Iran and Israel Are Squaring Off

This is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and IHeart 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. Well, it's Monday. Good morning, 5 a.m. now. Curran Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories as we get started this morning, Iran and Israel, they're squaring off. At least a few Democrats seem willing to disown Graham Platner. And coming up at 508, Sherwin Williams says, this is the loneliest color. Details in the minutes ahead. Sherwin Williams, the paint guy? Yeah, the paint guy, Mike's. He's still alive? I don't think he's, his name is still alive. The actual Sherwin Williams. The actual Sherwin Williams. We think is deceased. Probably so. Someone from Sherman Williams. Okay. Color him black. All right, we'll go to it at the 10 break, right? Right here, let's do some freeways, and we've got Northside starting to, well, we got the rain coming down, showing up on my little Popil's pocket radar here. But so far, we're not bumping into each other. That's going to change, you know. Probably by 5.10. We'll update you just like we do every morning, every 10 minutes. Sky Mike, down here in the bowels of the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Quabar, KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather, sir. For today, we're looking at morning clouds. And then some afternoon partly cloudy skies. It looks like a mix of clouds and sun, warm and humid. With high temperature right about 88. Richard Wellings at the Weather Channel this morning. We'll talk to him in nine minutes. Right now it's 81 at your official, severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Good morning. It is 501 on KTRH, our top story. Sirens in Israel as Iran launches yet another wave of missiles at the Jewish state. The two sides have been trading missile fire since Sunday. This comes hours after Iran launched at least four waves of missiles at Israel. It's the first time since an early April ceasefire was implemented. Israel says all missiles were intercepted and is now vowing to deliver a powerful response. Tehran claims the attack was in retaliation for Israel's deadly strike on Beirut on Sunday. Fox is Ashley Strohmeyer on truth. Social President Trump just posted, quote, Israel in Iran must immediately stop shooting, close quote. The attack by Iran coming as no surprise to Texas Congressman August Flueger. The Iranians have lied, deceived, and terrorized for 47 plus years. And as you get nearer to the conclusion or to a deal or to a negotiation, of course they are going to continue to lob missiles. This is President Trump still claims a deal between the U.S. and Tehran.

is close. Oil futures this morning up near $95 a barrel with down futures down 56 points. Closer to home, the president calls out the mainstream media for its bias against him. You're crooked and meet the press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. But Mr. President. You're one-sided crooked network. So let's call it quits because I've had enough. Trump cutting short an interview with NBC's Meet the Press. Trump has maintained that the vote in California California, still not official, by the way, is rigged. Now comes word that Spencer Pratt is no longer in the top two. In the L.A. mayor's race will have more at 5.30. In Maine, ahead of tomorrow's primary, more liberals are backing away from embattled Senate candidate Graham Platner. Now some of the girlfriends are coming forward. One of them says he used to watch TV while he was sharpening his axe. Could cost him women and their vote, but he did win over Stephen King. Bill Maher on HBO, but Dems in Congress like California's Ro Khanna continued to back Graham Platner all to try and win control of the Senate in November. Speaking of which, Republicans are calling out outgoing Texas Senator John Cornyn for not living up to his promise to support Ken Paxton. He's hosting about the libertarian candidate for Senate. Hopefully, what he was meaning by that is that it's fake to assume that he's supporting anyone other than Ken Paxton. I don't think he wants to say that right now. Political analyst Luke Macias says he believes John Cornyn will come around eventually. Ken Paxton will need more than Gordon's support in the general election. He may very well need the president himself. The president's support for Senate candidate, Ken Paxton, has his backers calling for a get-out-the-vote rally here before the midterms. Experts say if that happens, it'll mean a ton of cash. The president comes into town. The checkbooks will open. Texas GOP consultant Vinnie Manchillo says there have been talks of a mid-term convention. Both Dallas and Houston have been floated as potential spots. That's KTRH's Carrie Lockie. It's now 505, a second case of the New World Screwworm discovered in Texas, this one in a month-old calf. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will update the situation this afternoon from Curval. The American economy remains resilient. The U.S. adds 172,000 jobs last month, more than doubling expectations. Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Anthony says Iran is the only thing preventing more economic growth. Inflation really came down fast in the first year of the Trump administration, specifically because they got energy prices down and energy prices affect prices throughout the economy. But now higher energy prices are having exactly the opposite effect. But he says there is reason for optimism on that front. A new report claims social security benefits could be cut by 25% in just six years. Texas economist Dr. Ray Perryman says this might force lawmakers to do something.

I suspect what you'll see happen down the road is you'll see some changes in Social Security taxes, possibly some subsidies out of general revenue or something like that. Meantime disturbing news is financial literacy amongst Americans is now hitting new all-time lows. A recent test showed just 47% understand finances the lowest mark ever, and it's a huge negative. Especially when schools are starting to teach more about accounting and a little bit of economics, but we need more of that earlier on in school to get people to really understand about their finances. Economist JD Vance Ginn says social programs have also hurt providing money with no consequences, and we need the wake-up call now before it's too late. Because if not, we're going to end up in worse situations in the future. policy cannot change this, only self-reflection and education. Andre Parrard, News Radio 740, KTRH. And the stroves lose to the A's yesterday, 5 to nothing. They are in Anaheim tonight, pregame at 730 on Sports Talk 790 and here on KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station, News Radio 740, KTRH. This is Houston's morning news with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. All right, the paint company Sherwin Williams says this is their loneliest color. They've named this their loneliest color. It's called Offbeat Green. Offbeat Green. I looked it up. Sherwin Williams says it kind of looks like, well, kind of looks like, they say it kind of looks a little bit like broccoli or asparagus soup. I think it looks more like if you remember avocado green, big in the 60s and the 70s. Avocado green and harvest gold, those were the two primary colors. It looks like if those two had a baby. It's green, but it's got like a little yellow in it. It really is quite ugly. When you get right down to it, Sherwood Williams describes it as, quote, a vivid citric lime green that reflects a growing desire for individuality. But it is rarely if ever picked. And that's why it gets the designation as alone is color, which means they probably won't have it forever. I guess if you want to paint something, a color you know nobody else is going to have, this would be a color you would pick. I can't imagine doing the exterior home in this color, maybe one wall in one room. For what it's worth, Sherwin Williams is trying to raise this profile by working with the LeBron James Foundation where they're going to be using it, including on the front door. So they convince somebody famous to paint something with it. If you order off the green, you get entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win a basketball signed by LeBron, a limited edition of peril, and a $1,000 Sherwin Williams gift card. By the way, because you asked Sky Mike, I did look up Sherwin Williams. First of all, it's not one person, it's two. So there's two people named Sherman Williams? No, no. There was a Henry Sherwin and in Edward Williams. They're the ones that founded the company. Oh, so they were like together. Two last names. Back in those days. They weren't a couple. Oh, okay. That was like the 1800s. I didn't do that stuff. No, no, business partners, business partners. One of them, Henry Sherwin passed away in 1916.

Good grief. And Edward Williams died in 1903. Holy wow. They started the company in 1866. They were painting covered wagons. Evidently, yeah. They started in 1866. It remains the world's largest coatings company by revenue. There you go. Everything you ever wanted to know about that. Off be green. Off be green. Let's be very careful with that this morning. I think that would be a perfect color for the ghetto house. It's 510 time for traffic and weathered together. Would you like maybe if you get Sherwood Williams to sponsor you and paint your house off be green. I better dear Richard Luelling to cover his ears this morning. All right, first of all, our big story this morning, once again, wet freeways. This isn't just a weather panel, not just a pattern of weather. It's becoming a lifestyle. But so far, coming up from the north side here, Hardy Toll Road, spring down 19 minutes. North Freeway, I'm going to give it a 25-minute drag. I don't want you going any faster this morning, and we've got to turn that snooze off. And if you're coming down from 2.49, Tomball, Parkway looks good. It's 18 minutes from Tomball to the North Sam. And then you're on your own when you hit the North Sam, your big shots. Skymike in the generator, supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH. Top tax defenders. 24-hour weather center. Richard the Welling is here. Yeah, little rain in the forecast we weren't expecting, but that's Houston for you. Yeah, that's going to be quickly rolling out of here this morning. This is the narrow band of showers. It's going to continue to push on off toward the south and east. It's going to be warm and sticky here next couple of days. And drier times ahead as we lose the influence of the subtropical jet. And temperatures are going to climb as a result. We'll hit 88 today. Any morning showers quickly come to an end. Clouds give way to sunshine here today. And it's going to be a warm sticky day overall. 75 tonight, warm and muggy with party cloudy skies. Hot and dry tomorrow, sun shines in the forecast, 91, sunny, warm and humid, pop-up storms at midweek with Wednesday's high, 91. Already 81 at your officials, severe weather station, news radio 740, KTRH. 59 inbound at the loop is always a problem. KTRH, time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. It is 520 here in Houston's morning news. So the Trump administration continues to turn up more and more fraud and corruption. They've gone back to the Biden years. Remember all the pandemic money? All the money for the Small business association, small business administration, I should say, to loan out to businesses during the COVID pandemic. Turns out they think up to $22 billion of that money, maybe even more, was spirited away in fraud, false claims, because nobody bothered to check anything.

