Jasmine Crockett Has An 8 Point Lead For The Senate Nomination

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. Well, good morning. It is Friday. Time for Houston's morning news. Also time for day two of our St. Jude Radiothon being brought to you by Gallery Furniture. By the way, day one total, $311,926. Let's see what we could do on day two. Fung our top stories this is Farr, Kristi Noem firing back at Democrats. There's 2.5 million less illegals in our country. And coming up at 508, the post office's conversion to EVs is going exactly how you knew it would. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive with Sky Mike. So, everywhere you go this morning, it's just kind of far out whichever way. I10 Katie Freeway. I'm suspecting there's spots where the visibility is really low. At least we're not bumping into each other just yet. But that's the story on the southwest side here. Coming up from Needville, we're in good shape. Brazzis River 24 minutes. Just visibility, Brad from Belleville. So well done, and we'll hear from you, I know, by the 510 report. Skymic of the generator's supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center. Forecast for today, dense fog advisory, that's until 9 this morning and then becoming partly sunny with a high temperature of 73. We'll get Jeff Barrie's filling in for Terry today. I guess she has some more Christmas shopping, do-do. Jeff will be here in about eight minutes. Current temperature is... Let's see here. 50. I know it's in the 50s. Hang on. I got it on the wrong screen. 50, 50, 50, 50 going once twice. 53 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740KTRH. It is time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Good morning, everyone. 502 on KTRH, our top story. I think you could get rid of a couple of your little policies like men and women's sports, open borders, transgender for everybody. But other than that, other than that, I like what you're doing. Yeah, President Trump going after the radical left at the congressional ball last night. By the way, the radical left continues to prove Trump right. I want to see trans kids. I have a trans god sign. There's no governor to sign more pro-trans legislation than I have. Yeah, that was Gavin Newsom talking to the New York Times. And then there's this. A National Guard soldier continues to fight for his life. And this is what Democrats think of the attack on him. The unfortunate accident that occurred with the National Guardsman being killed. You think that was an unfortunate accident? I mean, there's a terrorist. No, wait, wait. Look, I'll get it straight. Then you can... He shot our National Guardsman in the head. Yes, this is exactly what happened. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem putting Mississippi Congressman Benny Thompson on blast. Kristi Noem was testifying about threats to the homeland.

Since taking over in January, more than 2.5 million illegal aliens have either been deported or they left on their own. There's no doubt that the size of the immigrant population and in particular, the illegal immigrant population has gone down. That is a real accomplishment. It's something that is practically unprecedented in U.S. history. Jason Richline with the Center for Immigration Study says the self-deportations saves taxpayers money. The Senate rejecting dueling health care bills from both sides of the aisle yesterday, and Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson says that you can thank Obamacare for the mess we're all in. Obama care led to a dramatic consolidation of every sector in the health care system. hospitals, hospital associations, insurance companies, PBMs, drug, you know, it's just a massive consolidation. There's not one incentive to lower costs. Subsidies expire at the end of the month. Johnson was talking to KTRH's Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 504 Harris County commissioners found out they're going to need another $4 million to give law enforcement pay raises. Outgoing Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo used to spend like a drunken sailor. Now she complains. What's happening is a lot of misleading and mismanagement. And I think that people should be aware of that. Yeah, she actually said that, by the way, she's been against these raises from the word go. She still ticked off about Democrats voting against her scheme to raise taxes for early childhood education. Commissioners also voted to make a 100% property tax exemption permanent. for qualifying child care facilities yesterday. Coming up on 505, the Texas Association of School Boards already under fire from conservatives is called out by the state Republican Party. Turns out TASB controls almost everything from the training of staff to insurance sales. They tell those school boards buy insurance from us. All of these school boards have to buy all kinds of insurance. They're a huge monopoly. Texas GOP chairman Abraham George says they're also the reason taxpayer-funded lobbying wasn't banned by the legislature. There was some conservatives who filed some bills. As we came to all of the legislators and said, don't you dare push us out of the business. George says they're now pushing for the AG's office to investigate Tasby to see if they are in fact a monopoly. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. A dual threat to our agriculture sector. The state issued an urgent alert about a newly detected pest called the Mealy Bug and state farmers are watching a rise in flu bird cases. It can have a catastrophic impact when it comes to poultry industries, egg pricing. Tracy Tamasik with the Texas Farm Bureau says right now it's a problem in other parts of the country. Urcott says they expect just a 1 to 2% chance of rotating power outages this winter. Things are better this year, at least looking forward. It's better than it was five years ago.

UHZ-H-HERS says battery storage has added a new layer of protection for the grid. And there may be some good news for those of you fed up with the climate change crowd. What they're saying is the climate cult is dead. We are at a historical low point of the climate cult. In my lifetime, I've never seen a collapse of a political movement quite like the climate at the moment. That's Mark Morano, publisher at Climate Depot, who says it's not completely dead. Even though it's a historical low right now, they're not going to give up. There's so much money invested. The one movement I'm seeing is they're trying to fold climate change into a public health issue. And waiting for another Democrat president. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740. KT or H. Rockets beat the Clippers, 115 to 113, and at 6 o'clock, we kick off day two of the St. Jude Radiothon, presented by Gallery Furniture. We would not be able to do the work unless we had the support of iHeart, of our donors all across Houston, across the state of Texas. It's imperative. You can become a partner in help by pledging 19 bucks a month. The number to call is 800-58-1433. You can also donate online. We have the link at the top of our Facebook page. the top of our X page and at KTRH.com and the Oak Harvest Financial Group tote board, we've already raised $311,000. Thank you very much for that. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740, KTRH. What happened? Why it happened. The information you need to start the day. Now, back to Houston's morning news. In our time here in Houston's morning news, this is going to be the second day in the row. I've been ripping on the United States Postal Service. I'm going to give you, this is not directed to the mail carriers. This is not directed at the employees of the United States Postal Service. This is directed that the U.S. government and the fact that the U.S. Postal Service is an entity of the U.S. government, and therefore will never make money. It used to make money, but it will never make money again. And it requires constant investment. And unfortunately, the investment that needs to be made in the post office when it comes to equipment is being made based on a political basis. And I'm kind of surprised that the Trump administration hasn't gone back and taken another look at this. Maybe they have. I don't know. The United States Postal Service under the Biden administration decided that they wanted to go EV. They wanted to go electric. They wanted the mail delivery trucks to be electric vehicles. which on the surface anyway, doesn't seem like a great idea. Now, if you want to go natural gas or something like that, instead of using diesel or instead of using regular gasoline, then we can talk about that because you can fill that thing up. You can have a big old tank of natural gas to run off of. There are a lot of delivery trucks and a lot of other vehicles that use this technology. And it's cleaner than burning gasoline. So if you want to get a little cleaner, I don't have a problem with that as long as it makes sense. But how does an electric vehicle, which has to be constantly recharged, make sense for a mail delivery truck? But the U.S. Postal Service, guess what they've spent so far? Trying to make a conversion over to EV.

The Postal Service has spent more than $3 billion on a brand new all-electric fleet of mail trucks. For the $3 billion, so far they've gotten just 612 vehicles for the money. 612 trucks, and they spent $3 billion. The money got put in in 19, in 2022 during the In In In In 2020 during the Inflation Reduction Act. It was considered at the time a green boondoggle. It should still be considered to be a green boondoggles. Three billion. And all we have is 612 mail trucks to show for it. 510, time for traffic and weathered together. Dude. I'm on the Hardy Bond this morning and there's fog all over the place and it's like some spots you can kind of see and the lighting effect. And it's just kind of like you're in some kind of other world. Did we give you a raise? Why? Why? Because you're on the Hardy Bond now every morning. I know, I know. I'm a big shot. So I've got my Spotify and Robin Trower comes on.

It was just so cool on the fog. Jeff Marr wasn't, he didn't hang out with the heads in high school, so he wouldn't know. Let's hit the problems. That is what it is. It's visibility is our story this morning. I don't have anybody running into each other. I got Jeff on the north side. Morning, Sky, Mike. Break out the foghorns. 45 Grand Parkway area. It is getting thicker in T-Soo. Katie, it's a day for Brookshire. What happens? Hey, good morning, Sky, Mike. I'm literally on... 10 trying to get to don't wait and uh yeah there are lots of spots with uh some pretty big spas definitely want to turn off the snooze bars on this side of cap well said well said in 290 i skymite the fog be so thick from cypress of 290 i can't tell my stern from my ass I can't tell the start from this aft. I can't follow that. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Do we need to go into dense fog mode? Dense fog. Yeah, you know, stupid fog. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24 hour weather center Jeff Barr is with us. Yep, DesFog advisory, Jeff. So we're getting the reports. Yeah, we just heard it. And it's going to stick around here for a few hours. So get ready for some delays. Not in the roadways, potentially at the airports as well. As we have this dense fog advisory until 9 a.m. After it, we'll see a few breaks in the clouds during the afternoon. The high today headed to 73. Another route of dense fog overnight down to 63. There will be a slight chance for a shower early tomorrow than clearing into the afternoon with the high of 74. Then a cold front brings in a few showers in storm Saturday night with the low of 57 behind that front. We'll see cloud Sunday. It'll be windy. And after an early high in the low 60s, temperatures will fall through the 50s during the afternoon hours. And by the way, that's a good advice from Jeff there. Check your flight this morning. If you're flying on a bush or hobby, for that manner, check and see if that flight's on time, because if there's any sort of ground stops due to the dense fog, they may delay you. A current temperature is 53 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. Well, just like yesterday, the St. Jude Radiothon really gets underway at 6, but, you know, we're kind of in the pregame mode here. Again, we raised $311,926 between all of our I-Heart partners here for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital yesterday. I'm pretty sure the goal's around a million bucks. Pretty sure. Obviously, we have a long way to go to get there. So I'm hoping if you didn't participate yesterday, you'll hop on the train today. To become a partner in hope, again, we're going to ask the same thing. Just pledge $19 a month to help kids at St. Jude facing and fighting cancer. You can put your gift on a card. You get the brand new t-shirt in St. Jude hoodie as a thank you for doing that. Two different ways you can donate. You can either text, the word kids, K-I-D-S. to 626-262. I guess you can do that pretty much any time. Kids, to 626-262. Or if you prefer to make a phone call, the phones will be manned starting at 6 this morning.

