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They've clearly given up on any sense of governance as a platform. This really does set a dangerous precedent that should concern every single America. This whole idea of these witch hunts that the Democrats seem to do left and right. Alfredo Ortiz, but the job creators network says the Dems are using businesses as pawns. And even if there's not a case, they can make one through propaganda. When you control 90% of that message, you can get away with DS. He says this is the same tired playbook. and it'll hurt them if they go too far. Andre Barard News Radio 740, KTRH. The socialists get the headlines, but some conservatives say the rhinos aren't just hurting President Trump heading into the midterms. They're tanking the entire Republican Party. That's the crazy thing about our politics today. There's way too much influence, way too much outside interest, way too much special interest that give them money to do for them what they should be doing for the American people. So we're just going to get the short end of the stick. Republican strategist Matt Locke says not to expect the Senate to get anything done before November, especially the Save America Act. It's now 504 closer to home. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo held in a town hall to complain. about the county budget last night. Specifically, she's upset about pay raises given to law enforcement. When there's this $300 million commitment for raises when we don't have $300 million, you know, my thinking is, look, we should ask the taxpayers because it's going to have to take away from a lot of what we have or we're going to have to raise taxes. She is trying to push through a free child care program funded by you and also didn't take responsibility for the $130 million budget deficit. That happened on her watch. Most Houston area kids start the new school year today, including KD, ISD, Klein ISD, Conroe, Pasadena, two. Three more districts return from summer break tomorrow, including Spring Branch. And there's a growing number of Texas school districts using the Bible-infused curriculum this year. Almost one in three school districts are now using the Blue Bonnet materials for grades K through five. The curriculum has been criticized by liberals for including stories from the Bible. But Mary Elizabeth Castle with Texas value says that's no longer a turnoff. I think we're going to continue to see this momentum where we're not afraid to talk about biblical references. The materials were used by smaller districts at first. Now larger districts are signing up to use Blue Bonnet. And the money doesn't hurt. They receive $40. per student for using it. KTRH's Carrie Locky. It's 505 League City voters will have a chance to decide for themselves whether or not their city will have flock cameras, thanks to a referendum passed by City Council last night. We have complete confidence in League City PD. They do an excellent job and we want to make sure they have every tool possible. And we want to balance that with protecting data and police in a way that the citizens approve of. League City Mayor Nick Long says while they've been

But they have seen flock cameras work. There have also been high-profile cases of abuse that deserve consideration. A request for a temporary restraining order from multiple hemp businesses to block enforcement of the Texas THC ban was denied earlier this week. They had no public comment. They didn't go through their rulemaking requirements that they're supposed to do. And they just kind of picked up where they left off in 2021 and said, okay, we're going to make Delta 8 a controlled substance. Cynthia Cabrero with Texas Hemp Business Council points out that the substance has been legal since the 2018 format signed by President Trump. Speaking of the president, he responded to reports last night that he switched planes on his flight back to Washington. from turkey in july i go by secret service and the military they wanted me to go on a different flight a different plane uh equal safety but they wanted me to do it so i do it i do what they say trump in ohio oil prices at eighty three dollars and fifteen cents a barrel this morning down futures Up 50 points. And the Astros lose to the Giants last night, Ford 1 series finale this afternoon at 2 on Sports Talk 790. The Stroes still lead the Rangers by a half game in the AL West. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's news weather and traffic station News Radio 740, KTRH. Today. Tomorrow. Facts true. On any given day. People understand. You need to know what's on the table. Positive surprises, both good and bad. News Radio 740, KTRH. Let's just call it the amazing presidential disappearing act on a catering truck. You think, by the way, that's the first time this ever happened? Heck no. Heck no. I bet this has happened a billion times in the history of Air Force One. What's interesting to me is that this got out because that means you're not going to be able to use the trick again, right? Evidently, this is where we had the two Air Force ones, the presidents in Turkey. There is a concern about an Iranian plot to assassinate him, and they decide, Secret Service decides at the last minute, that they're better off taking the other Air Force one. They had both planes. They had the newer plane from Qatar, and they had the other Air Force one, the one that was replacing. Because you have to have a backup for everything when you're the president of the United States, right? I mean, what if they had a mechanical on board the other plane? You have to have another plane. So they decide evidently that they would be safer, least secret service thing. So it doesn't sound like from that clip that I heard during Cliff's newscast, doesn't sound like the president thought it'd be safer, any safer. But okay, you're telling me that we're going to get on board the other Air Force one. Okay, we're going to do it. So they stick them in the catering truck, right? And take him over to the other plane. And then, you know, once the catering truck gets up to where it enters the plane, then he gets out and he's on the other Air Force One. What's interesting is not so much that they did this with the president. But what is interesting to me...

is that evidently the press is expendable because they didn't move the press. The press stayed on the Cutter plane. The one from Qatar, that Air Force one, they stayed on that plane for the trip to England. And that's why they seem to be upset. Wait a minute. You left us on that plane? If you're worried about, you know, somebody hitting the plane with a missile, why are we on this plane? Well, for one thing. If we moved everybody, you can't use a catering truck to move everybody over to the other plane, right? This is about making sure the president is safe. You're a quote-unquote journalist. And what I think about that, I think, well, you know, there's some of those journalists, I'd hate to see anything happen to them, but there's other journalists that, gee, maybe it wouldn't. No, I shouldn't think like that, should I? 510, time for traffic and weathered together. Nice journalist you got there. Be ashamed if something happened to them. We shaved it. I'm really going to miss those people. No kidding, Skymike. Let's do some South Loop here, 610. This is not anything earth-shaking. Don't reroute. But it's just kind of an interesting view here. It's South Loop heading over toward 45 Gulfgate. And it's the entrance rant from Woodridge and telephone. Got somebody stuck. He's sure got some bright lights. sitting in that little no-man's land. Once they do get a ninja, what I think they'll do, the safest thing will probably be to get a right lane blocked. So South Loop expect that if you're coming over from 288, coming back from the Med Center. 146, I like to check around Port Road. Let me zoom the digital's back. And look at that northbound. Just one little skinny lane at Port Road. Horrible pavement and the tech stop wall of death northbound. Southbound, it's nice to have two lanes. We're just happy to have them. Thank you. And then we look good from Seabrook. We've been scoching up every morning right at 962, League City Parkway. They're doing some kind of road work there. They've got to do what they got to do. And Gulf Freeway looks good. Northbound League City. Whoa, let me check out that deal on the Southwest again. Got a stall. That's what it is. Northbound at Rice. It's squishing up the Southwest Freeway inbound. You lose about three this way. I'm Skymike in the generator supercenter.com. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 20, four-hour weather center, Richard the Welling, is checking in another hot August day coming our way. Day, in fact, looks like more of the same here as we move on through the next week or so. Really not much change in our weather. Looking at observations around the area this morning, seeing a little bit of fog up around Conroe this morning, and over in Chambers County got some reduced visibility with fog over there. But otherwise, it's just going to be a sunny hot August day, 94. Humidity will make it feel like 105 and a light southerly breeze. And once again, a sea breeze shower chance could pop up again today. Thursday and Friday, the same. Sunshine. mid-90s, a pop-up shower or storm, and we keep that trend going into the weekend. Temperatures stay in the mid-90s. Temperature, right now 78, here at your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in Clear Lake. Humble, reliable, KTRH, traffic and weather. Next on the 10. All right, the United States Senate has recessed. What did they do? Did they pass the Save Act? No, they didn't do that.

come up do any of the budgetary considerations they were thinking up no they didn't do any of that they've just taken off for august they've taken their august recess without accomplishing the things they said they wanted to accomplish before they went to recess Senator John Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s not real happy about all that. We'll have more coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together. What in the hell? What in the hell? What? It's going on on the Southwest Freeway, people. All right, we had this overnight roadwork right before the loop, 610. And now all of a sudden it's just all but right lane. It's so scoched up. Oh, look at those people getting off on the grass. Those guys in trucks. You shouldn't do that. Northbound, we are stopped from Hillcroft. Let's reroute. It's supposed to be roadwork. I wouldn't be surprised if I dig deeper in. find a wreck up there. 45 north, it's Lucas from Huntsville on the north side. Skymite. Dude. Southbound at this holy car toll road exit construction. They are not picking it up. It is down to just the HOV and the fast lane. Ah, that's terrible. Southbound, too. That's going to be at least a six to seven minute delay. And there's no much for alternates here. Sky Mike and the ability tree experts traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24 hour weather center for today. mostly sunny and hot right about 94. Then tomorrow and Friday, sunny hot again with a high right about 95. Current temperature 78 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Check in with clip. He's in our newsroom, ready to update some of our top stories. North Korea conducts a missile test as the U.S. and South Korea prepare for military drills. One of the three areas of interest in the Atlantic now has an 80% chance of becoming something named within the next seven days. And the Houston Texans open up the preseason tomorrow night. At home, remember it's reliance day to him again against the Chargers. Get the latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 5.30. L-D-E-N-B-T-E-N-T. 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, 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. Houston's Morning News live on Facebook. It's like radio, but with pictures. You belong in Washington, D.C. Getting something done is what you do. Cliff says maybe the Senate should, instead of having a to-do list, maybe they should just have the things we won't do list. Pass the Save Act, pass the budget, pass anything. The only thing they're passing in the U.S. Senate is gas. That's it. That's the only thing they're passing. And now they're on recess again. Here's Senator John Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. At least he's not blaming it on Senator John Thune. I don't know who he's going to blame it on, but let's find out. There are times, and I'm very proud of the United States Senate. I was proud when we passed the Lindsey Graham Russian sanctions bill with 85, 86 votes. But there are other times when the Senate.

is like high school, but no one ever graduates. We blow opportunities like it's our job. I was very disappointed that we did not vote on the House resolution, budget resolution, to start the reconciliation process to hopefully lead to more money. to our military and to pass the SAVE Act. And this was not a vote, would not have been a vote to actually pass those things. It would have just been a vote to allow us to try. You can't blame this one on John Thune. We had a big meeting Friday night to talk about it. I think if a majority of the conference had wanted to go forward, John Thune was ready to do it. But a majority of the conference didn't. And I get that we were short, a few votes. But I still believe we should have taken a couple of extra days. It would not have thrown the Earth out of orbit. to try to talk to those folks who were reluctant to vote for it. I know them all, they're reasonable people. But we chose not to do that. And I know the party line is that we're going to do it when we get back. But I think our chances of getting it passed have gone down immeasurably. Who are these reasonable people of which you speak, sir? I don't know too many reasonable people in the U.S. Senate. I'm beginning to think that maybe the Democrat socialists aren't crazy when they talk about getting rid of the U.S. Senate. What are these folks getting accomplished anyway? 526. It's time to take a look at your money. For Texas. Paramount Skydance could be headed for Texas. The media company is said to be considering a possible move out of California as it battles the state over its proposed $110 billion merger with Warner Brothers Discovery. Texas is on the short list along with Georgia and Tennessee. California's Attorney General calls the plan blackmail. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH.

