Just Enough Democrats Vote To Potentially End The Government Shutdown

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this morning. And this won't surprise you. The mainstream media played defense for the Dems during the shutdown. As Bill D'Agostino notes for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters, it's been all about defending the Democrats. Fairly remarkable. The media are basically trying to exonerate Democrats from any amount of culpability they have in this shutdown. And the research shows the numbers don't lie. What we found was that there were only 12 instances where anybody on one of these three broadcast networks actually mentioned that it was Senate Democrats causing the government shutdown. Instead, it's 87% pro-democrat coverage. Jeff Figgs News Radio 740, KT.R. It's now 503. This is the place where I first ran for public office. We won Harris County then, and we are going to win Harris County again this election. Greg Abbott makes it official right here in Houston announcing his run for a historic fourth term as governor. The move comes after voters passed all 17 propositions on the ballot last week. Filing for the midterms continues, and the Harris County GOP is working overtime to recruit candidates to run for multiple judicial positions. We actually have a great slate of candidates. Lots of great experience, background. We're real thrilled with how it's shaping up. But that said, we have the longest ballot in the country. Party chair Cindy Siegel says they're still working to recruit more for family, probate, and felony courts. The candidate's filing period is ending on December 8th. Elsewhere after last week's Democrat wins in Democrat states, we should add. California Governor Gavin Newsom took a victory lap here in Houston. We're dealing with an invasive species by the name of Donald Trump. But the Californian was here in Houston. California passed Prop 50 retaliation for Texas redistricting. The new maps may impact next year's midterms, but that won't help or won't matter if the GOP doesn't learn from last week. It wasn't just the big races in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. Election data guru Ryan Gerdeski tells Breitbart News, Democrats also won smaller races across several other states last Tuesday. Places that really had no national repercussions, but the turnout was tremendous on the part of Democrats just to say, let me stick it to Trump and go vote for a Democrat. And Republican turnout was very, very low. Even in Mississippi, Republicans saw seats in the state legislature. He says Republicans must sharpen their economic message and get their 2024 voters to turn out next year.

to counter the Dems anti-Trump enthusiasm. Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. Looking at your money, if President Trump gets his way, you're going to reap the benefits of tariffs promising a $2,000 dividend check for everyone except for high-income earners. Overnight futures on the Dow are up more than 200 points. The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday sales will top $1 trillion. That's reflecting a 4.3% increase compared to last year. Lone Star Economists. Lone Star College economist Hank Lewis says there are a couple of ways to look at this. So it could be that, yes, it's higher, but some of that may be because of there being higher prices of various goods and services. In other words, you might not get as much bang for your buck, and that's because of inflation, which started, of course, under Joe Biden. It's now 506. The Texans, what a game. They outscored the Jaguars 26-0 in the fourth quarter to beat Jacksonville 36 to 29. Davis Mills had to go-ahead score in the final. minute. I have always had the mentality to stay confident, regardless of what happened on the play before. It's kind of like the old basketball mentality, shoot or shoot. If you stop, I mean, you're not going to see shots go in. The Texans are now 4 and 5. They visit Tennessee next weekend. The Rockets beat the Bucks in Milwaukee, 122 to 115. Kevin Durant, 31 points to lead the way. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740, KTRH. Houston's Morning News continues with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. All right, well, we are technically still in the government shutdown, but it looks like the end is just about here. The Senate voted 60 to 40 last night, just enough Democrats to go along with this to end the shutdown. Now it has to go back to the House, where, who knows, Joe, I don't think it'll be any problem getting it through the House because... Really, Republicans didn't really give up anything in all this. At the end of the day, I think they realized that Democrats, you know, that didn't vote for it in particular, realized that, hey, you guys are going to go ahead and go with Republicans on this, but they haven't given us anything. And they really didn't. What they basically agreed to was there will be a vote. We will take a vote on health care, on health care subsidies. We will take a vote on that. There's no guarantee that the vote will pass. In fact, I'm a betting person, and I generally am, they probably wouldn't, at least not from what I'm saying, it wouldn't pass. So Bernie Sanders on the floor of the Senate, this is yesterday before the vote took place about 10.30 last night. This is before the vote. Here's Bernie doing what Bernie does. And if this resolution is passed tonight. We are on a pathway to throw 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. 15 million. Our job is to create universal health care. Guarantee health care, every man, woman, a child, not throw 15 million people off the health care. They have low-income and working-class people.

And my friends know what you are voting on. Studies are out there. That when you throw 15 million people off healthcare, some 50,000 of our fellow Americans will die unnecessarily every single year. Anyone think that's funny? Something to laugh at? Something to just go past? I hate to say it, but as soon as Bernie Sanders says to you with that accent of his, does anybody think that's funny? First thing I do is start the snicker. inappropriately. But it makes you laugh anyway. What Bernie Sanders has talked about there is universal health care. No, he's asking for, well, we're not asking for universal health care. He does. He wants socialized medicine. But he's a Democrat socialist. That's what he wants. He's not going to get what he wants. At any time, I hope in the future, he's not going to get what he wants. So, as I said, this is the first step towards ending the government shutdown. Nothing government is easy. You'd like to think that the Senate was holding it up. So if they voted last night to stop holding it up, we'd be back in business this morning, right? But it's not quite that simple. I'm guessing the House will act today and we'll see how quickly things can. rev back up here and get our nation's travel schedule back in time for Thanksgiving. Looks like it will be back in plenty of time for that. 5-10, time for traffic and weathered together. What's pretty, skyline? I'm just looking at the Fred Hartman Bridge. I'm supposed to look at this wreck first, though. Okay, I'll get to the Hartman Bridge. Terry, I sent you a link so you can look if you can look in your thing now. I don't know if you can. North Freeway, I-45 Southbound at 610. Right where you get on that ramp, right where you don't need it. You're trying to go to the working side. You're trying to go over to the heights. They're letting you buy to go to the heights side, westbound. They're not letting you go east side to head over to the truck stops on the east loop. So you can't do that. If you're not hazardous, what are you going to do? Oh, I guess you go west and go around. If you are not hazardous, you can go straight through the north freeway and make the Katy Freeway on the outbound side here. I don't think this wreck's going to be here very long. Now, put your hard hats on. We're going to the 146 Missouri Street, and that's the friend. Red Hartman Bridge, checking out Baytown Side to Leport. It's pretty. Look at both ways here. We're in good shape here. And the East Sam Tolbridge, no suckage here yet, and no big hoo-ah going on on the East Loop 6-10. We look good. Bud Plant's 225. Clean bill. By the way, Terry, it does not hurt cows when you dehorn them. It's just like, yeah, I wanted you to know that. Is it like taking claws off of cats? It's like your fingernails. Because I know you were horrified by that thing I put on Facebook, but that little squeeze shoot thing, they just cut their... horns off. No, it's like... Have you had your fingernail? No, no, not removed, not removed. Just clipped. You're just clipping. Oh, clip. Yeah, it doesn't hurt them because they don't have any feeling in their horns. So that's what that's all. I'm sorry about that. Got off track, y'all. But I wanted Terry to know. They're okay. I'm in the generator, supercenter.com traffic center. They are traffic and animal husbandry 101 from our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center. Terry is here. Hey, Terry, let's make everybody feel so good about living in Houston, Texas. Yeah. Describe the weather right now in Chicago.

Okay, let's pull up Chicago. They're dealing with snow and lake effects snow. Now, around the city, they won't see as much snow as some of the suburbs to the north. And how much snow are we talking about, Terry? Oh, let's see. I don't have any. I hear they're going to measure it in feet instead of inches. You know, I was looking yesterday and I was seeing six to 12 inches, but that was yesterday. So let me check and see the specific snowfall amount. It's not even Thanksgiving yet. Yeah, not even Thanksgiving. Well, it's November, but boy, yeah, this is their first big dose of snow. And the problem is that the lakes are still quite warm. That moisture source is still. very much open for business as we'd like to say they're dealing with that you know what um i'm kind of liking our weather like yeah it's a little chilly right now but um it'll be warming up over the next couple of days. It does not take us long before the sun really does work its magic. Now, highs today will be in the upper 50s to low 60s. By tomorrow, I think we're going to see temperatures in the low to mid-70s and close to 80 by Wednesday. There you go. That didn't last long, did it? No, not at all. Temperature currently is, let me double check it here because I'm not used to having a... It's quite this cool. 44 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Morrow Casino. America's Social Casino. Welcome to Moto Casino where the excitement never ends. With thousands of the hottest free-to-play social casino games, fastest payouts, and the best promotions in the industry. No tricks or gimmicks. Owned and operated in the USA. Moto Casino is a free-to-play social casino. No purchase necessary. 21 plus to play. Void with prohibited. Sign up today for a generous welcome bonus.

I live in Clear Lake. Humble. Reliable. KTRH. Traffic and weather. Next on the 10. All right. So I think we're going to have a question of the day today, having to do with Governor Greg Abbott's announcement over the weekend that he is running for his fourth term, fourth term. For Governor of Texas, we have some of the highlights from his announcement coming up, along with our question, how you feel about Governor Greg Abbott going for fourth term. In fact, I might as well go ahead and throw that down now. Are you excited by this? Do you wish that we had some new blood or somebody else running for governor on the Republican ticket? You just go to the iHeart Radio app, KTRH. You hit the talkback button up to 30 seconds, first name where you're calling from, and how do you feel about Governor Greg Abbott running for his fourth term as Governor of Texas? Right now we've got traffic and weathered together as we check out the drive again with Skymike. Clear North Freeway, the wreck at the ramp. I told you, southbound, they moved that out of the way, and the suckage is about to disappear too. I'm not ready to reroute just yet, so I think we look good. West Sam. Southbound at West Harbor, bad spot for a wrecked sticky spot. He's in a left shoulder. I expect them to take a real lane, a left lane in the next few minutes. This is southbound, so watch out if you're coming down from Memorial. I'm Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, sunny, cold, right about 60 for a high today. Sunny and more seasonal, 73 tomorrow. Partly cloudy, right about 80 for the high temperature on Wednesday. Right now, it is 44 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Time to check out some of our top Monday morning stories. Here's Cliff. Thank you, Jimmy. Evacuation orders could continue for several days in Polk County after the Carter Lake Dam was compromised over the weekend. The tentative deal to end the shutdown would restore snap benefits. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabu has died at the age of 84. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 5.30. The Chuck Schumer shutdown. The events of the day. Portland, Chicago, violent crime. Every day. Israel. Hamas. Peace. On News Radio 740, KTRH. 5.23 now here in Houston's morning news. So Governor Greg Abbott here in Houston to make the announcement that he is running for another term. But of course, first, before he said the official words, I'm going to run again. He wanted to point out all the good things that have happened under his watch. Since since I've been governor, Texas has been ranked number one in America for the most new jobs. Number one in America is the best state for doing business every year that I've been governor.