And that number is 8005881433. That's 800588 1433. Time for a little traffic and weather as we check out the drive once again. Here's Sky Mike. You know what else happens today, Jimmy? What's that, Mike? We get St. Jude food. So they'll have it. What's on the menu? They bring breakfast and all this good stuff. Coffee and biscuits and gravy. Let's do some north side again. Jeff from the north side hit me with 45. Visibility is a thing coming down from Conroe. My personal. deal, the hardy toll road. It's moving nicely, but you've got to bring it down a notch and you've got to turn off the snooze because there are spots where it doesn't look like you can see more than a quarter mile. 290. Captain Jack, he said he can't tell us stern from his aft. It's so thick in some spots. And Dave from Brookshire gave me I-10. And sure enough, we've got spots where, again, visibility's under a quarter mile. So even though we're not bumping into each other, you've got to get an early start. I'm Skymic. It's your generator supercenter.com. Traffic Center. From our K-T. TRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, dense fog advisory. That's until 9 this morning, becoming partly sunny after that, 73 for the high. Little morning fog, repeat of that tomorrow morning. Morning clouds, afternoon, sun, 75. And then Sunday, mostly cloudy with a high temperature right about 63. Current temperature remains 53 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's a Friday. Cliff is here. He's got some of our top stories this morning. More judicial activism. Jimmy Kilmar, Alvin Bragg Garcia, released from ICE custody by an Obama judge. According to Axios, the president could ease federal restrictions on marijuana. And the NFL suspends Texans minority owner Javier Loia finds him $500,000 for violating the league's personal conduct policy. What did he do? We can't talk about it. Okay. No, we can't. I didn't even know they had a minority owner. I thought it was simply the McNair family. What's up new every day? Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 530. It's one policy. We're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back. After another. You burn a flag. You get one year and you. On News Radio 740, KTRH. Anyway, 524 our time here in Houston's morning news. I feel like I'm turning into a car show here this morning. I don't mean to do too much on cars. I was talking about my buddies over there, Dean, I'm leasing. Here's another story about how the values of used cars have risen again. You know, they were up there for a while, then they kind of went down for a while. Now they're back up again. And the reason why the backup is, again, the high price of new cars. On Fox business, they had the CEO of Valvaline, you know, the oil change company. Lori Fleeze is her name. Talking about the boom on used cars and the winning interest right now on electric. It's not just the post office that's not as interested in electric as they used to be. People are holding on to their cars longer and trading into used cars because they can't afford a new one. And what that means is they want to maintain their vehicle for as long as they can.

Older cars need more maintenance. That means higher revenue opportunity for companies like ours. And are you seeing the numbers of people coming in, in droves, or is it just starting at the moment? Oh, no, we've been seeing this for a long time. The age of cars has been growing over the last 10 years. It's now over 12 years. The average American owns a vehicle that's 12 years old. Nearly 13. I mean, back in 2015, the average age was something like 11 years, and now it's nearly 13. That's right. And so instead of trading up into a new car in those loans and payments that you talked about, it's much cheaper to maintain a vehicle that you have. And that's exactly where we're focused. And how does the whole shift, at least partial shift? It was way more fast with momentum before President Trump ended the tax incentives for electric vehicles. But people started buying electric vehicles that really, I guess, on the surface, didn't need maintenance because they didn't need oil changes. But they still do need tires, et cetera. What are you seeing now that President Trump has ended those EV subsidies? I think the growth in EVs has really dropped off and the interest in them has dropped off since the subsidies were removed. The penetration of EVs and the car park is less than 2% today and it's not projected to grow that much more in the next three years. Now all vehicles need maintenance. Even EV drivers say that they need to maintain their vehicle and some of that needs to be more than just the battery health. So maintenance providers will provide maintenance to any vehicle regardless of power train, but the growth in EVs has definitely slowed. Yeah, well, you know, part of it too, in addition to not having any financial incentives right now to get an EV, the other part of it is, you know, unless you're one of those environmental people, you have one of those greenies. The other part of EVs, that battery, if you ever have to replace that battery, it's just... Crazy how much a brand new battery costs for an EV. I mean, it's half the value of the vehicle in some cases. 527, it's time to take a look at your money. And good morning, the ANSI 500 and the Dow coming off record highs, shares of Broadcom. They were lower in pre-market trading. After its sales outlook failed to meet lofty expectations. Uber says it expects to offer Robotaxy services in more than 10 markets by the end of next year. The company's hoping to become the dominant force in an industry it estimates will eventually be worth at least a trillion dollars. Coca-Cola's advertising has long made it clear the flagship product is the real thing. And now the beverage giant wants you to know that its new chief is a real American. And this week's press release announcing that Enrique Braun would succeed James Quincy. As the company's top executive, Cocoa Keller said Braun is, quote, an American citizen who was born in California and raised in Brazil. I'm John Tucker Carlson, Bloomberg Business and News Radio 740, KTRH.

Houston's news, weather, traffic, plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740, KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRAF. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It is 5.30 here on Houston's morning news, day two of our St. Jude Radiothon, being presented by gallery furniture. Among our top stories this F.R., the White House will appeal that judges ruling to release Abrago Garcia. This poll showing that Jasmine Crockett has an eight-point lead for the Democrat nomination. And coming up at $538 billion fraud... In the federal student loan program, there's a shocker, right? Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive once again with Skymine. All right. Well, I think if you did crash into each other, I wonder if we could see it this morning. Visibility is such a thing. I'm cruising around the Grand Parkway here. Mason Road. Look at that. All I can see is a couple of lights here. Cypress Wood, Grand Parkway, around Boudreau Road. Look at that mess. That is pea soup right there. Huffsmith, Corville, all the way over to Holsworth. that if you're heading over toward the New Caney side, you've got to give yourself some extra time this morning. So far, we're reportedly clear that can change in 10 minutes, so we're right back at 540. Sky Mike and the ability. Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH. Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center, the dense fog advisory until 9 this morning, becoming partly sunny at some point for the high temperature today, right about 73. Jeff Barr, and for Terry today at the Weather Channel, he has your complete weekend forecast coming up in another nine minutes. Temperature right now, 53, make that 54 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. 531. Good morning, everyone. Our top story. He is a proven human trafficker. He is a proven gang member. The administration has evidence of that. And as you saw from the Department of Homeland Security, they issued a statement saying they'll continue to fight this legal battle in court. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, illegal alien and accused gay member Kilmar Braygo Garcia, is released from ICE custody by a Maryland federal judge appointed by Barack Obama, so the Trump administration's going to appeal. Another hit to Trump's agenda, Indiana rejects a proposal to redraw its congressional map blocked by that state's Republican Senate president, somebody named Rod Bray. I'm sure that whenever his primary is, it's, I think, in two years, but I'm sure he'll go down. He'll go down. I'll certainly support anybody that wants to go against him. Meantime, 20 U.S. House Republicans joined Democrats to pass a bill reversing Trump's executive order, blocking most federal unions. Here at home, Republicans aren't the only ones calling out Texas Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett. She's taking some friendly fire as well.

To me, she violates the first rule of politics. And that is in politics, she always make it about the voters and never about yourself. James Carville on the Politics Warroom podcast. New polling from Texas Southern this morning shows Jasmine Crockett leading James Talarico by eight points. Meantime, a leftist running for Texas Railroad Commissioner is being called out for switching parties at the last second to run as a Republican. Catherine Culbert spent years campaigning, fundraising, acting as a radical Democrat. This is an individual who thinks she's somehow going to trick voters into believing that she's someone she's not. People see through that. The voters are smart. And ultimately, she will not be successful. Jared Woodfield with conservative Republicans of Texas. We reached out to Stephen Colbert for comment, never heard back. Coming up on 534, another reason for the left to complain, as reports indicate the U.S. could seize more oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado says, you know what, this really is the only way to get rid of Nicholas Maduro. We need to cut those flows. And once it happens and repression is weakened, it's over because that's the only thing the regime has left, violence and terror. Now, the U.S. plans to keep the oil from the tanker it sees this week. Oil prices are down slightly this morning to $57 and $44.44 a barrel. Gasoline prices ticked down overnight across Houston to an average of $2.47 a gallon, a full 10 cents cheaper than what you paid one year ago today. It's a big break for the millions of Texans that are about to hit the road for the Christmas holiday. AAA's Daniel Arm Buster says most of the travelers are choosing to get behind the wheel. 8.7 million Texans are traveling by car, 9.4 million in total traveling. And they expect 110 million drivers nationwide. Congestion, delays, have a backup route, make sure that you're never driving impaired. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740 KTRH. It's now 535. The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk appeared in court for the first time in person yesterday. Tyler Ross. Robinson is facing the death penalty. His attorneys asked the judge in the case to ban cameras over potential bias concerns. Meantime, young people in America are finding their faith, but that's not the narrative that's being pushed by liberal national pollsters. The Liberal Pew Research Center claims there's no sign of a religious revival among younger Americans. But Christian Susan Collins, who runs the Texas Youth Summit, says the evidence he sees every day shows just the opposite. Bible sales are up $1 million over this point last year. The second indicator is that church attendance has been up by 15%. And campus revival nights, they're seeing this happen all across the country. Susan Collins believes Gen Z is actually more religious than millennials, Gen X, or even baby boomers. And he notes the death of Charles. Kirk has spurred more interest in Christianity.

Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. Kids aren't just being exposed to LGBT propaganda in schools. Beth Brelia with the Federalist says it's all over Netflix. 41% of Netflix children's shows are pushing that LGBT agenda. They are doing the show with children planning a gay wedding. They have two men kissing throughout the show. It's not age appropriate. She says it's up to parents to monitor and protect their children. 5.30. The state clarified a federal law and says that using drones for fishing is not allowed in the state. Sports Talk 790s, Dunk Pike says this was originally meant to prevent flying over a large area of searching for schools of fish. The real issue, though, that has fishermen upset. is beach fishing for sharks because they use drones to carry their baits out to deep enough water to get the bigger sharks. Game wardens say this is federal law, not a new state regulation. The Houston Texans go for their six straight win as they host Arizona Sunday at noon. Day 2 of the St. Jude Radiothon, presented by Gallery Furniture, begins at 6 a.m. You can become a partner in hope, pledging just $19.9 a month to help kids fighting cancer. That number is 800, 5881433. You can donate online at KTRH.com. We have the link on Facebook and X. The Oak Harvest Financial Group tote board stands at $311,000. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740, KTRH. Find out about D&M Auto Leasing's Easy Lease, 7132901,000, or DM Auto Leasing.com. Stay informed. Stay on time. Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett and the Houston Morning News team. Yo, yo, paid off my student loan, y'all. 538 our time here in Houston's Morning News. That's got to be a great feeling. I never had student loans. So that's got to be a great feeling. I just... I had a weird college experience. I was working full time in radio while I was going to college. And I wasn't living on campus. And intuition, when I went to college, 10 million years ago, it was a lot cheaper proposition. And it was just, I did a page you go kind of a thing. Because I rarely took a full load. I could take like three or four classes and pay as you go. Kind of a thing. It's great if you can do that. Not a lot of college students have a full-time job where they're making money to be able to do something like that. But then again, you do, I guess, what you got to do. Never was a big fan, like I said, of student loans. I'm also not a big fan of stealing money from the student loan program. We get more and more of these stories. Is there a government department? where there is no thievery going on, where there is no fraud and abuse going on. I don't know that there is. Would it surprise you to learn that almost $1 billion, there's an attempt to steal almost $1 billion through fraudulent means from the federal student loan program? Here's Education Secretary.