Houston's news weather traffic plus breaking news 24 7 this is news radio 740 KTRH all everywhere with the IRRF more of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios 530 that's our time here on Houston's morning news I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett among our top stores this FR are strategic oil reserve at its lowest level since 1983 do you use A&I to pick your investments And coming up at 538, which products that we're using now could become the next asbestos. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive. Here's Skymike. We do not need the AI. Southwest Freeway Hillcroft. We're trying to pick up these overnight leftovers. The roadwork northbound, look at all of you squished up. I'm going to get a little closer here. And that was right before the loop. They've knocked out a couple of lanes. That's a big skunch here. Let's keep reroute and do the Katie if you can. Also, Jeff from Conrose on the tip line. Good morning, Skymite. As you are already mentioned, three lanes closed. On the right side, before you get to Grand Park rate, I'd say it's about a five-minute delay. All right, that's the north freeway southbound. Pretty good skunch coming down from the woodlands. I'm Skymike. It's your generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center for today. We're looking at mostly sunny skies, hot, humid, high temperature, right about 94, typical August day. We'll get the very latest on the forecast with Richard the Welling at the Weather Channel in eight minutes. Right now 78 at your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Coming up on 532, our top story, you might have noticed that the mainstream media is claiming that President Trump has the strategic oil reserves at its lowest point in 43 years. What they're not telling you is that this started under Joe Biden in 2022. The oil is only supposed to be used for emergencies, right? Well, Biden used it to try to win the 2022 midterm. Another mess for this president to clean up. It's allowed the global market to start to recover. We've seen production in the United States rise to a record high. We've seen global production rise. Fox's Phil Flynn says the barrels Trump released earlier this year will be replaced. The ones released under Biden still haven't. Oil at $82.94 a barrel with Dow futures up 68 points this morning. In the meantime, commercial shipping in the Middle East continues to be a risky proposition. despite a possible arrangement between the U.S. in Iranian-backed Houthi rebels killing six after firing missiles at a ship in the Red Sea. The Yemeni government says the ship was carrying food supplies and was hit while transiting the bomb al-Mandab Strait. The Houthis, however, claim it was carrying Saudi military equipment. Meanwhile, in the Strait of Hormuz, Sentcom says U.S. forces disabled the steering gear of a Panama-flagged cargo ship as it allegedly tried to violate the U.S. blockade on Iran.

That is Max Gordon reporting. Nearly three years after the brutal Hamas terror attack on Israel, nearly half of all Muslims in America say they support the terror group. That's according to the Liberal Pew Research Center, which also finds support for Israel, falling among nearly every group in the U.S. Dr. Jeffrey Adakot at the Warrior Defense Project says this is troubling. Hamas is not just a terrorist organization, a brutal, vicious terrorist organization that has roots deep in this country. Through the Muslim Brotherhood, also care, which is a designated terrorist group. So they operate in sheep's clothing, but they are surely wolves. Only a third of Americans under 30 view Israel favorably, and even young Republicans now view Israelis and Palestinians, almost equally. It's now 534. No matter who wins this primary? We're going to continue to fight for each other. We are going to collectively reject despair. That was Francesca Hong there. She did not win the Wisconsin Democrat governor's race. It's been called for the, quote, establishment Democrat David Crowley. Several Trump-backed candidates did win yesterday. Darlene Graham moving on to a runoff in the South Carolina Senate race, the spot to replace Lindsey Graham on the ballot. And even though she did not have the Trump endorsement, Michelle Tofoya, won the GOP race for Senate in Minnesota. 535, if you use AI, you may or may not have noticed, but AI's opinions usually lean left. And that is a fact, not just an opinion. You don't have to take it from me. The Washington Post has reported that the model that powers CHAPT has answered nearly every question exclusively with left-leaning arguments. That is Nicholas Elliott, who worked at the White House and is now the Director of Government Affairs for Innovation Council Action. I'm a Texan. I grew up in Houston, and it should be common sense that the models that Americans use every day prioritize nothing but truth and accuracy. He says we have a right to know AI's agenda. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KT, rates. Studing numbers show that 20% trust AI for financial advice. Once our college economics, Professor Hank Lewis says he would not advise doing this. The prompt might return some kind of wild speculative recommendation on a stock that might not even exist. And so people should be skeptical of this. Yeah, AI has become notorious for letting incorrect information creep into its reports to consumers.

A former Brazoria County deputy is now charged into shooting death of a teenager in Lake Jackson this past June. A grand jury indicts Kevin Tippett for aggravated assault by a public servant. He was fired from the department days after the shooting. Seven Harris County defendants are on the run after they were found competent to stand trial and released on bond. Five of them are facing charges for violent crimes. This is exposing a major weak link in the justice system when it comes to competency standards. There are no means to detain these offenders who are out on bond once they go to any of these mental health facilities. Andy Conn with Crime Stoppers says there isn't anything being done about this issue right now. I find absolutely no entity discussing this. That's why we decided we needed to bring this out to the public and let them know what is happening. He pointed out that on top of creating risks for the community, this puts oftentimes mentally ill defendants at risk too. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. News study shows that homeowners insurance is spiking in Texas. Experts say it's a direct result of rising property values. premiums are also going to increase and our rates are going to increase. Yeah, for some insurances surge some 74% since 2009. The Astros lose to the Giants 4-1. They wrap up the series this afternoon pregame at 2 on Sports Talk 790. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740 KTRH. Wipe your eye crusties out and see the events of the day more clearly. Houston's Morning News, now live on Facebook. Well, speaking of toxic, 538 here in Houston's morning news. What things are we using today that will be the asbestos of tomorrow? You know there's got to be some stuff, right? Things that we are using in our everyday lives, things that weren't around when we were kids, weren't around even maybe 20 years ago or 30 or 40 years ago that we have been using now for 20 or 30 years, that we still haven't really studied. 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 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. We don't really know what the results are going to be. And at some point in time, somebody's going to figure out that it leads to cancer or some other thing that we don't want to have. First thing on my list, microplastics. How about soda bottles? Anything that comes to a plastic container, water bottles, they're great because they're recyclable. They're great because they're cheap and easy to produce. but they have chemicals in them that may leach into whatever it is your drinking. Would you be surprised to find out 10 or 15 or 20 years from now that that's a cause of some sort of a health issue? I'm not saying it is. I'm just thinking of things that we use now that they have not said anything bad about or haven't proven anyway that there's anything about them that are toxic but may turn out to be toxic. How about the polyester clothes?

You know, the so-called miracle fabrics that, you know, have come made with chemicals that may leach into your skin, especially when you sweat. Scented air fresheners, laundry scent boosters, dryer towels, you know, those little things that put scent on your clothes or collect dog hair or what happened. Lint, how about the lint that disperses from your dryer that you're probably breathing in? Energy drinks. Yeah, I suspect that energy drinks will prove to be bad for us somehow. Spring foam insulation. Any chance that turns out to be one of those things? I mean, the list goes on and on and on of things that we use every day. may have some things in there that aren't really good for us 540 time for traffic and weather together gasoline as a child so i smell i love the smell of gasoline i do i was little and i thought it was sprite um you can't make this i think how many miles do you get to the gallon this coming It explains a lot, doesn't it? All right, Southwest Freeway Hillcrop. Look at this. Smush on the Southwest Freeway. They were supposed to pick up the roadwork before the loop. I've been digging toward the front here, and I look at Chimney Rock. Once you hit Chimney Rock, you're free to go. But, man, I wouldn't want to sit in that. I'd rather take the West. I'd rather take Alt-90 or the Katie Freeway. Instead, we're going that way. And it's looking like at least an eight-minute crawl through all that garbage. 290. It's Mike from Magnolia. for all the grand marchers. All the people that come in on 290 because, you know, most likely you had a grand march at your wedding, right? Side fair, first day of schools today. Do not hit the snooze button this morning. Get out and beat the school buses on 2nd. All right. Let's take those schools. Even I slow down in school zones, okay? Just letting you know. At 45 North Freeway, Hardy Tallwood, we still have this road scoge here. We've got the roadwork left over from last night, about seven extra minutes down. I'm Skymike. It's your ability tree experts. Traffic Center. From our KTRH Generator Super Center, 24-hour weather center. Richard Wellings on duty today. Lots of sunshine coming away again today, Richard. Yeah, another hot one. Looks like temperatures are going to be climbing into the mid-90s here again today, tomorrow, Friday, through the weekend, and pretty much all next week. No real signs of this heat wave is going to be breaking any time soon here. In fact, it's actually going to expand further eastward over into much of the southeast. And, of course, Texas is going to be in the center of this heat as we move on through the next 10 days or so. Sunny hot here today, 94, and it'll feel like 105 with a humidity and a pop-up shower or storm this afternoon. More of the same as we move through Thursday and Friday temperatures in the mid-90s. We stay in the mid-90s through the weekend with sunshine and the August heat continues in the next week. Temperature still 78 here at your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. This is Houston. Houston's morning news. Real news. In real time. Problems in traffic around the Beltway and around 610. KTRH time-saving traffic. Next on the 10. All right, seems like we've talked a lot about flock cameras here recently. One.

