Lina Gets Kicked Out of the Rodeo

Aaron is happy. is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio Station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. Good morning 5 a.m. as we get started this morning here on Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Lena gets kicked out of the rodeo. Trump may use the Strategic Oil Reserve. And coming up at 508. Are you frustrated by all the waiting for trains? Details in the minutes ahead. First, how is Creed, Lena? Let's check out that morning drive with Skymike. All right, let's hit I-10. Let's do some visoring first this morning. We've got Katie Freeway so far. I'm just got this nice little peak at Posto. That's where we go down to Uptown. You get those ramps to go to the Galleria. And right at 610, Katie Freeway is good to go. Katie Mills, 25 easy minutes in West Park, tollway. Big shots. Grand Parkway to the Southwest Freeway's nothing. Rest of your freeway, Rock right back in 10 in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Robar KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center, lots of sunshine, much cooler today. High only about 67. Our overnight lows have been more than that lately. I will get the latest on the forecast. Terry Smith, that the Weather Channel will talk to her in nine minutes. Right now it is 53 and your official's severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. It is 501 on KTRH. Our top story, more drama without going Harris County judge, Lina Hidalgo. The only person here that's got accelerated energy right now and pointing fingers at people and acting disrespect for his year. Yeah, that is audio that Hidalgo posted to her own Facebook page doesn't make her look good. She claims she was, quote, manhandled while trying to get onto the dirt floor at the rodeo Tuesday night. You heard they manhandled me, so are you saying that's okay? I didn't, I don't have any proof of that. Oh, I'm going to get you some proof. Yeah, but rodeo officials say that what Hidalgo says happened didn't. What they did say is that. She and her guests didn't have the required $425 shoot seat tickets or told to return to their suite. They also say her group had already gotten about $9,000 worth of floor access tickets on previous nights. We have Hidalgo's videos on KTRH.com and our Facebook page. Elsewhere, jury selection is complete in the money laundering trial.

of Fort Bend County judge, K.P. George. Testimony begins this morning. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years behind bars. It's coming up on 503. The midterms are coming. They want to raise your taxes higher than you've ever had before. We have to win. President Trump in Kentucky, taking his economic message to the people as gasoline prices across Houston check in at 310 a gallon this morning. This is all connected to Iran, but... We don't get oil from that part of the world. So how come gas prices are spiking? The short answer is oil is a global commodity, so shortages anywhere affect everyone. The straight-of-form moves, moves 20 to 25% of the daily supply of oil. That gets shut down. That has ramifications far away. Market analyst Phil Flynn says many countries that normally get oil from the Middle East now need different options. When you create a void, it gets filled somewhere else. For example, the prices are higher in Europe, so that's going to attract barrels from the United States. Flynn says the good news is this could mean more investment. in our production and refining here in the United States. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. All futures at $91.20 this morning. That was after it hit $100 again overnight. The administration releasing 172 million barrels of oil, saying it's temporary. They'll go over about four months, but this conflict, I don't think, goes that long. I think we will have the Straits of Hormuz open well before then. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Han Fox. Operation Epic Fury in Day 13 with the U.K. saying another cargo ship, this one 40 miles off Dubai, was hit by a, quote, unknown projectile, one of several ships attacked in the last two days. The FBI here at home reportedly is warning that Iran could retaliate by trying to launch drones at California. The threat of terrorist attack is higher now than it has been in decades. Texas Senator Ted Cruz with KTRH is Sean Hannity. The left, though, continues to trash Trump over Iran, but Fox's Liz Peek says Iran could be the achievement that ensures Trump's legacy. I think this is an extraordinary president, and yes, he has many flaws, but I got to tell you, considering what has been thrown at him over the last 10 years, 15 years, really, and what he's managed to accomplish, I think is nothing sort of absolutely staggering. Right up there with Ronald Reagan, but there is concern over what happens after all of this is over. In past cases of regime change, America has a history of letting in refugees, and it can't happen again. We've taken in hundreds of thousands of people from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, and we've seen the effect that they've had on the places that we've settled them in. Hayden Daniel of the Federalists says Americans did not vote to bring in more refugees, and the quicker this wraps up, the better chance we take none. But if it drags on, the probability that we start bringing over people increases quite a bit. He says if it turns into it.

Whether it's a train or there's traffic backed up all the way back there, like it's scary. It's dangerous. Here's what the danger comes in. Neighbors say they're not just dealing with stalled trains. Sometimes they're crossing arms malfunction and stay down even when there's no train. In this video, shared with our community news partner Grizzies Hood News, a man gets out and lifts the arms so drivers can get through. I felt like many did. I'm like, oh, not all heroes wear capes. But then I also thought, on the other hand, his safety. This part of Cyprus is growing rapidly. Development continues around the Bridgeland community, and this area will soon be home to the Texans Toro District. We love the businesses. We love the homes and we love the people, but our infrastructure is not set up for us. We reached out to Union Pacific asking whether stalled trains could be scheduled or shifted to overnight hours. The company didn't address that question directly, but said there are several reasons trains can end up blocking crossings, including weather damage. signal malfunctions, speed restrictions, or mechanical issues. We support the railroad. We know that that's bringing our supplies back and forth, okay? We're okay with that, but there's got to be another solution if someone actually wants to look at the problem. Commissioner Tom Ramsey represents this area. His office tells me there's really not much they can do directly about the train tracks here, but they did share that there are plans for a $70 million partnership to build an underpass on greenhouse House Road to address the traffic and the train delays. Same old story. The infrastructure is not keeping up. It's hard to, listen, I hate being stopped by trains. I get, I get so bored being stopped by trains. I sit there, you know what they do to while away at the time? I count the cars on the train that don't have graffiti. You can usually count it on one hand, no matter how long the train is. So here's my question today. You go to the iHeart radio app, KTRH, first name where you're calling from, what would be your solution to fix train problems, you know, intersections, busy intersections, which are constantly blocked by trains? What would be your solution? You go to the iHeart radio app, KTRH, first name where you're calling from, hit that talkback button. Time for a little traffic and weather together. As we check out the drive again, it's Skymike. All right. I wonder if they still have the trains in Dayton slowing everybody else. They're all over the place. And what I want to know is who is making that graffiti? That's a whole different topic right there, but I won't do that to you, Jimmy. All right, let's hit this. Terry, did you get the home game? I did. Is it like 165? Look at that. Look at the Galveston Causeway. There's no fog. No, there's no fog, but look, it's shaken. The camera is actually getting shaken by the wind. We're crazy this morning. We'll get to that. That must be why there's no cars. Yeah, there's nobody on them. They got blown up. We're looking from Galveston now all the way downtown. Looks good so far. Once you get to Lamarck, we're looking at easy. 32 minutes up in. If you take 288, we're in good shape here from Lake Jackson up. If you're going down to Clute, no problem there if you're working at Dow. And let's check the north side quickly. 45 north. freeway so far no problem here 22 minutes from the woodlands down rocking long i'm sky mike it's your ability tree experts traffic center from our kTRH top tax defenders 24 hour weather senator is here the weather turned out to be pretty pretty much just fine yesterday we've got some storms uh we had some tornado watches we didn't have any tornadoes so so everything went just fine and now the cooler weather is here

Yeah, isn't that nice, too? I mean, spring doesn't last very long, so let's enjoy it while we can. Yeah, that cold front's made its way into Georgia and Florida, and they're seeing some stronger storms and some isolated tornadoes. So we got lucky, and I'm glad for it. We got the rain, and I'm glad for that as well. And now, drier air, less humidity and some cooler temperatures today. It's been a while since we've had high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60s, but that's what they'll be today. It gets warmer tomorrow, low to mid-s, 70s and then Saturday temperatures anywhere from the mid 70s to low 80s still sunny and dry Sunday and Monday now we may get some rains Sunday night early Monday but that next cold front the one that brings us the rain Sunday night is going to bring another dose of some kind of chilly weather by Monday temperature right now by the way 52 here at your official severe weather station news radio 740 KTRH I live in Pasadena. Sharptown, Southwest. Next on the 10. Time-saving traffic on 740 KTRH. All right, so if this happened Tuesday night at the rodeo, Megan Maroni concert, Lina Hidalgo, who evidently had a suite access to a suite or had a suite at the rodeo for like five nights in a row. I mean, she's there like every steak of night, bringing an entourage with her. evidently she got into it with security when she took a group of people from the suite down to the dirt area, whatever the dirt area is. I guess that's an area that's down floor level where you can kind of hang out there and be closer to the artists who are performing. And she wanted to take some people down there. And security, you know, she didn't have the right ticket in order to be down there. And so they got into this big brouhaha. I'm going to share some audio with you coming up next. Stick around. It's fun. First though, we've got traffic and weathered together. as we check in this sky mic. All right, dude, let's do North Freeway. First of all, I'm getting some rumblings of something on the North Freeway around Greens Road. Watch out inbound. I don't see a big backup just yet, but I'm looking at the digital. Remember, that's always about 30 seconds later, which is another reason why AM radio is so helpful, because I have you out there when something becomes a real lane closure. We'll know about it. For now, I'm showing 23 minutes from the woodlands down. Hardy Toll Road looks great, too. We're going to hit... let's hit your ship channel bridges at the bottom of the hour sky mic and the ability tree experts traffic center from our kTRH top tax defenders 24 hour weather center sunny much cooler 67 for today sunny about 75 tomorrow right around 80 with sunshine on saturday and then becoming partly sunny 85 for the high on sunday then another cold front comes through the beginning of next week current temperature is 52 at your official severe weather station news radio 740 kTRH Cliff is here on this Thursday morning. He's going to update some of our top stories. Houston Mayor John Whitmire defends HPD working with ICE. And accountant for Jeffrey Epstein tells the House Oversight Committee he's unaware of any financial connection between Epstein and President Trump. And a podcast called The Bigfoot Society. Claims it's gotten reports of six sightings between March 6 and 10th near the city of Cleveland, Ohio. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 5.30. Pasadena. A living clearly. Reliable. KTRH. Traffic and weather. Next on the 10. So, um, Lina Haldago is there for Megan Maroney. I have no. I am not, I'm not the hippest person on the planet. I'm the first to admit this. I'm not a Megan Maroni fan. I barely know who she is. I know she likes pink. And I think she likes, um,

