Tuesday, July 9th, 2024

Jimmy Barrett & Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter the most on the morning of 07/09/24

Episode Transcript

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This is Huge Radio seven forty katrh Houston Live Everywhere with the exclusive audio
home of NBC's coverage of the twentytwenty four Paris Olympics. Now the latest
news, weather and traffic. It'smore of what matters to you from the
John Morris Services studios. Well,good morning, at least a better morning.

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Four am is our time here inHouston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett
Long with Sheriff Fryar's our early editionof Houston's Morning News. On a Tuesday,
one point eight million of us stillhave no power. The Republican Convention
will be starting on Monday and comingup at four oh eight. You're gonna
need a debit card if you wantto shop at Target. Details in the
minute to head. You're in Houston'sMorning News. First, let's stick out

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the morning Drive Sky Mike, Goodmorning, Hey, good morning. All
right, Downtown is closed. I'mforty five. They've shut it off around
Patton and you can't go into downtownon forty five. Also, it ten.
You can't go in on the KatieFreeway from Student and you can.
It's also closed coming in from theBaytown side after fifty nine. That's the
closure to forty five. This isall related to high water. Looks like

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your Pierce Elevated southbound is also closed. A lot of surface treats will get
you there. The Alleesian Viaduct ifyou have to go downtown, our Washington
Memorial Allen Parkway, those are someroutes in If you're coming up from the
south side. You know you couldtake telephone to Polk and get into downtown,
but don't count on being able toget through on a freeway for now.
I've got some underpass and intersection closuresat four to ten in the Generator

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Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center fromr KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four
hour Weather Center partly Lotti today withthe hike temp at you're right about ninety
three. We'll get Terry in herein about an hour and get here too
early this morning, but that's okay. We'll keep you posted there. Nothing
bizarre strange going on with the weathertoday. No, there is some chances
of rain. You're gonna have somedrizzle in various places. I'm looking on

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the map now, okay, soI'll try to keep that up and watch
That sounds pretty safe though we're infor you. Thank you, I appreciate
the help. Yes, right nowseventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty at rh whereit's time for the news. Here's
Sheriff Ryer and we have news.It is now four h two on news
radio seven forty KTRH and our topstory this sound. The rebuild is going

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to be significant. There was realdamage. But the good news is for
Houston, this ain't our first rodeoas Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the greater
Houston area is going to have toclean up now. Started yesterday from Hurricane
Barrel. Many of us more thanone point eight million Center Point customers still
in the dark. However, thismorning, two hundred and eighty five thousand

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were able to get their power back. The crews were working already the minute
the storm cleared, and even beforecompany expects to restore one million customers by
the end of the day Wednesday tomorrow. A lot of people are still going
to be without power for a coupleof days, So let's just be smart
the rest of the way. Youknow, in the next couple of days,

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a lot of the power will beback and we'll get there. I
know it's hot and I know it'stough, but Centerpoint is on it.
They've got sixty five hundred people comingin. Yeah, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
on KTRH, you heard that,sixty five hundred workers coming in on top
of what they already have. Themajority of Montgomery County, though, was
left in the dark by Beryl,probably close to eighty percent of the county

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without power, Trees down everywhere,main roads down up on I forty five
by eight Highway eight point thirty.County Judge Marko compared Beryl to Hurricane Ike.
He's saying approximately eleven five hundred workersoverall. This is not just your
power. Workers have been mobilized tohelp get the lights back on. A
lot of this is just removing damage, removing the trees, power the limbs.

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We're going to talk to a CenterPoint representative at seven twenty later this
morning on Houston's Morning News. We'llhave the updates as soon as we can
get them. More closures and cancellationsof course this morning, including a leaf
I SD, Cleveland, ISD,Conroe. We have a complete list at
KTRH dot com if you can getto it now. Beryl was a killer

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storm at least seven people lost theirlives, including an HPD civilian employee trying
to get to work who was caughtin floodwaters. He came off forty five,
got in flood conditions there at theHouston Avenue underpass, called HPD friends
for help, and I've been thereall afternoon watching his colleagues retrieve his body

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from his submerged car. Mayor JohnWhitmyer there A person was killed in a
fire in southeast Houston, believed tohave been started by a lightning strike.
Two people were killed by trees thatfell in their homes, including a seventy
three year old grandmother. There weretwo deaths in Fort Bin County, an
elderly woman who went out during thestorm things were flying with US wing GUS

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and a child with autism who fellinto a bio Now there are at least
forty seven high water rescues yesterday,Bush and Hobby Airports. This morning,
they're trying to get back on track. They have limited schedules though there have
been more than three hundred cancel flightsso far this morning, mostly at Bush.

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You better check with your airline ifyou were hoping to fly today,
and there's lots of boil water notices. They are broad spread all these different
mud districts, Cypress Hills, Spring, Cypress Water System, anywhere where you
lost water pressure. Boil your waterbefore you start trying to drink it.
It is now four five. We'regoing to move on to some other political

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news. Now. White House visitorlogs revealing that a top Parkinson's expert visited
the White House eight times between lastJuly and this past March. They knew,
including one visit with President Joe Biden'spersonal doctor with a Parkinson's expert.
The administration doesn't want to talk aboutthat. What I can tell you during

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those exams that we have been ableto do every year for the past three
years, and he's a comprehensive examthat we share, conversations, a report
that we share with all of you. He has seen a neurologist, he
is seeing a neurologist. Did youcatch that? Spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre,
she didn't Expand we know that thepresident's position though his personal physician, doctor

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Kevin O'Connor, he has been involvedin Biden family business. Oh, is
that a conflict? Well, weknow that doctor O'Connor was involved in a
shady scheme that dealt with the failinghealthcare company America or Health Oh House Oversight

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Committee Chairman James Comer demanding that O'Connortestify before Congress. Ah, they just
ignore those subpoenas, don't you know. And yet another House Democrat is calling
for Biden to end his run fora second term in the White House.
I think he should step aside.I think it's become clear that he's not
the best person to carry the Democraticmessage. Now that's a Congressman from Washington,

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Adam Smith, Washington State. OnCNN, there was an angry President
Biden, though, who went offon MSNBC during a rambling interview yesterday.
We're going to play that for youplus Donald Trump with kt R h is
Sean Hannity. We'll do that atfive point thirty. It's now four seven.
Sentencing for President Trump and the Manhattanbook keeping trial delayed until September eighteenth.

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But now Texas Base Topello attorney ByronHenry says, look that Manhattan case
is not over. From a legalstandpoint, it makes sense for a court
to tap the brakes. It maybethat this doesn't affect it at all.
I think the real question is isthere jail time, and if so,
is he remanded that day? Hewill have the opportunity as all other defendant
to file an appeal. Yeah,appeals and verdicts overturn. He says,

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We're gonna have to see what happenswith his other three cases too. They
could all be changed, mainly asa result of the Supreme Court and its
rulings. We're now a week awayfrom the start of the publican national convention
Republicans will gather in Milwaukee starting Julyfifteenth to formally nominate Donald Trump for president
and officially launched the twenty twenty fourgeneral election campaign. GOP strategist flat toa

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Vidiots as the party enters this conventionin better shape than any recent presidential election
year. Four years ago was reallyat a tough time because COVID really dampened
a lot of the enthusiasm, andin twenty sixteen it was still not foregone
conclusion that their Alican nominee was goingto win the old lobbison. And this
is a much more positive anticipatory element. In this particular convention, Trump is

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expected to announce his vice presidential nomineeat the convention. The party will also
adopt its official platform, Coryelson New'sRadio seven forty KTRH. Hey, the
astros playing hosting the Marlins pregame atsix on Sports Talk seven ninety. First
pitch seen on seven ninety, andwe'll be playing that as well here on
KTRH. Is a good fashion foryou. Did they get back? Apparently

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they don't know how they got back, but okay, that's good. Well,
you know, there were some limitedoperations. I guess, so I
guess maybe they bust them. Whoknows. Recapping our top story though,
Hurricane Barrel still has one point eightmillion Centerpoint customers without power this morning,
but they hope to have about amillion restored by the end of the day
tomorrow. That's fast action, Jimmy. That is it is. Storm is

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responsible for at least seven deaths thatwe know of across Houston. I'm sure
with rar A News Radio seven fortyKRH. Take today's Donald common sense move
in re election. Here the dominoesfall, political dominoes falling on US Radio
seven KTRH. You won't be ableto shop at Target after July the fifteenth,

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at least not with your checkbook.They will no longer accept checks.
Will they take cash, Yes,they will. They will accept cash is
long as long as it's not counterfeit, and as long as as long as
they have associates working there that knowhow to make change, which is also
a dying art form along with thecheckbook. They say it's just because of

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a lack of volume. I mean, let's be honest about this. There's
no better way to date yourself thanto walk into a grocery store or into
a target and whip out your checkbook and write a check. It instantly
screams, I'm a senior citizen.Unless you live in a small town.
Unless you live in a small town, small community. Sure, sure,

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but I'm guessing you get a lotof cash in a small town. Yeah.
But checks or cash? Yeah,I mean I still write an occasional
check. I write a check tothe guy who cuts the grass, the
guy that services the pool. Idon't write him a check, but I
have to write the checking. Isend the checking routing number to them to

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pay for it. But that's it, when you get down to it,
that's it. That's the only thingleft in my life. Favorite barbecue,
cash or check only there you go, well, I'll have cash. I
always have cash. That's another missingthing, you know. So a few
people have cash. It drives mecrazy. Elizabeth will put like some but
item like two dollars and fourteen centson the debit card to go. Hang
on a second, you didn't havetwo bucks? Yeah, I had to.

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Well then why are you paying witha debit card because I only have
ten dollars left in me? Okay, whatever, just get some more money.
Drives me crazy. Well, youknow, when the power's out,
you're out of luck. Yeah,you are. What are you going to
do? Cash is king when thepowers out? Digital stuff? I mean,
what are you gonna do? Andhere's a perfect example. Right,

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we've got one point eight million peoplewithout power and you can't. That means
businesses, it means they're banks,it means everything. That's right. So
you use your bank open or closed. You know, you can't get any
cash out of your bank right now. If you can find an open grocery
store, you can get some cashthat way. I guess when you're paying
for your groceries with your debit card, ass I mean, that's still working.
But there's a lot of places thatare still close this morning. We'll

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be running through it all morning.You know, the things that are working
and the things aren't quite working yet. It's going to take a while to
get that inspected. A Hurricane Ikewith I was without power for eight days.
I remember, That's why I wentand got a generator. Sure after
Hurricane Ike, you've got your barerback though, right, Yeah, the
generator. My generator was great,you know, I speak for those folks.

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Yes, and my generator was great. It was kicking on and off
all day yesterday. But no internet, you know, no TV, nothing
like that. We had no interneteither. It was the internet that was
bothering me because I couldn't get workemails. And you know, finally I
called the boss. I said,if you're trying to reach me, call
me, you know, if there'sa change in the plan or anything,
let me know. And by theway, you will require some patients for

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all of us. If you're tryingto reach somebody who's in the roofing industry
right now, don't expect to callback right away. Unless you've got some
personal phone number, home phone numberor something for somebody. Same thing of
generator, you're not going to getone installed the next couple of days.
It's just we're gonna have to youhave to ride this one out and know
for next time. Yeah, youknow. I speak for a roofing company
as well as a generator company,and they've they've got the generator. They

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said, it's just gonna they're goingto prioritize people with life life as they
should. All right, let's doa little traffic and weather together. The
big difference between this and I Cootewas sera I kit kind of in the
fall. It was football season.In fact, the cold front came the
next day. Yep, it was. It was nice outside like the whole
week. We kind of had alittle grill out on the on the patio

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here. Alisia wasn't though, Ohno, that was August in three weeks
without power there. That's gonna besteamy for the next few days. We'll
get to the weather in the second. How's the drive look this morning?
And then we have some road closures. Still it's awful all around. I
mean, that's that's the encapsualized answerto that. We've got. Of course,
with eighty percent of the power.Some of the other issues you're having
besides closures is it's awfully dark onthe roadway, so if somebody stalls,

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they happen to not have their lights. We've got a whole new set of
problems here. Noticed on the HardyToll Road this morning my drive in.
Also a lot of the North Loopthe freeway lights are out, so you
know it's awfully dark whichever way you'regoing here on the North Loop six that's
actually one of the better routes thismorning. I know I have a stall
at Lockwood, No big woop there. They've shut down forty five going into

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downtown, the whole North Freeway.They've shut down iten, the Katie Freeway
going in from about Studemont. They'veshut down the North Freeway from Patton down,
and part of the Pier elevated looksto be shut down. I'm showing
the East Tex open now, andalso iten going from the Baytown side to
the KDI side from fifty nine toforty five is shut down. We're gonna

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have to take our surface roads fornow. Got a whole lot more at
the twenty break and the Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic Center from our KTRH
top tax Defenders, twenty four hourWeather Center, partly kloudy about ninety three
for the heights to day mostly Sundayninety three tomorrow and then Thursday, partly
cloudy in the morning. We havea thirty percent shower storm chance in the
afternoon with I temperature about ninety one. Right down seventy four did your official

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severe weather station News Radio seven fortyKTRH. It's Houston's Morning US brought to
you Biden U South Windows Solutions.Now back to Jim and Shah with the
info you need to take on theday. Four twenty is our time here
on Houston's Morning News. We willbut obviously we'll be talking a lot about
storm damage and keep you informed aboutall that stuff. But some news of

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the day will work in as well. Yeah, as much as we can.
Yeah. One of the items Ifound very interesting yesterday is evidently the
elite is making a pack with theNew York Times. We're gonna start leaking
you information about things that are goingon in this White House. I think
we have a real war going onright now between Democrat elites and the President
of the United States. Yeah,and let's not forget the New York Times

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gets an awful lot of information outof the FBI and the CIA. Don't
forget that. Oh yeah, Peterducyshare some of those leaks with us.
Next, first though, traffic andweather. Together, we are checking out
the drive once against sky Mike witha whole host of problems. The big
thing right now is forty five.I'm going to tighten up for time here
to get us back on. Butforty five southbound from Patent that's a shutdown.

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Also northbound. I see they've shutit down at Franklin Street, and
I'm seeing shut more shut down everytime I look around here. Itm westbound
is shut down from fifty nine backto forty five. This is all related
to high water to twenty five amongthe hits this morning, two twenty five
at Richie both ways, they'll putyou on the frontage. I don't think
that's going to cause a big problem. We still have most people staying home.

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East Freeway Federal. That looks tome. I'm gonna double check and
make sure that's just in the feeder. Yes, main lanes are getting by,
and I've got something hit up onthe East Freeway. Magnol You by
the truck stops, got a stallone thing. I know those of you
that fly some of the some ofthe radio tower lights are out this morning,
and of course that causes a holethat's super dangerous. We'll get to

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let's do ship channel bridges at thethirty break and the Generator Supercenter, dot
Com Traffic Center brob R Katie RHTop tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather
center for today Hartley Clady Skies maysee a sprinkler two this morning. Hig
temperature about ninety three. Tomorrow mostlySunday ninety three and then Thursday partly KLAUDI
thirty percent shower chance for the afternoonwith a high ninety one. Terry Smith
and the Weather Channel will join usin the five o'clock hour and we'll kind

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to fine tune the forecast a littlebit more for you. Right now.
Temperature is currently seventy four. Yourofficial severe weather station, News Radio seven
forty KTRH. It is time nowto get you up to date on some
of our top stories. Here's sharefor twenty two on News Radio seven forty
k TRH. We got a millioneight Centerpoint customers without power this morning.

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They restored it to a little overtwo hundred thousand hurricane barrel responsible for at
least seven deaths, Bush and HobbyAirports. They are running, but limited
schedules. Today, Latest news anytimeKTRH dot com. Our next news update
will be at the bottom of thishour four thirty Pasadena a living clearly reliable

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KTRH traffic and weather. Next onthe ten here on Houston's Born News.
Got to fix those leaks well.New York Times hopes they don't fix the
leaks because they like leaks. Here'sPeter Decer reporting on some of the information
New York Times has been leaked.Regarding the current occupants of the White House.
Part of the article says after watchingmister Biden in private, in public,

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and while traveling with him, theofficial said they no longer believed the
president had what it took to campaignin a vigorous way and defeat Donald J.
Trump. The official, who insistedon anonymity in order to continue serving,
said mister Biden had steadily showed moresigns of his age in recent months,
including speaking more slowly, haltingly andquietly, as well as appearing more
fatigued in private, and the leakscoming out of this previously leak proof White

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House are coming quick. A formeradvanced staff are released to Axios, essentially
a picture book showing President Biden howto get to a podium and how to
exit a stage. Trump's advanced directorsays they never did that for him.
Some Democratic operatives say it's actually prettycommon in DC. Something not common,
though, Biden's team sending questions tosomebody interviewing him. Were those questions given

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to you by the White House?Or did you have the campaign or did
you have to submit questions ahead ofthis interview? The questions were sent to
me for approval. I approved tothem. Okay, So the White House
sent the questions to you ahead ofthe interview, Yes, okay. I

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got several questions, eight of them, and the four that were chosen with
the ones that I approved. Thisis what we've got from officials in Wilmington.
While the campaign insists that this isnot at all an uncommon practice,
a source familiar with the Biden bookingoperation tells Fox that they will refrain from
offering suggested questions. Over the weekend, that radio host and her station in
Philadelphia mutually parted waves. Apparently themanagement did not like that during a presidential

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interview, the president's campaign was dictatingwhat could be asked there's no such thing
in radio as mutually parting ways.Somebody either got fired or they quit on
your TV. Right, in broadcasting, that's not what happens, cardinals.
And she revealed the truth, Yes, that she was given the question right

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that she should ask right exactly forher approval, For her approval, kept,
we're sending these to you for yourapproval. I have interviewed many presidents
and heads of state, right ifwe were no you ever required at any
time to ask a specific question I'vebeen asked before. If we appreciate it,
if you would ask him about this, you know that that's not unusual.
But that's that's usually has nothing todo with For example, if you're

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talking to a Senator Cruz, forexample, and he has a bill he's
trying to promote, he would likeyou to ask him about that, in
addition to whatever the questions and otherquestions you have for them. But no,
yeah, never, never, andeven even inside of the White House
itself. But they would use theirown photographer. Sure, you know I
can have a photographer they're standing by, But couldn't you roll our cameras?

