we are brought to you
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they are calling a quote complex clinical condition. A pilot
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Speaker 8 (01:14:44):
Hi, Donald John Trump?

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
What happens next? Who knows what happens next?

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Happens here on news Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
Yeah, Doose doing his thing, pointing out exposing us to
all wasteful things that the government has been funding behind
our backs. Here is United States Representative Tim Burschett on
some of these things, including terrorists.

Speaker 40 (01:15:11):
Well, I thought it was very informative. We had the Democrats,
of course, we're spend all their time attacking President Trump
and Elon Musk and the Republicans. I felt like we
put forth, we asked legitimate questions about the waste, abuse
and overspending of our government thirty six trillion dollars in debt.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
You can't get past that.

Speaker 40 (01:15:31):
And you know, we're getting a lot of complaints from
federal employees that are saying that they have to show
back up for work. They still haven't been going back
since COVID things like that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
So there's a lot. There's a lot.

Speaker 40 (01:15:43):
Going on behind the scenes, and I think the name
calling and everything else will will continue, because that's the
Democrats are chasing their tail right now. You know, there's
no saying it's uncovering a whole lot more than that.
Billions and billions of dollars that we're sending to terrace organizations.
And you've got to wonder some of this money if
it's not flowing right back into the back pockets of

(01:16:05):
some politicians in Washington. I think that's why the number
one search this week on the Washington area computers was
criminal defense attorneys.

Speaker 22 (01:16:16):
Tell me more about something you just mentioned, which terrorist
organizations and what moneies have we been sending to them?

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Well, actually, I have a bill to stop it.

Speaker 40 (01:16:26):
The Taliban gets forty million dollars a week that we
know of through aid and Thomas and Perry actually brought
forth some more whether we think it's in the billions
of dollars to some of these terrorist organizations and it's
and the money's not really being laundered that well, the
bills that I have deal with, we're sending money so

(01:16:48):
called aid as. But as you know, money is very fungible.
It flows into their bank accounts and then they are
forced to turn over cut off the top. You know,
Lord just takes ten percent out of the top with hide.
Mob takes a good chunk when they do it, but
the Taliban, they just get theirs right off the top, right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
Out of the bank.

Speaker 40 (01:17:10):
So and we couldn't even get Chuck Schumer and the
Democrats last go around when he was in charge, we
couldn't even get them to bring the bill up at
passed unanimous in the House. So there's a and there's
a podcaster named Sean Ryan out of Nashville area. He's
a former Navy seal CIA operative, and he brought that

(01:17:32):
to my attention through another fellow name who's who goes
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Taliban members in our country right now that have come
in illegally, so we've got to really be careful.

Speaker 4 (01:17:54):
Would you find any of that shocking that we've sent,
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that there are probably upwards of one hundred of them
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Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
It is seven am. Now you're in Houston News. I'm
Jimmy Barrett. Among our top stories. This have our Trump's
Russia Ukraine peace talks are scheduled to start soon. Trump
a elon on their detractors and coming up at seven
o A jd Vance calls out the European elites in Munich.
Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Boring News. First,

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we're checking out that morning drive again and for Skymike
this morning, here's Gary Mack.

Speaker 5 (01:20:24):
And good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:20:25):
The accident turned into a disabled vehicle onto six to
ten west Loop north End approaching San Felipe. Nikki, I
hear you, Philippi A twenty minute you lay now from
Chimney Rock. It's over on the right shoulder. Nonetheless, Yeah,
we're having a little passing by now over to it
the Katie eastbound Eldridge to the West Loop. What about
Highway to twenty five west bound East Boulevard to the

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East Loop. One more sixty nine to east Tax southbound
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forty KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 7 (01:21:18):
Thank you, Jimmy at seven oh two. We're sponsored by
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Speaker 8 (01:21:23):
I think he wants to end it and they want
to end it fast.

Speaker 7 (01:21:28):
President Trump last night saying that Vladimir Putin is willing
to come to the table after nearly three years of
war in Ukraine. Trump says he could also meet with
Russia very soon, in that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will
be involved as well. The rest of Europe not so much,
which has France's Emmanuel Macrone upset. So he's hosting other

(01:21:50):
European leaders in an emergency summit on Ukraine today. Here
at home, Doze continues to trim the fat from the
federal government, recovering one point nine billion dollars from housing
in urban development. As Democrats continue to complain about Elon Musk.

Speaker 10 (01:22:07):
He is bringing common sense and transparency in sunlight to
the federal government, to the bureaucracy, to what many of
us referred to as the deep state.

Speaker 7 (01:22:17):
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox Musk and President Trump
talked to kgiah as Sean Hennany an interview that airs
tomorrow now and keeping with Trump's promise to cut the
federal workforce, about twenty immigration judges were fired on Friday,
and that number includes thirteen who were set to be
sworn in borders. Our Tom Homan hits back at AOC

(01:22:39):
for the shots that she took at him on social media.

