Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Bob Frantz & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/23/24

Episode Transcript

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This is Huge Radio seven forty ktRH Houston Live Everywhere with the exclusive audio
home of NBC's cover each of thetwenty twenty four Paris Olympics. Now the
latest news weather fan taffic. It'smore of what matters to you from the
John Morris Services studios. With lotsof money and lots of pledge delegates.

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It's looking like a Kamala coronation onthe left. And while no one has
seen Joe Biden since his bombshell letter, we did hear his voice yesterday.
Good morning, I'm Bob Frans andfor Jimmy Barrett. This is your five
o'clock report on News Radio seven fortyk t AH. Sheriff Fryar has the
news. But let's do traffic andwhether together. We'll start. Hey Mike,
Hey Bob. I'm trying to figureout what they're showing me this for

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on iten East Houston. Transtar's gotthis guy. He's just sitting there on
the side doing nothing. This isEast Freeway and that that's Excell Mobile in
the background that I'm looking east.So he's inbound westbound. Nothing big,
Just watch out and I'm trying tofigure out. Okay, there's the Beltway
right there. Watch out because hemight slip up on you as you're passing
the Beltway. For now, gotsome roadwork on the east. Sam to

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tell you about little future stuff theretoo, and we'll do it at five
to ten. It's going to besuper interesting. And the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com Traffic Center, all right, thinking, Mike, thunderstorms this morning,
overcast, this afternoon, high fourshowers, this evening lois seventy five
and the forecast remains soggy for reallythe rest of the week. I let
Terry Smith give you the details comingup at five to ten right now,

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seventy seven degrees at your official severeweather stations Radio seven forty kt RH.
And now the morning News. Goodmorning Shriff, and good morning Bob,
Good morning everyone. Is now fiveoh two on news radio seven to forty
KTRH. Our top story this hour, Joe Biden's legacy of accomplishment over the
past three years is unmatched in modernhistory. In one term, he has

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already yes you may laugh. VicePresident Kamala Harris, now presumptive nominee,
speaking for the first time since JoeBiden was forced out of the presidential race.
Reportedly, Harris has the support ofmore than twenty five hundred delegates,
now more than the nineteen hundred andseventy six she must have to win the
Democrat nomination. Now, a virtualrole call is scheduled of those delegates next

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Wednesday for the nomination. Well inadvance of the convention. Her campaign has
received more than eighty one million dollarsin direct donations in its first twenty four
hours. Pledges by mega donors andsuper packs are mounting into the hundreds of
millions. We haven't seen the Presidentsince Sunday's announcement. What we did hear
from him? I know yesterday's newsis surprising and a Sahara ar tree to

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hear, but it was the rightthing to do. Allegedly, Biden calling
in to Harra's campaign headquarters yesterday notspeaking to the American people. If it
seems like this is a Kamala coronationRepublican strategy, Chris Johnson says, well,
it is. Here's the problem forthe next It's much easier to make

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her the nominee than it is todo this huge process of a broker convention
with town halls and all this kindof stuff. Trying to put that together
over the next few weeks. Itseems unrealistic. Yep. Former Obama Attorney
general here he is. Eric Holderreportedly vetting potential Harris running mates. They
expected an announcement by the weekend.Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick took note of

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that. He posted on to Xthat Obama is seeking his fourth term as
president, though Harris does trail DonaldTrump in early polling. Texas Senator Ted
Cruz warning Republicans better not underestimate heror the Democrats. Here's the problem.
For the next month, all ofthe news is going to be dominated by
who the Democrat is going to be. The Democrats are about to have a

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month long convention. The senator onhis verdict with Ted CRU's podcast, it's
now five oh four. Secret SARDirector Kimberly Cheedle refusing to give direct answers
to the onslaught of questions from Congressabout her Secret Service security failure and the
attempted assassination of President Donald Trump tendays ago. We have satellite images from

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the Butler Fairgrounds. Have you visitedthe site? No? I have not
nine days and you have not visitedthe site. You should have been there
that night, Texas Congress and PatFallon. He was at yesterday's House Judiciary
Committee hearing. Dozens of Republicans andat least two Congressional Democrats have called for
Cheatle to resign or be fired.Laarda Republican Greg Stuby, filed articles of

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impeachment against Cheatle yesterday for quote enablingthe attack on Trump. Cheatle has claimed
that Secret Service agents couldn't take tothat roof position of the killer Thomas Matthew
Crooks because it was sloped. Wasit? This thing had just a little
upswing and at a few degrees essentiallywas a flat row. So I don't

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know. Somebody gave her false informationwhen she talked about the slope of the
roof President Trump. With Fox's JesseWaters more proof members of Congress were able
to get onto that roof without anyissues understanding in approximate the site where the
shooter was. As you can see, I'm a seventy year old man.
This is where this roof. Isnot a good deal. Florida Republican Carlo

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Cimenez posting that video to social mediayesterday five oh five, is our time.
All those calls from the left toturn down the temperature on political smack
talk after the Trump assassination attempt,remember that, Well it didn't last long.
Yeah, sure, things calmed down, maybe for a couple of hours.
Pretty sure. Everybody was hoping there'sbe some unity. But realistically,

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I mean, when you're looking atmembers of the chattering class, people aren't
really invested in unity. Unity doesn'treally sell right now, division does.
That is Jeff Charles with Redstad whois not surprised we have become so polarized
and divided in this nation. I'mnot sure if there's anything bad that could
happen that would cause us to unitelike we did after nine to eleven.
It's just the state of things rightnow. He says, things are going

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to get even worse now before theyget better. Juff Biggs News Radio seven
forty KTRH. You couldn't find newsof the attack on Facebook because the social
media platform suppressed it. Garrett Seawrightof Barrett Media says Facebook is a dead
platform. If you're the news industryand you're just kind of wasting your time,

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right, media companies, whether it'sradio, TV, if your stuff
is not being seen on Facebook,there's no point in taking the time to
put the effort into trying to getit to be seen. He says suppressing
breaking news takes censorship to new levelsof concern. Five oh six is our
time. Stock futures flat in overnighttrade. The markets did close up yesterday

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after the Joe Biden withdrawal from therace, the doll gaining one hundred and
twenty seven points. It was theNASDAC that really saw from Wall Street to
Main Street. Home prices are goingup and the houses themselves, well,
they're shrinking. The median size ofa new single family home has been falling
since hitting its peak about ten yearsago. Real estate expert Mark Johnson says

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there are multiple factors at play,starting with the state of the market.
With a rapid increase in prices,builders need to compete at certain price points
to attract today's buyers, and todo that they're downsizing their inventory. He
also notes the average family has gottensmaller in the past few decades, so
there isn't as much demand for largerhomes. Corey Eolson he's Radio seven forty
KTRH at five oh seven. Theastros lost in Oakland last night. It

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was for to zip. They remainedtied though with the Mariners for first place
in the American League West. Pregametonight at seven thirty, First pitch at
eight forty on Sports Talk seven ninetyand here on KTRH. I'm Sherb Fryer
on News Radio seven forty KTRH,the Victo Ferry Latest on your way to
work. This is Houston's Morning Newswith Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Ryer. All

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right, good morning, Bob Francein for this Tuesday morning. It is
the twenty third morning of the seventhmonth in the of our Lord twenty twenty
four, some extraordinary times right nowthat we are watching from one end of
this country to the other. Inany other time, any other news cycle,
the Kamala Harris story would be thebiggest story of the day. She's
replacing the sitting president. But isit because in another venue, we had

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a testimony. We had testimony inthe Oversight Committee hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill
in which the Secret Service Director literallyrefused to answer basic questions about the attempted
assassination of a former president slash leadingpresidential candidate. I don't know which of
these is a bigger story. They'reboth. I mean a monumental Speaker of

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the House, Mike Johnson yesterday tweeted, after Kimberly Cheatle, the Director of
the Secret Service, dodged all ofthose questions, after her extraordinary lack of
testimony, is really the best wayto say it, because she had no
answers for anyone. Republican Democrats saidthat if she truly takes full responsibility,
which she says she does, sheneeds to resign, and she needs to

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do it right now. The SecretService's solemn mission is to protect our nation's
leaders. On July thirteenth, wefailed. As the director of the United
States Secret Service. I take fullresponsibility for any security lapse of our agency.
She takes full responsibility but refuses toresign. One would say that would

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be taking full responsibility. The chorusof criticism and condemnation for Kimberly Cheatle yesterday
again came from the right and theleft, the Republicans and the Democrats on
that committee. The only person whoremains silent about Kimberly Cheatle and the utter
failure of the Secret Service at thismoment in time is the man who hired

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her, Joe Biden, who washeard from yesterday in a campaign kind of
launch if you will, for Kamala. Harris still doesn't know who she is,
thought that she was a he whenhe talked about the Secret Service director
just days ago, and is stillnot condemned her. Moreover, no one

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has condemned him for choosing her tolead this extraordinarily important agency, the one
that provides protection for not only Americanbut also foreign dignitaries as well. This
is pretty extraordinary and more of adamning condemnation, if you will, of
Joe Biden and the reason why heis no longer running for reelection. We

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have a ton of news to getto on that story as well as,
of course the Kamala launch yesterday.As we get going on Houston's morning News,
it is ten minutes after five o'clock. Though, let's get our look
at our drives and dude, let'sgo to We're going to take you to
the East. Sam. Now,now, I just talked to the super
friendly, helpful, charming, tallwhite people. They were actually kind of
helpful this time, and normally it'slike I can't give you that information at

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this time, you have to tomy public information officer. No, they
just put it right up here.For let's go to West Lake Houston Parkway
and both ways south of West LakeHouston Parkway on the east sim if you're
trying to get down to itent,we got two lanes. Here's what they
did. They blocked two lanes andthen they they kind of repurposed the shoulder,
so we're using it as a lane, or at least a per ten

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lane. You got a wall ofdeath on the right side, but for
now we're getting by it. It'sgetting interesting. And then northbound it's the
same thing. This is two leftlanes blocked and they repurposed the right shoulder.
It sounds like this is going tobe a long term thing too.
So there it is south of WestLake Houston Parkway. If you just don't
have time for the painte up onthe East Texas Instead, toll Bridge second

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hasn't started yet. Let me doublecheck that southbound. No, we just
down to one lane. I don'tknow why you want to do that.
I do six to ten the ShermanBridge instead. Hartman Bridge looking beautiful.
Right now, I'm going to takea close up at the five twenty break.
I will yield to the gentlewoman fromGeorgia Skymike and Theegenerator Supercenter dot Com
traffic Center. All right, thankyou very much. And Terror Smith,

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I think that's your cue. Itis my cue, and I'm telling you,
Bob, this is going to bequite a long stretch of rain and
rain. No fun for driving,that's for sure. Things are fairly quiet
night right now. I would hitthe roads earlier than later because there's a
big complex of showers and storms downin the Gulf of Mexico making their way

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northward. More thunderstorms off to thewest. They're heading in our direction.
Apparently all this rain wants to moveinto Houston. So we're looking at a
ninety percent chance of you getting wettoday and not only just rain, but
some heavy rain with some of thesestorms easily an inch or two today.
That's going to keep our temperatures downmid to upper eighties. We have a
ninety percent chance of more showers andstorms tomorrow and Thursday, seventy percent chance

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you'll get wet Friday and Saturday.Looks like the rest of the week,
temperatures own in the load to mideighties. All right, it sounds like
a plan, thank you. TerrySmith planned to get a rowboat is what
it is seventy seven right now atyour official severe weather station, News Radio
seven forty KTRH. It's Houston's MorningNews, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. Now back to Jimmyand Schera with the info you need to

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take on the day. Indeed,a lot of info today and yesterday.
Quite an astounding event on Capitol Hillat the Oversight Committee hearing in which Kimberly
Cheadle, the Director of the SecretService, denied that she turned down multiple
requests to provide extra security for PresidentDonald Trump. She dodged questions from Republicans

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and Democrats alike. It got profane. Representative Nancy Mace told her she was
full of bs, but used theword said a couple of different times that
she used that word. Numerous peopleon both sides of al called for her
to resign. The former president ofthe United States nearly killed by a quarter
of an inch. Had he notturned to look at the what do you

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say the chart that saved my life, we'd be having very different conversations on
Capitol Hill right now. But nonetheless, Chetle is obstinate, she is refusing
to leave. We're gonna cover thatmore with some audio from yesterday's testimony coming
right up uh here after we checktrafficking weather. It's five twenty, so
let's do it again. Jude.We've got Jack from Connecticut listening online on

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the free iHeartRadio app. Jack wouldnormally be driving down from the Woodlands and
because he kind of goes back andforth like the bushes forty five Rayford sawt
ust you look good now twenty fourminutes this way. We've got it in
east out by the Beltway. Thisis inside the Beltway, just this side
of it from the Baytown side.Watch out after the Beltway. The most
requested share a SoundBite. I hada possum in my fan built. He's

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over on the right side and tiplineseven went three two one two tips.
Good morning guy, Mike. Noaccidents on two No, but I'll tell
you I have never seen so manydingal players found this road I have,
Jacob. Can we say dingle.We'll check that. But inbound so far,
no two ninety problems. Just watchout for the dingle on the inbound

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skymiael the Generator Supercenter, dot Comtraffic Center. All right, thank you,
Mike. Thunderstorms this morning. Overcastthis afternoon around eighty four for a
high, showers this evening, lowseventy five storms continuing the rest of the
week. Terry sent his in themid eighties. More of the same even
through the weekend, warming into theupper eighties. Right now seventy seven and
fair at Your official severe weather stationis Radio seven forty k t RH.