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They would and then would hand methe tape I give them a tape.
They put it in their photographer,so there wouldn't be unflattering, right photos
of the first Lady or the Presidentwould exactly sows, But nothing about what
questions I could ask. There yougo. Yeah, it may be common
in this administration, but it isnot common in general. Four twenty seven

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our time here on Houston's Bonning News. Houston's News, Why there were traffic
plus preaking news twenty four to seven. This is US Radio seven forty KTRH
five everywhere boils the more of what'shappening now from the John Moore Services Studios.
Four thirty is our time here onHouston's Bonning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett

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along with Sheriff Fryar Bong. Ourtop stories this half are with Beryl.
The big issues were power and debried. Biden goes off while Trump remains calm
and coming up at four thirty eight, low water pressure means boil the water
before you drink it. Details inthe minutes ahead. You're on Houston's Barning
News. First, we're checking outthat morning drive again. Skot Mike is

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here. Hey, big story isforty five coming into town. They've shut
it down from Patton also northbound offthe Pierce Elevated. They've shut you down
at Franklin. You'll be forced ontoITEN on the outbound, which looks to
be open. Eastbound it Ktie Freewayshutdown at Studemont. Apparently we've got some
kind of high water thing here.Iten shut down westbound from fifty nine over

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also north Belt, the intersection theHardy Toll Road that's completely shut down.
The onlines, none of them seemto care about it, but I want
to let you know, and wellwe will visit chip Channel bridges at four
forty and the Generator Supercenter dot ComTraffic Center prom R KTRH Generator super Center,
twenty four hour Weather Center part thecloudy sky's day just like chance of

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a sprinkle, high temperature right aboutninety three. Terry Smith will join us
next hour with details on the forecasttemperature. Right now remains seventy four your
official severe weather station. News Radioseven forty k TRH. It is time
now for the news. Here's SheriffFryar Morning. Everybody is now four thirty
one on news Radio seven forty kt RH. Our top story this hour.

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I couldn't have been in the parkinglot ten minutes and we were seeing
sideways gusts of wind. With eachone. It was almost like the water
rose and you could see it breakthe bank. Well, that's a familiar
refrain. That woman talking to ourTV partner channel to the Greater Houston area.
Cleaning up today started yesterday once thestorm passed. Hurricane Beryl. It's

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about ready to move into Arkansas thismorning. By the way, as of
this morning, there are here onepoint eight million customers without power. Centerpoint
hoptes to have a million of thoseback online by the end of tomorrow.
We understand what families are going through, certainly with the loss of power.
I do not have power at myhouse. Center Point is there in everything

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they can. They're probably in tenthousand additional personnel. Houston Mayor John Whitmyer.
We're hearing different numbers depending on whichofficial you talk to, but the
Mayor of Houston says ten thousand personnel. More than two hundred eighty five thousand
people have had their power restored sinceyesterday. There are numerous closures again today

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across the Houston area. The completelist is at KTRH dot com. All
Harris County buildings and courts are closed. The district courts are all closed,
no jury duty in Fort Benn County, and classes canceled at Lone Star College
as well as at Rice University.Seven people across the Houston area were killed
in this storm, including a seventythree year old grandmother killed when a tree

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fell in her house in North HarrisCounty. I just thank God for her
life. She was an amazing woman. She raised she raised me up,
you know, pretty much by herself. That's the woman's son with our TV
partner, Channel two. One ofthe other deaths a civilian employee of HBD
on his way to work and hegot caught in floodwaters. If you're traveling

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today, Bush and Hobby Airport runninga limited schedule, check with your carrier.
Hundreds of flights already canceled this morning. Beryl causing structural damage is as
well. Saint Luke's Hospital in LakeJackson suffering substantial damage. Part of the
roof was sheared off in the storm, and the roofed Energy Stadium appears to
have been damaged. Officials say they'rewaiting for a full assessment before they make

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any comment. The Astros are hostinga game here today. City of Houston
has announced that Monday's garbage heavy treewaste will be collected today in the City
of Houston and storm debris collection willbe resuming too. Violent crime continuing even
in Barry's barrels aftermath. By theway, an HPD officer shot in the

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thigh responding to a disturbance in northwestHouston last night. That officer, an
eleven year veteran, in stable conditionto shoot her in custody, is four
thirty four. Now. Donald Trumpboldly predicting who his opponent will be in
the November election. You know,it looks to me like he may very
well stay. And he's got anego and he doesn't want to quit.

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He doesn't want to do that.It just looks to me like that's what
he wants. Trump told Katie RishishwanHannity that if Biden does drop out,
Kamala Harris would be the Democrat nominee. He has to legally hand all that
campaign cash over to her. Can'tgive it to anybody else. There's that
problem. Trump was calm, cool, collected, but there was an unhinged

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Joe Biden raging on MSNBC about hisvocal detractors inside the Democrat Party. I'm
getting so frustrated, but by theelite. Now I'm not talking about you
guys, but about the elite inthe party who they know so much more.
With any of these guys, Idon't think I should run against me.

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Announce the president challenge man the convention. Another House Democrat, Oliver Biden
to withdraw. You're going to hearthat at six am. He was not
on the campaign trail yesterday. Bythe way, by the first lady was
though, we can't take anything forgranted. We have to meet this moment,

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and they our greetings are Jill Bidenin North Carolina, closer to home.
Texas lawmakers when they gather in January, they are going to start with
eight Texas GOP priorities and Sharyl oneof the big ones. No more Democrat
chair positions. The Texas House doesthat. They give massive amounts of power

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to Democrats in the form of chairmanshipsof committees. The Texas Senate does not,
and so the Republican Party of Texashas prioritized ending this practice in the
Texas House. That is political commentatorLuke Messias ending Democrat chairmanships in the Texas
House has five to six times moresupport than it ever has. I think
the likelihood that we banned Democrat chairsis maybe seventy five percent. We've got

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a very good shot at it,along with an even better shot of replacing
House Speaker Dade feel Jeff Biggs NewsRadio seven forty kt ORH here's something in
DC. A new bill proposed byRepublicans, of course, would cut federal
agency budgets by half. As theiroffice spaces sit empty, they can't get

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the employees to come back to work. Charles Blaine of Urban Reform says remote
work has now become the norm inWashington, DC, and some of these
agencies could probably use a decent slashingthat place. Some employment starts at the
top, and so if that's whatthe boss is doing, then you're going
to see denior level management doing thesame things. I definitely think that the

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administration deserves a lot of the blamewhen it comes to this, because he's
setting that tone and that's what peopleare following. Yeah, he says,
some of these agencies could be cutin half. Some offices are under twenty
percent full, they're not even halffilled with workers. Four thirty seven is
our time. Stro's hosting Miami.As I said, pregame at six on

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Sports Talk seven to ninety, firstpitch, and it's going to be simulcast
on seven to ninety and here onKTRH. And of course the top story.
We've got a million eight Center Pointcustomers with no power in the aftermath
of the hurricane. Power crews hopeto have a million though restored by the
end of the day tomorrow. Andwe had at least seven people killed in

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the storm. I'm shereber Fryer onnews radio seven forty KRH. This is
your morning. This is Houston's morningnews, traffic and weather. Every ten
minutes on the tens. This isthe story. We may do a couple
of times this morning. I knowShreer has already mentioned this, but I
feel it's a very important thing todo because we have seen a lot of
notifications coming out from different mud districtsabout boiling your water somebody, I assume

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that's where we're coming from. Imean, a lot of these locations I
don't recognize them, but I meanthere's just one right after another in our
internet and our email here we musthave I'm going to guess five hundred plus
mud districts just in the Greater HarrisCounting area. I mean, they don't
cover very big areas. I've gotone that is just basically my neighborhood.

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It's like neighborhood by neighborhood sometimes.And what happens is a lot of these
places don't necessarily have reliable generator equipment, so when they lose their power,
they reduce you know, they losethe ability in order to purify the water.
So when that happens, they sendout a boil notice, which means
if you use the water, youneed to bring it to a rapid boil

(30:29):
for at least a minute and thenyou can cool it down and drink it
after that. But make sure youstore it in you know, a secure,
safe container. Most people are alot of people that this is space
that a lot of us go outand buy bottled water, especially right before
a hurricanes. So if you haveample bottled water on, you know,
in storage of the house, thenyou're fine. But one of the things

(30:49):
to also remember about that is ifyou if you have low water pressure and
you take a shower, the lastthing you want to do is get that
water in your mouth. Yeah,and you also, if you have power,
restore or be thinking about your icemaker too. Yes, if you
got any think about the ice thatyou're throwing into things throughout the old ice.
Absolutely, and if there's anything else, leave it to the CDC to

(31:11):
state the obvious. But if there'sanything else, such as toxic chemicals or
radioactive material, boiling won't help.Easy wants you to know that because you
can't figure that out for yourself.No long times is the precaution. You
know, it's not like you're goingto have all kinds of pestil and it's
coming through your tap. You knowwhen it's restored, but you know,
until they can do all the testingthat they need to do and make sure,

(31:33):
then well. And it depends tooon how long it's been out.
For example, we had low waterpressure at the house yesterday for maybe four
or five minutes. Oh yeah,and they came back right away, so
it was fine. My guess istheir generator went down, they refield or
whatever and got it back up againsomething along those lines, so it wasn't
down long enough to do any harm. You you have power. I have
power because I have a backup generator. That's the only reason I felt it

(31:56):
was restored to our neighborhood pretty fast. We didn't have that kind of power
line damage, yes, you know, yeah, but no internet, right,
I mean, how do you dothe news without the internet? You
know? It was just like,oh the dearth of news and no TV.
You know, so well, yeah, just driving table's gone, the
Internet's gone. The silence. Thesilence drives you crazy because we're so used

(32:20):
to having our devices and using themall the time. So yeah, especially
if you got kids. Right afterI got finished moving all the tree limbs,
and you know, half my neighbor'strees ended up in my yard and
half of my neighbor's trees at thebottom of my pool. I'm gonna have
to go on like a school ofmission later today. Yeah, I lost
all the trees into the pool.Ike, been through this, yeh,
done it, been there, donethat. We're doing it again. Four

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forty two. Best get the trafficand whether together for the hour gets any
older guests. Guy, Mike,I've read a book by candlelight last night.
You did. I just like,I don't know what kind of do
it? Too bad you didn't havecompany, you know what I mean?
That could have been very romantic candlelight. Well, I have an endorsement.
We'll talk about that at the topof the next hour. Let's go to
the downtown. I forty five atFranklin Street. They're taking everybody off.

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This is the pier s elevated Downtown. They've shut down the North Freeway.
It's shut down from Downtown northbound andthen southbound from Patents some I don't even
know where the high water is onthis, but it's a complete closure,
and that's all we need to know. They're putting everybody on the East Freeway
on the outbound side. You'll haveto go eastbound and then you can go
up the East. Text looks goodfor now and this is a good route.

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It also Katie Freeway. They've shutdown the REMP that goes to the
North Freeway outbound. Same situation.Looks like they've shut down the main lanes.
Got a real dearth of a cameracoverage here. A lot of the
freeway system is down, both camerasand digitals. I don't think I'm going
to need digitals much today. Let'ssee where was I going? Ship Channel
Bridge. We are good to go. Toll Bridge is reopen. It's that

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one lane of fun southbound if youwant to do that. You've got the
Hartmin Bridge open Baytown to Laport bothsides this morning. No wind issues.
Their Sherman Bridge looks nice. Fromthe Budplant to to twenty five. It's
rock and along and we'll check someof your intersection closures at the four fifty
break Sky Michael the Generator Supercenter,dot Com Traffic Center, brobo r KTRH

(34:07):
Generator super Center, twenty four hourWeather Center. Terry's forecast for today includes
partly cloudy skies for the most part, may see a rogue sprinkler too high
temperature ninety three Tomorrow mostly Sunday ninetythree Thursday, partly cloudy in the morning,
thirty percent shower chance for the afternoonwith the high temperature of ninety one.
Terry joins us next hour. We'llfind tune the forecast and find out

(34:28):
who's dealing with Beryl today. Rightnow, temperature is seventy four at your
officials Severe Weather Station News Radio sevenforty KTRH. What you need to know
for the day ahead. This isHouston's morning News, brought to you by
New South Windows Solutions for forty nineis their time here on Houston's Point news.
Boy, sure is good to bein the studio today. I try

(34:49):
to use my home studio yesterday forthe first time in months. Yeah,
thirty five minutes into trying to doan afternoon show on KTRH yesterday, internet
failed gone, And then I triedto text back to the radio station and
my text wouldn't go through. SoI tried calling into the station and my
call wouldn't go through. Or whenit did go through, it was like,

(35:12):
wow, all garbly, but Icould make a phone call to another
city, another place. It wasfine. It was just coming into downtown.
They're coming into uptown. You know, it's weird. It was crazy,
it really is. It was crazy. Things just didn't work right.
And I wonder if it's not bannedwith everybody was trying to use their phones

(35:36):
to do everything. Yeah, Iwonder what the greater lesson of this is,
though, there's got to be agreater lesson here. You know.
Not to sound paranoid, although hurricanesdo make me a little paranoise. Not
to try to sound paranoid, butyou realize how easy it would be to
disrupt things if you could just youknow, take out the internet, take
out the pace. You know,I read dystopian novels, the MP Attack.

(36:01):
Yeah, I'm not trying to gothere. I'm just saying if somebody,
if somebody, if somebody wanted toit would be it'd be very easy
evil actors. Yeah, very easyto cause all kinds of problems. And
it wouldn't be that hard to do. No, it wouldn't be that hard.
You know. I met some it. Like I said, my normal

(36:22):
twenty minute at the most drive homewas an hour and a half yesterday,
dodging trees. I got on quickerthan you, and I had a string
you did, and I was trappedby floodwaters and people driving the wrong way
on the access road because they hadto turn around. You know, turn
around, don't drown. They keeptelling you, well, when you do
it, you may have a headon collision. I mean, it was
just unbelievable. Every time you tryto get off a major freeway and that

(36:45):
was your best bet because all theside streets had trees down, lights down,
power things not working. I mean, it was crazy. It is
please please good Samaritans. And thatwas just amazing to me. That is,
I mean, some of the peopleI met who were trying to be
helpful to other people. It's justyou know, a guy from Oklahoma.
He said, it's my first hurricane, and I hope it's my last.

(37:06):
And I'm looking at him and Isaid, are you here for He said,
yeah, I've got radiation at M. D Anderson, but I'm starting.
And so he and his wife andhe stopped to try to help me
figure out how to get down thestreet. He said, well, I
think that one's okay. It wasn't, but that's okay. Sure, it
was nice, a nice man fromOklahoma. You know, it's funny that
storms like this they bring out thebest in the worst, right in certain

(37:29):
people. I'd like to think inmore people, Thanny, that brings out
the best. But some people gojust nuts. Yeah, sitting in that
service station with a windblow, andI had Jonathan. He was a good
Samaritan. Yeah, nice guy,Jonathan, and we kind of commiserated with
each other. There you go,miser get me out. Misery loves company
all right. Time for a littletraffic and weather together. Let's talk to
the neighbors for the first time ina week or so. How about that

(37:50):
guy my next door neighbors. Shehas a car port in her yard.
It's somebody else's carport, it's nothers, So you know, we're just
charing him. Any ways around theneighborhood with all this weather, what we
have on the surfaces are signals out. Obviously with the powers out, signals
are out watch outs. There aresome people, a lot of people think
that, you know, well,if the signals allow, I'll just go

(38:14):
through it like there's no law there. Where there's the law is still there
if the signals out, so goahead and act like the you know,
signal is still the waist stop.That's the key word right there. Besides
the light outages, we've got alot of intersections that are flooded. You've
got Hardytoil Road at the North Belt, you've got East Freeway, Federal.
I'll down on the surface roads here, Katie Freeway, most of your surfaces

(38:37):
between the belts and downtown. Andof course the big story for now as
far as freeways goes, North Freewaysshut down from downtown up to Patent both
ways. If you're going up thePierce elevated, they'll force you off to
the East Freeway. East text lookslike a good alternate now and again,
if you just got up. Chipchannel bridges are in good shape. Tip
line seven one three two two tips Skymike and the Generator Supercenter dot com.

