ICE Has Put a Temporary Hold on All Vehicle Stops

This is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio Station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. Good morning, 5 a.m. as we get started this morning here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Bung our top stories this half hour. Ice has put a temporary hold in all vehicle stops. Their targets that we're going for with ice are still the worst of the worst. And coming up at 508, we are the Guardians of the Strait. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive for the first time, Mr. Guy Mike. I'm going to take you to the straits of downtown and did a little field study. You know, it's one thing to look at it from my view and then sometimes when we fly over it, but dude, getting down in it, I tend, those of you that have to go westbound through downtown from the Baytown side, you know, from the U of H side, back over to the Katie side. What a harrowing experience. I didn't realize it just... whittles down off that entrance ramp from Travis and you lose that left lane and it becomes its own little suicide squeeze. You got two little skinny lanes and a higher text dot wall of death now. Just reduce your visibility a little bit. So a fun, fun, fun. Everybody's rocking along for now. I think we're to have rain in the forecast. So turn this news off. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24 hour weather center. Mostly cloudy skies, 50% chance of a shower storm today. There is a slight risk of a heavy downpour. With eye temperature right about 87. Richard Lewellings working at the Weather Channel today. We'll get an update from him in about eight minutes. Right now 76. Add your official, severe weather station. News Radio 740KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff's August. And 502, we're sponsored by Synergenics Health and Weight Loss, our top story, a policy change. ICE agents are instructed to end most vehicle stops nationwide. This comes one week after an illegal alien was shot and killed in Houston after apparently trying to run agents over with his car. It's a temporary pause. Look, the last couple of shootings, ICE leadership along with DHS, believes they want to look at these last couple incidents and look. Is there something that could have been done better? Is there any training to get me improved? Orders are Tom Homan. Meantimeier, John Whitmire, and HBD Chief Noe Diaz have asked the Texas Rangers to look into this. The mayor actually called ICE, quote, an out-of-control law enforcement agency, closed, quote, at City Council yesterday. And while Democrats and the mainstream media take their shots, ICE agents go about doing their job. ICE carried out dozens of arrests of violent criminal illegal aliens last weekend, even as left-wing groups continued protesting and attacking the agency. John Bender with Breitbart News says the latest arrest list is impressive. We're talking about the most heinous of crimes, child rape, several drunk driving charges. We're talking people who have been convicted repeatedly of drunk driving. Murder, manslaughter, these are the worst of the worst. All taken off the streets by ICE agents just in the past few days.

They're, you know, the word the military likes to use is degrade. They've been degraded. President Trump on Fox last night. He also pulled back on his plan to impose a fee on ships for passage through the strait. He addresses the country tomorrow at H on KTRH and the IHeHart Radio app. World Futures at $80 as the U.S. remains the world's top oil producer, and Texas is helping use, helping spare you from even higher gasoline prices. It may be hard to imagine, but gas at the pump would be a lot higher if Texas were not producing all that oil from West Texas. Since it all goes on the world market, Carr Ingraham, president of the Texas Alliance of Energy producers, says, U.S. crude oil producer led by Texas, is in fact shielding them from much, much worse market events, a much worse price scenario than it would be the case if our production were much lower. Texas and New Mexico are mostly responsible for making the U.S. the top oil-producing nation in the world. Mike Shiloh, News Radio 740, KTRH. Dow futures are up almost 100 points this morning after gains on Wall Street yesterday. And with the talk about the future of Social Security, there's no magic age to start claiming benefits. Financial planner Michael Mazer says the program isn't expected to take care of all expenses. Everybody has a financial thumbprint, right? Everybody's thumbprint's different. So are your financial numbers. Social Security could become insolvent in the 2030s, leading to some cuts in benefits to about 80% of what you get today. Texans co-founder and senior chair Janice McNair passes away at the age of 89. She and her husband Bob founded the franchise 24 years ago. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740, KTRH. I take the Beltway sometimes, and I also take the West Park toll road. KTRH, time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. Am I the only one, or is anybody else, when you heard the term, the Borg can become Guardians of the Strait, who started thinking about Guardians of the Galaxy? Which actually is a very good movie. 508, good morning. Guardians of the Strait, huh? What does that mean anyway? I guess that means... that we are going to be the superheroes who make it possible for shipping to get through the Strait of Hormuz. Now, yesterday I was mentioning that I found it kind of ironic that we were talking about charging a toll to countries who wanted to bring their ships through the strait to protect them from the Iranians. When the Iranians wanted to charge a toll for ships to come through the strait to not be attacked by them. evidently, within a fairly short period of time, the president himself realized the irony, or maybe it was suggested to him that maybe we don't want to do that, and they came up with a different plan. Instead, and this is much more palpable, I like this a lot better, instead these countries are instead going to make further investments in the United States. You help us get through the straight. We'll spend more money in your country. Even better than a toll, as far as I'm concerned. I think what we're looking at is just the desire for compensation, financial compensation. You got to admit, the guy's a businessman, right? He expects, I provide you all this free protection. Protection costs money. We can't afford to do this for free. We're going to have to be compensated for this. So now he's found a way to be compensated that he's going to feel better about. Now, well, we'll see if the Germans and the French,

And the British, who also used the straight, will see if they want to do what Qatar and some of these other countries are going to do as far as making more investments in the United States. Some they've already done. Now, I'm guessing the president will expect more, especially from a country like Spain or France, who we're not particularly fond of at this particular point in time. By the way, for those following FIFA World Cup, did you find it hard to figure out who won the FIFA match, the semifinal between Spain and France? I really couldn't root for either one, to be honest with you. So I really didn't care who wins that one. Today will be a little bit different. Anyway, that's how they've worked it out, at least so far. And I guess this is going to be going on for quite some time. Because if we're going to be guardians of the strait, then we're going to be there a while. 5-10, time for traffic and weather together. We could take those tolls from the strait and use that to fund our part of NATO. If we want to stay in NATO, we might as well charge NATO a little right. Aren't we kind of already NATO period? Pretty much? I think we are. We're about all they have now. Let's go downtown. And as I mentioned, that roadwork I tent, good grief, that's gnarly westbound. You've got this little squeeze. down after you pass downtown to go from the Baytown side to the Katie side. It's at I-45, if you don't know, and it's just these little tiny lanes, huge tech stop wall of death on both sides, and I would be a lot more comfortable on the South Loop 610, especially five were hazardous. 610 north, we're not squeezed down, nothing doing there. Oh, some of the online digital folks are showing a complete closure of the North Freeway from cross timbers to downtown. It's not there. We get these little phantom scoches in East Tex. Same story there between the graveyards around just inside the Beltway Lee Road and down to about the Jensen exit. That's not there either. Freeway's rocking along now, but I tell you, it looks like we've had more showers on the forecast, I believe, so we've got to turn that snooze off. Let's check Ship Channel Bridges at 520. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour Wood Center, Richard Lewellings back today. More rain in the forecast, but nothing like yesterday, I assume. Yeah, nothing like yesterday. Starting to see some showers come in off. The Gulf hit it toward Houston now. So, you know, probably over the next one to two hours, we are going to start to see a bump up in the rain chances here. Coverage today about 50-50. That's about what we're looking at today. Of course, the heavier rains have been over in the Texas Hill country where they're dealing with some considerable flash flooding over west of San Antonio this morning. For us, the showers are going to stick around here through the day today, 87, a south easterly breeze. We try things out. Tomorrow, 91 with sunshine making a return, not a one in three chance of showers and storms. And we close out the week with sunshine and hot temperatures, 93. More of the same for the weekend coming up with temperatures in the mid-90s. Right now, 76, said your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740KTRH. I live in Clear Lake. Humble. Reliable. KTRH, traffic and weather. Next on the 10. All right, so we are guardians of the straight, but in addition to that, the blockade is back on against Iran. And the president also talked about he brought up the specter of bombing electric plants again.

He says he doesn't really want to touch the oil, but yeah, you never know. So he's ramping up the pressure once again on Iran. He wants them to make a deal. I don't think we want to make a deal with Iran. They're never going to live up to a deal anyway. But. We'll see what happens. 521 for now. Let's get traffic and weather together as we check out the drive once again to Skymouth. I just love the sound of Houston in the morning as let's go on the 99 grand parkway. On the north part here, look what's on camera 2337. You can see the golf ball. I'm looking eastbound and so far no big problems here. They've got that roadwork. It's becoming a lifestyle up here. Both ways, Tomball the New Caney and we're in good shape here. We jump on the Katie real quick. Fisors. Let's look at your ride and Cinco Ranch into the president's heads. 24 minutes rest of our freeways. Rock. I'm Skymike. It's your ability tree experts. Traffic Center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24 hour weather center, mostly cloudy, 50% chance of a shower storm, slight risk of a heavy down for 87 today. Partly sunny with a 30% shower storm chance tomorrow, 91, and then mostly sunny. What? Yeah, mostly sunny on Friday with a hive 93. Current temperature is... 76 if your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. Don't tease us with sun like that. Sun's coming someday. First, let's check it with Cliff and see what he's got going on in our newsroom. The governor has issued a disaster declaration for 59 Texas counties because of the rain. The U.S. House ends a week's long rebellion over the stalling of the Save America Act with a procedural vote to fund the State Department. And the Pasadena Office of Emergency Management says... They've detected no unsafe readings despite a strong chemical odor that was reported yesterday. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 5.30. Pasadena. Living clearly. Reliable. KTRH traffic and weather. Next on the 10. The blockade is back. So are the oil sanctions. Oil sanctions that blockades against Iran by President Trump. Here he is yesterday talking about doing all this. We're hitting them very heavy tonight, as you know. We're hitting it. We have tremendous amounts of ammunition. We have numbers that we haven't had in years. And we're hitting them very hard and it will continue and we'll see what happens. But we're knocking out all of their offensive capability. And we're controlling the straits. We're putting the blockade back. And it's a blockade, not for anybody, but Iran. In other words, anybody doing business with Iran can't go through. Everyone else will be able to go through it. So it's a blockade, it's a very strong blockade. The blockade was probably more effective even than hitting them. Iran violated the terms of the deal. They agreed in writing not to attack tankers in the straight and not to charge tolls. This deal was a test, and they failed. So, Iran now claims the straits closed. It's not. The United States, just like we did with Operation Freedom, is ushering ships through the southern part of the strait. Every country's vessels can get in and out if they want to, except now for Iran's. Since America doesn't need the oil, the world does, the president floating a freedom toll.