I think she likes coming in in a pink bronco or something. I don't know. Anyway, she was there at the rodeo last night, or Tuesday night, rather, and Lina Hidalgo was there with her entourage, went to an area she shouldn't have been in, security tried to talk to her irrationally about it, and, you know, having a rational conversation with Lina Hidalgo, not the easiest thing to do. So after things stopped being rational, Lena started mixing it up with security. I'm missing the show with my wife to deal with this. So let me be real clear. You didn't have a ticket tonight. But I got a message today from some security person that said, you're coming the next five nights without the five days. Well, no, I'm not coming anymore. Are you going to let me finish now? Can I finish or not? You heard they manhandled me. So are you saying that's okay? I didn't, I don't have any proof of that. Oh, I'm going to get you some proof. Let me ask somebody people what they saw. No, no, no, no, no. Why are you, are you going to? crap me again? I'm not, I'm asking them what they saw. Are you going to grab? Look at this. Look, look at this. He just said I could go, I could go look at the proof. This is your, you're not letting me get proof of the fact that they pushed me. We are going to call this now. You're going to leave. He wants proof that you'll push me. And I'll let him push me. Yes, you did. And so if you want, you're not letting me go get the proof. Are you letting me. Can you pause and let me say something? Yes or no. Can you pause and let me say something? Yeah. The only person here that's got accelerated energy right now and pointing fingers at people and acting disrespectful is here. That's fine. The only one. Okay. So everyone else is being mature about. push me and grab me. I said, do you have any, I said, let me go that way. You said, let me go that way. But then why are you guys blocking my way to the people that saw? Because you don't have a right is not pushing. If you're blocking evidence, you're blocking evidence. There's no evidence. There's people. There's people tonight. Again, I don't want to see the show. I'm happy to not see it. You're blocking me. You're being recorded. You're blocking me from people. You are blocking me from people who saw what happened. You're not letting me see them. You're not letting me see the people. That's all what happened. Oh, we've heard this routine a million times with her, haven't we? And this is, I mean, this is a textbook example. How to get kicked out of the rodeo. How to get kicked out of a rodeo concert? Fighting with Security. Do you have a ticket that $425? I know you're in a suite, but do you have the $425 ticket to be down here? No, you don't? Okay, then you're not supposed to be down here. But don't you know who I am? Yeah, the don't you know who I am card, no doubt got delayed. 526. Time to take a look at your money.

Good morning. The International Energy Agency agreed to its largest ever release of emergency oil reserves. Despite the move, West Texas Intermediate gained more than 4.5% to settle above $87 a barrel yesterday. A full $20 more than before the war. And this morning, crude continues to see gains. That's putting pressure on stocks. Futures are heading for a lower open. Yesterday, the S&P 500 fell slightly down six points. I'm Courtney Dunahoe. Bloomberg Business on News Radio. Radio 740, KTRH. Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740 KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRF. 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 half hour. Bottom line, the city of Houston will still continue to cooperate with ICE. I hear his county murder suspect who's still out on bond after seven violations. And coming up at 538 are the Iranians planning to attack California. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive once again. Here's Sky Mike. All right, rumblings of a North Freeway wreck at Greens Road. It's Mark from spring. Guy Mike, anything happened on 45, I never saw it. All right, excellent. That's inbound. Jeffrey and the Walgreens truck. Sky Mike just past Greens Road should be clear enough. Boom. Toad truck managers picking up the last vehicle should be gone and just a short choice. Oh, Jeffrey, what a way with words. You both get banana stickers. We're in the Ability Tree Expert. traffic center. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, lots of sunshine much cooler today with high only 67. We'll bring on Terry Smith with an update on the forecast in about nine minutes. Currently, 52 at 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 on KTRH. Our top story. When they encounter someone while they're doing their job, the law requires them to check. The background, NCIC. And if there's a warrant from any other jurisdiction, they're required to contact them. Houston Mayor John Whitmire defending HPD with ICE, says HPD announces a new policy to give ICE 30 minutes to respond to any warrants. Once police have contacted them. This comes as other Democrat-led cities in this state bash ice. For instance, in Bear County, a resolution opposing a new ice processing center has passed. The only no vote was a Republican Grant Moody who called it a stunt. Be honest with folks. The county really doesn't have much say at all in this.

He warned that opposition to ICE may hurt that county's ability to negotiate with the federal government when it comes to military investments. The state has made moves to rein in soft-on-crime judges, but another bad guy in Harris County has continued to run wild while on bond. Cadarius Woodward, charged with a murder in 2023, is still free despite seven bond violations. What I'd like to do, and I'm certainly will be seeking that, is get some data showing how many bond violation reports have been filed within the last four or five years and see if there's some sort of pattern. Andy Kahn with Houston crime stoppers believes the lack of action in Woodward's case could inspire other suspects to ignore bond conditions as well. A Texas inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son has been put to death. Cedric. Ricks apologized before last night's sentence was carried out. He's the second inmate to be executed in Texas this year. It's now 533. Their proposals. are not about reform. Their proposals are making it impossible for ICE to do their jobs, and we're not doing that. Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt there. The stalemate and shutdown for DHS continues. Now in day 26, Democrats continuing to refuse to fund the department. Now, even though the mainstream media is trying, it's getting harder for them to cover up the Dems on this. Like when conservative Scott Jennings went off on CNN. Does anyone here believe that we should keep the Department of Homeland Security indefinitely shut down? When we all see radical Islamic terrorists throwing IEDs in New York City, when we saw a radical Muslim terrorist shoot up a bar in Austin. Fox News's Joe Concha tells KTRAH, they're getting killed for it as they should, and it's why CNN is as trusted as gas station sushi at this point. And getting exposed all over social media. Jeff Andy Biggs, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's now 534, the mainstream media with even more egg on its face. CNN's Abby Phillip forced to apologize for her reporting on last weekend's terror attack in New York City. I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Zohran Mamdani. They were not. No, they were directed at protesters against Zohran Mamdani. Philip also forced to apologize. on social media. President Trump back in Washington after stops in Ohio and Kentucky promising to continue Operation Epic Fury until all of our goals are accomplished. Most people say it's already been one. It's just a question of when. When do we stop? We don't want to let it regrow. And ideally, we'd like to see somebody in there that knows what they're doing. In other words, they can build a country. We'll have more on the situation in the Middle East at 6 o'clock. Oil futures are trading at $91.45 a barrel this morning. And not only has the U.S. announced a release from its strategic reserve to keep prices in check.

The International Energy Agency says it will release 400 million barrels from its stocks. Drill Baby Drill is now refined, baby refine. The president announced into construction of the first new American oil refinery in nearly half a century. It'll be right here in Texas. Petroleum analyst Carr Ingham says this marks a new era for the oil and gas sector. I'm excited about the prospect that we can now consider these kinds of projects in America, and where better to start than the great oil producing state of Texas and the great crude oil refining and processing state of Texas. The America First Refinery in Brownsville will process up to 60 million barrels a year of crude. Construction begins later this year. Another move that would help the state economy. Exxon Mobil plans to legally redomisile. From New Jersey to the Lone Star State. ExxonMobil executives announced they're moving the company's legal domicile to Texas, moving closer to their headquarters based in the Lone Star State. Energy expert David Holt says more businesses are leaving New York, New Jersey, and California. States that have high taxes, lots of kind of draconian labyrinth of regulations. Holt says New Jersey should rethink the way they're doing business. Great for Texas jobs. Great for Texas's economy. He says Texas is reaping the benefit of mistakes made by... these states. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740, KTRH. Spring trading, the Astros beat the Marlins 4 to 1. 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 us listen to you all the time. News Radio 740 KTRH. Is California? In danger of being attacked by Iran, evidently the FBI thinks it's a possibility. The FBI issued an urgent warning to police departments across California for a potential Iranian drone strike on the Golden State. Iran looking at deploying unnamed aircraft at the region in a revenge for what the United States is doing in Iran. The Bureau said agents had intelligence that drones could be sent from an unidentified vessel off the American coastline. Well, you would think it'd be fairly easy for us to find an unidentified ship off the coast, one capable of launching drones. Why would they strike California? Well, California has the highest concentration of Iranian descendants in the United States, up to 500,000. But it's not clear if that's why the state would be a target. You would think they would want to leave alone a state where the politicians have a tendency to support them. But maybe that's just the easiest target. President Trump, by the way, speaking at a press conference last night.

asked about that and about sleeper cells. Here's what the president had to say. What did he heard about this bulletin that some law enforcement about a possible Iran revenge plot in California where there would be some kind of a boat offshore launching drones towards the... It's being investigated, but you have a lot of things happening. do is take them as they come. The war itself is being prosecuted as well as anybody has ever seen. And this is other countries telling me too. Big countries, powerful countries. They said they've never seen anything like it. And they also agree with what I'm doing. They say it's an evil country. And it's been for 47 years that way. And if they try to hit us back, have you been briefed about how many Iran's sleeper cells, there could be inside the U.S. right now. I have been, and a lot of people came in through Biden with this stupid open border. But we know where most of them are. We've got our eye on all of them, I think. They came in through the open border policies of Sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst, the worst president in the history of our country. And we've got to rise on all of them. But the war itself is being... prosecuted at a level that nobody's seen before. It's pretty amazing to watch. That's President Trump last night. 540. Time for traffic and weather together? Checking out the drive again, Sky Mike. Let's do some Katie Freeway now. As you're coming in from Houston Avenue, the Hit Me Bridge, we look good so far. They had some orange barrels over to the side. What were they doing last night? Well, that's out of the way. We look to 25 minutes from Penn Oak Road in. The other side of, let's go to the West Park doorway. Rock along nicely. It's worth your fee. 610 north. We're not squeezed down at 45 just yet. 290. It's Mike from Magnolia. Mike, 290s. Where's the sky? And the wind's at my back. I go for my personal best and mark me safe from a Lina Hidalgo meltdown. We look good. Grand Marchers in good shape. Jimmy was talking about trains earlier, and I was wondering if we still had that problem in Dayton, Texas. Ed, Mottenbrew. To answer your question about the train in Dayton, yes, it's still problematic. Trains in Dayton are... Always an issue in the intersection at 146 and 90. Oh, Lord, yes. Frontry at its finest. Very well said. Long haul, Paul's talking to us on the free IHeart Radio app. I live out at soccer. And I think that train traffic should be included on Sky Mike's traffic. All the conductors listen and call in, choo-choo. You know, I usually do if something happens. But, you know, a lot of times when trains happen, when train stuff happens, it's nothing good going on there. Sky Mike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. The thing about the trains, usually if you ask them, they'll tell you, hey, we've been here since the 1800s. You all just started building out here. You knew we were here when you started building out here. So, hey.