(38:59):
Trafficks from our KTRH Generator super Centertwenty four hour weather Center partly KLOUDA
about ninety three today mostly Sunday ninetythree Tomorrow Thursday partly KLAUDI thirty percent shower
chance for the afternoon with the highninety one. Tip it. You're right
now still seventy four at your officialssevere weather station. News Radio seven forty
k TRH. Get you caught upon some of our top stories here on
this Tuesday morning. Here's Share fourfifty three now on news Radio seven forty

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KTRH centerpoint, hoping to have amillion more customers back online by the end
of the day tomorrow. Now anhPG civilian officer one of the seven deaths
attributed to the hurricane. Numerous schooldistricts closed again today. The complete lisk
at KTRH dot com. That's whereyou find all the latest news and we'll
have our next news update coming upat five am. You're on Houston's morning

(39:45):
news news Radio seven tey. Well, yeah, we're not normally on this
hour of the day, so youknow, we kind of have to improvise
as we will make our way throughit. Now, one of the sort
of theo I considered sort of abombshell announcement came out of the White House
yesterday. We were completely distracted byhurricane so most of us are unaware that
we found out yesterday, although SHERIdid share it during the early earlier newscast

(40:07):
that evidently a U of Parkinson's expertdoctor has been to the White House eight
times in the last eight months.Yeah, yeah, okay, So that
seems like a pretty obvious opportunity forthe White House to come clean on what's
going on with President Biden. Butas you can tell from Green Jean Pierre
yesterday's press conference, she wasn't comingclean. Could you very clearly guess or

(40:32):
no? Was that expert here toparticipate in anything surrounding the care of the
President United States. So let mejust say a couple of things. We
have had a comprehensive and I justwant to take another step back, comprehensive
physical examination the president has had thatwe've given the comprehensive reports. A very

(40:52):
basic question, hold on, holdon, wait, wait, wait,
wait a second, wait, orat least once, there's no reason to
get back and go back and forthwith me in this aggressive way. You
missed around here about how information hasbeen shared with the press forty or are
sure to be clear this all ofjust by saying what he was doing there
and if it was connected to thepresident, yes or not. I am

(41:14):
not going to confirm that a particularneurologist, anybody, it doesn't matter if
they're a dermatologist or a neurologist.I just want to take a step back
for a second, because I dotake offense to what ED alluded to.
Sometimes I don't have the information,and I will always always admit that,

(41:34):
but I do take offense to whatwas just happening at the beginning of this
briefing. It's not okay taking offenseto being asked a legitimate question and being
repeatedly asked the question because you won'tanswer the question. Grin, John Bierre,
you take one more step back,you're going to fall off the cliff.
Four fifty six. This is usedradio set kat RH Houston Live Everywhere

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with the Irm, the exclusive audiohome of NVC's coverage of the twenty twenty
four Paris Olympics. Now the latestnews, weather and traffic. It's more
of what matters to you. Fromthe John Morris Services studios. It is
five am here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Ryer,
Bunger Top Stores. This f hour. One point eight million of us

(42:24):
still have no power. Republican Conventionwill start on Monday and coming up with
five away warnings about the spreading dinggay fever. Details in the minutes ahead.
You're in Houston's Morning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive.
Sky Mike's here. Let's go aroundthe Horn just to check freeways here.
Of course a lot of our resourcesare out, but I have your

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help. Along the line. Twoninety looks good. Graham Parkway into the
West Loops. So far it's oneof our better freeways. Two forty nine.
Of course, we've got issues onthe surfaces all around it. I
would be super careful in the feederroad. I do have a high water
issue just east of tot just easton two ninety twenty nine twenty I'm sorry
early in the morning and into theBeltway. We look good so far.

(43:06):
North Freeway no problems. Until youtry to get downtown. That's a complete
closure. From Paton on the northbound, we're closed off the pier salvated
right before Allen Parkway, Franklin Street, Skymike and Theegenerator Supercenter, dot Com
traffic Center from b R KTRH,Tom Tax Defenders, twenty four hour Weather
Center partly Colludi for the most parttoday with the high temperature right about ninety
three, We'll get Terry Smith inhere in about nine minutes with a complete

(43:30):
forecast. Temperature right now is seventyfour at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.It is time now for the news.
Here's Sheriff Ryer. Good morning.Everyone is now five o one on news
radio seven forty KTRH and our topstory this hour. We just came through
a very serious storm. Sadly,it took the lives of three Houstonians.

(43:52):
For those three, we grieve forthem, we pray for their families.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz there Hurricane Barrelresponsible for seven days in the Houston area.
Five people have died due to fallingtrees. The other death was an
HBD civilian employee caught in floodwaters.Trying to get to work. Meantime,
the cleanup underway, we will assessall that damage pretty quickly. Of being

(44:15):
in touch with Mayor Whittmeyer I thinkfour times, and we've been friends for
a long time. We work welltogether. We know how we can help
the city, and so we've beendoing that. Yeah, Lieutenant Governor Dan
Patrick acting as governor while Abbod isout of the country. He was on
KTRH and talking about state services tohelp assist. As for the power situation,

(44:37):
one point eight million Center Point customerswithout lights this morning. The number
of averages no surprise really to EricBerger of Space City Weather, this track
really was ideal for wind damage.And I don't mean ideal in the good
way. I mean it's sort ofreally set it up well to deal damage
across the most populated part of thecity. Yeah, more than two hundred
and eighty five thousand customers have gottentheir power back. Centerpoint expects to restore

(45:01):
one million customers by the end ofthe day tomorrow. You've got to get
out there and get eyes on whatexactly what damage has our system incurred,
and then that way we can developan efficient restoration plan. That's Alisha alsoby
with Centerpoint. Approximately eleven five hundredworkers were told have been mobilized to get

(45:22):
the lights back on. We're goingto be talking to Center Point at seven
twenty on Houston's Morning News. Moreclosures and cancelations this morning, including Spring
Branch, Galina Park, Galveston ISDS. A complete list of those school closures
at KTRH dot com. District courtsare closed today as well. Here in
Harris County. There are mass internetoutages as well. In Beryl's wake.

(45:45):
In a statement to KTRH it's atand T that said, quote, our
teams will begin assessing the damage andwe'll work to ensure customers are connected as
soon as possible end quote. Cityof Houston resuming storm debris collection today.
Monday's garbage and heavy tree waste willalso be collected today. It's now five

(46:08):
oh four. President Joe Biden's doctorhas released a letter claiming that the President
has not had not seen a neurologistoutside of his annual physical This after reports
that a top Parkinson's dog did visitthe White House eight times over an eight
month period. They're spending it.Administration doesn't want to talk about this either,

(46:28):
and wants to avoid the subject ofBiden's cognitive condition entirely in multiple outlets
on both sides of the Atlantica Westevery Days Equipal with questions from European leaders
dot presidents capacity to leave to leadthe United States, and you're just denying
that. I'm not aware of anysuch conversations that have been had, certainly
done with us and here at theWhite House and with our staff. We're

(46:50):
looking forward to it. Yep.That's the spokesman for the National Security Council,
John Kirby. And there's this.The President's doctor, his regular doctor,
Kevin O'Connor, was involved in theBiden family business. This was a
deal with Jim Biden. We knowthis because Jim Biden talked about it in
the transcribed interview that our committee conductedwith Jim Biden. House Oversight Committee Chairman

(47:15):
James Comer demanding that O'Connor testify beforeCongress while you were the doctor, what
were you doing involved in their businesses? More House Democrats going public telling the
president to end his campaign. Wegot a good message. The president has
shown he is not capable of deliveringthat message. That's a congressman from Washington

(47:37):
Adam Smith and CNN. President Bidenresponded in what was an off the rail
interview on MSNBC. We'll have thatfor you at six point thirty plus Donald
Trump sit down with k t RHSSean Hannity. It's now five oh five
o five. Donald Trump's sentencing inthe Manhattan case has been postponed until September.

(47:58):
So what are the expectations now.It's a question that I asked Texas
based Appella attorney Byron Henry. IfI'm the Trump former President Trump's camp,
I am assuming he's going to getjail time. Every delay benefits President Trump,
even though this puts him in themiddle of election season. So what
happens in September? The real questionis is he given jail time and is

(48:22):
he remanded on that date or givena date to report, Because what will
happen if he's given a date toreport is that they'll file their notice of
appeal and their motions that he'd remainout of jail penning appeal, which would
be until after the election. JeffBiggs News Radio seven forty k t H.
Despite all that's gone before it,the presidential race officially begins next week

(48:43):
in Milwaukee, Republicans gathering to formallynominate Donald Trump for the third time getting
the nomination. JLP strategist Laed Davidiksays there couldn't be a bigger contrast between
Republicans and Democrats this year. Oneparty has a clear, positive and forward
looking vision for America, and onthe other side, you have a party

(49:07):
that's in complete disarray, panicking,backstabbing each other, trying not to lose
power that they're clinging to with theirfingernails. The Republican National Convention running July
fifteenth through the eighteenth, with Trumpexpected to announce his VP nominee at the
convention, however he might reveal itbefore. This is a campaign spokesman telling

(49:29):
Fox News, and you know again, they keep saying the contenders are North
Dakota Governor Doug Bergham and Ohio Senatorjd Vance. I don't know. Five
oh sevens are time, The askersare home and they are hosting the Marlins
pregame at six on Sports Talk sevenninety, first pitch at seven ten on
both seven ninety and we will joinhere on KTRH. Top story. Of

(49:52):
course, Hurricane Barrel still has onepoint eight million Centerpoint customers without power,
and they're aiming to have a millioncustomers power restored by the end of the
day tomorrow. They're bringing in overeleven thousand extra workers in order to accomplish
that. We have a death tollof at least seven all across the Greater

(50:12):
Houston area. From Beryl, I'mSherriff Ryar on news radio seven forty KTRH.
If it's happening, people coming acrossthe board of Future America bring down
inflation, it happens here, Iturn on ktr H on news radio seven
forty KTRH. Five oh eight isour time here in Houston's Port news.
Dan gay fever or however you howdid you say you pronounce it? Well?

(50:35):
I have people I know who havedangy fever. Dngy, yeah,
dangy you know, just kind ofgo gee. That's the way you texasize
it. Oh, okay, I'mseeing it. I'm still working on my
Texas. Yeah. It's just local. It's a local thing, kind of
like Sam Phillippy gotcha or Sam philippgotcha, got you? Here's what Here's
what I don't understand. I mean, these warnings continue to come out and

(50:58):
I understand it's a it's a series. It's becoming a worldwide issue. Yeah,
it's a worldwide issue. You don'tget rid of it. It's like
malaria, you know, you careto have it forever. That being the
case, And that's what's kind ofpiqued my interest about this is how is
it that I mean, it's it'sa news story, but nobody is talking
about any sort of a danky fevervaccination. No, he's talking about any

(51:22):
sort of mandatory you know, can'tcan't go to these places during the summer
months because you're going to get exposedto mosquitoes. It's mosquitoes, Garriot.
That's why, when we're not talkingto anymore of all this rain, we've
had better hope that Harri's County mosquitoControl gets in action. I guess the
point I'm trying to make is this, this strikes me as a much bigger

(51:43):
deal than COVID ever was. Sowhy is it that COVID became such a
big deal and everybody has to bevaccinated against it and we have to shut
things down, But dingy fever not? No, Well, you know,
yeah, it's a problem, butwe're keeping an eye on it kind of
thing. It's a much more laxadaisicalapproach, even though it's a much more
serious illness. I don't see anycommercials on TV for, you know,

(52:06):
talking about dang gay fever back.But I saw one yesterday for pregnant women
to get the COVID nineteen vaccine anytimeduring their pregnancy, as recommended by the
CDC and by the American College ofObstetricians and Gynecologists. And I thought to
myself, really, that's a wewould take a chance on something that we

(52:27):
know has some not so pleasant sideeffects for a pregnant woman. They won't
even tell you what's in it.That's what bothers me. You know,
how am I supposed to take andtake them serious about other things? You
know, they don't. They don'ttake dang gay fever that seriously, but
they take COVID that seriously. Doesn'tmake any sense to me. Well,
dangy feer is like malaria, surevaccines exactly. It's a big deal.

(52:51):
Oh gee, hydroxychloric one. Ohyeah, that's the truth, you know.
Five eleven. Time for thinking weathertogether sky Mike. Hey, Hey,
the biggest problem you have to dealwith Our drivers have to do with.
Yeah, I'm glad you qualified thatit's I forty five downtown trying to
get in. We're shut off fromPatton trying to get out. You're shut

(53:14):
off from Branklin Street. And whatthey'll do is they'll put you on I
ten eastbound. And the thing todo there is go up to the East
tex East Texas running nicely now andmake your way around the loop. Stay
loopy on six' ten because onthe north loop we look good. I'm
not seeing any problems on the Southloop either, So normally I'd send you
that way if you're hazardous terry.But this is the way to get around

(53:35):
if you don't need to go directlyinto downtown. Of course your back hacks.
If you're new here, Allen ParkwayMemorial. You could take Shepherd from
the north and hit these two,or you could do the allegion y it
Doug. Most people forget about thatroadway Hardy Allusion that comes right off the
Hardy Toll Road. Hardy Toll Road. We are sunk right under the north
Belt. That intersection completely covered though. Shut you off there if you're trying

(53:59):
to catch a plane, that mightaffect you. Also, I've got so
many under the freeway closures here.Signals are out all over the place.
Let's go. Let's go to GeitarDave on the north side. Hey,
thanks Scott, Mike. All thestreet lights, all the red lights are
out from forty five the Parker Roadin the airline. It's pitch black out
here. I read nineteen eighty oneghost Stories of Texas by flash lights last

(54:22):
night. I scared my soil.You know, we're learning different ways,
Terry. I was telling them inthe last hour. I read a book
by candlelight last night. So findingother stud to do here. Let's visit
your west side at the five twentyreport. Good morning, by the way,
I'm in the Generator Supercenter, dotCom Traffic Center. What's that noise
from our Katie? I reached toptax defenders twenty four hour wather Center.

(54:45):
Terry Smith is here. We're dealingwith a barrel hangover this morning. What's
the cure for a barrel hangover?Do you have one for us? Aian?
Yeah, a cure, yes,but it involves alcohol and not all
our listeners, sir over twenty one, I suspect, Oh my goodn so,
thank goodness, Beryl has made itsway well to the north and actually

(55:05):
has brought us, believe it ornot, a little bit of dryer air,
and the temperatures are where they're supposedto be. You know, we
were dealing with so much heat andhumidity prior to this. Well, now
it's a little dryer and not quiteas hot. But we still do have
a heat advisory today for most ofthe day because with our typical humidity,
the heat and disease are going tobe around one hundred or slightly higher.

(55:30):
A lot of people are without power, and that by itself is dangerous,
so there's not a way for peopleto cool off. So definitely extra caution
is warranted and nice cold drinks asmuch as you can cold water, by
the way, So we're dry today, load of mid nineties Tomorrow, there's
only a twenty percent chance of ashower thunderstorm. Load of mid nineties tomorrow.

(55:51):
We're going to start to see somemarine creep back Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Thursday of forty percent chantsof thundershower Saturday, Friday and Saturday,
seventy percent chance of more rain.Temperature right now seventy four at your official
severe weather station, News Radio sevenforty KTRH. It's Houston's Morning News,
brought to you Biden U South WindowsSolutions. Now back to Jimmy and Sharrah

(56:14):
with the info you need to takeon the day. So the evidence is
mounting that the current president of theUnited States has Parkinson's disease. We had
a doctor who's been there, aneurologist who's been to the White House eight
times in the last eight months.We also have I also have another doctor
who, by the way, sayshe could diagnose Joe Biden from the other

(56:35):
side of the mall based on hissymptoms, which are classic in his mind.
I'll share some audio with you onthis next first though, traffic and
weather together and Skymike. All right, Katie Freeway, Let's stay on those
mainlanes to avoid the closures. You'vegot the high water at the beltwagh More
high water around Bunker Hill, Bingaland also Chimney Rock. And this is
on the inbound feeders. Outbound,I'd be super careful. I can't see

(56:57):
everything there. Forty five is shutdown. I wasn't able to get the
Love's truck stop now because they cutit off at Patton. Plus the powers
out anyway and outbound from downtown.That's a shutdown of forty five. We'll
get to more downtown at the fivepoint thirty. Let's go Gerald from Conrad.
Let's look north, sky Mike.I just drove all the way in
from Nacatocha something. The North Freewayforty five all the way from Hauntsville into

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Conroe is clear, thin traffic andit's moving fast. All right, that's
outstanding. My first post storm bananasticker goes to Gerald from Conroe. Let's
go up to the Sticks, EastTex. Good morning, sky Mike.
For people out in the Sticks.Both at both fuel stations at two forty
two and fifty nine are open andhave fuel up on in a track for

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born on two eighty eight. Pleaseall right, I'll get to that.
That is huge having those two truckstops Circle K and also the Flying Jade.
They have power, they're upset heighta big John up there too.
Eighty eight for now on the outboundis looking good. Inbound, it's pretty
sketchy at the south loop, butif you use a little cash into the
area, as the normal traffic reporterssay, you should be able to get
in just fine. We'll take alook at the golf at the five thirty,

(58:06):
the Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center. Yeah, it's a big deal
having an open gas station for sure. From Mark KTRH top tax Defenders,
twenty four hour Weather Center, Partlyklaudy about ninety three today mostly Sunday ninety
three tomorrow, Partly klaudy for themorning thirty percent shower chance in the afternoon
on Thursday with the Hive ninety oneright now seventy four at your official severe
weather station. News Radio seven fortyKTRH. Let's get you caught up on

(58:30):
some of our top mornings stories thismorning day after barrel Well, it's top
of the morning to YouTube Jimmy,It's five twenty three on news Radio seven
forty KTRH. These headlines are sponsoredBymorrow Mechanical Center. Point has restored power
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more than a million by the endof the day tomorrow. Boil water notice

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is in place for Cypress Hills andthe Spring Cypress Water System. A lot
of boil water nooses coming out.You need to contact your own mud district
if you're in one as more countriesare pushing toward a four day work week,
grease may actually increase. They maygo to a six day workweek.

