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July 28, 2025 5 mins
Dana In The Morning Highlights 7/28

TX lawmakers are headed to Kerrville to discuss steps moving forward for flood readiness
Janice McNair - wife of late Texans founder Bob McNair - being inducted into Ring Of Honor
Do you go full speed ahead on Monday - or would you rather ease into the work week?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's best variety of the
eighties nineties. And today I'm Daniel with producer Anthony, and
we've got the three things you need to know to
get your Monday, July twenty eighth started. While this special
session continues this week and lawmakers are going to head
to Curville. Their goal is to hear the community testify
about what they experienced during the fourth of July catastrophic

(00:24):
flooding that killed almost one hundred and fifty people. Big
topic will be the flood alert system. Well tech dot
working to slow down speeders its latest summer safety campaign.
They went out to BUCkies yesterday and Katie all kinds
of information on their be Safe, Drive Smart campaign.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Speeding the number one contributing.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Factor in traffic crashes leading to fatalities in twenty twenty
five so far one hundred and fifty eight thousand speed
related crashes in Houston alone, fifty thousand speed related crashes
leading to two hundred and fifty one deaths. And your
weather today, well, we've got a hot last week of July.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's going to be dry.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
To triple digit heat by Wednesday. But then when August starts.
We're going to have some showers to cool things off.
So today we go up to ninety ninety four. Rather
right now it's eighty and uptown and Europe to date
from Sunday ninety nine point one and tell me something.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Good brought to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston. Well,
it made some waves last year.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
The Genuine Cup, and it is coming back to Houston
this year July twenty ninth at Rice University. It's going
to transform into the home base for thirty eight inclusive
soccer teams from twenty three different countries. The teams are
made up of athletes with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Lorna Ortiz,
who is the founder, says she wants to build a

(01:49):
space where relationships for ideas grow, solutions are all come about.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
And it's all going to happen at Rice University.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
The kickoff begins on too and you can find out
all the details Anthony Genuine Cup dot org DA Sir Anthony.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Dan, this is really sweet.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Since the birth of our Houston Texans franchise, Jannis McNair
has been instrumental the growth to the growth of the
organization and now the co founder and widow of the
late owner owner Bob McNair, is being inducted into the
Texans Ring of Honor. The announcement was made before practice started,
with players and coach listening to Hannah and cal McNair
informing fans with Janis looking on.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It was such a special moment.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Bob McNair, Andre Johnson, and JJ Watt as the fourth
member of the club's Ring of Honor. Calsons his parents
brought football back to Houston more than twenty years ago,
and ever since, my mom has given so much to
our city and organization. She continues to be our team's
biggest fan. And I know how proud Dad would be
to see her name join his in the rafters of
NRG Stadium. She's going to be honored with or honored
at the halftime ceremony November ninth when the Texans played

(02:49):
the Broncos. Congrats again of Janis and honor a very
long time coming.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That is pretty cool, and this is really cool. Now
we're not just telling you how much we love our teachers.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
We are showing with Iheart's Bank, a Teacher powered by
Donors Shoes. You nominate your favorite teacher for five thousand
dollars they can buy whatever supplies they think they need
for their classroom.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
You can go to.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
iHeart dot com slash teacher for all the details on
how to nominate. And we are going to be highlighting
amazing teachers throughout this campaign like Heather Sportsman at Willowridge
High School, William Shaler at Floyd Hoffman Middle School, and
Linda Wong.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
At Magnolia Elementary School.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
So if you've got an amazing teacher, make sure you
nominate them. They could win five thousand dollars to stock
up that classroom in time for school. iHeart dot com
slash teacher and for our feel good stories. Each weekday
mornings set a preset on the new and improved iHeartRadio
app to Sonny naty nine point nine, Sunday naety nine
point one, Houston's best variety of the eighties nineties, And

(03:52):
today I'm Dana with producer Anthony, and we learned in
our Nearly Impossible Question that even when you're retired, you
still stress about Mondays. You don't need to anymore. It's
that's such a power over us. And we're asking you
how you deal with manic mondays in your life.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Marian how do you deal with Mondays?

Speaker 4 (04:11):
So, Mondays for me is kind of like a rough
a rough edge. So like say if I get so,
say if I get up, I try to affirm myself.
I try to give myself affirmations, like affirmations and and
try to reflect with myself like what am I doing?
Like what mistakes am I doing? Like what like what

(04:33):
nonsense am I dealing with? Is how I do it?
You know, wowing it basically went like for me, it's
like sometimes stressful with all the chaos and aggravation. So
I try to affirm. So I try to make Mondays
feel like, oh it's a time to reflect kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'm very good and I love the word nonsense, all
the nonsense.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Get it out of your life, right, Marianne.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yes, that's odd.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Love your approach. You just helped out so many people
on this Monday.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Right.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yes, just reflect on it. Yeah, so you can be
better exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I love it well, so smart Marianne, And thank you
for sharing with us.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Thank you, love you guys.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I love you guys,
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