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Headlines now from Sheryon. Good Morning, five twenty one on News Radio seven
forty k t RHR. Headlines aresponsored by Marrow Mechanical. Kamala Harris reportedly
with more than the nineteen hundred seventysix delegates needed to secure the Democrat presidential
nomination. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuarrived in the US yesterday in advance of
addressing Congress. Neither Joe Biden norKamala Harris greeted him. Chick fil A

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no longer the number one fast foodrestaurant in this replaced by Del Taco,
according to USA Today Latest News anytimekgerh dot com. Our next update will
be at the bottom of the hour. Donald Jay Drop and JD Mass the
President and Vice President. History happensright here the radio seventy four kt RH.

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You know things aren't going swimmingly foryou if you are an appointee as
the director of Secret Service by PresidentJoe Biden, and even fellow Democrats like
ro Kana are coming for you.That this is the most serious security lapse
since President Reagan was shot in nineteeneighty one of the Secret Service. Yes,
sir, I would. And youknow, you know what Stuart Knight

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did when he was in charge atthe time of the Secret Service. You
know what he did afterwards. Heremained on judy, he resigned. He
resigned, and Stuart Knight was nota Democratic appointee looking appointee. Look,
I'm not questioning your judgment. Ijust don't think this is partisan. If

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you have an assassination attempt on apresident, a former president, or a
candidate, you need to resign.That's what Stuart Knight did. He was
a Republican appointee and he took responsibility. I don't know what's more embarrassing that
she did not know. She didnot know what Stuart Knight did. It
was in charge of Secret Service fromReagan and got shot there by setting that

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up. She had no idea hestayed on the job. Why is she
being so obstinate share. I thinka lot of people are asking a really
important question right now as it pertainsto that attempt on Donald Trump's life.
What's she covering up? She can'tbe trying to cover up. I mean
as embarrassing as many many hours onthat when I'm on the stand, But
if you will be testifying before Congressunder oath as many embarrassing hours as she

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spent saying I don't know, I'mnot aware. I can't share that.
You would think she would have alot more she could share unless she's totally
incompetent. But she's also I mean, now, once ask any questions of
the FBI investigation, what is themuch vaunted FBI learning about this twenty year
old who was able to do everythingthat he did. How could he do

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that without some sort of inside help? You know, we keep getting all
these little snippets that are revealed throughthe media, But where is the FBI
and where are the press conferences?Where are the updates? Secret Service is
not holding anything, FBI is notholding anything. So once again, this
government in secrecy. We don't evensee the president. I mean, this

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is a big deflection from all ofthat I'm not saying it shouldn't be done
with her, but let's not forgetabout all the others. What in the
world is going on in Washington,d C. Well, I mean,
yeah, of course there are alot of others, there's no question about
it. But I don't know thatthere's anything bigger. I mean literally,
I think the attempt on his life, which again was spared by literally a

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providential miracle from God, is theonly reason. You know, that is
the biggest story right now, biggerthan even Joe Biden stepping aside and Kamala
cackling her way into about eighty onemillion dollars in donations yesterday. Literally,
this is what it's about, becauseit was allowed to happen, and it
wasn't alone. You just nailed it. And Joe Biden to do this on
his own, Yeah, he couldfire her. He doesn't know who she

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is. I mean that that is, you know, will combine the two
stories here. The clearly mentally incompetent, cognitively incapable President of the United States
doesn't know who the Secret Service directoris, so is therefore is refusing to
fire her, refusing to even weighin on this entire thing. While he
is exiting the race for reelection becauseof that incompetence. So we bring the

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two biggest stories that we have seenin years together. I mean, this
is these are bigger and more excuseme, these are more extreme than even
impeachments. We had two impeachments andthe Trump Trump term. This is bigger
than that, the attempt the literalbeing struck by a bullet of a former
president none of the United States andleading candidate, and around the same time,

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in this three and a half weekperiod, as Joe Biden is exiting
the race and handing it off tohis vice president. This is all just
unheard of territory that we are inright now. And I just I'm blown
away by some of the stuff thatwe heard yesterday. Democrat and Republican and
like. And by the way,this is a little bit different, a
little bit unique too. We're gonnahave to hit this a little while,
sure. Jasmine Crockett, Texas RepresentativeJasmine Crockett decided to somehow some way play

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the race card during that hearing yesterday. She asked Kimberly Cheetle about lack of
bias training, because maybe your agentsdon't see young white males as quite the
threat they would if it was ayoung black male. Can you believe this
that she actually found a way tobring race the race card. Well,
they brought gun control into it too, so I you know, well that's

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that one's also absurd. But therewas a gun involved. I mean how
race gets involved in you? Yeah, with a white shooter and a white
target and a white secret service director, as she managed to bring race into
it is quite uniquely talented. Okay, well you've got a lot to dive
into on that. Let's get intobusiness now, a Bloomberg business report.

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Let's say, good morning, Courtday, Dona Hopes, Well, good morning,
Bob. The health of America's corporationsis in focus today. Google,
Parent, Alphabet, General Motors,General Electric, and Coca Cola are on
a very long list of companies scheduledto post quarterly results today. A report
on existing home sales for June willbe out after the opening. Bed bell
head of all of that stock indexfutures are steady. Stock's finished in the

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green yesterday. Headed this busy weekfor corporate earnings, CSMP rose one point
one percent that now gained one hundredand twenty eight points. Turning to the
energy markets, Wei a little change. That's seventy eight dollars a barrel.
Crudes rally this year seems to haverun out of steam this month. Week.
Chinese demand for oil has been weighingon prices, and Delta expects to
cancel more flights this week. Thecarrier says it's working around the clock to

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restore operation after Friday's major technology outage. Delta has fared the worst among the
major carriers, with most other airlinesgetting back on track over the weekend.
I'm courting to on Hope Bloomberg Businesson News Radio seven krh A, Houston's
News Weather, We're traffic plus BreakingNews twenty four seventh. This is News

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Radio seven forty KTRH five Everywhere withIRP. More of what's happening now from
the John Morris Services studios. Republicansand Democrats unite to blast Secret Service Director
Kimberly Cheedle and the new migrant caravan. Yeah, it's trying to get to
the US before Trump can get inand stop them. Good morning, I
Bob France. And for Jimmy BarrettSHARE's death, the details on those stories

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and more coming up we'll do traffickingweather first here stem Mike. Hey,
let's take a ride of five fortyfive south the Golf Freeway. I've got
Megan from Keema morning Steimke from theNance that flyover to I ten headed was
an eighteen minute drive. Holy wow. Watch out for the few sale pay
that are in the left lane.A purpose in life forget out of the

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left lane, Skymike and the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com Traffic Center. Thunderstorms this
morning, overcast, this afternoon highof eighty four showers, this evening lowess,
seventy five showers. Shower showers seemsto be the order of the week.
I'll let Terry tell you that.Coming up in about eight and a
half minutes right now, seventy sevendegrees at your official severe weather station,
News radio seven forty k t RH. Let's get that news now once again.

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Here sharyon good morning. Everyone isfive thirty one on news radio seven
to forty KTRH and our top storythis hour. I would have to get
back to you. That is ano. You're full of today, You're
just being completely dishonest. Yeah,that would be Congresswoman Nancy Mays there,
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheedle was confrontedby Republicans and Democrats to during that hearing

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yesterday about how her agency failed tostop the attempted assassination of Donald Trump ten
days ago. This did not gowell for her. The embattled director dodged
a lot of questions about the investigationreally gave no answers, saying that a
report would be coming out in aboutsixty days. She did take full responsibility

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for what she said was the worstsecurity failure since President Reagan was shot back
in nineteen eighty one. Fox's AishaHansei reporting there Missouri Senator Josh Holly demanding
an investigation after new whistleblower claims thatagents were assigned to the very rooftop of
the would be assassin, but abandonedthe post because of the hot weather.

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You know, the roof was hot. Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked in
New York State Appeals Court to overturnthe nearly five hundred million dollars civil fraud
judgment against him, arguing that thecase should have been dismissed altogether at the
statute of limitations had passed the basisallegations on the campaign trail JD. Vans
holding his first solo rally as Trump'srunning mate, blasting the Democrats for or

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how they forced Joe Biden off thepresidential ticket. You don't decide who the
president is in smoke filled rooms withbillionaires and senior elected officials. You let
the people decide. That's what webelieve in this room, and that's what
we're going to fight for. Ipromise you mm hmm. VP Kamala Harris

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reportedly now has more than the nineteenhundred and seventy six delegates needed to secure
the Democrat nomination. There will bea virtual nominating process, a roll call
next Wednesday. That's what it's scheduledfor. Five point thirty three is the
time a caravan of about three thousandpeople from a dozen Latin American countries.
They're headed to Texas and the southernborder, trying to get into the US

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through Mexico. They want to arrivebefore the beginning of a second Trump presidency.
Imagine that California, Arizona. Youknow, Harris was anointed as Joe
Biden's borders are remember, but TexasGovernor Greg Appis says she proved to be
a disaster at that she gets anF minus for a grade. As borders

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are remember this, I think maybeduring her entire time, as borders are,
she may have been down maybe closeto the border. One time,
Governor Abba on with k t rh's Klay Travis and Buck Sexton doj announcing
the largest drug operation bust in UShistory. At the border. They arrested
a Chinese national that they say wasresponsible for bringing in get this, two

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tons of raw material to make fentanyl. Five point thirty four is our time.
More problems for Delta Airlines the crowdstrike outage, it keeps going for
them. The carry has already canceledor delayed nearly five hundred flights today.
About three thousand Delta flights had tobe canceled or delayed yesterday after what already

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happened over the weekend, and it'saffecting flights out of Bush Intercontinental this morning.
If you're flying Delta, check in. Thanks in part to our storms
last night, Center Point now goingbackwards has more than two thousand customers now
without power across Houston this morning.Beryl responsible for at least twenty three deaths
in Houston, at least half heatrelated. And where is the accountability for

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that many dot it will ever happenuhsed Hurst says the problems start with routine
maintenance. Center Point does not clearthe lines on an annual basis. That's
because they're too focused on the financialbottom line. Centerpoint board broad in executives
from Pacific Gas and Electric to runthe company. These guys are accountants.

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The only thing that they can dois cut cost, and operating and maintenance
cost are key to maintaining a reliablegrid, adding that center Point isn't putting
its customers or shareholders first. CliffSaunders News Radio seven forty KGRH. Some
Centerpoint customers say they've been charged forusing power that they didn't have. Smart
meters estimated outages. That's what happensdigitized billing. Centerpoint says their system will

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review the data and then make corrections. Okay, if there are accountants,
I guess they can do that.Houston property insurance premiums already up nearly fifty
percent over the last two years.What do we expect after Barrel? We
predict that we will the rates tocontinue to go up. However, they're
not going to be as large asthey have been over the past couple of

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years, he has future events aredefinitely going to have an impact, but
what we've seen over the last coupleof years, the biggest impact has just
been the economy and inflation. RichJohnson with the Insurance Council of Texas.
He says expect rates to increase byat least single digits. It's never too
early to shop around. Five pointthirty six is our time. More violent
crime across our Greater Houston area overnightand nineteen year old killed. Harris County

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deputy say it was a drive byalong the East tex Freeway. The shooter
on the Run YouTube now enacting acontroversial policy. It targets firearms and has
forced years worth of content to beremoved moved from YouTube. All those pro
gun YouTubers. The new policy bansany video that's sponsored by a firearm related

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company and any videos posted with sponsorshipsof that kind post June eighteenth. That
makes your channel subject to being completelyterminated. Creators of the popular firearms channel
Hiccock forty five shared their disappointment withhaving to remove old content. These videos
take out a life of their ownto become this whole ecosystem of comments and
everything and then you know how manyviews it. God is like a kind

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of its own stamp, you know. In time. The father son duo
says they're hopeful that they can navigateYouTube's new policy and continue making videos.
Ethan Buchanan, News Radio seven fortyKTRH five thirty seven. Now, the
Astros lose to Oakland Ford to nothinglast night. They do remain in first
place, tie though with Seattle inthe American League West. Coverage to night
seven thirty on Sports Talk seven ninetyand here on KTRH. I'm sure with

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Friar on News Radio seven forty KTRH, Classic Elite, Chevy, Sugarland dot
Com, The Elite by Elite,Stay in touch on your drive in with
Jimmy Barrett and Sheriff Ryer. Thisis Houston's morning News. It is indeed
Bob Franci and it's five thirty eight. Thanks so much for being with us

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this morning. So I mentioned therace card being brought into the Kimberly Cheatle
hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill. It'salso being brought in, of course,
to the presidential campaign, which isnow between Trump and Kamala Harris. It
would seem she's got enough pledge delegatesand enough money to be the nominee.
It's hard to believe they would goany other direction, which means all right

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time to say that anybody that criticizesKamala Harris as clearly a racist and black
Democrats won't have it. That's whatVan Jones said on CNN is going to
work out badly because they've worked veryhard to attract black men into the Republican
Party. They worked very hard toattract Latin men into Republican Party, and

(30:57):
they were getting little bit of amoment there. There are a lot of
black men are saying, know,the Democrats don't do anything for us,
and Biden's weak, and the peoplethey're starting to look over there at the
Republican Party. You start insulting blackwomen, you're gonna see something you haven't
seen before. Black men are notgonna put up with that. Black men

(31:18):
will not vote Republican because criticizing KamalaHarris is bad because she's not a white
woman. I don't know what sheis. She's not a black woman.
She's half Jamaican and half Indian.But whatever he says, that race is
going to insulate her, just likeit insulated Barack Obama. Guess who's not

(31:41):
playing along? Former Fox hosts nowpodcast star Megan Kelly. Look, I
am a woman, I have adaughter. I hate the fact that there's
been no female presidents. I reallydo. I hate the fact that you
take out your little place, Matt, when your kids are learning the presidents,
there's no female face on there,and then you have to explain why
it's just it's effed up. Iwould love to see a female president,

(32:02):
like a Margaret Thatcher type, somebodywho's strong and serious and sober and respected.
This ain't it. I am tellingyou America is not going to elect
this Nimrod as its first female president. I trust in them too much for
that. They're just they're not thatdumb and they're not that open to a

(32:28):
female president to where they'd be likeanybody will do anybody anybody. So there
it is, this Nimrod Megan Kellyjust laying it out. Shaah. I
like the fact that she said sober. Yeah, did she mean that physically
or mentally? Maybe a little bitof both. That might have been a
double entendre there, Yep, Iagree, and so yeah, how about

(32:50):
it? Van Jones said, nobody'sgoing to be allowed to criticize Kamala because
now you're going to be sexist forcriticizing a female and racist for criticizing a
female of color. Whatever that,And there you have it. They've managed
to insert all of that into thecampaign. And by the way, in
breaking news, democrats now know whata woman is. Oh they do.
They've identified Kamala as a woman,and therefore she is untouchable. You had

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to draw the lines for me aboutthat. Let's do travel good with it
now, thanks guy Michael, Ithinking Kelly has stumbled upon verbiage. Tom
from the Woodland says it all thetime. There we go I forty five
southbound. Here that's his route.Let's jump on with Andrew from Spring Dude.
Hey guy, southbound between Grand Parkplaying and boat we hated movement.