Anyway, from our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, Terry is here. If you get stuck by train today, at least you'll have a pretty sunrise to look at. Oh, yeah, you will. Just hang on tight to the steering wheel. It is windy out there. I'm seeing gust 20, 30 miles an hour this morning. The winds will probably ease up a little bit as we go through the day today. Nice stretch of weather, folks. Cooler and drier air today. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Overnight, most of us will be in the 40s. But we get warmer tomorrow through the weekend. Low to mid-70s tomorrow. Then mid-70s to low-80s Saturday and low to mid-80s Sunday. Cold front sneaks through Sunday night and drops the temperatures Monday. We'll see highs anywhere from the mid-50s to the mid-60s Monday. Wow. Up and down. Right now, 51, your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in the woodlands. Your best ways around Houston. Next on the 10. On 740, KTRH. Hey, question of the day, you go to the iHeart radio, I'm KTRH, hit the microphone button, get up to 20 seconds, first name where you're calling from. And our question has to do with trains. We have a lot of trains. in and out of Houston, all over the Houston metro area, especially in areas that used to be very rural, that aren't anymore, they're being built up, and the trains are blocking traffic, and people are getting frustrated, and the trains are going, hey, we've been here for a long time. You know, maybe you should have built an overpass or something if you didn't want to deal with the train tracks. So is the problem and a government problem where we're not putting in the proper infrastructure to deal with trains? Is the problem the trains themselves who don't seem to care how many cars they have or whether or not they're blocking traffic because they've been here for so long? You go to the I-Heart radio app. And tell us what you think. First, though, let's do a little traffic and weather together. We're talking about oil next to why oil prices are so high. South Loop 610. Let's do that accident. That was at South Post Oak. It's clear. Stayed the course. 290. I got Chris from Cyprus. Skymikes on the ramp, Beltway 8 north. There's a truck broke down where everything merges. So somebody needs to get there. All right. Can we get a Ninja, please? 713212 T-IPS. And Chris, that's a banana sticker for your briefcase. Let's check. the north side at the top of the hour in the ability tree experts traffic center from our kTRH generator super center 24 hour weather center for today we're looking at plenty of sunshine much cooler high temperature today 67 sunny and 75 for tomorrow current temperature is 51 at your official severe weather station news radio 740 kTRH It's a Thursday morning. Let's check in with Cliff and get an update on some of our top stories. Rodeo officials deny claims made by Lina Hidalgo that the Harris County judge was, quote, manhandled this week at the show. A British man living here in Harris County is accused of voting illegally in the 2024 election. And Team USA manages to make it to the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals only because Italy beat Mexico yesterday. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is that?

Six o'clock. 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. It's only been a week. Hasn't been that long. We've been paying these higher gas prices. I mean, it's amazing how quickly we react to this stuff. Even the president now is talking about releasing some of the strategic oil reserve to try to bring the price down. And the prices aren't really much more than what they were doing much of the Biden years. But here we go. All right, Phil Flynn joins us. Market analyst Price Futures Group. Isn't it amazing how quickly we've lost our patience when it comes to oil prices? It really is, Jimmy. I'll tell you that. I guess we have short memories. And listen, you're right. I mean, if you compare it to the Biden administration, listen, right now we're facing what arguably could be the biggest single supply disruption in world history. And we're complaining that the national average for gasoline prices are 359.8 a gallon. And I think in Texas, it's even cheaper around... $3.26 a gallon. But during the Biden administration, you know, we saw prices get as high as $5 a gallon, $5.2 at the peak during the Russian-Ukraine war. And the difference is energy policy. The reason why, you know, we have a worse situation, arguably, when it comes to a supply disruption and a lower price spike, is because we are producing more oil. And that is the key. Plus, we're going to oil from Venezuela, which is really... softening the blow for drivers, even as they feel the pain this week. It could have been a lot worse. Well, you know, we have a way of looking at these things pretty simplistically, and I think probably people are looking at this going, wait a minute, it's Iran. We don't get our oil from Iran. What does that have to do with the price of gasoline and the price of oil for the United States? And I don't think they bothered to think, okay, well, we're talking about the Strait of Hormuz. We're talking about the United Arab Emirates. We're talking about the Saudis. They all use the strait in order to. traverse the ocean to get the oil to where it has to go. That impacts the entire world's supply. It really does. You know, it's a global market. You know, I always, you know, explain it to people. It's like the highways in the Chicago area. You know, you get a big accident on one expressway. It clogs up three or four other expressways, right, because of the backup. And that's what happens in the global market. It drives up prices. And believe it or not, even though we are basically self-sufficient with oil, the types of oils that we use, you know, we trade, we export a lot of oil. And so right now the world is demanding more oil from the United States, and that's going to raise prices as well. But at the end of the day, what we're finding out is that having strong hemispheric energy policy is buffering from the price spike that we might have seen had we not gone along those more energy-friendly policies. You know, I'm glad you mentioned refineries because we are finally building a new refineries. It's going to be in Brownsville.

and it's going to be the first new refinery in 50 years. This one is going to be designed to process sweet crude, which is what we have here in Texas, which means we won't just be taking the oil out of the ground. Here in Texas, we'll be refining it here in Texas. How does that potentially change the game? It changes the game. And it's actually, I'm a little jealous because just privately, I've been working on that type of project for years. And because of regulatory problems and funding problems, we couldn't get it done. But this is a need. We are producing more light oil, and our refiners aren't set up to refine that type of oil. They're refined for heavier oil. And so they have to mix the oil that we produce here. This refinery is going to take advantage. of the bounty of oil that we have, refine it more efficiently, and that's going to provide more supplies of gasoline and other products to the United States market, which is going to lead to lower prices over the long run. So this is a great thing, and I think it's one of many refineries that might be built in the future. And that's an amazing accomplishment because, you know, the previous administration thought, hey, we're done with fossil fuels, we're going to get rid of that. Don't bet on that, bet on more refineries being built. All right, Phil Flynn. Always good to talk to you, sir. Thank you. Market analyst, Price Futures Group, that is Phil Flynn. It is 557.

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. our time here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Trump may end up using the strategic oil reserve to try to decrease the price of a barrel of oil. Lena kicked out of the rodeo, but not without a fight. And coming up at 608, the ultimate in testicular fortitude. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking in with Sky Mike. It's on the north side here. We're checking out your North Freeway. Got a stall at 1960. Watch out. They're just pointing things. That's on the southbound. 288. 288. Highway 6. Exit ramp is closed. Major accident involving an 18-wheeler. Looks like they're trying to upright. Great job, Alex. That's southbound. And 290. The main lanes are good. But we've got a stall on the ramp to the beltway. Mike from Magnol. Oh, yeah. Mark me safe from a Lina Hidalgo meltdown. I'm Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Oh, keep your distance, though. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center, sunny, much cooler with a height today right about 67. Terry Smith joins us with an update on the forecast. It's going to warm back up again after this little cool down. Until next week. We'll talk to her about all that in about nine minutes. Right now, it is 51 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Sponsored by Allied siding and windows, and we will get to Lina Hidalgo and her rodeo meltdown in a moment. But let's start with rising oil prices as the Trump administration is releasing 172 million barrels of oil from the strategic reserves. which will substantially reduce the oil prices as we end this threat to America and this threat to the world. That was President Trump in Kentucky, the left ripping Trump for this. But Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton says they ignore history. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was literally built because of conflict in the Middle East. After the Arab oil embargo in 1973, we decided as a nation to create that reserve, in part because we were so dependent upon Middle Eastern oil. Oil prices this morning at $91.4 a barrel after touching $100 again late last night. By the way, the national average for gas? That's at 359 this morning, 310 a gallon across Houston. And you might be wondering why gasoline prices are spiking if we don't get our oil from Iran. Well, it's because our oil is now in higher demand. The smart producers hopefully locked in that price spike, so they'll be allowed to continue to produce a lot of oil. So it could turn out that once this regime is gone, we'll get a piece dividend at the pump.

Market analyst Phil Flynn. 603, Operation Epic Fury continues with Iran firing missiles at pretty much everybody these days. And the UN Security Council adopted a Bahrain-led resolution to condemn Iran strikes. They are standing together. There's no disagreement amongst them. And they are publicly on the world stage condemning Iran and calling them out. UN Ambassador Mike Waltz. Elsewhere, the UK says another cargo ship. This one near Dubai was hit by an unknown projectop. As our military continues to dominate the theater, many are starting to use the L word for President Trump. L as in legacy. Well, I think so. I mean, he's the most consequential president in decades. That is Fox News columnist Liz Peek, who says this will put Trump in elite company. Ronald Reagan brought down the Berlin wall. If President Trump can craft a real and lasting peace in the Middle East, that is equally consequential. And even the left won't be able to deny it. Jeff Andy Biggs, News Radio 740, KTRA. No matter how this ends, the U.S. needs safeguards to ensure no Iranian refugees flood into the country. Hayden Daniel with the federalists as we've seen the damage refugees have done with fraud in particular, and Americans are fed up. They didn't vote to bring in hundreds of thousands of people from third world countries that were ostensibly at war with or in conflict with. But it happens anyway. It happens without their consent. Even if they support the war that's going on, they don't support bringing over swaths of the people we're supposed to be fighting. The sooner this wraps up, he says the less likely we are to take refugees. 604 radio officials disputing claims made by the outgoing county judge, Lina Hidalgo, that she was, and this is her word, manhandled, while trying to get onto the dirt floor Tuesday night. She didn't have tickets to get there, by the way. This is what she posted to her Facebook page last night. He wants proof that you'll push me. And I would appreciate you. Yes, you did. And so if you want, you're not letting me go get the proof. Are you letting me walk together? Yes or no. Yes or no. We've got that audio on our Facebook page and on KTRH.com. Now, rodeo officials say Hidalgo and her guests didn't have the required $425 shoot seat tickets and were simply told to go back to their suite. Oh, by the way, they also say Hidalgo's group. Got about $9,000 worth of floor access on previous nights of the rodeo. And then there's the outgoing Fort Bend County judge, K.P. George. His trial continues today. After jury selection and his money laundering case wrapped up yesterday, if convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison. It's now 606. The DHS shutdown in day 26. More than half of the scheduled workers called in sick this week at Hobby.