at the Biden administration. More on that story coming up next. First, though, let's do a little traffic and weather together. Started with you, Skymike. The first thing we do is turn off your snooze. We got wet freeways again today as advisors. You're bringing it in from the west side. Looks good. Seeley to the Grand Parkway, Grand Parkway to the President's heads is now an easy 26 minutes stroll. West Park tollway, nothing but go from Grand Parkway to the Southwest Freeway. But again, with the wet freeways, we've got to bring it down a notch. and I would drive a little slower on the Southwest Freeway this morning. Brazzis River to downtown is 24 minutes. I'm Sky Mike. It's your generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center morning clouds, then after a mix of sun and clouds, warm and humid today, sunny hot 91 tomorrow, sunny, hot humid with the chance of a pup-up storm on Wednesday with Live 91. Right now, 81 and your official, severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. Time to check in with Clip for an update on some of our top Monday morning stories. Genadigans in California, DOJ is investigating that state over its primary elections. Fort Worth cops looking for a shooter dressed in all black after four people were wounded this weekend. And after a three-year absence, U.T. Austin returns to the College World Series. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 5.30. 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. You know, I think if we were to head up for the fraud and corruption, perpetrated upon the federal government, it would be in trillions of dollars, not billions of dollars, trillions of dollars. This is your money, this is my money, this is U.S. taxpayer dollars. that supposedly was given out for good causes or loaned out for good reasons to the Small Business Administration. But in this case, at least in Ohio, this one case in Ohio worth billions of dollars, 27 people indicted in Ohio on perpetrating fraud during the COVID pandemic, getting small business administration loans they were not entitled to, that were not legitimate. They weren't even for legitimate people. Kelly Loeffler with a small business administration on Fox business talking about this. If you remember under COVID, $1.2 trillion in PPP and idle loans went out. And it was estimated by the Biden era Office of Inspector General that $200 billion was fraudulent. And then the Biden administration proceeded to sweep that under the rug and try to forget about it and make hardworking taxpayers forgive criminal activity. Well, in the Trump administration, thanks to the task force that we've convened in the last 60 days, we've had over 550 law enforcement enforcements, and we have gone state by state, as you said. And now in Ohio yesterday, along with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, we announced that there were... 27,000 Ohioans suspended thanks to 1.1 trillion in fraudulent loans, suspected fraudulent loans that we found. So we are going state by state and we have referred

$22 billion to the U.S. Treasury for collections and to the DOJ for enforcement. Wow. So you're saying it's $1.1 trillion in fraud? $1.1 trillion was the total COVID-era pandemic relief. $22 billion is what we've referred so far to Treasury and to the DOJ. And we are just getting started because we are going to go after the entire $200 billion of fraudulent lending that happened during COVID. And yesterday, you know, we announced even four indictments. So it was for $1.4 million showing that no amount of fraud is too small. If you ripped off taxpayers, there's going to be accountability. And you may face jail time. And is this because just no one was watching? I mean, how do you allow all that fraud to just go out the door? Was it that we did not have a focus and a policing of any of this? Maria, there were three tranches of PPP. And there was the first one in March 2020, but then when the Biden administration came in, they forced out two more and reduced the guardrails, but still borrowers attested that they needed the money, that they had the employees. And the borrowers defrauded the American people by making false statements allegedly. And so that's what we're looking at. That's what we're working with the DOJ on. But look, we have changed SBA's programs now for the first time in the history of the agency. We require a birth date. We require citizenship checks. We know that during the pandemic, hundreds of millions went out to people over the age of 115 years old. So it's guardrails are on and we have to make sure that this never happens again. So you get all that? We now require birth dates. We have to give a name now. You know, we're not loaning out money anymore to people who are 115 years old. It is so painfully easy to defraud the United States government. That is inept at its highest level. That's why those of us who believe in less government, not more government, because we just don't believe that you'll ever really truly get a handle on all the potential for losing money. Because there's just not enough bureaucrats who care. or enough bureaucrats to do the job. 526, let's take a look at your money. Good morning, a slide for stocks on Friday. It was a surprisingly big jobs report, which is raising expectations that the Federal Reserve could hike interest rates. The U.S. added 172,000 jobs in May, topping forecasts. Plus, concerns are growing on Wall Street that the powerful rally in tech has peaked. The NASDAQ 100 tumbled more than 4% on Friday, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 2.5%. 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 IRS. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It is 530. Here on Houston's morning news, I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this FR, Democrats, they find more votes in California. They have a way of doing that, don't they? Violent protesting at a turning point summit in San Antonio. And should we be concerned about this Bush airport, excuse me, let me try it again, should we be concerned about this Bush airport security breach? Yes, I think we should. First of all, let's check out the drive. Here's Skymine. All right, we're checking now, the north side. Speaking of Bush Airport, if you're on the North Sam, we look good if you're trying to catch a plane here both ways, Attas Caseta, all the way over to 249. And if you're somebody's Butler and Tomball, you'll have an easy ride going that way, westbound. JFK, you just never know. They did finish that blasted roadwork. What a horror show that was. You never know about Will Jay Clayton Parkway, though. Wet freeways this morning. And if you see something I don't see, hit me. 55547 sold. Oh, I'm sorry, that's Empower Home Team. 713212 TIPS. This is the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center morning clouds, then an afternoon mix of sun and clouds, warm and humid with a height today right about 88. We'll get you the complete forecast with virtue of the welling at the weather channel in nine minutes. Right now, it is 81 and your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Good morning. It's 531 and our top story this morning. It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California. It's happening right now in California. President Trump on NBC's Meet the Press. California, six days after the primary, still hasn't made election results official. And now Democrat Nithya Raman has overtaken Spencer Pratt. for second place in the L.A. mayor's race. And the vote count continues to drag on. So do the questions. Roxanne Hogue is the chairman of the Los Angeles County Republican Party. What people really need to understand is it's the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules. And in this case, Republicans hold none of those. But the Democrats do. And so it's not a surprise to see big changes with the votes. As long as Democrats hold a supermajority in Sacramento and the governorship, things aren't going to change. Which is why some say it's time for the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KT.R.H. Steve Hilton remains in position to head to the November general election for governor. Meantime, closer to home. Chaos at the Turning Point USA Women's Leadership Summit in San Antonio. More than 100 rioters tried to storm the event. This was a week after a San Antonio man was arrested for threatening to murder. Erika Kirk. Protests outside an ice facility in Newark, New Jersey continued over the weekend. Borders are Tom Homan says this is what the rioters really want.

It isn't about the quality of detention. It's about detention. They don't want these people detained. Oman on Fox. And when lawmakers passed President Trump's big, beautiful bill, a key part was a fund that would pay states back for securing the border. Applications for the cash are now open. It's a federal responsibility to provide security on our international borders. The state, Texas had to pick up the ball and step up to the plate. Congressman Michael McCall says the state is in line to receive $12 billion in reimbursement. Coming up on 534, Iran and Israel trading missile attacks once again, the first time since the ceasefire back in April. I hope. that coup heads prevail. I hope some steps forward in Iran that has the power to actually do a deal and stop this war. Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson on Fox on Truth Social, the president posted, quote, Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting. Close quote. Oil futures at $94.62 a barrel this morning. In Europe, Russian officials say Ukraine launched an, quote, unprecedented attack against St. Petersburg after the Kremlin rejected an offer for peace talks. Another violent weekend across the Houston area, we had three people killed in at least three shootings. Another two people injured. We also had a fatal stabbing in southeast Houston. Now, you might not have known this, but Harris County's electronic monitoring program does not track defendants who become fugitives. Crime Stoppers Andy Kahn says pretrial services needs to answer some questions. This is disturbing not just to the public, but it's equally disturbing to law enforcement because they don't know who these defendants are that are now wanted fugitives. More than 10,000 defendants in 2024 were monitored by an electronic device, GPS or curfew figures for last year. Not available. Police in Ohio are still trying to find the suspects and motive behind a shooting at a festival this weekend. The fun suddenly turning to people of all ages running and scrambling for cover at the iconic Old West End Festival, and many were helping any of the 12 victims that they could. We know two of those shooting victims are fighting for their life in critical condition, and people who were there are shocked. Police are still searching for at least two suspects who they say were probably shooting at each other. Madison-Scarpino reporting. It's now 535. It's not just rural Texas. Brazoria County officials are speaking out against the construction of data centers. Currently, the county has one data center and neighbors complain of a constant humming noise. Visoria County judge Matt Sebesta says the state decides where they go and state law does not allow zoning. The only thing we have control over are junkyards, landfills, and sexually oriented businesses. Sebesta isn't against data centers. They just want to help decide where they go. They could put these facilities where there's not any really close neighbors. The judge is urging the public to get in front of their senators. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740.

KTRH. Tesla is playing catch-up in the state's robo-taxie market. The company only has 42 autonomous vehicles operating while Waymo has more than 570. Attorney Quentin Brogden says it's because of how Tesla is managed. Waymo seems to not be quite as stubborn, if you want to use the word stubborn, as Tesla has been in dealing with setbacks and adapting approaches. Analysts say years of real world testing have helped Waymo build an early lead. Astros lose to the A's 5-0-0. They visit the Angels tonight pre-game at 730, simulcast on Sports Talk 790 and here on KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station. News Radio 740, KTRH. I usually take I-10 West, but lately that's been a nightmare. KTRH, time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. 538 a time here on Houston's 4 years. You may have heard there was a bit of a security breach at Bush Intercontinental Airport. Did you hear about that? Some guy from Houston managed to get through TSA and onboard a United flight using a fake boarding pass. He wasn't found out until he hid in the bathroom. While the plane was taxing towards takeoff, it was a flight from Houston to Los Angeles. And some of the passengers saw that he had gone in there and hadn't come out. And they alerted the flight attendant, and the flight attendant checked it out. And they ended up having to turn the plane around and take it back to the gate to get them off. But how do you get through TSA and how do you get past the check-in process? Do you get on board the flight with a fake boarding pass? Here's the report from ABC 13. A Southwest Houston man facing a felony charge. More than two weeks after police say he illegally boarded a united flight to Los Angeles. According to this criminal complaint, Abdulraman Oriomi's flight reservation had been canceled and the boarding pass he had appeared to be a forgery. Police say surveillance video shows him speaking to a TSA agent the morning of May 18th. He's then escorted to another TSA booth where his picture's taken and he's allowed to pass through security. The first point of failure is your checkpoint. Michael Matranga is a former secret service agent who now runs the consulting group. M6 Global Defense. I think this is a pretty significant breach, not just because of the fact that he ended up on the plane, it's the multiple layers and failures to even get on the plane. But Trangas says TSA agents should have never allowed the man for security without a valid boarding pass. The charging document says he then approaches a gate and tries twice to scan the fake boarding pass, but to no avail. More than an hour later, police say he shows up at a different gate. The complaint detailing how he walks up to United Gate agents scanning boarding passes, then walks right past them while they're busy with other passengers. They're not paying attention to his diversionary tactics. They're distracted. They're not situationally aware. Police say Oriomi hid in the plane's restroom as it taxed to the runway. It was a passenger who alerted them to his presence. And when the flight crew realizes he wasn't booked on the flight...