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Now latest news anytime kturah dot com. Our next update will be at five
thirty. Well once on our underconstruction two eighty eight sixty ten accidents and
alternate next on the ten line sevenKTRH. All right, so the cat
seems to be coming out of thebag now. Every day there's something a

(59:34):
little bit newer about what's going onwith President Biden, and the last one
being now we seem to be gettinga more specific diagnosis. Of course,
we can't get it confirmed that perhapshe has Parkinson's. That there's been a
neurologist there Parkinson's expert eight times inthe last eight months, like on a
monthly visit. There another neurologist,his name is doctor Tom Pitts. Was

(59:55):
on NBC. This is where Igot this audio. It's from NBC.
Even the mainstream networks are starting toreport on this. Here's what he had
to say about the current symptoms hesees from President Biden, what you saw
at the debate, the last fewinterviews, the way he speaks, the
way maybe he walks. Have younoticed anything that gives you a red flag

(01:00:15):
as a doctor? Oh? Yeah, I see him twenty times a day
in clinic. I mean it's ironicbecause he has just such classic features of
nerd degeneration. I mean word findingdifficulties. And that's not oh I couldn't
find the word. That's from degenerationof the word retrieval area. He's also
overcome stuttering though, could that Couldthat be part of that too? No,
this is not a palattle issue ora speech discrepancy, which is very

(01:00:36):
different from a lemon nod dysfunction,actual word retrieval where you pick a similar
question or talk around the issue.Plus the rigidity, monotone voice. Wait,
go back to that, the rigidity, loss of arms swings standing up
lord Dotically, you notice when heturns, it's kind of end block turning.
It's not a quick turn. Sothat's one of the hallmarks of Parkinson's

(01:00:58):
is rigidity and bray of kinesia,slow movement, and he has that hallmark,
especially with the low voices. Thatwas a cold hypophonia. A small
monotone voice like this over time isa hallmark of Parkinson. Is that whisper
thing he does, and then there'sjust dementia and maybe Alzheimer's an old agent.
Jortney, he had a brain whatwas their brain hemorrhage, a brain

(01:01:21):
tumor, he had brain surgery,He's had he's had fright. I mean,
I mean, there's just no denyingthat he is cognitively challenged. I
wonder if in a devious way they'retrying to pick on him, because look
what happened to Trump when he gothis mugshot taken, he got thrown in
jail. Are they trying to raisesympathy for the guy. Maybe it's a
lot easier to feel sorry for somebodywith parkinson. Well, don't pick on

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him. You know, well,who's in control of the nuclear football?
That's all I want to know exactly. Five Come, they're not asking that
five twenty seven. Our time,got to get to your money, Courtney
donaholl, Good morning, Yes,good morning to me. More than two
point three million residents and businesses ineastern Texas still without power. That according
to Poweroutage dot US, about eightyfive percent of the customers served by Centerpoint

(01:02:05):
Energy lost power. Centerpoint has broughtin more than ten thousand workers to restore
service. However, the company iswarning parts of its local network could require
replacement, not just repair when itcomes to energy. Some infrastructure remains offline.
Port of Houston will remain close today. Officials say they will continue to
assess and repair damages. Meantime,The Explorer pipeline is also partly down due

(01:02:28):
to the storm. Turning to trading, futures are pointing to gains at the
open. On the agenda, FatReserve Chair Jpowell heads to Capitol Hill today
for his semi annual testimony. Dowfutures are up fifty points un Courtney,
Donahoe, Bloomberg Business. On NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. You are Houston's
News, Whether are traffic plus BreakingNews? Twenty four to seventh. This

(01:02:52):
is News Radio seven forty KTRH TrialEverywhere with the IR app more of what's
happening. Now's the John Morris ServicesStudios CIVE thirty is our time here on
Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Barrenalong with Sheriff Ryar. Among our top
stories this half hour with Barrel,the big issues, power and debris.
Biden goes off while Trump remains calmand coming up at five thirty eight.

(01:03:15):
Want to make more money be anextrovert. Details in the minutes ahead.
You're on Houston's Boning News. First, we're checking out that morning drive.
Here is Skymike. I'm still showingsome closures on the Hardy Tollward. Looks
like on the frontage road. Lookslike the main lanes are doing fine.
I can tell you they rocked comingdown from Bush Airport this morning. East
Texas open. We've got frontage roadclosures again. It's high water. Just

(01:03:37):
north of the forty five between Pattonand Downtown is completely shut down. Southbound,
They've got more water issues outbound comingoff the Pierce Elevated. That's a
total shutdown from Franklin and looks likewestbound also it tend coming through town shut
down from the east. Text backto forty five. We're gonna have to
jump on those street levels. SkymiaelA Generator Supercenter, dot Com Traffic prom

(01:04:00):
Our KTRH Generator super Center, twentyfour hour Weather Center part of the Cloudium
warm today. Looks like about ninetythree for the high temperature. Terry Smith
will join us in about nine minutesand give us an update on where Beryl
is this morning. In other words, who's backyard is she bothering? And
uh, you know, we'll checkthe rest of the forecast of the weekend
around here cheap at your right nowseventy four at your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty k TRH.Good morning everyone, five thirty one

(01:04:25):
on News Radio seven forty KTRH andour top story this hour. Pretty scary,
right it happened very quickly, fasterthan Harvey. That woman with our
TV partner Channel Too Houston recovering theGreater Houston area from Hurricane Barrel. But
as of this morning, is stillone point eight million customers without power,

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down from a high though that struckyesterday of two point two million. Around
one point six million in Harris Countywithout power, so as expected, more
people lost power than the Rich show. Harris County Judge Alena Hidalgo Centerpoint hopes
to have a million customers back onlineby the end of the day tomorrow.

(01:05:08):
Don't forget this stretches outside of HarrisCounty Montgomery County. We have had more
than two hundred and eighty five thousandpeople with their power restored so far.
Crews are working tirelessly. We haveanother day of closures again today, including
Gallison College, HCC, San JacinoCollege. The full list to KTRH dot
com. Beryl killed at least sevenpeople in the Houston area, including a

(01:05:31):
seventy three year old grandmother who diedwhen a tree fell in her house in
North Harris County. I'm gonna loveher always so and you know there's none
not stupid, just to keep goingforward. That woman's son. One of
the other deaths was a civilian employeeof HBD who was on his way to
work and got caught in floodwaters.The storm's total death toll at least eighteen,

(01:05:54):
including deaths in the Caribbean and inMexico. Bush and Hobby Airports here
running a limited schedule this morning.If you're traveling, check with your carrier.
Hundreds of flights have already been canceledtoday. There are continued internet issues
at and T, Verizon and Exfinity. We also saw structural damage in the
storm. Part of the roof wassheared off of Saint Luke's Hospital in Lake

(01:06:17):
Jackson. Now the roof at EnergyStudium reportedly had some damage. Officials don't
confirm that until they take a fullassessment. Stro's will be playing here today.
Monday's garbage and heavy tree waste.It's going to be collected by the
City of Houston today. Storm debriscollection resuming today as well. Beryl now

(01:06:38):
a tropical depression threatening Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri before heading further up.
I don't know, Jimmy, lookslike straight for Detroit. Houston will build
from Beryl as we did from Harvey, and we're going to have to rebuild
as we did from Harvey, Ikeand other storms. And despite this struggling

(01:06:59):
national ECONO, Houston economy at leastwhen it comes to construction is not really
missing a beat right now. Construction'sdoing surprisingly well. We didn't expect it
to do as well this year.Amount of construction contracts issued so far this
year well above this time last year. Patrick Jenkowski, with a greater Houston
partnerships, expects a trend to continue, ads that higher interest rates are really

(01:07:21):
not having the effect on construction thathe thought they would. At least here
we did here just moments ago fromCourtney that the Port of Houston is closed
again today. So that's a majoreconomy driver for our city. And again
the storm affected that violent crime didn'tstop though an HBD officer shot in the

(01:07:42):
thigh and stable condition. He respondedto a disturbance in Northwest Houston last night.
The shooter in custody. It isfive thirty five. Comparing contrast here,
Donald Trump sitting down with KGRH SeanHannity for an exclusive interview last night.
We're heading into World War three inmy opinion, with this man semi
running things because he's not running things. Trump predicting though that Biden will stay

(01:08:05):
in the race because of his egoand those around him. And there was
Joe Biden raging, mumbling through aninterview on MSNBC, especially about the number
of Democrats calling for him to dropout of the race. I got a
pretty good political instinct and I andhere's the deal. It's not going to

(01:08:26):
happen here this time around. TheAmerican public is not going to move away
from me as an average voter.Biden on morning, Joe Biden did some
phone interviews, but it was thefirst lady who was out on the campaign
trail. Donald Trump wakes up everymorning thinking about one person, and one
person, only himself. We knowwhat Donald Trump was like as commander in

(01:08:56):
chief. Shakespeare's advertising for him,who is she thinking about? Jill Biden
in North Carolina, there were somebooze. Did you hear that? Five
point thirty six. The Biden administrationclaims the border crisis getting better and Operation
Loan Star has helped, But reallythe invasion isn't slowing down. Illegals are

(01:09:21):
still crossing the border. They justaren't being caught. They figured, well,
even they're not going to be ableto turn themselves in, we're going
to adjust and bring these people undetectedinto the country. And that's exactly what's
happening. Former Homeland Security Agent VictorO. Avylaw told KTRH. Even these
lower numbers Biden is bragging about arestill a crisis. Remember even Jay Johnson,

(01:09:41):
the Secretary of Homeland Security, sayingthat a thousand illegals at one day
was unsustainable back then. Avylaw says, if we wanted to even get down
to one thousand crossings, we wouldneed cooperation from Mexico, which isn't likely.
Ethan Buchanan News Radio seven forty KTRHour border crisis includes a rising number
of attacks now at US military installationscoincidence across the country. We're seeing incidentss

(01:10:06):
of migrants from special interest nations,so called special interest aliens is what the
Border Patrol refers to them as peoplefrom countries that have connections to ties with
terrorism. We're seeing more and moreof those people being found near military bases
bright Bart's Bob Prize, he says, is Biden completely at fall for this

(01:10:27):
five point thirty seven Stros Hitting hostingthe Marlins pregame at six and Sports Talk
seven to ninety First Pitch seven tenon both ninety seven ninety and KTRH.
Hurricane Barrel. Of course, stillone point eight million Center Point customers in
the dark this morning, hoping tohave a million of those restored by the
end of the day tomorrow. We'vehad seven deaths across the Greater Houston area

(01:10:50):
from the storm. I'm Sherb Fryaron News Radio seven forty KTRH, Classic
Elite, Chevy, Sugarland dot Com, The Elite, buy Elites. What
happened, Why it happened? JimmyBarrett and Sheriff Fryar explain it. Now
back to Houston's morning News. Notan extrovert. Five thirty eight is their

(01:11:12):
time here in Houston's boy News.Don't talk to me, leave me alone.
That's what introverts are, I guess, prefer to be alone than to
be around a bunch of other people, while extroverts are more people person oriented.
What they don't know. Here's whatthey do know. Extroverts make more
money than introverts. And that makessense because you're more willing to interact with
your boss, you're more willing tointeract with your co workers, you're more

(01:11:36):
willing to just interact in general.So you're kind of out there. I
mean, extroverts can get to thepoint of being slightly obnoxious with it when
they don't understand they're invading your personalspace. But jerly speaking, it's a
much more effective way to make aliving than being an introvert who prefers to
kind of be alone and quiet anddon't you know, don't get overly involved

(01:12:00):
in anything and blah blah blah.What they don't know is why extroverts or
introverts are the way they are.Is it an inherited personality trait from somewhere,
Is it nature or nurture. Isit the way you're brought up or
it is is it just your inherentpersonality? What do you think Shara,

(01:12:21):
I think it's inherent no introverted kids. Sure, extroverts and extreme extroverts have
a hard time understanding introverts, butonce you figure it out, it's really
amazing. Yeah. And I thinkthere's all sorts of different sliding scale between
the two. Yeah, I know, people, I think. I think

(01:12:43):
I'm somewhere in the middle of thatscale. I like my alone time.
I like the quiet. I don'tneed to have a bunch of people around
me to enjoy myself. I findintroverts to be incredibly inventive. So this
whole money thing, I don't know. You know, maybe you get on
better with your bosses if you anextrovert, but it seems to me,
what if you're the boss. Iknow, I know a lot of introverts

(01:13:05):
who are boss that they make alot of money. Yeah, they do.
And and you know, the greatthing is a point well made because
if you are alone a lot,then you have a lot of time to
think. You know, they saythe best way, the real definition.
It's not that you don't like people, it's just the crowds wear you out.
Yes, it just takes too muchenergy. So if I get inspired

(01:13:27):
by crowds, I love crowds.I get hyper in crowds, as you
well know, but introverts not somuch. It means that it doesn't mean
they can't interact, but there's apoint where it's like I need to go
home now and get myself together.And when you see that, you think,
well, I think it's selective too, because Elizabeth is very much that
way. She does not like crowds. Crowds, Oh yeah, she's she's

(01:13:51):
almost frightened by big crowds. She'scharming, and she's very extroverted. I
mean, she's very personal. Imean, and she'll talk to any and
she'll talk to anybody. But yeah, it's more of a one on one
or a small group versus a largegroup by forty one time for traffic and
weather together. Hey sky Mike,there's no doubt what you are, buddy.
Yeah. I think that's a yearand a stream extrovert slood. I

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think you know. Tone it downis something I hear everywhere. You're a
sheriff friar and the barade run hitterwhere the water canon is Oh yeah yeah,
well yeah, the Shoeman Bart Festival, you're welcome for that. Let's
head for the kdie Freeway inbound.I've got this closure at Studemont coming into
downtown. What they've had to dois they've also closed the ramp that takes
you to forty five North. Idon't know exactly where this flooding is,

(01:14:35):
but you know white Oak BAYU isright there, so it could be a
lot of spots. But either way, North Freeway is shut down between Patton
and Downtown. On the inbound andthen outbound off the Pier elevated from Franklin
Street. They're putting you off thisway over toward the East Freeway. East
Texas actually looking good now, andthis would be a good time to get
loopy. Yeah, if either way, whether your hazardous or not, Terry

(01:14:58):
six' ten, let's do that. If you don't have to work downtown.
If you're working downtown, remember yourside streets like Shephard Memorial, Allen
Parkway, and the Alesian Viaduct.I've got KEYO from Leak City, dude
forty five, guy, Mike,We're clear all the way forty five northbound
up to Piers Elevated. Once youget on Piers Elevated, they are diverting
us to Iten E all right.I don't know how long that's going to

(01:15:23):
be, but we're watching it everyten minutes in the Generator Supercenter. Dot
Com Traffic Center from r KTRH GeneratorSupercenter, twenty four hour Weather Center Terry
Smith, Baryl Barrel go away,ruins someone else's day? Whose days get
ruined today? Whose day is gettingruined today? Today? It's mainly up
in Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois, and the main concern there is flooding.

(01:15:47):
It's not wins because Beryl has obviouslyweakened considerably, but a lot of
tropical moisture with this thing and it'scoming down there, so flooding's the main
concern. In fact, flooding fromBaryl could extend as far north as Michigan.
So yeah, rather soggy day today, you know. And it's not

(01:16:08):
much fun along the east and westcoast because we've got all kinds of heat
advisories and excessive heat warnings. Sowe're in the midst of summer. We
have a heat advisory. Temperatures todaywill be in the load of mid nineties.
The heat index in and of itselfis nothing out of the norm for
US, somewhere between ninety eight andone six. But because so many don't

(01:16:29):
have power. That's one resource tocool yourself off. That can be problematic
obviously, So yeah, it's takeit a little easy until we get our
power back on. Make sure you'regetting plenty of water, and find someplace
cool to hang out. So adry day to day, load to mid
nineties Tomorrow, a twenty percent chanceof rain, forty percent chance of those
thunder showers Thursday, better chance bythe end of the week. Friday and

(01:16:53):
Saturday temperatures, I should say aseventy percent chance of rain by the end
of the week. We're not goingto see much change in our temperatures,
mainly low nineties most of this week, right down seventy four at your official
severe weather station, News Radio sevenforty k TRH. What you need to
know for the day ahead. Thisis Houston's Morning News, brought to you

(01:17:13):
by New South Windows Solutions. Youknow, by two thirty or three yesterday
afternoon, the sun was out,the winds had died down, and it
was like nothing ever happened unless youlooked out in your yard and saw the
trees that were down, and oryou listened to the generator's hum in the
neighborhood and you're there without lights on. So now we're in the debris pickup
and recovery mode here. Brian Murraywill join us in just a moment.