That is why you got your three-hour wait times on Sunday and Monday. Could this happen in other major cities? New York City lawmakers have proposed a $30 an hour minimum wage, almost double in what it currently is. Economist Ted Jay Jones says we have already seen the failed policies in California and Seattle. You know, put a lot of pressure on mom and pops just to stay in business. And we will see some of those go out of business as these increases go into place. Starbucks is opening a corporate office in Nashville, Tennessee because of that red state's more friendly business environment. New car prices in the U.S. continue to climb American brands. Turn out to be a big reason why. They're really heavy into SUVs and trucks. Typically, Ford GM, Stalantis. They're concentrating on larger vehicles, and there's more margin than those so they can make more money on them. KTRH Car Pro Jerry Reynolds says that's why most of the brands averaging under $40,000 are foreign companies like Mazda, Subaru, Hyundai, Honda, and Nissan. The Rockets beat Denver 129 to 93. They'll play New Orleans tomorrow. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. The preset that sets the record straight. It's just made my whole day more efficient. On News Radio 740, KTRH. 607, it's our time here on Houston's morning news. I titled this Testicular Fortitude. By the way, this might send a little shiver up your spine, guys, as I do the story. So I just want to kind of warn you about that. A 50-year-old kickboxer by the name of John Stevenson has become the first person in the United Kingdom, or maybe anywhere in the world, to pull a 4,000-pound car with his testicles. Oh. He even had fun with it, snacking on a bag of nuts while completing the challenge. Afterward, he joked, when I'd finished, my plums were bright purple, and I'm still firing on all cylinders. So here's the first question. How? How did he do it? That part is not 100% clear. He had a tow rope attached to a silk scarf that was tied around his... And he pulled the car more than 160 feet. So we're not quite sure how he did it. But the other question, of course, is why? Why would you pull a 4,000 pound car with your testicles? John is using any publicity he can get, and he certainly has gotten in with this, to help raise awareness for men's mental health issues. Hang on. He did something crazy to highlight people who are crazy. Well, mission accomplished. You'd have to be crazy to pull a stunt like that.

He says, don't be afraid to pick up the phone and ask for help if you think you need it. I'm not sure which he needed more after doing that mental health or maybe a trip to the hospital for something else. A lot of men don't ask for help and they feel they've got an ego to maintain, but men who talk can heal. All right, sir, message received. Loud and clear. 6.10. Time for traffic and weather together. We're so sorry, Mrs. Terry, but we had to talk about our naughty body parts. Okay, you can open your ears in a minute. Normal people do not do things like this, Skymire. Good grief. Terry, you can uncover your ears in just a minute. You keep doploring. I'm hitting the South Loop here. I know. We're working on it. South Loop, we're trying to clean up your show here. This is a wreck that just cleared at South Post Oak. It's gone. You can't even tell it was there. Stay the course here. Look at the North Loop. It's nice and clean at 45 to squeeze. Just a few breaks right here, but we're not bumping into each other. Dude, Alex from Darkington, a banana sticker on your toolbox here. He found that 18-wheeler southbound 288. Res to the media does know about it. It was an overturned 18-wheeler. Hasmats there, Highway 6. Really, all this is messing up is the ramp southbound. It's hitting the main lanes just a little bit. Stay the course. Northbound, you actually look pretty decent. It's a little thick around the beltway. And trains have been the problem. Tim from Cyprus. Hey, Scott, Mike. Here on 90, they are building a bridge for 90 to go over the railroad tracks. Thank God. Construction hasn't really been bad delays, so real happy with that. Thank you, sir. Oh, fantastic. Thank you, Tim. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, Top Tax Defenders, 24-hour Weather Center. Terry Smith is here. Mother Nature giving us a little smack in the face. Hey, just wanted to run. It's still March. That's right. By the way, it's still March. Hey, and if you think this is actually kind of like a nice change of pace because it has been a little warm and muggy here recently. We got plenty of that coming up. We'll have our fair share soon enough, so we're going to enjoy less eat and less humidity today and lots of sunshine, too. In fact, we stay sunny and dry through Sunday. Temperatures today, mid-upper 60s. And most of us will see lows in the 40s tonight, so a comfortable night for most folks. And it's starting to warm up tomorrow. Low to mid-70s tomorrow. mid-70s to low-80s, Saturday, Sunday in the low-to-mid-80s, and then another front sneaks in Sunday night. We may get some rain Sunday night. It's out of here by Monday, and so is the warmer weather, because Monday's temperatures range from the mid-50s to mid-60s. Those are highs. Okay, again, it's still March. Yep. Temperature right now, 50. At your official severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH.

I live in Clear Lake. Humble. Reliable. KTRH, traffic and weather. Next on the 10. So there's been a couple stories about CNN this week. One of them we were talking about yesterday, where they have had to backtrack on a posting they did, kind of characterizing the New York City bombers, those two ISIS-inspired bombers, had just been a couple of guys from Pennsylvania going to the big city to have a good time, and look what happened to them and an anti-Muslim protest. But it's not all like that anymore in CNN, I guess. Scott Jennings is kind of a lone conservative voice in the wind over there. And he's just taken apart liberal narratives when it comes to defunding the Department of Homeland Security. We'll talk about that one next with Curtis Halk. And we'll talk about the other one, too. Curtis is the managing editor at MRC NewsBusters. He's coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together, starting with you, Skymike. We're working on that hazmat spill. It's an 18-wheeler overturn, 288. It's outbound, not inbound, the off-ramp to Highway 6. Go ahead and stay the course. Inbound. Remember, if you see something I don't see, hit us on your free iHeartRadio app. And while you're there, do me a Lina Hidalgo impression. I'm Skymike from the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Don't manage. from our KTRH top tax defenders 24 hour weather center sunny much cooler 67 today sunny 75 tomorrow sunny about 80 on Saturday and then becoming partly sunny with a high 85 on Sunday current temperature is 50 that your official severe weather station news radio 740 KTRH The series ready to update some of our top stories. We've got another example of soft-on-crime judges in Harris County. A missing Pearland 7-year-old with autism, unfortunately, was found dead in a retention pond. And at rodeo tonight, Chris Stapleton takes the stage. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 630. The ones that are under construction. 288, 610. Accidents and alternates. Next on the 10. On 740, KTRH. 6.22 our time here in Houston's morning news, right, CNN. CNN went from being sort of a straight-down-the-middle report the news organization when they first got started. The Ted Turner years. Not that Ted Turner was not liberal, but he didn't really get that feeling that CNN was necessarily liberal. They had people on both walks of life, and they played it down the middle most of the time. And the main thing they did is they reported the news. And then, of course, they became... You know, far left-leaning, and they finally got to a point where they got a little bit out of control. And now I think they're trying to rein themselves back in a little bit with mixed results. Curtis Howe joins us. Managing Editor at MRC Newsbuster. Scott Jennings is one of the rare examples where CNN is taking a conservative point of view, at least as it relates to DHS. Yeah, yeah, good morning, Jimmy. You know, I love this that Scott went on CNN this week and pointed out the fact that, you know, when it comes to this DHS shutdown, they're fighting over ICE. That's what Democrats have shut the government down over. They are funded until 2020. So the parts of DHS that Democrats ostensibly are not fighting over and ostensibly do not have a problem with are the ones that are actually affected by this.

FEMA, you know, severe weather. We got TSA. In addition to spring break, we have ISIS sleeper or Iranian sleeper cells allegedly operating in different parts of the world, which would obviously mean, you know, if they're not here in the United States already, which many of them probably are, they come into the United States, you know, through flights. So there's a number of pieces to this year, and CNN doesn't necessarily want to talk about that. They're too busy screwing things up, as you mentioned, about the bombers. Just trying to enjoy their day, and what do you know, they end up throwing a bomb at somebody. So what do you think is going on here? Is there an internal battle going on right now? between the proverbial good and evil at CNN? Are there people trying to get things back on the right track, or is this just one of those rare instances where a guest goes on CNN and says something that maybe they didn't expect to hear? Right now, I will say it's a rare instance of sanity. However, with Bari Weiss and the Ellison's coming in with Paramount Skydance buying Warner Brothers Discovery, I think a reckoning, formal reckoning will be coming soon. Well, didn't I hear, too, that some of the employees that CNN are going, oh, we're screwed. Once that sale went through, they seem to understand the handwriting's on the wall. The difference from a few years ago when they brought in this guy named Chris Litt, he was really just the figurehead. He was the head of CNN. He wasn't the boss, the people who actually signed their paycheck, the one with the billions of dollars. Whereas this time, though, Bari Weiss ostensibly will also come in from CBS News and also run CNN and the people who sign their paychecks, aka the Ellison's, will want the change as well. So you either ship... ship up, shape out, you know, or get out. You know, that's the way I see it here. You can either be laid off, and I know for a fact they probably won't tolerate the leaks that I'm sure will come in earnest and be unrelenting. Well, here's the question. bottom line, I think, for any media company these days, is once you lose your audience, and CNN is, you know, they've lost most of their audience, can you get them back? Is there a way to get them back? I know it's television, but, you know, I know for my own business, the radio business, that once you lose your audience, once you don't have ratings anymore, no matter who you bring on or what you try to do, getting the ratings back is a very difficult thing to do. It certainly is. I'll admit that. But I think CNN you've got to admit you of a problem and don't tell us to trust you. Show us why they should trust. We should trust you. And with Iran, they sent the guy into Iran and they said, you know, basically he's a journalist with decades of experience reporting from Iran. You know, the regime's watching us, but don't worry. And it's like, what steps are you taking to ensure what is being put out is not being, you know, funneled in what the regime wants?

you know, the world to see. I think that's the key. Don't just tell us how smart you are. Show us. Okay, you've got to prove yourself. In other words, all right, Curtis, thank you. Curtis Hout, managing editor at MRC NewsBusters. It's 626 and time to take a look at your money. Good morning. The International Energy Agency says the conflict in the Middle East is causing unprecedented turmoil in oil markets, hitting 7.5% of global supply. Yesterday, the IEA agreed to release an unprecedented 400 million barrels from emergency reserves to try to calm the market. And Wall Street continues to be worried that soaring energy prices will rekindle inflation and weigh on economic growth. Stock futures are dropping this morning. I'm Courtney Dunahoe. Bloomberg Business on News Radio. 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's 630 here on Houston's morning news I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett Bunger top stories this half hour a Harris County murder suspect who's still out on bond he's had seven violations The city of Houston, despite some changes in procedure, will continue to cooperate with ICE. And coming up at 638, an update on that guy who threatened to blow up 290. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking up that morning drive once again with Skymike. All right, Gulf Freeway Lookout. I got a wreck at El Dorado. This has taken up two lines. Which side there? That is going to be two left. We're moving inbound. You lose about three or four this way. And also 288. We're still working on that overturned 18 wheeler and a fuel spill. That's outbound, not inbound at Highway 6. Skymike and the ability tree experts, traffic center. From our KTR. January, Super Center, 24-hour weather center, sunny, much cooler. High today, right about 67. You'll notice a big difference when you walk out the door this morning if you haven't already. It's a 50 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. I'll take 50 over 80. 631 on KTRH. Our top story, more soft on crime judges in Harris County. Here's what we mean. Mad accused of committing murder in 2023 is still out on bond, despite no less than seven violations. He's been out since his initial arrest for allegedly killing an apartment maintenance worker. 2023, the judge said the next time there's a bond violation report filed, action is going to be taken. Well, obviously, there's been no action. Andy Kahn with crime stoppers raised concerns about how others might respond to Woodard's case. And it sends a message to other people who are on bail that you can violate your bond conditions and rest assured you're not going to have your bond revoked. He says the good news here is, after three years, Woodard finally has a trial schedule. for later this summer. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. The state executes its second death row inmate of the year. Cedric Ricks was given a lethal injection for the 2013 murders of his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son. HPD announces a policy for how it will respond to ICE warrants from here on out. So for now, ICE will have just 30 minutes, only 30 minutes to pick up any suspect with a warrant. Mayor John Whitmire, though, says it's important to continue cooperating with ICE. The city could lose millions in federal funding. Let me just say it's unfortunate that some would politicize that process. Shame on them. We should not have politics enter into something this sensitive. But that's exactly what's going on in other Texas cities. In Bear County, for instance, a resolution opposing a new ICE processing center passes.