I want to be reimbursed because we're protecting a very rich portion of the world. We're spending money. And so what we've done is we are going to be reimbursed for protection. We're protecting by the countries that we're helping. No more love taps. Trump says it's time for bitch slaps. We're hitting them very hard. We had a deal yesterday or the day before yesterday was all done. And then they broke up that deal immediately because they found out there was something in the deal they didn't like. And they're wired differently and we're not going to put up with it. We are just going forward. We're attacking them tonight. We're taking out all of their capability for anything having to do with the straight, with the hormone straight. And I think in the end, we will end up discontrolling the whole thing. And again, the toll idea has been replaced now by further investment in the United States. You don't have to pay a toll. Just spend more money in the U.S. 526 here on News Radio 740, KTRH. Let's take a look at your bunny. The head of the largest oil port in the U.S. says the boost to crude exports triggered by the Iran war will likely continue. Kent Britain of the Port of Corpus Christi says the surge has even revived conversations about a pipeline connecting the port to the oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma. This report is sponsored by Vanguard Investor Choice, a proxy voting program for eligible Vanguard index funds. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH.

Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740 KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRRF. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It's 530. Here on Houston's morning news, I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this have are, the president says he has big news coming on election integrity. A Baker Institute report on Harris County's spending problem. And coming up at 538, you think that time travel exists? Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive. Here's Sky Mike. All right, we found this Katie Freeway problem. It's a wreck inbound just before the loop found it. Let's call it two. They're calling it two left lanes. This is on the inbound. And you're going to see some breaks now when you get over to the theater or past IKEA. Put all that together yourself and you're looking at an extra four minutes this way. I'm Sky Mike. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, generator's super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy skies, 50% chance of a shower or storm, slight risk of a heavy downpour. But the hike today, right about 87. We'll get the complete forecast with Richard the Welling at the Weather Channel in nine minutes. Current temperature 76 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. It is 531, our top story. It's really big news. It's really, really big news. And our country has to shape up. President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday confirming reports that his speech tomorrow night to the country will be about election integrity. ATRH carries that speech at 8 o'clock tomorrow. You can also listen on the free IHeart Radio app. Trump reportedly will be joined by FBI director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Meantime, the Save America Act remains stalled in the Senate with one of the Republicans that have come out against it confronted. by reporter Sarah Gonzalez of the blaze. Senator, you've received almost $700,000 from the illegal labor lobby. Is that why you voted against the Save America Act? Can you tell me who the illegal labor lobby is? And then Thom Tillis responded by saying, quote, good luck with the clicks. Also on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats block the annual defense bill for moving forward in protest to the ongoing U.S. strikes on Iran. They are basically telling us now, we're done. We're not going to vote on anything for the rest of the year. We hate Donald Trump. We hate America. We hate American people. Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville on Fox Business. In the meantime, the strikes continued last night.

The president making clear Iran is in for plenty more pain unless and until it gets back to the negotiating table. President Trump insisting the Strait of Hormuz is once again open for business for everybody but Iran. Although he did back off a bit from his plan to impose a 20% fee for that service provided by the U.S. military after hearing from allies on the Gulf Cooperation Council. Anita Vogel reporting oil futures are up to $80 and 15 cents a barrel this morning. Gasoline across the Houston area now at 338 a gallon, that is 10 cents cheaper than the average across the state of Texas. The Trump administration is sending billions to the Lone Star State to finance around 100 power transmission projects. Experts say this is a big deal because currently... The infrastructure is lacking. Texas is growing much faster than its infrastructure can keep up with. Matt bombs with the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance says this will help the economy. The data center is being built, he says, require a lot of electricity. 534, Harris County wants to spend your money on investigating ice. But Democrats' spending has led to a deficit in the millions with layoffs expected. Much of this comes from COVID-era spending backed by federal dollars that hasn't stopped. Those dollars are now shut off. Any program that was created just to use federal dollars probably needs to go away. The funding's not there for it. That's former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. He also pointed to issues with how different authorities share responsibilities. Somehow the city and the county and the state have got to come together and talk about how do we restructure governments down here. He says that without major changes, Harris County just isn't financially viable long term. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. Galveston County lawsuit filed by Democrats over-restricting is now in the hands of a federal judge. County, Judge Mark Henry, says he's hoping the case gets tossed since the county already won and an appellate court. I think we have a hearing on the 28th, and hopefully we'll know more after that. Galveston adopted a new precinct map last month, so the county says the case brought by the left is moot. There's a political shake-up coming to Austin this week that Democrats are freaking out about. Secretary of State Jay Nelson set to leave office and her replacement has not yet been announced. Experts are downplaying the effect on midterm elections. Professor Bo Cabala at Tarleton State University says the secretary is involved in high-level planning for the agency. It's counties, he says, who do the heavy lifting on election day. And I'm confident there will be continuity. He says the reason Nelson is out is likely political. She opposed the GOP's plans to close their primaries, saying that decision should be made by the legislature. KTRH is Michael Bored. Speaking of the... midterm, Senator John Cornyn says a, quote, conflict might make him miss the upcoming Republican convention in Dallas. That convention is set for September. CNBC is getting mocked for putting Texas in other red states on a list of the top 10 worst states to live. In fact, all 10 states were Republican states. Curtis Hauke of Newsbuster says they put in those states citing lack of inclusiveness while.

putting up places like new jersey as being among the best new jersey for CNBC to say, oh, this is the happiest state to live in, but oh, by the way, they have a huge homelessness problem. I feel like that would affect someone's quality of life. When you talk about inclusiveness and reproductive rights, you just get the sense that this vibes. He says because of this bias, you shouldn't trust these lists. Yordon Alvarez goes one for two scores run. The American League beats the National League in the All-Star game last night in Philadelphia, 4-0. The Astros are off until Friday. That's when they'll start a weekend series against the Baltimore Orioles at Diken Park. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news, weather, and traffic station, News Radio 740, KTRH. The app that puts the app in happening. We have some breaking news. You ready? Make KTRH your number one preset on the new and improved free iHeard radio app. Well, right now we're going back to the 80s. 537 is our time here in Houston's 40 News. I find the topic of time travel to be fascinating. I've seen, you've probably seen them too, all these different photographs of people who look out of place. And you wonder, is that a time traveler? Is that somebody from the future who came back to the past? You know, there's a, there's a picture from a 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie of a movie extra in the background. And the dress is appropriate, but... The person seems to be wearing, well, first of all, it's a woman. She's dressed all in black wearing a hat and walking around the set, talking on what looks like a cell phone. And, of course, obviously 1928, there were no cell phones. There's plenty of pictures like that. And you wonder, well, I'm sure some of them are fake. I'm sure some of them, it's just something else that they're doing. And it's just a case of you're mistaken about what it is you're seeing. And then you have other ones that you kind of go, huh? I don't know. I don't know what to make of that. I mean, Albert Einstein said it was possible, right? Theory of relativity to travel in time. But it kind of makes it for an interesting topic of discussion about what you would do if you could travel in time. If you could take a trip either to the future or a trip to the past, first of all, where would you rather go? Would you rather go to the past or would you rather go to the future? And if so, what time period would you want to go to? And what is it you'd want to know? Why would you travel to that particular time? Is it to know how your children's children turned out? Is it to see what happens to the world in the next 100 years? What happens to the United States in the next 100 years? Would you rather go back? to the early 1900s, to a simpler time, to the course horse and carriage days, you know, the days before television and mobile phones and all the technology that we have. Where would you, I guess that's my question. Where would you go in time and why would you go there? You go the iHeart Radio Life, KTRH, first name where are you calling from? If you could travel in time, where would you go and why would you go there? 540 right now, time for traffic and weather together. Oh, that's easy.

Where would you go, Sveteman? In 1985, right there. Just hop back. Are you going to confront your old self in 1985? I think I just want to drive around and listen to the radio. And go to the movies. The movies were great. I might even just sit and watch all the great commercials. So Doug from Mont Bellevue on my Facebook page, he's like, I'm like, I'm still waiting on that 520. He signed traffic a report because he talks like that. So, yeah, Doug, I'll get to that. First, I've got a problem on the west side. David's on the tip line. Dude. Hey, Sky, Mike. Right underneath the 610 overpass is a multi-car. Major accident that got all... Three left plane shut down. The right lane is getting by. I don't think that's going to be there very long. In fact, looking from chimney rock, that scoge is gone, and look at 318. It is now clear. All right. Ship Channel Bridges, here we go. We've got east on Batown side of the Hartman Bridge. Everybody's moving along nicely. Coming back this way from Le Port, we're happy. Toll Bridge rocks now from I-10 down to 225. If you work at Shell, no problems here. And someday we'll have an actual ramp there and a quick... look at 610 Port of Houston. Oh, we're looking good both ways. Budplant to 225. I'm Scott Mike. It's your ability tree experts traffic center. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center. Time to check in with virtue of the welling. We have more shots at rain today. Is it going to be morning rain, afternoon rain, or all day rain? What do you think? Well, I think it's going to be all day. We're going to be looking at the risk of some showers and storms around, but already starting off the morning with some pretty big storms south of Houston this morning that's prompted some special marine warnings to go up for Galveston Bay as these storms are working their way on shore now. And they could produce some 40-mile-per-hour winds and some very heavy rain in a short period of time, about 30 minutes away from downtown Houston as they're lifting northward. 87 here today, clouds, good chance for showers and storms. They'll be scattered around the region. all day long and a southwest breeze. The rain chances start to come down as we move into Thursday and Friday. Sunny skies, 91, not a one in three chance of showers and storms tomorrow, 93 on Friday. And more heat as we move into the weekend, drier times ahead with mid-90s. Saturday and Sunday, lots of sunshine. Right now 75 at your official Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Problems in traffic around the Beltway and around 610. KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the 10. You know, one of the things that's really helped us during this impasse with Iran is the fact that we are...