Number one for business expansions and relocations. And number one in areas that are kind of important to your everyday lives. Did you know that Texas ranks number one for the most electricity generation, things you need to use every single day in your homes? In fact, Texas generates more electricity than the second and third states combined. We're leaders in aerospace, leaders in artificial intelligence. The Texas economy is growing twice as fast as the United States economy. And more Texans have a job today and their wages are higher than ever before in the history of Texas. Important is this, and that is the driving force of the Texas economy, are our small businesses. Businesses like where we are here tonight is small businesses represent more than 95% of all businesses in Texas. And get this, Texas just announced a new record. We now have more than 3 million registered businesses in the state of Texas twice the number when I first took office. The reason for the success is that Texas remains the land of opportunity. We remain a state that insists on the rule of law in our state. We believe in things like hard work. high expectations. And we value our faith, our families, and our freedom. And we are a bastion of common sense in a country that is reeling from far left progressive insanity. Texas is the common sense state in the United States. But Texas isn't just another state where you're home. your heritage. Texas is the heartbeat of this land we call America. As Texans, we will defend this state with every fiber of our being. We will protect what we built. We will finish what we started. We will lead Texas into its glorious future. And that's why tonight I'm here to announce I am running for re-election as your governor for the great state of Texas. Four more years. Four more years. That's right. Anyway. The question of the day, again, simply is your thoughts on Greg Abbott running for another term. Have you had enough Greg Abbott? Do you want more Greg Abbott? Would you rather we had somebody else leading the ticket just maybe a little new blood or you think, hey, four more years with Greg Abbott is just what we need?

Go to the iHeart radio app, KTRH. First name where you're calling from you, your thoughts on the governor's bid for a fourth term. 526, it is time to take a look at your money. And good morning. Looks like a risk on morning for investors, as futures indicate a higher open on Wall Street this morning. Beeson MasterCard closed to a new agreement that will attempt to settle a two-decade legal spat with merchants. The credit card companies are going to make changes to lower interchange fees. By an average of a tenth of a percent over several years, retailers have fought for decades to slash their share of the cost for accepting card payments. I'm John Tucker Carlson, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH. You are known. Houston's news. Weather traffic. Plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740, KTRH. Drive everywhere with Iowa. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It is 530. Here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett among our top stories this hour. Trump has issued some pardons. Mayor John Whitmire says, yes, we are working with ice. And coming up at 538, Target. wants their employees to flirt with you? Details in the minutes ahead. You're in Houston's morning news. No, they just want them to smile. First, let's check out that morning vibe. Here's Skymont. I can't wait until 540. We're going to have some real fun here. All right, you have big shots. Let's check on your Grand Parkway here. If you're coming over from Montbeville, trying to get up past 90, heading the New Caney, no problems there. If you're somebody's Butler and Tomball, you're having an easy ride now on the north part of Grand Parkway. And then the Rose Hill side where there's just a bunch of cows. We're in good shape here all the way down. to K. Well, there's some nice neighborhoods too, but we're posted speeds all around. We cleared Nord Freeway, the wreck at the loop, and the backorder slip's gone too. Skymic and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center is sunny and cold with a high today right about 60. We'll get you the complete forecast. It warms up pretty quickly. Tomorrow, warmer, warmer is still on Wednesday. We'll talk to Terry Smith about all this in about nine minutes right now. 43, add your official severe weather station, news radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy. It's 531 on KTRH. Our top story, the president, not an auto pen, issuing parties for Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and others accused by the left of attempting to overturn the 2020 election. In his proclamation, Trump said that this quote ends a...

There might be trouble down the road. Fox News columnist Liz Peake says layoffs driven by artificial intelligence could spark. even more socialism. I think you're going to hear a lot about this. This is a huge area of investment. They're beginning to see that investment result to people not being hired or being fired. And I'm guaranteeing that this will be the sort of new Democratic socialist rally in crime. And with affordability, now the top issue for the majority of us, she says we can expect a major battle ahead over AI and more candidates like Zohran Mamdani. Speaking of Woke, pushback against a California gym for banning a real woman who stood up to a naked biological man in the women's locker room. I'm terminated for not wanting men in the locker room. The viral video displayed just another bit of leftist lunacy. The left is going to realize that they have backed... themselves into a corner. The snake is eating its own tail here. Fox's Tommy Laren says the Dems are inviting in white men who they despise and removing black women who they praise. Logan Washburn of the Dallas Express says for a party that empowers women, they have funny ways of showing it. What they're doing is saying the woman is wrong and we have to punish her by removing her from the gym. He says that people are waking up to this though. Finally, Andre Perard News Radio 740, KTRH. 536, the rise. Rockets get back on the winning track yesterday. Durant Crossover, left and dribble, against Turner, pulls up from 10 on the way and good. 11 of 15 for Kevin Durant, 115, 113, Houston. Matt Thomas on the call for Sports Talk 790. The Rockets beat the bucks in Milwaukee, 122 to 115. We've got three Texas teams in the AP top 25 now. Texas A&M is at number three. Tech is number eight, the Longhorns. Three spots, they move up to number 10, and they didn't play over the weekend. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. The preset that sets the record straight. This just made my whole day more efficient. On News Radio 740, KTRH. Hi, Uncle Laser here. America's built on fast cars, fast food, and even faster women. Photo casinos built in America. You know what they're fast out? Fast cash, cries redemption. You see, only Moto is U.S. own and operate. Moto, it's American made. Is that who we are? And that's who we care about. Play for free at moto.us.

5.30 at a time here in Houston's morning news right. Target is launching a flirty new rule called the 10-4 rule. I want to warn you about this because if you've been to a target, it's pretty rare to somebody from who works at the store will walk up to you and smile at you and, you know, act all friendly. So you might like a little warning before you get approached. Their 10-4 rule goes like this. It requires their workers to engage with the customer who's within close proximity. If they're within 10 feet of you, are you supposed to, do they have like a measuring stick? Or do they just, it looks like about 10 feet to me. They're within 10 feet of their, they're supposed to smile at you. And then if they get within 4 feet, they're supposed to make eye contact and wave or say hello. And then they have to ask if you need help finding anything or if you don't just say, you know, just a little, well, have a great day or whatever other little pleasantry that you want to throw along. In other words, Target is telling their employees how to behave like a human being because evidently that's a lost art. Target says, heading into the holiday, we're making adjustments and implementing new ways to increase connection during the most important time of the year. When you think about that, I mean, who are Targeted employees? They're probably Jin Ziers, right? They're probably young people who have not had a lot of experience. in things like customer service. They don't really, they're not used to approaching people they don't know. They're not used to being friendly to people they don't know. They're not used to smiling at people they don't know or interacting with people they don't know. They probably had to be told this. You know, they're on the phones all day. They don't know how to interact with a real live human being. The reason for doing it is not just because they want to appear to be more friendly. They want to make sure that they're not losing customers. In the middle of a holiday rush, customers less likely to be willing to cross the store multiple times to try to find an item or worker that seems to be approachable. So they want to make sure their workers are approachable so that they can answer any questions. In other words, they don't want them getting frustrated. The shoppers getting frustrated trying to find something in the store and not thinking there's anybody that they can approach to ask. 540, time for traffic and weather together. I actually have... Something not positive about Buckeys. It drives me crazy when you're looking. Yeah, no, I don't need you to go, hi, welcome to Buckees. And like five different people say it, just one person, hey, everybody, just smile, wave, just be cool. So you're saying, you're criticizing them for being too friendly. Well, I mean, it's just, it's obvious. Okay, here, supervision. It's supervision's fault. It is, it's compelled. So let's find a way to be friendly without making it a compelled thing. Oh, so you want it to be more natural? Just be natural. Hey, dude. I think the term these days is organic. I would like it to be more organic. Oh, yeah. That sounds kind of scientific, Terry. Let's go to the north side here. North Sam, Westbound. Yeah, authentic. Ooh, that's good. North Sam, Westbound after the Veterans Toll Plaza. I got this one here. It's a wreck. Everybody's okay. We're just pointing at things. It's two left lanes. If you're playing the home game with me, it's on camera 1117. I think it'll be out of there pretty quickly. But if you're coming over from the airport lookout, you got

North Freeway. Aha. Vehicle fire. Let's see, we had that first. That is a right lane block now. I think they're going to take extras. And we're backed up. This is outbound, not inbound. We're backed up from Louetta. Guitar, Dave, dude. Be careful out here around in the National Forest, around Lake Congro and stuff, because I've seen a few deer, and the bugs are chasing the dough, and they don't care if there's a car coming or not. You know, because love is in the air, Terry, and sometimes guys make bad decisions. So there we are. It's a generator, supercenter.com. Traffic Center. Nice to know the guy's making bad decisions is universal. From our KTRH. It's called survival of the fittest. I guess it is, yep. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center. Terry is here. She's got the forecast for you. It's a little cold today, but it's only one day thing, actually. It is. Temperatures will be chilly today. It's a bundle up kind of day. And then we quickly warm back up. We get back to fall by tomorrow. And temperatures will continue to warm up. Hey, folks, we are dry this week. I don't see any rain through Friday right now. I see some warmer weather on the horizon. But today we're going to top out in the upper 50s to low 60s. So we're running about 10, 15 degrees below the norm. It's still chilly tonight. to mid-40s tonight. But southerly winds tomorrow start to work their magic with the sunshine, low to mid-70s tomorrow, near 80 Wednesday, low to mid-80s Thursday, and close to 80 on Friday as well. Right now, 43 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. 551 is their time here in Houston's morning news. All right. So now that the government shutdown appears to be ending here, certainly within the next day or two, SNAP benefits are back on the table. But I don't think we're talking about, done talking about SNAP. I think one of the things that has happened as a result of all this is the knowledge of knowing just how many people are on snap that shouldn't be on snap and how much fraud and abuse is going on. So there's a real real. call here to reform the SNAP program. More on that coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together as we check in the Skymike. Oh, we got trouble in Crosby Highway 90. This is a wreck and it sounded pretty rough here. This is going to be outbound, not inbound, Bohemian Hall Road. Danny from Dayton. Morning, Sky Mike. All I see is nothing but Christmas tree lights all over the place up there. So it must be pretty bad because there is a concrete truck sitting there. Oh, boy. Looks like there is some smush. All right. Well said. That's on the outbound eastbound side bohemian hall road we got this vehicle fire north freeway at luetta outbound kTR rates listeners the first to know about it two right lanes a backup from luetta and you've got the north sam are they clearing the wreck it looks like they're just about to clear this wreck at the veterans toll plaza it's still a big it's still a big squish going westbound i'm sky mike the generator supercenter dot com traffic center