Linda McMahon talking about it. I'm proud to report that we've saved or will save about a billion dollars of taxpayer fraud for applications, you know, through our student loan system. And it was really a pretty simple thing to do. You think about the fact that when you, you know, buy airplane tickets or whatever, you have to show an ID if you're going to rent a card, but there had been no kind of ID verification as students... filed their application for student loan. And what we found was there were a lot of bots. and ghost students that were costing taxpayers money and that those loans had gone to people who didn't exist or people who were dead. So we were able to root out a lot of that by this. I call it a simple process, but we've clearly had a lot of work that has been going on. You know, with our IT department, the programs that have been put in to root out this fraud and abuse. Can you get the money back? Well, I don't know that we can get the money back, huh? You know, it's really hard to claw back money. But the good news is we're going to prevent it from going out going forward. That is the good news. So we're going to save the taxpayers money. So a lot of it, I think, is suggesting it has not yet gone out. We've identified that it would go out. So we're going to clearly save that money. $1 billion. How long has that been going on, do you think? Is that like a yearly thing? They're losing a billion dollars? The student loan program? Because they don't bother to ask for identification and they're sending money to dead people who applied for a student loan or ghost students that don't exist or bots. Wow. It's frustrating, isn't it? frustrating to pay taxes and then have it all stolen away from you. 541, time for traffic and weathered together. What you got, Skymind. Hey, so far, Jimmy, we're not bumping into each other. And, of course, when something does happen, KTRH listeners will be the first to know. I'm working a little short-handed. I will tell you, my workwife, Christina Cruz is off. And Jennifer from Channel 11, we do a lot of back and forth. She's not here, too. So it's always great to have your tip line. You got 610 North, squeeze down, 45 west down at the Hardy Road. Just a lot of breaks here as you're trying to go westbound, go that way. Stay the course. We're not bad this morning. Actually, I-10, not bad for considering the roadwork we have at downtown. If you're coming from the Baytown side, jump down now while you can. It's getting a little scochy right before that roadwork. We've got two little skinny lanes and a concrete wall going on the westbound side. Eastbound, you look good from Katie. 25 minutes from Katie Mills into the president's heads. Gulf Freeway, clear for now. That's going to change. I'll bet you money. Dickinson up 30. three minutes and 288. Ooh, I can't even see Stephen F. Austin this morning. Iowa Colony, 22 minutes up. Tip line. Hi. Good morning. Skymich. It's Carol from Cyprus. You can't see nothing out here. Oh, you and Marshall Tucker Carlson. Can't you see? About three car links from Berger Cyprus, almost into the beltway. Boom. Thank you, Carol. You break up our Shulenberg Festival. We're in the ability tree experts. Traffic Center. From our KTRH generator super center. 24 hour with the center. Time to check in with Jeff Marr. Filling in for Terry today. Who's

their Christmas shopping. I know she is. I know she's out there Christmas shopping. Hope she's getting me something. Anyway. The only thing Jeff has for us this morning is dense fog so far, but you've got warmer temperatures coming today. Yeah, mild temperatures into the start of the week, and then a cold front pages to visit as we make away from Saturday night to Sunday. We'll feel a big difference as we make away from Sunday into the start of the week on Monday. In the meantime, as you've heard the main challenge this morning, the dense fog. We've got a dense fog advisory until 9 a.m. visibility down under a core of a mile as we start off the day. Then during the afternoon, we'll see a few breaks in the clouds and hit 73. Another round of dense fog overnight down to 63. There will be a slight chance for... shower early tomorrow than clearing on the high of 74. Colder air pushes in Sunday. It will start off with a temperature in the low 60s under a cloudy sky. Then we'll fall through the 50s during the afternoon hours. Temperature right now 55. It's your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Problems in traffic around the Beltway and around 610. KTRH, time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. So the phone lines for our St. Jude Radiathon presented by gallery furniture. They open up here in nine minutes. You become a partner in hope by pledging just $19. $19. $19. a month to help kids at St. Jude fighting cancer. You get a really nice t-shirt and a St. Jude hoodie is a thank you for doing it. $800-581433. That's 800-5881433. You could also text the word kids. K-I-D-S to the number 626-262, and then click on the link from St. Jude to donate. That's Kids to 626-262. Pretty good day yesterday. Over 300 grand got raised, but we need a lot more, obviously. Research into childhood cancer, it costs a lot of money, providing the kind of care for these children. We all know what medical bills look like, except these parents don't get medical bills from St. Jude. So that's where we're stepping in to try to do our part. So any way you can help is much appreciated. Time for a little traffic and weather together. as we check in again with Skymic. All right, here's what scares me today. If we get a stall in the road, especially it's in one of those middle lanes and we're having trouble seeing. Thank you, Ian. Somebody could run right into it. So let's watch out. I've already got a stall on the North Sam at JFK. And that's on the eastbound side. Also, something squishing us up on the East Tech's outbound ramp to the airport, the Beltway. Right on the end of that ramp, that has got to be a stall. And, of course, when you see something, let me know on either the free... iHeart radio whapper hits your tip line 713212 t iPS right back in 10 and the ability tree experts traffic center from our kTRH generator super center 24 hour weather center we do have a dense fog advisory that's until 9 this morning it will become partly sunny after that with the hive 73 so morning fog and then morning clouds and afternoon sun for tomorrow we warm up to 75 Sunday mostly cloudy with a hive 63 then Monday in particular looking particularly chilly

Current temperature is 55 and your official's severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Clip is here. He has an update on some of our top stories on a Friday morning. President Trump signs an executive order to make sure that we become a global leader in artificial intelligence. The Texas Education Agency takes over another three struggling school districts, including the Beaumont ISD. And we looked, it wasn't, you know, research, but... We found out. The city of Houston is number five, all told, for spending on only fans. I will leave it at that. Let me guess. Is Las Vegas number one? I forgot which one is number one. I've got to go back a little. But Houston's number five. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 6 o'clock. What has happened? Just yesterday. What's happening today? Happening. Like now, what happens? The things are happening. Stop right here! On News Radio 740, KTRH. 554 now, here in Hist, this morning news. The accused killer Charlie Kirk in court yesterday. The judge taking his sweet time with this one. He's going to take until February to decide whether or not he's going to allow cameras in the courtroom. Lori Ingram and law professor Jonathan Turley last night talking about it. Well, this is a very deliberative judge, and I've been impressed with him overall. He's, I think, handling the case well. It is not moving at a clip that one would hope for. It's definitely going a bit slower. But I think that reflects the fact that this judge wants to be very cautious. You know, the fact is, this is a case with overwhelming evidence. I mean, the prosecutors... could probably lose 90% of this evidence in a suppression hearing and still secure an easy conviction. He has a presumption of innocence, but the evidence here you can't ignore. It's just the strongest I've ever seen in a case. So the real concern for the court is not just he has to protect the rights of the defendant, which is the primary concern on these questions, but also he doesn't want to commit reversible error because that tends to victimize the family again. they have to go through this again. So he's being very, very cautious. He's moving a bit slower, but it's a deliberative pace. Glacial pace, Jonathan. I agree with you. He seemed to have a very nice demeanor, but this is a glacial thing. You're being so diplomatic. This is why you're a law professor. You're much more diplomatic than I would be. I'm like, make the decision in 24 hours, please. All right, Jonathan, the suspect's legal team arguing that their client's pre-trial publicity. Obviously, it's very significant. And these comments from Trump were cited. This was shortly, this was played shortly after Robinson was arrested. I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him. We're in custody. What's going to happen to this guy? Well, I hope he was going to be found guilty, I would imagine.

I hope he gets to death penalty. Well, that's his hope. The president's hope. I think most Americans hope on that. But they're going to argue that that comment from Trump, or those comments from Trump, would taint any jury pool or just a particular jury pool? Yeah, I don't think that dog will hunt. You know, the fact is this is... a saturation of the media environment. I mean, everywhere you look, this case is being discussed. There's strong opinions. Yes, when the president weighs in that has influence here, you have to deal with that in voir dire, when you question these jurors. But the fact is, it's like complaining about the weather. You know, this is the case the court got. Everyone's talking about it. Moving it further away from the scene of the crime won't do much good. to go to Mars to get away from all of this coverage. Yeah, well, that's true. Change a venue wouldn't make any sense, would it? 557 here on News Radio 740KTRH.

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. 601 our time here in Houston's morning news. We are officially underway with our St. Jude Radiothon to Benefits St. Jude Children's Research Hospitals presented by Gallery Furniture. Among our top stories this hour, there are 2.5 million. fewer illegals now in our country. Kristi Noem reads Democrats the Riot Act. And coming up at six-weight, how often do you wash your socks? Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking out that morning drive again. Here's Sky Mike. All right, I'll tell you, not only are you making me nervous, but these stalls are making me nervous. North Sam, eastbound at JFK, that's, see, I hear ramp. I think it's, you know, just a little exit to go to the feeder. That's one of those flyovers. There is a stall up there, and that is a really sticky spot, and of course we can't see. Visibilities that thing, please be super careful, get an early start. Also, something's sketching up 69, the East Tech's right after Katie Porter, 13, 14. Zoom that at the 610 break in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center, death's fog advisory. That's in effect until 9 this morning after that becoming partly sunny with a high temperature today about 73. We'll stay in the 70s for tomorrow. Then the cool down starts. We'll get details on that with Jeff Marr at the Weather Channel in eight minutes. Currently, it is 55 at your official's severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. And we're sponsored by All-Star Construction, our top story this hour, stunning new numbers from President Trump's shutdown of the border. More than 2.5 million illegal aliens have either been deported or self-deported, and those numbers could go up next year. What's really going to help is the funding bill that was passed by Congress under reconciliation rules. It gave DHS a lot of the resources and needs. I think administratively and organizationally, they're still ramping up. Jason Rich Juan with the Center for Immigration Study says we have made practically unprecedented progress on immigration enforcement. So how do Democrats react by going after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem about threats to the homeland? If you're not fired, will you resign? Sir, I will consider you're asking me to resign as an endorsement of my work. Noam shutting down Michigan Congressman Shri Thanedar. Shri Thanedar. As for the Senate, it voted down two proposals to fix a health care problem caused by Obamacare. Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville. We all know that the Democrats destroyed our health care system. Obamacare has been a disaster for 15 years. But guess what? We haven't fixed it. And we got control. Now is it time for us to do something. Yes, because they might not have control in a year after the midterms. The Obamacare subsidies that the Democrats cried, cried about during the shutdown expire at the end of the month. It's coming up on 604. Harris County will need an additional $4 million to cover razors to local law enforcement promised by commissioners earlier this year.

