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This is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. It is Friday morning 5 a.m. here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this F are, the left. Well, they hate it when HBD cooperates with ICE. Trump cranks the media with his state of emergency for the midterms comment. And coming up at 508, 10 parenting rules bloomers grew up with that millennials refuse to enforce. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive for the first time. Hey, Skymike. Hey, I got a vehicle fire on the East Tech's freeway. This is southbound at Townsend coming into Umbl. We're taking up two, one, two, three right lanes here. This is on the southbound. Watch out from the Sanjusino River Bridge. I'm Skywhite in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center for today. Looking at plenty of sunshine, hot, humid. But as hot as it's going to be this weekend. Jeff Enos is about 95 today. We're going to be flirting with 100 tomorrow through Wednesday. We'll check it all out in the tropics as well when we talk to Jeff in about nine minutes. Temperature right now is 80. And your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Good morning. It's 5.01. We're sponsored by Synergenic Health in our top story this hour. It's just another two on the two belt of vice officers who are under 9,000% increase in death threats. An actual 1,400% increase in actual threats. Orders are Tom Homan and confirming ICE will be adding zap gloves to deal with illegal aliens that aren't cooperating. Of course, the left is complaining even though this would actually prevent. Deaths. Here at home, HPD reportedly contacted ICE dozens of times, and this follows the months of fearmongering from the left about HPD's cooperation with the feds. In total, only six of those 34 service calls actually led to someone being in ICE custody. The complaint about something minute, we have too many contacts a year with citizens. It's very low level the number of times we've had to call ICE. Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union says this is all just about attacking the Trump administration. We have members of our city council that want to fight national issues at a local level. That's not how it works. They need to pay attention of what's going on in the city, Houston. He says the uproar over ICE arrests will likely continue as long as Trump is in office. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. Speaking of the unhinged left, Texas Democrat Congressman Joaquin Castro wants several small towns around the San Antonio area to stop enforcing parts of federal immigration law. That's not going over well with Republicans. A sitting congressman saying no, don't.

But at the same time, 80% of voters also say they want Congress to balance the federal budget within the next two years. The 2027 cost of living adjustment will be announced on October 14th. It's 506. The Texans lose their preseason opener to the Chargers last night at Reliant Stadium 27 to 7.7. Most of the starters didn't play. The team hosts the Raiders next Thursday. The Astros take on the Mariners at Dijkin Park tonight. Pre-game at 6 on Sports Talk 790. The game at 790 and KTRH. The Stros lead the Rangers by two full games in the AL West. The Maritors are five-back. And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740. The human experience. Human history happens here. I have tears of my eyes. I can just screen this life that we live on News Radio 740, KTRH. Guaranteed human. Oh, I've got rules. We've all got rules. We're all brought up with rules. 507 is their time here in Houston's morning news. It's always interesting to compare generations in how they're raised and how the rules have changed since when we were kids. especially between the boomers and the millennials. Of course, the millennials were raised by boomers, and boomers were raised by the silent generation. And I think the boomers were a lot less lax, or they were more lax, I should say, on the rules than their parents were. Every generation seems to have gotten more and more lax or changed the rules. For example, Spanking and corporal punishment, which we've talked about on our program many times. Are you a spanker or a timeout person? I employed a little bit of both. Spanking was only used for rare occasions. I was spanked on a regular basis as a child. Can't think of a time where I didn't deserve it. But spanking was part of the way we were brought up. The clean plate rule. Do you remember the clean plate rule? No dessert unless you clean your plate or just plain, you aren't leaving the table until you clean your plate. Now, that really turned out to be not a very good rule because it led to a lot of overeating. If you're full, you shouldn't have to finish your plate. Now, if you're refusing to eat something just because you're being a picky pearl, then that's a different story. But to force kids to clean their plate when they're full, that doesn't make any sense. forcing physical affection. Give grandma a kiss. Remember how you used, when you were a kid, if you were a boomer, when you were a kid, you had a, when you had a relative there, like a grandparent or whatever, you were forced to give them a hug or a kiss, even if you didn't want to do it. Millennial parents don't do that. Seena not heard, that's gone by the wayside. Because I said so, which was, why do I have to do? Whatever it is, because I said so. No longer is it considered to be a valid excuse. Not that it ever was a valid excuse. It was never meant to be. It was just that, hey, those are the rules. I'm in charge. Do as I say. Tough love, threat lines like, I'll give you something to cry about or this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you. My dad loved that line.

And I've never said, no, it's not. This is definitely going to hurt me more than it hurts you. But if you have any more, you want to add to our list, feel free to do so you go to the I Heart Radio out, KTRH, first name where you're calling from. Boomer rules that are no longer enforced. Of course, at our house it's called Wilders Rules. That's what. My mom's name was. She had her own set of rules. Didn't necessarily conform to any known etiquette in America, but it was her rules, and you live by her rules. 510, time for traffic and weather together. You're talking about kissing relatives? Yes. Oh, my, okay, so I'm a... Give her grandma, big smooch. I was a cute little kid, and we had Aunt Martha, and Aunt Martha had an eye patch. Come here, Mikey, dude. Give me some sugar. Oh! She's got an eye patch. I'm still having flashbacks here. All right. Let's hit it right there. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, Blackjack, Kino, Roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino void for prohibited. Must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. When it comes to your business, great promotions should do more than just get your name out there. They should drive action. And that's exactly what your business will get from a partnership with IHeart Media. Imagine your business connecting with music fans and future customers through sweepstakes, ticket giveaways, listener contesting, and local media. Attach your business to high-energy music moments built to help grow awareness, engagements, and leaves. Getting started is easy. Learn how today at iHeartadvertising.com. That's IHeart Advertising. think.com Albert from Kingwood's on the Eastex Freeway, dude. Morning, Sky Mike. What that? Inbound just south of border. On the left hand or inside lane, there is a stalled out car. All right. That's on the inbound side here, right at the river. Look out. Albert from Kingwood, give me some sugar, baby. I-10, hello. Hey, Sky, Mike, Rodney, hardworking east side. Oh, that's great. Let's bring back an old name. The beast is wide open from the 330 I-10 split all the way into downtown. Downtown's back. up to the two lanes. Okay. And the visor side of I-10 is low and wide open all the way out to the beltway. Rodney, you knocked it out of the park right there. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather, sir. Time to check him with Jeff Eno. He's got the weekend forecast. Looks like we're going to be flirting with 100 degrees this weekend.

Yes, sir. 95 today. That is, quote, unquote, the coolest it will be. Heat index around 107 today. A stray shower thunderstorm could pop up later on in the morning. I'll keep an eye on that. Look at radar, mostly sunny. Tonight, partly cloudy, low near 80, and then that's it for any rain opportunities. Sunny Saturday, up to 98. Heat index around 110 may start looking at those heat advisories for tomorrow and then Sunday. Sunny and upper 90s, I may need a therapy session after that iPad store. Happy note. Give me some sugar. Current temperatures 80 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Our 59 inbound at the loop is always a problem. KTRH time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. 520s are time here in Houston's morning news. All right, the progressive left has decided that they want nothing to do with artificial intelligence or data centers. They're all in on this now. They're all in on banning AI and data centers, which as you know is not. Not a realistic goal, nor a goal that we want to have. Do we want to seriously look at the power needs of these things? Yes. Do we seriously want to look at where we put these things because of the noise they make? Yes. But the genie's out of the bottle on this one. There's an AI race. AI is here to stay. It's not going anywhere. We'll have more on the story coming up next. First, though, let's do a little traffic and weather together, starting with you, Skymine. All right, East Tech's Freeway. Look out for the AI and also look out for this vehicle fire. It's on camera. One, two, three, seven, if you're following it home on the East Tech's Freeway, Townsend, inbound. It's a vehicle fire. Now, judging by the way they're set up here, it looks like everybody's okay. We got a left lane, two left lanes getting by. It's about a six-minute skunch here. Young Albert from Kingwood found a problem. further up in Katie Porter. Inbound just out the border. On the left hand or inside a lane, there is a stalled out car. All right, that's going to cause a bit of a smunch, nothing big. Just watch out for all those flashy lights. Give me some sugar, Clifford. I'm Sky Mike. The ability. Tree experts. Traffic Center. Prova, KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center. It looks like it's mostly sunny today. Chance of a stray shower storm this afternoon, primarily 95. Then tomorrow all the way through Wednesday, sunny with a high near 100 each day heat index up around 110. Current temperature is 80 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Live is standing by in our newsroom. He has an update on some of our top Friday stories. The Trump Treasury Department says the cartels have taken a hit on profits from human smuggling. The two-year-old Harris County toddler allegedly beaten by her mom's boyfriend has died. National Hurricane Center continues to monitor two areas for potential tropical development. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 5.30.

Pasadena. A living clearly. Reliable. KTRH, traffic, and weather. Next on the 10. All right. You are exactly, sir, the kind of people the data centers love. Could you go to work for the state of Texas so that changed the governor's mind? about banning some of these data centers from rural areas, for example, because it sounds like you make it sound like you don't care about any of those things. That's fine. I can tell you the progressive far left is decided they're all going to jump on the bandwagon. They're all going to be anti-AI, anti-data center. So here they are complaining. as they are want to do, and we get reaction to all of it. I can start by taxing the data centers that power AI. Michiganers don't want data centers. No to data centers. At this point, no more data centers. We can't let the left do to AI what they did to nuclear power in the 1970s. They paralyzed an industry. that could have prevented this cascade of global energy crises we've seen for 40 years. And if you think we can pause AI, do you think Russia or China or India, they're going to do the same thing? Of course not. These lefties, instead of solving for X, they want to ban math. It makes no sense. I've said this before. If you haven't integrated AI into your life, you will watch life pass you by. It adds... 10 points to your IQ. I'm now at 205. It's incredible. I use AI for everything, debating theories to finding out like 10 easy tricks when I'm playing a cheap guitar. There's so much stuff. I think what the socialists do, just often is they capitalize on fear. because they have no achievements that they can champion. So if you can't make something, you frame what other people make as terrifying. They don't understand abundance. They understand limitation. They talk about water. It uses so much water. Almond orchards use 90 times more water in California alone than data centers do nationwide. The water used by data centers are non-potable. Is that what you say non-potable? often recycled, constantly recycled throughout, and they're improving on it. It's not competing with drinking supplies the way agriculture or almonds do. So do not fall for this, and I'm telling you, all this Sturm and Drang, is that the words? Strum and Drang, whatever. It's not going to matter. It's not going to matter because it's going to be just like the internet. You're going to have it wherever you go and it's going to change your life. That's Greg Gutfield, of course, on the five. All right. By the way, do you say data or data? Because I'm hearing like a 50-50 mix. I've always said data. I never pronounced it data, but I'm hearing some people do that. I suppose I should look that up. Is this like tomato tomato?