From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, sunny and cold, right about 60 for the high today. Sunny, more seasonable 73 tomorrow than partly cloudy, right about 80 for the high temperature on Wednesday. Currently, 42 at your official's severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Sit back to our newsroom and get you an update from Cliff. Thank you, Jimmy. Eight Democrats cave to potentially end the shutdown. Two suspected drunk drivers allegedly hit two Harris County Sheriff's Office patrol cars and humble. The deputies are okay. And the Marines are celebrating their 250th birthday today. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 6. I live in Katie. I live in Edo. Your reliable forecast next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. 553 our time. Here on Houston's morning news. I think there's an understanding that there needs to be some reform of the SNAP benefit program. There's a lot of fraud and abuse, people who are getting food stamps that shouldn't, people who are getting food stamps and selling them. And it's it's it's such an expensive program. We need to we need to get. We need to get our hands into this and fix what's wrong with it. Here is Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins. Her department is responsible for the SNAP program. Here's what she had to say about it. Listen, people want the government open. They want those who are the most vulnerable who are hungry to make sure that they are fed. That's the SNAP program. But within all of that, the level of fraud and corruption and double dipping and selling benefits is astounding. And I think it hit a nerve with America. To have our discussion, 40. million people watch it about how corrupt the SNAP program is, how we have to fix it. I think just tells you that Americans are paying attention and they're not okay with government as usual. We need to clean the house up and that's what we're doing. So the Center for Immigration Studies has found that's anywhere from 50 to 60% of households that are headed by illegal immigrants rely on SNAP benefits and other programs similar to that. Is there a problem with that? Well, we, at almost the very beginning, I think on my first day, I sent a letter to every governor in America saying, send us your data, no illegal aliens on any SNAP or Food Stamp or WIC program, period, full stop. Everyone said, oh, no, we're not doing that. It is illegal. I mean, it is not allowable. However, the 29 states, mostly red states that sent us their data, what we found was really astounding. And now we're in lawsuits to get the rest of the data so that we can work to fix this. There's no doubt that there is a massive, massive fraud in the program. But having said that, the Democrats have voted 15 times to not fund SNAP. There are legitimate families in this country that rely on that program to feed their family. We've got to get the government open. Well, looks like we're well on our way to get the government open at this point. Again, Senate voting last night, about 1030 last night, 60, 40. We've got eight Democrats to go along.

with reopening the government. Now it's got to go to the House. But I would think, you know, unless somebody in the House doesn't like the deal. It's a clean CR. I mean, I don't know what Democrats got other than a promise to take up the issue of health care benefits, but it's something they'd already said that they were willing to do. So it doesn't look to me like they gave up anything, which I'm pleasantly surprised at. It really happens. The Republicans stuck to their guns. 556 now here in Houston's morning news. This is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston. Live everywhere with fire. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. It's 6 a.m. here in Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this hour, Governor Greg Abbott, running for fourth term as governor. The Senate votes to end the shutdown. And coming up at 608, President Trump wants to send most of you a tariff rebate check. Details in the minutes ahead. First. We're checking out that morning drive once again. Here's Sky Mike. All right. We still have that vehicle fire on the North Freeway. This is outbound. I'm looking from Luetta. It's actually at Spring Cyprus and the backups from Luetta. Two right lanes. I think everybody's okay. I don't know if everybody's okay on 90. Bohemian Hall. That's a concrete truck involved. This is outbound, not inbound. And it looks like it's hard to tell the laneage there, but it's a pretty good smush if you're leaving town trying to hit out toward Dayton. Skymike on the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our. KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, sunny and cold today with a high temperature only getting up to around 60. This is more like January weather. We'll get Terry Smith in here because the cold snap doesn't last long. We'll talk to her about that in nine minutes. Temperature right now, 42 in your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy. It is 601. We are sponsored by All-Star Construction, our top story this hour. I'm optimistic. that after almost six weeks of this shutdown, we will finally be able to end it. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is Democrats fold after 40-plus days. It's now only a matter of time before the government shutdown is over. Probably later this week, the Senate broke a filibuster on a new GOP spending package, which will end the shutdown. The vote was 60 to 40.

The Senate needed all 60 of those yeas to break the filibuster. 52 Republicans and eight Democrats teamed up to greenlight the bill. Fox's Chad Pergram on Capitol Hill. Now, Democrats did not get the Obamacare subsidies they wanted. Only the promise of a future vote. This still needs to be approved by the House after the Senate finally votes on a full deal. This means the travel headaches could end soon as well, but today we've got 67 flights canceled between both. Bush and Hobby airports. Now, the Democrats hurt our national security during this shutdown. It actually forced the Trump administration to furlough nuclear weapons contractors. Experts say there'll be ramifications for slowing down the modernization of our defense systems. The Chinese have doubled their nuclear arsenal. Well, we can't fall behind in terms of our national security. So this is starting to get very serious. Professor Jeff Atticott heads the Warrior Defense Project at St. Mary's University. Of course, you'd ever heard about that from the mainstream media because their coverage was biased. In general, across all of the coverage, when you break it down by various categories, we found 83 statements favoring the Democratic argument and only 12 statements favoring the Republican argument. That's a 87 to 13% tilt for Democrats. Bill Dagasino with Media Research Center says that in the past, the party in the Democrat position would be severely criticized. But strangely enough, that didn't happen this time. It's now 603. Greg Abbott makes it official here in Houston yesterday. Babe, did you see that Moto Casino is giving a $1,776,000 worth of prizes? That's why they're called America's Social Casino, celebrating the birth of America bigger than anyone else. You can win incredible experiences at NASCAR and F1 races and a grand prize of $1 million sweeps coins. So what are you waiting for? Spin now on Moto Casino. Download the Moto Casino app today. Moto Casino. We're prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit moto.us for more details.

They cannot buy us. They cannot beat us. We will see them at the ballot box. And we will win. Governor announcing his run for an historic fourth term. This comes after voters passed all 17 of the propositions he pushed for last Tuesday. And his announcement came one day after California governor Gavin Newsom came to Houston himself to talk about last week's election and pretty much just to attack Donald Trump. He is an historic president, however. Historically unpopular president. California passed Prop 50 retaliation for the new congressional maps here in Texas. Last week's election signaled a troubling turnout trend for Republicans, though. Election data guru Ryan Dersh, Ryan Gurdowski told Breitbart that many of Trump's 2024 voters just didn't show up. There is a big question over low propensity voters that voted for Donald Trump in part because they thought we need a change in our country. We don't like the way, especially the economy is being run. And he would change the economy one time and maybe he could do it again. And so far he's kind of been unable to. He predicts that Democrats will turn out in presidential year numbers for the midterms because of their Trump derangement syndrome. The president has promised a $2,000 tariff dividend check for everyone, except for high-income earners. Stock market likes all of this. Overnight futures are up almost 200 points. Oil futures are up to about $59.80. Gasoline prices across Houston are averaging 257 a gallon. That's 8 cents cheaper than they were last month. The climate crowd isn't going to like this. Ford's going to pull the plug on its F-150 EV model with executives debating whether to end production due to weak demand for electric trucks. Dealers say gas and hybrid F-series are still moving while the... Lightning model just sits there. People who use their trucks for work. I don't want to spend 30 minutes at a charger. That's money out of their pocket. KTRH Car Pro Jerry Reynolds also says the range of 300 miles stated at least for the lightning drops in half when you haul just 5,000 pounds of cargo. Ford pause production last month. It's concentrating on smaller, more affordable EVs instead. Another potentially good sign for the economy. Holiday sales are expected to top a trillion dollars for the first time ever this season.

The National Retail Federation projects a 4.3% increase compared to last year's $976 billion. Lone Star College's economic professor Hank Lewis says he's not sure if the forecasted number is inflation adjusted or not. We've been looking at massive amounts of layoffs that are happening with tech firms and some energy firms. He recommends making a budget. Stick to it. Compare prices. Shop around. Lewis says to be cautious using short-term credit plans. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740, KTRH. It is now 606 on KTRH. Davis Mills. What a Rush Walker. Steps up. He's going to run. Mills looking for the pilot. He's got the... The call on CBS Davis Mills and the Texans outscore Jacksonville 26. Zip in the fourth quarter. They beat the Jacks 36 to 29. Kevin Durant had 31 points. The Rockets get a road win in Milwaukee, 122 to 115. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740, KTRH. What has happened? Just yesterday. What's happening today? Happen right now. What happens? The things are happening. Stop. Right here. On News Radio 740, KTRH. Yeah, the checks in the mail. Sure it is. 607 is our time here in Houston's morning. All right. President Trump, sending out on true social guests say the following message. People that are against tariffs are fools, all caps. We are now the richest, most respected country in the world with almost no inflation in a record stock market price. 401Ks are highest ever. We are taking in trillions of dollars and will soon begin paying down our enormous debt, also in caps. 37 trillion. Record investment in the USA. Plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2,000 a person, not including high-income people, will be paid to everyone. Okay, well, a couple questions come to mind. How close is this to reality? Because I seem to recall a similar statement for the president on Doge, although he didn't really promise the Doge cuts. He mentioned that maybe we could end up getting a check. because of Doge, you know, that he was going to share a portion of the savings with Americans, but I think it turned out that they didn't cut as much stuff as maybe he thought was going to get cut. This sounds more like a promise that he's going to send most Americans at least $2,000 thanks to tariff income. Now, I don't know what the president means by...