with Republican Commissioner Grant Moody the only no vote. I think that this is ultimately political posturing. In other words, a stunt. It's 633. While the mainstream media continues to ignore the Democrat DHS shutdown, conservative Scott Jennings torched the Dems and his leftist colleagues on CNN. Fox's Joe Conscious says it was necessary. You cannot change CNN without changing the culture. The ratings are at a point where they have more employees, I think, than viewers, which is not good. This is not journalism, it's activism. And one of their hosts, Abby Phillip, was forced to apologize for claiming that last weekend's New York City terrorist attack was targeted at Mayor Zoan Zohran Mamdani. Clearly, it was not. It was aimed, actually, at anti-Momondani protesters. Operation Epic Fury continues with Iran trying to cause as much mayhem in the Strait of Hormuz as possible. Two oil tankers are up in flames near Iraq, with one crew member reportedly dead as Iran continues to target ships off its coast. Another vessel was hit off the coast of the UAE. More attacks near Bahrain's main airport and targeting a Saudi oil field. Fox is Jonathan Savage. Oil futures are trading at just over $91 a barrel this morning. Meantime, Texas is at the center of the latest step in the American Energy Renaissance. The Trump administration announcing plans for a $300 billion oil refinery to be built in Brownsville, the first new refinery in the U.S. in nearly 50 years. Texas Petroleum Economist Carr Ingham says this is a game changer for the energy industry. To build a refinery in Texas to process Texas-produced crude oil, and the federal government is going to now pave the way for a project like this rather than stand in the way, which is what we seem to have been doing for years upon years. The America First Refinery will specifically process light shale oil, which comes from Texas. Construction is set to begin later this year. Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. 635. Now the purging of woke ideology continues at public universities. like Texas A&M, but it has not been completely purged. One professor is facing some heat after trying to use the writings of Plato to support modern gender ideology. This professor is a leftist lunatic. They just invented gender ideology yesterday. It's a total farce. There are just two genders, male and female. And to say otherwise is a complete absurdity. That's Christian Susan Collins with the Texas Youth Summit. Applications continue to pour in for the state's school voucher program, now well over 170,000. Opponents of the program say the majority of those applying for a voucher already have their kids in private school. The comptroller's office says it doesn't matter who applies because there's a priority for disabled and low-income students. Who ultimately participates in this program is going to look very different.

from who has applied. Spokesman Travis Pillow says there's already been 175,000 applications filed, and they expect that number to go to 200,000 by next week's deadline. KTRH is Rex O. It's meantime a head scratcher as we continue to have problems with Waymo and other driverless vehicles. The feds announced this week that they're backing an air taxi program to connect Texas's big cities. This would be most similar. to existing helicopters, but these are quieter, more efficient. Text. Sergio Roman says right now they're building a highway in the sky. At first, he says the aircraft will carry packages before humans. In spring training, the Astros beat Miami yesterday, 4 to 1. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. 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. Oh, so many questions about the guy who, the 20-year-old guy who threatened, well, first of all, he had an AK-47 in ammunition. He threatened to shoot people, I think, randomly. And also he had the ability to, in fact, he was very close, he had pretty much all put together for some, I guess, IEDs, for lack of a better term, explosive devices that could have been used. He threatened to blow up 290. Not quite sure what he had against 290. But here's an update on the report on this guy from K-H-O-U-11. A quiet Cyprus neighborhood surrounded by deputies overnight. After investigators say there were threats to carry out a mass shooting and use explosives to blow up Highway 290. I just saw a bunch of cops, like 50 cops surrounding my whole neighborhood. Victoria Martinez says the heavy police presence worried her. She quickly alerted her mom. My daughter told me last night, something is going on. Investigators say this all started when 20-year-old Jeremiah Chavez called 911 threatening violence and claiming he had weapons. and explosive devices. He had a gun inside that he planned on shooting people with, and he also had explosive devices that were already actually wired up to batteries. And so deputies took precaution, ended up evacuating the house. We ended up calling the sheriff's office. Bombs want. Deputies rushed to his home in this Cyprus neighborhood. Constable Mark Herman says Chavez was not inside when they arrived, but walked up moments later and was arrested. Inside the home, investigators say they found a rifle, ammunition, and components used to make explosives. It's just scary, you know, and to think that I went to school with him. Neighbors say learning what happened is unsettling. Martinez remembers seeing him around when they were in school, hearing he may have been violent in a relationship. Really uncomfortable because, I mean, like, he said this is right. Imagine if he did that, like every, those houses, every, would have been a huge fire, would have been mass casualties. For Martinez and her mom who've lived here her whole life, she says she's relieved no one was hurt. I'm glad it was resolved. I mean, like I live here with my sister, my mom, my grandma, you know, like that's scary to put them in like that position. And everyone around, there's like little kids here. That's really scary. Yeah, okay, I get that. It is scary.

I'll tell you what's scary to me. If this dude hadn't called 911 and basically turned himself in by threatening to do what he was going to do, and instead had just gone ahead and done it, who would have stopped him? Nobody. Nobody until he'd already inflicted the damage. Which brings me to my next question. He's 20 years old. Does he live in that house by himself? Does he live there with parental figures? Does he live there with grandma and grandpa? Does he live there with brothers and sisters? Does he live there with roommates? Or does he live there all by himself? Because if he doesn't live there all by himself, then somebody should have known what this dude was up to and have been willing to report it. And so this guy just, you know, snapping and decided to report himself. That's what things are really gotten scared then. 6.40, time for traffic and weathered together. Check in again with Sky Mike. All right, it's time to check ship channel bridges east loop. That one. It's time to change your bridges now. I've got a wreck here on the South Loop at Broadway or make that Old Galveston Road. That's going to skip up your 610 bridge. If you want to do the toll bridge, it's not bad. My secret hack is always wayside. Coming through town, the roadwork on I10 at 45, that's causing the backup from the Baytown side. Almost lockwood now. We're loopy at the squeeze. 610 northwestbound at 45. Roger Magnolia is on the North Freeway. Good morning, Scott Mike. Good. In the HOV lane. I call you this much because traffic's pretty light. Yeah, see that guy. He's over on the side. We'll just call that a hubb up now. They take up the rest of that lane, though. It will be a full-blown who are. Gulf Freeway. We got trouble. Meeg from Kima. Mikey, El Dorado. Everybody wants to just slow down and take a look at it. Fire truck, tow truck, ninja. Oh, so well said. That's two right lines there. Extra points. Burbage. Thank you so much. Cindy from Dayton. Good morning. I'm like as Lena coming in on 59 southbound up at the squeeze. Are you going to let me in? Yes or no? Fine. I'm going to go to lunch. All right. Cindy from Dayton, extra points plus your female and a nice meltdown. I'm in the Ability Tree Expert's Traffic Center. Oh, yeah. It's a good start to Atlanta meltdown from our KTRH Generator Supercenter 24-hour Weather Center. Let's check in with Terry Smith and find out about these cool temperatures this morning. We might hit the 40s this morning. Yeah, there are some places. Let me see what folks are doing. Because there were some places that were much cool. Oh, yeah. Okay, Conroe is always one of my go-to spots. 48 right now in Conroe. Brenham, Navasota in the 40s. Huntsville is too far north. 57. Galveston. So that's where we are, somewhere between the upper 40s and upper 50s. The winds have been kind of helping to keep the temperatures from getting...

much cooler than that. Now, tonight we're going to be a little bit cooler than that. So just be prepared. Nice day today. The winds will ease up some. It's sunny. The temperatures are definitely cooler. Mid to upper 60s for highs. I can't remember the last time we had highs in the 60s. Tomorrow, we'll start to warm back up into the low to mid 70s, Saturday, mid-70s to low 80s. Sunday. It's like a little bit of summertime again, briefly. Low to mid-80s Saturday, and then it's a chilly day to start the work week Monday. Temperature right now, 50. At your official's severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. I live in Sugar Land. Be prepared for wild Houston weather. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. So all this morning we've been talking about Lena's meltdown at the rodeo. where she got into it with security. Evidently, Lena was given almost $10,000 worth of free suite tickets for the rodeo. And she's been taking, whoever she's been taking, whoever she's glad handing. She's been taking to the rodeo suite, one of the suites at the rodeo at the Coliseum, and they've been watching the shows. And Tuesday night, I don't know she'd been down there before. Maybe she had been and nobody had stopped her. But Tuesday night, she went down to an area called the dirt. It's called the dirt track or something like that. There's a dirt area where you can get up closer to the stage and to the artist. And she took a group down there. And security said, we need to see her ticket. because there's a $425 ticket involved in that. Well, she didn't have the ticket. And so she got into it with security about being down there. And then security, you know, they're trying to put this thing to bed, put it to rest, get her out of, you know, get her out of the way, send her back up to the suite. And she just keeps arguing, arguing to the point where they say, okay, we've had enough, you got to leave. And, of course, it went even further downhill after that. We'll share some more audio with you coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together, starting with you, Skymike. South Loop 610 on the Westbound coming off the Ship Channel Bridge. That's a wreck at Old Galveston Road. Looks to me like they've cleared that 45 Gulf Freeway wreck at El Dorado and 249 packed up a little at Cypress Wood. Jane Does on your tip line. I'd rather enjoy being manhandled last night. Oh, no, no. I never get that at home with my ginger. Have a good day. The opinions expressed are not staff management or any living person here. I'm Skymike. It's your generator super center.com traffic center. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, sunny, much cooler, 67 today. Sunny 75 tomorrow, sunny about 80 on Saturday, becoming partly Sunday 85 on Sunday. Then a cold front comes through and drops temperatures for next week. Currently, it is 50 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. That is in our newsroom. He has an update on some of our top stories. Rodeo officials deny the claims made by Harris County, Judge Lina Hidalgo, that she was, her word, manhandled this weekend. Texas Senator John Cornyn changes positions. Now, in the middle of a runoff, he says he'll support getting rid of the filibuster to pass the Save America Act. And European scientists may have discovered a pill to treat sleep apnea. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 7.