Speaker 11 (01:22:43):
I've done it since nineteen eighty four. I forgot more
about the immigration law that AOC will ever know. Matter
of fact, to hearing. A couple years ago, I had
explained to her the enter in the country leagally was
actually a crime.

Speaker 43 (01:22:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:22:53):
Holman told CNN that AOC's recent webinar to help illegals
evade ice and may have quote crossed the lad line.
We're coming up now on seven oh four. Democrat influencers
online are trying to push the narrative that Trump supporters
regret voting for him. The truth, though, is very, very different.

Speaker 12 (01:23:12):
They're trying to keep their shaky foundation from totally collapsing
while maintaining some semblance of support, even if it's gaslighting.
Nobody's taking it seriously.

Speaker 7 (01:23:22):
Right now, Trump has some of the highest approval ratings
of his political career, and Brian June Deaf with The
American Thinker says that's only going to go up as
time goes on. Today, February seventeenth is not just President's Day,
it's the fourth anniversary of the iconic Rush Limbaugh's death.
So what would he think about Trump's second term? And

(01:23:43):
we do know how Trump feels about Rush.

Speaker 14 (01:23:46):
There is nobody like Rush. Rush's irreplactible, unique, but he
was a fantastic man, a fantastic.

Speaker 13 (01:23:53):
Talent, and political commentator Sylviocanto Junior says, Rush is missed.

Speaker 15 (01:24:00):
Would have been very happy with the election of Trump
and most specifically with what happened in the country. One
of the things that I missed the most. I used
to listen to him every day.

Speaker 13 (01:24:08):
The Rush Limbaugh Show first aired in nineteen eighty four
and went national four years later. Jeff Pigs news Radio
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Speaker 7 (01:24:19):
Now seven oh five looking at your money. If you
believe the mainstream media, then Trump's tariffs are going to
lead to more inflation. But if you listen to the experts,
you know, economists, it won't.

Speaker 16 (01:24:31):
Everything else Trump is doing is very disinflationary.

Speaker 9 (01:24:35):
So he wants to drill, baby drill.

Speaker 16 (01:24:37):
He wants to cut taxes or keep our taxes low.
He wants to deregulate the economy. He wants Pharaoh trade deals.
All of these things put pressure down.

Speaker 7 (01:24:48):
Steven Moore with the Heritage Foundation on Newsmax Now the
liberal website Politico says that Democrats were quotes.

Speaker 9 (01:24:55):
Tricked into thinking that the economy was good.

Speaker 7 (01:24:58):
Elizabeth Ames News contributor says it was clear from the
get go that Bidenomics was a failure.

Speaker 17 (01:25:05):
This is not a period of dynamic growth the kind
that you saw in the nineties and eighties, where you
had a lot of investment, job creation, innovation. This was
basically a stagnant economy with some snapback from the COVID period.

Speaker 7 (01:25:17):
She says, the only fix for what Joe Biden broke
is to stabilize our dollar value. Wall Street is closed
today for President's Day. Oil futures are hanging around near
seventy one dollars in barrel. This morning, seven oh six,
the Texas House creates its version of DOGE. Thirteen House
members are on a new committee that will hold its
first hearing later this month.

Speaker 18 (01:25:38):
Using technology, for instance, whether it's artificial intelligence or just
modernizing our system, that we can go and improve the
user experience, the user being the constituents.

Speaker 33 (01:25:47):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:25:48):
That's State Rep.

Speaker 7 (01:25:49):
Giovanni Capriglioni, that's the chair of the Committee on Delivery
of Government Efficiency talking to Dallas Television and someday to
consider when your kids go back to school tomorrow. A
Texas Senate committee report shows that only forty five percent
of school districts are complying with state law requiring armed
security on campus.

Speaker 19 (01:26:09):
The costs for schools is a major factor.

Speaker 20 (01:26:11):
Some of the school districts, their budgets are extremely tight,
and then you have to be able to pay for
an officer who is willing to accept the amount of
pay that you're offering.

Speaker 19 (01:26:23):
Former school resource officer Katherine Smith torres as finding the
right people for the job is sometimes a challenge too.

Speaker 20 (01:26:29):
You can't just put anybody in a school. You have
to have people who actually have a passion to deal
with kids. It's not just security.

Speaker 19 (01:26:38):
Chart Lewis, News Radio seven forty KRH.

Speaker 7 (01:26:41):
It's now seven oh seven, Lucy.

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By the dos.

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No, you're not hearing things.

Speaker 7 (01:26:52):
That's the sound of Canadian fans in Montreal booing the
American national anthem.