The qualifier he put on people who make a very good living. I don't know what he considers to be the highest income earners because he did say that the dividend would not include high income people. What in the president's world is high income people? Is that somebody making... $500,000 a year or more? Somebody making a million dollars a year or more? Somebody making $400,000? What is high-income people? So that part, I guess, would have to be figured out. And, of course, we'll have to wait and see if it actually does happen. But at least he's laying it down there as a potential promise. 6'10. Time for traffic and weather together. Sky Mike. The floor is yours, sir. I have a bad feeling about Crosby. That's a 90 outbound Bohemian Hall Road. That's a wreck, a concrete truck. I'm told Hazmat is there. Gary Mack's helping me this morning with the screen, and he says hazmat's there. 45 North Freeway, Luetta. Oh, clear it. There we go. Vehicle fire. That's still showing up on some of your on lines. So another reason to get your traffic from A.m. Radio. We've cleared the North Sam. Check that scooch going that way. No, it's just about gone. Stay the course. North Sam, both ways from the airport. 249. Let's see. I've got Tracy from Cyprus, dude. Hey, Sky Mike, one of the road signs on 290 inbound is indicating that there are center lanes at the I-10 exit on 290 are closed for road work. And I'm sure if that were the case, you would have reported on it. Yeah, that's probably a leftover. You know what? I know the people that do those signs, so let me fix that. And let's see, Scott, New Caney, dude. Good morning, Scott, Mike. It's clear sailings all the way down to Damon, Texas. That morning drive is fun every day. Wow. What? Well, I wanted to say, happy birthday to the Marines, father-in-law's the Marines, son's going into the Marines. Boom. I'm a squid. Cliff just said, what, 250th birthday or the 50th anniversary of the Marines? 250th. Oh, 250, that's what I heard. What is a squid? Does anybody? Terry, do you know a squid? Navy, yeah. Navy. Navy. Oh, all right. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center. Terry is here. She's got the forecast for you. Yeah, it's cold this morning, but, you know, it'll warm up tomorrow. That's right. Hey, it does not last very long. That's the upside of the chilly weather we have right now. Temperatures are starting out in the 40s for many of us. Wind chills this morning. could run as cold as the mid-20s to mid-30s. So make sure you have something warm on when you leave the house. That does include your kids. I know they probably don't want to put on anything more than a hoodie, and hopefully that'll do them just fine. We'll wind up in the upper 50s to low 60s today. It's not going to be, it's still chilly tonight. Temperatures mid-30s to mid-40s. But then tomorrow, we got southerly winds working their magic. It's going to be so nice. Chilly tomorrow morning, but then by the afternoon, low to mid-70s, near 80 Wednesday, low to mid-80s Thursday. I mean, this morning's cold is going to be a distant memory, and we'll be close to 80 again, sunny and dry Friday. Right now, 41 and your officials, severe weather station, news radio 740KTRH.

I live in Katie. I live in Edo. Your reliable forecast. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. So masked anti-ice agitators are in for a rude awakening now. A new DHS policy has gone into effect. It involves the ability of these protesters to wear masks in order to prevent their identification. We'll talk to Dr. Greg Freeman, Captain, HBD, retired captain, about this and also about Mayor John Whitmire. coming on saying, yeah, we're cooperating with ICE. How refreshing is that to have a Democrat mayor saying, yeah, we're cooperating with ice. More on both of those stories coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together starting with you, Skymike. Southwest Freeway. Look out. Got a wreck reported here. I believe it. It's right at 610. You can see the smush now from the West Park entrance. I'm Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center for today. Sunny, kind of cooled. Cooled, cold, kind of in between the two, right? Right about 60. Tomorrow's sunny, more seasonal. 73, part of the cloudy, right about 80 for the high temperature on Wednesday. Cold out there right now, it's only 41, and your officials, severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Time to check out some more top trending stories this morning on the Monday. Here's Cliff. Thank you, Jimmy. We're sponsored by Kelsey C. Bowl Clinic. The governor officially announces a run for a fourth term. Four people in custody. Two others on the run after a traffic stop in the Heights this weekend with a baby left inside the car by the bad guys. And YouTube is starting to issue $20 credits to YouTube TV customers. who still don't have access to any Disney-owned channels. Good the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 6.30. 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 in jail. On News Radio 740, KTRH. Moto Casino is pure American energy. Born in the USA and with the same 1776 spirit that built this country. Moto, America's social casino, is celebrating that freedom with a one million sweeps coin prize giveaway. One lucky American is going to win one million sweeps coins. So what are you waiting for? Spin now on Moto Casino. Download the Moto Casino app today. Moto Casino is the social casino board where prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit motto.us for more details.

Yeah, we've seen plenty of anarchy in our nation cities. Mercifully, we've not seen it in Houston. And how refreshing was it, by the way, to hear Mayor John Whitmire say, yeah, we're cooperating with ice. Nuff said, we're cooperating. Clearly, they're cooperating. There have been thousands of ICE arrest here in the city of Houston. You don't do and hear about any huge protests going on or demonstrations with masked individuals riding in the streets? Says a lot about who we are, I think. Dr. Greg Freeman. HPD captain retired joins us. Let's start with the cooperation thing. How refreshing is that to hear that we have a Democrat mayor who's cooperating with ICE? I think it's amazing, Jimmy, and thank you for having me on. And what you just said strikes at the point of who we are as Houstonians. We have never had anything like this happen in our city. While other cities burned historically for the last 40 or 50 years with social and civil unrest, Houston has remained relatively common. It has a lot to do with the leadership. and the history of our police department here. No, you're right. Also, we have this new rule that the federal government, evidently, is ready to go ahead and enforce. It wasn't supposed to go into effect until January, but I guess it's going into effect immediately. If you're an anti-ice agitator, if you're there protesting, if you are wearing a mask, you'll be arrested for no other purpose than the fact that you're wearing a mask attempting to conceal your identity. I think it's an amazing piece of federal legislation. And one thing that we've known to be true about these protesters, and I've seen this firsthand, you have a very small percentage of people that truly are protesting your First Amendment right to come out to these venues. And they really are. But embedded within these groups, you have a large contingency of criminals. You have agitators from ICE. You've got anarchists. You've got people that just simply hate the police and you have criminals. And there's a lot of anonymity when you put a mask on, and there's a lot of psychology, Jimmy, behind this, that emboldens them to do things that they wouldn't normally do. So being able to unmask them immediately and unseal who they really are is going to strike fear in their hearts immediately. And I think you'll see a large reduction in these protests, especially at these ICE facilities. Well, I think, too, what people will find, assuming that the protesting continues, that we're arresting the same people over and over and over again. It's not like we've got thousands of people who are participating in these protests. We've got the same people protesting over and over again. No, that's exactly right. And our intelligence has clearly shown these people are paid protesters being funded by Soros and other left-wing radical organizations. And they're traveling from city to city to city. They have a vast network. They communicate effectively. And it's an organization that's doing this. There's no doubt about that. So is part of the solution here, Dr. Freeman, to not just out the protesters, but to out the money source of these protesters to make sure everybody understands where this money is coming from. And can we prosecute groups that are willing to spend money to pay protesters to agitate and to cause violence?

Absolutely. And the fact that the federal government and this administration just declared Antifa, a terrorist organization, once you start finding out sources of money that's coming into that, they are co-conspirators on that federal level as well. And you will see a large reduction in the people that are doing this because once you do expose who they are and they realize that they're looking at federal jail time, which we know that they're going to serve 90% of the sentences. And wait to these people that have just been recently arrested over the last several months for interfering. and assaulting federal officers when their cases go to court and their sentences become known, it's going to send shockwaves through that community because they're going to realize that the government means business. All right, Dr. Freeman, always good to talk to you, sir. Thank you. That is HPD, Captain Retired, Dr. Greg Freeman. It is 626 as we take a look at your money. ahead of the open stocks rally bonds fell there's optimism lawmakers are moving closer to a deal ending the longest shutdown at u.s history i'm john Tucker Carlson bloomberg business on news radio 740 kTRh

Houston's news. Weather traffic. Plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740, KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRRA. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It's 630 here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett, among our top stories this hour. Air John Whitmire says we are and will cooperate with ice. Rudy Giuliani gets a Trump pardon. And coming up at 638, how you feel about Greg Abbott running for a fourth term. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive again with Sky Mike. All right, Southwest Freeway, looks like they cleared whatever we had. We had something pop up in that ramp, and they might have just pointed it stuff for a couple of minutes, and that was it. It's gone. The backup, we've got some breaks right after West Park, Northbound, but stay the course on the Southwest Freeway. We're starting to squeeze down on the North Loop 610 Westbound at 45 Crosby Freeway. That's showing me that they have now shut it down at Bohemian Hall outbound. You let me know if that's right. right or wrong. 713212 TIPS. Skymike on the Generators Supercenter.com Traffic Center. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, sunny and cold today with a high temperature only about 60, but as it turns out, it's a one-day deal. Back into the 70s tomorrow, back around 80 on Wednesday, even warmer after that. We'll get all the details with Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in nine minutes. Right now, 41, at your official's severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy. 631 on KTRH. Our top story. Approximately 1,500 people. Six commutations. Now was President Trump harbiting 1,500 J-6ers in January? Last night he pardoned Rudy Giuliani and others accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election. President Trump writing in his proclamation that it did not include himself. Critics had accused those now pardoned, plotting to overturn the 2020 election by submitting names of alternate electors from Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan. In January, President Trump, pardon more than 1,000 supporters convicted in connection with the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. Sue Guzman reporting there. The president spent his Sunday afternoon at the Washington Commanders Games swearing in new military recruits ahead of Veterans Day. Well, we just were in a tremendous group of young people, and that was an honor, and they are just fantastic. And they love, you know, our recruitment's been record-setting since a year ago was a disaster for the country, and now it's record-setting. So this was an honor to be here. The president on Fox for the call of the Commander's Lions game. And while Trump was at the game, eight Democrats, including Virginia's Tim Kaine, caved and voted to end the Chuck Schumer shutdown without getting the Obamacare subsidies.