(01:17:35):
He's with Harris County's Office of EmergencyManagement. We'll talk to him about the
damage in Harris County. Next.First though, traffic and weather together,
starting with Usky Mike, all right, downtown's becoming our real packup since the
storm began. This is forty fivenorthbound. I'm looking from Franklin Street.
You can't go outbound on the NorthFreeway off the pier salivated. They're shutting
you off, forcing you off ontoit in eastbound lanes and you could take

(01:17:58):
sixty nine either way northbound orse southbound. Get on the loop and that's your
best way around. Quickly with Mikefrom Magnolia to ninety eight. God,
Mike's taking it easy and flow.No traffic lights than old Magnolia, Nicol
Folmel Muskie. Take it easy,Tata. If you can't vote, all
right, boom Mike from Magnolia.It's the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center
from KTRH Generator super Center, twentyfour hour weather center. Today partly cloudying

(01:18:23):
warm with the hiph ninety three.Tomorrow partley cloudy but a twenty percent chance
of nicely a shower storm ninety three, and then Thursday partly CLOUDI in the
morning forty percent shower storm chance withthe high temperature about ninety one. Right
now seventy four and your official severeweather station, News Radio seven forty k
TRH here to update some of ourtop stories. Here share It's five fifty
two now on news Radio seven fortyk t RH. Our headline sponsored by

(01:18:46):
DNM Auto Leasing. More than onepoint eight million Center Point customers without power
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It's stop and go, folk,Just go time. Keep up with our

(01:19:06):
steady flow of updates to continue onwardride with news Radio seven j t RH.
Waiting for floodwaters to subside, streetsto reopen. Brian Burray joins US
Harris County Office of Emergency Management.Is you take a look at the damage
around Harris County? Brian, wheredo you think we're at here? As
far as the recovery mode? Youknow, I was listening to you talk

(01:19:29):
about you know, looking out thewindow and you know, the sun was
out and the sky was blue yesterdayafternoon, and unfortunately that's part of our
problem. We don't really know yet. We haven't had the opportunity to be
out in the community. That's goingto start today Harris County Engineering. We'll
have teams out assessing damage around thecounty. That's going to go to formulating
the county's damage assessment, which wewill then forward to the state, which
will then eventually get forward to thefederal government and that starts that whole ball

(01:19:53):
of you know, applying for federalair rolling. I'm not sure how that's
going to turn out yet, butyou know, we will begin that problem
us today with doing the initial damageassessment. What is what is it that
you're assessing. Are you assessing thebyways, the drainage down, what are
you assessing exactly as a count Alittle bit of everything. It's a little

(01:20:14):
bit of everything, you know.Obviously, we're you know, looking for
damage to county facilities. We're lookingto damaged infrastructure, whether that's roads,
whether that's drainage, whether that's watersystems. Then we're also looking at what
does the damage look like on ahousehold basis. You know, are we
seeing houses that are destroyed partially destroyed? You know, maybe that a tree
on the roof. You know whatdoes that look like? Because all of

(01:20:35):
those things are considerations when determining exactlyhow badly we've been hurt. We know
we have residents who are suffering,but all of that relief stems from starting
to understand where we are hurting.Let me ask you this, how can
you help people individually? I mean, you've got a tree on your house.
You assess that damage, and youyou start getting state help, but

(01:20:57):
the immediate need is to get thattree removed. Is that something that the
county does or is this really yourely on? My neighbors were out with
hack saws yesterday because they didn't havepower for power selling. So the most
amazing things to me about Harris Countyresidence is that tend to be pretty resilient
in most of those cases. Andnot only that, that tend to be
pretty generous. So every time afterthe disaster, whether it was the direction

(01:21:18):
and I'm sure we saw this yesterdaytoo, you know, people will be
out with chainsaws taking care of damagein their yard and probably their neighbors too
if they need to. Those whodo not have those resources or neighbors who
can do that, you can dialto one one. That's the United Way
of Greater Houston. They're going tobe able to hook people up to the
different volunteer networks that can help withthose things. I don't know where they

(01:21:39):
are right now. Obviously, yesterdaywas kind of a blank day, not
a whole lot was able to happen. But we should see those things start
taking off today a little more inearnest. Yeah, one of the things
I'm often struck by is how manyflooding issues that we have on our roads.
And we know that we know wehave the infrastructure problems that we have,
but we really have not adequately addressedthose. I'm sure we've gotten federal
aid in the past. Is aidgone to where it's supposed to go in

(01:22:00):
order to be able to fix theseproblems going forward? You know, I
think we saw following Hurricane Harvey thebond issue there was a massive federal dollars
that is still coming in. So, yes, it is going to address
the drainage problems we have. Abig part of our problem, honestly,
is we're a lot of concrete.There are as many places for the water

(01:22:23):
to soak into the dirt anymore.So you know that's a problem we're probably
stuck with. But you know,the Hairstonty Club Control District, Harsh County
Engineering, a lot of our partnersin the region. We've all been investing
in different mitigation programs to try andyou know, help that water flow out
as opposed to into our homes.You're pretty to an emergency management service obviously,

(01:22:45):
and we would think that that wouldused to be central command where you
had a very good eye on whatwas happening all across the county. Were
you suffering some power problems too,and just getting information in yesterday? I
mean it was pretty wild. Ithink it was, you know, the
lack of having eyes in the fieldthat was probably hurting us for a little
bit yesterday. I mean, ifyou were looking out the window between about

(01:23:09):
nine am, eight am and noonyesterday, you know, the wind was
blowing extremely hard, the ring wascoming down horizontally. There was not a
fit place for people to be out. We started getting a little more information,
you know, in the afternoon,but it's frustrating for us. Sure,
are we really do depend on knowingwhat's going on, and yesterday was
a little tough for us, okay, well, and it's gonna be tough

(01:23:30):
for the next few days. Wetried to get the power back and things
back under control. But thank youfor joining us. Appreciate you. Thanks
Brian, Brian Murray, he's withHarris Counting Office of Emergency Management. It's
five fifty seven. This is HugeRadio seven Katie rh Houston Live Everywhere with

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the exclusive audio home of NBC's coverageof the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics.
Now the latest new news, weatherand traffic. It's more of what matters
to you from the John Morris ServicesStudios. Six oh one. This our
time, Houston's Bonning News. I'mJimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Fryar. Among
our top stories of this half hour, one point eight million or so still

(01:24:13):
have no power. The Republican Conventionwill start on Monday, and coming up
at six o eight is a loteasier to sell your home if you're willing
to be the bank. Details inthe minutes ahead. You're in Houston's Bonning
News. First, we're checking outthat morning drive again. Sky Mike is
here more closures here Highway six atforty five, twenty nine to twenty at
Telge ninety all ninety the most cityExpressway, the feeder road, and the

(01:24:36):
intersection under the Beltway that's close theSouth Salmond Almeta. The feeder road still
closed there thirty five, which isalso telephone. Actually it's not telephone at
Highway six, but that's a closureNorth Freeway equipment to Cavalcade. That's the
big one coming out of downtown.They're actually forcing you off onto it eastbound
and to twenty five. That underpassalways a problem there between Richie and Shaver.

(01:24:59):
That's a complete shutdown. Skymike andthe Generator Supercenter dot Com traffic Center
from our KTRH top tax devendors twentyfour hour weather center. For today,
we're looking at partly cloudy sky's warmtemperature right about ninety three. We'll take
a look at the rest of theworkweek right into the weekend. When we
talked to Terry Smith at the WeatherChannel in eight minutes right now seventy four

(01:25:20):
at your official severe weather station,News Radio seven forty KTRH, it's time
now for the news. Here's SheriffRyer. Good morning. Everyone is six
oh two on News radio seven fortyKTRH. This news is sponsored by all
Star Construction. Top story this hourgive time for the systems to be repaired,
the street lights to be repaired.Centerpoint has brought in over ten thousand

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linemen working to reconnect power and reconnectit as quickly as possible. Yeah,
first things first, Texas Centator JedCruz. More than one point eight million
Center Point customers are still without power. This morning, more than two hundred
eighty five thousand did get their power. The repairs have been made. Company
expects to restore one million customers bythe end of the day tomorrow. Now,

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the majority of Montgomery County was leftin the dark by Barrel, probably
close to eighty percent of the countywithout power. Trees down everywhere, main
roads down up on I forty fiveby eight Highway eight point thirty. Yeah,
that's county. Judge Mark ke Oof Montgomery County compared Barrel to Hurricane

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Ike. Approximately eleven five hundred workershave been mobilized to help get the power
back on, and we will betalking to a Centerpoint representative at seven twenty
this morning on Houston's Morning News.Despite the power and connectivity issues with AT
and T Verizon in exfinity. LieutenantGovernor Dan Patrick says, you know,

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it really all could have been alot worse. I've not had any reports
at the operations center of any massivedamage at this point. Clearly damaged trees
down, uprooted lines down, buildingsdown, a lot of damage, but
nothing major yet reported. Yeah,it's Governor Patrick on KTRH. More and

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more closures and cancelations this morning,including a leaf Cleveland and conro isds.
We have the list KTRH dot com. Beryl was a killer storm, though
at least seven people lost their lives, including an HBD civilian employee who is
trying to get to work and gotcaught in floodwaters. He came off forty
five, got into flood conditions thereat the Houston Avenue hunder pass, called

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HPD friends for help, and I'vebeen there all afternoon watching his colleagues retrieve
his body from his submerged car rightthere downtown. Mayor John Whitmeyer. Another
person killed in a fire in southeastUston believed you have been started by a
lightning strike. Two people killed bytrees that fell in their homes, including

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seventy three year old grandmother, andtwo deaths in Forbin County, an elderly
woman who went out during the stormand a child with autism who fell into
a bio Now. There were atleast forty seven high water rescues yesterday.
These were all flesh flood situations.Bush and Hobby Airports getting back on track.
Both will have a limited schedule today. Been more than three hundred cancel

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flights so far this morning, mostlyat Bush. Check your airline. There
are boil water notices in Cypress Hillsand the Spring Cypress Water systems. Other
districts releasing boil water notices too,so stay alert to your own neighborhood.
It is six h five White Housevisitor logs revealing that a top Parkinson's expert

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has visited the White House eight timesbetween last July and this past March,
including one visit with President Joe Biden'spersonal doctor. Officials snapping at reporters who
actually asked questions about it. Ido take offense sometimes I don't have the
information, and I will always alwaysadmit that, but I do take offense

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to what was just happening at thebeginning of this briefing, it's not okay,
spokes President Korean Jean Pierre, notexpanding on the questions that were asked.
We now know that the president's positionthough doctor Kevin O'Connor was involved in
the Biden family business, well,we know that doctor O'Connor was involved in
a shady scheme that dealt with thefailing healthcare company America or Health House Service

(01:29:38):
Side Committee Chairman James Comer has itin testimony, and he's now demanding that
O'Connor himself, the doctor, cometestify for Congress. Yet another House Democrat
calling for Biden to end his runfor a second term in the White House.
I think he should step aside.I think it's become clear that he's
not the best person to carry theDemocratic message. Washington Congressman Adam Smith on

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CNN. It's now six oh seven. Sentencing for President Trump and the Manhattan
Bookkeeking trial has been delayed until September, but Texas based appellatd attorney Byron Henry
says, look that case is notover yet. From a legal standpoint,
it makes sense for a court totap the brakes. It maybe that this
doesn't affect it at all. Ithink the real question is is there jail

(01:30:25):
time, and if so, ishe remanded that day? He will have
the opportunity as all other defendant tofile an appeal, all coming from Supreme
Court decisions. We're to see whathappens with Trump's other cases too, they
could all be changed. A weekaway from the start of the Republican National
Convention, Republicans will gather in Milwaukeestarting July fifteenth to formally nominate Donald Trump
for president and officially launched the twentytwenty four general election campaign. GOP strategist

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flat to vidiots. As the partyenters this convention in better shape than any
recent presidential election year. Four yearsago, you really had enough time because
COVID really dampened a lot of theenthusiasm. And in twenty sixteen it was
still not foregone conclusion that there alooking nominee was going to win the old
lobbs. And this is the muchmore positive anticipatory elements in this particular convention.

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Trump is expected to announce his vicepresidential nominee at the convention. The
party will also adopt its official platform. Coryelson News Radio seven forty KTRH recapping
the top stories one point eight millionCenter Point customers with no power in the
aftermath of the hurricane, but crewshope to have a million of those restored
by the end of the day tomorrow. And we have a death toll of

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seven people in the Houston region killedby the storm. I'm sure for Friar
A News Radio seven forty KTRH,Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Verrett and
Sheriff Fryar. I feel like wemaybe we've done a little bit on this
story before, but the timing seemsgood. Again. I know this is

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anecdotal on my part, but asyou know, I'm sure I have kind
of a weird obsession with the realestate market. I don't know why that
it is, so I really liketo follow trends as far as what's going
on with the home buying and homeselling, and even in my little neighborhood,
see what's going on, and rightnow, houses in my neighborhood are
not really selling, at least they'renot selling any very quickly. They're taking

(01:32:15):
quite a while to sell. Anda lot of it has to do,
obviously with what's going on with mortgagerates right now and home prices being where
they are, they haven't really dropped. So buyers find themselves in kind of
a conundrum. I'd buy the houseif I could find a cheaper mortgage,
or the price has to come downso it's more affordable on a monthly basis

(01:32:35):
to buy the house. So inanswer to that, and this is kind
of like for those of us who'vebeen around for a while, you may
recall this back in the nineteen seventiesthat this sort of happened, same kind
of thing. Interest rates went wayup and home prices weren't crazy high back
then, but interest rates ended upputting a lot of people out of the
ability to buy home. When youhave a mortgage rate that's like thirteen fourteen,

(01:32:58):
fifteen percent, pretty tough to sell. So sellers started, you know,
people who didn't have to get alltheir equity out of the home.
You know that maybe they were gettingready to retire whatever, and looked at
it, it is perhaps another wayto make money with the home other than
running it out, decided well,maybe i'll sell it to I'll finance it
myself. The home is paid for, I'm you know, at that time,

(01:33:23):
the going interest rate was like tenand a half percent I'll offer this
young couple of you know, aseven and a half percent mortgage and they'll
be ecstatic because it's seven and ahalf percent instead of ten and a half
percent. And I'll be making moneymore than I could make it if I
had stuck in the bank winter winterchicken dinner. And evidently that's making a

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comeback now where where people are lookingto do self financing. You know.
The downside, of course, isyou got to wait for your money.
The upside is it's it's you know, kind of like you know, right,
you're making money every month, andif you just want to use that
as supplemented income, maybe that works. Six eleven time for traffic and weather
together. Skybike. What's going on? The big thing, of course?
Downtown Still, I'm watching I fortyfive off Franklin. This is the first

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traffic jam we've actual traffic jam likeon a normal day we've had since the
storm. And this is forty fivePierce Elevated northbound. They're forcing everybody off
to it in eastbound lanes. Youcan't go off of just north of Franklin
Street out of downtown and also southfrom Patton. That's a complete closure of
the north Freeway, something to dowith White Oak Bayou, which is usually

(01:34:30):
a trouble spot when we have thesestorms. Also the Kadie Freeway inbound,
I'm showing a closure at Studamon.I don't have eyes on that. But
also the ramp obviously that takes youto forty five north. You can't do
that either. It's high water aroundthe underpasses around Memorial and Allen Parkway,
but the main lanes of Memorial AllenParkway are good to go. Just expect
to be re routed in spots.And of course we've got lights out all

(01:34:54):
over the place if you're a pilot. By the way, I noticed that
the tower on Patton Street just fortyfive right by the Loves, I didn't
see any lights on that. Andalso i'd really watch that tower that's on
Jensen just east of downtown. Nolights there. That thing would not be
good for a helicopter. Gary fromgranger Land is usually doing the east text
for me, dude, Hey,good Mike. When beginning gas gas stations

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that are open up regular unleaded andmiddle unleaded, but super unleaded this morning
was easy for me to find.Oh excellent seven one three two, one
two tips. I tell you whatI need to know. I just got
word that I think I knew thisalready, Flying j Newkaney and also Circle
K is open. I really wouldlike to know what truck stops are open,

(01:35:40):
big gas stations seven one three twoone two tips, because a lot
of them still don't have power.I'm in the Generator Supercenter, dot Com
Traffic Center uh from marktrh top taxDefenders, twenty four hour Weather cent.
Terry Smith is here. You know, it's just a little insulting that put
up with ninety three degrees when onepoint eight million people do not have their
electricity, Terry Smith. But Iguess that's that's what happens when you have

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a hurricane in July, right,Yes, Well, we had all that
humidity ahead of it and the heavyrains, and so that's keeping the humidity
high. There's been some slightly drierair that's moved in, but the ground
is so humid that we're just goingto be feeling it. It's July.
This is typical July. Thank goodness. It's just normal July and not some

(01:36:25):
of those hot temperatures we had earlier. But expect temperatures mainly in the low
nineties. Really through much of theweek, we are dry. There's not
going to be any rain coming downtoday. But because of temperature's low nineties
and the high humidity, there isa heat advisory just so that people are
being a little extra cautious as westart to clean up after a barrel blasted

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through yesterday. Load of mid ninetiestoday, load to mid nineties tomorrow.
There is a twenty percent chance ofa thundershower tomorrow, and then by the
end of the week that's when ourrain chances return. Forty percent chances of
thunderstorms Thursday, seventy percent chance ofshowers and storms Friday and Saturday. Jempitchure
right now, he is seventy fiveat your official severe weather station, news

(01:37:09):
Radio seven forty k t r H. All right, well let's do that
there here. I'm zoning out herethis morning. Yeah, I'm totally I
need more sleepskuy Mike, what aboutyou? Fiend sleep? Don Key is
going on the Southwest Freeway dudek Manorthbound fifty nine right round Maine or truck
gets fun out and it's the walland the right lane and it's uh fad

(01:37:30):
All right, let me let therest of the media. No Southwest Freeway
inbound coming into downtown Jeffrey and theWalgreens truck I need gas stations. Good
morning Sky Mike. Truck stops thatare open blind j Sheldon Road is open,
highlights and the Love truck stop onMcCarty outstanding seven one three, two
one two tips keep rocking all right, Mike gets true from the hard work

(01:37:55):
and he's all The truck stops atompsthe road are open. The Bushies John
Martin is open, it has food, and the gas station across from Budgies
is open. Going that way afterwork. This is your Generator Supercenter dot
Com traffic center. At least Iremember to where I am and how to
get out of the studio from ourKTRH top tax devenders twenty four hour Weather
center. Partly cloudy, warm ninetythree today, partly kloudy twenty percent isolates,