The world's top oil producer. We are retaining that spot as the world's top oil producer. We'll talk to Todd Staples about that. He's president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association. He's coming up next. First, though, at 550, let's do a little traffic and weather together with Skymike. Katie, Freeway. I got Ian from Bear Creek, dude. Hey, Sky Mike. Just throw up right under 6'10. A little bit of a slow-up, but no accident here, so they must have cleared it up. All right, clear the KD Camera 3118 supports you. I'm in the ability, tree experts, traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy today, 50% chance for shower or storm. Slight risk of heavy downpours with a high temperature of 87, tomorrow partly sunny, 30% shower and storm chance with a hive 91. Current temperature, 75 in your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. Get back to our newsroom and get you an update from... Cliffy's standing by with more. Lindsey Graham's sister is officially sworn in to fill out his term as senator. An investigation is underway after a deadly shooting in Hoffman. There is a man that's been detained. And nobody won the Mega Millions last night. So Friday's jackpot is approaching $675 million. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 6 o'clock. I live in Pasadena. Sharptown, Southwest. Next on the 10. Time-saving traffic on 740 KTRH. All right, 552 now here in Hustmore News. We're the world's top oil producer. We pumped a record 13.6 million barrels of crude oil every day. which is about 40% more than the next 40% more, the next largest producers, which are Russia and Saudi Arabia. Todd Staples joins us. He's president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association. You find that people are a little surprised by that. People with a long memory of when we weren't the world's top oil producer who find it surprising that we pump that much oil every day. I think it is a big surprise to recognize that just in the United States alone, we produce Texas by itself produces 42% of what our nation provides. Texas continues to punch above its weight and deliver these products that are so necessary to our modern life. Can you imagine a United States without Texas? It'd be a pretty sad place to live, wouldn't it, without our help? Well, it absolutely would be. Texas continues to lead the nation in so many categories. If we were our own economy, we'd be the eighth largest economy in the world. We're producing all natural gas, natural gas liquids. We are exporting. products across the globe, bringing stability to war-torn areas to our allies whose supply chains have been disrupted based on what's going on in the Middle East, based what's going on in Russia and Ukraine. Unfortunately, as big as we are, as much as we're doing, we're still impacted by global events. For instance, Ukraine's attacks into the heart of Russia and hitting their oil refineries.

has escalated diesel process. here in America, even though we're producing as much as we are. The reason why we produce as much as we do, we're blessed with some great rock, that's for sure, but we've got policy. Policy can promote prosperity or it can hinder it. And in such as we still want people to invest in their jobs, bring their capital, and when they do, they have the opportunity to be a part of the nation's best economy. You know, we've had some recent moves here from big oil companies coming into Texas from other states like California. And I think it's for the very reason you just touched on, which is, you know, this is a regulatory environment in Texas that is welcoming to big oil, which cannot be said for a whole lot of other states. Texans treat oil and gas as an asset, not a liability. They recognize that powers our homes, that powers our schools, our hospitals, our electric grid that were all worried about making certain that it would be very reliable. We don't want to go through a winter storm year again. Natural gas is the backbone of our electric grid. And our assets have been designated as critical infrastructure by the Texas legislature. Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, Speaker Burroughs, the entire team recognizes that you have to have a reliable power source. And Texas companies are delivering. Our civil justice system has continues to be improved. And that's why you're seeing these companies, not only oil and gas companies, but others relocating, redone, asylum to Texas, because it is the best place to do business. And we just have to be vigilant and make certain that we... We keep it that one. And our Rick County is rising. And our production continues to increase. We had 4,100 jobs added to the payrolls just in the upstream sector of oil and gas just this last month. We're talking with Todd Stables. He's president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association. Todd, how much oil do we have left? Not just here in Texas, but in the United States in general. You hear this talk all the time like oil is something that we will eventually run out of. Do you believe that's true or do you believe the research, I've heard some research that seems to suggest that oil has a tendency to replenish itself? Is it something that does replenish itself or will we eventually run out of it? Well, I think the concern about peak oil is one that's been overinflated. There's been a lot of hype around that in order to move people in a different direction. I was in Houston earlier this year during Sarah Week, and our leading CEOs from our leading companies were on the stage. And they were asked that question, how much oil are we really recovering, how much is left? And the unconventional, which is the hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that we do today.

It's estimated that we're only recovering 5 to 10% of the resources that are there. And in natural gas, and those same type plays, maybe 10 to 20%. So we have a long, long runway ahead of us. We have new technologies that are being developed every day. Our assets... and our scientists are finding out new ways to get more from each well, and they're doing a phenomenal job of that. So we have resources to meet the needs of our country, to meet the needs of our allies, if we continue the right policies that attracts that capital and creates those jobs. All right, sir. Thank you so much for your time this morning. Good to talk to you. Todd Staples. He's president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association. It's 557. is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio Station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. 6 a.m. is our time here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Bung our top stories this half hour. ICE has put a temporary hold on all vehicle stops. Their targets. are still the worst of the worst as far as who is ice is targeting. And coming up at 608, the borders are Tom Homan talks about ice pausing traffic stops. He says it's very temporary. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive once again. Here is me. You. Dipeline. Go ahead. 45 Gulf Freeway. It's Ramon from spring. Hey, good morning, Sky Mike. Dude. Once you hit Lake City, you will be hit with a ball of water. It's pouring down very bad, especially around that natural one exit. Uh-huh. Visibility. I can barely see my hands and my windshield vibrate in front of me. I'm just driving by pure instinct. You can't see his hand. He's using the force. Thank you, Ramon. Gulf Freeway, Larry. Captain Larry, dude. Sky Mike, just before Bay Area. H-O-V lane is. There's a one car single. They're sitting there. Be careful. Navigate between the beacon. I wonder if that's a spin-out. I will investigate findings at 610. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy. 50-50 chance of a shower or storm. I think it's going to be a little higher than that because it looks like most of us are going to get wet sometime this morning. Slight risk of heavy downpours with this rain, high temperature of 87. More on the forecast from Richard the Welling at the Weather Channel in eight minutes. Right now, it is 76 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Sponsored by Synergenics Health and Weight loss our top story. The left demonizes ice, but officers continue to take dangerous criminals off the streets. Last weekend alone, ICE arrested dozens of illegals for crimes, including murder and child rape. John Bender with Breitbart says you're not going to hear about this on CNN or MS now. Many ICE officials have told me in the last couple of years. They are arresting the worst of the worst. This is what ICE agents do on a day-to-day basis, and that does get lost in the national narrative around ICE.

Borders are Tom Homan said ICE's work will continue while the recent shooting incidents in Houston and Maine are under investigation. Agents have been instructed to end most vehicle stops nationwide, but this doesn't mean everybody they are targeting is off the hook. ICE will still conduct vehicle stops for those considered to be the most egregious targets with serious or violent criminal histories. This comes after the two fatal ICE involved shootings in Maine and Texas that happened within a week. Boxes Christina Coleman, the change is temporary. Houston Mayor John Whitmire and HPD Chief Noe Diaz officially asked. Ask Texas Rangers to look into last week's shooting of a man who DHS says tried to run agents over with his car. Meantime, a former employee of an attorney representing the two men detained by ICE in that case is now facing accusations from a former employee, allegations that he would avoid difficult clients. What was your reaction when you saw that he was representing the two men who were in the van with Lorenzo in the ice shooting? I really thought, oh, Lord, help them. Tina Marie Hernandez with our TV partner channel 2. Hugo Baldaris Ibarra was facing felony charges in Texas and Florida in a domestic case. A suspect is now in jail after an attack on a woman who was jogging along White Oak Bayou this week. Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen. What was your reaction when you... She fought him really, really hard. She was able to grab hair out of his head. She was able to scrape his eye. And that's what it took. Jacob Folseller was also found with the woman's cell phone. 604 acting attorney general Todd Blanche begins confirmation hearings in the Senate today. Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn told KTRHs Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, you can expect the usual Democrat theatrics. You're going to have the media and the Democrats that are all looking for clickbait. They're going to come in and they're going to harangue him and talk about how terrible he is and try to get their clickbait moment. But she predicts Todd Blanche will be confirmed, and this is really about the Democrats pandering to the extremists who want more socialism. You don't have to be dumb. That's a choice. Like, you can look up this whole socialism experiment. It's only been run like in a bio lab in Biology 101, a thousand times from every incoming bio class. And the experiment always ends in the biolab exploding. Dan Bongino with KTRH's Sean Hannity. This is all about power, folks. The Dems want to control the House. The Liberal New York Times now predicts they could actually win that chamber in November, but they might be celebrating too soon.