They held out for. What we have in this bill is the restoration of all the furloughed employees and a guarantee of their back pay, the restoration of all Rift employees who got Rift after October 1. Republicans only promised a future vote. Senate Majority Leader, excuse me, Chuck Schumer had a meltdown at the Democrat Rebellion. I must vote no. This health care crisis is so severe. So urgent, so devastating for families back home that I cannot in good faith support this CR that fails to address the health care crisis. There are other Senate and House votes that need to take place before the shutdown officially ends. Until then, more travel headaches, including TSA. Wait times today. We also have got 46 canceled flights at Bush, another 21. at hobby. Coming up on 634, it took months, but Houston Mayor John Whitmire finally acknowledges that the city is working with ICE, telling a weekend conference he didn't want what we have seen take place in Los Angeles or Chicago. DHS is imposing new restrictions on masked protesters on federal property. It's an effort to crack down on the violent radicals. Embedded within this group are numbers of professional agitators that we know of for a fact that are being paid for by leftist groups. You have criminals that are embedded within these groups that we know that just want to go there and create mayhem. Former HBD captain, Dr. Greg Freeman, says this will make it easier to make arrests. Meantime, nobody's in custody yet in Chicago, where DHS says ICE agents were fired at during an operation this weekend. One officer was hurt while responding. Coming up on 635, AI layoffs are becoming more of a thing, and some experts fear it could spark more socialism. And that includes Fox News columnist Liz Peek. Yeah, I think this is actually going to be the topic of the day very soon, certainly one of the big political battlegrounds as we go forward. She says the combination of corporate cost-cutting and culture could open the door. Yes, the polling shows that a majority of Democrats now prefer socialism to capitalism. This is a catastrophe because socialism does not work. But right now, it is working for Democrats. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740. KTRH. There's AI and then there's more 3D printing. Construction continues for 3D homes near Hobby Airport. Jim Dutton, the host of the KTRH Home Improvement Show, says there are questions about standing up to our stormy weather. But... You ain't heard about Modo Casino? Moto has real Vegas slots. Any game you can find on the floor in Vegas, you can play it on Moto. I like my slots hot. Moto's free to play, like food stamps, in line at the grocery store, at a funeral, in traffic. Keep your eyes on the road. Hop on Moto Casino. Moto Casino got jackpots that are bigger than my belly. Moto, America's Hot is free to play social casino. Download the Moto Casino app today. Moto Casino is the social casino board where prohibited and purchase necessary.

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Is there anybody that comes to mind? Is there anybody that you would like to see running as a Republican for governor other than Greg Abbott? Feel free to throw that in as well. Right now, 640? Time for traffic and weather together. I'm not in for change just for the sake of change though. You know, like selling beer in Tarkington for instance. We didn't need that. Gulf Freeway northbound at the 69 direct connector. Got a stall here in that connecting ramp. That makes a lot of sense. Watch out we've got a smush now right after U of H in on the Gulf Freeway. Outside the loop. We're okay. Eastex downtown. A lot of breaks from Quipman down to the Big George. You lose about two or three here. You've got nine. We've got some laneage open. I need an update from you. It's too far for me to see. Eastbound. 90 outbound Bohemian Hall. That's a wreck. I know there's a concrete truck involved in that and possibly nothing good happening there. Southwest Freeway clear that wreck at the loop. Oh, I seem to have inherited the Golden Triangle, and I'm good with that. I love to hear from Golden Triangle, folks. 713-2-TIPS. I've got Bob from Port Arthur on the Free Eye Heart Radio app. This guy Mike, Texas Highway 73, westbound. between Port Arthur and Winning. There is a brief lane closure in the right lane going westbound towards winning. All right. That makes a lot of sense there. Thanks for that update. And we're in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH generator super center, Terry Smith is here. We've got 41 degrees out there right now, Terry. That'll get your attention this morning. It sure will. You walk out the door and go, whoa, hey. Whoa, what happened? I forgot about this. Who turned off the heat? It's been a while. Well, you know what I'm wearing today? Tell me. Long pants. Woo-hoo! First time since probably March. And might I say, you are looking mighty fine. Well, thank you. Yeah, it is a little bit chilly, and we'll need to bundle up. But here's the nice thing about Houston, among many nice things. These temperatures don't stay cold very long. Between the sunshine and a southerly wind, we're back to regular November by tomorrow. So if you like to wear the sweaters and the heavier jackets, today's your day. We're only going to be in the upper 50s to low 60s this afternoon. And it is still chilly tonight. Mid-30s to mid-40s tonight, much like what it is right now. So you'll want the jackets tomorrow morning. By afternoon, we're in the low to mid-70s. It's like November again. Near 80 Wednesday, low to mid-80s Thursday. Look at these temperatures. And near 80 Friday, we got sunshine all week long. Right now, 41 at your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I usually take I-10 West, but lately that's been a nightmare. KTRH, time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. 6.50 are time here in Houston's morning news. We have the timeline coming up here in just a couple of minutes. Also coming up, Senator Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire, one of the Democrats who voted to reopen.

the government. Why she said she did it coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together. As we check out the drive again, Ms. Skymike. 45 North Freeway dust in on the north side. Skymike right at the 99 spring student or exit. There were some police activity and a couple rubber neckers that got an accident. I wonder if they're checking out where that fire was or if this is a new thing. We'll find out at the 10 report. 288. I've got Amy from Lake Jackson. Morning, Skymike at the 610 exit going west. There is a fire truck, and I think a police car, left lane. They're there, and it is causing a little bit of a stench. Ah, well-set, extra points for verbiage. Amy breaks up our Schoenberg Festival. We'll zoom it and get an update on the lane. It's in the Generator supercenter.com traffic center at 7 a.m. From our KTRH, Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center, sunny, cold, right about 60 for the high today. That's like normal January, February weather. Sunny, more seasonal tomorrow, 73, and then Wednesday partly cloudy. We warm up to 80. Current temperature is 41 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Check out some more of our top stories on the Monday. Here's Cliff. Thank you, Jimmy. An HFT firefighter is recovering after being hospitalized while responding to a fire in the third ward. Evacuation orders could continue for several days in Polk County after the Carter Lake Dam was compromised. And a pair of Major League Baseball pitchers for Cleveland are indicted on an illegal sports betting scheme accused of rigging. pitches. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next updates at 7. Our 59 inbound at the loop is always a problem. KTRH time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. Hi, Uncle Laser here. America's built on fast cars, fast food, and even faster women. Boto Casinos built in America. You know what they're fast out? Fast cash, prize, redemption. You see, only Moto is U.S. own and operate. Moto, it's American made. Is that who we are? And that's who we care about. Played for free at moto.us.

thinks he was singing this to Chuck Schumer. He's not happy, that's for sure. He's not happy. The Democrats are no longer together. They're not voting in solidarity. They're not in lockstep with each other. Some of them are actually thinking for themselves and thinking this government shutdown is not a good thing. We need to stop this. One of them is Senator Maggie Hassan, I think that's how she pronounces it, from New Hampshire. Here she is at a press conference last night after the vote, explaining why she did what she did. At a time when families desperately need relief, Washington's dysfunction is making life harder for families. And the last 39 days are proof of that. A record-long government shutdown paired with record high health insurance costs increases is not the kind of history that the American people want Congress to make. Over the last several weeks, I've heard from granite staters who can't afford a doubling of their health insurance costs. I've also heard from families about the deep pain that the government shutdown has caused, made worse. by a president who illegally and repeatedly chose to cut off help for families who are just trying to buy groceries. After weeks of bipartisan conversations, I voted today to reopen the government so that we can get back to the work of helping granite staters. This agreement funds SNAP and food assistance programs, ensures that law enforcement, air traffic controllers, and other federal workers get paid, reverses the president's recent reckless layoffs and prevents them from happening. in the future and crucially gives congress a clear path forward to protecting people's health care well what it does is it does it funds snap through 2026 it's it funds air traffic control through 2026 so those things are now off the table this c r which i guess the rest of it runs like through the end of january assuming gets passed by the house would take those things off the table those would no longer be threats as part of any potential second government shutdown if a grievance cannot be made. There's no agreement in there for health care other than the health care will be tackled and there will be a vote taken, but there's no guarantees that anything is going to happen to change who's covered under Obamacare or the subsidies for Obamacare. So it's a pretty... it's pretty much a Republican victory. I mean, if you want to look at it that way, it's pretty much a Republican victory. All right, time for the timeline. What have we got? We have a, oh, by the way, brought you by Kelsey Seabold Clinic, four pack of tickets to Alley Theater's presentation of Charles Dickens, a Christmas carol, running November 16th through December 28th at the Allie Theater.

What's Christmas without seeing a Christmas carol, right? Get your tickets now at alleytheater.org or just win a pair of four-pack actually from us. Just tells what year today's timeline's from. Enormous rumors that you don't sing on the record. It was November. You have to lip sync in front of a half billion people. The milly-vanilly lip-sync scandal was in full swing. On TV, it's the last episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse on CBS Saturday morning. Hi, this is on. Hello, Pee-wee. Hello, everyone. At the movies. Be a good little fellow now and open the door. McCauley Culkin stars in Home Alone. We're going to get you. Okay, come and get me. And on the radio. is top 10 with I'm Your Baby Tonight. What year was it? If you know, 713, 2 and 2, 5874, that is 7132, KTRH. Good luck. All right, we have ourselves a winner. That'd be Michael in Pearland, do the right year was 1990. Get a four pack of tickets to the alley theater's presentation of a Christmas carol running November 16th through 28th at the Alley Theater. Get your tickets now at Alley Theater.org, and thank you for listening to Houston's Morning News.