By the way, whoever says tomato, it was used as an example, tomato tomato, potato, potato. Nobody ever calls it a potato or tomato, right? Nobody I've ever heard anyway. 526, time to take a look at your money. Tyson Foods is shrinking its beef business as the historic cattle shortage squeezes meatpackers. The company's closing two more plants and putting another up for sale. Tyson plans to anchor its beef operation around just three plants in Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. The domestic cattle herd remains near the lowest level in about five decades, raising prices for the animals that meatpackers buy. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH. Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24 7th this is News 740 KTRH live everywhere with the IRRF more of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios 530 is our time here on Houston's morning news I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett bonger top stories this half hour another James Talarico flip-flop this time on gender mutilation Why were the polls in Michigan and Wisconsin so wrong? And coming up at 538, Hellman's competition for America's Best Sandwich. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking it with Sky Mike. I'd be playing with this here paddleball if it wasn't for the East Texas Freeway. Southbound East Texas Freeway Humble at Townsend. That's a vehicle fire. It looks to me the way they're lined up here, the responders, looks to me like everybody's okay. We got two left lanes getting by about a six-minute skunch inbound. Rest of our freeways are rocking. I'm Sky Mike. It's the generator super center. Com Traffic Center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly sunny. Chance of a stray shower storm today with a high temperature right about 95. Complete forecast coming up from Jeff Eno at the Weather Channel. Let's do that in nine minutes. Right now, it's 80 at your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Good morning. It's 531, our top story. Once we expose him for who he really is, the radical leftist views that he has, I think there's no way that Texas can elect him. Ken Paxton on Newsmax talking about James Talarico, who's flip-flopping in extreme views, just got exposed again.

Senate candidate is telling voters he does not support transgender surgery for kids, even though he opposed a ban in the state legislature. Texas GOP strategist James Dickey says we can expect to keep seeing this flip-flopping. He famously said there were six genders. Between now and November, he's going to have six positions on everything. The issue of transgender health care is once again in the spotlight. After earlier this week, the feds announced that Medicaid and children's health insurance programs will no longer fund gender transition. and hormone treatments or surgeries for minors. KTRH is Rex. So it's meantime a New Emerson College poll in this race shows Ken Paxton ahead of James Talarico. We found out that the polls were wrong again. That was the reaction to recent primaries this week in Wisconsin, last week in Michigan, with Democrat socialists underperforming what the polls had predicted. Charlton State political science professor Bo Kabbalah says some pollsters are actually getting it wrong. purposely. We know how to misrepresent what a poll indicates. You just mess with the sample size. You adjust the sampling location. Many pollsters have an interest in shaping the outcome. And I think the primaries, if we can dig deeper, continue to make that point for us. He also points to the Trump effect where polls have repeatedly undermeasured Republican and conservative support for candidates. It's 533 breaking overnight. Kevin Wrightout, an American missionary abducted in Niger has been released after nine months in captivity. Still no movement in talks with the Iranians when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz. Vice President JD Vance says Tehran hasn't been straight with the Trump administration for months. The Iranians sometimes make commitments that they don't honor. They make a deal. They don't honor the deal. That was JD Vance on Fox. Oil at $81.80 a barrel this morning. Dow futures are down, 59 points. Cyber attacks on water systems across the country have been in the news for the last couple of weeks. And national security experts say we need to be concerned about the power grid. Wade Miller is a former Marine and now executive director for the Center for Renewing America and says the threat is real. It's very real. As a Marine, I always like to flip the map and say, if I were to attack myself, what would I attack first? Where am I most vulnerable? And that would be our U.S. energy. Literally small teams of infiltrators could shut down the U.S. economy for weeks, if not months, to the degree where gas isn't flowing, electricity isn't moving to houses, food isn't showing up grocery stores. It's a priority for our U.S. adversaries. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KT. Reach. 534, Houston ISD high school teacher went viral this week for calling out his students' inability to read something that could be the result of years of woke indoctrination in our public school system. The government school systems focus more on the LGBTs than the ABCs. If you're not knocking it out of the park in the core academic subjects, then you have no business branching off into the political sphere. Corey DeAngelis with the Heritage Foundation says the solution to this is more accountability and to move away from educational participation trophies. Meantime, HISD Superintendent Mike Miles reacted to Darius Williams' viral posts.

At one point, he asked reporters if that was, quote, new information. Four years ago, Wheatley was an F. There were many more students who could not read at grade level. or do math at great level. That is why we're here. That's why this is serious. And that's the Mike Miles trying to deflect irony, though, Wheatley, where Darius Williams teaches just got an A in the accountability ratings. Hate to see the schools that got a D or an F. Fort Bend County Commissioners moved ahead yesterday with a proposed property tax rate, but the meeting again took place without Democrat commissioners, Dexter McCoy and Grady Prestage. The budget stuff isn't getting done, and that's holding up. A lot of things that are important to regular people, both taxpayers and taxpayers who work for the county. The two Dems boycotting, even though a judge ruled that Daniel Wong can remain in his post as interim county judge. The Conroe City Council considering allowing voters to have a say in the future of flock cameras in November. Many residents don't even know the cameras are up and running. Listen to this. Were you aware that there are over 50 cameras in the city of Conroe? No, I didn't. Jeez. I didn't know any of that. It was... That man with our TV partner channel 2. It is 536. The Astros host Emeritus tonight for the first game of a weekend series at Dyken Park. Pregame is at 6 on Sports Talk 790. The game at 7 on 790 in KTRH. The Strow's lead Texas by 2 in the AL West. And the rocket schedule is out. They will open the season, October 21st at home. against the Dallas Mavericks. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station. News Radio 740, KTRH. The tools you need to take on the day. News in the morning. Weather and traffic. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, quino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino, void, but prohibited must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com.

If you run a business, you know the value of trust. It's what keeps your customers coming back. And it's what you get when you advertise with IHeart. More than 75% of listeners consider IHeart hosts their friends and trust their recommendations. Now take that trusted influence and combine it with IHeart's massive reach and scale, and you've got the formula for growing your business. Learn how easy it is to tell your story through our voices today at iHeartadvertising.com. That's iHeartadvertising.com. This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. A long time since that was my favorite sandwich. Long, long time. But when you're a kid, you know, favorite kid's sandwich probably. He's peanut butter and jelly where some form there up. Maybe a grilled cheese comes in close. But as far as adults, as far as the country is concerned, what are the favorite sandwiches? What is the best Texas sandwich? Other than a brisket sandwich, if you had to pick something, anything other than a brisket sandwich, what would it be? Because I think everybody would say brisket. Hellman's mayonnaise, the mayonnaise people, have crowned their version of America's favorite sandwich. They did a nationwide bracket, kind of like NCAA style, representing all 50 states. More than 10,000 sandwich fans participated, casting nearly 100,000 votes through the competition. The bracket turned regional favorites into a national food showdown with fans picking their favorites. The competition ultimately came down to the elite eight, including Nevada's patty melt, Texas's chopped brisket sandwich, New Jersey's Italian sub, Illinois' Italian beef, Alabama's pulled chicken with white sauce, and California's tuna salad. Okay. They ended up getting down to a final four and then the two that made the finals that weren't mentioned there in the elite eight because that gave you six. Were the Kansas entry featuring burnt ends, which is a barbecue staple particularly associated with Kansas City. We've got a fair share of burnt ants here. Pennsylvania represented by the iconic cheese steak. And the ultimate winner was the cheese steak one. How come the BLT didn't make the great eight, or the elite eight? I love me a great BLT. So anyway, I thought, you know, it was Friday. We like to do fun questions on Friday. giving your favorite your favorite sandwich and in bonus points if it is something that's kind of unique to texas other than obviously we mentioned the brisket sandwich but anything else that you want to do i'll nominate the BLT because i love a good BLT if it's made with really good fresh tomatoes and sourdough sourdough lightly toasted bread yeah that's good stuff you know the i heart radio app kTRH Hit that talkback button. First name, where are you calling from your nominations for favorite sandwich? It's 540. Time for traffic and weather together. We're checked out the drive again and we're making ourselves hungry, Skymike. Good old grill cheese. Just plain old grill cheese. You know, if you put like a little pickle here and there, it's the same effect as Chick-fil-A too. What about a little ham? You like a little ham on that grill cheese? Put a little pickle on there. Maybe some onions. Since I'm single, I can eat all the onions I want. All right, Eastex Freeway. Southbound at Townsend, Jimmy. We got this.

here vehicle fire. It's on the southbound, inbound side. One, two, three, right lanes. Left lane's getting by here. We're actually okay. I think it's kind of because it's Friday. Not everybody's coming in. About a seven-minute skunch, and there's not a lot for alternates here. 494 is not going to help you because it's right at the bridge here. So, I mean, if 45 or the Hardy Bond are options, do that instead, but if 69 is your usual course, go ahead and stick the course right there. We're, you know, it's better than trying to go all the way around Grand Parkway. 610 North, Westbound, at the squeeze, 45. It's just some breaks here. And, of course, that nasty roadwork downtown. I-10 Westbound. Roddy from the hardworking east side says we're back to two lanes, tech stop wall of death, and a suicide squeeze. This is westbound. If you see something I don't see, or if you just need some sugar, 713-212 T-IPS, or hit us on the free IHart Radio app. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. I'm really not liking sugar this morning. From our KTRH Generator Super Center 24-hour, I'm going to move my... I'd rather have saccharine the newer sugars, guy, Mike. From our KTRH Generators Super Center 24-hour weather center, Jeff Eno is here. He's got the forecast for you. Is there anything new happening here? Are we just looking at the same old, same old? Same old, same old. That's it. Now, I am looking at radar and down towards the Danbury area and kind of east of Lake Jackson. There's some pretty potent little cells of storms there, but everywhere... else. We're just going to be dealing with the heat and the humidity. It does look like we might need a change as far as maybe a heat advisory for the weekend as we're starting to see some of the higher heat index readings. Before today, mostly sunny. Maybe that's stray shower, thunderstorm. And we'll get up to around 95, heat index around 107. Tonight, partly cloudy, low around 80. Saturday sunny, 98. Heat index around 110 and pretty much the same for Sunday. Temperature right now still 80 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. I live in Katie. I live in the woodlands. Next on the 10. Your reliable forecast on 740KTRH. 549, almost 550 here on Houston's morning news. So I see Cliff saw the irony in the story they came out yesterday. We played for you. Well, we talked about yesterday. I'm going to play a clip for you coming up next. of that Wheatley high school teacher crying over the state of some of his seniors in his class that can't read and write. Now, he says they can't read and write. I don't know if he meant they can't read and write at all or they can't read and write at grade level, which is a whole different story. But he made it sound like they can't really read or write at all. And... The irony is that the Texas Education Agency gave them an A. Wheely High School got an A. That's the highest grade you can get. And yet they have students there that can't read and write. That seems like a problem. Anyway, more on that story coming up next at 5.50 right now. Let's take a look at your drive again with Skymike. All right, downtown I-10 Westbound. There's some dumb kids in front of you. And the roadwork, this is right at 45. You got two little skinny lanes. You got that little suicide squeeze. Dude, watch that left lane. It just vanishes. Be sure you're not driving beside somebody because you're going to whip over. It scares the hell out of me. And some backups now from UF going westbound East Tech's freeway. Look.