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. Use Radio 740, KTRH. Yep, you're known better, Lena. You go to see Megan Maroney and you think you're extra super special, even though you're not really going to be the Harris County judge much longer. Yeah, I think she tried to play the Do You Know How I Am card? It should have been, well, do you know how it used to be? I used to be Lina Hidalgo, but she doesn't get any special treatment right now. And here she is arguing with security over being in an area she didn't have a ticket to be in. The kids are upstairs in the suite, which you told me they have a seat for. I'm waiting for the concert to end so that I can get the kids. Because you lied and wouldn't ask me, but let me ask the people. Tonight. Well, tomorrow, I don't know who was standing there. So you're getting the people out of the two children. You're getting the two children out of the suite. I was leaving, but I can wait in the car for them, but don't take them out. The little girl was crying, you guys. What in the world? You don't need to... I can wait. I'm happy to wait in the vehicle. That's why I said, are you pulling them out? And you just say, no, we're going to cut it. Don't you know. Yes, we're going to go wait in the vehicle and do that. As I said, I don't want to see this concert. I'm not going to come to any more concerts. I'll never be back to this. We're done talking about it. Okay, so you go to the vehicle? Because what do you think I'm going to do? Like, what are you nervous that I'm going to do? I'm not nervous at all. But you need to lead the problem. So let's leave. Let's go. You do not have the right to be here. If you don't have a ticket to the. Let's go. Again, I've come everything. Nobody ever said anything. Sure. So he. Let's go. Sure. Hi. actual community members that don't drink me like I'm just imagining what a difficult. I'm just imagining, you know, because she has very well documented mental health issues. I'm just imagining what a difficult job that is to be her therapist. Can you imagine being Lina Hidalgo's therapist? You want to talk about combat pay? Whoever that person is, they do not get paid enough to deal with that. All right. Time for the timeline. We've got some more tickets, I believe, for Jeff Foxworthy. Yeah. He's a funny guy. You might be a redneck if, that's the guy. May 17th at Smart Financial Center Triggerline. Tickets are on sale right now at smartfinancialcenter.net. But you can win a pair from us. Just tell us what year today's timeline's from. It's the one day of the year Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill congratulate each other for being sons of Ireland. It was March. Which is a switch on what they usually call each other. Bob Hope hosts a party for Tip O'Neill, retiring after 34 years in Congress. No, listen to me.

I've got no life at all. On TV, they wouldn't teach me anything useful. At the 58th Academy Awards, out of Africa, wins Best Picture. I mean, at least we're friends. Brand new at the movies. This will be fun fixing it up. You'll see. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long star in The Money Pits. Can we only buy this, Hans? Yes, it is. And number one on the radio? History. These dreams, what year was it? If you know, 713-212-52-58-74, that is 713212-K-T-R-H. Good luck. All right, we have ourselves a winner. That'd be Bobby and Houston knew the right year was 1986. Bobby, you get your pair of tickets for an evening with Jeff Foxworthy. May 17th at Smart Financial Center, Sugar Land. 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 drought. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. 7 a.m. our time here in Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Bung our top stores this half hour. Lena runs a foul of rodeo security. Are we really going to tap the Strategic Reserve again? And coming up at 708, trying to turn John Cornyn. into a Save America hero. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive again. Here's Scott Mike. All right. New wreck behind the wreck we had on the Gulf Freeway. Clear it Eldorado now. We've got this one at Bay Area northbound. Plenty of laneage. Don't worry. South Loop Broadway. Clear it. We're thick off the ship channel bridge and 288 southbound at Highway 6. That 18 wheeler. Everybody's okay. Hazmat is happening, though. This is southbound. It's turmoil. Oh, the children. The children. stuck an extra six minutes southbound. I'm Skymike. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center, sunny, much cooler, 67 today. We start to warm back up again, starting tomorrow. We'll get the latest on the forecast from Terry at the Weather Channel. We'll talk to her in nine minutes. Right now, 50. Add your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. And we're sponsored by the O'Carvis Financial Group, our top story, more drama with the outgoing Harris County judge, Lina Hidalgo. The only person here that's got accelerated energy right now and pointing fingers at people and acting disrespect for his year. Audio Hidalgo posted to her own Facebook page where she claims she was, quote, manhandled while trying to get onto the dirt floor at the Houston Livestock Show and rodeo this week. You heard they manhandled me, so are you saying that's okay? I didn't, I don't have any proof of that. Oh, I'm going to get you some proof.

Rodeo officials say that's not what happened. Hidalgo and her guests did not have the required tickets and were told to return to their suite. They also say Hidalgo's group already got about $9,000 worth of floor access on previous nights at the rodeo. We have Hidalgo's videos on KTRH.com and on our Facebook page. Elsewhere, jury selection is complete in the money laundering trial of outgoing Fort Bend County, Judge KP. George, testimony begins later. today. If convicted, George faces up to 10 years in jail. It's coming up on 703. The midterms are coming. They want to raise your taxes higher than you've ever had before. President Trump in Kentucky yesterday, taking his economic message to the people as gasoline prices continue to rise, now checking in at 310 a gallon across Houston. This is all connected to Iran, but we don't get our oil from there. So how come gas prices are spiking? The short answer is oil is a global commodity, so shortages anywhere affect everyone. The straight-of-form moves, moves 20 to 25% of the daily supply of oil. That gets shut down. That has ramifications far away. Market analyst Phil Flynn says many countries that normally get oil from the Middle East now need different options. When you create a void, it gets filled somewhere else. For example, the prices are higher in Europe, so that's going to attract barrels from the United States. Flynn says the good news is this could mean more investment in our production and refining here in the United States. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. All futures this morning are up nearly 6% to $92 and $42 a barrel. The administration releasing 172 million barrels of oil from the reserves, saying it's only temporary. They'll go over about four months, but this conflict I don't think goes that long. I think we will have the Straits of Hormuz open well before then. Andrews Secretary Chris Wright, Operation Epic Fury in day 13, another cargo ship. This one off of Dubai, hit by an unknown projectile, one of several to be attacked in the last couple of days. The FBI reportedly warning that Iran could retaliate by trying to launch drones at California. The threat of terrorist attack is higher now than it has been in decades. Texas Senator Ted Cruz talking to KTRH's Sean Hannity. The left continues to trash Trump on Iran, but Fox's list peek says it could be the achievement that ensures his legacy. I think this is an extraordinary president, and yes, he has many flaws. But I got to tell you, considering what has been thrown at him over the last 10 years, 15 years, really, and what he's managed to accomplish, I think there's nothing sort of absolutely staggering. Right up there with Ronald Reagan, Peake also says it's important for Trump to finish the job and not listen to outside critics. But there is concern over what happens after this ends. In past cases of regime change, America has a history of letting in refugees, and it can't happen again. We've taken in hundreds of thousands of people from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, and we've seen the effects that they've had on the places that we settled them in. Hayden Daniel of the Federalists says Americans did not vote to bring in more refugees, and the quicker this wraps up, the better chance we take none. But if it drags on, the probability that we start bringing over people increases quite a bit. He says if it turns into it.

nation building project, the likelihood of refugees increases. Andre Parrard, News Radio 740, KTRH. 705, a shift from incumbent Texas Senator John Cornyn smack in the middle of that runoff with Ken Paxton. He now says it's time to get rid of the filibuster in order to pass the Save America Act. Only American citizens get to vote. You got to show voter ID, which enjoys broad bipartisan support on every poll that's ever been taken. President Trump has yet to endorse in that race, but we told you this week that an endorsement of John Cornyn could be tied to this bill. Ken Paxton has said he'd consider withdrawing if the Save Act gets to Trump's desk. Still no end in sight to the DHS shutdown. Oklahoma Senator James Langford says this is having a direct impact on Operation Epic Fury. We have thousands of people that have been furloughed, work in cybersecurity, which is one of the primary issues with the Iranian regime in the past, has reached out to be able to attack folks, has been on the cyber world on that. Something the mainstream media isn't telling you. And because of the shutdown and their missed paychecks, more than half of the scheduled hobby TSA workers called in sick this week. The Rockets lose on the road to Denver last night, 129 to 93. They'll play New Orleans tomorrow night. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station, News Radio 740, KTRH. In any event, these drug boats, Ukraine, Russia, travel ban, re-migration, health care plan, check in. The latest News Radio 740, KTRH. I don't think John Cornyn is a hero, but I do believe that the Republican establishment is trying to make him one or make him appear to be one. Have you noticed how out front and center he is right now? He has been pushed to the front to be the Republican spokesperson in the Senate for the Save America Act. And I think there's a very deliberate reason why he has. They're desperately trying to make Americans and Texans in particular think that John Cornyn is among the leaders standing up for the Save America Act. And, by the way, now endorsing an end of the filibuster. That's an area he has never been willing to go before. And it looks like they're going to do it. in order to be able to pass the Save America Act, get rid of the filibuster in some way, shape, change it somehow. So that Democrats are forced to go on the record for why they don't support voter ID and all the other things are in the Save America Act. And John Cornyn is the one that is speaking out to the media. Like I said, he's normally very quiet behind the scenes most of the time. Not really worried about being up front and center, but now he's in the fight of his life. And as we've been talking about for the last couple of weeks, this whole thing is just tied together. John Thune, Senate Republicans, the GOP establishment, desperately trying to keep John Cornyn in office so he can keep spreading the money to everybody else. Even though he's a rhino.