Speaker 9 (01:26:58):
On Saturday night.

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Team responded by beating the Canadian national team in an
international tournament by a three to one count Oh. They
also started a number of fights right off the bat
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Always stronger than the seconding the comeback.

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The greatest comeback of all time.

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Here America's comeback on news radio seven KTRH.

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Seven eight Our time. You're in Houston, Sporting news.

Speaker 13 (01:27:37):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
Do you think the progressive left is having the elites
or having fun at the European Security summit that jd
Vance spoke at.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Not so much.

Speaker 4 (01:27:47):
They were highly offended by what jd Vance was saying,
and they're very concerned what do you mean the United
States is going to take the lead on some sort
of piece between Russian and Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
Isn't that our job?

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
Well, if it's your job, where you've been have you
done anything? Haven't done a damn thing. So I guess
we decide we're going to take over here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
It is JD.

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
Vance, by the way, this is he got. I mean
there are people in Europe. There are there are voters
in europ are just as upset as we were here
in the United States. But the elites in Europe have
not woken up to this yet, or if they have
woken up to it, they're fighting it tooth and nail.
But here's how jd Vance got their attension. Over the weekend, I've.

Speaker 47 (01:28:30):
Heard a lot about what you need to defend yourselves from,
and of course that's important. But what has seemed a
little bit less clear to me, and certainly I think
to many of the citizens of Europe, is what exactly
it is that you're defending yourselves for. What is the
positive vision that animates this shared security compact that we

(01:28:50):
all believe is so important.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
And I believe.

Speaker 47 (01:28:54):
Deeply that there is no security if you're afraid of
the voices, the opinions and the conscience that guide your
very own people. Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis
this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we
all face together, is one of our own making.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
If you're running in fear of your own voters.

Speaker 47 (01:29:20):
There is nothing America can do for you, nor for
that matter, is there anything that you can do for
the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Wow? Okay, so I mean, what what is he saying?

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
Or in the case of French boys at mac Hall,
oh what is Heah? They're very upset that that they're
being called out this way? What do you mean we
have no freedom? What are you talking about? And of
course you know they're they're calling out the United States
is calling out the European Union not only on their

(01:29:57):
inability to to I'll respond to Russia Ukraine to begin with,
or to provide quite frankly, for their own security, but
also their unwillingness to allow their own people to be free.
Seven eleven Time for traffic and whether together. Gary mcafill
in this morning.

Speaker 6 (01:30:14):
Yeah, downtown, We've seen our share of issues this morning already.
And back to at I forty five southbound at sixty
nine the East Tax Freeway is an accident and another
twenty minutes lost from North May playing on fifteen more.
That's your way to on the six ten northop westbound
all in black free fender bender approaching forty five the
North Freeway, which will have you twiddling your thumbs from

(01:30:35):
the hardy toll road. I'm Gary mcate, Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Center from r KTRH Tom Tax Defenders twenty four hour
Weather Center. Terry Smith is here. Don't put away the
winter weather gear just yet. No, not quite yet. Maybe
after this week, but not quite yeah, yeah, yeah, you want.

Speaker 9 (01:30:55):
To keep it out at least for this week.

Speaker 22 (01:30:58):
Our temperatures this time of year typically in the upper
sixties our afternoon highs. We're going to be in the
forties starting Wednesday into Thursday and Friday, and that's going
to be as warm as we get. So temperatures are
running like twenty to twenty five degrees colder than the average.

(01:31:20):
So that's what we've got waiting for us after the
Colfront moves through. Now the Colfront's headed our way. Now
today we don't have to worry about any rain or
change in temperature. It's a sunny, dry day, temperatures load
of mid sixties. Tomorrow's when we get the rain, ninety
percent chance of showers some storms. Heis tomorrow in the sixties.

(01:31:41):
Once the front clears out, that's when the cold air,
and this is Arctic air, makes its way into Southeast Texas.
Highs in the load to upper forties Wednesday, load to
mid forties Thursday and Friday. Friday, we do have a
slight chance of rain, and our coldest temperatures at night
during this time period will be in the upper twenties

(01:32:02):
to upper thirty So it is going to be called
at night as well as being chilly during the day.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
Okay, not much fun right now thirty eight at your
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It's Houston's Morning News, brought to you by New South
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Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
All the info you need to take on the day.

Speaker 4 (01:32:26):
So when the city of Dallas decided they were not
going to cooperate with ice, that got a lot of
negative attention here in Texas, not just from fellow Texans,
but from the governor's office and from ICE in the
federal government as well. Chip Roy Representative Chip Roy spoke
out about that over the weekend. I'll share some audio
with you coming up in just a moment, but first
let's do a little traffy and whether together's we check

(01:32:49):
out the drive once again with Skymike.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
I'm sorry Skymike's off today. Here is mister Mac.