The vacancy's been filled, but now we're having that retention. And so it has a, basically, this is a sign of the success of why we did what we did. Precinct for Democrat Leslie Brioz, outgoing judge, Lina Hidalgo showed up to court for the first time in about a month to complain about the raises again. Meantime, humble police chief Dan Zintech is placed on paid administrative leave after a closed door meeting with the city council there yesterday. The city will be bringing in the law firm, according to the city manager of Olson and Olson, for an independent review that should last into the new year because of the fact that we are so close to the holidays and the timing of this independent investigation. Mario Diaz with our TV partner channel, too. It's still not clear why Zintech. was placed on leave. To Austin, we go where the Texas Association of Business is now in the crosshairs of the Republican Party of Texas who says they've been acting as a monopoly. We're asking the Attorney General's office to look into this and say if they are practicing monopoly, business practices that are scroading people and forcing people out of business. Check that. It's the Texas Association of School Boards. By the way, that was Texas GOP chair, Abraham George. A double whammy for the agriculture sector here in the state. The state issued an urgent alert this week about a newly detected pest, the mealy bug. We've also seen bird flu cases rising in parts of the country. Avian flu is the potential to dramatically impact the poultry industry. Tracy Tomasik with the Texas Farm Bureau referencing the spike in prices. We saw this past winter before Trump got them under control. Urquhart says there is just a 1 to 2% chance of rotating power outages this winter. U.H's Ed Hurst says battery storage has added a new layer of protection for the grid. That's been the massive growth. on the grid. He says we are in better shape than we were five years ago. As President Trump continues to unleash American energy, experts say the climate change hoax is officially over. I don't expect this to be the end of climate change. It's certainly the low point they're going to regroup. They're not going to give it up. It's been the most successful environmental con of the last 50-plus years. Mark Moreno with the Climate Depot says if Democrats regain control of the House still, the cult will make a comeback. Elon Musk promises that his Tesla robo-taxies will soon be on the streets of Austin. Again, sooner, not later. Robotaxis is operating in most with no one in the amount of weird beats. By the way, this is all despite the issues we've seen with Robotaxi services like Waymo. NASA announced his plan to sponsor a commercial development program as they unveil a space station mock-up. Space City weather's Eric Berger says the three-story station designed by Space Lab will launch in 2029.

They're selling research time to NASA, but they're also hoping to go out and find business customers who want to do research in microgravity, zero gravity basically. NASA is scheduled to test the mock up in January. Rockets Edge the Clippers 115 to 113. It is now officially day two of the St. Jude Radiothon presented by Gallery Furniture, helping patients like Sadie. Her story is one of many of patients who go to the doctor and they are told there's nothing that we can do. We don't have a diagnosis for your child and that's where St. Jude steps in. Become a partner in Hope. Pledge just $19 a month to help kids finding cancer. Lines are open. 500-58-1433. The first 10 partners in hope we get this morning get a $50 gift card to Willie's Grill and Ice House, and we've raised $311,000, according to the Oak Harvest Financial Group tote board. I'm Close Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, KTRH. The app that puts the app in happening. We have some breaking news. You ready? Make KTRH your number one preset on the new and improved free I-Hard radio app. So if I were to look in your sock drawer, how many socks do you have in there that don't have a partner? There's got to be a few, right? Science is in, by the way, and people wearing their socks multiple times before they wash them. Do you do that? Do you wear your socks more than one time? Let's say you put a pair of socks and you... go somewhere and you're wearing long you put them on because you're wearing long pants or whatever and you need to go wherever you go and you're coming back it's warm it up and you decide you're going to switch over the shorts and you take the socks off you had them on for an hour or two do you wash them before you wear them again Or do you just stick them back in the shoes for the next time? Boy, if this was ever a Seinfeld episode, this is it. It is a Seinfeld episode. Actually, one or two hours? No, I don't think you need to wash them at that point. There are two guys of people in the world, those who wear their socks and then put them in the dirty laundry. That would be me or those who wear them again and again and sometimes even again. No, I'm not the again again, again, but... Here is the science on the story. Our feet are a microscopic rainforest of bacteria and fungi, typically containing up to 1,000 different species. Foot skin also contains some of the highest amounts of sweat glands in the human body. Bacterian fungi prefer to live in the warm, moist areas between your toes where they consume the nutrients within your sweat and your dead skin cells. Is this getting disgusting enough for you? It's a little early in the morning. In other words, the science says to wash your socks after every time you wear them, no matter how long you wear them. My question is, what is your policy on socks? Do you wear them multiple times? Are there sock combinations, by the way, that you won't do? I don't wear white socks.

I've stopped with the white socks. I give up on white socks. I don't wear knee highs. Even though if I were to look at my sock drawer somewhere, there probably was a knee high from back of the day. As a runner, compression socks are a thing. Well, compression is a different thing. Compression socks are there to help circulate your blood. and with all sorts of health features. But what are your rules on socks? You know, the iHeart radio app, KTRH, hit the talk bad button, first name where you're calling from, and answer the question, please. All right, time for traffic and weathered together. Can we talk about our drawers, too? How often do you watch your drawers, Skymike? Every single time. No white doors either. Okay, so y'all talk about drawers on the app too. All right, our problem is I got a hazard. Look out. Everybody heads up on the north. Sam. This is Dave from Brookshire. Hey, skymock, CJ. JFK overpass, and somebody broke down literally on the ramp. He's got his flashes on, but he's out of the car on the left-hand side, and he's trying to work on his car, really probably ought to get off and take the actual physical JSK exit to avoid this guy. He's waiting to get hit. All right, that's a, man, that's a great point. Thank you, Dave, from Brookshire. This is the North Sam Eastbound flyover that goes to JFK. You're trying to hit the airport. Dude, you can't see. So if you've got a stall, you've got to get out of that road. You've got to get out of there because somebody could... run right into you. Eastex, Scott New Caney. Morning, Scott, Mike. I just heard you say there was something up in New Caney, waiting for more info on that, because for me... 45 minutes from New Caney to Rocherone. All right, we had something around 13, 14, but that's gone. It doesn't look like we're plumb backed up from Katie Porter at the moment. Downtown, of course, the roadworks squishing us up east, westbound, coming from the Baytown side to the Katie side. It's just two little skinny lanes. I'm Sky Mike. It's your generator super center.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24 hour weather center. Time to check in with Jeff Marr, filling in for Terry today. We got a lot of fog to deal with, but what time this morning you think most? So this is going to start getting out of here. Between 8 and 9, and then we'll have no problems as we make our way from late in the morning into the afternoon. But different story. If you're about to head out here over the next couple hours or so, we've got a dense fog advisory and effect until 9 a.m. Visibility at times down under a quarter of a mile just looked at the airport down to a tenth of a mile. So maybe a few delays. You may want to call ahead if you're trying to catch flight out this morning. Into the afternoon, a few breaks in the clouds up to 73. Then we will have another round of dense fog overnight and drop to 63. Slight chance for a shower early tomorrow than clearing a high of 74. Cloudy, windy and colder. Sunday after an early high in the low 60s will fall through the 50s during the afternoon. Temperature right now is still 55 at your official Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in Clear Lake. Humble, reliable, KTRH, traffic and weather. Next on the 10. All right, did you all subscribe to Netflix? Would you be surprised to know that nearly half of all the Netflix shows show children?

Well, exposed, I should say children, to LGBT propaganda, at least according to a report. The Federalist reported on it. We'll visit with Beth Brilia. She's a writer at the Federalist. We'll talk to her about this. Coming up in just a moment, first we want to remind you our St. Jude. Hang on. Our St. Jude Radiothon continues. It's presented by Gallery Furniture. We are doing our level best to raise as much as we can for research and to take care of the parents of the children who are being treated at St. Jude's. Parents are not presented with any bills. They don't have to worry about that. The only thing they are there to worry about is their children and to make sure they're there to support their children. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital takes care of everything else. It is one of the best charities going. Top rating from Charity Navigator. Recommend them highly if you want to become a partner in hope, and I hope you do. You just pledge $19 a month to help kids at St. Jude finding cancer. Put your gift on the card. You get the brand new t-shirt they're offering in a St. Jude hoodie. You can either do it by texting the word kids, K-I-D-S to 626-262. That's Kids to 626-262. Or you can call their toll-free number, and I'll give that to you here in just a couple minutes. First, though, traffic and weather together as we check out the drive once again. Here's Skymike. East Freeway Outbound McCarty. You've got a wreck at the 630. I'll get you some lineage. That's outbound, not inbound. I'm Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center for today. We are looking at dense fog. That advisory is in effect until 9, becoming partly sunny after that, 73. So morning fog, morning clouds, afternoon, sun. for tomorrow 75. Maybe a slight shower chance too. And then Sunday mostly cloudy by the hive 63. Right now 55 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740 KTRH. Time now to check out some of our top Friday morning trending stories. Here's Cliff. Thank you, Jimmy. Follow up from yesterday was sponsored by Cars for Kids. The Conroe judge arrested recently for DWI, apparently as a couple of more DWI arrests in his past. Former Michigan football coach Sharon Moore expected to appear in court today for Raymond on an assault investigation. And the powerball jackpot tomorrow night is a billion dollars. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 630.