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storm chance tomorrow ninety three, fortypercent storm chance on Thursday ninety one.
Right now seventy five at your officialsevere weather station. News Radio seven
forty KTRH. Let gets you caughtup on some of our top stories this
morning. Your share up six twentythree. Now we've got a million eight
center point customers without power, HurricaneBarrel responsible for at least seven deaths,

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and Target, as you mentioned earliertoday, no longer accepting personal checks they
call extremely low volume of those.Latest news anytime ktah dot com. Our
next update will be at the bottomof the hour. I live a Katie.
Your best ways are round here.Next on the ten on seven Ktright

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Deja flew all over again six twentythree our time here on Houston's Morning News.
All right, I think this ispretty smart. The Republicans have released
a very simple platform. Twenty pointsin the platform which I will give to
you right now, which basically readslike a Donald Trump speech, only much

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more concise. You're ready, okay. Number one, seal the border,
stop the migrant invasion. Number two, carry out the largest deportation operation in
American history. Number three end inflationand make America affordable again. Number four,
make America the dominant energy producer inthe world by far. Number five
Stop outsourcing and turn the United Statesinto a manufacturing superpower. You like it

(01:39:50):
so far? What's not the like? Right? Number six? Large tax
cuts for workers, no tax ontips. Yeah, you found a winner
with that one. Number seven defendour Constitution, our Bill of Rights,
in our fundamental freedoms, including freedomof speech, freedom of religion, and
the right to keep in bare arms. Number eight. Prevent World War III,

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restore peace in Europe and in theMiddle East, and build a great
iron dome missile defense shield over ourentire country. All made in America.
Wow. Number nine. In theweaponization of government against the American people.
Number ten. Stop the migrant crimeepidemic. Demolish the foreign drug cartels,
crush gang violence, and lock upviolent offenders. Man, this is good

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stuff. Number eleven. Rebuild ourcities, including Washington, d C.
Making them safe, clean, andbeautiful again. Number twelve. Strengthen and
modernize our military, making it,without question, the strongest and most powerful
in the world. Number thirteen.Keep the US dollars the world's preserve currency.
Number fourteen. Fight for and protectSocial Security and Medicare with no cuts,

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including no changes to the retirement age. That's pretty succinct, that,
you know, for those on theleft who want to say that the Republicans
want to do a way with socialsecurity. That makes it pretty clear.
I would hope where was I lala la la. Number fifteen canceled the
electric vehicle mandate and cut costly andburden some regulations. Number sixteen cut federal

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funding for any school pushing critical racetheory, radical gender ideology, and other
inappropriate racial, sexual, or politicalcontent on our children. Number seventeen keep
men out of women's sports. Numbereighteen to port pro hamas radicals and make
our college campuses safe and patriotic again. Number nineteen secure our elections, including

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same day voting, voter identification,paper ballance, and proof of citizenship.
And number twenty unite our country inbringing in a new and record levels of
success. That's pretty good stuff.Signed party is going to sign off to
it. Will they actually well,if you elect those down ballid people,
will they actually help him accomplish that? Let's hope. So we saw what

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happened last time, Yeah, wedid. The thing I like about it
though, is unlike most you know, if you were to pick up a
copy of most party platforms, theycome out of conventions. I mean,
it's like reading a stereo warranty manual, you know, It's it's like reading
directions on how to put together something. How sad that you have to swear
to uphold the Constitution It is sad. It's sad that that any of these

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things are not givens, but inright now they aren't given. So I'm
glad they're not. I'm glad they'resending him. Take twenty seven. It
is time to take a look atyour money. Good morning, Courtney down
Hoe, Well, Good morning,Jimmy. Oil this morning, lower eighty
two dollars a barrel. Concerns thatthe hurricane would affect oil operations in the
Gulf in Texas drove up futures lastweek, but there are some indications that

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the storm has been less disruptive toend your gy infrastructure than expected. Well
stocks are looking to hit another recordtoday. Dell futures right now up about
twenty points. Courtney's Dona Hope BloombergBusiness On News Radio seven forty KRH You
are Old Houston's News. Why theywere Traffic plus Breaking News twenty four to
seven. This is News Radio sevenforty ktrh FLVE Everywhere with the IRF.

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More of what's happening now from theJohn Morris Services Studios. It's six thirty
now here on Houston's Morning News.I'm Jimmy Barrett along with Sheriff Fryar Bunger.
Top stories this half hour with Beryl, big issues were power and debris.
Biden goes off while Trump remains calmand coming up at six point thirty
eight. Gen Z has a lotof tattoo regret details in the minutes ahead.

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Here in Houston's morning News. First, let's check out that morning drive.
Sky Mike is here. I'm stilltrying to help the rest of the
media, but half of them aretoo busy, and some of them are
actually offline. You've got Southwest Freeway. Oh look, the online's found at
the Southwest Freeway northbound at Maine.That's a one guy spin out reck.
Hopefully it's okay. He ran intothe wall here don key from the Southwest

(01:43:54):
with the banana sticker. This morning. North Freeway outbound northbound off the pier
elevated, it's completely down. Youcan't go from downtown to Patton northbound or
southbound. They'll force you off ontothe eastbound. It ten from there to
take sixty nine either way. You'vegot high water spots South Belt at all
ninety the most city Expressway to twentyfive. That problem spot Richie again.

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They'll get you on the feeder,not that big of a deal. Now
SKYMIKEE on a Generator Supercenter dot ComTraffic Center from our KTRH Generator Supercenter,
twenty four hour weather center for today, partly cloudium warm about ninety three for
the high temperature. We start tosee some storm chances creep back in starting
tomorrow and into Thursday. We'll getyou more information about that when we talked
to Terry Smith at the Weather Channelin eight minutes right down seventy five at

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your officials Severe weather Station, NewsRadio seven forty KTRH. It's time now
for the news. Here's Sheriff Fryar. It's six thirty two on news radio
seven forty KTRH and our top storythis hour. He's sick, screaming at
me, Tracy, you have toget out of the car. Tracy,
you have to get out of thecar. Maybe in like seven seconds,
the water went from the eastport ofthe car all the way up to where

(01:45:00):
my chest level is. A womanwho escaped a flooded out car. She
followed instructions, she got out.Talking to our TV partner General too.
Now, the Greater Houston area todayonce again cleaning up from a hurricane.
This time barrel. As of thismorning, one point eight million customers without
power, though Centerpoint hopes to havea million of those back online by the

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end of tomorrow. I don't wantto speculate, but given the damage and
just the amount of customers that wehave, out restoration is going to take
us several days. Yeah, CenterPoints Alicia o'shelvey. More than two hundred
and eighty five thousand people have hadtheir power restored so far. Power outages
and internet outages with AT and T, Verizon Exfinity and a statement to KTRH,

(01:45:46):
at and T said quote, ourteams will begin assessing the damage and
will work to ensure customers are connectedas soon as possible. Can't give you
any greater information than that. Thereare new MRA's closures again today across the
Houston area. Complete list KTRH dotcom. All Harris County buildings and courts
are closed, no jury duty inFort ben County, and classes canceled at

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Lone Star College and Rice University aswell. Ktourah dot com again for the
full list. Seven people across theHouston area lost their lives in this storm,
including a seventy three year old grandmotherkilled when a tree fell in her
house in North Harris County. Shewas about to come downstairs, you know,
to be with us, and unfortunatelyshe didn't make it. And you

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know, I took out the wholeroom upstairs and the room downstairs. That
woman's son. One of the otherdeaths was a civilian employee of HPD on
his way back to work, gotcaught in floodwater near downtown. If you're
traveling today, Bush and Hobby Airportsare running a limited schedule. Check with
your carrier. Hundreds of flights alreadycanceled today, primarily at Bush, but

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some at Hobby too. Beryl causingstructural damages too, Saint Luke's Hospital,
Lake Jackson suffering substantial damage as thepart of the roof sheared off in the
storm. By the Winds and EnergyStadium. That roof apparently damaged a bit,
but officials say they're waiting for afull assessment before they make any comment.
City of Houston has announced that Monday'sgarbage and heavy tree waste will be

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collected today. That was yesterday,it will be collected today, and storm
debris collection will also resume. Violentcrime continuing, though in Barrel's aftermath,
an HPD officer shot in the thighresponding to a disturbance in northwest Houston last
night. That officer, an elevenyear veteran, is in stable condition.

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The shooter is in custody. It'snow six point thirty five. Donald Trump,
he's made an assessment about what hesees in Joe Biden and what he
saw during that debate last month.And when he started to speak, I
don't know. I thought his voicewas weak. I didn't know exactly what
was happening. He was strange.Trump did tell k to Sean Hannity,

(01:48:00):
he thinks Biden, though, willremain in the race. Then Joe Biden
himself, well, he was laughingat the valid questions about his cognitive state.
Have you been tested for any agerelated illnesses, pre Parkinson's or anything
like that that might explain sort ofhaving a night like that where you couldn't
finish sentences. Okay, Biden onMSNBC it was a twenty minute rambling interview

(01:48:31):
on Morning Joe. I didn't seeit apparently by phone. He was not
on the campaign trail yesterday. Butthe first lady was we can't take anything
for granted. We have to meetthis moment, and if our greetings are
Joe Biden in North Carolina, it'ssix thirty six. Biden's economy and new

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polling shows that nearly two thirds ofAmericans now say social secus security benefits are
inadequate, not helping them live.But his financial planner, Richard Rosso says,
social Security was never meant to beanybody's retirement plan. It wasn't supposed
to be the pension. It wassupposed to be in addition to, or
an adjunct to your savings. Thenumbers do show that most Americans understand that

(01:49:20):
twelve percent of men fifteen percent ofelemen rely on Social Security for ninety percent
or more. The average Social Securitycheck per month nineteen hundred dollars. Cliff
Saunters News Radio seven forty kgrh Yeah, Well, on top of recovering from
this hurricane, we've got the regularcosts of living. They keep rising.

(01:49:43):
Houston's no exceptions. What are wespending our money on? What's squeezing our
wallets? What's the biggest thing?Housing? Followed by transportation. Number three
is money that you pay into SocialSecurity and pensions. Number four is food,
followed by healthcare, and then entertainmentWow. Ktr H money man Pat
Senny says, a great way tokeep your costs down. You got to

(01:50:05):
do it yourself at home vehicle repairsas much as you can, and make
sure to check grocery store apps fordiscounts and promotions. Well, that's a
good idea. The old coupons.Six point thirty seven's our time stros home
to face the Marlins tonight and pregameat six on Sports Talk seven ninety first

(01:50:25):
pitch seven to ten both on sevenninety and here on KTRH. Hurricane Barrel
recapping one point eight million Centerpoint customerswithout lights. They're aiming to have a
million of those restored by the endof the day tomorrow. The death toll
from Barrel across the Houston area atleast seven. I'm Sherby Fryer on News

(01:50:45):
radio seven forty KTRH. Michael Barryonly endorses Texas Renters dot com for property
management. Needs to understand is tolisten. I check in all the time,
keep up with what's happening, staginform matters to the husrate KTRH here
on Houston's morning News. Tattoos areusually something that young people add to their

(01:51:10):
bodies in their twenties. Used tobe just something. If you want to
go way back to the history,tattoos used to be something mainly limited to
the military, especially the Navy.They'd get tattoos, and you know,
it's it's always been fairly popular foryoung people. But it seems like they're
adding more and more tattoos over moreand more of the body. We used

(01:51:31):
to have rules, or they usedto. I used to be told that
there's certain rules if you want toget a tattoo. There's certain things you
should think about before you get atattoo. Number One, the subject matter.
If you're twenty one and you're gettingthis tattoo, is the subject matter
still going to be relevant when you'rethirty one? All right? How about
when you're forty one, when you'refifty one, when you're sixty one,

(01:51:57):
Will you look in the mirror atthe age of seventy and be embarrassed by
what you see? If for noother reason then it's not the same shape
it used to be in. It'sshifted, and where is the tattoo?
Because certain tattoos, whether you likeit or not, have stigmas. There's
a reason why they call it atramp stamp. Yeah. Yeah, And

(01:52:18):
there are plenty of young women who'vegotten a tattoo in that particular spot and
then they want to do something.The story I saw this in was a
young woman who wants to be amodel and she has a big tattoo on
her chest. Doesn't seem like somethingthat's a good career decision. If that
your desire was to be a model, why would you put something like that

(01:52:41):
on your chest? You know,it kind of limits what you can model
at that point, right. SoI would just say this about anybody considering
a tattoo, just think a littlebit of your future. And I know
how you might feel about it now, but how are you gonna feel about
in the future. And by theway, here's the one thing I would
suggest. Never get a tattoo onyour neck or your face anywhere that is

(01:53:04):
virtually impossible to cover up, becausethere will be times in life where you
would want to cover it up forwhatever reason. And if you have it
in a place where you can't coverit up, then you're really kind of
limiting yourself. It seems to methat the influencers and the popular ones and
these tattoos you do it for yourpeer group. Well, when you're seventy,

(01:53:24):
you're gonna, yeah, you're limitingyourself to your interactions with other human
beings throughout the rest of your lifebecause you're the people who are twenty.
When you're twenty, you know they'renot going to be there. They're going
to be seventy with you, andthe twenty years old of that time,
you're gonna have nothing. Yeah,I would I would say that you should

(01:53:46):
never do something like that for anybodyother than yourself. It's got to be
something that, for whatever reason,is important to you. But again,
it's got to be something reasonable.We have a lot of influencers online.
Hey boy, they've got and they'regorgeous people. Yeah, and they got
tats everywhere with that. Well,I guess that's the thing now, I
guess. Yeah, it would bein twenty years, twenty or thirty years

(01:54:10):
ago, back and see him again, see what they think, because some
of them are having regrets. Evidently, time for traffic and weather together.
Have a tattoos, guy, Mike, let me ask you that first zero
And you know what, when youlive in the hood like I do,
one thing I noticed I think someof my neighbors the cost of their tattoos
exceeds their actual personal net worth.That's how you know you live in the
hood. All right, I've gotone thing I want to tell you about

(01:54:30):
after we get to forty five Northis gas station situation. But forty five
is completely shut down from Cavalcade allthe way into downtown southbound, and then
out of downtown off the piers.They're putting everybody onto Itent East. You
have no choice here. Also,they've shut down the KDI from Yale into
forty five. So I hate toput people on Memorial because then you'll find

(01:54:51):
out how awesome it is. Butdo Memorial. Shepherd's a good way to
help you go north or south,get you to whatever side street you want
to do. Remember the Allsion Viaductthat comes into town. Nobody ever gets
on that from the Hardy Toll Road. Lance from Magnolia, dude, hey
we have gas. I thought youdid. At Brown Road and two forty

(01:55:11):
nine, the new Xjoms station isopen and gas. It's books like business
too. Tom Ball is open forfish, all right, it's business to
forty nine. Lance from Magnolia hasgas. Thank you, We've got truck
stops. Open over by Wallaceville andthe Eastwoop six y ten. Also all
those truck stops in Baytown around Thompsonfrom BUCkies into those the ones that are

(01:55:34):
right on Thompson Road over to where'swell, you know where BUCkies is Baytown.
We'll check more gas stations, checkmore closures, high water and lights
in ten minutes. The Generator Supercenterdot com Traffic Center from r KTRH Generator
super Center twenty four hour with acenter. Today's kind of like I removed
the debris kind of day around here, and it's going to be a hot
and sweaty task today, isn't it. It is? This is you know,

(01:55:57):
July is no fun to be outsideor nearly anyhow unless you're hanging out
by the pool. But this isnot a hangout by the pool kind of
day. It is a sunny,hot day, typical July heat though.
That's probably the silver lining in allof this. And believe it or not,
there is a little less humidity,but because we had all that rain

(01:56:17):
yesterday, we're just feeling it aswe normally would. Heat and disease will
be around ninety eight to one ohsix today. That's the range. The
actual temperatures load a mid nineties,but the heat and disease around one hundred
or higher, So do make sureyou're just being extra careful. Today we
start to get some rain, butthe temperatures really won't change that much the

(01:56:40):
rest of the week. Twenty percentchance of a thunderstorm tomorrow, forty percent
chance of rain Thursday, and thena seventy percent chance of showers and storms
Friday and Saturday. Right now,seventy five and your official severe weather station,
News Radio seven forty KTRH. Youare commute, you are forecast your
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(01:57:02):
six fifties at a time. Hereon Houston's Warning News. Got the timeline
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Products, So stand by for that. First, we've got traffic and weather
together as we checked the drive onceagain. Here is guy Mike. All
right, you're Katie Freeways the bigdeal right now, Jimmy Barrett. That's
inbound, complete shutdown at Yale.Actually, I've got two big deals here.

(01:57:24):
Katie Freeway inbound from Yale. That'sa complete shutdown I hate to put
y'all memorial, but that's that's theway to go. Now. North Freeway
also a complete closure from downtown.That's from Patton all the way down into
Franklin Street and then northbound. Theyforce you off the Pierce Elevated back to
the East. Text. Remember you'vegot good routes. You can go up
the east text, you can godown the southwest. The loop's looking good

(01:57:46):
all the way around. We'll checkyour ship channel bridges at seven o'clock in
the Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Centerfrom our KTRH Generator super Center twenty four
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(01:58:08):
and your officials severe weather station NewsRadio seven forty KTRH six fifty four
time here in Houston's morning news.Time to get you caught up on some
of our top stories this morning.Here's shareon just heard about the dangers on
our streets. Center Point also hopingto have more than a million customers reconnected

(01:58:29):
by the end of the day tomorrowat and T, Verizon Exfinity, all
with Internet issues and problems sporadic inand out, some not fixed yet.
Don't know when that'll happen. AnHBD civilian officer, one of the seven
deaths attributed to the hurricane. Ournext update will be in just a few
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(01:58:53):
really happening? Everything in your world? Here and Abroad News Radio seven forty
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(01:59:38):
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(02:00:01):
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in Houston's Morning News. I'm JimmyBarrett Long with Sheriff Fryar Monger. Top
stories this f hour. One pointeight million still have no power. The

(02:00:24):
Republican Convention starts on Monday, andcoming up at seven oh eight the very
very big downside to Biden stepping downdetails in the minutes ahead. You're in
Houston's Morning News. First, justtake a look at that Morning Drive sky
Mike has the latest on that wouldbe a lot less funny. Let's check
forty five North again. That closureis still there. From Patton to downtown
off the pier salivator that forced youonto it in East Katie Freeway. That's

(02:00:47):
a big deal here, Yale closurehere, Memorials seems to be moving well,
seems to be open to just don'ttry to get on some of those
underpasses. I need gas, Ineed food. Bob from Conro forty five
at one oh five. Flights areon. Gas, stations are open,
Restaurants are open. McDonald's, BurgerKing, Erling's open. Very nice.