Speaker 5 (01:32:55):
That's all fine.

Speaker 6 (01:32:56):
We have timidy delays now on the north bound the
road work if you know, you know up near Bush
both ways saying for a broken down vehicle on it
in the Katie Freeway takes out a right lane eastbound
at forty five and North Freeway crash. As you ask, Yes,
we have plenty of them. Sixteen north Loop westbound at
I forty five. Also around downtown again I forty five

(01:33:17):
southbound at sixty ninth East Tax Freeway, both of them
fifteen minute delays. Gary Mack at the Generator Supercenter dot
Com Traffick.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Center from our KTRH top tax defenders. Twenty four hour
weather center for today mostly Sunday, seasonable sixty four morning showers,
afternoon thundershowers Tomorrow sixty five Wednesday partly Claudie, windy and cold,
forty two for the high down round thirty for the
low Wednesday night, we may be in record territory. We'll
have to have Terry look up their all time record

(01:33:45):
four low on that day. Right now, temperature is still
thirty eight. At your official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty k TRH. We're checking out some of our
top stories on this Monday.

Speaker 7 (01:33:57):
Here's Cliff, Thank you, Jimmy, Texans Veterans fighting for property
tax relief in Austin is listening. By the way, a
vaccine to protect chickens from bird flu is approved by
the US Department of Agriculture, and Kentucky is named by
wallet hub is the worst state to retire to, followed
by Louisiana, Mississippi, Washington State, New Mexico.

Speaker 9 (01:34:22):
And wait for it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
New Jersey worst well than New Jersey, I get, but
the worst wife are the other ones? Why is Louisiana
the one of the worst. We need to find out, man.

Speaker 7 (01:34:33):
Gotta ask wallet hub at the latest news anytime at
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Living clearly reliable KTRH traffic band Weather Next on the.

Speaker 4 (01:34:46):
Ten seven, twenty four is our time here in Houston's
point is, well, somebody took the Texas out of Dallas.
When did that happen? By the way, what what what?
What year do you trace that back to? When did
when did things start going so bad in texts in Dallas?
When they started losing their Texas values up there in

(01:35:07):
the big d Huh when did that happen? Chip Roy
got asked about Dallas refusing to cooperate with ICE, and
a few other questions about all of that, and here
we go.

Speaker 48 (01:35:18):
What's happening is what you would expect. Tom Homan is
doing a fantastic job as the borders are. It was
one of President Trump's best picks of many very good ones.
Great to see Bobby get confirmed yesterday and Tulca. But
Tom's running into the problem that you would expect, which
is racal's strent local jurisdictions like you're seeing in Dallas,
and they need some support from Congress, by the way,

(01:35:40):
to provide more resources, more beds, more funding, price for
him to be able to continue to do his job,
so that President Trump can honor his commitment.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
To remove and repatriate so.

Speaker 48 (01:35:50):
Many of these migrants who have been dumped into our
country by the Biden administration.

Speaker 36 (01:35:54):
I mean, what are the rippercaustions for someone who's actually
aiding at a bedding legality?

Speaker 26 (01:36:00):
Right?

Speaker 36 (01:36:00):
I mean, you got AOC explaining to illegals how they
can get around all of this right now? Are there
going to be any repercussions for anyone who is actually
aiding and embtting the illegality that's underway.

Speaker 48 (01:36:13):
Well, I've been able to see exactly what AFC said
about that. I saw Dom's reaction, I saw the interview
about what he said last on A.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
Laura's show. But here's the thing.

Speaker 48 (01:36:23):
Unlike during the Biden administration, where you had an administration
that didn't give a crap about the rule of law.
It was targeting the average American citizen. Now you have
a Department of Justice led by Pam Bonding and hopefully
soon with Cash Betels.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
They think of the head of the FBI.

Speaker 48 (01:36:36):
Who can pursue the truth and pursue justice and apply
the rule of law. So now the Department of Justice
can go ask all the questions that need to be asked.
Before they weren't focused on trying to protect Americans. They
weren't focused on putting America first. Now you have an
Attorney general who would do that, so they'll pursue the
law where they need to. The most important thing right
now is to make sure the President Trump is able

(01:36:58):
to accomplish his objectives and for Tom to continue to
do what he's doing, which is work with Mayor Adams
and others to say, look, we're going to enforce the
law now. By the way, Greg Abbott was pretty quick yesterday.
I met with the governor a couple days ago about
getting Texas paid back, but the governor was pretty quick
to say that the mayor of Dallas and the people
of Dallas, the city of Dallas, needs to work with
the Trump administration to enforce the law. You know, one

(01:37:20):
of my guests at the inauguration Maria was Alexis Nungray.
You remember it was her daughter who was unfortunately murdered
by a Venezuelan gang last July. Those days are now over.
God blessed them for doing what they did to help
make sure the President Trump got elected. But now we've
got to make sure we get all the barriers out
of the way so Tom can do his job. That's
why I'm glad we passed a budget out of the
Budget Committee last night that provides funding price. I'm glad

(01:37:43):
the Senate did that, but we got to move quickly.
Congress needs to back up the president.