This is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston. Live everywhere with fire. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. It is 7 a.m. here on Houston's morning news, I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this hour, the Senate has voted for a clean CR. Now it goes back to the house. Governor Greg Abbott, running for a... Fourth consecutive term in promising lower property taxes. And coming up at 708, Trump floats the idea of a 50-year mortgage. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking at that morning drive again. Sky Mike, what you got? Oh, got your East Texan. We just found this accident. It's a report southbound at Cross Timbers. I don't know if this one will sit there for a long. Look at that skunch, though, all the way down from the cemeteries, and we're losing about 12 minutes on the southbound. Now the Hardybon is getting rough now. Southbound right after Cross Timbers. I think it's the reroutes. Let's revisit all of this at 710. And your generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, sunny and cold with a high temperature today right about 60, but it's a one-day thing. I mean, it'll be cold tonight, but by tomorrow, things start to warm back up. Details from Terry Smith at the Weather Channel in 8 minutes. Right now 41 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy. 702 on KTRH, our top story this hour. It looks like we're getting closer to the shutdown ending. President Trump on his return to the White House last night as eight Senate Democrats fold and take a step towards ending the shutdown. Eight Democrats have voted with Republicans to greenlight the bill. The bill funds the government through late January, and it funds three sections of government through next fall. There is nothing in the bill to offset rising health care costs. Democrats demanded money for health care aid before voting to fund the government, but Democrats walked away with nothing despite their shutdown gambit. Fox's chat program on Capitol Hill, remember the House still has to approve whatever the Senate sends them before this all ends. The Senate move comes after Trump pushed to end the filibuster, a plan that Texas's John Cornyn had not totally gone all in for. I think he's more of a traditionalist. He says, let's not change things to take care of ourselves today because they could come back and harm us tomorrow. And it's a very smart approach, but it disagrees with Trump. Political consultant Bill Miller says this could hurt John Cornyn's chances of getting Trump's endorsement. In the meantime, we still have travel issues. 67 flights already canceled between Bush and Hopi this morning. And this won't surprise you. The mainstream media played defense for the Dems during the shutdown. As Bill D'Agostino notes for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters, it's been all about defending the Democrats.

Fairly remarkable. The media are basically trying to exonerate Democrats from any amount of culpability they have in this shutdown. And the research shows the numbers don't lie. What we found was that there were only 12 instances where anybody on one of these three broadcast networks actually mentioned that it was Senate Democrats causing the government shutdown. Instead, it's 87% pro-democrat coverage. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KTRH. It is now 704 on KTRH. This is the place where I first ran for public office. We won Harris County then, and we are going to win Harris County again this election. Greg Abbott making it official right here in Houston last night, announcing his run for an historic fourth term as governor. It comes after voters passed all 17 propositions on last week's ballot. Filing for the midterms continues, and Harris County GOP is working overtime to recruit candidates for multiple judicial positions. We actually have a great slate of candidates. Lots of great experience, background. We're real thrilled with how it's shaping up. But that said, we have the longest ballot in the country. Party chair Cindy Sigel, the candidate filing deadline is December 8th. Elsewhere after last week's Democrat wins in blue states, California governor gas. Gavin Newsom came here to Houston to take a victory lap. We're dealing with an invasive species by the name of Donald Trump. California passed Prop 50 retaliation for redistricting here in Texas. The new maps may impact the midterms next year, but that won't matter if the GOP doesn't learn from last week. It wasn't just the big races in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. Election data guru Ryan Gerdeski tells Breitbart News, Democrats also won smaller races across several other states last Tuesday. Places that really had no national repercussions, but the turnout was tremendous on the part of Democrats just to say, let me stick it to Trump and go vote for a Democrat. And Republican turnout was very, very low. Even in Mississippi, Republicans saw seats in the state legislature. He says Republicans must sharpen their economic message and get their 2024 voters to turn out next year. to counter the Dems anti-Trump enthusiasm. Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. 705, looking at your money, if President Trump gets his way, you're going to reap the benefits of tariffs. He's promised a $2,000 dividend for everyone except for high-income earners. Overnight futures are up. 177 points as of now. National Retail Federation predicts holiday sales will drop a $2 trillion, reflecting a 4.3% increase from last year. Lone Star College economist Hank Lewis says there are a couple of different ways to look at this.

So it could be that, yes, it's higher, but some of that may be because of there being higher prices of various goods and services. In other words, you might not get as much bang for your buck thanks to the inflation that started under Joe Biden. 706, the Texans outscore the Jaguars, 26, nothing in the fourth quarter to beat Jacksonville, 36 to 29. Davis Mills scored the go-ahead touchdown in the final minute. have always had the mentality to stay confident, regardless of what happened on the play before. It's kind of like the old basketball mentality, shoot or shoot. If you stop, I mean, you're not going to see shots go in. Texans will take on Tennessee next week, and on the Rockets beat the bucks in Milwaukee, 122 to 115. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. 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. John Daly here. You know what day it is? Neither do I. I live life daily. That's why I only spend on Modo Casino. Modo's got daily free bonuses, daily tournaments, new slots out of daily. And the best part, guaranteed daily jackpots. You can't beat that. So today's the day you're gripping and spend it with me on Modo. America's Social Casino. Play for free on moto.com.

American Social Casino. Well, let's float this idea past to see what you think. By the way, 708, our time here in Houston's morning news, President Trump is proposing that we have 50-year mortgages. Wow, 50-year mortgage. What would that end up costing? You've looked at the amortization sheet, right when you buy a house, you get a 30-year home loan, which very few people pay off. I guess that's the idea. You get somebody who's young and they're just their first house. They're not going to be paying that off anyway. But I'll get into the downside of this other than that in just a second. That's locking you in for 50 years on a mortgage. Wow, are you ever going to pay off that house? Are you ever going to own that home? If you're 30 years old... You get a 50-year loan and you don't move again. You stay in that house. It would take you to 80 to pay the thing off. Is this a good idea or not? You know, there was not a 30-year home loan before FDR. That's part of the New Deal was 30-year home loans. They hadn't existed. Before then, now President Trump is proposing a 50-year loan. Here's economist Steve Moore tackling the issue. Here's what would happen if you have these 50-year mortgages. Your monthly mortgage payment would go down, right? Charlie, because you're paying that mortgage over 50 years rather than, say, 20 or 30 years. So if you want to make housing more affordable in the very short term... That might be a good way to bring down monthly mortgage payments, but then you're going to pay for a long, long time. You're going to be paying that mortgage payment for most of your life. And so that's a question of whether it makes sense financially to people. But right now, where people are really struggling. to find a home where they can meet those mortgage payments, it might make sense for people. By the way, the federal government should also be issuing 50-year debt because interest rates are low. It would be a way for us to lock in low interest rates so that if we had a huge spike in interest rates in the future, we wouldn't be in a real problem situation financially. And so, of course, if you had a 50-year mortgage after 30 years, the way banks structure loans, you probably still wouldn't own. but about 10% actually own, but about 20% of your house. That's a good point. That's a good point. You know, you want to build up equity in your home. That's why a lot of people, you know, when they have the financial means to do so, they speed up their mortgage payments. But listen, the problem with our housing situation right now really is so many restrictions on building multifamily homes in a lot of areas. By the way, I can tell you one city in America where housing prices are going to go way down. You know what city that is? What's that? New York City, because everybody's going to move out. Right, exactly. So if you want to buy a house, maybe think about doing it in New York. No, thanks. Don't need a communist mayor. Thank you very much. Yeah, the downside is the home equity part of you. You don't build up the home equity, which is what gives you your down payment for the next home that you buy. It takes a lot longer to do it, take a lot longer to pay it off. You lower your payments.

But that's about the only good thing that comes out of that. 7-11, time for traffic and weather together. I shudder to think what the ghetto house will look like in 50 years. Well, there's that, too. Imagine the amount of work you're going to put into that house halfway through the time you ordered. I think it would look like a totally different house. You know, it'd be like Soldier Field in Chicago. Let's go to East Tech's Freeway. They cleared whatever that squish was at cross timbers. It looked like we had a minor accident for a while. Still a lot of breaks now from Lauder passing the cemeteries. We're having a little fun on this. This ramp on the North Freeway, North Sam, that interchange. And it looks like we've got a wreck here right off of Ella on the westbound that's messing up your ramp that's going outbound. I know your head hurts from 45 coming up from Gallery. You're trying to get over to Tomball. That wrap is pretty messy. And also the ramp that comes southbound from 45 coming down from spring over to the airport. We could take the Hardy Airport connector, Terry, but I don't want to tell anybody that. It's a secret. 249 inbound. They're still doing. some road work and you've got a lot of breaks from Willowbrook. Steve from Springs on the north freeway. Good morning. Skymind 45 southbound through town. Quite nice this morning. Unusual. Anyway, Matthew McConaughey, governor. I don't know. Generator supercenter.com traffic center. No, I'll pass it. From our KTRH. I think he'd make a great governor. I mean, I'd party with him, but I don't know if I'd want him to be. There wouldn't be a party at the governor's mansion. You know that's a fact. From our KT. RH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather, Senator Terry Smith is with us. You look out the window and it looks so nice and inceasible until you walk out the door. And then Mother Nature says, gotcha. Yeah, it's a bit chilly out there this morning. And we have, fortunately, it's not a big, gusty breeze, but it's a little gusty at times. And so we're feeling the chill this morning. The good thing is it doesn't really last very long. Today's a, you know, wear your sweater to work kind of day. wear your jacket to work kind of day. And later on you can get rid of it because temperatures will be in the 80s by the end of the week. Today we'll top out upper 50s to low 60s. So it is running cool and especially with a little bit of a breeze now and then you're going to notice it. We're still chilly tonight. Mid-30s to mid-40s tonight, but tomorrow begins the warm up. The sun is still shining. There's no rain the next several days. Southerly winds making for a much more Houston-like day. Low to mid-70s. tomorrow, near 80 Wednesday, low to mid-80s Thursday, and close to 80 on Friday. Temperature right now, it's 42 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Ten hours on my feet, traffic, noise, everybody needing something for me. My head is spinning. I just need the world to stop for one second. But then I get home, shoes off, phone out, and I open Modo Casino. Hundreds of slots. Classic table games. It's my instant reset. The variety I want and the quiet I need. Modocinos, the social casino board where prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit motto.us for more details. Download the Moto Casino app today. Must be 21 plus.