Even though he's not really a Trump slash MAGA supporter, they're desperately trying to make him more palpable to Texas voters and to get Ken Paxton to step down. And if they could somehow get the Save America Act through, no matter what they have to do to get it through, then those things are possible. So expect to see a whole lot more of John Corning here over the next few days until that thing comes up for a vote, provided it does. 710. Time for traffic and weather together. Let's check it again with Sky Mike. I got some trouble on 45 north. You'll see some breaks now between Parker and Tidwell. It's turned into a back quarter slip. Northbound at Chepard. I got a wreck here. Now, they're over on the side pointing at things and it's outbound, not inbound. Inbound. We're not bad for the North freeway so far looking at 25 minutes down from the woodlands. We are squeezed on 610 north. That's westbound at 45. Just the usual scutory there. East Tex your elevator. Al from Kingwood will be stuck in that shortly from the ballpark. You lose about two minutes down to the canyon southbound. Big rig Randy's looking at my 18-wheeler wreck on 288. Hey, Sky Mike. We are now backed up past Royal Palms. Look like it's going to be about five to seven minutes. All right. That's a banana sticker on your gear shift. And this is southbound, not inbound. Nord Sam, if you're coming over from a Tasca Cicita, it's getting a little thick on that ramp here. I've got Edna from Summerwoodhead. this way. Good morning, Jimmy, Sky Mike, Cliff, and Terry. Edna, let it fly. But what about the children? It's all about the children. Outstanding. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Well, she did have some children in the suite. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, Terry Smith, is here. She's got the forecast for you. You might need a little jacket this morning. I think you might. At least briefly, it's a little cooler out there this morning. than we've seen in quite some time. And I think tonight will be even colder still. So just be ready for that little brief dose of spring. We're going to warm back up, folks, and then cool back down. And that's why they call it spring, because it goes up and down, up and down. So mid-upper 60s today, definitely cooler than it's been here recently. Overnight in the 40s. Tomorrow, still sunny, starting to warm up, low to mid-70s. Saturday, mid-70s to low-80s, Sunday. That's our warmest day in the low-to-mid-80s. Cole for a sneaks through town Sunday night so that Monday, the best we're going to do with these temperatures is somewhere between the mid-50s to mid-60s. Temperature right now, 49 at your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. I live in Katie. I live in Edo. Your reliable forecast. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. All right, so coming up in a moment, Liz Peake, she's a Fox News columnist. We've talked to her before. She's terrific. I loved what she said on the air the other day on Fox about the Strategic Oil Reserve. It was dead on right. We'll talk to her about the Iran War, how it could become the achievement that ensures the Trump legacy. We'll talk to her next. First, traffic and weather together, starting with you, Skymite. We still have that 18-wheeler accident. Looks like everybody's okay. Hazmat's picking up a fuel spill. This is outbound, not inbound, highway 6. I'm Skymike on the generator, supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center today, lots of sunshine, much cooler, 67, sunny, 75 for tomorrow.

Sunny, about 80 on Saturday, partly sunny, 85 on Sunday. Temperature right now is 49. And your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740KTRH. This is here. He has an update on some of our top stories on Thursday. We've got more proof that self-done crime judges are still a big problem in Harris County. By the way, we're sponsored by Republic Grant Ranch. Senator John Fetterman says Israel should take out Iran's new Ayatollah, who we still haven't seen. And actor Mickey Rourke has been evicted from his home after he turned down $100,000 in online donations. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 7.30. I live in Katie. Your best ways around Houston. Next on the 10. On 740, KTRH. 722 here on Houston's morning news, right? The Trump legacy. Seems a little early, easy for me to say, early to think about it, but I'm sure knowing President Trump, and let's face it, you don't get to where you are in life without having an ego to feed. And President Trump's, like everybody else, he has an ego to feed. He sure would have loved a Nobel Peace Prize. He got screwed out of that, Liz Peek. So what would be the next best thing that we could do for President Trump? How about just honor him for all the things that he's been able to accomplish in the world of peace? Well, I don't even know that he expects honoring. How about acknowledgement? Basically, everybody on the left, much of the media scorns every thing he's done. But what's going on in the Middle East, his attack on his decision to attack Iran is really at a different level because this could reset the Middle East, really the future of the Middle East forever without... taking down and disarming Iran. There was no hope whatsoever of rebuilding Gaza, for example, and resettling all the Palestinians who live in that area. As long as Hamas is taking enormous funding from Iran, which is their primary sponsor, they were not going to exceed to any of the demands to disarm or allow. independent observers and forces into that land to rebuild it. And without that, you can't really imagine any kind of progress going forward. But more broadly, what we have seen during Trump 1 and now during Trump 2 is a unification, or at least an alliance building between the Gulf Arab states and Israel, an alliance which, by the way, Iran has now fostered by attacking all the Gulf states, which I think probably was their critical.

mistake in perpetrating war. Their second, by the way, biggest mistake is going after tankers and so forth in the Persian Gulf and effectively shutting down the straight home removes, which they, you know, today oil prices are up strongly. The markets collapse falling again, stock market. Why? Because no oil is getting out of the out of through the strait of Hormuz but think about this who is the biggest buyer of that oil it's China who is the only friend left possibly other than Russia for Iran in the world today it is China China depends on that oil flow. And they do have some strategic reserves, undoubtedly, and there's considerable speculation about how big those reserves are. I cannot imagine that President Xi Jinping is encouraging Iran to basically block oil exports because it really will hurt them down the road. So I, look, this is a difficult, risky undertaking by President Trump. It's something that absolutely had to happen to see. peace in the middle east something that everybody talks about or no one has done anything about everyone in tones solemnly that we can't allow iran to have a nuclear weapon but guess what they were very very close apparently to having a nuclear weapon and this is this war is effectively the only way that that was going to prevent that from happening. Well, it's a typical Trump move, right? Big risk, big reward if you can make the whole thing work out. I thought your comments were very interesting on Fox the other day about, I love what you said about the Strategic Oil Reserve, when all these Democrats were calling for releasing the Strategic Oil Reserve to bring the price of oil down, pointing out. The most obvious thing to people who have any common sense, which is it's oil. It's not gasoline. It hasn't been refined. It takes a while to refine the stuff. But I did see that the president is now considering doing just that. Would you advise him not to? Oh, no. Look, if we can offer some relief, if the president can offer some relief to the American consumer by releasing some of these barrels held, we have about 400 million barrels in storage right now. It should be, by the way, 7 or 800 million barrels, except that Joe Biden had a polling emergency, not a real emergency. uh in 2022 and depleted the reserve substantially because he was facing midterms and gasoline prices were over five dollars a gallon but also by the way we may release some reserves but the EU the g7 countries are looking at a much more significant release and i think that is uh going to help as well yes it is not gasoline it's oil but it does feed into the

flow of oil around the world and they have reserves, I think, of around over a billion barrels of oil. So it could be a fairly significant change. What really has to change though is there is plenty of oil. Iraq has shut in oil, Kuwait shut in oil. You know, for the last couple of years, there has been speculation. Oil prices could go to $50 or less because the world is in excess of oil, particularly because the United States is pumping so much. But if it's all bottled up in the Persian Gulf and you have hundreds of tankers trying to get out, then we're not going to see any relief until we basically... shut down Iranian resistance to that flow. All right, Liz Peek. Always good to hear from you. Thank you. Fox News columnist Liz Peek. It's 727. Let's take a look at your money. Good morning. The International Energy Agency agreed to its largest ever release of emergency oil reserves. Despite the move, West Texas Intermediate gained more than 4.5% to settle above $87 a barrel yesterday. A full $20 more than before the war. And this morning, crude continues to see gains. That's putting pressure on stocks. Futures are heading for a lower open. Yesterday, the S&P 500 fell slightly down six points. Wall Street got an update on inflation yesterday. Consumer prices excluding food and energy was unchanged from a year ago at 2.5% in February. Keep in mind. This was ahead of the start of the Middle East conflict. And the owner of the Houston Rockets is looking to expand in casinos. According to the Wall Street Journal, billionaire Tillman Fertita is said to be holding talks to buy Caesar's entertainment for about $7 billion. Fertita also owns the Golden Nugget Casino along with Landry's restaurants. I'm Courtney Dunahoe. Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH.

Houston's news, weather traffic, plus breaking news 24-7. This is News 740, KTRH. Live everywhere with the Ireland. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It's 730 here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour, Houston puts ice on a 30-minute deadline. Seven bond violations and still not in jail. And coming up at 738, there's only one way to fix our train problem. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive again. Here's Skymike. West Sand, northbound Brier Forest. We had a stall sitting on the side there. We've got about a four or five minutes smush northbound. Stay the course. If you're on the west loop going up to uptown, that's a lot of breaks from the Southwest Freeway. East Tech is terrible southbound from Collingsworth down. And if you see... see something I don't. Hit us 713212 T-IPS or you can always come crying to us on the free iHeartRadio app. The children. The children. I'm Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH generator super center, sunny today. Much cooler. 67 for the high. We stay dry and we start to warm back up a little bit for the weekend. We'll check it out with Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in nine minutes. Right now, 49. And your official severe weather. station, News Radio 740 KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. At 731 hour top story. When they encounter someone while they're doing their job, the law requires them to check the background, NCIC. And if there's a warrant from any other jurisdiction. They're required to contact them. Houston Mayor John Whitmire defending HPD, working with ICE. HPD announcing that a new policy will give ICE only 30 minutes to respond to any warrants once police contact them. This comes as another Democrat cities in Texas bash ICE in Bear County near San Antonio, a resolution. passes opposing a new ICE processing center. The only no vote was a Republican commissioner named Grant Moody, who called it out for what it was. A stunt. Be honest with folks. The county really doesn't have much say at all in this. He warned that opposition may hurt that county's ability to negotiate with the feds when it comes to military investments. The state of Texas has made progress in getting rid of soft on crime judges, but we've got another bad guy in Harris County that's continued to roam free while out on bond. Cadarius Woodward was charged with a murder three years ago, and he's still walking our streets despite seven. violations of bond. What I'd like to do, and I'm certainly will be seeking that, is get some data showing how many bond violation reports have been filed within the last four or five years to see if there's some sort of pattern.