Speaker 4 (01:37:47):
You know what, though, here's the thing. The governor can
say all he wants, well, they need to cooperate with Ice.
Where's the stick. Where's the carrot and the stick? The
stick being state funds for Dallas. You think you might
be more effective in getting downs cooperated with ICV Sate.
We're not going to send you any state funds until

(01:38:07):
you until you minimally cooperate with the Feds on this issue.
It's important dust this state. Are they having that conversation
or is the governor just saying, oh, I drug you.
You got to do more than talk. Got to be
willing to take action. It's seven twenty seven here on
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

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It is seven thirty now here in Houston's morning News
I'm Jimmy Barrett among our top stores. This f our
Urkat says that will have a power supply issue by
next year, so what are they doing about it? Property
tax relief for the disabled and coming up at seven
thirty eight behind those wallet Hub numbers of worse states
to retire in details in the minutes ahead. You're in

(01:39:03):
Houston's Sporning News. First, we're checking out the drive again
with Gary Mack.

Speaker 6 (01:39:07):
Yes, sir, the six to ten North Loop westbound accident
at forty five the North three way.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
They've cleared that one. We're still in recovery mode there.

Speaker 6 (01:39:15):
A five minute hitch start should do it, although we've
ballooned up to nearly a half hour way in downtown
for this collision. It's igh forty five southbound, it's sixty
nine the east has and that will hold you up
from Paton on the west Loop both ways. About what
you might expect. That's smoody to ninety new Southwest Freeway
advice versa allow another ten Garymack Degenerator Supercenter, dot Com

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traffic Center.

Speaker 4 (01:39:38):
Anything Oh hello from our KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four
hour weather center for today, mostly sunny, seasonable high temperature
about sixty four. We're gonna go downhill though after tomorrow.
We'll talk to Terry Smith about that in about eight minutes.
Maybe some record lows in our future. Right now, current
temperature is thirty eight at your official severe weather station,

(01:39:59):
News Radio seven forty KTRH. It is time now for
the news. Here's Cliff Sanders.

Speaker 7 (01:40:04):
Thank you, Jimmy seven thirty two on KTRH, and he
mentioned the weather. This week, we're going to be seeing
temperatures below freezing and there's a dire new warning about
the state's power grid.

Speaker 25 (01:40:15):
URKHOT has released a worst case scenario where Texas energy
demand could outpace supply as early as summer twenty twenty six.
U of H Energy fellow Ed Hers says the state
not only needs new power plants, but must tend to
its older ones.

Speaker 26 (01:40:27):
Whole hired power plants are about fifty five years in
age now. The natural gas power plants average more than
thirty years in age, so we're finding ourselves running short
on supply when plan operators take some of them offline
to perform maintenance.

Speaker 25 (01:40:41):
And the earliest any new power plant would be ready
is five or six years in the meantime, the state
is ramping up battery supply to store up more existing power.
Corey Eelson New's Radio seven forty KTRH.

Speaker 7 (01:40:51):
By the way, Governor Abbit holds a news conference about
the Arctic Last at ten thirty this morning. Late last week,
Chevron announced that they're cutting twenty percent of their workforce.
So what does that mean for the rest of the
oil industry.

Speaker 21 (01:41:03):
It was certainly an eyebrow raiser. I wouldn't say a
shocker or a stunner. So it's apparent that there's something
else going on here, and this appears to be Chevron
simply streamlining and cost cutting.

Speaker 7 (01:41:17):
Oil economist car Ingram says Chevron will do better once
they completely move their headquarters from California to Houston. At
seven thirty three in Austin, the Texas set it past
a property tax relief bill last week, but another one
to give our veterans much needed relief is also in
the pipeline.

Speaker 27 (01:41:35):
One hundred percent disabled veterans don't pay any property tax,
but everyone else does.

Speaker 28 (01:41:40):
If you're in the category of sixty percent disabled to
ninety percent disabled, the relief is not very much. It's
twelve thousand dollars of off the cost of your property.

Speaker 27 (01:41:48):
Jeff Atticott with the Warrior Defense Project says that can
result in huge tax bills for injured vets, but SB
eleven twenty six would fix that.

Speaker 28 (01:41:55):
If you're one hundred percent disable, you still get one
hundred percent disability property tax relief. If you're ninety get
ninety percent, eighty percent, you get eighty percent.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
All the way down the line.