2025 a year that we'll go down. Come 2026. The president's set the table. Come to us. Use Radio 740, KTRH. And you all watch House of Cards. That may be the one and only show that I've actually spent time watching on Netflix back of the day was House of Cards. And I think it still is one of their most successful shows. But I don't recall any LGBT themes in House of Cards. There's murder and mayhem and political intrigue. Plenty of that. But that, of course, was only one of the many shows that they have. This report says nearly half of Netflix kids' shows exposed children to LGBT propaganda. See, I never really thought of Netflix as a place to go watch children's programming. Beth Brilia joins us. She's a writer at the Federalist. How many kids shows do they have over there altogether, Beth? Well, I don't know what's the total number. I'm not the one who did the study. It was the concerned women for America. But what they found was that 41% of Netflix shows are pushing LGBT agenda. And it's just not the television, it's not children's television anymore. I mean, it's got bright, shunny cartoons and it's very cute and the high, squeaky voices, but the subject matter is really not for kids anymore. Well, this has kind of been the template for quite some time now, hasn't it? You take programming that will attract children and you use it as a propaganda piece to try to indoctrinate them. At very least, you're trying to convince them that alternative lifestyles are perfectly fine and perfectly normal. There's nothing unusual about two mommies or two daddies. But they've gone way past that part. It used to be kind of just the, we're going to tell everybody it's okay for women to be with women and men to be with men, but it's gone way past that now. Yeah, and the trans agenda as well. It's out there. For example, there's the television show Ada Twist Scientist. I love that name. It's so cute. It rhymes. It has children planning a wedding for two men who are getting married. And not only do the men, you know, you may kiss your husband at the end of the wedding and everybody cheers, but not only that, but they kiss throughout.

the entire episode, like way too many kisses. And, and you know, I don't even, um, this is maybe unusual, but my son saved his kissing until marriage even. So I mean, like, you know, there are people out there who don't even want to role model kissing before, um, before marriage, let alone two men kissing and children, um, What a dumb premise. Children don't plan weddings. I know you want to do fantasy, but we don't do shows about kids getting car loans or kids sitting for job interviews because those are adult themes and they're not topics for children. And neither is the LGBT agenda. But there it is in front of your kids. Well, I noticed in your article too, who the executive producers of that show you just talked about are. Barack and Michelle Obama. Yeah. Yeah, well, they are in charge of a lot of the things on Netflix, cartoons and beyond. I mean, their fingerprints are on. A lot of stuff. And if you, if you're watching Netflix with that in mind, you can just see it. You go, I wonder if Michelle, if the Obamas are involved in this one, and almost certainly it will be, you know. But, you know, also a lot of the shows that we know and trust from our own childhood have been gayed and lesbian or transed up, like a strawberry shortcake now has. Transberry characters. And there's an episode, you'll see some links in the story that we posted on the Federalists. And the links are like really upsetting because Strawberry Short. But then they have this like a big adult burly man in a dress. And the kids are cheering him. And he's like, you know, they have the correct response because they're cheering. And they talk about being your authentic self and these things that are very self-absorbed, teaching a value that, you know, you don't want to teach your kids. You can't let. television be the babysitter because he can't trust even the old and familiar shows anymore like magic school bus or power rangers babysitters club she brought and fairly odd parents they all have gay scenes in them now wow let me ask you this is this a hollywood problem is this a network problem at netflix um or is this kind of an all of all of the above problem Well, this study only looked at Netflix and found 41% of their programming has this LGBT programming involved in just children's shows. But we know that glad the, you know, the folks that represent gay representation have a report that they put out.

that talks about every year how much representation that they have on television across the board. And they found in 2024, there was a 4% increase in extra 21 characters. There's like 468 characters. on television right now who are representing the gay lesbian alliance. So, yeah, it's everywhere you turn. Parents really need to be much more vigilant than when we were younger. Well, thanks for illustrating that for us. I'm sure there's a lot of folks listening with Netflix subscriptions that are enlightened thanks to you, Beth. Appreciate it. Beth Brillia. She's a writer at the Federalist. She's 629. Houston's. News. Weather traffic. Plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740, KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRS. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. 631. Houston's Morning News. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this F.R., Jasmine Crockett, has an eight-point lead for the Senate nomination. Another liberal federal judge rules to release Abrago Garcia. And coming up at 638, more on that drunk judge in Conroe. Details in the minutes ahead, you're in Houston's morning news. First, we're checking out that morning drive again with Sky Mike. I know there's a wreck on the East Freeway outbound at McCarty, but I can't see. I can see the suckage coming over from wayside. This is outbound, not inbound. I'm Skymike and the Ability Tree Experts, Traffic Center. From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center for today, a dense fog advisory. That's in effect until 9. Other than that... becoming partly sunny, but the high temperature of 73s the day we're as I'm. We'll get the specific details, especially when the fall gets out of here. When we talk to Jeff Marr at the Weather Channel, current temperature is 55 and your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy. It is 632 on KTRH. Our top story. You listen to her talk. It's a lot more about herself than it is to voters. James Carville on the Politics War Room podcast taking a shot at Jasmine Crockett. That said, new polling this morning shows the radical Dallas area congresswoman leading James Talarico in the Senate primary, 51 to 43%. A candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioners taking heat for a last second party switch from Democrat to Republican. Catherine Stephen Colbert made the switch after campaigning for months, says a progressive Democrat. It's the worst in a politician. It's not going to work. I mean, it's just, she's crazy to even think that she's not going to be called out on this. Jared Woodfield with Conservative Republicans of Texas says what she did might constitute outright fraud. Did she know all along? She was going to represent herself to Democrats as leftists, take their money, that the last minute run as a Republican. There could be liability there. We reached out to Stephen Colbert's campaign, but she has not responded to our request for comment.

Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. It is now 633. Illegal Alien and accused gang member Kilmar Abrago Garcia has been released from ICE custody by a Maryland federal judge. The Trump administration's going to appeal. The left, of course, is cheering this. The Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino, not so much. They don't seem to care, whether it's a terrorist that we caught just a couple of days ago. or murders, folks that have strangled children, all types of reprehensible criminals. Bovino with KTRH's Sean Hannity. Meantime, Indiana rejects redistricting blocked by that state's Republican Senate President Roderick Bay, who President Trump says he will support. Any opponent that runs against him for re-election. 634 reports indicate that the U.S. could seize more oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela. The White House isn't quite denying it. The president is committed to stopping the illegal flow of drugs into our country. He's also fully committed to effectuating this administration's sanction policy, and that's what you saw and the world saw take place. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says the U.S. plans to keep the oil from the tanker it seized this week. Well, prices are down this morning to $57.51.51 a barrel. In the meantime, AAA, Texas is expecting 8.7 million drivers on the road this holiday season. 110 million across the country. Good news. Houston gas prices this morning are at 247 a gallon. Gas prices are at a four-year low. That certainly is an early holiday gift helping millions save money as they prepare to travel. AAA's Daniel Armbruster. 635, Charlie Kirk's accused killer was in court for the first time in person yesterday. His attorneys want cameras banned over potential bias concerns. Kirk's death has led to a reported spike in young people pursuing Christianity. But the Liberal Pew Research Center claims there's no evidence of a revival. Christian Susan Collins with Texas Youth Summit says the revival. is absolutely real. I do believe, based on all my working with young people in politics, that this generation, Gen Z is more religious than millennials and Gen Xers and boomers. They are more religious. They're more interested in God. They're more interested in faith. Bible sales are up by one point by a million over last year. Church attendance is up 15%. It is now 636. Another reason to shake your head at Gen Z. They report generational tensions at their workplace, but won't accept any of the blame. A huge divide has grown, both due to technology and work ethic. The way that younger people think and the way they're conditioned is quite radically different than the generation right behind them. Texas workplace expert Scott Curley says Gen Z employees are more sensitive and less accountable, but part of the blame falls on the older generations too. They got that way of thinking from somebody and the older people, the older generation, we have to probably take some ownership and accountability and why they think and often behave that way.

We need a better understanding of Gen Z in order to ease the tensions. Andre Perrard News Radio 740, KTRH. The Texans host Arizona Sunday at noon. They've won their last five. Today is date two of the St. Jude Radiothon presented by gallery furniture. Become a partner in hope. Pledge just 19 bucks a month to help kids fighting cancer. The number is 800-58. 1433. You can also donate online. We've got the link on our Facebook and X page. The first 10 partners in Hope this morning get a $50 gift card to Willie's Grill and Ice House. So far, according to the Oak Harvest Financial Group Tote Board, we have raised more than $311,000. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Find out about D&M Auto Leasing's easy lease. 713-2901,000 or DM Auto Leasing.com. It's one policy. Going to take our capital back. We're taking it back. After another. You burn a flag. You get one year in jail. On News Radio 740, KTRH. 637 here in Houston's morning. So if you heard about this judge, Conroe judge, who has evidently been arrested multiple times for DWI, he's a traffic judge. Does that strike you maybe as a little bit of a conflict of interest? You're a traffic judge and you routinely drink and drive? He's had several burses with the law. He's been let off very easily every time it's happened. It hasn't cost him his bench seat. And I kind of have to wonder why. I guess the excuse is because he's an elected official. Here's the report, by the way. Let's learn more about this guy, this judge in Combrough. This is a report from our television partner, KPRC2. Judge Wagner was elected in 2022 and takes small cases like traffic tickets here. But I learned that he's had his run-ins with the law before. Hi. Is Judge Wagner here? No, he's not here. Oh, all righty. We tried to speak with Judge William Wagoner following his arrest overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, but a family member told us he wasn't home. Investigators say he was driving under the influence and illegally carrying a handgun in his car. We've since learned he returned back to the bench Wednesday afternoon. I also learned he's been arrested before, not once. Not twice, but three times before. His first time goes back to 2008 for an evading arrest charge. In that case, he completed a diversion program to get the case dismissed. Then in 2014, he was arrested for DWI, but the DA dismissed the case citing insufficient evidence. And in 2017, he was arrested for DWI again in San Antonio, but he took a plea deal to avoid conviction and get his charge dismissed. On his website, Judge Wagoner. describes himself as a, quote, lifelong Texan and public servant. And quote, his work is driven by the responsibility he feels to protect families. Now, I did reach out to the city of Conroe and a spokesperson told me they are aware of Judge Wagner's arrest, but he is an elected official and is still sitting on the bench. Yeah, still sitting on. Well, yeah, still sitting on the bench.