One city here in the greater Houston area, League City, in fact, is going to put it up for a vote. There's a little bit of a catch to it, though, because the vote is non-binding. So City Council will be able to act on it so on regardless of how this vote turns out, but they want to see what the citizens of League City think. about flock cameras before they decide what to do next. We'll visit with the mayor, Nick Long, coming up next. First at 550. Let's do a little traffic and weather together. That starts with you, Sky Mike. North Freeway, southbound. We still have the roadwork at the Hardyvine. About a seven-minute squish here. Southwest Freeway. Pete from Sugarland, Pete from Skyland, your next report, all the barrels should be gone. They're picking up. And then it's wide open after that. So it should be clearing up real soon. Pete from Sugarland, you are an astratomist. They have picked up. up the road work on the Southwest Freeway Hillcroft. I'm Sky Mike. It's the ability tree experts traffic center. Probar KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly sunny, hot, humid 94 today. Same thing for tomorrow and Friday, maybe an added degree or two. 95-96 for the highs tomorrow and Friday. Current temperature 78 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Time to check in with Cliff. He has an update on some of our top trending stories. HPD is searching for five mass suspects after a man was shot multiple times with his girlfriend inside an open garage at about midnight. That man is expected to survive. President Trump says Medicaid will no longer fund gender transition procedures. And tonight's powerball jackpot is $1 billion. With the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update. Is that 6 o'clock? What? Is that supposed to impress me? Yes. I live in Pasadena. Sharptown, Southwest. Next on the 10. Time-saving traffic on 740 KTRH. L-D-D-E. 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. Oh, it's real. Flock cameras are watching in many communities in Greater Houston. That includes League City. 552 is our time here in Houston's morning news. There are two Houston area cities now, though, that are going to put Flock license plate cameras before the voters. One of them is League City. The mayor joins us. Nick Long, Mr. Mayor, good morning. Welcome to our program here this morning. I want to get your personal thoughts on the flock cameras. Have they been useful to League City so far? Yeah, thank you. Thank you for having me today. There's no doubt they're useful. They're very effective, very cost effective, and they help catch criminals. I think the concern is at what cost to your personal privacy. Okay. Do you think that your citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public anymore, considering everybody's got a cell phone and uses their camera. Everybody takes videos. It seems like whether it's a flock camera or some other device, there's cameras all over the place.

Yeah, no, I think that's fair, and I've certainly heard that. I think the expectation is not that nobody's going to tape you or you're not going to be on any kind of camera going down the street, but then what happens to that data afterwards when it goes up into the cloud, when it is taken by flock, where does that data go from there and how it is being used, how is being resold, and how it is being analyzed from there. So I think what we would like to see is. a new way of looking at it and from our side making sure that we set it up so that the that the police have access to the data that they need but make sure it's not being abused and then also when it goes to the company side when it goes to flock that they're properly disposing of the data and they're properly sanitizing it before it is then released back out so I think we need to understand fully about what's happening to the data. Okay, well, the police are a little bit easier to the police. They're under your control. The flock camera people, they can tell you one thing, but that doesn't necessarily mean that that's exactly what they're doing. So I understand your concerns there, what happens to the data once they collected. How do you go about getting assurances from flock or proof of performance from flock that they aren't misusing that data? Yeah, so they're in the process right now of giving us the third party audits to prove that they're destroying the data. And so they're going to Amazon Web Services, AWS, getting those kind of audits and providing those back to us to show that they are deleting them within the 30 days that they're supposed to store the data. And then after that, getting rid of it. And then on the other side of it, not sharing the data to anybody. And so they're providing those audits from third parties right now. Find it interesting that you all are putting this up for a vote in November, but it's a non-binding vote. Why not make the vote binding? Yeah, we looked at making it binding. I guess there was two main concerns about it is as soon as we certify the votes, that becomes the law. Obviously, if we can't take the votes down the day we certify the cameras down the day we certify the votes. So we'll take a little time, a couple months to get them down. But then the actual bigger issue would be if the citizens choose to keep the cameras, the only way to ever take the cameras down would be another vote of the people. And so what would that mean 20 years from now, 30 years from now, when there's a new technology or something else, we'd still have to keep up the flock system. So it was very unwieldy to be able to use. I think the real accountability here is that if a city councilman or a mayor chose not to listen to the citizens, well, then they can be recalled. They can be replaced at the next election. Good point. Great point. And you're mentioning how many, do you have a figure of how many crimes have been solved in League City as a result of these flock cameras? Yes, the League City PD said over 300 and including a call. I'm sorry, you cut out there at the very end. One more time? Oh, maybe he's gone. He disappeared. He disappeared. He disappeared into a catering truck. All right. Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Appreciate that. Sorry, you're gone, but thanks for your time. That's Nick Long, the mayor of League City. It's 556.

This is News Radio 740, KTRH Houston, an 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. Among her top stores this f hour, Lena has a town hall, but she's still not going to get her child care program pass. That was constant socialist Francesca Hong. She actually lost her primary last night. That was a surprise. And coming up at 608, things you're willing to use AI4. and things you're not willing to use AI for. I have lived my whole life without the AI or those data centers. The AI, you make it sound like a disease sky. I don't want it. I just don't want it. Let's do the Southwest Freeway inbound at Hillcroft. And as Pete from Sugarland, very accurately projected a couple of minutes ago, it would clear. It's gone. We're good. Stay the course. Nord Freeway, I've still got the suck. It's here. Southbound Hardy Toll Road. We're taking up. Oh, just to let in a left lane and an 8. H-O-V-N. That's getting pretty ugly now coming down from the woodlands. Not much for alternates unless you want to take a back road. Watch out for school zones. I'm Sky Mike. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our K-T-R-H, top tax defenders 24-hour weather, mostly sunny, hot, humid 94 for the high temperature today, just typical August weather all the way through the rest of this week. Details are coming from Richard Lewelling at the Weather Channel in nine minutes. Right now, 78. and your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. And we're sponsored by Allied signing in windows. Our top story this hour, the midterms. Republicans don't just have to worry about the socialists this cycle. They better start worrying about the rhinos, too. That's because they are not only hurting President Trump, they're also taking down the entire Republican Party. I don't mean the burst of bubble, but nothing's going to get done before November. They've had two years. They don't want things done. That is host and Republican strategist Matt Locke. Honestly, I hate to say this, but I think the Republicans want to lose to get back into the position of, well, we're fighting the evil socialist Democrats. We just can't win because they make money that way. He says, follow the money and follow the results. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KT. Reach. Speaking of the socialist, though, a shocker in Wisconsin, Francesca Hong, loses to the establishment Democrat if there is such a thing, David Crowley, in the race for governor. Some, though, saw this coming. I think it's more than just common sense versus crazy. I think in Francesca Hong's case, it's common sense versus dangerously crazy. Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker with KTRH's Sean Hannity. Other races of note yesterday, Trump Beck, Darlene Graham, advances to a runoff with Ralph Norman to decide Lindsey Graham's replacement on the South Carolina ballot this fall. It's great that she's doing so well, and she's a very good woman, and she's got good genetics because she's related to Lindsay, who is a real professional.

Trump in Ohio last night. By the way, Trump-aligned businesses could reportedly be targeted by House Democrats in impeachment efforts should they win the majority in November. Alfredo Ortiz of the Job Creators Network says these witch hunts set a dangerous precedent, but they continue pushing them through propaganda. The Democrats control 90% of the market share when it comes to, you know, the media, including social media and traditional media. And who's going to challenge you? The 10% of the people who are trying to get the truth out there, you get outnumbered. He says they will use these businesses as pawns to get what they want. 604 Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo had a town hall last night to discuss the budget. She complained again about pay raises for police and did a Kamala Harris-like word salad when she talked about the $130 million budget deficit, which, by the way, happened under her watch. I'm not trying to put it on you guys, right? Like, it's on me to share things with you all. The reason I'm also raising awareness about this is because I myself have been blindsided by a lot of this. Huh? She claimed property tax increases are necessary to keep up instead of cutting spending. Remember, she's been pushing that free child care program for months fighting against police raises. We've got more use in area kids starting the new school year today, including the spring, Deer Park, and SciFair ISDs. We also have three more districts coming back tomorrow, including Dayton. The interest is surging in a state-created curriculum for public education. Nearly one in three school districts are using the Bible-infused blue bonnet course for grades K through five. It contains many historical and biblical references, so students can have a better context for reading comprehension. Mary Elizabeth Castle with Texas Value says it's been a snowball effect. The materials were used by smaller districts at first, and when they saw results, more districts signed up. It's now 605. We've seen pushback against those flock cameras across the country for months, and now League City and Conroe, voters could get a chance to vote on them. A referendum on the issue is being pushed by the mayor of League City and could be on the ballot in November. In a superpartisan world, this is kind of a nonpartisan issue. There's people on the right and the left that support and don't support the cameras. Nick Long says the people of League City will have to decide what their priorities are here. We have definitely seen them work in League City, but on the flip side of that, there's been equally high profile instances of abuse, seen it in Pasina, Baytown. Long added that if the cameras are approved by the voters, additional safeguards will be put in. place. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. Battle over THC continues in Texas after a federal judge blocked a motion to block enforcement of the Delta 8 ban.