Speaker 27 (01:42:03):
Acause says, we owe it to veterans to pass this bill,
and it should have been done years ago. Ethan Buchanan
News Radio seven forty.

Speaker 9 (01:42:10):
Thank you, Ethan.

Speaker 7 (01:42:10):
President Trump says chalks aimed at ending the war between
Russia and Ukraine will start quote soon now. The mainstream
media wants you to think Trump will simply cave to
Vladimir Putin, but Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw says that won't happen.

Speaker 29 (01:42:25):
There is absolutely no way that Donald Trump will be
seen and he will not let himself go down in
history as having sold out to Putin. He will not
let that happen.

Speaker 7 (01:42:35):
Another mainstream media narrative that was debunked that the Nazis
used free speech to conduct the Holocaust.

Speaker 30 (01:42:42):
Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The
genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened
to also be genocidal because they hated Jews, and they
hated minorities, and they hated those that they had a
list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.

Speaker 7 (01:42:55):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on CBS after host Margaret
in question Vice President j. D Vance's speech in Munich
last week. It's seven thirty five. It's been four weeks,
just four weeks since Donald Trump took office, and apprehensions
at the border have dropped to the lowest levels we've
seen in years.

Speaker 31 (01:43:15):
I don't know how long it's been since we've had
apprehensions at low I've seen reports, say sixty years, but
I can tell you the twenty six years I spent
as a border patrol agent, I don't know that we
had any apprehensions at that level.

Speaker 7 (01:43:25):
Gerreld County Sheriff Fattius Cleveland on Fox. Among the ICE
operations continuing in Houston, one of the arrests last week
in illegal alien charged with murder in Mexico. That person
had crashed into the country no less than ten times,
seven thirty five more violent crime across Houston. A man
about to leave here for the Navy is shot and

(01:43:48):
killed being a good guy confronting a person that was
breaking into cars in midtown.

Speaker 32 (01:43:53):
It's honestly been like this for a long time. But
I would say that the amount of cars is abundant
of all varieties, and you have no choice but to
park them on the side of the streets because there
is the parking situation is bad.

Speaker 7 (01:44:09):
That woman with our TV partner, Channel two. By the way,
this was one of five shootings over the weekend. Three
people were killed, and there was this a former Magnolia
ISD teacher arrested for threatening to burn down the high
school that he worked at.

Speaker 9 (01:44:25):
Seven thirty six.

Speaker 7 (01:44:26):
Looking at your money, our cost of living in Houston
is not as good as you thought it might be
thanks to inflation.

Speaker 34 (01:44:32):
Houston came in at number twenty nine. That means there
are seventy one other cities that actually cost more. The
most expensive is California, followed by New York KGRH.

Speaker 7 (01:44:43):
Money man Patchin says that you need about seventy five
thousand dollars according to these go banking rates dot Com
numbers to live comfortably in Houston. A disturbing real estate trend.
More homes are being pulled off the market by sellers,
with buyers just not wanting to commit to the current
interest rates.

Speaker 35 (01:45:00):
The real litmus test will be March. That's when the
spring season is really going in full force. The best
day to sell a house it's around the mid or
end of April. That's when seasonally home prices are at
their best.

Speaker 7 (01:45:15):
Real estate expert Cliff Freeman says this is an early
sign of a weakening market. Seven thirty seven. The Astros
hold their first full squad workout at spring training tomorrow,
and then the exhibition season starts on Saturday with split
squad action against Washington and the New York Mets. I'm
Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather in traffic station KTRH.

Speaker 23 (01:45:36):
People voter for major gouvernment perform You also know this
is just the beginning here.

Speaker 1 (01:45:40):
It happened, and that's what people are going to get.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
On used radio seven forty KTRH seven thirty at their
time here in Houston's morning news.

Speaker 4 (01:45:50):
These wallet hub stories dive me crazy, you know, because
we just report, well, these are the five worst states
to retire in and we give no reason why they're
the five worse states to retire, and quite honestly, even
when you look behind the reasons, it's all very, very subjective.
So I'll just share with you because CLIPS shared with
you a little earlier this hour that among the five

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low estates was Louisiana. The other ones are Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma,
and Louisiana in that order. Louisiana actually came in forty
ninth overall out of fifty states the overall rank, and
they ranked it on three different things, affordability, quality of life,

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and health care. Now, healthcare is important. If you're a senior,
right you have to have access to doctors because chances
are pretty good you got some stuff wrong with you.
And I can see where Louisiana probably does not have
the same health care opportunities as we do here in Texas,
for example, which would bring them down some. But what

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are they throwing into quality of life? I mean, yeah,
it's hot and it's humid, but maybe you like hot
and humid. Yeah, there's swamps and gators, but if you don't,
if you're not living in the swamp next to the gators,
then that's not a problem. Yeah, their schools are not
as good as some other state schools are. But if