The plane returns to the gate, words met by police, an explosive detection unit, and the FBI. Matranger says all of this could have been avoided. At a very minimum, those agents that were directly involved in probably that whole cadre of agents at the airport need to be retrained on policy and consistency in policy. Okay, retrain them? Evidently, that's what they'll do, I would guess. As far as the guy himself who tried to use the fake boarding pass, what happened to him? I mean, are they throwing federal charges against him? Is he in jail? Or did they let him go? It's 540. Time for traffic and weather together. We're checking out the drive again, this guy Mike. Dude, put on your hard hats. We're going to the hard work in east side now. And looking at the ship channel bridges, Fred Hardman Bridge, if you're playing the home game with me, look at camera. 1-307. There they are. Transstar is moving in for me right now. And they're going to show this lovely bridge shot. So far, traffic's lovely over the bridge, too. Baytown to the Port both ways. On the toll bridge, no second so far from I-10 down to Deer Park. 10 east, the ship channel, the Sherman Bridge, from the bud plant, down to 225. Kind of smells funny right there at the Goodyear plant, but we're looking good. I'm in the ability tree experts, traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center, Richard Llewelling on duty this morning. We've got some morning clouds, a little light rain and a few spots, Richard. What's the rest of the day going to be like? Looks pretty good. We're going to see a lot of this moisture roll out of here, and we've got fine weather in the forecast next couple of days. It's just a typical June weather for us here in southeast Texas, as a temperature is going to stay locked in the upper 80s and low 90s and just maybe a pop-up storm chances. We move into the middle part of the week. Clouds around this morning, a little bit of light rain and drizzle in spots that's going to give way to sunshine. Warm and sticky here today at 88, 75 tonight, warm and muggy with a few clouds. Hot tomorrow. High tomorrow, 91. Warm and humid at midweek, a pop-up shower or storm in the forecast with Wednesday's high 91. Right now, it's 80. Ed 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. Turn the world to a day to center. Famine in drought. Turn the world to a data center over a night. What's that about? All right, well, they're building them all over Texas. And at some point, well, we've already got, what was the tall I have between, this is Friday, between AI and data centers? There's like 62 of them in the metro Houston area. 62. And they're building more of them all the time. Except some communities don't want them. Here's the report from our television partner, KPRC2. Cities typically bend over backwards to welcome new construction, businesses, and development. But when it comes to data centers...

It seems there's not enough cities across Texas can do to keep them away. We don't want them to lower home value. We don't want them to nuisance residents with noise pollution or national resource affected. Now here in Elvin, there was a data center doing some poking around, seeing if the city would even be open to the idea. of a data center on the outskirts of town. Now, it was nothing concrete, but it was more than enough to cause a stir and a quick defense from the city, basically shutting down any and all thoughts and ideas of a data center. We are aware that the data centers create noise pollution, other pollution. At Thursday's Alvin City Council meeting, the mayor introducing an ordinance supposing any and all data centers. It's not often everyone agrees on a single topic. Motion passes unanimously. It puts on paper that we're opposed. The data center resigning up an area northwest of Elvin between the city and nearby Manville. The 100 to 200 acres, it was close to 200 megawatts day one, and it would scale up to one gigawatt. 200 megawatts is the daily power consumption for the city of Alvin, so I wasn't a fan right away. What's your reaction to that word? Data centers. It's a bad reaction. Yeah, it's a bad reaction. It's a bad reaction. Both Judy Miller and Jeffrey Adcock rely on well water at their homes just a few miles up the street in Manville. Yes, technology is wonderful, but I think they're letting it get ahead of Earth. The human factor. I got to ask you, is it a matter of not in my backyard, put these things in somebody else's backyard? It might not be fair. You know, I 100% agree with that. My first response is I'm elected to support Alvin residents. While the ordinance passed here in Elvin isn't an outright ban on data centers at all, it's just more of a policy and opposition. And it already seems to be working. The data center I'm told that was looking to build here is already looking elsewhere. Okay, so there you go. They got the desired result. That data center is not going to go there. Doesn't mean there won't be more. By the way, is it data or data? Or is it like potato potato? Is it either one okay? But here's my question today. Because there are some well-documented things. They consume a lot of energy. They consume a lot of water to keep them cool. They provide noise and light pollution. You know, the larger server fans and cooling systems create a constant hum. that you can hear well outside of the data center itself. So how would you feel about a data center going up within, I don't know, a half a mile of your home? Would you support it or not? And by the way, You know, I'm sure they're paying property taxes, and they're paying for their electricity, but they're probably driving the price of your electricity up. And they're not really, most of that stuff is automated. It's not like there's a ton of jobs that go along with it. Your thoughts. You go to the iHeart Radio app, KTRH. First name, where are you calling from? Would you want a data center to open up near your home? Again, the...

way to share your information or to talk back to us is go to the iHeart radio app kTRH first name where you're calling from and your thoughts on data centers near your home it's 556 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. 6 a.m. is our time here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett, among our top stories this half hour. At least a few Democrats are willing to disown Graham Platner. Iran and Israel, they're fighting each other right now, and coming up at 608, boomer's greatest fear of living their money. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive once again. Here's Sky Mike. All right, let's check the Hartman Bridge. And we had this, the online's we're calling that a stall, but it's on both shoulders. That's not a stall. That's a wreck where I come from. If you're playing the home game with me, it's on camera 1-309. This is northbound Hartman Bridge coming up from the Port. East Texas, it's Wayne from Katie Porter. Hey, Mike, right at the on-ramp to the Beltway. A little smash right there. They got a little car kind of blocking boat. both lanes a little bit, and then the curry hits on the feeder on the right-hand side. All right, Wayne, reporter, banana sticker this morning, a little semi-verbage. Watch out, that is southbound on your east tax. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center morning clouds, afternoon mix of sun and clouds, warm and humid today with the high temperature right about 88. Complete forecast is coming away from Richard the Welling of the Weather Channel in eight minutes. Right now, we're looking at 80 at your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. It is 602 on KTRH, sponsored by Allied Siding in Windows Top Story. The Middle East is on edge this morning. As Israel and Iran throw missiles at each other for the first time since April. The Iranians continue to launch barrages of ballistic missiles. in the aftermath of the Israeli strikes overnight that came in response to waves of Iranian ballistic missiles last evening. Now, before all of this yesterday, we know that the Israelis targeted the Dakhya neighborhood of southern Beirut that kicked off this round of renewed fighting. That is Trey Yingsdon, Tel Aviv on truth. Social President Trump posted, quote, Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting. Now, the president claims the U.S. and Tehran were days away from a deal to end the fighting, but Republican North Carolina Congressman Greg Murphy says Iran can't be trusted.

May's jobs report doubled expectations with 172,000 new jobs added on the heels of a record stock market. Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antony says the only nagging issue is inflation due to the Iran conflict. I think 2026 was really, really shaping up to be a gangbuster year for economic growth. But high energy prices, that's the big risk here that stands to undo all of the great progress we've seen before. Oil and gas prices have declined in the last two weeks, which could be a positive sign. jobs added, health care and education led the way, but manufacturing and construction also outpaced expectations. Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. Social Security benefits could get cut by almost 25% by 2032. That's according to a new analysis from the committee for a responsible federal budget. Ideally, I'd like to see to go ahead and do something now that puts it on sounder footing and gives people more of confidence in it. But again, just historically, what we've normally seen is that Congress reacts to these types of things when they absolutely have to. Economist, Dr. Ray Perryman, says Congress would have to raise taxes, and that's not a good move politically. New research shows that just 47% of Americans understand finances and all-time low. Economist Dr. Vanskin says part of this is a lack of education. Another aspect is the social programs giving up money to people. But don't actually help them understand how their budget works, how they should be budgeting within their means. Programs that are put in place by government is incentivizing people to not be as financial literators. I think they otherwise would be because it's not their money. He says this is a wake-up call. Astros are shut out by the Ace 5. Nothing. They visit Anaheim tonight. Pre-game at 730 on Sports Talk 790 and KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Learned how to listen from you. I don't miss a show. Talk about it here. I cannot help but listen to you all the time. News Radio 740, KTRH. Seems like a good theme song for the boomers this morning. 608 is our time here in Houston's morning news. According to this headline, the golden years are not so golden. Boomers are hoarding most of America's wealth and power because they're terrified about living their money. You think that's true? The baby boomers have most of the wealth and power in America, according to this story. So why are they so angry when this gets pointed out? First of all, I'm not angry. If we have wealth and power, then that's good. The wealth we have earned, we have accumulated, we have worked hard. I didn't think our parents thought our generation was that hard working back in the day. But evidently we are. See, I think we were one of the first generations. The baby boomers were one of the first generations to grow up with a lot more than what their parents had. And we got used to the lifestyle we were living.