The Democrat Party is just not what it was 20 years ago. I mean, they're Democrat Socialist Party now. And I think most people see this election cycle for what it is. It's common sense versus absolute craziness on the left. Casey Crosby with the RNC says these are the same people who predicted Republicans would lose in 2016 in 2024. 605, the U.S. launches another round of strikes on Iran. You do not cross the United States. You do not violate an agreement with the United States. You do not break your word with President Trump or America. And you attack shipping in a violation of that agreement, and you will pay a hellish price. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. President Trump addresses the country tomorrow night at 8 on KTRH in the iHeart radio app. Oil at $80 a barrel, and the ability of companies to bring extra oil from the ground is the main reason the U.S. produces so much oil. Carr Ingham of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producer says it's been true for many years that Shell Oil has saved both Texas and the nation. What hasn't been the case forever is the volume of crude oil that we're producing. We are, the U.S. is the largest single country producer of crude oil. ahead of Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Canada. Inflation slows last month to 0.4% and 3.5% year over year. The president is fixing what Joe Biden broke. He might have been sleepy, but boy, he could create inflation like nobody. And I inherited that. And I got blamed for it. And it's not my fault. We are putting it to sleep. And we've done a great job. Dow Futures are up this morning. Texans co-founder and senior chair Janice McNair dies. She was 89 years old. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station news radio 740, KTRH. World events, national headlines. Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. All right, so ICE is pausing their traffic stops, not just here in Houston but across the entire country, and they're doing it until. such time as they can review what's happened with the two cases, the one here in Houston and the other one in Maine, as far as what may have gone wrong, why it went wrong, making sure that they understand exactly what it was that happened. And that's probably a smart thing to do. But it is a temporary situation. By the way, a lot is being made of the protesting here in Houston. At least the local TV stations seem to be making a big deal about it. There was a city hall meeting last night, and some of the protesters were there. But I saw a shot on, I think it was on KPRC, too, of the protest going on outside before the city council meeting. And I thought, that doesn't look like a lot of people. Let me just do a headcount. And I didn't bother to even think, you know, I just counted everybody I saw in the picture.

Didn't matter if they're holding a protest sign or they seem to be protesting. I would just, you know, how many people are actually there for it, even if they're just there to watch it? 49. 49 people. Out of a city of several million people. Out of a metro area of over 6 million people. 49 people. Is that newsworthy? Is that a big deal? It doesn't seem like it's that big of a deal. I think we could probably get 49 people to show up to protest just about anything at City Hall, couldn't we? I would think so. Anyway. Back to Tom Homan. Here's Tom Homan making the media rounds yesterday talking about the temporary hold, and he wanted to emphasize that it will be temporary. Well, that decision was made by the Secretary along with leadership at ICE. Well, look, it's not a policy change. It's a temporary pause. Look, the last couple of shootings, ICE leadership along with DHS, believes they want to look at these last couple of incidents and look. Is there something that could have been done better? Is there any training that can be improved? Or it's simply ICE doing their job and bad things happen when people don't comply with law enforcement officers. So I think it's going to be a short pause, and I'm confident that ICE is well-trained. The vehicle stops, and you're going to see us keep moving forward. But this is just a temporary pause where they look at the incidents. But let me say this too. I hear a lot of noise right now. This will affect ICE arrest, and it's not going to. Look, I've done this for a long time. You can, you can, when that alien leaves his home before he gets into the car, you can arrest him then. You can wait until the vehicle gets to the destination and arrest them. Arrest in them. Every case is different. Now, we know vehicle assaults are up over 3,400 percent. So if we can arrest that alien. outside that vehicle and take that two-ton weapon away from them, that's good in some instances. Other instances, we're going to still need to do vehicle stops or a significant criminal. You may want to stop him in a desert area before he gets downtown. He certainly don't want to stop a criminal alien near a school. In the middle of recess with 100 kids in the playground, there are so many circumstances these agents need to look at to make these decisions. So I do not think this short pause can affect arrest because the alien can be arrested before or after that vehicle. but this is what I understand, talking to the director of ICE, it's a short pause just to make sure we're doing the right thing. Okay, so they'll be. Back at it soon enough. 610, time for traffic and weather together. We're checking out the drive again. Here's Sky Mike. All right, Gulf Freeway, I've 45. I got reports. This is actually two separate accidents. Ramon from Spring gets a banana sticker for this northbound. Captain Larry, too. Northbound Gulf Freeway right at NASA One. I'm looking at this guy in the left lane. That's got spin out written all over it. I do not see a second accident, but let's keep our eyes peeled. This is inbound, too. On the east text, I got Mike from Katie Porter. What happened?

Skymike. Hey. 59 Southbound in King with Drive Exit. Country starting up because of a simple state trooper pulling one guy over. Nothing to see here. Keep the moving. Oh, let's slow down for the police. You know, I think that actually gets on their nerves when you slam your brakes just because you see a cop. Gulf Freeway Airport. Is that a stall? Yes, it is. He's on the side. We're pointing at stuff. Downtown I-10. That's the roadwork. It's starting to squish up now westbound from North Maine and from Maine going that way, U of H, we're looking at an extra four or five, just trying to get through that squeeze down at 45. This is westbound, and you've got the squeeze on the North Loop 610 Westbound. That's enacted, too. If you're hazardous, be sure to take that south loop. Rusty, League City. At 518 to South Shore Boulevard, you've got a serious accident, taking out a couple of fire poles. There's a lot of police and the tow truck engines are on the scene. All right, South Shore 518. Rusty, thanks so much. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, Top Tax Defenders, 24-hour Weather Center, time to check in once again. With Virtue the Welling, he's got the forecast for you. Yep, there's more rain in the forecast. We are out in the clear just yet. Yeah, today's probably going to be the last big day for rain chances here in southeast Texas. It looks like overall the rain chances are going to diminish as we move on through the rest of the week, and then it's just going to go back into the heat as we move into the upcoming weekend. But today, showers and storms around the risk for heavy downpours and street flooding there again today, as we'll see temperatures to 87 and the southeasterly breeze watching those storms come up out of the Gulf this morning. Still a small chance of an afternoon shower or storm Thursday and Friday. 90 tomorrow, 92 on Friday, and we're in the mid-90s for the weekend coming up. The sunshine makes a return. Hot weather will continue through the weekend. Right now, 75 in your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in Katie. I live in Edo. Your reliable forecast. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. All right. So I was mentioning just a little while ago, about 10 minutes or so ago, that there's maybe, I counted maybe 49 protesters at City Hall for the city council meeting. Evidently enough to get the mayor, John Whitmire, to come out more forcefully about ICE. I wouldn't think that 49 people protesting would have that kind of impact. But then again. A lot of people on city council are anti-ice. And so it doesn't take much to persuade them. More on that coming up next. First, though, let's do traffic and weather together as we check out the drive once again, the Skymoney. Follow the rain to the biggest problems. 518 at South Shore Boulevard. Thank you, Rusty from League City. Got a wreck here, and I'm not sure who's getting through, but that's a pretty gnarly wreck, whatever's going on there. Gulf Freeway, it's spinouts. I'm hearing from Roger R.C. trucking that he doesn't see any other ones around NASA 1, but I can see this one northbound Gulf Freeway. NASA 1. I'm Skymike. It's the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center.

From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy skies, 50% chance of a shower storm today, heavy downpours are possible, 87. Hardly sunny, 30% shower storm chance 91 tomorrow, then finally mostly sunny on Friday with 593. Right now 75 at your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. This is standing by in our newsroom. He has an update on some of our top stories. Senator holds confirmation hearings for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche this morning. Willow Brick Mall is Willow Brook Mall. Excuse me. It's bringing back its temporary youth curfew on Saturday over concerns about, quote, unsupervised teen gatherings. And the Wall Street Journal says there's an Alvin and the Chipmunks reboot in the works. Why? Exactly. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 6.30. The ones that are under construction, 288, 610. Accidents and alternates. Next on the 10. On 740 KTRH. Well, what's going on is we've got the community activists up in alarm over what happened with that ice shooting here in Houston. And, you know, we've got the, we've got the. The county, the city in this particular, well, actually Harris County willing to spend maybe a million dollars is what we kind of determined yesterday is what they're going to likely spend on investigating this thing. And we also know that it was a case of mistaken identity, at least as far as stopping that white van that contained that 35-year Mexican illegal immigrant, the small business owner, the family man, everybody talks about. That's not who they're targeting. They're targeting rapist and murderers and the worst of the worst. who evidently also drive white vans. But here's the report on the protesting yesterday at City Hall from our television partner, KPRC 2. Growing tensions at Houston City Hall Tuesday. Right now, our community is grieving. One week after the deadly ICE agent shooting of Lorenzo Salgaro Araujo. My gestonian is dead. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo left for work expecting to come back to his wife. Houstonians demanding city leaders do more to protect them from future interactions with ICE. I could be next. I'm brown. I'm an immigrant. Chance from demonstrators outside echoed through council chambers inside. Dozens of community members demanded the council support an independent thorough investigation of the shooting, which ICE calls self-defense by officers who say Salgado Araujo allegedly rammed their vehicle and tried to run them over. Mayor John Whitmire opened the council meeting with a moment of silence Tuesday. I ask you to go to your... individual faith and keep the families across the United States that have suffered at the hands of an out of control law enforcement agency. Despite criticism from Houstonians who claimed the mayor flip-flopped and didn't speak up about a local investigation sooner. Y'all need to stand up for Houston.

Some called out other council members who they say haven't been vocal or active enough in response to the shooting while continuing to call for justice for Lorenzo. Enough thoughts and prayers, enough statements. We need action. No action is complicity. And in the last hour, the FBI has confirmed a meeting happened with the Houston Police Chief and other agencies today. We did not get any specifics from what happened during that meeting. But during the council meeting here, Mayor John Whitmire did share that the city has now shared 911 call audio as well as video from a passing metro bus during this incident. Those two things, he says, have now been shared with the district attorney's office. And so far, the mayor, the police chief and the DA have all said they will do as much as they can to investigate this incident, but they still do not have access to the key evidence, which they say is still being held by the federal government. I wonder if they will also share that information with the federal authorities, if they have bent or bus footage or whatever they can help make a determination of exactly what happened. Why not share that with the federal authorities as well so that we can really get a full picture of what actually happened? 627 here on Houston's morning news. It's time to take a look at your money. United Airlines plans to introduce a row of economy seats with extra elbow room and access to a shared table. This gives travelers some space to stretch out on long haul flights. United plans to offer the first domestic flights with the updated Economy Plus seating later this year and begin international service by early 2027. This report is sponsored by Vanguard Investor Choice, a proxy voting program for eligible Vanguard index funds. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio. 740 KTRH.

Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24-7. This is News 740 KTRH. All everywhere with the IRAF. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. 631, our time here in Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Trump says he has big news to tell us tomorrow about election integrity. A Baker Institute report on Harris County's budget issues. And coming up at 638, the House, the U.S. House, has passed the Sunshine Protection Act. Now it goes to the Senate. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking out that drive time again with Skymine. All right, spinouts, that tells us what we need to know. We know we've got wet freeways, golf freeway. We still have that guy at NASA 1. East Sam, southbound just Sinoport. I bet that's the same thing. We've had some showers head this way where they go. Here comes the mishaps. West Sam at Hammerley, southbound this wreck. He's moved over to the frontage side, but they're pointing at stuff for now. Main lanes are actually doing a pretty good job. Minding your own business. Just stop. We've got to turn your snooze. off. Sky Mike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy, 50% chance of showers and storms, and the risk of a heavy downpour today with a high temperature right about 87. Complete forecast is coming up. With Richard the Welling at the Weather Channel, he'll join us in eight minutes. Right now, 76 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. 632, our top story, spending by Harris County Democrats as consequences. Budget deficit that could get to $300 million, and that could lead to layoffs. The only real revenue source it has is property tax. And I'm not arguing for higher property taxes. Don't get me wrong. But that's the dilemma the county has always been in. Former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett says programs started during COVID using federal dollars have continued despite those funds being cut off in the county having no real way to pay for them. Meantime in Galveston, it appears as if the fight over redistricting is largely over. Last month, an entirely new district map was adopted, rendering the lawsuit irrelevant. This is something we wanted to do for a while, which was kind of aligned J.P. precincts more in line with the commissioner precincts, and we accomplished that with that redistricting effort. County Judge Mark Henry says the county has asked a federal district judge to dismiss the suit, and ruling is expected before the end of this month. Mike Shiloh, News Radio 740, KTRH. At the statewide level, Ken Paxton rallying in the Valley with the Senate race against James Talarico said to be neck in neck yesterday. His views are much more like being from California than there from Texas. I think if Texas voters can hear the message about what he actually believes, there's no way he's going to win this race. Ken Paxton on Newsmax. By the way, John Cornyn says he might skip the GOP September midterm convention in Dallas because of a quote-unquote conflict.

Austin, Secretary of State Jane Nelson, will leave office this week. Her replacement has not yet been announced by the governor, and experts say the shake-up won't affect the midterms. There is a system to ensure continuity as the governor nominates an interim Secretary of State. Professor Bo Kamala Harris, Charlton State University, responding to the freak out by Democrats. The Save America Act remains stalled in the Senate with the Republican Majority Leader refusing to try and nuke the filibuster to get it passed. Even if you confine it to just the two issues of photo ID and citizenship in order to register to vote, it takes 60 votes in the Senate. The only way you could get there is to undo or get rid of the legislative filibuster, and there aren't even close to the votes here in the United States Senate in order to achieve that. John Thune on Capitol Hill. Meantime, President Trump confirmed reports that his speech tomorrow night to the nation will be about election integrity. Without free and fair elections, you don't have a country. He'll reportedly be joined by FBI director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, KTRH coverage with that speech at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, also on the IHeart radio app. 635 Capitol Hill-We-State Democrat lawmakers blocking an annual defense bill for moving forward in the Senate yesterday, protesting Iran policy that policy airstrikes. Retaliation for Tehran attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The new seven-hour-long bombardment took place as the United States reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports. U.S. Central Command says fighter aircraft, drones and naval vessels launched precision munitions. They targeted Iran's missile and drone sites, naval capabilities and coastal defense systems. That is Jonathan Savage reporting oil down to $79.78 a barrel. The Trump administration is sending billions to Texas to finance about 100 power transmission projects across the state. Matt bombs with the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance says we need this to keep up with the state's growth. We'd go a long way in improving reliability and allowing more electrons to reach homes and businesses. Data centers being built, he says, require a ton of electricity. And CNBC is getting mocked for ranking Texas among the worst states to live in. Yet another show of liberal bias. They listed thriving red states putting politics over economic success. For CNBC, things such as reproductive rights and inclusiveness are actually more important. Curtis Howick of NewsBusters says their bias ignores real things that affect quality of life on purpose. And while they harp on crime issues, they bypass mentioning they're in Democrat cities. The shenanigans that may be going on in a blue dot in a red state could drag down the overall rating. But obviously, CNBC is not going to consider that. He says this bias. This is why these lists should never be taken seriously. Andre Parrard News Radio 740, KTRH. We may not have to change the clocks twice a year if the Senate acts. The House of Representatives passed a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. And the American League beats the National League in the baseball all-star game last night for nothing. Your Don Alvarez of the Astros going one for two, scoring a run. The Stroes are off until Friday when they host Baltimore. I'm Cliff Saunders right here on Houston's news weather and traffic station.

Radio 740, KTRH. You gotta know what's happening in my city. Traffic reports. Reliable information. I've got to know the weather. Listen and you'll know. Keep me sharp. News Radio 740, KTRH. 6.38 our time here on Houston's morning news. Don't steal my sunshine. I really don't care if you give me sunshine at the beginning of the day or the end of the day. I'm just tired of the flipping back and forth. I'm also, I find it interesting. that, I think it was News Nation where I got this clip, that they invited Dr. Neil Ross Tyson, the astrophysicist, to weigh in on daylight saving time. Do we really need an astrophysicist to make a determination whether we should have year-round daylight saving time or standard time? Here is what he thinks about the entire issue. It's just kind of odd that we take an hour from the morning of sunlight and put it at the end of the day. And somehow everybody's okay with that and we love it. Well, before there was electric light, maybe that kind of mattered a lot. But who... today is saying, oh, it's getting dark earlier. I don't know. I can't go out. I don't know what I'm going to do. I got to light a candle. Get the whale oil. This time is long past. And so I'm a fan of just respecting the sun and having the sun do what it does according to the clock time of the day. Consider that if you keep daylight saving time, the entire year in the winter where there's not much daylight to begin with. In New York City, for example, where I live, the sun won't rise until 8.20 in the morning. And so I think they're kids who go to school. Well, not in New York City, but in rural area, yes, they go to school in New York. But if you're going to school on a bus, you have to walk to the bus or walk to school and you're trying to get to school early, that will be happening in the dark. If you keep daylight saving time all year round. So these are, there's safety issues related to that. And by the way, I never had a problem. changing the clock twice a year. Some people did. So I'm not as opinionated as people want me to be on this subject. Whatever it is, I'm good with it because I don't care where the sun is. I have electric lights. Okay. As long as he's got electricity, he's good. 6.40 is our time. Well, that guy didn't grow up on a farm. No, he didn't. Because, you know, if you've got to feed horses and cattle in the evening, you really like to have sunlight. Right. And if you have kids, they go to school and they actually do walk to school. I think there's maybe five kids in the entire country left that actually walk to school. The children, the children. If you probably don't want them out at the bus stop at the dark either, so there you go. We've got wet freeways, Jimmy. Whichever way you go now in some spots, that makes a lot of sense. Go freeway. We did clear the spin out. Okay, good. I got a stall at airport.

No big work we're pointing there. And West Loop 610 down to uptown. Not bad for this time of day from Memorial. You'll hit a few breaks. Looks like we may have some wet roads too. Katie Freeway right around Greenhouse. I'm seeing a slowdown. 249 my forgotten freeway right before the beltway, a bit of a skitch. And a 288. If you listen to Safe Money with Scott Man on the weekends, you can afford those toll lanes. Main lanes get by for now. But I'd love to hear from somebody from Brazoria County. either on our tip line 713-212-T-IPS or talk to us on the free IRR radio app. I'm Skymike. It's the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center. Time to check out what's going on with our forecast. I guess Richard Lewelling, it doesn't matter for standard time or daylight saving time right now because it's dark from all the clouds. Oh, yeah, it's definitely dark from all the clouds. A lot of rain showing up this morning along the coast, Freeport, Galveston, all the way up to Winnie as we continue to watch these rain showers continue to work in off the Gulf. And that's going to be the trend here throughout the day today. More showers and storms around. We could see some heavy downpours. It could lead to some flooding and spots throughout the day today. 87 are high with a southeasterly breeze. That shower chance is going to diminish as we move through Thursday and Friday, more sunshine. And as a result of the lesser rain chances, we're going to heat up. 90 tomorrow, 92 on Friday, and up into the mid-90s for the weekend, lots of sunshine, Saturday, and Sunday, and no mention of any rain in the forecast. Right now, 76, and your officials, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in Conroe. Your best ways around Houston next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. Right, the timeline is just a couple of minutes away. We have another fair tickets for the fix coming to the House of Blues. We'll give those away with our timeline. Also coming up, we're going to be talking at 722 to Harris County Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey. about the financial health or lack thereof of Harris County. There's a new Baker Institute report. on just how busted the county is. And by the way, we'll share some of that information with you coming up next. But again, 722, we'll talk to Commissioner Tom Ramsey. Right now, 6.50, time for traffic and weather together as we check him as Skymine. It's a lot of red brake lights on 69. Your East Texas, it's good coming down from the sticks, and then you get inside the loop. Right after Collingsworth, you're going to start hitting some brakes. It becomes a wall at equipment. Rick from the East Side, he's never on the East Side when he calls. I don't know, I think he drives a bread truck or something. Rick. Sky Mike, George Shepard Hill Drive, 75. Weather seems to be holding off up here. Traffic is running as smooth as pain surf on its stack of pancakes. I think I need some I think I need some I hop, Jimmy. I'm Sky Mike. It's your ability tree experts traffic center. Robar, KTRH.