America's social casino. 59 inbound at the loop is always a problem. KTRH, time saving traffic. Next on the 10. All right, 720s are time here in Houston's morning news of the Supreme Court. dealing with Trump's tariffs right now, they have a decision to make about whether or not he's within his powers as the chief executive to make those arbitrary decisions about tariffs. Or am that coming up in a couple of minutes. First, though, traffic. You need somebody short. No, not really, Sky Mike. Do your thing. I just feel like that. being short. Okay, but that's fine. Grand Parkway eastbound. We had a minor wreck around Gosling that was heading over toward the Woodlands ramp. It looks like they've cleared that quickly. Toe truck and then just where'd that wreck go? We have backups now from 2920. Still an extra 12 minutes going that way. Katie Freeway, a lot of breaks. Grand Parkway into Fry Road. Not bad for the Katie inbound so far. East Freeway. We're a little smushed up now right before the Sanjicenter River Bridge outbound. I'm Skymike. The generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center, sunny, kind of cold today with a high temperature right about 60. Sunny, more seasonable 73 tomorrow than Wednesday, partly cloudy with a high temperature about 80. Current temperature is 42 in your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Time to check out some of our top stories on the Monday morning. Here's Cliffe. And we're sponsored by D&M Auto leasing. Democrats got nothing on Obamacare in the deal to end the shutdown. One child is dead. Six first responders were injured after a water rescue from the Texas City Dike. And tonight's Powerball Jackpot, 490 million, mega millions tomorrow, 900 mil. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 7.30. Chicago is a hell hall right now. Free health care, illegal aliens. Listen here. Portland is on fire. Know everything. You never know what's going to happen. With News Radio 740, KTRH. Well, evidently you also cannot hurry Supreme Court decisions. They will take whatever time they have to take in order to make a decision on whether or not President Trump, as chief executive of this country, can, on an emergency basis. put in tariffs. It is the job of Congress as relates to tariffs, but is there a loophole here that the president can sneak through? And by the way, if the Supreme Court rules against him, what could happen next in order to prevent that tariff ability from going away? Well, we'll get into all that here. Tom Dupree. And Taylor Riggs, she's from the Big Money Show on Fox Business. Tom Dupree, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, on the Supreme Court considering what Trump and cannot do.

with those tariffs? I would say, first of all, that although I realize some listeners may have found it boring for me listening to that argument and all the constitutional phrases being bandied back and forth was like a double jolt of caffeine. I loved it. And look, what the Supreme Court is wrestling with is, as President Trump correctly noted, an absolutely critical question. And it goes to your point, whether Congress actually gave the president the power to impose these tariffs. And so the justices asked hard questions of both sides. Look, they pushed the administration's lawyers saying, where do you see the language in the law that gave Trump the power to do what he did? But they also pushed back against the people challenging the tariff, saying that, look, the president was acting in his role as commander-in-chief as controller of our foreign policy, and maybe he gets a bit more leeway in that context. But the bottom line is that the court did seem to doubt that Congress gave the president such broad authority. And look, if the court ultimately says Trump went too far, You're absolutely right. He has other statutes he could rely on to impose tariffs or Congress could simply ratify what the president has already done. All right, Taylor, assume arguendo the worst case scenario. Revenue, trade deals, lots of really hard work the president put into this could be all for naught. So what happens if the court says they relied on the wrong statute? Does the money have to be returned? And if so, to whom? And is it going to be unsettling for the markets? Yeah, you know, that's a great question. We're looking at what could be north of $100 billion looking to be returned. I think that's worst case scenario, people trying to figure out if the court deems this attacks on businesses or attacks on consumers, how do you start to redistribute the refunds of all of that? I don't think anyone wants to try to think about how that goes. I think that good news, though, Trey, is that markets and business leaders want certainty. So if the Supreme Court says, go for it, this is okay. Markets and business leaders and corporations say, great, I can plan for that. If the Supreme Court says, no, the president overstepped and you can't do this, business leaders and corporations in the market will say, great, I can plan for that, right? They just need clarity in either direction. So they just, business just needs a decision. Wall Street just wants a decision one way or another. The idea, though, of giving back $150 billion, I mean, that doesn't seem like the world's easiest thing to do. Maybe the Supreme Court would rule that he didn't have to give the money back, but he can't do the tariffs any longer, or maybe they'll rule in his favor. We just don't know. We just don't know how that whole thing's going to end up. 726. It is time to continue some discussions on your money. And good morning. Looks like a risk on morning for investors, as futures indicate a higher open on Wall Street this morning. Visa and MasterCard closed to a new agreement that will attempt to settle a two-decade legal spat with merchants. The credit card companies are going to make changes to lower interchange fees. By an average of a tenth of a percent over several years, retailers have fought for decades to slash their share of the cost for accepting card payments. I'm John Tucker Carlson, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH.

Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740 KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRA. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. It is 730 here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett among our top stories this FR. Trump pardons Republicans who questioned the 2020 election results. This Democrat, mayor, is proud to be cooperating with ICE. And coming up at 738, more thoughts on another four years of Governor Greg Abbott. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking out that morning drive again. Skymikes here. We're downtown. We're just checking out your east tax. The elevated is all skunched up like it typically gets from about equipment. You're trying to hit the Med Center exit to see the doctor. It takes about an eight extra minutes on the southbound. West Loop. We're going down to uptown. It's slow from 290 up to uptown. It's a lot of breaks off that wreck. The Southwest Freeway, you'll hit some. Mountain View. It's not as bad as the Southwest usually gets. And Tim's coming from the north side. Happy 250th birthday, Marines. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center, sunny and cold, with a high temperature only getting up around 60 today. We'll get to the latest on the forecast. It's going to warm up. Terry Smith will join us in about nine minutes. Right now, 42 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Thank you, Jimmy, 731 on KTRH. Our top story, it was not an auto pen. It was President Trump himself issuing pardons for Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and others accused by Democrats of attempting to overturn the 2020 election. In his proclamation, the president said that this quote ends a grave national injustice perpetrated on the American people. The left, of course, is losing their mind over this, but... House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said they were silent when Joe's auto pen pretty much pardoned thousands in January. To this day, Joe Biden's never talked about those thousands of pardons that were signed by the auto pen in the last hours of his administration. That was Comer on Fox. And speaking of the former president, we had a siding over the weekend where he was supposed to speak, but it sounded more like he was just rambling and yelling at Donald Trump. You work for us, Mr. President. We don't work for you. Claiming Democrats were, quote, back after last week's election wins in blue states. And this just in the U.S. carried out more strikes on alleged drugboats and international waters killing several other. Narco-terrorists, literally just into us. Coming up now on 733 on KTRH. On this vote, the yeas are 60 and the nays are 40. Three-fifths of the Senate duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, the motion upon reconsideration is agreed to. White at the end of the tunnel for the Chuck Schumer shutdown as eight Senate Democrats, including the number two Senate Democrat in Dick Durbin. cave and vote with Republicans on a revamp plan to open the government back up. The Democrats did not get the Obamacare funding they were looking for, only a promise on a vote down the line. So what did the Senate Minority Leader do? Of course, he threw a tantrum. We must fight because children who are dying of cancer will not get health care coverage.

Remember, whatever the Senate passes must get through the House before it goes to President Trump's desk. So that means the shutdown is not over yet. And that also means that there are 46 canceled flights at Bush Airport this morning. Another 21 had hobby due to the FAA restrictions that were caused by the shutdown. Coming up on 734, Houston Mayor John Whitmire finally acknowledges that the city is cooperating with ICE. While speaking at a conference on Saturday, John Whitmire said he didn't want the city to go through the same kind of turmoil that we have seen in cities like Los Angeles. Meantime, masked anti-ice rioters have been an issue for months. DHS finally took a major step to stop it. Protesters are no longer allowed to cover their faces. You ain't heard about Moto Casino? Moto has real Vegas slots. Any game you can find on the floor in Vegas, you can play it on Moto. I like my slots hot. Moto's free to play, like food stamps, in line at the grocery store, at a funeral, in traffic. Keep your eyes on the road. Hop on Moto Casino. Moto Casino got jackpots that are bigger than my belly. Moto, America's Hot is free to play social casino. Download the Moto Casino app today. Moto Casino is the social casino board. We're prohibited to purchase necessary.

The new rule bans everything from masks to hoods for those violating the law at protests. They act with impunity because they feel like they're not going to be able to be identified. But now the federal government with this new law will be able to unmask them. Former HPD captain, Dr. Greg Freeman, says this makes it clear that this anti-ice violence won't be tolerated anymore. I hope these people were held to the fullest account of law and sentenced accordingly. And that should send the chilling effect of the other misfits are out there that are wanting to commit violence. He added that cracking down on masked edge. will make everyone, including peaceful protesters, safer. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. Meantime, DHS says ICE agents were fired at during an operation in Chicago on Saturday. The shooter is still out there. Nobody was hit by the gunfire, but an officer was injured responding. 735 on KTRH, looking at your money this morning. Investors are liking the potential end of the shutdown as Dow Futures are... are up by 170 points. There could be trouble down the road, though, as Fox's Liz Peek says, layoffs driven by AI could spark a surge of socialism. I think you're going to hear a lot about this. This is a huge area of investment. They're beginning to see that investment result to people not being hired or being fired. And I'm guaranteeing that this will be the sort of new Democratic socialist rally in crime. And with affordability, now the top issue for the majority of us, she says we can expect a major battle ahead over AI. And more candidates like socialists are on Zohran Mamdani. So speaking of woke. pushback against a California gym for banning a real woman who stood up to a naked biological man in the locker room. I'm terminated for not wanting men in the locker room. The viral video displayed just another bit of leftist lunacy. The left is going to realize that they have backed... themselves into a corner. The snake is eating its own tail here. Fox's Tommy Laren says the Dems are inviting in white men who they despise and removing black women who they praise. Logan Washburn of the Dallas Express says for a party that empowers women, they have funny ways to show in it. What they're doing is saying the woman is wrong and we have to punish her by removing her from the gym. He says that people are waking up to this though. Finally, Andre Parrard News Radio 740, KTRH. 736, the Rockets get back to their winning ways. Durant crossover, left-handribal, against Turner, pulls out from 10 on the way and good. 11 of 15 for Kevin Durant, 115, 113 Houston. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790, Durant had 31. The Rockets beat the Bucks, 122, 115. Texas A&M remains at number three in the latest AP top 25, while Texas Tech moves up a spot to number eight. And the Longhorns, who did not play, jumped up three spots to number 10. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740, KTRH. I usually take I-10 West, but lately that's been a nightmare. KTRH, time-saving traffic. Next on the 10.