The story goes out to say in recent weeks, a collection of economic data and explanations of structural forces preventing important things like housing affordability, household formation, and economic mobility have provoked many responses, some thoughtful, some angry, some even defensive, but increasingly urging me to look beyond the reliable generational training. There is no balance in the world we live in, said one boomer. Another gave a sense of angst when broad macro strokes don't capture the reality on the ground for every micro case. You write like every boomer sitting on a McMansion and a seven-figure IRA, one bereaved boomer wrote. A lot of us are one diagnosis away from losing everything. Here's what I think. I think that I don't know that the baby boomer generation really thought about saving until later on in life. So I don't. They may have nice homes. nice cars, and they may have a hard time letting go of their work and their job. But I think it's also because of a feeling that you don't want to be dependent. You don't want to be dependent on your kids. Or you don't want to be a burden to your kids. I think our parents' generation felt the same way. I know I don't. I don't want my sons to have to worry about me in my old age. I want to be able to take care of myself. As long as I feel good. And I want to keep working and I love what I do. Why not keep working? And I think there's a lot of other boomers who feel that way about it. If you enjoy what you do, if you are well paid for what you do, why give it up just because you reach a certain age? We're living longer. 70 is the new 50 or at least 60. It's 610. Time for traffic and weather together. Thank God. Yeah. You may be effectively retired and you just don't know. That's right, Sky Mike. All right, so we've got some problems. Hartman Bridge, about four minutes after I said it was clear. Well, I was looking southbound. Northbound, camera 1309. I got a wreck here, and we are bowling a split. We're on the left side and we're on the right side, and you're going right down the middle coming up from Laporte. About a six-minute scoge of that. So stay the course in. East Tech's freeway. I got somebody on the tip line. Hey. Die mic. 59 south. Beltway exit. There's an accident. Two ninjas. So well said, but you know, you forgot to tell me your name. Represent your community, even if you're from Katie Porter. But she still gets extra points. Burbage. At 713212, T-IPS. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, Top Tax Defender's 24-hour Weather Center. Time to check in with Richard the Welling. We've got some clouds this morning. I guess we're going to see a little sunshine. before the day's over, though, right? Yeah, it looks like areas north and wet. He disappeared. Okay, we lost the connection. I shall continue. Morning clouds, afternoon mix of sun and clouds. Warm, humid, looks like 88 for the high today. Sunny and hot, 91 tomorrow. Sunny, hot, and humid with the chance of a pop-up afternoon storm. 91 for the high on Wednesday. Current temperature is 80 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. I live in Pasadena. Sharpstown, Southwest. Next on the 10. Time saving traffic on 740 KTRH. The big news from last week was,

the jobs report that came out on friday one hundred seventy two thousand jobs in may that just blew away all expectations of what they were expecting so from a jobs aspect It's a pleasant surprise how many jobs that we are adding. But the question is not even where we're adding jobs. Well, it is. It's where are these jobs? What kind of jobs are they? We know they're not government jobs. We know they're private sector jobs, but what kind of jobs are they? We'll talk to Harry's Foundation economist E.J. and Tony about this coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together. And that starts with you, Scott, Mike. East Tech, southbound at the Beltway. Got a crash here. This is on the inbound. Wayne from Katie Porter and our mystery lady calling in there, Hartman Bridge, northbound, right on the northbound span. That makes a lot of sense, Mike. It's a wreck here. We're bowling a split. We're on the left side, the right side. Somebody hit the tip line and tell me whose fire truck that is on 1309. I'm in the generator, supercenter.com. Traffic Center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center morning clouds and then a mix of clouds and sun for the afternoon. Warm, humid. High today, right about 88, sunny and hot. 91 for the high tomorrow. Wednesday, sunny, hot, humid, chance of an afternoon pop-up storm with a hive 91. Current temperature is still 80 at your official, severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's a Monday morning. Cliff is here with an update on some of our top stories. And we're sponsored by U.S. coins and jewelry. Oil prices are spiking after renewed hostilities between Israel and Iran. The son of an 81-year-old Conroe horseman and trail rider has been charged with his murder. And according to a new Harvard study, people who do between 90 minutes and two hours of resistance training, that's weightlifting per week, at a 13% lower risk of death. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 6.30. Got to know what's happening in my city. Traffic reports. Reliable information. I got to know the weather. Listen and you'll know. Excuse me sharp. News Radio 740. KTRH. Well, I'm telling you got plenty of jobs in May. 172,000 of them. E.J. and Tony joins us. Heritage Foundation economist. This blew away all expectations, E.J. Why do you think that number was so high? Great, great question, Jimmy. There is a couple of reasons. But I got to say, not only did you have that good headline number in terms of the total number of jobs added, but when we look at the survey of households that's also within this report, that's where we get things like the unemployment rate statistic from. That showed that the total number of people employed rose 99,000. And that was the first positive move in terms of month over month for this entire year. That was also a really, really good development. But to get back to your question, so it looks like in May you had a disproportionate amount of hiring coming from local government, which was a bit unusual. And then you also had a lot in health care and a lot in the leisure and hospitality sector. My guess is looking at that last one, that has to do with the World Cup. Okay.

Well, that would be good news because up until now we haven't, you know, hotel sales, at least here in Houston, been rather disappointing. Ticket sales have been kind of disappointing. So it's nice to know that the FIFA World Cup is adding to the economy at least somewhere. Yeah, absolutely. And I think that also shows up to when we break down in terms of kinds of jobs being added, all of the job growth on net last month was part-time work. Now, ideally we don't see that. Ideally, we see a lot more full-time work because we want to see good, high-paying jobs with benefits. So one of the red flags in the report, again, was the fact that full-time jobs actually fell slightly. month over month and all of the net job growth was part-time. Okay, and you mentioned local government. Do we have any idea what kind of jobs local government was hiring for and why they're hiring more people? So this is one of those categories, Jimmy, where it's actually really, really hard to seasonally adjust during the summer because you don't have the same kind of clear patterns that you do with a lot of other data sets. So don't be surprised if this actually gets revised down somewhat. But that being said, if the numbers aren't really accurate. then it looks like essentially what you're seeing right now is local governments across the country making up for some delayed hiring, where they previously did not have the normal level of hiring that we would have expected in the first half or the first several months, I should say, of the year. And now they're kind of playing catch up. All right. You mentioned leisure and hospitality. I'm guessing that a lot of those are seasonal jobs, summer jobs. Well, theoretically, we've already adjusted for that in the data. Now, post-COVID, of course, some of these seasonal adjustments have not done a very good job of representing what's going on in the economy. That's part of the reason why we've seen such dramatic revisions in the data. But if we look at, let's stretch it out, Jimmy. So instead of just looking month over month, let's look year over year. And there you don't have to worry about seasonal adjustments nearly as much. And if we look at that, in leisure and hospitality, that was the second fastest growing sector. It was up 150,000 jobs year over year. So measuring from May of 2025 to May of 26. The only larger sector, of course, was healthcare. That was up over 450,000 over that same timeframe. Save to say that health care is just one of those categories that's going to keep growing and growing the older the population gets, don't you think?

That's a really, really big part of it. Absolutely, Jimmy. But the other thing is that as we keep making so many different advancements within the healthcare field and you're able to treat so many more illnesses and diseases and different infirmities, whatever the case may be, what's happening there is the fact that it's attracting more and more people to the field, not just to keep. very old people healthy, but also even among younger people, because again, you're coming up with all these different cures, even for things like childhood cancers, not just things like prostate cancer, let's say. That's primarily affecting the silent generation and baby boomers. So a lot of people think that healthcare is just growing because all these baby boomers are retiring and going into nursing homes. That's really not the whole story. Okay. E.J., thank you. Good to hear from you, sir. Appreciate it. E.J. Antony, Heritage Foundation Economist. It's 627. And time to take a look at your money. Good morning. Wall Street is trying to find its footing after Friday's tech-led sell-off. The Dow tumbled 695 points. Worries are growing that the rally in artificial intelligence has run too far, plus the U.S. added 172,000 jobs in May. That's reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates by December. I'm Courtney Dunahoe. 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. 6.30 are time. Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this have our violent protesting at a turning point summit in San Antonio over the weekend. Democrats finding more and more votes in California. The Republican is now running third in the mayor's race at Spencer Pratt. And coming up at 638, what do you mean Guy Fiori doesn't swallow? Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning vibe once again. Here's Skymike. Now we've got a second scoge, and that's a wreck at rank, and what are we looking at? We're looking at... Oh, it's the left shoulder. Okay, we're pointing at things, but be ready for it because you've got a second wreck right at the Beltway. Now you've got the Hartman Bridge northbound. We're still bowling a split there. Left side, right side, it's an accident coming up from Laporte, and road debris on the North Freeway at Shepherd. What is it? It's a nightstand. How do they know what furniture it is. They can tell. All right. It's some kind of nightstand in the road. Watch out for other stations listeners, inbound on 45. I'm Sky Mike from the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center morning clouds, afternoon mix of sun and clouds, warm and humid today with a high temperature right about 88. Complete forecast is coming your way, courtesy of Richard the Welling of the Weather Channel. We'll talk to him in nine minutes. Still 80 and your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Coming up on 632, our top story. The violent radical left was out in force this weekend. First up, San Antonio, causing chaos at the Turning Point USA Women's Leadership Summit.

This was a week after a San Antonio man was arrested for threatening to murder Erika Kirk. We also had more protests outside of an ice facility in Newark, New Jersey. Borders are Tom Homan's reaction. They showed that this wasn't just the hatred of the ice badge. It's the hatred of the badge. Tom Homan on Fox. And thanks to Tom Homan and President Trump, Texas is about to get paid back for doing what the Biden administration refused to do. A key part of President Trump's one big beautiful bill was a fund that would pay states back for securing the border. Applications for the cash are now open. Congressman Mike McCall says Texas is first in line because the state stepped up to the plate when border crossings were the highest. So to reimburse the state of Texas is only fair. He says the state is in line to receive $12 billion in reimbursement. That's how much was spent on Operation Loan Star as well as border wall construction. That's KTRH's Rex O. It's now 633 on KTRH. We're very confident now that we'll be in the top two. There's not really any realistic possibility for the billionaire climate fanatic Tom Steyer to catch up. Republican Steve Hilton on Fox, California six days after the primary, still with no official election results. And while the governor's race looks good for Republicans, Democrat Nithya Raman has overtaken Spencer Pratt. For second place in Los Angeles' mayoral race. What we do after this election is the same thing. We do after every election. We have eyes on the processing center. We're joined by the state party and the RNC. We have lawyers on call and ways to report incidents. Well, it's happening in L.A. is raising a lot of questions. That's Roxanne Hogue, chairman of the L.A. County, GOP, saying that the longer the vote counts, the more questions people have. The U.S. attorney is already launching multiple. fraud investigations into California. It's now 634. They have some missiles. They have some drones. I would say percentage-wise, maybe 21, 22 percent of their missiles. It's a lot of missiles. But it's not what it was when we first attacked. President, on NBC's meet the press hours after that, Iran fired some of those missiles at Israel, retaliation for the Israelis going after Hezbollah in Lebanon. On truth, Social President Trump posted simply, Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting. Oil futures at $92.31 a barrel this morning. Now, if you believe Russian officials, Ukraine launched a, quote, unprecedented attack against St. Petersburg this weekend. This was after Vladimir Putin ruled out, meaning one-on-one with Volodymyr Zelensky. Coming up on 635, more violence across Houston over the weekend. At least three people were killed in three separate shootings. Another two people were injured. We also had a... fatal stabbing in southeast Houston, a fugitive's recent escape and rearrest has exposed the gaps in Harris County's ankle monitoring system. While awaiting his day in court for the murder of his pregnant wife, defendant Lee Gilley removed his ankle device and fled to Italy.