Andy Com with crime stoppers is concerned that the lack of action in this case could lead to other suspects doing the injecting thing. A Texas inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her eight-year-old son in 2013 is executed. Cedric Ricks apologized before the sentence was carried out. He's the second inmate executed in the state this year. It's now 733. Their proposals are not about reform. Their proposals are making it impossible for ICE to do their jobs. And we're not doing that. As far as Senator Eric Schmidt, the stalemate and shutdown continues. Now, in day 26, Democrats refusing to fund DHS. Now, even though the Main Street media is trying, it's getting harder for them to cover up for the Dems on this. Like when conservative Scott Jennings went off on CNN. Does anyone here believe that we should keep the Department of Homeland Security indefinitely shut down? When we all see radical Islamic terrorists throwing IEDs in New York City, when we saw a radical Muslim terrorist shoot up a bar in Austin. Fox News is Joe Concha tells KTRAH. They're getting killed for it as they should, and it's why CNN is as trusted as gas station sushi at this point. And getting exposed all over social media. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KTRH. And the mainstream media has even more egg on its face as CNN's Abby Phillip was forced to apologize for her reporting on the terror attack last weekend in New York City. I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Zohran Mamdani. They were not. No, they were actually targeted at anti-Mamundani protesters. President Trump is back in Washington after stops in Ohio and Kentucky yesterday. promising to continue Operation Epic Fury until all of our goals are accomplished. Most people say it's already been one. It's just a question of when. When do we stop? We don't want to let it regrow, and ideally would like to see somebody in there that knows what they're doing. In other words, they can build a country. This, as a Michigan-based medical device company announced, it was experiencing a global disruption from a cyber tech tied to a pro-Iranian group. It is now 735. Oil futures this morning are up nearly 7% trading at $93 and 10 cents a barrel. That's down from being over $100 where it was last night. So not only has the U.S. announced a release from its strategic reserve to keep prices in check, the International Energy Agency will release 400 million barrels from its reserve. Drill Baby Drill is now Refined Baby Refine. President Trump announcing the construction of the first new American oil refinery in nearly 50 years, and it's right here in Texas. Petroleum economist Carr Ingham says this marks the new era for the oil and gas industry.

I'm excited about the prospect that we can now consider these kinds of projects in America and where better to start than the great oil producing state of Texas and the great crude oil refining and processing state of Texas. The refinery in Brownsville will process up to 60 million barrels a year. Another move to help the state economy, ExxonMobil, is coming to the Lone Star State from New Jersey. Exxon Mobile executives announced they're moving the company's legal domicile to Texas, moving closer to their headquarters based in the Lone Star State. Energy expert David Holt says more businesses are leaving New York, New Jersey, and California. States that have high taxes, lots of kind of draconian labyrinth of regulations. Holt says New Jersey should rethink the way they're doing business. Great for Texas jobs. Great for Texas's economy. He says Texas is reaping the benefit of mistakes made by... states. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740 KTRH. Spring training baseball. The Astros beat Miami 4 to 1. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic stations and news radio 740 KTRH. I live in Sugar Land. Be prepared for wild Houston weather. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. 737 our time here in Houston's morning is we love to complain about trains we do um and everywhere I've lived I've complained about trains I've always I always seem to buy a house that you have to cross railroad tracks to get to the house it's true of our home in spring the Gosling road tracks if I took Kirkadol I got across the tracks there I guess I could you know kind of get off at a different place off of the north freeway and come in the back way, but, you know, I like going the most direct way. Every now and again, I get stopped by a train, and usually it's no more than five or ten minutes, and that's fine. I think we're all pretty used to that, but sometimes the trains go on and on and on. Now, when I lived in Michigan, had another house on the other side of the train tracks, and... The local government there would try to fight with the train people over how many cars. They would pass ordinances about how many cars any train could have to try to limit the wait time that people would have to wait at the railroad tracks. And basically the trains ignored them, tore up the tickets. Listen, we've been here since the 1830s. Okay, y'all decided to build on the other side of these train tracks. That wasn't our decision. That was your decision. So don't be going passing up rules telling us how many cars we can have on our trains. That you have no right to do that. So you always have this sort of adversarial relationship going on. So we kind of ask the question today because some folks in Cyprus are complaining about trains that sometimes park themselves by intersections for up to an hour disrupting traffic. I mean, do we have complaints, but do we have any solutions? Hey, this is Jesse from Cyprus. Don't get me started on these trains. I work in the chemical plants every day. And every day.

The train blocking the entrance and exit to one of these chemical plants. Sometimes you're there for 10 minutes. I've been stuck at a track for almost 10 hours. Do not get me started on these trains. There's only one solution. And unfortunately, it's a government solution, and it's also a solution that costs money. If you want to build in areas with train tracks, we have to make sure that we're building underpasses or overpasses for the train tracks. so that it doesn't matter for trains coming through. The train is moving goods and services. It has been there a lot longer than homes and other businesses. So let's just not plan on building in places with a lot of train tracks until we figure out that we're going to have to build things to get around the train tracks. 7.40, time for traffic and weather together. Jimmy. Yes, Guy Mike. I want you to be ready. You did a story earlier this morning. We have a listener comment. I need you to be prepared for a quick reset at the end of this. Okay. You're going to like this. Let's go downtown. First of all, I-69, your East Tech elevated. If you're trying to catch the doctor at Fanon, good luck to you. It's down in spring break. We're looking at an extra eight minutes to the Fanon exit from the ballpark. West Loop going down to Uptown. That's the brakes hitting now. Hempstead Highway 6. Southbound and the northbound that ramp off on the Southwest Freeway getting a bit of a scoge. Sam right at the West Park tollway exit. That's the northbound breaks. And toll bridge southbound starting to squish up also just a little. Stay the course there. 610 is a lot better this way. And Gulf Freeway, we cleared Bay Area. We cleared Errol Dorado 288. You have the trek wreck outbound, not inbound at Highway 6. Jimmy, you did a story this morning about some guy doing something for mental health. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cover your ears, Terry. Okay. What was that story about Jimmy he was doing? He was dragging a 4,000-pound car using his testicles. Which doesn't seem like a real... fun thing to do in your spare time and a very crazy thing to do. For mental health. Yeah, for mental health. Doing something crazy for mental health, yes. The vivacious Nikki from Cyprus has weighed in on the free iHeartRadio app. I would buy a ticket to a testicle pole. I'm Skymic and the ability tree expert's traffic center. Thank you, Nikki. I don't think you'd have a lot of participants to watch, though, from our KTRH Generator Super Center. At least not a knot of men. It hurts me just thinking about it. From our KTRH Generator Super Center, our weather center, Terry, is here. Lots of sunshine out my window this morning. Oh, mercy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, really nice day. I went digging in the record books because, you know, swimming around in the old temperatures is kind of interesting. Because I wanted to find out how long has it been since we've had temperatures below 60 at night? have not gone below 60 at night here in the city all month long. So it was at the end of February. We had low temperatures in the 50s and the middle part of February. We did see some 30 degree reading. So.

We've had a little bit of cooler weather back last month. Well, today definitely is a cooler day. Nice day, though. Sunshine, temperatures mid to upper 60s. Tonight will be in the 40s, most of us. Tomorrow's warming up into the low to mid-70s. It keeps getting warmer into the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. Then we get a cold front Sunday night with some rain and a big dose of much colder air, like highs in the mid-50s to mid-60s on Monday. Temperature right now 49 here at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. I live in Sugar Land. Be prepared for wild Houston weather. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. All right. So this morning we've been during our news with Cliff, we've been telling you about the first oil refinery, new oil refinery to open up here in this country in 50 years is going to be in Brownsville. The guys who are starting this company up. We'll hear from them in just a moment. First, though, let's do a little traffic and weather together as we check out the drive again to Skymike. Dude, we got suckage on the West Sam, northbound. That's a lot of breaks from 69. About an eight-minute wait on the northbound. Got the 18-wheeler accident and hazmat 288 southbound, outbound Highway 6. And 69, the East Texel elevate is all packed southbound downtown. Cindy's trying to merge. Are you going to let me in? Yes or no? Fine. I'm going to go to lunch. That's an eight-minute meltdown southbound. I'm Skymike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH generator's super center 24-hour weather center for today, sunny, much cooler, 67. Sunny around 75 tomorrow. Sunny about 80 on Saturday, becoming partly sunny, 85 on Sunday. Temperature currently 49 in your official severe weather station, news radio 740, KTRH. Check it one more time with Cliffy as an update on some of our top stories. Rodeo officials deny the claims made by Lina Hidalgo that she was, quote, man handled this week. A British man votes illegally in Harris County in the 2024 election. And the rodeo performer tonight, Chris Stapleton. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 8 o'clock. I live in Clear Lake. Humble, reliable. KTRH, traffic and weather. Next on the 10. Yeah. 753 now here in Houston's morning news. All right. So the name of the company that is building this new refinery won't be open for a couple of years, but they're building it in Brownsville is called America First Refining. How great is that name? America First Refining. Their CEO and the founder. The chair and the founder, his name is John Carnes. Trey Griggs is the CEO. They were both on. Fox talking about this brand new company and what we can expect from it. I'm going to let my partner and founder John Kelsey answer because he's the guy who put his blood, sweat, and tears and money into this project for the last decade. Let me just say that we found ourselves in a ridiculous situation in this country where we were producing a large amount of light, sweet crude oil. And after the Obama administration lifted the export ban, we were exporting that crude to Asia and foreign countries who were...

turning it into fuel and sending it back to us. Because our refineries were old, tired, dirty, and they consumed a heavier blend of crude than the light sweet crude that we're producing here. And so, John, I'll leave it to him to tell you the story of how he came up with this idea. But he's been at this now for a decade. Well, John, we don't have a lot of time. But one thing is you're going to create a lot of jobs and you're going to create a lot of bragging rights. I really like that part. Tell us more, John, Kelsey. Sure. Well, we're delighted to be in the Rio Grande Valley. We've had tremendous support from the area, from the port of Brownsville, from the local community. And Larry, we are going to create a lot of jobs, not just in Brownsville, not just in the valley. But this creates an outlet for American crude to be refined in America. And when we're operational in 2029, to help bring affordable U.S. fuels to the American populace. It should stay here. We produce it here. We'll refine it here. And it's good for the American working man. You're going to refine shale too, John? Well, that's the entire thing that we figured out. I was active in the E&P space for the last couple decades in the energy business. I'm an old guy from Texas, and I noticed in 2014 that I was getting a much better price for West Texas intermediate crude in North Dakota than it was in West Texas. Right. Didn't understand why. Right. It was because we were designed to process it. So we're designed our refinery to process U.S. shale oil. And it took us 50 years to figure that out? Well. It took us 50 years evidently to have a president who made the environment such that you would be willing to make the investment to build a new refinery. And it took a state like Texas willing to have a new refinery. And it took a place like Brownsville willing to have a new refinery to make it all happen. And it's finally happening. All right. Hey, just a reminder again, we are going to Alaska in August. We still have room for you and your significant other, if you'd like to go. 800, 383.383.31. It's a week-long cruise leaving out of Seattle. We're going to see all the sites in Alaska. I think we have a Canadian stop as well. We're going to have a great time. It's going to be amazing. 800383.331. Or Travel with Jimmy.com. You all have a great day. I'll see you Monday morning. Off tomorrow. Chris Crock in for me. I'll see you Monday morning, bright and early at 5 a.m.