at all this suckage southbound suddenly from 494 right on the other side of the river bridge let me go back a little for holy wow that's backed up from kingwood drive now on the southbound young albert from kingwood stuck and that's much we got a vehicle fire right at towns and southbound it looks like everybody's okay but we're taking up three right lanes i'm sky mike in the ability tree experts traffic center From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly sunny today. Chance for a stray shower storm 95. Tomorrow through Wednesday, sunshine near 100 each day. Heat index, yep, right about 110. Yeah, that's the hot stuff right there. Current temperature is 80 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Check in with Clivier's another update on some of our top stories. In other words, August in Texas. Got it. Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty in the federal case against him. This pretty much delays the New York murder case against him. Lawyers for the former deputy charged with killing a Lake Jackson teen say... He didn't know his gun went off during the confrontation, and Disney has pulled the plug on the reboot of the Power Rangers. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 6. Our 59 inbound at the loop is always a problem. KTRH time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. 552 now here on Houston's morning. All right, class, we're going to start with a refreshment of yesterday's lesson. Yesterday's lesson was that we have some seniors, 17, 18-year-old seniors at Wheatley High School who evidently can't read or write, at least according to this viral video from one of their teachers. This is only day soon. And I have seniors who simply cannot. Read and seniors who cannot write. They cannot write. They can reason. They have the ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking to their homeboy, but applying that to a written text, two paragraphs, and they couldn't do it. Now we reached out to Houston ISD about the post. The district sent us a statement saying in part, the first days of the school year are an important time for teachers to get to know their students, academic abilities, assess their individual needs, and determine the support each student may require. The district also said at Wheatley High School, there are students who need additional academic support, and we will continue working with our teachers and school leaders to ensure those students receive it. That reports from Fox 26, by the way. Yeah, the very carefully crafted statement from H-I-S-D about it. Mike Miles, the superintendent, also tackled the topic. We'll hear from him a little bit later in the show. You already heard from him during Cliff's Newscast, but you haven't heard this report. This report's from K-H-O-U-11. They went out and they interviewed. They didn't ask about...

this teacher or those students. They may have done the interview before that story came out. I'm not sure. Or they may have been told, just don't ask us about that, about the teacher, okay? But they interviewed the principal and the assistant principal. Once it was learned, ironically, that Wheatley High School got an A, that's right, an A from TEA. Principal Blanchard. Yes, sir. How would you characterize this news? So this is some of the most exciting news that I've heard before, simply because I was at Patrick Henry during the original thought about the takeover. It was one of those schools that we were calling the Trigger School. So to find out that Wheatley High School is now an A, that is so exciting for me as the principal of Wheatley High School. How did Wheatley go from consecutive failed ratings to an A rating? So for us, we kept the main thing, the main thing. We focused on what we knew we needed to get the students to where they should be. What categories has the school improved in? I would say all around, as she stated, it's a full circle moment for us, but preferably just putting a high quality teacher in front of every student consistently. Was there a lot of teacher turnover? Absolutely, but we were able to bring in better teachers. So we knew what our kids need, so we knew what we're looking for at our hiring events. Your thoughts about this evolution of Wheatley from failure to success? My thoughts are it's time. The kids deserve it. The kids earned it. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, quino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino void. Prohibited. It must be 18 plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. If you run a business, you know the value of trust. It's what keeps your customers coming back. And it's what you get when you advertise with IHeart. More than 75% of listeners consider IHeart hosts their friends and trust their recommendations. Now take that trusted influence and combine it with IHeart's massive reach and scale, and you've got the formula for growing your business. Learn how easy it is to tell your story through our voices today at iHeartadvertising.com. That's iHeartadvertising.com. Well, some of the kids did for sure. And by the way, this is not the downplay that they have made massive improvements at Wheatley High School. And many other schools in HISD, the star testing results show that. But they also show that I think we're grading on a curve. To put it in teacher lingo, I think we're grading on a bell curve. And maybe the improvements we're seeing at HISD are as much about... Other systems not improving is it is about HISD improving. It's 557.

is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio Station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. 6 a.m., that's our time here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Bunger Top Stories this F.R. Trump cranking the media with his state of emergency for the midterms comment. The left. Yep. The left, they don't like it very much that HPD is cooperating with ICE. And coming up at 608, you weigh in on... Great sandwiches. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive again. Oh, we're going to the canyon, Sky, Mike. Oh, the Southwest Freeway ain't big enough for the both of us. Pardon? Northbound at 288. Got a stall here. Mostly, they've got it on the side. They may need a right lane in the next few minutes, so let's keep our heads up. Phones down. That's Northbound at 288. East Tech, southbound Townsend, that's vehicle fire. The suckage comes back from 494. Mike from Magnolia's on 290. That, Mike. From 99 to the west, it's Friday light. Very few people on the road this morning. And the best sandwich is a piece of white bread, squirt some mustard on it, and put a piece of Chapel Hill sausage on it and wrap it around it. Chapel Hill sausage. Mike from Magnolia. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center for today. Jeffino says mostly sunny. Chance of a stray shower storm with a high right about 95. We'll talk with him in about nine minutes and get you an update on the forecast and an update on the tropics as well. Current temperature 80 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Sponsored by U.S. Coins and Jewelry, our top story. President Trump signed two new executive orders last week on birth tourism, but it turns out Texas has been hard at work for at least a month on this issue. Texas has to be the anchor pen that helps save this country because it's not going to be California, New York. It's either going to be Texas and Florida, and we're going to do things the American way, or it's going to be blue state, socialism, communism. That's William Gein with Allie Pack. Last month, Governor Greg Abbott signed in order to try and put an end to the birth tourism scheme in the Lone Star State. Local leftists are freaking out after records show that there were 34 HPD calls between April and June that led to cooperation with ice. As long as our administration is Donald Trump, they will continue to fight it. That's all this is about. They don't care about the citizens. They don't care about anything else except getting their name out there and trying to beat the bad orange man. Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union there. He says HPD has continued to do nothing more or less than their jobs. The anti-ice left has also been in meltdown mode in Texas cities like San Antonio, led by Democrat Congressman Joaquin Castro.

The congressman is calling on small towns around San Antonio to stop enforcing parts of federal immigration law. And that isn't going over well with Republicans who say it doesn't make sense to handcuff police when they're trying to protect the community. He's just on the wrong side of this. I mean, he really is. He's on the wrong side of this. Chris Coons heads the Bear County Republican Party. They back the so-called 287G agreements which train officers to perform certain immigration enforcement functions during their regular law enforcement. enforcement duties. It's seen as a force multiplier for the feds. KTRHs carry Locky there. Foreigners are backing out of deals to buy homes in Texas at record rates. The survey by Texas Realtors shows they did so because of the Trump administration's focus on catching illegal aliens. There are a lot of factors that play into it, you know, immigration law and things like that. The group's Jennifer Wahhab says the average price of a Texas home purchased by an international buyer was $607,000. That's about $200K above average. Nationally, more than temocrat, more than 20 Democrat-led states have sued the Department of Transportation and Homeland Security over the White House's request for a national CDL database. and part of their joint effort to remove illegal alien truck drivers from our roads. Many of them went to a sham driving school. So many of them aren't qualified. They don't have the skills and the knowledge to operate an 80,000 pound big rig on American roads. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy on Fox, 604, an attempt to limit how HPD forces marijuana violations will be on the ballot in November, requiring HPD to make enforcing pop laws their lowest possible priority. It's incrementalism. They do this now. They'll do something a little bit later, and a little bit later, and pretty soon you find out the police are totally handcuffed and crime is abundant. I'm not in favor of that at all. I like a safe civil society. Former city councilman Greg Travis says that marijuana enforcement plays a key role in shutting down larger crimes. An emergency declaration is not off the table for President Trump as the Save Act stalls in the Senate and the midterms approach. Debbie Lindstrom's of... Citizens Protecting Freedom says we need election laws to be enforced and Trump holds the power to do it. Whether he builds the need to do it or not, and whether there's political will to do that is up to him. He's our commander-in-chief. He is the one that's in charge of securing our nation and also securing our vote. She says the order needs to make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat. 605 Energy Secretary Chris Wright is bringing the receipts to back up his claim that 15 million barrels of oil are flowing through the strait of Hormuz every day. It's eight or nine million barrels a day on a running average or going through the straight. Plus, you've got to add the six million barrels a day that are being diverted via pipelines. But data from Kepler claims only 84 vessels.

crossed the waterway last week, and J.P. Morgan says the daily average is closer to 4 million barrels. Either way, we've got oil prices at $81 and $47 a barrel this morning. Stock futures are down by about 100 points. The 2027 Social Security COLA estimates are rising after the inflation numbers we got this week. The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed July's cost of living adjustment for 2027 is up almost 3.5% from a year ago. Open the books Jeremy Portnoy says something has to be done because there simply won't be enough money to fund the program. The important thing to understand is that we only have a few years until it's something that we just mathematically need to reckon with because there's only so much money to give out. He says the Social Security benefits have roughly doubled since it started 40 years ago. The 27 COLA will be announced October. 14th. I'm Erica Smith. News Radio 740, KTRH. 606, most of the starters didn't play. Texans lose to the Chargers in preseason action. 27-7 to 7. Stros host the Mariners tonight pregame at 6 on Sports Talk 790. Game time at 7. On 790 in KTRH, Strosly, Texas by two full games in the AL West. And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Listen on air, stream on the IHeart radio app, and now watch Houston's Morning News, live on Facebook. L-B-D-E-N-B-Z. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legends withazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, Kino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino void for prohibited. Must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. If you run a business, you know the value of trust. It's what keeps your customers coming back. And it's what you get when you advertise with IHart. More than 75% of listeners consider IHart hosts their friends and trust their recommendations. Now take that trusted influence and combine it with IHart's massive reach and scale, and you've got the formula for growing your business. Learn how easy it is to tell your story through our voices. Call 844-844-I-Hart today. That's 844-844-I-Hart. Favorite sandwiches, VLT, 608, here on Houston's morning news. All right, we're doing sandwiches, favorite sandwiches today. And the reason why we're doing it is Helmonds just had a contest. Helmonds, you know, the Banez people, they had a contest where they had a sandwich to represent every state. And then they did it like NCAA style.