Crime Stoppers Andy Kahn says, according to pretrial services, if the device is removed on a Friday, the violation isn't reported until Monday. What kind of message if you just sent out to anyone who's actually considering doing that? He says it's time for transparency. And start working with entities like crime stoppers to feature their defendants who have gone missing and now have warrants out for their arrest. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740, KTRH. Police are still trying to find the suspects and motive behind a shooting at an Ohio festival on Saturday night. 12 people were injured, the result of two men shooting at each other. It's coming up on 636. Residents in Brazoria County want state lawmakers to reconsider data centers and where they're located. County Judge Matt Sebesta says his hands are tied because there's no zoning, but... That doesn't mean he's not going to suggest alternatives. People to get face to face with their senators, their reps, and demand local control. The judge says he expects a resolution to pass unanimously among county officials to propose a modification to the law. He's certain it won't change the outcome, though. Waymo continues to dominate Texas' robo-taxie market. Tesla is struggling to expand its service. According to state records, Tesla has just 42 robotaxies across Austin, Houston, and Dallas. Waymo has more than 570. Waymo is using a different system that has more inputs into the autonomous vehicles control than the Tesla system. Attorney Quentin Brogden says Tesla's go-at-it-a-lone approach has not served it well in traffic data collections. Tesla launched in Houston and Dallas this spring, but growth in both cities has mirrored the slower pace in Austin. Astros lose to the athletics, 5-Zip. They visit the Angels tonight pre-game at 730 on Sports Talk 790 and right here on KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News, Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Following. The events of the day. Following up with you. We've learned the follow. Wherever they take us. What are we talking about? Check in. Anytime. Use Radio 740. KTRH. But evidently food is. 6.38 is our time. There's a story going out. And I don't know if it's 100%. He hasn't been confirmed. But it would be strange if it was. You know who Godfieri is, right? diners drive-ins and dives. There's a couple shows on the Food Network. He's not a small guy, but he's not a big fat guy either. You would think, given the amount of food that you see him eat on camera, you would think he would be, right? But evidently, there's a little secret about Guy Fiori. He really doesn't eat the food. Well, you might see him put the food in his mouth and even chew it a few times, but you never see him swallow.

Nope. A streamer out there says he's examined a bunch of guys' videos and figured out some of his tricks. The most obvious one is camera cuts. Guy will put some food in his mouth, chew it once or twice, and then the camera will cut away. Sometimes he'll actually eat something, or appear to eat something, but then talk. In those cases, it looks like he's packing the food into his cheeks like a squirrel, presumably so he can later spit it out off camera. And then there are times when he just flat out fix it, like one scene where it allegedly takes a... bite of food from chopsticks, but when he slowed down the video show, there was no food on the chopsticks to begin with. He just moved the chopsticks into his mouth and then dropped them. He didn't even open his mouth. It looked more like he's sniffing the food than eating it. So, a little trick of the trade. Now, I don't know if he does that because he's afraid to eat some of the food that he talks about on his show. or he's just trying to avoid, you know, weighing 350 pounds. 640. Time for traffic and weather together. Believe me, if I ever get like a commercial endorsement for some kind of beer? I'm drinking it, right? It's going down the hatch, dude. It's going right there. Whiskey beer. Do you know you're not allowed to drink beer on camera? Really? Yes. I didn't know that. That's true. What about on the radio? Can I drink on the radio? Hold on. Go ahead. Pop-top. That's on my energy drink. All right. Let's hit it down. Go ahead. Is that what we're calling it now? Northside, East Tech's freeway, South Bend. All right, guy, kind of a double whammy. The wreck at the beltway is what I want you to focus on. But look out because we got this new thing at Rankin. That's on the left side. We're pointing at things for now. But if you're coming down from Willie Clay, from Will Jay Clayton Parkway, you're about to hit some brake lights here. Hartman Bridge, clear that wreck. Hey, Rusty from League City. I need better sound quality, dude. Try to go off your speaker if you can. And Hartman Bridge, it's wet, but it's moving. We're almost back to full. speed. So stay the course here on Tollbridge. If we're going southbound. A little scoched up now, right at the top of the bridge. Again, stay the course on the toll bridge. Kinder Morgan, what are you doing down there? What are you making? I see all those railroad tracks. I pass you all the time. Love to know. And southbound, just, we're looking good. Now, I've got a bit of a scoge on your east freeway right before the truck stops. Oh, we're backed up from Del Dell, going that way. I lose about six minutes. Advisors, we're hitting you at the next break. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts. Traffic Center, 10 minutes away. KTRH generator super center 24 hour weather center Richard the welling is here starting off with clouds starting off we did start off a little bit of light rain in a few spots this morning but that's not going to be around for very long Yeah, it looks like the bulk of the rain is down the south and east of Houston right now. It's making way down into southern Harris and across parts of Galveston County this morning. About another hour or so that's going to be done. And then the heat's going to take over. It's going to stay warm and sticky here as we progress on through the next couple of days. And maybe a pop-up storm back in here by the middle part of the week. We'll see the clouds thin and sunshine takes over warm and sticky here today at 88. 75 tonight, warm and muggy with...

party cloudy skies, staying hot and humid tomorrow, 91. And those pop-up summertime thunderstorms are back on Wednesday, 91, dry Thursday and Friday, readings in the mid-90s. Right now it's 81 in your official, severe weather station, news radio 740, KTRH. So our question is the J, go to the I-Hard radio app, KTRH, first name where you're calling from. How do you feel about data centers? They consume a lot of power, they make a constant humming noise. They sick up a lot of land. They use a lot of water to cool themselves down. It doesn't seem like they create a ton of jobs. I guess they help the tax base. Alvin, their city council unanimously voted to... Yeah. To try to discourage data centers from showing up in Alvin. And they were successful in keeping at least one at bay. But I'm wondering how you feel about data centers. Are you concerned about them? We have like 62 AI and data centers already in the greater Houston area. At a GDRH, this is Nick. I have direct industry knowledge when it comes to these darn data centers. The amount of DEF, diesel, and all. ton of other stuff that comes from the midstream oil and gas industry, which I directly work in, is intense. And I'm talking like disturbing amounts of stuff. Okay. That sounds ominous. I'm not sure what DEFs are. Well, I'll be sure to find out, but he seems to be making a case that you probably don't want a data center near your home. 651. Let's do a little traffic and weather together. I don't understand. I mean, it's like Kinder Morgan. I don't know what they're doing when I drive over. They're doing data. They're doing data. It's time to do the data. All right. Let's see. We've got northside East Tech's double whamming there. That's a wreck at the Beltway. Before that, at Rankin Road, let me double check because they had it in a left shoulder. I figured the ninjas were. would take a full left lane shortly. We got breaks now from Will Clinton Parkway. It's wet, but we're moving now. North Freeway, we picked up the furniture, Shepard. It's not from Mattress Mac, but that was over on the side. Out of the way. 25 minutes in. I got Cindy from Dayton. Hey, Love. Good morning, Scott, Mike. Hey. Yes, the Crosby Freeway flatulence is in full effect today. The Crosby Freeway Flatulence. That's that little scooch inside the beltway, some roadwork. All right. We got compulsory heading into the canyon on 59 southbound. I don't understand why people are slowing down. There's nothing going on. Neither people in front of you. They just need to get a purpose in life. I'm Sky Mike. It's your ability tree experts traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center morning clouds, after a mix of sun and clouds, warm, humid 88 today, sunny and hot tomorrow with a hive 91. Current temperature 81 in your official severe weather station, news radio 740, KTRH. Cliff is here on a Monday morning ready to update some of our top stories. Congress releases a report that says Tim Walz knew about the fraud in the welfare system and did zero to stop it. U.S. Supreme Court set to hand down more rulings today, and McDonald's is testing a new AI drive-through order-taking system. They're calling it Arch IQ.

