{"id":82182,"date":"2025-12-09T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82182\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:56:09","slug":"hello-houston-december-9-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82182\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston (December 9, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: where Houston talks!\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s Hello Houston, we talk with University of Houston Law Center professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.uh.edu\/faculty\/main.asp?PID=6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Chandler<\/a> in the show&#8217;s first hour, who discusses the current challenges facing birthright citizenship, as the Supreme Court reviews its constitutionality.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we&#8217;re joined by Omar Samji, a spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/the.ismaili\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ismaili Center Houston<\/a>, who tells us more about the upcoming opening of this new, long-envisioned landmark, which is the first of its kind in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>In the second hour of the show, we discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rice.edu\/news\/2025\/toxic-fear-new-study-suggests-flood-driven-contamination-deepens-climate-anxiety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new study<\/a> on climate anxiety in the Houston area with <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.rice.edu\/faculty\/james-r-elliott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. James Elliott<\/a>, co-director of the Center for Coastal Futures and Adaptive Resilience at Rice University, who helps us understand the study&#8217;s findings and what this means for resilience going forward.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utphysicians.com\/provider\/michael-l-chang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Michael Chang<\/a>, a pediatric infectious disease physician with UTHealth Houston, breaks down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s vaccine advisory committee voting to roll back a recommendation for newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.<\/p>\n<p>And, as always, Ernie, Frank, and Celeste discuss today&#8217;s top stories at the top of each hour, including plans to expand chapters of Turning Point USA to every high school across Texas, the developer of the app ICEBlock suing the Trump administration after it was removed from Apple&#8217;s app store, and Rep. 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