(33:37):
Right along there's a dull bad eggViking wheeler on the right hand sho olver
right after you get air techs.But he's not going all right. Well,
my delivery is going to be late, but at least we don't have
any all right, Let's see southside. We've got a good ride so
far up to eighty eight, notseeing any problems. Here's something I'll watch
out. If you're coming down froma Tasca seat. I think you already

(33:58):
know that we have that road wheresouth of West Lake Houston Parkway, but
if you go it all the wayaround on the belt, watch out as
you pass Westlake Houston Parkway. Whatthey've done is they've taken out two left
lanes and then they've taken the rightshoulder and it now identifies as the right
lane both ways. Plus you've gotthe text off wall of Death on both
sides, or this should be theHICCTRA Wall of Death both ways that goes

(34:20):
down to just north of Tidwell.It's about a mile and a half or
so, so you could get byit now this early in the morning.
Later on, if you're coming downfrom a taskacita, you might want to
jump on the East tex oh TallBridge. Suckage has begun. It's an
extra six minutes on the southbound jumpon six to ten. Please Skymichael the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.All right, grab your oars. Gonna

(34:40):
be rolling for a little while.Terry Smith at the Weather Channel, probably
more than a little while. Unfortunately, I do not like when weather patterns
get stuck because you end up withtoo much of one thing and that's just
no fun. And we're going tosee a lot of rain, not just
today, but really through a goodbit of the week. I don't see

(35:01):
any significant change in this weather pattern. So quite a bit of shower in
thunderstorm activity in the Gulf right now. There's more storms to the west of
us. They're both heading our way, So we're going to get slammed with
rain today and it's just a matterof time, I think toward the middle,
the latter part of the rush hourswhen we're going to see some of

(35:22):
that rain in the metro area.Ninety percent chance of showers and storms today,
heavy rain at times easily an inchor two in some spots. We
may pick up more than that fora few locations. Temperatures mid upper eighties
ninety pans and more showers than stormsTomorrow and Thursday. Seventy percent chance that
you'll get wet. Friday and Saturday. Temperatures will be in the low to

(35:45):
mid eighties the rest of the week. All right, there you have it,
thank you. Seventy seven degrees rightnow at your official severe weather station
is Radio. Have some forty KTIate what you need to know for the
day ahead. This is Houston's MorningNews, brought to you by New South
Windows Solutions. All right, fivepoint fifteen hour. We're gonna check in
with another Texas state or excuse me, a congressional representative from the hearings yesterday,

(36:08):
Pat fell and went off on KimberlyCheetle. That's coming out the first.
Let's do traffick and weather, Scott, Mike. I'm going to pitch
from the stretch here, Bob France. The only thing I have right now
on the board is this East Samroadwork south of West It's from Westlake Houston
Parkway to Generation Parkway. Both ways. Two left lines are knocked out.
They repurposed the right shoulder so itidentifies as the right lane both ways.

(36:29):
But later on that'll get smuched up. For now, do it. I'm
skymke at your Generator Supercenter dot Comtraffic Center. All right, they very
much. Mike in. We've gotrain, rain, rain, thunderstorms this
morning, overcast, this afternoon,eighty four showers, tonight, seventy five
storms. The rest of the week. Highs in the mid eighties, more
than seeing through the weekend a littlebit less chance, but it's still going

(36:49):
to happen around seventy percent through theweekend with highs in the upper eighties.
Right now seventy seven at your officialsevere weather station. News Radio seven forty
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vote two hundred and sixty to sixthey're going to back Kamala Harris for president.

(37:12):
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in the now. Right now newsRadio seven forty KTRH. So I mentioned
Texas representation, and earlier on Imentioned this story about Jasmine Crockett, who
is on the Oversight Committee and somehowfinding a way in which a white shooter
shot at a white form or presidentand a white Secret Service director being grilled

(37:58):
for it on Capitol Hill, somehow managed to bring the race card into
play. Here. Here's what Iwas talking about. One of my questions
has to do with if you haveany bias training that your officers undergo.
And the reason that I asked thatbecause as a civil rights lawyer, I
have learned so many times in havingto deal with law enforcement that there usually
is not a perception of a threatwhen it is a young white male,

(38:22):
even if they are carrying a longgun. Yet a lot of times,
at least in this country, whenit comes to law enforcement, there is
a perceived threat just by somebody havinga little bit more melanin in their skin.
Yeah, she said that. Shesaid that basically, if crooks would
have been black, they would haveshot him before he got to Trump.
That's what she implied there. Unbelievableshe brought the race card into this case.

(38:45):
But it was Texas Representative Pat Fallonwho really went and hard on Kimberly
Cheetle, telling her this, youknow who the shooter knew. The shooter
has visited the site two more timesthan you have, and he had a
drone and picked the AGR building soyou said, do you remember in an
ABC interview you did that you didn'thave people on the roof of the AGR

(39:07):
building because you were worried about safetybecause of the slope. I recall that
statement. Does the Secret Service havewritten policy you can share with us about
slope roofs? No? Okay,So why did you act like there was
one? Because is it your practiceto comment on enormous events of enormous national

(39:27):
implications when you're ignorant to the facts. That's rhetorical. So here's this thing
with the slopes. You go allup to like eighteen twelve, you can
get to a one twelve, whichis about as flat as you can get
without being completely flat, and you'resaying that there was a danger safety concern
there. But the problem is,director you put your counter snipers on a
three twelve roof, which is steeperthan the one twelve. And by the

(39:51):
way, the one twelve is ADAcompliant. You can build a ramp for
a wheelchair on a one twelve roof. There nothing but pathetic excuses, and
they make no sense in their bunchof cow dung. All the law enforcement
I've spoken with, Yeah, hedropped a cow dung on her over the
last nine days. Are amazed thatthe AGR rooftop was not secure, and

(40:12):
you want to know why, becauseit's dangerous. I have never had any
long gun training in my life.I own an AR fifteen and last time
I shot it, I shot itone time. My whole life was six
years ago. That is until Saturdaywhere we recreated the events in Savoy,
Texas, where you recreated what happenedabout her. I was lying prone on
a slope roof at one hundred andthirty yards at six thirty at night,

(40:34):
and I knew that he had ascope of the know a kind red dot
or magnified, So I shot eightrounds from both. You know what.
The result was fifteen out of sixteenkill shots and the one I missed would
have hit the President's ear. That'sa ninety four percent success rate. And
that shooter was a better shot thanme. It is a miracle President Trump
wasn't killed. Corey Comparatore's life isover because that damn shooter made it on

(40:59):
the room. If it wasn't theroof, that was dangerous. It was
a nut job on top of theroof. You know what else is dangerous.
I believe you're horrifying an aptitude andyour lack of skilled leadership is a
disgrace. Your obvious skating today isshameful and you should be fired immediately and
go back to garden Dorito's calling onyou back path foul and dropping the go
back to guarding. Dorito's line onKimberly Cheadle, whose last job was working

(41:22):
for PepsiCo, which is why hedropped that line on her. But fifteen
out of sixteen President Trump shouldn't bealive right now. He shouldn't be alive
right now, and no one istalking about it in those terms except for
Pat Fallon. He absolutely did.This is the reality of the situation,
and she's still on the job.Blame her for not resigning, sure,

(41:44):
but I'm blaming Joseph R. Bidenand Kamala Harris because neither one of them
are firing him. That's the reality. If Kamala Harris cares it all,
she'd be telling Joe I'm still yourVP right now, Fire her, fire
her, fire her. But theywon't do it, and that should be
the focus of the nation right now. Five point fifty six Houston's Morning News.

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(42:34):
looks like a Kamala coronation on theleft. And while no one has seen
Joe since his bombshell letter, wedid hear from him yesterday. Good morning,
I'm Bob frans And for Jimmy Barrettsix o'clock report now on News Radio
seven forty ktr H, Share firewith the News Skymike with the drive A.
The toll bridge suckage already on thismorning, eight extra minutes southbound.
If you could do the Sherman Bridge, you would sure save a headache.

(42:57):
That's southbound. Northbound of course hasfine six You're good alternate, so is
the prad Hartman Bridge, East texFreeway or north Side. I've got Young
Albert from Kingwood, Dude Morner skyMike for the train stopped blocking Kingwood traffic.
So far, I've only noticed HamblinRoad is completely blocked. Off another
plague for Kingwood. I am sosorry. All right, who else knows

(43:19):
about this? Seven one three twoone two Tips and Bob friends, We're
going to test your hip hop knowledgeat six' ten ish and the Generator
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hot hibbit. Oh sorry, We'regonna see you know, yeah, I'll
be ready for you, buddy.Your forecast thunderstorms this morning, overcast this

(43:40):
afternoon, high around eighty four showerstonight lois seventy five, gonna be wet
all week long. And Terry willtell you how wet that'll be coming up
at six ten right now, seventyseven degrees and partly cloudie at your official
severe weather station, news Radio sevenforty k t r H. And it's
news time now here. Showy sixoh two is our news time on news

(44:00):
Radio seven forty KTRH. Our topstory this hour. The name has changed
the top of the ticket, butthe mission hasn't changed at all. And
by the way, I'm not goinghere. I'm going to be out there
in the campaign with her. JoeBiden, whom we still haven't actually seen
since he dropped out of the presidentialrace apparently called in to Kamala Harris the

(44:21):
campaign headquarters yesterday still know speaking tothe American people, of which he apparently
is the president. The vice presidentreportedly now has a support of more than
twenty five hundred delegates, more thanthe nineteen hundred and seventy six that are
required for the nomination to head theballot. Well, they're going to be

(44:42):
doing a virtual roll call on Wednesdayand they can make it official. Then
it is my intention to go outand earn this nomination and to win and
then on to the prime then ontothe convention, which will be one big
celebration. Some have called for amini primary. What they're getting from the

(45:05):
Democrats, as we said, isa coronation. The Democrat machine seems to
be rallying behind Kamala Harris. There'sa level of coordination, there's an amount
of trying to get everybody on thesame page, but there's also just the
issue of inertia. Right she's alreadythe vice president. GOP strategist Chris Johnson
told KTRH if a Democrat challenges Harris, it will be someone more moderate,

(45:25):
definitely going to come from the centerof the party. It will be somebody
like a Joe Manchin, somebody whois worried about the future of the party.
Johnson says, no matter what,Republicans still can't afford to get complacent
about this election and need to puttheir best foot forward. Ethan Buchanan News
Radio seven forty KTRH and one ofthe names being mentioned as a potential Harris
running mate is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, but that won't go over well with

(45:50):
the radical left, and especially instates like Michigan is Jewish, there could
be some risks in putting him onthe ticket. CNN's John King. Former
Obama Attorney General Eric Holder is vettingthe VP candidates for Harris and expected to
be announced sometime over the weekend,you know, just in time for the
Sunday shows. Maharas currently is trailingDonald Trump in polls, but Texas Senator

(46:16):
Ted Cruz says, better not getcomplacent Republicans down ballot. I think people
are underestimating what billions of dollars offree media of the entire corrupt corporate media
complex. Pitching her as a combinationof Mother Teresa, Oprah and Gandhi.