and had people go online and vote for their favorite sandwich. And the winner was the cheese steak, the Philly Cheesesteak, which is not bad choice. I mean, if you've ever had a real Philly cheese steak, that's a great sandwich. But there's a lot of great sandwiches. I mentioned the BLT. I want to know what you think. What do you think America's, or your favorite sandwiches? You go to the I-H-R-R-H-F-R-H, first name, where are you calling from, and favorite sandwiches? Hey, guys, Rick from the East Side, happy Friday. My favorite sandwich is a toasted breakfast sandwich with Jimmy Dean's sausage and a nice runny fried egg and, of course, a slice of a bit of American cheese. Hey, Jimmy, this is Andrew Taney. I'm a semi-truck. I like a meatloaf sandwich a day after we make it. Put a little smear of mayonnaise on some bread and a big loaf sandwich. Hey Jimmy, my wife and I visited the Magnolia Salos in Waco last summer, and one of the restaurants in the silos had what they called the Lone Star. which is a grilled cheese sandwich, but loaded with barbecue brisket. One of the best things on the planet right there. I grew up with this toasted bread. Get you a little couple of slices, baloney, fry them in a skillet. Put it on that toasted bread with some mustard. It's addicting. I'll bet it is. By the way, I like that first one. We can include breakfast sandwiches, if that's one of your favorite sandwiches. Actually, I get a breakfast sandwich every now and again. Mine usually has scrambled eggs, bacon, and tomato with sourdough toast into a sandwich. It's pretty good stuff. 610. Time for traffic and weather together. Sky Mike is here. He's hungry. I'm trying. The more we talk, the hungrier I get here. Let's look at the East Tech's problem here. Have they cleared Townsend? They have not. All right, we're holding this to right-lane southbound. It's a vehicle fire. Everybody's okay. We got some pointing. We need some ninjas. I think the car is too hot to handle southbound. Tammy just told me Channel 13 is flying that way. I don't know why. I told her it looks like everybody's okay. But... We have a smunch now coming down from Katie Porter. We're plumb-backed up from 13-14 Southbound. If you could do a different route like 45 or the Hardy Vanya, we're in good shape here. 290. Mike from Magnolia says it rocks along Grand Parkway into the West Loop 610. If you have a Grand March at a wedding, you're in good shape here. Katie Freeway, visors, you look good. From 99, into the president's heads, nothing doing 25 minutes. Eastside, hard hats. You look good here. I 10 from the bridge, 22 minutes. Dave. from Conroe is on the north side 45. Everything's all clear from Willis to the medical center in the woodland. All right, Dave, you get a banana sticker and some sugar from Aunt Martha. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From RKTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center, Jeffineau's here. He's got the forecast. First, though, talk a little bit about the tropics. I know we have two systems out there that could come into play, I guess.

Later in the weekend, at least in the Caribbean, but do you see anything headed towards the Gulf? Right now it does look like, again, they're so far out, but the one system has a better opportunity as far as given the tropical formation through the next seven days, about 50%. And that one looks to be headed towards the eastern part of, if I had to guess, between Cuba and also into areas right along that straight into South Florida. So that one could possibly enter. The other one's a little farther. south, but it's given less of an opportunity, and they're both kind of right on top of each other. About a 30% chance for the other one that's, again, a little bit farther south. So I got a feeling these things may end up merging, and then from there have to start looking at some of the spaghetti models and such. But there is always that potential that we could see something into the Gulf here as we move through the next few days. So far, very quiet in the Gulf, mostly sunny today, quiet for us. Stray shower thunderstorm could pop up. We've seen a few of these, very isolated on radar, up to around 95, heat index around 107, partly cloudy tonight and 80. Tomorrow's sunny, 98, heat index around 110, and then upper 90s again Sunday. Temperature right now, still 80 at your official, severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. I live in Pasadena. Charlottetown, Southwest. Next on the 10, time-saving traffic on 740 KTRH. All right, just about 620 here on Houston's morning news. Coming up just a moment, City Houston voters will have a chance to vote on a measure that would make enforcement of Class A and Class B misdemeanor marijuana possession its lowest possible priority for the police department. And also, no knock warrants. I thought the city had dropped no knock warrants to begin with. So why do we need an ordinance on that? Anyway, more than that story coming up next. But first, let's do this. Traffic and weather together as we check out the drive once again. Here is Skymike. East Tech's Freeway Townsend. We've opened up some lineage. The backups getting better. Southwest Freeway, Jason, make me a sandwich. We like fat girls and fried bologna sandwiches. Traffic on 59, North Bell is great. It's Friday. All right, Jason, thank you for that voluptuous call. I'm in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, mostly sunny. Chance of a stray shower storm, 95 today, then tomorrow all the way through Wednesday, sunny near 100 degrees. He didn't exactly be as high as 110. And, yeah, just hot all the way through the middle of next week. It is August after all. Current temperature 79 at your official severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH.

Let's check out some of our top trending stories this morning. Here's Cliff. State Department has revoked over 175,000 visas. A man has killed, a shooter claiming self-defense in West Houston last night. And according to casino.ca in Canada, Kansas City Chiefs fans are the most optimistic. The least optimistic? New York Jets fans. Texans were in the middle of the pack at 19th. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 6.30. The ones that are under construction, 288, 610. Accidents and alternates. Next on the 10. On 740 KTRH. 622s are time here in Houston's morning news. I thought the no-knock warrants were pretty much out the window in the city of Houston. So why does there need to be a vote to the people on no-knock warrants? Greg Travis joins us, former city council member. The Houston Police Department doesn't do no-knock warrants anymore, does it? Well, the answer is they can, but they don't. Yeah. You're exactly right. It's very, very rare for a no-knock warrant, but it's a useful tool if need be. So it needs to be around in those certain situations, but it's very, very rare. Now, we haven't talked about the term for a while. Could you define for our listeners, Greg, if you would, what a no-knock warrant is? What does that mean? What allows you to actually enter the premise without actually announcing yourself. It's used for people who have heroin or cocaine that are flushing it down the toilet and large copious amounts. So, you know, it's in those situations where the evidence will be destroyed almost instantaneously if you don't do a no-lock warrant. Okay. And that's really it. I mean, most, I mean, they're always going to do the warrant if they can. Everybody wants it to be above board and legal. So it's not like this is something that happens all the time. It did happen with Gerald Goines back in 2019. It was very unfortunate. Two people lost their life and a dog died too. And he's spending 60 years in jail for that, as he should. So, you know, that's, I'll tell you what this is all is. It's an attempt to drive people to the polls in November. That's what this is. To put on the ballot to make sure people go to the people they want to go to the polls to rile them up to get them to turn out because they're afraid of turnout. Same thing goes with the marijuana policy. You know, they're talking about making it the lowest priority. Well, guess what? It is the lowest priority. Small amounts of marijuana, nobody really cares about. Police do not care about. But it's a useful tool again. If they need to use that to go on to a higher level crime, it's like the broken windows policy. So it's useful. Again, it's low priority for the police, and nobody's sitting there making a big deal about it except for this group called Ground Games in Texas, which is another DSA front. And they're trying to rile people up and turn them out to the polls. to both the way they want. And that's it. And I guess you have to give them credit. They're pretty good at doing it, aren't they? They are, and they're well-financed. So, yeah, they're very good at doing this stuff.

But it's not in the best interest of Houston. It's not in the best interest of Houston citizens. It's actually a distraction, but it's even worse than that. It actually is trying to handcuff the police. It's not defunding the police, but it's handcuffing the police. Okay. At the end of the day here, when you take a look at these types of policies, when cities like the city of Houston put these things up for the voters, and then the voters say a certain thing, and then they end up changing the policy or changing the law for the city. Whose law supersedes who? Because we know what state law says about marijuana. Don't we have to follow whatever the state law says? Well, the answer is yes. I would think that would be the case. The state law prevails. But again, they're not telling you that. L-B-T-E-N-V-T. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, quino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino void, void, prohibited. Must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. When it comes to your business, great promotions should do more than just get your name out there. They should drive action. And that's exactly what your business will get from a partnership with IHeart Media. Imagine your business connecting with music fans and future customers through sweepstakes, ticket giveaways, listener contesting, and local media. Attach your business to high energy music moments built to help grow awareness, engagement, and leads. Get started today. Call 844-844-IHeart. That's 844-Ehart. Marijuana is legal. What they're just saying is you've got to put it at the lowest priority. And again, it's already done that. But sometimes a policeman has to put the marijuana at a higher priority. And that's because of what they're attempting to do in that situation, which is to control crime. So it really takes a lot away from the discretion of the police officer who's on the scene at the time looking at the totality of the situation. It's not good for, it's not good for crime reduction. And I think that's really what the purpose of this is, is to handcuff the police. So they really don't care what the state law is. Their attitudes, they know that it's illegal. They don't care. They just want to make sure the police are handcuffed. It's almost like defunding the police in essence. You know, that being the case in all you're saying about this, Greg Travis, I'm surprised they haven't put some sort of a nice measure on the ballot because the Houston Police Department does cooperate with ICE. I'm surprised they haven't put an anti-cooperation. ballot on there to get people, what they're trying to do is to drive people to the polls.

Just wait. They'll be doing that. Okay. They're reading, they have their own internal polling. They're reading polls. They know which way the people are swinging right now. And that's just one step too far right now. They've got to do more to degrade ice in the minds of the citizens and the people. And when the time is right, they'll do it. Okay. I mean, again, they're single-minded on this. They're just, they're out there for anarchy. They're trying to destroy the country, the values. And this is just one part of it. It's in criminalism. They just, they don't do it all at once. They do it bit by bit, by bit, slow creep, and you turn around and you realize this isn't the city or the state or the country that you recognize. This isn't your city, country, or state anymore. It's just not. And, you know, these people are evil as far as I'm concerned. They're evil because of what they're doing. And really who it hurts is, these are all rich kids, too. So who it hurts is the middle class and the poor. And they don't care about that. All they care about is power. That's it. All right, Greg Travis. Always good to hear from you, sir. Thank you. Former City Council member Greg Travis is 627 and time to take a look at your money. Mortgage rates have fallen slightly for the first time in six weeks. According to Freddie Mac, the average for a 30-year fixed loan has declined to 6.67%. Even so, rates remain at their highest in more than a year. Turning to trading the S&P 500 is on track for its third weekly gain in a row. We got a number of reports this week, which gave more evidence of moderating inflation. That's reinforcing bets of Federal Reserve will refrain from raising interest rates next month. And some food companies are removing artificial. colors from their products and instead using no color at all. Natural dyes can be expensive and difficult to work with. But going without colors altogether is a gamble for the food industry that has long relied on vibrant shades to entice consumers. Research has repeatedly shown that color cues influence what people say they taste. One product the industry is watching is Texas-based Frito Lays Die-Free Naked Doritos and Cheetos. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740. KTRH. For the news that you are known. Houston's news. Weather traffic. Plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740 KTRH. Live everywhere with the Iowa. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. 630. Here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this half hour. Why were the polls in Michigan and Wisconsin so far off? Another day and another James Talarico flip-flop. And coming up at 638, more of your nominations for Best Sandwich. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive again with Skymike. All right, tip line, 713212, T-IPS. It's the East Tech's Freeway with Jim from Kingwood. Sky Mike. Dude and Stankle. There is a scuffle stopper. Yeah. Right before Townsend, inbound, blocking the on-ramp. It's got everything that does. and I don't know why. Well, it's a vehicle fire. In fact, Channel 13's helicopters there now. They should be southbound. They've reopened some laneage, but we're still plum-backed up from Katie Porter. I'm Sky Mike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center.