(02:01:09):
Keep them com at seven win threetwo one two tips the Generator Supercenter,
dot Com traffic Center from r KTRHtop tax defenders, twenty four hour Weather
center for today partly cloudium warm withthe high temperature right about ninety three.
We'll get an update on the forecastfrom Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in
about eight minutes. Right now,it is seventy five at your officials severe
weather Station News Radio seven forty kt RH. It's time now for the

(02:01:32):
news. Here's Sheriff Ryer. Itis now seven o two on news radio
seven forty KTRH is new sponsored byOopstein Cleaning and the top story this hour.
We just came through a very seriousstorm Sadly it took the lives of
three Houstonians. For those three,we grieve for them, we pray for
their families. Texas Senator Ted Cruzthere Hurricane Beryl responsible for seven deaths in

(02:01:57):
the Houston area overall. Now threedeaths were in Montgomery County. Five people
died due to falling trees. Anotherdeath an HPD civilian employee who was caught
in floodwaters just trying to get towork. Cleanup, of course of all
the debris and the damage is underwaynow. Looking for damage to county facilities.

(02:02:19):
We're looking to damaged infrastructure, whetherthat's roads, whether that's drainage,
whether that's water systems. Then we'realso looking at what does the damage look
like on a household basis. BrianMurray with the Harris County Office of Emergency
Management power situation still well now we'retold it's one point seven it's gone down.

(02:02:39):
One hundred thousand, one point sevenmillion Center Point customers without power this
morning. Number of outages no surprise, however, to Eric Berger of Space
City Weather, this track really wasideal for wind damage. And I don't
mean ideal in a good way.I mean it's sort of really set it
up well to deal damage across themost populated part of the city. Yeah,

(02:03:00):
we're at the point now about fourhundred thousand customers have gotten their lights
back on Centerpoint, expecting to restoremore than a million customers by the end
of the day tomorrow. We've gotto get out there and get eyes on
what exactly what damage has our systemincurred, and then that way we can
develop an efficient restoration plan. AlishaL. Chebby with Centerpoint, approximately eleven

(02:03:25):
five hundred workers. Extra workers havebeen mobilized to help get those lights back
on for everyone. We're going tobe talking to Centerpoint in just a few
minutes seven twenty here on Houston's MorningNews. Do have more closures and cancellations
this morning of school's Spring Branch GalenaPark, Galveston ISDS. The complete list
KTRH dot com, and of coursethe mass internet outages we're experiencing all across

(02:03:50):
this area. Statement to KTRH,at and T said quote, our teams
will begin assessing the damage, willwork to ensure custom are connected as soon
as possible. That's all they wouldgive us yesterday. The City of Houston
resuming storm to recollection Today, Monday'sgarbage and heavy tree waste will also be

(02:04:12):
collected. It is seven four.President Joe Biden's doctor has released a letter
saying that the President has not seena neurologist outside of his annual physical even
after reports that a top Parkinson's doctordid visit the White House eight times over
an eight month period, the administrationwon't talk about it, wants to avoid

(02:04:34):
the subject of Biden's cognitive condition entirely. In multiple outlets on both sides of
the Atlantia Last Every Days with thequestions from European leader's stuff president's capacity to
lead to leave the United States andunis denying that I'm not aware of any
such conversations that have been had,certainly none with us, and here at

(02:04:54):
the White House and the dark staff, we're looking forward to it. Yeah,
that's the spokesman, John Kirby speakingon behalf of National Security Council President's
position doctor to Kevin O'Connor. Meantime, we've learned has been involved in the
Biden family business. This was adeal with Jim Biden. We know this
because Jim Biden talked about it inthe transcribed interview that our Committee conducted with

(02:05:16):
Jim Biden. Yeah, that's Chairmanof the House Oversight Committee, James Comer.
He's demanding now that O'Connor, DoctorO'Connor come testify for Congress. More
House Democrats now going public telling thePresident he ought to end his campaign.
We got a good message. ThePresident has shown he is not capable of

(02:05:39):
delivering that message. Yeah, they'reall up for reelection. That one from
Washington State Adam Smith on CNN.President Biden responded in what was an author
Rails interview on MSNBC yesterday. Wehad that for you, and we'll have
it at seven point thirty plus.Donald Trump some of his sit down with
kag r h is Sean Hannity.It's now seven oh six. The sentencing

(02:06:03):
in Donald Trump's Manhattan case has beenpostponed until September. So what happens next?
It's a question that I asked Texasbased Appella attorney Byron Henry. If
I'm the Trump former President Trump's camp, I am assuming he's going to get
jail time. Every delay benefits PresidentTrump, even though this puts him in

(02:06:25):
the middle of election season. Sowhat happens in September? The real question
is is he given jail time andis he remanded on that date or given
a date to report, Because whatwill happen if he's given a date to
report is that they'll file their noticeof appeal and their motions that he'd remain
out of jail penning appeal, whichwould be until after the election. Jeff
Biggs, News Radio seven forty kt H. What really happens next is

(02:06:48):
next week in Milwaukee, the presidentialrace officially determined as Republicans gather to formally
nominate Trump for a third time.GOP strategist Lad Davidick says could be a
bigger trunk contrast between the presidential contenderfor Republicans and for Democrats this year.

(02:07:10):
One party has a clear, positiveand forward looking vision for America, and
on the other side, you havea party that's in complete disarray, panicking,
backstabbing each other, trying not tolose power that they're clinging to with
their fingernails. Publican National Convention Julyfifteenth through the eighteenth, and the Astros
tonight hosting the Marlins Pregame at sixand Sports Talk seven ninety First Pitch at

(02:07:33):
sevent ten, both on seven ninetyand KTRH. Our top story, of
course, recapping at Hurricane Barrel stillhas one point seven Now it's gone down
one hundred thousand Centerpoint customers in thedark. They hope to have another million
customers restored by the end of theday tomorrow. We'll be talking to Center
Point in just a few minutes.I'm Sherber Fryer on news radio seven forty

(02:07:57):
KTRH. Hi, let's talk radioall the time. The world doesn't wait
for you to clock out. Doyou usually have it on all day at
work? So check in office,stay up to date with huge Radio seven
KTRH. Biden leaving office before theend of his term, and that is
who would succeed him as President ofthe United States now, of course,
would be Kamala Harris. I thoughtI was kind of telling Sulcy Gabbert.

(02:08:20):
Course she's no longer a Democrat.But Tulca Gabbert was asked whether or not,
first of all, whether or notshe thought that the current Vice president
of the United States had the smartsto be president of the United States.
Do you think she actually thinks she'ssmart and effective? And if so,
why without a doubt she believes this? I can't even begin to analyze why

(02:08:41):
that is the case. But look, you know, she has been unqualified
to serve as vice president and isnot qualified or capable at all for the
very real prospect that if Biden wins, she will be president of United States.
That's a fact, regardless of who'son the top of the ticket.

(02:09:03):
As the Democrats figure this thing out, whether it's Biden, Harris or Harris,
whoever a president, Kamala Harris willbe our commander in chief. And
I can tell you, as asoldiers deployed to multiple war zones, and
I can speak for a lot ofmy brothers and sisters in uniform, that
prospect should be terrifying for all Americans. She is incapable and unqualified to be

(02:09:24):
our country's commander in chief, whichthen leads to what I know to be
certain. Just as Joe Biden isnot calling the shots on our foreign policy,
he's got Tony Blincoln and Hillary Clintonand Jake Sullivan and Lloyd Austin and
all of these other people in thedeep state, administrative state who are not
elected, who are actually making thesedecisions related to our foreign policy, who

(02:09:46):
have pushed us to the brink ofmultiple wars Russia, China, Iran,
North Korea, and closer to thebrink of nuclear war than ever before.
If it is a president Kamala Harris, a commander in chief Kamala Harris,
it will be it's a very safe, safe state making these decisions that have
that have done such great harm toour own national security and to our freedom

(02:10:07):
as a country. Don't you kindof have to assume at this point that
it doesn't really matter who the Democratfl like barriers, whoever it is who's
going to have to enter into thesame agreement that Joe Biden had to enter
into, which is basically you getto sit the check most people know.
Yeah, no that the rest ofthe country and the world, Yeah,
it really does matter. Seven toeleven, time for traffic and weather together.

(02:10:30):
We're checking out the drive once again. Here's guy Mike. All right,
I'm going to tell you some freewaysthey're actually running well for now.
It looks like two to ninety we'reissued free except the feeder road. You've
still got some closures outside around Highwaysix and onto the outbound toward Hotly.
Some scattered closures on the feeder mainlanes. Look good, Katie Freeway's good till
you get into downtown, and thenat Yale that's a complete closure into forty

(02:10:54):
five Southwest Freeway. We cleared anaccident Maine ktr Rachel listeners that first of
them know about that. South Westis good. West Parks going from Grand
Parkway into the Southwest Freeway. Thebeltway mainlanes are good. You've got some
trouble at Almeda that's on the feederand also right at the Harty toll Road.
That intersection completely sunk underwater here hartytoilRoad itself. I'm showing closures on

(02:11:16):
the feeder roads, but the mainlanes look good. And let's ope the
loop if you've got to do stuff. The loop's a good way around an
alternate for that. Katie Freeway obviouslyMemorial North Freeway, of course, that's
closed from the Loop to downtown.Tip line seven one three two one two
tips. Just a question. Arethe toll roads open to the public.

(02:11:37):
No. I just talked to thesuper friendly, helpful toll way people and
they said, now you still gotto give me your money. Jason from
Alvin, Dude got Mike, lookslike we may have some windows out the
HPD is blocking off Louisiana right atPolk Street. Oh, here we go
with that downtown business. All right, we'll keep you up to date.
We've got more on that at seventwenty. It's your Generator Supercenter, dot
Com traffic center from our katrh toptax Defenders twenty four hour weather sentat Terry

(02:12:01):
Smith is here. Back to thehot and muggy today and for one point
seven million people who don't have power, that's not a very good thing.
Terry Smith, No, that's nota good thing. But I did see
that Center Point is working hard andtrying to get about a million customers back
online today. So fingers crossed thathappens. At least we're dry, but
I'm telling you it's gonna take alittle while for these creeks, rivers and

(02:12:22):
streams to recede. I'm seeing we'vegot a number of places where the water
levels are still running high. Atleast we're dry today, and I'm I'm
happy to say our temperatures are rightwhere they're supposed to be in July.
Not that we want the hot,humid weather, but we got it,
and we don't have anything more thanthat low to mid nineties today heat index

(02:12:43):
between ninety eight to one oh six. Not super high, but certainly if
you're outside for long periods of time, you want to make sure you're taking
extra good care of yourself. It'sstressful to deal with all of this.
Twenty percent chance of rain tomorrow,forty percent on Thursday, seventy percent chance
of showers in store, Friday andSaturday. Jemperture right now still seventy five

(02:13:03):
at your official severe weather station.News Radio seven forty k TRH. It's
Houston's morning News, brought to youBiden, New South Windows Solutions. Now
back to Jimmy and Sherah with theinfo you need to take on the day.
So, the bad news is wehave one point seven million people that
have no power this morning. Thegood news is that we have over eleven

(02:13:24):
thousand linemen out there working to restorepower and they hope to have at least
a million back online by the endof the day tomorrow. And that's pretty
herculean when you think about it.Yeah, and it was one point eight
million without power when we started thisnewscast and we're down to one point seven
so that means one hundred thousand ifyou had it restored right Hopefully, we're

(02:13:45):
going to hear from somebody from Centerpointhere in a few minutes. Yeah,
we've been promoting that center Point wasgoing to join us, so we can
ask the questions you want to answer. We'll see first though, at seven
twenty. Let's do a little trafficand weather together, because we have a
lot of questions about the drive andgas stations and flooded roads and all that
stuff too. I'm telling you,it just surprised. I wasn't completely surprised,
but man, we just had allthese power outages, and hey,

(02:14:07):
it's kind of hard to pump gaswithout electricity, and a lot of places
completely closed where you might normally stop, grab some coffee, grab something to
eat. I need some help fromthe tip line listeners. I ten westbound,
I had you shut down from theeast text to forty five. I'm
not one hundred percent sure. Idon't have a visual there, but it
looks like I've got some kind ofpack up at Saint Arnold. There's a

(02:14:28):
wreck at Hardy, I see that, and that's on the westbound southwest northbound
at Kirby. That's a new wreckthat's been pulled over to the side.
We've got the closure on forty fivethat's between downtown and the Loop and your
tip line. Here's the number sevenone three, two one two t ips
west side Jackie, help me tayso I ten is open and the only
issue is forty five South is stillclosed and there is debris on the road

(02:14:54):
on this street. Boom, reopenthe Katie Freeway from Yale west side.
Jack her fest her first ever bananasticker. And also watch that ramp on
Smith Street. Also, Jason fromAlvin told me they've closed off Louisiana at
Pope. Let's see from Mark fromWinnie, he's on the east side.
Dude, Gi mIRC one six stop, Waterburger and Pishfla are open. And

(02:15:18):
what I can tell on the eastside of the road to Gaption, that's
that big new shopping deal over inMott Bellevue. Also, the truck stops
at Wallace, Bill, the truckstops it at Thompson, and your truck
stops in New Kenya two forty twoAll open, Skymike, it's your Generator
Supercenter, dot Com traffic Center fromour KTRH top tax Defenders, twenty four
hour weather Center, partly Claude.For today, we've got a little cloud

(02:15:39):
deck out there right now. That'sjust going to burn off as the morning
progresses here, and once it does, we'll have partly cloudie. Sky's warm
ninety three today tomorrow party cloudy.About a twenty percent chance I'm actually a
shower storm in the hig again ofninety three. Right now, it is
seventy five at your officials of yourweather station. News Radio seven forty k
TRH got to get you caught upon some of our top Here's Shay seven

(02:16:01):
twenty three on news Radio seven fortyKTRH. These headlines sponsored by Morrow Mechanical
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KTRH with Centerpoint spokespsus aleisho' sheldy joinsus Alisha. One point seven million people
still with no power. That's alot of folks to try to bring back,
isn't it? Good morning? Thankyou for having me. Yes,
we know that we have still alot of work ahead of us, but
the crews are making steady progress.And you mentioned before we've got actually nearly

(02:17:05):
twelve thousand workers, line workers andvegetation management professionals that when all have descended
upon Houston, will be working torestore our customers as quickly as they can.
Are you having to clear out someof that vegetation which was the cause
of the lines coming down? Isthat your first step before you can start

(02:17:26):
restoring? And how do you goabout this when it's something that can't be
repaired and has to be utterly replaced. Sure, so I'd love to go
into the restoration process just a littlebit. What you mentioned is correct.
Before we can even begin repairs,we've got to get in there and cut
and clear debris that's impacting our equipmentin our system. So we've got those

(02:17:48):
crews that are clearing the various vegetationthat has been has been damaging our system
as a result of the storm.Once that can be cleared, our damage
is used, are putting together visualsthat will help us be able to develop
those restoration plans. At that point, then our crews can come out with

(02:18:09):
the appropriate equipment whatever that equipment isneeded to make the particular repairs and get
to work. So while it isa lengthy process, we're moving as safely
and as quickly as we can.We do understand that our customers are dealing
with extreme heat. You know,it's very much an inconvenience to be without
power, and we understand that,and we're working as quickly as we can.

(02:18:31):
I guess, Alicia, the goodnews is is that at least you
had some warning on this storm.We knew that a hurricane was coming in
our direction, so it allows youto get some assets put into place,
Unlike the derecho we had earlier inthe year, where it just boom,
It just popped up and tore upa whole bunch of equipment and you don't
you didn't know it was coming,that's right. We did have several days
notice where we activated our emergency responseplan and so then we began to look

(02:18:54):
at various reports from storm experts onwhat they thought this storm would bring to
our area. Now, there isa certain level of unpredictability that comes with
these storms, and we saw that. So Hurricane Beryl brought more damage and
impacted us in our system in agreater way than what perhaps had been predicted.

(02:19:15):
So we did prepare, We calledupon mutual assistance crews to assist us,
be ready to assist us immediately afterthe storm. But then as that
storm came through yesterday, there wasmore damage than what was anticipating. Can
we made that additional call? CanI ask you quickly, how do you
prioritize? Do you do the bigsystems FURST? Do you do certain neighborhoods

(02:19:37):
furs? How do you go aboutdoing this? Sure? So we are
trying to get as many customers onas we can. So part of our
prioritization is looking for where we canbring on as many customers at one time,
also prioritizing critical care facilities, soemergency centers, hospitals, educational centers.
Trying to prioritize those centers as wellas bring on as many customers as

(02:20:01):
at a time as we can.How we begin that prioritization all right,
Alicia, thanks for all the goodinformation. Do appreciate it, appreciate your
work and under pressure. Yep,Alicia, o'sheldy joining us. By the
way, I think I have anew favorite title. Someday I'd like to
be a vegetation management professional. It'sseven twenty seven. You do it already?
Yeah, I guess I do,don't. I got a weed whacker.
That makes me one. Time totake a look at your money.