(46:36):
The Senator on his podcast Verdict withTed Cruz. It is now six'
oh four. I sincerely hope thatwe would adjourn this committee hearing and have
confidence not just in the Secret Servicebut in you as Director of the Secret
Service. But we do not houseoversI Committee Chairman James Comer, reprimanding the

(46:59):
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheedle. Sherefused to answer the questions about her agency's
failures in the attempted assassination of DonaldTrump. Earlier well, a couple of
weeks ago. There's been a bipartisancall for Cheatle to sip down or be
fired impeachment Is that an option?Florida Republican Greg Stuby has filed articles against
Cheatle. Did it yesterday? FormerPresident? That would be Donald Trump,

(47:22):
not Joe Biden. Also once answersas to how the security effort in Pennsylvania
failed so badly. You have toanswer, why couldn't I have stayed off
the stage for five minutes while theydo their work. Why couldn't you know?
How does the situation happen where aroof that's plainly in sight from the

(47:42):
location where I was speaking. Whywould somebody not have seen that? President
Trump rightfully asking those questions. Talkingto Fox's Jesse Waters, it's now six
six ten days since the attempt onDonald Trump's life, Red State reporter Jeff
Charles says, sadly, nothing haschanged with the rhetoric that's coming from the

(48:02):
left. The temperature has not gonedown at all. It's only increased.
When Reagan got shot, there wasa sense of unity after that. Everybody
was outraged, everybody was heartbroken,even though he survived it. With Trump,
I'm surprised that there was even talkof unity. Yeah, he says
that division, it drives the media, gives him something to talk about.
Blah blah blah. Not going tochange anytime soon. Facebook actually suppressed news

(48:28):
about the assassination attempt, the latestexample of how it's become a dead platform
for anybody who is legitimately in thenews industry. It's been dying for a
while thanks to Mark Zuckerberg's suppression ofinformation. There was a backlash after how
much interference they did at twenty twenty, so they also have started squelching the

(48:50):
left stock too. Warner Todd Houstonof Breitbart says many have dropped using the
platform entirely, and Garrett see wrightof Baron Medius is blocking coverage of the
Trump attack tells the story, soit's the press breaking news. I think
takes it to a whole other differentissue that makes you really call in a
question just what's going on there?He says. Social media has its police
in news, but we'll never takeover on great Parade News Ordio seven KTRH

(49:15):
six oh seven. And something aboutyour home. Now, you know,
the demand for houses outpacing supply acrossthe country, so builders are actually cutting
the size of new houses in orderto be able to get more in the
space and on the market. Realestate expert Mark Johnson says the downsizing trend
began years ago, but it isreally accelerating now. We're seeing families get

(49:39):
a little smaller. And if youdon't have as big a family as we
did in the sixties and seventies,you're not going to need it as big
a home. One thing that seemsto be solid is home prices are going
to continue to go up. Andthe reason as we don't have enough inventory,
and that comes back to the rootproblem. Mass produce. Medium size
of a new single family home hasbeen declining actually and hitting it speak about

(50:00):
ten years ago, the Astros tothe A's four to nothing, and they
are still tied with Seattle, however, for first place in the AO West.
Pregame tonight seven thirty, First pitcheight forty, and you're here at
all in Sports Talk seven ninety andhere on KTRH. I'm sherrif Ryer on
news Radio seven forty KTRH, Hilive in Deer Park. Your best ways

(50:24):
are round Houston next on the tenon seven KTRH. Okay six. Oh
wait now Bob Frantz in for JimmyBarrett. Good Tuesday morning to you.
So this is an interesting development,Sharah, as it pertains to Kamala's coronation
yesterday, And of course it's notofficial yet, but all signs point two
the donors lining up and the delegateslining up for Kamala. But here's a

(50:49):
big donor who said not me.John Morgan, founder of the Morgan and
Morgan Law for a major Democratic campaigndonor, put it out yesterday that he
will not support Kamala Harris, saying, quote, if Trump World could pick
anybody to run against, I thinkthey'd pick her. You have to be
enthusiastic or hoping for a political appointmentto be asking friends for money. I

(51:13):
am neither. It's other's turn.Now. The donors holding the ninety million
dollars can release those funds in themorning. It's all yours. You can
keep my million and good luck.But he is not supporting her because she
is an awful, awful candidate,left wing Democrat donor and a major one.
So it's a pretty big deal.Not everybody is all in on this.
Does it look like there's anything thatcan stop her? Probably not unless

(51:37):
what unless the same thing that broughtJoe Biden down can bring her down.
What brought Joe Biden down, Itwasn't his cognitive decline, It wasn't his
age. It was the polls.It was the fact that he was getting
beaten badly nationally and being beaten insome form or another in every one of
the battleground states. If they thoughtthey couldn't win, that's the only reason
they drove him out. They ignoredall the cognitive issues and everything else for

(52:00):
months and months and months and months. Only when it came it became clear
for all to see on the debatestage in June. And then the numbers
didn't get any better. They gotworse. That's when they forced them out.
The only thing that can stop Kammeland now is national polling next week,
the week after, the week after, all the way leading up until
August nineteenth. If she's being beatenby six to ten points by Trump and

(52:22):
every one of those poles the wayshe is right now, watch and see
if they don't well, you know, you can't trust polls, they'll do
their own favorite polls, and thenif they can get it within two or
three points, it won't matter,you know, even if Trump is still
coming out on top. Because nowyou right now they yeah, I know
I say that, but I saidthey can get it up with fake poles,

(52:43):
and then they can do the stealagain. You know, although instead
of needing one hundred million votes inorder to win, then they may only
need you know, eighty five millionin the ballots again. I mean,
that's what they did the last time. And you know, you'll never convince
me that they did. Their cheatingapparatus is absolutely still in place. Completely
agree with this. Woman has notwon a single primary, right, she

(53:07):
is not exactly the Party of Democracy, you know, so much for the
Democrat process. This is all comingfrom the donors to the big wigs.
This is all coming in that shenot only didn't win a single primary share,
she's never entered one. She's nevershe never got a vote, not
a single vote. I mean,she didn't get to the primaries in twenty
twenty twenty, and she didn't runin the primary. Rah kamala. Okay,

(53:28):
fine, you think we're stupid enoughto keep seeing that? You know
how many times do they play thesame playbook? And we we just what
we reported like it's normal. Thisisn't normal. No, there's nothing normal
about this. There's nothing constitutional aboutthis. There's nothing American about this.
There's nothing democratic Party of about this, Party of Democracy, Party of Democracy.
They just let a handful of eliteschoose who their presidential nominee is going

(53:52):
to be, representing eighty ninety onehundred million Democrat voters. It's crazy,
okay for us. I'm ready.We're gonna test your hip hop knowledge and
yo, yoll, what's up?Terry's in from the at L. She's
listen. I don't think I thinkshe may get this too. All right,
let's go. You know what.I'm gonna take you downtown First Louisiana
Street between Capitol and Rusk. Westill have some damage from the storm.

(54:15):
They've got to work on the sidewalksand the streets here. So that's a
closure of Louisiana Street. Let's saySmith goes south, Louisiana goes north.
Yeah, off of the Southwest Freeway, right next to what remember the two
black buildings. They used to becalled Pen's Oil Place. I don't know
what they call him now, thetwo Angle buildings. It's right there.
So watch out northbound. Now I'vegot something popping up on the North Freeway.

(54:37):
I forty five southbound Little York reportsof a wreck. I believe it.
Look at this spackle from the Beltwaysouthbound will get you some laneage at
the six to twenty report. AndMike from Magnolia is on two ninety.
He's coming in bound. Dude,I'm like from ninety nine to the fifth
moltain flyne open. But I agreewith Meghan. Now needs to get out

(54:57):
of the left lane. Let meturn lud grip up. It's a ludicrous
song, Bob Franz, Do youknow it? I do not. It's
move get out the way, getout? Oh yeah, I know the
song. Now you do that?Yeah, move beach. But see Terry
knows it too. She was justgonna pop in there. I'm in the
Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center,which is a nice way to say,
I'm in the hiszel for shizzle.I think I was just gonna say it's

(55:20):
like a jungle. Sometimes it makesme wonder how I keep from going under.
But then again, I'm dating myselfwith I can Terry Smith Haytail records
and tapes. Yes, my goodness, Well, we're gonna be watching the
radar. It looks like not justtoday, but the next several days.
Let's put this train back on thetrack. Guys. Showers and storms widespread

(55:45):
today, in the next several days, the overall pattern doesn't change, We're
gonna have to keep an eye outfor some flooding. That's the main thing
that concerns me when we get dayafter day of rain and some heavy rain
possible today, one to two inchesof rain with some of these storms.
Twenty percent chance you'll get wet midto upper eighties. There's a ninety percent
chance of more rain tomorrow, Thursday, seventy percent chance of those showers and

(56:07):
storms Friday and Saturday. Use trafficand weather You're starting your day right with
Houston's Morning News, brought to youbyen New South Windows Solutions. All right,
six twenty now, Bob France infor Jimmy Barrett. We're going to
talk about insurance premiums after Barrel comingup after we check the drive now with
Scottmine. Bob. Do you knowwhere Cut and Shoot, Texas is?

(56:30):
Sir? You ever heard? Oh, it's super interesting. It's up one
oh five. This is between Clevelandand Conroe, and that's a pretty serious
wreck. There willis Wakegan Roads,so one oh five is usually pretty tough
stuff. Eventually we'll have some extralaneage there. Lord Freeway, got you
laneage southbound, two left lanes.That's an accident. I think it looks
like everybody's okay, and we arecrammed up from the Beltway. If you're

(56:52):
a big shot with the toll stickerto the hardy commoners, jump on the
east. Text Skymike from the GeneratorSupercenter dot Com traffic. All right,
Mike, thank you. It lookslike we've got a lot of rain thunderstorms
this morning, a little bit overcastthis afternoon. Eighty four showers return in
the evening. Lowes seventy five stormsfor Wednesday and Thursday, highs in the
mid eighties and more rain coming Friday, Saturday, Sunday warring into the upper

(57:15):
eighties. Right now, seventy sixand partly Claudi at your official severe weather
station is Radio seven forty KTRH.Let's hit those headlines now with Sharon six
twenty one now on news Radio sevenforty KTRH. DNC moving ahead with a
virtual role call for the nomination.They're going to do it before August nineteenth
convention begins in Chicago. Right now, it's scheduled for Wednesday next week.

(57:38):
Kamala Harris as the favorite to replaceJoe Biden on the ticket. The House
Homeland Security Committee wants CrowdStrike CEO GeorgeKurtz to testify what caused last week and
the continuing mass outage of CrowdStrike andthe Microsoft Dead Blue Screen. A new

(58:01):
UCLA study shows artificial intelligence identifying cancerwith more accuracy than doctors can. Latest
news anytime at KGURH dot com.Our next update will be at the bottom
of the hour ninety nine one HTtwo. It's US Radio seven forty KGRH
on FM Houston's Hughes Weather traffic andtalk at ninety nine one HD two okay,

(58:23):
sixty two. Now, a surveyof one hundred insurance companies found that
Houstonians are paying an average of fortyfour hundred dollars a year to insure their
homes against wind, rain, windrain and hail. That's about twice the
national average, and it's about togo up because of Beryl. Joining us
now to discuss is Albert Betts,Executive director of the Insurance Council of Texas.

(58:45):
Good morning, Albert, good morning. What kind of numbers are Houston
homeowners looking at now in terms ofrates? We don't know yet. Barrel
just happened, and I think atthis point it's way too early to project,
you know, what will rates looklike going forward. Obviously, it's
been a rough year for Houston.I feel for y'all in between Derecho,

(59:07):
rolling through a few weeks ago andnow Beryl. Obviously, companies will be
looking at those losses and projecting whathappens in the future. But no single
event means the next day companies areraising rates. I think this is going
to be a long term look atcompanies about what they do in the Houston
market and hopefully fingers crossed. Wedon't have any other large severe events happened

(59:30):
in the Houston area. You know, when rain and hail, it got
separated out homeowner's insurance, I meanis typically for fire and flood. Flood
had to be separated out. Imean, it's getting to the point where
you have to ensure your home forall these different specific events and each one.
Maybe it only sounds like, welldo you ever just forty four hundred,

(59:52):
Well, yeah, but that's ontop of your fire coverage. I
mean it goes on and on andon. It never stopped. Well,
actually, most policies, homeowner policies, cover all of those perils. What
you may be thinking about is alongthe Texas coast, there's fourteen counties.
There's an entity called the Texas WindstormInsurance Association that provides wind coverage in fourteen

(01:00:15):
counties. That's set by law thatwas actually created over fifty years ago as
companies rolled back after a large storm, rolled back and riding wind coverage on
the coast. So there are coastalcounties where you do have to buy a
separate wind policy in some areas,but generally across the state, companies provide

(01:00:36):
the wind be held the fire coverage. Yeah, certainly the greater Houston area
however, and that's where we're talkingtoday. Yeah, there are portions of
Houston that fit within the TUIYA,the Texas Windstorm and Insurance Association Plan,
and those folks affected find that,I think it's an eastern portion of Harris
County have to buy a separate windcoverage. Why is it that, you

(01:00:58):
know, Houston is so impact didby this more than other spots in the
hurricane zones, I mean, Gulfside, Atlantic side. There are a
lot of places that have a lotof those kinds of that kind of damage
and a lot of threats. WhyHouston in particular, this part of the
region. Well, one reason maybejust the factor Texas face has so many
weather risk Think about those coastal areasalong the Atlantic coast, they may get

(01:01:19):
a hurricane, but in Houston,I mean you know this, y'all get
kale, you get tornadoes, youget hurricanes, you get floods. It's
just the geography of Texas. We'rein the line for almost every single major
peril, and it's something that drivesTexas insurance rates. It does, drives
them through the roof unfortunately for thehomeowners there. Albert Betts, executive director,

(01:01:44):
Insurance director of the Insurance Council ofTexas, analyzing the rates and what's
happening because of hurricanes and more.Albert, thanks so much for the analysis.
We appreciate it. Have a goodday you do the same, Thanks
much. Yeah, those numbers arecrazy. According to the same story.
By the way, Texans in homeinsurance rates went up twenty three percent last

(01:02:07):
year alone, last year alone,twenty three percent. That's all across Texas.
And of course if you're in Houstonon the Gulf side, you are
you're for a higher increase now becauseof what's happening with the hurricane activity in
Barrel. Okay six twenty six.Since we're talking money, it's a perfect
way to get Courtney done. Aholeback into the conversation with Blilbert Business Report.
Hey Courtney, Yes, good morning, Bob. It's a big week