From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center today, mostly sunny. It's a chance of a stray shower storm, not very high chance, though, with a high temperature right about 95. Complete forecast, including the weekend, the Jeff Eno at the Weather Channel. That's coming up in eight minutes. Right now, 79. And your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliffsaw News. At 632, our top story. A Houston teacher went viral this week for calling out the fact that his 17 and 18-year-old students couldn't read or write. This is how HISD is responding to that. Yes, we're doing great. I hope we celebrate that. In fact, we're going to go to Wheatley tomorrow and celebrate the fact that they have an A. Yeah, that's Superintendent Mike Miles, and yes, that's the same school where the 17 and 18-year-old kids can't read or write, and the state just gave them an A rating, which leads to a lot of other questions. This is now being pointed to as an example of a participation trophy mentality in education. Only half the kids are proficient in reading, and only a third of them are proficient in math. Yet they have graduation rates much higher than 50%. Corey DeAngelis with the Heritage Foundation says the good news is we know how to fix this problem. Accountability mechanisms like they pushed in Mississippi led to what they call the Mississippi Miracle. I think that could improve outcomes in Texas. He suggested mimicking their policy of not advancing students who aren't. reading proficient past the third grade. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. It is now 633. Texas Senate candidate James Talarico's caught yes, once again, flip-flopping, telling voters he doesn't support transgender surgery for kids, even though he opposed a ban in the state legislature. We will absolutely keep seeing this because he knows that the positions he has held for all of his life are completely indefensible. GOP strategist James Dickey earlier this week, the feds announced that Medicaid and the children's health insurance program will no longer fund gender transition. hormones or surgeries for kids. New Emerson poll in this race that the Senate shows Ken Paxton leading James Talarico by one point. That is within the margin of error. Recent primaries, though, have left more pollsters with egg on their face. L-B-T-E-N-V-T. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, quino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino void for prohibited. Must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com.

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is comprised of 100 million square feet to produce AI chips with massive projects slated for space exploration. Financial planner Mitch Kramer says Elon Musk is weighing the environmental impact. It's going to be building his own natural gas plants for electricity to help power the facilities. You're not going to have the big drain on the grid. The initiative is expected to bring in 3,000 jobs to the state. Astros host the Mariners tonight at Dyken Park, pregame at 6 on Sports Talk 790, the game at 790 and KTRH. The Rockets will open up the NBA season October 21st at Toyota Center against the Mavs. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station, News Radio 740, KTRH. This is Houston's morning news with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. He sounds very passionate about ham sandwiches. 637 is our time here on Houston's morning news. Now grilled cheese and ham sandwich. Yeah, I'm all about that, especially with a bowl of like tomato soup. That's a good soup and sandwich combo right there. See, to me, sandwich is a lunch versus a dinner. I have to admit, I have a lot of rules when it comes to food. And that's one of the rules. I wouldn't eat just soup for dinner, and I wouldn't eat just a sandwich for dinner, but you put soup and a sandwich together, and it qualifies as dinner, at least with my mind and my rules. But we're talking about sandwiches here, because Hellman's, the mayonnaise, people, had an NCAA-style bracket competition. Every state had a sandwich. The sandwich they judged for Texas was a brisket sandwich, of course. And although we made the elite eight, we did make the final four, and we didn't win. The winner was the Philly Cheese Steak is the best sandwich in America. Well, you have your own personal favorite, whatever that favorite is. And some of you have come up with some interesting combinations. Meatloaf sandwich, for example. I've had a meatloaf sandwich before. I've made a sandwich out of leftover meatloaf. That could be pretty good, especially if you reheat the meatloaf and pour a little gravy on it. Yeah, more turkey sandwich with gravy on it. I like that too. But you feel free to make your nominations. You go to the I Heart Radio Live, KTRH, first name where you're calling from and your favorite? My grandfather's favorite. Grilled ham and cheese on rye. Mm, yeah. Cindy from Dayton, Best Sandwich, thin sliced jalapeno cheese bread, Duke's mayonnaise, shredded lettuce, sweet and hot, spicy pickles. Fresh hamburger patty, cooked well done, and white cheddar cheese. It was amazing. It was dinner the other day. This is Rodney in Navasota, Texas Red Tavern, has a Brisket Rubin that's the die for. A Brisket Rubin? Yeah, I'm surprised. Nobody's mentioned a Rubin sandwich yet. Let's throw that one into the mix. 640, time for traffic. Can we quit be brisket? What's that? Can Cliff eat brisket? Is it okay? I don't know. He's not supposed to eat bacon.

Yeah, brisket's not bacon. Brisket, for one thing, brisket is beef. Oh, okay, okay, that's right. It's not pork. All good. Let's check Southwest Freeway. Look out, Northbound at 610. That's a wreck here. It's right on that ramp that goes up to uptown. Let me check the suckage here and back this up here. It's slow from West Park. Let's go ahead and reroute. Let's reroute to Alt-N-W-W-W-W-W-W-T-Park one. Let's alt to Katie Freeway instead. from Dayton. Bail me out. Good morning, Skymite. Hey, love. Crosby Freeway Flatulence is in non-existence on 90 Westbound. Fabulous on a Friday. Outstanding. It is very Friday light coming in from Crosby and Dayton. East Tex. It's Jay Clayton from Splendor. We got that vehicle fire at Townsend. Hey. Morning, Skymine. Dude. East Texas Freeway is found in Townsend, all main lanes are open. The only thing closed is the ramp right before Townsend Boulevard. All right. Outstanding. That is not only a banana sticker, but an olive branch since he's from Splendor, y'all. I'm Scott Mike. It's the Generator Supercenter.com Traffic Center. From our KTRH, Generator Super Center, 24-hour weather center, time to bring on Jeffino. He's got the forecast for the weekend. I guess sunny and hot pretty much covers it, huh? That is pretty much it. And we'll see maybe a few clouds mix in today, maybe a stray shower, a thunderstorm. Radar is looking pretty clean now. We'll get up to around 95 today, and that temperature is exactly where we are supposed to be for this time of year. Factor in that humidity, and it feels like about 107, so keep that water around. Partly cloudy tonight. Overnight, low, around 80. That is a little warm, and then it looks like we'll probably need a heat advisory for Saturday. Sunny up to 98 heat index around 110. Pretty much the same for Sunday. Right now, 79, and your official, severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH. I live in spring. I live in Katie. Your reliable forecast. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. All right, coming up here, this Medicare for All thing. L-B-T-E-N-B-Z. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, Blackjack, Kino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino void for prohibited. It must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. If you run a business, you know the value of trust. It's what keeps your customers coming back. And it's what you get when you advertise with IHart. More than 75% of listeners consider IHart hosts their friends and trust their recommendations. Now take that trusted influence and combine it with IHart's massive reach and scale, and you've got the formula for growing your business. Learn how easy it is to tell your story through our voices. Call 844-844-I-Hart today. That's 844-844-I-Hart.

that the progressive far left is getting into now. A lot of these Democrats, socialists are calling for Medicare for all. Socialized medicine. Get rid of your ability to get a private physician. And we all end up in the government health care system, which scares the bejibers out of me. I don't know if it scares it bejeebors out of you, but it certainly does out of me. But even if you think that that would be a great idea, what would that cost? Well, we put some numbers to it. And we'll share those numbers with you coming up next. First, though, let's do traffic and weather together. That starts with you, Skymound. It's improved on the East Tech's freeway, Southbound. We were plumb backed up from Katie Porter. Southbound at Townsend. It was a vehicle fire. It looks like everybody's okay. And we've opened up most of the laneage. We've got maybe a two-minute scoge inbound. Also, new trouble at Willie C. Southbound. If you're trying to hit the airport, I'll be right back at 7 o'clock with the laneage on whatever that is in the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly sunny, chance of a stray shower storm 95 today, then plenty of sunshine near 100 for tomorrow through Wednesday. Current temperature 79 and your officials, severe weather station, news radio 740, KTRH. Let's check in with Cliff. He has an update on some of our top stories. A federal judge is pausing construction of a stretch of border wall in South Texas until August 27th. The World War II Memorial in D.C. was vandalized. The phrase, clean hands, dirty money painted in red. The Department of Interior is investigating. And because we were asked, we found out the reason that Disney pulled the plug on that Power Rangers reboot. economic ones. In other words, cost too much to make, and they're going to make too little at the box office? Exactly right, sir. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 7. I live in Pasadena. Sharptown, Southwest. Next on the 10. Time saving traffic on 740 KTRH. 6.51 now here on Houston's morning news. All right, Medicare for all. You've got people like Abdul El-Sayed, this Democrat socialist candidate for the United States Senate in Michigan. He's big time in favor of it. Okay, we'll play along here for a minute or two. How much would that cost? Is that the least bit feasible? Here's a Fox business contributor, Lou Besanese. with the cost of doing Medicare for all, at least some of the cost. I believe that Medicare for all should cover all health care. So that includes reproductive rights, right? That includes gender affirming care. There you go. So everything's going to be covered. But what's the price tag? And what about these promises? Is it even possible? El Sayyid said taxpayers will have to foot the bill for universal health care.

So imagine instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20 million a year. Instead, you paid a little bit more in taxes for health care that you wouldn't lose if you lost your job or turned 26 or got married or got divorced. So there's an opportunity here, I think, to trade what we give to a big corporation who gets to decide who we get to see and who we don't for a little bit more paid into FICA. And I think that's a trade that's worth making. But is it a program worth doing? Here to break down, the numbers is Fox Business's own contributor. to Bassanese. Great to see you. Great to be here. So we keep here, Medicare for all, Medicare for all, and no one questions it. Let's start questioning it. How much is going to cost? It's going to cost upwards of $70 trillion over 10 years. On the high end, on the low end, you're talking about $30 trillion. So this is money that doesn't exist. He talks about a little bit more tax, and that's the tease of Democratic socialism. We're going to give you away things, but it's a gotcha. The money's not there. You can't, even if you taxed every man, woman, and child in America, you still don't have the money. So you even said, for example, the richest people, the Forbes 400. Yes. So they're the problem. The rich are the horrible people. Terrible people. What should they do? So if they take the taxes from, or if not even, confiscate all the wealth from the Forbes 400, that's $6.6 trillion. That maybe funds this for one year. Now if you go, all right, that's gone, that pot's gone. We've confiscated. They're broke. We're going to corporate America. That's $30 trillion, roughly. We take that. But here's the key. If you take it, you can't take it again if you confiscate all the wealth. And that's the math that just never math. And by the way, the seniors, I'm with Medicare right now, they don't want everyone on Medicare. They get pushed to the back of the line. It's estimated they're going to lose 2 million jobs. Where are those jobs lost? They're lost everywhere throughout the economy, right? I mean, you're going to think it's going to impact low income Americans first. Right. Because those are the low hanging fruit, unfortunately. So the promises we're going to give you all and is actually going to take away from you. So we get supplements. Most people, if they're in a private company like this one, you'll have money come out of your paycheck. Well, not anymore, not with Medicare, but you say it's going to be p. June 15 and 21,000 per taxpayer per year. And here's the thing, it's going to come out of your paycheck. Like you can't, you can't prevent that from happening. You saw it with the Democratic Socialist co-chair. She went from the target being on billionaires to millionaires. And they always tell you someone else is going to pay for it. But then that someone else ends up being you and me and everyone else. Yeah, ultimately. Ultimately, ultimately we all pay. And you're hearing the numbers, the trillions of dollars that would cost to do it. And would the health, here's the thing, would the health care system be better if it was run by the government? No, clearly not. All right, time for the timeline. We have a pair of tickets for Santana and the Doobie Brothers. It's going to be August 21st, Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets are on sale right now, Ticketmaster.com, but you can win a fair from us. Just tell us what near today's timeline's from. There is no evidence of any terrorism whatsoever. It was August. For some reason or rather, there was a power failure in northern New York or southern Canada. A major power outage causes blackouts in New York City. And affected the power grid as far east as Connecticut. On TV. The man that is failing the people more than anyone. Arnold Schwarzenegger announces on the Tonight Show. that he'll run for governor of California. This is why I'm going to run for governor. At the movies. Will you marry me? Yes. Jason Andy Biggs stars in the comedy hit of the summer American Wedding. We get to have a bachelor party. And on the radio.