state on this issue has reflected a lack of concern about law enforcement interaction with consumers, with businesses by not clarifying and providing good regulatory structure instead. Cynthia Cabrero at the Texas Hemp Business Council says it would be more productive for Texas to regulate and tax the substance. Tragedy in Liberty County, when an RV fire killed two children. For the part that was still standing, though, they went ahead and crawled into while I was on fire, exchanging some of the fire. While they were going, they found the kids inside the building. Yeah, those kids were two and three years old. The Astros lose to the San Francisco Giants 4-1 series finale this afternoon. Coverage at 2 on Sports Talk 790. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. It's one policy. We're going to take our capital back. We're taking it back. After another. You burn a flag. You get one year in jail. On News Radio 740, KTRH. This song is... 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 of 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. Completely artificial intelligence, the singing, the music, the writing of the song, all AI. It is amazing what AI can do. AI, I still find to be a little bit scary personally. But that's me. I know a lot of people who use it in their work, they use it to write things. When your writing skills are not terrific and you need to write something. AI can be very useful for something like that. It's also good for customer support. Handling inquiries through an automated support system, online automated support system. It can do a very good job of that. It can plan. It can brainstorm. It can write and edit. It can answer questions about health care and finance. And speaking of finance, here's a question for you. Would you allow artificial intelligence to pick your stocks? I bet there are people who do. In fact, Cliff has a story about that. People using AI to make investment choices. See, the thing I don't trust about artificial intelligence is... who's programmed it in how it's biased. Everything has a bias. There's no such a thing as AI that's unbiased. It has the biases of whoever programmed it. So you know it's going to be leaning in one direction or another. How do we know that the advice it's going to give you is good advice? I know my wife Elizabeth uses it. We're getting ready to go on a listener trip to Alaska. Next week, in fact, we leave on Thursday.

and she's using it to help develop a packing list. She asked artificial intelligence, what kind of clothes do I need to have for Alaska in August? And it would spit out a whole bunch of answers, the things you need to do. So I get the fact that it could be helpful and useful, but there's the part of it that just kind of scares me. Does it have a conscience? Does it have a morality? Does it have ethics? I guess time will tell. 610. Time for traffic and weather together. Let's check out that drive. It's like a big white balloon flying over our heads. It's looking down. You know what it's doing? It's talking to those windmills. Oh. It's spying on us. Yes, it's Skymike. All right. My workwife, Christina Cruz found this problem. On Grand Parkway north, eastbound at Huffsmith Corville, she says there's a wreck. Christina really sniffes this stuff out really well. And you see the scoge now coming over from 249. Somebody give me laneage. It's already... horrible there because of the road work, the construction, just two lanes, and the textile wall of death. 610 north, we're squeezed down westbound at 45-88, starting to smush up from the Beltway and also from Highway 6. Stephen Foston, he's still happy, though. We're looking at an extra eight minutes on the endbound. 45 north. We haven't had our wreck yet at the South Loop 610, but it's a little thick after Waffle House. 45 north is, let's see, 45 north, it's the tip line. Hi, Sam, it's Jen from the Woodland. There's some more suckage. for everybody. I guess tech stop can't tell the time, but they still have construction and the three right lanes are closed. And it was supposed to be done at five to only two left lanes are getting by. Fantastic call. Thank you, Jen. Give her some extra points, Kitty. And you also get points for being, Jen, from the Woodlands. I'm Sky Mike. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24-hour weather center. Richard, the welling is here. He's got the forecast, and it looks like it's sunshine all the way through the weekend, Richard. Yeah, all the way through the weekend, probably much of next week, too. Nothing really showing up that's going to really give us any rain. Of course, we're keeping an eye on the tropics. Got an area out there in the Central Atlantic about three days away from the windward islands. Has an 80% chance of development here over the next week. So we'll probably see a tropical depression form over the next couple of days. It's going to bring some much-needed rain to Puerto Rico and the islands in about three days time. Sunny, typical August weather, though, for us here in Southeast Texas, 94 today, heat index values. around 105, a pop-up shower or storm possible. Mid-90s, Thursday, and Friday, sunshine, keep the trend going into the weekend. Temperature right now, still 78, and your officials, severe brother station, news radio 740 KTRH. I live in Katie. I live in Edo. Your reliable forecast. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. 620 is our time here on Houston's morning news. Homeowner's insurance. It's gone up. I want to say somewhere in the neighborhood of 74% here just in the last few years. I mean, it's gotten to be very, very expensive. So the question would be...

what, if anything, can you do about that? What is the best opportunity you have to try to save as much money as you can on your homeowner's insurance? We'll have more in the story coming up in a moment. First, though, at 620. Let's do a little traffic and weather together. Let's check up the drive again with Skymine. Nord Freeway, Hardy Toll Road. We just can't get rid of that construction. That's a big southbound scooch, 288, Chief Fairland. Warren, Skymite, 288 South, right at the Bellway. They're forcing everyone off the highway onto the speed of road. I don't know exactly what's going on there, but they got a lot of lights down below. Try to avoid that, man. All right, I'll get to the bottom of it 6.30. Thank you, Chief, from Pearland. Be careful, and don't let the AI get you. I'm Sky Mike. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather center for today, mostly sunny skies. High temperature about 94th, and tomorrow for Friday we're looking at mostly sunny skies hot and humid, high temperature 95, 96. Current temperature is 78. That your official, severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Live this series, ready to update some of our top stories. Spots you by Texas Center for Cosmetic Dentistry. North Korea conducts a missile test as the U.S. and South Korea prepare. Four drills. One of the three areas of interest in the Atlantic could become a storm within the next seven days. And the state of Florida has a billboard up in Times Square naming socialist Zohran Mamdani, their economic developer of the year. With companies and people leaving New York for the Sunshine State. At the latest news any time, it's developing the economy in other states. Our next update is at 630. Now catch Houston's Morning News, streaming live on Facebook. Oh, you got a swimming pool back there? Yep, that'll probably put a little ding on your homeowner's policy. 622 is our time here in Houston's Morning News. You have a diving board, especially if you have a diving board. I did learn that. Actually, I've learned a lot about homeowners insurance because as the price is going up, I've been forced, like many of you probably have been forced to make some hard decisions about what kind of a deductible you want to have, for example. raising the deductible is one way to lower your homeowners policy cost rich johnson joins us insurance council of texas um i'm not sure about texas i think nationwide i saw a figure like something like 74% increase in homeowners uh policy uh price in the last just the last few years rich and i'm sure a lot of it has to do with some of the bad weather especially we've had uh here in the gulf um the flooding in the hill country all that stuff adds up doesn't it Yeah, absolutely. And it has. So that was since 2009. It's gone up 74%. So if you average that out, it's about three and a half to four percent a year. Now granted, 2022 to 2024 was the big spike. That was after, you know, following COVID. increase in labor, increase in, you know, just inflation in general. But the value of our homes has gone up significantly since 2009. And so therefore, that coupled with weather.

especially hail, flooding, tornadoes, and deep freezes and everything else we get in Texas. We're seeing those increases. Well, I'm certainly not blaming the insurance industry for this, but you put the higher premiums together with the higher interest rate that we're paying on home mortgages and some of the other costs associated with owning a home right now. And it's made homes much more unaffordable compared to what they used to be, especially if you want to own a property, let's say, somewhere around the Gulf Coast. You take a look at your flood insurance and your wind inhale insurance and your regular homeowners policies, which have all gone up. And for some people, that's become an unaffordable dream at this point. Yeah, and I think that's something that we need to start looking at as we, you know, and from the insurance side of things like building more resiliently, you know, fortified roofs, looking at the way that we're rebuilding homes after disasters and looking at where we're building homes. You know, we all want to live on. on, you know, like you said, we all want to live on the coast and in the mountains and on rivers, but those are all high, high risk areas for wildfires flooding, hurricanes and all the other fun, exciting things that we get here in Texas. From a practical standpoint, for somebody who's just trying to get their policy costs down a little bit, other than having your deductible race, what are some other things that you can do that will have a positive impact on your homeowners insurance rate? Yeah, I think the biggest thing is shop. We have hundreds of companies that are doing business here in Texas, so shop around. Looking at your deductibles is great. That is a way to lower your monthly, but make sure that you can afford that deductible. You know, if you raise your deductible, you know, let's say on a roof, on a wind and hail policy from, you know, 1% to 2%, make sure you can afford that because I could jump you from a $5,000 deductible to a $10,000 deductible. The other thing is... 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 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, 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. Ask your insurance company what kind of discounts you can have. If you already have a fortified roof or you put a fortified roof on or you take some steps, you know, whether it's cutting some trees or building what they call defensible space around your house from wildfire, that can be really helpful too. Okay. I think people, some people would be surprised to find out that your credit rating actually has an impact on how much you pay for your insurance policies. Why is that?

So it's a pretty small percentage. So they have, it's what they call a credit-based insurance score. And so it does use your credit score. So they found, actually, really, that if you have a low credit score, that means you're at a higher risk for, you know, for making a claim. So there is a small impact on that. But it's not. it's not it's one of the many factors that goes into into somebody's insurance premium okay and when it is time to make a claim you do have a legitimate claim that you need to make what is the best policy to follow to have success with your insurance company because we have heard quite honestly a few stories of people who have been getting a lot of pushback from insurance companies when they do have a rather high claim Yeah, I think the biggest thing is, and that's a very small percent. It's actually about 4%. Now that's not. So now a denied claim is different than closed without payment. So like I talked about with the deductibles, a lot of people are finding that they go to make a claim. They've raised their deductible. It's a, you know, it's a, you know, the deductible is the same cost or within, you know, $1,000 of what it was cost to put on a roof, that type thing. But, uh, You know, so the thing is to document, document everything, take pictures, take video, and get it in as soon as possible. And that's the easiest thing is just to get it in as soon as possible and to document everything and document things beforehand. Take the time before you have to make a claim to show what you had prior and make sure that you have that documented as well. All right, Rich, thank you. Appreciate your time this morning. That's Rich Johnson with the Insurance Council of Texas, 627. Let's take a look at your money. You know, The oil shock from the Iran War isn't going away anytime soon. The U.S. expects about 600,000 barrels a day in supply disruptions through the end of the year. Shipments through the Strait of Hormuz remain severely constrained. As the conflict extends into a sixth month, consumers around the world are facing the prospect of higher fuel prices and inflation, and traders are tracking every move. I'm Courtney Donahoe, Bloomberg Business on News Radio 740, KTRH. You are no. Houston's news, weather, traffic, plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740, KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRF. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. 631, that's our time. Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this half are, what do you use AI for? Our strategic oil reserve at its lowest point since 1983. And coming up at 638, cyclospora, salmonella, and now a little flesh-eating bacteria. Yum. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out the drive again. Here's skymine. 288. Look out. I've got something south before the beltway. That's a wreck here. Chief from Pearland, major banana sticker. They're forcing everyone off the highway onto the feet of road. That's a big southbound skunch. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super.