By the way, is there a worst feeling, by the way, if you are a, if you're a person, any person, I guess, when you've got a television fan outside of your house and they're, hello, we like to talk to you, Judge Wagner. They're knocking on your door. I don't think that's a very good feeling. And I also have to wonder about this. Because, I mean, we've all made mistakes in our life about, you know, consuming alcohol and getting behind the wheel of the vehicle, mostly when we're young and stupid. This guy's not young. He's a judge. He's not stupid. So is he just an alcoholic who can't figure this out? I mean, is there a reason why can you not afford to, like, call somebody or call a cab or Uber and get somebody to drive him home? Why does he have to go out and drink and drive? And how often does this happen in his life? Because, you know, think about this, the amount of times that, you know, you never got caught drinking and driving. I mean, that doesn't happen all that often. You've got to be doing it all the time to get caught three times. 641, time for traffic and weathered together. Sometimes when you drink. Yes, Skymai. You make dating mistakes too. Oh, no good decision was made on alcohol. It's I-10 East. I got the wreck at McCarty. Can somebody give me lineage? I don't even know if you can see it from ground level because the fog is so awful. These shots I've got here. Just all I can see is lights here and there. But this is outbound McCarty, not inbound. Watch out. Inbound. It looks like we're okay. Mostly close to posted speeds. Alt 90 high. Hey, Mo City Express, inbound, just passed South Coast Oak Truck Ninja by three cops, and only left Wayne is getting right. Ah, so well said. Don't forget your name, represent your neighborhood. 249, Lance from Magnolia. Come on. Dude. Lance from Magnolia. I know. Fog thicker than a mule's lip. Ugh. What? And, of course, there's a couple of idiots driving around with their flashers on. Oh, it drives me crazy. 288. Kevin, Danbury. He's got mine. Low fog down here in Brazoria. Stayed the course. Boom. All we can see is Stephen Fawson's feet. We can't even tell how happy he is this morning. I'm Sky Mike. It's your ability tree experts, traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center. Time to check in with Jeff Marr filling in today for Terry Smith. He brought the fog with him, but it's only around for a couple of hours. Yeah, a couple hours this morning. It'll settle in again late tonight and early tomorrow morning, and then a cold front pays us a visit on Sunday, and that's going to impact our temperatures into the start of the upcoming week. In the meantime, dense fog advisory is in effect until 9 a.m. this morning. Before the afternoon, we'll see an occasional break in the cloud cover and hit a high in the low 70s. Now to 63 with clouds and fog overnight. There may be an isolated shower too early tomorrow than clearing into the afternoon in the high of 74. Strong cold front sweeps through Sunday. We'll reach our high in the low 60s early. Temperatures will fall through the 50s into the afternoon with clouds. and gusty winds. Right now we're up another one. We've gone up three degrees so far this morning. 56 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. Coming up on 650, we are doing the St. Jude Radiothon, presented by Gallery Furniture today. It's the last day of it. It's a last chance to raise money. You know, I really...

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interacting with a Democrat congressman in some reaction on the other end from Jesse Waters on the five. It's like O.J. Simpson that night on Bundy Drive, just an unfortunate situation. They always have these terms. Like, what did Omar say on 9-11? Some people did things? Yeah. Would they say Fort Hood was a workplace violence? They can never just call a spade a spade. It's terrorism. Remember the Obama years? We just... We would try to like wiggle around what we call them. You know, we could only give them jobs. They were just poor, hungry people that flew the plane the wrong direction. I'm glad she hit him back and I can't believe he corrected himself and said the same thing. Benny, my goodness. What's going on in Chicago, Turley, constitutional law professor, who I think is the smartest lawyer around. No offense, Harold. He said this is purely unconstitutional. Not only of the Supremacy Clause, Supreme Court precedent, federal immigration law, Barack Obama went to the Supreme Court to say the federal government controls immigration policy, and he won. Arizona lost. And you cannot set up little enclaves where it's like, what can J.B. Pritzker say in this block, the IRS can't enforce? The tax code? No, of course not. The dumbest thing is they have this other little clause. It's a thousand feet away from the courthouse. You can't have ICE agents do their job. So some migrant can just lease an apartment 500 feet from a courthouse and just sit there. He could just live in a little sanctuary apartment. It's insane. And it's going to get knocked out. Yeah, he's talking about J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. laying down some rules as far where ice can and cannot go in the city of chicago and of course ice says we're not we're not following your rules i guess that the clip i asked for with christian noam wasn't in there that's okay clip's got it for you coming up in about another five minutes with our news as we get started there all right time for the timeline pair tickets today to see trans siberian orchestra the ghost of christmas eve the best of t s o and more december the 19th at toyota center Tickets for both afternoon and evening shows go on sale today at 10 o'clock in the morning at Toyota Center.com, but you can win a pair from us. Tell us what year today's timeline's from. And I've said earlier that I would welcome the appointment of an independent council. It was December. To look into allegations of illegality in the sale of arms to Iran. President Reagan forms the Tower Commission, investigating the Iran-Contragan's for a hostages deal. Opposing the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. On television. Search. For Tomorrow. After 35 years, it's the final episode of soap opera Search for Tomorrow on CBS. Keeping a soft complexion is as easy as washing your face. Making its big screen debut. The war is over for me now. But it will always be there. The rest of my days. Charlie Sheen in Oliver Stone's platoon. Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. And on the radio...

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem putting Mississippi Congressman Benny Thompson on blast. Now, Kristi Noem was testifying about threats to the homeland since taking over in January more than 2.5 million illegals have either been deported or left on their own. There's no doubt that the size of the immigrant population and in particular, the illegal immigrant population has gone down. That is a real accomplishment. It's something that is practically unprecedented in U.S. history. Jason Rich Wine with the Center for Immigration Studies says the self-deportation saved taxpayer money. Senate rejects dueling health care bills from both sides of the aisle. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson says you can thank Obamacare for this mess. Obamacare led to a dramatic consolidation of every sector in the health care system. Hospitals, hospital associations, insurance companies, PBMs, drug, you know, it's just a massive consolidation. There's not one incentive to lower costs. Subsidies expire at the end of the month. That was Johnson with KTRH's Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. It's now 704. Harris County Commissioners need another $4 million to give law enforcement pay raises. Outgoing Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo. Well, she showed up to court for the first time in a month to complain. What's happening is a lot of misleading and mismanagement. And I think that people should be aware of that. Yes, she actually said that. But. Here's what you need to remember. She's been against the races from the start, and she's still mad about Dems voting down her attempt to raise your taxes for her pet early childhood education program. Meantime, the Texas Association of School Boards already under fire from conservatives is being called out by the Texas GOP for being a monopoly. Turns out, TASB controls almost everything from the training of staff to insurance sales. They tell those school boards buy insurance from us. All of these school boards have to buy all kinds of insurance. They're a huge monopoly. Texas GOP chairman Abraham George says they're also the reason taxpayer-funded lobbying wasn't banned by the legislature. There was some conservatives who filed some bills. As we came to all of the legislators and said, don't you dare push us out of the business. George says they're now pushing for the AG's office to investigate Tasby to see if they are in fact a monopoly. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. There's a dual threat facing our agriculture sector. The state issued an urgent alert this week about a newly detected pest called the mealy bug. State farmers are also watching a rise in bird flu cases. It can have a catastrophic impact when it comes to poultry industries, egg pricing. Tracy Tamasik with the Texas Farm Bureau says this has been a big problem in other parts of the country. Urcott expects just a 1 to 2% chance of rotating power outages this winter. Things are better this year, at least looking forward. It's better than it was five years ago. U.HZEHs says battery storage has added a new layer of protection for the grid. And there may be some good news for those of you fed up with the climate change crowd. What they're saying is the climate cult is dead.

We are at a historical low point of the climate cult. In my lifetime, I've never seen a collapse of a political movement quite like the climate at the moment. That's Mark Morano, publisher at Climate Depot, who says it's not completely dead. Even though it's a historical low right now, they're not going to give up. There's so much money invested. The one movement I'm seeing is they're trying to fold climate change into a public health issue. And waiting for another Democrat president. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KT or H. The Rockets beat the Clippers 115 to 113 last night, and today is date two of the St. Jude Radiothon, presented by gallery furniture. Please become a partner in hope. All it takes is 19 bucks a month. The number to call is 800-58-1433. You can also donate online. We have the link at KTRH.com. It's also at the top of our Facebook page, at the top of our X page. We are looking for 28 partners in hope by 8 o'clock this morning. So far, according to the O'Carvis Financial Group tote board, we have raised $319,000. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. The plot of the stories of the day will thicken as you go about your day. Add afternoon news and talk. Stir things up. For easy consumption. News Radio 740, KTRH. Yeah, that's a look. White socks and flip flops. How about the white socks? How about shorts with white knee highs and dress shoes? The look that says, I'm 85 and I've given up. I'm just wearing what has been in my closet since 1968. That's what that looks as. Well, we got started on socks this morning because we had the story about how many people, and it turns out a fair number of us, we wear socks without washing them. And science tells us that's probably not a very good thing to do because there's nothing that has more fungi and microbes and stinky stuff than your feet. Therefore, when you put on a pair of socks and you wear them in shoes for any length of time, you've already polluted the socks. So rather than put polluted socks back on your feet again, you should wash them. At least that's the recommendation. So I started wondering, okay, I have not always washed my socks every time. Sometimes I'll get dressed in the morning in a pair of pants and a pair of socks because it's cold and then I'll switch over to shorts after a couple of hours. And I don't think after two hours the socks are dirty. But you might have rules of your own. Yes, this is Dirk Kingwood. The sock monster has yet to be caught. He and his sidekick, a black lab, have probably caused 10 to 15 divorced socks at any given time yet to find each other. Thank you.