(02:20:24):
Here's Courtney Donahoe. Well, goodmorning, Jimmy Beryl is disrupting a key
gateway for commodities. Port of Houstonclosed again today. Shipping giant MARESK says
some of its local facilities are withoutpower, but it expects to resoome operations
once the Houston terminal gates are open. Fire Reserve Chair j Pal set to
deliver his semi annual testimony on CapitolHills starting today. Head of that stops

(02:20:46):
are looking at a higher open deal. Futures up fifteen points. Some Courty's
on a Hope Bloomberg business on newsradio seven KTRH. You are Houston's news,
whether we're traffic breaking news twenty fourto seven. This is US Radio
seven forty KTRH five Everywhere with theopera. More of what's happening now from

(02:21:09):
the John Morris Services Studios. Seventhirty one Our Time, Houston's Bonning News.
I'm Jimmy Barret along with Sheriff FryerBunger Top Stores. This half hour
with Beryl. The big issues arepower and debris. Biden goes off while
Trump remains calm and coming up atseven thirty eight reaction to the news that
are neurologist has visited the White Houseeight times in eight months. Details and

(02:21:31):
the minutes ahead, And you're inHouston's Barning News. First, we're checking
out the drive time. Here's skyMike. All right, release the Katie
Freeway drivers that sendbown. We've clearedthat closure at Yale due to high water.
We've still got some stuff going onin the frontage roads outside of Highway
six. The other side of ITMWest is pretty iffy. You've got an
accident just passed Saint Arnold at theHardy exit, and that is on the

(02:21:54):
westbound side to twenty five. I'mtaking two twenty five and Richie out of
your in car navigation. You correctme if I'm wrong. It looks to
me like two twenty five's wide openfrom one forty six Golf Freeway, got
some closures and the feeders and fortyfive North Freeways completely shut down from Cavalcade
to downtown both ways. Skymike andthe Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center from

(02:22:16):
r KTRH Generator Supercenter twenty four hourweather center for today partly cloudy, warm
with a high temperature right about ninetythree, we'll get Terry Smith in here
from the Weather Channel with an updateon the forecast. Get about eight minutes
right now, temperature is seventy sixat your official severe weather station. News
Radio seven forty k TRH. It'stime for the news. Here's Sheriff Ryer
and good morning. Everyone's seven thirtytwo on news Radio seven forty KTRH and

(02:22:39):
our top story this hour. Prettyscary, right, It happened very quickly,
faster than Harvey. At Woman withour TV partner channel to Houston recovering
from Hurricane Barrel. As of thismorning's still one point seven million customers now
without power, down from a highof two point two million. We understand

(02:23:01):
what families are going through, certainlywith the loss of power. I do
not have power at my house.Center point is there in everything they can.
They've brought in ten thousand additional personnel. Houston Mayor John whitmaer that now
more than three hundred and eighty fivethousand have had their power restored so far.

(02:23:22):
Another day of closures today. CheckKTRH dot com to see with that
list. Beryl killed at least sevenpeople in the Houston area, including a
seventy three year old grandmother who diedwhen a tree fell in her house in
North Harris County. I'm gonna loweralways, and you know there's not enough
stupid just to keep going forward.Woman's son there. One of the other

(02:23:46):
deaths, a civilian employee of HBDon his way back to work, got
caught in floodwaters. The storm's totaldeath toll now at least eighteen. That
would be including deaths in the Caribbeanand Mexico. Bush and Hobby airports running
a limit. It's scheduled today isso if you're traveling, check your carrier.
Hundreds of flights have already been canceledtoday out of the two airports.

(02:24:07):
Continued Internet issues Yes AT and TVerizon in Exfinity, we can't get much
information from any of them. Wealso saw structural damages from the storm.
Part of the roof was sheared offof Saint Luke's Hospital in Lake Jackson.
The roof at Energy Stadium reportedly isdamage. Officials won't confirm until they can
get a full assessment. Monday's garbageand heavy tree waste will be collected today

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in the City of Houston, andstorm damage collection will also resume today.
Beryl now a tropical depression threatening Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri before it moves
further up the line. Ultimately,it looks like it sort of peters out
in Detroit or near Detroit. Houstonwill rebuild from Beryl as we did from
Harvey, Ike and the other storms. And despite the struggling national economy,

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the Houston economy, at least whenit comes to construction, it's on par.
Construction's doing surprisingly well. We didn'texpect it to do as well this
year. Amount of construction contracts issuedso far this year well above this time
last year. Patrick Jenkowski with aGreater Houston Partnership, expecting that trend to
continue too, and adds at higherinterest rates, not really having the effect

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on construction that he would have thoughtviolent crime did not stop for Beryl and
HPD officers shot in the thigh instable condition after responding to a disturbance in
Northwest Houston last night. The shooteris in custody. It's seven thirty five.
Well, here's a comparison. DonaldTrump sitting down with k t Orhs
Sean Hannity for an exclusive interview lastnight. We're heading into World War three,

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in my opinion, with this mansemi running things. Because he's not
running things. Trump predicting Biden willstay in the race, however, because
he says his ego and Joe Bidenraging and mumbling through an interview on MSNBC,
especially about the number of Democrats nowpublicly calling for him to drop out.

(02:26:01):
I've got a pretty good political instinctand I and here's the deal.
It's not going to happen here thistime around. The American public is not
going to move away from me asan average voter talking by telephone Biden on
Morning Joe, he was doing thephone interviews. It was the first lady
who was out on the campaign trail. Donald Trump wakes up every morning thinking

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about one person, and one person, only himself. We know what Donald
Trump was like as Commander in chief, Jill Biden in North Carolina is seven
thirty six. Here in Texas lawmakerswhen they gather in January, the Republicans
say, yes, they had theirpriorities, eight of them, and they're

(02:26:48):
going to do them and sharl oneof the big ones. No more Democrat
chair positions. The Texas House doesthat. They give massive amounts of power
to Democrats. That's in the formof chairmanships of committees. The Texas Senate
does not. And so the RepublicanParty of Texas has prioritized ending this practice
in the Texas House. That ispolitical commentator Luke Messias. Ending Democrat chairmanships

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in the Texas House has five tosix times more support than it ever has.
I think the likelihood that we bannedDemocrat chairs is maybe seventy five percent.
We've got a very good shot atit, along with an even better
shot of replacing House Speaker Dade Feelin. Jeff Biggs News Radio seven forty KT
ORH seven thirty seven. Now Astro'shosting Miami Tonight pregame at six on Sports

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Talk seven ninety first pitch seventy ten, and it will be on both seven
ninety and here on KTRH recapping,of course, the top story, one
point seven million now Center POY customerswith no power in the aftermath of Hurricane
Barrel. They restored it under anotherone hundred thousand this morning, another fourteen
thousand just a few minutes ago.Oh good, yep, so we're making

(02:27:56):
progress, Thank you power crewse hopeto have a million customers restored by the
end of the day tomorrow. Atleast seven people have been killed in our
area in the storm. I'm sureryar On news radio seven forty KTRH,
Michael Berry only endorses Texas Renters dotcom for property management needs. How bad
things are the twenty twenty four elections? What's really happening? Everything in your

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world? Here and abroad news Radioseven forty KTRH. We were all a
little busy yesterday, was the Aneurologist evidently has been to the White House
eight times in the last eight months, clearly there to see President Biden.
Although trying to get Kareem, JeanPierre or anybody in the White House to

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admit that is good luck on that. Here's a reaction though, from Greg
Guttfeld on the News on the fiveMy advice at Kareean Jean Pierre's. You
know, when people are talking aboutthe president being near death, don't wear
a white coat. What kind ofreassurance is that to dress like a visiting
angel. You know, at leastyou left the stethoscope with doctor Evil,

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I mean doctor Jill. Yeah.But one thing that was overlooked by the
press was that the President said whenthey were asked about his health, he
said, don't worry, it's justmy brain. Think about that's like being
That's like, you know, askydiver telling a first time jumper, don't
worry. It's since the parachute.It's kind of scary. And you know,

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this is why it kind of upsetsme. If you've ever tried to
get somebody into assisted living, ithard, takes a lot of effort,
it's a lot of heartache, butyou do it because it's your family.
That's why you have a family.The Biden family is not my family.
Joe Biden is not my dad.This is not America's problem. This is
the responsibility of a horrendous family ignoringa huge responsibility for the sake of preserving

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their power, their force. Thisproblem on three hundred million strangers, you
know. And I think what's missinghere is shaming them, shaming them for
what they're doing. They're acting likethey're going to get away with this.
The fight isn't over twenty twenty four. The fight is over his resignation.
He can't focus on the election becausethat's what Doctor Evil wants you to do.

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He's not fit to be president rightnow. So if they don't replace
him this week or next week,what is that telling you? That tells
you that they're comfortable with him notbeing in charge and that he's not been
in charge for a while, becausethey don't see it as a big deal.
If he's not present now, thestock market's not even breaking a sweat.
So clearly all the people in powerknow that somebody else is pulling the

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levers. It's kind of strange.It's like over the intercom somebody telling you
in a jet airliner, both pilotshave had cardiac arrests, but don't worry.
The plane practically flies itself. Well, that plane is our country,
Yeah it is. But I don'tthink there's anybody really laboring under this fision
that it's been in any other wayhere for the last almost four years seven

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one time for traffic and weather together. Just your brain sky, Mike.
Don't worry about what do you needthat for anyway, just gets in the
way as long as I can talk. Let's go to Southwest Freeway at Kirby.
That's an inbound where they've cleared thewreck. The Southwest is maybe one
of our better freeways. This morning. We did have that wreck at Maine.
All that's out of the way.Forget it. Just stay on the
main lanes. Don't do the feeder, especially around the loop here. Something's

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getting a little crazy around South Maineand the Southway, but I think it's
that light. We always have somekind of junk there northbound. Otherwise the
most city expressway we're getting by.Again, stay on the main lanes.
Because we had a problem at thefeeder road at the Beltway that would be
all ninety west Sam. That feederwas already a disaster around Bisonett up to
bel Air with the roadwork, andit's off looking kind of slow now northbound

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around West Chase. As we're lookingat the north Belt you have that road
work. Normally we lift construction fordisasters, but we can't pick it up.
At Alding Westfield west or Imperial Valleyeastbound Katie Freeway. Yes, it's
open all the way into downtown exceptthe rent for the North Freeway. North
Freeways also closed. We've been watchingfor gas stations and stuff open. Just

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to get some food. Let's goto the sticks without power. Nothing is
open, the street lights aren't working. And heading over to own Alaska right
now to see if they're working allright. If you're coming down the East
text truck stops at Wallaceville and theEast Loop or open the Baytown truck stops
Thompson Road, those are open.All the stuff on the air Bush Airport
area greens Alding Westfield that's closed.And also the truck stop just east of

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forty five on Patent that remains closed. Skymike on the Generator Supercenter, dot
Com Traffic Center by the way,Little Harris County damage assessment from Precinct three
Commissioner Tom Ramsey coming up here inabout another nine to ten minutes, so
stand by for that. First,we've got Terry Smith katrh Generator super Center,
twenty four hour weather Center who's forecastinga day a whole lot different than

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what we had yesterday, Oh mygoodness. And Thank goodness we have it's
a quiet day. I'm seeing someclouds around. Don't worry about the clouds.
It's going to be a dry dayfor us and just typical Houston heat
and humidity. I hate to saythat, but I'd rather be dealing with
what we're generally accustomed to. Theonly problem is a lot of us don't

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have power, so that is theconcern. Without power, the heat stress
on the body can be an issue. So extra caution today. Make sure
you're being well hydrated and kind toyour neighbor. Help out load in mid
nineties for highs. We got somerain on the way tomorrow, but it's
only a twenty percent chance of ashower storm. Thursday of forty percent chance

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of rain, and by the endof the week that's when our rain chances
go up seventy percent chance of showersand storms Friday and Saturday, and fingers
crossed. By then, we're ina much better position than we are today.
Chupature right now seventy six at yourofficials, Severe weather Station News Radio
seven forty k TRH. What youneed to know for the day ahead.

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This is Houston's morning news, broughtto you by New South Windows Solutions Kiloll
Harris County Precinct three damage assessment comingup with Commissioner Tom Ramsey. He will
join us in about minute and ahalf two minutes, but first we've got
traffic and weather together starting the Usky Mike, let me give Tom Ramsey
some extra time here. Highway sixas a disaster, it's mostly traffic light

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problems all the way from two ninetyto sixty nine. Forty five's closed from
downtown to the Loop Clyde from ConrodDude Loop three three six south and I'm
forty five all traffic light or bleakin red. Surprise that's not flooded there.
I'm Skymike on the Generator Supercenter dotCom Traffic Center from our KTRH Generator
Supercenter twenty four hour weather center fortoday will become partly clotting and warm for

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the high temperature right about ninety three. You can add a twenty percent storm
chance to the forecast for tomorrow anda forty percent storm chance to that forecast
for Thursday. Right now seventy sixat your official severe weather station, News
Radio seven forty KT chair is here. She's got an update on some of
our top stories. Seven to fiftyone on news radio seven forty k TRH.
Our headlines are sponsored by DNM Autolysaying, well, we've got it

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down one hundred thousand. It's nowone point seven million Center Point customers without
power. This morning storm blamed forat least seven deaths across the Houston area,
five of them because of falling trees. That wind was just horrific.
Bush and Hobby Airports on a limitedschedule today, a lot of flights still
canceled. Port of Houston still shutdown. Latest news anytime KTRH dot com.

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Our next update will be at thetop of the hour. Do you
understand? Pleased to listen. Icheck in all the time. Keep up
with what's hap her names danying inform matters to the Hues. Radio seven
forty KTRH. Precinct three Commissioner HarrisCounty Commissioner Tom Ramsey joins, us,
I know you're out there touring thecounty yesterday to kind of assess where we're

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at damage wise. What did youfind out there, Tom, Well,
we got a lot of trees onthe major thoroughfares. That's been kind of
our focus. Uh at this point. Jimmy sheriff. Thank you for continue
providing updates. I know we werewithout power for a significant amount of the
time and we depend on you guyswith your reports. But I'd say right

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now the early issues in terms ofrecovery has to do with trees. Uh.
Of course, this is our thirdstorm UH in two months. The
first one was a flooding event,and we had a wind event, and
yesterday we had a flood and winningevent that really affected every neighborhood in Harris

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County. So we are dealing withtrees getting them off of thoroughfairs. Hadn't
really had a lot of flooding atleast in Precinct three. All the all
the UH, all the streams areat flood level, but we haven't had
structural flooding. And let me givea shout out. I know I have
called out UH our northern county interms of putting water, but like Conroe

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lowered their like one foot, LikeHouston, Lord, they're like one foot.
That makes a world of difference whenyou have as much rain as we
did in such a short period oftime. And we appreciated anybody who's downstream
appreciates it too, you know,even below us I want to ask you
about woodchippers. Does the county havewoodchippers, because it seems to me that's

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what we need. I know Ineed it in micro I'm not in your
precincts, sadly, but we've gotWe've dragged the limbs out, We've raked
up the stuff. Now what dowe do with it? Who's gonna come
get it? How fast? Andif you could just park some wood chippers
or get them out to the neighborhoods, it would help well. And that's

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a that's a good dog. Imean, at this point, we're honestly
trying to get the get all thelimbs and the trees up and out and
away. We actually have contractors onthe ground. They were on the within
hours of yesterday. We got twentycrews and just three sinct three and we've
got contractors to haul the debris.They really haul debris to another site and

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they chip it there. But ittakes in terms of time that would be
difficult. I think to put thetry to deal with process in the wood
in the front yard and try toget it to a central location. And
they honestly do that, chip itup there and then distributed later that's right.

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You're the commissioner, and I'm notlet me ask you this commissioner ramsay.
And it has to do with thebud districts and some of the boiled
water notices that we've seen from someof them that have had generator issues.
Generally speaking, what are the waterconditions in your part of Harris County?
Is the water all in good shapeor or are there some potential concerns depending

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on how long it takes to getthe bower back. Well, anytime you
see the power law like we've had, you're going to have pumping pressure issues
and you'll require a TCEEQ to givenotice if the pressure drops blow a certain
amount. So that's why the noticeis doesn't necessarily mean you've got a really

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at risk water supply, but that'swhy the boil notices that are required to
do that. There as many powerallergies as we have. Obviously, it's
affected cell phone service, it affectswater pressure, all those things. The
two hundred and two MUDs in myprecinct all are dealing with maintaining that pressure,
and you do that through the electricalsupply. Okay, so boil water

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notices, maybe, how do weget it out because there's a lot coming
across our internet here. Well,well, we're working right now today with
those kinds of notices. I've heardthis morning more about cell phone service than
I have water pressure. But we'regoing to post those both on the city

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website, I mean the county websitesand the city websites. And by the
way, the four precincts are workingwell with the City of Houston and trying
to get this kind of information outand to the public. But a good
point, glad to hear it.Good, thank you, Thanks commission for
free time. We always do appreciate. That's Precinctree Commissioner Tom Ramsey two hundred

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and two Mother De six, justin his precinct. Wow, listen,
you'll have a great day. We'llsee you tomorrow morning breaking early at five
AMLC. This afternoon four an am, nine fifty k PRC