Generator Super Center, 24-hour weather center for today, mostly cloudy. Looks like shower and charm chances are pretty strong with some heavy downfall as possible. High temperature today, right about 87, then 30% chance of a shower storm tomorrow, partly sunny with the hive 91. Right now, temperature is still 76 at your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. Time to get you updated on some of our top stories. Here's the birthday boy, Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy, and more ways than one. President Trump says U.S. strikes against Iran will continue until he decides they should stop. Governor Greg Abbott issues a disaster declaration for 59 counties in Texas because of the rain and flooding. And Vice President JD Vance reportedly was in Austin yesterday, being a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast. In the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 7. What has happened? Just yesterday. What's happening today? Happening. Like now what happens. The things are happening. Stop. Right here. On News Radio 740, KTRH. I picked the Johnny Cash version because it's more depressing. At least he sounds more depressed to me. Anyway, we've got the Harris County. We know we're over $100 million in dead, but there is a Baker Institute. a think tank piece that says that that deficit could grow to $300 million in debt, which is why we question things like spending money, investigating cases you have no jurisdiction over. But here is the report from ABC 13 about the budget woes for Harris County. In weeks, we'll find out how Harris County commissioners want to spend the county's money. We don't have to wait, though, to find out what they're looking at. Recently, the Baker Institute at Rice analyzed the county's budget. I think that the county's in relatively good financial shape, and they just need to trend their spending a little bit and get down and live within the revenues that they expect to come in.

The report shows the county faces a near $130 million deficit for the upcoming budget. In the next couple of years, if things remain the same, the report shows it could go to more than $200 million if costs rise could climb to $300 million. The city of Houston recently closed its deficit in part with a new trash fee. Researchers say that's something the county can't do. I'm not sure as much they can do to generate revenue. Like I said, 80% of their revenue comes in through property taxes, and so there's not a... a lot they can do to affect that. When it comes to property taxes, Baker Institute fellow Bill King says the county may want to follow the city and not raise them. If you just keep raising taxes all the time, people get tired of that. And if they're not, don't feel like they're getting a lot for services, they can go someplace else. King says the analysis found the county has a lot of managers. In the health department alone, they found on average one manager supervises four people. The budget director plans to present his proposal next month. In a statement to ABC 13, executive director Daniel Ramos told us our focus remains on responsible financial management, maintaining essential services for residents, and making thoughtful decisions that support Harris County's long-term financial sustainability. They're going to cut some spending. Cut some positions, elimination programs. It's going to have to get more efficient. Or they're going to have to find productivity. We're going to have to be able to use AI or better software or something. King says the county could do a better job of also showing neighbors how they spend their money. He says the online portal the county has right now is not very user-friendly and too document-dependent. In fact, we're going to see more documents there soon because commissioners have to approve a new budget by October. You had me with basically one manager for every four employees. And these are great paying jobs. I mean, these are six-figure salaries they're paying on. The counties become very top-heavy. And that's the place they need to go right now and look at ways to save some money. Hire better people with more productivity and have fewer salaries. That might be a good start. And I'm sure there's plenty of other wasteful things we could find if we all had an opportunity to delve into that budget. All right. Well, again, Tom Ramsey coming up at 722 to talk about this. But for right now, let's do the timeline. We've got that pair of tickets that goes to the fix. July 23rd, House of Blues. Tickets are on sale right now at Ticketmaster.com, but you can win a pair of tickets from us. This is a decisive time in Vietnam. It was July. The eyes of the nation. President Johnson signals escalation in the war in Vietnam. We do not doubt. The Outcome. On TV. The Lucy Show. After six seasons, Lucille Ball calls it quits on The Lucy Show. Mr. Willie, I came to apologize. I was hoping you'd come here to hold us up. Then we could at least shoot it out. At the movies? We're just in his house drawing, and it's like us animated, goes through it. The Beatles film Yellow Submarine, makes its debut. Yeah, we're only ever going to be cartoon forever. And top ten on the radio.

Jumping Jack Flash, it's a guess, yes, yes. The Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash. What year was it? If you know, 713, 212, 512, KTRH. Good luck. Okay, we have a winner. That winner would be David and Katie Porter. He knew the right year was 1968. David, to get that fair tickets for the fix. July 23rd at the House of Blues. Enjoy the show, and thank you for listening to Houston's Morning News. Tramble. is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio Station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. It is 7 a.m. here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett, among her top stores this F.R. No more vehicle stops for now. Ice still looking for the worst of the worst. And coming up at 708, if you can... Or if you could, I should say, travel in time. Where would you go? And why? Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive once again. Here he is Skymike. Southwest Freeway Northbound coming up from Rosenberg. Once you hit the Brazos River Bridge, it's easy. 24 minutes up. Katie Freeway Visers, you're having a great morning so far. Katie Mills Mall, 27 minutes in. Check up Rosoria County and 288. Coming out of Angleton, heading up north, and they get it all the way to Beltway without having to come to a complete stop. That's really good for 288. Stephen F. Austin is extra happy this morning. morning. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy. 50% chance. I think it's a little higher than that that you're going to see a shower or storm today. And you may even see a downpour with a high temperature right about 87. Virtually the Wellington for the Weather Channel joins us in eight minutes. Right now, 76. Add your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. 702, we're sponsored by the Texas Center for Cosmetic Dentistry. Our top story this hour is a policy change as ICE agents are told to end most vehicle stops nationwide. This comes a week after an illegal alien was shot and killed in Houston after apparently trying to run agents over with his car. It's a temporary pause. Look, we had the last couple of shootings, ICE leadership along with DHS believes they want to look at these last couple incidents and look.

Is there something that could have been done better? Is there any training to get me improved? Orders are Tom Homan on Fox. Meantime, Mayor John Whitmire and HBD Chief Noe Diaz have asked the Texas Rangers to look into the shooting. The mayor calling ICE, quote, an out-of-control law enforcement agency yesterday at City Council. Now, while Democrats in the mainstream media take their shots, ICE just goes about its business. ICE carried out dozens of arrests of violent criminal illegal aliens last weekend, even as left-wing groups continued protesting and attacking the agency. John Bender with Breitbart News says the latest arrest list is impressive. We're talking about the most heinous of crimes, child rape, several drunk driving charges. We're talking people who have been convicted repeatedly of drunk driving. Murder, manslaughter, these are the worst of the worst. All taken off the streets by ICE agents just in the past few days. nearly 70% of its arrests are of illegals who have committed another crime since entering the U.S. Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. It is now 703 in Washington. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche goes before the Senate for confirmation hearings today, something that could be made more difficult by the death of Senator Lindsey Graham. There was already difficulty rising over this nomination. It's going to be close. We have to see how many of these Republican senators are going to carry through. There's been suggestions that some of them might vote against. Boxes Jonathan Turley, also on Capitol Hill, bombshell testimony by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett about the radical left. When threats to my life were particularly intense a few years ago around the time of the Dobbs leak, my security detail sent me home with a bulletproof vest. Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Elena Kagan testifying yesterday. The Senate is taking up legislation to crackdown on birth tourism in the wake of the high court's decision upholding birthright citizenship. Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn says she sponsored the bills. Making birth tourism inadmissible for a visa and also a deportable offense. If you are found to be working with one of these companies, you will immediately be deported. Blackburn with KTRH's Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, Texas cracking down on birth tourism as well. Two Texas hospitals referred to the AG's office. The New York Times claims that the GOP could lose control of the house in November. You might want to take that with a grain of salt. We've got the best messenger of President Trump. We have incredible candidates running. You know, I would be surprised if any of these pollsters are right. We feel very good going into these midterms. Casey Crosby with the RNC says the Democrats might have had a better shot if they hadn't embraced socialism.

705, the U.S. blockade of the straight-of-horn moves is back on as we launch another round of strikes. They'll continue until I say that's enough. I mean, they'll continue. They've been... They're, you know, the word the military likes to use is degrade. They've been degraded. President Trump on Fox last night. He talks to the nation tomorrow night at 8 here on KTRH and the IHeart Radio app. Oil features at $79.41 a barrel this morning as the U.S. remains the world's number one oil producer in Texas is helping spare you from higher gas prices. It may be hard to imagine, but gas at the pump would be a lot higher if Texas were not producing all that oil from West Texas. Since it all goes on the world market, Carr Ingraham, president of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, says, U.S. crude oil producer led by Texas, is in fact shielding them from much, much worse market events, a much worse price scenario than it would be the case. if our production were much lower. Texas and New Mexico are mostly responsible for making the U.S. the top oil-producing nation in the world. Mike Shiloh, News Radio 740, KTRH. Dow Futures are up this morning after gains across the board on Wall Street yesterday. And with all the talk about the future of Social Security, there's no magic age to start taking your benefits. Clearwater Financial Groups Michael Mazur says the program isn't expected to take care of all expenses. Everybody has a financial thumbprint, right? Everybody's thumbprint's different. So are your financial numbers. Social Security could become insolvent in the 2030s. Texans co-founder and senior chair Janice McNair dies at the age of 89. She and her husband Bob founded the team in 2002. Bob McNair died in 2018. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in the Heights. I live in spring. Kingwood. Next on the 10. Your faster commute. On 740 KTRH. 707 are time here on distance morning news. Time travel is something that fascinates me. Maybe I just watched too many episodes of Twilight Zone when I was a little kid. I don't know. Or there's been several shows and movies about time travel, obviously. Science says it's possible. We just haven't quite figured it out yet. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity says it's possible. Again, we haven't figured it out yet. But I think it's a matter of time before we do figure out how to time travel. I see pictures all the time of, you know, weird pictures. Maybe you've seen them. I don't know how many of them are doctored or fake. And how many of them are legitimate of, you know, people who don't belong in a picture, either dressed strangely for the time that they're in or. on a device that looks like a modern camera or a modern cell phone, which obviously didn't have in the 1800s, for example, that makes you wonder whether or not people from the future have actually already gone to the past or people have gone even further into the future. Which brings me about to my question. If you could time travel, where would you go and why?