Center, 24-hour weather center, lots of sunshine today. Hot, humid with a high temperature right about 94. Richard the Wellings on duty at the Weather Channel. We'll talk to him about the forecast in eight minutes. Right now, it is 78 at your official Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740 KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. It is 630 and our top story this hour. We own it. And at some point, maybe they'll do something and then they get blown away. But we right now, we're in a very good position. President Trump on how things stand in the Strait of Hormuz this morning. He did say that he switched planes on his way back from Turkey last month because the Secret Service asked him to. Dow futures are up this morning while oil is also up to $83 and $43.43 a barrel. The mainstream media is ripping the president for having our strategic reserve at its lowest level in 43 years. The Biden administration promised it would replace the oil. It drew from the reserves in 2022. That never happened. It's kind of funny, you know, a lot of the people that are complaining about the release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve didn't seem to care a bit, you know, when the last administration tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, you know, when there was no crisis. Fox's Phil Flynn says the Biden administration simply did it to try to win an election. And here's a scary thought. 25 years after 9-11, there is rising support for foreign terror groups in the U.S. A Pew Research Survey finds nearly half of Muslim Americans have a favorable view of Hamas, a designated terrorist group. Jeffrey Adikot at the Warrior Defense Project says this trend has been years in the making. We are in the stages of forgetting where these freedoms come from and what the cost of freedom is all about. So we've got to push back on these ideas that every firm educationally in the marketplace, they will gain greater foothold in our culture. The poll also finds only one third of Americans under 30 support Israel compared with nearly two thirds who view the Palestinians favorably. Corey Olson, News Radio 740, KTRH. It is now 633. What I do know is that we are ready. to keep fighting. And I feel confident. Yeah, but that's a false sense of security for Francesca Hong. She lost the Democrat race for governor last night to David Crowley. A rare defeat for socialists this cycle. Several Trump endorsed candidates picked up wins on the Republican side yesterday. Darlene Graham moved on to a runoff with Ralph Norman in South Carolina. That's the race to replace the late Lindsey Graham on the ballot. And even though she did not have the Trump endorsement, Michelle Tofoya, wins in Minnesota.

It is now 634 millions of people are using AI these days, but they probably don't know that it has a left-wing bias. Nicholas Elliott is a director with Innovation Council and says, you have a right to know this. Photos are turning to AI chatbots to inform them on who they should vote for. You know, the previous challenge this past century has been biased with social media companies. And we have to tackle this problem now. And there's this. Surprisingly, more people are using AI for financial advice. Consider the word fiduciary. Lone Star College Associate Professor Hank Lewis says, of course, it means you have to have trust in those who give you advice. And they have to be bound to work in your best interest. AI is not considered a fiduciary. You can take whatever it says, but you can lose your shirt. And there is no legal recourse with AI. And the same is true with AI medical advice. Just saying, you know. Mike Shiloh, News Radio 740, KTRA. Closer to home, the mother of a two-year-old spring girl that was hospitalized after a brutal beating is now charged in the case. Deputy say Jasmine Cisneros knew her boyfriend had abused the child but did not report it. Both are charged with injury to her child. The girl remains in critical condition. Seven Harris County defendants who were deemed fit to stand trial are now on the run. putting them and more importantly their communities at risk. Now you've got a defendant who, God knows where they are, who knows what's happening. It's certainly not in their best interest, just to say, son, you're on your own, go seek treatment. It's not good for them. It's not good for the public. Andy Con with Crime Stopper says there's no real solution to this, and no one's really working on one right now. 636, a new study shows homeowners insurance is spiking in Texas and Rich Johnson with the Insurance Council of Texas as it's simple math. As property values go up, So do premiums. We've seen about 3.5% to 4% each year. Study shows homeowners insurance in Texas has searched 74% for some since 2009. Some Gen Z workers say yes to the job, but then don't show up. A resume.org survey found 54% of managers have been ghosted by applicants after making an offer. Small business expert Scott Allen Curley blames a generation raised on screens. Well, I'm in my late 50s now, but things were, you know, progressed kind of gradually and slowly over the last 30 years. In a tight job market, he said this ghosting could turn into a burned bridge. The Astros lose to the Giants 4 to 1. They'll wrap up the series at 2 on Sports Talk 790. The Rangers lost last night, so the silver lining is the Stroes still lead the AL West by a half game. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740 KTRH.

What happened? Why it happened. The information you need to start the day. Now, back to Houston's morning news. Thinkins are slim for a song about flesh eating bacteria. 638 is our time here on Houston's morning news. All right. Cyclospora, salmonella, and now flesh eating bacteria. Seven cases in Louisiana and Florida. Two of whom have died. Flesh-eating bacteria is serious business. Here's a guy by the name of Dr. William Schaffner talking about what it is and... Where it grows. It lives in brackish water. That is where freshwater streams and rivers go into salt water. And in that mixture, that's where it likes to live and flourish. And of course, it grows up more plentifully during summertime when it's warm. And so along the Gulf Coast... And now around Florida and working its way up the eastern seaboard, because of global warming, we're seeing more of these infections. They do enter your body through scrapes and cuts and punctures that you have on your skin, burrow under the skin, and then begin to destroy the muscle. And if they flourish sufficiently, they can get out of the muscles and into your bloodstream. causing sepsis. So this is a fast-moving, nasty, and often, I'm afraid, deadly infection. Doc, I'm curious, what is considered a wound big enough? Is it a small blister? Is that enough to get infected? A tiny paper cut? What is it? Well, these germs are microscopic, so you don't have to have a big cut. So any break in the skin will give it entrance. Now, one of the things we can do when we get out of the water is take a shower, because if that bacteria was on our surface... We can help wash it off. And of course, if we see any cut that's oozing pus or is swollen, red, tender, and most importantly, if there's more pain than would seem evident from looking at it at the surface, that's because this bug is beneath the surface of the skin, seek medical attention very quickly. I would imagine, too, if you open your mouth and you get that water in your mouth, that's another way that the flesheting bacteria could get into your system. Cepsis, you know, like sepsis, yeah, that's not a good way to go. And again, it grows in areas where freshwater meets salt water. And we have a lot of that.

on the gulf coast 640 time for traffic and weather together global warming he did too i almost didn't play it because of that whole global warming yeah but we have to wear a mask now but the information about flesh eating bacteria was accurate so that was a terrible song by the way yes it was i would expect any song about flesh eating bacteria to be pretty pretty awful play a pretty song for grandma mikey all right 28 southbound hey nothing good's happening here check this out uh this is 28 southbound our listeners of course alerted it to us. And boy, the 288 people are awfully busy. Southbound at the Beltway, that's all we need to know. It's all lanes blocked here. I'm going to, that's right, my TV friends and friends behind the scenes are confirming. It's fatal. That means we need a police investigation. It's going to be a problem all day. Let's do all kinds of rerout. At this point, 521 is a viable way to get around stuff. After a while, it's going to get crazy. So I think this is going to be around. for a good while 288 southbound beltway totally shut down gulf freeway is a good alternate if you're trying to get south uh so as alt 90 we call it the most city expressway gulf freeway northbound i've got breaks now at the south loop 610 north freeway check on our road work at the hardyttoe road thank you they cleared it finally that was overnight leftovers and north freeway get a quick digital on that whoa we still have about a six minute scooch here and 29 make that 34 minutes down from the woodlands downtown i'm Sky Mike, it's the ability tree experts traffic. From our KTRH generator super center, 24-hour weather center, time to check him for the tree of the welling. He has the forecast for you. See anything unusual going on between now and the weekend? Not really. It looks like the only problem that we have this morning is with some patchy fog that's showing up away from Houston this morning, had some reduced visibility around Conroe earlier. Still dealing with some reduced fog and visibility concerns around College Station, but that's... about the extent of anything going on in southeast Texas right now. Dome of high pressure stays in firm control of our weather. Mid-90s, typical August weather, sun shines in the forecast. It'll feel like 105 with a humidity and a pop-up shower or storm. Overnight lows tonight falling back into the upper 70s, sunny hot tomorrow. And again on Friday, mid-90s and the trend continues into the weekend with readings in the mid-90s. Right now, 78 at your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. informed way to start your day. Houston's morning news. I live in Conroe. Your best ways around Houston next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. Well here's the topic I don't cover very often because quite honestly it's not a topic. 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 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. That's very fun to argue from any position. But what Massachusetts has done is basically legalized murder as it relates to newborn children. They have changed their abortion law to be the most unrestrictive abortion law, I believe in the entire country. The governor signed that into law yesterday.

Great Gutfeld's take on that story coming up next. First, though, let's do traffic and weather together as we check out the drive once again. Here's Skymine. All right. Hey, Chris on my Facebook just rung in a few minutes ago. He told me he saw that wreck on 288. It is nothing good happening. We know that, and that's how we know. Southbound, all the other sources confirm. And it's all lanes block. We'll need a police investigation southbound at the Beltway. 45 north. It's Mike from Willis. Good. Construction at the Arnezo Road is still going on. Just went through there about a minute and a half ago. The carot trucks are still out there. Right three lanes from block. Holy wow. South. Yeah, I'm looking from nursery road. Look at that big smush. We're trying to find exactly where the blockage is. But we've got three lanes to know that now. And those backups are from Shenandoah almost. I'm Sky Mike. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH Generator Supercenter, 24-hour weather center for today. Tomorrow, Friday, sunshine, hot, humid. Low to mid-90s, all three days. Weekend looks like it'll be in the mid-to-upper 90s, along with all that sunshine. Current temperature is 78 at your official's severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Let's check-in with Cliff Saunders. He has an update on some of our top stories. Former Marine Robert Gilman is back in America after being released from custody in Russia. Nearly two dozen people are charged in a Montgomery County retail theft ring, and the Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its peak this week. At the latest news anytime at KTRH.com, our next update is at 7. What has happened? Just yesterday. What's happening today? What happens? The things are happening. Right here. On News Radio 740, KTRH. 6.53 now. You're in Houston's morning news. All right. The governor, Maurek Healy, signed a piece of legislation into law yesterday, which will expand abortion rights in the state of Massachusetts. I mean, expand them to the point where they're virtually, as long as you can have a physician sign off on it, there are virtually no restrictions on when you can have an abortion or the reason behind having one. Here's Greg Gutfeld's take. Oh, I did something I rarely do, research, and found out, yeah, this is real. The old law banned most abortions after 24 weeks, with exceptions for the mother's life or severe feudal problems. The new one replaces all that with one gloriously vague standard, professional judgment. It's like the same standard used by our nation's plastic surgeons. No gestational cutoff, no required medical justification. Talk about throwing the baby out with a bathwater, which these people is the goal. We've gone from rare but legal to if you don't like your baby, you can kill your baby.