You know, I guess I'm surprised that Governor Greg Abbott's running for a fourth term. Well, let me take that back. Not so much surprised that he's running for a fourth term that he hasn't gotten a different gig, either with the Trump administration or I don't know if he's been offered anything or hasn't been offered anything. Or does it not interested in a federal position? Biden is biding his time, hoping that someday he can run for president. I don't know, but I do know he's running for a fourth term. And as somebody who is not the world's biggest fan of Governor Greg Abbott, I mean, he has his pros, he has his cons. In the past, at least he's not been as strong as I would like him to be, certainly. Maybe you feel the same way. You know, we have a tendency to think of the alternative. Well, he'd be better than better all right. Well, yeah, obviously. But is he the best Texas Republican to be governor? Do we want another four-year term from Greg Abbott, or do we want to try somebody new, some new blood? He's not really giving us a choice here. He's got deep pockets. He's got plenty of donors. If he decided to be the Republican nominee, he will be the Republican nominee. So it will be Greg Abbott. And you either vote for Greg Abbott or you vote for the Democrat, and we all know how that's likely to turn out. But I wanted to get your thoughts this morning. on Greg Abbott going for fourth term. Would you rather see somebody new, some new blood? Do you have somebody else in mind that you would rather see? Are you perfectly happy with Governor Greg Abbott? What are your thoughts? There's no doubt that I'm very proud of Governor Greg Abbott and the amazing work he has done in his almost 12 years in office as our governor. He has always led Texas in the right direction, direction on the border. and an education and a lot of issues. Yes, there's still a lot of work to be done on poverty taxes. And honestly, I will not be happy until poverty taxes are fully eliminated. So unless there is someone better than Greg Abbott who will campaign on eliminating taxes and follow through with it, my vote is still with Greg Abbott. David and the task Casillas, I'm okay with Greg Abbott coming back for another term. I would like to see a good, vibrant primary process happen and let him earn it. not just walk in and not have anybody go up against him. John Daly here. You know what day it is? Neither do I. I live life daily. That's why I only spend on Modo Casino. Modo's got daily free bonuses, daily tournaments, new slots out of daily. And the best part, guaranteed daily jackpots. You can't beat that. So today's the day you're gripping to spend it with me on Modo. America's Social Casino. Play for free on moto.com.

I think there's going to be a lot of people who are like that last guy. I'm okay if Greg Abbott is going to be governor for another four years. Am I excited about it? I'm certainly more happy about it than the idea that we could have a Democrat in the office for sure. But I think a lot of us think that, yeah, there's bound to be something better, but what that better is, we don't know. 7.40, time for traffic and weathered together. I like consistency, though, you know? I mean, the only thing I hate... You like consistently bad? No, no, just consistently. Because that's consistent, too. Well, I know, but I like to know, you know, a known element. The only thing I hate more than change is hope. I think we should get Lance from... I think we should get Lance from Magnolia to be the governor, though. You're dashing my hope this morning, that's for sure. I'm killing the clock while I'm at it. We're looking at 249 southbound. Got some breaks here from Will... of Brook Mall down to the north. Sam looks an extra two or three minutes here. You got that road work. Oh, Terry, speaking of you, I got your golf ball over here. And I sent you, I sent you some video Saturday, right? On the way to my gig. All right, this is eastbound right around the golf ball. We've got some breaks now. I don't know. They're doing science stuff up in there. On the roads, we're clearing up an earlier wreck that was just past Gosling. Everybody's okay. We're just about finished pointing at things. And we've got an extra. nine or ten minutes going that way. On the West Park tollway, should we keep Eddie Martini on it? Yes, we're all right this morning. We're good. Mission Ben, some breaks. No big whoop here. Oh, look out. Southwest Freeway. New wreck. We always get these coming out of the loop where that merging craziness happens. It's messing up your ramp that goes down from uptown outbound, not inbound on the southwest. I know your head hurts. We've got breaks now from Hillcroft in. I'm Skymike. It's your generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTR. Our H generator Supercenter 24-hour weather, so I've got hope for warmer days ahead, and I don't have to wait too long to see that hope become reality, do I? No, you don't. We got this big dose of cold air today, and then it just slowly... defrosts across our part of the state. It really does warm up nicely. The other thing that comes back is humidity. And I have to say, as long as the humidity isn't crazy out of whack, I really do appreciate a little bit of humidity. It just feels so much nicer to be outside. Today, at least we're sunny, but that northerly wind's going to keep the temperatures in check. Like, we're not going very far today. Upper 50s to low 60s. That's as good as it's going to get. It is still going to be cold tonight, mid-30s to mid-40s tonight. But then the wind shift, we still have sunshine, and the warm-up gets underway tomorrow. And it continues the next couple of days. Low to mid-70s tomorrow, 80, around 80 on Wednesday. Low to mid-80s Thursday. and temperatures close to 80 on Friday. Right now, 43 at your officials, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in Katie. I live in the woodlands. Next on the 10. Your reliable forecast on 740 KTRH. A Semper 5, today is the 250th anniversary of the Marines.

We have a former Marine who has decided to launch his campaign for Texas Attorney General. His filing is officially going to be today. His name is Aaron Wrights. We'll talk to him coming up next. First, though. Traffic and weather together as we check in again with Skymike. Looking at 290. We're a little 290 up from Highway 6. Got some breaks on 249. Lance from Magnolia stuck in that route and the Willowbrook, you lose. I'm having a lot of fun talking this morning. Six extra minutes now hitting the belt. Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Chromar KTRH Generator Supercenter 24-hour weather center for today. Sunshine. Kind of chilly, though. Temperature only getting up around 60 today. Sunny, more seasonal 73 tomorrow. Partly cloudy right about 80 for the high on Wednesday. Current temperature is 43 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Time to check out some more of our top stories this morning. Here's Cliff. Thank you, Jimmy. Evacuation orders could continue for several days in Polk County after the Carter Lake Dam was compromised. The Chuck Schumer shutdown is on the verge of ending after eight Senate Democrats folded. And the OFC Little League here in Houston is the victim of crime. Thieves targeted their field twice in a 24-hour period. causing $15,000 worth of damage. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 8 o'clock. I live in Pasadena. Sharptown, Southwest. Next on the 10. Time saving traffic on 740 KTRH. Yeah, and 250th anniversary of the Marines is today. We have a, I called him a former Marine. You're never, Aaron Wright, you're never really a former Marine, right? Once a Marine, you're always a Marine. That's right. Yeah, once a Marine, always a Marine. And now you would like to be Texas Attorney General. Man, that's a crowded field to get into. What makes you want to run for Attorney General? Well, look, I mean, I think it's great that we are formally filing for my candidacy on the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps because when the stakes are high and when the fight is hot, our country sends in the Marines. That's what we do. Okay. We are the United States lethal fighting edge, the tip of the spear. And the reason why I'm running for Texas Attorney General is because we are in an existential conflict with the forces of the left. And I know from personal experience that the primary arena in which we're fighting these dark forces is the justice system. We need battle-tested, battle-hardened Marines who have proven themselves litigating, investigating, suing, defending, and appealing on all the major issues that determine really the future of our country and the state of Texas. And I'm the only one in this crowded field who's been in legal combat for years and years.

fighting against and winning against the left in court and throughout the justice system. That's why I'm running. You know, it's one thing to have to fight against the federal government when the federal government is being run by the left. Right now, it's a little bit easier thanks to having the Trump administration there. But as we get more and more people moving here from California and maybe from New York now that they've decided they're going to go communists with their next mayor, it might be a little bit tougher here too, right? For sure, yeah, no doubt. Look, I was Attorney General Ken Paxton's deputy for three years fighting against the Biden administration. Paxson has endorsed me to succeed him as the next Attorney General of Texas, and that's because of my record suing the Biden administration. In fact, I sued the 46 president 46 times, and I won 85% of those cases. Now, you're exactly right, though, Jimmy. We've got an ally in the White House. I just came from the presidentially appointed Senate-confirmed role as the head of the office of legal policy in Trump's Justice Department. And so there's no greater friend as the next AG of Texas who can partner with the Trump administration, with the Justice Department, with the Department of Homeland Security to bring those benefits, resources, and focus to benefit Texas as a whole. But you're also exactly right. We've got these deep blue pockets in Texas, the big blue cities. the big blue counties in particular where a lot of your listeners are at here in Harris County and in the city of Houston. There is so much fraud, waste, abuse, criminality, just absolute chaos and corruption that's happening. And the attorney general is going to play a critical role in smoking out that corruption, holding corrupt public officials responsible, and ensuring that our big blue pockets. in Texas, which you're getting bluer and bluer by the day for the same reasons as you just said. We need a chief legal officer of Texas who's going to come bring the heat to these guys, and there's nobody better that's able to do that than me. Heck, fighting corruption in Harris County is a full-time job in and of itself. We've only got a few seconds left, but as we mentioned, it is a crowded field, and you have some people like Chip Roy with name recognition. So obviously, Coming on our program and other programs to get attention is a good idea. What other things can you do to try to make inroads when you're running against relatively big names? Yeah, I think the only big name in this race really is Chip Roy. There are other two locals who folks in the Harris County area may know, but really their campaigns are floundering and they're not running credible campaigns. The issue here is who is best qualified to serve as the next chief legal officer of Texas. And my record, litigating, investigating, suing, defending, and appealing on all the major issues. which be head and shoulders above the competition. And even if I were to grant that Chip Roy has higher name ID, which of course he does. He's been in Congress blasting the president, blasting MAGA voters. trying to get Ken Paxton removed from office. His high name ID, the flip side of that coin is he's got catastrophically bad negatives. He called for President Trump to be impeached in January at 2021. He sided with Mike Pence to certify the stolen election of 2020. He was the first elected official in the United States to call for Ken Paxton to be removed from office. This is somebody who is too unstable and eagomaniacal to be trusted as the next Attorney General of Texas. And I guarantee you that President Trump will not be happy when if he

He's elected as the AG because of how many times he's backstabbed the president's supporters as well as President Trump. If Texans want what President Trump called be a true MAGA attorney, vote for Aaron Wrights for Attorney General, Aaron Wrights.com, R-E-I-T-Z. We got it. We got to run. Thank you, Aaron. Appreciate it. There's Aaron Wright's, former Marine and candidate for Attorney General. Leastie will be as of today. You'll have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow morning. Brain and Relief 5. Every dating app swipe is another loss. Jimbros, fake CEOs, straight up losers. So now the only app I open is Moto Casino because at least there I'm surrounded by winners. Real winners, thousands of them. While everyone else is in the single swamp, I'm at home relaxing while stacking bonuses, hit and wins and playing all my favorite Vegas style games. Modo Casino, the only app worth your time. Moto Casino, social casino, where prohibited, no purchase necessary, visit Moto.us for more details. Download the Moto Casino app today. Must be 21 plus.