So now we can blame AI when they get your McNuggets order wrong. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 7. I live in Pasadena. Sharptown, Southwest. Next on the 10. Time saving traffic on 740 KTRH. All right. There's some stories going around that the government has been experimenting with mosquitoes and ticks, especially with mosquitoes. And the story goes back evidently to the Biden administration where they were trying to introduce sterile mosquitoes. Sounds like what they're trying to do in dealing with the screw worm. You know, they're introducing sterile host so that they can't reproduce. Over the weekend, Lee Zeldin, who's the administrator of the EPA, was on talking about whether or not these things are actually happening. So there was the experimental use permit that expired in August of 2024. That part is real. What was going out across social media was saying that this was some new authorization from EPA. And actually, since President Trump was sworn back in office, we have not extended that experimental use permit. It expired last August and it hasn't continued while we've been in office. But yeah, that was actually something that was taking place. throughout the Biden administration. And we hear a lot of public feedback and concern about this technology being released across Florida and elsewhere. And we're heating those calls. Administrator, I have a lot of questions on mosquitoes, but I also got some questions on the ticks. We attempted to get some answers last weekend. We didn't necessarily give our audience everything that they were looking for, so I want to take a whirl with you. So again, social media is swirling about the uptick and ticks, and we know that this is a problem, Lyme disease, alpha-gal disease. We know that this has been a concern for many Americans, but there's also been a lot of discussion on social media that somehow there are tick boxes being placed on family farms or somehow this is associated with perhaps a billionaire who's trying to get people to not eat meat and perhaps that's the reason there's an uptick and ticks. A lot of questions, a lot of social media chatter about it. So I want to give you a chance to address the tick question and give our viewers maybe some answers that they're certainly yearning for. So when a new technology comes out that would be killing. ticks, that would be something that would go through EPA for a gold standard science review. We do not have... anything that is currently in front of our agency requesting an approval. This is a really important issue that you're getting out when you're talking about ticks. I've had Lyme disease. It's something that impacts a lot of Americans, a lot of American families across this country. But this is another topic where, you know, people are suggesting that since President Trump's been sworn into office that, you know, we have been signing off on releasing technology.

as it relates to fighting the tick population, and a lot of what we've seen is just not true. We do not have anything, any new application in front of us at all. Okay. We'll have to take your word for that, sir. All right, 6.56, time for the timeline. Oh, looks like you better get your shoulder pads and your big hair ready. A pair of tickets to see Rock Sets. On their 40th anniversary tour with special guest Taylor, Dane, and Nick Lowe. and lost straight jackets. September the 26th, the Woodlands Pavilion tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 at Ticketmaster.com. Would you go win a pair from us? Tell us what year today's timeline's from. This defendant is charged. It was June. With the sexual abuse of children. Jerry Sandusky is convicted in the Penn State child abuse trial. The sentence that jury will receive will be a life sentence just due to the 11th. On TV. There's something. That is called MDS. Good Morning America's Robin John Roberts reveals she has a rare bone marrow disease. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. Actor and host Richard Dawson dies at age 79. Name an animal with three letters in its name. Alligator. At the movies. The whole universe depends on everything finished together. Beasts of the Southern Wilde debuts in theaters. Who are men? And on the radio, Katie Perry's wide awake hits the top 10. What year was it? If you know, 713-212-58-74, that's 713-212 KTRH. Good luck. All right, we have a winner that would be James in the Woodlands, knew the right year was 2012. Well done, James. You get a pair of tickets for Roxette, 40th anniversary tour with special guest Taylor Dane and Nick Lowe. And that's going to be September the 26th at the Woodlands Pavilion. Enjoy the show. And thank you for listening to Houston's Morning News.

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. 701 are time here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this F.R. Trump, trying to put a lid on Israel's attacks. Most Democratic leaders are still supporting that main Senate candidate. And coming up at 708, more good health news about your coffee habit. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive again with Sky Mike. Let's go visoring. You've got Katie Freeway from Grand Parkway. It's kind of thick. We got wet freeways all over the place and into the belt. You lose maybe two, three minutes, if that, not bad. West Park tollway. Some brakes right at Highway 6. A few dumb people in front of you here and there, but we're in good shape so far. Grand Parkway. And Sugarland, your drive up the Southwest Freeway is looking good. Is that a wreck on the East Freeway? Yes, it is. Outbound. That's a Rick at Sheldon Road, which puts your backup at Del Dell, which is fun to say on the radio. This is what? That's eastbound. We got roads. Oh, we're getting educated at 710. I'm Sky Mike. It's the ability tree experts traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center morning clouds after a mix of clouds and sun, warm and humid. with a high temperature today right about 88. Complete forecast with Richard the welding at the Weather Channel coming up at eight minutes. Right now, 81 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Sponsored by Allied Siding at Windows at 702, our top story.

Sirens in Israel as Iran launches several waves of missiles at the Jewish states. The two sides have been trading fire since yesterday. This comes hours after Iran launched at least four waves of missiles at Israel. It's the first time since an early April ceasefire was implemented. Israel says all missiles were intercepted and is now vowing to deliver a powerful response. Tehran claims the attack was in retaliation for Israel's deadly strike on Beirut on Sunday. Ashley Strohmeyer reporting the attack by Iran, no surprise to Texas Congressman August Flugher. The Iranians have lied, deceived, and terrorized for 47 plus years. And as you get nearer to the conclusion or to a deal or to a negotiation, of course they are going to continue to lob missiles. Oil futures up to $91.44 a barrel this morning closer to home. The president calls out the mainstream media for its biased coverage of his administration. You're crooked and meet the press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. But Mr. President. You're one-sided crooked networks. So let's call it quits because I've had it out. Trump cut off that interview with NBC's meet the press. Trump has maintained the vote in California, still not official, is rigged. And now we're finding out Spencer Pratt is no longer in the top two in the L.A. mayor's race. More at 7.30. Meantime in Maine, ahead of tomorrow's primary, more liberals are backing over. away from Graham Platner. Now some of the girlfriends are coming forward. One of them says he used to watch TV while he was sharpening his axe. Could cost him women and their vote, but he did win over Stephen King. It's named. Bill Maher on HBO. As for the Senate, Republicans are calling out outgoing Texas Senator John Cornyn as he's not lived up to his promise to support Ken Paxton. He's hosting about the libertarian candidate for Senate. Hopefully what he was meaning by that is that it's fake to assume that he's supporting anyone other than Ken Paxton. I don't think he wants to say that right now. Political commentator, Luke Macias, by the way, Ken Paxton will need more than John Cornyn's support for the general election. He might need the president himself. The president's support for Senate candidate, Ken Paxton, has his backers calling for a get-out-the-vote rally here before the midterms. Experts say if that happens, it'll mean a ton of cash. The president comes into town. The checkbooks will open. Texas GOP consultant Vinnie Manchillo says there have been talks of a midterm convention. Both Dallas and Houston have been floated as potential spots. That's KTRH's Carrie Lockhe. 705, another case of the New World Screwworm discovered in Texas, and we'll get an update from Agriculture Secretary Brooks.

Rollins in Kerrville this afternoon. The American economy keeps chugging along. The U.S. adding 172,000 jobs in May, more than doubling expectations. In fact, Heritage Foundation economist DJ Antony says the only thing preventing more growth is Iran. Inflation really came down fast in the first year of the Trump administration, specifically because they got energy prices down and energy prices affect prices throughout the economy. But now higher energy prices are having exactly the opposite effect. But he says there is reason for optimism on that front. A new report claims social security benefits may be cut by 25% in six years from now. Economist Dr. A. Perriman says this will force lawmakers to finally do something. I suspect what you'll see happen down the road is you'll see some changes in Social Security taxes, possibly some subsidies out of general revenue or something like that. Meantime, another warning sign. Financial literacy among Americans is at an all-time low. A recent test showed just 47% understand finances the lowest mark ever, and it's a huge negative. Especially when schools are starting to teach more about accounting and a little bit of economics, but we need more of that earlier on in school to get people to really understand about their finances. Economist JD Vance Ginn says social programs have also hurt providing money with no consequences, and we need the wake-up call now before it's too late. Because if not, we're going to end up in worse situations in the future. policy cannot change this, only self-reflection and education. Andre Parrard, News Radio 740, KTRH. Astros lose to the A's 5-0-0-0-Ner in Anaheim tonight at 730 on Sports Talk 790 and KTRH. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station. News Radio 740, KTRH. You gotta know what's happening to my city. Traffic reports. Reliable information. I'm reasonable. Listen and you'll know. Keep me sharp. News Radio 740. KTRH. All right, all you coffee lovers. Another reason to have another cup. I got mom right here. Hang, hang, hang on. I can take a little sip. Oh, that's good. And good for me, evidently. Coffee, one of the most widely consumed drinks and one of the most studied drinks in the entire world. Research now linking it to lower risk of chronic diseases. Researchers say their work offers one of the most direct connections between coffee and a protein studied often for its role in aging and disease. This information coming out of Texas A&M. Or Dr. Stephen Safe, a distinguished professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences said in a press release, coffee has well-known health-promoting properties. What we've shown is that some of those effects may be linked to how coffee compounds interact with this receptor, which is involved in protecting the body from stress-induced damage. The compounds reduce cellular damage and slowed cancer cell growth in laboratory models. If you damage almost any tissue, the protein responds to bring that damage down. If you take that receptor away, the damage is worse.

So the coffee improves the receptor. Evidently, that's how it works. And caffeine may not be the main factor. It doesn't mean, however, that coffee prevents aging or disease in humans. The researchers said their work is more mechanistic, meaning it examined biological processes rather than providing direct cause and affecting people. So what they're saying is that at least part of coffee's health benefits may come through binding and activating that protein receptor I was telling you about. The guy doing the research said he isn't a coffee drinker himself. He said, I'm a tea drinker, and tea also contains bioactive small molecules which can modulate this protein function. So tea may have a similar effect. And if you're like me and you drink both, you're going to live forever. Well, maybe not forever. But it does seem to help. 7-10. Let's do a little traffic and weather together. Yeah, but I need more cracking my energy drink. I mean, coffee is one thing, and it tastes good usually, but I need... This stuff right here, you know, if we ever run out of fuel in Channel 13's Chopper when I'm working, we'll just put some of this in there. All right, we got the East Freeway. I got cameras now. You knew about the wreck 10 minutes ago at Sheldon Road, eastbound, eastbound, because you're listening to live AM radio. We got it now, camera 1022, and that is outbound East Freeway, and that's one, two left lanes. The backup is from, cover your ears. That's right, Del Del, go on eastbound. You lose about nine minutes that way. 25, do that instead. All right, your East Tech's southbound, clear the Beltway wreck. We have the second wreck at Rankin, still on the left shoulder. We're still pointing at stuff. Don't worry about that. North Freeway, if you're a commoner, you're looking good now. 23 minutes coming down from the Woodlands. Hardy Toe Road, you big shots, you're rocking along. Katie Freeway. I got a stall there at Greenhouse. No big whoop. We're only losing maybe two or three all the way from Grand Parkway to the president's heads. And the tow bridge looks good. What are you doing at Kinder Morgan? Hello, Skymike. Kinder Morgan is a pipeline company. They take petroleum products through pipelines, store them in huge tank farms, and then redistributed through other pipelines to go wherever the final destination is. That's what they do, and they're huge. That is so interesting. We love you, Kinder Morgan, for listening. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Sounds complicated. From our KTRH, Top Tax Defenders, 24-hour Weather Center. Richard the Welding is here. He's got the forecast, plenty of clouds for now, but we will at least a peak at the sun for the afternoon and hours. Yeah, we sure will. In fact, this isn't a not a big deal with the forecast coming up this week. Looks like it's going to be pretty nice and dry here. Of course, it's just that warm southeast Texas feel that we're going, we are normally experienced this time of year, warm, humid weather in the forecast. Maybe a pop-up storm back in here at the middle part of the week, but rain chances are fairly small next couple of days. Any morning showers ending, clouds give way to sunshine, warm, sticky day, 88 today, warm and muggy tonight down to 75, hot and humid tomorrow with sunshine 91, and that pop-up storm chance at midweek with Wednesday's high 91.