(01:02:29):
for corporate earnings and we're starting tohear from some of the few majors ups
reporting quarterly profit. The missed WallStreet expectations. The company has been facing
pressure from higher labor costs and weakerdemand for its services. Texas based Kimberly
Clark also reported disappointing results. Amaker of Kleenex tissues, says shoppers are
holding back on their spending meantime.Profit at General Motors served sixty percent from

(01:02:51):
a year ago, easily beating analystestimates. Demand for pickups and SUVs in
the US has enabled GM to maximizeits profits. As we wait for more
company results to cross a stock indexfuture slightly hired Dow futures up thirty points,
and toy giant Mattel says it isconfident in its path as a standalone
company. That's after sources told Reutersthat Mattel was approached with a buyout offer

(01:03:14):
from a private equity firm. Themaker of Barbie and hot wheels reports its
financial results after the bell Today.I'm Courtney's one Hope Bloomberg Business on News
Radio seven forty KTRH. You areHouston's News Whether we're traffic plus Breaking News
twenty four to seven. This isNews Radio seven forty KTRH, Trive Everywhere

(01:03:36):
forty IRPP. More of what's happeningnow from the John Morris Services Studios.
Republicans and Democrats unite to blast SecretService director Kimberly Chetle and a new migrant
caravan is trying to get to theUS. Why they want to get here
before Trump can possibly stop them.Good morning, Bob Frans and for Jimmy
Barrettchai's got the details on those storiesand more coming up. First, Let's

(01:03:59):
do that drive hip hop Mike clearthe North Freeway southbound. That was the
wreck of Shepherd and I watched thison camera. The cars in the front
were like, you know when youopen the door and your dog's like,
shoot, that's what they're doing.We still have a backdoor at West Road
southbound. That's an extra six toseven minutes. Stay the course, believe
it or not. North Freeway,You're gonna get better. The subkitsch has
begun on the north sam eastbound roadworkImperial Valley that is smushing up your forty

(01:04:21):
five southbound ramp. Go to WestRoad to the U turn if you want
to do that instead, and thenwestbound. We have that work at all
Dean Westfield. I'm Skymike. Thisis your Generator Supercenter, dot Com traffic
Center. All right, thunderstorms thismorning, overcast this afternoon eighty four for
a high showers tonight Lowes seventy fiverings going to continue all week in some
form or another storm or just steadyshowers. Look, Terry tell you all

(01:04:45):
about it at six forty right nowseventy six at your official severe weather station,
news Radio seven forty KTRH. Let'sget the news now here, Sheriff
Ry, Good morning. Everyone isnow six thirty two on news radio seven
forty KTRH and our top story thishour. She didn't answer many questions,
but even the ones she did,I don't know that we can believe her.
Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, reactingto the evasive testimony from the Secret

(01:05:12):
Service Director Kimberly cheatled yesterday the leftusing that hearing about the July thirteenth attempt
on Donald Trump's life to push guncontrol. Certain members of Congress took the
opportunity to criticize the firearm used totry killing a president. S Maryland Democratic
Congressman Jamie Raskin, we have tofind the courage and resolve to pass a

(01:05:32):
ban on the AAR fifteen and otherassault weapons. The gunman used a semi
automatic rifle, but someone shooting evena bolt action hunting rifle like a thirty
odd to six would have been ableto make that shot. Foxes Evan Brown
reporting there. Some on the leftalso questioning the severity of Trump's injury from
the near assassination, Like, really, he was less than two centimeters from

(01:05:56):
having a bullet traveling at thirty threehundred feet per second actually enter his head
and probably take the entire back ofhis head off as at exited, That's
how serious this was. Yeah,that's the former White House physician, Texas
congressman now Ronnie Jackson, doctor RonnieJackson with ktrh is Sean Hannity, jd
Vance. Here we go with Ohioagain. I want to talk to you
about this. Bob Franz held hisfirst solo rally as Trump's running mate yesterday,

(01:06:20):
the Ohio senator reacting to VP KamalaHarris and the apparent coronation of her
to replace Joe Biden on what's calledthe Democrat Party ticket. I was told
I was going to get to beKamala Harris, and now President Trump's going
to get to debater. I'm kindof pissed off about that, if I'm

(01:06:42):
being honest with you. Oh,that's funny. VP Harris allegedly has the
pledges of more than the nineteen hundredand seventy six delegates required to secure the
nomination. Now, there will bea convention in Chicago next month, but
they're going to hold a virtual rollcall and a nomine nation vote on Wednesday
next week. It is six thirtythree thousands of illegal aliens in a new

(01:07:05):
caravan starting the trip from southern Mexicoto iur's southern border, and they want
to get here before Donald Trump winsthe election in November. Texas Governor Greg
Abbott says Harris needs an f forher role as the borders are. That's
what she's been for the last threeand a half years. He also believes
that Joe Biden needs to vacate theoffice of president. What is he doing

(01:07:29):
there? If he is incapable ofrunning for president, he is incapable of
serving as president. He's absent,he's a wall, and Kamala Harris is
not up to speed on being ableto address any of those issues. I
am very concerned, Governor Abbott,with kt r h's Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton. Yesterday, largest drug operationbust in US history at the border,

(01:07:51):
the arrest of a Chinese national allegedlybringing in two tons of raw material that
is used to make to No.Six point thirty four Hi six thirty five
is our time. Delta Airlines strugglingstill with a crowd strike outage Microsoft Link
you know the dead blue screen lastweek that is continuing even today. Nearly

(01:08:14):
six hundred flights this morning either delayedor canceled. More than a dozen affected
this morning at Bush Intercontinental Airport.Center Point now has more than seventeen hundred
customers without power across Houston this morning. Storms last night knocked some more people
into outage, despite threats no accountabilityat least its Center Point and its response
to Hurricane Barrel Uhs ed Hers saysthe board bears the brunt of the blame

(01:08:40):
cast on Center Point, the directionthat the Centerpoint board has steered the local
company into this gambling, believing thatthey can cut an skimp on cost.
This is a problem with utilities acrossthe nation. Hers adding that by Center
Point not putting its customers first,it's also not putting a shareholders first.

(01:09:00):
Half of the twenty three deaths inHouston from the storm have been heat related.
Houston Property Insurance already sky high,and how much worse will it come
become after Hurricane Well Share, Accordingto Rich Johnson with the Insurance Council of
Texas, looking forward, we shouldbe prepared for continued rate increases in premium

(01:09:23):
increases. But with that said,the rate hikes shouldn't be as bad as
what we've seen the last two years. In twenty twenty two we saw twenty
three percent increases. Twenty twenty threewas a twenty five percent increase, and
so those were double digit percentage increases, and so we think that will slow
down. We predict probably single digitincreases. He says. The best thing

(01:09:45):
you can do is shop around.Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty KTRH six
point thirty six is our time.We talk all the time about big tech
and what they do to censor freespeech. Well, once again it's YouTube.
They've got new policies now targeting anyonewho sponsors firearms in any form or
fashion. Can't have those channels onYouTube platform. It's much easier to make

(01:10:13):
her the nominee than it is todo this huge process of a broker convention
with town halls and all this kindof stuff trying to put that together over
the next few weeks. It seemsunrealistic. Yeah, that's a popular father
son YouTube duo known as Hiccock fortyfive. They said they took to their
channel to express disappointment in this newpolicy. They've already had to delete year's
worth of content in order to complywith a new YouTube content standards. Astros

(01:10:40):
los in Oakland last night. Itwas four to nothing. They're still tied
though, with the Mariners for firstplace in the Al West pregame tonight at
seven thirty. First pitch at eightforty on Sports Talk seven to ninety and
KTRH. I'm Sherriff Fryar. OnNews Radio seven forty KTRH. Michael Berry
only endorses Texas Renters dot Com forproperty management. Need I your best ways

(01:11:02):
are round Houston next on the tenon seven KTRH. YouTube is communist.
I just think we need to makethat very clear. YouTube is a straight
up communist. They believe in censorship, suppression. They do not believe in
free speech. They will do everythingin anything they can to advance left wing
causes. They will stop things likepromotion of Second Amendment. They are just

(01:11:23):
straight up communists. It's why andby the way, for those who do
not know, YouTube is owned byGoogle or Google is owned by YouTube,
one way or the other. Theyare the same company, which is why
you need to search things with otherengines. Excuse me, and find other
browsers. Don't use Chrome, don'tuse anything else. YouTube is straight up
communist. I said that, andI'll stand by that. That's what I
believe they are. They are theworst. They are worse than Zuckerberg when

(01:11:43):
it comes to censorship in terms ofyou know, Facebook. So yeah,
just let everybody know that. CanI ask you a question? I was
about to say, sure, yougot Jadvan's questions? Yes, I do,
I do. I mean, thereyou are. You know Ohio?
How is Ohio reacting to his selection? Is VP? Overwhelmingly positive. People
love the idea that the next vicepresident might be from Ohio. The only

(01:12:05):
thing they don't like is the factthat we have what's called a very very
rhino governor. And I mean he'sone of the worst in the business.
Honestly, he was one of themost heavy handed governors during COVID. He
shut down the state, He destroyedthe economy, destroyed businesses, and he
has a habit of endorsing left wingers, I'm sorry, moderates or rhinos for

(01:12:28):
positions. So if Jdevance does ascendto the White House by way of the
vice presidency, he gets to pickthe replacement. And there are a couple
of rhinos who ran against jd Vanceand Iran in the last primary to challenge
shred Brown for the Senate, whoare, like I said, they are
well known for being i mean,just barely this side of being Democrats.
And that's who he endorsed. Oneof them whose name is Matt Dolan.

(01:12:51):
So the concern from most Ohio votersthat I talked to, conservatives is that
the Senate spot is going to bereplaced by somebody who is far, far
weaker than jd Vance. Jd Vanceis a huge asset in the US Senate.
Well, that senator will be facingoff a very strong, hopefully group

(01:13:12):
of maga. Yeah, well Ihope so too. But as far as
jd and people love the pick,you know I mean, and I do
too. I will tell you this. The only reason I wasn't like,
like, you know, doing cartwheelsover it is because I know it is
you know, it's a strategy forsome candidate's to pick a running mate from
a state that is that is youknow, really really important, and maybe
that you can pull votes from andand actually get their electoral votes. So

(01:13:34):
a lot of people, myself included, looked at Glenn Youngkin and said,
you know, Virginia is teetering onthe edge of maybe being able to be
checked off from the Trump column.Youngkin could have put that over. I
think Trump is going to win ahigh on no matter what. So you
know, there's no strategic electoral advantageby picking Vance in that regard. But
he's young, he's got a greatstory, he's exly articulate. I think

(01:13:56):
he provides a real counterbalance, eventhough he is also maga to Donald Trump.
So I think there's going to bea nationwide appeal. It's also a
nod to the future. It's adifferent generation and it's the way things are
going. You know, people whokeep thinking that we have to do things
the old way. No, it'snot the grand old Party anymore. You're
right, you know, you've gotto you've got to look forward. And
it shows you that Donald Trump knowshow to look forward. Totally agree,

(01:14:17):
And you know, younger voters needto need a reason to vote for the
seventy eight year old man. Andguess what a young, relatable, thirty
nine year old like JD Evans,who is super super articulate with a lot
of people in a lot of differentarenas. I think he's going to pull
a lot of people in. SoI think people here at all High and
across the country are actually very veryexcited about Mike. I'm sorry, sorry,

(01:14:40):
sorry, he's over there, PrepperLudicris, right, Hey, that's
right, I'm over here going hey, I've got a serious alert. Let
me bail out of that. I'vegot a serious alert here. I want
everybody on the Katie Freeway inside thebelt watch out. Don't have a heart
attack. But I'm going to actuallysay slow down. This is the deal.
Got this guy in a van andhe's ran into the wall. I
don't know how that happened. Thisis inbound right before six' ten.

(01:15:01):
He's in this right lane. Whenthe toe track ninjas get here, they're
probably gonna take two right lanes andthen we'll have this big spackle. Right
now, people are just zipping byhim. Slow down, please on the
Katie Freeway as you're approaching from Antwine. He's right in front of the wall
and if someone hits him, he'sgonna be like a human eight ball.
That's inbound Katie Freeway before the loop. All right, let's go around.
What are we doing at two ninetyeastbound. That's a stall truck right at

(01:15:25):
Senate. Okay, he's moved overto the side. No big problem there.
And also downtown, we have thatclosure to Louisiana Street between Rusk and
Lamar. That's gonna be it's they'repicking up some storm damage here. Let's
do a quick tip line seven onethree two one two t ips. Johnny
J from Porter Texas Sky My dudereporting from the hardwork in east Side.