Supporters swear this is only about rare, tragic cases, yet the law doesn't actually require the case to be rare or tragic. They also say women no longer have to flee the state to kill a healthy baby. Makes sense, with gas prices being what they are, it could get pretty expensive. But critics point out the obvious. The law itself contains zero guardrails against elective abortions on healthy babies. The bill deliberately traded limited exceptions for an open-ended doctor-nosed-best free-for-all. It's like replacing a locked door with a please don't rob a sign, then acting shocked when your place is emptier than Jasmine Crockett's head. Meanwhile, the lefty media will deny that healthy babies with healthy moms are being murdered. Of course, until they say it's a good thing. But a woman can decide the day before her due date that she's changed her mind. And who knows why. All she needs is a doctor who sees abortion as not just routine, but a sacrament. A lunatic who believes the magic of being a woman isn't that you can bear a child. It's that you can eliminate one. That's not health care. That's infanticide. Look, a healthy baby in the final weeks can feel pain, react to the world, and survive outside the womb with medical care. We call killing a newborn murder. Doing it five minutes earlier inside the womb only means the crime scene has better lighting and a nicer waiting room. And if you don't think it'll happen, take a look at what happened at Texas Children's Hospital as it relates to... Sex change operations doing those illegally. You don't think there's doctors in Massachusetts more than willing to terminate a newborn? I guarantee you there probably are. All right. Time to give away a pair of tickets for Santana and the Doobie Brothers, August 21st of the Woodlands Pavilion tickets on sale right now. Ticketmaster.com, but you can win a pair from. This tells what year today's timelines from. It became a story of a cover-up. It was August. The Iran-Contra hearings conclude. And off a fall guide plan, suitable for a grade B movie, not a great power. On television.

It's the broadcast debut of Michael Jackson's bad video on CBS. Find the two, you understand. Brand new at the movies. I told I never did any of these dances. Patrick Swayze, starring in Dirty Dancing. That's one, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, one, two, three, two, KTRH. Good luck. All right, we have ourselves a winner. That would be Mike in Cyprus. He knew the right year was 1987. Well done, Mike. He'd get that pair of tickets for Santana. And the Doobie Brothers, August 21st at the Woodlands Pavilion. Enjoy the show and thank you for listening to Houston's Morning News. This is News Radio 740, KTRH, Houston, and I Heart Radio Station, guaranteed human. Now, the latest news, weather, and traffic. It's more of what matters to you from the John Moore Services Studios. 7 a.m. our time here in Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett. Among our top stories this hour, Lena insists that free child care is much more important than public safety. The Socialist in Wisconsin, she lost her race, but by less than 1%. And coming up is 708. Well, the price change. If you don't leave a tip, details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that morning drive again with Sky Mike. All right, I got two more headaches here. 99 Grand Parkway at Stockton School Road. That's a disabled truck, a right lane. That's a big squish, though, southbound. And then 99, eastbound, 99 Grand Parkway at Huff Smith, Corville. Got a vehicle fire. We're fine. But it's a right lane. A 16-minute drag over to the golf ball. 288, nothing good's happening. Southbound at the Beltway. That's all lanes blocked here. Your best alternate is Alt 90 to Fort Bend Tollway. and North Freeway southbound heading inbound right below Rayford. We've still got three lanes blocked here. They still have that roadwork. We are scunched all the way back to 242. I'm Skymike. It's the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders 24 hour weather center, lots of sunshine today, hot, humid with high temperature right about 94. Richard Wellings at the Weather Channel. He'll update the forecast in eight minutes. Right now, still 78, and your official severe weather station, News Radio 740KTRH. It's time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. Sponsored by the O'Carvis Financial Group, our top story this morning. I know there were headlines about, you know, the proposal was to raise taxes. The proposal that I brought to Commissioner's Court was never about raising taxes. It was about putting on the ballot the question of, are people willing to pay an additional penny in order to continue to fund a successful program? Yeah, that's not quite what Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo was actually proposing. That was her at a town hall last night. She did want to raise your taxes for her pet child care project. That has now failed twice.

And she proposed a property tax increase as well to enclose a budget deficit that happened while she was in charge, all at the same time complaining about pay raises for law enforcement. Most Houston area kids start the new school year today, including the Katie, Klein, Conroe, and Pasadena ISD's. We've got more districts returning tomorrow, including Spring Branch. In the meantime, a growing number of Texas school districts are using a Bible-infused curriculum this year. Almost one in three school districts are now using the Blue Bonnet materials for grades K through five. The curriculum has been criticized by liberals for including stories from the Bible. But Mary Elizabeth Castle with Texas value says that's no longer a turnoff. I think we're going to continue to see this momentum where we're not afraid to talk about biblical references. The materials were used by smaller districts at first. Now larger districts are signing up to use Blue Bonnet. And the money doesn't hurt. They receive $40. per student for using it. KTRH is Carrie Locky. League City voters will have a chance to decide for themselves whether or not to have flock cameras thanks to a referendum passed by council last night. We have complete confidence in League City PD. They do an excellent job and we want to make sure they have every tool possible. And we want to balance that with protecting data and police in a way that the citizens approve of. League City Mayor Nick Long, a request for a temporary restraining order? Made by multiple hemp businesses for blocking enforcement of the Texas THC ban was denied earlier this week. They had no public comment. They didn't go through their rulemaking requirements that they're supposed to do. And they just kind of picked up where they left off in 2021 and said, okay, we're going to make Delta 8 a controlled substance. Cynthia Cabrero with the Texas hemp business council. It's now 704. A lot of far-left star makers like Bernie Sanders are not endorsing Francesca Hong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, not endorsing her. And I think it's because they worry that she's too much baggage in the general. KTRH's Buck's exit and socialist Francesca Hong lost her primary in Wisconsin for the Democrat governor's nomination to establishment Democrat David Crowley. Other races yesterday, Darlene Graham Trump endorsed advancing to a runoff in South Carolina to replace her late brother. In Minnesota, Michelle Tofoya won the GOP nomination for Senate. She faces Peggy Flanagan, who pander to voters like Somalis in the middle of the fraud scandal. I am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota. That was Flanagan earlier this year. Meantime, House Democrats are planning to target Trump-aligned businesses in their impeachment efforts if they win power in November. They've clearly given up on any sense of governance as a platform. This really does set a dangerous precedent that should concern every single America. This whole idea of these witch hunts that the Democrats seem to do left and right. Alfredo Ortiz with the job creators network says the Dems are using businesses as pawns. And even if there's not a case, they can make one through propaganda. When you control 90% of that message, you can get away with DS. He says this is the same tired playbook.

and it'll hurt them if they go too far. Andre Perard News Radio 740, KTR8. The socialists get the headlines, but conservatives say the rhinos aren't just hurting President Trump heading into the midterms. They're hurting the entire party. That's the crazy thing about our politics today. There's way too much influence, way too much outside interest, way too much special interest that give them money to do for them what they should be doing for the American people. So we're just going to get the short end of the stick. Republican strategist Matt Locke says not to expect the Senate to do anything before November, especially the Save America Act. Speaking of the president, he responded to reports that he switched planes on his way back to Washington from Turkey last month. I go by Secret Service. and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say. Oil futures at $83.61 a barrel. Dow futures are up 100 points ahead of the inflation numbers at 730. The Astros lose to the Giants' 4-1 series finale at 2 on Sports Talk 790. I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station News Radio 740, KTRH. I live in Conroe. I live in Deer Park. Next on the 10. Your reliable forecast on 740 KTRH. You know, I like my tipping point on tips. If this story turns out to be true, if this shake-shack shakedown is accurate, then this is gone way too far. By the way, for the record, shake-shack denies it. 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 Legends withazee.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. But this guy insists that it did happen. TikTok creator B.D. Jerome Powell claims that he was charged for not leaving a gratuity at one of the burger kiosk at the Salt Lake City airport. There's a shake shack there. And he went there and he got an order. And the price came up. And also, you know, the screen came up for the tip to leave the tip. And he chose no tip. And then he noticed that the price changed. Wait a minute. What do you mean the price changed? He took a picture of the screen, by the way. And he said the price changed. Price went up. He was given a choice of 15, 18, or 20% tip options or the choice to leave nothing. He selected leave nothing. And he was met with a pricing update disclaimer. And so the price jump from 549 to 649. So it went up almost a dollar. It was evidently a no tipping fee. So if you don't want to leave a tip, they'll charge you a no tipping fee.