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you're a senior, what do you care about the schools.
You don't to be kids in the schools, So you
might just be You might be a crawfish eating fiend.
You might be somebody who's just in love with Zetico music.
You might love, you might like collecting beads. You Louisiana
might be right up your alley. So I don't know

(01:47:38):
why they rank them so low, number forty six out
of fifty states in quality of life affordability. If I'm
a senior, most the thing is most important to me
is affordability. I got to be able to afford where
I'm going to live, especially if I'm on a fixed income.
And Louisiana came in number twenty four on affordability. Maybe

(01:48:00):
that's why the ranks so low, though their affordability ranking
was about middle of the pack, while their quality of
life was low, and so was their healthcare rank according
to this survey. Anyway, Mississippi affordability rank was number nine.
Quality of life rank came in dead lasted number fifty.
Healthcare rank came at number forty seven. But again, you know,
you decide what's important you for quality of life. You know,

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there's a lot of great things about Mississippi. I was
very very family oriented, you know, very you know, there's
a lot of positive things to say. I'm not going
to list off a whole ranking here. I'm just saying
that these things are very subjective. In fact, if I
were one of the low states on the wallet Hub survey,
that's the place where I personally would be looking because

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that means that's the place that other people are going
to avoid, which means I don't left. I don't have
to worry about a whole bunch of people moving there.
Seven forty time for traffic and whether together. Gary Mack
is ready to fill you in.

Speaker 6 (01:48:56):
And we're back in business. On forty five to go
three way this morning southbound at sixty ninth east.

Speaker 5 (01:49:02):
Tanks that you say abled.

Speaker 6 (01:49:03):
Vehicle officially clear damage has been done. However, speed still
in the teens and we'll set you behind by fifteen.
Then allow yourself another ten more minutes. We're seeing staff
and goes on I ten the beast around Baytown eastbound.

Speaker 5 (01:49:16):
Sheld into Spur three thirty.

Speaker 6 (01:49:18):
That roadwork we've become accustomed to not set up just yet.
Gary Mackett Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic.

Speaker 4 (01:49:25):
Center from R katr H Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour
Whether Center. Terry Smith is here, and we could be
flirting with some record lows here in just a day
or two.

Speaker 22 (01:49:36):
You know, I have not checked the records, but I
wouldn't be surprised given that the temperatures are going to
be running around twenty degrees below the norm. I think
that's probably in record territory. A nice thing is we
don't have to worry about that.

Speaker 9 (01:49:51):
Today.

Speaker 22 (01:49:51):
Today's you're get ready for the big chike heading our way.
Nice day to be outside. Actually we're dry load the
mid sixties Tomorrow. That's when the Cultri brings us the rain,
a ninety percent chance of shower, some storms tomorrow. Temperatures
tomorrow in the sixties, and then after that Mother Nature
pulls the rugout from underneath us. We're in the forties Wednesday, Thursday,

(01:50:12):
and Friday. It's dry until Friday, and then we have
about a twenty percent chance of some rain and then
a better chance of rain Saturday, and we'll start to
warm up and actually we'll warm up fairly quickly next week.

Speaker 4 (01:50:25):
Temperature right now thirty nine at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
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Speaker 4 (01:50:40):
Seven the fifties. Our time here in Houston's Morning News.
There is a Senate bill eleven twenty six that's going
to be coming up that would provide more property tax
relief for disabled veterans here in Texas. We'll talk to
doctor Jeff Eticette, director of the Warrior Defense Project at
Saint Mary's Law School, about that bill coming up next.
But first, traffic and whether to go starts with you, Gary.

Speaker 6 (01:51:00):
And everything has cleared, and that was really putting a
dent in our morning commute, exception being that pesky disabled
vehicle around downtown now equaling a ten minute backup from Sheppard.
It's I ten to Katie Freeway eastbound at I forty
five and here remind us a right lanes rive times.
I've got them at the top. Gary Mackgenerator Supercenter, dot Com.

Speaker 4 (01:51:20):
Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator Supercenter, twenty four hour
weather center. Mostly sunny, seasonable today sixty four morning showers,
afternoon thundershowers Tomorrow sixty five.

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
Big change comes, especially late night Tuesday as the cold
front comes through. We end up with partly cute, windy cold,
high only in the low to mid forties, overnight lows
around thirty. Temperature right now currently is thirty nine at
your official severe weather station, News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Scheck out some more of our top stories on this

(01:51:51):
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Speaker 7 (01:51:54):
President Trump says peace talks between Russia and Ukraine could
start soon. Texas Governor Greg aapp that holds a news
conference at ten thirty about this week's winter weather. And
Jimmy Wendy's is rolling out a new frosty flavor thin
Mints based on the Girl Scout cookie.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Of course, it comes on Friday.