Beyonce with Jay-Z is number one with Crazy in Love. What year was? If you know, 713-212-258-74, that's 713212, KTRH. Good luck. All right, we have a winner. Isaac and Humble knew the right year was 2003. Isaac, you get that pair of tickets for Santana and the Doobie Brothers. August 21st of the Woodlands Pavilion. Enjoy the show, and thank you for listening to Houston's Morning News. This is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio Station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. 7 a.m. That's our time here on Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this hour, yes, HPD cooperated with ICE. They followed the law. Trump quizzed about a state of emergency for the midterms. And coming up at 7.0. Wait, more of your great sandwiches. Details of the minutes ahead. First, Skymikes here. There's some kind of Ignat's on the Southwest Freeway. Inbound at 610. Got a wreck here. It's over on the side. We're pointing it stuff. And that's a skunch from West Park. Carlos from Katie Porter on the free Iheart radio app. Scott Mike. Dude. On the next freeway. And I looked up and I was like, oh my God, it's a fire. Ain't nobody got time for that. That's in Townsend. They moved it over to the side. I've still got a little scutory coming down from Katie Porter. Skymic and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center, Jeffino says most is sunny with a chance of a stray shower storm, slight chance. High temperature right about 95. We'll get his complete forecast in nine minutes. Current temperature 79 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. It is 701. We're brought to you by the shop as farm supply. Our top story, the anti-ice left. Texas Democrat Congressman Joaquin Castro won several small towns around the San Antonio area to stop enforcing parts of federal immigration law. Republicans don't like that one bit. A sitting congressman saying no, don't. Let's protect the illegal immigrant. It's kind of their mantra right now. Chris Coons heads the Bear County Republican Party. HPD reportedly contacted ICE dozens of times between April and June. This follows months of fear mongering from the left about HPD's work with the feds. In total, only six of those 34 service calls actually led to someone being in ICE custody. They're complaining about something minute. We have too many contacts a year with citizens. It's very low level the number of times we've had to call ICE. Doug Griffith with the Houston Police Officers Union says this is all just about attacking the Trump administration. We have members of our city council that want to fight national issues at a local level. That's not how it works. They need to pay attention to what's going on in the city, Houston. He says the uproar over ICE arrests will likely continue.

as long as Trump is in office. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. ICE will be adding zap gloves to deal with illegal aliens that aren't cooperating. Of course, the left is complaining about that, even though this could potentially prevent deaths. Last week, the president issued two new executive orders against birth tourism. Turns out, Texas was already working on the problem. It was last month that Governor Greg Abbott signed his own executive order over birth tourism. To make sure that any claim or allegation of birth tourism in Texas will be fully prosecuted. William Gein with Alipak says Texas is once again leading the way. That can reasonably help mitigate these type of immigration vector attacks and exploitation. We want to see them do that. And that includes suing a Houston hospital for facilitating over a thousand births to Chinese nationals. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740. K-tier H. 703 Houstonians will be able to vote on marijuana enforcement standards and a ban on no-knock warrants this November. This would require marijuana enforcement to be the lowest priority for HPD. Most cops don't prioritize marijuana, especially if it's just usage size. But sometimes it's helpful to be able to have that on hand to be able to detain someone or even arrest them if there's a bigger crime and process. Former city councilman Greg Travis says this is all part of an effort to take tools away from HPD. On the national front, the president is not ruling out a potential emergency election declaration ahead of November. The SAVE Act remains in limbo, so something needs to be done for election security. There needs to be parity across the United States on how our election laws are not only implemented, but also how they're enforced. Debbie Lindstrom of Citizens Defending Freedom says this is available to the president, and from IDs to cleaning voter rolls, the order needs to walk a fine line. We want to make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat. She says laws without penalties are just suggestions. Andre Parrard, News Radio 740, KTRH. A rising star in the Democrat Party is under fire for comments he made about reparations in the past. There is a debt unpaid. I think it is a very, very difficult question. That is Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff two years before he was elected. L-D-E-A. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, quino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino void but prohibited. Must be 18 plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. If you run a business, you know the value of trust. It's what keeps your customers coming back. And it's what you get when you advertise with IHeart. More than 75% of listeners consider IHeart hosts their friends and trust their recommendations. Now take that trusted influence and combine it with IHeart's massive reach and scale, and you've got the formula for growing your business. Learn how easy it is to tell your story through our voices today at iHeartadvertising.com. That's iHeartadvertising.com.

To office, the tape from 2019, 705, the Trump administration plans to squeeze Iran economically even more than they have been. Watch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic. isolation on a country. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Newsmax. Looking at your money this morning, Dow Futures are down 84 points. Oil is up to $81 and 54 cents a barrel. The new Social Security cost of living adjustment for 2027, while the estimate is up 4%. Jeremy Portnoy with Open the Book says the polls show Americans don't fully understand the problems with Social Security. 80% of voters have said that they oppose any cuts to Social Security, but at the same time, 80% of voters also say they want Congress to balance the federal budget within the next two years. The 2027 Cost of Living Adjustment will be announced on October 14th. It's now 706. Earlier this week, we told you about the Kentucky Amazon driver that untangled an American flag and saluted it. That driver is now speaking out. I love the American flag. I always have. When I was really young, my father, my parents, both of my parents made it clear to me the importance of the American flag and what it represented. Iris Muhammad telling Fox that she just could not leave Old Glory the way it was. We have portions of that interview. on our Facebook and X page. Texans lose their preseason opener to the Chargers 27 to 7. Most of the starters, including C.J. Stroud didn't play. Strow's host Seattle tonight. Pre-game at 6 on Sports Talk 790. The game at 7.9 in KTRH. The Astros lead the Rangers by two full games in the American League West. The Mariners are five-back. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740, KTRH. More with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett and the Houston Morning News team. This is Houston's Morning News. 707 our time here in Houston's Morning News. We got on the topic of sandwiches. It's Friday, you know. We like doing the fun stuff on the Friday. And what got my attention was this poll that was done by Hellman's mayonnaise on their website where they got a nominee for every state for a sandwich. The Texas nominee was a brisket sandwich. What else? I mean, not that that's the only guy's sandwich you can get in Texas, but it's certainly one of our best in uniquely Texas. And they had a nationwide vote for all the different states, and they whittled it down like NCAA bracket style until they got to like the elite eight and the final four and the championship between a Kansas burnt ends sandwich and... a Philly cheese steak for Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania, representing the state of Pennsylvania, and the Philly Cheese Steak won, which, you know, it's hard to beat. An authentic Philly cheese steak is pretty hard to beat. I would admit that. That's a great pleasure. It really is. That's the one thing that makes it going worthwhile going to Philadelphia. One of the few things, that and, you know, Independence Hall and some of the, you know, the Liberty Bell and some of the things like that.

certainly the sports fans would not be a destination in Philadelphia would not be for me that those people are just crazy anyway We're asking for your nomination, your favorite sandwich. It doesn't have to be, you know, it doesn't have to be anything elaborate. You know, nobody said a French dip yet. I'm surprised the French dip or Prime Ridge sandwich hasn't made the list yet. Maybe it'll make it in this one. You go, the I Heart Radio Lab, KTRH, first name where you're calling from, favorite sandwich. Hey, hey, Jimmy, this is Wyatt from Katie Porter. Man, there are tons of great sandwiches out there. But one of my favorites is a grilled cheese, man. They're so easy and they're so versatile. I like to make a grilled bacon and Swiss on sourdough. But before you throw it in the skillet to grill it, you got to sprinkle braided parmesan on the buttered side of the bread. Oh. That brings another layer of flavor and French, man. Hold on. You said you have rules for food? I do. I'm more interested in these rules. I just eat what I eat whenever I eat. I don't do. Okay, you want some more rules? Okay. I mentioned earlier that I don't consider a sandwich by itself to be dinner. I consider it lunch. Now, if you partner it with a bowl of soup, then I can turn it into dinner. Because dinner for me requires more than one course. I know. It's great. I was going to say, I don't make the rules, but actually I did in this case make the rules. I also, although I sometimes break the rule, I rarely have breakfast for dinner. I know some people love breakfast for dinner. To me, breakfast is breakfast. I don't eat breakfast after 10 in the morning. If it's after, maybe I might stretch it to 10.30. But if it gets to 11, now it's lunch. Those are a couple of my rules. 7.10, time for traffic and weather together. You won't eat breakfast for dinner? Rarely. Huh? Rarely. You would need like waffles at night or pancakes and sausage? No, I might eat a really good omelet. That's crazy. I might go for an omelet for dinner, but that's about the only exception. Omelet sounds good to me. All right, let's do the Southwest Freeway inbound. It's a minor crash under 610. I got backups from West Park. Looks like they moved most of it over to the side. We're pointing at things and writing stuff down. And then northbound, you've got a little bit of a squish going up to uptown from 69. This is the West Loop from 6. 69 up to about West Timer downtown. Boy, that freaks me out. I-Tem, Westbound at 45. You got that little suicide squeeze. If you're in the left lane, it just vanishes Westbound. And we're backed up from 69. Wes Sam, hi. Good morning, Michael. It's Terry from beautiful Richmond to northbound. Just as you're approaching toll at Friar Forest, they are loading up a stalled vehicle in the right lane, and it's got us all hits the brakes.