Meaning, leaving no tip means you're leaving no tip. There shouldn't be a charge for that. By the way, shake shack says it's not shake shack policy nor that of our licensees to increase the price of menu items when no tip is added. The pricing issue shared online occurred at an airport shake shack that is owned and operated by our licensee HMS host. So they're saying it's not our fault. It's not, it's not the policy of the company to do this. But, evidently, one of our licensees has. They said, we'll continue to work with all of our licensed partners to make sure every guest is taking care of at Shake. Well, that's a rather ambivalent answer to the charge. I guess shakeshack is like, hey, we haven't instituted this. This is not a corporate policy. This guy did this on his own. So evidently the licensees had the freedom to do that. Have you ever had that happen to you? Where you didn't leave a tip or you chose no tip and there was an added charge put on your bill? 7.10, time for traffic and weather together. Do we have a shake shack around here? We have several, yes. I have never been. It's fun to say shake shack. It's good stuff. And I'm a great tipper. Ask anybody that's ever served me at Denny's. I make it a point to tip. All right, we've got some problems here. Some of them pretty serious. 45 north. That's just because of the drag now southbound. We had the road work that was supposed to be picked up. Mike from Willis picked up on it. Harold pumps are still out there. We're backed up all the way from Shenandoah. 288, outbound, not inbound. That's a really serious wreck there. They're forcing everyone off the highway onto the feet of road. Chief from Pearland. That's southbound, but northbound. Everybody's looking at all the confusion. I get it. It's nothing good's happening there, and this is going to be there for a while. We need a police investigation. Got a vehicle fire. Everybody's okay there. Grand Parkway, eastbound, Huffsmith, Corville, that usual skunch, plus the roadwork westbound. 16 extra minutes to the golf ball. And let me check on Grand Parkway West Stockton School Road. Southbound, it's a stall, but boy, he's causing a lot of trouble. 73 looks good. Lumberjack, Bob, and board Arthur. Dude. Today's school buses have cameras on the back and on the side. When those red flashes are on, you must stop. They can use those cameras to catch you if you violate the flashing red light. All right. Don't forget to not pass stopped school buses and let's respect those school. Even I slowed down, Jimmy, for school zones. Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. Robar, KTRH, top tax spenders, 24-hour weather center, Richard the Welling is here. Keeping kind of an eye on the tropics right now. There's one system that looks like it might develop into something. Question is, where is it going to go? Well, it looks like as we move on through the next five days, it's going to be heading into the islands and probably will pass south of Puerto Rico. That's going to be a concern down the road if it continues on that southern track, because that could eventually bring it up into the Gulf of America in about nine, ten days' time. We'll keep an eye on that, but there's an 80% chance of development. Another system north of Bermuda may actually develop before that does, and that may get the crystal ball name.

The next name after that is Dolly, so we'll keep an eye on that. We're just going to continue to deal with typical August weather here in southeast, Texas, 94 here this afternoon. Sunshine's in the forecast, a pop-up shower or storm possible. Sunny, more of the same Thursday and Friday. Temperatures in the mid-90s for the weekend. Sunshine will continue. Temperature right now. 78 at your official severe weather station, news radio 740 KTRH. 991 H2. It's news radio 740 KTRH on FM. 59 inbound at the loop is always a problem. KTRH time saving traffic. Next on the 10. 721 here in Houston's morning news. Now coming up here in just a couple of minutes, Michael Morris, he's director of the Media Research Center, AI. You know, we think of artificial intelligence wrongly, I think. We think of artificial intelligence as being unbiased. It's just making helpful suggestions. It's just, you know, providing a task for you. But it has an opinion. And usually it leans left. More on that story coming up next. But first, let's do a little traffic and weather together. Here to get us. What's that coming? It's not here to help us. It's here to get us. You're a little paranoid today, sir? Just a little. I don't need the AI. Let's go north freeway. Finally, I could say we've cleared that roadwork southbound in the woodlands, but now we've got a wreck in Shenandoah. That's going to be around research for us. Tamina, big backups from 242.28's totally shut down. 288 totally shut down. Nothing good happening at the Beltway outbound. I'm in the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, top tax defenders, 24-hour weather. Center, mostly sunny, hot, humid, 94, 95 degrees, somewhere in that range. Today, tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's here for the rest of the week. Temperature right now, 79 in your official severe weather station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Let's check out with Cleve. He has an update on some of our top stories. North Korea conducts a missile test as the U.S. and South Korea prepare for exercises. We're expecting the July inflation numbers in less than 10 minutes. And did you see this at Arkansas High School says one of its football players practiced for nearly an hour last week before discovering that there was a snake. In his helmet. How do you not know that? It was a two-foot-long, venomous cotton mouth. Hello? How do you not know that? The latest news anytime at KTRH.com. Our next update is at 730. The human experience. Human history happens here. I have tears of my eyes. I can just scream. Experience this life that we live. On News Radio 740, KTRH. Guaranteed human.

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that it's drawn into question. We asked whether, you know, reasonable Americans would celebrate the American 250th anniversary, and Claude answered that it was a question where reasonable Americans would disagree. But, you know, other things, we asked Anthropics Claude and Google's Gemini A-A models about the Democratic Socialists of America platform. Claude actually argued that radical changes in the DSA might not centralized power because DSA supporters, get this, quote, read those same changes as the opposite of centralization, unquote. I mean, just how outrageous is that? Jim and I did similarly and actually claimed that the platform would, quote, centralized power and strip away constitutional safeguards depends heavily on how one interprets its institutional proposals versus its stated democratic goals, unquote. So, you know, it just depends. It depends on your interpretation. I mean, unbelievable. Can we define what a woman is? I don't know. AI can. Can AI, if I were to ask AI a question about, let's say, the next presidential election and who I should vote for, for the sake of argument, Kamala Harris, if she's the nominee or whoever the Republican nominee is, I assume our vice president, would it answer the question? And how would it answer the question? You know, that's very interesting. We've not actually done research on that just yet, but what we have asked, we actually asked the question, very vague, when did he lie to the media? Notice we didn't put any proper noun there. We just said, when did he lie to the media? And we asked this of Google Gemini and of meta-AI. And the answers we got were simply outrageous, and it just goes to show you. that our official intelligence, at the very least, seems to hate Donald Trump. Google's Gemini actually said, and it cited CNN, the Washington Post, Politifact, and Wikipedia to come to this conclusion. That, in fact, it's Donald Trump. It's the he that we're referring to here. And, quote, he made over 30,000 false or misleading claims to the media. MetaI. was very similar. It cited the Washington Post and also cited Wikipedia. And it said, Donald Trump has been known to make false and misleading statements throughout this career, and it's hard to pinpoint a single instance. I mean, look, we gave a very prompt. We just used the pronoun C, not a proper noun, and of course, AI. 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, 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, 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.

put in on its own, unprompted, Donald Trump. So it's official. AI has Trump derangement syndrome. Michael Morris, thank you for your time. Good to talk to you, sir. He's director at the Media Research Center. It's 730. This is here, you are, no. Houston's news, weather traffic, plus breaking news 24-7. This is News Radio 740, KTRH. Live everywhere with the IRS. More of what's happening now from the John Moore Services Studios. 731, Houston's morning news. I'm Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett, among our top stories this half hours, not Trump's fault, our strategic oil reserve is so low. Some of the crazy things we use AI for, and some of the crazy things AI thinks. And coming up at 738, the new director of the National Institute of Health weighs in on Dr. Anthony Fauci. Details in the minutes ahead. First, let's check out that drive again. Here's Sky Mike. Big wrecks, big brakes. I-45 North at Research 488 outbound at the Beltway, Grand Parkway, southbound at Stockdick Road. And that's a vehicle fire on the north Grand Parkway eastbound. They're about to clear it, Hathsmith, Corbel. Skymike and the generator supercenter.com traffic center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center, sunny and hot 94 for the height today. More on the forecast with Richard the Welling at the Weather Channel in eight minutes. Right now, it is 78 at your official Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Time now for the news. Here's Cliff Saunders. 732, our top story. The mainstream media claimed this week that President Trump had the oil reserves at their lowest point since 1983. What they didn't tell you is that Joe Biden got the ball rolling on this in 2022. You know when he used it to try to win the 2022 midterms. Another mess for Trump to clean up. It's allowed the global market to start to recover. We've seen production in the United States rise to a record high. We've seen global production rise. Fox's Phil Flynn says the barrels Trump released this year will be replaced. We're still waiting for the Biden administration to replace what they let out. Oil at 8366 a barrel with Dow futures up 117 points so far this morning. Meantime, commercial shipping in the Middle East continues to be risky despite a possible arrangement between the U.S. and Iran. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels killing six after firing missiles at a ship in the Red Sea. The Yemeni government says the ship was carrying food supplies and was hit while transiting the Bob Al-Mandab Strait. The Houthis, however, claim it was carrying Saudi military equipment. Meanwhile, in the Strait of Hormuz, Sentcom says U.S. forces disabled the steering gear of the Panama-flagued cargo ship as it allegedly tried to violate the U.S. blockade on Iran.

Max Gordon reporting nearly three years after the Hamas terror attack on Israel, half of Muslims in America say they support Hamas. Dr. Jeffrey Adikon at the Warrior Defense Project says this should send up red flags. Hamas is not just a terrorist organization, a brutal, vicious terrorist organization that has roots deep in this country. Through the Muslim Brotherhood, also care, which is a designated terrorist group. So they operate in sheep's clothing, but they are surely wolves. It is now 734 on KTRH. No matter who wins this primary, we're going to continue to fight for each other. We are going to collectively reject despair. And we are going to unite. That was Francesca Hong last night. Hours before we found out that she lost the Wisconsin Democrat governor's race. It's been called for David Crowley and establishment Democrat. Several Trump-back candidates picked up wins yesterday. Darlene Graham moving on to a runoff with Ralph Norman to replace the late Lindsey Graham on the South Carolina ballot. Although she did not have the Trump endorsement, Michelle Tofoya, former sportscaster, wins the GOP race for Senate in Minnesota. If you use AI, you may not have noticed, but it's got an opinion, and it usually leans left. And that is a fact, not just an opinion. You don't have to take it from me. The Washington Post has reported that the model that powers CHAPT has answered nearly every question exclusively with left-leaning arguments. That is Nicholas Elliott, who worked at the White House and is now the Director of Government Affairs for Innovation Council Action. I'm a Texan. I grew up in Houston, and it should be common sense that the models that Americans use every day prioritize nothing but truth and accuracy. He says we have a right to know AI's agenda. Jeff Andy Biggs News Radio 740, KT or H. Here's some study numbers for you. 20% say they trust AI for financial advice. Longstar College Economics Professor Hank Lewis says he wouldn't. The prompt might return some kind of wild speculative recommendation on a stock that might not even exist. And so people should be skeptical of this. AI is becoming notorious for letting incorrect information creep into its reports to consumers. It's now 736. Governor Greg Abbott says Texas teachers who have inappropriate relationships with students should face at least 10 years in prison. Clearly, the message has not been received to stop assaulting. students in our schools. Now Speaker Dustin Burroughs says Greg Abbott's proposal will be priority for the House during the next legislative session. Seven Harris County defendants are on the run after they were found competent to stand trial and then released on bond. Five of them charged with violent crimes.