And I think because of my fascination with the Civil War, I think I would go back to like 1864, 1863, somewhere in that range. And I would watch a battle in person. I don't know why. I just think that that would be an amazing thing to witness. Or you go back to a historical event that we all learned and to see if it really happened the way the history books say it happened. That's my fascination with history. So it's also my question to you. If you could either go back in time to somewhere or go to the future to somewhere, where would it be and why? Hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Katie Porter. I think the idea of time travel is interesting, and I'm sure Einstein had something worked out theoretically. But I just don't know that it would ever become a reality. Now, I've always liked the idea of traveling back to, say, the late 1800s or the early 1900s. But if I'm being honest, I'm probably not really tough enough to live in a world without air conditioning or effective mosquito control. You know, I don't think I am either. I don't. I didn't say I'd stay there. I just said I'd visit 710. Time for traffic and weather together. You know, Jimmy, he's from our news department. He'd go back with me to Civil War, wouldn't it? Yeah, he's a reenactor, so you could actually go see that. It'd be very cool. I would go back to 1985 and go to Astro World and ride every roller coaster and listen to the radio and talk to more girls and then go to the Astrodome that night. All right, let's hit at Southside 288. Got a good report just minutes ago. Don't forget to say your name, represent your neighborhood. if you're from Arcola, nothing wrong with that. Highway 6 up now 21 minutes. West Park Toadway, bit of a smunch. In fact, this might be our biggest one right now from about Sinot, which is close to Eldridge Parkway, into Beltway 8. Aha, that's why. Got a crash here. We're okay. We're on the side here pointing at things. Golf freeway, some breaks right after Waffle House, northbound. Not bad for the Gulf. I'm really tired of the North Loop 610 on the westbound at TC Jester. Got a crash here. Backups from Jeopard going that way. and then TC Jester. It's thick, but it's moving over to 45 and a North Loop 610, otherwise around the truck stops in good shape. Man, I got on I-10 this morning. Those of you just got up, what a harrowing experience downtown, that little skinny lane. Plus, you have like a suicide squeeze just after the merge with 45 and two little skinny lanes. The tech stop wall has gotten bigger. I'm Sky Mike. It's the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, Top Tax Defenders 20, for our weather center. Time to check in with Richard the Welling. He has the forecast for us. Pretty good chance you might see a shower or two today or maybe even a storm today. Hopefully not as big a downpour as we saw yesterday though. Yeah, I don't think it's going to be as bad as it was yesterday. All the heavy rains are off to our west this morning, especially if you're headed on over towards San Antonio. They've got some big flooding going on over around Hondo and Yuvaldi this morning, working into the San Antonio Metro. But here for Houston, it looks like the Gulf Coast is where the action is this morning. Freeport Galveston stretching on over toward the Louisiana border where there's some heavier rains there. Cloudy showers scattered around the region here throughout the day today. We'll see temperature.

top out at 87. More of the same tomorrow, but lesser chances of rain climbing to 90 degrees. We dry out completely as we head toward Friday, 92, the weekend, hot and dry with readings in the mid-90s, Saturday and Sunday. Right now at 76 and your official Severe Weather Station News Radio 740 KTRH. Our 59 inbound at the loop is always a problem. KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the 10. All right. Coming up, we played for you a little last hour, in fact. We had a report on the Baker Institute report on the Harris County budget. 100 million in debt now with the possibility of it growing to 300 million without changes being made. We'll talk to. Commissioner Tom Ramsey about what those changes need to be coming up next. First, though, let's do traffic and weather together as we check in with Skymike. Oh, big scutory on 610. Let's go, James Graham Mission. Stop to the morning see a sky mic at Ella. The freeway is shut down. All right, that's completely westbound. Look at all the... I wonder if Commissioner Tom Ramsey gets caught in scutory. That's big backups from 45. As we're speaking, it is now clear, but the backup's still there. It's the ability tree experts traffic center. TRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy. Looks like we're going to have some showers and storms today. And there's the chance of some heavy downpours, in particular down by the coast, with a height today of 87. Currently 76. At your official, severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH. Talk to the commissioner after we get this update from Cliff in our newsroom. Headline sponsored by U.S. coins and jewelry. Texas is investigating LinkedIn over ghost jobs. Lindsey Graham's sister officially sworn in as a senator and the 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil named Gus sets a record on the auction block. Opening bids went from $19 million to more than 50. A record. What are you going to do with a dinosaur? I just was happy they named it Gus. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 7.30. I live in Katie. Your best ways around Houston next on the 10. On 740, KTRH. All right, not broke yet, but without change is well on our way in Harris County. Joining us to talk about this Baker Institute report is Commissioner Tom Ramsey. Welcome back to the show, sir. I'm assuming you probably have seen this report. Do you find it accurate or do you believe it to be accurate? Well, I'm sure they can add and subtract what they don't understand or what they choose not to understand. Chronicle did the same thing. You have a current level of spending. If we continue the current level of spending, next year, not now, but next year, we'll have a deficit. Well, that's why you do a budget. We're in budget discussions now going through every department, and it's really not complicated, Jimmy. The annual spending is roughly $3 billion.

And the non-statutory, those things you don't have to do are 550 million. I'm real optimistic that we can figure out how to get 100 million out of the 550 million. This isn't complicated. And we've not really gone in deficit spending. But again, that's why you do budgets. I really am not concerned about what we're doing. I certainly will tell you we don't have a revenue problem. We've got a spending problem. Right. Well, I think that report agrees. That report, I believe, agrees with you. And it says one of the spending problems is there's way too much management in Harris County. Oh, it's way. It's out of control. Really, really is. You look at how much more we're paying people now compared to what we did in 2019. And it's up brought 50%, 59, 59% increase in seven years. Just this past year, based on a flawed assessment of folks, we're doing a pay parity. Anytime they use the word parity, you want to run. And it's a flawed report, and they did roughly $40-something million worth of increases. It is outlandish. It is outrageous. And there won't be a problem in getting us in a budget. We really are not going to have a problem. They'll have issues with some of the cuts, but just the non-statutory things. I'm not opposed. to kindergarten daycare. I just don't think the county should be doing those sorts of things. We should be dealing with traffic and roads and making infrastructure improvements, not dealing with kindergarten daycare, those types of things. Well, one of the things that came up in this is, I guess, seems to me somewhat related to the topic we're talking about here, is that you've got Commissioner Ellis and the DA Chonteer. who want to spend, I'm guessing some of the neighborhood of a million dollars or more, investigating this ICE homicide situation. It's a federal agency. They have no jurisdiction over it. A million dollars probably doesn't sound like a lot of money to Rodney Ellis, but a million here and a million there, it all kind of adds up, doesn't it? Well, when you look at those, we don't even know the facts on that. And as far as I can tell, the VA has a budget. So this is all politics. This is all for show. They hold a press conference, and they're going to fund this investigation. Whatever the DA does, he already funded. So it's really last Thursday, Commissioner's Court, which I voted against, voted to give the county attorney.

unlimited money to go sue anybody she wanted to in the upcoming election. You don't write a blank check. to a department and tell them, you know, anything you want to do, you just go sue them, we'll pay the bill, you go make yourself famous. And, of course, she's running for the office. Right. So those types of things, Jimmy, just don't make any sense at all. No, they don't. No, they don't. Well, best of luck, fight and the good fight. I know you always do, but there's basically two choices here. You either cut spending or you raise revenue, and I'm guessing that some of the Democrats Your fellow Democrat, or not a fellow Democrat, but fellow commissioners who are Democrats, have no problem with the idea of raising revenues. That's what concerns the rest of us, taxpayers. Well, they haven't in the past, but maybe they need to follow the lead of Mayor Gretchen Whitmer. Thank you, sir. Appreciate your time this morning. That is Commissioner Tom Ramsey from Harris County, 728. Let's take a look at your money. The head of the largest oil port in the U.S. says the boost to crude exports triggered by the Iran War will likely continue. Kent Britain of the Port of Corpus Christi says the surge has even revived conversations about a pipeline connecting the port to the oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma. This report is sponsored by Vanguard Investor Choice, a proxy voting program for eligible Vanguard index funds. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH.

Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24 7 this is News 740 KTRH live everywhere with the IRS more of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios it's 730 here on Houston's morning news I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett among our top stories this FR Trump's speech tomorrow night will evidently focus on election integrity. By the way, we'll carry that speech here on KTRH. Harris County has a spending problem. And coming up at 738, more of your time travel destinations. First, let's check out that drive. Here's Skymike. Clear 610, the North Loop Westbound wreck at T.C. Chester, the suckage is still there from Irvington. I'm Skymike and the Generator Supercenter.com Traffic Center. From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center, mostly cloudy skies today. We do have a shower and storm chance, probably slightly about 50%. Heavy downpour is also possible, especially around the coast, high to day 87. The rest of the forecast is coming up with Richard the Welling at the Weather Channel. In nine minutes, right now 76, and your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. 731 on KTRH, our top story this morning. It's really big news. It's really, really big news. And our country has to shape up. President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday confirming reports that a speech tomorrow night to the country will be about election integrity. KTRH carries that speech at 8. You can also listen on the iHeart radio app. Trump reportedly will be joined by FBI director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Meantime, the Save America Act remains stalled with one of the Republican senators against it. confronted by reporter Sarah Gonzalez. Senator, you've received almost $700,000 from the illegal labor lobby. Is that why you voted against the Save America Act? Can you tell me who the illegal labor lobby is? Thom Tillis responded by saying, quote, good luck with the clicks. Also on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats blocked the annual defense bill for moving forward, protesting ongoing strikes on Iran. They're basically telling us now, we're done. We're not going to vote on anything for the rest of the year. We hate Donald Trump. We hate America. We hate American people. Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville on Fox business as Senate Minority Leader Democrat Chuck Schumer claims passing this would be a, quote, permission slip for the Trump administration. In the meantime, the American strikes continue. The president making clear Iran is in for plenty more pain unless and until it gets back to the negotiating table. President Trump insisting the Strait of Hormuz is once again open for business for everybody but Iran. Although he did back off a bit from his plan to impose a 20% fee for that service provided by the U.S. military after hearing from allies on the Gulf Cooperation Council. Fox is Anita Vogel. Oil Futures this morning, $79.