for some reason. Maybe it's a flashy light. All right. Northbound, there's a lot to see. And from Summerwood. That's good night. And there is a two people's exchange and information in the middle lane on the east beltway, almost to Aldene Westfield Road exit. No ninjas, no traffic yet, but I'm assuming it might get backed up. All right. And from Summerwood, some extra points for the verbiots. I think you mean the North Sam, Aldeen, Westville. I see the scoge westbound. I'm Skymike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. Provar KTRH, Top Tax Defenders, 24-hour Weather Center. We've got Jeff. You know standing by. He's got the forecast for you, not the cloud in the sky right now, Jeff. That's it. We're looking pretty good as far as that goes. Maybe a pop-up shower or thunderstorm. We've seen a few of those come in on radar, but very close over towards the Gulf area. And that's been about it. We'll see a few clouds mix in here and there. Get up to around 95. Heat index readings around 107. Partly cloudy tonight, overnight low 80. That's a little uncomfortable. And then for Saturday, it gets a little hotter. Up to 98 with sunshine. heat index around 110 and looks like pretty much the same for Sunday. Temperature right now. Still 79 in your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. I live in Clear Lake. Humble. Reliable. KTRH. Traffic and weather. Next on the 10. It's 720 now here in Houston's morning news. We have recently had a raining attacks on U.S. water supply sites. Probably our electric grids are being targeted. At least seven states were impacted by the water supply attempts. China and Russia, we also know that they're not our friends when it comes to that type of thing. What are some of the things we need to do to harden our infrastructure to prevent these types of attacks? We'll talk with... retired lieutenant colonel robert mcginnis about this coming up next but first we've got traffic and weather together i picked a good day to be short yes you did sky mike all right southwest freeway clear the wreck at the loop a little scochy from west park and north sam lookout jfk westbound it's a wreck in the center lane i'm in the generator supercenter dot com traffic center from our kTR h top tax defenders 24 hour weather center for today mostly sunny skies We'd have a slight chance of a shower storm this afternoon, 95, then tomorrow through Wednesday dry, sunshine right about 100 for the high each day. Current temperature is 80. At your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Cliff is here. He's got another update on some of our top Friday stories. The Board of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center will again try to add President Trump's name to the venue. A judge is expected to sign an execution order today for Ronaldo Dennis, convicted of murdering a Houston jeweler during a diamond heist 30 years ago. And Whole Foods is now recalling dozens of products containing jalapenos across 12 states, including Texas, over potential salmonella contamination. And the latest news anytime.

KTRH.com. Our next update is at 7.30. I live in Katie. Your best ways around Houston next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. 722 here on Houston's morning news. Yeah, what are you going to do when the grid goes down? What is the government going to do to try to prevent that from happening? We know that we have bad actors out there who are trying to hack into our water supply or electric grids. And you've got to think it's probably just a matter of time before they figure out how to do it unless, of course, there's ways that we can harden all this stuff up in order to prevent it from happening. A lieutenant colonel Robert McGinnis retired joins us here this morning. Welcome to the program, Colonel. Do you have some ideas here? What are some of the things that we aren't doing and should be doing in order to harden up our grids? L-D-E-H. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, quino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino, void, but prohibited must be 18 plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. If you run a business, you know the value of trust. It's what keeps your customers coming back. And it's what you get when you advertise with IHeart. More than 75% of listeners consider IHeart hosts their friends and trust their recommendations. Now take that trusted influence and combine it with IHeart's massive reach and scale, and you've got the formula for growing your business. Learn how easy it is to tell your story through our voices today at iHeartadvertising.com. That's iHeartadvertising.com. Well, Jimmy, there's something called programmable logic controllers that are basically industrial computers that tell our physical equipment, our water system, our electric grids, what to do. And if they are accessible through the Internet, then that means that a hacker that is smart... that knows how to manipulate, you know, that software can therefore get in and move things around to disrupt our service. Now, you already mentioned what happened last month, the water tower situation in seven different states. We suspect it could be Iranian hackers. And, of course, we've seen this by the Russians against the Ukrainians, disrupting their utility systems, using, once again, hackers. But what has happened here, Jimmy, is that artificial intelligence has industrialized cyber attacks in a way that is hard to really react effectively and quick enough. So we have to use AI against AI to protect ourselves. But at the same time, we need to... really look at closing off access to these PLCs so that, you know, the outside world can't disrupt our critical services. And that seems like a no-brainer to me. I don't know why we ever made that stuff available on the Internet to begin with. What about where the components for the infrastructure are made, especially computer components? A lot of that stuff comes from places like China, doesn't it? Well, yeah. And there's...

Unfortunately, at this point, the idea of kill switches in American inverters, that's something that the Department of Energy just hasn't validated. We don't know that there's a secret code in there that is going to be able to be triggered by somebody in downtown Beijing and say, I want to cut off the lights there in Houston. theoretical but it's not proven as yet so you know we need to be smart about this and I think taking it away from accessible internet connections that can be hacked from the other side of the world is something smart but it's expensive and so the infrastructure people are going to say okay this is going to cost many billions and billions of more dollars but if you don't do it then it does become part of the battlefield of the future. And we already have seen evidence of that. You take out the electric grid and you're talking chaos here, aren't you? Oh, you certainly are. I wrote about this in preparing for World War III because we become very quickly a primitive culture if you don't have electricity. You don't have hospitals. You don't have, you know, refrigerators, you don't have food, you don't have power of any type. And so this really... forces us back into a very primitive situation. After all, you know, look at what President Trump has talked about knocking out the electric grid in Iran because he wants to really send a very strong message. Well, that does. And, of course, the modern life is dependent upon these resources. Yeah. How concerned are you, one more thing on the electric grid here. How concerned are you, Colonel, about an electromagnetic attack from one of our enemies taking out the grid across the entire country? Yeah, a burst of nuclear weapon, 100 miles above the surface, could certainly black out any grid capabilities. The same thing could, of course, happen from a solar storm, which we've had in the past. That's something that the North Koreans, we believe, have a capability of doing. Certainly the Chinese and the Russians could if they wanted to, and others. So it's a possibility, something we have to plan for, but something that's very, very hard to harden the facilities underneath that, even in the battlefield, you know, because we, you know, just don't have the mechanisms at this point to do that. Nice, sir. Thanks, as always. Good to hear from you. Appreciate it. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert McGinnis joining us here on Houston's Morning News. It's time now. Take a look at your money. Tyson Foods is shrinking its beef business as the historic cattle shortage squeezes meat packers. The company's closing two more plants and putting another up for sale. Tyson plans to anchor its beef operation around just three plants in Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. The domestic cattle herd remains near the lowest level in about five decades, raising prices for the animals that meat packers buy. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH.

You are no. Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24 7th this is news radio 740 KTRH live everywhere with the IRRDA more of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios 730 here on Houston's morning news I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett among our top stories this half hour gender mutilation now Telarigo says he's against it the polls are flawed but we still report them anyway and coming up at 738 is our last batch. of great sandwiches. Details in the minutes ahead. First, we're checking up as Skymike. All right, 610, East Loop, Ship Channel Bridge. They're saying there's a wreck in two left lanes. One, I don't see it. Two, I don't see any kind of digital squish. I'm going to keep it on the board just because. But stay the course on 610 southbound. It's a bit of a skipup now before the Gulf Freeway. And you've got the North Sam Clear JFK. That was a westbound wreck. We've still got a smunch now from the East Texas. going that way. I'm Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Bromar KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly sunny today. Chance of a stray shower storm, very, very slight chance. With a high temperature right about 95, Jeff Eno, will join us from the Weather Channel with an update on the forecast in nine minutes. It's 80 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. 731 hour top story. Another week, another flip-flop from Texas Senate Democrat candidate James Talarico.

Senate candidate is telling voters he does not support transgender surgery for kids, even though he opposed a ban in the state legislature. Texas GOP strategist James Dickey says we can expect to keep seeing this flip-flopping. He famously said there were six genders. Between now and November, he's going to have six positions on everything. The issue of transgender health care is once again in the spotlight. After earlier this week, the feds announced that Medicaid and children's health insurance programs will no longer fund gender transition. hormone treatments or surgeries for minors. KTRH's Rex O, it's a new Emerson College polling this ratio's Ken Paxton ahead by one point within the margin of error. We found out that the polls were wrong in Michigan and Wisconsin with Democrat Socialists for underperforming what the polling had predicted. Charlton State Political Science Professor Bo Cabalas says some pollsters are actually getting it wrong. purposely. We know how to misrepresent what a poll indicates. You just mess with the sample size. You adjust the sampling location. Many pollsters have an interest in shaping the outcome. And I think the primaries, if we can dig deeper, continue to make that point for us. He also points to the Trump effect where polls have repeatedly undermeasured Republican and conservative support for candidates. It's now 733. Still no movement in talks with the Iranians when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz. Vice President JD Vance says Tehran has not been straight with the Trump administration for months now. The Iranians sometimes make commitments that they don't honor. They make a deal. They don't honor the deal. Now, as JD Vance on Fox yesterday, oil up to $81 at $0.84 a barrel while down futures are flat. Cyber attacks on our water systems have been in the news for the last couple of weeks. National security experts said we need to pay attention and we need to be concerned about the power grid. Wade Miller is a former Marine and now executive director for the Center for Renewing America and says the threat is real. It's very real. As a Marine, I always like to flip the map and say, if I were to attack myself, what would I attack first? Where am I most vulnerable? And that would be our U.S. energy. Literally small teams of infiltrators could shut down the U.S. economy for weeks, if not months, to the degree where gas isn't flowing, electricity isn't moving to houses, food isn't showing up at grocery stores. It's a priority for our U.S. adversaries. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740. K-T-rays. 734, a Houston ISD high school teacher went viral for calling out his students inability to read, something that could be the result of years of woke indoctrination in our public school system. The government school systems focus more on the LGBTs than the ABCs. If you're not knocking it out of the park in the core academic subjects and you have no business branching off into the political sphere. Corey DeAngelis with the Heritage Foundation says the solution to this is more accountable. and a move away from educational participation trophies. So HISD Superintendent Mike Miles reacted to Darius Williams' video asking reporters if there was, quote, new information here. Four years ago, Wheatley was an F that were, there were many more students who could not read at grade level.

or do math at great level. That is why we're here. That's why this is serious. Miles trying to pivot irony Wheatley, well, where Williams teaches, just got an A from the state. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, keynote, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino. Void for prohibitive. Must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. If you run a business, you know the value of trust. It's what keeps your customers coming back. And it's what you get when you advertise with IHeart. More than 75% of listeners consider IHeart hosts their friends and trust their recommendations. Now take that trusted influence and combine it with IHeart's massive reach and scale, and you've got the formula for growing your business. Learn how easy it is to tell your story through our voices today at iHeartadvertising.com. That's iHeartadvertising.com. Yesterday, believe it or not, Fort Bend County Commissioners moved forward yesterday with a proposed property tax rate, but the meeting again took place without Democrats, Dexter McCoy and Grady Prestige. The budget stuff isn't getting done, and that's holding up. A lot of things that are important to regular people, both taxpayers and taxpayers who work for the county. The two Dems boycotting even though a judge ruled that Daniel Wong can remain interim county judge. Conroe City Council won't put flux surveillance cameras on the ballot in November. Many residents don't even know cameras are up and running. Were you aware that there are over 50 cameras in the city of Conroe? No, I didn't. Geez. I didn't know any of that. That man with our TV partner channel, too. Only two council members backed the proposal. McKenna West, the surrogate mom from Alaska that fled to Texas to give birth to a baby despite the parents' wishes. Well, they allegedly asked her to undergo an abortion after learning the baby had a heart defect. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he promised the baby he would be, he promised the baby would be cared for when he was born. That's all we wanted. All the medical care necessary to that anybody would want, just the necessary medical care, whatever that is, provide it to the baby. Ken Paxton with Fox's Will Kane. At 736, the Astros host of Meriters tonight for the first game of a weekend set at Dyken Park. Pre-game is at six. On Sports Talk 790, the game at 7 on 790 and KTRH. The Stros.