right now is 81 at your official severe weather station news radio 740 kTRH i live in clear lake humble reliable kTRH traffic and weather next on the 10 right so we've had our fair share of problems with electronic ankle bracelets being cut off you know giving them to murder suspects who flee the country but as it turns out that's far from the only problems in eris county Evidently, if you are a county defendant and you're put on GPS or curfew electronic monitoring program, if you become a fugitive, you are no longer monitored. That seems to be when you should be the most monitor, but Andy Con will join us with the crime stoppers to talk about that next. First, we've got traffic and weather together. That starts with you, Sky Mike. I got breaks on the Gulf Freeway at Airport, breaks on 288 at McH, and that wreck on the East Freeway, Sheldon Road. It's outbound, not inbound, and we're backed up from... Party Monkey Road. No, we're backed up from Del, Del, going that way. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts, Traffic Center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center for today, we are... We are going to see some peaks of the sun at least a little bit later this afternoon. It'll be a mix of clouds and sun with high temperature right about 91. Current temperatures 81 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740KTRH. Check in with clip. He's in our newsroom with an update on some of our top stories. Sponsored by the O'Carvis Financial Group. Iran says it's now halting attacks on Israel. Secretary Brooke Rollins updates the screwworm situation today. President Trump attends game three of the NBA finals tonight in New York City. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 7.30. Mother is out there holding our mother. Over there. Iran appears to be everywhere. They're hate. They attacks on ice. Views Radio 740, KTRH. 722 is our time here in Houston's morning. It's all right. House arrest. House arrest is one thing. You know, you have a shoplifting charge. They want to put you in an ankle bracelet. I don't have a problem with that. You're a murder suspect. They're pretty sure you did it. You're a danger to flee the country. I think I have a problem with that. Andy Con joins us with the crime stoppers. How about you, Andy? Who should be eligible to have an ankle bracelet? Well, Jimmy, unfortunately, if you bought stock in ankle monitors, you've got one hell of an investment because the numbers have doubled and in some cases tripled over the last few years. It used to be just a couple thousand people who were on bond. We're given an ankle monitor or put on GPS, and that number has gone close to over 10,000 defendants right now. So it's a big, big issue. The way I kind of describe...

Any defendant having an ankle monitor. Wearing an ankle monitor is as good as the person who wants to honor it. They want to honor it. It's the greatest tool in the world. But guess what? If they don't want to honor it, there is nothing you can do to prevent them from removing it. And that is the problem I have with the legal system. They don't seem to be putting any thought into who is likely to honor that ankle monitor and who isn't. Yeah, pretty much so. So obviously we had some high profile cases over the last few months, including Lee Gilley, who removed his ankle monitor on a Friday and then managed to get in Italy by Monday. But the big issue to me was the fact that Harris County pretrial services stated on the record that... They don't notify authorities, the courts, law enforcement, until the next business day. So here you had a defendant on bond for capital murder of his pregnant wife on an ankle monitor that removed it Friday afternoon, and no one gets notified until Monday. So the message you're sending other defendants on an ankle monitor is if you want to go ahead and remove your ankle monitor, your best bet is on a Friday because we're not going to let anybody know until Monday. That's absurd. So you're telling me that they're running bankers hours there. If it happens Monday through Friday between 9 and 5, maybe it'll get handled. But if it happens at any other time, forget about it? If it happens on a Friday, authorities aren't going to get notified until Monday. And here's the real crux of this. You know, the two guys that have made the news, you know, that's not an anomaly. We've seen this happen multiple times. And it's particularly tedious when a defendant is getting really close to a jury trial. So we had another defendant. who was waiting at jury trial, supposed to start in a few days, and he just decided, you know, this isn't looking too good for me. I'm out of here. Removed his ankle monitor. Nobody was notified. Nobody knew about it. And that was years ago. I found it just by just doing some digging on capital murder suspects, and I'm looking going, okay, so was any alerts put out? Was there any press releases saying Jekori Randolph is wanted? He was charged with capital murder and removed his ankle monitor before he could be sentenced. That was in 2023. That's insane. That's crazy. That's crazy. Absolutely crazy. So you were mentioning we've had like 10,000 defendants who have gone on these. ankle monitors is it because I know what it must be that the jails are overcrowded right andy con there's just we have no place to put any of these people it's not because we we don't want to punish them we just don't have any place to put them

No, you have a lot. It's basically you're given a false insecurity when you're being put on an ankle monitor. We see it all the time, and he's going to be put on an ankle monitor and under house arrest and, quote, under supervision, which sounds good on the news, but the reality is you're not really supervising anyone. It's not like it's 24-7. It's not like if there is a tamper alert that someone's going to immediately come out and check to see if you still have your ankle monitor. One of the suggestions that I have is that when defendants are getting really close to actually coming to trial, is there needs to be kind of a 24-7 approach. to any defendant wearing an ankle monitor who is facing a trial because basically you're looking at someone that's going to recognize that they're going to be spending if they're convicted a large amount of time in prison. So that's where things kind of go a little bit skewery for defendants who just don't want to go to prison. So that needs to change. The police department operates 24 or 7. 911 operates 24-7. Why can't we have the electronic monitoring operate 24-7? Because that's logic. In criminal justice and logic. Here's one of my favorite things, and I've got a lot of them, because I've been around. Criminal justice and logic are often oxymoronic terms that have difficult times meeting each other, and you're seeing living proof of that with ankle monitors. Oh, right. Well, I know Adrian Garcia claims that he's going to try to come up with a more serious program to strengthen the monitoring program. We'll see if that actually happens. Andy Kahn. Thank you, as always, sir. Appreciate it. From Crime Stoppers, Andy Kahn. It's 727. Let's take a look at your money. Good morning. It's slide for stocks on Friday. It was a surprisingly big jobs report, which is raising expectations that the Federal Reserve could hike interest rates. The U.S. added 172,000 jobs in May, topping forecasts. Plus, concerns are growing on Wall Street that the powerful rally in tech has peaked. The NASDAQ 100 tumbled more than 4% on Friday, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 2.5%. 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 IRA. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It is 730. Here on Houston's morning news, I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Democrats, finding at least a few more votes in California enough so that Spencer Pratt is now running third. Violent protesting at a turning point summit in San Antonio and coming up at 738. The oil shortage. is getting closer. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive once again. Here is Skymont. Our West Loop 610 is Uptown. If you're going up to uptown, you got breaks from West Park and down to uptown. It's awfully slow from 290 down to Woodway. Lose about four minutes this way. East Freeway outbound at Sheldon Road. That's the wreck. We'll take two left lanes here, full fire response. No, Allison, we're not backed up from Deldale. We're packed from the beltway. That's outbound. Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic. Center. From our KTRH, generator super center 24-hour weather center morning clouds after a mix of sun and clouds, warm and humid with a high temperature of 88. Currently 81 at your official's severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. It's 731, our top story. It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California. It's happening right now in California. President Trump would meet the press. California, six days after the primary still hasn't made election results official. And now Democrat Nithya Raman has overtaken Spencer Pratt for second place in the L.A. mayor's race. And as the vote count continues to drag on. so do the questions. Roxanne Hogue is the chairman of the Los Angeles County Republican Party. What people really need to understand is it's the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules. And in this case, Republicans hold none of those. But the Democrats do, and so it's not a surprise to see big changes with the votes. As long as Democrats hold a supermajority in Sacramento and the governorship, things aren't going to change. Which is why some say it's time for the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KT.R. Steve Hilton, the Republican, does remain in position to head to the November general election for governor. Closer to home? Chaos at the Turning Point USA Women's Leadership Summit in San Antonio this weekend. More than 100 rioters tried to storm the event a week after a San Antonio man was arrested for threatening to assassinate Erika Kirk. Protests outside an ice facility in Newark, New Jersey continue.