Hey, morning, Jimmy. As far as your feet, you got to clean them the old-fashioned way and draws. It's just easier not to wear any. I was wondering if that was coming. We got to, Skybike got in, well, Cliff got into the underwear thing, you know. Yeah, we have rules about underwear, too. I don't re-wear. That is something if I put underwear, if I put a pair of underwear on for 10 minutes and get out of them, they're going into the dirty clothes hamper. Yeah, anything that's that close to that region, yeah, they just cannot be reworn. 7-10, tie for traffic and weather together. Mama said, wear clean drawers. Yeah, in case you're in an accident, Skymine. You never know when you might have an accident. Caused by low visibility fog. That's our thing this morning. And that is the deal. Everybody, we got to turn your snooze off. Cheap from Pearlands on your tip line. Got Mike, right at the 59 flyover. There is a disabled 18-wheeler in the right-hand lane. You guys want to stay left of that? It's backed up pretty good right there. All right, that's the South Sam Westbound ramp to the Southwest Freeway, northbound. My head hurts. Okay, that's the rent that goes from Pearland, back up toward downtown lookout there. Tracy from Southam. is doing the 290. Good morning, Mike. Huffmeister on ramp. It looks like there's an accident on the frontage lane, and they're forcing everybody back onto the main lane. All right, that looks outbound, not inbound. Let me know if you see something I don't. Golf Freeway, Belford. That's actually a stall left lane. And 288, it's pea soup thick fog. Kevin. He's got my low fog down here in Brazoria. And, of course, all we can see is even if Austin's feet. All you can see is his feet. feet. I'm Sky Mike. In Your Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. That illustrates the problem from our KTRH, Top Tax Defenders 24-hour Weather Center. Jeff Marr is here. I've seen some break in the clouds where I am, so I guess you're either getting the fog and you're getting pretty heavy fog or you're not getting the fog. Yes, it'll be the case this morning and then again late tonight and on Saturday morning before a front mooster on Sunday. So visibility certainly will be an issue when that front arrives as we head towards Sunday. In the meantime, though, a dense fog advisory until 9 this morning. Visibility down close to a quarter of a mile in some spot. So use caution as you head out early. And then for the afternoon, a mix of clouds and sun as we hit 73. Another round of dense fog overnight down to 63. A slight chance for a shower early tomorrow than clearing with a high of 74. And then the colder air moves in Sunday. We'll reach a high in the low 60s. in the morning, but then fall through the 50s that are a cloudy sky during the afternoon with gusty winds at times. Right now, 56 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. 720, our time here in Houston's morning news. We'd like to do kind of a gut check on religion every now and again. You know, I'm curious. as to what sort of a post-Charlie Kirk impact we're seeing. We saw a lot of people going back to church. We saw a lot of young people in particular who seem to be moved by the experience and maybe moved back towards a more religious experience for themselves. A Pew Research Centerpiece, though, says that there's no...

Clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. It says that religion in America's holding steady. We'll talk to Christian Susan Collins, founder of the Texas Youth Summit about this coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together that starts with you, Skymike. It's Gulf Freeway. That's a stall. At least we can see this guy inbound at Belford, left lane. You've got this deal on the South Belt. That's a stalled 18-wheeler. Thank you, Chief, from Pearland. He's on that ramp that takes you to the Southwest Freeway to get into the Galleria, and they just cleared something off. a 249. That was a stall right before Grand Parkway. I'm really nervous about Grand Parkway drivers this morning. We'll talk at the 7.30 break in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center for today. We are looking at a dense fog advisory until 9 o'clock this morning, at least for some of us. After that, it'll become partly sunny with a hive 73. Some morning fog tomorrow, afternoon sun 75, mostly cloudy 63 for the high on Sunday. Current temperature 56 at your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. We're ready with some more of your top stories on a Friday morning. Here's Cliff. An Obama judge releases Kilmar Obrigo Garcia from ICE custody. A fire in Harris County last night claims the life of one woman, and investigation continues. Today, check the calendar. It's December 12, 12, 12, day of the dozens, which means Krispy Cream is offering a dozen donuts for a buck. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next updates at 7.30. Just like your car. The new I. App now has presets. Everything I listen to in one place. It's the easiest way to listen to KTRA. Download or update our free IHeart Radio app today. Well, according to this few research piece, we're not losing our religion. We're just not gaining as much in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Christian Susan Collins joins us. Founder of the Texas Youth Summit. I don't know who they talked to, Christian. I don't know the ends and outs of this particular research piece. But what do you make of it? Well, thank you so much for having me on Jimmy. Look, you know, polls can be skewed and there are polls out there and statistics out there to get whatever outcome you want. But I know a really good poll from George Barna. And this indicator is from 2019 through 2025. And it indicates that young men, especially Gen Z and millennials, are trending upward as it relates to their decision to commit and follow Jesus. And I think. Charlie Kirk's assassination only escalated those numbers, but we're seeing a revival amongst our young people. And I believe that a revival is a moment, but a great awakening, that's something much more lasting. that of which maybe we saw, you know, earlier in the country's history, George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards and just people like that, and maybe later on, Billy Graham, you know, and that there was more sustained growth over a long period of time. But I think we definitely saw a spike in the death of Charlie Kirk. You think that Charlie Kirk's death was a great awakening, at least for Gen Z?

Well, time will tell. I think it's, you know, a great awakening is a much bigger thing than a revival. Revival is a moment. A great awakening is a movement. Yeah. And so I think it's going to be. interesting to see what happens. I sure hope that it's a great awakening because we're all praying for that. But I definitely see that it's been a revival. And I think there's a lot of statistics that back that if you look at the fact that we have one million more Bible cells at this point this year than we did last year, according to Fox News. statistic and then we can also say assuredly that you know church attendance has been up 15% since Charlie Kirk's assassination and maybe a lot of pastors aren't giving Charlie Kirk credit for that but it is true nonetheless and I heard from Pastor Rob McCoy in Houston the other day he was here preaching out of church. And he gave a lot of different statistics and just talked about all the different events that are happening around the country. And he's seeing it on the ground. And so I definitely see it in my work here in the Houston area. But I can attest to a lot of different friends who are signaling that that's what they're seeing across the country. We're talking to Christian Susan Collins founder of the Texas Youth Summit. I wonder to, you know, getting back to that awakening versus revival thing. To me, a revival is, let's say you went to church a lot as a youngster. Your parents took you to church. You came from a household where church was at least a regular or semi-regular a part of your life. And you maybe walked away from it or got away from it or just kind of lapsed. And then something like Charlie Kirk happens and you go, I need to go back to my roots and you go back and you do it again. The awakening to me would be where people who have never were brought up in a religious household, were never religious before, just all of a sudden found their religion. Yeah, and that can be kind of construed here in the Bible Belt South. I think there's a lot of people who are culturally Christian, but maybe just they don't go to church, they're not active, but they would say that they believe in God, but that's very different than being devout where you go to church. four times a month and you know you're involved in Bible studies and you're reading your Bible every day that's that's a much firmer commitment and so I think just from my personal experience the top the conversations that I've had with friends who were I would say nominally culturally Christian at best and now they're they're they're becoming inspired after the Charlie Kirk assassination to want to get

involved in church. I've seen that firsthand so I can attest to it. Well, that's awesome because I think that's a part of the revival of the traditional American family. I understand you're in Germany, Christian. I am in Germany. I'm on my honeymoon and I'm just grateful for the opportunity to get to talk with you. And as soon as someone reached out to me about the story, I knew I had to speak up in support of faith. And of course, Charlie Kirk and everything that he's meant to our organization, the Texas eats of it. So my bride, Jensi, she's very gracious to let me do this. Well, tell her, thank you. We appreciate you having the time to do this for us, especially on your honeymoon. Enjoy your trip to Germany. And by the way, try the wiener's snitzel. I will. I will. That sounds amazing. I can't wait. Christian College checking in. Texas Youth Summit at 727. It is time to take a look at your money. Appling with another AI disappointment. Broadcast suffered a stock slide. After its sales outlook for the AI market failed to meet the investors' expectations. Investors still looking for more clarity on when and how the company will get a payoff from artificial intelligence. According to people familiar with the operation, the seizure of that enormous oil supertanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday is just the beginning of a new phase in the Trump administration's ramped-up pressure campaign against that country. Venezuela gets about 80% of its export revenues from oil. I'm John Tucker Carlson Bloomberg Business. News Radio 740, KTRH.

Houston's, news, weather, traffic, plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740, KTRH. Drive everywhere with the Ireland. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. Another half hour coming up of our St. Jude Radiothon being presented by Gallery Furniture among our top stories this half hour, appealing the decision to let this illegal go. Jasmine Crockett, big lead in her race for a Senate nomination. And it's 738 spying on you in the woodlands. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking out that morning drive once again. Here's Sky Mike. Let's don't let these stalled vehicles turn into wrecks, so watch out get an early start. South Sam, Westbound, right before you get on 69. That's stalled 18-wheeler. I think that's exactly what happened. This is now being listed as a wreck. We're backed up from Alt 90 coming over from Pearland to Southwest side. You've got Gulf Freeway northbound at Belford. It's a stall, left lane breaks from Edgebrook. Sky Mike and the Ability Tree Experts, Traffic Center. From our KTRA. Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center, will become partly sunny once we get rid of the fog that's left. High temperature today, about 73. The rest of the weekend looks warm for tomorrow, a little cooler on Sunday, and we'll start the work week off with a big chill. We'll talk to Jeff Meyer about all this in about eight minutes. Right now, it's 56 in your official severe weather station, news radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. 732, our top story this morning. He is a proven human trafficker. He is a proven gang member. The administration has evidence of that. And as you saw from the Department of Homeland Security, they issued a statement saying they'll continue to fight this legal battle in court. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is illegal alien. Kilmar Alvin Bragg Garcia accused gang member is out of jail, freed from ICE custody by an Obama judge. Trump administration's going to appeal. Another hit to this president's agenda as Indiana rejects a proposal to redo its congressional map blocked by the Republican Senate president, somebody named Rod Bray, who's got a short political lifeline ahead of him. I'm sure that whenever his primary is, it's, I think, in two years. But I'm sure he'll go down. He'll go down. I'll certainly support anybody that wants to go against him. President Trump at the White House yesterday, here at home, Republicans are not the only ones calling out Texas Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett. She's taking some friendly fire as well. To me, she violates the first rule of politics. And that is in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself. James Carville on the Politics War Room podcast. New polling from Texas Southern University shows Jasmine Crockett leading James Talarico by 8 points, 51 to 43%. A liberal running for the Texas Railroad Commission is being called out for shenanigans, switching parties at the last second to join as a Republican. Catherine Culbert, though, spent years of campaigning and fundraising as a Democrat.