Lead Texas by two full games in the AL West. The Houston Rocket schedule is out. They opened the season on October 21st at home against the Dallas Mavericks. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station. News Radio 740 KTRH. In my world right now. Sharing the world's experiences. In Iran. The blockade. Gas prices keeps us connected. Voting right. News Radio 740. KTRH. Guaranteed human. 737 hour time. That's for you, Stephen. I got an email from Stephen. Hey, Jimmy and Sky Mike and the crew. I'm listening to y'all from Maine on the iHeart app. I like that list of sandwiches. Congratulations to the Philly Steak sandwich. But Maine wasn't even on the list. Did we get disqualified because we have lobster rolls? I mean, the lobster rolls should be in the top five, right? Yeah, I agree. Lobster rolls are expensive, but they are delicious. I'm surprised they didn't make the list. Okay, we've been taking your nominations all morning. You go to the I Heart Radio app, KTRH, first name we're calling from your favorite sandwich. Hi, Jimmy, this is Elena and Sugar Land. I think a BLT with ExtraB is good any time a day, breakfast, lunch, or dinner, especially at dinnertime when you're fixing to go to bed. So I think it's great. Thank you. Have a good day. That's back in Conroe. A Texas Heritage sandwich is white bread, mayonnaise, two thick slabs of bologna with lace potato chips in the middle. That is summertime at Lake Somerville right there. This is Lynn from Magnolia. Bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich on toast. Bacon's got to be crispy and homegrown tomatoes. Mmm. Mmm. Mm-hmm. Well, the BLT is making a late comeback. I nominated the BLT a little bit earlier this morning. And I would, despite my rules, I would eat a BLT without soup for dinner and consider it dinner because it's got bacon. I'll eat bacon any time of the day. So that qualifies his dinner for me. What we've been talking about is what's this contest, if you will, that Hellman's Baines did. online where every state was represented by a sandwich and then they kind of went through online voting and they whittled it down to the Philly cheese steak. That was the ultimate winner. It was a Philly Cheese Steak against a Kansas burnt-in barbecue sandwich, and the Philly Cheese Steak was the winner. Hard to argue with that. I mean, that's a meal right there, Philly Cheese Steak. 7.40, time four. What is a lobster roll? It looks like a giant, it's kind of like a hoagy sandwich bun and it's filled with lobster and drenched in butter. Where can I get one? Head towards Maine. I think there's a few local restaurants that have it, but if you really want to get the real deal, you're going to have to go to the northeast to find that, right? Somebody tell me where to get a lobster roll around here on the free Iheart radio app. By the way, speaking of the app, Amanda, talked to me on the app just a minute ago, but the sound quality, you've got to work on that sound quality for me, Love. She took a look at the East Loop Ship Channel Bridge, and sure enough, Love, you're right, I'm wrong. I thought they cleared that wreck out of the left lane. They did now that I'm looking at it.

but just a few minutes ago, it hung on longer than I thought. Northbound, stay the course. We are good to go. Southbound, we look good, too. And on the North Loop 610, we're squeezed down westbound at 45. That's a big backup from 69. Westlup, if you're going up to uptown, does that make sense? From Bel Air, we're slow up to Westheimer, and then southbound down to Uptown from 290 to Woodway. That's an extra for five minutes. It's not bad. 290. If you had a Grand March at your wedding, 290's in good shape, all the way to the West Loop 60. advisors, your Katie Freeway now. It's got a few spots here right around Highway 6 and right as you hit the president's heads on the inbound. Otherwise, Katie Freeway's looking pretty good this morning. And your West Park tollway, some breaks at Highway 6. I'm Sky Mike, the ability tree experts traffic center. By the way, there's a place at 1,600 West Loop South, right around the corner from us called Bloom and B. It's called what? Bloom, B-L-O-O-M. Bloom and B. Bumblebee. Blue and B. Okay, good. Yeah, they have a lobster roll. You want to check it up? Let's go. From our KTRH Generator Super Center, 24-hour weather center, Jeff Eno's here. He's got the forecast. Cold sandwich would be good today. Don't want a hot sandwich, that's for sure. It's hot enough. Absolutely, and definitely not outside. You're talking about soup, and boy, that's tea in the Sahara. Mostly sunny skies, stray shower, thunderstorm possible. We could see a pop up. A lot of those just right along the coast, very limited, very isolated cells up to around 95 today. Heat index around 107. Partly cloudy tonight, low near 80. Saturday sunny, 98, heat index around 110. It looks like pretty much the same for Sunday. And you know, I'm a simple man in the words of Leonard Skinner. Just give me some. peanut butter and honey, but on sunbeam. Okay. That's very specific. That sounds good. Right down's 80. Did your official severe weather station, News Radio 740 KTRH. I always hit traffic on 59. Next on the 10. Your faster commute on 740 KTRH. It's 750 now here in Houston's morning news. So a little follow up from yesterday's story about this Wheatley High School teacher. crying on camera, frustrated because he has 17 and 18-year-old seniors in his class. They can't read and write. Wheatley High School just got an A grade from the TEA. Yes, they got an A. Well, they've made a lot of improvements. I don't know if you have kids at your school, though, they can't read or write. I don't know that you deserve an A. That seems a little ironic to me. But Superintendent Mike Miles got asked about it. We have the longer answer of what he had to say coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together. Here's Sky Mike. Dude, I got a stall vehicle on the KD vehicle, KD managed lanes freeway, inbound at Blaylock. He's moved over to the side. We're just kind of pointing it stuff here. 288 northbound breaks right after Orem. And before this, we got some more breaks right at Highway 6. I thought they fixed all that business there. Clear. the Ship Channel Bridge 610. That was a northbound stall. Daniel, Tomball, he's on the Iheart radio app. Sky Mike. Dude. You got to try Cousins Maine lobster food truck. They literally fly their lobsters in from Maine. It is fantastic. And I'm going to do some Googling. Thank you, Daniel. That counts as a banana sticker. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. Oh, Mikey going to get him a lobster roll. From our KTRH Generator Supercenter 24-hour weather center, most of the sunny chance of a stray shower store.

95 for today, then tomorrow through Wednesday, sunny with a high right around 100. Current temperature is 81 and your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. Cliff is here. He's ready to update our top stories. You can get good lobster rolls in Connecticut, too, just for the record. Mortgage rates for the fall, rather, for the first time in six months. Pete Hegseth is denying reports of a mental health crisis aboard the USS Lincoln. And in the vein of Jimmy's topic about sandwiches, today is National Creamsickle Day because... Eat dessert after the creams after the sandwich. Oh, I was going to say, where are you going with that? That's where I was going with it. Okay, I thought you were going with an ice cream sandwich based on the question, but okay. You know, that leads up to a whole different discussion. Yes. Dessert sandwiches? Yeah, no. That's only dessert sandwich I'm aware of. Get the latest news anytime at kTRH.com. Our next update is at 8 o'clock. 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. All right, well, let's start again, if you missed it, the story that went viral about this Wheatley High School teacher with 17, 18-year-old seniors in his class. They can't read or write. Here's what he said online. This is only Dave Sue. And I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write. They cannot write. They can reason. They have the ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking to their homeboy, but applying that to a written text, two paragraphs. And they couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. They couldn't do it. Okay. So, Superintendent Mike Miles got asked about it. Here is his answer. So, look, is that new information? I don't think that's new information. The sentiment, I think, we all share. for four years, or three years. The sentiment that there are kids who need, students who need, support. Four years ago, Wheatley was an F that were, there were many more students who could not read at grade level or do math at grade level. That is why we're here. That's why this is serious. That's why we're doing something about the fact that the students can't read at grade level. Yes, we're doing great. I hope we celebrate that. In fact, we're going to go to Wheatley tomorrow and celebrate the fact that they have an A. Because the A and these numbers don't really mean that much unless you think about the kids behind it. When you go from 38

percentage points are 34 to 58 in algebra 1. That's hundreds of thousands of students who can now do math at grade level in either eighth or ninth grade. That's setting them up for success. Still, when you're at a 58, that means that there's 42% that's not a grade level. So yes, it's not a, it's not news that kids struggle. And that's why it's so important doing what we're doing. That's why we raise expectations. Where was the outrage, if there's outrage over that video or posts, if there's outrage, where was that in 2023? I hope there was. That's why we're doing the rigor as rigorously, the work as rigorously as we can. That's why there's an urgency. People say we're moving too fast. People can't catch up. People say that, you know, the expectations are too hard. You know, we have a sense of time. We're pushing kids too hard. All those comments. And I say, yes, we are using time. Well, yes, we are raising expectations. And guess what? The kids have risen to the level of expectation. So that we don't have as many situations as that. But you can go into any high school today, or almost any high school, some you can't. and you will have kids who cannot read at grade level. That's why the work has to continue, and that's why we need to be urgent, and we need to be serious about this. All right, that's H-I-S-D Superintendent of Mike Miles. That's his answer. But he said at grade level as far as reading, the teacher said couldn't read or write which one is it, I wonder. You all have a great weekend. See you Monday morning, bright and early at 5. Hope to see you this afternoon at 1am, 950 KPRC. Your night in just got legendary. Get ready to chase the rush, spin, win, and redeem instantly straight to your bank account at Legendswithazee.com. With free-to-play slots, blackjack, quino, roulette, and more. Experience all the thrills of Vegas without leaving your couch. Legends has it all. Legends is a free-to-play social casino, void, but prohibited must be 18-plus play responsibly visit Legends.com for full details. Get in the game now and score a 100% match on your first purchase only at Legends withazee.com. When it comes to your business, great promotions should do more than just get your name out there. They should drive action. And that's exactly what your business will get from a partnership with IHeart Media. Imagine your business connecting with music fans and future customers through sweepstakes, ticket giveaways, listener contesting, and local media. Attach your business to high-energy music moments built to help grow awareness, engagements, and leaves. Getting started is easy. Learn how today at iHeartadvertising.com. That's IHeart Advertising. think.com.