Borders aren't Tom Homan says this is what the rioters really want. It's about the quality of detention. It's about detention. They don't want these people detained. Tom Homan on Fox. And when lawmakers passed a big, beautiful bill, a key part was a fund to pay states back for securing the border. Applications for the cash are now open. It's a federal responsibility to provide security on our international borders. The state, Texas, had to pick up the ball and step up to the plate. Congressman Michael McCall says the state is in line to receive $12 billion. It's coming up on 734. Israel and Iran trading missile attacks once again, the first time since the ceasefire in April. I hope that cooler heads prevail. I hope some steps forward in Iran that has the power to actually do a deal and stop this war. Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson on Fox. Iran now says it's stopping its missile attacks. Oil futures at $91 and 66 cents a barrel this morning. In Europe, Russian officials say Ukraine launched an unprecedented attack against St. Petersburg after the Kremlin rejected an offer for peace talks. 734, another violent weekend across the Houston area. At least three people were killed in three shootings. Another two people were injured. We also had a fatal stabbing to put on the scoreboard. You might not have known this, but Harris County's electronic monitoring program doesn't track defendants who become fugitives. Indycom with Crime Stopper says pre-trial services. needs to answer some tough questions. This is disturbing, not just to the public, but it's equally disturbing to law enforcement because they don't know who these defendants are that are now wanted fugitives. More than 10,000 defendants in 2024 were monitored by electronic devices. Figures for last year are not available. Police are still trying to find the two suspects and motive behind a shooting at a festival in Ohio this weekend. The funds suddenly turning to people of all ages running and scrambling for cover at the iconic Old West End Festival, and many were helping any of the 12 victims that they could. We know two of those shooting victims are fighting for their life in critical condition, and people who were there are shocked. Police are still searching for at least two suspects who they say were probably shooting at each other. Madison-Scarpino reporting. It's now 735. It's not just in rural Texas. Brazoria County officials are speaking out. against the construction of data centers. Currently, the county has one data center and neighbors complain of a constant humming noise. Missouri County Judge Matt Sebesta says the state decides where they go and state law does not allow zoning. The only thing we have control over are junkyards, landfills, and sexually oriented businesses. Sebesta isn't against data centers. They just want to help decide where they go. They could put these... facilities where there's not any really close neighbors. The judge is urging the public to get in front of their senators. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740, KTRH. Tesla is playing catch up in the Texas robotaxy market. The company has only 42 cars operating across the straight. Waymo? Nearly 600. Attorney Quentin Brogden says it's because of how Tesla's managed. Waymo seems to not be quite as...

stubborn, if you want to use the word stubborn, as Tesla has been in dealing with setbacks and adapting approaches. Analysts say years of real world testing has helped Waymo build this lead. Astros lose to the A's 5-ZIP. They visit the Angels tonight, pre-game at 730 on Sports Talk 790 and KTRH. And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Be informed. Be on time. Houston's morning news continues with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Well, it turns out back in 1975, that's what they thought. Turns out they weren't right about that. There's plenty of oil in the ground. The problem is right now getting the oil through the Strait of Hormuz because that situation has not been solved. Nor does it appear it be solved any time soon. So the question, next question I guess that comes, is what are the ramifications of that? Are we going to run into an oil shortage? I mean, Europe already has. It hasn't happened here yet, but are we getting closer to it happening in the United States where we legitimately have an oil shortage, where we don't have enough oil to refine to keep everything going the way we should? Mike Summer American Petroleum Institute has been a guest on our program before. Here he is on Fox over the weekend addressing that issue. We're at the point, Maria, where we should start getting concerned about shortages in the United States because of the fact that we are reaching a level of inventories that we have not seen in many, many years. We're draining the SPR at about 8 million barrels a week. Diesel inventories are at record lows. Since March, we've drained about 38 million. barrels of gasoline from our inventories. That's the equivalent of the full summer driving season. So we're starting to get concerned about where inventories are. Fortunately, American producers are stepping up. You're starting to see rig counts go up in response to this supply crisis. So at this point, we need to produce more. And fortunately, President Trump's policies have really pushed producers to produce more here in the United States. And we see evidence of that every single day. And because we're now producing more than 13.5 million barrels of oil a day, that has provided a buffer for American consumers during this time of crisis. but it can't last forever, which is why we're sounding the alarm on these inventories going to record lows. We need to be very concerned about that, particularly on the East Coast and the West Coast. On the West Coast, you're already seeing it. You see near $6 gasoline on the West Coast. Fortunately, President Trump put into place Jay Jones Act waivers so we can actually move product from the Gulf Coast. to the West Coast. The same is going to be true on the East Coast as well. We should be concerned about what prices we're going to see over the course of the next few weeks. We have to solve this problem in the strait of Hormuz. Fortunately, American production has been a buffer for American consumers. Although it sounds like the price is likely to go up, before it's likely to go down.

740. Time for traffic and weather together. We're checking out that drive. Once again, here's Skymike. We're squishing up now on 249. Southbound. That's roadwork at Luetta. This will be a good time for Lance from Magnolia to chime in. Looks like we're losing about six minutes on the southbound. This is a daily thing. While we're up here, let's check around the golf ball. 99. Grand Parkway, you big shots. Looks good both ways from the woodlands over to 249. Katie Freeway, still rumbling along now. Grand Parkway, you lose maybe about two minutes to the if that, and some scattered breaks on the West Park tollway. Southwest Freeway starting to squish up right at the West Park curve. Not bad for the Southwest. 146, we got to talk. Northbound. You got roadwork at Port. I've got reports of a wreck. And coming up from Seabrook, that's a big squish there. East Freeway, Sheldon, they're about to pick up the last of that wreck. That is on the west of eastbound, outbound side, and solid breakups from the back. And then Crosby Freeway. Crosby Freeway. I have a little construction skunch now inside the beltway. Lose about four minutes this way. I'm Skymike in the Ability Tree Experts, Traffic Center. From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center. Time to check in with Richard the Welling. Get an update on the forecast. Still plenty of clouds over our head right now, Richard, but those are going to thin out a little bit, aren't they? Yeah, they sure are. In fact, it looks like as we move on through the course of the morning, the sunshine will take over. And we've got a hot sticky day ahead here for southeast Texas, seeing a little bit of rain shower activities down in Wharton and Madagorda counties right now. We'll keep an eye on those showers. We're going to take the rain chance out here for Houston, though, for now. Clouds will give way to sunshine, warm, sticky 88 this afternoon. Marty cloudy, warm and muggy tonight down to 75. 91 tomorrow, sunshine, a hot day. on town for Tuesday and more of the same at midweek, a warm, humid day with pop-up storms in the forecast 91. Thursday and Friday we stay dry with temperatures in the mid-90s. Still 81 at your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740 KTRH. I always hit traffic on 59. Next on the 10. Your faster commute on 740KTRH. 7 to 50s are time here in Houston's morning news. So. Is the economy doing well enough that that is the main reason why you should vote Republican for the midterm elections? Saw Kelly Ann Conway talking about that. I'll share some of that audio with you coming up next. First, though, let's do a little traffic and weather together as we check in again with Sky Mike. Clear these freeway. The wreck at Sheldon Road is gone now, and the backups are going away pretty quickly to definitely stay the course. West Loop 610, southbound at I-10. I got a wreck supposed to be in the center lane. Let me see the backup. Yeah, I believe it. It's backed up to 290. 290's got backups connected like your kneebone from 34th going this way. And 610 North Squeeze Down Westbound. This time it's from Hardy, back over to North Maine. That's all westbound. I'm Skymike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, Generator Super Center, 24-hour weather center, some morning clouds, after a mix of sun and clouds. Warm and muggy today with a high temperature of 88. Sunny and hot 91 tomorrow, sunny hot, humid chance of a pop-up afternoon storm Wednesday with a hive 91.

Current temperature still 81 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740 KTRH. Get you caught up on some of our top stories on the Monday morning. Here's clear. Iran now says it will stop firing missiles at Israel. The Carmelo Anthony trial resumes today after the prosecution arrested on Saturday. And Tom Ball, congrats to them, winning its third state baseball title, a win over memorial in Round Rock on Saturday. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 8. 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. So, generally, how are you feeling about the economy? I think oil prices have people spooked a little bit right now. I think that inflation, especially places like the grocery store, still... as people a little concern, without a doubt. But there are other pieces of good news. The job report, 172,000 jobs added, you know, just blowing away all expectations. Kelly Ann Conway and Fox over the weekend saying if you take a real good look at the economy, it's kind of a no-brainer who should get voted for. Who you should be voting for, I guess they should say, come November. People should know everything they like about the lower tax, fewer regulation, energy independence, dominance, agenda. just stops with a screeching halt if the Democrats come back in charge. We already know that. Corporate America, Wall Street, they love certainty. They're going to get chaos. They like partnership. We're reshoring these jobs. Manufacturing, construction. Factories and facilities are humming. The depreciation numbers. They're 100% expensing for those new pieces of infrastructure that give us the visible reminders of the Trump's success and growth policies. All of that goes away. You get subpoenas. over partnership. And I want corporate America and producers and small business owners to understand that, Larry. Let's tell the other side of the story. Yes, this side of the ledger, 127 million Americans have taken that permanent double standard deduction. 35 million seniors have taken their special deduction. 40 million families took that double child tax credit. 29 million have claimed the no tax on overtime. 7.5 million no tax on tips. Larry, all of it stops.

if the Democrats are in charge. They have promised subpoenas, investigations, insults, indictments, they promised it all impeachments. This is what they're about. So if you like anything about this economy, maybe this price here or that price there is rankling you, but if you like the fact that you have more freedom, more choice, more growth as an economic, as a job holder, frankly, Larry, as an investor, we have more investors than ever, if you like the fact we're energy. dominant. We don't need to rely upon foreign dictators for our fuel supply. You need to stick with the Republicans. The face of the Democrats is Graham Platner's tattoo. It simply is. This is who they are now. They won't dump this misogynist pig who's walking around with a Nazi tattoo. They're all held to account there. They're about power. We're about policy. There you go. That's a pretty good argument. But is that enough? Is that enough of an argument in order to be able to make that the whole thing work? And as far as... I think to bring up the, you know, Graham Platner is probably a pretty smart thing to do. They're still talking about it on Fox News over the weekend, how so many Democrats continue to support him, including James Carville, by the way. Not that any of us are following the edicts of James Carville by the stretch the imagination. Bill Maher did come out against him. So there are a few people who are making some noises, but the question is, is that enough to make a difference? If he ends up getting elected in November, that would be something else. Maybe they need to keep him running on the Democrat side just so that you have at least a somewhat moderate. Republican choice in Susan Collins, although again, she's not really a Republican, she's a rhino, and she votes with that block fairly frequently. So there's no perfect answer in Maine, let's face it. All right, listen, appreciate you listening. You all have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning, bright early 5 a.m. Hope to see you this afternoon at 4 on AM 950, KPRC.