Speaker 7 (01:52:12):
Get the latest news anytime at KTRH dot com. Our
next update is at eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
I live in clear Lake, Humble reliable KTRH traffic and
weather next on the ten.

Speaker 4 (01:52:27):
Seven fifty two our time here on Houston's Corning News.
Doctor Jef Attika joins this director the Warrior Defense Project.
Saint Mary's Law School. You know, we debate property taxes
here in the Great State of Taxes all the time. Jeff,
I don't think any of our listeners would disagree with
the idea of giving major property tax relief to andy

(01:52:47):
disabled veteran. In fact, I think I don't care what
the level of disability is. If you want to take
all property taxes away from a disabled veteran, I'm fine
with that.

Speaker 28 (01:52:58):
Well, you know, that's that's very true. In fact, the
Republican Party and Governor Abbott ran primarily on property tax relief,
and what better group of people, what better group of
Texans to provide property tax relief and disabled veterans. These
are people that were disabled in the line of duty,
not you know, before service or after service. The current
law provides one hundred percent property tax relief if you're

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one hundred percent disabled, But for anybody that's ninety nine
percent disabled or ninety percent disabled, it's basically they give
you a couple of dollars off the property tax that
you will owe, so it's practically nothing. This came to
my attention last year. I'm a law professor here in
San Antonio, Texas, and so I proposed a change to
the law to make it if you're ninety percent disabled,

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ninety percent tax relief, eighty percent, eighty all the way
down the line to ten percent. And May's Middleton, a
senator from Texas in your area, actually crafted a bill
and it's now out there. The House is crafting a
bill as well. There are thirty one senators and one
hundred and fifty tech House representatives. They need to get

(01:54:02):
busy and put this together and have the governor sign
this bill.

Speaker 4 (01:54:06):
Do we have any field, Jeff, for how many disabled
veterans live here in Texas? What amount of people are
we talking about? Are we talking about one hundred, one thousand,
ten thousand, one hundred thousand.

Speaker 28 (01:54:17):
Yeah, there are thousands. I don't have an exact number myself,
you know. I know San Antonio we call ourselves Military
City USA. A lot of disabled veterans are here in
this state, there's no question about it. And most of them,
you know, served as in the elicted ranks. In other words,
you're not getting rich in the military, and so they've
got house payments that they can barely meet, and they're disabled.

(01:54:39):
They have troubles with work and all the other things
associated with the rest of their life, and many of
them are being taxed right out of their own homes. Again,
this law was probably logical when it was passed decades ago,
but there's been no reform, no updates. It's high time
that something needs to be done. And I ask every
listener out there to contact your senator, your House member,

(01:55:01):
and tell them to get behind this Senate Bill eleven
twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
Yeah, decades ago.

Speaker 4 (01:55:06):
Who could have imagined that we would see property values
take off here in Texas the way we have, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 28 (01:55:12):
I mean when the law was written, it's probably thirty
forty thousand dollars homes. Today the average home is what
two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand the mortgage on
top of that, and the inflation going up. It's time
to provide relief for our disabled veterans and people that say, well,
it's going to cost money. Everything costs money, but you've
got to prioritize things in life. And without these, without

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our soldiers, we wouldn't be sitting here sipping our lattes
or whatever we're doing. We wouldn't have a country at all.
This is the number one priority that we need to
provide relief.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
To I couldn't agree with them more.

Speaker 4 (01:55:42):
Hey, by the way, well I have you let me
get your thoughts real quick on what's going on with
dose right now. One of the things that DOGE has
uncovered is how much money that we've been feeding to
Islamic terrorist groups through various different aid organizations like USAID.
I mean, we're not talking about chump change here. We're
talking forty fifty sixty million dollars going to people who

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meet us harm. I mean, that's crazy, isn't it.

Speaker 28 (01:56:07):
It was more than that if you count what we've
given to Afghanistan under the Taliban, it's absolutely insane. The
Biden administration will go down as the most worthless administration
in the history of this country in what they've done
to our culture, our society, our standing in the world.
And then my mind is, let's have a Texas Doge,
because you know there's fraud, waste, and a view in

(01:56:28):
any bureaucracy, including our great state of Texas. It's time
to clean house and get back to reality common sense.

Speaker 4 (01:56:36):
Yeah, I agree at the state and local level, especially
at the local level. If you live in Harris County,
Thank you, sir, appreciate your time as always director to
the Warrior Defense Project at Saint Mary's Law School is
doctor Jefftticutt. Listen, you all have a great day. I
enjoy your President safe. You're lucky enough to have it off.
We'll see you tomorrow morning breaking early five am. Hope
to see you. The saft from four an EM nine
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