(01:15:46):
Oh well said, the road leadinginto the plant that I work at has
a train blocking it. Two twentyfive traffic, the exit lane backed up
to red Love from Burrow. Allright, I'll write you an excuse,
hard hats. We're in the GeneralRaiders Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center. All
right, thanks very much. SkyMike Terry Smith at the Weather Channel with
our wet forecast, ding Tara,Oh yeah, this is a super soggy

(01:16:10):
forecast, not just today, butreally through the entire week. I'm starting
to see some heavier rain and showersdown near Freeport and Texas City, and
they're making their way on shore,moving northwards, so some of that will
be making its way into the metroarea here in the next couple hours.
Ninety percent chance of getting wet today, Tomorrow and Thursday. Heavy rains possible

(01:16:32):
with these storms, like one totwo inches of rain at a time,
So we're going to be keeping aneye out for some localized flooding that could
develop. If it doesn't happen today, it really could happen at any point
this week just because of the ongoingrain. Mid topper eighties today, ninety
percent chance of those storms tomorrow andThursday. We're in the load of mid
eighties tomorrow and Thursday, and aseventy percent chance that we're still getting wet

(01:16:58):
Friday and Saturday. All right,thank you, Terry Smith. Right now,
we're still at seventy six degrees atyour official severe weather station is Radio
seven forty k TRH. You arecommute, you are forecast your news.
It's Houston's Morning News, brought toyou. Buying new Southway those solutions,
OK. Six fifty. Don't forgetwe've got timeline coming up here in just
a few minutes. I know skyMike is ready for that. Let's see

(01:17:20):
what we got going on the roadrace first though. I'm excited. Hey,
everybody, keep your heads up hereon the Kadie Freeway. Watch out.
This stall isn't a bad spot.Right before the merge with six'
ten I did. Let jump inJoe. He's working for those two dinosaur
farts across the street, and he'sgoing to tell his listeners the same thing.
Let's be super careful. This guyis on the KD inbound right before

(01:17:41):
the merge with six ten, whereall the crazy starts. I got one
ninja. Oh, I wish wehad another law enforcement person to block an
extra lane here on the inbound.We already have some backups from Antwine,
but there's still some people Zippen buyNord Freeway clear. The reck's gone.
At Sheppard we still have backups fromWest Road. I'm Skymike and the Generator
Supercentered Traffic Center. Okay, thethunderstorms are coming. It's going to be

(01:18:03):
overcast this afternoon high of eighty four. More showers tonight seventy five. Storms
continue the rest of the week,highs in the mid eighties even through the
weekend, although it will warm intothe upper eighties and right now seventy six
at your official severe weather station,news Radio seven forty KTRH, as we
hit the headlines again with Shriff.Thank good morning. Everyone is six fifty

(01:18:23):
one on news Radio seven forty KTRH. We haven't seen him, but we
have heard President Joe Biden's voice yesterdayfor the first time since he quit his
campaign and endorsed the Vice President Harris. The Texas Democrat Party accuses Robert F.
Kennedy Junior of falsifying signatures to geton the Texas Ballad in November.

(01:18:44):
Space Center Houston closed today because ofa water main break. There latest news
anytime at KTRH dot com. Ournext update will be at the top of
the hour. I live in clearLake, Humble, reliable KTRH traffic and
the next on the ten sheric Wecan we speculate for just a moment before

(01:19:05):
we get into our timeline car.That's what I do all day, every
day. What do you mean,well, I mean, why did he
just call in to that event?Why no video? Why no video?
Everybody in the world, every newsagency now when they have guests on,
they don't make them go down toa studio anymore. They hook up their
Skype, or they hook up theirZoom, or they hook up their FaceTime

(01:19:27):
or whatever. He could have videoedinto her little thing there and they just
did a phone call. I wantto know how bad does he look?
How close to death did he come? Why did they have him hidden for
the last six days? And nobodycould even see him yesterday and nobody has
seen him since he made his quoteunquote Twitter announcement on Sunday that he's suspending
his campaign. There's a reason wecan't see him. I feel like this

(01:19:50):
guy may have been at death's doorand looks I mean, frighteningly bad.
Wow. Charlie Kirk a turning pointis quoting a Las Vegas police response that
there was some kind of major event, some breakdown where all of a sudden
they had to scramble in order toescort Joe Biden to the hospital. There
after that first speech, you know, he canceled the second one. Then

(01:20:12):
we saw him just barely able toclimb the steps of Air Force one somehow
after they had maneuvered all those policeofficers for an escort and alerted a hospital.
According to Charlie Kirk again turning point. They diverted and went to the
airport and went got back on andmetavaced and they called it a medavact.
I mean, it's really weird.I don't know how true it is,

(01:20:34):
but something might have happened. Yeah, And from what I understand, there's
like on Air Force one, thereis not only medical facilities, like there's
actually kind of a mini er.You could actually do a surgery on board
Air Force one if there was required, and that he had medical procedures,

(01:20:54):
you know, while he was there. I don't know, you know,
whether Charlie's reporting is right or not. I have no reason to doubt it
though, because share if you're makingan announcement like this, the biggest announcement
of your presidency is the end ofyour presidency or your end of your campaign
to seek reelection to it. Howare you not talking to the people directly
on camera, and then if youare handing the baton to Kamala and then

(01:21:15):
you are well enough to tap,you know, talk on your speaker phone
in how are they not putting himon at least camera saying well, for
safety's sake, he's isolating due toCOVID, which is crap, but for
safety sake, he's isolating versus becauseof COVID, So gonna he's gonna come
in on video here. There's areason we didn't get video. Oh yeah,
but they do not want him tobe forced out of office. They've

(01:21:39):
got six more months where they canthey can do whatever they want, exactly
right, exam miss the front isthe cover, you know on beginning,
But the reality is they're doing Kamalano favors here, even Michael Moore,
which is a story we'll get toyour next hour. And Michael Moore is
urging them to urging her rather toinvoke the twenty fifth and get him out
of the way so she can havefour months of incumbency and then have a
you know, a solid, youknow, presidential looking record here to run

(01:22:00):
on and then she can make therecord books. Yeah, exact that too,
right, So you know, Imean, there's a lot of different
moving parts here. But he's notwell. I believe a lot of what
Charlie's reporting, and he's not theonly one that others Swift said this,
So I think there's something. Thefact that they're hiding his face means he
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(01:23:57):
lots of money now and lots ofdelegates pledged. It looks like a Kamala
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did hear him yesterday. Good morning. I'm Bob Brinson for Jimmy Barrett.
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(01:24:18):
I remember nineteen seventy nine. Well, ouch, don't hit me. I
wish we could block some more laneageon Katie Freeway inbound at the west Loop
six ten. This is right ina right lane. This guy in the
van he hit the wall somehow,and that's a really bad spot. That's
right before we merged with six ten. It's crazy, so be super duper
careful there. If you're law enforcement, I sure wouldn't mind you popping in

(01:24:40):
and saying, hi, here,lord freeway. I've got a reported accident
at Sheppard right behind the earlier wreck. That's out of the way, but
it doesn't look like it's causing much. I think they've moved that already,
and we will check your ship channelbridges at seven ten in the Generator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center. All right, thank you very much, Mike.
Thunderstorms this morning, they're coming overcast, guys. This afternoon high of eighty

(01:25:00):
four showers this evening, overnight lowseventy five. More rained the rest of
the week, and we'll find outhow much when Terry Smith checks in with
us at seven ten. Right now, seventy six degrees at your official severe
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want people to remember that what wehave done has been incredible, and we
get so much more we're going toget done. Okay. That was the
phone call made by Joe Biden toKamala Harris yesterday. And now Harris who
is picking up the campaign as Joehas bowed out. We haven't seen him,
by the way. But now sheallegedly has more than the twenty five

(01:25:53):
hundred delegates. She has the supportof more than twenty five hundred delegates.
She only needs nineteen seventy six towin a virtual roll call scheduled next Wednesday,
and well in advance of the convention. Her pant campaign funding, by
the way, fueled with over twohundred and fifty million dollars of donations and
pledges. Biden, by the way, he has not made a personal appearance.

(01:26:15):
We haven't seen him yet. Hedid call in as you just heard
of the Harris campaign headquarters yesterday.The Kamala coronation is well underway, and
Republican strategist Chris Johnson says, yeah, if it looks like it it is.
It's much easier to make her thenominee than it is to do this
huge process of a broker convention withtown halls and all this kind of stuff.

(01:26:39):
Trying to put that together over thenext few weeks. It seems unrealistic.
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder,by the way, vetting the potential
Harris running mates, mightn't expect thatannouncement sometime this weekend. The coronation mainstream
media fawning over the vice president justkeeps going on, and oh yeah,

(01:27:00):
the hands of Obama are all overthis. I kind of fell in love
with her. I thought she wassmart, engaging. She's funny, feisty,
twickling your eye, punch you inthe gut. Hmmms, you seize
Donny Deutsch. Harris is trailing DonaldTrump in early polling. The Texas Senator
Ted Cruz Warren's Republicans better not underestimateher or the Democrat machine. Here's the

(01:27:27):
problem. For the next month,all of the news is going to be
dominated by who the Democrat is goingto be. The Democrats are about to
have a month long convention. Senatoron his Verdict with Ted Cruz podcast It's
seven o four. Secret Service DirectorKimberly Cheedle would not give answers to all
the questions from Congress about her SecretService security failure in the near assassination of

(01:27:50):
Donald Trump July thirteen, that evening. Did you talk to the team the
heroes that surrounded the president? Didyou call that night? They were still
operational work, So that's an answersnote Texas Congressman Pat Fallon. At yesterday's
House Judiciary Committee, dozens of Republicansat least two Congressional Democrats are calling for

(01:28:13):
Cheatle to resign or be fired.She's claimed that Secret Service agents couldn't take
that rooftop position that the killer tookThomas Matthew Crooks because it was sloped.
But was it really? This thinghad just a little upswing in at a
few degrees. Essentially was a flatroof. So I don't know. Somebody

(01:28:33):
gave a false information when she talkedabout the slope of the roof President Trump
with Fox's Jesse Water. Meantime,members of Comngress, they got up on
the roof themselves, a seventy yearold man, this is where this roof.
Is not a good deal for somebodyto tell me that Secret Service agents

(01:28:54):
couldn't been here, that's crazy.Florida Republican Carlos Menez he posted his video
of that event to X you canlook at it. Seven oh six is
our time? All those calls fromthe left to turn down the temperature on
political smack talk after the Trump nearassassination July thirteenth, Well, it didn't

(01:29:14):
last long. Yeah, sure,things calmed down, maybe for a couple
of hours. Pretty sure everybody washoping there's be some unity. But realistically,
I mean, when you're looking atmembers of the chattering class, people
aren't really invested in unity. Unitydoesn't really sell right now, division does.
That is Jeff Charles with Red Stay, who is not surprised we have

(01:29:35):
become so polarized and divided in thisnation. I'm not sure if there's anything
bad that could happen that would causeus to unite like we did after nine
to eleven. It's just the stateof things right now. He says,
things are going to get even worsenow before they get better. Jeff Biggs
News Radio seven forty KRH And asthat was unfolding, that near assassination on

(01:29:59):
that Saturday evening, you couldn't getany information about it on social media.
Facebook in particular the social media I'mtalking about, well, because that platform
suppressed it. Garrett Searrite of BarrettMedia says Facebook is dead now to the
news industry, they won't allow themaboard. You're just kind of wasting your

(01:30:20):
time, right, media companies,whether it's radio, TV, If your
stuff is not being seen on Facebook, there's no point in taking the time
to put the effort into trying toget it to be seen. He says.
Suppressing such important breaking news takes censorshipto a whole new level of concern.
Seven oh seven is our time.The Stros lose in Oakland forward to

(01:30:42):
nothing. They're still in first place, a tie with Seattle in the American
League West. Now the coverage oftonight's game seven point thirty on Sports Talk
seven ninety and on KTRH. I'msurebre fryar on News Radio seven forty KTRH.
I live near Shrifftown, reliable atH traffic and weather. Next on
the ten Okay, seven oh seven. Now we continue Bob France in for

(01:31:08):
Jimmy. So there's a little bitof a I don't know, we just
want to call it gamesmanship going onon social media right now with respect to
President Trump and potential debates with KamalaHarris. President Trump was up late last
night. One tweet says Trump wasrage posting because this was on his truth
social at twelve twelve AM, soa little after midnight, and President Trump

(01:31:31):
posted ABC fake news is such ajoke among the absolute worst in the business.
They try to make Crooked Joe intoa brave warrior because he didn't have
the guts to fight it out.He quit. Then they tried to make
Sleepy look like a great president.He was the worst, and lion Kamala
into a competent person, which sheis not. ABC the home of George

(01:31:51):
Sloppadopoulos. That's what he wrote.Is not worthy of holding a debate,
of which I hope there will bemany MAGA twenty twenty five. So the
left is saying this is Donald Trumprage posting, trying to back out of
debating Kamala Harris because he doesn't wantto do it on ABC. This is
what they're saying. So I justthought we should probably take a look at

(01:32:13):
what happened the last time Kamala Harrisactually got into a presidential debate with people
like you know, Tulci Gabbard.Senator Harris says she's proud of her record
as a prosecutor and that she'll bea prosecutor president. But I'm deeply concerned
about this record There are too manyexamples to cite, but she put over
fifteen hundred people in jail for marijuanaviolations and then laughed about it when she
was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence. She blocked evidence

(01:32:40):
that would have freed an innocent manfrom death row until the courts forced her
to do so. She kept peoplein prison beyond their sentences to use them
as cheap labor for the state ofCalifornia. And she fought to keep cash
jail system in place that impacts poorpeople in the worst kind of way.
When her record is brought up beforeher on a debate stage, that's when

(01:33:01):
Kamala Harris goes away. She ranfor eleven months January of twenty nineteen until
December fourth of twenty nineteen. Shedidn't even get to Iowa in January.
She ran for eleven months, andthat included debates like this one, and
her popularity and her support and hermoney dried up. Democrats hated her.