barrel. The Trump administration is sending billions to Texas to finance about 100 power transmission projects across the state. Experts say it's a big deal because right now the infrastructure is lacking. Texas is growing much faster than its infrastructure can keep up with. Matt Bombs with the Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance says this will help the economy. Data centers being built, he says, require a lot of electricity. It's now 734 on KTRH. We don't have a... a revenue problem. We've got a spending problem. Racing three Republican Commissioner Tom Ramsey on Houston's morning news moments ago. Harris County wants to spend your money on an ICE investigation, but Democrat spending has led to a deficit in the millions with layoffs expected. Much of this comes from COVID-era spending backed by federal dollars that hasn't stopped. Those dollars are now shut off. Any program that was created just to use federal dollars probably needs to go away. The funding's not there for it. That's former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett. He also pointed to issues with how different authorities share responsibilities. Somehow the city and the county and the state have got to come together and talk about how do we restructure governments down here. He says that without major changes, Harris County just isn't financially viable long term. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. Calvason County lawsuit filed by Democrats over redistricting is now in the hands of a federal judge. County judge, Mark Henry, says he's hoping the case gets thrown out because the county already won at appellate court. I think we have a hearing on the 28th, and hopefully we'll know more after that. Galvison County adopted a new precinct map last month, so the county says the case brought by the left is pretty much worthless. There's a political shakeup coming to Austin later this week that the left is freaking out about. Secretary of State Jay Nelson set to leave office and her replacement has not yet been announced. Experts are downplaying the effect on midterm elections. Professor Bo Cabala at Tarleton State University says the secretary is involved in high-level planning for the agency. It's counties, he says, who do the heavy lifting on election day. And I'm confident there will be continuity. He says the reason Nelson is out is likely political. She opposed the GOP's plans to close their primaries, saying that decision should be made by the legislature. KTRH is Michael Bored. NBC is getting mocked for putting Texas on a list of the top 10 worst states to live. Curtis Howke at Newsbuster says they put in red states citing lack of inclusiveness while holding up places like New Jersey as being among the best. For CNBC to say, oh, this is the happiest day to live in, but oh, by the way, they have a huge homelessness problem. I feel like that would affect someone's quality of life. When you talk about inclusiveness and reproductive rights, you just get the sense that this is vibes. He says because of this bias, you shouldn't trust these lists. It's now 736. Since that's the presidency, I've had a lot of people ask me, Joe, what have you been doing?

Yeah, everyone was asking that, right? Joe Biden on X this morning. He's making the rare appearance to announce a book about his presidency coming out just months after his wife wrote a book. Remember that one? In other words, you can call this a money grab. Yordon Alvarez goes one for two scores a run. The American League beats the National League in the All-Star Game 4. Nothing. Stroes host Baltimore Friday. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Info at this speed of Houston. Right now, Houston's morning news continues with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett and the Houston Morning News team. What does it say that I really am only interested in visiting the past if I could time travel? I don't think I'm interested in the future. I don't think I, for one thing, I don't think I want to know the future. We already know, we know what's happened in the past. The danger, I guess, of going into the past is whether or not you do something that could change the past. I wonder how many of us if we could travel in time would go back to our own youth and change something that we had done and change the trajectory of our lives, which seems like a pretty dangerous thing to do, not to mention the fact that, hey, we all made mistakes. as young people is part of the learning process. You don't get a do-over. You know, you're giving the life you have and you make the best with what you have to work with. And yeah, you make some bad decisions along the way, but that's how you learn. Anyway, that was kind of the question we're having some fun with this morning. If you could travel in time, where would you go and why would you go there? This is from Magnolia. I would travel back in time to witness a sermon on the mound. What a great, great time to be alive. This is Debbie from Baytown. If I could go back in time, I would like to go back in time to an era where law and order was law and order. There wasn't all these riots and all this hostility going on in the world. And everybody believed in God and country and working together, being honest and just living life the normal way, if that's what you want to call it. Okay, when would that be exactly? Because I think the thing that we would all find if we went back in time is that a lot of history has been romanticized and wasn't probably quite as great as we thought it was. I know that, for example, the 1950s in our country has been romanticized, but it was far from perfect. Although if I could go back to the 1950s, I'd go back to 1957, I buy a brand new Chevy Bellar convertible, and then I'd store it somewhere for the future being. 740 time for traffic and weather together. And I would follow you around. I would sit in the back seat and just get on your nerves, you know, tack along like that little kid. I let you ride the back end of my Chevy. And also, I want to go back to 1974 and ride my bicycle around and pretend to be evil Knievel. You know, a little dangerous there. You have a banana seat on that bike? You know what? It had that, but I did not have one of those baskets. And then I got a 10 speed like a big shot. Let's do 225. 225. Is it Strang Road? Even I don't know. I believe it's String Road. That's a stall. This is on the outbound. We're pointing it stuff. They might have to take a right lane, so watch out there. The big story, which I should have hit first, was the North Loop 610, 610 North on the westbound. We cleared a gnarly wreck at TC Jester. Some of the onlines actually had that one backwards, but of course you listen to AM radio, and we still have the suckage going all the way back. Avoid the North 610 loop. Yeah, I see it. It's going back to the Hardy Road entrance. It will go away eventually.

Probably not in this hour. And West Park Tollway, I was going, and now we've got the brakes at Highway 6. It's the ability tree experts traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center. Richard Lleweling is here. Plenty of clouds, but no rain uptown right now. But I'm guessing around the coast is a different story. Yeah, a lot of rain, especially from Bay City on westward as we're dealing with a lot of rain, Victoria, Port Lavaca, all looking at rains over there this morning. And, of course, all this tropical moisture is just going to continue to feed into Southeast Texas for one more day. Then it all shifts off to the East National Hurricane Center where their eight o'clock advisory hatched out an area from the floor to Panhandle up into the coastal Carolinas where they could see some tropical development over the weekend. We'll keep an eye on that. But for us here in Southeast Texas, Texas today should be the last day of the rain. Heavy downpours, localized flooding in spots, clouds, and 87. Still a slight chance of rain showers and storms tomorrow with temperatures around 90, and then we dry completely out for the weekend. 92 Friday into the mid-90s Saturday and Sunday. Right now, still 76 and your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. I live in the Sugarland area. Accidents and alternates. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. All right, 751 is our time. So the inflation report yesterday, pretty amazing that it was the lowest inflation we've seen in six years. It was actually down 0.4%. for the month of June. More from the White House Economic Director on that. Coming up in a moment, first, though, traffic and weather together. Once again, as we check out that drive with Skymite. West Loop up through Uptown, packed up from Bel Air and down to Uptown, slow from 290. Allison's on the free I-Heart Radio app. Happy fun. Today, Mr. Newsman. Happy birthday to you. All right, Clifford, we have cold showers on the sixth floor. Is she dressed like Marilyn Monroe? That's what I'm wondering. It's the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. I'll see you at the top of the hour. From our KTRH Generator Super Center, 24-hour weather center for today, mostly cloudy skies. Could see some rain and thunderstorm activity with some heavy downpours possible 87 today. Hardly Sunday tomorrow, 30% shower and storm chance for the hive 91. Current temperature is 77 at your official. Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Speaking of the birthday boy, Cliff is here. He has an update on some of our top stories. And I've got good news on wholesale prices. They drop 0.3% in June. President Trump says ICE should not pause vehicle stops. This is a day after DHS announced a temporary pause, and the powerball jackpot tonight is $498 million. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 8.

U.S. News. You shut down the government. That means no money for FEMA. And global views. Beautiful armada floating beautifully toward a rent. On News Radio 740, KTRH. I find I get the inflation blues most often these days at the supermarket. That's why I get my inflation blues. But there is some good news that's been coming in economically. Here's White House. White. Pardon me, what I say? Oh, yeah, White House budget director, Kevin Hassett. It's absolutely the best inflation report we've seen in about six years. If you abstract from energy, if you look at the core, it's all the way down year every year to 2.6%, which is just about where the Fed expects it to be. And it's not just energy prices going down. Like if you look at the micro stories, you know, if you zoom in, then you see things like auto insurance costs are way down in part because law enforcement has picked up. You know, there aren't so many people having their cars stolen and so on because of bringing order to the streets. We see food prices doing a great job. Tomato prices down 10%. You know, across the more drug prices, the biggest decline in drug prices ever all the way back to World War II because of President Trump's policies to make the America the most favored nation. And so it's sure, energy prices have come down a lot, but everything else is going down too. And I think that's why, if you look at Blue In Bloomberg, they surveyed 67 economists, and 67 economists got it wrong because they didn't understand that it wasn't just about energy. It's about all these other things that President Trump is doing to cut costs. Oil prices were up almost at $150 a peril at the peak of the conflict, and now they're low 80s today, and they were in the 60s and 70s just a week ago. So what happens is they take the oil, they move it to the refinery, and then they turn it into gasoline. So there's a whole bunch of gasoline deflation the way. And even with the renewed conflict, if you look at what oil prices are today, there are about half of what they were in the peak during the hot times a few months ago. And the reason is that our Navy has made so much progress making it so that oil can get through the straits. And so we get reports every day of what boats have made it through the straits. And oil is getting to the global markets in a way that it wasn't before. And so I think there'll be disruption, but the disruption is going to be much smaller than people expected, much smaller than 67 economists at Bloomberg expected, and that's because of the great work of President Trump and the U.S. Navy. It's been amazing how wrong most of these economists have been about just about everything. Their predictions just haven't come true. Listen, y'all have a great day. Thank you for tuning in. Do appreciate it. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early 5 a.m. Hope to see you this afternoon at 1 on AM 950, KPRC.