This is exposing a major weak link in the justice system when it comes to competency standards. There are no means to detain these offenders who are out on bond once they go to any of these mental health facilities. Andy Con with crime stoppers says there isn't anything being done about this issue right now. I find absolutely no entity discussing this. That's why we decided we needed to bring this out to the public and let them know what is happening. He pointed out that on top of creating risks for the community, this puts oftentimes. mentally ill defendants at risk too. Ethan Buchanan, News Radio 740, KTRH. Astros loose to the Giants last night, 4-1. They'll wrap up the series today. Pre-game is at 2 on Sports Talk 790. And I'm Cliff Saunders on Houston's News Weather and Traffic Station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Traffic and weather, when you need it most. Every 10 minutes on the tens. This is Houston's Morning News with Jimmy Amy Coney Barrett and the Houston Morning News team. 7.30 air time. Here on Houston's Morning News. All right. Ballout for Dr. Anthony Fauci continues. facing criticism everywhere he goes, as he should. That includes, by the way, from current National Institute of Health Director, Dr. J. Budicara, who was asked about the Anthony Fauci... Text messages. Here's what he had to say. It's kind of shocking, actually, because he was the public face of the COVID response, and he recommended that basically everyone get the vaccine, and he was the face of the vaccine mandates. In January 2021, when he sent that text message, it was really, it was a new vaccine. Normally, when you are dealing with pregnant women, you don't recommend untested products in that setting. It takes a lot of work to, like, say, Okay, it is safe for pregnant women. He was reasonably reflecting in his private communications, the scientific debate that was going on at the time and discussions at the time, but he didn't tell the public that. And instead, he essentially told the public that it was safe for pregnant women to take it when he didn't know that. I think it was very irresponsible. Anthony Fauci abused his position as head of the National Institute of allergy infects disease at the time. essentially a bedded, a devastating takedown of me and my colleagues for calling for opening schools. And, you know, vindication is not the right term. I mean, what I feel is a sense of sadness. If we had followed these scientific evidence, what many European countries did, for instance, in keeping their schools open in the fall of 2020 and onward, if we had avoided the mandates, we could have avoided a lot of damage to a lot of people and sort of really terrible harm to the public confidence in public health that I'm trying to overturn and restore in my position as an age.

director. I mean, I think it's ironic because Tony Vouchy held himself out as the exemplar of the science. And in many ways he was. He was a hero to me during the HIV outbreak, you know, pandemic. Right. He did a lot. You know, he did, I believe a lot of things that really did benefit a lot of people. I was, I held him as my, one of my heroes in medicine. And so it just pains me to see that he's ending in this career in this sort of infamy because it, it, it, it, You know, he should have embraced the basic principles of telling people the truth, telling people what he actually thought, not trying to lord it over and say, I'm the science, but reflecting the honest scientific uncertainty that really existed throughout much of the pandemic. If he had, I think he would be in a very different position right now. I think what happened to Dr. Anthony Fauci is that as he got towards the end of his career, he just started chasing the almighty dollar. It became how much money can I get for myself before I... L-E-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 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. Before I leave. You know, I think by chasing those prizes and, you know, being in the pocket of big farm at that point, I think all that had a huge influence on the decisions he made. And he made those decisions based on what was good for his bank account, not what was good for the American people. All right, time for a little traffic and weather together. Let's check it with Skymike. Dude, I got to put out the Doug Pike signal. 288. I'll make that Southwest Freeway, Northbound. I'm trying to figure out what's skipping us up at Kirkwood on the inbound. I see breaks from Sugar Lakes. 288, southbound. Nothing good's happening there. It's all lanes closed at the Beltway. There's a big pack up in both directions. Southbound that's a police investigation. South Sam, I got Sean from Pearland. Skymike. Westbound gas nerve, scarred to skunch up. Burbage. Don't see an accident, don't see any po-po, but we're certainly jammed up at the 59 curve. I'm wondering if that's because of reroutes. My best rerout is Alt-90. This is for 288. Best reroute, Alt-90 to Fort Bend Tollway. A lot of people are going to jump on the Almeida. That's going to get crazy. Don't forget about 35 through Pearland. You've got North Grand Parkway, Clear Huff Smith, Corville. That vehicle fire is gone. part of Grand Parkway Stockton School Road. That is looking like more than a stall. Andy Biggs back up now on the southbound. And North Freeway, we cleared the roadwork hardy toll road inside the belt. It's Roger from Magnolia. Good morning, Scott, Mike. You got a little more tomfoolery on it. Burbage. Of the overpass to airline, there's a two-car accident in the right thing. Got a ninja on scene. Oh, so well said. And the smunch is real. Very nice. That's southbound. And I've got a question for Richard Luelling. I think we have the Percy

meteor shower tonight? Will we be able to see that? And is there any chance it'll cool things off? I'm Sky Mike and the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH Generator Super Center 24-hour Weather Center, Richard the Welling is here. I don't think the Perseid meteor showers got anything to do with cooling off temperatures, does it? No, it won't do much for us in the cooling department, but it will be something pretty to look at as we move on through the night. I don't think we'll have any problem seeing it because skies are going to be pretty much clear across the region. There may be some early morning fog tomorrow morning, but that's going to be about the extent of it. It's just the same old story, same old song and dance here as we move on through the next five days. Typical August heat, sunshine, mid-90s here this afternoon, feeling like 105 and a small chance of a pop-up shower or storm. Sunny, hot again, Thursday and Friday, mid-90s, mid-90s again for the weekend with sunshine and the forecast, and the August heat continues right on into next week. A temperature right now, 79 at your official, Severe Weather Station, News Radio 740, KTRH. Your drive. Updated every 10 minutes on the 10s. Arrived with Houston's morning news. I live in the Sugarland area. Accidents and alternates. Next on the 10 on 740 KTRH. So the left is still very concerned that they were left on Air Force 1 when the president did his disappearing act and ended up on a different plane. More on that story. Case you missed it, coming up next. First, though, traffic and weather together. We're checking it again with Skymike. Rough morning. Grand Parkway, Southbound Stockton Road. I'm calling that a wreck. That's a 20-minute southbound-bound-scoach. 146, southbound, making you crazy. Grand Parkway north, eastbound at the golf ball. Solid breaks. 288, southbound, outbound. The Beltway totally shut down. Big backup both ways. Nothing good is happening there. And West Loop going up to uptown. We've got a wreck right before. for the Galleria, and that's a big pack-up from Myerland. I'm Skymark, the Ability Tree Experts Traffic Center. From our KTRH, generator super center, 24-hour weather center, mostly sunny, hot, humid, today, tomorrow and Friday, high temperature will be in the mid-90s. Current temperature is 79 at your official severe weather station. News Radio 740, KTRH. Let's check in once again with Cliff and get you an update on some of our top stories. The U.S. coins and jewelry. Inflation rises 0.1% last month. The annualized rate of 3.4% is actually down from June. Attorney General Ken Paxton intervenes to ensure an unborn baby with a heart. defect will get life-saving medical care upon birth shake shack is going viral for the absolute wrong reason apparently if you order on a kiosk and you select no tip it raises your price we have the video at facebook and x at the latest news anytime at ktrh.com our next update is at eight U.S. News. You shut down the government. That means no money for FEMA. And global views. Beautiful armada floating beautifully toward Iran. On News Radio 740, KTRH.

Well, you're the press that you can disappear, in this case, into a catering cart. Here's Emily Compagno on the Five talking about it. So I talked to Jeff James. He was a former Presidential Secret Service supervisory agent for five presidents. Let's be nice. He's amazing. And this is what he had to say. He said, bruises happen all the time. especially overseas. I remember George Bush came out of a C20 unmarked plane. The difference there being, he came out of it exposing the decoy, and they had told the press off the record prior. So now the fact that the press is up in arms that they weren't told, though, he said, it's called secret for a reason. So if there's credible intelligence, which is the touchstone and the keystone of all of these kinds of things, then you do whatever it takes to get the president off of whatever has been threatened, including an amazing... catering cart. And he said he was reminded as well, George Bush, it's a need to know thing. So George Bush in the middle of the night was secreted to see the troops believe over Thanksgiving. Even other agents weren't told. So they were there at his ranch in Waco and he said, you know, we just thought he was sleeping. He's he don't take it personally. That's part of the job. You need to know whoever does and whoever doesn't. That's why. I mean, even the families don't know. That's why they all sign NDAs when they're going on these trips. So it's so laughable to me that members of the media think that they have some type of expectation of or classified expectation of knowing this. When since 1979, what one is? six American combat deaths have been at the hands of Iran. We've prosecuted how many attempted assassination plots in this country, including against DJT. Like the numbers speak for itself. So no, it did not just start happening because of the never-ending war in Iran right now under this president. And also, there is no way that they're going to tell them. Plus, didn't you guys think visually that it looked like 2014 NFC championships, Seahawks, Packers, that sick trick play? Anyone were like the holder like tossed it to the one guy on the left and then he like toss it to the rookie and they won the game. Thank God nothing happened to those reporters on that plane number. Thank God nothing happened to our president most importantly. Yeah, that's the point. That was the priority. The media was upset. What are you leaving us on the plane for? Where are they going to take you? How are you going to get back home? Listen, y'all have a great day. Thanks for listening. I'll see you tomorrow morning, bright and early 5 a.m. Hope to see you this afternoon at 1 on AM 950 KPRC. 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.