(01:33:23):
Wait until she gets on a debatestage with Republicans, much less fellow Democrats
and see exactly what happens. Allright, seven ten, Now let's do
the traffic end weather once again.Sky Mike, pick a direction, Bob,
which way you want to go?North southeast? Good it? Oh,
you know what, that's a greatchoice, Grasshoppa. Let's go to
the north Sam and eastbound. Thatroad work if you're trying to catch a

(01:33:44):
plane. I don't know about thenorth Sam eastbound Imperial Valley. We're missing
a left line that's munching us upnow from Ella. It's also messing up
your ramp that goes southbound from fortyfive to the Belt. And I've been
telling you for a couple of weeks. Take West Road, keep going straight
down Bust to U turn at WestRoad. Now, I had a reported
wreck at Greens looks like the ninjathat already westbound alding westbuild. That's been

(01:34:05):
ugly. And this is the dealwith that construction spot. Not only is
it taking two left lanes on thewestbound, but people keep getting caught in
that little squeeze. We have accidentsthere every day. Be super duper careful.
From jfk HPD. Thank you somuch for showing up right there at
North Post Oke and the KDI freewayinbound. That guy. Our officers now

(01:34:25):
blocking two right lanes. So gladto see you. Uh inbound. We've
got backups now from Bunker Hill onthe Katie Freeway. And the good news
is the guy that was sitting ina really bad spot, he's now safe
and the ninja's about to get himout of there. East tex Freeway Downtown
all smunched up after callings Worth southboundforty five. We've got a few slowdowns
around Shepard, but it's getting better. Ghetto Daves than that. I think

(01:34:48):
I can debud Tomblad and I caneven played dude. I'm at seven one
three two one two t ips.This is your Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic
Center Terry. Can we wait tillafter nine for the rain? Is there
any way that we can hold itoff for just a little bit? Yes,
the answer is yes, yes,somebody. Yeah. Well, I

(01:35:12):
mean the rain is heading our way, but nine o'clock might be the magic
hour, so we'll see. Sothe showers and thunderstorms making their way out
of the Gulf of Mexico and fromthe west and the north. I mean,
we're like surrounded folks, and they'reon their way. So ninety percent
chance of anyone listening to us rightnow seeing some of that rain here at

(01:35:34):
some point today, temperature's mid uppereighties. We're in this soupy, super
soggy weather pattern the rest of theweek. Ninety percent chants of storms tomorrow
and Thursday. More heavy rain possible, seventy percent chants of showers and storms
Friday and Saturday. And with allthe clouds in the rain, the temperatures
just don't get a chance to warmup much. We'll be in the low

(01:35:56):
to mid eighties tomorrow through the restof the week. Okay, thank you
very much, Terry. And rightnow we're still at seventy six at your
official severe weather station is Radio sevenforty k TRH. It's Houston's Morning News,
brought to you byen New South WindowsSolutions. Now back to Jimmy and
Scherah with the info you need totake on the day. Yeah, we're
gonna get right back into analyzing thenew race. Kamala Harris looks like she

(01:36:21):
is being crowned and she's preparing forDonald Trump. President Trump and his team
are already attacking on Kamala Harris.We're going to talk to Tom joven Eddie,
president of Institute for Policy Innovation,about the new race coming right up
here. But first let's do trafficand run once again. Hey Mike,
this time I just got to tryharder not to shock. I'm gonna try

(01:36:42):
that as best I can. BobFriends, Katie Freeway, Oh boom,
got him out of there, gotthat stall out of there. We should
be just fine on the Katie outsidethe loop. Inside the loop, you
lose some brakes around studio. Nottrying to reach the President's heads in extra
two or three minutes Highway six ifyou're going to A and M northbound at
twenty nine to seventy nine, reallyserious wreck there, Skymike and Theegenerator Supercenter
dot Com Traffic Center, they verymuch sir. Thunderstorms or come in a

(01:37:05):
little bit later than maybe expected,but they'll be here then. It'll be
overcast this afternoon, more showers thisevening. Storms continue the rest of the
week. Highs will be in themid eighties and really through the weekend as
well, warming into the upper eightiesand right now seventy six degrees at your
official severe weather station, news Radioseven forty k t RH. Let's hit

(01:37:25):
the headlines now with Sheriff. Itis now seven twenty one on news radio
seven forty KTRHR. Headlines. You'responsored by Moro Mechanical. Kamala Harris needs
nineteen hundred and seventy six delegates tosecure the Democrat presidential nomination. According to
the Associated Press, she has morethan twenty five hundred right now. Well,
here it comes. Former Houston mayorSylvester Turner reportedly looking to make a

(01:37:47):
run to replace Sila Jackson Lee incongress eighteenth Congressional District. Jackson Lee died
from cancer last week. The OscarMeyer wienermobile it's going to need some work
after a crash. Yes in Illinois. No one was injured. Oh,
it doesn't look good. Get thelatest news anytime at KTIRH dot com.
Our next update is at the bottomof the hour. Defense on Cold God

(01:38:13):
on my side, making the twentytwenty four like shady man, Tamala like
no other. Stay in the NoYouth Radio seventy forty ktrh Okay seven twenty
two. So listen to how they'replaying this right now. Seeing that our
goods are extremely excited right now.But this moment, we were talking about
this in the green room. Honestly, the calls that I've been getting beyond

(01:38:36):
the Beltway, this really feels likeObama two thousand and eight. Obama two
thousand and eight is what they're callingthe ascendancy of Kamala to take the baton
from Joe Biden. That is prettyastounding. Tom Jovinetti joins us now president
of the Institute for Policy Innovation.Good morning, Tom, Good morning.
How are you. So we go? We're doing well, Thank you.

(01:38:58):
So we go from Trump vib therematch to Trump v. Kamala. At
least that's the way it's looking.And they're already saying this is an Obama
type moment. What's your reaction.Oh, it's amazing. The machine went
into gear almost immediately. No onehas ever been fawned over like Kamala Harris
is being fawned over right now.And I think that's a combination of two

(01:39:19):
things. I think it's a combinationof relief by people who did not want
Donald Trump to be president because hewas going to be he was going to
wipe the floor with Joe Biden,and now it's a real race. So
I think I think they're relieved numberone, and number two, I think
that they've just decided that they're goingto play up to an enormous degree,

(01:39:44):
the sort of historical nature of theidea of a black woman president. And
you know, this was a hallmarkof the Biden administration. It's like whenever
they appointed somebody to any job,they didn't care about competency. The only
thing they cared about is they claimit to be a first of some kind.
You know, this is this isthe first you know Dominican, you

(01:40:05):
know female ever, you know,undersecretary of whatever. So, I mean,
this is a big deal. Thisis a big deal with the Democratic
Party. It's a big deal onthe left. I think they're going to
play it up and the media isgonna is going to line right up behind
them. You know, it's almostlike they planned the whole thing. How
smooth this has been. We getall these stories of the chaos and chaos
and chaos, and yet boy,everything's just kind of clicking in the place.

(01:40:29):
Except where are the Hillary supporters?I mean, where where is that
faction of the d n C.AOC is not totally on board with Kamala?
What's this all about? No,that's right, because I think I
think the you know, the theweird thing about the Biden administration is that
he ran as sort of the reasonablemoderate democrat, but then he governed like

(01:40:54):
a hard left progressive and I thinkpeople like AOC know that they had him
around their fingers and they liked that. I mean, I think it was
to their advantage that he wasn't reallyin charge of his own administration. He
had he had sort of contracted outto the progressive left on all of the
issues, and I think they're notquite sure she's going to do that.

(01:41:15):
There is a distrust among the progressiveleft of Kamala because she was a prosecutor
and that's how she sort of madeher reputation, and she was she was
a tough prosecutor. She put alot of people in jail for minor,
minor issues, drug possession and thingslike that. You know, she was
one of these tough on crime typeof prosecutors. And you know, AOCA

(01:41:41):
and the progressive left are not verycomfortable with that. They don't like the
idea of putting criminals in jail.They liked the idea of of you know,
this whole idea of if it's lessthan nine hundred dollars shoplifting, don't
prosecute it. And that's not whatKamala did. Even as they had the
big beads ellen Donald Trump over there, drawing in black and Latin American voters.

(01:42:05):
Well, I think we've already seenthat that's going to be her at
least that's going to be her firstout of the gate messaging is that he's
a felon and she's a prosecutor.And I think that's why you had that
quote, you know, I knowhis type. I think that's that's obviously
the first, the first campaign messagingthat they're going to do. But hasn't

(01:42:27):
tom that that reputation as a toughprosecutor been undone by the fact that she
funded this this bail bail reform thingto get all of the the George Floyd
protesters and rioters and and vantalyzers andso on and so forth out of jail.
So this is so you're right shedid. She did a big flip
flop on this. I mean,this is this is the way she made

(01:42:47):
her early career was by being atough on crime prosecutor. And then of
course the mood changed on the progressiveleft and you had this sudden social justice
emphasis on justice reform, on criminaljustice reform, and yeah, so the
problem she's got is she is vulnerableto attacks from the progressive left because of

(01:43:13):
this. But I think what itcomes down to, the progressive left is
not going to make much of thatbecause again they think that they think that
Donald Trump is like the Antichrist,and they think that, you know,
anything that anyone does to prevent DonaldTrump from being re elected is going to
be okay with them. So it'sit's no matter who, right their mantras,

(01:43:39):
vote blue, no matter who,whether it's Biden or Harris or anybody
else they put up there, you'reright, because it isn't a vote for
one of them, it's a voteagainst Donald Trump. They cannot control the
site of July thirteen over July six. It's been seen. Yeah, yeah,
that's exactly right, That's exactly right. So they'll line up, the
media will line up behind them.I mean, it was astonishing to me
to uh, you know, thelast several weeks, it was astonishing to

(01:44:01):
me to see how like CNN,for instance, was aggressively covering the idea
of Biden withdrawing. So there wasa clear move by sort of life,
the left leading establishment that Biden hadto go. I was still shocked that
he did it because he's notoriously stubborn, but we certainly have lived in interesting

(01:44:24):
times in the last few days andmore to come, no question about it.
Tom jevin Any, President of theInstitute for Policy Innovation, We do
appreciate the time, but we areout of it. We need to get
to Courtney doneho and check a BloombergBusiness report headquarters. Well, good morning,
Bob. The focus on Wall Streetis sturning from politics to corporate earnings.
Stock index futures little change as tradersare going through a steady but mixed

(01:44:45):
stream of company results out today.Taking a look at Dow futures down four
points. I'm recording down a HopeBloomberg Business on News Radio sum forty ktr
H Houston's News, Why They're Trafficplus Breaking You. It's twenty four to
seventh. This is News Radio sevenforty KTRH five Everywhere with the IRP.

(01:45:06):
More of what's happening now from theJohn Morris Services studios. Republicans and Democrats
uniting yes to blast Secret Service DirectorKimberly Cheedle, and a new migrant caravan
is apparently coming to the US andthey want to get here before Trump might
be in to stop them. Goodmorning, Bob Brands and for Jimmy Barrett.
Serf's got the details on those storiescoming up. But first let's hit

(01:45:29):
that traffic against guy. Mike.It's I'm forty five north, Bob,
southbound at Greens Road, right beforethe Rimp that takes you to the North
Belt. You already have enough troublewith that road construction at Imperial Valley that
tends to skunsh up the Rimp.Now I've got one, two, three,
four cars. Everybody looks like they'reokay, blocking a right lane,
still waiting for some emergency crews toget on scene. Here southbound. For

(01:45:49):
now it's a right lane. It'sabout to be two right lanes. And
if you're following along at home,it's camera two three zero inbound Skymichael the
Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center.All right, Mike Ken, it looks
like we got that rain coming inthe form of thunderstorms today. That overcast,
guys, this afternoon, I haveabout eighty four more showers tonight.
Lois seventy five is going to berainy and showery and stormy the rest of

(01:46:11):
the week. And I'll let Terrytell you how much of each that's coming
up at seven forty right now seventysix still at your official severe weather station
is Radio seven forty ktr H.Morning news time once again here Sharon seven
thirty two on News Radio seven fortyktr H and our top story this hour.
I would have to get back toyou. That is a no you're
full of today. You're just beingcompletely dishonest. Republican Nancy Mays confronting the

(01:46:35):
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle during thathearing yesterday about the Secret Service failing to
stop the July thirteenth attempted assassination ofDonald Trump and tent Pennsylvania. This did
not go well for her. Theembattled director dodged a lot of questions about
the investigation, really gave no answers, saying that a report would be coming

(01:46:58):
out in about sixty days. Shedid take full responsibility for what she said
was the worst security failure since PresidentReagan was shot back in nineteen eighty one.
Fox's Asha Hansei Aisha Hansei reporting there, Republicans don't like Cheadle being as
evasive Stonewall Thom actually is what shedid. The American people should be a

(01:47:20):
shame. Should feel shame by thisadministration and by this Secret Service director because
there is no confidence in her abilityto do her job going forward. Florida's
Byron Donald's there. Both Republicans andDemocrats have called for Cheedle to either resign
or be fired. You know sheis protecting Biden and Kamala Harris too.