This is an individual who thinks she's somehow going to trick voters into believing that she's someone she's not. People see through that. The voters are smart and ultimately she will not be successful. Jared Woodfield with the conservative Republicans of Texas, we reached out to Stephen Colbert's campaign for comment. We're still waiting to hear back. 734, another reason for the left to complain. Reports say the U.S. could seize more oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, though, says it's the only way to get rid of Nicholas Maduro. We need to cut those flows. And once it happens and repression is weakened, it's over because that's the only thing the regime has left, violence and terror. The U.S. plans to keep the oil from the tanker it seized earlier this week. Oil futures are down this morning as gasoline prices ticked down overnight to 247 a gallon across the Houston area. That's 10 cents cheaper than what you were paying for exactly one year ago. And this is a big break for the millions of Texans about to hit the road for the holidays. AAA's Daniel Arm Buster says most of the travelers are choosing to get behind the wheel. 8.7 million Texans are traveling by car, 9.4 million in total traveling. And they expect 110 million drivers nationwide. Congestion, delays, have a backup route, make sure that you're never driving impaired. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740 KTRH. 735, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk appeared in court for the first time in person yesterday. Tyler Robinson's... attorneys have asked the judge in the case to ban cameras over potential bias concerns. Meantime, young people at America are finding their faith despite the narrative that's being pushed by national liberal posters. The Liberal Pew Research Center claims there's no sign of a religious revival among younger Americans. But Christian Susan Collins, who runs the Texas Youth Summit, says the evidence he sees every day shows just the opposite. Bible sales are up $1 million over this point last year. The second indicator is that church attendance has been up by 15%. And campus revival nights, they're seeing this happen all across the country. Susan Collins believes Gen Z is actually more religious than millennials, Gen X, or even baby boomers. And he notes the death of Charlie. Kirk has spurred more interest in Christianity. Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. Thank you, Corey. Kids aren't just being exposed to L. GBT propaganda in school, Beth Brelia with the federalist says it's all over Netflix, too. 41% of Netflix children's shows are pushing that LGBT agenda. They are doing a show with children planning a gay wedding. They have two men kissing throughout the show. It's not age appropriate. She says it's up to parents to monitor and protect their children. 736, the state clarifying a federal law, which says that using drones to fight fish,

to rather two fish is not allowed in Texas. Sports Talk 790s Doug Pike says this was originally meant to prevent flying over a large area searching for schools of fish. The real issue, though, that has fishermen upset. is beach fishing for sharks because they use drones to carry their baits out to deep enough water to get the bigger sharks. Game Wharton say this is a federal law, not a state regulation. The Texans go for their six consecutive victory. They host Arizona Sunday at noon. And today is day two of the St. Jude Radiothon, presented by gallery furniture. You can become a partner in hope pledging 19 bucks a month to help the kids fighting cancer. Call 800, 588, 1433. We've got people. Waiting to help you out right now. You can also donate online. The link at KTRH.com on Facebook and X. And so far, thanks to you, the Oak Harvest Financial Group Toadport says we've raised $319,000 in change. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Need pond cleaning or dredging? Daniel Dean, 281, 356, dirt. The most important events. In any event. Political violence in this country. A Trump shutdown. Check in. We'll check it out. Every day. On News Radio 740, KTRH. No me. Yeah. You spying on me, Woodlands? You spy on me in the Woodlands? Well, I don't really do much that's worth spying on. I don't have any back traffic tickets. You know, you read my license plate. It's going to be a really boring read. But the woodlands investing in some what they're called flock cameras, in case you haven't ever heard that term. Here's a report from K-H-O-U-11 about the new spy cameras in the woodlands. More cameras will soon be watching you in the woodlands, thanks to a township board decision, to fund 30-flot license plate readers like this. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office says a batch of 30 cameras will go up in strategic locations by next summer, thanks to funding recently approved again by the Woodlands Township Board. The cost is said to be around $90,000 annually. Flot cameras have exploded in popularity in recent years and are used by governments and even private entities like HOAs. The HOA thing would bother me. If the HOA is reading license, we're looking for people who haven't paid their HOA dues. I would hope they would be out looking for, you know, serious criminals. I would think that would be the best use of something like a flock camera is you've got somebody wanted for murder or assault with a deadly weapon or some sort of a major charge. And you're just, you know, the police cruisers going through the parking lot, scanning license plates, looking for a match.

I get that part. You know, if we're just tracking down people who have traffic fines and that kind of stuff, I'm not so sure. But that's what I don't know about these flock cameras in the woodlands is what the intended purpose is. 740, time for traffic and weather together. As we check in again, this sky mic. Jimmy, it's dense fog. It's not smart fog. Thank you. 2.90, I got Mike from Magnolia. I'm just looking out around Skinner Road and all that business. Dude. Hey, Sky Mike. Hog is horrible. First I've seen in a long time. With long this thick, you can out dry your headlights. Yeah, you got to watch out. I got to turn everybody snooze off. We're at least not bumping into each other. Grand Parkway in to the West Loop 6-10, 25 minutes. We still have that stalled 18-wheeler that turned into a crash. There it is, northbound on the south loop. My head hurts. All right, this is the South Belt, where it comes from Pearland, going up to the ramp to downtown on the 69th Southwest Freeway. Clear the stall off the Gulf Freeway. That was off the northbound. We've got some breaks still from Edgebrook, but it's not bad for the Gulf Freeway. 288, it's a drag from the Beltway, and 249. You got the roadwork from Willowbrook. Lance from Magnollia's been on with us this morning. And, of course, there's a couple of idiots driving around with their flashers on making it worse. And you've got your 610 north, squeezed down westbound at 45, just like a normal day. I'm Skymike from the Generator Supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, 24-hour Weather Center, that dense fog advisory... remains in effect, like pea soup in a few spots, hardly any in other spots. But here's the good news. The sun is up, Jeff Marr, and it should burn off here, I would think, within the next hour or two. Yeah, middle part of this morning, we'll see that fog starting to lift, and then we'll have a mix of clouds in sun for the afternoon, and it will be warmer today, or the high up to 73, then more dense fog will settle in overnight with clouds at a low of 63. There will be a slight chance for a shower to begin tomorrow morning, the high of 74. Then we will have a strong cold front that's going to sweet through on Sunday. We'll start off with temperatures in the low 60s during the morning under a cloudy sky, but once that front moves through, temperatures will fall into the low 50s wrapping up the afternoon with gusty winds. The low Sunday night should drop. dropped to the mid-30s. Temperature right now. 57 at 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. It's about 750 here in Houston's morning news. We're going to be joined by St. Jude's Executive Director of the South Texas region. That would be Angela Garza. She's coming up in just a moment. It's the St. Jude Radiothon. It's presented by gallery furniture, and today's the last day. So we've got to get to work on this.

More coming up in just a moment. First, though, traffic and weather together. That starts with you, Skymike. Clear the stalled 18-wheeler off the south belt. That's westbound that was trying to get up from Pearland to the southwest freeway. Northbound, ramps out of the way. The smunch is still there. It's an extra eight minutes going this way. Westbound. Off the ship, Channel Bridge. Look out. Southbound 610. If you're coming down from the bud plant, you've got an extra three or four minutes. Got another stall around that corner at 225. I'm Skymike. It's your generator super center. dot com traffic center from our kTRH generator super center 24 hour weather center dense fog advisory that's in effect for about another hour and 10 minutes or so then it will become partly sunny it's already partly sunny here in the gallery of 73 for the height today some morning fog morning clouds afternoon sun tomorrow 75 and then Sunday mostly cloudy but the high temperature 63 it is currently 58 at your official severe weather station news radio 740 kTRH Let's get you an update on some more of our top Friday morning stories. Here's Cliff. Helps if you turn the mic on. Just into this is we're sponsored by Kelsey C-Bull Clinic, a leaf ISD school bus with four kids aboard involved in a two-veh vehicle crash this morning. No injuries reported. A grand jury again fails to indict Attorney General Letitia James of New York. And according to a new study, dark chocolate slows down aging. I need about a gal know that. Get the latest news anytime. I'm the only one that's not like cheering in the room. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 8. Learned how to listen. From you. I don't miss a show. Talk about it here. I cannot help but listen to you all the time. News Radio 740, KTRH. It is 752 now here in Houston's Board. What are you doing in my studios, Guy, Mike? I'm just working. I'm supporting the cause. You're not here to give Angela a hard time, are you? No, no, no. Angela and I are cool. Angela Garza is here. She's with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She's their South Region Executive Director. Are you based here in Houston? I am. I'm here in Houston. I live in Sugar Land. Well, there you go. Yes. It's nice. I think people forget. We think of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and we think of this hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Right. But the fact of the matter is, You're located all across the country. Your patients are located all across the country. I'm guessing that all 50 states are represented at any one time or another. Yes, you're exactly right. We have patients who live all across the country. We do have one hospital. It's in Memphis, Tennessee, but we do share our research, our protocols freely with... all 50 states and around the world. So we are considered local because of that. We have patients who are currently receiving treatment here locally because of St. Jude. So, yeah, we have a local presence. How many patients do you have in the Memphis Hospital at any one time? Well, we treat about 8,300 kids a year. So if you think about it, 16,000 kids are diagnosed every year with cancer. So we're treating over half. Yeah. Do you have a question, Mike? Oh, no, no. Oh, I thought you might have a question. No, I was just, I had no idea it was that many kids that are treated every year. Yes. I do have something to ask Jimmy at the end of this. Okay, well, hang on that trip, you got a trivia. Okay, great. The raising of the money, you know, we were talking a little bit about this yesterday, about the research aspect of it, and I think you sort of touched on that. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and I like to put the emphasis on research because.

You end up with a lot of patients that cannot be treated anywhere else because they aren't doing the research you're doing. The success rate. in curing cancer amongst kids has just grown exponentially since this whole thing began in 1962. Yes, it has. Yeah, we are really proud of the work that we do. And we're very collaborative around that. So you're right. We are a research hospital. We treat kids. We are in patient care, treating kids with pediatric cancer and other life-threatening diseases. But we are also a research facility. We have a cloud. You know, people can access the research at any point, researchers, doctors all over the country. And we have amazing collaboration. So we're very proud of the work that we do that Danny Thomas had that vision and foresight in 1962. So, yeah, we're really proud of it. That was your terrific question. That was it. Did you know? I already knew the answer. Whoa. His daughter is also connected with the hospital. Marlow, right? Exactly right. That girl. Marlo Thomas. See? Let me, let me, I know this is hard to be specific about, and I won't ask you to be specific, but I want to give our listeners a feeling for how much good this money does. If I were a mom and a dad who had a child that's being treated for, let's say, leukemia or some other form of leukemia, some rare form of it, at your hospital, what kind of money would be, they have to be spending? Yeah. If St. Jude Children's Research Hospital wasn't taking care of them, taking care of their needs, taking care of their child's medical attention. Yeah. It's, it's, so as you know, no child, no family ever receives a bill for treatment, travel, housing, or food. Right. So they can focus on helping their child live. So on average, it cost about $450,000 to treat one child. Wow. And you're right with the experiment like the experimental protocols that aren't or treatments that aren't covered by insurance. It's a real thing. So even if you are treated at a local hospital, the insurance, a lot of times you're battling that to get the coverage. So we want to take that away. And you do a great job with that. All right. Thank you for coming by, Angela. By the way, text the word kids to 6262. You can make a donation. There'll be a link there. You can make a donation. Or call 800-588-1433. You'll have a great weekend. We'll see you Monday morning, bright and early at 5. Hope to see you this afternoon at 4 on AM-950 KPRC.