(01:47:42):
On the campaign trail, JD.Vance held his first solo rally as Trump's
running mate, blasting Democrats for forcingJoe Biden off the presidential ticket. It
was a coup. You don't decidewho the president is in smoke filled rooms
with billionaires and senior elected officials.You let the people decide. That's what
we believe in this room, andthat's what we're gonna fight for. I

(01:48:04):
promise you President Trump himself will berallying in North Carolina tomorrow. It is
now seven thirty three. A caravanof three thousand people or more from a
dozen Latin American countries are headed towardthe US across our southern border of Mexico.
They are in the south of Mexiconow. They want to get into
this country before what they assume willbe a second Trump presidency and closing of

(01:48:30):
the door. Harris anointed as JoeBiden's borders are. Remember that she never
met with the Chief of Border Patrol. She only made one visit near the
border. Texas Governor Greg Abbott saysshe's been a disaster to get an F
minus for a grade as borders are. Remember this, I think maybe during

(01:48:51):
her entire time as borders are,she may have been down maybe close to
the border one time. Governor Abbottwith kgrh's Clay Travis buck Sexton. Meantime,
the DOJ now coming out announcing they'vebusted our largest drug operation in US
history at the border. They arresteda Chinese national that they say was responsible

(01:49:11):
for bringing in two tons of rawmaterial used to make fentanyl. It's now
seven thirty five more problems for DeltaAirlines. It's the crowd strike outage linked
with Microsoft. You know, theBlue Dead Blue screen carrier is already canceled
or delayed nearly six hundred flights today, about three thousand canceled or delayed yesterday,

(01:49:32):
and it's affecting flights out of BushIntercontinental Airport this morning. Storms last
night, Center Point now has morethan two thousand customers without power across Houston
this morning, Beryl responsible for atleast twenty three deaths in Houston, at
least half heat related, and everyone'spointing at Center Point. Will they ever

(01:49:53):
be held accountable? Many dot itwill ever happen? Uhsed Hearst says the
problems start with routine maintenance. CenterPoint does not clear the lines on an
annual basis. That's because they're toofocused on the financial bottom line. The
center Point board broad in executives fromPacific Gas and Electric to run the company.
These guys are accountants. The onlything that they can do is cut

(01:50:15):
cost, and operating and maintenance costare key to maintaining a reliable grid,
adding that Centerpoint isn't putting its customersor shareholders first. Cliff Saunders News Radio
seven forty KTRH. Yeah. Governmenthas a role to play here too.
The Woodlands Township board of Directors andMontgomery County now they want to have Energy
Texas take over the service area thatcenter Point now controls. There. Houston

(01:50:42):
property insurance premiums up nearly fifty percentjust over the last two years. And
what do we expect now after Barrel? We predictably will the rates to continue
to go up. However, they'renot going to be as large as they
have been over the past couple ofyears. Yes, future events are definitely
going to have an MP, butwhat we've seen over the last couple of
years, the biggest impact has justbeen the economy and inflation. Rich Johnson

(01:51:05):
with the Insurance Council of Texas.He says we can expect rates to increase
at least by single digits. It'snot too early to start shopping. Around
seven thirty six is our time.Violent crime across the Houston area almost every
night now. A nineteen year oldwas killed. Harris County Deputies say it
was a drive by shooting on theEast tex Freeway. The shooter not known.

(01:51:28):
YouTube enacting a controversial policy is targetingfirearms and has forced year's worth of
content to be removed that have beenposted by pro gun YouTubers. The new
policy bans any video that's sponsored bya firearm related company and any videos posted
with sponsorships of that kind. PostJune eighteenth that makes your channel subject to

(01:51:49):
being completely terminated. Creators of thepopular firearms channel Hiccock forty five shared their
disappointment with having to remove old content. These videos take out life of their
own to become this whole ecosystem ofcomments and everything, and then do you
know how many views it? Godis like the kind of its own stamp,
you know. In time, thefather son duo says they're hopeful that

(01:52:10):
they can navigate YouTube's new policy andcontinue making videos. Ethan Buchannan, News
Radio seven forty KTRH, seven thirtyseven. Now, the Stros lose in
Oakland last night. It was fourto nothing. They remained tied, however,
with the Mariners for first place inthe Al West. Pregame tonight is
seven thirty against Oakland again. Firstpitch eight forty on Sports Talk seven ninety

(01:52:30):
and here on KTRH. I'm surewe're fryar on News Radio seven forty KTRH.
Summer Life, traveling movies, badweather happens here, Astro's screen time,
Inflation the Election, News Radio sevenforty, Summer Life, KTRH.
So here's the story seven thirty eight. By the way, as we continue,

(01:52:50):
Bob Frans and for Jimmy, ifyou just turned the radio on for
the first time this morning, here'sthe story. We have not discussed this
really yesterday or today in this earlypart of the week. Benjamin Netyaho's in
the United States. Now. Heshowed up yesterday. He's going to be
testifying, or rather speaking and addressingCongress, addressing a joint session of Congress

(01:53:14):
tomorrow. And he just showed upin the United States yesterday, and he
was greeted by no one, noone. The Prime Minister of Israel,
the United States, only democratic allyin the entire region of the Middle East,
whose nation was attacked in the mostbarbaric way on October seventh of last
year, the worst attack on Jews, and particularly on Israel, but the

(01:53:38):
worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. He and they have still been fighting
to try to stop it from happeningagain by rooting out all of those who
did it. From Gaza, heshows up to talk to the United States
Congress. Joe Biden, Well,he can't come because he's got COVID.
He's under lock and key Kamala Harris, the Vice President, I'm sorry,

(01:54:00):
busy. Nobody came and showed up. Anthony Blincoln, Secretary of State.
How about that Chief diplomat to therest of the world. Nobody there.
Volodimirzolenski shows up from Ukraine and theysend a parade to greet him every time
he comes here with his hand out. His nation was invaded by Putin Volodimir

(01:54:24):
Zelenski is hailed as a hero.Benjamin Netanyahoo whose people face calls not only
in the Middle East, but herein the United States, in leftist on
leftist college campuses, and on alot of other forums as well, calls
for their outright extermination from the riverto the sea. Palestine shall be free.
That means wiping out Israel and allIsraeli Jews. And this man can't

(01:54:48):
get an audience with anybody from theadministration. I want that known. I
want that on the record. Thisis not and I hope every American Jew
who is a voter recognizes just howhostile the Biden administration and that now means
the Harris Biden administration truly is towardJews and toward the nation of Israel.

(01:55:13):
I hope this is remembered. InNovember nine, let's do trafficking weather together,
guy Mike don with that, allright, We've got inbound the problem
on I forty five North pree Way, greens Road one two three four vehicles
here in this little who uh southbound, Everybody looks like they're okay. Now
they've taken a right lane. We'rereconfiguring. The ninjas are unseen. We're
pointing at things and we're backed upnow from ranking road on the southbound.

(01:55:38):
This is affecting your ramp. Ifyou're trying to catch a plane, but
you can get around him. Justfind stay the course. If you're going
that way. You do have roadworkat Imperial Valley eastbound westbound on the north
SAM that's roadwork at Aldean Westfield.That's been making us kind of crazy.
If you're heading bever from JFK,look at that's much going that way,
ten or twelve extra minutes that way. North Loop not much of an alternate

(01:55:59):
terry since your hazardous jump on thesouth loop instead north clips all breaks from
hersh South Loop from m l Kto n r G. It's easy for
you to spell, but it's anextra eleven minutes that way. Golf Freeway
breaking now at Edgebrook. Look atthat west Loop down to uptown, Bob,
does that make sense? From twoninety down to west Timer, it's
an extra eleven minutes and then upto uptown, which makes more. We're

(01:56:21):
slow from bel Air by the way, the Oscar Meyer wienermobile has flipped over
in Chicago. I put it onmy social media. You write the punch
line Skymichael the Generator Supercenter, dotCom traffic Center. Everybody's okay, only
uptown. I know a spunk,my brother. Yeah. Times at the
web. Put your pek fingers up. We were talking about Luna Chris.

(01:56:42):
Now we're at Bruno Mars. Aswe are, we're rocking the store.
Let's go. You never know whatto expect, Tom kt R eight,
Thank you, well, I'm goingto tell you what to expect because this
forecast is pretty easy peasy for themeteorologists because we've got rain. If you
don't have it right now, you'llsee it at some point today. Ninety

(01:57:03):
percent chance of showers and storms todayand tomorrow Thursday as well. Seventy percent
chance you'll get wet later in theweek. We're stuck on soggy now heavy
rains. The main concern they'll bethese little pockets of heavy rain with some
of these storms. It could happentoday, it could happen tomorrow, it
could happen even Thursday, and wemay have some flooding develop as a result.

(01:57:25):
So if you do see water coveringthe roads. Don't try to swim
through it. Just go around it, like you know brown Bear brown Bear
book that they read. The kidscan't go over it, got to go
around it kind of thing. Sowe're stuck with the wet weather all week
long. Yeah. I didn't justhear a word of that weather report because
in my head I was doing thelyrics to Uptown Funk and twenty four Carrot

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Magic and just realized I blended them. Take your Fingers to the Moon,
it's twenty four Karen Matche. UptownFunck is the other one. I'm sorry,
Terry, but I got the wordsin my head. Now I'll believe
what everything you said. Anyway,seventy six degrees right now at your official
severe weather station is Radio seven fortyk TIH what you need to know for
the day ahead. This is Houston'sMorning News, brought to you by New

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South Windows Solutions. Okay, sevenforty nine, thanks so much for being
with us this morning. We're gonnacheck that traffic one more time. Then
we'll have a little bit of aturn back to the conversation of Kamala and
the job that she had, theone job that she had when she became
vice president. I wonder if she'sgoing to be called out on it if
she wants to be the president.We'll have that for you after we do

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traffic and weather work. Now time, sky Mike, that's you, Bob.
We've got your Southwest Freeway all smashedup now right at the downtown split,
the exit to Louisiana Street. Andby the way, Louisiana Street's closed
at Rusk northbound at the split SouthwestFreeway to wreck three vehicles, two center
lanes. Looks like everybody's okay.North Freeway will clear the wreck at the
ramp to the Beltway. That's outof the way. We're offully thick on

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that east tex southbound Downtown. Alot of breaks from quipment down to Fannin.
That's nineteen x for minutes. Andby the way, Bob France,
no injuries. And the Oscar Meyerwillnerm Reville wreck in Chicago, but it's
Chicago, so they had to putlike tomatoes and pickles on it. I'm
in the Generator Supercenter dot Com trafficCenter. You sure about all that Chicago
style hooking? That guy just saysbull thank you. Here's what Terry says,

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Oh, is that what you want? You want a sundbite wars that
a bigoted, moronic leftist elite,lying sacks of crap. Yeah, I
just said it. Thunderstorms are coming. It's going to stay that way till
the afternoon. It's going to beovercast. Eighty four tonight showers lowest seventy
five storms the rest of the weekhus in the mid eighties, more rain

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through the weekend, warming into theupper eighties, and right now seventy six.
At your official severe weather station,there's radio seven forty KTRH. Let's
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be at eight a m. Allright, are we having a SoundBite there.
I live in Katie, I livein your reliable forecast next on the
ten on seven forty KTRH so Scherer. We're talking obviously all morning and really
all week, and the entire worldis about Kamala, you know, getting

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pushing through and looking like the almostcertain to be a nominee the Democrats.
We need to look back at whather job was, What job did Joe
Biden give her, of course whenwhen he first took over, and that
is she is going to be theborder czar. Well, Steve cort has
just posted this on Twitter X yesterday, and I think it's worth a revisit
here. Raoul Ortiz. As youknow is the US was the US Border

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Patrol chief under Joe Biden and underBorder Zark Kamala Harris. This is from
an interview with sixty Minutes in whichhe said these things. In our interview,
or Tees criticized Governor Abbott for notcooperating with the Border Patrol and playing
politics with immigration, but he alsoexpressed frustration with President Biden. I've never
had one conversation with the President orthe Vice president for that matter, and

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so I was the chief of thebord patrol. I commanded twenty one thousand
people. That's a problem. Ijust saw fifty people today who had just
crossed the border illegally. So something'snot working. We need to make sure
that Central America, South America,Mexico, that those regions understand that if

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you pay a smungler and you crossin between the ports of entry and you
do not have a legitimate claim tosome sort of asylum benefit, you're going
to be sent back. Do youthe money line there? Of course?
Sharah was Raoul Ortiz saying I hadnever had one conversation with the President of
the United States Joe Biden, andthe or the borders are Kamala Harris.

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How can you be in charge ofsecuring the border when you've never ever met
the border patrol chief? That washer job. And I think this should
be of paramount importance to the Trumpcampaign going forward. Forget about this little
Biden stuff and cognitive this and KamalaHarris that. How about Kamala Harris?
What did you do with the poweryou were given? And when you acknowledge

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the obvious fail the ten to twelvemillion million illegals who have come here,
counting got aways known and unknown.When you talk about that in three and
a half years, how could anybodytrust her with the presidency? Yeah?
And there's also this is this amore minor than what we're talking about,
that ninety three percent staff turnover,people who had to work with her.

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Yeah, well that's really saying alot about the leader of the free world,
supposedly, But when it comes topolicy, you know, things like
this, this is what matters.I mean, yes, there's likability,
there's workability. I mean again,I talked to yesterday about that big splash
article that ran in the Atlantic calledthe Kamala Harris problem, about how absolutely

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unqualified she is and how unlikable sheis. Nobody in the administration liked working
with her, and now the womanwho ninety eight and is this cannot be
overstated too. Ninety eight percent ofDemocrats said no to her just four years
ago. What I mean by thatis of all of the people polled in
the primary primaries of twenty nineteen,Kamala Harris had two percent all Democrats,

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two percent of voted supported her,ninety eight percent supported somebody else. So
now we're supposed to believe that everybodythinks she's going to be just this transformative
Obama like presence. She's going todo a remarkable job on the ME and
on foreign affairs and on security andimmigration and so on and so forth.
What if they think we're stupid.This story is just beginning, and this

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is gas lighting beyond the definition ofstory beginning. Yeah, Well, here's
what I'll and that's that frightens me. Yeah, here's what I want to
know, because we're all being manipulatedhere. Yeah, And if all of
the realities of this start to setin, the things that we're talking about
now and the pulling again over thecourse of the next three four weeks before

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they're convention, if all of thissettles in and she is getting destroyed the
same way Joe Biden was, Iwonder if they don't throw the whole thing
wide open. Hey, we gaveher a shot to close the deal,
but at the convention the delegates areall up for grabs. But a dysfunctional
White House, which is what wehave now and would continue with her,
that allows all those unelected and unseenfaces and Obama's themselves to take control.

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There you go, That's exactly right. So it'll be a very very interesting
thing to see. We will havethe latest on to tomorrow morning when we're
back. Thanks so much for beinghere. We'll talk to you tomorrow on
Houston's Morning News